Candice talks about the coronavirus and how it's spreading around the world, and how to fight it. She also talks about Canada's open borders, and Erin O'Toole's endorsement in the Conservative leadership race.
00:00:00.000The coronavirus tests Europe's open borders, but Justin Trudeau isn't too worried about it.
00:00:04.700Canadian asylum seekers are given 20-year golden plate healthcare cards, and Erin O'Toole gets a
00:00:10.160huge endorsement in the Conservative leadership race. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice
00:00:14.080Malcolm Show. Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program. We were offline last week,
00:00:23.880so sorry for not having a program, but we are back now, back in our studio in Toronto. You know,
00:00:29.040I went to a great event on Friday night. It was the Make-A-Wish Foundation dinner in the Bay Area
00:00:34.280in San Francisco. I know they have chapters all over Canada as well. It's just a really, really
00:00:39.360good cause. Basically what they do is children that have terminal illnesses, children that are
00:00:44.340diagnosed with cancer, which is really just the saddest thing imaginable, really, really trying
00:00:49.220situations. They go to those children in the hospital, and they offer them a wish, any wish
00:00:54.700to kind of give them hope, to give the family something to look forward to, and they fulfill
00:00:59.060those wishes. Anything from being able to meet their favorite athlete or celebrity or singer
00:01:04.660to going on a great family trip. Make-A-Wish Foundation has fulfilled over 500,000 wishes
00:01:10.840in its 40-year history. It's a really, really good cause, so I really encourage all of True North Nation
00:01:15.940to look into it, to get involved, and to do what you can to support it. I went to this event,
00:01:20.180and let me just say, it's really heartwarming, really moving to see the kind of stories that
00:01:25.340come out of this organization. It's a really good cause, so I encourage people to look into
00:01:29.780that. All right, there is a lot of news today, so let's get to it. I want to start by talking
00:01:33.940about the coronavirus. So this thing is really taking on a life of its own. I know people who
00:01:39.880watch the podcast, when the news first came out, I was a little bit skeptical of it. First
00:01:44.260of all, it was based in China. That was the origin of this disease. I don't trust anything
00:01:49.080that the Chinese government did. I think that they made major missteps with hiding information,
00:01:53.300with lying to the world about how they were dealing with this disease. And it's kind of
00:01:57.380interesting now, because now it's spread all over the world. It's really, really threatening
00:02:01.540a lot of people. It's scary, especially, you know, there's a target group that is at risk,
00:02:07.240and that is people who are over 65 and people with underlying health issues. Everyone knows someone
00:02:13.060who fits that category. Myself, you know, I'm worried about my parents traveling and being out in the
00:02:18.480community. My parents live in the North Shore in Vancouver, and there's been plenty of cases there.
00:02:22.700So, you know, they can't really go about their daily lives. They can't do the things that they
00:02:26.540were usually doing, just out of an abundance of precaution. And so, you know, it really has spread
00:02:31.900all over the world. And it's interesting, because now so many agencies are praising China and saying,
00:02:37.700you know, the world needs to do more of what China did. China is an authoritarian bad actor on the
00:02:42.740world stage. And they're really the reason why this thing has spread so out of control,
00:02:46.820because of all that misinformation right at the beginning. But let's go through some of these
00:02:51.780figures. So there have now been 111,753 cases globally of the coronavirus. There have been 3,888
00:03:02.780deaths. And out of all the people who have contracted this disease, 62,722 have recovered. So I guess the
00:03:11.860good news is that some people have recovered, and people are able to fight this, their immune systems
00:03:16.640are able to fight off coronavirus. So it's not, you know, totally deadly. But still, if you're in
00:03:21.640that risk group, it's pretty scary. And again, China just took absolute authoritarian measures. It's
00:03:27.220pretty easy for a communist dictatorship to just completely shut down mobility, to shut down any
00:03:33.500kind of freedom of travel within the Wuhan territory, which, you know, Wuhan is a big city.
00:03:38.040It's a city of 11 million people. That's the size of New York City. And they just completely shut down
00:03:43.480any kind of movement, any kind of travel. And, you know, if you're a communist Chinese government,
00:03:47.660you can do that. The problem is, you know, in free societies and democracies, we can't really do that.
