So, the ladies had questions. Like this one:
“Which nation, besides Canada, which nation’s administration do you most admire, and why?”
There were about 100 people in the crowd at swank downtown Toronto meeting place who’d paid $250 each to be able to ask Justin Trudeau questions and, as the ad said, to “really get to know the future prime minister.”
Ok, so other than Canada, which country’s government does Trudeau “most admire”?
While he was thinking about the answer, event host Amanda Alvaro jumped in to give him a bit of time with this one-liner. “Not the fluffy questions some were expecting.”
Much laughter and clapping.
Ok, then. Which country’s government does the “future prime minister” most admire?
Answer: “You know, there’s a level of of admiration I actually have for China ….
Wait a minute. China? He was not asked which country he liked a bit, or was doing a decent job — but “which nation’s administration he most admired.”
So here’s the whole answer:
” You know, there’s a level of of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green fastest…we need to start investing in solar.’ I mean there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he can do everything he wanted that I find quite interesting.
But if I were to reach out and say which…which kind of administration I most admire, I think there’s something to be said right here in Canada for the way our territories are run. Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and the Yukon are done without political parties around consensus. And are much more like a municipal government. And I think there’s a lot to be said for people pulling together to try and solve issues rather than to score points off of each other. And I think we need a little more of that.
But Sun News can now report that I prefer China.”
Much laughter ensued. Much laughter indeed.
The pictures on this page, incidentally, were taken this week in the country Justin Trudeau “most admires.” And if he likes what they do in the territories, when asked what nation’s administration he most admires, why not answer “Switzerland“?
UPDATE: On Twitter this morning, Trudeau had this to say:
.@DrRaymondMc I pointed out that globally Canada is up against big countries (China, for one) that can address some major issues quickly. 1
— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) November 8, 2013
.@DrRaymondMc It’s ridiculous for anyone to suggest that I of all people would trade our rights and freedoms for any other system of gvt. 2
— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) November 8, 2013
.@DrRaymondMc Some countries play by rules we wouldn’t and shouldn’t ever accept, but, we still have to compete with them. 3
— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) November 8, 2013
.@DrRaymondMc We need to get better at coming together to address big issues, and that’s what I asked people to think about last night. 4
— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) November 8, 2013
While NWT and Nunavut don’t have parties, Yukon definitely does. Stupid answer all around.
Thats why there are so many bicycles in China.
You don’t get to take the answer he gave, change it and then object to your own distortion … strawmen all around.
As for the territories he spelt out that he likes the non-partisan, consensus building attitude which prevails. Certainly not something to hold much argument against.
Amazing to what lengths some Canadians will go to in order to defend Justin Trudeau! Truly amazing!
So he gives China credit for fast development. He also called it a dictatorship and comparable to Harper. lol.. It was not a great answer, but this is hyperbole.
Hyperbole that apparently went right over some peoples heads
Just when you think you’ve heard the stupidest thing ever…JT say’s something else.
So what you’re saying is that the China dictatorship is built on concensus…sure try and not go along with this consensus and see what happens. And meanwhile Justin is such a consensus builder….I’m thinking if you put him in charge, you’ll find anything but consensus. He will pander to those with whom he owes his fiefdom, period. And what are his ideas anyway? …other than appointing the government to control the drug trade. Just a bunch of tired old cliches and vague hopey-changey crap.
The news programs have been telling half the answer Mr. Trudeau gave which is, to me,like telling a lie. Thank you for reporting the full answer he gave not just the “tongue in cheek” answer China.
Why not answer “Switzerland”? Because the guy doesn’t have a clue. Depressing that a guy so deeply out of his league is the darling of the low information crowd.
Well, a nice try, but “Switzerland” doesn’t actually answer the question that was asked. It was not “what country do you admire”, it asked specifically about “administration”. It’s actually a very complex question, but Switzerland would probably not be a good answer unless you really are a fan of having seven governors-general instead of one (the Swiss Federal Council system).
Depressing that a guy so deeply out of his league is the darling of the low information crowd.
Us low information crowd just don’t want Harper anymore.
Correction, Monsieur: Us low information crowd were told we don’t want Harper any more.
