Ottawa Exposed： Trudeau reveals why he really crushed the Freedom Convoy
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Summary
In his quest for power, Justin Trudeau is seizing both our guns and our free press. In order to do so, he wants to take away our right to self-defense and our ability to defend ourselves. He also wants to silence any media that opposes him or even criticizes him.
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well welcome to another episode our fact in our second episode of ottawa exposed with david
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creighton i'm david creighton senior parliamentary columnist for the western standard
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and my beat is ottawa and the federal government and what justin trudeau is up to every week
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We had a fantastic reaction last week to our first episode.
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And I think we're going to do that again this week because we've got lots of news.
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This is the last you'll probably see of me until Christmas.
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So I hope you have a happy and joyous Christmas with your family and friends.
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I don't know how much time I'm going to get to relax.
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But take some time to relax and reflect on all that God has given you.
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and all the blessings you have in your life this is this is the time of year for that one of the
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blessings we don't have it's a prime minister named justin trudeau and so we're going to be
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talking about him almost exclusively for the next 20 minutes or so and what he's been up to in the
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last week i wrote a uh a column this week on what trudeau is really after in 2023 and it's a two-fold
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mission and they're very both very dangerous and i titled this one in his quest for power trudeau
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is seizing both our guns and our free press and of course in his end of the year interview with ctv
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news justin trudeau offhandedly remarked that yes he is going after hunting rifles as part of this
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firearms confiscation maybe not them all but he admitted to at least some of them and if he's
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admitting to at least some of them just watch and wait until he admits to all of them because you
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know he wants a registry at the very least for long guns and he wants basically to take away
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all guns from Canadian citizens so they are defenseless and this is a particularly scary
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proposition because the right to self-defense is as old as law itself and certainly goes back to
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the Magna Carta, for goodness sakes, in terms of the Judeo-Christian values that are in our legal
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system. We have a right to defend ourselves. And if Trudeau is taking away all of our guns in this
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country, if we're going to be a gun-free country, then I wonder how we're going to have any right
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to self-defense. Now, it's very true that we don't have a Second Amendment in Canada that guarantees
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constitutionally our right to bear arms. But we've always had a tacit understanding that in this
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country, going back to common law, we have a right to access a weapon if we need to. And we have a
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right to defend ourselves and our lives and our families' lives. And Trudeau is taking that away.
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Clearly, he wants to disarm this country so that it cannot defend itself in any form.
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And this is part, as I said, of his twofold process of enfeebling Canadians.
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And this is really what he wants to do, is enfeeble us, to take away our ability to defend ourselves.
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And the other avenue that he's using to do this is to take away our free speech and our free press.
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Now, Bill C-12 and Bill C-18, which are on the verge of being passed into law, they've passed the House of Commons.
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These are going to substantially change the way we deal with the Internet.
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And it's going to hurt the new media more than it is the old legacy mainstream media,
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because it's going to force companies to negotiate with big tech like Facebook and Twitter.
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And it's going to force these big tech companies to pay for space on media.
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Now, this is going to be a lot easier for the legacy media to do,
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It basically puts a huge judicial legal challenge in front of new media.
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And it's, once again, it's the government getting in the way.
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We do not need the government to start telling either Facebook and Twitter how to conduct business or media how to conduct business.
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But Trudeau loves this because it enables him to silence the new media.
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And it allows the old legacy media to make money off of social media.
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And it's part of Trudeau's plan to silence any media that opposes him or even criticizes or questions what he's doing.
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Now, the Western Standard does not take a cent in taxpayer money, not a cent in government money, not a cent from Justin Trudeau's government.
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That's because we believe we need the power to tell the truth.
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And when you're on the government payroll, the tendency is not to tell the whole truth.
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The tendency is to voice government talking points because you want the check to keep coming in every month.
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And thank God, new media like the Western Standard are saying, no, we are not going to do this.
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Well, it's like words like hate speech and misinformation.
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It means whatever the government decides it means.
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So if the Western standard is not being fair enough to Justin Trudeau,
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and we'll make them, we'll force them to print talking points.
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It's exactly what Justin Trudeau is up to here.
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This is a man who does not believe in the long tradition of freedom of the press and free speech.
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A democracy is not just about going to the polls every four to five years and electing a government.
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A democracy is about having opposition parties and about having a viable and free press that can criticize the government.
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And these are things that Trudeau does not believe in, and he's running away from them very quickly.
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And our own publisher here at the Western Standard, Derek Fildebrand, has pointed out that this is going to hit new media especially hard.
