Juno News - The Ottawa Temper Tantrums Continue

00:00:00.320 Legacy media journalists have spent the last two weeks doing the Liberals' dirty work

00:00:04.080 by smearing the truckers. Well, it seems like so many of those journalists have bought into

00:00:08.480 their own rhetoric and they're about to snap. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm,

00:00:12.240 and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining

00:00:20.560 the program. It's Fake News Friday. Every Friday here on The Candice Malcolm Show,

00:00:24.160 we go through the worst examples of fake news in Canada, the lies and the misinformation

00:00:29.760 peddled by the Legacy media, the way that they smear working people and push their liberal elite

00:00:35.040 worldview. They do the dirty work of the Liberal Party, pushing whatever the latest spin is from

00:00:39.680 Justin Trudeau, echoing it, repeating it, doing everything they could. And we saw this playing

00:00:44.240 up last week. We saw how Justin Trudeau didn't ever want to take the trucker convoy seriously.

00:00:49.440 He wrote it off and dismissed it as being a small fringe minority. Well, that wasn't true. Of course

00:00:53.840 that wasn't true. We saw huge upswell of support, a groundswell of people all over the country. I mean,

00:01:00.400 all you had to do is look at some of those scenes from the freeway where it was overpass after overpass

00:01:04.880 after overpass, people lining the sides of freeways to cheer on the truckers. You could tell that Justin

00:01:09.920 Trudeau was wrong. And so what did the Legacy media do? Well, they stepped it up into overdrive to try to

00:01:14.960 do everything they could to smear and discredit this movement. And it has just been such a political

00:01:19.760 hit job. So we've kind of been doing Fake News Friday every day on the program for the last two

00:01:24.320 weeks. This week, we're going to go and really just zero in on some of the most deranged responses

00:01:30.000 from the Legacy media. The thing about Twitter is that you can sort of see the stream of conscious

00:01:35.280 reaction of these media journalists. They're sitting in Ottawa. They hate the truckers. They want them

00:01:40.080 out of their city. They want them gone. They have the exact same opinion as Justin Trudeau. They just

00:01:45.440 think that they're beneath them and that they're these filthy, unwashed people, and that somehow

00:01:49.680 Ottawa belongs to them. They want them gone. And it's been really interesting to watch the reaction.

00:01:54.160 So joining me on the podcast today is True North producer and journalist, Harrison Faulkner. Harrison

00:01:59.680 is in Ottawa. He's been covering the protests. And so he can give us a real, some real insight as to,

00:02:05.600 you know, the way that the media is covering this protest versus what it's like on the ground. So

00:02:09.280 Harrison, thank you for joining the podcast today. Yeah, happy to be here, Candace. So let's, let's just

00:02:15.520 start off by, can you set the scene? What is it like at the Freedom Convoy protest right now?

00:02:21.040 Yeah. So I arrived on Wednesday and obviously the, the major protest was over the weekend and that's,

00:02:28.480 that's where we saw the footage of incredible crowds and this, this great patriotic moment

00:02:34.160 that is going to live on in the history books of this country. But none of the trucks had left

00:02:38.960 pretty much, pretty much none of the trucks had left Ottawa this week. And when I arrived, I would say

00:02:44.400 there's probably over a hundred trucks still parked along Wellington street and along some of the side

00:02:49.920 streets. And it's really just the happiest atmosphere I've been a part of for many years.

00:02:56.400 People are dancing and singing and everyone is just really, really happy. Everyone's talking with one

00:03:02.240 another and sharing food and sharing, sharing gas and electricity for the trucks. And so as I said,

00:03:11.040 in one of my reports on Wednesday, I've never seen anything like it. I wish I was there for the weekend,

00:03:16.320 but even the, even the smaller gatherings that have been taking place outside parliament this week,

00:03:22.720 they've been, they've still been incredible. And the energy on the ground is, is really something to

00:03:27.840 behold. I encourage everyone who can to come out and experience this while, while everyone is still

00:03:33.520 here because it's a, it's something that's truly historic. What do you, what do you think about?

