Juno News - Ford stands his ground amid fake news narrative

00:00:00.000 Doug Ford stands his ground amid a fake news narrative.

00:00:03.860 The Saskatchewan Health Authority pushes total nonsense

00:00:06.460 and Margaret Atwood gets mobbed for saying that a woman is a woman.

00:00:10.460 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

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00:00:54.060 Today is Friday, so every Friday I dedicate my show to dispelling the fake news narratives

00:01:00.100 that are out there in the legacy media.

00:01:02.000 I really believe that the legacy media in Canada is one of the biggest problems in this country.

00:01:06.940 The way that they basically make it seem like it's not okay to be conservative,

00:01:10.420 it's not okay to hold common sense positions in our society,

00:01:13.780 it's not okay to question the prevailing knowledge and facts

00:01:17.900 that are pushed by the government which are often untrue and wrong.

00:01:21.520 They create such a problem in our country and it's so important that we push back against them,

00:01:27.240 that we criticize them, that we stand our ground when it comes to the common sense beliefs

00:01:32.380 held by many Canadians and that we don't allow their narrative to basically bully us

00:01:38.000 into believing what they are pushing.

00:01:40.020 So I'm going to start today by talking about this tweet that went viral for all the wrong reasons.

00:01:44.020 This came from the Saskatchewan Health Authority

00:01:46.360 and basically what they're doing here is pushing total medical misinformation, total nonsense

00:01:51.780 and frankly they should have received one of those little labels that Twitter puts on tweets

00:01:57.540 that are full of misinformation because this is just absolute nonsense and it's so silly.

00:02:02.920 There's a good reason why everyone was mocking this on Twitter

00:02:05.520 because it is just absurd, so I'll read you this tweet.

00:02:09.620 So first we have a tweet from Health Canada with these two guys looking rather silly.

00:02:14.360 It says, I'm young and healthy, should I still get the COVID-19 vaccine?

00:02:18.880 Yes, yes, yes.

00:02:19.820 And then there's a comment here, it says,

00:02:21.860 COVID vaccine helps protect you from getting sick with the disease.

00:02:24.680 Even if you're young, healthy and fit, the vaccine will give your body a layer of protection

00:02:29.040 that it didn't have.

00:02:30.440 Get vaccinated and help protect everyone.

00:02:32.720 Okay, so whatever, that's just what we've come to expect from health authorities

00:02:37.680 and the fact that they're trying to appeal to young people by putting these two silly images

00:02:43.400 is sort of amusing.

00:02:45.660 Not that interesting though, not something that I would cover.

00:02:48.220 However, the Saskatchewan Health Authority, the Twitter account at SaskHealth,

00:02:53.580 quote-treated this tweet and added their own comment,

00:02:56.900 which, like I said, is just completely full of misinformation.

00:03:00.420 It says this,

00:03:01.120 Your risk from COVID-19 is not determined by age, fitness level, or community.

00:03:07.080 Your risk is determined by vaccine status.

00:03:10.180 About 78% of all new cases and hospitalizations in Saskatchewan in September

00:03:14.960 were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.

00:03:17.900 And you could just look here to see the ratio.

00:03:20.520 We like to call this being ratioed on social media land.

00:03:23.980 When your tweet has way, way more comments than it does, likes or retweets,

00:03:28.980 well, you can't comment on this because Saskatchewan Health limited their tweets.

00:03:33.640 So you can see all the quote tweets.

00:03:34.980 There's over 4,000 quote tweets compared to just 140 retweets and 230 likes at this point.

00:03:41.000 And so if you go through the quote tweets,

00:03:44.380 you'll just see that this tweet has gone viral for all the wrong reasons.

00:03:47.640 It's mostly filled with people just saying that this is totally fake and totally wrong.

00:03:51.560 And it is.

00:03:52.980 And even if you're just going by government information,

00:03:55.700 this tweet directly contradicts the government of Canada's own website on COVID

00:04:00.740 when it talks about vulnerable people.

