Juno News - April 08, 2025


HUGE crowds for Poilievre ⧸ Media cover for Carney ⧸ the TRUTH about foreign interference

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Stephen Harper's endorsement of Pierre Poilievre China election interference election interference
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Mark Carney Pierre Poilievre Stephen Harper Justin Trudeau Paul Chang Erin O'Toole Donald Trump Dan Knight Yuli Yuman Lori Ann Kempton Rachel Notley Ken Paxton Peter Wang Sam Cooper Peter Yan X. He Edmonton
How Carney made his money ⧸ Wheels fall off CDN economy ⧸ More $$ to CBC ⧸ Poilievre charms at Rally Carney refuses to condemn China's election meddling on his behalf

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Candace Malan explains why 15,000 people showed up to support Tory candidate Pierre Polyev at his campaign rally in Edmonton, Alberta. She also explains why Stephen Harper endorsed him and why he should be the next Prime Minister of Canada.

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00:00:00.000 China's killing our canola, $45 billion gone, Western farmers bleed, Mark Carney silent,
00:00:11.180 made millions off Beijing's dime. He won't fight. He's Beijing's banker, not our prime minister.
00:00:19.180 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for you
00:00:32.960 today, folks, filled with hope. This is how an election should be. Change is on the way. Hope
00:00:38.680 is on the way. This is what change looks like. So Conservative leader Pierre Polyev was in Edmonton
00:00:44.260 last night and wow, did Edmontonians ever show up for Pierre Polyev. I'm talking about 15,000 people.
00:00:53.720 Yes, 15,000 people at a Canadian election rally in Edmonton, Alberta. Now I know Alberta is the
00:01:01.600 home to the Conservative movement. It is the base where the supporters live. But Edmonton, folks,
00:01:06.940 Edmonton is a government town. I lived there for four years during university and yes, some of
00:01:12.220 Edmonton votes, NDP and Liberal with consistency. When Rachel Notley got elected provincially, it was
00:01:19.260 Edmonton that really brought it home for her. So seeing the Conservatives shine in Edmonton like
00:01:23.920 this, seeing 15,000 of you line up round and round the block, look at this line, look at the people
00:01:31.080 wanting to go in and see Pierre Polyev, an absolute rock star. And this is a welcome that he should be
00:01:37.100 receiving. It's not just in Alberta. Of course, we have been reporting throughout the election campaign,
00:01:41.160 whether he's in British Columbia or in parts of Ontario, rural Ontario, suburban Ontario, even out
00:01:46.940 east, Pierre Polyev gets this rock star welcome because Canadians want change. Okay, we are sick
00:01:52.280 and tired of Liberal rule. We're sick and tired of what the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau and
00:01:57.280 now under Mark Kearney, what they have done to our country. They have destroyed our country, but we're
00:02:01.500 not giving up. We're not, we're not done yet. And we will fight for our country. This is what that looks
00:02:06.560 like so optimistic. I'm just so excited. I think the polls are wrong. I think that the momentum
00:02:11.380 is clearly there for Pierre Polyev is just getting stronger and stronger. Canadians are coming out 0.87
00:02:16.700 to show it. And guess what? The people who vote Conservative are the most reliable voters. These
00:02:21.180 are people who, you know, on election day, it doesn't matter rain or shine, whether there is a
00:02:25.340 blizzard or a rainstorm or whatever else is happening, these people will show up and vote. The Conservative vote
00:02:30.280 is so reliable. And so, yes, some polls are still showing that the Liberals are in the lead. I don't
00:02:36.020 really believe it. I think the momentum is behind Pierre Polyev. And this rally really shows it. So
00:02:41.660 here he is. This is Kian Bexty reporting he was at the rally. And he says, breaking cell connectivity
00:02:46.720 has gone down at the Pierre Polyev rally in Edmonton after 15,000 reportedly shown up. So many people were
00:02:51.880 trying to get on their phones at the same time. Apparently, the service was shut down. Now, how did the
00:02:56.300 event itself go? Well, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper was there to give the introduction
00:03:02.120 for Pierre Polyev. Great to see this moment. Wonderful moment from the former Prime Minister
00:03:08.100 endorsing Pierre Polyev, saying, hey, both the candidates in this election used to work for me.
