Off the Record - March 01, 2024


Canadians are finally REJECTING the woke agenda


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Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

207.53247

Word Count

10,297

Sentence Count

664

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

26


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 you were listening to a podcast I was on? Yeah, it was just the other day. Like it came up on my
00:00:04.180 like for you page on YouTube. I'm trying to think who it was, like some young podcaster. And he was
00:00:08.420 just asking you, you might remember who it is, just asking you about True North and sort of your
00:00:12.560 story and what you're doing over here. And then you mentioned that you were, and he said, oh,
00:00:17.600 you're a mom. And you're like, yeah, I'm actually expecting my fourth. And I was like, oh, I feel
00:00:20.260 like I missed the like announcement network or something. But. Well, that's the thing about
00:00:24.200 having like a remote office is like, if you guys saw me every day, you would know I was pregnant,
00:00:28.460 but because you're in Alberta and never see me, then you don't know. But yeah, actually it was
00:00:33.620 Aaron Peet. He's like a young up and coming podcaster in Coquitlam. Aaron Peet or Peek?
00:00:38.960 Peet, P-E-T-E. And his podcast is called Bigger Than Me. He interviews journalists. And I think
00:00:44.940 the typical podcast is like 30 minutes. And we went for like two hours because we were like
00:00:48.740 really disagreeing on a lot of things. It was fun. It was really, it was really a fun podcast.
00:00:53.820 Okay. I'll give him a little shout out then. Yeah, you should, you should actually go on his show.
00:00:57.380 I think he'd, he'd like to have you on. What did you guys agree about?
00:01:02.180 Well, well, so he's First Nation. So we talked about the unmarked grave story, which was fun.
00:01:07.160 We didn't, didn't quite see eye to eye there. And it's interesting because he's, he, he's not,
00:01:12.600 he's not like a liberal, but I think he has a lot more time for Dustin Trudeau than I did. And I was
00:01:17.400 pretty like frank about my criticisms of Trudeau, the legacy media. Like, yeah, we, we had a lot,
00:01:24.020 we had a lot to talk about. I recommend you go watch it. It was fun. Okay, guys, let's get this
00:01:29.200 started. Everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. Don't forget to like this video,
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00:01:45.680 five-star review. And finally, head on over to our website, tnc.news, so that you can sign up for
00:01:50.720 newsletter and never miss an episode. So we are back with another edition of Off the Record. Today,
00:01:56.160 I'm joined by Harrison Faulkner, who's a senior reporter here at Turnworth and the host of Ratioed.
00:02:01.440 And then also great to be joined by Rachel Emanuel, who is our Alberta reporter and the host of the
00:02:06.620 Alberta Report. Great to have both of you with us today. Happy to be here. Yeah, glad we could finally
00:02:12.840 make this work. I know we've got a lot juggling with kids' schedules and whatnot, but. Yeah, yeah,
00:02:19.860 well, obviously, very busy for me. But Rachel, you're also a new mom settling into that new role
00:02:25.660 as well. So thank you for taking the time today. So Rachel, I want to bring the first story that we
00:02:31.040 talked about here out to your neck of the woods. This is interesting that the town of Westlock, which
00:02:36.180 is a pretty small community north of Edmonton, they recently voted to ban pride flags and rainbows
00:02:42.940 from the crosswalk. So we've all seen this phenomenon creep up in recent years, where basically
00:02:48.400 they love to splatter this flag like everywhere they can. It's all over sidewalks. You know,
00:02:54.540 10 years ago, you used to see these crosswalks. You'd go to like a gay neighborhood in Toronto or
00:02:59.980 Vancouver. And somehow it's just like now it's everywhere. You see them in the suburbs, you see them
00:03:04.440 in small towns. Basically, I think every school and every municipality in Canada flies this flag for
00:03:10.400 the month of June, sometimes even longer. Well, you know, this one community has decided that they've
00:03:15.860 had enough. We're talking about a town of 4,800 people. And they had a plebiscite, and they just
00:03:22.160 voted no. 51% in favor of banning these things. And I guess the rest were opposed. So Rachel, what's
00:03:30.040 your take on this news story? Yeah, it is pretty funny. Westlock is a town north of Edmonton. It's
00:03:36.240 about one hour north of Edmonton. Just a small little place, super, you know, cute, like just a
