Juno News - Where on Earth is Justin Trudeau？

00:00:00.000 I feel banter-wise I should begin by apologizing for not being as good as Andrew.

00:00:04.800 I will be a poor imitation as Andrew goes off to pursue the lofty heights of elected office.

00:00:11.600 You'll just have to forgive me for doing as good a job as I can.

00:00:18.200 Well, I think some of our viewers wouldn't be, I don't know, like, think you're Andrew,

00:00:25.740 even though you're clearly not.

00:00:27.340 Just like, oh, you know, the looks.

00:00:28.460 I'm not saying you look terribly close.

00:00:32.640 You have a cute little hairstyle.

00:00:34.680 Oh, well, thank you.

00:00:35.660 Not everybody likes it.

00:00:37.080 I sometimes read the comments of Off the Record, and there is definitely a small but vocal cohort

00:00:43.620 of people who do not like my hair.

00:00:46.160 And so I apologize.

00:00:47.220 Would you call that a mohawk or just, like, baby infant hair?

00:00:52.480 I would call it the way my hair dried after I did it so it would look okay for Off the Record,

00:01:01.220 is what I would say.

00:01:04.340 Wow.

00:01:05.060 I think you might need a hairstylist, William.

00:01:07.120 We've got to, you know, maybe pay you, like, a hundred extra bucks a month, you know, so you can get your stuff,

00:01:12.980 you know, done up well.

00:01:15.540 I'll put in the budget request when I talk to Candice Dex.

00:01:19.140 We'll see what she says.

00:01:21.980 All right.

00:01:22.460 Let's get this started.

00:01:23.320 Well, good afternoon, everyone.

00:01:32.180 Happy Friday.

00:01:33.160 It's a great day in different parts of Canada.

00:01:36.180 I'm William McBeth, and I'm in Calgary.

00:01:38.920 And joining me is Noah Jarvis.

00:01:41.900 And he, Noah, you're in Brampton right now.

00:01:43.700 Is that right?

00:01:45.580 Vississauga, but very close.

00:01:46.940 Very close.

00:01:47.660 Close by.

00:01:48.240 And Sue Ann, are you actually in Toronto proper?

00:01:50.900 I live in Toronto, but right now I'm up in the Coarthas.

00:01:55.740 Oh, nice.

00:01:56.380 Well, we have a pan-Canadian team for you this week.

00:02:00.240 And as I sadly noted, we, of course, with Andrew Lawton's decision to go pursue elected office,

00:02:05.380 we're having to make do without him for the time being.

00:02:09.420 But we'll all do our best to fill in the gap he's left.

00:02:14.380 It's big shoes to fill.

00:02:15.620 Andrew was a very good and beloved host.

00:02:17.900 But, of course, we do wish him well in his campaign.

00:02:20.900 But that being said, it was quite the week in Canadian news.

00:02:24.760 And to get started, the Prime Minister, who we all know loves to go on vacation,

00:02:30.600 well, someone started to notice something funny about his vacations, Noah.

00:02:34.980 And do you want to tell the people about Mr. Trudeau's travel?

00:02:39.320 Yeah, exactly.

00:02:39.940 So, Paul Wells, he is a respected journalist.

00:02:43.540 I believe he's been on Andrew's show a couple of times before Andrew left us.

00:02:48.320 But Paul Wells, he basically wrote up this piece on his sub stack talking about how the Prime Minister has basically been lying to the Canadian people about his itinerary.

00:02:57.800 On a daily basis, the Prime Minister is supposed to publish an itinerary of what he is supposed to be doing during the day,

00:03:05.600 whether he's going to, you know, go meet with his cabinet or he's going to attend parliament or whatever he plans on doing.

00:03:12.620 The general public has some right to know of it.

00:03:15.180 Not of all the details, especially it is of national security concerns, but we are supposed to get the general outline of the Prime Minister's schedule.

00:03:22.860 And lately, in the past few weeks, the Prime Minister, now that the House is on recess for summer,

00:03:29.420 the Prime Minister has been indicating that he has no public events.

00:03:32.920 And he's been doing this for weeks on end.

00:03:35.860 He's going to Manitoba, where he has no public events.

00:03:38.920 He's going to Vancouver, and he has no public events.

00:03:41.600 He's going to Toronto, and he has no public events.

00:03:44.420 However, as Paul Wells documented, the Prime Minister, in fact, does have public events on these days.

00:03:51.860 He went to Vancouver when Vancouver had one of their Pride parades a couple of weeks ago.

00:03:58.460 He indicated on his itinerary that there would be no public events,

00:04:02.560 but he told a small coterie of parliamentary press gallery journalists that he would be at the Pride Festival

00:04:09.300 so that they could photograph him and videotape him, you know, glad handling and shaking hands at the Pride Parade with all the parade goers.