00:03:54.160And especially so many of the democracies that are now struggling with coronavirus are countries
00:03:59.300that have always kind of prided themselves on their open border outlook. And that's particularly
00:04:03.480in Europe. You know, the European Union, the whole concept is free movement of people,
00:04:07.660free movement of goods. But of course, when you come to a global pandemic like this,
00:04:12.380it really, really tests that philosophy and that ideology to have free movement. And they're
00:04:17.760struggling with this right now in Italy, because, you know, Italy has a huge outbreak in Northern
00:04:23.340Italy. This is sort of the most productive part of the Italian, of the countries, sort of the engine
00:04:29.400of the Italian economy. And some 17 million people are under quarantine. And, you know, they're supposed
00:04:36.640to be taking after China. But of course, Italy is no China. So this is from a Quartz article. It says
00:04:44.080up to 16 million people have been placed under quarantine in Northern Italy in a bid by the
00:04:48.440government to stop the march of coronavirus across Europe's hardest hitting region. Italy has seen the
00:04:54.360largest number of coronavirus cases in Europe and reported a steep rise in infections on Saturday.
00:04:59.460According to Johns Hopkins, the number of confirmed cases jumped by more than 1,200 to 5,883 on Saturday
00:05:07.300with 233 deaths. The World Health Organization has applauded China's strict containment measures
00:05:13.780in a country where state control is paramount and monitoring citizens is already integral part of
00:05:18.840life. Scrupulous quarantine and testing measures have slowed the spread of the virus. As in China,
00:05:24.680this article goes on, it says, but Italy is no China. Italians are better known for flouting rules than
00:05:30.360following them. Some citizens say it will never work in Italy, says a 26-year-old local resident of the
00:05:37.360band to the New York Times last night. People will run away. They'll go around it. And that's basically what
00:05:41.640has happened. They issued a strict warning. But people continue to go about their daily life. They continue to get on
00:05:47.280trains, to travel, to drive, to go about their daily lives, because it's really hard to just tell people in a
00:05:53.100free society, hey, you can't go out. You can't go grocery shopping. You can't run your business. You
00:05:57.220can't travel to get to work or go see your family. I mean, democracies just don't really work that way. And
00:06:02.740again, Europe, the whole concept is based on this kind of free flow, free movement. So that's pretty
00:06:07.820concerning. It's in Italy, but it's not going to stay in Italy. And as soon as it goes beyond and
00:06:13.640stretches throughout Europe, then it's really, really going to spread around the world. I mean, it kind of
00:06:18.020already has. There's plenty of cases already in Canada and the United States. So the total cases
00:06:23.320in Canada right now are 62. That includes 31 cases in Ontario, 27 in British Columbia, three in Quebec,
00:06:30.540and one in Alberta. And the Canadian government, they're kind of just shrugging their shoulders
00:06:34.500about it. I'm just really floored by the response by the Canadian government. I know Justin Trader just
00:06:40.260doesn't really care about Canada. He just seems so checked out. Whenever there's an issue, whenever
00:06:44.540there's a major crisis, something that I would consider a huge crisis, whether it's illegal border
00:06:49.000crossings, the total surge, we've never seen this many people crossing into Canada illegally. 2019 was
00:06:54.620the biggest year. The media doesn't really talk about it. Trudeau doesn't really care. You had the
00:06:58.560blockades totally grinding the Canadian economy to the halt. Trudeau's response was, hey guys, we need
00:07:04.820dialogue. No, you don't need dialogue. Look, maybe you have a dialogue when the decision for the pipeline
00:07:10.900is still being made. But once the decision is made, the dialogue is over. The decision's been made.
00:07:16.220And then people go and break the law by blocking railways. That's not a time for dialogue. That's
00:07:20.180a time to arrest people. That's a time for the police to move in, for the military to move in.
00:07:24.580Justin Trudeau just doesn't really care. And this is kind of more of the same when it comes to Trudeau
00:07:29.440kind of having a blasé approach. So this is what Justin Trudeau says.
00:07:34.300We know that keeping Canadians safe needs to be done in the right way. And we're going to keep
00:07:39.540doing things that actively keep Canadians safe. There is a lot of misinformation out there. There's
00:07:45.680a lot of knee-jerk reaction that isn't keeping people safe. That is having a real challenging
00:07:51.140impact on communities, on community safety, said Justin Trudeau. So again, Justin Trudeau is more
00:07:56.440concerned about misinformation and stopping a knee-jerk reaction than actually keeping Canadians safe.
