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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and welcome to The Candice Malcolm Show. It is great to be with

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00:00:57.320 show, consider giving us a five-star review. So we're going to talk today about Jagmeet Singh,

00:01:03.160 the leader of the NDP party, because from my perspective, it's all his fault. The reason that

00:01:08.000 we're in this mess is all because Jagmeet Singh continues to prop up the civil government. He's

00:01:13.300 now flip-flopping back and forth. Is he going to support the government? Is he not? This shouldn't

00:01:17.160 even be a question, folks. Remember back in December, he made it perfectly clear that he was

00:01:21.220 going to pull the plug, that he was going to vote down the government. He even said it doesn't even

00:01:25.380 matter who's the leader of the party. The party needs to go down. We need an election. Then on

00:01:30.720 Tuesday, he kind of flip-flopped and now we're back to, we don't really know. So we're going to

00:01:34.760 get into all of that. We're also going to talk about the Alberta COVID report that came out. It

00:01:39.740 was kind of tabled quietly last week, not a lot of coverage outside of Alberta, but there's a lot of

00:01:44.300 really good, important things in there. So we're going to get to all of that. And today I am delighted

00:01:48.980 to be joined by a guest who've never had on the podcast before, but I've been a longtime fan of this

00:01:53.880 individual. His name is Sean Newman. Sean's the host of Sean Newman podcast, where he discusses

00:01:58.580 issues relating to faith, family, and the broader Canadian political landscape. He's a former

00:02:03.280 professional hockey player. He played hockey in Finland, wow, before returning back to Western

00:02:07.960 Canada and transitioning into a career in the oil patch. And now he's a podcaster. He's been doing

00:02:13.780 the show for many years, started back in 2019. And he's interviewed very influential people,

00:02:19.640 including Danielle Smith, Dr. Robert Maloon, and Dr. Peter McCullough. Wow. Excited to talk

00:02:25.980 to you, Sean. So welcome to the program. Thank you so much for joining us.

00:02:29.660 Yeah. Thanks for reaching out. Appreciate you having me on and happy to be here.

00:02:34.580 Great. Well, we're going to get to all of the news. I think this Jagmeet Singh story is just

00:02:39.760 maddening for so many of us, because here's an individual who doesn't have any kind of mandate

00:02:44.840 by Canadians. He's the leader of the third party. He wasn't voted for to lead us in any way. And yet

00:02:50.280 he's the one that's holding the balance of power. I mentioned this on the show on Wednesday, but I'm

00:02:53.860 just going to read it again. This was sent to me by a conservative operative. But he writes that as a

00:02:58.780 reminder, his last count, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP have voted up the Liberals eight times since he

00:03:05.100 supposedly ripped up that supply and confidence agreement. So the supply and confidence agreement

00:03:08.860 was in place. Jagmeet Singh propped up the government 267 times during that agreement.

00:03:14.780 And he had done so 11 times prior for a grand total of 286 times just since the last election.

00:03:20.800 That's how many opportunities he had to pull the plug and take down this awful government.

00:03:24.860 But he hasn't. He's propped them up. His explanations don't really make sense as to why. I think the only

00:03:30.020 reasonable reason this person is still doing this is because he wants his pension. I don't know what

00:03:34.940 else to make of it. I don't know why else he would prop up this terrible government given

00:03:38.620 everything that's happened. So Sean, give me your perspective and then we'll get to the latest

00:03:42.620 here. Well, I mean, I think you nail it. I think there's a whole lot of Canadians. I come from,

00:03:48.880 you know, in my intro, you mentioned I used to play hockey and I'm going to point it out to your

00:03:52.880 listeners because they'll probably dig it up. You know, I was nowhere near the NHL. I want to make

00:03:56.480 that adamantly clear. Every time that gets said, I'm like, well, I did play. But, you know,

00:04:00.860 my hockey career took me in a lot of places, which ended in Finland. And why the reason I think it's

00:04:05.480 important to talk about where I come from is I didn't spend a ton of time on, you know, out in

00:04:09.640 Ottawa or around this realm. I've been learning. And I think there's a whole new class, a Canadian

00:04:14.260 learning about how the policies and how the structure of our politics really works because

00:04:19.780 COVID really brought it down on all of us. It seeped in everyone's life. It didn't, none of us

00:04:25.100 escaped from it. And since we've come out of there, we've all been waiting for an election. I mean,

00:04:29.380 like, okay, it's going to happen here in 2025. And then we've had more theatrics than, you know,

00:04:36.160 most countries get probably in a, you know, I don't know, in a decade, two decades we've had

00:04:39.940 in the last year, let alone before that. And just when you think we're getting close, you know,

00:04:45.920 Jagmeet Singh comes back to the top of the news cycle. I'm like, this guy just won't let it go.

00:04:50.400 Just, just say you're going to do what you're going to do. You're going to get your pension anyways.

00:04:53.740 Right. Like I think a lot of us, um, had rightly surmised that he's going to wait until he gets

00:04:59.420 his pension. He's just going to dodge every question. None of it's going to make sense.

00:05:03.080 None of it has made sense except for the money. All right. He's going to get his pension. Okay,

00:05:07.300 fine. And, and we're going to get it. And now you, you start to see where he's kind of like,

00:05:11.500 well, we'd have to think about the working class Canadian. We'd maybe have to think about,

00:05:15.780 you know, these, these payments again and all these different things. You're like,

00:05:18.880 what is he doing? Like, I get it. He's, he is the guy, uh, that that's holding them in.

00:05:25.140 And I'm, I'm just like, I just don't get it. I don't get the NDP. I don't, I, you know,

00:05:29.880 we joke on our show that are not a serious party. They certainly don't have a serious leader.

00:05:34.220 And yet he is, as you pointed out, the person, um, that's holding this thing all together for

00:05:40.280 the liberals right now, because if he just says he's voting them out, you know, in what is it? A

00:05:44.520 couple of months, boom, they're gone and we have an election. We're going to have a new prime

00:05:47.640 minister and we carry on with life. And I think a lot of us are starting to wonder,

00:05:51.860 you know, if Carney gets in, which it kind of looks like, you know, that's the way the winds

00:05:56.000 are shifting. Can Carney talk to Jagmeet and, and seed an idea of like, Hey, just leave me in until

00:06:01.700 October and we'll do some things. We'll help you out. And we'll do the, and it's like, well,

00:06:05.860 Jagmeet's, um, track record would suggest he'd be open to that conversation. And, um,

00:06:12.560 I don't know. It's, it's, I thought we were out of this, Candace. I really did.

00:06:18.240 And I, you know, at the start, I talked about hockey and how I don't have a background on this.

00:06:22.740 I'm continually learning how our system works. And I think a lot of Canadians are too.

00:06:26.680 And so it'll be interesting to continue to watch and talk about, uh, how this is all playing out

00:06:31.380 up here. Well, you know, I, I, the opposite, I've been involved in this horrible world of politics,

00:06:37.320 uh, for, for longer than I'd like to admit, um, you know, getting all the way back. And so when I

00:06:42.100 look at it, I do kind of look at it from like a cynical political, uh, perspective where yes,

00:06:46.960 like these guys are going to hold onto power any way that they know how, and no one wanted Jagmeet 0.99

00:06:52.220 Singh in this position of power, but he found himself in it propping up the government. And he

00:06:56.300 kind of realized like, look, as soon as there's an election, I'm not going to get another mandate.

00:07:00.840 Like Canadians aren't going to like congratulate me, pat me on the back and give me a raise. 0.88

00:07:04.460 Um, they're not going to promote him to a higher role. This is pretty much as good as it gets

00:07:09.080 for Jagmeet. And so I thought, you know, he, he, he's going to try to, to hold onto this

00:07:14.100 coalition for as long as possible. But I thought like at a certain point that like cynical political

00:07:19.420 attitude wouldn't hold anymore. Like he would feel too embarrassed to his constituents and to

00:07:25.040 the working class people of this country that really built that party, that NDP party is supposed

00:07:29.000 to be for the working class. Uh, I don't think Jagmeet even pretends to be connected

00:07:34.340 to the working class anymore. He's sort of, you know, true north reported that he drives

00:07:38.540 around Ottawa and a Maserati, uh, often with, you know, designer Gucci and Versace handbags.

00:07:44.200 Like he's, you know, as far from it as, as you can be. Yeah. And I agree with you on the,

00:07:50.260 the holding power and everything, but I just, I'd like to think if I'm ever in that position,

00:07:54.820 eventually just walking anywhere in Canada and getting shouted and gag called and everything,

00:07:58.960 then you're like, is it worth it anymore? Like, what am I doing? Like, I'm not going to be

00:08:02.260 welcomed anywhere in this country after this is all said and done.

