Juno News - February 09, 2022


WATCH： Pierre Poilievre passionately defends Canadian freedom in the House of Commons today


Episode Stats

Length

7 minutes

Words per Minute

150.79501

Word Count

1,176

Sentence Count

74

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Learn English with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a rally in support of Canadian pharmacists and truckers who have been blocked from delivering vaccines across the country since October 19th.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 People feel like they're losing control of their lives, whether it's the young
00:00:04.560 couple living in their parents' basement even though they're 30 years old
00:00:07.440 because they can't afford an $800,000 house and are calculating that they may
00:00:11.940 never be able to own a home, whether it's the immigrant who comes here as a
00:00:16.140 doctor but is blocked by a bureaucracy from ever doing that job or getting a
00:00:21.160 license to practice, whether it's the First Nations community that wants to
00:00:24.540 harvest its resources to lift itself out of poverty but is blocked by government
00:00:28.860 gatekeepers, Mr. Speaker or more recently whether it is the countless small
00:00:33.480 business people who've been flattened by endless lockdowns and rules that often
00:00:38.880 seem to have no link to science or whether it is the trucker who has been
00:00:44.100 dutifully putting the goods and services in our communities on our shelves and on
00:00:50.460 our kitchen tables and now is called names and prevented from doing his or her
00:00:55.680 job by a Prime Minister who's not interested in listening. Now there I am
00:01:00.900 vaccinated and I encourage others to do so but every person has their story. They
00:01:07.440 have their reasons, they might be medical reasons, cultural reasons, they might even
00:01:12.240 have learned, they might have had an unfortunate medical experience with prior
00:01:16.800 medical prescriptions that have prevented them from making that decision but that
00:01:21.960 decision must be theirs. Their bodies belong to them. They are masters of their own
00:01:28.140 decisions and instead of listening to these people the Prime Minister has
00:01:32.220 insulted them and name called them and left them with no choice but to engage in
00:01:37.720 legitimate and peaceful protests. If he wants to put an end to those
00:01:41.340 protests, if he wants to actually reunite the country then he should do what
00:01:45.780 others have begun doing. Freedom is on the march in this country. Saskatchewan,
00:01:55.440 Alberta, Prince Edward Island and Quebec are beginning to lift these
00:01:59.160 restrictions. At midnight in Alberta the vaccine passport came to an end and
00:02:03.840 people across the country are showing their support for restarting freedom in
00:02:09.480 this country including two of the Prime Minister's own members of Parliament. Mr.
00:02:14.160 Speaker, let's get these restrictions out of the way. Let's open up our economy.
00:02:18.300 Let's bring back freedom. Let's make Canadians the authors of their own stories again.
00:02:24.900 The Honourable Parliamentary Secretary.
00:02:35.040 Mr. Speaker, I note that when the member was speaking he talked about the protest
00:02:41.160 outside being a peaceful protest. What we do know is that there have been many
00:02:44.880 incidences of non-peaceful type activities that have been occurring. As a matter of
00:02:50.760 fact, a number of his colleagues in the Conservative bench have also called out
00:02:55.560 what's going on outside as an occupation. I'm curious if he wants to
00:03:01.920 comment as to whether or not he agrees that we should be asking those that are
00:03:08.100 outside to leave now that they've made their point or if he thinks that what's
00:03:12.120 going on outside is totally legitimate and should continue in its current form.
00:03:16.900 The Honourable Member for Carleton. I don't want any of this to continue. In fact, the
00:03:21.800 truckers themselves have said they will not stay here one minute longer than the
00:03:26.940 Prime Minister continues to impose against the freedoms of Canadians. And as for him
00:03:32.860 insulting the people who have spoken up, I encourage him to listen to his own
00:03:38.060 member of Parliament, the Member for Quebec, a Liberal MP who said that he said that when he went to the
00:03:45.700 protest, he saw a very kind grandmother who demonstrated for her grandkids. She looked
00:03:50.040 and sounded nothing like a white supremacist. Nor did the Black, Sikh and Indigenous
00:03:55.300 Canadians I saw demonstrating on my way to Parliament Hill these last two weeks or in
00:04:00.600 Quebec City this last Saturday. I have enough respect for my fellow Canadians not to
00:04:06.960 engage in these easy and absurd labels.
00:04:13.960 Question and commentaire, questions and comments, L'Honourable Deputé de Lac Saint-Jean.
00:04:18.960 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was going to thank my honourable colleague for his speech. I would never want him to be quiet. I always listen attentively when he speaks because he's one of my favourites. Now, we agree on one thing. It's that the government management of the crisis has been
00:04:36.940 awful. We all agree on this. No leadership. We can see that. And I totally agree with my colleague on that point. Now, some of his Conservative colleagues have asked for the immediate end to the blockade in Ottawa.
00:04:58.940 And which side is he in favour of? The honourable member for Carleton. I would like to thank the honourable member for his question. My position is for freedom. I want to end the government
00:05:14.940 obstruction that this government is imposing on Canadians. That means ending mandatory vaccination. Give jobs back to legitimate public servants who were fired because of their vaccine status. Eliminate the obligation to be vaccinated for truckers who want to deliver products to us, to our grocery stores.
00:05:43.940 Restore freedom to Canadians above all. That means that would bring an end to the protests. And it will help us to start working to make Canada the freest country in the world. Questions and comments? The honourable member for Cowichan Malahat Langford. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And allow me to congratulate the member for Carleton on his upcoming
00:06:13.920 coronation as leader of the Conservative Party. The irony here, of course, is that these lockdown protests have caused some of the worst lockdowns in the last two years. And he referred to unhappy stories. Well, I've got a few too, Mr. Speaker. I've got unhappy stories from workers and businesses in downtown Ottawa who have been unable to open or go to work. Unhappy stories from truckers who are stuck at Coots and stuck at Windsor because of these protests.
00:06:41.920 Because of these protests. Workers who are trying to move goods across the border and provide necessary supplies to our communities.
00:06:48.920 I'm asking, Mr. Speaker, through you, will the member for Carleton speak up for those people and make sure that their unhappy stories are listened to by the rest of his caucus and encourage these protests to end?
00:07:01.920 In 30 seconds or so, the honourable member for Carleton.
00:07:04.920 One person is responsible for this mess, and that's the Prime Minister. He caused this mess by attacking Canadian citizens and taking away their freedoms. The rest of the world is moving on. Other countries all around the world are lifting restrictions. Provinces across the country are doing exactly the same. But we've got this holdup.
00:07:23.920 The Prime Minister is hunkering down, and out of spite and personal pride, refusing to lift these unjustified and unscientific restrictions. If he would only do so, then the truckers could get back to work, and the other protesters could go back to their lives, and everything in Canada would get back up on its feet, and we could get back to working on giving people control of their lives.
00:07:46.920 Thank you.