Juno News - Trudeau gets what’s coming to him in Europe

00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets what's coming to him in Europe, and more of the legacy media's

00:00:04.820 fake news narrative about the trucker convoy comes crumbling apart. It's Fake News Friday,

00:00:09.000 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:22.160 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. So we're going to start off with some

00:00:26.440 news, not necessarily fake news per se, but just Justin Trudeau embarrassing himself,

00:00:31.580 embarrassing Canada on the world stage. It's sort of like a weekly occurrence here

00:00:35.120 with our Prime Minister every time he goes abroad, and for some reason he keeps going back to Europe

00:00:39.980 every time he does, he embarrasses us. So joining me for Fake News Friday is True North producer and

00:00:44.840 journalist Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, thanks so much for joining us today. Yeah, thanks for having

00:00:48.980 me, Candace. I've been looking forward to this all week, and so I know this is going to be a good

00:00:52.980 episode. It's like, I don't really understand why Justin Trudeau keeps going back to Europe,

00:00:58.040 but alas, he is back. This time he is talking to the European Parliament, physically lecturing

00:01:03.920 Europeans, telling them what they already know, pretending that he is this great statesman there

00:01:09.020 to tell everybody, bestow his wisdom on democracy and democratic ethics or something like that.

00:01:15.060 The reality is that Justin Trudeau doesn't know what he's talking about, and more and more people

00:01:20.040 are seeing through this. So Trudeau's office put out a release saying that on March 23rd,

00:01:24.340 the Prime Minister will address the European Parliament, where he will speak on peace and

00:01:27.700 security, defending democracy and transatlantic cooperation for the people of Canada and the

00:01:33.460 European Union. Trudeau calls the European leaders to unite, to aid Ukraine, and to further

00:01:39.100 sanction Russia. Again, it's just so irritating to see our Prime Minister go out there and lecture

00:01:44.980 people put on his sort of grown-up voice and just, you know, tell us again what we already

00:01:51.480 know. Interesting that, I won't put you through Justin Trudeau's whole speech because it is pretty

00:01:57.920 cringeworthy. However, there is one part that really, really stood out. And again, I apologize

00:02:02.280 in advance because watching this clip just makes you, it's just so awful. He's so terrible,

00:02:10.000 the way he speaks, the way that he talks, the things that he talks about. So here he is demonizing 0.69

00:02:15.100 the truckers. He goes all the way to Europe to lecture them about democracy, and he can't help

00:02:18.440 himself but providing his own revisionist idea of what happened during the trucker convoys. So here

00:02:23.160 he is reliving the trucker convoy, completely making things up about the truckers, and talking about how

00:02:29.540 he sees the situation. Here's that clip. Even in Canada, where 90% of people are vaccinated,

00:02:37.720 and our motto as a country is peace, order, and good government, we saw anti-vaccine and

00:02:45.460 anti-government protests devolve into illegal occupations of our communities and blockades of

00:02:51.420 our borders. The leaders of those convoys were effective in turning citizens with real anxieties

00:03:00.120 against the system best suited to allay those concerns. So blaming everybody but himself, and

00:03:08.060 again, making it seem like he's the good guy, his systems are there to allay our concerns, and anyone

00:03:13.480 fighting against him is just exploiting anxieties and turning people against each other. Well, the legacy

00:03:20.320 media, Trudeau's press gallery, his approved journalists, their job is to make Prime Minister

00:03:26.280 Trudeau look good. It's a tough job because Prime Minister is just so bad at what he does. Regardless,

00:03:32.560 here is David Akin being a good journalist, and trying to make it seem like Trudeau's speech was

00:03:38.780 more broadly attended than it actually was. The reality is, look at this clip here, you can see that

00:03:43.160 the seats are mostly empty. The chamber is mostly empty. There are 705 members of the European Parliament.

00:03:48.480 Most of the seats are empty. Here is David Akin saying that he counts about 200 out of the 705.