00:04:19.000 And basically just kept that, you know, information away from the rest of the Canadian public.

00:04:26.300 He also lied about meeting with, I believe it was Kitchener, the mayor of Kitchener, Ontario.

00:04:32.220 And he also lied about attending the Kitty Carnival, which is basically the Caribbean Carnival,

00:04:41.360 Carabana, one week before the real Carabana just for the youth.

00:04:45.980 So he lied about all these public events that he is going to.

00:04:50.440 And he's basically doing this because right now he probably doesn't want to be questioned by journalists.

00:04:55.280 He doesn't want to be pressed by the media.

00:04:57.500 He doesn't want to be pressed by ordinary Canadians and he wants to just hide away and sort of pick his spots to really try and promote his failing liberal brand.

00:05:10.040 So, I mean, this is not really too surprising for me that the prime minister is going out of his way to deceive Canadians.

00:05:16.620 But it was such a blatant example of the prime minister and just in general, his staffers going out of their way to tell Canadians one thing and, you know, just going about doing another thing.

00:05:29.680 What do you guys think of this story?

00:05:31.340 How about you, Sue Ann?

00:05:32.480 Yeah, Sue Ann, what do you make of it?

00:05:34.460 It's like the dying days of a failed administration when they become like bunker mentality.

00:05:40.440 And I've seen this many times covering politics where they, it's not exactly lying, it's errors of admission, omission, I should say, not admission, very fine line between the two, omission, where, you know, they just don't give information because, as you say, they don't want to be questioned.

00:06:00.460 They don't want to be confronted.

00:06:05.060 So, you know, he just sort of glad hands his way across the country, gaily meeting up with, you know, people, audiences that will love him and friendly media.

00:06:19.300 And it's, it's one more nail in his coffin, I believe, because, you know, people are fed up as it is.

00:06:28.480 And he, he doesn't care about accountability whatsoever.

00:06:32.300 Now, it's interesting, of course, some would argue that if you show up to a bunch of glad handing events, you might be doing what we would professionally call campaigning.

00:06:42.420 He might be campaigning to try and raise his popularity.

00:06:46.180 And the fact that he's refusing to talk, to disclose where he's going to be and what he'll be doing, and then even altering his official schedule after it's been published to retroactively say he had been at these events.

00:07:00.060 Some would say that's avoiding public scrutiny at a whole level we maybe haven't seen before.

00:07:05.880 Now, what do you think?

00:07:06.680 Is this sort of an unprecedented thing for a prime minister to be hiding this much, where he's going and what he's doing?

00:07:12.220 I mean, well, look what's happening to the border with Kamala.

00:07:15.860 It's unprecedented, but it's starting to happen.

00:07:18.780 I mean, our politicians feel that they're not accountable whatsoever to anybody.

00:07:22.820 It's very, very disheartening to see what's happening in politics, certainly left-wing politics.

00:07:28.640 Yeah, and just to add on to a point that you made, William, the prime minister is basically in the middle of the day updating his itinerary, and usually they'd send these updates to journalists via email.

00:07:41.160 I mean, I get the emails in which the prime minister sends off his daily itinerary.

00:07:46.380 And, you know, I see that, you know, they are not retroactively updating those emails and, you know, giving those updates to journalists.

00:07:56.600 They're instead just, you know, silently updating the itinerary on the website without sending an email so that they can sneak in sort of the announcement of these public events under cover.

00:08:08.120 So I think that it is very dishonest from the prime minister to be doing this, and it is especially concerning because, you know, Canadians have had a hard time sort of accessing the prime minister.

00:08:21.660 I mean, you saw Kian Bexte of the countersignal, he basically went to draw down the prime minister in Tofino a few weeks ago to basically ask him a few questions because the prime minister does not allow the countersignal to ask the prime minister questions normally.

00:08:38.200 So he had to go down and track down the prime minister and ask him questions that way.

00:08:42.660 And it seems that since that sort of event happened, the prime minister's office has sort of been bunkering down even more.

00:08:49.620 And I don't think that's really going to help, you know, their popularity by hiding the prime minister and basically employing the Joe Biden basement tactic.

00:08:57.160 But I don't know, maybe there's a new thing to happen again.

00:09:01.140 No, I said bunker. I said bunker.

00:09:02.300 Ah, yeah. The bunker mentality.

00:09:05.140 Yeah, the bunker mentality.

00:09:07.260 But, you know, it's a tactic that they're all starting to use.

00:09:12.120 And so they only engage with friendly media.

00:09:15.080 But the problem is, William and Noah, is that the friendly media give them a free pass, give him a free pass.

00:09:22.180 And they're going crazy about if Pierre Polyev eats an apple or a pear or whatever, you know, he didn't chew it properly.

00:09:29.940 But they give this guy a free pass constantly.

