Juno News - The legacy media regurgitates Liberal talking points again and again

00:00:00.000 The legacy media is regurgitating liberal talking points again and again and again.

00:00:05.200 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:12.880 Everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:14.880 It's the last week of the campaign and last Friday campaign, so we will do Fake News Friday

00:00:19.820 as we usually do.

00:00:20.660 We go through the most egregious examples of the legacy media here in Canada, completely

00:00:25.520 misleading people, presenting their opinion or liberal talking points, partisan spin,

00:00:31.260 as if that is fact.

00:00:32.340 And we see this over and over and over again in the media.

00:00:35.120 In fact, all of the examples on the show today are exactly that.

00:00:38.260 I talked about this phenomenon on my show earlier this week.

00:00:40.880 I covered in depth the CBC town hall events.

00:00:44.100 They did one with Erin O'Toole.

00:00:45.560 The next night was with Justin Trudeau.

00:00:47.040 They also did them with the other party leaders, but I didn't follow those as closely.

00:00:50.600 But what we saw from the CBC and what we saw from host Rosemary Barton was the way that

00:00:55.360 she presented the ideas, the way that she framed the debate and the line of questioning that

00:00:59.520 she was asking Erin O'Toole when he was in the hot seat was exactly based on liberal spin.

00:01:05.020 It wasn't based on the facts.

00:01:06.100 It wasn't based on the truth.

00:01:07.280 It was based on how the liberals have framed this issue to create a wedge issue to try to

00:01:12.800 trap conservatives.

00:01:13.960 And we saw that over and over and over again.

00:01:15.520 Why else would Rosemary Barton be talking about issues that are just not important at all 0.98

00:01:21.080 in this election?

00:01:21.700 She was grilling Erin O'Toole on guns, even though gun violence isn't really an issue

00:01:26.820 in Canada, specifically not the guns that were banned by Trudeau.

00:01:30.740 There is a problem with gun violence in this country.

00:01:32.920 We don't address it because the problem stems from gangs.

00:01:36.100 Most of the guns used are illegal and they're smuggled in from the United States.

00:01:39.280 This liberal gun ban doesn't really address that at all.

00:01:42.000 But again, because it's a liberal wedge issue designed to make Erin O'Toole look like he's 1.00

00:01:46.840 what, a gun-toting hick, the CBC jumps right in line and hammers Erin O'Toole over that 1.00

00:01:53.640 using liberal spin.

00:01:54.660 Same thing with conversion therapy, the bill that was really, really taken out of context.

00:01:59.520 And again, you just saw this dominating debate.

00:02:02.220 Instead of talking about the economic recovery, instead of talking about jobs and the economy,

00:02:05.740 instead of talking about debt and government spending, the CBC instead focused on a handful

00:02:10.900 of really niche issues that the liberals have used as a weapon.

00:02:15.120 And then when it was Justin Trudeau's turn in the hot seat, well, he wasn't asked any

00:02:18.620 kind of tough question whatsoever.

00:02:20.160 It was the same sort of idea, more liberal, pro-liberal spin in the talking points, really

00:02:25.660 designed to prop him up.

00:02:27.160 And it's no wonder because, once again, Justin Trudeau is pledging billions of dollars,

00:02:32.060 over a billion dollars every single year to the CBC.

00:02:35.020 And so it's no wonder they have such a chummy relationship.

00:02:37.520 But it isn't just the CBC.

00:02:38.800 And I'm going to point this out today.

00:02:39.940 So the first story I'm going to talk about is over on CTV.

00:02:42.900 This story made a lot of hay on social media this week.

00:02:45.260 The headline says,

00:02:46.240 Liberals would make it a criminal offense to block health care buildings and threaten

00:02:49.700 workers.

00:02:50.200 So this is obviously in response to a lot of those protests that we saw over the course

00:02:54.780 of the entire campaign.

00:02:55.680 Lots of people rallying in the big cities.

00:02:57.920 We saw a huge rally the other weekend in Montreal, another one in Toronto.

00:03:01.520 And there have also been rallies that followed the liberal campaign and Justin Trudeau basically

00:03:05.700 just to boo and heckle him. 0.92

00:03:06.900 And we've seen these smaller protests outside of hospitals, people really just protesting

00:03:12.360 for a variety of reasons.

00:03:13.860 They might be protesting against the vaccine.

00:03:15.820 They might be protesting against vaccine passports.

00:03:17.940 They might be protesting against lockdowns.

