Juno News - The Trudeau government relied on CBC’s fake news to freeze Canadians’ bank accounts

00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appoints a partisan liberal to lead the national inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act, and the media don't bat an eye.

00:00:08.340 Meanwhile, the Trudeau government confirms that it relied on a CBC report to justify the use of this act, a CBC report that was later retracted.

00:00:17.200 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:30.000 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the program.

00:00:34.460 So the big story of the week was that Justin Trudeau has called a national inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act to quash the peaceful trucker's convoy.

00:00:43.940 This wasn't out of the goodness of Justin Trudeau's heart. He was compelled by law to call this national inquiry.

00:00:49.780 He waited until the last possible moment, and then news came out that the individual that he appointed to oversee this inquiry,

00:00:56.680 the judge that was appointed to oversee it was none other than a longtime partisan liberal political staffer who was later appointed to the bench by a liberal prime minister, Paul Martin.

00:01:10.040 You really can't make this stuff up. Brian Lilly, reporting over at the Toronto Sun, breaks it all down, talks about how this individual worked for John Turner back in the 80s.

00:01:19.640 He was part of the government's sort of inner circle, the prime minister's inner circle, advising him on who to appoint to the cabinet.

00:01:27.680 So we're talking about a consummate insider, a liberal loyalist, a liberal staffer.

00:01:32.880 And yet you won't see this anywhere in the media other than the Toronto Sun, other than here at True North.

00:01:37.500 The media just don't really think this is a big deal.

00:01:39.420 They don't think it is important to tell you that this entire inquiry is cooked from the beginning.

00:01:45.160 It is being overseen by a liberal partisan appointee.

00:01:50.140 I want to bring in my producer and True North journalist, Harrison Faulkner, to the show.

00:01:55.480 Harrison, thanks for joining us. Welcome to the show.

00:01:58.600 What do you think of this big story that we have a national inquiry and it's being led by someone who is very, could very easily just be described as a liberal insider?

00:02:08.500 Well, I wish I could say that I was surprised, Candace, about this.

00:02:11.820 But, of course, I think we chatted about this a couple weeks ago.

00:02:15.100 Things were really quiet and the kind of atmosphere around our team was that the liberals must be doing something.

00:02:23.160 They must be cooking up something.

00:02:24.820 And when it gets really quiet and this is what it was, I mean, this really is the, this is seriously the height of corruption, right?

00:02:32.020 Putting in a loyalist, a liberal party staffer, you know, that is, I think, par for the course with this government.

00:02:41.160 And the original reporting we saw came from Kian Bextie, who originally said that this judge was a donor.

00:02:48.800 And then Brian Lilly's report kind of, kind of questioned that report, but, but also took a different angle.

00:02:55.120 And it ended up being a lot worse than just being a liberal donor.

00:02:57.640 It wasn't just that this judge would funnel money to the liberals in support of them.

00:03:02.460 He actually worked for them.

00:03:04.040 He worked as a staffer.

00:03:05.700 So, again, it's, it's, it's par for the course.

00:03:08.160 It's not a surprise, and frankly, I think every Canadian knows this, this inquiry, this review into the Emergencies Act was really never going to be about holding the government to account.

00:03:17.120 It was always going to be about trying to find a way, whatever way possible, to shine the best light on Trudeau and his government.

00:03:23.860 Well, you could see that even just from the framing and the way that they announced, like what they were specifically looking into.

00:03:30.240 So, so, you know, they weren't looking into Justin Trudeau's unprecedented use of basically wartime measures, right?

00:03:37.080 The War Measures Act turned into the Emergencies Act.

00:03:39.480 This is something that was like designed to be used if Canada was ever invaded or if there was ever like a real insurrection.

00:03:46.780 The media drummed that storyline up and pretended that we were, you know, had some kind of an insurrection happening.

00:03:52.860 That was never the case, and we'll talk a little bit about this next story with the CBC drumming up fear and basically pushing misinformation.

00:04:00.840 But, but I just want to go back to the justification and, and what the national inquiry is called to investigate.

00:04:07.080 So it says that the, the goals are to look at the evolution and the goals of the convoy and blockades, their leadership organization participants, which we know it will be a witch hunt into looking up, pulling the worst dirt and, and demonizing anyone at the trucker convoy, you know, evolution of their goals and convoy.

00:04:25.600 We know that's just going to be a smear job against the individuals who organize the convoy.

00:04:29.580 Next, they want to look at the impact of domestic and foreign funding, including crowdsources, platforms.

00:04:35.660 That's the story we're going to get to next.

00:04:37.500 Third, the impact and role of misinformation and disinformation, including the use of social media.

00:04:43.220 We know that misinformation, disinformation are the favorite buzzwords of the left and the Trader liberals.

00:04:47.400 They basically just use those words to describe stories that they don't like, stories that are inconvenient to the government.

00:04:53.560 We saw last week the government called a report from Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation on a trucker tax, that, a pickup truck tax, that was in a government report.

00:05:03.360 And they called that disinformation, even though it was in a government report.

00:05:06.680 And then next, the impact of the blockades, including the economic impact, which, as we covered very extensively on the show, Harrison, the blockades were, were removed.

00:05:15.600 The border blockades, the Windsor Bridge, the one in Surbush, Columbia, they were all gone.

00:05:20.080 They were removed by the time Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on February 15th.

00:05:24.340 So that is, that's fake news right there.

00:05:27.060 And then the efforts of police and other responders prior to the declaration, that will be a witch hunt into police inaction and why the police didn't do the dirty work for Trudeau from day one.

00:05:36.760 So the entire thing is cooked.

00:05:39.080 And, and the thing that, that really troubles me about this, Harrison, is just a lack of curiosity in the media.

