Fake News Friday ｜ The media rushes to defend Trudeau’s latest international blunder
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In this week's fake news friday, we discuss the unceremonious dressing down of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the fallout from the incident, and some of the reactions to it.
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hello and welcome to another exciting at least i hope it is exciting edition of fake news friday
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on this friday november 18th just uh how many weeks until christmas now i don't want to get
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people too nervous i think we're five fake news fridays away from christmas so take from that
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what you will hopefully you can make it to the end of the episode before you rush out to the toy store
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to buy whatever you need but it's been a bit of a busy week the public order emergency commission
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has concluded we've had foreign junkets a go-go for justin trudeau but how was the week in your
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view harrison another one for the records well the problem with the public order emergency commission
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andrew the emergencies act inquiry is that when there's not a good exciting witness it really is
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boring to get through it's very repetitive very slow but then when justin trudeau gets humiliated
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by xi jinping the entire world erupts the story dominates headlines and basically it has it has
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given us plenty of fodder for fake news friday so i'm quite looking forward to getting into some of
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the reactions the comparisons between canadian headlines international headlines and yeah i mean
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when you see that it just it it kind of reminds you exactly where canada is in the pecking order and
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frankly how how the rest of the world looks at canada it's it's quite disappointing but for us
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at least it gives us something fun to talk about i was just like asking how are you and you just went
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into like this like grand treatise on canada and the world which is good we're getting down to brass
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tax here i know it's great i was i was about to give you the sir this is a wendy's but i actually
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liked what you had to say so i i rolled with it here uh let's get right into it though because the the
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big news this week was of course the uh lecture if you will perhaps the dressing down depending on
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how you refer to it of justin trudeau by chairman xi jinping
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everything we discussed is leaked to the peso that's not appropriate
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and that's not all the way the conversation was
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if there is i believe in your free and open and frank dialogue and that is what we will continue to
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have we will continue to work constructively together but there will be things we will disagree on
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a little bit of an awkward one they seem to be at one of those events where you're just supposed
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to be glad handing shaking hands saying oh have you tried this crimpietto that lobster roll was great
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and instead chairman xi is telling trudeau that he doesn't like the fact that news was leaked
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of what they discussed in their meeting now so far as i can tell what he's referring to
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is the call summary that the prime minister's office sends out after pretty much every bilateral
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conversation so i i don't know if he's talking about anything else beyond that that i haven't seen
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but the reality is this is not exactly a stellar direction diplomatically between two countries now
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i am not going to as i said on my show yesterday take chairman xi's side just to own the libs i i think
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that canada should be taking a tougher position on china and should be getting under their skin but
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what's bugged me here is the fact that chairman xi is doing this because he sees a weakness in canada
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and i don't think canada is doing anything to push back against this and i i just want to give you a
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sense first off of how the media has covered this because in canada this has played very differently
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than it has in media elsewhere ctv has a headline berated and agitated what's being said about trudeau's
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g20 exchange with chinese president xi and they say oh xi expressed his displeasure with trudeau over
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details of what the pair discussed in a brief meeting this week being leaked and then you also
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have the cnn version of it which i find quite interesting china's xi jinping lectures justin trudeau
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over alleged leaks so a little bit more of a tougher position on this from the international press well this
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is exactly what you get andrew when you pay off the media what you've what you've kind of got here is
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a bit of a mirroring act you've got canadian legacy media who are essentially paid off by justin trudeau
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and and puff justin trudeau up as though he's some great world leader doing some sort of mirroring act
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of their chinese of their chinese counterparts the chinese uh propaganda outlets and i just find that
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funny because on ratioed we discussed some of the differences between international headlines
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and canadian headlines and i also i made this point that whenever there's a china related
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story it's always fun to go and check out what the chinese propaganda outlets are saying what is
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what is the south china morning post saying about it what is the global times saying about it and
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and yeah it's i mean basically it's exactly that it's it's this idea that we need to basically just
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pretend as though justin trudeau is this is a strong world leader no matter what the rest of the
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world is saying no matter what the english press and you know in the american press are saying about
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justin trudeau we have to make sure that justin trudeau looks like a strong leader in in an
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interaction which clearly makes him look very weak i mean when i first saw it i have to say my first
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interaction was you kind of see xi jinping not even really really looking at trudeau in the eyes
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and you see justin trudeau kind of standing there but then then when you watch it again you watch it a
