Juno News - Legacy media promotes leftist protesters while smearing conservative ones

00:00:00.000 So according to the legacy media, if you are a protester on the political right, it means that

00:00:19.300 you are angry, you're probably racist, and you're definitely bigoted. However, if you are a protester

00:00:24.360 on the political left, for instance, if you're protesting against a conservative politician,

00:00:28.640 well that makes you righteous it makes you honorable and definitely worthy of the audience's

00:00:34.560 time this according to the legacy media it is a special live edition of fake news friday i'm

00:00:40.080 candace malcolm and this is the candace malcolm show thank you so much for joining us and i am

00:00:45.140 joined as per usual by my producer harrison faulkner harrison is a journalist with us at

00:00:50.660 true north and it's always great to have you with us on fridays harrison yeah thanks for having me

00:00:56.140 Candace, this is going to be a good one. We've got coverage that's skewed about protests. We've got

00:01:01.240 completely fake protests. And of course, we've got the protests that the media would like to

00:01:05.100 just completely ignore. So looking forward to getting into it. Well, it is sort of interesting

00:01:09.760 because, I mean, we covered this on the show last week, Harrison, we showed the audience of how the

00:01:15.880 legacy media ran with a story that was completely fake. It was a fake story concocted by a bunch of

00:01:19.960 liberal MPs and liberal strategists and liberal staffers saying that, oh, Justin Trudeau couldn't

00:01:25.760 attend this fancy fundraiser out in Surrey, British Columbia, $1,000 a plate. He couldn't

00:01:31.880 attend because there were these awful racist conservatives outside and it wasn't safe for 0.76

00:01:37.300 the prime minister to go in. Rather than trying to verify the story, rather than trying to

00:01:42.240 get evidence of these supposedly racist comments that prevented the prime minister from entering

00:01:46.820 the protest, the media just ran with a story. They just put it out there as fact. They didn't

00:01:51.060 even put the usual disclaimer that media does in the headlines saying liberals claim or liberals

00:01:55.900 claim uh or according to liberals or whatever no it was just like fact trudeau couldn't go to this

00:02:01.020 fundraiser because of racism and then the whole story fell apart when video footage emerged i

00:02:06.260 mean what do you expect right there's like 100 protesters outside or a couple dozen protesters

00:02:10.200 anyway everyone's filming it there's lots and lots of video footage all you have to do is go on social

00:02:14.640 media to see it and it becomes pretty clear very quickly that there was no no such racism um and

00:02:20.000 And so rather than the media admitting that they had made a mistake, admitting that they had basically run a liberal press release as news.

00:02:26.560 And we're talking about CBC, Canadian Press, which ends up in all of the newspapers.

00:02:31.360 Instead, they just kind of quietly changed the headline.

00:02:34.160 They just quietly rewrote the piece and didn't admit that they had made any previous errors.

00:02:38.540 Well, we thought it would be fun, Harrison, to contrast how the Liberals treated that, how the media treated the Liberals in that protest with how the media treats protests against Conservatives.

00:02:49.980 So everyone knows we had an election in Ontario.

00:02:52.760 The results came in last night.

00:02:54.260 It was pretty resounding.

00:02:55.760 Doug Ford, the Progressive Conservative, won a huge majority victory, even bigger than before.

00:03:01.320 The Liberals were decimated again.

00:03:03.240 They were decimated last time.

00:03:04.240 They were decimated again.

00:03:05.180 the NDP ran a terrible campaign and lost seats as well. So the conservatives are a big winner.

00:03:11.040 They're incredibly popular in Ontario. People like what they're doing. And it was interesting.

00:03:15.860 I don't know if you watched any of the coverage last night, Harrison, I was watching

00:03:18.320 CBC's coverage. And I guess it's like their A team that's in Parliament and sort of their B team

00:03:23.680 that covers Queen's Park because it was a bit rough around the edges that broadcast wasn't

00:03:29.000 really their best of it. I honestly think that our content at True North is a lot better.

00:03:32.300 And that's not just, you know, me being, you know, very self-praising. I actually thought that the CBC did a terrible, terrible job. Well, anyway, this happened earlier. Sorry, this was last Sunday. So last Sunday, May 29th, there was a rally for Doug Ford in London, Ontario. And there was a group of protesters who interrupted. They posed as conservative supporters. And then as soon as the premier went to go speak, they tried to disrupt the event. They tried to storm the event.

00:04:00.520 And so interestingly, that again, when there's conservatives protesting the liberal prime minister, the media paints them as bigots. The media paints them as racist. They don't even try to verify. They don't corroborate the information. They just run with the headline. These are terrible racist people.

00:04:13.900 Of course, they don't bother to actually interview any of the subjects. 0.95

00:04:16.720 They don't bother to talk to the individual protesters, just like they did with the trucker convoy.

00:04:21.180 We should contrast that with how the media cover these people who are interrupting what is clearly a very popular premier,

00:04:27.760 a premier that just won a resounding victory last night in the election.

00:04:31.200 But the media treat him like he's some kind of a nefarious character coming to destroy the province of Ontario,

00:04:38.140 even though he's been the premier for the last four years.

00:04:40.660 And so I want to play this clip.

00:04:42.140 This is, I believe, from CTV, and you'll just see the way they cover it.

00:04:46.940 Not only do they sort of promote the ideas of these protesters,

00:04:51.520 they actually go out and interview them and give them airtime

00:04:53.580 and promote their sort of fantasies about what's happening in Ontario.

00:04:58.920 So let's play this clip, and then we'll break it all down, Harrison.

00:05:04.920 Thank you for coming out today.

00:05:06.940 Mr. Ford, you're privatizing our health care.

00:05:09.440 You need to be honest with them.

00:05:10.840 The co-chair of the London Health Coalition, Jeffrey Hanks, is escorted by security

00:05:15.740 after posing as a Doug Ford supporter to get into a private rally in London.

00:05:20.980 I wanted to tell people he's going to privatize our health care before he became premier

00:05:25.180 and I missed the opportunity.

00:05:27.080 So I just wanted people to know that he's going to privatize our health care

00:05:30.580 and we should vote accordingly.

00:05:32.440 Hanks wasn't the only one to take the stage.

00:05:35.420 Three different people interrupted the premier's visit.

