Juno News - May 14, 2025


Vassy GRILLS Carney, Poilievre BLASTS Carney’s cabinet picks


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24 minutes

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193.80086

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4,779

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291

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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for you
00:00:05.920 today, folks. You probably saw the Circus the Clown Show in Ottawa yesterday. Prime Minister
00:00:10.460 Mark Carney was out with his new, shiny new cabinet, which happened to be basically the
00:00:15.320 exact same as the Justin Trudeau cabinet. We're going to go through all of it, including the
00:00:19.180 legacy media doing what they do, spinning and twisting the truth to try to promote their man,
00:00:24.520 Mark Carney. I'm very pleased today to be joined by one of my favorite guests on The Candace
00:00:27.880 Malcolm Show, talking about Jasmine Lane. Jasmine is a political news commentator and the host of
00:00:33.060 the over-opinionated podcast. Jasmine, great to have you on the show today.
00:00:37.520 Thank you so much for having me. Lots to talk about.
00:00:40.560 As usual, yes. Okay, so the news was Carney announced a new smaller cabinet, 28 minister
00:00:46.140 cabinet, and yes, more than half of them were drawn from Justin Trudeau's cabinet. Check out this piece
00:00:51.960 by Juno News. I love this headline. These ministers wrecked Canada, and Carney just promoted all of them.
00:00:57.880 And so you will see a lot of similar names that we saw that we lived through with Justin Trudeau.
00:01:03.380 I will just name a few. So Dominic LeBlanc is going to be the Minister of Trade,
00:01:08.540 Melanie Jolie, the Ministry of Industry, Francois-Philippe Champagne, the Minister of Finance,
00:01:13.720 Anita Nand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families,
00:01:18.060 Stephen Gilbeau, Minister of Canadian Identity, Culture and Official Languages,
00:01:22.240 Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice, Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade,
00:01:28.820 many, many of the same names. I could go on. There's a few newcomers. We have Evan Solomon,
00:01:34.060 who is the newly named Minister of Artificial Intelligence. Also Gregor Robertson, who is a
00:01:39.560 former hard left socialist mayor of Vancouver, who's going to be the Minister of Housing and
00:01:45.660 Infrastructure. My colleague over at True North, Sue Ann Levy, pointed out that the new Minister of
00:01:51.860 Immigration, well, she calls her a Jew hater. Oh my goodness. Lina Metleg-Diab, Sue Ann Levy says,
00:01:59.160 very nice to see Mark Carney installed this woman of Lebanese descent who hates Israel.
00:02:03.500 And then she clarified, because at first she said that she signed this Vote Palestine
00:02:07.000 platform, calling for basically the obliteration of Israel. She apologized, saying that she didn't sign
00:02:12.680 that one, but she did vote against, or she voted for an arms embargo against Israel. Same difference.
00:02:19.300 So yikes. But I don't know, when it comes to what we should expect from this government,
00:02:25.180 I think it really does just seem like a continuation of Justin Trudeau from, you know, open borders and
00:02:31.920 mass immigration in that category, you know, promoting Sean Fraser, who was, you know, sort of the
00:02:39.600 disastrous housing and immigration minister and putting him in there. It just really just seems
00:02:44.340 like doubling down on the same failed approaches. What was your take from this yesterday, Jasmine?
00:02:49.220 You know, obviously, a lot of people failed upwards, which doesn't typically happen in real life. But
00:02:54.960 there were so many things. And it's one of those, it's such a jarring difference in the, you know,
00:03:00.340 Canadian ministers, if you want to go and compare them to other nations, where there are quite
00:03:05.800 literally people who are, for lack of better words, career politicians, and not the good kind that are
00:03:12.700 actually trying to help you, but the kind to do it for the money, for the most part, is kind of what I
00:03:18.800 can, what I can see. You know, it's just bizarre. I mean, if you even want to want to think about Evan
00:03:24.720 Solomon, if you recall, there was that viral post from the bus that was created by AI that he reshared.
