Juno News - September 15, 2022


Woke TikTok suffers meltdown after Poilievre victory


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Pierre Polyev becomes the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and the meltdown on social media has been spectacular. We ve got TikToks and tweets, journalists losing their minds, activists losing their mind. Heck, we ve even got a Conservative MP who s decided to quit the party because he just can t handle Pierre Polyev as leader. Good. No more liberals needed in Conservative caucus. Well, on the show, we will be reacting to hilarious anti-Polyev Tik Toks too, too, from kind of no-name "tik Toks". We re going to be breaking it down, and having a good laugh. Also, the Federal Green Party have decided to self-destruct because, of course, of the very real, very dangerous and sickening crime of misgendering their pansexual interim leader.

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00:00:00.000 Oh, we'll see about that. We'll see about that.
00:00:02.540 If Polyev and his Convoy supporters have ensured Justin Trudeau another term as Prime Minister.
00:00:14.880 Welcome everyone to Ratioed. My name is Harrison Faulkner.
00:00:18.660 What a week, guys.
00:00:19.500 Pierre Polyev becomes a new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
00:00:22.380 and the meltdown on social media has been spectacular.
00:00:26.440 Social media feels as alive once again.
00:00:28.340 We've got TikToks and tweets, journalists losing their minds, activists losing their minds.
00:00:32.640 Heck, we've even got a Conservative MP who's decided to quit the Conservative Party
00:00:36.120 because he just can't handle Pierre Polyev as leader.
00:00:38.560 Good. No more liberals needed in Conservative Caucus. 1.00
00:00:41.000 Well, on the show, we will be reacting to hilarious anti-Polyev TikToks too
00:00:45.060 from kind of no-name TikTokers.
00:00:47.100 We're going to be breaking it down on the show and having a good laugh.
00:00:49.880 Also on the show, the Federal Green Party of Canada have decided to self-destruct
00:00:54.220 because, of course, of the very real, very dangerous and sickening crime
00:00:58.500 of misgendering their pansexual interim leader.
00:01:01.520 Yes, because the Green Party misgendered Amita Kuttner, their pansexual interim leader.
00:01:07.520 Well, of course, resignations must come.
00:01:09.600 The party must self-destruct.
00:01:10.960 There must be statements released about this horrible, violent incident.
00:01:15.180 Well, I think it's time someone else had a good laugh at the Green Party
00:01:17.780 and that's what we're going to do on the show.
00:01:19.640 And we wrap up the show, as we always do, with the Ratio of the Week award.
00:01:23.100 It couldn't go to anyone more deserving this week, guys.
00:01:25.480 You all know who I'm talking about.
00:01:26.920 This journalist put on the most epic meltdown I have perhaps ever seen
00:01:31.040 at a press conference for an opposition leader.
00:01:34.120 You know who I'm talking about. We'll get there on the show later.
00:01:36.460 The common question for this episode is simple.
00:01:38.780 Do you have faith that Pierre Polyev will, unlike his predecessors in Aaron O'Toole and Andrew Scheer,
00:01:43.760 actually maintain his leadership promises?
00:01:46.320 Will he be a conservative as leader of the opposition?
00:01:48.300 Will he actually oppose Justin Trudeau?
00:01:50.880 Or will he fall back, like Aaron O'Toole and Andrew Scheer did,
00:01:54.120 in letting this government go on unopposed?
00:01:57.320 Let me know in the comments what you think.
00:01:58.700 Do you have confidence in Pierre Polyev as the leader of the opposition?
00:02:01.560 Drop a like on this video and share it around.
00:02:03.800 And if you're feeling generous, consider donating to us at donate.tnc.news.
00:02:07.800 The link is in the description of this video.
00:02:09.720 All right, let's get into these TikToks. 0.71
00:02:11.360 Once again, we are prepared to dip our toes into the TikTok waters,
00:02:14.620 navigate the absurd lefty takes to pick out some of the very best on the show.
00:02:20.160 And we've found what I think is quite a good variety of takes.
00:02:23.900 You've got two that are of really unhinged leftists on Twitter.
00:02:28.020 And then, for good measure, it wouldn't be a TikTok reaction.
00:02:31.000 But if we didn't highlight Canada's very famous TikTok girl from Global News,
00:02:35.540 she, of course, had to get in on the action.
00:02:37.180 And we have that coming up.
00:02:38.580 Now, let's dive into this first TikTok and see what the lefties are really saying about Pierre Polyev.
00:02:42.320 The true bro is not my favorite.
00:02:44.320 Do I think he's the worst prime minister ever?
00:02:46.660 No.
00:02:47.260 But here's a few things to consider.
00:02:49.000 First of which is, the left is the NDPs, the Greens, parties like that.
