Juno News - COUNTDOWN： Top 5 Fake News Narratives of 2021

00:00:00.000 It's Fake News Friday, and we'll go through the biggest, worst examples of legacy media

00:00:04.160 fake news narratives. Plus, you'll have your chance to vote on what you thought

00:00:07.340 was the biggest fake news narrative of 2021. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm

00:00:12.240 Show. Hi, everyone. Happy Friday. Thank you so much for tuning into the program. So as you know,

00:00:21.220 here at The Candice Malcolm Show, we dedicate one show per week, an entire episode of this show,

00:00:26.040 to exposing the fake news in Canada, to point out all of the various ways of how the media in Canada

00:00:32.920 is corrupted. Let me tell you, they are for so many different ways. So the first biggest problem,

00:00:37.760 it's obvious, and it's been this case for a long time, is that most media have a left-wing bias.

00:00:42.400 They pretend to be objectively telling you the facts, reporting the truth, reporting the news,

00:00:47.180 but in reality, and this has become so obvious in recent years, but what they're really doing is

00:00:51.980 pushing their own worldview, pushing their own ideology. They are trying to guide you in a

00:00:56.760 certain direction, and they're not being honest about it. So here at True North, you know that

00:01:00.740 editorially, we are conservatives, that we have a conservative worldview. We believe in limited

00:01:05.320 government and traditional principles about society, and you can see that in the editorial

00:01:09.120 side of things. You can see that in the way that I present my show and do my podcast. However, when it

00:01:14.060 comes to our news reports, they are fact-based, but they're going to be stories of interest to

00:01:19.100 conservatives, because that's what the legacy media ignores. Now, the legacy media isn't open

00:01:23.920 and transparent about their own biases. They don't come out and say, look, we are left-wing,

00:01:28.020 we have a liberal worldview, we like Justin Trudeau, we're going to vote for him. They don't say any of

00:01:32.000 that. They just pretend to be neutral, even though we know that they're not. We know that they push

00:01:35.660 their own agenda, and they create their own narratives that are often very removed and divorced from the

00:01:39.920 facts on the ground. In the U.S., you see it with the Democrats. You see how they celebrate Democrats,

00:01:44.880 how they parrot Democrat talking points. The same thing happens in Canada with the liberal

00:01:48.920 party, but in Canada, it's much worse. In Canada, you can compound that problem of media bias,

00:01:53.400 but the fact that the media in this country are reliant on funding from the Trudeau government,

00:01:58.520 from the federal liberal party, so it's not just the CBC. The CBC has always been a bad actor in this

00:02:03.200 case, taking billions of dollars from the taxpayer. Every time there's an election, Justin Trudeau

00:02:07.680 pledges even more money to the CBC, so the CBC has grown in scope significantly since Trudeau became

00:02:12.360 prime minister. And then starting in 2017, he extended that funding to newspapers, to failing newspapers,

00:02:18.360 so he had that $595 million bailout to subsidize journalists. So you have this situation in Canada

00:02:25.640 where you have the parliamentary press gallery, the very people who are charged with exposing

00:02:30.100 corruption or fraud, holding the government accountable, exposing wasteful spending, bad

00:02:35.620 programs, failed programs, politicians acting in unethical ways, really holding the government to

00:02:41.320 account. The people who are charged with doing that are funded by the same government that they're

00:02:45.980 supposedly holding accountable. It's such a conflict of interest. It's so ridiculous, the fact that this

00:02:51.280 is the case, this is the status quo that people accept in this country. So here at the Candace 0.93

00:02:55.460 Malcolm Show and at True North, we spend a lot of time exposing this corruption, exposing the

00:03:00.560 manifestation of it, which is just really bad, really biased media and news stories that often have no

00:03:06.180 bearing on reality. And so for today's episode, it's a special episode. I've gotten together with my

00:03:11.640 producers here at the Candace Malcolm Show, and we've come up with nominations. So these are what

00:03:16.900 we think are the five biggest examples of fake news narratives of the year in Canada 2021. And we're

00:03:23.580 going to ask you, the viewers, to vote. So you're going to get to determine what you think was the

00:03:27.220 biggest fake news narrative of the year. Head on over to tnc.news slash fake news or just tnc.news

00:03:33.360 and you'll see a banner that you can click on. And you can see we've got these five nominations.

