Juno News - January 14, 2022


The Trump fever dream lives on in the minds of Canada’s Laurentian elites


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00:00:00.000 The Trump fever dream lives on in the minds of the Laurentian elite here in Canada,
00:00:05.100 and the media use COVID as another opportunity to push even more socialism
00:00:09.420 in our already socialized healthcare system.
00:00:11.980 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:19.520 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast.
00:00:23.100 Now, this show, The Fake News Friday Show, is our favorite show here at The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:27.720 It gives us an opportunity to look back at the legacy media,
00:00:31.220 go through some of the most bizarre headlines of the week,
00:00:34.180 and just sort of dissect all of the various problems.
00:00:36.980 There's so many things wrong with legacy media in Canada,
00:00:40.280 and we go through this a lot on this show.
00:00:42.940 I call it the three Bs of the media.
00:00:46.240 First of all, they're beholden to the Trudeau government.
00:00:49.180 They receive their funding from the government,
00:00:50.920 which means that there is a conflict of interest,
00:00:53.020 and they're not going to properly report.
00:00:55.020 The second thing is that they're biased.
00:00:56.580 They're all sort of partisan liberals,
00:00:58.800 or at least they adhere to the same ideology that Justin Trudeau follows.
00:01:02.640 They're liberals.
00:01:03.460 They see the world through that lens.
00:01:05.140 They think that every solution should be fixed by the government,
00:01:09.120 that there's no limits to the things that the government can do,
00:01:12.080 and that they have these sort of trends,
00:01:14.100 like they're anti-American and anti-conservative and all these kind of things.
00:01:18.020 And the third thing that the media is, the third B,
00:01:20.380 probably the worst crime of all, is they're boring.
00:01:22.540 It's so predictable, it's so bland, it's so milquetoast, it's so boring.
00:01:25.900 So those are the three Bs of the legacy media.
00:01:28.980 And to join me on this show,
00:01:30.580 I'm bringing on my producer here at the Candace Malcolm Show, Harrison Faulkner.
00:01:33.920 He is formerly an intern,
00:01:35.900 and he's graduated up to a producer and journalist here at True North.
00:01:41.700 So Harrison, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:01:44.460 Yeah, happy to be here, Candace.
00:01:45.540 Okay, so there's a couple of stories that we wanted to go through.
00:01:50.220 You know, we had the anniversary of the January 6th riots down in the U.S.,
00:01:55.620 and I think that the legacy media in Canada just couldn't help
00:01:58.700 but unleash their sort of Trump derangement syndrome.
00:02:01.520 It's like they spent four years just hectoring on the exact same points.
00:02:05.540 It's sort of like a very naive and simplistic criticism of Trump,
00:02:09.220 like all of the sort of knee-jerk reaction
00:02:10.900 that we first heard on election night in 2016.
00:02:13.760 They just repeat it over and over.
00:02:14.840 They never tried to gain more insight into the Trump phenomenon.
00:02:18.740 There's nothing – it's so unsophisticated.
00:02:21.520 It's just like a basic blunt attack.
00:02:24.140 And, you know, they kind of had to put that to the side
00:02:26.280 because Trump hasn't really been a relevant figure in the U.S. for the last year or so.
00:02:30.600 And now this anniversary has kind of given them an opportunity to bring it back.
00:02:34.780 And so we saw some of the greatest hits return here, Harrison.
00:02:38.600 So let's talk about this first story that we pulled,
00:02:41.200 which – written by Lawrence Martin, who is a, you know, very long-time left-wing columnist over at the Globe and Mail.
00:02:48.660 And he writes that the disturbing reality is that millions of Canadians support Trump.
00:02:53.300 So I'm just going to read a little bit from this opinion piece because it's exactly what you would expect.
00:02:58.000 It's the most basic, silly, simplistic take.
00:03:02.080 He writes this.
00:03:02.640 So with the anniversary of January 6th, Capitol insurrection on Thursday,
00:03:05.860 many Canadians will be thumbing their noses at the Donald Trump cult
00:03:09.120 and what it has done to the beleaguered Great Republic,
00:03:12.780 except for about six million of them.
00:03:14.480 Six million – that's roughly the number of Canadians, pollsters estimate,
00:03:17.780 who support Mr. Trump and the Trumpism ideology.
