Juno News - Trudeau's Gaslighting of Canadians Needs to Stop

00:00:00.000 So whether it's the pipeline protests, tech, or the UN Security Council seat, Canadians are

00:00:10.120 rightfully angry about the lack of leadership that Prime Minister Trudeau has been showing lately.

00:00:13.560 But the anger out there is different than what you get when a government is incompetent or makes

00:00:19.140 missteps or is even a bit hypocritical. Canadians are so angry because Prime Minister Trudeau has

00:00:24.120 been gaslighting us on a number of different issues and for a number of years. So I wanted

00:00:28.800 to explore a couple of times when we were being gaslit because it's important we recognize

00:00:32.820 them and that we call the Prime Minister out.

00:00:35.320 So firstly, gaslighting. The term comes from the 1944 film Gaslight and in it the husband

00:00:42.260 slowly convinces the wife that she's going crazy. Now it stars Ingrid Bergman and Angela

00:00:46.660 Lansbury and there's some clips on YouTube so you may want to check those out. It's

00:00:49.840 quite an interesting film but in a nutshell it's basically when you call someone to question

00:00:57.020 their own judgment, question their memory, you flip things around on them, you accuse

00:01:00.260 them of what you're actually doing so that way you get to be the victim and they feel

00:01:04.200 kind of crazy when they call you out. So obviously the most recent example is the pipeline process.

00:01:09.380 So we see that the Prime Minister is extremely concerned and he's taking it very seriously.

00:01:15.800 He's called in the incident response team and when it came time to have an opposition leaders

00:01:20.580 meeting with everybody to discuss the crisis, he didn't invite Andrew Scheer. Now Andrew Scheer

00:01:25.880 gave what was possibly the greatest speech of his career. I mean, where was this Andrew

00:01:31.120 when we needed him during the campaign? But regardless, he gave a really good speech and

00:01:35.920 said that Prime Minister Trudeau, your speeches are a bunch of word salad, you're not taking

00:01:39.620 this seriously, you're phoning it in and so you've got to act. So the Prime Minister decided

00:01:45.020 he's not going to invite him. But the reason is that Prime Minister Trudeau said that Andrew

00:01:50.220 actually disqualified himself. Now let's sort of change up the scenario for a second. This

00:01:55.760 is classic gaslighting and think about it this way. Imagine someone saying, you know, I didn't

00:02:01.100 want to hit you. You made me hit you. Your behavior was what made me hit you. If he would

00:02:06.100 stop behaving like that, then obviously I wouldn't hit you. So this is a classic, classic gaslighting.

00:02:11.640 I don't think people realize it because he's been doing this to us for a number of years and

00:02:17.820 that's actually part of gaslighting. It's, you know, you don't even realize that it's happening

00:02:21.520 to you because it's been going on for so long. Now, speaking of going on for so long,

00:02:25.940 the entire protest issue lately is because of another gaslighting issue, another gaslighting

00:02:31.980 incident that happened where the Prime Minister has been failing on for a number of years.

00:02:35.480 So this is about reconciliation. Now, a long time ago in 2015, before the Prime Minister got elected,

00:02:41.640 he said that reconciliation was going to be a huge part of his party's platform. I think it was even

00:02:46.420 quoted somewhere saying that if he fails on reconciliation, he will have considered his Prime

00:02:50.560 ministership a failure. And so he really wanted to focus on this issue. Now, he's not been doing

00:02:57.540 the best job, as evidenced by the fact that this map exists where First Nations and Indigenous

00:03:03.800 communities around the country are on boil water advisories. So some of these communities are on

00:03:08.380 boil water advisories and they have been so since 1995. So imagine you're a, you know, 24, 25 year old,

00:03:14.980 you may have grown up and you've never ever had clean, reliable drinking water from the tap.

00:03:19.400 So this is an issue that the Prime Minister has, you know, he's not been doing as great as he could.

00:03:23.900 Is he a total failure? Is he not? You know, that's up for debate. But he's clearly not doing the best

00:03:28.920 at reconciliation and he's already been re-elected. So he's already got one term and he's, you know,

00:03:33.000 he's not succeeded, clearly. So the gaslighting comes in where he decides he's going to flip things

00:03:37.500 around on Andrew Scheer again. And it's not that, you know, it's not that he's failing. It's not that,

00:03:42.600 you know, he's doing real reconciliation. Andrew Scheer is actually the one who's failing.

