Juno News - Legacy media continues to spread misinformation about Freedom movement

00:00:00.000 hello everyone and welcome along to another spectacular edition i hope anyway of fake

00:00:16.080 news friday andrew lawton in for candace malcolm your rightful host who i promise will return to

00:00:22.440 this chair at some moment just not in this show anyway unless she does like the kool-aid man and

00:00:27.840 just barges in going oh yeah at some point midway through which you know what would make for good

00:00:32.580 television but to keep some semblance of continuity we do have our trusty co-host harrison faulkner

00:00:38.600 with us as always host of the true north show ratio to harrison good to have you here thanks

00:00:43.400 very much good to see you andrew good to see that you're uh filling in for candace while she's away

00:00:48.220 and uh hopefully it's hopefully the the show keeps on rolling that's a big big expectation for me in

00:00:55.420 the summer and i like that i said it was good to have you here as though i'm not the one that's

00:00:58.560 just like barged in unannounced to uh to guest co-host uh over the course of the next little

00:01:03.220 while and i will say i mean just in the spirit of fake news the fakest news of all is that this is

00:01:09.520 canada day because as many of you know if you've been long time subscribers to true north and you've

00:01:14.060 heard my annual rant about this it's actually dominion day it's not canada day it shouldn't

00:01:19.280 be canada day so i proudly say to you all if you say happy canada day it's fake news uh blessed

00:01:24.960 dominion day to all of you and you too harrison so you're too young for dominion day but hopefully

00:01:29.420 we can bring it back and make it uh make it cool again if uh it was ever cool i think it was cool

00:01:34.460 uh we got lots of stuff happening though i mean right now on parliament hill we know that a lot of

00:01:39.020 festivities are going on and surely we'll have lots of fake news to break down about that next week

00:01:44.160 because we know that the media has just been relentless since the convoy originally in january

00:01:50.540 of this year at mischaracterizing all of these people that are supporting freedom movement

00:01:56.620 supporting the convoy we saw it with the arrest of tamara leach this week we saw it with the convoy

00:02:01.740 we've seen it in the lead up to the canada day dominion day excuse me festivities this week and even

00:02:09.720 now just looking at the way conservative leader candace bergen has been treated for this little exchange 0.85

00:02:16.140 she had on evan solomon's show on ctv just in the last week over 20 members of your party met

00:02:23.080 with two one person james top who was not part of the trucker convoy i've spoken to him he's a

00:02:28.860 veteran he's marched across canada about mandates but he they also met with a guy named tom marazzo

00:02:33.640 who was a spokesperson um also a veteran by the way who i've spoken to um this is a guy that stood in a

00:02:40.780 press conference during the convoy and said he'd like to work in a coalition with your part party

00:02:45.940 the bloc the nbp to try to form a government what does it tell canadians that someone like you were

00:02:50.660 with the truckers who took pictures many of your members and now here we are 20 members almost 20

00:02:56.300 percent of your caucus is out there essentially saying as one member said we're allies you have

00:03:02.260 their support what does that tell you we very much support canadians who are were and still are

00:03:08.720 against the mandatory vaccines we don't believe that they should be wedged called names stigmatized

00:03:14.520 we don't think they should be set aside our job is to listen to canadians we don't always have to

00:03:20.400 agree even with what they're talking about we don't agree with everything that they want to do

00:03:24.640 obviously credibility to people who are who are holding press conferences that are that that are trying

00:03:30.220 to say we we want to form a government that would not be democratically elected evan these these

00:03:35.160 people obviously did not understand that i don't think any sedition charges were laid were they

00:03:39.620 were were no where they they were not but it doesn't have to be but there are lots of charges

00:03:44.640 laid against some of the some of the but i think i think this is the legislation this is the

00:03:48.760 misinformation that what's misinformation the people who protested here in ottawa were there were as you

00:03:56.300 know hundreds and thousands of them they were upset they wanted to be heard and we as conservatives

00:04:02.340 believe that they deserve to be heard so what she's done there is taken a very strong position

00:04:07.640 one that we wish aaron o'toole had done in january to say that yes conservative members of parliament

00:04:13.000 and all members of parliament should be listening to the people they represent absolutely it was right

00:04:18.060 for them to meet with james top and they can do whatever they want as far as attending these events

