Juno News - Arrogant Australian says Canadian Citizenship Process is “Problematic”

00:00:00.000 Liberal elites get triggered by the word freedom and the sight of the Canadian flag.

00:00:04.200 A legacy media organization nominates a fake news story for an excellence award,

00:00:08.620 and the CBC continues to publish incoherent opinion pieces.

00:00:12.000 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:24.960 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:27.060 Welcome to Fake News Friday, our favorite show on The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:30.720 We do it every Friday.

00:00:31.480 We do an analysis and we go through the fake news stories in the legacy media,

00:00:36.620 point out all of the various flaws and the ways that they do not uphold their own journalistic ethics.

00:00:42.100 To join me, as usual, we have Harrison Faulkner, who is a producer and journalist here at True North,

00:00:47.360 and someone who actually went to journalism school.

00:00:50.560 You went to Ryerson, or I think you continue to go there, Harrison,

00:00:53.440 but you can tell us whether or not these journalists are following the guidelines

00:00:59.240 that you are taught in journalism school and whether they actually practice what they preach here.

00:01:03.680 So thanks for joining us.

00:01:05.000 Always happy to be here, Candice.

00:01:06.680 So this is like a reoccurring theme.

00:01:08.600 I think it's just like the latest thing to do on the political left is to talk about how

00:01:13.340 freedom is now a word that means something other than freedom,

00:01:16.920 and the Canadian flag is something that we shouldn't feel proud about.

00:01:20.700 We shouldn't see it as a sign of unity or hope or freedom or any of those kind of things,

00:01:25.380 but we should all be ashamed of our Canadian flag and our Canadian symbols.

00:01:29.800 Harrison, so first I want to talk about this.

00:01:32.480 I've heard this so much since the Freedom Convoy.

00:01:36.220 Liberals and leftists sort of wrapping themselves into a pretzel trying to explain how freedom is

00:01:41.140 actually a bad thing.

00:01:42.160 So here we had liberal crony, former CBC talking head, Bruce Anderson.

00:01:47.180 He gets really upset by the word freedom.

00:01:49.160 So here he is on Twitter earlier this week saying that the battle cry freedom seems increasingly

00:01:55.120 like a Trojan horse.

00:01:56.560 Inside are ideas that undermine equal rights, threaten the planet, risk economic chaos,

00:02:02.080 undermine law and order, spirit of community, ability to manage a public health crisis,

00:02:07.040 fact-based news, et cetera.

00:02:08.220 See, this is how liberals and people on the left justify the fact that they have completely

00:02:12.640 failed to uphold the chart of rights and freedoms over the last two years, Harrison.

00:02:16.100 The fact that they have abandoned the basic tenets of liberalism.

00:02:19.580 Like these are big L liberals who hate small L liberalism.

00:02:23.320 And here he lays out exactly the ways that he sees that the following things are more important

00:02:29.640 than individual liberty.

00:02:31.180 So he thinks that equal rights, whatever that means, probably equity, equal outcome, threatening

00:02:37.160 the planet.

00:02:37.760 So therefore we should have a climate strategy that undermines individual liberty, risk economic

00:02:43.700 chaos, undermine law and order, spirit of community.

00:02:46.420 And of course, you know, the two main ones that the liberals obsess over these days, ability

00:02:50.940 to manage a public health crisis.

00:02:52.300 So therefore the government's power to try to manage a public health crisis is more important

00:02:57.580 than individual liberty and fact-based news.

00:03:00.800 All of this was just over, by the way, Mark Mulroney, son of former prime minister Brian

00:03:05.300 Mulroney, just tweeted out something about how, hey, if you don't like freedom, ignore

00:03:11.340 it.

00:03:11.640 If you think that a politician's talking about freedom and you think we're already as free

00:03:16.280 as possible, then ignore it.

00:03:17.420 And then he also said there are no caveats to freedom.

00:03:20.320 That really triggered Bruce Anderson.

00:03:22.920 What did you make of this, Harrison?

00:03:23.940 Well, I just, I just think this is all very, very odd because again, when, when you have

00:03:29.620 these liberal CBC talking heads saying that freedom really is just undermining equal rights

00:03:38.080 and it's threatening the planet, I mean, it's, it's, it's kind of heading in a weird direction

00:03:43.600 and then spirit of community.

00:03:45.060 You've got that collectivism aspect in there too.

00:03:48.160 Um, I really think it's, it goes back to one of the themes, Candace, that we've talked

00:03:52.240 about on this show, which is the, the elites, the CBC talking heads, liberals, these people

00:03:59.440 want you to try and believe that the word freedom means something different when they say it to

00:04:05.540 when someone that they disagree with says it.

00:04:07.580 So if you are a, if you're a working class trucker, for example, when you promote freedom,

00:04:12.220 you're actually promoting this dangerous Trojan horse. 0.60

00:04:15.220 But when someone like Bruce Anderson promotes freedom or when someone like that, when a

00:04:20.300 politician that Bruce Anderson supports talks about the need to, uh, protect freedom for

00:04:25.200 Canadians, it means something totally different.

00:04:27.360 So there's this, there's this contrast of definitions that I think is, uh, is very dangerous

00:04:32.960 and very just, it's a very weird, it's, it's a weird thing to be, to witness.

00:04:37.320 It's, it's a weird time to be alive when we're having these, these weird sort of definitional

00:04:42.580 battles about certain words like freedom, but Candace, it goes, it goes on, um, because

00:04:48.660 not only is it, is it about freedom, freedom means two different things when, when the right

00:04:53.560 person says it, it, it, it, it extends to the flag.

