Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： Iran gets more belligerent while the Left continues to blame the US

00:00:00.000 Justin Trudeau gets tougher with Iran, but is still weak in the face of an evil regime. 1.00

00:00:04.120 The Iranian government gets more and more belligerent, and yet idiots on the left still

00:00:07.700 insist the U.S. is to blame, and nuclear scare in Pickering shows how incompetent the government is,

00:00:13.120 and the CBC gets a taste of its own medicine and gets called racist for airing a segment

00:00:17.220 on immigration. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:25.940 Hi, and welcome to the podcast. Thank you for tuning in. If you've been watching the

00:00:29.140 show recently, you know that we've been focusing a lot on the situation in Iran, and no different

00:00:33.220 today. We're going to go through everything that's happened over the past three or four days and try

00:00:37.980 to figure out what is happening. So on Saturday, Justin Trudeau gave another press conference to

00:00:42.920 talk about the Iranian shooting down of a commercial aircraft, the Ukrainian international flight,

00:00:47.880 where 173 people died. Somewhere between 58 and 63 of those were Canadian citizens. It's still 1.00

00:00:53.880 not clear how many Canadian citizens were on board. Originally, we were told 63. Now some are suggesting

00:00:58.940 it was 58. A lot of lost lives, a lot of Canadians that were on board. So Justin Trudeau came to

00:01:05.100 address the same situation that he had on Thursday. I will say Justin Trudeau was a lot stronger on

00:01:10.000 Saturday, whereas on Thursday, he was sort of, you know, he came across very somber, very unsure of

00:01:16.160 himself. He just seemed really shaken, and he couldn't really answer a question straight. He fumbled

00:01:22.560 back on his talking points. He was directly asked whether he thought the U.S. was to blame,

00:01:27.060 and he couldn't provide a straight answer. Let's play that clip. This is from Thursday.

00:01:30.260 The CBC's David Cochran asking Justin Trudeau whether the U.S. is to blame and Trudeau not

00:01:35.240 being able to provide a straight answer. Hi, Prime Minister. I just want to circle back

00:01:38.580 to an earlier question. If the intelligence is accurate, then it seems this is the end result

00:01:42.940 of a sequence of events that was sparked by the drone strike ordered by the U.S. president. So

00:01:47.680 given the information you have, how much responsibility does the United States bear for this tragedy?

00:01:53.560 The evidence suggests that this is the likely cause, but we need to have a full and complete

00:02:00.460 and credible investigation to establish exactly what happened. That is what we are calling for,

00:02:07.680 and that is what we are expecting will happen. So again, the United States is Canada's closest

00:02:11.580 ally. They're our most important ally. We're on the side of the United States. In fact, Canadian troops

00:02:16.360 are side by side with American troops in Iraq. They've been there since we've been fighting and

00:02:22.020 addressing the ISIS insurgency. Canadian lives are at risk in the same way as Americans are when

00:02:27.200 Iran goes and bombs bases, Iraqi bases, housing ally troops. So the fact that Justin Trudeau cannot

00:02:34.600 unequivocally reject the idea that the U.S. could possibly be to blame, that's shameful. That's

00:02:39.820 shameful. Trudeau should have answered that question very clearly and said, no, this is not an instance of

00:02:44.720 the United States being to blame. It was an Iranian missile launched by the Iranian regime 0.87

00:02:49.800 in Iran, in Iranian airspace. There is no circumstance in the world where it would be

00:02:55.360 another country's fault for the belligerent actions of an adversarial regime. Only in this

00:03:02.480 sort of deranged world that we live in where people hate Donald Trump so much, they hate

00:03:07.140 the U.S. government, that they're willing to tie themselves into knots to basically say to the

00:03:13.000 Iranians who did this, it's not really your fault. You can't really be to blame. It's the Americans

00:03:17.660 absolving them of a truly evil deed, which is despicable. The fact that Trudeau couldn't

00:03:22.620 unequivocally do that was embarrassing, to say the least. But I will say Trudeau was stronger on

00:03:27.860 Saturday. So he was tougher. He came across more firmly. But he still gave room to the Iranian regime. 0.75

00:03:34.920 So he said that he spoke to President Rouhani, that Rouhani took responsibility. At this point,

00:03:39.800 the Iranians had admitted, yes, it was us. Remember, at first they said that it was an engine failure.

