Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： Canadian confederation is broken

00:00:00.160 Canadian Confederation is broken and the sea and rail strikes show the extent of our problems.

00:00:05.440 Trudeau is struggling to hold the country together, but if you ask the mainstream media,

00:00:08.880 it's sheer with all the problems. And Iran is burning, but the Trudeau liberals just don't

00:00:14.160 care. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:21.920 Hi everyone, thank you so much for joining the podcast. Hopefully you caught my video

00:00:26.080 over the weekend. I went down to the Iran protests and talked to individual Iranians to find out what

00:00:31.920 exactly they were protesting. Check that video out. I'm going to talk about Iran a little later

00:00:35.600 in the show. But first I want to talk about the sea and rail strike. So roughly 3,200 sea and rail

00:00:42.000 employees who are members of the Teamster Union have been on strike since last Tuesday. And this

00:00:48.320 is threatening our entire country. Canada is a country that is built on natural resources and

00:00:53.680 exporting those natural resources. And when we have key infrastructure that is just not working

00:00:58.640 and not moving, the country is grinding to a hold. It literally puts the entire economy at risk. So you

00:01:04.560 might hear a lot about a propane shortage in Quebec. That's incredibly scary when you think about

00:01:09.520 hospitals, long-term care facilities, homes. We're going into a very long winter and the fact that

00:01:15.120 individuals might not be able to properly heat their homes, especially for the elderly, it's incredibly

00:01:19.920 scary. It's not just propane though. It affects the entire country. Think of farmers on the prairies

00:01:24.960 who can't get their grain to market. Think about grain sitting in grain elevators and other agricultural

00:01:30.320 products that are going to go bad if they don't get shipped to market. Think about people who live

00:01:35.120 in northern communities and the mineral extraction that happens up there. Can't get that to market.

00:01:40.480 Anyone who works in manufacturing, anyone who works in warehouses, all of those jobs could

00:01:44.800 potentially be at risk because railways are not moving. And it shows just how easy it is that one

00:01:50.800 industry can hold the entire country at hostage. You know, 3,200 employees, a union flexing its muscle,

00:01:57.200 and the entire country potentially grinds to a halt. And again, this emphasizes the issues that we have

00:02:03.600 with our lack of pipelines, a lack of infrastructure. Because we don't have the pipelines in place, we don't

00:02:08.320 have that critical infrastructure. When oil comes out of the ground, it needs to go to a refinery. And we don't

00:02:13.760 have that capacity through pipelines. We rely on rail to ship these kind of products. And when you have

00:02:19.760 3,200 employees from a union holding the entire country hostage, it shows just how vulnerable

00:02:24.960 Canada is. The very point of Canadian Confederation originally, we were an economic union. The idea is

00:02:31.040 that we are a country that trades freely between the provinces, where you can get grain from Saskatchewan

00:02:37.520 to where it needs to be in Ontario. You can get oil from Alberta to where it needs to get refined,

00:02:43.120 preferably that would be happening in Central and Eastern Canada. But again, this just goes to show

00:02:48.240 the total lack of political ability to get things done in the country. So leader of the Conservative

00:02:54.880 Party, Andrew Scheer, has been urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to issue back-to-work legislation as

00:03:00.720 soon as possible. He's been urging Trudeau to recall parliament faster. As you know, parliament doesn't

00:03:06.640 come back into session until December 5th. Well, by then, economists are estimating that Canada's

00:03:12.000 economy could be hit with a $3 billion loss, $3 billion over this strike. We shouldn't be waiting.

00:03:18.080 We shouldn't be stuck in turmoil. But we have a prime minister that is completely ineffective.

00:03:22.560 It's almost like he doesn't care. He's barely acknowledged it. He's not doing what he could.

00:03:26.640 You know, keep in mind the entire SNC-Lavalin scandal, all centered on the fact that Trudeau said

00:03:31.520 that he was trying to save some jobs in Quebec. And that's why he had his attorney general pressure.

