Juno News - July 28, 2021


Is Justin Trudeau hinting at another CBC bailout？


Episode Stats

Length

17 minutes

Words per Minute

183.18231

Word Count

3,174

Sentence Count

190

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

A memo leaked by a Blacklock reporter raises the question: Is Justin Trudeau hinting at yet another CBC bailout? Candice explains why the government is footing the bill, and why the CBC should get even more money to keep them afloat.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Is Justin Trudeau hinting at yet another CBC bailout?
00:00:03.740 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:11.000 So according to a memo which was unearthed by Blacklock's reporter,
00:00:15.480 which is an investigative journalism outlet over in Ottawa, they do great work.
00:00:19.400 Well, according to their report, this memo was written by
00:00:22.220 the Trudeau government's Department of Canadian Heritage
00:00:24.680 and it stated that the CBC is under immense financial pressure.
00:00:30.000 This despite receiving $1.2 billion each and every year from the Trudeau government.
00:00:36.600 Do these government journalists really need even more taxpayer cash?
00:00:40.420 Well, the Trudeau government memo seems to make that case.
00:00:43.360 It says this,
00:00:44.100 The COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of covering it
00:00:47.400 put immense pressure on CBC's workforce, operations, finances, and systems.
00:00:53.640 But wait a minute, why would COVID affect the CBC? Think about it.
00:00:57.660 It isn't like they're a small business who were forced to shut their doors
00:01:01.380 because of a government mandate.
00:01:03.220 They're not a mom and pop shop who lost their clientele
00:01:05.760 because of the lockdowns or their cash-strapped clients.
00:01:09.140 It's hard to think of any real way that the CBC would have been affected.
00:01:13.660 They're not a private company.
00:01:15.040 They don't rely on subscribers.
00:01:16.860 They don't really even rely on advertisers to stay afloat.
00:01:20.180 It's hard to think of any way that COVID or the resulting lockdowns
00:01:23.260 would have really had any effect on CBC or their bottom line.
00:01:26.380 Perhaps that's why the memo did emphasize this one point.
00:01:29.940 It says the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
00:01:33.460 put additional pressures on its cash flow, right?
00:01:37.760 The Olympics.
00:01:38.360 So poor CBC, they had to wait an entire year for that big media event.
00:01:43.620 But get this, because of COVID, because of the pandemic,
00:01:46.660 the Trudeau government already gave the CBC more money.
00:01:49.800 Yes, they pledged an additional $21 million
00:01:51.780 for this very reason in the most recent budget.
00:01:55.140 This is from the budget document.
00:01:57.020 It says,
00:01:57.700 Budget 2021 proposes to provide $21 million in 2021-22
00:02:02.860 as immediate operational support to the CBC Radio Canada.
00:02:07.760 The funding will ensure its stability during the pandemic
00:02:10.920 and enable it to continue providing news and entertainment programming
00:02:15.240 that keeps Canadians informed.
00:02:18.220 To keep Canadians informed.
00:02:19.980 I do love that.
00:02:20.940 Have you spent much time on the CBC's website lately?
00:02:24.680 I usually don't.
00:02:25.940 I make a point of not going and visiting it
00:02:27.760 because the news over there is truly preposterous.
00:02:31.300 But for this report, I spent a bit of time perusing through the website.
00:02:35.400 And let me tell you, I can barely even describe it as a news site.
00:02:39.400 It's really a propaganda site that sort of pretends to be a news site.
00:02:44.120 I'll tell you what I'm talking about.
00:02:45.660 So, every progressive left-wing cultural trend that's been exported from the American left
00:02:51.560 can be found front and center on the CBC.
00:02:54.640 Just check this out.
00:02:56.040 So, first we have this large banner at the top of the page
00:02:58.700 and there's ads plastered all over the site called
