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00:00:00.000 The media and the Trader Liberals are pushing propaganda and lies about Daniel Smith's new policy.

00:00:06.260 A policy which protects children from the predations of extremists, lunatics, and groomers.

00:00:12.700 Daniel Smith is rightly holding her ground as she should, good for her, and Pierre Polyev has finally jumped into On the Correct Side.

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00:00:51.720 Okay, so as you saw last week, big story, biggest story in the country right now is that Alberta has unveiled new policy on parental rights cracking down on an extreme far-left and dangerous ideology when it comes to gender and children.

00:01:07.920 So Premier Danielle Smith announced the following changes.

00:01:11.360 She said that top and bottom gender reassignment surgeries will not be permitted for children.

00:01:16.680 And let me just confirm, when we say gender reassignment surgeries, we're talking about sex changes. 0.93

00:01:20.880 We're talking about castration, essentially, and removing the uterus for girls. 1.00

00:01:25.380 So this is going to be banned in the province of Alberta for children under the age of 17.

00:01:30.420 It's really remarkable that that isn't already banned.

00:01:33.100 I mean, if you just imagine what is happening in this country, that little kids and children are undergoing surgeries to change their biological sex.

00:01:42.620 And then finally, finally, one province has stepped forward and said, no, we're not going to allow that for children under the age of 18.

00:01:52.360 So Alberta is the first one in the country to ban the surgeries.

00:01:56.180 Other provinces, as we'll talk about later, have taken similar measures when it comes to this gender ideology. 0.85

00:02:01.800 But Alberta does go the furthest. 0.99

00:02:04.320 So good on Danielle Smith for introducing all this stuff.

00:02:06.700 And so as we'll discuss throughout the episode, there's other minor changes that are being introduced.

00:02:10.360 This is all just proposed.

00:02:11.740 It hasn't been introduced into law yet.

00:02:13.820 And so basically, the idea is that Danielle Smith is just saying that parents should be notified when their child is changing their pronouns, changing their name at school.

00:02:24.560 She laid out a plan for making sure that girls and women don't have to compete against men in women's only divisions in sports. 0.93

00:02:33.040 And then again, saying no to these hormone therapies for little children, children under the age of 15, and absolutely no to surgeries for anyone under the age of 18.

00:02:43.860 So like I mentioned, this isn't entirely unprecedented in Canada.

00:02:47.120 It does go further than these other provinces.

00:02:48.820 But in May of 2023, this is New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said that his province wants to review LGBT issues in school.

00:02:58.220 And the law that they changed was that parents have the right to know if their child changes gender in schools.

00:03:04.260 Again, it's pretty remarkable, the idea that parents aren't even told if their child starts transitioning in school,

00:03:11.480 that teachers are keeping that a secret from parents in provinces that are not mentioned here.

00:03:17.300 So we have New Brunswick making that change, and Saskatchewan followed suit with a similar policy change in October 2023.

00:03:24.380 So this is Scott Moe saying that parents have the right to know when children under the age of 16 decide to go by a different name or a different pronoun in schools.

00:03:37.660 And so you'll notice that the media is reacting very, very differently this time around to Danielle Smith than they did to those two other premiers.

00:03:46.300 And I think the reason why is pretty straightforward.

00:03:49.220 Danielle Smith is just incredibly effective. 0.90

00:03:52.260 She has really triggered the media.

00:03:53.480 She's triggered the extreme left, not only because of the policies, but because of the way she did it, the way that she introduced them. 0.92

00:03:58.600 She came across with compassion, with love.

00:04:01.520 She wasn't being divisive.

00:04:03.000 She wasn't making it like she was targeting these children.

00:04:06.280 She was actually speaking from a position of compassion.

00:04:09.240 And I think that's something that the media was sort of unprepared to deal with.

00:04:12.660 And so I disagree, by the way, with Danielle using some of the left's language.

00:04:18.000 She talked about gender reaffirming care and this gender ideology.

00:04:21.500 Of course, we know that science is real and you cannot simply change your sex.

00:04:25.920 Your sex is your biology and you can't change it just because you want to.

00:04:30.180 But if you take a step back, you know, the policy is a step in the right direction.

00:04:33.760 And, you know, I definitely commend Danielle for taking this step.

00:04:37.620 This is a quote from Lisa Bidley on Twitter.

00:04:40.960 I totally agree with it.

00:04:41.660 Lisa, by the way, is a lawyer for the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedom.

00:04:45.000 And she wrote this.

