Juno News - February 04, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： The coronavirus, freedom of press, the Super Bowl, and more!


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Candice talks about the coronavirus outbreak in China and why it's a big deal. Plus, we talk about the Super Bowl and the Trudeau government's attempt to stamp out freedom of the press in Canada.

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00:00:00.360 Politicians say it's racist to take precautions about the coronavirus.
00:00:03.500 The left increases its radical calls for climate action.
00:00:06.780 Plus, the Trudeau government brazenly stamps out freedom of press in Canada.
00:00:11.320 Plus, we'll talk about the Super Bowl.
00:00:12.780 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:20.180 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast.
00:00:22.820 We have a lot to get to, so let's jump right to it.
00:00:24.680 I want to talk about the coronavirus.
00:00:26.080 Not so much just a virus, but the reaction to it,
00:00:28.560 which has been just completely deranged across the board in Canada.
00:00:31.900 Now, if you watch my show, you watch the podcast regularly,
00:00:34.580 you know that I've been talking about the coronavirus,
00:00:36.700 but I've been on the side of, you know, thinking it's not that big of a deal,
00:00:40.100 thinking that, yeah, sure, take precautions,
00:00:41.780 but it isn't the huge sort of chaotic, you know, rush to, you know,
00:00:47.440 protect us from this dooming, impending illness is going to sweep the whole world.
00:00:52.020 I think that that's overblown, and I think that the best way to react to these kind of things
00:00:56.340 is just to sort of, you know, wait for information and wait for things to unfold.
00:00:59.960 And like I mentioned several times, you know, more people are going to be affected every year
00:01:04.560 by the common cold, by influenza, than by, you know, this thing that's getting tons of attention,
00:01:11.260 tons of media, you know, coverage.
00:01:13.840 And, you know, the natural reaction is to sort of create panic and create fear.
00:01:18.220 So I was kind of warning against that.
00:01:19.800 You know, the thing that I was interested in more so was the origin of this virus,
00:01:23.360 which seems to have been sort of this, the question seems to have been sort of settled.
00:01:29.140 Well, if you trust the Chinese government, which I absolutely don't,
00:01:31.920 I think the Chinese government is known for lying, 0.98
00:01:34.560 and we shouldn't really trust anything they're saying.
00:01:36.660 But they say that it came from a food market within Wuhan.
00:01:39.620 Again, still really big coincidence that it happened to, like, originate in the same city
00:01:46.060 where China has its covert biological warfare unit.
00:01:49.300 But there isn't, it doesn't seem to anyone, doesn't seem to be anyone major
00:01:52.560 linking those two aside from that one Israeli intelligence officer that I mentioned.
00:01:56.860 That's not what I want to talk about today.
00:01:58.680 What I want to talk about is, so the virus has gotten bigger.
00:02:01.800 It's infected, it's affected more people, impacted more people around the world.
00:02:05.980 We have, as I mentioned last week, we have a few cases in Canada.
00:02:09.440 There's four known cases at this point, three in Toronto, one in Vancouver.
00:02:13.960 As of February 3rd, approximately 17,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide.
00:02:19.880 That's included every provincial division of China.
00:02:24.180 The first confirmed death was back on January 9th.
00:02:27.460 And as of February 3rd, there have been 362 confirmed deaths.
00:02:31.060 Again, we have to rely a lot on information from the Chinese government,
00:02:34.400 and I'm just not inclined to trust the Chinese government.
00:02:37.040 So for all we know, this is a way bigger deal in China, and they're lying about it. 0.99
00:02:41.420 Or perhaps for all we know, this is over-exaggerated, and there haven't been this many deaths.
00:02:47.040 But again, it requires us to rely a lot on China.
00:02:50.320 There have been a few cases of transmission outside of China.
00:02:53.480 So the first local transmission of virus outside of China occurred in Vietnam when a father passed it on to his son,
00:03:00.080 and the father had been in China.
00:03:03.020 The first transmission not involving a family member happened in Germany,
00:03:07.300 where a man passed it on to a work colleague.
00:03:11.120 And then the first reported death outside of China has happened as well,
00:03:14.520 and that happened in the Philippines, where a 44-year-old Chinese citizen was confirmed
00:03:19.020 to have contracted the coronavirus and passed away.
00:03:23.040 So as a result of what's happening in China, China is massively cracking down on civil liberties,
00:03:29.220 massively cracking down on the ability of travel.
