Juno News - February 18, 2022


As Trudeau destroys his reputation, the legacy media destroy their credibility


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28 minutes

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191.3542

Word Count

5,452

Sentence Count

288

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

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Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The police move to break up the Freedom Convoy, the legacy media spin into overdrive to cover for
00:00:05.860 Trudeau during his time of need, and they remind us who the real heroes of the protests are
00:00:10.840 themselves. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:18.980 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in. So it's Fake News Friday, and we are going to get
00:00:22.860 to all of our reactions and break down the biggest fake news stories of the week. But
00:00:26.820 because there's so much news going on, and there's so much going on right now on the ground
00:00:30.480 in Ottawa, I wanted to give you a quick news update. So there's sort of three big things that are going
00:00:35.760 on right now. First of all, it's Friday. They were supposed to do an emergency meeting in the House
00:00:41.200 of Commons to discuss the Emergency Act. So the debate on the Emergency Act, we learned, was
00:00:46.700 canceled. Why? Well, because of the Emergency Act. It's so ridiculous. So here is a story from Global
00:00:52.640 News. Parliament acts as Friday plans to meet over Emergencies Act amid police operations. So
00:00:58.160 Speaker of the House, Anthony Roda, the Liberal, wrote, the House of Commons will not sit today,
00:01:02.380 Friday, February 18th. A police operation is expected in the downtown core of Ottawa. Given
00:01:07.300 these exceptional circumstances, and following discussion with all recognized party leadership,
00:01:12.200 the sitting today is canceled. So again, they cannot meet to discuss the Emergency Act,
00:01:17.740 because they've already executed the Emergency Act, and there is a police operation going on. This is
00:01:22.440 a total suspension of our democracy, of the rule of law, of liberalism in Canada. And the legacy media
00:01:28.640 just sort of shrugged it off. This was written into the global media piece. They write, while the House
00:01:32.960 of Commons has been in hybrid format for much of the past two years, holding the session virtually only
00:01:38.620 likely would have raised questions about whether it broke parliamentary rules, wrote Global. So they're
00:01:43.140 covering for the liberals, saying they can't even do this virtually, even though we've been doing
00:01:46.960 parliament virtually for most of the last two years. Somehow they can't even do that. So no, we've
00:01:51.980 canceled democracy, we've canceled the rule of law, and the legacy media is doing what they do best,
00:01:58.720 which is cover for the liberals. So on the same vein, the second news story I want to talk about
00:02:02.920 is sad news out of Ottawa that Tamara Litch was arrested on Thursday evening. You'll remember that
00:02:08.520 she was the original organizer of the GoFundMe campaign. She's also become sort of a spokesperson for
00:02:13.940 the campaign. She recorded sort of a teary message on Wednesday evening, sort of predicting that she
00:02:19.860 was going to get arrested. She seemed really distraught about it, but she was prepared to do
00:02:23.840 it. And so I guess the inevitability happened. Joe Warmington tweeted this out Thursday evening at
00:02:29.880 about 8.40 local time in Ottawa, breaking Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Litch has been arrested.
00:02:36.040 And there she is. You can see a picture of her earlier that day. I believe that's with her daughter
00:02:40.780 that was tweeted out by the Freedom Convoy. But this is just sort of a sad moment for the Freedom
00:02:47.180 Convoy. We know that Tamara has been a fighter and a warrior all the way through. She seems like a
00:02:51.260 tremendous person and seeing her get arrested signifies that this is all just coming to an end.