00:02:53.440 The liberal party is center-right, center, center-left at best.
00:02:56.860 The liberal party is center-right.
00:02:59.240 Do you hear that, guys?
00:03:00.060 The liberal party is center-right, center-left at best.
00:03:04.920 Is that what you think of when you hear Justin Trudeau tell Canadians where they can and can't go?
00:03:10.620 Is that what you think when you hear Christia Freeland freezing the bank accounts of peaceful protesters?
00:03:15.480 Does the center-right party come to mind?
00:03:18.240 Unreal.
00:03:18.880 I wish I lived in these guys' world.
00:03:20.540 It's not actually a huge jump for the moderate conservatives to jump over to the liberals.
00:03:26.820 It's not a huge jump for moderate conservatives to jump over to the liberals.
00:03:29.520 I would venture to guess that there won't be many moderate conservatives voting liberal.
00:03:36.880 Then again, there are people like Jean Charest in the party who probably would consider themselves to be more liberal than conservative in private.
00:03:43.640 So perhaps, maybe this person has a point.
00:03:45.640 Have the liberals done a great job of appealing to them lately?
00:03:48.380 No, not really.
00:03:49.840 But thanks to the conservatives, they haven't had to.
00:03:54.300 Because the conservatives have done their work for them.
00:03:57.580 Because by going with such an extreme choice, whose values are so far removed from the average Canadian.
00:04:04.660 Pierre Pauly of the extreme choice, whose values are so far removed from the average Canadian, as this TikToker says.
00:04:11.420 Yes, is that why Pierre Pauly of won 68% of the conservative party vote?
00:04:15.100 Is that why he champions values like freedom?
00:04:18.080 The main point of his campaign was all about freedom.
00:04:21.360 Or we can talk about the other policies that he had, like defunding the CBC,
00:04:25.120 giving Canadians the hope to buy a home, making their own medical choices.
00:04:29.560 Is that so far extreme from the average Canadian viewer?
00:04:33.600 Is that so far extreme from the average Canadian?
00:04:36.800 Or is Justin Trudeau the man who's really only in power because of a supply and confidence agreement,
00:04:41.640 otherwise known as some sort of coalition deal with the weak-willed and spineless NDP?
00:04:45.760 It's tough to make these giant leaps in logic when the facts so clearly speak to the opposite.
00:04:51.320 The facts so clearly actually say that Pierre Pauly of has struck a chord with Canadians,
00:04:55.380 many of whom may not even have considered themselves to be conservative prior to Pauly of joining the leadership election.
00:05:00.840 Don't forget now that the conservatives have something like over 600,000 members.
00:05:05.400 Because as Pierre and his base are actively pushing the moderates out of their party,
00:05:09.700 the party next closest to their values is simply the Liberal Party.
00:05:12.360 Do I personally want seven more years of Trudeau? Absolutely not.
00:05:15.260 But Pauly of and his convoy have all but assured.
00:05:17.600 Oh, we'll see about that.
00:05:19.100 We'll see about that if Pauly of and his convoy supporters have ensured Justin Trudeau another term as prime minister.
00:05:25.720 All right, so there was that shocker.
00:05:27.140 Let's see what else we have here.
00:05:28.760 The caption is,
00:05:29.920 I did test conservatives, but there were a few points that he made that I 100% agreed with.
00:05:33.980 Oh, how dare you agree with Pierre Pauly of?
00:05:36.140 You know, you can't agree with the conservatives on TikTok.
00:05:38.840 That's a bad idea.
00:05:40.220 So I see this kind of question fairly regularly.
00:05:43.300 And I'm not calling this person out.
00:05:44.680 They're allowed to think what they think.
00:05:45.960 But it shows a much more...
00:05:46.880 Oh, good. They're allowed to think what they think.
00:05:47.940 ...movement.
00:05:49.200 He's a political inkblot.
00:05:51.020 His statements, his policies are so devoid of content.
00:05:55.400 They're so boiled down to just a slogan.
00:05:58.420 Fire the gatekeepers.
00:05:59.680 Put you back in control of your lies.
00:06:01.800 Get your freedom back.
00:06:03.400 What does any of that mean?
00:06:05.000 Okay, point taken.
00:06:06.220 That doesn't change the fact that every other politician does that, too.
00:06:09.840 Don't forget that Justin Trudeau, before becoming prime minister,
00:06:12.480 said that he would run the most open and transparent government in Canadian history.
00:06:16.540 How did that turn out?
00:06:17.880 It means whatever you want it to.
00:06:19.840 And that's by design.
00:06:21.280 He attacks outwards constantly.
