Juno News - This Week’s Fake News with Candice Malcolm

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

00:00:14.520 this is a podcast where I go through and examine some of the most biased, the most torqued and

00:00:19.380 sometimes the most flat-out fake news in Canada from the Canadian media. We all know the mainstream

00:00:24.480 media is super biased, especially the state-run CBC. They all lean left, they all probably vote for

00:00:31.640 like the most left-wing party in every election and things are just so much worse now that the

00:00:35.700 Trudeau government has created a fund, a bribe for the mainstream media, a bailout fund, $600 million

00:00:41.760 and that is in addition to the over a billion dollars that they give to the CBC each year. So

00:00:47.040 Canada's media is very biased and this is a show where we just go through some of the worst examples

00:00:52.460 of this bias and so now we're in a full-on election and because there's an election we're going to see

00:00:58.060 a lot more of this fake news. Journals are really stepping it up. They do not want conservatives to

00:01:02.560 win an election. They want the liberals to win because they want to continue getting their bailout

00:01:06.620 and because they all just like liberal policies. They all kind of grew up in the same bubbles and

00:01:11.640 they really believe in big government and they think that if you disagree with them on immigration

00:01:16.840 for instance it's because you're a bad person and you're probably racist. So here let's look at a

00:01:21.400 couple of bad examples from the CBC. This was just a very biased headline that I found. This is from

00:01:27.440 Katie Simpson at the CBC. She says, new from me, conservative leader Andrew Scheer will stand by

00:01:32.660 candidates who make racist homophobic remarks in the past as long as they apologize and take

00:01:38.380 responsibility for their words. Now when I saw that headline I honestly thought it was like either

00:01:42.960 clickbait from like a far-left activist group like a third-party group or maybe like a fake media

00:01:48.540 organization like press progress. No, it's from the CBC which is supposed to be the objective

00:01:54.280 mainstream media outlet. There's so many problems with this headline and with the story itself but

00:02:00.360 first of all you can't make a racist and a homophobic remark in the past. You can't have a present tense

00:02:06.040 of a word and then have the word in the past. So she wants to make it seem like the candidates today

00:02:11.040 are actively racist and homophobic when in reality what's happened here, I went through this on the last

00:02:17.540 podcast because there's an election because it's 2019 and our world is just so uptight, so politically

00:02:22.660 correct and there's this censorship mob of people who just absolutely have no sense of humor and they

00:02:28.360 want to punish anyone who's ever made an unsavory comment in their entire life. You have them combing

00:02:33.720 through people's pasts. Any kind of public comment that they've ever made on social media is picked

00:02:38.520 apart and thrown up as an example of how horrible a political party is and it's not just happening

00:02:44.680 in conservatives. As I talked about last week there's been candidates from the liberals, the greens,

00:02:49.240 the NDP and the conservatives who have all either been removed from their position or been sort of

00:02:54.280 reprimanded and scolded over past comments. The comments that they're talking about here from the

00:02:59.980 conservatives, you know, was a guy who made some stupid remarks when he was a teenager on social media. 0.99

00:03:06.680 He used a derogatory term and he quickly apologized and just said, you know, that's not who I am today. 0.99

00:03:11.720 She accepted that but according to the CBC that's just totally unacceptable and they really make it

00:03:17.000 seem like it's really a distinctly conservative problem as if conservatives just had a whole

00:03:21.720 bunch of racist and homophobic candidates out there and hey Andrew Scheer is just totally okay with it

00:03:26.200 so long as they apologize afterwards. It's just super dishonest and such a yucky way of conducting 0.99

00:03:31.640 journalism and honestly the fact that this headline even passed in editor is shocking. You know,

00:03:37.160 they don't make any reference to the fact that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh virtually said the exact same

00:03:43.160 thing about his candidates. There's a liberal candidate who made very anti-semitic comments

00:03:47.720 in the past and he claimed that the liberals knew about those comments. You know, again,

00:03:51.560 it's happening to everyone. It's just the state of the world in 2019 that there's a mob of censorship

00:03:57.640 and to make it seem like it's a uniquely conservative problem is just really gross. This is pretty funny.

