Juno News - Legacy media pushed fake news about Freedom Convoy

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to you all this is another edition of fake news friday here on true north

00:00:16.340 it is friday february 24th and it is that opportunity in the week for us to wade through

00:00:22.000 the whirlpool of lies and deception to make sense of it all debunk the fakery and treachery that

00:00:27.740 lurks among us on the airwaves in print online on social media everywhere else enough of a preamble

00:00:33.560 let me introduce my colleague harrison faulkner host of ratioed on true north i'm andrew lotten

00:00:38.960 harrison big week last week that ended up preempting this program with the release of the public order

00:00:46.240 emergency commissions report so it's been a couple of weeks since we've chatted in this milieu but how

00:00:51.720 has the week been for you well the week was good you mentioned the freedom convoy the emergencies

00:00:55.960 act report of course that kind of took the shine out of a lot of the other important stories

00:01:00.400 but you know i was reading the cbc and i came across an article which shook my entire my entire

00:01:06.180 outlook on the country under you know i was thinking about these important issues or i thought were

00:01:09.820 important issues but i realized that actually none of that matters the most important thing is that

00:01:14.900 there aren't enough black owned wineries in canada so again this is all part of the the cbc mandate to 0.90

00:01:20.960 to put the news in front of us that canadians aren't seeing to give us the important hard-hitting

00:01:25.240 facts and these these stories are so critical so you know if we're going to go into the freedom

00:01:29.420 convoy the emergencies act report but again without the cbc we would never know about these other very

00:01:34.920 important issues but let's first start off with one of the big takeaways from the public order

00:01:40.520 emergency commission's report which was obviously a report that generally speaking sided with the

00:01:46.420 government both in the decision to invoke the act as well as the specific measures that justin

00:01:51.340 trudeau and christia freeland and company used under the emergencies act but one interesting

00:01:56.580 takeaway was the commissioner's finding that there was quite literally fake news from the legacy media

00:02:02.640 about the freedom convoy he was talking about misinformation and he said yes you know there was

00:02:07.780 some misinformation from people in the convoy protest but he said i'm also satisfied that there

00:02:12.960 was misinformation about the freedom convoy which was used as a basis to unfairly discredit all protesters

00:02:20.740 in one example protesters were blamed for an act of arson in an apartment building which the police

00:02:26.860 later confirmed had no links to the protest and this was a claim that i'll just give you like a 15

00:02:34.520 second primer on was repeated by some very senior politicians including the leader of the ndp

00:02:40.820 jagmeet singh violence is commonplace we saw an example of this violence an attempted arson downtown

00:02:49.160 of an apartment building where people started a fire when they exited they taped the door

00:02:58.060 there were many more i think my colleague cosmon gerges editing there found like two minutes of that

00:03:05.200 and i have not seen any apologies from the people doing that and as commissioner rillow mentions

00:03:10.160 one of several examples of misinformation being propagated and promulgated about the convoy so

00:03:16.840 it doesn't change the overarching uh tenor and tone and conclusion of the report but i think it is a

00:03:22.380 big takeaway that now we have it's just a matter of what has been adjudicated in this country of

00:03:27.120 finding that yeah the media was passing nonsense about the convoy a year ago everyone watching the

00:03:32.800 freedom convoy knew that that was going on andrew it it didn't take uh it didn't take a judge to

00:03:37.620 uncover this reality we all knew this was going on um but you know it's it's interesting even in the

00:03:43.400 emergencies act inquiry hearings we had the opp officer pat morris i believe his name was

00:03:49.580 he basically said that the the media he he called this out in the in the inquiry itself so everyone

00:03:56.960 watching that knew that surely if this report was going to be accurate if this report was going to

00:04:01.200 have anything that canadians could look at and take at and take at face value not just assume well

00:04:07.600 it's a government inquiry of course they're going to clear the government but if there's anything in

00:04:11.200 it they had to put this in there because we all saw it it was the it wasn't just the arson hoax which

