00:00:00.000So according to the legacy media, if you are a protester on the political right, it means that
00:00:19.300you are angry, you're probably racist, and you're definitely bigoted. However, if you are a protester
00:00:24.360on the political left, for instance, if you're protesting against a conservative politician,
00:00:28.640well that makes you righteous it makes you honorable and definitely worthy of the audience's
00:00:34.560time this according to the legacy media it is a special live edition of fake news friday i'm
00:00:40.080candace malcolm and this is the candace malcolm show thank you so much for joining us and i am
00:00:45.140joined as per usual by my producer harrison faulkner harrison is a journalist with us at
00:00:50.660true north and it's always great to have you with us on fridays harrison yeah thanks for having me
00:00:56.140Candace, this is going to be a good one. We've got coverage that's skewed about protests. We've got
00:01:01.240completely fake protests. And of course, we've got the protests that the media would like to
00:01:05.100just completely ignore. So looking forward to getting into it. Well, it is sort of interesting
00:01:09.760because, I mean, we covered this on the show last week, Harrison, we showed the audience of how the
00:01:15.880legacy media ran with a story that was completely fake. It was a fake story concocted by a bunch of
00:01:19.960liberal MPs and liberal strategists and liberal staffers saying that, oh, Justin Trudeau couldn't
00:01:25.760attend this fancy fundraiser out in Surrey, British Columbia, $1,000 a plate. He couldn't
00:01:31.880attend because there were these awful racist conservatives outside and it wasn't safe for
00:01:37.300the prime minister to go in. Rather than trying to verify the story, rather than trying to
00:01:42.240get evidence of these supposedly racist comments that prevented the prime minister from entering
00:01:46.820the protest, the media just ran with a story. They just put it out there as fact. They didn't
00:01:51.060even put the usual disclaimer that media does in the headlines saying liberals claim or liberals
00:01:55.900claim uh or according to liberals or whatever no it was just like fact trudeau couldn't go to this
00:02:01.020fundraiser because of racism and then the whole story fell apart when video footage emerged i
00:02:06.260mean what do you expect right there's like 100 protesters outside or a couple dozen protesters
00:02:10.200anyway everyone's filming it there's lots and lots of video footage all you have to do is go on social
00:02:14.640media to see it and it becomes pretty clear very quickly that there was no no such racism um and
00:02:20.000And so rather than the media admitting that they had made a mistake, admitting that they had basically run a liberal press release as news.
00:02:26.560And we're talking about CBC, Canadian Press, which ends up in all of the newspapers.
00:02:31.360Instead, they just kind of quietly changed the headline.
00:02:34.160They just quietly rewrote the piece and didn't admit that they had made any previous errors.
00:02:38.540Well, 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.
00:02:49.980So everyone knows we had an election in Ontario.
00:03:05.180the NDP ran a terrible campaign and lost seats as well. So the conservatives are a big winner.
00:03:11.040They're incredibly popular in Ontario. People like what they're doing. And it was interesting.
00:03:15.860I don't know if you watched any of the coverage last night, Harrison, I was watching
00:03:18.320CBC's coverage. And I guess it's like their A team that's in Parliament and sort of their B team
00:03:23.680that covers Queen's Park because it was a bit rough around the edges that broadcast wasn't
00:03:29.000really their best of it. I honestly think that our content at True North is a lot better.
00:03:32.300And 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.
00:04:00.520And 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.
00:04:13.900Of course, they don't bother to actually interview any of the subjects.
00:04:16.720They don't bother to talk to the individual protesters, just like they did with the trucker convoy.
00:04:21.180We should contrast that with how the media cover these people who are interrupting what is clearly a very popular premier,
00:04:27.760a premier that just won a resounding victory last night in the election.
00:04:31.200But the media treat him like he's some kind of a nefarious character coming to destroy the province of Ontario,
00:04:38.140even though he's been the premier for the last four years.
00:05:32.440Hanks wasn't the only one to take the stage.
00:05:35.420Three different people interrupted the premier's visit.
00:05:38.300I think that I have the right to let people know before they vote that Doug Ford is really a fraud.
00:05:45.160I mean, the Conservatives have been destroying this province and this country, you know, and at the expense of the most vulnerable.
00:05:54.500So we go out and we interview, you know, the provocateurs, the disruptors who go and do something illegal, right, to the second gentleman there.
00:06:04.980No, you don't have the right to interrupt a private event.
