Off the Record - November 08, 2024


Canadian lefties MELT DOWN after historic Trump win


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

168.6684

Word Count

4,948

Sentence Count

299

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Slow news week this week, eh, gents?
00:00:01.940 Can't really think of anything big that happened,
00:00:04.200 both here in this country and elsewhere.
00:00:07.380 Honestly, it was the best entertainment I could ask for.
00:00:11.780 Incredible.
00:00:12.220 Yeah, I did think the outside of the election news seemed slower
00:00:15.780 because obviously all the headlines were dominated by the American election.
00:00:19.960 Well, I hope I'm not the only person who's wasted a lot of my time this week
00:00:24.180 watching the meltdowns.
00:00:25.680 The meltdown compilations are back after what's it been eight years.
00:00:29.500 We finally got new meltdown compilations.
00:00:31.840 It's exciting times.
00:00:33.720 I know, and it just keeps coming.
00:00:35.480 I feel like these memes are going to live on forever.
00:00:38.980 Perfect.
00:00:39.540 All right, well, let's get into that later on in the show,
00:00:41.780 and let's get into it now.
00:00:49.220 Welcome, everyone, to Off the Record.
00:00:51.320 Wow, what a week.
00:00:52.520 For those of you that don't know me, my name is Harrison Faulkner,
00:00:55.040 the host of Ratioed and the Faulkner Show.
00:00:57.040 I'm joined by Cosmin Georgia, True North's senior writer and editor,
00:01:01.840 as well as Isaac Lamoureux, the host of the Alberta Roundup.
00:01:06.000 You heard it there in the beginning of the show.
00:01:07.980 Donald Trump is the 47th president of the United States,
00:01:11.180 capping off really the most incredible political comeback maybe in history,
00:01:15.660 and the meltdowns have been spectacular.
00:01:18.340 Cosmin, lead it away.
00:01:19.260 Well, I had the displeasure of watching CBC on election night,
00:01:24.160 and it was just one meltdown after another.
00:01:27.600 They had a Democrat strategist there,
00:01:30.500 and she was accusing Donald Trump of employing tactics
00:01:35.140 directly out of Hitler's playbook.
00:01:38.160 She was calling Elon Musk a Russia and China agent.
00:01:42.740 There was talk about incoming internment camps.
00:01:46.940 So it was all over the place,
00:01:49.220 and I felt really bad for the Republican strategist on that panel
00:01:53.780 because he was saying quite sensible things.
00:01:56.740 They were outright denying the truth of the Hunter Biden laptop story,
00:02:01.880 and the CBC hosts weren't even hitting back
00:02:04.740 because this has been verified.
00:02:06.660 Even Facebook has admitted that they've suppressed this story.
00:02:10.060 So what was your guys' take?
00:02:11.840 Did you guys get a chance to view some of the CBC stuff on election night?
00:02:17.860 Yeah, aside from just the CBC stuff,
00:02:21.140 I mean the list of left-wing meltdowns over Trump's election.
00:02:25.740 It seems like an endless list,
00:02:27.340 and obviously we have a lot of clips.
00:02:29.760 We have a compilation of our own of sorts.
00:02:32.120 But speaking to that strategist,
00:02:34.020 the things she was saying were absolutely ludicrous,
00:02:36.860 and frankly, most of them were just completely contradictory
00:02:41.160 to reality.
00:02:41.920 For example, she said that Trump was running a propaganda campaign.
00:02:46.580 Of course, hypocritical,
00:02:48.040 given that the institutions all supported Kamala.
00:02:51.760 I mean, it didn't really make any sense.
00:02:54.120 She went on to say other things like the white power element.
00:02:56.460 I mean, we saw how the minorities voted for Donald Trump.
00:02:59.720 Again, not true.
00:03:00.560 Just going through the list,
00:03:02.160 every single meltdown and things you said that were claims against Trump,
00:03:06.540 you could easily fact-check and verify and find that the opposite is in fact the truth.
00:03:11.360 Well, it's quite rich for the CBC to be calling anyone or anything else propaganda.
00:03:17.360 They are propaganda in this country for Justin Trudeau.
00:03:21.200 You brought up the fact that the CBC had a Republican strategist on the panel.
00:03:25.960 I have to imagine that that Republican strategist might have thought he was accepting an invite from CNBC,
00:03:31.920 not CBC, and found himself in the wrong place, unfortunately.
00:03:35.560 I mean, really, the compilations, this is going to live on in history, right?
00:03:41.420 And, you know, watching those 2016 compilations,
00:03:44.380 watching the Cenk Uygur meltdown on the Young Turks
00:03:47.380 and watching CNN slowly come to grips with the realization in 2016,
00:03:52.920 that was great.
00:03:53.760 But we're going to get to have our own Canadian montage
00:03:57.960 with our own countrymen and women having their own meltdown.
00:04:01.960 If we haven't played it yet, let's run that now
00:04:04.620 so that our viewers can see this.
00:04:06.800 And, you know, if you do support Donald Trump,
00:04:10.800 this should be some pretty good entertainment for you.
00:04:13.440 Take a watch.
00:04:14.280 You're talking about the propaganda campaign and the playbook of Trump.
00:04:18.820 This is not new.
00:04:20.280 This is not surprising.
00:04:21.520 This is directly out of Hitler's playbook.
00:04:23.780 This is out of an autocrat playbook.
00:04:26.400 This is a way to, I mean, the things that Trump has done masterfully, frankly,
00:04:33.420 is to get the entire, you know, to get a big part of the population
00:04:38.640 to believe that the game is rigged
00:04:43.360 and to sow distrust in public institutions and the free press.
00:04:48.920 That is a tried-and-true playbook that we have seen time and time before
00:04:53.980 that has resulted in really disastrous things for society.
