Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： The woke left takes aim at the sport of hockey...again

00:00:00.000 The coronavirus continues to spread and threatens global trade.

00:00:03.420 The feds try to deport 50,000 illegal immigrants.

00:00:06.160 Good luck with that.

00:00:07.200 Plus, the woke left takes aim at the sport of hockey.

00:00:10.140 And we'll talk conservative leadership race and this week in fake news.

00:00:13.440 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:20.600 Hi, welcome to the show.

00:00:21.700 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:23.020 We have a lot to get to, a lot of news going on this week.

00:00:25.460 So let's get right to it.

00:00:27.040 So the first case of the coronavirus has been recorded that was transmitted through human contact.

00:00:33.100 So an individual in Germany is the first known case of someone who contracted the virus through a workplace.

00:00:40.520 So he didn't visit China himself.

00:00:42.140 He just interacted with someone at work who had recently visited Wuhan, China.

00:00:47.400 So this is a 33-year-old man in Bavaria who contracted it during a workplace training event with a visiting Chinese colleague.

00:00:55.300 He is now put under quarantine and observation at a Munich hospital.

00:00:59.900 So 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.

00:01:09.040 The major problem and concern with this kind of virus isn't so much the virus itself.

00:01:13.380 You know, it's affecting very few people.

00:01:14.700 So far, there have been 132 deaths and 4,600 cases, which may seem like a lot.

00:01:22.020 But remember, keep it in perspective.

00:01:24.980 More people are impacted by the common flu or influenza every year.

00:01:29.720 But the major concern with this is, well, there's two.

00:01:33.440 One is the infection rate.

00:01:35.160 So the novel coronavirus case fatality rate is currently estimated around 3%, somewhere between 2% and 4%.

00:01:41.700 So for comparison, the seasonal flu rate is less than 0.01%.

00:01:47.580 And 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%.

00:02:02.120 And just for comparison, I wanted to put this into perspective.

00:02:04.820 So according to the World Health Organization, this is what they have to say on influenza.

00:02:10.160 Worldwide, 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.

00:02:26.260 So 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.

00:02:34.960 But 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.

00:02:41.840 And, you know, the concern at this point has nothing to do with, you know, individuals catching, being affected by this coronavirus.

00:02:50.800 The biggest concern, you know, by far is how this will impact global trade.

00:02:56.180 So already, you know, countries are reacting and, you know, overreacting by stopping trade, stopping anything that's coming from China.

00:03:06.600 So Ford and Toyota will both idle their vast Chinese assembly plants for an extra week.

00:03:12.280 Apple is rerouting its supply chains.

00:03:14.380 Starbucks has closed thousands of stores and is warning of a financial blow.

00:03:18.920 On Wednesday, British Airlines suspended all flights to mainland China,

00:03:21.920 while United and Air Canada are joining the growing number of carriers reducing services.

00:03:26.660 Japan's leaders are bracing for a possible hit.

00:03:29.220 Hotel and tour operators across Asia are watching fearfully as the world's largest source of tourism dollars tightens its borders.

00:03:36.360 This is all because of the mysterious pneumonia-like coronavirus that has killed more than 100 people and sickened 1,000,

00:03:42.580 virtually shut down one of the world's most important growth engines.

00:03:46.740 Desperate to slow the fast-moving virus, the Chinese authorities have extended the country's national holiday to February 3rd.

00:03:54.740 Crippled land, rail, and air transport entire cities have shut down. 1.00

00:04:00.840 And, you know, even if you just look at the location of Wuhan, it's right on the Yangtze River, very close to Shanghai.

00:04:05.280 This is a very important strategic location, not just for, you know, China itself, but for global trade.

00:04:12.440 It's a huge port city that allows so much of what's manufactured for global trade to get to market,

00:04:19.940 to get through the Yangtze out to Shanghai, where the global port takes the rest of the world.

00:04:24.220 So, again, you know, the biggest fear at this point isn't so much with, you know, individuals contracting this virus,

00:04:29.420 but it is how we react, how we tighten restrictions, stop trade, stop travel,

00:04:35.080 and you start to learn just how interconnected the global economy really is.

