Juno News - Are there any other genders you’d like to name？ (with Keean Bexte)

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:10.000 Thank you so much for joining us.

00:00:11.000 We've got a great show lined up for you today.

00:00:13.000 But before we get to the news, I want to stop and pause and reflect upon the situation we find ourselves in today, in late January 2025.

00:00:22.000 We don't have a Prime Minister in this country.

00:00:25.000 We don't have a federal leader and we don't have anyone representing us in our country or standing up for Canadians.

00:00:32.000 It was just two weeks ago that Justin Trudeau announced that he was resigning.

00:00:37.000 I intend to resign as party leader, as Prime Minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process.

00:00:51.000 He said he was stepping down as leader of the Liberal Party and as Prime Minister, citing internal squabbles in his cabinet and his caucus, in his Liberal Party.

00:01:00.000 Presumably and notably, he was talking about Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister, who resigned.

00:01:06.000 Now she's out there doing media rounds, bashing her former boss, saying that she disagrees on him, on everything from the carbon tax, to capital gains taxes, to the GST rebate, to his strategy in dealing with our American ally. 0.98

00:01:19.000 Now, also recall that third party leader Jagmeet Singh has let it be known that the moment the Parliament resumes, his party, the NDP, the ones who have been propping up Trudeau and the failed Liberal minority government since 2019,

00:01:32.000 they will vote against the Libs in a non-confidence vote and trigger an election.

00:01:37.000 So, rather than facing this reality, rather than allowing Canadians the opportunity to elect our next leader and our Prime Minister, instead of allowing democracy to run his course, Trudeau has used a loophole in our Westminster system of government, system of parliamentary democracy, to prorogue the House of Commons to avoid triggering an election.

00:01:57.000 He's just pressed pause on democracy for crass partisan purposes.

00:02:02.000 Now, if this doesn't make you question our very system of government, make you doubt how well our government functions, I don't know what will.

00:02:09.000 It is insane that a Prime Minister can first derail the economy with his terrible woke policies, and then just pause the democracy to take time to regroup within his own party.

00:02:21.000 Now, that was the situation on January 6th, when Justin Trudeau resigned without actually resigning.

00:02:27.000 Then everything got so much worse, because we just don't have a Prime Minister.

00:02:31.000 As you know, US President Donald Trump is no fan of Canada's Liberal government.

00:02:36.000 He openly mocks Trudeau, calling him the governor of the 51st state, an insult to all Canadians.

00:02:42.000 And he doesn't much like Trudeau's Deputy Chrystia Freeland either, who goes out of her way to bash him.

00:02:48.000 Now, Trump is very serious about immigration.

00:02:51.000 He's serious about border security, national security, and energy security.

00:02:54.000 And he is very willing to impose devastating tariffs on our country to protect his country.

00:03:01.000 We need to fix this mess.

00:03:03.000 Canada is already suffering through a cost-of-living crisis unlike anything I have seen in my entire life.

00:03:09.000 Our economy is on the rails, the loonie is collapsing, and every day Canada feels a little bit more like Venezuela.

00:03:15.000 Crime is out of control, drug use is rampant, and overdoses are far too common.

00:03:20.000 Mass, unchecked immigration has created not just ballooning housing prices and rent prices, but an existential identity crisis in Canada. 0.99

00:03:28.000 Being Canadian doesn't mean anything anymore, and foreign tribal feuds are spilling out onto our streets every single day. 0.93

00:03:36.000 We need leadership. We need a Prime Minister.

00:03:39.000 Not these clowns who are making a mockery of our country. 0.96

00:03:42.000 Justin Trudeau no longer has the confidence of the House, he no longer has the confidence of Parliament, and he no longer has the support of Canadians. 0.96

00:03:49.000 He doesn't have a mandate anymore. He resigned for goodness sake, and he needs to go.

00:03:54.000 Liberal insiders and global elites should not get to select our next Prime Minister in an undemocratic internal selection process that is ripe for abuse and foreign interference.

00:04:05.000 Enough is enough. Stop being polite, Canada. You should be angry.

00:04:10.000 That is why today I am launching a petition. This is from my own website, CandaceMalcolm.com.

00:04:15.000 It is separate from my journalism and separate from True North.

00:04:18.000 But Canada needs an election. We need an election now.

00:04:22.000 Not in three weeks when the Federal Court will hear a case about the legality of prerogation,

00:04:26.000 and not in March after the Liberals have their leadership review and select their next leader.

00:04:32.000 We need an election now. Now. 0.94

00:04:35.000 Please sign my petition so we can send our reckless elite a message.

00:04:39.000 Sign it. Send it to everyone you know and help me send this message to Parliament.

00:04:45.000 Let Canadians choose our next Prime Minister. We need an election.

00:04:49.000 We are, after all, a democracy. Thank you very much.

00:04:55.000 In studio with Kian Bextie from The Counter Signal.

00:04:57.000 Kian, great to have you here. Thanks for being here.

00:04:59.000 Thanks for having me.

00:05:00.000 So you were recently down in Washington, D.C. watching the inauguration.

00:05:04.000 And one of the main things that came out, one of the executive orders that I was really excited about,

00:05:09.000 was just getting back to common sense, the idea that there are only two genders.

00:05:13.000 So I have it here, Trump's executive order, when it comes to defending women from gender ideology extremism.

00:05:20.000 He says that the executive order reads that sex shall refer to an individual's immutable biological clarifications,

00:05:27.000 classifications as either male or female. Sex is not synonym for, does not include gender identity.

00:05:33.000 That women and women and girls and girls shall mean adult and juvenile female humans respectively. 0.91

00:05:39.000 Same for men. Female means belonging at conception to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. 0.99

00:05:47.000 And that male is a sex that produces a small reproductive cell.

00:05:50.000 I appreciate that it even says at conception, not at birth, but at conception.

00:05:54.000 There's a bit of a pro-life message in there.

00:05:57.000 That was just one of Trump's incredibly strong executive orders.

00:06:00.000 I know you were talking about his getting out of the WHO as being a major point that you're happy about.

00:06:07.000 What else was sort of the big takeaways from your time in Washington?

00:06:12.000 Well, just those executive orders.

00:06:14.000 It's nice to see that there's like a return to common sense.

00:06:18.000 And you said it well.

00:06:19.000 And I think that it shows that conservatives in Canada have been so ahead of the curve on this.

00:06:23.000 Daniel Smith for action in Alberta to protect women and girls in sport.

00:06:29.000 And Pierre just running on literally common sense, bringing back common sense.

00:06:34.000 It must be vindicating for them.

00:06:36.000 The question now is, do Canadian conservatives have the same follow through that Trump has had?

00:06:42.000 Not many conservatives get into office and do what Donald Trump did and on day one have a stack of executive orders on their desk that tall and just go through bang, bang, bang.

00:06:52.000 This is law now.

00:06:53.000 Are we going to see some waffling for the first year?

00:06:56.000 I hope not.

00:06:57.000 I hope Pierre knows what to do, knows what Canadians want and knows what they need with the WHO.

00:07:03.000 I mean, that was a no brainer.

00:07:05.000 It's a disastrous bureaucratic organization, very similar to the World Economic Forum in terms of their waste, in terms of their their belief that they know better than the common man.

00:07:17.000 Getting out of that was a huge win for the Americans, the amount of money that they spend on the World Health Organization is sickening, especially when they don't make up the majority of the global population.

00:07:27.000 They're spending that basically providing free health care through a wasteful bureaucratic organization to everyone on the planet. 1.00

00:07:34.000 And they were footing a huge part of that bill.

00:07:37.000 Canada also foots a huge part of that bill.

00:07:39.000 We're the fifth largest contributor to the World Health Organization.

00:07:44.000 We hand the organization about a quarter billion dollars a year.

00:07:52.000 Unbelievable.

00:07:53.000 It's a gross amount of money.

00:07:55.000 And that like the leadership of that organization is this like and I'm not even a conspiracy theorist here when I say that they're like this like cabal of communists from Africa that are running it and taking our money and wasting it. 0.53

00:08:08.000 So I hope that Pierre gets the message and follows suit with Donald Trump and the huge success that he's seen in just the first three days that he's had in office and pulls Canada out of the World Health Organization as well.

00:08:18.000 I just think these are such mainstream ideas. I think that when we watch what happened with the pandemic and how these edicts were coming from this World Health Organization, it clearly seemed like a corrupted organization that somehow was having huge power and control over our lives.

00:08:31.000 Now, I know that it's the elected government in Canada that gets to implement the laws, but the edicts were certainly coming from these kinds of organizations.

00:08:41.000 I think it's the only way to see Trump saying no to the Paris climate accord and no to the WHO.

00:08:45.000 I really hope that the conservatives follow suit.

00:08:47.000 Like you said, like Pierre, if he becomes prime minister, when I'm urging Canadians to sign my petition and call for an election like we need an election now.