00:08:05.480 See, but I think that people like Trudeau and presumably Jagmeet Singh, they, they have it in

00:08:10.000 their heads that the reason that they're not popular is because of like right-wing extremism

00:08:15.040 and like the mega forces and misinformation and disinformation, which is why anytime there's like

00:08:20.980 a problem, I don't know if you saw the foreign interference report came out earlier this week

00:08:24.700 and this, the, the recommendation was literally, we need another government agency monitoring online

00:08:29.860 misinformation, disinformation. It's like what we have like a real problem with foreign adversarial

00:08:35.100 agents in Canada operating without check. And your solution is again, we got to crack down on free

00:08:41.520 speech online. And I know Justin Trudeau has said it during interviews that the real reason he's not

00:08:46.000 popular is because of these right-wing people online. Like I think they've convinced himself,

00:08:51.380 like I think Jagmeet Singh's convinced himself that anyone shouting him on the streets is just a

00:08:55.160 terrible racist. That's like the only reason why you wouldn't like a person like him. But again,

00:09:00.800 to me, it's so cynical. I can't believe that he can, with a straight face, continue to play this

00:09:04.900 game. So let's, let's say with the latest this week, we learned from the Globe and Mail that Ottawa

00:09:09.340 is planning pandemic level relief for workers and businesses. If Trump imposes its tariffs,

00:09:15.400 the federal government is planning a multi-billion dollar pandemic style bailout for workers and

00:09:20.380 businesses. If the 25% taxes come in as early as Feb 1, this is according to sources. We'd kind of

00:09:26.920 heard Trudeau and his officials hinting about this, but then the Globe and Mail kind of spells it out.

00:09:31.740 COVID 2.0, like they, they, they use the COVID pandemic to lock us all down and then to pay us

00:09:37.840 to do nothing, ballooning the country into like unimaginable debt, not to mention printing so much

00:09:42.940 money, flooding the economy with dollars that's made everything expensive. And we're still dealing with

00:09:47.100 that cost of living crisis. And here they are again, they're going to do it all over again.

00:09:50.660 They've got the playbook, they're going to roll it out. All they need is, you know, someone to

00:09:55.040 support them. And here's Jagmeet Singh on Tuesday, saying that he would be open to supporting the

00:10:00.740 government's work relief program. Let's play that clip. If Trump follows through on his plan with

00:10:05.860 tariffs, would you keep the liberals in power and allow for the passage of a work relief program

00:10:10.720 before supporting a non-confidence motion? I'll just start off by the fact that I've spoken

00:10:16.800 with a lot of workers who are deeply worried about what the Trump tariffs might mean. They

00:10:22.400 say, you know, I will, sometimes I lay awake at night saying, if that tariff goes through,

00:10:26.520 do I lose my job? And what's going to happen to my kids? What's going to happen to my family?

00:10:30.700 And we think about the analysis that's out there. If those Trump tariffs come in place,

00:10:35.280 there are hundreds and thousands of Canadian jobs at risk. Think about what that means for those

00:10:41.140 workers, hundreds of thousands of workers, for their families, for those communities. This could be

00:10:46.300 devastating for our country. So we do need to have a plan in place to support those that are 1.00

00:10:52.400 impacted, those businesses, those workers, most importantly. I have not had any conversations

00:10:57.100 with other opposition leaders. I think we need to come together to have a discussion about what is

00:11:01.140 the best way forward. I've not had any discussions with the government related to this. If there is any

00:11:06.980 desire to move forward, the government should call us together, like we did during COVID, and discuss a

00:11:12.320 plan that supports workers. So I mean, the answer to that question should have just been no, I already

00:11:17.620 said I was already very clear in December, I'm not propping up this government anymore. Instead, he likes

00:11:21.760 a policy like socialism, you know, he wants to wants to strike a deal. There is some irony here, because

00:11:26.800 even in the Globe and Mail story, it says that the bulk of potential spending on new programs to help

00:11:31.520 laid off workers and businesses affected by the tariffs will require legislative approval, which could

00:11:36.840 not take place until parliament resumes sitting on March 24. So the reason that we don't have a

00:11:42.120 parliament until March 24 is because Trudeau prorogued parliament, so they could have a liberal

00:11:46.220 leadership race. So if this program was so urgent and so important to deal with Trump, then why would

00:11:51.680 you prorogue parliament to have a leadership? Like, none of this makes any sense. Jagmeet Singh just

00:11:57.160 really putting his foot in the mouth to the point where I think that he probably heard back from Canadians

00:12:01.340 because on Thursday, he came out, and you know, he flip flopped again. So we have a clip of him

00:12:06.700 saying, you know, actually, no, never mind. He says after, after previously saying that he'd prop up the

00:12:11.580 Liberals, NDP leader now says he'll vote down the government as soon as possible. Let's play that clip.

00:12:18.380 The Liberals seem more focused on themselves. I have a specific message to the Liberals.

00:12:23.260 If you're serious about supports workers, I'm demanding that the Liberal government call back

00:12:29.260 parliament. Let's put before parliament a package to protect workers, support workers that are

00:12:35.420 impacted by these tariffs, and to support communities. The workers behind me are for

00:12:39.500 Sault Ste. Marie. Sault Ste. Marie is a community in a city that could be hard hit by these tariffs.

00:12:45.340 So let's stand up for this, Sue. Let's stand up for all communities across Canada that are going to be

00:12:49.900 hard hit by the tariffs. And let's put in place supports before the worst happens. So I'm calling on

00:12:56.220 the Liberal government to recall parliament, bring parliament back. Let's pass legislation

00:13:02.220 that supports workers, because we're going to have an election in the spring. Nothing changes around

00:13:06.540 that. We are going to be voting down the government in March. But there's still two months. If the

00:13:11.660 Liberals think that they can wait two months before they bring in legislation, they are wrong. That would

00:13:16.860 allow workers to suffer for two months. That is not the right way to do things. So I'm calling on the

00:13:21.820 Liberals, recall parliament, put forward protections for workers before parliament. Let's get the

00:13:27.500 opposition leaders together. Obviously, we need to support that kind of package. And then let's have

00:13:31.980 an election in the spring. Sean, this is just so unbelievable. He's saying in the same clip,

00:13:36.860 recall parliament so we can vote that through this legislation. And also, we're going to have

00:13:40.540 an election in March, we're going to vote them down. Like, which one is it? He didn't say that he was

00:13:44.620 going to vote down the government in March. He said at the next possible sitting, he was going to vote

00:13:48.140 them down. So presumably, if we were called parliament, he's going to vote them down. Now

00:13:51.740 he's saying, come back to parliament, let's pass this big socialism relief program, and then I'll

00:13:56.540 vote you down. Do you trust a single word he says? No. I listen to the clips and I see a guy dancing

00:14:05.900 a tune and I don't like it. I can't believe there's lots of things in our government I just don't fully

00:14:14.460 understand. I keep trying to like, you know, prorogation for Pete's sake, right? I'm like,

00:14:19.500 what is that? Like, why do they get to do this? You know, oh, the government, and I'm not sitting

00:14:23.580 here just giving the liberals crap. Conservatives have done it too before. It's not like it's just

00:14:27.340 one, it's just a part of our government. I'm like, why, why would they, why would we have that

00:14:31.740 allowed? That makes zero sense. And yet they do it. And so we sit here and we're all worried about

00:14:36.700 Trump and the tariffs instead of, you know, like, I just, I don't understand this government,

00:14:41.340 but this has been them, their MO from the beginning. Instead of just doing what they

00:14:46.300 need to do to get rid of any disagreement with Trump, protect the border, one, maybe get rid of

00:14:52.540 some illegals going down there, two, and, and not having to worry about tariffs. They're like,

00:14:57.580 well, no, maybe we should call them back and have a thing about money spending to protect the workers. 0.55

00:15:03.260 It's like, how about you just fix the problem? No, we're going to get together. We're going to,

00:15:07.580 we're going to get together folks. And we're going to talk about how we're going to protect the

00:15:10.700 workers, protect the workers by fixing the border. I don't know what more you need to say.

00:15:13.980 Like, I just, this is, this is insane, but this is Canada. This is our current government.

00:15:19.900 Um, the NDP is, is I'm sorry. I'm going to say it not a real party folks. Like this is just

00:15:26.780 like tell Jagmeet, vote them out. Let's have an election. Let's get, let's get on with life

00:15:31.580 so that life doesn't get really, really difficult. Because if you continue to go down this path,

00:15:36.700 assuming Donald Trump ever did put on 25% tariffs, sure. It's going to hurt their economy. It's going

00:15:41.180 to hurt us immensely. And, uh, all we need to do is just fix the problem of what he's talking about.

00:15:46.860 And yet we seem to want to go down this other track and give Jagmeet more screen time and

00:15:51.420 everything else. It just, just drives me nuts. I don't get it. And yet here we are in 2025,

00:15:56.140 Candace waiting for prorogation to, to, to dissolve so we can get them back in there so that we can assume

00:16:03.100 they're going to go, we're voting them down, but nobody can even figure out right now if the NDP

00:16:06.540 is going to support that. It's just, it's a big frustration on my side with Canada and our

00:16:12.860 government system. It's just, it's messed up. I learned this in Alberta. So I, I, I listen,

00:16:19.180 everybody's pointing to if Carney or whoever becomes the next prime minister, he's unvoted

00:16:23.580 or wasn't voted in as prime minister. But when it was Danielle Smith in Alberta, 0.96

00:16:28.620 because the same thing happened, we all applauded it. So which is it, right? We have to,

00:16:33.980 we have to figure this out. And I don't even know how you make large changes like that. I just

00:16:39.020 stare at it. And I go, if I don't vote you in, how can you be the leader of a country? It makes

00:16:43.340 zero sense or the province or anywhere for that matter. And yet in Canada, we're seeing it play

00:16:48.620 out. You're like in the last three years, we've seen it play out multiple times. Like, this is strange.