00:03:40.660 small little town. The person behind this initiative was actually Benita Penderson. She's a huge organizer
00:03:45.600 in the Freedom Movement, pretty well known here in Alberta, and does some work out west generally as
00:03:51.000 well. So when she initially started on this, you know, people were making fun of her. No one thought that it was
00:03:55.540 going to pass or be successful. I believe she also ran for Westlock City Council and wasn't successful
00:04:00.000 in that effort. But, you know, continued with this efforts to ban pride flags on sidewalks and things
00:04:05.120 like that. And it passed. And I think everyone was pretty shocked. People definitely didn't see that
00:04:09.280 coming. But I think that just speaks to what you can accomplish if you're a good organizer. And if you
00:04:14.220 know how to get people out to the vote, I'm sure there's people in Westlock who weren't aware that this
00:04:18.560 was happening. And then there's people on the other side who are working hard to have their
00:04:22.780 objectives accomplished. So, you know, she's obviously a good organizer. She's been organizing
00:04:26.780 for lots of rallies across the province. She's definitely good at bringing people out. And
00:04:30.480 that's what we saw here, people of Westlock who oppose the pride flags that they have to walk
00:04:34.860 across. I guess they felt maybe it was a way of showing support for the trans movement because
00:04:39.660 that's really what pride has become about. It's not just about gay rights. It's really about trans
00:04:44.000 rights nowadays. And they've absolutely hijacked that whole movement. So, you know, people came out and
00:04:49.460 voted against it. So I think it's a pretty funny story. And, you know, congrats to Benito on having
00:04:54.600 that passed. Yeah, it's funny. And Harrison, I'll let you jump in a second. But, you know,
00:04:58.760 originally it was a rainbow flag and it kind of just meant like, I guess, inclusiveness towards gay
00:05:03.540 people. And it was actually like not an ugly flag, right? It's just like kind of a beautiful flag.
00:05:09.160 Like my kids love rainbows. It's like all the beautiful colors. And then a couple of years ago,
00:05:13.600 the flag itself just kind of, I don't know, it just like went crazy. And they started adding all
00:05:19.840 these different symbols that meant different things. So I think there's now like a trans
00:05:23.400 component. There's a Black Lives Matter component. I think there's a First Nations component. So every
00:05:28.360 time there's like a big woke scandal, they just like further change this flag and make it even more
00:05:34.040 hardcore left wing. What's your take on all this, Harrison?
00:05:39.320 Yeah, I think the flag is going to just keep evolving until the point where it's just
00:05:42.520 unrecognizable. They've got every sort of leftist symbol on there somewhere.
00:05:46.400 But the reality is this flag is everywhere. You can't go, you can't live in Canada without seeing
00:05:51.740 it basically every day. It's on every public school in Ontario, basically any small town in Ontario,
00:05:57.120 they've got these pride crosswalks. I'm surprised they even let it go to a plebiscite, but I think
00:06:02.000 this is the way to go. If you put this to a vote in small towns across the country, I guarantee you,
00:06:07.900 and if Canadians know what's happening, they're going to vote against it. So let the plebiscites happen.
00:06:12.100 Let the people decide what they want. My family spends a lot of time in Thornbury,
00:06:16.660 which is a smaller town about two hours north of Toronto, and they have these pride crosswalks
00:06:22.360 all over the town. And they've got these tire marks through it, through these pride crosswalks.
00:06:27.660 We were told that that's actually a hate crime. If you burn your tires over the pride crosswalk,
00:06:33.420 that happens all the time. So I don't know what kind of respect it shows to the pride community,
00:06:40.580 if you want to call it that, by having these on the ground so cars can drive over them and people
00:06:44.600 can walk over them. But hey, regardless, put this to a vote. I promise the Canadians will vote against
00:06:50.540 this if they have a chance to. It's just not going to fly.
00:06:53.640 I think you're right. And I don't think that it's like a deep-seated sign of homophobia. I don't think
00:06:58.140 that people in Westlock voted against it because they hate gay people or anything like that. I think
00:07:01.960 they're just tired of this stuff being shoved down our throats. So one of my favorite accounts over on
00:07:07.360 X is this account called End Wokeness. And they shared a clip of a guy basically doing everything
00:07:13.340 he could to avoid having to step on these. You can see they've painted some stairs there.
