Juno News - Canadian society is obsessed with race

00:00:00.080 Canada now has its own Elizabeth Warren story and the legacy media is celebrating and cheering on

00:00:05.700 this woman's fall from grace. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:13.800 Everyone thank you so much for tuning in. I hope everyone out there had a wonderful weekend and

00:00:18.260 welcome to The Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you for tuning in. I want to talk today about this

00:00:22.540 story over at the CBC. So CBC released this investigative report at the end of October and

00:00:28.160 it really created quite a stir. Everyone's talking about it online. So many other reporters in the

00:00:32.980 country and journalists are talking about it, celebrating and cheering this piece of investigative

00:00:37.560 work, saying that it is one of the most thorough, one of the best pieces of research investigative

00:00:42.080 reports out there. And I just have to say I disagree. I find that, look, I'm a journalist.

00:00:49.380 I love good journalism. I love a good investigative piece, regardless of the angle or the political

00:00:54.920 persuasion of the person writing it. There's nothing better than a very thorough, well-researched,

00:00:59.520 well-written report that exposes something, that digs into something, that shows something that is

00:01:05.720 off, that exposes either some kind of a corruption or something that's flawed, some kind of a cover-up.

00:01:10.920 There is nothing better than good investigative journalism. And while I agree that this piece that

00:01:15.300 I'm about to talk about today is incredibly thorough, they've obviously done very painstaking effort

00:01:20.400 to expose what they're trying to expose, just to take a step back and to just say, okay, we now live

00:01:27.080 in a society, we live in a world in 2021 in Canada, where a person's race, a person's DNA, their family

00:01:33.340 lineage, immigration patterns of their great-great-grandparents, and their DNA, their personal

00:01:38.480 DNA is now open season in terms of public scrutiny. So we can now have the state broadcaster, the publicly

00:01:45.600 funded, government-funded journalists in Canada, spending their time exposing the DNA and the race

00:01:52.540 of a high-profile person. I just find that, just on a societal level, incredibly sad, creepy and sad

00:02:00.020 that this is now where we live, that this is where the progressive left have taken us, the progressive

00:02:04.520 left who claims that they are the ones that are best suited to help us heal and help us as a society

00:02:10.660 become more fair, have more opportunity, have more equality of opportunity in terms of people

00:02:16.780 from different backgrounds, and they're the ones that can lead the charge with regards to

00:02:20.720 reconciliation. And so we've sort of enabled all of these leaders on the left to take the charge

00:02:26.680 in this issue. And where has it led us? It has led us to a world that is obsessed with race, where

00:02:31.060 everyone is divided in terms of what our background is, what our skin color looks like, the innate

00:02:37.960 characteristics that you are born with. So instead of living in a society where, you know, we try to

00:02:43.500 minimize the importance of race and we try to maximize the importance of a person's character,

00:02:48.200 their skills, their competence, their effort, the work that they put in, instead we've sort of flipped

00:02:54.140 it. Under the guidance of the radical left, the woke left, race matters, skin color matters,

00:03:00.000 what your family lineage is, in some cases is more important than all of those other things.

00:03:04.540 It's sort of a sad reflection on where we are and where we've been led to. And I do want to go

00:03:10.880 through this story because it is remarkable. I can't, it just can't help reading through this

00:03:15.000 and thinking not only did the CBC put all of this effort into trying to expose the race of this woman,

00:03:20.960 but then the reaction is that everybody is sort of cheering them on. Everyone in the legacy media is

00:03:26.220 like, you know, applauding job well done CBC. And everyone in this woman's life, Dr. Carrie Barusa,

00:03:32.060 is just completely like throwing her under the bus. Her career is over. All of her accomplishments

00:03:36.660 are being called into question and being taken away. You know, not because she plagiarized her

00:03:42.120 PhD, not because she, you know, lied and didn't actually complete the medical school that she said 0.90

00:03:47.280 she was. No, as far as her skillset and her competency, that's all left unquestioned. But the 0.99

00:03:52.140 only thing that is now being called into question is her race, is her DNA. And that is why everything is

00:03:57.300 being taken away. And again, very sad reflection of where we are in a society. So let's, let's get

00:04:02.020 to this piece. So this individual, Dr. Carrie Barusa, she, she seems like an incredibly impressive

00:04:07.800 person. She is a professor over at the university of Saskatchewan. And she was the scientific director

00:04:14.240 of the Canadian Institute of Health Research Institute of Indigenous Peoples Health, which is

00:04:19.140 the leading indigenous health research unit in Canada. So she's an impressive woman. And according to

00:04:25.080 her own story, she came from a very, very dysfunctional background. She kind of has a 0.99

