00:00:00.000The federal government funded a disturbing study that surveyed pedophiles asking them to measure
00:00:10.140their sexual attraction to children. Canada is not situated on stolen land according to a majority
00:00:17.020of Canadians. A new poll shows that Canada's G7 allies are keen on buying Canadian oil. Hello
00:00:23.800Canada, it's Friday June 13th and this is the True North Daily Brief. I'm Cosmin Georgia. And I'm
00:00:29.460Clayton DeMaine. We've got you covered with all the news you need to know. Let's discuss the top
00:00:34.420stories of the day and the True North exclusives you won't hear anywhere else.
00:00:42.500The federal liberal government quietly awarded funding to a disturbing academic project that
00:00:47.940surveyed pedophiles asking them to rank their sexual attraction to babies and children. The
00:00:53.220taxpayer-funded research project also asked participants to rank their attraction to a range
00:00:58.280of sexual targets and extreme sex acts and fantasies. According to the Social Sciences and
00:01:04.280Humanities Research Council, the SSHRC, $20,000 was distributed in 2023 for the project entitled,
00:01:12.740quote, Assessing Sexual Attractions Over Time and conducted by University of Ottawa doctoral student
00:01:18.680Lucas Walters. The results of this taxpayer-funded research were published earlier this year in the
00:01:24.820Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. The SSHRC website confirms that the grant was awarded in the
00:01:31.480fiscal year 2023 as part of its doctoral fellowships grants with no co-applicant and under the broader
00:01:38.720area of gender issues. True North accessed a copy of the survey, which was still available online at the
00:01:44.900time of publication. Before conducting the survey, participants were shown a trigger warning for
00:01:50.060potential discomfort, offering them links to organizations that support pedophiles. In the study,
00:01:55.740researchers provided a sliding scale ranging from, quote, not sexually attracted to, quote,
00:02:01.820extremely sexually attracted, and invited survey participants to rate their sexual attraction to
00:02:07.720infants, toddlers, children, adolescents, as well as various disturbing and violent sexual behaviors.
00:02:14.860The survey was actively promoted by a group called B4U Act, which is a U.S.-based organization that
00:02:22.000advocates for the, quote, mental health of minor attracted persons, MAPs, a term used by progressives
00:02:30.040instead of the word pedophile. As an incentive to participate in the government-funded survey,
00:02:36.380researchers offered participants a chance to win Amazon gift cards ranging from $100 to $200.
00:02:42.520True North reached out to the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development, which oversees
00:02:48.460SSHRC to request comment and ask whether they are aware of the contents of the federally funded
00:02:54.980research. An SSHRC spokesperson said, quote, research projects and topics can sometimes be considered
00:03:03.180controversial, but SSHRC has a duty to respect the principle of academic freedom as well as the peer
00:03:11.580review process, which independently assesses the academic merit of funding proposals.
00:03:17.520The SSHRC added that nowhere in our records or in Mr. Walter's own research proposal is it indicated that the research would involve, as you describe,
00:03:28.040surveying respondents on their sexual attraction to babies, toddlers, children, and adolescents on a sliding scale.
00:03:35.580So, Clayton, if I hadn't been looking through SSHRC's funding proposals, I'll just, you know, backtrack here a bit.
00:03:45.100This was distributed and selected in 2023. Some of the research was published earlier this year around February.
00:03:54.260And honestly, it wouldn't have made it to the public. I'm not sure how the public would have discovered that government funding or rather their own taxpayer money was going to survey people on such disturbing matters.
00:04:10.480And I think the Canadian public would be shocked and horrified that this happened.
00:04:17.360Now, the SSHRC said that they didn't seem to totally understand the scope of this research.
00:04:24.960But regardless, it's not like they're taking their money back.
00:04:27.620They cited academic freedom in their comment.
00:04:31.320So it seems like, in part, they're actually okay with this research being conducted and receiving the Government of Canada stamp of approval.
00:04:41.480So I think when a lot of people see this, they have the question in mind of, do government-funded studies of this kind really have the chance of normalizing behaviors like pedophilia using terms like, quote-unquote, minor attracted persons to cover up the horrifying reality?
00:05:06.220Almost all Canadians alive right now would almost certainly be repulsed by the suggestion that pedophilia could be normalized like this.
00:05:15.720That being said, I actually encountered someone on the streets of Toronto last week or the week before who began to yell at a man who was calling out pedophilia in Middle Eastern countries on a loud mic.
00:05:28.580And the young guy who was yelling at the person on the mic, maybe in his early 20s, was insisting that we don't use the word pedophilia anymore and it's minor attracted person.
00:05:42.100I have footage of it, but Karima Saad posted her own angle of the incident on X.
00:05:47.120But there does seem to be a class of people who will just go along with whatever is billed as the most progressive thing.
