Juno News - March 18, 2022


Justin Trudeau’s ‘edgy’ diplomatic efforts embarrass us all


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33 minutes

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192.27313

Word Count

6,420

Sentence Count

341

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's diplomatic efforts are a complete embarrassment, but of course the
00:00:04.620 legacy media cheer them on. The ultimate fake news story, the Hunter Biden laptop story,
00:00:09.520 turns out to be true, and Canada's Governor General projects her insane left-wing politics
00:00:14.940 onto the Queen. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:30.000 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program. I'm joined as always on Fridays by
00:00:34.980 my producer and journalist here at True North, Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, how are you doing
00:00:38.520 this morning? Pretty good, pretty good. Excited to get into this. Yeah, so the first story we wanted
00:00:43.260 to cover today, it's not exactly news other than just the way that the legacy media portrays. It's
00:00:47.960 not fake news, but this is sort of the embarrassing attitude and way that our government carries
00:00:54.260 itself when it comes to foreign policy and diplomacy. So I'm sure you saw this circulating
00:00:58.740 online. The Canadian embassy in Ukraine tweets out a letter sent to them by the Russian government
00:01:04.660 with their own edits in red. So this is a kind of juvenile, kind of like smack back, you know,
00:01:11.280 own your enemies, kind of just very immature behavior that you see on social media. Usually it's,
00:01:16.880 you know, done back and forth between political adversaries, young people, not serious people,
00:01:24.080 you know, someone trying to troll someone else. And yet this is what our diplomacy has come to,
00:01:29.780 trolling Russians and editing a document. So basically what we see here is a letter that was
00:01:36.580 sent, which was like a fairly serious matter. You can read part of it. He says,
00:01:41.420 Your Excellency, I'm reaching out to you with regard to an urgent matter related to the dire human
00:01:46.160 right situation in and around Ukraine. And then the Canadian response here adds in an insert saying,
00:01:53.720 which we have caused as a result of our illegal war of aggression. So I won't go through the whole
00:01:58.560 letter because it's just so immature and incoherent and silly. But the idea is that they're, you know,
00:02:05.420 owning the Russians by changing their words to admit guilt. And the craziest thing is that this
00:02:14.180 tweet garnered huge amounts of attention, lots and lots of retweets, 27,600 at the time of recording
00:02:21.420 with 66,000 likes Harrison. I mean, this is what our diplomacy has come to. And again, rather than
00:02:27.880 the media kind of saying, wait a second, guys, this is really immature. This is like the public image of
00:02:33.100 Canada on the world stage trolling and behaving very juvenile. Instead, we see the legacy media cheering
00:02:39.980 them on, reporting it like, wow, look at this great story of the Canadian embassy hitting back on
00:02:46.580 social media. Our friend Ben Woodford had a great tweet that pretty much, you know, my opinion exactly
00:02:54.000 is already here. He says, this may rack up the likes and retweets, but surely I'm not the only one who is
00:02:59.880 deeply uncomfortable with this kind of edgy but completely pointless online behavior from government
00:03:04.400 organizations in the face of a catastrophe. It makes a serious and tragic situation seem like a
00:03:10.820 joke. I agree with that 100%. Harrison, what did you think about this? Right? Well, you know, this is
00:03:16.580 not the first time we have seen Canada be embarrassing on the world stage. And we wonder why under Justin
00:03:22.460 Trudeau, Canada's place in the world has fallen. We've been left out of these out of these security
00:03:28.340 organizations. We've been left out of these important meetings because this tweet is kind of
00:03:33.920 symbolic of this larger sort of attempt to try and make Canada this weird, I don't know, like Ben said,
00:03:42.340 this sort of edgy and pointless diplomatic behavior. This just goes to show you that Melanie Jolie is
00:03:48.220 no Pearson, certainly not. And this just sort of, like I said, this is symbolic of Canada's diplomatic
00:03:57.700 presence. I mean, earlier in the week, Melanie Jolie even admitted that Canada's role on the world stage
00:04:03.440 is to bring people to the table or to try and to try and encourage diplomacy, which is just a nice way
00:04:08.920 of saying that we don't do anything. And this is quite obviously why this is the case. Well, and it's
00:04:15.160 the opposite, Harrison, of what this would be doing. If Canada's role is to bring people to the table,
00:04:19.320 mocking them on Twitter doesn't accomplish that at all. No, exactly. And, and I want to read what the,
00:04:26.360 what the Russian UN ambassador wrote back, because I think it's, it, it kind of is, it points at the
00:04:33.160 point, the problem of this tweet. He says, um, thank you Canada at UN for this kindergarten level
