Juno News - September 13, 2019


This Week's Fake News with Candice Malcolm

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elite fake news obsession
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Andrew Scheer Justin Trudeau Andrew Lawton Katie Gibbs Muhammad Catherine McKenna Caitlin Bennett Candace Malcolm Trump
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This week on This Week in Fake News, we look at the growing problem of fake news in Canada, and how Liberals and elitists are using the term "fake news" to describe what they see as a "one-sided" problem.

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00:00:00.000 Hi and welcome to another segment of This Week in Fake News. I'm your host Candice Malcolm,
00:00:15.000 founder of True North and a columnist over at Post Media with the Toronto Sun. So once again,
00:00:20.940 lots to get to this week. It's now the election period, the writ was drawn up this week, so we're
00:00:26.100 full on in the middle of the political war that will be unfolding over the next few weeks before
00:00:32.100 Canada chooses a new government and perhaps even a new Prime Minister. So let's jump right into it.
00:00:38.100 I want to start with some amusing thing that happened just a couple of days ago. So my colleague
00:00:44.100 Andrew Lawton went over to Ottawa to sit in on a conference held by Canada 2020. Canada 2020 is a
00:00:51.100 kind of big L liberal group. A lot of the people involved kind of have the same sort of centrist
00:00:57.100 worldview as the Liberal Party and they promote a lot of the same issues that the Liberals are
00:01:01.100 promoting. So they held an event called Combating Misinformation, Protecting Democracy in the Public
00:01:07.100 Sphere in 2019. And, you know, this is just a favorite topic these days from elites and Liberals
00:01:14.100 in Canada. They're kind of obsessed with this idea that there is misinformation online, that there's
00:01:19.100 fake news that's being put out that's sort of coming only from one side. So, you know, as we all know,
00:01:26.100 there's a lot of fake news out there. This show focuses almost entirely on the fake news put out by the
00:01:32.100 mainstream media. Journalists do it all the time. I try to catch them and expose it, but they come up with
00:01:37.100 their own story. They have their own narrative, their own agenda, and they really do create stories
00:01:42.100 that oftentimes come from nowhere or they really just exaggerate or emphasize or show their own bias.
00:01:48.100 So this is super common. But according to elites and Liberals in this country, it's really a one-sided
00:01:54.100 problem. They see it coming from conservatives. They basically consider any news that's coming from a
00:01:59.100 conservative to be fake news. The other problem for them is that Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister, just
00:02:05.100 happens to be a very memeable guy. He's kind of a person that's easy to poke fun at and to make fun at.
00:02:12.100 He's very expressive, so you can always find him, you know, find pictures of him and then couple it with 0.61
00:02:19.100 some of his sort of more outlandish, ridiculous comments or his policies. And there's a lot of people
00:02:25.100 who spend time online making fun of the Prime Minister. And, you know, the thin-skinned Liberals,
00:02:30.100 Trudeau himself is thin-skinned. They hate this. So they've come up with this whole initiative to kind of
00:02:35.100 combat the disinformation online. They pretend it's like a one-sided problem when we know it's not.
00:02:41.100 And, you know, I've caught them doing this many times. They truly believe that a conservative opinion
00:02:47.100 and news coming from people who are conservatives is fake news. So the Environment Minister, Catherine McKenna,
00:02:53.100 once called my opinion column an opinion column that I wrote in the Toronto Sun. She called it fake news
00:02:59.100 because she disagreed with my opinion. So that pretty much sums it up. I mean, they clearly just say
00:03:05.100 that something is fake news because they disagree with it. And, you know, now they're coming up with a
00:03:10.100 whole initiative in government to combat fake news. And, you know, this is really what they want to talk
00:03:16.100 about. They want to talk a lot about this issue and they want to pretend that somehow there's some kind of
00:03:20.100 like a foreign interference. It's just like what happened in the States with Trump. They're trying to repeat
00:03:26.100 it up here and claim that like any ground that conservatives gain or any, you know, success that
00:03:32.100 conservatives have electorally, they're going to blame it on misinformation and foreign interference.