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few more times you you really see that there's one man in charge and one man basically taking all
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the heat and justin trudeau is doing that weird finger holding posture bowing his head to xi jinping
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and then at the end xi jinping gives him like the handshake to say get lost get out of here
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and justin trudeau scurries off away into the bathroom i mean the look couldn't be worse it
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really didn't look didn't look good on justin trudeau's part and i have to say there was one
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there was one headline that i read from the uk from the mirror that i just thought really really
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kind of paints the picture of the difference between canadian legacy media legacy media that
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is bought off by trudeau to basically propagandize on his behalf and then the rest of the world this is
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the way the mirror wrote it xi jinping humiliates justin trudeau in devastating public dressing down
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so absolutely the the the contrast couldn't be clearer andrew this is what you get when you pay
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off the media you get puffed up headlines no matter what happens no matter how bad you look on camera
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yeah i mean the one that really annoyed me was the toronto star op-ed xi jinping's scolding shows that
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justin trudeau is doing his job so he's actually the real winner of this now that was written by susan
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delacorte who i i disagree with on a lot politically but i i always have enjoyed my chats with susan she's a
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lovely woman i i don't think she's i can't agree with her conclusion on this one because the whole
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point of if you are going to get under china's skin is that there's a difference between doing it in a
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way that is constructive and doing it in a way that's not i don't think he was getting under china's
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skin in any meaningful way i think he was like a little gnat that uh xi jinping wanted to swat away
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and that i think is not exactly putting canada on strong footing when they're going toe-to-toe and
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taking on the politburo and the reason i think this is quite important for people to pay attention
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to here is because whenever there is like a g20 summit you see kind of the battle lines be redrawn
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a little bit and then when you're at un summits all of a sudden the tough talk on china goes to the
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back burner because oh well there are partners in climate and it was like john carey shaking maduro's
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hand at the charmel shake at cop 27 and charmel shake yeah this guy was like uh you know the grand
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dictator that we don't recognize as the leader but oh if he says he wants to drop co2 emissions yeah
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welcome aboard sir good to see you and i think that's the problem is that justin trudeau just
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wants to be in the club internationally and i don't think he's doing a very good job at uh holding
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china to account and it's not even like his appeasement has done all that much for us no not at all
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and there's there is something to be said about the fact that at this point if you're a canadian
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leader and you're not standing up for canada and you're not making it very clear that the the way
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that china is engaging in this country the way that they're meddling they're they're putting spies in
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canadian energy companies like at hydro quebec where they're funding 11 candidates in our elections and
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and trying to interfere in our in our government you have to stand up to that you have to draw a line
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and say enough is enough but then again you don't want to be caught out being embarrassed and
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humiliated it's like the old saying and you never meet your heroes because sometimes you might get
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exposed to it but in this case justin trudeau met his hero and in fact he was humiliated and ashamed
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by xi jinping yep from hero to zero i'll keep my day job never mind there we go but anyway another
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thing that's worth mentioning is the fact that xi jinping has sort of stepped out of character at this
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g20 xi jinping has been holding meetings with a bunch of these world leaders he's of course he did a
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big meeting with joe biden he met with emmanuel macron i think he met with with rishi sunak as
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well but interestingly he didn't offer that same meeting to canada we know that the canada china
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relations are pretty bad right now but he did however have time to meet with the argentinian
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president i made the point that the fact is if justin trudeau can't get a meeting with xi jinping
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but xi jinping wants to meet with the argentinian president that speaks volumes about where canada is
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right now and the way the world sees canada and yeah i mean if you just look just look at that
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interaction xi jinping is looking down at justin trudeau wanting to get out of the conversation
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because it's not even worth his time but at the same point the point does stand that if justin
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trudeau is not standing up to china if justin trudeau is not saying enough is enough this is
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completely unacceptable then in a way he really isn't doing his job but there's ways to do it
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and there's ways not to do it and i think we basically saw exactly how not to do it and it's
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pretty embarrassing for justin trudeau i have to say the one the one thing just before we move on from
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this that i found amusing there was a fair bit of like zapruder like analysis on this and how
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justin trudeau started talking uh as the translator hadn't even translated what uh xi had said now it's
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possible that justin trudeau speaks mandarin i have no evidence of this uh so i'm going to assume though
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he didn't know what the what had what the guy had said and he just like went right to talking points
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anyway that was that was the great thing so it's like he's just like no matter what he says the
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talking points are going to be the same so might as well just cut out the translation and uh speak
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only in talking points it'll be a lot more efficient uh let's move on here uh to another