00:04:40.240 russophobic libel. It only shows that your diplomatic skills and good manners are at the
00:04:44.660 lowest ebb and gives an idea why your country's bid for a non-permanent seat in the Security Council
00:04:49.140 was voted down twice in 20 years by UN membership. So he digs right at the UN Security Council,
00:04:55.040 um, loss. He, he digs right to the point. And I think, you know, one thing I wanted to pull was
00:05:00.440 that was a tweet by a political coordinator for Canada's UN mission who kind of, I think maybe
00:05:06.680 came out to try and do damage control on this tweet. He wrote on Twitter, he said, for naysayers out
00:05:12.060 there, this was done in-house by a creative member of the team who is responsible for protecting
00:05:17.200 civilians, took 30 minutes, only one draft, then published no back and forth with HQ. The aim was
00:05:24.600 transparency for this blatant Russian disinformation, which they sent to all UN members. So the, the
00:05:30.380 actual UN Canadian employee comes out and says, this was one draft, it took 30 minutes to do, and there
00:05:36.940 was no back and forth, and HQ didn't even know about this. So, I mean, it kind of paints a picture
00:05:42.240 that Canada's UN mission is, you know, totally without direction, and that they're, what they put
00:05:48.660 out on social media is done by a creative member of the team without, without HQ even knowing about
00:05:54.540 it. So, yeah, Candace, this was just, this was just another, another kind of embarrassing moment
00:05:59.320 for Canada's foreign policy. Well, also they go right to process, right? Because I'm sure that
00:06:03.880 some journalists out there may say, okay, let's, let's A-tip this. Let's, let's find out, like,
00:06:08.020 let's put in an access to information and find out how long this took them, how many man hours. And so
00:06:12.380 they're already trying to do damage control, saying there is no back and forth. Don't worry,
00:06:16.380 don't, don't try to investigate this. It only took half an hour. Okay. It was a press release
00:06:20.360 from a government. You, you may say, like, I disagree with the content that they put out,
00:06:24.180 but this is where we, where we've come in our society, that if you disagree with something,
00:06:28.580 then it becomes blatant disinformation. It's not just like, you know, we, we, we didn't like the
00:06:33.680 content. We didn't think that they put enough emphasis on the fact that they invaded and that
00:06:38.800 they initiated this war. They just call it blatant disinformation. And again, this, this whole idea
00:06:43.600 that somehow the Canadian government are the arbiters of truth and that there are these super
00:06:48.760 serious, uh, diplomats out there, uh, with a noble aim, which is to like expose Russian disinformation.
00:06:54.780 It's, it's all just so stupid. And again, it, it protects such an embarrassing, uh, image onto Canada.
00:07:01.160 Like this is, this is what we stand for in the world stage now. Um, pretty, pretty pathetic talking
00:07:06.560 about, uh, pathetic, uh, disinformation, actually. Uh, this is a huge, huge story from back in 2020.
00:07:12.780 So, uh, we'll, we'll take you back to the presidential election 2020, uh, something we, we in the media
00:07:18.900 call an October surprise, which is a big bombshell that breaks just weeks before the election and could
00:07:25.140 have an impact on the election. That was the Hunter Biden story. So the New York post, which is the
00:07:30.420 oldest running newspaper in the United States. It was started in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, the
00:07:35.860 person, uh, the founding father, one of the founding fathers of the United States, one of the authors
00:07:39.400 of the federalist papers started this newspaper. It's been running in existence since it's sort of
00:07:45.000 now more of a conservative tablet, um, newspaper. However, it still had this very, this, uh, very real
00:07:50.940 report that came out in October of 2020, right before the election on Hunter Biden. So Joe Biden's son,
00:07:56.260 Hunter Biden is this sort of sketchy, um, ne'er do well, uh, you know, son of a, uh, son of
00:08:03.080 a rich, uh, famous politician who uses his father's, uh, power uses his own last name as
00:08:09.080 his own currency to do deals with adversarial and nefarious government regimes. That's his
00:08:14.160 whole shit. That's what Hunter Biden does for a living. And so this, this, this, this individual
00:08:19.100 Hunter Biden, he drops off his laptop at a repair shop in Delaware in April, 2019, because
00:08:23.940 he's locked out and he just kind of leaves it there. And so the, the laptop repair shop
00:08:28.000 eventually turns it over to the FBI and the FBI, someone at the FBI, I guess, leaked it over to the
00:08:33.520 New York times. And the content of the laptop was incredibly incriminating. It, it included, um, you
00:08:39.820 know, not, not, not just, uh, information emails about his corrupt business dealings and, and all the
00:08:44.360 money that he was making by trading off of his father's name, but also, uh, personal images of him
00:08:49.200 smoking drugs, smoking crack, doing all kinds of incredibly awful and illegal things. Anyway,
00:08:55.000 the, the New York post story got completely censored at the time we were told that this