00:06:07.060sure you have the right to express your opinions and your views and you can go and spout your
00:06:11.140opinions all you want you go stand on a soapbox go write on twitter or write your own blog you
00:06:15.780don't have the right to go into someone else's private event and disrupt it and and and and
00:06:20.340then sort of the the crux of his argument the guy's a fraud it's like great that's your opinion
00:06:25.540thanks for sharing you know no facts or evidence needed um in order to give them sort of prime
00:06:32.340space to to discuss their opinions the first gentleman they're saying he's going to privatize
00:06:36.260our healthcare, you got to be honest with Ontarians. It's like, again, the guy's been
00:06:39.420premier for four years, hasn't privatized the healthcare since so far. So this whole suggestion
00:06:44.680that you could just sort of make these claims, media don't press back. Journalists don't say,
00:06:48.540well, what do you mean? Can you provide some evidence? Can you provide example? They just
00:06:51.640give them a platform. And that's the way that we treat anti-conservative protesters in this
00:06:58.080country. Harrison, what do you make of all this? Well, Candace, just imagine for a second,
00:07:02.120if the CTV treated the protesters in Ottawa with the same respect and the same whatever you want
00:07:09.980to describe it as I guess you could call it respect you could just call it with you could
00:07:13.320call it some sort of I don't know I mean clearly they're promoting these these protesters but
00:07:17.620imagine if the CTV did that for the Ottawa protesters took the time to interview them
00:07:22.080get what they had to say get the best parts of what they had to say as well keep in mind because
00:07:25.920of course I'm sure they edited that interview to make these two these two protesters look as
00:07:31.980good as possible. But things would be totally different, of course. And the narrative that
00:07:35.920the media ran with to the protesters in Ottawa would be different if they treated them with the
00:07:40.480same, I guess you could call it respect. But again, this also highlights, Candice, the difference
00:07:45.540between the legacy media and independent media. Because I was at a Ford event the day before the
00:07:51.220election. I saw, I myself approached an independent journalist who was very critical of Ford. And I
00:07:57.700saw a rebel journalist do the same thing. And I've seen this happen before where independent
00:08:02.020journalists will speak to both sides. Part of the story is covering opposition and protesters at
00:08:07.380events. There's the key difference though, Candace, because independent media will do that.
00:08:13.580They will take the time to approach these people and hear what they have to say. And they'll also
00:08:17.220go into the event and usually act with respect and interview the subject of the event. So,
00:08:22.140So, I mean, it's clearly just, you know, the difference between how the media treats these protesters is obvious.
00:08:30.180And I think the Canadians are obviously worse off for it.
00:08:33.080And 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.
00:08:44.300But, I mean, it just ends up driving viewers to us, right?
00:08:47.260It just drives viewers away from legacy media to independent sources that do the job properly.
00:08:52.140Well, 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.
00:09:18.080they say people are risking everyone they're going to kill grandma like how dare these evil evil
00:09:22.800people uh and then and then and then like a minute later uh when when black lives matter
00:09:27.520protests were happening all over the world in reaction to a isolated crime event in a different
00:09:33.440country um all of a sudden we had all these health experts including our own in canada
00:09:37.920saying that that that systemic racism is another pandemic and therefore protesting against systemic
00:09:44.160racism is tolerable in our society. And to me, that was when they really let the cat out of the
00:09:49.120bag. It's like, okay, these health experts have no sense of neutrality. It is all about
00:09:55.120their political agenda. It is all about partisanship. Here is Justin Trudeau breaking
00:10:00.020his own social distancing rules to go out and take a knee, whatever that means. But again,
00:10:06.220the media cover it like, wow, it's so heroic. I remember David Akin, the bureau chief over at
00:10:10.940Global saying, Justin Trudeau is the first G7 leader to go to a Black Lives Matter protest,
00:10:16.540like salivating at this idea. And it's like, you know, their agenda, the difference in the way0.92
00:10:22.620that they treat protesters on the left versus protest on the right, it's been pretty blatantly
00:10:26.880obvious for a while. I think that the trucker convoy really exposed that. And we just see
00:10:32.520sort of little examples of it every single week in the media where, again, if you're protesting
00:10:37.580Doug Ford, you're heroic, and you deserve equal time on the television screen to hear what this
00:10:43.280guy has to say, even though what he's saying isn't based in any facts or backed up at all by
00:10:48.840evidence. It's just some crazy guy's opinion. But yeah, we're going to put that front and center.