00:03:01.220 Being Black in Canada
00:03:02.640 with a bunch of Marxist revolution fists up in the air.
00:03:07.120 And it says this,
00:03:07.860 find more stories about the Black experience in Canada.
00:03:11.360 And sometimes when you're scrolling through a different news site,
00:03:14.860 you'll see an ad bar.
00:03:16.080 So, it's a bar on the side of the screen that is an advertisement
00:03:18.860 but it looks like the sort of trending stories on the site.
00:03:22.060 And this is the feed that's dedicated entirely to that series that the CBC does.
00:03:27.460 It's pretty wild.
00:03:28.180 It's like they have their own segregated news right here.
00:03:31.140 There's an entire section devoted just to telling stories about Black people in Canada.
00:03:35.920 So, I guess this is all in response to the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement
00:03:39.980 which is an American movement directly in response to the disproportionate crime
00:03:45.600 and police shootings of Black people in the U.S.
00:03:48.880 But we don't really have that problem in Canada, do we?
00:03:51.740 We don't have the same history.
00:03:53.340 We don't have the same school systems in the U.S.
00:03:55.340 We don't have the same criminal justice systems.
00:03:57.560 So, it's a little odd to take this American cultural phenomenon
00:04:01.160 and try to apply it into Canada, try to rectify it.
00:04:04.060 The experience of Black people in Canada is just different.
00:04:07.280 In fact, Black people in Canada only make up about 3% of the population
00:04:11.000 so a little more than a million people.
00:04:13.560 But get this, a majority of Black people in Canada, 52% are immigrants.
00:04:18.280 So, they were born somewhere else and they moved to Canada.
00:04:21.060 Most likely they chose to come to Canada
00:04:23.020 or their parents brought them when they were children.
00:04:25.360 So, again, the experience of Black people is just different.
00:04:28.220 It's a little weird that we would have this whole section
00:04:30.720 of the government-funded broadcasting news station
00:04:33.840 devoted to the experience of 3% of the population.
00:04:38.380 And it's interesting to note that in Canada,
00:04:40.240 the Black population has doubled in the last 20 years,
00:04:43.800 meaning that more and more Black people want to come to Canada
00:04:46.440 because it's a good country.
00:04:47.760 It's a great place for them to live.
00:04:49.200 So, they come here just like it's a great place for everyone to live.
00:04:51.740 Our story couldn't be more different than our American neighbours.
00:04:54.720 And yet, our state broadcaster insists on importing this cultural narrative
00:04:59.360 from another country and then awkwardly trying to apply it into Canada.
00:05:03.780 So, do Black Canadians, most of whom are immigrants
00:05:06.800 and most of whom are probably pretty grateful and happy to be here,
00:05:10.480 do they really need their own news section,
00:05:12.880 their own separate news with this weird Marxist banner?
00:05:15.960 How silly. It really is silly.
00:05:17.900 The silliness doesn't end there.
00:05:19.460 Let's look at some of the top stories today just for fun.
00:05:22.100 Again, I don't usually go on the CBC website,
00:05:24.080 but I just decided to cruise around today
00:05:26.800 and I was pretty surprised by what is considered news over at the CBC.
00:05:31.580 So, here's a story here.
00:05:32.740 It says,
00:05:33.520 Health Canada dragging feet on approving magic mushrooms
00:05:36.900 for therapeutic use, patients and advocates say.
00:05:40.400 So, right here, one of the top stories on the website
00:05:42.480 is the CBC pushing for the approval of psychedelic drugs.
00:05:46.900 Okay, next, we have a story here.
00:05:48.540 It says, Ontario's hair school standards still ignore black hair
00:05:52.480 four years after work began to include it.
00:05:55.860 So, in this story, we hear all about how difficult it is
00:05:58.840 for some black women to find hair salons
00:06:01.520 where people know how to do their hair.
00:06:04.100 And, of course, the response here is so typical
