Juno News - December 06, 2024


How woke is our military？


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00:00:00.000 All right. Well, I guess the trolling is going to continue from Donald Trump. We're getting
00:00:03.880 AI images. It feels like it's 2019 again. Is he going after Justin Trudeau here or is he trolling
00:00:10.680 the entire country? What do you guys think? Yeah, I think he's more so targeting Trudeau
00:00:18.540 than the entire country. Of course, we recently saw him specifically come after the liberal
00:00:23.260 government and their border crisis saying, look, if you don't solve this, we will inflict a 25%
00:00:28.280 tariff against your goods. So obviously, he has no love for Trudeau. And it's no surprise,
00:00:35.040 perhaps, given previous statements made by not only Trudeau, but his entire caucus, like
00:00:41.860 Minister Freeland, for example, and the things they've said about Trump, why would he have
00:00:46.300 any love for them? My question is whether Trump has a soft spot for Canada, because who would
00:00:53.960 have thought that he'd be the one to solve our border crisis? Well, it's funny, I read reports
00:00:59.960 that he wanted to split Canada into two provinces, one red Republican one, I'm assuming the West or a
00:01:07.620 majority of the West and one blue Democratic one to make it even. And the liberals, they're playing
00:01:14.220 this off as like friendly banter, but it's very one sided for it to be banter. It's almost like the
00:01:20.200 liberal government is just sitting there and quietly accepting all of the jokes at their
00:01:26.580 expense without throwing any back towards Trump. And you would think if it's friendly banter between
00:01:32.720 buddies, that would be the case. But they're falsely playing up this idea that, oh, we're all just pals.
00:01:40.840 Well, the legacy media doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humor. They seem to think that Donald
00:01:45.680 Trump is being serious with his AI images. And I think the reality is over the next four years,
00:01:50.740 we should just get ready for some good laughter, for some good trolling, because that's really what
00:01:56.660 Trump is known for. All right, everyone, let's get into this one now. Let's get into the show here.
00:02:06.600 All right, welcome to Off the Record. We are joined here by True North's editor and senior
00:02:12.960 researcher, Cosmin Georgia, as well as the host of Alberta Roundup, Isaac Lamoureux. My name is
00:02:19.060 Harrison Faulkner. We've got quite a good lineup here. But on the topic of Donald Trump's trolling,
00:02:26.200 there's a new story that has come out, which could give Trump lots of ammunition to troll
00:02:30.840 Justin Trudeau over. And the new story is this. It's an exclusive to True North. We have obtained a copy
00:02:36.060 of a leaked internal survey given to soldiers that is basically asking soldiers to discuss
00:02:43.660 the state of extremism in the military. Let's put up the headline here if we've got it. And that's
00:02:52.620 right. So the Canadian military in this extremism, right-wing extremism survey, is asking soldiers,
00:03:00.320 for example, if in the past two to five years, they have purchased extremism merchandise,
00:03:05.100 guys, such as a Make Canada Great Again hat. I mean, just imagine the trolling Trump could do with
00:03:11.220 this, you know, giving Trudeau, for example, a Make Canada Great Again hat, putting one on in an AI
00:03:17.020 generated image to talk about how much of an extremist he is. The opportunities are endless. I
00:03:21.640 hope he does get into it. But besides the humor, there's a dark side to this story, because this
00:03:27.060 survey is not just about the Make Canada Great Again hat. It asks soldiers, for example, if they agree
00:03:34.360 with the statements such as the Canadian government restricted freedoms too much during the COVID
00:03:39.960 pandemic, the assumption being that if you agree with that, you're an extremist. Also, they ask
00:03:44.640 questions like the country has let in too many immigrants, something the majority of Canadians agree
00:03:49.960 with, which makes it appear as though the Canadian government thinks the majority of Canadians must be
00:03:54.520 extremists. Even worse, it asks questions of veterans and soldiers if they believe the Canadian
00:04:01.620 government prioritizes immigrants over veterans, and if the Canadian government doesn't care about
00:04:06.720 veterans. Once again, the message being there, guys, that if soldiers believe those statements,
00:04:13.020 they are extremists. I mean, I don't know where this is coming from. We know the military is bad,
00:04:19.680 but I didn't know that it was this bad, Tosman.
00:04:21.260 Well, I'll tell you exactly where it's coming from. The Department of Defense, particularly the
00:04:27.940 Liberal Minister of Defense, and it's been consecutive ministers of defense, have had these top-down orders
00:04:35.540 to reform the military based on these sort of diversity, equity, inclusion, and woke principles.