00:02:57.040 And again, probably inevitable that they were going to break this up, but it is finally happening right
00:03:01.800 now in Ottawa. We'll keep bringing you updates from the ground of how that plays out and how that
00:03:06.340 police operation plays out, how this thing finally ends. The third story I want to quickly touch on
00:03:11.200 before we get into Fake News Friday here is that there was an actual terrorist attack in Canada
00:03:16.180 yesterday. Yes, there was a terrorist attack. No, it had nothing to do with the Freedom Convoy. It
00:03:21.200 wasn't in Ottawa. It had nothing to do with the thing that the Trudeau government was engaging this
00:03:25.840 Emergencies Act and pushing our country into wartime measures to confront a couple hundred truckers in
00:03:31.460 Ottawa. Meanwhile, actual terrorists in northern British Columbia attacking a oil and gas site,
00:03:37.100 a natural pipeline work site near Houston, British Columbia. So Stuart Marr tweeted this out. He said,
00:03:43.200 disturbing news of domestic terrorism in northern BC, 20 axe-wielding attackers set upon security guards
00:03:49.520 early on Thursday at a natural gas pipeline work site. One Mountie injured in an arson attack.
00:03:55.800 Unbelievable stuff. The pictures here are really, really shocking. I'll read from the news release
00:04:00.100 here with the RCMP out in Houston, British Columbia, which is up in northern BC. Police respond to acts
00:04:06.160 of violence on the Martin Forest Service Road near Houston. And so it says this, it was reported
00:04:11.500 approximately 20 people, some armed with axes, were attacking security guards, smashing their vehicle
00:04:18.400 windows. It was initially reported that some coastal gas link employees were trapped inside, but all
00:04:23.180 managed to leave the area safely. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Truly acts of violence. You can see they
00:04:29.700 they set the site on fire to try to stop the police from getting them. They flipped over large vehicles,
00:04:35.760 completely violent with axes, destroying private property, setting arson, setting fire, which was
00:04:45.080 endangering security guards and the police. And basically not a peep from the media, not a peep
00:04:51.260 from the Trudeau government. I wonder whether Chrystia Freeland is going to be freezing these 20
00:04:57.560 individuals bank accounts. Will she be freezing their bank accounts? Will she be treating them
00:05:01.160 like terrorists? Will she be freezing the bank accounts of anyone who donated to this cause that
00:05:05.540 are paying for these eco radicals to be wreaking havoc up in northern BC? Well, probably not. Probably
00:05:11.100 not because this is happening in a working class blue collar area. So no one in Ottawa cares at all
00:05:16.460 when it's happening over there. Unbelievable stuff. And I think that's a good segue into our regular episode
00:05:22.300 of Fake News Friday. So for that, I am joined as usual by my producer and True North journalist,
00:05:27.900 Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, hey, thanks for joining the show today. Yeah, Candace. Well, as you know,
00:05:32.680 we've been covering this for 25 days or so, 26 days, I believe it is, our count. And every single day,
00:05:39.620 the legacy media continue to provide us with just as many examples as possible as to how they are so
00:05:46.240 opposed to this movement and their rants, which they just put out on Twitter every day. And we have a lot
00:05:51.980 to get through. So I'm just going to read to you a couple of these, a couple of these takes from legacy
00:05:57.260 media journalists that, that show just how opposed they really are to all of this. The first one that
00:06:03.400 we have is from Rachel Gilmore. And she was so shocked to see that these protesters were having a pig
00:06:11.020 roast. Although that like as if that was the worst thing she had seen here, she wrote in all caps, a pig
00:06:16.720 roast. Jesus Christ. She couldn't believe that these protesters were, were, were enjoying some,
00:06:23.520 enjoying a pig roast because they were, they've been there for so long. So it just shows you.