00:16:52.700 I don't know how this is, how it works, but it is.

00:16:54.700 You're right. Like there's so many times where you hear something, it sounds like a conspiracy

00:16:58.780 theory, right? It's like Canada is about to appoint its first world economic forum,

00:17:03.260 prime minister, who's a selected, he's not elected by the people, but he's like plopped in from like,

00:17:07.820 yes, basically. And you're like, that can't be true. That can't be real. And then you look at it,

00:17:11.340 it's like, Oh no, that's exactly what's going to happen. That is very real. I struggle with that too,

00:17:14.860 because look, like I am not a big proponent of like, like excessive federal power. I don't think that

00:17:21.260 it's a very good thing. I don't like the idea that the prime minister basically has free reign in

00:17:25.420 Canada, like can do whatever he wants, tell the governor general to do. There are balances of

00:17:29.660 power in place that are there to have checks and balances. Like, you know, you have a Senate,

00:17:34.140 but our Senate is unelected, completely unaccountable. Our governor general is a puppet head,

00:17:38.300 like a puppet figurehead doesn't do anything really just at the beck and call of the prime minister.

00:17:43.260 Um, and then you look at the American system and like, I'm not a big fan in general of executive

00:17:49.100 orders. I think that, that the purpose of Congress is to have like legislative legislator, um,

00:17:54.620 legislation passed by elected officials. That's why we elect them or why Americans elect them in the

00:17:58.860 States. Um, but then, you know, when, when you see how much these institutions have decayed over time

00:18:05.500 and how just absolutely corroded they are and how broken they are, you see a figure like Trump come in

00:18:11.340 with these sweeping executive orders. I think there were 900 of them on day one. And I was like

00:18:16.540 cheering him on. I'm like, I'm here for this. Like this needs to be done. The U S and under Trump is

00:18:21.820 so action oriented. Like every one of those executive orders was just so powerful. And it's like, we're

00:18:26.940 not going to do this anymore. You know, this whole gender, like ideological nonsense, we're not doing 1.00

00:18:31.660 that anymore. That's what are you trying to say? Canis, there isn't 76 genders. 1.00

00:18:35.900 Well, can you go ahead and name some of them there, John?

00:18:37.900 Um, but you know, it's like in, in, in principle, I don't really like executive orders. Um, but I do

00:18:44.620 like these ones and I think that they're so necessary and so needed to change, to change the

00:18:50.060 system. Well, did we ever think we were going to be arguing about men playing in women's sports?

00:18:55.340 Did we ever think that? No, that's an insane idea. And yet here it is.

00:18:59.020 I agree. Look, I grew up as a little hockey player. Like I, when, when I was like 11 years old and you

00:19:03.580 asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be the first woman in the NHL. Like that

00:19:07.020 was the thing I wanted to do. Although I think there was a woman at one point. It was like a 1.00

00:19:10.380 goalie for the Tampa Bay lightning and I'm forgetting her name.

00:19:13.340 No, no, no, no. I had her poster on my wall. Um, but I don't, I don't think, I think that that

00:19:17.500 was like a publicity stunt or something. Still, she was the first.

00:19:20.060 She was, she did it. Yeah. And like, that's, that's what I want to do. Then, you know, I,

00:19:23.420 like my parents like allowed me to like continue this delusion for a short while. And then they were

00:19:28.540 like, you know, Candace, like, that's just not going to happen. And like, because I played, I played with my

00:19:32.700 brothers and I played in the boys league when I was little. And then obviously when you get a little

00:19:36.300 bit older, you go through puberty and it's like, okay, this isn't going to work anymore. Like I'm

00:19:39.820 not, I'm not good enough. And I'm not big enough. I'm not strong enough. I went and played with the

00:19:42.780 girls and I didn't like it first because I was like, I was a better player than them. Um, but

00:19:47.820 eventually like everyone caught up and like, I realized like, Hey, I don't actually want to like

00:19:51.900 play like really competitive hockey. That's not my thing. I, I still love hockey, but like, you know,

00:19:57.500 I, I like sometimes think about this. Like if I was 11 or 12 and someone was like, you know,

00:20:02.460 you're a tomboy, Candace, that, that means that you're probably just a boy inside. Um, and, and,

00:20:07.500 and you think like, what would that have done to like my mind? I mean, it's just, to me,

00:20:11.100 it's so perverted that we do this to be able, the whole purpose of women's sports is to allow women 1.00

00:20:15.900 to play like competitively because if we were just playing against the boys, we wouldn't be good

00:20:19.900 enough and it wouldn't exist. And so this idea that there's boys being allowed to play with girls.

00:20:24.860 And I mean, it's just, it's, it's just so wrong. And I'm surprised that it, it was allowed at all.

00:20:29.980 I think it's just such a breath of fresh air to see someone standing up against it. I hope the tide

00:20:35.100 like quickly goes across Canada because I think Canada's just so it's like, we're so nice. And we,

00:20:42.700 we, we, we're too polite to say like, actually this isn't right. And this doesn't, this shouldn't

00:20:47.500 happen. Um, I, I wasn't planning on talking about this topic, but I'm, I'm pretty worked up about it,

00:20:51.900 as you can tell Sean. So, uh, what's your, what's your perspective on all of it?

00:20:55.180 Well, the executive orders, that's where you started. The thing about executive orders is

00:20:59.500 it really signals which way, uh, coming incoming administration is going to go. And, uh, one of

00:21:05.820 the things that has irritated me immensely since I started into the political realm in Canada is how

00:21:10.300 much we stare at the United States for what doesn't happen here. Right? So even though Trump's doing

00:21:14.460 amazing things in the United States, we're not the United States, but him talking about going back

00:21:20.940 to two genders, him, uh, bringing back, I think it's 8,000. If I recall, maybe it's a touch more

00:21:26.540 than that 8,000 military members who wouldn't get the jab, um, and giving them back pay is like,

00:21:32.540 yeah, that makes sense. And when a world leader signals that is, and it being the U S which I mean,

00:21:40.140 obviously, uh, there's a reason why we stare at them for a lot of what goes on in the world that's

00:21:45.420 going to give. And, and I, I think I, I can't remember if you said it before or after we started,

00:21:49.660 but like, it gives confidence to Canadians like, oh, it's okay. And which, which is funny because

00:21:54.220 we already know it's okay. We already know that some of the things going on in our country are not

00:21:58.380 okay. And yet we've allowed them to persist. And I, I can't, uh, scold anyone. I always, I always

00:22:05.260 jump on the grave myself. You know, when I first started the podcast, I didn't talk about any of

00:22:11.580 this. I was focused on hockey, NHL athletes, et cetera, into COVID. I just kept dragging my feet.

00:22:19.100 And eventually I was like, if we're not going to talk about this, we're never getting out of it.

00:22:22.780 And so I started interviewing all the different people has led me, you know, to where I sit today.

00:22:27.180 And I think there's a lot more Canadians, um, realizing that if we don't get active,

00:22:31.820 if we don't start to talk about things, if we don't start to get in a few disagreements

00:22:35.820 with our neighbors, um, then you're never going to have things change. And we're going to continue

00:22:41.500 down this, uh, road of, of, you know, not hiring the best person, hiring, whatever diversity looks

00:22:49.820 like so that you have one of each. And, uh, we're seeing that play out and everything. Like, I mean,

00:22:55.580 you sent me the article and I, you probably have it somewhere and I'm probably jumping ahead of you,

00:22:59.100 but, uh, the Canadian military. So I called the Canadian military. One of the guys I have on my

00:23:02.460 show regularly, I think it's 72% obesity rate in the Canadian military right now,

00:23:07.100 among all the other problems they have. And we got talking about it and he's like, well,

00:23:11.180 I don't know. You played, uh, uh, high level hockey. How many obese guys did you have? And I was like,

00:23:16.940 obese, I don't know, maybe one, but I wouldn't call him obese. I would call him, you know,

00:23:21.180 the body type of like, he just carries around more weight. And he goes, that's how the Canadian military

00:23:25.100 used to be used to be in a group. There was 600 of them all stationed overseas. And I'm like,

00:23:30.300 oh, how many of them were obese? He's like, I don't know, maybe two. We'll do the math on that.

00:23:33.580 That's like, that's less than 1%. So let's even go high 5% folks, 72%. That'd be like watching

00:23:41.100 the Edmonton Oilers. Sorry. Uh, that's a, you know, our team out here, we'd be watching the Toronto Maple

00:23:46.380 Leafs and your top line, like two thirds of them are fat and can't move around. And I know you guys

00:23:52.460 have Phil Kessel and I know there's some things there, but like, that would be your entire team.

00:23:57.340 Like that doesn't, that doesn't even make any sense, but that's, that's where this, uh, DEI

00:24:01.980 has gotten us to. And it's really permeated every form institution society as a whole here in Canada.

