On this episode of the podcast, we're joined by our friend and colleague Candice Miller to talk about the carbon tax debate, the media's reaction to it, and why it's so hard to be left-wing in the climate debate.
00:00:40.280And Andrew Scheer and Erin O'Toole answered, and I don't think their answers were great, but it was such a central focus of the debates.
00:00:48.160As soon as Mark Carney says, oh, yikes, I'd better shuck off, I'd better jettison the carbon tax if I'm going to win,
00:00:55.500All of a sudden, the media that was saying this is the death of the climate, the death of our future, suddenly they show no interest in the subject whatsoever.
00:01:05.420Really? I mean, could you be more transparent in how partisan you are?
00:01:10.760That whole thing was just a way to get the conservatives.
00:01:13.860And now that Mark Carney has flipped on the subject, they're not interested in it anymore.
00:01:20.340Being in that room, Candace, was amazing.
00:01:22.900I should say that about half the journalists in there were just regular folks doing their job.
00:01:27.500I sat next to a photographer from the Montreal Gazette.
00:01:58.400First of all, I think some of them, like I say, are radical activists.
00:02:02.540And this was their January 6th moment.
00:02:05.020Oh, my God, independent journalists are storming in.
00:02:08.040I think, second of all, they've been radicalized.
00:02:09.940They've been convinced by the BS on the CBC that we are all the things they falsely accuse us of.
00:02:16.680So if we were in the room and a bunch of Klansmen came in with hoods, we would freak out and say, what the heck are you guys doing in here?
00:02:23.840That's how they've been trained and taught and brainwashed into thinking anyone right of center is.