00:08:58.820 was Russian disinformation, that it wasn't true. Uh, there were all kinds of experts out there
00:09:03.160 telling us that, that it has the hallmarks of, of, of a Russian disinformation theme. And therefore
00:09:09.140 the story was completely discredited. It wasn't taken serious by legacy media and even worse,
00:09:14.600 uh, social media sites and social media giants like Twitter and Facebook prevented people from
00:09:19.100 sharing it. They even locked the account of the New York post. Well, uh, so, so that was all,
00:09:23.980 that all happened nearly two years ago. And part of the reason why I think, uh, Joe Biden was elected
00:09:28.740 was because the story was completely suppressed. Americans weren't able to know the truth about
00:09:33.080 his, his family and his son's business dealings. Uh, and, and the business dealings also included Joe
00:09:38.160 Biden as well in the laptop, uh, in the emails, uh, Hunter Biden made it pretty clear that his dad was
00:09:44.080 involved in some of these deals. Anyway, uh, fast forward to this week, Harrison and the New York
00:09:49.360 Times validates the, the, uh, authenticity of this story. So a comprehensive report about the
00:09:58.200 ongoing federal probe into Hunter Biden's tax filings published by the New York times on Wednesday
00:10:02.540 night confirmed the existence of Joe Biden's first son's infamous laptop in October, 2020. The post
00:10:08.880 exclusively reported on the content of Hunter Biden's laptop that he ditched at a Delaware repair shop
00:10:13.440 in April, 2019. The laptop's hard drive contained a trove of emails, text messages, photos, and
00:10:18.620 financial documents between Hunter Biden, his family and business associates detailing how
00:10:23.260 the president's son used his political leverage in his overseas business dealings. The repair shop
00:10:29.280 owner reported laptop to the FBI, which sees the device and it's hard drive. So, and, and, and again,
00:10:34.280 you know, uh, Facebook and Twitter both restricted the story. They wouldn't allow people, uh, to post it.
00:10:39.100 You couldn't share it. Um, and surely that had an impact. So, so, so this, this is like the ultimate
00:10:44.580 fake news story because legacy media and the social media giants suppressed it, telling us that it was
00:10:49.400 fake news in reality, Harrison, it was real. So, so the stories that the legacy media tell you are real
00:10:55.000 are fake. The stories that they tell you are fake are real. This is truly incredible. Yeah, we're heading
00:11:00.100 in that direction certainly. And this, this story about the laptop is, is infamous. It'll go down in
00:11:06.740 history. Uh, as you said, Candace is one of the, one of the worst examples of big tech and legacy
00:11:12.920 media, um, working together to influence an election. Now, this story, as, as people know now
00:11:19.900 was incredibly damaging for Joe Biden's campaign. It outlined how throughout Joe Biden's vice presidency,
00:11:27.300 Hunter Biden used his father's position to gain positions on boards, such as the Burisma, uh,
00:11:33.880 energy and gas company in Ukraine, and also how he used, how he, how he was able to get money from,
00:11:40.220 for example, the Moscow mayor's wife at the time. And there's a famous line in all of this between the,
00:11:46.560 between Hunter Biden and some of the Burisma dealings, about 10% for the big guy. That was Joe Biden
00:11:52.440 and how they were basically using their political positions to make money and profit for themselves.
00:11:57.940 Now it's, it's, it's crazy because you hinted at this users on social media on Facebook and Twitter
00:12:04.500 couldn't even share the article in private messages. So do we think for one moment that if
00:12:10.580 there was an article this damaging to, uh, to Donald Trump's campaign, that it would be suppressed
00:12:16.300 because it would be seen as Russian disinformation? Did we see any of the fake articles that turned out
00:12:21.900 to be fake about the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia or the Steele dossier be slapped as
00:12:27.980 disinformation? Of course not. This is, this is political. This is interference. Real journalists
00:12:34.180 should be very concerned about this. They should be doing their jobs and, and, and doing the job
00:12:38.180 that Miranda Devine at the New York post did in, in originally publishing this story and, and doing
00:12:43.260 their jobs to tell the truth because we're heading in a very dangerous direction where if the,
00:12:47.960 if big tech likes a candidate in a race, they, they, they pick one of the horses in the, uh,
00:12:52.680 in the horse race, they're going to do everything they can. And they're going to wield incredible
00:12:56.280 power to influence that election and to protect their guy. So it's, it's really dangerous. I think
00:13:02.240 we're going to see something like this in Canada if we're not careful about it. And it, it's, it should
00:13:07.040 be a warning. It should be a warning to all journalists to pay attention to this sort of thing, do your job
00:13:12.100 and don't get caught up in the horse race. If you might prefer one candidate or the, over the other.