00:04:23.060 and not attending the events whatever harrison i mean first off before we get to the media reaction

00:04:28.240 where was this conservative leadership in the last election i know i mean it just felt in the last

00:04:34.720 election andrew that every time there was an opportunity for a conservative leader for a

00:04:39.960 conservative politician to stand up and and defend canadians who are rightfully upset who have

00:04:45.600 real grievances with the government they would just fold and then of course as you said as you say

00:04:51.040 at the beginning of the convoy protest aaron o'toole was completely unwilling to stand up for

00:04:58.000 canadians who many of them were looking for a leader many of them were probably not partisan were not

00:05:03.700 necessarily political not not wedded to one party or another but yet the conservatives didn't seem to

00:05:09.480 see seize that opportunity to take the chance to grab new support by just saying you know what we

00:05:15.240 actually stand with you we respect the issue that we respect your concerns and understand

00:05:20.400 your your frustrations and finally it feels as though with candace bergen being the leader that

00:05:26.420 there has been this sort of you know this sort of kick into high gear from the conservatives to say no

00:05:32.260 we're done kind of tiptoeing around this we're going to firmly stand on the side of freedom we're going

00:05:39.800 to firmly stand on the side of canadians who just have some legitimate concerns and i mean we're at

00:05:46.000 a point now andrew where it's refreshing to hear a conservative leader a canadian politician say that

00:05:51.660 canadians have a right to protest the government what how have we gone to this point it's just incredible

00:05:58.380 yeah it is and i mean i i will say i've always had a lot of appreciation for evan solomon i don't agree

00:06:05.900 with everything he says all the time nor would i with anyone else but i think he's very fair and and

00:06:10.860 i think that you know he's playing devil's advocate in this context but a lot of the people that are

00:06:15.280 watching that really agree with what he's saying fundamentally in his line of questioning there that

00:06:20.440 the convoy was about people who were seeking to overthrow the government and i will say candace

00:06:25.960 bergen had the great response to that she said well there were no sedition charges which is a bit glib

00:06:31.560 but i think it's raising an important point here which is that all of these people want to say

00:06:35.700 that this was a coup and this was treason well i mean no police have said that the government's

00:06:40.600 not even said that we're not actually seeing that here it was people who might be expressing a

00:06:45.700 position the government wasn't all that fond of and at the federal level certainly the government

00:06:50.100 wasn't fond of the message of freedom and opposition to vaccine mandates but to say that

00:06:55.280 there is something that a conservative leader needs to be held to account for that never happened which

00:07:01.200 is this mass attempt at an insurrection is very disingenuous but a lot of people still reported

00:07:06.740 as though that's fact well they do and you were in the press conferences with the organizers during

00:07:11.880 the convoy and i was there too and they said explicitly they said multiple times tamara leach

00:07:18.000 said it bj dichter said it keith wilson said it they were not there to overthrow the government they

00:07:23.760 were not there to do what the do what the media is saying and you you just said it too

00:07:28.320 even the government doesn't roll doesn't run with this narrative the police don't run with this

00:07:32.600 narrative the only people peddling this sedition narrative this overthrowing the government

00:07:37.280 narrative are journalists the legacy media journalists who are kind of holding on to that

00:07:41.540 just that's their last thing they're holding on to to try and to try and continue their narrative

00:07:45.940 and it's slipping away because the the facts are coming out and and the problem is the organizers

00:07:52.640 never really stood a chance when the legacy media was always stacked against them they could have

00:07:57.900 said anything they could have repeated themselves a hundred times andrew they could have said a

00:08:02.820 hundred times they're not here to overthrow the government and that would not have changed anything

00:08:06.920 in my opinion they would have rolled with this narrative regardless so there was really nothing

00:08:11.580 that could be done and and in that interview with evan solomon candace bergen was or well not in the

00:08:18.120 interview but in a ctv article candace bergen then had to basically say and defend conservative 0.99

00:08:24.820 politicians going to a canada day event in ottawa we're now at the point where not only does a

00:08:30.600 conservative leader have to uh have to be accountable for something that didn't happen

00:08:35.180 a conservative leader then has to defend the right of their caucus members mps attending canada day

00:08:40.740 celebrations in ottawa this is just this is just insane yeah because it i mean what they're doing