00:04:56.920 And there was this incredible Globe and Mail op-ed that was written at the end of March.

00:05:02.340 Um, and it was written by an author named John Boyko.

00:05:04.900 And the, the headline of this op-ed is recapturing the flag.

00:05:08.460 Canada is still recovering from a moment of darkness in Ottawa.

00:05:11.800 And he starts off his, his op-ed by saying that he cringes every time he sees a Canadian

00:05:17.020 flag and how he is repulsed whenever he drives by a rural home, waving a large Canadian 0.85

00:05:23.100 flag.

00:05:23.600 Notice that language there, Candace.

00:05:25.080 He cringes and he's repulsed by the sight of the Canadian flag.

00:05:28.900 I mean, how do you, how do you recover from that?

00:05:30.600 If that's your, if that's your base, if that's your starting point on this, then there's

00:05:34.960 some serious, and there's some serious issues you need to solve out because that's just

00:05:38.880 a, that's, that's, that starting at that point, that is, that's crazy.

00:05:43.780 And then he goes on to say that he believes that our flag has been captured by those who

00:05:48.460 support the convoy and the negative anti-government, anti-science, anti-democracy population.

00:05:53.540 And, you know, uh, I made this point very clear.

00:05:56.320 Sometimes the Laurentian elite will make it very clear to you.

00:05:59.180 They'll, they'll, they'll spell it out exactly how they want you, uh, to read something.

00:06:03.980 And, you know, you can't wave the Canadian flag unless you hold the correct political

00:06:07.640 opinions.

00:06:08.260 You're not, you're, you're anti-government, anti-science and anti-democracy if you support

00:06:12.720 the trucker convoy.

00:06:13.960 And lastly, there are limits on your freedom that you have to accept.

00:06:16.860 That's, that's exactly what they want you to know.

00:06:18.980 And like I said, sometimes they just make it easy for you.

00:06:21.820 Well, they're kind of saying the quiet part out loud, right?

00:06:24.540 Like here's the idea that, that Canada was, was always based on this notion of individual

00:06:29.640 freedom, that, that, that was the founding principle of our country.

00:06:32.660 We have, you know, Wilfrid Laurier famously said that Canada is free and freedom is our

00:06:37.780 nationality.

00:06:38.420 We're not a country that is based upon one ethnic group.

00:06:41.720 We're not a country that's ever been homogenous in terms of our ethnicity, but we are a country

00:06:46.060 that has always rallied around this concept of freedom.

00:06:49.500 Well, interestingly, Harrison, over the last couple of years, the liberals have sort of abandoned

00:06:54.260 these uniting principles and united symbols that we've had that they used to take claim

00:06:59.420 over, right?

00:06:59.860 They used like the, the Canadian flag, this, this concept of, of, of the chart of rights

00:07:03.960 and freedoms, smaller liberalism.

00:07:05.780 Those used to be the brand of the liberal party.

00:07:07.840 And as the left is becoming more and more illiberal, as liberals start to feel ashamed and embarrassed

00:07:13.500 of Canada's history and they want to get away from that, they're embarrassed about it.

00:07:17.660 They, they, they want to fight against it.

00:07:19.300 We had Carolyn Bennett talking about how Canada needs to decolonize, whatever that means, right?

00:07:24.900 They, they, they're deeply ashamed of Canada and, and you see it coming out that they don't,

00:07:28.960 you can no longer celebrate freedom.

00:07:30.360 That's bad.

00:07:31.700 Having individual rights and freedoms, that's not what we want.

00:07:34.280 We have higher priorities now, like, like climate change and, uh, COVID.

00:07:39.520 Uh, and, and then, you know, the, the Canadian flag, again, it was liberals that created the

00:07:43.820 Canadian flag.

00:07:44.440 We used to have the red ensign.

00:07:45.960 We used to have a British flag and, and, and they put together this new flag that represented

00:07:50.420 new Canada in the sixties and now, you know, as soon as conservatives rally around it and

00:07:55.780 use it as a rallying point for freedom, they no longer want anything to do with it.

00:07:59.860 So you're right.

00:08:01.080 Uh, just one more tweet here from Bruce Anderson.

00:08:02.880 He replied to Mark Mulroney, uh, saying that knowing that conservatives don't want attention

00:08:07.200 drawn to the subtext of the freedom mantra is more reason for people to scrutinize it.

00:08:12.220 Freedom to ignore climate change, to marginalize people of sexual orientation or faith, to avoid 0.99

00:08:17.540 paying taxes by hiding money.

00:08:19.180 So again, you know, for all the issues and all the problems that we have in our country,

00:08:23.740 Harrison, this is what the liberals are focused on.

00:08:25.960 They think that the, the biggest issues in our country right now are climate change, sexual

00:08:32.300 orientation, and like money laundering or hiding, hiding money, people hiding money from taxes.

00:08:37.920 Like these people are so incredibly out of touch.

00:08:41.140 And again, they're saying that there are values that are higher than freedom, which undermines

00:08:46.020 the entire Canadian experiment and also undermines national unity.

00:08:49.720 Because the good thing about freedom is that you can put your own image of what freedom

00:08:53.520 means.

00:08:54.300 Everyone can have their own idea of freedom.

00:08:56.900 Everyone can have their own idea of Canada and the good life in Canada.

00:08:59.740 And that's one of the great things both liberals and conservatives used to rally around this

00:09:03.260 word freedom.

00:09:03.760 And now you see the liberals moving away from it.

