Juno News - Trudeau goes to the beach on Truth and Reconciliation Day

00:00:00.060 Justin Trudeau goes surfing on Truth and Reconciliation Day, the Conservatives in Alberta are acting like liberals,

00:00:05.440 and the CBC gets smacked down in an epic interview with lawyer Mary Hennon.

00:00:09.880 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:17.780 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in to the program.

00:00:20.400 It's Friday, which means that we do Fake News Friday.

00:00:22.640 This is my favorite show of the week because we get an opportunity to focus in on media malfeasance in this country.

00:00:30.100 The various ways that the media misrepresent the truth, that they lie to you, that they create fake narratives,

00:00:34.560 and they basically either just get stories wrong because they're incompetent or because they are malicious. 0.56

00:00:39.940 So the first thing I want to talk about is how Justin Trudeau spent the day yesterday in Tofino on a personal vacation with his family.

00:00:48.080 Justin Trudeau just spent the entire election reminding us that he is the politician that cares the most,

00:00:53.400 that he is the one that is best suited to address this issue of reconciliation with Canada's First Nations people,

00:01:00.280 that he is the one that is making the most progress, and that he's the one to continue to guide us on this front.

00:01:07.000 We heard this so much after the unmarked graves that were allegedly discovered on various First Nations reserves and near residential schools.

00:01:14.320 Trudeau cares the most.

00:01:15.260 He is, you know, he flew out to Quesas in Saskatchewan as soon as that story broke so that he could be there doing a photo op,

00:01:24.100 you know, showing remorse and contrition.

00:01:26.560 And this is really his brand, that he cares the most, except for the fact that his record is pretty much the complete opposite.

00:01:33.600 He came into office on a promise that he would end these water boil advisories on First Nations reserves,

00:01:39.360 and that is still in place.

00:01:41.040 He took a bunch of First Nations kids to court because he didn't want to pay them out despite a ruling against him.

00:01:47.140 And really, this is no surprise, that rather than spending Canada's first Truth and Reconciliation Day

00:01:52.100 doing something to promote the relationship, to address the many, many problems that exist in First Nations community,

00:01:57.900 to really make an effort to try to improve opportunity and prosperity and freedom for individuals in First Nations in Canada.

00:02:06.040 Justin Trudeau just selfishly went off on a personal vacation to Tofino, and not just that, but he lied about it.

00:02:11.400 So the Prime Minister's official itinerary from the Prime Minister's office, here it is,

00:02:14.640 Prime Minister's itinerary for Thursday, September 30th, 2021, that he's going to be in Ottawa all day in private meetings.

00:02:20.800 So why is it that on the first Reconciliation Day that his government was the one that introduced and passed?

00:02:25.420 Why wouldn't he have things planned?

00:02:26.840 Why wouldn't he go out to Kamloops and be part of that community's ceremony?

00:02:32.260 Why wouldn't he be doing anything?

00:02:34.240 Why would he take this off?

00:02:35.240 Why did the media give him a pass on that?

00:02:37.560 Well, it took a reporter from The Toronto Sun, my colleague Brian Pusifimi, to break this story wide open.

00:02:43.680 He tweeted this yesterday afternoon.

00:02:45.140 He says,

00:02:45.440 How is Canada's Prime Minister spending our first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation?

00:02:49.300 Tofino, baby, surfs up.

00:02:51.700 And Brian, well, this is something that he's become known for.

00:02:54.880 He tracks and follows the Prime Minister's personal jet, the challenger, and sees where it goes in order to understand what the Prime Minister is doing and where he's going.

00:03:02.700 And here he uncovered that the Prime Minister was actually going to Tofino.

00:03:06.720 So my question is this, and this is why I included it in Fake News Friday, is why did it take a reporter from The Toronto Sun?

00:03:12.600 And The Toronto Sun is sort of a small, scrappy, conservative paper that the legacy media and the mainstream media hate.

00:03:18.360 Why did it take a reporter from The Toronto Sun to do something that the Parliamentary Press Gallery should have done?

00:03:23.180 The whole idea of having a Parliamentary Press Gallery, having all these reporters in Ottawa, supposedly, is that they are in the know.

00:03:30.700 They're connected.

00:03:31.700 They have their ear to the ground.

00:03:32.840 They're the ones that know what's going on within the Prime Minister's office, within the sort of inner circles and upper halls of power in the country.

00:03:40.780 So why didn't anyone from the Parliamentary Press Gallery break the story?

00:03:43.800 You have to ask yourself that because there's basically two reasons why.

00:03:47.680 Either they are very incompetent at their jobs and they just had no idea and they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing.