00:08:56.000 77% of Canadians say that they agree. It blows my mind that Justin Trudeau can just pause democracy.

00:09:03.000 He can just press pause for his own party to try to regroup. It's embarrassing in Washington.

00:09:08.000 You were just in Washington. What were you hearing? What were you seeing when it came to Canada and sort of our lack of leadership and presence there?

00:09:17.000 I heard a lot. I spoke with a lot of staffers from the Republican side of Congress, and they seem to think that this tariff thing was a lot of posturing and they just wanted a few simple things.

00:09:31.000 They wanted at least the Canadians to come to the table and negotiate in good faith, which they say they just haven't been.

00:09:38.000 They've been completely AFK AWOL. They're just missing an action. And that, you know, we know why, because the government is in tatters.

00:09:47.000 Most of Justin Trudeau's cabinet has either committed to resigning or committed to the leadership race.

00:09:53.000 And they're focused on getting Mark Carney elected or Christia Freeland elected.

00:09:57.000 So it's just a disaster all around. They're not at the table negotiating with the Americans. 0.69

00:10:01.000 And that's going to be a huge disaster for us, which is why Daniel Smith has taken it upon herself to go.

00:10:06.000 I wish other premiers, you know, Doug Ford has complained a little bit about it.

00:10:10.000 David Eby should go down. Rob Canu should go down.

00:10:13.000 These provincial leaders have a mandate, a fresh mandate in most cases, from their people to put their provinces first.

00:10:21.000 And they should be going down and standing up in it. You know, sure, go with the United Front.

00:10:27.000 Go with a message that is pro-Canada and Canada first.

00:10:30.000 But they have a responsibility to make sure that their provinces are not going to be left scarred by the mistakes of the absent Trudeau regime.

00:10:39.000 Daniel Smith has a huge issue right now, making sure that energy gets and she's not doing that just for energy producers in Alberta.

00:10:48.000 She she wants energy to be exempted from the tariffs, which is would be great for Alberta.

00:10:52.000 But it would also be great for Ontario, who relies on our energy as well, which gets sent through the American border twice.

00:10:59.000 It goes down south west of the Great Lakes and then back up east.

00:11:03.000 So it's going to be a disaster for Doug Ford.

00:11:05.000 I think the Canadian premiers have got to get on board with what Daniel's doing and actually start fighting for their people.

00:11:11.000 Absolutely. I mean, I'm not from Alberta. I don't live in Alberta.

00:11:14.000 But I think that Daniel Smith speaks for so many Canadians, myself included, when she is saying that, no, the idea to get into a trade war here and have retaliatory tit for tat tariffs is not the way to go.

00:11:25.000 Let's negotiate a deal. Let's show up in good faith. We just don't have a prime minister to do that.

00:11:30.000 OK, I'm going to ask you more questions about your time in Washington, but we have to get to this Pierre Polyev clip.

00:11:35.000 So, you know, speaking of gender, we had Trump with this wonderful executive order defending women from gender ideology and Pierre not to be outdone.

00:11:43.000 So he was on I think it was what was a breakfast television or CTV, one of those.

00:11:47.000 And he was asked whether he would follow suit with what Trump did and only recognize two genders.

00:11:53.000 This is hilarious. It's classic, Pierre. I love this. OK, let's play this clip.

00:11:56.000 First day on the job, President Trump signed an executive order.

00:12:00.000 You know, the U.S. government only recognizing two genders, male, female. They're unchangeable. 1.00

00:12:05.000 You know, if elected as prime minister, is that something that you're going to kind of walk in line with?

00:12:10.000 Or what are your feelings on that executive order?

00:12:12.000 Well, I don't know. Do you have any other genders that you'd like to name?

00:12:19.000 Me personally? Yes.

00:12:22.000 I'm just asking more. So if you're in line with what he is saying, do you agree with what he's saying?

00:12:27.000 Is that something that you would be lockstep with if elected as prime minister?

00:12:31.000 Well, I'm not aware of any other genders than men and women.

00:12:35.000 I mean, if you have any other that you want me to consider, you're welcome to tell me right now.

00:12:40.000 Well, there's well, there's personally, I am a man. I am.

00:12:44.000 OK, we'll say it's this man.

00:12:46.000 There are people there who, you know, they say they're.

00:12:48.000 Me too. I'm a neutral.

00:12:50.000 You are a man. Yes.

00:12:51.000 There are people there who say they're some gender. Yeah, they say they're gender neutral.

00:12:55.000 They're, you know, they're they're a trans person.

00:12:58.000 Is that something that you would recognize here?

00:13:02.000 Whereas in the states, at least with their U.S. government, the way they're seeing it, there's only two.

00:13:08.000 I'm only aware of two. But if you have if you come up with another list, then you're welcome to do that.

00:13:15.000 But I'm aware of two. And as far as I'm concerned, we should have a government that just minds its own damn business and leaves people alone. 0.89

00:13:23.000 Amazing. So that was Phil Perkins of CP24 asking the questions there. 0.87

00:13:28.000 What did you think? It was a classic peer interview, just like the Apple interview.

00:13:33.000 He puts the onus on the reporter to actually stand behind the idiocy of what they're asking. 0.98

00:13:39.000 He's a smart politician. Obviously, that is a great answer. 0.99

00:13:44.000 But if you're of, you know, of the position that he should actually take action, it could leave people a little bit concerned because he didn't actually commit to doing what Donald Trump did.

00:13:55.000 He just sort of ridiculed a reporter, which again, hilarious. Love it.

00:13:59.000 But I want a commitment that says, yeah, there are two genders. 0.99

00:14:04.000 We're not going to allow X, Y, Z on your passport. 1.00

00:14:07.000 We're not going to allow like I want as a as a ideologically driven person to hear a commitment that he's going to make Canada better.

00:14:17.000 But, you know, I think I know what he's getting at. I think we both do.

00:14:20.000 So it's good news that he's not allowing reporters to run the show.

00:14:24.000 That's at least the first step. The second step would be like concrete action.

00:14:28.000 But we'll see what we do.

00:14:29.000 Well, no, it is classic Pierre. And I love the point you make where he he makes the report.

00:14:33.000 He puts the onus back on the reporter, right?

00:14:35.000 Because reporters in Canada are so used to just having their way with conservative politicians and basically humiliating them based on liberal dogma.

00:14:42.000 Right. And so here you have a journalist who's just trying to do what they've always done, which is like what Donald Trump did was scary.

00:14:50.000 And you have to walk away from it. And then Pierre just so skillfully turns around and it's satisfying because really, like, what is he talking about?

00:14:58.000 Like what other genders? Name one, right? Name one. 1.00

00:15:01.000 And then, you know, the reporter kind of awkwardly goes back to this idea like, well, I'm a male, a cis male.

00:15:07.000 It's like, what does that, what does that even mean?

00:15:08.000 They know all the words to use.

00:15:09.000 Yeah, of course.

00:15:10.000 The talking points.

00:15:11.000 And then Pierre says, well, I'm a man too. Like, congratulations.

00:15:14.000 It kind of reminds me, it was about a year ago where we at True North were reporting intensively on this topic of puberty blockers that are going to be given to children.

00:15:25.000 And we didn't know where Pierre stood. I didn't know at the time whether he was going to come out in support of just biological reality or whether he was going to go down this left wing rabbit hole of allowing kids to transition and all kinds of drugs being given to very confused minors.

00:15:42.000 I want to play this clip because this, it kind of had the same vibe where he kind of almost plays dumb and then he ends up coming to the right place.

00:15:50.000 So let's play that clip.

00:15:53.000 ...and medical interventions for minors as your own party members suggested.

00:15:57.000 Medical interventions like what?

00:15:58.000 That is the language that your party used.

00:16:00.000 What medical interventions?

00:16:01.000 Well, you would have to ask your party members.

00:16:02.000 What medical interventions?

00:16:03.000 Such as medical, such as puberty blockers and hormone replacement.

00:16:05.000 For minors?

00:16:06.000 Yes.

00:16:07.000 Irreversible?

00:16:08.000 You're talking about irreversible.

00:16:10.000 I just want to be clear.

00:16:11.000 I just want to be clear.

00:16:12.000 No, I don't want to be clear.

00:16:13.000 I just want to be clear.

00:16:14.000 Puberty blockers for minors?

00:16:15.000 Yes.

00:16:16.000 Do you agree with that?

00:16:17.000 I think that we should protect children and their ability to make adult decisions when they are adults.

00:16:22.000 So you think only adults should take puberty blockers?

00:16:26.000 You said yes?

00:16:27.000 Just to be clear, you said yes, only adults should take puberty blockers?

00:16:30.000 I think we should protect children, let them make adult decisions when they become adults.

00:16:35.000 So that means you are against puberty blockers for kids under the age of 18.

00:16:40.000 Is that clear?

00:16:41.000 Yes.

00:16:42.000 Okay.

