Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： Trudeau isn't too worried about the coronavirus

00:00:00.000 The coronavirus tests Europe's open borders, but Justin Trudeau isn't too worried about it.

00:00:04.700 Canadian asylum seekers are given 20-year golden plate healthcare cards, and Erin O'Toole gets a

00:00:10.160 huge endorsement in the Conservative leadership race. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice

00:00:14.080 Malcolm Show. Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program. We were offline last week,

00:00:23.880 so sorry for not having a program, but we are back now, back in our studio in Toronto. You know,

00:00:29.040 I went to a great event on Friday night. It was the Make-A-Wish Foundation dinner in the Bay Area

00:00:34.280 in San Francisco. I know they have chapters all over Canada as well. It's just a really, really

00:00:39.360 good cause. Basically what they do is children that have terminal illnesses, children that are

00:00:44.340 diagnosed with cancer, which is really just the saddest thing imaginable, really, really trying

00:00:49.220 situations. They go to those children in the hospital, and they offer them a wish, any wish

00:00:54.700 to kind of give them hope, to give the family something to look forward to, and they fulfill

00:00:59.060 those wishes. Anything from being able to meet their favorite athlete or celebrity or singer

00:01:04.660 to going on a great family trip. Make-A-Wish Foundation has fulfilled over 500,000 wishes

00:01:10.840 in its 40-year history. It's a really, really good cause, so I really encourage all of True North Nation

00:01:15.940 to look into it, to get involved, and to do what you can to support it. I went to this event,

00:01:20.180 and let me just say, it's really heartwarming, really moving to see the kind of stories that

00:01:25.340 come out of this organization. It's a really good cause, so I encourage people to look into

00:01:29.780 that. All right, there is a lot of news today, so let's get to it. I want to start by talking

00:01:33.940 about the coronavirus. So this thing is really taking on a life of its own. I know people who

00:01:39.880 watch the podcast, when the news first came out, I was a little bit skeptical of it. First

00:01:44.260 of all, it was based in China. That was the origin of this disease. I don't trust anything 1.00

00:01:49.080 that the Chinese government did. I think that they made major missteps with hiding information,

00:01:53.300 with lying to the world about how they were dealing with this disease. And it's kind of

00:01:57.380 interesting now, because now it's spread all over the world. It's really, really threatening

00:02:01.540 a lot of people. It's scary, especially, you know, there's a target group that is at risk,

00:02:07.240 and that is people who are over 65 and people with underlying health issues. Everyone knows someone

00:02:13.060 who fits that category. Myself, you know, I'm worried about my parents traveling and being out in the

00:02:18.480 community. My parents live in the North Shore in Vancouver, and there's been plenty of cases there.

00:02:22.700 So, you know, they can't really go about their daily lives. They can't do the things that they

00:02:26.540 were usually doing, just out of an abundance of precaution. And so, you know, it really has spread

00:02:31.900 all over the world. And it's interesting, because now so many agencies are praising China and saying,

00:02:37.700 you know, the world needs to do more of what China did. China is an authoritarian bad actor on the

00:02:42.740 world stage. And they're really the reason why this thing has spread so out of control,

00:02:46.820 because of all that misinformation right at the beginning. But let's go through some of these

00:02:51.780 figures. So there have now been 111,753 cases globally of the coronavirus. There have been 3,888

00:03:02.780 deaths. And out of all the people who have contracted this disease, 62,722 have recovered. So I guess the

00:03:11.860 good news is that some people have recovered, and people are able to fight this, their immune systems

00:03:16.640 are able to fight off coronavirus. So it's not, you know, totally deadly. But still, if you're in

00:03:21.640 that risk group, it's pretty scary. And again, China just took absolute authoritarian measures. It's

00:03:27.220 pretty easy for a communist dictatorship to just completely shut down mobility, to shut down any

00:03:33.500 kind of freedom of travel within the Wuhan territory, which, you know, Wuhan is a big city.

00:03:38.040 It's a city of 11 million people. That's the size of New York City. And they just completely shut down

00:03:43.480 any kind of movement, any kind of travel. And, you know, if you're a communist Chinese government,

00:03:47.660 you can do that. The problem is, you know, in free societies and democracies, we can't really do that.

