Juno News - May 30, 2025


$486 BILLION？! Carney’s First Budget BLOWS Past Expectations


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27 minutes

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178.7733

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4,955

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305

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

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Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. We have a great episode. Happy
00:00:06.440 Friday, everyone. Hopefully you have a wonderful weekend planned ahead of you. I'm very pleased
00:00:10.960 to be joined by one of my favorite guests here on The Candice Malcolm Show, talking
00:00:13.720 about Chris Sims. She is the Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. And
00:00:17.980 Chris, you co-hosted our, or you helped co-host our election night show. So I think you were
00:00:22.260 on at the very beginning, and then like eight hours later, you did the last hour with us.
00:00:26.180 So, fun bookend on that end. But I want to first welcome you to the show. We're going
00:00:31.560 to talk about Carney's spending plan, which is unbelievable. But first, we thought we would
00:00:36.500 share this with the audience. Andrew Lawton, former journalist and colleague here with me
00:00:41.800 and at True North. He is now a member of Parliament, as you know, and he made his maiden speech to
00:00:47.120 the House of Commons. He slammed the Liberals' renewed sense of patriotism, saying that he
00:00:51.920 was always waving the Canadian flag proudly. Let's play that clip.
00:00:55.980 Unlike Liberals who wrap themselves in the flag when it is politically convenient,
00:01:02.640 I am not a fair-weather patriot. And we will always, on this side of the aisle, Mr. Speaker,
00:01:09.660 stand up for Canada and be proud in our Canadian identity and proud of our country. I do not take
00:01:16.300 the fair-weather patriots, those with their newfound celebration of Canadianism, with their flags still
00:01:22.960 creased and wrapped in plastic, practically, as they seek to lecture Canadians on what it means
00:01:28.880 to be an elbows-up Canadian. Mr. Speaker, I will always and have always waved the Canadian flag
00:01:34.740 proudly, and I will not stand by, will those who were denigrating people who did that years ago
00:01:39.900 claim to have the moral high ground on what it means to be a Canadian now?
00:01:43.700 So, great to see Andrew out there while just doing that job. Chris, what do you make of Andrew's
00:01:50.780 election? And I guess since I haven't spoken to you since the election night, what was your
00:01:55.760 thoughts on the first few weeks of the Kearney government here?
00:01:57.980 Goodness, it's been kind of a wild ride, eh? It seems like all of us have been going kind of
00:02:01.720 full throttle with work ever since former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was going to
00:02:06.800 eventually be resigning, and I think that was back in January. So, it's been a long bit of work
00:02:12.320 here for a lot of the kind of freedom-fighting oriented type people, including people like
00:02:16.700 Andrew. So, I know Andrew personally. Back when you and I were at Sun News Network together,
00:02:21.980 we used to book him all the time when he had his London talk radio show. It's going back
00:02:26.440 a few years now. And so, just as a human being, I'm happy for him as a friend. And what he's
00:02:32.740 saying there about the Canadian flag is so true. Even apart from the convoy, like on July 1st,
00:02:38.380 I could always count on Andrew. I could go look at his social media feeds and he would
00:02:42.760 just be like full of the Canadian flag, like wearing the hat, wearing the dorky sunglasses.
00:02:47.780 It was great. So, hearing him actually express himself that way was wonderful. And in a really
00:02:52.560 serious note, I know that there's a few things that he really wants to highlight, especially
00:02:57.580 for folks who are struggling with mental illness and the options that they have that are beneficial
00:03:03.620 for them. I know this is something that's really personally important to him. And as a member
00:03:08.660 of parliament, even though he's what's called a newbie or a backbencher or whatever, when
00:03:13.580 you start doing committee work or even prep work for folks who are on committees, it gives
00:03:18.740 you the ability to really speak to experts and really connect with Canadians from all walks
00:03:23.420 of life and start really digging deep on these issues. So, I just wish him all the best
00:03:27.640 in that vein. I think he'll be a very responsible member of parliament. Just keep your receipts,
00:03:33.680 Andrew. Sorry. Got it.