00:03:37.100 We can see the writing on the wall right now. And so this conference was held in Ottawa.
00:03:43.100 There's one particularly amusing thing that I wanted to point out. So, again, my colleague Andrew Lawton was
00:03:48.100 live tweeting the event and there's lots of good stuff on there. So check out his page on Twitter.
00:03:53.100 But so the very first panel that he attended, one of the panelists is a person called Katie Gibbs of Evidence
00:04:00.100 for Democracies as an organization. And Gibbs says that her organization will no longer use the term fake news.
00:04:08.100 And that's because she thinks that the term leads people to associate the news media with fakery.
00:04:14.100 Stop using that word, she says, opting instead for misinformation. So, of course, that's the whole thing,
00:04:20.100 that the mainstream media does put out fake news. There was just a study a couple weeks ago that found that the most
00:04:25.100 misinformed Canadians were the Canadians that watched the most amount of mainstream media news.
00:04:30.100 So it's true that the mainstream media is associated with fakery. She's on to that. So she no longer uses the term fake news,
00:04:38.100 opting instead for misinformation. And, you know, this is just so typical of the politically correct liberal elites in this country.
00:04:45.100 They're finding yet another term to ban. So sooner or later, it will just be completely unacceptable to use the term fake news.
00:04:53.100 And they'll call out anyone who does as being like some kind of a conspiratorial person or something.
00:04:58.100 They've done this over and over again. I pointed this out. The mainstream media and liberal politicians used to routinely use the term illegal immigration.
00:05:07.100 They used the term illegal immigration to describe illegal immigration, which Canada has a problem with.
00:05:12.100 There's a significant amount of illegal immigration happening in Canada. The Liberals deny that it's happening.
00:05:18.100 And just, you know, one day, about two years ago, they woke up and decided that it was racist to use the term illegal immigration.
00:05:24.100 And they started calling out the Ontario Ford government for doing this. And again, just saying that it was the immigration minister said that it was un-Canadian.
00:05:34.100 And it was it was intolerant and it was racist to use the term illegal immigration.
00:05:40.100 And so they decided instead that the term that they were going to use was irregular immigration, irregular immigration.
00:05:46.100 It doesn't even really make sense in English. It doesn't sound right. It's just mumbo jumbo.
00:05:51.100 It's it's a politically correct term that the Liberals invented. And as soon as they did, the mainstream media fell in line.
00:05:57.100 And so almost immediately, you saw the CBC, Toronto Star, all these other publications that used to use the term illegal immigration,
00:06:04.100 suddenly shifting and using the term irregular immigration. And then you even had journalists jumping in and correcting politicians and others for using the term illegal.
00:06:15.100 We don't want our RCMP officers to welcome them. They're illegal migrants. 1.00
00:06:21.100 And so we must be sure that if they want to come to our country, they have to follow our immigration law. 0.52
00:06:28.100 And that's very important for us.
00:06:30.100 I think the correct term is irregular migrants, is it not? 1.00
00:06:33.100 So, you know, the memo went out, the Liberals snapped their finger, banished a word from our common public parlance.
00:06:41.100 And now we use the word irregular immigration.
00:06:44.100 So looking forward to the term fake news to be next in there.
00:06:49.100 So let's move on.
00:06:51.100 One of the things that's kind of sad and unfortunate state of affairs in our country is just a really like the lack of free speech that we have,
00:06:58.100 especially for people who want to run for public office.
00:07:01.100 So we see this every election season.
00:07:03.100 As soon as the new badge of candidates is announced, as soon as the writ starts, the writ's drawn up and the election period starts,
00:07:09.100 we see a new list of candidates and almost immediately they all become like targets.
00:07:13.100 All these research groups, opposition research groups, starts digging through their past, filing through any public comment they might have made when they were a teenager on Twitter or, you know, 15 years ago, a Facebook comment, whatever it is.
00:07:25.100 So we're seeing lots and lots of that.
00:07:27.100 And just in the first few days of the campaign, you know, I went on the news site, National News Watch, which is just a horribly left wing publication.
