The legacy media want nothing more than the Freedom Convoy to become Canada's January 6th. Is it possible that far-right and white nationalist groups in Canada are actually trying to turn the country into a powder keg of hate and division?
00:05:03.380Well, we'll just just just to jump in on that Harrison. I read that that the convoy was 70 kilometers
00:05:09.380at one point that it that it potentially set a Guinness Book of World Record, right?
00:05:13.380So we're talking about thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not, you know, 50,000 trucks.
00:05:20.380And and of course, it's such a good point that you make the media try to just say a couple hundred not
00:05:25.380not a big deal. Yeah, like it's just some sort of small group of a group of rogue truckers on their
00:05:30.380way to Ottawa for for a weekend. I don't I don't think so. And you know, as you said, Candice, this article
00:05:36.380quotes anonymous and unattributed statements from supporters of the convoy labeling them only as users
00:05:42.380and supporters on social media, never giving us a name, never giving us an actual quote or a source
00:05:48.380or a hyperlink. They're just unattributed statements. And here's another thing that I really just I really
00:05:54.380can't fathom about this article. They they only quote the organizers of the rally, the organizers who
00:06:01.380distance themselves, of course, from the most radical statements made about this ones that are apparently
00:06:07.380unattributed and unsourced. They only quote the organizers 14 paragraphs into the story, knowing
00:06:13.380full well the majority of readers will never get that far into the article. And all they will come
00:06:18.380away from thinking of all they will come away from the article is is thinking that this this protest is
00:06:23.380some sort of January 6th, Ottawa edition. Now, if this isn't carrying water for the liberal
00:06:27.380government, I don't know what is Candice. Well, that's that's what they do best, Harrison. And I just want to
00:06:33.380look, I think it's really stupid to go online and write things like no one should ever go online
00:06:38.380anonymously and incite violence or say anything about violence that's wrong. And we have a problem in our
00:06:43.380country with the discourse right now. There's a lot of anger out there. I've seen it compounding over the
00:06:48.380course of the pandemic, where people are getting angrier and angrier. I mentioned this before, but I
00:06:53.380deleted all of my social media apps off my phone over Christmas, some of them I brought back because I'm
00:06:58.380in the swing of things. But I personally don't even like social media anymore because it's just such a
00:07:02.380negative, hostile space. And you kind of don't really gain as much as you used to. I used to think
00:07:07.380it was fun to go on there. The problem with really nasty rhetoric, though, is not exclusively a problem
00:07:13.380of the right. In fact, you could see it just the same on both sides. And so there's a great piece over
00:07:18.380at TNC, our colleague, Cosmin Xerja, who went into the they created this anti this anti trucker convoy
00:07:27.380hashtag called the flu trucks clan, I guess, play on the KKK. I told you, I thought it was amusing
00:07:34.380because they call it the flu. And usually people on the left get mad if you equate COVID to the flu. But
00:07:39.380I digress. So anyway, Cosmin went through this hashtag found how many bots were pushing out things,
00:07:45.380how many retweets there were. But he also noted the really despicable language that Canadians are
00:07:51.380using against each other. And so, you know, there was there was threats of violence from the left
00:07:56.380coming towards the truckers. There were words like vernon, plague, rats, dirty, white trash. You know,
00:08:03.380these are the kind of dehumanizing, abhorrent statements that we weren't against when we saw them
00:08:08.380in history, when we saw them in used by totalitarian governments of the 20th century. And so we see them here
00:08:14.380on the left. And yet, funny, funny, Harrison, how the media pays no attention to the fringe left,
00:08:19.380they pay no attention to the angry, violent rhetoric online coming from the left. Instead,
00:08:25.380they focus all of their attention on one or two crazy comments that they found online and try to use it
00:08:30.380to attribute and discredit an entire movement. I don't think it's working. I think it's failing.
00:08:35.380I think Canadians are seeing through it, but still just so pathetic and so transparent to see them put it
00:08:40.380out there like this. Yeah. And what more can you say? The prime minister on Wednesday
00:08:45.380said that these truckers were a small fringe minority and they hold unacceptable views. So
00:08:50.380the rhetoric coming from the radical left is being is being emphasized by the leader of the country.
00:08:57.380So until such time as these legacy media journalists call it out, then all we know is that this is a one
00:09:05.380this is a one way street. Those on the right, those who are a part of a unifying, peaceful protest
00:09:11.380are going to always be demonized. And as you said, Candace, the rhetoric on both sides is is really
00:09:16.380concerning, but it needs to be called out just as much as the rhetoric on the left needs to be called
00:09:22.380out just as much as it's called it on the right.