00:03:33.140 Basically, there are 57 million people in that country that are on lockdown,
00:03:38.900 that are on full or partial lockdown, including the termination of all public transportation,
00:03:44.040 all outward transport train and long-distance buses.
00:03:48.600 And as you know, you know, it was a Chinese New Year that just happened.
00:03:51.580 So a lot of those local festivities were shut down by the Chinese government over fear of this virus.
00:03:59.140 So it's important to keep that all in mind, you know,
00:04:01.300 for all of the reaction that we're having in the West right now.
00:04:04.340 Just keep in mind the place where this is originating in Chinese,
00:04:08.000 communist China, fascist dictatorship.
00:04:10.020 They are really, really cracking down on individual liberty and freedom of movement and other freedoms.
00:04:16.180 So we should keep that in perspective when we're criticizing the West for how they're reacting.
00:04:21.860 I think that there's a reasonable argument that you could make that Canada specifically is not doing enough
00:04:26.060 when it comes to coronavirus, just given the fact that we know that transmission is human to human
00:04:32.060 and we don't know exactly how it's being passed on.
00:04:34.960 I think because of that, we probably should be taking more precautions,
00:04:38.920 especially with people who have just come from China.
00:04:41.920 At any given time, there's about 12 planes coming from China to Canada.
00:04:46.060 And so we're talking about, you know, tens of thousands of people, if not more,
00:04:50.460 that have come from China to Canada in the past few weeks here.
00:04:54.160 And as far as sort of any kind of like quarantine, any kind of like, you know,
00:04:59.400 you know, taking someone as they get off the plane and keeping them away,
00:05:03.680 doing, you know, in-depth screening of people as they're getting off those planes,
00:05:07.320 that's still not happening at this point.
00:05:08.860 And I think that that's a lot of the reason why anxieties are spreading,
00:05:12.500 because, you know, we're watching other countries take major precautions.
00:05:15.840 And then we see the Canadian government, which, you know, they've handled the situation okay.
00:05:19.640 They're answering questions and, you know, they're being more transparent than they usually are
00:05:23.940 with these kind of like public interest stories.
00:05:26.760 But at the same time, you know, you look at the United States just declared a public health emergency
00:05:32.760 and suspended all entry of foreign nationals who visited China.
00:05:37.800 So, you know, many people in Canada might say that's the kind of reaction that we should be taking.
00:05:42.720 We should be acting firmly right now because we just don't know the, you know,
00:05:47.600 what's causing this virus to spread.
00:05:48.940 All we know is that it's going human to human, whereas Canada has not done that at this point.
00:05:53.940 So the declaration went into effect on Sunday at 5 p.m.
00:05:57.800 U.S. citizens returning to the United States who have been in China's Hubei province
00:06:02.180 in the two weeks before their return will be subject to a 14-day mandatory quarantine.
00:06:08.260 U.S. citizens returning from the rest of mainland China in the two weeks prior
00:06:11.240 will face a health screening at a select number of ports of entry.
00:06:15.160 Those citizens will also face two weeks of monitored self-quarantine to ensure they pose no public health risk.
00:06:21.720 President Donald Trump signed a proclamation suspending the entry of foreign nationals
00:06:26.120 who have traveled in China in the last two weeks.
00:06:29.020 So, you know, that's a pretty firm response.
00:06:31.440 And I think a lot of people are looking to Canada saying, you know, why aren't we doing something like that?
00:06:35.460 Why aren't we at least taking more steps to ensure that, you know, this issue is being dealt with?
00:06:42.720 Well, I'll tell you why Canada isn't doing that.
00:06:45.760 Because Canada has a totally different concern when it comes to the coronavirus.
00:06:49.520 They're not so much concerned about people who have been to China,
00:06:51.940 not so much concerned about the human transmission,
00:06:55.400 not so much concerned about quarantine or screening off planes.
00:06:58.600 No, no, no.
00:06:59.880 What public health officials and politicians and leaders in Canada are worried about is racism.
00:07:06.680 They're worried about you and everyone you know, Canadians, you know,
00:07:10.880 showing their true colors and just being outright racist.
00:07:13.260 That's basically the accusation.
00:07:15.480 That's what we are being accused of.
00:07:17.640 So leader after leader after leader has done a press conference.
00:07:21.820 It seems like every time you look at the news, you know,
00:07:24.200 anything to do with the coronavirus, it's not about health precautions.
00:07:27.240 It's about lecturing us, lecturing Canadians and calling you racist. 0.82
00:07:31.340 So let's go through a couple of those.