00:05:44.360 Like, you don't, you don't see this story about, hey, you know, the guy that's, that's, that could be holding Justin Trudeau account, the guy that could be looking into the unprecedented power grab and use of force, disproportionate force against peaceful protesters, rather than having a neutral person come in.

00:06:00.320 No, no, he appointed a liberal sufferer.

00:06:02.580 Imagine for a split second that this was a conservative.

00:06:05.420 This would be the biggest story.

00:06:07.680 This is, like you said, it would be a story about a conflict of interest and perhaps corruption and, you know, those, those, those evil conservatives, you know, creating some kind of a, a fake inquiry here that won't lead to anything.

00:06:20.880 There would be so much scrutiny if it was the other way around.

00:06:24.180 But it's Trudeau that does it.

00:06:25.560 Media, you know, they give them a pass.

00:06:27.920 They, they don't take interest in it.

00:06:29.000 They don't even write about it. 0.99

00:06:30.080 It's not even of interest, which, which is, is just so sad and pathetic. 0.81

00:06:35.540 The, the, the media in Canada does a disservice to every single Canadian when they give Trudeau a pass for this kind of thing.

00:06:41.200 I want to get to the latest news, though.

00:06:43.040 So there was a special joint committee on the declaration of the Emergencies Act that took place in Ottawa earlier this week on Tuesday evening.

00:06:50.140 We saw the justice committee, David Lamedi, give a testimony.

00:06:54.820 He testified that the Emergencies Act was invoked in part because the government was relying on a CBC News report.

00:07:03.060 The CBC News report about foreigners bankrolling the protests.

00:07:07.220 Here is a clip of David Lamedi, the Justice Minister, the Attorney General of Canada, speaking on this committee.

00:07:13.820 Here's what that looked like.

00:07:15.300 Thank you.

00:07:16.100 And so it would also be interesting for me, going back to the point you made in your opening comments on the issue of part of your restrictions around coming, for people coming to Canada for the purpose of, of the protests or such like.

00:07:34.740 I assume, then, that there is some evidence that suggested that we may have had people who were interested in coming across the border from, I would assume, the United States, to participate in the protests, and that would be why you would put that in, specifically?

00:07:51.900 That's correct.

00:07:52.500 That's in the public domain, that people were, there were reports of people crossing the border.

00:07:58.260 There were reports, CBC reported, I believe on the 14th of February, or the 13th of February, that, that there was also foreign funding through a variety of different sites.

00:08:09.160 So that, the, the various pieces of information that we had explained the various measures that we took.

00:08:15.080 So, David Mehdi here is just confirming, Harrison, something that we already knew, which is something that our colleague, Anthony Fury, and our friend over at the Toronto Sun, he reported on this back in February.

00:08:25.200 So, on February 17th, he had a report saying that the Liberals cite a CBC analysis to justify the freezing of the bank accounts.

00:08:33.080 So, this is what Fury wrote back in February.

00:08:34.980 He said, the incredible powers that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given his government to freeze people's bank accounts is based on their reliance on an analysis from the CBC, according to a 14-page document that the government tabled on Wednesday, detailing the supposed rationale for invoking the Emergencies Act in the first place.

00:08:52.060 They included the CBC report.

00:08:53.940 So, the most controversial measure they've brought in, not, relied on nothing but a CBC report.

00:09:00.320 So, as Fury points out, no RCMP intel, no national security briefings, nothing but a story put together by a handful of CBC reporters.

00:09:11.240 It's one thing for the Liberal government to rely on CBC for their own opinions, their own opposition research.

00:09:16.020 Fury writes, now it looks like they're framing national security briefings from these CBC stories.

00:09:22.620 Well, it gets even worse, Harrison, because the specific story that the CBC cited had to do, as David Lamedy confirmed in committee, had to do with foreign funding of the Freedom Convoy.

00:09:33.600 We know that was a huge part of the left's and the Liberals' narrative, which is that these truckers were funded by Trump supporters and mega-loving people in the United States and that it was a foreign insurrection and it wasn't Canadian and it was all foreign-funded.

00:09:48.440 Well, the CBC retracted that story because it wasn't true.

00:09:51.680 So, here is a story from True North.

00:09:54.420 It says that the CBC admits running fake news about the Freedom Convoy.

00:09:58.920 The CBC has publicly retracted a news story about the trucker Freedom Convoy that erroneously claimed that support of the protests had come largely from foreigners.

00:10:08.160 On February 10th, in a report about the protest convoy, CBC's radio, The World This Hour, incorrectly said GoFundMe,

00:10:14.640 ended a fundraiser for the protesters over questionable donations to the group.

00:10:18.160 A statement from the broadcaster wrote, February 10th article titled,

00:10:22.760 Convoy protests received hundreds of donations that appear to be from abroad, claim that donations identified by the CBC are likely only a fraction of all donations made by people outside of Canada.

00:10:33.560 Another story by CBC claimed that at least a third of donations were from anonymous donors.

00:10:38.780 So, we know that they drummed up the storyline about foreign funders and about how this was, again, like a Trump insurrection, January 6th, that whole nonsense storyline.

00:10:49.420 However, Harrison, on March 3rd, when GoFundMe executives came to testify at a committee in Ottawa, they said the exact opposite.

00:10:58.220 They confirmed that a very small portion of donors from the original GoFundMe campaign were from foreigners.

00:11:05.020 This is a quote from GoFundMe president.

00:11:07.580 He said that our records show that 88% of donated funds originated in Canada.

00:11:13.260 86% of donors were from Canada.

00:11:16.320 So, the overwhelming majority of those original donors were Canadian.

00:11:21.160 Once that GoFundMe campaign got shut down, there was a new campaign, and by that time, there was more publication, and it became an international story, and there were more foreign donors to that second campaign.

00:11:32.360 But the original campaign and the original storyline about foreign donors was fake news from the CBC, so much so, Harrison, that they retracted that story.

