The CBC has some advice for your family vacation, and their advice is don t. I mean, come on, think about the CO2 emissions. They don t have that advice for Justin Trudeau and his jet setting, though. I ll give you the details.
00:01:22.500Hey, did you hear about that $20 million party that Google threw for the world's rich and famous
00:01:28.120the other day in Sicily? All the fancy people were there. Katy Perry, the singer, Leonardo DiCaprio.
00:01:35.440So the world's deepest thinkers, really. It's practically the same guest list from the Nobel
00:01:39.940Prize for Physics Reception. They say that Prince Harry gave a speech there in bare feet. So you
00:01:47.340know he must have meant it because bare feet is how you show you care about global warming,
00:01:52.120even if, you know, you and your family are multiple homes and your American wife is a full-tilt
00:01:59.260jet setter. You know, all the palaces. I know that Rex Murphy did a great column about this in the
00:02:05.180National Post a little while back, and the British tabloids naturally love it. They love stories
00:02:09.300about the royal family, the most privileged family in the country, pretending to be woke like Prince
00:02:13.880Harry and his bride. But here's Forbes magazine. They love to track how the billionaires live. They
00:02:20.420covered this Sicily get-together, too. Just scroll through this. Just look at this. Here's billionaire
00:02:25.240David Geffen posing above his yacht. People, look, they might look like they're living enough, but don't
00:02:32.280be deceived. That's what it looks like, saving the world from overconsumption, from using too much
00:02:38.540fossil fuels, too many emissions. What comedy. But I couldn't find anything about this huge,
00:02:43.340huge event on the CBC. I wonder why. Not a peep. Maybe because to criticize that big Google party
00:02:51.780in Sicily about global warming would mean they wouldn't be invited to it. I wonder if they were
00:02:56.780invited. The CBC's David Suzuki, he loves jet setting. He's probably not going to criticize richer and
00:03:03.620famous or celebrities for doing the same thing. Let me know if you can find anything about it on the
00:03:07.920CBC. I spent a fair bit of time searching for it, and I couldn't. That's odd. But then again,
00:03:14.140the CBC would be setting a precedent to report on that kind of bad behavior. Maybe they'd have to
00:03:18.380report on the lavish luxury lifestyle shown at all the global warming conferences, including at the
00:03:23.840United Nations. Best not to open that Pandora's box, especially since Justin Trudeau and his jet setting
00:03:29.780global warming minister, Catherine McKenna, are amongst the most profligate. You'll remember
00:03:34.320McKenna actually hired a fashion photographer in Paris to snap pictures of her at a global warming
00:03:41.400conference there. She spent $6,000 of your money getting fashion photos. Trudeau literally brought the
00:03:48.860biggest delegation in the world to that same conference. Hundreds of grifters and scammers
00:03:54.980and lobbyists. At least Google in Sicily was spending its own money. Trudeau spent your money.
00:04:00.760Yeah, you can see why the CBC state broadcaster didn't report on that. So the CBC won't hold
00:04:05.280the rich and powerful to account for Google, you know, the billionaire tycoons, or for politicians
00:04:11.100living like billionaire tycoons, who will the CBC hold accountable? Well, you, of course, the government
00:04:19.240broadcaster isn't very good at holding the government to account on behalf of the people, but
00:04:23.140maybe you can hold the people accountable on behalf of the government. And so they are.
00:04:28.960If you thought it through and you can't give up a particular trip, there are things you can still
00:04:35.380do to minimize the impact of your air travel on the environment. That's the state broadcaster.
00:04:42.460Who's the you there? If you've thought it through, who are they talking to?