00:04:45.960 Something that struck me with this speech was how much it sounded like a loving, authoritative parent was finally setting boundaries for her unruly children.

00:04:54.280 It's been a long time since it felt like there was a reasonable adult in charge of this country.

00:04:58.760 We need this and we need this if our Canadian family is to survive and thrive.

00:05:04.100 Tough love and firm spines will be necessary.

00:05:07.200 And we can't give in to the tantrums anymore or they will never stop.

00:05:11.520 So I think that's exactly right.

00:05:12.760 Danielle just sounded firm and she sounded authoritative, like like a grown up in the room saying to an unruly child, enough is enough.

00:05:20.240 And it's not just Lisa Bidley and it's not just conservatives who agree with Danielle Smith and what she is doing here.

00:05:26.520 This is polling from Agnes Reid.

00:05:28.620 This was from last summer.

00:05:30.440 It said that the vast majority of Canadians say that parents should be informed if their child wishes to change their pronoun in school.

00:05:39.360 So you can see on the left here, it says 43% of Canadians say that parents must be informed and give consent in order for their child to socially transition, as they say in school.

00:05:48.880 Another 35% say that the parents should at least be informed.

00:05:52.160 So we're talking about four in five Canadians, 78% say that parents should be informed.

00:05:58.380 And we're not just talking about going on hormone blockers here, going on hormone therapies and going towards potentially having surgery, life altering surgery.

00:06:07.300 This is just about socially transitioning.

00:06:09.340 And you get 78% of Canadians saying they agree parents need to be involved, parents need to know, parents need to give consent before this can happen.

00:06:17.600 So this is one of those issues that should be a winning issue for conservatives and that the left just doesn't really realize how out of sync they are with public opinion.

00:06:26.700 And you can see that through the reaction of the media.

00:06:29.440 So I want to play a couple of clips for you here of how the media reacted and how they treated Premier Smith, Danielle Smith, in the wake of this announcement.

00:06:37.420 You can see that they, first of all, they're trying to ask gotcha questions or trying to like trip her up and embarrass her.

00:06:44.260 And then they're also just so sort of gobsmacked that someone would gobsmacked, but that someone would introduce a policy like this that that's so against their sensibility.

00:06:53.380 So the first clip is someone from the Edmonton Journal attempting to embarrass Danielle Smith by pointing out the fact that her legal name is actually Marlena.

00:07:01.820 Play this clip. This is just a silly, silly example of a media, of a journalist trying to ask a gotcha question and then it just sort of blowing up in her face. 0.71

00:07:10.340 My understanding is that your legal first name is Marlena. 0.89

00:07:14.740 Why did you choose, I'm wondering why did you choose to go by a different name and why you would take steps to restrict the same freedom for others to do the same?

00:07:26.560 OK, just pause it for a second there. So the idea here of this question is so silly. 0.70

00:07:31.840 It's like they've they've dug up this information about Danielle Smith.

00:07:35.080 They're trying to embarrass her, implying that her mom gave her one name, but then she chose to go by a different name, her middle name, Danielle, as if that's like some kind of an equivocation.

00:07:45.700 It's equivalent of changing your gender and getting surgery to permanently change your body. 0.99

00:07:52.040 So the premise of this question is so dumb. And then Danielle's reaction is just hilarious because it shows how stupid the question is. 1.00

00:07:59.880 So let's play the rest of this clip. 0.97

00:08:01.320 I love that question because I've been I've been ever since 9-11, I've been telling her how difficult it is that she decided to have me go by my middle name and not my first name.

00:08:12.620 It was my parents' choice to call me Danielle and it was my parents' choice.

00:08:18.500 So, again, it was actually her parents' choice. Marlena's her middle name, but her mom and dad decided when they named her that they liked the ring of Marlena Danielle better than Danielle Marlena.

00:08:28.280 So dumb, dumb, dumb question. Danielle Smith handled it beautifully and it just kept coming. 0.99

00:08:33.880 It just kept coming. So next we have a journalist again trying to ask a gotcha question, trying to imply that Danielle was Danielle Smith is divisive and that she's targeting trans kids.

00:08:45.900 And Danielle really knows her stuff. She really has researched and thought about this policy quite a bit.

00:08:51.580 And this comes through to this question. So let's play this next clip.

00:08:54.520 About depoliticizing the conversation around trans and non-binary children and, as in your own words, not using them as a political football.

00:09:05.180 In November, you made clear you wanted to strike a balance on parental rights.

