Juno News - January 20, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： Justin Trudeau is the king of corporate welfare


Episode Stats

Length

12 minutes

Words per Minute

194.17476

Word Count

2,400

Sentence Count

152

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

UN does an about-face after a report calling natural resource development in Canada a racist. Justin Trudeau is the king of corporate welfare. Iran continues to lie about the downed Ukrainian Airlines flight, plus a huge snore storm buries Newfoundland.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The UN does an about-face after a report calling natural resource development in Canada a racist.
00:00:05.020 Justin Trudeau is the king of corporate welfare, but does it actually help?
00:00:08.540 Iran continues to lie about the downed Ukrainian Airlines flight,
00:00:12.160 plus a huge snore storm buries Newfoundland,
00:00:14.920 but the community comes together to help.
00:00:16.660 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:23.960 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program.
00:00:26.680 Hopefully you are surviving the huge winter storms that have been happening all over the country,
00:00:31.200 particularly folks out in Newfoundland.
00:00:33.260 The footage from those storms is just absolutely incredible,
00:00:36.680 and we're going to talk about it later in the show.
00:00:38.620 But first, this is a story that we covered on the show last week,
00:00:41.600 and it is just so absurd that it deserves to be covered again,
00:00:44.900 this time from the opposite perspective.
00:00:47.180 So this story came out, it was in the National Post,
00:00:49.520 First Nations chief blast condescending UN anti-racism directive
00:00:54.320 that called for Pipeline to be shut down.
00:00:56.880 So if you recall, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
00:01:01.140 called for three large-scale natural resource development projects in Canada to be halted.
00:01:06.900 The rationale, they said, was that it was bad for Indigenous and Aboriginal Canadians.
00:01:11.160 The only problem is that this UN committee didn't actually study the problem.
00:01:15.080 They didn't even look into it.
00:01:16.080 They said that investigative journalism is not part of their mandate,
00:01:19.200 and they didn't bother to talk to Indigenous people in Canada.
00:01:22.800 So a Canadian First Nations chief is slamming that recent report,
00:01:26.220 basically because the UN didn't even look into the situation properly.
00:01:30.400 So the project that they condemned, the UN called for the immediate shutdown of three projects,
00:01:35.460 including the coastal gasoline natural gas pipeline.
00:01:38.220 And what they didn't learn, what they didn't bother to study or find out,
00:01:41.700 was that that project actually has the sign-on,
00:01:44.640 that 20 different Indigenous communities have signed on to that agreement.
00:01:48.440 So they're in support of it.
00:01:50.260 Many other First Nations groups in Canada are supportive.
00:01:53.120 So in an interview with Reuters last week,
00:01:56.480 the chair of this UN committee, Norahdin Amir,
00:01:59.080 admitted that the committee did not study First Nations views towards the project,
00:02:02.620 saying he did not know that most communities supported it.
00:02:05.920 I did not know that most First Nations agreed on that, he told Reuters.
00:02:09.220 This is something new that came to my understanding.
00:02:12.020 He further said that he did not seek out further information on the project
00:02:14.680 because the role of the committee does not involve investigative work.
00:02:18.520 That begs the question, what is the role of the committee then?
00:02:21.360 What is the role of the committee?
00:02:22.340 You've made up this United Nations Committee on Racism,
00:02:24.740 where you condemn different things in a peaceful, free country like Canada
00:02:29.960 for supposedly being racist without studying it, without looking at it.
00:02:33.360 And then when you get kind of called out for taking the wrong position
00:02:36.920 and not even representing the views of the people who you claim to represent,
00:02:40.660 you just shrug your shoulders and you say,
