Juno News - Pro-Trudeau propaganda outlet “fact-checks” independent journalism

00:00:00.000 Welcome everyone to Ratioed. My name is Harrison Faulkner. Now what do you do if you're Justin

00:00:12.600 Trudeau and journalists that you haven't paid off write critical articles of you and your

00:00:16.500 government exposing you for the authoritarians you are? Well it's quite simple actually. You

00:00:20.820 deploy the pet propagandist over at Press Progress to discredit and fact check that reporting. Also

00:00:26.520 on the show this week the woke rewrite of Canadian history continues as Alexander Graham Bell yes the

00:00:32.380 inventor of the telephone is now being canceled by the federal government and it's definitely not

00:00:36.920 because he was a successful white European male from the 19th century. That is definitely not the

00:00:41.360 reason why it's being canceled. And we wrap up the show this week as we always do with the Ratio of

00:00:46.120 the Week award. This week it is going to everyone's favorite transportation minister Omar Al-Gabra.

00:00:51.400 What is with this government and their attempts to try and convince us that they all of a sudden

00:00:55.340 love Canadian truckers. It's absolutely ridiculous. Anyways if you like Ratioed and you like what 0.99

00:01:00.380 we're doing over at True North let us know by giving this video a like and sharing it. That's the best

00:01:04.360 way you can help us all out. All right let's get into it. Well Press Progress is back at it again this

00:01:09.360 week. In a desperate attempt to try and clean up the crumbling narrative surrounding Justin Trudeau's

00:01:13.600 unscientific and unconstitutional mandate on Canadian travelers Press Progress fact-checked Rupa

00:01:19.900 Supermania's bombshell reporting in common sense the Barry Weiss substack. Rupa Supermania's bombshell

00:01:25.300 reporting in common sense two weeks ago has been widely circulated and shared around the Canadian

00:01:30.720 media ecosystem. The reporting surrounds publicly available court documents from the ongoing court

00:01:36.120 challenge of Justin Trudeau's travel mandate but two key takeaways have Canadians up in arms. The first

00:01:42.140 and most explosive being that the secretive government task force given the job of imposing the mandate on

00:01:47.720 Canadians had no scientific or medical justification for imposing these mandates. The second being that

00:01:54.440 not a single person on this government task force had any medical or scientific background or education.

00:02:01.800 They were simply nameless faceless pen-pushing bureaucrats. What a surprise there. So the press

00:02:08.300 progress headline is laughable. Right-wing sources are spreading misinformation about a court battle over

00:02:13.280 Canada's vaccine mandates. Ah misinformation there it is again. Useful tool that is isn't it for the left.

00:02:20.000 Once you scroll past the first few paragraphs of drivel you get to the press progress fact-check. Now

00:02:26.160 clearly Justin Trudeau couldn't find a Reuters fact-check he couldn't find an AP fact-check so he had to go

00:02:32.560 to his little buddies over at press progress. Now again if press progress fact-checked something I wrote

00:02:37.600 that'd be like a great badge of honor. That'd be like you know when it's really true. When press progress

00:02:42.640 tells you that it's misleading. Well that's what happened to Rupa's article in press progress. They

00:02:48.000 label it in big text misleading and they write Supermania's claim that court documents reveal

00:02:53.920 Transport Canada's vaccine mandate policy had no scientific basis is misleading and contradicted by

00:02:59.360 her own source documents. While the original court documents that Supermania cites are authentic,

00:03:04.480 her blog leaves out key details, uses out of context quotes, and contains factual inaccuracies.

00:03:10.640 Taken together these present misleading impressions of Transport Canada's testimony and evidence.