00:04:44.200 And the result of that is they're pathologizing. They have a whole army of activist academics,
00:04:52.680 and we'll get more into that later about who the author of this study is. But these activist
00:04:58.440 academics have been hired to essentially pathologize any sort of conservative opinions or stances
00:05:07.340 among soldiers as being extremist, fascist, Nazi, etc., in an attempt to root out and create a culture
00:05:16.980 of paranoia and almost like dictatorial authoritarian surveillance among soldiers that is controlled
00:05:26.440 by this apparatus that has been installed, which is not even part of the military. These professors
00:05:32.800 have nothing to do with the military. They've never been in the military. They've never
00:05:37.140 trained as a soldier. They've never been in the line of fire. They have no idea what it means
00:05:42.080 to operate a functional and combat-ready army. Yet here they are dictating who gets to be in the
00:05:49.960 military, what sort of views they get to have. Isaac, do you think the Department of Defense
00:05:56.100 hates the troops here? Because you've got to think the majority of troops at this point
00:06:02.480 are patriotic nationalists. They want to make Canada great again. It seems as though they actually just
00:06:08.780 despise the rank and file.
00:06:11.420 Yeah, I don't know whether I could say that they hate them per se, though it's funny you asked that,
00:06:16.220 Harrison. A week or two ago I was actually talking with someone in my local military and he was explaining
00:06:22.540 to me how anti-woke they are. He's like, look, I'm in the infantry. This stuff does not pass on the
00:06:28.680 ground. This is not at all how it is. So we have to remember that these really are coming from the
00:06:33.860 higher-ups being led by, of course, the liberal government. But a question I had for you, Harrison,
00:06:39.060 was obviously this in your article there is you highlight a lot of the far-right extremist questions
00:06:46.140 in this survey. I'm curious, did they in any way, shape, or form address far-left extremism,
00:06:51.300 as you'd expect from an unbiased study and perhaps, ironically, the more common of the two in Canada?
00:06:57.360 No, in fact, the basis of the study is part of a larger research group. And I have the title of it
00:07:07.700 for you here. And this is from the Government of Canada, the Internal Government of Canada website,
00:07:14.000 basically explaining where this study, where this survey came from. The Ontario Tech University's,
00:07:19.820 quote, network for research on hateful conduct and right-wing extremism in the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:07:26.500 So someone at the Ontario Tech University, we know who, Dr. Barbara Perry, has set up this network
00:07:33.160 for hateful conduct and right-wing extremism, specifically in the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:07:38.860 And the military is embracing this. They are really trying to, as they say,
00:07:43.260 as I've written in my article here, and as they have written in these documents,
00:07:46.800 they're trying to combat and detect radicalization and extremism by asking questions like the Make
00:07:54.420 Canada Great Again had, by asking troops if they have listened to extremist music.
00:08:00.800 But you don't know what that even is, like a Confederate battle song or something?
00:08:04.860 We know who the person is, Dr. Barbara Perry. Cosman, you know all too well who this woman is,
00:08:11.420 because you've been trying to track down her research. Explain more about who this woman is
00:08:15.320 and what is it that she's trying to hide from us.
00:08:20.080 Right. So Dr. Barbara Perry is one of several academics who've made a sort of living out of this
00:08:30.160 anti-hate incorporated industry that has propped up over the last decade or so.
00:08:36.800 And she's renowned and cited frequently by the media, by politicians, NDP and Liberal alike,
00:08:44.760 by having originated this idea that there are over 300 hate groups active in Canada,
00:08:53.340 far-right extremist hate groups.
00:08:55.340 Now, we've tried to get Barbara Perry to name these hate groups or provide any sort of tangible evidence
00:09:03.340 that they actually exist. But it's been several years now, and she's never produced a list.
00:09:09.300 In fact, we had to go all the way to the Ontario Privacy Commissioner, go through the process of appeal,
00:09:17.080 mediation, and eventually adjudication to try and get this list.
00:09:23.540 But unfortunately, the way the Ontario Privacy Laws are written,
00:09:27.820 they give academic institutions, which she's represented by and her research was conducted in,
00:09:33.860 quite a lot of leeway to exempt things like research from public prying eyes.
00:09:40.520 Even though she gets to benefit from the sort of a claim and all of the attention she gets
00:09:47.380 from making this extraordinary claim. And to me, if you're making extraordinary claims,
00:09:53.660 you need to have extraordinary evidence to back up those claims. So yeah, no evidence whatsoever
00:10:00.580 to back up any of her research that's been made publicly available. But yet, politicians are
00:10:07.180 crafting hate speech legislation, citing this research in committee meetings and reports.
