Juno News - June 10, 2020


Why isn't parliament sitting？


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

179.60785

Word Count

458

Sentence Count

19


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Why is Justin Trudeau's halting of Parliament justified?
00:00:09.000 Why is it not causing more frustration, more outrage from members of the press,
00:00:13.000 from people in the public, from the opposition even, from the NDP Jagmeet Singh,
00:00:17.000 who enabled us to get to the position we are right now?
00:00:20.000 You almost hear more outrage at the fact that Conservative opposition leader Andrew Scheer
00:00:24.000 has been suggesting these past couple months that Parliament does matter,
00:00:28.000 yes, we should, be gathering more than just 30 people, 30 MPs, in the House of Commons
00:00:33.000 for the occasional session, one that does not bring the same accountability.
00:00:38.000 We've recently heard from Finance Minister Bill Morneau that there will be no budget,
00:00:41.000 no economic update of the sort, because, well, things being as they are,
00:00:45.000 it's hard to tell how much is going in and how much is going out,
00:00:48.000 so we can't accurately predict the future, so what's the point?
00:00:51.000 I'm paraphrasing, but he said something not too dissimilar from all of that.
00:00:55.000 He did assure us that Parliamentarians, the Cabinet, that the Prime Minister himself
00:01:00.000 are regularly giving updates to the people.
00:01:02.000 Yes, they're giving their press conferences, their spin, their press releases, their tweets.
00:01:07.000 That is not the same as government accountability, and isn't now, this time period we're in,
00:01:12.000 this period, this pandemic, where the stakes are so high,
00:01:16.000 isn't that the time when you need oversight and scrutiny more than ever?
00:01:21.000 Now look, back during March, say, you could argue, back during early April,
00:01:26.000 you could argue, well, hold on a second, it's not safe, it's too dangerous for MPs
00:01:30.000 to be gathering in the House of Commons.
00:01:32.000 That's clearly been proven not to be accurate after the Prime Minister chose to go out
00:01:36.000 and join a protest, a very large gathering of thousands of people.
00:01:39.000 Surely, if they can make that work, they can make Parliament work right now.
00:01:44.000 But it's not going to happen unless people ask for it to happen.
00:01:47.000 Liberals are clearly quite content and satisfied with the way the status quo is going right now.
00:01:52.000 It's pretty easy for them.
00:01:53.000 They don't really have to worry about the pesky opposition as much as they used to.
00:01:58.000 So it's going to be up to the public, to the people, to make some noise and to say,
00:02:02.000 come on, we deserve better.
00:02:04.000 We deserve and we demand government accountability.
00:02:09.000 Thank you for youribility and yourite.
00:02:10.000 Thank you.
00:02:14.000 Please press on your journal and write out the link,
00:02:20.000 the link is message in the description.
00:02:21.000 And I will be gonna be-
00:02:24.000 And, um, breasts will be confessed and executed and enforced by doing such a long time.
00:02:27.000 Which means you won't need to be remembered.
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