00:03:54.160 And especially so many of the democracies that are now struggling with coronavirus are countries

00:03:59.300 that have always kind of prided themselves on their open border outlook. And that's particularly

00:04:03.480 in Europe. You know, the European Union, the whole concept is free movement of people,

00:04:07.660 free movement of goods. But of course, when you come to a global pandemic like this,

00:04:12.380 it really, really tests that philosophy and that ideology to have free movement. And they're

00:04:17.760 struggling with this right now in Italy, because, you know, Italy has a huge outbreak in Northern

00:04:23.340 Italy. This is sort of the most productive part of the Italian, of the countries, sort of the engine

00:04:29.400 of the Italian economy. And some 17 million people are under quarantine. And, you know, they're supposed

00:04:36.640 to be taking after China. But of course, Italy is no China. So this is from a Quartz article. It says

00:04:44.080 up to 16 million people have been placed under quarantine in Northern Italy in a bid by the

00:04:48.440 government to stop the march of coronavirus across Europe's hardest hitting region. Italy has seen the

00:04:54.360 largest number of coronavirus cases in Europe and reported a steep rise in infections on Saturday.

00:04:59.460 According to Johns Hopkins, the number of confirmed cases jumped by more than 1,200 to 5,883 on Saturday

00:05:07.300 with 233 deaths. The World Health Organization has applauded China's strict containment measures

00:05:13.780 in a country where state control is paramount and monitoring citizens is already integral part of

00:05:18.840 life. Scrupulous quarantine and testing measures have slowed the spread of the virus. As in China,

00:05:24.680 this article goes on, it says, but Italy is no China. Italians are better known for flouting rules than 1.00

00:05:30.360 following them. Some citizens say it will never work in Italy, says a 26-year-old local resident of the

00:05:37.360 band to the New York Times last night. People will run away. They'll go around it. And that's basically what

00:05:41.640 has happened. They issued a strict warning. But people continue to go about their daily life. They continue to get on

00:05:47.280 trains, to travel, to drive, to go about their daily lives, because it's really hard to just tell people in a

00:05:53.100 free society, hey, you can't go out. You can't go grocery shopping. You can't run your business. You

00:05:57.220 can't travel to get to work or go see your family. I mean, democracies just don't really work that way. And

00:06:02.740 again, Europe, the whole concept is based on this kind of free flow, free movement. So that's pretty

00:06:07.820 concerning. It's in Italy, but it's not going to stay in Italy. And as soon as it goes beyond and

00:06:13.640 stretches throughout Europe, then it's really, really going to spread around the world. I mean, it kind of

00:06:18.020 already has. There's plenty of cases already in Canada and the United States. So the total cases

00:06:23.320 in Canada right now are 62. That includes 31 cases in Ontario, 27 in British Columbia, three in Quebec,

00:06:30.540 and one in Alberta. And the Canadian government, they're kind of just shrugging their shoulders

00:06:34.500 about it. I'm just really floored by the response by the Canadian government. I know Justin Trader just

00:06:40.260 doesn't really care about Canada. He just seems so checked out. Whenever there's an issue, whenever

00:06:44.540 there's a major crisis, something that I would consider a huge crisis, whether it's illegal border

00:06:49.000 crossings, the total surge, we've never seen this many people crossing into Canada illegally. 2019 was

00:06:54.620 the biggest year. The media doesn't really talk about it. Trudeau doesn't really care. You had the

00:06:58.560 blockades totally grinding the Canadian economy to the halt. Trudeau's response was, hey guys, we need

00:07:04.820 dialogue. No, you don't need dialogue. Look, maybe you have a dialogue when the decision for the pipeline

00:07:10.900 is still being made. But once the decision is made, the dialogue is over. The decision's been made.

00:07:16.220 And then people go and break the law by blocking railways. That's not a time for dialogue. That's

00:07:20.180 a time to arrest people. That's a time for the police to move in, for the military to move in.

00:07:24.580 Justin Trudeau just doesn't really care. And this is kind of more of the same when it comes to Trudeau

00:07:29.440 kind of having a blasé approach. So this is what Justin Trudeau says.

00:07:34.300 We know that keeping Canadians safe needs to be done in the right way. And we're going to keep

00:07:39.540 doing things that actively keep Canadians safe. There is a lot of misinformation out there. There's

00:07:45.680 a lot of knee-jerk reaction that isn't keeping people safe. That is having a real challenging

00:07:51.140 impact on communities, on community safety, said Justin Trudeau. So again, Justin Trudeau is more

00:07:56.440 concerned about misinformation and stopping a knee-jerk reaction than actually keeping Canadians safe.