00:10:14.900 I'm pretty sure even the CAF, the Department of National Defense and the military has cited her
00:10:21.120 figures. Perhaps even CSIS has cited her figures. There's all these departments citing her figures,
00:10:27.460 and nobody even knows what she's talking about. So yes, she's not the only one. There's other
00:10:33.060 researchers. There's Dr. Rachel Zellers. We actually wrote an article about this. She gave a speech
00:10:39.560 at a national defense conference where all of these senior members of leadership, this was last
00:10:46.040 year in January, we reported on this, had to show up for a conference where she says that Canada is
00:10:51.280 completely infected by white supremacy. So just to get an idea of what's going on with the military
00:10:57.840 and the things they're being indoctrinated with, or at least told to silently abide by,
00:11:03.340 it is these sort of activist professors, as I've mentioned, who are leading it. And just one final
00:11:10.320 point, Isaac, you mentioned, you know, have they mentioned far left extremism? No, because I've
00:11:15.540 actually tried to ATIP that to get an access to information requests from the Department of National
00:11:21.020 Defense to ask them, where is your reporting or investigation into far left extremism? I used,
00:11:27.700 you know, specific phrases like anarchist, Antifa, anti-authority, Marxist, Leninist,
00:11:35.100 and they haven't turned any single thing up. So it's very one-sided. And if you ask Dr. Barbara
00:11:40.440 Perry, why aren't you paying attention to far left extremism? She'll just ignore you and say,
00:11:45.640 oh, make some excuse. Oh, I'm only, my research is only focused in this area.
00:11:50.400 Well, I must be confused, you know, because when I think about the military,
00:11:53.980 I think about war fighters and troops being able to kill the enemy, to win battles and to be lethal.
00:12:03.160 Not about, you know, detecting extremists in the ranks, not about how many diversity boxes you can
00:12:10.260 check, you can check off in the ranks and, and, and the amount of pride flags you can fit on the
00:12:15.300 mast of a naval ship. But that, Isaac, appears to be the case with our military. And we wonder why
00:12:21.160 young men aren't signing up.
00:12:23.120 Yeah. I mean, look, there's no other way to say it. Our military's priorities have been deeply flawed.
00:12:31.020 And we've seen that reflected in its recruitment shortfalls because they've focused on, instead of
00:12:37.980 promoting diversity, freedom, the things you'd expect in a military, they want to promote,
00:12:43.000 they want to promote their woke DEI initiatives. So I have some data here. In 2022, only 5,242 Canadians
00:12:55.020 enlisted in the armed forces, which was a decrease of 35% from just over 8,000 in 2021. And this decrease
00:13:02.880 shockingly came despite the Minister of National Defense announcing that permanent residents were
00:13:08.520 welcome to apply. So you didn't have to be a Canadian citizen. But between November 1st, 2022
00:13:13.780 and November 24th, 2023, while 21,472 permanent residents applied, only 77 were accepted. So obviously
00:13:23.680 that change has in no way, shape or form helped. And then every time we check the numbers, they go
00:13:28.520 down, not up. Right. I mean, to be quite honest with you, the fact that we've opened up, you know,
00:13:33.740 the, the, the military to non-citizens is outrageous. And I'm not, I'm not too concerned
00:13:40.100 that we haven't accepted many. My guess is that most of them who've applied have failed background
00:13:44.180 checks, have failed the unnecessary background checks that are required. It seems like a national
00:13:48.440 security threat. We're going to park it there with the military, but we're going to move on to
00:13:53.300 a story, which is, you know, as they say, it's kind of white pilling, actually. It's kind of nice to
00:13:58.220 see this because in our country for a long time, what, what have the stories been surrounding
00:14:02.600 Christianity and our Christian faith in this country? Well, it's been dominated by the fact
00:14:06.900 that a hundred churches more actually have been burned or vandalized since these outrageous claims
00:14:13.060 made, uh, regarding residential schools. In fact, it looks as though at a political level,
00:14:18.220 both municipal and at a federal level, Cosman, things are starting to turn around. What's going
00:14:22.820 on there? Right. Sure. I'll just begin with, uh, municipally. We've seen multiple municipalities
