00:00:00.000Canada's media is captured. They're bought and paid for by the Trudeau Liberals. They have been completely compromised in their ability to publish honest, objective, and fact-based journalism.
00:00:12.080The latest example comes courtesy of the Toronto Star, a once-respected publication that has now resorted to publishing PMO propaganda created by Justin Trudeau's office.
00:00:24.380Has Canada's legacy media given up on even pretending to be objective and neutral? It certainly looks like that. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:33.480Hi, everybody, and thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. So as you noticed, we did not do an episode on Friday. We didn't do our usual fake news Friday because it was good Friday, and we didn't want to compromise that somber holiday by having to talk about the absolute train wreck, which is Canada's media.
00:01:02.200So we decided to save it and do the sort of fake news Friday-esque show for you today. So we're going to be covering some of the absolute worst examples of media fails in Canada, which just becomes so frequent.
00:01:14.580It's like low-hanging fruit every single day. There's worse and worse examples, but there was one from last week that really stood out from the Toronto Star.
00:01:22.500We're going to get to all of that. Before we do, please remember to like this video, subscribe to our True North channel if you're new around here.
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00:01:42.500Okay, so by now you are very aware of the Trudeau government's online harms bill and how it includes hefty fines and possibly even jail time for online speech.
00:01:54.280Yes, it includes life imprisonment for crimes that could be motivated by the ill-defined and hazy concept of hate.
00:02:01.280They never really tell us exactly what that hate means, but we know that it will be defined by Justin Trudeau and his henchmen.
00:02:08.080So this egregious bill has been discredited by people all around the world and all across the political spectrum from sort of high-profile mainstream celebrities like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan to respected lawyer Michael Geist to renowned author and let me just mention like a hardcore sort of left-wing person, Margaret Atwood.
00:02:28.420So it's not just conservatives, it's not just the political right that opposes this bill, it's pretty much everybody.
00:02:35.400And so what does the Toronto Star do? What do readers of the Toronto Star see about the censorship bill?
00:02:41.580Well, they see a full-throated defense of the Online Harms Act.
00:02:46.240There was an article published last week, it was titled,
00:02:49.140Have you heard the one about Justin Trudeau attacking your free speech online?
00:03:39.440And yet her job somehow includes writing articles in a newspaper that Canadians used to trust.
00:03:46.160So look, the Trudeau liberals are so unpopular right now that if there was an election held today, they wouldn't even be the leader of the opposition.
00:03:53.040It's likely the Bloc Quebecois would win more seats.
00:03:55.720It's possible that the NDP and Jagmeet Singh would even win more seats than the liberals.
00:04:02.760And so they're resorting to basically forcing the newspapers that they subsidize into publishing their government propaganda.
00:04:10.160You can always count on the bought and paid for legacy media if you are a liberal and you want to push out your spin.
00:04:17.960Usually they do it through like a proxy, through someone who's not directly working for the prime minister in the prime minister's office.
00:04:24.940But they've become so brazen in their ability to manipulate the facts and manipulate the media that now they're just pushing out staffers, like backroom staffers, to write articles accusing any, any, any, any criticism of the prime minister as simply being rage farming.
00:04:44.040Okay, so let's go through a little bit about what Supriya Devedi had to say about Justin Trudeau's online harms bill.
00:04:52.360So you can see again, this article, have you heard the one about Justin Trudeau attacking your free speech online?
00:05:08.420She writes, from the people who brought you classic hits, such as adding gender identity to the Human Rights Act would criminalize free speech.
00:05:15.920And signing on to the UN Global Compact on Migration would mean Canada's immigration policy is being set by foreign entities.
00:05:22.560Here comes the latest, newest sensation on the scene, portraying the All in Harbs Act as a total affront to freedom of expression online.
00:05:29.840Well, just wait a minute, because this is just the intro of the article.
00:05:33.140And she's already made a couple of blatant errors.
00:05:34.780So she's trying to claim that adding gender identity to a protected class as part of the Human Rights Act would criminalize speech.
00:05:44.200And yes, we were warning about this back then, that this is a huge affront to freedom of speech.
00:05:48.900And those warnings have come true, because there have been several examples of Canadians who have been fined or gone to jail for the crime of misgendering someone.
00:05:58.520So look at this, a story from October 2021.
00:06:01.640A BC restaurant was fined $30,000 for using the wrong pronouns.
00:06:07.900And it's always in BC, another BC story here.
00:06:13.000He was put in jail for opposing his daughter's sex change operation.
00:06:17.860Yes, this is because of adding that provision of gender identity to the Human Rights Act criminalizing speech.
00:06:25.160So even though the PMO staff were here is trying to use it as like a throwaway line, saying like, remember the crazy stuff they told you in the past?