00:04:39.160 So that's more of a fear for people watching the stock markets and worried about, you know,

00:04:43.580 getting their products to market and going back to business as usual.

00:04:47.860 All right, moving on.

00:04:48.560 This was an exclusive in Blacklock's reporter this morning.

00:04:52.280 The Feds count 52,109 deportees.

00:04:56.080 According to the story, more than 50,000 illegal immigrants ordered removed from Canada remain in the country.

00:05:01.660 This according to cabinet records.

00:05:04.560 And so, you know, this is the major problem when you have so many people entering the country illegally, 1.00

00:05:09.980 making that refugee claim.

00:05:11.620 So they claim they ask for asylum.

00:05:13.880 After it goes through Canadian courts, if a judge determines, no, you're not a refugee,

00:05:19.060 the person gets ordered deported.

00:05:21.320 The problem is at that point they have the ability to appeal.

00:05:24.100 The appeal process can take more than two years.

00:05:26.980 And so as a result, you have all of these people who are just sort of like living in limbo in Canada.

00:05:31.640 Some of them choose to sort of go dark, go on the lam, and continue to live illegally outside the boundaries,

00:05:36.660 outside the confines of our immigration system.

00:05:39.140 Others just continue to sort of waste resources, waste taxpayer money by appealing and appealing and saying,

00:05:45.600 oh, this isn't fair.

00:05:46.480 Oh, I want to have another judge.

00:05:47.960 And stretching it out for as long as possible.

00:05:50.060 You know their immigration lawyers and consultants are urging them to do this and saying, you know,

00:05:54.740 we can get past the law if you just continue to press.

00:05:58.980 And because of it, you know, Canada has this huge problem with illegal immigration.

00:06:02.680 And now it's Justin Trudeau's government that has to deal with it.

00:06:05.160 I mean, 52,000 people who are supposed to be deported.

00:06:08.920 Just for comparison, a total of 648 illegal immigrants were deported last year.

00:06:16.520 648 people were deported.

00:06:18.240 Meanwhile, there's 52,000 outstanding deportation orders.

00:06:22.000 Again, this is the problem when you don't enforce the law in the first place.

00:06:25.200 When 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

00:06:34.280 and 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.

00:06:44.780 You know, and again, this is the problem with Trudeau's approach to immigration.

00:06:47.880 Instead of stopping people in the first place from crossing illegally, he just continues to let it happen.

00:06:52.880 He's made no effort whatsoever to stop that flow of illegal immigrants coming across the border at Roxham Road.

00:06:59.260 Instead, he's only facilitated it by stationing permanent presence of RCMP, creating these shuttle buses that take people to their choice, Montreal or Toronto.

00:07:08.540 And then from there, they get placed into hotels.

00:07:11.360 They 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.

00:07:19.020 They're only, you know, a few years later, once they finally had their case heard, to be told, no, you're not a refugee.

00:07:24.680 You don't meet any of the definitions.

00:07:26.360 You don't meet any of the standards.

00:07:27.580 You have to go.

00:07:28.780 Well, again, this is all at the expense of the taxpayers.

00:07:31.500 So we're now dealing with at least 52,000 deportees.

00:07:35.120 That's just the ones that they have records of.

00:07:36.700 I'm sure that there's many more that are just completely unaccounted for.

00:07:40.260 And, you know, again, good luck trying to deport that many people when, you know, the total removals last year was 648.

00:07:50.120 The previous year, it was 495.

00:07:53.460 Canada's not very good at deporting people.

00:07:55.160 We'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. 1.00

00:08:01.700 If 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.

00:08:08.240 I mean, the fact that they're coming from the United States should be a pretty big red flag to begin with. 0.98

00:08:12.420 They're already in a safe country and they're going to another safe country.

00:08:15.780 It doesn't make sense.

00:08:16.580 It doesn't add up.