00:14:30.360 and cities adopt what's called Christian heritage month. And most recently we had one of our reporters,
00:14:37.260 Clayton domain, go out to Mississauga where they raised the Christian heritage flag. As you can see
00:14:44.260 from the photo, it's just a white flag. I'm assuming representing faith, purity, et cetera,
00:14:49.680 and this blue square with a red cross. And that's meant to be a sort of ecumenical, if I may use a
00:14:56.420 fancy word, uh, representation of all Christian faiths, whether it's, you know, evangelical, Protestant,
00:15:03.040 Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic, et cetera, which there are, you know, a wide array of in Canada. It's,
00:15:09.760 it's one of the biggest religions in this country, if not the biggest religions practices
00:15:15.640 in Canada. So that happened at the municipal level. Federally, we have a new petition started
00:15:22.900 by conservative MP, Jamil Giovanni, and it's an attempt to protect Christians in Canada. The petition
00:15:31.600 itself is called protect Christians Canada. And it's a national campaign that he hopes to present
00:15:37.740 to the house of commons in February. And it highlights several things that he hopes governments
00:15:44.440 at all levels will do, including, as you mentioned, address the crimes against Christian places of
00:15:51.960 worship, including the fires and instances of vandalism, as well as protect the conscience,
00:15:59.600 conscience rights of professionals, including doctors to not provide maid or abortion. And additionally,
00:16:07.360 to protect the charitable status of Christian organizations in Canada, which have contributed
00:16:14.480 a huge amount of fundraising and charity to those in need. I think worldwide, globally, a lot of people
00:16:22.040 don't know this, but the Catholic Church is one of the number one providers of charity. And these things
00:16:28.640 are so overlooked. So I wanted to pass this on to you, Harrison, and just to ask, you know, these are
00:16:36.240 small steps to take. Obviously, they're not, you know, we're not really addressing the fundamental
00:16:42.240 problems. And there's been such a huge, growing, almost enmity and contempt that's been sowed by politicians
00:16:52.080 and the media alike against Christians. And how do we confront that particular aspect, the continued demonization
00:17:01.240 of an entire faith, or rather a multitude of faith, groups of faith against that Christianity is?
00:17:09.780 Well, I think, you know, to see Jamil Giovanni be so honest and upfront about the reality that Christians are facing
00:17:16.640 in our country. It is persecution. There isn't as better an example of Christian persecution than churches
00:17:25.340 being burned down, than arson to the ground and vandalized. And it's nice to actually hear a politician
00:17:32.220 say the words and to affirm what Christians are feeling across the country. Christians are being persecuted
00:17:38.320 in this country, and we need leaders to actually take it seriously. So, you know, this is a small step.
00:17:44.300 The flag raising is symbolic. I will say Mississauga is one of the most Muslim cities, I'm quite certain,
00:17:51.780 in the country. So to see that in Mississauga is actually kind of a nice thing. And I'm not really
00:17:56.340 big on the flags thing, as you pointed out earlier, Cosman. It's not the biggest. It's very symbolic.
00:18:00.820 Nothing's really going to happen. But having a conservative MP be so honest about the reality
00:18:05.200 we're facing here is nice to see. Another thing that needs to happen is we need to recognize that
00:18:10.820 Canada is a Christian country. It's very, very simply a Christian country because our head of state,
00:18:17.400 the leader of this country, the King of Canada, is a religious leader as well. He is the leader of the
00:18:23.300 Church of England, which basically makes you, by any other definition, any other country whose
00:18:29.080 head of state is a religious leader, that would make them a Christian country. So Canada is a Christian
00:18:33.700 country. And our people, our Christians, deserve to have this recognition. So look, pointing it out
00:18:39.940 and acknowledging that Canada is a Christian country will go a long way, I think, to what will be a long
00:18:45.660 process, Cosman. But it is what needs to happen. We need to start calling out these things and be
00:18:50.680 honest about who we are as a people. Isaac, what did you make of this sort of shift we're starting to see?
