Nova Scotia mass casualty commission says government must ＂promote healthy masculinities＂
Episode Stats
Words per minute
165.23615
Harmful content
Misogyny
6
sentences flagged
Toxicity
3
sentences flagged
Hate speech
7
sentences flagged
Summary
On today's bonus episode of Canada's Most Irreverent talk show, host Andrew Lawton is joined by a special guest, former Conservative Party Leader Candice Bergen, who joins him to talk about her recent interview at the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference with former Conservative Leader Candace Bergen. They also discuss the report from the Mass Casualty Commission on the Nova Scotia Dental Killer, Brenda Luckey, and the Dildo Dolphins.
Transcript
00:01:23.880
This is The Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
00:01:34.140
This is another edition of Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.
00:01:37.340
It is Friday, March 31st, 2023, just after 4 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time.
00:01:44.240
We've now switched to the beloved summer time zone.
00:01:47.520
So welcome wherever you are tuning into the show from,
00:01:50.480
whether it's live or on the podcast or video after the fact.
00:01:54.460
This is a rare Friday show, but I am pleased to tell you
00:01:58.120
It's going to be decreasingly rare moving forward as we change around some of the scheduling here at True North.
00:02:04.200
And obviously, we're going to not necessarily stick to the same time, but we are going to do a bit of a bonus edition of the show for a while.
00:02:10.400
And that means that Fake News Friday is going to be a part of the Andrew Lawton show today.
00:02:15.800
So we will still give you your Fake News Friday dosage, but in a bit of a different delivery system.
00:02:23.440
We decide the best delivery system for the missile we're lobbying.
00:02:26.040
And in this particular case, The Andrew Lawton Show is the most destructive option for you.
00:02:33.260
My interview from the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference with former Conservative leader Candace Bergen coming up very shortly.
00:02:41.100
And as it so happens, this morning, Aaron O'Toole, the former Conservative leader, announced that he would not be seeking re-election.
00:02:48.960
So he's getting out of politics, at least for the time being.
00:02:53.180
Also going to talk later on about some dolphins in dildo,
00:02:57.100
which is an alliterative phrase, but not a pun, not a joke.
00:03:01.720
There is a rescue attempt underway for the dildo dolphins.
00:03:05.260
The dildos and dolphins? No, the dolphins and dildos.
0.93
00:03:07.460
So that's going to be coming up a little later.
00:03:09.280
And we have musical accompaniment for the segment.
00:03:11.300
So if you don't stick around because you wonder what the heck I'm talking about,
00:03:16.120
But let's start off talking about something more serious,
00:03:19.340
which I believe the government has completely trivialized,
00:03:31.560
absolutely horrific killing spree that a denturist in Nova Scotia went on,
00:03:40.820
And this was a commission that I think got no coverage, really,
00:03:47.740
we got little drips and drabs such as the details about Brenda Luckey running interference for the
00:03:53.140
Liberal government and this was that story when Brenda Luckey had asked the Nova Scotia RCMP
00:03:59.080
to not mention that it was a an illegal gun that the killer used because at the time the federal
00:04:06.380
Liberal government was using this whole incident as justification to further ban guns so that was
00:04:11.600
one of the little takeaways we got with documents that were put before the report but generally
00:04:16.580
speaking i'm assuming when i mentioned the mass casualty commission a lot of you were like oh
00:04:20.000
what's that like just because it got so little coverage and i haven't spent much time talking
00:04:25.080
about it on this show so i'm part of the problem but the report has now come out the final report
00:04:30.320
it's very very very long i'm not going to lie i have not read the whole thing but what i did do
00:04:34.980
is go through the executive summary and look at the recommendation so what they do is they take
00:04:40.280
seven volumes to tell the story of this thing how it happened what happened what went wrong
00:04:45.520
They take a rather scathing look at police and what they see as profound police failings.
00:04:51.800
But then they get into this very weird terrain of social engineering.
00:04:57.460
And there are two aspects of this that I want to talk about a little bit.
00:05:02.420
So on firearms, this looks like one of the most rabid anti-gun activists you could find in Canada was asked to write out the recommendations.