00:09:35.140 And like you mentioned, Keenan Bex, they went berserk over him and countering him on the beach.

00:09:41.420 I thought it was just, you know, wonderful that he did this.

00:09:46.580 And all the left wing media who, you know, have gotten it so easy went crazy.

00:09:52.420 Well, let us talk about Canada's legacy media, because you would think that if the prime minister were purposely hiding where he was going and what he was doing, Canadian media would be in an uproar about that fact.

00:10:07.200 And I'm sure that they are writing an endless number of stories about the hiding prime minister who won't tell them where he's going and what he's doing, except it turns out that that's not the case.

00:10:18.300 I think we even may have some examples of legacy media writing positively glowing reports of the prime minister showing up at events that he hadn't promoted, that he was heading to beforehand.

00:10:32.920 So, I mean, I think this begs the question, something we've talked about a lot here at True North before.

00:10:39.100 These legacy media who receive huge amounts of taxpayer funding in order to pay their bills, to pay their salaries and keep the lights on in newsrooms.

00:10:50.000 Do you think that if they weren't so beholden to the government's media bailout, that they might be taking a slightly more critical tone of a prime minister who runs and hides and refuses to say what he's doing or where he's going?

00:11:04.280 Sue Ann, what do you think?

00:11:05.280 Well, I think perhaps a little more critical, but you know that the media in Canada and in the States has a very left-wing bias.

00:11:13.440 So they can't help themselves.

00:11:15.140 They just absolutely can't help themselves.

00:11:17.420 And they're, I mean, they're going berserk with the idea of Pierre Polia, you know, making headway in the next election, simply because they know it won't be an easy ride for them.

00:11:28.560 So, Bela, yes, that enhances the riches, but they still have a left-wing bias. 0.59

00:11:35.000 I've found this over the years as a right-of-center journalist.

00:11:38.940 So, Noah, do you think it's an example of inherent media bias?

00:11:42.900 Do you think that they are too afraid to bite the hand that is feeding them taxpayer subsidies?

00:11:48.640 What do you think is going on?

00:11:49.580 Why are the media giving the prime minister such an easy ride with his dine-and-dash photo ops that he's doing across the country?

00:11:56.680 I mean, William, would you, you know, give glowing coverage to someone who wanted to take away your job, you know, or if you perceive that, you know, are you going to give that person glowing coverage?

00:12:08.440 Probably not.

00:12:09.200 Maybe if you're, you know, a journalist of good repute, you know, you still would do that irrespective of those circumstances.

00:12:14.680 But for most journalists in Canada who are not, you know, sort of like war journalists, you know, back in the 1940s doing, you know, big investigative pieces or like the journalists who undercovered Watergate, these are, you know, people like lounging in their home for, you know, their eight-hour shift.

00:12:29.560 And, you know, they're doing whatever, especially CBC journalists.

00:12:32.920 So, you know, in this case with the CBC article, I mean, there's a utter just lack of sort of curiosity with what, you know, why the prime minister is basically lying to the Canadian people about these public events.

00:12:46.860 And instead, they decide to give him a glowing coverage.

00:12:49.660 If that was pure poly up, the story in the CBC would not be about, you know, him, you know, talking to this Filipino event, you know, shaking hands.

00:12:57.620 It would be about the fact that he lied about not going to attend this event.

00:13:02.340 I mean, if you remember when Pierre Polyev first became the leader of the Conservative Party, the media were going absolutely ballistic over the fact that he wouldn't take interviews with the legacy media.

00:13:11.620 And then he began taking interviews with legacy media, and they're still mad at him for whatever reason.

00:13:16.340 So, you know, you can't really win with the media nowadays, especially if you're a conservative.

00:13:22.060 It's a double standard.

00:13:23.900 It's just a shame it's a double standard.

00:13:26.180 I was going to say, thank goodness we have groups like True North who are not dependent on the government's media bailout,

00:13:31.340 who rely on the support of individual Canadians from one side of the country to the other,

00:13:36.060 and who actually print the honest, reporting the honest truth, not just PMO talking points.

00:13:40.800 Now, our next topic, we had a bit of a blow up at the Status of Women Committee.

00:13:47.500 It didn't go quite as well as, I think, the witnesses who were there to testify about women facing violence in their homes,

00:13:56.760 and what they've had to live through, and the whole thing seemed to descend into absolute chaos.

00:14:02.820 Well, one of the people who faced the harsh outrage was a Liberal MP who attempted to derail the committee's investigation into this,

00:14:12.580 and she's now penned a two and a half thousand plus word op-ed.

00:14:16.660 So, Noah, do you want to give us the scoop on what's been going on with this Liberal MP who apparently never learned that brevity is the soul of wit when she went to MP school?

00:14:28.660 Yeah, so the Conservatives currently, they chair the Status of Wit Women Parliamentary Committee.