00:03:36.240 That's why he tried to intervene in a court decision, because he supposedly cared so much

00:03:41.360 about Canadian jobs. Well, we've already seen layoffs in Halifax over the CN rail strike.

00:03:45.840 Potentially, a lot of people are going to be very hurt because of this strike. Trudeau can't be

00:03:51.040 bothered to take the political action. It shows his failure as a leader. And again, just how broken

00:03:57.280 our country is. We can't even trade. We can't even get our products to market. Now, if you watch the

00:04:02.800 mainstream media, if you were reading the columnists, all the fancy columnists in the

00:04:07.040 fancy newspapers this weekend, you wouldn't really see anything about Justin Trudeau. You wouldn't

00:04:12.160 really see a lot about how damaging and potentially horrible the CN rail strike is and continues to be.

00:04:18.960 No, instead, you would only read about conservative leader Andrew Scheer, because the mainstream media

00:04:24.000 is obsessed with divided conservatives. They're obsessed with the fact that they think that Andrew

00:04:28.640 Scheer has to go. So Scheer let go two of his top aides over the weekend. And this enabled the

00:04:34.000 media, again, to focus the attention away from the important issues in the country, like the economy,

00:04:38.720 and instead nitpick over Scheer and theorize and talk about whether or not he's going to last

00:04:44.720 leadership review in April. This is all a distraction. The real problems in this country

00:04:49.840 are not to do with whether or not Andrew Scheer is willing to march in a gay pride parade. That is

00:04:54.560 irrelevant. That is not a major issue in this country. But the pundits and the columnists and

00:04:59.840 all the fancy people, that's all they care about. That's all they want to talk about. And frankly, that's

00:05:04.000 part of the reason why the mainstream media is dying, because people don't want to read yet another

00:05:08.400 column about how Andrew Scheer may or may not be homophobic, depending on, you know, the latest demands

00:05:15.280 from that community. No, we want to know about how our country is going to function, what's happening in

00:05:20.240 Alberta with the rise of Western alienation, with the lack of pipelines. People care about their jobs.

00:05:26.240 People care about being able to heat their homes. People care about being able to put food on the

00:05:30.000 table. They don't really care about, you know, the media's little minute criticisms on Andrew Scheer

00:05:35.920 and conservatives. So again, disappointing, but not surprising. As I mentioned, I went down to the Iran

00:05:44.240 rally over the weekend. There were two big rallies in Toronto this weekend on Saturday and on Sunday.

00:05:48.960 There's a couple of different factions of the Iranian diaspora here in Toronto that were holding

00:05:54.480 kind of, you know, different competing rallies. I went to the big one on Saturday. It was in Mal

00:05:59.600 Aspen Square. I put out a report. You should catch that. I talked all about how the CBC's reports on

00:06:04.080 the Iran protests are wrong. CBC is lying. And I talked to some individuals who backed that up. Now,

00:06:10.720 that wasn't the only thing that I heard when I spoke to Iranian protesters and human rights activists

00:06:15.520 in Toronto. One of the things that really surprised me was how critical these individuals were of

00:06:20.640 Justin Trudeau and of his MP for Richmond Hill named Majid Jawari. Majid is from Iran originally.

00:06:28.160 And the Iranian people I spoke to really did not have a lot of good things to say about him. They

00:06:32.240 were very critical, very concerned about the relationship between the Trudeau Liberals

00:06:36.400 and the Islamic Republic of Iran. People like Majid Jawari, who's an Iranian-Canadian representative

00:06:42.000 of Richmond Hill, who hasn't made any comments or is not showing his face here. Our elected

00:06:47.840 officials, you have to ask them what ties, what relations and what benefits they have with this

00:06:52.880 regime that they've chosen to remain silent. Canada can do a lot of things. First of all,

00:06:57.120 Canada has to recognize Iranian regime as a terrorist regime and the security forces of Iranian regime

00:07:04.720 regime as a terrorist organization. And Canada has to recognize all the people who have been here

00:07:14.240 from, who have been sent here from the Islamic government to lobby for the Islamic government.