00:08:47.560 here basically is saying that when a group of people who love freedom and wave canadian flags and are

00:08:53.580 opposed to vaccine mandates get together to celebrate canada day that is an inherently bad

00:08:59.240 place it's a bad thing to do it's you know filled with deplorables and bad people and again we're

00:09:04.940 gonna see i suspect uh by the end of this weekend uh the bouncy castles the pig roast the song maybe

00:09:12.900 not the saunas because it's july now but you're gonna see that same party-like atmosphere we saw in

00:09:18.400 january and february which mps were attending especially once aaron o'toole was deposed and then

00:09:24.360 you all of a sudden had mps with free reign to go out and talk to people and all that jazz but

00:09:29.200 the one thing that was fascinating about seeing that this comment is that again people are treating

00:09:33.640 this as news like this strikes me as the epitome of a non-newsworthy thing mps encouraged to meet

00:09:40.300 with constituents on canada day and hear their concerns that strikes me as what should just be

00:09:45.380 another day but again when you look at the media narrative of this this is some radical concept

00:09:49.580 yeah and they of course put quotes they put they put you know the quotes around freedom protest i

00:09:55.820 know it's it's it's so disingenuous it's so it's so ridiculous they've made freedom this swear word

00:10:02.020 this this word you can't say and they have to journalists feel they have to qualify the word freedom

00:10:08.300 with quotes around it it's it's it's incredible and of course as you said how is this news when when

00:10:14.540 the leader says she supports uh she supports the right for mps to be at canada day protests it's um

00:10:21.440 it's incredible and i i really hope we get to a point andrew where the word freedom is no longer

00:10:27.640 this big scary word where you're actually allowed to say yeah you know what i support one of the core

00:10:32.380 tenants of canada what it what it what it represents on the world stage is a free country

00:10:37.460 yeah it's up there with the canadian flag now like these things these symbols that uh the left claims

00:10:42.980 the right has appropriated and ruined forever whereas like you know if the right is the only

00:10:47.200 group that's allowed to wave the canadian flag and talk about freedom i'm okay with that but i

00:10:51.860 think they're they're they're relinquishing these things because they didn't like them all that much

00:10:55.820 in the uh the first place uh what else do we have going on this week so well we've got of course and

00:11:01.520 it was just a matter of time when they dropped the vaccine where they suspended i should say when the

00:11:06.920 government suspended the travel mandate the vaccine mandate and they said many times we'll bring it back if we

00:11:12.280 we knew the clock started ticking at that point until the media started to bring back the covet fear

00:11:18.620 mongering andrew tell us that covet is coming it's just around the corner we have to prepare for a

00:11:23.640 summer surge as the media setting the globe and mail just basically recycling headlines from the beginning

00:11:29.800 of 2020 here the globe mail wrote on uh june uh on june 29th fears of a covet 19 summer surge

00:11:37.400 prompt experts to call for a return to masking so here it is the the masks are going to come back

00:11:43.940 the fear is going to come back and we're going to have to likely if this continues while the

00:11:49.060 restrictions are going to come back to you and it was just as i said a matter of time so the article

00:11:52.860 writes it's time to bring back indoor mask wearing requirements says some health professionals amid

00:11:58.440 concerns of a potential surge in covet 19 cases this summer so all i say to these health officials

00:12:04.260 andrew is good luck with that good luck convincing canadians to bring back masks indoors i don't

00:12:10.720 think it's going to happen no this is the number one way to get another convoy to ottawa to just

00:12:16.280 reimpose a wave of a wave of restrictions and it's not going to be like the bouncy castle one this time

00:12:21.240 i think they're going to hold out longer than three weeks and they're going to do it in the summer

00:12:24.440 too yeah yeah exactly when they don't have the weather working against them i saw this and my

00:12:29.600 first response and i tweeted about this is that the experts nothing is stopping them from wearing

00:12:35.180 their masks as long as they want they can double mask triple mask they can do a an n95 with some

00:12:40.380 duct tape they can wear a full body suit do whatever they want that is absolutely their choice it's the

00:12:46.180 idea of imposing this reimposing some national or at the very least province-wide mask mandate that i i find

00:12:53.300 so absurd here and i was looking at this and just one example from this week and i know there are

00:12:59.020 others like this western university in my neck of the woods london ontario they announced on i think

