Juno News - November 25, 2019


Uniting the country should be Trudeau's top priority


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

169.97374

Word Count

928

Sentence Count

46

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 In the aftermath of the federal election which reduced the Trudeau government from a tight
00:00:08.960 majority to minority status, he was essentially shut out in Western Canada and a grassroots
00:00:14.480 Western separatist movement called Wexit has formed. You'd almost think that the Prime
00:00:18.980 Minister might think that uniting a divided nation would be a priority, almost. Add to
00:00:25.000 that the dire strait of the national economy. The PBO released a projection saying that this
00:00:30.720 year the country will pay $23.8 billion in interest payments alone to service the national
00:00:35.900 debt. They project that number will rise to $33.6 billion in five years. Stunning numbers.
00:00:43.140 The GDP is barely limping along in positive territory and is just a hiccup or two away
00:00:47.840 from falling into a recession. Over the course of his first term in office, Canada has lost
00:00:52.680 over $100 billion in investment we might otherwise have had but for the disastrous policies of
00:00:58.020 the Prime Minister and his Liberal government. Our national railway has just gone on strike
00:01:02.860 which will affect getting Alberta oil to market and prairie grain to the west coast terminals
00:01:07.680 not to mention not being able to transport eastern manufacturing to market including cars produced
00:01:13.060 in Ontario. In short, a prolonged strike could cripple the Canadian economy for a lengthy period
00:01:18.260 of time. With all that facing the Prime Minister as he prepared to name his new cabinet, one would
00:01:24.440 think he'd be hard at work addressing those issues for the good of the country. His stated
00:01:29.540 priority, he said, is fighting climate change. He also reversed course at the UN, siding with a bunch
00:01:35.520 of despotic countries in backing the Palestinians against Israeli settlements on the West Bank,
00:01:40.920 in a motion siding with the likes of North Korea, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Nicaragua,
00:01:45.600 and directly against the United States, our closest ally and largest trading partner.
00:01:51.120 The mind boggles. So desperate is the Prime Minister to do the UN's bidding to get invited
00:01:56.620 for a seat on the Security Council that he would stick his finger in the eye of Donald Trump.
00:02:01.620 Which brings me to his new cabinet, just announced. He had the opportunity to make some appointments
00:02:07.060 that might signal business and the West that he is going to be inclusive and that his government
00:02:12.580 is going to do everything possible to write the listing ship. He did nothing of the kind.
00:02:18.700 He started by appointing former Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland as Deputy Prime Minister,
00:02:24.540 essentially his second in command. But what that really does is provide a buffer to further insulate
00:02:29.860 him from anyone trying to get the attention of the PMO. Freeland has, charitably, a checkered history
00:02:36.440 as the Foreign Affairs Minister. She managed to anger the Saudis, China, and other countries we used to
00:02:42.040 have good relations with. Add to that, she was made persona non grata by Russia, meaning she can't go
00:02:47.860 there. It's pretty hard to conduct diplomacy if you can't travel to that country and they won't even
00:02:52.920 take your calls. With the election loss of Ralph Goodo, he appointed the former chief of the Toronto
00:02:58.460 Police Service, the sycophantic Bill Blair, as his public safety minister, which means he is
00:03:04.280 responsible for the RCMP. One wonders what might happen to their investigation into the Prime
00:03:10.140 Minister for obstruction of justice for his role in the SNC-Lavalin scandal that was paused
00:03:15.120 at the start of the election campaign. He also created a new ministry, Middle Class Prosperity,
00:03:22.600 and named Mona Fortier to the post. Prior to being an MP, she was the Director of Communications for an
00:03:28.100 obscure Ottawa French language community college. Her resume is even thinner than the Prime Minister's.
00:03:33.640 Considering it is the Prime Minister's carbon tax and other taxes that have hurt the middle class,
00:03:39.500 one wonders exactly what her role might be. And then there's the appointment of Mark Miller as
00:03:44.800 Minister of Indigenous Services. Miller attended college Jean de Bebeuf with the Prime Minister in
00:03:50.120 the 80s. He helped organize Trudeau's first political campaign when he ran and won a seat in
00:03:54.820 Parliament. He was also the fundraising director for Trudeau's leadership campaign and hosted a secret
00:04:00.380 liberal fundraiser in New York City in October during the election. Let's not forget Mary Ann
00:04:06.360 Monsef, the newly appointed Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Development. Not sure the
00:04:12.900 connection. Seriously though, Monsef, who has mused about her fascination with Sharia law, which espouses
00:04:19.300 things like female genital mutilation, men beating women, and the subjugation of women, seems like a perfect
00:04:26.140 choice. But the worst decision among many was the appointment of Seamus O'Regan to the position of
00:04:32.840 Minister of Natural Resources, which put him in a position of responsibility for our energy sector,
00:04:39.260 which accounts for 15% of the country's GDP. His qualifications? Well, he's gay and a recovering
00:04:46.620 alcoholic and a longtime friend of the Prime Minister who was in the wedding party when the Prime Minister
00:04:51.840 got married. He spent a decade or so as host of the lightweight CTV morning show and failed utterly in
00:04:58.220 his two prior cabinet positions, veteran affairs and laterally indigenous affairs. Ask the folks of
00:05:04.680 Grassy Narrows First Nations who are still coping with mercury-poisoned water just how good he did at
00:05:09.940 that position. Instead of making decisions to unite the country and giving the oil and gas industry some
00:05:16.360 hope for recovery, he might as well have thrown gasoline on the fire started by the Wexit movement.
00:05:23.040 The incompetence is stunning. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.