00:14:35.260 You know, I don't know why the Liberals gave them that committee, but sure, go ahead.

00:14:38.740 So, yeah, the Conservatives, they chair that parliamentary committee, and the committee chair recalled the committee for an emergency meeting

00:14:46.100 because Statistics Canada released new information that showed that the crime rate was going up.

00:14:53.220 So they brought the committee for the Status of Women back, and basically they were going to talk about intimate partner violence,

00:14:59.540 domestic abuse, sexual assault, those types of crimes.

00:15:03.420 And they basically brought in two witnesses.

00:15:06.540 One of them had been abused by her ex-boyfriend very viciously, and she showed pictures of the abuse.

00:15:16.060 And she's a Canadian citizen, but that now lives in Los Angeles because she feels unsafe in Canada.

00:15:21.220 So the committee, they heard testimony from those two women along with a police officer.

00:15:26.440 And when Anita Vandenbeld got the opportunity to ask questions to the witnesses, she didn't take the time to do that.

00:15:35.580 She used her speaking time to basically pontificate about how the Conservatives are really, really bad for calling an emergency meeting

00:15:43.060 because, you know, that she's a partisan and, you know, she believes that the Conservatives are playing partisan politics.

00:15:49.460 You know, who cares?

00:15:49.980 But the despicable thing, in my view, is that she tried to move a motion to basically have the committee ignore the witnesses

00:15:58.020 that were currently attending the Status of Women Committee and to instead talk about abortion. 0.98

00:16:03.840 You know, it's an issue that the Liberals really love to talk about because, you know, it makes the Conservatives sort of look bad.

00:16:10.800 But the problem is, is that you have a domestic abuse survivor right in front of you,

00:16:16.220 along with another advocate against intimate partner violence.

00:16:20.100 They're right in front of you and you want to just sort of ignore their concerns, ignore their testimony.

00:16:25.300 You don't want to ask them questions and instead you want to talk about abortion.

00:16:28.880 So rightfully, one of the witnesses, she walked right out the room and she was, you know, in tears

00:16:36.180 because she had just recounted her experience with domestic abuse and the Liberals and NDP, they did seem to not care at all.

00:16:44.600 So she stormed out of the committee room. 1.00

00:16:46.940 The witness who was with her, she also stormed out of the committee room.

00:16:51.900 And the committee basically then just devolved into a bunch of bickering between the NDP and the Liberals

00:16:57.960 teaming up against the Conservatives.

00:17:00.740 So I think it was utterly disgraceful.

00:17:04.080 I know that a couple of Conservative MPs have also pointed out that the behavior,

00:17:09.920 the comportment of Liberal and NDP, NDPs is just awful.

00:17:13.520 And the witnesses, they also recounted their experience at the committee and said that the

00:17:19.880 Liberals and NDP, they were basically just using the opportunity to play partisan games.

00:17:23.920 So I think that, you know, Anita Vanderbilt playing the victim in this scenario when she

00:17:30.240 is basically principally responsible for this committee meeting being derailed and for,

00:17:36.440 you know, basically, you know, making domestic abuse survivors, you know, leave the committee

00:17:42.580 room in tears.

00:17:43.560 That's that's her fault. 0.79

00:17:44.820 And she should not be playing the victim here whatsoever.

00:17:48.500 So, Sue Ann, in her lengthy op-ed, this Liberal MP, far from saying she was sorry for attempting

00:17:56.740 to make the committee talk about abortion when witnesses who were there to talk about intimate

00:18:02.460 partner violence and violence against women had come to talk about their experiences, has

00:18:06.940 now said that the fault for all of this falls on the far right and the Trump campaign somehow.

00:18:16.340 Do you want to try and explain what she's thinking?

00:18:19.640 It may defy explanation.

00:18:22.400 What do you think of this claim that it was the far right and somehow Donald Trump who derailed

00:18:27.280 the status of Women Committee in Canada's parliament?

00:18:30.460 Yes, it was all his fault.

00:18:31.680 So, number one, Trump derangement syndrome is in full operation here, even in Canada.

00:18:39.560 Number two, I always find in my years in journalism that Liberal left pretends to be pretends to be

00:18:46.880 the champion of the under-trodden, and, you know, can you imagine how hard it was for those women to 1.00

00:18:54.060 come and tell their stories?

00:18:55.920 I mean, I've been a victim, too, of sexual assault, and I told a story, and it's very hard to relive it,

00:19:02.340 and then they treat them so callously. 0.87

00:19:05.500 So, the Liberal left pretends to be champions of these kinds of people, but they're despicable.

00:19:12.980 So, they are just, they have no empathy whatsoever.

00:19:16.860 This shows that there was no compassion whatsoever, and then the best thing is they play the victim

00:19:22.180 when there's pushback on them.