00:05:11.560
They have things like prohibiting the stockpiling of ammunition.
00:05:16.100
Now, when they say limit the stockpiling of ammunition, they're using the word stockpile
00:05:22.220
because it conjures up images of someone just like hiding out in a basement bunker with
00:05:28.300
But what they mean is limiting how much ammunition you're allowed to have.
00:05:32.360
And every now and then when I see crime press releases that come out from police, what will
00:05:37.380
happen is you'll see like, oh, the killer, the person was arrested with 800 rounds of ammunition.
00:05:44.400
And people that don't know guns have just like been shocked at that. They've been aghast at it.
00:05:49.900
They have no idea. Oh my goodness, 800 rounds of ammunition. And then you like go to the average
00:05:53.380
gun owner's gun captain and you open the door and you see like, oh, 15,000 rounds of ammunition. So
00:05:58.400
you do it because it's like anything else. If it's on sale, you buy it. If there are different
00:06:02.360
types you like, if you've got different guns that take different types of ammunition, you're going
00:06:06.420
to buy lots more so when i see a recommendation in here that the government limit the stockpiling
00:06:12.700
of ammunition i know that sort of stuff is catnip for people that don't understand firearms or they
00:06:18.540
want to prey on the fact that a lot of people in this country don't know a lot about firearms
00:06:24.120
and one of the other recommendations to ban all semi-automatic firearms or rifles like rifles
00:06:33.840
handguns or shotguns and to do this with a couple of caveats well only if they have detachable
00:06:42.260
magazines that take more than five rounds of ammunition or if they are centerfire so not
00:06:47.080
the really small caliber 22 but they're basically saying we think the government should prohibit
00:06:51.880
almost all semi-automatic guns now this was oddly enough the amendment that that liberal mp tried
00:06:58.960
to sneak into Bill C-21. And it's funny that something eerily similar, in fact, if I looked
00:07:03.880
at the text, probably almost identical, is now finding its way as a recommendation in the Mass
00:07:09.640
Casualty Commission report. Nowhere did I see in my cursory scan an acknowledgement in this
00:07:16.300
firearms recommendation that the prohibition wouldn't have changed anything about this event
00:07:22.960
because the guy used illegal guns that were illegally smuggled into Canada. The one gun he
00:07:28.780
had that wasn't smuggled, he illegally acquired through an estate. But either way, guns that he
00:07:34.860
did not legally have that did not come from the Canadian market. So why do we think that prohibiting
00:07:41.020
any type of firearm would have stopped this incident or any others like it? But the problem
00:07:48.340
is that this event has been used by the Liberal government as a way to justify their intent on
00:07:54.040
banning firearms. That's what they want. And even if they have to be more incremental about it,
00:07:58.540
their goals are very clear. They don't like gun owners. They don't like guns. They don't want the
00:08:03.140
type of people who are gun owners to be able to have their property rights. So they do this. They
00:08:08.900
use this event, this horrible, horrible act of evil, this tragedy, to justify their political
00:08:16.640
aims. And we've already seen through the Brenda Luckey situation, the meddling in the police
00:08:21.400
investigation to do that. And now we're seeing the Mass Casualty Commission report try to do
00:08:26.320
the same thing, to use this as a springboard for a gun ban. But there was another weird section
00:08:32.080
that I had to look at and ask who wrote this. How did this come up here? Now, let me preface this
00:08:40.600
by saying I do not seek to diminish domestic violence in the least. It is a horrible thing.
00:08:46.960
It is a tremendously dangerous thing. If you look at these statistics, you know it's a lot
00:08:52.760
more commonplace than a lot of people realize. Any domestic violence, gender-based or otherwise,
00:08:58.700
needs to be understood, and it needs to be clamped down on, and people need to pay the
00:09:03.400
stiffest penalties imaginable if they go down that road. But I don't look at the Nova Scotia
00:09:09.880
killing spree and see this as being a domestic violence issue. Obviously, the guy, if you can
00:09:17.380
read all the stuff you want about it, has had that in his life, and you may be able to look at this
00:09:22.420
and say that gender-based violence is a precursor for other things,
00:09:25.840
or domestic violence, as I'm used to calling it.