00:09:08.220 The parental rights policies here are more aggressive than any other province and the restrictions around hormones and puberty blockers are unprecedented in Canada.

00:09:16.120 So what changed that made you take this approach?

00:09:18.360 So she says that the policies are unprecedented, but the entire, the entire,

00:09:24.520 framework here is unprecedented. The idea that children are being told that they're born in the wrong body and that the way to fix it is through hormone therapies and drugs.

00:09:35.780 That's unprecedented. That's the part that's wild.

00:09:38.100 We finally have politicians that are sort of catching up with this movement and making laws to stop it.

00:09:44.340 But the way that this question is framed is just all wrong.

00:09:46.560 You can tell the journalist is an activist. You could tell that she's trying to play a gotcha game here.

00:09:52.200 And, okay, let's, let's play Danielle's response here. 0.95

00:09:55.620 To preserve the rights of kids, to be able to make decisions as adults.

00:09:59.080 I think that we've seen in other jurisdictions, I believe in June of last year, New Brunswick made policy changes in the fall.

00:10:08.620 The Saskatchewan made policy changes.

00:10:11.260 We've been watching internationally as the UK has made policy changes, as well as Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden.

00:10:18.680 And I mean, this has been an ongoing conversation over the last number of years.

00:10:22.320 We've been monitoring it very closely.

00:10:24.100 And we wanted to make sure that we, we struck the right balance so that kids are not making irreversible decisions when they may not be mature enough to make those decisions.

00:10:32.240 We want to make sure that those adult decisions are made as adults.

00:10:34.560 I'm not sure what the balance is. Can you be more specific?

00:10:38.920 Well, when you begin hormone therapy, there are health consequences associated with that.

00:10:44.860 It is a decision that impacts your life, a higher risk of osteoporosis.

00:10:50.600 So there's a need to have bone density tests.

00:10:52.700 There's higher incidence of, of heart problems.

00:10:55.580 So there's a need to have that monitored.

00:10:57.020 We're stepping onto the next stage when there's a bottom surgery and top surgery that, of course, has implications for sex and for fertility. 0.93

00:11:06.840 And so when we start down this pathway, we want to make sure that kids know the consequences that it's going to have on their life and that they're mature enough to be able to make those decisions and live with the consequences.

00:11:16.880 And they're adult decisions.

00:11:18.680 So we want to make sure that certain decisions are made as adults.

00:11:20.860 So Danielle, of course, is absolutely right here.

00:11:24.640 And even just that question, like, what do you what do you mean balance?

00:11:27.480 Well, you know, the journalist doesn't even understand the premise of what do you mean by balance?

00:11:31.700 It's like, well, just because a little kid says that they want to change their body doesn't mean that it's a good idea.

00:11:36.600 And yes, of course, it's a balance because we're children and we have to have laws that protect children from making decisions that they could live to regret.

00:11:44.640 And so many of them do.

00:11:46.560 So you can see that the media is just they have an agenda.

00:11:49.200 So many of these journalists are not journalists.

00:11:51.240 They are activists and they can't they can't think objectively.

00:11:54.480 They can't look at an issue objectively and just, you know, cover it for Canadians to decide for themselves.

00:12:00.700 They have to put a spin on it.

00:12:01.880 They have to insert their ideology.

00:12:04.200 And it just so happens that their ideology and their worldview is exactly the same as the liberal government and as left wing politicians across the country.

00:12:12.220 So we can see that when they asked Justin Trudeau.

00:12:15.480 So here is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commenting on Alberta's parental rights policies. 0.96

00:12:21.640 Of course, he does the usual schtick where he makes it seem like the conservatives are super mean and super scary and that this is really just a way to to punish gay kids. 0.87

00:12:31.920 And somehow it's anti LGBT.

00:12:33.800 I don't really know what it has to do with lesbian, gay and bi people other than the fact that so many of the individuals who transition when they're kids, it turns out that they're not actually trans or not actually they just had sort of gender dysphoria in their youth.

00:12:49.540 And then when they grow up, they don't want to be trans anymore.

00:12:51.920 It just turns out that they were actually just gay. 0.80

00:12:53.940 So if anything, these policies go to protect gay, gay and lesbian children.

00:12:59.100 Anyway, beside the point, you can see Justin Trudeau here with the usual attack against conservatives.

00:13:04.480 Let's play that clip.

00:13:07.320 Good morning, Prime Minister.

