Juno News - August 11, 2021


The legacy media covers for Justin Trudeau (again)


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00:00:00.000 The borders are open and it is a chaotic mess, but you won't hear about that in the legacy media.
00:00:04.660 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:11.820 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:14.060 Now, if you get your news from True North, if you follow this program and you listen to it regularly,
00:00:18.640 you're probably not one of the people that's going to fall for a misleading headline
00:00:22.480 or a really sort of incorrect narrative being pushed out by the legacy media.
00:00:27.460 But sadly, too many Canadians still do get their news from the legacy media.
00:00:32.060 And so I think it's important when I see a series of headlines that are just wrong,
00:00:36.520 that it's still important to go through and really try to dissect it for the viewer,
00:00:41.980 especially when the conclusion that the legacy media is drawing is this sort of celebratory good news story
00:00:48.120 about Justin Trudeau and his government.
00:00:50.280 I'm talking about the news that happened over the weekend about the borders sort of finally opening up
00:00:55.380 after, what, 18 months of the land borders being mostly closed to tourism and visitors.
00:01:01.180 And the media was sort of celebrating that.
00:01:02.980 Well, I want to go back.
00:01:04.100 So two weeks ago when Trudeau first announced that this measure was happening,
00:01:07.380 it was met with two things that I think were very unanticipated and bad news for the prime minister.
00:01:13.680 So Trudeau announced that he was unilaterally doing this decision.
00:01:16.600 The first bad thing that happened was that U.S. President Joe Biden did not reciprocate that.
00:01:20.720 He wasn't ready.
00:01:22.100 He said he wasn't going to do it.
00:01:23.460 So you have this weird situation where Canada is saying, yes, we're going to allow Americans to come in.
00:01:27.780 But Americans haven't yet created that reciprocity to say that Canadians are welcome back into the United States.
00:01:33.980 So that kind of soured Trudeau's announcement.
00:01:36.440 The second thing that happened was that the CBSA union, so CBSA is a Canadian border services agency,
00:01:42.440 and their union said that they were not happy, that their contracts hadn't been finalized yet,
00:01:47.660 went to the union for a vote, and they voted to strike.
00:01:51.600 So the worst possible timing for the prime minister, the worst possible timing to have your border services agents strike
00:01:57.700 right when you announce that the U.S. border is opening up again.
00:02:02.280 And so interestingly, what the mainstream media, legacy media stories focused on
00:02:07.520 was that an apparent deal was reached with these border agents.
00:02:11.140 And so this was all on Friday.
00:02:13.100 You see a report here in the Toronto Star and another one here in CTV saying,
00:02:17.500 CBSA employees agree to deal with government ending days on strike.
00:02:21.380 That was at CTV.
00:02:22.780 And Toronto Star headline here says,
00:02:24.500 deal with border agents ends traffic snarl up as Canada reopens to the U.S.
00:02:30.700 So again, if you were just going to get your news from the legacy media,
00:02:33.680 you would assume, okay, wow, they avoided a potentially terrible situation
00:02:38.080 where the border guards were on strike right when the borders were opening up.
00:02:43.780 Well, unfortunately, I don't actually think that these news agencies sent reporters to the border
00:02:49.340 to see what was actually happening.
00:02:51.040 I happened to be coming into Canada over the weekend.
00:02:53.640 And as I reported at TNC.news, it was pure chaos at the border.
00:02:58.640 It was the exact opposite of what these legacy news stories would have you believe.
00:03:02.640 So I'm going to walk you through my story at Pearson Airport.
00:03:06.560 I arrived with my family at about 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.
00:03:10.800 And keep in mind, this was after we were told that the CBSA had reached a deal.
00:03:14.840 So we were told CBSA had announced that they were going to go on strike on Tuesday.
00:03:19.100 On Friday, after long negotiations, they reached an agreement.
00:03:23.480 During those long negotiations, CBSA, they can't actually strike.
00:03:26.840 What they can do is something called work to rule,
00:03:28.840 which is because they're essential workers, instead of just walking off the job,
00:03:33.240 they basically do their job as slowly as possible to make it as painful as possible
00:03:39.240 for whoever they're interacting with, which gives them bargaining power
00:03:42.760 with, you know, the person that's doing their contract.
