Juno News - What will the top issues be in the election？

00:00:00.000 all signs point to an election underway in canada on the federal political scene

00:00:09.600 what do you think are the issues that the election's going to be fought over and different

00:00:16.000 question very similar but different question what do you think are the issues that the election

00:00:20.200 should be fought over because look let's be honest there are the issues of long-standing

00:00:26.120 consequence ramification things about the future of our nation that we really need to talk it over

00:00:31.780 i'll give you a couple ideas of those in just a moment but we also always know that elections

00:00:37.140 not always but often turn into things of much lesser consequence you got the political party

00:00:43.000 war rooms in the mix and they are just just obsessing over the little minutia nuts and bolts of what this

00:00:48.340 campaign literature says and let's take this proposed public policy and totally misrepresent it

00:00:53.500 and just you know blow up the whole idea about it get people focused on that they focus on the bozo

00:00:58.640 eruptions so there's a candidate running in some writing even if the person won they'd probably be

00:01:03.100 a backbencher not a big deal but we still obsessively focus over you know something they posted on

00:01:07.640 facebook a number of years ago i mean they love the game to be played that way and it'll be curious to

00:01:12.660 see if the various parties and you know all the different campaigns press releases advertising if

00:01:19.600 it goes along that narrative if the media follows along if that's what they do or if they do manage

00:01:23.560 to stick with the big picture conversations and have those conversations i hope it's the latter but

00:01:28.620 who knows we could always focus on the small stuff that doesn't matter when it comes to the big picture

00:01:34.120 conversations i i think there are two two major ones that i really hope we can focus on here in

00:01:39.540 canada one is speaking of big picture the past year and a half it's kind of been the wildest times for

00:01:47.060 for most people in their life assuming they haven't you know gone abroad to participate in armed conflict

00:01:52.400 or you know much older canadians who are around for world war ii but what we've seen in this pandemic

00:01:57.500 here the laws that we've had on the books people calling the cops on their neighbors just because they

00:02:02.760 had their aunt and uncle over for dinner at a certain point when that was against the law and so forth

00:02:08.020 and very divided i mean a lot of canadians deeply divided still today this debate over domestic vaccine

00:02:14.860 passports i mean it is it is so divisive and the things that people want to see happen in society

00:02:20.480 moving forward compared to what other people want to see happen i mean it doesn't bode well

00:02:24.200 for the nation right now so what does this all call out for that calls out for leadership someone to

00:02:30.180 chart a path forward and talk about these big issues where do we go from here when it comes to the

00:02:36.280 pandemic how do we rally the nation how do we unify in perspective not just exploiting the

00:02:41.820 differences but really lead us out of this go from strength to strength i mean pick up on the

00:02:47.140 momentum and get something positive for the prosperity and the well-being of all canadians

00:02:51.760 rather than just you know trying to mire in fears of subsequent lockdowns and all that vaccine

00:02:56.780 passport stuff it's just such such an awful divisive conversation that's what we need leaders

00:03:02.320 to lead on another issue related issue of course what to do with canada and china the relationship

00:03:08.800 with that rising global superpower none other than president joe biden at a g7 recently sitting down

00:03:14.340 with the other world leaders trudeau among them and saying come on guys we got to get on the same page

00:03:18.660 we gotta get tougher on china and of course china recently saying to the whl no second probe on the 0.56

00:03:26.220 origins of covet 19 we don't need that we don't want to be a part of it that is unacceptable

00:03:30.580 because this most traumatic of of time that we have had this past year and a half china very much

00:03:36.940 involved in the origins of that to what degree still unknown that's what the who wants to find

00:03:41.680 out previous polling showing that canadians are less and less supportive of china i mean it's a it's 0.99

00:03:47.080 a small percentage it's like less than 15 now have a positive outlook on china and we got to forge a

00:03:53.380 path forward a positive path forward on that we really need leadership because there's so many

00:03:57.540 connections between canada and china in many respects in positive ways in terms of all of

00:04:03.060 these great dissidents coming from china living in canada really contributing to our society

00:04:09.000 absolutely fantastic scenario going on there and we need to welcome more people more distance from

00:04:13.960 china anyone from hong kong who wants to come from taiwan and so forth i mean lots of good stuff on

00:04:19.200 that front and then when it comes to distancing ourselves from the chinese communist party having its

00:04:24.720 tentacles in canada in so many respects that's also where we need leadership on so two big picture

00:04:30.280 conversations where to go next with covet 19 discussion unifying way not divisive way and then

00:04:37.440 of course dealing with the china file how to get that relationship right and not just the years but the

00:04:43.760 decades ahead will those be big picture conversations in the election i hope so i hope we're not just focused 0.93

00:04:49.840 on debating people's dumb tweets 0.98

Juno News - July 28, 2021

What will the top issues be in the election？

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