00:03:54.720 No. I look at that clip and I see maybe 40, 50 people. But Akin notes, the gallery, however,

00:04:00.640 is packed. So we're supposed to believe that there's all these adoring fans up top watching

00:04:04.680 Trudeau. The reality is that most of these European politicians and officials, they don't want to hear

00:04:09.460 what Justin Trudeau has to say. They know that he is full of nonsense, that he's not going to say 0.76

00:04:14.120 anything when he speaks. So they don't even bother to show up. The few people who did show up didn't 0.62

00:04:18.960 take it very well, Harrison. They didn't really like what they saw. And we saw people give Trudeau

00:04:24.180 a piece of their mind. So here we see members of the European Parliament. Oftentimes in Canada,

00:04:30.060 we don't think that people are really paying attention to us, especially over in Europe.

00:04:33.180 They have real issues to concern themselves with. Here is a German member of the European Parliament,

00:04:38.260 member of the ADF party, which is the right-wing populist party in Germany, giving Justin Trudeau

00:04:43.440 a piece of her mind. And you can see that she really carefully follows this up. She knows Trudeau.

00:04:47.940 She follows him quite closely and she gives a pretty scathing criticism of Trudeau. And amusingly,

00:04:54.660 you can see Justin Trudeau is seated right behind her. So you can see he's not very happy,

00:04:59.220 not very pleased with this criticism. But here is that clip. Thank you. Based on article 195,

00:05:06.900 doubt that it would have been more appropriate for Mr. Trudeau, prime minister of Canada,

00:05:11.780 to address this house according to article 144, an article which was specifically designed

00:05:18.740 to debate violations of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, which is clearly the case with

00:05:25.740 Mr. Trudeau. Then again, a prime minister who openly admires the Chinese basic dictatorship,

00:05:32.400 who tramples on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing his own citizens as terrorists,

00:05:38.680 just because they dared to stand up to his perverted concept of democracy, should not be allowed to speak

00:05:45.440 in this house at all. Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace for any democracy. Please spare us your presence. 0.98

00:05:54.380 Thank you.

00:05:57.120 Again, pretty devastating. And Christine Anderson is not the only one. So this was a theme.

00:06:02.220 The reactions to Justin Trudeau were not rosy. They were not positive. They were not good.

00:06:06.380 Here is another member of the European Parliament. This one from Croatia. Apologies if I get 0.99

00:06:10.280 this name incorrect, but his name is Mislav Klokusi. And he is a former judge and an independent

00:06:16.920 member. He also had a very scathing criticism of the Canadian prime minister. Here is what that

00:06:23.200 sounded like.

00:06:24.200 Canada, a symbol of modern world, has been a symbol of your quasi-liberalism in the past

00:06:35.560 months, has become a symbol of the destruction of the fundamental human rights and civil rights.

00:06:41.840 And listen closely with us. Thanks, Sherzan. In addition to your four rights, ladies and children,

00:06:44.120 remember that at com, that raised with our basic love,ensiritism,

00:06:44.940 we are going to have to pay for your login. They are going to pay for your wealth and

00:06:48.920 sandwiches, not only if you can pay for your conversion. See, we are also paying for Motorola.

00:06:50.040 to block bank accounts that they don't have to pay for school,

00:06:56.040 that they don't have to pay for supplies,

00:06:59.040 that they don't have to pay for water,

00:07:02.040 that they don't have to pay for credit for their own homes.

00:07:07.040 For you, this is maybe liberal methods.

00:07:11.040 However, for many of the people of the world,

00:07:15.040 this is a dictatorship of the world.

00:07:18.040 Be confident that the citizens of the world,

00:07:21.040 together, can set up every regime

00:07:26.040 that wants to destroy the freedom of citizens,

00:07:29.040 no bombs, no harmful pharmaceutical products.

00:07:33.040 Thank you.

00:07:35.040 So for people who were just listening and didn't see the subtitles there,

00:07:38.040 he says, Prime Minister Trudeau, in recent months under a quasi-liberal boot,

00:07:41.040 Canada has become a symbol of civil rights violations.

00:07:44.040 The methods we have witnessed may be liberal to you,

00:07:47.040 but to many citizens around the world,

00:07:49.040 it seemed like a dictatorship of the worst kind.

00:07:52.040 Again, truly devastating stuff.

00:07:54.040 And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau goes abroad.

00:07:56.040 He is used to being treated as some kind of a liberal golden boy.

00:08:00.040 He likes to be seen as a sort of last best hope for progressive liberalism on the world stage.