00:03:32.480 And now, of course, he is the AI minister. When, you know, his background, what is he? He's a former
00:03:39.980 journalist. He got fired from CBC after an art dealing with Mark Carney. He then...
00:03:47.940 That's an important point. I just want to zoom in on that one for a minute, because folks might not
00:03:51.780 remember this. Evan Solomon was sort of a mainstream, mainstay CBC journalist. He was the one that hosted
00:03:57.360 Power and Politics and interviewed all of the cabinet ministers. He was always, you could tell,
00:04:01.940 he was a partisan liberal, but back then he pretended to be a journalist. And he got fired
00:04:05.660 in disgrace for basically selling art, like being the middleman in peddling art to get big commissions
00:04:12.100 to the people that he was interviewing. The main person that was in a lot of headlines was Jim
00:04:18.080 Basile, one of the founders of BlackBerry at the time, one of the wealthiest Canadians. But one of the
00:04:22.480 other people involved in that scandal was none other than Mark Carney. Mark Carney himself was one of the
00:04:27.640 people that Evan Solomon was dealing art to behind the scenes, kind of in conflict
00:04:32.360 of the CBC's ethics policies. And then get this, Jasmine, when he was fired in disgrace, he, I guess,
00:04:39.560 again, failed upwards. But he got involved with the Eurasia Group, where Mark Carney's wife is involved.
00:04:45.640 She works there. And where Mark Carney's advisor, Gerald Butts, who's Justin Trudeau's best friend,
00:04:50.040 also worked there. So they're all involved in this risk consultant management, global finance company
00:04:56.600 or think tank called Eurasia Group. And Evan Solomon was the publisher of this magazine that
00:05:04.920 they had internally. So really just like a very much like an insider's web in this sort of globalist
00:05:11.480 world. But really, really interesting that he's kind of considered outsider in this cabinet.
00:05:16.280 Angela Brown I don't want to go off too much. But just flashing back to even just his skills and
00:05:22.040 being the AI minister, he's never even worked in the tech industry. He was a fired journalist for,
00:05:29.640 essentially, in terms of art commissions, insider trading, basically. And then if you just compare
00:05:35.160 that to Donald Trump's team and who David Sachs is, and he's the guy who's in charge of all of the
00:05:41.160 AIs their AIs are. And he helped build PayPal. He's done so many things, had so much success
00:05:48.680 when it comes to tech entrepreneurship in comparison. And then you have Evan Solomon.
00:05:53.720 It's like, wow, Canada just has some of the most underqualified people that exist in our parliament.
00:05:59.240 And it just makes absolutely no sense to me. And I really do think this is something so many of us
00:06:04.360 have been talking about and speculating on for quite some time. But in terms of Mark Carney's cabinet,
00:06:10.200 it's just filled and even just Mark Carney as a whole and the people, the company that he keeps,
00:06:14.360 you know, you have this issue that happens with Evan Solomon. And then all of a sudden,
00:06:17.880 he starts working for the Eurasia Group. Why would he do that? I wonder why he would do that? Like,
00:06:22.360 think about that, right? And then Oh, just kidding. I'm, I'm actually gonna now jump into politics for the
00:06:28.200 first time in my life, win by a landslide. And now I'm a minister. It's just, you know, and I have no,
00:06:34.520 I have no shade at all. And people who are first time ministers, of course, everybody starts from
00:06:38.040 somewhere. But my goodness, at the very least, I would like for you to have some sort of past
00:06:42.600 expertise in the areas of which you are ministering. So when it comes to this entire cabinet, it's just,
00:06:51.080 it really is just to me, it's rewarding a lot of people 50% roughly, of which have have failed and
00:06:58.920 have done a really bad job. And you know, another detail there too, as Mark Carney had said that he
00:07:03.960 wanted 50% of his cabinet to be female 50% to be male. And I'm just personally kind of over that,