00:05:38.300 I think that I have the right to let people know before they vote that Doug Ford is really a fraud.

00:05:45.160 I mean, the Conservatives have been destroying this province and this country, you know, and at the expense of the most vulnerable.

00:05:54.500 So we go out and we interview, you know, the provocateurs, the disruptors who go and do something illegal, right, to the second gentleman there.

00:06:04.980 No, you don't have the right to interrupt a private event.

00:06:07.060 sure you have the right to express your opinions and your views and you can go and spout your

00:06:11.140 opinions all you want you go stand on a soapbox go write on twitter or write your own blog you

00:06:15.780 don't have the right to go into someone else's private event and disrupt it and and and and

00:06:20.340 then sort of the the crux of his argument the guy's a fraud it's like great that's your opinion

00:06:25.540 thanks for sharing you know no facts or evidence needed um in order to give them sort of prime

00:06:32.340 space to to discuss their opinions the first gentleman they're saying he's going to privatize

00:06:36.260 our healthcare, you got to be honest with Ontarians. It's like, again, the guy's been

00:06:39.420 premier for four years, hasn't privatized the healthcare since so far. So this whole suggestion

00:06:44.680 that you could just sort of make these claims, media don't press back. Journalists don't say,

00:06:48.540 well, what do you mean? Can you provide some evidence? Can you provide example? They just

00:06:51.640 give them a platform. And that's the way that we treat anti-conservative protesters in this

00:06:58.080 country. Harrison, what do you make of all this? Well, Candace, just imagine for a second,

00:07:02.120 if the CTV treated the protesters in Ottawa with the same respect and the same whatever you want

00:07:09.980 to describe it as I guess you could call it respect you could just call it with you could

00:07:13.320 call it some sort of I don't know I mean clearly they're promoting these these protesters but

00:07:17.620 imagine if the CTV did that for the Ottawa protesters took the time to interview them

00:07:22.080 get what they had to say get the best parts of what they had to say as well keep in mind because

00:07:25.920 of course I'm sure they edited that interview to make these two these two protesters look as

00:07:31.980 good as possible. But things would be totally different, of course. And the narrative that

00:07:35.920 the media ran with to the protesters in Ottawa would be different if they treated them with the

00:07:40.480 same, I guess you could call it respect. But again, this also highlights, Candice, the difference

00:07:45.540 between the legacy media and independent media. Because I was at a Ford event the day before the

00:07:51.220 election. I saw, I myself approached an independent journalist who was very critical of Ford. And I

00:07:57.700 saw a rebel journalist do the same thing. And I've seen this happen before where independent

00:08:02.020 journalists will speak to both sides. Part of the story is covering opposition and protesters at

00:08:07.380 events. There's the key difference though, Candace, because independent media will do that.

00:08:13.580 They will take the time to approach these people and hear what they have to say. And they'll also

00:08:17.220 go into the event and usually act with respect and interview the subject of the event. So,

00:08:22.140 So, I mean, it's clearly just, you know, the difference between how the media treats these protesters is obvious.

00:08:30.180 And I think the Canadians are obviously worse off for it.

00:08:33.080 And just imagining how things would have been different in Ottawa if CTV had interviewed some of the protesters on the ground and really understood what they were trying to say.

00:08:42.800 It's a shame that it doesn't happen.

00:08:44.300 But, I mean, it just ends up driving viewers to us, right?

00:08:47.260 It just drives viewers away from legacy media to independent sources that do the job properly.

00:08:52.140 Well, this has been a long-running theme in the legacy media, which is that left-wing causes and left-wing protests are inherently righteous, right? Right in the middle of COVID when we were all locked down and anyone who was gathering even to try to go to church or, you know, slight protests against the heavy-handed totalitarian lockdowns, the media quickly called them COVIDiots and they, you know, demonized them.

00:09:18.080 they say people are risking everyone they're going to kill grandma like how dare these evil evil

00:09:22.800 people uh and then and then and then like a minute later uh when when black lives matter

00:09:27.520 protests were happening all over the world in reaction to a isolated crime event in a different

00:09:33.440 country um all of a sudden we had all these health experts including our own in canada

00:09:37.920 saying that that that systemic racism is another pandemic and therefore protesting against systemic

00:09:44.160 racism is tolerable in our society. And to me, that was when they really let the cat out of the

00:09:49.120 bag. It's like, okay, these health experts have no sense of neutrality. It is all about

00:09:55.120 their political agenda. It is all about partisanship. Here is Justin Trudeau breaking

00:10:00.020 his own social distancing rules to go out and take a knee, whatever that means. But again,

00:10:06.220 the media cover it like, wow, it's so heroic. I remember David Akin, the bureau chief over at

00:10:10.940 Global saying, Justin Trudeau is the first G7 leader to go to a Black Lives Matter protest,

00:10:16.540 like salivating at this idea. And it's like, you know, their agenda, the difference in the way 0.92

00:10:22.620 that they treat protesters on the left versus protest on the right, it's been pretty blatantly

00:10:26.880 obvious for a while. I think that the trucker convoy really exposed that. And we just see

00:10:32.520 sort of little examples of it every single week in the media where, again, if you're protesting

00:10:37.580 Doug Ford, you're heroic, and you deserve equal time on the television screen to hear what this

00:10:43.280 guy has to say, even though what he's saying isn't based in any facts or backed up at all by

00:10:48.840 evidence. It's just some crazy guy's opinion. But yeah, we're going to put that front and center. 0.58

00:10:54.740 Yeah. And when the legacy media does this, when the legacy media goes ahead and demonizes

00:10:59.840 protesters who have every right, one, to protest, but also have valid reasons to protest and valid

00:11:05.600 concerns. What it does is it opens the door to legitimate attacks from politicians. If the media

00:11:11.400 says that these people are racist, if the media says that these protesters who have valid concerns

00:11:17.780 are actually just, you know, angry, evil people, then of course what's going to happen is that

00:11:24.060 politicians are going to take that and use it as an object to attack these protesters. And even

00:11:29.520 even I saw that, I remember that during the Queen's Park protests, Doug Ford called the

00:11:36.320 protesters, many of whom were his supporters, yahoos, and, you know, Trudeau would go out and

00:11:41.520 call them racists. This is a very bad thing for the media to be doing, and it has real effects

00:11:47.420 on society. So again, it's become, as you said, Candace, it's become the standard operating

00:11:53.700 procedure for the legacy media. And I mean, the past year has made it as plain as day.