00:03:44.820 And then, once it was pretty clear, once video was released and there was intelligence gathered

00:03:49.980 by the Canadian government and our allies showing, no, no, no, it was very clear that this plane was

00:03:53.720 shot out of the sky, then Iran initially said that it wasn't us, it wasn't our missile, we don't know

00:03:58.580 what happened. And it wasn't until Saturday that they took responsibility. And yet, you know, on

00:04:03.660 Thursday, it was the CBC that was sitting there repeating over and over again that the U.S. was to

00:04:08.760 blame. We have a little montage of a couple of different CBC reporters saying that it was

00:04:14.100 the U.S. to blame.

00:04:14.920 A significant question that Canadians, particularly the families of these victims, are going to

00:04:20.040 have is, are 63 Canadians dead because of the unintended consequences of a decision made

00:04:29.480 by the U.S. president?

00:04:30.800 Hi, Prime Minister. I just want to circle back to an earlier question. If the intelligence

00:04:34.800 is accurate, then it seems this is the end result of a sequence of events that was sparked by the

00:04:39.060 drone strike ordered by the U.S. president. So given the information you have, how much

00:04:44.020 responsibility does the United States bear for this tragedy?

00:04:47.800 By Saturday, the Iranian regime was repeating CBC rhetoric. So CBC's editorial position on

00:04:52.960 Thursday became the official talking points of the Islamist government, the Islamic regime in Iran

00:04:58.760 on Saturday. So congratulations, CBC. You're on the same side as a maniacal regime. But all that's

00:05:07.080 to say that that derangement didn't just stop at the CBC. It extended throughout the U.S. media and to

00:05:12.060 public figures, and we'll get to that in a bit. My criticism with Justin Trudeau at this point was

00:05:16.780 that he says to the, he says during a press conference several times that Iran has taken an

00:05:21.300 important first step, that they have claimed and taken responsibility, and that he basically praises

00:05:26.400 Iran for doing that. That's total nonsense. Iran lied from the get-go. They lied repeatedly until 0.97

00:05:31.920 they were caught into a corner where they had no other option, where all the evidence was pointing

00:05:35.620 to, yes, Iran shot this down, and now their only response is, it was an accident. Okay, that's not

00:05:40.760 good enough. That's not good enough. You murdered 173 people, malicious act of war against innocent

00:05:46.660 people, families, children, babies, women, men, university students, some of the brightest young minds in

00:05:53.560 Iran coming to Canada. And, you know, Iran just killed them through their own recklessness and 1.00

00:05:59.660 incompetence. You don't just get to say, look, we're sorry. Trudeau shouldn't give them credit

00:06:02.800 for taking responsibility. He should be pressing even further, although this is as far as I have

00:06:07.540 seen him press. And then Justin Trudeau still does his own thing where he doesn't really directly

00:06:12.240 answer a question. He just sort of obfuscates and repeats his talking points. So the post-millennial

00:06:16.580 asked him whether or not he thought Qasem Soleimani was a legitimate target. Qasem Soleimani,

00:06:22.420 as you know, was the head of Quds Force, which was an elite sort of secret unit within the

00:06:28.260 Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Iranian military. It's been designated a terrorist by most Western

00:06:34.300 governments, including Canada, since 2012. So the post-millennial asked, was he a legitimate target

00:06:39.500 since he was leader of a terrorist group and that terrorist group has been listed by the Canadian

00:06:43.000 government as a terrorist group? Trudeau can't answer. He can't provide a straight answer. Let's play that.

