00:02:39.940So, Paul Wells, he is a respected journalist.
00:02:43.540I believe he's been on Andrew's show a couple of times before Andrew left us.
00:02:48.320But Paul Wells, he basically wrote up this piece on his sub stack talking about how the Prime Minister has basically been lying to the Canadian people about his itinerary.
00:02:57.800On a daily basis, the Prime Minister is supposed to publish an itinerary of what he is supposed to be doing during the day,
00:03:05.600whether he's going to, you know, go meet with his cabinet or he's going to attend parliament or whatever he plans on doing.
00:03:12.620The general public has some right to know of it.
00:03:15.180Not of all the details, especially it is of national security concerns, but we are supposed to get the general outline of the Prime Minister's schedule.
00:03:22.860And lately, in the past few weeks, the Prime Minister, now that the House is on recess for summer,
00:03:29.420the Prime Minister has been indicating that he has no public events.
00:03:32.920And he's been doing this for weeks on end.
00:03:35.860He's going to Manitoba, where he has no public events.
00:03:38.920He's going to Vancouver, and he has no public events.
00:03:41.600He's going to Toronto, and he has no public events.
00:03:44.420However, as Paul Wells documented, the Prime Minister, in fact, does have public events on these days.
00:03:51.860He went to Vancouver when Vancouver had one of their Pride parades a couple of weeks ago.
00:03:58.460He indicated on his itinerary that there would be no public events,
00:04:02.560but he told a small coterie of parliamentary press gallery journalists that he would be at the Pride Festival
00:04:09.300so that they could photograph him and videotape him, you know, glad handling and shaking hands at the Pride Parade with all the parade goers.
00:04:19.000And basically just kept that, you know, information away from the rest of the Canadian public.
00:04:26.300He also lied about meeting with, I believe it was Kitchener, the mayor of Kitchener, Ontario.
00:04:32.220And he also lied about attending the Kitty Carnival, which is basically the Caribbean Carnival,
00:04:41.360Carabana, one week before the real Carabana just for the youth.
00:04:45.980So he lied about all these public events that he is going to.
00:04:50.440And he's basically doing this because right now he probably doesn't want to be questioned by journalists.
00:04:55.280He doesn't want to be pressed by the media.
00:04:57.500He doesn't want to be pressed by ordinary Canadians and he wants to just hide away and sort of pick his spots to really try and promote his failing liberal brand.
00:05:10.040So, I mean, this is not really too surprising for me that the prime minister is going out of his way to deceive Canadians.
00:05:16.620But it was such a blatant example of the prime minister and just in general, his staffers going out of their way to tell Canadians one thing and, you know, just going about doing another thing.
00:05:32.480Yeah, Sue Ann, what do you make of it?
00:05:34.460It's like the dying days of a failed administration when they become like bunker mentality.
00:05:40.440And I've seen this many times covering politics where they, it's not exactly lying, it's errors of admission, omission, I should say, not admission, very fine line between the two, omission, where, you know, they just don't give information because, as you say, they don't want to be questioned.
00:06:05.060So, you know, he just sort of glad hands his way across the country, gaily meeting up with, you know, people, audiences that will love him and friendly media.
00:06:19.300And it's, it's one more nail in his coffin, I believe, because, you know, people are fed up as it is.
00:06:28.480And he, he doesn't care about accountability whatsoever.
00:06:32.300Now, it's interesting, of course, some would argue that if you show up to a bunch of glad handing events, you might be doing what we would professionally call campaigning.
00:06:42.420He might be campaigning to try and raise his popularity.
00:06:46.180And the fact that he's refusing to talk, to disclose where he's going to be and what he'll be doing, and then even altering his official schedule after it's been published to retroactively say he had been at these events.
00:07:00.060Some would say that's avoiding public scrutiny at a whole level we maybe haven't seen before.
00:07:06.680Is this sort of an unprecedented thing for a prime minister to be hiding this much, where he's going and what he's doing?
00:07:12.220I mean, well, look what's happening to the border with Kamala.
00:07:15.860It's unprecedented, but it's starting to happen.
00:07:18.780I mean, our politicians feel that they're not accountable whatsoever to anybody.
00:07:22.820It's very, very disheartening to see what's happening in politics, certainly left-wing politics.
