Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： Awarding Greta Thunberg's temper tantrums

00:00:00.000 Greta Thunberg wins Time Magazine's Person of the Year because it's 2019 and we reward temper tantrums over actual bravery and achievements.

00:00:08.600 Jason Kenney goes to Ottawa looking to make a deal. Boris Johnson shows us what it's like to run an effective conservative campaign.

00:00:16.320 The NHL tries to turn locker rooms into college safe spaces. And it's Thursday, so we will do fake news of the week and ask me anything.

00:00:24.480 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:30.000 Hi everyone, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. Got a lot of news to get to, so let's jump right to it.

00:00:37.720 On Wednesday, Time Magazine named its coveted Person of the Year, going to none other than Greta, the crazed environmental catastrophist who promotes climate alarmism, climate emergency, climate doom, climate anxiety, everything to just make everyone in society completely afraid as if the world is going to end if we don't take on very drastic measures. 0.95

00:00:58.120 As you know, Greta is a zealot. She's very ideological, very authoritarian, and what she believes, if we actually implemented it, would be the end of modern technology, would be the end of the comforts and the standard of living that we enjoy. 1.00

00:01:11.840 It would push billions of people back into poverty in the developing world. That is what she's calling for.

00:01:16.520 But because she is this very telegenic, young, 16-year-old activist, the media love her. People who sit in editorial rooms love her, promote her. They believe the exact same thing.

00:01:28.100 They're all far-left environmentalists who hate, fundamentally, who hate capitalism.

00:01:32.000 And so there's a sort of in crowd, and they promote themselves. This is complete nonsense. 0.79

00:01:36.760 Even Time readers who participated in a survey and voted did not choose Greta, did not choose this doom and gloom environmentalism as the person that they thought was the most important, relevant person in 2019.

00:01:48.500 So every year, Time does a poll of its readers. According to Time themselves, more than 27 million votes were cast in this year's survey, which offers members of the public a chance to vote on who they think had the most impact on the events of this year.

00:02:03.940 So more than 30 percent of visitors in the 2019 poll selected the Hong Kong protesters, who have staged mass demonstrations in the semi-autonomous city since June.

00:02:12.140 The protests initially began in response to a controversial extradition bill, but has since grown into an outright rebellion demanding greater autonomy from China.

00:02:20.680 So 30 percent of people thought that it should be the Hong Kong protesters who would win this person of the year.

00:02:26.120 As you know, it can be a group that wins or it can be an individual.

00:02:31.200 So why Time didn't go with the actual people risking their lives, being brave, doing what they can to stand up for freedom and democracy is beyond me.

00:02:39.760 Again, it's because they love this niche climate alarmism issue.

00:02:44.660 And Time reveals that in their own survey, only 4.5 percent of readers selected the climate strikers and the protesters who are marching for climate action to win.

00:02:56.340 And Greta was just one of those individuals. So completely lopsided.

00:02:59.800 For some reason, Time magazine decides to go with Greta, probably because she is young and blonde and being on the front cover. 0.95

00:03:09.500 More of a magazine will probably prompt more people to pick it up.

00:03:14.400 Personally, I think that there's a lot of more deserving people, whether it be those brave protesters in Hong Kong.

00:03:20.400 Over a thousand protesters in Iran have been killed by the Islamist regime over there.

00:03:24.940 Talk about bravery. Talk about courage.

00:03:27.240 They could have won.

00:03:28.120 I think it would have been fun, personally, if they had given it to Conan, the dog, who helped in the raid to take down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

00:03:41.200 I would personally give it to Conan, the dog.

00:03:43.220 But that's just me.

00:03:44.480 I would probably actually give it to the protesters, either in Iran or Hong Kong.

00:03:49.600 But again, it's 2019, so we reward celebrity over actual bravery.

00:03:57.120 Next, I want to talk about Jason Kenney, who was in Ottawa this week.

00:04:00.760 He had a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday.

00:04:04.420 And Jason Kenney took a very different approach to Premier Scott Moe, who was there three weeks ago from Saskatchewan, meeting with the Prime Minister.

00:04:12.560 It was really interesting to watch.

00:04:13.700 So when Scott Moe met with Trudeau, he was very visibly upset.

00:04:18.740 He was angry.

00:04:19.240 You know, it was closer to the actual election.

00:04:21.060 And obviously, he felt that the Liberals winning a minority government would be bad for his province.

