Juno News - November 11, 2019


Uniting the country by fighting climate change？


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

171.22667

Word Count

630

Sentence Count

33

Misogynist Sentences

1


Summary

On this Remembrance Day, Leo Knight reflects on the election, and the lack of humility from the Trudeau government, and calls for the Prime Minister to get his head out of the sand and recognize reality for what it is, and stop pandering to special interests.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 What has become clear in the days since the election is despite losing more than a million votes,
00:00:10.940 20 seats, a couple of cabinet ministers including the insufferable Ralph Goodall,
00:00:15.320 and being shut out in seats except in Atlantic Canada and the seat-rich urban areas of Quebec
00:00:19.980 and Ontario, is the absence of humility from the government of Justin Trudeau.
00:00:25.040 Oh sure, he's saying some of the right things.
00:00:27.060 On the way into the first Liberal Caucus meeting post-election,
00:00:30.720 the Prime Minister said the shutout of his party in the prairies was a significant matter to him.
00:00:36.000 I've been reaching out to premiers, to mayors, to business leaders, to colleagues and former colleagues.
00:00:41.040 There's a lot of work to do to make sure that we're governing for the entire country, he said.
00:00:45.960 He then went on to say that his new cabinet would be focused on green technologies and climate change initiatives.
00:00:52.180 Wait, what?
00:00:53.460 How does he suppose that's going to fly in Alberta?
00:00:57.780 Like a wounded goose is my guess.
00:01:00.860 Environment Minister Catherine McKenna doubled down the stupidity in a statement when she said national unity was their main priority.
00:01:08.280 After the caucus meeting, she said to the assembled media,
00:01:12.660 When we talk about the environment and the economy going together, we actually mean it.
00:01:17.160 Of course we need to figure out how to bring the country together.
00:01:20.200 There is no bigger issue than national unity.
00:01:22.780 But we also need to tackle climate change and we can do this.
00:01:26.060 What seems to be lost on this lot is the majority of Canadians rejected their climate nonsense.
00:01:33.460 Canadians viscerally know that it is all smoke and mirrors and driven by a UN agenda not based in fact and in the election Canadians called them on it.
00:01:41.560 If Trudeau really wanted to unify Canada, all he needs to do is green light the TMX pipeline, get out of the way on other energy initiatives, allow Ontario to steer their own manufacturing initiatives, and stop all government subsidies to Quebec businesses.
00:01:56.720 Poof!
00:01:57.240 The country will be happy.
00:01:59.000 Oh, and stop pandering to special interest groups that have little effect on the country as a whole.
00:02:03.980 The CBC and the sycophantic media will set their hair on fire, of course.
00:02:09.780 But what's more important, the country's economic health and long-term viability, or Rosie Barton's sensibilities?
00:02:16.860 The country is divided like no other time in our history.
00:02:20.580 Western separation, long dormant since the days of the NEB during the government of Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, has arisen like a phoenix from the ashes.
00:02:29.920 Last week, Wheatland County Council in Alberta passed a unanimous motion calling for a referendum on Alberta's secession within two years.
00:02:39.780 There is a bitterness in the West that the Liberals ignore at their peril.
00:02:44.500 Continuing on the path of green initiatives and climate policies like the carbon tax is a collective national suicide pact.
00:02:51.880 Trudeau, McKenna, et al. need to get their head out of the sand and recognize reality for what it is.
00:02:57.020 Nothing less than the future of this country is at stake.
00:03:02.020 As a final note on this Remembrance Day, I wear my red poppy proudly.
00:03:07.280 In September of 1939, after Canada declared war, my father and his four brothers all enlisted.
00:03:13.320 Remarkably, all five came home after the war, and only one had suffered significant injuries.
00:03:18.100 After the war, they and their father, who fought in the First World War, became very involved in the Royal Canadian Legion,
00:03:25.160 and the oldest brothers served as president of the Dominion Command.
00:03:29.380 It was in that atmosphere of service that I was raised, and why I wear my poppy proudly.
00:03:35.240 Please remember all those who served on this Remembrance Day.
00:03:38.320 For True North, I'm Leo Knight.