00:10:54.740Yeah. And when the legacy media does this, when the legacy media goes ahead and demonizes
00:10:59.840protesters who have every right, one, to protest, but also have valid reasons to protest and valid
00:11:05.600concerns. What it does is it opens the door to legitimate attacks from politicians. If the media
00:11:11.400says that these people are racist, if the media says that these protesters who have valid concerns
00:11:17.780are actually just, you know, angry, evil people, then of course what's going to happen is that
00:11:24.060politicians are going to take that and use it as an object to attack these protesters. And even
00:11:29.520even I saw that, I remember that during the Queen's Park protests, Doug Ford called the
00:11:36.320protesters, many of whom were his supporters, yahoos, and, you know, Trudeau would go out and
00:11:41.520call them racists. This is a very bad thing for the media to be doing, and it has real effects
00:11:47.420on society. So again, it's become, as you said, Candace, it's become the standard operating
00:11:53.700procedure for the legacy media. And I mean, the past year has made it as plain as day.
00:11:59.520Well, at least when they, when they, so Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader, he was protested at a rally
00:12:07.020and then a few days later, Justin Trudeau was supposedly the victim of racism. At least it sort
00:12:11.340of makes sense. There's some internal logic when you saw the media, you know, dismissing these
00:12:16.860conservative protesters as being racist when they were heckling Jagmeet Singh, right? Because he's
00:12:21.280Indian. When it was Justin Trudeau, it just made no sense. But even that secondary line of reasoning1.00
00:12:27.720from legacy media that people who are protesting Jagmeet Singh must have inherently been racist.
00:12:32.820And you don't even need to say anything racist. They don't need to prove that the people were
00:12:37.600motivated by racism purely by the fact that they had different skin color. Therefore, they had to
00:12:43.180be racist. Well, the media's narrative on this, Harrison, didn't really stand up because last
00:12:48.440weekend, as reported by True North, Jagmeet Singh had to flee an event in Brampton, Ontario,
00:12:53.440because he was being hounded by Sikh protesters.
00:12:56.860So it turns out that Jagmeet Singh is just not a very popular guy.
00:13:00.120And there's a lot of anger and frustration against him across the country.
00:13:04.600I think a lot of it is because in Canada, we have a parliamentary democracy.
00:15:55.720It 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.
00:16:06.000And going back, Candace, to the protests we covered last week on Fake News Friday.
00:16:12.460the media i guess hasn't caught on to the fact that everyone now is a citizen journalist most
00:16:18.540people who go to these protests are live streaming you just can't make things up
00:16:22.620right you can't just fabricate the truth and expect everyone to just go along with it
00:16:27.500um because everyone's filming and this is a perfect example candace of just
00:16:31.980how offside the media is when it comes to the reality of people being frustrated with this
00:16:37.020government. Jagmeet Singh has in many ways, you know, just proven to Canadians that he's really
00:16:44.200just in it to hold on to power, to hold on to some sort of influence. We know from the NDP that
00:16:49.440they're not in a position to one challenge the government properly, and they don't have the
00:16:54.920finances to run an official campaign. So instead of actually doing the job that he was supposed to
00:16:59.540do, he has now kind of folded in and folded in behind a really unpopular leader. And one last
00:17:04.780thing about this. People have, this was talked about during the Ottawa protest, but this is
00:17:10.360still a reality. The Sikh community, many of them drive trucks. Many of them are truck drivers. That1.00
00:17:15.720is a huge profession in Brampton. So it led up to this perfect moment where Jagmeet Singh was
00:17:23.140eventually going to get heckled out of his own hometown because of what he said about the trucker
00:17:27.660protest, because of the way he's reacted. And it just all kind of came to the front now at this
00:17:34.000protest. And I think it was symbolic. And his brother didn't even win his own riding, right?
00:17:38.400I mean, these people are really, really furious. And you can't spin it when it's all on video.
