Off the Record - Canadian lefties MELT DOWN after historic Trump win

00:00:00.000 Slow news week this week, eh, gents? 0.98

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, 0.76

00:02:36.860 and frankly, most of them were just completely contradictory 0.89

00:02:41.160 to reality.

00:02:41.920 For example, she said that Trump was running a propaganda campaign. 0.99

00:02:46.580 Of course, hypocritical, 0.78

00:02:48.040 given that the institutions all supported Kamala. 0.91

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. 0.93

00:04:23.780 This is out of an autocrat playbook. 0.66

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? 0.83

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 0.76

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. 0.64

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:13:56.720 and began attacking Hindu worshippers

00:14:00.040 with sticks, with flagpoles 0.84

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 0.55

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 0.98

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, 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.73

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 0.95

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 0.67

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. 0.83

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, 0.96

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 1.00

00:23:04.200 a stupid idea, 1.00

00:23:05.000 this is ridiculous. 1.00

00:23:06.380 Medical students 0.98

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 0.92

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 0.97

00:26:24.420 as ridiculous 1.00

00:26:25.380 as just your race 1.00

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%, 1.00

00:27:17.660 the rest of the 25% 0.88

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 1.00

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.

Off the Record - November 08, 2024

Canadian lefties MELT DOWN after historic Trump win

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