00:04:03.880 Trudeau, I think he's bribing a CBC reporter. This is all really funny. So Trudeau's on the campaign trail.

00:04:10.600 He's refusing to answer questions because he really doesn't have any leg to stand on when it comes to

00:04:15.400 defending his horrible record. He's just, you know, up to the eyeballs and scandals and he can't articulate

00:04:21.240 or explain away the issues without lying and so it's better for the liberals to just not have him speak at

00:04:26.200 all. You know, just, you know, pretty face, photogenic, let's just have him do these photo ops.

00:04:31.000 So this is at a photo op where journalists are told not to ask questions and those dutiful

00:04:36.760 mainstream media reporters have just fallen in line and they're not asking any questions of the

00:04:41.720 prime minister. They're just laughing and joking around. And here you see a CBC reporter becoming

00:04:47.720 part of the photo op. Here's a clip.

00:05:03.480 Okay, so there's so much wrong with that. Trudeau is kind of like openly joking around and bribing a CBC journalist right there.

00:05:11.720 And by chance, this is the same guy who has been on Twitter defending the Trudeau liberals. When I first

00:05:17.480 saw his Twitter feed, I actually thought he was maybe a spokesperson for the Liberal Party. And I'm

00:05:22.120 not saying that to like, as a dig against him, I actually did think that he was some kind of a 0.99

00:05:26.200 spokesperson because I didn't, I wasn't really familiar with who he was. But when you read the

00:05:30.280 remarks and how he's justifying why Trudeau is refusing to take questions, it just really comes across as a

00:05:37.480 justification. And that's really not the job of a reporter, especially someone who's on the campaign

00:05:43.400 there to ask Justin Trudeau questions and to try to hold him responsible and accountable. And so

00:05:48.360 Canadians can see who this person is, you know, the job of a reporter really isn't to joke and laugh and

00:05:53.800 be part of a photo op for the Liberal Party of Canada. But that's what we have right there. And honestly,

00:05:58.760 it looks like a bribe to me. It's pretty pathetic. And that shows just kind of like the close 0.99

00:06:04.120 relationship that Liberals have with the CBC. And hey, I mean, if I was a Liberal and the CBC gave

00:06:10.280 me glowing coverage, and anytime there's a scandal, they try to change the channel,

00:06:13.560 and they spent four years just absolutely promoting my agenda, glossing over anything bad that I did,

00:06:18.520 and shrugging off corruption scandals, shrugging off terrorist allegations, or being Trudeau being

00:06:25.080 close to several different terrorists. You know, if I was a Liberal and the CBC treated me that way,

00:06:29.880 I'd love the CBC too. And I'd probably, you know, buy the guy poutine too. So that's, I guess,

00:06:35.160 well-deserved and really just a microcosm that shows how bad the situation is in Canada when you

00:06:40.200 have so many journalists that are personally indebted and absolutely in love with Justin Trudeau.

00:06:45.880 Okay, now there's one story that I really want to go through because it absolutely drives me crazy.

00:06:50.200 This is definitely the worst example of fake news in the news this week. And no, it's not from CBC.

00:06:56.520 It's not from the Toronto Star. It's from Global. Global is usually pretty good. Global is usually,

00:07:01.720 you know, fair, centrist down the middle. They don't obviously have a bias one way or another.

00:07:07.240 And they have some pretty good investigative journalists and writers who do stuff on national

00:07:11.080 security and immigration. So this was particularly disappointing to see. This came out at the end of

00:07:17.880 last week after the debate. So there was the first leaders debate last Thursday, and Justin Trudeau

00:07:24.600 didn't show up. So it was just Andrew Scheer from the Conservatives, Elizabeth May from the Greens,

00:07:28.840 and NDP's Jagmeet Singh. They talked about a whole bunch of issues. They didn't talk about immigration.

