Juno News - February 19, 2026HOT MIC： CBC admits that it pushes fake news + Poilievre just dodged a bullet
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Another conservative MP has betrayed his constituents and crossed the floor to join Prime Minister Mark Carney s Liberal Party. We ll talk about the fallout to this breach of trust and breach of our democracy. And finally, we ll look at U.S. conservative commentators Tim Pool and Matt Walsh and what their latest call to action is against Canada.
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Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm and this is the Candace Malcolm Show news update.
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Today is Thursday, February 19th, 2026, and these are the top headlines of the day.
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But quite simply, couldn't sit on the sidelines after seeing what the
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prime minister was, the ambitious agenda he was undertaking across the country and across the world.
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Another conservative MP has betrayed his constituents and crossed the floor to join
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Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party. We will talk about the fallout to this
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In a hot mic moment, the CBC accidentally says the quiet part out loud and admits the truth.
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Eligible recruits with a job offer from the Canadian Armed Forces,
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including doctors, nurses, pilots, can be invited to apply for permanent residence.
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Canada's immigration minister has announced a new immigration pathway for foreigners to fight in
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our military. The Trump administration should immediately shut down the border with Canada
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until they abolish their medical assistance in dying program as it stands.
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And finally, we'll look at U.S. conservative commentators Tim Pool and Matt Walsh and what their
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All right, folks, we've got a lot to get into, so let's get right to it.
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Another ex-conservative has been added to Carney's Liberal ranks on Wednesday as now Liberal MP for
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Edmonton Riverbend Matt Jenneru crossed the floor, bringing the Liberals closer to an unelected
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majority government in Canada. Here's Jenneru groveling to Carney and claiming the Prime Minister's
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address at Davos at the WEF conference was what pushed him to join the Liberal Party of Canada.
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Well, thank you. Thank you everybody for coming here to a cold day in Edmonton, but especially you,
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Prime Minister. It is a real pleasure to have you here in Edmonton. You're always welcome in Edmonton,
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and we have a lot of history, both of us here in Edmonton, and it's a beautiful part of our country.
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So I had announced my resignation back in November, largely due to family reasons, but quite simply
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couldn't sit on the sidelines after seeing what the Prime Minister was in vicious agenda he was
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undertaking across the country and across the world. And quite honestly, it was the speech in Davos where
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you took everything head on. And I think for me, that's where a lot of the world changed. I think
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it opened a lot of eyes for Canadians, Albertans, Edmontonians, just how serious this national
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community crisis truly is. And it's, for me, it felt disingenuine and quite simply wrong to be sitting
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on the sidelines anymore. So I reached out to the Prime Minister's office and we'll be joining his caucus
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tonight. It couldn't be more. Excellent. Okay, so with this latest floor crossing, the Kearney Liberals are
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just three seats away from getting a majority. And guess what? There are three upcoming by-elections that
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happen to be in safe liberal ridings, in safe liberal areas. So it looks like the Liberals are
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on their path, on their way to securing a majority government, despite not getting it from the
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democratic will of the people. That was not the outcome of the 2025 election. And yet the Liberals
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have found a way to eke out, possibly eke out a majority government that would allow them to stay in
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power until October 2029. Juno News spoke to some of Jenneru's conservative constituents out in Edmonton
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Riverbend. Oh my goodness, these people are not happy. And why would they be, right? They voted for
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a conservative. They chose to mark their ballots overwhelmingly for a conservative. They did not want
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the Liberals to get power. They certainly didn't want to be represented by a Liberal. So here are just
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some of the reactions. He lied to us. It's unconscionable. It's a complete rejection of
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democracy. He lied. He's absolutely right. Honestly, this kind of nonsense should be banned.
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It undermines democracy so much to have somebody for their own callous career choices deciding that
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they're going to just change the democratic will of the country. Okay, so just as a reminder to the
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audience, it was back in November, November 6, 2025, Jenneru announced his intention to resign as a
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member of parliament in spring 2026. So in November, he said, Hey, guys, I'm going to stop
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being an MP. I'm not going to run anymore. My seats can be vacant. I need to spend more time with my
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family. You know, this is like a familiar excuse. We heard it from Sean Fraser as well. I got to spend
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more time with my family. And so the idea was that he was just not going to be an MP that the rumors that
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he was might be flirting with the Liberals and floor crossing were untrue. Well, he said that he was
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resigning. Now he's undoing that resignation saying, yeah, instead of resigning from parliament, I'm going to
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stay as an MP. I'm just going to sit with the other party and I'm going to be part of Mark Carney's
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liberal government. It's unbelievable that this kind of thing is even allowed or enabled in our
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country. No wonder people have lost faith in some of our institutions, including our democracy. Okay,
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coming up, folks, immigration minister Lena Diab opens a new immigration pathway for the Canadian
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Armed Forces. It's totally insane. Plus, Daily Wire host Matt Walsh sets his sights on what he calls the
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atrocities happening in Canada. But first, there was just an unbelievable moment on television
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yesterday at the CBC. Rosemary Barton, their chief political correspondent, accidentally said the truth.
