Juno News - MALCOLM： This Week in Fake News

00:00:00.000 Hi, and welcome to another episode of This Week in Fake News. I'm your host, Candice Malcolm,

00:00:15.100 founder of True North and a columnist over at the Toronto Sun and with Post Media. Welcome to

00:00:20.740 another episode. This is a show where I go through and point out some of the most biased news stories

00:00:26.000 of the week in Canada, unpack a little bit and talk about just general trends in biased news and

00:00:32.680 fake news reporting in Canada. So thanks so much for tuning in. Again, if you like this video and

00:00:38.120 you like what we're working on here, please like the video, share it, help us distribute it to reach

00:00:44.200 more and more Canadians. So with that, let's jump right into a few of the top stories that I chose

00:00:50.220 this week. You know, it's really interesting because we are gearing up for the federal election here in

00:00:55.320 Canada, kind of getting more and more stories related to the election. And, you know, if you

00:01:00.480 just followed the mainstream media and listened to the reports that they put out, you would really

00:01:05.320 start to get the picture that the two main issues facing Canadians, the two most important things

00:01:10.700 in Canada facing Canadians in this election cycle are feminism, the state of feminism in Canada, 1.00

00:01:17.260 and global warming, the state of sort of alarmism when it comes to climate change and with global

00:01:23.460 warming. That's what the media want you to think. So many journalists who lean left in Canada, who

00:01:28.660 are themselves activists and left-wing advocates, want you to believe that feminism and global warming

00:01:34.800 are the two top, most important issues in Canada. I would argue that they are not even in the top 10.

00:01:40.860 But as you have it, you see more and more of these stories popping up. So the first one I want to

00:01:45.580 point your attention to is this story put out by Canadian Press. Here it is in the Huffington Post,

00:01:51.120 but the Canadian Press is a wire service. So this story will appear in newspapers across Canada.

00:01:57.740 The headline, what role will feminism play in the federal election? And the story basically goes,

00:02:04.060 starts off by just highlighting Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau received a lot of attention with

00:02:08.960 his line about the calendar year when asked why he named an equal number of men and women to cabinet

00:02:14.240 after his newly elected government was sworn in. That was back in 2015. Now, of course, that was an

00:02:18.780 idiotic response. There was a question, you know, why did you choose to base your cabinet not on the 1.00

00:02:24.640 people's skills, not on the top qualities, the top candidates, not based on people's career and

00:02:30.300 their service and their work, but you chose to appoint your cabinet, some of the highest ranking

00:02:34.740 positions in Canada based purely on gender. And of course, Trudeau didn't have a good answer. He

00:02:40.280 didn't have a good reason as to why he disproportionately chose women. Remember,

00:02:44.720 only 26 percent of MPs are women, and yet 50 percent of his cabinet were men. So he he elected twice as

00:02:52.260 he put a point twice as many women into position of power as there were women in cabinet. He didn't

00:02:57.660 have a good answer. So he just said, because it's 2015, which I guess that was impressive to some

00:03:02.720 people, some people on the left and people in the media swooned over that. But, you know,

00:03:07.800 to people who actually wanted to know why he chose to do that, it was completely a ridiculous answer.

00:03:13.300 It didn't provide any insight into his decision making other than just that he didn't really

00:03:17.460 think much about it. It's 2015. That's why I did it. So according to this story, that was a brilliant

00:03:22.780 answer, and Trudeau received a lot of attention for it. And then, you know, the story kind of goes

00:03:28.000 on to list some of the liberals, you know, things that they've done to push for so-called gender

00:03:34.820 equality in government. And then we hear from an expert on feminist policies saying, you know, 0.92

00:03:42.320 the problem with pushing for feminism is that there's two camps of people, one camp who don't 1.00

00:03:48.000 want to see that kind of stuff. They don't want, you know, positions being chosen based on feminism. 1.00

00:03:53.140 And then there are other people who are the feminists themselves who always say that not enough 1.00

00:03:56.940 is being done. That's actually pretty accurate observation there. I would probably agree with that.