00:06:06.180 of the big government mindset over at the CBC.
00:06:09.120 So, instead of letting the free market do its thing,
00:06:12.100 which is a sort of problem like this,
00:06:13.680 lots of people have different hairstyles,
00:06:15.800 different hair textures, different hair types,
00:06:18.220 and you therefore have lots of different people
00:06:20.360 who kind of specialize in different hairstyles,
00:06:23.300 different hair textures, different techniques,
00:06:25.380 different things that they do to someone's hair.
00:06:28.060 Instead of letting the consumers sort of try to seek out
00:06:30.720 someone who specializes in the hairstyle
00:06:32.860 that they are looking for,
00:06:34.400 the CBC instead is pushing for this blanket approach
00:06:37.820 where the government regulates it
00:06:39.860 to make sure that all hairdressers in the province of Ontario
00:06:43.060 have the ability to work on all hair types
00:06:45.700 and all hair textures.
00:06:47.860 Now, of course, this would require all hairdressers in Ontario
00:06:50.800 to have more training, more time, more specialization,
00:06:53.680 and ultimately, it will just make everybody's haircut
00:06:56.700 in Ontario more expensive.
00:06:58.920 But the social justice warriors over at the CBC,
00:07:01.380 they don't care about that.
00:07:02.460 All they care about is advocating for social justice,
00:07:05.760 and that is clearly what this piece is all about.
00:07:08.580 It's funny, when you have an entire section on your website
00:07:11.680 dedicated to being black in Canada,
00:07:14.120 you have to have reporters just kind of out there
00:07:16.240 making up the news, inventing stories
00:07:18.320 that aren't really that newsworthy,
00:07:20.620 aren't really that big of a deal.
00:07:22.340 But, you know, you have all this money
00:07:23.800 and you have these dedicated reporters,
00:07:25.600 and so they're going to come up with news one way or another.
00:07:28.400 I think this story is a pretty good example of that.
00:07:30.360 Sort of like how the federal government,
00:07:32.480 they have dedicated funds that newspapers and media outlets
00:07:35.980 can apply for, and the government gives out millions of dollars
00:07:38.880 for reporters to cover climate change.
00:07:41.480 And that's why you see all these news outlets
00:07:43.020 that have a climate change reporter.
00:07:45.540 It's their job to report on climate change
00:07:47.680 because they're getting paid by the federal government
00:07:49.360 to subsidize these positions,
00:07:51.200 and that's why you see so much news about climate change.
00:07:54.580 Think about it.
00:07:55.160 If your job is a dedicated climate change reporter,
00:07:59.560 you're going to look at every weather event.
00:08:01.060 You're going to look at every event
00:08:02.200 and see it through the lens of climate change
00:08:04.120 and make it about climate change
00:08:05.440 because that's what your job is,
00:08:06.980 and that's what the government is paying you to do.
00:08:08.940 And so we see that here.
00:08:11.500 Okay, let's keep scrolling,
00:08:12.860 see what else the CBC has to offer today.
00:08:15.840 And I really, this story really just takes a cake for me.
00:08:19.020 I'm going to read a little bit from it
00:08:20.240 because it is just a little silly,
00:08:22.200 just like the other CBC stories.
00:08:23.600 This one probably is the silliest.
00:08:25.520 It says,
00:08:25.960 Transgender woman says,
00:08:27.820 Getting gender-affirming ID in Ontario
00:08:30.280 is an impossible struggle.
00:08:32.820 An impossible struggle, we're told.
00:08:34.460 So this story is about a trans woman,
00:08:36.320 so a biological male,
00:08:37.620 who wants to get a new ID in Ontario
00:08:40.460 listing the gender as female.
00:08:42.740 We're told that is an impossible struggle,
00:08:44.700 and the CBC explains just how.
00:08:47.980 So I'm going to read from this piece.
00:08:50.480 It says,
00:08:51.020 first the subheading says,
00:08:52.220 Trans people required to get doctor's letter
00:08:54.320 when changing gender on photo cards.
