Juno News - July 17, 2019


Why is Trudeau refusing to do anything on the China file？


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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

166.35422

Word count

562

Sentence count

1

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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A Canadian man was told to take off a t-shirt expressing his support for Falun Gong in order to be allowed to attend a Dragon Boat Festival in which he was wearing a shirt expressing his free speech rights in case it offended the Chinese agenda.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 more and more Canadians now wondering why is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refusing to do
00:00:14.480 anything on the China file nothing to hit back none of the things that have been recommended by
00:00:20.440 the various ex-diplomats academics opposition politicians saying please do something do
00:00:26.920 anything ranging from banning Huawei now well you don't like that okay file a complaint against the
00:00:31.520 World Trade Organization you don't want to do that okay withdraw from the Asian Investment
00:00:35.660 Infrastructure Bank no too too much for you okay well at least when the ambassador calls us white
00:00:40.900 supremacists can you maybe actually hit back at that and and tell him that's unacceptable can you
00:00:46.240 please just do something no he's not he still refuses to and every single week they tighten
00:00:51.880 the screws on us more and more now some of this is big picture stuff diplomacy and trade that may
00:00:57.740 not be seen to affect day-to-day Canadians lives but the latest story wow it is a troubling and a
00:01:03.700 chilling one and shows that this spat has maybe permeated just to day-to-day interactions in
00:01:08.300 Canadian society showing the sort of low-level pressure that China is putting on us so this
00:01:13.700 latest story from the post media papers there's a gentleman who was attending the Ottawa Dragon Boat
00:01:18.580 Festival and he was wearing a t-shirt showing his support for Falun Gong well the CEO of the
00:01:23.820 Dragon Boat Festival allegedly went up to him and said take that shirt off I don't want you wearing
00:01:28.740 that you'll be booted from the festival and so will other Falun Gong practitioners why well allegedly 1.00
00:01:34.340 one of the excuses that he gave is he said well the embassy the Chinese embassy they're one of the
00:01:39.400 financial sponsors of this event and we don't want to upset them excuse me now this isn't just called
00:01:45.580 the Dragon Boat Festival of Ottawa or what have you it's called the Tim Hortons Dragon Boat Festival
00:01:50.400 Tim Hortons being the marquee sponsor of course Tim Hortons very emblematic of Canadian culture
00:01:55.920 the Canadian way of life so we have this Canadian event but a guy's being told to take off a t-shirt
00:02:03.340 expressing his free speech rights in case it offends the Chinese agenda and this is happening in our
00:02:09.600 nation's capital with people attending a Dragon Boat Festival are you kidding me so this idea that
00:02:15.580 we can just pause and maybe release Meng Wang Zhu just smooth things over and we'll go back to
00:02:22.020 business as usual it's not true this is permeating too deep into our culture right now it's it's getting
00:02:28.680 into society I mean we may see more stories like this things happening on a on a very sort of person
00:02:33.460 to person community level the real thing that's going to have to happen here and we're hearing a lot
00:02:39.040 of experts come forward and say this is we're going to have to have a national conversation a really
00:02:44.000 serious one about what we want our relationship to be with China moving forward just how much leverage
00:02:50.700 we want this authoritarian communist regime to have over us and our way of life now the prime minister
00:02:58.920 doesn't seem to want to have that conversation but it's one that we're going to have to have
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