Juno News - February 06, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： Illegal immigration in Canada reaches an all-time high


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Length

32 minutes

Words per Minute

183.6283

Word Count

5,973

Sentence Count

439

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Illegal immigration reaches an all-time high, Twitter cracks down on memes, and the front
00:00:04.900 run of the Conservative leadership race continues to falter.
00:00:07.920 Plus, we'll talk about the State of the Union and fake news.
00:00:10.440 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:17.560 Hi, everyone, and welcome to the podcast.
00:00:19.680 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:21.480 It has just been brought to my attention that today is Dawn Cherry's birthday.
00:00:25.340 So, Dawn, if you're watching, happy birthday from all of us at True North.
00:00:29.120 We love what you do.
00:00:30.420 Keep being yourself, keep being true to you, and you know that you have tons of support from Canadians across the country.
00:00:37.360 Okay, let's get right into this.
00:00:38.640 I mentioned this story a little bit last week briefly about the record number of deportees.
00:00:43.900 So, there are over 50,000 outstanding deportation orders in Canada right now, 50,000 people waiting to be deported.
00:00:51.700 We know, of course, that Canada won't deport them.
00:00:53.900 We've only deported on average about 500 people a year.
00:00:56.980 So, 50,000 people should be deported.
00:00:59.940 We're probably only going to deport about 500.
00:01:02.720 This is the story of illegal immigration that's just not getting reported anymore.
00:01:06.400 The media has basically given up on reporting about illegal immigration because Justin Trudeau essentially told them not to.
00:01:12.140 He said that, you know, if you're not reporting positively about the state of immigration,
00:01:16.620 as per the UN Compact of Migration, that you'd basically be cut off and you'd be challenged by the government.
00:01:25.620 So, they're just not reporting on it anymore.
00:01:27.340 Well, I decided to dig in and look at the numbers, and it is really, really surprising.
00:01:31.180 So, there were 63,830 asylum claimants that registered as refugees in Canada last year.
00:01:39.860 63,800 people.
00:01:42.160 By comparison, in 2018, the prior year, there were 55,000 claims, and the year before that, 2017, there were 50,000 claims.
00:01:49.260 So, those numbers are already incredibly high.
00:01:51.520 You know, when there was 50,000 a year, 55,000 a year, there was media attention.
00:01:55.160 They were focusing in on, you know, what's happening at Roxham Road with tens of thousands of people crossing illegally there,
00:02:00.660 and then also a surge of people landing at airports in Canada using false pretenses,
00:02:05.640 basically lying to get into Canada, either with falsified documents or by lying and saying that they're coming as a tourist,
00:02:12.160 only to, when they land in Canada, make this asylum claim and ask for refugee status in Canada.
00:02:17.620 So, there was always a lot of reporting when this crisis was first going on, and really, the reporting has just ceased.
00:02:24.740 You don't see it in the news anymore.
00:02:26.340 It doesn't make headlines.
00:02:27.240 It's not in the evening news.
00:02:28.060 It's not in the newspaper.
00:02:29.180 Talk radio is not talking about it.
00:02:31.000 But what's happening is that this number has drastically gone up.
00:02:34.900 It's gone up 16% in the last year.
00:02:36.780 So, 63,000 people.
00:02:38.760 No wonder there's so many people who have deportation orders pending because so many people are coming to Canada every year.
00:02:44.720 So, that 63,000 number, that is more than the entire number of asylum claimants received in the four years of Stephen Harper's majority government.
00:02:53.380 So, the entire time when Stephen Harper had that majority government, there were a total of 60,000 claims, 60,335 claims between 2012 and 2015,
00:03:02.500 the four years where Harper had his majority government.
00:03:05.520 Contrast that with Trudeau's four years, first four years of his majority government, where there was 193,000.
00:03:14.520 It's just day and night.
00:03:15.800 It's day and night.
00:03:16.440 And where is the media to report on this issue?
00:03:18.920 You know, Canada has a huge immigration program.
00:03:22.120 Canada lets in more people per capita than any other Western country in terms of new permanent residents and new citizens each year.
00:03:29.380 They rely, the government relies on this sort of consensus among all the parties that immigration is generally good.
00:03:35.420 Conservatives generally said, hey, you know, we need it to boost up the economy, build up GDP.
00:03:40.480 Liberals and people on the left say, you know, it's our obligation.
00:03:43.120 We have a humanitarian obligation to let people into the country.
00:03:46.220 And also, we need to sort of replace the declining birth rates by boosting the population through immigration.
00:03:52.500 So there's this sort of consensus across the board, but it really relies on Canadians having trust in the immigration system.
