Juno News - December 06, 2019


The Candice Malcolm Show： Trump calls Trudeau two-faced (because he is)


Episode Stats

Length

23 minutes

Words per Minute

188.55124

Word Count

4,428

Sentence Count

319

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Trump calls Trudeau two-faced because he is.
00:00:03.360 The provinces negotiate a better deal for Alberta.
00:00:06.240 Tragedy strikes at the legislature in Alberta,
00:00:08.340 showing the extent of human suffering in that province.
00:00:11.280 And it's Thursday, so we'll do fake news of the week
00:00:13.540 and we'll do ask me anything.
00:00:15.380 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:22.880 Hi everyone, thanks for tuning in.
00:00:24.380 We're back in Toronto.
00:00:25.480 We were in Alberta last week doing lots of filming,
00:00:27.680 covering the AGM.
00:00:28.640 We have lots of footage, lots of interviews from that trip,
00:00:31.820 so make sure to check it out at tnc.news.
00:00:34.580 Now let's jump right to the news.
00:00:36.520 The big story everyone's talking about,
00:00:38.380 not just in Canada, but everyone around the world,
00:00:40.460 everyone in the US, everyone in Canada,
00:00:42.300 is talking about this Trump-Trudeau meeting
00:00:45.460 and the sort of fallout that has happened since then.
00:00:48.800 So the world leaders are in London, England this week
00:00:52.020 and Trudeau and Trump held a joint press conference.
00:00:55.720 In the press conference,
00:00:56.860 Donald Trump does something that Canadian journalists just fail to do.
00:01:00.980 He pressed Trudeau.
00:01:02.460 Trump sat there and put Trudeau on the spot.
00:01:04.880 He asked a question.
00:01:06.240 Trudeau didn't really answer the question.
00:01:08.360 And so Trump put pressure on him,
00:01:10.040 asked it again, putting Trudeau on the spot
00:01:12.120 and forcing Trudeau to actually make a claim that's not true.
00:01:15.120 So let's just play that clip so you can see what it was I'm talking about.
00:01:18.320 What are you at?
00:01:19.300 What is your number?
00:01:20.920 The number we talk about is 70% increase over these past years,
00:01:26.180 including, and for the coming years,
00:01:28.620 including significant investments in our fighter jets,
00:01:33.120 significant investments in our naval fleets.
00:01:35.600 We are increasing significantly our defense spending
00:01:38.560 from previous governments that cut it.
00:01:41.320 Okay.
00:01:41.880 Where are you now in terms of your number?
00:01:44.740 We're at 135?
00:01:46.660 1.3?
00:01:48.400 1.4.
00:01:49.480 1.4.
00:01:49.980 1.4.
00:01:50.600 So what they're talking about here is that every NATO member
00:01:53.860 has committed to spending 2% of its GDP on defense spending.
00:01:59.240 And Canada is just a routine sort of bad actor when it comes to this.
00:02:02.840 We don't pull our own weight.
00:02:04.120 We don't actually invest in securing and building up our military.
00:02:08.220 We free ride.
00:02:09.080 We rely on the United States,
00:02:10.340 who overcompensates in protecting most of the world,
00:02:13.100 but especially us in North America and with Canada.
00:02:16.160 So, you know, Trump, this is kind of a long time running.
00:02:18.120 He's putting pressure on other NATO countries and to some success.
00:02:22.060 He's convinced countries like Germany to up their defense spending
00:02:24.960 and Canada really needs to.
00:02:26.720 So he's putting Trudeau on the spot.
00:02:27.980 Trudeau doesn't want to answer.
00:02:28.980 And he does the thing, the typical thing that he does
00:02:30.680 where he doesn't answer questions.
00:02:31.860 So, you know, Trump says, what are you spending?
00:02:34.220 And then Trudeau says, oh, well, the number we like to say
00:02:36.460 is that we're increasing spending.
00:02:37.800 No, that's not what Trump was asking.
00:02:39.200 So Trump asks again.
00:02:40.440 Trudeau couldn't get away from it.
00:02:41.860 And you notice that he doesn't even provide the answer.
00:02:44.560 He has to ask a staffer to give him the number.
00:02:47.520 And the number that they gave isn't even correct, folks.