00:09:07.720 It's, it's, it's kind of, it's really dangerous territory that they're, that they're bringing

00:09:10.780 us into.

00:09:11.620 And I think that, again, when you have one side of the political aisle saying, we don't

00:09:16.960 care about freedom anymore.

00:09:17.900 We don't care about the flag.

00:09:19.080 Not good news for Canada.

00:09:20.600 There was a, this reminds me of this other piece I want to talk about, Harrison.

00:09:24.220 There's an opinion piece in the CBC.

00:09:26.140 Everyone knows my, my thoughts and my feelings about how CBC now runs these opinion pieces

00:09:32.020 where rather than just being subsidized to deliver the news, they also get subsidized

00:09:37.180 to deliver certain opinions, which are always the most extreme far left opinions that you

00:09:41.120 can find.

00:09:42.080 But here's one.

00:09:42.880 They found this individual who has become a Canadian.

00:09:45.620 So a new Canadian writing about his experience of going through the citizenship ceremony and

00:09:51.620 becoming a Canadian, usually a very happy, celebrated day in a person's life.

00:09:55.760 Usually they've escaped some kind of a tyrannical hell hole that they don't want to be in anymore.

00:10:01.680 They're so grateful and so happy to be living in a free and prosperous country like Canada.

00:10:05.780 Well, not this individual.

00:10:07.540 This, this, this guy says, Canada's citizenship process is a problematic piece of political

00:10:13.000 theater.

00:10:13.760 Here's why I did it anyway.

00:10:15.140 And he writes, in the end, I did the Canadian thing.

00:10:17.020 I used my privilege to benefit and protect myself.

00:10:19.980 Now, some viewers know I have a background working in immigration.

00:10:23.840 I used to work in the immigration department.

00:10:25.300 So I'm pretty familiar with the process of citizenship, immigration, the various categories

00:10:31.360 and ways that you can become a Canadian.

00:10:33.600 And so basically we have this guy, he's an Australian.

00:10:36.400 He is a writer and author, born in Australia, decided to come to Canada.

00:10:41.900 And basically what he's talking about, he has a couple of problems with, with Canada.

00:10:48.720 His main thing, he was troubled by just how easy it is for him as a middle-class white Australian

00:10:56.520 compared to those from other countries, particularly agriculture workers.

00:11:00.240 So he assumes, Harrison, that part of the reason why he was able to come to Canada and

00:11:04.660 immigrate so easily is because of his skin color, even though that has absolutely nothing 1.00

00:11:09.360 to do with how our point systems work.

00:11:11.400 The fact that he is an English-speaking person who has work experience in Canada means a lot

00:11:16.600 more.

00:11:17.020 We are a country.

00:11:18.020 We use a point system.

00:11:19.200 Therefore, you know, if you're young, if you speak English and if you have experience working

00:11:23.760 in Canada, those are all things that help you to meet the qualifications to come to Canada.

00:11:30.840 It has nothing to do with skin color.

00:11:32.340 And when he compares himself to agriculture workers, which he does throughout this piece,

00:11:36.680 he fundamentally misunderstands something, which is that agriculture workers are temporary

00:11:40.980 workers.

00:11:41.580 They come to Canada on a temporary basis.

00:11:43.320 He didn't do any journalism for this piece.

00:11:45.160 This is just solely opinion.

00:11:46.460 He didn't bother talking to the people who is claiming to speak for, because he's sort of

00:11:51.420 juxtaposing himself to people who work in the seasonal agriculture worker program or the

00:11:55.280 temporary four worker program.

00:11:56.560 The people who work in those programs, Harrison, opt to come to Canada on a temporary basis.

00:12:01.100 They don't apply through the same stream that he did.

00:12:03.940 They didn't try to become permanent residents.

00:12:05.640 They want to become seasonal agriculture workers.

00:12:07.580 I've spoken to many people who come through the seasonal agriculture program and the temporary

00:12:11.000 foreign worker program.

00:12:12.100 They don't want to become Canadian. 0.99

00:12:14.080 The whole purpose is that they come from countries, usually in Latin America, usually people with

00:12:18.400 very strong family ties, Catholic ties, strong ties to their own country.

00:12:22.700 They come up to Canada during the spring and summer to make money.

00:12:27.080 They send almost all of the money back to their kids, their wives, their families back

00:12:31.860 home.

00:12:32.340 And then they go back and they join their families.

00:12:34.460 They have no interest in coming to Canada because if they did, they wouldn't come through 1.00

00:12:37.880 this program.

00:12:38.680 So the whole idea and the whole motivation behind this program is for these people to

00:12:43.100 make money to send back to their families and then go and reunite with their families.

00:12:46.900 They don't want to become Canadian. 0.99

00:12:48.060 So this guy just, you know, he makes so many logical mistakes throughout this process.

00:12:52.380 He doesn't know what he's talking about.

00:12:54.180 He's just assuming that he knows everything, which is, which is very typical of those on 0.95

00:12:59.140 the political left.

00:12:59.960 They, you know, he's on his high horse.

00:13:01.540 He, everything he sees is problematic.

00:13:03.500 He's very upset that he had to pay $630 to, uh, for the citizenship application processing.

00:13:10.840 I guess he thinks that Canadian taxpayers should subsidize him as well.

00:13:15.540 Incredibly arrogant, incredibly entitled, no sense of gratitude. 0.72

00:13:19.060 He's angry that he has to pledge allegiance to the queen. 0.93

00:13:22.040 He's angry, uh, this is kind of amusing.