And after being told the same thing for the last 7 years by the same left-wing lickspittle media, it’s finally starting to sink in because, well, the Adscammers now have a gorgeous leader.
I could never get over Ignatieff’s unkempt eyebrows, Dion was too effeminate and Martin was too gross.
But Justin is just so right! Did I say he was dreamy? Sigh….
I couldn’t care less how he would govern. I just want to be in the same room with him. Sigh…..
Well, I’m going to be nitpicky: Yukon has partisan government.
I thought Cuba was the country his family most admired?
Yep, right on
No, he likes Cuba for it’s dictatorship, but China is bigger so there is way more dicatorship for him to like.
China has pandas. I like pandas.
Leave the guy alone he’s probably high.
Good point. Why is the media so fixated on Rob Ford? We also have a federal candidate taking drugs. JUNIOR SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY.
Thank you for the laugh Bob.
I AGREE WITH PARTY LEADER! A ONE PARTY STATE IS MOST DESIRABLE. WE MUST NOT LET REACTIONARIES INTERFERE WITH OUR GLORIOUS PLAN FOR THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC.
My God, his dream to be Canadian Prime Minister should shattered.
I agree, please Canadians wake up to the Liberals
“Liberal” yes, but also note the reference to the “green” movement. Trudeau is attempting to co-opt Agenda 21. Canada is a FREE COUNTRY and has no place for Marxists, “green” or otherwise.
As he continues to ride his fathers coat tails, on goes the sillyness.
Drama teacher – no executive experience, no management experience, no leadership experience, no policy except smoking marijuana, very little education, no requirement to ever work for a living – this guy should be having a tough time getting elected high school class president as the joke candidate, but he’s the figurehead of the LPC? Is this a joke?
You forgot Carbon Tax, no west coast oil shipment, yes to Keystone, and that only Quebecers should be in charge of the country.
By the way, you just described the senate
What a titanic dimbulb this guy seems to be.
He says likes non-partisan consensus in politics and turns around and instantly implicates PM Harper because somehow our PM would like a dictatorship better than anyone…. although it is Justin himself who stated that he admires China’s dictatorship abilities to “get things done rapidly” and I would add, without mere citizens even being involved.
Would want such messy ideas from citizens now would we eh?
I think Justin Trudeau doesn’t understands what he has said. That is scary!
No, it’s typical Progressive ideology. Vote for the “cool guy”. Everybody who has any sense knows how well voting for the cool guy has worked out in the U.S.
This is what bugs me most about people on the left – they get 100 chances to ‘explain’ what they meant and the MSM just let them off the hook. Anyone on the right gets exactly one chance to be precise and exact in what they mean, even if they are responding to something in a scrum or off the cuff.
And I don’t believe for one moment that JT didn’t know what questions he was going to be asked at this event – this was a LPC event – he didn’t just drop in to look and see what was going on – he was the main attraction!!!
Agreed. These things are almost entirely scripted, like callers to phone-in radio interviews.
[JT said]”…Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and the Yukon are done without political parties around consensus. And are much more like a municipal government…”
Municipal government’s might not explicitly operate on the party system, but they’re still heavily partisan. Mayors and councillors are almost invariably connected to the party system, and operate accordingly. At least at the provincial and federal level, you know what you’re getting upfront when it comes to partisanship. At the municipal level, it’s still there but you have to figure it out.
This from the same publication that heaps praise on Harper every time he makes a lop sided agreement which China … in China’s favour.
Pathetic.
Hate to blow your mind on this one Taebok:
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/07/pipelines-pandas-trump-democracy
Mind not blown, I do recall that article.
However I did say publication and you must admit, articles such as the one you wrote/linked are rare in the extreme in Sun Media.
Dear David, you are one of a few true journalists at QMI that doesn’t try to spin but it does seem that Harper is getting a free pass on his 180 on China. The Conservative Party has had some secret dealings with the Communist Party as well. Why isn’t this sort of thing front page news? It would appear a political party is doing the governments job without any oversight?
His Priorities are not my Priorities!
His priorities are that of an advanced pot head.