00:03:34.680 Well, I was going to say, you went from being your friend to a potential adversary. I know
00:03:39.340 that the CTF's job is to keep those guys accountable, responsible, but I have a feeling you'll have
00:03:44.520 an easy job when it comes to-
00:03:45.480 He'll be good. Yeah.
00:03:46.480 Yeah. Keeping Andrew honest. Okay. Let's go to the not-so-honest politicians talking about
00:03:52.280 the Liberals who have tabled a Trudeau-sized spending plan with more to come. This is really
00:03:57.660 unbelievable. So, Carney has tabled a $486 billion spending plan. Remember last week,
00:04:06.100 he told us that we weren't going to get a budget. His finance ministers said we weren't
00:04:08.760 going to get a budget. They got so much pushback, they decided to table the spending plan. And
00:04:13.700 so, here is, I'll read a little bit from Global News. The Carney government presented Parliament
00:04:18.320 Tuesday with a plan to spend about the same amount of money in the fiscal year ahead as a
00:04:22.040 Trudeau government did in its final year, but $486 billion spending plan is almost certain
00:04:27.200 to change when it's updated in the fall, when it's likely to include nearly $24 billion in
00:04:33.160 spending commitments for this year that the Liberals promised during the election campaign.
00:04:38.000 There was no evidence that the spending plan tabled Tuesday contained, for example, $3.5 billion
00:04:43.380 that campaigning Liberals said they would spend this year on trade diversification, corridors
00:04:48.280 fund. During the campaign, the Liberals promised to boost CBC's funding by $150 million. But
00:04:52.440 in the tabled plan, CBC's budget was up just $42 million. So, presumably, there's more to
00:04:58.360 come. Your colleague, Chris, over at the CTF, Franco Terrazzino, said that the federal spending
00:05:04.860 in the main estimate nearly doubled in just 10 years. So, in 2016, when Justin Trudeau had
00:05:10.440 initially promised that he would just run modest deficits of $10 billion before getting back
00:05:14.720 to balance. Back then, it was only $250 billion that we're spending. We're now spending $487 billion.
00:05:22.040 He says, somebody take away the credit card. So, what do you make of all this, Chris?
00:05:26.720 It's really astonishing. And I don't want to, like, black pill people here, because I know
00:05:31.720 that things have been a little rough the last few weeks when they're trying to figure out what
00:05:34.680 to fight next and how to, you know, aim for something that's positive. But I got to say,
00:05:39.000 this amount of money, like $400 something billion, our national debt is like $1.2, $1.3 trillion.
00:05:50.280 So, like, that amount of billions is half a trillion dollars in spending. It is mind-blowing amount of
00:05:58.760 money. And what really gets me is that, you know, I don't have very thick rose-colored glasses anymore.
00:06:05.480 I've been in the game too long. I'm very skeptical of all forms of government. But when they announced
00:06:12.600 that Mark Carney was the frontrunner of the Liberals for leadership, this little teeny tiny spark in me
00:06:17.720 thought, well, at least he understands fiscal policy or monetary policy, right? The central banker
00:06:24.200 should know how to math the math. But no, the central banker is going to be worse with money
00:06:30.840 than the drama teacher. Like, I actually became more disillusioned then. So I'm just hoping that
00:06:38.360 because they're at a minority and because we can't spend more money, we can't tax people more, you can't
00:06:44.920 get blood out of a stone, that there will be enough Canadians that speak up against these MPs, including
00:06:50.440 those Liberal MPs, that there'll be enough pressure put on Carney that some form of common sense deep down
00:06:56.280 inside of him will say, you know what, I'm going to take the Paul Martin route of being a Liberal Prime
00:07:01.160 Minister or a Liberal Finance Minister. I'm going to take that route, and we're going to start cutting back
00:07:05.480 on spending. So I'm really encouraging people just to continue to be in the fight, keep being vocal,
00:07:11.000 because that's all we got right now.
