Juno News - July 20, 2019


#TrudeauMustGo


Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

150.39302

Word count

574

Sentence count

40


Summary

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Justin Trudeau is taking a day off. It's his 55th personal day since the start of the year, and it comes on the heels of a day of meetings with the EU's Donald Tusk and the President of the European Council.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Today, the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking another personal day.
00:00:16.000 By my count, it's his 55th personal day since the start of the year.
00:00:20.000 Yesterday he met with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, in Montreal.
00:00:24.000 Why he is pandering to the EU, given that with a pending Brexit the EU might just implode entirely, is anyone's guess.
00:00:32.000 At a photo op afterwards, he gave a statement about increasing trade and other meaningless words.
00:00:38.000 Then he flew to the west coast to make an announcement alongside BC Premier John Horgan.
00:00:44.000 The flight was, by my count, his 120th since the start of the year.
00:00:50.000 He was in BC to announce $79 million in funding to improve transit.
00:00:56.000 Of this, he announced a plan to buy 118 new buses for Victoria and other BC communities.
00:01:02.000 And after that busy day, he needed a day off.
00:01:06.000 Whatever else you can say about this Prime Minister, you can say that he is well rested.
00:01:11.000 It is unclear whether he remained in BC or flew back to Ottawa after the announcement.
00:01:16.000 The PM's website is silent on that question.
00:01:20.000 Also yesterday, social media blew up with the hashtag, Trudeau must go.
00:01:25.000 The liberal political machine immediately jumped in with the hashtag, Trudeau must stay.
00:01:31.000 But that really didn't get any traction.
00:01:33.000 So they trotted out the likes of former cabinet minister, Sheila Copps, posting that it wasn't any sort of grassroots initiative, which it was, but the result of Twitter bots.
00:01:45.000 The liberal compliant media even ran a news story echoing the Liberal Party position.
00:01:51.000 You can't make this up, folks.
00:01:53.000 For the record, the hashtag, Trudeau must go, was trending on Twitter for the second day in a row today, even though the liberal war machine had a number of accounts shut down.
00:02:05.000 Censorship continues.
00:02:07.000 The press conference was barely covered in the local media.
00:02:11.000 The province had a story on page 12 which referred to the announcement, but led with the answer Trudeau gave to a media question about building a refinery in BC.
00:02:21.000 Why did he even bother to fly across the country for that?
00:02:25.000 He could have simply issued an announcement jointly with the BC Premier and accomplished the same goal, and got as much attention, which was essentially nothing.
00:02:36.000 Just before the House adjourned for the summer, the Liberals declared there was a climate emergency, quote unquote.
00:02:43.000 Since then, Trudeau has been flying back and forth across the country making funding announcements.
00:02:49.000 This is in a year that their budget showed a deficit of $22.8 billion.
00:02:54.000 I should add that in the 2015 election, Trudeau promised to have a balanced budget in 2019.
00:03:01.000 Not even close.
00:03:02.000 It should come as no surprise to anyone that the bulk of the spending is either in Liberal ridings or in ridings they think they can win in the coming election in October.
00:03:11.000 I may be cynical about this government and their two-faced leader, and their don't-do-as-I-do, do-as-I-say leader, but my cynicism is firmly based in reality.
00:03:23.000 Trudeau and the Liberals do not deserve another term in government.
00:03:26.000 Hashtag, Trudeau must go.
00:03:29.000 For True North, I'm Leo Knight.
00:03:32.000 Unlike the mainstream media and the CBC, we're not getting millions in taxpayers' dollars.
00:03:38.000 We rely on Canadians just like you for our entire existence.
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00:03:48.000 Thank you.