Juno News - The CBC is guilty of spreading fake news – again

00:00:00.000 hi i'm candace malcolm and this is the candace malcolm show today on the program i want to bring

00:00:09.940 back an old segment that we used to do we haven't done it a while but given the current media climate

00:00:14.660 and everything that's going on in the country i think it's important that we bring this segment

00:00:17.980 back so it is called this week in fake news it's a segment where i go through and i find some of

00:00:23.660 the most egregious examples of the media just getting it wrong the media misrepresenting who

00:00:28.540 they are and the media just really botching a story and there's so much of that today in canada

00:00:33.480 among the legacy media so you know the legacy media are out there and they pretend that they're these

00:00:39.200 sort of champions of truth and that they're completely non-biased and indifferent and they're

00:00:44.600 just out there trying to report the facts we all know that that's not true every single reporter

00:00:49.300 in canada has their own biases and it's just a simple fact that most of those biases lead them

00:00:55.340 towards the left most journalists in canada are left-leaning and that bias does come through

00:01:00.140 they're not honest about who they are so they pretend to be these unbiased impartial arbiters

00:01:05.280 of facts and knowledge but the reality is that they have their own agenda they have their own ideas and

00:01:09.940 opinions and that does come through here at true north you know exactly who we are and what you can

00:01:16.120 get we don't hide our biases you know for instance that our editorial position is conservative

00:01:21.920 that we see the world through the sort of right of center prism of things and that our news reports

00:01:28.340 are fact-driven straight facts so you're not going to see our opinions seep through in our news pieces

00:01:33.660 but when it comes to the editorial position we are open about the fact that we are conservative

00:01:37.780 whereas for instance the cbc they're not open at all about their biases they pretend to just simply be

00:01:44.600 representing the views of canadians of course we all know that the cbc is far left that most of their

00:01:49.780 reporters lean left but they don't acknowledge that they don't say that they're a left-leaning

00:01:53.780 organization they lie to you and they say that they're straight down the middle which of course

00:01:58.440 they are not so in this week in fake news we are going to focus on two stories and the first one does

00:02:03.720 lo and behold come from that state broadcaster of the cbc so i noticed this piece over the weekend

00:02:08.900 and it really just struck me as being dishonest so here it is it says three strikes and you're outed

00:02:14.900 brian pallister makes another inflammatory comment about indigenous relations now you can see that

00:02:20.460 this is listed under the term analysis so back in the day in journalism there were sort of two camps

00:02:25.760 of the types of reports that you would see there would be the straight news which is what i was

00:02:30.060 talking about you know the idea that there's no bias there's no um you know worldview seeped in there

00:02:35.680 it's just impartial here are the facts here you go and then the other side of the aisle would be

00:02:40.560 opinion journalism and so this is the people who add context to the stories they give you your opinion

00:02:45.600 sometimes they even tell you who you should vote for and who you shouldn't vote for but the news

00:02:50.060 side is not supposed to do that well the legacy media has created this sort of third middle sector

00:02:55.740 that's not quite news not quite opinion they call it analysis so this falls in that middle category it

00:03:01.380 really should be listed as opinion because as we'll see when we go through this piece it is an opinion

00:03:05.720 piece but oddly enough it is written by a reporter so a person who does straight news a person that

00:03:11.460 covers politics in manitoba presumably he's part of the press gallery there he goes to the news

00:03:17.740 conferences and asks questions to the premier pretending to just be a straight reporter but then

00:03:23.180 you have this weird analysis piece that really is just an opinion piece from this reporter who

00:03:28.800 basically is calling for the premier to be removed from office which is a pretty strong call from the

00:03:35.640 state broadcaster from the public journalists who received billions of dollars in tax money

00:03:40.400 so as i said the headline is three strikes and you're outed i don't even really know what that

00:03:44.720 means the sub headline here says brian pallister's latest gaffe and reluctance to acknowledge it further

00:03:50.960 illustrates his unusual leadership so again because it's an analysis he's not taking a really strong

00:03:56.480 opinion even though it's kind of buried in there and instead it just says oh this is unusual leadership

00:04:01.820 while the headline itself calls for him to be removed from office so i'll read from the report

00:04:07.760 itself so we can get to these three supposed gaffes made by the premier so he starts by saying during

00:04:13.960 five years as manitoba's premier brian palliser has made a trio of statements his critics can fairly

00:04:19.960 describe as impediments to reconciliation again you can see what this journalist's bias is you can see

00:04:27.100 what his opinion is but he hides it behind this language so instead of just saying this is my

00:04:31.200 opinion he says these statements his critics can fairly describe as being an impediment which again

00:04:37.460 is just him hiding his own opinion so what are these three trio of gaffes well the first one here it says

00:04:43.440 so in 2017 palliser characterized divisions between indigenous and non-indigenous people fighting over

00:04:50.140 illegal night hunting as the markings of a race war according to this piece he later walked back those

00:04:56.320 comments as the wrong choice of words but he did not apologize for them so it sounds like in the

00:05:02.860 heat of a moment he said this was a race war which i don't really know much about this 2017