00:04:29.060 rags to riches story. She grew up in a dysfunctional family in the inner city, in a very sort of rough

00:04:34.940 neighborhood. She was surrounded by addiction, violence, and she claims racism. And so she tells

00:04:41.380 the story. She did a TEDx talk back in 2019, where she talked about her own personal story. So part of the

00:04:46.920 story that we're being told here is that, you know, maybe when she was a young researcher, when she was

00:04:51.420 working on her PhD, going to grad school, she identified as Métis, and she benefited from that,

00:04:56.780 right? She was given extra opportunities, more scholarships, more bursaries, there's a lot of

00:05:01.260 programming in Canada, dedicated towards helping First Nations people who want to, you know, advance

00:05:07.880 her education have more opportunities available. So she was obviously the beneficiary of this with a

00:05:13.400 Métis identity. And then as she sort of got more advanced in her career, she sort of started

00:05:18.200 embellishing more and more. And so she started identifying as being from different tribes that 0.54

00:05:22.480 she had never claimed before. And even the way that she looked, the way that she dressed, she

00:05:26.020 started wearing more sort of traditional First Nations clothing, which I guess was part of the

00:05:30.580 reason that led the CBC to this story, to this investigation. So she did a TEDx talk where she

00:05:36.100 said, my name is Morningstar Bear. She said, choking up, I'm just going to say it. I'm emotional. The

00:05:40.640 cloud applauded and cheered. I'm Bear Clan. I'm Anishinibi Métis from Treaty 4 territory,

00:05:45.880 she said, explaining that she grew up in the inner city in a dysfunctional family surrounded

00:05:49.280 by addiction, violence, and racism. She said that her saving grace was her Métis grandfather

00:05:54.120 who would often sit her on his knee and tell her, you're going to be a doctor or a lawyer.

00:05:59.040 He would make me repeat it over and over as there was chaos going on, usually violence, she said.

00:06:04.000 And why would he make me say that? Because there was nobody in my family who had ever gone past

00:06:08.140 grade eight. And so as this report details, and it is incredibly long and thorough. So it goes on to say

00:06:15.660 that she began claiming a new heritage. She said that she was a descendant of the Tlingit,

00:06:21.580 a small group of Indigenous people from Yukon and British Columbia. So the premise here is that we

00:06:27.220 learn that she's probably not actually First Nations. She probably doesn't have a Métis grandfather.

00:06:32.760 So what happened was her sister, she has a sister as well, who also claimed to meet Métis, who also

00:06:37.200 sort of benefited from the scholarships and the bursaries and all these things because she was Métis. 0.94

00:06:42.120 So both sisters seemed to genuinely believe that they were Métis. So her sister and her

00:06:47.080 sister's husband decide in 2014 that they're going to go and take genealogy tests. This was when

00:06:52.300 the sort of 23andMe fad first started, where you can go and you can give a saliva sample and you can

00:06:57.880 get your genealogy records. You can learn them. My husband and I did it. It's really fun and really

00:07:02.460 interesting. So apparently when her sister did it, she learned that she wasn't First Nations at all.

00:07:07.440 All of her relatives were from Eastern European. It seems that perhaps these genealogical records

00:07:12.720 had been leaked to this reporter at the CBC who then went through and tried to create like this

00:07:17.620 big family tree and log all of the immigration patterns of all of her various ancestors to prove

00:07:23.240 that she's none of these things. She's not Métis. She's not a descendant of First Nations 0.97

00:07:27.280 tribes in Yukon and the British Columbia. That is all sort of just an invention of her imagination.

00:07:33.340 And so it seems like at that point in her life in 2014, when her sister said, look,

00:07:38.100 it doesn't seem like we're actually First Nations, her sister turned away from the identity.

00:07:41.840 It seemed at that point that Dr. Bruce has sort of leaned into it and sort of said, no,

00:07:45.900 you know, I don't believe the evidence. I'm going to keep going with this and kind of went further

00:07:49.600 and further into it, obviously to the benefit of her career because she was celebrated and she

00:07:54.260 rose to great prominence with this identity. So then again, we have the CBC going through

00:07:59.760 and trying to track down all of her ancestors, again, just to prove that she was not actually

00:08:04.460 First Nations, that she is from Eastern European. When she was finally sort of caught and said,

00:08:09.600 look, we have the genealogical evidence. It shows that you're not First Nations. You're not Métis. 0.99

00:08:14.020 Then Dr. Brosa sort of changed her story and said, well, I've been adopted into these communities.

