Juno News - September 03, 2021


Trudeau pledges another bailout for the CBC


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11 minutes

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180.72833

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2,000

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108

Hate Speech Sentences

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Transcript

00:00:00.080 Justin Trudeau pledges another CBC bailout, the Canadian press misleads us about the protests,
00:00:05.760 and the Canadian media get it wrong about Erin O'Toole by saying that he flip-flopped when it comes to his position on guns.
00:00:12.220 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:20.440 Hi everyone, it's Fake News Friday, the day where we recount the most misleading headlines and stories in the mainstream media in Canada.
00:00:29.240 And we talk about stories that the media just get flat out wrong.
00:00:33.440 So I'm going to start off on a little bit of a different note today because not a lot of media cover this story,
00:00:39.100 aside from independent media, aside from the journalists here at True North.
00:00:42.560 You may not have heard about this, but the Liberal Party released their platform this week
00:00:46.460 and it included another line item for the CBC, for the failing state broadcasters.
00:00:52.840 The Liberals pledged an additional $400 million over four years, $100 million each year,
00:00:58.960 on top of the $1.2 billion that it already receives from taxpayers.
00:01:03.700 So let me tell you a little bit about this.
00:01:06.300 So according to the Liberal Platform, these funds are meant to offset the financial pressure
00:01:10.420 the state broadcaster has been facing due to the plummeting advertising revenues,
00:01:15.300 given the fact that Canadians, by and large, are not tuning into the CBC in the same numbers that they once did.
00:01:20.380 So this is what the Liberal Platform claims.
00:01:22.540 It says,
00:01:23.440 Decreasing advertising revenues for all broadcasters are putting Canada's public broadcaster under increasing pressure.
00:01:30.560 A Liberal government will provide $400 million over four years to CBC Radio Canada
00:01:35.880 so that it is less reliant on private advertising,
00:01:39.180 with a goal of eliminating advertising during news and other public affairs shows.
00:01:43.980 The network's latest corporate plan revealed that last year alone,
00:01:47.840 the CBC lost 18% of its advertising revenue.
00:01:51.900 That works out to roughly $204.8 million in one year alone.
00:01:57.720 Research conducted on behalf of the federal government found that only 28% of Canadian radio listeners rate CBC as important.
00:02:06.140 That is, that people who actually listen to CBC less than one in three say that the CBC is important.
00:02:12.560 Additionally, last year, the CBC reported a considerable decrease in viewers.
00:02:17.420 Thank goodness, because the more you view the CBC, the more misinformation you get, the more fake news you believe.
00:02:23.580 So records show that in 2019, CBC TV viewership fell below 4% nationally for the first time in its history.
00:02:32.260 Canadians are already voting with their eyes, voting with what they choose to watch.
00:02:36.900 They're not tuning into CBC.
00:02:38.160 So why is it that CBC gets so much funding from the taxpayers?
00:02:42.500 Well, it's simple.
00:02:43.460 Trudeau pays the CBC to give him good coverage.
00:02:47.020 That's the reality.
00:02:47.920 That's what we see in this country.
00:02:49.220 The journalists in this country are basically open to bribes.
00:02:52.460 You can get paid by the federal government.
00:02:54.460 You can be on the dole, on the government dole,
00:02:57.240 and pretending to report the news in a neutral and unbiased way.
00:03:01.940 And that is why we see reports like this.
00:03:03.620 I did cover this story on the show earlier this week, but I will just cover it very briefly because it is so absurd.
00:03:09.160 So as we all know, Justin Trudeau has been protested at many of his events, particularly the case, over the weekend last weekend.
00:03:16.280 And so the CBC paints Justin Trudeau out to be some kind of a hero.
00:03:20.360 So here is the headline.
00:03:21.820 Trudeau says he won't back down after protesters hurl death threats, racist and sexist slurs.
00:03:27.540 So here we see the same old thing where the CBC loves to demonize Canadians that they disagree with,
00:03:32.920 demonize Canadians who have the gall to protest our prime minister,
00:03:37.160 again, painting them as racist, sexist, calling them anti-vaxxers.