00:11:39.860 And yet, the government still relied on that report from the CBC to justify the use of the Emergencies Act.

00:11:46.340 It's so wild.

00:11:47.340 It's so wild.

00:11:48.000 We've said this on the show before.

00:11:49.420 There's, like, fake stories, fact.

00:11:50.840 It's, like, fake news wrapped into fake news wrapped into fake news.

00:11:53.860 This is one of those stories that you have to do a bit of digging.

00:11:56.700 It's clear as day that the government used bad intel from the CBC, and yet, again, this story isn't in the likes of the media.

00:12:04.680 They're not reporting on it.

00:12:05.620 They're not focusing on it.

00:12:06.620 They're not talking about it. 0.99

00:12:07.560 It's so ridiculous. 0.99

00:12:08.840 No, it is ridiculous. 0.93

00:12:11.640 And like you said at the beginning of this, if this were any other government, even if it were a previous liberal government, perhaps a liberal government that hasn't stuffed the news organizations with subsidies and with money to keep them quiet and keep them supportive, this would be a huge story, I think.

00:12:27.460 And it's worse than just the RCMP not having any intelligence to back up the claims.

00:12:33.400 If you recall, Candace, the FinTrack, which is the financial oversight board, the regulator of transactions in the country, FinTrack, when the FinTrack director came to testify to the Public Security Committee, he also said the same thing, that they did not have reports that this was a foreign-funded or there was ideological-motivated extremism in the funding of this convoy.

00:13:01.920 So each time the government looked for legitimate intelligence to back up their insane plans to basically freeze bank accounts to take the unprecedented measures, they couldn't find it.

00:13:16.660 So all they could do was end up going to the CBC.

00:13:20.980 But they even admit that.

00:13:22.280 So you'd almost think that's kind of an embarrassing thing for a government to do, right?

00:13:26.040 To have to go to the CBC, the same CBC that we make fun of on a weekly basis on this Fake News Friday program.

00:13:33.120 They have to go there, but they admit that they go there.

00:13:35.460 Instead of actually getting legitimate intelligence from our intelligence services, from the RCMP, and from FinTrack, it's incredible stuff.

00:13:43.440 And really, it's the kind of thing that in any other time, in any other government, it would be a huge, huge scandal.

00:13:51.640 But of course, Candace, it's to be expected, like everything with this government, like this whole national inquiry.

00:13:58.580 Canadians should not expect a real honest assessment of the actions.

00:14:03.460 What they should expect is a twisted, purely positive, the outlook is purely positive for the government.

00:14:11.580 That's all they're going to get.

00:14:12.580 They're not going to get accountability.

00:14:14.360 I think that's just the sad state of affairs that we're currently living in.

00:14:18.160 Well, and you always have to go back to, I know you were probably a little too young to be following the news during the Harper years.

00:14:23.720 But to go back to the way that the media constantly, relentlessly treated the Harper government as adversarial, and they were suspicious of every little thing that Harper did.

00:14:34.860 Stories would be dragged out through the news cycle day after day after day.

00:14:38.760 And no matter what, Harper was always painted in a negative light.

00:14:42.780 And you kind of wonder, okay, how's the media going to cover Trudeau?

00:14:46.320 Obviously, they're not going to be as harsh against him.

00:14:48.140 But the difference is just by omission.

00:14:50.620 Like, they don't even cover the stuff.

00:14:51.980 They don't even acknowledge it as a problem.

00:14:55.540 They agree so much with Justin Trudeau, and they believe in him, and they have his interests at heart, that they don't even bother covering it.

00:15:02.560 So it's not even like, oh, you know, the difference in the way they cover scandals.

00:15:05.920 It's like, they don't even cover it.

00:15:07.600 It's not even in, it's not anywhere in, you know, Canadian press, CBC, Globe and Mail.

00:15:13.380 Like, they just, they don't even acknowledge that it's an issue.

00:15:16.540 And it's, again, just such an absolute disservice to Canadians. 0.94

00:15:20.760 Absolutely.

00:15:21.200 So, Candace, another story came across my desk that I thought was something we had to discuss on the program.

00:15:28.340 And it was Liberal MP Julie DeZwerik from Toronto, from a Toronto riding.

00:15:32.820 She accused, incredibly, she accused the Ontario Premier of crimes against humanity.

00:15:40.380 Now, the crime that the Premier has supposedly committed was to basically stick to the original targets that the federal government and the provincial government both agreed to, a climate reduction target, 30% carbon reduction below 2005 levels.

00:15:58.400 So the crime that Julie DeZwerik, the Liberal MP, is accusing the Premier of committing, is reassessing the way in which they're going to reach the targets.

00:16:08.020 Not for anything serious, not for perhaps what other crimes against humanity you may be thinking of.

00:16:15.860 No, simply just rearranging the way in which the Ontario government is going to reach those climate reduction targets.

00:16:23.700 This is the insanity of the far left, this is the climate left that I know you've talked about before, Candace, where any little deviance off of the mainstream path of total climate alarmism, total climate, I kind of consider it to be climate craziness, really.

00:16:46.740 If you try to take any sort of reasonable approach to that, apparently now you're committing the worst crimes possible, crimes against humanity.

00:16:56.180 And so she said this in the House, and I want to play the clip because really, it's incredible.

00:17:00.340 She's very confident in this statement.

00:17:02.640 So watch this clip.

00:17:04.100 I will say something as an aside, Madam Speaker.

00:17:07.540 You know, last week, at the beginning of the week, you know, my heart was in the pit of my stomach when I read that the provincial Ford government was quietly,

00:17:16.740 altering their plan to hit their climate change targets.

00:17:19.860 And I'll say to you that no matter how aggressive the federal government gets with $100 billion and 100 actions,

00:17:26.020 there's no way Candace is going to be able to reach its climate targets if our largest province does not do its part.

