Juno News - January 08, 2022


As if we needed another reason to Defund the CBC


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

201.49007

Word Count

6,707

Sentence Count

347

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 A CBC journalist quits the state broadcaster in rage and spills the beans about just how far down
00:00:05.960 the woke left rabbit hole the CBC has gone as if we need another reason to defund the CBC.
00:00:11.400 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:18.520 Hi everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in. This is our favorite show of the week here at
00:00:22.780 The Candace Malcolm Show because it gives us the opportunity to reflect on all of the craziness
00:00:27.040 and all of the nonsense that is put out in the Canadian media by the legacy media here in the
00:00:32.840 country. And this story in particular, so this came out on January 3rd and we wanted to cover it right
00:00:37.500 away. This is one of those stories that was so big, it was so hot, it was all over social media that we
00:00:41.220 wanted to cover right away. But we had discipline and we decided to save it for Fake News Friday
00:00:45.580 because it is the perfect example of the kinds of themes and the kinds of things that we talk about
00:00:50.220 here on Fake News Friday at The Candace Malcolm Show. And I'm excited today because I have a special
00:00:55.080 guest joining me on the program today to help sort of understand and break through some of the
00:01:00.660 stories. And that is Harrison Faulkner. Harrison Faulkner is a producer and a journalist here at
00:01:05.420 True North. He started out as an intern. He is a student over at Ryerson University in the journalism
00:01:10.740 program and he jumped on board with True North. So first, welcome to the show, Harrison. Thanks for
00:01:15.800 joining us. Thanks for having me, Candace. Fake News Friday is my favorite segment and I think we've got
00:01:20.300 quite a few examples to get into with this one. Exactly. And well, for you, Harrison, I mean,
00:01:25.260 you're young and you're sort of fresh out of journalism school or I think you're still enrolled
00:01:30.060 over there. You're almost done. But you sort of see the dynamic of the, I mean, Ryerson is sort of
00:01:35.660 one of the most well-regarded journalism schools in the country. It's right in downtown Toronto. So it's
00:01:41.880 sort of like the woke epicenter of the country. And so, you know, you're coming out of that
00:01:46.260 environment. And I'm sure a lot of the things that we see, the problems that we see at the CBC,
00:01:52.100 you know, you've lived through it and you know exactly what it's like inside. You know, not that
00:01:58.160 Ryerson is a media company, but the sort of your professors and the mindset and the attitudes,
00:02:03.220 I think that you learn, I'm sure is very similar. Yeah. Well, one of the things that I'm not sure many
00:02:07.980 readers of the CBC know or readers of the legacy media know is that a lot of these writers and
00:02:13.420 journalists actually teach classes or they spend some time actually working in these journalism
00:02:18.240 schools. And so I kind of got a bit of a glimpse into where things were headed with the CBC and some
00:02:25.200 of these legacy media outlets. And it really only led me more and more to outlets like True North
00:02:31.140 because really I just, there was no prospect of me ever working in one of these newsrooms.
00:02:35.800 It's far too biased, far too woke. And they've completely abandoned any journalistic principles that
00:02:42.160 they once had. So yeah, I mean, I got, I got a front row seat to really the, the journalist
00:02:48.480 factory, the CBC factory at some of these journalism schools. And I got to tell you, it's, it's pretty
00:02:53.720 freaky knowing what's coming down the pike. If it's bad now, it's going to get a lot worse in about five
00:02:58.880 or five or 10 years. Right. Well, speaking of a front row view, I feel like that's what Canadians got
00:03:05.020 this week with this sub stack. So I'm going to, I'm going to go through this a little bit because it's
00:03:09.160 just so interesting. And so much of this. So, so, so what happened is Tara Henley, a long time
00:03:14.560 journalist over at the CBC, she's a TV producer, radio producer, occasional on air columnist. She
00:03:19.540 describes herself as a journalist of 20 years covering everything from hip hop to news to food
00:03:25.240 to current affairs. And she, she, she basically just had enough. She said, enough is enough. I don't want
00:03:30.160 to work at the CBC anymore. And she kind of did this expose or this, this open letter, just explaining
00:03:36.040 all of the problems that had gone on on CBC. It very quickly went viral and, and really gives us
00:03:41.740 an inside view of what is going on and what is wrong over the state broadcaster. So I'm just going
00:03:46.540 to go ahead and read a lot. I think it's so good. And I'm shamelessly just going to like read most of
