Juno News - February 26, 2026


Carney PANICS as Liberal cabinet ministers EXPOSE their radical agenda


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19 minutes

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200.60727

Word Count

3,876

Sentence Count

4

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 i'm candace malcolm and this is the candace malcolm show folks we have a great episode for
00:00:07.080 you today whenever the house is sitting and whenever parliament is in session in ottawa
00:00:10.580 my job just becomes easier and more interesting and more fun so we have a lot of reactions that
00:00:15.260 we're going to give you we're going to play clips of some of mark carney's cabinet ministers let me
00:00:19.160 just tell you mark carney may be somewhat popular among canadians but his cabinet is a total dump
00:00:24.660 of fire there's so many just terrible people on there that are just the things that they say are
00:00:29.420 outrageous we're going to talk about that we're going to talk about the polls and we're going to
00:00:32.300 talk a bit about the criticism and the uh comments about juno news uh juno news has been getting a lot
00:00:38.460 of publications a lot of attention recently so we're going to go through uh some of the best and
00:00:43.080 worst takes on juno news i'm very pleased today to be joined by my co-founder here at juno news
00:00:48.560 uh journalist kian beckstein kian thank you so much for joining us my pleasure okay so we're gonna talk
00:00:54.040 about the news first and then we'll get into more of like the traditional fireside chat that you and
00:00:57.620 i do monthly um but i just i wanted to talk about this with you because we saw that pier poliev came
00:01:03.680 out with some new policies and new suggestions to crack down on fraud and abuse in our immigration
00:01:08.680 system we know it's rampant and almost immediately we saw an attack against him coming from all sides
00:01:14.060 in the liberal party that was really interesting so i'm going to start with mark miller who accuses
00:01:18.740 the tories of pandering to immigrants so this is almost like the criticism that you would see
00:01:22.800 against pier poliev from the right flank of the party or people even to the right of pier poliev
00:01:28.060 so it's really interesting to see a hard left cabinet minister like mark miller former immigration
00:01:32.380 minister accusing the tories of doing what the liberals have become infamous for doing so let's
00:01:37.780 play that clip mr speaker let's assume for a second that the conservatives actually want to help the
00:01:42.060 situation perhaps the member opposite can turn to her right talk to the leader of the opposition who's
00:01:47.860 changed so many ridings he's parliament's own temporary foreign worker and ask them to stop
00:01:53.320 going around the country pandering to communities promising them not to be deported and promising
00:01:58.900 visas for everyone that might help mr speaker wow so that's pretty devastating i think and just to hear
00:02:04.300 the jeering again that happened wednesday uh in parliament february 25th um what did you what did you
00:02:10.080 make of that kian i i was pretty brutal to watch and uh everything stings a little bit more when it's
00:02:19.560 kind of true uh it's it's kind of unclear to me like is the is the conservative party who do they who do
00:02:26.100 they want to send back is it just criminals is it just people who overstayed a visa does that make them
00:02:31.460 a criminal uh like what about students who are here a year longer than they should be i mean i know what
00:02:37.440 i would do i would send them all back but then again pierre's team uh jaz raj halan and i think
00:02:45.760 tim upple went and pretty much everyone wearing a turban in parliament on the tory side was just in
00:02:52.880 punjab talking about how they can better coordinate immigration so do they want like more legal immigration
00:03:00.200 which is sort of the liberal opinion circa 2015 or do they want to just keep canada for canadians
00:03:07.740 like that's what the base wants of this conservative party so it's like just really
00:03:11.220 confusing what their messages messaging is here on immigration the liberals have picked up on it
00:03:16.060 and they're able to throw punches from the right side of pierre polyev because people like you and me
00:03:22.380 and and frankly everyone on the right of the conservative party that it has a public profile
00:03:28.060 has been making really good points about this over the last two years so um it's gonna be rough for
00:03:34.700 pierre if he doesn't like actually sort out this messaging and explain to his party including like
00:03:39.820 the the people in his party that rely on extremely ethnic voting constituencies that this is the policy
00:03:48.120 of the party and sorry you know we might lose we might lose surrey you know right well i mean you're
00:03:54.740 right three three uh conservative mps of indian ethnic origin were in india meeting with a guy who
00:04:01.320 was out on bail like it's not a good look um the same week that pierre polyev decides to get tough
00:04:06.100 on immigration fraud and it wasn't just from the right right like that that that response from mark
00:04:11.540 miller was sort of surprising to me but we also heard the very typical predictable uh liberals and
00:04:17.300 sort of media critics journalists uh criticizing pierre polyev the same way that they did to