00:03:38.960 So one of the things that started to trend in Ottawa this week was the term occupation that they're

00:03:44.240 saying that Ottawa is occupied, that this is some kind of invasion and an occupation. And we also heard

00:03:50.080 the police basically say that they couldn't handle it and people were urging them to let the military

00:03:54.960 take over. So I mean, I could go through a bunch of examples. The Toronto star described it this way,

00:04:00.800 six days into the occupation of Ottawa streets by the so-called freedom, convoy freedoms and scare

00:04:07.040 quotes there, counter protesters have began a movement of their own protesting the truckers,

00:04:11.440 the response from the city and the Ottawa police. CBC has a similar thing where they call it the occupation.

00:04:18.000 Just from your perspective, Harrison, does it feel like the city is being occupied? Usually that's a term

00:04:23.600 that we reserve for like a foreign occupation, like of another country, you know, for instance,

00:04:29.440 people might say that Russia is looking to occupy Ukraine. It's sort of jarring and weird to hear

00:04:35.840 about Canadian citizens occupying their own capital that by definition belongs to the people of the

00:04:42.400 country. What's your take on that? Well, Candace, if this was an occupation, it's one of the weakest

00:04:47.120 occupations I've ever seen because police are interacting with the crowd smiling. I was talking

00:04:54.640 with with some of the protesters today on Wellington Street about how they've been interacting with the

00:05:00.000 police. And they say that the police are superstars there. Every single one of them gets a wave,

00:05:05.440 gets a cheer. People are chatting with them. And in fact, some of the some of the police who are off

00:05:10.480 duty, these protesters told me that they come up and and interact with them and they all say they

00:05:14.880 support what's going on. So, you know, this is not an occupation. The city of Ottawa is not under siege

00:05:21.360 as the liberal legacy media might want to paint it as. It's it's clear, Candace, that they're so

00:05:26.640 desperate to paint this as some sort of occupation. They haven't given up on the January 6th narrative,

00:05:33.120 as we talked about in last last episode, last Fake News Friday episode. They are they are just so,

00:05:40.560 so stuck on this narrative that it must be negative and it's just not. So police police have been

00:05:48.080 driving through Wellington Street since I've been there. I've had to get off the road to let police

00:05:53.840 drive through. So they haven't blocked off critical roads. They haven't blocked the police from making

00:05:59.600 it making their way through the city. That's just not true. And also, like I said, the police and the

00:06:06.560 protesters are interacting peacefully together. Everyone is just happy to be there. The police

00:06:13.920 are happy to be there. And also what I've noticed is that the police are kind of walking along in

00:06:19.840 groups in groups of about five or 10 walking alongside streets, just kind of looking as though they're

00:06:26.080 actually trying to fill their time to do something. I talked to Peel region police who were shipped in

00:06:32.000 to provide backup, I guess, to the Ottawa police. And they were just walking along some side street

00:06:37.920 together. And I asked them, oh, I noticed that they were from Peel. And I said, were you guys

00:06:42.640 shipped in here to provide backup? And they were just walking along trying to fill their day. So

00:06:47.440 nothing to do. They don't even have anything to do. Exactly.

00:06:50.800 Well, another one of the words that I keep see thrown around is that these are blockades. And

00:06:56.880 so this raises a whole question of, you know, what we've seen in this country over the last several

00:07:01.360 years is the increase in popularity of blockades on the left, on the left side of the political

00:07:06.880 spectrum who don't want pipelines, they don't want oil getting to market, they want to shut down the oil

00:07:12.400 sands, and they pretend to speak for the First Nations community, which they definitely do not.