00:06:48.500 Do you think Mr. Soleimani was a legitimate target? And my follow-up question to that is,

00:06:55.340 if you say his killing contributed to events that unfortunately led to the downing of the aircraft,

00:07:02.840 would your government now, I mean, first, can your government trust the regime on that? And

00:07:07.920 would it follow through on listing the entire Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity,

00:07:14.580 as you voted for in September 2018? These are the kinds of questions that we

00:07:20.160 will have to be reflecting on in the coming days and weeks. Our focus right now is providing the

00:07:26.540 support to grieving families that need answers, that need closure, that need justice, that need

00:07:32.220 access to consular support both in Iran and in Canada. We are doing everything we can to ensure

00:07:40.060 that that happens in the short term. But obviously, there are reflections in the medium and long term

00:07:45.200 as we move forward. Interestingly, as Trudeau is saying that, a former top official with Canada's

00:07:50.180 Security Intelligence Agency gave an interview with Global News where he went much, much further. So

00:07:55.180 where Trudeau couldn't answer the question, where Trudeau's foreign affairs minister was sort of squishy,

00:08:00.120 a top CSIS official, former CSIS official, came out and really said it like it was about Soleimani.

00:08:05.980 So this was from Stuart Bell over at Global News. Quote, Qasem Soleimani was a brutal yet talented

00:08:13.120 terrorist leader. That's the best way I can describe him. He was supporting organizations

00:08:17.680 that were sympathetic to the Iranian cause and specifically organizations whose mandate was

00:08:21.440 violence. He never ceased his desire to cause mayhem and violence throughout the region. So,

00:08:27.700 you know, whereas the politicians are for some reason too afraid to speak the truth and just come

00:08:33.160 out and say, yes, this guy was a maniacal leader that was destabilizing the entire Middle East,

00:08:38.560 responsible for countless deaths, you know, instead of just saying that, for some reason,

00:08:43.620 they feel the need to, oh, well, that's what we need to look into. We need to figure that out. They can't

00:08:48.780 just come out and say it. Well, you know, I'm glad that there's someone who's once in the Canadian 0.99

00:08:52.880 government who had the nerve to do it. And Boris Johnson, prime minister of the UK, made similar

00:08:59.700 comments about Soleimani. He said that Soleimani has the blood of British troops on his hands

00:09:04.840 and that Soleimani gave improvised explosive devices to terrorists who, I'm afraid, killed

00:09:10.200 and maimed British troops. The same is true about Canadian troops. We just don't have leaders that

00:09:14.800 are courageous enough to say it. Okay, let's move on. So Iran is truly becoming more and more 1.00

00:09:20.880 belligerent. You know, many people said that by taking responsibility for the aircraft, they were sort

00:09:24.980 of deescalating the situation, like trying to calm everything down and lower the tensions. But it's

00:09:30.620 just not the case. They continued with another bombing campaign against bases in Iraq, bases,

00:09:36.100 again, where both Canadian and American troops are being held, being housed, putting lives at risk.

00:09:41.940 You know, they are the ones that are continuing to push this hot war. And, you know, again, the idea

00:09:48.580 that Justin Trudeau just took their word that, look, this was an accident, we're moving on. The fact

00:09:52.620 Justin Trudeau was even praising them for that is just so despicable because even after Iran took 0.94

00:09:58.800 responsibility, even after supposedly they said, okay, we lied before, but now we're going to come

00:10:03.660 and tell the truth. They were once again caught in a lie. Once again, caught in a lie. This was barely

00:10:08.360 reported by the news in the West, not reported at all in the U.S. But basically a general from the

00:10:15.380 Iranian regime came out, gave a press conference where he was supposedly telling the truth and coming

00:10:19.680 clean about what actually happened. So this is what he said. So the Iranian missile operator who shot

00:10:24.380 down the Ukrainian passenger jet was acting alone when he opened fire because of a communication

00:10:29.260 breakdown, a Revolutionary Guard commander said on Saturday. The operator had mistaken the Boeing 737

00:10:35.180 for a cruise missile and only had 10 seconds to decide whether to fire. At various stages,

