Juno News - January 15, 2023


True North arrives in Davos for the WEF Annual Meeting

Topics
security presence in Davos
Hosted by
Andrew Lawton Andrew Lutton
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Reiner Fulmich Klaus Schwab Idris Elba
Smith says Trudeau appealing to ‘extreme base’ Andrew Lawton and Russell Brand discuss the World Economic Forum

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3 minutes

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Word count

679

Sentence count

30

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The World Economic Forum is in Davos, Switzerland, and the media is here to cover it. Andrew Lawton and Andrew Lutton are here to report from inside and outside the congress center. They talk about the security situation, the media presence, and what they are looking forward to in the week ahead.

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00:00:00.000 This is Andrew Lawton with True North coming to you from Davos, Switzerland, where we are here to
00:00:05.360 cover the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023. This is our second time at Davos, but there's
00:00:11.900 a bit of a difference this time around because we have credentials. Yes, True North has been
00:00:16.880 accredited, so we will be covering the annual meeting from inside and outside the Congress
00:00:21.500 Center when dozens of world leaders, corporate leaders, are expected to descend on this small
00:00:26.900 Swiss mountain village, which is, by WEF founder and chairman Klaus Schwab, deliberately remote.
00:00:34.340 Only personal interaction creates a necessary level of trust, which we need so much in our
00:00:43.200 fragmented and fractured world. To bring people together for an informal dialogue in a remote
00:00:51.760 Swiss village such as Davos can be or should be a good recipe to restore trust. 0.82
00:01:01.200 Yeah, so you can only build trust when you're in a place that is as remote as Davos. Well,
00:01:06.180 we didn't let that deter us. We came in and we're actually here a day early to get a sense of what
00:01:11.300 people can expect in the week ahead. The annual meeting officially starts off tomorrow night with
00:01:16.020 a celebrity-laden awards gala featuring the opera singer Renee Fleming, the actor Idris Elba,
00:01:22.020 and then the real political and corporate agenda starts Tuesday, and we will be covering that all,
00:01:27.200 sharing you the best and brightest clips. But I wanted just to set the scene here because I know
00:01:31.100 there's been a lot of discussion online about this idea that 5,000 Swiss troops have been coming
00:01:36.620 along here to do security. Now, security so far has been very light. I've been able to walk around
00:01:41.660 without anyone asking me anything. I know when I was here last time, there was a large police and
00:01:46.060 military presence. That 5,000 number is actually nothing new. There's always been a lot of security
00:01:51.400 surrounding this, so I haven't had any encounters with law enforcement and hope that will continue as
00:01:56.600 the week goes on. But one of the reasons we're here is because so many of the journalists who come
00:02:00.600 here are not actually interested in asking any tough questions. You can see if you look around,
00:02:05.780 media companies are here as sponsors and invited guests. There's the Wall Street Journal with this
00:02:10.940 beautiful mountain view shop that they have set up in front of the Ritzy Belvedere Hotel.
00:02:16.040 You have journalists that are on the agenda with white badges, which means they are invited guests
00:02:20.480 of the World Economic Forum, many of whom are coming back year after year. Remember, Chrystia Freeland,
00:02:26.020 Canada's Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, used to attend this as a journalist reporting on it.
00:02:31.580 Now she's on the Board of Trustees and will be speaking in the week ahead. So one of the questions we
00:02:37.040 want to ask is, what are these prescriptions that they have here for us? These things that they have
00:02:42.720 for our lives that we have to abide by? Things about what we eat, how we travel, what we're allowed
00:02:49.020 to consume, things that affect employment and jobs and the economy, especially in countries like Canada,
00:02:54.360 which are resource-producing nations. But the oil and gas sector is not exactly the good guy
00:02:59.780 in the panel discussions that have taken place at WEF annual meetings in the past,
00:03:04.240 and we suspect ones that are on the agenda for this time. There are a lot of Canadians here,
00:03:09.520 from executives of SNC-Lavalin to the Editor-in-Chief of the Globe and Mail to Cabinet
00:03:14.660 Ministers from the federal government and also the Quebec government. You have non-profit leaders,
00:03:20.380 Indigenous leaders that are here. So even though Justin Trudeau is not here, there is a large
00:03:24.580 Canadian contingent, a large Canadian delegation that's going to be here in Davos as invited guests.
00:03:30.500 So far, we haven't encountered any other Canadian media here except for Rebel News,
00:03:35.040 who alongside True North will be asking the questions. But from Davos, for True North,
00:03:39.740 this is Andrew Lutton.