00:07:12.360 Well, it's so true. So many people, I think even centrists and blue Liberals, call them, believe that Mark Carney
00:07:19.320 was a big enough change from Justin Trudeau and that that was good enough to satiate the need for
00:07:24.760 change in the country, partially for what you just described. Like, he's a central banker. He should
00:07:30.440 be able to run the country fiscally and responsibly. And you would think that that would be his,
00:07:34.520 he'd want that to be his legacy, that his legacy would be he came in, Canada was in big trouble,
00:07:39.240 and he seared the ship and got us out of it. But yet, from this plan, it seems like, you know,
00:07:44.280 his strategy is really to just double down and do the same thing, which I think is cause for huge
00:07:49.720 concern. I want to talk about the consultant spending increases. So here we have the Conservative
00:07:55.000 Shadow Minister of Finance saying this on X, saying that Liberal Consulting under Mark Carney has
00:08:00.040 surged to $26 billion, up from Trudeau's already bloated $19 billion. Carney says spending is focused
00:08:06.040 on investing for Canadians. But is this seriously calling billions in consulting fees an investment?
00:08:11.480 This is something I don't understand, right? Because with Justin Trudeau, it's like he grew
00:08:15.880 the size of government, he increased the number of bureaucrats, and then simultaneously, he also
00:08:20.120 started using consultants, which makes no sense to me, right? Like, why do we need consultants in
00:08:24.840 government when we have the bureaucrats? And, you know, as much as we may criticize bureaucrats in
00:08:31.160 Canada, it's like, you know, they're earnest people, they show up to do a hard stay work in day in
00:08:35.160 and day out, they're committed to their job, they get paid modestly, it's not like they're living high
00:08:39.400 lives and getting rich, necessarily. Whereas a consultant, you know, I don't know what kind
00:08:45.240 of fees they're charging. And it just seems like an exorbitant expense, $26 billion in consulting when
00:08:50.840 we already have a very large civil service in Canada. Like, make it make sense to me, Chris.
00:08:56.280 I will try. So first off, on the bureaucrats, they actually do get paid quite a bit. The average
00:09:01.560 bureaucrat salary now is about $125,000 per year. I was surprised by that, too. I was assuming it
00:09:09.080 would be just under 100 or so because there's going to be like lower level, you know, paperworky
00:09:13.240 type people, and then all the way up to like super specialized, like finance people that can think
00:09:17.720 in 4D math who put together budgets. But no, the average now is over $125,000. But on your point of
00:09:25.320 transparency and accountability, like you're bang on. Like, it is unbelievable that they are contracting
00:09:31.560 out work after they have increased the size of the bureaucracy by 99,000 people. Franco just put
00:09:40.360 out a news release today, and I made a little joke about it, but I'm Gen X, so he didn't get it.
00:09:44.760 I said, oh, it's 99 red Luftballons, right? It's 99,000 more bureaucrats added since 2015,
00:09:52.600 since former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won that election. That's like 100,000 people.
00:09:57.560 You're basically taking the population of Red Deer, Alberta, and plunking them in to the bureaucrat
00:10:03.960 desks. But on top of that, Candace, exactly what you're saying, they're contracting out apart from
00:10:10.760 that. So people who you can't FOIP, okay, you can't get the documents that you would otherwise
00:10:18.680 want to get. So say there's some big, fancy, stupid spending project that they're doing.
00:10:23.800 Say it's something like the ArriveCan app, okay? When they contract that out to a private company
00:10:29.800 or a consultant firm or whatever, and they don't do it in-house, it is much harder to get information
00:10:36.520 for taxpayers because they can try to squish around the rules and say, oh, well, you know, it's a client or
00:10:42.360 privileged information because we can't give away competitive edge. As if there's like competitive
00:10:47.640 edge for government lobbyists and government consultants that ring around the center of
00:10:53.320 power in a capital city like Ottawa. Same thing happens in DC. So this is to your point exactly,
00:10:59.160 this is unaccountable, it's lacking in transparency, and it's a huge waste of money. If we're hiring
00:11:05.720 hand over fist extra bureaucrats for the past 10 years, get them to do the job.