00:07:33.880 They barely talked about immigration. There's no questions on immigration,

00:07:37.080 even though about 20% of Canadians say that they think that that's a top issue in this election.

00:07:42.760 But there was one minute of a two-hour debate, one minute of it that the conversation went to

00:07:48.200 immigration. They talked about it a little bit. The question was about Brexit, but then somehow it

00:07:52.520 shifted and they started talking about immigration. It was basically just the two left-wing leaders

00:07:57.480 accusing the Conservatives of being racist, which is what they always do. It's like the only

00:08:01.480 line that they have. And at one point, Andrew Scheer talks about how these illegal immigrants,

00:08:07.640 people who cross the border illegally, are jumping the queue. They cross the border illegally.

00:08:12.200 They make an asylum claim. So they're no longer illegal immigrants. They're now asylum seekers who are 0.88

00:08:16.760 waiting to be ruled upon to see whether or not they are a refugee. Only about half of them,

00:08:22.440 it turns out, are refugees. The other half either have to either abandon their claims or they get 0.99

00:08:27.400 rejected by an immigration judge. And so Andrew Scheer correctly said that these people are jumping

00:08:31.960 the queue of our immigration system and our refugee system. He says that Conservatives believe in orderly

00:08:38.920 immigration that has to be according to the laws and that people who come in illegally are jumping the queue.

00:08:44.120 And then Elizabeth May, the Green Party leader, just says there is no queue. She says there is no queue.

00:08:50.760 Let's just show this clip. We've got the clip here.

00:08:52.840 There is nothing compassionate about forcing people to wait longer who are in refugee camps, 1.00

00:08:57.240 in places where there is civil war, where they will be killed if they leave those camps,

00:09:01.000 where they have to wait longer because some people are skipping the line and jumping the queue,

00:09:04.680 but then coming into camp...

00:09:05.880 There is no queue for refugees. There is no queue for refugees. 0.74

00:09:09.400 Okay, so first it is Elizabeth May that is incorrect. She says that there is no queue for

00:09:14.200 refugees. That's totally wrong. That's totally wrong. How do you think that refugees get picked

00:09:18.120 to come to Canada? They don't just like, you know, it's not like every year every single refugee who

00:09:23.720 wants to come to Canada gets to go. There are about four million refugees around the world. There is a

00:09:29.400 system through the United Nations where they register with the UN and then they wait. They either live in

00:09:33.800 refugee camps or they go live somewhere else and they wait for the UN to call their name to basically

00:09:39.960 get through the queue and then they get resettled to a different country, to a western country.

00:09:44.440 Most of them it's not Canada. They get resettled to countries nearby the conflict zone that they're

00:09:49.160 fleeing and then a couple of them, like a small percentage of them, get to go to either Canada,

00:09:53.640 the US, Australia or New Zealand or England or a couple other countries that receive refugees. So

00:09:59.400 there is obviously a queue. There is obviously a queue, but crazy Elizabeth May, who doesn't know 1.00

00:10:04.840 anything, just shouts out that Andrew Scheer acts as if people are illegals, which calling illegal

00:10:11.160 immigrants illegals is very derogatory and Scheer doesn't do that, but Elizabeth May literally just 0.98

00:10:15.720 did in that exchange. And then she says that there is no queue for refugees. So I wrote a column after

00:10:22.280 that saying that Elizabeth May was completely wrong. There are at least three different distinct

00:10:26.040 queues when it comes to refugees. There's that UN one I just talked about. There's also the queue that

00:10:31.160 people wait in when they're waiting to have their case heard. So right now, because there's been so

00:10:35.000 much illegal immigration under Justin Trudeau, there is about 77,000 people waiting in that queue to have

00:10:41.160 their case process. It takes between two to five years. It can take up to 11 years to have your case