00:19:24.340 It's just like it's the same script over and over again, and you've got to bring in Trump.

00:19:30.520 You've got to bring in the far right.

00:19:32.440 I don't know who the far right are, but you've got to bring in the far right because,

00:19:36.360 unfortunately, we have a population of voters who digest all this stuff and think,

00:19:43.560 Trump bad, all yet bad, you know, this derangement syndrome, which is fed, you know,

00:19:49.860 through the media and by these kinds of politicians.

00:19:52.960 Yeah, I have to say my favorite is still when here in the ninth year of our Liberal government,

00:19:59.320 they still decide to blame Stephen Harper for whatever happens to be going wrong, anything.

00:20:04.460 And you think to yourself, I had no idea Stephen Harper was this powerful, this influential,

00:20:11.180 and had this much control over our country.

00:20:14.220 They hear, nine years after he stopped being prime minister, he's still making things happen

00:20:20.240 in Ottawa and in government.

00:20:21.980 It just blows my mind every time the Liberals make that claim.

00:20:25.440 Now, I must confess, I didn't read her two and a half thousand word op-ed because I had things

00:20:30.580 I had to do today.

00:20:31.540 I don't blame you.

00:20:32.220 Unfortunately, yeah.

00:20:34.300 But, you know, on the credibility scale, zero to 10, with 10 representing, I absolutely believe

00:20:41.120 what she said makes a whole lot of sense.

00:20:43.420 And zero being, I think this woman might need mental health support going forward. 1.00

00:20:48.580 Where do we put her claims that she thinks that it was the far right, that it was Donald Trump?

00:20:52.920 She was so scared she had to close her constituency office, presumably because people who oppose

00:20:59.520 violence might show up and commit violence.

00:21:03.480 I don't fully understand her worry there.

00:21:05.000 But how much credibility should we give this Liberal MP on a zero to 10 scale?

00:21:09.900 Zero.

00:21:10.380 I would give her, yeah, I would give her a 0.5 so she doesn't get the mental health support. 1.00

00:21:15.260 But basically, you know, but I think it feels so callous, you know, just blame the far right,

00:21:21.360 you know, for this, you know, she clearly has a problem with taking responsibility. 1.00

00:21:25.600 And, you know, that's really an indictment on the Canadian political class.

00:21:30.080 I mean, these are people that are supposed to get paid, you know, nearly $200,000 a year

00:21:34.460 to represent, you know, tens of thousands of people. 0.99

00:21:37.700 And, you know, they're just like lunatics. 0.99

00:21:40.380 They don't know what the definition of far right is. 0.99

00:21:42.580 You know, this is your job, politics.

00:21:44.000 You know, why don't you know more about politics?

00:21:45.980 But, you know, it's not like Alex Jones walked into the committee room and started talking

00:21:51.620 like this, you know, and stuff like that.

00:21:53.600 Like, no, like the far right did not, you know, interrupt this committee meeting.

00:21:57.600 It was you guys, you know, maybe the Liberals are far right.

00:22:00.100 Who knows?

00:22:00.500 But, you know, they're trying to smear now with Andrew, who's running in London.

00:22:05.640 Yeah, they just, well, I get called far right, too. 0.75

00:22:08.260 So I don't know how a Jewish lesbian can be far right. 1.00

00:22:10.860 But, you know, they throw out these smears and hope that they'll stick. 0.96

00:22:15.020 It's like throwing spaghetti against the wall. 0.58

00:22:17.320 And they use these terms like racist, like Islamophobic, like, you know, bigot.

00:22:24.040 And they're so tiresome of these terms now, the far right, because they're losing.

00:22:29.740 They're losing.

00:22:30.540 It's desperation.

00:22:32.540 Well, let's go on to talk about another favorite politician of ours.

00:22:36.780 We all know that our prime minister does love to play Mr. Dress Up.

00:22:40.380 It's one of his favorite things, especially if he gets to be on a foreign trip at the time.

00:22:44.940 I think we'll all never forget his infamous India trip there.

00:22:49.200 But she's far from the only, quote unquote, progressive politician who enjoys that.

00:22:54.580 Sue Ann, do you want to tell us about the lovely lady doing the dress up acting Toronto these days? 1.00

00:23:00.740 So we have our very own Mrs. Dress Up in Toronto. 0.99

00:23:06.680 Socialist Mayor Olivia Chow.

00:23:08.260 And, you know, if we hearken back to June 9th, when she said she was, quote, too busy to attend the Walk with Israel, which was attended by myself, my wife, and 48,000, 49,000.

00:23:24.420 I'm not doing the math very well.

00:23:26.300 Nearly 50,000 people.

00:23:27.900 And she said she was, like, one of the biggest events.

00:23:33.460 She also didn't attend the flag raising.

