00:00:00.000I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for you
00:00:07.440today folks and I hope you enjoyed our interview that we did with Premier Danielle Smith, the
00:00:12.240Alberta Premier, that is up and available on YouTube now so go check that out if you haven't
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00:00:25.680Okay so when I interviewed Premier Danielle Smith this bill had just been announced and we didn't
00:00:30.600really have time to go through it all on that show and in that interview so I want to spend a bit of
00:00:35.400time talking about Bill C5 on the show today and how it really changed it will it could potentially
00:00:41.520really change our country and Canada do some things that are deeply needed in order to get our economy
00:00:47.640back on track but it creates a real problem for Prime Minister Mark Carney. It is a serious departure
00:00:54.660from Liberal policy and basically like the core of the Liberal Party for the past 10 years under
00:01:01.100the former leader Justin Trudeau so we're going to walk you through all of that today. First Bill C5
00:01:06.900I'm going to show this clip here is the Prime Minister on Friday alongside Intergovernmental Affairs
00:01:12.180Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Internal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland announcing this new bill on Friday
00:01:19.440here let's play that clip. With the one Canadian economy bill we are aligning federal rules and
00:01:24.600regulations with those from the provinces and territories helping to create one market not 13. The second
00:01:31.960component of the bill enables the federal government to identify and expedite nation building projects.
00:01:38.560Canada is a country that used to build big things but in recent decades it's become too difficult to build in
00:01:46.740this country. Now all of that is completely true and this is all what has come out of that First
00:01:52.280Minister's meeting that happened in Saskatoon last week they were sort of teasing this and here it is
00:01:57.600now I want to read from the Toronto Star I don't usually point to something from the Toronto Star but this is
00:02:03.220an op-ed an opinion article sorry written by Althea Raj who is sort of the one of the main people at the
00:02:09.380Toronto Star these days and this is what her headline says she says Mark Carney can't be allowed to ram
00:02:16.300through his plan to build big right so for people like me and maybe people like you when we see a bill
00:02:22.100that plans to just get things done get things built and get our economy back on track that's like music
00:02:27.800to our ears right but to someone like Althea Raj to readers of the Toronto Star to the sort of base of
00:02:34.600the Liberal Party and what that party has been built under the last 10 years this is like a calamity it is
00:02:40.500like a disaster that cannot happen and so I'm going to read a bit from Althea Raj just so you get an idea
00:02:45.780of how Liberal Liberal how people in Liberal world are thinking right now so she says a pic they say a
00:02:52.620picture is worth a thousand words and so on Friday when Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his new
00:02:57.120omnibus bill that gives cabinet the right to circumvent environmental laws in the name of getting big
00:03:02.500resource projects built perhaps it was noteworthy that Environment and Climate Minister Julie Dabrusson was not one of the
00:03:06.300the five cabinet ministers serving as the Prime Minister's backdrop yes so for Liberals is very
00:03:15.840concerning that the climate minister the environment minister wasn't there wasn't part of it even though
00:03:20.820frankly it doesn't really have to do with the environment right it's the idea is that it's part
00:03:25.860the first part of this bill is free trade and labor mobility so getting rid of interprovincial trade
00:03:31.440barriers that was Mark Carney's pledge on the election campaign he said it was going to happen by
00:03:35.880Canada Day that is why Chrystia Freeland was there and then the second part of the bill the bill is the
00:03:41.880Building Canada Act the bill that's supposed to just you know get big resource projects built right so
00:03:47.700so neither of those are really to the environment but you can see for a Liberal that is very disturbing
00:03:52.140and very upsetting so Althea Raj says Bill C5 was quickly panned by Indigenous groups human rights
00:03:58.080organizations and environmental non-for-profits alarmed by the government's actions she goes on she says the
00:04:03.540bill is actually two pieces of legislation that's sort of what I just explained and then she says this this is the
00:04:08.540type of legislation that conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper might have been too timid to bring forward
00:04:13.540fearing a public backlash it hands over sweeping decision-making powers to one cabinet minister in
00:04:19.540untransparent ways gives cabinet the ability to delete environmental laws from consideration and creates a dangerous
00:04:25.540precedent that should be looked at with a fine-tooth comb despite the vehement opposition
00:04:30.540from the Bloc Quebecois the NDP and the Green Party it may still sail through the commons with the support of the
00:04:37.540Conservatives Wow imagine that folks the Liberals and the Conservatives teaming up to build a pro-Canada pro-infrastructure pro-energy bill I did not expect this I did not expect to see this from Mark Carney I want to
00:04:52.540continue just a little bit further from Althea Raj's piece here because again I really think it paints
00:04:58.540the the picture of the problem for Mark Carney I think that the knives are starting to come out for