00:13:16.200 Well, absolutely. And the fact that they did this clearly to, to take down Donald Trump, to, to protect
00:13:22.600 Joe Biden, uh, it's having a catastrophic effect because look at the way America is being run right now,
00:13:27.960 um, by someone who it doesn't really seem fit, uh, for the position. And just, just the fact that, that
00:13:34.840 social media has that kind of power, uh, really you're right, should, should scare every, every journalist.
00:13:40.840 Well, bringing it back to Canada here, Harrison, uh, this was one of these really strange, strange
00:13:46.600 stories. It was like, um, you know, parody becoming reality or something like that. Uh,
00:13:51.880 Dean Blendell, who is a former radio host in Toronto, uh, went on social media to attack
00:13:57.400 conservative leader Candace Bergen, apparently for not clapping enough. So Dean Bendell has this whole
00:14:02.520 deranged, uh, Twitter thread, uh, attacking Candace Bergen. He writes this, the only person not
00:14:10.600 clapping after Zelensky's speech to the Canadian parliament, Candace Bergen. So just a bit of
00:14:13.560 background, uh, Vladimir Zelensky, the president of the United States addressed the Canadian
00:14:17.640 parliament, basically doing his best war cry, trying to encourage the West, Canada, the United
00:14:23.000 States, NATO, uh, to join in and, and take part in this war to, to, to escalate it and to turn a
00:14:28.200 conflict between Ukraine, Russia into basically a world war. And, and so he gave this speech and
00:14:34.440 in response, and this is fairly typical when a, when a world leader addresses parliament,
00:14:38.840 uh, unanimous standing ovation from, uh, parliamentarians in the house of commons,
00:14:44.360 they gave a long extended, uh, standing ovation round of applause. So what did Dean Blendell do?
00:14:49.960 He found an eight second clip of, uh, zoomed in on Candace Bergen. You can see it. We'll show it on
00:14:55.320 the screen here where she's just, you know, taking a little break from clapping or whatever. You can,
00:14:59.560 you can see that there's other people who are also taking a break. This was, this was like a few
00:15:02.440 minutes into the standing ovation. I mean, these things are very ridiculous and, and a lot of them
00:15:06.120 are just for show. Uh, I can, I can look at three or four other MPs here who have stopped clapping
00:15:10.360 because like I said, uh, this was quite a ways into the standing ovation, but still, uh, Dean Blendell's,
00:15:16.760 uh, initial tweet there got plenty of retweets and attention, even though this is fake news.
00:15:21.880 This is fake news because we can see that Candace Bergen was indeed giving a standing
00:15:26.200 ovation and clapping regardless, Dean Blendell taking it all out of context. He goes on to say,
00:15:31.080 uh, this is one of those incoherent rounds. I don't, I don't think Dean Blendell is quite,
00:15:35.240 um, in his comfort, comfort zone talking about foreign policy because the, the words that he's
00:15:39.720 going to say here just don't make any sense. So this isn't something you half ass. She started to clap,
00:15:45.160 stopped with a few other cons, no Ukraine ribbon, words of support on behalf of just conservatives,
00:15:51.560 not Canadians. She's really not good at hiding her theocratic self. Okay. So first of all,
00:15:56.280 he's piling on saying that she's not even wearing a Ukraine ribbon. What I guess next,
00:16:00.200 he's going to say, like, she doesn't have the Ukraine flag in her Twitter profile. She,
00:16:03.880 she's not, she's not, you know, supporting the latest thing with, with us good liberals over here
00:16:08.520 and accuses her of being a the, a theocratic self. I don't think he knows what the word theocratic
00:16:13.160 means because, um, I, I don't think that this in any way, shape or form shows what
00:16:18.280 Kenneth Bergen is some kind of a Christian fundamentalist who wants to impose Christianity
00:16:23.560 onto others. I mean, that's typically what a theocrat means. Someone who governs by religion.
00:16:28.200 Uh, that's not what Candace Bergen is doing by not clapping at Zelensky. That's not what
00:16:32.920 Vladimir Putin does. So I don't think he quite knows what that word means. He goes on to say,
00:16:37.720 I don't care what side of the aisle or the color of the party, my disdain for the political commerce
00:16:43.880 and the power centers that run it are effing intense. I'm sorry. I don't really understand.