00:08:17.560 And 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,

00:08:25.280 which, again, has a ripple effect because Canadians start to distrust the immigration system because of this surge of illegal immigration.

00:08:32.660 It 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.

00:08:41.620 And that's why we've seen real skepticism towards Canada's immigration policies in the last couple of years.

00:08:47.100 It's all because of Justin Trudeau.

00:08:48.920 Okay, let's move on.

00:08:50.340 This story just drives me absolutely crazy.

00:08:52.380 So, a hockey coach was removed for refusing to take a mandatory gender identity course.

00:08:59.500 Taking a course on gender identity became mandatory for Hockey Eastern Ontario volunteers.

00:09:04.740 This is an exclusive over at TNC.news.

00:09:07.920 As 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.

00:09:15.360 So, this individual did an interview with Quillette magazine, and the man said that he was formerly a volunteer with his son's hockey team,

00:09:23.100 but he claimed he was no longer a volunteer because he just refused to take this course.

00:09:26.760 I can't coach.

00:09:27.580 I can't be on the bench.

00:09:28.740 I can't help on the ice.

00:09:30.640 Even just to help on the ice, you need to have this training, said the man, who wishes to remain anonymous.

00:09:35.340 Taking 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.

00:09:44.720 The 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.

00:09:54.080 I would be fine taking an awareness course if it were factual and based on science, he said, but I felt this was too ideological.

00:10:00.980 Included in the presentation was a claim that biological sex and gender are unrelated to one another,

00:10:06.640 as well as detailed explanations of identities such as polygender, genderqueer, and agender.

00:10:12.900 The presentation also alleged that the gender binary was invented by Europeans and imposed on the rest of the world through colonialism.

00:10:22.380 Well, there you have it.

00:10:23.240 According to hockey, according to just minor hockey where, you know, everyday Canadians are playing, little kids are playing hockey,

00:10:31.260 you have to believe in ideological far-left nonsense.

00:10:35.140 The idea that biological sex is a social construct invented by Europeans, you know, this is what it's saying. 0.98

00:10:42.520 Biological sex is racist. 1.00

00:10:44.000 That's basically what it's saying. 0.90

00:10:45.500 And every single hockey coach in Ontario has to take this training.

00:10:50.340 This is totally nonsense.

00:10:51.400 Once again, the left is at war against everyday Canadians, against our way of life and the things we do.

00:10:56.880 Going after hockey is their strategy because, you know, hockey is sort of like the most normal thing you can be into in Canada.

00:11:03.900 It's something that so many of us are, you know, that's what we're interested in.

00:11:07.940 That's what we like, that's what we pay attention to.

00:11:10.000 And, 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.

00:11:18.760 This is far from their first attempt to do this.

00:11:21.440 We have seen sort of mainstream media and left-wing figures go after hockey.

00:11:25.760 It 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,

00:11:33.760 you people, encouraging all Canadians to wear the poppy.

00:11:36.940 And 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.

00:11:48.700 So, 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.

00:11:56.660 I hate to see that.

00:11:57.880 All right, let's move on.

00:11:58.840 So the conservative leadership race is beginning to take shape.

00:12:02.520 We have, you know, the frontrunners again at this point are Peter McKay and Aaron O'Toole.

00:12:06.940 And unfortunately, already early in this race, the mainstream media is already shaping this debate.

00:12:12.940 They're already trying to sort of paint all conservatives with the same brush as what they did during the election with Andrew Scheer.

00:12:19.560 So 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.

00:12:29.460 If 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. 0.97

00:12:37.480 It'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. 0.93

00:12:44.980 And so that's what the media is trying to do. 0.81

00:12:47.560 If 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.

00:12:57.940 Good for them.

00:12:58.740 They can kind of dwell on it.

00:13:00.280 Conservatives 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.

00:13:10.320 And 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.

00:13:22.280 But alas, this is not what's happening.

00:13:24.620 So here we have Aaron O'Toole put out a statement saying that he will not march in the pride parade.

00:13:30.840 He writes, in uniform, I stood up for the rights of all Canadians.