00:16:43.000 Yeah, that was so good.

00:16:44.000 So that was February 7th, 2024.

00:16:46.000 And again, like I don't think that Pierre had really come out on record at that point as what his position was on.

00:16:52.000 And you have to like keep it in the broader context, which is that the liberals love divisive social issues.

00:16:58.000 Like that is their bread and butter.

00:17:00.000 That is how they win elections is look at these scary conservatives over here.

00:17:03.000 They want to take us back to like a handmaid's tale.

00:17:05.000 And they try to wrap it all together.

00:17:08.000 And I think that the left lost itself in this gender ideology discussion because they just assumed that they were correct, that they were on the right side and that Canadians would fall in line just like they did on gay marriage and abortion.

00:17:20.000 But this is a different issue.

00:17:22.000 And I think when it comes to confused little kids being pushed into this like ideological.

00:17:28.000 I know you said, you know, conservatives are ideological.

00:17:31.000 I think conservatives just stand for common sense.

00:17:33.000 And the ideological part comes from this extreme left idea that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.

00:17:40.000 And it's all just a suggestion and that kids should be non binary. 0.95

00:17:43.000 Like that is not a mainstream position.

00:17:45.000 And as a mom of little kids, it is something that like really ignites a passion in me.

00:17:50.000 Like I have no tolerance for it at my children's school or with their teachers or with the books they read.

00:17:55.000 I want it as far away from my family as possible.

00:17:58.000 And I'm not alone.

00:18:00.000 Like this isn't one of those positions where I'm like just an extreme conservative on.

00:18:04.000 Almost everyone I know and almost everyone I talk to is in complete lockstep agreement with me to the point where I think a big part of the reason why Donald Trump was so accepted and is so mainstream now is because of these issues where people are just had enough of the wokeness.

00:18:18.000 We don't want it.

00:18:19.000 We don't want our schools.

00:18:20.000 So it was great to see Pierre come on board and kind of come out in that way saying, no, we shouldn't give drugs to kids.

00:18:26.000 It's an adult decision.

00:18:28.000 And you could see the journalists.

00:18:29.000 They were really kind of hammering on him because he hadn't clarified at that point.

00:18:32.000 I think the journalists were actually just doing their job there.

00:18:34.000 Like what is your position?

00:18:35.000 What is your position?

00:18:36.000 And he finally came to the right place.

00:18:38.000 But you're right.

00:18:39.000 He needs to actually talk about a policy, right?

00:18:41.000 It's not just about having the right idea and coming to the right position.

00:18:44.000 We need to like get him on record with what he will do on day one and what the policies are.

00:18:49.000 What do you think?

00:18:50.000 Well, you're right.

00:18:51.000 The left stepped on a beehive with this one.

00:18:53.000 They were, they were, they were gallivanting down this path of, you know, enjoying being able to, to set up these social issues.

00:19:01.000 Well, oh, the conservatives are these scary racist people or, oh, they're trying to prevent, you know, they're trying to force women to have kids and like, like the handman's tail, like super weird stuff.

00:19:11.000 And these were like kind of winning issues for them in the past because they were able to successfully hoodwink Canadians into thinking that conservatives really were 0.98

00:19:19.000 these like crazy people.

00:19:20.000 And then they decided to use kids as a pawn in, in their game and parents. 0.86

00:19:26.000 And even people who aren't parents are just like, bro, like take a step back for a second and understand what you're doing here.

00:19:33.000 When you see the people who have detransitioned and the scars that are literal, literal scars that are left on their mind and body. 1.00

00:19:40.000 It's, it's sickening. 0.97

00:19:41.000 It's disgusting. 0.96

00:19:42.000 There's just so much evidence now that it's a bad idea to allow children, especially children with often parents who they themselves say are trans, who all of a sudden the kids become trans. 0.61

00:19:52.000 Like it's just not, it's not in the best interests of society or kids to allow them to do it.

00:19:57.000 And I think that Pierre, I mean, I'm speaking with people, I've spoken with people close to him and they drew inspiration from Daniel Smith on this.

00:20:05.000 They saw that she, people supported what she did.

00:20:09.000 All you had to do was be bold, stand on the side of protecting children.

00:20:13.000 And the, the, the way forward was paid for you because liberals just are completely in disarray when they have to come to terms with something like this.

00:20:22.000 You know, you're right.

00:20:23.000 It was Daniel Smith's policy that kind of catapulted this whole thing because that was January.

00:20:28.000 Sorry, that was February 7th of last year.

00:20:30.000 And then just two weeks later, February 21st, we had Pierre coming out finally with a decisive policy.

00:20:36.000 This was his position on women's prisons and women's sports.

00:20:40.000 Let's play that clip.

00:20:41.000 My question, sir, is should you form the next federal government?

00:20:46.000 Will you make female safe spaces safe again by introducing legislation that bans so-called transgender women from participating in female sports and getting access into female shelters and female prisons? 0.90

00:21:04.000 Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males. 1.00

00:21:10.000 The, you asked if I introduce legislation on that.

00:21:14.000 A lot of the spaces you described are provincially and municipally controlled.

00:21:20.000 So, it is unclear what federal legislation, what would reach federal legislation would have to change them.

00:21:29.000 But obviously, female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males. 1.00

00:21:39.000 First, a little shout out to David Menzies.

00:21:41.000 This is why it's so important to have independent media at these events because they ask better questions a lot of time than the legacy media.

00:21:47.000 So, he kind of defaults to all these are provincial jurisdictions.

00:21:51.000 One thing I will note with Donald Trump's executive order is that it just shows leadership, right?

00:21:55.000 Like he can't mandate that the entire country fall in line with what he's doing.

00:22:00.000 But when he does it, it gives permission to other people.

00:22:03.000 Like I saw someone noting on X that Silicon Valley is actually like breathing a sigh of relief because they hate these gender ideology provisions and they hate the diversity, equity, inclusion stuff. 0.95

00:22:14.000 And it's like, okay, great.

00:22:15.000 We don't have to do that anymore.

00:22:16.000 Right.

00:22:17.000 And it's like gives corporate America an excuse to not do it anymore as well.

00:22:21.000 You're right that Danielle took the lead with banning these sex surgeries and cross-sex hormones to minors. 0.96

00:22:27.000 Have you seen any kinds of changes across Alberta society?

00:22:31.000 And do you think that what Pierre said there is the right approach?

00:22:34.000 I would love to talk to a political expert and understand why Pierre sort of does take this route when he sort of like hands off the onus to the provinces.

00:22:46.000 Trump does the opposite.

00:22:47.000 Even if it's an issue that the states could solve, he does do exactly what you said.

00:22:52.000 He gives them permission to take the right stance as a leader should.

00:22:56.000 But as the first minister of our confederation, Pierre, soon to be potentially, Pierre has like this obligation to show conservatives the way and say it's okay to do this.

00:23:12.000 So it's not a situation of like pushing it onto NDP premiers to solve the issue.

00:23:18.000 It really is a national social issue that we need to have some authority on and explain what should we be doing here.

00:23:27.000 And we need a standard standard approach across the country when it comes to this kind of stuff, especially women's prisons. 1.00

00:23:33.000 The fact that some of the most insidious people in this country can do terrible things and then be put, you know, I'm not an advocate for for other criminals who are rightfully in prison, but these women shouldn't be forced to live their lives with some of the most insane people in the world who managed to get into a women's prison. 0.86

00:23:54.000 I mean, I won't go into details about some of the court cases I've been involved in in British Columbia with someone who assaulted me years ago, but they were of, you know, a similar situation where they would end up in a women's prison and they should not have been in a women's prison. 0.90

00:24:10.000 Right. A biological man who is having some kind of a mental break and decides that they're a woman and they're also a criminal.

00:24:16.000 I'm not in the case necessarily that you're talking about, but this happens like there's a story out of Quebec of a man that murdered three people and then he goes to jail.

00:24:23.000 And now all of a sudden he's a woman and he wants to go in the women's prison. 0.95

00:24:26.000 Like I get that female prisoners aren't necessarily the most sympathetic audience that you say, well, they aren't deserving of, you know, the threatened fear of living with a criminal man in their same cell. 0.81

00:24:36.000 But it's like at a certain point, like a woman has a right not to be raped, not to be in a situation where they can be raped.

00:24:42.000 Everyone does. Everyone does.

00:24:43.000 Even, even prisoners, even women who are in jail.

00:24:45.000 And those, those women are put in a hugely unfortunate situation when they're, when they're forced to shock, like to, to be in a cell with these people.

00:24:53.000 You know, a lot of these, a lot of these criminals, women, female prisoners, they're not violent criminals. 1.00

00:24:59.000 Right.

00:25:00.000 They're in jail and they're serving a sentence for society and they shouldn't be put in that situation.

00:25:07.000 So that's the kind of leadership that I would want from our prime minister to, to tell premiers, you know, premiers have, have jails that they're in charge of as well.