00:03:59.260 And when you have a huge illegal immigration problem like Justin Trudeau does, that is just undealt with, unchecked, you know,
00:04:05.900 he's completely dismantled the systems that were in place to stop this kind of activity.
00:04:10.900 Canadians lose faith in the immigration system.
00:04:12.900 They lose trust.
00:04:13.600 This was the that was a thesis of my book, Losing True North, that came out in 2016.
00:04:17.740 That was a bestseller on Amazon.
00:04:20.140 And my most recent book called No Border looks even closer at Justin Trudeau's just complete lack of border security policies.
00:04:27.820 Check that book out.
00:04:28.500 You can buy it on Amazon.ca.
00:04:30.980 If you read it and you like it, please give it a five star review.
00:04:34.100 It really helps me out.
00:04:34.880 So right now, the customer reviews of the people who have verified to purchase this book, they gave it a 4.9 out of 5.
00:04:40.880 So the people on Amazon who read it like it, I think you'll enjoy it too.
00:04:44.320 Check it out.
00:04:44.740 It's called No Border, Justin Trudeau's Assault on Canadian Border Security.
00:04:49.720 I think it's the most underreported story in the country right now.
00:04:52.560 And it's so important when you think when we look around the world at all the chaos and all the sort of disorder that's happening.
00:04:58.060 Canada is a secure, reliable, peaceful nation.
00:05:01.760 And part of that is because we have safe, secure borders.
00:05:04.760 If we just open that up and let people from around the world come in, they undermine the rule of law, undermine our security and safety, and ultimately undermine our free society.
00:05:12.460 It's incredibly important.
00:05:13.260 So please check that book out.
00:05:15.640 All right, moving on.
00:05:16.300 So Twitter announced on Tuesday that they will be cracking down on memes.
00:05:21.080 Yes, memes.
00:05:22.080 So apparently, we can no longer be trusted to tell the difference between something that is clearly a spoof or clearly a joke and something that is real news.
00:05:30.020 So Twitter is jumping in to manipulate the news even more, to manipulate your feed.
00:05:36.380 But they claim that they're cracking down on what they call manipulated photos and videos.
00:05:40.400 So Twitter safety posted this video.
00:05:43.920 On Tuesday, they said,
00:05:44.880 We know that some tweets include manipulated photos and videos that can cause people harm.
00:05:50.420 Today, we're introducing a new rule and a label that will address this and give people more context around these tweets.
00:05:56.700 Our new rule.
00:05:57.700 You may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm.
00:06:02.180 In addition, we may label tweets containing synthetic and manipulated media to help people understand their authenticity and to provide context.
00:06:10.040 So this is just, again, an attack on conservatives on Twitter, basically.
00:06:14.040 Twitter is notorious for cracking down on conservatives.
00:06:16.260 They repeatedly de-platform, remove conservatives while basically ignoring equivalent or worse behavior from activists on the left.
00:06:25.280 You know, when it comes to the sort of meme wars, conservatives are just better at it.
00:06:29.180 Conservative memes are hilarious.
00:06:30.760 And it's sort of a way for conservatives to poke fun at, say, like the mainstream media, the establishment, everyone on the left,
00:06:38.360 including the big social media giants, is to make comical videos and pictures.
00:06:44.140 And, you know, this whole culture of memes has sort of come up on Twitter and now Instagram as well.
00:06:50.000 And the fact that the host of this platform wants to censor that, wants to take that away, to cut that down.
00:06:57.480 You know, we don't need a little label on Twitter to say this is manipulated media.
00:07:01.920 When you see a meme, you know it's a meme.
00:07:03.760 And so this is just Twitter doing what they've become known for doing, which is not providing a fair playing field,
00:07:10.660 not really being a platform for free speech, but again, trying to manipulate the conversation,
00:07:14.600 trying to manipulate speech in the direction that they ideologically believe in, which is, you know, it's based in San Francisco.
00:07:22.100 Twitter is a far left company in a far left city.
00:07:24.580 And so at the same time as they announced that they were cracking down on memes,
00:07:31.060 they also cracked down on a very famous high-profile conservative journalist named James O'Keefe.
00:07:37.460 O'Keefe is the founder of Project Veritas.
00:07:39.720 If you haven't seen Project Veritas stuff, you have to check it out.
00:07:42.620 It is incredibly impressive.
00:07:44.360 So O'Keefe has made a name for himself for going undercover.
00:07:47.780 He used to do it himself, but then he became too recognizable.
00:07:50.680 And so now he has sort of an army of volunteer journalists across the country who are incredibly brave.
00:07:56.020 They're willing to go undercover in a lot of different situations.
00:07:59.440 They've exposed high-profile Democrats.
00:08:02.020 They've exposed, again, people on social media in the Silicon Valley talking about how they deliberately censor conservatives.
