00:09:38.040If even you doubt, if you raise doubts about the vaccines, you're outcasted.
00:09:48.040What's the difference between what he does and what happened under the Inquisition?
00:09:53.040See, on one side they say, well, we should not believe in God, but on the other side they say, believe in science.
00:09:58.040We don't have to. Science is not about belief.
00:10:02.040Science is about measurements, conclusions, hypotheses and arguments.
00:10:09.040We got to a point right now where even if you say something, if you raise any doubts, you're already considered, you know, as whatever, you know, they label you in very different ways.
00:10:23.040And I should just note that this individual, Teres from Romania, as well as the first woman that we showed, Christian Andersen from Germany, they both are described as far right in much of the mainstream media.
00:10:35.040So not necessarily endorsing them in their individual politics or home country, but just sharing them to show the kind of criticism that Trudeau is receiving on the world stage.
00:10:45.040Kind of funny enough, the left wing woke blog site Vice lists Teres as one of the most dangerous new MEPs in the European Parliament.
00:10:53.040I don't know if that's a badge of honor or what, but Harrison, what did you make of this whole situation of Justin Trudeau on the world stage?
00:11:00.040Well, I mean, he knew what he was going to get with the European Parliament because obviously the Christian Teres speech went viral back during the convoy protest, calling him, comparing him to Ceausescu and saying that he's a tyrant.
00:11:13.040So he knew he was going to get. He must be some sort of glutton for punishment because it was clear that he was going to get roasted at this address, especially when he's going there to lecture these European politicians on democracy.
00:11:24.040But I made this point yesterday on Twitter and it's just that I would love to see this kind of energy from the opposition benches in Canada because these European politicians must have been waiting for their chance for quite a while.
00:11:36.040They knew he was going to come to come to their own backyard. And so they came up with some they had some really, really devastating things to say.
00:11:43.040And I think this all just points up to a much larger problem that Canada has, which is which is the degradation of our image on the world stage.
00:11:52.040Canada is not what it used to be. It's not viewed as the country used to be.
00:11:56.040And that is largely because, as these European politicians point out, because of the way that our prime minister has behaved.
00:12:02.040And I think that whoever takes the whoever takes on the role of being prime minister after Justin Trudeau has has a lot of work to do.
00:12:09.040They really do have to take into account the damage to the image and the credibility of our country when when trying to repair the damage that Trudeau has done.
00:12:21.040But, you know, as you said, the German MEP Anderson, she's she watches Trudeau quite closely.
00:12:28.040She pulls up the basic dictatorship line to be the admiration Trudeau has for China's basic basic dictatorship.
00:12:34.040And and she says that she that he trampled on the on the basic rights of Canadians and that he's a disgrace to any democracy.
00:12:41.040That is that that's some serious language that cannot just be swept aside.
00:12:47.040I mean, the country, the prime minister and the government has to address the fact that the European Parliament does not respect our prime minister.
00:12:56.040They didn't even they didn't even show up to his speech. It's I don't even know, Candace, if the if the country has ever been viewed this bad on the world stage.
00:13:05.040It's so interesting because after the use of the Emergencies Act, I had Kaveh Chirouz from the Midon Laurier Institute come on.
00:13:14.040We talked about how world dictators and sort of human rights abusers are going to use this as an opportunity to dismiss Trudeau saying you can't come lecture us about human rights because look at the way you treat them in your own country.
00:13:25.040We didn't even cover the fact that other Western liberal democracies might be viewing this in the same way and they just wouldn't take Canada seriously.
00:13:33.040I think that, you know, it's one thing to have Xi Jinping or Ahmadinejad or one of these crazy dictators or former dictators mocking Canada.
00:13:40.040But then on the other hand, having our fellow kind of Western liberal democracy leaders come out and say this kind of stuff against Trudeau is equally as devastating.
00:13:52.040And I think you're right that that Canada's image in the world stage is just simply not what it has been in the past.