00:02:50.160 So Trudeau says that it's 1.4%.
00:02:52.780 Well, that's not true.
00:02:53.600 According to the recent NATO report in 2019,
00:02:56.340 Canada spent 1.27% of its GDP on defense spending.
00:03:00.340 Now, you can increase that to 1.31%,
00:03:02.760 which the government did because they ruled in military pensions
00:03:05.800 to try to include and boost that spending.
00:03:07.600 But regardless, if Canada is to get up to 2%,
00:03:10.500 that's a huge increase that the 1% or the either 1.3% or 0.9%
00:03:15.760 that Trudeau inflated the number when talking to Trump
00:03:18.360 is a difference of either 1.5 billion or 2.15 billion.
00:03:22.700 So just by being an effective leader and putting pressure on Trudeau,
00:03:27.040 Trump managed to perhaps have Trudeau admit to spending
00:03:31.120 either 1.5 or 2.15 billion dollars more.
00:03:34.000 That's a lot more.
00:03:34.520 Canada should, by the way, invest more in defense spending
00:03:37.920 and in our military, but it's not going to happen under a liberal.
00:03:41.740 And then after that meeting, Trudeau was clearly embarrassed.
00:03:44.900 We get this situation of a hot mic.
00:03:47.800 So Trudeau is seen talking to other world leaders,
00:03:50.120 talking to Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron,
00:03:53.100 where he's basically just making fun of Trump.
00:03:55.720 We can't hear exactly what he's saying.
00:03:57.400 We can't see everything that he's saying,
00:03:59.220 but there's a couple of kind of key takeaways.
00:04:01.600 He's, first of all, complaining that Trump was 40 minutes late
00:04:04.960 because he took too many questions.
00:04:06.860 That's a bizarre thing for a leader of a democratic country to complain about,
00:04:10.200 that Trump is so open with the media.
00:04:12.200 He was so willing to take questions that it ran 40 minutes late,
00:04:14.760 something that Trudeau would never do because Trudeau couldn't handle,
00:04:17.540 Trudeau doesn't have the capability to do that kind of thing
00:04:20.580 with the media and answer questions for 40 minutes.
00:04:22.480 And then something about how Trump's staff's jaws dropped over something that Trump said.
00:04:28.480 So, you know, we don't have the full context,
00:04:30.040 but what is clear is that Trudeau's being kind of a jerk here.
00:04:33.700 You know, when he was sitting next to Trump, he was trying to play nice.
00:04:38.120 He was listening to what Trump said and trying to impress Trump
00:04:41.180 by inflating the number that Canada's spending.
00:04:43.460 And then as soon as Trump's gone, Trudeau acts like the tough guy,
00:04:46.660 you know, gossiping and talking badly about Trump.
00:04:49.640 Well, Trump was having none of it, so the next morning when Trump was sitting down
00:04:53.560 for his next bilateral, he talked about it.
00:04:56.380 He directly addressed it and he called Justin Trudeau two-faced.
00:05:00.420 Well, of course, Justin Trudeau is two-faced because we saw two different Justin Trudeaus.
00:05:03.660 We saw a meek, uncomfortable, subservient, subordinate Trudeau when he was sitting next to Trump.
00:05:09.060 And then when he's playing with the other world leaders, he, you know,
00:05:11.840 was this sort of arrogant, mean-spirited jock that was making fun of someone behind their back.
00:05:17.840 So, you know, I think Trudeau got what he deserved.
00:05:20.360 There's lots of fallout right now.
00:05:21.880 I actually think that this is something that might be good for Trudeau.
00:05:24.300 Trudeau loves the tension between him and Trump in the media.
00:05:28.960 Lots of Canadians don't like Donald Trump.
00:05:31.040 So when they see Justin Trudeau standing up to him, they see it as a good thing.
00:05:34.880 Of course, it isn't.
00:05:35.780 It's embarrassing for Canada.
00:05:37.100 It shows the character of Justin Trudeau, just how immature he is.
00:05:41.000 And, you know, not going to please Trump.
00:05:43.840 Trump is the powerful person in this situation.
00:05:45.960 He's the player that Trudeau needs to learn to get along with.
00:05:49.760 So just kind of a cringeworthy, embarrassing week for Canada on the world stage.
00:05:54.340 Let's move on.