00:13:08.780 I'm going to do the Canadian press.

00:13:10.060 Will you invite Daniel Smith to meet while she's in Ottawa next week and directly raise your concerns about her gender policy proposals?

00:13:22.220 Canadian parents love their kids and we want the very best for them and we want them to be kept safe.

00:13:32.780 LGBT youth across this country are among the most vulnerable.

00:13:40.060 To homelessness, to suicide, to a range of things that can harm them.

00:13:48.440 We need to be there to defend them.

00:13:51.580 We need to be there to protect them.

00:13:53.960 And I know Canadians across the country are doing just that.

00:13:58.860 It is telling.

00:14:00.200 Okay, let's just pause it for a second there.

00:14:02.680 Just the way that Justin Trudeau talks, I don't understand, honestly, I don't understand Canadians who take this person seriously.

00:14:08.700 Like, this response is so dramatic.

00:14:12.140 It's like he's an actor on a play, on a stage, right?

00:14:15.620 It's like, this isn't how normal people talk.

00:14:17.640 The way he takes a deep breath and he talks about how gay children are loved.

00:14:22.200 And, like, the whole thing is just, it should be mocked.

00:14:26.860 It shouldn't be taken seriously. 0.99

00:14:28.760 It should be mocked because it's so silly. 0.94

00:14:30.820 And for journalists who have watched this guy for the last decade, how can you sit here and take this person seriously? 0.93

00:14:35.860 Like, he's not talking in an honest and authentic way.

00:14:40.820 He's making a grandstanding political speech.

00:14:43.560 He's politicizing this issue.

00:14:45.120 Everything he says is spin.

00:14:47.980 It's lies.

00:14:49.180 It's not true.

00:14:49.780 And, again, the fact that people in this country continue to take this man seriously is beyond me.

00:14:54.940 Okay, let's play the rest of the clip.

00:14:57.620 Welcoming far-right American conservative Tucker Carlson to her province to sit with him on stage.

00:15:05.340 Danielle Smith has now moved forward with the most anti-LGBT policies of anywhere in the country.

00:15:13.540 Canadians need to know that the federal government and all Canadians will be there to protect youth.

00:15:24.300 Protect youth.

00:15:25.260 So, in Justin Trudeau's perverse world, protecting youth means letting little kids make life-altering decisions

00:15:31.620 and giving them drugs, giving them hormones, and letting them have surgeries.

00:15:35.280 That's protecting kids in this person's mind.

00:15:37.580 Wow.

00:15:37.780 And, of course, for good measure, let's just blame it all on Tucker Carlson and the American right

00:15:43.620 because this worked in the past, so let's just stick with that angle of attack.

00:15:48.440 Okay, last political reaction here.

00:15:51.120 This is an NDP MLA who is talking at a protest, but she's not really talking.

00:15:56.380 She's just sort of sobbing and crying.

00:15:58.180 So, let's see what that looked like.

00:15:59.900 To all the queer and trans youth out there, just know that you are so loved and we're going

00:16:12.560 to be with you for every step of this fight.

00:16:14.940 We love you so much.

00:16:21.300 So, she can't even keep it together.

00:16:23.640 She is sobbing and crying for the youth, the youth out there.

00:16:27.540 It's interesting because, again, the media and the political left will say that conservatives

00:16:32.660 are politicizing this issue and that they're creating hysteria and that they're creating

00:16:37.220 harm for trans kids. 0.97

00:16:38.860 Really, though, it's those activists who are the ones that are pushing hysteria. 0.91

00:16:43.940 I mean, the fact that if you're a little kid and, you know, you believe that you're trans

00:16:48.180 or you believe that you're gay and you're like 14 and your political idol is up there,

00:16:52.500 she can't even hold it together.

00:16:53.440 She's bawling and crying like you're going to actually think that you are in danger. 0.96

00:16:58.220 You are in some kind of danger and that the country is out to get you, which is not true.

00:17:01.720 Obviously, it's not true.

00:17:02.800 These laws are pretty mild and they really just go to protect children from making bad

00:17:07.480 decisions.

00:17:08.520 And again, it's the left and it's these deranged protesters that are making this into a huge,

00:17:14.460 huge issue.

00:17:15.620 You know, these trans kids wouldn't even know about this policy if it wasn't for the really 1.00

00:17:19.760 deranged reaction that we are seeing from the far left.

00:17:23.120 I want to show you this.

00:17:24.180 This is a tweet from Jonathan Kaye who has screen grabbed the CBC's website.