00:03:45.760 In this case, the Treasury Board, so the federal government.
00:03:48.740 And we're talking about the CBSA union here.
00:03:51.600 So back to my story.
00:03:53.160 I land at 5 p.m. with my family.
00:03:55.640 And basically, we're told that we can't get off the plane.
00:03:58.100 Now, anyone who's traveled with little kids, I have two little kids,
00:04:01.400 anyone who's traveled with little kids knows that as soon as the airplane lands,
00:04:04.920 you're basically just, you can't wait to get off the plane.
00:04:07.100 You want to get off the plane.
00:04:07.980 The kids are, you know, the kids want to run around.
00:04:11.080 You want to let them just have some space after being kind of cramped up in a small airport seat.
00:04:16.260 You want to go get some water, maybe something to eat.
00:04:18.700 You just want to stretch your legs, right?
00:04:20.220 The last thing you want to do is to be forced to sit on a hot airplane longer than you have to.
00:04:24.460 Well, that's when the Air Canada pilot came on the PA system
00:04:27.380 and let us all know that because of this work-to-rule action with the CBSA,
00:04:32.960 there were very, very long delays.
00:04:35.360 And that at that point, they had closed the custom halls to new passengers.
00:04:39.180 So it was at capacity.
00:04:40.720 No one was allowed to get in.
00:04:42.160 We had to wait on the plane until more space opened up.
00:04:46.560 So that's our story.
00:04:47.980 We're sitting on the plane.
00:04:48.920 It ended up taking about two hours.
00:04:50.420 We were finally let off because we had small kids.
00:04:53.160 Other passengers were made to wait.
00:04:55.500 So we left the plane, went into the customs hall,
00:04:58.740 and it was, again, just pure chaos.
00:05:01.080 Lines everywhere.
00:05:02.180 As chaotic as I've ever seen it.
00:05:04.300 And I travel a lot and I've come into,
00:05:06.780 I've entered into Canada, you know, probably hundreds of times in my life.
00:05:10.340 This was as chaotic as I've ever seen it.
00:05:12.940 The line was snaking back and forth throughout the entire customs hall
00:05:15.720 and it was packed and it was chaotic.
00:05:18.060 So after waiting about two hours on the plane,
00:05:20.780 we were then made to wait another probably about an hour.
00:05:23.740 And it was frustrating because typically when you go through customs,
00:05:28.040 most people will go up to a computer, a machine.
00:05:30.820 You have your form filled out.
00:05:32.020 You put it in and you put in your information.
00:05:34.560 You get it back.
00:05:35.360 You either have an X on the back or you don't.
00:05:37.380 If you don't have an X on the back,
00:05:38.540 it's usually quite quickly to just go through a line.
00:05:41.280 And then if you do have an X,
00:05:42.180 it's because there's some complication with your file
00:05:44.520 or some kind of a red flag.
00:05:46.000 And so then you have to go speak to a border guard.
00:05:48.420 On the weekend when I was there,
00:05:49.860 they were making every single person speak to a border guard.
00:05:52.720 And that's sort of the idea behind work to rule
00:05:55.040 is that it intentionally makes your visit longer and more unpleasant,
00:06:00.160 again, so that the union has more bargaining power.
00:06:03.740 It was interesting because the mainstream media,
00:06:05.820 the legacy media were telling us that the strike was over.
00:06:08.460 And yet, you know, my experience in being there,
00:06:11.080 talking to the Air Canada pilots
00:06:12.400 and then actually going through customs
00:06:13.720 was the exact opposite,
00:06:15.360 that the work to rule, it was still going on.
00:06:17.900 I've spoken to people that say that it is still going on.
00:06:20.880 So it is now Tuesday.
00:06:22.600 We're told it was done on Friday,
00:06:24.320 Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
00:06:26.120 and now Tuesday, day five,
00:06:27.840 after it's supposedly finished.
00:06:29.100 And it is still very busy and very chaotic
00:06:31.640 at that international arrivals desk
00:06:34.240 and customs hall at Toronto Pearson Airport.