00:09:28.360
But it's amazing how prominently that features in this report.
00:09:33.540
And some of the recommendations that I want to pluck out of this here
00:09:40.620
One of them is to call gender-based violence an epidemic.
00:09:46.180
They say it's an epidemic in Nova Scotia and all of Canada
00:09:50.240
the united nations has been calling it a global pandemic violence against women and girls is also
00:09:55.460
endemic in canada and in all societies so ergo the government needs to call it declare it an endemic
00:10:01.720
and take a public health approach so they want the health units that did such a bang-up job
00:10:06.640
getting us through covid to take the front lines to take the front seat on ending domestic violence
00:10:12.840
which is a little bit of an odd thing so i if anyone believes labeling is going to stop this
00:10:18.380
you are sorely, sorely mistaken. But then we get to the even weirder part. And I want to quote
00:10:26.640
directly here from the recommendation, because they say that it needs to be a government priority
00:10:33.400
to cultivate healthy masculinities. They say government needs to support healthy masculinity.
00:10:41.400
Healthy masculinity appears in the report 11 times, at least in the executive summary 11 times,
00:10:46.920
It appears later on, and there's a whole chapter dedicated to cultivating healthy masculinities.
00:10:52.740
And they say promoting healthier masculinities is an important strategy for improving community
00:11:00.440
It prevents gender-based violence and it improves male health and well-being.
00:11:09.640
So when they say promote healthy masculinity, it's what they're saying is we need to get
00:11:13.480
rid of toxic masculinity, which is the stuff that in the Gillette commercials, they're always
00:11:17.480
preaching at men about. And it's become the flavor of the day to go after toxic masculinity. They
00:11:23.440
don't like men that are really buff and masculine and uber strong. And we also are seeing time and
00:11:30.020
time again, more examples of very woke companies, very woke companies that start to say we need to
00:11:37.240
dismantle toxic masculinity in all its forms. So it's a little bit trivializing to take the Mass
00:11:45.280
Casualty Commission's report on this, on a horrific event that killed men and women,
00:11:53.260
and to say that we need to hold this up as a gender-based violence incident. And we need to
0.58
00:11:59.880
extrapolate from this all of these things that we want to change in society to deal with gender-based
00:12:05.120
violence, which is a real thing, and it's a problem. And it's a problem warranting solutions.
00:12:10.880
But it makes it look like this entire commission report is trying to just become this weird buffet
00:12:17.220
from which people can draw whatever issues they want. Oh, you want firearm stuff? Oh, you want
00:12:22.640
gender-based violence stuff? Yeah, we'll take a little bit of that. You want police reform? Great,
0.94
00:12:26.860
we'll take a little bit of that. And obviously, complex situations require complex solutions.
00:12:32.240
But this doesn't look like it's a solution to any genuine problem because, not a genuine
00:12:38.900
problem, but a solution to any problem that was at the root of this.
00:12:42.060
There is not a single recommendation I have seen in this that would have stopped this
00:12:47.960
killer from doing what he did, except for maybe if you go way back, and I did not see
00:12:55.940
they talk in a few senses about the need to streamline communications between the Canadian
00:13:02.800
Border Services Agency and police but they aren't talking about really what we need to deal with
00:13:07.340
here which is firearm smuggling so all of this is to say that genuinely looking for answers here
00:13:16.640
looking for solutions here and thinking that you're going to find those by combating toxic
00:13:22.500
masculinity by the government running PSAs about healthy masculinity by public health agencies
00:13:27.520
saying that we're going to declare violence against women or gender-based violence to be an
00:13:31.840
endemic. None of these things are going to stop this event. None of these things are going to
00:13:40.720
stop these killers. And it's funny, I wrote a column many years ago after a mass shooting in
00:13:47.220
the US in which I said there's no antidote to evil. That was the takeaway of it. And I actually
00:13:54.600
regretted a little bit because as a Christian, I believe that there is an antidote to evil and I
00:13:58.820
believe God is the antidote to evil. And I was talking about it in a political context at the
00:14:03.140
time though. There's no political remedy to evil. And what happens anytime these horrific events
00:14:08.980
take place, we all want to believe that they were preventable. We want to believe there was
00:14:12.840
something we could have done, something we needed to have done,
00:14:16.260
and something that would have made a tangible difference.