00:05:55.240 So the Council of Federation meeting happened this week.
00:05:57.240 It kind of got overshadowed by this whole Trudeau-Trump thing.
00:06:00.580 But the premiers, 10 premiers and three territory leaders all met in Mississauga, Ontario on Monday
00:06:07.040 to basically, they called an emergency meeting after the federal election.
00:06:11.320 The federal election was so devastating for national unity.
00:06:15.120 You know, you have the rise of the bloc in Quebec, no liberal MPs elected in Alberta or Saskatchewan
00:06:20.320 and the rise of the Wexit movement.
00:06:22.300 So the premiers decided to call a meeting together without the prime minister, without the federal government
00:06:26.940 to talk about what they can agree on.
00:06:28.980 They didn't get into issues that they don't agree on, but they wanted to have this sort of consensus.
00:06:34.160 There was a unanimous decision to call on the federal government to change what was called
00:06:39.300 the Fiscal Stabilization Program to change the cap.
00:06:43.080 This is sort of a complicated program, but basically the Fiscal Stabilization Program
00:06:47.300 is a federal program that enables the federal government to provide financial assistance
00:06:51.840 to any province faced with a year-over-year decline in its non-resource revenues greater than 5%.
00:06:56.780 So the provinces all agree on that.
00:06:58.720 It's good news for Alberta because we know that Alberta is slumping right now, having a hard time
00:07:02.580 with their economy, and the fact that they still have this large fiscal burden is completely unfair.
00:07:07.940 This isn't the equalization program.
00:07:09.400 That's still something that does need to get negotiated, but again, that was too contentious
00:07:12.700 for this one meeting.
00:07:14.380 They agreed on a couple other things, increased health care transfers.
00:07:17.280 They want to agree that the provinces can opt out of the new federal PharmaCare program
00:07:22.020 that's being announced that it's supposed to be rolled out any time.
00:07:25.540 And they all agreed to push the federal government for improvements on environmental assessments
00:07:30.340 on large natural resource projects, specifically, is Bill C-69, the very controversial anti-pipeline
00:07:37.180 measure that was introduced by the federal government.
00:07:39.780 So good news for Alberta.
00:07:42.160 Jason Kenney claimed victory.
00:07:43.740 If you haven't checked it out already, I sat down with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney over
00:07:47.760 the weekend at the AGM.
00:07:49.220 We talked about all kinds of things, from the Fair Deal plan that his province's, his government
00:07:53.680 is proposing, to immigration and some of the major accomplishments he had when he was
00:07:58.740 the immigration minister, as well as the disappointment he has with the rise of illegal immigration
00:08:03.180 in Canada right now.
00:08:05.100 So go check that out if you haven't already.
00:08:08.120 Now, as we were packing up and leaving our bags to leave Alberta and come back to Toronto,
00:08:13.560 we got tragic news, really, really tragic news.
00:08:16.360 An individual on Monday afternoon, just after 3 p.m., walked up to the steps of the legislature
00:08:21.200 building in Edmonton, and he took his own life.
00:08:24.220 Ken Chan was the individual.
00:08:27.220 He was a military veteran, and he shot and killed himself right as the members of the
00:08:33.620 legislature assembly were in the middle of a debate.
00:08:36.200 So they adjourned the legislature because of this.
00:08:39.840 And really, this just rings home the suffering that's happening in Alberta.
00:08:44.080 Part of the reason that we were out there in Alberta is because True North is putting
00:08:47.400 together a documentary showcasing what's happening just to individuals, to people in Alberta and
00:08:54.020 specifically in Calgary.
00:08:55.680 And one of the things that we learned just through talking to people through our interviews
00:09:00.780 is just how devastating it can be.
00:09:04.960 When you lose your job, you lose your home, there becomes sort of tension on the family.
00:09:09.540 There's an increase in divorce, increase in homelessness, all these kind of social problems that don't
00:09:16.680 really get noticed.
00:09:18.180 You know, I think this is probably the most underreported story in Canada right now.
00:09:21.960 You hear a lot about the politics, a lot of mudslinging, a lot of name-calling.
00:09:26.700 But what people in the rest of the country might not realize about Alberta is just how hard it is for
00:09:31.200 individuals who are living through this.
00:09:33.180 You know, record high unemployment rate, all kinds of issues, all kinds of problems there.
