Juno News - March 31, 2019


Trudeau exposed by Jody Wilson-Raybould's audio

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Michael Wernick politicization
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Andrew Lawton
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Michael Wernick Jody Wilson-Raybould Justin Trudeau Laura Megan Eric Emmett McFarlane Andrew Scheer Jagmeet Singh Jane Philpott Scott Pressler Toronto Star Team Trudeau Jack Phillips Sheila Copps Hotel Wi-Fi Waterloo Feminist Margaret Marriott and 5 more
The stunning incompetence of Justin Trudeau and the PMO Jody Wilson-Raybould's integrity doesn't make her a Conservative

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Jody Wilson-Raybould recorded a conversation with Michael Wernick, the former clerk of the Privy council, and it was leaked to the media. Now, the Prime Minister's Office has admitted that they were unaware of the contents of the conversation.

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00:00:00.560 Hey everyone, this is Andrew Lawton, fellow with True North, here for another live edition of the True North Report.
00:00:06.360 Thank you for tuning in, wherever it is from which you are tuning in.
00:00:10.260 It's been, I think, about a week and a half since I've done one of these.
00:00:12.960 If you've been following us online, you know that I was traveling a little bit.
00:00:17.220 We were at the Manning Centre conference last week, had some other stuff to attend to this week.
00:00:22.280 So if you can't tell, I have a little bit of a different backdrop than I usually do.
00:00:27.120 I'm in a hotel room where there's like one conceivable corner that I can do this in, and it's like right here.
00:00:32.600 And thankfully the bed is made, so if like the camera accidentally like goes over to the bed, it's not going to look too, too terrible.
00:00:38.420 But I wanted to do it because there's a lot to talk about today.
00:00:41.780 And I want to just make a point here that if the internet is not cooperating, let me know in the comments.
00:00:48.980 Hotel Wi-Fi is always a little bit iffy.
00:00:51.060 It seems like it's working fine right now, so maybe Marriott Hotels and I are having a good relationship.
00:00:57.120 Right now, in any case, it's good to have you back tuning into this here.
00:01:00.940 We'll have it on Facebook Live, on YouTube, and all over the place.
00:01:04.540 And just so you know, I am recording this.
00:01:08.280 I feel that the news this week makes it so that I need to be absolutely clear.
00:01:11.940 I am recording this conversation.
00:01:14.460 Michael Wernick, however, the former clerk of the Privy Council, did not know that his conversation with Jody Wilson-Raybould was being recorded not too long ago.
00:01:23.760 And I've got to be perfectly candid with you.
00:01:26.120 I don't care.
00:01:29.000 I don't care.
00:01:30.140 The fact is, even if the recording was a questionable or ethically questionable thing to do, I think it was the right thing to do because Jody Wilson-Raybould has proven that she is, in fact, a whistleblower.
00:01:42.180 And this is a point that's been made by people left and right online, including Emmett McFarlane, a professor from, I believe, Laurier or Waterloo, who I don't normally agree with.
00:01:51.220 But he's saying that anyone who's making this about whether Jody Wilson-Raybould should or shouldn't have recorded her phone call with Michael Wernick is missing the mark.
00:01:59.140 She was exposing improper or potentially illegal conduct by the Prime Minister's office and by a number of people that are ultimately accountable to the Prime Minister's office.
00:02:11.680 Michael Wernick, in this case, seems to be one of those because this guy, who's supposed to be the most senior nonpartisan public servant in Canada, was, as I've talked about in the past, running political interference for the Liberals.
00:02:24.120 So that's why this call is so interesting.
00:02:26.860 It's 18 minutes long.
00:02:28.060 I know it's boring to listen to Michael Wernick talk for even 18 seconds, let alone 18 minutes, but I do think you should listen to this call at some point and listen to the whole thing.
00:02:38.180 You can read the transcript, but listen to the whole thing if you can, because what we see in this and hear from this is important for two primary reasons.
00:02:47.040 Number one, it proves that everything Jody Wilson-Raybould has said in the past in her testimony towards the Justice Committee is true, that Michael Wernick and the Prime Minister's office were, in fact, putting pressure on her to take a particular decision in the SNC-Lavalin case.
00:03:03.700 But it also shows that there's a fight going on.
00:03:08.200 One of the things that I've pointed out in the past that I think is a very important point is that Justin Trudeau has changed his tack on this a few times.