00:13:05.520 it was wednesday that they're going mask free as of this week but their vaccine mandate their vaccine

00:13:12.240 mandate they say well we're gonna we're not going to tell you what we're going to do about that in

00:13:15.400 september 1st so if you're a student at western or a faculty member at western you can't actually plan

00:13:21.380 the next year because you won't know until days before the school year starts what the vaccine policy

00:13:27.380 is and the reason i bring that up in the context of this story is because it's that sort of damocles

00:13:34.680 that's always dangling in front of people now that we're always just one day away from some new wave of

00:13:40.000 restrictions coming back one wave away from more concerns more lockdowns more restrictions more vaccine

00:13:46.920 mandates and and this could just come and hit us at any point and this is something that i feel i mean

00:13:53.880 for the first you know 97 waves of restrictions and lockdowns and all that canadians did seem to

00:14:00.840 welcome this all but i'm not convinced that patience is there because i just and i know it's anecdotal but

00:14:07.220 people that dutifully went along with every lockdown they got double vax triple vax they did everything

00:14:12.240 they hit a breaking point not long before uh this summer and in some cases a little bit earlier but i just

00:14:19.600 don't think the will is there even among people that have followed every restriction up until this

00:14:25.000 point to deal with any more of them no and the cat's out of the bag i mean what you're seeing now

00:14:29.320 are you're seeing canadians traveling to europe where no mask basically no one is wearing any masks

00:14:35.300 there were no restrictions months ago and they weren't getting covered they weren't getting infected

00:14:40.240 they were coming back to places where there were masks people were wearing masks and there were some

00:14:45.020 restrictions and they were ending up with covid so people are starting to realize that you know it's

00:14:50.380 not the masks that are protecting them and and and now with everyone getting you know boosted and still

00:14:56.380 getting wave after wave of covid i mean people like you said are just gonna are just gonna realize that

00:15:02.540 this is not working this is not going to happen and if they try this people are just going to openly

00:15:08.780 you know disagree with this they're not going to follow along and they're and they're going to kind

00:15:12.820 of lose the respect from uh for the for the public health bureaucrats the institutions of these people

00:15:19.660 telling us what to do and just to just to get into some of these absurd headlines we saw at the

00:15:24.760 beginning of the week the fear-mongering has has come right back ctv wrote at the beginning of the week

00:15:30.940 and i can't even believe this was a headline written by ctv they wrote people with covid19 can infect

00:15:37.260 and sicken cats and dogs by cuddling them and they referenced a study they say that the research

00:15:44.460 that they referenced published this month in the journal of emerging infectious diseases involves

00:15:49.000 69 cats and 49 dogs including pets and animals from shelters and neuter clinics transmission from

00:15:55.800 humans to animals can be minimized by owners keeping their distance wearing a mask and taking other

00:16:01.260 precautions andrew so people in canada are supposed to distance themselves from their own pets and wear 1.00

00:16:08.000 masks around their own pets do they really take us for total idiots it's crazy no you see you're being 0.99

00:16:15.680 insensitive harrison this is the whole point is that they know that even the most cynical myopic 1.00

00:16:20.860 misanthropic people love animals so now if you're not prepared to wear your mask to save grandma you have

00:16:26.400 to wear your mask to save fido this is the rule now how dare you unbelievable it's uh it's it's really 0.51

00:16:34.400 really just absurd stuff and i do think they they take us a good chunk of us for total chumps and and

00:16:41.400 uh you know we we've seen we've seen data like this come out and it doesn't seem to affect or determine

00:16:48.800 any of the rules we're forced with we saw a study that said um well we saw a study that completely

00:16:55.440 ignored mental health and economic implications of canada's lockdowns and it said that canada's

00:17:01.020 covid19 response was better than many comparable countries and this was of course published in the

00:17:05.620 cbc but they don't mention the fact that the study they were referencing of canada's covid lockdowns

00:17:12.080 doesn't talk about the dangers and harms of the lockdowns on mental health and on the economy of our

00:17:18.940 country and all you have to do is look at true north's own reporting in july of 2021 we wrote a story

00:17:24.860 that said lockdowns killed more canadians under 65 than covid and the majority of covid victims were

00:17:30.600 very old and had serious health problems detailing exactly how the lockdowns and restrictions had