00:11:59.520 Well, at least when they, when they, so Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader, he was protested at a rally

00:12:07.020 and then a few days later, Justin Trudeau was supposedly the victim of racism. At least it sort

00:12:11.340 of makes sense. There's some internal logic when you saw the media, you know, dismissing these

00:12:16.860 conservative protesters as being racist when they were heckling Jagmeet Singh, right? Because he's

00:12:21.280 Indian. When it was Justin Trudeau, it just made no sense. But even that secondary line of reasoning 1.00

00:12:27.720 from legacy media that people who are protesting Jagmeet Singh must have inherently been racist.

00:12:32.820 And you don't even need to say anything racist. They don't need to prove that the people were

00:12:37.600 motivated by racism purely by the fact that they had different skin color. Therefore, they had to

00:12:43.180 be racist. Well, the media's narrative on this, Harrison, didn't really stand up because last

00:12:48.440 weekend, as reported by True North, Jagmeet Singh had to flee an event in Brampton, Ontario,

00:12:53.440 because he was being hounded by Sikh protesters.

00:12:56.860 So it turns out that Jagmeet Singh is just not a very popular guy.

00:13:00.120 And there's a lot of anger and frustration against him across the country.

00:13:04.600 I think a lot of it is because in Canada, we have a parliamentary democracy.

00:13:08.200 We elected a minority government.

00:13:10.480 And the whole purpose is to have a separation of power and a balance of power,

00:13:14.640 whereby the parties have to actually work together in order to pass legislation.

00:13:18.200 When Jagmeet Singh came out and basically gave Justin Trudeau a blank check saying,

00:13:22.160 dear liberals we will support whatever you do and we don't have anything back in return a lot of

00:13:27.440 people felt betrayed uh liberal voters NDP voters and conservative voters and I think even liberal

00:13:31.980 voters uh felt betrayed by this union because it's not what they voted for and so it turns out

00:13:37.300 a lot of people are very angry about Jagmeet Singh people from different backgrounds and so we saw

00:13:41.860 this over the weekend last weekend when Jagmeet Singh was again harassed and people were shouting

00:13:48.500 at him in a very similar manner, Harrison, as the people were shouting at him the week before.

00:13:53.240 The only difference, of course, is that the first time it was people who were mostly white,

00:13:58.220 who were sort of the media could easily dismiss them as being whatever angry conservatives,

00:14:02.600 racist conservatives. This time around, when it was the Sikh people who were angry and harassing 0.99

00:14:07.960 Jagmeet Singh, the media didn't cover it at all. They just pretended it didn't exist. They ignored

00:14:12.100 it. It didn't fit their narrative. And therefore, it just didn't crack into the legacy media. Well,

00:14:17.500 we have a clip of what it looked like for Jagmeet Singh to be chased out of a rally in his own

00:14:22.540 community, Brampton is where he was originally from and where he, I believe his brother used

00:14:27.420 to represent this area right up until last night when he lost his seat. But Jagmeet Singh chased

00:14:32.320 out of a Sikh event and unwilling to speak to his own supporters. This is what that clip looked like.

00:14:47.500 he's flat the wrong kind chakmeet i'm wearing a mask bro you gotta respect me 0.78

00:14:53.020 hey chakmeet don't sell out bro don't sell out where you 0.60

00:14:59.100 selling out chakmeet don't think bro you sold out a comb bro

00:15:07.980 you sold out bro you sold out your quam quo means nation and punjabi so these people are saying you

00:15:13.020 sold this out. Again, this is in reference to his policies, his decision to form an unholy alliance

00:15:20.780 with the liberals and prop up Justin Trudeau and his corrupt government. And so people are angry,

00:15:25.480 people of all different backgrounds, including his own Sikh people, and yet media, no, not

00:15:30.760 interested in covering this. What do you think, Harrison? These are completely valid reasons for

00:15:36.740 people to be angry, for people to feel like they were let down by Jagmeet Singh. Now,

00:15:43.020 There's so many great parts of that clip, Candace.

00:15:45.140 I mean, some of the lines are hilarious.

00:15:47.060 Jagmeet, don't run, bro.

00:15:48.600 I'm wearing a mask.

00:15:49.600 You have to talk to me.

00:15:50.900 I mean, it really is a great clip, in my opinion.

00:15:54.500 And it's symbolic, really.

00:15:55.720 It shows that this is the narrative that the media is trying to paint about people who are upset with the government, who are upset with Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau.

00:16:03.800 It just shows how wrong they are.

00:16:06.000 And going back, Candace, to the protests we covered last week on Fake News Friday.

00:16:12.460 the media i guess hasn't caught on to the fact that everyone now is a citizen journalist most

00:16:18.540 people who go to these protests are live streaming you just can't make things up

00:16:22.620 right you can't just fabricate the truth and expect everyone to just go along with it

00:16:27.500 um because everyone's filming and this is a perfect example candace of just

00:16:31.980 how offside the media is when it comes to the reality of people being frustrated with this

00:16:37.020 government. Jagmeet Singh has in many ways, you know, just proven to Canadians that he's really

00:16:44.200 just in it to hold on to power, to hold on to some sort of influence. We know from the NDP that

00:16:49.440 they're not in a position to one challenge the government properly, and they don't have the

00:16:54.920 finances to run an official campaign. So instead of actually doing the job that he was supposed to

00:16:59.540 do, he has now kind of folded in and folded in behind a really unpopular leader. And one last

00:17:04.780 thing about this. People have, this was talked about during the Ottawa protest, but this is

00:17:10.360 still a reality. The Sikh community, many of them drive trucks. Many of them are truck drivers. That 1.00

00:17:15.720 is a huge profession in Brampton. So it led up to this perfect moment where Jagmeet Singh was

00:17:23.140 eventually going to get heckled out of his own hometown because of what he said about the trucker

00:17:27.660 protest, because of the way he's reacted. And it just all kind of came to the front now at this

00:17:34.000 protest. And I think it was symbolic. And his brother didn't even win his own riding, right?

00:17:38.400 I mean, these people are really, really furious. And you can't spin it when it's all on video.