00:17:29.400 Their entire news section at one point was dedicated entirely to this issue.

00:17:35.620 And of course, it's all incredibly one-sided.

00:17:37.740 You can see the main headline there.

00:17:39.580 Transgender allies in Calgary and Edmonton protest.

00:17:42.560 Alberta's proposed new policies.

00:17:45.200 Danielle Smith says legislation coming this fall.

00:17:47.720 And then look at all these follow-up stories.

00:17:49.120 Okay, we have athletes and activists pushing back against Alberta's policies.

00:17:53.980 Next, we have at issue.

00:17:55.560 So a bunch of talking heads talking about Alberta's gender ideology policies.

00:17:59.320 Next, we have doctors and nurses going against Danielle. 1.00

00:18:04.880 They're there to walk.

00:18:06.080 So apparently, they're urging the province to walk back the gender policies.

00:18:09.620 We have transgender columnists having a mixed reaction.

00:18:12.520 Literally, every single article is a negative reaction and a negative response to Danielle

00:18:19.500 Smith and this policy.

00:18:20.700 How is that for balance?

00:18:22.040 How is that for presenting both sides, being fair, being honest with the public when every

00:18:27.440 single story on your website is one-sided and it is against the side of common sense?

00:18:33.480 It's against the side that 78% of Canadians agree with.

00:18:36.580 That is a CBC in a nutshell.

00:18:38.780 They are fringed. 0.98

00:18:39.780 They are deranged. 0.96

00:18:40.480 They are pushing the worst of the worst. 0.92

00:18:42.840 Okay, so let's move on to the Conservative Party reaction.

00:18:46.540 What do the Conservatives have to say about all of this?

00:18:49.320 So just for a quick timeline, Danielle Smith introduced the policy changes last Wednesday, 1.00

00:18:53.620 January 31st.

00:18:55.140 A lot of that press conference and those clips that I showed you earlier, that was from Thursday

00:19:00.620 and Friday of last week.

00:19:02.680 And we didn't really know where the Conservatives stood.

00:19:05.140 There was this Globe and Mail story that came out on Thursday, February 1st, the day after

00:19:08.720 the announcement.

00:19:09.680 And it just said that the Conservatives, apparently there was a leaked memo that said Conservatives

00:19:13.900 tell MPs not to comment on Alberta transgender policies and basically just to ignore the issue and not talk about it.

00:19:23.460 So interesting that the Conservatives were sort of nowhere to be seen and were told that

00:19:28.640 they were told not to comment at all.

00:19:31.520 Pierre Polyev gave a couple of interviews early in the week and last week where he just really

00:19:36.160 didn't comment one way or another and he just sort of pivoted away from the conversation when

00:19:40.820 asked directly.

00:19:42.160 But he finally broke his silence on Tuesday, February 6th, so yesterday, finally, when he

00:19:48.120 was being questioned by far left-wing reporter Justin Ling.

00:19:53.580 Justin Ling was pushing him, again, sort of pushing nonsense and saying things that weren't

00:19:59.060 quite true.

00:20:00.140 And you can see Polyev just.

00:20:01.520 Kind of snaps and is like, enough is enough and calls out Justin Ling, accuses him spreading

00:20:06.740 disinformation and finally lets us know where the Conservatives stand on this issue.

00:20:10.880 So let's play that clip.

00:20:13.520 You often said you support medical freedom, that you oppose the state imposing medical

00:20:19.220 choices on the Canadians.

00:20:21.840 Yesterday, you were asked about a new policy in Alberta which restricts health care for

00:20:26.780 transgender youth in particular.

00:20:28.000 I just want to point out how he's framing this question.

00:20:33.000 So it's a gotcha question, right?

00:20:34.000 He's saying in the past you've been for medical freedom and he's painting this as if it's an

00:20:38.940 issue of someone's right to health care.

00:20:42.280 And even just how he's framing it, that Danielle Smith is restricting health care access.

00:20:47.500 Again, most people wouldn't consider this restricting health care access.

00:20:50.720 They would consider this protecting children from unnecessary medical treatment that's probably

00:20:56.180 being pushed on them.

00:20:56.740 Just to point out, this is a very far left-wing reporter pushing propaganda, pushing nonsense

00:21:02.960 in his question.

00:21:04.180 Let's resume the clip.

00:21:05.960 You stand on those regulations.

00:21:08.460 You attacked journalists who asked you that question as peddling disinformation for the

00:21:14.040 Prime Minister.