00:04:02.180 You know, interestingly, we then, you know, then the story goes on to quote someone from the

00:04:07.020 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The story doesn't mention, but that is a far left

00:04:12.380 organization. It's a left wing organization, which is not in this story. You know, if you're going to

00:04:18.320 name an organization, as they usually do when they say, you know, the Fraser Institute, they'll usually

00:04:22.680 mention that it's a conservative organization or a free market organization, more like a classical

00:04:28.580 liberal organization in the traditional definition of the word. Anyway, leaving out the fact that this

00:04:33.300 is a left wing organization is a little shady. So, so far, we have talked to two people in this story,

00:04:41.140 and they both offer a left wing perspective. You know, this woman's going on to applaud the Trudeau

00:04:46.860 government for a bunch of stuff. And then they talk to a third person who is a chief executive of a polling

00:04:51.780 firm, who talks about sort of, you know, what, what the Conservatives have done, what the NDP have done,

00:04:59.280 and what the Liberals have done for so-called feminism or to advance feminism. Interestingly,

00:05:05.140 though, this entire story goes through, interviews several people, goes through a whole bunch of the

00:05:09.960 different policies of the parties, and kind of applauds the Trudeau government for their so-called

00:05:16.960 feminism. But interestingly, they don't mention any of the problems that Trudeau has had with his

00:05:24.600 feminist shtick. I mean, most people would accuse Justin Trudeau of being a fake feminist. I've written

00:05:30.060 columns about that, that so much of his, you know, talk about feminism is just empty rhetoric, complete

00:05:37.080 virtue signaling. What about the fact that he's been accused of groping a young reporter at a music

00:05:42.900 festival when he was in his 20s? And then he said that he would have never done it if he had known

00:05:47.860 she was reporting for a national newspaper. That's sexual harassment, what he's been accused of doing

00:05:51.940 there. You think that that might be worthy of just mentioning in the story that he's been accused of

00:05:57.500 sexual harassment? And he actually admitted to it back in 2000 and apologized. So there's something

00:06:03.420 like an admission of guilt. Wouldn't that be sort of something that you might want to mention in the

00:06:08.280 story? Or how about the fact that two of his high-ranking strong women in his cabinet were 1.00

00:06:14.120 removed, were removed and are no longer there? There's no mention in this story whatsoever of

00:06:20.020 the whole Wilson Rabel, Judy Wilson Rabel affair and the fact that Jane Philpott left. You know,

00:06:26.180 the fact that two strong women were pushed out of the liberal caucus, pushed out of cabinet for

00:06:32.800 standing up to the prime minister. I mean, what does that show about the character of this prime

00:06:37.340 minister? And we're supposed to just read this article, believe that he's a feminist and just 0.89

00:06:41.460 take that as face value. I mean, really not mentioning those two pieces of information,

00:06:47.020 which I think are key when thinking about Trudeau and his policy towards women and whether or not he

00:06:52.620 actually is a feminist, you know, missing those points, I think, again, is pretty dishonest if we're 1.00

00:06:59.140 going to be having a conversation about feminism. Now, of course, the idea that somehow feminism needs to 1.00

00:07:06.500 be a top issue and story in this election, that there'll be Canadian voters who are actually

00:07:12.020 voting based on who's the biggest feminist of the political parties is total nonsense. I mean, 0.92

00:07:17.880 if you look at the Canadian government as it is, it's already ridiculous in how much it over-emphasizes 0.75

00:07:23.180 the need to help women. There's an entire department dedicated to the status of women, 0.87

00:07:28.960 which I find could be completely condescending. The fact that there needs to be a special government

00:07:33.560 department just to make sure that somehow women are being treated properly. It assumes that women 1.00

00:07:39.840 are inferior, that we need special government programs and special government help just to make

00:07:45.720 sure that we're treated fairly and equally. I find that completely paternalistic and condescending

00:07:52.220 towards women. I think that that department should be completely done away with. 1.00

00:07:56.980 And one thing that I will mention that I like, I hadn't talked about this before, but the

00:08:03.320 Conservatives this summer made a pledge to introduce non-refundable tax credits to new

00:08:09.440 mothers and fathers. So when you're in maternity leave or parental leave, you get benefits from the 0.96

00:08:15.020 government. Currently, they're taxable. So the Conservatives will make those non-taxable,

00:08:19.080 which is helpful. As a new parent myself, as a new mom myself, I think that every dollar helps.