00:08:03.020 He appointed Chrystia Freeland to sort of be the head person to take the lead on this issue. Because

00:08:08.680 again, Justin Trudeau doesn't really care about Canada. So he just kind of offloads all of the

00:08:12.720 real like prime minister stuff, all the responsibility onto Chrystia Freeland, who at this

00:08:17.120 point essentially is the prime minister of Canada. You know, it's kind of interesting because in the

00:08:21.560 United States, just to compare the two situations, Donald Trump appointed his VP, Mike Pence, to be

00:08:27.340 the head person, the sort of czar on the coronavirus to lead the task force. And the media made a huge

00:08:32.980 deal about it. They were kind of saying, hey, look, Trump's putting this on Pence. He wants Pence to

00:08:37.680 take the fall. This is clearly going to go sideways. This pandemic is going to hit the United States.

00:08:41.980 Trump's going to blame it all on Pence. And they kind of made a big deal about how this was a way

00:08:45.660 for Trump to kind of get rid of Pence so he could put someone else on the ticket in 2020.

00:08:50.340 That's total nonsense. Trump even addressed it to say that's total nonsense. But for all the hay that

00:08:55.100 was made in the United States, Justin Trudeau did the exact same thing. He literally just

00:08:58.960 appointed to his number two, the deputy prime minister. And the narrative by the media was

00:09:03.420 totally different. It was like, wow, Justin Trudeau just trusts Chrystia Freeland so much.

00:09:08.600 He puts so much trust in her. She's so respected. Nothing about how, you know, she's going to be

00:09:14.020 the fall person on this. So Chrystia Freeland takes the lead. And the government created a COVID-19

00:09:20.260 committee. COVID-19 is what is the technical name for the coronavirus. So the fact that the government

00:09:25.000 created a committee to just to deal with this as a task force to react and to deal with this

00:09:30.820 signals that they care about it, right? The kind of entire exercise is a PR response. Like, hey, look,

00:09:36.740 the government's doing something. They're creating a task force. Rest assured, Canadians, you know,

00:09:42.440 the government is doing something. But then as the head of this COVID-19 committee, Chrystia Freeland

00:09:47.700 comes out and she tells reporters that the government wants to take a Goldilocks approach. She says,

00:09:53.380 not too hot, not too cold, but just right. Okay. The entire point of creating a committee is to

00:10:00.700 signal to Canadians that you're doing something, that you are taking the right approach, that you're

00:10:04.560 taking it seriously, and that you're going to do what you can to help prevent or at least contain

00:10:09.240 the spread of this virus. So coming out and saying, you know what, we don't want to overreact.

00:10:13.500 We don't want to underreact. We're just going to find the just right route. This is a total wrong

00:10:18.480 message to send to Canadians. Even if that's sort of the approach that you're going to take kind of

00:10:22.840 behind closed doors, the thing you want to come out and tell Canadians is, look, we are doing

00:10:26.760 everything we can. We know this is serious. We know that a lot of people are going to lose their

00:10:31.440 lives if this is not dealt with properly. Look at China. Even though China took very

00:10:37.840 authoritarian measures, apparently China did all the right things, but yet still globally,

00:10:41.360 we have nearly 4,000 deaths. So, you know, instead of saying we want to prevent death,

00:10:46.320 we're going to do everything we can to prevent loss of life in Canada. This is the top priority

00:10:49.900 of our government. That's what Canadians want to hear, that the government is really,

00:10:53.820 really taking it seriously. Canadians don't want to hear from the head of a task force created

00:10:57.720 to basically ease fears around this issue that, you know, we don't want to overreact. You know,

00:11:03.360 the main concern is that we don't want knee-jerk reactions. We don't want misinformation out

00:11:07.940 there. No, I think that the message coming from the Canadian government should be, look,

00:11:11.540 we're going to do everything we can. We want everyone out there to be cautious, to do what they can

00:11:16.520 to stop the spread of this disease. You know, if you're traveling internationally,

00:11:21.040 be careful. When you come home, make sure that you're not interacting with too many people. When

00:11:25.280 you're out on the plane, make sure you're not interacting. Like, you know, give strict, strict

00:11:28.420 message to Canadians, strict guidelines about what you should and shouldn't do. Instead, we have

00:11:33.500 the Canadian government just saying, you know, we're not really going to do much. And the health

