Today is January 31st 2022
Trudeau has covid
Tomorrow is Black history month
This pas weekend the Truckers have Properly messed up the protestor pack highways
Covid is still killing 10 of people everyday here in Canada.
Its been 616 days since George Floyds dead I and Trudeau were both 48
"The awareness of the issues around race and policing in this country, as well as in the United States. And as you heard from the minister, the prime minister is set to address some of those issues in his remarks today."
"Unknown","00;13;49;07","00;14;06;26","Maybe I'll bring in because I didn't get your perspective on that. I know you were hosting on Friday, and he did talk about it a little bit, but the situation has even changed since Friday. Certainly not to the level that it is right now, or at least we were not witnessing exactly what we did witness over"
"Unknown","00;14;06;26","00;14;22;02","the weekend and at the end of of the press conference unprompted, the prime minister talked about a lot of what you just heard, Minister Hussein outline, and primarily that while we are watching this unfold south of the border, it is not an issue that is relegated only to the south of the border that in fact, it is very"
"Unknown","00;14;22;02","00;14;35;01","present and very real for so many people in this country. And it is something that needs to be discussed and discussed more and with more frequency. I anticipate that we will hear something similar from the prime minister today."
"Unknown","00;14;35;29","00;14;51;18","I'm not sure in the way of specifics, but I thought all your questions were, you know, it was very interesting to hear it from Minister Hussain's perspective, and I can only imagine Minister Jagmeet Singh, who's also the leader of the NDP, addressed it earlier today, talked about his own lived experience and as well."
"Unknown","00;14;51;21","00;15;05;25","I think the main issue that I walk away from listening to both of them is, you know, as much as possible, we're all the time. Actually, we should not be dismissing the idea that it is very present here just because we are not watching that video at this juncture."
"Unknown","00;15;05;25","00;15;20;25","Take place here in Canada doesn't mean that it isn't the reality that so many people in this country face day in and day out. And you're right to point out that example in Toronto, where the family of that young woman is concerned about what happened to her and if race was a motivating factor, they don't have any"
"Unknown","00;15;20;25","00;15;34;24","conclusions about. Those questions at this point are very much being raised in. This happened just in the middle of last week in Toronto. So certainly I walk away thinking to myself a lot about the presence of that issue right now for so many people in this country."
"Unknown","00;15;34;24","00;15;55;07","And that is what we are hearing, echoed by politicians very frequently at this point as well. Yeah. And certainly, we've talked about over the course of the past couple of months now how issues are often exacerbated during the pandemic and problems that were that existed and we all maybe were aware of have been laid bare in a"
"Unknown","00;15;55;07","00;16;15;29","different way. And I I only make that point because in the case of George Floyd, he had been laid off because of the pandemic at a restaurant. So these stories are intertwined and people are feeling frustrated. Jagmeet Singh, one of the things that he brought up this morning was a need for more data around race when"
"Unknown","00;16;15;29","00;16;28;21","it comes to the pandemic. That's something that we are not collecting systematically in this country, so we don't have a really good picture of how it is affecting minority populations or black populations in this country in a different way."