00:14:19.000
Because saying, pardon the language, I won't use the language,
00:14:22.380
because then we get like the weird flag on iTunes or whatever,
00:14:25.400
but saying that poop happens is not a satisfactory response to horrible things.
00:14:32.360
To look at something evil and say, well, that sucks, but that's life.
00:14:36.420
No one is satisfied with that, nor should they be.
00:14:38.540
so I'm struggling here to come up with an answer to what could have stopped this guy
00:14:47.620
and I don't have one and I don't come to you today because I have the answers figured out
00:14:53.180
and the Mass Casualty Commission doesn't I do it because I despise this trend we now see
00:14:59.580
where people just latch on to whatever tragedy of the day has taken place and use it as a springboard
00:15:21.660
The Liberal government did not give one iota of crap
0.99
00:15:28.240
They saw this as an opportunity to justify a gun ban.
00:15:32.620
So they almost overnight put in the handgun freeze.
00:15:36.160
Again, didn't matter, didn't have anything to do with anything or the, not the handgun
00:15:49.280
And when the facts of the case actually worked against them, they just had that little pipeline
00:15:53.720
of information from Bill Blair to Brenda Luckey down to the Nova Scotia RCMP that went against
00:16:02.880
You know, violence against women is a huge issue.
00:16:05.380
You've got activist groups that want to make a difference on that.
0.99
00:16:08.240
You've got women's shelters that want to make a difference at it.
00:16:10.580
You know they were all contributing volumes and volumes of information.
00:16:17.540
I'm saying that you cannot break this down to a failing of toxic masculinity
00:16:22.080
and say that if the government gets up there and Justin Trudeau promotes healthy masculinity
00:16:26.920
and Teresa Tam gets up there and says we need more healthy masculinity,
00:16:32.940
and it takes this concept that has now become this joke because a lot of the people that say
00:16:41.060
they reject toxic masculinity actually just reject masculinity in general so what on earth
00:16:46.160
is healthy masculinity that that's to say that a masculinity needs that qualifier that masculinity
00:16:51.760
needs to be labeled healthy otherwise it is unhealthy that's the implication if you really
00:16:57.020
want to go down and parse the language here. So I don't come with the answers, but I am coming
00:17:03.420
with a warning that we have to stop letting people politicize these tragedies because they
00:17:08.880
will keep doing it over and over and over again. We'll have perhaps more on this as I've had a
00:17:15.040
chance to read other parts of the report. But when I initially skimmed through and I saw both
00:17:19.560
the firearm stuff and then the masculinity stuff, I said, okay, I have to at least talk about that
00:17:24.340
today. I want to shift gears here. You may remember last week I was at the Canada Strong
00:17:29.040
and Free Networking Conference in Ottawa, and I sat down with a number of the movers and shakers
00:17:34.320
of Canada's Conservative movement, including the former leader of the Conservative. She served as
00:17:40.320
leader on an interim basis after Erin O'Toole was ousted before Pierre Polyev was elected leader,
00:17:46.740
and that is Candace Bergen, who's now taken a backseat to politics as well, like Erin O'Toole
00:17:51.940
announce he'd be doing. And she is, I believe I saw, I don't follow Manitoba politics too closely,
00:17:56.800
but I believe I saw this morning that Candace Bergen is now the co-chair of the Manitoba PC
00:18:02.640
campaign. So power to them, I guess. But this was my sit down with former interim conservative
00:18:08.520
leader, Candace Bergen. Joining me here at the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference is
00:18:15.480
former conservative leader, Candace Bergen. Obviously, Candace, you had to be the interim
00:18:20.520
leader during the leadership race so you saw yourself being replaced in real time and now
00:18:25.200
you've you've left politics so what's your why are you still here why are you still immersing
00:18:29.280
yourself in this world when you don't need to it's funny Andrew because when I let Pierre our
00:18:34.040
leader know that I was going to be stepping down I said but you know Pierre I got into politics as
00:18:38.580
a volunteer and I want to go back to being a volunteer because I still love politics and I
00:18:43.500
still believe strongly in what a conservative party does and what we need to do for the country
00:18:48.260
So I said, I'm going to be retiring my official role as a member of parliament.