00:04:46.120Who are they talking to? They're talking to you. They're not talking to Justin Trudeau or
00:04:51.940Catherine McKenna or the Google tycoons. The CBC state broadcaster can't hold the Canadian
00:04:57.700government to account. They work for the Canadian government. They won't hold David Suzuki to
00:05:02.280account or the billionaires at Google. So instead of holding the rich and powerful to account or even
00:05:07.020just hypocritical politicians, it's you they're scolding. The government broadcaster will tell
00:05:12.260you how to live. They'll make sure you're good enough for your rulers. They'll hold you to
00:05:18.080account on behalf of your rulers. It used to be the reverse, but these days, really, are there even
00:05:22.800any journalists left in Canada who aren't paid in one way or another by the government? Now that the
00:05:29.140$600 million newspaper bailout is going through, we don't take a dime. Of course, we never will,
00:05:34.460which is one reason they hate us in the government. Catherine McKenna, the global warming minister,
00:05:39.320is probably the worst in the whole cabinet. I think she probably travels even more than the
00:05:44.240foreign minister. She took a private jet the other day all the way up to the Arctic just to put out a
00:05:48.280press release. You can do that from your office, sister. But how else can she tweet a picture of
00:05:54.140herself fishing in the Beaufort Sea or whoever that was, the Arctic Ocean somewhere? Well, you know,
00:06:00.500she has 24 staff who work on her social media. I'm not kidding when I say 24. Maybe one of them
00:06:05.680could have given her some little tips like, you know, fishing in high heels isn't the wisest.
00:06:12.020But then again, it doesn't look like there's any fishing line in the rod. It doesn't seem to be.
00:06:18.640So I guess there's no risk of slipping in your high heels when you hook a big one
00:06:22.080if there ain't no fishing wire in there. So what is the CBC's accountability journalism up to now?
00:06:28.480Justin Trudeau flew from Ottawa to Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island and then back to
00:06:35.080Ottawa and then back to Tofino and then back to Ottawa and then back to Tofino again and again
00:06:39.340all summer. Not a peep from anyone in the media party about either the environment or the financial
00:06:43.880cost. Here's Bob Mackin, one of the few independent journalists in this country. He's out there in BC.
00:06:48.980He tried his best and Trudeau's answer was awful. And Mackin had a supplemental. Here, watch,
00:06:54.340watch this exchange and maybe think, why didn't this very interesting exchange make it to CBC?
00:07:02.300Hi, Prime Minister. Bob Mackin of Breaker.News. This is your fifth trip to British Columbia since
00:07:08.080May 22nd. You've got a Cash for Access fundraiser tonight. You had two on May 22nd. You had one last
00:07:13.860week in Victoria. You've been flying out at great frequency. I know there's an election approaching,
00:07:18.420but by calculations of experts, it's more than 10,000 litres of fuel, jet fuel, to go back and
00:07:25.980forth between Vancouver and Ottawa and about 20 tonnes of CO2. And you're also spending hundreds of
00:07:31.440thousands of dollars, which would be for Canadians to find out, especially with access to information
00:07:36.720and that system that you actually haven't improved as you probably would in 2015. Why isn't the Liberal
00:07:41.980Party of Canada paying the entire bill of your trip so to British Columbia at this time?
00:07:47.480First of all, we were pleased to transform our electoral fundraising system at the federal level
00:07:53.640to demonstrate a greater degree of transparency and openness than ever in the past. And we've
00:07:59.620continued to encourage the Conservative Party and the NDP to follow the new rules put down,
00:08:05.800including proactively inviting the media to come attend our public fundraisers that are held
00:08:11.540in public locations. These are things that we've made so that Canadians can continue to have
00:08:17.880confidence in the electoral financing. Secondly, as you know, as Canadians know, BC is a second home
00:08:25.660to me. This is a part of the country that matters deeply. And too often, decisions made in Ottawa have
00:08:33.420negative impacts here in BC when people aren't connected here on the ground. Perfect example of this
00:08:39.240was the Harper government's decision to shut down the Kitts Coast Guard base, which was something
00:08:45.380that left all Vancouverites of all different political stripes scratching their heads, wondering
00:08:51.320how people could so not know how important this base is to Vancouver, to people across the lower
00:08:58.900mainland. So these are the kinds of things that means we have to have a federal government
00:09:03.580government that is here and present and going to continue to engage with.
