Juno News - March 14, 2025


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In this episode of the show, we are joined by a YouTube personality and political commentator known as Mr.Sunshinebaby to talk about a recent controversy that took place in British Columbia, Canada. In this episode, Mr. Sunshine Baby talks about his experience attending a Conservative Party of Canada event where he was invited to sit up in the gallery for question period. But when the clock struck zero, the clock went all the way down to zero, and the Conservative MP for Nanaimo MP Mike Farnsworth denounced him as a "far-right" ideologue.

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00:00:00.000 and today i want to tell you about a story that's happening out in british columbia we don't always
00:00:07.380 cover politics in bc but today it's really important and to do so i am joined by jasper
00:00:12.680 sunshine jasper goes by mr sunshine baby he's a youtube personality and political commentator so
00:00:18.680 jasper welcome to the show ah thank you very much for having me okay so tell us about this
00:00:24.460 controversy how did you end up in the middle of this like huge political storm out in victoria bc
00:00:30.480 well i was uh i was on an extended christmas vacation down on vancouver island i was just
00:00:38.480 camping in my fifth wheel uh with my family and it came to my attention that the british columbia
00:00:44.640 conservative party was having an agm meeting an annual general meeting in nanaimo so i decided
00:00:50.800 to show up like i didn't register i'm not part of the british columbia conservative i don't hold
00:00:56.180 like a membership or nothing i showed up and um they were able to give me a media pass uh i have
00:01:02.700 multiple youtube channels in the space and i was like okay that's pretty cool so i got to meet a lot
00:01:06.300 of people i met some mlas i met john rostad i met other creators there some were there as delegates
00:01:15.020 some were there as media like it was it was the first time that i ever crossed the screen into
00:01:22.020 the real world it was a very cool experience and then it came to my attention uh from talking with
00:01:29.700 different mlas and talking with different people folks that were there that because i have this you
00:01:35.020 know see large um house of canada youtube channel which is my way of trying to brainwash an entire
00:01:41.660 country to stop saying house of commons and start saying house of canada i think it's working a
00:01:46.220 little bit where i cover question period it's literally only question period when question
00:01:50.180 period's in i make videos and i live stream and question period's not in i don't i don't post right
00:01:54.640 and um because i do that and i've never actually attended question period in real life it was
00:02:00.620 recommended that i go watch question period at uh i call it the castle but it's more professionally
00:02:07.800 known as the legislator in victoria and so given the timing of everything it made sense that after
00:02:13.640 the agm was done on a sunday i would go to watch question period at the legislator on wednesday and
00:02:19.720 so i did and so i gave a little bit of notice that i was confirmed going booked a hotel for a couple of
00:02:26.200 nights you know bought dinner and lunch for my family because we're in like a hotel room can't cook for
00:02:31.480 ourselves and it was um it was a interesting experience being in victoria with all the safe
00:02:38.040 supply and stuff like that but focusing on what happened in the legislator um i got a little bit
00:02:43.480 of a tour around the place and then i was invited to sit up in or i was um i was given like a ticket to
00:02:51.400 sit up in uh in the gallery for question period which was cool because again i always do it from this
00:02:57.400 side of the screen i've never done it in person so there's no phones there's nothing right you have
00:03:02.280 to give all that stuff like airport security and it's openly you know known information on my youtube
00:03:09.640 channel that i was in the military for nine years and so i was introduced by an mla as a patriot and a
00:03:16.040 youtuber known as mr sunshine baby and uh and you know question period i'll be honest it was very um
00:03:24.760 um boring because the ndp run the show they're the they're the sitting government and oh my goodness
00:03:33.880 right there you go and they're just they're the non-answers and stuff like that but the conservatives
00:03:38.440 had some really good zingers and that's what i love that's that's what i like to to do as a hobby
00:03:44.680 for a youtube channel under house of canada at the federal level and there's a there's a timer that's on