00:03:19.840 People who are basically just fed up with the lockdowns and the pandemic and all the things

00:03:25.180 we've been having to deal with the expansive growth of government over the last 18 months

00:03:29.580 or so.

00:03:30.240 So people are protesting for their own reasons.

00:03:31.940 We've seen these protesters basically get scapegoated throughout the entire campaign,

00:03:36.760 really being demonized, especially by liberal leader Justin Trudeau, but also in the media.

00:03:40.960 So this is sort of the media's favorite topic right now.

00:03:44.560 It gives them the ability to condemn what they perceive as being far-right protesters and

00:03:49.240 to sort of celebrate the liberals for what?

00:03:51.880 Condemning them and coming down on them.

00:03:53.840 And the only problem with the liberals' announcement here is that this is literally already the case.

00:03:58.400 This is literally already the case.

00:03:59.580 This isn't a new law that the liberals are proposing.

00:04:01.520 This is a law that is already on the books.

00:04:03.720 You cannot block critical infrastructure.

00:04:05.640 You cannot block health care workers from getting into their place of work.

00:04:09.460 And so we saw some people point that out.

00:04:11.580 Here's Andrew McDougall, a columnist over at the Ottawa Citizen.

00:04:14.820 He writes, when you announce something that already exists and duped the dot-com team into

00:04:18.540 giving you a straight-up headline, that is embarrassing.

00:04:21.320 And then we have a conservative candidate and MP, Garnett Jenis, who tweets this.

00:04:26.080 He says, this is from page 33 of the conservative platform.

00:04:28.440 Trudeau a bit late on the issue of blocking critical infrastructure.

00:04:32.040 I know it feels like a long time ago now, but back in 2020, before the pandemic really hit

00:04:37.840 and before it became what it was, we saw a group of fringe, far-left protesters basically

00:04:42.760 hijack the issue of First Nations, pretend that they speak for First Nations and that they 0.94

00:04:47.420 oppose any kind of natural resource development or pipelines going across their lands.

00:04:52.060 And basically just absolutely recklessly endangering people's lives by blocking freeways, blocking

00:04:58.920 railways.

00:04:59.560 They entirely shut down the nation's railway system for weeks, for weeks.

00:05:04.260 They prevented people from their livelihood.

00:05:06.600 They stopped people from being able to do their jobs.

00:05:08.460 We saw some crazy footage of people throwing things onto railway tracks when there were trains

00:05:13.240 coming, incredibly dangerous stuff.

00:05:15.380 And when that all happened, when that all happened, Trudeau was basically silent.

00:05:19.400 He didn't do anything to stop the blockades.

00:05:20.760 He didn't arrest anyone.

00:05:21.880 He didn't come out strongly and say enough is enough.

00:05:24.320 He basically just sat back and let it happen and watched it all happen.

00:05:28.180 And so it is a little bit rich now.

00:05:30.380 All of a sudden, when the protesters are protesting something that he doesn't like, he is coming

00:05:34.660 down hard and introducing a law that already exists.

00:05:37.780 Shame on CTV for even publishing this nonsense.

00:05:40.720 Again, this is liberal spin that is being presented as if it is real news.

00:05:44.920 It is not news.

00:05:45.580 It is not news to, with a couple of days left in the campaign, introduce a new law that

00:05:49.940 is already a law.

00:05:50.820 That's not a thing. 0.50

00:05:52.120 And the fact that they didn't even point out how hypocritical it is for Trudeau to be

00:05:55.600 doing this when he sat silent when those other protests were happening is a joke.

00:05:59.540 It's why even though CTV is private, even though they don't get as much money as CBC or other

00:06:04.620 media outlets, they are still in the can and completely untrustworthy.

00:06:08.800 All right, moving on.

00:06:10.020 I want to talk about this next story in the Toronto Star.

00:06:12.820 And now I know I could literally go through the Toronto Star every single morning, flip

00:06:16.420 through the entire paper and explain how each and every story is fake news.

00:06:20.400 But this one is particularly bad.

00:06:21.840 It basically repeats every false left-wing claim about immigration and presents it as

00:06:27.640 fact.

00:06:28.180 And that is the problem.

00:06:29.140 So here's the headline.

00:06:29.940 It says, Aaron O'Toole recycles a sheer era false claim.

00:06:33.820 No, thousands of asylum seekers haven't crossed illegally at Roxham Road.

00:06:37.500 Well, actually, it is a fact that, yes, they have crossed illegally at Roxham Road.