00:07:28.640Yeah, and just to add on to a point that you made, William, the prime minister is basically in the middle of the day updating his itinerary, and usually they'd send these updates to journalists via email.
00:07:41.160I mean, I get the emails in which the prime minister sends off his daily itinerary.
00:07:46.380And, you know, I see that, you know, they are not retroactively updating those emails and, you know, giving those updates to journalists.
00:07:56.600They're instead just, you know, silently updating the itinerary on the website without sending an email so that they can sneak in sort of the announcement of these public events under cover.
00:08:08.120So I think that it is very dishonest from the prime minister to be doing this, and it is especially concerning because, you know, Canadians have had a hard time sort of accessing the prime minister.
00:08:21.660I mean, you saw Kian Bexte of the countersignal, he basically went to draw down the prime minister in Tofino a few weeks ago to basically ask him a few questions because the prime minister does not allow the countersignal to ask the prime minister questions normally.
00:08:38.200So he had to go down and track down the prime minister and ask him questions that way.
00:08:42.660And it seems that since that sort of event happened, the prime minister's office has sort of been bunkering down even more.
00:08:49.620And I don't think that's really going to help, you know, their popularity by hiding the prime minister and basically employing the Joe Biden basement tactic.
00:08:57.160But I don't know, maybe there's a new thing to happen again.
00:09:07.260But, you know, it's a tactic that they're all starting to use.
00:09:12.120And so they only engage with friendly media.
00:09:15.080But the problem is, William and Noah, is that the friendly media give them a free pass, give him a free pass.
00:09:22.180And they're going crazy about if Pierre Polyev eats an apple or a pear or whatever, you know, he didn't chew it properly.
00:09:29.940But they give this guy a free pass constantly.
00:09:35.140And like you mentioned, Keenan Bex, they went berserk over him and countering him on the beach.
00:09:41.420I thought it was just, you know, wonderful that he did this.
00:09:46.580And all the left wing media who, you know, have gotten it so easy went crazy.
00:09:52.420Well, let us talk about Canada's legacy media, because you would think that if the prime minister were purposely hiding where he was going and what he was doing, Canadian media would be in an uproar about that fact.
00:10:07.200And I'm sure that they are writing an endless number of stories about the hiding prime minister who won't tell them where he's going and what he's doing, except it turns out that that's not the case.
00:10:18.300I think we even may have some examples of legacy media writing positively glowing reports of the prime minister showing up at events that he hadn't promoted, that he was heading to beforehand.
00:10:32.920So, I mean, I think this begs the question, something we've talked about a lot here at True North before.
00:10:39.100These legacy media who receive huge amounts of taxpayer funding in order to pay their bills, to pay their salaries and keep the lights on in newsrooms.
00:10:50.000Do you think that if they weren't so beholden to the government's media bailout, that they might be taking a slightly more critical tone of a prime minister who runs and hides and refuses to say what he's doing or where he's going?
00:11:15.140They just absolutely can't help themselves.
00:11:17.420And they're, I mean, they're going berserk with the idea of Pierre Polia, you know, making headway in the next election, simply because they know it won't be an easy ride for them.
00:11:28.560So, Bela, yes, that enhances the riches, but they still have a left-wing bias.
00:11:35.000I've found this over the years as a right-of-center journalist.
00:11:38.940So, Noah, do you think it's an example of inherent media bias?
00:11:42.900Do you think that they are too afraid to bite the hand that is feeding them taxpayer subsidies?
00:11:49.580Why are the media giving the prime minister such an easy ride with his dine-and-dash photo ops that he's doing across the country?
00:11:56.680I mean, William, would you, you know, give glowing coverage to someone who wanted to take away your job, you know, or if you perceive that, you know, are you going to give that person glowing coverage?
00:12:09.200Maybe if you're, you know, a journalist of good repute, you know, you still would do that irrespective of those circumstances.
00:12:14.680But for most journalists in Canada who are not, you know, sort of like war journalists, you know, back in the 1940s doing, you know, big investigative pieces or like the journalists who undercovered Watergate, these are, you know, people like lounging in their home for, you know, their eight-hour shift.
00:12:29.560And, you know, they're doing whatever, especially CBC journalists.