00:16:49.640 So he's now talking about his disdain for political commerce. I don't know what that
00:16:55.080 has to do with Candace Bergen not clapping. Uh, regardless, he, he goes, we have, but one choice.
00:17:00.760 We are Canadian. We stand with Ukraine and our support is unilateral. I think he might
00:17:05.800 have meant to say unconditional, uh, unilateral means that one person dictates it to everyone else.
00:17:12.280 Again, this guy like, okay, yeah, he, he made a, he made a point here. Candace Bergen wasn't
00:17:16.760 clapping for that eight second clip out taken out of a two minute, uh, clip out of context.
00:17:21.400 And then he just, uh, keeps going and digresses into an insane political rant showing how, uh,
00:17:27.560 clueless and, uh, basically politically illiterate he is. Harrison, what did you think of this one?
00:17:33.480 Well, it was a nice try by Dean, uh, to sound all very grand and, and very, you know, sound on foreign
00:17:40.440 policy, but I think it was a bit of a failure because if you watched the, the speech from
00:17:46.120 Zelensky to the Canadian parliament, what became very clear was, as you said at the beginning,
00:17:51.320 everyone in the house was clapping. Everyone was trying to, you know, engage in the sort of the
00:17:55.960 performative acts that you would do for any sort of speech given to the Canadian parliament. But one
00:18:02.440 thing, one thing when I read this and it didn't, didn't make much sense to me was that Candace Bergen's
00:18:07.160 speech was actually more, almost more passionate than Justin Trudeau's. She actually called for a
00:18:14.040 no-fly zone over part of Ukraine, which is more than Trudeau did and not something I think would
00:18:19.320 be a wise decision. Um, but nonetheless, she was very, very passionate about, um, Canada's defense
00:18:25.880 of Ukraine. And it's her job to project the conservative position, not to, not to speak on
00:18:31.800 behalf of the country. That's the job of the prime minister. So again, this just shows a lack of
00:18:36.680 understanding, uh, from Dean Blundell. And I can only think of that, that line in the princess
00:18:42.280 bride about how, uh, you know, you keep using those words, but I don't think they mean what
00:18:46.280 you think they mean. And that's what I, that's what I thought of when I, when I saw this, this
00:18:50.440 ramble, um, this Twitter ramble. And I want to pull quotes from Bergen, from Bergen speech really
00:18:55.800 quick, because I just want to show you exactly what she said. She says, we must stand with Ukraine.
00:19:00.760 It's not a choice. It's a moral duty, which is pretty much in line with, with, um, Dean's final
00:19:05.880 tweet. And then she says, we must do more to work with our allies to secure Ukrainian airspace,
00:19:11.240 which is a rallying cry around, around declaring a no-fly zone, at least partially in the areas,
00:19:17.720 um, of the humanitarian corridors, as she said, over Ukraine. So again, this just misses the mark
00:19:23.640 totally. Well, and a, a no-fly zone is a euphemism. Uh, a no-fly zone means American jets
00:19:29.880 fighting and shooting down Russian jets that would turn this from a war, a conflict between Ukraine
00:19:36.040 and Russia into a hot war between two global superpowers, or at least American superpower
00:19:42.200 and a nuclear armed country, Russia. So, so anyone calling for a no-fly zone is, is calling for a huge
00:19:48.760 escalation and the involvement of NATO and American planes, which again would turn this into a very
00:19:54.040 different kind of conflict. I know, I know this, this reference is a little old for you, Harrison,
00:19:58.840 you're, you're a little young for the Seinfeld references, but immediately when you see someone,
00:20:04.120 you know, calling someone out, uh, trying to embarrass them saying, how, how dare you not wear
00:20:09.720 the Ukraine ribbon? Uh, this, this goes right back, uh, to Seinfeld for those of us who, who, who watched
00:20:14.920 it. You know, we used to say that there's a Seinfeld reference for everything. The brilliant,
00:20:18.520 uh, Larry David, uh, you know, has great understanding of various situations. I'm going to play this
00:20:23.560 scope because I, I, I like Seinfeld and Kramer is, is my favorite character. So here is an old,
00:20:28.920 old reference. Um, but for those of you that remember Seinfeld, uh, this pretty much exact same
00:20:33.640 thing happened. So, um, we can, we can see in this scenario, Candace Bergen is, is like the Kramer
00:20:38.840 character and everyone yelling at her for not, not being supportive enough for, uh, Ukraine is like
00:20:43.400 the A's ribbon. Here's that clip. Uh, Cosmo Kramer. Uh, okay. You're checked in. Thank you. Here's your
00:20:51.480 AIDS ribbon. Uh, no thanks. You don't want to wear an AIDS ribbon? Uh, no, no. But you have to wear
00:20:55.960 an AIDS ribbon. I have to? Yes. Yeah, see, that's why I don't want to. But everyone wears the ribbon.
