Juno News - August 24, 2021


Trudeau is in panic mode and resorting to manipulating the truth


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Candace Malan explains why the polls are tilting toward the Conservatives, and why Justin Trudeau is desperate to keep the Liberals in the race. She also explains why O'Toole is winning in the polls and why the Liberals are losing ground.

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00:00:00.120 Polls show that the Liberals are trending down, the Conservatives are trending up,
00:00:03.980 and that means that Justin Trudeau and company are resorting to flat-out lies and desperation.
00:00:08.400 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:15.680 Now, I may not agree with many of the policies being put forth by Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole.
00:00:21.180 I wish he was more Conservative.
00:00:22.700 I wish he would differentiate himself more from the Liberals in terms of policy,
00:00:26.460 and I wish that he would take on more of the cultural battles.
00:00:30.000 He may not be my brand of Conservative, but there is one thing that I cannot deny.
00:00:34.780 Aaron O'Toole is running one hell of a campaign.
00:00:37.980 He's incredibly disciplined.
00:00:39.780 He isn't falling into any of the traps the Liberals have set up,
00:00:43.260 be it on COVID vaccines, reconciliation, climate, healthcare, or social policy.
00:00:48.860 All of the typical things that the Liberals and their friends of the media
00:00:52.220 use to attack and demonize Conservatives, well, O'Toole has avoided.
00:00:57.320 Skillfully.
00:00:58.340 And he's being rewarded in the polls.
00:01:00.280 Big time.
00:01:02.420 338 Canada is a poll aggregator.
00:01:05.320 It takes all of the credible polls that have been done over a certain period of time
00:01:08.800 and looks at the averages.
00:01:10.720 So on August 13th, 338 Canada had the odds of Justin Trudeau winning a majority government
00:01:16.260 at about 58%.
00:01:17.920 But just nine days later, by August 22nd,
00:01:21.400 its projections show the odds of Trudeau winning majority down to 22%.
00:01:25.360 Likewise, on August 13th, they had the odds of the Conservative Party winning a minority
00:01:30.920 government at only about 1.2%.
00:01:33.160 No wonder Justin Trudeau triggered the election.
00:01:36.040 But now, that same polling aggregator, 338, has the odds of a Conservative minority at 20.8%.
00:01:44.820 Now, let's look at the specific polls that True North is tracking.
00:01:48.520 This is the one that's making a lot of headlines right now, an ECOS poll.
00:01:52.640 So ECOS asks, how do you plan to vote in the upcoming federal election?
00:01:56.460 When they asked that question on August 15th, 31% said Conservative and 35% said Liberal.
00:02:03.380 When they asked again over the weekend on August 21st, 33% said Conservative and only 32% said
00:02:10.620 Liberals.
00:02:11.380 Yes, the Conservatives are winning according to that poll.
00:02:15.420 And that ECOS poll is not an outlier.
00:02:17.660 Check out the shift in Nanos' polling.
00:02:20.260 Nanos Research asks, for those parties you would consider voting for, please rank your top two
00:02:25.540 choices.
00:02:26.100 So on July 30th, the Liberals were up by six points.
00:02:30.580 The Liberals had about 32% and the Conservatives only had about 25.5%.
00:02:35.180 On August 22nd, the Liberals are basically only up by the margin of error.
00:02:40.460 Conservatives at 31.4% and the Conservatives at 32.5%.
00:02:45.600 Now, this of course is all because Justin Trudeau had a very, very, very bad first week on the
00:02:52.440 campaign trail.
00:02:53.060 First, he triggered the election mere hours after Kabul in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.
00:02:59.780 This intensified the impression that Justin Trudeau is selfish, unserious, arrogant, and
00:03:05.400 an opportunist.
00:03:06.400 His decision to host this vanity election juxtaposed with all of those chaotic images out of Kabul
00:03:11.860 and the mere fact that there were Canadians as well as those who risked their lives and
00:03:16.340 their families who helped Canada left behind was unconscionable.