00:17:43.760 Exactly. And yet, I mean, you can't spin it. And so Harrison, they just don't cover it. It's like

00:17:49.540 it didn't exist. It's like, if those are white protesters, you know, it would be the biggest 0.72

00:17:53.900 story in the country. You know, it would be plastered everywhere. And the headline, just

00:17:57.660 like we saw two weeks ago, would be, look at these horrible racists. Every fancy columnist 0.96

00:18:02.260 over at the Globe and Mail, International Post, would be writing about it and clutching their

00:18:06.180 pearls and talking about how dangerous populism is. But when it is Sikh protesters, then no, 0.82

00:18:12.860 not important, not worth covering. And so the media just leave it. Well, we've got one other 0.98

00:18:17.780 protest story, Harrison, that this is just so typical of the establishment in Canada. So

00:18:24.440 apparently the Toronto Airport Authority wanted to do some kind of an emergency drill of what it

00:18:31.320 would look like if there was a protest at the airport. And so they paid a bunch of fake

00:18:37.780 protesters, a bunch of actors got paid to stage a fake protest at the airport to see how the

00:18:45.020 emergency response team over at Pearson Airport in Toronto would react and put together. Of course,

00:18:52.340 the protest that they chose was a kind of like a Freedom Convoy makeup. They basically

00:19:01.140 replicated the idea of a freedom convoy they had all these people with with their fake uh freedom

00:19:07.300 signs and the whole thing was just a terrible mockery basically just a bunch of people making

00:19:14.180 fun of the working class essentially i don't i don't know what other way uh to put it but this

00:19:18.980 is this is what it looks like i think we have a clip of this one don't we harrison yeah we do uh

00:19:23.460 yeah let's throw to that clip because it's just really astonishing

00:19:26.180 a scene unfolded at pearson airport today that could have fooled onlookers

00:19:34.260 so today we're having in a mock emergency exercise happening so we're testing our response

00:19:44.080 to an emergency or security situation so we've got protesters in the back who have been very

00:19:50.280 enthusiastic uh about playing their roles and we've been testing our response to it

00:19:55.960 yes as you can see people both volunteers and airport employees getting into character for

00:20:00.840 the fake protest the exercise is actually a requirement by transport canada the gta says

00:20:07.160 it's an important way to test the airport's emergency response so at least they admitted

00:20:14.680 that it was you know cvc didn't pretend like it was a real protest or something like that but

00:20:18.600 But give me a break. I mean, what a waste of everybody's time. And again, just like the just how quickly they'll be to go and and denigrate and make fun of the sort of protesters that they don't like.

00:20:30.480 I would I would I would love to see them do a fake airport protest, you know, staged with a bunch of terrorists from the Middle East or something like that.

00:20:39.060 You know, like people who've actually attacked airports in the past.

00:20:41.620 But but this this sort of mock imaginary protest where they just get to dress up like their favorite trucker and pretend to to to be like a huge threat to the Pearson Airport was just pretty, pretty weird.

00:20:54.780 I don't know. I don't know how to describe it. Pretty strange.

00:20:56.700 Well, I wrote on Twitter when the clip came out, I was asking whether this was Monty Python or 0.88

00:21:02.440 real life, because it's just so ridiculous, Candice. And I mean, where can we start? I mean, 0.63

00:21:07.820 imagine, so they just said that this was a part of Transport Canada, which also oversees Canada's

00:21:12.940 railways. I doubt, Candice, that there has ever been a mock protest. And I may be wrong, but at

00:21:18.680 this point, I would doubt it. There's ever been a mock protest of when, for example, railroads are

00:21:23.060 blockaded and they have to test how they respond to that. Because of course, that doesn't really

00:21:27.020 play into the narrative. But there are some great shots in this video. Of course, first of all,

00:21:32.540 the spokesperson for the protest said that everyone was very enthusiastic. I would say

00:21:37.240 that they were slightly, they slightly missed part of the character because they're all wearing

00:21:41.240 masks, which is just so, so typical. And here we go, the shot of the protest, a man wearing a mask

00:21:49.580 saying masks are abuse and there's a Trump 2024 sign in there uh it's it's really just the ultimate

00:21:56.120 uh first of all it's the ultimate mockery of of what I would consider the you know the working

00:22:00.040 class right they put all these signs they made all these fake signs um you know just it's just 0.79

00:22:06.960 it's just embarrassing and of course I'm not sure if these were actors Candace or if they were

00:22:11.000 actually uh Pearson Airport staff and if anyone has been paying attention to what's been going on

00:22:17.200 in regards to transportation in Canada, Pearson Airport has been an absolute disaster. They've

00:22:22.360 been unable to clear security lines. They've been unable to keep travelers moving. It's becoming

00:22:28.660 a huge problem for them. And even BlogTO wrote about this and said that it was a terrible idea

00:22:36.460 because they're basically shutting down a significant part of the airport, which is

00:22:40.640 already undergoing ridiculous delays because for some reason, Canada is still holding on to these

00:22:46.140 unbelievably punitive travel restrictions that really just target specifically people that are

00:22:51.720 opposed to Justin Trudeau. So there's so much to get into this. Even BlogTO, the liberals,

00:22:58.440 you could say, likely at BlogTO, even they took shots at it because it really was just

00:23:02.100 a stunning display of, I don't know, I don't know what to call it. Like you said,

00:23:06.660 I think it's just really a mockery of people who have legitimate and real frustrations with

00:23:12.540 government well and and like how how astonishingly out of touch are these people but they're like

00:23:19.180 okay we're in the midst of this really hectic travel situation where people are finally starting

00:23:24.140 to want to go travel again so airports are busier but you know we have a confluence of all of these

00:23:29.580 issues in toronto where the feds just voted trudeau just voted to extend travel restrictions

00:23:34.860 um the airlines laid off a bunch of ground staff during the pandemic a lot of them haven't been

00:23:39.180 hired back so they don't have enough people to unload the the planes which mean that people

00:23:43.500 have to stay on the planes a lot longer uh cbsa and the border control guards are dealing with

00:23:48.460 increased volume of having to deal with you know people's paperwork in compliance with

00:23:52.700 covid rules so it's like all this stuff's going on and and you have these sort of fat cat airport

00:23:57.260 executives being like you know what we should do this week let's let's stage a fake trump protest

00:24:02.860 like let's let's just get a bunch of people out there and you know they can they can

00:24:09.100 your point is so funny that they're all wearing masks you're outside you're outside you're not

00:24:13.980 going to get coveted outside you take the bloody masks off and you know the whole the whole mockery

00:24:20.380 on top of it like at least at least get into character please like if you're going to go

00:24:24.780 if you're going to do this at least take the mask off if you're going to hold the sign that says

00:24:28.620 masks are abuse and no masks, then just please do us all a favor and at least get into character

00:24:36.700 so that they can at least prepare. And one more thing as well. After this protest, the government

00:24:42.620 voted to extend travel measures. And you know what? Sooner or later, if they keep this going,

00:24:47.560 they are going to get protests at airports because people are already at their end.