00:21:15.080 So can you say now where you stand on the state restricting health care access for transgender

00:21:20.720 youth?

00:21:21.640 And can you confirm whether or not your caucus is allowed to speak freely on this issue?

00:21:26.740 First and foremost, you are spreading disinformation and you refuse to even describe the policy

00:21:34.020 proposals that are being debated.

00:21:36.180 You refuse to even list any of them.

00:21:38.180 And the reason that you, the reason you do, let's be clear why you don't do it, because

00:21:42.260 you don't want to lose the debate.

00:21:45.000 And so if you think, if you keep it vague and you actually refrain from actually describing

00:21:50.440 the policies that Premier Smith is putting in place, then you think that you can misrepresent

00:21:55.200 them and misrepresent Conservatives.

00:21:59.580 This is exactly what Justin Trudeau has done.

00:22:01.720 You notice that Trudeau has not given a single example of any of the policies that Premier

00:22:07.480 Smith has brought forward that he individually disagrees with, because he doesn't want to

00:22:12.780 be specific about it.

00:22:13.760 And that's because he and you want to peddle in disinformation in order to demonize Premier

00:22:23.620 Smith and parents.

00:22:26.960 And Justin Trudeau has spread hatred against parents.

00:22:32.140 He's accused Muslim parents of being hateful because they were standing up for their kids.

00:22:37.720 He's attacked Christian parents.

00:22:40.880 He has suggested that parents cannot be trusted with their kids.

00:22:45.500 And I disagree with him.

00:22:46.940 I think we have to trust parents.

00:22:48.920 No one cares for their kids more than parents.

00:22:52.880 And that's why Justin Trudeau should butt out.

00:22:56.240 He should let parents raise kids and let provinces run schools and hospitals.

00:23:00.740 So good for Pierre for finally jumping in, giving up firm response.

00:23:05.480 And he is absolutely right.

00:23:06.520 You could tell that Justin, like just the way that he set up the question, as I pointed

00:23:09.260 out, he made it seem like this was just about restricting health care.

00:23:13.160 So if a Canadian sitting at home is only hearing that, oh, Daniel Smith and Pierre Pauly

00:23:18.480 want to restrict health care, that sounds really unfair.

00:23:21.420 That sounds wrong, right?

00:23:22.680 But it's like once you start talking about what kind of health care they're talking about,

00:23:26.500 they're talking about hormone drugs, talking about surgeries to remove your biological sex,

00:23:32.140 your genitalia. 0.88

00:23:33.260 Like if Justin Trudeau or this reporter, Justin Ling, were to actually say those things, they 0.99

00:23:39.960 would lose the argument.

00:23:40.760 They would lose the argument right off the bat, which is why they don't, why they keep

00:23:43.260 it vague.

00:23:43.640 So good for Pierre to point that out.

00:23:45.660 But then as you could reasonably assume, that did leave some confusion because the conservatives

00:23:51.020 hadn't really taken a position at this point.

00:23:52.900 Like they hadn't really come out in favor of what Daniel Smith is doing.

00:23:56.740 They haven't come out in favor of protecting children from this sort of trans ideology that's 0.97

00:24:01.500 pushing the fact, pushing this nonsense onto kids that they need to have surgeries and go

00:24:06.500 on hormones and drugs in order to change their sex.

00:24:09.320 So when Pierre Pauly went to give a press conference, he was scrummed by journalists in

00:24:15.200 Ottawa on Wednesday or just earlier today.

00:24:17.940 There was a lot of confusion.

00:24:19.260 Journalists were rightfully asking a bunch of questions.

00:24:21.320 And I'm going to show this clip right here.

00:24:23.540 Pierre Pauly finally takes a stand.

00:24:25.980 He finally lets us know exactly where he stands, what he believes.

00:24:29.920 And I'm happy to report, happy to announce that he falls in the right position.

00:24:33.460 He takes the right stance.

00:24:34.500 It took a week, took a bunch of pushing, took a lot of questions, but he finally got there.

00:24:38.800 So here is Pierre Pauly making it clear what his beliefs are.

00:24:43.100 Do you support age restrictions for puberty blockers and hormone therapies for trans kids?

00:24:49.580 I think that Justin Trudeau is trying to divide and distract Canadians by spreading disinformation

00:24:57.300 about the decisions that premiers and parents are making.

00:25:02.040 I want to know your position.

00:25:04.080 What do you think?

00:25:04.700 I want to know your position.

