Juno News - Canada's legacy media is bought and paid for

00:00:00.000 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in today to a special live broadcast of the Candace

00:00:13.960 Malcolm Show. I want to talk to you today about how the Canadian media is bought and paid for

00:00:18.600 by the Trudeau government. This is why we see when Justin Trudeau is abroad or when we start to have

00:00:24.220 a news cycle in Canada that gains interest in countries outside of Canada, that what you find

00:00:29.180 is that the foreign press are far more fair. They're far more critical of Justin Trudeau

00:00:33.900 than our own press. It is because the Justin Trudeau government pays our press, pays the

00:00:39.920 legacy media in Canada for favorable coverage. There's no other way to look at it. So as you

00:00:45.260 know, Justin Trudeau is in Europe right now. He is over there on his, I don't even know what to

00:00:50.740 call it. It's like a photo op tour. He's out there doing photo op diplomacy. He's going to solve,

00:00:55.740 he's going to create world peace, solve the Ukraine-Russia conflict by doing selfies and

00:01:01.440 taking smiley photos of himself. One of the strangest things that I've seen so far, well,

00:01:07.840 first interesting thing, is that Justin Trudeau couldn't even get into 10 Downing Street for his

00:01:12.500 meeting with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson because of the protests. So the fact that in

00:01:18.360 Canada, the legacy media is perfectly happy to just sweep the issue under the rug, say the trucking

00:01:23.420 convoy is over. The emergency act was justified. Everyone who was at the riot, everyone who was at

00:01:30.020 the protest, sorry, were rioters or violent thugs, insurrectionists, people trying to overthrow the

00:01:35.880 government. The legacy media was perfectly happy to parrot Justin Trudeau's talking points. And yet

00:01:40.920 when he goes to another country, any other country outside of Canada, he gets treated in a totally

00:01:45.820 different way. He's not even welcome through the front door. And the media notice it. The media

00:01:51.020 notice it so justin trudeau i i don't understand his policy when it comes to masks because first

00:01:57.660 we saw him meeting with the queen the queen is our 95 year old monarch she recently had coveted

00:02:04.220 and here is justin trudeau a couple of feet away from her maskless which i'm fine with that i don't 0.99

00:02:09.340 wear a mask in my day-to-day life i don't think you need to wear a mask i think masking is idiotic 0.83

00:02:14.380 and so i'm okay with it if there were a rare circumstance where i would wear a mask it might 0.88

00:02:19.100 be around a frail elderly person such as the queen especially someone of such importance and yet

00:02:25.900 later that day uh here is justin trudeau meeting with the uk labor party leader keir starmer both

00:02:32.620 masked what what the heck is going on here why is justin trudeau meeting this time with a younger

00:02:38.780 a young man i don't know how old the leader of the uk labor party is he's probably in his 40s so

00:02:43.820 not someone who is in a severe risk category when it comes to COVID. And yet our prime minister is

00:02:49.580 masked up looking like a total idiot, especially given that in the UK, they've completely moved on 1.00

00:02:55.660 past COVID. They have since January, Boris Johnson, the prime minister made that announcement saying, 1.00

00:03:01.180 COVID is over, we're going to learn to live with COVID now. No more masks, no more masks in schools,

00:03:06.140 no more working from home, life is back to normal. So in the UK, they have a normal life again.

00:03:11.180 in canada we're just slowly slowly getting there but it just the the strange optics of seeing our

00:03:17.420 prime minister out there wearing masks uh there was also a a clip of him giving a press conference

00:03:24.620 where he was still wearing his mask this this makes no sense to me you're you're speaking the

00:03:29.180 reason that you're there is to answer questions and to speak when you have a mask on it's totally

00:03:34.460 muffled and you can't really understand what the guy is saying however when it comes to trudeau

00:03:39.020 i'm actually kind of for that because he's just so irritating and everything he says is complete

00:03:43.580 nonsense so i do want to play this clip this is him thanking the latvian prime minister for pushing

00:03:50.380 back against what he calls misinformation and disinformation so according to justin trudeau

00:03:55.340 the key to preserving our democracy is through censorship of information that he doesn't like

00:04:01.820 this is like his guiding principle here in canada so let's play that clip

00:04:05.420 And pushing back against the Russian aggression that is absolutely unacceptable, quite frankly

00:04:14.200 you have been living not just with the military threat, not just with the history of occupation

00:04:21.460 that is all too real for so many of your citizens, but also the daily use of propaganda and disinformation

00:04:30.520 to try and undermine the democracies and the values that you have,

00:04:35.300 something that is right now being weaponized against Ukraine,

00:04:39.620 but also used very actively in all democracies around the West.