00:04:57.080 Well, there may not be many left after Trump decides
00:04:59.780 he's going to round them up and deport everybody.
00:05:01.960 I mean, this is the thing that, like, really gives pause.
00:05:03.960 But is that not to Kevin's point?
00:05:05.520 It's not a difference between illegal and legal?
00:05:08.700 So I don't think anybody's illegal.
00:05:10.660 Just mine.
00:05:10.960 Here illegally?
00:05:11.620 Just, well, here illegally is different than calling people illegal.
00:05:15.000 But, you know, I'm just reminded of a time
00:05:17.380 when there was authority to have internment camps
00:05:20.860 and to round up Japanese people
00:05:22.740 and someone who is of Japanese descent.
00:05:25.900 When you say, I have a concept of a plan,
00:05:27.980 but I'm going to just start mass reporting people,
00:05:29.760 what does that look like and what does that mean logistically?
00:05:32.500 Those are the things that I'm really interested in the first 100 days
00:05:35.720 of really understanding what the plan is, right?
00:05:39.120 You can't just go around and make these blanket statements.
00:05:41.880 And then you have this other idea of, like,
00:05:43.900 let's make America great and go backwards,
00:05:46.080 where America, you know, essentially the power structure in America
00:05:49.840 was, you know, made up mostly of a certain kind of person, right?
00:05:53.820 There was a white power element to that.
00:05:55.940 And you're seeing that play out in these elections, too.
00:05:58.780 And so I do think that we're at a tipping point
00:06:00.840 where it's going to be, like, really, really tight for a while.
00:06:03.060 The interesting thing about even what you see
00:06:05.560 in this initial message from Pierre Pollyab
00:06:07.480 is the idea that this is all about jobs.
00:06:10.680 That exactly echoes the kind of rhetoric
00:06:13.080 you do hear from the Trump campaign,
00:06:15.700 that you hear from people who supported Donald Trump in the U.S. as voters.
00:06:20.200 I'm going to just note,
00:06:23.000 someone in Pierre Pollyab's caucus
00:06:25.340 knows the minds of this incoming administration better than most.
00:06:30.340 His name is Jamil Javani.
00:06:32.260 He is a Toronto-area MP.
00:06:34.940 He went to law school at Yale with the vice president-elect, J.D. Vance.
00:06:40.320 Knows him quite well.
00:06:42.120 He did not want to take any questions from us this morning.
00:06:45.460 Reporters tried.
00:06:47.500 But sort of someone very close to the mindset
00:06:51.280 of the incoming administration
00:06:52.740 sitting right there in Conservative caucus this morning.
00:06:55.540 So, a very interesting situation there.
00:06:58.260 At a time when we know that among sort of the Conservative voting base,
00:07:02.720 perhaps slightly more than half of them have said, told pollsters,
00:07:07.340 they would welcome a Trump presidency.
00:07:10.240 I think a lot of folks woke up today
00:07:13.700 and woke up really worried, really afraid, felt crushed.
00:07:18.980 And I want you to know that now is the time
00:07:21.500 for us to come together to defend Canadian interests.
00:07:24.000 I know that the results of Trump,
00:07:25.960 right now what it looks like Trump's election,
00:07:27.760 is going to have serious impacts on Canadians.
00:07:29.720 So, we need to come together, all parties, all leaders,
00:07:32.060 and put Canadian interests first.
00:07:34.140 We have to protect Canadian jobs.
00:07:35.820 We have to prepare for the impacts of potential tariffs
00:07:38.200 and what that would mean for our economy,
00:07:40.400 for manufacturing, for jobs in Canada.
00:07:42.940 We need to be very united to say,
00:07:45.120 whatever our differences are
00:07:46.720 when it comes to Canadian interests and Canadian jobs,
00:07:49.260 we're all going to work together to defend Canada,
00:07:51.840 to defend Canadian jobs, to defend Canadian interests.
00:07:54.720 That's our priority.
00:07:56.380 Don't you see...
00:07:57.080 I know that a lot of Canadians are anxious.
00:08:02.820 A lot of Canadians have been anxious this week.
00:08:05.260 A lot of Canadians were anxious throughout the night.
00:08:09.420 And I want to say,
00:08:11.740 with utter sincerity and conviction to Canadians,
00:08:17.480 that Canada will be absolutely fine.
00:08:22.080 Doesn't get much better than that, eh, Cosby?
00:08:24.480 No, it doesn't.
00:08:25.760 And they keep doing it.
00:08:27.820 Like, it's...
00:08:28.400 I've seen columnists like Andrew Coyne come out
00:08:30.900 and claim this is a world-ending crisis.
00:08:34.640 Some...
00:08:35.000 Like, all this doomsaying is all over the place.
00:08:37.800 And it's quite...
00:08:38.640 I think Canadians are tired of it.
00:08:40.260 I think this election has proven how out of touch
00:08:43.440 the legacy media has become.
00:08:45.660 They're not connecting with people.
00:08:47.540 And Elon Musk said it best.
00:08:50.000 You know, X is now the media.
00:08:52.040 You are the media.
00:08:53.140 The individual citizen journalist, so to speak,
00:08:56.560 on social media has the potential to influence
00:09:00.320 even more than these traditional broadcasters.
00:09:03.720 And Isaac, Jagmeet Singh saying that Canadians woke up crushed,
00:09:09.060 feeling disappointed,
00:09:10.100 and Freeland having to reassure Canadians
00:09:12.380 that everything will be all right.
00:09:13.360 What do they think is going to happen
00:09:14.460 that didn't happen in 2016 exactly?
00:09:17.320 Yeah, it's funny.
00:09:18.300 When I heard Singh say that,
00:09:20.180 I imagine that's how he feels
00:09:21.680 when he wakes up and looks at his poll numbers
00:09:23.780 to see that he is a fourth-place party
00:09:26.260 and losing support by the day.