00:07:16.640 But it was it was about two years ago in January of 2020 pre pre COVID, that we saw huge blockades

00:07:24.320 where they were blocking rail railways or blocking freeways, they were driving our supply chain to a

00:07:30.960 halt. This was all pre COVID. And you know, you saw some conservatives sort of saying we need to

00:07:35.840 implement the rule of law, we need to be able to get our goods to market and speaking against this

00:07:41.040 blockade. So I want to get you to comment on this. Because first of all, I'm not sure if it's a

00:07:45.600 blockade, I don't really see from the images I'm seeing, I don't see trucks blocking through

00:07:50.720 fares, I don't see them blocking critical infrastructure, I see them parked on the side

00:07:54.080 of the road. I know there's one or two intersections in Ottawa that are blocked. But but but that doesn't

00:07:59.360 constitute the equivalent of a blockade, say of a freeway or a railway where there's no alternative

00:08:04.800 route in Ottawa, it's a city. So there, I imagine there's alternative routes. But but I want to play

00:08:09.680 you this clip. So first, Robin Urbach, who's a journalist over at the Globe and Mail, she she

00:08:14.720 writes this comment on it, she says, this is making the rounds today. And who boy, that is some in your

00:08:19.040 face hypocrisy. Okay, and so this is Pierre Polyev, who is hopefully going to become the leader of the

00:08:24.960 Conservative Party, or at least be one of the front runners, because he's very, very well spoken and

00:08:29.920 passionate about conservative issues. And so the tweet is from a power and politics episode that came out

00:08:35.920 in February 2020. So exactly two years ago, almost. And this is what Pierre Polyev sounded

00:08:41.200 like. You have the right to swing your fist, but that freedom stops at the tip of another person's

00:08:46.400 nose. And right now, these blockaders are taking away the freedom of other people to move their goods and

00:08:52.880 themselves where they want to go. And that is wrong. And the government has laws and tools in place to

00:08:59.040 combat it right now. What should they do if they if the Prime Minister were to say, force the RCMP to go in,

00:09:04.880 that could escalate things and backfire in a big way. Right now, the Prime Minister is

00:09:08.800 globetrotting, campaigning for a UN Security Council seat. While here at home, all hell is breaking

00:09:15.520 loose. Our economy is about to be turned on its head, our entire transportation system is being

00:09:21.680 blockaded. We have CEOs of some of the largest employers in the country, who are stepping forward

00:09:26.720 to say that this is a crisis. And the what we hear from the government is that they're observing the

00:09:32.000 situation. So Harrison, what's your reaction to that? Do you think it's actually hypocrisy? What

00:09:35.680 did you think about what Pierre was saying versus the situation today? No, it's not hypocrisy at all.

00:09:41.120 So first of all, no one is no one is being blocked from accessing Ottawa. Any pedestrian, anybody can

00:09:48.480 actually get through. And it's two different separate issues. One is one is to block railroads and railways

00:09:57.520 from passing critical infrastructure. The intent is to basically take out their political frustration

00:10:04.240 on the people by blocking railroads. That's what the rail blockades were. That's what the wet sweat

00:10:09.360 and protests were back then. That's what Pierre was talking about. This is totally different. The

00:10:15.040 protesters here in Ottawa are fighting for everyone's freedom. They're doing this so that everyone, no

00:10:20.400 matter who you are, no matter what your vaccination status is, no matter what your political stripe is,

00:10:24.800 they're doing this so that you can live a life that is free. You have free passage across the country.

00:10:30.960 And that is the big difference here. So of course, of course, the usual suspects in the legacy media

00:10:36.080 are going to trot out this clip as some sort of- Pretend that it's equivalent. But also to me,

00:10:40.400 it's like a railway, you have no alternative path, right? Once you're on the tracks, it's not like you

00:10:44.640 can just take a different route. Whereas from my understanding, it's like one intersection in Ottawa,

00:10:49.040 it's like, just go to the next intersection or just go around. I know exactly where that is. I used to live in

00:10:53.600 Ottawa. A lot of times coming home from the airport, it would be really busy along there because there'd be

00:10:57.680 traffic jammed. So the taxi driver would just go a different route. And that was it. And like, I agree,

00:11:03.760 I think it's silly. The other thing that they're sort of saying here is that a lot of small businesses

00:11:08.960 are being harmed, that wage earners, that people who work at Rideau Centre, which is the mall right there,

00:11:13.600 that's closed or reportedly closed. You can confirm that, Harrison, that a lot of these sort of

