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00:00:00.000 Leaked audio details a leftist smear to paint all conservatives as racist.

00:00:04.960 Andrew Scheer appoints a former liberal to be his number two.

00:00:08.140 The NDP in Alberta are caught lying about conservatives.

00:00:11.340 Plus, the CBC wins this week's Fake News Awards.

00:00:14.580 And we're introducing a new segment, Ask Me Anything.

00:00:17.640 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:25.200 Hi everyone, thank you for tuning in.

00:00:27.160 We have a lot to get to today, so let's get right to it.

00:00:30.860 There was a story that came out in the CBC this week about Warren Kinsella, who runs a

00:00:36.440 consulting group called DAISY.

00:00:38.300 And this article really details just how bad the scheme was for basically the Conservative

00:00:44.680 Party of Canada, Andrew Scheer or someone in his office, organized and paid this consulting

00:00:50.060 group to paint and smear leader of the People's Party of Canada, Maxine Bernier, as a

00:00:56.820 racist.

00:00:57.860 So this story came out the last couple of days of the election.

00:01:01.080 It kind of derailed the media attention.

00:01:03.180 Everyone was talking about it.

00:01:04.740 And the details were pretty sorted.

00:01:06.180 This is the kind of thing that just drives you crazy as a Conservative.

00:01:09.520 Warren Kinsella is a well-known liberal strategist.

00:01:12.420 He worked for Jean Chrétien.

00:01:14.840 That was sort of his claim to fame.

00:01:16.100 And he's not a big fan of Justin Trudeau, to say the least.

00:01:20.000 And so the details of this came out.

00:01:22.960 Maxine Bernier was rightly upset.

00:01:24.900 The whole thing to me just struck me as like too cute.

00:01:28.200 You know, like the Conservatives didn't really need to do this.

00:01:30.940 They could have run against Maxine Bernier and beat him just by, you know, having better

00:01:36.760 policies, having better ideas and showing better leadership.

00:01:40.340 Instead, they concocted this backroom deal, which Canadians just hate.

00:01:44.280 And don't get me wrong.

00:01:45.460 I'm sure that all the political parties do this.

00:01:47.320 I'm certain that if, you know, journalists were out there digging in the same way, they'd

00:01:51.940 find out that the Liberals had a similar scheme, a similar plan to discredit Jagmeet Singh and

00:01:58.140 the NDP.

00:01:58.880 This kind of stuff does happen.

00:02:00.060 It's dirty, but it's politics.

00:02:01.680 Well, this new CBC report paints the extent of how bad it was.

00:02:05.820 Audio recordings have been leaked.

00:02:08.160 And so we can actually hear Warren Kinsella sort of drumming up his troops and calling on

00:02:14.460 them to basically what they were doing was opposition research, digging into Maxine Bernier

00:02:18.780 and trying to find any examples of him being racist, not just to paint Bernier as racist,

00:02:24.380 but to paint his supporters and again, to paint many, many Conservatives.

00:02:27.720 And they quote Warren Kinsella as saying, we actually have a white supremacist trying to

00:02:32.860 become prime minister of Canada.

00:02:34.760 I've run campaigns depicting Preston Manning, Stockwell Day, Kim Campbell, depicting them as

00:02:39.600 racists.

00:02:40.420 None of them were, but I was successful at depicting them as racists.

00:02:44.560 This guy actually is a racist, okay?

00:02:46.400 So it's low-hanging fruit. 0.98

00:02:47.620 Okay.

00:02:48.280 There's just so many things that are wrong with this.

00:02:50.100 First of all, there's no reason to believe that Maxine Bernier is actually a white supremacist.

00:02:54.240 He has a pretty mild criticism of immigration, and that was really drummed up by the media.

00:03:00.300 His problem was with multiculturalism.

00:03:03.040 And I think that's a legitimate area of concern.

00:03:05.020 It's something the Conservatives have long criticized.