00:02:42.240 well, that's not our role. Our role isn't to actually investigate what we're studying.
00:02:45.740 Our role is to just put out these ridiculous reports.
00:02:48.000 This, in a nutshell, is a problem with the United Nations.
00:02:50.420 They are an organization that's mandate is basically just to demonize Western countries,
00:02:56.740 demonize free countries like Canada, pit people against each other.
00:03:00.280 And again, they shouldn't be butting their nose into our business.
00:03:03.420 There's real racism in the world. There are real problems in the world.
00:03:06.140 And they're not in Canada. They're not deriving from resource development projects.
00:03:10.200 Okay, let's move on. I wrote a column on this topic in the Toronto Sun,
00:03:14.140 so you can catch that over at thetorontosun.com.
00:03:18.160 You know, it's crazy. Justin Trudeau is the king of corporate welfare.
00:03:21.120 He's handing out money left, right, and center, of course, especially to, you know,
00:03:24.620 big firms that are based in Montreal and based in Quebec, where he has a chummy relationship.
00:03:29.240 But when you actually study the outcome of where this money goes
00:03:32.180 and what happens to those companies, the picture isn't so rosy.
00:03:35.300 So there's a couple of really major examples in the news recently of basically these companies
00:03:40.560 pairing with the Canadian government, teaming with the Canadian government,
00:03:43.440 getting corporate welfare, taking taxpayer dollars,
00:03:46.380 and then the result is not exactly what you want if you are running a business.
00:03:50.740 So let's first look at Bombardier.
00:03:52.820 Bombardier is a Montreal-based aerospace manufacturing company.
00:03:56.480 In 2017, the Trudeau government bailed out Bombardier with a $373 million federal loan.
00:04:02.280 At the same time, the Liberal government in Quebec also provided a taxpayer-funded bailout
00:04:06.520 to the tune of $1 billion.
00:04:08.720 So 18 months after that bailout, the Bombardier announced that it was cutting 5,000 jobs.
00:04:14.580 3,000 of those happened to be in Canada.
00:04:16.500 So why is the, you know, taxpayers in Quebec and federal taxpayers giving a company $1.34 billion
00:04:23.420 to turn around and have them lay off 3,000 Canadian employees?
00:04:28.240 Well, it went from bad to worse.
00:04:30.260 So Bombardier announced their earnings for 2019.
00:04:35.780 It turns out the revenues dropped.
00:04:37.100 They failed to meet the targets.
00:04:39.020 And the stock price plummeted by one-third of its value in a single day.
00:04:43.340 So that is the largest drop.
00:04:45.280 Bombardier's stock is now at an all-time low.
00:04:47.900 So again, where's the return of investment?
00:04:50.300 Canadians invested into this company against their will.
00:04:52.600 It was a bad investment.
00:04:54.340 And now Bombardier is flailing.
00:04:57.780 And, you know, the same thing can be said with Loblaws.
00:05:00.660 Loblaws, you remember about a year and a half ago, Catherine McKenna, the then environment
00:05:05.680 minister, did this stupid bailout announcement with Loblaws.
00:05:09.100 You know, Loblaws is the biggest grocery store in Canada.
00:05:11.220 It is a huge multi-billion dollar company.
00:05:15.040 And yet they had to get a bailout from the Canadian government to build some kind of a
00:05:19.680 new, you know, environmentally friendly refrigerator system.
00:05:23.480 Makes absolutely no sense.
00:05:25.080 For whatever reason, Canadian taxpayers shelled over $12 million to this company.
00:05:29.960 Well, guess what?
00:05:31.080 Guess what?
00:05:32.040 The company just announced that it was laying off 700 workers and closing two distribution
00:05:36.260 centres in Quebec and Ontario, noting that the positions were replaced by new technology
00:05:41.100 and automation.
00:05:42.520 So was the technology that the Canadian taxpayers gave to Loblaws, did that contribute to the
00:05:48.120 layoffs?
00:05:48.560 I don't know.
00:05:49.280 But still, the idea that these big companies are taking money from the Canadian government
00:05:53.080 and then turning around and laying off Canadians is just, there's no excuse for it.
