Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： Justin's journalists find a new target — Jason Kenney

00:00:00.000 A federal judge's written decision emphasizes True North's huge victory for press freedom.

00:00:05.480 Justin's journalists take a break from attacking Andrew Scheer so they can go after Alberta Premier

00:00:09.980 Jason Kenney. The mainstream media pretend that Kim Campbell is still somehow relevant.

00:00:14.760 She isn't. And Iran and Hong Kong are in protests and on fire, and Canadian leaders

00:00:21.140 are missing in action. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:30.000 All right. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. A bunch of stuff I want to get through,

00:00:33.920 so let's jump right into it. So a federal judge finally issued his written decision

00:00:38.780 on the True North court case. So everyone who was paying attention and following along during the

00:00:43.160 election, you will recall that True North had its journalist, Andrew Lawton, banned from covering

00:00:48.300 much of the election campaign. First, he was banned from being on Justin Trudeau's press bus. He wasn't

00:00:53.840 allowed to join the campaign. And then when True North filed an application through the government

00:00:58.360 government to cover the leaders' debates, there was two leaders' debates, one in French,

00:01:02.580 one in English. We followed all the rules, all the protocol, applied to be part of it.

00:01:07.020 We were arbitrarily denied. And so we went to court. We issued an emergency injunction the day of the

00:01:13.780 debate to ask a federal judge to look at the decision to ban True North to find out why we're

00:01:18.840 banned and whether or not it was legal. Well, the judge ruled in favor of True North. Thanks so much to

00:01:24.540 all of the support from True North Nation. We were able to crowdfund this last-minute lawsuit

00:01:29.100 and we were victorious. Well, the written decision finally came out last week. And again, it was just,

00:01:34.500 it emphasizes the huge victory for press freedom in Canada. Justice Zinn, he overturned the ban,

00:01:40.540 allowed True North to attend. And it was really vindicating to True North as well as to the idea

00:01:45.820 of press freedom, that the government doesn't arbitrarily get to decide who is and who isn't a

00:01:49.620 journalist based on who they like. And the fact that it was True North and The Rebel, two conservative

00:01:55.040 outlets that are very critical of Justin Trudeau, that raised the alarm bell. And I'm just so happy

00:01:59.900 with the decision. Justice Zinn writes,

00:02:02.520 I find that decisions are lacking in discernible rationality and logic and thus are neither justified

00:02:08.120 nor intelligible, wrote Justice Zinn. And he also says, absent any explanation as to the meaning to

00:02:15.200 be given to the term advocacy. And given that the commission accredited some organizations that have

00:02:20.680 engaged in advocacy, I am at a loss to understand why the commission reached the decision it did

00:02:26.200 with respect to the applicants. So if you'll recall, when Andrew Lawton received the rejection letter

00:02:32.000 from the debates commission, the reason stated was that True North engages in advocacy. That's not

00:02:37.760 true. First of all, we're a journalism outlet. We are a charity that publishes a media site. So that's

00:02:44.340 what TNC is. We're part of a charity. We don't do advocacy as part of that charity. And then also

00:02:50.200 regardless, even if we did do advocacy, a lot of other media outlets in Canada do advocacy. A lot of

00:02:56.280 other media outlets that were accredited to attend that debate, such as the Toronto Star, were also

00:03:01.700 accredited. So Justice Zinn echoed what our argument was in the first place, which is that it's really

00:03:06.340 arbitrary to ban these two organizations, ourselves and The Rebel, based on this criteria, as well as the

00:03:12.760 fact that the criteria wasn't posted anywhere. So no one knew what it was that they were looking for

00:03:16.960 beforehand. So this is really helpful. As our followers might know, the Trudeau government has

00:03:22.000 also filed an appeal notice. So they might end up appealing this decision that was made. We're going

00:03:27.380 to wait and find out what happens with that. Now, I just wanted to point out that there was a news

00:03:31.560 story over at Black Locks Reporter, which is an investigative news site run by a couple of ex-journalists

00:03:37.540 in Ottawa. And they spoke to a parliamentary press gallery official who contradicted a sworn affidavit

00:03:46.380 that was submitted in the same court case. Pretty remarkable. The debates commission claimed that

00:03:51.420 they consulted with the parliamentary press gallery on their decision to ban True North. Well, Black Locks 0.90

00:03:56.960 found a contradiction in that. So it turns out that they didn't actually consult with the debates

00:04:01.920 commission, that they hadn't actually had any meetings since June. So much for the idea that

00:04:07.340 they were consulted on the decision in October to ban True North when they hadn't even had a meeting