00:13:58.040And the only one to blame for that is Justin Trudeau.
00:14:01.040Hopefully you'll have a little bit of a realization about that over there.
00:14:05.040Harris, I want to move on and talk about this story that got thoroughly debunked this week.
00:14:11.040This was sort of one of the major talking points on the political left during the Freedom Convoy, this idea that there was an arson attack that was part of the convoy.
00:14:20.040So going back to February of this year, right in the middle of the Freedom Convoy, the story kind of emerged on Twitter of this apparent arson that was taking place.
00:14:29.040If you recall, there was a long Twitter thread by an individual who claimed to live in the building.
00:14:33.040And he was sort of putting all the pieces together.
00:14:37.040I recall Jonathan Kaye, the journalist over at Quillette, he he was thoroughly debunking it on social media, how absurd on the face it was.
00:14:45.040However, so many in the media and especially so many politicians picked up on this idea that the Freedom Convoy was unsafe.
00:14:51.040And here's a prime example. There was this attempted arson of a building.
00:14:55.040It went so far and so absurd as to say that some eyewitness claimed that the guy that was trying to burn down the building yelled out, I'm part of the Freedom Convoy or something like that.
00:15:15.040They knew who he was and he had nothing to do with the Freedom Convoy whatsoever.
00:15:19.040So so on Monday of this week, the Ottawa Police Services released the statement saying that the man was charged in the February Lisgar Street arson investigation.
00:15:27.040A man has been charged in relation to deliberately set fire in an apartment building on Lisgar on February 6, 2022.
00:15:33.040A second man is still wanted by the police.
00:15:35.040Ottawa Police arson investigators charged Connor Russell McDonald, 21 years old, of Ottawa, with one count of the following.
00:15:42.040And then it's just a bunch of different charges related to arson and disregard for human life.
00:15:50.040There is no information indicating McDonald was involved in any way with the convoy protest, which was going on when this arson took place.
00:15:58.040I mean, even as soon as the story came up, it was so patently clear, like like I can't say that every single person at the Freedom Convoy was a good law abiding person.
00:16:06.040I'm sure that there were some bad people mixed in there.
00:16:08.040But by and large, the Freedom Convoy was characterized by a bunch of people who were hardworking truckers, people who play by the rules, follow the rules.
00:16:18.040Even just the way that they kept the street clean, they sort of sell police.
00:16:21.040They were making sure that to do everything they could, you know, to be respectful of the community that they were in.
00:16:28.040It didn't make any sense that these guys would be out there trying to burn down buildings randomly in the middle of their Freedom Convoy.
00:16:33.040They were there to make a political point at the home of our democracy.
00:16:42.040Justin Ling, who was one of the journalists who was really pushing this idea that this was somehow connected to the Freedom Convoy in the first place.
00:16:47.040He even wrote that he had information saying this guy was part of the homeless shelter system, that he may have been mentally unwell or perhaps on some kind of a drug-fueled mental instability.
00:17:00.040So here you have a local person in Ottawa creating mischief, and it was conflated and blamed on the truckers.
00:17:09.040To me, this just shows the desire by the left and the media.
00:17:14.040These just so badly wanted the truckers to be breaking law and, you know, disregarding human life and threatening people that even a story that didn't really seem to add up at all.
00:17:24.040They jumped on it and pretended that it was a huge central part of the trucker convoy.
00:17:30.040I mean, you're exactly right that there was an attempt from the very beginning to use this as a way to promote a narrative about the trucker convoy protest.
00:17:44.040And it was used as a way to, you know, promote the violent crackdown that we saw, you know, which I believe to be one of the one of the more shameful moments in our recent history.
00:17:54.040This idea that these were violent extremists, they were looking that the media, these politicians were looking for any excuse they could to try and complete that narrative about these people.
00:18:04.040But as you said, Candace, you, you could have, you could have pointed this out from the very beginning when this story was released.