00:04:21.840 daniel smith last week by just quickly saying this is racist your intention must be racist if you
00:04:26.320 don't want to have a totally compassionate system that puts immigrants ahead of canadians um then
00:04:31.420 you must just be a terrible bad person so here is more of the predictable uh criticism coming from
00:04:36.620 justice minister sean fraser accusing the conservatives of pushing anti-refugee policies uh just because
00:04:43.320 they're mean-spirited and they're mean let's play that clip mr speaker the translation has been
00:04:47.160 difficult to hear over the anti-refugee dog whistle that's been coming through the air all afternoon
00:04:52.700 we are talking of people who are fleeing violence war and persecution do you not remember the images
00:04:58.460 of the people who died who washed up on the shore alan kurdi from syria have you not sat down with
00:05:03.100 members of the ukrainian community who have found safe haven in canada when you have a series of
00:05:07.420 questions like this that have come on the floor of the house of commons this week you have to invite
00:05:11.080 yourself into the conversations that the conservative party must have had as they were getting ready
00:05:15.120 you can imagine them all sitting around saying what are we going to prioritize this week to help
00:05:19.360 us raise some money well could we tackle perhaps the canada u.s relationship no that's just going
00:05:24.320 to upset our members who think canadians are having a hissy fit could we tackle affordability
00:05:28.600 for families no that goes against type could we do health care sure health care but let's make sure
00:05:33.300 we do it in a way that helps no one punching down by demonizing refugees saying you're going to cut
00:05:38.780 health care is a blatant political opportunity not something that's going to help a single person in this
00:05:43.380 country okay so that was like totally incoherent he was just kind of like yelling off like liberal
00:05:48.440 greatest hits including invoking dead syrian kids i mean that was just so pathetic but that is like
00:05:53.920 very typical of what liberal people said in response when pierre polyev posted a video got
00:05:59.880 millions of views on x and a lot of the comments in the quote tweets were from like journalists and
00:06:05.160 like very establishment liberals just clutching their pearls kian and saying this is so unacceptable this
00:06:10.080 is so racist um it isn't right the liberals created an absolute boondoggle mess of our
00:06:15.260 immigration system they destroyed our immigration system and may have destroyed the country in the
00:06:19.280 process it falls on conservatives to fix it i think pierre polyev has to come up with like a much
00:06:24.160 broader bigger plan to actually fix this problem but i did just find it interesting that you literally
00:06:28.680 have ministers in the house of comments on the same day critiquing him from both the left and the
00:06:33.960 right what do you think yeah it was good good point about him bringing up the liberals greatest hits
00:06:39.860 and it reminded me of that syrian kid that was found drowned on the beach i think he was crossing
00:06:46.840 illegally across the mediterranean or his parents were smuggling his dad was the was the human
00:06:52.460 smuggler so like obviously it was it was his father's own fault sadly tragically and it has nothing
00:06:57.900 to do with the terrible father that that kid had we were subjected to 10 years of justin trudeau
00:07:03.580 it reminded me just in an instant how much that picture had an impact on canadian politics
00:07:08.180 and how persuadable canadians are by liberals crying and uh we're willing to sacrifice
00:07:15.900 our country and our well-being and our livelihoods uh because of these emotional pleas that they these
00:07:23.340 pleas to emotions that the liberals are so good at making it's it's uh i can't i i i don't know how
00:07:30.560 many more clips of this uh of parliament we have but it almost makes me sick watching them because
00:07:34.400 these guys they don't actually mean what they say whether they attack pierre from the left or the
00:07:39.080 right they just want to attack pierre because they know that he's effective and that he's resonating
00:07:42.460 with a lot of uh right and center canadians um he has a message and you know canadians believe that
00:07:49.420 health care should be for canadians it shouldn't be for people that are just visiting
00:07:52.780 shouldn't be for tourists shouldn't be for illegal aliens should be for canadians because when you go
00:07:57.640 to a hospital right now you're waiting seven eight hours just to get your toes checked out if you if
00:08:03.640 you have frostbite or you know it's just it's an absolute mess in this country because we're putting
00:08:09.400 everyone else in the entire world ahead of us when it comes to taking care of our own needs so it's
00:08:14.500 just sickening and uh you know i'm tired of these these politicians who just are so out of touch with
00:08:19.600 the reality of canadians right now well it's it's so true i did have a clip of the health minister
00:08:24.460 basically just saying that um illegal immigrants deserve better health care than canada and that
00:08:28.840 we should we should also try to improve health care i'll skip that one just to uh save you the pain
00:08:33.340 of having to watch it because it's just unbelievable that a woman like that is a minister she can barely
00:08:38.220 string a sentence together i'm told she's from haiti and actually i think her father one of her
