Juno News - March 27, 2023


What the hell was that？


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9 minutes

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1,626

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101

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2

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4

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Joe Biden's visit to Canada this past week was a train wreck. Joe Biden made some of the most embarrassing gaffes of his presidency, and it's no accident that they happened in the midst of a time when Canada and the United States are dealing with China related political scandals.

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00:00:00.000 Well, I'm not sure if any of you noticed last week, but the remarkably unimpressive
00:00:10.560 President of the United States visited Ottawa. Who am I kidding? Of course you noticed. You
00:00:14.720 didn't really have a choice, did you? The legacy media in the pocket of Justin Trudeau made it
00:00:18.860 their obligation to inform every single Canadian, despite the fact that most of us couldn't care
00:00:23.480 less, that Joe Biden was in Canada. And just like that, like magic, Justin Trudeau's legacy media
00:00:29.420 conveniently stopped reporting on the biggest political scandal in Canadian history.
00:00:35.120 There are few people in the world that have the ability to make Justin Trudeau sound coherent,
00:00:39.760 but Joe Biden is one of those people. And in a brief two-day visit, Joe Biden managed to give us,
00:00:45.400 Canadians, some of the worst and most embarrassing presidential gaffes in human history. At a time
00:00:50.620 when not only Canada and the United States are working together to oppose China, both Justin
00:00:55.360 Trudeau and Joe Biden are also dealing with China-related political scandals. And with these
00:01:00.020 China scandals looming in the backdrop of this grand state visit, Joe Biden told Canadian Parliament
00:01:05.960 that he applauds China. Just in case any of you were concerned that we weren't in the hands of
00:01:10.720 true geniuses and true statesmen, not to worry. Trudeau and Biden, they have our back. Drop a like in
00:01:15.520 the video, help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel. And the comment question for
00:01:19.040 the episode is this. If you had to defeat one of the two world leaders in a game of chess, who would
00:01:24.040 you choose? Trudeau or Biden? Let me know and let's get into it. That Biden visit sure couldn't have come
00:01:28.920 at a better time for Justin Trudeau, could it? Legacy media journalists could talk about the
00:01:33.020 celebrities and former prime ministers invited to the Thursday night gala dinner. They could talk about
00:01:38.220 the curling trip that Sophie Trudeau and Dr. Jill Biden took. They could talk about basically anything
00:01:44.120 else other than the one thing that Justin Trudeau didn't want them to talk about, the Chinese
00:01:49.040 election interference scandal. The day before Joe Biden touched down in Ottawa with his 75 car
00:01:54.740 gas guzzling motorcade to preach to the world and preach to the Canadian Parliament about climate
00:01:59.440 change, Global News dropped a bombshell report alleging that one of Trudeau's MPs, Han Dong,
00:02:04.460 had allegedly advised Chinese consular staff against the release of the two Michaels. We all know
00:02:10.160 Justin Trudeau likes to play the role of hypocrite when he talks about climate change. 0.97
00:02:13.800 That's why he takes his private jet around the world to preach to everyone else about how much 0.97
00:02:18.700 Canada is doing to save the climate. But there is simply no one that can match the hypocrisy of Joe 0.91
00:02:24.160 Biden when it comes to climate preaching. Only a man who truly cares about the climate would show up 0.84
00:02:29.440 in Ottawa with a motorcade like this.
00:02:43.800 But with the China scandal, the biggest political scandal in Canadian history, looming over Canadian
00:02:53.360 Parliament, along with Joe Biden dealing with his own China scandal involving his son Hunter Biden,
00:02:59.260 Joe Biden said this to Canadian Parliament.
00:03:02.340 So today, I applaud China for stepping up, excuse me, I applaud Canada.
00:03:09.320 You can tell what I'm thinking
00:03:10.940 about China. I won't get into that yet.
00:03:14.960 Canadian parliamentarians and members of the gallery, mostly Conservative MPs, but
00:03:19.280 I'm sure some Liberal MPs also couldn't help themselves,
00:03:22.300 they burst out laughing at Joe Biden, the 80-year-old president who
00:03:26.240 struggles to get through a basic speech.
00:03:28.500 Donald Trump couldn't resist, but take the truth social and rip Joe Biden apart.
00:03:33.360 I want to applaud China. I mean Canada. The room erupted in laughter.
00:03:37.780 This was Biden's big punchline today, speaking before the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario.
00:03:43.060 Just a disaster. We are a nation in decline.
00:03:46.120 Mistakes like this, a really big one in Canada's Parliament, are just not allowed to happen.
00:03:50.740 We are a laughingstock all over the world.
00:03:53.320 Yeah, well, so is Canada, so we're in the same boat when it comes to that.
00:03:56.240 But the gaffes and embarrassing moments for Joe Biden on this train wreck visit to Canada
00:04:00.480 just didn't stop there. When Joe Biden was introduced to Pierre Polyev,
00:04:04.260 Polyev introduced himself very professionally, I might add,
00:04:07.340 as the leader of His Majesty's loyal opposition, and that in Canada,
00:04:11.120 opposition is seen as an act of loyalty. To which Joe Biden responded this way.
00:04:16.020 Mr. President Pierre Polyev, leader of His Majesty's loyal opposition.
00:04:20.900 Loyal opposition?