00:08:05.040 The reality is that the rest of the world doesn't see it that way. 0.98

00:08:08.040 They see him for the fool that he is, someone who goes out there, talks a lot of nonsense about liberalism, 0.99

00:08:14.040 and then governs in the complete opposite way, not giving people their basic rights, 0.99

00:08:19.040 not listening to people, not there in the way that you would expect the Prime Minister.

00:08:23.040 So interesting to see the Prime Minister being called out this way.

00:08:26.040 Final criticism came from an individual in the Romanian member of the European Parliament named Christian Teres.

00:08:32.040 He released a statement. He said that he didn't bother to go to the speech because he didn't want to listen to Trudeau,

00:08:38.040 but he put out a statement.

00:08:39.040 So our own Cosmin Gersha, who is Romanian or he speaks Romanian, he translated the statement.

00:08:45.040 And he said that Teres blasted Trudeau for having horses trampling protesters during the Freedom Convoy.

00:08:51.040 He writes this.

00:08:52.040 I refuse to validate by my presence the facade of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,

00:08:57.040 who gave a speech before the plenary of the European Parliament on March 23rd.

00:09:00.040 It was the reason for which I was not in the room when he spoke.

00:09:04.040 You can't come and teach democracy lessons to Putin from the European Parliament

00:09:08.040 when you trample with horse hooves on your own citizens who are demanding that their fundamental rights be respected.

00:09:14.040 Pretty devastating stuff.

00:09:15.040 There is an old clip from this same member of the European Parliament back in February 22 reacting to the trucker convoy.

00:09:21.040 He criticized Trudeau for invoking the Emergencies Act used to quash protests in Ottawa.

00:09:27.040 So here is what that clip looked like from February 2022.

00:09:30.040 And what the Prime Minister of Canada, the way he's behaving right now, he's exactly like a tyrant, like a dictator.

00:09:36.040 He's like Ceausescu in Romania.

00:09:38.040 If even you doubt, if you raise doubts about the vaccines, you're outcasted.

00:09:48.040 What's the difference between what he does and what happened under the Inquisition?

00:09:53.040 See, on one side they say, well, we should not believe in God, but on the other side they say, believe in science.

00:09:58.040 We don't have to. Science is not about belief.

00:10:02.040 Science is about measurements, conclusions, hypotheses and arguments.

00:10:09.040 We 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.

00:10:21.040 So this is not OK.

00:10:23.040 And 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.

00:10:35.040 So 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.

00:10:45.040 Kind of funny enough, the left wing woke blog site Vice lists Teres as one of the most dangerous new MEPs in the European Parliament.

00:10:53.040 I 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?

00:11:00.040 Well, 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.

00:11:13.040 So 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.

00:11:24.040 But 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.

00:11:36.040 They 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.

00:11:43.040 And 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.

00:11:52.040 Canada is not what it used to be. It's not viewed as the country used to be.

00:11:56.040 And that is largely because, as these European politicians point out, because of the way that our prime minister has behaved.

00:12:02.040 And 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.

00:12:09.040 They 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.

00:12:21.040 But, you know, as you said, the German MEP Anderson, she's she watches Trudeau quite closely.

00:12:28.040 She pulls up the basic dictatorship line to be the admiration Trudeau has for China's basic basic dictatorship.

00:12:34.040 And 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.

00:12:41.040 That is that that's some serious language that cannot just be swept aside.

00:12:47.040 I mean, the country, the prime minister and the government has to address the fact that the European Parliament does not respect our prime minister.

00:12:56.040 They 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.

00:13:05.040 It's so interesting because after the use of the Emergencies Act, I had Kaveh Chirouz from the Midon Laurier Institute come on.

00:13:14.040 We 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.

00:13:25.040 We 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.

00:13:33.040 I 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.

00:13:40.040 But 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.

00:13:52.040 And 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.

00:13:58.040 And the only one to blame for that is Justin Trudeau.

00:14:01.040 Hopefully you'll have a little bit of a realization about that over there.

00:14:05.040 Harris, I want to move on and talk about this story that got thoroughly debunked this week.

00:14:11.040 This 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.

00:14:20.040 So 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.

00:14:29.040 If you recall, there was a long Twitter thread by an individual who claimed to live in the building.

00:14:33.040 And he was sort of putting all the pieces together.

00:14:36.040 The story didn't add up.