00:09:30.220 Yeah, and this is the thing.
00:09:31.880 People want to...
00:09:32.480 Especially when they want to relate it to war.
00:09:34.040 I mean, look.
00:09:35.160 Look at the facts from Trump's last presidency.
00:09:37.140 He is clearly the most anti-war president
00:09:39.900 in the last century.
00:09:41.400 Do you feel the same way about the Democrats?
00:09:44.180 Unlikely.
00:09:45.240 We can't possibly imagine that Trump's presidency
00:09:48.960 will result in more wars than would have the Democrats.
00:09:51.420 I mean, if you've ever listened to him speak,
00:09:53.760 for example, on the most recent Rogan broadcast,
00:09:55.920 his top priorities are ending the current wars.
00:09:59.140 So from a world peace perspective,
00:10:01.040 if you care about that, which you should,
00:10:03.120 you should be elated that Trump has formed presidency
00:10:06.620 and will do his best to put an end to these wars,
00:10:09.780 which we've seen in past examples,
00:10:11.800 he has the absolute ability to do.
00:10:14.340 I think it's a good thing, Cosman,
00:10:15.940 that Canadians can now once again
00:10:18.180 go back to concerning themselves
00:10:20.220 with our own country and our own politics.
00:10:22.280 It's something I think we need to do more.
00:10:23.900 But let's briefly talk about
00:10:25.760 what Trump's new presidency will mean for Canada.
00:10:29.860 We hear a lot about the concerns
00:10:31.660 regarding tariffs being placed on Canadian industry.
00:10:34.680 And I think that there is an argument to be had
00:10:36.840 that that is not necessarily good for Canada.
00:10:38.880 But I also, in my opinion,
00:10:40.400 is that Trump will force Canada
00:10:43.300 to increase our military spending.
00:10:45.360 And I think Trump will likely
00:10:47.320 get that Keystone XL pipeline going again,
00:10:49.940 which is good for Canadian jobs and industry.
00:10:52.220 What do you think is going to happen for Canada
00:10:54.340 in the next Trump term?
00:10:57.620 Yeah, I think it's a double-edged sword.
00:11:00.160 There will be positives and there will be negatives.
00:11:02.440 Tariffs are something that the Trump administration
00:11:05.280 will be dedicated to.
00:11:07.960 And he's promised to introduce levies on nations.
00:11:11.960 Now, Canada, trade with Canada,
00:11:13.860 is regulated by the USMCA.
00:11:16.520 And that's going to go up for renegotiation.
00:11:19.120 This is like pretty much right away.
00:11:21.360 So the US and the Canadian government
00:11:23.620 will have to agree to new terms.
00:11:26.900 But I think, I don't think it's,
00:11:28.380 I've seen people throw out numbers
00:11:29.840 like 20% tariff on Canadian goods.
00:11:32.320 I don't think that's happening.
00:11:33.540 Definitely not.
00:11:34.620 We have duty-free trade on certain goods
00:11:36.760 with our American partners.
00:11:38.960 We generally get better terms
00:11:41.260 than nations, you know, across the ocean.
00:11:44.180 So it doesn't make sense
00:11:46.120 that there's going to be
00:11:46.940 these massive trade tariffs coming to Canada.
00:11:50.140 But there will be definitely certain products.
00:11:53.180 You know, potentially the supply management
00:11:56.140 on dairy might be a point of disagreement
00:11:59.740 in the upcoming negotiations.
00:12:02.340 But as you mentioned, right,
00:12:03.780 like the Keystone pipeline,
00:12:05.920 that's an overwhelming positive for Canada.
00:12:09.420 So it might actually outdo
00:12:11.540 and sort of negate some of the negatives
00:12:14.040 that come with the tariffs.
00:12:15.960 Isaac, yeah, go ahead.
00:12:17.760 Yeah, just to speak quick on the tariffs,
00:12:19.300 again, going back to the Rogan podcast,
00:12:20.860 Trump really did position himself as the tariff king.
00:12:23.460 So those concerns are obviously reasonable.
00:12:26.760 However, this was interesting
00:12:28.380 when I was writing about Quebec's premier recently
00:12:31.420 urging Trudeau to strengthen the border,
00:12:34.860 fearful of illegal immigrants coming over
00:12:37.040 as a result of the election.
00:12:38.580 And obviously Trump said
00:12:39.380 he's going to deport 20 million of them.
00:12:41.240 He said, interestingly,
00:12:42.520 the USMCA is up for review in 2026.
00:12:46.500 But he said, look,
00:12:47.180 if any tariffs are implemented in any way,
00:12:49.820 this agreement needs to be reviewed immediately.
00:12:53.060 So I'm definitely interested
00:12:54.460 to see what happens with USMCA.
00:12:56.920 Obviously, that's a trade agreement
00:12:58.040 between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
00:13:00.660 So, yeah.
00:13:02.560 Well, I mean, I think whatever it is,
00:13:04.840 it'll be at least entertaining.
00:13:06.560 It'll be a little more entertaining
00:13:07.620 than watching Joe Biden
00:13:09.720 fumble his way through the presidency
00:13:11.900 and drag us into a potential conflict, right?
00:13:15.660 So I think at the very least,
00:13:17.900 we can all say things are going
00:13:19.720 to be very, very entertaining.
00:13:21.920 All right.
00:13:22.080 Well, moving on.
00:13:22.900 I wish there was a better segue.
00:13:24.080 I always say that on the show, too.
00:13:25.440 I'm trying to find good segues,
00:13:26.840 but there really is no good segue
00:13:28.320 between Donald Trump
00:13:29.400 and basically a civil war
00:13:31.720 playing out in Canadian streets
00:13:33.660 within the Indian diaspora in our country.