00:24:53.260 But this is just putting fuel on the fire, Candace, and people are going to show up at airports because, quite frankly, what's going on is ridiculous.

00:25:02.280 It's not even based in any science anymore.

00:25:04.620 Liberal MPs are speaking up about it.

00:25:06.560 It's crumbling on them, and they're still holding on.

00:25:10.180 So, yeah, you've got airport security and CBSA blaming it on the government.

00:25:17.280 Government's blaming it on the airports.

00:25:18.760 It's a total disaster.

00:25:19.800 So, yeah, they just must have must have picked the perfect time, Candace, to run this fake protest.

00:25:25.740 Well, they're so out of touch in so many ways. And I think you're right. You're kind of giving people ideas about like going and protesting the airports.

00:25:33.640 I think that Trudeau definitely deserves criticism, though. And the whole idea of extending the restrictions at this point just seems vindictive.

00:25:42.140 It's like they don't want to admit that their policies didn't work. Trudeau said over and over again during the election and since that vaccines are the only way out of the pandemic. He doesn't want to admit that that was a failed, flawed strategy, a flawed approach. So he's just sort of gripping to it, being vindictive and definitely worthy of criticism.

00:26:01.100 Well, Harrison, there's other criticism coming towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week, coming from the former finance minister, Bill Morneau.

00:26:08.740 So Bill Morneau recently unleashed against Justin Trudeau.

00:26:12.300 For those who don't know, former finance minister Bill Morneau was the finance minister in the Trudeau Liberal government from 2015 to 2020.

00:26:20.520 and he delivered a pointed critique of the liberal economic policies as well as recommendations for

00:26:27.040 kick-starting growth in his first public speech since leaving political life two years ago. He

00:26:31.640 left political life in the midst of scandal because he was part of the whole WE Charity

00:26:36.900 scandal where his family members, his daughter, were involved in that organization, that charity,

00:26:42.080 and he didn't clearly recuse himself from decisions about the WE Charity. Interesting how

00:26:48.880 the finance minister gets canned. The prime minister, who had much more of a conflict of

00:26:53.820 interest and was much more deeply entrenched in this scandal, he just kind of walked away. So

00:26:59.780 Morneau gets thrown under the bus. Trudeau comes out with unscathed because of his friends in the

00:27:05.480 media, largely. Well, anyway, Morneau is back and he's not holding anything back. Really,

00:27:11.680 the criticisms are pretty damning, saying that too much time and energy is spent on ways

00:27:18.860 of redistributing wealth in Canada, and little attention is given to the importance of increasing

00:27:23.660 our collective prosperity. You know, we know from the last budget that Canada is projected to have

00:27:28.500 the lowest growth in the G7. Really, our finances are a mass. And I wasn't a big fan of Bill Morneau

00:27:35.720 when he was Justin Trudeau's finance minister, but he was a serious person. He was a grown-up.

00:27:40.100 He did have a background in finance, and he, you know, compared to what we have now, those early

00:27:46.660 days of the Trudeau government, that first term seems like a term of fiscal restraint compared to

00:27:51.360 the absolutely insane spending that we've been going through. So interesting to see that, you

00:27:56.720 know, Trudeau's trying to defend himself. But this other interesting story got dug up. And I want to

00:28:01.700 mention only because this is an issue that I was incredibly critical of at the time. So since

00:28:07.600 Borno's criticisms of Trudeau on finances have come out, there's a speech that he delivered back

00:28:13.400 in February in Washington that was mostly overlooked at the time. But Morneau was talking

00:28:18.860 about a specific incident with the Trudeau government and more broadly about what he

00:28:23.380 calls a tumultuous era of Canada-US relations during the Trump presidency. You can see here,

00:28:30.220 Canada shouldn't have used Trump as a punching bag. And so Morneau was speaking down at Johns

00:28:35.020 Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, giving a lecture. He's now a professor down at

00:28:40.180 Yale University. So he's living in the U.S. He's giving a lot of these speeches. And he said, look,

00:28:45.360 in Canada, what we were doing at the time was reflecting the reality, which was that Trump

00:28:50.320 wasn't very popular in Canada, that most Canadians didn't support Trump, didn't like what he was

00:28:54.460 doing. And so Trudeau used that as a punching bag. We saw that throughout even the 2019 election. It

00:28:59.400 was like rather than running against Andrew Scheer, the conservative leader, Trudeau was kind of

00:29:03.820 running against Trump. And the media always painted it that way. They always focus so much

00:29:08.740 on Trump stories and Trump news. And it was always leading, you know, whatever the latest Trump

00:29:13.280 scandal was, that was a top story on CBC. The Trudeau scandals were always sort of buried

00:29:17.640 down in the back or at the end of the coverage. Well, one specific story that Bill Morneau was

00:29:24.680 talking about was something that I wrote about, because at the time I was kind of gobsmacked and

00:29:29.040 dumbfounded that the Trudeau government would do this. So Chrystia Freeland, who is a former

00:29:34.040 journalist and she is now our finance minister. She took over from Bill Marno. She was the foreign

00:29:39.380 affairs minister, the rookie foreign affairs minister. She was an outspoken critic of Trump.

