Juno News - November 09, 2019


The Candice Malcolm Show： Foreign aid gets STOLEN by terrorists!


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Canadian foreign aid gets stolen by an Islamic terrorist group in Syria. Edmonton police protect the identity of a man who took a child hostage in a CBSA center in Edmonton. The mainstream media shows its open contempt and bigotry towards Canadians of religious convictions.

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00:00:00.160 Canadian foreign aid gets stolen by an Islamist terrorist group in Syria.
00:00:06.240 Edmonton police protect the identity of a man who took a child hostage in a CBSA center
00:00:12.360 in Edmonton, but then they don't have a problem naming that child.
00:00:16.640 And finally, the mainstream media shows its open contempt and bigotry towards Canadians
00:00:21.600 of religious convictions.
00:00:23.440 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:31.600 Hi everyone, and welcome back to the program, welcome to the podcast.
00:00:35.600 As I mentioned earlier this week, we're going to be coming to you twice a week now, so we're
00:00:38.840 going to have a midweek podcast, as well as the Friday podcast, and we're going to expand
00:00:43.560 to talk about issues beyond just media bias and media spin.
00:00:47.500 We're still going to talk about that, but we're also going to talk about some of the issues
00:00:50.620 of the day, some of the things that I'm interested in, which are, you know, stories related to
00:00:55.120 immigration, national security, and terrorism.
00:00:58.660 And then we're also going to talk about some of the broader issues facing Canadians and talking
00:01:03.680 about what it's like to be a conservative in Canada.
00:01:06.860 So let's get right to it.
00:01:08.960 This story kind of blows my mind.
00:01:11.860 Over at Global News, Stuart Bell, who's a terrific investigative reporter over there, has this
00:01:17.200 exclusive Canadian aid to Syria was stolen by Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group document show.
00:01:23.500 So it looks like they filed some access to information reports.
00:01:27.440 And finally, the government declassified this report showing that in August 2018, an organization
00:01:34.020 that is a recipient of foreign aid, so Canadian government, Canadian taxpayers sends foreign
00:01:38.580 aid to an organization that was settled, that was posted in Syria.
00:01:43.340 And basically their warehouse was ransacked by gunned militants from this terrorist organization
00:01:49.840 that is connected to Al Qaeda.
00:01:51.840 So this group wants to once again impose and enforce a Islamic state in Syria.
00:01:59.020 And you know, they carry out all kinds of terrorist attacks or a listed terrorist attack.
00:02:03.200 They're a listed terrorist entity, according to the Department of Public Safety in Canada.
00:02:09.400 And so these individuals basically just stole a bunch of electronics.
00:02:13.260 They stole computers, laptops, iPods, iPads, two-way radios, projectors, you know, all kinds
00:02:21.940 of stuff that obviously enable them to carry out terrorist attacks, to do logistics, to organize,
00:02:28.560 to spread propaganda.
00:02:30.740 And so here we have a pretty blatant example of Canadian foreign aid going from Canada to
00:02:37.060 an organization and then ending up in the hands of our enemies, in the hands of Islamist 0.99
00:02:42.360 terrorism.
00:02:43.360 And I just, I can't help but connect this back to the election campaign and Conservative leader
00:02:50.140 Andrew Scheer, who proposed that Canada cut its foreign aid spending by 25 percent.
00:02:57.140 Canada currently spends about six billion dollars a year sending money to foreign governments
00:03:02.380 and to other recipients.
00:03:04.680 Foreign aid is a whole big industry, there's tons and tons of schemes.
00:03:08.380 Most developed countries put lots and lots of money towards basically just, you know, redistributing
00:03:14.680 wealth from the developed world to the developing world, hoping that that will lead to rising
00:03:20.160 living standards in the poorest countries.
00:03:22.980 Sadly, a lot of times the money doesn't go where it's supposed to.
00:03:26.720 So Andrew Scheer's position was that a lot of money goes to sort of middle income countries,
00:03:32.840 close to some of our rivals, you know, we're paying countries like China, you know, who
00:03:38.540 basically have developed economies by now and then sometimes the money ends up going
00:03:42.440 to adversarial governments, places like Iran and Russia.
00:03:47.380 And so Scheer's position was that foreign aid isn't very well spent.
00:03:51.040 And at a time where, you know, Canada's running massive deficits, we have mounting debt, our
00:03:56.840 own industries at home are struggling, hundreds of thousands of people in the oil and gas industry
00:04:02.540 are out of work.
00:04:03.540 You know, we have our own problems on First Nations reserves with homeless people. 1.00
00:04:08.300 Why aren't we spending that money at home?
00:04:10.240 Why are we sending it abroad?
00:04:12.240 It's all very legitimate.
00:04:14.240 And yet, the mainstream media treated it like it was just this horrible idea.
