Juno News - March 11, 2023


Legacy media won’t back off MPs meeting Christine Anderson


Episode Stats

Length

17 minutes

Words per Minute

178.46626

Word Count

3,172

Sentence Count

188

Misogynist Sentences

21

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to you all. It is Friday, March 10th, 2023. Another week has come and gone,
00:00:15.840 which means it is time for Fake News Friday. Nothing fake about our analysis, but we
00:00:21.700 harangue those who are fostering the hurricanes of deception. We swim through the whirlpools of
00:00:29.100 verbal wizardry that occur. And I'm just making up these adjectives now and I'm right out of them.
00:00:33.940 So let's just introduce my loyal and fantabulous co-host, fantastic, never a fabulous, Sue Ann
00:00:40.420 Levy. Sue Ann, how was the week? And I will add to that happy belated International Women's Day to
00:00:46.060 you. Oh my God. I actually decided I'm going trans because of International Women's Day. And maybe I
00:00:54.360 can get more recognition as a woman if I become a trans. So can you imagine a trans woman who's
00:01:01.640 actually a lesbian, but really is a woman? I mean, I'm totally confused, Andrew.
00:01:06.360 There was a story years ago in the Washington Post about a lesbian couple somewhere in the U.S. who
00:01:13.580 one of them transitioned to male and they were upset that all of their gay friends now just saw
00:01:19.800 them as a regular old straight couple because one was a man and one was a woman. So you can actually
00:01:24.120 like over diversify your way out of being diverse, apparently. Oh my God. I rely on that oppression
00:01:30.900 intersectionality of being a lesbian. So I'm not leaving that, you know, that niche that I have
00:01:37.100 created. Well, I hope you felt significantly fetid as a woman, at least for the time being on
00:01:43.460 International Women's Day. Let's get into the mainstream media and their perseverance, I will
00:01:49.820 say, in crafting a narrative and trying to flog that narrative like a dead horse. One of them is
00:01:55.140 that the Conservatives are these evil, hateful, right-wing Nazi apologists for a few MPs meeting
00:02:01.140 with the German member of the European Parliament, Christine Anderson, a few weeks back. And Pierre
00:02:06.800 Paulieff has now been asked about this time and time again. He was in this one press conference and
00:02:12.000 they just wouldn't lay off him about it. Take a look.
00:02:14.980 We have no consequences on members of your caucus who met with Christine Anderson,
00:02:19.860 whose views yourself said were vile. Well, I think right now what I'm more concerned about
00:02:24.740 is the vile and racist views of the Prime Minister, who after over half of, if I could, if I could,
00:02:32.160 over half of his adult life dressed up in vile, racist costumes so many times that he cannot
00:02:40.040 remember them all. Such an odd and pointed question. Are you going to kick them out of
00:02:45.200 caucus? It's almost as though they're lobbying for that to happen. Yeah, well, you know that the
00:02:50.860 legacy media has ceased to be reporters. They're repeaters and they've become lobbyists
00:02:59.120 on behalf of the Trudeau government. Much of them, of course, many of them being on the payroll of the
00:03:05.780 Trudeau government, in particular, CBC. So, I mean, why should we be surprised?
00:03:11.440 Yeah. And I think that, you know, the line that I've used on the show in the past and on my own
00:03:15.700 show is that when the media goes after the liberals, it's for not living up to what a liberal is
00:03:20.620 supposed to be in their view. When they go after conservatives, it's for being conservatives. It's for
00:03:25.060 believing the things that they believe. And in this particular case, even if Pierre Polyevre were
00:03:29.760 to say, yep, you know, absolutely, we're going to kick out Lesley Lewis and Dean Allison and Colin
00:03:33.640 Carey, it wouldn't make the problem go away. You would just give them an ounce of flesh and they'd
00:03:38.940 keep on looking for more. Yes, they're never going to be content. And, you know, the hypocrisy,
00:03:44.100 it just reeks of hypocrisy because, you know, we've seen so many times when Trudeau or one of his
00:03:50.800 cabinet members, highly placed cabinet members have met with suspect people. And, you know,
00:03:57.040 just recently there was a whole group of people, Omar Al-Khabra and some of the MPs meeting with
00:04:04.600 Palestinian, like anti-Semites on Parliament Hill with Palestinian terrorists. And, you know,
00:04:13.000 there was very little coverage of that. It kind of went and happened and then it blew away,
00:04:20.360 which it often does with the legacy media. But, I mean, I'm getting very frustrated with the
00:04:25.600 absolute double standard of how they cover Pierre Polyevre versus, you know, I guess their,