00:11:20.400 workers in Ottawa aren't able to do what they do. So Catherine McKenna, who's a former liberal cabinet

00:11:24.880 minister, she, well, I'll just go through her tweet. So at first, she tweeted out,

00:11:30.160 a conservative party that dances with the far right is good for the Liberal Party,

00:11:33.600 but it's terrible for our democracy. Making the analogy, I guess, that the people at the protest,

00:11:38.560 Harrison, are far right, which is quite a stretch and really reckless, I think, for a high profile

00:11:44.320 Liberal to say. I hit back and I responded. I just kind of took her words and changed them a little

00:11:49.360 bit to reflect, I think, a better reality. I said, a Liberal government that smears the working class 1.00

00:11:54.800 as far right is bad for the country and terrible for democracy. Well, McKenna hit back again,

00:12:00.800 claiming that she was a true defender of the working class or something. She says, I stand for the

00:12:06.720 working class, including those in Ottawa who can't get to work because it's currently being occupied by

00:12:11.040 folks who want to deny residents their freedom to go to work, to sleep, to buy groceries, and to access

00:12:16.720 critical services. So first of all, I question whether the bureaucrats who work in Ottawa are

00:12:22.480 accurately described as working class, because I would describe them as middle class or upper middle

00:12:26.480 class. But that's a little bit beside the point. McKenna ended up blocking me because she just really

00:12:31.200 hated that I asked her this question or pointed this out. But the idea that folks who live in Ottawa 0.81

00:12:37.840 can't, they don't have their freedom to work, to sleep, to buy groceries, or to access critical

00:12:44.000 services. I'm wondering if you can comment on that accusation, speak to it. Are people able to get to

00:12:49.280 work? Are people able to buy groceries? And are they able to access critical services? I'm not

00:12:53.680 exactly sure what that means. I assume she means get to a hospital or a doctor if they need medical

00:12:58.400 attention. Are those three things being prevented right now, Harrison? No, and let's just break it down. So

00:13:04.240 critical resources or access to critical resources, like you said, Candice, if that's the hospital,

00:13:10.640 there are plenty of routes around Ottawa. It's just on Wellington Street is where you can't drive

00:13:16.720 through. So as you said, there's a lot of different options for people to get there. Grocery stores and

00:13:20.800 all that, those are open. Small businesses are open because this is an incredible business opportunity.

00:13:26.560 It's not that often that this many people from around the country come together in Ottawa and are

00:13:33.120 ready to spend money. And actually they're camped out for several days. So of course,

00:13:36.720 they're going to spend money. Most small businesses are open. There are some larger businesses, larger

00:13:41.520 food chains that are shut, but Rideau Center is open. So again, this, this is just not true the way

00:13:47.200 that the media is trying to paint this. And again, the idea that the idea that residents in Ottawa can't

00:13:53.440 sleep, that is just patently, patently false. Throughout the night, it actually gets quiet. Truckers

00:14:00.480 stop honking their horns. They do it during the day. There's plenty of footage to show that.

00:14:04.960 I have footage of that and other people have taken footage of that, Candice. So I'm not surprised to

00:14:09.440 see Catherine do this. Let's throw to that because I found this on Instagram and I really like this

00:14:15.280 account. There's an account called People of Color for Freedom Convoy, and they put out this clip kind

00:14:20.560 of debunking the media. They put a lot of great content debunking the general media narrative, but they

00:14:25.920 put this one out showing the streets. I think it's the corner of Metcalfe and Gladstone, which is right in

00:14:31.680 Centertown. And they show a clip at 8 30 and again at 10 p.m. And it's completely quiet. So let's, let's play that clip.