00:14:37.040 I recall Jonathan Kaye, the journalist over at Quillette, he he was thoroughly debunking it on social media, how absurd on the face it was.

00:14:45.040 However, so many in the media and especially so many politicians picked up on this idea that the Freedom Convoy was unsafe.

00:14:51.040 And here's a prime example. There was this attempted arson of a building.

00:14:55.040 It 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.

00:15:03.040 Like it just it made no sense.

00:15:05.040 OK, so anyway, so we now have officially cleared the Freedom Convoy of any involvement.

00:15:10.040 Ottawa Police Services announced that they had the individual.

00:15:14.040 They arrested him.

00:15:15.040 They knew who he was and he had nothing to do with the Freedom Convoy whatsoever.

00:15:19.040 So 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.

00:15:27.040 A man has been charged in relation to deliberately set fire in an apartment building on Lisgar on February 6, 2022.

00:15:33.040 A second man is still wanted by the police.

00:15:35.040 Ottawa Police arson investigators charged Connor Russell McDonald, 21 years old, of Ottawa, with one count of the following.

00:15:42.040 And then it's just a bunch of different charges related to arson and disregard for human life.

00:15:48.040 And it makes a note right here.

00:15:50.040 There is no information indicating McDonald was involved in any way with the convoy protest, which was going on when this arson took place.

00:15:57.040 I could have told you that, Harrison.

00:15:58.040 I 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.

00:16:06.040 I'm sure that there were some bad people mixed in there.

00:16:08.040 But 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.

00:16:18.040 Even just the way that they kept the street clean, they sort of sell police.

00:16:21.040 They were making sure that to do everything they could, you know, to be respectful of the community that they were in.

00:16:28.040 It 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.

00:16:33.040 They were there to make a political point at the home of our democracy.

00:16:36.040 That's what they were doing.

00:16:38.040 And the story never really made sense in the first place.

00:16:40.040 Well, now it's completely cleared.

00:16:42.040 Justin 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.

00:16:47.040 He 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.

00:17:00.040 So here you have a local person in Ottawa creating mischief, and it was conflated and blamed on the truckers.

00:17:09.040 To me, this just shows the desire by the left and the media.

00:17:14.040 These 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.

00:17:24.040 They jumped on it and pretended that it was a huge central part of the trucker convoy.

00:17:29.040 What did you think of this one?

00:17:30.040 I 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.

00:17:44.040 And 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.

00:17:54.040 This 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.

00:18:04.040 But as you said, Candace, you, you could have, you could have pointed this out from the very beginning when this story was released.

00:18:09.040 So could I, because that's not the, that's not the typical behavior of one of these trucker convoy protesters.

00:18:15.040 Actually, that's kind of the typical behavior of maybe a far radical left wing activist trying to push for violence.

00:18:22.040 This is more of an Antifa type of act.

00:18:24.040 And the person, it was all on video.

00:18:26.040 The person didn't even look like he was part of the trucker convoy protest.

00:18:29.040 So yeah, it was a 21 year old guy with purple hair, right?

00:18:33.040 It's like, yeah, yeah.

00:18:34.040 So clearly from the start, those that were actually paying attention knew that this was bogus to begin with.

00:18:39.040 But it didn't matter.

00:18:41.040 It 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.

00:18:49.040 And Trinor's cause in Georgia put together a montage of these politicians saying just that.

00:18:55.040 And this is what that looked like.

00:18:56.040 Violence is commonplace.

00:18:58.040 We saw an example of this violence, an attempted arson downtown of an apartment building where people started a fire.

00:19:08.040 When they exited, they taped the door.

00:19:12.040 And an attempted arson, all of which, Madam Speaker, was caught on video.

00:19:17.040 It has been an illegal occupation that has been harassing people in residential areas of Ottawa.

00:19:23.040 People don't feel safe in their own homes.

00:19:25.040 There have been reports of attempted arson.

00:19:27.040 Canadians are also concerned hearing reports of an attempted arson in the lobby of a residential apartment building.

00:19:35.040 Because we see hate speech, we see illegal acts such as arson.

00:19:42.040 The incessant honking, the arson attempts.

00:19:45.040 The incessant honking, the arson attempts.

00:19:48.040 An attempted arson of a residential building in the occupation area.

