Juno News - December 22, 2022


This sucks.


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Justin Trudeau's government has been caught breaking the Conflict of Interest Act six times in seven years. Does it suck that his government gets away with it? Or does it get a pass because the system is working? Or is there something wrong with the system?

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00:00:00.000 Welcome, everyone, to Ratioed. My name is Harrison Faulkner. Doesn't it just suck when you break
00:00:12.320 ethics laws? Doesn't it just suck when your government breaks the law six times in seven 0.96
00:00:16.840 years? You know, you have to face a couple of tough questions from the legacy media who
00:00:20.500 usually propagandize on your behalf. You have to field a couple of rough days from the opposition
00:00:24.620 benches before they move on to the next issue, and the Canadian people get upset before they,
00:00:28.520 too, move on to the next issue? Doesn't that just suck? It sucks. Now, I'm not speaking for all of 0.99
00:00:33.580 us regular citizens because when we break the law, we have to face the consequences. Not if you're in
00:00:38.200 the Trudeau government, however. Wouldn't it be nice to experience, just for a few days, what cabinet
00:00:42.560 ministers and Justin Trudeau's government get to experience getting to live by a whole other set of
00:00:46.420 rules than the rest of us? Well, Justin Trudeau is doing his annual end-of-year media circuit, sitting
00:00:51.020 down with CTV News, CBC News, and some no-name podcast to field some softball questions. And some
00:00:57.420 of the answers to these softball questions, although not surprising, are pretty insightful
00:01:01.640 into how he thinks as Prime Minister. Stick around also for the Ratio of the Week award, the final
00:01:06.640 Ratio of the Week award before we hand out the Ratio of the Year prize, which we will be doing on
00:01:11.440 December 30th. As always, drop a like on the video, help us out by subscribing to the TrueNearth
00:01:16.040 YouTube channel, and the comment question for the episode is this. With Christmas right around the
00:01:20.720 corner, if you could give the Prime Minister one Christmas gift, what would it be? All right, let's get
00:01:25.560 into it. Now, just take a look at how Justin Trudeau responds to this question from CTV News
00:01:30.160 about his sixth and latest ethics violation, his government's sixth ethics violation. He really
00:01:36.120 seems concerned about how Canadians view his government, doesn't he? A government that has
00:01:39.800 seen its share of ethics breaches since taking office. The last one involving Mary Ng, the trade
00:01:45.680 minister who broke ethics rules over a contract awarded to a friend. From my perspective, it sucks. 0.99
00:01:52.060 Who responds to a question about your own employees breaking the law like that, let alone the Prime 0.99
00:01:58.280 Minister? Who responds to a question like that? Oh, you know, it just sucks. I mean, they are
00:02:02.660 employees, but they're kind of more important than that, right? They're cabinet ministers. They're
00:02:06.420 federal cabinet ministers, and they've broken the law now six times. Oh, you know, it just kind of
00:02:12.540 sucks. It sucks, doesn't it, when we break the law. But it gets better than that. Just hold on. 0.99
00:02:16.820 Although it sucks when our government breaks the law, the system is clearly working. That's what
00:02:22.420 Justin Trudeau told this CTV News reporter. We have a system that has the kind of accountability
00:02:26.860 and transparency that works, and that is clear to reassure Canadians that if someone is taking
00:02:31.700 advantage of the system, either deliberately or by accident, they'll get caught and called out on it.
00:02:36.820 And that's an example of the institutions working. Can't you guys just feel the system working?
00:02:41.600 I mean, it's clearly working for them when they can enrich and stuff the pockets of their friends
00:02:45.600 at our expense while facing no consequences. Truly incredible stuff. Unbelievable to just say
00:02:51.300 that with a straight face. Now, as you can imagine, social media is just not having any of this at all.