00:17:32.160 As our climate is changing more quickly than we had thought, these inactions to me are irresponsible, unconscionable, and to me a crime against humanity.

00:17:41.320 So, the actions are irresponsible, unconscionable, and a crime against humanity, Candace.

00:17:48.320 It's a crime against humanity to commit to reducing your carbon emissions by 30%.

00:17:54.020 So apparently that's a crime against humanity.

00:17:56.860 I don't know how you possibly justify such a thing.

00:18:00.660 She was even asked to apologize by a conservative about saying those words,

00:18:04.780 especially in light of what's been happening around the world.

00:18:06.960 And she took the opportunity to double down. 0.97

00:18:09.560 So I'd like to get your take on this, Candace.

00:18:11.540 But I guess this is, what else can this be other than just a cheap political hit at the premier before an election?

00:18:19.780 Well, I'm one of those people who don't see much of a distinction between the liberal and the conservative climate plans.

00:18:25.920 It's like a difference without a distinction because the liberals make big audacious plans

00:18:30.440 and then don't keep to them and climate emissions go up, even though they're supposed to go down.

00:18:36.220 Even with all the heavy-headed schemes that Trudeau has introduced,

00:18:39.540 our greenhouse gas emissions and our CO2 emissions are still going up.

00:18:43.240 So the liberals' plan is based on nonsense.

00:18:45.720 The conservatives, especially conservatives like the Ford government in Ontario,

00:18:49.980 basically just do the same thing.

00:18:52.080 Like, they make audacious plans and then they don't stick to it and we don't meet our targets.

00:18:56.760 So this whole idea that somehow tinkering with the reduction plan 10 years down the road

00:19:05.740 is somehow going to lead to mass death and extermination.

00:19:09.920 I mean, this is hyperbole, right? 0.99

00:19:12.080 This is over-the-top, ridiculous, silly hyperbole by a MP. 0.96

00:19:17.280 I think that more journalists should call her out on it 0.90

00:19:20.360 because we know that when the conservatives issue any kind of criticism against Trudeau,

00:19:27.320 we see lots and lots of pearl clutching from the media,

00:19:30.100 lots and lots of people quick to jump and denounce the hyperbole coming from the conservative side.

00:19:35.960 I mean, Harrison, we're all old enough to remember, what, like two weeks ago

00:19:39.540 when MP Brad Redekop said that the Trudeau government's use of the Emergencies Act

00:19:45.280 was akin to dictatorship.

00:19:48.560 Rachel Thomas then read the definition of a dictator

00:19:51.180 and we saw ensuing lots and lots and lots and lots of journalists wagging their fingers

00:19:57.880 at the conservatives.

00:19:59.240 We had Rosemary Barton saying this,

00:20:01.360 criticize the liberal NDP deal all you want,

00:20:04.020 but this is irresponsible rhetoric from someone who was duly elected.

00:20:09.020 Complaining, we had Steve Chase over at the Globe and Mail,

00:20:11.420 worth noting, conservative MP Rachel Thomas on Monday in the House of Commons

00:20:14.960 said that many Canadians hold a view of Justin Trudeau's definition of a dictator.

00:20:19.700 She did not cite a poll, though.

00:20:22.880 She did not cite a poll.

00:20:24.460 Don Martin over at CTV said,

00:20:26.380 what a crazy thing to say.

00:20:28.100 Makes the whole caucus look bad.

00:20:30.300 Charles Adler, radio host, said,

00:20:31.960 who among conservatives running for leadership will renounce this irresponsible,

00:20:36.380 the irresponsible, every Canadian school child is getting 100% clarity on what a dictator is.

00:20:40.920 Okay, so lots and lots of finger wagging and pearl clutching

00:20:44.180 when a conservative says something hyperbolic about our prime minister.

00:20:48.220 And again, this is like the theme of the show.

00:20:50.500 When a liberal does it, the liberals, the liberal, the media don't bat an eye,

00:20:55.060 journalists don't bat an eye because they all agree that, of course,

00:20:58.120 Doug Ford is some reprehensible dictator who's committing crimes against humanity

00:21:02.760 for the crime of having a emissions plan that is 2% lower than the liberal emissions plan

00:21:08.860 that they will not meet anyway.

00:21:09.900 Like, it's all such a joke.

00:21:11.940 Harrison, it reminds me of this piece over in the CBC, an opinion piece.

00:21:16.060 Everyone knows my opinion on CBC running opinion pieces.

00:21:18.940 It's complete nonsense.

00:21:20.340 But we had an article in the CBC complaining about how the conservatives

00:21:26.440 are using too much hyperbole against the left.

00:21:30.240 So the title of this piece is called

00:21:31.820 Attacking Opponents as Socialists and Dictators Weakens the Fabric of Our Democracy.

00:21:37.260 We have a political science professor from Simon Fraser University

00:21:40.320 complaining and going on and on and on and on about how wrong it is

00:21:44.300 to call conservatives, for conservatives to call politicians on the left,

00:21:49.880 socialists, communists, or dictators.

00:21:52.580 He's very, very concerned.

00:21:54.040 He wants to use very specific, very precise language.

00:21:57.640 Look, I'm one of those people that's a bit of a stickler when it comes to language.

00:22:01.820 I think that there is some truth to this concept that when you call people

00:22:06.200 really over-the-top hyperbolic words, it weakens the fabric of our democracy.

00:22:10.440 You sort of normalize the use of over-the-top attacks.

00:22:14.640 The problem is that this piece from this political science professor

00:22:18.240 focuses 100% entirely on defending the left against accusations

00:22:23.220 that they're socialists, communists, or dictators.

00:22:25.480 And he doesn't even mention the fact that the left does this every single day.

00:22:29.160 So from my perspective, conservatives do it a little bit.