00:03:53.960 They're not really as tuned in and connected as they want you to believe.

00:03:59.400 Or alternatively, they knew.

00:04:01.280 They knew that the Prime Minister was taking a personal day.

00:04:03.480 They knew that he was taking some time with his family, taking some time on the West Coast to just get away from it all.

00:04:09.020 But they didn't think that the public deserved to know.

00:04:11.180 So either they're incompetent or they're in cahoots with the Trudeau Liberals.

00:04:15.840 Either way, that's pretty bad.

00:04:17.820 You can make up your own mind about which one you think it is.

00:04:20.860 But good for Brian for breaking this story wide open.

00:04:23.920 And it goes from bad to worse because the Prime Minister's office just sort of subtly acknowledged that, yes, they were lying when they said that he was in Ottawa.

00:04:31.400 The reality is he's in Tofino because they quietly updated his itinerary for Thursday, September 30th.

00:04:36.800 Here is what it looked like later in the afternoon.

00:04:39.220 He's actually in Tofino, British Columbia in private meetings and global news caught up with him.

00:04:43.880 This is what those private meetings look like.

00:04:45.540 Here is Justin Trudeau walking on the beach with his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.

00:04:50.860 Why not in person, sir?

00:04:56.320 They invited you.

00:04:57.800 And a spokesperson for the Prime Minister's office did reluctantly confirm to Global News that, yes, the Prime Minister is in Tofino with his family for a few days on a personal vacation.

00:05:23.780 So, again, not so big on that whole leadership thing.

00:05:27.040 You know, the Prime Minister is leading a country through a very difficult time in dealing with reconciliation for some of the horrible things that happened to First Nations people in this country.

00:05:36.820 And rather than doing anything about it, he's just off on the beach hanging out with his family.

00:05:41.100 That tells you everything you need to know.

00:05:42.760 All right. So moving on, I got to cover this story.

00:05:45.740 I really hate as a general rule when media outlets become the story or when journalists become the story.

00:05:51.020 I know it's happened a few times to us at True North, partially because usually liberals and liberal governments are so overzealous and anti-independent media that we end up having to be the story because we get turned into it because they won't let us report or they won't let us in.

00:06:04.580 And this is one of those that's just sort of tangentially turned into a story about us because of the way that a government is treating us.

00:06:11.840 Sadly, though, it is a conservative government out in Alberta.

00:06:15.060 So let me just tell you about this story.

00:06:16.640 So it starts with Dr. Dina Henshaw, who's a top doctor out in Alberta, giving a press conference last Friday talking about this new fourth wave that's really just hammering Alberta and really, really a bad news story for Jason Keddie and his government, the way that they're handling it.

00:06:32.460 And the media are just really drumming it up, drumming it up, making it seem like it's this huge disaster war zone and really just exaggerating it out of control, out of control.

00:06:41.360 The legacy media is doing their best, working overtime, trying to make Kenny and the UCP government look bad.

00:06:48.400 So in this context, Dr. Dina Henshaw talks about one of the policies to do with the school closures, to do with outbreaks within schools, talking about how you don't necessarily have to have a positive COVID test to get included into these numbers.

00:07:02.760 Now, I'll just stop right there and say that this is like this is confirmation of the fear and the concern that so many people out there have, not just on the right, but across the political spectrum, across society.

00:07:14.040 People who are really starting to grow tired of this COVID stuff, getting tired of the lockdowns and the mandates and just the heavy handed top down government approach of both overzealous health officials and politicians.

00:07:27.000 And one of the things that people are mistrustful of is the numbers.

00:07:30.680 They think that the numbers are inflated, that the numbers are exaggerated, that they're often cooked.

00:07:35.040 And what Henshaw said in her press conference was very poorly worded.

00:07:38.620 It left much to be desired.

00:07:40.440 It was so vague that you could really apply your own interpretation onto it.

00:07:44.880 So I'm going to show you the 30 second clip.

00:07:46.900 And I want to point out that this was going viral on social media.

00:07:50.140 This was going viral on TikTok, on YouTube, on Facebook, everywhere.

00:07:54.580 Nothing to do with True North, nothing to do with the rebel.

00:07:56.500 It was a clip, actually a clip from Global News Edmonton.

00:08:00.020 So this is the way that Global News Edmonton clipped it.

00:08:02.220 It wasn't the way that some independent journalist was trying to frame it in order to take it out of context.

00:08:07.960 This is the way the mainstream media was clipping it.

00:08:11.040 And you can see it in this video that was taken from TikTok.

00:08:14.360 You can see that it is exactly the same way that was clipped on Global.

00:08:18.600 So let's play that clip right now.