00:18:57.320 Yeah, you said that Mississauga might be one of Canada's most Muslim cities, but even still,
00:19:03.560 according to Statistics Canada in 2021, 49.5% of Mississauga's population was Christian. So that
00:19:10.680 really speaks to what we're talking about here. And I've been keeping a close eye on this list from
00:19:15.340 christianheritagemonth.ca, which is they have a list of every municipality that has officially signed a
00:19:21.320 proclamation to make December Christian Heritage Month. And I was keeping an eye on this list because
00:19:26.700 Saskatchewan was supposed to announce yesterday that they too were joining the list. And I just
00:19:31.560 checked the list. They're on it, despite not being a municipality. So that would, I think, make them
00:19:35.720 the first province to do so, though I haven't seen an official release from the province, but they are
00:19:40.240 on the list alongside 36 municipalities. And I've been checking this list over the last few days. I think
00:19:46.760 when I first checked it, it was either at 32 or 35. So it has been growing. And I'm not sure how many
00:19:53.620 other municipalities plan to join in making December Christian Heritage Month. But truthfully,
00:19:58.760 I don't know how I feel about that. Because really, there aren't enough months, there aren't
00:20:01.800 enough days in the year to please every special interest group, let's say. So really, I'm more in
00:20:09.160 favor of removing all these months, like Pride Month, Christian Heritage Month, all the months,
00:20:13.760 although December is sensible for Christian Heritage Month, given Christmas. But I don't know that we
00:20:18.600 need to celebrate each little thing like that. Instead, we should focus on things where Canadians
00:20:23.640 can truly be united as a whole. Yeah, what do you think about that, guys, on the whole,
00:20:29.500 dedicating a whole month to Christianity there? Well, I was going to ask that question to you,
00:20:34.400 Cosme. I was going to just frame it in this sense. As you point out, Isaac, there's Islamophobia
00:20:39.240 Awareness Month, there's Pride Month, you know, there's, I'm sure there's a month for, you know,
00:20:45.160 like some Indian religions, whatever, right? Just stuff that is that is not the majority in our
00:20:50.620 country. And it would be nice to be able to have a month for Christians and nice to have a month for
00:20:56.220 veterans. But I feel like if you do, if you do give, if you do have a month that is Christian Heritage
00:21:00.880 Month, you're, you're delegate, you're kind of relegating Christianity to one month, when it should be
00:21:06.800 every month of the year, it should be every day, every month of the year, right? So what do you
00:21:10.800 think? Do you think that we should even bother with the Christian Heritage Month? Or should we
00:21:14.280 just acknowledge that Canada is a Christian country, the majority in this country are Christians, and
00:21:18.740 we don't need a month because the majority here are Christians?
00:21:23.800 Right, I think, to your point, recognizing Canada as foundationally a Christian country, the pioneers and
00:21:31.160 people who built this country were faithful people, and they wrote it into the laws and into the
00:21:37.820 constitution and into the acts of confederation, that Canada is founded on certain principles that
00:21:44.700 come from Christian thought, and, you know, past theology, thought about law, etc. And it's, it's,
00:21:53.360 people like to ignore that, because we live in a secular society. But the fact is, even secularism,
00:22:00.800 the things we value in secularism, poured out of Christian belief and Christian thinking,
00:22:06.400 it was, you know, the, the church fathers and all the theologians, preceding them, whether
00:22:11.980 Protestant or not, who came up with a lot of the concepts, we believe about, you know, God given
00:22:17.880 liberties and freedoms. So, absolutely, whether this competing idea of like, oh, I have this month,
00:22:25.900 you have that month, I'm not a big fan of it, because it just points to this,
00:22:30.460 this idea that we have to just accept we're this multicultural fragmented society, and that we're
00:22:36.780 just constantly vying for attention and space and the calendar year. And as you mentioned, as a
00:22:43.540 Christian, it depending on the denomination, but all Christians celebrate certain vital
00:22:49.140 celebrations and and and holy days that are marked, you know, by the life of Jesus Christ.
00:22:57.320 But more so if you're a specific denomination, like Orthodox, where you have like Saint days,
00:23:03.320 or even Catholics have a whole liturgical calendar, Advent, etc. Right. So it's not, it's it's kind of
00:23:11.500 like just accepting this like piece of the pie, instead of recognizing how foundational this religious and
00:23:21.960 and spiritual system has been to the things we cherish as a free and, uh, and liberal, so to speak, a free
00:23:31.880 society that values liberty.
00:23:33.960 And, you know, as as Canada has, you know, pushed itself further and further away from its Christian
00:23:41.880 roots, we've our leaders have brought us closer to the radical LGBT woke ideology where we have to fly
00:23:52.040 the flags of this movement, we have to fully embrace the most radical elements of this transgender
00:23:57.960 ideology, the LGBT ideology, where if you don't fly the gay flag in your town, or you don't you don't paint
00:24:07.080 your crosswalk the rainbow colors, we're going to fine you. And we're going to try to bankrupt you
00:24:12.280 personally. Isaac, this story has been making national headlines. What's going on here?
00:24:17.000 Yeah. So basically a human rights commission find the rural township of emo for discrimination after
00:24:25.720 they voted not to recognize June as a pride month. Uh, yeah. So the fines are said to amount to $15,000.
00:24:33.800 That'll be 5,000 for the mayor and 10,000 to the town. And the human rights tribunal of Ontario is
00:24:40.440 trying to force them to pay it. So the tribune, the tribunal found that emo mayor Harold McQuaker
00:24:46.920 his tie breaking vote, uh, which refused to declare June as pride month. They, they called that
00:24:51.880 discriminatory and ordered him not only to pay the fine, but also to undergo LGBTQ training.