00:05:03.540Mark Carney it starts with someone like Althea Raj who is in touch with the Liberal Party base she is friendly with
00:05:09.540people and liberal insiders so this is clearly what she is hearing from her friends who are the ones who used to be in
00:05:16.540Justin Trudeau's inner circle and maybe they're on the outs with Mark Carney I'm just guessing but
00:05:22.540that it seems to be where this is going so she says that the bill also allow cabinet to ignore laws it doesn't want to abide by
00:05:29.540for example if the government is worried about the outcome of a review triggered by the Canadian Environmental Protection Act
00:05:35.540it could delete the act from consideration the minority liberal government is defeated next year the law would allow
00:05:41.540the next Prime Minister say current Conservative leader Pierre Polyev to delete all 13 laws and 7 regulations used to
00:05:48.540evaluate and consider such projects she continues and says when pressured in the Commons on Monday about the bill representing
00:05:56.540a backward step for environment and democracy House leader Stephen McKinnon responded that C5 is an answer to an economic crisis
00:06:05.540an economic crisis provoked by our neighbors to the south and a commercial crisis and then it says
00:06:11.540Carney wants to fast-track this bill through Parliament at breakneck speed this is all really interesting right this is again
00:06:19.540saying that we have an issue with the economy and Mark Carney has said that he he is going to come forth with a plan
00:06:27.540the idea that environmental laws were put in place to block projects is the problem
00:06:32.540that is the problem that the Prime Minister needs to overcome because particularly under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
00:06:38.540they let the Environment Minister go way too far and put way too many restrictions to the point where we can't get anything built
00:06:45.540that's why Bill C 69 is called the no new pipelines bill because they made it so onerous to get an environmental review done
00:06:52.540that it's literally designed to never allow anything to get built ever and so this is just Mark Carney simply saying
00:06:59.540a lot of those laws that were made in the past need to go right and it's a lot easier to do it through a bill like this
00:07:05.540than it would be to try to fight back on each of those individual laws so from my perspective folks this is good news
00:07:12.540I don't say this lightly I don't come out and compliment Mark Carney and the Liberals very often if ever frankly
00:07:17.540but when I see something I like I'm gonna say it and I think that this is something that can be very good for the country
00:07:23.540very good for Canada and so the question that's sort of come up from all of this is do we need a consensus
00:07:30.540when it comes to pipelines does every single party in the country every single person every single interest group have to agree
00:07:36.540well if that's the case we're just never gonna get anything built and that is pretty much exactly what Pierre Paulier
00:07:43.540the Conservative leader had to say so here he is speaking to reporters on Monday and just basically saying it like it is
00:14:35.540I attended a seminar a union anti-racism or anti-black racism seminar in the spring on my own
00:14:43.540I wasn't a journalist then I was just a member of the public obviously I have an interest in this these sorts of topics
00:14:49.540and I saw that this particular union the elementary teachers of Toronto union had opened their conference to members of the public
00:14:57.540so you know I phoned up the union I said listen can I come I use my real name or why would I you know use any other name
00:15:03.540and so I attended this conference and I knew it was going to be rather interesting when I saw one of the talks was decoding whiteness in parent caregiver interactions
00:15:14.540which is the real reason that I wanted to go which is in the article that I shared and it didn't disappoint
00:15:19.540I was absolutely there to learn whether or not my own research into critical race theory and culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy
00:15:28.540which I talk a lot about was you know what I thought it was if I was among supporters of it and it really is
00:15:35.540I was shocked of the level of what felt very much like anti-white racism and that's something that I've tried not to a term that I've tried not to use
00:15:50.540because I was like well I know in the in the literature they're very careful to say this is not anti-white
00:15:56.540but it really felt like that coming from some of the some of the things that were said there some of the questions from the audience
00:16:03.540and I wanted to convey that in in the article that I wrote so I included some clips so people could sort of see for themselves that
00:16:10.540even though they say that the concept of you know disrupting and dismantling whiteness is is about disrupting and dismantling a system
00:16:18.540that often this gets lost in translation and can very much turn or at least very much seems like it turns into bigotry against white people
00:16:30.540and I think yeah I think I did that in the article I think people can see that for themselves
00:16:35.540Well we do have a clip this is from an individual named Michelle Monroe who I'm guessing is one of the leaders of this of this conference that you attended
00:16:44.540and she told participants that educators are shaped and trained in a white system and that the curriculum is a way to cover a white curriculum
00:16:52.540so let's play this audio that you uncovered from this meeting
00:16:57.540so why do this has an influence education right?