00:09:24.380Well, and that's so true. And great MP Pierre Polyev made this point walking into the House of
00:09:30.380Commons. Of course, one of these journalists is parroting the same thing. Oh, aren't you worried
00:09:33.380about the extreme rhetoric? And he basically just put put this journalist in their place saying,
00:09:38.380hey, how come you are never digging up this rhetoric coming from left-wing people and trying
00:09:42.380to use it to smear the whole side? Oh, right. Because that's not what we do in Canada. You know,
00:09:45.380don't try to take some fringe comment and apply it to the whole group. Well, good. Good for Pierre for
00:09:50.380saying that there are so many examples this week, Harrison, of these kind of stories. We just saw
00:09:55.380them over and over and over again. The media are pumping these out as if they're being paid to do
00:09:59.380it. Oh, maybe they are. Here's CTV saying so many angry people. Experts say online conversation
00:10:06.380around trucker convoy veering into dangerous territory. So I don't know how this is a news
00:10:11.380story. It's basically an op-ed where they found some experts who share their exact same
00:10:16.380laughing opinions to basically just say the same thing. This is dangerous. They're in dangerous
00:10:19.380territory. These people are extreme. These people are fringe. And you know, this is why
00:10:24.380we shouldn't take this movement seriously. What did you think of this piece here, Harrison?
00:10:28.380Well, CTV has fallen so far. It's kind of sad to watch, really. Since when are journalists
00:10:33.380from these radical left-wing outlets like anti-racist Canada and anti-hate Canada considered experts
00:10:40.380at anything? You know, at least sometimes the CBC or Globe and Mail will actually quote a national
00:10:45.380security expert or a professor. But I guess now we're just going to take the opinion of a writer,
00:10:51.380a no-name writer at that from anti-racist Canada to give us their opinion on this trucker convoy.
00:10:57.380You know, this is below scraping the bottom of the barrel. This is activist journalism with malicious
00:11:02.380intent to demonize and destroy what is a truly unifying movement. So this is just obviously designed
00:11:08.380to scare people away from the convoy, to make people stay home and avoid criticizing the government.
00:11:14.380You know, as Western countries and our allies are dropping their COVID restrictions,
00:11:18.380Canada seems to be ramping up the rhetoric, tightening the restrictions. And obviously the press
00:11:24.380is just doing the dirty work for them. And it's just, it's disappointing to see. And you'd like to see
00:11:28.380more from some of these, some of these outlets like CTV, but I guess that's what we should come to expect.
00:11:33.380Yeah, you're so right. Sometimes people counter like any criticism of the CBC saying,
00:11:38.380Oh, we, you know, we have one public and one private kind of suggesting that maybe the private sector one
00:11:43.380is like more reasonable or, you know, more because they have like a money incentive,
00:11:47.380they're going to deliver something that's more palatable to Canadians. Then you see stuff like this.
00:11:51.380And it's like what the anti-hate network is a fringe, like website, basically, like no one reads it,
00:11:57.380no one pays attention to it. They sit in their basements, you know, dreaming up like fever dreams,
00:12:02.380like fever dreams about the conservatives trying to paint them as extremists.
00:12:06.380No one even pays attention to them. And yet somehow they're given credibility in this story.
00:12:10.380Now, this is the worst one that I've seen Harrison because it's just so insulting and so beyond the pale.
00:12:15.380This is from Parliament Today, which you've probably never heard of. It's basically a newsletter,
00:12:19.380but it's one of those things that's done by journalists and read by journalists.
00:12:22.380And it really promotes a sort of insular groupthink that we see in the legacy media.
00:12:27.380So this is, this is what the report said, potentially a big problem for anyone who's donated.
00:12:32.380Okay. So this outlet has a quote of the day. The quote of the day comes from a national security expert.
00:12:37.380You've probably never heard of someone called Jessica Davis, who warns that anyone who has donated to the GoFundMe page,
00:12:43.380the GoFundMe campaign, I think it's raised almost $5 million at this point.
00:12:47.380Tens of thousands of people have reached into their pockets. God bless them and given it to these truckers
00:12:52.380just to make it a little easier for the truckers, allowing them to pay for their fuel, pay for their windshield wiper fluid,
00:12:58.380pay for them to have some food and a comfortable place to stay along the way.
00:13:02.380And, and what this so-called national security expert is saying that if you have donated,
00:13:08.380you should be careful because it could go against the criminal code for funding terrorism.