00:25:16.000 And, but so does the federal government.

00:25:18.000 There's different types of prisons in this country and they all need an understanding of what is okay and what is not okay.

00:25:24.000 Yeah.

00:25:25.000 Yeah.

00:25:26.000 And I, I think that's right that like, well, even many of the women, Muslim women, um, who are in women's prison, even the, the hard offenders who have committed violent crimes is almost always with women, a situation where they've killed their husband or their domestic partner. 0.61

00:25:39.000 Like it's, it's almost always like a personal relationship.

00:25:41.000 And so again, the idea that they would be subject to a dangerous male criminal is, is just unfathomable.

00:25:49.000 Um, that's, that's sort of the less sympathetic argument.

00:25:51.000 The more sympathetic argument is when you have women in sports, like teenagers and girls trying to compete at the top of their level. 0.99

00:25:58.000 Um, I was an athlete when I was a teenager and the whole point of female sports is so that women can have a chance because they can't compete with men. 0.99

00:26:06.000 Men are much bigger.

00:26:07.000 And so this idea that you have a men, I know that there's a couple of cases that are going around.

00:26:12.000 It's almost sad.

00:26:13.000 I saw one on social media the other day of a, a male, I think it was a volleyball player on Vancouver Island University.

00:26:20.000 But this, this, this man had gone through a sex, basically transformation as a child.

00:26:27.000 So in this video where, um, he's saying, I want to play sports, um, with the girls because I'm a girl.

00:26:35.000 It's a biological boy, but he says that he was, he started transitioning at the age of five.

00:26:40.000 And so he's, he never went through male puberty and you, you have this like really sad situation.

00:26:46.000 Like I actually really feel, I have so much sympathy and I feel for him because I feel like he's been the victim of abuse, um, at the hands of his parents and a society that is delusional enough to, to, to, to allow this to go on.

00:26:59.000 And now you have a person who's in the middle of it and living through it.

00:27:02.000 It's, it's, it's really sad.

00:27:04.000 Um, but at the same time you need the leadership.

00:27:06.000 Didn't you think that that clip from Pierre though on breakfast or on CP two, four, don't you think that is kind of the leadership, the equivalent of what Trump is doing?

00:27:14.000 Like giving people permission to take a stance on the decision?

00:27:16.000 I hope so.

00:27:17.000 I've just been so burned by conservative leaders in the past who say one thing and then, Oh, actually no, the Paris accord is great.

00:27:23.000 You know?

00:27:24.000 So especially Aaron O'Toole has, has really, really burned me.

00:27:27.000 And you know, he, he perhaps luckily was not in the position where he was leading the country.

00:27:34.000 Uh, so we'll see what Pierre does.

00:27:36.000 I just really don't want to count my chickens before they hatch on, on this kind of situation.

00:27:41.000 Fair enough.

00:27:42.000 Definitely been in that situation myself.

00:27:45.000 Uh, okay.

00:27:46.000 Let's, let's talk a bit more about your time in, in Washington.

00:27:48.000 So, um, you know, you were down there and you said you were talking to, um, congressional aides for the Republicans.

00:27:54.000 Tell us first, like what brought you down there?

00:27:56.000 Why were you there?

00:27:57.000 And then maybe talk a little bit about your highlights of your time.

00:28:00.000 Well, the last time I was in Washington DC was to document January 6th, which I feel like I can talk about now because I was like constantly worried that people were going to be upset for me being there as a journalist.

00:28:12.000 Not that I broke any laws.

00:28:13.000 January 6th, 2021 you were there.

00:28:14.000 Yes.

00:28:15.000 For the so-called insurrection.

00:28:16.000 Yeah.

00:28:17.000 For the so-called insurrection.

00:28:18.000 I don't know if we have to call it that anymore.

00:28:19.000 Yeah.

00:28:20.000 No, you know, it's, it, I, you see the picture of that guy with his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk.

00:28:25.000 Uh, and people call him like someone who's like throwing a coup somewhere, you know?

00:28:31.000 Um, and then you see leftists doing the exact same thing.

00:28:35.000 Like having a sit in, breaking into someone's office in Congress and sitting in and not allowing them to conduct the business.

00:28:42.000 Happens all the time.

00:28:43.000 Happens constantly.

00:28:44.000 Um, there's like a few people who vandalized that's vandalism.

00:28:49.000 Not great.

00:28:50.000 Did they try to get the codes?

00:28:52.000 Uh, did, did, did they try to overtake the military?

00:28:55.000 And, um, hijack nuclear missile silos?

00:28:58.000 No, they didn't.

00:28:59.000 Um, this was not an insurrection.

00:29:01.000 Anyways, last time I was.

00:29:02.000 I just want to say like, there is some social context that's missing, right?

00:29:05.000 Like we were just living through COVID.

00:29:06.000 We just witnessed an entire summer full of the George Floyd riots, Black Lives Matter, burning things down. 1.00

00:29:11.000 There were lots and lots of riots all over North America that year.

00:29:15.000 Yeah.

00:29:16.000 Right.

00:29:17.000 And so not to excuse the behavior, I think that there were some bad actors and bad behavior on January 6th, but by and large, it was a protest, right?

00:29:24.000 It was a protest in support of Trump in, in, in protest against a lot of really crazy things that happened in the 2020 election.

00:29:31.000 A lot of irregularities, a lot of media interference, a lot of things that we now know about the things like the Twitter files, that they were actually manipulating the information behind the scenes, blocking the Hunter laptop Biden story from getting out.

00:29:44.000 Like there was a lot to be angry about at that time.

00:29:46.000 Oh yeah.

00:29:47.000 And usually with any kind of situation like this, there's a couple of really bad actors that kind of ignite it, right?

00:29:53.000 And then everyone else is just there and they kind of get caught in the wrong spot.

00:29:56.000 And we, we know for sure that there were feds there.

00:29:58.000 I think that there was a report that said, what, there was at least 20 or at least 40 feds that were, that were instigating this.

00:30:04.000 And committing crimes.

00:30:05.000 So, so, you know, I, I don't like the idea that you can just blanket pardon people.

00:30:09.000 I don't think it was good when Biden was doing it, when Trump did it.

00:30:13.000 But at the same time, I think it had to be done.

00:30:15.000 And I think that a lot of people are happy about it.

00:30:17.000 Well, Biden doing what he did made it the easiest decision.

00:30:20.000 I wonder if Trump was wondering if it was a good idea or not.

00:30:23.000 And then Biden pardons his family as his last action of government.

00:30:26.000 And Fauci.

00:30:27.000 Yeah.

00:30:28.000 Oh, and that too.

00:30:29.000 Like what a disaster.

00:30:30.000 Yeah.

00:30:31.000 So yeah.

00:30:32.000 Anyways, last time I was there was January 6th and the atmosphere was very similar.

00:30:37.000 I, so I wanted to be there for this.

00:30:38.000 I wanted to see what, you know, what people were doing.

00:30:42.000 These, these moments in history are always so great to be at and witness with your own eyes because you can share it with your viewers so that they feel like they're there as well.

00:30:51.000 And you can give them like this on, you know, your viewers trust you and you can give them this honest,

00:30:56.000 depiction of what happened.

00:30:57.000 If we left it to the CBC, who I was standing beside during January 6th to, to relate to Canadians, what was going on.

00:31:06.000 Canadians would think that it was an insurrection and part, many do.

00:31:10.000 So I'm, I was glad that I was able to be there in case whatever happened, happened.

00:31:15.000 We'd be able to be there to, to document it.

00:31:17.000 And I was lucky enough to be able to get into the Canadian embassy, which funny enough, the last time I was there, I was also thrown out by Bill Morneau because I was trying to go to Bill Morneau.

00:31:25.000 I was trying to go to a Bill Morneau press conference and they threw me out, they made me persona non grata on my own embassy, which is just weird.

00:31:32.000 It's.

00:31:33.000 That didn't happen this time.

00:31:34.000 Didn't happen this time.

00:31:35.000 I was welcomed in.

00:31:36.000 I mean, there was a lot of conservatives celebrating there.

00:31:38.000 It was sort of like a conservative victory party.

00:31:40.000 So Liz trust was there.

00:31:42.000 Daniel Smith was there.

00:31:43.000 Um, Danielle Smith wasn't like celebrating.

00:31:46.000 Um, she was there doing interviews and working, but Liz trust was pretty happy.

00:31:50.000 Um, there was a lot of liberal staffers there as well though.

00:31:53.000 Um, both like diplomatic staff and actual liberal staffers that were just sort of there.

00:31:58.000 You could tell cause they had the red lanyards on, but if that wasn't, uh, enough of a sign, they were also crying.

00:32:04.000 So it was pretty entertaining to watch.

00:32:06.000 Oh yeah.

00:32:07.000 They were head hand in their head, uh, head in their hands, just completely upset, devastated, sitting in the.

