Coronavirus continues to spread and threatens global trade. The feds try to deport 50,000 illegal immigrants. Plus, the Woke Left takes aim at the sport of hockey. And we ll talk conservative leadership, and fake news.
00:00:42.140He just interacted with someone at work who had recently visited Wuhan, China.
00:00:47.400So this is a 33-year-old man in Bavaria who contracted it during a workplace training event with a visiting Chinese colleague.
00:00:55.300He is now put under quarantine and observation at a Munich hospital.
00:00:59.900So really, like I said in the last program, this is more of a case of just hysteria over this sort of mysterious new virus that's quickly spreading.
00:01:09.040The major problem and concern with this kind of virus isn't so much the virus itself.
00:01:13.380You know, it's affecting very few people.
00:01:14.700So far, there have been 132 deaths and 4,600 cases, which may seem like a lot.
00:01:35.160So the novel coronavirus case fatality rate is currently estimated around 3%, somewhere between 2% and 4%.
00:01:41.700So for comparison, the seasonal flu rate is less than 0.01%.
00:01:47.580And if you can compare this with some of the other major respiratory syndrome viruses that were occurring, the SARS rate was 10% and the MERS rate, the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome rate was 34%.
00:02:02.120And just for comparison, I wanted to put this into perspective.
00:02:04.820So according to the World Health Organization, this is what they have to say on influenza.
00:02:10.160Worldwide, these annual epidemics, this is talking about the common flu or influenza, are estimated to result in the 3 to 5 million cases of severe illnesses annually, which result in somewhere between 290,000 and 650,000 respiratory deaths.
00:02:26.260So again, the coronavirus, for all the hype and all the hysteria around it, it's nothing compared to what happens every single year with the common flu.
00:02:34.960But again, the concern is over the idea that we just don't really know what's causing it at this point, what the origin was and how to treat it.
00:02:41.840And, you know, the concern at this point has nothing to do with, you know, individuals catching, being affected by this coronavirus.
00:02:50.800The biggest concern, you know, by far is how this will impact global trade.
00:02:56.180So already, you know, countries are reacting and, you know, overreacting by stopping trade, stopping anything that's coming from China.
00:03:06.600So Ford and Toyota will both idle their vast Chinese assembly plants for an extra week.
00:06:22.000Again, this is the problem when you don't enforce the law in the first place.
00:06:25.200When you have an area like Roxham Road in rural Quebec, where thousands of people are just walking illegally across the border only to be intercepted by the RCMP
00:06:34.280and then transported to basically a taxpayer-funded all-expenses holiday, where they're waiting for their case to be heard, all at the expense of the taxpayer.
00:06:44.780You know, and again, this is the problem with Trudeau's approach to immigration.
00:06:47.880Instead of stopping people in the first place from crossing illegally, he just continues to let it happen.
00:06:52.880He's made no effort whatsoever to stop that flow of illegal immigrants coming across the border at Roxham Road.
00:06:59.260Instead, he's only facilitated it by stationing permanent presence of RCMP, creating these shuttle buses that take people to their choice, Montreal or Toronto.
00:07:08.540And then from there, they get placed into hotels.
00:07:11.360They get sort of the taxpayer-funded royal treatment, like a holiday, probably the nicest holiday they've ever had in their lives, all courtesy of the taxpayer.
00:07:19.020They're only, you know, a few years later, once they finally had their case heard, to be told, no, you're not a refugee.
00:07:24.680You don't meet any of the definitions.
00:07:53.460Canada's not very good at deporting people.
00:07:55.160We're not very good at handling illegal immigrants in our country, which is why it is better to just stop them from entering the first place.
00:08:01.700If someone's coming into Canada illegally and you know that they're from a country that they have no chance of being determined to be an actual refugee.
00:08:08.240I mean, the fact that they're coming from the United States should be a pretty big red flag to begin with.
00:08:12.420They're already in a safe country and they're going to another safe country.
00:08:17.560And this is an example of the Trudeau government just being absolutely horrible when it comes to enforcing our immigration laws and maintaining the rule of law,
00:08:25.280which, again, has a ripple effect because Canadians start to distrust the immigration system because of this surge of illegal immigration.