00:17:37.060 severe damage on canadians and how the the lockdown measures just although they might have minimized

00:17:45.160 covid numbers they they weren't overall positive and that's not going to be reported on and anytime it

00:17:51.140 does get reported on they're going to hide it around studies that don't even touch on those important

00:17:56.080 facets the reality of the situation where our lockdowns and our restrictions had severe problems in our

00:18:04.400 society it doesn't seem to one it doesn't seem to register with the with the people who make the

00:18:09.140 rules and and two it didn't seem like like journalists even care or want to talk about these things

00:18:15.240 no and i think this was the big media malfeasance we saw and and to be fair i think some of it was

00:18:22.300 not that journalists were getting it wrong i think some of it was that they were being fed bad

00:18:26.560 information we were just told to trust the so-called experts and trust the doctors and all of that and

00:18:31.460 people didn't have the scientific knowledge to challenge it and that is that we had this one track

00:18:36.360 focus on case counts and and the term that people used early on which i think is a valid one as a

00:18:41.940 case-demic when you have a pandemic and you're defining it solely in terms of what the cases are

00:18:46.840 without looking at things like the severity of those cases hospitalizations and then you devote all

00:18:52.260 your policy to getting to covet zero to getting cases down to zero and as a result you're locking

00:18:57.660 people down you're ruining child development it's i mean we can look at mental health numbers addictions

00:19:03.880 domestic violence all of that and i think that's important but it will take years years maybe even

00:19:09.800 decades really or a decade to see the collateral damage that's been caused by lockdowns when you

00:19:15.160 look at child development when you look at social integration and socialization and all of these

00:19:19.840 other things and you're right when they do this study and they don't even look at oh people who have

00:19:24.280 lost their jobs but it's okay yeah they had the sniffles for a couple of weeks uh and we prevented

00:19:28.960 more people from getting the sniffles in some cases but those people lost their small business they lost

00:19:33.700 their restaurant that doesn't strike me as a victory for a lockdown no it's it's not and and and but you

00:19:40.800 know what it's it's this sort of reporting and it's these sorts of studies that are intentionally

00:19:46.180 leaving out important facets of the pandemic key under-reported realities of the pandemic that will be relied

00:19:54.660 on when as when as we're already seeing the fear-mongering ramps up and there is another excuse

00:20:01.940 for governments to impose these restrictions i wouldn't be surprised to see research like this

00:20:09.260 be the justification to say if covid cases come up again that say well we need to not basically we

00:20:16.200 need to not learn from the reality situation where our lockdowns our rules and our restrictions

00:20:20.800 caused major societal problems no we need to go back to minimizing cases looking only at how many

00:20:28.720 people have the flu a mild flu and and just basically turn a total blind eye to all of the all the

00:20:36.780 issues we know now from these brutal restrictions and andrew switching gears on uh on the show we came

00:20:45.580 across this funny article in the toronto star from althia raj and this is this is sort of in line

00:20:52.340 with the the perception of conservatives being negative and nasty and and it's sort of a carryover

00:21:01.080 from the freedom convoy coverage of the people who are just wanting freedom who are lovely people

00:21:08.440 who are people that you know would be your neighbors in your communities they're actually

00:21:13.180 these sort of nasty and rude people and so we saw this article from althia raj which basically uh talks

00:21:20.800 about her frustration with the anger and the nasty comments from the conservatives in the house of 0.76

00:21:27.260 commons and the the title of this story is uh it starts off with bend over you're despicable name

00:21:34.720 calling and disrespect are now all too common in the house of commons and so she starts off by saying

00:21:41.720 from my my from my perch above the speaker's chair this week i witnessed a shocking level of name

00:21:46.500 calling and disrespect you're despicable and bend over where some of the insults hurled from

00:21:50.700 the conservative side toward the liberal benches so of course what a surprise andrew this article is

00:21:57.100 criticizing conservatives the opposition in government for getting a little too rowdy in the

00:22:02.640 house of commons i i've sat in in question period in in queens park and i've i've i've watched enough

00:22:09.200 question period here at true north to know that name calling like you know some some uh some good

00:22:16.620 jabs and and some some some good back and forth some good banter is what you do in the house of

00:22:23.160 commons that's what it's always been and that's how it is in every westminster system yeah and i think