00:04:22.120 Absolutely. We believe that opposition is an act of loyalty in our system.
00:04:26.080 We do too. We do too, unfortunately.
00:04:28.820 Now that clip went instantly viral on Twitter. There are tens of thousands of comments from
00:04:33.020 Canadians and Americans, people who are just astonished that Joe Biden would be so disappointed
00:04:37.440 that opposition is seen as an act of loyalty. Another lefty that hates accountability in government.
00:04:42.200 Yes, unfortunately, all too common for Canadians. This is so fitting. The difference between a 1.00
00:04:47.320 conservative and a left-wing extremist summed up in a single exchange. Biden doesn't know yet
00:04:52.380 that he actually said that part out loud. Yeah, that actually might explain a lot of Biden's gaffes.
00:04:57.080 Now this next gaffe from Biden, this one is quite common with old Joe. You see, Biden will read
00:05:02.280 anything that you put on his cue card, anything that you put on the teleprompter,
00:05:06.560 even if he's not supposed to read it out loud. Just like Ron Burgundy.
00:05:09.800 For the last time, anything you put on that prompter, Burgundy will read.
00:05:14.760 Now one of Biden's aides, who surely knew this was going to happen, told Biden to emphasize one
00:05:19.480 of the words in his canned statement to a question about Syrian airstrikes. Problem was,
00:05:25.060 Joe Biden read the word emphasis.
00:05:28.300 And to make no mistake, the United States does not, does not emphasize, seek conflict with Iran,
00:05:35.020 but be prepared for us to act forcefully, protect our people.
00:05:39.860 But old Joe himself wasn't the only person struggling in the U.S. delegation to Ottawa.
00:05:44.740 Even his secret service couldn't drive in a straight line without bumping into each other.
00:05:49.260 Even Jill Biden, excuse me, Dr. Jill Biden, had to get in on the gaffes herself. 1.00
00:06:07.080 When she was out visiting a curling rink with Sophie Trudeau,
00:06:10.780 Jill Biden asked the curlers why they weren't wearing any skates. 0.99
00:06:14.260 The president of the United States actually held a private meeting with Pierre Polyev,
00:06:21.860 which in itself, to me at least, is quite symbolic of where the country is at right now.
00:06:26.500 And in that meeting, to Polyev's credit, he brought up the important issues.
00:06:31.440 The fact that Joe Biden is a protectionist by American president.
00:06:35.660 He has put tariffs on Canadian products that are detrimental to Canadians.
00:06:39.440 And also, most importantly, he told the president to drop the shot mandate on Canadians entering the United States.
00:06:46.880 In what can only be described as a brilliant political maneuver,
00:06:49.940 Polyev explained his request to the president this way.
00:06:52.360 I encourage the president to remove vaccine mandates on Canadians crossing into the United States.
00:06:58.920 The U.S. government no longer requires vaccination for its own citizens to cross the border.
00:07:03.780 Canada allows Americans who are unvaccinated to come here.
00:07:07.000 There are millions of good, decent, honorable people who, through a personal medical decision,
00:07:13.680 are discriminated against at the border.
00:07:15.880 And I encourage the president to lift those restrictions to allow them freedom of mobility across our southern border.
00:07:23.220 Isn't it ironic that Joe Biden, a true climate preacher, a true climate evangelist,
00:07:27.720 whose first action as president of the United States was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline,
00:07:32.120 a pipeline that would have brought immense and immeasurable benefit to Canadians,
00:07:36.160 shows up in Ottawa with a 75-car motorcade and emits more carbon than most Canadians would emit in their entire life?
00:07:42.980 Of course, the whole state visit could have been completed over Zoom.
00:07:46.420 But then, if Biden didn't show up in Ottawa,
00:07:48.760 legacy media journalists would have nothing else to cover other than the worst political scandal in Canadian history.
00:07:53.960 All of that being said, the China scandal is growing bigger and bigger by the day.
00:07:58.600 True North, unlike the legacy media who take orders from the government,
00:08:02.160 is not going to let the government off the hook on this.
00:08:04.600 In a non-binding NDP motion to call for a public inquiry,
00:08:08.440 the Liberal government lost the vote.
00:08:10.720 They lost the vote.
00:08:11.680 NDP MPs, Conservative MPs, including some Liberal MPs,
00:08:15.160 voted for a public inquiry.
00:08:16.660 Notably, Handong himself voted for a public inquiry.
00:08:21.220 But Justin Trudeau, his Liberal loyal backbench MPs in his cabinet,
00:08:24.940 they want nothing to do with an inquiry.
00:08:26.580 They want nothing to do with transparency.
00:08:28.600 And even more interesting, a late breaking development to ratioed today.
00:08:33.320 This morning, Handong announced that he has retained a lawyer
00:08:36.320 and will be suing Global News for their allegations,
00:08:39.820 which he claims to be completely false.
00:08:42.480 By taking Global News to court, Handong is opening himself up to discovery,
00:08:46.420 opening himself up to evidence that could come forward
00:08:48.480 that is either going to help him or severely hurt his case.
00:08:52.180 The fact of the matter is, Handong is willing to take Global News to court.
00:08:56.500 Handong has voted for a public inquiry.
00:08:58.600 The man alleged to be at the heart of this scandal
00:09:01.180 is calling for more transparency than Justin Trudeau.
00:09:05.260 What is going on here?
00:09:06.720 Either way, we will be following this story very closely at True North.
00:09:10.700 That you can count on for sure.
00:09:12.720 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:09:13.720 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.