00:03:41.440 And then when it comes to Justin Trudeau, well, they just paint him as a hero and ask him his softball questions.
00:03:47.080 So here's a quote.
00:03:47.840 It says,
00:03:48.120 And again, as expected, the piece attacks the Conservatives,
00:04:10.200 despite the fact that Erin O'Toole basically has the exact same position as Justin Trudeau
00:04:15.040 when it comes to vaccination, regardless, they love to push this wedge issue that the Trudeau liberals devised.
00:04:21.160 You can always count on the CBC for doing the Liberal Party's dirty work,
00:04:24.800 demonizing Canadians, demonizing Conservatives,
00:04:27.520 and painting Justin Trudeau in exactly the light that he wants to be painted.
00:04:32.860 Well, it wasn't just the CBC who was misleading Canadians about the protests.
00:04:37.700 You probably saw during the week that there were large protests outside of some hospitals.
00:04:41.960 Here's a Canadian press headline.
00:04:43.260 Again, Canadian press is a newswire.
00:04:44.940 So you see these stories throughout the media, newspapers, digital outlets, television station, news sites.
00:04:51.320 You see CP reports everywhere.
00:04:52.860 So when they get something wrong, it really echoes throughout the entire Canadian media ecosystem.
00:04:57.620 So here is the headline.
00:04:58.800 It says,
00:04:59.080 The Ultimate Selfishness.
00:05:00.920 Doctors Grow Frustrated As Anti-Vaxxers Protest Hospitals.
00:05:04.400 So the article only includes some doctors who are upset with the protesters.
00:05:09.580 So they handpicked a couple of doctors who happen to agree with what the journalists agree with.
00:05:14.700 So the article just paints all these protesters in the same very negative light.
00:05:18.680 It doesn't mention the fact that some of these people have legitimate grounds for opposing the vaccines,
00:05:23.180 perhaps on medical or religious grounds.
00:05:25.140 One individual said that they had a previous allergic reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine,
00:05:30.920 which was why they oppose it.
00:05:32.620 And the article also fails to mention what I think is an incredibly, incredibly important fact
00:05:36.540 that should have been mentioned right at the top,
00:05:38.760 which is that many of the protesters outside of the hospital were health workers,
00:05:42.960 health care workers and nurses.
00:05:44.820 Thousands of Canadian nurses and health care workers took to the streets Wednesday
00:05:47.880 to protest against vaccine mandates and take a stand against medical tyranny.
00:05:51.980 The protests were organized by the Canadian frontline nurses,
00:05:56.960 and they were held in 18 cities across Canada on the same day as the Ontario government
00:06:01.320 announced its plans to introduce mandatory vaccines and vaccine passports.
00:06:06.580 So again, don't you think it would be important for the media to mention the fact
00:06:09.880 that the Canadian frontline nurses were the ones that were organizing this?
00:06:13.400 It's people who are in the health care industry who also oppose it.
00:06:16.840 But that's too nuanced, too complex.
00:06:18.400 The media like to paint things in the simplest way forward,
00:06:22.240 which is, in this case, doctors and educated people are for forced vaccinations,
00:06:27.380 and these sort of redneck, hick, far-right people are the ones who oppose it,
00:06:32.000 not mentioning that, of course, there are different people from different backgrounds
00:06:35.580 on both sides of this argument.
00:06:37.600 But again, you're not going to get that kind of intelligent, nuanced discussion
00:06:40.920 in the Canadian media.
00:06:43.500 So the final story I want to talk about today was one that popped up in my news feed
00:06:47.720 this morning, came after the French debate last night,
00:06:50.980 and then after some follow-up questions for Aaron O'Toole where he clarified his position.
00:06:55.880 And this is about the conservative position about banning assault weapons.
00:07:01.340 So when I first saw the headline, I too thought that Aaron O'Toole had flip-flopped.
00:07:05.000 That's what Global News was telling us, and that was what the Canadian press was telling us.
00:07:09.080 But that is just not the case.
00:07:11.120 And for this story, I'm joined by senior True North correspondent Andrew Lawton,
00:07:15.200 who can explain this story a lot better than I can.
00:07:17.820 He understands the gun issues.
00:07:19.800 He knows the issue inside and out.
00:07:21.640 He put out a four-episode documentary series called Assaulted,
00:07:25.160 which you should really check out.
00:07:26.520 But he knows the gun issue better than anyone else,