00:13:34.420 And in parliament, I've always, always voted for liberty and equality as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

00:13:39.040 I will march in pride parades.

00:13:41.340 I will not participate in the Toronto pride parade while its policy is to exclude Canadians, especially uniformed police officers.

00:13:48.240 In my view, its regrettable position is incompatible with the principles of inclusivity and equality of all Canadians.

00:13:54.460 When Toronto pride becomes a truly inclusive event, I will march in that with my uniformed friends.

00:14:01.440 Okay.

00:14:01.900 And so because of that, now we have stories like this up at CTV.

00:14:05.420 McKay and Gladio will march in Toronto pride.

00:14:07.860 O'Toole will not.

00:14:09.040 So 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.

00:14:20.200 Again, this is allowing left-wing mainstream media to dictate the terms of the Conservative leadership debate and dictate the conversation.

00:14:26.960 It's not good for Conservatives.

00:14:28.400 I really don't understand why a Conservative can't just say, look, I support gay marriage.

00:14:33.580 I'm 100% not going to legislate on that.

00:14:36.100 I'm not interested in legislating on gay marriage.

00:14:38.300 However, 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.

00:14:48.760 That's it.

00:14:49.540 That's it.

00:14:49.900 I support gay marriage. 0.91

00:14:50.780 I'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. 0.96

00:15:01.160 That's not what I'm going to do.

00:15:02.340 And 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.

00:15:13.840 Everyone has to march in a parade.

00:15:15.320 Look, last time I checked, we lived in a free society.

00:15:17.220 Not everyone has to go to the same events.

00:15:19.320 If you are on the political left, no one's saying, hey, you must go to a hockey game.

00:15:25.240 You must go to a football game.

00:15:27.040 You know, as a politician, you must participate in these certain, you know, cultural activities.

00:15:32.120 You must go to church.

00:15:33.560 You know, no, we live in a free society, so you can choose.

00:15:36.540 Some people can choose to go to church on Sunday.

00:15:38.460 Some people can choose to go to a pride parade.

00:15:40.200 I 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.

00:15:50.900 So, 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.

00:16:00.580 But again, that doesn't really hit at the major issue for most Canadians, which is, you know, two things.

00:16:06.020 One, not everyone's interested in going to a parade that's celebrating sex in that way.

00:16:10.580 And 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.

00:16:16.820 That's just the reality.

00:16:18.180 So 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.

00:16:27.600 Okay, let's move on to fake news.

00:16:29.680 Let's talk about this week in fakeness because we have a lot of fake news going on right now.

00:16:34.700 This 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.

00:16:45.060 So this is another exclusive over at Blacklock's reporter.

00:16:49.640 So the federal government paid a liberal CBC pundit five figures in order to provide media coaching for a single cabinet minister.

00:16:58.320 So the feds paid $22,120 to an individual called Amanda Alvaro, who did not respond to questions. 0.85

00:17:06.860 CBC ethics guidelines require disclosure of special interests of any pundit.

00:17:12.560 Quote, spoiler alert, guys, I'm a liberal, Alvaro wrote on her Twitter account.

00:17:17.420 Basically, this woman, Alvaro, is a liberal talking head. 1.00

00:17:21.080 She is a consultant and she runs her own company.

00:17:24.060 And she's frequently a guest on CBC, basically just spouting out the liberal campaign talking points.

00:17:30.300 She is a liberal, spoiler alert, she said she's liberal.

00:17:33.400 So this woman is a partisan. 0.93

00:17:35.740 She goes on the CBC to mimic Justin Trudeau's talking points.

00:17:39.620 And 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. 0.56

00:17:52.860 She 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. 0.98

00:18:02.620 So, again, why is this something that Canadian taxpayers are paying for?

00:18:06.580 How come the Liberal government is allowed to hire Liberal pundits who also get paid by the CBC?

00:18:13.040 It's all just really insider baseball-y.

00:18:16.020 And it makes you realize, yeah, you know what, we have a pretty big swamp in Ottawa.

00:18:21.660 It's not just a Washington, D.C. problem.