00:08:32.660It makes them doubt the entire immigration system, not just the ability to stop illegal immigrants, but the ability for the government to manage a large-scale immigration program.
00:08:41.620And that's why we've seen real skepticism towards Canada's immigration policies in the last couple of years.
00:08:50.340This story just drives me absolutely crazy.
00:08:52.380So, a hockey coach was removed for refusing to take a mandatory gender identity course.
00:08:59.500Taking a course on gender identity became mandatory for Hockey Eastern Ontario volunteers.
00:09:04.740This is an exclusive over at TNC.news.
00:09:07.920As the wool glove comes for hockey, one Ontario man has found himself no longer permitted to coach because he refused to take a course on gender identity.
00:09:15.360So, this individual did an interview with Quillette magazine, and the man said that he was formerly a volunteer with his son's hockey team,
00:09:23.100but he claimed he was no longer a volunteer because he just refused to take this course.
00:09:30.640Even just to help on the ice, you need to have this training, said the man, who wishes to remain anonymous.
00:09:35.340Taking a course on gender identity became mandatory for Hockey Eastern Ontario volunteers following a 2017 legal settlement with a transgender hockey player who alleged discrimination.
00:09:44.720The former assistant coach said he is opposed to discrimination and that he was going to take the course until he saw the 33-slide module on gender.
00:09:54.080I would be fine taking an awareness course if it were factual and based on science, he said, but I felt this was too ideological.
00:10:00.980Included in the presentation was a claim that biological sex and gender are unrelated to one another,
00:10:06.640as well as detailed explanations of identities such as polygender, genderqueer, and agender.
00:10:12.900The presentation also alleged that the gender binary was invented by Europeans and imposed on the rest of the world through colonialism.
00:10:51.400Once again, the left is at war against everyday Canadians, against our way of life and the things we do.
00:10:56.880Going after hockey is their strategy because, you know, hockey is sort of like the most normal thing you can be into in Canada.
00:11:03.900It's something that so many of us are, you know, that's what we're interested in.
00:11:07.940That's what we like, that's what we pay attention to.
00:11:10.000And, you know, by going after hockey, it hits at the heart of our culture and it really takes aim at sort of this central institution in our society.
00:11:18.760This is far from their first attempt to do this.
00:11:21.440We have seen sort of mainstream media and left-wing figures go after hockey.
00:11:25.760It started, of course, with Don Cherry and him being removed from Coach's Corner in Hockey Night in Canada for using what is supposedly, what, a discriminatory term saying,
00:11:33.760you people, encouraging all Canadians to wear the poppy.
00:11:36.940And then after he was removed, his co-host, Ron McLean, just sort of went like full woke left and started lecturing us all about white privilege and structural racism in hockey and blah, blah, blah.
00:11:48.700So, again, this is just, you know, political correctness run amok and taking aim right at the heart of our culture and going after the sport of hockey.
00:11:58.840So the conservative leadership race is beginning to take shape.
00:12:02.520We have, you know, the frontrunners again at this point are Peter McKay and Aaron O'Toole.
00:12:06.940And unfortunately, already early in this race, the mainstream media is already shaping this debate.
00:12:12.940They're already trying to sort of paint all conservatives with the same brush as what they did during the election with Andrew Scheer.
00:12:19.560So the thing that everyone's talking about this week is who will and who won't march in pride parades, as if this is like the most important thing to know about a conservative candidate before they're selected.
00:12:29.460If this is what the mainstream media care about, it's not what Canadians care about, and it certainly is not what conservative delegates who will be selecting their next leader care about.
00:12:37.480It's just a huge distraction designed to plant the seed in people's heads that conservatives are kind of bigoted and they kind of hate gay people.
00:12:44.980And so that's what the media is trying to do.
00:12:47.560If I were advising a leadership campaign or if I was, you know, working on a campaign, I would advise a candidate to just not talk about this issue to just like, you know, the media is obsessed with it.
00:13:00.280Conservatives should be talking about the important issues in Canada, talking about the economy, talking about debt levels, talking about how to sort of restore fiscal responsibility in the government.