00:05:07.160 event uh sure the premier probably shouldn't be using terms like that but really it's not the end

00:05:12.840 of the world i mean it's probably what a fairly accurate description of what was going on and then

00:05:17.980 he later said look upon consideration these were the wrong choice of words so this reporter is kind of

00:05:23.380 being a stickler for whether or not someone apologized for really just you know saying

00:05:27.720 something that was true and then realizing oh it's probably politically incorrect and saying it was

00:05:32.460 the wrong choice of word it looks like he did acknowledge it uh whether or not he specifically

00:05:36.740 said the word i'm sorry again you know this is four years ago now i don't know why uh this is

00:05:42.120 something that the cbc needs to write about now but let's go on to the second supposed gaffe

00:05:47.160 by premier pallister in manitoba so the second one he said in late 2020 the premier suggested that the

00:05:54.480 need to prioritize the indigenous population for covid19 vaccinations puts manitobans at the back 1.00

00:06:00.960 of the line for doses if the province does not receive the greater proportion

00:06:05.660 proportionate share of shots so the implication this according to the cbc reporter is that indigenous

00:06:12.840 people are not manitobans in spite of that rhetoric the province went on to partner with the first

00:06:18.500 nations pandemic response team on what is widely regarded as a successful effort to ensure vaccines

00:06:24.680 made their way to indigenous communities so this is kind of interesting because his complaint is the

00:06:30.040 language that the premier used which admittedly isn't that great but it ignores the actual actions

00:06:35.540 of the premier so here we have in manitoba a success story a story of the premier prioritizing the

00:06:42.240 indigenous population ensuring that they did get their covid vaccines and that was successful and

00:06:47.060 the author even confirms that in this piece saying that well yeah his words were bad but his actions

00:06:53.440 were great and so again it kind of negates this entire point sure he said something that maybe he

00:06:58.860 shouldn't have it seems again like he probably just misspoke and then the actions were what matters so

00:07:04.360 cbc is pointing out that it doesn't matter what you do as long as you say something that's slightly

00:07:09.540 politically incorrect then we're going to go after you for it okay let's find out what the third

00:07:14.380 statement was so here he says here the piece goes on to say the third statement arrived on wednesday

00:07:20.040 when the premier issued a plea to manitobans who remain angry about the discovery of the remains of

00:07:25.360 hundreds of children at several canadian residential schools if you've been following my reports you know

00:07:30.200 that this statement that he just wrote here isn't exactly true it's not confirmed and to say that the

00:07:35.860 remains are of children at residential schools is just flatly plainly false i've made this point many

00:07:41.400 times for instance the place where the unmarked graves were discovered in cranbrook british columbia

00:07:47.340 was an existing graveyard that predated the residential school by 40 years and also serviced the only local

00:07:53.660 hospital in the area so the idea that these graves are all belonging to children residential school is

00:07:58.980 just patently false but the reporter repeats that myth and then he goes on to say this and this is

00:08:03.900 pretty wild so again this is to quote the piece in the cbc during a speech intended to calm the waters

00:08:10.340 pallister instead whipped up a storm by suggesting the colonization of canada was conducted with good

00:08:17.220 intentions this is a quote from pallister the people who came to this country before it was a country and

00:08:22.640 since then didn't come here to destroy anything they came here to build okay so let's just pause for a second

00:08:29.480 because this shouldn't even be a controversial point early canadians were good people that had

00:08:34.720 good intentions they came here to build a country that's true you can argue about whether the outcomes

00:08:39.720 of their policies were good or bad a lot of them were really good we live in a great country look at

00:08:44.400 the rule of law in our country the institutions the education system the health system there are so many

00:08:49.540 things that canada got right canada is a great country in the scheme of things early canadians yes they

00:08:55.640 had good intentions and yes they came here to build did they make some mistakes absolutely were early

00:09:00.780 governments not as good as governments today absolutely i think you can look at any government

00:09:04.880 in any country in the world and any time in canadian history and point out things that are bad but when

00:09:11.020 you compare canada to any other country in the world and especially at that time right we're talking

00:09:15.640 about the turn of the century from the 1800s to the 1900s that's what means residential schools

00:09:20.040 were established and then they were maintained during the 20th century you know at a time when

00:09:25.280 evil ideologies like fascism and communism were causing real chaos and reaping havoc all over the

00:09:31.720 globe you're talking about real genocide real issues of mass death and suffering and misery at the hands

00:09:38.460 of governments over in canada we had this school system that had some bad outcomes absolutely but again

00:09:45.420 the intentions were they good were they bad of the residential schools that's a debate that we can have

00:09:49.840 but to kind of blanketly say that the intentions of early canadians were not good i don't think you

00:09:55.640 can say that and i don't think that you can say that they've had a negative outcome but again the cbc is

00:10:00.760 not interested in nuance they're interested in this weird game of gotcha journalism taking words out of

00:10:06.180 context and trying to use them to haunt someone and of course it doesn't apply equally they would

00:10:11.300 never do this to justin trudeau they would never do this to a liberal premier or a liberal politician