00:11:37.760 minister kind of goes even beyond that. The health minister, Patty Hadju, was on 680 News in

00:11:43.300 Toronto. And she tells them that the more countries that have outbreaks, the less relevant borders

00:11:49.680 become. A virus knows no borders. So fine, that's true on the surface. But, you know, countries are

00:11:57.220 the ones that are responsible for reacting. And as the person, the health minister in Canada,

00:12:02.860 you don't want them, again, to just sort of shrug their shoulders and say, well, borders don't really

00:12:06.380 matter. So we can't really stop and contain this. No, borders do matter, especially in a country like

00:12:10.560 Canada that has a sort of natural advantage, in that we're separated from the rest of the world

00:12:15.280 by vast oceans. All we really have to do is control our airport and our land border, which is fairly

00:12:20.920 easy compared to, say, what's happening in Italy, or how the virus spread, say, from China to Iran,

00:12:27.600 because the two countries do so much business together. All Canada has to do is secure their

00:12:31.960 airports. But we don't. We don't have any restrictions on flying. We have people coming in from China,

00:12:36.960 people coming in from Iran on a daily basis with no quarantine measures. I flew over the weekend. I

00:12:43.800 flew from California to Toronto on Saturday. I saw nothing at the Toronto airport. Pearson airport had

00:12:50.500 no kind of, you know, health, there are no health officials there, going through customs, going through

00:12:55.760 security. You know, there was, there was just, there was nothing. There was no one there even,

00:13:00.660 you know, checking to see if people were coughing and sneezing in that border lineup. So Canada is

00:13:05.180 literally just doing nothing, telling people to kind of handle it on their own. And we have our

00:13:09.540 own health minister sort of shrugging and saying, well, there's no borders. There's no borders when,

00:13:14.840 you know, borders are irrelevant when there's outbreaks like this. That is a defeatist attitude.

00:13:20.260 And again, not what you expect. So once again, the Trudeau government is just totally failing when it

00:13:26.160 comes to keeping Canadians safe and taking the lead. And meanwhile, this is what the WHO says. The WHO,

00:13:33.740 the World Health Organization, has urged governments to take decisive action to halt the spread of an

00:13:39.880 epidemic that has infected more than 100,000 people around the world, citing China's containment

00:13:44.420 measures. So again, even global authorities, global bodies are saying everyone around the world should

00:13:50.080 be a little bit more authoritarian. Meanwhile, Canada is just sort of shrugging its shoulders.

00:13:55.160 Iran, as I mentioned, is another country that's been really hard hit by this. And I think this just

00:14:00.400 goes to exemplify what a crappy country Iran is, what a really, really lousy place it is. It is an 1.00

00:14:06.700 Islamist dictatorship. There is absolutely no freedom in this country. It is just a horrible 1.00

00:14:11.040 place to live. So an investigative journalist that I follow on Twitter, he's really, really good. His

00:14:15.680 name is Heshmat Alavi. He has a thread on how Iran is just totally botching the reaction to the

00:14:21.860 coronavirus. And it's just this, you know, this is sort of like what the reality is of living in a

00:14:27.440 tyrannical state, living in an Islamic dictatorship like Iran, the kinds of things that they do. They 1.00

00:14:33.020 just, they're just so clueless and so evil, so vicious in how they respond to this. So one of

00:14:40.320 the things that they were doing, basically, they're kind of profiting off of the coronavirus. They're

00:14:44.700 trying to profit while also trying to downplay it and sort of getting help. You know, the World

00:14:49.240 Health Organization is again, kind of applauding Iran. They said that they were doing positive work

00:14:54.380 and that they've made amazing advances in dealing with coronavirus. Meanwhile, a member of Iran's 1.00

00:15:01.340 National Influenza Committee said that they're estimating that 30 to 40 percent of Tehran's

00:15:06.920 population will be affected by COVID-19 by March 20th. So that's within two weeks, 30 to 40 percent of

00:15:14.520 a city with a population of 12 million people. So we're really talking about a major outbreak. That's

00:15:19.840 not now. That's just what the estimates are. There's all kinds of footage of just how horribly the

00:15:24.900 government has been handling, even just dealing with bodies of people who have passed away, sort

00:15:30.940 of throwing them into mass graves, which is just a terrible way to deal with a, you know, a body,

00:15:38.080 but also very dangerous when you're talking about people who have perished because of this disease.