00:17:43.760Exactly. And yet, I mean, you can't spin it. And so Harrison, they just don't cover it. It's like
00:17:49.540it didn't exist. It's like, if those are white protesters, you know, it would be the biggest0.72
00:17:53.900story in the country. You know, it would be plastered everywhere. And the headline, just
00:17:57.660like we saw two weeks ago, would be, look at these horrible racists. Every fancy columnist
00:18:02.260over at the Globe and Mail, International Post, would be writing about it and clutching their
00:18:06.180pearls and talking about how dangerous populism is. But when it is Sikh protesters, then no,0.82
00:18:12.860not important, not worth covering. And so the media just leave it. Well, we've got one other0.98
00:18:17.780protest story, Harrison, that this is just so typical of the establishment in Canada. So
00:18:24.440apparently the Toronto Airport Authority wanted to do some kind of an emergency drill of what it
00:18:31.320would look like if there was a protest at the airport. And so they paid a bunch of fake
00:18:37.780protesters, a bunch of actors got paid to stage a fake protest at the airport to see how the
00:18:45.020emergency response team over at Pearson Airport in Toronto would react and put together. Of course,
00:18:52.340the protest that they chose was a kind of like a Freedom Convoy makeup. They basically
00:19:01.140replicated the idea of a freedom convoy they had all these people with with their fake uh freedom
00:19:07.300signs and the whole thing was just a terrible mockery basically just a bunch of people making
00:19:14.180fun of the working class essentially i don't i don't know what other way uh to put it but this
00:19:18.980is this is what it looks like i think we have a clip of this one don't we harrison yeah we do uh
00:19:23.460yeah let's throw to that clip because it's just really astonishing
00:19:26.180a scene unfolded at pearson airport today that could have fooled onlookers
00:19:34.260so today we're having in a mock emergency exercise happening so we're testing our response
00:19:44.080to an emergency or security situation so we've got protesters in the back who have been very
00:19:50.280enthusiastic uh about playing their roles and we've been testing our response to it
00:19:55.960yes as you can see people both volunteers and airport employees getting into character for
00:20:00.840the fake protest the exercise is actually a requirement by transport canada the gta says
00:20:07.160it's an important way to test the airport's emergency response so at least they admitted
00:20:14.680that it was you know cvc didn't pretend like it was a real protest or something like that but
00:20:18.600But 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.
00:20:30.480I 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.
00:20:39.060You know, like people who've actually attacked airports in the past.
00:20:41.620But 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.
00:20:54.780I don't know. I don't know how to describe it. Pretty strange.
00:20:56.700Well, I wrote on Twitter when the clip came out, I was asking whether this was Monty Python or
00:21:02.440real life, because it's just so ridiculous, Candice. And I mean, where can we start? I mean,
00:21:07.820imagine, so they just said that this was a part of Transport Canada, which also oversees Canada's
00:21:12.940railways. I doubt, Candice, that there has ever been a mock protest. And I may be wrong, but at
00:21:18.680this point, I would doubt it. There's ever been a mock protest of when, for example, railroads are
00:21:23.060blockaded and they have to test how they respond to that. Because of course, that doesn't really
00:21:27.020play into the narrative. But there are some great shots in this video. Of course, first of all,
00:21:32.540the spokesperson for the protest said that everyone was very enthusiastic. I would say
00:21:37.240that they were slightly, they slightly missed part of the character because they're all wearing
00:21:41.240masks, which is just so, so typical. And here we go, the shot of the protest, a man wearing a mask
00:21:49.580saying masks are abuse and there's a Trump 2024 sign in there uh it's it's really just the ultimate
00:21:56.120uh first of all it's the ultimate mockery of of what I would consider the you know the working
00:22:00.040class right they put all these signs they made all these fake signs um you know just it's just0.79
00:22:06.960it's just embarrassing and of course I'm not sure if these were actors Candace or if they were
00:22:11.000actually uh Pearson Airport staff and if anyone has been paying attention to what's been going on
00:22:17.200in regards to transportation in Canada, Pearson Airport has been an absolute disaster. They've
00:22:22.360been unable to clear security lines. They've been unable to keep travelers moving. It's becoming
00:22:28.660a huge problem for them. And even BlogTO wrote about this and said that it was a terrible idea
00:22:36.460because they're basically shutting down a significant part of the airport, which is