00:08:42.940 relatives was the president of that country but i will just skip ahead to immigration minister um this
00:08:49.120 is lena dia one of the worst ministers ever to be minister in canada uh she was speaking before a
00:08:55.140 committee on wednesday kian and she just actually said this that terrorists have the right to become
00:09:00.680 canadian citizens so if you are a terrorist out there um our immigration minister believes that you
00:09:04.700 have a right a god-given right to become a canadian just really unbelievable that they see these kind of
00:09:09.300 things out loud let's play this clip quick question can you assure canadians that no terrorists will
00:09:12.920 become citizens through this legislation again what these are people who are already citizens
00:09:18.260 haven't has it have not been for thank you minister thank you mr reticob thank you so don't worry
00:09:27.060 terrorists uh no no no fear of liberals actually applying our immigration law or trying to protect
00:09:33.240 uh canadians interestingly there's a cbc story uh that andrew lottner friend uh former colleague
00:09:38.980 who's now an mp um that nine out of ten liberal mps that spoke to the cbc think that immigration
00:09:45.480 minister lena dubap lena dia needs to go uh the headline is where is canada's immigration minister
00:09:50.900 community groups are asking i feel like this is the part where you really realize that the cbc
00:09:55.060 is a communication arm of the liberal government so obviously mark carney is probably not happy with
00:10:00.120 this like embarrassment dumpster fire of an immigration minister so he wants to fire her but
00:10:04.400 it would look really mean to fire a female like minority cabinet minister so he has to like use
00:10:11.180 the cbc to like point out how terrible she is so that he has some cover so that he can fire her
00:10:16.080 eventually i mean that that's what it looks like to me what do you think yeah it makes you think about
00:10:22.040 how they view canadian citizenship um you know you could some they could swear someone in
00:10:28.340 as a canadian citizen at a strip mall which they do frequently you don't even have to say the oath
00:10:34.260 anymore and uh they could walk out of that strip mall and go shoot up a a shopping mall and they
00:10:44.540 would defend their right to their graves that they should still be canadian because they had that strip
00:10:49.440 mall ceremony they think that that means it's something sacred to them right like it did it does
00:10:54.340 it's it's the exact same as you and me who i our grandparents came mine mine came from america
00:11:01.360 uh to to settle the west and even my great great great great grandfather actually founded
00:11:06.800 the city of red deer um and leonard gates was his name there's a there's a street named after him
00:11:13.820 there and this strip mall ceremony is the exact same like moral value as as our history in this country
00:11:21.600 and they'll defend that and it's just a losing argument because every canadian even people that
00:11:25.760 came here you know 10 20 years ago who have contributed to this country know that citizenship
00:11:31.400 is more than just an oath that you say next to the denys you know it's it's who you are as a human
00:11:38.020 being and it's who you are in your in your soul and if you're just here to like park some cash in a
00:11:44.220 bank account or you're just here to commit crimes you're not canadian and and pierre needs to get this
00:11:49.880 right because we were talking about this a little bit earlier who is he going to deport who is he
00:11:55.060 going to get rid of uh is it just the illegals is it just the people who overstayed on visas
00:11:59.100 or are there people who are canadian citizens right now that really shouldn't and that's a
00:12:05.180 question they're going to have to grapple with because the answer is not an easy one right you're
00:12:10.180 right and i mean i've been critical of justin trudeau's immigration and citizenship policies for over
00:12:15.140 a decade one of the things that he did the worst thing he did was he cut down the amount of
00:12:19.040 time needed to spend in canada to become a citizen uh down to three years part time right so like you
00:12:24.400 don't even really need to live in canada in order to get the passport and so people take advantage
00:12:28.440 of the system they scam they commit fraud or even they just spend the bare minimum number of days
00:12:32.700 in the country to qualify to get the passport and so anyone who would argue that that a person who
00:12:38.320 gets citizenship that way and just got their citizenship a couple weeks ago and has like no
00:12:42.380 interest in the canadian project or in canadian history and symbols but that person's just as
00:12:46.600 canadian uh as you and i or people watching the audience you know this isn't a comment on skin
00:12:51.260 color or race it's really just a comment on culture and value and the the you know the the integrity
00:12:56.620 of our citizenship what it means to be canadian everyone everyone on the conservative side agrees
00:13:01.700 that what the liberal's done has been unconscionable it needs to change um but but but then you know
00:13:07.140 let's focus on that let's focus on changing the actual integrity of our citizenship and then we can
00:13:10.860 debate later you know whether or not some of these people actually deserve to be citizens or not
