Juno News - It’s Fake News Friday： the debates, CBC fake news fact-check and more!

00:00:00.000 The federal leaders debate was a colossal waste of time. The CBC fact-checks Trudeau's opponents

00:00:04.960 rather than fact-checking Trudeau, and the Canadian press highlights undecided voters,

00:00:09.480 all leftists who hate conservatives. It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candace Malcolm,

00:00:12.920 and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:19.300 Hi everyone, happy Friday. Thank you so much for tuning in today, and I hope you enjoyed

00:00:22.960 our live coverage last night of the federal leaders debate. We did a, what, four and a half

00:00:28.020 hour live stream giving you analysis and opinion, breaking down the issues, talking about

00:00:33.140 all things federal politics, including Justin Trudeau and his spectacular, colossal fall from

00:00:39.200 grace. It looked like he was going to get a majority in this election, that's why he called

00:00:42.780 this election, and he's so far from that. You could tell by his performance debate last night,

00:00:46.820 he was uptight, he was angry, he was just really not in a good place, not in a good position,

00:00:53.180 and it's been such a fall from grace, considering that he had that stable minority government that

00:00:58.300 wasn't going anywhere. There was no reason to call this election, and I'm sure that he is deeply,

00:01:02.700 deeply regretting it, as we see Aaron O'Toole just outperforming him all across the board.

00:01:08.060 O'Toole was very strong last night, and so was Jagmeet Singh. The only one that wasn't very strong

00:01:12.220 was Justin Trudeau, so it was a bad, bad night for Trudeau. But I will just say this, as much as

00:01:18.840 these leaders' debates are helpful in sort of illuminating the characteristics and personalities

00:01:23.640 of these leaders, and helping us understand a little bit more about their policies. Overall,

00:01:28.320 last night, the debate was just a huge waste of time, it was a failure. This is, again, more reason

00:01:33.840 why we should not have the federal government being the one in charge of this. We went through this last

00:01:37.940 night, but previously, before Trudeau came around, the debates were organized by private media companies.

00:01:42.980 There would be a variety of debates, different companies would team up with different groups,

00:01:46.660 and we would have debates that sort of spanned the issues, spanned the ideological range in terms

00:01:52.380 of what people might be interested in. Now we only have these two government-led debates, one in

00:01:57.520 French, one in English, and of course there was another French debate that the private television

00:02:01.900 station TVI in Quebec organized last week. So French speakers got two debates, English speakers only

00:02:08.560 got one, only got this terrible one organized by the government last night. It was long, it dragged

00:02:13.500 on, they really didn't cover the issues that mattered to most Canadians. So we spent the first hour

00:02:19.220 and 15 minutes, maybe hour and a half, of this debate on issues that can really just be described as

00:02:24.300 niche, special interest topics, talking about climate change. They spent a lot of time on climate change,

00:02:30.840 they spent a lot of time on reconciliation. When you look at the polls and what Canadians say really matters,

00:02:36.140 especially people who had the intention of voting Conservative, the top issues for them are jobs in the economy,

00:02:41.780 government spending, and debt, and getting out of the pandemic. And we didn't get to those topics at

00:02:46.380 all. There was not a single economic question asked until the last half hour of the debate last night.

00:02:50.660 By then most people had tuned out because it was just so drawn out. We heard so many activist

00:02:55.480 questions. I mean, we spent more time talking about universal pharmacare and talking about universal basic

00:03:02.500 income, which are really fringe, far-left ideas. We're talking full-on socialism when you get into

00:03:08.260 universal basic income. The idea is the government just pays you to have a basic living even if you

00:03:13.100 don't have a job. And so, you know, instead of talking about the important issues, how do we get

00:03:17.960 out of COVID? How do we restart our economy? How do we make sure that Canadians can afford to buy a home?

00:03:23.340 How do we make sure that there are enough jobs and that we have an economy that's strong enough

00:03:27.660 for the future? Instead of talking about government debt, we have over a trillion dollars in government

00:03:31.700 debt. Barely, barely touched on those issues. Instead, we were talking about these very niche issues.

00:03:37.140 And as usual, we saw, you know, there were some solid questions. I thought Mercedes Stevenson did

00:03:41.600 a decent job. I thought the moderator herself did a decent job, although I didn't like the format.

00:03:46.320 However, we did see the typical activism in the journalism. So instead of asking sort of open-ended

00:03:53.380 questions, allowing the leaders to debate the issue, we had journalists going up there, acting like

00:03:59.940 activists, acting like politicians themselves, trying to push their own niche issues rather than talking

00:04:06.900 with the issues that matter to Canadians. So here's a couple of examples of what that looked

00:04:10.980 like last night.