00:06:27.520 I think this is like a cultural divide, Harrison. Absolutely. I know, like, I know that a lot of
00:06:32.700 people have pig roast as part of like, you know, maybe a Sunday barbecue, watching football or
00:06:37.260 something. It's sort of like a cultural, I wouldn't even say like a working class thing, but maybe a
00:06:41.060 more of like suburban rural thing. And the fact that she was just beside herself. And the great
00:06:46.280 thing about Twitter is it gives us a, a, a window into the minds of these elitist legacy media
00:06:51.380 journalists. So they're sort of stream of consciousness. They can't help it. They put it out
00:06:55.260 there. And it just shows exactly to your point, like how, how, how culturally opposed they are,
00:07:00.700 uh, to, to these people. It's much more of a cultural issue than it is a political issue in my
00:07:04.820 mind. Oh, absolutely. And they're just so shocked. It's like they've, they've never been,
00:07:09.440 they've never been faced with, faced with the opposing cultural, uh, the opposing culture like
00:07:15.220 this. So really it's quite, it's quite humorous to see them all do this. And, uh, I know on your
00:07:19.680 show yesterday, you taught, you touched on this tweet. This is from Graham Richardson, a CTV anchorman
00:07:25.080 who basically went out and publicly stated that he was really enjoying the process of doxing,
00:07:30.200 uh, people who had donated to the, to the give, send, go. He wrote, have spent the last two days
00:07:34.760 calling local people who have donated to the trucker convoy, including a former MP,
00:07:39.440 several business owners, healthcare professionals, and a property developer trying to understand why
00:07:44.260 they support this very few calls back, which, uh, I'm not at all surprised, but clearly he was.
00:07:49.080 And then he responded saying, Oh, it appears as though some of you don't agree with what I'm doing.
00:07:53.600 Well, no, no, Graham. Uh, a lot of people don't really like when journalists go and dox,
00:07:59.000 uh, citizens do the government's dirty work for them. What, what a surprise there.
00:08:02.840 Well, and also just like the, this idea that journalists are harassing citizens for a private
00:08:08.760 donation. A lot of these donations, Harrison, were very small dollar amounts. So you're talking about
00:08:13.400 50, a hundred dollars. And in, in return, these people are getting shamed at, look, I've, I've gotten
00:08:18.540 lots of messages from people, both firsthand and secondhand. Uh, like, like someone will show me a
00:08:23.240 message that someone sent them or someone, some made it rush. People are afraid. People are really,
00:08:27.860 really afraid that the government is criminalizing their dissent, that, that a donation that they made
00:08:33.620 a month ago will somehow retroactively make them a terrorist today. And you know, you and I can kind
00:08:38.420 of laugh and joke about how silly that is and how overreaching the government is. But I, I know
00:08:44.020 from, from messages that I'm receiving that some people are very scared. This is putting a chill, um,
00:08:49.060 in the hearts of Canadians. They don't want to be treated like terrorists. They don't want to get their
00:08:52.340 bank accounts frozen. They don't want their credit cards or their mortgages cut up. And this is a very
00:08:56.900 real threat and, and a very dangerous situation. And the fact that the, that the media is out there
00:09:02.340 doing the Trudeau's dirty work, to me, it's exposed how corrupted the media are, how these journalists
00:09:09.700 are, and they're, and they're so out of touch, Harrison, they don't even realize what they're
00:09:13.300 doing. They're, they're so naive about it. They're like, oh, oh, some of you don't agree with me doing
00:09:17.540 this. It's like, it's like, do you understand the severity here? The government is telling you,
00:09:22.820 if you donated to this campaign, you could be treated like a terrorist. They're equating
00:09:26.900 peaceful protesters in Ottawa with terrorists. And the, the, the idea of what terror, like what
00:09:32.420 we do to terrorists in society, like, like we un-person them, right? Like they could go to jail,
00:09:36.500 they could lose everything. And I, to, to me, the fact that the journalists are out there,
00:09:40.660 I'm happy again, that they're putting it out there on Twitter because they're being exposed.
00:09:43.940 And you can see a lot of these tweets really get ratioed, not just by the sort of usual suspects
00:09:48.740 here in Canada, but by big international accounts, big accounts from the UK, Australia,
00:09:54.100 and the US, maybe some of these journalists are getting a little bit of a wake up call, like,
00:09:58.260 wow, these practices and this behavior that I'm carrying on isn't, isn't, isn't acceptable.