00:07:36.100 But basically every single story on there was about a candidate basically getting pounded, some of them stepping down and getting disqualified for things that they had said years and years ago.
00:07:50.100 So here right now as I'm recording this, the top story on National News Watch, conservative candidate apologizes unequivocally for alleged homophobic comments on Twitter.
00:08:00.100 So, you know, this is something that the guy said years and years ago.
00:08:03.100 And then it turns out that the liberal candidate that was accusing him of making these homophobic comments.
00:08:08.100 Well, she in her past had also been associated with homophobic comments and comments that her husband had made were even far worse than what this guy said.
00:08:17.100 So that's the top stories.
00:08:19.100 Another story, PPC, the People's Party of Canada, oust candidate who asks Bernier to denounce racism.
00:08:26.100 So, you know, that party showing that they don't really tolerate a divergence of ideas and free speech here.
00:08:34.100 Another story, the Conservatives are again accusing the Conservatives of being anti-abortion.
00:08:41.100 And the Liberals are shaming.
00:08:44.100 Here's Caroline Bennett tweeting saying,
00:08:48.100 Is it an abortion debate really closed, Andrew Scheer?
00:08:51.100 You've chosen to launch your Toronto campaign in York Centre alongside your leading anti-choice, anti-choice, pro-life candidate and campaigner.
00:09:01.100 Her top priority is ending abortion. 0.62
00:09:03.100 So, again, the Liberals really want to talk about abortion.
00:09:06.100 They really want to be, to have the Conservatives associated with abortion, even though Andrew Scheer has said that he's not going to talk about the issue.
00:09:15.100 It really shows that there is no pro-life party in Canada.
00:09:18.100 Like, the Conservatives are probably the most welcoming to pro-life people, but they're not a pro-life party.
00:09:23.100 They are a pro-choice party, and Andrew Scheer is making that very clear that he will not push forward,
00:09:28.100 if he's elected Prime Minister, he won't do anything to limit abortions in Canada.
00:09:33.100 So, the Liberals are now condemning the Conservatives even just for having a candidate who herself, in her personal views, in her personal life, opposes abortion.
00:09:44.100 So, again, the idea that you have all these different parties that represent different viewpoints and different people in society, that's no longer true.
00:09:54.100 We're getting a narrower and narrower amount of things that are permissible to talk about in our society.
00:10:01.100 Like, now you can't even be pro-life and run for public office.
00:10:05.100 That's kind of what the Liberals are implying here.
00:10:08.100 So, you know, there's a very narrow realm of what we can talk about when it comes to immigration.
00:10:12.100 We can't really talk about a lot of things that people consider beyond the panel and you'll get accused of being racist if you criticize immigration too harshly or if you criticize diversity.
00:10:22.100 And now they're really saying that you're only fit for public office if you happen to be pro-abortion.
00:10:29.100 Well, and guess what? You know, there's lots and lots of Canadians.
00:10:32.100 There's millions of Canadians out there who personally oppose abortion.
00:10:36.100 And what the Liberals are saying is that those people don't deserve any representation in Parliament.
00:10:42.100 And they're really forcing Andrew Scheer to denounce abortion.
00:10:47.100 It's kind of sad, just the state of what we can talk about, what we can believe in public life.
00:10:53.100 Here's another story.
00:10:55.100 Montreal NDP candidate steps down, denies accusations of domestic abuse.
00:11:00.100 Yikes.
00:11:01.100 So this guy is being accused of domestic abuse and he's stepped down.
00:11:06.100 Here's another one.
00:11:07.100 Contradictory environmental stance by Green Party.
00:11:10.100 So this one's kind of amusing.
00:11:12.100 A Green Party MP five years ago, six years ago, tweeted this.
00:11:18.100 We're technically still in an ice age that began 2.6 million years ago.
00:11:22.100 Well, what if global warming is just the end of that ice age?
00:11:26.100 So basically just saying that the temperature is always changing.
00:11:29.100 Well, apparently that's not within the realm of what you can believe if you're a Green Party candidate.