00:03:51.460 this article because I really find it eyeopening. So the article here is called Speaking Freely,
00:03:56.840 Why I Resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is over on Substack, which is a sort of
00:04:01.880 opportunity for a journalist or a writer to, to kind of own their own platform, to have their own blog
00:04:07.400 where people subscribe and they send out newsletters. So it kind of gives journalists the opportunity to
00:04:12.240 kind of be entrepreneurial and, and do their own thing rather than working for a big sort of corporate
00:04:17.920 legacy media outlet. And it's become really popular for sort of dissenting thinkers, not necessarily
00:04:22.860 conservatives, but people who just don't go along with the sort of woke mantra dogma that exists on
00:04:30.480 the political left and in legacy media. So here we go. She writes for months now, I've been getting
00:04:35.980 complaints about the CBC, where I work as a TV and radio producer and occasional on-air columnist for
00:04:40.860 much of the past decade. People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned of
00:04:45.860 lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, while local issues of broad
00:04:52.380 concern go unreported or why our pop culture radio shows coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special
00:04:57.500 failed to include any of the legions of fans or comics that did not find it offensive or why
00:05:02.460 exactly taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as
00:05:07.640 brainstorm and lame. Everyone asks the same thing. What is going on at the CBC? I, you know, I agree
00:05:13.660 with all this. I think I remember each of those stories and, you know, the, the idea that something
00:05:18.200 different is going on at the CBC is interesting because from my perspective, this has kind of always
00:05:22.780 been the case. We've always been promoting a far left worldview. They've always been coming up with
00:05:26.840 really obscure stories and, and the point of most of their journalism is to kind of scold Canadians
00:05:31.600 and blame Canadians and tell Canadians that we're the problem and that we're racist. So the, the,
00:05:36.220 the idea that this is something that's new, um, that's happened in the last couple of months or
00:05:40.700 over the last two years, I, I kind of disagree. I think it's been happening for much longer, but,
00:05:44.880 but my point aside, I'll, I'll keep reading here. She writes, when I started at the National Public
00:05:49.480 Broadcaster in 2013, the network produced some of the best journalism in the country. By the time I
00:05:54.060 resigned last month, it embodied some of the worst trends in the mainstream media. In a short period
00:05:58.700 of time, the CBC went from being a trusted news source to churning out clickbait that reads like
00:06:02.900 a parody of a student press. Again, I would probably refute the idea that it was ever a trusted source
00:06:07.880 of news, or at least in, in my lifetime or the, you know, 15 years, uh, since I've been a journalist,
00:06:12.600 I, I don't think the CBC was ever trusted, but maybe in the eyes of more sort of centrist,
00:06:17.540 um, middle of the road Canadians that used to be trusted, whereas clearly what she's talking
00:06:21.780 about here is that they've abandoned the center and they've really gone to the fringe far left.
00:06:26.420 I'll keep reading here. She says, those of us on the inside know just how swiftly and how
00:06:31.200 dramatically the politics of the state broadcaster have shifted. It used to be that I was one of the
00:06:36.620 furthest to the left in any newsroom, occasionally causing strain in a story meeting with my views
00:06:40.620 on issues like the housing crisis. I'm now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension
00:06:45.720 by questioning identity politics. This happened in the span of about 18 months. My own politics did not
00:06:50.880 change. I like how she openly admits that she's leftist. Um, you know, journalists are supposed
00:06:54.800 to be, uh, non-biased, especially at the state broadcaster. I'm sure that they all sort of claim
00:06:58.980 that they're neutral and that they're not on the political spectrum. Uh, you know, at least she
00:07:03.000 openly admits that she is a leftist and that she used to try to push the stories, uh, to the left.
00:07:07.600 Interesting that she says that she hasn't changed her views and she's now considered, um, conservative.
00:07:12.460 I know that this is a lot of the feelings of people who are sort of like old school liberals.
00:07:16.360 They're, that they, that they believe in things like, um, you know, individual liberty and democracy.
00:07:20.900 And these are the kind of, uh, these are the kind of things that the, the, the new left is sort of
00:07:25.960 abandoned. And so leaving a lot of liberals feeling like they're conservative. I'll keep reading here.