00:13:36.660 But that's what we're seeing now.
00:13:37.880 That was the other big news item this week.
00:13:39.540 It kind of got dwarfed by Donald Trump,
00:13:41.600 which is all right.
00:13:42.400 But on Monday, there was a counter protest.
00:13:46.440 Well, let's start on Sunday
00:13:47.620 rather than on Monday.
00:13:49.000 On Sunday, there were violent clashes
00:13:51.540 that took place outside of a Hindu temple
00:13:53.860 in Brampton where Kalistanis broke through
00:13:56.720 and began attacking Hindu worshippers
00:14:00.040 with sticks, with flagpoles
00:14:02.580 and throwing fists.
00:14:04.540 Absolutely absurd.
00:14:05.560 It then turns out that there was
00:14:06.620 a Peel police officer involved
00:14:08.720 in that violent protest,
00:14:10.060 just adding more fuel to the fire.
00:14:11.300 The following day,
00:14:13.460 True North cameraman and I,
00:14:15.120 we decided to show up to Brampton,
00:14:16.760 which is kind of becoming
00:14:17.460 a bit of a dangerous endeavor these days.
00:14:20.320 But we showed up to cover
00:14:21.860 this Hindu counter protest.
00:14:25.340 And sure enough,
00:14:26.460 that protest also turned unruly
00:14:29.140 and resulted in the Peel police
00:14:31.400 finding weapons on the streets,
00:14:34.320 seeing a mob attacking cars
00:14:36.440 and intimidating police.
00:14:37.800 I was on the ground there.
00:14:38.800 I want to show you the scene
00:14:40.400 of what it looked like
00:14:41.380 when the Hindu protesters
00:14:43.040 began going after
00:14:44.600 and intimidating the police.
00:14:45.940 Take a look at this.
00:14:47.820 As you can see,
00:14:48.760 the protesters have shut down Gore Road.
00:14:51.460 There's only four police officers here
00:14:53.460 for a crowd of thousands
00:14:54.740 of protesters chanting down the police
00:14:57.680 for apparently being soft
00:15:00.500 on Kalistani extremism.
00:15:01.960 This is a wild scene.
00:15:05.980 Traffic is blocked
00:15:06.900 all the way down the road.
00:15:09.000 All right.
00:15:09.440 And the following clip you will see,
00:15:11.040 well, we've already played it
00:15:11.820 over the screen.
00:15:12.520 And that is of these,
00:15:14.240 these counter protesters
00:15:16.160 just attacking random cars
00:15:17.860 in the street
00:15:18.400 and causing a wild scene.
00:15:19.780 Cosmin, what do you make
00:15:38.040 of this situation unfolding
00:15:40.860 in our country?
00:15:42.780 Well, as an immigrant,
00:15:44.020 I think it's just shameful behavior, right?
00:15:46.600 The diaspora is supposed to be
00:15:49.160 a reflection of your home nation.
00:15:52.540 And when you're out there
00:15:53.440 behaving like this,
00:15:54.960 you know, breaking,
00:15:56.120 potentially breaking laws,
00:15:57.620 committing violence
00:15:58.460 in the name of conflicts
00:16:00.220 that you,
00:16:01.800 that come from back home,
00:16:02.940 you're, as an immigrant,
00:16:03.860 you're supposed to leave
00:16:04.940 all of that behind.
00:16:06.300 That's the point.
00:16:07.280 It's a fresh start.
00:16:09.040 You're accepting
00:16:09.700 a new adoptive country.
00:16:13.000 And it's becoming increasingly
00:16:15.840 the case that immigrants,
00:16:18.360 a lot of immigrants
00:16:19.320 don't see it that way anymore.
00:16:22.400 Isaac, what do you think?
00:16:23.600 Do you think that it's,
00:16:24.400 this is a cause of the rate
00:16:26.440 at which we have welcomed people
00:16:27.820 into our country?
00:16:29.580 Oh, definitely.
00:16:30.620 And I mean, it's just,
00:16:31.620 yeah, absolutely disgusting.
00:16:32.920 Watching those clips,
00:16:33.800 as you can see,
00:16:34.480 I have this Canadian flag behind me.
00:16:36.020 That is not my Canada.
00:16:37.720 If it were,
00:16:38.580 I wouldn't have hung this flag
00:16:39.900 in pride.
00:16:40.820 You know, I look at that
00:16:41.780 and I'm truly ashamed
00:16:43.140 to live in a country
00:16:44.120 that in any way, shape or form
00:16:45.940 would allow that to happen.
00:16:47.460 Random cars getting attacked
00:16:48.560 in the streets
00:16:49.020 by thousands of protesters.
00:16:50.920 I mean,
00:16:51.760 this is not something,
00:16:53.840 thinking back a few years ago,
00:16:54.840 I would ever imagine
00:16:55.920 being possible in Canada.
00:16:57.640 It looks like scenes
00:16:59.140 out of a post-apocalyptic movie,
00:17:02.060 right?
00:17:02.360 I mean, Harrison,
00:17:03.960 and I worry because you're
00:17:04.700 one of the foremost reporters
00:17:06.220 in the middle of these conflicts.
00:17:07.740 You really got to start
00:17:08.880 showing up with a security detail,
00:17:10.640 honestly.
00:17:10.900 Yeah, we'll have to take that up
00:17:13.080 with the higher ups
00:17:14.240 at True North
00:17:14.800 to see if we can get
00:17:15.640 a security detail.
00:17:17.160 You know, I will say
00:17:18.480 it doesn't look like Canada
00:17:20.160 and in those protests,
00:17:22.480 you really don't feel
00:17:23.200 like you are in Canada.