00:25:06.220 What do you think?

00:25:06.700 It's your own party policy.

00:25:07.760 It's your own party policy.

00:25:09.020 I think we should protect the rights of parents to make their own decisions.

00:25:12.640 What does it mean?

00:25:13.500 With regards to their children.

00:25:15.540 And I believe that adults should have the freedom to make any decision they want about

00:25:19.300 their bodies.

00:25:20.100 But minors...

00:25:20.420 How would you demand surgeries and medical interventions for minors as your own party members suggested?

00:25:24.800 Medical interventions like what?

00:25:25.980 That is the language that you're part of.

00:25:27.980 What medical interventions?

00:25:29.160 Well, you would have to ask your party members.

00:25:30.520 What medical interventions?

00:25:31.240 Such as puberty blockers and hormone reformers.

00:25:33.400 For minors?

00:25:34.280 Yeah.

00:25:34.440 Yes.

00:25:34.660 Irreversible?

00:25:36.280 You're talking about...

00:25:37.120 I don't know.

00:25:37.920 I don't like to understand your...

00:25:38.860 I just want to be clear.

00:25:39.720 No, I don't want to be clear.

00:25:40.540 I just want to be clear.

00:25:41.120 You agree with minors. 0.60

00:25:42.420 Puberty blockers for minors?

00:25:43.620 Yes.

00:25:43.740 Do you agree with that?

00:25:44.140 Do you agree with that?

00:25:44.660 I think that we should protect children and their ability to make adult decisions when they're adults.

00:25:49.480 So you think only adults should take puberty blockers?

00:25:58.240 I think we should protect children, let them make adult decisions when they become adults.

00:26:02.920 So that means you are against puberty blockers for kids under the age of 18.

00:26:08.480 Is that very clear?

00:26:09.580 Okay.

00:26:10.060 Can I ask you about in Alberta?

00:26:12.780 By the way, I just want to make another comment on this.

00:26:14.480 Justin Trudeau is again puffing out his chest, trying to divide Canadians and attack parents

00:26:20.080 who are trying to protect their kids.

00:26:22.860 He will, in the end, back down on this, just like he had to back down on his firearms policy,

00:26:29.560 just like he had to back down on bringing in medical assistance and dying for people suffering

00:26:35.300 from mental illness, just like he's backing down again and again and again.

00:26:39.920 He will back down on this because he is not interested in protecting kids.

00:26:45.500 He's interested in using this as a divisive wedge to distract from doubling housing costs

00:26:51.560 and quadrupling carbon taxes on our people.

00:26:55.880 But for you, you're against puberty blockers for kids under the age of 18.

00:27:00.180 What about parents in Alberta having to opt in for sex ed?

00:27:05.380 That's a decision for the province.

00:27:07.940 Yeah, so you can see two things that Pierre did there.

00:27:12.420 First of all, the reporters were asking vague questions about medical intervention, right?

00:27:16.000 And he knew exactly what he was doing.

00:27:17.780 He wanted them to specify exactly which medical interventions they were talking about.

00:27:22.460 Again, so that they couldn't clip him just out of context.

00:27:25.240 So he made them say exactly what it was, which is puberty blockers, which is hormones,

00:27:30.900 artificial hormones to change a child's, stop a child from going through puberty.

00:27:34.540 And once they got that out, then he was more comfortable replying.

00:27:39.900 So good for him for, again, preemptively basically stopping them from taking him out of context,

00:27:45.040 making them say the policy.

00:27:46.340 Because when you say the policy, it's so much easier to say that you're opposed to it because

00:27:50.100 it's such a bad idea.

00:27:51.700 And then second, he makes a point that Justin Trudeau will probably abandon this issue.

00:27:55.480 He probably will.

00:27:56.080 Canadians don't agree with this stuff.

00:27:57.680 They don't like this stuff.

00:27:58.500 They don't want little children to be exposed to this stuff.

00:28:00.960 So what Justin Trudeau is doing strategically is trying to paint all conservatives as bigots,

00:28:06.640 trying to say that they're homophobes, trying to say they're just like Tucker Carlson.

00:28:10.020 Look, Tucker Carlson came in and now all of a sudden the conservatives are emboldened to

00:28:14.100 make these decisions.

00:28:15.200 But the reality is this isn't really working.

00:28:17.820 This isn't really getting very far.

00:28:19.560 The conservatives are correct.

00:28:21.700 The liberals and the media and the left are out of step with Canadians.