00:07:31.440 To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissidence and to abandon
00:07:36.240 journalistic integrity. It is to sign on enthusiastically to the radical political agenda that originated
00:07:41.860 on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms
00:07:45.880 that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions. It is to pretend that the woke worldview is near
00:07:51.460 universal, even if it is far from popular with those, you know, and speak to an interview and read
00:07:57.180 to work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person
00:08:01.900 and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is in my newsroom
00:08:06.900 to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book unbelievable and to actively book more
00:08:14.220 people from some races and less of others. It's wild that this stuff is actually going on at the
00:08:19.860 CBC. The CBC, by the way, has sort of denied that this stuff does take place, but I know a lot of
00:08:24.480 outlets, including true North are trying to get their hands on what those racial profile forms look
00:08:29.400 like and what they actually say. Cause I have no doubt that they do that kind of thing over at the
00:08:33.400 CBC. I'll continue. It says to work at the CBC is to submit to job interviews that are not about
00:08:39.140 qualifications or experience, but instead demand the parroting of orthodoxies, the demonstration of
00:08:44.400 fealty to dogma. It is to become less adversarial to governments and corporations and more hostile to
00:08:50.800 ordinary people with ideas that Twitter doesn't like. I like how she just openly says that they're
00:08:55.780 not adversarial to government. You know, the whole idea is that they're holding the government to
00:08:59.100 account. That is the role of a political journalist. And yet we know because Trudeau funds them. Trudeau
00:09:04.260 pays their bills and they are subservient. They are, um, they bow down to Justin Trudeau. They do not
00:09:09.900 hold him accountable. They are not adversarial or hostile to them. Instead, like she says,
00:09:14.760 they're hostile and adversarial to just regular old Canadians who might have views that are falling
00:09:19.880 out of fashion. She goes on to say it is to endlessly document microaggressions, but pay little
00:09:25.900 attention to evictions to spotlight companies, political platitudes, but have little interest
00:09:30.620 in wages or working conditions. It is to allow sweeping societal changes like lockdowns, vaccine
00:09:35.780 mandates, and school closures to roll out with little debate, to see billionaires amass extraordinary
00:09:40.280 wealth and bureaucrats amass enormous power with little scrutiny and to watch the most vulnerable
00:09:46.240 among us die of drug overdoses with little comment. Now this is interesting because this is the kind of
00:09:50.520 stuff that True North covers and we're like the only ones that are, that are out there, you know,
00:09:54.240 keeping track of how many people are dying in Canada from opioid overdoses. Uh, you know, we're,
00:09:59.300 we're the ones that are sort of raising these questions. The CBC should be, and it's, it's interesting
00:10:03.560 to see that at least one journalist in the CBC or formally, uh, acknowledges that and sees that too.
00:10:09.000 Almost done here. She writes, it is to consent the idea that a growing list of subjects are off the
00:10:14.220 table, that dialogue itself can be harmful, that the big issues of our time are already settled. How many times
00:10:19.720 have we heard over the last decade that the science has settled and that debate is over? We'll go on
00:10:24.740 here. She writes, it is to capitulate to certainty, to shut down critical thinking, to stamp out
00:10:29.580 curiosity, to keep one's mouth shut, to not ask questions, to not rock the boat. This while the
00:10:36.040 world burns, how could good journalism possibly be done under such conditions? How could any of this
00:10:41.320 possibly be healthy for society? All of this raises larger questions about the direction that North
00:10:45.940 America is headed. Questions about this new moment we are living through and its impact on the body
00:10:51.040 politic, on class divisions, on economic inequality, on education, on mental health, on literature
00:10:56.240 and comedy, on science, on liberalism and democracy. These questions keep me up at night.
00:11:02.440 I can no longer push them down. I will no longer hold back. This subsect is an attempt to find some
00:11:07.840 answers. And then she just goes on to lay out what she plans to do and what she plans to write
00:11:12.160 and invites people to go ahead and share. So pretty powerful stuff there. I mean, I don't know if any of
00:11:17.400 it per se surprises me other than the fact that they fill out racial profiling forms and that
00:11:22.360 they're told to book guests more from one race or another. But Harrison, what is your reaction to
00:11:28.560 this pretty scathing letter about all the problems over at the CBC? Yeah, I mean, this is really like
00:11:34.920 a bombshell that I think a lot of people in, especially in conservative media or right-leaning
00:11:39.980 media, like you said, Candace, we all kind of knew what was being said here. We already knew a lot of
00:11:45.700 this. It's not that surprising for us. But it really got a lot of traction around, I mean, Fox News
00:11:50.660 picked it up. A lot of big American blogs picked it up. And this really, I think a lot of Canadians were
00:11:56.580 waiting to hear this and waiting to see something like this. And clearly it ruffled some feathers.