00:04:16.120 of course did take up a lot of time on the airwaves it was of course also the cbc anchor saying that

00:04:22.760 there was russian influence that there was perhaps a russian influence in the convoy again

00:04:26.940 completely unfounded and on top of that there's now reporting that the government relied on fake

00:04:31.960 cbc coverage to justify invoking the emergencies act so the the basis that the government used to

00:04:38.420 invoke the emergencies act was was on cbc coverage which was uh dodgy at uh dodgy at best fake at worst

00:04:47.280 uh so again this is all we all knew this was the case it's good to see it in paper but the reality is

00:04:53.140 i don't think canadians can take much away from this report the government got away with it uh and

00:04:57.560 we all knew that that was going to happen yeah and when you mentioned superintendent pat morris i

00:05:02.620 should tell people that haven't followed this as closely he wasn't just some random opp beat cop not

00:05:07.520 that that would undermine his uh comments he was actually the opp intelligence officer that was

00:05:13.840 responsible for intelligence and data collection about the convoy for the ontario provincial police and

00:05:19.340 superintendent morris uh had one line here that what was he was seeing in the media did not reflect

00:05:24.700 what police intelligence was showing now some people might be perhaps inclined to make a joke

00:05:29.080 about police intelligence but his reports were very detailed and quite frankly he was seeing that

00:05:34.840 the media was talking about this big violent insurrection-y white supremacist vibe and opp intelligence

00:05:40.820 reports which some of them were tabled in the course of the public order emergency commission hearings

00:05:45.580 were saying yeah bouncy castles people having a good time it's peaceful there isn't this violence so

00:05:51.340 the media was trying to pursue this narrative about the convoy and as a result when misinformation did

00:05:57.360 come up what's now been found is that they deliberately amplified this data either out of laziness or out

00:06:04.000 of malice and what pat morris said there is exactly what so many canadians on the ground in ottawa at the

00:06:10.040 time of the freedom convoy were telling me and other independent journalists like yourself how many times

00:06:15.260 did we go up to people and they said you know i saw these reports coming from the cbc that this was

00:06:20.620 a group of angry people they were racist perhaps they were waving these nasty flags and then they

00:06:26.180 said well i wanted to go down and check it out for myself because i don't really believe what the cbc says

00:06:30.000 which is a good rule of thumb and then that's exactly what happened they came down to the ottawa grounds 0.91

00:06:34.840 and realized that what they were getting from the media was complete crap it had no it was not even

00:06:39.140 accurate at all and there was there was clearly there was clearly an agenda on the part of the of the 0.94

00:06:44.440 legacy media to demonize the freedom convoy to try and make it to be something that it wasn't and it

00:06:50.180 never will be and that was their that was their attempt turns out that i guess they got away with

00:06:55.120 it i mean if the government's getting away with the legacy media is probably going to get away with

00:06:58.540 it too but at least canadians can can it can take away that the justice uh the justice overseeing the

00:07:04.620 process rouleau called him out on it so that itself is good but like i said before there's nothing

00:07:09.780 really much that we can take away and celebrate from this it's a dark day for canada it's a bad

00:07:14.680 moment for us and i think this report will probably backfire on canadians going forward when another

00:07:19.940 government does the exact same thing yeah arson russian actors you get to take your pick of the

00:07:26.480 misinformation but there was a lot of it going around far more than there was of white supremacy

00:07:30.800 and homelessness food shelter theft and statute desecration all of this other stuff that was

00:07:36.900 amplified without factual basis time and time again and interestingly enough i know i mentioned

00:07:42.140 this on my show but it's related to this so i should i should include it here cbc ran this feature

00:07:47.140 on the national about the freedom convoy loosely on the one-year anniversary and they failed to include

00:07:54.280 a single person connected to the convoy or even supportive of slash sympathetic of the convoy

00:08:01.020 when they were talking so they talked to quote-unquote experts they talked to critics they were

00:08:06.360 talking about where is the freedom convoy movement now but they curiously didn't ask anyone who was