00:03:06.960 The official state policy of multiculturalism, that is, where the government says that Canada

00:03:12.080 has no culture, but we promote all cultures.

00:03:14.840 And that's very problematic, as opposed to what I like to call pluralism, where Canada

00:03:19.640 has its core culture, and newcomers come.

00:03:22.980 They have to kind of adapt to the core culture of Canada.

00:03:25.380 And then on top of that, they can maintain their own sort of cultural and religious traditions

00:03:29.580 and whatnot.

00:03:30.080 So official multiculturalism should be fair game to criticizing Canada. 0.99

00:03:34.740 But because Maxine Bernier went after that, the media painted him as a racist and a white

00:03:38.600 supremacist.

00:03:39.200 I don't think he is.

00:03:40.180 I haven't seen evidence saying that he actually is those things.

00:03:43.380 But Warren Kinsella seems pretty convinced that he is.

00:03:45.800 And then this is the worst part.

00:03:46.840 He brags, he boasts that he successfully depicted these three Conservatives as being racist.

00:03:52.680 All Conservatives in Canada should absolutely just be outraged over this because the CBC is

00:03:58.040 reporting it as if it's scandalous.

00:03:59.640 CBC was part of the reason why those campaigns in the past were successful.

00:04:04.160 CBC, if they're now saying, you know, the reason that these people were depicted as racist

00:04:08.260 is because of this one liberal strategist who runs these intentional smear campaigns, well,

00:04:12.540 then they should retract all those other stories from decades and decades painting Conservatives

00:04:17.320 as racist.

00:04:17.700 It's so harmful.

00:04:18.800 It's so unfair that Conservatives who just might have, you know, regular criticisms about immigration

00:04:24.520 and about public policy get smeared this way.

00:04:27.000 Shame on the CBC.

00:04:28.040 And again, if the Conservatives were working with this kind of, with this organization,

00:04:32.960 they all deny it.

00:04:34.000 Just to put that out there, they deny it.

00:04:35.780 But these recordings, again, are pretty damning, showing the details of that.

00:04:40.900 So not a great story for the Conservatives and Andrew Scheer.

00:04:45.540 And things over in Scheer's campaign, again, they're just not going very well.

00:04:50.060 Media are really, really piling on.

00:04:52.320 You know, if you just scan the headlines this morning, you know, what you're really seeing

00:04:56.020 is a growing number of people within the Conservative ranks kind of turning their backs.

00:04:59.860 There's a new non-profit campaign to remove Andrew Scheer's leader that's run by Jeff Ballingall,

00:05:05.640 who's a person in charge of Ontario Proud.

00:05:08.060 So it's a big grassroots organization.

00:05:10.300 And if the person who's leading that campaign is turning his back on Scheer, not good for Scheer,

00:05:14.500 not good for Conservative unity, Lisa Raitt's come out saying that she didn't think Andrew Scheer was strong enough.

00:05:21.880 And then, I just don't understand this one.

00:05:23.740 Andrew Scheer has appointed Toronto Area MP Leona Alislev as his deputy leader.

00:05:30.120 So basically his number two.

00:05:31.860 Now, Leona is not really a household name, but she originally ran and was elected as a Liberal under Justin Trudeau.

00:05:39.460 So just back in 2015, she was against Stephen Harper, against the Conservatives.

00:05:44.200 She was recruited to run as a Liberal under Justin Trudeau's banner.

00:05:49.240 And after, you know, a little while in his caucus, she was disillusioned and crossed the floor.

00:05:54.900 She was able to win back her seat this time as a Conservative.

00:05:58.060 But that's not very deep roots to the Conservative Party.

00:06:00.820 Just four years ago, she was bashing Stephen Harper and bashing the Conservative brand. 0.94

00:06:06.020 So I really don't quite understand why Andrew Scheer would look to somebody who has just, you know,

00:06:12.640 very, very short history with the party to say he's number two.