00:13:24.800 He says, he's talking about the study material for the citizenship test.

00:13:27.720 He says, the study material uses blanket terms like first nations to describe hundreds of

00:13:33.080 nations with different languages, cultures, and system of government.

00:13:36.200 So I guess in a, in a basic study guide, rather than saying first nations, he wants us to what?

00:13:41.420 List, list a hundred different nations.

00:13:43.360 Uh, like how, how is that going to help anybody study for a citizenship test?

00:13:47.820 The, the, this, uh, this guy is just so out of touch with, with, with how privileged he

00:13:52.660 is to get to become Canadian.

00:13:54.220 And of course there's the CBC, uh, paying this guy and publishing this total nonsense where

00:13:59.440 he just attacks Canada for no good reason after we've just offered him citizenship.

00:14:04.540 It's, it's really unbelievable, Harrison.

00:14:06.220 Well, exactly.

00:14:07.900 And the, uh, in the headline, you know, immediately what kind of piece this is going to, this is

00:14:12.040 going to be.

00:14:12.540 And not only just cause it's in the CBC op-ed section, which we know, uh, filters out anything

00:14:17.600 that's not a far left opinion, but to, to call our, our citizenship process problematic

00:14:23.440 using a term right out of the left's, the left's, uh, the, the, the, the last vocabulary,

00:14:29.140 um, you knew exactly what you were going to get, but it's always important to remember.

00:14:32.940 I, it's easy to forget because we see it so often, these, these insane CBC stories, but

00:14:37.620 you pay for these stories to be published.

00:14:40.820 These are coming, all of this is coming from Canadian taxpayers.

00:14:45.180 And as you said, Candace, this, this, this Callum, uh, character, he takes issue with the,

00:14:52.060 with the, with swearing allegiance to the queen.

00:14:54.220 He takes issue with the fact that our citizenship test requires him to know something about the

00:14:58.660 founder of our country, Johnny McDonald.

00:15:00.280 I mean, what, what, what other citizenship test doesn't require a test about the basics

00:15:05.240 of this country.

00:15:05.980 And if you didn't, if you don't like the, if you don't like swearing allegiance to the

00:15:09.740 queen, uh, to the monarchy, then, then leave, then go to the United States. 1.00

00:15:13.280 It's very simple.

00:15:14.820 Um, but here's the other thing too, is this, this entire piece is just basically designed

00:15:19.620 to bash Canada.

00:15:21.100 So Canadian taxpayers pay for an article that just bashes our system.

00:15:25.900 And I wonder if he bothered to ask anyone else that he took the citizenship test with

00:15:29.740 what they thought about swearing allegiance to the queen, what they thought about the citizenship

00:15:34.340 test.

00:15:35.140 If it was really that big of a deal for them, if they really felt that, uh, you know, the,

00:15:38.920 the citizenship test was, was undermining the role that first nations play in our country.

00:15:44.240 It might be Callum that the people you were taking the citizenship test were people who had

00:15:49.900 fought tooth and nail, who would be willing to give up limbs to ensure that they and their

00:15:54.660 family could make it to such a great country like Canada.

00:15:58.860 I do wonder if, if, if this Callum asked anyone else who took the citizenship test with, if they

00:16:06.860 felt proud after the fact, after they became a Canadian citizen, instead of bashing our country

00:16:11.100 right after becoming a citizen, maybe they, maybe they felt proud to be a Canadian.

00:16:15.180 Uh, it's just, it's another, it's another CBC piece.

00:16:17.440 It's, it's another shocking op-ed and, and frankly, I don't know why, I don't know why

00:16:21.660 the CBC continues to, to publish these Canada bashing articles.

00:16:26.760 At some point it has to end.

00:16:28.660 People have to stop reading it or they have to, they have to come to their senses.

00:16:32.400 And it's not accurate.

00:16:34.100 Like, like this idea that, that somehow this guy, you know, it was easy for him because

00:16:38.220 he was middle-class and white.

00:16:39.380 Like there's, there's absolutely no data to back that up.

00:16:42.900 That's just, that's just a false accusation against the country, assuming, placing the

00:16:49.080 underground assumption that Canada is a racist country, that you get preferential treatment

00:16:52.640 because you're white, which is not true.

00:16:53.820 There's nothing about race or skin color.

00:16:56.260 So he's, he's putting that in on his own.

00:16:58.880 He is, it's basically like a paint by numbers piece.

00:17:01.620 It's like, uh, I'm super woke.

00:17:03.780 And I found this one institution in Canada that's not woke enough.

00:17:07.120 Therefore, I'm going to write this like lazy, intellectually limited piece complaining about

00:17:13.280 it for not being woke enough.

00:17:14.980 And the CBC is going to publish it.

00:17:16.840 Like it's, it's, it's such a sad state where, you know, Canada, Canada is actually pretty

00:17:22.400 lenient.

00:17:23.200 Canada lets a lot of people into the country that we probably shouldn't let in. 1.00

00:17:27.080 And when you hear someone like this who is so lacking in gratitude, uh, so spiteful and

00:17:32.360 obviously not at all loyal or committed to Canada, it's like, yeah, you know what, we

00:17:37.500 should become more stringent in who we let in and who we don't.

00:17:40.660 People who have this kind of attitude should not be able to become Canadian.

00:17:43.720 It reminds me of a couple of years ago during the leadership race for the Conservative Party,

00:17:46.920 one of the candidates proposed bringing in a values test, uh, for people coming in.

