Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： Canadian energy projects grind to a halt...again

00:00:00.000 A desperate Justin Trudeau splurges to win a Security Council seat at the United Nations,

00:00:04.620 Canadian energy projects grind to a halt again, and the left shows his true character by attacking

00:00:09.620 Jordan Peterson in his time of need. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:19.740 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program. I am audio only this week,

00:00:24.940 there'll be clips and there'll be other footage for the videos, but I don't have my camera with

00:00:30.880 me. I am on a little sabbatical. I'm down in California with my family, spending some time

00:00:35.640 relaxing, also working on a few bigger projects for True North. So bear with us for the next few

00:00:41.060 episodes. We will not have video, but hopefully you will enjoy the show nonetheless. So today I

00:00:46.880 want to talk, let's talk about Justin Trudeau trying, desperately trying to create a legacy for

00:00:51.860 himself. So he is splurging, spending money, spending taxpayer dollars, trying to win a seat

00:00:57.660 on the Security Council at the United Nations. To me, this is sort of a useless, this is a useless 0.98

00:01:03.380 endeavor. This is just, you know, maybe at one point in the past, the United Nations Security Council

00:01:09.480 was a very important place to be and a very influential place where you could, you could

00:01:14.540 really have an impact and assert yourself and create a real impact on the global stage. Well,

00:01:21.160 the United Nations is just sort of a mess. Everybody knows this. It's a real corrupt body

00:01:27.400 full of sort of the world's worst dictators and despots meeting together. It really, you 0.95

00:01:33.420 know, it's a place for people to feel important, but they don't really do anything. You know,

00:01:38.360 the real players, the real actors on the world stage are the individual nations, you know,

00:01:43.560 especially with a strong leader like Donald Trump in the United States, who's actually putting

00:01:48.020 forth ideas and putting forth policies and plans to try to build a better world. If you look at,

00:01:54.480 you know, his deal of the century that he just announced, creating a state, proposing a state

00:01:58.820 for the Palestinian people and a peace deal with Israel. I mean, that's action. That's that's the

00:02:03.740 sort of legacy deal that you create. Whereas, you know, with Justin Trudeau, you just sort of see

00:02:08.440 this desperate politicized attempt to try to get a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

00:02:13.340 It became politicized and political recently. It didn't used to be a thing. It used to be that

00:02:18.200 sort of, you know, all the parties in Ottawa would come together to help support a bid for

00:02:23.520 the United Nations. Well, the liberals severely undermined the conservative bid. So under Stephen

00:02:28.060 Harper, the conservatives tried to have a bid back in 2011. The liberals at the time undermined it.

00:02:33.140 They said that the conservatives didn't deserve it. Michael Ignacev was the leader of the liberal

00:02:36.620 party. He's sort of a big wig in terms of foreign policy and international relations theory. And so 0.80

00:02:43.280 as a sort of major player on the world stage himself, him casting doubt over Canada's ability

00:02:48.900 to sit on that seat with Harper, a lot of people blamed that for the reason why Canada didn't get

00:02:54.500 it. Also, Canada didn't really do what it needed to. I don't think that conservatives really place the

00:02:59.480 same amount of value as the liberals do on something like this. The idea was that, you know,

00:03:04.680 in order to get a seat on the UN Security Council, you have to kind of wine and dine the worst people

00:03:10.180 in the world, the worst people under the planet, not just UN bureaucrats, but you have to convince

00:03:15.220 other nations that you are worthy of their vote. So you have to sort of, you know, schmooze with these

00:03:22.200 corrupt dictatorships and just really, truly horrible people. And that's what we're seeing

00:03:26.660 right now. That's what the liberals are doing. So Justin Trudeau has just committed $10 million to

00:03:32.780 African nations, of course, to help promote gender equality. And this really is just, you know,

00:03:39.320 a bid to sort of help bribe people, bribe these nations that may consider voting for Canada

00:03:45.140 on the United Nations Security Council. Canada spent millions and millions of dollars

00:03:49.080 trying to get this seat under Trudeau. Basically, the council has 15 members, five are permanent,

00:03:57.140 and then 10 are elected by the Assembly for two-year terms. So this year, there are three

00:04:03.020 different countries that are bidding. It's Ireland, Norway, and Canada. So the three countries will bid

00:04:09.780 for the two seats. And so, you know, you have to assume that all the European countries are going

00:04:15.640 to vote for either Ireland or Norway, which is why Trudeau has his eyes set on Africa and bribing those 0.88

00:04:21.880 African nations for a seat. This is reading from John Iveson's recent piece in the United Nations.