00:08:03.020He appointed Chrystia Freeland to sort of be the head person to take the lead on this issue. Because
00:08:08.680again, Justin Trudeau doesn't really care about Canada. So he just kind of offloads all of the
00:08:12.720real like prime minister stuff, all the responsibility onto Chrystia Freeland, who at this
00:08:17.120point essentially is the prime minister of Canada. You know, it's kind of interesting because in the
00:08:21.560United States, just to compare the two situations, Donald Trump appointed his VP, Mike Pence, to be
00:08:27.340the head person, the sort of czar on the coronavirus to lead the task force. And the media made a huge
00:08:32.980deal about it. They were kind of saying, hey, look, Trump's putting this on Pence. He wants Pence to
00:08:37.680take the fall. This is clearly going to go sideways. This pandemic is going to hit the United States.
00:08:41.980Trump's going to blame it all on Pence. And they kind of made a big deal about how this was a way
00:08:45.660for Trump to kind of get rid of Pence so he could put someone else on the ticket in 2020.
00:08:50.340That's total nonsense. Trump even addressed it to say that's total nonsense. But for all the hay that
00:08:55.100was made in the United States, Justin Trudeau did the exact same thing. He literally just
00:08:58.960appointed to his number two, the deputy prime minister. And the narrative by the media was
00:09:03.420totally different. It was like, wow, Justin Trudeau just trusts Chrystia Freeland so much.
00:09:08.600He puts so much trust in her. She's so respected. Nothing about how, you know, she's going to be
00:09:14.020the fall person on this. So Chrystia Freeland takes the lead. And the government created a COVID-19
00:09:20.260committee. COVID-19 is what is the technical name for the coronavirus. So the fact that the government
00:09:25.000created a committee to just to deal with this as a task force to react and to deal with this
00:09:30.820signals that they care about it, right? The kind of entire exercise is a PR response. Like, hey, look,
00:09:36.740the government's doing something. They're creating a task force. Rest assured, Canadians, you know,
00:09:42.440the government is doing something. But then as the head of this COVID-19 committee, Chrystia Freeland
00:09:47.700comes out and she tells reporters that the government wants to take a Goldilocks approach. She says,
00:09:53.380not too hot, not too cold, but just right. Okay. The entire point of creating a committee is to
00:10:00.700signal to Canadians that you're doing something, that you are taking the right approach, that you're
00:10:04.560taking it seriously, and that you're going to do what you can to help prevent or at least contain
00:10:09.240the spread of this virus. So coming out and saying, you know what, we don't want to overreact.
00:10:13.500We don't want to underreact. We're just going to find the just right route. This is a total wrong
00:10:18.480message to send to Canadians. Even if that's sort of the approach that you're going to take kind of
00:10:22.840behind closed doors, the thing you want to come out and tell Canadians is, look, we are doing
00:10:26.760everything we can. We know this is serious. We know that a lot of people are going to lose their
00:10:31.440lives if this is not dealt with properly. Look at China. Even though China took very
00:10:37.840authoritarian measures, apparently China did all the right things, but yet still globally,
00:10:41.360we have nearly 4,000 deaths. So, you know, instead of saying we want to prevent death,
00:10:46.320we're going to do everything we can to prevent loss of life in Canada. This is the top priority
00:10:49.900of our government. That's what Canadians want to hear, that the government is really,
00:10:53.820really taking it seriously. Canadians don't want to hear from the head of a task force created
00:10:57.720to basically ease fears around this issue that, you know, we don't want to overreact. You know,
00:11:03.360the main concern is that we don't want knee-jerk reactions. We don't want misinformation out
00:11:07.940there. No, I think that the message coming from the Canadian government should be, look,
00:11:11.540we're going to do everything we can. We want everyone out there to be cautious, to do what they can
00:11:16.520to stop the spread of this disease. You know, if you're traveling internationally,
00:11:21.040be careful. When you come home, make sure that you're not interacting with too many people. When
00:11:25.280you're out on the plane, make sure you're not interacting. Like, you know, give strict, strict
00:11:28.420message to Canadians, strict guidelines about what you should and shouldn't do. Instead, we have
00:11:33.500the Canadian government just saying, you know, we're not really going to do much. And the health