00:08:21.640 If individuals choose to not get tested for COVID but are home with an illness,

00:08:26.500 they're now counted in the list as being part of that outbreak.

00:08:31.960 And so it's less dependent on needing a test to be a part of identifying where there is an issue.

00:08:39.480 We are, as I mentioned, working with education to determine if there are any adjustments that need to be made.

00:08:44.640 So even if you're not tested, you're listed as part of the outbreak.

00:08:48.680 That is confirmation of the thing that so many people believe.

00:08:52.640 And that is why this video took on a life of its own.

00:08:54.780 Like I said, it started getting picked up by influencers, not just in Canada, but in the United States.

00:08:59.320 Big, big accounts pointing at this saying, look, this is what health experts are doing.

00:09:04.260 They are cooking the numbers.

00:09:06.400 And so all that True North did was we took that exact same clip, the exact same one that was clipped by Global Edmonton.

00:09:12.340 We put it in a better quality because, as you can see, the quality there was just someone videotaping a television screen.

00:09:17.480 So we found the original, cleaned it up, posted it on Twitter.

00:09:21.040 Within 25 minutes of us posting it on Twitter, the Alberta government, this Twitter account,

00:09:26.860 which is run by the political staff in Jason Kenney's office, what did they do?

00:09:30.680 They posted this.

00:09:31.900 This claim is false.

00:09:33.440 All reported positive COVID-19 cases are confirmed by lab test.

00:09:38.380 And you can see they screenshotted Ezra Levant, who had the original grainy TikTok video here.

00:09:43.700 And they screenshotted True North.

00:09:45.240 I'll read you what we wrote.

00:09:46.580 It said this.

00:09:47.600 Have you seen this?

00:09:48.700 Alberta's top doctor says people homesick are counted in COVID numbers.

00:09:52.780 And you can't see with the way that they screenshotted it.

00:09:55.040 But we had just posted it.

00:09:56.120 Like I said, it was 25 minutes.

00:09:57.220 You can see that we only had 728 views at that point.

00:10:01.760 So typically in the media world, if you're a comps person working for a political office

00:10:05.460 and you see a media outlet post something that isn't accurate, what do you do?

00:10:09.540 You try to get a correction.

00:10:10.740 You contact the editor.

00:10:11.940 You contact the reporter.

00:10:13.180 You say, hey, look, you got something wrong.

00:10:14.940 Can you put a correction?

00:10:16.020 Can you issue a correction?

00:10:17.140 But they didn't do that.

00:10:18.240 Instead, they dunked on us.

00:10:19.580 They just chose to screenshot our tweet, not even retweeting it.

00:10:23.060 They screenshotted it so that people couldn't get the context.

00:10:25.400 They couldn't click on the video to see for themselves what Dr. Dina Henshaw had said.

00:10:29.740 Because if you did click on the video and you saw what she said, you could see that

00:10:33.480 she said exactly what we reported her as saying.

00:10:36.520 So again, just really, really bad strategy on behalf of the conservative government out

00:10:41.080 in Alberta, dunking on True North, dunking on the rebel.

00:10:43.500 You know, these are independent media outlets that are popular among the grassroots conservative

00:10:47.680 base.

00:10:48.160 So dunking on your friends, not exactly a good message.

00:10:51.680 Also, the fact that rather than going, you know, the polite way and asking for a correction

00:10:55.440 and showing some respect to the media outlet, they just dunk on us.

00:10:58.920 They just try to embarrass us, call us a false claim.

00:11:01.940 They didn't do this.

00:11:02.720 Let me know.

00:11:03.300 They didn't do this to Global Edmonton, who are the ones that originally posted that clip.

00:11:07.440 Interesting how they didn't bother to do this fact check on the legacy media.

00:11:11.120 They only chose to do it on independent media.

00:11:13.560 Well, it gets even worse than that.

00:11:14.820 Because look, here at True North, we're not interested in torquing the truth.

00:11:17.440 We actually want to get stories right.

00:11:18.820 We want to have facts.

00:11:19.800 We want to make sure that we're delivering the truth to our viewers and our audience.

00:11:23.860 That's what you expect of us.

00:11:24.760 And that's what we expect of ourselves.

00:11:26.540 So when we saw this overreaction by Kenny Stafford and the way that they were treating

00:11:30.820 us, we did seek to correct and make it clear to our viewers that, look, she was actually

00:11:36.120 talking about something very specific here.

00:11:37.680 She wasn't broadly talking about all of Alberta.

00:11:39.980 She was talking about school outbreaks.

00:11:41.980 Again, it was Dr. Dana Henshaw who made the broad statement, who wasn't clear and concise,

00:11:46.980 who didn't make it overwhelmingly clear that she was only really talking about this one

00:11:50.660 instance.