00:17:24.660 That's the craziest part
00:17:25.940 is that there are clashes
00:17:28.380 between two groups
00:17:30.780 within the same diaspora,
00:17:32.500 a division that matters not
00:17:34.300 to the Canadian people,
00:17:35.780 a difference between
00:17:36.700 that Canadian people
00:17:37.580 do not recognize
00:17:38.460 and do not see
00:17:39.120 because it doesn't matter to us.
00:17:40.260 But you have in the streets
00:17:41.720 these clashes taking place
00:17:43.940 with foreign languages
00:17:44.960 being spoken
00:17:45.720 and foreign flags flying.
00:17:47.560 And you ask yourself,
00:17:48.700 you look around and you go,
00:17:49.740 am I really in Canada right now?
00:17:52.020 Because it doesn't look
00:17:52.860 like it at all.
00:17:53.960 That's the strangest part
00:17:54.960 about this.
00:17:56.120 And it looks to me,
00:17:58.320 Cosman,
00:17:58.700 as if this entire situation
00:18:01.420 would have been preventable
00:18:02.340 had we just slowed down
00:18:04.240 the process,
00:18:05.220 the numbers at which
00:18:06.140 these people were coming in
00:18:07.060 so that we gave them time
00:18:08.240 to assimilate
00:18:09.100 and park their causes
00:18:10.780 at the door.
00:18:11.700 If you bring in millions
00:18:12.360 of people,
00:18:13.260 well, how can you almost,
00:18:14.080 it's almost unreasonable
00:18:15.160 to expect assimilation
00:18:16.380 at that rate.
00:18:18.340 Yeah, well,
00:18:19.020 these are the fruits
00:18:20.260 of mass immigration.
00:18:21.880 We've seen it play out
00:18:22.940 everywhere.
00:18:23.620 In Europe, for example,
00:18:24.700 there are no-go zones
00:18:26.620 in France and in England.
00:18:27.980 Or there's places
00:18:29.160 where Sharia law
00:18:30.600 in Europe
00:18:31.120 is actually being practiced
00:18:33.060 by these communities.
00:18:34.580 And it's really,
00:18:35.540 it's really,
00:18:36.740 you mentioned assimilation
00:18:38.620 and that's a key factor
00:18:40.180 that I think governments
00:18:41.100 have ignored.
00:18:41.900 They've just turned
00:18:42.580 on the taps
00:18:43.200 and they have had
00:18:44.340 absolutely no plan
00:18:45.980 to assimilate
00:18:47.800 the tremendous amount
00:18:50.000 of new people
00:18:50.700 coming into the country.
00:18:53.280 Isaac, what do you think?
00:18:54.460 Do you think that,
00:18:55.240 do you think that
00:18:56.040 the federal government
00:18:56.820 needs to do more
00:18:58.080 at defining
00:18:59.300 what it means
00:19:00.200 to be Canadian
00:19:00.940 and what Canadian values
00:19:02.600 and Canadian culture
00:19:03.460 really is?
00:19:05.140 Yeah, I've spoken
00:19:06.500 about this before.
00:19:07.380 You know,
00:19:07.560 when you immigrate
00:19:08.160 at the levels Canada has,
00:19:09.520 which is the millions per year,
00:19:11.500 you're really going
00:19:12.500 to start to muddle
00:19:13.380 what Canadian culture is
00:19:14.740 because it really does
00:19:15.900 become a melting pot
00:19:16.920 of sorts.
00:19:17.860 And we've spoken
00:19:18.740 about how to avoid
00:19:21.000 this phenomenon
00:19:22.120 in the first place,
00:19:23.080 which is obviously
00:19:23.620 by limiting immigration numbers.
00:19:24.980 But the key question
00:19:25.720 in my eyes is
00:19:26.400 how do you fix it
00:19:27.440 once it's already happened?
00:19:28.380 Because we're seeing
00:19:28.880 what's happening
00:19:29.320 in the streets.
00:19:29.760 Okay, even if we slow
00:19:31.460 down immigration numbers,
00:19:32.380 it's already happening.
00:19:33.440 So what do we do now?
00:19:35.180 And I guess this is
00:19:36.200 what happens
00:19:36.740 when you institute
00:19:38.480 policies of post,
00:19:41.060 what was the,
00:19:41.640 what is exactly
00:19:42.460 is the,
00:19:43.020 is the word
00:19:43.460 Justin Trudeau used?
00:19:44.600 Post national state,
00:19:45.960 right?
00:19:46.500 When Trudeau said
00:19:47.420 in 2015
00:19:48.020 that we have
00:19:48.680 no defining culture
00:19:50.660 and no values,
00:19:51.660 essentially.
00:19:52.560 Look,
00:19:53.000 it's even hard
00:19:53.660 to sit here
00:19:54.280 and genuinely
00:19:55.060 define Canadian
00:19:56.480 and define
00:19:57.300 Canadian values,
00:19:58.240 Cosme.
00:19:58.500 Yeah,
00:20:00.080 that,
00:20:00.320 that came to my mind
00:20:01.540 first and foremost.
00:20:03.080 We have a prime minister
00:20:04.040 that doesn't even believe
00:20:05.420 this country
00:20:06.060 has a real
00:20:06.860 national identity.
00:20:08.900 He is so anti
00:20:10.140 anything pro nation.
00:20:11.880 Like he,
00:20:12.400 he doesn't want Canada
00:20:13.960 to be that.
00:20:15.100 He wants it to be this
00:20:16.040 like post
00:20:16.840 global world order
00:20:18.820 amorphous blob
00:20:20.760 that is just
00:20:21.600 a political machine
00:20:23.060 for him
00:20:24.180 and his buddies
00:20:24.940 to use
00:20:25.600 as he wishes.