00:24:09.100 And so I go back to the, uh, Trump and what he's done with executive orders and it's really signaled

00:24:14.940 we're getting rid of that. And we're getting rid of that real fast. That's what the United States looks

00:24:18.380 to me, uh, like they're going to be doing here under Trump. Well, I do want to get to the obesity

00:24:24.060 in the military story, uh, that, that, uh, was reported by the national post for this week. We'll

00:24:28.540 get to that. Um, I, I want to talk, uh, first just, just this whole thing, you know, you said that you

00:24:33.420 kind of ended up reluctantly having to talk about politics. You started wanting to talk about competitive

00:24:37.660 hockey and sports. Um, and then you kind of pulled into the political world. I mean, you interviewed some of

00:24:42.620 the real like lightning rods that were raising the alarm bell, um, with concerns about our entire

00:24:48.380 approach to COVID. And then, um, last Friday we saw the Alberta government release its COVID report.

00:24:54.140 So this is kind of one of those rare instances where the government that was in power, um,

00:24:58.780 Premier Jason Kenney got ousted, replaced by Danielle Smith. And she said, okay, let's,

00:25:03.660 let's open up the books and let's figure out what happened. True outsider, because I don't think

00:25:08.140 like in any other province of liberal or conservative, they would allow this sort of like forensic

00:25:12.460 accounting, like, let's look back and really discuss what went wrong and what happened.

00:25:17.260 Um, so it's, to me, there's value in this report for, for all Canadians and for everyone in the

00:25:22.380 world, because so many governments went down the same disastrous path of like, lock it all down,

00:25:27.820 shut down the schools. I mean, you're, you're a parent of young kids. So am I. Um, I was just so

00:25:32.300 totally outraged by the way that they treated us during COVID. Uh, I mean, I, I, I was already pretty,

00:25:38.700 you know, conservative and political. This like really radicalized me. I think

00:25:42.300 radicalized a lot of people to just say like, I don't trust you. I don't want you in charge of

00:25:46.940 anything to do with my life. Like maybe a lot more vocal about it anyway. So I saw you commenting on

00:25:52.380 this Alberta COVID report, uh, really interesting things, things that you don't really hear from

00:25:56.540 government urging, halting vaccines, um, for youth and low risk individuals, uh, talking really about

00:26:03.900 lack of data behind a lot of these protocols that were brought in. Um, why don't, why don't you sort of

00:26:10.140 tell us about your thoughts on this report? Well, one of the things I'm originally from

00:26:14.220 a small town in Saskatchewan and, uh, Saskatchewan and Alberta are very similar, but now I live in

00:26:19.260 Alberta. Okay. So for your listeners, just so there's a background. And one of the things I

00:26:23.100 love about being Albertan now is they are an unruly bunch. We are an unruly bunch, which means

00:26:29.420 if you do stupid things, we are going to absolutely cat call you until we try and get things right.

00:26:36.140 And, um, so I would, I would sit here and say, I just actually had Dr. Gary Davidson on the podcast.

00:26:42.220 Right. And it wasn't an applaud moment of like, wow, you did an amazing job. Although Dr. Gary

00:26:47.500 Davidson, if you're listening to this, I think he did do an amazing job. I was more irritated, uh,

00:26:51.580 right off the hop, Candace. Okay. And I read this to Gary and I'll read it to you. Okay.

00:26:55.740 Chapter one of this report is governance and flow of information. Sounds lovely. And this is what I

00:27:01.900 commented. Um, uh, there's a few things written in here that were in the report and then some of my

00:27:06.380 comments. And I said, the flow of information is hardly a flow when the author points out there's

00:27:10.700 a reluctance of key stakeholders to acknowledge and engage with our mandate. And that there appears

00:27:15.100 to be a fundamental lack of transparency and willingness to reveal information and discuss

00:27:19.420 decisions and actions taken by AHS during the pandemic. HLS, sorry, is Alberta health services.

00:27:25.500 So, right. A lot of what happened here, we've already had court cases tell us it was the politicians

00:27:30.540 making decisions that they didn't have the data and on and on and on. I'm irritated with this report

00:27:35.740 because the report is supposed to be all the data. Where's all the data held? AHS. AHS wouldn't give

00:27:42.140 it to them. So like we had a report that, that isn't fully complete in my mind, you know, like this

00:27:49.020 report is amazing because it kind of gives a credence to what a lot of people have been saying.

00:27:53.420 It legitimizes what people have been saying for the last four years, right? Like mass, they weren't

00:27:58.380 effective. The vaccines are studies after study. They, they quote in here about, uh, Pfizer's own

00:28:04.700 trials. Uh, they talk about therapeutics. They talk about all these different things that have become

00:28:08.780 very taboo. You know, the most popular ones, ivermectin probably because of Joe Rogan and CNN.

00:28:14.940 And they, they just walk back through all this stuff. It's in a government form. Uh, now there's 200 and

00:28:20.220 I think it's 59 pages. Don't quote me on that. I urge any Canadian to go give it a read, especially if

00:28:25.980 you're like, I'm easy talking about vaccines. And if you don't know what I'm talking about,

00:28:30.140 this would be eyeopening for me talking about it for four years. I want to, and I think a lot of

00:28:34.940 Albertans want a little more teeth in, in holding our government accountable. And so, um, it getting

00:28:42.220 released at three o'clock on a Friday in the middle of, uh, you know, problems with the border and trade

00:28:49.420 war. Yeah. Right. We go cycle. We see what you're doing and I don't like it. And so it's what I love

00:28:55.340 about Albertans. We're not happy with the report just coming out. We want, we want to see things

00:29:00.780 like Trump is doing. We want to see these action items, um, be laid out. And there are some really

00:29:06.140 cool things, um, that Dr. Gary Davidson and the group that, that built it, uh, kind of say you,

00:29:12.620 you should look into getting rid of this vaccine for, for kids and youth and a whole bunch of, uh,

00:29:19.180 you know, um, items that the government of Alberta can chew on. And I really hope they're contemplating

00:29:24.700 them. I really hope they're going to take, uh, uh, some of the information that's been

00:29:29.100 built by Gary Davidson, Dr. Gary Davidson and his team and, and use them. That's my hope.

00:29:34.060 Um, but sitting here in media, after everything we've said about every other part of government,

00:29:37.580 I'm like, well, I think it was Andrew Lawton once upon a time and, uh, others, I should say,

00:29:44.300 that told me, you know, you got great politicians. You got bad politicians, create the, the atmosphere,

00:29:49.900 create the, the, the conditions for bad politicians to do the right thing. I don't think Daniel Smith's

00:29:55.660 a bad politician by any stretch of the imagination, but I certainly do want to create the conditions

00:30:00.220 that they have to move on some of these action items. And we've seen how mainstream media has

00:30:05.020 demonized it. Like, I mean, have you seen the picture? I think it's out of the global mail

00:30:09.260 of, you know, her talking to these ugly looking doctors. Meanwhile, all the associations are against

00:30:14.140 there. And it's like, really get like, look at the people who are writing this. This is where we're

00:30:19.340 still at in 2025. And, um, so yeah, I, I mean, it's always good though, for myself to hear an

00:30:25.340 outside perspective of like, wow, I wish our province to do this. Um, but here in Alberta,

00:30:30.060 we're an unruly bunch and we want more. Well, I think first of all, Danielle Smith deserves to be 0.99

00:30:36.220 applauded for even doing this report. Um, I'll just read through a little bit about what the report

00:30:40.220 said. So it was commissioned by Alberta premier Daniel Smith in 2022 mandate to explore the

00:30:45.020 province's response to COVID-19. The task force included prominent medical professionals, as

00:30:49.180 you were discussing, including doctors, Gary Davidson, who's on your show, uh, Jay Bhattacharya,

00:30:53.820 who's a prominent Stanford doctor who just got appointed, um, to, to, uh, the Trump administration

00:30:59.180 and Biriam, uh, bridal the final report, um, recommended that the provincial government

00:31:04.060 stopped providing vaccines for healthy children and teenagers report revealed evidence to suggest

00:31:09.180 that it was not effective. Um, the, uh, report also alleged that Alberta health services removed

00:31:14.700 a dashboard after it showed higher hospitalization rates among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.

00:31:21.500 Um, and it also said that there's a lack of reliable data providing that COVID-19 vaccines protect

00:31:26.380 children from severe cases. The task force that published the research said COVID-19 vaccines were

00:31:32.060 not designed to stop transmission. I mean, that's all pretty remarkable. And I'll just get to,

00:31:36.860 because you mentioned the media response. I mean, fake news is going to do what fake news does. We

00:31:40.700 used to do a segment on the Candace Malcolm show called fake news Fridays. Uh, you know,

00:31:44.780 now there's just too much fake news we have to include in every show. We can't just save it for

00:31:47.900 Fridays, but, um, just because, Hey, it's Friday, let's go through some of them. So this is how the

00:31:51.500 media covered this report. Uh, the CBC said that Alberta doctors and scientists say that the COVID-19

00:31:58.380 response report should be dismissed. Um, basically just saying that these are, you know,

00:32:03.100 dangerous ideas. Um, we have a city news report saying that the COVID-19 report is slammed

00:32:09.900 as anti-science by doctors associations and the NDP. Uh, we have a clip of that. Let's play that clip.

