Western Standard - April 28, 2023


HANNAFORD： Trudeau s distant relationship to the truth


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

134.81021

Word Count

927

Sentence Count

59

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed that he didn't force anyone to get vaccinated, but he did make sure that everyone got them. But did he force anyone? Or did he make sure they were given the chance to make their own choices?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Fish swim, dogs bark, and Prime Minister Trudeau spins his yarns.
00:00:05.120 So it's hard to conceive of him saying other than what he claims,
00:00:09.280 but he didn't force anyone to get vaccinated.
00:00:12.760 All of the scientists and the medical experts and the researchers,
00:00:17.840 not just in Canada but around the world,
00:00:21.840 understood that vaccination was going to be the way through this.
00:00:25.480 And therefore, while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated,
00:00:31.540 I chose to make sure that all the incentives and all the protections were there
00:00:37.560 to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated.
00:00:40.300 And that's exactly what they did.
00:00:41.740 We got vaccinated to a higher level than just about any other of our peer countries.
00:00:46.080 And that's why we had...
00:00:46.940 Unfortunately, Mr Trudeau is precisely the kind of goat
00:00:50.560 who can successfully cling to the narrow ledges that truth has to offer.
00:00:56.660 For him, it's sufficient that the RCMP were not actually ordered
00:01:00.920 to break into people's houses and hold down the unvaccinated occupants
00:01:05.040 while nurses squirted vaccines into their arms.
00:01:09.260 In that narrow sense, he's correct.
00:01:12.420 See? Never forced anyone.
00:01:14.380 However, if truth has a spirit,
00:01:18.820 it was absent from the room that day.
00:01:21.240 For what Mr Trudeau offered the unvaccinated
00:01:24.620 was the same deal you get from the mugger.
00:01:28.020 Give me your wallet or else.
00:01:30.640 Specifically, if you were a civil servant,
00:01:33.580 worked for a federal contractor,
00:01:35.540 or for a federally regulated industry,
00:01:37.740 and you didn't give up your wallet...
00:01:40.060 Well, we're picketing because it's been more than a year
00:01:42.600 since we've had a contract,
00:01:44.480 and we're trying to get a fair wage increase
00:01:47.420 that matches the price of living, or increase in living.
00:01:50.720 You were done.
00:01:52.400 Out of a job.
00:01:53.860 Placed on administrative leave without pay.
00:01:57.440 Denied your livelihood.
00:01:59.400 And whether he likes it or not,
00:02:01.780 that is forcing people.
00:02:04.260 But there are far more people who obviously have died
00:02:07.980 due to COVID.
00:02:09.660 Died from not getting vaccinated.
00:02:12.880 And the idea that people can fly in the face of science?
00:02:18.300 Well, individuals are allowed to make their own choices.
00:02:21.160 There may be all sorts of different reasons
00:02:22.560 why someone is hesitant to get vaccinated.
00:02:25.860 But I make a distinction, and I always have,
00:02:29.560 between someone choosing for personal reasons
00:02:32.780 to choose not to get vaccinated.
00:02:35.400 And someone deliberately using misinformation
00:02:43.120 to mislead and scare other people
00:02:49.020 with so-called facts that aren't facts at all.
00:02:53.400 Private companies took the cue, as they generally do,
00:02:56.940 and started making similar demands.
00:02:59.100 Hospital administrations, desperately short of staff
00:03:04.300 as the emergency rooms filled up,
00:03:07.180 would still rather lay off non-compliant nurses
00:03:10.180 than accept people with medical training
00:03:12.580 who should be relied upon to make good judgments
00:03:15.740 for themselves.
00:03:17.340 BC laid off 2,500 medical staff
00:03:20.080 who wouldn't take the jab,
00:03:21.900 and Alberta laid off more than 1,600.
00:03:24.800 As for dissident doctors,
00:03:26.420 they obviously knew nothing
00:03:28.140 and were persecuted by their professional colleges,
00:03:30.920 which for practical purposes
00:03:32.140 had become enforcement arms for the government.
00:03:36.840 Ask these people whether they felt forced,
00:03:40.040 or those people in some provinces,
00:03:42.240 notably Quebec and briefly New Brunswick,
00:03:44.840 who were denied access to supermarkets
00:03:47.140 if they could not produce a QR card
00:03:49.820 indicating that they were vaccinated.
00:03:52.060 Their option was to pick up essentials
00:03:54.720 in the more expensive dépannules.
00:03:59.280 The Prime Minister also insulted people
00:04:01.640 who disagreed with him.
00:04:03.040 You were variously anti-social,
00:04:04.900 a bigot, probably a racist,
00:04:07.380 and likewise somebody who didn't treat women very well,
00:04:11.240 or all of the above.
00:04:12.280 Yes, we're going to get out of this pandemic
00:04:14.920 for the vaccination.
00:04:16.240 And we know all those people
00:04:18.420 who are trying to hesitate a little bit.
00:04:20.640 We're going to try to convince them.
00:04:22.520 But there's also those people
00:04:23.360 who are harshly opposed to the vaccination.
00:04:26.040 Who are extremists.
00:04:27.060 Who don't believe in science,
00:04:28.400 who are often misogynes,
00:04:30.140 who are often racist too.
00:04:31.660 It's a small group,
00:04:34.800 but who takes place.
00:04:36.660 And there, there's a choice
00:04:38.040 as a leader, as a country.
00:04:39.580 And that apparently is consistent
00:04:57.140 with the Prime Minister's mind
00:04:58.940 with making sure all of the incentives
00:05:01.660 and all of the protections were there
00:05:03.820 to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated.
00:05:07.020 that he subsequently regretted what he said
00:05:10.900 merely speaks to his irresponsible
00:05:13.580 shoot-from-the-lip style
00:05:15.300 that has caused so much embarrassment to himself
00:05:19.160 and irritation to hard-working, decent Canadians.
00:05:23.600 One of the saddest consequences
00:05:25.720 of the COVID years
00:05:27.160 is the much diminished trust
00:05:29.800 that Canadians have
00:05:31.140 for the institutions they depend upon.
00:05:33.580 the health care providers,
00:05:35.600 the provincial governments,
00:05:37.240 and federal leadership itself.
00:05:39.960 It's comments like this,
00:05:42.620 by turns deceitful and self-serving,
00:05:45.740 that do it.
00:05:47.920 Heaven forbid we should ever give up
00:05:50.080 on what is a very fine country,
00:05:52.520 this country of ours, Canada,
00:05:53.940 for all the abuses its people
00:05:56.500 have suffered at the hands
00:05:57.800 of this government
00:05:58.560 and the monstrous folly
00:06:00.160 of its financial decisions.
00:06:02.420 It remains an inspiration
00:06:03.840 everywhere to people
00:06:05.340 who want to live a better life.
00:06:07.820 But dear heavens,
00:06:09.060 we must place it
00:06:10.260 in the hands of more honest custodians.
00:06:14.280 This man is unworthy
00:06:15.820 of the office he holds.
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