00:23:35.480 But she seems to find herself at diversity photo op after diversity photo op every weekend.

00:23:42.180 And, you know, she always has a little costume to wear, you know, whether it's a kafia on her head or a Hindu costume or she was dressed in some Thai costume. 0.88

00:23:53.760 And we also wonder where the heck she gets these costumes because, you know, she we wonder if taxpayers are paying for these costumes, that she has this huge costume budget.

00:24:08.360 In fact, I think I'm going to do an FOI to find out.

00:24:10.740 But the ultimate in just painfulness for me as a Toronto resident and far right journalist was last Saturday when she showed up to Carabana.

00:24:23.700 Now, she and I are the same age, 67, I will freely admit.

00:24:27.900 I would never find myself showing up to Carabana with half my behind or my tushy showing in a glittery costume with all kinds of feather boas hanging out and many other things showing.

00:24:43.300 And, you know, the painful part was not just the costume, but then she started to dance not very well with a bunch of people.

00:24:50.840 And, you know, I tweeted last Saturday because people just alerted me to it that this is I said Olivia would be a train wreck. 0.99

00:25:01.140 And she has been because the problem is not only is she enabling anti-Semitism in Toronto by not showing up, not supporting my community, but we've got a drug problem.

00:25:12.740 We've got drug addicts falling down on the streets doing the fentanyl pose. 0.76

00:25:18.100 I have covered for True North the encampments that are taking over parks, which she has allowed. 0.82

00:25:24.020 The crime rate has gone up considerably.

00:25:27.360 And she raised taxes nine and a half percent. 1.00

00:25:30.080 We're not sure what she's done with that money.

00:25:32.580 A couple of weeks ago, we had severe flooding, basement flooding, my house included.

00:25:36.820 And I mean, the list goes on and on and on.

00:25:39.340 And everybody's trying to wonder, does she just party?

00:25:42.720 Mrs. Dress Up, does she just party or does she actually work? 1.00

00:25:47.160 Well, I think we're going to watch the clip.

00:25:49.580 I just do want to give our wonderful viewers an NSFW warning before we put this on.

00:25:55.600 If you're eating your lunch, if you're doing something delicate,

00:25:59.060 I urge you to take precautions before we watch Ms. Chow do her little dance here. 0.94

00:26:04.820 Well, my goodness, that isn't what you see from a mayor every day of the week.

00:26:34.680 is it for sure now um noah what do you think is this a person who prefers to party and play

00:26:41.900 dress up rather than tackle the pressing problems of a city like toronto yeah i'm surprised mayor

00:26:48.320 chow isn't uh well known in the toronto club scene because uh you know it seems like that you know

00:26:53.180 that's all she wants to do you know she posted a picture of her in the reveler suit uh and i i just

00:26:59.380 like got this i'll just discuss i'm like there's too much you know visible mid-section meat you

00:27:04.140 know like we don't need to be seeing all that mrs chow uh but you know it just goes to show like 0.99

00:27:10.100 yes when when you get elected uh you don't want to you know do the hard work for torontonians by

00:27:16.260 making their lives better you instead want to you know go uh you know go have fun at caravana and you

00:27:21.600 know go uh you know to the to the to all these other events and it would be understandable if

00:27:28.060 she's going to these events uh while she's getting you know priorities you know fixed for toronto i

00:27:34.080 mean i think mayors are people politicians are people they should be able to have lives and

00:27:39.080 attend caravana and you know events that are significant in the city uh but you only do that

00:27:44.920 if you're actually getting things done uh in the city and getting things done in your province or

00:27:49.420 your country and if you're not focus on you know focus on politics focus on you know passing good

00:27:56.580 bylaws focus on you know making the cost of living better i mean toronto has a lot of problems with

00:28:00.960 crime homelessness drug addiction uh you know you name it the toronto has the problem and it's not

00:28:08.140 like you know mayor chow is you know making any progress on those issues she's busy renaming young 0.71

00:28:13.360 and nanda square to sankofa square uh and you know implementing rain taxes and stuff like that so you

00:28:18.920 know uh it's not like she's not helping uh torontonians whatsoever so i think that she should readjust

00:28:25.880 the priorities that she has uh as mayor and she should all she should just like you know not 1.00

00:28:31.520 wear that to caravana you know if i was good i was planning on going to caravana if i had went

00:28:36.300 you know i was gonna wear a t-shirt and some shorts you know i'm not gonna you know go beyond my limits

00:28:41.400 because i know my limits i know who i am as a person uh child clearly doesn't know her limits she's 0.92

00:28:47.740 going far above and beyond her limits noah and she has no boundaries whatsoever absolutely no no

00:28:55.080 boundaries now sue ann i think you even tracked down a couple more uh outfits that the mayor has