00:09:38.400 And, you know, you never want to hear something like this.
00:09:41.280 An individual would go to those lengths.
00:09:44.480 But tragically, it does happen.
00:09:47.640 There's a University of Calgary public policy study that found that for every increase in
00:09:52.060 the unemployment rate, it led to about 16 more suicides in the province of Alberta.
00:09:56.720 So I think this should really be a wake-up call to politicians across Canada, not just in
00:10:02.500 Alberta, but really that the issue in Alberta is bad and we should all do better.
00:10:08.820 All right, let's move on.
00:10:10.200 It's Thursday, so we have a couple of segments to get through.
00:10:12.620 First off, let's do the slow clap.
00:10:15.580 So this week's slow clap goes to Bob Brattnub.
00:10:20.560 Bob is the Member of Parliament for Hamilton East Stony Creek.
00:10:24.380 And he's the former mayor of the city of Hamilton, Ontario.
00:10:27.920 Now, he tweeted this out on December 1st.
00:10:31.260 This is like the latest iteration of political correctness, I guess.
00:10:34.400 He says, wishing you a great month of December.
00:10:38.660 So, you know, you can't say Merry Christmas anymore.
00:10:42.240 Of course not.
00:10:43.220 But you can't even say Happy Holidays apparently now.
00:10:46.100 So we're just wishing people a great month of December.
00:10:48.940 We wish you a Merry December and a Happy January.
00:10:51.900 This is just political correctness run amok.
00:10:54.900 And again, you know, the left and the political correctness brigade are just trying to assault
00:11:00.180 our language and eliminate words and make it so that we can't say things.
00:11:03.420 We can't say what we truly feel and believe.
00:11:05.700 And this is just sort of, you know, that times a thousand.
00:11:08.900 So slow clap for that tweet.
00:11:11.720 Let's move on to the fake news of the week.
00:11:14.940 This one's a tie because, I mean, there's just so many things to choose from.
00:11:19.800 And let's go to both of them.
00:11:22.180 So the first one comes from Susan Delacorte over at the Toronto Star.
00:11:27.000 Of course, this is going to happen.
00:11:28.360 Her headline says, don't blame Justin Trudeau.
00:11:30.600 It's about time world leaders made fun of Donald Trump.
00:11:34.520 And the actual print edition has the headline, laughing matter.
00:11:39.560 So this is exactly what I predicted.
00:11:41.900 I talked to Anthony Fury on National Post Radio yesterday, and I said this is going to be good
00:11:46.020 for Trudeau because the left is going to rally behind him.
00:11:48.880 Well, you know, right on cue, here's Susan Delacorte basically saying, good for Trudeau.
00:11:53.800 We should be making fun of Trump.
00:11:55.160 We should be mocking him.
00:11:56.000 We should be laughing at him.
00:11:57.100 Completely, you know, ignorant to the fact that Trump is a very powerful person, that
00:12:02.300 we're still finalizing NAFTA, that, you know, we're talking about NATO commitments and Canada's
00:12:08.540 defense spending commitments.
00:12:10.200 And yet here we are celebrating our prime minister for getting into a public riff with
00:12:15.040 the leader of the free world.
00:12:16.700 So not surprising.
00:12:18.440 That's the mentality over at the Toronto Star.
00:12:20.940 And of course, when you get $115,000 per week from the federal government, you're expected
00:12:26.220 to defend Justin Trudeau, even when he does something incredibly stupid, which is what
00:12:29.900 Susan Delacorte is doing.
00:12:31.800 Now, I said this was a tie because Rosemary Barton over at the CBC also gives Delacorte
00:12:37.300 a run for her money.
00:12:38.880 She comes up with an analysis.
00:12:40.240 Now, I just don't understand this.
00:12:41.700 Rosemary Barton is supposed to be a straight news reporter.
00:12:45.080 She is not an opinion columnist.
00:12:47.120 She is not supposed to be someone who chimes in and gives her opinion.
00:12:50.780 She's supposed to be, you know, impartial.
00:12:53.480 She was a debate moderator.
00:12:55.740 Well, here she is giving an opinion piece.
00:12:58.180 She's writing an analysis now in the CBC where she basically says that Andrew Scheer needs
00:13:04.140 to step down.
