Juno News - Legacy media obsess over skin colour at Conservative rallies

00:00:00.000 Legacy media journalists are freaking out about the size of Pierre Polyev's rallies,

00:00:04.680 but rather than critique Polyev for his ideas or his policy positions,

00:00:08.840 they're instead accusing him of, you guessed it, racism.

00:00:12.140 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:14.780 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the program, and welcome to Fake News Friday,

00:00:31.720 our favorite show here at The Candice Malcolm Show, where we go through the week's news

00:00:36.440 and dissect just how bad, just how biased the media is here in Canada, and there are just so

00:00:42.120 many examples. I mean, I could just go through the CBC every day and point out the thousand

00:00:46.660 different ways that that network is just so beyond bias, but I have to boil it down to one

00:00:52.380 episode a week here, so I'll try to do my best. Now, Pierre Polyev is really dominating the news

00:00:57.820 cycle. He's really putting together an impressive campaign just by the sheer size of the crowds that

00:01:03.700 he has showing up to support him, to listen to his ideas, to hear him out. He really has that

00:01:08.300 enthusiasm factor, and so because there are so many Canadians that are paying attention to Pierre

00:01:13.620 Polyev and his campaign, the media needed to find something to attack him over, and it's really an

00:01:20.440 interesting position because Polyev is a fiscal conservative, and his, almost his entire campaign

00:01:25.720 is focused on fiscal matters. He's not talking about social issues. He's not talking about cultural

00:01:29.900 issues. He's really zeroing in on the sort of intersection between issues that harm young people,

00:01:36.920 preventing young people from really fully joining the Canadian economy and living out the Canadian

00:01:41.740 dream, and the economics. He's talking a lot about housing. He's talking a lot about inflation, the

00:01:46.240 rising cost of goods and services in this country, and it's really resonating, obviously, because he has

00:01:51.920 that momentum that we talked about. Now, again, instead of going after the points of what Pierre is

00:01:58.800 saying, instead, the media is fixated on this idea that his rallies are too white. Yes, you heard that

00:02:05.600 correctly, that there are too many white people showing up to his rallies. Now, last time I checked, we live in 0.70

00:02:11.120 Canada, which is a democracy where all people are equal under the law. Every single person. It doesn't matter what

00:02:16.220 color your skin is, what your national origin is, what your ethnicity is. We're all Canadian, and we all count the

00:02:21.720 same. We're all equal. But to the legacy media, too many of the pundits in legacy media, they see these rallies, they think that

00:02:28.160 there are too many white people. And then that becomes a storyline that rather than focusing again on the success of this 0.86

00:02:33.600 politician and his messaging, the ideas that he's talking about, how it's resonating, they instead pull up the race card and

00:02:40.280 accuse Pierre Polyev of somehow being racist because they think that there are too many white people in the audience. I kid you

00:02:46.580 not. So here is Warren Kinsella writing in the Toronto Sun. He writes, Pierre Polyev has the conservative hype, but not the

00:02:53.120 conservative substance. And then this is a quote from the piece, Pierre Polyev with his night rallies filled with pink skin and

00:03:00.740 gray heads. So not even calling them white, calling them pink skin, which is kind of racist, kind of racist to use that language to

00:03:09.100 describe people. But but Warren Kinsella does it anyway, with pink skin and gray heads is prompting me to ask that question to

00:03:16.440 myself, am I wrong? And so again, so there's something lesser about the people who are coming to Pierre's rally because of the

00:03:24.420 color of their skin and the color of their hair. Like what year is this? What country are we living in? Because it doesn't seem like it

00:03:30.820 should be modern day Canada. And he goes on to say pocket protector and Texas instrument calculator in hand. He's giddily knocking down

00:03:38.540 all the sacred totems of the conservative movement and the conservative sitting cheek to jowl in his white people rallies are cool with

00:03:44.700 that. So so again, they're trying to create this storyline that these are white people rallies that that the whole

00:03:49.940 conservative movement is just a big white supremacist movement. And that that the rallies are only for white

00:03:54.800 people, they're white people only. Well, Warren Kinsella wasn't alone. Steve Marr, who is a journalist

00:04:00.020 freelancer, and he writes over at McLean's and other places. He too wrote on Twitter, he said, it is a whole lot of

00:04:07.040 white people. If I was Polyev, I would be wondering why I am only attracting white people. Of course, this isn't true.