00:22:40.640already undergoing ridiculous delays because for some reason, Canada is still holding on to these
00:22:46.140unbelievably punitive travel restrictions that really just target specifically people that are
00:22:51.720opposed to Justin Trudeau. So there's so much to get into this. Even BlogTO, the liberals,
00:22:58.440you could say, likely at BlogTO, even they took shots at it because it really was just
00:23:02.100a stunning display of, I don't know, I don't know what to call it. Like you said,
00:23:06.660I think it's just really a mockery of people who have legitimate and real frustrations with
00:23:12.540government well and and like how how astonishingly out of touch are these people but they're like
00:23:19.180okay we're in the midst of this really hectic travel situation where people are finally starting
00:23:24.140to want to go travel again so airports are busier but you know we have a confluence of all of these
00:23:29.580issues in toronto where the feds just voted trudeau just voted to extend travel restrictions
00:23:34.860um the airlines laid off a bunch of ground staff during the pandemic a lot of them haven't been
00:23:39.180hired back so they don't have enough people to unload the the planes which mean that people
00:23:43.500have to stay on the planes a lot longer uh cbsa and the border control guards are dealing with
00:23:48.460increased volume of having to deal with you know people's paperwork in compliance with
00:23:52.700covid rules so it's like all this stuff's going on and and you have these sort of fat cat airport
00:23:57.260executives being like you know what we should do this week let's let's stage a fake trump protest
00:24:02.860like let's let's just get a bunch of people out there and you know they can they can
00:24:09.100your point is so funny that they're all wearing masks you're outside you're outside you're not
00:24:13.980going to get coveted outside you take the bloody masks off and you know the whole the whole mockery
00:24:20.380on top of it like at least at least get into character please like if you're going to go
00:24:24.780if you're going to do this at least take the mask off if you're going to hold the sign that says
00:24:28.620masks are abuse and no masks, then just please do us all a favor and at least get into character
00:24:36.700so that they can at least prepare. And one more thing as well. After this protest, the government
00:24:42.620voted to extend travel measures. And you know what? Sooner or later, if they keep this going,
00:24:47.560they are going to get protests at airports because people are already at their end.
00:24:53.260But 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.
00:25:02.280It's not even based in any science anymore.
00:25:19.800So, yeah, they just must have must have picked the perfect time, Candace, to run this fake protest.
00:25:25.740Well, 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.
00:25:33.640I think that Trudeau definitely deserves criticism, though. And the whole idea of extending the restrictions at this point just seems vindictive.
00:25:42.140It'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.
00:26:01.100Well, Harrison, there's other criticism coming towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week, coming from the former finance minister, Bill Morneau.
00:26:08.740So Bill Morneau recently unleashed against Justin Trudeau.
00:26:12.300For those who don't know, former finance minister Bill Morneau was the finance minister in the Trudeau Liberal government from 2015 to 2020.
00:26:20.520and he delivered a pointed critique of the liberal economic policies as well as recommendations for
00:26:27.040kick-starting growth in his first public speech since leaving political life two years ago. He
00:26:31.640left political life in the midst of scandal because he was part of the whole WE Charity
00:26:36.900scandal where his family members, his daughter, were involved in that organization, that charity,
00:26:42.080and he didn't clearly recuse himself from decisions about the WE Charity. Interesting how
00:26:48.880the finance minister gets canned. The prime minister, who had much more of a conflict of
00:26:53.820interest and was much more deeply entrenched in this scandal, he just kind of walked away. So
00:26:59.780Morneau gets thrown under the bus. Trudeau comes out with unscathed because of his friends in the
00:27:05.480media, largely. Well, anyway, Morneau is back and he's not holding anything back. Really,
00:27:11.680the criticisms are pretty damning, saying that too much time and energy is spent on ways
00:27:18.860of redistributing wealth in Canada, and little attention is given to the importance of increasing
00:27:23.660our collective prosperity. You know, we know from the last budget that Canada is projected to have
00:27:28.500the lowest growth in the G7. Really, our finances are a mass. And I wasn't a big fan of Bill Morneau
00:27:35.720when he was Justin Trudeau's finance minister, but he was a serious person. He was a grown-up.