00:08:08.600 Well, his most recent video project was exposing the extremism on the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:08:15.380 So as you know, Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic nominee and hopes to become president.
00:08:19.300 Well, James O'Keefe did an expose of the Sanders campaign, basically just to show how radical, how truly radical his campaign staff is.
00:08:27.560 So I'll just give you some quotes.
00:08:29.020 He says, I've canvassed with someone who's an anarchist, with someone who's a Marxist-Leninist.
00:08:32.500 So we attract radical, truly radical people in the campaign.
00:08:35.840 Obviously, that's not outward-facing.
00:08:37.400 This is the kind of thing that the people who are working for Bernie Sanders, you know, they're true believers in communism, a lot of them.
00:08:44.140 And O'Keefe exposed that.
00:08:45.840 So after his video came out, of course, mainstream media in the U.S. is just equally as biased and terrible as they are in Canada.
00:08:54.260 The Washington Post wrote a story about it, and James O'Keefe requested a retraction.
00:08:58.160 So he tweeted, retraction request, Dave Weigel of The Washington Post.
00:09:02.820 The subjects featured in Exposé 2020 are not Sanders volunteers.
00:09:07.160 Both Kyle Jurek and Martin Weisenberger are still paid employees of the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:09:13.840 Kindly retract another factually inaccurate bit of reporting.
00:09:17.200 And for this tweet, which O'Keefe was just calling out a journalist for being dishonest, Twitter suspended his account temporarily.
00:09:25.220 O'Keefe got a message saying, your account has been locked.
00:09:28.100 For what reason?
00:09:29.080 They said that they violated Twitter's rules for posting private information.
00:09:33.840 What was the private information?
00:09:35.120 The fact that these two people were still paid workers for the Bernie Sanders campaign?
00:09:40.040 Well, that information is actually public information.
00:09:42.820 And that's how James O'Keefe was aware of it.
00:09:45.100 He included the screenshot of publicly available campaign documents that showed that Sanders' campaign paid these individuals.
00:09:53.060 So, again, Twitter just jumping in, being totally unreasonable, picking sides, and determining that O'Keefe had broken rule when, in fact, he actually hadn't.
00:10:00.680 And so his account has been restated.
00:10:03.540 But, again, this is just a state of social media, cracking down on conservatives, being completely biased and unfair.
00:10:08.460 And, you know, the idea that Twitter is some kind of, like, you know, neutral arbiter is just so, so factually untrue.
00:10:16.320 So many people have sort of given up on Twitter as a mode of communication.
00:10:20.840 And that is why nobody trusts Twitter.
00:10:24.160 Okay, let's move on.
00:10:25.260 I want to talk, there's a lot going on in the conservative leadership race.
00:10:27.700 So I want to go and do a bit of a deeper dive into that right now.
00:10:32.060 So Peter McKay is sort of considered the frontrunner in this race.
00:10:35.640 There was an Ipsos poll that came out that basically said that more Canadians would consider voting Tory under Peter McKay than any other contender.
00:10:43.420 So Ipsos asked 1,000 Canadians, both conservative voters and those who say they vote for other parties, under whose leadership they would consider voting Tory in the next election.
00:10:51.220 A total of 40% pointed to Peter McKay compared to just 31% for Aaron O'Toole.
00:10:57.440 Aaron O'Toole is also a frontrunner, but Peter McKay is sort of coming out ahead.
00:11:01.500 You know, I honestly think a large part of why people like Peter McKay, I mean, he's got a bit of leader, a bit of name recognition.
00:11:08.040 I don't really know what he's known for.
00:11:10.120 Like, he was a Harper-era cabinet minister.
00:11:11.900 He was part of the merger between the PCs and the alliance that created the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:11:16.260 But, you know, I don't really know exactly what it is that he's known for.
00:11:20.100 I think he just sort of looks like a guy who could become prime minister.
00:11:23.820 He has a very sort of stoic and professional look to him.
00:11:28.080 And I think that that is why a lot of people say, OK, yeah, that guy looks like a prime minister.
00:11:32.340 But, you know, you look at what's going on in his campaign and, wow, it is just a total mess over there in the Peter McKay campaign.
00:11:40.060 So there was an exclusive earlier this week over at Post Millennial that says McKay won't commit to moving the Canadian embassy to Jerusalem,
00:11:47.960 breaking with party, Conservative Party policy.
00:11:51.380 Peter McKay told him Post Millennial he would not commit to moving the Canadian embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
00:11:57.020 I said there is a lot of priorities and I want to hear more about those priorities before I make these pronouncements on a whole range of issues.
00:12:04.000 So he basically just said he's not prepared to make a decision on that issue.