00:04:28.780 This is really just kind of cringeworthy, the kind of stuff where, you know, this is where Canadian 1.00

00:04:35.360 taxpayer dollars are going. So this is from Iveson's piece. It says, Trudeau will attempt to make deals

00:04:40.520 with leaders from countries like Tanzania, which Amnesty International recently accused of ruthlessly

00:04:46.580 disemboweling its human rights framework. The Democratic Republic of Congo, which stands accused

00:04:53.040 of despoiling tropical forests and endemic violence. South Sudan, where the UN says war crimes have taken

00:05:00.960 place, and Kenya, where Human Rights Watch says police have been responsible for disappearances

00:05:06.160 and extrajudicial killing. Iveson notes that Canada already sends nearly $2 billion in overseas aid

00:05:14.420 to a host of countries in Africa, including the four above listing. So not only is Canada spending

00:05:21.560 millions of dollars directly on the bid in terms of like sending staff over there to try to schmooze,

00:05:27.780 to try to wine and dine, all the costs of just trying to get the seat, add that to the billions, 0.51

00:05:33.480 $2 billion plus that we send in aid to sort of try to appease and bribe all these countries. I mean,

00:05:39.480 you just have to imagine like, what is this all for? What is the end result? Other than

00:05:44.060 Justin Trudeau desperately trying to create a legacy, create a sort of name for himself. But

00:05:49.920 really, what does Justin Trudeau stand for? What is his legacy? What does he even believe in when it

00:05:54.900 comes to foreign policy? I mean, there was so much talk when he got elected, all the sort of

00:05:59.900 sort of arrogant, braggy, boasting, saying Canada is back, the kind of equating the Liberal Party is

00:06:08.940 Canada and Canada is the Liberal Party. So you know, you kind of at least expect him to have some 0.80

00:06:14.200 kind of a foreign policy. But really, what have we what have we seen from Justin Trudeau, we saw him

00:06:19.000 severely embarrass the entire country when he went to India. Not only did he dance around in ridiculous 1.00

00:06:25.360 costumes and literally dance before giving a speech. But he also brought a terrorist with him as part of 0.97

00:06:32.600 his entourage, which was exactly the thing that the Indian government was criticizing him for was

00:06:38.240 snubbing him for was refusing to meet with members of his inner cabinet because they said, Look, you

00:06:43.600 don't take the threat of Calistani terrorism seriously. Justin Trudeau was in India to try to

00:06:49.340 sort of say, Oh, yeah, we do we do take it seriously. And lo and behold, he brought a terrorist with him on a

00:06:55.600 mission. So that was just completely embarrassing for all of Canada on the world stage. That's far from the

00:07:01.520 only time that Trudeau has totally missed had a misstep on his foreign policy. I mean, look at

00:07:07.500 what's happening with China. Look at the look at the extradition of the Huawei executive that came to

00:07:14.140 Vancouver. I mean, why was she even permitted to come into Canada if there was an outstanding warrant

00:07:19.720 for her in the United States? And look at the situation with the two Michaels, the two Canadian men

00:07:24.340 being held hostage basically as political prisoners without charges in China. Trudeau is just completely

00:07:30.640 impotent at dealing with that. And then again, it's just one of 100 examples. He was basically

00:07:37.000 laughed out of the trade deal with NAFTA. Trump turned his back on him and Trudeau was placed in a

00:07:42.380 situation where he had to beg and grovel just to be able to be part of the new NAFTA deal.

00:07:47.700 You know, Canada has again and again and again failed to walk away with trade deals when it comes to,

00:07:55.240 you know, Japan, New Zealand, China, Australia. We've had major issues and a total inability

00:08:00.300 to get that done. So Trudeau's policy, Trudeau's legacy is just really not that much. And so you

00:08:07.780 kind of see this as a desperate attempt. You know, we know Justin Trudeau is a feminist. We know he 0.92

00:08:12.200 loves to brag about himself and talk about how great he is at these sort of international meetings.