00:11:51.480 So again, we added a second tweet to our thread saying, look, there's more context here.

00:11:57.440 Dana Henshaw was talking about school closures, not talking about COVID case count.

00:12:02.400 And we took down our video on Facebook.

00:12:04.320 We had a video on Facebook that had 45,000 views already.

00:12:07.520 We decided to take that one down and add a fuller, broader one that had more context.

00:12:12.360 Well, lo and behold, a few minutes later, Facebook slaps a false information flag on top of our

00:12:18.800 video on Facebook saying that this claim is false and including this fact checked from

00:12:23.520 the Associated Press saying that a Canadian health official's remarks about COVID-19 were

00:12:28.980 misrepresented online.

00:12:30.480 And it goes to this AP story, which is weird because AP is an American news organization.

00:12:35.380 But still, they say, look, this video of Alberta's top doctor saying what she's saying isn't true.

00:12:42.900 Now, do you remember during the election campaign, the Trudeau liberals sliced up this interview

00:12:46.660 of Erin O'Toole, really taking it out of context, making it seem like he was saying yes to privatizing

00:12:51.380 health care, even though when you show the full clip with all the context, that's not what

00:12:55.400 he's saying at all.

00:12:56.300 And Twitter slapped a manipulated video post on top of it so that everyone knows, look, this

00:13:01.700 video is unfairly edited and the truth isn't in what he's saying.

00:13:06.140 Well, this wasn't happening here.

00:13:07.480 It wasn't manipulated video.

00:13:08.680 We didn't manipulate anything.

00:13:10.080 We just showed the full clip in its entirety.

00:13:13.220 And the one that we showed on Facebook was the broader one, making it clear that she was

00:13:16.900 talking about school outbreaks.

00:13:18.280 So why is it that the Associated Press jumped in to tell our viewers that what they were seeing

00:13:24.640 was fake?

00:13:25.660 Well, it didn't even matter at that point because here we have government officials in Alberta

00:13:29.740 colluding with Facebook, colluding with Associated Press.

00:13:32.740 We have big government, big tech, and big media all colluding together to tell you not to

00:13:38.340 believe your lying eyes, not to trust your lying eyes, that independent media like True

00:13:41.780 North, who were just showing you a clip of a doctor saying something, that that's not

00:13:45.940 true, that we're lying, that we're misrepresenting the truth.

00:13:48.680 This is what conservatives hate.

00:13:50.520 This is why people are so mistrustful of the forces that be.

00:13:53.380 You have open collusion between big government, big tech, and big media.

00:13:57.720 It is despicable.

00:13:58.740 And again, these are conservatives in Alberta, you know, conservatives who are acting like

00:14:03.400 Stephen Gilbeau and Justin Trudeau trying to censor the internet.

00:14:07.440 And unfortunately, it all backfired.

00:14:09.100 It blew up in their face.

00:14:09.840 The story became huge.

00:14:11.420 So many more people saw that original video of Dina Henshaw because everyone, everyone was

00:14:15.860 out there replying to the original tweet from the Alberta government saying, look at the

00:14:20.700 video, watch it for yourself, make up your own mind.

00:14:23.440 This is what she's saying.

00:14:24.460 So having the government trying to come out and say what you see isn't true, this is

00:14:28.680 the truth, really just a bad look.

00:14:31.100 I don't know what the heck is going on out in Alberta, but it is not good.

00:14:35.060 All right, folks, I want to end on a bit of a positive note today.

00:14:37.780 I saw this interview and it just made me happy.

00:14:39.600 So I'm going to end the show with this video.

00:14:41.480 This is a delicious, delicious interview of a high profile criminal defense lawyer,

00:14:46.740 Mary Hennon, doing an interview with the CBC's Matt Galloway.

00:14:50.420 Mary Hennon is promoting her new book called Nothing But The Truth, A Memoir, and doing

00:14:54.020 the rounds on the media.

00:14:55.320 You might remember her.

00:14:56.060 She was the high profile lawyer who defended Gian Gomeshi against sexual assault accusations.

00:15:01.580 This was probably the first high profile case that sort of led to this big Me Too movement.

00:15:08.480 Hennon was successful.

00:15:09.700 Gian Gomeshi was acquitted of many of the charges.

00:15:12.000 But because of that, she was sort of demonized as being an anti-feminist. 1.00

00:15:16.080 And so, you know, that's the context.