00:04:13.620 Nothing about this is true. This idea that he's only attracting white people. It isn't true.

00:04:19.160 True North's own Harrison Faulkner, who's usually joining me on the show today, he's feeling ill

00:04:24.240 today. But he went to the Pierre Polyev rally in downtown Toronto to find out for himself to do some

00:04:31.040 original reporting to find out for himself whether or not it was only white people at the rallies. Of

00:04:36.540 course, he interviewed a whole range of people who are not white, asking them asking them about this

00:04:41.320 strange storyline about how these are white people only rallies, why the media is focusing

00:04:46.700 on this idea that isn't even true. No, these are not white people rallies. These are rallies of

00:04:51.220 Canadians. And lots of different kinds of Canadians are there. Journalists can close their eyes or,

00:04:55.600 or, you know, look in one direction only and look at a handful of people and say, oh, they're all

00:05:00.280 white, while ignoring the other half of the room. They can go ahead and do that. That is not the case

00:05:04.480 in reality. And Harrison Faulkner did a good job of disproving that by going to that rally in

00:05:10.120 Toronto. Now, funny, funnily enough, the rally in downtown Toronto was at a place called Steam

00:05:15.300 Whistle Brewery, which is a very iconic location in downtown Toronto. It's a beautiful venue and they

00:05:20.960 create beer. It's sort of known as one of Toronto's sort of flagship independent breweries and beer,

00:05:27.540 Steam Whistle is. But for some reason, after the rally, Steam Whistle thought it was necessary to put

00:05:34.420 out a statement, basically dissonancing themselves and condemning Pierre Polyev. So they wrote this,

00:05:39.040 Steam Whistle is in no way affiliated with the Pierre Polyev campaign, does not endorse his political

00:05:43.700 views, nor did the brewery support this event. We do not choose our clients. Rather, they choose our

00:05:48.620 venue for its amenities, size and location. So this is a pretty weak statement from Steam Whistle. This

00:05:54.380 whole idea that they would have to distance themselves from a politician. Look, lots and lots of

00:05:58.940 politicians do rallies at Steam Whistle. It's a beautiful venue and a great location in Toronto. So this

00:06:04.280 idea that rather than cancel the event, they went ahead and had the event. They took the money from

00:06:09.020 Pierre Polyev. They were happy to cash in on his popularity and his brand and all the people that

00:06:14.160 showed up. But then afterwards, they had to virtue signal to their leftist, I don't know, the leftists

00:06:21.940 that work there or the leftists in downtown Toronto who were apparently outraged that Pierre Polyev was

00:06:26.080 able to hold the event. Look, the guy is one of the front runners in the race to become the

00:06:31.600 Conservative leader of Canada. Conservative Party of Canada is one of the two major parties in this

00:06:35.220 country. It is very likely that whoever wins the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race will

00:06:40.680 go on to become the next Prime Minister. So we're talking about a mainstream political party and a

00:06:44.660 mainstream politician. And this weird idea that Steam Whistle is treating it like he's some kind

00:06:48.460 of a pariah, some kind of a fringe figure that they have to condemn is just pathetic. What a bad look 0.99

00:06:53.780 for Steam Whistle. I don't drink beer. I don't drink their beer, certainly. But if I did, I would probably

00:06:58.420 think twice about that because that is pretty pathetic. Now, I want to transition a little bit 0.92

00:07:04.680 here because, interestingly, there was a piece on CBC this morning, top piece over on National News

00:07:10.880 Watch, and they do go after Pierre Polyev. So it isn't just the rallies that they're going after.

00:07:16.380 This piece goes after the political rhetoric on inflation, saying it is out of touch with reality.