00:11:11.480 Why are you contracting out? Unfortunately, we know the reason why. Quite often because power corrupts,
00:11:18.200 they'll hand out these contracts to their friends and associates, and it's all on the tax paradigm.
00:11:23.400 Well, it really doesn't make sense. Like I'm trying to even think of like an example of like,
00:11:28.040 what is it that they use these consultants for? Like, do you have any ideas? Like you have a bureaucracy,
00:11:34.120 they're trained, they're specialized, they do the job in and out, day in and day out.
00:11:37.960 Like, in what scenario do you need to bring in, you know, a fancy consulting firm to come in? It
00:11:45.080 just doesn't make sense to have that. And like I said, it was 19 billion, billion with a B under
00:11:50.360 Justin Trudeau. And now it's 26 billion. Is this just like, you know, helping out their liberal friends,
00:11:57.400 like the liberal campaign? I mean, do you have any idea of like, what kind of consulting they're doing?
00:12:02.120 Great question. So I'll just give you an example from, you know, my own field and your own field.
00:12:07.960 They can hire out, for example, comms consultants, and media consultants, right? So they'll get somebody
00:12:14.680 in there to do quote unquote, media training, or crisis communication training. And they could
00:12:19.640 contract something like that out of just using an example. And so if they could say, teach the prime
00:12:24.600 minister or teach the finance minister how to conduct a better interview. Okay, guys,
00:12:30.040 people who are director of communications, you're already supposed to be an expert in communications.
00:12:35.960 That's literally why you have your job. You also have subordinates or folks who work with you who
00:12:42.360 are colleagues, like press secretaries and stuff, who are typically more junior, okay, who are coming
00:12:47.320 up through the ranks, but are still good, solid communicators. They've worked in media, they've worked
00:12:52.840 on, you know, advocacy organizations, things like that. They've worked both sides of the fence,
00:12:57.400 so to speak. They should be good enough to train up this stuff. Apart from really rare instances,
00:13:04.680 say, God forbid, there was a disaster or something really bad had happened and it was on the government
00:13:10.440 and they really needed to figure out what had happened. Then you can understand why they'd call
00:13:15.080 in, say, an investigator, right, or a crisis communications expert. Those are super rare
00:13:20.520 instances. Why are we spending more than a billion dollars on consultants? Again, this is what happens.
00:13:26.920 It happens red team, blue team. This is an issue of power, okay, and lack of accountability and
00:13:31.880 transparency. This is what happens when you have this big pot of taxpayers' money next to no oversight
00:13:38.840 and you start handing out contracts and you start getting favors. This is a bad thing for taxpayers.
00:13:45.080 It's unbelievable. I mean, I know that there's not a lot of people who are cheering for Donald
00:13:49.640 Trump north of the border anymore, but one of the things he did at least was bring in an outsider,
00:13:54.280 Elon Musk, to like forensically look at government and look at the low hanging fruit and try to cut it.
00:13:59.320 This seems like the lowest hanging fruit possible, $26 billion on consulting. Well, I want to move on over
00:14:05.960 to Pierre Polyev. So yesterday, Polyev released a video saying that Mark Carney's spending is even
00:14:11.160 worse than Trudeau's despite the Liberals convincing Canadians that they were no longer the party
00:14:15.800 of reckless spenders. Let's play that clip. Liberals are masters of symbolism. See,
00:14:23.080 in the recent election, to convince people that they were no longer the party of reckless spenders,
00:14:29.080 they abruptly replaced a leader who looked like a reckless teenage trust fund baby with a stern
00:14:35.320 looking banker. And to be fair, Mr. Carney's spending is not as bad as Trudeau's. It's worse.