00:17:52.220 I, I assume that this person with all of his hatred and all of his bitterness and, and

00:17:57.280 anti-Canada sentiments that, that, that he would be the kind of person that would be

00:18:02.620 screened away.

00:18:03.840 And I, and, and again, I think the fact that the CBC publishes this nonsense is a total

00:18:08.580 disgrace, Harrison.

00:18:10.200 Well, that's not the only thing, uh, that the CBC, uh, publishes.

00:18:15.280 I want to jump to this other piece that the CBC wrote about, um, in their, uh, opinion

00:18:21.160 section.

00:18:21.640 This one is written by a woman called Maria Glavine.

00:18:24.960 And she writes, I'm a new mom trying to keep my baby safe in the pandemic.

00:18:29.540 Anger is my secret weapon.

00:18:31.660 Okay.

00:18:32.020 So here we have a lady who is a new mom and she is very angry about the end of the vaccine 1.00

00:18:39.920 passports and mask mandates, because in her estimation, the only way to keep her child safe

00:18:46.220 is to basically compel the entire Canadian public, um, to follow rules that don't make

00:18:53.560 any sense that didn't actually protect anybody from the pandemic for the last two years, um,

00:18:58.380 that have been abject failures.

00:19:00.380 And yet, uh, because she is an emotional new mom and anger is her secret weapon, Harrison, 0.97

00:19:07.280 she, she believes that everybody should be forced to follow these arbitrary rules.

00:19:12.060 Again, this is the kind of stuff that the CBC publishes angry, bitter, resentful leftists,

00:19:16.760 um, who, who hate freedom, who, who don't care about individual liberty at all, who want

00:19:21.860 to basically bend the world and conform it, uh, to, to, to, to fit their own needs.

00:19:27.140 What, what did you make of this piece?

00:19:29.040 Well, this piece is absolutely insane, Candace.

00:19:31.860 I mean, when you read through these, when you read through some of these paragraphs, it's,

00:19:36.220 it's incredible, really.

00:19:37.900 She goes off by saying that everyone should wear a mask for everything, outdoor activities,

00:19:43.500 given that she was able to wear a mask during labor.

00:19:46.600 That means that people, uh, this is a quote from the article, um, that surely people wouldn't

00:19:52.520 mind putting one on to run an errand or two, if it meant keeping, uh, safe those who couldn't

00:19:57.000 vaccinate or who were the most vulnerable.

00:19:58.940 So there's that.

00:19:59.940 Then she goes on to say that the only way Canada can exit out of the pandemic is if there's

00:20:04.960 a vaccine approved for, uh, for those who are under five years old for, so for her,

00:20:10.140 her child, um, then we can lift vaccine passports and mask mandates.

00:20:15.220 Um, and she says that unmasking before having everybody vaccinated, um, is, uh, is apparently

00:20:22.240 some very dangerous, uh, dangerous thing.

00:20:24.740 And then of course, she goes on to say that she's only using services that require or enforce

00:20:31.420 mask mandates and vaccine passports.

00:20:33.380 So again, you're never going to see a piece in the CBC that is at all, uh, contrary to

00:20:40.640 this, the super hard line stance of everybody must be, must follow draconian rules.

00:20:47.520 Those who step out of line are, uh, are, are these crazies who have a death wish and we

00:20:53.720 all need to basically, you know, fall in line behind the government orders and edicts.

00:20:59.120 Um, uh, it's just, it's, it's insane.

00:21:01.920 I don't really have much more to say about this other than that.

00:21:05.660 Well, it's not, it's not just that they don't even believe that they're, that they're crazies

00:21:08.820 with a death wish. 0.95

00:21:09.520 They think that they're out to kill you or out to kill in this case, her daughter, like

00:21:13.500 she even writes, I have to try to balance my daughter's safety and pacifying those who

00:21:17.600 are over it.

00:21:18.420 Again, just trying to compel other people.

00:21:20.160 Look, you're, you're a mom.

00:21:21.360 If you have the, you have the right to keep your kid at home, you have the right to try to

00:21:25.060 protect your kid in any way you can.

00:21:26.340 And I understand that this woman, uh, her, her daughter has some kind of an auto immune,

00:21:30.580 uh, deficiency or, or, uh, uh, bad kidney and that she, she, you know, she's extra worried

00:21:36.500 and cautious about, I totally relate to that.

00:21:38.500 I have two little kids.

00:21:39.140 And obviously your role as a parent is to do everything you can to protect them.

00:21:43.120 Um, however, the, the, this idea that, you know, well, first of all, she's writing a piece

00:21:48.540 in the CBC about how angry she is.

00:21:50.780 Uh, that's, that's, that's not exactly a productive solution, uh, to this issue, but

00:21:55.500 she's clinging to these methods that we know fail. 0.99

00:21:58.480 Like wearing masks doesn't do anything.

00:22:00.800 It doesn't stop the spread.

00:22:01.960 Okay.

00:22:02.540 The, the, the best way that you can protect your kid is, is actually to help build up

00:22:06.660 their immune system, get them outside, get them interacting with other kids.

00:22:10.020 Uh, you know, that, that's how you, that's how for generations, uh, for centuries, that's

00:22:14.560 how we built up children's immune system.

00:22:16.300 So this idea that we're going to just wrap ourselves into like a plastic bubble and stay

00:22:20.560 away from everybody, not going to, not going to turn out well in the long run.

00:22:24.120 And again, this is just the kind of drivel, uh, that we see in the CBC.