I agree with Justine Trudohh – well, at least 1%. I have visited China and the homes I visited used rooftop solar to provide hot water for bathing, thus reducing the use of fossil fuels. But for the 99% I disagree with him, I would say the following: I was told by the police not to sit on the grass in a park; told not to take pictures inside a shopping mall, was afraid for my life riding in taxis or even worse, trying to cross the road due to the lack of sanity in driving. There is always something to admire about another country / culture, but on the whole, there’s still a lot of problems related to bureaucracy and living under a dictatorship.
“… afraid for my life riding in taxis …” —– And that’s the fault of communism?
I’d say that’s the fault of bad driving.
Period.
Your trip must have been long ago. I went a year ago and travelled without any restriction and left with a couple thousand photos and video clips. Nobody ever said I couldn’t go or take pictures where I wished.
Just for the record the Harper regime has brought our nation as close to a dictatorship as we have ever been in our history. It is no accident that this government has earned the brand as the least accountable and most secretive in recorded Canadian history. For them to wag their fingers at anyone about dictatorships and democracy is the height of hubris. It is like listening to a serial killer lecture others on the sanctity of human life. What gall.
Nothing short of a bag of pure lies.
you should really be sent to a country like China and get a taste of what a dictatorship looks like. I suggest you wouldn’t last a day without crying for the government to pay your way back.
People like you are really an insult to this country and scary to say the least. We have never had a dictatorship in Canada and this government is no more secretive or less accountable then the Trudeau and Chretien era. But I suggest you are either too young or uninformed to realize it.
(I am not sure what is meant in “website”).I DO know J.P. has NOT lived under a dictatorship! I have visited one and my relatives have lived under and some have fled from dictatorships in Latin America!J. Jacklin
what record…any examples?
The issues are addresssed by having a leader that comes up with the plan to lead to the intended goal. The other method of basically muddle through and ask for a show of hands, once to see where to go and again to come up with the plan. Seems the liberal plan is still one of finding out whats fashionable, throw together some sound bites, and then hope everything works out (like Green shift). Thats not leadership, even Chretch knew you had to have a plan, even if you had no intention on fufilling it (kill da gee hest tee).
Harper has a plan, even if some dissagree, its out there for debate. Justin says he won’t release his policy because he presumes the CPC will attack it. Well guess what, thats called substantive debate. If you can’t compete on the field of ideas time to leave the field of battle for somebody else.
Harper has nothing but big oils plan. And none of you can read, can you.This was a tongue in cheek answer, that you all took seriously.What a bunch of CRAP (Conservative Reform Alliance Party) morons.
like father like son
Au contraire – Justin couldnt hold a candle to his daddy PET.
Actually did not answer questions – was able to make light of question, take a shot at the PM and place the ethics of the Sun in a poor light, all to the regale of the sycophants in the room. Good thing he’s not going to get in the mud with the other politicians…
I’m not sure I would directly equate “which nation’s administration” (original question) with “which nation’s government” (your text), the way that you do above. While the word “administration” has as one definition something akin to “government”, as in “the Obama administration”, it can also refer to a style of, well, “administering” … akin to how Trudeau answers about the northern territories. He’s not talking about the administration of Bob McLeod, he’s talking about the way the government itself gets things done.
Proving once again, that if a headline has a question mark in it, the answer is almost invariably no.
Wow……. why does he have to choose a communist dictatorship for an administration to admire? Better to know now than after he’s prime minister….as if (lol).
Like father, like son. The communist apple falls close to the tree.
Justin Trudeau is just another “champagne socialist”; a “beluga caviar Bolshevik”, if you will.
Was he by any chance hanging out with Rob Ford earlier on in the day.
This was the best answer JT could give to a pre-scripted question? It’s a good thing he lets Mulcair do the heavy lifting in QP.
So China has basically slave labour, brutal working conditions, and makes cheap, crappy, unsafe ( and often dangerous) products- and this is something to aspire for ?? WTH ???
But they make a great General Tao chicken!