00:04:44.660 And we need to get stronger and learn much from all of you

00:04:49.980 in your capacity to push back with strengthening your citizens

00:04:55.660 against that sort of information and disinformation.

00:04:59.360 I don't understand why he's wearing a mask, but again, it might be better because hearing his

00:05:03.920 voice and seeing his face might be worse than the masked up. The content of what he's saying

00:05:10.520 is so irritating as well. So first of all, he's talking about how there is propaganda when it

00:05:15.800 comes to the war. I completely agree with that. There's propaganda on both sides. There's constant 1.00

00:05:20.180 stream of misinformation. I think that everyone should be skeptical about anything that you hear

00:05:25.240 coming out of a war zone on both sides, on all sides. We should all have a skeptical view of

00:05:30.700 information, which is why we need more information. We need to be able to verify what we are seeing

00:05:36.140 and what we're getting. And the only way to verify, again, is having more accounts, more

00:05:40.740 journalists, more people out there, more videos, more perspectives, so that we can try to put

00:05:45.520 things into context and to understand. If we just say, okay, Russian side, misinformation,

00:05:50.360 uh propaganda bad censorship and take everything that's coming out of ukraine from ukrainian

00:05:56.320 officials as the truth without any skepticism we're going to end up in a very bad situation so

00:06:02.520 so i think that we should be incredibly skeptical of information that comes out of russia i think

00:06:06.600 that we should take everything that's being said with a grain of salt equally the other side what

00:06:11.480 what is trudeau's what is trudeau's solution to this well he says that in order for us to

00:06:16.500 strengthen our democracy. We need to take control of misinformation and disinformation. We know what

00:06:24.260 that means because here in Canada, he has his own internet censorship bills. He wants to be able to

00:06:30.640 censor the algorithm on social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook. And he wants to ban

00:06:37.080 what he calls hate speech, making people take down alleged instances of hate speech within 24 hours

00:06:42.120 is therefore eliminating the idea of due process altogether. You remember Bill C-10 and C-36 from

00:06:47.700 last parliament. Fortunately, neither of them passed, but now we have the new Bill C-11,

00:06:51.840 which is just as bad because, of course, it covers user-generated content. Absolutely

00:06:57.380 unbelievable. Well, the interesting thing, though, when we see Justin Trudeau abroad and we see him

00:07:04.320 through the lens of the foreign press, they don't treat him with the kid gloves that our media treat

00:07:09.400 him with. They don't give him the benefit of the doubt. They don't spin his propaganda. They don't

00:07:14.280 tell his lies. They hold him to account. And it's refreshing. It's incredibly refreshing.

00:07:20.080 Throughout the convoy, I found myself, part of my job, part of what I do is I read a lot of news.

00:07:26.300 I feel like most people watching probably do as well. You're heavy news consumers. And so I try

00:07:32.720 to get my news from a broad source as possible, including the legacy media in Canada, including

00:07:37.080 independent media, and now increasingly the foreign press. And I feel like the foreign

00:07:41.200 press is so much more accurate. And there's such a difference between the legacy media

00:07:45.620 in countries like the US and the UK versus in Canada, so much so that during the trucker

00:07:51.760 convoy, there were two instances where the New York Times put out information, and all

00:07:56.580 of a sudden they were getting shamed by Justin Trudeau's friends at the CBC and the Globe

00:08:00.340 and Mail to the point where the New York Times censored what they said, edited it, said that 0.95

00:08:05.800 They had made a mistake when they said that Canada was suspending human rights or civil rights in Canada, which is true. 0.97

00:08:12.800 I mean, the idea that you could have your bank account suspended without any kind of due process, without any kind of court order is a suspension of civil liberties.