00:22:29.360 And, and Candace, I, one, one thing as well, you know, I kind of feel bad for some of these

00:22:33.200 people because they have been, they have been duped into being so afraid of this and it's

00:22:39.660 not their fault.

00:22:40.380 I mean, how many people do you, have you interacted with that are very scared about COVID?

00:22:44.620 They're, they're, they're paying attention to the latest wave, looking at all the, all

00:22:48.860 the numbers and, and, and worrying about their, their health and safety and their family's

00:22:52.800 health and safety when it's, it's overblown really, uh, they, they don't need to be as

00:22:57.220 afraid as they are, but these people have been, have been, you know, whether it's, whether

00:23:02.540 it's, they've been duped or whether they've been, they've been pushed into it.

00:23:06.300 A lot of people, um, even today who still wear double masks, who are afraid to touch public

00:23:11.980 services, I mean, that is, that is something that are, we're going to have to reckon with,

00:23:15.880 uh, going into the future years past this.

00:23:18.520 Are we to believe that all these people who are so afraid of this virus that in several

00:23:23.680 years from now, they're not going to, they're not going to have some of that, some of that

00:23:27.380 same, uh, concern, some of that same fear.

00:23:29.440 I think, I think, you know, we have to really come to terms with the fact that, uh, the mental

00:23:34.200 health that has, you know, been damaged across the board, it's taken a toll, uh, on both

00:23:39.220 sides, people don't want to be stuck in lockdown, but other people are being conditioned to be

00:23:44.780 so afraid of this virus that I think we're going to have to, we're going to have to deal

00:23:49.060 with this, um, in the future.

00:23:51.180 And it's going to become a part of, a part of how we end up dealing with things like

00:23:54.920 regular flus and, and different illnesses.

00:23:57.780 I think it's, I think it's kind of sad in a way too.

00:24:01.500 I agree.

00:24:02.320 And you're right.

00:24:03.220 We should, we should, uh, see, see these kinds of cases with, with compassion and recognize

00:24:07.540 that we have to figure out a plan to get everyone out.

00:24:10.120 It's, it's funny, uh, you just reading this piece again, for me, I, I also have little

00:24:14.180 kids and I, I think the exact opposite instincts as this lady, this lady is like, uh, you know, 1.00

00:24:20.140 I'm so afraid of COVID.

00:24:21.100 I don't know what the long-term consequences of COVID are.

00:24:23.340 Therefore I'm going to do everything to like, I got to wrap my child in bubble wrap and keep

00:24:27.260 them safe.

00:24:27.660 For me, uh, my perspective was, okay, what we see about COVID is that it doesn't really impact

00:24:33.660 little kids.

00:24:34.560 They, my, my son had COVID he's three.

00:24:36.900 Uh, he, he had like a sore throat for a day and then he was fine.

00:24:40.080 Uh, sure.

00:24:41.040 I don't know what the long-term impact is, but I also don't know what the long-term impact

00:24:44.520 of keeping kids isolated from their friends and peers.

00:24:47.760 That, that was not something I was willing to do.

00:24:49.920 Uh, I, the, the, the long-term impact of making little kids wear masks is insane.

00:24:54.560 And we know that it will have long-term impact in their ability to communicate, their ability

00:24:58.500 to socialize all these things that when, you know, when you have a little toddler, that's

00:25:02.120 what you're trying to do is get them out to meet other people.

00:25:04.460 So, you know, there's, there's the adverse side of this as well.

00:25:07.580 And then this idea that we should rush to get little babies and little kids vaccinated.

00:25:12.140 Uh, well, what about the long-term impact of vaccines?

00:25:14.540 We don't know that as well, especially this vaccine, because it's novel and it's new.

00:25:18.800 So, you know, my, my instinct are almost exactly the opposite of this woman. 0.99

00:25:22.920 I wanted to make sure my kids still had some kind of a semblance of a normal childhood

00:25:27.500 that they could still go and play, that they could go to parks.

00:25:29.980 They could spend time outside.

00:25:30.820 They could spend time with other kids.

00:25:32.260 I go out of my way to make sure that the kids have play dates, that they interact with people,

00:25:36.040 they see the world, that, that it's not always just this like strange, uh, you know, everyone

00:25:40.880 wearing masks and everyone's so distant from each other.

00:25:43.900 Um, you know, I want to make sure my kids have a normal life.

00:25:46.800 And it's, it's, it's sort of sad that some people are so wrapped up and paranoid with fear

00:25:52.460 that they can't, they can't offer that to their kids.

00:25:55.340 And then again, the CBC is out there promoting this worldview to try to say, no, no, it's normal

00:25:59.740 for you to just try to completely isolate your child and not let them be around anyone,

00:26:03.180 not let them see anyone and just be counting the days until they have a vaccine available

00:26:07.660 for a zero year old baby.

00:26:09.400 Like it's, it's pretty wild.

00:26:11.360 Okay.

00:26:11.480 Harrison, I do want to get to this one final story because it's fake news wrapped in fake

00:26:15.620 news.

00:26:16.340 Um, true North reported on this a couple of weeks ago that this journal journalist organization

00:26:21.040 won't retract a false statement about a pipeline protest arrest.

00:26:24.880 So basically the, uh, the, the, the Canadian association of journalists, which bills itself

00:26:31.300 as a national voice for Canadian journalists, printed a statement statement in November, accusing

00:26:35.800 the police of making an illegal arrest.

00:26:38.360 So there was this reporter that worked for an outlet called the narwhal who was part of an 0.94

00:26:43.480 anti-pipeline protest, basically this, so this happened back in November in Northern British

00:26:48.040 Columbia.