00:04:11.960 since June. So great reporting over there at Black Locks. Okay, let's move on. We know that the

00:04:17.640 mainstream media, we know that Justin's journalists are always going to pick on conservatives. And we've

00:04:22.660 seen it nonstop. They're going after Andrew Scheer on everything from his most personal religious

00:04:28.040 beliefs to his positions on anything from spending to controlling the debt to foreign aid. You name it,

00:04:34.720 they attack Andrew Scheer over it. Well, things are changing a little bit. And the mainstream media

00:04:39.040 has a new target. And that is on Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. So Jason Kenney gave a pretty remarkable

00:04:45.700 speech at the Manning conference a couple of weeks ago where he talked about his plan really to bring

00:04:51.420 Alberta a more fair deal to fight back against Ottawa. And essentially what he laid out was this idea

00:04:57.560 that Quebec gets all these special arrangements from the federal government. And Alberta doesn't. And so what

00:05:02.820 he's kind of laying out his plan is to have more and more control run provincially by Alberta. And

00:05:09.120 you know, this is the great thing about Canadian Federation is that we're incredibly decentralized

00:05:13.440 country. And so yes, it's a huge regionally diverse country where the things that are good for folks in

00:05:19.420 British Columbia might be very, very different than what's important for people in Quebec. And because

00:05:24.300 of that, you know, we have these very strong provincial governments and a weaker federal government.

00:05:28.220 That's how it should be. That's what makes Canada so strong. And so Jason Kenney is really just laying

00:05:33.080 out the case. Given the recent federal election outcome, how there's absolutely no representation

00:05:37.940 for the Liberals in either Saskatchewan or Alberta, and the really rough ride and the unfair deal that

00:05:43.400 those provinces get in Confederation, it's only fair that, you know, the Premier of Alberta will speak

00:05:48.740 up for the needs of the people of Alberta. And everyone knows that there's a huge movement towards

00:05:53.380 sort of separation. And so Kenney's kind of trying to manage this all and addressing it all. I loved

00:05:58.740 his speech that he gave. I just also like the idea that he gave a speech that he got up in front of

00:06:03.060 the stage and really laid out his plan, laid out his vision, laid out his policies. He didn't just kind

00:06:07.300 of, you know, backhandedly introduce these policies. He laid out his vision, which is incredibly helpful,

00:06:12.200 especially for conservatives who are going up against a very biased media. Well, as would be expected,

00:06:17.320 the mainstream media attacked Kenney in every way. We just saw editorials and articles across the

00:06:23.960 mainstream media complaining about Kenney, saying that he's choking the flames of separatism.

00:06:29.320 Here's the editorial over at the Globe and Mail. Jason Kenney is feeding the Wexit flame. He may not

00:06:35.140 be able to control the fire, where they actually accuse him of basically being like the leader of

00:06:40.380 the bloc party. We've got something over at the CBC. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney might be bilingual,

00:06:46.800 but he needs to learn a new language. That's from Graham Tonson over there. You just kind of expect

00:06:52.400 this reaction. You know, National Post did a pretty good job. They came up with these four charts that

00:06:58.480 showed really the situation in Alberta and why people in Alberta are so frustrated, how Alberta

00:07:04.480 pays Quebec's bills, four charts that shows how Alberta picks up the tab. We can go through these

00:07:09.440 real quick here. Basically what they're just showing is how much of the equalization program is paid for.

00:07:16.080 So when you see Quebec balancing its budget and Alberta having record debt, you need to keep

00:07:20.960 it in the context. Look at how much Alberta spends in equalization. Look at how much Quebec receives,

00:07:27.440 right? So it's not entirely a level playing field. And given the economic hardships that

00:07:33.840 Alberta is going through right now, it's absolutely mind boggling that they're still contributing to this

00:07:37.920 formula and that Quebec is still receiving. So I think people in Alberta have a very legitimate concern.

00:07:45.520 There's a lot of reasons why they're upset right now. Canada has to do better. And instead of having

00:07:50.240 all of these voices from Quebec and Ontario just continuing to pile on Alberta, pile on Kenny,

00:07:56.240 throw all these accusations at him that are totally unfounded, it would be better off if the rest of

00:08:01.120 the country just for once actually listened to Alberta and took a look at some of their concerns.