00:08:19.560 So it was accurate what they said the first time, but they got shamed by the bullies in the legacy media to comply.

00:08:25.920 Well, one of the things that I've appreciated, I've got a couple of them.

00:08:29.200 first of all here is a radio host a group of uk radio hosts blasting trudeau reminding him of what

00:08:36.400 just happened in the trucker convoy justin trudeau was a benefit of an incredibly fast shift in the

00:08:42.880 in the news cycle right so he had the emergency act uh he cleared out ottawa over the weekend

00:08:48.400 they finally voted on it the monday after he cleared the protest away and wednesday just

00:08:53.680 two days after they had enacted the thing he revoked it and and said that the crisis was now

00:08:58.240 over usually that would be the time where the media would start putting a lot of scrutiny and

00:09:02.320 trying to like put together all the loose ends and try to figure out what just happened uh but

00:09:07.280 fortunately for trudeau a few hours later vladimir putin invaded ukraine and announced that invasion

00:09:13.360 and and all of a sudden we were in a conflict in war and so everyone in the media immediately

00:09:18.080 shift their focus to that and they started shaming anyone who was still talking about canada like

00:09:22.960 how dare you talk about something so uh trite as as what happened in canada we've got a real

00:09:27.920 war going on. I still see journalists on social media, you know, criticizing someone like Pierre

00:09:33.440 Polyev for talking about Canadian domestic issues, as opposed to like everyone can only focus

00:09:38.600 on Ukraine and the war. And we're not allowed to talk about anything. We're not allowed to have

00:09:42.700 any complaints or any concerns about our own civil liberties and our own democracy, the decay of our

00:09:48.360 democracy at home. Well, fortunately, there's still some level headed journalists over there

00:09:53.340 in the uk so let's let's play this clip of radio hosts talking in a normal way like normal people

00:10:00.220 see justin trudeau without the filter of the canadian media which of course are bought and

00:10:06.220 paid for by justin trudeau so here's that clip he gave this great long diatribe today against

00:10:13.840 putin saying that he wants respect for sovereignty he wants to have democracy stood for he wants to

00:10:21.300 stay true to these values he wants to fight for that all over the world this was a man that

00:10:26.580 basically froze the bank accounts of truckers decided that he was going to to forcibly round

00:10:32.740 them up he took tactics directly out of the rule book of vladimir putin to deal with his own people

00:10:38.340 and then he has the audacity and the lack of self-awareness to stand at a podium and tell us 0.99

00:10:42.620 that he wants to fight for sovereignty and democracy he's a hypocrite he has a neck made 1.00

00:10:46.740 of brass and he's a moron and he's a plank he really is he's been on this show already this 1.00

00:10:51.740 year for some of the actions that he's taken so for him to be on it yet again that's going to keep 1.00

00:10:56.300 him yeah but he also all the protesting truckers most of whom were vaccinated by the way in any

00:11:01.700 case um he also branded them racist misogynist didn't he and when a conservative mp stood up

00:11:07.880 and said like you can't say that you can't slander them that way he said well maybe you might be

00:11:12.560 happy to stand with swastikas and confederate flags but i'm not she was a jewish mp 1.00

00:11:17.380 he really is an absolute idiot he had no self-awareness as to what he was doing and now 1.00

00:11:25.900 putin is clamping down on protesters treating them absolutely appalling you know obviously 1.00

00:11:30.000 there's no comparison between what trudeau um has done with his people and what putin is doing

00:11:34.460 the canadian police were pretty rough with but the canadian police were really rough and he was

00:11:37.740 Clamping down on free speech and protest.

00:11:39.620 Yeah, yeah, freezing their bank accounts.

00:11:42.320 Confiscating their pets.

00:11:43.640 Their pets!

00:11:44.780 With a potential threat of... 0.86

00:11:46.520 And also, did he not say he was going to kill the pets?

00:11:48.400 If anyone came near Dominique Devereux or Dolly Parton,

00:11:51.480 I'm telling you right now, there would be murders.

00:12:01.620 So there you have it.

00:12:03.120 Justin Trudeau is the plank of the week.

00:12:05.020 I love British slang and British English because I'd never heard of Plank before, but it's

00:12:09.960 such an apt and fitting description of our prime minister.