00:08:24.540 And so the idea that you wouldn't be having to pay taxes on those benefits is definitely something

00:08:29.720 that can help a lot of moms and dads out there. The new Democrats have also released something about

00:08:37.260 what they would like to do for women. This year, once again, they are promising universal,

00:08:43.580 affordable non-profit health care right across the country, sorry, child care across the country. So

00:08:48.160 the NDP wants to set up government-run daycares, which I would not be for. Just personally,

00:08:53.660 I would never put my child into government daycare. And, you know, it doesn't really work for a lot

00:09:00.920 of Canadians. It only really works if you live in a big city where there is a child care facility

00:09:06.660 nearby and that you happen to work like regular nine to five hours. So it really only helps people

00:09:11.840 who live in big cities and people who work office jobs, nine to five jobs, which I imagine that many,

00:09:17.580 many, many mothers out there across Canada and fathers don't fit into that mold. So it's kind of

00:09:22.440 like a one-size-fits-all approach that doesn't really work for a lot of parents. Whereas the

00:09:26.660 conservative plan here would help everyone because everyone gets those tax-free benefits, 0.99

00:09:35.040 which just puts more money into the pockets of mom and dad. So there's another story here.

00:09:42.380 I'll just quickly go through on Radio Canada, which is the French CBC. And again, it says,

00:09:48.440 why, set up to fail, why women still don't win elections as often as men do in Canada. And then

00:09:53.560 they just have a whole bunch of sort of people analyzing and trying to figure out what it is.

00:09:59.200 You know, of course, the reason for this is just simply that the women who go into politics might 1.00

00:10:04.780 not have the same kind of electability as the men. It's almost like random. It just depends on

00:10:12.220 what women are running, what men are running, what riding they're in. I think that just looking at it

00:10:17.040 a hole and saying that men do better in elections than women is just missing so much of the picture.

00:10:22.280 And it's like watering people down to just one characteristic. I'm a woman. Nothing else

00:10:28.500 about me matters. My experience, my background, my ability to speak publicly, to talk about public

00:10:34.660 policy issues, my electability, my likability, all these things are ignored. And it's just boiled down

00:10:40.200 to man, woman, which is just really silly and nonsensical. All right, let's move on to the 0.79

00:10:46.060 next issue here. Again, like I said, the Canadian media want voters to believe that the two most

00:10:50.460 important issues in this election are feminism and climate change. So here's another story in the 1.00

00:10:56.460 Canadian press here. It's in the HuffPo again, but the story, it's a wire service story. So it's

00:11:01.920 going to appear in newspapers all over Canada. And here's the headline here. Canadian voters must

00:11:08.380 treat climate change as if it's a war, leading activists say. Okay, here we go. So we have David

00:11:15.500 Suzuki and Stephen Lewis, who are planning to do campaign events across Canada during the election

00:11:21.400 this year. And they are trying to raise the alarm bell, ring the alarm bell, get people nervous,

00:11:27.180 you know, create this sort of urgency, saying that Canada needs to confront climate change,

00:11:34.840 and they need to treat it as if, treat the situation as if Canada were at war against greenhouse

00:11:40.720 gases. Now, just right off the top, I find this story super ironic, because keep in mind that it's

00:11:46.520 left-wing advocates, it's people like David Suzuki and Stephen Lewis, it's people like NDP members,

00:11:52.280 who are always against war, they always lead the anti-war efforts, they were against the war in Iraq,

00:11:56.980 they were against even the bombing of ISIS. NDP was advocating that the Conservatives at the time

00:12:02.040 withdraw its bombing campaign against ISIS. So they don't even want us to go to war against a

00:12:08.600 group as horrendous as ISIS. And yet now they want us to pretend that we are at war against greenhouse

00:12:14.380 gases. So when Canada's in a real war, they don't like it. But then they want to create this like

00:12:18.720 fictitious fake war against greenhouse gases and against basically our own society. And we're supposed

00:12:25.420 to get all excited about that. So I don't know, the story is just sort of nonsense about how

00:12:30.740 they are, you know, treating, they want, they want to treat Canada. Basically, they want us to pretend

00:12:37.260 that we're at war against ourselves, because really, greenhouse gases are a outcome of our

00:12:42.720 civilization of our industry of our resources. And every time you do anything from using your

00:12:48.180 smartphone to getting in your car to turning on your lights, everything we do is powered by

00:12:52.680 greenhouse gases. So for us to go to war against our own actions, in order to basically just scare

00:12:58.560 everybody to have everybody just afraid that the world is going to end if we don't completely change

00:13:03.800 our lifestyle. That's the agenda of these far left activists and the mainstream media is

00:13:10.260 legitimizing it, treating like treating it not not like it's something that we should be skeptical of

00:13:14.980 or something that's very absurd. You know, there's not a lot of skeptical reaction in this piece.