00:03:16.620 He's changed his tack on this a few times, from the one that everyone now makes fun of, that it was all Scott Bryson's fault, to, you know, we didn't take, we didn't pressure, and we didn't do this, and we didn't do that.
00:03:28.840 All of the, I mean, all of the different iterations that the Prime Minister's office's responses have gone through are now at the point where there's no turning away from it.
00:03:38.540 Now, complete and utter ignorance is there, because remember, at first they said no one did anything.
00:03:43.500 No one did anything to Jody Wilson-Raybould, but now that we have audio of Michael Wernick undoubtedly putting pressure on her, the Prime Minister's office has had to give a statement that is basically pleading ignorance.
00:03:56.400 This is what the Prime Minister's office said. We were unaware of the full contents of this recording before today. Unaware.
00:04:07.700 Well, she told them. So that means that the Prime Minister's office didn't actually believe Jody Wilson-Raybould when she testified to these things.
00:04:16.480 And you may remember when Michael Wernick was testifying, I mean, it sounds like, seems like forever ago now, but when Michael Wernick was testifying, he made that joke,
00:04:23.160 oh, you know, I don't know what I said exactly. I wasn't wearing a wire. Well, we know Jody Wilson-Raybould had what can best be described as a wire for that conversation.
00:04:33.520 I'm not going to read the whole transcript for you, but I am going to pull out a couple of key excerpts here that I think speak to the fact that we are not dealing with a situation where there is a defensibility to what Wernick said.
00:04:48.460 And when I pull this, the source of this particular transcript is from Global News.
00:04:54.420 It starts with, you know, some talk about phone tag, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It gets in.
00:04:58.840 And then Wernick talks about the jobs element of it, the fact that 9,000 jobs could be lost if SNC-Lavalin decides to uproot from Canada and go somewhere else.
00:05:09.700 He says, we want you to know that the deferred prosecution agreement tool is there.
00:05:15.260 The Prime Minister wants it. We can get some advice for you from Beverly McLaughlin.
00:05:19.120 But this is the line here. The Prime Minister wants to be able to say that he has tried everything he can within legitimate toolbox to try to head that off.
00:05:28.620 He is quite determined, quite firm, wants to know why the DPA route, which Parliament provided for, is not being used.
00:05:37.520 And I think he is going to find a way to get it done one way or another.
00:05:41.540 So he is in that kind of mood. And I wanted you to be aware of that.
00:05:46.420 And then he says, I don't know if he's going to call you, but, you know, maybe we're going to do it.
00:05:51.340 But he says, the Prime Minister is in a mood where he's going to get it done one way or another.
00:05:58.320 That is not, this is your decision. We want you to have a few thoughts about it.
00:06:03.860 Talk to some people. Think about it. Consider it.
00:06:06.160 That is pressure. That is political pressure. That is political interference.
00:06:10.460 So this idea that we just wanted her to consider a second perspective does not square with, he's going to get it done one way or another.
00:06:21.280 And this is the conversation. Now, Michael Wernick has now become the fall guy for this.
00:06:25.820 He resigned. But even in resignation, there wasn't an admission of wrongdoing.
00:06:30.180 You may remember when Michael Wernick stepped down, he said that it was just because he didn't like that he was being bullied and he didn't like the way the opposition parties were talking about him.
00:06:39.140 And he didn't think anyone could ever trust him, not because of his conduct and actions, but they couldn't trust him because Andrew Scheer and Jagmeet Singh were saying mean things about him, basically.
00:06:50.320 He said they've politicized the role of clerk of the Privy Council, when in actuality, this transcript proves that Michael Wernick politicized the role all on his own.
00:07:02.340 It was Wernick who politicized this role.
00:07:05.200 And ultimately, Canada still hasn't fully come to terms with that yet because we only had the definitive ironclad proof of it when this phone call was published about, I don't know, 18, 20 hours ago.
00:07:17.080 Now, Trudeau has been basically tight-lipped on this.
00:07:21.480 I haven't reached out to his office because they never respond to me, but they've said, you know, we didn't know about it.
00:07:26.780 It's a very terse one-line statement.
00:07:28.800 The Privy Council office is not commenting any further.
00:07:31.420 The Prime Minister's office, apart from that little statement, is not commenting any further.