00:12:13.900 And again, just the real talk, the straight talk.

00:12:16.060 This is how people viewed the protests.

00:12:18.920 This was how the Emergencies Act was viewed.

00:12:21.020 Even the name of the Emergencies Act is a complete euphemization of what it was.

00:12:26.320 It was martial law.

00:12:27.240 It was the suspension of civil liberties and due process, a thuggish prime minister clearing

00:12:32.420 out peaceful protesters because he disagreed with them.

00:12:35.020 basically that's what it boils down to. So much of the justification that Justin Trudeau had

00:12:38.980 leading up to the use of the excessive force against protesters was based on fabrication

00:12:45.700 invented by Trudeau, his spokespeople, and his friends in the legacy media. They span a story

00:12:52.200 that had no bearing in reality. So many people fell for it. I'm glad that there are real journalists

00:12:58.520 out there looking at the situation, looking at things clearly who haven't fallen under Justin

00:13:03.740 Trudeau's spell in the way the legacy media is. So look, I want to talk a little bit. I was

00:13:08.700 invited to give a speech over the weekend and I talked about media bias in Canada. So I wanted to

00:13:13.980 talk a little bit about what I spoke about at this dinner that I spoke on on Saturday night.

00:13:18.360 And it was trying to understand the timeline and how we got to the situation where our media are

00:13:24.280 so bought and paid for by the government. Because some people say, look, the media has always been

00:13:29.300 bias. CBC has always been just awful. But I don't remember it being this bad. I don't remember it

00:13:34.860 being such a hive mentality, such a groupthink in the legacy media, so unwilling to move away

00:13:42.440 from the approved talking points. During every election we see where the liberals will come up

00:13:48.320 with their attack ad of the day, their line of attack against the conservatives of the day,

00:13:52.200 and the legacy media will instantly pick it up and use that as their line of attack against the

00:13:56.660 conservative candidate or whoever the conservative is at that time. And there's so much in lockstep.

00:14:02.760 The media in Canada is so agenda driven. They are so focused on promoting Justin Trudeau and

00:14:09.360 the liberal. So how did that come to be? How did that come to happen? Again, CBC has always been

00:14:13.300 funded by the CBC, by the federal government, even under the Harper era. I think Harper made

00:14:18.380 a crucial mistake in not just completely defunding the CBC. I think whoever's the next leader of the

00:14:23.040 Conservative Party needs to just tear it off like a Band-Aid. No cuts, no cutting the budget,

00:14:27.840 no reviewing the mandate. Get rid of it. Get rid of it because it is a cancer in our society and

00:14:33.220 it will constantly forever lead to unfair media coverage in Canada. So the CBC was during the

00:14:40.400 Harper year. In 2012, the Harper government decided that they were going to try to balance

00:14:44.860 the budget. They were going to get rid of the deficit spending that they had run during the

00:14:47.460 financial recession. So they decided that they were going to cut the budget of every single

00:14:52.080 department, somewhere between 5% and 10%. In that, they decided that they were going to do a 3%

00:14:57.520 cut of the CBC. They were going to cut $115 million over three years, represents a 3% cut

00:15:04.000 to a budget that was over $1.1 billion of federal money at the time. So in the 2015 general election,

00:15:10.720 NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, remember him? He used to be the opposition leader, and it looked like

00:15:14.880 he was the one that was going to become the next prime minister should Stephen Harper lose. Well,

00:15:18.580 he said that he was going to reverse those cuts. So Harper cut 3%. Mulcair was going to reverse

00:15:25.360 those cuts. Not to be outdone, Justin Trudeau jumped in and he pledged that he would give the

00:15:29.760 CBC an additional $150 million per year. So that's a 15% increase to a budget. Harper cut it by 3%.

00:15:36.880 Justin Trudeau reacted by pledging to increase it by 15%. So you were in the middle of an election

00:15:42.500 and you had one politician bribing, well, two politicians kind of jumping over each other,

00:15:47.340 who could bribe the CBC with taxpayer money more. Imagine being a journalist at the CBC.