00:03:21.080 It's a number, more than the population of British Columbia, that's not easy to fathom.
00:03:25.140 It shows how susceptible Canada is to American currents.
00:03:28.080 It suggests that as we watch Americans recall the horror of that day,
00:03:32.080 we should refrain from gloating the corrosive forces at work in the U.S.
00:03:36.400 are alive and well up here.
00:03:38.480 And so, you know, he's just sort of horrified at this idea that there could be conservatives
00:03:42.760 and Republicans and people who support Trump.
00:03:46.120 To me, Harrison, this just shows such a naive idea of Trump,
00:03:50.180 this idea that if you support Trump, it's because you're an ignorant, you're racist, you're stupid,
00:03:55.360 not looking at any more of that.
00:03:58.620 You know, some of the interesting things about the Trump phenomenon in the U.S.
00:04:01.880 is how he appealed to disaffected voters, to minority voters, to the working class,
00:04:06.980 to people who just wanted America to be great again, who aspired to the American dream,
00:04:13.500 or perhaps just people who wanted to put their country first.
00:04:16.540 They were tired of the sort of internationalism and the sort of the way that the left and liberals
00:04:22.040 talk down to them.
00:04:22.940 Like there's so much to the Trump phenomenon and to just sort of boil it down to the most simplistic
00:04:28.040 aspect and then say like, oh, and we shouldn't be smug because we have a bunch of these rubes
00:04:32.740 up here as well.
00:04:33.980 To me, this is just like peak snobbery and shows how out of touch the Globe and Mail
00:04:39.240 and this particular writer are.
00:04:40.780 What did you think of it?
00:04:42.380 Yeah, you know, Candace, it's such a lazy and overused line of attack on conservatives in this country.
00:04:47.320 You mentioned it.
00:04:47.900 It's just the media laying into their Trump derangement syndrome and just either choosing
00:04:54.060 not to understand how the phenomenon and the pressures in the United States that push Trump
00:04:59.800 to the presidency, choosing not to understand that or they really do not have any understanding
00:05:06.020 of reality.
00:05:06.860 And, you know, that six million number, it's not hard to fathom.
00:05:10.400 Lawrence Martin says he doesn't understand how that number could be so high.
00:05:13.080 But how can you blame Canadians, a lot of whom feel that their governments don't represent
00:05:18.360 them and don't work for them anymore?
00:05:19.960 How can you blame them for looking at looking at Trump in the U.S., who's everything Trudeau
00:05:24.200 isn't, who pushes back against the woke pressures of the left and who really kind of rails against
00:05:31.820 is an anti-establishment figure who loves his country.
00:05:34.620 I can't blame a Canadian for looking at that and seeing it as refreshing and kind of dreaming
00:05:39.760 of wanting that to happen in Canada.
00:05:41.360 It's not surprising, but really the language that Lawrence Martin uses in this piece is
00:05:46.160 wild.
00:05:46.720 I have to pull a couple quotes here.
00:05:49.080 You know, the way he describes Trump supporters in the U.S. and in Canada by saying,
00:05:53.820 Trump appeals to those that harbor resentment toward minorities, women, and immigrants.
00:05:58.980 I mean, how many times have you heard that in the legacy media, right?
00:06:01.400 And then this other thing at the end where he writes, Canadian Trump supporters are angry
00:06:05.400 and venomous.
00:06:06.580 I mean, that language is actually quite dangerous.
00:06:08.980 It's just wild, but at the end of the day, it's typical from the Canadian legacy media.
00:06:13.780 It is.
00:06:15.300 And I mean, even, I don't want to get into this sort of, you know, what exactly happened
00:06:19.840 on January 6th.
00:06:21.120 And I think there is sort of a split where, you know, if you're in the legacy media, if
00:06:24.400 you're part of CNN crowd and in Canada, the sort of CBC Global Mail, you think that January
00:06:29.300 6th was like a terrorist attack equivalent to 9-11 or whatever.
00:06:32.500 Whereas most people on the political right may say, you know, it was a handful of sort
00:06:38.480 of ne'er-do-wells that were angry and they took a political protest too far, which we've
00:06:43.980 seen so many times in the U.S. where political peaceful protests turned violent.