00:13:10.320And if you want to talk about social and cultural issues, it should be a critique on the left wing sort of mainstream media values and not allowing the mainstream media to attack and condemn social conservatives.
00:13:22.280But alas, this is not what's happening.
00:13:24.620So here we have Aaron O'Toole put out a statement saying that he will not march in the pride parade.
00:13:30.840He writes, in uniform, I stood up for the rights of all Canadians.
00:13:34.420And in parliament, I've always, always voted for liberty and equality as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:14:09.040So Peter McKay and Marilyn Gladio have both committed to marching in the Toronto pride parade while Aaron O'Toole says that he won't unless police are allowed to march in uniform.
00:14:20.200Again, this is allowing left-wing mainstream media to dictate the terms of the Conservative leadership debate and dictate the conversation.
00:14:28.400I really don't understand why a Conservative can't just say, look, I support gay marriage.
00:14:33.580I'm 100% not going to legislate on that.
00:14:36.100I'm not interested in legislating on gay marriage.
00:14:38.300However, I'm not going to take part in a pride parade because it's my freedom as a Canadian to not have to march in a parade and I don't feel like they're family-friendly events.
00:14:50.780I'll do other things in the community to show my support for the gay community, but I'm not going to march in a parade that's basically devoted towards sex and hedonism.
00:15:02.340And instead, we have this weird game where we play where it's almost become a mandatory thing for not just Conservative leaders, not just all leaders, but Conservative leaders.
00:15:33.560You know, no, we live in a free society, so you can choose.
00:15:36.540Some people can choose to go to church on Sunday.
00:15:38.460Some people can choose to go to a pride parade.
00:15:40.200I mean, that's the whole idea of living in a free society and this idea that every single leader must participate in an event that is, frankly, pretty raunchy doesn't add up.
00:15:50.900So, you know, I guess good for Erin O'Toole, I guess, for pushing back a little bit and saying, hey, you guys are not very inclusive since you don't allow police officers to march in your parade.
00:16:00.580But again, that doesn't really hit at the major issue for most Canadians, which is, you know, two things.
00:16:06.020One, not everyone's interested in going to a parade that's celebrating sex in that way.
00:16:10.580And two, you know, we live in a free society, so you can't force or coerce people to attend an event that they don't want to attend.
00:16:18.180So no one's really showing any courage so far in the leadership race and showing a willingness to fight back against, you know, those two very principled issues.
00:16:29.680Let's talk about this week in fakeness because we have a lot of fake news going on right now.
00:16:34.700This one's not exactly a news story, but it just shows this sort of crooked, corrupt relationship between the CBC, the Liberal Party, and the federal government, the Trudeau government.
00:16:45.060So this is another exclusive over at Blacklock's reporter.
00:16:49.640So the federal government paid a liberal CBC pundit five figures in order to provide media coaching for a single cabinet minister.
00:16:58.320So the feds paid $22,120 to an individual called Amanda Alvaro, who did not respond to questions.
00:17:06.860CBC ethics guidelines require disclosure of special interests of any pundit.
00:17:12.560Quote, spoiler alert, guys, I'm a liberal, Alvaro wrote on her Twitter account.
00:17:17.420Basically, this woman, Alvaro, is a liberal talking head.
00:17:21.080She is a consultant and she runs her own company.
00:17:24.060And she's frequently a guest on CBC, basically just spouting out the liberal campaign talking points.
00:17:30.300She is a liberal, spoiler alert, she said she's liberal.
00:17:35.740She goes on the CBC to mimic Justin Trudeau's talking points.
00:17:39.620And then, of course, because this kind of stuff is just commonplace in, you know, the corrupt world of auto politics, she gets paid by the federal government, not by the Liberal Party, but by the federal government using taxpayer dollars.
00:17:52.860She gets hired to come in and coach Mariam Monsef, the Minister of Status of Women, on how to be a better, more media savvy communicator.
00:18:02.620So, again, why is this something that Canadian taxpayers are paying for?
00:18:06.580How come the Liberal government is allowed to hire Liberal pundits who also get paid by the CBC?