00:12:00.800 And, you know, one quote from that article that really got my attention was that, was this line about how in a
00:12:06.720 short period of time the CBC went from being a trusted source of news to turning out clickbait that reads like a
00:12:11.820 parody of the student press. Now, as we talked about at the beginning, I haven't, you know, I'm still in
00:12:16.600 journalism school. And some of the articles I read out of our student newspapers, I mean, yeah,
00:12:22.840 they're pretty bad, but they're actually a lot better than what you see on the front page of the
00:12:25.860 CBC. And it kind of makes you scratch your head and think, first of all, where do they find these
00:12:30.100 people to write these articles? And really kind of where, how has the CBC gotten to this low of a
00:12:36.700 level? It's really, it's really too bad, but you know, it's important to remember that all of us
00:12:40.840 pay for the CBC. So anytime you see a really, a really awful story, you know, that's your money
00:12:45.360 that went to that. And I think that that's part of why this, this article from this article from
00:12:50.300 Tara Henley really, really, you know, made a lot of new, made a lot of news. But yeah, I want to,
00:12:55.120 I want to bring up Andrew Lawton's tweet, our colleague, Andrew Lawton, who kind of went,
00:13:00.120 went at Aaron O'Toole, who of course jumped on this the moment it was published. Aaron O'Toole,
00:13:04.200 as many of you would know, famously in the leadership election, said that he would
00:13:08.620 cut English television by 50% and then privatize CBC English TV within his first mandate. So he
00:13:16.500 came out strong in the leadership election, but by the time it came around for the general election,
00:13:21.620 Aaron O'Toole's stance on the CBC had totally softened. It basically had been brought down all
00:13:26.320 the way into basically a review of their mandate. So he went from being full-on in support of defunding
00:13:32.360 to just wanting to review them, not rock the boat, make sure the CBC still gave them a positive,
00:13:37.500 still gave him a positive headline here and there. And clearly none of that has worked.
00:13:41.440 But O'Toole tweeted that he would like to sit down with Tara Henley and to talk about what can be done
00:13:46.760 to fix the CBC. And Andrew responded on Twitter and said, during the leadership race, Aaron O'Toole
00:13:52.680 pledged to unequivocally defund and privatize CBC. During the election, he pledged to review possible
00:13:58.500 changes to its business model. Now he wants to fix it. So clearly the line from O'Toole, the line from
00:14:04.320 the conservative party has softened on the CBC. But I think that, I think it's a miscalculation.
00:14:09.800 I think most people now are ready to see some serious reform to CBC, ready to see some serious
00:14:15.900 change. It clearly needs it. But of course, not all the response to Tara Henley's articles have been
00:14:22.320 positive. There have been, there has been some pushback. One article that I think needs to be
00:14:27.400 brought to the attention of our audience is this hit piece on Henley from Gawker. So Gawker was
00:14:33.140 basically destroyed in 2016 by Peter Thiel. He bankrupted them and basically wiped them off the,
00:14:38.900 off the block. And Hulk Hogan, right? Wasn't it Hulk Hogan that they had like published some stuff about
00:14:43.300 him and he teamed up with, Peter Thiel was like a, like a private donor. And they just, I mean,
00:14:48.920 this is a terrible website, right? It's just like low, low quality clickbait, full on gossip,
00:14:55.200 like the most salacious kind of things. And yeah, it disappeared. Now all of a sudden it's back to
00:15:00.020 defend, to defend the CBC and the woke, the woke leftist takeover over there. And it's just like
00:15:06.620 this terrible junkie site and yet another, you know, leftist squawking voice. I don't, I don't
00:15:11.380 really understand the business model here, but. Yeah. And so like you, I kind of thought that Gawker had
00:15:16.420 been, you know, fully erased. Like I thought, I thought Gawker didn't exist. And then we saw this
00:15:19.960 article. So I did a bit of research. It turns out they, they came back in the summer of this past
00:15:24.400 summer in 2021, they were relaunched. And so I guess they were relaunched to write articles like
00:15:28.600 this, which frankly is, is a total joke. So they basically go after Henley for say, or for basically
00:15:34.060 accusing her of, of trying to imitate writers like Glenn Greenwald and Barry Weiss, who are kind of just,
00:15:39.860 you know, leaving their legacy media jobs and going, searching for a cheap buck by calling out,
00:15:45.580 you know, legacy media for being too woke and too liberal and just kind of jumping on this
00:15:49.960 substat grift. It's, it's, it's so ridiculous to call it a grift though. I mean, it's like,
00:15:54.640 okay. So someone like Barry Weiss was a columnist at the New York times, the most prestigious American
00:16:00.760 newspaper. And, you know, she, she, she's kind of like the, the description we were talking about
00:16:04.660 earlier, a liberal, you know, she's by no means on the right in any way. She's not conservative.