00:06:48.260 That was sort of the thing that was happening a lot last year with Black Lives Matter.
00:06:51.760 And in this case, with the sort of pro-Trump movement, it was happening on both sides.
00:06:55.040 I just, I saw this, people were sharing this Norm Macdonald tweet from January 6th, 2021.
00:07:03.100 And obviously, Norm Macdonald is a great Canadian community, passed away, rest in peace.
00:07:07.740 But he wrote on Twitter, I loved it when the violent terrorists made sure to respect the
00:07:13.760 velvet ropes in the statuary hall.
00:07:16.240 And then there's a picture of like this sort of, you know, what we're told is like a violent,
00:07:20.120 angry, insurrection terrorist mob.
00:07:22.020 And they're all like, you know, walking in line here going through, which, you know, again,
00:07:29.280 again, the sort of how you view reality and how you view events really depends on your
00:07:34.540 political position.
00:07:36.360 And what we saw from the Globe and Mail was just, you know, I think they kind of miss
00:07:40.360 Trump being president because it gave them so many opportunities to just, you know, sit
00:07:45.020 on their high horse and say, like, look at those stupid Americans.
00:07:47.500 And we up here in Canada are so sophisticated and mature, and we would never have a president
00:07:52.680 like that.
00:07:53.240 And then, you know, this whole idea that, oh, my goodness, like, clutch your pearls, there's
00:07:57.380 six million of them in Canada, too.
00:07:59.180 Like, we shouldn't be so smug.
00:08:02.580 It's just so predictable, Harrison.
00:08:04.160 And speaking of the Globe and Mail and the opinion page over there, there was another piece
00:08:10.280 that really caught the attention of many people, particularly on social media.
00:08:15.660 But the headline here says, if the next presidential election reveals the U.S. hurling towards possible
00:08:22.480 violence and autocracy, should Canada try to intervene by John Ibbotson, who's a regular
00:08:27.320 columnist over at the Globe and Mail?
00:08:29.340 So first of all, just, you know, this concept that Canada would somehow, like, intervene into
00:08:33.440 like a foreign country's election is kind of silly.
00:08:36.240 I don't know if there's any history, any precedent of Canada ever doing that, but also, you
00:08:41.300 know, to intervene in the democracy of our ally and, you know, the most sort of like liberal
00:08:48.660 and free country in the world.
00:08:49.980 It just, the concept of it seems very silly.
00:08:52.660 So in the piece here, Ibbotson argues that Canada needs to be prepared for when the U.S.
00:08:57.680 is no longer an ally.
00:08:59.260 And he suggests that is if Trump and the Republicans may be able to form government again in 2024.
00:09:04.900 So he says, there are risks if our politicians speak up during the election and risks in staying
00:09:09.940 silent.
00:09:10.720 But Canadians must ready themselves for a future in which the United States is no longer an
00:09:14.700 ally and no longer a friend.
00:09:16.580 As hard as it is to think on such things, basically just saying that, you know, the same kind of
00:09:21.900 stuff, Harrison, that Trump is a dictator and that he's an authoritarian and that if the
00:09:27.480 U.S. elects him as president again, it won't be a free society anymore, which is a fever
00:09:33.960 dream, right?
00:09:34.480 It's like the thing that every liberal scared themselves into believing when Trump was president
00:09:40.920 and then none of those things actually happen.
00:09:43.500 And so they kind of like were scrambling to invent things that Trump was doing that were
00:09:46.980 so terrible for the country.
00:09:48.440 But what did you make of this op-ed?
00:09:50.980 It's just crazy.
00:09:52.480 I mean, the idea that Canada is some sort of beacon of democracy and the great example
00:09:58.380 of how the United States should run and that if the United States decides to vote for a
00:10:03.840 former president again, that then Canada has an obligation to go in and somehow enforce
00:10:09.060 democracy.
00:10:09.740 I don't know quite how we would go about doing that.
00:10:12.460 But yeah, I mean, it's just crazy.
00:10:14.460 And at least, you know, the Globe and Mail is being honest about their editorial direction
00:10:18.700 heading into the midterms in 2024, that if the Americans in the eyes of the globe elect
00:10:24.060 the wrong person, then I guess the American democracy is crumbling and that the country
00:10:29.820 needs help.