00:11:37.760minister kind of goes even beyond that. The health minister, Patty Hadju, was on 680 News in
00:11:43.300Toronto. And she tells them that the more countries that have outbreaks, the less relevant borders
00:11:49.680become. A virus knows no borders. So fine, that's true on the surface. But, you know, countries are
00:11:57.220the ones that are responsible for reacting. And as the person, the health minister in Canada,
00:12:02.860you don't want them, again, to just sort of shrug their shoulders and say, well, borders don't really
00:12:06.380matter. So we can't really stop and contain this. No, borders do matter, especially in a country like
00:12:10.560Canada that has a sort of natural advantage, in that we're separated from the rest of the world
00:12:15.280by vast oceans. All we really have to do is control our airport and our land border, which is fairly
00:12:20.920easy compared to, say, what's happening in Italy, or how the virus spread, say, from China to Iran,
00:12:27.600because the two countries do so much business together. All Canada has to do is secure their
00:12:31.960airports. But we don't. We don't have any restrictions on flying. We have people coming in from China,
00:12:36.960people coming in from Iran on a daily basis with no quarantine measures. I flew over the weekend. I
00:12:43.800flew from California to Toronto on Saturday. I saw nothing at the Toronto airport. Pearson airport had
00:12:50.500no kind of, you know, health, there are no health officials there, going through customs, going through
00:12:55.760security. You know, there was, there was just, there was nothing. There was no one there even,
00:13:00.660you know, checking to see if people were coughing and sneezing in that border lineup. So Canada is
00:13:05.180literally just doing nothing, telling people to kind of handle it on their own. And we have our
00:13:09.540own health minister sort of shrugging and saying, well, there's no borders. There's no borders when,
00:13:14.840you know, borders are irrelevant when there's outbreaks like this. That is a defeatist attitude.
00:13:20.260And again, not what you expect. So once again, the Trudeau government is just totally failing when it
00:13:26.160comes to keeping Canadians safe and taking the lead. And meanwhile, this is what the WHO says. The WHO,
00:13:33.740the World Health Organization, has urged governments to take decisive action to halt the spread of an
00:13:39.880epidemic that has infected more than 100,000 people around the world, citing China's containment
00:13:44.420measures. So again, even global authorities, global bodies are saying everyone around the world should
00:13:50.080be a little bit more authoritarian. Meanwhile, Canada is just sort of shrugging its shoulders.
00:13:55.160Iran, as I mentioned, is another country that's been really hard hit by this. And I think this just
00:14:00.400goes to exemplify what a crappy country Iran is, what a really, really lousy place it is. It is an
00:14:06.700Islamist dictatorship. There is absolutely no freedom in this country. It is just a horrible
00:14:11.040place to live. So an investigative journalist that I follow on Twitter, he's really, really good. His
00:14:15.680name is Heshmat Alavi. He has a thread on how Iran is just totally botching the reaction to the
00:14:21.860coronavirus. And it's just this, you know, this is sort of like what the reality is of living in a
00:14:27.440tyrannical state, living in an Islamic dictatorship like Iran, the kinds of things that they do. They
00:14:33.020just, they're just so clueless and so evil, so vicious in how they respond to this. So one of
00:14:40.320the things that they were doing, basically, they're kind of profiting off of the coronavirus. They're
00:14:44.700trying to profit while also trying to downplay it and sort of getting help. You know, the World
00:14:49.240Health Organization is again, kind of applauding Iran. They said that they were doing positive work
00:14:54.380and that they've made amazing advances in dealing with coronavirus. Meanwhile, a member of Iran's
00:15:01.340National Influenza Committee said that they're estimating that 30 to 40 percent of Tehran's
00:15:06.920population will be affected by COVID-19 by March 20th. So that's within two weeks, 30 to 40 percent of
00:15:14.520a city with a population of 12 million people. So we're really talking about a major outbreak. That's
00:15:19.840not now. That's just what the estimates are. There's all kinds of footage of just how horribly the
00:15:24.900government has been handling, even just dealing with bodies of people who have passed away, sort
00:15:30.940of throwing them into mass graves, which is just a terrible way to deal with a, you know, a body,
00:15:38.080but also very dangerous when you're talking about people who have perished because of this disease.