00:22:32.100 Like maybe the conservatives do it like 10% of the time, right?

00:22:34.460 They call someone a socialist.

00:22:35.940 They call someone a communist.

00:22:37.120 Worth noting, by the way, that a lot of people on the left

00:22:39.420 have started calling themselves a socialist, right?

00:22:41.560 So you have someone like Nikki Ashton, a very prominent NDP. 0.96

00:22:45.780 She's been endorsed by the NDP Socialist Caucus.

00:22:48.520 That's the thing.

00:22:49.180 That's the thing.

00:22:49.620 They have a caucus called the Socialist Caucus, right?

00:22:51.820 The Socialist NDP Caucus is in coalition with the Trudeau government right now, right?

00:22:56.780 You have high-profile Democrats in the U.S., people like AOC, Bernie Sanders.

00:23:00.920 They call themselves Democratic Socialists, right?

00:23:03.720 So they take on that name themselves.

00:23:06.140 Yes, sometimes conservatives use that word in a demeaning way.

00:23:10.340 A lot of times, though, it is accurate based on what the description

00:23:13.860 of what these politicians say that they want and the policies that they're putting forth.

00:23:17.780 Regardless, he's looking at conservatives and defending the left against accusations.

00:23:23.720 No, we're not communists.

00:23:24.680 No, we're not dictators.

00:23:25.460 And then he's ignoring the, like, 90% of the people who do this,

00:23:29.700 which come from the political left, calling people on the right every single name in the book.

00:23:34.300 Like, how many times in the last five years have you heard conservatives be called extremists,

00:23:38.960 racists, white supremacists, Nazis, fascists? 0.92

00:23:42.060 Like, on and on and on and on and on. 0.86

00:23:43.740 They constantly use these terms to describe conservative politicians, conservative activists.

00:23:49.440 They slur and malign the entire right with the most hyperbolic language.

00:23:53.820 I agree it weakens the fabric of our democracy.

00:23:56.860 So does the CBC running opinion pieces where they only criticize one side doing it,

00:24:02.360 not the other side.

00:24:03.100 Even though the other side is way worse, way worse of an offender at doing it, Harrison.

00:24:07.880 I mean, this whole thing just shows, again, the double standard.

00:24:11.880 The left and liberals can get away with calling conservatives all kinds of bad names.

00:24:16.700 Justin Trudeau did it.

00:24:17.580 He accused Melissa Lanceman, someone who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors.

00:24:21.460 He accused her of standing with those who wave a swastika.

00:24:24.240 Again, media barely covered it other than just maybe to downplay it a little bit.

00:24:28.320 But they didn't focus on the fact that Trudeau maligned the entire trucker convoy as being

00:24:33.880 Nazis, as is so many in the legacy media.

00:24:37.300 And yet, you know, here we have a liberal MP calling Doug Ford, accusing him of crimes

00:24:43.380 against humanity and crickets from the media. 0.99

00:24:46.680 It's so pathetic. 1.00

00:24:48.380 Yeah, well, it's just so arrogant from the political left. 0.99

00:24:51.780 They know exactly, as you pointed out, that they can get away with calling conservatives

00:24:56.020 whatever they want.

00:24:56.780 Not only will they be backed up by politicians, and politicians will reinforce the language

00:25:03.420 that those in the media use, but those in the media will back themselves up.

00:25:09.500 They'll write their own opinion pieces explaining why they're allowed to do and why they're allowed

00:25:13.300 to say what they say and why it's wrong for conservatives to accuse the prime minister

00:25:19.200 or the NDP as socialists.

00:25:22.860 And one thing I found to be quite interesting about this op-ed was that he basically, he

00:25:30.000 does the whole communism in principle is not bad, but in practice it ends up being bad.

00:25:35.440 He brings out that whole old line that everyone knows has just totally been debunked.

00:25:42.200 And so he kind of defends, in a way he defends communism here by saying, you know, communist

00:25:50.540 revolutions in theory don't need to be undemocratic, but in practice, however, communist revolutions

00:25:57.040 in the regimes that follow have been just that.

00:25:59.080 So it's a very odd thing by attacking conservatives, by saying that what they're doing is bad for

00:26:04.860 the country.

00:26:05.720 He then slips that in at the end.

00:26:07.080 It's very bizarre.

00:26:08.220 It's, it's, but it is, uh, Candace, as we've always talked about, just another example of

00:26:12.060 the CBC basically providing ammunition for the political left, giving them what they need

00:26:18.780 to whether it's, whether it's intelligence reports when the government intelligence can't

00:26:23.140 do it, or whether it's basically taking shots at conservatives, um, and covering for the

00:26:28.360 left, like this piece does.

00:26:30.220 It's, it's just what we should all come to expect from, from the CBC at this point.

00:26:34.180 Well, it's such a good point.

00:26:35.240 And I think Jordan Peterson has since do a good job of debunking the idea that communism

00:26:39.660 in practice is this righteous, you know, beautiful concept.

00:26:43.100 It's like, no, the very, the, like right in the philosophy, it says that you don't own

00:26:48.320 what you produce.

00:26:49.040 So they're going to take things away.

00:26:50.160 They're going to force you down.

00:26:51.540 And, and yeah, seeing a, seeing a professor, you're right, awkwardly make the case that

00:26:56.560 Marxism and communism just isn't that bad guys.

00:26:59.100 It's like, yeah, it's, it's super transparent, uh, what the CBC is trying to push.

00:27:04.440 Also, also on the CBC opinion page, I, I'm just going to give this one a quick honorary

00:27:08.460 mention because it's fake news Friday.

00:27:10.400 Uh, this is a CBC on Twitter introducing you to a new comedy special that's going on.