00:12:32.920So, you know, in this case with the CBC article, I mean, there's a utter just lack of sort of curiosity with what, you know, why the prime minister is basically lying to the Canadian people about these public events.
00:12:46.860And instead, they decide to give him a glowing coverage.
00:12:49.660If that was pure poly up, the story in the CBC would not be about, you know, him, you know, talking to this Filipino event, you know, shaking hands.
00:12:57.620It would be about the fact that he lied about not going to attend this event.
00:13:02.340I mean, if you remember when Pierre Polyev first became the leader of the Conservative Party, the media were going absolutely ballistic over the fact that he wouldn't take interviews with the legacy media.
00:13:11.620And then he began taking interviews with legacy media, and they're still mad at him for whatever reason.
00:13:16.340So, you know, you can't really win with the media nowadays, especially if you're a conservative.
00:13:23.900It's just a shame it's a double standard.
00:13:26.180I was going to say, thank goodness we have groups like True North who are not dependent on the government's media bailout,
00:13:31.340who rely on the support of individual Canadians from one side of the country to the other,
00:13:36.060and who actually print the honest, reporting the honest truth, not just PMO talking points.
00:13:40.800Now, our next topic, we had a bit of a blow up at the Status of Women Committee.
00:13:47.500It didn't go quite as well as, I think, the witnesses who were there to testify about women facing violence in their homes,
00:13:56.760and what they've had to live through, and the whole thing seemed to descend into absolute chaos.
00:14:02.820Well, one of the people who faced the harsh outrage was a Liberal MP who attempted to derail the committee's investigation into this,
00:14:12.580and she's now penned a two and a half thousand plus word op-ed.
00:14:16.660So, Noah, do you want to give us the scoop on what's been going on with this Liberal MP who apparently never learned that brevity is the soul of wit when she went to MP school?
00:14:28.660Yeah, so the Conservatives currently, they chair the Status of Wit Women Parliamentary Committee.
00:14:35.260You know, I don't know why the Liberals gave them that committee, but sure, go ahead.
00:14:38.740So, yeah, the Conservatives, they chair that parliamentary committee, and the committee chair recalled the committee for an emergency meeting
00:14:46.100because Statistics Canada released new information that showed that the crime rate was going up.
00:14:53.220So they brought the committee for the Status of Women back, and basically they were going to talk about intimate partner violence,
00:14:59.540domestic abuse, sexual assault, those types of crimes.
00:15:03.420And they basically brought in two witnesses.
00:15:06.540One of them had been abused by her ex-boyfriend very viciously, and she showed pictures of the abuse.
00:15:16.060And she's a Canadian citizen, but that now lives in Los Angeles because she feels unsafe in Canada.
00:15:21.220So the committee, they heard testimony from those two women along with a police officer.
00:15:26.440And when Anita Vandenbeld got the opportunity to ask questions to the witnesses, she didn't take the time to do that.
00:15:35.580She used her speaking time to basically pontificate about how the Conservatives are really, really bad for calling an emergency meeting
00:15:43.060because, you know, that she's a partisan and, you know, she believes that the Conservatives are playing partisan politics.
00:23:08.260And, you know, if we hearken back to June 9th, when she said she was, quote, too busy to attend the Walk with Israel, which was attended by myself, my wife, and 48,000, 49,000.
00:23:27.900And she said she was, like, one of the biggest events.
00:23:33.460She also didn't attend the flag raising.
00:23:35.480But she seems to find herself at diversity photo op after diversity photo op every weekend.
00:23:42.180And, you know, she always has a little costume to wear, you know, whether it's a kafia on her head or a Hindu costume or she was dressed in some Thai costume.
00:23:53.760And we also wonder where the heck she gets these costumes because, you know, she we wonder if taxpayers are paying for these costumes, that she has this huge costume budget.
00:24:08.360In fact, I think I'm going to do an FOI to find out.
00:24:10.740But the ultimate in just painfulness for me as a Toronto resident and far right journalist was last Saturday when she showed up to Carabana.
00:24:23.700Now, she and I are the same age, 67, I will freely admit.
00:24:27.900I would never find myself showing up to Carabana with half my behind or my tushy showing in a glittery costume with all kinds of feather boas hanging out and many other things showing.
00:24:43.300And, you know, the painful part was not just the costume, but then she started to dance not very well with a bunch of people.
