Juno News - Will Justin Trudeau learn to play nice with others？

00:00:00.000 As we get nearer and nearer to the resumption of Parliament and the

00:00:08.760 announcing of the federal cabinet, the revised cabinet under Justin Trudeau, a

00:00:13.360 lot of questions hang in the air. The main one I think being, has Justin

00:00:17.320 Trudeau learned how to play well with others? Back when they had a majority for

00:00:22.320 four years, the Liberal government, well, they were already rather haughty in the

00:00:26.400 way they conducted themselves. They would vilify the opposition that disagreed

00:00:30.540 with them. They would needlessly make a lot of situations worse for themselves,

00:00:33.960 doing a lot of name-calling and so forth. They could have taken the high road

00:00:37.200 because, well, why not? You already control all the levers of power, and now when they

00:00:42.800 need goodwill from the opposition the most, well, are they going to continue down

00:00:47.880 that path? Or are we going to see a more conciliatory, a more consensus-building

00:00:52.800 Justin Trudeau? And those are going to be the things to watch for in the days and

00:00:56.700 weeks ahead. Already there are kind of conflicting messages out there. Justin

00:01:01.620 Trudeau talking about learning to work with others, learning to listen to the

00:01:05.880 opposition. He's had some meetings with all the opposition leaders. Of course he's

00:01:09.360 gonna have to. He's gonna have to say, hey guys, let's do things together. And he

00:01:13.420 says he wants to deal with Western alienation, and then they say the cabinet

00:01:17.640 is gonna be expanded. We've just learned that there's gonna be more cabinet posts to

00:01:22.380 deal with all these different positions. But what are these cabinet

00:01:25.500 ministers going to be tasked with doing? You know, when Bill Blair was first put

00:01:30.440 into that new position of dealing with border security, one wondered, well, would

00:01:34.020 his job be to actually deal with border security? Actually clamp down on illegal

00:01:39.240 crossings and deal with expediting the whole issue? Or would it be to give the

00:01:43.020 impression that one's dealing with it? Would Bill Blair go around the country and

00:01:45.900 badger other people into believing there are no problems? Badger people into

00:01:49.740 keeping quiet on all of the problems. What's that gonna be like when it comes to

00:01:54.420 dealing with Western alienation? If they assign one or two different cabinet posts

00:01:58.620 to deal with all of that, will it be people actually going there and saying, what are

00:02:02.820 the concrete specific things we can do to deal with your problems? Jason Kenney has

00:02:08.220 already started to put forward a number of ideas in that panel that they've put that

00:02:12.700 Preston Manning will be on and others. The firewall panel to look at ways to sort of

00:02:17.220 further insulate Alberta from the rest of Canada in similar ways that Quebec did a

00:02:22.180 number of years ago, all without separating. That's where we've come to. That's the point

00:02:27.020 we're in. Now, is the Trudeau minister just gonna be someone who goes and tours

00:02:30.900 Alberta and says, I feel your pain, I hear your pain, a la Bill Clinton years ago? Or is this

00:02:35.700 gonna be someone who actually says, okay, let's get to work? And what will that work look like?

00:02:41.780 Because, you know, it's funny that we have a situation here where the Liberal government is

00:02:46.420 saying we gotta double down, we gotta triple down on climate change and our

00:02:49.940 obsession with this issue. We gotta talk about it more. And here I am watching the

00:02:53.540 national scene going, how can we talk about it more than we're already talking

00:02:58.180 about it? I mean, they don't shut up about the thing. That's pretty much all they ever

00:03:01.900 talk about. So they are more seized than ever with their climate alarmism. A number of

00:03:06.300 sources tell me we should expect Stephen Guibo to be introduced into cabinet, some sort of role

00:03:11.900 dealing with climate change. And he seems even more seized with the issue than Catherine McKenna is,

00:03:16.860 if you can believe it. Well, that's not gonna look too good to a lot of people out west. And yes,

00:03:21.900 Justin Trudeau says a lot of Canadians really into climate change and polls show that people are

00:03:26.060 getting more concerned about that issue. But then at the same time, more people voted for the

00:03:31.660 Conservatives under Andrew Scheer who said axe the carbon tax than there were people who voted for

00:03:37.180 the Liberals. Yes, the Liberals are still in power, but they lost the popular vote. So what does that

00:03:42.060 tell you? Well, that tells you that people are divided on this issue. And if Trudeau wants to be

00:03:46.460 a consensus builder, well, consensus is all about taking the issues we disagree with and watering them

00:03:52.460 down, shelving them even, not actually poking the bear on those issues and instead going, what's our

00:03:57.580 common ground? Which is actually the title of Justin Trudeau's book he released before becoming

00:04:03.020 Prime Minister. What's our common ground? Okay, let's agree on these three or five or what have you

00:04:07.900 policy positions and proceed with those. And you know, there are going to be issues that not just

00:04:14.700 Justin Trudeau and one other opposition leader agree on for him to get the majority votes. There's going

00:04:19.580 to be issues where three or four party leaders agree on. So why not rally and unify behind those issues

00:04:26.780 rather than the ones that are needlessly divisive, like the climate issue. The conversation I think

00:04:33.100 is increasing more and more now about how there's things you can do to deal with emissions, deal with

00:04:38.140 climate change and so forth that are actually voluntary methods, that they're corporations doing

00:04:43.580 R&D, building a better mousetrap, community initiatives, all things out there in civil society or in the

00:04:48.700 business community. It doesn't need to be by fiat from on top the federal government telling people

00:04:54.220 you must do this, you must live like this, you must pay this and that much disliked tax. There are

00:05:00.700 options out there. Maybe Justin Trudeau is going to have to put on that thinking cap and realize that

00:05:04.780 not everything has to come top down from government. So these are going to be the big issues that Justin

00:05:10.060 Trudeau faces as he enters a minority government. Is he going to learn to play well with others? That's

00:05:16.220 the number one question. We've yet to see the answer.

Juno News - November 16, 2019

Will Justin Trudeau learn to play nice with others？

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