00:08:17.460 But again, when it comes to policy, there's not much there. So we're left bribing the worst of the

00:08:23.880 worst in terms of right now, African despots, giving them money to supposedly what focus on 0.94

00:08:31.460 building gender equality. I'm sorry to say, I think that that is a probably a pretty low priority

00:08:37.160 when you're dealing with a tin puck dictatorship that allows no economic freedom, you know, human

00:08:44.300 rights abuses, warring factions, terrorism, terrorist insurgencies, all of the issues that some of

00:08:51.300 these African nations face. The idea of, you know, enhancing gender equality is probably pretty

00:08:56.440 low on the list. I think, you know, securing basic safety, the rule of law, you know, creating jobs,

00:09:03.720 those are probably a bit more high on the priority list, as opposed to what making sure that there are

00:09:08.760 equal political representation of men and women. I mean, it's, it's silly, you know, you could say,

00:09:15.920 making sure that there's education available to both boys and girls would be a good start. But,

00:09:21.640 you know, to many of these countries, they don't even have the basic education for anybody is it's

00:09:26.200 not like it's one sided. So, again, this is just sort of a fool's errand. And I find it really 0.92

00:09:31.760 desperate and pathetic. Trudeau is so focused on this institution that really lacks credibility, 0.97

00:09:38.000 really lacks influence. It's not the United Nations that it was, you know, a few decades ago,

00:09:43.460 and having a seat at Security Council doesn't doesn't do anything. It doesn't create any kind

00:09:48.320 of impact on the world stage. And, you know, Trudeau is just kind of grasping at straws these

00:09:53.360 days to try to stay relevant and try to do anything that would kind of impress Canadians. I don't know

00:09:59.400 if you saw a recent polling found that only four out of 10 Canadians approves of Justin Trudeau and

00:10:05.200 his role as Prime Minister. And, you know, it's not surprising, he's not really doing anything. He's

00:10:11.340 just not very relevant these days. And things aren't going very well for him.

00:10:16.200 Okay, moving on, I feel like we talk about this topic a lot on the program. But, you know, there's

00:10:21.540 just new stories that pop up every single week that again, just illustrate this point, that Canada is

00:10:27.360 a country that is fundamentally broken, we cannot get things done, we cannot get things built, we can't

00:10:32.760 build the critical infrastructure needed to get the economy moving to get our resources to market,

00:10:39.780 to have a functioning country with a functioning economy. And so over the weekend, there were sort

00:10:47.120 of headlines that dominated over protesters who were protesting against the coastal gas link

00:10:53.580 pipeline, which is a $6.2 billion pipeline that would transport natural gas from northern British

00:11:01.620 Columbia, northeastern British Columbia, out to the coast. Well, as we've seen over and over and

00:11:06.240 again, there are just a couple of very, you know, well organized, well funded, media savvy protest

00:11:13.580 groups that just tend to use the hecklers veto, they, they insert themselves right in the middle of the

00:11:20.580 project, they prevent Canadian workers from doing their jobs, which again, create creates this sort of

00:11:26.580 domino effect of Canadian jobs being put at risk, Canadians being unable to go to work, because they cannot get their

00:11:36.140 products to market. And instead of, you know, society in our country viewing these people as they are,

00:11:42.480 which is basically a thorn in the side of our economy that is causing great economic turmoil for untold numbers of

00:11:50.820 families, of families that are unable to, you know, have the livelihood that they once had because of these

00:11:58.100 essentially spoiled brats throwing a temper tantrum. We don't view protesters with this sort of disdain that we should,

00:12:04.160 they're undermining the rule of law, they're undermining faith in the market, they're, they're undermining the ability of our

00:12:10.220 country to, to function. And instead of viewing them as they are, they sort of get celebrated, they get held up as these sort of

00:12:17.600 heroic figures, and the media really, really, really does a disservice to this. So, over the weekend, there were a lot of media

00:12:25.760 stories because there were protesters who were blocking the train tracks near Belleville, Ontario. So, these protesters got on the

00:12:33.760 train tracks, blocked Via Rail, which is a commuter train that takes folks from, you know, Toronto up to Ottawa over to

00:12:39.760 Montreal, and they blocked the train. So, Via Rail had to suspend its service between Toronto and Ottawa on a Sunday afternoon in, you know, what does it, what does a

00:12:47.760 pipeline going from northeastern British Columbia out to the coast, the west coast, what does it have to do with Ontario? Why is Ontario, you know, why are they blocking critical infrastructure in that part of the country?