00:18:09.040So could I, because that's not the, that's not the typical behavior of one of these trucker convoy protesters.
00:18:15.040Actually, that's kind of the typical behavior of maybe a far radical left wing activist trying to push for violence.
00:18:22.040This is more of an Antifa type of act.
00:18:41.040It didn't stop politicians, obviously from the left, from going out and putting on the public record that this was part of the convoy protest.
00:18:49.040And Trinor's cause in Georgia put together a montage of these politicians saying just that.
00:21:24.040But if the media actually cared about holding people to account, they would be calling up all of those MPs, asking them whether they wished to retract their comments.
00:21:33.040I want to note one other thing that the main accuser, the individual who put out the first Twitter thread, he jumped on Twitter to try to sort of circle the whole square of his false accusation in the first place.
00:21:58.040So, so, so just imagine this, this logic, Harrison, that, that somehow, even though the truckers had nothing to do with this, even though the guy was a local guy who was part of the part of the shelter system.
00:22:09.040Uh, somehow the truckers are still to blame, even though the guy had nothing to do with the truck.
00:22:13.040The truckers are still to blame because they created chaos in the, in the nation's capital.
00:22:22.040And like you said, don't expect any, don't expect any retractions or apologies from any of these politicians.
00:22:27.040I mean, the mayor of Ottawa who had his 15 minutes in the spotlight during this entire time, he thoroughly made, took advantage of that.
00:22:34.040He said, uh, in regards to the arson attempt that it was a horrific story that clearly demonstrates the malicious intent of the protesters occupying our city.
00:22:47.040Um, don't expect any apologies from these guys.
00:22:49.040Uh, they accomplished their goal, which was to demonize the convoy protesters enough to justify a brutal crackdown, um, on that, on that Saturday.
00:22:59.040And also I want to point out this global news story because one thing that really bugs me, uh, about the way that the legacy media report on stories is they may indicate something in the headline, but they'll bury all the actual important details.
00:23:11.040So deep into the story, uh, knowing that no one's going to get there, this global news story, although they point out in the headline that police dismissed the convoy connection, they don't actually put that in the story until the 10th paragraph.
00:23:23.040After the fact they've already in the article about the arson, uh, the person involved in the arson getting arrested, they, they, they still go after the incessant honking and the harassment from the protesters.
00:23:36.040So again, it's, it's, it's, it was a concerted effort by legacy media and these politicians to paint the protest as something that it wasn't and to justify a horrendous crackdown.
00:23:46.040So it's really, it's really shameful all around.
00:23:50.040It's a huge indication for the truckers and for people who were defending them because obviously they weren't violent in nature and this is just another evidence, uh, a point of evidence.
00:23:58.040And, and it's just so devastating to the legacy media.
00:24:01.040This is, this is like the epitome of a fake news story in Canada.
00:24:05.040They just completely make up a storyline without validating it.
00:24:08.040Even when the story gets dismissed and discredited, Harrison, they still run with the same storyline.
00:24:13.040They say, okay, well, well that part wasn't true, but all this other stuff is still true.
00:25:01.040She speaks French and she thought that she would be a good candidate.
00:25:04.040But then when she went to apply, basically they asked her a bunch of questions about her heritage that were really trivial and kind of like diminishing or offensive to her.
00:25:14.040And so the whole story, like CBC reports this deadpan, like it's this outrageous thing that this first nations woman was asked these kinds of questions.
00:25:22.040It's like this is a this is a scenario that the CBC has created.
00:25:26.040It pushes this like woke idea that we have to have affirmative action hiring that we have to have special treatment for certain people.
00:25:32.040And then we need to be more inclusive of people in a certain community.
00:25:35.040And when the banks go along with that and say, OK, this is what the culture must demand of us.
00:25:40.040So we'll create all of these special kinds of questions to make people from First Nations communities feel more inclusive than the CBC reports that that is offensive.