00:32:13.000 You should have found that we could have had some nice liberal tears.

00:32:15.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:32:16.000 Yeah.

00:32:17.000 I got to get one of those cups from daily wire.

00:32:19.000 Um, but most of it was a celebration.

00:32:22.000 Um, and it was great to be able to chat with Liz trust as well.

00:32:25.000 Um, I interviewed her there and that went, I was a little bit surprised, but extremely viral.

00:32:31.000 Well, we have that clip.

00:32:32.000 Let's play it.

00:32:33.000 This is a key in catching up with former, uh, conservative prime minister of the UK.

00:32:36.000 Liz just talking about Mark Carney.

00:32:38.000 Yeah.

00:32:39.000 Wanting to get your thoughts on Mark Carney and your relationship with him, uh, while you were prime minister of the United Kingdom and any advice you have to Canadians who think he might make a good prime minister.

00:32:49.000 Well, Mark Carney was governor of the bank of England and under his tenure.

00:32:54.000 Uh, too much money was printed, which did damage to the British economy and put our economy off track.

00:33:01.000 He at the last election endorsed Rachel Reeves economic policy.

00:33:06.000 She's now become chancellor.

00:33:08.000 It's been a disaster for Britain.

00:33:09.000 Uh, the country is heading for bankruptcy.

00:33:12.000 So I would strongly recommend not backing Mark Carney or his policies on net zero, which have been disastrous for Britain would be disastrous for Canada.

00:33:21.000 Do you trust his judgment overall?

00:33:23.000 Outside of ideological considerations?

00:33:26.000 Well, I believe that he made major mistakes in the management of the bank of England.

00:33:30.000 He has pushed net zero, which has been a disaster, not just for the UK, but for many countries across the world.

00:33:38.000 Yeah.

00:33:39.000 Great interview there.

00:33:40.000 And I mean, you just have this uncanny ability to find people.

00:33:43.000 That's weird, isn't it?

00:33:44.000 And you bumped into Ted Cruz as well.

00:33:46.000 Yeah.

00:33:47.000 Um, in your time there.

00:33:48.000 So, uh, what, what else were your takeaways from DC?

00:33:51.000 Well, I want to take a minute and point out there like that.

00:33:54.000 That's what I want to do.

00:33:55.000 I want to ask people questions that Canadians and my audience in general want answers to.

00:34:01.000 And I was able to fly across the continent, go to an embassy and ask a former prime minister of a G7 country, a pretty big deal, a basic question and get something that was extremely valuable content wise.

00:34:16.000 That's what I wanted to do with Mark Carney.

00:34:18.000 He wants to be anointed leader of the liberal party and then, and then appointed prime minister of this country.

00:34:23.000 Uh, and I wanted to ask him simple questions.

00:34:25.000 Um, it was different questions and he might not have liked to answer them in this case.

00:34:30.000 Of course, Liz trust was happy to talk about Mark Carney because she really does not like him.

00:34:34.000 Uh, she attributes his downfall or her, her, her downfall in her short term as prime minister to him and his money printing policies.

00:34:41.000 Um, so, you know, it's different questions.

00:34:45.000 And obviously they're, they can be prickly and who knows what the questions are going to be.

00:34:50.000 Um, I usually determine what they're going to be about an hour before I asked the person or sometimes on the spot in that case with Liz trust, it was just out of my pocket.

00:34:56.000 Right.

00:34:57.000 Um, but let's trust didn't need to arrest me.

00:35:00.000 Even if those questions were going to be prickly or more prickly, um, there doesn't need to be police intervention.

00:35:07.000 So it makes me wonder, like, why does Mark Carney and, and not just Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau as well.

00:35:12.000 Christia Freeland, why do they rely on the police to prevent them from being asked accountability questions?

00:35:18.000 It's a huge issue in Canada.

00:35:20.000 I can't go into parliament to ask these questions in, in a, um, you know, in a, in a official setting.

00:35:28.000 They won't, they will not accredit me, uh, because I don't live in Ottawa.

00:35:31.000 That's the rule for the press gallery.

00:35:33.000 That's what they say.

00:35:34.000 I'm sure if I'm sure if I was anyone else, they would bend the rules, but it means that I have to either find interesting places to find them on the street, on a beach, whatever, or at a press conference somewhere that is not highly controlled by parliamentary security.

00:35:48.000 So it, it, it, it's frustrating to me that I have to fly across the world, um, to go to a foreign country to ask our own leader.

00:35:57.000 Yeah. A foreign leader questions.

00:35:58.000 Um, I, I can walk as a Canadian journalist.

00:36:01.000 I can walk into the white house press room.

00:36:03.000 I I've done, I've done it many times before and it's pretty simple.

00:36:06.000 They say, Oh yeah.

00:36:07.000 Uh, first amendment also applies to you.

00:36:09.000 The rights of media access also apply to you as a foreign journalist.

00:36:12.000 I cannot do that in Canada.

00:36:14.000 Um, in fact, when, and during Donald Trump's first term, the only time I've ever been able to get a question close to Trudeau up until that point.

00:36:23.000 Um, obviously I met him on a beach recently, but, um, I had to fly to the white house.

00:36:28.000 I I'd be kicked out of parliament.

00:36:29.000 I'd have to go to the white house for his Trudeau's foreign visit to see Donald Trump there.

00:36:33.000 And then I could ask him questions of course, his media team was furious and they pushed me.

00:36:37.000 And they didn't get questions through it.

00:36:39.000 They didn't respond, but we were able to shout them to him and get the point across what we wanted to ask.

00:36:43.000 And, um, it's, it's the point of it is the access.

00:36:47.000 You have the ability to get there and ask a question.

00:36:49.000 If they want to respond, they respond.

00:36:50.000 It's up to them, but there shouldn't be a police force between you, between someone who represents the people and wants to get answers from those in power and get, you know, relay.

00:37:02.000 Sort of a message between the two and actually have some accountability between the two.

00:37:07.000 Um, there shouldn't be a police force able to determine if you meet the right partisan, you know, check.

00:37:14.000 If you check off the right partisan boxes to be allowed in the room.

00:37:17.000 That's insane.

00:37:18.000 It's totally insane.

00:37:19.000 Well, two, two points on that.

00:37:20.000 One, it's kind of, it always kind of blows my mind.

00:37:23.000 It's remarkable that, you know, you, you could, you could get up to a prime minister trust like that and ask her a question.

00:37:29.000 The clip went viral.

00:37:30.000 Everyone was really interested in hearing what she had to say.

00:37:32.000 And no one in the legacy media thought to do that, right?

00:37:35.000 Like for all the resources, all the money that the CBC and CTV and all these different newspapers and outlets, they all had presence in Washington.

00:37:42.000 Um, but they're not doing that.

00:37:43.000 They're not actually doing the kind of journalism that Canadians are interested in.

00:37:46.000 The second point, just so that the viewers and listeners, uh, understand the full context.

00:37:51.000 So Kian was one of the journalists who was at Mark Carney's, um, launch party in Edmonton last week where he launched his leadership.

00:37:58.000 And Kian was basically stopped by police, not allowed into the building, not allowed to go to the event.

00:38:04.000 You know, Mark Carney decided to launch his campaign in Edmonton.

00:38:07.000 I guess he grew up there or spent a bit of time in his childhood there.

00:38:10.000 He certainly doesn't live there now.

00:38:12.000 He's certainly not an Edmontonian.

00:38:13.000 Um, but the idea was that you and a handful of other independent journalists, including True North, Isaac Lamoureux, uh, were, were not, I don't know what their justification was that you weren't, you weren't journalists or that you weren't allowed.

00:38:25.000 I mean, you're an Albertan and he's in your province and he's refusing to ask questions.

00:38:29.000 On local media.

00:38:30.000 It's, it's absolutely outrageous.

00:38:32.000 Yeah.

00:38:33.000 And same with Isaac Lamoureux.

00:38:34.000 I mean, Isaac's more polite than you.

00:38:36.000 He, he, he's not gonna, you know, try to make a fuss about it.

00:38:39.000 Uh, you're a tough cookie.

00:38:40.000 You're not taking no for an answer.

00:38:42.000 And so you tried to fight your way in until the police came and eventually escorted you away.

00:38:47.000 What, walk us through a little bit, like what, what was their rationale?

00:38:50.000 What was the reason?

00:38:51.000 Why wouldn't they let you in?

00:38:52.000 Uh, what do you think Mark Carney is afraid of?

00:38:54.000 Yeah.

00:38:55.000 We didn't publish all of what happened there.

00:38:57.000 I mean, we have most of it on video.

00:38:59.000 Unfortunately, my meta, I got these new like meta sunglasses to film video.

00:39:03.000 They failed on me that day, which disappointed me a bit because those would have caught footage of his campaign team, locking my leg in a door, like closing my door, closing door on my leg.