00:06:23.420 It's a perpetual reign of attacks on Trudeau,
00:06:26.260 Jagmeet Singh,
00:06:27.520 unions, gatekeepers,
00:06:29.280 that person who messed up his sandwich at lunch,
00:06:31.660 and basically everybody you can think of.
00:06:33.440 This is good.
00:06:35.300 I think I'm starting to understand this here.
00:06:37.640 The left want conservatives to just attack themselves.
00:06:42.000 You can't attack the left if you're the conservatives.
00:06:44.220 You have to attack yourselves.
00:06:45.960 You have to call your own base racist.
00:06:47.960 You have to distance and denounce,
00:06:49.380 as the left so often requires conservatives to do in this country.
00:06:52.780 That's what they want you to do.
00:06:53.620 They think it's wrong for the opposition leader,
00:06:56.980 the new opposition leader,
00:06:58.200 while running to take that position,
00:07:00.580 to attack the government.
00:07:02.120 To attack the party propping up the government and the NDP.
00:07:05.740 That's wrong.
00:07:07.160 You have to attack yourselves.
00:07:08.900 He blames and blames,
00:07:10.240 and then makes incredibly nonspecific promises.
00:07:12.960 Incredibly nonspecific promises,
00:07:14.500 like defunding the CBC.
00:07:16.120 I think if I parse through the words defunding the CBC,
00:07:18.800 somewhere in there I get to the conclusion that
00:07:20.840 the money will no longer,
00:07:22.460 the public money,
00:07:23.380 the billion dollars,
00:07:24.580 will, fingers crossed,
00:07:26.020 no longer be flowing to the propagandist state broadcaster.
00:07:29.180 I think that's pretty clear enough for me.
00:07:30.960 Also, the statements like,
00:07:32.140 making your own medical decisions.
00:07:33.720 That seems pretty straightforward to me.
00:07:36.820 I don't know about you guys.
00:07:37.420 Let me know in the comments.
00:07:38.720 Does defunding the CBC
00:07:40.020 and making your own medical decisions
00:07:42.600 seem straightforward,
00:07:43.400 or does that seem vague?
00:07:45.140 I kind of think I understand what he's saying there.
00:07:47.420 You know, other than determining
00:07:48.460 who can enter this country, 0.98
00:07:51.060 the apps you have to fill out
00:07:52.560 and the declarations you have to have
00:07:53.860 to come back home to your country, 1.00
00:07:56.000 internet censorship,
00:07:57.200 other than those,
00:07:58.160 maybe perhaps there isn't any freedom to give back,
00:08:00.340 but I would like to hear someone challenge those,
00:08:02.240 because I think a lot of Canadians
00:08:03.180 don't feel free right now,
00:08:04.260 and that's why that slogan was successful.
00:08:06.400 But of course, to lefties on TikTok,
00:08:08.520 you really can't expect that much.
00:08:10.380 Ladies and gentlemen,
00:08:11.500 I would like to take this opportunity
00:08:12.960 to pause and reflect
00:08:15.400 on a shocking, disturbing,
00:08:18.840 sickening act that took place in Ottawa,
00:08:21.240 or at least I think it was in Ottawa.
00:08:22.660 And before I go any further,
00:08:23.900 I just want to say
00:08:24.620 that it brings me no joy
00:08:26.040 having to recant
00:08:27.380 the horrific incident
00:08:29.080 that occurred in Ottawa.
00:08:30.560 You see, ladies and gentlemen,
00:08:32.740 the transgender,
00:08:34.500 pansexual, non-binary,
00:08:36.080 interim leader of the Green Party,
00:08:37.460 Amita Kuttner,
00:08:38.500 well, something really bad happened.
00:08:40.160 And she was misgendered 0.99
00:08:43.100 at a Green Party leadership event.
00:08:46.560 I can't believe it.
00:08:49.500 This is the kind of thing
00:08:50.540 that must be stopped.
00:08:52.200 Hate has no place in Ottawa.
00:08:53.800 Now, putting all jokes aside,
00:08:55.040 we have to say
00:08:55.600 the Green Party is in full-on
00:08:57.080 self-destruction mode.
00:08:58.760 I want to take you through
00:08:59.700 this hilarious story,
00:09:01.160 which illustrates, in my opinion, 0.95
00:09:03.240 just how ridiculous 0.99
00:09:04.260 this federal party is. 0.95
00:09:06.760 So it starts off on September 3rd.
00:09:08.540 Right now, the Green Party
00:09:09.440 is going through
00:09:09.980 a leadership election,
00:09:10.940 or they're about to launch
00:09:11.640 their leadership election.
00:09:12.760 The current leader
00:09:13.320 of the Green Party
00:09:13.940 is Amita Kuttner.