00:27:40.100He did have a background in finance, and he, you know, compared to what we have now, those early
00:27:46.660days of the Trudeau government, that first term seems like a term of fiscal restraint compared to
00:27:51.360the absolutely insane spending that we've been going through. So interesting to see that, you
00:27:56.720know, Trudeau's trying to defend himself. But this other interesting story got dug up. And I want to
00:28:01.700mention only because this is an issue that I was incredibly critical of at the time. So since
00:28:07.600Borno's criticisms of Trudeau on finances have come out, there's a speech that he delivered back
00:28:13.400in February in Washington that was mostly overlooked at the time. But Morneau was talking
00:28:18.860about a specific incident with the Trudeau government and more broadly about what he
00:28:23.380calls a tumultuous era of Canada-US relations during the Trump presidency. You can see here,
00:28:30.220Canada shouldn't have used Trump as a punching bag. And so Morneau was speaking down at Johns
00:28:35.020Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, giving a lecture. He's now a professor down at
00:28:40.180Yale University. So he's living in the U.S. He's giving a lot of these speeches. And he said, look,
00:28:45.360in Canada, what we were doing at the time was reflecting the reality, which was that Trump
00:28:50.320wasn't very popular in Canada, that most Canadians didn't support Trump, didn't like what he was
00:28:54.460doing. And so Trudeau used that as a punching bag. We saw that throughout even the 2019 election. It
00:28:59.400was like rather than running against Andrew Scheer, the conservative leader, Trudeau was kind of
00:29:03.820running against Trump. And the media always painted it that way. They always focus so much
00:29:08.740on Trump stories and Trump news. And it was always leading, you know, whatever the latest Trump
00:29:13.280scandal was, that was a top story on CBC. The Trudeau scandals were always sort of buried
00:29:17.640down in the back or at the end of the coverage. Well, one specific story that Bill Morneau was
00:29:24.680talking about was something that I wrote about, because at the time I was kind of gobsmacked and
00:29:29.040dumbfounded that the Trudeau government would do this. So Chrystia Freeland, who is a former
00:29:34.040journalist and she is now our finance minister. She took over from Bill Marno. She was the foreign
00:29:39.380affairs minister, the rookie foreign affairs minister. She was an outspoken critic of Trump.
00:29:44.560Well, they gave her an award. So she was awarded diplomat of the year by foreign policy magazine,
00:29:51.300which is sort of a blue chip top notch foreign policy journal or used to be anyway. Anyway,
00:29:57.460so she she goes to accept this ward harrison and she unleashes this like bizarre rant about true
00:30:04.820about trump sorry and and the resistance movement and she called him anti-democratic and an angry
00:30:10.340populist uh so you can see my story i wrote about it in september 2018 uh really how embarrassing
00:30:18.740that that our foreign affairs minister would go to the foreign capital the capital of our closest
00:30:23.780ally of the United States and rip on the president. I thought it was so I thought it was just she
00:30:30.060showed utter contempt to our allies. And it was so disrespectful. It was so unbelievable and ironic
00:30:36.140because she was being awarded with the award of top diplomat. And here she is giving this incredibly
00:30:41.480undiplomatic speech where she called Trump a demagogue and accused him of scapegoating the
00:30:47.400outsider, the other, the immigrants, as well as trading partners. And the media in Canada just
00:30:53.260sort of applauded and praised her and said, wow, she's so brave. Well, it turns out, as I wrote
00:31:00.740about in that column in the Toronto Sun, our American colleagues didn't like it. They didn't
00:31:06.380like it. And so apparently Bill Morneau is close friends with former Secretary of State Stephen
00:31:14.260Nuchin. And basically, he talked about how Nuchin was incredibly disappointed. And basically,
00:31:22.360He called Bill Arnault, apparently said, Bill, how would you feel if I went to Ottawa, gave
00:31:26.720a speech criticizing your government to the people who largely are your opposition, didn't
00:31:30.740bother calling you, and then flew back to Washington the next day.
00:31:34.240But Arnault added, that's not really the way you have an effective partnership.
00:35:35.240And, yeah, I wasn't a big fan of Bill Morneau when he was the finance minister.
00:35:40.000I think he made a lot of stupid choices, including throwing Canada into deficit spending.
00:35:44.520But he's sounding a lot more sane now that he's been two years removed from the Trudeau government.
00:35:51.260Well, 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.
00:36:06.240So, 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.
00:36:32.060Well, 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.
00:36:52.020hold on uh who gave the speech here that's right liberal mp pam damoff she delivered a speech
00:36:59.220in the house of commons this is like i quote celebrating vaginas and vulvas day this is
00:37:04.980imagine getting up to deliver a house a speech in the house of commons in parliament the house of
00:37:09.460our democracy um and and making a speech like this we're going to play it for you it's a little long
00:37:14.900it's very cringy uh but this is a state of political discourse from the liberal side of
00:37:19.540of the aisle in Canada. Here's that clip.
00:37:23.460Vaginas and vulvas are a source of strength, empowerment, and pleasure.