00:25:48.040It's like you can never do you can never please the woke people at the CBC.
00:25:51.040No matter what you do, they're going to be outraged.
00:25:53.040You're going to write a negative story.
00:25:54.040Of course, all of this is predicated on the idea that it was an indigenous group that created the questions for the bank.
00:26:01.040So the bank went to a First Nations group, said, can you help us come up with some questions to remove the barriers in the application process so that we can attract more First Nations people that they do that.
00:26:11.040And then it's offensive to First Nations people who are actually applying for it.
00:26:16.040So, again, there is no pleasing the woke mob.
00:26:18.040No matter what you do, you will always offend them in some way.
00:26:20.040This is this is one of my favorite stories.
00:26:23.040It's just so amusing to watch the left spin itself in circles over this kind of thing.
00:26:27.040And again, the CBC reported like it's some kind of a scandal when they're the ones that are pushing for this kind of stuff.
00:26:32.040Harrison, what did you make of the story?
00:26:34.040Well, the thing about the banks is everyone knows this, that the banks are basically racing to racing each other to be the most woke.
00:26:41.040It's sort of like a race to the bottom.
00:26:43.040And they don't frankly care about what other people think as long as they satisfy the people that, you know, the the corporate social responsibility standards that all these banks are trying to reach, which is just basically how woke can you get?
00:26:56.040How far are you willing to go and willing to push it?
00:26:59.040But it just sort of, you know, this is exactly the kind of thing that happens when people get so lost in this race to be the wokest that they just they just end up losing all kind of semblance of common sense.
00:27:12.040The there's a there's a screenshot of the question that this woman was asked in the CBC article.
00:27:20.040I mean, part of the question, which it's a totally different application for indigenous applicants, which I find to be which you would think would be almost problematic in its own in its own way.
00:27:31.040But one of the questions was a part of one of the questions says, feel free to write a song, poem, dress in traditional regalia or bring in backup dancers.
00:27:45.040Exclamation point, you know, to to to your application for the bank.
00:27:50.040I just don't I it's it's it's just incredible to me what these people were thinking.
00:27:55.040And of course, this was written by by an indigenous group.
00:27:59.040Of course, it was right, because it just plays into this narrative that, you know, the further you go into this woke rabbit hole, the more you lose your mind and you end up just sounding, you know, insane.
00:28:10.040I mean, what were these people thinking?
00:28:12.040Did they not expect to get some sort of pushback on that?
00:28:15.040And I found this to be interesting because this seems to be a new segment.
00:28:18.040The CDC has added this go public segment.
00:28:22.040And it's basically looks like it's some sort of opportunity for citizens to air their grievances and to have it kind of masked as a as an investigative journalism piece.
00:28:30.040But really, this is just an example of of how things that go woke end up turning out to be very bad and they just make people look absolutely ridiculous.
00:28:40.040Well, it's a total misreading of it as well, right?
00:28:42.040Like they're kind of making it seem like, oh, the bank is disrespecting the sacredness of regalia.
00:28:47.040We're like like as if it was like, you know, some like white corporate people that had written this question a very condescending way.
00:28:56.040It was people from the community trying to actually do like genuine outreach.
00:28:59.040It's just that, again, it comes across as incredibly condescending.
00:29:03.040So it's so it's so odd, Harrison, that the CBC is kind of almost like holding the bank accountable for being condescending to First Nations people, even though it was the First Nations people groups that came up with these initiatives in the first place.
00:29:18.040It's just such such such a such a sad state of affairs when it comes to this sort of official official woke perspective in today's culture that permeated throughout the media, throughout banks everywhere.
00:29:32.040And yeah, I mean, I'm grateful that the CBC reported it because it's so silly.
00:29:37.040It gives us a little window into the absurdity of woke culture happening over there.
00:29:42.040So I got lots of lots of fake news as usual.
00:29:47.040Harrison, thank you so much for joining us today.