00:10:03.140 And it's not okay in a free society. Well, it's, it's really maddening because
00:10:07.700 in journalism school, the fundamental, one of the fundamentals that they always tell us is that
00:10:12.820 journalists are supposed to speak truth to power. They're not supposed to wield the government's power
00:10:17.700 for them and to use the government's power to crush dissent on behalf of the government. It's,
00:10:22.180 it's really something I've never seen before. And I'm surprised these journalists are so,
00:10:26.820 are so proud to be doing that work. It's, it's frankly disgusting. Uh, and, and speaking about
00:10:31.700 that, um, as you said, Candace, they are, you, the government is using this terrorist language
00:10:36.420 to paint these protests, which is very, very dangerous. These are Canadian citizens who are
00:10:40.980 just exercising their right to peacefully protest. Um, but to, to go with that, these journalists,
00:10:46.340 this, this, a Quebec journalist wrote in, in Quebec Corps, which is a, which is a French language
00:10:52.420 newspaper. Uh, she, she, she's writing these tabloid style headlines in a newspaper calling
00:10:58.500 the protesters of the freedom convoy COVID Taliban. So basically going as far as she can to paint these,
00:11:06.820 paint these freedom protesters, many of whom I had the opportunity to speak to when I was in Ottawa,
00:11:11.620 uh, who were our true, uh, salt of the earth Canadians that are fighting for their freedoms.
00:11:17.380 Well, the, the journalists are now doing the government's dirty work and labeling them as
00:11:20.980 terrorists. And, and Candace, before we move on, there's another tweet that I, I found to be very,
00:11:26.580 uh, very enlightening as to where these legacy media journalists are coming from and, and where
00:11:32.660 their coverage is coming from. Mackenzie Gray, who's a part of the, uh, parliamentary press gallery,
00:11:37.460 um, was covering one of the freedom convoy organizers, press conferences. And he wrote
00:11:44.580 the convoy leadership also reiterates, they have no intentions of acting outside of the democratic
00:11:49.940 process to get any of their goals. And he says, after that, I would wager that it's never a great
00:11:55.540 sign when you need to add that asterisk to your remarks. So, so I wonder then, uh, I wonder then
00:12:01.140 Mackenzie Gray, what, what should they say? Because you are the, they are the ones, the journalists are the
00:12:06.020 ones that are painting these organizers as people who are trying to overthrow the government as
00:12:12.100 terrorists. So what are they supposed to say? Are they just supposed to say nothing? Are they
00:12:15.540 supposed to say that, in fact, no, they're not going to, uh, they're not going to make,
00:12:20.180 make claims about how they're not trying to act as a democratic process. It's, it's unbelievable,
00:12:24.740 Candace, and really it just shows you how far our media has fallen. And, and-
00:12:30.420 Well, it's like, it's like a trap, right? They set it up. So it's like, it's like,
00:12:33.860 Hey, these guys are here to overthrow the government. And then they go, no, we're not.
00:12:37.140 We're not here to overthrow the government. We're here to act within the democratic process.
00:12:40.580 And they go, well, the fact that you even needed to say that begs the question of whether it's true.
00:12:45.460 It's like, I'm only saying that because you keep saying the opposite. And, and it's like,
00:12:49.300 no matter what they do, these journalists won't give them a fair shake, won't paint the honest truth.
00:12:54.020 This is why everyone knows, this is why no one trusts the media. Like this, this journalist is a snake.
00:12:59.780 He's transparently showing us what he truly believes going into overdrive, doing everything
00:13:05.780 they can to smear these truckers. Thankfully, many Canadians are seeing through that.