00:08:14.780I don't think you can just use that as a throwaway point when that is literally exactly what has happened.
00:08:20.260Okay, so let's go back to this Toronto Star PMO piece.
00:08:25.100She says, critics are once again engaging in bad faith tactics, trying to frame the issue of online harms as a false economy between freedom of expression and clamping down on online harms, including online speech.
00:08:36.660She writes, while our government is certainly up for debate on how to improve the bill, including hearing from stakeholders, experts, and everyone in between on which provisions they feel should be fired into the sun, we have to have a conversation that is rude in reality.
00:08:50.160Fortunately, a lot of the commentary on the bill has been light on facts and heavy on hyperbole.
00:08:56.020She goes on and on about how basically like peace bonds are just fine and that there's like a history of common law.
00:09:03.940And so Canadians just basically shouldn't worry about it because we live in a free country.
00:09:07.200So something bad like getting thrown in jail for life for saying something or thinking something could never happen.
00:09:13.160She doesn't really provide a very good defense of the bill.
00:09:16.200And the reaction was pretty fierce and pretty strong.
00:09:19.920So we had Conservative MP Michelle Garner tweet, this Toronto Star article was written by Prime Minister's office's key spin person with no mention of her employer in the Apple News edition.
00:09:33.000Toronto Star is heavily subsidized by federal tax dollars.
00:09:36.220I would love the opportunity to write a rebuttal.
00:09:39.320I don't believe that they extended that offer to Michelle Garner, but they probably should if they want to be seen as fair.
00:09:45.840If they're going to publish a PMO Liberal, they should probably publish some Conservatives.
00:09:51.080We also heard from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and basically debunking this claim.
00:09:57.620They said that Ms. DeVetti in her Toronto Star op-ed claims that large online platforms are currently unregulated companies,
00:10:04.520prioritized harmful content over these types of content to maximize engagement and profits ignores the fact
00:10:11.540that posting child pornography as well as intimidations or threats directed at an adult or child
00:10:17.480by advocating for violent overthrow of government sedition are already criminal offenses.
00:10:22.740Perhaps law enforcement need more resources to enforce laws that are exist.
00:10:26.840DeVetti also ignores the fact that what she and her prime minister consider harmful
00:10:31.360will differ from what others see as harmful.
00:10:35.240Now, to their credit, the Toronto Star did publish a opposition voice, a respected lawyer
00:10:41.060and the head of the Canadian Constitutional Foundation, Christine Van Gein, had an article the next day
00:10:47.120writing that name-calling won't sound Justin Trudeau's critics.
00:10:51.280Maybe it's time for the Liberals to stop lecturing and start listening.
00:10:54.880She has a very good legal refute of the original article.
00:10:58.860I recommend you go take a look at that.
00:11:00.960I won't read it out, but I will say she has a very good point at the end here, which I will read.
00:11:05.180She says, these criticisms are not rage farming or bad faith.
00:11:08.900Free speech is not a threat to peace, security or democracy.
00:13:49.120So to go back to my tweets, I write, The main source of the story is a man called Tahir Nawaz.
00:13:56.940The article features half a dozen quotes from him, telling the reader that Muslims won't forget how Paliyev said he was a friend of Israel.
00:14:03.860You can see how I've highlighted his name.
00:14:07.200You can see how many times he was referenced.
00:14:10.160He's disappointed in Paliyev's opposition to funding.
00:14:14.800They just call it the UN aid agency, UNRWA.
00:14:17.740Well, UNRWA was found to have hundreds of individuals that were involved in the terrorist attack in October.
00:14:24.080So it's not exactly a neutral United Nations body.
00:14:27.680It's a body made up of Palestinian activists and many terrorists.
00:14:32.680He goes on to say there's no chance the Muslim community will forget the conservatives' position here.
00:14:59.600Well, a simple Google search of the man would have shown that his online profiles all picture glowing and friendly pictures with him and Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:15:10.560So this isn't just a regular person, a regular Muslim who speaks on behalf of many other Muslims.
00:15:28.780Could it be that this man is a liberal activist, a partisan who's wielding influence over the bought and paid liberal media to smear conservatives and boost the liberals?
00:15:38.740Because that's kind of what it's looking like here.
00:15:41.180I mean, like, did the Canadian press even bother to find out this about him?
00:16:04.180An individual by the same name, Nawaz Tahir, also from London, Ontario, is presumably the same individual.
00:16:10.040He donated over $13,000 to the Libs over the past five years.
00:16:15.640It's pretty much the max you can give to an individual.
00:16:18.600So as you can see, just scrolling through Elections Canada database, you can see all of the donations this individual made to the liberals over the years.
00:16:28.440Just donation after donation after donation, always to the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:16:32.540This would show all donations that he made to any party.