00:10:41.020 it was reported that cruise missiles had been fired towards the country. He said the Ukrainian

00:10:46.100 international airlines plane was brought down in Tehran hours after Iran launched a volley of 0.63

00:10:50.680 missiles at U.S. troops stationed at Iraqi bases on Wednesday. All 176 people on board died. Given the

00:10:56.740 information provided to the operator that it was a war situation and cruise missiles had been fired,

00:11:01.360 the person identified this as a missile. He was obliged to make contact and get verification. But

00:11:06.820 apparently his communication system had some disruptions. Either a jamming of the system was the

00:11:12.800 cause or a network was busy or whatever. He couldn't get in touch to the general. He had 10 seconds to

00:11:19.120 decide. Okay, this entire scenario that they're painting here is like straight out of like an

00:11:24.820 international relations sort of like game theory. Like the guy had 10 seconds to decide. He thought

00:11:29.980 that there was an incoming missile and he had to decide. He was really junior. He was supposed to get

00:11:33.860 approval from someone senior, but the line was blocked. I mean, this is like straight out of a

00:11:39.120 Hollywood movie, straight out of a blockbuster. This is not a situation that was realistic. There's so

00:11:43.680 many things that are wrong with this and it's so easy to pull apart. First of all, there is a huge

00:11:50.320 difference just in terms of size and speed of a jet, an air jet taking off, a commercial air jet

00:11:56.120 taking off. The speed would be much, much slower than an incoming missile, which would be at full speed.

00:12:01.720 So just from a very basic perspective, someone who is trained in this situation to be able to spot

00:12:07.060 these kinds of things would easily and very quickly be able to tell the difference between

00:12:10.740 a missile and a passenger jet. So reportedly the plane flew into restricted airspace, which is why

00:12:16.600 this individual who supposedly only had 10 seconds to decide was even made aware of it. But the idea

00:12:21.300 that he would only have 10 seconds to decide is really a stretch. I find it very, very hard to believe

00:12:25.500 that it wouldn't have been longer, that he had to decide split second, 10 seconds. And then this whole

00:12:29.960 idea that, you know, he was supposed to get approval, but there was a jamming in the system or the

00:12:35.040 network was busy or whatever. He couldn't get a touch with a higher Iranian general is just not

00:12:40.680 believable because it's not like calling on a regular landline where you get a busy signal.

00:12:45.340 Supposedly there'd be a direct line to a commander. And so what this really shows, first of all, is that

00:12:51.280 the Iranian government has a very difficult time with the truth. They can't come out and say it.

00:12:55.160 They have to create these really, you know, over the top scenarios to make it seem like, oh, it wasn't

00:13:00.000 this guy's fault, like he was in this impossible situation. And really all this is to do is just to

00:13:05.400 absolve them of the responsibility. What it really shows, though, not only are they reckless, they're

00:13:10.660 just massively incompetent, massively incompetent. Like the idea that they can withstand some kind of

00:13:16.240 accelerated hot war against the United States is just ridiculous. When you look at the behind the

00:13:21.460 scenes scenario where they have a junior person in charge of, you know, defending the country from

00:13:26.760 incoming missiles, a guy that can't tell the difference in speed and size between an incoming

00:13:31.160 missile and a passenger jet that is taking off somehow. He only has 10 seconds to decide and he

00:13:36.240 can't get in touch with anyone. Like their systems are so bad and, you know, basic that he can't even

00:13:41.240 get in touch with a supervisor and that he has to make the split second decision. He's obviously,

00:13:45.900 you know, hungry for war and hungry for sort of, you know, whatever, revenge or hatred against the

00:13:52.720 Americans that he would be so willing to do something so reckless. And the Iranian government 0.99

00:13:58.320 is now sort of like trotting this out as accused. I don't believe this story at all. I don't think

00:14:03.940 that it's accurate. I don't think we're getting a full story. And this is supposedly the Iranians 0.99

00:14:08.560 taking responsibility. That's not taking responsibility. Further belligerence from the

00:14:13.240 Iranian regime. They arrested the British ambassador to Iran. So there has been some talk of Canada

00:14:21.480 reopening its embassy. There was an article in the Globe and Mail, an op-ed calling for Canada to

00:14:26.280 reopen its embassy. Because of situations like this, they say that we need Canadian officials on

00:14:30.440 the ground to deal with the fallout and that it would be a lot easier if Canada had an official

00:14:35.240 presence in Iran. Well, Iran reminds us of why we don't. Back in 2012, Canada pulled its entire mission.