00:04:25.980 He had a couple of major demands that Trudeau basically just laughed at.

00:04:29.440 Like, Trudeau's not going to reverse some of his major positions in the campaign, like getting rid of the carbon tax.

00:04:35.780 And it just didn't go anywhere.

00:04:37.520 So that was one approach.

00:04:38.900 And what you saw was Jason Kenney took a very different approach.

00:04:41.700 She said that he was optimistic going into the meeting.

00:04:44.640 He was open-minded.

00:04:45.520 He was really there doing diplomacy.

00:04:47.820 He wanted to have conversations and really get the ball rolling.

00:04:50.920 He had a productive meeting, it looked like, with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who, even though she represents a riding of downtown Toronto, she is originally from Alberta.

00:04:59.860 So she's a good person to kind of have an olive branch with.

00:05:03.000 And then Trudeau and Kenney sat down on Tuesday.

00:05:06.600 Again, Kenney was pretty optimistic.

00:05:08.500 After, here's what Jason Kenney had to say after the meeting.

00:05:11.000 My message to the Prime Minister, he said to Premier Moe three weeks ago, you need to come back to me with a consensus amongst the premiers on equalization reform.

00:05:21.800 We've come back with a consensus, which is a kind of rebate to the provinces that pay into equalization when they're facing a time of real decline.

00:05:30.940 Now, this is really interesting.

00:05:31.980 So Prime Minister Trudeau is kind of playing a game with these Western premiers.

00:05:35.080 After his meeting with Scott Moe, one of the conditions he said was, look, we will have a serious conversation about equalization if and only when the premiers can have some kind of a agreement, a unanimous consensus on what we should do and how we should change equalization, which is basically a fool's errand.

00:05:51.920 The premiers are never going to agree.

00:05:53.320 Quebec and Alberta are never going to sit down and say, OK, let's change equalization payment one way or another.

00:05:58.740 So because right now it benefits Quebec so much and hurts Alberta so much.

00:06:02.520 Any change, having Quebec to agree with that is just never going to happen.

00:06:05.840 But then what Jason Kenney did was he had a meeting with all the premiers last week in Mississauga, and they did agree to a minor tweak of that equalization payment so that there would be a clause that would allow provinces that are having a downfall in their natural resources to have a break, so to pay a little bit less.

00:06:23.960 So Jason Kenney was actually successful in reaching some kind of a consensus among the premiers, and he took that back to the prime minister.

00:06:30.240 So just keep in mind, Alberta is really struggling, is really suffering, not just because of the low price of oil, but also because of the lack of pipelines, lack of infrastructure to get any of their resources to a market other than the United States.

00:06:41.820 So Alberta is hurting, and yet in 2019, they're still paying $23 billion more to the federal government than they receive in services, $23 billion more.

00:06:51.980 So what Jason Kenney is in Ottawa asking for this week was just a $2.4 billion rebate, which is just a fraction of that.

00:06:59.340 And I think Justin Trudeau would be wise to listen to them and try to play ball with Jason Kenney, just given the extraordinary situation that's happening with the lack of unity in this country right now.

00:07:12.380 Okay, moving on.

00:07:13.240 So it is Thursday, December 12th, and that means that there is an election going on in the United Kingdom right now.

00:07:19.240 It's been really interesting to watch.

00:07:20.680 You have Boris Johnson, who is a former mayor of London, and he's just sort of this character.

00:07:25.720 He's got a lot of personality, very smart guy, not always politically correct, kind of like Trump in that way, although I think that he comes from much more of a political establishment background.

00:07:36.480 It was really entertaining to watch his campaign and really show us here in Canada.

00:07:41.300 You know, those are our political cousins over there in the UK.

00:07:44.640 Show us how it's done, how a conservative can run an interesting, effective political campaign.

00:07:50.720 I loved the advertisements in this campaign.

00:07:53.260 I'm going to show one right here.

00:07:54.840 This is probably one of my favorite political ads I've ever seen.

00:07:58.640 Oh, hi.

00:08:00.100 Who is it?

00:08:01.660 It's Carol Singers.

00:08:09.680 So as you can see, that was a clip from Love Actually, a play off the clip Love Actually.

00:08:14.440 And Boris does a great job just saying, hey, let's just get Brexit done.

00:08:17.480 This is something that's been hanging over society for several years now.

00:08:20.780 You know, the previous conservative governments haven't been able to get it done.

