Juno News - Candice Malcolm DEBUNKS CTV's Alberta separation lies

00:00:00.000 okay folks we used to do a segment on the candace malcolm show called fake news friday it was our

00:00:07.620 favorite segment and one of the things i used to do is read through a legacy media news article

00:00:14.000 and just point out all the flaws we haven't done in a while and so my producer handed me this story

00:00:18.660 and we decided that we would read past the headlines and show you the genesis of fake news

00:00:23.700 so here is the article that we are talking about 29 of albertans support the idea of separation

00:00:28.560 from canada leger polls you might recognize this one i've used it a couple of times on my show but

00:00:32.740 i've never really dug into it and when you dig into it you realize just how absurd it is okay so it

00:00:37.620 starts off with that leger poll it says leger poll suggests 29 of albertans want the province to become

00:00:42.460 a country independent of canada 1 000 people were surveyed over three days earlier this month 43

00:00:47.360 percent of respondents say economic reasons such as taxation and federal policies are the reasons they

00:00:53.280 support independence and then other people who participated 67 percent were opposed well five

00:00:58.580 percent didn't know and so the author wants to sort of zoom in on those 43 percent of respondents who

00:01:03.960 want to separate who say the reason that they want to separate is because of economic reasons this is a

00:01:09.140 drastic departure by the way from quebec right quebec wants to separate because of language reasons

00:01:13.300 and cultural reasons whereas in alberta it really is the financial reasons right we all know this that

00:01:18.580 equalization means that albertans get raked by the federal government that albertans send their

00:01:23.240 taxation dollars over to big government provinces like quebec atlantic canada and sometimes even

00:01:29.300 ontario for them to provide lavish social services that alberta themselves don't even have and so yes

00:01:35.680 fundamentally it is an economic complaint that they have and so this ctv reporter wants to sort of

00:01:41.560 debunk that idea so here she says with nearly a third respondent supporting idea economist mo schlander

00:01:47.600 says it's emotion behind the numbers and not economics then she quotes this individual mo schlander

00:01:53.380 saying there's no mainstream economist who says this will work they're not even saying it could work

00:01:59.200 launder told ctv news edmonton launder says decades of messaging in alberta against ottawa has become an

00:02:06.500 issue causing people to consider separating from canada they've just bought into the narrative and

00:02:11.640 they've decided that well i guess we just got to get rid of the problem rather than recognizing that

00:02:16.640 maybe it's the messaging or even the messenger that's the issue okay did you get that so the

00:02:23.160 whole idea is that it doesn't make any economic sense says this economist and it's just propaganda

00:02:27.560 so if you have any inclination towards alberta independence if you think that alberta is like i

00:02:33.100 said getting raked over equalization it's just because of messaging and the messenger okay let's just

00:02:38.920 stop for a second let's pause for a second who is this economist mo schlander let's just do a simple

00:02:43.800 google search it leads us to saying he is a lecturer at concordia university in montreal so

00:02:50.540 this is a professor based in quebec saying to albertans if you believe in this idea it's because

00:02:56.640 you've been fed propaganda and saying definitively that there is no economic case that there's no

00:03:02.920 mainstream economist who says this will work says the montreal lecturer at concordia university

00:03:09.860 according to his linkedin page prior to being a lecturer at the university of concordia he was a

00:03:16.660 bureaucrat in the alberta legislature so he was a government bureaucrat economist in edmonton working

00:03:23.280 for the provincial government and then he went over and became a professor in montreal i just love the

00:03:28.600 definitiveness no mainstream economist says this will work well let's just try another simple google

00:03:33.380 search shall we i'll go over to chat gpt ai search engine just type this in provide a list of economists

00:03:39.940 who say alberta could thrive independently and lo and behold here we go now not saying that any of

00:03:45.940 these economists support alberta separation or say that it's a good idea but these are all people who

00:03:52.340 have written about it and say it could work so first you have jack men's probably canada's preeminent

00:03:57.220 economist and financial thinker we had him on the show a few weeks ago the episode did really really well

00:04:02.740 jack mints is like the gold standard of economists in canada and here it says you know right on chat

00:04:08.820 gbt it says jack mints a respected economist at the university of calgary school of public policy

00:04:13.620 mints has highlighted alberta's entrepreneurial spirit and economic resilience he suggests

00:04:17.780 that with appropriate policy framework alberta could navigate future challenges

00:04:21.620 here it is folks in the cbc of all places back in 2018 al bexit why this economist thinks alberta

00:04:29.300 could separate from canada and again creme de la creme economist jack mints saying that it could work

00:04:35.220 so um ctv maybe you should just google it next time uh another list of people uh from chat gbt here

00:04:42.020 uh joseph du said who is the dean of the alberta school of business he's emphasized alberta's

00:04:47.060 competitive advantages including his energy resources educated workforce he notes that while diversification

00:04:53.300 is essential the province's existing strength provide a solid foundation for economic growth next you have

00:04:58.100 neil veldos president of the prestigious fraser institute veldhouse has contributed to research

00:05:02.340 outlining policy frameworks aimed at fostering growth and prosperity in alberta while not advocating

00:05:06.900 for independence his work discusses strategies for enhancing the province's economic performance

00:05:12.820 so there you have it folks one search and we can entirely debunk this ctv article and so it's