00:13:03.760 It really is mind boggling why they do these kind of things. But again, instead, you know, this was all over the news. And instead of

00:13:11.760 treating these people with absolute scorn, for undermining the rule of law for blocking people's ability to, you know, get home to their

00:13:19.600 families and get and get to work or get, you know, get to where they need to go. And, you know, these, these people are permitted, you know,

00:13:27.760 they're permitted, and they get these positive stories written about them as if they're some kind of hero.

00:13:32.760 So the protests were told, we're in support of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, which is the place where the original protests are

00:13:43.760 taking place, people that are trying to block that pipeline in British Columbia, they claim that the RCMP have raided the

00:13:50.760 camps full of protesters, and those people are working to stop that gas line pipeline in British Columbia. So supposedly in

00:13:57.760 solidarity with the people in British Columbia, we have crazy, crazy people out in Ontario, again, blocking train tracks,

00:14:06.760 commuter train tracks, and stopping people from being able to carry on with their lives. There are a couple of major issues.

00:14:12.760 So sure, some First Nations communities don't approve of natural resources, they don't want to see it happen.

00:14:19.760 Some of them have valid concerns about the sort of safety of the projects and concern about preserving the

00:14:24.760 natural environment. Fine. A lot of them, you know, it's, it's really just people being transplanted in, flown in,

00:14:31.760 you know, very ideological, anti-development, anti-resource people being flown in to just cause chaos.

00:14:38.760 So in Ontario, the people that blocked the train were part of the First Nation community.

00:14:44.760 And so the media kind of, you know, focuses in on that, the fact that there are First Nation protesters.

00:14:49.760 What they don't really mention is that there are 20 elected First Nation communities that support this pipeline,

00:14:56.760 that support Canadian law, that don't recognize the jurisdiction of the one individual First Nation community in

00:15:04.760 Northern British Columbia, the Wet'suwet'en community, and their law that they say is going to, you know, block this pipeline.

00:15:11.760 So 20 First Nations community, communities support the pipeline, and also a hereditary chief of the skin-tie nation also supports the pipeline. 0.91

00:15:21.760 So this is the hereditary chief, her name is Helen Michelle of the skin-tie nation, and she supports the pipeline. 0.99

00:15:29.760 I don't know why they protest and we walked in that area on foot through a consultation with LNG and there was no building

00:15:40.760 There was no buildings there, there was nothing. After the approval of LNG, they started building facilities there,

00:15:48.760 and it's only one big family that used that. And a lot of the protesters are not even Wet'suwet'en people.

00:15:56.760 So you hear that, she says that a lot of the protesters aren't even from that First Nation.

00:16:00.760 She doesn't understand why they oppose it. Here is another member of that community.

00:16:05.760 Her name is Shirley Wilson. She's also a Wet'suwet'en nation member, and she does not agree with the protest.

00:16:13.760 But again, you don't really see the media holding up these voices, holding up these strong women who are speaking out against the corruption 1.00

00:16:20.760 and against the foreign-funded protesters that have been sort of dropped in to mislead the people about what's happening.

00:16:29.760 I don't agree with the protest at all because, for one thing, it's all one-sided.

00:16:35.760 It's more like one family, one little group from a family from Morristown.

00:16:41.760 Most of them come from Morristown and maybe a few from Hazelton. I'm not sure of who's all there.

00:16:47.760 And also, the protesters that are there, a lot of them come from out-of-area places.

00:16:54.760 There are people I've heard that are from the east of Canada, some from the United States,

00:17:00.760 and some that follow the protest field throughout North America.

00:17:06.760 They jump around. I don't know where they get all their money to fly around and do all these things.

00:17:10.760 But I just don't agree with it. I think they brought a lot of disruption and disunity and everything to our culture.

00:17:17.760 We also care for the land, but we have to live a balanced lifestyle.

00:17:22.760 It's not reality for every person to live out in a canvas tent.

00:17:27.760 Well, there you go. Speaking truth. And again, why aren't these kind of voices promoted in the mainstream media?

