00:00:00.000Greta Thunberg wins Time Magazine's Person of the Year because it's 2019 and we reward temper tantrums over actual bravery and achievements.
00:00:08.600Jason Kenney goes to Ottawa looking to make a deal. Boris Johnson shows us what it's like to run an effective conservative campaign.
00:00:16.320The 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.
00:00:24.480I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:30.000Hi 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.
00:00:37.720On 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.
00:00:58.120As 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.
00:01:11.840It would push billions of people back into poverty in the developing world. That is what she's calling for.
00:01:16.520But 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.
00:01:28.100They're all far-left environmentalists who hate, fundamentally, who hate capitalism.
00:01:32.000And so there's a sort of in crowd, and they promote themselves. This is complete nonsense.
00:01:36.760Even 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.
00:01:48.500So 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.
00:02:03.940So 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.
00:02:12.140The protests initially began in response to a controversial extradition bill, but has since grown into an outright rebellion demanding greater autonomy from China.
00:02:20.680So 30 percent of people thought that it should be the Hong Kong protesters who would win this person of the year.
00:02:26.120As you know, it can be a group that wins or it can be an individual.
00:02:31.200So 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.
00:02:39.760Again, it's because they love this niche climate alarmism issue.
00:02:44.660And 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.
00:02:56.340And Greta was just one of those individuals. So completely lopsided.
00:02:59.800For some reason, Time magazine decides to go with Greta, probably because she is young and blonde and being on the front cover.
00:03:09.500More of a magazine will probably prompt more people to pick it up.
00:03:14.400Personally, I think that there's a lot of more deserving people, whether it be those brave protesters in Hong Kong.
00:03:20.400Over a thousand protesters in Iran have been killed by the Islamist regime over there.
00:03:24.940Talk about bravery. Talk about courage.
00:03:28.120I 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.
00:03:41.200I would personally give it to Conan, the dog.
00:03:44.480I would probably actually give it to the protesters, either in Iran or Hong Kong.
00:03:49.600But again, it's 2019, so we reward celebrity over actual bravery.
00:03:57.120Next, I want to talk about Jason Kenney, who was in Ottawa this week.
00:04:00.760He had a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday.
00:04:04.420And Jason Kenney took a very different approach to Premier Scott Moe, who was there three weeks ago from Saskatchewan, meeting with the Prime Minister.
00:04:47.820He wanted to have conversations and really get the ball rolling.
00:04:50.920He 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.
00:04:59.860So she's a good person to kind of have an olive branch with.
00:05:03.000And then Trudeau and Kenney sat down on Tuesday.
00:05:08.500After, here's what Jason Kenney had to say after the meeting.
00:05:11.000My 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.
00:05:21.800We'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.
00:05:31.980So Prime Minister Trudeau is kind of playing a game with these Western premiers.
00:05:35.080After 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.
00:05:51.920The premiers are never going to agree.
00:05:53.320Quebec and Alberta are never going to sit down and say, OK, let's change equalization payment one way or another.
00:05:58.740So because right now it benefits Quebec so much and hurts Alberta so much.
00:06:02.520Any change, having Quebec to agree with that is just never going to happen.
00:06:05.840But 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.
00:06:23.960So Jason Kenney was actually successful in reaching some kind of a consensus among the premiers, and he took that back to the prime minister.
00:06:30.240So 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.
00:06:41.820So 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.
00:06:51.980So what Jason Kenney is in Ottawa asking for this week was just a $2.4 billion rebate, which is just a fraction of that.
00:06:59.340And 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.
00:07:13.240So it is Thursday, December 12th, and that means that there is an election going on in the United Kingdom right now.
00:07:19.240It's been really interesting to watch.
00:07:20.680You have Boris Johnson, who is a former mayor of London, and he's just sort of this character.
00:07:25.720He'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.
00:07:36.480It was really entertaining to watch his campaign and really show us here in Canada.
00:07:41.300You know, those are our political cousins over there in the UK.
00:07:44.640Show us how it's done, how a conservative can run an interesting, effective political campaign.
00:07:50.720I loved the advertisements in this campaign.
00:08:59.260This is from a report over at the Post Millennial.
00:09:02.940I feel like the social justice warriors have their eyes on the NHL.
00:09:07.060The NHL is the next victim of the sort of woke mob, the woke left.
00:09:12.240We all know they went after Don Cherry pretty hard, but that was just the beginning.
00:09:16.660So the NHL has released just sort of a wave of measures that are really over the top.
00:09:22.480It 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.
00:09:33.080That's basically what the NHL is doing, providing safe spaces for the players.
00:09:38.160So Gary Bettman, the NHL commissioner, announced there will now be mandatory counseling and training concerning anti-bullying and anti-racism.
00:09:47.900Gary Bettman said inclusion and diversity are not simply buzzwords.
00:09:51.280They are the foundational principles of the NHL.
00:09:55.840We will not tolerate abusive behavior of any kind.
00:09:58.640Okay, you know, it's one thing to say, you know, we don't want to have racism in the NHL.
00:10:03.220It'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.
00:10:11.240But some of these measures that the NHL are bringing in, I find to be quite Orwellian.
00:10:15.400They created an anonymous hotline for players, so kind of like a snitch line, which, of course, could be open to all kinds of abuse.
00:10:21.880When 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.
00:10:35.660And this is a kind of rabbit hole that university campuses went down.
00:10:39.740So 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,
00:10:47.260you have the ability and suddenly the power to really cause damage and cause harm.
00:10:52.220An accusation like, you know, saying someone is racist or saying someone is bullying can really damage your career.
00:10:58.360And, 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,
00:11:08.660which has not proven to have any effectiveness whatsoever.
00:11:15.660I 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,
00:11:21.800or if that leftist ideology has really seeped its way into the NHL and into hockey.
00:11:27.320But, again, when you watch hockey, when you play hockey, you're doing it to escape from politics.
00:11:34.080You don't want that political identity politics chasing you down into every corner of society.
00:11:39.400And that is what's happening, is that there's nothing is safe.
00:11:42.720Post-millennial describes this as a grievance-filled McCarthyist era with blacklists, witch hunts, and virtue signaling.
00:12:08.760So this was an exclusive over at the CBC.
00:12:11.620Transport Canada Investigates Racist Song shared in No Fly List office 10 years after the fact.
00:12:17.920So 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.
00:12:28.560The 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.
00:12:39.000Strangers on my flight, turbans they're packing, wondering if they might plan a hijackin'.
00:17:34.320This is a pretty complicated question.
00:17:35.580So he says, is there such thing in the Canadian Constitution as the Alberta Act?
00:17:40.640I 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.
00:17:50.020I've not been able to prove or disprove this allegation.
00:17:52.840So I was hoping someone with a bit more resources than myself would be able to.
00:17:56.640So the short answer is, well, yes, there is such thing as the Alberta Act.
00:18:01.920It came into effect in 1905, and that was just the act that brought Alberta into the Confederation.
00:18:07.220It was an act of parliament that created the province of Alberta.
00:18:09.920And notably, it allowed the government of Canada at the time to maintain control of Alberta's natural resources and public lands.