Justin Trudeau Gets PISSED At Pipeline Protestors (VIDEO)

In this Majority Report clip, we watch Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have a fit after Pipeline Protestor spoil his party.

---Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke over jeers of “shame” Friday at a rowdy town hall meeting in Nanaimo, where he spent a large part of the two-hour gathering defending his government’s decision to support the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline through B.C.

Trudeau said the pipeline is a key component of the federal government’s approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which means Ottawa had to get a national agreement on carbon pricing that will allow Canada to meet its international commitments on climate change.---

[camyoung]

Not a Trudeau loyalist but to be fair he has given many protesters the ability to speak during his tour offering the mic to each one but there's a point where dialogue turns to noise and becomes unproductive and pointless. It was also 30 mins of relentless shouting before they were finally kicked out.

Plus he's left of yeah.

[somalikanye]

He's been patient with many hecklers but everyone has their limit

[saladdodger]

There is a point where you should just should up and let him speak and then boo after he said it. Hearing somebody continue to shout whilst he's half way through his sentences gets pretty annoying.

[osiranrebel]

You have to watch the whole thing. He was actually quite patient with the situation. Yes he is a bit disappointing. But he most definitely is a humanitarian.

[christhornycroft]

I supported Justin in November 2015, and even though he's still vastly better than anything our Conservatives can offer, he's been a total letdown on MANY issues. His strengths are diplomacy and for the most part compassion. After that, I have my issues with him and his neoliberalism.

[ryans]

Wow... You Canadians really can't take it when people aren't polite

[jayray]

... temper tantrum..? Seriously? I hate Trudeau but I thought he handled that perfectly.

[dabblerdeluxe]

Hecklers can set anyone off.sometimes that needs to happen to get the human behind politicians

[Vaderoid]

"Nanny amo" Haha! Matt pronounced Nanaimo correctly.

[JosephJamesScott]

I'm a Canadian and not a Trudeau supporter, but there's two things you should know to add some context: One, Trudeau's father had his power base in Quebec and Ontario, western Canada hated him, and so when Justin was running for office western Canada wasn't having the same fond memories of his father that other parts of Canada were, and two, Justin worked as a teacher for a time and that video has to be the most substitute teacher moment ever.

[oddysysorry]

British Columbian here. What some might not understand who aren't Canadian, is us over here on the west coast have never really had the choice of pipelines. Sure, before it as wasn't a big as it was. But now the oil companies want to twin the pipieline - Kinder Morgan - by that I mean double the size and amount of oil pumped through as well as build a separate pipeline through our vast mountainous region, without the response to cleanup, on the land or at sea. They pay off the certain indigenous tribes they need too, and now the Alberta NDP government which is suppose to be a leftist leaning one, sounds like the exact fucking bullshit spewing from the 40 + years preceding by the utterly vast and powerful conservatives that ran the province before they were defeated two years ago. B.C. is in a coalition minority government run by the BCNDP and Green Party. Now Alberta is threatening to not buy power from us as a tactic and this is a time where if the BCNDP capitulate to the oil lobby fucks, it will threaten the government and this was a singular issue that formed the coalition with the greens and they will call for a non-confidence vote and a snap election, and then the goaddamn Liberals with probably win in that election, and Liberals in this country are basically small C Conservatives.

Apologies for this rambling diatribe -- But our politics aren't that boring now are they!

[Roof_Pizza]

Wait, the pipeline is gonna go thru Nanaimo? lol.

[blackbruno]

I wonder when Justin Trudeau is going to pick a gender.

[gussiejives]

Okay, I feel like I gotta step up for my PM. Because it's one thing when Canadians dunk on him for not following through on certain promises, but it's another when Americans think they can just apply their own brand of progressive politics to a completely different system.


With that on the table, let's consider the things he's done:

1. With electoral reform, yes, he reversed himself. But let's be honest, how many of you folks have actually sat down and reviewed the implications of PR? I mean really reviewed the nations where it's implemented and considered the ramifications of coalition governments? If it's compromising principles that really bothers you, then PR is not the system you want. Just watch the series Borgen for a crash-course in how coalition governments operate.

Frankly, whatever issues there are with first-past-the-post, it's better to address them piecemeal. Why take an axe to the electoral system when an a scalpel might make all the difference? Mandatory voting. Run-offs on close elections. Our Westminster parliamentary system means we don't have the Electoral College bullshit putting douchebags into power. Harper's terms in office were delivered by less than 40% of the popular vote. More people oppose the Cons than actually like them. Get everyone voting and take out the spoilers and things will get better.

2. On pipelines, Trudeau was painted into a corner long before he ever even took a seat in Parliament. Michael said it himself, Canada is a petro-state. The Harper Tories spent a decade tying our economy even closer to fossil fuels than it already was. He can't simply nix all potential pipelines; our already precarious dollar would crater, our economy would crash and the NDP (left-wing) government of Rachel Notley in Alberta would be toast. Trudeau nixed one of the pipeline proposals in 2016 and approved two others, but if there's pressure to be put on him, it would be to separate our economy from oil with more urgency and work with Notley to find Alberta another sector, because it's doing that province no favours. Environmental groups should do what they can to block them, but don't act like this is Trudeau betraying anybody, because he was up front about his pipeline stance back in 2015.


I like Jagmeet Singh, but I'm still not convinced he's ready for prime time, based on the last set of by-election results. Trudeau has betrayed some ineffectiveness, but he's actually having a much broader effect on the Canadian culture than a lot of cynics would care to admit. He's changing conversations when the previous government had nothing but contempt for the needs of Canadians.

[euanreid]

You guys do know that ALL Canadian oil is sold at a 30% discount because it's all sent to one plant in the states... we lose 1.4 billion a month because of that... keystone would allow it to be sold in other markets.

[VOC]

Thanks for covering this. Trudeau is a joke.

[vargonian]

It's funny to see the reaction to Trudeau from the other side of the horseshoe.

[PokettoManStar]

Nan-I-Am-O, is that near Miss-is-suaga

[misterdemocracy]

I wish people were informed enough to not clap for this neoliberal and to join the protesters in their condemnation of pipelines over renewables or whatever concern they were voicing at the time.

[DoloresFlores]

He was a school teacher before being Prime Minister, and it really shows (he's even less qualified than Trump)