00:08:56.880 So ever since Diana Bosco transitioned to female four years ago,
00:09:01.660 she's been attempting to get identification
00:09:03.400 that accurately reflects her gender,
00:09:05.660 a process she describes as invasive
00:09:07.660 and stymied by systemic discrimination
00:09:10.020 against transgender people.
00:09:11.940 She's currently trying to get an Ontario photo card,
00:09:14.860 government-issued ID for those without a driver's license,
00:09:17.820 with her sex designated as F.
00:09:21.060 But, she says,
00:09:22.140 she has only been met with barriers.
00:09:24.760 It's been an impossible struggle, Diana says.
00:09:27.000 It feels like all the old hate
00:09:28.860 just lingers around in the system and everywhere.
00:09:32.200 I just know,
00:09:33.200 I don't know what to do.
00:09:34.960 I just want to live my life,
00:09:36.240 but I'm struggling here.
00:09:37.460 Okay, so the CBC goes on to explain this struggle
00:09:40.800 and how the system is just so filled with hate.
00:09:43.540 It says,
00:09:43.800 Earlier this month,
00:09:44.600 Diana and her social worker
00:09:46.260 went to Service Ontario location in West Toronto,
00:09:49.820 so Diana could apply for the card.
00:09:51.740 We're told that when she was there,
00:09:53.600 the Service Ontario worker
00:09:55.740 asked some uncomfortable questions
00:09:57.340 and ultimately asked her for a doctor's note.
00:10:00.640 And that is what she's saying
00:10:02.620 that she is upset about.
00:10:04.480 She says,
00:10:04.840 I know who I am.
00:10:05.620 I don't need to prove it to you.
00:10:07.720 And then she basically learned
00:10:09.120 that it was required
00:10:10.240 that the doctor's note had to be there.
00:10:12.040 So according to the CBC piece,
00:10:13.360 it says here that Diana said,
00:10:15.440 the requirement is a huge obstacle
00:10:17.460 for trans people
00:10:18.760 facing systemic discrimination
00:10:20.320 in the healthcare system
00:10:21.620 as they may not have a doctor
00:10:23.680 they trust to provide the letter.
00:10:26.880 It goes on to say that the people
00:10:29.160 who work in Ontario in healthcare
00:10:31.080 as far as Ontario need more education
00:10:32.760 about trans people
00:10:34.460 and that they shouldn't be so mean
00:10:36.680 and asking all these questions.
00:10:38.740 Well, I just kind of have a hard time.
00:10:40.860 I mean, look,
00:10:41.660 I won't discount this one person's experience.
00:10:43.440 Maybe she's having a really difficult time.
00:10:45.760 Maybe this is a impossible struggle for her,
00:10:48.320 but sort of from an objective standpoint,
00:10:50.800 we know that it is incredibly easy
00:10:52.680 in the province of Ontario
00:10:53.900 to get your gender changed.
00:10:56.320 Remember when the rebel sent a news personality
00:10:59.500 to go and do this exact same thing,
00:11:01.700 this very thing,
00:11:02.600 just to show how easy it is.
00:11:04.460 I'm going to play a bit of this clip
00:11:05.840 because again,
00:11:06.840 it just sort of walks you through the process
00:11:08.400 and it shows you just how easy it is
00:11:10.780 to get your gender changed in Ontario.
00:11:12.820 So this is Lauren Southern,
00:11:13.980 remember her?
00:11:14.580 She decided that she was going to go do this stunt.
00:11:17.160 She dressed up as a guy, sort of.
00:11:19.180 I mean, you can see here,
00:11:20.560 she still very much looks like a woman,
00:11:22.260 but she dressed like this
00:11:23.260 and she walked into a doctor's office.
00:11:26.060 She told the doctor
00:11:26.960 that she had been identifying as a man,
00:11:29.760 that her friends called her by male pronouns
00:11:31.960 and that she wanted to validate this
00:11:34.240 through the system in Ontario,
00:11:36.140 play you a bit of that clip.
00:11:37.160 You might not get this question often
00:11:39.360 and I don't mean to waste your time at all,
00:11:41.300 but I've been a gender non-binary person
00:11:43.940 for about a year now.
00:11:45.380 Sorry, gen?
00:11:46.780 Gender non-binary.
00:11:48.220 Binary.
00:11:49.300 Can you explain that to me?