Trudeau Jr might take a look at this:
“Dragon Finally to Curb Human Organ Appetite?”
http://cdfai3ds.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/mark-collins-dragon-finally-to-curb-human-organ-appetite/
Mark
Ottawa
Oh Christ! not another one these jacka$$es. Can you just imagine him as our Prime Minister???? We have so little choices now. You either vote for Stephen Harper again (which I will) cuz the only other choices are Trudeau or Mulcair. BRILLIANT !!!! To vote for Trudeau you vote for slave labour, suppress women, lousy working conditions and probably agrees with the smog too! A vote for Mulcair, well that just doesn’t make sense either for obvious reasons.
Trudeau Jr. reveals himself as a potty-mouthed pretty boy with a 20-watt brain. Obviously Senate material.
Their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green”
Does this clown have any idea that China is still building coal fired generators at an alarming rate and they already contribute about 24% of the human made CO2. While Canada produces 1.8% and the oilsands a small fraction of that. But he loves China and runs down the oilsands every chance he gets, especially when in Quebec. But he apparently loves dictorships, slave labour and other human rights violations. You have to take the whole package, Justin. Once again his brain fails him.
Interesting that the one thing he admires most about China is that it is a dictatorship, yet he opposed our current leader (who won a majority in a democracy).
And the one thing he admires about the territories is that they don’t have a party system (which is incorrect), but chooses to run as the leader of a party.
Seems that PET Jr. simply wants to be installed as dictator of Canada – unopposed. Those commercials about representing the middle class….
Hypocrisy much?
Why is it that he (Justin Trudeau) answers questions in such an ambiguous manner. I think it is because he does not have any idea of what he is talking about and, of course, has no policy to set out.
When one considers the ‘left-center-right’ spectrum of politics, and looks at it like numbers of a clock face, 12 being center, it’s not surprising to see circular answers that spin around the clock-face as a very weak attempt to confuse everyone, but get kudos for a bunch of words spoken that mean nothing. I bet JT will get a Nobel Peace Prize very early on for zero reason, much like Obama did. And look how that turned out.
WOW! This guy has no brains at all! Why would anyone put their hope on him? China of all places!
Justin is as dangerous to Canada as Dalton has been to Ontario. I firmly believe that electing Justin will destroy Canada. And this is not an anti-liberal comment. I don’t care what party he represents. The man is dangerous.
If I were a Conservative Party member or on the executive, I’d be wanting to cancel any contracts in the works for ads critical of Justin Trudeau. This man is defining himself as non-PM material all on his own. Trudeau’s ad campaign oozing with arrogance and smugness will only help. His ongoing history of coming off as true airhead whenever someone puts a mike in his face and roles a camera is becoming even more remarkable.
Two apparent priorities for Trudeau so far as Liberal leader….legalizing pot and his admiration for a dictatorship like China. What could possibly be next? We wait with bated breath.
Trudeau with training wheels falling off his bike right before
our eyes. So sad this is all we have as an alternative in a once proud Liberal party.
Justin says: “It’s ridiculous for anyone to suggest that I of all people would trade our rights and freedoms for any other system of gvt. 2” – but he resents Alberta for it’s wealth and control of the Country’s economy and Senate and can’t wait to gang up on us to regain control.
Paying to engage with your MP aside, is there zero – absolutely zero – merit to his statement about China? There is absolutely NOTHING that the Chinese government is doing that’s good? I’m not saying it’s a good government, not by a long stretch, but this article would have you believe that you aren’t even allowed to enter China into the discussion.
Also, Shanghai’s pollution has to do with Trudeau’s admiration for China about as much as Canada’s tar sands on his admiration for Canada.
Sharp as the edge of town….
Bad weed day!!
Well for the employment that I do that gives me the ability to earn a very high wage and pay very high taxes I have to do mandatory drug screening. I think its time for this to take place in parliament with the same consequences (a positive result for drugs and you don’t get hired or test positive on the job and your fired) please smoke anther joint Justin or smoke another joint Wing nut
I did come from USSR, and very familiar with impact on Human behavior by dictatorship. All it does is create fear and depression in people. Aftershocks i can see inability to accept principles of Democracy we love and share.
Don’t giggle Mr. Xi Jinping.
On one of Pierre’s suck-up visits to Peking in the early 70’s, Chairman Mao might have promised Comrade Trudeau a plum senior job for his offspring in the People’s Republic. You might have some more purging to do yet.