00:15:43.480 They also were showing how the government was selling supposedly antibacterial sprays that they

00:15:52.060 were selling in stores. It turns out that they were basically air fresheners. They were just air

00:15:56.680 fresheners with a label that the government had put over top of it to say antibacterial sprays. You

00:16:01.240 could kind of just peel it off and realize that it was nothing but an air freshener. So again, this is

00:16:07.600 the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is their military, basically profiting off

00:16:14.860 of selling people air fresheners instead of antibacterial sprays. So this is just a reminder

00:16:20.160 of, you know, the worst possible reaction, an incompetent totalitarian government showing you,

00:16:26.280 you know, what you don't want to do with corona. And again, the reason that so many people in Iran 1.00

00:16:31.520 are being affected by this disease is because Iran, basically no Western country will do business 1.00

00:16:36.680 with Iran. Iran is a terrorist state. So the only country that will do business with them is China. 0.99

00:16:41.020 So the early measures when a lot of countries were stopping flights from China, Iran wasn't doing

00:16:45.900 that. So even members of their government, high ranking officials in the Iranian regime fell victim

00:16:51.420 to coronavirus and themselves, a deputy health minister contracted the disease. So it's really just

00:16:57.740 running rampant over there. Pretty scary stuff for people who live in Iran. All right. And speaking of 1.00

00:17:05.040 open borders and the total lack of control over borders, there was an exclusive in the Toronto Sun,

00:17:12.000 I broke the story. It is about how illegal border crossers and asylum claimants whose cases have not

00:17:17.340 even been heard in front of an immigration judge are being granted 20 year health cards, 20 year all access

00:17:24.940 cards to gold plated health care services above and beyond what Canadians receive. So this is including

00:17:31.140 anything under the Canada Health Act, any health care services, as well as full dental coverage,

00:17:36.320 which Canadians either pay for through their employer and insurance or right out of pocket

00:17:40.180 and prescription drugs. They get free unlimited prescription drugs. This is all part of a program

00:17:46.600 called the Interim Federal Health Care Program. But what is new is that we didn't know that the

00:17:51.700 government was issuing 20 year cards. I mean, the whole point of being a refugee is that you come,

00:17:58.520 you become a refugee, you maybe get the Interim Federal Health Program while you're waiting for,

00:18:03.940 you know, your papers to come in, your paperwork, all that kind of stuff until you can become a

00:18:09.360 permanent resident and then a citizen. And then once you're a citizen, you're no longer a refugee, 0.68

00:18:13.380 you're now just a Canadian. So why on earth is the government issuing a 20 year card? So I talked to

00:18:20.780 a whistleblower who works at a medical office in York region. This person's a medical assistant and they

00:18:26.940 spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, but they did provide a lot of supporting documentation to

00:18:32.340 back up the claims. And basically what I saw was certificates issued by the government that said 20

00:18:38.060 years. So they were issued in February 2020 and they expire in February 2040. And so this whistleblower

00:18:45.420 was basically just really concerned because they'd never seen this before and they didn't really

00:18:50.520 understand why a person who has crossed into Canada illegally, someone who's not even deemed a

00:18:55.580 refugee yet. They haven't even had their case heard why they are being given health care coverage

00:19:01.360 above and beyond what Canadians receive, not just Canadians, better health care than veterans, 0.72

00:19:06.460 better health care than people in Indigenous communities, better health care than the elderly, 0.96

00:19:11.060 than homeless people, than single mothers, better than anybody. Why are they given this? One of the

00:19:17.300 examples of the documents that I saw was issued to an Iranian woman who was in her 70s and she had just

00:19:23.120 arrived in Canada, just made her refugee claim. And again, she was given a 20-year certificate. So

00:19:28.060 presumably for the rest of her life, she's going to be able to receive that gold-plated health care 0.94

00:19:34.660 in Canada that Canadians are not entitled to. So on the, on the certificate, on the document, it says

00:19:41.620 the above named individual is eligible for coverage of health care costs under the interim federal health

00:19:46.940 program. This coverage can be cancelled without notice if the individual's immigration status changes.

00:19:51.760 So according to the form, it kind of says, well, this is what they get until the status changes and then

00:19:56.680 this gets taken away. But in practice, we know the interim federal health program has become a

00:20:02.000 political punching bag in Canadian politics over the last few years. The previous Harper conservative

00:20:07.760 government, so before Trudeau was Harper, and he made changes to the interim federal health program.