00:15:52.460 Like, how are you supposed to cover that fairly? One guy wants to cut your budget. The other guy

00:15:56.640 wants to give you a 15% raise. How in any world would you be able to objectively and fairly cover

00:16:02.960 the news? It's just not possible. People respond to incentives. Money matters. Follow the money.

00:16:07.880 That's like, it's just such a basic principle. The fact that the budget of the CBC became

00:16:12.260 politicized that way I think is incredibly undermining to the idea of a fair press a free

00:16:18.340 and fair neutral press because the money is involved okay so anyway we all know what happened

00:16:22.480 Justin Trudeau won the election what did the CBC do with that additional 150 million dollars a year

00:16:27.860 well they put it towards building a digital media site so cbc.com is the number one news source for

00:16:36.600 Canadians for online news so when when someone is looking up a news story when someone wants to go

00:16:41.760 read the news most canadians go to the cbc they did a good job of building up and boosting a

00:16:47.100 digital presence online that didn't really used to be there prior to 2015 it had been there but

00:16:51.660 they really expanded it well at the same time you have newspapers who are moving from a subscription

00:16:57.000 based model where people would get physical papers like my parents my dad he still gets the

00:17:01.160 vancouver sun delivered to his house every day he reads it from cover to cover he's been doing that

00:17:05.240 for his whole life i don't know maybe 50 years reading the paper cover to cover uh i haven't

00:17:10.360 read a physical newspaper in years. Most millennials, we read the news in just as great of a number

00:17:16.600 as baby boomers, but we don't read physical newspapers. We read them on a phone or a tablet.

00:17:21.300 So everyone's moving online, including the newspapers, and they're trying to build this

00:17:25.120 value that you have to pay for your news, that it can't be free. So all of these newspaper

00:17:28.680 companies, the Post Media, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, they have paywalls. Well, think about it.

00:17:34.240 If you're searching for a news story and two choices come up, you have one story on the

00:17:38.160 national post and you have one story on cbc uh national post requires you to pay to read it and

00:17:43.920 the cbc you read it for free people are going to click on the cbc so this upset the newspapers they

00:17:48.720 said hey wait a minute you're giving cbc this unfair bail out this unfair um tilting of the

00:17:55.280 playing field so that they can provide news for free whereas we have to charge people for it and

00:18:00.320 so the the newspapers got angry they started complaining and lobbying to the trudeau government

00:18:05.360 that because of the trudeau's own policy towards the cbc it was basically putting them out of

00:18:10.160 business and making it harder for them uh to compete so there's a quote from uh philip

00:18:16.960 crawley who is the global mail's publisher he told the house of commons heritage committee

00:18:21.040 but it's not a level playing field when taxpayer dollars are directed towards the public

00:18:26.240 broadcaster making a competition for digital ad dollars more difficult the former global

00:18:31.680 mail parliamentary bureau chief sean mccarthy likewise said how do you persuade people to buy

00:18:35.940 expensive subscriptions to the toronto star or the global mail when they can go and get content for

00:18:40.380 free at the cbc it's a huge challenge for papers so this was all happening in 2017 2018 this debate

00:18:47.240 was going on trudeau had a problem he subsidized the cbc those subsidies were going in direct

00:18:52.260 competition with legacy newspapers and the newspapers weren't happy for it well justin 0.97

00:18:56.880 Trudeau being a completely wise, cynical jackass willing to subsidize absolutely anyone and bribe 0.97

00:19:03.680 journalists. He used his old trick from 2015. In the 2019 election, just like he bribed the CPC 0.99

00:19:09.500 journalists back in 2015 and 2019, he bribed the newspaper journalists. So right before the 2019

00:19:15.760 election, you had Trudeau's finance minister, Bill Morneau, in the 2019 federal budget announce a

00:19:22.080 595 million dollar cash injection into canada's failing newspaper industry so so right before an

00:19:29.640 election exactly the same thing 600 million dollars to the newspapers and and and the rest

00:19:35.500 is history i mean they won that election they continue to fund the newspapers how is it that

00:19:40.580 we have a free and fair press in this country that are subsidized or funded entirely by the

00:19:46.800 Trudeau government, it is absolutely mind-boggling that people don't see this as a major conflict,

