Juno News - Who has Trudeau alienated？

In this episode, I speak with Andrew Scheer, a long-time opponent of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, about his record over the past three years and the alienation streak that s been running rampant through his government. We discuss how Trudeau s policies and gaffes have alienated Canadians across the political spectrum, from gun owners, veterans, social conservatives, Western alienation, and so much more.

00:00:00.000 in just a few days it will be an election year meaning we're about to see what for the liberals

00:00:12.840 will be well a 10 month long campaign we've already seen it in the money Trudeau has been

00:00:17.980 handing out left right and center with the majority government Trudeau's best-case scenario

00:00:22.500 is to maintain the support he has or at least ensure he makes enough gains to match any losses

00:00:27.960 and when you look at his record over the last three years it's hard to see that being easy

00:00:32.520 numerous polls have shown Andrew Scheer not only is poised to take over the premiership but even to

00:00:38.060 do so with a majority government polls are obviously not certainties but they do reflect

00:00:43.540 one inescapable reality and that's the list of groups that Trudeau has offended it is staggering

00:00:50.080 from gaffes to full-blown policy directives that target certain groups Trudeau's government

00:00:55.280 has really continued to dig itself into a hole let's just give you a few examples here gun owners 0.98

00:01:01.680 distrust Trudeau because of his dishonest and polarizing rhetoric on handgun and assault weapons

00:01:07.400 bans Trudeau has left veterans in the dust by leaving hundreds of millions of dollars budgeted to help

00:01:12.960 them unspent even having the audacity to tell one of them at a town hall that vets are in Trudeau's

00:01:19.100 words asking for more than we are able to give right now on a couple of elements you brought up

00:01:25.340 first of all why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court because they're

00:01:34.200 asking for more than we are able to give right now they are asking for more than we well no hang on

00:01:41.880 you're asking this of course well finding ten and a half million dollars for convicted terrorist and

00:01:48.900 murderer Omar Cotter although that one seemed to alienate all tax-paying Canadians Trudeau has waged

00:01:55.060 war on social conservatives by telling them their values are at odds with Canada's values and even

00:02:00.460 excluding them from summer jobs program funding if they don't believe what he does on social issues

00:02:06.180 right now Alberta and Saskatchewan are witnessing massive levels of Western alienation what Brad

00:02:12.960 Wall the former premier of Saskatchewan has said he hasn't seen in years and this is over Trudeau's

00:02:18.840 refusal among many other things to support the oil and gas sector in a meaningful and sustainable way

00:02:25.420 build the darn pipelines for starters and stop putting this carbon tax that is directly targeting

00:02:31.200 Albertans disproportionately but really targeting all Canadians just right there 0.98

00:02:36.060 we have gun owners veterans social conservatives and Albertans losing these groups might not be

00:02:41.460 the biggest thing in the world for Trudeau because well a lot of them are not traditionally conservative

00:02:46.660 in the first place but the fact of the matter is his alienation streak has extended to groups that

00:02:52.660 he did count on to win in 2015 marijuana activists these are people that many of them voted for him

00:03:00.160 precisely because he said he was going to legalize recreational marijuana and now a number of

00:03:06.000 of them very vocally are against him saying that he has lied to them he turned his back on his

00:03:11.400 promise because he's created an overly regulated and overly bureaucratic legalization which is not what he actually promised

00:03:19.000 similarly Trudeau courted support from electoral reform activists a lot of them were the youth that he said he was

00:03:25.400 going to engage people that traditionally vote for smaller parties that said you know what I'm gonna vote for Justin Trudeau because he said that 2015 was going to be the last election that

00:03:35.400 Canada had under first past the post to come and that's a conversation that Canadians feel it's

00:03:41.800 high time to have because our current system is not valuing the vote and the input of far too many Canadians

00:03:49.400 well until that was no longer politically tenable for him to do 2019 is going to be yet again a first past the post election I support that but it's not what Trudeau promised and there's going to be a cost to his base for breaking that promise

00:04:03.400 Labour activists once saw an ally in Justin Trudeau but then he used back-to-work legislation to end strikes most recently to put Canada Post workers back to work again not a bad policy decision but one that goes against the support base that he cultivated and one that is going to have a lot of the support that he brought from the NDP go back to the NDP and there are very serious issues here his appeasement for radicalism through UNRWA his softness and

00:04:33.380 on terror stance these are things that have alienated a lot of the Canadians that really care about national security including a lot of Israel supporters Jewish Canadians who I'm sure are also still feeling a little bit rough about how he neglected to mention the Jewish people in the dedication on the plaque of a Holocaust memorial in Ottawa again another whoops moment that really speaks to the broader schisms that Trudeau is creating

00:05:03.380 something to be expected by the Liberals small business owners still reeling from the tax reforms Trudeau and Bill Morneau put in especially doctors who lost large amounts of money after Trudeau reneged on a long-standing agreement between doctors and the federal government so there's a big question here is there anyone left that Justin Trudeau has not turned his back on well I mean yes but apart from those people

00:05:33.380 it's a big issue now remember that this isn't even getting started on other countries that he has alienated the fact is being a leader involves making tough decisions and some of these will cost you support so a leader that stands for nothing may make everyone happy so you could argue that perhaps he's standing for something except the decisions that he's made that have caused so many rifts in Canada

00:06:03.380 a litany of things that I just mentioned nothing nothing nothing but debt and an embarrassment on the foreign stage but with Trudeau the bodies keep piling up and I suppose if all of these gaffes and errors get him out of office then maybe Canadians did benefit from them in some very indirect way but Trudeau's decision-making including this despicable tendency for he and his staff and ministers to label anyone who disagrees with them as racist or bigoted or whatever especially those who oppose him

00:06:33.320 on immigration reveals that he's not this grand unifying figure like he's made himself out to be and like a lot of the fawning press coverage has made him out to be and I'm not one for New Year's resolutions but perhaps 2019 will be the year that Canadians start to see through that if they haven't already for the True North Initiative I'm Andrew Lutton

Juno News - December 29, 2018

Who has Trudeau alienated？

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