00:06:15.420 He said that this is the kind of person that we need to recruit into our fold.

00:06:19.280 That's fine.

00:06:20.180 In order for the Conservatives to win, they do need to recruit the sort of suburban moms and women, 1.00

00:06:25.520 the swing voters that can go Liberal or Conservative.

00:06:27.680 But that doesn't mean that your number two in your party is going to be someone who just four years ago was a Liberal.

00:06:33.480 So it's tough to defend Andrew Scheer when he does stuff like that.

00:06:38.940 OK, let's move on.

00:06:40.200 This is a pretty funny story.

00:06:42.320 So this week's slow clap goes to the NDP out in Alberta.

00:06:47.400 This story just cracked me up.

00:06:49.260 So basically, earlier this week, the NDP put out a press release drawing attention to what they said was a bulk purchase of alcohol by the Conservative Party,

00:06:59.360 by the United Conservative Party out in Alberta.

00:07:01.100 OK, in a news release, the NDP caucus claimed that Alberta's Ministry of Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women purchased $35,000 worth of alcohol from Prestige Liquor.

00:07:12.140 The NDP said the company is owned by a prominent Conservative donor and financial supporter of Jason Kenney's leadership campaign.

00:07:18.800 OK, so they put out the NDP put out this press release basically just saying that it's like a quid pro quo,

00:07:26.080 that they're buying alcohol from this wealthy donor through taxpayers' dollars.

00:07:31.140 And then this wealthy donor is donating back to Jason Kenney.

00:07:34.860 This contract reeks of corruption, it says.

00:07:37.960 But this is according to the CBC.

00:07:39.920 Hours later, the NDP caucus acknowledged it was off the mark because nearly $4,000 of the liquor was bought by the NDP government before it was ousted in the spring election.

00:07:51.700 OK, it goes on.

00:07:53.540 The UCP government has since spent more than $31,000 with Prestige.

00:07:58.120 In a statement to CBC News, a government spokesperson said the liquor was purchased for resale at the Royal Alberta Museum restaurant.

00:08:05.220 The restaurant recovers 100% of the cost, so there's no net cost to the taxpayer.

00:08:10.280 The NDP apologized to the liquor business on Facebook.

00:08:14.120 The NDP official opposition wants to formally apologize to ProSiege Liquor, it said.

00:08:18.640 The process of purchasing liquor from them did begin one month prior to the spring election.

00:08:24.600 No record of transactions with the business appear in the blue book for financial year ending in March 31, 2019.

00:08:30.580 However, the government had produced a February 2019 invoice for $3,920.

00:08:37.260 Ouch.

00:08:37.600 So next time you go after an opposition party for spending, make sure that it wasn't actually your own government that was doing the spending.

00:08:44.440 And this is just the icing on the cake.

00:08:46.520 Jason Kenney tweeted he went over to ProSiege Liquor and he bought his holiday alcohol stash from ProSiege Liquor.

00:08:55.940 I put out a tweet, need to restock my bar for the holiday season, so I stopped by ProSiege Liquor, a great Edmonton small business.

00:09:03.740 I heard about today to buy some quality Alberta spirits.

00:09:07.400 Great selection, price and open late.

00:09:09.760 Thank goodness Ralph Klein privatized Alberta's liquor stores.

00:09:14.300 Okay, that's just too funny not to include.

00:09:17.960 And let's do this week's fake news of the week award.

00:09:23.560 Not surprisingly, it is going to the CBC.

00:09:27.680 So this story popped up.

00:09:29.580 He's not the guy, a Quebec Tory candidate, on why he thinks Andrew Scheer must go.

00:09:35.680 So here's a story.

00:09:37.000 The CBC interviewed this individual, Mikhail Mikhail, who says that the conservative leader was dragging us down constantly in his riding.

00:09:46.960 Okay, so you think, wow, this is a pretty interesting story.