00:03:14.000 Mark Carney was the governor of the Bank of Canada under Stephen Harper. And Pierre Polyev was a junior
00:03:18.360 minister and a young MP back in those days of the Harper government. Well, here is Harper telling you his
00:03:24.280 choice for Prime Minister. You know, friends, I am in a unique position in this federal election.
00:03:34.100 I am the only person who can say that both of the men running to be Prime Minister once worked for me.
00:03:45.960 And in that regard, my choice, without hesitation, without equivocation, without
00:03:54.220 a shadow of a doubt, is Pierre Polyev. Absolutely wonderful moment there from the former Prime
00:04:03.400 Minister introducing his former protege, basically. And Pierre Polyev takes the stage. The crowd
00:04:09.220 absolutely loves him going nuts. And I want to show you what Dan Knight had to say about it. We've had Dan
00:04:14.780 on the show before, a very astute commentator on Canadian politics. And here is what he wrote on X.
00:04:21.080 He said, last night in a massive warehouse just outside Edmonton, something extraordinary happened.
00:04:26.120 15,000 Canadians showed up, not for a concert, not for protest, but for a political rally. For one
00:04:32.320 reason, to hear Pierre Polyev speak. But the real shock was the man who introduced him. So he's talking
00:04:37.840 about Stephen Harper, the most successful Conservative Prime Minister in a generation. He took the stage to
00:04:42.520 deliver a blistering endorsement of Polyev and a scathing indictment of the Liberal regime. He didn't
00:04:48.200 hedge. He didn't qualify. He didn't say both parties have made mistakes. No, Harper made it clear. The
00:05:03.800 crisis, soaring costs, collapsing standards, vanishing jobs, growing division. It wasn't created by Donald
00:05:09.560 Trump. It was made right here in Ottawa by three terms of Liberal government and the Prime Minister
00:05:15.960 who wants a fourth. And so here is what Stephen Harper had to say. This is extraordinary.
00:05:21.880 These were not created by Donald Trump. They were created by the policies of three Liberal terms,
00:05:39.720 policies that the present Prime Minister supported and wants a fourth Liberal term to continue.
00:05:46.520 And then I'm going to go back to Dan. This is what he said. That's as blunt as Harper gets,
00:05:51.560 and it should be a headline on every newspaper in the country, but it won't be because it hits
00:05:55.800 too close to home for the elite class that spent nearly a decade covering for Trudeau's failures.
00:06:01.720 Harper pointed out that the Liberals and their media allies are now trying to blame
00:06:06.280 everything on geopolitics, blame Trump, blame supply chains, blame COVID, blame war, blame anything but
00:06:12.600 themselves. Because the truth, they can't run on their own record, so they're running from it.
00:06:17.160 And what is their record? Exploding debt, collapsing GDP per capita, a federal bureaucracy that punishes
00:06:22.200 work and rewards compliance, a housing market that's locked out an entire generation, and an energy
00:06:27.320 sector that's been handed over to the Americans while Canadians sit unemployed on world-class resources.
00:06:33.640 Dan Knight is absolutely right, and this is why we are so fired up for Pierre Polyev.
00:06:39.480 And I want to highlight one thing that Pierre Polyev mentioned, because this happened yesterday
00:06:43.640 after we recorded our show, and I really want to get to it, but Pierre Polyev pointing out the
00:06:49.000 elephant in the room, folks, the elephant in the room that the mainstream media refuses to cover
00:06:53.640 properly, and that is that China is interfering in our election as we speak, and they are promoting 0.97
00:07:00.360 their golden boy, China's rock star, which is Mark Carney, here's Pierre Polyev,
00:07:05.640 making the point that it really is, at this point, Canada against China.
00:07:10.040 Today, again, the Chinese government was out campaigning for the Liberals, supporting Mark Carney,
00:07:20.120 just like they did during the leadership race of that party. And who would wonder why?
00:07:25.240 Mr. Carney, while he was economic advisor to Justin Trudeau, actually went to China to get his company a
00:07:31.560 quarter-billion-dollar loan, a loan that his company still owes and a company in which he continues to be invested.