00:13:10.100 Unfortunately, many are not. Trudeau is using their rhetoric and their language to justify this
00:13:15.540 emergencies act and this assault on our democracy. It's, it's, it's a cycle. And yes, it's transparent
00:13:21.300 for us to see, but it's happening. And the fact that it's allowed to happen is not a good sign for our,
00:13:27.460 our country, Harrison. No, absolutely not. And the, the government is really playing into this
00:13:33.060 with the media, the legacy media. They are, they have now made a move. And we found this out through
00:13:37.700 a black locks report, which basically stated that the speaker of the house of commons,
00:13:42.820 Anthony Rhoda is now offering reporters armed guards at taxpayers expense. Um, after the
00:13:49.300 parliamentary press gallery complained, it was troubled by freedom convoy truck drivers.
00:13:53.620 So Parliament Hill guards are now going to be accompanying these legacy media journalists as
00:14:00.980 they, as they, as they basically spew this biased reporting about this trucker convoy from inside.
00:14:07.780 Now, um, and this is a quote, this is a quote from Elizabeth Thompson, a CBC reporter who said,
00:14:14.180 personally, I felt a little uncomfortable because there were all these guys roaming around the street.
00:14:18.500 Um, and there was, and, and she had to wait for the commissioner each time to actually open the door.
00:14:25.540 Um, some were quick, some were quite quick, others not so quick. If there was ever a situation where
00:14:30.900 a member was being threatened and had to get into that building quickly, uh, you know, so they're really
00:14:35.380 playing into this, that these, these truckers, these protesters are dangerous, and that the press need
00:14:40.660 to be shielded from these protesters. Now, I was in Ottawa, like I said, I had the, I had the opportunity to
00:14:46.180 go down and see for myself what it was like. And that is just not at all the case, Candace. I
00:14:51.220 freely roamed through the trucks. I talked with truckers. I was welcomed inside some of their
00:14:56.900 trucks to speak with these people. These are not at all people who would, who would threaten
00:15:01.540 journalists. And the very idea that, that the, that the government is now playing into this
00:15:06.500 is really, really disheartening.
00:15:08.980 Well, it's so true. Like, let's, let's just go back. The truckers have been there for 22 days.
00:15:12.660 How many assaults have there been? How many attacks have there been? How many people have been
00:15:16.500 assaulted or attacked in, in any way, shape or form? How many journalists have been attacked?
00:15:21.620 The answer is zero. The answer is zero. Sure. There has been some arrests. There's been some people
00:15:26.260 who have acted out, but, but as far as, as, as violence and assaults, there just haven't been any. And
00:15:31.860 you know, the fact that you walked around freely, uh, Rupa Supriyama, who writes for the
00:15:36.340 national post, she's also, she lives in Ottawa. She's been walking around. She's a person of color.
00:15:40.500 She, she, she's a woman. She's had no problems whatsoever. So this whole like moral panic that
00:15:46.340 the, the journalists are promoting the fact that they're unsafe. Again, this goes back to culture.
00:15:50.420 In my mind, Harrison, I think that the, that there's a cultural divide, these, uh, you know,
00:15:54.740 very frail upper middle-class, um, like T totling, pearl clutching journalists, uh, are, are just very
00:16:02.020 afraid of, of like working class blue collar men in, in their town. And, and it's so, it's so patently
00:16:07.940 obvious. Well, here is Sean O'Shea, a global news reporter who is doing a report on the ground,
00:16:15.220 taking advantage of his layers and layers of taxpayer funded security. You can see he's with
00:16:19.860 the RCMP and with his private security. I don't understand how it's necessary. Like 10 feet, uh, over,
00:16:26.980 you see, uh, true North Andrew Lawton and he doesn't have any security and he is just fine. So this,
00:16:31.220 this, this whole idea that he needs it, um, is, is kind of laughable, but I want to play this clip,
00:16:35.540 Harrison, because, um, he, he also talks about how the protesters are wrong and the beliefs that
00:16:41.780 they hold are incorrect. So let's play that clip. Well, uh, Tracy, to give you some perspective here,
00:16:47.140 we're surrounded by, we have private security. We have the police around us because many of the
00:16:52.340 protesters have been blaming us, complaining that we're telling their not wrong story, which is not
00:16:57.060 true. So he's, he's saying that the protesters believe that the media are at fault for saying,
00:17:03.780 for the narrative about the truckers. And he's just says like, blatantly, like as fact, that's not true.