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So we've got to fight these bills, and we've got to fight Justin Trudeau's agenda, which is to take away our guns, to take away our free press.
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And I think we have to be very adamant in our opposition to this and determined to roll it back if it does become law.
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And that's why we have to change this government.
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I also wanted to mention the fact that a report came out this week about Germany is opening up a liquid natural gas terminal.
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so it can export or import natural gas across the ocean now you you might recall that
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Justin Trudeau turned down an offer from Germany to buy Canadian liquid natural gas LNG
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this was absolutely monumentally foolish and I wrote at the time that this decision was either
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based on an incredibly bad assessment of the situation. I think I called him a potential
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idiot to do this, or that it was based on ideological reasons. Now, why do you suppose
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Justin Trudeau would say that there's no business case for exporting natural gas to Germany? Because
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he doesn't believe in fossil fuels. He thinks we have to immediately transition to so-called
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green energy. It doesn't matter in the process that we have to live in caves and we can't
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heat our homes. We have to transition immediately to green energy, except Justin Trudeau doesn't
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have to do that, of course, because he's chauffeured around in his SUV. He flies around
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the world as a political jet setter and he has one of the largest carbon footprints of any canadian
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hypocritically so as he's lecturing us all about the need to reduce our carbon footprint and the
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evils of greenhouse gases and how he's fighting climate change and how he's doing so much to make
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canada abide by these international regulations and of course he's not doing that himself personally
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What is very disturbing about this is that Trudeau constantly goes on about the need for Europe
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to do more to help the Ukrainians fight in this war against Russia. He's also sent hundreds of
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millions of dollars of Canadian taxpayer funds to Ukraine to finance this war. Yet he's prepared
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to let the germans freeze in the winter without any access to our natural gas this is the
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incredible hypocrisy of this man it just never seems to end and i and i don't know if it's
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because of his innate narcissism or his just is basically he's unaware of how hypocritical and
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double face two-faced this looks and is to the average canadian who has to deal with high gas
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prices and high heating prices this winter and yet trudeau was going on about the fact we can't sell
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gas to germans this could have been one of the largest investments in canadian history this
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could have been one of the most incredible deals we ever followed through on but trudeau said no
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and why did he say no because of ideological reasons only he has straightjacketed this country
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into a green energy deal policy and this is this is extended to farms we haven't even gotten into
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the fact that he's basically banned fertilizer for farmers because of the presence of nitrogen
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which is the latest cause celebra for the environmentalists and for people fighting
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climate change this is the latest evil is to rid the country of nitrogen well in the process he
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could rid the country of food as well but justin trudeau doesn't think past that his policy
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analysis is so myopic so short-sighted so lacking in any real assessment that he makes these
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decisions without thinking them through well i'd like to move on to the latest and this is an
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interview trudeau just did yesterday with his old media friend from montreal and it's uh he's a
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former radio host in montreal and he's apparently a long time friend of justin trudeau now most of
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the media let's face it are good friends of justin trudeau all you have to do is show up to a news
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conference on parliament hill and you'll see a lot of softball questions from the national media
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and trudeau of course selects who's going to ask the question just like joe biden
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in the united states has a very select few journalists who are allowed to ask questions
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trudeau makes sure he doesn't get very many real questions they're all as as we say in the business
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softball questions easy lobs easy things to catch and to return but in this interview he did it's
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I want to read you a few excerpts from it because it's absolutely astounding what he got away with here.