00:13:04.940 Some people in the Conservative Party are defending Andrew Scheer, saying that, hey, look back at
00:13:08.780 2004, the Stephen Harper government reduced the liberals to a minority.
00:13:12.840 And then two years later, they had their own government, and they governed for nearly 10
00:13:16.780 years.
00:13:18.040 Well, Rosemary Barton steps in and says no.
00:13:21.340 She says, yes, there are similarities between Harper then and Scheer now.
00:13:24.800 There are also important differences.
00:13:27.260 So she basically just gives her opinion, telling people that those who are defending Andrew Scheer
00:13:32.220 are wrong.
00:13:33.300 And she talks about how Andrew Scheer is no Stephen Harper.
00:13:37.040 So, again, I don't know why a CBC host, news host, and debate moderator is giving her
00:13:43.100 opinion.
00:13:43.860 But there it is.
00:13:45.360 All right, let's move on.
00:13:46.900 And because it's Thursday, we have Ask Me Anything, which is a segment where we allow
00:13:50.920 club members, people who are part of one of TNC.news' clubs, one of Trinorth's clubs,
00:13:56.560 get to send in their questions.
00:13:58.300 And I will do my very best to answer them.
00:14:00.900 We got a few to get through, so let's get to it.
00:14:02.940 The first one comes from Barbara Santamaria.
00:14:06.280 She says, hi, Candace.
00:14:07.980 I frequently hear that most Canadians strongly disapprove of Donald Trump.
00:14:12.260 I'm not so sure that is true.
00:14:13.820 Could it be that there are quite a few closet Trump supporters up here in the great white
00:14:17.340 north?
00:14:18.060 If you're referring to urban voters, I agree.
00:14:20.320 But what about the rest of the country?
00:14:22.040 I bet they love, myself included, someone whose stated goal is to make Canada great again.
00:14:28.100 All right.
00:14:28.500 I think that's a good question because, again, the mainstream media is so biased and we know
00:14:32.240 that they absolutely have Trump derangement syndrome.
00:14:34.620 But how many Canadians also suffer from it?
00:14:36.840 Well, I looked into it and there's a couple of different ways to look at it.
00:14:40.120 So an Angus Reid poll found that 42% of conservatives support Trump versus 35% of conservatives who
00:14:46.480 have a negative impression of him.
00:14:48.300 Meanwhile, 17% of Canadians believe Trump will win a second term, which according to 67% of
00:14:53.500 Canadians will most definitely not be good for Canada.
00:14:56.840 But you can see among conservatives, so, you know, whatever, 35% of Canadians voted for
00:15:02.140 the conservatives in the last election.
00:15:03.560 If you just talk about like conservative, you know, the base, people who consider themselves
00:15:08.860 conservatives, you know, that's still probably 10% of the country, which is what, three and
00:15:13.240 a half million.
00:15:14.120 If you have 42% of those who support Trump, you're still talking about a couple of million,
00:15:18.540 maybe, you know, one and a half million Canadians who support Trump.
00:15:22.760 And according to an Abacus Reid poll, that one found that if Canadians could vote in the
00:15:29.160 election, eight in 10 would choose a Democrat over the Republican, which would presume that
00:15:34.480 two in 10 would choose a Republican or maybe they're undecided.
00:15:38.460 There was also a National Post study that found that Canadians deeply disliked Donald Trump,
00:15:44.100 but they prefer him to Trudeau on two main issues, which were the economy and national security
00:15:50.240 and defense.
00:15:50.860 So, you know, I think you're right that there are some closet Canadians who support Trump.
00:15:55.480 And, you know, even if the mainstream media doesn't represent that, I believe that there
00:15:58.560 probably are about a million or so Canadians that support Donald Trump.
00:16:02.600 So you're not alone, Barbara.
00:16:04.260 All right, next question.
00:16:06.020 This one comes from Karen.
00:16:07.780 She says, hi, Candace.
00:16:08.720 I've studied Islam now for eight years.
00:16:10.880 I've read mainly international articles on the plate of Christians in other Islamic countries.
00:16:15.640 And I've read and listened to Douglas Murray on Europe's migrant situation, in particular,
00:16:19.640 of the issues in Austria, France, Sweden, UK, Germany.