00:05:53.700Most people on social media will have very strong emotions, even to the sentiment that Canadians should call pedophiles, maps, or minor attracted persons now.
00:06:05.480On Karima's X page, others were insisting that that guy in particular have his hard drives investigated.
00:06:12.400But many on the left insist that it's a conspiracy to include minor attracted persons as a legitimate sexual identity.
00:06:24.660And I might have agreed with them if I didn't see someone legitimately upset in front of my face that someone used the wrong word for pedophilia.
00:06:32.260So for those of you who are just picking up this podcast now or have been listening for a while, I'm going to point back in 2024, there was a story we published, and I'm pretty sure it made it onto this podcast,
00:06:47.260where the SSHRC, the exact same granting and funding agency here, actually put out another study.
00:06:57.020It's not as horrific, but in this case, it was a study promoting, quote, polyamory, and that is essentially open relationships, open sexual relationships,
00:07:08.140as being healthy for children who are exposed to that environment, with their parents being polyamorous, that is.
00:07:16.400So in this case, the SSHRC gave taxpayer funds to researchers in Quebec.
00:07:24.440They distributed a grant up to about $70,000, a little over $70,000 over a two-year period.
00:07:33.060And it arrived at the conclusion that somehow polyamorous parenting, having multiple partners, even in the home, was generally appreciated by children and resulted in healthy outcomes.
00:07:50.280And some of the things that they cited as being positive aspects of this so-called family structure was that children would be given more gifts, I guess, when it's their birthday or maybe Christmas celebrations.
00:08:05.700Because their mother or father is in a polyamorous relationship, they have multiple partners who can give the child presents.
00:08:15.500So the fact that this is happening more often than you might think, than the public might think, just goes to show how much we need a total vetting of these grant-giving agencies at the federal level
00:08:34.480to ensure that the priorities are actually advancing things that are beneficial for Canadians at large.
00:08:44.380And we're not funding things that, when they're exposed, most Canadians would bulk at.
00:08:50.980The majority of Canadians do not believe they are living on land that was stolen from Indigenous peoples, according to a new public survey.
00:09:02.200The Association for Canada Studies and Metropolis Institute published the results from its public opinion poll on Monday,
00:09:09.740which found that 52% of Canadians didn't believe they lived on stolen land.
00:09:14.840However, a smaller cohort of 27% said they did believe they lived on stolen land, while the remaining 21% said they either didn't know or were declined to answer.
00:09:27.440Age played a major factor in whether this sentiment was accepted.
00:09:31.860The younger the respondent was, the more likely they were to agree, and vice versa.
00:09:36.900Respondents aged 18 to 24 were most likely to agree, with 41% saying they lived on stolen land,
00:09:44.020compared to the 37% who refuted the notion.
00:09:47.900Meanwhile, the respondents over the age of 65 were the least likely to agree,
00:09:53.020with 65% saying they did not live on stolen land, compared to 15% who said they did.
00:09:59.420Where people lived also affected their opinion on the issue,
00:10:02.660with rural Canadians being less likely to agree than those living in urban areas.
00:10:07.760More than half of rural Canadians, 56%, rejected the statement,
00:10:12.920I live on stolen indigenous land, while more than half of rural Canadians, 56%, rejected the statement,
00:10:21.260quote, I live on stolen indigenous land, while 24% said they did, and 20% either didn't know or declined to answer.
00:10:30.48050% of people living in the suburbs disagreed, compared to the 29% who did.
00:10:37.880The remaining 21% didn't provide an answer.
00:10:41.420That number slightly declined with urban dwellers, 46% of whom disagreed,
00:10:46.620compared to 34% who agreed, and 20% who didn't answer.
00:10:51.260Residents of Calgary were the most likely to reject this notion of stolen land at 69%,
00:10:56.480whereas Edmontonians, only 300 kilometers away, were the least likely at 41%.
00:11:03.860Montrealers were the second most likely to reject this notion,
00:11:07.700followed by Hamilton, Niagara Peninsula, and the greater Ottawa area, both at 50%.
00:11:13.600So, Cosmin, we've seen a vocal movement of indigenous activists,
00:11:17.920such as the Land Back movement, become more visibly active over the last five years,
00:11:23.460and you hear claims that non-indigenous people need to leave this country and others a lot,
00:11:29.520especially at the recent anti-Israel protests over the last few years.
00:11:33.980But does this survey show that those left-wing movements
00:11:37.120aren't seizing the hearts and minds of Canadians as they might think that they are?
00:11:42.140Yeah, I'm honestly not surprised by these results.
00:11:45.200I think most Canadians are reasonable people who have common sense views,
00:11:51.360and this is just a reflection of that.
00:11:54.760But even so, that doesn't mean that it's not prevalent in society,
00:12:01.580because we essentially see land acknowledgments today at any public gathering,
00:12:09.080whether it's like local government, organized, provincial, or federal,