00:03:15.360 The press progress fact-check highlights what they consider to be several misleading claims in the

00:03:20.400 reporting. Now we want to go through and highlight some of them to show you how ridiculous this fact-check

00:03:24.800 is. We'll take the first one which they take issue with the idea that the mandate had no scientific

00:03:28.800 reporting. The reason they say that it's misleading is because Rupa apparently didn't include

00:03:34.880 an excerpt from the Attorney General of Canada, a Liberal Attorney General, David Lamedi, who sits in

00:03:39.840 Justin Trudeau's cabinet. Yes, because she didn't highlight what David Lamedi thinks about this

00:03:45.040 misleading claim, the reporting itself is misleading. See how that kind of works there? The second

00:03:50.080 misleading claim they take issue with is the idea that the COVID recovery panel, the secretive

00:03:55.200 government panel, is not actually secretive and they're actually easy to find. Don't try and look up

00:04:00.960 who's on that panel though because you won't find them. But they say still, because the COVID panel

00:04:06.320 is referenced in a sub-page on the Transport Canada website, that's all of a sudden not secretive.

00:04:12.240 That's all of a sudden transparent. Yeah, call us back when you tell us who's on that panel.

00:04:17.360 That's transparency. Nice try with that one, Press Progress. The third misleading claim that Press

00:04:23.360 Progress has found with the common sense reporting is the idea that no one in the COVID recovery panel,

00:04:29.200 the secretive COVID recovery panel, has any formal epidemiological or scientific education.

00:04:35.760 And they believe that actually that's false because one person in the COVID recovery panel

00:04:41.200 has had, quote, what they call, senior experience at Public Health Agency of Canada. That is not

00:04:48.640 formal epidemiological or scientific education. Senior level experience at a public health

00:04:54.240 bureaucratic agency is not formal epidemiological experience. Just because you're a nameless,

00:04:58.720 faceless, pen-pushing bureaucrat doesn't mean you know what you're doing when it comes to epidemiology.

00:05:03.280 You know, I really hope Luke LeBrun over at Press Progress gets a raise for this reaching here because

00:05:08.880 he's really helping Justin Trudeau out. He's really reaching, trying to discredit this

00:05:12.880 clearly devastating reporting for the government. And speaking of Luke LeBrun, actually, Luke LeBrun

00:05:19.200 went on a podcast after writing this ridiculous fact check talking about what he believes journalism

00:05:25.120 is all about and how he believes journalism is holding power accountable. Remember this, Luke?

00:05:30.480 Journalism in a democratic society. You know, I see journalism as performing a fundamentally democratic

00:05:37.920 function. Some people would probably, you know, I think there are, there's the attitude that,

00:05:45.680 you know, journalists should inform in a very dispassionate and, you know, neutral way as we've

00:05:50.160 been talking. But, you know, like, just the idea of, you know, journalism as the fourth estate,

00:05:55.040 like, you know, implied in that is that you are part of the system of checks and balances

00:06:02.560 that holds power accountable. So little Luke LeBrun, you're part of the system of checks and

00:06:06.960 balances, eh? You're part of the system of holding truth to power? Does that include fact-checking

00:06:10.960 critical reporting of the government? That was an excellent fact-checking job, Luke. Great job,

00:06:15.120 buddy. So you guys have all heard of that evil racist bigot Alexander Graham Bell, right? We were all 0.95

00:06:19.920 taught about him in schools. He happened to know at the telephone. But, you know, most of us know him now

00:06:24.240 as some evil racist bigot. And frankly, thank goodness, because the federal government has 0.95

00:06:28.480 listened to us, they are now investigating Alexander Graham Bell for posthumous honors due to his

00:06:34.240 controversial beliefs. According to Blacklock's reporter, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board

00:06:39.120 are now investigating Alexander Graham Bell for what they consider to be views, actions,

00:06:43.520 and activities condemned by today's society. Now, this Historic Sites and Monuments Board are also

00:06:50.160 looking to cancel 24 historic Canadian military forts for what they consider to be colonial

00:06:56.640 assumptions. Colonial assumptions from old British forts on Canadian soil. I wonder what could be

00:07:03.600 colonial about that? I mean, obviously, it's colonial. Colonial assumptions? These were British forts.