00:08:05.840 And on a similar vein here, we have former Prime Minister Kim Campbell giving her opinion. You know,

00:08:12.000 this is the problem. Kim Campbell is irrelevant. Kim Campbell speaks for nobody. She speaks for 0.89

00:08:16.960 herself and that is it. But for some reason, the mainstream media pretend that she's somehow

00:08:21.440 a conservative spokesperson or a great leader among conservatives. Well, let's just have a quick history

00:08:26.640 reminder. Kim Campbell got absolutely decimated when she was Prime Minister. She was only Prime Minister 0.99

00:08:31.440 for a few months and then she's not been in the federal scene for a couple of decades. So she's not a relevant

00:08:36.720 person and she's pretty unhinged these days. If you follow her Twitter account, she has a sort of

00:08:42.960 irrational hatred of Donald Trump. She feels the need to chime in and criticize him at every given

00:08:49.040 opportunity. She takes low blows. She's just kind of contributing to the nastiness in politics, 1.00

00:08:54.160 bringing it into Canada. But whenever the mainstream media needs a useful conservative,

00:08:59.040 a useful idiot on the conservatives, they always go to Kim Campbell. Here's the thing. The media love 0.99

00:09:04.480 conservatives so long as those conservatives are bashing other conservatives. So if you ever want

00:09:09.440 to be a conservative that's like, you know, famous in the media or invited on all these shows, all you

00:09:13.680 have to do is just absolutely go against what conservatives believe in and take swipes at them. And so

00:09:19.680 we see Kim Campbell doing her usual schtick. Here's what she says about the Wexit movement,

00:09:25.280 the Western separatism movement. Well, we're dealing with Wexit now. What's your opinion on that?

00:09:29.200 Well, it's just nuts. I'm sorry. It's nuts. Why? Well, first of all,

00:09:33.520 it's a dead end. What? You know, so Alberta is going to separate. So that's going to make it 1.00

00:09:38.480 easier for them to get access to tidewater. You know, I mean, I'm sorry. Like again,

00:09:43.360 she's just sort of like looking down her nose, mocking Albertans without really taking into

00:09:47.680 account the considerations of what's driving this movement. Again, there are legitimate

00:09:51.440 concerns or legitimate grievances. We shouldn't just dismiss them. You know, I think that maybe

00:09:56.000 Alberta would have an easier time getting its oil and its resources to market if it was an independent

00:10:00.960 country because then it would have recourses to fight against the provinces if they tried to block

00:10:05.680 them. They could go to the WTO. They could go to international courts and demand that their products

00:10:10.960 get to market the same way that landlocked countries all over the world in Europe, in South America,

00:10:15.920 they do it too. So, you know, this idea that it's just a complete nonsensical idea, it shows that

00:10:21.200 you're not really giving consideration to the arguments being made by those people. That's not helpful.

00:10:25.840 Having Kim Campbell on pretending she's a conservative is also not helpful. Okay, finally, 0.85

00:10:31.040 there is a huge civil rights movement happening in Iran right now. Dissidents are on the street.

00:10:36.960 They have gathered. These are the biggest protests we've seen in years. And in some ways,

00:10:41.840 it's really exciting to see these citizen journalists and these dissidents standing up for themselves

00:10:46.160 towards an oppressive government, an Islamist regime that really, really just doesn't care about 0.99

00:10:51.360 the people. So in some ways, it's really inspiring to see this. In other ways, it's just kind of sad

00:10:55.840 and disappointing, especially watching the Canadian government and their response. The Trudeau government

00:11:01.040 doesn't really know what to make of it. They haven't really said much. And I think what's even more

00:11:04.800 disappointing is the fact that conservative leaders, including Andrew Scheer, have barely even

00:11:09.360 acknowledged that these protests are happening, that they're bigger than ever. I think that a lot of

00:11:13.840 Canadians used to look to conservatives to be the sort of principled voice on foreign policy,

00:11:18.880 to stand up for dissidents, for people fighting for democracy, fighting for freedom all over the

00:11:24.240 world. That is a position that should be filled by conservatives in this country. And so to see

00:11:29.120 Andrew Scheer kind of remaining completely silent, it's a lot like the Hong Kong protests as well,

00:11:33.360 which are still going on, still going strong in Hong Kong. Conservatives should be standing up for

00:11:38.400 freedom and democracy all over the world. Canada should too. The Canadian government should do better

00:11:43.680 and the conservatives should do better. So let's keep the people in Iran in our hearts and in our 0.60

00:11:48.400 minds and hope that they do get the freedom that they deserve. And let's continue to call on

00:11:52.720 conservatives and all Canadian leaders to do a better job standing up for freedom around the world.

00:11:58.240 All right, I'm going to leave it at that. Thanks so much guys for tuning in this week. We will be

00:12:02.160 back on Thursday with another podcast. Bye-bye.

Juno News - November 19, 2019

The Candice Malcolm Show： Justin's journalists find a new target — Jason Kenney

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