00:17:32.760 Why do they focus so much on highlighting the sort of angry anti-industry people when there are also, you know, there are people on both sides and it's important to show both sides.

00:17:44.760 You can get the protesters side of the story by tuning into the mainstream media.

00:17:49.760 We try to bring you the other side of the story.

00:17:51.760 And this is just one example of, you know, things not being able to get built in Canada.

00:17:57.760 There was just really a shocking story that came out in the Huffington Post last week.

00:18:01.760 And I want to go through it. It's from Althea Raj. 0.86

00:18:04.760 And the headline says, Liberal MPs urge Trudeau to reject massive Alberta oil sands mine.

00:18:11.760 Liberals are concerned the $20 billion project would undermine a pledge to be net zero by 2050.

00:18:18.760 So according to Raj, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heard an earful from his Liberal caucus Wednesday,

00:18:24.760 with MPs passionately urging his cabinet not to approve Tech Resource Limited's massive $20 billion frontier oil sands mine project in Alberta.

00:18:35.760 So basically, if you have been following the economic situation in Alberta, following the sort of decline of the oil and gas sector and the subsequent, you know, just collapse of jobs, of industry, of all the things that are connected to that in the province of Alberta.

00:18:52.760 I mean, this project is giving people hope with all the hold ups, all the pipelines that haven't been built, all the companies leaving Canada and going elsewhere.

00:19:00.760 This project is being held up by so many who sort of see it as a glimmer of hope light at the end of the tunnel.

00:19:07.760 You know, a big $20 billion investment creating lots and lots of jobs.

00:19:12.760 The plan would be to create the proposal.

00:19:16.760 The proposal is to see the mine north of Fort McMurray operate for 41 years, cover more than 29,000 hectares and produce about 260,000 barrels of bitumen a day.

00:19:30.760 So from a jobs perspective, from an economic perspective, this is really good news.

00:19:35.760 This is really exciting for all those folks who have been laid off, who are desperate to work or trying to get back in the action.

00:19:41.760 And again, this is a little bit of hope, but politicians in Ottawa do not see it that way.

00:19:46.760 No, no, no. The thing that Justin Trudeau was getting an earful over was the fact that apparently liberals are concerned about a 2050 pledge to be net zero in terms of our CO2 emissions.

00:20:00.760 So apparently Trudeau is getting pressured by the leftists in his caucus to turn down jobs today, to say no to people who want to get back in the economy, say no to a huge project that would pour billions of dollars into the Canadian economy, say no to that because of some hypothetical plan to reduce our CO2 emissions in 30 years, 30 years from now.

00:20:26.760 I mean, who knows what is going to happen in the next 30 years in terms of the science, in terms of technology, in terms of, you know, what we believe about the planet, what we know about the planet.

00:20:37.760 Are there other ways to reduce our CO2? Perhaps we'll have new information.

00:20:41.760 Perhaps the planet will stop warming and start cooling.

00:20:44.760 I mean, there's so many variables that we don't know.

00:20:46.760 What we do know about this project, though, is that it will create 7000 jobs during the construction phase, another 2500 jobs after that.

00:20:55.760 It will create about 70 billion dollars worth of taxes and royalties, which will go to local, provincial and federal governments.

00:21:02.760 So this is, again, a big project. It is a creating a big capability.

00:21:07.760 And yet, supposedly, we're told that the prime minister is getting pressure from environmentalists in his caucus.

00:21:14.760 I think that this is just sort of signaling so that Justin Trudeau has an opportunity to say no, like he can say, well, I wanted to allow this project to go forward, but I was getting all this pressure.

00:21:26.760 I see this piece as a sort of pre positioning in some way.

00:21:29.760 I don't know exactly what is going to happen, but I really, really, really hope that Justin Trudeau sticks with his guns and allows this project to be approved.

00:21:37.760 The project's already been approved. It's already gone through all of its jumped through all of its hoops.

00:21:43.760 It's been approved. The idea now that politicians are talking about pulling it back.

00:21:47.760 I mean, this would be absolutely disastrous. I mean, as bad as things are in Alberta, as many voices as we hear talking about Alberta independence or Western separatism.

00:21:56.760 If Justin Trudeau and the liberals actually stopped this project, I don't even know what would happen, but it would be very, very bad for Canada and very, very bad for Justin Trudeau and his liberals.