00:13:14.380Yes, terrorism. They are equating blue collar workers who are protesting peacefully against government overreach
00:13:21.380by exercising their God given rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association,
00:13:27.380and freedom to peacefully protest. And they are saying that they are terrorists.
00:13:32.380This is, this is so beyond the pale. So absurd. It's like we are living in a bizarro world.
00:13:36.380This is such a farce. And yet with a straight face here, she says that you may be found guilty under the criminal code
00:13:43.380as directly or indirectly providing financial services intended for those who are carrying out a terrorist activity
00:13:49.380or to benefit such a group. What an absolute insult.
00:13:52.380We've gone so far as a country where we have these college educated elites, these government bureaucrats,
00:13:58.380sitting at home, working from home in their pajamas, comfortably making a living, not struggling at all,
00:14:03.380and sitting there calling the frontline workers, the people who are so essential to our supply chain,
00:14:08.380the people who are delivering, who are putting their own lives at risk, going on icy freeways,
00:14:13.380going out there in the midst of a pandemic, putting everything at risk to make sure that everybody gets their food,
00:14:19.380that they would get their supplies to make sure our society runs as it should and our economy keeps moving.
00:14:24.380And here, these elitist losers are sitting there looking down their nose and calling blue-collar workers terrorists.
00:14:30.380This is one of the absolute worst things I've ever seen in my entire life watching Canadian politics, Harrison.
00:14:34.380Yeah, I mean, if you ever needed an example of what sheer panic looks like from the establishment, this is what it is.
00:14:40.380Vocal support is one thing, but when the grassroots put their money where their mouth is and they get behind something financially,
00:14:47.380and it's been so successful, I just checked, Candice, that GoFundMe has over $6 million donated.
00:14:53.380So this is clearly posing a serious threat to the establishment here, and they're trying to pull out all the stops they can to get people to stop donating money.
00:15:02.380We could spend hours talking about how dangerous this rhetoric is, about how really unbelievable it is for journalists and experts to say these sorts of things,
00:15:12.380but all you can really do is laugh because the movement is far beyond just one national security expert criticizing it.
00:15:19.380They can't stop this. People are fully behind it, and they're unified behind it.
00:15:23.380Now, I would love to know where these experts were when we had protesters blockading our railways and blocking critical infrastructure because of pipeline protests.
00:15:34.380Did anyone call out the fact that those who funded those protests could be also found guilty under the criminal code for financing domestic terrorism?
00:15:43.380Like I said before, it's a one-way street for those on the right, and the legacy media is just so focused on doing their best to get Canadians to stop donating.
00:15:53.380Here's a message to Canadians. Stay the course and see through these blatant attempts to slow you down because everyone here who's a part of this protest is making a difference.
00:16:02.380This story has made it across around the world, and it's really, as I say, it's unified the country together on a very positive note.
00:16:11.380And I just think, as you said, this is just disgusting and it's totally, totally dangerous.
00:16:16.380Well, and you're so right about the gaslighting element, Harrison, because we have, they're basically preemptively spinning for violence.
00:16:24.380They're trying to say, this will probably be violent, this is going to be violent, and something that's completely peaceful, completely justified, completely harmonious, and like you say, unifying the country.
00:16:35.380They're trying to paint that as something nefarious.
00:16:37.380Meanwhile, what have we seen over the last two years?
00:16:40.380We've seen looting and rioting at Black Lives Matter protests.
00:16:44.380They say, no, this is peaceful, this is nothing to see here.
00:16:47.380These fiery protests are mostly peaceful, right?
00:16:49.380We saw the Cancel Canada Day movement, where they were violently destroying public property, including the property that belongs to all of us, like Queen Victoria statues, Queen Elizabeth statues, John A. McDonald statues.
00:17:02.380They're destroying our country's infrastructure and the democratic symbols that we have.
00:17:06.380Nothing to see here, hardly any coverage.
00:17:09.380Instead, we have people like Gerald Butts saying that it's justified.
00:17:12.380It is justified to burn down churches and sacred places of worship.
00:17:15.380So we see legitimate violence on the left, Harrison, and the media hand wave and say nothing to see here, say it's legitimate, and say it's fine.
00:17:22.380And then on the counter, we have peaceful people doing something amazing, and the media is doing the exact opposite.
00:17:30.380And I think that the good news about all of this, and maybe we can end this show on a bit of a good news note, Harrison, is that Canadians are seeing through this.
00:17:36.380The legacy media is not having the impact that they want.
00:17:39.380They're not successfully scaring people away from this movement.