00:04:02.540 So this is what the Canadian government says.

00:04:04.900 So it specifically talks about vulnerable populations.

00:04:07.240 And it says vulnerable populations may include older adults,

00:04:10.640 increasing risk with each decade, especially over 60,

00:04:13.520 people of any age with chronic medical conditions,

00:04:15.880 for example, lung disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes,

00:04:19.300 kidney disease, liver disease, stroke, and dementia.

00:04:21.560 People of any age who are immunocompromised,

00:04:25.180 including those with underlying medical conditions,

00:04:27.540 and people living with obesity with a body mass index of 40 or higher.

00:04:32.900 So just right off the bat, everything we know about COVID,

00:04:36.540 that your risk of COVID is exactly determined by your age and your fitness level.

00:04:41.160 Those are the two most important things,

00:04:43.180 your age, your fitness level, and your health,

00:04:45.640 your underlying health conditions or your health status.

00:04:48.040 And so the idea that only thing that matters is vaccination is just wrong.

00:04:52.600 It's a lie.

00:04:53.340 It's fake.

00:04:54.000 And it deserves to be mocked, which is why it is being mocked.

00:04:57.620 So here we are where we have the government of Saskatchewan pushing out information that is just not true.

00:05:03.940 And this is why so many people are skeptical of public health and public health experts and the government officials who say that they are the only ones who provide the truth.

00:05:13.600 It's like, no, you're pushing propaganda.

00:05:15.700 You're pushing fake news.

00:05:17.160 This isn't true.

00:05:17.920 Anyone with a brain can see that this isn't true.

00:05:20.180 Stop lying to us.

00:05:21.320 We can handle the truth.

00:05:22.780 You can say that, look, if you're older, you're more likely to get sick from COVID.

00:05:27.340 If you have underlying health issues, you're more likely to get sick from COVID.

00:05:30.200 If you're obese, you're more likely to get sick from COVID.

00:05:33.720 However, everyone should still get vaccinated because you want to protect yourself and, more importantly, protect others.

00:05:38.620 You can just tell us the truth.

00:05:39.780 You don't have to lie.

00:05:40.860 And the more that government officials and public health experts push this kind of propaganda and nonsense to try to pull the wool over our eyes,

00:05:47.300 the more people will be skeptical and not believe it.

00:05:51.060 All right.

00:05:51.280 I want to get to the big story of the week now, which has just been really amusing to watch.

00:05:56.980 This is the sort of origin of a fake news media narrative.

00:06:01.700 This is what they do, especially against conservatives.

00:06:04.140 They try to push a very, very sanitized public discourse.

00:06:08.980 So you can't really say what you think.

00:06:10.660 You can't really say what you believe.

00:06:12.000 If you say something that's ever so slightly offside with the legacy media, with the latest woke trends,

00:06:18.400 they will go after you.

00:06:19.740 They will attack you.

00:06:20.740 And they will be relentless in the way that they cover you.

00:06:23.300 And so, of course, I'm talking about Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who, let me just say from the start,

00:06:28.520 I've been rather disappointed with Doug Ford.

00:06:30.780 I think that he has great instincts and that he is conservative deep down,

00:06:35.180 but he allows himself to get convinced of positions.

00:06:38.320 And so we see him flip-flop, like we saw him flip-flop on vaccine passports.

00:06:42.060 He originally took the right position, saying that I don't want to split up society like that.

00:06:46.240 And then he got pressured to bring them in.

00:06:47.980 And a lot of the lockdown stuff, it seemed like he just sort of defers to the public health experts in his department

00:06:55.060 and allows them to make decisions.

00:06:56.900 But when we see the real Doug Ford come through, it's refreshing.

00:07:01.340 It's nice to hear.

00:07:02.280 And I'm so happy that he is standing his ground,

00:07:04.720 that he's not caving to this nonsense media narrative that's being built around him.

00:07:10.340 So here's the context.

00:07:11.560 He was at a press conference on Monday.