00:20:26.440 And this is what
00:20:27.760 happens when you
00:20:28.440 strip away
00:20:29.140 that core identity
00:20:30.080 because to me
00:20:30.920 as somebody
00:20:31.820 who came here
00:20:32.540 in 2002,
00:20:33.720 Canada
00:20:34.040 always had
00:20:35.420 a distinct identity.
00:20:37.320 It was the
00:20:37.820 English,
00:20:39.020 French,
00:20:39.480 and indigenous
00:20:40.080 partnership
00:20:41.260 that created
00:20:42.300 this country.
00:20:43.100 Those were the
00:20:43.780 three main elements
00:20:44.780 of Canada
00:20:45.320 in my mind.
00:20:46.100 I remember
00:20:46.540 reading the first book
00:20:48.000 I ever read
00:20:48.720 about Canada.
00:20:49.600 It was,
00:20:50.240 it was those
00:20:50.840 three things
00:20:51.520 on first and foremost
00:20:53.040 on display.
00:20:53.900 And now
00:20:54.820 we have
00:20:55.700 every single
00:20:57.000 liberal and NDP
00:20:58.100 politician
00:20:58.920 and the Greens
00:20:59.840 as well
00:21:00.340 who don't want
00:21:01.820 that to be a thing.
00:21:03.140 They want to strip
00:21:03.960 Canada of its core
00:21:05.200 identity.
00:21:05.720 They call it
00:21:06.680 decolonizing
00:21:07.840 and it's
00:21:09.940 a very nasty,
00:21:11.460 vile political
00:21:12.520 tactic
00:21:13.260 that has
00:21:14.380 destructive
00:21:15.180 consequences.
00:21:16.900 Well,
00:21:17.660 one of the elements
00:21:18.520 that is under
00:21:19.480 the umbrella
00:21:20.180 if you want to call it
00:21:21.500 of a decolonization
00:21:22.980 is this embrace
00:21:23.940 of radical
00:21:25.280 DEI policies
00:21:27.300 that have managed
00:21:28.600 to embed themselves
00:21:29.440 in pretty much
00:21:30.100 every facet of our lives,
00:21:31.320 especially in academia
00:21:33.220 and at a government level.
00:21:35.240 Isaac,
00:21:35.580 we did,
00:21:36.120 however,
00:21:36.860 see a bit of a victory
00:21:38.700 when it comes to
00:21:39.500 defeating DEI
00:21:40.620 in the city of Toronto.
00:21:42.740 What happened?
00:21:44.020 Yeah,
00:21:44.280 so we're hopping
00:21:44.800 from some really
00:21:45.580 bad news,
00:21:46.420 I'd say,
00:21:46.760 to some good news.
00:21:47.500 So nice to
00:21:48.240 make that switch.
00:21:49.580 But yes,
00:21:50.060 we saw that
00:21:51.380 TMU's
00:21:52.280 medical admissions
00:21:53.760 DEI policy,
00:21:55.520 which,
00:21:55.720 what were they
00:21:56.000 going to hire,
00:21:56.380 like 90%
00:21:57.360 DEI hires?
00:21:58.560 I mean,
00:21:58.720 it was a ridiculous
00:21:59.620 amount of students
00:22:00.980 that were being admitted
00:22:01.840 not on merit
00:22:03.100 but on their
00:22:03.940 DEI qualities,
00:22:06.460 so the color
00:22:07.140 of their skin,
00:22:07.720 essentially.
00:22:08.360 And they have
00:22:08.860 actually eliminated
00:22:09.760 that,
00:22:10.560 which I like to think
00:22:12.460 True North
00:22:12.800 in some way
00:22:13.560 played a part in.
00:22:14.520 Obviously,
00:22:14.740 we wrote about it,
00:22:15.540 as did many outlets,
00:22:17.460 so obviously
00:22:18.180 they saw
00:22:18.840 an insane
00:22:20.020 public pushback,
00:22:21.480 I'd imagine,
00:22:21.940 which is why
00:22:22.280 they canceled it.
00:22:23.280 So yeah,
00:22:23.620 do you guys think
00:22:24.520 that universities
00:22:26.220 going forward
00:22:26.960 will not implement
00:22:28.140 these at all,
00:22:28.780 seeing the backlash?
00:22:29.820 But I mean,
00:22:30.140 this is hardly
00:22:30.600 the first time
00:22:31.260 we've seen
00:22:31.680 a backlash
00:22:32.240 to a DEI policy.
00:22:34.940 I would say
00:22:35.960 that a lot of this
00:22:37.440 has to do
00:22:38.100 with the fact
00:22:38.680 that Doug Ford
00:22:39.680 finally found
00:22:40.500 his spine
00:22:41.220 and decided
00:22:42.200 to speak
00:22:42.620 about this issue.
00:22:43.440 You know,
00:22:44.240 DEI has been
00:22:45.280 expanding rapidly
00:22:46.840 under his watch
00:22:47.900 and the premier
00:22:49.240 does have
00:22:49.980 a significant
00:22:50.540 amount of influence
00:22:51.280 over public universities
00:22:52.460 like Ryerson University,
00:22:54.620 now known as TMU.
00:22:56.420 And it was
00:22:57.340 the premier
00:22:58.380 who kicked
00:23:00.340 this in motion
00:23:01.140 and told TMU
00:23:03.060 and said publicly
00:23:03.700 that this is
00:23:04.200 a stupid idea,
00:23:05.000 this is ridiculous.
00:23:06.380 Medical students
00:23:07.160 should not be chosen
00:23:08.240 based on the color
00:23:09.440 of their skin
00:23:10.140 or their identity.
00:23:11.500 It needs to be
00:23:12.160 based on merit
00:23:13.060 and their ability
00:23:13.820 to actually
00:23:14.360 do the job.