00:09:11.420And working with them, this is an important part of the prime minister, and I'm very happy
00:09:18.040to be here as prime minister in British Columbia, which is a second home to me.
00:09:23.800Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not the prime minister right now.
00:09:26.340What about the costs, the cost of this trip and why the Liberal Party isn't paying? Can you at least say how much
00:09:34.180the cost is to taxpayers for this current trip, which includes tax, which includes a fundraiser, which also
00:09:39.940included your time off in Tofino? How much are taxpayers paying for these?
00:09:44.100The prime minister has a responsibility to be prime minister for all Canadians, and that is part of why I spend an awful lot of time getting out there and meeting with Canadians, listening to them, being
00:09:57.700at important events like this. It is, in fact, one of the best parts of my job to get out and meet with Canadians right across the country, whether it's town halls, where we have an opportunity to take questions from the general public and actually respond to those questions in a way that no other part of the country will be.
00:10:13.940Party leader does, whether it's coming out for important announcements that demonstrate that the cuts that conservatives consistently put forward end up harming our environment and harming Canadians.
00:10:26.000These are the kinds of things that make a big difference in people's lives, and that's why I'm so glad to be back here in B.C.
00:10:32.180Questions about your spending, sir. Questions about your spending. Please answer about your spending, sir.
00:10:38.500Yeah, that's too much accountability there, Bob. You've had too much to think, sir.
00:10:43.160Now fill out your grant application like the rest of the media party does and shut up.
00:10:49.040So back to the CBC's advice. It's not advice to Catherine McKenna, the great Fisher person.
00:10:53.500It's not to Justin Tofino. It's advice to you. I mean, really, you have to be better. I'm sorry, you're not good enough.
00:11:01.820What, do you fly a couple times a year? I think the average Canadian probably flies a couple times a year, maybe for a family event like a wedding, maybe for a business trip.
00:11:08.800But I think the average Canadian only flies rarely. It's actually, for most people, a luxury to save up for.
00:11:14.680I'm lucky. I get to travel for journalism.
00:11:16.460But most Canadian families travel maybe a couple times a year. By jet, I mean. People drive a lot. But to fly somewhere, it's a special thing.
00:11:24.940But to the CBC, well, they're here to tell you you're the problem.
00:11:30.860Air travel emits a lot of carbon, but there are ways to fly more responsibly, people.
00:11:34.620I mean, come on. Will you citizens stop being so irresponsible?
00:11:39.620Not a word about the Google jet set. Not a word about Justin Trudeau and Tofino.
00:14:33.600You know, it's a simple rule of thumb when it comes to environmentalists.
00:14:36.700I'll believe that they believe that we're in a climate crisis.
00:14:42.860When they start acting like it, when you take a private jet to Sicily and then sail on your $100 million yacht while talking about reducing carbon emissions,
00:15:06.380The CBC knows it too, but they're all in on it, which is why they've decided to make you and me the only ones who have to have a smaller, unhappier life.
00:15:42.640Well, one of the wonders of the age we live in is that we can live a life of luxury and ease that even a couple of generations ago would have been unthinkable.
00:15:52.420If you ask a millennial hipster in Brooklyn where food comes from, they'd say, duh, the grocery store, and where does electrical power come from?
00:16:06.220It's that kind of disconnection from anything more red and tooth and claw that I think leads to so much leftism.
00:16:15.100One of my favorite tricks at any anti-oil protest is just to go from head to toe of the protester pointing out all the things they're wearing that are made from plastic.
00:16:25.740We don't even realize how much of our lives plastic dominates.
00:16:31.600They really were accurate in that movie, The Graduate, that plastics is the future.
00:16:38.880And one of the things that I think we've become removed from in the last century, and I'd probably put myself in that category, is firearms.