00:07:10.440 you know, like, don't get me wrong, there's plenty of incredibly capable women. However, 50% of them,
00:07:17.000 I'm sure not every single one of them is absolutely qualified for the positions of
00:07:20.520 which they were promoted to. And I'm just really over that type of hiring. And I think that that type
00:07:25.000 of promotion and rewarding is what has gotten Canada into such a mess. Because, you know,
00:07:30.440 our government for many, many years now has prioritized DEI standards over people who are
00:07:36.920 just really good at their job. 100%. I mean, this was one of the downfalls of the Trudeau government is
00:07:42.280 that they were obsessed with putting out these like gender balanced budgets, everything had to be
00:07:46.440 looked through a gendered lens or wasting their time on this nonsense. Meanwhile, the real issues
00:07:50.920 of the country are being neglected. And in many ways, they're throwing gasoline on the fire. And
00:07:55.480 yes, when Justin Trudeau announced that 50% of his cabinet will be women, it was the women,
00:08:00.840 by and large, that ended up basically a lot of them getting fired and getting thrown under the bus
00:08:06.120 and not being properly qualified for the roles in the first place. And that was part of
00:08:11.080 the damage of Justin Trudeau. Okay, well, here is Mark Carney speaking yesterday outside of Rideau Hall.
00:08:16.120 He told reporters that his government will deliver its mandate for change. This is what change looks
00:08:21.160 like according to our Prime Minister. Let's play that clip. Our government will deliver its mandate
00:08:27.320 for change with urgency and determination. We're going to deliver that mandate with a new team,
00:08:35.960 purpose built for this hinge moment in Canada's history. Now, to her credit, CTV's Vashi Capellos
00:08:43.560 grilled Mark Carney, basically saying, you know, these are the same people that you had that we saw
00:08:50.600 under Justin Trudeau. So let's play that clip. Even when you point to the experience of those who are in
00:08:55.960 the sort of biggest roles, the reason why I highlight them is because they were at the forefront of the
00:09:01.880 decisions that the previous government made. I disagree with that. They were. I mean,
00:09:05.080 Melanie Jolie, Francois-Philippe Champagne, he led the industrial policy. Now he'll be in charge
00:09:09.400 of finance. Dominic LeBlanc led a lot of those files as well. We are used to hearing from them
00:09:14.680 justifying and explaining the decisions that Justin Trudeau made. So now we're going to hear from them
00:09:18.840 again. Well, first off, now you're hearing from me. I'm a new Prime Minister. I'm the 24th Prime Minister
00:09:23.240 of Canada. I've got a very clear set of objectives, which I laid out in the course of my initial
00:09:29.480 government from that cabinet table, cancelled the carbon tax right there. I mean, there were
00:09:33.560 so many differences. As I say, half of the cabinet is different, big change in terms of priorities,
00:09:39.320 big change in terms of speed. This is one of the fastest swearing in in Canadian history. It will be
00:09:45.560 one of the fastest returns in Parliament in Canadian history. I like how he wants credit for moving things
00:09:51.960 along so that he can very quickly, very hastily move through his agenda. You know, he got sworn in the
00:09:57.240 first time as Prime Minister. It took him a week or two to actually trigger an election, which he
00:10:02.200 should have done immediately. But he wanted to get a few trips into Europe under his belt before he called
00:10:06.920 an election. And he called the shortest election period possible. So he's out there looking for
00:10:11.880 points and expecting to be patted on the back by the legacy media. Well, we'll get to the fact that CBC
00:10:16.120 actually did pat him on the back and they do repeat him, his talking points. But it was nice to see
00:10:21.720 CTV's Vassie Capello's kind of push back on the nonsense a little bit. And it's always amusing to
00:10:26.280 see how Mark Carney reacts when he gets a journalist with a bit of a backbone. You know, he clearly
00:10:31.800 doesn't like he doesn't like the line of questioning there. What did you make of it?