00:07:21.520 So as I mentioned, one of Pierre Polyev's top issues that he talks about is inflation. He is very,

00:07:27.560 very concise and very articulate when it comes to this issue. I've had him on the show before to

00:07:31.780 explain it. And he explains it better than just about anyone else out there. But according to the

00:07:36.800 CBC, doing the dirty work for Justin Trudeau, as per usual, this is like part of their mandate

00:07:41.620 that if someone is out there criticizing Justin Trudeau, the CBC swoops in and writes a piece in

00:07:47.620 their defense. So here it is. Political rhetoric on inflation is out of touch with reality, experts

00:07:51.940 say. Again, I have a longstanding position that anytime there's a term experts say in the headline,

00:07:58.500 it should not be filed under news. It should be filed under opinion because it is their opinion.

00:08:02.920 They find some experts that they agree with, whoever the writer, whoever the author of this

00:08:06.720 piece is. They find some experts that they agree with. And then rather than putting out an opinion

00:08:11.180 piece that people will say, OK, this is opinion, this isn't news, they put it out under news so that

00:08:15.260 the public gets the perception that these experts are like the universal source and that everyone

00:08:19.820 agrees. No, this is an opinion by someone and it is a bad opinion and I'll go through it. It's a bad

00:08:24.520 take. But again, the CBC puts this out as straight news to mislead Canadians to defend their man,

00:08:30.680 Justin Trudeau. So basically the whole piece is about, yes, prices are rising in Canada. They're

00:08:35.280 rising fast. They quote Statistics Canada, as you probably saw, the Consumer Price Index. So inflation

00:08:41.260 is up 6.7 percent. So prices are nearly 7 percent higher today than they were on this day last year.

00:08:49.000 So end of April 2021, about 7 percent higher. It's the largest spike, the largest growth in

00:08:55.680 inflation since January 1991. 1991. So we're talking 30 years. And so what is the cause of

00:09:04.860 this inflation, according to the CBC? Well, it has nothing to do with government, nothing to do

00:09:09.560 with government. No, it's all about international pressures and the supply chain issues, according to

00:09:15.820 the CBC. So they take a whole bunch of swipes at Pierre Polyev. Here I'll read a little bit more.

00:09:21.040 It says, Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Polyev, former finance critic who is widely

00:09:25.460 considered to be the frontrunner in the race, has made inflation a central part of his campaign.

00:09:29.280 Polyev claims that Trudeau government's approach to spending and taxation is a major force of driving

00:09:33.660 inflation. They quote Polyev. And then they go, is Polyev right? Is government fiscal policy driving up

00:09:41.440 the prices? Well, lo and behold, the CBC has found a leftist economist here, Jean-Paul Lam,

00:09:46.660 economics professor at the University of Waterloo, to say no, no. Government spending is just a very

00:09:52.460 modest, it's just a modest part of this. There's so many factors involved. And in government, it's just

00:09:58.780 very modest. Everything else is more. He says, economic support programs related to the pandemic are a

00:10:05.660 significant reason the federal deficit is so large. The federal deficit is projected to be 53 billion.

00:10:11.100 But it doesn't come close to explaining the rate of inflation we're seeing. It's a minor factor,

00:10:15.580 according to this economist. Likewise, Trevor Toome over at the University of Calgary, another leftist

00:10:21.080 economist, says that Polyev is correct in a sense that government spending and taxation can be

00:10:26.480 a factor in inflation. But he says the federal government's decision on spending and taxation

00:10:31.860 don't have much of a relationship to the other, meaning inflation. More important factors are

00:10:37.400 pricing, are forcing prices upwards. He says this is a quote from an economist. It really doesn't

00:10:42.960 matter what Canada's government spends. It really doesn't matter what Canada's government spends,

00:10:48.660 according to an economist quoted by the CBC. You really can't make this stuff up. Anytime someone's

00:10:54.520 criticizing Trudeau, the CBC sweeps in. I've got another example later of the show of the CBC doing

00:10:59.040 just that. They do it over and over and over again. This is what they do. They defend Justin