00:16:23.060 My question is, how do we educate our politicians and the public on the 1400-year history of jihad
00:16:28.900 and the entryism of the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada, the incompatibility of Islam, and
00:16:34.800 the West in this climate of political correctness?
00:16:37.820 Here is Karen.
00:16:38.840 Well, you know, this is kind of a—it's an interesting question.
00:16:42.080 I've written something similar about this.
00:16:44.460 I had an e-book called Creeping Caliphate that goes through some of my concerns when
00:16:47.920 it comes to not just jihad as like a violent source of kind of warmongering, but also Islamicism,
00:16:56.440 the ideology that drives it.
00:16:58.420 And I think that we do need to raise the alarm bell.
00:17:01.260 I think that Douglas Murray's Strange Death of Europe is a must-read.
00:17:04.620 I think that people should pick up my book Creeping Caliphate.
00:17:07.080 I think there's an important distinction to be made, though, between Muslims and the sort
00:17:12.320 of ideology of Islam.
00:17:13.620 A lot of people who are in Canada have fled Islamist regimes.
00:17:16.720 They've fled politicalized Islam.
00:17:19.100 And they've come to Canada because they want to live in pluralism.
00:17:21.800 They want a peaceful existence.
00:17:23.100 And it's really important that we don't conflate the two.
00:17:26.160 Because while we should be concerned about Islamism and that political ideology, we shouldn't
00:17:32.180 take it out on peaceful Muslims who just want to be part of the Canadian community.
00:17:36.120 All right, next question comes from Will Vincent.
00:17:40.200 Is anyone able to create a message board, website, or app for Canadian conservatives,
00:17:44.400 a website outside of social media that allows people to log on and post and share media to
00:17:49.020 keep everyone up to date and informed?
00:17:52.140 So, yeah, this is an interesting idea.
00:17:54.600 One of the issues is that, you know, the mainstream media is biased.
00:17:58.100 The mainstream media leans left politically.
00:18:00.520 Most of the journalists are probably card-carrying liberals or if not NDP.
00:18:05.060 So there isn't a good source for conservatives to sort of find their news and to engage in
00:18:12.100 political discussion.
00:18:14.120 You know, there's always opportunities for that.
00:18:16.780 I think that there have been a couple of news aggregator sites that have been created to
00:18:21.520 compete with National News Watch.
00:18:23.540 National News Watch is a sort of liberal-run website where they post lots and lots of news
00:18:27.960 from a liberal perspective.
00:18:28.840 And there should be a conservative alternative.
00:18:31.980 Unfortunately, every time they try to set one up, it fails.
00:18:34.700 Hey, that's one of the reasons that we created TNC.news.
00:18:37.240 We wanted a hub for conservatives to understand the news, to have their stories reflected in
00:18:42.400 Canada.
00:18:42.980 And so, you know, that's what we're trying to build.
00:18:45.340 I know that there's some other people out there that are also trying to, you know, create
00:18:49.420 a home for conservatives online.
00:18:51.080 And, well, let's just see what the market provides for.
00:18:55.060 OK, next question.
00:18:56.080 Hi, Candice.
00:18:57.240 It is so very frustrating watching shows like Power Play, Power and Politics in the West
00:19:01.340 Bloc while the hosts are interviewing politicians.
00:19:03.740 I really can't remember when just one of them actually gave an answer.
00:19:07.740 Before the election, during and after it just doesn't seem to matter.
00:19:11.100 The politicians are accountable to us, Canadian citizens.
00:19:13.640 So why not just do your job instead of the repetitious talking points that on numerous
00:19:18.580 occasions have nothing to do with the question asked?
00:19:21.260 When Evan Solomon says his usual, let's go get some answers at the start of his show,
00:19:25.360 he must really know that's not going to happen.
00:19:27.960 When is it going to be possible for independent media like True North, The Rebel and others
00:19:31.520 to be able to interview politicians from the bottom of the food chain right up to the
00:19:35.740 Prime Minister and they will be forced to answer with honesty?
00:19:38.900 The mainstream media sure doesn't seem to be able to.
00:19:41.220 Kindest regards, Gordon.
00:19:42.600 Well, thank you so much, Gordon.
00:19:44.040 I had the opportunity to sit down with Premier Kenney.
00:19:45.940 I didn't feel like he was obfuscating my questions.