00:18:52.700
But I said to Pierre and my caucus, I still want to help.
00:19:02.280
It was great to see Stephen Harper and hear Stephen and Preston last night.
00:19:10.340
Our conservative party and our movement is made up of coalitions of different groups of people.
00:19:16.220
And I'm a big believer in we need to be able to disagree and still be united.
00:19:21.440
And I'll tell you, more than ever, we need to be a united conservative movement.
00:19:25.220
So even though I'm retired officially, I'm still, I care very much about the country and I'm still a conservative.
00:19:32.040
I know a lot of people here made a big deal about Stephen Harper speaking.
00:19:36.240
Joining me here at the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference is former conservative leader Candice Bergen.
00:19:42.020
Obviously, Candice, you had to be the interim leader during the leadership race.
00:19:46.440
So you saw yourself being replaced in real time.
00:19:52.860
Why are you still immersing yourself in this world when you don't need to?
00:19:55.320
It's funny, Andrew, because when I let Pierre, our leader, know that I was going to be stepping down,
00:20:00.500
I said, but, you know, Pierre, I got into politics as a volunteer and I want to go back to being a volunteer
00:20:06.040
because I still love politics and I still believe strongly in what a conservative party does
00:20:12.760
So I said, I'm going to be retiring my official role as a member of parliament.
00:20:17.060
But I said to Pierre and my caucus, I still want to help.
00:20:26.640
It was great to see Stephen Harper and hear Stephen and Preston last night.
00:20:34.720
Our conservative party and our movement is made up of coalitions of different groups of people.
00:20:40.600
And I'm a big believer in we need to be able to disagree and still be united.
00:20:45.800
And I'll tell you, more than ever, we need to be a united conservative movement.
00:20:49.580
So even though I'm retired officially, I'm still, I care very much about the country and I'm still a conservative.
00:20:56.060
I know a lot of people here made a big deal about Stephen Harper speaking
00:20:59.400
because he has kept something of a low profile in Canadian politics since he left office.
00:21:03.780
But I know from talking to you and other members of Parliament that I know, he has never disappeared.
00:21:08.940
He's always been giving advice and talking behind the scenes.
00:21:14.940
And I'm curious what you think of his idea that he put forward in his remarks
00:21:18.940
that we're witnessing a conservative renaissance right now, to use his words.
00:21:23.940
Well, I always find it hard to believe that we just don't always have a conservative renaissance going on
00:21:28.940
because I just think any common sense person would agree with conservative policy
00:21:33.940
see, you know, if we did the good job and the best job of communicating them.
00:21:39.440
So, yes, I mean, I think that every government has a lifespan, and so we're seeing the end
00:21:44.540
of this liberal government's lifespan come to an end.
00:21:54.080
I do worry that in Preston alluded to this yesterday, even policy around balancing the
00:22:02.120
A lot of people, not to me, it's not to me, but to a lot of people, there are certain ideas that I would consider to be a good conservative policy that are rare.
00:22:15.680
I do worry the way young people are being raised and what they're taught at school, our universities, the bastion for liberal ideas.
00:22:26.580
There really is very little opportunity for young people to hear of conservative policy.
00:22:31.420
So unless it's sort of intuitively in them or if their parents are raising them, you need to be responsible for yourself.
00:22:38.520
You need to make sure your finances are managed properly, less government, individual responsibility.
00:22:44.380
Unless they're raised with that kind of as part of who they are, I think it's going to be very difficult, but I hope he's right.
00:22:54.340
Just lastly, what do you think the non-negotiables are?
00:22:57.320
Because obviously conservative politics and politics changes over time.
00:23:00.080
What do you think the core values that should never change about the conservative movement are?