00:29:01.960 graced us with over the past while and uh uh do i think we have a few more examples that we can throw

00:29:07.660 up there just to see if that's true that's relatively good that outfit but yeah it's a bit better i

00:29:17.940 wouldn't i wouldn't wear a white uh you know a white dress when i'm eating ribs because you can get your 0.99

00:29:23.760 white dress dirty um maybe you should be a chow's uh wardrobe staffer uh i think so and this is just 0.95

00:29:33.840 the same weekend in a hindu outfit but you know i didn't dig out the really she also danced at pride 0.99

00:29:40.800 she danced with some drag queen and danced very poorly and that was painful as well and i forgot to dig

00:29:47.100 that one out because i mean uh that did the rounds but nothing did the rounds like this outfit um and

00:29:55.020 you want to say what was she thinking you know it's funny in the old days if someone uh who uh

00:30:03.180 went for halloween dressed as a mexican person they wore a sombrero and and they came to halloween 0.80

00:30:09.360 they would have been accused of cultural appropriation that was the term the left were

00:30:13.920 so keen on throwing around then but i don't hear similar claims of cultural appropriation despite the

00:30:20.480 fact that uh you know miss chow's going far further than a typical third grader wearing a sombrero 0.99

00:30:26.280 to his local class halloween dress-up contest is do you think it's a double standard again on the part

00:30:32.220 of media who aren't calling her out for this sort of thing yeah well you know the media that was

00:30:38.440 interviewed like the cbc and stuff uh and and some of the people revelers thought it was just

00:30:44.380 brilliant like you know i had people from the left say oh well she's she looks terrific i should only 0.80

00:30:50.200 look like that at 67 but you're missing the point she's the mayor of the largest city and it's just

00:30:55.780 inappropriate a mayor who you know should be dealing perhaps with record numbers of carjackings with

00:31:02.720 criminal behavior and crime happening at transit stations all sorts of things that should be taking

00:31:08.360 the mayor's valuable time uh we're just here to coming towards the end but the last issue i have

00:31:13.540 to laugh because in my notes this is this uh issue is labeled william hates the olympics and i'll be honest

00:31:19.860 i i don't hate the olympics i very much enjoy watching canadians uh win medals for our country

00:31:26.820 uh and uh you know really show their canadian pride on the international stage where i am a little bit

00:31:33.480 concerned is the same place canadians seem to be as well and that's revealed in a new poll

00:31:38.020 that canadians think the cost of hosting an olympics is outweighing the economic benefit that comes to a host

00:31:46.400 city and canada by the way is far from unique on this cities around the world are taking a hard look

00:31:53.420 at international sporting events including the olympics and wondering if the cost the money they

00:31:59.620 have to spend is getting back to them in the form of economic benefit and you know you can just ask me

00:32:05.140 uh in my in my youth uh when calgary was preparing its bid for the 2026 winter olympics i was

00:32:13.120 helping to lead the no side on the referendum because we knew that the costs far outweigh the

00:32:20.080 benefits now that that's an ioc dirty secret and it's resulting in fewer and fewer cities

00:32:26.100 choosing to bid for the olympic games in fact in the last round they really only had two they had

00:32:31.480 paris and los angeles and rather than be faced with a bid that no one competed in they gave paris the

00:32:38.040 summer games and then they gave it led they gave los angeles the next summer games and that avoided

00:32:44.140 the fact that every other city had pulled out of the bidding contest now noah you seem to think

00:32:50.700 possibly that the olympics are good for a city so i want to give you this opportunity to talk about

00:32:55.920 if you think it's a good idea for a city to to host the olympics in the way that cities are expected

00:33:02.460 to do so now at all of the costs that come with them well in my in some of my formative years when

00:33:09.660 i was seven years old in 2010 uh vancouver was hosting the winter olympics and i remember that

00:33:17.500 period in time very very clearly i remember you know walking through uh you know the bay and seeing

00:33:23.180 you know the red mittens that you know everyone seemed to have and you know the the scarves and you

00:33:28.480 know everyone was just in a very patriotic mood and every time you know canada won a medal especially

00:33:33.200 a gold medal we'd all be happy for the athletes uh involved uh there's just a lot of there's just a

00:33:40.220 lot of civic pride that comes with hosting uh the olympics um and i think that that is uh something

00:33:46.220 that we we quite frankly need in canada you know we have a post-national prime minister who believes

00:33:51.380 that you know there isn't really anything that uh any fundamental values that keeps uh canadians

00:33:56.500 together and that we that we hold in common uh and you know i disagree with that i think you both

00:34:01.900 uh do uh but i think that when you have these sorts of big events that are recognized internationally

00:34:07.400 uh that helps to uh boost your international profile it definitely uh helps you know generate

00:34:14.840 some sort of civic nationalism and i think that uh is very healthy and something that canada