00:27:15.860 And so we, we see this, uh, Rush Kazi is the, the headline is it, Rush Kazi is about to achieve

00:27:22.160 the comedy dream, an album and a special coming out on the same day.

00:27:25.820 And on the CBC, uh, on Twitter, the CBC writes, Kazi is ready to be your new favorite, non-binary, 0.99

00:27:33.280 pansexual South Asian Muslim comedian, uh, Bravo CBC. 0.81

00:27:38.140 You found someone to check like so many of the boxes.

00:27:40.400 This is like probably the most diverse person that you will ever, uh, come across because,

00:27:45.640 you know, of, of, of all, of all of my top favorite non-binary pansexual South Asian Muslim

00:27:51.260 comedians, Kazi is about to become the new favorite one.

00:27:55.000 Harrison, uh, what do you, what do you think of this, uh, silliness with the CBC promoting,

00:27:59.560 you know, all, all kinds of, um, I don't even know how to describe it, just pushing the

00:28:05.040 transgender ideology in the most bizarre ways possible. 1.00

00:28:07.940 I mean, yeah, like it's gotta be that at one, at least one CBC op-ed a week could easily 0.99

00:28:14.540 be read as a satire piece, like a Babylon Bee article, because it's so, they're so ludicrous. 0.95

00:28:20.220 It's so, it's so crazy. 0.93

00:28:21.660 And they're so, I mean, the tweet itself is ready to be your new favorite non-binary, pansexual 0.57

00:28:27.520 South Asian Muslim comedian.

00:28:29.360 I mean, that can easily be read as a Babylon Bee article.

00:28:32.900 It was, it would, it would totally pass, I think, for most people.

00:28:36.000 And, and one thing about this article, which is, which has been pointed out in, in some

00:28:40.100 of the, in some of the tweets that I want to read, um, some of the responses throughout

00:28:44.820 the whole article, they use the, the, the gender neutral pronouns.

00:28:49.000 They use they to describe, uh, Kazi here.

00:28:52.540 And it's very odd.

00:28:54.620 If you're reading it, it's not easy to follow.

00:28:56.740 It's very confusing.

00:28:58.160 Um, and I want to pull one, one line from the article, cause it's just, it just shows

00:29:02.620 where all this, where all this gender neutral woke language is heading.

00:29:07.000 It's, it's heading in, in a way that is just not even grammatically correct.

00:29:10.160 So this is what one of the lines says, while Kazi is a very proud, is, is very proud of each

00:29:15.440 and every one of their identities.

00:29:16.600 It's important for them to stress that they are also not solely these identities.

00:29:23.720 So it's so hard to follow.

00:29:25.180 It's like, what, what are you even talking about?

00:29:27.300 Throughout the article, it, it, it basically just becomes more and more difficult to understand

00:29:31.860 and read if you're really trying to read it, um, critically.

00:29:35.160 Well, just, just before you get into the, yeah, before you get into some of the tweets,

00:29:39.380 it's like, sometimes I feel like they're trolling, right?

00:29:41.580 They just really want a reaction from the right.

00:29:43.620 And so they put these kind of silly tweets together, like, you know, that she's going 0.96

00:29:47.700 to become your favorite, that they are going to become your favorite, uh, pansexual, whatever 0.98

00:29:52.760 that means.

00:29:53.660 Uh, but, but, but yeah, I mean, the way that the story is written, it almost sounds like

00:29:57.280 this person has like a multiple personalities disorder or something like, like describing

00:30:01.720 one person as they, and then trying to like, uh, square that circle that square over and

00:30:07.300 over again.

00:30:07.640 The piece is just, it's, it's, it makes it impossible to read, but anyway, carry on.

00:30:12.080 Yeah.

00:30:12.540 The comedy dreams kept gnawing at Cassie though.

00:30:15.780 And by the age of 27, they decided to make their standup debut.

00:30:20.160 It, they don't even try really.

00:30:22.440 And it's, it's exactly, I think you're right, Candace, that they must really be looking to

00:30:26.760 rile, uh, rile everyone up on the right and get a reaction.

00:30:29.900 But I want to read some of the, some of the, the tweets because they really are, they really

00:30:33.980 are good.

00:30:34.440 Uh, John Kaye, who we, who we, we, we pull up his tweets often on this, on this program.

00:30:40.080 He pulls the line that I read about Cassie is proud of each and every one of their identities,

00:30:44.620 but it's important for them to stress that they're also not solely these identities.

00:30:47.900 Uh, he wrote, this is an actual sentence from the article, James Lindsay, who's an American

00:30:52.100 author who, uh, comments on a lot of the woke, um, ideology that's being pushed in America.

00:30:58.000 Uh, he writes that she's either funny or she isn't everything else is distraction.

00:31:02.740 Andrew Lawton, who I think had the best take on this, uh, he wrote on Twitter, but it's

00:31:07.420 such a crowded field, is they sure?

00:31:09.820 So pulling out the, pulling out the fact that, I mean, yeah, there's, I can probably count

00:31:15.480 how many, uh, too many, too many to name non-binary pansexual South Asian Muslim comedians.

00:31:21.120 So yeah, I don't know if Cassie's going to be my favorite.

00:31:24.020 Um, but yeah, he, he made that, he made that tweet and Derek filled the brand of the

00:31:27.860 Western standard, wrote whatever your chosen pronouns using they and them for the singular

00:31:33.580 isn't just confused, isn't just confusing.

00:31:35.940 It's incorrect English, let alone it being very confusing and tough to read.

00:31:40.860 When are we just going to call it out, Candace, that it's not correct English.

00:31:44.620 You can't just call each singular person they, because then no one knows what you're talking

00:31:49.800 about.

00:31:51.060 Yeah.

00:31:51.600 It's like, it's, it's, I mean, this is, this is part of the problem.

00:31:54.240 And again, back to Jordan Peterson, like this is, this is what he's saying.