00:07:33.840 This is the health minister on CBC.
00:07:36.560 Now watch the CBC host.
00:07:38.260 Watch how smug she is and how much joy she takes out of accusing Canadians of being racist.
00:07:43.640 It's like she knows, she firmly believes that Canadians are racist.
00:07:47.560 And here's just another opportunity of you Canadians being just racist.
00:07:51.780 And instead of, you know, being friendly and nice when it comes to how we deal with the coronavirus,
00:07:57.240 you know, they're just these bigots showing their true colors.
00:07:59.900 So here's the first clip.
00:08:01.060 So, Minister, we're hearing from members of the Chinese Canadian community
00:08:04.620 that the fears are leading to some prejudice here.
00:08:08.680 Are you concerned about racism?
00:08:12.820 It absolutely concerns me, Wendy.
00:08:15.200 So the very first question the CBC reporter asks the health minister of Canada.
00:08:19.080 Now, you know, this isn't the minister in charge of like social harmony or something.
00:08:22.700 This is the minister in charge of health.
00:08:24.640 Her job is to make sure that Canadians stay healthy and, you know, avoid risks from these
00:08:30.220 kind of global pandemics.
00:08:31.480 The very first question she asks is about racism.
00:08:34.320 And of course, the Trudeau minister is going to say, yes, I'm very, very concerned about racism.
00:08:39.260 The risk of the virus itself.
00:08:41.140 Let's not talk about that.
00:08:42.100 But let's just talk about racist Canadians. 0.99
00:08:44.160 Far from being the only one.
00:08:45.760 Far from being the only one.
00:08:46.780 And so we have the mayor of Toronto, John Tory, basically making similar comments.
00:08:52.560 He gave a statement.
00:08:53.800 They gave a press conference where official after official after official got up and scolded
00:08:59.160 Canadians, scolded Torontonians for being racist.
00:09:03.040 Here's John Tory.
00:09:03.880 I've been very troubled to hear of reports, one as recently as at lunchtime today, of people
00:09:10.300 treating our Chinese Canadian community differently.
00:09:13.180 That they in some way are being or should be shunned or quarantined or suggesting Chinese
00:09:19.180 businesses should be avoided.
00:09:21.140 OK.
00:09:21.660 Now, what John Tory said is just over the top, of course.
00:09:24.960 And the idea is that, OK, should Chinese Canadians be quarantined?
00:09:29.820 Should they be accused of carrying disease?
00:09:32.060 No, of course not.
00:09:33.020 Of course, you shouldn't make accusations towards someone just based on how they look or whatever.
00:09:37.220 But when he says, you know, the Chinese Canadian community are being treated differently,
00:09:43.180 well, look, if you went to China, if you're a person who lives in Canada and has family
00:09:47.740 members back in China, or you personally went back to China for Chinese New Year and you
00:09:53.280 came back to Canada, yeah, you should be treated differently.
00:09:55.980 You should be treated differently than someone who didn't go to China. 1.00
00:09:58.680 Because if you went to China, you're at much, much greater risk of having being contracted
00:10:03.780 of the coronavirus.
00:10:04.700 And the thing about the coronavirus is that people don't immediately show signs of it.
00:10:09.200 There's no immediate, you could be a carrier of the coronavirus without showing signs of
00:10:14.700 it.
00:10:14.880 So just because someone's not like sniffling or sneezing or coughing doesn't mean that
00:10:19.240 they couldn't potentially have the virus and just not be showing signs of it.
00:10:23.320 There's also been cases of people who have passed on the coronavirus even though they didn't
00:10:27.740 have it.
00:10:28.180 So it's affecting some people, not affecting others.
00:10:30.660 Obviously, in the situation where we just don't have the right kind of knowledge, you have
00:10:34.120 to treat people differently because you have to be able to read through the information.
00:10:37.820 And again, I'm not saying that you should, you know, refuse to work with or communicate
00:10:42.860 that you shouldn't be prejudiced, you shouldn't be biased, you obviously shouldn't be racist.
00:10:46.080 And I don't believe Canadians are. 1.00
00:10:47.820 But the idea that you're not even allowed to treat people differently if they happen to
00:10:50.920 have just been in China, that is totally absurd.
00:10:53.900 And again, just one of many, many examples.
00:10:56.740 You watch the rest of this press conference, you see over and over again officials scolding Canadians
00:11:01.200 and Torontonians for how they're reacting to this.