00:15:43.480They also were showing how the government was selling supposedly antibacterial sprays that they
00:15:52.060were selling in stores. It turns out that they were basically air fresheners. They were just air
00:15:56.680fresheners with a label that the government had put over top of it to say antibacterial sprays. You
00:16:01.240could kind of just peel it off and realize that it was nothing but an air freshener. So again, this is
00:16:07.600the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is their military, basically profiting off
00:16:14.860of selling people air fresheners instead of antibacterial sprays. So this is just a reminder
00:16:20.160of, you know, the worst possible reaction, an incompetent totalitarian government showing you,
00:16:26.280you know, what you don't want to do with corona. And again, the reason that so many people in Iran
00:16:31.520are being affected by this disease is because Iran, basically no Western country will do business
00:16:36.680with Iran. Iran is a terrorist state. So the only country that will do business with them is China.
00:16:41.020So the early measures when a lot of countries were stopping flights from China, Iran wasn't doing
00:16:45.900that. So even members of their government, high ranking officials in the Iranian regime fell victim
00:16:51.420to coronavirus and themselves, a deputy health minister contracted the disease. So it's really just
00:16:57.740running rampant over there. Pretty scary stuff for people who live in Iran. All right. And speaking of
00:17:05.040open borders and the total lack of control over borders, there was an exclusive in the Toronto Sun,
00:17:12.000I broke the story. It is about how illegal border crossers and asylum claimants whose cases have not
00:17:17.340even been heard in front of an immigration judge are being granted 20 year health cards, 20 year all access
00:17:24.940cards to gold plated health care services above and beyond what Canadians receive. So this is including
00:17:31.140anything under the Canada Health Act, any health care services, as well as full dental coverage,
00:17:36.320which Canadians either pay for through their employer and insurance or right out of pocket
00:17:40.180and prescription drugs. They get free unlimited prescription drugs. This is all part of a program
00:17:46.600called the Interim Federal Health Care Program. But what is new is that we didn't know that the
00:17:51.700government was issuing 20 year cards. I mean, the whole point of being a refugee is that you come,
00:17:58.520you become a refugee, you maybe get the Interim Federal Health Program while you're waiting for,
00:18:03.940you know, your papers to come in, your paperwork, all that kind of stuff until you can become a
00:18:09.360permanent resident and then a citizen. And then once you're a citizen, you're no longer a refugee,
00:18:13.380you're now just a Canadian. So why on earth is the government issuing a 20 year card? So I talked to
00:18:20.780a whistleblower who works at a medical office in York region. This person's a medical assistant and they
00:18:26.940spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, but they did provide a lot of supporting documentation to
00:18:32.340back up the claims. And basically what I saw was certificates issued by the government that said 20
00:18:38.060years. So they were issued in February 2020 and they expire in February 2040. And so this whistleblower
00:18:45.420was basically just really concerned because they'd never seen this before and they didn't really
00:18:50.520understand why a person who has crossed into Canada illegally, someone who's not even deemed a
00:18:55.580refugee yet. They haven't even had their case heard why they are being given health care coverage
00:19:01.360above and beyond what Canadians receive, not just Canadians, better health care than veterans,
00:19:06.460better health care than people in Indigenous communities, better health care than the elderly,
00:19:11.060than homeless people, than single mothers, better than anybody. Why are they given this? One of the
00:19:17.300examples of the documents that I saw was issued to an Iranian woman who was in her 70s and she had just
00:19:23.120arrived in Canada, just made her refugee claim. And again, she was given a 20-year certificate. So
00:19:28.060presumably for the rest of her life, she's going to be able to receive that gold-plated health care
00:19:34.660in Canada that Canadians are not entitled to. So on the, on the certificate, on the document, it says
00:19:41.620the above named individual is eligible for coverage of health care costs under the interim federal health
00:19:46.940program. This coverage can be cancelled without notice if the individual's immigration status changes.
00:19:51.760So according to the form, it kind of says, well, this is what they get until the status changes and then
00:19:56.680this gets taken away. But in practice, we know the interim federal health program has become a
00:20:02.000political punching bag in Canadian politics over the last few years. The previous Harper conservative
00:20:07.760government, so before Trudeau was Harper, and he made changes to the interim federal health program.