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There was a hot mic moment. So she was providing some taxpayer-funded analysis about how, oh, you know,
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maybe people in Edmonton actually just love the Liberals now. And that's the real reason Matt
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Jenneru switched and crossed the floor, because people in Alberta just love the Liberals now. It was
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total nonsense. Just total nonsense. And then it cuts away. And you could hear Rosemary Barton. Like
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they left her mic on accidentally. They went to a press conference with Melanie Jolie, but they forgot
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to switch the audio. So Rosemary Barton thought that she was off the air, but her mic was still on.
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And what did she say to people around her? Oh, it's all made up anyway. She just admitted
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that everything she says is BS and it's just all total nonsense. So you're going to have to listen to the
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very end of this clip, but it's just unbelievable. She says a quiet part out loud. Let's play that clip.
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...comes to be elected again. But there's also, you know, the reality that some people in Alberta
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are kind of warming up to the prime minister because he has taken markedly different positions
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on issues that matter to them, whether it be energy development or climate change measures that he's
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backed off on. So maybe Mr. Jenneru feels like his writing is starting to move in that direction as well.
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Rosie, thank you. The CBC's new chief correspondent, Rosemary Barton, live in Ottawa.
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Minister of Industry, Melanie Jolie, is speaking to reporters in Montreal. What's this up?
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It's all made up anyway. That just perfectly sums up the CBC. That should be like their tagline
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on their network. It's all made up anyway. Exactly right. Rosemary Barton, thank you for
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finally being honest with Canadians because that is the truth. Look, I'm going to give
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you some of my own analysis on this because it looked pretty obvious that we were heading
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towards a 2026 election. I think that that has changed now, right? So I told Kian Bexty,
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Kian Bexty and I talked about it in our last fireside chat, that I predicted that Canada was
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going to go to the polls in 2026, probably in the spring. All the signs were pointing to
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that way, right? Like the Liberals gave this grocery rebate, which is really just bribing
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taxpayers with their own money. Assure a sign that a government is looking to head to the
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polls. You know, you saw the trade language and back and forth with President Trump heating
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up. That is exactly what the Liberals need to run on in order to win. So I thought that
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Carney would take the opportunity before the NDP picked its leader to just try to get that
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majority government. And that would have been very bad news for Pierre Polyev. If there was
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an election, if there still might be, but if there's an election in the next few months,
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I think it's pretty obvious that Pierre Polyev will lose. He hasn't been able to distinguish
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himself enough from Mark Carney. Mark Carney has his number at this point. If Pierre Polyev
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loses another election, his political career is over. He's done, right? And so Matt Jenneru
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crossing the floor and giving Liberals a pathway to a majority, it's terrible for the country.
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I'll admit that. It's terrible for the country. But it gives the Conservatives time to
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regroup. Time for Pierre Polyev to find his stride, find a better line of attack against
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Mark Carney and really grow into the role of Prime Minister in the eyes of Canadians.
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So I think Pierre Polyev might have dodged a bullet. I don't think that Carney would be so
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silly as to force an election when he can actually get what he wants done with what he has. It's
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really undemocratic. Canadians hate this stuff, which again is good for the Conservatives because
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they'll start to see the Liberals more how they are, which is just like totally callous, willing
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to do whatever it takes for power, willing to undermine all of our institutions, willing to lie
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to Canadians. All this stuff is true and it will come out. And in the long run, they will be exposed
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for it. In the short run, we might have to endure another term of a Liberal government. All right,
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let's get back to the news. So the Carney Liberals will now be offering foreigners a permanent
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residency track if they're hired by the Canadian Armed Forces. So we now have to outsource our
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military. We need to grow our military. We need to be able to defend ourselves if we're going to become
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an anti-American country, which apparently is the direction we're heading under Mark Carney. But we
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don't have enough interest because our military is so woke, because of the garbage that they push,
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because they're obsessed with calling Canada a racist country and saying that we're built on systemic
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racism. So no one wants to join the military because it's so defeated and this mindset is so toxic.
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So we're just going to import our military. This is really unbelievable. Here is the announcement
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from Liberal Immigration Minister Lina Dyab on Wednesday.
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And finally, we are creating a new category for skilled military recruits to attract highly skilled
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foreign military applicants. Eligible recruits with a job offer from the Canadian Armed Forces,
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including doctors, nurses, pilots, can be invited to apply for permanent residence. They will be subject
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to the same security and all military requirements. This new category will support our government's
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commitment to strengthen our armed forces, to defend our sovereignty, and to keep Canadians safe.
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This category and other priority categories supports Canada's defense industrial strategy,
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which Prime Minister Carney announced yesterday by adding a range of workers critical to support our
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sovereignty and security. Now, some online raise security concerns over, I don't know,
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communist Chinese personnel having pathways to integrate and infiltrate into our military. It's
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really just bizarre. In January, while in Beijing, Carney said there will be future opportunities for a
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strategic partnership between Canada and China, including on national security. What is happening
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to our country? What are we doing? Here is what that sounded like with Carney.