00:24:50.840And, you know, I tweeted last Saturday because people just alerted me to it that this is I said Olivia would be a train wreck.
00:25:01.140And she has been because the problem is not only is she enabling anti-Semitism in Toronto by not showing up, not supporting my community, but we've got a drug problem.
00:25:12.740We've got drug addicts falling down on the streets doing the fentanyl pose.
00:25:18.100I have covered for True North the encampments that are taking over parks, which she has allowed.
00:25:24.020The crime rate has gone up considerably.
00:25:27.360And she raised taxes nine and a half percent.
00:25:30.080We're not sure what she's done with that money.
00:25:32.580A couple of weeks ago, we had severe flooding, basement flooding, my house included.
00:25:36.820And I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
00:25:39.340And everybody's trying to wonder, does she just party?
00:25:42.720Mrs. Dress Up, does she just party or does she actually work?
00:25:47.160Well, I think we're going to watch the clip.
00:25:49.580I just do want to give our wonderful viewers an NSFW warning before we put this on.
00:25:55.600If you're eating your lunch, if you're doing something delicate,
00:25:59.060I urge you to take precautions before we watch Ms. Chow do her little dance here.
00:26:04.820Well, my goodness, that isn't what you see from a mayor every day of the week.
00:26:34.680is it for sure now um noah what do you think is this a person who prefers to party and play
00:26:41.900dress up rather than tackle the pressing problems of a city like toronto yeah i'm surprised mayor
00:26:48.320chow isn't uh well known in the toronto club scene because uh you know it seems like that you know
00:26:53.180that's all she wants to do you know she posted a picture of her in the reveler suit uh and i i just
00:26:59.380like got this i'll just discuss i'm like there's too much you know visible mid-section meat you
00:27:04.140know like we don't need to be seeing all that mrs chow uh but you know it just goes to show like
00:27:10.100yes when when you get elected uh you don't want to you know do the hard work for torontonians by
00:27:16.260making their lives better you instead want to you know go uh you know go have fun at caravana and you
00:27:21.600know go uh you know to the to the to all these other events and it would be understandable if
00:27:28.060she's going to these events uh while she's getting you know priorities you know fixed for toronto i
00:27:34.080mean i think mayors are people politicians are people they should be able to have lives and
00:27:39.080attend caravana and you know events that are significant in the city uh but you only do that
00:27:44.920if you're actually getting things done uh in the city and getting things done in your province or
00:27:49.420your country and if you're not focus on you know focus on politics focus on you know passing good
00:27:56.580bylaws focus on you know making the cost of living better i mean toronto has a lot of problems with
00:28:00.960crime homelessness drug addiction uh you know you name it the toronto has the problem and it's not
00:28:08.140like you know mayor chow is you know making any progress on those issues she's busy renaming young
00:28:13.360and nanda square to sankofa square uh and you know implementing rain taxes and stuff like that so you
00:28:18.920know uh it's not like she's not helping uh torontonians whatsoever so i think that she should readjust
00:28:25.880the priorities that she has uh as mayor and she should all she should just like you know not
00:28:31.520wear that to caravana you know if i was good i was planning on going to caravana if i had went
00:28:36.300you know i was gonna wear a t-shirt and some shorts you know i'm not gonna you know go beyond my limits
00:28:41.400because i know my limits i know who i am as a person uh child clearly doesn't know her limits she's
00:28:47.740going far above and beyond her limits noah and she has no boundaries whatsoever absolutely no no
00:28:55.080boundaries now sue ann i think you even tracked down a couple more uh outfits that the mayor has
00:29:01.960graced us with over the past while and uh uh do i think we have a few more examples that we can throw
00:29:07.660up there just to see if that's true that's relatively good that outfit but yeah it's a bit better i
00:29:17.940wouldn't i wouldn't wear a white uh you know a white dress when i'm eating ribs because you can get your
00:29:23.760white dress dirty um maybe you should be a chow's uh wardrobe staffer uh i think so and this is just
00:29:33.840the same weekend in a hindu outfit but you know i didn't dig out the really she also danced at pride
00:29:40.800she danced with some drag queen and danced very poorly and that was painful as well and i forgot to dig
00:29:47.100that one out because i mean uh that did the rounds but nothing did the rounds like this outfit um and
00:29:55.020you want to say what was she thinking you know it's funny in the old days if someone uh who uh