00:14:55.920 Yeah, so it seems like so many in the media and so many journalists and people on social media want

00:15:06.160 you to believe that the honking that we see is just like nonstop and it's driving them all towards

00:15:10.480 a mental breakdown. That video seems to suggest otherwise. I want to show this other clip quickly

00:15:16.160 because this, I mean, this is kind of sad that people are so wound up so tight in this country

00:15:22.720 that they're behaving this way. This kind of reminds me of someone, you know, how the average

00:15:27.520 person behaves on Twitter. This is like what it would look like in real life, but this guy is just

00:15:31.600 completely losing his mind. He looks like a bureaucrat to me and he just really doesn't want these

00:15:36.160 truckers in his city. So let's play a clip. We have to bleep out like half of what you say,

00:15:40.160 because there's a lot of f-bombs in there, Harrison. But let's play this clip. Let's play this clip from

00:15:45.120 Twitter.

00:15:58.320 I lost my mind because I haven't slept in five days.

00:16:03.760 It has to stop. The honking will continue until freedom improves.

00:16:09.440 So people are wound up pretty tight. You've been in Ottawa for a few nights now. How have you slept?

00:16:22.240 And what do you have to say about this complaint about the loud noise?

00:16:26.720 Well, it gets quiet at night, so I've slept totally fine. I think if I were here on Saturday,

00:16:32.640 like on last Saturday, then it might have been different because the energy was obviously higher.

00:16:37.600 But there is a level of respect that the people here who brought their trucks in the convoy have

00:16:43.280 for what they're doing and for the people. Like I said, when I speak to them, they always remind me

00:16:47.760 that this is for everyone. This is not just for truckers. This is not just for their own kind of

00:16:52.160 people. So they understand that this protest is targeted at politicians and at the Liberal government.

00:16:58.000 So again, it's sad to see these bureaucrats getting so wound up, but they don't own this city. 0.98

00:17:04.240 The city belongs to all of Canada. And I mean, all you can do when you see that is laugh a little bit,

00:17:10.160 because I guess this is what happens when the people that make these decisions get confronted

00:17:15.200 with the truth.

00:17:16.240 Well, and with their own sort of privilege, your point that these bureaucrats really believe that

00:17:21.920 Ottawa is their city, that it belongs to them, and that these truckers need to leave because they're

00:17:26.080 encroaching on their city. And to me, that just gets democracy so wrong, right? Like I lived in Ottawa

00:17:33.040 for a year. I go back quite a bit. I go there for speeches, for interviews, all kinds of stuff. And

00:17:38.000 there's basically four kinds of people that live in Ottawa. You're either a politician,

00:17:41.760 there's a lot of politicians, and they're not just the MPs, all the MPs live there, but also

00:17:46.480 the municipal city halls right there. And so you have all the municipal politicians,

00:17:50.720 you have the bureaucrats, which is like, I think, like 80% of the city, because it's not just

00:17:54.880 government employees, also political staffers. And then you also have all the diplomats,

00:17:58.400 all the embassies that are there. So government employees for other governments, you have all the

00:18:02.240 quangos and the sort of what they call themselves non government, but they're funded by government.

00:18:06.400 So they're kind of like government. And then the third category is journalists, lots of journalists

00:18:12.080 who live around Ottawa. The CBC has a huge, huge, huge headquarters there. So does CTV. Lots of

00:18:18.080 journalists. The fourth category is students who go to the University of Ottawa. So you don't really

00:18:23.440 have an accurate representation of the Canadian population, you kind of have these four elite

00:18:28.960 sort of groups. And look, there are a lot of people who work at the restaurants, work at the bars,

00:18:32.800 work at the shops, but they usually don't live in Ottawa, they live somewhere cheaper out in the

00:18:37.680 suburbs, and then they commute in. So so the people who live there, the people that you see this sort

00:18:41.600 of outsized complaining from, these are all people that you could very easily classify as liberal,

00:18:49.200 progressive elites. And I think that's so much of the reaction that we're seeing here, Harrison,

00:18:53.840 is just how out of touch they are with their country. And it isn't just liberals, I see a lot of

00:18:58.320 conservatives, a lot of the sort of elite fancy insider conservatives expressing the sort of

00:19:03.520 same exact opinions, sneering at the truckers and saying that they need to leave, they need to get

00:19:08.640 out of the city. And to me, it's really exposing a class divide in this country that is upsetting to

00:19:15.840 see because we don't usually think of Canada as a really hierarchical class based society. But it seems

00:19:22.560 like we're sort of heading in that path. Now, I want to talk a little bit about the conservative MPs,

00:19:26.640 because it seems like now that Aaron O'Toole is gone, they have unleashed themselves, they have a

00:19:31.360 lot more freedom. And, you know, what do we see? A whole bunch of them went out to the rally to show

00:19:36.880 their support for the truckers. So why don't you tell us a little bit about that, Harrison?