00:03:36.980 You can click on the one that you think is the worst example and the biggest fake news narrative

00:03:41.640 of the year. And then next week on this show, it'll be the last fake news Friday of the year

00:03:46.420 because the next Friday is Christmas Eve and the following Friday is New Year's Eve. I won't have

00:03:50.160 shows those days. So next Friday will be the last fake news Friday of the year. And we'll do something

00:03:54.020 fun. We'll have a little party and we will announce what the True North viewer determined was the

00:03:59.560 biggest fake news narrative of the year. Okay, without further ado, let's get to these nominations of

00:04:05.240 the five fake news narratives of the year. So number one story, this is one that I spent a lot

00:04:11.580 of time researching, reporting on and uncovering. And this was just one of the worst examples of the

00:04:17.420 media narrative being so removed from the facts and in such a negative way, really just painting the

00:04:22.520 absolute worst picture of Canada that frankly Canadians deserve so much better. And of course, I'm 1.00

00:04:27.620 talking about the story of the unmarked graves. So back in May 2021, news broke of unmarked graves

00:04:33.980 discovered at a residential school in British Columbia. It was the T'Kamloops First Nations.

00:04:38.320 They wrote up a press release. It was two pages. It was mostly quotes from within their own community

00:04:43.320 about how sad they were. Very, very few, very scant on facts and details. So without verifying any of

00:04:49.500 this, without trying to uncover what it was, it was actually supposedly discovered. The media just ran

00:04:54.580 the story, exaggerated it, sensationalized it, jumped to the very worst conclusions you could possibly

00:05:00.160 imagine about Canada, about our country, saying that we had committed genocide, saying that these

00:05:05.200 children were murdered, saying that these schools, these residential schools were basically akin to

00:05:10.360 Nazi death camps. That's the narrative. That's what they spun out of this story. And to most Canadians,

00:05:15.640 if you just weren't really paying attention or you didn't bother to go and do your due diligence,

00:05:20.000 you might've walked away thinking that that was the case. Of course, that's not what the facts on the

00:05:24.400 ground about the story told us. And so while many media reports said that these were mass graves,

00:05:30.160 confirmed that they belong to children, confirmed that they were First Nations children, confirmed

00:05:34.480 that these graves belonged to former students of the residential school, none of that is true. None

00:05:39.780 of that is confirmed. None of that is the case. And as for mass graves, the whole assumption that

00:05:44.560 Canada was digging up mass graves and throwing bodies in there is just repulsive. That sort of

00:05:50.340 conjures the worst images of 20th century collectivist governments, mass murder, genocide,

00:05:56.240 firing squads, all that kind of stuff. That's not what was happening in Canada. So if

00:06:00.100 we take a step back and look at what was confirmed and what was verified versus what was unverifiable,

00:06:05.860 we see that the story is really quite different. So as we know now, there were no excavations,

00:06:11.300 there were no bodies, there were no remains that were actually discovered. It was never confirmed

00:06:15.460 that these graves had anything to do with the residential schools, that they belong to children,

00:06:19.620 or that they belong to First Nations. And in fact, some of the news stories and reporting that has come

00:06:23.860 out since really sort of disproves some of the basic tenants of this story. I'll give you an example. So here's a global news

00:06:29.700 story. And they spoke to the former chief of the St. Mary's Indian band. And so just just as further

00:06:35.380 context, after the first band in Kamloops came out with their claim, we saw four or five other First

00:06:40.180 Nations come out with similar claims. And so this is referring to one of those other bands, this one

00:06:45.220 was in Kootenai. So Sophie Pierre, the former chief told Global News that while news of the unmarked graves

00:06:50.820 had a painful impact on her and surrounding communities, she said that they had always known that the

00:06:55.380 graves were there. And then this is a quote, she said, there's no discovery. We knew it was there.

00:06:59.460 It's a graveyard. The fact that there are graves inside a graveyard shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

00:07:04.740 According to Pierre, wooden crosses that originally marked the grave sites had been burned or deteriorated

00:07:10.020 over the years. Using a wooden marker at a grave site remains a practice that continues to this day

00:07:15.060 in many indigenous communities across Canada. So what a leap, right? What you probably have more

00:07:21.140 more accurately is stories of graveyards that had fallen into disrepair. Graveyards that were used by

00:07:26.980 both the indigenous community and the non-indigenous community. Graveyards that serviced a broader area.