00:30:03.180went for halloween dressed as a mexican person they wore a sombrero and and they came to halloween
00:30:09.360they would have been accused of cultural appropriation that was the term the left were
00:30:13.920so keen on throwing around then but i don't hear similar claims of cultural appropriation despite the
00:30:20.480fact that uh you know miss chow's going far further than a typical third grader wearing a sombrero
00:30:26.280to his local class halloween dress-up contest is do you think it's a double standard again on the part
00:30:32.220of media who aren't calling her out for this sort of thing yeah well you know the media that was
00:30:38.440interviewed like the cbc and stuff uh and and some of the people revelers thought it was just
00:30:44.380brilliant like you know i had people from the left say oh well she's she looks terrific i should only
00:30:50.200look like that at 67 but you're missing the point she's the mayor of the largest city and it's just
00:30:55.780inappropriate a mayor who you know should be dealing perhaps with record numbers of carjackings with
00:31:02.720criminal behavior and crime happening at transit stations all sorts of things that should be taking
00:31:08.360the mayor's valuable time uh we're just here to coming towards the end but the last issue i have
00:31:13.540to laugh because in my notes this is this uh issue is labeled william hates the olympics and i'll be honest
00:31:19.860i i don't hate the olympics i very much enjoy watching canadians uh win medals for our country
00:31:26.820uh and uh you know really show their canadian pride on the international stage where i am a little bit
00:31:33.480concerned is the same place canadians seem to be as well and that's revealed in a new poll
00:31:38.020that canadians think the cost of hosting an olympics is outweighing the economic benefit that comes to a host
00:31:46.400city and canada by the way is far from unique on this cities around the world are taking a hard look
00:31:53.420at international sporting events including the olympics and wondering if the cost the money they
00:31:59.620have to spend is getting back to them in the form of economic benefit and you know you can just ask me
00:32:05.140uh in my in my youth uh when calgary was preparing its bid for the 2026 winter olympics i was
00:32:13.120helping to lead the no side on the referendum because we knew that the costs far outweigh the
00:32:20.080benefits now that that's an ioc dirty secret and it's resulting in fewer and fewer cities
00:32:26.100choosing to bid for the olympic games in fact in the last round they really only had two they had
00:32:31.480paris and los angeles and rather than be faced with a bid that no one competed in they gave paris the
00:32:38.040summer games and then they gave it led they gave los angeles the next summer games and that avoided
00:32:44.140the fact that every other city had pulled out of the bidding contest now noah you seem to think
00:32:50.700possibly that the olympics are good for a city so i want to give you this opportunity to talk about
00:32:55.920if you think it's a good idea for a city to to host the olympics in the way that cities are expected
00:33:02.460to do so now at all of the costs that come with them well in my in some of my formative years when
00:33:09.660i was seven years old in 2010 uh vancouver was hosting the winter olympics and i remember that
00:33:17.500period in time very very clearly i remember you know walking through uh you know the bay and seeing
00:33:23.180you know the red mittens that you know everyone seemed to have and you know the the scarves and you
00:33:28.480know everyone was just in a very patriotic mood and every time you know canada won a medal especially
00:33:33.200a gold medal we'd all be happy for the athletes uh involved uh there's just a lot of there's just a
00:33:40.220lot of civic pride that comes with hosting uh the olympics um and i think that that is uh something
00:33:46.220that we we quite frankly need in canada you know we have a post-national prime minister who believes
00:33:51.380that you know there isn't really anything that uh any fundamental values that keeps uh canadians
00:33:56.500together and that we that we hold in common uh and you know i disagree with that i think you both
00:34:01.900uh do uh but i think that when you have these sorts of big events that are recognized internationally
00:34:07.400uh that helps to uh boost your international profile it definitely uh helps you know generate
00:34:14.840some sort of civic nationalism and i think that uh is very healthy and something that canada
00:34:19.700is definitely lacking and i get the economic concerns i i really do all right but the problem is is
00:34:26.140that when it comes to hosting olympics or pan am games or whatever you can't really uh calculate
00:34:31.500the cultural significance that something like that holds i mean the vancouver olympics is something that