00:24:58.920 Uh, unsurprisingly, the mayor said he won't pay the fine. Uh, he called it extortion and said that he
00:25:04.520 won't take no such training. So I'm, I'm curious to ask you guys, if you, if either of you think that
00:25:09.720 he'll be forced to take the training and then your general reaction to the tribunal essentially
00:25:16.120 trying to force everyone to celebrate pride month.
00:25:20.440 Cause then what do you think?
00:25:23.240 So, you know, having been born into like a post communist country in Romania, I see so many
00:25:30.120 parallels between this type of quasi judicial structures that exist in those authoritarian
00:25:39.240 regimes that are only meant to enforce the ideological conformity to party lines. And this
00:25:48.600 is what the human rights tribunals have become. In my opinion, perhaps the people who originated this
00:25:57.160 had some other intention, but when you create these bodies that are manned by essentially activist lawyers,
00:26:05.080 when you actually look at who makes up the, uh, tribunal membership and the adjudicators who make these decisions,
00:26:12.520 they're all people who've been trained in this sort of diversity, equity, inclusion, human rights,
00:26:18.440 law field that is relatively like new and has also branched out into being something completely different than
00:26:26.040 just addressing basic human rights. And it's become more about what I mentioned in endorsing ideological
00:26:33.400 conformity. And it's really troubling because it defeats the purpose and they almost like, uh,
00:26:41.240 like play a double role. Like why can't courts just figure out what human rights are? Why do we need
00:26:46.600 to have this extra body that doesn't actually help? And anyways, if he's disputing their ruling,
00:26:53.560 it's going to have to go to a court. He can appeal it in a court. He doesn't have to pay it. They don't
00:26:59.000 have any enforcement capabilities. They can't send a bailiff to you and, and throw you in jail and make
00:27:05.480 you pay it, you know, garnish your funds. They don't have that power. They're sort of like, it's,
00:27:11.640 it's a glass house and, and they still have to go to a court. So it's still a waste of resources anyways.
00:27:18.840 And you know what I've just found out that there isn't even a flagpole that could be used to hoist
00:27:22.840 the pride flag in the township of emo other than the Canadian flag. What are they going to do?
00:27:26.600 Take the Canadian flag down and hoist the gay flag. I mean, it is absurd, right? But this guy, like,
00:27:32.520 this is, you know, this is epic, but we shouldn't like this guy, Harold McQuaker, great Canadian. I
00:27:38.280 said, he was a Canadian of the week, uh, yesterday because, you know, you just love to see this stuff.
00:27:42.760 You love to see someone actually standing up against this nonsense. Uh, but you know, why is this,
00:27:48.600 why is the township of emo, this small town in the, you know, west of Lake Superior,
00:27:53.480 getting all this attention? Other cities across the country should be doing this too,
00:27:57.720 right? But it's just Harold McQuaker town of emo. As you point out, Cosmin, he's being forced to pay
00:28:03.640 $5,000. Personally, personally, he has to pay $5,000 for not celebrating inside, for not raising the flag
00:28:12.440 and painting his crosswalk. I bet you they only have one crosswalk too. I bet you they only got
00:28:17.640 one crosswalk, not even one flagpole to hoist the pride flag, and it's a penalty for not,
00:28:22.600 not displaying it. Like, it's so stupid that by, you know, we have to, we have to, you know,
00:28:29.560 fly this flag because somehow that's going to make life easier and better for gay people
00:28:34.120 with the township of emo. It's not going to do anything for the town people of emo. I don't get it,
00:28:39.160 Isaac. It's crazy. Yeah, well, I will say this because I plan to talk about this on Alberta Roundup
00:28:45.160 this week too. It's nice to see, I suppose, that in Ontario, like Alberta, small towns are the ones
00:28:52.920 who seem to be standing up for freedoms where the cities aren't. For example, in Alberta this week,
00:28:59.320 Barhead, a small town, passed a motion banning all non-neutral, essentially anything, buildings,
00:29:06.040 crosswalks, you name it, on public property. So they, they too were another small town saying,
00:29:11.560 hey, we're not playing by these rules. Although this was actually a town vote, not just the mayor,
00:29:15.720 the entire town voted on it. But I don't know. Why do you think Harrison or Cosman that these,
00:29:21.800 these small towns seem to be so much more eager to stand up for the freedom of their citizens when
00:29:27.720 compared to the cities? Well, I, the, on the other side, the, the fact is that they're also targeted
00:29:35.080 because leftists and progressivists have a astuteness when it comes to like manipulating
00:29:42.360 bureaucratic processes. And they're very much like involved in municipal governments. Like I track
00:29:49.240 municipal agendas all the time. And you always see these delegations from leftist organizations,
00:29:55.640 whether it's pride organizations, environmental groups, et cetera, pressuring local governments to
00:30:02.200 do certain things, whether symbolic or actually actions that affect people financially, the taxpayer.