00:04:18.940 And you know, you saw piece after piece from mainstream media outlets condemning this idea,
00:04:23.940 talking to people who work within the foreign aid industry, condemning it, you know, the partisan
00:04:29.380 liberals over at CBC fact-checked Andrew Scheer's claim and deemed that it was false.
00:04:34.980 Of course they did.
00:04:35.980 You know, it's just interesting as an aside, I have a background in this topic.
00:04:40.240 When I was in graduate school, I wrote my master's dissertation on foreign aid, on the
00:04:44.700 flaws within the foreign aid model.
00:04:47.300 And I looked at free market solutions and ideas that could actually help lift people out
00:04:51.220 of poverty and help develop, you know, places in the least developed parts of the world.
00:04:56.760 And you know, there's actually a pretty significant body of literature from people who take that
00:05:02.040 same position, that foreign aid is not helpful, that it's often futile, it's often counterproductive,
00:05:07.940 and often it creates more harm than good, it creates dependency, and all kinds of unintended
00:05:12.360 consequences.
00:05:13.360 So, you know, if the mainstream media actually wanted to be fair, they could have gone to people
00:05:18.200 who have this position.
00:05:20.200 Dambisa Moyo, who is a Zambian-born economist, has a book called Dead Aid, and it's all about
00:05:25.200 how harmful foreign aid initiatives have been to her, you know, home country and to places
00:05:31.960 all over Africa.
00:05:33.500 And how, you know, 30, 40 years after foreign aid was first introduced, some of those countries
00:05:38.440 are worse off now than they were before.
00:05:41.580 Another person is Bill Easterly over at New York University.
00:05:44.760 He's written several books about some of the sort of most unintended consequences and foreign 1.00
00:05:50.620 aid really just backfiring.
00:05:52.780 And so, you know, again, if the mainstream media wanted to be fair, they could talk about
00:05:56.220 the flaws in foreign aid, as well as maybe providing a critique from someone who works
00:06:00.420 within one of these UN agencies or a professor who's connected to one of these organizations.
00:06:06.360 But instead, because they're the mainstream media and they hate conservatives, you just
00:06:09.660 saw overwhelming criticism of Scheer's proposal.
00:06:13.380 And I think this story about Canadian foreign aid ending up in the hands of terrorists is
00:06:18.600 just another data point to show that, you know, Andrew Scheer wasn't entirely wrong and
00:06:23.400 that there's definitely room for improvement, let's just say, when it comes to Canada's foreign
00:06:27.880 aid.
00:06:28.880 Okay, let's move on to another story.
00:06:30.300 This one is just absolutely mind-boggling to me.
00:06:34.080 This happened last Friday at a CBSA centre in Edmonton, a Canadian border services agency
00:06:39.380 centre, there was an individual who was getting into an altercation with officials and things
00:06:45.260 escalated to the point where it became a hostage situation.
00:06:48.980 The man who was sort of, you know, shouting and saying, talking about how he wants to speak
00:06:55.140 to a UN lawyer, all of a sudden he grabs a child who happens to be in the waiting room.
00:06:59.660 The child is not related to him in any way.
00:07:02.240 He's just a child who happens to be in the same waiting room with his parents.
00:07:06.480 He grabs a three-year-old, holds a knife to his throat, making his incoherent demands
00:07:12.900 to the officers and, you know, the reason that we know all of this is because it was
00:07:17.780 caught on tape and that tape has surfaced.
00:07:20.940 So here it is.
00:07:21.940 No, I said you want to see the blood and it's going to be actually because you caused it.
00:07:28.480 I'm sorry.
00:07:29.480 I'm sorry.
00:07:30.480 Okay.
00:07:31.480 Let's try it.
00:07:32.480 Oh my God.
00:07:33.480 You want to open it or not?
00:07:35.480 No, no, no.
00:07:36.480 No, no.
00:07:37.480 No, no.
00:07:38.480 No.
00:07:39.480 Because of the child and died, the kids like this, listen.
00:07:42.480 Listen, they died in my face.
00:07:45.480 Please.
00:07:46.480 She escorted me to her office.
00:07:47.480 That's it.
00:07:48.480 You can see the child is incredibly distraught, crying, screaming as a three-year-old child
00:08:15.480 would be if they were snatched from their parents' arms by a stranger who all of a sudden,
00:08:20.480 you know, holds a knife to him.
00:08:22.480 And so, you know, it was a tense situation.
00:08:25.480 Luckily, you know, things were calmed down and the child is safe now, although probably
00:08:32.480 a little traumatized from what he went through.
00:08:35.480 And yet, when the media reported about it and the Edmonton police put out their statement
00:08:40.480 about this incident, they protected the name of the perpetrator, the man who carried out
00:08:46.480 this hostage situation.
00:08:47.480 And yet, they decided to name the three-year-old child in the incident.