00:12:08.420 He was kind of pushed a little bit and he still just said, look, it's a complicated subject and I'm not in a position to do so.
00:12:14.800 According to the Post Millennial, in a conversation between Peter McKay and members of the Toronto Jewish community,
00:12:20.260 according to a source in the meeting who spoke on the condition of confidentiality,
00:12:24.100 McKay said that he would not immediately move the embassy to the Israeli capital despite the majority of Israeli government being located in the city.
00:12:31.160 So McKay had this meeting and he just said, no, I'm not going to do it.
00:12:34.160 Well, that caused some major backlash. I mean, the idea that the embassy should be in the city that is the capital shouldn't be controversial.
00:12:42.920 Countries, sovereign countries get to choose their own capital city.
00:12:46.480 And, you know, anyone who's been to Israel, I visited the Knesset in Jerusalem.
00:12:50.140 It's kind of bizarre that all of the embassies and a lot of the Western countries have their bases in Tel Aviv,
00:12:56.400 which is sort of, you know, a commercial commerce center, but it's not the center of government.
00:13:01.740 The center of government is at the Knesset in Jerusalem. That's Israel's capital city.
00:13:06.060 That's what they consider to be their capital city. And countries get to choose their own capital.
00:13:10.440 So it shouldn't be controversial. Trump made the move to move the embassy, you know, hugely popular in the U.S.,
00:13:17.480 especially with Jewish Americans. Andrew Scheer also made that pledge.
00:13:21.840 So the idea that Peter McKay would kind of backtrack on it, it just sort of shows a misunderstanding of the kind of mood and conservative principles and where conservatives are at.
00:13:32.920 And so not very long after, Peter McKay released the following statement about the Canadian embassy in Israel.
00:13:40.580 So it's a pretty strong message.
00:14:10.560 Especially from a guy who, like, a day earlier, so that he didn't have enough information and that he wasn't prepared to make that decision.
00:14:17.620 So that's a pretty drastic flip-flop from Peter McKay.
00:14:21.220 Just kind of shows a little bit of kind of inexperience and not really knowing what to expect.
00:14:26.300 Well, this wasn't the only misstep this week.
00:14:29.620 So Peter McKay posted the following message onto Twitter.
00:14:34.480 He said, while running for the leader of the Liberal Party, Trudeau's campaign expensed $876.95 in yoga sessions and spa bills for Justin Trudeau.
00:14:46.060 Liberals can't be trusted.
00:14:47.400 And then there's this sort of video showing Justin Trudeau doing all these funny yoga poses
00:14:52.140 and talking about how he rips off the taxpayer by using taxpayer dollars to enrich himself,
00:14:57.600 including going on vacations, going to the spa, and taking private yoga classes.
00:15:02.880 So, you know, the video was pretty good.
00:15:04.960 And, you know, the message was pretty good.
00:15:07.540 So, you know, what's the problem?
00:15:10.460 Well, the problem was that the media didn't like it.
00:15:12.680 The media were critical of Peter McKay.
00:15:15.020 And then, once again, Peter McKay flip-flops.
00:15:17.500 So even though he tweeted this video out from his own account,
00:15:20.300 he came out and told the CBC he was not happy with the tweet and that he wants to remain civilized.
00:15:27.400 So this, according to the CBC,
00:15:28.980 Peter McKay was not happy with the tweet issued by his leadership team poking fun at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's yoga habit,
00:15:34.780 the conservative leadership candidate told CBC News.
00:15:37.640 The tweet from McKay's verified account shows a photo of Justin Trudeau performing a yoga move on Parliament Hill,
00:15:43.400 on his desk on Parliament Hill.
00:15:45.000 McKay says he wants to maintain a civilized tone in the campaign for the conservative leadership
00:15:49.620 and thinks the tweet crossed a line, but he said he won't apologize for it or take it down.
00:15:54.100 Yeah, the tweet is still up right now.
00:15:55.980 So it's kind of a weird move where McKay says, like, I don't like the tweet.
00:16:00.260 It's not civilized.
00:16:01.460 I'm trying to take a civilized tone.
00:16:02.920 But then he doesn't take it down.
00:16:04.800 So is he apologizing for it?
00:16:06.640 Is he doubling down on it?
00:16:08.480 And that brings us to a segment that happened on CTV News.
00:16:12.260 This is just really bad for the McKay campaign.
00:16:14.780 So I'll play the first part of this clip.
00:16:16.060 It starts off as a very positive piece about Peter McKay.
00:16:19.180 Peter McKay sits on a board that helps children who have been abused.
00:16:22.580 And this is really highlighting the positive aspects of Peter McKay's sort of career and public life and his priorities.
00:16:29.160 It is a very positive piece.