00:32:17.740 A new $2 million report on Alberta's pandemic response is calling for a halt to COVID-19 vaccines,

00:32:24.860 but the document is being widely criticized called anti-science and anti-evidence by the Alberta

00:32:31.660 Medical Association. We were pretty disappointed in the findings and, and, and how things were

00:32:38.380 represented. The NDP opposition agrees, arguing the money should have instead been used to improve

00:32:44.940 health care. Two million dollars would have funded orthopedic surgeries at the Royal Alex Hospital

00:32:51.260 for eight years. And we spent two million dollars to throw taxpayers money at every anti-vax extremist

00:32:59.660 around the world, not Albertans, not experts. Let's show a few more. The Edmonton Journal

00:33:04.700 accusing it of so, it sows distrust. Alberta doctors slam the government's COVID-19 task report report

00:33:10.380 as misinformation. Uh, everything's misinformation. Um, and then I think this is a global, oh, this is,

00:33:16.700 oh, this is global news. Um, they said that anti-science and anti-evidence report, uh, doctors

00:33:21.820 pan report into Alberta's pandemic response. So, of course the media doesn't like it because

00:33:28.700 the media were the ones propping up this nonsense throughout the entire COVID pandemic. I mean,

00:33:33.260 Sean, you say that Albertans are an unruly bunch. What's with your media? What's wrong with the

00:33:37.820 journalists there? Why don't they like, like what, why are they pushing the line and trying to-

00:33:42.300 Well, I love Nahid Nenshi saying two million dollars could have been used this way. You know

00:33:46.860 how much AHS Alberta Health Services gets in a year? Or at least, uh, this coming year, I think.

00:33:52.540 16.4 billion dollars. Now I just, I'll leave it to your listeners to do the math on that. I get two

00:33:57.500 millions a big number. I do. Cause I have my own qualms with it. Um, uh, not in the way Nahid Nenshi's

00:34:03.420 talking about it, but I'm like, we got 16.4 billion dollars going to our Alberta Health Services

00:34:08.460 and they suck. Like, I mean, I can safely sit here and say, um, there's lots of wonderful people

00:34:13.420 in here. I'm not saying that people suck. I'm saying how many people, you know, do you talk

00:34:18.220 to in Alberta and we can't find a doctor. We're just like anywhere else in, um, in Canada. Now

00:34:23.980 you're asking media. I don't know why, why, why I always go back, you know, I'm, I'm so new into this,

00:34:32.220 right. Relative. I go back to the freedom convoy. I, I, uh, I caught it in Ontario,

00:34:37.580 the edge of Ontario and followed it. And, um, I interviewed people along the way. And I remember

00:34:42.300 thinking, where are all the reporters? Like, where are they? Where like CBC wants the ratings go up.

00:34:48.540 They should have a live stream of this thing going to Ottawa. Everybody would have tuned in. I mean,

00:34:53.820 everybody was tuning into anything that was put out about it and they didn't. And so you go, well,

00:34:59.900 why are they demonizing Daniel Smith and everything else? Well, probably that's the only way their

00:35:07.900 listeners are still paying attention because the rest of us have tuned them out a long time

00:35:12.300 ago. Like all those stuff. I'm just like, this is a joke. I don't even think half the, well,

00:35:16.300 no, it's, it's an insane, always have Chris Sims from the Canadian taxpayers federation on. So shout

00:35:20.700 out to her. She's fantastic. And we talk about the CBC and like, you know, like primetime viewership

00:35:26.700 in Canada and like, I don't know, was it 2%, uh, or less? Yeah. No, like they're a dying breed. 0.70

00:35:34.940 They're, they're on their way out. Candace would be my, my honest opinion. I don't know why they

00:35:39.580 haven't changed. I assume there's, there's some incentive in the background that I don't know about.

00:35:44.460 Um, well, they know where their bread is butter. They know where the Trudeau bucks are coming from

00:35:48.380 and it's in towing the line and promoting the narrative. I remember the COVID or sorry,

00:35:52.620 the Freedom Convoy is the three year anniversary. And it, that was like one of the worst examples

00:35:58.460 of just like, just two, two storylines that don't line up, right? Like I'm watching the Freedom Convoy

00:36:04.860 online, uh, you know, straight directly from the people that are in it and, and showing remarkable

00:36:11.340 scenes of Canadians lining up on overpasses. Like to me, it was just like a moment of solidarity,

00:36:17.820 um, before they even got to Ottawa, when you're seeing those trucks and those big rigs driving down the

00:36:22.060 road with people, uh, cheering them on, you know, I heard from volunteers that were like

00:36:27.260 giving out sandwiches and, and little kids were writing messages of hope to these truckers.

00:36:31.980 Um, to me, they were like, they were carrying the mantle for all of us. They were expressing the

00:36:37.340 things that I had been feeling about the, um, about the lockdowns from day one. And it was like a

00:36:42.780 beautiful sight. And then the media just instantly, uh, said that these were radicals and that they were

00:36:48.060 extremists. Actually at first, I don't know if you remember this, the first CBC report on the

00:36:51.980 Freedom Convoy said that the, the truckers were actually protesting, um, unsafe road conditions.

00:36:59.260 And, and they were pretending that it was about something totally different. And then, you know,

00:37:03.180 the next day it was like, no, they got a memo. Let's change the narrative. Oh no,

00:37:06.780 these are Nazis. These are radicals. And it was like, I can see with my own eyes who these people

00:37:11.020 are and they're not how you described. I can't believe that Canadians continue, um, to take the 0.96

00:37:15.500 media seriously after that. That, that to me was one of the worst examples of it. And to this day,

00:37:19.820 when I walk around Ottawa, people come up to me and they say like, thank you for True North. Thank

00:37:23.900 you for your coverage of the Freedom Convoy. And that was the first time I really saw how much the

00:37:27.980 CBC deceives us and how much they lie, because I saw the convoy with my own eyes. And then I was

00:37:33.260 watching on the CBC and it was like, they were covering two totally, totally different events.

00:37:37.740 Sean, I want to talk a little bit more about what's happening down in the States because, uh, Robert

00:37:42.300 Kennedy, uh, junior RFK, junior, uh, had his confirmation hearing earlier this week. And, you know,

00:37:48.700 you said that you were kind of new to politics. I feel like I'm kind of new to this like health and

00:37:52.940 wellness trend. I've always been like a bit of health freak and, and really like kind of particular

00:37:57.820 when it comes to food, but I think having kids and then also just the pandemic and the fact that

00:38:03.580 I just don't feel like I can trust the people who I was supposed to trust before, um, made me like

00:38:08.140 really radical on this kind of thing. Like the idea of like, I don't want my kids eating food that's

00:38:15.500 like manufactured somewhere in a plastic bag with ingredients that I can't read, um,

00:38:19.740 things that like food that I ate as a kid. And then you just kind of trust that, oh, well,

00:38:24.380 I ate it, you know, like fruit loops or like goldfish or anything. And then you read the labels

00:38:29.740 and it's just like horrifying. It's like, why are we giving this stuff to our children? Um, you know,

00:38:35.180 or anything, even just like the idea of like the number of like microplastics that are in our food and

00:38:39.980 all the different chemicals that go in from like the pesticides that are sprayed all over our food to the

00:38:44.620 way that they're preserved to the packaging. It's just like compounding. And, and then you look

00:38:48.700 around, I mean, we're talking about obesity in the media, but the reality is that we are a very

00:38:53.420 unhealthy society. Like I think that should be a much bigger political issue. I know it's like a

00:38:58.780 little bit touchy because people don't like to talk about, you know, it's, it's a personal thing.

00:39:02.620 And I'm kind of a libertarian to like live and let live. But the idea that it's like, there's a lot of

00:39:07.420 ingredients that are in our food that I would consider to be poison. It's hard for me to explain to my

00:39:11.660 kids. Like, why can't they have the junk food that comes in the goodie bag at the end of the birthday

00:39:15.660 party? And I'm saying like, you know, it's not healthy. It's not healthy. It's hard to, it's hard

00:39:19.660 to make that case to your kids when they just want to like be kids and eat icing and eat unhealthy food

00:39:25.100 when all their friends are. But I love the idea that more and more people are waking up or demanding

00:39:31.260 change. So I think RFKJ really represents this change. Let's play a couple of clips here. So this one

00:39:38.620 here, Robert Kennedy Jr. is saying that he won't take away your snacks. He says, I won't take food

00:39:42.860 away from anybody. That's not what he's trying to do. He just wants us to be aware of the health

00:39:47.900 impacts of our food. Let's play that clip. I don't want to take food away from anybody. If you like

00:39:55.420 a cheeseburger, a McDonald's cheeseburger or Diet Coke, which my boss loves, you should be able to get

00:40:03.740 them. If you want to eat Hostess Twinkies, you should be able to do that. But you should know

00:40:08.940 what the impacts are on your family and on your health.