00:07:20.720 And they are actually being active here in Toronto, in all Canada. Canada has to kick them out of the country

00:07:29.440 because a lot of organizations here in Canada have been actually organized by the Islamic regime and

00:07:36.800 they are lobbying for the regime. If you haven't been paying attention, there have been huge protests

00:07:42.080 in Iran for over a week now. The Islamic regime is the largest state sponsor of terrorism. They've 0.88

00:07:47.440 bankrolled terrorist organizations across the Middle East, specifically in Israel. And you know,

00:07:52.720 the people have kind of had enough of it. The country massively cracks down on human rights. There's

00:07:57.520 crazy human rights abuses. They execute more people than almost any other country in the world,

00:08:01.760 aside from China. People are on death row as young as, you know, 15, 16 year olds. They kill people for

00:08:09.280 being gay. They kill people for being religious minorities, for being political dissidents, 1.00

00:08:13.440 outspoken critics of the regime. The government spiked the price of gas by 300% overnight. Actually,

00:08:20.560 this is kind of interesting. Millions of people are on the streets protesting a gas hike in Iran.

00:08:25.280 I looked it up. The price of gas in Iran is about 30 cents, 30 cents a litre. So it's roughly one-fifth

00:08:32.720 of what we pay in Canada. And yet that prompted, you know, millions of people to come out on the

00:08:36.800 streets. Well, as the protests got bigger and bigger, the regime cracked down. They basically

00:08:41.360 started waging war on their own people, shooting people, mass arrests. Hundreds of people have been

00:08:46.640 killed, a couple thousand injured. Last I checked, 7,000 people had been arrested. Not a good place to be

00:08:53.200 arrested. The Iranian regime is not exactly known for treating people fairly once they've been

00:09:01.360 locked up. They don't exactly have the rule of law or due process over there. So anyway, when I was

00:09:07.040 talking to the individuals in Toronto, the things that they wanted to really emphasize was the fact

00:09:13.040 that the regime has cut off internet completely. So there's no internet over there. They can't

00:09:16.640 communicate. But also just a total lack of even awareness by Justin Trudeau. He hasn't acknowledged the

00:09:21.840 protests. He hasn't sent out a tweet. One of the things that Justin Trudeau has talked about for

00:09:26.000 the last four years is reopening diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic. And so a lot of the

00:09:31.680 protesters that I spoke to were concerned that Trudeau's relationship with the mullahs, with this

00:09:36.320 tyrannical Islamist regime was too cozy, that they were too friendly, that there are secret meetings 0.76

00:09:41.920 happening behind closed doors. And that is why Justin Trudeau is not speaking out. It's not taking a

00:09:46.880 stance for human rights on the world stage. So super disappointing to see. And I think that

00:09:52.560 not just Iranians in Canada, but all Canadians, you know, we expect our prime minister to take a

00:09:57.520 stand for human rights. And also we expect, you know, we just expect better of Justin Trudeau instead

00:10:04.640 of making behind closed doors deals with some of the most wicked people in the world. Trudeau should just

00:10:10.960 take a stand and call out bad behavior we see. You don't need to get involved. We don't need to send

00:10:16.640 anything over there. A candidate should mind its own business in this regard. However, you know,

00:10:20.960 you can show your support to people who are being killed by a tyrannical regime instead of just

00:10:25.920 pretending it's not happening and turning a blind eye. So I'm going to leave it at that. Thank you so

00:10:30.880 much for tuning in this week. Don't forget to check out our website, tnc.news. And from there,

00:10:36.160 you can sign up for our newsletter and never miss anything happening over at tnc.news. Thanks so much.

Juno News - November 26, 2019

The Candice Malcolm Show： Canadian confederation is broken

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