00:10:16.580 this is just a weird gotcha game that they play against conservatives parsing their language taking

00:10:21.740 it out of context using it against them it's absolutely despicable and i think that the cbc

00:10:26.380 should be absolutely ashamed of itself for running this piece okay let's move on to my second article

00:10:32.620 that i'd like to go through in this week in fake news this is over in ipolitics you may not have heard

00:10:38.460 of ipolitics it's a small little website news outlet that is based in ottawa and they sort of cover

00:10:44.600 ottawa based news but you probably will recognize the author of this article because michael corin used

00:10:50.820 to be a very prominent outspoken conservative who was a religious conservative and he would sort of

00:10:56.140 back every position even the controversial extreme ones of the christian right and sort of defend them

00:11:01.840 and then all of a sudden he had this weird 180 where he went hardcore in the other direction and now

00:11:07.260 he's a leftist who openly speaks out about how much he hates sort of the political right and the

00:11:11.920 christian right in in particular so his piece over in ipolitics is called let's worried about destroyed

00:11:19.100 people first then destroyed churches to scream at violence without realizing its causes isn't an

00:11:25.340 authentic christian response so it's a little rich to hear michael corin telling us about what is and

00:11:31.240 what isn't an authentic christian response given the fact that he has himself switched his position so

00:11:37.540 much it's hard to tell what's authentic with him and what isn't but the long and the short of it and

00:11:42.780 i won't spend too much time on this piece because it's really despicable but the idea is that we're

00:11:47.400 supposed to just sort of accept the idea that these churches are being burnt down the churches are being

00:11:51.960 vandalized and that it's all part of the sort of reconciliation process and i just think that this view is

00:11:58.820 absolutely abhorrent look one of the most important values in canada is religious freedom

00:12:04.540 the ability to practice your religion we all know that if this was happening to any other religious

00:12:09.260 group if these were jewish synagogues or muslim mosques or sikh temples or any other religious

00:12:14.980 building this would be a huge huge national story the rcmp would be out there on a manhunt trying to find

00:12:21.200 those responsible and every single liberal and leftist pundit probably every conservative pundit too

00:12:26.060 would be condemning it but somehow because it's happening to christians and because of the news

00:12:31.060 with the unmarked graves being discovered uh everyone just sort of shrugs their shoulders and

00:12:36.020 michael corin is sort of the leading example of this and perhaps the saddest part of this whole story

00:12:41.360 about the churches getting burnt down or being desecrated is that so many of these churches are on

00:12:46.820 first nations territories so something that you might not hear many people talk about and people

00:12:51.460 don't really like to acknowledge but the overwhelming majority of first nations people in this country

00:12:56.000 are practicing christians many of them are practicing catholics so the churches that are being burnt down

00:13:00.840 are there places of worship there are places where first nations go to pray um and to congregate the

00:13:07.880 idea that during this time that is a crisis for first nations you know the sort of wounds of

00:13:12.200 residential schools the wounds of residential schools are being ripped open by the mainstream media

00:13:17.160 a lot of times in a very neglectful way um using irresponsible language exaggerating sensationalizing

00:13:23.960 the story and saying things that are flat out untrue um ripping open the wounds for first nations

00:13:29.320 people and then they don't have anywhere to go and pray because their local community church has been

00:13:34.200 burnt down look again canada is a country of laws we have the rule of law and one of the foremost values

00:13:40.600 that we have in this country is freedom of religion that includes the sanctity of these buildings and

00:13:45.400 the ability of canadians to go and pray and having someone like michael corin kind of get out there

00:13:50.760 and champion the idea that it is okay that these are being burnt down and that it's not the same as

00:13:55.240 violence against individual people is just absolutely disgusting i want to point out one line just

00:14:00.600 because it's a certainly a pet peeve of mine but michael corin even repeats the lie that these were

00:14:07.000 mass graves that were discovered so he says this has all happened since the mass unmarked graves of

00:14:12.680 indigenous children were found on the grounds of former residential schools which were often run by

00:14:17.480 churches okay so you see here he uses the term mass unmarked graves which is sort of a sleight of hand

00:14:23.160 trick they weren't mass graves a lot of media reported that they were mass graves of course

00:14:26.760 mass graves are the hallmark of genocide and the idea of a mass grave sort of conjures images of evil

00:14:33.080 done by nazis and communists and fascists in the 20th century so to use that term mass graves is

00:14:39.640 incredibly dubious and it's not true in this instance and so because it's not technically true

00:14:44.360 he kind of sneaks in mass unmarked graves so that if you're not reading it very carefully you might think

00:14:49.800 it just says mass graves but really he's saying mass unmarked graves which isn't really the correct

00:14:55.160 language that you would use so shame on ipolitics for publishing this piece shame on the cbc for

00:15:00.200 writing that weird analysis trying to condemn the premier for things that really weren't that bad

00:15:05.400 this is definitely your examples of fake news for this week thanks so much for tuning in i'm

00:15:10.120 canis malcolm and this is the canis malcolm show

Juno News - July 15, 2021

The CBC is guilty of spreading fake news – again

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