00:30:09.480 So they, they've developed this ability to manipulate the existing bureaucratic structure.
00:30:16.120 And they not only do it at the municipal level, they have all of these avenues of complaints,
00:30:21.000 like the tribunals, et cetera, for them to get what they want. And I think people who are,
00:30:27.960 you know, conservative minded, right wing minded, whatever need to recognize that because I feel
00:30:33.640 like we've dropped the ball there. Like nobody's engaged at that level. Nobody's really taking the
00:30:39.240 time to go there and represent themselves and to rep, push the issues and push back against
00:30:46.040 the other side in a sense, because that's what it'll take. Like there's nobody running for school
00:30:51.880 boards. There's nobody running who represent these views for, you know, municipal council. It's like,
00:30:57.480 then what do you expect? Because you're gonna, you're let, you're leaving the field open for the
00:31:01.880 other team to take it. Right. Absolutely. And, you know, I just want to highlight, I mean,
00:31:06.760 those are absolutely truly important points. Conservatives have neglected. Municipal politics are neglecting
00:31:12.840 the actual inner workings of bureaucracy at a municipal and a provincial level. They,
00:31:17.560 there aren't any conservatives in these bureaucracies. That's just the reality. They
00:31:20.920 are, they get forced out or they look at and say, there's no way I'm going into that mess.
00:31:24.600 Um, but this story about Harold McQuaker, it gets crazier because he was also forced to go through
00:31:30.760 re-education, LGBT re-education training, which he has of course said he's not going to do. Like he said,
00:31:37.880 he's not going to pay the fines. I mean, if this guy opens up a go fund me or a give send go more
00:31:42.440 likely, uh, he's going to get a lot of money here. He might be able to raise money for the town.
00:31:46.280 They'll be able to buy a new flag pole, hopefully not to put up a pride flag, but, uh, they probably
00:31:51.080 would be able to put up a lot of new stuff and more Canadian flags. We need more Canadian flags,
00:31:55.880 not more of this absolute garbage, absolute nonsense. So you know what? That could be the good
00:32:00.600 thing that comes from it. We're going to end the show with a discussion like we did at the top of the
00:32:05.480 show about Trump's trolling the, the commander in chief of trolling. He really is. And he hit us,
00:32:12.360 he hit us all of Canada with this AI generated image on Monday, knowing that the Canadian media,
00:32:18.520 we're going to have an absolute meltdown over this of a picture of him standing on top of a mountain
00:32:23.640 with a Canadian flag saying, Oh Canada, right. When the discussion about Trump joking about annexing us,
00:32:30.280 he hits us with this and the legacy media go wild. Uh, Isaac, does the legacy media just have no sense
00:32:36.760 of humor anymore? Yeah. I mean, how can you not look at that photo and just laugh? Of course,
00:32:43.560 I was just laughing just now, even though I've seen it many times, you know, it makes you laugh. Plus it's,
00:32:47.880 I mean, come on, how seriously are we going to take something that's AI generated? It's not like Trump
00:32:53.480 literally hiked a mountain and in Canada and placed a flag in it. I don't even know that that's a Canadian
00:32:59.400 mountain. I saw some suggestions online that it was like based on a picture or a mountain from
00:33:03.880 Switzerland. So, I mean, the fact that legacy media have taken it so seriously, I mean,
00:33:10.760 it speaks to a lot of things, but if you can't look at that picture and laugh and say, ha,
00:33:15.160 good one, Trump. Uh, I, I really don't know what you're doing.
00:33:19.560 Cause we had also, yeah, it just perpetuates the ongoing meltdown that's been happening,
00:33:25.080 uh, with the legacy media in particular since the election.
00:33:28.440 And I remember watching the election night coverage and the ensuing, you know,
00:33:32.440 op-eds about the, the world is ending, you know, the end is nigh, like where everything is going
00:33:37.560 to collapse. The democratic world has, you know, shuttered. It's ridiculous. Like it's preposterous.
00:33:44.040 And the fact is that like Trump's actions are also preposterous in a way and over the top,
00:33:51.480 because that's what he is. He's always been this over the top figure who is extravagant and almost
00:33:57.960 like, uh, larger than life in many ways. And he exerts that and people react, but they don't
00:34:05.480 react rationally. They react irrationally. They take it seriously, right? Like you made that point.