00:16:46.900I mean, it used to be, believe it or not, that even in New York, high school kids would walk to school with firearms to practice in shooting ranges in high school.
00:17:26.220And so let me read to you from the Toronto Star, perhaps the most disconnected newspaper in the country when it comes from things involving real life.
00:17:34.620This is how they described Canadians who, you know, have a firearm for target practice or whatever.
00:17:42.760Let me read to you an article in the Star, quoting Wendy Kukier or Sukier.
00:17:54.900Asked for her thoughts on how Toronto could be experienced a surge in the number of shootings, but a decline in gun-related deaths.
00:18:03.480Kukier, the coalition for gun control president, said that, quote, or this is the Toronto Star now, legal gun owners tend to be more effective in killing people because they spend time at target practice or hunting, unquote.
00:18:19.480This was so stunning that after reader backlash, the Toronto Star just quietly deleted that from the article.
00:18:26.960So they looked slightly less crazy than they were.
00:18:29.980Joining us down to talk about this little weirdness is our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed from Alberta who joins us.
00:19:22.280So that's the latest liberal omnibus gun control legislation that basically brings back all the things that Stephen Harper liberalized when it comes to gun control and outlaws more firearms just arbitrarily because they're black and scary.
00:19:38.280And I think it was 50-50 reader backlash and 50-50 liberal, oh my goodness, you can't be that extremist and that bigoted.
00:19:50.000I think Toronto Star got a phone call from the likes of Katie Telford and said, you better scrub just a touch of that extremism right out of there.
00:19:59.600And they did, but they did leave some of Kukier's, more Kukier statements.
00:20:04.140Like she said, and this is a direct quote.
00:20:06.480So this just isn't even Toronto Star generalizing what she said.
00:20:13.280She says, one of the terrible ironies is that when you see the proliferation of guns often associated with gang violence, you have lots of shootings, but fewer people are killed.
00:20:23.460That's her terrible irony, by the way.
00:20:25.140And then she says, because they don't spend hours and hours at the shooting range.
00:20:30.480So she is lamenting the fact that the gangsters in Toronto aren't doing what I do and taking my lawfully owned firearm, my handgun, to the one place where I can use it, and that's at the range.
00:20:47.020She's lamenting the fact that I'm well-trained and that the gangsters aren't as well-trained as I am.
00:20:53.240It's so weird, and I think you're right about someone like Ralph Goodale or Katie Telford calling the Toronto Star and saying, hey, and I don't think they're saying, hey, that's substantively wrong.
00:21:03.220They're saying, hey, don't say that in public, because too many lawful gun owners will say, oh, my God, you are calling me a would-be murderer.
00:21:12.980You're saying, I mean, it's just so statistically wrong, by the way.
00:21:17.400I mean, these gangland shootings in Toronto, and that's what they are, they're not people who use a long arm, firearm.
00:21:25.940They're not people who use a long shotgun that you might see used for skeet shooting.
00:21:30.540These are people who buy a little handgun in Toronto, or maybe they smuggle it across the border from, you know, it's only a couple hours to America by car.
00:21:40.840In their mind, the liberals hate people who look like you and me, people in Alberta, people in the rural parts.
00:21:50.940But what they're really, the cognitive dissonance is that people who look like you and me and people in the rural parts,
00:21:56.740they're not the people who are shooting up these gangland shootings, and they're not using rifles and shotguns.
00:22:03.320But that's where they're focusing their gun control energy.
00:22:07.120I don't know, I just found the whole thing sad that we have to go through this again.
00:22:12.360I know it was 25 years ago that Alan Rock first tried to ban all the guns in Canada.
00:22:17.140I feel like maybe Justin Trudeau's going to take another crack at it.
00:22:20.420Do you see any evidence that the liberals are going to bring in another Alan Rock,
00:22:23.880that they're going to try and license and register all the guns again?