00:08:18.160 I was adopted into them in my twenties and then some later in life. And so her story kind of

00:08:22.700 shifted from her being born First Nations to her being adopted into this family. And basically now,

00:08:29.100 again, this woman's been thrown under the bus. The university has backed away. And again,

00:08:34.340 it doesn't look good for Dr. Carrie Brosa. It looks like a lot of her awards are going to be

00:08:38.300 taken away a lot of her positions. But just to take a step back at this report, I mean, it's pretty

00:08:42.860 wild. It's pretty wild. They have tracked down her entire family history. They have photos of family

00:08:49.800 members from the early 1930s just to say that, look, these people were not First Nations. They are clearly

00:08:57.060 from Eastern European. And here is the evidence. I've never seen anything like this. In all of my

00:09:02.460 years reading the news, watching reports, I've never seen a takedown like this. Like if you compare

00:09:07.520 it to the Elizabeth Warren story. So Elizabeth Warren kind of had a similar story in that she

00:09:11.920 believed that she was part of the Cherokee Nation and she would use that identity. It seemed like she

00:09:16.700 probably used it even when she was going to university, getting into school and getting her

00:09:21.580 positions. Elizabeth Warren is a very celebrated lawyer in her field. And she ended up working at 0.93

00:09:25.940 Harvard Law School. Well, it turns out when she was working at Harvard Law School, she identified

00:09:30.440 as a minority. And it seems like when she was applying to go there, she sort of checked the

00:09:35.640 box and said that I'm First Nations as well. Well, it all came out partially because of Donald

00:09:40.360 Trump. Donald Trump saw that she was sort of rising to prominence in the Democratic Party

00:09:44.680 and that she may be the Democratic nominee. He started calling her Pocahontas and kind of challenged

00:09:49.780 her to go and take a DNA test and said that if it turns out that she is First Nations, he'll donate a 0.96

00:09:55.680 bunch of money to a charity. And so she went ahead and did it. She released her DNA records on her 0.56

00:10:00.520 own volition. She decided on her own that she was going to do that. And it turned out from her DNA

00:10:05.000 records that the amount that she wasn't part of the Cherokee Nation, that she really didn't have

00:10:09.300 an ancestor who was First Nations. And if she did, it was, you know, one out of like 64 ancestors or

00:10:15.680 more. Like she had a very, very small part, not enough to warrant the claim that she was actually

00:10:21.040 First Nations. But again, at least it was Elizabeth Warren herself who chose to go and do the DNA test, 0.99

00:10:26.400 chose to make it public. And at the time, interestingly, a lot of people on the left,

00:10:31.140 a lot of people in the media sort of defended her saying, you know, a lot of people have family

00:10:35.720 lore, family stories that don't turn out to be true. And interestingly, the same thing happened.

00:10:40.560 I mean, when I read this story as well, the other thing that I started thinking about was

00:10:43.620 Mary Amonsef. Recall a couple of years ago, we learned that Mary Amonsef, who was a cabinet

00:10:47.480 minister in the Trudeau government. She had this incredible story as well. Her origin story was

00:10:52.720 touted throughout the media. It was celebrated. Even Barack Obama mentioned her because we were

00:10:58.000 told that she was a Afghan refugee who came to Canada with her family. They fled the Taliban,

00:11:03.740 came to Canada and got refuge. But we learned that she wasn't from Afghanistan, that that whole story

00:11:09.160 that her being from Afghanistan was fabricated. And in fact, she lived in Iran. She was born in Iran.

00:11:14.900 She grew up in Iran. Granted, she was still an Afghan person. She's Afghan ethnicity. But the 1.00

00:11:20.580 idea that she wasn't actually born in the country that she said that her family had already fled

00:11:24.780 the war and was already living in Iran when she was born, it meant that so many elements of the

00:11:29.880 story were fabricated. And we were supposed to believe at the time, she basically just blamed

00:11:34.180 it all on her mother and said that her mother had kept it from her. Her mother had lied and it was

00:11:38.440 her mother's fault. We're supposed to believe that a kid growing up in Iran until the age of like 11 or 12 0.94

00:11:44.760 didn't realize that it was wrong. She thought it was Afghanistan. Give me a break.

00:11:48.240 And so again, we saw this huge defense from the legacy media. Even the prime minister came out

00:11:53.360 and defended her and criticized anyone who was writing or talking about the story, saying that

00:11:57.120 it didn't really matter. And that anyone who was talking about it was just sort of trying to like

00:12:00.500 sow division in the country. And so again, it's interesting because, you know, when it came to

00:12:06.060 Mariam Monsef, the media were there to defend her. And so here we have Heather Malick writing over

00:12:11.180 the Toronto Star. She writes birthers hands off Mariam Monsef, basically saying that children

00:12:16.680 are not at fault when their parents peddle misinformation about the family's origin stories

00:12:20.780 and that it shouldn't matter at all what Mariam Monsef's story actually is. And it's not her fault.