00:40:13.020 Like I would go even further than that, because I don't think that we need to have some of these

00:40:16.700 ingredients in our food. Next clip here is on RFKJ saying that he's going to end the chronic disease

00:40:22.620 epidemic.

00:40:26.380 And the first thing I've done every morning for the past 20 years

00:40:30.780 is to get on my knees and pray to God that he would put me in a position to end the chronic

00:40:37.180 disease epidemic and to help America's children. That's why I'm so grateful to President Trump,

00:40:45.500 the opportunity to sit before you today and seek your support and partnership in this endeavor.

00:40:51.660 And so, I mean, he's kind of the face of this. I don't necessarily like him or agree with him.

00:40:58.220 You know, he's a Democrat. He's a Kennedy. He's got like a very kind of interesting past,

00:41:03.180 colorful past, let's put it that way. But he's kind of come to represent this. And I loved the fact

00:41:08.460 that his movement, the Make America Healthy Again movement, you know, he ran for president for the

00:41:12.140 Democrats and the Dems blocked him and wouldn't let him run, which is why he was running as an

00:41:16.140 independent. And then he came over and endorsed Trump. And at that time, it was like, you know,

00:41:20.540 this movement is very mainstream. Like if you're on Instagram, if you're a parent, this is the kind

00:41:25.020 of thing that I see. And I love the fact that there's a community that I can kind of like

00:41:28.620 commiserate with on how hard it is to make sure your kids are healthy, the steps that are needed.

00:41:34.780 Like I try really hard to make sure that my kids aren't eating off of like plastic plates or using

00:41:39.260 plastic things like water bottles, all that kind of stuff to avoid the microplastics that are getting

00:41:45.260 into their system and can have really, you know, scary impacts. I just think it's great that this

00:41:51.660 is now mainstream. It's in front of us. We're making these changes. I'm curious to hear your thoughts

00:41:57.020 on all this.

00:41:57.820 Oh, well, that's that's a it's a big topic. I think one of the effects of COVID unintended

00:42:07.340 consequences, if you would, is the Make America Healthy Again slogan, everything like that's come

00:42:13.820 with it. Because, you know, if you'd asked, I don't know, out of 10 people, you take it, you can

00:42:20.540 put that number higher, lower, wherever you want to put it about vaccines. And if we just do that right

00:42:24.780 off the hop, I don't know how many people would have said they were against them before COVID. I would

00:42:29.980 argue is probably eight and 10 were for them. I'm just ballparking. Yeah, I think that's really right.

00:42:36.380 And now I'm not saying that eight out of 10 are against them. But I, I would say the majority would 0.91

00:42:41.660 question them now. And so when when RFK juniors up there talking, he has been a vocal person through

00:42:50.620 COVID. And for a lot of people to see him get put into the new Trump administration, and to have an

00:42:58.060 opportunity to open up this conversation around just food in general, has been really interesting to

00:43:05.820 watch. I think if you're a parent, and you don't think eating McDonald's every single day is probably

00:43:13.180 not the greatest idea. I don't know what RFK in that position is going to do for you. He's probably

00:43:20.220 not going to do much that, you know, most of us don't already know is what I guess what I'm trying

00:43:24.620 to say. But there are other things that are coming into, you know, you mentioned pesticides,

00:43:28.700 different things like that. There's lots of things that I think we haven't studied, or in the mainstream

00:43:34.540 hasn't been out there. And some of it is is the is a technology we interact with on a daily basis,

00:43:40.300 the different lights, there's been a lot of stuff coming out about blue light and the different

00:43:44.460 lights and how they affect the human body and stuff. And with us not going away from technology,

00:43:50.140 but coming closer to technology as a parent, I want to understand that more, because I can watch my

00:43:55.260 children and see how they react after watching TV or an iPad or something like that. I can see the

00:44:02.380 effects of that as quickly as I can see if they drink a can of Coke and watch them go from zero

00:44:07.500 to ten thousand in about two minutes, maybe less. And so I think for a lot of people,

00:44:14.940 him being kind of a figurehead that gets put in there, that's what he represents. He represents

00:44:20.380 somebody who's going to go in there and rattle some cages and try and get some answers. And I think

00:44:25.340 if you're if you're, you know, watching the Canadian military and seeing the obesity rate,

00:44:30.060 or you're you're just looking at the American population and seeing the obesity rate there,

00:44:34.460 and then all the health problems that kids have and on, you're going something's something just

00:44:38.940 doesn't make any sense. And they need to look into that. They do. And my hope is they they will.

00:44:45.900 And my hope is, is that they find some things that they can change that will make, you know,

00:44:52.620 the burden on parents maybe go down just a smidge. Because if you're worried about being on a plastic

00:44:57.740 plate or drinking out of a plastic water bottle or the ten thousand other things that as parents

00:45:03.740 worry about, my hope is that they can find some things that just makes sense that they can get

00:45:08.620 rid of or, you know, maybe veer away from so that we don't have to worry about absolutely everything

00:45:15.980 that goes into every substance product, you know, on and on and on. Because, you know, like I sit here

00:45:22.140 on this side, a dad of three kids. And there's a lot of things you have to worry about on a day to

00:45:26.700 day basis.

00:45:28.060 Well, absolutely. And that's why I think like, like I said, like I'm a libertarian. And I think

00:45:31.900 that people should generally be able to do what they want. And like 10 years ago, I said, like,

00:45:35.980 attacks on soda is ridiculous. If people want to drink soda, like let them drink it. But then you

00:45:41.020 think about like the other way around that, like, you know, we have so much faith in our institutions,

00:45:46.140 we give so much like trust to these officials who get to like regulate our food. And then especially

00:45:53.340 in the States, this is a major issue where these senators and these like heads of these government

00:45:58.940 agencies go back and forth between working for big pharma, big food and working in government or,

00:46:05.580 you know, the politicians are getting funded by these people. So it's like, do you actually really

00:46:09.820 have our best interest in mind? Are you just trying to make money off of us because it's a little bit

00:46:13.500 cheaper to use this product or this product hasn't really been studied. And it might have

00:46:17.100 like a long term health impact. Like I had this issue during my pregnancies where I'd have like

00:46:21.820 bad heartburn. So I took heartburn medication. And then when I had like when I got pregnant again,

00:46:27.020 I went to go take that heartburn medication and I've been pulled off the shelf because it was like

00:46:30.460 carcinogen and causing cancer. It's like, gee, like, thanks, guys, I'm supposed to trust you to keep

00:46:35.820 me safe. And I can't, right. And so I just I just think that it's like, I'm not trying to shame

00:46:42.220 parents. I'm like, I get it, right? It's really hard. And like, I have a lot of them. So it's

00:46:46.140 like, I have four kids. And like, sometimes you just have to give them an iPad, or, you know, to

00:46:51.420 get through a long car drive, or, you know, you just have to give them some packaged food because

00:46:55.260 they're hungry, and it's all that's available. But really, like when you look into the some of the

00:47:00.060 ingredients and the impact that it's having, it's like, this stuff shouldn't be on the shelf. I know

00:47:04.620 that there was a pretty viral scene during a recent Senate commission, a committee hearing in the

00:47:09.340 States again, where the woman showed two different fruit loops, one was in Canada, and one was in

00:47:15.420 the States. And in the States, it was like, neon and like bright colors, because they use these

00:47:19.260 artificial dyes. And in Canada, they don't, they use like natural food, like coloring. And it's like,

00:47:26.700 why can't we at least have the same standards that Canada has, I think that those kind of things are

00:47:30.540 just like, so important, because being a busy mom, and like, just wanting to be able to trust that,

00:47:37.100 but that's why that's Candace, that's what we hope out of media, right? So like, what we're learning

00:47:41.500 is, is, you know, you got to be selective on your media now, right? Because once upon a time, we just

00:47:46.300 trusted the CBC, and probably at one point in time, they did, they went and investigated this all for

00:47:50.860 us, because that's what journalists are supposed to do, then they're supposed to give us the

00:47:53.180 information, and we're supposed to go, I don't care if my kids have fruit loops, or I do care. And what we're

00:47:59.740 learning here over the last, once again, I just point to my own career, last five years, is that's

00:48:07.340 not quite the case anymore, right? Like, journalism has been bought. Big Pharma has been doing a lot of

00:48:14.940 buying. You know, like, when it comes to the food industry, they've been doing some things, right?

00:48:19.580 And on and on it goes. And, and that doesn't mean you don't trust anyone. But it's certainly as a

00:48:25.180 parent, I, I'm doing a lot more vetting of where my trust goes before I just believe something

00:48:31.340 wholeheartedly. And it's okay to shame parents, right? Like, I think, in today's world, at times,

00:48:38.380 we've, we get so busy, and we think we're so busy, that we farm out who's going to look after our kids,

00:48:43.820 except for us. So you know, daycares, okay, schools, okay, the TV, and on and on and on it goes. And,

00:48:51.500 um, you know, at some point, you got to step in and be the parent. And I'm not scolding your

00:48:56.380 listeners. I'm, you know, I, every time I say these things, folks, it's as much for me as it is

00:49:01.180 for anyone else. And, uh, you know, there's, there's tough decisions in there. There's, there's

00:49:06.060 things you got to draw back from there's, there's ways you can be around your kids more and more.