00:22:09.760 And speaking of those liberals, we had Bill Mornow go on power and politics with Vassie Capello over the weekend on CBC.

00:22:17.760 I mean, this guy is just so arrogant and he explains things with such spin.

00:22:22.760 Watching him talk about what's going on in Alberta, basically, it makes it seem like he's the savior that came in to save Alberta.

00:22:29.760 And he stepped in because this big, bad American oil company, what he says, abandoned Alberta.

00:22:36.760 I mean, you know, in order to create a narrative like that and to believe this, I'll play the clip so you can see what I'm talking about. 0.94

00:22:42.760 But man, this guy is just so arrogant.

00:22:45.760 You know, really, we've got to think back to why we're here. We're here in this project because there was a lack of ability for the private sector to deliver. 0.52

00:22:53.760 We had a, you know, the conservatives blame that on your government.

00:22:56.760 Well, we had a Houston company that went back to Houston and basically abandoned Albertans and abandoned Alberta.

00:23:02.760 And so we had to step in.

00:23:04.760 Did they abandon them? I mean, they were facing huge amounts of political uncertainty, right?

00:23:10.760 You got a new government in B.C. that's saying we don't want this pipeline here.

00:23:14.760 Lots of indigenous communities saying we're willing to do what it takes to stop this. 1.00

00:23:19.760 I mean, if you were running that private company, would you take on that risk?

00:23:22.760 Well, actually, you've pointed out perfectly. Those were the reasons.

00:23:26.760 Well, no, she didn't point it out perfectly because she only described the government of British Columbia as well as, again, the media always does this.

00:23:33.760 They highlight the native, the First Nations communities that oppose the pipelines and ignore all the voices like the ones I talked about earlier in the show that promote the pipelines and promote Canadian industry.

00:23:45.760 And so, of course, Bill Morneau is going to say, yeah, you hit the nail on the head. Those were that that was a political uncertainty.

00:23:50.760 Well, no, Bill Morneau. No, it was the federal government that created the uncertainty.

00:23:55.760 It was the feds that blocked the pipelines. It was the feds that banned tanker ships off the West Coast. 0.97

00:24:01.760 So if you're talking about the political uncertainty, you cannot just simply ignore the federal government and the role that Justin Trudeau has played.

00:24:08.760 And not to mention the carbon tax, not to mention the just total inability, again, of things to get done in this country.

00:24:15.760 And for Bill Morneau to just sit there and say, oh, this Houston company abandoned Alberta.

00:24:19.760 No, no. The federal government abandoned Alberta.

00:24:22.760 The feds abandoned Alberta that created a regulatory situation where it's just hostile to businesses.

00:24:30.760 And you can't really blame the businesses for leaving Alberta when you have the type of governance that we have in Canada.

00:24:36.760 The Trudeau government is just so clueless. They're so clueless.

00:24:40.760 OK, let's move on. This is really a sad story.

00:24:43.760 I mean, the whole the whole thing is just really a bit distressing and upsetting to watch.

00:24:48.760 Jordan Peterson seeks emergency drug detox treatment in Russia.

00:24:52.760 So, I mean, Jordan Peterson sort of had this just huge rise to sort of fame and notoriety.

00:24:59.760 He's an incredibly thoughtful, incredibly powerful presenter.

00:25:03.760 And, you know, he kind of started delivering the right message at the right time to kind of combat just all kinds of stuff that's happening in our society.

00:25:12.760 Helps explain things in just a very succinct and clear way.

00:25:16.760 He kind of created a big following for himself.

00:25:19.760 He put out his book and then he became a huge target for the left where they were just, you know, constantly attacking him, turning his words, twisting his words, making it seem like he was saying things that he wasn't.

00:25:30.760 And they kind of created a controversy out of him.

00:25:33.760 I mean, Jordan Peterson is incredibly influential.

00:25:35.760 He's really just an inspiring human being.

00:25:39.760 Unfortunately, he's just had a really tough go of it lately.

00:25:42.760 The last, I would say almost a year, things have been really sad for him.

00:25:47.760 You know, he's usually really public.

00:25:49.760 He's usually out there, you know, doing a lot of interviews, doing, you know, a lot of speeches, a lot of events.

00:25:55.760 I've seen him speak publicly a couple of times and it's just phenomenal.