00:09:15.360 Now, this person identifies
00:09:17.160 as transgender,
00:09:19.660 pansexual, non-binary,
00:09:22.220 and goes by they, them,
00:09:23.680 or he, him pronouns.
00:09:25.620 Now, logging in
00:09:26.540 to this virtual leadership event
00:09:28.860 on September 3rd,
00:09:30.240 Amita Kuttner was faced
00:09:31.520 with a horrific act of violence.
00:09:33.320 You see, when she logged on
00:09:34.640 to this event,
00:09:35.840 she was faced with the,
00:09:37.980 with probably the worst
00:09:39.300 thing that could ever happen.
00:09:40.560 Seeing the wrong pronouns
00:09:42.000 put beside your name,
00:09:43.360 I know.
00:09:44.080 You see, the face of agony,
00:09:45.420 the face of shock and surprise.
00:09:47.360 Amita Kuttner, she, L.
00:09:49.660 So, because of this,
00:09:50.920 on the call,
00:09:51.800 the people running
00:09:52.580 the Green Party virtual event
00:09:54.340 apologized to the leader,
00:09:56.140 and after, it wasn't enough.
00:09:57.700 So, of course, after that,
00:09:59.200 the Green Party leader
00:10:00.080 had to put out a statement
00:10:01.040 about this horrific act
00:10:02.600 of misgendering.
00:10:03.740 The Green Party leader wrote,
00:10:04.800 On Saturday, September 3rd,
00:10:06.480 at a public media event
00:10:07.380 kicking off the Green Party
00:10:08.340 of Canada's leadership contest,
00:10:09.760 the wrong pronouns
00:10:10.620 were presented beside my name
00:10:11.900 in a way that I could not
00:10:12.940 change myself.
00:10:14.040 I acknowledge that mistakes
00:10:15.080 can happen,
00:10:15.660 and the need to learn from them.
00:10:16.940 What happened here
00:10:17.560 impacted me much more
00:10:18.540 than a slip of the tongue.
00:10:19.580 It made me feel hurt
00:10:20.520 and isolated at a moment
00:10:21.760 that should have been filled
00:10:22.660 with inspiration and anticipation.
00:10:24.360 Over the years,
00:10:25.100 the party has documented reports
00:10:26.640 that indicate a systemic issue
00:10:28.620 disproportionately affecting
00:10:30.040 black, indigenous,
00:10:31.020 and racialized people
00:10:32.100 and 2SLGBTQIA plus people.
00:10:36.480 And I hope many more stories
00:10:37.840 will be able to be shared
00:10:38.760 so that this incident
00:10:39.880 can be a catalyst for change.
00:10:41.480 After this statement,
00:10:42.940 the president of the Green Party
00:10:44.340 was forced to resign.
00:10:46.480 And another councillor,
00:10:48.000 the Ontario councillor,
00:10:48.860 was also forced to resign.
00:10:50.400 So because of this misgendering act,
00:10:51.880 because of this act of violence,
00:10:53.240 the Green Party has self-destructed.
00:10:55.220 It also turns out
00:10:55.900 that all of the leadership candidates
00:10:57.960 also issued a statement on that call
00:11:00.600 condemning this misgendering.
00:11:02.540 So you see,
00:11:03.200 they're really preoccupied
00:11:04.420 with saving the planet.
00:11:05.800 So much so that they have to
00:11:06.960 take time out of their day
00:11:07.960 to defend the transgender,
00:11:10.280 non-binary, pansexual,
00:11:12.580 they-them leader.
00:11:13.580 And then it's not done.
00:11:14.580 You see, a day after the statement,
00:11:16.040 Amita Kutner wanted to go back out
00:11:17.400 on Twitter to let us all know
00:11:18.700 that she was feeling fine,
00:11:19.920 she was recovering well.
00:11:21.100 Ah, I keep saying she!
00:11:22.920 Someone stop me.
00:11:23.880 I'm just so bad.
00:11:25.200 Amita Kutner put out a statement
00:11:26.960 on Twitter to let us know
00:11:28.340 that they were doing fine.
00:11:31.080 Does that work?
00:11:32.260 I'm fine for everyone
00:11:33.140 who's been wondering and asking.
00:11:34.880 I deal with a lot all the time
00:11:36.260 and know many others should do as well.
00:11:38.160 Creating spaces of care
00:11:39.360 has to be taken seriously
00:11:40.780 and for ongoing problems
00:11:41.940 to actually be solved.
00:11:43.220 So most people on Twitter
00:11:44.440 who've been following the story
00:11:45.500 have had a good laugh,
00:11:46.680 had a good chuckle,
00:11:47.860 made sure that they got their licks
00:11:49.860 in on this hilarious story.