00:07:13.280 He was talking about the labour shortages on Ontario,

00:07:15.900 trying to make an appeal for people to come to the province.

00:07:19.020 And he said flat out something that, you know, it's not,

00:07:22.560 perhaps it's not politically correct, but it's true and it's obvious.

00:07:25.780 And so I'll just play this clip.

00:07:27.420 This is a whole controversy.

00:07:28.980 This is what everyone in the media is so worked up about.

00:07:31.540 Let's play this clip.

00:07:32.500 We need people.

00:07:34.120 And so, folks, if you have some hardworking people,

00:07:37.920 I just have one criteria.

00:07:39.580 You come here like every other new Canadian has come here. 0.99

00:07:42.360 You work your tail off.

00:07:44.200 If you think you're coming to collect the dole and sit around,

00:07:46.920 not going to happen.

00:07:48.000 Go somewhere else.

00:07:49.200 You want to work, come here.

00:07:50.800 We have so much work.

00:07:51.720 We can't keep up with it right now.

00:07:53.980 And the reason we have so much work,

00:07:55.840 we've created the environment and the conditions for companies

00:07:59.380 to come here and thrive and prosper and grow.

00:08:01.880 And the words out there around the world, come to Ontario.

00:08:05.260 We are now competitive.

00:08:06.940 We took $7 billion of burden to be competitive against our U.S. friends

00:08:13.540 and everywhere else.

00:08:15.440 So as soon as he said this, the left and the mainstream media

00:08:17.940 immediately pounced on Ford, accused him of being a racist,

00:08:21.060 a bigot, anti-immigration, even though the whole point of his comment

00:08:24.260 was that Ontario needs more immigrants to fill jobs.

00:08:27.020 And he talked about how immigrants are good,

00:08:29.360 how most new Canadians come here and work their tail off. 0.97

00:08:32.040 And that's what we need.

00:08:33.860 That's what we continue to want.

00:08:35.420 And he was making that appeal.

00:08:36.780 Was it perfectly sanitized and politically correct?

00:08:39.000 No, but he was being authentic.

00:08:40.720 He was saying what he believed.

00:08:42.020 And rightfully so, he's standing his ground.

00:08:43.980 So there has been a huge, huge groundswell from the NDP opposition,

00:08:47.380 as well as the legacy media, calling him a racist,

00:08:49.940 interviewing everyone they can who believes he's a racist

00:08:52.400 to try to build up the mounting evidence that he must be racist

00:08:55.780 because of this opinion that he held,

00:08:57.640 which quite frankly, it's not controversial what he said.

00:09:00.680 He just said, we have hardworking people here.

00:09:03.180 We want more hardworking people here.

00:09:04.660 Come here if you're hardworking.

00:09:06.000 That shouldn't be controversial.

00:09:07.640 But of course, the media is just obsessed with, again,

00:09:11.460 pushing sameness and demanding that everyone has the exact same opinion

00:09:15.280 and uses the exact same words

00:09:16.760 or trying to eliminate any kind of difference in thinking.

00:09:20.980 I want to just give you a little bit of an example.

00:09:23.420 This is a CTV story and I'm going to play it.

00:09:26.480 It's two minutes, but you get the idea of just how absurd this is.

00:09:29.940 So here is a news report that's framed from the issue

00:09:33.020 that Doug Ford has said something horribly wrong,

00:09:35.360 that he is horribly racist,

00:09:36.860 and that all it does is bring up old racist tropes against immigrants

00:09:41.000 and then just keep track of all the people who are interviewed in this story

00:09:44.220 and how they all have the same opinion.

00:09:46.500 They've found five or six people

00:09:47.880 who are all somehow experts in communication or immigration.

00:09:51.160 They're all immigrants and they all hate Doug Ford. 1.00

00:09:53.240 They all think that he has said something horribly wrong.

00:09:55.740 They couldn't have found one person to say,

00:09:57.860 look, Doug Ford's comments were pretty harmless.

00:10:00.320 He obviously said it in a positive way.