00:19:48.900 I felt like he was actually answering them, which was refreshing.
00:19:51.660 And I completely agree.
00:19:53.100 And this is not just a critique on liberals.
00:19:55.740 All the politicians do it.
00:19:57.140 Conservatives, NDP, liberal.
00:19:59.080 They just, you know, they pretend that the question that was asked was a different question
00:20:03.040 so they can just mouth off their talking points.
00:20:05.160 And it really undermines the discourse and the debate in our country.
00:20:09.500 It's not good.
00:20:10.580 And I think that, you know, journalists have to do a better job pushing politicians to answer.
00:20:16.240 Politicians themselves have to realize that people like authenticity.
00:20:19.920 People like the fact that, you know, you can just talk to them without seeming like you're
00:20:24.040 a robot rehearsing, rehashing talking points.
00:20:27.360 I think that's part of the reason why Donald Trump is so popular.
00:20:29.300 And I wish that there were more politicians in Canada that would just, you know, say it
00:20:34.620 as it is instead of sounding like robots, giving rehearsed talking points.
00:20:39.400 Okay, this will be the last one because there's quite a few here.
00:20:42.360 We've got this question coming from Donna.
00:20:45.960 She says,
00:20:47.200 Hi, Candace.
00:20:47.800 You're likely not into Alberta politics, as sometimes calling on talk radio in defense
00:20:51.420 of Jason Kenney.
00:20:52.340 And he recently is bombarded with ongoing anti-conservative bashing by most of the left-footing radio hosts
00:20:57.700 who do their best to twist and turn people against Kenney as they do to Ford.
00:21:01.840 In the notly government, she had so many hiring blitzes where, with the stroke of a pen,
00:21:07.620 hiring many thousands of unionized public sector workers to solidify her base, mostly in Edmonton.
00:21:12.840 Hence, we saw the province's divide in Edmonton, where she did all the hiring, all voting NDP,
00:21:18.540 but for one seat.
00:21:19.840 The rest of the province is pretty much recession voting, almost all blue.
00:21:23.660 My question is, and I've tried to find out, how many public sector workers did she hire
00:21:28.520 over her four-year term?
00:21:30.620 Thanks, Candace.
00:21:31.360 Donna.
00:21:32.060 Okay, this is a great question, and I thank you for it because it made me go and do the
00:21:36.080 research and find out exactly what has happened.
00:21:38.440 So this is according to the Fraser Institute.
00:21:39.920 Since the economic downturn began in 2014, public sector employment in Alberta has risen
00:21:44.920 by 21.5% based on a study from the Fraser Institute based on Statistics Canada figures.
00:21:52.900 According to the Fraser Institute, almost 79,000 additional public sector jobs have been added
00:21:58.880 in Alberta by the provincial federal municipal government in the last four years.
00:22:02.940 Meanwhile, our province is still just short over 46,000 private sector jobs from 2014 levels.
00:22:11.300 I mean, that's remarkable.
00:22:12.760 The fact that the government sector in Alberta has grown by nearly 80,000 jobs over the same
00:22:19.040 four-year period where the economy shed 46,000 public jobs.
00:22:23.300 This is the problem in a nutshell.
00:22:25.540 In Alberta, there's a huge recession.
00:22:27.460 There's so many job losses.
00:22:29.360 There's so many companies fleeing the province, which means that there's a smaller and smaller
00:22:32.760 tax base, regardless of what's happening with the price of oil.
00:22:36.120 And yet, the government just massively grew under Rachel Notley.
00:22:39.380 So Jason Kenney introduces some measures to just rein that in and kind of keep things
00:22:44.520 under control.
00:22:45.600 And the left absolutely loses their mind and twists and turns what Kenney's doing.
00:22:49.620 When I was out there in Alberta, there were ads everywhere talking about how Kenney was
00:22:52.920 cutting 750 nursing positions, a statistic that's not even technically true, and yet hold that
00:22:59.840 up against the fact that 79,000 public sector employers, government employees, were added during
00:23:07.200 those four years under Rachel Notley.
00:23:08.940 So that's a great question, and we should keep that in mind.
00:23:11.660 Keep things in perspective in Alberta when you hear about job cuts.
00:23:15.980 All right, let's leave it at that, everyone.
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