00:34:11.560 They take it seriously, but any rational person would look at that and be like, of course,
00:34:15.880 this is a joke. And I think, I think there was a video of the Nelk boys, like egging Trump on to do
00:34:21.800 this. No, I have to correct. I have to, I have to correct the record. That was a joke. I made that
00:34:27.800 video up. It was a mix of two videos because, because I did it because you can imagine that
00:34:33.800 that was exactly what happened. That video was when the Nelk boys were on Trump's plane
00:34:38.520 and they showed that they showed him a video of them, uh, doing a prank with Kamala Harris supporters.
00:34:45.480 And Trump was just telling his advisor, put that up on my website. I want that up on my social media.
00:34:50.760 And that's obviously what's happening here, right? Yeah.
00:34:53.560 One of his staffers who's, you know, tuned in, knows what's going on in Canada, knows there's
00:34:58.280 an ensuing meltdown happening, made the image and go, sir, you got to look at this. This is
00:35:02.360 going to blow the heads off the legacy media in Canada. And he's like, yeah, put it up.
00:35:06.280 That's clearly what happened. Right. So, you know, they've got to just figure this out.
00:35:10.680 When I saw that original post, I thought, you know, my, my first reaction guys was God,
00:35:15.320 imagine Andrew Coyne seeing this picture. He would have gone crazy. Right. And so many of them,
00:35:21.800 Rosie Barton and David Cochran, I'm pretty sure they all did segments on it. And we're talking
00:35:27.000 about the, the, the likelihood of Trump actually, you know, wanting to make Canada the 51st state.
00:35:32.600 Uh, it's, it's, it's funny, Harrison, cause you got me live on camera. So I'm going to report you
00:35:37.720 for a misinformation. It got community noted. It got community noted. And I was saying to the,
00:35:43.080 I was saying to the team here when we, when I, when I made it yesterday, I was like,
00:35:46.840 you know, surely this is like, you know, people know this is a joke. And I realized,
00:35:51.400 oh no, my editing must've been so good that it pieced it all together. No, I mean,
00:35:56.120 it got community noted. I'm thankful it did. Cause it was supposed to just be like a joke. You know,
00:36:00.920 this is probably how it went down in some way. Um, but it reminds me of when Donald Trump was the
00:36:06.680 president in 2019, he started to like leak ideas about buying Greenland, you know, as one normally does,
00:36:14.680 as a U S president normally does that way, he was just messing around and contemplating this.
00:36:19.160 And then somebody clearly made, made a meme of a Greenland village in Greenland with a giant gold
00:36:25.400 Trump tower. And he goes, I promise not to do this to Greenland. We have that right there. Let's throw
00:36:30.200 this up on the screen. It is so funny. You know, this is just how he is. And if you are a legacy media
00:36:35.960 journalist in this day and age in the Trump era, and you are not tuned in to Trump's sense of humor,
00:36:41.640 you're a problem. Like you gotta, you gotta get tuned into it. So, you know, you can't just be
00:36:47.960 taking everything literally. I guess that's what we're going to get though. Right, Isaac? Yeah.
00:36:53.240 It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's crazy. It's craziness. Uh, we've got some other memes that he's
00:36:58.040 been posting recently. It's like his meme game. Cosmin has, has actually been turned up. His time,
00:37:03.080 his time out of office has made him, you know, even better at memes. Let's show the ones we've got
00:37:07.640 on the screen. Now we've got, uh, that, that whole meltdown with, uh, the squirrel,
00:37:13.800 I'm pretty sure. Uh, I, I try to figure out peanut. That's who he is. Peanut and the squirrel.
00:37:19.160 There we go. Yeah. Peanut rest in peace. Uh, there should be another one as well that we've got
00:37:25.720 just, you know, this guy is a joker. Yes. The Haitians and the cats. I mean, come on. Like I said
00:37:31.960 before, if you're not, if you're not attuned to this stuff, then you're just not, not, not in the game.
00:37:36.120 No, the older guys love their AI generated images. It's boomer memes. The new boomer
00:37:45.320 memes are just AI, right? Uh, we are in for a crazy ride. Well, let's leave it there. Remember
00:37:51.880 that everything you've just heard between the three of us is off the record.
00:37:55.000 I'm rusty with the, uh, with the throws, the ins and outs on this show. I got to remember the,
00:38:06.680 the, the little slogans off the record and, and all of that, but I think it went smoothly.
00:38:11.800 Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's funny. I was just thinking back to like, I think it was last New
00:38:16.040 Year's I did a thread about how I did AI generated about how bodybuilders were taking over Ottawa
00:38:23.560 and demanding Justin Trudeau, a squat 300 pounds or something like that. And it went viral and it did
00:38:30.200 get a community note and it's like, obviously this is not real.