00:10:02.220 He was trying to appeal to more immigrants.

00:10:04.760 He was complimenting immigrants by saying that they work hard

00:10:07.260 and most of them work their tail off.

00:10:09.000 So really, this is just a nothing burger of a story.

00:10:11.960 But instead, they find five or six people

00:10:13.960 who are all outraged over this really rather silly story.

00:10:17.080 So let's play this clip.

00:10:18.100 Bases in positions of power still can't stop old stereotypes

00:10:21.860 from getting kicked around.

00:10:23.680 Ontario's Premier refusing to apologize

00:10:25.700 for comments directed at new immigrants despite the backlash.

00:10:29.820 CTV's Heather Butts reports.

00:10:31.740 Thank you for coming, guys.

00:10:33.140 Touring southwestern Ontario in a campaign-style stop yesterday,

00:10:36.680 Premier Doug Ford's appeal to help fill a labour shortage backfired

00:10:40.280 with this comment about immigrants.

00:10:42.500 Well, I just have one criteria.

00:10:44.480 You come here like every other new Canadian has come here. 0.99

00:10:47.260 You work your tail off.

00:10:49.300 If you think you're coming to collect the dole and sit around,

00:10:51.820 not going to happen.

00:10:52.900 Go somewhere else.

00:10:53.980 Those remarks were described today as hurtful and divisive.

00:10:57.540 His words undermine the thousands of new Canadians

00:11:00.360 who have helped Ontario through the past year and a half.

00:11:04.380 Will the Premier apologize for his reckless comments?

00:11:08.020 Instead of an apology, the Premier was on the defensive today.

00:11:11.720 I am pro-immigration.

00:11:14.100 I have been pro-immigration from day one.

00:11:16.460 The lack of an apology shows ignorance in putting forward harmful stereotypes,

00:11:21.080 says this communications specialist.

00:11:23.240 Feeds into that kind of very discriminatory and, yes, racist rhetoric of,

00:11:29.420 go back where you came from.

00:11:30.880 So there's a lot here that is very, very inappropriate.

00:11:34.940 Ford's comments struck a nerve with immigrants across the country.

00:11:38.240 It's so sad when you hear such comments.

00:11:41.180 George Swanaker says the hard work begins before you arrive.

00:11:44.840 And let me tell you, it took 14 years to get to this place.

00:11:49.560 It's not about coming here for fun.

00:11:50.660 It's about coming here based on merit.

00:11:53.280 So when you come here, you have to make sure they are working so hard,

00:11:56.180 one, to survive, and two, to also contribute to the economy of this country.

00:11:59.960 Those who help newcomers say Ford's comments fuel frustration and distrust.

00:12:04.600 This is the government that oversaw the crisis in long-term care, that saw the outbreaks in farm work.

00:12:09.980 The fact that they can come out and try to tell anybody to do their job is not about the truth.

00:12:15.520 It's about divisiveness.

00:12:16.920 And the founder of Canadians United Against Hate is also calling for an apology,

00:12:21.760 saying the comment is dangerous and demonstrates his lack of commitment to fight racism.

00:12:27.260 Morella.

00:12:28.260 Heather Butts in Toronto.

00:12:29.500 And again, one of my biggest criticisms of conservatives in this country is so often

00:12:34.420 when they're met with a media storm like this one, they cave, they flip-flop, they turn their back,

00:12:41.380 they apologize.

00:12:42.360 We saw this over and over again with Erin O'Toole during the election. 0.85

00:12:46.120 Anytime that there was any kind of a media story where they just start pushing the left-wing

00:12:50.280 liberal talking points, or in this case, NDP talking points,

00:12:53.480 the conservative stops, apologizes, and reverses their position.

00:12:56.620 Good for Doug Ford for not doing that.

00:12:59.160 Doug Ford has been asked twice to apologize, and twice he has declined to apologize.

00:13:03.700 So on Wednesday, he was out, and again, the media were pushing for him to apologize, and he didn't.

00:13:11.100 Instead, he said this.