00:19:53.520 as a major threat to the independence of journalists. I mean, you can say, look,

00:19:57.080 these journalists are professional and they're not going to let the funding of their parent

00:20:01.880 company impact their journalism. But the fact that they are funded, the fact that their jobs

00:20:07.600 in some way are subsidized and reliant on Trudeau, it begs the question that when you're reading a

00:20:14.340 piece when you're reading the national post go out there and defend christia freeland saying that

00:20:19.140 it's not her fault that she was waving a nazi banner at a ukraine rally even though she's

00:20:22.780 ukrainian canadian and she knew exactly what that banner meant anyone anyone from ukraine knows what

00:20:27.520 that red and black banner means they actually found someone to whitewash and downplay the idea

00:20:32.360 of blood and soil a nazi chant a racist nazi chant uh when you see stories like that you kind of have

00:20:38.060 to wonder uh well would you be so defensive of the liberal government would you be writing this

00:20:43.220 article if they weren't paying you. It's really, really unbelievable. I think more people should

00:20:48.580 be involved, should be aware of it, and that we should do something to stop it. I absolutely

00:20:52.400 believe that whoever is the next conservative leader has to get rid of this ridiculous relationship

00:20:56.960 that we have in Canada between the media and the government. There needs to be a complete

00:21:00.740 separation between media and government. I mean, it's just, it's mind-boggling that it even needs

00:21:07.340 to be said. But in Canada, it is a major problem. Okay, guys, well, I'm doing a live broadcast today.

00:21:12.180 I don't usually do these shows live, but we decided to try it out here on Wednesday.

00:21:17.620 And so I would like to answer questions.

00:21:19.660 We could do a little bit of a Q&A here for the last five minutes of the show.

00:21:22.840 So if you have any questions that you want me to address, I would be happy to answer those questions.

00:21:29.420 I'm going to ask my producer if we have any questions that have come in through email or through the chat here on Facebook or YouTube.

00:21:40.040 i'll ask ask a question from brady hall brady says where is our country headed it feels like

00:21:48.360 we are on a very slippery slope and that before we know it life in canada will be completely

00:21:54.600 different uh look i feel like we've been on a slippery slope for a long long time

00:22:01.000 i think covid was really bad for our country and it created a lot of divisions between

00:22:06.360 people who had the luxury of working from home working behind a computer it actually made their

00:22:10.680 life better and easier because they didn't have to commute and people who had to go out there and

00:22:15.240 work and i will say i was really disheartened and dismayed throughout much of the pandemic

00:22:21.880 by the lack of pushback by canadians against really overzealous totalitarian policies telling

00:22:28.520 people that they couldn't go hiking in a park because they could get coveted like completely

00:22:32.760 nonsensical rules i wanted canadians to fight back um for the most part we are rule-abiding

00:22:40.740 law-abiding people and we went along and i think that many people hit the end of their rope and

00:22:46.280 said enough is enough and i think that the trepper convoy was one of the most inspiring things that

00:22:50.760 i've seen in this country in a very long time it gives me so much hope and so much pride in our

00:22:55.720 country and i think even the idea that the freedom convoy you know made its way around the world i

00:23:01.340 I did radio interviews and TV interviews in lots and lots of foreign countries, the U.S., the U.K., India.

00:23:07.740 People are interested in the Freedom Convoy.

00:23:09.520 And I think more and more our Canadian flag has now become synonymous with that sort of uprising against the government and that stand.

00:23:17.040 And I think that's something that we should be incredibly proud and pleased about.

00:23:22.180 So is the country heading in the wrong direction?

00:23:24.800 I think Justin Trudeau is trying to lead us in the wrong direction.

00:23:27.360 Thank God for the common sense of the Canadian truckers and the people who supported them.

