Juno News - September 09, 2024


Trudeau staff FLEE the SINKING SHIP


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The sinking Liberal ship is rapidly running out of available life rafts as news broke today that five top liberal government aides are resigning their posts. This follows news that Justin Trudeau's own campaign director announced his resignation last week because he doesn't think Justin Trudeau can even win the election.

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00:00:00.000 Well, the sinking liberal ship is rapidly running out of available life rafts as news broke today
00:00:11.460 that five top liberal government aides are resigning their posts. This follows news that
00:00:16.320 Justin Trudeau's own campaign director announced his resignation last week because he doesn't
00:00:21.600 believe that Justin Trudeau can even win. The man tasked with making sure Justin Trudeau wins
00:00:26.780 doesn't think he's up to the job and nor do most Canadians. A party that took another big hit today
00:00:31.820 because on top of losing the NDP support, the Liberal Party also lost the man set to manage
00:00:35.680 their next campaign. Jeremy Broadhurst announced today he's calling it quits as the party's national
00:00:40.720 campaign director. Jeremy Broadhurst, the Liberals' national campaign director, is stepping down.
00:00:47.260 Chiefs of staff at Global Affairs, Heritage, Environment, National Revenue and Mental Health
00:00:52.980 and Addictions all announced their resignations to the government today according to liberal sources
00:00:58.000 as reported in the Globe and Mail. Couple that news with the fact that Trudeau no longer has a supply
00:01:03.600 and confidence deal with the NDP and his situation looks pretty grim. But it doesn't end there on the
00:01:10.160 sinking ship. There's another cabinet minister who is now looking for his own life raft off the ship
00:01:15.520 and that happens to be Pablo Rodriguez, Trudeau's transportation minister and former heritage
00:01:22.080 minister. As we call him on this show, Canada's own El Censor. Well Pablo seems to be planning his own
00:01:28.960 great escape now. Now what is Captain Trudeau's rescue plan for his ship? Well it seems to be to
00:01:35.400 call in the Quebec separatists, the Bloc Québécois, to try to form their own agreement. Before we get into
00:01:41.700 the show, be sure to drop a like on this video. Help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube
00:01:45.500 channel. And the comment question for the episode is this. Who will be next to leave Justin Trudeau's
00:01:52.140 sinking ship? Let me know your answer in the comments below and let's get into it. Well here
00:01:56.320 we go. Check out this headline in the Globe and Mail published by Bob Fyfe. Five chiefs of staff set to
00:02:01.640 leave the Trudeau government. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government is contending with an exodus of
00:02:06.500 senior staff just as the minority liberals are returning to a precarious position in the House of
00:02:11.120 Commons, having lost the automatic support of the new Democratic Party. Five of his 38 ministers are
00:02:17.360 losing their chiefs of staff in quick succession with several already gone, including the top
00:02:21.800 advisors at Global Affairs, Heritage, Environment, National Revenue, and Mental Health and Addictions.
00:02:28.080 The source said a number of staffers had been planning their exits for months while others had
00:02:32.420 been considering leaving for a long time before finally making the move. Yeah, finally making the move
00:02:38.000 after Justin Trudeau just lost his lifeline with the NDP. Today I notified the Prime Minister that
00:02:44.260 I've ripped up the supply and confidence agreement. The chiefs of staff, the top aides, are only
00:02:49.180 following in the footsteps of Liberal campaign director Jeremy Broadhurst, who announced his sudden
00:02:54.900 resignation last week, basically saying that he doesn't think Trudeau can win and that he doesn't
00:02:59.940 think there's anything that can be done. He didn't exactly say that. Of course he said that he didn't want to
00:03:04.700 ask his family to sacrifice another year for this job. But I think we all know the reality here.
00:03:10.960 On the same day that Jeremy Broadhurst announced his resignation, an Angus Reid poll was released,
00:03:16.040 which showed that the Liberals could potentially end up in fourth place if an election were held today
00:03:20.800 behind the NDP and the Bloc Québécois. Now this was the media reaction to Broadhurst's sudden resignation.
00:03:27.340 You know, you can be there a long time, work your tail off, do a great job, but everybody gets a little
00:03:32.760 bit long in the tooth sometimes too. So if it's the right time for him to leave, it may also be the
00:03:38.360 right time for the party, as she said, you know, to start thinking about, okay, a year until the next
00:03:43.600 election, how do we do things a little bit differently? Because when you're, you know, 20 plus
00:03:48.560 percent in the polls, you, you know, it's a fair bet that I think it's reasonable to say maybe
00:03:53.420 then something should change. Of course, his statement put out to social media was released
00:03:59.420 a day after Jagmeet Singh pulled out of the supply and confidence deal. But Justin Trudeau, well,
00:04:05.140 he's prepared to keep sailing that sinking ship and if necessary, perhaps even go down with the ship
00:04:10.820 because he, according to his latest statements, isn't going anywhere. I really hope the NDP stays
00:04:17.000 focused on how we can deliver for Canadians as we have over the past years, rather than focusing
00:04:23.740 on politics. But how are Canadians taking the news on social media of yet another mass exodus
00:04:28.900 happening around Justin Trudeau? Well, exactly as you probably expected. The party is in full-scale
00:04:34.300 collapse. They are fleeing before the adults take over and the real scrutiny starts. Ranking five
00:04:39.860 chiefs of staff set to leave the Trudeau government. They increase their marketability if they leave
00:04:44.440 before the Titanic sinks, another user wrote. They can run, but they can't hide. There will be
00:04:50.040 audits. Well, what might Justin Trudeau try next to try to save his political fate? Well, it might be
00:04:55.300 to make a deal with the Bloc Québécois, with the Quebec separatists. Well, according to Yves-Francois
00:05:00.940 Blanchet, that is exactly what the Bloc is looking to do. They are looking to extract concessions from a
00:05:06.120 minority liberal government. The Bloc is a natural ally on a number of subjects, less naturally so on others.
00:05:12.440 But, you know, the leader of the Bloc will be able to leverage a lot, you would think, for
00:05:16.840 people in Quebec, for the kinds of policies that he wants to see pursued, because the liberals sort of
00:05:23.020 can give him that leverage, can say, OK, we have a lot of stuff for Quebec that we're willing to do
00:05:28.480 in order to stay in power. It's kind of a small price to pay in the views of liberals. And so I
00:05:33.680 would look ahead to them leaning on the Bloc. Just imagine if Justin Trudeau, if only to save his
00:05:39.980 political future for a few more months, decides to give the Bloc Québécois a referendum. Would
00:05:45.980 you even put it past Justin Trudeau at this point to do something like that? How symbolic would it be
00:05:51.060 if Justin Trudeau's final act as prime minister is to strike an agreement and to get into political bed
00:05:57.540 with a group of people who despise our country and our institutions? It really is all but over for
00:06:04.760 the liberals now. All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the show. Thank you so
00:06:08.140 much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.