00:08:11.920 in that movement to weigh in or even perhaps an author who might have written a best-selling book

00:08:16.520 that cbc has thus far ignored about the freedom convoy not sure who that could have been there's

00:08:20.820 surely someone out there uh but this is time and time again an example of how cbc has only wanted

00:08:26.600 to highlight very specific perspectives about the convoy uh what else is going on harrison

00:08:32.360 so andrew this very important story from the globe and mail well they dropped two important

00:08:36.820 stories the first one on friday was about cesus election interference this one equally as important

00:08:43.120 is about gender neutral acting categories for canadian screen awards of course this is an opinion

00:08:49.100 article from matthew chantalwa who thinks that acting categories for canadian screen awards you know

00:08:55.100 the awards shows that you never watch they're too uh they're too biased they're they're not they're not

00:09:00.420 gender neutral enough having a male acting category and a female acting category that's old world stuff 0.99

00:09:06.180 andrew we need to move to the new world where everyone gets lumped in together and we can just

00:09:10.440 become this one lifeless homogenous pot of actors yeah i mean i think you're burying the lead here

00:09:16.240 harrison i think the real uh breaking news takeaway here is that there's something called the canadian

00:09:20.160 screen awards which i don't think canadians knew about and i think i might have vaguely seen

00:09:24.440 something on like a poster in the subway uh several years ago and had forgotten about until now so

00:09:29.020 i guess in terms of ginning up some publicity for the canadian screen awards he's done something

00:09:34.020 uh very useful here but yeah the issue is that it's too binary so he thinks the oscars should also do

00:09:40.580 away with uh best actor and best actress the grammy should the grammy should do away with best

00:09:46.080 male singer best female singer and it's an odd thing because when you break out the categories into

00:09:52.180 that binary you actually have twice as many awards and you're ensuring that uh there's always going to

00:09:56.360 be female talent recognized each year which we have been told is a very important thing to do

00:10:00.740 so the idea that we need to just throw them all in one giant non-binary gender neutral mess 1.00

00:10:07.240 uh to just seems to be a solution in search of a problem here well there's a couple points to make

00:10:13.580 on this andrew first being that the canadian screen awards again i did a little bit of research before we

00:10:19.100 did the show today on this canadian screen screen awards and it's basically because none of us watch it

00:10:24.460 what it is it's like the participation prize for canadian uh movie uh i hesitate to call them stars

00:10:30.300 because we don't really know who they are but canadian movies television it's like the participation

00:10:34.260 prize before they get to the real award the oscars now again if they do this gender neutral thing 0.93

00:10:39.280 andrew i did realize this it will help clean up the uh the historical uh the historical record here

00:10:44.760 because you never know we're moving to a part now where an actor could be a man one day they could play

00:10:49.380 a man's role in a movie and then they could transition to becoming a female or vice versa

00:10:54.300 in the uh in the case of ellen elliott page you know this way actually if we look back we can say

00:10:59.700 well it makes more sense that it's gender neutral because that way they're not switching back and

00:11:04.040 forth you know you don't have one person winning male prize and then one per the same person winning

00:11:08.220 the female prize this way we're moving into the new world andrew the the brave new world of of one big

00:11:13.960 gender neutral uh gender neutral mixing pot of actors and actresses well i guess we'll have to

00:11:20.040 get rid of those words too now i guess what it'll be actors yeah just actors we default to uh to actors

00:11:26.060 or or act x's maybe act x that's more like a new one but that's more like how this all started was

00:11:31.420 there's this uh cbc show that we have mocked on fake news friday before so we're familiar with it not

00:11:36.680 as viewers uh in the sense of enjoying it but as viewers in the sense of fake news friday producers

00:11:41.680 uh it's uh i don't can't remember the name of it but oh it's sort of it's called uh as in like

00:11:46.180 sort of relevant except not really uh sort of is a cbc comedy in the the broadest sense of the word

00:11:52.680 uh about a non-binary pakistani canadian nanny i mean what show isn't these days but uh the show stars