00:23:31.340 because that does give me hope that there is another Canada and it's that Canada that we need

00:23:36.380 to tap into and try to represent. Okay, another question here from Layla Dawson. This question

00:23:45.560 says, why is Canadian media so obsessed with the Ukraine conflict and not covering what's going on

00:23:51.900 in Canada? I kind of covered this earlier in the show, the idea that it was like the perfect timing

00:23:58.000 for Trudeau, right? Like it enabled him to avoid any kind of scrutiny, any kind of accountability

00:24:02.440 for the absolute disaster of a policy that he had created. He was never, he never went to try to have

00:24:09.380 any kind of dialogue with the truckers. He never wanted to listen to their grievances. He never

00:24:13.960 wanted to address their concerns. He only wanted to denigrate them. He only wanted to smear them

00:24:18.480 and slam them and dismiss them and do everything he can to attack them. Well, the media let him get

00:24:25.560 away with it. And then he took advantage of that changing news cycle. Now he's in Europe. What

00:24:31.540 solving the crisis of the world through selfies and smiley photos with soldiers. The media is

00:24:39.080 obsessed with it because it covers for Trudeau. And it allows them to fixate on a villain, right?

00:24:44.520 We just had Donald Trump for four years, they fixated on Trump, they fixated on how terrible

00:24:49.000 he was, how horrible it was, it allowed them to not cover what was going on in our own country,

00:24:53.760 rather than keeping trudeau accountable holding trudeau accountable covering trudeau like the

00:24:57.600 whole purpose of the cbc and its mandate is to talk about canada and tell canadian issues you

00:25:01.840 turn on the national most nights during the trump presidency and the top like three news stories

00:25:06.080 were always about trump and what was going on in the us well now they found a new even better

00:25:10.400 villain in vladimir putin and so they obsess over him and talk about how terrible he is

00:25:15.440 look i'm i'm in agreement i think that uh vladimir putin is a tyrant and a war criminal and that he

00:25:22.480 uh abuses human rights at home and increasingly abroad i don't think he's good uh but i don't

00:25:28.240 think the purpose of the canadian media is to obsess and fixate on him rather than focus on

00:25:33.680 our own problems in canada so i'm with you i think that we need to focus more what's happening at

00:25:39.040 home fix our own country fix our own mess before we go out and try to meddle in foreign countries

00:25:45.680 Let's see what else we have.

00:25:48.920 Let's see over here.

00:25:51.140 We have something from Alison McKenzie.

00:25:54.260 Will the defund the CBC petition have any effect?

00:25:58.600 Well, I think it will just because right now we're in the middle of a conservative leadership race.

00:26:04.200 And we know what happened last time around with Aaron O'Toole.

00:26:07.260 He was one of the main proponents of saying let's defund the English CBC when he was running for leader of the Conservative Party.

00:26:14.800 Of course, when he became leader and was running the general election, he completely changed his tune and backed away and abandoned all of all of those promises and those pledges, which is why he's no longer leader of the party.

00:26:24.640 But I think the petition matters because it shows how important this issue is to the conservative base, how it motivates people, how angry and upset they are with the media.

00:26:35.080 And I think CBC really is the root of the problem. So, you know, having tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people sign that it signals to any future conservative leader that this is a big priority for Canadians and for conservatives.

00:26:49.100 Let's see what else we have here. So this one's from Tanner Meyer says, what can the average Canadian do to fight back?

00:26:59.080 it feels like there isn't anything we can do. And if we do, the government can freeze our bank

00:27:04.720 accounts. This is the point, right? This was the real purpose of the Emergencies Act. It wasn't

00:27:11.540 just to punish the 210 people who had their bank accounts frozen, although it certainly was

00:27:15.560 to put a chill down their spine and to terrorize them. And I want to make a point that following

00:27:21.940 9-11 in the United States, following the terrorist attacks of 9-11 that murdered 3,000 people,

00:27:27.220 including, I think, 150 Canadians, the U.S. government initiated one of the most heavy-handed

00:27:32.560 responses in terms of their domestic surveillance, in terms of their security apparatus. And during

00:27:38.320 that time, they only froze the bank account, I believe, of 182 individuals. So when it came to

00:27:44.480 al-Qaeda terrorists, the U.S. government, following the biggest attack on homeland security in

00:27:51.720 American history, they froze 180 bank accounts. Justin Trudeau dealing with basically a bunch

00:27:58.020 of truckers who parked illegally, so like a parking dispute, froze more bank accounts than

00:28:03.960 George Bush did after 9-11. So shut up your head around. But the purpose of it was not just to 0.99

00:28:09.800 punish those 100 or 200 people. It was to scare everybody into not wanting to donate to the

00:28:15.440 causes that they believe in, not wanting to donate to a future trucker convoy or to the

00:28:20.400 Conservative Party of Canada or to True North or to the rebel, making people think twice and feel

00:28:25.440 afraid about donating to those causes because they don't want their bank accounts frozen,

00:28:29.140 they don't want their lives destroyed. And so I think that that is what we have to fight back

00:28:35.600 against. We cannot take this lying down. We have to continue to fight back. What can Canadians do?