00:11:50.440 I use male pronouns
00:11:51.800 and among my friends groups,
00:11:53.540 as Oliver can tell you,
00:11:54.960 I've been identified as a male for a while.
00:11:58.040 I don't always present as male,
00:11:59.560 but gender is a spectrum.
00:12:02.180 Well, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
00:12:04.960 I mean, it's not like I can prove anything, right?
00:12:07.060 Yeah.
00:12:07.340 Obviously.
00:12:08.020 Yeah, thank you.
00:12:09.220 Do you want me to say
00:12:10.260 that you should be identified as a male?
00:12:12.440 Yes, please.
00:12:13.320 Okay.
00:12:19.120 Okay.
00:12:19.680 The letters of the...
00:12:20.440 Maybe.
00:12:22.280 Now, you can see the doctor is,
00:12:24.460 you know, perfectly fine.
00:12:26.280 Barely even skeptical,
00:12:27.480 just sort of like,
00:12:28.200 okay, whatever you want,
00:12:29.580 whatever you need,
00:12:30.260 here you go,
00:12:30.840 provides the note that is required,
00:12:33.720 really just goes along with it.
00:12:34.620 No one wants to be accused of being offensive
00:12:37.340 or being hateful towards trans people,
00:12:39.200 and most people will just kind of go along with it.
00:12:41.880 Now, next,
00:12:42.840 Lauren heads on over to Service Ontario,
00:12:45.300 which is a service provider in Ontario
00:12:47.440 that issues the government ID.
00:12:49.540 And so she,
00:12:50.480 you can see she's no longer dressed like a dude.
00:12:52.880 She's got her hair down,
00:12:54.240 she's wearing lots of makeup,
00:12:55.540 and she even has a low-cut shirt.
00:12:57.200 So she's looking a lot more like a woman in this clip,
00:12:59.800 and she originally doesn't mention anything
00:13:02.780 about her gender being a man to the clerk.
00:13:05.560 She just hands all the documents,
00:13:07.380 and then kind of very,
00:13:08.860 at the very end,
00:13:09.560 as an afterthought,
00:13:10.540 she just mentions,
00:13:11.500 oh, and by the way,
00:13:12.580 I'm a man,
00:13:13.180 and here's the documentation.
00:13:14.320 So let's play this clip.
00:13:15.740 How's it going?
00:13:16.620 Good.
00:13:18.060 Sure.
00:13:18.880 One more thing.
00:13:19.680 For purposes of this identification,
00:13:21.440 I would like to be identified as male.
00:13:23.240 So I brought in all of the proper documents.
00:13:32.220 I'm glad you're coming.
00:13:35.160 One moment, okay?
00:13:37.060 Yep.
00:13:40.860 I think my favorite part of that clip
00:13:42.660 is when the clerk calls Lauren,
00:13:44.860 sir.
00:13:45.400 Again, you know,
00:13:46.360 people are just trying to be polite.
00:13:48.060 No one wants to be accused of being hateful.
00:13:50.560 No one actually is hateful,
00:13:52.240 and most people just want to be helpful.
00:13:54.520 And you can see here,
00:13:55.860 you know,
00:13:56.200 the clerk makes a phone call,
00:13:57.960 explains the situation,
00:13:59.040 no problem.
00:14:00.100 Lauren gets her,
00:14:01.160 Lauren walked away
00:14:02.020 from the Service Ontario office
00:14:03.620 with the piece of paper
00:14:05.180 documenting that she was now
00:14:06.680 legally a male in Ontario.
00:14:09.160 So the very fact
00:14:10.220 that someone like Lauren,
00:14:11.180 who is a social media personality,
00:14:13.640 a provocateur,
00:14:14.680 could just so easily
00:14:15.720 and so quickly
00:14:16.600 get her gender changed
00:14:18.200 legally in Ontario,
00:14:19.100 makes me a little bit skeptical
00:14:20.460 of the claim being made here
00:14:22.300 by the CBC,
00:14:23.340 which is that it is
00:14:24.340 an impossible struggle
00:14:25.340 to get this done.
00:14:26.220 It really didn't seem
00:14:27.260 impossible at all.
00:14:28.120 In fact,
00:14:28.620 it seemed far,
00:14:29.980 far too easy.
00:14:31.440 But again,
00:14:32.060 the CBC does not do journalism.
00:14:34.220 They do woke left-wing activism.
00:14:36.480 This probably met their quota
00:14:38.020 that they have
00:14:38.560 some kind of a weekly quota
00:14:39.640 of telling trans stories
00:14:41.740 and this fell into that.
00:14:43.780 So, you know what?
00:14:44.660 All this is just to say,