00:13:15.340 i want to change gears a little bit kian and talk about the polls because these numbers are surprising
00:13:20.600 to me um not what i would have thought in the the week after the floor crossing because from my
00:13:26.200 perspective canadians hate floor crossing and seeing someone who was voted in as a conservative
00:13:31.460 across the floor we've seen three times now uh to me that would turn people away from the liberals but
00:13:37.000 somehow canadians are the opposite so the latest angus reed poll has the liberals up 13 points
00:13:44.160 13 points this is a poll that came out yesterday february 24 sorry two days ago um they ascend to a
00:13:50.360 13 point lead over the conservatives this is so devastating right like it we were kind of neck and
00:13:56.240 neck in january the liberals are at 41 conservatives at 38 and because they're just falling down to 32
00:14:01.280 and 45 and it's not just that one poll right like if you look at um this which is just all of the
00:14:08.380 polls conducted in february you will see the liberals just absolutely dominating out that's
00:14:13.920 like every poll from february 2nd up to february 23rd the liberals have a lead they have a commanding
00:14:19.560 lead in some in some areas they have like a 15 point lead um this is a nightmare scenario for
00:14:25.360 peer polio because if mark carter gets too confident and looks at these numbers and says you know what
00:14:29.840 i can call an election now and i can wipe the floor with conservatives get my majority and govern for
00:14:34.940 four years without having to worry about it um that will probably be the end of peer polio as leader
00:14:39.980 of this party what do you what do you think i'm just looking up right now uh the ndp will select its
00:14:45.980 next its next leader at the winnipeg convention held from march 27th to 29th a writ period is about a month
00:14:54.140 so he has like three days left to call an election with with that um
00:15:00.820 with this with this like political scenario this very unique position that he's in where the look
00:15:07.140 the ndp have no leader and they were just leave they're just you know coming off
00:15:12.460 well half a decade how long was jagmeet there uh they're just coming off a long sprint with the most
00:15:19.820 like unpopular ndp leader they've ever had right so this is just not like a real political scenario
00:15:24.960 that mark carney's dealing with right now and it's it's i mean it's rapidly ending too so if he
00:15:28.500 doesn't call the election like now or today or tomorrow uh this is going to change dramatically
00:15:34.540 the ndp are going to attack him because mark carney is governing frankly as a progressive conservative
00:15:38.880 his his caucus is still the insane bag of nut jobs that justin trudeau is carrying around with him
00:15:45.060 for the last 10 years but mark carney himself these numbers that say that the liberals are
00:15:49.380 pulling highly this is mark carney pulling highly it's not it's not the liberal in calgary confederation
00:15:54.840 that is wildly popular uh cory hogan's not wildly popular in calgary uh liberals are not wildly popular
00:16:00.680 in calgary despite what the western standard polling says uh which you know these like these all these
00:16:06.640 any company that takes federal money says that the liberals are surging in uh in alberta suddenly
00:16:11.540 it's just not true it's not true speak to anyone in an elevator go to the mall go outside touch some
00:16:16.740 grass liberals are not popular in alberta and uh and across the country mark carney is going to have
00:16:23.060 to start dealing with uh an ndp leader i think it's going to be abby lewis who is attacking for you know
00:16:29.660 for us all the typical things that they're always attacked for right like austerity it's not real
00:16:33.860 austerity it's just like it's like austerity light right now and but the liberals are going to sorry the
00:16:40.940 ndp are just gonna be screaming about it and their their message resonates with like 20 of canadians
00:16:46.400 pretty pretty like consistently it just failed in the last election and they have no leader right now
00:16:51.860 so pierre it you know if if this was if the ndp had died and they were never coming back pierre would be
00:16:59.100 like i don't know why you would even continue on at this rate right like where's where's the light at
00:17:04.720 the end of the tunnel but the light at the end of the tunnel is the fact that mark carney is
00:17:08.280 governing with nobody on his left and that's going to change so let's see what happens in a month
00:17:14.260 it is it is true but the the one counter i point to that is that whoever the ndp leader is and i mean
00:17:20.240 they had a leadership debate the other night it was a total clown show let's put it that way but
00:17:24.200 whoever wins like they don't have name recognition they don't have national exposure like people don't
00:17:29.360 know people don't know who avi lewis is right like he's like an obscure like hard left academic
00:17:34.600 journalist or like whatever he does like he it's it's not like suddenly he's just going to become
00:17:39.320 like vastly popular like even jack leighton it took him several election cycles for the canadian
00:17:43.460 public to actually like understand who he is and and what he's all about so i yeah i i think it's it's
00:17:49.940 it's it's interesting times for sure kian okay uh we're gonna flip over to the uh juno news
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