00:39:16.000 And then putting their legs and body in between me and the door to keep me locked there.

00:39:21.000 Unable to move or go into a different room.

00:39:23.000 Sounds a little bit like assault.

00:39:25.000 Absolutely.

00:39:26.000 Absolutely.

00:39:27.000 And so it's, but I also, I don't want to be known as the journalist who always has the police called on them.

00:39:32.000 Like it's, it's, it's awful.

00:39:34.000 It's a terrible situation to be in, to have to negotiate with the police to do your job.

00:39:38.000 Like, like I'm not a, I'm not a villain.

00:39:41.000 I'm not dangerous, obviously, or else I wouldn't be allowed in the white house.

00:39:45.000 Um, and they're able to basically tarnish my reputation by saying, look, ha, he's the kind of guy who needs the cops called on him.

00:39:54.000 Cause he's so rambunctious or he's going to break rules or be, you know, a bad person.

00:39:58.000 Like it's, it's weird.

00:39:59.000 Have you ever interrupted an event?

00:40:01.000 Have you ever gone in and like shouted out somebody while they were talking and giving a speech?

00:40:05.000 Like, I mean, we saw Christia Freeland giving her announcement and you had a bunch of people out there calling her part of a genocide and pushing their Gaza issue.

00:40:14.000 Um, have you, have you ever done something?

00:40:16.000 I don't think so.

00:40:17.000 I mean, I, I mean, I've only ever seen you ask questions as a journalist.

00:40:20.000 Yeah.

00:40:21.000 I mean, you've shouted questions at someone who's running across the street or we'll get to Justin Trudeau on the beach, but I don't think I've ever seen you interrupt an event.

00:40:28.000 In polite company, you want to be polite.

00:40:30.000 You don't want to be the person that like runs in front of the cameras and busts up an event just so that you can get some silly question to someone who probably won't answer it anyways.

00:40:41.000 That's not the purpose.

00:40:42.000 The purpose is to get a thoughtful question that Canadians want answers to, asked to, and responded by someone of significance who needs to be held accountable.

00:40:52.000 Or, or has something of intrigue like Liz Truss, who doesn't need to be held accountable necessarily, but has some advice for people.

00:40:58.000 And you want to be able to give that to your readers and viewers.

00:41:01.000 That's the goal.

00:41:02.000 The goal is not to cause a scene at all.

00:41:04.000 So we, we didn't publish a lot of that because we didn't want to be known as those people that police get called on when we do our job.

00:41:11.000 But we did have to show that Mark Carney's the kind of guy that calls the police on journalists.

00:41:16.000 Cause it wasn't just me.

00:41:17.000 Right.

00:41:18.000 You know, we were, we were accredited.

00:41:20.000 We were, we applied, we received the invitation.

00:41:23.000 That's the only reason we knew where it was.

00:41:25.000 Cause it was actually quite secret.

00:41:26.000 Right.

00:41:27.000 We got the invitation the next morning.

00:41:28.000 I drove up from Calgary and we were steps away from getting in.

00:41:32.000 And some guy who would not.

00:41:34.000 Who's we, where you were with someone from.

00:41:36.000 I was with, uh, yeah, there was someone from the Western standard.

00:41:38.000 We all drove up separately, but you know, Isaac was there.

00:41:41.000 Western standard was there.

00:41:42.000 Um, Mocha was there and we were about to step in and they just said, no, you're not coming in.

00:41:48.000 And we, we were like, okay, uh, who are you?

00:41:51.000 And he wouldn't identify himself.

00:41:52.000 We asked if he was with the campaign.

00:41:54.000 I'd never seen him before.

00:41:55.000 Um, he was just some guy.

00:41:57.000 And we said, are you with the campaign?

00:41:59.000 No, I'm not with the campaign.

00:42:00.000 I'm just a random guy.

00:42:01.000 He said.

00:42:02.000 And which is weird because.

00:42:03.000 Then why does he have authority?

00:42:04.000 Exactly.

00:42:05.000 Exactly.

00:42:06.000 And then people who I think who, who now later people tell me, uh, it was this guy named Steven

00:42:11.000 Carter, maybe you're something.

00:42:13.000 I, I don't really know him.

00:42:14.000 Um, he was sort of liaising with this thug who was holding my leg in a door.

00:42:20.000 Super weird behavior for a political campaign in Canada.

00:42:23.000 It seemed like something out of a third world.

00:42:25.000 Um, and you know, people needed to see that people need to see that that's what Mark Carney

00:42:30.000 is going to do.

00:42:31.000 Um, I mean, I, I wasn't at Christia Freeland's launch.

00:42:34.000 I was at the inauguration.

00:42:35.000 I wonder if she would have done the same thing. 0.50

00:42:37.000 Um, well, it doesn't seem like her event was nearly as secure.

00:42:41.000 I was really surprised that those protesters and they had like a large banner.

00:42:45.000 Like, how do you get a banner like that into a political event?

00:42:48.000 It's so weird.

00:42:49.000 And it's like in some ways the Canadian political class is like so locked down and you can't get to them.

00:42:54.000 And then in other ways they're totally exposed and like actually could, things could have gone a lot worse.

00:42:59.000 Like if you could sneak a big sign into a campaign launch for the film, what else could you sneak in there?

00:43:04.000 Yeah. And I don't want to be an advocate for tightening up access to politicians.

00:43:08.000 I think that's a great thing about Canada that we are able to get that access.

00:43:11.000 Um, but then you compare it to the United States and it's, it's very different.

00:43:17.000 Um, someone can walk off the streets and go up to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's office, sit in the front office of it and wait for it to come out.

00:43:26.000 And, uh, they can get their phone number, imagine, and they can get their email.

00:43:31.000 The emails of our MPs are hidden.

00:43:33.000 You know, they're not publicly accessible.

00:43:35.000 You can, you know, you could email justin.trudeau at parl.gc.ca and it'll go to a bureaucrat or some, some, um, what the actual email that goes to his Blackberry or iPhone or any other member of parliament is like first name dot last name dot a string of digits.

00:43:52.000 And that will go to them if you are an insider or an elite or also a politician.

00:43:57.000 And I get that their phone can't be blowing up all the time and they have work to do.

00:44:01.000 But the access that we have, um, isn't anywhere close to what the Americans get, which, you know, you gotta, you gotta hand it to them.

00:44:09.000 Being a, uh, congressman or senator, you are, you're accessible to the people.

00:44:16.000 And they know that they know that their job is to represent the people and help them.

00:44:21.000 Canadian members of parliament, I don't think have that same, uh, opinion of themselves.

00:44:26.000 Uh, it's interesting that you said that any journalists can kind of show up at the White House and go to a press briefing that their first amendment guarantees that.

00:44:34.000 How do they prevent, cause I just did like play devil's advocate.

00:44:37.000 You hear the, the, the libs or the establishment people in Canada say, well, not just anyone can be a journalist.

00:44:42.000 Like not every citizen from Twitter can just show up and expect to ask questions of their premises.

00:44:47.000 So how does, how does the U S stop just like every single like streamer and citizen journalist on X from showing up to an event or they just don't worry about it.

00:44:56.000 Yeah.

00:44:57.000 What, who cares if they do?

00:44:58.000 Yeah.

00:44:59.000 Right.

00:45:00.000 Um, but you know, I shouldn't say that anyone can, um, I was able to get in.

00:45:03.000 Um, you submit like some documents to, I think it's maybe Homeland security and they audit you make sure that you're not a bad person.

00:45:12.000 And oh yeah, they're a journalist.

00:45:14.000 Okay.

00:45:15.000 You're in.

00:45:16.000 So there is some like steps to go through.

00:45:18.000 It's not, it's not a walk in the front door kind of thing.

00:45:20.000 You have to, you have to let them go through your background and cause you're, you're, you're in the president's house.

00:45:25.000 You gotta be a safe person for sure.

00:45:27.000 But if you're a journalist that gives you some credibility and, um, and you obviously you gotta be a good, a safe person, nonviolent, not a criminal, but, um, their definition of journalist is quite broad in the United States.

00:45:42.000 Right.

00:45:43.000 In Canada, they like to think that you have to have gone to, um, some journalism college to have the, the title of journalist.

00:45:49.000 Like it's like some sort of doctorate.

00:45:51.000 But not even that cause true north hires from journalism schools.

00:45:54.000 So Harrison Faulkner went to Ryerson.

00:45:56.000 Um, uh, Rachel Parker went to Carleton journalism school. 0.73

00:46:01.000 And I don't think that they're getting any, any, any different treatment than you.

00:46:05.000 Like if you work for an independent press, um, outlet, they don't consider you to be a real journalist.

00:46:11.000 Um, you know, it's not just Mark Carney.

00:46:13.000 It seems to be a bit of a theme.

00:46:14.000 So I noticed our mutual friend Ezra Levant was in Davos, Switzerland.

00:46:18.000 Um, and he, he, he, he also just unbelievable the ability to find these people.