00:13:11.920 He said, stop playing politics and let's speak the truth.

00:13:14.360 He said, you know the backbone of this province are great, hard-working immigrants.

00:13:18.260 Ford went on.

00:13:18.820 He said, my phone is blowing up all night, all day, day before from immigrants telling me their story. 1.00

00:13:24.020 I'm the biggest pro-immigrant premier we've ever seen.

00:13:28.160 And so, again, Doug Ford's saying he didn't do anything wrong.

00:13:30.900 He's saying he has support of the community, that he's pro-immigration.

00:13:33.600 He didn't say anything wrong.

00:13:35.020 Standing his ground, refusing to cower and apologize.

00:13:37.660 This is great.

00:13:38.220 This is what conservatives love to see.

00:13:40.460 Because, again, the biggest threat to our freedom in this country,

00:13:42.640 the biggest force for pushing woke left ideology is the legacy media.

00:13:47.700 And so when you have a conservative who just says, no, stop with the nonsense.

00:13:51.360 This is not a story and I'm not apologizing.

00:13:53.640 I have nothing to apologize for.

00:13:54.980 It diminishes the power of the media.

00:13:56.880 Because when they push a politician to apologize, they've won.

00:13:59.720 And they've steamrolled their view to say that you must have this opinion.

00:14:03.300 When a conservative stands up, the media loses their power.

00:14:06.540 They lose their ability.

00:14:07.780 And, again, I think this is a victory for common sense and small-c conservatism in Canada.

00:14:12.980 Okay, final story here I want to talk about today is this Margaret Atwood tweet.

00:14:17.560 Margaret Atwood was trending on Twitter.

00:14:19.060 And, again, this is just one of those examples of the left eating their own.

00:14:22.920 So, as you know, Margaret Atwood is a author, a celebrated author,

00:14:27.420 and very much a cultural woke leftist who pushes the far left view on basically every issue.

00:14:36.120 Well, she got mobbed on Twitter for the crime of sharing a Toronto Star op-ed 0.50

00:14:40.760 that was written by Rosie D'Amano.

00:14:43.420 And all she did was just share the tweet.

00:14:45.360 She didn't write the op-ed.

00:14:46.540 She didn't come up with the idea.

00:14:48.480 She just shared an article with the headline that came with the article.

00:14:52.340 The article said,

00:14:53.840 Why can't we say women anymore? 1.00

00:14:55.660 That was it.

00:14:56.240 That was all that she tweeted.

00:14:57.640 And she got absolutely mobbed.

00:14:59.760 So, the context of the story of the op-ed in the Toronto Star is that it says this,

00:15:05.440 the word woman is in danger of becoming a dirty word, struck from the lexicon of officialdom, 0.74

00:15:11.500 eradicated from medical vocabulary, and expunged from conversation.

00:15:15.740 Yet, in 2016, the British Medical Association recommended staff use pregnant people instead of pregnant woman.

00:15:21.360 A British hospital now instructs staff on its maternity ward to use birthing people instead of pregnant woman.

00:15:27.820 The Biden administration's proposed 2022 budget substituted birth people for mothers, and so on, and so on, and so on.

00:15:35.500 And, of course, AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has talked about menstruating people instead of saying the word woman. 0.65

00:15:43.660 So, as I said, the column over in the Toronto Star was written by Rosie D'Amano.

00:15:46.920 She's the only columnist over there that has a sense, a hint of common sense in her view.

00:15:51.740 And she's just talking about how, you know, not even taking a really strong opinion,

00:15:55.980 but just basically talking about how this word woman is being erased,

00:15:59.740 and there's this new trend that we see all over the place.

00:16:02.280 And it's usually the butt of a joke on social media where people are piling on about how ridiculous it is

00:16:06.820 that so many officials are now afraid to use the word woman because they don't want to offend the trans community.

00:16:13.380 And so we're creating all of these really stupid made-up words to describe women instead of just saying women.