00:11:51.760 And there's one man on Twitter,
00:11:53.140 however, that I feel
00:11:54.220 deserves extra recognition.
00:11:55.480 I consider him to be
00:11:57.440 Canada's Governor General
00:11:58.540 of the Twitter trolls,
00:11:59.940 especially on one side
00:12:00.960 of the debate.
00:12:01.780 His name is John Kay.
00:12:02.800 He writes over Quillette.
00:12:03.760 I don't know if he likes that title,
00:12:04.900 but I don't really care.
00:12:05.900 I'm giving that to him anyway.
00:12:06.960 He never really misses his chance
00:12:08.820 to pile on on Twitter
00:12:10.820 and he never really misses
00:12:11.740 when he comes swinging.
00:12:13.240 So of course,
00:12:14.140 he got involved at this
00:12:15.840 and quote tweeted Amita Kutner
00:12:17.520 and he wrote,
00:12:18.440 He also responded in the replies
00:12:35.780 to Amita Kutner's statement.
00:12:36.900 He writes,
00:12:37.740 Reads exactly like satire.
00:12:39.540 Imagine how somebody
00:12:40.180 with any kind of real problem
00:12:41.360 would respond to these words.
00:12:42.760 So then Amita comes in
00:12:43.880 and responds to John Kay
00:12:45.600 and she writes,
00:12:46.980 Apparently misgendering
00:12:48.020 isn't depression.
00:12:49.200 Someone should tell
00:12:49.780 the Supreme Court of Canada,
00:12:51.220 Let's have some fun.
00:12:52.320 Help me raise $1
00:12:53.200 for each of the 68,321 followers
00:12:56.060 to give anti-oppression
00:12:57.120 a larger platform than him.
00:12:58.780 Hashtag
00:12:59.260 Trans rights are human rights.
00:13:01.320 Wait a second,
00:13:01.780 have I just committed a crime
00:13:02.800 on this show by accident?
00:13:04.600 Well,
00:13:05.060 if it's been it guys,
00:13:06.340 it's been a fun ride.
00:13:07.220 I've had a lot of fun
00:13:07.820 doing this show
00:13:08.440 but I'm afraid
00:13:09.660 that I've committed
00:13:10.220 a serious crime.
00:13:11.260 You see,
00:13:11.540 I've misgendered
00:13:12.120 the leader of a political party
00:13:13.380 in Amita Kutner
00:13:14.420 of the Green Party.
00:13:15.540 For that,
00:13:15.960 I must pay the price.
00:13:17.000 For that,
00:13:17.280 I must repent
00:13:17.960 for my crime,
00:13:19.180 my horrific crime
00:13:20.020 of misgendering Amita Kutner.
00:13:21.500 The Green Party
00:13:22.220 will be the Green Party.
00:13:23.720 The leaders of the Green Party
00:13:24.980 will also do what they do
00:13:26.820 which is oftentimes hilarious,
00:13:28.880 oftentimes worthy of mockery.
00:13:31.380 All of this,
00:13:31.980 however,
00:13:32.220 forced me to ask
00:13:34.160 a very simple question
00:13:35.140 which is this.
00:13:36.420 How is it possible
00:13:37.180 that the leader
00:13:38.180 of the Green Party
00:13:38.980 at the time
00:13:40.040 was able to debate
00:13:41.860 Justin Trudeau,
00:13:43.520 Irwin O'Toole,
00:13:44.620 Jagmeet Singh
00:13:45.280 and the leader
00:13:45.640 of the Bloc Québécois
00:13:46.500 when Maxime Bernier
00:13:47.840 of the PPC
00:13:48.700 wasn't allowed
00:13:49.960 to even debate
00:13:50.720 the federal candidates?
00:13:51.880 The Green Party
00:13:52.520 was able to muster
00:13:53.400 less than 400,000 votes
00:13:55.240 across the country.
00:13:56.340 Less than 400,000 votes.
00:13:58.520 Maxime Bernier
00:13:59.180 and the PPC
00:13:59.820 in the last federal election
00:14:00.980 got 850,000 votes
00:14:03.420 and they got
00:14:04.200 almost 5%
00:14:05.260 of the popular vote.
00:14:06.440 5% of the popular vote
00:14:07.560 compared to the Green Party's
00:14:09.260 less than 400,000 seats
00:14:11.800 and 2.3%
00:14:13.700 of the popular vote.
00:14:14.640 The Green Party
00:14:15.260 are somehow more serious
00:14:16.680 than the People's Party.
00:14:18.240 They're allowed
00:14:18.720 to debate
00:14:19.240 the federal candidates
00:14:20.440 on the debate stage
00:14:21.700 in front of the nation
00:14:22.400 and the PPC
00:14:23.400 aren't allowed to debate?