00:07:32.420 In one instance, the graveyard was associated with a local hospital that predated the residential school

00:07:37.620 by a few decades. So again, this is quite the leap to go from what the media reported, at least initially,

00:07:43.060 that these were mass graves discovered at a residential school that contained the remains of children

00:07:48.740 who had been murdered at the residential schools to the later iteration, which is that these graves

00:07:53.860 were in existing graveyards, that they weren't mass graves. They were individually marked graves. The

00:07:58.420 graves had been deteriorated, that the graveyards serviced the broader community. So it wasn't just

00:08:03.460 First Nations, certainly not just residential schools. And in one case, the graveyard was actually associated

00:08:08.100 with a nearby hospital that predated the residential school by a few decades. So a lot of the remains

00:08:13.460 or the unmarked graves that we were told belonged to children actually just belonged to early Canadians

00:08:19.380 who lived there. None of it had been confirmed. Of course, in many ways, there's no way of verifying

00:08:24.500 any of this unless we were to do excavations, which I don't think Canada ever would do. So just to see

00:08:32.020 how removed from the facts on the ground the narrative was. And of course, none of this is to say that

00:08:36.340 residential schools were good. I'm not defending residential schools at all. In fact, I think residential

00:08:40.180 schools were a terrible program. But that's the thing. Journalists aren't there to tell you their

00:08:45.220 opinion on the news and to shape the news based on their own opinions. Journalists are there to just

00:08:49.860 present the facts to the public. So the public is aware of what's going on. And in this case,

00:08:54.100 the media, the legacy media just absolutely failed. Okay, moving on to nomination number two,

00:08:59.300 this is a huge presence in all of our lives. And I'm talking about vaccines and the moving goalposts

00:09:04.820 when it comes to the requirements. So all the way back in April 2020, Justin Trudeau,

00:09:09.940 our Prime Minister told Canadians that there would be no return to normal until a COVID vaccine was

00:09:16.020 available to Canadians. Likewise, Ontario Premier said that returning to normal without a vaccine

00:09:22.020 would put lives at risk. So Canadians could be forgiven for thinking that, okay, once the vaccine

00:09:28.180 is available, once people are mostly vaccinated, life will return to normal. But we all know that

00:09:33.940 this wasn't the case. Vaccines are now available. Most Canadians are now vaccinated. And yet we still

00:09:39.300 are having COVID outbreaks, we still have to live with masks in our lives, travel restrictions,

00:09:44.260 all kinds of requirements when it comes to how we can live in a free society. It's not like things have

00:09:49.540 gone back to normal. The opposite of that things are getting more restrictive and more tight. We've given

00:09:54.180 up so many of our liberties, and we're just not getting them back. Same thing could be said with the

00:09:59.140 vaccine mandates. So months after the vaccine became available to Canadians, Justin Trudeau,

00:10:03.860 said that vaccine passports would be left to the provinces to implement and that they would be

00:10:08.740 divisive. Here's a clip of Justin Trudeau saying that. One final question on COVID, and then I'd like

00:10:14.580 to pivot to the South, if I may. Will Canada consider requiring people in this country to have proof of

00:10:20.260 vaccination similar to the digital passports that are being developed in places like Denmark and Greece

00:10:25.780 in the EU? I think it's an interesting idea, but I think it is also fraught with challenges. We are

00:10:33.780 certainly encouraging and motivating people to get vaccinated as quickly as possible. We always know

00:10:40.820 there are people who won't get vaccinated, and not necessarily through a personal or political

00:10:47.540 choice. There are medical reasons, there are a broad range of reasons why someone might not get

00:10:52.740 vaccinated, and I'm worried about creating knock-on undesirable effects in our community. I think 0.99

00:11:01.220 the indications that the vast majority of Canadians are looking to get vaccinated will get us to a good

00:11:07.940 place without having to take more extreme measures that could have real divisive impacts on community and country.