00:46:22.000 So he caught up with, um, BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, um, to ask them about their DEI policies

00:46:29.000 in the wake of Donald Trump's victory.

00:46:31.000 So let's play that clip.

00:46:33.000 Mr. Fink, are you going to follow Donald Trump's, uh, plan and get rid of DEI and ESG

00:46:38.000 in your companies?

00:46:41.000 BlackRock really is the opposite of Donald Trump in so many ways.

00:46:46.000 You're authoritarian, you're anti-populist, you're top down.

00:46:50.000 Are you going to change at all in light of the U.S. presidency?

00:46:54.000 How has Donald Trump, have you talked to Donald Trump since he was elected?

00:47:01.000 Is the World Economic Forum a counterpoint to Donald Trump?

00:47:10.000 Why are you running away from simple questions?

00:47:12.000 Just answer a question.

00:47:13.000 Have you talked to President Trump yet?

00:47:15.000 Why are your, why are your bodyguards pushing away journalists, Mr. Fink?

00:47:19.000 So good for Ezra for doing that and getting in there.

00:47:22.000 I think we missed the part where the guy took his phone out and took a picture of it.

00:47:26.000 Yeah.

00:47:27.000 So that was a little bit, um, creepy.

00:47:28.000 You know, Davos is always an interesting time.

00:47:30.000 We had our own Andrew Lawton.

00:47:32.000 Uh, unfortunately as folks know, Andrew has decided to go and run for parliament.

00:47:35.000 So he's a conservative candidate in London.

00:47:37.000 So he's no longer, uh, doing his show, the Andrew Lawton show.

00:47:40.000 And unfortunately we weren't able to send him to, um, Davos this year.

00:47:43.000 But in the past, uh, Andrew has been our man that goes down there and it's just, it's just so amusing.

00:47:48.000 So I'll, I'll play this clip.

00:47:49.000 Um, this is Andrew Lawton.

00:47:51.000 He caught up with, uh, Christine Lagarde, who's the head of the European Central Bank.

00:47:56.000 Try to ask her a question.

00:47:57.000 Um, and she resisted.

00:47:59.000 So let's play that clip.

00:48:00.000 Good afternoon, ma'am.

00:48:01.000 How can people have confidence in digital currencies and government not using it as a tool of control?

00:48:06.000 I'm not giving an interview.

00:48:07.000 I'm not speaking because I'm in a quiet period.

00:48:10.000 This is about rebuilding trust this year.

00:48:12.000 How can people have trust in these institutions when governments wield so much control?

00:48:16.000 Mrs. Lagarde bears the privacy of the people.

00:48:19.000 Shouldn't you be answering questions if this conference's theme is rebuilding trust, ma'am?

00:48:24.000 He's a, he's skillful.

00:48:25.000 And you definitely lost some talent there because, but you know, the great thing is Canada's, Canada's going to gain something there.

00:48:31.000 You know where he's coming from with what he's saying there.

00:48:34.000 That was a really good question that he asked her and something that I wish we actually got an answer to.

00:48:39.000 Well, I mean that I'm, I'm having a quiet period.

00:48:42.000 It's just, it's so perfect for the WEF and, and how they regard the regular people.

00:48:46.000 And Andrew, such a talented journalist.

00:48:48.000 It's sad to lose him.

00:48:49.000 Although I know he's going to do great things in parliament.

00:48:51.000 Another one he caught up with, this is from a few years ago.

00:48:53.000 Um, he caught up with none other than Mark Carney.

00:48:56.000 Um, trying to do an interview on the streets there in Davos.

00:48:59.000 Let's play that clip.

00:49:01.000 Hi, Mr. Carney.

00:49:02.000 Andrew Rotten with True North and Canada.

00:49:03.000 Nice to see you.

00:49:04.000 Uh, I, I, I never do, uh, I never do, uh, spontaneously.

00:49:09.000 I understand.

00:49:10.000 My one question is, could the Canadian oil and gas sector survive the net zero approach that's being promoted here?

00:49:15.000 I, as I said, I never do.

00:49:17.000 You'd want, if you want an interview with me, uh, like everybody else, you make a request from Canada.

00:49:23.000 Okay.

00:49:24.000 And will you accept that?

00:49:26.000 Uh, yeah, he, he never accepted the actual interview surprise surprise, but at least, uh, I, I like how he, he does an interview cause he's answering the questions just to say, I don't do interviews.

00:49:35.000 It's like, well, whether you realize that or not, Mr. Carney, you're literally doing an interview, um, right now.

00:49:40.000 Okay.

00:49:41.000 I, I, I have to throw to this can cause this is, uh, something that made you even more famous than you already were.

00:49:45.000 I don't know how you did it.

00:49:46.000 Um, but we have this clip of you from the summer of, was it 2023?

00:49:50.000 With, with Sofino, with, Oh, yeah.

00:49:54.000 Uh, it was last summer.

00:49:55.000 Last summer.

00:49:56.000 Okay.

00:49:57.000 So, so here is, uh, Kian Bexie who managed to catch up with none other than the prime minister of Canada, uh, while he was on vacation.

00:50:03.000 Let's play that clip.

00:50:05.000 Are you enjoying your time on vacation?

00:50:08.000 Good.

00:50:09.000 Are you having a good time on vacation, sir?

00:50:11.000 I'm happy to speak with you.

00:50:12.000 Are you on vacation?

00:50:13.000 Are you on vacation? 0.95

00:50:15.000 Because your government is so sick.

00:50:16.000 Oh, that's fine. 0.97

00:50:17.000 I'm sorry.

00:50:18.000 That's enough.

00:50:19.000 Okay.

00:50:20.000 We want to know why you can justify going on a chartered government flight when your minister

00:50:27.000 says that going on a simple road trip.

00:50:29.000 The minister is right here.

00:50:30.000 Okay.

00:50:31.000 Sure.

00:50:32.000 Thank you.

00:50:33.000 I'll be with you in a bit.

00:50:34.000 Thank you.

00:50:35.000 I appreciate it.

00:50:36.000 So, tell me.

00:50:37.000 I just want to know.

00:50:38.000 No, no, no.

00:50:39.000 I get that.

00:50:40.000 I ask the questions.

00:50:41.000 I think prime ministers should be able to have a family life.

00:50:44.000 Absolutely.

00:50:45.000 Okay.

00:50:46.000 Can you imagine?

00:50:47.000 No, no, no.

00:50:48.000 I get to ask one question.

00:50:49.000 You've asked multiple questions.

00:50:50.000 You haven't answered one, though.

00:50:51.000 I'm going to ask one more.

00:50:52.000 I'm going to ask one more.

00:50:53.000 Do you think?

00:50:54.000 Do you think?

00:50:55.000 Do you think?

00:50:56.000 Do you think?

00:50:57.000 Do you think?

00:50:58.000 Do you think?

00:50:59.000 I have...

00:51:00.000 Okay.

00:51:01.000 So, what's your question?

00:51:02.000 Well, I wanted to know if you're hiding from your caucus, why you won't call a caucus meeting?

00:51:06.000 I am not hiding from my caucus.

00:51:08.000 And I've had many, many conversations and meetings with caucus.

00:51:13.000 That's just the absolute best kind of journalism.

00:51:16.000 And props to you for catching.

00:51:18.000 You know, we were just talking about how Canadians don't really have access to our leaders.

00:51:21.000 And so you have to find a way.

00:51:23.000 And you did it.

00:51:24.000 Tell us a little bit about how you managed to get Justin Trudeau and a little bit about the reaction.

00:51:29.000 Well, the reaction was something else.

00:51:32.000 We knew he was in BC.

00:51:34.000 Unlike most democratically elected leaders in the Western world, we don't get a detailed itinerary from Justin Trudeau.

00:51:43.000 We know where Donald Trump is every second of every day.

00:51:46.000 Maybe that comes with having the codes to nuclear weapons.

00:51:49.000 Maybe it's just being a serious country.

00:51:51.000 I don't know.

00:51:52.000 But all we got was that he was in British Columbia taking personal days.

00:51:55.000 So I thought, okay, where is he likely to be in BC?

00:51:58.000 He's probably not skiing.

00:51:59.000 He goes to Tofino often.

00:52:00.000 I checked the Tofino Facebook group and they're like, oh, what's this motorcade about?

00:52:04.000 So I was like, okay, so he's there.

00:52:06.000 So we get on a plane, like a float plane, and we go out there and we walk around and we find his motorcade.

00:52:14.000 Pretty easy to spot.

00:52:15.000 We see his RCMP detail between this house that we knew that he had stayed at in the past and the beach.

00:52:22.000 And we just sort of waited out there in beach gear, sort of, if we could catch him on a stroll, then we'd ask him a few questions.

00:52:28.000 This wasn't something that I thought would be extremely controversial.

00:52:31.000 Global News did this before when he went to that very same house on Truth and Reconciliation Day.