00:14:41.880 They named Iranian ambassadors in Canada persona non grata, expelled them from the country, and we pulled

00:14:48.200 Iran in part because the diplomats in Iran were not safe. They were no longer deemed safe. An Iranian 1.00

00:14:54.760 mob had broken into and ransacked the UK embassy, making it seem like, you know, this could possibly

00:15:01.480 happen to Canada. Part of the reason Canada pulled it. Well, Iran has done it again. This time they have 0.98

00:15:06.440 arrested the ambassador of the British government. So Britain has announced the arrest of its ambassador

00:15:13.240 to Iran as a violation of international law as a new diplomatic row broke up between London and

00:15:18.200 Tehran over anti-government protests engulfing Iran. Basically, the Iranian regime accused the British

00:15:23.080 ambassador of being part of the protest. So huge protests have broken out in Iran after the government

00:15:28.200 admitted that it downed the jet and the Iranian government paranoid, schizophrenic, crazy. They said

00:15:33.960 that it was the British government who was actually planning these protests and thus arrested

00:15:39.800 the British ambassador. Tehran said it had summoned McCary, who's the British ambassador, to justify

00:15:45.480 his, quote, illegal and inappropriate presence, unquote, at the protest, despite the ambassador

00:15:50.760 denying that he had taken part. And then meanwhile, it says a group of pro-regime protesters gathered

00:15:56.120 outside the U.S. embassy calling for its closures. Again, this is, to me, one of the most concerning

00:16:00.200 parts. It's happened in Canada and now it's happening in the UK, that there are all these loyalists,

00:16:04.200 these Islamists who are loyal to the Iranian regime. For whatever reason, they're in the West, 0.62

00:16:08.840 and they're kind of doing the government, the regime's dirty work by putting pressure on Western

00:16:13.320 governments. You know, one of the things, so many people in the Iranian diaspora in Canada fled the

00:16:18.760 regime. They hate the regime. You know, these are the ones that are protesting in Toronto in solidarity

00:16:23.800 with the protests in Iran. And then the fact that there are these thugs who are loyal to the regime,

00:16:28.600 you know, the most wicked government in the world, in my opinion, an absolutely despicable human

00:16:33.560 rights record, a despicable record of interfering in the region, destabilizing the entire Middle East 0.99

00:16:38.920 by sending out proxies, sending out terrorist groups, the largest state sponsor of terrorism,

00:16:43.640 a country that literally bankrolls wicked terrorist groups throughout the world, throughout the Middle 0.99

00:16:48.280 East. And, you know, somehow there are people in the West who are loyal to this regime and they're

00:16:52.840 willing to go out and do their dirty work. That is despicable. But again, this really just shows how

00:16:58.040 deranged the Iranian government is, how belligerent they are. And to all the people who are sitting and 0.68

00:17:01.880 saying this is really the U.S.'s fault. Well, is it also the U.S.'s fault that now London and Tehran 0.83

00:17:07.240 are in this feud, that now the U.K. and Iran are going head to head? Like, it's not the United States. 0.62

00:17:14.280 The United States isn't the problem here. A country that would arrest and detain an ambassador,

00:17:19.000 accusing him of just something outrageous and silly, you know, that this is not a sane government.

00:17:25.320 This is not a responsible government. And again, shame on anyone who is really defending this regime.

00:17:31.480 And every time you sit and say Trump is to blame, the U.S. is really to blame, what you're doing is,

00:17:36.520 again, absolving Iran of responsibility that it needs to take and it needs to have on it. So, 0.91

00:17:43.560 like I said, big protests are breaking out in Iran and the Iranian regime is cracking down.