00:20:13.440 He basically tried to limit it so that people whose asylum claims were rejected or people who arrived and

00:20:19.880 made asylum claims in Canada, but were from like safe European countries or just safe countries, the United

00:20:24.460 States, Western Europe, they didn't get access to this. So this was only reserved for true refugees. Well, the 1.00

00:20:31.000 media and the Trudeau liberals spun that to make it say that the Harper government was trying to cut health care for

00:20:38.760 refugees, even though the people they were cutting were explicitly not refugees. A federal court ruled in favor of that sort of 0.84

00:20:45.880 left-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

00:20:54.200 for the government to withhold this free health care to illegal immigrants. So they scrapped the program. And then when the Trudeau

00:21:01.400 liberals 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.

00:21:12.360 So, you know, even though the form says that this, the interim federal health program can be taken away, if the person's immigration

00:21:20.040 status changes, we know that in practice, the Trudeau government will not take it away, because they accused the Trudeau, they accused the Harper government

00:21:27.560 of being cruel for taking this away. So basically, what's supposed to be a temporary program, what's supposed to be a limited program,

00:21:35.640 is 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,

00:21:43.320 including 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?

00:21:51.560 Is 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.

00:21:58.920 We're going to figure something out. And then they just never got back to me. They never they never gave me a response.

00:22:03.160 They never gave me an explanation about this. I think Canadians deserve an explanation, because why is it that a person who might not even 1.00

00:22:10.360 have a real claim to be a refugee just because someone says they're a refugee, they actually have to prove it.

00:22:15.080 The 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,

00:22:21.720 that you do face a well-founded fear of persecution. And the people who are being given the health care,

00:22:27.240 the gold-plated 20-year access health care cards, haven't proven that yet. So why is it that foreign 1.00

00:22:32.520 foreign nationals, people who are not permanent residents, not citizens, are getting a lot better

00:22:36.920 health care than people who pay into the system? I think it's a big, big story. And I wish that the

00:22:41.400 mainstream media would pay attention to these kind of things, because I think that Canadians really, really

00:22:46.040 care about them. All right, moving on, let's talk conservative leadership race. So there's, I think there's

00:22:51.560 basically a new frontrunner in the race now. The media were really trying to paint Peter McKay as

00:22:57.160 sort of the heir apparent of this party, the person who kind of deserves to be the title. And they really,

00:23:02.680 really do paint him as a frontrunner, even though, to be completely frank, he's running a very lousy

00:23:07.080 campaign. Like any time he takes a stance on an issue, give him like 24 hours and he will reverse

00:23:12.360 it. This has happened over and over and over again with Peter McKay. He now says that he regrets. A big

00:23:18.280 comment that Peter McKay made right after the election is that he said that Andrew Scheer's

00:23:22.680 social values hung around his neck like a stinking albatross during the campaign. Well,

00:23:27.560 he now says that he regrets that comment. He said that he was not happy with his own team for tweeting

00:23:34.120 out pictures, a video teasing Justin Trudeau over his yoga expenses. So he really quickly, you know,

00:23:41.400 tweeted it out and then backtracked on it. And he backtracked on his position about the Israel

00:23:46.440 embassy being in Jerusalem. You know, he basically said in an interview that he didn't think that

00:23:51.480 he would keep it there or he didn't think he would move it there. And then after some pressure,

00:23:55.480 he changed his mind and said he would. So Peter McKay is just all over the place. He doesn't know what

00:23:58.920 he believes in. His team is saying one thing and he's sort of saying something else. And Aaron O'Toole

00:24:04.280 really is emerging as a frontrunner. As a conservative, Aaron O'Toole is kind of hitting all the right notes.

00:24:10.120 And he's really, really painted himself as a, you know, true blue to quote Jason Kenney, a true blue

00:24:16.600 conservative. And that's why he has now received the endorsement of Jason Kenney. I think at this

00:24:22.600 point, you know, Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, the two of them are probably the most influential

00:24:27.080 conservatives in Canada right now. Jason Kenney even more so because Stephen Harper is not in an

00:24:32.120 office right now, whereas Jason Kenney is the premier of Alberta. So he endorsed Aaron O'Toole last week.

00:24:38.680 He publicly endorsed O'Toole's conservative leadership bid in an email to conservative

00:24:42.760 party of Canada members. In the letter, Kenney embraced O'Toole as a true blue leader party needs.