00:07:19.000 And the guy is pulling himself up the poles in the center to avoid having to step on this thing.
00:07:25.540 And the caption said, this dude is all of us right now. So I think that there's something broader
00:07:29.460 happening beyond just a small town in northern Alberta, where people are just bloody sick of this
00:07:36.240 stuff getting rammed down our throats. Rachel, is that your feeling as well? Or do you disagree?
00:07:43.700 Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, I think depending on the municipality or the city where this is being
00:07:48.040 voted on, we're going to see different results. Obviously, in this case, like I said, I think it
00:07:51.340 came down to the organizing. We did see something similar happen in Norwich, Ontario a few years ago.
00:07:57.880 The City Hall Norwich is a very conservative area. It's a very Christian area. And I know there's a high
00:08:02.540 number of Dutch reformed individuals who live there. And the city council had actually passed
00:08:07.860 something that on crown land, or you can't raise flags that are not Canadian flags. And they did
00:08:13.500 actually backtrack on that following backlash. They said people of the town can request specific
00:08:19.460 flags to be raised. And they included the pride flag as one of the flags that they were able to raise
00:08:23.520 along with the Netherlands flag, because there is a high amount of Dutch people living there. So,
00:08:29.340 you know, it was an effort that they had tried. And I think they sort of withered under the
00:08:32.920 backlash. I do think if you're going to implement these types of policies, then at least have
00:08:37.000 the backbone to stand on it following. But I guess the dichotomy there is that it was city council
00:08:42.380 that passed it in here. As we mentioned, it was actually people coming out to vote for this
00:08:45.700 plebiscite. So slightly, slightly different there. But, you know, I think we just have to be in this
00:08:50.120 age of, yeah, there is cancel culture, people are going to be offended. But if you're going to say
00:08:54.400 something, think it through before you say it, and then stand your ground afterwards. Don't don't
00:08:57.940 apologize for people getting upset. That's exactly what they want. And we're never going to accomplish
00:09:01.820 anything in this country. And Candace, we talked about this before. But like this whole thing about
00:09:08.040 raising other flags that are not the Canadian flag, I'm just sick of it. Like there's no reason for
00:09:12.780 a government building to raise a foreign flag, Ukrainian flag, whatever. I don't understand
00:09:18.260 why we're even allowing that this would never be the case. In any previous time in any previous era,
00:09:23.980 except for the era we're living in now, where we've got the rainbow flag on public schools,
00:09:28.080 the orange every child matters flag on public schools, you know, foreign flags. Why can't
00:09:33.720 the Canadian flag, I know it's cliche, but doesn't the Canadian flag represent all of those values at
00:09:38.020 this point? It's just strange to me that we're allowing this to happen. I'm just sick of it.
00:09:42.440 Yeah, no, you're right. Like the idea behind the Canadian flag is that it represents all of us.
00:09:47.580 And in within that, we're all included in it. So it's a flag that is there to unite us.
00:09:53.240 That is the purpose of a flag. It's a purpose of national symbols. And instead, you know,
00:09:57.420 especially in the aftermath of the unmarked grave story, where all the Canadian flags at schools and
00:10:02.960 Canadian government buildings across the country were down at half staff. And then instead,
00:10:08.800 you saw them flying these rainbow flags, which, I mean, I understand that they fly them to make
00:10:15.060 people feel welcome and comfortable or safe or whatever they say. But it actually is quite a
00:10:19.640 divisive flag because not everybody agrees. Not everybody feels a part of that, right? Like
00:10:23.540 you have a flag that's divided up. So it represents gay people. It represents trans people. It represents
00:10:28.220 First Nations people. It represents Black people. But it doesn't represent the rest of us. And in some
00:10:32.640 ways, it's like a big middle finger at the rest of us. And yet we're supposed to like honor and revere it.
