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00:00:00.000 Hi everyone, welcome to another segment of This Week in Fake News. I'm your host Candice Malcolm,

00:00:16.440 founder of True North and a columnist over at Post Media with the Toronto Sun.

00:00:21.620 There are a couple stories that I want to break down for you this week, and they're going to be

00:00:26.600 hitting on some of the similar topics we've been talking about for the past few weeks. So let's

00:00:31.340 just jump right into it. The first story that everyone's been talking about this week are these

00:00:36.280 billboards. As you probably know, as you've heard, a bunch of billboards were put up across the country

00:00:41.620 with a picture of Max St. Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada, and the billboards

00:00:47.740 had a pretty simple message. They just simply said, say no to mass immigration, with a picture of Max

00:00:53.920 St. Bernier, big word that said vote, and then the People's Party logo. We've learned that these

00:01:00.220 billboards did not go out under the People's Party. It was a third-party supporting group that put them

00:01:05.620 out. The group is called True North Strong and Free Advertising. It has no connection whatsoever with

00:01:11.500 this organization, with True North. Just obviously a very common name given that the words right there

00:01:17.940 are in our national anthem. Anyway, there was a huge uproar over these billboards. People were

00:01:23.880 outraged. There was a series of just ridiculous, ridiculous headlines. The Toronto Star headline said 0.99

00:01:29.960 it was a deceptive billboard. The Calgary Herald headline said that it was hurtful. And probably the

00:01:35.400 silliest headline that I saw was right in those Sun papers in the Edmonton Sun. An activist said that

00:01:41.700 these billboards were very racist, very racist to say no to mass immigration, according to these

00:01:49.020 politically correct Canadians. So after a whole bunch of complaints and people, you know, the mob,

00:01:54.960 the mob mentality that we see so often, complaining the organization that owns the billboards,

00:02:01.860 Patterson, they decided to take those billboards down. So billboards are gone. Apparently we cannot

00:02:07.640 have a conversation about immigration levels in this country. And it's interesting because most

00:02:13.520 of the political parties all sort of agree that we should continue to ever increase the number of

00:02:19.400 immigrants that come to Canada. Maxime Bernier and the People's Party take just a very slightly

00:02:24.380 different view, which is that we should cap it at about 250,000 new permanent residents a year,

00:02:30.500 which I'd like to point out is the number of newcomers that we welcomed in 2015. So it's not like

00:02:36.400 we're going back to like historic levels. It's not like we're going back to like the 90s or earlier

00:02:41.720 and trying to kind of even out. No, we're just going back like three years to the beginning of

00:02:46.500 Justin Trudeau's tenure as prime minister. And somehow that is just beyond the pale, say no to

00:02:52.260 mass immigration. So as you would expect, the mainstream media found a whole bunch of leftist

00:02:57.620 activists to dissect this message and accuse Maxime Bernier of saying something that he's not saying.

00:03:04.260 This is their favorite thing that they do. They will accuse a politician of only on the right,

00:03:10.140 accuse a politician on the right of so-called dog whistle politics. So that's when you blame a

00:03:16.180 politician for saying something that they didn't actually say. I get accused of this all the time

00:03:20.840 by the sort of deranged regressive left. They can't point to anything controversial that I've

00:03:26.220 actually said or that Maxime Bernier said. But then they accuse us of saying things that we haven't

00:03:30.920 said. And so they call this dog whistle politics. So you have to sort of read between the lines

00:03:34.700 and invent a new message from not the message that's actually put out there. So apparently

00:03:39.400 say no to mass immigration is dog whistle politics. And there's an embedded message that really just

00:03:44.400 says we hate everybody or we don't want any immigrants or we want to deport people or something

00:03:49.680 like that, which is clearly not what Maxime Bernier is saying. In fact, he constantly, consistently

00:03:55.520 has a message that Canada needs to lower its immigration levels to just what we had three years

00:04:01.260 ago, focus more on integration, that is making sure that the newcomers to Canada, you know, are involved

00:04:06.740 in the community, get a job, that they learn to speak English or French and that they develop a Canadian

00:04:12.140 identity and join the Canadian family, which I think every Canadian on the left or the right would agree

00:04:17.500 with that, I hope, and that we should focus on the economic needs of the country. And so this is obviously

00:04:23.240 in contrast to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has taken the opposite approach. He has lowered the

00:04:28.780 relative level of economic immigrants and increased the number of family reunification people, the

00:04:33.920 number of elderly parents and grandparents coming to Canada, and the number of refugees and asylum

00:04:38.900 seekers. So, you know, Bernier's position is just different. It's a policy position. And it's a

00:04:43.860 legitimate debate that we should be able to have in this country. But heaven no, the leftist

00:04:49.580 establishment does not want us to have this conversation. So here is an article on the CBC.