00:08:24.540 Boris is the guy that needs the majority and he can get it done.

00:08:27.500 So I appreciate that.

00:08:28.760 Here's another clip from the campaign this week.

00:08:30.940 Again, just a very, you know, amusing, well-run campaign and Boris Johnson does need a majority.

00:08:46.880 It's going to be close.

00:08:47.860 The latest polls have the conservatives somewhere around 43 to 45 percent, which would be the threshold.

00:08:53.380 So we will have a report on that later to find out what happened.

00:08:57.760 All right, let's move on.

00:08:59.260 This is from a report over at the Post Millennial.

00:09:02.940 I feel like the social justice warriors have their eyes on the NHL.

00:09:07.060 The NHL is the next victim of the sort of woke mob, the woke left.

00:09:12.240 We all know they went after Don Cherry pretty hard, but that was just the beginning.

00:09:16.660 So the NHL has released just sort of a wave of measures that are really over the top.

00:09:22.480 It makes it seem like they're trying to copy some of the worst ideas from universities over the last few years as students went further and further towards demanding safe spaces.

00:09:33.080 That's basically what the NHL is doing, providing safe spaces for the players.

00:09:38.160 So Gary Bettman, the NHL commissioner, announced there will now be mandatory counseling and training concerning anti-bullying and anti-racism.

00:09:47.900 Gary Bettman said inclusion and diversity are not simply buzzwords.

00:09:51.280 They are the foundational principles of the NHL.

00:09:54.080 Our message is unequivocal.

00:09:55.840 We will not tolerate abusive behavior of any kind.

00:09:58.640 Okay, you know, it's one thing to say, you know, we don't want to have racism in the NHL.

00:10:03.220 It's one thing to find players and find coaches if they're ever, you know, heard to be saying something that is racist and unacceptable.

00:10:11.240 But some of these measures that the NHL are bringing in, I find to be quite Orwellian.

00:10:15.400 They created an anonymous hotline for players, so kind of like a snitch line, which, of course, could be open to all kinds of abuse.

00:10:21.880 When you have one side being able to make an anonymous grievance against someone else and then, you know, not have any accountability, that kind of goes against a fundamental principle of Western justice, namely that you have to face your accuser.

00:10:35.660 And this is a kind of rabbit hole that university campuses went down.

00:10:39.740 So you can have an anonymous complaint, which is so open to being abused, because if you just don't like a player on your team, if you just don't like your coach,

00:10:47.260 you have the ability and suddenly the power to really cause damage and cause harm.

00:10:52.220 An accusation like, you know, saying someone is racist or saying someone is bullying can really damage your career.

00:10:58.360 And, you know, to have it so that just anonymously someone can make that kind of complaint is really bad precedent, aside from, obviously, you know, the mandatory counseling,

00:11:08.660 which has not proven to have any effectiveness whatsoever.

00:11:13.020 So, again, this is just kind of sad.

00:11:15.660 I don't know if this is the NHL sort of proactively saying to the woke mob, look, we're doing all the correct things, so don't come after us,

00:11:21.800 or if that leftist ideology has really seeped its way into the NHL and into hockey.

00:11:27.320 But, again, when you watch hockey, when you play hockey, you're doing it to escape from politics.

00:11:34.080 You don't want that political identity politics chasing you down into every corner of society.

00:11:39.400 And that is what's happening, is that there's nothing is safe.

00:11:42.720 Post-millennial describes this as a grievance-filled McCarthyist era with blacklists, witch hunts, and virtue signaling.

00:11:49.420 It's already begun.

00:11:50.840 It's sad.

00:11:51.680 It's sad that hockey is going down this path.

00:11:55.140 Okay.

00:11:55.660 It is Thursday.

00:11:56.800 So we have our fake news story of the week.

00:11:59.960 I have to admit, this isn't exactly fake news because it's based on something that is real,

00:12:04.460 but it was just so absurd that I had to read it to you.

00:12:07.380 I had to tell you about it.

00:12:08.760 So this was an exclusive over at the CBC.

00:12:11.620 Transport Canada Investigates Racist Song shared in No Fly List office 10 years after the fact.

00:12:17.920 So the gist of the story is that 10 years ago, an individual shared an email with some of his buddies in the office of a parody video.

00:12:28.560 The parody video was a Frank Sinatra song that had been turned into a song talking about a man's anxiety getting on an airplane worrying about terrorism.