00:03:50.520 the screen it's in big yellow almost thumbnail type of font starts at 30 minutes and it counts
00:03:57.080 all the way down from zero you can't see it when you watch it on tv or on on the internet but you
00:04:02.600 can see it when you're there in person and right when the clock went all the way down to zero the
00:04:08.360 conservative asked his last question and the ndp mp uh farnsworth i think was his name stood up and
00:04:15.720 commented on the fact that i was sitting up in the gallery and referred to me as a far right youtuber
00:04:23.160 with like extremist views or something of the sorts and how it was uh inappropriate he he denounced
00:04:29.080 me so i was i was announced and then he denounced me which is um interesting and then that it was
00:04:35.720 uh let's pause you right there desperate because we have that clip so let's let's play that clip
00:04:39.800 of mvp mla mike fanworth farnworth sorry does he think it's appropriate honorable speaker does he
00:04:49.320 think it's appropriate that a member of his caucus stands up in this house today and introduces
00:04:55.480 someone known as mr youth mr sunshine baby seated in the gallery and i'll tell you what it has to do
00:05:02.680 honorable speaker because yesterday the person that introduced by this caucus honorable speaker
00:05:08.040 posted a video that said the fat pig doug ford in ontario is ready to cut off the power
00:05:14.840 and liberals are cheering him on this is quite literally by definition an active war honorable
00:05:20.360 speaker does the leader of the opposition think it's appropriate for a member of his practice
00:05:25.240 to introduce somebody like that when tariffs are the greatest issue we face
00:05:29.640 what a reaction how are you feeling when all of a sudden they started talking about you like i was
00:05:41.480 clearly talking about doug ford's mentality he's a fat pig up there right so i'm up in the gallery and 0.61
00:05:47.160 you're not allowed to do you're not allowed to give thumbs up you're not allowed to make facial
00:05:51.480 expressions you can't do nothing you have to be a statue and when that happened when he said mr youtube
00:05:57.240 mr sunshine baby i just just about pissed myself i was laughing hysterically i gave thumbs up i was
00:06:04.280 just so shocked that i'm sitting up in the gallery and people below me like 10 20 feet below me
00:06:09.720 are mentioning me on like actual government officials right and uh i almost got kicked out because the
00:06:16.600 usher came up to me and said you're not allowed to to talk like you can't react and i said they're
00:06:24.760 talking about me what do you mean like that's my name keep my name out of your mouth we've already
00:06:31.320 seen that on the global stage and so it was just the weirdest thing and uh and that clip was already
00:06:37.240 posted online before i even exited the castle and i was i was absolutely in shock like i'm still
00:06:43.400 trying to wrap my head around how that why are these people even talking about me this is government
00:06:48.680 like there's more important things than than than talking about me like i'm not newsworthy
00:06:55.320 well it's it's sort of like the guilt by association cancel culture like how dare a bc conservative
00:07:01.240 mention you i mean obviously you're a patriot you served in the military you served in uniform
00:07:06.600 but also your youtube videos do a service because you make politics accessible to people that don't
00:07:11.480 really have a background in politics so you talk about it in like a very inviting way and you make it
00:07:16.040 entertaining and you make it funny you make it more colorful so you know they should appreciate
00:07:20.920 that because you're drawing more attention to their field uh but instead they use these tactics to try
00:07:26.840 to say like oh he once said something that i disagree with so therefore how dare he step foot
00:07:32.040 in this building which is ridiculous jasper and it gets it continues that's not the end of the story
00:07:37.480 because just today or sorry just yesterday on thursday the premier of british columbia
00:07:44.440 continued uh to bring it up so we have a clip here of bc premier david ebbe saying that he doesn't
00:07:50.600 understand why basically the conservatives would invite someone who doesn't share his messaging when
00:07:57.000 it comes to the terraform boycotting it's a very very strange um line of thinking but anyway let's let's
00:08:02.760 play that clip i cannot understand how you can sit on a panel with a youtuber that says i'm going to
00:08:09.400 encourage everybody to buy as much american as possible to undermine the boycott of american