00:07:10.240 British forts that played an integral role in building the country and the freedom that we all enjoy

00:07:15.440 today. But, of course, you've got to tear that down because it's old, it's British, and it's white. 1.00

00:07:19.920 It must go. We must rid it from Canadian society. We need to get rid of anything that leads to the 1.00

00:07:25.360 real story of this country because that way we can rewrite this history. That's really what's been going

00:07:30.000 on, too. The woke radical left have been on an absolute tear recently rewriting Canada's history,

00:07:35.760 toppling Canadian statues of John A. Macdonald, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, Egerton-Ryerson,

00:07:41.040 and the list goes on. Not only that, Kingston, Ontario recently decided that the John A. Macdonald

00:07:47.200 statue that they voted to tear out of the ground and rip off its pedestal, well, it's not going to

00:07:52.160 be coming back to his gravesite. They're just going to vanish it from Canadian society. What a way to

00:07:56.800 rewrite our history. As long as you get rid of any artifact that actually tells the story of Canada,

00:08:01.360 then you can rewrite it in your own terms. Look out for when they tell us that Canada was actually

00:08:05.920 created by a bunch of woke radical activists preaching for abortion rights and open immigration. 1.00

00:08:11.840 But like we do on Ratioed, we wanted to give these woke radical idiots the benefit of the doubt. 0.99

00:08:18.240 So what we did was we did a little bit of digging on Alexander Graham Bell's legacy, 1.00

00:08:22.320 not wanting to make sure that we would gloss over some evil, awful, racist, bigoted actions by Mr.

00:08:28.480 Alexander Graham Bell. And sure enough, we did find some of these horrible views that are out of touch

00:08:34.240 with society. And I want to go through some of these views. Now, this is a trigger warning for

00:08:38.160 all of you listening, because the last thing we'd want to do on Ratioed is offend you listening.

00:08:42.080 That's the last thing we want to do. So this is your trigger warning before we go into some of

00:08:45.600 Alexander Graham Bell's horrible, horrible views. These views include the idea that Alexander Graham Bell

00:08:53.040 opposed marriage between deaf couples. He also opposed sign language and encouraged the deaf to assimilate

00:08:59.680 by reading lips. Both Bell's mother and wife were hearing impaired. Oh my God, that's just terrible.

00:09:05.600 I mean, sure, he invented the telephone, but he also thought deaf people should learn to read lips.

00:09:10.080 Quick, cancel this man before anyone thinks a white man from the 19th century can be a force for good. 0.74

00:09:14.240 Quickly cancel him. I mean, surely it has to be those horrendous views on deaf people, especially if the 0.97

00:09:19.040 government can't even answer the basic question of what views he held that are not in line with today's

00:09:23.840 society. And I would agree, you know, the idea that we should teach deaf people to learn to read lips,

00:09:29.120 horrible, horrendous. You know, thank God Canada has a prime minister so in touch with today's views

00:09:34.960 and society's acceptable opinions. Like the idea that you can dress up in blackface, or the idea that

00:09:39.920 you can dress up in brownface, or the idea that you can dress up in both blackface and brownface so

00:09:44.320 many times you've lost count. I am wary of, of, uh, being definitive about this because the, uh,

00:09:54.480 recent pictures that came out, I had not remembered. Uh, and I think the question is, uh, how can you not

00:10:01.360 remember that? The fact is, I, I, uh, I didn't understand how hurtful this is to people who live with

00:10:11.920 discrimination every single day. Thank God we have a prime minister that is so in tune with today's

00:10:16.320 society. Well, because we're True North, we deliver you the news and we let you comment back to us your

00:10:21.120 thoughts. So I want to go through some of your comments on Twitter from this article. And this

00:10:25.200 first one is pretty much straight on the nose. In George Orwell's 1984, he wrote that every record

00:10:30.400 has been destroyed or falsified. Every book rewritten. Every picture has been repainted. Every statue and

00:10:35.760 street building has been renamed. Every date has been altered. History has stopped. This person commented,

00:10:41.600 I was just at the Alexander Graham Bell Museum with my kids. It was amazing and fascinating.

00:10:45.680 And at no point did I think, yep, this needs to go too controversial for me. In fact,

00:10:50.240 I left thinking that Bell was more amazing than I realized. Oh, I hate the liberals ideas. Don't we

00:10:54.960 all? Or how about this one to wrap us up? Controversial views. Let me tell you about this

00:10:59.440 politician that avoided serving during world war two, that toured around the Soviet Union and was

00:11:03.680 good friends with Mao and Castro. Yeah. What was that guy's name again? Anyway, let's cut to the chase here.