00:20:13.440He basically tried to limit it so that people whose asylum claims were rejected or people who arrived and
00:20:19.880made asylum claims in Canada, but were from like safe European countries or just safe countries, the United
00:20:24.460States, Western Europe, they didn't get access to this. So this was only reserved for true refugees. Well, the
00:20:31.000media and the Trudeau liberals spun that to make it say that the Harper government was trying to cut health care for
00:20:38.760refugees, even though the people they were cutting were explicitly not refugees. A federal court ruled in favor of that sort of
00:20:45.880left-wing perspective, the liberal point of view. And a federal judge said that it was cruel and unusual, it's a quote, cruel and unusual
00:20:54.200for the government to withhold this free health care to illegal immigrants. So they scrapped the program. And then when the Trudeau
00:21:01.400liberals came in, they made all kinds of changes to the refugee determination program to make it a lot more generous, a lot more easy, a lot easier for refugees to come and make claims and get the free health care.
00:21:12.360So, you know, even though the form says that this, the interim federal health program can be taken away, if the person's immigration
00:21:20.040status changes, we know that in practice, the Trudeau government will not take it away, because they accused the Trudeau, they accused the Harper government
00:21:27.560of being cruel for taking this away. So basically, what's supposed to be a temporary program, what's supposed to be a limited program,
00:21:35.640is the opposite. 20 years is not temporary. And the whole idea that it's limited is not true, because it literally includes all the kind of health care,
00:21:43.320including things that Canadians are not eligible. So I think it's a big story. I reached out to the government and basically asked, like, what's going on?
00:21:51.560Is this new? When did this come about? And I received several responses from them saying, look, we're working on this. We're going to get you an answer.
00:21:58.920We're going to figure something out. And then they just never got back to me. They never they never gave me a response.
00:22:03.160They never gave me an explanation about this. I think Canadians deserve an explanation, because why is it that a person who might not even
00:22:10.360have a real claim to be a refugee just because someone says they're a refugee, they actually have to prove it.
00:22:15.080The whole point of our system is that you have to provide evidence and prove to an immigration judge that you are, in fact, a refugee,
00:22:21.720that you do face a well-founded fear of persecution. And the people who are being given the health care,
00:22:27.240the gold-plated 20-year access health care cards, haven't proven that yet. So why is it that foreign
00:22:32.520foreign nationals, people who are not permanent residents, not citizens, are getting a lot better
00:22:36.920health care than people who pay into the system? I think it's a big, big story. And I wish that the
00:22:41.400mainstream media would pay attention to these kind of things, because I think that Canadians really, really
00:22:46.040care about them. All right, moving on, let's talk conservative leadership race. So there's, I think there's
00:22:51.560basically a new frontrunner in the race now. The media were really trying to paint Peter McKay as
00:22:57.160sort of the heir apparent of this party, the person who kind of deserves to be the title. And they really,
00:23:02.680really do paint him as a frontrunner, even though, to be completely frank, he's running a very lousy
00:23:07.080campaign. Like any time he takes a stance on an issue, give him like 24 hours and he will reverse
00:23:12.360it. This has happened over and over and over again with Peter McKay. He now says that he regrets. A big
00:23:18.280comment that Peter McKay made right after the election is that he said that Andrew Scheer's
00:23:22.680social values hung around his neck like a stinking albatross during the campaign. Well,
00:23:27.560he now says that he regrets that comment. He said that he was not happy with his own team for tweeting
00:23:34.120out pictures, a video teasing Justin Trudeau over his yoga expenses. So he really quickly, you know,
00:23:41.400tweeted it out and then backtracked on it. And he backtracked on his position about the Israel
00:23:46.440embassy being in Jerusalem. You know, he basically said in an interview that he didn't think that
00:23:51.480he would keep it there or he didn't think he would move it there. And then after some pressure,
00:23:55.480he changed his mind and said he would. So Peter McKay is just all over the place. He doesn't know what
00:23:58.920he believes in. His team is saying one thing and he's sort of saying something else. And Aaron O'Toole
00:24:04.280really is emerging as a frontrunner. As a conservative, Aaron O'Toole is kind of hitting all the right notes.
00:24:10.120And he's really, really painted himself as a, you know, true blue to quote Jason Kenney, a true blue
00:24:16.600conservative. And that's why he has now received the endorsement of Jason Kenney. I think at this
00:24:22.600point, you know, Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, the two of them are probably the most influential
00:24:27.080conservatives in Canada right now. Jason Kenney even more so because Stephen Harper is not in an
00:24:32.120office right now, whereas Jason Kenney is the premier of Alberta. So he endorsed Aaron O'Toole last week.