00:04:32.560 their handout master. What did you think of how Polyevre tried to turn it around on them and
00:04:39.100 basically say, you want to talk about racism, let's talk about Prime Minister Blackface. Do you
00:04:43.080 think that was an immature low blow or is that how you have to play the game now?
00:04:46.900 You know, I, that's the way I play it. I, cause I always say that, you know, there is a double
00:04:52.920 standard and I think, you know, and they like to use that word, what about ism, you're just engaging
00:04:59.060 in what about ism because they can't handle the truth. But the point is that there is a terrible
00:05:04.860 double standard. So maybe it comes across as immature to some, but the whole thing is that he's not,
00:05:11.880 Trudeau is not judged on anything to the degree that Polyevre is at relatively minor things.
00:05:20.140 Whereas, you know, I've lost count of the, the many, many issues that Trudeau has gotten a free
00:05:25.420 pass on.
00:05:27.060 Yeah. And, and when you talk about minor issues that actually feeds into this next story here,
00:05:31.680 which I will say is probably one of the most Polyevre derangement syndrome affirming stories
00:05:36.780 we could come up with. So there's apparently this Canadian band called the tragically hip,
00:05:41.060 which everyone in Canada likes and no one outside of Canada has ever heard of. And, you know, I,
00:05:45.160 again, I know what it is. I could probably name three of their songs and not sure if I could pluck
00:05:49.300 any of them out of a lineup except for the late Gord Downie, but Pierre Polyevre keeping with Canadian
00:05:54.440 content, which we're supposed to be celebrating and having more and more of at one of his events in
00:06:00.740 the background. It wasn't like his stage entrance song or anything. He wasn't doing it like Eye of the
00:06:05.380 Tiger and Newt Gingrich walking into CPAC. They had in the background a song called 50 Mission Cap
00:06:12.320 by the Tragically Hip. And it was Karima Saad, the independent journalist and lawyer that had tweeted
00:06:19.160 a clip and mentioned this. And then the guitarist for the Tragically Hip, Paul Langlois, tweeted out
00:06:25.020 that it was highly offensive, if true, highly offensive that Pierre Polyevre was using their song.
00:06:32.500 Then they, of course, found out that because the event was being held at a venue that is registered
00:06:36.480 with SOCAN, which is the licensing agency for music. And if you book an event there, you pay a
00:06:41.820 SOCAN licensing fee that lets you pay all of these songs. It was entirely fine. It was entirely
00:06:47.300 legitimate. They could play the song. And then the Langlois actually sort of backed up and he said,
00:06:52.960 well, you know, we would like it if people sought our approval, but we weren't sure about the
00:06:59.120 specifics. No, they stepped in it. They absolutely did. And, you know, I think Tragically Hip, what have
00:07:05.000 you heard about them lately? I mean, we heard a lot about them when poor guy, Gord Downey, was dying
00:07:10.320 of brain cancer. But what have we heard from them lately? And I would be, you know, if I were a member
00:07:17.200 of the Tragically Hip, and I'm no longer Tragically Hip, because I'm a boomer.
00:07:22.640 I'm just tragic. I've never been hip. Tragically hip. But I would be happy that I got some publicity.
00:07:30.100 My goodness. I always thought in this business, there is no negative publicity. Just celebrate the
00:07:35.260 fact that your name is being mentioned. And, you know, to lose your lunch over it, to get crazed
00:07:41.780 about it. I mean, it just, this is the world we're living in right now. And it's not a good world.
00:07:49.580 Yeah, and it's kind of an odd one here when he's saying that they want permission for people to
00:07:56.980 play their music. No, when you register with SoCan and allow your song to be played at SoCan
00:08:02.400 facilities, you have decided that you'll just take the money of whomever is going to play your song,
00:08:07.340 and you don't really get any oversight on that. And there was this little kind of snippy exchange
00:08:12.220 between someone else who said to Paul Langlois, oh, am I allowed to play it while I'm working alone
00:08:17.140 baking? And Paul just says, no, you're not allowed. And someone said, I'm having a party
00:08:21.060 next weekend. Can I play your music for my guests? And he says, yes, thanks for asking,
00:08:25.720 but you don't have to. So now all of a sudden, no one knows if in Paul Langlois' eyes, you're
00:08:30.840 allowed to play the Tragically Hip. So I think we all have to, just in the interest of being
00:08:36.360 cautious, of being abundantly cautious, not play the Tragically Hip. We don't want to offend
00:08:40.920 the sensibilities of the guitarist. I'm not playing any Tragically Hip songs,
00:08:45.580 you know, anywhere in my house, okay? Because he may find out that I'm a conservative,