00:12:39.000 Strangers on my flight, turbans they're packing, wondering if they might plan a hijackin'.

00:12:49.820 And again, it's a parody song.

00:12:51.360 It's satire.

00:12:52.300 It's actually kind of funny.

00:12:54.000 The song is more poking fun at the individual and his own anxiety with flying in the era of terrorism and 9-11,

00:13:01.600 as opposed to actually being racist against people who might carry out terrorist attacks. 0.75

00:13:07.320 It's a silly, lighthearted song.

00:13:09.900 So an individual bureaucrat shared this video, and it really, really irked one of his female employees. 0.83

00:13:17.720 So for the last 10 years, she has been trying to basically get this guy fired.

00:13:23.360 It seems like a personal vendetta that she just simply doesn't like this guy.

00:13:27.500 Here's a quote from the individual civil servant.

00:13:31.960 I'm absolutely disgusted, she told the CBC News.

00:13:34.820 The email contained an extremely racist, vitriolic, and hate-filled satirical rendition.

00:13:42.200 The individual who sent the email and the individuals who covered it up have responsibilities dealing with the public directly.

00:13:48.820 So again, this is really just a case of a very oversensitive bureaucrat who is upset.

00:13:54.160 She said that she saw her 17-year career as a federal public civil servant fall apart as a co-worker who shared the song was promoted.

00:14:04.260 It's demoralizing. It's depressing.

00:14:06.220 And in the end, I couldn't stay, she said.

00:14:08.660 Again, I think this is just a case of someone being way too sensitive.

00:14:12.260 And you can kind of imagine why this woman didn't really get ahead in her career. 1.00

00:14:16.700 She's so obsessed with the fact that this co-worker of hers shared an email that she didn't like,

00:14:22.120 that was not politically correct enough for her, that she basically spent the rest of her career trying to get him fired. 0.98

00:14:28.040 Whereas, you know, the guy that sent the email seems like he's just, you know,

00:14:32.260 trying to get along with his colleagues by sharing maybe an amusing, funny video.

00:14:36.840 And he's probably a likable person, whereas she's probably not.

00:14:39.540 And so she was trying to get this individual fired. 1.00

00:14:43.400 People were kind of just blowing her off.

00:14:46.120 And it wasn't until Amnesty International got involved and took interest in this case that it finally got somewhere.

00:14:53.380 And now the department is investigating it.

00:14:56.540 Okay, why on earth Amnesty International is concerned about what kind of videos civil servants in Canada share

00:15:03.320 and the kind of satirical and parody videos they might find funny is just beyond me.

00:15:08.200 And it shows how far Amnesty International has fallen.

00:15:11.420 You know, in some parts of the world they do good work.

00:15:13.080 They do good work.

00:15:13.900 In Iran, places that have actual human rights abuses and actual state,

00:15:18.540 the state cracking down and hurting individuals.

00:15:21.440 In Canada, they obviously have a lot of time in their hands. 0.88

00:15:24.900 So they pick up silly, petty little grievances like this one.

00:15:29.200 The CBC story, the reason I include it in the Fake News of the Week is because the CBC really drums this up.

00:15:34.500 Like this is some kind of a horrific affront to Canadian democracy.

00:15:38.220 And it just shows like some kind of systemic racism.

00:15:41.480 And again, it's just full of over-the-top quotes and people talking about how crazy and unacceptable it is

00:15:48.300 that an individual back in 2008 or 2007 would share a satirical video with his friends.

00:15:55.240 Okay, let's move on.

00:15:56.940 Again, it's Thursday.

00:15:57.880 So let's do a quick round of Ask Me Anything.

00:16:00.200 Okay, this one comes from Daryl.

00:16:02.480 My question is, how deep does the dissent go in our party?

00:16:05.480 Campbell, I assume he's talking about Kim Campbell, has been a turncoat for as long as I can recall.

00:16:10.040 Mulroney had questionable business dealings, therefore questionable character.

00:16:13.920 Now he's agreeing with carbon taxes.

00:16:15.700 Do you think people like these two, along with whomever they're aligned,

00:16:18.880 with blew the last election for us, and they're now trying to remove and ruin a good man's reputation?

00:16:24.540 The good thing about the Conservative Party is that it's always been a big tent.

00:16:27.540 So you have a lot of different kind of factions of Conservatives.

