Juno News - June 06, 2020


Trudeau's virtue-signalling won't stop racism in Canada


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4 minutes

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176.40424

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782

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00:00:00.000 well if there's one thing our prime minister is good at it is virtue signaling he has been
00:00:11.280 positioning himself as a staunch feminist and a moral crusader with the highest of standards
00:00:16.500 except for when it comes to holding himself by those standards but that's beside the point so
00:00:22.000 it wasn't really that surprising when he decided to weigh in on the george floyd protests but
00:00:27.860 there's just one small problem with him coming out and telling the black community and all canadians
00:00:32.540 that we as a country need to do better and no i don't mean because he was the one caught wearing
00:00:38.660 blackface i mean because he's the prime minister of the country and the same goes for minister
00:00:45.180 ahmed hussein he told ctv's power play that he gets his back up when he sees a police cruiser behind
00:00:51.740 him and sometimes that when he's in a store he gets followed and this is you know this is systemic
00:00:58.240 racism this is a serious problem and i'm not saying these things don't happen to him um i'm sure they
00:01:04.120 do happen and i'm sure that black canadians just like him do have a different experience than myself
00:01:10.400 i am not a black canadian i can't i can't speak to their experience but the issue here is not whether
00:01:16.840 or not there is a racism problem in canada of course racism exists in this country of course
00:01:22.160 that's an issue and that's something that we need to deal with the issue is that these men
00:01:26.940 all virtue signaling by the prime minister aside are speaking for a moral cause but they're both in a
00:01:34.600 position of power one is the prime minister and one is a federal cabinet minister if anyone in this
00:01:41.120 country has the power to affect change on this issue it's going to be them now there's a lot of
00:01:47.560 things they could do they could call a royal commission they could call a national inquiry
00:01:53.540 they could ask statistics canada to put together some stats and reports so that we could try and
00:01:59.160 pinpoint where exactly this institutional or systemic racism is occurring they could ask the rcmp
00:02:05.560 to make some changes they could speak to some of the premiers they could do a lot of things
00:02:10.440 more than just taking photo ops as my colleague candace malcolm tweeted about the photo op that
00:02:17.580 the prime minister took getting on a knee which as she aptly pointed out is not even clear what is the
00:02:22.760 canadian context what does that mean um when you when you do that here in this country but there's a lot
00:02:28.880 of things that they could do instead of taking photo ops or going on the news to news to complain about
00:02:35.060 this issue meanwhile you have something like this this is the missing and murdered indigenous women
00:02:42.120 of which there were according to the news source 231 recommendations made by the truth and
00:02:48.280 reconciliation commission the uh missing and murdered indigenous women reports and all of the other
00:02:54.060 government panels and and things put together um national inquiry and everything put together 231
00:03:01.200 different recommendations that use the words urgent immediately these kind of things and yet instead
00:03:07.140 of speaking about this instead of speaking about something of which there is an action plan and it's
00:03:12.640 not that he shouldn't speak about the other things don't don't get me wrong it's not that he should
00:03:15.420 not speak about anti-black racism or anti-semitism or islamophobia or any of the other hate issues
00:03:21.900 and and discrimination issues that affect us here in canada but where is he on this issue when this
00:03:28.600 actually has an action plan the national plan that was supposed to be in place in june is now on hold
00:03:36.080 seemingly because of the coronavirus just just like parliament is on hold now apparently we can't act on
00:03:42.340 the missing and murdered indigenous women because of the coronavirus even though this was one of the
00:03:47.120 one of the planks one of the things the prime minister said he was going to tackle it was a big big deal
00:03:54.340 for him during both of his election campaigns so you know racism is a serious issue in this country
00:04:02.540 it's something that we need to deal with something we shouldn't shy away from having that conversation
00:04:07.040 the difference is that whereas i can simply have that conversation with you you can have that
00:04:13.280 conversation with your friends you can try and raise awareness of the issue they can do more
00:04:18.680 they can actually do something about it and they aren't for true north i'm sam ashkenazi thank you for
00:04:25.660 watching