00:05:18.580 interesting the next thing that this reporter goes on to is this bit that we covered on the show with

00:05:23.140 brett wilson where she goes to arlene dickinson who is a kind of you know she's a businesswoman 1.00

00:05:28.980 respected businesswoman and entrepreneur but she came out swinging against danielle smith premier of

00:05:34.660 alberta saying it's wholly un-canadian for her to even be entertaining a referendum a democratic-led

00:05:40.740 referendum and so we have these quotes from arlene dickinson saying it's totally unfair okay so just

00:05:46.420 from a news perspective right in journalism school you're told to cover both sides of the story

00:05:49.940 so far this reporter has interviewed two people one an economist saying that no economist could ever

00:05:54.740 say that this could work which we easily debunk and then the second one is a political activist on

00:05:59.940 the political left saying that it's un-canadian to have a referendum and a democratically-led

00:06:05.300 initiative which canada's constitution actually allows for and supreme court decision in the 90s

00:06:09.700 allows for this for quebec so you know we might not like it but it's part of the discussion so you

00:06:14.500 have two people both saying that this is not good and wrong uh where's the balance here folks where's

00:06:20.660 the balance here uh finally i'll just read the end of this article so she says a sense of fairness

00:06:26.100 tegan hill director of alberta policy with the fraser institute says albertans are rightfully

00:06:30.260 frustrated they have made and continue to make an outsized contribution to the federation to the rest

00:06:35.300 of canada to the tune of 245 billion dollars hill told ctv at the same time they continue to face

00:06:40.820 federal policies that damage and restrict their key industry the energy sector and so to be fair

00:06:45.460 this person is not in any way advocating for alberta separatism but she's just pointing out that yes

00:06:51.460 alberta doesn't really get a fair shake economically and there are policies that block alberta's growth

00:06:57.220 and so they specifically mention the proposed emissions camp as well as bill c69 which we call the

00:07:03.220 no pipelines bill okay so this is a totally biased news story right this whole idea she says she tries to 0.81

00:07:09.380 debunk the economic ability of alberta to separate then she talks about the sort of emotional side of

00:07:15.620 it from this dragon's den lady and then she kind of just tries to round it off by having someone from 0.99

00:07:22.180 the fraser institute talk about like the legitimate criticisms here and this is this is kind of how they

00:07:28.420 bake the news this is what they do they they come out and they say it's not viable and then that line

00:07:34.020 an economist saying it's not viable gets repeated and it shows up in other google searches and other

00:07:38.740 ai searches and then all of a sudden people have this impression that it would just not be

00:07:42.340 economically viable for alberta to separate let's just click on this journalist for a second miriam

00:07:47.700 valdez carletti now i don't mean to necessarily pick on her but i'm just using this as an example

00:07:53.700 of sort of what we're up against right so let me just read a bit from her bio it says miriam valdez

00:07:58.740 carletti joined ctv news edmonton in march 2023 she has a passion for reporting on human interest stories

00:08:04.420 and issues affecting bipoc communities bipoc community folks that means black indigenous

00:08:10.660 and people of color so in her intro sentence in her bio it says that she has a passion for reporting

00:08:18.180 on stories affecting basically anybody who isn't white bipoc basically just means every single person

00:08:24.500 in canada who is not would not be considered white as a people of color is such a vague term it kind of

00:08:30.180 implies everybody so imagine like in her bio like the thing that she says about herself is i really

00:08:36.900 love telling stories about people who are not white i like covering the news about all the people in

00:08:42.820 canada who are not white like in what world is that okay in what world is it okay to just have like a 0.88

00:08:47.380 totally racist line in your bio and that's like who you are and that represents where you are and the

00:08:52.020 news team is like oh that's really important that's great yeah definitely include that bit about how

00:08:56.260 you love telling stories about people who are not white just reading a bit more into her bio it says

00:09:01.380 she was a bachelor of journalism from toronto metropolitan university um what what is that oh right

00:09:07.140 the university that was so woke that they changed their name because they didn't want to be named

00:09:11.620 after ryerson egerton ryerson who had in some way been some tangentially connected to residential schools

00:09:18.660 and so they decided to rename the university the only problem is ryerson university journalism program

00:09:24.420 has a bit of cachet right everybody kind of knows that ryerson had a good journalism program like

00:09:29.380 back in the day and so she writes that she went to toronto metropolitan university because she has the

00:09:33.780 correct woke opinion politically correct version of the university but then she puts in parentheses

00:09:39.700 formerly ryerson university so she gets the prestige you see that so she wants to be connected to the

00:09:44.420 school even though she wants to distance herself from the school because she probably hates the

00:09:48.740 legacy and this is what we're up against in the legacy media right you have woke reporters pushing a

00:09:54.020 woke world view and distorting the news distorting what is written news right this is an opinion piece

00:09:58.820 this is not someone saying this is an op-ed this is my opinion i believe that there's no economic case

00:10:03.860 for a bird to separate this is a news story that tries to purport to be fact-based and totally removed

00:10:12.020 from any kind of bias and yet they're like just declaring that this isn't an economically viable thing

00:10:19.140 all right folks thanks so much uh for tuning in

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Juno News - May 29, 2025

Candice Malcolm DEBUNKS CTV's Alberta separation lies

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