00:02:55.920 This is from Senator Leo Husakos. It sucks. That's the best Justin Trudeau can manage. It sucks that we 0.99
00:03:01.860 keep breaking the law, but hey, what are you going to do? Just a stunning lack of seriousness or sense of
00:03:06.740 responsibility. This is from Aaron Woodrick over at the McDonnell-Laurier Institute. It sucks even more
00:03:11.380 when there are no consequences for ethics breaches. Laurie Goldstein of the Toronto Sun also got in
00:03:15.520 on this. It sucks when your Prime Minister says it sucks when members of his cabinet violate the 0.96
00:03:19.780 Federal Conflict of Interest Act when he has violated the Conflict of Interest Act more often 0.98
00:03:24.320 than anyone else in his cabinet. Conservative MP Dan Albus also got in on the action. He means it
00:03:29.680 sucks when they get caught because otherwise he does nothing about it. Fair point, but it's not like
00:03:33.640 he's about to do anything about Mary Ying now that she got caught. She apologizes. It's all fine. You just
00:03:38.340 move on after an apology, right? Whether or not they get caught is not the question here. He just doesn't care
00:03:43.300 anymore, clearly. And here's Senator Denise Batters as well. It sucks. Prime Minister Trudeau should act
00:03:49.120 like an adult, hold his minister responsible for breaking Canada's ethics law, and fire her from
00:03:53.620 cabinet. Probably a bit too much to ask for at this point, I think. And speaking on the controversial
00:03:57.600 gun grab legislation, Bill C-21, Justin Trudeau has dropped any pretense of not trying to go after
00:04:04.040 hunting rifles. He just now totally admits it like it's nothing. Like he wasn't just telling Canadians the
00:04:08.920 opposite a few months ago. He says he has to take away your hunting rifles. Oh yeah, he has to take
00:04:15.980 away your plinkster. He has to take away your Ruger number one because scary guns. A year of challenges 0.69
00:04:22.700 and divisive issues that remain unresolved, including the controversial liberal government's gun ban,
00:04:29.080 with Justin Trudeau admitting that some of those rifles, even those used legally by hunters, will be banned.
00:04:34.780 There are some guns, yes, that we're going to have to take away from people who were using them
00:04:40.080 to hunt and say, but we're going to also make sure that you're able to buy other guns from a long list
00:04:46.520 of guns that are accepted, that are fine for hunting. It's such a weird way to talk about the
00:04:52.040 legislation too. No one is forcing him to take away hunting rifles that aren't committing any crimes.
00:04:57.520 He just wants to. He just wants to do that. But he says, oh, well, we're going to have to take away
00:05:02.120 your hunting rifles. Sorry about that Canadian who doesn't commit any crimes. Sorry about that 1.00
00:05:06.040 hunter. Sorry about that sports shooter. We're just going to have to take away your guns. I also
00:05:10.520 hope none of you were expecting the Prime Minister to have learned anything from the Freedom Convoy
00:05:14.240 protest. Just listen to how he responds to this question from CTV News. No movement, no shame. He
00:05:19.920 is sticking to his message. He's sticking to his line of small fringe minority, tinfoil hat wearing
00:05:25.600 conspiracy theorists. Absolutely shameless. A year of unprecedented events. The occupation of Ottawa 0.56
00:05:32.420 by the so-called Freedom Convoy protesting vaccine mandates with calls to overthrow the Trudeau
00:05:39.020 government. You had said at some point during those protests that the protesters were part of a fringe
00:05:45.500 who believed in conspiracy theories and wear tinfoil hats. I don't and I won't apologize for calling out
00:05:52.760 people who were harming their fellow Canadians. And lastly, Justin Trudeau sat down for a podcast
00:05:57.920 interview with his friend Terry DeMonte, former radio host based out of Montreal. Now this is the
00:06:03.220 softest interview I've ever listened to, by the way. It's really a big waste of your time. Unless
00:06:07.800 you're looking for someone to just pat Justin Trudeau on the back for about 50 minutes. They ask him about
00:06:11.960 what books he likes to read on his Costa Rica vacations and what TV shows he likes to watch when he's on
00:06:17.100 his long plane rides across the world before lecturing us all about lowering our carbon emissions. And
00:06:22.120 they're sitting around a table drinking beer. They're clearly going for that whole like you'd want
00:06:25.580 to share a beer with this guy image for Justin Trudeau in this interview. Which is funny because
00:06:29.960 he's probably the last person Canadians would want to share a beer with. But they're going for it
00:06:33.680 anyway. And listen to the question Terry asks Justin Trudeau. He asks him about the Freedom Convoy and
00:06:39.680 what his life was like during the Freedom Convoy. What was it like as a person during this crisis?
00:06:46.400 No wonder he got this interview asking questions like this.