00:11:16.900 And interestingly, in response, both Jason Kenney, the conservative premier of Alberta, and Doug Ford,

00:11:22.340 the conservative premier of Ontario, both ruled out implementing a vaccine passport system. Ford infamously said

00:11:28.500 that he didn't want to live in a split society and that a vaccine passport would create a split society. And

00:11:34.260 Jason Kenney said that a vaccine passport would violate Alberta's Health Information Act. Now, we know that all of these 0.78

00:11:40.820 politicians flip-flopped during the federal election. It became the main platform for Justin Trudeau and the

00:11:46.580 Liberals that they would implement this vaccine passport, not just for federal employees, but

00:11:51.140 anyone wishing to travel. Travel on an airplane, a train, or a bus in Canada would be required to be

00:11:57.220 vaccinated. And we know that Ontario and Alberta have each implemented their own vaccine passport. So

00:12:02.580 everything to do with vaccines and vaccine passports, we were told one thing and now it's another. And the

00:12:08.020 media is just completely carrying water for these politicians and not really holding them accountable,

00:12:13.220 cheerleading and trying to pressure people into getting vaccinated and going so far as to demonize

00:12:19.940 those who do not get vaccinated, calling them anti-vaxxers and calling them extreme. Okay,

00:12:25.140 moving on. Number three, the legacy media in a very similar vein, completely demonized people who were

00:12:31.540 opposed to the lockdown. So right from the beginning, right when people took to the streets in peaceful

00:12:36.580 protests to say, we've had enough of lockdowns, we've had enough of government overreach, let us go back to

00:12:41.300 normal, let us go back to our normal lives. The legacy media immediately started to demonize these

00:12:46.260 people, to paint them as fringe, extremists, paint them as even dangerous. We saw this over and over

00:12:51.380 again, where rather than trying to understand these people, rather than giving them a fair shake or

00:12:55.780 explaining what it was that was motivating them, the media played opposition and just started

00:13:00.820 demonizing, attacking these people, making them seem unreasonable, making them seem extreme,

00:13:04.980 fringe, whatever it is, we saw over and over again. So here's some examples from the legacy media,

00:13:10.020 CTV pandemic of hate leaders, experts warn anti lockdown protests linked to the far right. So we're

00:13:17.140 told that these are conspiracy theorists and that they're part of the far right. Next over the CBC

00:13:22.820 protests at Trudeau rallies and evolution of far right ideology. And they're always quoting these

00:13:28.420 same idiots at the Canadian anti-hate network, which from best I can tell is just a very amateur blog. 1.00

00:13:33.860 It has a professional sounding name. And so the media go to these people for comments. But if you look at what 1.00

00:13:38.980 they actually do and the people that they focus on, and that the people that they try to expose,

00:13:44.100 and it's really strange, it's really amateur. And again, these people, this Canadian anti-hate

00:13:49.140 network, they get funding from the Trudeau government. So Trudeau government is paying them

00:13:52.820 to basically invent this boogeyman of a far right, which they expose on their website, it's usually just

00:13:58.820 really weird, anonymous online people that you've never heard of that have no impact whatsoever on the

00:14:03.780 Conservative Party or the Conservative movement. But they pretend it's this big spooky force out there.

00:14:08.420 Okay, moving on, this one's in the National Post. Anti-maskers lockdown protests have links to a

00:14:13.940 far right ideology, according to Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the left-wing New Democrat Party.

00:14:19.220 So here's Jagmeet Singh out there saying that these people are far right because they are anti-mask

00:14:24.500 and anti-lockdown. He said to brazenly not follow public health guidelines puts people at risk.

00:14:29.940 And that is something we've seen with extreme far right ideology. While some went even further than that,

00:14:35.700 here is former mayor of Calgary, Nahid Nenshi, saying that the anti-mask rallies are just thinly veiled

00:14:43.620 white nationalist protests. So if you oppose government overreach, if you oppose all of the

00:14:48.980 various infringements on our liberties and our freedoms over the past two years, it is because

00:14:53.780 you are fringe, it is because you are far right, it is because apparently you are a white nationalist,

00:14:59.060 according to the legacy media and the left-wing politicians that they parrot.

