Western Standard - November 16, 2022


Somebody take away Trudeau’s passport!


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

180.40689

Word count

736

Sentence count

57

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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Justin Trudeau's awkward response to a reporter's question about China's treatment of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region of Xinjiang Province of China was so awkward, it was almost physically painful to watch it. The Prime Minister just can t seem to overcome his compulsion to embarrass us whenever he's overseas.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The Prime Minister just can't seem to overcome his compulsion to embarrass us whenever he's overseas.
00:00:06.140 If he isn't pulling bizarre attention-seeking stunts, he still embarrasses us at international summits
00:00:11.140 as we're always treated to footage of international leaders ignoring or even purposely snubbing him at meetings.
00:00:16.560 They don't take him seriously, and they make it clear they haven't time to indulge him when they're having important conversations.
00:00:23.120 Trudeau's latest stunt, though, wasn't due to his trying to grab attention,
00:00:25.580 nor was it another video of his standing on the outside looking in during a gathering.
00:00:29.720 This time, Trudeau managed to put his full intellect on display when he was asked a question he wasn't ready for when he did a presser in Cambodia.
00:00:37.500 CTV reporter Anne Bergeron-Oliver asked him,
00:00:40.600 The Canadian Parliament has already called China's treatment of the Uyghurs a genocide. Why haven't you?
00:00:45.980 Straightforward question. Trudeau's response was so awkward, it was almost physically painful to watch him.
00:00:51.900 His eyes widened in sudden terror as he knew he'd been caught flat-footed.
00:00:55.560 He looked down in a panic as his notes was surely praying that somebody had written some talking points for him.
00:01:01.200 Then he looked back towards the camera with a true deer-in-the-headlights look.
00:01:04.920 The pause, I mean, it seemed like an eternity, and one could almost hear the little hamsters on wheels in his head,
00:01:09.480 desperately trying to compose an answer for him.
00:01:12.420 Finally, Trudeau uttered an odd, disjointed word salad as he babbled about defining genocide and left the question unanswered.
00:01:20.140 Trudeau is utterly incapable of thinking on his feet. He clearly has been directed to not ad-lib,
00:01:26.340 and in this case he was probably wise that he didn't try to wing it with an answer.
00:01:30.460 But the leader of a country really should be able to answer questions without scripted answers, though.
00:01:34.900 The other troubling thing with Trudeau's non-response was the clear terror of saying anything negative about China.
00:01:40.120 The world has condemned the Chinese acts of genocide against the Uyghurs.
00:01:44.840 The Canadian Parliament demonstrated rare unity when they voted 266-0 to declare a genocide.
00:01:51.960 Look at that blank stare on him there. That's because he was playing a clip from it.
00:01:55.260 Missing from the vote, though, was Trudeau and his cabinet.
00:01:57.140 They chose to hide.
00:01:58.700 Just how deeply controlled is Justin Trudeau by China?
00:02:01.340 I mean, we've recently been getting word that China had been potentially funding candidates in the 2019 federal election,
00:02:06.720 and Trudeau's been sitting on that, actually.
00:02:08.260 I wonder which party those candidates were with.
00:02:11.300 The Chinese hold over Trudeau runs deeper than just some campaign funding, though.
00:02:14.700 China's a rogue state, bullying the world, yet Trudeau will avoid being critical of them at all opportunities. 0.99
00:02:20.300 When the leader of a nation is a fool, it means somebody's behind them pulling the strings.
00:02:24.440 And unfortunately, our national fool doesn't even appear to be answering to a domestic master.
00:02:28.940 He dances to the tune of China, much to the embarrassment and detriment of Canada. 0.82
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