00:06:41.480 I know this because in 2008, I reported from the ground at Roxham Road.

00:06:45.720 I went and traveled there.

00:06:46.760 It's about an hour and a half south of Montreal, right at the New York-Quebec border.

00:06:51.000 There is a big sign right at the border crossing that says it is illegal.

00:06:54.960 It says, stop.

00:06:56.080 It is illegal to cross at this border.

00:06:58.020 Stop.

00:06:58.540 It is illegal to cross this border.

00:06:59.900 That's because according to Canadian law, you cannot enter into Canada other than at a port

00:07:04.720 of entry.

00:07:05.060 So you can only cross into the country at a port of entry.

00:07:08.440 The entire purpose of Roxham Road is because it was an easy place for people to get from

00:07:13.260 the United States to get into Canada illegally.

00:07:16.140 So crossing that border in between points of entry is illegal.

00:07:19.160 It is illegal to cross the border.

00:07:20.880 And it is correct to say that the people who do this were illegal border crossers. 0.96

00:07:25.040 This was a huge issue when Trump was the president of the United States.

00:07:27.780 The media loved to emphasize and to really highlight the fact that all these people were leaving

00:07:32.480 the United States and trying to get into Canada.

00:07:34.520 They were taking advantage of Canada's generosity.

00:07:36.640 OK, Canada is signatory to a number of immigration laws and treaties, international treaties.

00:07:42.240 Many of them do protect the rights of asylum seekers.

00:07:44.940 So a person does have the right to come into Canada, basically throw their hands up in the

00:07:49.060 air, say, I'm a refugee.

00:07:50.660 And then at that point, they become protected under Canadian law.

00:07:53.540 They get access to a bunch of entitlements and rights, just like a Canadian citizen.

00:07:59.240 And one of them is a fair trial in front of a judge where they get to present their case.

00:08:03.360 And the judge determines whether or not their asylum case is legitimate and whether they

00:08:07.860 can stay and become a refugee or whether it's bogus and they get rejected and they get deported

00:08:12.620 back to their home.

00:08:13.400 So that part is protected.

00:08:16.780 Once they come to Canada and do that, then they're no longer illegal.

00:08:20.300 Usually when we're talking about immigration, a person is an illegal immigrant if they're

00:08:25.220 not registered to the system.

00:08:26.480 So if they're just in Canada, they haven't registered anywhere.

00:08:29.120 They just kind of come in the country and go dark.

00:08:31.200 Or alternatively, if they overstay their visa.

00:08:34.920 So if they get rejected by a refugee judge or if they're just here as a visitor and decide

00:08:39.080 not to leave, if there's a pending deportation order out against them, then that person would

00:08:43.240 also be considered an illegal immigrant.

00:08:45.300 So I agree in theory that if you are an asylum seeker who comes in, you're not an illegal

00:08:49.500 immigrant, but you have crossed the border illegally.

00:08:52.900 And so that's what we're talking about here.

00:08:55.100 And it is just flat out wrong to say that people have the right to do that and that it's

00:08:58.740 not unlawful.

00:08:59.840 It is illegal.

00:09:00.560 Like I said, there's a big sign that says stop is illegal to cross here.

00:09:02.880 And also the reason that they're doing it.

00:09:04.240 So Canada is part of a treaty with the United States called the Safe Third Country Agreement.

00:09:08.260 There's a lot of countries around the world that accept refugees.

00:09:11.040 And basically the assumption for everyone is, look, you can come, you can come to Canada

00:09:15.900 and try to get refuge here.

00:09:17.380 But the idea is if you're truly fleeing persecution, if you're fleeing danger, you will present your

00:09:23.000 refugee case at the very first safe country that you get in. 0.98

00:09:26.000 So say you're fleeing, I don't know, some Arab country in the Middle East and you get

00:09:33.140 on a boat and you take that boat and you land on an island in Greece, right?

00:09:36.880 So you can't just say, OK, well, Greece doesn't really offer a lot of welfare benefits.

00:09:41.960 So I'm not going to make my asylum come here.

00:09:43.960 I'm going to get back on a boat and try to make it to France because I know that France

00:09:47.300 has a better package.

00:09:48.480 You can't do that.

00:09:49.900 And so Canada and the US have this agreement called the Safe Third Country Agreement saying

00:09:52.960 if you land in the United States, you have to make your application there for refugee

00:09:56.420 status.

00:09:56.820 If you land in Canada, you have to make your application there.