00:04:55.620 And it actually has a pretty decent headline. It says removing anti-immigration billboard is

00:05:01.280 censorship, says columnists. And so they quoted a Quebec based writer, Lise Reverie, who is with the

00:05:08.420 Montreal Gazette, who said that this is just pure censorship, that we shouldn't be taking down

00:05:13.840 a billboard, just because we don't necessarily agree with the message in it. And again, the message

00:05:19.880 is just super mundane. You know, it didn't say no, no immigrants or send people back or, you know,

00:05:27.260 anything like that. It just said no to mass immigration, a pretty simple message that I imagine

00:05:32.000 most Canadians would agree with. In fact, polling shows that only 6% of Canadians want more immigration.

00:05:37.640 And that's what Trudeau has done. So Trudeau's doing what only 6% of Canadians want. Bernie is talking

00:05:43.300 about what the rest of us want. And somehow, you know, it is beyond the pale. So here, the CBC has

00:05:49.400 found a person to, again, say that basically having free speech is wrong. So this person says,

00:06:00.040 Journalist and Human Rights Advocate, Amira Al-Gabari, said to claim the issue was about free

00:06:06.900 speech is absolutely wrong. Quote, free speech is not a ticket to demonize and marginalize,

00:06:12.240 says this person who serves on the board of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. She called the billboard

00:06:17.640 an example of dog whistle politics to get attention of voters who hold anti-immigrant views. Mr.

00:06:23.480 Bernier can claim that this is him wanting to have a debate. But what it actually is, it's him

00:06:29.100 signaling to those people who, again, are holding these views that if that this is what's going on,

00:06:34.680 that he's going to be the one to, quote, unquote, save Canada. So somehow this woman claims to know

00:06:42.420 what Bernier is saying and what's in his mind when he hasn't actually said those things and we don't

00:06:47.260 know that that's what's in his mind at all. So she's saying that somehow she understands Bernier

00:06:52.640 better than he understands himself. And that this is really just about finding those racist Canadians 0.96

00:06:57.680 and getting them to vote for the People's Party. And then we found another person that the CBC quotes,

00:07:04.940 no mass immigration in Canada says an expert. And as I've talked about before, this is the media's

00:07:10.820 favorite thing to do is to go find an expert. And that expert, that quote, unquote, expert believes

00:07:16.800 exactly what they believe. They hold the like classic paint by number left wing view on an issue. And then

00:07:22.580 the unbiased journalist, instead of having to insert their own opinion, they just insert their own

00:07:27.960 opinion. And then they say, says an expert. And so then that's how we get this bias in the news. So

00:07:34.120 this expert says that there is no mass immigration in Canada. So here we go, contrary to the wording

00:07:40.800 scrawled on the billboard, there is no mass immigration to Canada, points out immigration expert

00:07:45.920 Usha George. Canada is one of the few countries in the world which has a very organized immigration

00:07:50.960 system. Says this person who is the director of the Centre for Immigration and Resettlement at

00:07:55.940 Ryerson University. The government operates a point system, she explained, which prioritizes immigrants

00:08:02.360 who contribute to the economy. Yes, but as we pointed out last week, only about 20%, 20, 25, 26%

00:08:09.200 of people who come to Canada as permanent residents are coming as economic immigrants. The rest are all 1.00

00:08:14.780 family members or extended family members or refugees or asylum seekers. And again, when we're talking

00:08:21.760 about permanent residents coming to Canada, that's again, only a small portion of the number of the

00:08:26.480 total people that come to Canada because we have a temporary foreign worker program, we have a large

00:08:31.320 student visa program, we have people who come as long-term visitors, and then we also have those

00:08:37.840 asylum seekers. And none of those are included in the government's official count. So when you look at the

00:08:42.760 broader number of people who are coming to Canada on a more permanent basis, it's closer to a million