00:11:35.100 And so this guy's getting under fire for like a super innocuous tweet that I would imagine lots and lots of Canadians.
00:11:42.100 Again, probably millions of Canadians agree with this perspective.
00:11:45.100 But this guy's coming under fire.
00:11:47.100 Here's another one. 0.89
00:11:49.100 And this Green Party candidate resigned over a post about mailing pig carcasses to Muslims. 0.83
00:11:54.100 This one's pretty dicey.
00:11:56.100 So this guy, you know, he posts a picture from a barbecue back in 2007.
00:12:01.100 So we're now looking 12 years into the past.
00:12:04.100 He posts this picture and he's at a pig roast.
00:12:07.100 And he jokingly commented that they were going to send the leftovers to Denmark in support of the protesters over the Muhammad cartoon.
00:12:18.100 So you remember back in 2007, there was a huge uproar because a Danish cartoonist published a picture depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad
00:12:26.100 that created huge protests all over the sort of extremist, illiberal parts of the world that don't believe in any kind of free speech and want to impose their blasphemy laws.
00:12:37.100 So, you know, the people who were protesting against that were like the most extreme people in society.
00:12:42.100 But anyway, nonetheless, you know, that's a pretty, you know, again, 12 years ago and clearly it's a joke. 0.58
00:12:50.100 But, you know, you probably shouldn't joke about mailing pig carcasses to Islamist extremists.
00:12:57.100 And again, this kind of just shows that you can't really have a sense of humor if you're going to be talking about politically incorrect things.
00:13:06.100 So that guy's gone, no longer a candidate over that.
00:13:11.100 Now here's the far left news publication that typically like frequently lies and spins and is just very, very anti-conservative.
00:13:22.100 They dug up a secret Facebook page from a candidate, a conservative candidate in Manitoba,
00:13:29.100 who once posted a meme saying that he was proud to be white.
00:13:33.100 So that guy's gone. That guy's gone. He resigned.
00:13:37.100 Again, you know, just so many candidates, so many people.
00:13:40.100 And it's kind of sad, you know, even if some of the individual instances,
00:13:44.100 the person says something that is, you know, not great, dicey or not politically correct.
00:13:52.100 It's kind of sad in our society that there's this mob mentality that as soon as you find someone who said something that was politically correct,
00:14:00.100 even if it was 10, 15 years ago, there's a mob that attacks a person and then they get disqualified.
00:14:06.100 Sooner or later, there won't be any Canadians left to run for public office, especially Canadians of my generation who kind of have had social media all along.
00:14:16.100 And, you know, it shows that you don't we don't really have a lot of free speech in our society.
00:14:22.100 If you say things that are politically correct or that are interpreted as being politically correct 10, 15 years later,
00:14:28.100 then you are disqualified and you can't be part of, you know, parliament.
00:14:33.100 You can't you can't be part of the democratic process or if you have views that the mainstream media and liberal elites deemed to be outside the realm of,
00:14:43.100 you know, polite conversation or mainstream views.
00:14:46.100 Like if you just happen to oppose abortion or you happen to believe that global warming is also associated with natural trends like the sun,
00:14:54.100 then you're just disqualified and you can't be part of our democracy.
00:14:59.100 It's kind of sad.
00:15:00.100 I wish that during elections we had higher tolerance for past discretions, especially, you know, if someone apologizes,
00:15:09.100 if someone says, look, I made a really bad joke 12 years ago and I am remorseful and I apologize.
00:15:15.100 They shouldn't have to resign and get removed from their position.
00:15:20.100 So, you know, this is it kind of shows a sad trend that we're heading towards with this sort of mob mentality,
00:15:26.100 political correct police monitoring everything we say.
00:15:29.100 It's very Orwellian in 1984 like that you can't say things freely out of fear that maybe 10 years from now they might be taken out of context.
00:15:40.100 So I'm going to leave it at that.
00:15:42.100 I'll be back next week and we'll probably talk more about election topics and what's emerging as sort of the most important issues
00:15:49.100 in the election.
00:15:50.100 Thanks so much for watching.
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