00:10:39.280 Final comment on this. Harrison, you mentioned about how, you know, you see tire marks. And I've seen videos of
00:10:45.940 this where trucks kind of purposefully create black tire skids on these crosswalks because, again,
00:10:51.360 they're sick of it. It reminds me, it's almost the opposite way of looking at it. But in Iran,
00:10:56.980 what the government does, so Iran hates the United States. They hate Israel. It's like they're avowed
00:11:01.820 sworn enemies. And so they'll paint large American flags and Israeli flags on the sidewalk so that people
00:11:08.980 have to walk over those flags because it's seen as such a sign of disrespect to that country
00:11:13.720 to have someone tread on the flag. And it's interesting because these clips come up and you
00:11:19.740 can see how students in defiance of the Iranian regime will go to a great effort to avoid stepping
00:11:27.280 on the flags because they actually like America and they actually like Israel. And the country that
00:11:32.140 they don't like, the country that they hate, is their own country. They hate their own government.
00:11:36.380 And so they do exactly the opposite of what the government expects. And so in that clip,
00:11:42.060 if it continued to play, you'll see that students were kind of like walking around it,
00:11:47.100 walking along the edge to avoid stepping on the flag itself. So it's like the opposite, right? In Canada,
00:11:54.120 we show like that we love gay people by putting their flag on a crosswalk, which would then we all
00:11:59.780 step on and we drive across. Whereas, you know, in Iran, that would be seen as like a huge sign of
00:12:05.200 disrespect towards that community. I just find that like an interesting perspective, even maybe on
00:12:11.420 like, I don't know, the honor that we show to a country, our own country, or lack thereof. Final
00:12:19.280 word to you, Harrison. Yeah, I mean, I think it just shows you that this whole ideology is simply about
00:12:26.620 ramming it into people's faces, forcing everyone to just accept it, and not allowing anybody to
00:12:32.220 disagree. If you disagree with, if you disagree with wanting to see the pride flag on a university
00:12:37.480 campus on a crosswalk, you're some sort of homophobe, you're a transphobe. It's all about
00:12:42.380 that imagery. The imagery is important. And they, the left, the very radical left know that that's
00:12:47.540 why they're forcing it on people. And I guess it's just the difference between the East and the West,
00:12:52.100 right? The different mindset. But the reality is, the radical left know exactly what they're doing.
00:12:56.620 They use imagery to their advantage. And this is exactly, this is an example of it. Just forcing
00:13:02.060 people to accept it. Yeah, forcing it down our throats. Well, speaking of all of this sort of
00:13:06.740 trans mayhem and craziness, Rachel, you flagged the story you wanted to talk about. Dylan Mulvaney,
00:13:12.440 who is a famous, I guess, popular, infamous influencer, I guess you call him. He's a male who used to be a
00:13:22.220 Broadway star. And then he decided, he woke up one day and decided to be a woman. And he started
00:13:27.420 showcasing his journey into womanhood, I guess. And basically, his journey into womanhood was like
00:13:36.760 mocking women. Like it was, it was so over the top, like, I'm a woman, that means I cried seven times
00:13:42.820 today, or whatever he was saying. And then he ended up getting sponsored by Bud Light. Conservatives and
00:13:49.960 Americans didn't like that. So they issued like a mass boycott of Bud Light for having this trans
00:13:56.380 figure being their, you know, the face of the movement. And now Dylan Mulvaney is back. He was
00:14:03.340 on the cover of Forbes. And I guess he's named one of the 30 under 30. So Rachel, I'll let you
00:14:11.000 take over this story here. Yeah, super silly. He absolutely mocks women's. I think some of his
00:14:16.560 other videos are him sort of frolicking in the forest with his heels on. And then he sees a bug
00:14:22.160 and he's talking about how afraid of the bug he is. Just an absolute caricature of what woman,
00:14:26.820 what it is to be a woman, of course. So this story has been kind of going around online now that he's
00:14:31.320 been named one of the 30 under 30 influential people. And Mark Cuban came out in his defense and
00:14:37.240 said, let's not try to cancel him and said his views aren't, you know, harmful or dangerous.
00:14:41.980 And here he is. His quote was, how about you just let people live their own lives and stop trying
00:14:46.800 to cancel people? So of course, you know, Dr. Jordan Peterson saw this and had to weigh in and
00:14:51.520 it became a big thing online. And I just couldn't help but notice the story and people coming to his
00:14:55.940 defense and saying, well, don't try to cancel him. It's this is not somebody who is trying to live
00:15:00.380 a private life. This is somebody who really wants the attention. He really wants to be in the public eye.