00:49:10.140 And the thing is, is if you're around your kids a lot, you're going to start to understand that

00:49:13.740 giving them the TV all day long, although might make your, your immediate life a touch easier,

00:49:20.300 the consequences of that after trying to pull them off of that, you're going to see firsthand.

00:49:24.380 And then long-term they're having ideas. Cause I mean, like the, just look at, uh,

00:49:28.540 Disney and different platforms, some of the content they're giving our kids now, right. You used to be

00:49:33.820 able to trust that a Disney cartoon wouldn't have a bunch of things in there that you're like, why is

00:49:38.780 that in there? I don't even understand why. And so I think, um, we're just beginning to understand

00:49:45.340 that a lot of these, uh, realms that parents used to trust. We have to be very cautious on

00:49:51.180 and, uh, have to really pay attention and have to be involved. And if you're involved,

00:49:55.260 you're gonna, you're gonna find some things out about your kids and be like, oh, they just shouldn't

00:49:59.420 have X and kids are different. All of them are. I mean, the effects of sugar are pretty much standard

00:50:05.340 across the board, I think. And the kick, uh, the effects of not getting enough sleep, let's say,

00:50:09.420 are pretty standard across the board. And there's some standardization of effects on kids, but

00:50:14.460 there's going to be different kids that can handle different situations. And that's for the parent to

00:50:18.380 be involved in and to watch your children and have conversations with them and all these wonderful

00:50:23.500 things that being a parent is all about. And we just have to be involved in our kid's life,

00:50:27.580 no matter how busy you get or I get, um, you know, like, uh, sometimes as a parent, you got to make

00:50:33.340 some sacrifices, uh, on your own side of the pleasure scale to ensure that your kids are getting what they need.

00:50:39.420 Oh, I completely agree with all of that. Like I, I say, I don't mean to shame parents. Cause I get

00:50:43.260 that. Like, I, I think I'm in like a very lucky situation where, you know, I have four kids. I'm

00:50:47.980 kind of a stay at home mom, but I also get to run this cool media business on the side. Uh, my mom

00:50:52.060 lives with us. So I have like, kind of like a second, like a built-in stay at home grandma that's

00:50:56.060 always there for the kids. Like I'm personally very opposed to daycare. I don't think that kids should

00:50:59.580 be going to daycare at all. It's not good for the kids. It's not good for their attachment. Um, it's not

00:51:04.860 good to, to have strangers like changing their diaper or giving them a bottle. Like, like my personal

00:51:09.260 standards for my kids are quite different. I think then like what has become the norm in our

00:51:13.260 generation. And I don't like the fact that it's the norm that a woman will drop her kid off to 1.00

00:51:17.740 daycare. So she can go to a job that she doesn't like. Um, I think it'd be much better, more fulfilling

00:51:21.740 for that woman to just raise the kids herself and the kids would end up better. Um, like I have, 1.00

00:51:26.860 I have all these kinds of views, but I get it. And to your point, like when you give your kid sugar,

00:51:31.340 you're going to see the negative consequences immediately. Uh, when you allow your kids an 1.00

00:51:35.180 iPad, it's like crack to them. Right. And you'll see the naughty behavior come out like almost

00:51:39.900 instantly, which is why. Yeah. And same with, I mean, with like even something innocuous,

00:51:44.700 like cocoa melon, it's like, Oh, it's a nice little nursery rhyme. So the next thing you know,

00:51:48.060 there's like kids in drag and like two dads. It's like, no, no, no. You have to like take that away

00:51:52.700 and just tell your kids to stop. I want to segue that to, um, this, uh, unbelievable, uh, image that

00:51:59.660 I saw. Um, the choppers drug mart has basically gone woke. I don't think that they got the memo

00:52:04.540 that we're sick of this stuff and we don't want to see it anymore. Um, yeah, I hope so. My tweet

00:52:09.980 went a little viral and show that I just said, this is creepy and insulting to Canadian women. 1.00

00:52:14.140 Didn't corporate Canada get the message that we're sick of this woke nonsense.

00:52:17.100 I don't want to see this while I'm out shopping with my kids, like take it down our face and boycott.

00:52:22.140 I don't want to see that. Like it's weird and creepy. I don't need to see a man

00:52:26.380 with a beard wearing makeup. Like it's just like, it's a weird fetish thing. It's creepy. It's sexual.

00:52:32.460 If I'm out shopping with my kids and my four year old daughters, like mommy, why does that

00:52:36.380 woman have a beard? Like, I don't want to have to explain that to her, right? Like I'm going to 0.99

00:52:39.980 explain that to her when she's age appropriate, right? When, when she's a little older and she might

00:52:44.940 understand it, but when you're out in public and you see something like that, it's like they're forcing

00:52:48.940 it on you. And I just, I don't want to see it. I'm done with it. And I think

00:52:51.900 that if anything, the fact that Trump got elected, he's given us permission to just say like,

00:52:56.380 enough is enough. Canada needs to get like, catch up to speed. Like I have no problem with being gay.

00:53:02.140 I have no problem with gay marriage. Like we accept that. That's fine. It's your business. 0.84

00:53:06.220 Keep it to yourself. I don't need to know about it. Stop like, like shoving it in my face,

00:53:11.420 especially around my kids. And when it comes to the trans stuff, men and women's sports,

00:53:15.420 men and women's change rooms, like men with, there's like, no, I just, I just,

00:53:19.340 men and women's prisons. I mean, you know, it's funny to like, it isn't funny. Okay. But it is kind

00:53:26.940 of funny that choppers brings this out and you're like, okay, like, I don't know who I need to talk

00:53:33.340 to in there, but you had, you had Bud Light. And I mean, like that didn't go so well. You had

00:53:38.700 Gillette razors that didn't go so well. You know, you had Victoria's secret. I think it was good

00:53:45.500 to put a trans man, trans woman, sorry. Oh man. In lingerie. I'm like, make it stop. Right. And, 1.00

00:53:54.860 and then, and all you gotta do is just see the trend line on how much money they're making. And,

00:53:59.340 and, and I mean, and you're seeing companies, uh, reverse course and trying to trying to correct.

00:54:05.020 You're seeing all these big stores get rid of their DEI. Uh, you're seeing Donald Trump

00:54:09.980 make an executive order on it. Like it's coming. It's just like choppers drug mod. I don't know.

00:54:15.580 I don't even know what to say. I'm like, I saw it. I'm like, really? 2025. We're still there. I don't

00:54:21.500 know. Oh yeah. That's what I feel like they didn't get the memo. It's like they they're stuck back in

00:54:25.180 2020 where it's like the woke mind virus is just, you know, forcing anyone. And I saw some of the

00:54:30.780 replies, like someone basically just said, I think we have this here that, um, it's homophobia,

00:54:37.020 nothing else. Like, you know, if, if, if you don't like this, it's because of homophobia.

00:54:42.220 Um, let people, uh, be exactly who they want to be. How does this affect you? Well, I'll tell you how

00:54:47.980 it affects me because I'm shopping with my kid and they see it. And they're like, mommy,

00:54:51.500 why does that man have a beard? Why does that lady have a beard? Like it's, it's weird and confusing. 0.80

00:54:55.740 And like, it's not homophobic to say that I'm just, I'm sick of it. I don't want it anymore.

00:55:00.220 I think it needs to go away. And hopefully, uh, to your point, like we saw with Bud Light and target

00:55:04.780 and many others, uh, there will be, uh, I think, I think that's, what's going to happen. Um, uh,

00:55:10.540 how does it affect you? It's like, well, we're perpetuating a lie. I don't know. Right. Like men can't be

00:55:16.460 women. You can choose to do a lot of different things to your body and your parents and everything else. 1.00

00:55:20.780 That is your choice by all means. Um, once again, do what you want to do, but we don't have to act

00:55:27.660 like it's, it's, uh, you know, like all of a sudden five or 10 kids are going to be, uh, swapping

00:55:33.420 things and everything else. I think that's honestly insane. And I, I, I mean, you call it what you want.

00:55:39.420 Your listeners can call it what they want. I call it common sense and life is just going to carry on.

00:55:44.300 Uh, I don't lose any sleep over it. I laugh at the shoppers drug nerd thing because I'm just like,

00:55:49.340 it's ridiculous. And so I won't be going there and I'm going to can carry on going somewhere else.

00:55:54.620 And that will be my life. And my hope is that they follow the trend of Bud Light and all these

00:56:01.020 different places that when they did it, I mean, you're seeing it on X. It's not like all of a sudden

00:56:05.900 you put it out there and nobody thought, yeah, that's a great idea. They all said, you know,

00:56:09.740 there's a reason why it went viral. Lots of people are not for this. We're seeing it. There's

00:56:13.180 a reason why Donald Trump is signing an executive order saying, get rid of DEI policies like

00:56:18.220 immediately. And, uh, sadly Canada right now is still under the intend to resign Trudeau.

00:56:24.540 And, um, you know, the, the not a real party Jagmeet Singh, and we are sitting here waiting

00:56:30.860 for a new prime minister to come in and hopefully start speaking a little bit of common sense

00:56:36.380 so that things can maybe veer a different direction. Okay. The last story, I want to

00:56:41.740 get your thoughts on. We've already talked about it a little bit, but let's just go through it here.