00:06:49.340 I'm curious about you as a person. Like, you know, we all have a day at the office, right? You come home
00:06:56.320 and your wife says, how was your day? You know, and, and a lot of people bring pressures home from work
00:07:02.640 and whatever. I want to know what, where are you? Like, are you in the office and are people standing
00:07:11.100 around you giving you constant information? Like how, how do you cope during those two or three
00:07:18.360 weeks? How, it's a 24-7 gig. How do you cope with a crisis of that nature as a person?
00:07:25.580 But, but, but during those two or three weeks, yes, the convoy was going on outside
00:07:33.780 Parliament's windows. But I was busy governing Canada, right? I mean, like, like, there's still,
00:07:43.880 you know, a threat of a rail strike in this town. There's still legislation that has to pass
00:07:49.380 independently of that. There's still international summits and events that I have to attend virtually
00:07:55.020 in this case. There's still, you know, policy objectives we're having to fulfill on health
00:08:00.440 care, on things. So, yes, the convoy was a piece of all, like every day I'd get briefings
00:08:09.960 and updates on what the police was doing or wasn't doing. But we, we ended up, you're doing that
00:08:18.940 while you're doing all the regular things of government. So, first of all, what is Justin
00:08:25.720 Trudeau doing with his hand on the table there? Strange. But notice there, he says he was busy
00:08:30.740 governing the country. Oh, what a great leader. He's busy governing the country during the Freedom
00:08:34.140 Convoy protest. Interestingly, he failed to mention the fact that he fled. He fled,
00:08:39.960 Ottawa, to Harrington Lake with a very serious bout of COVID, as we all know. He was very sick
00:08:45.320 with COVID. He also forgot to mention that while he was governing Canada, as he says,
00:08:49.920 he was also caught skiing. But don't worry, guys, he was only cross-country skiing. It wasn't
00:08:54.180 downhill skiing. So, it doesn't count, right? It doesn't count. He was, he was busy, he was busy
00:08:58.200 governing the country while cross-country skiing, not downhill skiing. Big difference. Here we go.
00:09:02.180 Ratio of the Week. The final Ratio of the Week winner before we give out the Ratio of the Year prize
00:09:07.140 next Thursday. This week's winner is Chrystia Freeland for this absolutely bizarre tweet. Look 0.99
00:09:12.520 at her here, looking very normal, looking the way we all do when we get our flu shot and our booster.
00:09:17.100 Here she writes this,
00:09:18.280 My family and I got our boosters and our flu shots tonight. If you haven't already, make sure to get
00:09:23.040 yours. It's the best way we can protect each other this holiday season. Yes, this holiday season.
00:09:28.380 Very important to make sure we're not singling out Christmas during our booster shot and flu shot
00:09:33.380 promotional tweet. Take a look at this ratio. Just, just absolutely horrendous. No one wants to see
00:09:37.640 this. It's, it's almost, it's almost like rude how bad this was. Look at this. 22.7,000 replies,
00:09:44.940 only 5,414 likes. It is a, uh, like I said, I mean, that's, that's pretty ruthless stuff. We're
00:09:53.120 going to go through some quote tweets. We're going to go through some replies. Here we go. We got some
00:09:56.600 good ones here. Tell me exactly how it's the best way to protect each other when it doesn't stop
00:10:00.680 transmission. Go on, Chrystia Freeland. Answer. Oh, wait. Zuby quote tweeted this and, uh, made a
00:10:06.540 great point. Something that we'd all just love to see. Times are a changing, folks. It's heartening
00:10:11.400 to see these types of posts get ratioed now. Certainly wasn't like that 12 to 24 months ago.
00:10:16.400 The tide has turned. Jack Posobiec also got in on the action. How about no? And this person wrote,
00:10:22.400 it's so sad and scary that you won't wear a mask. Put on a mask when you get your flu shot. That's what
00:10:27.060 Justin Trudeau did. Remember when he put on his mask to get his shot? Took it off for the photo?
00:10:31.160 At least do the photo without the mask, but make sure when you're getting the shot, at least you've
00:10:35.240 got the mask on. That's really important stuff. Even I know that. Even I know to promote the shot,
00:10:40.640 you got to put the mask on. That's the whole picture. All right. That's going to do it for us
00:10:43.580 this week on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for being a great, loyal viewer
00:10:48.540 of the show. Have a great Christmas, everyone. I'll catch you on December 30th for the Ratio of the
00:10:53.520 Year Prize. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.