00:11:03.120 We are facing an emergency, not necessarily in a public health sense, but an emergency within
00:11:09.040 the trans-Canadian communities because we are being singled out, we are being stigmatized
00:11:13.720 because of the coronavirus.
00:11:16.580 We know that inaccurate information, misinformation continues to spread.
00:11:24.060 And this is creating unnecessary stigma against members of our community.
00:11:30.000 And again, here's a headline over at the CBC, Canada's chief public health officer condemns
00:11:34.700 racist acts linked to the coronavirus outbreak.
00:11:37.040 Again, why isn't Canada's chief public health officer more concerned about the virus and how
00:11:42.360 we're handling all the people coming back from China?
00:11:44.720 Why is she, why is it her role to be, you know, lecturing Canadians and talking down to them? 0.90
00:11:52.640 Theresa Tam says that discriminatory slurs are unacceptable and very hurtful.
00:11:57.020 Okay, I agree, you know, you shouldn't make discriminatory slurs, you shouldn't say racist
00:12:03.640 things, but the idea that the public health officer, the chief public health officer in
00:12:08.360 Canada is concerned about how Canadians are reacting as opposed to actually treating the
00:12:13.900 virus is concerning.
00:12:15.440 And one of the other problems I have with this, all this coverage, is that there's never
00:12:19.220 any specific examples, right?
00:12:21.100 Like the specific examples are always like, oh, people are saying mean stuff on social media.
00:12:25.400 Well, earth to like every journalist and every politician in the world, social media is filled
00:12:30.860 with people saying not very nice stuff all the time, every day, 24-7, to every single
00:12:35.960 group, to every single side.
00:12:37.600 So this isn't just something like new and we really shouldn't take, you know, people's 0.51
00:12:42.700 rhetoric on social media to mean that an entire country is racist.
00:12:47.340 I mean, I'm just, I'm just so, so sick of this.
00:12:51.740 And of course, whenever there's, whenever there's an accusation of racism or discrimination,
00:12:57.480 trust Justin Trudeau to jump up and start lecturing Canadians.
00:13:01.220 So here he was at a Lunar New Year event, scolding Canadians.
00:13:06.800 Justin Trudeau takes so much joy in calling Canadians racist.
00:13:10.060 This is like him at his best.
00:13:11.860 Like you could just see he's so energetic.
00:13:13.540 He's so excited and happy.
00:13:15.800 Like he just, he's at his best.
00:13:17.340 He's at his happiest when he's scolding Canadians and calling them racist. 0.86
00:13:21.540 Just like here today, we need to support each other and stay united.
00:13:27.160 Let me be clear.
00:13:28.640 There is no place in our country for discrimination driven by fear or misinformation.
00:13:35.320 This is not something Canadians will ever stand for.
00:13:38.940 Okay, again, so no real solid examples of Canadians actually being racist or any public figure or
00:13:47.660 anyone, anyone actually saying anything that could be deemed as being racist or xenophobic
00:13:53.040 or discriminatory against Chinese people in Canada.
00:13:55.780 And yet that's all we're hearing is these accusations.
00:13:58.540 So the closest thing that you can say to be tied to Canadians actually being, you know,
00:14:04.480 xenophobic about this issue is that there's been a couple of petitions.
00:14:07.700 So there was a petition in the York District School Board.
00:14:11.360 York District is just north of Toronto.
00:14:13.660 And more than 9,000 signatures were collected on a petition that were calling for the school
00:14:19.500 board to keep children whose family members had recently traveled to China home for 17 days.
00:14:25.560 And so because of this petition, a lot of people are saying like, wow, look at those racist
00:14:30.900 parents in York region.
00:14:32.780 They're calling on Chinese families who went to China to keep their kids home from school.
00:14:38.940 And that's apparently a horrible, horrible example of racism.
00:14:42.820 A couple of things, though.
00:14:43.920 York region is one of the most diverse areas in all of Canada.
00:14:46.840 So not only did a lot of Chinese people sign this petition, but it's people literally from
00:14:50.980 all over the world who came to Canada, new immigrants and all Canadians alike who signed
00:14:55.720 this petition.
00:14:56.180 So, you know, a lot of Chinese people signed this petition just to say, hey, that's so
00:15:00.400 racist that you created this petition. 0.57
00:15:01.960 And also, if the school board had been taking precautions, if they had said, you know, anyone
00:15:06.080 who went, maybe not anyone who went to anywhere in China, but if you were specifically in Wuhan
00:15:10.280 and you came back, maybe those family members should just sort of self-quarantine and stay
00:15:15.740 at home.
