Juno News - August 31, 2021


Some Canadians really, really, really hate Justin Trudeau


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00:00:00.000 The Trudeau government is the most divisive government in Canadian history.
00:00:03.740 It's no wonder that a lot of Canadians really, really, really hate Justin Trudeau.
00:00:07.820 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:14.460 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in. Happy Monday.
00:00:17.280 We have made it into week three of the federal election campaign
00:00:20.820 and I want to point something out, a little bit of a disturbing trend
00:00:24.420 that's starting to happen. It's coming out over the weekend.
00:00:27.120 I believe that the media narrative, the legacy media narrative
00:00:30.300 is starting to shift a little bit into Justin Trudeau's favor.
00:00:33.680 Now, we all know that Justin Trudeau has run a horrible first two weeks of the campaign.
00:00:38.420 His whole master plan of running a post-pandemic election
00:00:42.180 where everybody's just so happy to be going back to normal,
00:00:45.660 where he can run on this wedge issue of mandatory vaccinations,
00:00:48.960 where he can send out $500 checks to seniors to bribe them
00:00:52.300 while the CERB money is still being poured out.
00:00:54.600 Trudeau believed that he could easily glide to a majority government,
00:00:58.860 particularly given that the conservative leader Erin O'Toole
00:01:01.380 is still relatively unknown among Canadians.
00:01:04.700 Well, that went all wrong for Trudeau
00:01:06.480 and we have been playing that out and recounting it on the show,
00:01:09.960 on The Candace Malcolm Show, over the past few weeks.
00:01:12.260 But over the weekend, we saw a little bit of a turn,
00:01:14.860 a little bit of a shift, and it is indeed in Justin Trudeau's favor.
00:01:18.260 Now, I'm talking about these protests and these hecklers
00:01:22.400 who have been appearing at several of Trudeau's events throughout the campaign.
00:01:26.980 Trudeau has been heckled, he has been booed,
00:01:29.860 and he has been sort of chased by a few select protesters
00:01:34.000 pretty much everywhere he's gone on this campaign.
00:01:36.620 But over the weekend, things really, really took a turn.
00:01:39.240 So on Friday night, there was a large crowd.
00:01:41.440 Hundreds of people showed up at Trudeau's event in Bolton, Ontario,
00:01:44.760 and just really, apparently, according to reports,
00:01:47.940 made it completely impossible for Trudeau to hold his event.
00:01:50.660 So the Ontario police, the OPP,
00:01:52.920 determined that it was unsafe for Trudeau to hold that event,
00:01:56.300 and so it was cancelled.
00:01:58.040 We saw protests, some reports of protests getting violent.
00:02:02.100 We saw other eyewitness reports of racist and misogynistic statements
00:02:07.240 and comments being made by the protesters.
00:02:09.860 Now, I didn't see any audio or video that would corroborate these reports.
00:02:13.760 However, that is what media are reporting.
00:02:16.740 And if that is the case, of course, it should be condemned in its entirety.
00:02:20.360 Racist comments, sexist comments,
00:02:21.800 especially directed towards police and security personnel
00:02:24.620 for the Prime Minister, for the Liberal leader,
00:02:26.820 there's no place for that.
00:02:27.840 That's really ugly.
00:02:28.800 That's really vile stuff.
00:02:29.780 And if that's happening, it should stop.
00:02:32.340 However, when it comes to the rights of Canadians,
00:02:35.560 the right of Canadians to peacefully protest,
00:02:38.020 to show their dismay, to show their anger
00:02:39.800 towards a sitting Prime Minister, towards a government,
00:02:42.640 this is all legitimate stuff.
00:02:44.420 This is all perfectly fine.
00:02:46.220 Of course, the media, what they do,
00:02:48.300 is they take the sort of worst of the worst in the crowd.
00:02:51.400 They show the signs with profanity.
00:02:53.580 They show the angry white men yelling.
00:02:56.020 And what they've done is they've turned this into Justin Trudeau's favor
00:02:59.200 to make him look like that he's this high-minded leader
00:03:02.000 who is going to just continue with his message,
00:03:05.080 regardless of a few far-right fringe cranks,
00:03:08.840 which is exactly how the media is painting these protesters out to be.