00:10:35.640 Oh, gosh, I mean, I just it is so disappointing to me to see the way that Mark Carney talks over
00:10:42.280 people when he doesn't like what they're saying. I think that that is, oh, you know, people will say,
00:10:45.800 well, he's not a politician. And it's like, yeah, that's so great. You actually don't have to be a
00:10:49.240 politician to actually just be a decent human being. But it is really fascinating to me to
00:10:54.760 see him and just how frequently he will interrupt to try to course correct without even letting
00:10:59.720 people finish their thoughts. That's something that I just I dislike so much whenever I see it,
00:11:04.600 doesn't matter what party is doing it. And I will say it's it was quite laughable, even Mark Carney
00:11:11.480 being like, oh, well, you're hearing it from me now. It's like, OK, cool. That doesn't make a
00:11:16.440 difference at all. I don't care if we're hearing it from you. You are the same party. You have like
00:11:21.560 50 percent of the exact same ministers. This is the exact same team. So, yeah, you deserve to be
00:11:28.200 questioned and called out, especially in terms of all of these people who who you decided to stick
00:11:33.560 with when they do have failed track records. And, you know, I think that I think that Mark Carney
00:11:39.240 could have had a much better likability, maybe even thrown some conservatives for a bit of a loop
00:11:45.240 had he had he actually made some of those big changes. And I think there if there's anything
00:11:49.800 at all that we can tell, it's that there's no big changes. He's going to keep telling us that
00:11:54.040 there are, but they're just simply are not. Right. Well, this is something that conservative
00:11:59.240 leader Pierre Polio pointed out. Here is a clip of him reacting to Carney's cabinet picks, basically
00:12:05.320 highlighting the failed record of the ministers that Mark Carney has just promoted. Let's play that clip.
00:12:11.320 The first disappointment is, unfortunately, his cabinet. He appointed Trudeau's old team and
00:12:17.880 Trudeau's old advisers. Stephen Gilbeau, whose radical green agenda would shut down all future
00:12:23.960 developments in our resource industry, is still the minister responsible for Quebec. Sean Frazier
00:12:31.480 is the immigration minister who caused the immigration crisis, the housing minister who gave us the housing
00:12:37.800 crisis. And now he's the minister responsible for addressing the liberal crime crisis. It seems like
00:12:44.520 he is the master at failing upward. Then there's Francois-Philippe Champagne, Trudeau's minister of
00:12:50.200 everything, who never really managed to do anything. Then there's Jolie, Leblanc, Haidu, Annan. Annan was the
00:12:58.520 president of the secretary of the Treasury Board, during which time the bureaucracy and the consultant
00:13:04.200 bills blew out of control. In all, 14 Trudeau ministers are now in Carney's cabinet. It's more of
00:13:11.240 the same when Canada needs real change.
00:13:15.240 Poliev doing what he should do. He's the opposition minister. Now, you pointed this out on X, Jasmine. You write this
00:13:21.560 in two minutes. CBC insults Pierre Poliev, mocks him, defends Carney's cabinet picks, and reminds us how
00:13:27.800 biased they are. Let's play, I don't know if we have the whole clip, but let's play this clip and you can
00:13:33.240 point out your favorite parts of it.
00:13:35.480 Cabinet is broken, is essentially what he said. He is no longer Canada's broken. He's saying this cabinet is not changed.