00:16:36.200And you can see that he donates to the Liberal Party over and over and over and over and over and over again.
00:16:45.980We have a high-priced donor and liberal activist who is in the paper, in the news, smearing conservatives.
00:16:54.660That's the main source of the article, smearing conservatives, happens to be a liberal donor, an activist.
00:17:01.320Why wouldn't the Canadian press include that information?
00:17:03.880Why wouldn't they tell you that the main person in their story is actually just a liberal activist who's smearing the opposition, which is what a liberal activist would do?
00:17:13.900The Canada's media, including the Canadian press, but also all those newspapers that publish this article without any comment or without any edits, which include Bell, Post Media, Toronto Starglish Media, basically all of the media outlets in Canada, all of them.
00:17:28.060They're all corrupted by government funding.
00:17:30.020And you cannot trust them to tell the truth.
00:17:32.920I mean, what other explanation would there possibly be for publishing a story based on an individual who is a donor?
00:17:41.040I wonder, I really wonder if the journalists even bothered to find that out.
00:17:44.940Now, interestingly, about two hours after I put out this information onto Twitter, I went on the Canadian press story and I noticed that they had made an update.
00:17:56.640And so let's go back to my tweet here.
00:17:58.580It says, update, the Canadian press inserted this stealth edit following my thread.
00:18:03.740So normally, if a newspaper is going to make a correction, if they've made an error in their piece that they want to correct, they write at the top, correction.
00:18:11.160And then they say, this story has been changed to reflect the fact that X, Y, and Z.
00:18:15.520But that's not what the Canadian press did in this, in this instant.
00:18:29.980It says, Tahir acknowledged being a liberal supporter in the past, but now he considers himself nonpartisan, given his advocacy work.
00:18:38.540He said he's donated money to the Liberals and the NDP, as well as Conservatives, for whom he helped sign up 500 Muslims during the last leadership race.
00:18:47.140Okay, so he just kind of shrugs his shoulder and said, yeah, I donated money in the past, but that was ancient history.
00:19:03.900It does show one to the NDP a while ago.
00:19:05.920It doesn't show anything to the Conservatives.
00:19:07.320But he doesn't really say that he donated to the Conservatives.
00:19:10.500He just said, to the Conservatives, I helped sign up 500 Muslims during the last leadership race.
00:19:15.440Presumably, he signed them up to vote for another candidate, not Pierre Polyev.
00:19:20.560And then when Pierre Polyev won the leadership race, we don't even know if these individuals are still members of the Conservative Party.
00:19:26.520So he was basically just wielding support in his community to try to weaponize it against Pierre Polyev.
00:19:32.500And now he's not involved in the Conservatives anymore.
00:19:34.120I'm sorry, somebody who claims to be a non-partisan activist wouldn't have a picture of the Liberal leader in his online profiles, right?
00:19:42.880If he's truly non-partisan and his new role, he considers himself non-partisan, maybe take down the pictures of you grinning and smiling ear to ear, standing next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:19:55.800And again, this isn't the only time it's happened.
00:19:58.660So someone sent me this tip after I put out that Twitter thread.
00:20:02.280Almost the same thing exactly happened last summer.
00:20:04.960So back in August 2023, we saw a Canadian press story telling us that Pierre Polyev's Conservative Party was embracing the language of mainstream conspiracy theories.
00:20:17.200The Tory leaders' summer sump speeches included a ramped up rhetoric about the World Economic Forum.
00:20:23.140Again, this is Canadian press, but again, it appears throughout legacy media.
00:20:46.500Activist, as was pointed out by our friend Gary Keller, he wrote this on Twitter, that actually the source of this story is a liberal donor.
00:20:57.400And you can see from the story itself that it features multiple quotes from this individual telling us how dangerous and how scary Pierre Polyev is for having the audacity to criticize the World Economic Forum.
00:21:10.820And basically just saying that it's all nothing but conspiracy theories, mainstream conspiracy theories, whatever that means.
00:21:18.260Now, you would think that a responsible journalist would include that information in their story.
00:21:23.340You think they'd bother to check, bother to do the research.
00:21:35.220Or maybe they consider being a liberal donor to be a qualifier in order to be featured in a Canadian press story.
00:21:42.040Maybe that's how they find their stories.
00:21:43.520Maybe they just scroll through the list of Justin Trudeau donors and come up with, you know, call them up and ask them if they have any story ideas or any news tips.
00:21:53.220Of course, it's not how journalism works.
00:21:57.880This is not how a free press is supposed to work.
00:22:00.300This is not how a democracy is supposed to work.
00:22:02.360Canada is entering into dangerous territory where one party, the Liberals, have bribed our country's journalists with billions upon billions of dollars.
00:22:11.580As a result, the journalists have been compromised.