00:16:08.820 The only position that she might have that would be considered conservative is that she's
00:16:11.980 pretty pro Israel, but, but you know, every, everything else is like, she, she, she gave up
00:16:17.100 a very prestigious position at the New York times as an editor to go completely independent. It's a
00:16:22.480 huge risk. I don't know how much money she makes from, from a sub stack, but, but asking people who
00:16:28.340 enjoy your work and who read your stuff to, to, to fund you as opposed to going through some big
00:16:33.680 corporation. I mean, to me, that's honorable. It's like an entrepreneur doing their thing. And so,
00:16:37.880 and sort of just like the way that Gawker does it, just dismiss it as a grift and say that,
00:16:41.760 you know, they're just trying to make money. It's like, it's probably the opposite. My, my guess is
00:16:46.760 that most of these names and including Tara here, she's probably making less money, quite a bit less
00:16:52.380 money doing her own thing and trying to solicit individual donations versus working at, you know,
00:16:59.420 a plush, fancy news outlet, like the CBC or the New York times that, you know, you get paid really
00:17:04.720 well over there. Yeah. And you know, Gawker is an alternative media site and you'd think maybe
00:17:09.640 they'd be interested in, well, maybe not propping up these old legacy media outlets like the CBC and
00:17:14.840 New York times. But I mean, when you read this article, you see exactly where they're, where
00:17:18.760 they're coming from and you kind of understand, well, actually it doesn't surprise, shouldn't
00:17:22.160 surprise anyone that they're defending CBC. So a couple of quotes I just have to bring up. So
00:17:26.960 in, in Tara Henley's sub stack article, she, she talked about two CBC headlines, which I think
00:17:32.860 we've covered on this show before, because they're just so ridiculous. And again, it's important to
00:17:38.000 remind everyone listening that when you read these CBC headlines, just know that your money went to
00:17:42.420 the funding of this, of this journalism. So obviously she, she brings up this non-binary
00:17:48.060 Filipinos article about how basically it's a question. It's how non-binary Filipinos reconcile
00:17:53.420 their identities with their languages, lack of LGBT terms. So I think everyone can understand that that
00:17:59.140 is a ridiculous headline, frankly, not something that, you know, should be written about in the
00:18:03.160 CBC. Uh, but the way Gawker attacks Henley's, um, you know, sort of interpretation of this article
00:18:09.220 is just crazy. So they basically call this, they, they say this in, in describing this Filipino article,
00:18:16.280 it is by all standards, a normal and well-reported piece of journalism about language and colonialism.
00:18:22.840 So, I mean, that is just, that is straight out of the CBC newsroom. That's basically the way any CBC
00:18:27.340 author would write about this article. And then the second article, um, is about how, uh, you know,
00:18:33.280 it's racist or it's, uh, it's, it's offensive to basically use modern basic words in, in the
00:18:40.680 English language. So the CBC published a, published a story, which we covered, which goes through,
00:18:44.800 you know, words like blackmail. So apparently using that is racist and it comes from a point of
00:18:50.760 privilege, I guess. Um, and then the, the Gawker article, um, basically said it was wrong to
00:18:55.680 criticize this, this article, um, because it doesn't scold anybody, but instead provides con,
00:19:02.440 but instead provides context about the evolving meaning of certain words in public discourse.
00:19:07.160 That's so stupid. I mean, it's, it obviously, the whole point of the article was to scold Canadians.
00:19:11.700 I mean, it just really, really like scraping the bottom of the barrel there to defend Terry Henley.
00:19:17.540 And, and they didn't go after the, the Gawker article didn't defend the CBC against all these
00:19:21.820 accusations that they're not focusing on the important issues of her time. Um, I, to me,
00:19:26.400 the most powerful part of Tara Henley's, uh, article and, and, and sub-stack column there was,
00:19:31.900 she was talking about the big questions of her time. And she was talking about how the way that the,
00:19:35.580 the woke left, even though they, they tend, they, they pretend to be striving for, uh, justice and
00:19:41.500 peace and all these things. It's like, you know, they're, they're, they're obsessed with race.
00:19:45.300 They're focused on these really niche issues that don't impact and don't really affect Canadians.
00:19:49.140 And meanwhile, they're ignoring these huge, huge, you know, growth of government, amassing a power
00:19:54.600 among corporations and, and governments, uh, without question, you know, really huge societal
00:19:59.760 changes, ignoring them all, ignoring the plight of the, the, the, the lowest, uh, among us, the,
00:20:05.840 the people who are struggling and addicted to drugs, you know, that stuff gets said. So, so just really
00:20:11.620 kind of a, a, a pathetic little response by, by Gawker there. But I, you know, Jonathan Kaye over on
00:20:18.900 Twitter has done a really good job. He's, he's with Colette. He, he's done a good job of, uh,
00:20:23.220 collecting the, the sort of mainstream legacy media's response to, uh, Tara Henley's piece,
00:20:29.780 because you, you would kind of think that people would applaud her for her bravery of coming out,
00:20:34.260 um, that they would recognize that some of the trends that she talked about, even if we don't
00:20:37.780 agree with everything that she wrote, we would agree that some of the trends that she talked about
00:20:41.460 were serious and deserved our attention. So instead you see a Toronto star columnist replying.