00:26:48.360 There was a group of unlawful people who were unlawful protesters who were ignoring police

00:26:54.000 orders.

00:26:54.500 They were, they locked themselves up in a cabin protesting against a pipeline, ended up getting

00:26:59.180 arrested.

00:27:00.060 One of the people, one of the protesters, it turns out was a journalist who wrote about

00:27:03.480 her own story.

00:27:04.700 So, so, so, so even though she was part of the protest, part of the people who got arrested,

00:27:08.340 uh, she wrote about it, which I always thought that that was sort of unethical.

00:27:12.420 I mean, you're the one that went to journalism school.

00:27:13.980 Maybe you can comment on that, but she, she, she wrote about it herself.

00:27:17.260 Uh, unfortunately the facts that she got didn't, uh, didn't line up with, with what actually

00:27:23.760 happened.

00:27:24.760 The RCMP put out their own report, the department in the government department put out their

00:27:28.220 own report, basically refuting facts from her news piece.

00:27:32.340 And so not only did the narwhal, which is a government funded news organization, far left 0.53

00:27:37.420 focused on environmental, uh, catastrophe, uh, climate alarmism, all those kinds of themes.

00:27:43.600 Um, so, so they wrote a piece that was fake.

00:27:47.100 The Canadian association of journalists, uh, applauded them and put out a statement condemning

00:27:51.540 the police in it.

00:27:52.980 And then it gets even worse Harrison, because now the Canadian journalism foundation is, is,

00:27:59.420 is offering them an award.

00:28:00.420 They gave them an, uh, they nominated them for an excellence award for this same piece

00:28:05.460 that has been refuted and debunked by the RCMP and by a government, uh, report.

00:28:12.060 Uh, this shows how wildly out of touch these people are.

00:28:15.620 Like they can report something that didn't happen, that it's totally made up, pretend that

00:28:18.880 there was police brutality involved, pretend that they were illegally arrested.

00:28:21.860 And not only are they allowed to publish it with no consequence, when it turns out to

00:28:26.060 be fake, they actually get awards.

00:28:28.260 They, they're awarding, giving themselves awards and patting themselves on the back.

00:28:31.980 This is, this is one of the most, uh, remarkable stories I've seen in a while, Harrison.

00:28:37.160 Well, when I first read this, I have to admit, I thought this was a troll.

00:28:40.360 I thought it was, I thought it was them trolling, uh, the RCMP and basically everyone else because

00:28:46.300 of just how ridiculous it is to award themselves an excellency in journalism award for, uh, basically

00:28:53.540 a story, uh, in which the journalist who inserts herself as an activist into the story makes

00:28:59.560 it all about her perspective.

00:29:00.940 Uh, and of course she makes it out to seem like she's this hero, like she's this, uh,

00:29:05.980 very brave, um, you know, activist who's fighting back against the RCMP.

00:29:10.620 And I just want to get into some of the, some of these things that I told about this article 0.66

00:29:14.540 because it's really, it's really ridiculous.

00:29:17.020 And first you talk, you chatted about the ethics behind putting yourself in the story

00:29:22.000 and being an activist.

00:29:22.740 I can tell you that in, in modern journalism school, the, the expectation is that you believe

00:29:30.160 as a journalist, you play a role as an activist.

00:29:32.520 I remember just as, as an, uh, as an example, one of the papers they asked us to write was

00:29:37.700 to, this was to basically defend journalists being activists.

00:29:42.140 Can a journalist be an activist was the prompt.

00:29:43.960 Of the art of the essay they had us write, but just, just so we're, just so we're clear

00:29:49.060 on this, the Canadian association of journalists, which were the original, uh, the original organization

00:29:54.340 to defend this journalist after being caught lying, essentially in her piece, their, their,

00:30:00.660 um, their ethical, their code of ethics states very clearly that they do not allow their own

00:30:06.880 biases to impede fair and accurate reporting.

00:30:09.420 Accuracy is the moral imperative of journalists.

00:30:12.200 When we make a mistake, whether in fact or in context, and regardless of the platform,

00:30:16.460 we correct it promptly and in a transparent manner, acknowledging the nature of the error,

00:30:21.260 Candace.

00:30:21.540 So I don't know how that code of ethics fits in with awarding themselves a excellency in

00:30:28.520 journalism, uh, award after being called out.

00:30:31.480 Uh, but again, you'll never see the CAJ or the CJF, the two organizations, um, that are

00:30:38.400 obviously just activist organizations masquerading as, as journalism, uh, entities or those that,

00:30:43.980 that defend journalists.

00:30:45.020 You'll never see them defend journalists that are actually, uh, in the, that are actually

00:30:50.720 have their rights stripped from them or are, uh, or are impeded by the government.

00:30:55.340 For example, our own Andrew Lawton, who was pepper sprayed at the Freedom Convoy protest.

00:30:59.880 I didn't, I didn't hear anything from them about defending Andrew and defending journalists

00:31:04.560 like Andrew and Alexa Lavoie from Rebel.

00:31:06.920 Did you, I, I, I didn't, didn't make it across my desk.

00:31:09.660 No, of course not.

00:31:11.800 They don't care about, uh, journalists who work for Canadian organizations.

00:31:15.420 They only care about their own, mostly government funded, mostly far left agenda driven activists

00:31:21.040 here.

00:31:21.320 I mean, this, this woman was illegally, uh, they were occupying private property and prevent, 1.00

00:31:26.740 preventing people from doing their job.

00:31:28.760 They got arrested.