00:03:20.880 Not to mention the fact that Trudeau flip-flopped over whether or not he would recognize the
00:03:25.140 Taliban as the official government of Afghanistan.
00:03:29.120 Next, Trudeau's entire campaign gamble was predicated on the wedge issue of mandatory vaccines.
00:03:35.620 The Liberal Brain Trust wagered Trudeau's minority government on the assumption that the Conservatives
00:03:41.380 would oppose forced vaccinations for civil servants and federally regulated industries.
00:03:47.040 But O'Toole called him on his bluff and adopted more or less the exact same position as the
00:03:52.360 Liberals.
00:03:53.540 O'Toole said he supported mandatory vaccines, but also said that Canadians have the right to
00:03:58.060 determine their own health choices.
00:03:59.960 He instead suggested making alternative measures for those who fail to get vaccinated, including
00:04:05.580 masking and testing.
00:04:07.840 Now, Trudeau dishonestly tried to push the idea that O'Toole's position was meaningfully
00:04:12.580 different, but it wasn't.
00:04:14.420 It just wasn't.
00:04:15.340 Basically, their position is the exact same.
00:04:17.540 And even the bailout media caught on to that.
00:04:21.040 Robin Urbach over at the Globe and Mail called out the CBC on Twitter that the CBC was the only
00:04:26.200 media outlet that was trying to push the Liberal spin, that the positions were different.
00:04:29.960 They weren't.
00:04:31.100 Robin called CBC out on Twitter twice for misleading Canadians by saying that their position was
00:04:36.500 different.
00:04:37.440 And Chris Selle over at the National Post explained it perfectly, so I'm going to read from his
00:04:42.220 article that he wrote last week.
00:04:43.800 Here we go.
00:04:44.360 It says,
00:04:44.800 It was a classic Liberal wedge issue, albeit even more cynical than usual considering the
00:04:50.340 topic, and it seemed to be going to plan.
00:04:52.900 But the wedge had lost considerable structural integrity on Monday.
00:04:56.480 Whenever governments talk about mandatory vaccination, even for healthcare workers and nurses, the
00:05:01.740 union's reaction is central.
00:05:03.740 After the mandatory vaccine policy became official on Friday, the Public Service Alliance of
00:05:08.360 Canada, also known as PSAC, wasted no time demanding the government provide accommodation
00:05:13.320 for workers who cannot be vaccinated for reasons protected under human rights legislation, including
00:05:18.340 health concerns and presumably religious ones as well.
00:05:21.160 Well, this planted a seed of doubt.
00:05:23.680 How mandatory would mandatory really be?
00:05:26.080 Canada's Chief Human Resources Officer, Christine Donohue, answered that in a memo to deputy ministers
00:05:32.360 published on the Treasury Board Secretariat's website.
00:05:35.560 For those who refuse vaccination, we will need to consider alternative measures such as testing
00:05:39.940 and screening, it said.
00:05:41.460 O'Toole's basic position, in other words.
00:05:43.800 Whoops.
00:05:45.200 This is all still from Chris Selle's piece, which is really good.
00:05:47.900 So here we go.
00:05:48.480 In theory, Justin Trudeau could have accepted that mandatory didn't mean literally everyone,
00:05:53.780 but that it was nonetheless a worthwhile policy.
00:05:56.820 Instead, he insists still that a vast gulf lies between his virtuous position and that
00:06:02.620 irresponsible Claude O'Toole's.
00:06:04.460 That boat might have floated had Donohue's memo not vanished from the web as quickly as
00:06:09.660 it appeared.
00:06:10.360 The Treasury Board Secretariat and the Liberals insist that's because the information was
00:06:14.940 inaccurate.
00:06:15.340 But it's beyond suspicious.
00:06:17.220 Reporters smell political interference and a potential violation of the caretaker convention
00:06:22.200 that binds government-civil servant relations during campaigns.
00:06:26.680 And that is when the media caught on and intensified its questions against Justin Trudeau.
00:06:31.560 This is a final part from Chris Selle's piece.