I cannot believe Justin would say that. There is no way that he could believe how I:stupid he sounds:
Some journalists, like Martin Patriquin on the CBC’s Power & Politics, are trying to provide cover for Trudeau, insisting the answer was meant as a joke to poke fun at PM Harper. Their devotion to their “chouchou” is truly endearing. Ah! Bromances are breaking out all over.
I was so disappointed in his answer as well G in QC. This does not look like he was joking to me, although he did try and make it lighthearted and tried to inject an anti Harperism.
Nothing Trudeau ever says is clear as he does not seem to be able to articulate a single thought.
Further proof that this ‘Canadian Idol’ winner is unfit to lead Canada. This guy is so clueless about economics and the world we’re competing with, and even China….a country with horrific environmental and human rights issues. If Canadians ever elect him, the other G8 and G20 nations will eat this country alive!!!
The more I hear this man speak the more he reminds me of Sarah Palin. Thats it. Justin Trudeau is Sarah Palin North.
Lest We Forget! Justin Trudeau’s father was educated at the London School of Economics (communist leanings) and spent at least part of WWII in China hanging out with Shang Ki Shek (sic), who was communist, but the lesser of two evils, as far as the Allies were concerned, over Mao Se Tung(sic).
Justin Trudeau, “Changing the world, a little bit every day… Changer le monde, un petit peu à chaque jour…” Admires China’s ability to turn on a dime. What’s it gonna be Justin, you can’t have both.
Trudeau was making a back handed swipe at Harper with the China dictator stuff. Shouldn’t have been that hard to get it….
I am amazed how naive people are concerning the brutal Chinese Communist Party. The CCP has murdered eighty million of its own people since 1949 and since 1999 has been attempting the genocide of the tens of millions of innocent Falun Gong practitioners by the use of torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder. The CCP is a blood-thirsty gangster regime but people living in the West as well as most Chinese are being kept in the dark concerning its true nature because of greed and the total control of the Chinese media by the CCP. The Chinese Communist Party is not something that should be shown any respect whatsoever, only disgust and fear.
I’m amazed you think people are unaware of the brutality of China’s Communist Party. Doesn’t change the fact that it is easy for China to turn on a dime.
Exactly ! It is one of the worst regime of the world. (China).
It is not very far in the level of communist machinery than North Korea. The democraty and individual liberty are so low on those countries … But Justin T. seems to like that.
It was good to read all the comments and come across only one particular “air head” comment for the “air head” JT. I am confident that every time JT has media coverage he shows his true colours and only digs his hole deeper. I am in disbelief that his party chose him and continue to support him. I trust that the majority of this wonderful country knows that JT doesn’t have a chance at the PM’s job. Harper is the best this country has ever had, in the last 50 years anyway.
You have got to be joking – Harper the best? Have you actually been paying attention to his behind closed door deals? At least Justin Trudeau’s father had real passion for this country – and everyone felt that, a commitment. Harper – well, there is no feeling coming across from him at all. And certainly no action arising out of true feeling for this country’s well being: Harper will go down as the blandest of leaders, and not one that has proven trustworthy.
Marcella, you must be getting your information from the CBC, right?
His father had a passion for part of this country and antipathy bordering on hatred for other regions.
JT is out of touch with Canadians and is the same elite, aloof snob his father was.
You don’t have the foggiest idea what you are saying! This is the first time in the history of this country that we have a leader who stands his grounds and keeps morality in check unlike any other typical country on this earth where socialism,communism and dictatorship take away your freedoms and rights and create fear and persecutions. I think you should strongly consider moving to a country that supports your foolish ideals maybe only than you will appreciate Stephan Harper and his leadership.
I agree with you 100%. Our country is stronger than it has ever been because of his leadership. Listen to his presentation at the Conservative Convention in Calgary to get an idea of his accomplishments as our Prime Minister.
For anyone to consider either of the other two leaders would be selling our natiion short.
Sure is easy to change on a dime when you just imprison or execute any dissenters! Shiny pony is clueless.