00:24:38.680He publicly endorsed O'Toole's conservative leadership bid in an email to conservative
00:24:42.760party of Canada members. In the letter, Kenney embraced O'Toole as a true blue leader party needs.
00:24:48.840I saw his passion for serving veterans, his relentless work ethic and his common sense in solving
00:24:55.720difficult political challenges. Kenny wrote of O'Toole. That's the leadership we need. Aaron O'Toole
00:25:01.000respects the breadth of our big tent coalition. Every conservative would be welcome in a party led by
00:25:07.000Aaron. Now, this is just kind of interesting. I'll just make this point quickly. But Jason
00:25:11.880Kenney was publicly saying that he wanted Ronna Ambrose to be leader of the party. He was encouraging
00:25:16.760her to jump in and publicly talking about it. Then she kind of ruled it out. Next, all of a sudden,
00:25:22.120he was publicly calling on John Baird. John Baird should get in the race. John Baird should be leader.
00:25:27.000John Baird didn't get in the race. So we're kind of down to like, you know, two front runners,
00:25:31.000Aaron O'Toole and Peter McKay. And so Jason Kenney is like, okay, you know, now that no one else is
00:25:36.760going to be running, now that all the other people that I was trying to call on and trying to get into
00:25:41.400the race, now that none of them are doing it, Aaron O'Toole is the true blue. He's the leader
00:25:45.800that we need. This is kind of like a consolation endorsement, but it will still give Aaron O'Toole a
00:25:50.520boost. I think a lot of people in the conservative party and the conservative movement do look to
00:25:54.280Jason Kenney as sort of one of those visionary leaders. You know, there's people in politics who are
00:25:58.920just politicians because that's the job that they want. They want to be prime minister. They
00:26:03.640want to be an MP because they think it'd be a fun job or it's just a job that they want.
00:26:07.720And then there's others who have a vision and have a message and really want to implement change.
00:26:12.760I think Jason Kenney is one of those sort of conviction politicians. And so if he's pointing
00:26:17.240to Aaron O'Toole and saying, you know, this is the guy that can lead our party and lead our movement,
00:26:21.480I think a lot of people are going to listen to that. So yeah, that gives Aaron O'Toole a big boost.
00:26:26.200You know, the first deadline has passed. So we have the only people that are left in the race are
00:26:30.600people who have jumped past the first hurdle of raising a certain amount of money and collecting
00:26:34.440signatures. There will be another cutoff in a couple of weeks. And I think it's possible that
00:26:39.240it'll just be O'Toole and McKay at that point. And in the head to head between those two, again,
00:26:44.600the Jason Kenney endorsement will really help Aaron O'Toole. All right, one more story I want to
00:26:48.840talk to you about on the podcast. You know, math is just so hard. Economics is just so confusing
00:26:54.920sometimes. And, you know, if you're on the left, you don't really think about that kind of stuff.
00:26:59.000You don't think about math. You don't think about economics. You just, you just think about your
00:27:02.600feelings and how you feel about things. So this is an example that really, really, really shows
00:27:08.840how little people think. You know, the people that you watch on television, the pundits, the news
00:27:13.240anchors, the hosts that you watch on television, you kind of trust that they, you know, at least have
00:27:18.520given something a little bit of thought. You know, they've at least thought about something a little bit
00:27:22.440before they come to you on live television to tell you their opinion, to tell you why
00:27:26.280they're right about something. Well, this is just a reminder to all of us that some of the people
00:27:30.680on TV just don't think. They really don't think. They really don't think. They don't use their minds.
00:27:35.800So Brian Williams, a host of MSNBC, a pretty respected longtime journalist. I know he's had some
00:27:40.920issues, but a lot of people still respect him. He sat down with New York Times editorial board member,
00:27:47.080Maragay. And they wanted to talk about Michael Bloomberg's campaign. Bloomberg was running for
00:27:52.840the Democrats to become the presidential nominee. He dropped out after Super Tuesday after a pretty
00:27:57.640dismal, dismal placing despite spending, I think he spent $500 million on his campaign,
00:28:04.040which is a heck of a lot of money to not really do anything. I think the only delegates that he got
00:28:08.920were from American Samoa and American Samoans don't even vote in the actual election. So it was a
00:28:14.840really, really dismal performance by Michael Bloomberg. It was because his debate performance
00:28:19.640was just so awful. Anyways, these two, you know, brilliant, you know, these two coastal elites
00:28:28.840with probably fancy university degrees were talking about how Michael Bloomberg had misspent his money.
