Hilarious： Chrystia Freeland pretends she gets around on a bike!
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Summary
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has been accused of using public transit to get around the city of Toronto, but what about riding her bike? Is she actually riding a bike? And if she is, why is she doing it?
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I just wanted to put out this very random short video here because I found this oddly hilarious.
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Remember last year that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland claimed that for climate-related reasons,
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she purely used public transportation as well as a bike to get around the city of Toronto to her various political engagements,
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and that was quickly proven to be complete nonsense in that she spends thousands of dollars on chauffeurs, limousines, Ubers, and whatnot,
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sometimes just to go like three blocks down the road somewhere that she could easily walk in just a few minutes,
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yet for some reason she needed to bill taxpayers, you know, like hundreds of dollars just to take that small trip.
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Well, I just wanted to highlight the fact that her ministerial staff seems to be really wanting to get more footage of her riding a bike,
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and I like how the idea is, well, okay, we've lied in the past about her riding a bike,
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so now we just need a little, we need a couple clips of her riding a bike.
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Guys, controversy over. Look, she's holding a bike. She's riding a bike. She coasts in.
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Look, she's coasting in. She's not even pedaling, though.
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She walks, and then she walks the bike over. Perfect.
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Guys, she rides a bike. She cares about climate change now, according to her.
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Look, we have one clip of her actually riding a bike once in her life.
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I don't think she's never ridden a bike, but, man, I love how silly political communications are.
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Guys, guys, we need some footage of her riding a bike to prove that she sometimes does this,
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even though she obviously didn't bike here because where did the rest of her comms team,
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Did they drive in a car and then film her riding her bike?
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Because you know that's probably what they did.
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They got her to take it out, put on the really nice blue helmet that clearly has never touched
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an ounce of dirt in its entire existence, and just quickly ride down the street here.
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She totally rides public transit because we have her riding a red bicycle going to a bike shop
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to talk about frivolous policies that are not actually helping Canadians that she thinks are
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like needs that we have, even though a lot of these things are only needs now that Canadians are so broke
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I love political communications teams who just think to themselves,
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oh, goodness, this person needs to feel like a family person.
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Let's have them taking a photo next to a family.
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Oh, guys, we have to have them holding a baby so people think they're compassionate.
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Or how about just act compassionate? How about just act consistent?
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Like, you can't cover over hypocrisy by trying to retroactively do the thing that you said you were doing.
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Again, she spent thousands of dollars on limousines at the same time she was saying she was riding the train.
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You almost immediately knew that was untrue because if the deputy prime minister was riding the TTC in Toronto,
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there'd be tons of little photos of her on social media saying,
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oh, hey, I just noticed the deputy prime minister here.
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Also, I just wanted to highlight the fact that Christy Freeland is also a bit of a drag racer.
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If we all remember, she was, like, caught driving, like, 160 or something like that in Alberta,
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driving from, you know, like, Medicine Hat to somewhere, got pulled over and got a $275 ticket.
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I just begrudge her for lying about the fact that she doesn't use actual motor vehicle transportation
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and then also trying to shame other people for doing the same thing and tax them.