00:18:23.640 We have a swamp in Ottawa as well.

00:18:26.320 So, all right, next story I want to talk about is CBC has an analysis piece by Rosemary Barton.

00:18:33.620 As you probably know, Rosemary Barton used to be the host of The National, but she got removed from that position. 0.98

00:18:38.580 And she is now a political reporter, but for whatever reason, she writes opinion analysis pieces as well in the CBC.

00:18:45.060 So the latest from Rosemary Barton, she says,

00:18:48.080 Good luck, Mr. McKay, she said, mimicking the headline in the Journal de Quebec headline said,

00:19:05.820 Good luck, Minister, because Peter McKay is not very good at speaking French.

00:19:10.200 And to people in Ottawa and people in Quebec, this is just a huge scandal.

00:19:15.060 Like, how dare someone try to be prime minister if they're not perfectly fluent in French?

00:19:20.540 As 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, 0.83

00:19:27.340 the idea for a conservative that you have to know how to speak French in order to be the leader of the party is silly.

00:19:32.880 It's a sort of Liberal-created demand.

00:19:35.440 It 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.

00:19:42.320 If 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.

00:19:48.680 They don't really win a good showing for the conservatives in Quebec is to win like five or six seats.

00:19:53.740 That would be considered a good showing.

00:19:55.460 So why is the emphasis so much on how an individual for a party that basically has no hope of winning seats in Quebec,

00:20:02.660 why are they forced to speak French?

00:20:04.180 All it does is sort of weed out good candidates.

00:20:07.480 It shrinks the playing field of people who might, you know, otherwise be good leaders and make a great leader of the conservative party.

00:20:15.860 Well, of course, you're going to have pundits on the CBC trying to pressure the conservatives because Rose Bright Barton is not a conservative. 0.98

00:20:23.800 She hates the conservatives.

00:20:24.900 She has no interest in ever having a conservative person become prime minister because she's pretty open in her views.

00:20:31.160 She's definitely not on the political right. 0.97

00:20:33.840 And so because of that, why is she giving advice and lecturing conservatives saying you must speak French?

00:20:40.400 Well, I think that conservatives would be very well advised to completely ignore everything that Rosemary Barton has to say.

00:20:47.220 And frankly, ignore what the CBC is saying because they don't have the best interest in the party in mind.

00:20:52.520 It's not like she's advising conservatives because she wants them to win.

00:20:55.640 No, she hates conservatives. 0.99

00:20:57.340 She always emphasizes the negative aspects of conservatives.

00:21:00.560 She jumps to fact check conservatives while brushing over, you know, liberal talking points and allowing liberals to push lies. 1.00

00:21:07.340 Because she's not a reliable person and not a reliable reporter.

00:21:11.980 And so, again, conservatives should completely ignore what she has to say.

00:21:16.100 OK, final fake news is over at the Toronto Star.

00:21:18.960 It says, here's why a Stephen Harper loyalist regrets the tough on crime politics he once practiced.

00:21:25.240 This story is about Benjamin Perrin, who was once the prime minister's lawyer, prime minister Stephen Harper's lawyer in the conservative government.

00:21:32.320 So, 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,

00:21:41.920 where he, surprise, surprise, rails against conservatives and says he's had a total change of heart,

00:21:46.820 which is why the Toronto Star is plugging this piece.

00:21:50.000 He's talking about the safe injection sites or basically the location where the Canadian government taxpayers fund heroin needles going out to attics

00:22:00.280 because instead of actually trying to deal with the problem and treat them and stop the use,

00:22:05.360 instead 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.

00:22:12.720 So Benjamin Perrin used to sort of rail against these kind of policies, used to emphasize more on, you know, being tough on crime

00:22:19.300 and to stop the needles from getting on the street in the first place.

00:22:22.420 But now he's written a book and he wants to get love from the mainstream media.

00:22:26.440 He's turning on his former position.

00:22:28.260 You 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.

00:22:34.860 That's been proven time and time again.