00:22:28.600 the one thing that i found interesting here and she mentioned it i think in the very first paragraph is

00:22:33.000 that every june this is the gripe journalists and politicians complain about the toxicity in the

00:22:39.020 house of commons every june so if it's happening every year then it stands to reason that this is

00:22:43.940 something that no one's had any interest in in doing anything about and that spans from government

00:22:49.000 to government from opposition to opposition as these things change over time and again i'm not

00:22:54.600 going to say politics is not a place that invites incivility i don't know if the conduct from mps is

00:23:01.620 getting worse i think certainly political discourse on social media has gotten worse but at the end of

00:23:07.040 the day if this is a recurring thing the people that are supposed to do something about it are the

00:23:13.300 people that are in politics and you have the speaker of the house who right now is a liberal who has the

00:23:18.480 ability to throw out anyone who's used unparliamentary language so i i think that a lot of the times

00:23:23.980 people will take little excerpts and little words that yeah someone probably shouldn't have said or might

00:23:29.060 not have been the most acceptable and we could say perhaps they should have expressed themselves a different

00:23:33.560 way but you also were talking about a group of people that are thrown into a room 338 of them

00:23:39.340 that is by design adversarial well they talk about things that affect people's lives so if there wasn't

00:23:46.600 passion in that room i'd be very concerned exactly and this is what has been the case forever you can

00:23:54.000 you can go back and read transcripts from question period since the very beginning of our country

00:23:58.740 oh some of the old school ones are great like he's a lily livered cod swallow hoggler 0.97

00:24:03.540 it's i made that up but it's something like that if we could if we could decipher it into into modern

00:24:09.440 english i'm sure that they would uh they would they would really really get under the skin of uh

00:24:15.080 liberal journalists like althea raj but i mean we have we have countless examples of our prime minister

00:24:21.140 using rather unparliamentary language in the house of commons and in 2011 uh this is what

00:24:27.880 justin trudeau said to conservative minister of the environment peter kent just watch this

00:24:33.400 well mr speaker my honorable colleague if she had been in durban would have seen that in fact

00:24:38.680 canada was among the leaders in creating the order

00:24:43.880 order

00:24:47.080 so there you go andrew that's not what i would consider to be parliamentary language i wonder what

00:25:10.600 althea raj would have said about that if she was sitting above or sitting in her perch above the 0.67

00:25:15.420 speaker's chair as she said yeah i don't i see i i'll actually give i'll give althea credit i don't

00:25:20.660 think althea is the problem here i think the problem that we have is outsiders looking into this

00:25:26.120 and i'm not not like outsiders in the sense of people that aren't sitting in the chambers

00:25:29.900 thinking it's bad but what do you propose is the solution and i think that's the issue here is that

00:25:36.680 do we want to just police language more in there do we want to start taking them out to the woodshed and

00:25:41.560 you know giving them a couple of penalties anytime someone heckles impolitely or something like that

00:25:46.280 and i guess that's the issue is like it seems to be a problem that everyone kind of calls out as a

00:25:51.080 problem but i don't see a solution that doesn't just make things a heck of a lot worse and i think

00:25:56.780 anytime someone goes to the can't we all get along why aren't we nicer thing their natural instinct is

00:26:02.900 to find that the the other side is meaner than their side when i suspect you'll find a lot of evidence

00:26:08.260 this is going in every which direction oh yeah no absolutely and and no maybe it's not just althea

00:26:14.200 raj putting this forward but again it's the idea that there the that the comment needs to be made

00:26:19.840 about conservatives in the house of commons you know having you know unparliamentary language

00:26:24.520 and and unsavory language as as you said it's been that way forever it goes both ways it's designed

00:26:31.360 to be that way and everybody knows and that mps are passionate and like you said if you're not

00:26:37.480 passionate about the issues especially in a time like right now that we're living through in which

00:26:42.400 our government is taking massive liberty upon themselves to shrink the liberty of canadians

00:26:49.380 that is a time in which i would expect most conservative mps or most opposition mps regardless

00:26:55.080 of political stripe to get fired up to have you know to let them hear it to let the government hear it

00:27:01.440 because that is kind of what the whole system is set up to do yeah very much so and we always try to

00:27:07.240 end things on a bit of a lighter note so uh we're going to call you all racists if you have front