00:08:51.720 and he doesn't like conservatives playing his songs. But, you know, this speaks to the absolute
00:08:57.580 derangement of people who don't like Pierre Polyev. He didn't even check into what the situation was.
00:09:05.580 He just reacted emotionally to a tweet without even doing his homework or research, and then,
00:09:12.300 you know, stepped in it and then had to back off. And, you know, all you can do is laugh.
00:09:18.340 Indeed. And one thing that is no laughing matter at CBC is their diversity unto death approach,
00:09:25.780 where you have to have all of the boxes checked if you are this religion, this ethnicity,
00:09:30.960 this sexual orientation, this level of ability or disability. They want to know so that they can
00:09:36.680 have all of these diversity quotients. Well, CBC staff were, according to an article in the National
00:09:42.200 Post, rather shocked to find that all of these confidential diversity things they were filling
00:09:47.520 out in one survey ended up stored in their online HR files. So the employees were putting in their
00:09:55.560 sexual orientation, their gender identity, and all of a sudden they appeared in their online
00:10:00.120 human resources profiles when they thought they were just filling out confidential diversity
00:10:05.680 surveys. And, you know, I don't think you should be that surprised because if your company is reducing
00:10:10.500 everything down to these top level identities, of course they care enough about these to put them
00:10:15.740 in your HR files. Yes, exactly. I mean, you can't sort of suck and blow at the same time. You want the job,
00:10:23.480 you get the job because you're a member of an oppressed group. I'm using the activist language.
00:10:32.480 You're, you know, you're diverse. You have intersecting. How many words can I throw out this afternoon?
00:10:40.040 Intersecting identities, but then it shows up as part of your human resources file. Well,
00:10:48.360 hey, that's how you probably got the job or got to keep the job or helped you get the job. I mean,
00:10:54.980 that's the way the world is these days in various institutions. Not this is CBC, but I see it in
00:11:00.680 school boards as well. You know, if you're a member of an oppressed group, you get a jump on other people.
00:11:05.920 It's a sad reality. But what did they expect? Yeah. One employee said they felt it was a betrayal
00:11:12.460 of trust because they thought this was just going to be purely statistical data. CBC spokesperson has said,
00:11:17.980 yeah, but it is strictly confidential and only a few people have access to it. And the survey was
00:11:23.460 voluntary. If an employee wanted to do the cultural census, they can see their own answers,
00:11:28.460 but their supervisor doesn't have access to the information. So, you know, look, I think the whole
00:11:32.980 point is that when we start breaking down identity into these different categories, the overlapping
00:11:38.660 identities, the intersecting identities, racial, sexually, like, you know, why does it matter if you
00:11:43.860 are of a particular sexual orientation at work? I mean, unless you're trying to run the CBC internal
00:11:49.160 dating app, I don't think it really matters if someone is straight or gay. Oh, come on. Most
00:11:53.620 people probably know these days, what's the big deal? I mean, it wasn't like back in my day in the
00:11:59.460 nineties when I had to live in the closet because I thought it was a, you know, career limiting to be
00:12:05.080 a lesbian, um, in the workforce, um, and a conservative paper. It's totally different world
00:12:11.160 now. Like, I think they're just finding things to, to complain about. Maybe they're not busy enough.
00:12:17.480 Maybe there are too many people going out on a story all at once. Yeah. That's my question is how
00:12:23.000 much time was spent and how much money was spent on the CBC cultural consensus or cultural census or
00:12:28.760 whatever they're calling it. Um, there are some areas though that are insufficiently diverse to some
00:12:33.940 people. One of those is the construction business, a, an op-ed in the Toronto star written by a woman
00:12:41.180 named Kristen Coots says we need more women in construction. Now, I don't know how many women
00:12:47.260 there are in construction, but I do know that any construction project I've ever had around my own
00:12:51.720 home has had all male crews. And, uh, most construction sites you drive by or walk by have all
00:12:57.780 male, not always, but there is fairly consistently a dearth of women in the construction business. And what,
00:13:03.500 uh, Kristen Coots says is that she's getting, it's getting tiring and predictable to see middle-aged
00:13:08.200 white man wearing a t-shirt, jeans, construction boots, and sunglasses strutting out of people's