00:14:46.460 it's no wonder
00:14:47.180 that Canadians are tuning out
00:14:48.940 from the CBC
00:14:49.840 and they are.
00:14:50.960 CBC's numbers
00:14:51.680 are massively down.
00:14:52.840 So CBC's ad revenues
00:14:54.180 fell by 20% last year
00:14:56.320 and in October 2020,
00:14:57.560 they had to cut 130 employees
00:14:59.640 from English television
00:15:01.040 and that was despite
00:15:01.920 getting that $21 million
00:15:03.120 cash infusion
00:15:04.340 from the Trudeau government.
00:15:05.980 So sure,
00:15:06.340 you can blame that
00:15:07.120 on the pandemic,
00:15:08.280 but in the five years
00:15:09.000 before 2020,
00:15:10.080 from 2015 to 2019,
00:15:12.640 ad revenue also fell
00:15:13.760 by 53%.
00:15:14.800 That is part of a long trend
00:15:16.860 of declining viewership
00:15:18.260 of the CBC.
00:15:19.820 Ad revenue also fell
00:15:20.720 by 12% between 2010
00:15:22.660 and 2015.
00:15:24.960 And of course,
00:15:25.600 the declining ad revenue
00:15:26.720 reflects the declining viewerships
00:15:28.260 because Canadians,
00:15:29.360 by and large,
00:15:29.900 are no longer getting
00:15:30.900 their news from the CBC.
00:15:32.800 The CBC News'
00:15:33.700 flagship program,
00:15:34.780 The National,
00:15:35.220 has seen some of the
00:15:36.020 sharpest declines
00:15:36.860 in viewership.
00:15:37.720 So since Peter Mansbridge's
00:15:39.340 departure as host in 2017,
00:15:41.540 The National has seen
00:15:42.440 a 24% decline in viewership.
00:15:45.300 This report from
00:15:46.060 The Globe and Mail
00:15:46.540 is from 2019,
00:15:47.800 so I can only imagine
00:15:48.700 the numbers are even lower today,
00:15:50.380 but this is what the report
00:15:51.320 from The Globe and Mail says.
00:15:52.780 The public broadcaster's
00:15:53.920 flagship national newscast
00:15:55.560 has attracted an average
00:15:56.700 of 401,000 viewers
00:15:58.640 aged two years old plus
00:16:00.280 nightly on the main
00:16:01.480 CBC TV network
00:16:02.680 over the 2018-19
00:16:04.320 television series,
00:16:05.480 down sharply from
00:16:06.300 the 525,000
00:16:08.280 average number of viewers
00:16:10.400 who tuned in
00:16:11.200 for Mansbridge's final season
00:16:12.780 as news anchor.
00:16:14.760 Okay, so let me just
00:16:15.640 make this point
00:16:16.200 because it's really silly.
00:16:17.460 If you're watching
00:16:18.120 this video right now
00:16:19.540 on YouTube or Facebook,
00:16:21.060 you see the total number
00:16:22.260 of devices that are
00:16:23.380 watching the video.
00:16:24.420 So one device
00:16:25.340 counts as one view.
00:16:27.140 But if you live
00:16:28.040 in the network television world,
00:16:29.800 they use Statistics Canada data
00:16:31.560 to determine how many people
00:16:33.280 are in your household.
00:16:35.020 And if you're over
00:16:35.700 two years old,
00:16:36.760 you're included
00:16:37.620 so long as one person
00:16:38.980 in that household
00:16:39.520 has the TV on
00:16:40.820 while the CBC is on.
00:16:42.460 So my two-year-old son
00:16:43.880 who is not awake
00:16:44.700 during the evening news,
00:16:45.720 and even if he was awake,
00:16:46.960 he wouldn't be sitting
00:16:47.660 over my shoulder
00:16:48.600 consuming the news
00:16:50.040 and listening
00:16:50.600 and soaking it all in.
00:16:51.820 Well, it doesn't matter
00:16:52.620 because he counts
00:16:53.440 as a viewer
00:16:54.120 and still,
00:16:55.440 and still,
00:16:55.980 even with that silly metric
00:16:57.300 of counting people,
00:16:58.960 including children
00:16:59.720 and other people
00:17:00.420 who aren't even
00:17:00.960 watching the television,
00:17:02.280 they can only
00:17:02.820 master 400,000 viewers
00:17:05.520 from a country
00:17:06.420 of 38 million people.
00:17:09.420 Look,
00:17:09.960 the CBC exists
00:17:10.780 for a bygone era.
00:17:12.160 It has outlived its mandate.
00:17:13.580 It has outlived
00:17:14.360 its usefulness.
00:17:15.460 It is time for us
00:17:16.360 to pull the plug.
00:17:17.540 I'm Candace Malcolm
00:17:18.140 and this is
00:17:18.780 The Candace Malcolm Show.