00:06:33.680 He writes,
00:06:34.140 So in other words, the media, that is aside from the CBC, most members of the media have
00:06:49.100 not bought into this wedge issue, have not bought into the idea that Trudeau and O'Toole's
00:06:53.740 position are meaningfully different.
00:06:55.320 And look, if Trudeau has lost the media after giving billions and billions and billions of
00:07:00.080 dollars to the media, then he is in serious trouble.
00:07:03.740 And that's why we've seen the Liberals crank up the spin, the deception, and the misinformation
00:07:08.620 about Erin O'Toole and the Conservatives.
00:07:11.160 So over the weekend, the Liberals turned to its old, tried-and-true, favorite methods of
00:07:16.340 fear-mongering against the Conservatives.
00:07:18.000 First, they said that the Conservatives have a hidden agenda to ban abortions.
00:07:22.260 And second, they said that the Conservatives have a hidden agenda to privatize health care.
00:07:26.700 We've seen this movie before.
00:07:28.160 We've seen this movie a thousand times before.
00:07:30.460 We've seen it for decades.
00:07:32.160 We've seen it so often that it has lost all meaning.
00:07:35.480 And unfortunately for the Liberals, the Conservatives are running a candidate in this election campaign
00:07:39.880 that simply does not live up to the Liberal boogeyman status.
00:07:43.840 Erin O'Toole is just as pro-abortion as Justin Trudeau.
00:07:46.540 Again, there isn't a meaningful distinction in their policy.
00:07:50.160 Here is what Erin O'Toole said on August 19th.
00:07:52.920 But let me be perfectly clear.
00:07:55.400 As a pro-choice leader of this party, I will make sure that we defend the rights of women
00:08:00.100 to make the choice for themselves with respect to their own health.
00:08:03.520 And on the exact same day, this is what Justin Trudeau said.
00:08:07.440 I think it's clear that there's something fundamental that Erin O'Toole doesn't understand.
00:08:11.700 Pro-choice doesn't mean the freedom of doctors to choose.
00:08:17.980 It means the freedom of women to choose. 0.98
00:08:23.580 Leaders have to be unequivocal on that.
00:08:26.600 And once again, Erin O'Toole is not.
00:08:28.900 And he's saying certain things to some people and it's opposite to others.
00:08:33.020 That's not good enough.
00:08:33.900 Rachel Aiello, CTV News.
00:08:35.820 You're attacking the Conservatives today over their position on conscience rights.
00:08:39.220 However, in your legislation on assisted dying, you protected doctors' freedom of choice of conscience.
00:08:44.940 If the concern now is doctor referrals, why haven't you and would a Liberal government
00:08:49.400 move legislation to further enshrine abortion rights?
00:08:52.020 I think it's very clear that the Conservatives, Conservative Party, once again, doesn't understand
00:09:00.400 what pro-choice actually means.
00:09:03.400 Pro-choice isn't the power for doctors to choose.
00:09:07.380 It's the power for women to choose. 1.00
00:09:10.440 And that is what we are going to continue to defend unequivocally.
00:09:14.400 And quite frankly, the Conservatives have demonstrated time and time again that they will not.
00:09:18.700 Again, there is no meaningful difference in their policy and yet Trudeau is out there saying
00:09:23.620 the exact opposite and he had his minister for the status of women, an Afghan refugee no 1.00
00:09:29.400 less, unleash this deranged and untrue tirade on Twitter alleging that O'Toole is secretly
00:09:35.700 against abortion.
00:09:36.880 Now, I won't read through this entire thread because really it's just the same and you know
00:09:41.240 exactly what it says.
00:09:42.860 None of it is true.
00:09:44.080 And she was called out on Twitter over and over again, accused of lying, fear-mongering,
00:09:48.700 pushing hate and division and perhaps most damning, neglecting to talk about the civil
00:09:53.520 war and terrorism takeover in her country, in Afghanistan, and instead being pushed out
00:09:59.520 to push this trite and tired storyline.
00:10:02.900 It's all very sad.