00:09:50.200 The CBC has interviewed a candidate who lost and who ran under Andrew Scheer.

00:09:55.680 The only problem is that you realize that this individual candidate ran in the riding of Rivière de Mirail, which is a suburb of Montreal.

00:10:06.980 And surprise, surprise, the riding has never gone conservative.

00:10:10.640 It was created in 1997.

00:10:12.320 It has never gone conservative.

00:10:13.540 The individual who was interviewed here, he finished fourth.

00:10:18.220 He got less than 10% of the votes.

00:10:20.880 He was not a realistic candidate.

00:10:24.080 He had basically no shot of winning.

00:10:27.300 The conservatives never win in this riding.

00:10:28.600 So why is the CBC interviewing this individual?

00:10:31.700 He says that the reason that he lost was because of Andrew Scheer.

00:10:35.920 The question was, you believe it was Scheer who dragged you down?

00:10:38.900 He said, oh, absolutely.

00:10:40.160 But really, if you look at this riding, there's so many other interesting stories that the CBC could have told about this riding.

00:10:49.300 So it was a liberal riding in the last election.

00:10:53.380 It was a liberal MP who got defeated by the bloc.

00:10:57.180 The liberals fell by 4% in the last election, and they only lost this riding by about 2,000 votes.

00:11:04.140 So why didn't the CBC interview the liberal MP to ask why she lost?

00:11:08.200 Why didn't they find out, you know, was it Justin Trudeau, was it his leadership that made them lose this particular seat?

00:11:14.340 You know, the bloc kind of came out of nowhere.

00:11:17.200 NDP used to hold this seat back in 2011.

00:11:20.060 At that point, they won with 50% of the vote.

00:11:24.100 This time around, they only had 8% of the vote.

00:11:26.860 That could have been another interesting story for the CBC to tell from this riding.

00:11:30.600 But instead, they picked the fourth place guy to talk about why he thinks he lost.

00:11:35.720 Well, let me just tell you, the reason he lost is because he's a conservative.

00:11:38.700 If the guy actually wanted to be an MP in this riding, he should have run for the liberals or the bloc or maybe the NDP who are all competitive.

00:11:45.340 This is not a conservative area.

00:11:46.860 This is not a conservative stronghold.

00:11:48.200 And so the idea that maybe the conservatives could have won if it wasn't for Andrew Scheer is just nonsense.

00:11:53.680 I point this out on Twitter.

00:11:55.100 It would literally be the equivalent of the CBC going to Lethbridge or going to Red Deer or going to some very, very strong, strongly held conservative riding in Alberta and interviewing the liberal to find out why they think they lost.

00:12:08.880 And for them to just say, oh, it's, of course, because of the current leader.

00:12:11.720 If it was not for the current leader, for sure, we would have had a shot at winning.

00:12:16.400 Just total nonsense.

00:12:17.360 Again, the CBC, they're out looking for hit pieces.

00:12:20.500 Anyone who has an axe to grind with leader Andrew Scheer will get a huge platform at the CBC as long as you're willing to bash them, as long as you're willing to bash Andrew Scheer.

00:12:29.540 Again, this is why you just can't trust the CBC.

00:12:32.500 They're not objective.

00:12:33.340 They're not.

00:12:33.820 They don't actually try to tell interesting stories to Canadians.

00:12:36.600 They're out looking for hit pieces against conservatives and right now against Andrew Scheer.

00:12:42.140 All right.

00:12:43.600 Now, this is a new segment that we're excited to introduce.

00:12:47.140 It's Ask Me Anything.

00:12:48.620 Ask Candice Anything.

00:12:49.900 The questions are reserved to people who are club members for True North.

00:12:53.640 So if you're interested in putting a question forward and having it right on the show,

00:12:56.820 go over to tnc.news, sign up for one of our clubs.

00:13:01.620 And once you're a club member, you get the privilege of asking me a question and I will answer them on air.