00:19:52.040 We've seen the active sabotage of 911 emergency call lines and even an attempted arson.

00:19:58.040 Other alleged crimes have even been more egregious.

00:20:02.040 Ottawa police are investigating the attempted arson of a downtown apartment building.

00:20:06.040 The situation persists, fueled in part by foreign funding.

00:20:09.040 We saw reports of attempted arson in some of the buildings.

00:20:12.040 And it certainly does not include arson or pushing into a residential apartment building and barricading the exits with handcuffs.

00:20:19.040 The arrests for conspiracy to murder attempted arson of a residential building.

00:20:24.040 Over the past three weeks, we have watched assaults, attempted arson.

00:20:27.040 They have been living in fear, fear that their apartment buildings may be torched by arson.

00:20:33.040 We've seen assaults, attempted arson, widespread harassment.

00:20:36.040 There's been attempted arson with the attempt of handcuffing doors shut so that if a fire started, people would be burned alive.

00:20:45.040 Death threats, an attempted arson.

00:20:48.040 A building had an attempted arson where the doors were taped shut.

00:20:53.040 Another building had occupiers attempting to handcuff the doors.

00:20:57.040 There are reports of attempted arson.

00:20:59.040 Bomb threats.

00:21:00.040 Hate crimes.

00:21:01.040 Misogyny.

00:21:02.040 Arson.

00:21:03.040 Horns honked all night long.

00:21:05.040 We saw thefts and attempted arson.

00:21:08.040 So none of those politicians know what they were talking about.

00:21:11.040 None of them bothered to verify or look into the story.

00:21:14.040 It was just too convenient of a storyline.

00:21:16.040 So they just went with it without doing any kind of due diligence. 0.56

00:21:19.040 Harrison, what a disgrace.

00:21:20.040 All of those politicians.

00:21:21.040 They all owe an apology to the Freedom Convoy.

00:21:23.040 We're not going to get one.

00:21:24.040 But 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.

00:21:33.040 I 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.

00:21:44.040 He wrote this.

00:21:45.040 I said it once and I'll say it again.

00:21:47.040 The convoy created a lawless scenario in Ottawa's core that acted as a catalyst for the arson attempt to occur.

00:21:53.040 We who lived through this and almost had our building burned down know this.

00:21:57.040 Okay.

00:21:58.040 So, 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.

00:22:09.040 Uh, somehow the truckers are still to blame, even though the guy had nothing to do with the truck.

00:22:13.040 The truckers are still to blame because they created chaos in the, in the nation's capital.

00:22:17.040 Uh, what, what, what kind of logic?

00:22:19.040 This is, this is just so absurd.

00:22:21.040 Well, I, of course.

00:22:22.040 And like you said, don't expect any, don't expect any retractions or apologies from any of these politicians.

00:22:27.040 I mean, the mayor of Ottawa who had his 15 minutes in the spotlight during this entire time, he thoroughly made, took advantage of that.

00:22:34.040 He 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.

00:22:45.040 So again, don't expect anything.

00:22:47.040 Um, don't expect any apologies from these guys.

00:22:49.040 Uh, they accomplished their goal, which was to demonize the convoy protesters enough to justify a brutal crackdown, um, on that, on that Saturday.

00:22:59.040 And 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.

00:23:11.040 So 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.

00:23:23.040 After 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.

00:23:36.040 So 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.

00:23:46.040 So it's really, it's really shameful all around.

00:23:49.040 Yeah.

00:23:50.040 It'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.

00:23:58.040 And, and it's just so devastating to the legacy media.

00:24:01.040 This is, this is like the epitome of a fake news story in Canada.

00:24:05.040 They just completely make up a storyline without validating it.

00:24:08.040 Even when the story gets dismissed and discredited, Harrison, they still run with the same storyline.

00:24:13.040 They say, okay, well, well that part wasn't true, but all this other stuff is still true. 0.96

00:24:16.040 It's like, no one trusts you.

00:24:18.040 No one trusts you to the legacy media.

00:24:20.040 And this story is exactly a case in point.

00:24:22.040 Why?

00:24:23.040 One final story I wanted to cover here today on fake news Friday, Harrison is, is this hilarious story.

00:24:28.040 This is just so good.

00:24:29.040 So the CBC reported on a woman who applied for a bank and the woman is first nations.