00:15:18.360 And because it's the CBC, because they are obsessed with divisive and reductive identity

00:15:22.520 politics, you can see that the interviewer is solely focused on this one issue of feminism. 1.00

00:15:27.800 He's berating her for daring to go against the Me Too movement, daring to defend men who 0.71

00:15:33.400 are charged with sexual assault, daring to not fall into this ridiculous and unjust idea

00:15:39.700 that we should always believe women, that we should always believe victims, that men

00:15:43.880 should just go to jail without due process and the rule of law.

00:15:48.760 I mean, it's just so insane. 0.94

00:15:49.980 And you can see how Hennon just has no time for this woke leftist nonsense. 0.96

00:15:53.560 She has no time for it. 0.99

00:15:54.680 She simply eviscerates the interviewer for his ridiculous line of questions. 1.00

00:15:59.440 Let's show this video.

00:16:00.880 One of the other questions you're asked, and this will be the final one that I mentioned

00:16:03.900 that's in the book, is you're asked, how can you as a woman defend someone who's

00:16:08.060 charged with sexual assault?

00:16:09.700 Yeah, the same way that a man defends someone who's charged with sexual assault.

00:16:14.200 You know, men have been in my profession for hundreds and hundreds of years, and it's

00:16:19.320 not dishonorable to be a defense lawyer.

00:16:22.260 It's not dishonorable to represent anybody charged with an offense.

00:16:26.440 I don't see the incongruity of it at all.

00:16:29.820 And quite frankly, it's not the question we should be asking.

00:16:33.880 How do you respond when people ask that question and then follow it by saying, do you consider

00:16:41.260 yourself a feminist? 1.00

00:16:42.700 Because as you said, I mean, as a woman, this is your job.

00:16:46.140 As a man, that would be the job.

00:16:48.240 But people will add another element to it.

00:16:51.280 And so how do you respond to that?

00:16:52.240 Well, you know, it's interesting that they add another element, Matt, because when men 0.78

00:16:55.940 disagree with each other, when men do various professions, when men argue about politics

00:17:00.540 or wars or whatever it is, nobody ever says, you know what, you're really a traitor to your

00:17:04.800 manhood.

00:17:05.800 But it's a gendered question, I think, in my view.

00:17:09.560 And I don't answer that question because I think it causes us to fight amongst each other.

00:17:14.580 And I think we as women have many challenges in the world.

00:17:17.120 And the last thing we need to be doing is questioning each other's credentials, quite

00:17:21.540 frankly.

00:17:22.080 So there's a spectrum and we have different views, different philosophies, different political

00:17:27.840 leanings.

00:17:29.000 I don't think that undermines it.

00:17:30.720 But I'm not, and there will be no day that I feel compelled to justify what my views are,

00:17:36.920 what my values are, or what I do for a living to anybody.

00:17:40.700 Just so good.

00:17:41.860 So good.

00:17:42.180 So I love how she even turned it around on him, using his own woke vocabulary by accusing

00:17:47.860 him of asking her a gendered question, which is 100% true. 1.00

00:17:52.300 Of course it is.

00:17:53.060 Of course, the way that he's treating this woman is totally different than how he would

00:17:57.240 be treating a male if it was in the same position, which is just showing the irony and the complete

00:18:02.080 hypocrisy of the woke left-wing position. 0.56

00:18:04.800 They pretend to be feminists. 1.00

00:18:05.920 They pretend to be the ones that are promoting the rights and equality of women. 0.98

00:18:09.820 But you can see by the questions that he's treating her so differently.

00:18:13.440 So because he's so woke, because he's so fixated on gender, he actually turns out to be the one 1.00

00:18:18.360 that is promoting an unfair and dishonest approach to treating women in the workforce. 1.00

00:18:23.980 So good for Mary Hannon for standing up against this. 0.99

00:18:26.480 I love this woman, by the way.

00:18:27.500 If she were to ever jump into politics, I think that conservatives would welcome her 0.82

00:18:31.160 with open arms, or at least she should.

00:18:32.880 She would be so good.

00:18:33.740 Could you just imagine her on the debate stage with Justin Trudeau, debating him in an election? 0.55

00:18:39.620 She would absolutely wipe the floor with him and expose his nonsense and his ideology.

00:18:44.980 She has no time for any of that, and it would just be so good.

00:18:47.760 I hope one day that she would pursue a career in politics, because I think she would just be

00:18:52.220 absolutely fantastic.

00:18:53.840 All right, everyone.

00:18:54.480 I will leave it there.

00:18:55.280 Have a wonderful weekend.

00:18:56.220 And we'll be back next week.

00:18:57.380 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:18:59.240 The Candice Malcolm Show.

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Juno News - October 01, 2021

Trudeau goes to the beach on Truth and Reconciliation Day

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