00:52:37.000 That was newsworthy.

00:52:39.000 A news organization deemed it to be newsworthy.

00:52:41.000 And the reaction, the value that people saw in that afterwards deemed it as well.

00:52:46.000 And his minister had just told Canadians that going on a road, like the context of this is his minister, just Mark Holland, said that going on a road trip is causing the world to burn.

00:52:57.000 And it is the responsibility of Canadians to ration how often they go on vacation.

00:53:02.000 And then Justin Trudeau charters a private jet.

00:53:05.000 Right, because somehow us driving in our car for like two hours is going to end the planet.

00:53:09.000 Meanwhile, this guy's off on a private jet going around the country.

00:53:12.000 Okay, continue.

00:53:13.000 So I wanted to ask him about that.

00:53:16.000 Don't you see the hypocrisy? 0.54

00:53:17.000 But of course, he thinks he's different. 0.62

00:53:18.000 He really does.

00:53:19.000 At the base of his personality, he thinks that he has been bestowed on Canada by God to save us as a Trudeau.

00:53:25.000 So he thinks that the rules are not for him.

00:53:27.000 Even the rules that he sets are not for him.

00:53:29.000 And we weren't asking those questions.

00:53:30.000 Now, did I expect to get like 14 minutes?

00:53:32.000 I think it was with him.

00:53:33.000 No, I was glad that I was able to like get some.

00:53:36.000 I had a lot of questions stacked up over time to ask him.

00:53:38.000 And it was nice of him to give me that time.

00:53:40.000 But you could tell from the start of that interview that he didn't think I was a journalist.

00:53:44.000 He thought that I was just a regular guy on vacation because I was in beach gear probably.

00:53:48.000 But, you know, we had some serious questions to ask him and I was glad we were able to.

00:53:52.000 The reaction was, you know, from our audience, they were very happy.

00:53:56.000 We get arrested when we show up to ask him questions as evidenced by what happened with Mark Carney.

00:54:01.000 It's his staff running Mark Carney's campaign.

00:54:03.000 So it's, you know, exactly the same thing.

00:54:05.000 We're banned from parliament. 0.99

00:54:07.000 I've been arrested and hauled out of Rideau Hall when he was having a COVID press conference because his press advance, Terry Guillon, who's a terrible, terrible piece of scum, human, worst person in the world. 0.97

00:54:21.000 Justin Trudeau has him deciding what journalists are allowed in and out. 0.98

00:54:25.000 He sicked the RCMP on me to send me away.

00:54:28.000 So we, you know, we have to find novel ways of finding the prime minister.

00:54:32.000 And it was on a beach.

00:54:34.000 The prime minister was on vacation, but he takes like 116 days of vacation a year.

00:54:39.000 So it's like a one in three chance that he's going to be on vacation on any given day.

00:54:43.000 So are we just not allowed to talk to the prime minister for a third of the year?

00:54:46.000 Absolutely not.

00:54:47.000 Some people were upset, mainly liberals.

00:54:49.000 And the reaction that they had was just completely unhinged.

00:54:52.000 Personal attacks, death threats, threatening to show up at private events of my family, unhinged behavior.

00:55:00.000 I'm not the leader of a G7 country.

00:55:02.000 I don't control the military.

00:55:05.000 I don't control an economy.

00:55:07.000 And I don't get paid like 200 bajillion dollars a year.

00:55:11.000 Justin Trudeau does.

00:55:12.000 And he has an obligation to respond to questions and explain to Canadians why he thinks he still has the moral authority to govern.

00:55:20.000 This was right after his poll numbers plummeted.

00:55:22.000 He was pulling at like 20% at this point in time.

00:55:25.000 Eight in 10 Canadians wanted him out.

00:55:28.000 So how is it my fault for asking him questions?

00:55:31.000 Well, liberals told me that I was just an evil, terrible person for doing this.

00:55:34.000 Conservatives, they, you know, they loved it because they knew that this is the only way you can actually get questions to him.

00:55:40.000 The mainstream media, although that there's that one guy, I think his name was Jordan Armstrong, came to that same beach house to ask him questions two years prior.

00:55:47.000 Right.

00:55:48.000 Not many people in the parliamentary press gallery would ask him the questions that I asked him.

00:55:51.000 No, they were pointed.

00:55:52.000 They were good.

00:55:53.000 They're professional.

00:55:54.000 I have to give you credit because you could see, I was, first of all to say, I was impressed by Justin Trudeau for kind of pushing.

00:55:59.000 I think that those were like his bodyguards.

00:56:00.000 He kind of pushed him back and said, I'm going to go for a walk with Kian.

00:56:03.000 He kind of grabs you and he's really up close to you doing what Trudeau does, but he was trying to charm you.

00:56:08.000 Right.

00:56:09.000 And he was trying to evoke sympathy and he was, he was trying to come across as very human and you were having none of it.

00:56:14.000 Like you answered his questions and you were super respectful.

00:56:17.000 I don't, I don't think you were rude.

00:56:18.000 I don't think you were unruly respectful that you weren't buying into his BS.

00:56:21.000 He's probably not used to that.

00:56:22.000 He's probably not used to being able to, you know, he puts on the charm and then the people fall in line.

00:56:27.000 And that's everyone around him, probably his entire life.

00:56:30.000 So I think it was a little bit, you know, put him off guard for, for someone like you to be so firm, but also this is of their own making, right?

00:56:38.000 They create an environment where independent journalists who have valid questions, who speak for millions and millions of Canadians, don't get the chance to actually ask our prime minister.

00:56:46.000 Like I would love for you to go find Justin Trudeau wherever he is right now and do the same thing.

00:56:50.000 Be like, why haven't you stepped down?

00:56:51.000 Why are you still prime minister?

00:56:52.000 Why are you putting the liberal party ahead of the good of the country?

00:56:55.000 Like, what are you doing?

00:56:56.000 Why weren't you down in Washington?

00:56:57.000 Why aren't you negotiating with Trump?

00:56:59.000 There's again, a million questions that Canadians would love to know of this guy.

00:57:02.000 I don't know where the media is.

00:57:04.000 I don't know why they're not answering these questions.

00:57:06.000 And this is all Justin Trudeau's fault for not allowing you in in the first place.

00:57:09.000 He's made his own bed when it comes to this kind of thing by sheltering himself from questions that are, you know, Donald Trump lets any reporter ask him tough questions.

00:57:19.000 Maybe he ridicules them.

00:57:20.000 Yeah.

00:57:21.000 Maybe he shuts them down.

00:57:23.000 I mean, Justin Trudeau just doesn't.

00:57:25.000 I think that they know deep down he doesn't have the competency to do that.

00:57:28.000 He is disarming a little bit when you're interviewing like that.

00:57:31.000 You mentioned he grabs you.

00:57:32.000 Like he physically grabbed me and said, okay, we're walking this way, which is a weird thing.

00:57:36.000 You know, he does that.

00:57:37.000 He does that too.

00:57:38.000 I've heard a lot of people say that he does that to them.

00:57:40.000 It's weird when it happens to you.

00:57:42.000 He's a very handsy person and he tries to control the conversation and because he's that's who he is.

00:57:49.000 He thinks that everything revolves around him, that he determines when you can speak, where you can stand, when you sit, when you talk.

00:57:56.000 And he, you know, he doesn't like answering questions.

00:57:59.000 So that's sort of played into this whole nine years of him avoiding any sort of accountability and us having to find novel and unique ways to speak to him.

00:58:08.000 Well, it's not a good sign that Mark Carney is doing the same thing, hiring the same thugs.

00:58:12.000 I do think he'll be the next prime minister of this country.

00:58:14.000 Hopefully not for very long.

00:58:16.000 Hopefully at some point we'll get a democratic election.

00:58:19.000 I launched a petition today.

00:58:21.000 I encourage everyone to go check out my website, CandaceMalcolm.com.

00:58:23.000 Please sign that petition.

00:58:24.000 I would love to get a million signatures and hand it to the governor general.

00:58:28.000 I'll get you to come with me.

00:58:29.000 We'll track down the governor general.

00:58:31.000 We'll hand it to her in person.

00:58:33.000 It needs to be done.

00:58:34.000 We need an election, Canada.

00:58:35.000 Well, Candace, it's so great to have you in the studio.

00:58:36.000 Thank you so much for coming out.

00:58:37.000 Thanks for having me.

00:58:38.000 And keep up the great work.

00:58:39.000 Keep up the great journalism.

00:58:40.000 Yeah, let's do more often.

00:58:41.000 Okay.

00:58:42.000 All right.

00:58:43.000 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:58:44.000 That's it for us today.

00:58:45.000 Thank you.

00:58:46.000 We'll be back again tomorrow with all the news.

00:58:47.000 God bless.

Juno News - January 23, 2025

Are there any other genders you’d like to name？ (with Keean Bexte)

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