00:13:41.240 A silent approach for Mr. Poliev, Rosie, that would suggest it's almost as if he won the election, rather
00:13:47.160 than lost the election and lost his own seat. You know, talking about how he's going to stand there
00:13:53.240 in defense of Canadians. He'll only be able to stand there, actually in the chamber behind him,
00:13:58.280 because of the goodwill of the prime minister who's going to call an early by-election for Mr. Poliev,
00:14:04.360 so he can run in one of his MP seats in Alberta at the cost of close to two million dollars to have a
00:14:09.560 by-election, all while he stays in Stornoway throughout this. So it's interesting that
00:14:13.880 given that sequence of events and given those series of factors, that it was that kind of approach
00:14:18.360 and response to things there from Mr. Poliev. Going after Stephen Gilbo, talking of the radical
00:14:23.960 environmental agenda, blaming Sean Frazier for the housing crisis, which is, Sean Frazier's,
00:14:30.440 I don't think he's 40 yet, or he's just 40. I don't think he caused the housing crisis in Canada.
00:14:34.760 There's a whole bunch of layers and effects of that. But, you know, wanting to fight the same
00:14:39.960 political battles we've just endured during the five weeks of the campaign and for the two years
00:14:43.400 leading up to that. Now, I get that the CBC is mostly funded by taxpayers, and that is mostly
00:14:49.960 because of the Liberal government, who keeps doubling down and increasing their budget. But the CBC hosts
00:14:55.240 don't have to act like they work for the Liberal Party of Canada. Like, it's okay for them to at least
00:14:59.800 pretend to be moderate. They don't even try. I mean, David Cochran there sounds like Mark
00:15:05.800 Kearney's press secretary. It sounds like he's out there just towing the party line and defending
00:15:10.840 his team. What are your comments? Oh, boy, do I ever have a lot.
00:15:17.640 First and foremost, you know, it's fascinating to hear the deflection of, oh, well, you know,
00:15:21.800 Sean Frazier, he's only 40, so he definitely didn't cause that crisis. And you have Rosemary
00:15:27.160 Barton. No, probably not. It's like, okay, well, so if ministers have no involvement and no
00:15:32.760 accountability when things go wrong, and if you look at the data from when they were hired and
00:15:37.000 assigned to certain portfolios and the downward trend that has existed, but if they can't be
00:15:42.280 held accountable and they, according to CBC, have absolutely no influence, why are they ministers?
00:15:47.800 Why do we have any of those positions to begin with? If that's the case, then maybe we should just
00:15:51.640 have a prime minister and everybody else is just a waste of taxpayer dollars. So they kind of bit
00:15:56.680 themselves with that one because it just doesn't make logical sense. But whatever, you know,
00:16:01.800 deflect, defame, and defend at all costs. I'm also wondering if David Cochran plans to
00:16:09.640 complain as much about the by-election in Terrebonne, which is due to the Elections Canada issue,
00:16:16.600 as he has been complaining about the by-election in Battle River Crowfoot with Pierre Polyevre.
00:16:21.800 I won't hold my breath for that one, but there's just so many things about this where the bias is
00:16:26.920 so unreal, and it's okay to have a bias. We all do. We're human beings. But when you work for,
00:16:31.960 you know, the public broadcaster, essentially, and you present news as though you don't have a bias
00:16:39.320 and then proceed to tell everybody what your bias is and everything that you do and say,
00:16:43.960 it's just very disingenuous, it's misleading, and I'm quite tired of it. And myself as well,
00:16:50.360 you know, I worked in mainstream media for 11 years of my career before going independent,
00:16:55.000 and I absolutely believe that the CBC should be defunded. I don't want to see people lose their
00:17:00.360 jobs, but I want them to be defunded for reasons like this, where it is, it's not honest at all.
00:17:06.600 And it's just very disappointing, and it's no wonder why so many Canadians have no idea how the
00:17:12.760 political system works, because clips like this go viral, and people share them, and people do watch.
00:17:17.960 It's a low percentage, but they do. And it just, you know, to sit there and mock kind of the role of
00:17:24.920 the leader of the opposition, like, I'm sorry, so what do you want him to do then? You want Pierre
00:17:28.760 Polyevre to be the prime minister? That would make sense, because you're very supportive of all of
00:17:32.920 Carney's ideas that he's taken from Mr. Polyevre. But it just, there's so many people out there who,
00:17:39.400 they have a lot to say, a lot of opinions, and they actually have no idea what the roles of a
00:17:44.440 minister, of a prime minister, of a premier, of a mayor, like, they just don't actually understand
00:17:50.040 the levels there. And that's fine. I don't blame them. It's confusing, and it's a lot to understand.