00:06:36.580 This doesn't just impact people from Toronto.
00:06:38.820 You know, if you're taking an international flight,
00:06:40.400 most places land in Toronto and then have connecting flights
00:06:43.520 going to the rest of the country.
00:06:45.120 So it really does impact all Canadians who were away
00:06:48.180 and coming back,
00:06:49.440 as well as people who were traveling,
00:06:51.140 tourists, maybe new immigrants.
00:06:53.040 Now, interestingly,
00:06:53.880 TNC wasn't the only news agency who reported on this.
00:06:57.220 The Toronto Sun had a similar report over the weekend
00:07:00.200 describing the same situation that we reported at TNC,
00:07:04.640 but attributing it to something totally different.
00:07:06.560 So I'll read from this Toronto Sun story.
00:07:08.420 It says,
00:07:09.160 Passengers left on planes,
00:07:10.720 sometimes for hours due to Pearson COVID capacity limits.
00:07:14.860 COVID capacity limits in Toronto's airport
00:07:16.620 means long delays before passengers
00:07:18.520 are allowed to exit their aircraft.
00:07:20.640 I'll read from the body of the story here.
00:07:22.860 It says,
00:07:24.060 International passengers are being left
00:07:25.920 to sit on hot airplanes for hours
00:07:28.180 due to overcrowding inside Canada's largest airport,
00:07:30.760 the Sun has learned.
00:07:31.920 Sources tell the Sun that passengers from abroad
00:07:34.100 are being forced to languish on planes parked at gates,
00:07:37.280 sometimes reportedly for as long as two to three hours
00:07:40.160 due to capacity limits inside the Customs Hall
00:07:42.540 at Toronto Pearson International Airport,
00:07:45.180 the GTAA,
00:07:46.260 which is the Greater Toronto Airport Authority.
00:07:48.780 So the GTAA's capacity metering program,
00:07:51.300 said Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick,
00:07:53.500 means passengers are deplaned in groups of 50 every five minutes
00:07:56.900 once an aircraft arrives at the gate.
00:07:59.540 So interestingly,
00:08:00.520 the Sun paints the same story
00:08:02.340 as what we did at TNC
00:08:03.660 and describes the same situation.
00:08:05.440 But rather than attributing it to the CBSA
00:08:08.080 and their work to rule initiative,
00:08:09.780 they are attributing it to the GTAA
00:08:12.740 and this metered COVID then.
00:08:14.540 I have no doubt in my mind
00:08:15.560 that it's a combination of both,
00:08:17.280 that the work to rule
00:08:18.180 and the intentional slowness by the union
00:08:20.560 compounded with these weird COVID metering rules
00:08:23.880 just made it a complete mess.
00:08:26.140 Okay, so let's go and compare the coverage
00:08:27.880 between the TNC report
00:08:29.420 and the Toronto Sun report
00:08:30.740 versus what more of the legacy media was saying.
00:08:33.320 So like I said,
00:08:33.900 here's a story in the Toronto Star
00:08:36.280 that really emphasizes the fact
00:08:38.340 that the deal was made just in time
00:08:40.680 for the border to open up.
00:08:42.660 They talk about how this was an 11th hour agreement
00:08:44.900 to avoid further strikes with the federal government
00:08:47.480 and that this was all done just in time
00:08:49.700 for the border to reopen on Monday.
00:08:52.380 They did mention some delays,
00:08:53.660 but those were all at the land borders.
00:08:55.640 No one mentioned any delays at the airport.
00:08:57.680 It goes on to say,
00:08:59.300 the Public Service Alliance of Canada
00:09:00.860 and the Customs and Immigration Union,
00:09:02.960 those are the unions that represent the CBSA,
00:09:05.440 had served strike notice
00:09:06.700 to the federal government on Tuesday
00:09:08.060 and the tentative agreement was inked
00:09:10.080 after a final round of negotiation
00:09:11.680 that lasted more than 36 hours into Friday morning.
00:09:15.260 It's worth noting that the tentative agreement
00:09:16.760 did not equal an actual agreement.
00:09:19.060 It was just an agreement in principle
00:09:20.960 and it has still yet to be ratified.