00:21:01.800 You must wear the ribbon. You know what you are? You're a ribbon bully. Hey, hey you, come back here.
00:21:09.560 Come back here and put this on. Hey, where's your ribbon? Oh, I don't wear it. You don't wear the
00:21:19.400 ribbon? Aren't you against AIDS? Yeah, I'm against AIDS. I mean, I'm walking on it. I just don't wear
00:21:25.400 the ribbon. Who do you think you are? Put the ribbon on. Hey Cedric, Bob, this guy won't wear a ribbon.
00:21:33.160 Who? Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?
00:21:35.480 I, I love Seinfeld. It's just a classic, uh, timeless reference there and it's pretty much
00:21:41.320 playing out, uh, in front of us and, and it's not just Candace Bergen Harrison. There was a Russian
00:21:46.200 tennis player who has been banned from playing at Wimbledon, um, unless he comes out and explicitly
00:21:51.880 condemns Vladimir Putin. So we're talking about, uh, Daniil Medvedev. Apparently, uh, you know, we saw
00:21:58.040 this and I talked about it earlier in the week with Rupa Supramania, um, that, you know, anyone who's
00:22:02.920 Russian is now open season and fair game for harassment, intimidation, uh, Facebook even
00:22:08.520 changed their policies. So they now allow, uh, incitement of violence against the Russians.
00:22:13.240 Well, we're seeing now that it's not enough if you, if you condemn Russia, it's not enough if you
00:22:18.440 condemn, uh, Putin, they, they want you to like stand up on a, on a pulpit and, you know, disavow your
00:22:24.040 entire country and culture, uh, saying that someone, someone can't even play tennis now, um, unless they
00:22:29.240 provide assurances that they do not support the Russian, uh, president. This politics is seeping
00:22:35.240 into every aspect of our life. And this, this, this treatment of Russian, uh, players, Russian
00:22:41.320 performers is, is just, uh, it's so illiberal Harrison. I, it's just, it's something that doesn't
00:22:46.440 belong in a Western liberal society. What do you think? No. And, and you know what, we, we've seen
00:22:51.400 this in sports coming for a long time. We've seen it, um, where, you know, athletes are expected to,
00:22:56.920 you know, pass the purity test to meet the political standards of the people that own
00:23:02.840 the teams or the people that run the leagues. And this is another example of that. This, this
00:23:06.920 tennis player was, um, was, or is currently the number one tennis player in the world.
00:23:12.280 And he won't be able to compete in the number one tennis tournament, which is Wimbledon.
00:23:17.240 I don't know much about tennis, but I think that might be the number one.
00:23:20.600 And unless, unless he comes out and condemns the leader of his country, which may or may not be a
00:23:25.560 dangerous thing for him to do as a Russian when he returns back to his country. And not,
00:23:30.680 not to say that it's, it's right or wrong, but it's not just an easy thing to do. The UK sports
00:23:36.680 minister said, this is, I want to say this because this is, this is important to note. The UK sports
00:23:41.240 minister said, absolutely nobody flying the flag of Russia should be allowed or enabled. We need what,
00:23:47.480 but we need some potential assurance that they are not supporters of Putin. And we are considering
00:23:51.800 what requirements we may try to get some assurances along those lines. And, and then,
00:23:57.240 you know, you compare that statement to the statement of, of this guy, this tennis player,
00:24:02.280 Medvedev, who just says, it's tough to talk on this subject because I want to play tennis,
00:24:07.560 play in different countries. Uh, my message is always the same. I want peace in all the world,
00:24:12.200 all countries. I mean, the guy is just a tennis player. He's not, he's not, he's not part of the,
00:24:16.920 part of the, the plot in this war. And it's just shows a direction that we're heading in,
00:24:21.640 which I think is really disappointing. Sports should be an escape from politics. It should not be
00:24:26.680 dominated by, um, what seems to be very partisan political engagement. And I think in general,
00:24:33.880 we should all just be, we should all just want to have some separation. Politics shouldn't dominate
00:24:39.400 every single aspect of our lives, but we're getting to that point and it's quite disappointing.