00:20:47.620 So Jesse Brown over at Candleland said that he was going to have Tara on his show. And she just
00:20:52.020 responded by saying, I hope you're joking as if like, how dare you give this person a further
00:20:57.620 platform? Uh, we, we had other people, uh, straight out accusing her of being a racist and a bigot.
00:21:04.740 So this is an individual who's a former correspondent for the Globe and Mail. He wrote,
00:21:09.220 reading the anti CBC rant by Tara Henley a second time. I found it even more one-sided,
00:21:14.180 superficial and wrongheaded feeding into people's anti CBC prejudices. I love the idea that, that,
00:21:21.860 if you don't like CBC, it's because you're prejudiced. It's like the CBC is now like a
00:21:25.940 protected group or something like that. Um, there are more here. This is an individual who is a former
00:21:32.020 journalist, he says, and a author for Harper Collins. And he wrote, it's very lucrative to write an
00:21:38.500 anti-woke sub stack. Racism has all the money and it needs content creators. Again, just not true.
00:21:44.340 There's no way that Tara Henley is going to make more money from a sub stack than she got paid from
00:21:48.900 the CBC. Remember they get $1.2 billion a year from the government. Um, I, I don't know how much
00:21:55.540 Tara Henley is going to raise from her sub stack, but my guess is it won't be anywhere near a normal
00:21:59.940 salary for a high paid journalist over at the CBC. This is an executive and administrator over at the
00:22:06.020 University of British Columbia, UBC. He just makes a point that she is making a conscious decision to
00:22:10.980 quote, monetize their own racism. So, uh, again, taking, taking Tara Henley's sub stack and concluding
00:22:19.220 that she's a racist and a bigot, and the whole purpose of it is to monetize off her racism,
00:22:24.260 bigotry, and that there's a huge audience, uh, for racists in Canada really just shows you how much the
00:22:29.620 typical woke leftist hates Canadians. Like the, the, the whole problem with the CBC,
00:22:34.420 you see it echoing out, um, on, on, on Twitter here and John Kay did a really, really good job
00:22:41.140 of that. Well, Harrison, I want to move on to another story here because this, this one,
00:22:45.220 this one is like the definition of fake news. The CBC, uh, not surprising another story from the CBC,
00:22:50.660 the CBC basically just invented a news story here that had no bearing to reality and they were completely
00:22:56.740 caught out on it. So I'm talking about this poll that they did. They ran a story saying basically
00:23:03.140 flat out that Canadians don't want to live in Alberta, Alberta bound. Only half of Canadians
00:23:08.580 say they'd feel comfortable making the move. This is just so ridiculous. So basically the CBC
00:23:13.380 commissioned a poll where they only asked Canadians if they would want to live in Alberta. They, they
00:23:19.220 didn't ask them about other, other provinces. So the whole point of this article was to attack
00:23:24.340 Alberta to say that Canadians don't like Alberta and that most Canadians wouldn't feel comfortable.
00:23:28.500 I'm going to read a little bit about it because it's just so, it's such a farce. So Alberta bound,
00:23:33.220 only half of Canadians say they'd feel comfortable making the move. New poll suggests many wouldn't
00:23:37.460 feel at home and worry climate change mitigation isn't a priority. Okay. This is the start of this
00:23:43.860 article. Cowboys, nodding oil pump jacks on the prairie landscape, conservative politics. You could
00:23:49.940 fill a Ford F-150 pickup truck with stereotypes about Alberta, but a new national poll suggests
00:23:55.460 Canadians views of Alberta are a lot more complex than the cliches. And so then they talk about how
00:24:00.980 they did this poll of 1500 people. And they found that 53% don't think Albertans care enough about
00:24:08.340 climate change. So they're kind of making the point that Canadians don't want to live in Alberta.
00:24:13.540 That's basically the whole point of this article kind of saying Alberta is different. We don't like
00:24:17.940 Alberta. Most Canadians wouldn't want to live there, wouldn't feel comfortable living here.