00:25:58.760 But, you know, so what happened was that his wife got diagnosed with cancer.

00:26:03.760 He was having a tough time dealing with that.

00:26:06.760 And so he was subscribed a potent anti-anxiety medication.

00:26:10.760 Apparently, the medication had the opposite effect that it was supposed to.

00:26:13.760 And he became not only sort of dependent and addicted to that drug, but it was also having the opposite effect that it was supposed to.

00:26:20.760 So last time I last thing I heard from him was that he was in a sort of rehab center in New York somewhere.

00:26:29.760 That was an update that his daughter gave.

00:26:31.760 Well, she's just given a new update.

00:26:33.760 So Michaela Peterson posted a new video where she describes what has been going on with her father.

00:26:40.760 It's a very somber video.

00:26:42.760 She says that he's been in unbearable discomfort and that he went to Russia, which was a decision made in extreme desperation because they couldn't find a better option.

00:26:53.760 Basically saying that he had had several failed attempts and with treatments in North American hospitals.

00:26:59.760 And so him going to Moscow, you know, pretty, pretty desperate, pretty sad stuff.

00:27:05.760 So let's play a quick clip of Michaela Peterson doing the Peterson family update for February 2020.

00:27:12.760 Dad was put on a low dose of a benzodiazepine a few years ago for anxiety following an extremely severe autoimmune reaction to food.

00:27:20.760 He took the medication as prescribed.

00:27:23.760 Last April, when my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer, the dose of the medication was increased.

00:27:29.760 It became apparent that he was suffering from both a physical dependency and a paradoxical reaction to the medication.

00:27:35.760 For the last eight months, he's been in unbearable discomfort from this drug made worse when trying to remove it because of the additional withdrawal symptoms stemming from physical dependence.

00:27:46.760 He experienced terrible akathisia, which is a condition where the person feels an incredible, endless, irresistible restlessness bordering on panic and an inability to sit still.

00:27:56.760 The reaction made him suicidal.

00:27:58.760 After several failed treatment attempts in North American hospitals, including attempts at tapering and micro tapering,

00:28:06.760 we had to seek an emergency medical benzodiazepine detox, which we were only able to find in Russia.

00:28:12.760 It was incredibly grueling and was further complicated by severe pneumonia, which we've been told he developed in one of the previous hospitals.

00:28:19.760 He's had to spend four weeks in the ICU in terrible shape,

00:28:24.760 but with the help of some extremely competent and courageous doctors, he survived.

00:28:29.760 The decision to bring him to Russia was made in extreme desperation when we couldn't find any better option.

00:28:35.760 The uncertainty around his recovery has been one of the most difficult and scary experiences we've ever had.

00:28:40.760 Wow. So pretty intense stuff.

00:28:42.760 Our prayers are with the Peterson family during this just incredibly difficult time.

00:28:47.760 And, you know, as we're watching this and learning about this, it's just incredibly sad and disturbing to hear about.

00:28:55.760 You know, of course, Twitter is just a terrible place and this kind of stuff, you know, you just almost expect it to happen.

00:29:03.760 But of course, the left is attacking Peterson at this point, you know, when when he's truly at rock bottom and suffering from what sounds like a pretty awful, you know, a pretty awful condition.

00:29:18.760 You have you have people on social media and people generally on the left sort of celebrating it and using it as an opportunity to kick someone when they're down and virtue signaling.

00:29:28.760 So here we have someone who says that they are a professor of law and medicine at the University of Ottawa named Amir Ataran.

00:29:37.760 So he posts this on Twitter hashtag karma.

00:29:40.760 Jordan Peterson, Oracle to gullible young men, preacher of macho toughness and hectoring bully to snowflakes, is addicted to strong drugs and his brain riddled with neurological damage.

00:29:52.760 He deserves as much sympathy as he has shown others.

00:29:55.760 I don't really know what that means because I've seen and understood Jordan Peterson to be a very sort of caring and sympathetic person, very compassionate.

00:30:04.760 And what seems like a very committed father and husband and public intellectual who really takes time out to mentor and help young people, specifically young men, because that's who resonates with his with his speeches.

00:30:19.760 But, you know, I'll tell you, I really, really appreciate and like Jordan Peterson's lecture as well.