00:24:48.840 I saw his passion for serving veterans, his relentless work ethic and his common sense in solving

00:24:55.720 difficult political challenges. Kenny wrote of O'Toole. That's the leadership we need. Aaron O'Toole

00:25:01.000 respects the breadth of our big tent coalition. Every conservative would be welcome in a party led by

00:25:07.000 Aaron. Now, this is just kind of interesting. I'll just make this point quickly. But Jason

00:25:11.880 Kenney was publicly saying that he wanted Ronna Ambrose to be leader of the party. He was encouraging

00:25:16.760 her to jump in and publicly talking about it. Then she kind of ruled it out. Next, all of a sudden,

00:25:22.120 he was publicly calling on John Baird. John Baird should get in the race. John Baird should be leader.

00:25:27.000 John Baird didn't get in the race. So we're kind of down to like, you know, two front runners,

00:25:31.000 Aaron O'Toole and Peter McKay. And so Jason Kenney is like, okay, you know, now that no one else is

00:25:36.760 going to be running, now that all the other people that I was trying to call on and trying to get into

00:25:41.400 the race, now that none of them are doing it, Aaron O'Toole is the true blue. He's the leader

00:25:45.800 that we need. This is kind of like a consolation endorsement, but it will still give Aaron O'Toole a

00:25:50.520 boost. I think a lot of people in the conservative party and the conservative movement do look to

00:25:54.280 Jason Kenney as sort of one of those visionary leaders. You know, there's people in politics who are

00:25:58.920 just politicians because that's the job that they want. They want to be prime minister. They

00:26:03.640 want to be an MP because they think it'd be a fun job or it's just a job that they want.

00:26:07.720 And then there's others who have a vision and have a message and really want to implement change.

00:26:12.760 I think Jason Kenney is one of those sort of conviction politicians. And so if he's pointing

00:26:17.240 to Aaron O'Toole and saying, you know, this is the guy that can lead our party and lead our movement,

00:26:21.480 I think a lot of people are going to listen to that. So yeah, that gives Aaron O'Toole a big boost.

00:26:26.200 You know, the first deadline has passed. So we have the only people that are left in the race are

00:26:30.600 people who have jumped past the first hurdle of raising a certain amount of money and collecting

00:26:34.440 signatures. There will be another cutoff in a couple of weeks. And I think it's possible that

00:26:39.240 it'll just be O'Toole and McKay at that point. And in the head to head between those two, again,

00:26:44.600 the Jason Kenney endorsement will really help Aaron O'Toole. All right, one more story I want to

00:26:48.840 talk to you about on the podcast. You know, math is just so hard. Economics is just so confusing

00:26:54.920 sometimes. And, you know, if you're on the left, you don't really think about that kind of stuff.

00:26:59.000 You don't think about math. You don't think about economics. You just, you just think about your

00:27:02.600 feelings and how you feel about things. So this is an example that really, really, really shows

00:27:08.840 how little people think. You know, the people that you watch on television, the pundits, the news

00:27:13.240 anchors, the hosts that you watch on television, you kind of trust that they, you know, at least have

00:27:18.520 given something a little bit of thought. You know, they've at least thought about something a little bit

00:27:22.440 before they come to you on live television to tell you their opinion, to tell you why

00:27:26.280 they're right about something. Well, this is just a reminder to all of us that some of the people

00:27:30.680 on TV just don't think. They really don't think. They really don't think. They don't use their minds.

00:27:35.800 So Brian Williams, a host of MSNBC, a pretty respected longtime journalist. I know he's had some

00:27:40.920 issues, but a lot of people still respect him. He sat down with New York Times editorial board member,

00:27:47.080 Maragay. And they wanted to talk about Michael Bloomberg's campaign. Bloomberg was running for

00:27:52.840 the Democrats to become the presidential nominee. He dropped out after Super Tuesday after a pretty

00:27:57.640 dismal, dismal placing despite spending, I think he spent $500 million on his campaign,

00:28:04.040 which is a heck of a lot of money to not really do anything. I think the only delegates that he got

00:28:08.920 were from American Samoa and American Samoans don't even vote in the actual election. So it was a

00:28:14.840 really, really dismal performance by Michael Bloomberg. It was because his debate performance

00:28:19.640 was just so awful. Anyways, these two, you know, brilliant, you know, these two coastal elites

00:28:28.840 with probably fancy university degrees were talking about how Michael Bloomberg had misspent his money.

