Juno News - Why does Canada even want a seat on the UN security council？

00:00:00.000 so what do we do now that canada has been thwarted in its attempt to get a u.n security council seat

00:00:11.220 well the first thing we should do is not immediately start doing it again justin

00:00:17.460 trudeau when he was asked why did canada fail to win this seat he blamed it all on the timing

00:00:22.600 said we started campaigning too light how can that possibly be we started in 2016

00:00:28.620 when trudeau began the campaign well apparently the other countries actually started not long

00:00:33.420 after the last results happened back in 2010 they were campaigning then for 10 years to campaign 10

00:00:40.920 years for a temporary seat that only lasts for two years that's crazy i mean part of me thinks we

00:00:47.220 could you know build nuclear weapons on the slide we do that in less than 10 years and then we become

00:00:51.800 a permanent member of the security council because those are the permanent ones that have veto power

00:00:56.160 the nuclear weapons countries i mean come on this is wild justin trudeau also by saying we did not

00:01:02.540 campaign long enough he's de facto doing his favorite game again the favorite blame game of

00:01:06.740 his blame stephen harper if it had to come before 2016 well who was prime minister then stephen harper

00:01:13.600 of course so blaming him for the 2010 loss and then trying to find a way to blame him for the 2020 loss

00:01:19.420 as well but hold on a second if this thing doesn't work for us both under stephen harper and a decade

00:01:24.560 later under justin trudeau maybe it suggests that there's a problem with them not so much a problem

00:01:30.360 with us why do we even covet this in the first place what are we going to use this for are we

00:01:36.480 going to stand up for the things that matter to us because one of the major criticisms trudeau rightly

00:01:41.900 faced was that it seemed like he was willing to just play nice way too much on the world stage

00:01:47.040 because he coveted this prize go along to get along on all of this not saying things that will ruffle

00:01:52.660 the feathers of other nations we need to completely rethink how we approach some of these multilateral

00:01:57.740 institutions and i think it's a good thing that donald trump is the one world leader who's actually

00:02:02.460 been forcing our hand on this and encouraging people to start thinking more critically about

00:02:07.360 these multilateral institutions because look i think there's a place for them in terms of world

00:02:13.100 leaders have to meet they have to chat about the situation on the ground they have to share best

00:02:18.460 practices you got to do that you can't just live with your head in the sand but what they are not

00:02:23.220 what they should not be is these global decision making bodies which they are increasingly becoming

00:02:28.440 whether they're the the compact on migration or the u.s paris deal the climate deal we're being told

00:02:34.340 that these things are voluntary and optional but then we talk about them as if we're forced to bring

00:02:39.460 them in as if we have a gun to our head when we're looking at these provisions now i think this is a

00:02:44.140 perfect time right now when we're smarting from this snub from the un that well we take a moment

00:02:49.540 to reflect and really ask ourselves what should our role in the un be and what do we want from them

00:02:55.740 because now is the perfect time for reassessment

Juno News - June 21, 2020