00:37:28.340Yet throughout our lives, we've been taught that the terms vulva and vagina do not have
00:37:32.540a place in polite conversation. That's one more way that the bodies of over half the0.99
00:37:37.380world's population are stigmatized, sexualized, and objectified. With the recent news in the
00:37:42.860United States regarding Roe versus Wade, conversations about sexual and reproductive
00:37:47.520health are more important than ever and it starts here on parliament hill we need to reclaim space
00:37:53.280in health research politics policy making at the doctor's office to celebrate the power of vulvas
00:38:00.240and vaginas it's 2022 and we shouldn't be embarrassed or ashamed to talk about our bodies
00:38:06.080join me the mps from winnipeg center saanich gulf islands shefford senator mcfederan and
00:38:12.400Action Canada as we jointly host a celebration on May 31st to reclaim the conversation and celebrate
00:38:19.920vulvas and vaginas as powerful and important. What? And they all cheer and they all celebrate
00:38:31.120and my point I made on Twitter was notice how she doesn't say women like they come to separate
00:38:37.360the human body from the actual gender and sex is why i talk about nat walsh's documentary because
00:38:43.040this is all part of the gender equity equality documentary uh sorry ideology that that these
00:38:48.960people are pushing they don't want to use the word woman because they don't even want to describe
00:38:52.960what a woman is and so instead you have this creepy spectacle of this woman i i don't even
00:38:59.280i don't even know what to make of it harrison it's just it's like a cult these people are part
00:39:03.440of a cult and you know the things that they want to celebrate the things that they want attention
00:39:07.840for just really that's that's that's no place in our parliament that's not what we should be
00:39:13.440talking about when we stand up to give political speeches in the house of commons yeah i mean
00:39:18.720kenneth that that's like a 30 second clip and it feels like it goes on for so long it's so painful
00:39:23.680so i have to apologize to our audience for even showing that but really it's important to watch
00:39:28.080because i think it just shows candace how fundamentally unserious the liberal government
00:39:33.360is and how performative it is and how it's really just about riding the woke wave and if it goes if
00:39:39.600it goes to the conversation about not saying women then they're going to go there if it goes to
00:39:44.640protesting with blm they're going to go there it's all performative for them
00:39:48.000it's just they're just they're just not serious at all and this is this is evident not only in
00:39:52.080just that clip because it's not the first time candace that they've talked about these sorts
00:39:56.560of issues and and they've refused to even say the word woman because this is just i guess the modern
00:40:02.000state of of the left in both canada and the united states um i mean i here here it is we can we can
00:40:08.560pull this up but in the latest budget candace there was a line item about pilot piloting a
00:40:15.120menstrual equity fund for those in need uh and again i just want to make sure oh at least in
00:40:21.440the budget they do mention women but the title the title is for those in need menstrual equity
00:40:27.600for those in need um this is just not a serious government candace and we already knew that
00:40:32.640well and it does say women girls trans and non-binary canadians so they had to include
00:40:37.600the whole rubrics of all the different types of people who get their period because it's no longer
00:40:41.920just women and girls according to the lunatics who run our government and we we've seen this before
00:40:47.520uh it was the um you know they uh theresa tam the chief medical officer in canada last year just
00:40:58.000awkwardly and embarrassingly referred to pregnant and breastfeeding people not not women people
00:41:04.560because all people can get pregnant and all people could breastfeed according to
00:41:09.520those in the liberal cult um and so it would be horrible to to to insult the the men that that
00:41:17.920breastfeed and are pregnant i i mean i can't i can't frankly imagine a worse thing for the
00:41:22.000government to do than insult those very important uh voting bloc for the liberals well and so while
00:41:28.320our liberal elites and overlords are completely denigrating women and trying to erase women from
00:41:33.600the public square there has been some shocking research uh that canada's fertility rates reached
00:41:39.760a record low in 2020 so this was sort of something a lot of people saw coming that that there would
00:41:45.120be the opposite of a baby boom during the pandemic that people parents would decide that there's too
00:41:49.680much economic uncertainty and that we wouldn't have as many babies being born well that has
00:41:55.680poured out through stats so stats can uh confirm that that in uh 2020 fertility rate fell from 1.47
00:42:04.320children per women in 2019 down to 1.4 in 2020 fertility rates have been steady steadily declining
00:42:11.280in in canada since 2009 and we're sort of bottoming out reaching rock bottom i i had to include this
00:42:17.680story harrison because this individual here susan mcdaniel who is a professor of sociology
00:42:23.600the university of victoria she she actually celebrates this rather than seeing this as the
00:42:29.360sort of real damaging um the sort of end of civilization threat that it poses that the lack
00:42:36.960of fertility rates in this country the fact that people are not having families that that women are
00:42:41.840men are choosing to forego marriage uh they're choosing to delay choosing to wait many of them
00:42:46.720are choosing not to have children at all some of them ideologically because they oppose human
00:42:51.520beings and they don't want to worsen what they consider climate change um or or just people
00:42:57.600unable to find a life partner and find that meaning and take that plunge into adulthood by
00:43:03.040having a family uh that more and more canadians are forgoing that uh again most people would see
00:43:08.080that as something really sad there's something really wrong in our society that we need to
00:43:12.160address and we need to confront we need to change uh well well here is ctv has found a professor to
00:43:18.480to say the exact opposite. This is a good trend. This is a good trend. So we'll go back to Susan
00:43:24.100McDaniel, the professor. She said the trend is for lower birth rates worldwide. And she basically
00:43:30.400just says this is a good trend. Basically, it's better for children if there are fewer children.