00:07:36.780 And when he says that, oh, we'll give you some political cover by letting you consult with Beverly McLaughlin, the former Chief Justice, to prove that you're not doing anything inappropriate, Jody Wilson-Raybould says, I am 100% confident that I am doing nothing inappropriate.
00:07:53.760 And then he said, no, no, no, no, no, but if you do this.
00:07:57.020 So there's even an admission, a tacit admission in this call that we know it would be inappropriate, hence we'll give you some political cover to do so, to make that decision.
00:08:08.000 And we'll put it under the auspices of you just having a little chit-chat with the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
00:08:15.840 And she says, prosecutorial independence is important.
00:08:20.140 She says, I have said time and time again, it's entirely inappropriate, and it is political appearance.
00:08:25.220 She says even Beverly McLaughlin would agree this is political interference.
00:08:29.180 She says, I've talked about this at the Cabinet table with the Prime Minister.
00:08:32.200 I've told everyone, and I'm clear.
00:08:34.100 And this is, I think, the very important part, because, you know, the whole point that Justin Trudeau tried to make, and again, one of those many statements was, well, did Jody Wilson-Raybould ever say there was a problem?
00:08:45.440 Did she ever push back?
00:08:47.300 And I want to read a line that Jody Wilson-Raybould actually shared with Michael Warnick here that's very important.
00:08:53.740 And this is midway through, very early, I think in like the first five minutes of the phone call.
00:08:57.800 She said, I'm going to issue my stern warning.
00:09:02.180 I cannot act in a manner, and the prosecution cannot act in a manner that is not objective, that isn't independent.
00:09:09.340 I cannot act in a partisan way, and I cannot be politically motivated.
00:09:13.900 All of this screams of that.
00:09:16.240 So I am actually uncomfortable having this conversation.
00:09:20.040 So she tells him right there, I'm uncomfortable that we're even talking about this, that you're even telling me this.
00:09:27.940 And she goes on to talk about all the different circumstances under which this would be wrong, and why she's happy with how she's handling this.
00:09:35.200 And this actually reinforces the reasoning that she gave in that committee meeting a few weeks back as well, that the reason she didn't feel the need to resign earlier is because she knew that when Trudeau was on a warpath here, and remember the words from Michael Warnick, he's going to get it done one way or another.
00:09:51.200 When she knows that Trudeau was on a warpath, it makes it a lot easier for her to say, if I stay in this position, if I remain Attorney General, I am not going to let political interference happen.
00:10:03.900 So she honestly believed that her staying in that position was a safeguard of prosecutorial independence.
00:10:12.340 And I think that's a really fascinating dilemma.
00:10:15.220 So this woman actually was prepared to stay in a very uncomfortable and a very tense situation because she thought that was the only way that she could stand between Trudeau and his potentially illegal outcome of giving a special favor to SNC-Lavalin by giving this deferred prosecution agreement.
00:10:31.720 And Warnick keeps saying, but no, no, no, but you have this tool, you have this tool.
00:10:36.680 Yeah, part of having a tool in your toolbox is that you can prove that maybe you don't need to use that tool or maybe you don't want to use that tool.
00:10:44.320 You can actually say, I'm not going to use that, it's there, but it's not really just like, oh, a screwdriver, hammer, deferred prosecution.
00:10:51.240 No, it's like that big red button on the wall with the glass case over it and the hammer next to the glass case and you've got to smash it to get to it.
00:10:59.040 It's that, yes, it's there. That doesn't mean it should be deployed with regularity just whenever it's convenient.
00:11:05.120 It's there in worst case scenarios. And even then, it sounds like she didn't even want it to be there.
00:11:10.500 It was only about a year ago that Parliament put that into effect or a year before this phone call and this political pressure started here.
00:11:18.720 And she talks about all the reasons that the actual independent prosecutor was not going through the DPA, reasons that she was committed to upholding.
00:11:28.520 Wernick's pushing back on this because, remember, she would need to take over the prosecution from the director of public prosecutions.
00:11:36.280 That's a very key part of this. And there's another talk here.
00:11:39.700 She says, I know I have a tool under the Prosecution Act that I can use.
00:11:43.680 I do not believe that it is appropriate to use the tool in this case.
00:11:48.320 And Wernick responds this about the prime minister.
00:11:52.100 OK, all right. That is clear.
00:11:55.660 Well, he is in a very firm mood about this.
00:11:59.280 So, and Jody Wills-Raybould is pushing back.