00:15:04.260 Okay, moving on. This one's mostly a US one, but it was so compelling that we had to include it in

00:15:09.700 our list. Number four, the story of Kyle Rittenhouse. So when a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of

00:15:15.540 murder for fatally shooting two men and injuring a third last year during riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin,

00:15:21.300 politicians and the legacy media collectively lost their minds. They portrayed Rittenhouse as

00:15:26.820 a vigilante. They called him a white supremacist. They said that he had gunned down innocent black

00:15:31.940 men during a Black Lives Matter protest. They said he used an illegal firearm. They said that he illegally 0.88

00:15:37.220 crossed state lines with that firearm. And they basically said that he just traveled across the

00:15:41.140 country, traveled across state lines to Kenosha, saying that it was a town that he had no connection

00:15:46.260 to, saying that he went there for the sole purpose of killing people. Basically that's,

00:15:50.260 that's more or less the narrative that we heard in the media. So the facts on the ground told us

00:15:55.620 that Rittenhouse was 17 at the time. He went to Kenosha. It was a community that was close to where

00:16:00.820 he lived. He considered it his own community. He showed up out of concern for the lack of rule of

00:16:06.180 law, for the arson and all the vandalism that was taking place. He went there to protect a friend's

00:16:11.540 car dealership, which had been torched millions of dollars of property damage the night before. He went there

00:16:17.460 to help secure the property, but also to administer first aid for anyone who had been injured. He

00:16:23.140 wasn't ideological. He told Tucker Carlson in an interview that he supports Black Lives Matter. So

00:16:28.340 very far from the narrative that we heard from the media. And the facts on the ground, of course,

00:16:33.060 are that he only acted in self-defense. He didn't proactively go out and shoot anyone. It was only

00:16:38.020 when he was in imminent danger did he fire his weapon to protect himself. So he ended up fatally shooting

00:16:44.100 two people and injuring a third of the three men that he shot were all white. And I think it is worth 1.00

00:16:48.580 noting that they were all violent criminals with long rap shoots, including one of whom was a convicted 0.98

00:16:53.940 child rapist. So again, very different from what we were told. Regardless of all the facts and everything we 0.56

00:16:59.140 learned in the case, we had the Canadian left reacting as if we didn't know any of those facts, as if the

00:17:04.260 narrative that was presented by the media were the facts, even though those weren't the facts. So here's Jagmeet

00:17:09.300 Singh on Twitter saying, I know today's verdict is painful for many. It feels like another failure by a

00:17:14.900 broken system designed to protect some and hurt others. And then he called it a denial of justice. So he

00:17:21.140 thinks that it was designed to protect people like Kyle Rittenhouse and to hurt others. I don't really

00:17:26.740 understand. Next, we have Charles Adler. He said that there are those who think if Kyle Rittenhouse was a young

00:17:32.260 African American, the verdict would have been the same. I am not one of those. I don't really understand what he's 1.00

00:17:36.340 talking about. If Kyle Rittenhouse had been an African American, this wouldn't have been a national 0.99

00:17:40.020 story. This wouldn't have been a national news story at all. The only reason why this case even

00:17:44.340 went to trial, these charges were even pressed against Kyle Rittenhouse, was because of the

00:17:48.900 narrative. And so this idea that it would have been different if he was African American, again,

00:17:52.820 they're implying these terrible things about the US justice system with no basis in reality. It's so wild.

00:17:58.340 The Toronto Star, of course, goes even further. So here is a column where the author writes,

00:18:02.980 Damn the laws that acquit Kyle Rittenhouse, for they show no care for justice. Therefore, 0.99

00:18:07.620 pardon me for thinking this, but who gives a damn about the law when law keepers can kill

00:18:13.060 and maim with abandon, when the law allows murder and corrupt ideas of justice in the process? We

00:18:20.340 live in times where taking a human's life in exchange for a threat to one's property is given

00:18:25.780 the all clear if the killer is white. This is just so deranged, not at all based on the facts. I'm 0.82

00:18:30.740 surprised that the editor of the Star would allow her to write this because again, it's not based

00:18:35.140 on the facts. It's based on her feelings about the narrative and it has nothing to do with the

00:18:38.820 facts that we learned in the case. And this one is really the giveaway, Robin Urbach, who I generally

00:18:43.220 like. She's usually pretty good, but she gives away the thinking of the legacy media and the left 1.00