00:07:28.920 and he tells me that this is simply not the case.
00:07:31.440 So, Andrew, I am going to let you explain this one.
00:07:34.780 Thanks, Candace.
00:07:35.880 Yeah, this has been a bit of a confusing one,
00:07:38.180 and I think underscores what I've been saying for quite a while,
00:07:40.860 which is just how little the mainstream media knows about firearms.
00:07:46.140 So in the debate last night on TVA,
00:07:49.060 Aaron O'Toole mentioned that he's going to keep the ban in place on assault weapons.
00:07:54.300 Now, the Liberals pounced on this.
00:07:56.200 The media pounced on it.
00:07:57.780 This morning, Aaron O'Toole was asked, I think, four or five times by reporters,
00:08:01.520 and he said the same thing.
00:08:02.500 He's going to keep the ban on assault weapons in place.
00:08:05.180 Now, what the media took from this was that he's going to basically endorse the liberal ban on firearms,
00:08:13.260 about 1,500 different models that they put into effect in May of 2020.
00:08:17.640 This was the ban that we focused on heavily in my documentary series,
00:08:21.560 Assaulted, Justin Trudeau's War on Gun Owners.
00:08:24.360 And it wasn't actually that ban he was defending.
00:08:28.060 He was defending the nearly 50-year-old standing prohibition on machine guns,
00:08:33.280 on actual assault rifles,
00:08:35.320 and I think proving that when the Liberals talk about assault rifles and assault weapons,
00:08:39.420 they're not actually talking about the real definition of assault rifles and assault weapons.
00:08:44.520 This has been one of the big problems of the Canadian firearms program in the last couple of years,
00:08:49.420 is that it's built on emotion and misinformation and fear.
00:08:53.100 So when the Liberals talk about going after assault weapons and assault rifles,
00:08:58.020 they're using a term that people deliberately think means one thing,
00:09:01.880 but to the Liberal government means another.
00:09:04.000 And I admit, I was a little bit confused at first when I saw this,
00:09:07.660 because I wanted to make sure Aaron O'Toole wasn't walking back on a pledge that is in his platform,
00:09:12.520 that I reported on literally the very first day of the election campaign,
00:09:16.880 which is a full repeal of the May 2020 Order and Council.
00:09:21.520 That remains in effect.
00:09:22.900 A conservative government, O'Toole says, is still going to repeal that,
00:09:26.940 but they're not touching actual assault weapons.
00:09:29.720 And I must say here, what O'Toole is doing is kind of using the Liberals' own weapon,
00:09:35.680 for lack of a better term, against them.
00:09:37.260 He's playing on the same misinformation and misunderstanding that the Liberals play on in the media
00:09:42.860 to throw it right back in the Liberals' faces.
00:09:45.600 And I think that's why earlier today, Bill Blair and Melanie Jolie, Liberal candidates,
00:09:50.680 had a very panicked press conference in which they tried to say,
00:09:53.860 no, no, no, but he is actually trying to get rid of the ban on assault rifles.
00:09:58.120 Don't listen to the media.
00:09:59.240 He is trying to get rid of the ban.
00:10:01.100 Because they almost didn't like that the fake news coverage of this announcement
00:10:05.940 might have been casting O'Toole in a bit more of a sympathetic light.
00:10:09.840 So as a gun owner, as someone who actually owns one of the firearms
00:10:13.040 that the Liberals summarily banned last year, I'm not panicking.
00:10:16.980 The plan is still what it was weeks ago when the platform was released,
00:10:21.140 which is a repeal of this.
00:10:22.660 But I think it goes to show what I've been saying for quite some time,
00:10:25.600 which is the importance of having a bit more literacy in the media on these issues
00:10:29.780 so that they can cut through a lot of the misunderstanding
00:10:32.620 and misinformation from politicians.
00:10:35.600 That's my rant.
00:10:36.500 We'll go back to you now, Candace.
00:10:38.320 Well, there you have it, folks.
00:10:39.420 You just can't trust the legacy media in Canada.
00:10:41.600 They're either in the pocket of the Liberal Party and pushing Liberal spin,
00:10:45.720 or they're misleading Canadians trying to simplify the issue
00:10:48.680 and demonizing people they disagree with.
00:10:50.420 Or sometimes they're just pushing flat out fake news
00:10:52.860 because they don't understand the issue
00:10:54.320 and they don't know what they're talking about.
00:10:56.620 Thank you so much for tuning in, everybody.
00:10:58.180 Have a wonderful Labor Day long weekend,
00:11:00.460 and we will be back next week.
00:11:02.060 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.