00:04:11.360 It said in 2019 that Canadians should never have to make the, and these are your words,

00:04:16.560 impossible choice between paying for medications or putting food on the table. We have seen you,

00:04:22.040 particularly in these recent months, willing to spend billions of dollars on programs that matter

00:04:27.040 to your government. Daycare would be another example of that. Why is there no money in your

00:04:31.500 platform or in your most recent budget for a national pharmacare program? Is it no longer a

00:04:37.400 priority? And should you not just tell Canadians that, sir? For millions of voters, this is the

00:04:43.060 climate change election. Mr. O'Toole, my question, next question's for you. You know, you voted against

00:04:48.120 the UN declaration on the rights of Indigenous people that would share decision-making power with

00:04:52.800 Indigenous people over what happens on their land. And you also want to criminalize Indigenous dissent 0.59

00:04:59.160 that's expressed through blockades or protests. One of the plans that you've laid out to tackle

00:05:04.020 affordability is a guaranteed livable income. You mentioned it just moments ago. Give people a set

00:05:08.660 amount of money to deal with their lives. Mr. O'Toole, you recommend vaccinations, but you won't make

00:05:13.640 your candidates get them. You have a climate plan, but you won't dump a candidate that shares climate

00:05:18.900 conspiracies. You're on record supporting the LGBTQ2 community, but you allowed half your MPs to vote 1.00

00:05:27.560 against legislation protecting them. You know, federal forces, including the RCMP and the

00:05:32.580 Department of Fisheries and Oceans, have been used throughout Canada's history to prevent First

00:05:37.240 Nations from exercising their treaty rights to fish and to hunt and to defend land and water. This is

00:05:42.680 happening right now on both coasts. After 150 plus years of lies and abuse to my people, and as Prime

00:05:49.900 Minister, what will you do to rebuild the trust between First Nations and the federal government?

00:05:54.840 So if you want to see more of our coverage of the debate, go on over to tnc.news or check it out

00:06:01.080 on YouTube or Facebook. You can see the whole live stream. It was about four and a half hours.

00:06:06.160 Two of those hours were the debate itself, so you can see the first hour, our analysis, and then during

00:06:10.840 the scrums, we also did more analysis. Our own Andrew Lawton was also in attendance at the debate. He was

00:06:17.400 able to ask some great questions to the leaders, so it was a great opportunity for True North to be able to

00:06:22.740 participate in that way. Now I want to talk a little bit about the CBC. It is Fake News Friday, and I

00:06:28.260 think that the debate last night was fake news. I think that that qualifies and we can easily classify

00:06:34.020 that as fake news, just given how out of touch it was with the issues of Canadians. It was such an

00:06:38.820 Ottawa-centric debate. It didn't touch on the issues that matter to people in the West. It didn't touch on

00:06:42.900 Alberta at all. The only time they talked about Alberta was when they were bashing the oil sands,

00:06:47.480 as usual. We didn't touch on the issues that really matter to Canadians, and that is such a 0.95

00:06:52.480 microcosm of the Ottawa bubble, of the things in Ottawa that people care about, the politicians,

00:06:58.080 the journalists, the sort of elitist class that lives there. We only learned about the issues they

00:07:04.000 cared about, and we didn't really touch on the broader issues that the Canadian population cares

00:07:08.740 about. That's fake news in and of itself. There's a couple other articles that I want to highlight

00:07:12.700 today. So first, this stood out to me. CBC did a fact check of the English debate, and this is just

00:07:18.060 so typical CBC. So they go through and highlight some of the claims that were made at the debate

00:07:22.780 last night, and if you go through it, okay, the first one is about Trudeau. So that's the first for

00:07:27.460 the CBC, because throughout this entire campaign, they have only fact-checked claims made about Justin

00:07:33.040 Trudeau, not claims made by Justin Trudeau. So you see multiple fact-checks on Aaron O'Toole,

00:07:37.380 multiple fact-checks on Jagmeet Singh, and zero fact-checks on Justin Trudeau, despite all of the

00:07:42.460 lies and misnomers that he repeats on a daily basis. They never fact-checked that. So in this

00:07:47.140 fact-check, they did do one fact-check on Justin Trudeau, but that is compared to three fact-checks

00:07:53.760 on Aaron O'Toole and three fact-checks on Jagmeet Singh. That's just so typical CBC. They will fact-check

00:07:59.820 claims about Trudeau rather than claims that Trudeau made, and even when they are fact-checking Trudeau,

00:08:05.380 they always give them the benefit of the doubt. So the first one was on sexual misconduct.