00:15:06.240 He wants to be somebody. And he obviously wasn't finding a lot of success through any actual
00:15:11.520 merit or skills. So he decided to find that success in becoming a caricature of what it is to be a
00:15:16.380 woman with his ridiculous TikTok posts. And he's absolutely desired and craved all of the attention
00:15:21.540 that he's gotten. And so it's absolutely fair that we would be able to comment on this and comment on
00:15:26.340 how really disgusting and how evil it is, what he's doing. And of course, the way that he's misleading
00:15:31.960 young girls. He has a huge following of preteen girls who are often commenting about his body and
00:15:38.200 about how skinny he is. Of course, he doesn't. He's very thin. He doesn't have the body of a
00:15:42.280 woman. He doesn't have curves. He doesn't have breasts. And so now all these young women are
00:15:45.960 seeing this and, you know, they're thinking, oh, how can I look like this? Well, maybe I'll have to get
00:15:50.060 my my breasts removed. So, of course, this is somebody who's desired to be in the public eye.
00:15:54.240 He's gone to great lengths to do so. And I think it was right and fair that we would be able to
00:15:59.160 comment on this. Well, of course, it's kind of the trick that the media like to play. It's like they put
00:16:04.420 someone out front and center. And then if we notice it and we comment on it, then they'll say
00:16:09.760 like, oh, how dare you criticize and comment on this? This person just wants to be left alone.
00:16:14.420 It's like, you know, no, no, he's on the front cover of Forbes magazine and named a 30 under 30.
00:16:20.440 Like it's insulting to all of us. Harrison, what's your take? I mean, in a way, this guy is pretty
00:16:27.540 influential, right? Just his mere presence nearly brought down a major beer brand. So that is some level
00:16:33.820 of influence, maybe not the influence they're trying to portray, but he nearly brought down
00:16:38.020 Bud Light by just simply being a brand ambassador for them. So, I mean, that's pretty influential,
00:16:43.040 right? You know, the reality is I find it interesting that actually Bud Light has now
00:16:46.560 gone on this complete, you know, rebranding effort to try and make themselves appeal back to their core
00:16:52.500 audience. They've signed a deal with Shane Gillis, the comedian. They've signed a deal with UFC and Dana
00:16:57.660 White. And now Dana White is like saying Bud Light is the most patriotic brand. If you want to be a
00:17:02.400 patriot, you should be drinking Bud Light. So I guess in a way, in some weird way, this guy is pretty
00:17:08.620 influential. He nearly brought down Anheuser-Busch and tanked their stock for quite a while. So maybe not the
00:17:14.320 way Forbes is trying to get at it, but, you know, he is influential.
00:17:19.300 Well, and I think Dr. Peterson hits on a deeper point here with that tweet that he said that Dylan Mulvaney
00:17:25.480 popularized sterilization and mutilation for his own self-aggrandizement. So here's a guy who clearly just wants
00:17:34.180 to be famous. I think that we live in an age of influencers and people just want to get, like, more eyeballs
00:17:40.460 and more views on their TikTok and to somehow make a living out of that, which Dylan Mulvaney certainly has done.
00:17:46.700 But in the meantime, to your point, Rachel, I mean, he's promoting totally unrealistic beauty standards
00:17:53.420 because you're right. You know, he didn't go through female puberty, so he doesn't have the body of a
00:17:58.440 woman. He has the body of a man. And, you know, maybe because he's so thin that some women think
00:18:04.620 that's beautiful, but it isn't. And what is he also doing, right? He's taking hormones that will
00:18:09.780 sterilize himself. I don't know that he's taken the leap to do any kinds of surgeries, but that is
00:18:16.480 sort of the same pathway that we're talking about and we've been talking about in Alberta here. You
00:18:20.680 know, the idea you're sterilizing yourself, you're mutilating your body, you're potentially removing
00:18:25.660 your breasts and your genitals if you're a woman or if you're a man. And, you know, what is this saying
00:18:31.720 to a generation of confused young people? Like, the way to go if you don't feel comfortable in your
00:18:37.200 body is just to, like, change to a different body? I mean, what a terrible, terrible message to send
00:18:43.600 to young people. Rachel, what do you think? Yeah, no, absolutely. Honestly, like, my heart
00:18:48.060 breaks for a lot of the young girls growing up in today's society. Like, it was difficult enough for
00:18:52.780 me when I was a preteen and in those early preteen years are constantly being bombarded with images of
00:18:58.840 unrealistic beauty standards because of all the editing that's done to women to make their skin look
00:19:03.160 perfect and to make them look thin and curvy. And I think when I was growing up, it was a little more
00:19:06.940 moving into, you know, the Kardashians had become big. There was Beyonce. So there's more acceptance
00:19:11.480 for that curvy body. But nowadays, it's taking a look of a very thin or even prepubescent male of
00:19:17.420 this really thin body and saying this is the ideal standards for young women and for women in general.