00:12:00.540 bilal beg who is a canadian writer and actor who uh themself is non-binary i i always want to make

00:12:09.160 sure i'm being uh respectful here uh but bilal beg did not apply in either category because of a

00:12:15.120 discomfort with the male female binary now i think this is a missed opportunity bilal should have 0.99

00:12:19.220 applied in both categories uh and that way you double your chances of winning problem solved well

00:12:24.780 that's uh that that's that's some thinking strategy here but it's you you're downplaying

00:12:29.500 this sort of show andrew you're not giving it enough credit you see it is the award winner

00:12:34.000 it is the winner of the cbc gem peabody award so come on now you say sort of relevant geez it's the

00:12:41.560 cbc gem peabody award winning show featuring the pakistani non-binary nanny i mean this is some serious 0.75

00:12:48.400 stuff let's not downplay it at all for our audience no they should redo that old uh fran drescher show

00:12:54.120 the nanny and make that make it about uh pakistani non-binary nanny that's the way you can uh ensure 1.00

00:12:59.460 that you get the peabody award uh and also win a uh gender non-neutral uh wait no gender no neutral

00:13:04.960 not non-neutral a gender neutral see it gets so complicated when you do this actor and actress

00:13:10.000 is easy i've remembered this hollywood's been structured around this uh you know i i might just

00:13:14.800 watch this for the sole purpose of seeing like some old-timey actor invariably slip up and then

00:13:22.220 be heading right towards the uh cancel mill on this so i couldn't even tell you after all this story

00:13:28.300 when or where the cbc screen awards are the canadian screen awards but if you watch them

00:13:32.800 uh be mindful that they might be getting less binary by the day uh this is one you teased at the

00:13:38.660 very beginning of this program here now i don't know if you're a a wine connoisseur i certainly enjoy

00:13:44.180 wine and and well i think it's easy to poo poo canadian wines there are some good ones uh and some

00:13:49.320 good wineries and when i uh go for a wine i uh say oh yes you know it's a little bit uh oaky or you know

00:13:55.980 oh the tannins are a little bit nicer oh look at the legs and the the glass and uh it's a full

00:14:00.600 bodied i i don't think you know to get we need to get some wine content on the show andrew from you

00:14:05.020 we need to get no i'm all for the true north wine hour they keep telling me not to do it but i'm i

00:14:09.640 should do maybe fake news friday will be fake news wine day uh before long but i i never sip a wine and

00:14:16.380 think i don't think there was enough black representation in this well andrew because that's

00:14:23.400 because you're not you're not thinking about the progress we need to make as a society in this

00:14:27.580 country i'm not i'm not a wine woker no no you're not you've got to be thinking about the the color

00:14:33.700 of the skin of the person who picked the grapes to make the wine you have to think about the color of

00:14:39.000 the uh the skin color of the person who was involved and in the whole process you know over

00:14:44.300 the uh what was it over over april i mean i was able to go tour a french winery and it was a great

00:14:49.500 experience i got to see all these things again like you though i didn't stop to think about the

00:14:53.500 the skin color of the workers at that winery that just i think shows my inherent bias shows the fact

00:14:59.300 that i'm not really living in in the canada the cbc wants us to live in which as they say you know

00:15:04.180 we need to think about this i love how it starts black people in canada's wine industry say they are

00:15:08.800 underrepresented and it's time to examine the culture and break down barriers that hold others back

00:15:13.660 again this is the kind of hard-hitting journalism that all canadians really want to see it's why we pay them

00:15:19.380 so much money yeah they quote in this story uh trina plamondon who is a bipoc wine consultant

00:15:26.300 again i didn't know this was a job title like to be a wine consultant in and of itself i think is a

00:15:32.100 pretty uh niche position to be a bipoc consultant seems to be an increasingly relevant position but

00:15:37.340 a bipoc wine consultant i don't know if she's a consultant on bipoc wines if she's a wine consultant