00:08:47.100 people a year. It's closer to a million people. So keep that in mind. And only a very, very small

00:08:51.600 portion of those people come for jobs. Okay, but this person who is somehow a total expert from

00:08:58.080 left-wing Ryerson University says, no, no, that's not the case. She says that, you know, that we prioritize

00:09:06.500 immigrants for the economy. It's only partly true. Our family immigration is much smaller, and 0.99

00:09:12.720 our refugee immigration is even smaller than that. It's true that the economic class of 0.99

00:09:18.060 immigration is the largest, but only a portion of that is actually the people who hold the

00:09:22.720 visa and the rest of them are their family. And then there's a separate family immigration

00:09:26.640 class and a separate refugee, which Trudeau has increased both of those levels. So it's 0.63

00:09:31.200 true that they're smaller, but the ratio is changing. And again, it's only a small portion

00:09:36.940 of the people that are in that economic class. Okay. Last, here we go, we'll keep reading

00:09:42.280 from the CBC article. Last October, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hassan announced a multi-year

00:09:47.360 plan to increase the immigration target to 350 per year by 2021, a figure that's close to

00:09:53.840 1% of the country's population. So that is the highest level that we've had in any point

00:09:59.220 in recent history. And the Trudeau government admits that it's the most ambitious immigration

00:10:03.180 plan that we've seen recently. And again, that's only the number of people who are coming permanently.

00:10:08.420 It doesn't include the temporary foreign workers. It doesn't include the asylum seekers. It doesn't 0.97

00:10:12.680 include the student visas or the long-term visitors. So it's just really like a portion of the people

00:10:17.060 that are coming to Canada. And then they show a couple of different polls that show that Canadians

00:10:25.660 are kind of souring on immigration, that we used to really be open to immigration. And every year,

00:10:31.680 basically, since Trudeau's been in power, the number's gone down lower and lower of the people

00:10:35.400 who accept immigration. And then here we go. So it comes from the fact that more and more of the

00:10:42.340 immigrants who come to this country these days are from countries that are non-European.

00:10:46.160 So there we have it. It's really just because Canadians are just so intolerant and racist. That's really 1.00

00:10:51.260 the crux of it, according to this so-called expert. The sentiment comes from a lack of understanding

00:10:56.960 about how immigrants contribute to the system and about negative propaganda about immigrants.

00:11:02.740 The diversity of the immigrants coming in also incites fear among right-wing groups and really

00:11:08.100 conservative kinds of individuals who feel like Canada is changing. So that's really what the CBC

00:11:12.800 wants to say. If you oppose immigration of any kind, if you even want to have a conversation about

00:11:18.540 Canada's immigration system, or if you just have the very subtle position that you want to go back

00:11:23.280 to the numbers that we had three years ago, really it's because you're racist. It's because you hate

00:11:29.320 people who are not European, and that's the bottom line. So that's really what this story is about.

00:11:34.720 They just kind of slid it in there. Instead of, again, saying it's their own opinion, they just found

00:11:40.540 some expert to say exactly what they think. And that basically is that all these Canadians who don't want 1.00

00:11:45.900 large numbers of immigrants who feel unhappy about the integration program, don't feel like

00:11:50.680 newcomers are really joining the Canadian family like they used to, or that people aren't learning

00:11:54.500 English as much as they used to. If you have any of those feelings, it's really just because you hate

00:11:59.760 everyone and you're a racist. So way to go, CBC. That's pretty much exactly what we can expect from 0.77

00:12:06.920 them. There's a story in the Toronto Star that pretty much echoes the same thing the CBC story says.

00:12:13.260 Immigration in Nova Scotia, not a yes or no question. Experts say. Again, these experts.

00:12:19.600 It's such a lazy trick for journalists to find someone who agrees with them, put their super

00:12:24.580 biased opinion in, and write it up as straight news, and just say, you know, it's an expert.

00:12:29.780 And so this whole article is pretty similar to the last one. It's just basically about how Bernie's

00:12:34.680 wrong, and really the main point of our immigration system is to boost the economy, and then it talks

00:12:44.800 about how Canada doesn't really have mass, we don't really have mass immigration, and that this issue

00:12:52.640 just conflates the topics, and it's really an American issue. It has nothing to do with Canada.