00:24:22.660 I mean, not only is like the whole purpose of this article so transparently, clearly just a attack on
00:24:28.660 Alberta for no reason, just to say like, look at them. They're different. We hate them. But it's not
00:24:33.060 true. It's not true. The facts and the statistics in Canada are basically the complete opposite. They're
00:24:38.500 the complete opposite. I mean, a simple search on Google, if you, if you literally just type in on Google,
00:24:42.740 what Canadian province has the highest net migration, meaning what is the province of the most
00:24:47.620 Canadians move to from other provinces? The answer is Alberta. Over the past five decades, Alberta has
00:24:53.620 had the highest net increase from interprovincial migration from any province. This is a report
00:24:58.660 from our friends over at the Fraser Institute. And just look at this graph. Okay, the first graph right
00:25:03.060 here looks at net migration in Canada over the last 40 years from 1970. So over the last 45 years. And as
00:25:10.580 you can see, the province where most people have left is Quebec of the, of the 45 years that they,
00:25:17.140 that they kept track out of 43 of them, Quebec has had more people leave the province each year
00:25:23.140 than come. You can see all the way down. Alberta is the lowest, the least number of people leave
00:25:27.860 Alberta each year on net. They've had fewer years where more people have, have, have left the province
00:25:33.220 they come. Next graph right here is even more clear. This is the net cumulative interprovincial
00:25:38.820 migration. As you can see, almost half a million Canadians have left the province of Quebec over
00:25:44.500 the last five, four and a half, five decades and gone to other provinces. You can see very clearly here
00:25:50.580 that Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and yes, even Ontario have all had
00:25:56.260 net loss of, of residents. People from those provinces have left the two main beneficiary
00:26:02.580 provinces, the two places in this country where the most people want to live, British Columbia
00:26:06.660 and Alberta. More people want to live in Alberta. More people have moved to Alberta. There have been
00:26:11.220 over a million people moved to those two provinces. More than half, 600,000 have been going to Alberta.
00:26:18.180 So CBC cooks up this completely fake idea that people don't want to live in Alberta. Meanwhile, the data,
00:26:23.940 the statistics, the facts back up the exact opposite. That in reality, the choices that people
00:26:29.860 actually make in this country are to move to Alberta, to vote with their feet, to go to the
00:26:34.820 place where there is opportunity, where there is freedom, where is Alberta great place to live. I
00:26:39.540 lived there for four years during university and I lived in Calgary a little bit later on for a while.
00:26:44.260 It's a great, wonderful, beautiful place to live and that's what the facts show. But there's CBC
00:26:50.180 over there making the exact opposite point. Rightly so, they were called out. Jason Kenney,
00:26:55.380 the Premier of Alberta, called it a drive-by smear. He said that he accused CBC correctly of treating the
00:27:02.900 province as a convenient sort of punching bag. He wondered where the research was on Canadians'
00:27:08.180 attitudes towards Quebec and Ontario. Well, feeling shameful and being called out, the CBC did what they
00:27:15.060 should have done the first time. They went back and they redid the survey. They asked all Canadians
00:27:20.420 where they would live and what did they find. Well, pretty much exactly what the facts show,
00:27:25.060 which is that Canadians say that the place that they would most like to live is British Columbia,
00:27:29.940 as well as Atlantic Canada, probably because the weather is more temperate and housing prices maybe
00:27:35.540 in eastern Canada would be part of the draw. Interestingly, that people say that they would want to live in
00:27:40.020 Atlantic Canada where, again, the facts show the opposite, that people leave Atlantic Canada
00:27:44.180 every year because there's just not a lot of jobs and not a lot of economic opportunity.
00:27:48.820 But the third place province tied with Ontario right there is Alberta. More Canadians say that
00:27:56.020 they would feel comfortable living in Alberta. Interestingly, Quebec was at the very, very bottom
00:28:00.900 of that list, so almost half of Canadians say that they would want to live in Alberta, whereas only 24%
00:28:06.660 of Canadians say they'd feel comfortable living in Quebec, probably largely because of the language
00:28:11.300 issue, but still the exact opposite of what the CBC said. So this is a perfect example of fake news,
00:28:17.380 of CBC sitting around saying, let's cook up a news story to demonize Alberta, to make them feel awful,
00:28:24.820 to show how out of step they are on this one issue of climate change. Meanwhile, forgetting all of the
00:28:30.900 other facts about the situation, all of the nuance, all of the real world statistics that show
00:28:35.780 literally the opposite. Again, this is why CBC can't be trusted. What do you think of this one, Harrison?
00:28:43.460 Yeah, well, there's so much wrong with this article, Candace. I mean, I don't always agree
00:28:47.460 with Jason Kenney, but his characterization of this article is spot on. It's a smear job.