00:29:44.560 Well, they gave her an award. So she was awarded diplomat of the year by foreign policy magazine,

00:29:51.300 which is sort of a blue chip top notch foreign policy journal or used to be anyway. Anyway,

00:29:57.460 so she she goes to accept this ward harrison and she unleashes this like bizarre rant about true

00:30:04.820 about trump sorry and and the resistance movement and she called him anti-democratic and an angry

00:30:10.340 populist uh so you can see my story i wrote about it in september 2018 uh really how embarrassing

00:30:18.740 that that our foreign affairs minister would go to the foreign capital the capital of our closest

00:30:23.780 ally of the United States and rip on the president. I thought it was so I thought it was just she 1.00

00:30:30.060 showed utter contempt to our allies. And it was so disrespectful. It was so unbelievable and ironic 1.00

00:30:36.140 because she was being awarded with the award of top diplomat. And here she is giving this incredibly

00:30:41.480 undiplomatic speech where she called Trump a demagogue and accused him of scapegoating the

00:30:47.400 outsider, the other, the immigrants, as well as trading partners. And the media in Canada just

00:30:53.260 sort of applauded and praised her and said, wow, she's so brave. Well, it turns out, as I wrote

00:31:00.740 about in that column in the Toronto Sun, our American colleagues didn't like it. They didn't

00:31:06.380 like it. And so apparently Bill Morneau is close friends with former Secretary of State Stephen

00:31:14.260 Nuchin. And basically, he talked about how Nuchin was incredibly disappointed. And basically,

00:31:22.360 He called Bill Arnault, apparently said, Bill, how would you feel if I went to Ottawa, gave

00:31:26.720 a speech criticizing your government to the people who largely are your opposition, didn't

00:31:30.740 bother calling you, and then flew back to Washington the next day.

00:31:34.240 But Arnault added, that's not really the way you have an effective partnership.

00:31:38.520 Absolutely.

00:31:39.220 This is so obvious, Harrison.

00:31:40.580 And yeah, at the time, again, the media in Canada, rather than holding our politicians

00:31:44.260 accountable and saying this is incredibly reckless, it's damaging, it's going to damage

00:31:47.860 your trade relationship, it's going to damage your ability to get anything done.

00:31:52.360 which it did. You know, our media were cheering him on. And now, four years later, with clarity

00:31:57.180 of mind, Bill Morneau was like, I can't believe we did that. That was insane. That was so stupid.

00:32:01.520 And the media were like, yeah, yeah, that was probably a mistake. It's all so ridiculous. 1.00

00:32:06.360 Yeah. And again, Canada, and I imagine Trudeau, Freeland, Morneau, they knew what they were up 0.95

00:32:12.440 against. Obviously, I think Mnuchin was Treasury Secretary. I know that the trade ambassador at

00:32:19.200 the time, Bob Lighthizer, was well known for his negotiation skills and Trump, of course,

00:32:25.060 as well. So they knew what they were up against. And the whole trade negotiations was about

00:32:29.840 the NAFTA deal, the new NAFTA deal, which is absolutely key to Canada's economy. They are

00:32:36.780 our number one trading partner. If Canada doesn't get that negotiation right, it'll be hugely

00:32:41.840 detrimental to Canadians. And instead of trying to approach it diplomatically, instead of trying

00:32:46.780 to approach the U.S. president at the time as a president, not as a political opponent,

00:32:51.620 that was what needed to happen. And clearly, that's not what happened. And I think Morneau

00:32:58.180 is absolutely right here. Crazy to say that. I agree with Bill Morneau on something. But

00:33:02.480 in this instance, I absolutely do. Freeland, Trudeau, that entire team basically put politics

00:33:09.480 over the people. They put their own political ambitions of trying to dunk on Trump for their

00:33:14.580 own supporters over the betterment of the Canadian economy, which was to get a good deal

00:33:19.500 for Canadians. If you remember, right after Trump was elected, I'm pretty sure,

00:33:25.220 he took a look at the deal at NAFTA and noticed that it was not in America's favor. So he was

00:33:31.660 going to basically rip it up and try and find new ways to put it in America's favor. So Canada had

00:33:36.900 an obligation to approach this and get something good for Canadians. Clearly, it angered Americans

00:33:42.880 And then rightly so. I think what Mnuchin said from Morneau is right. If Mike Pence or someone 1.00

00:33:51.460 like that came to Canada and just dunked on Trudeau, didn't say anything and left, it'd be

00:33:55.900 horrible. It would be horrible from the Canadian government's perspective. So it's absolutely right.

00:34:01.500 And I think it's clear that these people in Trudeau's cabinet were clearly just looking for

00:34:07.280 ways to dunk on Trump. And they saw it as a political opportunity, not as an actual chance

00:34:10.880 to strengthen canada's economy which is just a shame you're right yeah and thanks for the question

00:34:16.400 i said secretary of state uh steve mnuchin was a treasury secretary but but it wasn't like this

00:34:21.280 was without consequences right you you're right to acknowledge that trump ripped up nafta and

00:34:26.640 canada was like begging at the like the the you know 11th hour please let us back in to this this

00:34:32.400 partnership and trump was sort of going towards mexico saying okay we're going to do our own deal

00:34:36.560 over here we were also had trump uh imposing steel and aluminum tariffs on canada that so

00:34:43.440 so again you have the the the liberal government that is so focused on scoring cheap political

00:34:49.440 points dunking on what they see as their political uh adversaries conservatives republicans in the

00:34:55.600 u.s the media cheering them on not holding them accountable not saying hey wait a minute guys

00:35:00.560 this is probably pretty irresponsible and you know it takes four years later uh for someone in

00:35:06.320 the trudeau government to acknowledge like wow it is amateur hour over at the uh federal government

00:35:12.320 in part in ottawa parliament these people are not grown-ups they're they're completely

00:35:18.400 superficial and immature and the fact that that freeland would go and do this and again

00:35:22.480 And, you know, she still hasn't really received much criticism or repercussions.

00:35:30.180 You know, you still don't see much about it in the media, maybe a little bit here and there.

00:35:33.280 But it's really incredible.

00:35:35.240 And, yeah, I wasn't a big fan of Bill Morneau when he was the finance minister. 0.99

00:35:40.000 I think he made a lot of stupid choices, including throwing Canada into deficit spending. 0.98

00:35:44.520 But he's sounding a lot more sane now that he's been two years removed from the Trudeau government. 0.99

00:35:51.260 Well, there's something there's something wrong with I don't know if it's something in the in the water over at Liberal Party headquarters, Harrison, but it's like as soon as you become a Liberal MP, you just your mind gets poisoned and you turn into like a woke robot.