00:23:03.940
You know, when I was leader, I talked about fiscal, kind of the four pillars, fiscal responsibility, law and order, national unity, freedom of expression and belief.
00:23:15.460
Those are sort of the four core things that make us all conservative.
00:23:19.800
And I think any other issue, any other policy can be woven into that.
00:23:24.440
and there can be all kinds of interesting things
00:23:27.900
that come out of other types of policy and beliefs.
00:23:35.080
Last year, I just remembered you had to skip it
00:24:00.380
Thanks for your service in politics over the years.
00:24:08.620
That was Candice Bergen, the former Conservative leader and now retreating to private life here.
00:24:18.340
A lot of other former politicians just like don't care to talk anymore because they don't need to win your votes
00:24:28.480
and Free Networking Conference interviews coming next week.
00:24:32.320
We didn't want to just like bombard you all in one show
00:24:37.500
And I think we have, speaking of the firearms issue,
00:24:42.840
She is the VP of the Canadian Coalition for Firearms.
00:24:50.180
I'm just, I'm blanking on the, I blank on acronyms all the time because I just call them the CCFR.
00:24:54.740
But in general, we're going to be talking about firearms, not related to the Nova Scotia shooting.
00:25:00.660
But I do want to talk a little bit about Aaron O'Toole stepping down here because he was a guy who I actually have always liked.
00:25:08.820
And I've always gotten along with him when he ran for leader of the Conservatives in 2017.
00:25:14.040
I had, you know, great interviews with him and he did well enough in the debates,
00:25:27.000
that it was gonna be Peter McKay just on a cakewalk.
00:25:34.920
because they didn't have a huge number of candidates.
00:25:39.300
to the supporters of Leslie Lewis and Derek Sloan
00:25:48.600
And then when he became the conservative leader was neither true nor blue nor conservative.
00:25:53.600
So it was difficult to see how he thought he would hold on in the leadership role when
00:26:01.720
that was the pivot, when he abandoned some of the core things that he campaigned on in
00:26:14.460
When the Freedom Convoy came, it was just complete game over.
00:26:20.520
When your party and your party's members and your party's caucus members
00:26:27.040
and you can't say one way or another whether you'll meet with them,
00:26:30.060
whether you support them, agree with them, and that was that.
00:26:33.100
Now, I don't like defining people's careers based on their worst moments.
00:26:37.960
I think Aaron O'Toole did a very good job in the Veterans Affairs portfolio.
00:26:41.600
I think that Aaron O'Toole has a solid head on his shoulders.
00:26:44.980
I think he's a smart guy, and he served his country in the military.
00:26:48.060
I know some people on the left tried to make fun of him for bringing it up,
00:26:51.560
but he did it, and he deserves credit for that.
00:26:53.640
So I don't take this good riddance approach to Aaron O'Toole.
00:26:58.000
I say that he was the wrong choice for conservative leader,
00:27:01.080
even if he was the best choice of the options between him and Peter McKay.
00:27:04.960
And I thank him for his service, and that is that.
00:27:07.620
And I don't wish any ill will, despite how frustrated I was during his leadership with how that manifested.
00:27:14.240
But I do think that the 2021 election is still a bit of a test case in authenticity.
00:27:19.760
And it's something that I hope Pierre Polyev notes and future conservative politicians as well in this country.
00:27:26.780
It is Friday, and I know we talked about some very heavy stuff on the show.
00:27:31.140
But I kind of want to make it a bit of a resolution to not just totally depress you before I send you out into the weekend.
00:27:42.440
But we also want to bring Fake News Friday into the Andrew Lawton Show fold today and take it away.
00:28:03.380
The Fake News Friday segment for this show is one that I think reinforces an age-old concept in Canadian politics
00:28:13.820
You may have seen this photo from Joe Biden's visit to Ottawa of Xavier Trudeau,
00:28:21.120
who is like the really, really tall son in the Trudeau family.
00:28:24.900
I think he's taller than Justin Trudeau, or at least getting there.