00:08:14.040 goods like what the conservative party is thinking right now defies explanation how you can welcome as
00:08:19.640 a patriot a youtuber that uh that says that cutting off uh doug ford's efforts to to cut off electricity
00:08:27.880 uh to the united states to get the attention of the president were an act of war and that the president
00:08:31.880 should revisit harm on canadians in response and we get everything we deserve like i i can't explain
00:08:37.960 that i don't understand it and so what's what's the latest what's your takeaway from all this how
00:08:44.680 how has the reaction been and uh yeah what's your takeaway from all this well there's actually a couple
00:08:50.760 of steps that have happened since the legislator and since that clip and that's a ctv writing a hit
00:08:57.000 piece on me the day of the legislator the evening of the legislator and then a few days following that
00:09:03.160 david eb was also in a liquor store where they removed all american stuff and there's only canadian
00:09:08.760 stuff on the shelves mentioning me as well and then this i just happened on thursday and i mean my
00:09:14.040 my takeaway is this is ridiculous if you google is it an act of war to cut off the power to another
00:09:21.240 country the google will give you depending if you're asking google meta ai grok the answer is
00:09:28.200 yes it is israel cutting off the power to gaza or water to gaza whatever it was that was viewed as
00:09:34.920 inhumane and so that was a big no-no russia cutting off the power to europe is no no even with all the 0.56
00:09:43.240 sanctions that's imposed on them but for some reason there's this like bubble of immunity around doug
00:09:50.200 ford the fat pig mentality premier in ontario threatening to cut off the power to america
00:09:56.920 and nobody is unless i'm missing something unless i live in an extremist google search i don't really
00:10:04.280 know because you ask google and yes it can be perceived as an act of war and ever since he had
00:10:10.440 a phone call doug ford had a phone call with the liaison with the white house with trump's administration
00:10:16.280 he's completely done a reversal on his stance he came out the out the out the gate guns blazing
00:10:22.440 saying we're going to cut off the power with a smile on my face that's what he said that's disgusting
00:10:27.960 that's anti-canadian no canadian says that or condones that but apparently the extreme radicals on
00:10:35.480 the left do think that that's a good idea and so i just thought hey let me talk about it in my colorful
00:10:42.840 way that i like to do things by referring to him as a fat pig with rabies mentality though of course
00:10:48.840 i wouldn't comment on his weight i wouldn't do that well also canada's still a free country last i checked
00:10:54.440 so you are entitled to your freedom of speech and your opinion and the premier and the ndp party don't
00:10:59.720 have to agree with you you can still have your free speech and that's sort of the biggest problem
00:11:04.440 of this whole thing i want to talk uh shift it a little bit and talk about the bc conservative
00:11:08.920 party because they're having their own issues over there as well so true north wrote this piece
00:11:13.880 called the inside story behind the fracture of the bc conservative party bc uh conservative party bc
00:11:21.000 is refuting claims of internal turmoil after three breakaway mlas signal plans to form a new right-wing
00:11:29.080 party so for just a little bit of background and context there was dallas brody who is an mla from
00:11:35.240 vancouver she was on a podcast she was talking about the unmarked graves hoax and rightly pointing 0.57
00:11:41.240 out that zero bodies had been discovered and after that she got booted out of caucus the bc
00:11:47.560 conservatives removed from caucus uh when asked why the uh leader of the party john rodsted posted this
00:11:54.600 video and this post on x saying the following so he wrote correct dallas the number of new bodies on
00:12:01.720 earth in kamloops is zero however your departure from caucus was based on your choice to go on a
00:12:06.520 podcast and mock victims of resident of abuse at residential schools um here is a video and then he
00:12:13.640 plays a four second video completely taking whatever she was saying out of context so you can't really tell
00:12:19.880 what someone's talking about with four seconds of audio video i'll play you that four seconds so you can
00:12:25.720 try to judge for yourself this whole thing about my truth and your truth oh my truth so she's just you
00:12:34.200 could clearly just say see that it's first of all totally taken out of context you don't know what