00:36:06.240 So, you know, I know that for this week, there's a big launch down in the US, our friends of the Daily Wire launched their own documentary called What is a Woman, where Matt Walsh just basically goes around asking this very simple question, what is a woman, and he really unearths and shines a light on the very perverse, woke ideology that has inflicted so many places and the whole gender ideology.

00:36:32.060 Well, it's not just happening in the US, it's happening in Canada. We have first-hand evidence this week, a Liberal MP, the Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Women and Gender Equality, or sorry, Gender Equity, Jenna Suds, sorry, no, that's not who gave the speech.

00:36:52.020 hold on uh who gave the speech here that's right liberal mp pam damoff she delivered a speech 0.95

00:36:59.220 in the house of commons this is like i quote celebrating vaginas and vulvas day this is 0.94

00:37:04.980 imagine getting up to deliver a house a speech in the house of commons in parliament the house of 0.90

00:37:09.460 our democracy um and and making a speech like this we're going to play it for you it's a little long

00:37:14.900 it's very cringy uh but this is a state of political discourse from the liberal side of

00:37:19.540 of the aisle in Canada. Here's that clip.

00:37:23.460 Vaginas and vulvas are a source of strength, empowerment, and pleasure. 0.93

00:37:28.340 Yet throughout our lives, we've been taught that the terms vulva and vagina do not have 0.97

00:37:32.540 a place in polite conversation. That's one more way that the bodies of over half the 0.99

00:37:37.380 world's population are stigmatized, sexualized, and objectified. With the recent news in the

00:37:42.860 United States regarding Roe versus Wade, conversations about sexual and reproductive

00:37:47.520 health are more important than ever and it starts here on parliament hill we need to reclaim space

00:37:53.280 in health research politics policy making at the doctor's office to celebrate the power of vulvas

00:38:00.240 and vaginas it's 2022 and we shouldn't be embarrassed or ashamed to talk about our bodies

00:38:06.080 join me the mps from winnipeg center saanich gulf islands shefford senator mcfederan and 0.61

00:38:12.400 Action Canada as we jointly host a celebration on May 31st to reclaim the conversation and celebrate 0.96

00:38:19.920 vulvas and vaginas as powerful and important. What? And they all cheer and they all celebrate 0.98

00:38:31.120 and my point I made on Twitter was notice how she doesn't say women like they come to separate

00:38:37.360 the human body from the actual gender and sex is why i talk about nat walsh's documentary because 0.96

00:38:43.040 this is all part of the gender equity equality documentary uh sorry ideology that that these

00:38:48.960 people are pushing they don't want to use the word woman because they don't even want to describe

00:38:52.960 what a woman is and so instead you have this creepy spectacle of this woman i i don't even

00:38:59.280 i don't even know what to make of it harrison it's just it's like a cult these people are part

00:39:03.440 of a cult and you know the things that they want to celebrate the things that they want attention

00:39:07.840 for just really that's that's that's no place in our parliament that's not what we should be

00:39:13.440 talking about when we stand up to give political speeches in the house of commons yeah i mean

00:39:18.720 kenneth that that's like a 30 second clip and it feels like it goes on for so long it's so painful

00:39:23.680 so i have to apologize to our audience for even showing that but really it's important to watch

00:39:28.080 because i think it just shows candace how fundamentally unserious the liberal government

00:39:33.360 is and how performative it is and how it's really just about riding the woke wave and if it goes if

00:39:39.600 it goes to the conversation about not saying women then they're going to go there if it goes to

00:39:44.640 protesting with blm they're going to go there it's all performative for them

00:39:48.000 it's just they're just they're just not serious at all and this is this is evident not only in

00:39:52.080 just that clip because it's not the first time candace that they've talked about these sorts

00:39:56.560 of issues and and they've refused to even say the word woman because this is just i guess the modern

00:40:02.000 state of of the left in both canada and the united states um i mean i here here it is we can we can

00:40:08.560 pull this up but in the latest budget candace there was a line item about pilot piloting a

00:40:15.120 menstrual equity fund for those in need uh and again i just want to make sure oh at least in

00:40:21.440 the budget they do mention women but the title the title is for those in need menstrual equity

00:40:27.600 for those in need um this is just not a serious government candace and we already knew that

00:40:32.640 well and it does say women girls trans and non-binary canadians so they had to include

00:40:37.600 the whole rubrics of all the different types of people who get their period because it's no longer

00:40:41.920 just women and girls according to the lunatics who run our government and we we've seen this before

00:40:47.520 uh it was the um you know they uh theresa tam the chief medical officer in canada last year just 0.83

00:40:58.000 awkwardly and embarrassingly referred to pregnant and breastfeeding people not not women people

00:41:04.560 because all people can get pregnant and all people could breastfeed according to

00:41:09.520 those in the liberal cult um and so it would be horrible to to to insult the the men that that

00:41:17.920 breastfeed and are pregnant i i mean i can't i can't frankly imagine a worse thing for the

00:41:22.000 government to do than insult those very important uh voting bloc for the liberals well and so while 1.00

00:41:28.320 our liberal elites and overlords are completely denigrating women and trying to erase women from

00:41:33.600 the public square there has been some shocking research uh that canada's fertility rates reached

00:41:39.760 a record low in 2020 so this was sort of something a lot of people saw coming that that there would

00:41:45.120 be the opposite of a baby boom during the pandemic that people parents would decide that there's too

00:41:49.680 much economic uncertainty and that we wouldn't have as many babies being born well that has

00:41:55.680 poured out through stats so stats can uh confirm that that in uh 2020 fertility rate fell from 1.47

00:42:04.320 children per women in 2019 down to 1.4 in 2020 fertility rates have been steady steadily declining

00:42:11.280 in in canada since 2009 and we're sort of bottoming out reaching rock bottom i i had to include this

00:42:17.680 story harrison because this individual here susan mcdaniel who is a professor of sociology

00:42:23.600 the university of victoria she she actually celebrates this rather than seeing this as the

00:42:29.360 sort of real damaging um the sort of end of civilization threat that it poses that the lack

00:42:36.960 of fertility rates in this country the fact that people are not having families that that women are

00:42:41.840 men are choosing to forego marriage uh they're choosing to delay choosing to wait many of them

00:42:46.720 are choosing not to have children at all some of them ideologically because they oppose human

00:42:51.520 beings and they don't want to worsen what they consider climate change um or or just people

00:42:57.600 unable to find a life partner and find that meaning and take that plunge into adulthood by

00:43:03.040 having a family uh that more and more canadians are forgoing that uh again most people would see

00:43:08.080 that as something really sad there's something really wrong in our society that we need to

00:43:12.160 address and we need to confront we need to change uh well well here is ctv has found a professor to

00:43:18.480 to say the exact opposite. This is a good trend. This is a good trend. So we'll go back to Susan

00:43:24.100 McDaniel, the professor. She said the trend is for lower birth rates worldwide. And she basically

00:43:30.400 just says this is a good trend. Basically, it's better for children if there are fewer children.