00:09:58.740 There are a few exceptions, say, if you have family members in one of the other countries

00:10:02.420 or you might have a reason that you would be better suited to go there.

00:10:05.840 But by and large, it is illegal.

00:10:07.660 So all this is just to say, it's illegal.

00:10:10.500 Of course it's illegal.

00:10:11.400 It's illegal to cross a border.

00:10:12.820 It's illegal to shop around and choose which country you make your asylum claim in.

00:10:17.300 But what this story is really saying is the opposite of that, that everything is just

00:10:22.200 fine and dandy.

00:10:23.080 And that this is just an example of mean old Erin O'Toole, who is unnecessarily scapegoating 1.00

00:10:28.840 refugees, just like mean old Andrew Scheer did in 2019. 0.95

00:10:32.700 And that's basically just what they say.

00:10:33.920 They find an activist lawyer to say it is not illegal to cross the Canada-US border for

00:10:38.520 the purpose of seeking refugee protection.

00:10:40.760 It is illegal if you cross in between crossings.

00:10:43.500 If you showed up at a border crossing and tried to present refugee status, then that wouldn't

00:10:47.520 be illegal, but they would turn you away.

00:10:48.920 They would say, no, you can't do this.

00:10:50.160 So the reason that people are going in between the border crossings is literally because a

00:10:54.320 loophole has presented itself.

00:10:55.880 And that is what Erin O'Toole wants to get rid of. 1.00

00:10:58.560 Now, interestingly, when the Conservatives and Erin O'Toole released their platform,

00:11:02.140 this was included.

00:11:03.300 And I think True North might have been the only outlet that covered it, that the Conservatives

00:11:07.400 specifically talked about cracking down on this loophole, closing the loophole, stopping

00:11:12.840 the illegal immigration, and protecting the integrity of our immigration system.

00:11:16.780 Not many people picked up on it.

00:11:18.180 True North did cover it.

00:11:18.980 I think it's a good policy, and I'm happy to see it in there.

00:11:21.320 And I was a little surprised that the media didn't catch up on it.

00:11:23.860 And here it is, what, two weeks later, the Toronto Star has done this ridiculous hit

00:11:28.180 piece, literally saying the opposite of what's true.

00:11:31.120 They found another immigration activist to say, it's perfectly lawful.

00:11:35.300 Well, it is.

00:11:36.280 And this is also something I found interesting.

00:11:38.420 So you can see that they posted this sign, a picture of this sign.

00:11:41.320 It says, notice, claiming refugee status in Canada.

00:11:43.900 And then it just basically lets people know that, look, this isn't a free ride.

00:11:47.040 You still have to go through a legal process, and it's possible you'll get rejected.

00:11:50.780 And that, you know, it literally says here, claiming asylum is not a free ticket into Canada.

00:11:55.960 Not everyone is eligible for asylum.

00:11:58.040 So anyway, I've been to this location.

00:12:00.200 There's that sign right there.

00:12:01.640 And literally right next to that sign, this is how dishonest the star is.

00:12:04.960 They show this sign.

00:12:05.860 Literally right next to that sign is a sign saying, stop, it is illegal to cross here.

00:12:10.360 But they don't show the full picture of the two signs.

00:12:12.760 They just show the one sign kind of detailing what it's like to claim refugee status.

00:12:18.380 Again, unbelievable, completely fake news.

00:12:21.100 And I really don't expect anything better than the Toronto Star, but had to point that out.

00:12:25.380 All right, moving on.

00:12:26.060 Next, we have a story in the CBC.

00:12:28.140 The headline reads,

00:12:29.020 Between violence and vandalisms, the parties are experiencing a very ugly campaign.

00:12:34.160 And they found a group called the Canadian Anti-Hate Network to say that this is the worst

00:12:38.580 campaign in recent memory for far-right activism.

00:12:42.100 So basically, just this story is that we're seeing a lot of vandalism, a lot of protesters,

00:12:47.580 a lot of profanity on the campaign trail this time around.

00:12:50.420 And of course, they blame it all on, you guessed it, the far-right.

00:12:53.180 So this group, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, they're a government-funded organization.

00:12:57.220 Basically, the entire purpose of this network is to demonize the right, to make the right

00:13:02.340 seem like they're this really dangerous, shattery organization.

00:13:05.160 Every single time that they're quoted in a news piece, it's exactly the same.

00:13:08.480 They're fear-mongering and trying to scare us.