00:16:30.740 So this is clearly a friendly journalist who's doing a nice, positive piece on Peter McKay.
00:16:36.000 He should be grateful for that.
00:16:37.660 I'll play the first part of the clip here.
00:16:39.060 Peter McKay invited CTV News along for a visit to Boost, a child advocacy center that helps victims of abuse.
00:16:46.420 He co-chairs the board.
00:16:47.780 In my estimation, there is no higher priority than protecting children.
00:16:51.740 So as you can see, it's very gentle.
00:16:53.140 And then they sit down and they do the second part of the segment, which is an interview with Peter McKay,
00:16:57.940 where they're talking about, you know, like I said, why he's getting back into public life.
00:17:02.080 And this is where it really takes an awkward, awkward turn.
00:17:05.900 And I really don't understand the mentality here of Peter McKay's staff.
00:17:09.460 So let's play the second part of this clip.
00:17:11.160 This is a sit-down interview.
00:17:12.080 This is when things really get off the rails.
00:17:13.860 I noticed there was a video put on Twitter talking about Justin Trudeau's yoga expenses.
00:17:20.440 And is that civil, though?
00:17:22.000 I mean, highlighting $800 and some on dollars in yoga expenses?
00:17:27.040 No, it isn't.
00:17:27.780 And that was something that happened that I'm not proud of.
00:17:32.640 I don't have the opportunity always to vet every single thing that goes on that social media account.
00:17:38.580 So we're going to do better.
00:17:39.360 And in that moment, his team abruptly ended the interview.
00:17:46.760 So really, that was a very reasonable question.
00:17:49.180 And Peter McKay handled it well.
00:17:50.560 I mean, the idea that he said, you know, he wants to bring a civilized tone.
00:17:53.580 She brought up the tweet, which was a reasonable connection.
00:17:56.400 And she did it in a gentle way.
00:17:58.120 And Peter McKay handled it just fine.
00:18:00.300 He handled it just fine.
00:18:01.300 He's a grown-up.
00:18:02.120 He can handle a quasi-tough question.
00:18:04.720 If really, if this is what his staff believe is a tough question, they are really going to be in for it.
00:18:09.440 If Peter McKay becomes a candidate and he runs in a general election.
00:18:12.580 Because that was a very soft question by media standards in Canada.
00:18:17.300 But no, his staff literally jumped in, interrupted the reporter in the middle of an interview to say, that's it.
00:18:22.620 We're done.
00:18:23.180 This is just terrible, terrible media relations.
00:18:26.600 This is just staff overbearing.
00:18:28.720 I cringe when I watch this.
00:18:30.000 Let's play the rest of the clip.
00:18:30.960 I, that's, that's quite, he said civility.
00:18:34.620 I mean.
00:18:35.320 She's just doing her job.
00:18:36.140 She's a journalist.
00:18:36.620 I'm doing my job, guys.
00:18:37.920 He's made a decision that we'd like to stop the interview.
00:18:41.840 Okay.
00:18:42.180 Like, the idea that they say he went, she went way over.
00:18:44.840 That was hardly way over.
00:18:45.940 And the fact that Peter McKay himself jumps in and says, hey, Matt, she's just a journalist.
00:18:49.340 She's doing her job.
00:18:50.280 McKay was on the side of the journalist.
00:18:51.880 And his staff come across as bullies here.
00:18:54.140 Of course, CTV plays that clip.
00:18:56.240 So what could have been a positive puff piece story showcasing Peter McKay's compassion in helping little kids and children that have been victims of abuse.
00:19:05.060 Instead, the story becomes, you know, McKay walks out of an interview because he can't handle a tough question.
00:19:12.100 So, you know, this is just really bad.
00:19:14.240 This is not the way that you handle a leadership campaign.
00:19:17.460 And again, Peter McKay is the front runner.
00:19:18.780 More Canadians see him as being the leader of the Conservative Party and say that they'd vote for him.
00:19:23.400 And yet, you know, we have misstep after misstep after misstep.
00:19:26.540 It is just not great to see.
00:19:29.020 And on the other side of the campaign, Aaron O'Toole is, you know, what Peter McKay is not doing, Aaron O'Toole is stepping up and doing.
00:19:36.480 He's taking a strong position.
00:19:38.400 He's really coming across as sort of the, you know, he's the sort of law and order military guy.
00:19:44.420 But he's coming across as a blue Tory.
00:19:45.960 And that's, you know, that's the angle that he's going at.
00:19:49.180 I don't know exactly how genuine it is.
00:19:51.060 I've never known Aaron O'Toole to be like a staunch blue Tory.
00:19:54.560 But he's hitting the right note.
00:19:56.060 So here he is.