00:43:35.060 It's better for parents if there are fewer children. It's better for society. And it's

00:43:39.100 better for the planet and everything else. So let's just go through this because this is so

00:43:42.720 absurd and so, again, counterintuitive. How on earth is it better for children if there's fewer

00:43:49.220 children? Do you know what little kids love? Other little kids. They love kids to play with. They love

00:43:53.860 cousins and neighbors and siblings and friends. The more kids in a community, the better. I have

00:44:00.120 a three-year-old and a one-year-old, and their favorite things that they do is go out to play

00:44:03.860 dates, go out to messy tots. We used to have a mom and tot group in our church basement, and then

00:44:08.980 COVID put an end to that. And it was really, really hard on my son, because he loved going

00:44:12.960 every week to see his little friends. And all of a sudden, he couldn't. Little kids love being

00:44:16.980 around other little kids. So the fact that there are fewer children is not better for children,

00:44:21.200 despite what the sociologist says. It's better for parents, she says. It's better for parents

00:44:25.120 if there are fewer children. How on earth is that the case? Most women, when polled in Canada,

00:44:29.920 say that they want to have more children, that they would have more children if they could afford

00:44:33.420 it or if they had different financial circumstances. Most women say that they would, if they were asked 0.65

00:44:39.500 how many children would they have in ideal world, most women say three. Three children is what they 1.00

00:44:44.600 say that they want. Instead, we see 1.4 children per woman. So the exact opposite of what this 0.99

00:44:51.180 woman is saying, it's not better for children. It's not better for parents. It's certainly not

00:44:53.940 better for grandparents. Grandparents are the ones that want grandchildren the most. They want more

00:44:58.040 children. So many of the people I talk to who have kids that are, you know, in their 20s or 30s,

00:45:04.400 a lot of them mentioned to me like, oh, you know, I can't wait for my child to have kids. I can't

00:45:10.780 wait for grandkids. I hear that so often. Everyone wants more kids. And the whole idea, better for

00:45:16.580 society, better the planet. Try to circle that square with the idea that these are the same

00:45:20.760 people who are in favor of open borders and mass immigration, right? They want more people in

00:45:25.620 Canada. We need more people in Canada from an economic perspective. And yet they just don't

00:45:30.600 want them to be Canadian grown. So I thought that that was one of the most despicable quotes that I

00:45:34.400 have ever seen from a legacy media outlet saying that having fewer kids is better for everyone.

00:45:40.940 No, it is not. That is not true. Don't listen to sociology professors. They will ruin our society

00:45:46.500 and make everybody miserable. What do you think, Harrison? Well, I think most sociology professors

00:45:51.000 are probably exactly aligned with what that woman was saying.

00:45:55.040 And this is not a question of sociology.

00:45:56.880 This is a question for doctors and for economists,

00:46:00.860 because that's really what it is.

00:46:02.060 But Candice, there's two things I think we should talk about with this.

00:46:04.840 The first is, as you said, the immigration side of things.

00:46:07.620 In the article, they even put that there.

00:46:09.480 The sociology professor says our population is growing,

00:46:12.320 but it's because of immigration. 1.00

00:46:13.800 That's a good thing.

00:46:15.020 But it's not good for Canadians to have more kids. 0.99

00:46:18.280 I think that's important to note.

00:46:20.040 That's an important part of their plan. And of course, the second part is that this conversation wouldn't be right if we didn't talk about the fact that all of these policies, going back to the policies where they are denying women and erasing women, encouraging abortions.

00:46:38.080 You can go down the list, Candace. The left are putting forward policies that are tailored to this outcome, that are tailored to having fewer or having lower birth rates. That's an important part of the conversation. And I think the media is now veering into the position of promoting professors that are basically outlining exactly why it's good to have less kids and why we need to increase immigration.

00:47:01.640 Those are two important parts that really this is the outcome of policies put forward by the political left. This is exactly what's going to come from it. And I think clearly it is not good for parents. It is not good for other kids and it is just not good for the country.

00:47:15.560 it's interesting because when it comes to sort of natalist policies most people don't want to talk

00:47:20.800 about it the media barely picks up on it the only time the media ever talks about this issue

00:47:25.060 is when there's studies like this that come out that show a decline in birth rate a historic

00:47:29.480 decline decline numbers like i said have been going down steadily and and yet they put like

00:47:34.020 this positive spin it's it's so it's so creepy and weird and and anti-human fundamentally and

00:47:40.640 And again, I think most Canadians would be happier with more children.

00:47:44.600 Most Canadians want more kids in their community, want more kids in their family, want more kids for their own.

00:47:50.660 And so, again, don't listen to university professors.

00:47:54.600 They will make you miserable and ruin everything.

00:47:57.440 So I think that's a good way to sum up the show this week, Harrison.

00:48:02.420 So I appreciate it.

00:48:04.880 And thanks for joining us.

00:48:06.640 It's been fun as usual.

00:48:08.260 And yeah, when it comes to fake news, there's just always so much that we used to do this

00:48:14.900 show for 20 minutes and now we're almost pushing an hour just because it's so hard to cram

00:48:18.920 everything in.

00:48:19.500 But appreciate your time, Harrison.

00:48:21.120 Thanks for joining us.

00:48:22.220 Yeah, thanks for having me, Candice.

00:48:24.540 All right.

00:48:24.860 That's Harrison Faulkner, journalist with True North.

00:48:27.340 I'm Candice Malcolm.

00:48:28.000 This has been Fake News Friday here on the Candice Malcolm Show.

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