00:10:31.020 There's one line in that article, though, about how Canada needs to bolster our military
00:10:35.800 and defend our borders, particularly to the north.
00:10:37.740 Well, I agree with that, but not to defend ourselves against the United States, but to
00:10:43.460 defend ourselves against our actual enemies.
00:10:46.320 I mean, this is just unbelievable.
00:10:48.440 And, you know, of course, the Globe and Mail, as soon as they put this out, it made its way
00:10:52.760 to the United States and they got rightfully mocked by this.
00:10:55.820 I mean, there are some great reactions we want to pull, but, you know, some of them are.
00:10:59.920 This tweet really was quite funny.
00:11:02.120 It's a gif of a Simpsons line and basically they're just saying, who are you going to send?
00:11:06.580 The Mounties are Celine Dion.
00:11:08.200 And another person wrote, send the Mounties.
00:11:11.740 Well, if you just just to go just to go back, if you if you look at the tweet itself, right,
00:11:15.560 you know, just look at the ratio there.
00:11:17.500 It got 152 retweets and 1500 quote tweets, which means that, like, everybody was mocking
00:11:22.680 this piece.
00:11:23.180 Like, just there's a headline that this idea that Canada is here to save America is so
00:11:28.220 funny.
00:11:28.700 And it really just shows the sort of outsized ego that Canadians have that, like, you know,
00:11:35.180 this country that doesn't pull its own weight militarily, to your point, that we really
00:11:38.640 should booster bolster our military spending, not to protect ourselves from America, to
00:11:42.960 protect ourselves from actual enemies and adversarial regimes and people who want to harm
00:11:47.740 us.
00:11:48.200 But no, we should do it to try to defend ourselves or to intervene in America.
00:11:54.660 It's just such a silly concept.
00:11:56.720 And I think it kind of goes to the thinking of Canada in its sort of outsized ambition
00:12:02.240 and an idea of itself as this, like, country that's more important and better abled than
00:12:07.420 our American neighbors, which, you know, of course, the reality is that Canada doesn't
00:12:11.280 pull its own weight militarily.
00:12:12.540 We never spend the 2% of our GDP on military as we're supposed to.
00:12:16.620 And we rely on unduly and often ungratefully on America to keep us safe and protected.
00:12:23.740 And then we turn around and bitch about them.
00:12:25.560 Like, it's just like, it's so open for mockery.
00:12:28.960 And I'm glad that it did get mocked.
00:12:31.340 Yeah, just absolutely, absolutely wild.
00:12:33.380 And thank God that the Globe and Mail got rightfully mocked for this and that it backfired on them
00:12:39.260 a little bit.
00:12:40.880 Yeah.
00:12:41.680 Well, again, just sort of a silly concept there.
00:12:45.320 Okay, Harris, let's move on to this story.
00:12:48.300 This one, to me, very much is fake news.
00:12:50.460 The other two are just sort of bad opinion takes.
00:12:52.100 But this story here, I can't stand it when news agencies do this, when reporters do this,
00:12:57.540 where they basically take a person's opinion.
00:12:59.420 So this piece, if this was an opinion column, if this was an op-ed written in a newspaper,
00:13:04.940 I would say, okay, I totally disagree with this take.
00:13:07.920 But it's that person's opinion.
00:13:09.840 So, you know, all the power to them.
00:13:12.300 But this is what the news agencies do.
00:13:14.740 They take someone's opinion.
00:13:16.400 They take something that should be an op-ed, you know, an opinion column, and they turn
00:13:20.920 it into a straight news piece.
00:13:22.180 And I get news alerts on my phone.
00:13:24.060 And this one came to me over the weekend.
00:13:25.840 And it was a news report.
00:13:26.840 It's like breaking and breaking news, right?
00:13:29.780 And so here's the headline, rapid spread of Omicron showing tale of two pandemics, rich
00:13:34.760 and poor.
00:13:35.760 Okay, so again, because this is news, you just assume that it is factual, fact-based,
00:13:41.420 and it is based on the news, not just based on some guy, you know, what some guy thinks.
00:13:46.780 Of course, when we read the piece, we realize that no, it is not based on facts or statistics
00:13:51.720 or anything like that.