00:27:11.880 lawns that's our version of a lighter note here on fake news friday because also the toronto star

00:27:17.300 interestingly enough they're on on the greatest hits list this week as a column lawns are an outdated

00:27:23.080 cultural norm let's lose them before we lose the pollinators and they say that being a lawn owner 0.95

00:27:30.420 used to be a symbol of being rich rich enough to hold land and not need to farm on it but this is just

00:27:35.740 an outdated cultural norm it's classist it's supposed to differentiate the aristocrats from

00:27:40.740 the farmers and now it's just a sign of societal excess but this is actually part of a long-standing

00:27:47.160 grievance that people have that we can go back to a globe and mail piece a couple of years ago

00:27:51.860 about the need to decolonize the lawn we need to decolonize the lawn because a lawn is you saying that

00:27:58.860 you're vanquishing nature which is a part according to one history professor of settler culture so if

00:28:05.740 you have a lawn you are disenfranchising indigenous people and you are a classist aristocrat i think 0.99

00:28:11.700 i've gotten it right i think you do and i'm reading this quote from the global mail piece from 2020 and

00:28:18.980 it's at the back end of a longer quote from a canadian history professor and he says when he's

00:28:26.340 talking about backyards this time not front lawns he says a backyard with a big lawn is like a classroom

00:28:31.820 for colonialism and environmental hostility so i guess they're really upset about about about nice

00:28:38.740 lawns and and this funny thing is from the toronto star when they talk about the time you know the lawn is

00:28:45.780 an outdated cultural norm we should just i guess bulldoze the lawns and pave them over and they

00:28:52.220 they say of course that the reason the lawn is a problem is because of biodiversity and climate

00:28:58.620 crises so those competing biodiversity and climate crises what better way andrew to solve those climate

00:29:04.720 crises than to just pave over your lawns yeah we got to do the joni mitchell song uh pave paradise and put

00:29:10.200 up a parking lot so everyone needs a concrete front yard now in fairness there are people that have turned

00:29:15.000 their lawns i forget the term i think it's like living lawns or something or they do like front

00:29:19.220 lawn gardens and if you're going to tend to them that's very nice but i assure you if i were to turn

00:29:23.640 my front lawn into a garden of some kind because i can barely grow grass so i i'm not decolonized i'm

00:29:29.020 not colonizing anyone because i can't you know grow anything but weeds there not weed weeds uh and uh

00:29:34.840 this is the thing that i find hilarious that we all need to just like let the bees take over 0.64

00:29:39.580 apparently and that i mean this planet of the apes is going to be planet of the bees uh because

00:29:43.500 that's the only way to outdate the outdated norm make it outdated whatever the case is who knows

00:29:48.840 well yeah and and if you did that andrew you'd be following the toronto stars guideline you'd be

00:29:53.720 following their manual in it they say to maintain natural debris including dead stems and dry leaves

00:30:00.220 what may seem messy to some people is habitat to wildlife so you know if you have a lawn just let it go

00:30:05.700 let it kind of be an awful mess let weeds grow in it and leave leave a bunch of of i don't know

00:30:13.280 you know dead dead branches and dead stems in it i mean this is no this is great airs and when my wife

00:30:19.220 asked me to rake the leaves in the fall i'll just say ah i'm uh i'm decolonizing i can't rake the leaves

00:30:25.580 they've got to stay they've got to stay there and i'm just listening to the toronto star yeah well i won't

00:30:30.760 use that because i don't think that's authoritative but i'll uh i'll appeal to our uh our greater goals

00:30:35.480 as a society to move beyond colonization i the last year the issue was we couldn't fly the canadian

00:30:40.880 flag this year you can't grow your grass so uh do whatever works for you there i hope you are all

00:30:45.900 having an absolutely wonderful dominion day wherever you're celebrating whether you're in ottawa or at

00:30:50.040 home uh thanks very much for indulging harrison faulkner on the other end of the virtual microphone

00:30:55.700 host of the show ratioed and i'm andrew lawton harrison have a good dominion day

00:31:00.760 and to you andrew all right to the rest of you we'll talk to you next week with more fake news

00:31:04.980 friday thank you god bless and have a good weekend

Juno News - July 01, 2022

Legacy media continues to spread misinformation about Freedom movement

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