00:13:20.100 It's just talking about how it's, you know, a legitimate effort, a legitimate campaign

00:13:24.300 effort. And, you know, we should take it seriously, according to the Canadian press.

00:13:31.680 Really, I think that voters should be a lot more skeptical of this kind of stuff. When you have

00:13:35.140 alarmist people who want us to pretend that we're at war against ourselves, we should be very skeptical.

00:13:41.220 These kind of alarmists, by the way, are often wrong. And actually, there's a story this week that

00:13:45.980 was completely ignored by the mainstream media, not surprisingly. But here it is, climate scientists

00:13:51.760 admit their models are wrong. This kind of stuff happens every now and then, where you have a big

00:13:57.360 UN report come out talking about how, you know, we need to be urgent, talking about weather models,

00:14:03.680 how global warming is worse than ever. And that gets a lot of press, it gets a lot of media attention.

00:14:09.040 And then, like, a couple weeks or months later, they'll kind of quietly put out another report,

00:14:13.820 saying that, oops, we were wrong, our numbers were wrong, the modeling was wrong, and it's not quite

00:14:19.740 as bad as we said. That second news piece never really gets the same attention as the original

00:14:25.000 report. And it looks like that's what's happened again here. So we have some climate scientists who

00:14:31.600 authored a peer review paper that acknowledged that their climate models were wrong. And, of course,

00:14:36.600 the climate models over-exaggerated the temperature changes and the trends. Again, this happens with

00:14:42.540 some frequency, and the media never quite covers it with the same, you know, furiousness as they do

00:14:48.420 the initial reports. And so if we were to just leave it to the media, leave it to people like David

00:14:53.700 Suzuki, they want us to believe that our planet is going to be gone, that the world is going to end

00:14:58.740 in like 11 years if we don't act now. It's complete, you know, alarmism, and we should treat it with a lot

00:15:05.440 more skepticism. And, you know, contrary to what the media are saying, feminism and global warming are 1.00

00:15:12.100 not the two most important issues in Canada right now. I would say they're not, again, not even the

00:15:17.200 top 10. You have issues like, I think, taxes and pocketbook issues are the major issues that Canadians

00:15:22.380 are worried about right now. Immigration and illegal immigration, the huge spike in asylum seekers,

00:15:27.720 the number of illegal immigrants in Canada. That's a huge issue I'm hearing. A lot of people talk about

00:15:33.060 the economy in general, Canadian unity, and as well as government ethics, the ethics of the

00:15:39.520 prime minister and his actions and the actions of several high-ranking officials in the government.

00:15:44.620 Those are the core issues that Canadians are going to be voting on. And this idea that they're pushing

00:15:49.200 in the mainstream media that it's really feminism and climate change, I just think that misses the

00:15:54.400 boat and it is wrong. So let's move on. Just one final story I want to talk about quickly here.

00:16:00.680 There were reports, everyone's sort of talking about this on social media right now. There were

00:16:05.440 reports in an Arab newspaper earlier this week that said that Canada was going to take 100,000

00:16:10.460 Palestinians as part of a peace deal that's being negotiated right now in the Middle East.

00:16:16.840 The report said that Canada would receive 100,000 Palestinians from Lebanon and Syria,

00:16:21.620 and that Spain would be taking 16,000 Palestinians from Lebanon. And the story was picked up by the

00:16:30.040 Jerusalem Post, which is a very reputable news source in Israel. And basically it was quoting

00:16:37.000 Palestinian sources, so people within Palestinian factions, so like leaders and officials within

00:16:43.780 Palestinian faction, claiming that this was the case. Now, the Canadian government and Justin Trudeau

00:16:49.800 very quickly dismissed it and said it was disinformation, it was not true, not accurate.

