Western Standard - March 11, 2022


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Michael Kovrig Meng Wanzhou Dave Naylor Sarai
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In this episode, I sit down with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, to talk about his vision for the future of the country. We discuss his policies that have been controversial in the West, such as the long gun registry, the carbon tax, and his work with the Chinese Huawei Group.

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00:00:00.000 Mr. Sarai, Dave Naylor with the Western Standard.
00:00:02.960 You have held some policies that Westerners haven't liked.
00:00:06.600 Long gun registry, the carbon tax, your work with the Chinese Huawei group when they were holding prisoners. 0.90
00:00:15.080 How are you going to overcome those obstacles in the West?
00:00:17.780 You have a list there.
00:00:19.980 Let's start with Huawei.
00:00:21.440 And, you know, what we did in Huawei, I'm very proud of what we did in helping to sort out the situation of Ms. Meng Wanzhou.
00:00:30.580 And I worked with the family of Michael Kovrig so that we could free the two Michaels.
00:00:36.560 And we worked with them very, very closely throughout the whole process.
00:00:41.380 And I never did anything and would have never done anything that would have been contrary to the interests of my country.
00:00:46.700 So, in fact, we were very, very active in helping resolve that matter and to bring the two Michaels home.
00:00:53.240 So, on that, on the long gun registry, the police forces in Quebec are the ones who said,
00:00:58.760 if you're going to do away with the registry, why don't you just transfer over to us the information that's there?
00:01:03.700 That's the long and the short of it on that.
00:01:07.100 It was very simple to do.
00:01:09.340 And your other question was on...
00:01:10.480 Carbon tax.
00:01:11.060 Well, we will have an opportunity to talk about that during the campaign, but let me start by the beginning.
00:01:17.600 We need a very, very comprehensive approach that includes policies that are going to promote economic growth
00:01:25.040 and make sense by themselves.
00:01:26.620 Carbon capture and storage, blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, small modular reactors.
00:01:33.640 Hydro, of course, is part of that.
00:01:35.500 Biofuels.
00:01:36.100 I mean, those are the things that we need to be smart about.
00:01:38.660 And I'm very committed to designing a policy that is going to be good and will deal with transition.
00:01:45.540 I'll give you an example.
00:01:46.880 I was in Europe a few weeks ago.
00:01:48.680 The European Commission just announced their transition energy policy.
00:01:53.440 And in their transition, they're including nuclear and natural gas.
00:01:58.380 And they're doing it for a reason, because it makes sense.
00:02:02.020 If you want to transition to a point where you take carbon out of the economy or the energy sector,
00:02:08.700 well, then that's what you have to do.
00:02:10.460 You need to be smart about it.
00:02:12.200 And that's what we'll do for Canada.
00:02:13.860 But the provinces will be part of that.
00:02:15.720 And the industry will participate in that.
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