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But what's the most significant thing about this interview is that we finally have Justin Trudeau, perhaps absentmindedly,
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perhaps not thinking through what he was doing, but Justin Trudeau admits that he invoked the
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Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy because they disagreed with him. Now, this is
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astounding. We just went through the Emergencies Inquiry Act, which in my opinion was a huge
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embarrassment for this government, a huge embarrassment, because it revealed that the
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Justice Minister wanted to bring in the Canadian Army along with some tanks to crush this peaceful
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protest on the streets of Ottawa. But Trudeau, of course, throughout, maintained his talking points
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that he did this. He invoked the Emergencies Act, this very authoritarian measure in the interest
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the public safety he was saving canadians from these dastardly convoy truckers who had come to
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ottawa to have some sort of insurrection he was certain of that they had come with violent intent
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although all of his intelligence was saying there were no guns there there were no arms these people
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had no intent to be violent there was no effort to have some kind of insurrection whatever that
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really means they didn't even occupy any government property none they stayed on the streets
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and were respectful of the citizens although you'll hear quite the opposite from Trudeau's
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people but throughout the inquiry and throughout the day-long time that Trudeau was on the witness
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stand he maintained that he did this because he was there to protect Canadians he was there
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because he was their protector like they're like they're like the czar used to be he was there
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because he wanted canadians to feel safe but of course you know when trudeau's not aware that
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people are listening and this broadcast on youtube only received less than 3 000 views so far who
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knows maybe as people understand what trudeau actually said in this broadcast the numbers are
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going to increase but right now less than 3 000 people have actually watched his broadcast and
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maybe trudeau felt hey nobody's going to see this thing i can safely say something that is contrary
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to what i've said up till now and that's exactly what he said he crushed the freedom convoy because
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they didn't agree with him and that this is particularly disturbing because you know he
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really had no intent of protecting Canadians. He wanted to crush the scent. And he says at one
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point, what worried me so much about the convoy, the issue is there are people out there who are
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trying to spread the anti-vaccine message and push it beyond just, it's my choice not to do it.
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It's more of a deliberate attempt to destabilize, to fundraise, to make money off of people's fears,
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to shift the narrative to undermine their trust in institutions to just sow chaos in our democracy
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and our society and are using very very powerful means to do that meaning social media and he goes
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on in a way that actively and deliberately harms canadians now trudeau went on to say that this
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was so onerous this was so bad this is something he just couldn't shake off well um this is no
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justification for invoking the emergency staff because you don't like the message people are
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are spreading because you think it's misinformation or perhaps even hate speech he smeared the freedom
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convoy protesters there's a bunch of misogynistic gracious as white supremacists he had nothing but
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hatred for them he refused to even meet with them and yet he had the audacity this to suggest that
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they had violent intent and he admits on camera he admits that he went after them because he they
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disagreed with his policies his covet 19 policies his vax policies they disagreed with him and
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That is a horrible admission from any prime minister.
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Because we're supposed to be a democracy here and we should allow dissent, even if the prime minister doesn't agree with that dissent.
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He's going to bring his foot down every time when he says, I don't like what they're saying.
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That's a question you should be asked every day by reporters.
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because apparently you don't believe in free speech.
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It's quite obvious from your words in that interview
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Trudeau went on to talk about the things he most enjoys in this life,
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and it's like listening to somebody in an alternate universe.
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His favorite novel this year was Stephen King's fairy tale.
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Now, that's not something necessarily horrible.
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But for a prime minister to say that that's the only book he can recall reading this year,
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along with he mentioned at least one other book in the interview,
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but it was fairy tale that really magnetized his attention, really, really got him excited.
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and he was he was quite determined that the person interviewing him had read the book
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he also went on about his the movie he had seen this year Endor he said that was one of the
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greatest things he ever said and and he criticized the once again the interviewer for not knowing
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that movie and or not having seen it and Trudeau actually had the audacity as well to to go on
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about uh a a a series called the boys which was it's it's i haven't seen it either he's and he
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would upgrade me for that just as he said hey dude you're watching the wrong kind of television
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when he when he he told the interviewer that this was something he should have seen what is that
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show about well it's about uh vigilantes whoo vigilantes that's something trudeau's not supposed
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to agree with. Vigilant, he's going after superheroes. So whether it's horror fiction,
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sci-fi, or superheroes, Justin Trudeau seems to have the intellectual appetite of a 17-year-old.
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And perhaps that's why he doesn't spend a lot of time looking at policy. He complained about
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all of these briefing notes he has to deal with. He feels ground up by this because he has to
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deal with all this reality goodness god he could if he could just escape to this alternate universe
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and just watch sci-fi well you know there's hope for you mr mr prime minister there's hope
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it's called the next election and we can retire you anytime you want and in fact i'd be very
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surprised if you survive to run in that next election given the fact that your own caucus
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So that's where Trudeau is at the end of the year.
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Speaking his mind without the talking points in front of him,
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because he says things he won't say when he's scripted.
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because they're afraid he's going to go off message.
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And he goes off message when he's talking to extremely friendly journalists, forgetting his own words can get him hung up.
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And that's exactly what happened in this interview.
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vision and that's to accrete more power to gain more authoritarian power unto himself that is
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you all again a merry christmas and be back here next week when we continue to discuss what's going
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in advance for doing that so for auto exposed i'm david creighton i'm saying goodbye for now but
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please join me again next week for another installment of Ottawa Exposed. Thank you.