00:16:54.780 This Jerusalem Post story has an update quoting a Canadian official, basically just saying that,

00:17:00.740 you know, it's important that people rely on accurate information before starting their

00:17:06.400 journey. There's no special programs currently being considered to resettle people from

00:17:11.420 Lebanon or Syria. So the government of Canada is completely denying this while reports from the

00:17:18.900 Middle East are saying that this is the case. It's all part of a big peace deal that's being

00:17:23.800 negotiated right now, led by Donald Trump. Trump is calling it the deal of the century.

00:17:30.180 And we're supposed to hear more about it later this month. It's really interesting. The government

00:17:35.280 was really quick to jump all over this. There's a lot of people on social media saying anyone that

00:17:42.020 was posting this was pushing fake news. You know, again, the Jerusalem Post is a very reputable

00:17:47.180 source. And you have to wonder, like, what is the origin of this story? Why is it that Palestinian

00:17:52.940 leaders are saying this to be true? And the Canadians are denying it? You have to wonder,

00:17:58.500 you know, what what kind of conversations are going on behind closed doors? Remember,

00:18:02.300 the last liberal prime minister, Jean-Claude Chen, went to Israel to be part of these peace talks.

00:18:09.060 And he kind of spontaneously announced that Canada was going to be taking 15,000 Palestinian refugees

00:18:16.140 at the time. And that had not been previously announced or discussed at all. So these things

00:18:21.700 sort of tend to just come out, you know, quickly. But the Canadians are very much denying that this

00:18:28.180 is the case. You know, part of the part I do applaud the Canadian government for kind of,

00:18:34.500 you know, clarifying the issue right away and trying to correct false stories, because, you know,

00:18:39.760 sometimes people, for instance, if you're a Palestinian living in Lebanon or Syria, and you see the report,

00:18:45.040 you might get the idea that, hey, I should just go to Canada, I should just, like, get on a plane

00:18:49.360 and go, and they're going to accept me. So it's good that the Canadian government is dispelling

00:18:54.240 the rumor. But you have to sit like you have to look at why these kind of misinformation stories

00:18:59.340 get generated in the first place. Someone speaking out of turn? Or is it just sort of the general,

00:19:04.740 you know, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is known for being very welcoming of refugees as part of his

00:19:10.120 image? That's who he's built himself to be. Look at his tweets from January 2017, telling persecuted

00:19:17.380 people to come to Canada, saying Canada would welcome them. Or another tweet that was put out

00:19:21.980 a couple months later by the Prime Minister, basically saying anyone and everyone was welcome

00:19:26.900 to come to Canada, welcome to come to Canada, which is not true. Canada has very strict immigration

00:19:32.060 rules and a very stringent review process before anyone is allowed to come. So the perception

00:19:38.120 that gets pushed around and these rumors and these hoaxes that get spread that people

00:19:42.560 should come to Canada, they do have an origin. I would argue that the origin in this case

00:19:46.860 comes from the Prime Minister's own image and his own insistence on putting these messages

00:19:53.120 out and really making it unclear as to what Canada's actual immigration policy is. Remember

00:20:00.440 after that infamous tweet that he put out in January 2017, there were legitimate news stories

00:20:05.500 all over the world that actually thought that Canada had a policy of accepting refugees.

00:20:11.280 People thought that Trudeau was announcing some kind of a policy change that anyone who

00:20:14.780 was being rejected or deported from the US was welcome to come to Canada. So the origin

00:20:20.440 of that fake news and those rumors was the Prime Minister himself who made it very unclear

00:20:25.400 as to what Canada's immigration policies were. So I think that's something that we should

00:20:29.460 keep an eye on this through some post story. Again, the Canadian government claims, Canadian

00:20:34.640 officials claim it's totally untrue. But I do wonder where that where the origin of that

00:20:39.740 story is and what, you know, what is being said in closed doors, you know, in those in those

00:20:46.140 peace talks over there. So I'm going to leave it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in

00:20:51.240 this week. Again, if you like the video, don't forget to share it, like the page and go check

00:20:55.460 out True North. The website is tnc.news. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend. Bye.

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MALCOLM： This Week in Fake News

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