00:19:57.300 By contrast, when Peter McKay flip-flopped on the Israel issue, Aaron O'Toole released this tweet.
00:20:02.960 Canada needs to stand with Israel again.
00:20:04.580 As we did under Stephen Harper, it's time to recognize the reality that Jerusalem is Israel capital and move our embassy there.
00:20:11.440 Very strong message with that image of O'Toole.
00:20:14.460 So that is great.
00:20:15.840 And same thing with when it comes to Justin Trudeau's licensing and his attack on the media.
00:20:23.120 Aaron O'Toole is there fighting back against it.
00:20:25.260 So he says, look who's running attack ads against me, media union boss Jerry Diaz.
00:20:30.360 He's right to be worried.
00:20:31.500 If I'm PM, I'll cancel Trudeau's media bailout.
00:20:34.600 Help me do it.
00:20:35.340 So that is great to see.
00:20:37.060 I think that the idea that Justin Trudeau is bailing out the mainstream media is horrible for our freedom of press and for democracy.
00:20:43.500 So it's great to see a strong conservative say and fight back against that and say, no, no, no.
00:20:48.180 When I'm prime minister, we will not be bailing out the media.
00:20:51.480 And of course, because of that, he's getting attacked and he's fighting back against that.
00:20:54.620 That's exactly what we want to see conservatives doing.
00:20:57.540 But the concern that I have with Aaron O'Toole is I just don't know how genuine it is.
00:21:02.160 Like all of a sudden, he's kind of coming out strong as the sort of blue Tory in the race.
00:21:06.280 You know, when Pierre Polyev withdrew, that sort of left a void on the right side of the party, the blue side of the party.
00:21:12.960 And so Aaron O'Toole is sort of filling that gap.
00:21:15.400 You know, maybe this is just Aaron O'Toole coming into his own, coming into his thoughts, becoming more of a leader when it comes to pushing back against what is pretty obviously, you know, an uneven playing field, pushing back against the media, standing up for our allies in Israel.
00:21:29.620 That's all well and good.
00:21:31.180 But this was pointed out to me, brought to my attention.
00:21:33.720 So one of the areas where Aaron O'Toole hasn't been so good on is standing up to attacks on free speech in the past.
00:21:41.720 So in the 41st Parliament back in 2015, an NDP MP introduced a private member's bill called An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code, Gender Identity.
00:21:54.340 And so a summary of the bill here.
00:21:56.220 The enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to include gender identity as a prohibited ground of discrimination.
00:22:02.120 And so this private member's bill was passed in March 2013 with the help of Aaron O'Toole.
00:22:08.880 So most conservatives voted against it.
00:22:11.220 Here's the voting record right here.
00:22:12.740 137 conservatives voted against it.
00:22:15.020 In favor of it was the NDP, Bloc, Liberal, and Green.
00:22:19.400 And then a handful of conservatives.
00:22:21.660 A handful of conservatives.
00:22:22.960 So it was really close, 149 to 137.
00:22:25.500 And if those conservatives hadn't voted alongside with the left-wing party, this private member's bill wouldn't have passed.
00:22:30.420 Of course, this is a precursor to Bill C-16, which was one that Jordan Peterson was speaking out against.
00:22:36.060 It basically said that you cannot misgender someone.
00:22:38.220 Misgendering someone could be against the law.
00:22:41.060 So you have to adhere to the whim of an individual to determine whether or not they believe that they are a man or a woman.
00:22:47.540 This is frankly an attack on our freedom of speech and our freedom of thought in Canada.
00:22:52.540 And there you see right there Aaron O'Toole voting alongside the red Tories, enabling this left-wing bill to pass.
00:22:59.040 So that's a bit concerning.
00:23:00.460 I don't know if anyone has asked O'Toole about why he voted this way, but I would like to see a journalist ask that question and put that to him to find out whether he still believes that that's the right course,
00:23:10.520 whether he thinks that gender identity should be a protected class within the Human Rights Act, or whether he's had a change of heart on that issue.
00:23:20.380 Okay, let's move on.
00:23:21.200 I want to talk briefly about the State of the Union.
00:23:23.360 I don't usually talk too much about U.S. politics on the show, but, you know, sometimes there's just so much going on down there that's important culturally even for us up in Canada.
00:23:30.900 I mean, first of all, the fact that the Iowa caucus results have still not been announced.
00:23:35.160 I mean, they didn't announce the first round until 24 hours after they were supposed to.
00:23:41.200 There was a major malfunction when it came to how they were reporting the data through a new app.
00:23:46.120 But really, all it makes you think is the Democrats are the party that wants to basically have a national takeover of the health care industry in the United States.
00:23:53.960 They want to be the ones that are regulating social media.