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development on the global scene this past week as i mentioned there was the uh junket in cambodia
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then there was the g20 in bali so lots happening this week and then of course we had news on the
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ukraine front but i want to talk about the g20 takeaway here which if you ask ctv all of the 20
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most powerful world leaders got together people like chairman g people like chancellor olaf schultz
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people like rishi sunak the president of the european commission all of these people with massive
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economies they got together and at the end of it what did they do they ended the summit with pledges
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aligned with the trudeau government's agenda hmm maybe we've been getting it all wrong maybe it's
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not the un pulling the strings it's not klaus schwab pulling the strings maybe justin trudeau is the
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puppet master behind the new world order do you buy into this that all of these people that they
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magically came around to justin trudeau's position by the end of this meeting yes after justin trudeau's
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humiliation from xi jinping all these world leaders andrew they wanted to including xi jinping by the way
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exactly exactly so yes xi jinping has aligned china with canada and justin trudeau's mission
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because they all say to themselves now what is justin doing we have to make sure that the sun we
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all orbit around justin trudeau whatever he's doing we better not be out of step with the great
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powerful canada we all know that's exactly what needs to be done now very conspicuously andrew this
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article from the ctv came out right after the world was laughing at justin trudeau the world was
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dunking on justin trudeau for that embarrassing performance it's almost as if andrew justin
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trudeau's ego was so badly hurt so badly damaged by being embarrassed in front of the world that
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the legacy media needed to puff him up a little bit give him give him a little victory something
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that he can take home to canada and say look guys the rest of the world they're orbiting around canada
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they they want to make sure they're in line with us and the best part about this is you read the
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article there's no mention about that at all they just say that the rest of the world are talking
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about are basically talking about the same thing justin trudeau is talking about not aligning their
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agendas with justin trudeau it's it's classic classic canadian legacy media and it 100 deserves a
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spot on the show no yeah this is like you know i got a coffee this morning and around the world
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people have drank andrew lawton's chosen breakfast beverage for the morning and it's like oh wow yeah
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i'm fairly influential i have a coffee everyone else does it's like the epitome of just seeing where
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everyone's going so you can like get in front of them to lead them yeah and also when you look at
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the article what's hilarious about it is you you read the article you open it up you see the headline
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you think okay well maybe there's something maybe we've got this all wrong like you said and then the
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very top video in the article is the video of xi jinping dressing down justin trudeau like they
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they have they have that right right below the headline which says basically the the justin trudeau is
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the sun that the rest of the world orbits around and you look at it again you look at the article
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there's not one mention andrew of the fact that the rest of the world that you know has rishi sunak
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pledged to be just like canada has has emmanuel macron pledged to be just like canada no in fact
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all they're talking about is the ukraine uh ukraine poland russia missile uh conversation that's
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basically all that all that this is about and it's so obvious they said look we can't allow our dear
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leader to be hit so badly to be to be hurt so bad after his horrible performance at the g20 we have to
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give him something to uh to take home we have to give him something to write home about about his
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victory and uh pretty pathetic i have to say yeah it reminds me of that great story in bloomberg around
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the time of one of the g7s i can't remember it was two years ago or so when uh justin trudeau's
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uh staffers have been like going around telling everyone that uh with angela merkel resigning justin
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trudeau is going to be the new dean of the g7 and everyone was like yeah yeah we're good we're good
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but thank you so uh but on the g20 he's managed apparently to uh bring the whole thing into it
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and he has also started a brewing buddy comedy style bromance with the new prime minister of the
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united kingdom rishi sunak now uh the two of them have apparently been hitting it off there was this
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photo of them having a nice little dinner in a casual eatery and then there was this video where the
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two of them expressed their support to the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky
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hello volodymyr it's rishi and justin i really wanted you to hear from us as friends we absolutely
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know how difficult yesterday was it was horrific for you and your country and we have called it out
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in the session that we've just had uh and on the media here this morning and we made that point
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loud and clear to the to everyone who was here that what your country had to live through yesterday
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was unacceptable and represented yet more barbarity from the russians we stood united in condemning it
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rishi and i really wanted to to reach out to reassure you uh to show you we're standing with you
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uh and to say we're gonna we're gonna uh figure out this uh step by step all together thank you
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volodymyr talk to you soon now i just before we get into the just how cringeworthy that was
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let me say how bizarre i find it that they're sharing this like conversation they took place
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uh that took place between them and zelensky and not heard anywhere is zelensky so it's like