00:10:04.780 But that wasn't it for the Liberals or for Trudeau making the ladies in his cabinet do 0.73
00:10:09.420 his dirty work.
00:10:10.540 Next, he had Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister, the deputy prime minister, the former
00:10:15.040 foreign affairs minister, a Harvard grad and a once respected person, a respected journalist.
00:10:21.520 He had her stoop even lower by pushing out a manipulated video to twist O'Toole's position
00:10:27.500 on health care.
00:10:29.000 Freeland tweeted out this video, which as you can see, is just very clearly deceptively
00:10:32.800 edited.
00:10:33.360 It's full of choppy junk cuts, making it painfully obvious how fake it is.
00:10:38.040 Here's a clip.
00:10:39.040 Would you be prepared to allow provinces to experiment with real health care reform, including
00:10:45.060 the provision of private, for-profit and non-profit health care options inside of universal coverage?
00:10:51.040 Yes.
00:10:52.040 Now I'll elaborate a little bit more.
00:10:55.040 Great.
00:10:56.040 We can't have just one old model that is increasingly becoming inefficient and we have
00:11:02.720 to find public-private synergies and that capital will come in to drive efficiencies.
00:11:11.160 I've run on this for several years now.
00:11:14.480 So it's deceptively edited.
00:11:16.200 You can tell that right away.
00:11:17.560 And rightly, Twitter put a warning label on this tweet and on this video to warn viewers
00:11:23.700 that it had been deceptively edited.
00:11:26.220 Think about it.
00:11:27.080 The Liberal Party has, for months, been pushing and defending Orwellian legislation that will
00:11:32.580 censor what you can say and what you can see online.
00:11:36.540 They want that power.
00:11:37.740 They want the power to determine what you can say and what you can see.
00:11:41.500 They want to take that power away from Silicon Valley tech firms like Twitter and give it to
00:11:46.720 Liberal staffers in the Prime Minister's office.
00:11:49.220 The same Liberal staffers who have just been caught pushing fake information and spreading
00:11:54.920 a manipulated, dishonest video on Twitter.
00:11:58.360 And they had the Finance Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, no less, be the one to push
00:12:03.180 it out.
00:12:03.780 This is irony at its best and it's also peak Liberal hypocrisy.
00:12:07.800 All of which, of course, is lost on the Liberals who gleefully continue to push their fake wedge
00:12:13.460 issue.
00:12:14.000 Freeland was so pumped about her deceptive tweet that she doubled down on it during a
00:12:18.620 campaign event.
00:12:19.680 Let's see what that looked like.
00:12:21.160 Had we not won the 2019 election, I wake up in a cold sweat thinking about that.
00:12:27.800 Do you think the Conservatives would have provided the support to individuals and to businesses
00:12:33.000 that we did?
00:12:33.920 Do you think they would have bought the vaccines that we did?
00:12:37.020 I don't think so.
00:12:38.320 And so it really, really matters.
00:12:41.480 And it matters for the future.
00:12:45.200 We put out, I think we put this out already.
00:12:48.400 If not, you guys are going to get the scoop on the rest of the country.
00:12:51.400 But we tweeted out some video of Aaron O'Toole during the Conservative Leadership Campaign where
00:13:00.560 he talks about privatizing Medicare.
00:13:03.020 Can you believe that?
00:13:05.180 But again, here's a problem.
00:13:06.740 It isn't true.
00:13:08.080 So let's go back to Freeland's deceptive editing and I will show you the full clip of what Aaron
00:13:13.140 O'Toole actually said with all its context.
00:13:15.900 Here is that clip.
00:13:16.840 Now, I'll elaborate a little bit more.
00:13:20.060 I refer to my previous leadership quite regularly.
00:13:23.380 Our team now calls that the warm-up because we're going to win this one.
00:13:27.020 But I also ran on this principle, Kate, because if we're expecting innovation and more choice
00:13:34.160 and better performance, we can't have just one old model that is increasingly becoming
00:13:41.220 inefficient because of the amazing new drugs that are dragging some of the funds into other
00:13:47.460 areas in our healthcare system, especially biologics, which the Trudeau government also
00:13:52.000 messed up in terms of the NAFTA negotiations.