00:11:02.980 Trudeau. And it doesn't just stop there because I think balance, according to the CBC, is defending

00:11:09.040 Justin Trudeau from the left and the right. You know, the one thing that we're taught in journalism

00:11:12.020 school and that all journalists know is that you're supposed to present some kind of a balance in a news

00:11:16.000 piece. So present one side, then present the other side. Well, in the case of this piece on

00:11:21.180 politicians misleading the public, they take balance to mean we defend Justin Trudeau from attacks on

00:11:29.040 the right from the conservatives. And we defend Justin Trudeau from attacks on the left against

00:11:33.740 the NDP. So they take a swipe at Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader. They say, what about those big

00:11:38.620 corporations? So it says NDP leader Jagmeet Singh took to Instagram Wednesday to talk about the

00:11:43.280 rising cost of living. And in that he talks about corporate greed. And so the CBC refutes that part as

00:11:49.580 well. They never go after Trudeau. They never say that there's anything wrong with Justin Trudeau's

00:11:54.280 massive spending spree that he's gone on. Of course, anyone who knows anything about inflation,

00:11:58.140 anyone who's taken an economics class in high school or university knows that the major cause

00:12:02.980 of inflation is the growth in the money supply. The fact that Justin Trudeau has been spending so

00:12:08.320 much money, borrowing so much money, and that the Bank of Canada has been printing so much money in

00:12:13.580 part to keep up with Justin Trudeau's spending spree. So just look at the growth in the money supply.

00:12:18.440 The money supply is directly connected to inflation. So this is from January 2022. Canada's money supply

00:12:25.600 expanded by 10% last year. It expanded 14% the year before. These are the biggest surges since

00:12:32.380 the 1980s. So again, it's no wonder why we have inflation. And yet the CBC couldn't have found a

00:12:37.980 single economist to talk about the money supply, to talk about the real reason behind inflation.

00:12:42.840 Instead, they found two economists to just sort of hand wave and say, oh no, nothing to do with

00:12:47.440 Justin Trudeau. It's all because it's all because of Russia. It's all because of Ukraine. It has nothing to

00:12:51.560 do with our reckless government policies. What an absolute joke. What a total disservice to Canadians.

00:12:57.900 Now, I did want to pick up on this video of Jagmeet Singh because it is one of the most juvenile, 0.98

00:13:04.280 ridiculous takes I have ever seen in Canadian politics. Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP party, 0.89

00:13:09.340 puts out a video, the very, very, very simplistic, like 18-year-old communist kind of stuff,

00:13:16.400 saying that the real reason that prices are going up, not because of inflation, not because of

00:13:21.100 Justin Trudeau spending, but because of corporate greed. Okay, corporate greed. I want to play this

00:13:25.920 video to show you just how silly and ridiculous it is. So here is Jagmeet Singh. The cost of everything 0.99

00:13:32.360 is going up. Some say it's because of supply chain issues. Some say it's because the government

00:13:36.480 spent money on programs to help people in need. Here's the truth. Why is the cost of everything

00:13:41.520 going up? Simple answer, greed. When the cost of things go up, it hurts some people, but it benefits

00:13:48.660 those at the very top. And it's not the grocery store workers, those that stock the shelves,

00:13:53.680 farmers that grow your food, or small businesses and grocery stores like this. Large corporations,

00:13:59.960 big box stores, and big retail are making record profits in this time. Okay, wait, just hold it

00:14:04.420 right there. Okay. So this idea that Jagmeet Singh is saying that it isn't the fault of independent

00:14:09.360 grocers and local grocers like the one that he's in, but he just blames it on greed of these big

00:14:14.420 box stores. Okay. That defies the very basic logic of Econ 101. Because the idea, if it was just

00:14:20.640 greedy, greedy people sitting in Walmart and Loblaws and these big box stores, then the smaller places

00:14:25.920 would have a huge opportunity, a huge market opportunity to undercut them in price. Because

00:14:29.560 as Jagmeet Singh is saying, they're not greedy. It's not their fault. So they could just charge a

00:14:33.980 much lower price. And then consumers wouldn't go to the big box stores. They would go to the little

00:14:38.260 ones. Of course, what Jagmeet Singh is saying is complete nonsense. What? Did greed just suddenly come up

00:14:43.420 in the last year? You know, the actual cause of inflation rising at 7% this year over last year

00:14:51.080 is because corporations just suddenly became 7% more greedy. That doesn't make any sense. It's silly.