00:03:14.760 Now, before we get too much into the details
00:03:16.520 of what is happening to Justin Trudeau
00:03:18.320 and how the media is covering it in just a really silly way,
00:03:22.020 I want to just make the point, the obvious point,
00:03:24.220 that this happens to every politician.
00:03:25.720 When it comes to death threats,
00:03:26.900 when it comes to ugly language,
00:03:28.840 when it comes to the kind of anger that citizens express
00:03:31.880 towards their political leaders,
00:03:33.120 it does happen in every stripe.
00:03:34.680 It's interesting how the legacy media only really pick up on it
00:03:37.680 when it is happening to a left-wing politician
00:03:39.400 or particularly when it's happening to a woman.
00:03:42.300 And we know that because there's been so many reports
00:03:44.940 about Catherine McKenna getting bullied and heckled online.
00:03:48.640 Very few about Michelle Rempel,
00:03:50.680 who gets the same kind of bullying and heckling online.
00:03:54.380 But because she's a conservative, they don't really cover it.
00:03:56.560 Another example would be out in Alberta
00:03:58.300 when NDP leader Rachel Notley was a premier.
00:04:01.080 We would constantly see news stories
00:04:02.740 about how she was getting hateful messages,
00:04:04.940 about how there were death threats,
00:04:06.200 about how right-wing Albertans were really, really angry.
00:04:09.080 Now that the conservative premier, Jason Kenney, is there,
00:04:12.680 he gets equally, if not more, ugly threats,
00:04:16.000 people posting really horrible things about him,
00:04:18.940 horrible things about his image, everything like that.
00:04:21.060 The same kind of stuff about Rachel Notley, if not worse.
00:04:24.120 And the media never covers it.
00:04:25.620 The media is completely silent.
00:04:27.440 Jason Kenney was even getting death threats against his mother
00:04:30.040 and the media barely batted an eye.
00:04:32.280 So we know that there is already that distinction
00:04:35.100 and that double standard.
00:04:36.880 Of course, it does happen to every politician.
00:04:39.100 It has happened all the way back.
00:04:41.320 There were people circulating online,
00:04:43.300 examples of how Brian Mulroney used to get this,
00:04:46.020 about how Jean Chrétien used to get this.
00:04:47.780 We know Harper used to get this.
00:04:49.400 Here's a couple examples of Harper and Doug Ford
00:04:52.160 and some of the treatment that they get by protesters.
00:04:55.240 And the wrong decisions at the national level
00:04:57.300 on taxes, on spending, on deficits,
00:04:59.620 they would significantly raise those risks.
00:05:02.860 At a May Day protest outside Queen's Park,
00:05:22.900 photos emerged of a guillotine dripping with fake blood
00:05:26.360 as demonstrators carried out a mock execution.
00:05:29.300 Of course, this isn't right
00:05:30.420 and we should condemn any violent threats towards politicians.
00:05:33.660 There really shouldn't be room for that kind of language in politics.
00:05:37.360 But the point is, it does happen to everyone.
00:05:39.800 There is a fringe percentage of the population
00:05:42.340 that is going to express their dismay towards government
00:05:45.840 through anger and sometimes crossing the line
00:05:48.340 into violent speech and calls for violence,
00:05:51.600 which is, again, where we draw the line as a society.
00:05:54.800 In a democratic society, you can protest,
00:05:57.100 you can say a lot of things, we have freedom of speech,
00:05:59.340 but when it crosses into violence and death threats,
00:06:01.880 that's when it's too far.
00:06:04.240 Again, the media is not telling the full story
00:06:06.400 to make it seem like Justin Trudeau is the only one
00:06:08.920 who is a victim of this.
00:06:10.540 So, of course, we should condemn the violence,
00:06:12.460 but also we should keep in mind and keep some perspective.
00:06:15.660 Now, this is why I say that things are starting to turn
00:06:17.880 into Justin Trudeau's favor
00:06:19.560 because the media were very, very quick
00:06:21.300 to dismiss these protesters.