00:17:08.740 And it's like, what do you mean? Of course it's true. The fact that the, that the police are there
00:17:13.220 right now, the fact that there is a emergencies act, the fact that they're treating this like an
00:17:16.980 insurrection is because the media have spent the last three, four weeks now calling us an insurrection,
00:17:22.260 calling us an occupation, calling this a siege. The media ramped up the language. The Trudeau
00:17:26.740 government took advantage of that. This is, this has all been coordinated. And yet we're supposed
00:17:31.220 to believe, um, that, that again, the journalists are the true heroes, just, just ask them because
00:17:35.620 they will tell you they are, they are the true heroes of this freedom convoy, Harrison. And this,
00:17:40.900 this is sort of speaks to a broader point. I want to pull up this, this, uh, story from CTV Atlantic,
00:17:46.340 because I think it's, it's a great parallel of how the media again, work in lockstep with the woke
00:17:52.660 left and the Trudeau liberals to try to demonize and, uh, just put beyond the pale, any sort of
00:17:59.220 conservative or anti-government, like broadly as people who want smaller government, they jump to
00:18:05.140 equate that to being racist, anti-semit, anti-semitic and far right. So here, here's a story out of New
00:18:11.620 Brunswick. It says a commissioner says Frederickton COVID-19 protests include racist symbolism and
00:18:17.220 imagery. So apparently the New Brunswick government has something called a commissioner on systemic
00:18:21.860 racism. This individual's name is Manju Varma. And she issued a statement Tuesday stating that she
00:18:28.580 reviewed materials from social media from an event held outside the provincial legislator and found
00:18:33.300 racist symbolism, referencing white supremacy, anti-semitism and far right extremism. So Harrison,
00:18:39.620 you might be, uh, wondering what, what was this racist, uh, imagery? What was this white supremacist
00:18:45.060 far right extremism symbolism? Um, it was a don't tread on me flag. It was, it was a very common, uh,
00:18:52.420 libertarian. I think I used to have one of these flags, um, on my office desk when I was like 22 years
00:18:57.620 old. Don't tread on me. Very common, uh, message that people like to say to the government. It just
00:19:03.860 basically means limited government, leave me alone, get out of my life. It is a widely held
00:19:09.540 sentiment across society. But apparently according to this commissioner who's, who gets paid, um,
00:19:15.460 to try to find examples of systemic racism, um, she has to reach pretty far to say that a don't
00:19:21.540 tread on me flag is somehow an example of that. But again, I think this just goes to the broader cultural,
00:19:27.300 uh, idea, the, the idea that the media drum us up, that, um, they're trying to demonize any kind
00:19:33.700 of conservative thought or conservative protest as being something nefarious, something beyond the
00:19:39.060 pale, something that's not acceptable and basically trying to equate all conservatives or all people
00:19:43.380 who just want like small government, responsible, limited government, um, equating them with some
00:19:48.180 kind of a scary far right racist movement. It's, it's, it's, it's a sad sign of, of what's happening
00:19:54.260 in our society, Harrison? Well, I just think that because they, they've seen the don't tread on me
00:20:00.020 flag at Trump rallies that automatically, uh, that, that automatically makes that flag a racist flag.