00:14:57.680 It's so ridiculous. Let's keep playing Jagmeet Singh. Why should you pay more and more just so that 0.99

00:15:03.720 large corporations can make more and more profit? It's a rigged system set up that way by liberals and

00:15:10.460 conservatives. That's why new Democrats are demanding that we tax the excess profits of large

00:15:16.060 corporations and invest that back into people. Housing, healthcare, the climate crisis. We can

00:15:21.300 tackle all these problems if we make the super rich start paying their fair share. We have to end the

00:15:26.760 free ride for the super rich. Again, Jagmeet Singh just has the most juvenile takes. It's so sophomoric.

00:15:32.200 It doesn't even make any sense. A couple points. First of all, big box stores were the ones that got

00:15:37.500 special exemptions during the pandemic. So when the mom and pop stores were closed, those big guys were

00:15:42.740 allowed to stay open. Even when churches were closed, you could still go in to Walmart and Superstore

00:15:49.040 and Costco. So this whole idea that somehow big box stores are to blame, no, that would be government

00:15:56.620 policy that enabled them to make more profits because the government was the one that allowed

00:16:01.040 it to be that way. And this idea that what profit, like, like, what, what, what is it, what does it

00:16:05.620 even mean by excess profits, excess profits? At what point is it excess, right? Like you're talking

00:16:10.060 about a big company that employs thousands, tens of thousands of people across the province, across

00:16:15.100 the country, all of these big box stores. And, and so this, this idea that he's just attacking

00:16:19.920 corporations. It's so, it's, it's, it's, it's actually shocking that this is the state of the

00:16:25.540 new Democrat party. This is the best that they can come up with. Someone wrote that script,

00:16:29.320 vetted it, and Jagmeet Singh recorded it. And they thought, wow, this is, this is just going to totally

00:16:33.240 convince the Canadian population that we are the ones that should be in government, in power. We can

00:16:39.440 fix this problem. It's, it's so silly. It's, it's so pathetic. Our friend JJ McCullough over on Twitter 0.96

00:16:44.920 wrote that Jagmeet Singh has just posted a really incoherent YouTube video and turned the

00:16:49.360 comments off. How is this guy still the head of a major party? Great question. JJ. Okay. Now I

00:16:56.720 want to go back to this other CBC story that I alluded here earlier, because again, this is the

00:17:00.660 definition, this is definitional fake news. Okay. So, so the CBC, and I mentioned this on the show

00:17:06.280 the other day, I had Chris Sims who broke the story about the truck tax that was being proposed

00:17:10.600 in a liberal government report. She came on this show to really explain what was going on. And we

00:17:15.340 talked a little bit about this Aaron Weary piece. Aaron Weary is a liberal stenographer

00:17:20.280 who writes for the CBC. Every time that Trudeau is criticized, he comes up with a perfectly aligned

00:17:27.800 liberal spin, like, like whatever the PMO is saying, Aaron Weary is saying word for word,

00:17:32.360 almost the exact same thing. And he puts it out in the CBC as news, or they call it analysis,

00:17:37.160 which is supposed to be like halfway between opinion and straight news. So, so, so what happened

00:17:43.100 was Chris Sims found in a report released by the environment minister, Stephen Glaubeau,

00:17:48.400 saying that they were going to introduce this tax on pickup trucks anywhere between 1000 and $4,000.