00:23:56.220 They want to be the ones that have more and more control over the economy.
00:23:59.120 And yet, they can't even manage to count the votes in a state where, what, less than 200,000 people voted.
00:24:06.940 I mean, it was an absolute mess, a total mess.
00:24:09.180 We still don't know who won Iowa.
00:24:12.340 Wow, what a mess.
00:24:13.760 And so things aren't going well for the Democrats at all.
00:24:16.920 They failed to convict Donald Trump on his impeachment.
00:24:20.640 Trump's on his way to being acquitted on those impeachment charges.
00:24:23.860 You know, they couldn't figure out who won Iowa, which is just a total mess.
00:24:29.280 And then the State of the Union happened.
00:24:30.960 And Donald Trump did something that the Democrats just hate seeing.
00:24:34.520 They hate seeing.
00:24:35.240 Trump delivered an amazing speech.
00:24:36.780 It was very unifying.
00:24:37.800 It was very presidential.
00:24:39.080 He stayed on script.
00:24:40.220 He didn't get into the sort of gutter politics at all.
00:24:43.560 He was very, very good.
00:24:45.300 And because of that, the Democrats just don't know how to react.
00:24:48.580 And so they do what they typically do, which is basically they suck.
00:24:52.820 They look like a bunch of sore losers.
00:24:54.940 So the story coming out of the State of the Union, which, again, was very unifying.
00:24:58.440 There were some really touching moments.
00:24:59.980 It was really uplifting.
00:25:01.580 Trump talked about the economics of his record, which are solid.
00:25:05.380 And the Democrats refused to cheer over and over and over again.
00:25:10.020 They refused to celebrate the economic success of blacks, Latinos, women and Asians.
00:25:16.120 So this was part of the speech that Trump gave.
00:25:19.140 And you can see that the Democrats, the women in white and the Democrats side, they just
00:25:23.880 refused to applaud and cheer over what really should be a good news story for the entire
00:25:29.020 country.
00:25:29.700 African-American youth unemployment has reached an all-time low.
00:25:35.260 African-American poverty has declined to the lowest rate ever recorded.
00:25:49.260 The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest level in almost 70 years.
00:25:54.180 And last year, women filled 72 percent of all new jobs added.
00:26:00.540 And there's there's there's several examples of that.
00:26:11.740 There's several examples of that from the State of the Union.
00:26:13.900 So the Democrats, again, refused to applaud for a young black girl who receives a scholarship.
00:26:19.540 Numerous Democrats appeared to not celebrate a fourth grade black girl who received a scholarship
00:26:23.740 on Tuesday night from President Donald Trump during the State of the Union.
00:26:26.420 So here's a tweet, another stunning but unsurprising moment from the Democrats during the State
00:26:31.160 of the Union.
00:26:31.820 Democrats remain seated as President Trump awards an opportunity scholarship to a fourth grader.
00:26:36.420 Janiah's mom, Stephanie, is a single parent.
00:26:40.360 She would do anything to give her daughter a better future.
00:26:44.080 But last year, that future was put further out of reach when Pennsylvania's governor vetoed
00:26:49.700 legislation to expand school choice to 50,000 children.
00:26:54.580 But Janiah, I have some good news for you, because I am pleased to inform you that your
00:27:00.700 long wait is over.
00:27:02.500 I can proudly announce tonight that an opportunity scholarship has become available.
00:27:08.620 It's going to you and you will soon be heading to the school of your choice.
00:27:14.640 So a very touching moment there.
00:27:22.020 And you can see the Democrats, again, just sulking and refusing to applaud.
00:27:25.720 Really, really classless there.
00:27:27.680 And, you know, again, this happened over and over again.
00:27:29.760 So Trump mentioned the assassination of Soleimani.
00:27:33.220 Many Iranians on Twitter were celebrating this.
00:27:35.880 And you can see, again, that the Democrats, Nancy Pelosi claps for this one here.
00:27:40.760 But really, there's not much enthusiasm compared to the Republicans.
00:27:44.660 And then I think this was perhaps the best moment of the night.
00:27:47.220 Well, there's two top moments of the night for me.
00:27:49.360 So here, President Trump shares the story of Kayla Mueller, who was a humanitarian worker
00:27:54.360 who was in Syria.
00:27:56.620 She was captured by ISIS, enslaved and was kept by al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, as his
00:28:02.280 sort of personal slave until he finally murdered her.
00:28:05.700 So they paid tribute, paid homage.
00:28:07.740 And you could see the parents there, really, really touching moment, really good stuff from
00:28:11.620 President Trump.
00:28:12.520 Kayla was kidnapped, tortured and enslaved by ISIS and kept as a prisoner of al-Baghdadi
00:28:18.860 himself.