00:19:22.940 And it's absolutely unrealistic. That is not what a woman's body looked like. And in addition,
00:19:27.480 now there's this big phase of ozempic going on in Hollywood. And we're seeing women that did once
00:19:31.640 have really curvy body all of a sudden being very, very stick thin again. So it is very difficult to be
00:19:36.360 growing up today. I can't imagine seeing all these images constantly. I think there's a real need for
00:19:40.980 parents to be aware of what's on their kids' phones, what they're seeing every day, because it's just so
00:19:44.940 damaging for these young girls. And, you know, at the same time, young men and boys, of course,
00:19:49.180 are being presented with these images of, oh, well, maybe you're in the wrong body. You know,
00:19:52.660 maybe you could be a girl. I think we're seeing it a little more that it's young girls who want to
00:19:58.200 transition to be boys at a younger age and then maybe older men who are transitioning to be women. I feel like
00:20:02.420 the trends move in that direction. But in general, it's just a very difficult time to be growing up
00:20:06.980 with all these really evil and confusing messages being constantly hammered at kids.
00:20:12.300 And what's going on with Mark Cuban all of a sudden? He's defending DEI and the NBA and diversity.
00:20:18.720 And now he's defending Dylan Mulvaney. Like, I didn't know that this guy was some super,
00:20:22.260 you know, woke activist. I didn't think that was his brand. But for whatever reason,
00:20:25.960 he's kind of gone down this path. And I'm pretty sure the market would indicate the other way.
00:20:30.360 He's supposed to be a good businessman. And he's now going down the path, which is no longer
00:20:35.000 popular. It's very strange. I don't know what I don't know what compelled him to all of a sudden
00:20:39.080 do all this. No, you're right. Like it's sort of like the zeitgeist has shifted, right? It's like
00:20:44.000 during the COVID and the early 2020s, everyone was woke. Everything was woke. Woke corporations,
00:20:49.980 woke government, lockdowns, like Black Lives Matter, everything. And I almost think like since
00:20:54.500 Elon Musk purchased Twitter, there's been kind of a rival, like all of a sudden,
00:20:58.360 Jordan Peterson is like the coolest guy in the world, even though he's like a cranky old Canadian,
00:21:03.620 you know, university professor. But, you know, they've kind of like made conservatism cool. And
00:21:10.180 we keep waiting on all these issues. And it's so unpopular to take the route that Mark Cuban has
00:21:17.100 that he's almost become like a, he's nominated himself as like a punching bag. I wanted to keep
00:21:23.960 on this topic of transgenderism, because obviously, Rachel, the big news still out of Alberta is the
00:21:30.480 courage of your premier to introduce a policy that that few in Canada dared to even talk about. And,
00:21:37.820 you know, since then, we've seen the Conservative Party of Canada basically wholeheartedly embrace
00:21:43.120 the policy. We see more people speak out in favor of it. And with that, I think we've seen the left
00:21:48.840 wing media and different forces really go into overdrive to try to demonize Daniel Smith and
00:21:55.020 that policy. And I think this sort of reached peak level in the last few days. So there's a story that
00:22:01.440 came out of Alberta, an Alberta doctor says that the province's new policies, so Daniel Smith's new
00:22:07.460 policies contributed to the suicide of his transgender nephew. So this is a terribly sad story.
00:22:15.440 But the fact that they're pointing the finger at Premier Smith is pretty appalling. So I'll just
00:22:21.560 read a bit from the story. It says, an Alberta family is asking for a sit down with Premier Daniel
00:22:25.480 Smith after claiming her proposed transgender policies led to the death of their loved ones.