00:28:30.140
you can tell it's a real Joe Biden image because Joe Biden is holding a child for inexplicable
00:28:36.220
reasons. That's how you know it's not an imposter. It's the real Joe Biden. And the one thing that
00:28:42.120
people focused on in this photo was Xavier's socks. Now, normally Justin Trudeau is the one
00:28:50.220
whose socks attract the most attention. Now, he was probably very upset that his son was usurping
00:28:55.300
him on the sock front but uh they're indoors and this was like a very weird twitter fight that then
00:29:01.340
emerged where you had people saying that he should be wearing shoes and then other people said well
00:29:05.820
actually no everyone else should have taken their shoes off uh joe biden it's not advisable to take
00:29:10.120
your shoes off because you'll never find them again probably uh but i don't actually have a dog
00:29:14.660
in the sock fight i think there are apparently sock houses and shoe houses i have never gotten
00:29:19.740
the whole, was it Mr. Rogers who would go inside and then change the shoes for the other shoes?
00:29:25.940
Like that just seems like a lot of work. I don't know if slippers count as shoes, but I'm okay
00:29:31.260
being in sock feet in my own home. And if the president were over, I don't know what I would
00:29:35.620
do, come to think of it. I would probably just do whatever he did. So that's one way of doing it.
00:29:39.900
But the media sees news here. People can't tweet about something without it being news.
00:29:45.400
Yahoo, photo of PM Trudeau's sock sparks hilarious.
00:29:52.660
Photo of PM Trudeau's son sparks hilarious debate
00:30:14.040
The more I talk about it, I'm increasingly on Team 3 as well.
00:30:20.380
Here's a bit of a fun story, though, for the weekend.
00:30:24.300
Well, let me refresh, actually, because maybe the story has updated.
00:30:28.060
No, it sounds like the rescue is still underway.
00:30:41.860
The rescue is underway for a pod of dolphins stranded by ice in Dildo Cove.
00:30:52.140
I need a studio audience to know if the jokes land.
0.63
00:30:54.620
But a pod of hapless white-beak dolphins, CBC says,
00:30:58.160
has been stranded by sea ice in the shallow harbor outside Dildo, Newfoundland.
00:31:02.900
They could be seen swimming in circles near worried onlookers.
00:31:13.600
People had said they haven't seen stranded dolphins in Dildo Cove for decades.
00:31:19.020
They did see a dolphin with a dildo once, but not a stranded dolphin in Dildo Cove.
00:31:23.740
And that was a regrettable moment that they don't talk about.
00:31:27.700
But there were of the dolphins, they had pulled three of the 10 out
00:31:31.460
and were trying to get seven of the remaining dildos out of Dolphin Cove, but failed.
00:31:38.600
So this is just all a lengthy way of saying I learned of this song recently that I had to share with you before we close things out here.
00:31:46.940
It is a song that was made by Uncle John, who hails from Dildo Newfoundland, and it suggests the people there might actually be a little in on the joke.
00:32:08.600
And I came out of my door one day, and I went out to say, I saw my friend standing there this question he asked me. He says, I have the paper here. I said, I think I know you're going around from house to house to change the name to the door.
00:32:29.480
I say now, friend, I want to sign the shameless precious name
00:32:35.620
I hope that every person here, they will feel the same
00:32:40.840
For God will travel with us wherever we might go
00:32:46.160
He will never laugh or joke about the name Deldo
00:32:51.100
He stands for our dignity, our name will never change
0.52
00:32:56.300
How can you not bop along to the dildo song?
0.82
00:33:19.040
I had never heard of Uncle John before I learned that song.
0.97
00:33:21.440
I believe the dildo song might be Uncle John's only hit.
0.61
00:33:24.620
And I did not know that Dildo Newfoundland had a Hollywood sign for Dildo.
00:33:29.720
So maybe we'll have to do the next Andrew Lawton Show live edition,
00:33:33.060
live from Dildo, and we can interview some of those stranded dolphins
00:33:41.060
and we will be back next week with more of Canada's most irreverent talk show.
00:33:50.780
Thanks for listening to The Andrew Lawton Show.
00:33:54.940
Support the program by donating to True North at www.tnc.news.