00:10:46.760 fully decided on. And, you know, in that time people are in limbo. They can't really leave. They don't know

00:10:52.200 where they stand. It's hard to set down roots if you don't know whether your case is going to be

00:10:56.600 accepted or not. So because there are so many illegal immigrants and so many people who aren't

00:11:01.080 bona fide refugees, who are just opportunists basically, they create a longer queue for the 1.00

00:11:06.920 people who are actually fleeing violence and persecution. That's the second queue. The third queue 0.55

00:11:12.040 is these refugee resettlement organizations. They get taxpayer dollars and their job is to help

00:11:17.480 newcomers get used to life in Canada. They help them integrate from very basic things like learning

00:11:23.000 how to use the bus, learning how to pay bills in Canada, how to open up a bank account, to more

00:11:28.840 complex things like learning how to speak English, learning skills and trying to get a job, trying to

00:11:34.280 find a place to live, getting kids into school, all that kind of stuff. It's really important.

00:11:38.040 But these refugee resettlement organizations have very limited budgets and limited resources.

00:11:43.240 Canada accepts about 50,000 refugees from the UN every year,

00:11:46.600 and those refugee resettlement organizations are supposed to help those people. But then they

00:11:51.000 also have to help the asylum seekers. And because they have limited resources,

00:11:54.440 people have to wait for the services. So you have people waiting in Canada

00:11:58.760 in a queue to get resettlement services, to get into English classes,

00:12:03.240 and they can't because there's such a long queue because of all the illegal immigration. So

00:12:06.680 there are several queues. This is all just to say there are several queues, multiple queues,

00:12:10.920 that people wait in when it comes to immigration. Now you wouldn't know that if you were just reading

00:12:15.080 the mainstream media, you're reading this terrible global piece. Here it is, the headline right

00:12:19.000 here, it says, reality check, Scheer's claim about refugees jumping the queue is false.

00:12:24.760 Okay, it was Elizabeth May who made the false claim. Scheer was correct, but not according to this

00:12:29.240 idiotic report. Asylum seekers who show up at Canada's borders, including irregular border crossers, 1.00

00:12:36.280 that's such an awkward way to say it, irregular border crossers, are not jumping the queue,

00:12:41.160 as conservative leader Andrew Scheer suggests in Thursday night's debate. In fact, there is no queue.

00:12:47.960 Okay, so basically this reporter has found one activist and she has said the exact opposite is

00:12:56.040 what is true. So he's relying on this one person who he claims is an expert. He says,

00:13:01.480 the problem with the logic is that there are two systems in which Scheer referred,

00:13:05.160 one in which people make claim at the border or after living in Canada,

00:13:09.000 and another in which refugees are resettled in Canada after being processed overseas by the UN.

00:13:14.200 They are two completely different systems and have no direct or explicit links, experts say.

00:13:19.800 That's like the favorite line from journalists. They're just so lazy. They find one left-wing 0.81

00:13:24.040 activist and then they take what that person says and they say, experts say. Well, this piece only

00:13:29.800 interviewed one person, so you can't say experts plural, at least just say an expert says.

00:13:34.680 And second of all, anyone who claims to be an expert in immigration is probably just self-promotion,

00:13:40.840 self-promoting and self-inflating their own understanding. So here we have a professor

00:13:46.120 from the University of Ottawa, Christina Clark Kazak. She says, just like Elizabeth May,

00:13:51.560 there is no queue. Wow, I wonder what party she votes for. She says, so this is problematic to be using

00:13:59.400 this language. Under international law, people have the right to make an asylum. Okay.