00:12:37.720 she's talking about but the concept of my truth i mean that is like a woke left-wing idea that like
00:12:43.480 the truth is different than my truth like each individual person is entitled to their own truth so even
00:12:48.760 if there are facts pointing to to like you know there's no bodies being discovered so therefore you can't
00:12:54.920 call it a genocide um but then you can like combat that by saying well it's my truth i mean i don't
00:13:01.320 know the full context but it seems to me that she was mocking the left-wing idea of having my truth not
00:13:08.680 the actual testimonies of individuals who may have suffered abuse so from my perspective this is just
00:13:13.480 like right-wing cancel culture like you're not allowed to go on a podcast you're not allowed to deviate
00:13:18.280 ever so slightly from our narrative and in this case like you have to bend the knee to the left-wing woke
00:13:24.600 mob and ideology so i don't i don't understand why the party's fracturing i don't understand why
00:13:30.120 the leader of the party would kick someone out over this uh maybe you can help uh shine some light on
00:13:34.680 this jester what do you think uh well first of all i am guilty of saying my truth a few weeks ago so
00:13:42.920 my bad not in relation to you know graves or anything i just i forget what i was talking about but
00:13:48.600 oopsie daisy on that one well i'll forgive you for it i mean people people don't use it but like
00:13:53.240 this idea that like everyone's entitled to a different truth it just doesn't make any sense
00:13:56.840 but anyway yeah no that that i agree with uh in terms of the bc um conservative party i mean
00:14:03.960 conservatives are great at one thing and it's eating themselves alive like i think that when the
00:14:10.120 conservatives or the right is bored with something it just they start to kind of turn on each other and
00:14:15.080 you're seeing this happen um you know socially at the federal level with support uh or like the
00:14:21.080 conservative supporters and then also you're seeing this within the actual british columbia party and i i
00:14:27.720 feel i feel like i'm stuck between two different rocks right because i when i attended the um the agm
00:14:36.120 i got to meet a lot of the grassroots movement people and some of the changes that were implemented
00:14:42.440 to the bc conservative party were anti-grassroots movement uh people like they the whole party is
00:14:52.200 the foundation of the party is built on the pillars of the grassroots movement individuals
00:14:58.360 and they put their blood sweat and tears into a lot of volunteers and so i i was there and i witnessed
00:15:03.720 the voting of it and i was just i was i was blown away in in a very bad way and so i think that there's
00:15:10.360 a lot of tug of war happening within the party and if that four second clip is what uh dallas got
00:15:18.600 booted from the party for i feel like maybe john was just looking for an exit strategy and he said
00:15:24.280 you know what i'm taking that one that would have to be my guess because i i don't know how that
00:15:29.160 singular four seconds could be the make or break between kicking somebody out right again it's taken
00:15:35.640 out of context as someone who's been on the receiving end of things being taken out of context
00:15:40.280 yeah that that it's used to manipulate you know public opinion and very much used against you
00:15:46.600 well it's a time where conservatives really need to stick together i mean federally you mentioned
00:15:50.760 that there's sort of some back and forth over what the best strategy is for pierre polyev some people
00:15:56.680 are saying that he's not going hard enough and some people don't like the way that he's kind of trying
00:16:01.880 to distance himself say from american republicans um and then in british columbia i wanted to tie this into
00:16:07.000 a story that jonathan k wrote about uh that the bc okanagan so this is a part of ubc
00:16:13.160 they denied an application to a conservative campus club so the conservative party wanted to
00:16:18.600 have a campus club the school just basically said no they weren't allowed to because it would upset
00:16:24.840 progressives basically that having having conservatives on campus would make people
00:16:30.120 feel unsafe for some such nonsense and so interestingly jasper the the leader of the bc conservatives john
00:16:36.360 runstad posted about this and he said this is the inevitable result of out of control radical leftist
00:16:42.200 activism in bc's academy academia no woke activist student culture should be allowed to determine