00:18:48.180 when it comes to the way that they view this story. And she says this,

00:18:51.300 Notwithstanding how much of an a-hole this guy is for carrying around a rifle during a protest,

00:18:56.260 like a dress up GI Joe. The prosecution's case here were pretty tough. The defense didn't have

00:19:02.020 to prove Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense. The prosecution had to disprove it. And the purpose

00:19:06.740 is that the media just really didn't like the way this guy looked. Forget about the facts on the

00:19:10.100 ground. Forget about what actually happened. Forget about self-defense. They don't like the

00:19:13.700 way this guy looked. The fact that he was carrying this gun made him guilty, made him a vigilante,

00:19:18.580 made him a white supremacist. That's how the media saw it, which again just shows the media's own

00:19:23.300 cultural bias when it comes to reporting on these cases. Okay, moving on. Number five,

00:19:28.020 last one here. We'd be remiss. It was an election year. We would be remiss if we didn't include the

00:19:32.180 legacy media covering for Justin Trudeau, playing defense, and basically acting like a third-party

00:19:37.860 group campaigning for the liberals throughout the campaign. There were just so many examples

00:19:41.380 of this where the media were just completely unfair. So here we have 2021, an election. An election that

00:19:47.140 Justin Trudeau needlessly called. The only reason for the election was that he wanted his own

00:19:52.100 majority government. That was the only reason. The government didn't fall on its own. The

00:19:55.860 opposition was willing to continue to work with this parliament. So there's no reason for the

00:19:59.940 election other than Justin Trudeau was going for a power grab. And yet that wasn't the focus of the

00:20:04.660 election. That wasn't what the media was talking about day in or day out. We didn't focus on Prime

00:20:09.220 Minister Justin Trudeau's record in office. We didn't talk barely at all about the Wee scandal and the

00:20:13.780 follow-up from that, which by the way, Trudeau prorogued parliament to escape the committee that was

00:20:17.940 investigating him. And then he called an election again to escape scrutiny for this scandal that

00:20:23.220 we've never really gotten to the bottom of. The election wasn't about Trudeau's reckless spending,

00:20:28.100 his borrowing, the growing of debt, the printing of money, the inflation that has come from that.

00:20:33.140 The media barely focused at all on Justin Trudeau, in fact. They focused instead, as they always do,

00:20:38.180 on the Conservatives, on trying to demonize the Conservatives, paint them as scary, paint them

00:20:42.660 as if they are some threat to the Canadian ideal. And so whatever the Liberals' attack of the day was,

00:20:48.100 whatever their talking points were, that became the legacy media's focus. It became their own

00:20:52.100 talking points and it became the stories. So we saw the Liberals push attack ads claiming that O'Toole

00:20:56.900 wanted to privatize Canada's healthcare. The opposite was true, but that didn't matter. We saw stories

00:21:02.100 about how he wanted to push anti-abortion laws. The opposite is true. Aaron O'Toole is very proudly pro-abortion.

00:21:08.180 And we saw stories that said that Aaron O'Toole denied climate change, even though he introduced

00:21:12.980 his own carbon tax. So the media are more than happy to carry water for the Liberals. The Liberals

00:21:17.940 were never challenged by the legacy media. We barely saw stories about them at all. Instead,

00:21:22.980 it was all focused on demonizing Conservatives, promoting fear about what a Conservative government

00:21:28.020 would stand for, or completely demonizing people who were out there protesting and out there demanding

00:21:33.780 more freedoms and more liberties. So it's no surprise that Justin Trudeau was able to

00:21:37.940 hold on and win a minority government just by the skin of his teeth because he had so much

00:21:42.020 institutional help from a very biased and very corrupt legacy media. Okay, folks, those are the

00:21:47.620 top five nominations for the biggest stories of the year. And again, I'm going to get you to head

00:21:51.780 on over to tnc.news slash fake news, or just head on over to tnc.news and you can see a banner where you

00:21:58.660 can vote on these top five stories again. I hope you will go and do that. Go vote. Let us know what you

00:22:03.780 think was the biggest story. And we'll be back again next week with the winner. Thanks so much

00:22:07.700 for tuning in. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

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COUNTDOWN： Top 5 Fake News Narratives of 2021

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