00:13:52.960 It's just some guy's opinion.
00:13:55.280 I should say that this came to us from CTV.
00:13:58.800 But it's written by the Canadian Press, which is the wire service.
00:14:01.960 So this piece would go in newspapers and on websites across the country.
00:14:06.680 You would see it in everything from, you know, post-media newspapers to Toronto Star newspapers
00:14:11.940 to all different kinds of news websites and television station websites as well.
00:14:16.220 And so that's sort of the problem that a group like Canadian Press has so much reach
00:14:22.500 because they just, they appear everywhere.
00:14:24.680 I'll just read a little bit of the story here.
00:14:27.320 So some of it, you know, I actually kind of agree with.
00:14:30.780 It's just the direction he takes.
00:14:32.360 So they write this.
00:14:34.360 As parts of Canada see staggering rises in COVID-19 activity amid Omicron's rapid spread,
00:14:39.700 experts say the highly transmissible variant is training a spotlight on social inequalities
00:14:44.820 across the country.
00:14:46.280 Dr. Amit Ara, a palliative care physician, Mississauga, Ontario, and Dr. Andrew Buzari,
00:14:51.740 who leads the social medicine program at Toronto University's Health Network,
00:14:55.820 both say Omicron's rise continue to show a tale of two pandemics,
00:14:59.040 but those who can afford to better protect themselves pitted against those who can't.
00:15:02.980 Okay, so Harrison, on the surface, I kind of agree that if you are a frontline worker,
00:15:07.040 if you're a blue collar worker, you don't have the luxury of staying at home.
00:15:10.260 So, you know, going all the way back to April 2020 or March 2020, when it was like two weeks
00:15:14.740 to flatten the curve, do your part, it's patriotic to stay at home.
00:15:17.980 It's like, you know what, if you have a white collar job, if you're a journalist,
00:15:21.300 if you're a government bureaucrat, even if you're a teacher who can teach through Zoom,
00:15:25.980 it's not that big of a deal to stay at home. In fact, you might actually prefer staying at home
00:15:30.540 because you don't have to commute, you don't have to go out in a snowsuit,
00:15:33.880 you don't have to shovel the driveway. It's sort of a luxury to stay at home.
00:15:37.980 And so all of the people who are out there, like, hectoring people and sort of demanding
00:15:43.620 that everyone stay home, it's like those were often the people who it was really easy for them
00:15:47.620 to stay home. On the other hand, when you have, like, blue collar workers, people who work with
00:15:52.140 their hands, people who have to go to a physical workplace, frontline workers, these people don't
00:15:57.300 have the luxury of staying at home. They don't have the luxuries that many of the people calling
00:16:02.320 for the lockdowns have, and it's much harder on them. You know, the people who lose their jobs,
00:16:06.100 the people who had to shut down their restaurants, the people who run small businesses,
00:16:08.940 those are the people who are more heavily affected, and they carry the bigger brunt of COVID. And so
00:16:14.880 that part, I completely agree with. But that's not the point that they're making in this article,
00:16:19.420 they kind of allude to it. But no, the main point that they're making, Harrison, is that our healthcare
00:16:25.640 isn't socialized enough, that because there are like these little glimmers of private sector delivery
00:16:30.760 of places where you can get better testing services, for instance, if you pay money, you can get
00:16:36.940 your results immediately, as opposed to having to wait a couple of days, if you get it for free
00:16:40.540 at your local hospital, that these are the examples of the tale of the pandemic. It is unfair that some
00:16:47.180 Canadians can pay $160 and get same day results, while other Canadians don't who don't want to spend
00:16:54.780 $160 have to wait. And these are the examples. So, so basically, what they're saying here is communism,
00:17:01.040 is that we need to get rid of money, money is the root of all evil. And if we just didn't have any
00:17:05.320 money, then things would be better, which it's to me, again, this is not news, this is not a news piece,
00:17:10.760 this is an opinion piece. This is saying that, yes, our healthcare system is totally socialized. The idea
00:17:15.880 that rich people get better services isn't even true. You know, they only do if they're willing to go to the
00:17:20.280 US and pay out of pocket. Otherwise, they're stuck in the same queues as everybody else. But this idea that all we have
00:17:26.440 to do is get rid of these little private options here and there. And somehow the pandemic would be