00:15:16.220 Or, you know, like we could follow suit with what all the other Western countries in the world
00:15:20.180 and make it mandatory.
00:15:22.160 But instead, because, you know, obviously there'd be a lot of anxieties.
00:15:25.440 Like if your child went to school with someone and you knew that there was kids in her class
00:15:29.340 that were from China and that they had just been recently visited the, you know, ground
00:15:34.640 zero outbreak of this virus, wouldn't you be a little anxious, too, about sending your
00:15:38.680 kids to school?
00:15:39.800 But no, we're not allowed to have any of these anxieties.
00:15:41.780 We're not allowed to have any of these fears because that would be considered racist.
00:15:45.540 And there's another petition from the University of Waterloo where a student called on the
00:15:48.940 Ontario government to shut down all of campus to prevent the further spread of the virus.
00:15:53.080 This was last week.
00:15:54.320 And by mid last week, the petition had already garnered 30,000 signatures.
00:15:58.080 So all that is just to say that a lot of Canadians feel anxiety, feel fear because of
00:16:02.440 the lack of action that's happening from officials, from the government.
00:16:05.780 That's not because they're racist.
00:16:07.020 It's not because they're xenophobic.
00:16:08.340 It's not because they're just, you know, waiting for an opportunity to like turn on their
00:16:12.020 fellow Canadians.
00:16:13.060 No, it's just that, you know, there's this global pandemic sweeping the globe.
00:16:16.360 It originated in China.
00:16:17.320 We don't feel like officials are doing enough to address the issue.
00:16:21.460 And so people have, you know, fears about that.
00:16:24.560 That doesn't mean Canada is a racist country.
00:16:26.200 And shame on all of the politicians and all of the journalists who are taking glee right
00:16:30.100 now and accusing Canadians of being xenophobic.
00:16:33.160 OK, let's move on.
00:16:35.100 I want to talk about the sort of radical left.
00:16:37.840 You know, there was a lot of talk a couple of years ago about how the, you know, the far
00:16:43.080 right is a problem.
00:16:43.900 There's a radical right that's risen up.
00:16:46.120 And a lot of people said, you know, there isn't a good distinction between the far right
00:16:49.700 and just sort of mainstream conservatives.
00:16:51.600 That was like one of the favorite talking points among the media, among left-wing journalists.
00:16:55.780 It was sort of accused all conservatives of being part of the far right, which, of course,
00:16:59.900 is total nonsense.
00:17:01.640 But I think you could make a really reasonable case that that is true on the left, especially
00:17:06.140 when it comes to the environmental movement.
00:17:07.680 So, you know, we have people like Greta Thunberg, who is this sort of like huge global phenom. 1.00
00:17:12.460 She was recently just nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:17:15.900 She was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
00:17:18.100 She is sort of like a mainstream leftist, let's say.
00:17:22.460 She literally called for the end of all fossil fuel use. 0.98
00:17:27.360 She said that our goal shouldn't be net zero carbon emissions.
00:17:31.380 Our goal should be zero carbon emissions.
00:17:33.840 As in, shut off the entire planet, just shut it all down, shut it all down.
00:17:38.980 We're all going to, you know, go back to the Stone Age.
00:17:40.740 She literally called for that. 0.93
00:17:42.120 So, you know, you have someone like her who really should be a fringe figure based on what 0.99
00:17:46.280 she's calling for.
00:17:47.120 But because the media just, you know, love the image of her and the creation of her,
00:17:51.720 she's sort of front and center.
00:17:53.140 And Extinction Rebellion is another one of those groups.
00:17:55.620 This is a really, like, disturbed, radical leftist group.
00:17:59.660 If you look at some of their public displays, you know, they do this weird art form.
00:18:05.860 They do this dancing.
00:18:06.980 They're dressed in a really distinct way that makes them seem like they're sort of,
00:18:11.200 like, you know, opposed not just to carbon, but to, like, bathing and keeping clean and,
00:18:17.160 like, presenting themselves in a normal way.
00:18:20.480 This is a fringe group by, like, all accounts.
00:18:23.420 And yet, 250 Canadian professors signed a letter of support for Extinction Rebellion's
00:18:30.020 battle against the climate crisis.
00:18:32.200 So this group is calling for all universities to completely withdraw their investment in
00:18:37.780 the fossil fuel sector entirely.
00:18:40.100 Basically, what they're calling for is for, like, hundreds of thousands of working class,
00:18:44.600 blue-collar Canadians to be out of work.