00:22:37.200 Just look at Michael Corrin, who used to be a sort of draconian social conservative,

00:22:41.680 pushing, you know, the kind of furthest right positions that most conservatives just really never agreed with.

00:22:47.880 And then he has a total change of heart.

00:22:49.940 And now he gets to rail against conservatives saying, I used to do this.

00:22:53.300 I used to believe in this.

00:22:54.220 And now I've seen the light and I'm here to expose how evil conservatives are and were,

00:22:59.700 even though his former positions weren't really truly rooted in conservatism.

00:23:04.120 So, again, the Toronto Star just loves conservatives who are willing to bash other conservatives,

00:23:09.320 which is why it's fake news.

00:23:11.100 And there's another element of this story that is also fake news.

00:23:15.360 So Benjamin Perrin was involved in the Mike Duffy trial.

00:23:18.380 And this is the way that it was characterized in this Toronto Star piece.

00:23:22.520 It says he did eventually, however, go on to question some of what he experienced during his time in government,

00:23:27.420 perhaps most notably as a witness during the Mike Duffy trial.

00:23:31.500 Perrin parted ways with the line of his former colleagues in the prime minister's office,

00:23:35.060 testifying that Harper had been aware of the controversial $90,000 payoff to Duffy.

00:23:39.900 The PMO did not fare well in the ultimate verdict, with the judge dismissing all charges

00:23:45.720 and slamming the Harper operatives for mind-boggling and shocking tactics.

00:23:50.420 Well, this is not true.

00:23:51.760 This is not a representative.

00:23:53.300 This is not an accurate representative of what happened.

00:23:56.280 And Howard Anglin, who was also once in the prime minister's office,

00:24:01.180 he was the deputy chief of staff to the prime minister.

00:24:05.960 He says this, this can't go uncorrected, quote,

00:24:09.520 Perrin parted ways with the line of his former colleagues in the prime minister's office,

00:24:14.300 testifying that Harper had been aware of the controversial $90,000 payoff to Duffy.

00:24:18.680 Anglin notes that Perrin was acting as a lawyer in the PMO

00:24:22.420 when he negotiated the infamous payment to Duffy, according to his own testimony.

00:24:26.160 He never told the prime minister about the negotiation

00:24:28.440 and never sought the PM's approval for the payment.

00:24:31.760 What he testified is that he interpreted, and it turned out he misinterpreted,

00:24:36.860 an email from his superior as meaning the PM had approved the payment.

00:24:40.520 Contrary to what the article says, he did not testify that the PM knew about the payment

00:24:44.980 or the details of the payment scheme.

00:24:47.960 So, you know, that's a pretty minor detail, and it is kind of insider baseball.

00:24:51.240 But the idea that he's saying that he testified that the prime minister was lying,

00:24:54.580 when in fact he didn't testify that the prime minister was lying,

00:24:56.720 he testified that it was his understanding from an email that he interpreted

00:25:00.240 that it meant that Harper must have known about this payment,

00:25:03.000 but really he had just misinterpreted what the email was saying.

00:25:06.320 So, you know, never trust the mainstream media.

00:25:08.920 They're always going to try to make conservatives look bad. 0.82

00:25:10.920 They're always going to try to hype up every mistake and twist it

00:25:15.420 and make it seem a lot worse than it actually is.

00:25:17.560 And they're going to find any conservative that they can

00:25:20.400 who is willing to bash other conservatives,

00:25:22.660 because that's all they care about, and that's what they want to see.

00:25:24.740 They hate conservatives, they're anti-conservative,

00:25:26.420 and so they love to, you know, praise people like this

00:25:30.840 who are willing to turn on conservatism

00:25:33.440 and say that they had a change of heart and now they've seen the light.

00:25:36.520 All right, I am going to leave it at that.

00:25:38.140 Thank you so much for tuning in, and we will be back again next week.

00:25:41.020 Thank you so much for tuning in, and we will be back again next week.

Juno News - January 29, 2020

The Candice Malcolm Show： The woke left takes aim at the sport of hockey...again

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