00:19:42.080 Yeah, so as soon as Aaron O'Toole was gone, and as soon as Candace Bergen was elected to be the 0.93

00:19:47.920 interim leader of the Conservative Party, one of the one of the first tweets that really triggered a lot of

00:19:53.280 the a lot of the journalists living in Ottawa was a was a group was from Kevin Waugh, and it was from

00:19:59.600 it was a group of the Saskatchewan MPs taking a photo on the streets with the truckers. And as I've

00:20:05.760 been here, I've interacted with MPs walking through the convoy. Conservative MPs really do support this

00:20:11.280 movement. And so yeah, I mean, that tweet really got a lot of got a lot of got a lot of liberal heads

00:20:17.520 exploding. Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, said that the photo Kevin Waugh took with his Saskatchewan

00:20:24.000 colleagues was a disgrace, and that residents had been harassed and protesters had been basically

00:20:30.720 destroying local businesses there. So, you know, really, they couldn't handle this, the fact that

00:20:36.000 Conservative MPs really were unleashed after being held down for so long. Robin Urbach of the Globe and

00:20:43.680 Mail tweeted that one of the CPC's problems is that they don't know how to read the room. They only

00:20:48.560 know how to read their room. And obviously, that just shows the insular nature that these journalists

00:20:54.720 live in, the journalists in Ottawa live in. Well, they think that everyone agrees with them, right? Like,

00:20:59.840 I think Robin is in Toronto, but it's like, I saw this a lot, this read the room, like journalists

00:21:04.960 saying, read the room. Last year at Canada Day, when, when, you know, the whole zeitgeist of the media was

00:21:10.960 like, Canada is terrible, we're this awful country, look at our history with residential schools. 1.00

00:21:15.520 And then if you had like anyone coming out saying like, happy Canada, they'd be like, read the room,

00:21:19.440 like, as if you weren't supposed to say that, because you're supposed to be deeply ashamed of

00:21:23.200 Canada now. And it's like, you guys don't realize that it's you that is so out of touch. Like, you know,

00:21:28.960 Robin Urbach saying that the Conservatives only know how to read their room. It's like the most

00:21:33.040 ironic hypocritical thing, because these journalists sit in this little bubble, they're very

00:21:38.000 isolated from the rest of the country. And they think that the views that they put out on the,

00:21:42.320 you know, in the pages of the Globe and Mail or on the airways of the CBC, that that represents

00:21:46.240 popular opinion, but it doesn't, they're wrong. And when, when they put this stuff out showing,

00:21:50.960 they're sort of looking down their noses at the rest of the country, I think it really

00:21:54.160 exposes them. And just to take a broader example of that, Harrison, is all of these, all of these people

00:22:00.640 complaining now about how small businesses are getting shut down. It's like, where have you been for the

00:22:05.680 last two years? Give me a break. All of these pro lockdown, pro vaccine mandate politicians who,

00:22:11.440 who have pushed these ridiculous policies, like the Ottawa mayor, all of a sudden trying to be the

00:22:16.880 champion of small businesses. Like, give me a break. I'll believe that when I see it. Where have you been

00:22:21.600 for the last year and a half? Yeah. Well, I just got to say this one thing in regards to Aaron O'Toole

00:22:28.000 and his, and his removal from the party, when all the liberal journalists and all the legacy media

00:22:33.680 journalists come out and defend you after you've been gone, I think that's a sign that conservatives

00:22:38.800 made the right decision. Since when should conservatives basically take the endorsement of

00:22:43.840 the journalists that constantly criticize them for everything they do, every little thing they do

00:22:48.400 as, as some sort of direction they should head in. So it's unsurprising that so many of these

00:22:54.160 journalists came out and, and basically criticized conservatives and defended Aaron O'Toole and

00:22:59.760 criticized them as soon as they got out to support the convoy. And of course, like you said, Candace,

00:23:04.960 where were these people when businesses were being shut down and destroyed due to lockdowns?