00:12:03.760 She says, does he not understand the gravity of this, of what this could potentially be meaning?
00:12:09.840 She says, it's not about jobs.
00:12:11.220 It's about a fearing, interfering with one of our fundamental institutions.
00:12:14.740 That's like breaching a constitutional principle of prosecutorial independence.
00:12:20.120 And Wernick says, well, I don't think he sees it like that.
00:12:24.640 And that's it.
00:12:25.500 So, so there is, to give some defense to the prime minister's office, this whole differing opinion thing.
00:12:32.340 I mean, the PMO just decides to claim this is not political interference.
00:12:36.580 They decide to just pretend there is no interference component to this.
00:12:41.560 But Wilson-Raybould was repeatedly making her objections known.
00:12:46.220 And the clerk of the Privy Council, clearly not knowing he was being recorded, is pushing back on, no, we're going to get it done one way or another.
00:12:53.920 And the implication in that is that if you don't do this, we will find someone who will.
00:12:59.900 And they did.
00:13:00.780 They did do that because they removed Jody Wilson-Raybould from her post as Attorney General and put in a guy. 0.90
00:13:07.300 And it's only because all of this has been made public that I'm convinced this is probably not going to be a tool that's used.
00:13:13.240 Because it would look far too horrible now if someone in the government were to move on this.
00:13:18.440 And, again, I've talked about this in the past.
00:13:21.960 I may have a great many political disagreements with Jody Wilson-Raybould.
00:13:25.500 But she has made it.
00:13:27.400 She has made it so that independence of the prosecutor can be upheld in this case.
00:13:32.900 As Corey says on Facebook, Jody Wilson-Raybould did the right thing.
00:13:36.540 Laura writes, this pretty much confirms the pressure.
00:13:39.940 Why are the liberals even still in Ottawa?
00:13:42.000 Well, see, here's the thing, Laura.
00:13:43.480 I don't think this pretty much confirms the pressure.
00:13:45.700 I think this 100% undoubtedly without equivocation confirms the pressure.
00:13:49.920 Because, remember, when she testified before the Justice Committee a few weeks ago, and they wouldn't let her come back,
00:13:56.500 but when she testified before the Justice Committee, it was in some respects that he said, she said.
00:14:02.060 She was a credible witness, but she hadn't offered proof.
00:14:05.340 This is proof.
00:14:06.340 This is the smoking gun.
00:14:07.560 And much like in the Lindsay Shepard case, the only reason she's able to offer this proof is because she had the forethought to record something.
00:14:15.640 And what's interesting is that people are using that to impeach her, basically.
00:14:20.760 I want to read the Toronto Star's angle on this.
00:14:23.600 So everyone else is saying, oh, this is going to be the end of Justin Trudeau.
00:14:26.620 Toronto Star, Jody Wilson-Raybould's secret audio recording sparks ethics questions from legal community.
00:14:33.720 And they talk about the legal ethics on the publication of this particular recording.
00:14:39.640 And, oh, my goodness, lawyers aren't supposed to record calls with clients.
00:14:42.540 And, you know, forget about solicitor-client privilege.
00:14:44.860 This is something that's more serious.
00:14:47.360 One lawyer, the Star reports, is potentially going to file a complaint with the Law Society of Ontario.
00:14:53.220 Now, worth noting, Jody Wilson-Raybould isn't even from Ontario.
00:14:57.240 The only reason she's a member of the Law Society of Ontario is because she's the Attorney General of Canada.
00:15:02.660 So if I recall correctly, she needed to become a registrant in each of the bar societies across the country.
00:15:09.300 But, I mean, all of that's secondary to the point here.
00:15:11.340 You know, I think she would fully accept the consequences of a slap on the wrist from the Law Society when what she is exposing with that recording is a much more significant piece of the puzzle here.
00:15:25.000 Because, yes, there may have been a decision that she had to make in recording that was questionably ethical or even questionably legal.
00:15:33.020 But it's like running a stop sign to stop a murder.
00:15:36.920 I mean, your lower crime is being committed for the protection of a much bigger issue.
00:15:44.040 And that's, I think, the very important point to be acknowledged here.
00:15:47.780 And I want to read some more comments on this.
00:15:49.340 Sharon writes, I don't know how any diehard liberal can support corruption at the top of this party.
00:15:54.420 This cuts to the very heart of our rule of law.
00:15:58.980 Let's see.