00:17:54.440 But when it comes to CBC, I am just, I'm starting to get very tired of them.
00:18:00.360 Amy Quinton Well, it's so true that the role of the
00:18:02.920 official opposition is to criticize the government. That is your job. And Pierre Polyevre,
00:18:06.600 actually, in his speech, if we had played a longer bit, you know, he said, look, I am going to stand
00:18:11.640 with the government when I believe in what they're doing is right. You know, if I agree with the
00:18:15.640 approach they're taking to defending Canada national security, I will come out and say it.
00:18:19.240 However, when they make big mistakes, when they, you know, do things that harm the economy,
00:18:23.960 harm the health of the market, I'm going to be there to hold them accountable. And to me, it was
00:18:28.840 David Cockburn. I mean, sure. I would probably prefer it if he just came out and said, look,
00:18:32.120 everyone, you know, you probably could tell by the way that I talk, but I do vote liberal. I love the
00:18:36.120 Liberal Party of Canada. I have, you know, I have the party card in my pocket, right? Whatever he's
00:18:41.960 going to say, I would actually have a bit more respect for him than that. And I would maybe question
00:18:46.120 why the CBC would have like four card carrying members of the Liberal Party who host all of their
00:18:50.840 shows. But, you know, that's kind of a conversation for the day. It's like, at the end of the day,
00:18:55.000 though, like you're on the public broadcaster. Your job is to report the news to Canadians.
00:18:59.400 Why the snark, right? Why does he have to go, you know, oh, there's Pierre Polyev who lost his
00:19:04.280 own seat. He's acting like he won, but he actually lost his own seat. And like later in the broadcast
00:19:09.720 as well, they were talking about how he should really be showing some gratitude to Mark Carney
00:19:14.040 because Mark Carney is allowing him to have a by-election. You know, he didn't have to do that.
00:19:18.120 Yeah, exactly. Mark Carney didn't have to let Pierre Polyev have a seat back in the House of
00:19:24.200 Commons. Like he's he's the king. He's the monarch now. He has utter control over everything. So he
00:19:29.080 could have he could. Yeah. Okay, fine. He could have blocked Mark Carney, Pierre Polyev from having
00:19:33.800 a seat. He could have said, we're not going to do a by-election until September. But he would have had
00:19:37.960 so much pushback and criticism on him. And then same thing that, yes, I guess, according to the
00:19:44.040 official rules, Pierre Polyev shouldn't be living in Stornoway. Stornoway is the home of the official
00:19:49.240 opposition, which is a role in parliament. Right. And technically, Pierre Polyev is not the leader of
00:19:54.840 the official opposition right now because he's not a parliamentarian. Once he has a by-election,
00:19:58.280 he gets a seat back, then he will become it. So technically, Mark Carney could have evicted him
00:20:02.520 from Stornoway. He could have had him move out for the summer. And then as soon as by-election happened,
00:20:07.000 he could have moved back in. But that would have been incredibly petty, first of all, and incredibly
00:20:10.920 costly to taxpayers. So the CBC wants to give Carney credit for these really trivial things.
00:20:17.320 And they want to criticize Pierre Polyev for, again, very trivial things. I was critical of the
00:20:22.040 party. I was critical of Polyev's team for allowing him to lose his seat in Carleton. I think that they
00:20:26.280 could have done a lot more to make sure that he got that seat because it was quite embarrassing for
00:20:29.720 him to lose that seat. But there's the CBC really putting salt in the wounds, rubbing it in. Oh,
00:20:37.480 it's going to cost $2 million of taxpayer money for this by-election. So Pierre Polyev, you should
00:20:42.920 like be apologizing for that. Like just everything about that segment and that piece is just like
00:20:47.560 the epitome of why like half the country hates the CBC and why they just absolutely need to be
00:20:52.840 defunded. It really blows my mind, too, because at the end of the day, when it comes to details like
00:20:57.880 that, you know, it's one thing to criticize somebody because they spent, you know, millions of taxpayer
00:21:02.840 dollars funding somewhere in, you know, Aruba, how how beneficial it would be to eat bugs.