00:18:13.040It's all just really insider baseball-y.
00:18:16.020And it makes you realize, yeah, you know what, we have a pretty big swamp in Ottawa.
00:18:21.660It's not just a Washington, D.C. problem.
00:18:26.320So, all right, next story I want to talk about is CBC has an analysis piece by Rosemary Barton.
00:18:33.620As you probably know, Rosemary Barton used to be the host of The National, but she got removed from that position.
00:18:38.580And she is now a political reporter, but for whatever reason, she writes opinion analysis pieces as well in the CBC.
00:18:45.060So the latest from Rosemary Barton, she says,
00:18:48.080Good luck, Mr. McKay, she said, mimicking the headline in the Journal de Quebec headline said,
00:19:05.820Good luck, Minister, because Peter McKay is not very good at speaking French.
00:19:10.200And to people in Ottawa and people in Quebec, this is just a huge scandal.
00:19:15.060Like, how dare someone try to be prime minister if they're not perfectly fluent in French?
00:19:20.540As I've talked about on this program and as I talked about in depth in an interview that I did with J.J. McCullough for True North,
00:19:27.340the idea for a conservative that you have to know how to speak French in order to be the leader of the party is silly.
00:19:32.880It's a sort of Liberal-created demand.
00:19:35.440It makes sense for the Liberal Party since their base is in Quebec and they have to win a lot of seats in Quebec in order to form government.
00:19:42.320If you go back and you look at the electoral record of conservatives, you'll know that they don't really win any seats in Quebec.
00:19:48.680They don't really win a good showing for the conservatives in Quebec is to win like five or six seats.
00:19:53.740That would be considered a good showing.
00:19:55.460So why is the emphasis so much on how an individual for a party that basically has no hope of winning seats in Quebec,
00:20:04.180All it does is sort of weed out good candidates.
00:20:07.480It shrinks the playing field of people who might, you know, otherwise be good leaders and make a great leader of the conservative party.
00:20:15.860Well, of course, you're going to have pundits on the CBC trying to pressure the conservatives because Rose Bright Barton is not a conservative.
00:20:57.340She always emphasizes the negative aspects of conservatives.
00:21:00.560She jumps to fact check conservatives while brushing over, you know, liberal talking points and allowing liberals to push lies.
00:21:07.340Because she's not a reliable person and not a reliable reporter.
00:21:11.980And so, again, conservatives should completely ignore what she has to say.
00:21:16.100OK, final fake news is over at the Toronto Star.
00:21:18.960It says, here's why a Stephen Harper loyalist regrets the tough on crime politics he once practiced.
00:21:25.240This story is about Benjamin Perrin, who was once the prime minister's lawyer, prime minister Stephen Harper's lawyer in the conservative government.
00:21:32.320So, surprise, surprise, he has a new book that came out that he's trying to push called Overdose, Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis,
00:21:41.920where he, surprise, surprise, rails against conservatives and says he's had a total change of heart,
00:21:46.820which is why the Toronto Star is plugging this piece.
00:21:50.000He's talking about the safe injection sites or basically the location where the Canadian government taxpayers fund heroin needles going out to attics
00:22:00.280because instead of actually trying to deal with the problem and treat them and stop the use,
00:22:05.360instead we resort to just handing out needles and making sure that, hey, if they're going to use drugs, they might as well do it safely.
00:22:12.720So Benjamin Perrin used to sort of rail against these kind of policies, used to emphasize more on, you know, being tough on crime
00:22:19.300and to stop the needles from getting on the street in the first place.
00:22:22.420But now he's written a book and he wants to get love from the mainstream media.
00:22:28.260You know, the best way, the easiest way for a conservative to get love in the media is to have a change of heart and rail against conservatives.
00:22:34.860That's been proven time and time again.
00:22:37.200Just look at Michael Corrin, who used to be a sort of draconian social conservative,
00:22:41.680pushing, you know, the kind of furthest right positions that most conservatives just really never agreed with.
00:22:47.880And then he has a total change of heart.
00:22:49.940And now he gets to rail against conservatives saying, I used to do this.