Juno News - September 07, 2022


Watch as Todd Loewen ROASTS Justin Trudeau

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In this episode, I recap the UCP leadership debate in Edmonton, Alberta. I give my thoughts on Todd Lowen's performance and what I think of the other candidates. I also talk about some of my favourite moments from the debate.

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00:00:00.080 One thing we haven't covered yet was the UCP leadership debate in Edmonton on Tuesday night.
00:00:05.180 This was the last official debate. You might remember the other one was in Medicine Hat.
00:00:08.720 I didn't dedicate a lot of time to this because I felt like I didn't hear a lot of new things from the candidates.
00:00:13.420 At this point in the debate, you know, they're really solidifying their positions.
00:00:16.280 They're repeating things that they've said. They're getting good clips for Twitter.
00:00:19.020 But, you know, not a lot of new policies are emerging or new ideas are emerging in these debates.
00:00:24.000 That being said, you might remember the last time we talked about this.
00:00:26.540 I said Danielle Smith got so much time during the first debate because her opponents would continually pick her to debate with when they had the opportunity to pick an opponent to spar with.
00:00:35.820 They didn't do that this time around.
00:00:37.280 I think they probably noticed that that tactic wasn't successful for them the first time going because all it really did was give Smith so much time to speak about her ideas and she didn't lose her cool in the face of some really personal attacks.
00:00:49.400 So, you know, the debate was a bit dry, but always good to give, you know, voters more of an opportunity to learn about their candidates.
00:00:56.540 However, I thought Todd Lowen had a really strong performance.
00:00:59.840 I know that Lowen has sometimes struggled with his public speaking.
00:01:02.740 I thought he did a really good job.
00:01:03.860 He brought some really good points on inflation and on the economy.
00:01:06.560 He held Travis Taves, the former finance minister's, feet to the fire on Alberta's spending when Taves was finance minister.
00:01:13.100 But he also had a couple really funny moments.
00:01:15.560 Take a listen to this clip of him absolutely roasting Justin Trudeau.
00:01:19.220 When it comes to grazing leases, there's a lot of contention with grazing leases, with public land, private land and that relationship with the public.
00:01:26.600 And there's a lot of work that needs to be done there.
00:01:28.780 But I think when it comes, you know, I guess I kind of want to go back to the fertilizer issue.
00:01:33.060 And I actually think that if we if we used Justin Trudeau's BS, we could probably fertilize our crops with that.
00:01:38.520 But unfortunately, all right, all right, we're cutting into his time.
00:01:47.780 Maybe the world couldn't handle the crops with all that fertilizer, but I got a good laugh out of that.
00:01:53.240 I didn't really expect it because Lowen is so nice, but I don't think anyone could say that it wasn't true what he said.