00:14:05.960 Okay, there's two things wrong with this. The first one is that there is only one system. There's

00:14:11.080 only one type of refugees. It's under international law. The definitions are the same. Two systems that 0.96

00:14:16.360 she's talking about that she says have no direct or explicit links. That's completely wrong. Look at

00:14:21.080 Australia's system, okay? Australia also gets a lot of asylum seekers, but they don't want people to 1.00

00:14:26.040 make the dangerous and risky trek overseas to get on a boat and come to Australia. So they do as much 0.69

00:14:31.480 as they can to deter it. And if someone is intercepted or someone lands in Australia and makes

00:14:36.360 an asylum claim, they go to a specific island. They don't even get to come into Australia. They go to

00:14:40.760 an island where they wait to have their claim processed. If the claim is successful and the person

00:14:45.240 is deemed to be a refugee, they don't then get to come into Australia. They go to the United Nations and

00:14:50.920 then they get processed through that same queue. So they basically go to the back of the queue.

00:14:54.920 Whereas in Canada, when we accept someone's refugee claim, they automatically get to come into Canada.

00:14:59.720 So they are jumping queue. It's the same system. It's the same definition of a refugee. It's wrong

00:15:03.560 to say that we have two different systems. And then this claim here where she says that people have the

00:15:08.280 right to make an asylum under international law, that is not true. That is not true. People do not

00:15:13.000 have the right to make an asylum claim in Canada. In fact, international law says that a person has to 0.92

00:15:18.200 make their asylum claim in the first safe country they arrive in. So all of the people, every single one of

00:15:23.720 them who is walking into Canada illegally is coming from the United States, which is a safe country. 0.93

00:15:28.520 Under international law, they have to make the claim in that country, in the United States.

00:15:32.840 So this person is wrong. This person is wrong. But Global just calls up one person, one left-wing

00:15:38.520 activist, and then claims to have the complete truth and know everything there is about immigration.

00:15:44.360 And then they rule as a fact that it is Andrew Scheer that is wrong when they're completely backwards.

00:15:50.600 It is Elizabeth May that's wrong. Now, perhaps the worst part of this idiotic story is this dumb 1.00

00:15:55.240 reporter calls up the conservative party and says, a conservative spokesperson did not respond 1.00

00:16:03.000 directly to questions about whether Scheer knew his claim about cue jumping was inaccurate. So the

00:16:08.440 reporter calls up Scheer and says, hey, did you know your claim is inaccurate? And then instead of

00:16:13.400 the spokesperson for the conservative saying, no, it's actually you that's wrong. Scheer's claim was right.

00:16:18.280 They just didn't respond directly to that question. So it's kind of sad that conservatives are afraid

00:16:22.120 of their own shadow and they won't just outright say what is true. Scheer did in the debate. His

00:16:28.600 communications spokespeople are too afraid of their own shadow. So they were unwilling to tell the

00:16:33.080 stupid global reporter where to shove it and that it is him that is wrong and not Scheer. Instead, 1.00

00:16:38.360 the spokesperson says, the spokesperson did, however, say crossing the border in between a point of entry

00:16:43.240 is illegal. I love that he puts scare quotes over the term illegal, even though it's obviously illegal

00:16:51.640 to cross the border illegally. And he says, and that resources should be spent on the most vulnerable,

00:16:57.800 not on those who make it to a safe country like the United States. Okay. This is just brutal,

00:17:03.160 such a bad report. It's pathetic. It shows, you know what, this is what $600 million in a government 1.00

00:17:10.680 bailout gets you. This is exactly what the United Nations Compact on Migration said, that it was

00:17:15.560 going to basically force journalists to write positive stories about migrants and get rid of

00:17:20.920 the negative ones. And I mean, this one just bends the truth and they use flat out lies to tell Canadians

00:17:26.680 that the opposite of what is true is true. It's a sad, sad state of affairs, especially global, who's

00:17:32.040 usually pretty good on this kind of stuff. Okay, guys, I'm going to leave it at that for this week.

00:17:36.680 Thanks so much for tuning in. I'll be back next week. It's the election, so you know there's going

00:17:40.520 to be a lot of biased news out there. Thanks so much for tuning in. Don't forget to like this video,

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Juno News - September 21, 2019

This Week’s Fake News with Candice Malcolm

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