00:11:09.200 This is a concerted effort to rewrite and erase Canadian history. They want to rewrite it in their 0.98

00:11:13.200 image. They want to tear down monuments of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Johnny McDonald,

00:11:18.320 Egerton Ryerson, and whoever else. A conservative politician with a backbone would pledge to rebuild

00:11:23.600 these statues, rebuild these monuments, and repeal these wild attempts at rewriting our history. If you

00:11:29.520 destroy and tear down any semblance of a true story of this country, you can rewrite it in whatever

00:11:34.080 image you want. And I shudder at the idea of Justin Trudeau rewriting Our Canada.

00:11:39.040 It wasn't just Christophe Freeland who pretended to love truckers last week. It was also Canada's

00:11:43.120 Transportation Minister Omar Agabra. What's the deal with Canada's government trying to pretend

00:11:47.360 is where they love truckers? It's ridiculous. Like they want to be truckers all of a sudden. 0.97

00:11:50.880 Did you see that Ricky? Awesome buddy. Did you see that? Good job. I put on a truck

00:11:55.680 driving clinic today. Thank you very much. What'd you think? How'd I do? Not good. Last week,

00:12:04.160 Christophe Freeland was touring a trucking facility talking about jobs and growth and how

00:12:07.760 truckers are the backbone of our economy. Omar Agabra did the exact same thing, but unlike Christophe Freeland,

00:12:13.200 who sometimes doesn't get ratioed in all of our tweets, Omar Agabra, who gets ratioed every single

00:12:18.080 tweet he puts out. I'm not joking. I check out his Twitter. It's brutal. It's kind of sad, actually,

00:12:22.800 but a single tweet he writes actually has a positive like to comment ratio. Omar Agabra wanted to thank

00:12:28.640 Canada's truckers for doing such an important job in our supply chain. So I put together a little

00:12:32.800 slideshow with a thank you message of him shaking hands with truckers. Now the tweet has 653 comments

00:12:39.680 to 73 likes. And not only that, this guy gets ratioed in French too. All the Canadian government

00:12:46.400 officials that write the exact same tweet in French and English, he gets ratioed in French,

00:12:50.240 which is frankly something I haven't seen before. He's the only government official I've seen get

00:12:54.320 ratioed in both French and English. That's worthy of perhaps the ratio of the year award. Well,

00:12:59.280 Omar Agabra was so thankful of Canada's truckers. He wrote on Twitter,

00:13:02.960 truckers keep our supply chain strong and our economy rolling. I had the chance to visit some of them in the

00:13:07.840 last few months and thank them for their important role in our transportation minister.

00:13:12.000 Kind of just in between when I canceled truckers, imposed a vaccine made it on them and froze our

00:13:18.080 bank accounts. Just in between that, I've been, I've been thanking them and shaking their hands.

00:13:22.720 Unbelievable. This guy is such an idiot, such a doofus. I almost feel bad. Who's putting up 1.00

00:13:26.880 these liberal government officials to do these trucker appreciation posts? I missed it. Was last week

00:13:32.320 trucker appreciation week or something? I missed that memo. Hats off to you guys for putting quite the

00:13:37.280 roast on Omar for this ridiculous tweet. Like this one here. Did you talk to any of the ones whose 0.97

00:13:42.000 livelihoods you destroyed? And this person just calls out the BS that's going on right now.

00:13:46.640 Something's up. First Freeland and now you in less than a week sucking up to the very group the

00:13:50.720 government demonized a few short months ago? I smell an election. They're not likely to have

00:13:54.640 forgotten how your government treated them. I sure haven't. Remember that? How ridiculous that was?

00:13:59.200 They couldn't even get tow trucks to move these trucks. Even the tow truck drivers hated the

00:14:03.040 government. And who put the government up to these weird trucker appreciation week tweets?

00:14:07.440 Cringe. Just absolutely cringe. Anyway, that's going to do it for us this week on the show.

00:14:12.080 Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.

Juno News - August 15, 2022

Pro-Trudeau propaganda outlet “fact-checks” independent journalism

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