00:14:41.480 And Mark Carney was elected to bring those costs down. And in the first year after taking office,
00:14:46.280 the year when you would expect him to take action against those out of control costs,
00:14:50.360 he actually increased them by 8%. In fact, the spending will grow almost three times faster than the
00:14:57.560 combined rate of inflation and population growth. It is a half trillion dollar spending bill with no budget.
00:15:03.960 Unbelievable. Polyev hits the nail right on the head there. And then earlier today, Polyev spoke to
00:15:08.520 reporters. He told them, I think this is the obvious, but this is the right thing, that the Conservatives will
00:15:13.800 not vote for this Liberal government spending plan. Let's play that clip.
00:15:16.920 It's clear that Mark Carney is even more expensive than Justin Trudeau. This half trillion dollar spending
00:15:26.440 bill will drive up inflation, interest rates above and beyond what they would otherwise be. And that is
00:15:32.360 why I'm announcing today that Conservatives will vote against this half trillion dollars of inflationary,
00:15:43.640 irresponsible, out of control Liberal spending. What do you make of Polyev's response there?
00:15:50.120 Well, he's absolutely right. Like we were saying at the top of the show, this is irresponsible. Like,
00:15:55.160 I have to stress this. 50% of Canadians, half of our population is within $200 of insolvency every month,
00:16:06.280 meaning they're within 200 bucks of not being able to make the minimum payments on their bills.
00:16:12.280 That's not paying off your credit card. That's not paying off your line of credit. That is making the
00:16:16.520 minimum payment on your bills so that the repo man doesn't show up in your driveway. Half of Canadians are in
00:16:22.760 that boat right now. And a huge reason why are twofold. The crazy carbon taxes that they nailed
00:16:28.760 us with for 10 years and then conveniently got rid of just before the election. Still happy to see those
00:16:33.800 ones kind of gone right now. But two, to Pierre Polyev's point, inflation. The inflation crisis was
00:16:41.160 caused by this government's money printing and how crazy they went during the lockdowns. If you do those
00:16:48.440 two things at the same time, you lock up businesses, you say you can't, you know, have production anymore,
00:16:54.440 you halt the means of production, and you print a whole bunch of money, that is an inflationary storm.
00:17:00.440 That is why when we're looking around and we're looking at the prices of stuff now, we're going,
00:17:04.040 holy smokes, right? So he's bang on there. I will also point out that he's correct in taking this
00:17:11.560 government to task for its overspending, because that is not what they campaigned on. The language
00:17:18.200 they were talking about was being more fiscally prudent. That the era of that guy in the sneakers,
00:17:24.680 who's showing up, the running shoes in the Senate chamber, like he did during the King's speech,
00:17:29.320 that's over. We're down to the adults being back in the room now. You can put over that persona,
00:17:35.640 because Prime Minister Mark Carney certainly wasn't wearing running shoes to listen to the King.
00:17:40.040 But then you can also, with the numbers, make that match your persona. Why don't they reign in
00:17:45.400 spending? Why don't they have their finances match the image that they're trying to put forward here
00:17:51.160 with Carney? And again, I'm pleading with him, because he's not a constant seasoned politician,
00:17:57.800 so maybe he's not as cynical. Maybe we can appeal, okay, to his own better judgment, because he was the
00:18:04.920 Bank of Canada governor under Harper. He was there with the late Jim Flaherty. So he does have
00:18:12.920 that teeth cutting. He does have those bones in there somewhere. So let's hope that he kind of
00:18:18.760 sobers up and realizes, hey, wait a minute, I'm the smart one in the room. All you goofballs here in
00:18:24.280 the cabinet minister, you've been screwing it up for the past 10 years. I'm going to go my own way and
00:18:28.920 make more fiscally responsible decisions. I will also point out that Pierre Polyev has my books.
00:18:33.800 That's nice to see. That's the Alberta. It's basically the history of Alberta set book that
00:18:38.360 was put forward by the Biefeld family and the Western Standard Alberta report kids.