00:22:30.520 Dr. David Kagan, a professor at the University of Calgary, wants to meet with the premier in hopes
00:22:34.600 that she will change course on recent controversial policies impacting trans people. And basically,
00:22:41.200 throughout the course of the story, we learned that this nephew of his was mentally ill. It's
00:22:47.860 interesting because they sort of, the news story paints it as if he's a child, as if he would be
00:22:52.660 impacted, because of course, the policy is only aimed at people under the age of 18, so children.
00:22:57.880 Later in the story, they admit, though, that the nephew that took his life was a 37-year-old man. So not
00:23:05.880 not exactly a child that it would even be impacted by this policy, but they're still blaming the
00:23:10.720 premier, which was part of a kind of a really ugly trend that we see in the media where they're
00:23:15.100 weaponizing suicide. So in the aftermath of this policy, basically, the stat that everyone kept
00:23:21.100 saying is like, if you don't let these trans kids transition, they're going to kill themselves. It's
00:23:25.680 like a threat. It's like they're weaponizing death and suicide to push their woke agenda.
00:23:31.540 Rachel, did you hear about the story? What was your thoughts on all this?
00:23:34.560 Yeah, I mean, you've sort of hit the nail on the head there. This individual is 37 years old. He's
00:23:39.500 not actually being impacted by the policies that the premier announced. That's like me saying,
00:23:44.020 oh, you know, I'm really fearful for my pension with this discussion about an Alberta pension plan,
00:23:49.740 you know, because the NDP are fear-mongering and saying, oh, for people that are nearing
00:23:53.120 retirement, you might not have a pension. And that's like me saying, oh, you know, I can't go on.
00:23:57.220 This is too much for me. No, that's ridiculous. I won't be affected by that for decades. And in the case of
00:24:02.300 this individual who committed suicide, which is absolutely tragic, you know, he was not impacted
00:24:07.140 by the policies that the premier announced. He was long past those days. So it's not even like
00:24:10.460 something he's eventually waiting for happen because he wasn't in the timeline of that. And
00:24:15.180 also with the premier's announcement, the one thing that doesn't get mentioned very often, and I
00:24:19.320 personally didn't agree with this part of the policy, is that she actually announced that she
00:24:23.140 would be bringing in doctors to the province to help with those people who did have transgender
00:24:27.960 surgeries so that they would have aftercare because with these surgeries, there's so many
00:24:32.320 complications and those complications can be fatal and they can actually destroy a person's life
00:24:37.200 because we're really dealing with experimental science here. Like this is not something that's
00:24:41.960 been done for many years. So, you know, doctors who are doing this, there's all sorts of problems
00:24:46.020 that arise. And she said, we're going to have doctors come and deal with the aftercare. So
00:24:49.920 this individual would actually have had more care under Danielle Smith's policy. And the news story
00:24:55.180 just completely frames it, you know, at the headline that he's a nephew. You think this is a young kid
00:24:59.440 who's committed suicide. They've completely missed the story. They've completely and purposefully
00:25:03.640 mischaracterized the premier's policies on this issue. What do you think, Harrison?
00:25:08.900 Yeah, well, they buried the lead, of course. They tried to, as Rachel said, try to make it seem as
00:25:12.880 though this is a transgender child. I think this points to the reality that actually mental illness
00:25:18.120 plays a significant part in this and protecting children before they make a decision that could lead to
00:25:24.160 severe mental illness is actually the right thing to do. I find it completely disgusting that
00:25:28.900 someone would use the tragedy, the suicide of a family member, a close family member,
00:25:34.040 to try and push a political message, to get his name out into the news, and to try and use it to
00:25:40.060 paint the premier as someone who has caused this. It's awful. And I really think that this is the
00:25:46.940 sort of thing that needs to be stopped. The media also played into this as well. It's not as though
00:25:51.180 it was just this guy using his nephew to try and push a political message. The media is also
00:25:56.520 using this tragedy to try and push an anti-Daniel Smith message. It's just, it's disgusting. The
00:26:01.840 media should know better. But of course, they don't actually care because this is all about the trend we
00:26:05.560 see in activism journalism. You know, this is exactly what we should come to expect from the CTV
00:26:10.960 and the CBC and the like. This is just par for the course with them.