00:28:42.580 I mean, I think you have to go out there. I think that these convoys are continuing. I heard from

00:28:47.700 some people that there's a convoy every single weekend now on Vancouver Island. They drive from

00:28:51.320 the Northern Island all the way down to Victoria. And I saw a bunch of people in Ottawa again over

00:28:56.940 the weekend. I think, you know, we need to get up and continue. This isn't over. This is a movement.

00:29:01.400 It's not just a one-time protest. This is, like I said, an uprising. And I think we have to continue

00:29:06.920 to fight. Okay, let's do one more question here. And then I'm going to jump inside because I got

00:29:12.920 to get my kids dinner and bedtime routine going here. So final question here will come from Isaac

00:29:20.800 Goddard. Sorry if I pronounced that incorrectly. Goddard. Why were the conservatives so quiet for

00:29:26.800 so long? Nobody said anything against vaccine passports during the election. And only now,

00:29:32.060 after the protest, do we see some conservatives speaking up? Such a good point. Such a good point.

00:29:36.840 And I think that that is, I mean, the answer is right there. It's like we had the conservatives

00:29:41.640 were led by a completely ineffectual uh non-conservative someone who wasn't willing to

00:29:47.720 defend conservative ideas and values someone who wasn't willing to stand up against the legacy

00:29:51.640 media someone who wasn't willing to push back against polls so so you know maybe polls were

00:29:56.600 saying that canadians wanted vaccine passports or canadians wanted more government uh zealous

00:30:01.560 interventions in our society in our economy uh what we need in a conservative leader is someone

00:30:05.960 to push back against that we did not have that in erin o'toole that's why he's no longer a leader

00:30:10.360 that's why he is gone and so i think there's a lesson in that again i hope whoever is the next

00:30:16.200 leader of the conservative party will learn from the horrendous mistakes made by erin o'toole

00:30:20.920 that you cannot just get elected as a liberal light that's not what canadians want uh if they

00:30:27.160 wanted a liberal politician just continue to vote for justin trudeau they want something different

00:30:32.040 and erin didn't answer that so i hope i hope whoever the next leader is will fight back

00:30:39.160 we'll say we've just lived through something that is completely unacceptable we have to go back and

00:30:44.200 examine what happened what went wrong why we were why the government was able to undermine our rights

00:30:49.400 why they disrespected the charter of rights and freedoms why they didn't follow it uh there's so

00:30:53.480 many times so many instances where the charter was undermined so let's make sure that that can never

00:30:58.280 happen again that we never give government that power that we never give up our liberties in that

00:31:03.400 that manner again. I think it's so incredibly important, especially you had Theresa Tam,

00:31:08.300 the chief health officer, make a comment about how we might have to go into lockdowns again if

00:31:12.880 there's another wave. Like, no, no. I think enough Canadians have said that is not a good solution.

00:31:19.420 That's not scientific. It doesn't help. And it didn't reduce the death toll. It didn't improve

00:31:25.180 anybody's life. It made everything worse. So we're not going to do that again. I think we need strong

00:31:29.400 leadership in this country to push back against that. Well, thank you so much everyone for tuning

00:31:34.780 in. It's been really fun to come live with you. Like I said, I got to get inside. I got two little

00:31:39.160 kids. I have a one-year-old and a three-year-old and they're inside with grandma right now. So I

00:31:43.160 got to go in and help with their dinner and bed. But I really appreciate everyone joining us for

00:31:47.980 the live edition and we're going to do it every Wednesday. So watch out for it next Wednesday.

00:31:53.600 I really appreciate everyone tuning in and all your support of True North. Thank you so much

00:31:58.220 for watching. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

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