00:12:25.820 It was her mother who misrepresented her past. And so a child shouldn't be held responsible for

00:12:30.900 a parent's misinformation. Even when those children like Mariam Monsef have grown into adults,

00:12:36.340 Mariam Monsef is an adult in her 30s. It's still not her fault, even though she's peddling 0.98

00:12:40.860 this false origin story for personal advancement. So interesting how the tables have now turned.

00:12:47.180 If you look at how the Toronto Star is reporting on this story about Dr. Kerry Brusa, it's pretty

00:12:53.880 disturbing. Again, like basically they're calling for more investigations. They're calling for

00:12:58.840 groups like universities and other institutions to stamp down Indigenous identity fraud. So what they

00:13:04.980 want people to launch their own investigative reports into people's heritage, people's race,

00:13:10.420 people's background. Here is an op-ed over in the Globe and Mail that Kerry Brusa's story is yet

00:13:15.260 another example of a kind of cultural Muncheisen syndrome. Muncheisen syndrome is when you believe 0.89

00:13:20.160 you're sick or you pretend to be sick to get more sympathy and more attention from others. And so he's

00:13:25.760 saying this is an example of it. They're really just a sneering piece of writing here. He says,

00:13:30.960 for the longest time, Brusa told the world her ancestry was Métis. But since the reports

00:13:35.680 questioning those claims, she has been unable to verify her ancestry. Now relieved of her high

00:13:40.360 profile position, she can spend all of her time jigging, beating and carving totem poles. Real nice 1.00

00:13:46.420 Globe and Mail. National Post similarly just called her a fanciful white woman. So you do see this sort of 0.97

00:13:53.740 sneering from the media. And what I think is the absolute worst is this idea that we should have

00:13:59.300 investigations into people's races to make sure that they are who they say they are. Look, I'm not

00:14:04.600 defending this woman. I think it's wrong to lie. It's wrong to embellish your past. It's wrong to

00:14:09.260 pretend you are someone who you're not. I do believe, though, the fact that both her and her

00:14:13.600 sister both once claimed to be Métis seems that there was some genuine confusion on her part about

00:14:19.220 her family history. It's the case with so many people across Western Canada. I mean, we only know our

00:14:23.700 own family heritage based on the stories that our parents tell us, the stories that we hear from our

00:14:28.700 families. And so if there is sort of folklore that's mixed in with family history, it's hard

00:14:34.140 for someone to know and tell. So many people in Western Canada do have a First Nation relative,

00:14:39.760 people who don't identify as First Nations at all. They might have one grandparent or one great

00:14:44.600 grandparent who is part of a tribe or who is status native. And again, it's hard as a society like

00:14:52.180 that we all should supposed to be bookkeeping and keeping track of all of our relatives and all of

00:14:56.160 our race. Here we are as a society under the guidance of the radical left. They care more

00:15:00.660 about race than anything else. And because of it, this is identity politics. It divides us up based

00:15:06.260 on a race. It pisses against each other. So when I was growing up in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s,

00:15:11.220 I was told and I genuinely believe that the goal of our society was to build a country that had moved

00:15:16.380 past racial animosity, that we were a country that didn't judge people based on the race. They didn't

00:15:21.340 care about your skin color, where people could succeed based on merit, based on their own

00:15:26.140 competence, their own character, their own effort, and what they do. And that race didn't define us,

00:15:31.220 it didn't hold us back, and it didn't give some people an advantage over other people. And that is

00:15:36.060 the country that I grew up in. I saw friends, I saw peers, I saw people all around reach great success

00:15:41.760 based on their skills, based on their own efforts, not based on what they looked like, not based on the

00:15:46.520 race, not based on where they came. I saw so many people who came from other countries, they may have been

00:15:51.060 discriminated against in other countries, they may have been refugees in other countries, they came to

00:15:54.760 Canada because they were smart, because they worked hard, they were able to be successful. And that should be the

00:15:59.420 goal of the society, that is the society that I want to live in, that is the Canada that I grew up in. But sadly,

00:16:05.000 I think this story, the story of Dr. Kerry Barusa, and the way that the media, just the very fact that the CBC did this

00:16:10.960 investigation in the first place, the way that they did it, and the way that everyone is sort of

00:16:14.840 cheering on the demise of this woman, it clearly shows that this goal of a society that doesn't

00:16:20.840 care about race, that that's no longer the goal of our society. Instead, we are a society that is

00:16:26.200 obsessed with race, and it is not looking good, it is not pretty. This is where the woke left has taken

00:16:32.280 us. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

Juno News - November 15, 2021

Canadian society is obsessed with race

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