00:16:18.840 And, again, all Margaret Atwood did was just share that tweet with the title. 0.96

00:16:24.260 And, once again, she got mobbed.

00:16:26.380 She was trending on Twitter, and her tweet pretty much got ratioed.

00:16:29.820 She got almost 5,000 quote retweets compared to 1,700 retweets and almost 9,000 likes.

00:16:37.260 So not quite as bad of the ratio as the Saskatchewan Health Authority tweet.

00:16:41.300 But instead, we saw a lot of sort of high-profile trans activists really going after her.

00:16:45.760 And so I'll just give you a couple of examples here.

00:16:49.160 Katie Mack, an account with over 400,000 followers, wrote this.

00:16:52.500 No one is banning the word woman.

00:16:54.160 Many organizations are rightly opting for precise language when talking about things that have to do with biological traits rather than gender identity.

00:17:01.500 It's not an attack on womanhood to not equate gender with specific biology.

00:17:05.960 That's basically the argument of the trans community.

00:17:08.460 Another account with 70,000 followers who identifies as a non-binary trans mom says this.

00:17:14.240 I'm disappointed.

00:17:15.240 You shared this because it's factually untrue.

00:17:17.840 We can still say woman, and we can also say people when it makes sense to use more inclusive language.

00:17:23.900 I'm non-binary.

00:17:25.060 I also menstruate and gave birth to three kids.

00:17:27.560 Saying people with periods includes women and me.

00:17:31.140 Try to wrap your head around that one.

00:17:32.460 Finally, we have Erica Infill, a U.S. activist and columnist, saying good morning to everyone except Margaret Atwood.

00:17:40.580 These second-wave feminists need to find the exit if they can't be intersectional. 1.00

00:17:45.660 So here you see the sort of young, woke, internet feminists going after the sort of old-school feminists. 1.00

00:17:51.920 We've seen that a lot.

00:17:53.600 The two communities really don't see eye-to-eye on some issues when it comes to sort of protecting womanhood, women's spaces.

00:18:02.340 And it's really interesting to see this play out on the left.

00:18:05.260 And it also might be a little bit of karma because, remember, not too long ago, Margaret Atwood came after J.K. Rowling over a very similar kind of issue.

00:18:13.720 Atwood signed an open letter in support of the trans community from a group of U.S. writers and authors when J.K. Rowling was facing her being cancelled over comments about the fact that sex is real, biological sex is real.

00:18:26.680 J.K. Rowling's comment says, if sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.

00:18:32.300 And so instead of defending J.K. Rowling in that instance, Atwood signed the letter essentially denouncing Rowling and defending the people who wanted to cancel her

00:18:42.000 and feeding into her cancellation.

00:18:44.160 And so it is just a little bit of delicious irony when you see someone like Margaret Atwood, when the tables have turned,

00:18:50.840 she failed to defend a fellow woman writer in that instance.

00:18:55.100 And now she herself is being mobbed, again, for just the stupidest comments.

00:18:58.560 I'm not a proponent of cancel culture.

00:19:00.300 I think it is idiotic.

00:19:01.480 And I think that the reaction to this Margaret Atwood tweet is just desperation.

00:19:06.700 It's just people who spend too much time online who are just desperate to virtue signal, to show their superiority.

00:19:12.440 They want excitement.

00:19:13.460 They want someone to cancel.

00:19:14.700 And so they have set their sights on Margaret Atwood.

00:19:17.540 And to Margaret Atwood, it's just a little bit of karma for the fact that she usually likes to be on the trendy side of the issues 0.70

00:19:22.520 and for the crime of sharing this rather innocuous Toronto Star op-ed.

00:19:26.680 She herself is getting mobbed online.

00:19:29.820 It's a crazy world out there, folks.

00:19:31.320 And, you know, the less time we spend on Twitter, the more sanity we maintain.

00:19:36.100 Thank you so much for watching.

00:19:37.180 We'll be back next week.

00:19:37.960 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:19:39.940 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

Juno News - October 22, 2021

Ford stands his ground amid fake news narrative

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