00:23:15.820 And I think
00:23:16.540 that this is
00:23:17.060 what happens,
00:23:17.780 Cosman,
00:23:18.480 when conservative
00:23:19.320 premiers
00:23:19.840 and conservative
00:23:21.200 politicians,
00:23:21.860 for that matter,
00:23:22.780 decide to speak up
00:23:24.040 and say,
00:23:24.720 no,
00:23:25.360 I was elected
00:23:26.240 to be a conservative.
00:23:27.100 I'm going to govern
00:23:27.980 and voice my opinions
00:23:29.580 like a conservative.
00:23:31.380 Yeah,
00:23:31.900 and they have
00:23:32.440 the executive power
00:23:33.560 to do these things.
00:23:34.980 It's just
00:23:35.460 they haven't used them
00:23:36.700 up to this point.
00:23:37.780 You're absolutely right.
00:23:39.040 The other thing,
00:23:39.800 Isaac,
00:23:40.100 that you pointed out,
00:23:41.180 it was really
00:23:42.080 the media attention
00:23:42.980 that forced people
00:23:44.140 to pay attention
00:23:44.880 to this.
00:23:45.720 And I think
00:23:46.120 a lot of these universities,
00:23:47.220 you asked,
00:23:48.360 you know,
00:23:48.580 will they continue
00:23:49.340 doing this?
00:23:49.900 I think they will,
00:23:50.800 but they like to do it
00:23:52.200 under the cloak
00:23:53.160 of darkness.
00:23:54.140 They don't want
00:23:54.600 anybody to know about it.
00:23:55.980 They want to implement
00:23:56.720 these policies,
00:23:58.040 and when they're implemented,
00:23:59.860 then they're harder
00:24:00.580 to get rid of.
00:24:01.940 So it's about
00:24:03.200 shining a light
00:24:03.900 on this stuff
00:24:04.500 because otherwise,
00:24:05.500 if people are not aware,
00:24:06.740 if voters are not informed
00:24:08.120 what's happening
00:24:09.020 at our post-secondary schools,
00:24:11.380 secondary schools,
00:24:12.300 and elementary schools,
00:24:13.440 then they're not going
00:24:14.600 to do anything about it.
00:24:15.780 They're just going
00:24:16.220 to live in ignorance.
00:24:18.320 What's shocking,
00:24:19.540 Isaac,
00:24:20.020 is that
00:24:20.860 the Supreme Court
00:24:22.080 of Canada
00:24:22.540 has essentially
00:24:23.300 upheld a ruling
00:24:24.620 that allows
00:24:25.840 discrimination
00:24:26.620 against white people.
00:24:28.820 That's basically
00:24:29.420 what it is,
00:24:29.960 that you can't be,
00:24:31.080 you can't be racist,
00:24:33.080 essentially,
00:24:33.860 towards white people.
00:24:34.920 So DEI
00:24:35.800 has technically
00:24:36.480 allowed these policies
00:24:37.800 that are fundamentally
00:24:38.640 racist
00:24:40.020 at their core
00:24:41.500 are permitted.
00:24:42.780 So if the institutions
00:24:44.600 are infected
00:24:45.500 by this ideology,
00:24:46.580 I can't imagine
00:24:47.460 it will be vanquished
00:24:48.400 by one premier
00:24:49.860 saying something about it.
00:24:51.960 Yeah,
00:24:52.600 one thing I wanted to add
00:24:53.620 was touching on the racism.
00:24:55.380 Obviously,
00:24:55.940 DEI is one of the most
00:24:57.160 racist things
00:24:58.120 that can be,
00:24:58.620 not just on the hiring
00:24:59.900 perspective,
00:25:01.100 you're discriminating
00:25:02.620 against whites,
00:25:03.420 for example,
00:25:03.960 but you're really
00:25:05.120 fomenting racism
00:25:06.560 in your population
00:25:07.680 because think about it.
00:25:08.660 If you know
00:25:09.280 in your mind
00:25:09.940 that 90%
00:25:10.700 of medical students
00:25:12.140 are admitted
00:25:12.720 on DEI
00:25:13.520 qualities
00:25:15.100 and then you walk
00:25:16.120 into a doctor's office
00:25:17.100 and you see a minority,
00:25:18.380 the first thing
00:25:18.960 that's going to cross
00:25:19.500 your mind is,
00:25:20.260 uh-oh,
00:25:20.740 was this a DEI hire
00:25:21.860 who was not qualified
00:25:22.840 and doesn't know
00:25:23.580 what they're talking about
00:25:24.440 and is going to
00:25:25.680 ruin my health procedure
00:25:26.920 or do they actually
00:25:28.240 have the qualifications
00:25:29.800 they should
00:25:30.580 to be a doctor?
00:25:32.560 Yeah, Cosmin,
00:25:33.160 I've said that
00:25:33.600 there are two industries
00:25:34.500 where I think DEI,
00:25:35.980 well, DEI has no place
00:25:37.240 anywhere,
00:25:37.560 but there are two industries
00:25:38.380 you really don't want to have,
00:25:40.140 you really don't want DEI
00:25:41.080 to be involved in.
00:25:42.280 I would say that
00:25:43.220 the first is medicine
00:25:44.700 and the second is likely
00:25:46.540 in the airline business.
00:25:48.040 I don't want DEI pilots.
00:25:49.420 I want the best pilots possible.
00:25:52.120 Yeah, and we've seen
00:25:53.260 this narrative play out
00:25:54.480 in the United States.
00:25:55.420 There was a big debate
00:25:56.500 about the DEI measures
00:25:57.860 implemented by aviation companies
00:26:00.700 and it is truly frightening
00:26:03.200 and it's not just aviation, right?