00:13:55.440 If we want to see that innovation, we have to find public-private synergies and make sure
00:14:02.700 that universal access remains paramount.
00:14:05.780 And I actually praised what Brad Wall did with respect to diagnostic imaging because he's
00:14:11.400 actually making sure that wait times for everyone go down as a result of the investment by the
00:14:19.500 private sector to make sure there are more diagnostic imaging machines.
00:14:23.360 I thought that was a brilliant move to show the public at large there's going to be an overall
00:14:27.560 benefit because everyone's wait times will go down.
00:14:29.940 But people will be able to access services and that capital will come in to drive efficiencies,
00:14:37.500 drive innovation.
00:14:39.040 In fact, there was a decision in Quebec, the Charouli decision, that says it's a right for 0.95
00:14:44.660 Canadians.
00:14:45.240 Now, because it was a civil code, not everyone applies it across the country.
00:14:49.040 It is certainly.
00:14:50.180 If the same issue came to the Supreme Court, there's no way they could say the state can prevent
00:14:55.840 people, as you said, the communist China example.
00:14:59.700 So let's try and do it in a way that's fair, measured and keep the public with us.
00:15:04.480 I've run on this for several years now.
00:15:07.780 And I do think in the 905 my region, people are open to it, provided we don't let the liberals
00:15:13.380 define us.
00:15:14.440 We have to have someone that can defend these principles and these ideas.
00:15:18.700 And I think in this race, I'm the only one who can.
00:15:21.700 Now, as you can see, he's not talking about privatizing health care.
00:15:25.100 He's talking about improving health care through competition, through more choice within the
00:15:30.300 universal framework.
00:15:32.120 Isn't it funny, by the way, how the liberals claim to be pro-choice when it comes to abortion,
00:15:36.520 but all of a sudden they hate choice when it comes to the broader health care system.
00:15:41.440 It's my body, my choice when it comes to one narrow example for women, but no choice 0.99
00:15:46.160 whatsoever when it comes to vaccines and no choice whatsoever when it comes to getting
00:15:50.800 a second opinion when it comes to health care.
00:15:53.280 Now, look, even the tech overlords in the Silicon Valley slapping a warning label on Freeland's
00:15:59.420 tweet and video, warning the viewer that it isn't true.
00:16:02.500 Well, that didn't stop Justin Trudeau from again doubling down, tripling down at this point
00:16:07.060 onto this liberal spin.
00:16:09.200 Here's Justin Trudeau.
00:16:10.680 Watch how worked up he is.
00:16:12.040 He knows he's losing badly and he is obviously in panic mode.
00:16:16.280 Here's that clip.
00:16:17.160 In the pandemic, came out clearly in favor of a private, for-profit health care system
00:16:25.900 for Canada.
00:16:27.560 Shame on you.
00:16:29.480 In a pandemic, no less.
00:16:31.400 He was talking about this.
00:16:32.260 When the stories of this pandemic were how vulnerable people are made more vulnerable in
00:16:37.960 a health crisis like this that we have to continue to step up for, and he's saying,
00:16:42.460 no, no, no.
00:16:43.160 I've always believed in a for-profit health care system.
00:16:46.020 We need to ensure better access for wealthy people who can skip the queue and move forward
00:16:51.440 quickly.
00:16:52.080 Well, that is wrong.
00:16:54.200 Trudeau is not telling the truth.
00:16:55.700 The reality is that increasing public funding to our government-run public health care is the
00:17:02.300 biggest ticket item in Aaron O'Toole's election platform.
00:17:05.720 He has pledged to add an additional $60 million to increase health care funding within the
00:17:13.380 government system.
00:17:14.500 That's literally the opposite of what Trudeau and the Liberals are saying.
00:17:17.940 But the Liberals are desperate.
00:17:19.640 They're losing any hope they may have at a majority government, and they may just lose
00:17:23.580 this entire election.
00:17:25.200 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.