00:17:01.540many of our educators are shaped or trained in a white system
00:17:05.540the curriculum they cover is a white curriculum
00:17:10.540so why would they end up in our classroom if it's something different?
00:17:14.540so you can see for yourself there folks
00:17:16.540you know what kind of things we're dealing with here
00:17:19.540another story Melanie that you broke last week came from the Waterloo School Board
00:17:24.540and the headline is School Board trains staff that the term family is harmful and racist
00:17:31.540and so can you can you walk us through this story as well?
00:17:35.540absolutely that was a training that was leaked to me
00:17:41.540and when I went through I recognized many of the principles of critical race theory that I'd been studying
00:17:48.540and so this very much reflected those principles
00:17:50.540and I felt it was important for people to understand that this is the foundational basis it seems for most of the anti-oppressive education
00:17:57.540and so this is what it what it looks like this particular training
00:18:01.540now the article focused on the family but does go into a little bit more detail about sort of the broader ideology
00:18:07.540and it certainly caught the attention of the Waterloo District School Board
00:18:11.540who since that article actually put out a statement acknowledging that this is this is their training
00:19:28.540so I guess they're not supposed to use the term family because it's racist
00:19:34.540is that is that is that what they're teaching here Melanie
00:19:36.540yes in a roundabout way because a nuclear family is what they're specifically referring to a nuclear family is part of the white dominant culture
00:19:45.540culture and a white dominant culture is oppressive because it is a hegemonic culture
00:19:50.540and so you to to disrupt and dismantle whiteness we must disrupt and dismantle the nuclear family
00:19:58.540and so this is again all in line with critical race theory
00:20:00.540I just wanted to add that since this particular article went viral all over the place frankly
00:20:08.540my my Twitter's been attacked and I'm I've been suspended you can't actually I posted those slides
00:20:15.540all of the slides that I had on my Twitter and you can't see them right now
00:20:19.540they they they've been censored off off the internet so I wanted people to go look at it for themselves
00:20:25.540so they could see it's not just that slide it's all the other slides are in line with with what this particular slide is saying
00:20:31.540and you can't even go look at it right now
00:20:33.540well it's shocking I thought that Elon Musk bought Twitter so that we would move away from this type of censorship that happens
00:20:41.540but certainly does it happens to us here on YouTube sometimes as well Melanie
00:20:45.540well thank you so much for your reporting I mean this is clearly a widespread problem
00:20:49.540and I'm very glad that we have someone on the team that is just exposing it and letting the public know this is what is happening at our schools
00:20:56.540and if we want it to stop we have to first be aware of it and then make our voices heard
00:21:03.540so thanks so much Melanie we were looking forward to seeing your show
00:21:09.540all right folks it's all the time we have for today thanks so much for tuning in I'm Candace Malcolm
00:21:13.540this is the Candace Malcolm show we'll be back again tomorrow with all the news thank you and God bless
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