00:28:25.500 So Trudeau will probably abandon this issue and he probably won't talk about it again,

00:28:30.300 which is why it's important for conservatives to bring us up, to make Justin Trudeau own his words.

00:28:36.640 Be sure, run an election on this.

00:28:38.180 If the liberals really think it's a good idea, liberals really feel so passionately about this

00:28:42.140 issue, make them run an election, run a campaign talking about how boys, grown men should be able

00:28:48.780 to swim with girls, how men should be allowed to compete against girls in girls sports and girls

00:28:54.540 leagues, and about how it's a good idea for children to go through medical surgeries that

00:29:00.080 will forever change their biological sex because of confused feelings that they're having while

00:29:06.560 they're going through puberty.

00:29:08.240 And so the reality of all of this is that the left and liberals, the politicians and the media,

00:29:13.600 they're being dishonest.

00:29:14.440 Almost everything that they say is untrue.

00:29:16.440 You can go through and you can see it.

00:29:17.800 They say this is a fringe right-wing issue that is imported from Tucker Carlson and the

00:29:22.160 American far right.

00:29:22.900 Well, as Danielle Smith pointed out earlier in the broadcast in one of her clips, this is

00:29:27.340 actually just a common sense policy.

00:29:28.780 It's being adopted around the world, throughout liberal Scandinavia and even Britain, in other

00:29:34.520 places in Canada.

00:29:35.360 It's not just Alberta.

00:29:36.500 And of course, 78% of Canadians agree.

00:29:39.600 The left and the liberals will claim that this targets and harms kids.

00:29:43.420 Tell me again how this harms trans kids.

00:29:45.940 It protects them.

00:29:46.960 It stops them from making a terrible, life-altering, irreversible change to their body while they're

00:29:53.760 still a child.

00:29:54.380 It says, you know, fine, you could do that, but at least wait until you're 18, wait until

00:29:58.480 you're mature enough to understand the gravity of the decision that you're making.

00:30:03.080 You know, it's really the activists, as I said.

00:30:04.700 They're the ones that are pushing fear and hysteria.

00:30:07.120 They're lying to kids.

00:30:08.200 They're telling trans kids that they're somehow being targeted.

00:30:10.800 They're being harmed.

00:30:11.260 They're not. 0.78

00:30:12.120 The left also claims that somehow this will lead to more suicide from trans kids.

00:30:17.660 Sadly, that's not true.

00:30:18.980 The opposite is true.

00:30:19.820 There's been several sad studies that show that suicide rates actually increase post-transition.

00:30:27.160 So after you get the surgery, you're five times more likely to try to commit suicide and 19

00:30:32.300 more times more likely to die of suicide after the surgery.

00:30:36.540 So, again, the studies, people who say that this leads to more suicides for trans kids,

00:30:42.640 they're not being honest.

00:30:43.880 They're not telling the truth.

00:30:45.280 And finally, they say that the trans community wasn't consulted in these decisions.

00:30:49.320 Well, perhaps the most extreme voices on the far radical left were not consulted, but there

00:30:53.760 were many gay and trans and gender dysphoric people who were consulted.

00:30:57.680 Many of them have come out in support of this policy.

00:31:00.340 True North had a report recently all about that.

00:31:03.280 So, again, the true liberals think that they can win on this issue.

00:31:06.520 The legacy media, of course, is already running cover for them.

00:31:08.900 They're already spreading lies and promoting this far left, frankly, unhinged ideology.

00:31:13.880 The idea that it's okay to sexualize little kids and that they're telling kids that there's 0.58

00:31:19.100 something wrong with their bodies that require drugs and surgery to fix them.

00:31:23.660 And then they're pretending all of that is mainstream.

00:31:26.300 Well, it isn't.

00:31:27.240 They're wrong.

00:31:27.880 The left is wrong on this issue.

00:31:29.160 And the liberals will lose spectacularly if they try to push this issue any further than

00:31:33.480 they try to run on it on the election.

00:31:35.380 So, good for Danielle Smith for being brave.

00:31:38.220 Good for her for being principled, for standing her ground, and for protecting children.

00:31:42.020 She was the one that took the stance.

00:31:43.680 And it was later conservatives like Pierre Polyev who came around.

00:31:47.260 So, good for Pierre Polyev for finally jumping in and finally taking the right position.

00:31:51.420 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:31:59.160 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

Juno News - February 07, 2024

Poilievre (finally) gets it right on the trans issue

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