00:08:09.380 Justin Trudeau says, yes, these problems continue in workplaces across the country,

00:08:12.180 particularly in the military. That's unacceptable. That's why we've taken even stronger measures.

00:08:16.240 So they say this is a difficult subject for the Trudeau government, talking about this liberal

00:08:20.380 MP who represented Kitchener, who had multiple sexual complaints against him, and how he was

00:08:26.100 still able to run as a candidate until it came out in the media. And then it does say that the Trudeau

00:08:30.060 government has launched an external review of sexual misconduct in the military, and so supposedly

00:08:34.860 those are the measures. So they're kind of fact-checking Trudeau, but they're also saying that he is

00:08:38.840 correct. So this next one really stands out, and I'll go through it in a bit more detail.

00:08:43.520 So Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole last night said to Justin Trudeau about greenhouse gases and

00:08:47.960 carbon emission. Again, they spent probably half an hour, maybe closer to 45 minutes on climate change

00:08:52.580 last night, which is an issue that if you're a liberal voter, you really, really, really care

00:08:56.560 about climate change. If you're not a liberal voter and you're just a regular Canadian, or if you're

00:09:00.300 a conservative voter, climate change is pretty low on the list of priorities right now. And again,

00:09:05.080 just the amount of time that they spent on this topic last night shows how out of touch the

00:09:09.220 organizers are with everyday Canadians. But regardless, so Aaron O'Toole said to Trudeau on

00:09:13.560 the topic of greenhouse gas emissions, you have never made a target, Mr. Trudeau. And so the fact

00:09:19.860 check here notes that Jagmeet Singh and the NDP have also made this attack against Trudeau on greenhouse

00:09:24.420 gas emissions, saying that emissions have only risen since the Trudeau government signed the Paris

00:09:29.480 agreement, the climate agreement, back in 2016. So the attack against Trudeau is that he hasn't met his

00:09:34.780 emissions and that greenhouse gases have gone up. CBC admits that this is true. So let me just read

00:09:39.380 this section right here. It says, this is true. According to official statistics on greenhouse gas

00:09:44.120 emissions, emissions have risen consistently from 2016 to 2019, but only by a small amount. From 707

00:09:50.940 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalent to 730 in 2019, emissions are rising in Canada while they are

00:09:57.980 on a downward trajectory in the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union. So the fact here,

00:10:03.840 this is supposed to be a fact check. The fact is true. Trudeau has not lowered emissions and greenhouse

00:10:09.400 gas emissions have gone up. But rather than just leave it at that and say, this is a true attack

00:10:13.960 against Justin Trudeau, the CBC has to put some more context in there and change your opinion a little

00:10:19.880 bit to say, but actually Trudeau is right. So the next paragraph right here, it says, but experts have

00:10:25.960 told CBC that this line of attack is misleading. Okay. So when you attack Trudeau again, even if it's true,

00:10:32.660 it's still misleading. So let's see why the CBC says this. It says, policies introduced by the government

00:10:39.440 to reduce emissions, such as carbon pricing in 2019, will have an effect on greenhouse gas emissions, but not

00:10:45.720 immediately. That means the government could still meet the target in the future. Okay, you get that. So even

00:10:52.520 though it is a true line of attack, the CBC have found some experts out there who happen to like the liberal

00:10:58.540 policy of carbon taxes. And therefore they won't completely rule this out as being untrue. They give

00:11:04.100 a Trudeau credit. This is just so typical of the CBC. And yes, it is fake news. One more story I want to

00:11:09.380 cover today, which is this Canadian press story. So they went out there and they tried to find some

00:11:15.900 undecided voters to give Canadians an understanding of what's at stake in the election. So Canadian press,

00:11:21.540 Canadian press is a wire service. So this appeared all across the media, CTV, Globe, a lot of places

00:11:28.740 these wire stories appear. So the CP headline reads, the undecideds, three Canadian voters still

00:11:35.440 unsure of who to support. Okay. So Canadian press is trying to tell us that this is like a representative

00:11:41.180 sample of Canadians who are still deciding who to vote. So we highlight three people. The first one

00:11:47.500 is a guy from Montreal. He's 36 years old. He works in tech and we're going to try to figure out what,

00:11:54.100 you know, who he's going to vote for. So it says that he's ruled out voting for the liberals, the

00:11:58.340 conservatives and the bloc. So basically he's between the NDP and the green party. In other words,

00:12:05.360 this guy is on the fringe far left. He is considering voting for the socialist party, or if not, he's just