00:06:23.040 They called them fringe.
00:06:24.260 They called them far-right, called them unhinged.
00:06:27.100 And every report that I saw,
00:06:28.560 they love to make this point
00:06:29.740 that these protesters are unmasked
00:06:31.720 and not socially distanced.
00:06:33.500 So they're trying to paint them out
00:06:35.100 as the sort of quack, anti-vaxxers, anti-science,
00:06:39.360 the very fringe elements of our society
00:06:41.720 so that you have no sympathy for them
00:06:43.700 and instead you have sympathy for the prime minister.
00:06:46.900 Just look at this CBC report.
00:06:49.100 It's so silly.
00:06:49.940 It's just straight propaganda.
00:06:51.340 Here it goes.
00:06:51.860 Trudeau says he won't back down
00:06:54.340 after protests hurl death threats,
00:06:56.500 racist and sexist slurs.
00:06:58.720 This is Trudeau at his best.
00:07:00.340 This is his favorite type of campaigning
00:07:02.500 and this is the media's favorite iteration of himself.
00:07:05.380 Trudeau is going to continue to promote
00:07:06.820 his message of progress and science
00:07:08.740 and these ugly, horrible protesters
00:07:10.900 are hurling death threats,
00:07:12.660 racist and sexist slurs.
00:07:14.640 And so this whole media story is again
00:07:17.900 just trying to make Justin Trudeau out to be the hero.
00:07:21.340 Some of the quotes in here are just so hilarious.
00:07:23.940 So this is a quote from Trudeau from the story.
00:07:26.500 He goes,
00:07:27.200 No, I'm not going to back down on a message
00:07:29.560 that Canadians know is the right path forward
00:07:31.400 and that's why Canadians need to choose
00:07:33.340 to move forward at this pivotal time.
00:07:35.740 So again, Justin Trudeau gets to play the hero
00:07:38.500 and the media is all too happy
00:07:40.620 to play into this narrative
00:07:42.040 that the people who are protesting him
00:07:43.920 are fringe and are far right.
00:07:45.920 I want to point to my colleague at the Toronto Suns,
00:07:48.820 Brian Lilly's column on this issue
00:07:50.620 because he really, really hit the nail on the head.
00:07:53.200 So Lilly writes,
00:07:54.880 Trudeau's wild claims show
00:07:56.160 that he will say anything to get elected
00:07:58.320 and Brian Lilly really makes a point
00:08:01.120 that Trudeau is trying to paint his opponents
00:08:04.460 into something that they're not.
00:08:05.780 So rather than running against Aaron O'Toole,
00:08:08.120 rather than running against Jagmeet Singh,
00:08:10.100 he has created this boogeyman
00:08:11.600 in his head of this hateful anti-vaxxer fringe person
00:08:16.560 and he's talking to the protesters,
00:08:18.700 he's talking down to them
00:08:19.760 and Trudeau is pretending
00:08:21.400 that he is running against that character
00:08:24.220 instead of just running as a liberal
00:08:26.720 and talking about the conservative positions,
00:08:28.700 talking about the NDP positions
00:08:30.360 and sort of explaining how he's different.
00:08:32.240 Instead, he's creating this kind of dramatic image
00:08:35.200 of the country
00:08:36.020 and pretending again
00:08:37.520 that he's running against these fringe boogeymen.
00:08:40.040 Lilly points out in his column,
00:08:41.360 something interesting.
00:08:43.020 According to a recent Ipsos poll,
00:08:44.980 nearly half of Canadians,
00:08:46.220 44% told Ipsos
00:08:47.940 that Trudeau will say anything to get elected.
00:08:50.540 Now, you may think any politician
00:08:52.180 will say anything to get elected.
00:08:53.760 According to the same poll,
00:08:55.300 27% of Canadians said that about Aaron O'Toole
00:08:57.740 and 7% said it about Jagmeet Singh.
00:09:00.100 So Canadians really do have
00:09:01.520 a negative opinion of Justin Trudeau.
00:09:05.240 And so it goes back to what Trudeau was saying
00:09:07.140 over the weekend.