00:13:10.460 They're trying to just broadly demonize the right, very broadly, not very specific. 0.94

00:13:14.540 So look, of course, there are crazy people on the right, just like there's crazy people 0.91

00:13:17.540 on the left.

00:13:18.020 What this organization really focuses on is making it seem like the right in Canada.

00:13:23.040 And that means the conservatives sort of by proxy, but that that's the biggest threat

00:13:26.800 to our country.

00:13:28.080 And so they sort of parade them out, the CBC and other legacy media networks kind of parade

00:13:33.540 them out to repeat this schtick time and time again.

00:13:36.820 So we're supposed to believe this is the worst campaign in recent memory.

00:13:38.780 Maybe it is.

00:13:39.320 Look, I've been watching partisan politics for a long time.

00:13:41.660 We always see this kind of stuff.

00:13:42.760 It's kind of ugly.

00:13:43.500 But again, some people just really hate politicians.

00:13:46.340 They really hate the electoral system.

00:13:48.960 They might hate a specific party or the specific candidate.

00:13:51.180 And this is how it manifests.

00:13:53.200 Of course, vandalism is wrong and it's illegal and we should crack down on it.

00:13:57.040 I like how all of a sudden vandalism is a big problem when it's targeting a liberal.

00:14:01.780 And yet all summer when we saw vandalism of churches across the country and statues, you

00:14:07.800 know, we didn't see any kind of outreach.

00:14:09.140 We didn't see the Canadian Anti-Hate Network coming out and condemning it.

00:14:12.600 Of course not.

00:14:13.140 It's because it's a partisan group who is really just designed to create fear and hatred of the 0.97

00:14:19.000 right and it is really disgusting and gross to see. 0.96

00:14:22.440 All right.

00:14:22.760 And final story I want to talk about here on Fake News Friday is a op-ed that was published

00:14:27.060 in the CBC.

00:14:28.760 This headline says, as an Anishinaabe citizen, I can't vote in good conscience in the federal

00:14:34.780 election.

00:14:35.620 Casting a ballot in the federal election erodes the sovereignty of First Nations.

00:14:40.740 So the entire idea here is what the Canada is, this horrible colonialist state and that

00:14:47.280 even the very act of us having a government and having an election undermines the rights

00:14:53.000 and freedoms of First Nations people.

00:14:55.420 This is just really chock full of all the leftist woke nonsense that we've been hearing.

00:15:00.020 Canada is a colonialized system full of suppression and oppression of First Nations and really just 0.95

00:15:07.320 over the top hatred of Canada saying that everything about our society is irredeemably broken

00:15:13.720 and therefore voting is just cementing that in.

00:15:16.720 Instead, First Nations people should not vote, which is just really disheartening.

00:15:20.900 If you're a young person on a reserve or in a First Nations community, the message that

00:15:25.360 you should hear is encouraging you to get involved, make positive change, get out there, you know,

00:15:29.720 speak for your community, speak for yourself and participate.

00:15:33.220 And instead, this is the exact opposite message.

00:15:34.720 It's just so sort of cemented in defeatism, all the buzzwords that you would expect.

00:15:40.340 And the outcome is just sort of sad because what?

00:15:44.220 You want a Marxist revolution and you refuse to participate until then that the only way

00:15:48.520 to fix Canada is to completely tear it apart to the ground and build something new up.

00:15:52.740 Well, I've got news for you.

00:15:53.820 If you do that, if you go ahead and do that, the thing that will be built in Canada's place 0.99

00:15:57.520 will not be as good as Canada.

00:15:58.680 It will not be as fair and safe and secure and free as Canada because it is an ideological

00:16:05.060 experiment in utopia and those never work out.

00:16:08.100 That never works out.

00:16:09.380 So this message is just really disheartening for the CBC to publish, especially on the

00:16:14.160 eve of the federal election campaign.

00:16:16.440 Shame on the CBC for encouraging people not to vote and not to participate, especially people

00:16:21.480 who are part of communities that really we would want more representation and more involvement.

00:16:25.780 So again, just a really sad, pitiful message for the CBC, typically amplifying, but really

00:16:32.100 do expect any better.

00:16:33.220 I do not.

00:16:34.240 All right.

00:16:34.560 I'm going to leave it at that.

00:16:35.360 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:16:36.940 Have a great weekend and we will be back for election coverage on Monday.

00:16:40.620 Thank you so much.

00:16:41.220 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

Juno News - September 18, 2021

The legacy media regurgitates Liberal talking points again and again

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