00:28:35.320 So let's let's just play this clip for you. But you see it as a possibility if he wants to spend a

00:28:40.040 billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it. Absolutely. Somebody tweeted recently that

00:28:47.400 actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars.

00:28:51.000 I've got it. Let's put it up on the screen. When I read it tonight on social media,

00:28:56.600 it kind of all became clear. Bloomberg spent 500 million on ads, U.S. population 327 million.

00:29:03.480 Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math. He could have given each American 0.94

00:29:06.840 one million dollars and have had lunch money left over. It's an incredible way of putting it.

00:29:13.560 It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true. It's disturbing. It does. It does suggest,

00:29:19.000 you know, what we're talking about here, which is there's too much money in politics.

00:29:23.000 It is incredible. You know, it's true. It's disturbing. No. Okay. These people,

00:29:27.480 it just, it's so mind boggling. You know, okay. First of all, of course, you know,

00:29:31.080 Michael Bloomberg spent $500 million. There's 300 million Americans. That's not a million dollars each.

00:29:35.560 That's a dollar each. There's a dollar 50 each. Okay. That's just a really, really basic, basic math.

00:29:40.040 If you have a thousand dollars for a thousand people, that's a dollar each, right? If you have

00:29:44.440 a million dollars for a million people, that's a dollar each. So if you had 500 million dollars

00:29:49.400 for 330 million Americans, how on earth is that a million dollars each? It's just so mind boggling

00:29:55.080 that this got through on air. You kind of think of how many people would have had to see this tweet

00:30:00.280 and just not even been able to compute the basic math. You know, there was a person who sent out

00:30:04.760 the tweet in the first place who later doubled down on it, by the way. This person, her name,

00:30:11.480 you know, this, this wasn't someone who was making a joke. This person's called Makita Reves.

00:30:16.120 She contributes to the Washington Post. And so she tweeted out completely unironically and then later 0.85

00:30:21.880 tweeted out, blah, blah, math, blah, blah. People are telling me my numbers are wrong, but the point

00:30:26.440 still stands. He could have easily afforded to give everyone a million dollars and literally never

00:30:30.520 noticed. Again, no, that's not true. That's not true. Michael Bloomberg is worth about 50 billion

00:30:35.880 dollars. If he had given, if he wanted to give his entire net worth away distributed across all of

00:30:41.320 Americans, it would be like a hundred dollars each. It wouldn't be a million dollars. So no,

00:30:45.560 the point doesn't still stand. So this person put out the tweet. Enough people retweeted it

00:30:49.880 that when the host, Brian Williams, and this New York Times correspondent saw it,

00:30:53.880 they didn't immediately see that it was debunked. They didn't know that it was wrong.

00:30:58.520 Enough people were tweeting it that they thought it was right. They brought it to the show. You know,

00:31:02.680 you have producers, you have editors, you have camera people. You have so many people that would

00:31:07.160 be part of this show before it went to air. And no one flagged the point that they were off by a

00:31:12.840 factor. You know, the decimal point was off by what? Five zeros. They were off by five zeros here.

00:31:19.080 And just no one over at MSNBC, no one at the New York Times editorial board had any clue. So again,

00:31:26.120 this is an epic fail. On behalf of the left, it really kind of gives you an insight into how

00:31:30.920 people on the left think. They really don't care about numbers. They don't care about math. This is

00:31:34.600 why no one on the Democrat side, their platforms don't come anywhere near adding up. This is how Bernie

00:31:40.040 Sanders can get away with a proposal to spend more money in his proposal than the entire economy in the

00:31:47.400 United States. I think someone tallied up all his plans and it worked out to about 40 trillion dollars

00:31:53.080 over a decade. By comparison, the U.S. GDP, the total amount of money in the entire economy is about

00:31:59.480 20 trillion dollars. So, you know, Democrats, people on the left have no care about how much money they

00:32:05.960 spend. Numbers don't really matter to them. Doesn't really add up. You could say the exact same thing about

00:32:10.520 the Trudeau liberals here in Canada. Hence why Justin Trudeau said that budgets were going to balance

00:32:15.400 themselves and he said that he was going to have 10 billion dollar deficits which we know they've

00:32:19.560 spiraled out of control over the last five years. So, never trust anyone on the left when they're

00:32:24.360 talking about numbers because they just don't know how to do math. All right, I'm going to leave

00:32:27.960 it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

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