00:13:13.560 homes after putting in a half day with no confirmation on when they're coming back. It's
00:13:18.340 infuriating. She says construction is a playground for men. And she makes the point that male contractors
00:13:25.520 are ripping women off. She talks about getting screwed by a plumber. I think there are some
00:13:31.640 unscrupulous contractors that will just as easily rip off men and women that are equal opportunity
00:13:36.940 scam artists. But I think most are, are fairly honest there. Uh, she says women make up only
00:13:41.700 5% of those in the skilled trades. And that is a generous stat at best because it includes
00:13:47.720 hairstyling and aesthetics professionals. We need more women. We need more women of color. Sue Ann,
00:13:53.500 do you care as a woman that you are underrepresented in construction?
00:13:56.920 Not a bit. And, you know, by very sheer fact that it's like the firefighting business or being a
00:14:04.560 firefighter. Um, there are very few women who are firefighters. Why? Because, I mean, the reality is
00:14:11.200 that men have, you know, are able to lift and run into tall buildings, lifting hoses, wearing 40, 50, 60
00:14:19.140 pounds of equipment. Um, and women just physically are not able to do that. The same thing with
00:14:25.540 construction. There are certain tasks in construction that women are just not capable of doing physically.
00:14:33.400 Having said that, you know, there, I've seen women. Um, I, I, I live in Toronto, very close to the
00:14:41.440 LRT, unfortunately too close to the LRT boondoggle, the agricultural cost town. And I've seen women
00:14:49.620 on the job site. Um, but again, there are physical limitations to women. And I, I dare say she didn't
00:14:57.540 think this through. And I also would say that she didn't really get any statistics. This was all
00:15:03.060 anecdotal. I don't recall her saying, well, I looked at stats Canada, there are X number of women in
00:15:08.940 construction. But I think that for the certain jobs, like being a plumber or, or even electrician,
00:15:16.080 I mean, those are jobs that women can do. Yeah. I mean, look, I would also feel very weird
00:15:22.200 in a situation and maybe this is my own issue, but I don't think it is. I'd feel very weird
00:15:26.800 in a situation where I have to like bark some, you know, not that I, you know, try to be rude or
00:15:31.560 anything that I'm barking orders at some woman in my home, like pick that up, move that over there.
00:15:35.680 No, I think you need to do this. Or, you know, like, I, I just think there are certain things that
00:15:39.900 are more suited to women and men. And there are some people in those categories that want to defy those
00:15:45.680 categories. And I think they should be encouraged. I like, there's not a single thing she does here
00:15:50.020 to explain why women are not gravitating to construction. She's identifying what she thinks
00:15:55.800 is a problem. But if women want to, and they're achieve in their encountering a barrier, what's
00:16:01.860 that barrier? I think the issue is a lot of women do not want that. Yes, exactly. And I think because
00:16:07.340 of the physical limitations, and I think that women, you know, it's, it's a dirty business. And,
00:16:14.800 you know, a lot of women just choose not to do it. I don't think for a minute that they're being
00:16:20.820 excluded from construction business. In fact, I know in major cities across Canada, there's a dearth
00:16:27.780 of construction workers. And if women wanted to do it, they need them. But again, I mean, can you see
00:16:34.600 women lifting heavy piping, or, I don't know, going out, you know, the scaffolding, up high, you know,
00:16:42.960 60, 70 feet high, they just probably choose not to do it. Yeah, if they want to power to them,
00:16:51.740 if there's an issue that's preventing them, we can talk about that. But you can't just kind of throw
00:16:56.400 out the idea of there aren't enough women in construction, and then not identify any reasons
00:17:01.060 for that, which makes me kind of think it comes down to personal preference. But Sue Ann, I
00:17:06.040 absolutely encourage you and your lovely wife, if you want to put on your hard hats and start
00:17:10.040 schlepping dry while you have my full approval in the name of diversity. Well, I'll leave that. But I
00:17:16.120 can hammer and I can screw in a nail. So I'm actually and my wife is very, very good. She is so
00:17:23.320 handy. It's unbelievable. So you know, we should we should tell the lady who wrote this article that
00:17:29.400 there are women who actually do things around the house and are very handy.
00:17:34.660 There we go. Well, that does it for us. I hope you all have a fantastic weekend. We'll be back
00:17:39.320 with more fake news Friday, probably on Fridays, although you never know these days. Sue Ann
00:17:44.260 Levy, I'm Andrew Lawton. Thank you so much, everyone.