00:17:48.920 Unsurprisingly, video surfaced of Iranian police shooting at protesters. And, you know, the good thing 1.00

00:17:55.720 about this time around is that the world is watching. So, you know, I felt like the world

00:18:00.760 completely ignored the protests that erupted about a month ago when there was huge calls for regime

00:18:06.920 change. There were big protests throughout Iran and the government just absolutely started cracking

00:18:11.720 down, murdered somewhere between 15 and 1600 young Iranian protesters, peaceful protesters. They

00:18:17.640 started doing mass arrests and really cracking down. They shut down internet in the entire country

00:18:22.600 to kind of try to suppress these protests. And, you know, no one was paying attention. No one was

00:18:29.400 watching. Well, this time around the world is watching. President Trump made that known.

00:18:34.360 Yeah, President Trump tweeted in support of the Iranian protesters and he said to the regime,

00:18:38.760 he warned the regime that there cannot be another massacre of peaceful protesters. So, you know,

00:18:44.120 hopefully the people in Iran will push for regime change and hopefully this will give them the 1.00

00:18:48.920 strength to know that, you know, the regime can't just simply start arresting them and

00:18:52.920 kidnapping them and murdering them. And if they do, hopefully there will be repercussions because,

00:18:57.400 again, the world is watching. Now, as I mentioned, the CBC trotted out this idea that the U.S. is

00:19:02.840 really to blame for the plane crash. Well, they were not alone. A CEO of a company joined in that

00:19:08.520 derangement. Michael McCain, who is the CEO of Maple Leafs Food, took to Twitter through the official

00:19:15.720 Twitter handle of Maple Leafs Food and decided to jump in the realm of politics. He says,

00:19:20.920 I am very angry and time isn't making me less angry. A Maple Leaf Foods colleague of mine lost

00:19:26.760 his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran.

00:19:31.080 U.S. government leaders, unconstrained by checks and balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert

00:19:37.160 focus from political woes. The world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path to 1.00

00:19:42.200 contain it. Not perfect, but by most accounts, it was the right direction. A narcissist in Washington

00:19:48.120 tears world accomplishments apart, destabilizes region. U.S. now unwelcomed everywhere in the area,

00:19:53.720 including Iraq. Tensions escalated to feverish pitch, taking out despicable military leader

00:19:59.880 terrorists? There are hundreds like him standing next in line. The collateral damage of his

00:20:05.080 irresponsible, dangerous, ill-conceived behavior? 63 Canadians needlessly lost their lives in the

00:20:09.880 crossfire, including the family of one of my Maple Leaf Foods colleagues, his wife and 11 year old

00:20:14.840 son. We are mourning and I am livid. Okay, so this is just like a perfect example of the derangement

00:20:20.600 that many on the left have. He can only view the situation through the lens that America is the bad

00:20:26.040 guy, America is at fault, and Iran is just, you know, they just happen to be the the targets. This is 0.96

00:20:32.600 the exact response of someone who just hates Donald Trump so much that they can't think clearly. They can't

00:20:39.560 think rationally. So to him, everything is straight out of a Hollywood movie. Trump is this sort of like

00:20:44.520 evil caricature of a president and it's all, you know, because Trump has these political woes at

00:20:50.360 home so he's trying to change the channel and he's trying to do something different. Again, this kind

00:20:54.440 of shows someone's ignorance of the region, of what's going on in Iran, because to say that the

00:20:59.800 United States was the one who initiated this is just, it's just completely ignorant, completely

00:21:05.960 untrue. If you look back, you know, it says right here, the world knows Iran is a dangerous state, 0.92

00:21:11.480 but the world found a path to contain it. It's not perfect, but by most accounts, it's the right

00:21:15.800 direction. This is not true. The Obama plan and strategy with Iran was a complete failure. The idea

00:21:21.560 was basically that they would sign a piece of paper saying, yeah, sure, we won't develop