00:16:47.720 which political parties students can join or associate with and so i just thought that there
00:16:52.200 was like a sense of irony here that he is protesting about ubc being too woke and not allowing conservatives
00:16:58.920 which is true but then he himself was kind of being woke in pushing dallas brody out saying like
00:17:04.440 how dare you say uh how dare you whatever mock the idea of my truth uh jonathan k seemingly agrees with
00:17:11.960 that take because he uh wrote the following on x he said thanks for your quote tweet uh now go
00:17:19.080 apologize to dallas brody for throwing her under the bus after she uh spoke the truth about kamloops
00:17:25.240 what you and your fellow party members did to her was unconscionable totally agree with that john k any any
00:17:30.760 any thoughts on that uh i i can almost guarantee you that you're not gonna see john rustad retract his
00:17:39.560 decision and i don't think he's going to apologize i feel like in politics when when you when you pick
00:17:44.920 a path you're just committed to it and it's very unfortunate what happened uh in terms of a public
00:17:50.920 apology i think a lot of us in british columbia would like to see that but i think the damage has already
00:17:57.160 been done because uh dallas got the the boot which is not a um a funny little canadian term actually
00:18:04.920 got the boot and then if i'm not mistaken a couple other mlas also decided that they were going to go
00:18:11.960 independent and so i think you're starting to see um something that was almost inevitable that was going
00:18:18.680 to happen you know i i saw the tensions at the agm and now that action has already taken place i think
00:18:26.360 uh i think it's there's a massive fracture and i don't know if it's going to be repairable
00:18:31.240 anytime soon well that's too bad i think that the right needs to be united if we've learned anything
00:18:36.120 over the last number of years it was in alberta when they had both the wild rose party and the pc
00:18:41.240 party the ndp were able to govern as soon as they united they've basically been the majority government
00:18:46.600 there ever since federally it was the same thing when there were pcs and uh the the alliance party they
00:18:53.000 didn't win and then they merged together to create the conservative party of canada and that's how
00:18:56.680 they won their majority so conservatives have to find a way to uh get along and the ndp have to be
00:19:03.720 okay with someone like you jasper uh showing up to the legislature given that probably a lot more people
00:19:09.960 watch your political coverage uh even then you know the nightly news or the legacy that's just the
00:19:14.920 reality of the world we live in so it's funny that you say the ndp should be okay with someone like
00:19:20.840 me because at the federal level jagmeet singh actually used me on his breakup video i think
00:19:28.520 it was september 4th uh when he said that the coalition is over right they just resumed or they
00:19:33.720 were about to resume um the house of commons after the summer break or something of the sorts it was
00:19:39.320 like jagmeet's most viral moment that he's ever had in his life so at the federal level in his video
00:19:45.480 in his actual breakup video i forget maybe 41 42 seconds in when the screen goes to black and white
00:19:51.800 you can actually see me in in the bottom right corner of the video he took my house of canada
00:19:57.640 footage it's me looking up like this because i'm watching question period so he the federal ndps are
00:20:03.560 okay using me to their advantage but the provincial bc ndp just want to use me to attack others it's just
00:20:11.640 it's so hypocritical it's um it's almost comical well it is comical and the name calling too like
00:20:16.760 this idea that somehow you're like a far right dangerous threat just because you don't fall in
00:20:22.120 line with their like brainwashing when it comes to how everyone must respond to the tariffs and to trump
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00:21:10.360 support independent journalism thank you so much back to the episode okay i want to go back to that
00:21:16.040 ctv report we missed it originally but i want to talk about it it's fake news friday we love to talk
00:21:20.280 about the fake news on fridays and so ctv did a hit piece on you and uh the even the journalist was
00:21:26.600 talking about it on x so why don't you walk us through that jasper right so i organically found uh the
00:21:33.800 journalist who wrote this kind of like hit piece about me on ctv vancouver so when you think of the
00:21:40.280 largest cities in canada it would be toronto vancouver calgary montreal so ctv vancouver is huge