00:13:07.200 So let's get right to it.

00:13:09.320 The first question here is from Kayleigh.

00:13:12.640 She says, one, are the RCMP still investigating Justin Trudeau?

00:13:17.780 Read the SNC-Lavalin.

00:13:19.340 I haven't heard anything about it.

00:13:21.540 And then she also asks if we're planning on doing a show about the gun ban that the liberals are proposing.

00:13:27.600 Well, this is an interesting question.

00:13:29.140 And again, I feel like the answer is not clear.

00:13:31.680 Once again, Canadians are so often kept in the dark, especially anything to do with the RCMP, anything to do with investigations.

00:13:37.860 So at this point, it isn't clear.

00:13:39.620 We don't actually know whether SNC is being investigated, whether the liberals are being investigated for the deal that they were given.

00:13:47.540 And we do know that before the election, they were looking into it.

00:13:51.640 And then they said that they were putting it on hold because of the election.

00:13:54.360 So they didn't want to be actively investigating during an election, which doesn't really make sense.

00:13:59.780 They shouldn't stop their police duties just because there is an election.

00:14:04.680 And we haven't really heard anything else.

00:14:06.460 So we're going to continue to try to get questions from the RCMP.

00:14:10.340 But again, we've seen this time and time again in Canada whenever, whether it's a terrorist attack or something like an investigation,

00:14:15.600 we just don't really know what's going on because they're not transparent and they don't keep people up to date on what's going on.

00:14:21.720 And then as far as your question about the liberal ban, yes, my colleague Andrew Lawton is a legal gun owner.

00:14:27.520 He knows a lot more about guns than I do, admittedly.

00:14:30.180 And he has been following this story.

00:14:32.020 I know we have a story up at TNC.News right now on Bill Blair, a study that he commissioned through his old department before the election.

00:14:40.460 We know that they're looking into it.

00:14:41.600 We know it was part of Trudeau's campaign promise, really concerning that they would go after legal gun owners in this country when it's pretty clear that the crime,

00:14:49.780 the gun crime in this country is very much connected to illegal guns.

00:14:54.780 So I'll refer over to my colleague Andrew Lawton for that because he's much better on the issue than I am.

00:15:01.640 Our next question comes from Elaine.

00:15:03.940 What exactly is Assistant PM?

00:15:06.500 Has there ever been one before?

00:15:08.200 How much power does this position hold?

00:15:10.820 Thank you, Elaine.

00:15:11.420 Okay, Elaine, I think you're referring to the new deputy prime minister position that Justin Trudeau has appointed to Chrystia Freeland.

00:15:19.460 And let me just tell you, deputy prime minister position is an honorary position.

00:15:23.340 In other words, it's totally made up.

00:15:24.940 It's ceremonial.

00:15:26.200 They don't have any official power.

00:15:27.860 They get the same title as the prime minister, the honorary, or I guess as a minister.

00:15:32.220 So the honorary is a title.

00:15:35.340 And again, the position's made up.

00:15:37.180 It was actually invented by Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau, in 1977, largely to recognize the long years of service to his own friend who he appointed.

00:15:49.560 Now, interestingly, when you go through history and look at, you know, over the last 40 years, who has been deputy prime minister,

00:15:56.460 you see that it's largely liberals and that conservatives don't really acknowledge the position.

00:16:01.600 Joe Clark never had a deputy prime minister.

00:16:04.580 Malroney did, but Stephen Harper did not.

00:16:08.760 And now the liberals have brought it back under Chrystia Freeland. 0.75

00:16:11.500 So the position doesn't really hold any power.

00:16:14.120 Just like Trudeau completely invented the new ministry of middle class prosperity, he's also invented this really just to give someone a soft landing, no real duties,

00:16:23.600 but probably filling in for a lot of the stuff that Trudeau himself just doesn't want to do, as we've seen already.