00:28:52.660 You can just picture the activists in Toronto sitting around in the newsroom, kind of thinking
00:28:57.380 about how they can tweak the data, leave important facts out about Alberta, about the migration,
00:29:04.260 interprovincial migration of Canadians, and just find every way possible to politicize their news,
00:29:10.020 because, of course, this was characterized as a news piece, to find ways to politicize the news and
00:29:16.180 just tarnish a whole swath of Canadians, many of whom don't fit the stereotypes that the CBC put in at
00:29:24.820 the beginning of that article. And, you know, this is a classic problem. I think part of this is the
00:29:30.020 bias of omission. Leaving data out can be just as bad as cooking up fake information sometimes.
00:29:36.900 The idea that the CBC would just completely, I mean, they must have done the research themselves.
00:29:42.580 They must have known that actually the facts tell a different story than this poll they commissioned.
00:29:46.260 Well, I thought it was interesting, Harrison, that the author of the piece, I went to look up who
00:29:50.900 wrote it, because you kind of assume it might be some junior guy writing in Toronto or something,
00:29:55.220 someone who's never set foot in Alberta. Contraire. This was written by a 20-year professional reporter,
00:30:02.260 producer over at the CBC, who is also, of course, teaching journalism at Mount Royal University. So
00:30:09.620 he's in Albertan. He lives in Calgary. He's been at the CBC for 20 years. And, of course, he's a
00:30:15.060 journalism prof as well. What shoddy journalism. And I feel sorry for these students who are paying good
00:30:20.980 money to get a journalism degree over at Mount Royal University being taught by this kind of
00:30:25.220 individual here. Yeah. I mean, seriously, it's just, it's just ridiculous. And frankly, this is,
00:30:31.860 this is something that always needs to be reminded. I mean, Albertans pay for their province to be
00:30:37.460 tarnished and to be written about like this in the CBC. And I just think, you know, if you ever needed
00:30:43.540 more of an example of the CBC's bias, their, their ability to spin things just perfectly to fit their
00:30:50.580 ideology, this is, this is, this is it. This must be the one that, that basically shows to every
00:30:56.100 Canadian, you know, the data does not, does not basically match what they're trying to say. And,
00:31:02.020 you know, of course, the CBC would never try and offend the sensibilities of the front of the
00:31:05.860 Quebecers in Canada. You know, they would never try and paint, paint Ontario to be, you know,
00:31:12.180 some desirable place on equal level as Alberta. Of course, their whole view of the West of the West
00:31:17.620 in this country is a negative one. And they'll try and do everything they can in their news to
00:31:24.260 tarnish Albertans. And I, I, I mean, I think that's partially why no one even, no one listens to the
00:31:29.620 CBC. They're so irrelevant. They're grasping for anything they can. It really, it's, it's a shame to
00:31:35.940 see it because at the end of the day, it is, it is causing, it's a, it's a negative to Canada.
00:31:41.300 It's not doing us anything positive to have a public broadcaster write these articles about
00:31:45.140 the country. And it just makes you wonder what their real goal is. Why would they do this?
00:31:49.140 Their whole, their whole job should be to promote Canada, to make it a better place,
00:31:52.580 not to try and divide it regionally. And I thought it was funny because when you read
00:31:56.820 the opening of that story, like, oh, these, you know, these, these conservatives driving F1
00:32:02.420 Ford pickup trucks, it's like, if you, if you drive like an hour outside of any city in Canada,
00:32:07.540 that's what it's like. It's not like, you know, Alberta is completely different than rural parts
00:32:12.980 of British Columbia, Ontario, Newfoundland, like any, any rural part of the country has similar
00:32:18.260 characteristics and a similar culture. And, and this idea that Alberta is just a stark different
00:32:22.820 place. It's, it's, it's untrue for any Canadian who has spent time in, in, in Alberta or in any sort of
00:32:30.260 place outside of urban center. To me, it just shows again, how out of touch. When I read it,
00:32:34.980 I really did think it was written by some downtown Toronto woke intern and not a 20 year veteran,
00:32:40.580 um, living in Calgary. Well, Harrison, thank you so much for joining the program. It's been fun to have
00:32:44.820 you on and thank you to the audience for listening. Look, it's clear that the CBC pushes a divisive,
00:32:51.060 race obsessed, woke worldview. It invents fake news meant to divide the country and pit Canadians
00:32:57.780 against each other all the while milking us, taking our money and wasting it away. It's time
00:33:03.540 to defund the CBC. It's fake news Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm show.