00:08:51.480 So, in the minds of the Edmonton police, you can name a child who was caught up in a horrifying
00:08:57.480 incident, but you should protect the name of the perpetrator who is still in custody,
00:09:02.480 presumably being charged.
00:09:04.480 So, again, you know, this is a problem that you see in Canada over and over and over again.
00:09:10.480 When there is a crime, a public incident, a terrorist attack, an attack of some sort,
00:09:16.480 there's a kind of hush-hush mentality among the police.
00:09:20.480 They keep key details hidden.
00:09:21.480 They keep the identity of the perpetrators hidden.
00:09:23.480 They don't want Canadians to know key information.
00:09:27.480 And, you know, I think it shows just basically a distrust of the Canadian public.
00:09:32.480 The police think that we are incapable of handling the truth, that we shouldn't be given facts
00:09:37.480 because of the conclusions that we might come to.
00:09:40.480 But really, what they do is they just leave a black hole for conspiracy theorists online
00:09:44.480 and people who want to fill in their own gaps.
00:09:47.480 And, you know, I can give you dozens of examples of this happening where the police just don't
00:09:51.480 provide information.
00:09:52.480 I mean, I think the most, the biggest example that comes to mind was after the Danforth shooting
00:09:58.480 in Toronto two summers ago.
00:10:00.480 The police just kind of refused to provide any information.
00:10:03.480 They were completely tight-lipped.
00:10:04.480 They didn't provide the name.
00:10:05.480 They didn't provide, you know, details about the individual.
00:10:08.480 Even as things started to come up and people started putting two and two together, you know,
00:10:12.480 ISIS took responsibility for the attack.
00:10:14.480 There was still a very hush-hush mentality among the Toronto Police Services.
00:10:19.480 Again, you know, why don't they trust the public?
00:10:22.480 If they put the information out there, you know, they should trust Canadians to draw their own 0.97
00:10:26.480 conclusions.
00:10:27.480 But when they don't, you start to wonder, like, what is it that they're doing?
00:10:30.480 Who are they trying to protect?
00:10:32.480 Why are they keeping a lid on this?
00:10:34.480 And another one, just last month in Calgary, there was a military parade.
00:10:38.480 It happened to fall on the anniversary of an ISIS terrorist attack.
00:10:42.480 There was two that happened in two days in Quebec and in Ottawa on Parliament Hill back in 2014.
00:10:48.480 A military parade was happening.
00:10:50.480 All of a sudden, a car speeds past the barrier, starts darting all over the place, you know, onto the sidewalk.
00:10:57.480 Finally, the driver was shot by, sorry, by Calgary police.
00:11:03.480 And again, the police didn't release any information.
00:11:07.480 We didn't know the name of the driver.
00:11:09.480 We didn't know, you know, whether there was any connection to the anniversary of the ISIS terrorist attack
00:11:14.480 or what the motives were.
00:11:16.480 They just didn't provide any information whatsoever.
00:11:18.480 I think it shows a really sad state in Canada where the police just don't trust the public.
00:11:23.480 And I think increasingly it will lead to a situation where people in the public in turn don't trust the police
00:11:30.480 or at least the higher-ups and the sort of gatekeepers within those kinds of institutions.
00:11:36.480 So again, why would you name the three-year-old child who's a victim in all this
00:11:41.480 but not name the individual that actually holds the child hostage?
00:11:45.480 So unfortunate.
00:11:47.480 Okay, finally, let's talk about this last issue here that I want to get to,
00:11:52.480 which is all over social media.
00:11:55.480 So on Wednesday, the mainstream media put this question to Andrew Scheer.
00:11:59.480 Again, they really just won't give up on this question.
00:12:02.480 They smell blood when it comes to Scheer and they really think that him being a Catholic
00:12:06.480 and a social conservative in his personal life is unacceptable.
00:12:09.480 And so they're just going to continue to go at it, go at it, go at it.
00:12:12.480 They did this throughout the entire campaign and here they are again.
00:12:15.480 Let's just play this clip of this question that was put to Andrew Scheer
00:12:19.480 and then we'll play part of Scheer's response.
00:12:21.480 This is, we made it very clear during the election in the last few months and years,
00:12:26.480 our party is inclusive.
00:12:28.480 We believe in the equality of rights, the rights of all Canadians.
00:12:31.480 We are, my personal opinion is that I respect the rights of every single Canadian.
00:12:36.480 Okay, I'll just say it's so distasteful to hear a journalist pushing a politician about their personal view
00:12:44.480 and what their definition of sin is.
00:12:46.480 I mean, Scheer's a Catholic.
00:12:48.480 So asking whether or not she thinks that something is a sin is just beyond the realm of public policy
00:12:55.480 and what we should ask of politicians.
00:12:57.480 You are, Canada is a free society.