00:56:44.860 So obesity in the Canadian military report showed that it's higher than in the general population,

00:56:50.220 according to an internal briefing. This came out on Monday. Uh, the thing that surprises me,

00:56:55.180 actually kind of shocks me if we can just put that back up on the screen there. Um, it says that

00:57:00.860 68% of Canadian men are considered obese or overweight. And that rate is 78% of men in the

00:57:08.700 military. So like the vast overwhelming majority of people in the military are not healthy. And the

00:57:16.060 vast overwhelming majority of Canadians are not healthy. Like how is this not the biggest problem 1.00

00:57:21.900 in the country? Like we're not taking care of ourselves. I don't know if it's because our food

00:57:25.340 is poisoning us or because of our lifestyle or because of something else in the environment, but

00:57:30.060 something is severely broken when you have those statistics. Like, I don't know what it is. I

00:57:35.180 don't know how to fix it, but I just think that this is like, uh, like an alarm bell going off and

00:57:40.780 everybody is ignoring it because, you know, we go back to like personal responsibility and like,

00:57:45.980 you know, everybody live their own life and do whatever you want. But it's like,

00:57:49.100 at a certain point, like our society is not going to be able to function. We're not going to be able to

00:57:52.620 defend ourselves. Like if there were ever an external like war or something facing like a crisis

00:57:58.540 where men had to go and fight and protect the country, they wouldn't be able to, if we continue

00:58:03.100 down this path. Uh, what, what do you think of that? Yeah. They would, if you let them with

00:58:07.100 Twinkies, they just might not do a great job. Um, the 78% thing. Yeah. Uh, I talked to, uh, I have, uh,

00:58:13.980 military round tables on the podcast, um, usually monthly. Uh, and I talked to guys who've been in the,

00:58:19.820 in and around the military all their lives. And we've been talking about this problem for,

00:58:25.260 I don't know, as long as I've been doing the podcast essentially, and it's just a lack of

00:58:28.860 discipline. Right. So like, you know, it used to be, you had to have a certain haircut, you had to do

00:58:34.700 certain things. You had to live up certain standards and well, that's discriminatory because now, you

00:58:43.020 know, what if a person can't do that? And what if you can't, well, we don't want you in the military

00:58:47.980 then, right? Like, and it said, that's not what they did. And so now you have obesity on the rise

00:58:54.140 and you have, uh, certain people being excluded and you have on and on and on this goes. And so

00:58:59.180 you see exact, like, this isn't shocking folks. DEI is in full force here in the military.

00:59:06.140 We, we like you, when you have a military force, what do you want in there?

00:59:11.180 I mean, can women be in the military? Absolutely. They can, but you want the very best. You want 1.00

00:59:18.060 healthy, fit males who can fight. That's what a military is. And our military has gone the opposite

00:59:26.060 way. I mean, we have tampons in the men's bathroom for Pete's sake. And so now to see this obesity rate,

00:59:31.900 it's like, I don't know, this, this doesn't shock me on the side. You know, I've probably become very

00:59:36.780 cynical on this. Like we need a change of culture in this country. We need to change

00:59:41.420 of culture in the military to get us out of this. Like we need, somebody needs to, you know, like we

00:59:46.220 just, somebody needs to get, uh, bumped into, break them out of whatever fog they're in. Because, you

00:59:52.300 know, when you say, oh, maybe if there's a war, it's like, we're on the, we're on the cusp of it.

00:59:57.340 Like, I mean, it doesn't matter what side of Ukraine, Russia you're on. I don't care. Okay. NATO

01:00:04.300 is talking about sending 200,000 people there. We're a part of NATO. Like we just need to get

01:00:11.900 it through our heads. Like, you know, we're living, we have lived in the most peaceful time

01:00:17.180 in human history as far as I can see. And I hope it carries on. I really hope it does,

01:00:22.700 but it doesn't carry on while you're sitting, eating Cheetos, watching the hockey game.

01:00:26.620 Like you have to become in my books, a strong man capable of speaking your mind and knowing when

01:00:32.380 something isn't, uh, isn't right and stomping it out immediately. So we have a very weak military.

01:00:37.820 It is not great. Uh, there's still good people in there, but they're being pushed around and

01:00:42.780 pushed out because of DEI policies among other things that are, that are happening across society.

01:00:49.420 And, uh, you know, I could probably rant and rave about this all night long. It's 78%. It doesn't

01:00:54.300 shock me. This is what you get when you go this direction. And we're seeing it play out in the

01:00:57.980 military among other places in our country. Well, and, and really like you could, you could

01:01:04.860 talk about any, uh, public safety force for this. And we just saw it with the Los Angeles fires,

01:01:10.300 uh, where you had like diversity, equity hires leading the fire department and there's like no

01:01:14.940 water. And like, there's, you know, promoting the fact that they're lesbians and that they're 1.00

01:01:18.780 overweight. It's like, I don't care. Yeah. I don't care. Yeah. I need you to save someone from a fire.

01:01:24.060 Like, can you run into a burning building and carry an adult? To bring it closer to home,

01:01:30.060 Candace, for me, Jasper, we had the big forest fire. Right. And we did a bunch of talking about

01:01:34.540 it and they like the people around there that are in the logging industry and, and, and, and

01:01:41.180 forest management and all that knew this was coming. They've been trying to get the government

01:01:44.700 to listen, but we're so focused on saving the planet. We didn't do forest management.

01:01:49.820 And so then the town burned down. There we are. And now they just pile a bunch of money. And it's

01:01:54.140 like, look, can we just do what we need to do to make sure that we don't burn ourselves up?

01:01:59.660 And that'll actually, as far as I understand, will promote, um, lots of great things in the

01:02:06.140 forest by doing it. But we equate cutting a tree down with we're destroying the planet. Well, it's

01:02:12.540 more complex than that. And I think more people are like beginning to understand this and

01:02:17.180 understanding that there's more to all these arguments. It's not so simple. You know, I,

01:02:20.860 I listened to, uh, uh, I believe it's Ron Paul, Senator Ron Paul talk about, uh, Kennedy and, and

01:02:27.180 just all the different things. It's more complex than just a one size fits all. And too much of our

01:02:32.780 society is like, Oh, we got one answer. That's all it is. And boom, that's what we're going to do.

01:02:36.780 Okay. Well now you get California fires. Now you get a Jasper and it ain't going to get better

01:02:41.660 anytime soon until we start to, uh, adjust how we're doing these things. It doesn't mean

01:02:46.540 go pollute everything. It doesn't mean destroy the planet, but the planet folks wants to kill us. 0.51

01:02:51.820 We live, we live in a place against minus 40. And I've read my ancestors, uh, accounts of coming

01:02:58.220 here. It wasn't a friendly place and we made it a pretty friendly habitable place. We start taking

01:03:02.700 away things that make it habitable. It's going to become unfriendly very fast. And, uh, we're going to

01:03:07.900 realize, man, we're going to have to cut down some trees and do some things that, uh, we've been told

01:03:13.260 are, you know, negative when the whole argument, the whole discussion is more complex than that.

01:03:19.340 And we have to allow for that, uh, complexity to be aired and to be discussed so we can come

01:03:25.580 to informed decision-making and make the best choices for our country instead of letting, I'm

01:03:31.420 going to bring it all the way back to the start of the show, NDP Singh, hold up Trudeau and this

01:03:37.020 government and just watch the destruction of our nation happen right in front of us. It is just

01:03:41.020 wild to me. And we need more Canadians to get involved. So to all your listeners, I appreciate

01:03:46.860 you being involved because if you're watching this late in this show, you probably are the people that

01:03:52.140 don't need preach to you. You're probably wonderful human beings and you want to understand and get to

01:03:57.020 the bottom of how Canada works. And I think that's a lot of us here in Canada. We're trying, um, and

01:04:01.100 realizing how many issues we've really got. Well, Sean, it's an absolute breath of fresh air to

01:04:07.500 hear you talk. I could talk to you all day. Um, but unfortunately we've run out of time.

01:04:10.940 Well, what we're going to do Candace is we're going to have you on my show and we'll continue

01:04:14.620 the conversation. And then, uh, my audience can, and can hear a little bit about who Candace is.

01:04:19.660 And I appreciate you having me on. I would love nothing more than that. Before the show started,

01:04:23.580 uh, Sean invited me to come out to his ranch in rural Alberta and shoot some guns. So I,

01:04:27.980 my husband, I would love to do that. I'm going to take you up on that. That sounds fun. Uh,

01:04:32.140 really a pleasure to have you on the show. Uh, thank you so much. Sean Newman,

01:04:35.420 go check out the Sean Newman podcast on sub stack everyone. Uh, thank you so much, Sean. It's been

01:04:39.340 great. Yeah. Thank you again. All right, folks have a great weekend. It's been such a pleasure.

01:04:44.140 We'll be back next week with all of the news. Uh, I'm Candace Malcolm. This is a Candace Malcolm show. God bless.

Juno News - January 31, 2025

Shoppers Drug Mart pushing woke trans agenda

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