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they could just be talking into a voice memo on their phone for all i know well it wouldn't be that
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surprising right andrew if the drama teacher was just making it all up if it was all just a big
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skit but i gotta say the best part about that is the accent that justin trudeau puts on the
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the ukrainian accent when he says hello volodymyr it's rishi and justin and then and then they and
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then it's like one of those bad editing jobs like when you've got like a a bad intern trying to put
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together a quick video for for their boss like a quickly edited jump cut full video where they
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basically say we're here to talk to you and then they cut in as friends and then they cut back but
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they had to cut the part as friends in there it's from start to finish it is an absolute joke i wrote
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on twitter how is this actually real and again this has to get through enough people for it to be put
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out and published by 10 downing street the official uk prime minister uh twitter account as some sort of
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video to say look at these two strong world leaders talking to vladimir zelensky using a fake
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accent to talk to vladimir zelensky but don't make sure you don't hear anything that zelensky has to
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say there's not like oh thanks for calling guys really appreciate it thanks for calling friends
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none of that just the just the absolute cringe fest you you need to start doing the trudeau accent so
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you don't call him vladimir it's volodymyr volodymyr volodymyr zelensky as friends we're your
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friends and that by the way that was not me making fun of volodymyr zelensky's accent that was me
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making fun of the fake uh justin trudeau accent just so no one like accuses me of uh ukrainophobia
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or anything like no no of course not of course not let's uh do we want to end on our lighter note
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i'm trying to remember what else we had going on today let's do it let's do the poec the uh the
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toronto star headline for what we're missing from the public order emergency commission you've heard
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a lot but we're missing something really key andrew in the emergencies act committee and apparently
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from the toronto star what we're missing from the emergencies act committee is the fact that racism
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and hatred are not being discussed as threats to national security interesting so there's an article
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here by written by amira el gawabi and she's a columnist at the toronto star and in it she basically
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says that although we just heard from evidence at the commission that ceases has told the told the
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cabinet that there was no threat to national security under section two of the ceases act pretty key
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there is that's one of the central requirements for the government to invoke the emergencies act
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but no security threat no national security threat we hear from cesus but then again perhaps as amira
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al-gawabi writes there's a different there's a different interpretation for what a national security
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threat is and for her the fact that there was not any discussion of racism and hate indicates that
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actually there was a national security threat andrew so we've got it all wrong the emergencies act
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must be invoked if we think that racism and hate are taking place it is clearly a threat to national
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security yeah the big line here is perhaps we have different interpretations of what security means
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and for who it's supposed to be for i believe she means to say for whom it's supposed to be or perhaps if
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you want to play fast and loose with grammar whom it's supposed to be for either way the line is that
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she is effectively experiencing national security differently than we are so take from that what
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you will i listen i think racism is atrocious i think anti-semitism is lamophobia anti-black racism i
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think any form of bigotry is wrong and i don't think that we should go down this road in society
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of equating morally wrong with illegal and trying to criminalize wrong think which is what a lot of
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people who do not fundamentally support free speech are trying to do here the fact that people may
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have had and by the way i i dispute wholeheartedly her characterization of these things as ubiquitous in
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the convoy but even if there were a few people that had very unpleasant or unsavory views about race
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that does not equate to a national emergency in any way whatsoever legal or otherwise no and just
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could it be possible could it be possible here that the toronto star is pushing this message
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and actually there wasn't any real evidence of of of hatred and racism but it's just someone's again
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it's just someone's interpretation it's not like the toronto star has ever gotten anything wrong about
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the convoy before right it's just exactly like you said andrew it's not a national security threat
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we can't just say that because of this because someone interprets it differently because someone
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has a different interpretation of national security well then the the emergency act was justified
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basically quashing a peaceful lawful protest was justified i mean again it's just classic
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classic toronto star they're reaching here because as we've seen from the emergencies act commission
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every single justification that the government has used for the emergencies act has been whittled down
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to nothing but just basically hearsay there's every time a law enforcement officer has come up to
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testify the main legs for the argument for the government to invoke the emergencies act get knocked out from
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under them every single time so now we're reaching to the point where we have to reach so far andrew
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that actually it was the racism that was alleged to have taken place which again we don't have really
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much evidence for other than the the the very brief sighting of the swastika and the confederate flag
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which still to this day i have to say have not been fully investigated other than that there's been