00:34:36.120i i hold near and dear to my uh to my heart uh and i think that if you know toronto were to host
00:34:41.980uh an olympics uh it is something that all canadians uh can feel pride in and remember for uh decades
00:34:48.260and decades to come so i think that you know you can't just you know look at the economic cost
00:34:52.780to be like oh yeah uh you know if we're in the green we're good if we're in the red we're bad you
00:34:57.040know i think there's more to it that meets the eye well now sue and you probably remember when
00:35:01.880toronto hosting the olympics was sort of toronto's mission in life it seemed to me that toronto was
00:35:09.500obsessed with hosting the olympics what do you think is it good for a city or is it just an economic
00:35:15.040weight around the necks of a city and the taxpayers pay the price well i i was i've been around
00:35:20.680long enough to know to remember the olympic bid under mel lassman you remember that famous i he went
00:35:27.280to mombasa and he was in a pot the dear man may rest in peace um he and uh then of course they lost
00:35:37.260and then they went on to the pan am games and i covered the pan am uh boondoggle and there was
00:35:45.740corruption and there were cost overruns there was secrecy and i just i mean call me a cynic
00:35:53.080but i just think the cost benefit analysis the um the issues financially far outweigh the civic pride
00:36:02.300or the i mean i'll tell you what'll give us civic pride we get rid of pierre trudeau and uh we start
00:36:09.080getting this city back i i'm sorry this this country back wrong here and wrong trudeau yeah
00:36:14.500not pierre trudeau justin trudeau oh my god i feel like an old lady talking uh justin trudeau and we get
00:36:22.320this um country back on track that would give me a lot of pride i have no pride in canada right now
00:36:28.400because of what's happening in the country yeah i definitely think it's one of those head and heart
00:36:33.800issues in our hearts we love when canada hosts a big event and we get to welcome the world to our
00:36:40.800country and we get to showcase our country to uh to the world and i certainly remember the vancouver
00:36:47.040games very fondly i think a lot of us do i just think the problem is is that under the ioc which in
00:36:53.120my opinion is one of the most corrupt organizations on the face of the planet i mean this is a committee
00:36:59.460who a good third of it is still made up of royalty from from royal families in europe and different
00:37:06.680parts of the world uh to me they've just said that they made the rules so that it's so expensive
00:37:11.920in order to host the olympics now you have to build new venues that the economic benefits can't possibly
00:37:18.120outweigh the huge costs and my favorite story when i was researching the olympics a bit were uh when
00:37:25.520nagano hosted the games uh in japan way back in the day the finances were so bad that at the end of
00:37:32.680them the organizing committee burned the financial statements so that they couldn't be audited after
00:37:39.260the olympics were done i mean that's a sure sign that things are wrong well thank you both so much
00:37:44.660for joining uh today and uh for being part of it and you know again my first time hosting so forgive me
00:37:50.360if i wasn't up to the uh the andrew lawton standard there it's great to have uh noah and suanne with
00:37:56.360me and of course please remember that everything you've heard today is off the record
00:38:00.960so suanne do you think maybe it's a young person old person thing about the olympics young people see
00:38:14.480it in a better light than people like you or i do is that the difference i think no it just hasn't
00:38:20.860seen the books because i don't know pan am games was a disaster and uh i don't know call me young
00:38:30.240and naive or whatever but if in 2018 2019 the you know the year that the toronto raptors won the
00:38:37.340championship you know if it had been revealed that the city of toronto had subsidized the team by like
00:38:41.960100 million dollars i wouldn't care i mean i love the championship but that's great you know
00:38:46.380i think the olympics is a similar thing you know it is definitely an argument people use for why we
00:38:52.300spend public money for example building hockey arenas or building sports venues the idea that
00:38:58.340it isn't just dollars and cents there's an emotional connection to to hockey teams to sports teams and for
00:39:06.100that in the city but yeah but then you know those are choices we make we also sometimes mean we can't
00:39:11.960spend money on things we want to in calgary it means we can't afford to spend money fixing our water
00:39:16.540pipes and that's why we're once again having to shut our water down and have reduced water
00:39:21.700at the month of well guess what sean agrees with me so i think i'm by default correct on this issue
00:39:27.520uh no matter what the counter arguments say so uh thank you sean for the validation and