00:18:46.680 That's what Extinction Rebellion is calling for.
00:18:48.840 And now that's what 250 university professors are also calling for.
00:18:53.480 They want their universities to sell all assets to completely withdraw any investment that
00:18:58.140 they have in the fossil fuel sector to sort of go down this sort of climate alarmism, drastic
00:19:03.740 measures to deal with the climate emergency path.
00:19:06.520 Among the professors that signed this was also David Suzuki.
00:19:10.620 So again, David Suzuki is supposed to be a mainstream figure, and yet he's signing a letter
00:19:14.700 of support among universities, which are also supposed to be mainstream institutions.
00:19:18.840 In Canada, saying that they're, you know, in agreement and that they back the cause of
00:19:24.720 Extinction Rebellion, which is a far-left group, I don't think you can really tell the
00:19:28.760 difference between the radical environmental left and just the mainstream environmentalists
00:19:33.760 and the mainstream left in Canada anymore.
00:19:36.060 There's no distinction.
00:19:36.760 They all agree on this issue.
00:19:38.480 They take very extreme positions.
00:19:40.200 And, you know, that's sort of, that's where we are right now.
00:19:44.920 You know, they basically just want to put, shut down the oil industry, now be damned with
00:19:50.760 all those workers and all those families who would be devastated by that.
00:19:54.660 Okay, let's move on.
00:19:57.020 All right, so there was a video making the rounds over the weekend of the Heritage Minister
00:20:00.920 talking to Evan Solomon, the host of CTV's Question Period show, which aired on Sunday
00:20:07.540 night.
00:20:08.020 So this is basically, they're talking about bringing in licenses for media organizations,
00:20:12.880 which is sort of the most Orwellian thing that you can imagine.
00:20:15.520 The federal government wants to regulate the media.
00:20:18.920 They want to regulate internet webs.
00:20:21.040 They want to regulate websites, regulate the internet, essentially.
00:20:24.800 And he's saying that you would have to have a license if you want to practice journalism.
00:20:28.840 So if you want to be considered a trusted media site, you have to go to the government,
00:20:33.540 go to Justin Trudeau and ask for a license.
00:20:36.100 Can you imagine what that would do?
00:20:39.340 You know, there's already a left-wing bias in the news.
00:20:42.340 Imagine if a left-wing government was the one that got to determine whether or not you
00:20:46.180 could be determined a trusted news source.
00:20:48.620 So this all came from, this was an exclusive over at Blacklox.
00:20:52.480 It all came from a Blacklox report that came out last week.
00:20:55.260 The feds propose a media registry.
00:20:57.740 A cabinet advisory panel created a bunch of recommendations that they gave to the government
00:21:02.180 involving, you know, how to handle the new age of digital media or whatever.
00:21:08.780 And so among these recommendations included a media registry.
00:21:12.940 So the heritage minister went on Evan Solomon's show on Sunday to talk about what that would be
00:21:18.760 like.
00:21:19.140 So here is a clip from that show.
00:21:21.440 As far as the licensing is concerned, if you're a distributor of content in Canada,
00:21:26.900 and obviously, you know, if you're a very small media organization, the requirement probably
00:21:33.540 wouldn't be the same as if you're Facebook or Google.
00:21:38.580 So there would have to be some proportionality embedded into this.
00:21:44.040 But we would ask that they have a license.
00:21:46.220 Yes.
00:21:46.460 So the idea, the very idea that the government would require licenses, that the left-wing
00:21:50.780 government would say, hey, you know what, the media landscape in Canada isn't quite
00:21:54.200 left-wing enough. 0.96
00:21:54.920 Everyone who knows the media, anyone who pays attention knows that the media bias is already
00:21:58.480 very left.
00:21:59.120 But according to the Trudeau government, it's not quite left enough.
00:22:01.920 So now they want to regulate everything.
00:22:03.780 And they want to be the arbiters in charge of who is an actual trusted news source and who
00:22:08.780 isn't.
00:22:09.200 And of course, the mainstream media just totally missed the plot on this one.
00:22:13.900 So the headline over at CTV News from this, which was really a train wreck of an interview,
00:22:18.500 it went on.
00:22:19.160 I watched the whole thing.
00:22:20.200 Basically, the guy's not only arguing that websites should be regulated and that they
00:22:24.860 should have, that you should need a license from the government in order to operate a news
00:22:30.080 site.
00:22:30.300 But he was also calling for more taxes to be imposed on the big, big social media sites.
00:22:35.940 So Facebook, Google, and Netflix.