00:18:42.520 Wow. Well, I'm glad to hear that he's reading your book. And yeah, hopefully they can have a positive
00:18:48.520 influence on Carney because, I mean, during the election campaign, he did run basically as a
00:18:54.200 conservative. He took a whole bunch of platform pieces from the conservative tidbits. So I'm
00:18:59.000 actually genuinely surprised to see this sort of reckless Trudeau-esque budget. And hopefully your
00:19:06.360 advocacy over there at CTF can knock some sense into them. Okay, we're going to go from bad to worse
00:19:10.760 when it comes to members of parliament and political parties. Over to the Green Party, Elizabeth May,
00:19:16.040 really outdoing herself with this one. She calls for the recognition of gay genocide,
00:19:23.000 according to this petition that Elizabeth May has sponsored, it claims that Canada is committing
00:19:28.920 2SLGBTQIA plus genocide. Okay. The petition accusing Carney, sorry, accusing Canada of carrying out
00:19:39.320 a genocide against the countries. I'm just going to say gay because I don't want to read out that
00:19:42.680 acronym again, but you know what I mean. The country's gay community has received support of the
00:19:47.160 Green Party leader despite backing the petition. Elizabeth May said that she did not actually mention
00:19:52.280 it upon her return. This is according to Blackhawk's reporter. So I didn't understand what they were
00:19:57.240 talking about. So I went and I looked at the actual petition itself. Here it is on our Commons website,
00:20:02.760 petition E6497. It says, currently the human rights of Canadian gay community are endangered
00:20:10.040 by any Canadian organization and political party. We, the undersigned residents of Canada, call upon the
00:20:15.800 government to declare the removal of Canadian federal rights and freedoms of the gay target group to be
00:20:24.200 considered a form of genocide as a practice diminishes the community of people and therefore should be
00:20:31.080 declared illegal by anyone attempting to do so and to ensure that their human rights. So if I get this
00:20:37.560 right, they say that their rights and freedoms are being targeted, and that is a form of genocide. I don't even
00:20:45.080 know if they have examples. I don't understand what this means. But for some reason, Elizabeth May has decided to
00:20:53.160 sponsor this petition. So I'm wondering, Chris, what do you, what do you make of it?
00:20:57.080 Okay, so I've been a staffer on the Hill. I've been a parliamentary journalist with mainstream media, too, on the Hill.
00:21:04.280 I will say that members of parliament can, can choose which petitions they wish to read aloud,
00:21:11.000 no matter what the topic is. It comes from their constituents. Okay, so the area wherever just
00:21:16.680 elected her would have then some people or groups of people would have hopefully gotten enough signatures.
00:21:23.160 And then the member of parliament, as their representative, can choose to read it aloud or not.
00:21:27.800 I will also point out that genocide is, like, big time illegal. Like, that's way up there in the list
00:21:35.880 of things that is already very, very illegal in Canada. And I'm not trying to be goofy about this.
00:21:43.240 Like, sometimes people don't know the terminology and stuff. That's right up there. It's similar.
00:21:48.520 It reminds me, it reminds me of Bill C-63 in a way, because Bill C-63 is the one where it's often
00:21:56.040 called the Online Harms Act, which we're expecting them to reintroduce as it had fully been in the last
00:22:01.880 parliament. It's called the Online Harms Bill because it purports to protect children online,
00:22:09.080 which any decent person wants to do. Okay. And the issue here is that things like,
00:22:16.360 God forbid, sharing images of child abuse or doing something heinous, like advocating terrorism online,
00:22:23.560 those are already against the law. They're right up there in the criminal code. They take super heavy
00:22:29.960 penalties for imprisonment. If you want to increase the sentencing for stuff like that, take it to
00:22:37.880 justice. Why do they have it in heritage? And so that's where, when we have wording like this,
00:22:43.080 again, people are free to write whatever the petition they want to write. That is part of free
00:22:47.160 expression. But I just would urge people to get to know what the laws already are and really focus
00:22:55.480 their language if they want to be effective when it comes to things like petitions, because the wording
00:23:01.240 of that one was kind of all over the place. Well, yeah, I was reading it and I'm like,
00:23:04.600 this doesn't really even make sense. No.