00:15:59.620 Eric writes, good afternoon, Andrew.
00:16:00.960 Keep up the amazing work.
00:16:01.920 Well, hello, Eric.
00:16:02.480 Good afternoon to you.
00:16:03.300 And Thomas says she's protecting the Law Society.
00:16:07.300 No, no, no.
00:16:07.660 Don't worry about the Law Society.
00:16:08.820 The point there is that the Law Society has a rule on the governing behavior of lawyers.
00:16:14.840 And one of them is that a lawyer cannot report a call with a client without the client's consent.
00:16:18.900 And in this case, her client was the Government of Canada.
00:16:21.520 Now, it's entirely possible here.
00:16:23.480 And I would argue that in this particular context, Michael Wernick was not her client.
00:16:28.340 Michael Wernick was not talking as a representative of Her Majesty's Government of Canada.
00:16:33.300 Michael Wernick was talking as an agent of Justin Trudeau.
00:16:36.780 And I do think that is distinct, maybe not from a legal perspective, but from a moral perspective, I think that's relevant here.
00:16:43.920 This was not a client calling up a lawyer for, hey, what do I do, counselor, about this parking ticket?
00:16:49.260 This was a significant attempt by the Clerk of the Privy Council, who's supposed to be nonpartisan, to inject a political motivation into Jody Wilson-Raybould's tenure and behavior as Attorney General.
00:17:04.120 And first off, I don't see any way that she remains in the Liberal Caucus now.
00:17:10.340 Like, I do question her judgment on staying in the Liberal Caucus and running as a Liberal.
00:17:16.120 When you believe that your party is as rotten to the core as she must believe the Prime Minister's office is,
00:17:21.400 how do you justify running in an election on Team Trudeau?
00:17:24.540 Because even though it's her name on the ballot, our party system is one that very much means you're running for the betterment of your party's leader.
00:17:32.680 So I don't see any way she stays in the Liberal Caucus.
00:17:35.420 Jane Philbot's in a bit of a different situation. 0.98
00:17:37.440 I wouldn't put it past them to eject her from the party now, but she's proven she's in the power position now because she recorded this call. 0.99
00:17:47.320 So now instead of just distancing himself from her, Trudeau has got to distance himself from Michael Wernick,
00:17:54.000 whose virtues he was extolling just a few weeks ago as like being the great-grandfather of Canadian civil discourse.
00:18:00.380 And now Wernick's been exposed and Wernick is gone.
00:18:05.660 He resigned, I remind you, because he was trying to pin it on like the opposition party,
00:18:09.580 but he's resigned whether he knew why at the time or not.
00:18:12.240 He's the fall guy on this now.
00:18:14.840 And Trudeau may still skate.
00:18:16.740 That's the most dangerous part of this.
00:18:19.180 Megan writes, I'm the same way politically.
00:18:22.160 Ms. Wilson-Raybould and I may not agree, but in this case, she did the right thing by releasing the tapes to the public
00:18:27.440 so we could hear for ourselves and see just how corrupt this liberal government federally is.
00:18:32.760 And given all the evidence, it does show clearly she was pressured.
00:18:35.900 Keep up your great work.
00:18:36.800 Well, thank you very much, Megan.
00:18:37.800 Look, in this particular case, Jody Wilson-Raybould did all the work.
00:18:41.300 She did all the work.
00:18:42.100 She put the audio out.
00:18:43.080 You can read it on our Facebook or listen to it on our Facebook page.
00:18:47.360 But I do think the importance from this point on comes in the analysis of it
00:18:52.240 because now we're going to see a lot of under-bussing, they call it, throwing people under the bus.
00:18:58.020 Sheila Copps, who's been essentially functioning as a liberal surrogate, the former deputy prime minister,
00:19:03.020 has basically been tweeting about how terrible JWR is. 1.00
00:19:06.940 She previously called her a bitch on Twitter or said, no, no, no, I'm not calling her a bitch, 1.00
00:19:11.740 but if the word fits. 1.00
00:19:12.900 She was being incredibly crass about that for a former minister of the crown.
00:19:18.040 And we saw further to that point, more doubling, tripling, quadrupling down from the liberal Twitterati,
00:19:26.320 people that are basically now just trying to throw JWR under the bus as just a woman's scorn. 0.99
00:19:33.120 It's profoundly sexist the way the liberals are treating her.