00:34:19.700 is definitely lacking and i get the economic concerns i i really do all right but the problem is is

00:34:26.140 that when it comes to hosting olympics or pan am games or whatever you can't really uh calculate

00:34:31.500 the cultural significance that something like that holds i mean the vancouver olympics is something that

00:34:36.120 i i hold near and dear to my uh to my heart uh and i think that if you know toronto were to host

00:34:41.980 uh an olympics uh it is something that all canadians uh can feel pride in and remember for uh decades

00:34:48.260 and decades to come so i think that you know you can't just you know look at the economic cost

00:34:52.780 to be like oh yeah uh you know if we're in the green we're good if we're in the red we're bad you

00:34:57.040 know i think there's more to it that meets the eye well now sue and you probably remember when

00:35:01.880 toronto hosting the olympics was sort of toronto's mission in life it seemed to me that toronto was

00:35:09.500 obsessed with hosting the olympics what do you think is it good for a city or is it just an economic

00:35:15.040 weight around the necks of a city and the taxpayers pay the price well i i was i've been around

00:35:20.680 long enough to know to remember the olympic bid under mel lassman you remember that famous i he went

00:35:27.280 to mombasa and he was in a pot the dear man may rest in peace um he and uh then of course they lost

00:35:37.260 and then they went on to the pan am games and i covered the pan am uh boondoggle and there was

00:35:45.740 corruption and there were cost overruns there was secrecy and i just i mean call me a cynic

00:35:53.080 but i just think the cost benefit analysis the um the issues financially far outweigh the civic pride

00:36:02.300 or the i mean i'll tell you what'll give us civic pride we get rid of pierre trudeau and uh we start

00:36:09.080 getting this city back i i'm sorry this this country back wrong here and wrong trudeau yeah

00:36:14.500 not pierre trudeau justin trudeau oh my god i feel like an old lady talking uh justin trudeau and we get

00:36:22.320 this um country back on track that would give me a lot of pride i have no pride in canada right now

00:36:28.400 because of what's happening in the country yeah i definitely think it's one of those head and heart

00:36:33.800 issues in our hearts we love when canada hosts a big event and we get to welcome the world to our

00:36:40.800 country and we get to showcase our country to uh to the world and i certainly remember the vancouver

00:36:47.040 games very fondly i think a lot of us do i just think the problem is is that under the ioc which in

00:36:53.120 my opinion is one of the most corrupt organizations on the face of the planet i mean this is a committee

00:36:59.460 who a good third of it is still made up of royalty from from royal families in europe and different

00:37:06.680 parts of the world uh to me they've just said that they made the rules so that it's so expensive

00:37:11.920 in order to host the olympics now you have to build new venues that the economic benefits can't possibly

00:37:18.120 outweigh the huge costs and my favorite story when i was researching the olympics a bit were uh when

00:37:25.520 nagano hosted the games uh in japan way back in the day the finances were so bad that at the end of

00:37:32.680 them the organizing committee burned the financial statements so that they couldn't be audited after

00:37:39.260 the olympics were done i mean that's a sure sign that things are wrong well thank you both so much

00:37:44.660 for joining uh today and uh for being part of it and you know again my first time hosting so forgive me

00:37:50.360 if i wasn't up to the uh the andrew lawton standard there it's great to have uh noah and suanne with

00:37:56.360 me and of course please remember that everything you've heard today is off the record

00:38:00.960 so suanne do you think maybe it's a young person old person thing about the olympics young people see

00:38:14.480 it in a better light than people like you or i do is that the difference i think no it just hasn't

00:38:20.860 seen the books because i don't know pan am games was a disaster and uh i don't know call me young

00:38:30.240 and naive or whatever but if in 2018 2019 the you know the year that the toronto raptors won the

00:38:37.340 championship you know if it had been revealed that the city of toronto had subsidized the team by like

00:38:41.960 100 million dollars i wouldn't care i mean i love the championship but that's great you know

00:38:46.380 i think the olympics is a similar thing you know it is definitely an argument people use for why we

00:38:52.300 spend public money for example building hockey arenas or building sports venues the idea that

00:38:58.340 it isn't just dollars and cents there's an emotional connection to to hockey teams to sports teams and for

00:39:06.100 that in the city but yeah but then you know those are choices we make we also sometimes mean we can't

00:39:11.960 spend money on things we want to in calgary it means we can't afford to spend money fixing our water

00:39:16.540 pipes and that's why we're once again having to shut our water down and have reduced water

00:39:21.700 at the month of well guess what sean agrees with me so i think i'm by default correct on this issue

00:39:27.520 uh no matter what the counter arguments say so uh thank you sean for the validation and

00:39:32.380 yeah i'm just right

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Juno News - August 09, 2024

Where on Earth is Justin Trudeau？

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