00:14:24.440 Give me a break.
00:14:25.440 I mean,
00:14:25.660 come on, 0.99
00:14:25.940 this is ridiculous. 0.98
00:14:27.120 Here we go. 0.52
00:14:27.640 It's hardware time
00:14:28.480 and the winner this week
00:14:29.320 is probably the least
00:14:30.440 surprising winner.
00:14:31.740 Now,
00:14:31.900 we've been doing
00:14:32.240 something different
00:14:32.700 on the show
00:14:33.100 for the past few weeks.
00:14:34.560 Instead of telling you
00:14:35.380 who the winner is
00:14:35.920 at the top of the show,
00:14:37.120 we hint at it
00:14:37.800 and then we tell you
00:14:38.440 at the end of the show
00:14:39.400 when it's the segment
00:14:40.100 so we don't let on
00:14:41.280 who the winner is.
00:14:41.920 We force you to watch
00:14:42.560 the program
00:14:43.120 to figure out who wins
00:14:44.340 and we let it on
00:14:45.660 pretty easily this episode.
00:14:47.120 You've probably seen
00:14:47.700 the clips.
00:14:48.120 It's been going
00:14:48.520 mega viral on Twitter.
00:14:50.220 Here's Pierre Pauly
00:14:50.960 doing his first media availability
00:14:52.520 as leader of the opposition
00:14:54.000 in Ottawa.
00:14:55.060 The clips have gotten
00:14:56.360 hundreds of thousands of views.
00:14:57.840 The clip I posted
00:14:58.560 onto Twitter has
00:14:59.360 I think something like
00:15:00.840 200,
00:15:01.620 over 200,000 views.
00:15:03.340 Now,
00:15:04.120 listen to the voice
00:15:04.880 you hear in the background.
00:15:05.740 The voice you hear
00:15:06.280 in the background
00:15:06.780 is David Aiken,
00:15:08.380 the chief political correspondent
00:15:09.840 for Global News.
00:15:11.400 And at one point,
00:15:12.180 he's very proud of his title.
00:15:13.580 He even goes on
00:15:14.120 to repeat it himself
00:15:15.080 to justify his heckling.
00:15:17.580 Watch this clip
00:15:18.380 and you tell me
00:15:19.420 if the legacy media
00:15:20.720 in this country
00:15:21.300 aren't having a total
00:15:22.480 and complete meltdown
00:15:23.380 over Pierre Pauly
00:15:24.080 as the new leader.
00:15:25.420 Thank you very much.
00:15:26.360 I appreciate it.
00:15:27.760 I appreciate your presence
00:15:28.920 here today.
00:15:30.240 Before I begin,
00:15:31.400 let me just say that
00:15:32.600 Thank you very much.
00:15:37.240 I'm being heckled here
00:15:38.880 by the...
00:15:40.840 Thank you very much
00:15:41.680 for your congratulations.
00:15:43.500 Thank you very much
00:15:44.480 for your questions.
00:15:45.880 I'm going to begin
00:15:46.500 my remarks now.
00:15:49.440 Justin Trudeau
00:15:50.480 is out of touch
00:15:52.020 and Canadians
00:15:53.120 are out of money.
00:15:54.140 The cost of government
00:15:56.080 is driving up
00:15:57.220 the cost of living.
00:15:59.320 A half a trillion dollars
00:16:00.680 of inflationary deficits
00:16:03.100 have bid up the cost
00:16:04.800 of the goods
00:16:05.400 we buy
00:16:06.740 and the interest
00:16:08.580 that Canadians pay.
00:16:10.480 The cost for workers
00:16:11.820 and businesses
00:16:13.120 to produce the goods
00:16:14.520 that we buy.
00:16:15.580 On top of that,
00:16:17.280 Trudeau proposes
00:16:18.080 yet more spending
00:16:19.160 to bid up costs
00:16:20.240 even further.
00:16:21.160 The more he spends,
00:16:24.640 the more things cost.
00:16:26.660 It is just inflation.
00:16:28.880 Their homes
00:16:29.440 and to buy a home
00:16:31.540 in the very first place.
00:16:32.740 I'll put my hand up.
00:16:33.340 The reason that...
00:16:34.720 Can I get on the left hand
00:16:35.640 and ask the question?
00:16:36.660 Is that what it works?
00:16:37.500 So, I mean,
00:16:38.240 we have basically
00:16:41.220 a liberal heckler
00:16:42.720 who snuck in here today
00:16:43.960 to...
00:16:44.160 I'm a liberal heckler.
00:16:45.160 I work for Global News.
00:16:47.600 I'm the chief political correspondent
00:16:48.740 for that organization.