00:20:05.860 And, and of course at a freedom rally in Canada, the expectation is that people are going to fly
00:20:13.060 flags that are all about having their freedoms, all about making sure that the government gives them
00:20:18.980 what they promise to give them, which is freedom in this country. And it goes so far, Candace,
00:20:24.180 uh, that even the state broadcaster has been putting out articles, which say the word freedom
00:20:30.020 itself is, is becoming a common, a common term among the far right and that it's a useful rallying
00:20:37.220 cry for protesters. Well, it is a useful rallying cry because freedom is what everybody wants. Freedom
00:20:42.260 is the goal of most people in the world. That's why they come to Canada in the first place, because
00:20:47.780 they're promised in this country that they'll get freedom. But I want to read part of this article
00:20:51.500 because I can just read quotes out of it because it's so absurd. So the article begins by saying,
00:20:57.420 the word has become common among far right groups, experts say. And then the article just goes on to
00:21:03.500 say, the concept of freedom can be used to reject equality. To see the word freedom bandied about as
00:21:09.980 part of these protests points to a broader circulation of what Elizabeth Anker calls violent
00:21:16.140 forms of freedom. Freedom is a slippery concept, said Anker, an associate professor of political
00:21:22.220 science at George Washington university. And then, and then she goes on to say on the far right,
00:21:28.380 individual freedom is often translated into somebody who refuses to be bound by norms of equality,
00:21:33.500 treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality, whether that's trying to remedy racial
00:21:38.860 discrimination or gender discrimination. So that's just a classic leftist word salad article there
00:21:45.500 from the CBC. But Candace, they are, they are now basically saying that those who use the word freedom,
00:21:50.780 those who want freedom, like most people in this country, I think, are actually just parroting a,
00:21:57.260 a far right talking point, which is, well, that's just absolutely absurd.
00:22:02.460 Yeah, no, I saw, I saw a headline, I can't remember exactly where it is. I'll try to find it.
00:22:07.900 But it said that someone had spray painted the word freedom on a wall. And the headline said,
00:22:14.780 anti-vax protesters, something about how, how it was like an anti-vax slogan. And it's like,
00:22:21.820 how, how is freedom, anti-vax, how is, how is the concept freedom of violent, of something violent,
00:22:27.740 like, this is, this is, this is, this is, you know, it's not funny. It's like Orwellian,
00:22:32.460 like concept creeped here that, that something so basic and so universal as freedom, you know,
00:22:38.940 a word that appears throughout our national anthem, you know, throughout our constitution,
00:22:46.060 throughout even the, the guide that we give to newcomers to Canada, like freedom is so core to
00:22:51.420 the Canadian identity, that it's synonymous with Canada. And yet here we have the CBC telling us
00:22:56.700 it experts, there's experts out there, who say that freedom is a slippery concept, like,
00:23:02.540 it's, it's, it's such a parody of itself. And I think, I think maybe this is a silver lining,
00:23:06.700 Harrison, throughout this, this isn't the way that the media have covered this is that
00:23:09.980 there's been so many stories like that, that go viral, like in a negative way, where,
00:23:13.980 where our, you know, English speaking cousins around the world, are sort of perplexed as to what's
00:23:19.580 happening in Canada, and you start to get people from the UK, Australia, the US, throughout the
00:23:26.540 world, even India sort of asking, like, what, what's going on? Are you guys okay up there in Canada?