00:43:35.060It's better for parents if there are fewer children. It's better for society. And it's
00:43:39.100better for the planet and everything else. So let's just go through this because this is so
00:43:42.720absurd and so, again, counterintuitive. How on earth is it better for children if there's fewer
00:43:49.220children? Do you know what little kids love? Other little kids. They love kids to play with. They love
00:43:53.860cousins and neighbors and siblings and friends. The more kids in a community, the better. I have
00:44:00.120a three-year-old and a one-year-old, and their favorite things that they do is go out to play
00:44:03.860dates, go out to messy tots. We used to have a mom and tot group in our church basement, and then
00:44:08.980COVID put an end to that. And it was really, really hard on my son, because he loved going
00:44:12.960every week to see his little friends. And all of a sudden, he couldn't. Little kids love being
00:44:16.980around other little kids. So the fact that there are fewer children is not better for children,
00:44:21.200despite what the sociologist says. It's better for parents, she says. It's better for parents
00:44:25.120if there are fewer children. How on earth is that the case? Most women, when polled in Canada,
00:44:29.920say that they want to have more children, that they would have more children if they could afford
00:44:33.420it or if they had different financial circumstances. Most women say that they would, if they were asked
00:44:39.500how many children would they have in ideal world, most women say three. Three children is what they1.00
00:44:44.600say that they want. Instead, we see 1.4 children per woman. So the exact opposite of what this
00:44:51.180woman is saying, it's not better for children. It's not better for parents. It's certainly not
00:44:53.940better for grandparents. Grandparents are the ones that want grandchildren the most. They want more
00:44:58.040children. So many of the people I talk to who have kids that are, you know, in their 20s or 30s,
00:45:04.400a lot of them mentioned to me like, oh, you know, I can't wait for my child to have kids. I can't
00:45:10.780wait for grandkids. I hear that so often. Everyone wants more kids. And the whole idea, better for
00:45:16.580society, better the planet. Try to circle that square with the idea that these are the same
00:45:20.760people who are in favor of open borders and mass immigration, right? They want more people in
00:45:25.620Canada. We need more people in Canada from an economic perspective. And yet they just don't
00:45:30.600want them to be Canadian grown. So I thought that that was one of the most despicable quotes that I
00:45:34.400have ever seen from a legacy media outlet saying that having fewer kids is better for everyone.
00:45:40.940No, it is not. That is not true. Don't listen to sociology professors. They will ruin our society
00:45:46.500and make everybody miserable. What do you think, Harrison? Well, I think most sociology professors
00:45:51.000are probably exactly aligned with what that woman was saying.
00:45:55.040And this is not a question of sociology.
00:45:56.880This is a question for doctors and for economists,
00:46:20.040That'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.
00:46:38.080You 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.
00:47:01.640Those 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.
00:47:15.560it's interesting because when it comes to sort of natalist policies most people don't want to talk
00:47:20.800about it the media barely picks up on it the only time the media ever talks about this issue
00:47:25.060is when there's studies like this that come out that show a decline in birth rate a historic
00:47:29.480decline decline numbers like i said have been going down steadily and and yet they put like
00:47:34.020this positive spin it's it's so it's so creepy and weird and and anti-human fundamentally and
00:47:40.640And again, I think most Canadians would be happier with more children.
00:47:44.600Most Canadians want more kids in their community, want more kids in their family, want more kids for their own.
00:47:50.660And so, again, don't listen to university professors.
00:47:54.600They will make you miserable and ruin everything.
00:47:57.440So I think that's a good way to sum up the show this week, Harrison.