00:23:09.120 Now they apparently care because they're all in their own city. Right. And because it's just the opposite

00:23:14.560 side, it's a side that they're available to take. It's such a good point. We did see a lot of people

00:23:17.920 coming out talking about how great of a leader Aaron O'Toole was. It's like, you guys were so unfair

00:23:21.920 to him every step of the way. You asked him such ridiculous questions. You tried to paint him

00:23:26.000 as an extremist and a radical and as a Donald Trump lookalike, even though he obviously wasn't any of

00:23:31.040 those things. And now that he's gone, they're all like, oh, uh, what a great guy he was. Too bad he didn't

00:23:36.800 become prime minister. It's, it's just, it's just so despicable and predictable to watch. All right,

00:23:41.600 Harrison, I had one final thing I want to talk to you about because there was this video that

00:23:46.800 Glenn McGregor posted. He is a CTV journalist and he, he was sort of getting heckled and one might

00:23:53.840 even say harassed by some of these protesters here. And so he tweeted this video. He says,

00:23:58.640 this is a pretty typical example of what it's like trying to cover these protests is happening to every

00:24:03.760 TV network's crews. Well, I will just say it's not happening to True North. It's not happening to rebel.

00:24:08.160 It's not happening to the networks that are trying to cover the convoy in a more neutral way,

00:24:14.880 right? It's only happening to the legacy media who have spent the last week slurring these people,

00:24:20.560 calling them Nazis, calling them far right, trying to paint them as very worst, uh, you know,

00:24:26.000 find one guy doing something despicable and try to cover the whole crowd with that description. So

00:24:31.200 I never, um, condone the harassment of journalists. I think it's wrong. I think that when it happens to

00:24:36.080 independent journalists, the legacy media should defend us and, and stand up for us, which they

00:24:40.640 never do. Uh, I, I won't say that this is good. I won't say that it is acceptable. I will, however,

00:24:46.960 just say that this is a little dose of karma because you reap what you sow. And again, the legacy media

00:24:53.040 have been absolutely slanderous in the way that they've treated these convoys. And guess what?

00:24:58.800 People pay attention. So people know that when they see CTV, CBC, Global, they know that these people have

00:25:03.840 been lying about them for the past week. So why would they sit there and allow themselves to be

00:25:08.000 the backdrop to some reporters smearing them? So, uh, what, what, what did you think about this,

00:25:12.800 Harrison? These people in the trucker convoy deeply respect journalists that are there to

00:25:18.800 do their jobs properly, that are there to actually tell the truth. When I, when I interact with these

00:25:24.240 people in the pro in the protests, they always tell me how much they appreciate True North's work,

00:25:29.040 how much they appreciate the work of alternative journalists, because we're the only ones,

00:25:32.880 Candace that are actually interviewing these people and giving them, giving them a reasonable

00:25:37.840 opportunity to tell their story to Canadians. And of course you don't, you never like to see

00:25:44.080 mistreatment of journalists, but here's the thing. It's really easy to tell the truth.

00:25:48.880 I'm a one man band here in Ottawa right now. I'm walking on my own, filming myself with my own audio

00:25:55.280 and telling the truth. These journalists at the legacy media outlets have way more money,

00:25:59.840 way more resources. And yet it seems they are incapable of doing their jobs properly,

00:26:03.920 of doing their jobs and telling the truth. So again, you don't like to see it, but as you said,

00:26:09.120 this is karma. This is what happens if you, if you slander these people so aggressively,

00:26:14.560 what are you just going to expect them to give you free food and hugs? I mean, come on,

00:26:19.200 what can these people expect? It's just ridiculous. Yeah, I completely agree. And so we want to contrast

00:26:25.120 what the media and what the journalists are saying. And obviously they're agenda driven,

00:26:29.360 right? They want to confirm Justin Trudeau's narrative. They want to back up what Justin

00:26:34.480 Trudeau is saying. Justin Trudeau is saying the most slanderous things about the protesters.