00:12:56.620 I mean, I don't know how you can study immigration and look at the issue, and just ignore the fact

00:13:02.000 that Canada has a record number of people illegally walking across the border and making asylum

00:13:06.560 claims, that asylum claims are about four times higher under Trudeau than they were under Harper,

00:13:12.700 and somehow just like look at that and just say, no, no, we don't have a problem. Mass immigration

00:13:18.220 doesn't describe the Canadian context, is what this other expert says here, and just pretend that,

00:13:24.380 you know, this is a problem in the US, and Europe has nothing to do with Canada, so people who are

00:13:29.500 talking about it are just wrong, and they're far right. I mean, that's basically the view of the

00:13:33.760 people in the mainstream media in Canada, the elites in this country, and pretty easy for them to write

00:13:40.440 that into the news, and just pretend that they are straight reporters, just saying it like they see

00:13:45.600 it. Okay, let's move on here. I want to just quickly touch on this other topic, because I talked about

00:13:51.220 it a couple weeks ago as well, and I just find it amusing, so everyone knows that the liberals dug up

00:13:57.420 this old video of Andrew Scheer, a 15-year-old video of him making a case against a same-sex marriage

00:14:03.560 bill that was being debated in the House of Commons, and so, you know, the whole, there was a whole uproar

00:14:11.400 over it, and everyone was talking about how, you know, intolerant it was of him. Comically, Ralph

00:14:19.580 Goodale, the Liberal MP, who also voted against the bill in 1999, was the one that was pushing the fact

00:14:25.060 that Andrew Scheer has these outdated views. Anyway, there is a CBC article today, and it says that Scheer

00:14:34.900 doesn't belong at Ottawa Pride, LGBTQ author and journalist says. So, if you remember the whole 1.00

00:14:41.080 hoopla over this controversy, everyone was calling on Scheer to go and attend a Pride parade. They

00:14:47.000 were saying, you know, he needs to apologize for his past views, and he can really show that he's a

00:14:51.320 changed person or whatever by going and marching in these, like, far left-wing Pride parades, which,

00:14:57.400 again, it's not really about, the Pride parades are not really about supporting gay people. Like,

00:15:01.400 most people in Canada support gay rights, and most of us have friends that are gay or know people

00:15:07.100 that are gay, and we don't hold anti-gay positions or bigoted positions. We just might not want to go

00:15:12.120 to a Pride parade because it really represents this sort of, like, left-wing culture where they're

00:15:17.180 promoting all kinds of just far-left issues, and as we've seen recently, they don't allow people

00:15:23.300 who have any slightly different views. Like, they banned the Toronto police from marching in the Pride

00:15:28.360 parade. The Vancouver Pride banned UBC and the Vancouver Public Library from marching in the

00:15:35.140 parade. So it's just sort of this, like, leftist authoritarian cult that happens every year, and

00:15:39.940 somehow all the politicians in the country are expected to go and march in this. Well, you know,

00:15:45.340 that's not, not all Canadians are interested in that, and you don't all have to have the same

00:15:50.960 view and the same priority. So after all that, all that urging to have Andrew Scheer march in the

00:15:56.500 Pride parade, one of the leaders of the community basically said that Andrew Scheer is not welcome

00:16:02.140 at the Pride parade. So after all of that, he wouldn't be welcome there anyway, which you could

00:16:07.320 kind of picture. You could kind of picture Scheer showing up at a Pride parade and, like, getting

00:16:10.900 booed and him not being welcomed anyway, because it's not like the Pride parade itself is this, you know,

00:16:16.940 bastion of, like, openness and liberalism. No, they're very closed as well, and they also have their

00:16:22.380 hatreds and their, you know, bigoted views towards people. Case in point, they don't allow police to

00:16:28.240 march in these Pride parades often. They, the Pride parade in Chicago banned Israeli people from going.

00:16:34.940 Someone had an Israeli Pride parade, Pride flag, and they got kicked out of the parade. So not exactly

00:16:41.880 the most welcoming, open-minded people, and I think this article pretty much sums that up. So I'm going

00:16:48.360 to leave it at that. Those were my two most glaring, those were the two most glaring, biased stories of the

00:16:56.540 week. Thanks so much for watching. If you see something in the news and you think it's biased, just send it on over and

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