00:21:48.680 like this was on their website aired on on you know the news that evening absolutely insane that this
00:21:55.960 person had posted i did not expect to be researching a youtuber who called doug ford a fat pig
00:22:03.160 and vladimir zelinski a grifter as a result of question period today but here we are and when
00:22:09.560 i came across this post this is a journalist like in the description of penny's x account wrote the
00:22:16.040 article on ctv literally says britain by penny right i literally said you can ask me anything i'm an open
00:22:23.720 book so kind of weird that you're gonna identify yourself as a journalist but not reach out to the
00:22:30.040 other side of the story especially when the other side of the story literally pops right on your feet
00:22:35.480 like right there like knocks on your door hello hi hi that's me you want you want to ask me anything
00:22:41.000 and doesn't do um doesn't do her do their due diligence i want to be careful with that one so
00:22:46.520 i found that a little bit um a little bit disingenuous but of course it's ctv so if the shoe fits right
00:22:53.320 well it's it's i mean of course because most journalists are not actual journalists they're
00:22:57.800 a political activist and you can tell even by her reaction like how dare someone call doug ford a
00:23:02.360 fat pig or vladimir zelinski a grifter like as if those are like really extreme views like i think
00:23:08.600 most people in ontario don't really like doug ford that much they might not use that term to describe
00:23:12.840 him um but like we said you're you know a colorful guy and vladimir zelinski i've called him a grifter
00:23:17.800 many times as well like that's kind of the consensus view among most conservatives in canada at this
00:23:22.520 point so it's not like your views are even that outside the box where she's kind of presenting you
00:23:27.800 as if you're like some very extremist person and it's so unfortunate that she wouldn't even reach
00:23:33.080 out to you like when you're covering someone like the probably the first thing you learn in
00:23:36.600 journalism school is get both sides right reach out if you're going to talk about somebody you have
00:23:41.480 to at least reach out to them for comment even just to avoid a libel lawsuit it's a good practice
00:23:47.320 to reach out and say hey i'm writing about you would you like to comment and you were presenting
00:23:52.120 yourself to this journalist and i'm guessing that she didn't bother uh to interview you or ask you for
00:23:57.080 comment for this question for this article not at all and they wouldn't know this because they never
00:24:03.640 reached out but those hit pieces that they'd done because it was on ctv vancouver it was in the news
00:24:10.520 right i was presented in in parliament in the castle as uh prince george resident this actually
00:24:17.160 turned into something that was even worse on a local subreddit of prince george there was even
00:24:24.760 some death threats towards me and my family that have since been removed from the moderation of that
00:24:30.680 subreddit but this is what happens if you're gonna do if you're gonna call yourself a journalist and work
00:24:35.320 for a you know ctv like a mainstream media you should be doing both sides of the story me my family
00:24:42.120 don't deserve death threats because i i literally attended question period that's insane oh that's
00:24:48.680 awful that's so unfortunate i'm sorry to hear that jasper and uh make sure that you you know protect
00:24:53.480 you and your family the the there are some crazy people on the political left as we know violent
00:24:58.280 people and again yeah like ctv to put out a piece and the shame on them the the headline here outcry
00:25:03.320 after bc conservatives invite pro-trump youtuber into the legislature i don't know if you're pro-trump or not
00:25:08.600 but you made it pretty clear that the b it wasn't like the bc conservatives invited you it seems like
00:25:13.480 you know someone it sort of said you could go i don't know if you got like an official invitation
00:25:18.360 from the party but really this is like typical media trying to do cancel culture saying guilt by
00:25:23.960 association this guy once said something that i don't agree with on his youtube page so we're going
00:25:28.360 to smear the entire political party and we're going to smear him and put his kids in danger as well
00:25:33.800 it's it's so disgusting and uh it's so unfortunate we had to go through that yeah we we should be
00:25:39.160 shutting off the power to ctv there you go all right we'll leave it at that thanks for joining us jasper
00:25:46.360 thank you
00:25:53.720 you