00:09:08.060 This is a quote from Trudeau
00:09:09.140 talking to the protesters.
00:09:10.460 He says,
00:09:11.260 do we fall into division and hatred
00:09:12.880 and racism and violence
00:09:14.020 or do we say no?
00:09:15.960 And now this is why I say
00:09:16.880 that this is Trudeau's favorite iteration of himself
00:09:19.100 and this is his favorite way to campaign.
00:09:21.260 The reality is that Justin Trudeau
00:09:22.620 is an incredibly bitter,
00:09:24.220 incredibly divisive politician.
00:09:25.900 He routinely denigrates Canadians
00:09:28.180 that he disagrees with.
00:09:29.440 He uses hateful and divisive language
00:09:31.320 to describe his political opponents
00:09:33.120 and he loves nothing more
00:09:34.720 than to describe large swaths of Canadians
00:09:37.460 as racist, Islamophobic.
00:09:40.040 His recent one that he loves
00:09:41.340 is calling them anti-vaxxers.
00:09:43.420 In the last campaign,
00:09:44.400 we saw it over and over again
00:09:45.520 where he would describe his political opponents
00:09:47.260 as white supremacists.
00:09:49.560 So Trudeau will take, again,
00:09:51.020 just the most divisive, despicable way
00:09:52.800 of describing a person
00:09:53.720 and sort of casually apply it
00:09:55.880 to his political opponents.
00:09:58.140 He loves to divide.
00:09:59.580 He loves to pit Canadians against each other
00:10:02.000 and he is finally in a position
00:10:03.840 where because of these protesters,
00:10:05.580 because of these hecklers,
00:10:06.900 he can once again do that
00:10:08.560 and the media is all too happy
00:10:10.220 to pick up on this storyline
00:10:11.680 and push it for Justin Trudeau.
00:10:14.120 So here's just a few examples of Trudeau
00:10:15.960 and his team of liberals
00:10:17.200 doing what they love to do most,
00:10:19.340 which is to name-call Canadians
00:10:21.220 and to divide us against each other.
00:10:22.820 I recommend that the members
00:10:24.380 of the Conservative Party
00:10:25.300 in their zeal to make personal attacks
00:10:27.680 not start to push too far
00:10:29.800 into intolerance towards Canadians
00:10:32.180 of diverse origins.
00:10:33.480 My view is that we will be
00:10:35.060 more successful collectively
00:10:36.440 if we're actually able
00:10:37.840 to successfully promote women
00:10:39.740 into leadership roles.
00:10:41.140 We will drag along the Neanderthals
00:10:43.040 who don't agree with that
00:10:43.960 and that will be our continuing approach.
00:10:47.240 They ran an election
00:10:48.660 on snitch lines against Muslims.
00:10:51.300 They ran an election
00:10:52.600 on Islamophobia and division.
00:10:55.660 This is interesting
00:10:56.580 because we've all seen
00:10:57.900 Conservative politicians
00:10:59.420 casting doubt on science,
00:11:01.760 casting doubt on experts,
00:11:03.300 saying the pandemic isn't real,
00:11:05.280 you shouldn't wear masks.
00:11:06.580 The Harper Conservatives
00:11:07.680 put in measures
00:11:08.420 in the Citizenship Act
00:11:09.580 that told Canadians like me
00:11:11.460 that we were below those
00:11:12.820 who were born on Canadian soil.
00:11:15.040 Mr. Speaker,
00:11:16.000 after being asked directly
00:11:17.320 to condemn white supremacists yesterday,
00:11:19.880 the leader of the opposition
00:11:21.040 not only refused to do so,
00:11:23.420 he refused to even say the words.
00:11:25.700 So I will give him
00:11:26.400 another opportunity
00:11:27.200 to do so today
00:11:28.420 and to his deputy leader.
00:11:31.140 Will he denounce white supremacy,
00:11:32.900 the alt-right movement,
00:11:33.800 and finally apologize
00:11:34.820 for sharing a platform with him?