00:16:29.840 He sent Chrystia Freeland out to Alberta to meet with Jason Kenney, probably because Trudeau himself didn't want to meet with Kenney.

00:16:36.500 And I think we'll be seeing a lot more of that.

00:16:39.320 Just Chrystia Freeland getting sent to do something the prime minister should do, but it doesn't really feel like it.

00:16:44.280 He wants to take a personal day.

00:16:45.440 He wants to take vacation.

00:16:46.240 And so he's sending his deputy instead.

00:16:50.220 Okay, I think we have time for one more question.

00:16:54.320 This one comes from Rob.

00:16:55.800 My question is regarding immigration.

00:16:57.880 We're always told how wonderful immigration is and how much it benefits our country, which I agree with to a point.

00:17:03.480 Are there any statistics that outline the benefits prior to Pierre Trudeau's 1978 changing of our constitution and adopting, without Canadians' approval, official multiculturalism, and thus our immigration policies versus after this change?

00:17:17.020 I believe that would paint a vastly different picture than what the left is trying to force down our throats.

00:17:22.180 Thank you, Rob.

00:17:23.280 All right, Rob, thank you so much for this question.

00:17:24.820 This is a really interesting question, one that I'm personally very interested in.

00:17:28.200 I know that Martin Collicott, the late Martin Collicott, former ambassador, a Canadian ambassador, he sadly passed away two summers ago.

00:17:36.300 He used to write extensively on this.

00:17:38.700 He was a columnist over at the Vancouver Sun.

00:17:40.560 He was involved with the Fraser Institute.

00:17:42.900 And this was one of the things that he would study when I went back to look at if there's anything recent.

00:17:48.380 All the stuff that I found on this topic was put out a decade ago, put out even longer.

00:17:52.940 An interesting study by the Fraser Institute, The Effects of Mass Immigration on Canadian Living Standards and Society.

00:18:00.160 That was edited by Herb Grubel.

00:18:02.600 And I will tell you that there is just really a lack of this kind of reporting in Canada at the moment.

00:18:08.740 This is one of the reasons originally why I started the True North Initiative, which was to focus on immigration and studying the kind of issues around immigration.

00:18:16.240 Because I feel like over the last 10, 15 years, topics that we used to be able to discuss, topics that require discussing in a free society, in a free democratic society, there's just a hush around it.

00:18:27.500 And again, it goes back to the story that I was talking about off the top that conservatives get accused of being racist for really nothing.

00:18:35.180 And same with this.

00:18:36.320 People were accusing Martin Collicott of being racist.

00:18:39.340 All he was doing was looking to empirically study immigration to see which kind of policies work and which kind of policies don't.

00:18:45.900 In a free and democratic society, we should be able to look objectively at policies and criticism, regardless of what those policies are.

00:18:53.180 And that is part of the problem.

00:18:55.480 So, again, I think this kind of thing is greatly needed in Canada.

00:18:59.480 I think if you're interested in finding out more details on those kind of changes, you should check out this Fraser Institute study because it does mention that.

00:19:08.380 Look at Martin Collicott and some of the things that he has written over the years with both the Vancouver Sun.

00:19:13.980 And I think his stuff would also appear in the Ottawa Citizen.

00:19:18.020 And, of course, check out True North.

00:19:20.000 That's one of the things that we do is we keep up to date on immigration and national security issues.

00:19:24.800 And we do deep dives into these issues.

00:19:27.620 So I'm going to leave it at that.

00:19:29.520 We'll get to the rest of the mail questions to ask me anything next week.

00:19:33.420 And if you are a club member and you want to ask a question, go ahead and email that over to us.

00:19:38.820 So I'll leave to that.

00:19:39.860 Thank you so much, everyone.

00:19:40.960 Have a great weekend.

Juno News - November 29, 2019

The Candice Malcolm Show： Introducing a new segment – ＂Ask Candice Anything!＂

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