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This sets the stage for these important discussions on a wide range of issues where we can be strategic
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partners. From energy to agriculture, to people to people ties, to multilateralism, to issues on
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security. Now, speaking at a press conference in Calgary, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said that
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the current pace of population growth is unsustainable. It is straining housing, healthcare, schools and
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jobs. This is absolutely right. I'm so glad that we have really helped spark this conversation on how our
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immigration systems just heading in the wrong direction. Anyway, here is Premier Danielle
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Smith making this point on Wednesday. Part of our budget challenges, number one, is on the revenue
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side that we've seen a decline in our revenues as a result of WTI trending below $60 for most of the year
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when we need $74. But at the same time, our expenses have been growing faster than our revenue growth.
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And part of that is we've had the fastest growing population in Canada, adding 600,000 new people in
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the last four years alone. I think there's only one country in the world that has exceeded the level
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of population growth that Canada has had. And so this clearly needs to change. This is not sustainable.
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And it should be noted that this is all in light of Alberta's kind of shocking changing
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demographics that are happening. There was a report earlier this week, they released the top baby names
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in Alberta. It's like a cute, great little tradition where you get to see what are the top trending
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baby names. A little shocking that Mohammed is the number one name. There's various spellings
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across different way. When you add up all the different spellings of Mohammed, it is the number
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one baby name in Alberta. A little bit concerning there. Okay, folks, switching gears a little bit.
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Some of the biggest American political voices, including Matt Walsh and Tim Pool, have come out
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urging President Trump to take action against Canada after learning about the shocking news
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story, something that Juneau News has been covering for a while, the state killing of a 26 year old,
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a healthy 26 year old, Keanu Vafian, who had a history of seasonal depression and was losing his
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vision. So as Juneau News reported in January, sadly, this man was killed by the government through our
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despicable maid program. This doctor who the mother of this boy of this young man called Dr. Death
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Number Two, Dr. Eileen Weeb approved her son's death based on mental illness, despite the family
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successfully stopping previous attempts to euthanize this young man because he had seasonal depressions.
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So unbelievable what we do. So the UK's Daily Mail interviewed his parents again with an article
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coming out on Tuesday that was going viral online. Matt Walsh and Tim Pool both reacted to it. So here
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is what Matt Walsh had to say. He said, I'm not being at all ironic when I say there is a better
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argument for invading and overthrowing the Canadian regime than there is for invading and overthrowing
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anyone else. This is a country committing unspeakable atrocities right next door. Matt Walsh went on by
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saying in Canada, they euthanize physically healthy young adults. They castrate and sterilize children.
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They burn down churches. They commit taxpayer-funded infanticide of fully developed infants in the
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womb. Why shouldn't we count them among the most evil regimes on the planet? Not a rhetorical question.
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So really, these are some of the issues that we talk about all the time here at General News.
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It is, I completely agree with Matt Walsh and I think it's sad and pathetic that even our conservative
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party in this country won't touch most of these issues. They don't want anything to do with it. In fact,
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they'd rather just go along and vote in favor of Bill C-4, which banned, you know, a gender-confused
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child from even talking to a therapist as banned in Canada because of the conservatives. Same thing
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with late-term abortions with Pierre Polyev endorsed that during the last election. So it's interesting
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to hear American conservatives jumping in on these issues. Thursday morning, Matt Walsh added that
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euthanasia is one of the leading causes of death in Canada. He said, 5% of all deaths in the country
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are from doctor-assisted suicide and many of them are not even terminally ill. People get sick or
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depressed and Canada just puts them down like stray dogs. It's insane. It's pure evil. It gets even worse
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than that, Matt Walsh, because the numbers are really shocking. The people who use this program,
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who use MAID, it's almost universally what you'd call old stock Canadians or white Canadians. Like 95%
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of these deaths are against white Canadians. It's just really unspeakable and tragic. So Tim Poole,
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another conservative commentator with a huge audience down in the U.S., had this to say.
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This is probably one of the most shocking stories that has been developing over the past few years
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with no resolution in sight. And I'm going to start this video by saying the Trump administration
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should immediately shut down the border with Canada until they abolish their medical assistance
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in dying program as it stands. Now, I will admit, I don't know the full details of literally
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everything going on in Canada, but I will say this. If what we're reading is true and the stories that
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we're hearing are true, the Trump administration should immediately shut down trade with Canada and
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say, I mean, I mean, sanctions. The stories that we have been hearing, Canada is executing sick and
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depressed individuals, young people, a 26 year old euthanized by the Canadian government. I don't know
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why we're doing business with these people. This is evil. This is all true. And guys, it's really sad
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that we need American voices to amplify the truest and the sickest problems in our country when our
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political class remain just completely silent or actually in favor of some of these sick policies.
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All right, folks. That's all the time we have for today. We'll be back again tomorrow with all the
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news. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is Candace Malcolm Show News Update.