00:26:04.940 Like it's these critical jobs
00:26:07.200 that are very high risk
00:26:09.140 and have a high potential
00:26:11.340 for dangerous outcomes
00:26:12.960 and it doesn't just put
00:26:14.840 the people working
00:26:15.740 those jobs at risk,
00:26:16.960 it puts everybody around them,
00:26:18.680 everybody employing
00:26:19.580 their services, etc.
00:26:21.640 and to focus on something
00:26:24.420 as ridiculous
00:26:25.380 as just your race
00:26:27.760 instead of the actual merit
00:26:30.320 and experience
00:26:31.480 and skills you provide
00:26:33.040 is just, to me, it's crazy.
00:26:35.700 I don't get it,
00:26:36.700 but there's obviously
00:26:37.780 an agenda behind this
00:26:39.480 and it seems like
00:26:40.420 the elite have wholeheartedly
00:26:42.520 bought into this.
00:26:44.020 So before we wrap it up,
00:26:45.520 I just want to make the audience
00:26:47.320 aware of what the system,
00:26:48.840 what system was in place
00:26:50.420 before it got removed
00:26:52.500 by TMU's medical school.
00:26:54.980 This is, by the way,
00:26:55.600 the first new medical school
00:26:56.880 in Canada or in Ontario,
00:26:58.720 I think in close to 100 years.
00:27:00.700 They decided the original plan
00:27:02.540 was to have 75%
00:27:04.440 of the applicants
00:27:05.920 selected from a pool
00:27:07.600 of Indigenous applicants,
00:27:09.900 Black applicants,
00:27:10.700 and then there's a third
00:27:11.440 open DEI category.
00:27:13.720 And then what is it?
00:27:15.780 The 25%,
00:27:17.660 the rest of the 25%
00:27:19.320 was going to be
00:27:20.860 general admissions.
00:27:23.160 So the actual
00:27:23.980 merit-based applicants
00:27:25.180 only made up a small fraction,
00:27:27.360 only were going to make up
00:27:28.420 a small fraction
00:27:29.120 of the first class
00:27:30.560 of the TMU medical school.
00:27:31.720 Thankfully,
00:27:32.400 for all of us,
00:27:33.400 that has been averted.
00:27:35.540 All right, everyone,
00:27:36.100 thank you for joining us.
00:27:37.180 And remember,
00:27:37.840 what you have just heard
00:27:38.840 is off the record.
00:27:40.020 Say, did you guys see
00:27:46.800 Heather McPherson,
00:27:48.060 the NDP member of parliament?
00:27:50.040 She was at a Wisconsin
00:27:51.560 polling station
00:27:52.480 on election day.
00:27:53.320 Now, what in the world
00:27:54.200 was she doing there?
00:27:55.340 What business does she have
00:27:56.340 at a Wisconsin polling station?
00:27:59.000 Yeah, Harrison,
00:27:59.760 the first thing I did
00:28:00.540 was look up
00:28:01.660 Wisconsin's voting laws
00:28:02.760 because, as you all know,
00:28:04.120 some states,
00:28:04.800 you don't need voter ID.
00:28:05.800 So I was like,
00:28:06.140 hmm, maybe she went there
00:28:06.880 to vote secretly.
00:28:07.680 But you do need voter ID
00:28:09.740 in Wisconsin.
00:28:10.480 So I don't think
00:28:11.060 she was there to vote.
00:28:12.860 Like I was saying,
00:28:13.740 maybe she was evaluating
00:28:15.500 the electoral processes
00:28:16.880 of the states
00:28:18.100 and going to bring
00:28:19.080 some of that back home.
00:28:20.760 I think it's just part
00:28:21.940 of this like need
00:28:23.320 by Canadian politicians
00:28:24.840 to be accepted
00:28:25.920 by their American counterparts.
00:28:27.920 They just want
00:28:28.880 to be the Democrats.
00:28:29.880 And in many ways,
00:28:30.820 they are like literally
00:28:31.720 their policies
00:28:32.580 and every the way
00:28:33.720 they conduct themselves
00:28:34.740 is just a copy of it.
00:28:36.000 And they just want
00:28:36.600 to be seen
00:28:37.340 as, you know,
00:28:37.980 on their side.
00:28:38.820 It's it's quite sad,
00:28:40.640 actually, you know,
00:28:41.240 seeing the stories
00:28:42.160 of Canadians
00:28:42.820 that like flew down
00:28:43.860 to California
00:28:44.700 or New York
00:28:45.340 just to go vote
00:28:46.060 for Trump
00:28:46.620 because they have
00:28:47.300 no voter ID laws.
00:28:49.080 I was like,
00:28:49.440 you know what?
00:28:49.860 That's not like
00:28:51.240 it's going to make
00:28:51.640 a big difference,
00:28:52.400 but still,
00:28:53.300 that's pretty funny.
00:28:54.100 You know,
00:28:54.740 just just why not?
00:28:55.980 If you're going to
00:28:56.660 you can vote for Trump
00:28:57.460 in a blue state
00:28:58.680 that doesn't accept
00:28:59.260 voter ID,
00:28:59.920 it's not like it's
00:29:00.300 going to make
00:29:00.600 a big difference.
00:29:01.280 It just exposes
00:29:02.280 how absolutely insane
00:29:03.700 that idea is.
00:29:04.640 Yeah,
00:29:07.020 in Canada,
00:29:07.580 we have voter ID.
00:29:08.940 Luckily,
00:29:09.500 you know,
00:29:09.920 if they could get rid
00:29:10.980 of it,
00:29:11.240 I'm sure they would.
00:29:13.260 Imagine that.
00:29:14.020 That would be something.
00:29:15.260 All right.
00:29:15.660 Well,
00:29:15.900 thank you all very much
00:29:16.820 for watching.
00:29:17.800 Enjoy the weekend
00:29:18.660 and we'll talk to you later.