00:15:43.660 who happens to be bipoc or if she consults on bipoc winery i so there are different

00:15:48.880 strains that you could take from this job title but what trina plamondon says is that the biggest

00:15:54.180 barrier for black people trying to get into the wine business is not seeing themselves represented

00:15:58.920 which leads to a belief that a future career isn't possible i would hesitate to say that 0.87

00:16:05.380 systemic racism is holding back black people from jobs in the wine business in canada i think it's a

00:16:11.180 very uh snobby and closed business a lot of the times you have family connections and pedigree

00:16:16.600 that are getting people in so there certainly may be an existing demographic but uh if you can become

00:16:22.140 a bipoc wine consultant surely you can also penetrate the wine industry regardless of your

00:16:28.080 skin color i love this part in the article where they're quoting a black wine cellar owner so clearly

00:16:33.460 this man's been able to break down the structural barriers that the cbc have so eloquently described

00:16:38.380 for us i love this part he says byfield says he has heard from black wine consumers who have told

00:16:43.700 him that they were uncertain if they'd be welcomed at wine tours tasting rooms and wine stores they

00:16:49.000 were in they were intimidated by the process he said and that just kept them away is he talking

00:16:54.200 about the lcbo here it's a very strange line andrew i've never heard this before that black people are

00:17:00.620 concerned that they won't be welcomed in wine stores i'm pretty sure that they take anyone's money

00:17:05.140 for booze that's kind of how the government works and operates these stores i've never heard that line

00:17:10.560 uh it's it's it's very eye-opening stuff i gotta tell you well i mean they talk he's talking about

00:17:16.360 wine tours so presumably he's talking about winery but even then i i'm not aware of a winery in

00:17:21.620 in ontario or elsewhere in canada that's ever turned anyone away because of their skin color

00:17:26.580 our colleague at true north rupa subramanya weighed in on this she said you know 3.5 percent

00:17:32.140 of canada's population is black they're an incredibly relevant group there's a significant history

00:17:37.500 in canada of black history especially in nova scotia and southern ontario so i think it's

00:17:43.340 critical to the country story but it's a small demographic group so rupa saying here singling

00:17:48.260 out a particular group that's statistically unrepresented in a certain sector as a share

00:17:52.760 of total population is one of the problems there's also an unproven inference that unrepresent

00:17:57.760 underrepresentation is because of discrimination and racism she says there's lots of reasons why

00:18:02.740 black south asians persians etc don't own wineries in canada and they're asserting without evidence

00:18:08.360 that racism is to blame so i thought that was a very uh good uh comment from rupa who again is not

00:18:13.920 taking aim at the underrepresentation of people of indian origin in owning wineries well again these 0.77

00:18:19.680 are the kinds of things like you know for example i don't think andrew will see a cbc article about

00:18:24.600 the underrepresentation of white people in the shawarma business for example but again that's

00:18:30.440 that's basically i wouldn't want i wouldn't want white white shawarma no i don't want to wait i

00:18:34.680 want the person who has like the recipe that's been in their family for like 45 generations from

00:18:39.720 syria to make my shawarma well fair point fair point but the the i'm still going to take the point

00:18:44.740 the point stands that i don't think we're going to see an article from the cbc like that but again

00:18:49.240 one one can hold out hope just like you can hope that maybe the cbc would ask you to do an interview

00:18:54.420 on the national about the freedom convoy i think in both instances we'd be waiting quite a while

00:18:58.760 yeah it all comes full circle well that wraps us up for today another edition of fake news friday

00:19:04.780 in the can here i hope you have a wonderful weekend we'll be back next week with more of

00:19:09.400 the program and all of the other shows on true north including ratioed with harrison faulkner the

00:19:14.060 andrew lawton show with yours truly the rupa subramania show and perhaps wine wednesday if that

00:19:19.280 finally gets approved by management so have a great weekend everyone we'll talk to you soon

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Juno News - February 24, 2023

Legacy media pushed fake news about Freedom Convoy

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