Once again, the far-right Sun Media trying to deflect attention to the massive scandals that are plaguing their favorite party over the past several years
So, all you are doing is deflecting the topic while trudeau tries to get his rubber boot out of his mouth.
Perhaps if you took the stigma and tissues out of the perspective. You might grow to appreciate the difference between scandals and Large “L” spin.
The same spin that made the word Liberal into a socialist following.
Liberals are the third Party because the NDP has more experience marketing a Chinese styled Governance. Keep practicing and follow their lead and you will learn.
I can`t believe people paid $250. to hear him speak, He is even dumber than his father. He knows nothing of how this world works, if he can admire China’s leadership. Why? Does he hope he will get elected next election & take over after Mr. Harper has virtually made Canada a dictatorship for him to step into. The saddest part of this scenario is that he was chosen by all the Liberals to represent their party. Again, Why. Has Canada no one with any common sense and ethics left, that we are left with virtually no choice at all, just the lest objectionable of the people running for office. Sad days ahead for all of us.
Trudeau did not answer “Switzerland” because Switzerland is a democracy, and Justin Trudeau apparently admires dictatorships.
Again, as usual Justin Trudeau makes an excellent point about a Country that is doing what he said and trying to take a jab at Harper and of course the Sun media take everything out of context.
Nothing new there, except if it was Harper they would dig deep to find some semblance of sanity to his words (Lies) whatever. Keep talking Justin, some of us actually listen and listen in the right way. Keep up the great work.
Attempts to claim the CBC is A-political is only blindness to the issue by entitled political leanings. If I want to know the Liberal position on any policy or controversy the group think, is expressed on the CBC across a gambit of CBC productions whose only intention is that very promotion, Commentators speak in terms of good or bad results, within a single party mindset that dictates anything expressed within a Conservative opinion, is always a bad thing for everyone and a Liberal action is always blessed by the saints. What I find absolutely outrageous is in the definition of the word “Liberal”. Can anyone of the promoters at the CBC demonstrate how those values are exhibited today at the CBC or within their favored party? Justin was dragged up on the mat this week, cheering for a Government system as efficiently run as the one in China. Justin’s claims in his defense, the liberal party supports “rights and freedoms” which is really rich because it is likely the first mention of individual rights, made by a prominent Liberal member in twenty years. Smoking bans destroy all credibility to that claim. Martin went on a signing binge at the UN.After making no reference to socialism during the run up to the election; Stating Canadians had voted for social justice. Socialism, is all that’s supported by the Liberal executive. It is no surprise the liberals find themselves as the third party today. With the CBC still cheering the dead horse.
I can already hear JT saying “Peoples republic of Canada”
What an incredible fool he is!
I wouldn’t disagree that JT is a terrible off-the-cuff speaker, but if you read what he said, clearly, he admires the speed and response time of governments that don’t have to cajole and persuade to get issues taken care of in a timely manner.
His father was an admirer of China, so I wouldn’t expect JT to have the same knee-jerk phobia of China that so many Canadians seem to have.
China is on pace to overtake the US as the world’s greatest power and their are quietly making headway to supplant the USD as the world’s reserve currency. They are a reality that Canada, and its PM, are going to need to face up to sooner rather than later.
JT stumbles a bit to make himself understood but at least he isn’t all about keeping Canadians in the dark like Harper.
David Akin asks:
“And if he likes what they do in the territories, when asked what nation’s administration he most admires, why not answer “Switzerland“?”
The probable truth is that Trudeau.2 doesn’t know about the politics of Switzerland.
Don’t forget, this is not a well educated person. His professional skills qualified him for teaching Drama to high school students, so don’t expect him to know a lot about how the world works, or even about history.
Trudeau.2 admires communist China, but does he remember the slaughter that this “basic dictatorship” inflicted on its own people on June 3-4, 1989?
A snippet from the history of the ‘basic dictatorship’ that Trudeau.2 admires:
“The crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the June 4 Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted thousands of casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance on Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
Trudeau.2 is uneducated and naive. He must also be narcissistic to think he’s qualified to be the Prime Minister of Canada.
He might make a good drama teacher and even a mediocre MP, but that’s about it.