00:05:57.600 It's the worst example of crony capitalism.
00:06:00.500 You know, the Trudeau government is supposedly, you know, they get accused of being sort of like
00:06:05.280 neoliberal or free market.
00:06:06.940 They're not free market.
00:06:07.760 They have their hands in all these different pockets.
00:06:10.340 They want to sort of take credit for companies that are successful.
00:06:14.000 And they do so by tacking on these little, you know, handouts to their friends.
00:06:17.620 You know, it's not based on which companies are the best or which companies, you know,
00:06:22.060 are the most deserving somehow of money from the taxpayers.
00:06:25.180 But it's all based on lobbying and whose lobbyists are friends with who and who has the
00:06:29.400 most friends in the liberal government.
00:06:31.920 Well, you know, again, partnering with the government makes no sense.
00:06:35.020 And the payout isn't very good.
00:06:37.060 And you can say the same thing about the media.
00:06:39.300 We reported this last week as well.
00:06:41.200 CBC's viewership is at an all-time low.
00:06:43.660 They have less than 1% of Canadians are now watching their evening news program.
00:06:49.100 Their ad revenue fell by 37%.
00:06:51.560 CBC National News Network, which is their dedicated news channel, has just a 1.4% market share.
00:06:58.580 The total CBC platform across all television markets is 5%.
00:07:03.360 So the CBC is getting more money than they ever have before, $1.2 billion in tax money.
00:07:08.580 And they have no audience.
00:07:09.780 Their audience is diminishing and falling apart.
00:07:12.820 And yet we're paying more and more money to bail out this big giant.
00:07:16.300 And of course, the CBC is again coming to the Trudeau government saying that they need
00:07:20.100 even more money, even more money.
00:07:22.140 This is just, again, terrible example of the government interfering in the free market and
00:07:27.260 not even doing it in a very good way, not even doing it in a way that somehow creates
00:07:32.240 benefit.
00:07:32.840 Like the companies that partner with the government are doomed to fail, which is why the government
00:07:37.420 shouldn't be involved.
00:07:38.280 If you're a business owner, you should run.
00:07:40.160 You should not be like lining up or interested in any kind of government handout or bailout.
00:07:44.260 You should be turning the opposite direction and saying, I don't want to partner with the
00:07:47.280 government because of this track record.
00:07:48.980 I know a lot of media companies out there are going to the federal government.
00:07:52.320 They want to have part of that $595 million slash fund for journalists.
00:07:58.820 Well, True North would never take a penny from the Trudeau government or from any government
00:08:02.740 because it is a lose-lose situation.
00:08:06.160 OK, let's move on.
00:08:07.440 So Iran continues to lie about the downed plane that went down in Tehran, killing everyone on
00:08:14.180 board, including some 57 or 58 Canadians.
00:08:17.500 Most of the people on board of that plane, by the way, 138, according to the Globe and
00:08:21.480 Mail, were on their way to Canada.
00:08:23.080 So whether they were Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or they were visiting family members
00:08:26.960 in Canada, many, many people on that plane had an access or connection to Canada.
00:08:32.200 So Iran is basically just going back and forth.
00:08:35.440 At first, they said that they would release the black box from the flight.
00:08:39.400 And that was sort of what the international community was calling for.
00:08:42.280 Well, the most recent news we hear is that they're no longer handing over that black box,
00:08:46.340 that they are refusing to.
00:08:48.120 If the plane was shot down, as the Iranian regime has now maintained, this is the one
00:08:53.160 thing they've kept straight for the past week.
00:08:54.960 You remember at first that they lied and said that it was engine problems.
00:08:57.960 Then they lied again, saying that someone else must have shot down the plane.
00:09:01.420 Then they finally came to their senses and admitted the truth that they shot down the plane.
00:09:05.220 But they said it was an accident.