00:17:54.380 It wasn't a law. It wasn't a bill. It was just a recommendation that was part of their

00:17:58.680 climate change plan for 2030, right? So it was in the report released by the government. Well,

00:18:04.320 as soon as Chris Sims put that report out over in the Toronto sun, the minister himself came out and

00:18:09.280 said, no, we're not actually planning on introducing this tax. This report is disinformation. It is fake

00:18:14.580 news. So trying to use the exact same language that they use in their internet censorship bills

00:18:20.140 to discredit a factual truth-based report based on something the minister himself put out,

00:18:26.780 but saying that that is disinformation, which once again, just sort of proves the theory

00:18:30.340 that disinformation is simply something that the liberal government doesn't agree with. So any

00:18:34.520 critiques against the liberal government, disinformation. Any information that makes the liberal

00:18:38.440 government look bad? Disinformation. This is the routine. This is the game that the Trudeau liberals

00:18:43.820 are playing. And too many in the legacy media are all too happy to go along with that. So right in

00:18:48.560 the midst of this sort of debacle between the liberal government and the Canadian Taxpayers

00:18:53.220 Federation, well, the CBC and Aaron Weary swoop in to, you guessed it, take the side of Justin Trudeau,

00:18:59.780 condemn the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, call them fake news, call them disinformation, repeat

00:19:03.960 almost verbatim exactly what the liberals are saying. So here's Aaron Weary's piece.

00:19:07.860 Some conservatives are condemning a truck tax that doesn't exist. And so his whole point was that,

00:19:13.780 again, it wasn't a bill. It wasn't a law. It was just a recommendation that was part of a report.

00:19:19.160 He made the distinction that the recommendation came in the annex and it wasn't even in the report.

00:19:25.180 Well, as Chris Sims pointed out on my show when she joined me, was that that's how government policy

00:19:30.020 works. That's how they introduce bills. They introduce these reports. There are recommendations.

00:19:35.120 The recommendations get adopted and they turn into bills. So Chris Sims doing her job as a watchdog 0.80

00:19:40.720 for the Taxpayers Association preemptively said, hey, look, they're planning to do this. Don't let

00:19:45.420 them. And so Weary's whole point that it doesn't exist. Yeah, of course it doesn't exist. We're

00:19:50.120 talking about the liberals proposing something. The liberals saying that they are planning to propose

00:19:54.420 it, that it's part of a recommendation of a report, meaning it is forthcoming. Chris Sims did her

00:19:59.120 job exactly right, which was getting in front of it and saying, don't let them do that.

00:20:02.900 She was successful because now they're all walking away from it. But Aaron Weary doing

00:20:06.600 his favorite little snarky routine, looking down his nose at conservatives saying, oh,

00:20:10.460 they're getting all worked up over something that doesn't exist. Yeah, because they're trying

00:20:15.180 to stop it from being imposed, Aaron Weary. And again, just this whole idea, this whole narrative,

00:20:20.300 this whole thing that the conservatives are just making this up and that the Canadian Taxpayers

00:20:24.960 Federation are pushing disinformation, such a disservice. A journalist is supposed to hold

00:20:30.440 the government to account, okay? To hold the powerful people to account. That's not what

00:20:34.780 the CBC does. The CBC swoops in to rescue Justin Trudeau, to hold his critics to account. So they

00:20:42.280 hold the people who criticize Justin Trudeau, those are the ones they hold to account. Rather

00:20:46.060 than holding Justin Trudeau to account, rather than holding his ministers and the people who

00:20:49.460 are saying, hey, let's introduce his pickup tax, pickup truck tax to account, the CBC does

00:20:54.800 the exact opposite. They point their ear at the public, at independent researchers, at independent

00:21:00.960 journalists and say, how dare you criticize Justin Trudeau? Here is a whole report about how

00:21:07.760 technically this tax doesn't exist. This is such a joke. This is not journalism. This is activism.

00:21:14.060 This is stenography. The CBC time and time and time again, writes pieces with the sole purpose

00:21:20.180 of defending Justin Trudeau, defending the prime minister's office. Again, this could have been a

00:21:24.960 news release put out by the PMO. It should have been. Your tax dollars should not go to this kind

00:21:29.800 of nonsense. It is not journalism. It is activism, plain and simple. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:21:36.040 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

Juno News - April 22, 2022

Legacy media obsess over skin colour at Conservative rallies

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