00:22:38.260 The liberals proposed a Netflix tax and basically had to walk away from it because it was so
00:22:43.100 unpopular.
00:22:44.020 Well, Evan Solomon was accusing the Trudeau government of basically bringing in one through
00:22:47.780 the back door because they want to impose HST onto these big companies because they have
00:22:52.380 users in Canada.
00:22:54.040 It was really, the whole thing was just sort of showing, you know, just how much the government
00:22:58.320 wants to micromanage.
00:23:00.440 They always overstep their boundaries.
00:23:02.240 They believe that, you know, every single problem in society should be met with more
00:23:05.620 government, more control, you know, more power to the federal government.
00:23:10.440 You know, anyone, not just, you know, conservatives watching this, anyone, especially people on
00:23:14.360 the left who consider themselves social libertarians or just concerned with social liberty,
00:23:19.780 civil liberty, should be concerned about a government wanting to have this kind of control over the
00:23:25.100 internet, which is supposed to be sort of the last bastion of freedom in our society.
00:23:30.160 Again, quite a train wreck interview.
00:23:32.620 And yet the CTV headline here says licensing for media companies in Canada would likely be
00:23:38.640 proportionate.
00:23:39.520 So the major takeaway from CTV over that interview wasn't the fact that the government was actually
00:23:44.940 calling for a registry, but that licensing would be proportionate.
00:23:49.840 So don't worry, guys.
00:23:50.680 The little guys aren't going to have to have the same kind of requirements as the big guys.
00:23:55.280 Pretty absurd stuff.
00:23:56.720 And I think because there's so much backlash over this interview, which was disastrous.
00:24:00.780 And again, the government just openly saying that they want to crack down on freedom of
00:24:04.900 speech and freedom of the press.
00:24:06.760 Well, first of all, our friends over the post-millennial put this little post on Instagram, which I greatly
00:24:11.700 enjoyed.
00:24:12.620 Dear Justin Trudeau, you're never going to make us get an effing government license to be able
00:24:17.840 to criticize you regards the post-millennial.
00:24:20.360 Good for the post-millennial, as I feel the exact same way.
00:24:23.140 There is no way that True North would go groveling to the Trudeau government to ask for a license
00:24:28.300 in order to practice journalism.
00:24:30.400 We live in a free society.
00:24:31.560 We live in a free country.
00:24:32.540 And you don't need a license to be a journalist.
00:24:35.520 Well, because of all that, the Heritage Minister basically had to walk it all back today.
00:24:39.160 He did a press conference on Monday morning where he basically just clarified his response,
00:24:44.840 walked it all back.
00:24:45.720 So here's that clip.
00:24:46.540 Let me be clear.
00:24:48.860 Our government has no intention to impose licensing requirements on news organizations, nor will
00:24:56.400 we try to regulate news content.
00:24:58.880 So, you know, the first time around he told us what he really thinks.
00:25:02.140 And then because of the reaction, he had to walk it back and come up with a new sort of
00:25:05.800 government line.
00:25:06.660 But you know that this is what the Trudeau government wants to do.
00:25:09.000 You know this is what the Heritage Minister wants to do.
00:25:10.900 They want to control.
00:25:11.920 They want to regulate.
00:25:12.660 They believe that the government is the solution to every problem in society.
00:25:16.560 And so their instinct is always to say, yes, we need to regulate it.
00:25:19.600 Yes, you need licenses.
00:25:20.720 Yes, we're going to tax it.
00:25:21.700 That's the liberal mindset in a nutshell.
00:25:25.460 Okay, let's move on.
00:25:26.280 If you're like me, you were watching the Super Bowl last night.
00:25:28.440 Of course, of all nights is the night we were watching the Super Bowl where Rogers, our internet
00:25:33.600 provider, decided to kick out.
00:25:35.060 So we had to stream the game on our phones and it wasn't quite as good as watching it
00:25:39.940 on, you know, regular internet.
00:25:42.400 But it just wasn't working for us.
00:25:44.200 And I will say, I've spent the last couple of years in the United States.
00:25:47.160 So I got so used to just watching the regular Super Bowl.
00:25:50.900 I almost forgot that Canada still has this silly system where Canadians aren't allowed
00:25:56.500 to watch the actual commercials for the Super Bowl.
00:25:59.220 And it just drove me crazy.
00:26:00.460 I could barely even enjoy the game because all I was doing was thinking about how frustrated
00:26:04.640 it was.