00:16:49.640 You may remember me
00:16:51.160 from the guy
00:16:51.820 who actually reported first
00:16:53.100 on the Prime Minister
00:16:54.100 breaking the law.
00:16:55.060 Are you going to let me
00:16:55.800 make my statement?
00:16:56.200 We'd just like to ask a question.
00:16:57.240 Say, yes,
00:16:57.820 I'll take a question.
00:16:57.920 I've actually never seen you
00:16:59.460 heckling the Prime Minister.
00:17:01.180 I've done it before.
00:17:01.360 Ask Minister Barry
00:17:02.140 back in the day.
00:17:03.400 Look, bottom line is this.
00:17:04.500 I'm going to take some questions
00:17:05.480 at the end of this statement.
00:17:06.380 Yes, I'll be taking two questions
00:17:08.060 at the very end.
00:17:08.700 Thank you very much.
00:17:09.380 Thank you very much.
00:17:10.520 So, I'm going to start
00:17:11.360 my statement again.
00:17:13.020 So, there you have it, guys.
00:17:14.320 Another clear-cut example
00:17:15.920 of legacy media
00:17:17.120 shooting straight down the line
00:17:18.800 reporting the facts
00:17:19.800 for Canadians
00:17:20.300 holding truth to power.
00:17:22.440 Oh, wait, sorry.
00:17:23.260 That's not quite
00:17:24.460 what we saw, is it?
00:17:25.340 What we saw there
00:17:26.020 was David Aiken
00:17:26.920 of Global News
00:17:27.880 yelling and heckling
00:17:28.880 at Pierre Polyev,
00:17:29.800 not even letting
00:17:30.360 Pierre Polyev speak
00:17:31.400 before hurling
00:17:32.740 questions at him.
00:17:34.040 And then when
00:17:34.620 Pierre Polyev
00:17:35.200 finally decides
00:17:35.980 to stop what he's saying
00:17:37.700 and actually acknowledge
00:17:39.580 David Aiken
00:17:40.100 and his poor behavior,
00:17:41.320 David Aiken proudly
00:17:42.200 proclaims that he is
00:17:43.200 David Aiken,
00:17:43.840 the chief political
00:17:44.580 correspondent
00:17:45.040 of Global News,
00:17:46.380 the very powerful,
00:17:47.400 very influential David Aiken.
00:17:48.900 Wow, David,
00:17:49.460 great for you, bud.
00:17:50.280 You embarrassed yourself
00:17:51.340 in front of
00:17:52.720 what is quickly becoming
00:17:53.880 a national audience
00:17:55.180 on Twitter.
00:17:55.900 Everyone is mocking you 1.00
00:17:57.000 for this ridiculous job. 0.99
00:17:59.100 Anyway, you're probably 0.98
00:17:59.860 asking yourself,
00:18:00.660 okay, fair enough.
00:18:01.580 We've all seen the clip already.
00:18:03.220 Where's the ratio?
00:18:04.220 Well, the ratio came in
00:18:05.440 pretty quick after that.
00:18:06.720 David Aiken tweeted
00:18:07.380 as he usually does
00:18:08.040 about press conferences
00:18:08.820 happening,
00:18:09.340 so he tweeted about
00:18:10.020 Jagmeet Singh's
00:18:10.960 Thunder Bay press conference.
00:18:12.280 And let's just say
00:18:14.480 he has been
00:18:15.340 ruthlessly ratioed
00:18:17.260 for this tweet.
00:18:18.840 The tweet,
00:18:19.320 which I'm sure
00:18:19.920 probably only gets
00:18:21.020 about one or two comments
00:18:22.640 and five or six likes.
00:18:24.340 These are just usual tweets
00:18:25.460 he puts out
00:18:26.560 notifying people
00:18:27.340 of when press conferences
00:18:28.180 are happening.
00:18:28.960 Well, this one
00:18:29.520 was a little different.
00:18:30.440 You see, this one
00:18:31.080 at the time of recording
00:18:32.440 has over 850 comments
00:18:34.700 and less than 30 likes.
00:18:37.120 He's got 25 likes
00:18:38.480 for 853 comments,
00:18:40.480 a brutal ratio.
00:18:42.280 We've got some comments
00:18:43.280 which we'll get into,
00:18:44.100 but I want to be fair
00:18:44.880 unlike Global News
00:18:45.920 and actually provide
00:18:46.640 some fair context.
00:18:48.140 David Aiken did actually
00:18:49.840 apologize for his behavior
00:18:51.280 at the Polyev press conference.
00:18:53.360 He wrote on Twitter,
00:18:54.380 Lots of readers and viewers
00:18:55.320 called me about
00:18:55.980 today's Parliament Hill presser.