00:24:34.040 And she is outraged because during the interview process or during the job application process,

00:24:39.040 she was asked some questions about her indigenous identity and that is very offensive to her.

00:24:44.040 So the headline reads a woman outraged CIBC job application suggests traditional regalia for video cover letter.

00:24:51.040 And so we learned about the story of a 21 year old Obiswe and Métis woman who is looking for a job at a bank.

00:24:58.040 She was a part time receptionist at a hair salon.

00:25:00.040 She was looking for another job. 1.00

00:25:01.040 She speaks French and she thought that she would be a good candidate.

00:25:04.040 But 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.

00:25:14.040 And 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.

00:25:22.040 It's like this is a this is a scenario that the CBC has created.

00:25:26.040 It pushes this like woke idea that we have to have affirmative action hiring that we have to have special treatment for certain people.

00:25:32.040 And then we need to be more inclusive of people in a certain community.

00:25:35.040 And when the banks go along with that and say, OK, this is what the culture must demand of us.

00:25:40.040 So 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.

00:25:48.040 It's like you can never do you can never please the woke people at the CBC.

00:25:51.040 No matter what you do, they're going to be outraged.

00:25:53.040 You're going to write a negative story.

00:25:54.040 Of course, all of this is predicated on the idea that it was an indigenous group that created the questions for the bank.

00:26:01.040 So 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.

00:26:11.040 And then it's offensive to First Nations people who are actually applying for it.

00:26:16.040 So, again, there is no pleasing the woke mob.

00:26:18.040 No matter what you do, you will always offend them in some way.

00:26:20.040 This is this is one of my favorite stories.

00:26:23.040 It's just so amusing to watch the left spin itself in circles over this kind of thing.

00:26:27.040 And 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.

00:26:32.040 Harrison, what did you make of the story?

00:26:34.040 Well, the thing about the banks is everyone knows this, that the banks are basically racing to racing each other to be the most woke.

00:26:41.040 It's sort of like a race to the bottom.

00:26:43.040 And 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?

00:26:56.040 How far are you willing to go and willing to push it?

00:26:59.040 But 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.

00:27:12.040 The there's a there's a screenshot of the question that this woman was asked in the CBC article.

00:27:18.040 And it's so it's crazy.

00:27:20.040 I 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.

00:27:31.040 But 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.

00:27:42.040 Exclamation point.

00:27:44.040 Yes.

00:27:45.040 Exclamation point, you know, to to to your application for the bank.

00:27:50.040 I just don't I it's it's it's just incredible to me what these people were thinking.

00:27:55.040 And of course, this was written by by an indigenous group.

00:27:59.040 Of 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.

00:28:10.040 I mean, what were these people thinking?

00:28:12.040 Did they not expect to get some sort of pushback on that?

00:28:15.040 And I found this to be interesting because this seems to be a new segment.

00:28:18.040 The CDC has added this go public segment.

00:28:21.040 I've never seen it before.

00:28:22.040 And 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. 0.89

00:28:30.040 But 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.

00:28:40.040 Well, it's a total misreading of it as well, right?

00:28:42.040 Like they're kind of making it seem like, oh, the bank is disrespecting the sacredness of regalia.

00:28:47.040 We're like like as if it was like, you know, some like white corporate people that had written this question a very condescending way.

00:28:54.040 Of course, reality, no, it wasn't.

00:28:56.040 It was people from the community trying to actually do like genuine outreach.

00:28:59.040 It's just that, again, it comes across as incredibly condescending.

00:29:03.040 So 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.

00:29:18.040 It'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. 0.53

00:29:32.040 And yeah, I mean, I'm grateful that the CBC reported it because it's so silly.

00:29:37.040 It gives us a little window into the absurdity of woke culture happening over there.

00:29:42.040 So I got lots of lots of fake news as usual.

00:29:47.040 Harrison, thank you so much for joining us today.

00:29:49.040 It's been a fun show.

00:29:51.040 Absolutely.

00:29:52.040 Pleasure to be on.

00:29:53.040 All right.

00:29:54.040 Thank you so much.

00:29:55.040 That's Harrison Faulkner.

00:29:56.040 I'm Candace Malcolm.

00:29:57.040 It's fake news Friday on The Candace Malcolm Show.

Juno News - March 25, 2022

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