00:19:37.740 Now, I'm not one of these SJW, you know, hardcore radical feminist types that sees everything as an ism, 0.97
00:19:44.080 sexism, racism, whatever.
00:19:46.160 I'm not one of these people. 0.92
00:19:47.260 But I can point out the hypocrisy of it.
00:19:50.340 And this is an element I've raised in the past that even if I'm not one of these people
00:19:54.900 that puts these social justice battles on the forefront, Justin Trudeau is. 0.79
00:19:59.860 And it is completely and utterly hypocritical for Justin Trudeau to hold himself up as Captain Feminist 0.90
00:20:07.160 while supporting a legion of people who are just simultaneously picking off these obnoxious and annoying women, 1.00
00:20:14.700 or obnoxious to Justin Trudeau from the liberal coalition.
00:20:18.980 Selena Cesar Chavannes, Jane Philpott, Jody Wilson-Raybould.
00:20:25.500 Potentially after this, we'll see some more fractures forming.
00:20:28.760 We just don't know.
00:20:30.000 But the reason I put this to you is because this is now a silver bullet that proves Justin Trudeau
00:20:37.920 either backed the wrong horse when he stood up for Michael Wernick or himself was in the wrong.
00:20:44.080 And I think it's probably a bit of both.
00:20:45.640 But I don't think he realized or anticipated just how forceful the pressure from Wernick was on Trudeau's behalf.
00:20:54.140 But either way, it shows a level of incompetence and malice on this.
00:20:58.440 He was both responsible for giving a directive to Wernick to give to Jody Wilson-Raybould.
00:21:03.240 And more importantly, he was responsible for Michael Wernick taking on a partisan role when he's supposed to be nonpartisan.
00:21:10.380 Remember, his job is to keep the lights on.
00:21:12.080 His job is to make sure that the government functions, the civil service functions, not to advance a political agenda.
00:21:19.920 And Wernick clearly and unequivocally was being the surrogate for the prime minister in these phone calls.
00:21:26.420 And thankfully, Jody Wilson-Raybould was able to hit the big red record button.
00:21:32.000 Ketsia, I'm sorry, I'm pardon the pronunciation, says if this happens before October, this might change the election results.
00:21:38.660 It's kind of interesting here.
00:21:40.220 Margaret writes, do you think she has more dirt to share if she can?
00:21:44.220 To be honest, no.
00:21:45.940 Now, I must admit, I didn't see this particular part coming.
00:21:49.480 Because this was something she could have raised in her testimony.
00:21:53.020 She was smart not to.
00:21:54.480 But it shows there's a strategic element here.
00:21:57.720 But I think this is it.
00:21:58.640 I think this is the dump of documents.
00:22:00.740 There might be some more about things that have happened in the last couple of months.
00:22:04.180 About her resignation from cabinet.
00:22:06.580 About conversations she's had with Trudeau.
00:22:09.200 But I think as far as smoking guns, this is probably going to be it.
00:22:13.940 But there may be something on the other side.
00:22:17.160 Conversations between Trudeau and Wernick that aren't recorded, but someone else could speak to.
00:22:24.460 I mean, this is the type of thing that could cause other staffers to say, oh, okay, I didn't realize this was happening.
00:22:31.760 This is a bridge too far for me.
00:22:33.800 And especially if this whole underbusing of Jody Wilson-Raybould continues, there are going to be a lot of high-ranking liberals that become very uncomfortable with what they're about to see.
00:22:43.000 And remember, that hasn't even started yet.
00:22:45.220 That's going to be in the next week and a bit that we start to see exactly how the government response to this unfolds.
00:22:52.320 But their whole no comment thing is not at all going to hold.
00:22:56.500 We have to wrap things up here.
00:22:57.940 But I want to give a big thank you to all of you for tuning in.
00:23:00.180 We'll have more on this in the days ahead.
00:23:02.220 But again, like I said, breaking news this weekend.
00:23:04.440 I wanted to give you a little bit of an update for my undisclosed Marriott location here.
00:23:08.920 Marriott, by the way, did not sponsor.
00:23:10.200 But I do have to thank them for their internet holding up, which I don't expect at hotels.
00:23:14.660 Have a great week, everyone.
00:23:15.760 This is Andrew Lawton for True North.
00:23:17.280 Thank you.
00:23:17.800 God bless.
00:23:18.420 And good day, Canada.