00:18:57.360 Many said I was rude
00:18:58.140 and disrespectful
00:18:58.660 to Pierre Polyev.
00:19:00.040 I agree.
00:19:00.760 I'm sorry for that.
00:19:01.920 We all want politicians
00:19:02.820 to answer questions,
00:19:04.020 but there are better ways
00:19:04.920 at making that point.
00:19:05.760 I have to say
00:19:06.460 that is a very classy statement
00:19:07.860 from David Aiken.
00:19:08.660 It takes a lot
00:19:09.160 for someone to apologize
00:19:10.080 and David Aiken did that
00:19:11.600 and rightly so.
00:19:12.600 Now I also have to say
00:19:13.340 on top of that,
00:19:14.700 Pierre Polyev held
00:19:15.720 a media availability,
00:19:17.420 his first media availability
00:19:19.060 as leader of the opposition,
00:19:21.280 and he only took two questions,
00:19:23.000 one in English
00:19:23.460 and one in French.
00:19:24.660 Now I'm sorry,
00:19:25.600 but that's pretty weak
00:19:26.940 in my opinion.
00:19:27.920 We all know the legacy media
00:19:29.180 will never give
00:19:29.840 the conservatives
00:19:30.380 a fair shake,
00:19:31.340 but even so,
00:19:32.480 stand there,
00:19:33.380 take the questions,
00:19:34.660 put them back in their place,
00:19:35.740 and let the journalists
00:19:36.520 expose themselves.
00:19:37.500 Now you guys had some
00:19:38.280 great comments
00:19:38.940 for David Aiken 0.99
00:19:40.220 and his ridiculous 0.98
00:19:41.360 temper tantrum in Ottawa. 0.99
00:19:43.240 This person writes,
00:19:44.440 nice little fit you threw today,
00:19:45.620 reminds me of the convoy days.
00:19:47.020 Yes, exactly.
00:19:47.940 Takes us all back,
00:19:48.800 doesn't it?
00:19:49.200 Takes us back
00:19:49.600 to the good old days
00:19:50.380 when every single
00:19:51.200 legacy media journalist
00:19:52.180 refused to report
00:19:53.420 the news fairly,
00:19:54.560 and yet they still wonder
00:19:55.680 why Canadians don't trust them.
00:19:57.800 What a mystery that is.
00:19:59.120 We've got this person commenting,
00:20:00.380 now that is a ratio,
00:20:01.940 and it certainly is.
00:20:03.180 My goodness,
00:20:03.960 that is a ratio.
00:20:04.620 And this person writes,
00:20:06.360 Pierre let you off easy today.
00:20:07.780 Exactly.
00:20:08.600 He actually did let
00:20:09.620 David Aiken off easy.
00:20:10.940 He could have stood there,
00:20:12.340 taken his questions,
00:20:13.340 and then went even deeper on them.
00:20:15.220 That's what this legacy media needs.
00:20:16.660 This legacy media needs to be put
00:20:18.540 firmly back in their place.
00:20:20.660 And they need an opposition leader
00:20:21.680 who's not going to run away from them,
00:20:23.400 but challenge them.
00:20:24.360 Take them on,
00:20:24.940 head on, Pierre.
00:20:25.940 Take them on,
00:20:26.560 and let's have some fun with it.
00:20:27.740 I want to see you stand
00:20:29.020 and take these questions, man.
00:20:30.200 Come on.
00:20:30.640 David Aiken,
00:20:31.300 you are the rightful winner
00:20:32.640 of the award.
00:20:33.580 Congratulations,
00:20:33.940 my friend.
00:20:34.880 Well done.
00:20:35.620 Certainly deserving.
00:20:36.620 Winner.
00:20:37.320 Ganyo.
00:20:37.960 Well, the bar is being raised
00:20:38.980 big time on the
00:20:40.000 Ratio of the Week award, guys.
00:20:41.620 The skills we are seeing
00:20:42.960 from these journalists,
00:20:43.820 from these politicians,
00:20:45.040 expert skills
00:20:45.780 at being ratioed.
00:20:47.000 Will we see someone challenge
00:20:48.800 the king of the ratio,
00:20:49.980 Omar Al-Ghabra,
00:20:50.680 for his crown?
00:20:51.860 We'll have to wait and see
00:20:52.760 to find out with that one.
00:20:54.060 That's going to do it for us
00:20:54.920 this week on the show.
00:20:55.940 Thank you so much
00:20:56.560 for tuning in once again.
00:20:58.220 My name is Harrison Faulkner.
00:20:59.360 I'll catch you on
00:21:00.320 Fake News Friday,
00:21:01.480 and this is Ratio.
00:21:03.940 I'll catch you off.
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