00:28:20.260 After more than 500 horrifying days of captivity, al-Baghdadi murdered young, beautiful Kayla.
00:28:30.260 She was just 26 years old.
00:28:32.240 On the night that U.S. Special Forces operations ended al-Baghdadi's miserable life, the chairman
00:28:39.580 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, received a call in the Situation Room.
00:28:45.660 He was told that the brave men of the elite Special Forces team that so perfectly carried
00:28:51.480 out the operation, had given their mission a name, Task Force 814.
00:29:00.360 It was a reference to a special day, August 14th, Kayla's birthday.
00:29:06.720 Carl and Marsha, America's warriors, never forgot Kayla, and neither will we.
00:29:14.100 Thank you.
00:29:14.660 So that was a beautiful moment, and another great moment was when Rush Limbaugh, longtime
00:29:23.200 conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, was sort of surprised by Trump, and he was given
00:29:27.960 a Medal of Freedom by the President.
00:29:31.080 They did it right there on the spot.
00:29:32.720 You can see Rush is surprised and really moved, really touched by this news.
00:29:37.220 Rush Limbaugh just announced that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, kind of
00:29:42.340 shocking everyone.
00:29:43.240 You know, Rush is an institution, especially for conservatives in the U.S. and around the
00:29:48.100 world.
00:29:48.780 Limbaugh 69 told his radio audience on Monday that he had been diagnosed with advanced stage
00:29:53.700 of the disease.
00:29:55.060 He said the diagnosis was confirmed on January 20th.
00:29:58.280 So beautiful moment from Trump there.
00:30:01.900 Unfortunately, again, the Democrats' bad behavior is sort of overshadowing all this.
00:30:06.540 So at the end of the speech, at the end of the State of the Union, Nancy Pelosi, who is
00:30:10.920 the House leader for the Democrats, stands up and tears up a copy of the State of the
00:30:16.080 Union address.
00:30:16.720 Just really looking like a poor sport there.
00:30:19.600 She just sort of angrily, with rage, just tears up this speech, which, again, just makes
00:30:24.800 her look really petty and bad.
00:30:26.940 Well, I'm going to combine this with the fake news story of the week because this is just
00:30:30.880 kind of pathetic.
00:30:31.780 The Toronto Star, of course, of course, they celebrate Pelosi for this.
00:30:37.260 So the headline over at the Toronto Star says, Pelosi shreds Trump's speech right there on
00:30:44.160 the podium.
00:30:44.620 This is an Associated Press story, but it was carried in the Toronto Star.
00:30:49.020 So here's the story.
00:30:49.860 It says, Washington.
00:30:50.720 And then she tore up the speech.
00:30:54.320 No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address than House
00:30:58.560 Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped the paper it was printed on into two, right there, on camera,
00:31:04.760 behind Trump's back.
00:31:06.040 As he stepped down, she ripped it again, then a third time and a fourth.
00:31:10.040 If Trump knew about the American carnage going on behind him, he didn't react as he left.
00:31:14.380 But Pelosi was on her turf with a deep understanding of her audience, and she wasn't finished.
00:31:20.760 So again, Pelosi's little pathetic piece of theatre became the focus.
00:31:25.640 And of course, the Toronto Star is celebrating Pelosi.
00:31:29.080 Well, the Toronto Star might not be aware.
00:31:30.980 Nancy Pelosi is incredibly unpopular, incredibly unpopular.
00:31:35.140 The whole sort of impeachment attempt where, you know, the Democrats really trumped up this
00:31:40.440 news as if they had something, as if they had something, and then they failed to, they
00:31:43.940 didn't have the goods.
00:31:44.680 They were unable to impeach Trump, or they were unable to convict Trump on his impeachment.
00:31:50.080 Nancy Pelosi is not very popular.
00:31:52.040 A recent poll found that three-quarters of Americans say that Nancy Pelosi should be replaced,
00:31:57.520 including half of Democrats.
00:31:59.020 So even Democrats don't like her, they don't want her, but trust the Toronto Star to really
00:32:03.940 celebrate Nancy Pelosi for basically throwing a temper tantrum at the end of the State of
00:32:08.800 the Union.
00:32:09.420 That is the state of the Canadian media.
00:32:11.520 They have Trump derangement syndrome.
00:32:12.600 They can't even acknowledge the fact that Trump gave a pretty good State of the Union
00:32:16.080 address, and instead they print this story obsessing over Nancy Pelosi and how cool they
00:32:22.120 think it was that she ripped up the speech.
00:32:24.300 Okay, Toronto Star, that is why no one takes you seriously.
00:32:27.800 All right, I'm going to leave it at that.
00:32:28.780 Thank you so much for tuning in, and we will be back again next week.