00:24:43.480 Well, and the, the whole point behind international competition is to build bridges
00:24:47.880 and to make inroads and to understand each other. Right. And so the idea that if you, if you don't
00:24:53.160 have the exact same line of thinking and you, and you don't say the exact same things,
00:24:56.840 condemning different countries, you can't participate. I mean, that's, that's completely
00:25:00.600 the opposite of the idea of these international sport competitions. So, uh, you're completely right.
00:25:05.640 One final story I want to talk about here, Harrison, this just drives me absolutely crazy.
00:25:10.120 The politicization of the position of the governor general and the cheerleading and
00:25:15.560 stenography that happens over at the CBC. So I'm talking about this headline governor general,
00:25:19.400 Mary Simon says she and the queen discussed reconciliation and Canada's real history.
00:25:24.280 Okay, here we go. So, so, so we are basically told here that we're going to rewrite Canada's
00:25:29.800 history books, um, to include all the latest woke talking points. Um, basically saying that all the
00:25:35.480 English people, all the British people who settled Canada, the pioneers of this country,
00:25:39.240 the people who came and put together our liberal democracy or tradition or great tradition that we
00:25:45.080 got from the British, uh, that that's all out, um, out with that in with this idea that we are nothing
00:25:50.760 but a group of the Canadians are nothing but, uh, colonial settlers, um, imperialists who,
00:25:57.560 who came and committed genocide. Basically that's, that's the idea. So, so governor general,
00:26:02.040 Mary Simon is, is basically coming back and telling the CBC what her and the queen talked
00:26:06.760 about in a private meeting so much for the idea, um, that the governor general is a figurehead head
00:26:12.440 of state and that they don't get into the fray. I'll just say I love Queen Elizabeth. I think she's
00:26:16.520 a tremendous individual, incredibly strong woman in her nineties, still the monarch. Uh, she's set
00:26:21.480 an incredible example for the Royal family as to how not to engage and, and, and put herself in the
00:26:27.160 middle of the politics of the day. She stayed completely out of the fray for the most part. She's
00:26:32.040 incredibly classy woman who, who really represents the elegance of the crown. Mary Simon could learn
00:26:37.080 a lot from the queen except for, instead of going to meet the queen and trying to learn from her,
00:26:40.760 she's trying to lecture the queen and, and, uh, purport her own worldview onto the queen. So,
00:26:46.280 so this story Harrison is not based on what actually happened during that meeting,
00:26:49.800 because we don't know what happened. It's a private meeting. It's based on what Mary Simon,
00:26:53.880 the governor general reported back to the CBC about the conversation. So let me just read a few lines
00:26:59.080 here. I, you know, the whole thing about how we're going to rewrite our history books is just
00:27:02.520 appalling. Uh, but that's sort of what we've come to expect from the woke left today. Uh,
00:27:07.400 she says that she, uh, so this is from the CBC piece. It says Simon said she felt that the queen
00:27:12.040 was well-informed on issues affecting Canada, including the recent occupation of Ottawa by
00:27:16.680 anti-vaccine mandate protesters. So that's the CBC's own editorialization, um, classifying the
00:27:22.200 protest, uh, freedom convoy as an anti-vaccine mandate protest and calling it an occupation. Now,
00:27:27.640 this is what Simon said. She said, I think she found it difficult to understand. Simon said of
00:27:31.960 the queen's reaction to the blockades. It's like the Ukraine crisis. She finds it difficult to
00:27:37.080 understand. See, I, I interpret that Harrison as the queen's diplomatic way of saying that she
00:27:42.360 thinks that the situation is far more complicated than the way that the media paints it and the way
00:27:46.200 that Justin Trudeau paints it, then probably the way that Mary Simon paints it. Again, this is her
00:27:50.840 not getting involved in the frame, not validating the sort of politicized way of describing the
00:27:57.400 freedom convoy and just saying that she thinks it's more complicated and that it's difficult
00:28:01.880 uh, to understand. Again, um, this, this, this is the queen taking the high road and Mary Simon
00:28:07.560 continuing to push her own ideology onto the queen. So it goes on, it says, Simon said the queen told her
00:28:12.840 she knows what it's like to live in a city under siege with the air raid sirens going off at all hours.
