Juno News - August 23, 2018


Trudeau the Twitter Troll？

Hosted by
Andrew Lutton
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau
Welcome Back, Khadr Thousands of rejected illegal border-crossers still in Canada

Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

165.22

Word count

570

Sentence count

26

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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Justin Trudeau calls critics of his immigration policies "racist" after being heckled at an event in Quebec. Andrew Lutton explains why this is a revealing moment in which the Prime Minister shows his true colours. He also points out that the heckler wasn't even trying to disrupt the event, she was heckling him.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 After being heckled on his mishandling of the crisis of illegal border crossing into Canada,
00:00:05.000 Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister, has shown his true colors.
00:00:08.000 The exchange took place in French at an event in Quebec where the Prime Minister was talking
00:00:13.000 and a woman interrupted his remarks to ask when he was going to refund the $146 million dollars
00:00:20.000 spent on housing illegal border crossers, the asylum seekers that are coming into Canada illegally.
00:00:26.000 Justin Trudeau at first says that tolerance has no place in Canada, the woman is engaged with the RCMP 0.99
00:00:33.000 and then moments later after the event ends and he's walking the crowd, the woman walks up to him and asks him another question.
00:00:41.000 And he leans in and says to her that your racism has no place in Canada.
00:00:48.000 Mr. Trudeau, are you students in Chebagboise? You're students in Chebagboise?
00:00:56.000 Are you students in Chebagboise with you? You're not naturaleza in anda!
00:01:03.000 What's the matter? Excusez-moi madame! 0.91
00:01:06.000 Let me be very clear, I have very little patience or tolerance for hecklers or anyone who tries to disrupt an event.
00:01:17.820 I don't have to like Justin Trudeau's policies to think that it is rude and in poor form to try to silence anyone, which is what a lot of times hecklers are trying to do.
00:01:27.640 But that's really secondary to the point, because after the event, when she went up to talk to him again, she was not disrupting anything.
00:01:35.480 He was working the crowd. He was just as easily able to walk in another direction.
00:01:39.680 He chose to engage in that way. And my issue with this is the word that he used in that engagement.
00:01:47.020 He leans in and says, your racism, racism has no place in Canada, but more broadly, he accused her racism of being the problem.
00:01:57.760 Now, this is a revealing and very insightful comment, not by Justin Trudeau, but it allows us to have insights into the way that the left views it.
00:02:07.180 Because all the time we've actually seen when anyone criticizes the liberal version of immigration policy, how easy it is for the media and voices on the left to accuse them of racism.
00:02:17.360 Now, we actually have the prime minister himself engaging in that rhetoric.
00:02:21.760 The prime minister becoming just some garden variety Twitter troll by calling critics of his racist, by calling anyone who thinks that illegal border crossers are posing a problem to Canada economically or otherwise a racist.
00:02:35.100 Now, this comes on the heels of the release of an Ipsos poll commissioned by Immigration and Refugees Canada, which revealed most Canadians are actually having issues with this.
00:02:45.280 So is Justin Trudeau going to look at most Canadians and say, your racism has no place in Canada?
00:02:50.260 These are not just legitimate, but very much expected concerns that people are raising when a government has allowed a problem like this to get out of hand.
00:02:59.300 And if he was taking issue with the word illegal, well, even the government itself tweeted out yesterday a reminder that it is illegal to cross the border illegally.
00:03:09.640 That's why it's called illegal border crossing.
00:03:11.940 So Justin Trudeau wants to call critics of his racist.
00:03:14.500 We're dispensing with nuance.
00:03:16.060 We're now saying that unequivocally, you are a racist if you criticize our policies.
00:03:22.700 At least there is no doubt now.
00:03:25.040 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.