00:07:40.200 Absolutely unbelievable, Pierre Polyev pointing out the facts, and I want to cover this story because
00:07:45.160 as much fun as it is to cover the positive stuff about Pierre Polyev doing an amazing job out on the
00:07:50.520 campaign trail, the reality is that someone is trying to put their thumb on the scale of this campaign,
00:07:55.880 not happening in our country, not here in Canada, but in China, and we now have proof of this. So here
00:08:01.080 is reporting from Juno News, the CCP election interference campaign is boosting Mark Carney
00:08:07.320 as their rock star candidate. So here, let me just read a little bit from Juno News. The task force
00:08:12.200 dedicated to securing Canada's elections from foreign interference announced it has detected a
00:08:16.040 coordinated campaign by a Chinese Communist Party-backed news channel to promote coverage of
00:08:21.560 liberal leader Mark Carney. Amplified coverage of Carney includes posts identifying him as a
00:08:27.320 quote, rock star, unquote, and highlighting his pro-China views, of course. So on Monday,
00:08:32.200 the security and intelligence threats to election task force at site revealed it had detected the
00:08:38.360 state-backed Chinese WeChat platforms had been attempted to influence the Chinese diaspora's view of
00:08:44.120 Carney. Attempts included amplifying his experience and credentials. The information operation was launched
00:08:50.120 by Yuli Yuman, WeChat's most popular news account. Intelligence reporting links Yuli to the Communist Party
00:08:57.640 in China and their Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission. This according to Lori Ann Kempton,
00:09:03.480 who is the Assistant Secretary for the Privy Council's Office Communication during a press conference on
00:09:10.040 Monday. And we have a little bit of that press conference. Here is what it looked like, folks.
00:09:14.920 We are aware of an information operation targeting the 45th general election
00:09:19.720 on the social media platform WeChat. The information operation was launched by Yuli Yuman, WeChat's most
00:09:27.080 popular news account. Intelligence reporting links the Yuli Yuman account to the PRC Chinese Communist Party
00:09:35.400 Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission. The content of this information operation contains story
00:09:42.360 about the Prime Minister, Liberal Party of Canada leader, and candidate Indo-Pian Mark Carney.
00:09:50.600 This content has been amplified in a coordinated and inauthentic way.
00:09:55.880 This information operation had contrasting positive and negative narratives,
00:10:00.440 first amplifying Mr. Carney's stance with the United States, and then targeting his experience and credentials.
00:10:06.440 Absolutely unbelievable. We have a Canadian intelligence officer admitting that this is happening in the
00:10:14.840 middle of our campaign. Why aren't we stopping it? Why isn't this front page across the country? We have a
00:10:20.600 foreign country and not a friendly neighbour and an ally like the United States, but an actual nefarious, 0.75
00:10:26.840 evil government that does unspeakable things, that has different interests than we do, different values
00:10:32.600 than we do. And they are out there promoting Mark Carney. Just think about that for a second, folks.
00:10:37.160 What does that say about Mark Carney? The fact that China is going all out for him and the Canadian
00:10:43.320 officials can just politely say, hey, we've noticed that this is happening and it's not very good, but
00:10:49.880 we're completely powerless to stop it. Foreign nefarious actors are taking charge in Canada. It should 1.00
00:10:55.880 terrify every single one of us. And luckily for Mark Carney, rather than having to deal with this,
00:11:01.480 rather than having to deal with the bad press of wondering why on earth is an evil government like
00:11:06.680 China promoting Mark Carney. Instead, we have the liberal media in Canada, of course, covering for
00:11:13.640 Mark Carney. So let's just take a look at how the legacy media has reported on this huge news that
00:11:19.720 China is actively working on behalf of Mark Carney. Here is a global news headline, Carney targeted by
00:11:26.120 Chinese WeChat operation in Canada. He was targeted. He was targeted, folks.
00:11:31.320 Making it seem like he's somehow the victim. Well, it isn't just global news. CTV mimicking the same
00:11:36.920 language. Elections task force detects Chinese information operation targeting Carney. Okay.