00:03:45.840 He's, he's, he's the one without a vision for Canada. He's the one without the vision

00:03:50.500 for reconciliation. So again, it's flipping things around on someone and saying, you know,

00:03:54.620 I'm doing great reconciliation. What you're doing, that's a failure. The most famous one,

00:03:59.420 though, I think is this one. It's all stems from this. Now this is the, because it's 2015 remark,

00:04:05.800 you guys probably recall that the Prime Minister, when asked, you know, why do you have 50% women in

00:04:09.940 your cabinet? He, you know, slyly said, you know, he smartly said, um, you can see his nice smile

00:04:15.100 here, distracting. You can see his smile. He said, um, because it's 2015 now, you know, helping women

00:04:22.020 achieve, you know, helping them break down barriers where there's discrimination or even systemic

00:04:25.640 discrimination. These are all great things, but for a prime minister who holds himself as a super

00:04:31.080 feminist to then be accused of this, um, you guys obviously remember when he was accused of 1.00

00:04:37.340 allegedly groping a woman 18 years ago. Now there's a couple of issues here. And the first

00:04:42.720 one is right in the headline. So you can see, I don't remember any negative interactions.

00:04:46.940 So picture someone, you know, a couple, they've gone on a date and you know, they broke up and

00:04:51.640 you know, later the woman says that, you know, so-and-so he actually groped me and everyone

00:04:56.360 asks the guy and he says, you know, I don't remember any negative interactions. You know, I didn't,

00:04:59.840 I didn't do anything. Um, you know, I remember that day. Well, it was, it was a great day. I don't

00:05:04.200 remember anything. I don't remember doing anything. I don't recall any negative interaction.

00:05:07.900 But to top it off, he added that, you know, if he would have known she was a reporter,

00:05:13.800 allegedly again, he would have known that she was a reporter for a national paper. He never would

00:05:18.040 have been so forward. So it's like a multi-layer gaslighting because being forward and groping are

00:05:23.860 two really different things. Normally when you go on a date and you know, the guy's being forward,

00:05:29.240 I mean the girl, anyone can really be forward. Um, I'm being forward, you would think that they're

00:05:33.060 bringing up inappropriate subjects. They're talking about things that they might, you know,

00:05:37.040 they probably shouldn't. Um, not that they're groping. Groping is, you know, next level. That's,

00:05:41.260 that's not being forward. That's, you know, that can be assault. That can be a number of different

00:05:45.460 things. I don't think anyone really thinks that that's being forward. Now this entire thing got

00:05:51.000 compounded. His feminism got compounded by the fact that he ejected Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane 1.00

00:05:56.320 Philpott out of caucus because they raised concerns on a number of different issues.

00:06:00.260 So here we have super feminist Justin Trudeau, again, allegedly groping women and then injecting

00:06:05.260 some women out of his caucus. But the gaslighting begins when he says, you know, the entire thing

00:06:10.800 actually increased my feminism. So I'm a really, really big feminist and all these things that I've

00:06:15.440 allegedly done. No, no, no, no, no. Don't worry about them. I'm a big feminist and they've increased 0.98

00:06:20.020 my feminism. They've caused me to think about them differently. Now, um, the real turn

00:06:26.040 is when he then preaches to us and says that hatred of women is creeping into the public debate.

00:06:31.660 So I think that some of these issues and some of the times when we're being gaslit,

00:06:35.400 they're hard to recognize because they've been going on for so long. But whenever these sort of

00:06:40.720 twists and turns, whenever you think the prime minister is being hypocritical, we've got to stop

00:06:44.460 and think, wait, wait, wait, is this regular hypocrisy? Is he simply saying, you know, do as I do,

00:06:49.520 as I say, not as I do, or is it actually gaslighting? And if it is gaslighting, it's very important

00:06:54.560 that we call him out on it because it's got to stop. I mean, the East West divide is a serious

00:06:59.780 problem. That's not going to be helped by gaslighting. There's a number of issues,

00:07:03.560 reconciliation that are not going to be helped by gaslighting. So the next time you see prime

00:07:07.080 minister Trudeau do something and you think it's gaslighting, check it out. Let's call him out on

00:07:10.900 and let's make sure that it stops.

Juno News - March 02, 2020

Trudeau's Gaslighting of Canadians Needs to Stop

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