00:09:06.980 Well, if it really was an accident, why wouldn't you just turn over the black box?
00:09:10.080 What do you have to hide?
00:09:11.680 The fact that they are trying to hide something really, really begs the question of, you know,
00:09:17.180 what really happened that night?
00:09:19.080 And again, it shows just how evil this regime really is.
00:09:24.040 Well, perhaps that's why a recent survey found that 7 in 10 Canadians believe that the truth
00:09:29.420 about that night and that plane crash will never be found.
00:09:32.480 That they just don't have any faith in the Iranian regime or the international community's
00:09:38.760 ability to deal with that rogue regime.
00:09:41.560 So 7 out of 10 Canadians felt that we would never get the full story, that we'd never
00:09:46.080 really find out, well, Iran is really pushing that because they are refusing to cooperate
00:09:50.980 in any way.
00:09:52.640 Okay, let's move on.
00:09:53.660 Final story here.
00:09:54.480 There was a huge, huge storm in Newfoundland.
00:09:58.300 Record snowfall.
00:09:59.180 Basically, they had to call in the Canadian Armed Forces to help.
00:10:03.600 If you look at some of the photos that have come up on social media, you see you open your
00:10:07.100 front door and there's nothing but snow.
00:10:08.640 It's a wall of snow.
00:10:10.160 You know, you don't even know where to, I don't even know where to start to dig myself
00:10:14.220 out for something like that.
00:10:16.140 Okay, so St. John's was in a state of emergency after Newfoundland was hit with a record-breaking
00:10:20.280 snowfall that piled more than two feet of snow onto some part of the provinces and wind
00:10:25.240 that was pushing that snow around and drifted several feet high.
00:10:28.000 So many communities are dealing with power outages and there are just tons and tons of
00:10:33.380 reports, you know, like I said, people not being able to find their cars because they're
00:10:36.600 completely buried by snow, not being able to get out of their homes.
00:10:39.860 But I think my two favorite stories that I heard about over the weekend were both to
00:10:45.320 do with women giving birth or about to give birth.
00:10:48.260 So this is something I heard about on the radio and I guess Mark Critch, who's a CBC comedian,
00:10:52.320 he also heard about it.
00:10:53.180 He said, radio just reported that a pregnant woman in labor drove herself to the hospital
00:10:59.060 on a ski-do.
00:11:00.560 I hope they're okay.
00:11:01.980 I'm pretty sure the child will grow up to be the future premier that will lead us to
00:11:05.420 prosperity.
00:11:06.460 Wow.
00:11:07.020 This is like the most Canadian story you can imagine.
00:11:09.120 A woman goes into labor, needs to get to the hospital.
00:11:11.920 There's two feet of snow outside.
00:11:13.560 So she goes on a ski-do like a champ.
00:11:16.020 Another story, similar, not quite similar, but another story about a baby being born in
00:11:22.940 the midst of this crazy, crazy storm out in Newfoundland is the Snow family.
00:11:27.760 Their actual last name is Snow.
00:11:30.140 So Levi Jacob Snow was born during the height of the raging blizzard that knocked out power
00:11:34.320 and hit eastern Newfoundland so hard that the military has been called in.
00:11:38.500 It was 1041 on Friday, about the same time that a record was broken at St. John's International
00:11:44.560 Airport for the highest snowfall amounts in a single day.
00:11:47.940 So the father asked for some help digging out their St. John's home on social media,
00:11:52.720 and by Sunday, 10 to 15 good Samaritans were outside his house with shovels.
00:11:58.520 The couple faced an eight-foot snow drift.
00:12:02.240 There's eight feet of snow outside their door.
00:12:04.360 Well, thank goodness for these good Samaritans that came and helped that baby get inside a warm
00:12:09.980 house after leaving the hospital.
00:12:12.020 That's the kind of stuff you love.
00:12:13.140 Canadians coming together to help each other in the worst of the worst of the winter weather.
00:12:17.420 Okay, I'm going to leave it at that.
00:12:18.480 Thank you so much for tuning in, and we will be back again on Wednesday.