00:31:57.400 You can't compel people to use a form of English that they're not comfortable with.

00:32:02.340 Like the interesting, and I think the beautiful thing about the English language is that it's

00:32:06.460 constantly changing.

00:32:07.500 It adapts.

00:32:08.240 It's, it's a bottom up language where, you know, things that are slang in one generation

00:32:12.840 may become very common the next.

00:32:14.840 And, and if that evolution happens naturally, then that's fine.

00:32:18.380 But, but having someone force new rules upon society and upon language, it just, it just

00:32:24.380 doesn't work.

00:32:25.380 And, you know, watching the left really kind of grasping at straws, trying to enforce these

00:32:30.760 new language codes and rules that they've tried to come up with.

00:32:34.540 It's just so off putting.

00:32:36.040 It's so awkward.

00:32:37.040 I, I hope that this is just a passing stage.

00:32:39.440 Like, I hope this isn't something that, you know, is here to say, I can't imagine it is.

00:32:43.600 It seems like, uh, you know, some in our culture are very confused at the moment and, you know,

00:32:49.220 they're just constantly looking for the next progressive woke cause to champion.

00:32:54.320 And you know, this, this one that they've chosen about the idea that anyone can be any

00:32:58.120 gender and you can change your identity and that you birth, uh, the, the gender that you're

00:33:02.400 given at birth is just a guest by the doctor.

00:33:04.600 The, the, this, I really hope this is just a passing phase.

00:33:07.980 And that this is not something that, uh, is here to stay in terms of the, uh, culture

00:33:12.480 here in North America and in the West.

00:33:14.960 Absolutely.

00:33:15.600 So very quickly, Candace, I want to bring up one more story.

00:33:18.080 This was released by blog to on Monday, the, the barstool sports president, Dave Portnoy,

00:33:24.760 who's well-known has become quite well-known for doing pizza reviews.

00:33:28.280 Um, I think the pizza review channel itself has several hundred thousand subscribers where

00:33:33.000 he just goes to different pizza joints and gives them a rating.

00:33:35.140 It's, it's one of those small things that's kind of become a big deal.

00:33:37.980 He announced that he was coming to Toronto to do some business, I guess, and do some,

00:33:42.320 do some other work.

00:33:43.540 And when he said he was coming to Toronto, of course, a bunch of Toronto pizza businesses

00:33:49.160 commented on his post saying, Oh, you've got to come try my pizza or eat my pizza because

00:33:53.720 it really is a good thing for business.

00:33:55.860 He has a huge platform.

00:33:57.080 Uh, and, and if he reviews your pizza and he gives it a good review, it'll be good for

00:34:01.560 business.

00:34:01.880 So understandably a good business owner would want to have Dave, uh, Dave Portnoy come down to

00:34:06.700 their business, but blog to you wrote an article on Monday totally shamelessly.

00:34:11.140 I will say as well, the headline reads Toronto restaurants offering controversial barstool

00:34:16.400 sports president, Dave Portnoy pizza.

00:34:18.820 And this is a perfect example, Candace, of, of journalists admitting that they are just

00:34:23.820 activists and then turning their activism into news when there's no news to be had and

00:34:29.820 trying to find a way to put themselves in the best possible light and make themselves

00:34:34.260 look as though they're, they're heroes.

00:34:36.000 Uh, Dave Portnoy is sort of a, an enemy of the political left.

00:34:39.400 They see him as someone who doesn't, you know, stands up to cancel culture and takes on the

00:34:44.320 left in their worst, uh, and takes them on really and challenges them, um, when they really

00:34:49.140 sink to the lowest levels.

00:34:50.680 Um, and I want to read a couple of the quotes from this, this blog to you piece, cause it's

00:34:54.060 really, it's really incredible.

00:34:55.300 Uh, the story starts by saying when controversial barstool sports president, Dave Portnoy announced

00:35:00.700 he'd be coming to Toronto, you'd think at least some people would be telling him to stay

00:35:04.000 away, but a surprising number of restaurants are offering him food.

00:35:07.080 Wow.

00:35:07.480 What a surprise business owners want an actual, want the support of, of, of a, of a well-known,

00:35:13.000 of a well-known reviewer.

00:35:14.220 Uh, but the story goes on to say he announced he'd be visiting Toronto in a video posted to

00:35:19.000 his social media to the delight of many food lovers.

00:35:21.860 One of the things Portnoy is particularly known for is doing on his channel is reviewing

00:35:25.280 uh, food specifically on his pizza reviews.

00:35:27.680 And then this is the part where it just gets incredible.

00:35:30.200 It, the story says Italian bakery, San Remo had offered Portnoy, had offered Portnoy food

00:35:36.080 in a comment, but changed their mind about it after blog TO reached out and, and the tavern

00:35:41.900 needy restaurants were also unaware of the allegations.

00:35:44.960 So they admit Candice in the article after blog TO reached out after our activist journalists

00:35:50.920 reached out to tell them not to support Dave Portnoy.

00:35:53.340 They then retracted their statement and now they don't want Dave to come.

00:35:57.560 So it's, it's a classic example, Candice of, of, of, uh, Toronto journalists, activist

00:36:03.260 journalists in this city, basically just admitting that they're no, nothing more than activists

00:36:09.340 and trying to kind of cancel businesses or trying to shine them in the worst light.

00:36:13.860 And Portnoy took to Twitter and said, blog TO must be sister blogs with dead spin, which

00:36:18.620 is a, an article, which is a blog that tried to take on Portnoy years ago.

00:36:22.160 Imagine calling local places to warn them.

00:36:24.140 I may, I may eat their pizza.

00:36:26.060 Literally nobody recommended San Remo, but now I think I have to go there, which just shows

00:36:30.920 you how the left, the left's actions constantly backfire.

