Juno News - June 28, 2022


Canadians no longer trust their institutions

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In this episode, Candace and Harrison discuss a new piece from the National Post claiming that a third of Canadians agree with the white supremacist theory that white people in Canada are racist. They discuss why this is such a bad idea, and why journalists should know better.

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00:00:00.000 This is news that's just been created out of thin air. They're like, hey, let's go pull Canadians 1.00
00:00:03.780 and find out how dangerous their views are and how extreme they are and how racist they are and how 1.00
00:00:10.360 crazy they are. It's all pre-positioning so the Trudeau government can come up with their
00:00:14.500 position saying, hey guys, we need to internet, we need to regulate the internet. If we don't
00:00:18.300 regulate the internet, look at how much more divided our society will be. Look at all these
00:00:22.700 crazy people. There's just going to become more craziness, more instability. And it's all working 0.93
00:00:27.700 in lockstep with Trudeau to further his policy agenda. But I think what they're doing is really,
00:00:34.860 really dangerous because what they're also doing, Harrison, is telling Canadians not to trust their
00:00:40.160 neighbor, not to trust their fellow compatriots, saying that person that you think you're friends
00:00:45.700 with, a coworker or someone that you see at the coffee shop every day or your kid's friend's
00:00:53.400 parent. These people are probably racist. They probably have a conspiracy-laden worldview. 0.92
00:01:01.100 They probably believe that the election was stolen for Donald Trump. They probably support
00:01:04.100 Donald Trump. We saw this. This is a story that came out last week from the same pollsters,
00:01:07.760 the same series. Legacy Media claims 40%, sorry, the National Post headline says,
00:01:13.740 millions of Canadians believe in a white replacement theory. Millions of Canadians,
00:01:19.460 same polling company there, Abacus Data. And again, they surveyed 1,500 people online,
00:01:26.420 and they extrapolate from that that millions of Canadians must be racist, must be racist.
00:01:31.640 And the way that they got that theory, I know you talked about this last week with Andrew Lawton,
00:01:36.740 but the question was that one third of Canadians believe in the so-called white replacement theory
00:01:41.180 that 37% of respondents representing 11 million Canadians agreed with this statement. This was the
00:01:46.420 statement that they were asked whether they agreed with or not. There is a group of people in this
00:01:50.960 country who are trying to replace native-born Canadians with immigrants who agree with their 0.54
00:01:56.760 political views. Okay. So the first part of that question, there are a group of people in this
00:02:00.500 country who are trying to replace native-born Canadians. I mean, that would just be like the 1.00
00:02:04.700 immigration department, right? Like the group of people is the politicians, the liberals who are in
00:02:09.500 power, who have drastically increased our immigration levels. Trying to replace native-born Canadians with 1.00
00:02:15.240 immigrants who agree with their political views. I mean, that's, again, up for interpretation.
00:02:19.920 The part of this statement that doesn't make sense with the headline, Harrison, is it doesn't say
00:02:24.240 anything about skin color, right? That the question doesn't include the word white or make any mention
00:02:29.840 of a person's ethnicity or skin color. But then they sort of editorialize and extrapolate to mean that
00:02:36.060 they must agree with a white replacement theory, which is the racist ideology that the Buffalo 0.88
00:02:41.320 Shooter used or subscribed to or pushed when he did his massacre. So they're taking a statement that
00:02:48.320 is sort of vaguely worded, that has some truth to it, that many Canadians would relate to. And then
00:02:55.140 they're saying, if you agree with this statement, then you must agree with this white terrorist. Like 0.99
00:03:00.280 it's such a jump and it's so dishonest. And again, all it does is turn Canadians against each other,
00:03:05.800 because really you're walking down the street, you think, wow, you know, one in three Canadians 1.00
00:03:10.900 is a crazy racist who supports white terrorism, essentially. That's what, that's what they're 0.99
00:03:16.040 saying. I mean, it's so wild. It's so irresponsible that the extent that they will go to win an election,
00:03:22.260 to allow Justin Trudeau to push forth his agenda. Like the fact that people in the media are going
00:03:27.360 along with this, that this is being quoted, that this is being pushed, Harrison, I find it,
00:03:31.100 I just find it like disappointing on so many levels, but also truly, truly dangerous. Really,
00:03:38.300 really bad stuff here. What's your thought? What are your thoughts?
00:03:41.420 Completely. And the headline from the National Post is disgusting. There's no other way to 0.52
00:03:45.620 describe it, really. It's, it's Canada bashing, as I said, and the headline should read,
00:03:50.280 it should read, millions of Canadians were tricked into agreeing to a question designed to convince
00:03:55.920 other Canadians that they are racist. That's what it really should read, right, Candace? But of course,
00:04:00.360 this was all cooked up from the start. We're going to trick Canadians. We're going to, we're 0.98
00:04:04.240 going to make sure that we get the result we need. We're going to make sure we get the headline we
00:04:07.920 need. And everyone's going to come to our polling company and look at our, look at our data.
00:04:11.940 It's, it's, it's horrible. And journalists should know better. Journalists should know better. The
00:04:17.400 headline is not, should not read millions of Canadians. It should be, it should, when you make
00:04:22.660 such an accusation like that, it should basically make it clear that it was, it was 500 people who
00:04:28.300 responded to a 1500 person survey. That is not, you cannot tell me that that is representative
00:04:34.200 of the country. And when you do that, it's just, it's just, you're, you're engineering a result.
00:04:40.300 You're, you're, you're creating a, a, a synthetic result that is designed to convince people like
00:04:45.700 you said, Candace, that your neighbor is a racist, that your neighbor is a conspiracy theorist. 0.99
00:04:49.520 It's horrible stuff. 0.97