00:21:25.080 our nuclear weapons. And in response, Obama not only freed up hundreds of billions of dollars in cash

00:21:30.520 that was given to the regime, which was then used to bankroll terrorist groups across the region,

00:21:34.440 which caused massive destabilization and untold loss of life, but it really just emboldened Iran. 0.65

00:21:40.040 It had no restrictions on Iran in terms of human rights, funding terrorism, and by most accounts,

00:21:45.800 Iran was continuing to covertly develop its nuclear weapons. So the Obama policy was just a total

00:21:51.480 failure. And somehow this individual believes that Iran was contained. No, they weren't. They were 0.94

00:21:56.600 completely acting out of turn. They shot down an American drone in June in international airspace,

00:22:05.080 which was a violation of international law. There was a huge attack on Saudi's oil fields. It destroyed

00:22:12.920 about 5% of Saudi Arabia's oil output, which was a huge natural disaster as well. Where's the

00:22:19.240 environmentalists looking at that and questioning that? You know, Iran, they seized British tanker

00:22:25.800 in July 2019, not to mention the fact that they killed their own protesters, about 15 or 1600 of

00:22:31.800 them over Christmas. And then what really escalated the situation, this is what the left is just

00:22:36.760 completely blind to, was that on December 27th, unprovoked, Iran attacked a military base in Iraq.

00:22:44.440 They killed an American citizen. Donald Trump always had a red line saying, don't kill an American.

00:22:49.160 We won't escalate this. If you avoid killing Americans, well, the Soleimani and the Iranian 1.00

00:22:54.360 regime killed an American on that 27th strike. Then on the 29th, they orchestrated an attack on the

00:22:59.560 US embassy in Baghdad. So this is two solidified actions of the Iranians attacking American assets,

00:23:07.560 attacking Americans. And so it was in response to that, that Trump ordered the strike. There is also

00:23:12.920 intelligence pointing that Soleimani had plans to actually bomb and blow up the embassy in Baghdad,

00:23:20.200 the US embassy trying to kill the ambassador, just like they just kidnapped the ambassador of the UK.

00:23:25.720 So they were actively planning attacks. They were actively attacking America when Trump responded.

00:23:31.480 And so again, just to say that this was Trump acting and, you know, escalating the situation shows

00:23:37.000 just a real ignorance, you know, not, not of, not of like far off history of like the last two weeks

00:23:41.640 of foreign affairs. It just shows like a total misunderstanding. So again, this is just derangement

00:23:47.080 and this is the kind of stuff that like, if you're a leader of a company, focus on running your business

00:23:51.400 and leave like foreign policy and politics to people who actually follow and know what's going on. We

00:23:56.200 don't really care about your derangement. And a lot of people are now calling to boycott Maple Leaf Foods.

00:24:00.840 I don't eat Maple Leaf Foods anyway. I don't really subscribe to the whole idea that we should boycott

00:24:05.720 companies because of stupid remarks by people involved. But you know, if you want to boycott

00:24:10.440 them, you can go ahead and do that. Okay, let's move on. So if you were like me, you received a text

00:24:15.800 message early Sunday morning saying that there was some kind of an incident at the nuclear plant in

00:24:22.360 Pickering, Ontario. We got an alert saying, this is a province of Ontario emergency bulletin which applies

00:24:29.320 to people within 10 kilometers of the Pickering nuclear generating station. An incident was reported at

00:24:35.000 the Pickering nuclear generating station that there has been no abnormal release of radioactivity

00:24:41.240 from the station and emergency staff are responding to the situation. People near the station do not

00:24:46.360 need to take any protective actions at this time. Remain tuned in to local media for further information

00:24:52.200 and instructions. Pretty scary stuff, right? So, you know, you get that on your cell phone. Everyone had it.