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really no no evidence to prove that this was what it was it's just someone's someone's interpretation of it
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when they're when they feel as though the entire justification is slipping away from them classic
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from the toronto star yeah very much so and this actually does segue into the lighter story we wanted
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to end on because if you really want to tackle racism if you really want to tackle a lack of inclusivity
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you have to go right to the source of this and i'm talking of course about crosswords
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am i reading this right crossword puzzles are everywhere but how inclusive are the bylines and
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clues and let's play a game i like to call guess the canadian media outlets
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cbc bingo it was kind of a toss-up between them and the toronto star but cbc has taken aim at the
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crossword because there is a lack of inclusion now i am the in-house crossword expert for
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true north i i mean no one assigned me this title i've just sort of claimed it so i apologize to any
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of my colleagues if they're as obsessed with crosswords as i am i do the new york times i
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occasionally do the times of london i'm not great at the cryptics but i try absolutely love crosswords
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i even at one point submitted one to the new york times they didn't publish it but i tried so i like
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crosswords and i have never once while i've done a crossword been struggling with the lack of
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inclusivity but apparently it's been an issue that's been going on for quite some time as one
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crossword designer says when you only have puzzles that represent a certain kind of topic or are only
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of interest to straight white men a lot of people won't see themselves reflected in the grid i think
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crosswords are only of interest to straight white men because other people have lives we're boring
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let us have our crosswords for crying out loud no no andrew you can't get it but you see that's
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exactly why the crosswords aren't inclusive it's because people like you are the ones that are only
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doing them we need to open it up we need to make it more inclusive for the rest of the rest of society
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i just find this so so hilarious it was i don't do crosswords i have to say i have a life uh but i when
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i did read this i thought to myself stone cold when i did read this i thought to myself well again this
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this might this might be in our in our yearly uh yearly fake news friday award show andrew which
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speaking of we're getting close to christmas you hinted at it at the top we are going to have to do
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some sort of award show and uh we're going to be highlighting the very best of the year in fake
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news and i i wouldn't be surprised if this makes it into the list this is what this is what the uh this
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is what deborah rainwright writes in the cbc article or is quoted as saying in the cbc article very hard
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hitting journalism real real important stuff from the cbc this is what we pay them for she writes
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someone decides what words get in what's part of the clues and in doing that they're deciding what
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should be common knowledge for every one of us andrew andrew that's why you can't be the one you
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can't be the one writing these crosswords you can't be submitting them and in fact it's probably time
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that you you step back and let others have their go at the crosswords that's really what's going on we
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need to change the target market and then we'll open it all up to the rest of rest of society
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i i should say by the way this wasn't just the cbc news article cbc actually ran a documentary
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a couple of weeks ago about this called a cross and down which is a great title but they found that
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women indigenous black and queer identifying people have been almost invisible in crossword puzzles so
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i here's the thing i i've already admitted that i have no life i do the crosswords for the new york
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times fairly religiously but the interesting thing is the new york times has a crossword blog
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every day that comes out that has some commentary on the crosswords and every now and then i'll read
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that if you know i'm interested in the theme or whatever if you want to have a very good time and
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i'm playing fast and loose with good and time you can see the comments on this and you get oftentimes
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these little like woke fights when people don't like that a certain word was said or they don't like
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that a certain word was used like one time the answer to the crossword clue was non-pc as in not
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politically correct and everyone was like why are we vilifying political correctness political
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correctness is great there was another time where it was 45th president and the answer was trump and
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so i was like why do i have to see that name in my crossword like so people are getting triggered by
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crosswords so maybe i am just being insensitive so andrew it's this is this just i've just thought of
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this now maybe if the cbc the globe and mail new york times they all want to shift woke they're going
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to open up the market for new new crosswords that can be made in fact we can make a true north crossword
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that is just chock full of politically incorrect terms conservative terms and just designed exclusively
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for people who are you know being being uh you know being left behind by the changing world of
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crosswords who knew that there was a whole world andrew i didn't know there were blog posts
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documentaries and whole you know philosophical debates about what gets put into crosswords fascinating
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you got to sharpen that pencil and get to it harrison this has been a another edition of fake news
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friday you can catch harrison faulkner on ratioed every week and you can catch me on
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the uncreatively titled andrew lawton show and i do hope you do both
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have a great weekend everyone we'll talk to you soon