00:16:30.400 You have the sort of red Tories who mostly live in and around Toronto,

00:16:34.160 but then you also have the social Conservatives and sort of the prairies.

00:16:38.420 You have Libertarians who would want like a very small government, 0.99

00:16:41.520 as well as, again, more social Conservatives who have their values reflected in their political party and in their leader.

00:16:48.360 I think it's good that we can all get along and stay in the same party.

00:16:51.220 The fear is when you have factions like Maxine Bernier leaving the party or the potential of someone like Peter McKay becoming leader

00:16:58.320 and completely alienating people in Western Canada and that base of sort of blue Conservatives on the prairies.

00:17:05.920 That's when you risk splitting the party up and never having a chance at becoming Prime Minister.

00:17:12.640 I don't know if people, some of the red Tories would have left the party over Andersher.

00:17:18.100 I feel like those people might have left the party over Stephen Harper.

00:17:21.160 So I'm not really sure that they're the people that are to blame for the loss in the last election.

00:17:25.920 But I will just say that the Conservatives will do a lot better if they can remain one party and remain united.

00:17:32.660 Next question comes from Ron.

00:17:34.320 This is a pretty complicated question.

00:17:35.580 So he says, is there such thing in the Canadian Constitution as the Alberta Act?

00:17:40.640 I was told at a recent meeting that there was a clause in the Constitution called the Alberta Act that prevented Alberta from ever having as many elected representatives as Quebec in the House of Commons.

00:17:50.020 I've not been able to prove or disprove this allegation.

00:17:52.840 So I was hoping someone with a bit more resources than myself would be able to.

00:17:56.640 So the short answer is, well, yes, there is such thing as the Alberta Act.

00:18:01.920 It came into effect in 1905, and that was just the act that brought Alberta into the Confederation.

00:18:07.220 It was an act of parliament that created the province of Alberta.

00:18:09.920 And notably, it allowed the government of Canada at the time to maintain control of Alberta's natural resources and public lands.

00:18:17.520 That was the case at the time.

00:18:19.840 And as far as representation, there is mention of Quebec in the Alberta Act.

00:18:24.580 But it's only as far as how the formula is drawn up to determine how many seats Alberta will have in the House of Commons.

00:18:32.780 So back then, Quebec was guaranteed 65 seats.

00:18:36.140 That came into effect with the Constitution Act in 1867.

00:18:39.200 Quebec was always going to have 65 seats.

00:18:41.280 And then the other provinces, as they joined, they would have as many seats proportionate to their population as Quebec had to 65 seats.

00:18:50.100 Then in 1974, there was a new act that was introduced.

00:18:53.520 It was called the Representation Act of 1974.

00:18:56.760 That upped Quebec's allocation of seats to 75.

00:19:00.180 But then the same formula took effect.

00:19:02.240 So the answer is no.

00:19:03.640 There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents Alberta from having more seats than Quebec.

00:19:08.220 But Alberta would have to have a bigger population.

00:19:10.780 And the formula for how seats are drawn up are based on Quebec having a certain number of seats.

00:19:16.040 I think what you might be thinking of is in the Senate, because the Senate is different.

00:19:20.500 Seats are given out on a regional basis, not based on representation by population.

00:19:25.620 So based on the Constitution, Quebec will always have 24 seats in the Senate.

00:19:30.880 So will Ontario.

00:19:32.300 And then the other two regions, so one being Western Canada and the Western provinces, and the other, the Maritimes, also get 24 seats.

00:19:39.120 But then there are extra seats allocated.

00:19:40.920 So Newfoundland and Labrador get six seats.

00:19:43.660 And then each of the prairies get one seat. 0.94

00:19:45.500 So really, the Maritimes have 30 seats, even though the population is quite small.

00:19:50.280 Whereas Western Canada, with a bigger population, only has 24 seats.

00:19:55.060 So in the Senate, it's not very even.

00:19:57.340 In the House of Commons, at least, they try to be a little bit more even.

00:20:00.880 All right, guys, I'm going to leave it at that.

00:20:02.620 Thank you so much for joining us.

00:20:04.520 And if you want to have one of your questions answered and ask me anything, don't forget to sign up for one of our clubs.

00:20:09.680 You can do that over at TNC.news.

00:20:12.480 All right, thank you so much, and have a great weekend.

00:20:15.500 Thank you.

Juno News - December 13, 2019

The Candice Malcolm Show： Awarding Greta Thunberg's temper tantrums

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