00:28:17.720 So the queen's trying to be empathetic and saying, oh, it must've been hard for you to be in Ottawa when all
00:28:22.440 those horns were honking. Um, I, I, I can relate because of this, um, situation that I lived through
00:28:28.760 World War II when the Nazis were actually bombing Britain during the, um, during the air raids, um,
00:28:35.560 and the battle of Britain there. So, so here we have the governor general comparing the truckers
00:28:42.440 to Hitler's war during the second world war and projecting it and saying that it was really the queen
00:28:47.400 that was saying that. So, so this is a quote. It says, during the years of the Hitler regime, I guess
00:28:51.960 she was very much affected by that. And she said, I think I could almost see some similarities
00:28:57.400 happening. And she talked about that. So again, look at how many times that the governor general
00:29:03.160 couches her words here. I think she could almost see some similarities happening. So, so this is,
00:29:08.920 this is not the queen saying that there are similarities. This is Mary Simon saying that she
00:29:13.560 thinks there are some similarities to some things like three removed again, putting words into the
00:29:19.240 queen's mouth, making the queen sound like she's the one politicizing this. No, this is,
00:29:23.400 this is the governor general of Canada comparing freedom loving truckers to Nazis in the CBC and the
00:29:29.480 CBC just publishing it like it's no big deal. There's so much wrong here, Harrison. There's layers and
00:29:35.080 layers and layers of just incompetency and corruption. Um, but this is sort of what we've come to expect
00:29:40.200 from our state broadcaster and our embarrassment of a governor general.
00:29:44.120 Well, under Justin Trudeau, the position and the institution of the governor general, which used to
00:29:49.400 be this, this great thing in our country, at least in my, my opinion, it used to be great, has now
00:29:55.320 become a total joke. You know, we went from, we went from scandals with Julie Payette as governor general
00:30:01.400 now to a far left political activist filling the role in Mary Simon. And I don't like to, I don't like
00:30:08.280 to say those things about the institution, but we're really getting to that point. And when you read
00:30:11.880 articles like this, it, it really makes me angry because it shows just how, just how, how much of
00:30:18.360 an embarrassment, um, that, that institution has become the idea that the governor general could go
00:30:24.440 to, uh, could go to meet with the queen and even make the insinuation that there is some sort of
00:30:30.360 comparison to what happened in Ottawa to the blitz is totally insulting. It's, it's, I mean, there are
00:30:37.240 other words to describe it, but I won't get into them here. Um, it's just, it's really, really
00:30:42.120 disappointing to see this. And I think you, you touched on this Candace when, when the queen said
00:30:47.800 that, or supposedly said that she didn't understand the, the, the way that the, the story was being
00:30:53.880 pushed or, or she just said that I think that's because frankly, the queen knows better. She has
00:30:59.880 been around to experience everything from the second world war up to now. And she knows better than to
00:31:05.240 just accept the CBC line regarding what happened in Ottawa. And she knows better than to just accept
00:31:11.240 the, uh, the, the message being pushed about what's happening around the world. She's clearly very
00:31:17.080 wise. She, she knows exactly what's going on. And it, it shows the, the complete, the complete contrast
00:31:25.400 between the queen and the queen's representative in Canada, which couldn't be further from the truth.
00:31:30.360 Frankly, after reading this, I don't believe Mary Simon represents the queen at all. I don't believe
00:31:35.080 Mary Simon at this point is, is, is a, is a reasonable representation of the queen,
00:31:40.040 which is what the governor general should be. So it's really disappointing to read this.
00:31:44.760 And it's, it's a sad state really how far the institution has fallen.
00:31:49.320 Right. A governor general should be seen and not heard. I don't think that she's a cabinet
00:31:53.400 minister. Her position isn't to go out there and spout off her opinion on things, uh, or to go lecture
00:31:58.840 the queen and then turn around and boast to the CBC about it, getting them to write a news story.
00:32:03.720 It's a complete abomination of the title and the role. And again, good for the queen for not falling
00:32:09.640 into the traps, even in Mary Simon's own, you know, reenaction of, of what happened. I mean,
00:32:16.040 she's the one that's recounting this to the CBC. Uh, she, she, she lets it be known that the queen
00:32:20.200 wasn't going along with her leftist ideology, ideological nonsense. Uh, but, but again,
00:32:26.440 this story does not reflect well on Mary Simon does not reflect well on the CBC. There's not an
00:32:31.160 ounce of critical thinking or skepticism whatsoever. The way that the CBC covers this is just really
00:32:38.200 promoting Mary Simon and her ideology, not taking any account of the fact that this is a symbolic role.
00:32:44.680 She's representative of the queen. She's not a cabinet minister. She doesn't get to spout off
00:32:48.680 her own opinions. Um, and yet that's all we see from this piece. So I, I would, I would chalk this
00:32:53.880 up as a, uh, all one day's work over at the CBC, a typical failure of our media as well as our
00:33:00.280 institutions. But that's, uh, that's what the show is all about Harrison. So thanks so much for joining
00:33:05.080 us today. It's been fun to have you on the show. Thanks for tuning in. It's fake news Friday.
00:33:09.400 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm show.