00:12:11.400 going to throw his vote away with a green party that's pulling at 2% federally. So, you know,

00:12:16.800 this is not a representative person of the party. Anyone interested in voting for a protest party

00:12:22.340 like the green party, especially one that's in absolute shambles right now. The entire focus of

00:12:27.100 Anna Mae Paul almost every time she spoke was basically just apologizing for how terrible her

00:12:31.980 party is and how it's a total mess for her. So the fact that this guy is considering voting for

00:12:37.680 the greens shows that he is not at all representative of Canadians. So next we have another individual who

00:12:43.620 this guy lives in Calgary. He's got a wife and three kids. He moved from South Sudan 20 years ago,

00:12:48.600 presumably as a refugee. And he says that he voted for the liberal party in the past, including in

00:12:54.720 2019. So here is a person from Calgary who likes Trudeau. This guy is in the very, very small minority.

00:13:01.760 If you're in Alberta and you're voting for the liberals, you are part of a fringe because the number

00:13:07.080 one party in Alberta, everyone knows, is the conservatives. They win huge majorities and they win almost all the

00:13:12.500 seats, if not every single seat in Alberta. And the secondary party in Alberta is the NDP. The NDP

00:13:18.120 are the opposition out there. They were the former provincial government. So liberals are really in

00:13:24.220 the space. You know, it is very much a conservative versus NDP, province left versus right. And if you're

00:13:29.940 a liberal voter, it means that you're pretty much out of touch with the rest of the province. The

00:13:34.320 province just hates liberals in that way. So it would sort of be like going to Montreal and try to find a

00:13:40.520 guy who votes conservative. It's, it's just, you know, the conservatives are an afterthought in

00:13:44.760 Montreal, just like the liberals are an afterthought in Alberta. And then the CP story throws in the

00:13:49.260 fact that this guy hates Jason Kenney, hates the United Conservative Party of Canada. Here's a quote

00:13:55.060 that they threw in, in Alberta, the UCP, which is the United Conservative Party, is consistently

00:14:00.060 targeting the Alberta health services for cuts. And that puts Albertans in danger as access to

00:14:05.620 healthcare is becoming less easy. So super politicized. This is not, none of this is true.

00:14:10.260 This is all just media propaganda. The idea that Kenney is cutting healthcare, obviously it's not

00:14:15.680 true. He's increasing healthcare in Alberta. So it really, this guy is not representative at all of

00:14:22.180 people who live in Calgary, but CP found, you know, a Calgarian who votes for Trudeau, which is

00:14:27.640 really rare. And third and finally, the CP highlights a young lady from Newfoundland. This woman is

00:14:33.620 pregnant in her third trimester of a high risk pregnancy, we learn. And the issue that she cares

00:14:38.040 about in this election is universal pharmacare, because she doesn't want to have to pay for her 1.00

00:14:42.460 own prescription drugs because of a preexisting condition that she has with regards to fertility 0.87

00:14:48.980 and her pregnancy. So again, this is pretty much a niche issue. She says that the things that she

00:14:54.400 cares about are the pharmacare and having the government pay for her drugs. So here we learn 0.99

00:15:00.480 that this undecided voter is actually a big fan of the NDP and that's who she's going to vote for

00:15:05.220 probably because she likes the idea of government funded drugs. She also says that the NDP's values

00:15:10.560 closely align with her own, including ending racism and promoting LGBTQ community. I'll just say that

00:15:18.260 all parties have that as a goal. There's no party that is pro-racism and there's no party that is

00:15:23.480 anti-LGBTQ. So it's a little silly that someone would say that, but hey, if you connect with Jagmeet,

00:15:30.320 those are obviously Jagmeet Singh's strong points if you're a progressive on the far left. So again,

00:15:35.960 we have three voters. None of them are representative of Canadians. They all classify as being part of a 1.00

00:15:41.580 fringe just given where they are and what parties they vote for. So rather than finding even someone

00:15:47.040 who might closely resemble a centrist or perhaps even center-right who might be considering who

00:15:53.020 to vote on that side, the CP highlight these three leftists and try to tell us that they're

00:15:57.580 representative of all Canadians. So three highlighted voters, three leftists. That's exactly what we have

00:16:02.420 come to expect from the biased legacy media. It's fake news and that's why it made our fake news Friday.

00:16:09.140 Thank you so much for tuning in. Have a wonderful weekend and we will be back again next week.

00:16:12.820 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:16:17.040 Thank you.

Juno News - September 10, 2021

It’s Fake News Friday： the debates, CBC fake news fact-check and more!

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