00:26:05.120 It's like, you just feel like you're living in some kind of like a fascist society where
00:26:09.440 they won't let you watch the actual commercials.
00:26:11.480 So you have to watch these sort of like, you know, these horrible knockoff commercials that
00:26:17.940 are like cringeworthy and Canadian content and just so bad.
00:26:22.760 Like for me, the Super Bowl is a cultural event.
00:26:25.320 It's not just about football.
00:26:26.500 I'm not really a huge football fan.
00:26:28.120 I actually kind of hate the sport and like a lot of the values that it purports and what
00:26:32.840 it pushes.
00:26:33.240 I specifically hate the San Francisco 49ers.
00:26:37.660 But, you know, it's a Super Bowl.
00:26:39.220 So you watch it because of the commercials.
00:26:41.120 This is a time where they're putting out all the best new ads that, you know, the companies
00:26:44.700 are spending millions and millions of dollars to have that ad location.
00:26:48.380 And because of that, they're introducing all kinds of new products.
00:26:50.660 So it's always kind of fun culturally to just watch the ads.
00:26:54.780 And the fact that you can't do that in Canada just makes you feel like, you know, you're just
00:26:58.360 not as free.
00:26:59.100 You don't have the freedom as our cousins do down in the United States.
00:27:02.920 So that was a little frustrating.
00:27:04.660 And of course, the halftime show.
00:27:07.080 You know, I won't criticize J-Lo or Shakira for their performance.
00:27:11.280 I thought they did great.
00:27:12.080 I never really understand, though, why they pick who they do for the halftime show.
00:27:17.200 Like, I don't know.
00:27:18.200 I feel like J-Lo hasn't really been relevant culturally for, like, a couple of decades.
00:27:22.680 And the same with Shakira.
00:27:24.160 Like, all the songs they were singing were from, like, the 90s and the early 2000s.
00:27:28.280 I don't get it.
00:27:29.300 Why couldn't they have chosen someone with, like, songs on the radio today?
00:27:33.220 It was the same last year.
00:27:34.620 Maroon 5 was the halftime show.
00:27:36.440 And all the songs they were singing were from, like, the early 2000s.
00:27:39.660 You know, there's good musicians out today.
00:27:42.320 So why do they insist on having people that were famous 20 years ago?
00:27:46.780 I will say I'm quite happy with the result, mostly because I hate the San Francisco 49ers.
00:27:50.780 I lived in San Francisco.
00:27:52.380 I went to a lot of football games.
00:27:54.420 And I just can't get over my hatred for that team.
00:27:57.500 One of the games I went to was, like, at the height of the whole political kerfuffle over the national anthem when Colin Kaepernick refused to stand.
00:28:06.240 So I went to a game with a couple of friends.
00:28:08.080 We're all Canadians in the audience.
00:28:09.480 First of all, not only did Kaepernick refuse to stand for the national anthem, but so did most of the people in the stands.
00:28:15.880 Most of the crowd also refused to stand, which I thought was pretty disrespectful.
00:28:19.600 So, you know, we the Canadians were standing for the American national anthem.
00:28:23.340 That's fine.
00:28:24.160 They were having their political moment.
00:28:25.560 And San Francisco is a notoriously sort of left-wing city.
00:28:29.580 But the problem I really had was later in the game, they did a moment where they were honoring veterans in the audience.
00:28:35.300 And, you know, what they usually do is they tell a story of a veteran and talk about their history and how they served the country and how they keep us safe.
00:28:42.100 And so as they were announcing these veterans, again, me and my Canadian friends get up and start applauding and start cheering for these veterans, thanking them for their service, for our freedom.
00:28:52.180 And I looked around and literally no one else in the section was standing.
00:28:55.520 Like, like people were applying that, you know, we refuse to stand for the national anthem because, you know, their whole thing was that they didn't respect the country and they didn't think that America was a country where everyone could prosper or whatever.
00:29:08.500 They thought that police were, they were protesting its supposed police brutality.
00:29:13.680 But that also carried on.
00:29:15.380 So people were also not standing and not paying respect to the troops, to the veterans who keep us safe and protect our freedom.
00:29:22.920 You know, that was sort of like the last straw, you know, I know a lot of the players are different now and that things have changed.
00:29:29.480 But I just had to cheer against San Francisco for that reason, could never cheer for that team.
00:29:34.140 And so I was happy that they didn't win.
00:29:36.960 OK, I'm going to leave it at that.
00:29:38.020 Thank you so much for tuning in and we'll be back on Wednesday.