00:17:33.160 equal. It's just so out of touch. It's a bad take. And the fact that it's wrapped up in a news story
00:17:39.400 makes it just one of my biggest pet peeves in journalism. What do you think about this one,
00:17:43.720 Harrison? Yeah, I mean, the unfortunate reality of COVID, as we've come to know, and as you pointed out,
00:17:49.960 is that yes, if you do have the luxury of working from a computer at home, then you aren't putting
00:17:55.640 yourself in harm's way of COVID. And those that have more blue collar jobs, of course, are at more
00:18:02.600 of a risk. And that's obvious. But I mean, what the solution is basically to just go in and to
00:18:09.720 embrace the healthcare system that is supposedly unable to manage the rise of COVID cases, unable to
00:18:16.680 house the ICU beds that we need. We hear from governments that our healthcare system is on the
00:18:24.840 verge of collapse. But this article, and this doctor, wants us to just go and fully embrace that
00:18:30.680 system. Don't provide any alternatives to alleviate the healthcare system. And everyone has to be stuck
00:18:37.240 with the public healthcare system that apparently can't even manage this load. But one thing at the
00:18:43.080 bottom of this article that I thought was interesting to note, and just kind of plays into this whole
00:18:47.480 idea that this is not a news piece, this is an opinion piece, and a wild one at that. It basically
00:18:53.000 talks about how it's dangerous and problematic to call Omicron mild, and how by saying that Omicron
00:19:00.840 is perhaps a way out of COVID, and that it's not as dangerous for the majority of people, apparently,
00:19:06.440 that is ableist and harmful language to call Omicron mild. So really, this piece just descends into
00:19:17.400 complete socialism, complete, you know, complete opinion. And it's a shame to see that it's being
00:19:23.960 pumped out on our wire services across our news. That's a good point. You can't even make a point
00:19:29.480 that's so obvious that you hear it all over the world from doctors and from politicians in other
00:19:34.920 countries. Everyone's saying this thing is mild. But in Canada, you can't you can't even say that
00:19:39.000 maybe that's one of the words that the CBC will add to their words that should be scrubbed from the
00:19:43.720 English language. I just have to add a final point, Harrison, which is that no, no woke left wing
00:19:49.800 news piece would be complete without also bringing in the race element, because we know that the woke left
00:19:55.000 is obsessed with race, everything must be about race. And so you know, no surprise here. But he also,
00:20:01.560 they also included a quote, talking about how essential workers by definition have to leave
00:20:07.160 the house to work. He said, this is one of the doctors quoted in the piece, Dr. Arya, saying,
00:20:12.920 they might be taking public transit to work, they might be working around 400 people in a distribution
00:20:17.640 centre. And of course, many frontline workers are racialized, they're immigrants to Canada,
00:20:22.680 they live in multi generation households with elders and vulnerable children who aren't vaccinated.
00:20:27.240 So so so that's just like a statement that doesn't have any backing in facts or reality. He doesn't
00:20:33.960 quote any any statistic to say that why he thinks that many frontline workers are racialized. In fact,
00:20:40.040 I don't even really know what that word racialized means. I guess it just means if you consider yourself
00:20:44.280 not white or not Canadian, I don't I don't know exactly what what he means by that. But but just kind of
00:20:49.480 throwing that out there as well. You know, not only is our problem is not only is our healthcare system
00:20:54.760 problematic. Because there's like one or two places where you can pay to get better service.
00:20:59.480 But also, of course, is racist. So no, no, no surprise there. But again, this is this is just my
00:21:06.040 my biggest pet peeve when it comes to news pieces that quote so called experts, who are really just,
00:21:11.080 you know, people that the journalist agrees with, and when they want to write an op ed to look like a
00:21:15.960 news piece. And this is this is a prime example. All right, Harrison. Well, thank you so much for
00:21:20.520 joining us. We really appreciate your contribution and joining us on Fake News Friday. It's great to have you.
00:21:24.440 Yeah, great to be here, Candace. Thanks.
00:21:27.560 All right, that's Harrison Faulkner. Thank you so much for tuning in. It's Fake News Friday. I'm
00:21:31.320 Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.