00:36:33.680 And true North's cause man, Georgia, he wrote the journal activists at blog TO were calling

00:36:38.240 pizza places, warning them that Dave Portnoy might review their pizza.

00:36:40.900 A review from Dave would boost their struggling, these struggling small businesses, but journalists 0.98

00:36:45.340 can't let that happen. 0.96

00:36:46.460 They're such bitter losers and I couldn't have put it any better myself. 0.99

00:36:50.620 Well, I, okay. 0.99

00:36:51.520 A couple of things.

00:36:52.000 So for people who don't know what blog TO is, it's like one of those, like very, very

00:36:55.660 popular local blogs.

00:36:57.200 Like if you're looking for a good pizza place in Toronto or a good sushi place or good patio,

00:37:01.720 they have a really great list of all the best restaurants.

00:37:04.380 They do great reviews.

00:37:05.180 They have great lists.

00:37:05.920 I personally use it all the time while I did, you know, before all the restaurants shut down

00:37:09.840 pre COVID when I used to go out all the time.

00:37:11.960 Uh, it's, it's a great site for that.

00:37:13.880 And the problem is just like so many journalists in this country, in all over the place, that

00:37:19.500 rather than sticking to the thing that they do best, which is journalism and reporting

00:37:24.240 on restaurants so that you can help understand and choose which restaurant you want to go

00:37:27.960 to, they can't help, but get involved in the politics.

00:37:31.280 Obviously they're very far left, just like everyone culturally in Toronto, a part of that

00:37:35.640 scene.

00:37:36.640 So, so, so they're, they're trying to seep their political views into their reporting,

00:37:40.120 which makes it worse because I'm so much less likely to go on blog to you now when I have

00:37:44.500 to sit through, you know, lectures on gender ideology or, you know, this, this story here,

00:37:50.680 somehow, uh, you know, a very popular social media personality, David Portnoy isn't allowed

00:37:57.240 to review pizza places and they need to get warned.

00:38:00.060 Like this isn't journalism.

00:38:00.740 This is just full on activism here.

00:38:03.680 So I hope I, maybe I'll get you to explain a little, cause I'm personally not very familiar

00:38:08.120 with Dave Portnoy.

00:38:09.120 I know my husband loves his pizza reviews.

00:38:11.340 He constantly tries to get me to watch his pizza reviews and I'm like, not interested.

00:38:14.900 I don't, I don't get it.

00:38:15.960 It doesn't appeal to me.

00:38:17.120 Um, however, like who is this guy and why, why do these journal activists at blog to

00:38:22.520 you hate him?

00:38:23.520 What do they have against him?

00:38:24.520 What has this guy done?

00:38:25.520 It's so beyond the pale that he can't come and review pizzas in Toronto.

00:38:29.660 Well, I think it all, it all stems from the fact that his company, uh, barstool sports takes

00:38:35.120 on a different angle to the work.

00:38:37.220 They're, they're a journalism, they're a blog, they have a bunch of shows and podcasts, but

00:38:41.980 they just try and take a different angle than the rest of the light, the media.

00:38:45.900 They, they don't buy into the cancel culture.

00:38:48.440 Uh, they don't buy into the woke ideology and Dave Portnoy will vocally oppose it.

00:38:55.520 Um, and I think because of that, because of his persistence in, in opposing the pressures

00:39:00.120 of the left, the left sees him as a threat.

00:39:02.340 So then they've tried with, with other blogs, um, they've tried to come after him.

00:39:07.280 They've tried to, uh, bring up accusations, um, about his behavior that he, that he thoroughly

00:39:14.200 refutes and, and opposes, um, and nothing ever comes up of these accusations.

00:39:19.000 So he's kind of, people have tried to cancel him.

00:39:22.300 He's, he's, he's avoided being canceled.

00:39:24.300 Um, and I think that the whole idea of just having fun, making jokes and not, not kind

00:39:30.020 of buying into the, the, the leftist cancel culture really, really gets under the skin

00:39:34.140 of these, uh, leftist journalists.

00:39:36.020 So all of this stuff, I think just comes from that.

00:39:38.820 I think they, they are a bit bitter about his success.

00:39:41.780 They're a bit bitter about the fact that he doesn't buy into their whole, uh, their,

00:39:45.960 their whole, um, leftist kind of, uh, ideology.

00:39:50.280 His, his writers are not activists.

00:39:52.460 That's for sure.

00:39:53.620 And I think that's a lot, that's really refreshing for a lot of people.

00:39:56.340 Um, and I think that again, the fact that someone like him who can have real influence,

00:40:01.740 who can, um, you know, change the fortunes of a pizza business just by going and doing

00:40:06.440 a two minute, three minute video about them.

00:40:08.620 Um, that is a huge, that's a serious threat to people who I think are kind of just struggling,

00:40:14.740 miserable, disappointed journalists at these kind of lame blogs.

00:40:19.180 Um, that's, that I think kind of is stems, is, is the stem of all this, of all this sort

00:40:24.180 of, uh, they, uh, yeah, they want the monopoly on reviews, I guess.

00:40:28.520 And they can't have some sort of funny anti-woke, uh, guy coming in and taking that away from

00:40:33.480 them.

00:40:33.780 Well, Harrison, thank you so much for joining the show.

00:40:36.320 It's been fun to have you on.

00:40:37.320 Thank you for a shining light on the activism that creeps into journalism, uh, just on a

00:40:42.540 day-to-day basis here in Canada.

00:40:44.120 Appreciate your report.

00:40:45.000 Appreciate you joining the show.

00:40:46.440 Always a pleasure, Candice.

00:40:47.440 Thanks.

00:40:48.180 That's Harrison Faulkner.

00:40:49.260 I'm Candice Malcolm.

00:40:50.060 It's Fake News Friday, and this is the Candice Malcolm Show.

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