00:28:35.320So let's let's just play this clip for you. But you see it as a possibility if he wants to spend a
00:28:40.040billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it. Absolutely. Somebody tweeted recently that
00:28:47.400actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars.
00:28:51.000I've got it. Let's put it up on the screen. When I read it tonight on social media,
00:28:56.600it kind of all became clear. Bloomberg spent 500 million on ads, U.S. population 327 million.
00:29:03.480Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math. He could have given each American
00:29:06.840one million dollars and have had lunch money left over. It's an incredible way of putting it.
00:29:13.560It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true. It's disturbing. It does. It does suggest,
00:29:19.000you know, what we're talking about here, which is there's too much money in politics.
00:29:23.000It is incredible. You know, it's true. It's disturbing. No. Okay. These people,
00:29:27.480it just, it's so mind boggling. You know, okay. First of all, of course, you know,
00:29:31.080Michael Bloomberg spent $500 million. There's 300 million Americans. That's not a million dollars each.
00:29:35.560That's a dollar each. There's a dollar 50 each. Okay. That's just a really, really basic, basic math.
00:29:40.040If you have a thousand dollars for a thousand people, that's a dollar each, right? If you have
00:29:44.440a million dollars for a million people, that's a dollar each. So if you had 500 million dollars
00:29:49.400for 330 million Americans, how on earth is that a million dollars each? It's just so mind boggling
00:29:55.080that this got through on air. You kind of think of how many people would have had to see this tweet
00:30:00.280and just not even been able to compute the basic math. You know, there was a person who sent out
00:30:04.760the tweet in the first place who later doubled down on it, by the way. This person, her name,
00:30:11.480you know, this, this wasn't someone who was making a joke. This person's called Makita Reves.
00:30:16.120She contributes to the Washington Post. And so she tweeted out completely unironically and then later
00:30:21.880tweeted out, blah, blah, math, blah, blah. People are telling me my numbers are wrong, but the point
00:30:26.440still stands. He could have easily afforded to give everyone a million dollars and literally never
00:30:30.520noticed. Again, no, that's not true. That's not true. Michael Bloomberg is worth about 50 billion
00:30:35.880dollars. If he had given, if he wanted to give his entire net worth away distributed across all of
00:30:41.320Americans, it would be like a hundred dollars each. It wouldn't be a million dollars. So no,
00:30:45.560the point doesn't still stand. So this person put out the tweet. Enough people retweeted it
00:30:49.880that when the host, Brian Williams, and this New York Times correspondent saw it,
00:30:53.880they didn't immediately see that it was debunked. They didn't know that it was wrong.
00:30:58.520Enough people were tweeting it that they thought it was right. They brought it to the show. You know,
00:31:02.680you have producers, you have editors, you have camera people. You have so many people that would
00:31:07.160be part of this show before it went to air. And no one flagged the point that they were off by a
00:31:12.840factor. You know, the decimal point was off by what? Five zeros. They were off by five zeros here.
00:31:19.080And just no one over at MSNBC, no one at the New York Times editorial board had any clue. So again,
00:31:26.120this is an epic fail. On behalf of the left, it really kind of gives you an insight into how
00:31:30.920people on the left think. They really don't care about numbers. They don't care about math. This is
00:31:34.600why no one on the Democrat side, their platforms don't come anywhere near adding up. This is how Bernie
00:31:40.040Sanders can get away with a proposal to spend more money in his proposal than the entire economy in the
00:31:47.400United States. I think someone tallied up all his plans and it worked out to about 40 trillion dollars
00:31:53.080over a decade. By comparison, the U.S. GDP, the total amount of money in the entire economy is about
00:31:59.48020 trillion dollars. So, you know, Democrats, people on the left have no care about how much money they
00:32:05.960spend. Numbers don't really matter to them. Doesn't really add up. You could say the exact same thing about
00:32:10.520the Trudeau liberals here in Canada. Hence why Justin Trudeau said that budgets were going to balance
00:32:15.400themselves and he said that he was going to have 10 billion dollar deficits which we know they've
00:32:19.560spiraled out of control over the last five years. So, never trust anyone on the left when they're
00:32:24.360talking about numbers because they just don't know how to do math. All right, I'm going to leave
00:32:27.960it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.