00:11:37.060 Trudeau and company
00:11:37.660 love to mischaracterize
00:11:39.100 their opponents,
00:11:39.880 call them obscene names,
00:11:41.540 accuse them of horrible,
00:11:42.680 horrible things
00:11:43.200 like being a racist,
00:11:44.240 an Islamophobe,
00:11:45.060 a white supremacist,
00:11:46.560 and so on.
00:11:47.620 But if you think about it,
00:11:48.520 think about those people
00:11:49.380 who have come out
00:11:50.220 to protest against Justin Trudeau.
00:11:52.320 Sure, they don't represent
00:11:53.220 the majority of Canadians,
00:11:55.000 but their voice still matters.
00:11:56.840 And it is important to reflect
00:11:58.360 on what has happened
00:11:59.720 in our country
00:12:00.500 over the past two years
00:12:02.040 that would drive some Canadians,
00:12:04.020 probably reasonable Canadians,
00:12:05.480 to act in this way,
00:12:07.120 to go and protest,
00:12:08.320 to heckle,
00:12:09.120 to scream obscenities.
00:12:10.240 Imagine the point
00:12:11.260 that you would have to be,
00:12:12.020 the breaking point
00:12:12.700 that you would have to be
00:12:13.500 to go and do that.
00:12:14.800 Just think of the number
00:12:15.660 of Canadians
00:12:16.200 who have had to see
00:12:17.840 their business shut down,
00:12:19.200 whose business has been forced
00:12:20.400 to close because of lockdown policies.
00:12:22.720 Imagine the number of families
00:12:23.760 who have gone bankrupt.
00:12:25.340 Imagine the number of families
00:12:26.540 who have lost a loved one
00:12:27.880 during this time,
00:12:28.720 not just to COVID,
00:12:29.700 but to diseases of despair,
00:12:31.480 things like suicide,
00:12:32.780 drug overdose,
00:12:34.020 depression,
00:12:34.860 and so on.
00:12:36.220 Now that we finally have
00:12:37.480 an end in sight,
00:12:38.720 that the pandemic
00:12:39.580 may finally be behind us,
00:12:41.200 that we won't have to endure
00:12:42.240 more lockdowns,
00:12:43.580 Trudeau is running
00:12:44.720 an incredibly divisive campaign
00:12:46.780 on the wedge issue
00:12:48.060 of forced vaccinations,
00:12:50.180 even for people
00:12:50.940 who have already had COVID
00:12:52.220 and developed the antibodies,
00:12:53.700 even for people
00:12:54.400 who are incredibly healthy,
00:12:55.760 for young people,
00:12:56.800 for people with pre-existing
00:12:57.820 medical conditions,
00:12:59.120 and for people
00:13:00.060 who disagree on moral grounds.
00:13:01.820 It doesn't matter.
00:13:02.520 Trudeau wants to force
00:13:03.600 all of us
00:13:04.320 to get the vaccine.
00:13:06.320 And now he wants
00:13:07.380 to further divide us
00:13:08.700 by forcing us
00:13:09.760 to carry around papers
00:13:11.260 indicating whether or not
00:13:12.900 we have followed
00:13:14.080 the ever-evolving
00:13:15.460 government health edicts.
00:13:17.800 This doesn't sound
00:13:18.680 very much like a free society,
00:13:20.180 and at times,
00:13:20.920 over the past two years,
00:13:22.320 Canada hasn't felt
00:13:23.380 very much like
00:13:24.380 a free society.
00:13:25.300 It hasn't felt like
00:13:26.220 a free, liberal democracy.
00:13:28.960 Canadians have every right
00:13:30.220 to protest
00:13:30.960 against these measures.
00:13:32.360 Canadians have every right
00:13:33.480 to protest
00:13:34.360 against the Trudeau government,
00:13:35.900 regardless of what the CBC
00:13:37.160 and what the legacy media
00:13:38.820 have to say.
00:13:39.480 And Canadians deserve better
00:13:41.100 than an arrogant
00:13:42.080 and divisive leader
00:13:43.740 that pits us
00:13:44.540 against each other.
00:13:45.440 I'm Candace Malcolm,
00:13:46.140 and this is
00:13:46.600 The Candace Malcolm Show.