00:30:23.760 So it has the ability to reach a broader audience than just sort of young men.

00:30:28.760 But regardless, again, so this, you know, this individual, he posts this story from a source called The Varsity, which, you know, is just, you know, left wing source that probably took whatever Jordan Peterson said out of context.

00:30:41.760 So the article says, I don't think that men can control crazy women. 0.98

00:30:46.760 And again, I don't even want to go into the details of it because I'm sure it was just, you know, Jordan Peterson speaking the truth and someone taking it out of context and making it seem like he was trying to say that all women are crazy or attacking all women when, you know, he was probably talking about something specific.

00:31:03.760 And this guy goes on and on and on with sort of Peterson derangement theory.

00:31:09.760 He was far from the only one to do this.

00:31:11.760 We also saw Nora Loretta chime in.

00:31:14.760 Nora Loretta is sort of known for just being kind of heartless and saying horrible things just to get attention. 1.00

00:31:23.760 You might recall she put out a pretty horrific tweet in the aftermath in the immediate days following the tragic bus crash that killed members of the Humboldt Broncos, making a comment about how the only reason that Canadians really cared was because they were young white boys. 0.98

00:31:41.760 Again, trying to mix sort of identity politics and again, get attention by just, you know, it's like she takes joy in saying really, really stupid things and getting a bunch of conservatives worked up and upset. 0.98

00:31:57.760 So she's doing her shtick. 0.99

00:31:59.760 She says, I hope for years of hell in perpetua for Jordan Peterson.

00:32:03.760 You have that many captive young men and you turn them onto nihilism and misogyny.

00:32:09.760 Sorry, but nah.

00:32:10.760 Okay.

00:32:11.760 I mean, sometimes it's not even worthwhile to give these people attention, which is why I didn't bother, you know, commenting about this on Twitter.

00:32:18.760 Jordan Peterson's whole thing is that he turns people off of nihilism.

00:32:22.760 He tries to convince people that life has meaning and that they can live meaningful lives by taking steps to have, you know, a positive impact for the world around them.

00:32:33.760 He's literally fighting against nihilism.

00:32:36.760 He's not turning people onto nihilism.

00:32:38.760 But again, Nora Loretta just loves attention and she loves to be sort of a bully saying mean, hurtful things. 1.00

00:32:44.760 You know, it's kind of sad.

00:32:46.760 You know, someone someone comes out, you know, Michaela Peterson comes out and shares a very personal story of what her family is going through.

00:32:54.760 Clearly a very painful time.

00:32:56.760 And what are the left?

00:32:57.760 What does the left do?

00:32:58.760 What do members of the left do?

00:32:59.760 They jump up and try to kick him when it is down.

00:33:01.760 We saw this last week with Rush Limbaugh when he announced that he had cancer.

00:33:06.760 There were so many people on social media that were sort of, you know, mocking him and cheering him on.

00:33:11.760 It's just it's really despicable.

00:33:13.760 It shows the true character of these people.

00:33:15.760 And sadly, Twitter has just become this home for, you know, horrible, mean comments, as well as sort of absurd levels of censorship that are pretty one sided.

00:33:26.760 So, you know, I don't really have a lot of time for Twitter these days.

00:33:29.760 I don't think it's the best way to communicate.

00:33:32.760 And, you know, it kind of rewards bad behavior, rewards people who are doing the kind of thing that Nora Loretta does, which is say horrible, mean things just for attention.

00:33:41.760 Just, you know, so that she can kind of egg on people and create a stir for herself, create a name for herself and try to grow her audience. 1.00

00:33:50.760 So, no, you know, I'm not going to fall for it.

00:33:53.760 I don't think I don't think you should either.

00:33:55.760 I think we should ignore that kind of bad behavior.

00:33:57.760 But it is sad to see.

00:33:58.760 And it does show who these people truly are.

00:34:01.760 Well, thank you so much for tuning into the podcast.

00:34:03.760 Don't forget to check out our website, which is TNC dot news.

00:34:07.760 You can stay up to date with all the latest news and opinion on Canadian politics.

00:34:11.760 We're covering the conservative leadership race and so much more.

00:34:15.760 So check that out TNC dot news.

00:34:17.760 OK, we will be back on Wednesday for another episode.

00:34:19.760 Thank you.

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