00:23:31.980 And really, the over the top wokeness is being exposed. And I think I think that is part of the
00:23:38.780 silver lining, we've seen that a little bit with, I'll give you an example, Ilhan Omar, who is one of
00:23:43.580 the most left wing, sort of woke, I find her to be unpalatable and despicable. And most of her views,
00:23:50.700 she's, she's out, out and out anti Semite. And regardless, she, you know, she's part of the
00:23:56.380 squad, she hangs out with AOC, she's one of these, like, cool, fresh faced, new Democrats. And even she
00:24:03.660 was showing her total dismay and, and shocked at the way that the Canadian journalists were covering
00:24:11.260 this whole Freedom Convoy. So, so she responded to a journalist from the Ottawa Citizen who had put out
00:24:16.620 one of those doxxing stories about how this store owner in Ottawa had to shut down because she donated
00:24:22.060 $250 to the Freedom Convoy. So Ilhan Omar wrote this on Twitter, she said, I fail to see why any
00:24:28.140 journalists felt the need to report on a shop owner making such an insignificant donation rather than
00:24:33.660 to get them harassed. It's unconscionable and journalists need to do better. So, wow, I'm really
00:24:38.860 surprised that I agree with Ilhan Omar, but good for her for jumping in and not just taking the knee jerk
00:24:44.140 leftist reaction like every journalist in Canada has done, but actually sort of looking at the
00:24:47.900 situation critically and saying, wait a minute, why is a journalist trying to do this? There's no reason
00:24:53.020 other than to get them harassed. Likewise, another Democrat, high profile Democrat, Marianne Williamson,
00:24:58.460 who's a former presidential nominee, she wrote Canada, are you okay? So we're starting to see
00:25:04.780 not just the usual suspects. I know we've had like big high profile Americans like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan,
00:25:11.660 Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, they're all commenting and they're all helping us understand sort of the
00:25:16.540 absurdity of what's happening in Canada. But you're also starting to see sort of other people who aren't
00:25:22.620 on the sort of conservative side of the aisle stepping in and not only shining light on Trudeau
00:25:29.180 and his terrible behavior, Harrison, but shaming the journalists and saying, you guys just really
00:25:34.060 aren't doing your job. This is not fair. You even had, this was a surprise, the New York Times editorial
00:25:40.220 board put out an editorial backing the truckers and saying that they had the right to peaceful
00:25:46.700 protest. So, you know, you didn't even see that in Canada's top papers, the Globe and Mail,
00:25:52.060 the Toronto Star, they've kind of oddly been in favor of this police military crackdown on peaceful
00:25:59.180 protesters. And it takes outside observers, more neutral people who aren't tied up with the Trudeau
00:26:04.780 liberals and all the inside drama, the cultural aspects of this, to have like a fair, sober-minded
00:26:11.660 look at the situation. And I really do think they're shaming Canadian journalists. I think that
00:26:15.980 you do start to see some journalists in Canada asking better questions to the Trudeau government,
00:26:21.100 kind of upping their game in terms of their role, which is to hold these people to account and expose
00:26:25.980 bad behavior. And I think that we're starting to see some movement in that direction. I don't think
00:26:32.460 it'll be an overall shift at this point or big win, but I do, I do see glimpses of positivity,
00:26:39.980 just in the fact that the journalists are being shamed from their international colleagues to do
00:26:44.620 better. Yeah. And one thing, Candace, that I've heard from American pundits is the idea that America
00:26:51.740 always is, you know, a couple months or a few months behind Europe or Canada when their news happens.
00:26:59.020 And I think there are enough people in the United States, uh, both on the left and the right to
00:27:03.100 recognize that, uh, the precedent that's being set by the Canadian government here and how they
00:27:07.580 respond to this is very dangerous because Ilhan Omar as a, as a far left Democrat, her base are the
00:27:14.940 protest, her protest class. And she is watching, uh, the way that journalists are attacking those who
00:27:22.220 engage in peaceful protest. And I think she sees this as a dangerous precedent. And we're seeing that on
00:27:27.180 the right and the left in the U S and also in the UK as well. So I think, as you said, there is,
00:27:32.860 there, there are some glimpses of hope. I think, I think that Trudeau's credibility has been destroyed
00:27:38.220 across the world by his response to this. And I think there are more eyes on Canada now than
00:27:43.980 there have been in my lifetime because of the way that this government has responded. So my hope is
00:27:49.420 that the people learn, uh, that this government has overstepped considerably, that the people,
00:27:56.380 the people around the world, uh, look at this government as, as a government that has lost its
00:28:00.540 credibility. And I think that overall, um, that is, that is hopefully a positive sign going forward,
00:28:07.420 that this country is not going to hopefully make these same mistakes again.
00:28:10.780 That's such a good point. All right, Harrison, let's leave it at that. Thank you so much for
00:28:15.660 joining the program. Yeah. Thank you for having me. All right. It's been fake news Friday. I'm
00:28:20.140 Candice Malcolm, and this is the Candice Malcolm show.