Juno News - September 09, 2024


Trudeau staff FLEE the SINKING SHIP


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6 minutes

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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.