00:11:44.120 So if you're just reading headlines out there, like many, many Canadians get their news by just
00:11:47.960 scanning the headlines, you would think, oh no, Mark Carney is being targeted in a campaign by the
00:11:53.400 Chinese. That must mean that the Chinese don't like him and that he's standing up for Canada, right? 0.71
00:11:58.360 That was what you would think if you were reading these headlines. Finally, the CBC
00:12:01.960 security official report, a Beijing linked online operation focused on Carney. Oh, it's just focusing
00:12:08.040 in on him. Nothing, nothing harmful, nothing to worry about here. Just, just targeting Carney and focus
00:12:14.120 on Carney. This is absolute nonsense. This is absolute nonsense. It's the opposite. It is targeting his
00:12:19.000 opponents, right? During the 2021 campaign, we know a WeChat, a similar WeChat campaign was out there
00:12:24.520 targeting Aaron O'Toole in a negative way. They were targeting him because they were attacking him
00:12:29.400 because they didn't want Aaron O'Toole to win. They wanted Trudeau to win because the Chinese Communist 0.98
00:12:33.640 Party likes liberals in Canada. They want the liberals in office and the media is an absolute disgrace and
00:12:40.040 an embarrassment pretending that somehow this is targeting Carney. No, it is not. It is benefiting him.
00:12:45.400 It is, if anything, it's targeting the conservatives because they don't want a conservative government.
00:12:49.400 They know a conservative government would be strong for Canada, would have zero tolerance for this kind of
00:12:53.640 nonsense, would make sure that China was kicked out, not able to interfere in our elections. 0.93
00:12:58.920 But with the liberals, they know that Mark Carney is chummy, chummy, close friends with the communists
00:13:04.360 in China. He loves the green energy over there. He loves China, just like Justin Trudeau admired the
00:13:09.400 basic dictatorship in China. Mark Carney is 2.0 exactly the same way. And the ties go even deeper because
00:13:16.520 remember Paul Chang, the candidate out in Unionville, Markham that got booted. Finally, he stepped down
00:13:22.760 after it was revealed that he was trying to turn in his conservative opponent for a bounty put out by
00:13:27.880 the communist regime in China. Well, he stepped down after, of course, Mark Carney wanted to keep
00:13:32.840 him in. Mark Carney said that he had apologized and Carney was fine with that. Well, Chang himself
00:13:37.480 decided to leave under pressure. And to nobody's surprise whatsoever, he has been replaced with another
00:13:45.080 hard-line defender of the communist Chinese government, liberal candidate Peter Yang, was replaced.
00:13:52.280 And video surfaced very, very quickly of him in uniform. He's a former Canadian police officer,
00:13:59.880 retired executive, and he is in his Canadian police uniform singing Chinese propaganda. Chinese
00:14:07.640 propaganda. My Chinese heart wearing full Canadian police regalia. Such an embarrassment. This is what that 0.98
00:14:14.680 looked like.
00:14:28.680 I mean, if you don't cringe seeing that, watching someone in a Canadian police uniform praising and
00:14:36.920 singing to the Chinese communist government. I mean, this is just, this just shows you folks how far our
00:14:43.240 country has gone, how low we've gone under the liberal government. Well, our friend Sam Cooper over at the
00:14:49.560 Bureau has done some digging and has a remarkable story over there. The retired Toronto police executive
00:14:57.000 who joined Chinese international school, which was flagged in Canada's election interference inquiry. He
00:15:05.160 is the one that replaced Paul Chang. So he has an entire investigative report about this individual,
00:15:09.880 Peter Yuan, and how, surprise, surprise, he's also very much linked to the Chinese government,
00:15:16.120 working for an international school that the government of Canada has flagged and knows is
00:15:21.400 involved in election interference. Mark Carney cannot get away from the scandal because his party and his
00:15:27.160 government is so interlinked and intertwined with the communist regime. Folks, scary, scary stuff. Voting for Mark Carney is not an elbows-up vote to secure Canadian sovereignty. Quite the opposite.
00:15:37.880 He is obviously campaigning for deeper and deeper integration with the communist government in China.
00:15:45.880 This should be, again, the biggest story in the country, but rather than that, the legacy media wants to continue to cover for him. It is such a disgrace. All the more reason why we need to organize. We need to do everything we can to make sure that there is a change in government on April 28th. It is so important, folks. All right, that's all the time we have for today.
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