00:26:37.920 And so it's the media's job. They get paid by Justin Trudeau and it's their job to loyally,

00:26:42.160 like loyal soldiers to the prime minister, go along, do his dirty work and find exactly what Trudeau wants,

00:26:47.200 which is a way to smear the entire group. Well, the opposite is happening, right?

00:26:51.920 There was some unsubstantiated report that Justin Trudeau mentioned that the protesters were

00:26:56.400 stealing from the homeless. I haven't seen anything to verify that. What were the homeless,

00:27:02.080 what were the truckers actually doing? They had signs, they were making food for everyone in the

00:27:06.320 area. And I did see some footage of homeless people going and getting the food because there's so much

00:27:10.880 free food at the convoy. So, sort of the opposite of stealing from the homeless. They were giving food

00:27:16.400 to anyone who wanted, anyone who's hungry. Here they are making pizzas out of a truck.

00:27:20.800 You saw that sort of happy, peaceful moments, dancing and singing to Bob Marley. There was a

00:27:26.800 bunch of families and kids singing We Are the World, really heartwarming stuff. We saw people

00:27:32.400 of all backgrounds, right? This whole idea that these people were white nationalists. It's like,

00:27:36.720 if you spent any time watching videos, you would see that there was a whole bunch of First Nations

00:27:40.480 people there. There were a whole bunch of Sikh people there. And there were just people of all

00:27:44.480 backgrounds, just like in Canada. I told you about that Instagram account that I really like called

00:27:49.040 People of Color for the Trucker Convoy, or I think it's called People of Color for the Freedom Convoy.

00:27:55.920 Their entire channel is just dedicated to collections of people who are not white, 0.76

00:28:01.280 who are part of this movement, who are sort of supporting them and cheering them on. So,

00:28:04.960 that's, that's fun to see. We saw protesters doing the most Canadian thing possible, which was

00:28:09.280 playing a game of pickup hockey there, right in front of the parliament building. That was great to see.

00:28:14.800 And Harrison, I wanted to finish off the show by sharing a clip, a montage clip that our friends

00:28:20.160 over at People of Color for the Freedom Convoy put together with Justin Trudeau's speech,

00:28:26.160 contrasted to what the actual convoy looked like. So, here is that clip.

00:28:30.800 Over the past few days, Canadians were shocked and frankly, disgusted by the behavior displayed by some

00:28:39.200 people protesting in our nation's capital, by those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers

00:28:46.800 and steal food from the homeless. We won't give in to those who fly racist flags. We won't cave

00:28:57.440 to those who engage in vandalism or dishonor the memory of our veterans.

00:29:02.400 That was a great clip and it just perfectly contrasted how full of nonsense our prime minister

00:29:28.320 is. What an absolute ridiculous smear he did against the truckers and just how blatantly untrue

00:29:35.120 it was. I hope and I wish that more Canadians would pay attention and look past the media narrative,

00:29:40.960 that they would go and look for information on their own, that they would seek it out, that they would

00:29:44.160 come to, if not independent media like True North, but just go out and look on social media for yourself.

00:29:49.440 These videos are absolutely everywhere. You can see the contrast and I do, I do think more and more

00:29:54.080 Canadians are doing that, Harrison. I just wish more I would. I wish like everyone in the country would

00:29:58.800 because the legacy media to me is just so full of nonsense and so agenda-driven that it's just

00:30:05.120 painful at this point. But anyway, thank you so much for joining us. Keep up the great reporting on the

00:30:09.760 ground there at the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa. Will do, Candice. It's great to be here.

00:30:16.240 All right. Thank you so much. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:30:24.960 Thanks.

Juno News - February 04, 2022

The Ottawa Temper Tantrums Continue

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