00:31:30.000 She didn't identify herself as a journalist.

00:31:32.060 She didn't say that she was there covering the story.

00:31:34.140 The police had no idea.

00:31:35.240 They just arrested all the protesters after giving them ample warning saying, you guys have

00:31:38.820 to leave, you have to get out enough with your protests.

00:31:41.360 It's time for these people to be able to go to work.

00:31:44.280 And, and, and, and it was written, written right here that Bracken was detained by police

00:31:48.560 and her ensuing report, which a federal memo found was one-sided and omitted key information

00:31:54.560 led to the arrest being labeled as unlawful by the journalists.

00:31:58.100 So to your point, Harrison, when you make a mistake, this woman, it wasn't a mistake, right? 0.79

00:32:02.900 She, she knew what happened.

00:32:04.120 She left out key information on purpose, but you could, you could say, okay, the Canadian association

00:32:08.560 of journalists didn't know that.

00:32:09.880 So when they issued the statement saying, you know, condemning the police for this unlawful

00:32:13.600 arrest, uh, they, they, they didn't have the full picture.

00:32:16.560 Well, then, then the full picture did emerge.

00:32:18.840 You would expect the CAJ to reverse and, and, and say, okay, we made a mistake.

00:32:23.680 We didn't have the full information.

00:32:24.740 To your point, that's, that's the, that's the duty of a journalist to focus on accuracy

00:32:29.760 and truth.

00:32:30.980 But here we see that, you know, they put, they put their, they put their ideology and

00:32:35.200 their belief in the righteousness of these anti-resource, anti-natural resource development

00:32:41.060 protesters.

00:32:42.480 Um, and, and then it is kind of a troll because they doubled down by nominating it for an award.

00:32:46.060 Why would you nominate that for an excellence award?

00:32:48.440 These, these people are just so out of touch, Harrison.

00:32:51.320 They're so, they have no idea what the public wants.

00:32:54.340 They have no idea how bad they look.

00:32:56.240 No wonder people trust the media less and less.

00:32:58.400 It's like, how can you trust these people?

00:32:59.860 They, they, they're, they're, they're congratulating themselves for lying essentially.

00:33:04.580 Yeah.

00:33:04.740 And I want to read some of this excellent reporting.

00:33:07.280 I mean, remember this report was, it was nominated and this is what, this is what was

00:33:12.060 in the report.

00:33:12.560 Just so, just so we're all aware, uh, this, this journalist writes, no one in Canada should

00:33:17.840 tolerate police efforts to intimidate journalists or limit news coverage.

00:33:21.200 My arrest actually makes me a big part of a national reckoning with press freedoms.

00:33:25.300 So again, just inserting herself and making her a part of the story, making her the hero.

00:33:30.280 She goes on to say, police put me in handcuffs when I should have been doing my job.

00:33:33.900 I felt kidnapped having never been arrested before.

00:33:36.940 It is the best word I can think of to describe being taken so abruptly out of my life and work

00:33:41.440 in violation of Canadian charter rights, protecting freedoms of the press.

00:33:44.940 Oh no, her charter rights, almost as if Candace, uh, the charter rights of journalists, uh, were

00:33:51.520 severely violated as well in the freedom convoy.

00:33:55.740 Uh, but again, you just don't hear that there it's, it's not, if there's, there's no equal

00:34:00.180 standard, right?

00:34:01.380 The charter rights were not violated.

00:34:03.840 This journalist charter rights were not violated.

00:34:05.600 She refused police orders to leave an unlawful protest.

00:34:09.480 Journalists at the freedom convoy who were arrested for covering the news, who were pepper

00:34:15.340 sprayed, who were, uh, who were beaten by batons.

00:34:18.660 Those journalists had their charter rights violated.

00:34:20.900 That's the truth.

00:34:21.980 We saw it all on camera.

00:34:23.540 It's just unbelievable. 0.70

00:34:24.640 And again, like you said, it has to be a troll, right?

00:34:27.280 I mean, this, this, this has to be a joke that they're playing on us.

00:34:31.140 And also like, just because you're a journalist doesn't exempt you from laws, right?

00:34:35.460 Like if you're part of a protest that the police are saying, you can't do this anymore.

00:34:39.020 We've given you ample warning.

00:34:40.460 You now have to be removed unless you identify yourself as a journalist.

00:34:44.860 Like it's not like RCMP just magically know who is a journalist and who isn't, who's going

00:34:49.600 to go write, uh, uh, an opinion piece for an art, uh, an outlet called the narwhal, which

00:34:54.800 no one's ever heard of.

00:34:56.180 Like you have to identify yourself as a journalist.

00:34:58.340 And that's what Andrew Lawton and Alexa Duarte did during their, during that it's on video.

00:35:02.640 They identify themselves as being journalists and yet they're still brutalized.

00:35:06.680 But of course, no word from the Canadian Association of Journalism, uh, on those assaults,

00:35:11.860 nothing at all.

00:35:12.840 We don't fit into the mold of, of, of a good leftist journalist who gets government funded.

00:35:17.040 So, so we don't get the same treatment.

00:35:19.560 It's, it's all such a farce, such a sad state of journalism here in Canada.

00:35:24.520 Well, that's, that's the whole purpose of this show on Fake News Friday.

00:35:27.340 So thank you so much for tuning in, Harrison.

00:35:29.220 Thank you so much for joining us.

00:35:31.320 Happy to be here.

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Juno News - April 08, 2022

Arrogant Australian says Canadian Citizenship Process is “Problematic”

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