00:21:10.040 But it's another thing to criticize a party because the taxpayers are funding for democracy. Like,
00:21:18.440 wasn't that what you kept telling us the conservatives and Donald Trump was going to take away?
00:21:22.920 Oh, OK, weird. And, you know, at the end of the day, I really, truly I just like to try to flip the
00:21:29.160 script, you know, like, hmm. Well, I wonder what they would say if Pierre Polyev had won the election
00:21:35.240 and Mark Carney was now moving out of Canada again because he had no interest to actually be here
00:21:40.360 because none of his business is here. I wonder how they would then try to defend it because these types
00:21:45.480 of things, it really is. It's such a nothing sandwich. It is. And and it's just these there's so
00:21:51.560 many weak points that have no merit that, you know, are are very loose in how they are described.
00:21:58.920 They're very misleading that people, particularly the left, go off of to try to insult the conservatives.
00:22:05.560 And the only thing that ever comes to mind for me whenever I hear things like that is, number one,
00:22:10.920 you're mean and I probably wouldn't have been friends with you in high school. And number two,
00:22:14.920 you literally have nothing to go off of here. Like, you don't like you have so little to go off of to
00:22:20.440 try to push out Supreme Leader Mark Carney that you have to go and criticize democracy in Canada
00:22:27.960 and promote. Oh, wow. He's so great for allowing that to happen. It's like, what? Duh. Like, it's
00:22:34.920 just it's such a nothing sandwich. And it's just very frustrating to hear on the daily. And I have
00:22:42.200 also noticed, I don't know if you have, that CBC, they they've always been left leaning. I would say
00:22:47.640 they've been particularly left leaning since probably like 1997, roughly. Then they were a
00:22:52.520 little bit more central. And then when Justin Trudeau was running against Stephen Harper,
00:22:58.520 similar to this election, Harper had said that he was going to be cutting some of their funding.
00:23:02.360 And Justin Trudeau said he was going to be increasing it. And we saw the tides turn with how
00:23:06.200 they reported that should be a wake up call to anybody. But then with this election campaign and with
00:23:11.880 how hard Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives were saying we should defund them, I certainly noticed
00:23:17.560 just a newfound confidence of CBC broadcasters to push out as much smear as they can, to push out as
00:23:26.920 much narrative as they can. And it's been really disappointing and just gross. I don't know how else
00:23:32.600 to explain it to witness. Well, it's true. It's like they're feeding their base, right? They know that the
00:23:37.320 base of the Liberal Party is the same as the viewers of the CBC. And they actually love it when they go
00:23:43.400 low and they take cheap shots at Polyev. And they're helping to further the partisan divide in this
00:23:50.520 country. It's sad, right? They watch Pierre Polyev and they just hate him. And so it's very easy for
00:23:55.960 them to point out all of his little flaws. And they don't realize that when they attack him, they're not
00:24:00.760 just attacking him, right? Because regular people in Canada who identify with Pierre Polyev and like
00:24:06.600 him, they also feel like they're being attacked when the CBC does this routine. And you're right,
00:24:11.480 they do it all the time. Okay, folks, we are going to be back. We're going to take a little break. And
00:24:15.480 then we're going to do another segment with Jasmine Lane. We're going to talk about election integrity.
00:24:19.880 We're going to talk about that seat that she just mentioned and the potential by-election that's
00:24:23.640 going to happen in Terrebonne, Quebec. So we will be right back for that one.