00:12:59.480 We believe in religious freedom.
00:13:01.480 The Charter of Rights and Freedoms lays out that we believe in religious freedom.
00:13:05.480 So people should be free to believe whatever they want is a sin, right?
00:13:10.480 Like, presumably Andrew Scheer thinks that adultery is a sin.
00:13:13.480 Presumably he thinks that it is a sin to engage in sexual relationships outside of marriage.
00:13:20.480 Now, does anyone believe that Andrew Scheer would ever legislate on that?
00:13:24.480 No, because you are allowed to have a personal opinion that guides your personal life
00:13:29.480 and an opinion when it comes to legislation.
00:13:32.480 And that is ultimately what a free society is and what religious freedom means.
00:13:36.480 And so this idea that conservatives are like these autocratic fascists that are going to legislate
00:13:42.480 on all the aspects of their religion is just totally unfounded and it's totally unfair
00:13:47.480 and it shows the bigotry from the media themselves.
00:13:49.480 Of course they're not asking these questions of Singh.
00:13:52.480 Of course they're not asking these questions of Trudeau.
00:13:55.480 And, you know, they'll say, oh, it's because, you know, there's no ambiguity when it comes
00:14:00.480 to the other politicians' positions on these issues.
00:14:03.480 No, it's the mainstream media's fixation that you cannot be pro-life personally
00:14:08.480 because they don't trust that you won't legislate into that or that they don't trust that Andrew Scheer
00:14:12.480 could be believing, you know, the Catholic doctrine, the acts of homosexuality is a sin
00:14:19.480 and not legislate on that.
00:14:21.480 So they're supposed to be separate.
00:14:23.480 A man is allowed to have his own religious convictions.
00:14:26.480 And the fact that the mainstream media can't accept that, I think it just shows their own
00:14:29.480 blatant bigotry.
00:14:30.480 It is religious bigotry no matter which way you put it.
00:14:35.480 Again, you know, imagine the mainstream media asking Jagmeet Singh personal questions about
00:14:40.480 what he believes is a sin.
00:14:42.480 You know, Jagmeet Singh is clearly an observant Sikh.
00:14:46.480 He doesn't cut his hair.
00:14:47.480 So would a journalist ask Jagmeet Singh, do you believe it's a sin to cut your hair?
00:14:54.480 And then would they imagine that maybe Singh is going to legislate on that and create laws demanding that no Canadian can cut their hair?
00:15:02.480 I mean, it just doesn't make any sense if you try to apply the same standard to other politicians.
00:15:08.480 But journalists just don't really think that way.
00:15:11.480 They just see an opportunity.
00:15:12.480 They say, you know, everyone in Canada must hold the same view.
00:15:15.480 They must have the same view when it comes to abortion.
00:15:17.480 They must hold the same view when it comes to same-sex marriage or same-sex relationship.
00:15:22.480 And anything outside that is simply not acceptable.
00:15:26.480 It's so, to me, so despicable, so cringeworthy to see journalists just continuing to push this way.
00:15:33.480 And then seeing many others on the left, especially I see it on social media defending this and saying that
00:15:38.480 that Scheer deserves it and that the journalists are right to ask these kind of very personal, cringeworthy questions.
00:15:44.480 I just, I think it's not a good place to be in a free society where all of a sudden there are all these litmus tests about what you can
00:15:51.480 and cannot believe in your personal life where you've already said that you have no intention on bringing forth any kind of legislation.
00:15:58.480 And, you know, I will say I thought Scheer kind of had some spark here.
00:16:02.480 He kind of pushed back a little bit.
00:16:04.480 It's a good start.
00:16:05.480 If I were Scheer, I would have been much, much, much more aggressive in just pointing out the bigotry of this question
00:16:10.480 and the absurdity of asking someone something like this, reinforcing the idea that Conservatives don't want to live in a top-down society
00:16:17.480 where all of our morality is legislated.
00:16:19.480 No, Conservatives believe in freedom.
00:16:21.480 They want to have smaller government, more limited government, and more freedom, including religious freedoms, in our individual lives and in our homes.
00:16:29.480 So I like that Scheer pushed back a little bit, but I think he has a long way to go and he should be much firmer.
00:16:35.480 If he wants to maintain his position as leader of the Conservative Party, if he wants to have any shot at becoming Prime Minister,
00:16:41.480 you have to recognize that the press are not your friends.
00:16:44.480 They're not your allies, especially questions like this.
00:16:47.480 You're never going to win these people over.
00:16:49.480 And I think that the best shot that you have is showing your backbone and fighting back and calling them out when they show this kind of just, you know,
00:16:57.480 clear bigotry towards religious people and especially towards Catholics, towards Conservatives.
00:17:03.480 All right, guys, I'm going to leave it at that, wrap it up.
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