Western Standard - September 26, 2023


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3 minutes

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141.1

Word count

520

Sentence count

33

Harmful content

Hate speech

3

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Summary

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Learn English with Stephen Harper. Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes for his comments about a visiting Ukrainian-Canadian dignitaries. He says he's not responsible for our diplomatic reputation, even though that's the job of the Prime Minister, and now he says he s not responsible to vet the very people that come in contact with a visiting head of state.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I wish to apologize to the House, and I am deeply sorry that I have offended many with my gestures and remarks.
00:00:07.920 We have here in the chamber today Ukrainian-Canadians, Ukrainian-Canadian world veteran from the Second World War
00:00:15.880 who fought the Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today, even at his age of 98.
00:00:30.000 I would also like to add that this initiative was entirely my own.
00:00:47.360 The individual in question being from my writing and having been brought to my attention,
00:00:52.100 no one, including you, my fellow parliamentarians, or the Ukraine delegation, was privy to my remarks prior to their delivery.
00:01:02.980 It was the honorable thing to do. It was the right thing to do.
00:01:06.440 After a moment in our history on Friday, it was deeply embarrassing, deeply shameful for Canadians,
00:01:13.500 and that has hurt all of us as parliamentarians and Canadians.
00:01:16.300 The minister who is now whispering was louder when she also painted Canadians as Nazis,
00:01:22.000 and she can't bring herself to apologize for an actual Nazi this government vetted.
00:01:28.280 Worse even, she tried to strike it from the historical record of this House as if it never happened.
00:01:35.420 A descendant of Holocaust survivors distorting the Holocaust. 0.59
00:01:39.920 You should be ashamed of yourself.
00:01:41.260 Shame on him for bringing shame on this chamber.
00:01:45.320 Will the prime minister finally take responsibility, do the right thing, and apologize?
00:01:50.080 And now our nation's reputation is in tatters.
00:01:54.580 Will he stand up and apologize to Canadians, to the Jewish community, to the Ukrainian people,
00:01:59.960 and to the entire world for this mess that he helped create?
00:02:02.740 No one in this chamber knew ahead of time of who he was.
00:02:08.500 The speaker has taken full responsibility for this.
00:02:12.060 He has resigned. It was the right thing to do.
00:02:14.640 The minister says he's not responsible for our diplomatic reputation,
00:02:20.700 even though that is precisely the job of the head of government.
00:02:23.660 Like when he says he's not responsible for the inflationary spending
00:02:28.120 that led prices and interest rates to rise faster than at any time in history.
00:02:31.700 He's not responsible for housing costs doubling after he promised to lower them.
00:02:36.000 He's not responsible for dressing up in racist costumes so many times he can't remember.
00:02:41.080 That's all Canadians that needed to learn a lesson from his personal conduct. 0.94
00:02:45.540 And now he says he's not responsible to vet the very people that come into contact with a visiting head of state.
00:02:53.880 Is it that he's not responsible or that he's irresponsible?
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