00:24:58.200 So about an hour after that initial report was sent after that text message, Ontario Power

00:25:03.960 generation clarified on Twitter that the message had been sent in error. So it said important update,

00:25:10.120 the alert regarding Pickering nuclear was sent in error. There is no danger to the public or

00:25:15.640 environment. So basically just total incompetence on the part of Ontario power generation. This is the

00:25:22.040 kind of stuff that really feeds into the fear that people have with nuclear power in general in the first

00:25:29.000 place, which is unfortunate because it is, you know, much cleaner and safer than so many of the

00:25:33.640 alternatives. But, you know, we can't really trust government to do anything competently. All right,

00:25:38.520 final story we have here. This is an exclusive over at tnc.news investigative journalism fellow,

00:25:44.120 Lindsay Shepard, tells us that the CBC now faces a complaint from a group of 30 immigrant rights

00:25:52.120 organizations. They sent an open letter to the CBC ombudsperson calling for an investigation into an

00:25:57.640 episode of the CBC program, The Fifth Estate, titled Passport Babies, The Growing Shadow Industry

00:26:03.240 of Birth Tourism, which aired on January 5th, 2020. So the complaint, which was sent by the Migrant 0.99

00:26:09.880 Workers Alliance for Change, claims that the episode is spreading misinformation and that increases the

00:26:15.640 risk of violence and hatred towards migrants and their families. Some of the group that signed the

00:26:21.640 complaint include the Montreal anti-fascist group, Idle No More, Butterfly Asian and Migrant Sex Workers

00:26:29.640 Support Network, and the group No One Is Illegal. So really a group of crazy far-left organizations

00:26:37.080 saying that it is the CBC that is racist. They accuse the CBC of spreading racism, xenophobia,

00:26:43.560 and dog whistle politics. Basically, the CBC does a legitimate episode on a growing problem. We know

00:26:51.000 that birth tourism is a problem in Canada, and it isn't really a problem that affects sort of like

00:26:56.280 the hardest done by, the worst off of migrants, you know, the people that you really envision when you 1.00

00:27:02.120 think of refugees coming from war-torn countries or incredibly poor places. No, this is like relatively

00:27:07.240 well-off rich women coming from mostly China, but also countries like Russia and other European 0.65

00:27:13.080 countries. They come to Canada when they're, you know, heavily pregnant in their third trimester, 0.66

00:27:17.960 they have their babies, get the passport for their babies, and then leave. This is a legitimate

00:27:23.080 problem of people free-riding, taking advantage of Canadian generosity, taking advantage of a Canadian

00:27:27.800 law that allows anyone born on Canadian soil to become a Canadian citizen, regardless of whether the

00:27:32.600 mother or the parents have any legal status whatsoever in Canada. And so again, CBC looks at this,

00:27:38.520 which is a legitimate issue. And, you know, of course, of course, the far left, the further far

00:27:45.320 left, accuses them of racism. It's kind of amusing because it's the CBC that usually leads this charge,

00:27:50.920 right? It's the CBC that usually accuses other people of racism. Remember, they created that whole

00:27:55.800 fake news idea. They hired someone to pretend to be a Trump supporter, and they put him out on the

00:28:00.040 streets to try to see if he could roul up other Canadians into racism. The CBC is often the ones that

00:28:05.800 are trying to paint Canadians as racist or trick Canadians into being racist. And here they are, 0.50

00:28:11.880 doing a fairly straight news story, which was probably still way too sympathetic to people who

00:28:16.760 are clearly just trying to take advantage of Canadian generosity. And now the shoe's on the

00:28:20.120 other foot, and they are getting called racist. I wonder if this will make the CBC lighten up and

00:28:25.560 stop calling Canadians who care about, you know, immigration and care about immigration laws being 0.82

00:28:30.920 followed, if they'll ease up and stop calling those people racist. I highly doubt it, but it's amusing

00:28:35.640 that CBC got a little bit of a taste of its own medicine. All right, I will leave it at that,

00:28:40.440 and we will be back again on Wednesday. Thank you so much for tuning in.

Juno News - January 14, 2020

The Candice Malcolm Show： Iran gets more belligerent while the Left continues to blame the US

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