00:09:24.020 It says the agreement is a testament
00:09:25.360 to the incredible hard work and dedication
00:09:27.740 of our bargaining team
00:09:28.920 who worked through the night to reach the deal.
00:09:31.360 So hooray, great news story.
00:09:33.000 The union got what it wanted
00:09:34.280 and the Trudeau government saved the day
00:09:36.720 by forwarding what could have been really disastrous.
00:09:40.060 You hear more of this over at the CTV report.
00:09:43.500 It says,
00:09:43.940 After more than 36 hours of negotiation,
00:09:46.860 the unions representing border guards
00:09:48.300 and customs officers reached agreement
00:09:50.100 on a deal with the federal government late Friday,
00:09:52.600 ending an hours old strike.
00:09:54.580 The new contract means an end
00:09:56.080 to a work-to-rule strike action
00:09:58.240 that started Friday morning
00:09:59.440 in time to welcome fully vaccinated Americans
00:10:01.960 starting Monday morning.
00:10:03.780 Now this wasn't even accurate.
00:10:05.040 I saw it with my own eyes on Saturday
00:10:07.220 that the CBSA was still doing their work-to-rule protocols.
00:10:10.280 They were still making it intentionally more difficult
00:10:12.360 for travelers coming in by going through
00:10:14.780 and dealing with each and every passenger
00:10:17.320 rather than the triage system that I described earlier.
00:10:20.280 So why is CTV telling Canadians
00:10:21.920 that the strike is over
00:10:23.860 when the strike is still going on?
00:10:26.540 Interestingly, if you go further down into this story,
00:10:29.400 there's a whole section on the impact on travel.
00:10:32.200 Now, I won't read you the entire article here,
00:10:34.640 but there is an entire section called impact on travel
00:10:37.340 and it doesn't actually talk about the impact on travel.
00:10:39.840 It just talks about what work-to-rule means,
00:10:43.100 the negotiations taking place between the unions,
00:10:45.580 how many people it affected,
00:10:47.380 and talking, again, from the perspective of the union
00:10:50.240 and the border agents,
00:10:52.100 not talking about travelers at all.
00:10:54.480 So all this is just to say,
00:10:56.640 you know, you have journalists,
00:10:58.320 you have reporters reporting on a situation
00:11:00.480 when clearly they haven't gone to the source.
00:11:03.640 They didn't bother to send reporters
00:11:05.880 down to the airport,
00:11:07.000 down to the international arrivals customs hall
00:11:09.500 to observe with their own eyes what was going on.
00:11:12.140 And so because of that,
00:11:13.240 what they were reporting was just not really accurate.
00:11:16.320 It wasn't really the case.
00:11:17.380 It was the parroting the talking points of the union
00:11:20.640 and using it as an opportunity
00:11:22.280 to congratulate Justin Trudeau,
00:11:24.320 pat him on the back for opening up the borders
00:11:26.320 and resolving this labor dispute
00:11:28.040 just in the nick of time
00:11:29.380 when the reality was the exact opposite.
00:11:32.580 Canada opened its borders back up.
00:11:33.920 We let people travel, we let people come in,
00:11:35.980 we opened the border with the U.S.
00:11:37.640 before this issue was really resolved.
00:11:39.560 And the chaos that's happening at Pearson Airport
00:11:41.660 that's still happening is a result of that.
00:11:44.400 But again, unfortunately,
00:11:45.280 you just can't trust the legacy media
00:11:46.760 to do the groundwork, to do the reporting,
00:11:48.880 to get the facts, and to tell you a straight story.
00:11:51.600 Instead, it's always delivered through some weird lens,
00:11:54.580 promoting the prime minister,
00:11:55.780 saying that he did a good job,
00:11:57.340 and telling you from the perspective of a trade union
00:12:00.880 while leaving out any of the damning information
00:12:03.060 that could make either the Trudeau government
00:12:04.720 or the union look bad.
00:12:06.720 You just can't trust the legacy media.
00:12:08.680 And that's the reality.
00:12:09.880 It's as simple as that.
00:12:11.000 I'm Candace Malcolm,
00:12:11.820 and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.