00:23:06.600 I don't know that the people understand the meaning of the word genocide. Like,
00:23:09.880 genocide was a word that was created for the Holocaust, after the Holocaust, because it was
00:23:13.880 so heinous and disgusting what had taken place that they needed a new word that was stronger than
00:23:18.360 like any other word that they already had. And so the idea is that it's like, when, like, there's
00:23:24.040 like an orchestrated attempt to kill an entire race of people, right? And so like, it doesn't make
00:23:30.360 sense. In this context, there's no example of really what they're even talking about. I see on
00:23:34.760 here that it only has 296 signatures. So it's just like, it's just like wacky Elizabeth May out there
00:23:42.280 grabbing a petition that she had no business grabbing. And then, of course, like, our friends
00:23:46.200 over the Rebel News reported it and just made her look really stupid and bad, as she deserved to,
00:23:51.160 for promoting something like this. Like, as a member of parliament, you use your position of power,
00:23:55.640 you know, to highlight important issues, right? And to make important political statements like
00:23:59.640 we saw Andrew Lawton doing at the top. And then you kind of juxtapose that with the crazy lady,
00:24:04.360 pretending that because, you know, every time they throw this word around on a site, it kind of like,
00:24:09.160 diminishes the actual thing that it is, which is a horrible thing. And it's only happened like a
00:24:13.720 handful of times in history, well, at least in modern history. And so this idea that like, okay, because
00:24:20.760 you don't think that your rights are being fulfilled in some way, I don't even really understand how
00:24:26.760 that that's genocide is just totally absurd. Last word to you.
00:24:30.040 I would strongly recommend, and I mean this earnestly, if you're coming at this from a left-wing
00:24:34.040 perspective, and you want to stop logging or whatever it is, honestly, be very precise in your
00:24:40.280 language. Be exacting in your language. Less is more. Be very clear. A is A. A thing is itself. Okay?
00:24:49.640 Read Politics in the English Language by George Orwell. Read some of the shorter books written by
00:24:55.720 the late Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Okay? Who can take really complex issues that are charged
00:25:01.400 with emotionalism sometimes down into very simple words that people are able to understand and that
00:25:07.880 governments can then also act upon. So just some free communications advice. Be very exact with the
00:25:14.600 language you're choosing and with the meaning of your words. I will also point out that members of
00:25:21.400 Parliament, including Ms. May, are now paid well over $200,000 per year. Tons of their expenses are
00:25:30.040 covered. Things like food. So if they're in the House of Commons during the week, a lot of people don't
00:25:35.320 know this. They have three hot meals provided to them per day that are all fancy catered. Okay? They're just
00:25:41.320 behind the curtains there in the lobbies. They can write off a ton of their expenses. In the case of
00:25:46.200 Ms. May, when eventually she no longer is elected or chooses to retire, she's going to be in line for
00:25:52.040 a huge pension because she's been in the House of Commons for a long time now. Keep this in mind,
00:25:57.160 no matter what your MP is doing, the next time you see them doing something that you disagree
00:26:02.040 with, that they're making well over $200,000 plus a lot of plush benefits.
00:26:06.920 Well, such a nice lifestyle. And I totally agree. I used to always have our interns and
00:26:12.120 new staff read politics in the English language. One of the best parts of that is specifically about
00:26:17.080 the word fascism. It says that fascism has no meaning. It's just something that people don't like. And
00:26:22.600 there's no—people throw it around without even really understanding what it means. That's 100% true.
00:26:27.960 And some sage advice there from Chris Sims. Chris, thanks so much for joining us. Keep up the good
00:26:32.920 work over there at the taxpayers. Thanks so much. All right, folks. Have a wonderful weekend. We'll be
00:26:37.480 back again on Monday. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you and God bless.
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