00:26:15.000 No, you're right. I don't think there's anything more despicable and disgusting than the media
00:26:19.140 trying to glorify or trying to use the death of a child to push through a public policy. Like I
00:26:25.360 remember, again, a story out of Alberta during COVID, there was a child that died. Sadly, tragically,
00:26:32.120 any child that dies tragically, the child died with stage, he died of stage four cancer. I can't
00:26:37.440 remember exactly the kind of cancer. But anyway, he also tested positive for COVID like the day before
00:26:42.380 he died. And so when he died, the all the news coverage just said like Canada's youngest COVID
00:26:47.560 victim, this like young child has died of COVID. And his family came out with like a long Facebook
00:26:52.400 post saying enough. He did not die of COVID, right? He's been in the hospital. He was very sick.
00:26:57.680 He died of this cancer. He just happened to have COVID the day before he died, like that he got it
00:27:02.620 in the hospital or whatever. And that was sort of the beginning of when we started to know the
00:27:06.700 difference between like dying with COVID versus dying of COVID. But just the way the media presented it,
00:27:11.760 like it was really a push to try to get kids to get vaccinated. And it was just so gross. It was so gross.
00:27:16.680 There was another story this week where the media did the exact same thing. So we saw the online
00:27:20.900 harm bill get introduced by the Trudeau government, really sweeping censorship and mass surveillance
00:27:27.160 from the government. There's a small component that would also protect children from sexual
00:27:32.560 exploitation. And so what did the media do? They went and found the mother of Amanda Todd. I don't
00:27:39.920 know, you two are both pretty young. So you might not even remember the Amanda Todd story. But back in
00:27:45.600 2012, so we're talking about something that happened 12 years ago, this young woman tragically
00:27:50.260 took her own life. She committed suicide because she was being bullied online, basically, over sexual
00:27:57.560 images that she herself had posted. Like she basically got on webcam, took off her clothes,
00:28:03.500 people screenshotted it, used it to tease her or to mock her. And sadly, she ended up taking her own
00:28:08.260 life. But the media tracked down the mother to do all these interviews. So the CBC trotted her out
00:28:13.580 saying that this online harms bill could have saved her life. That's the headline right there.
00:28:19.400 If Trudeau had had this censorship regime back in place in 2012, guys, it could have saved her life,
00:28:25.260 which is really saying something. And then the Canadian press also wrote a story about it. So we
00:28:30.480 saw it over in on CTV. But really, just the idea that that you would use suicide to try to push through
00:28:37.960 a Trudeau policy. I just think it's one of the most appalling things that I've seen the media do in a
00:28:41.980 while. Rachel, what's your what's your thoughts on all this? Honestly, I just I'm so desensitized
00:28:47.540 to stuff that the legacy media does that it takes a lot for me to be like, wow, look, I can't believe
00:28:51.740 they did that. I would say one of the things that I couldn't help but notice with the online harms
00:28:55.640 bill is, you know, maybe there is some good stuff on there about protecting children. I think we can
00:29:00.260 all applaud efforts to protect children from real predators online. But any efforts that they did for
00:29:06.420 or any of the good that was in this bill has been completely done by all their efforts to
00:29:10.220 really clamp down on free speech that should not have been in the bill at all. They didn't need
00:29:14.420 the bits about, you know, what you can say online and the criminality involved with that. They should
00:29:19.060 have just stuck to protecting children on the internet and not added in all those other things.
00:29:24.760 And now the chances that this bill is going to get passed, I think, is slim. And it's certainly
00:29:28.900 going to get bogged down in committee. It's going to get bogged in in the House. And there's going to
00:29:31.840 be a lot of effort to amend this bill. And I think that any good work could have has been now
00:29:35.980 evaded and the liberals should have really just stuck to the issue. But they just can't help
00:29:39.280 themselves. Any opportunity they have, they're looking to clamp down on free speech and make
00:29:44.080 life more difficult for Christians and people who have strong religious beliefs and conservatives
00:29:48.940 in this country to push through their own agenda and to make it impossible for people to even
00:29:52.880 disagree with them. Yeah, you're absolutely right. It should be separated into two bills,
00:29:57.080 to say the least. I think it will pass, though. I think even the conservatives will have a hard time
00:30:01.220 voting against this bill just because of those online components, right? Like they've really,
00:30:05.600 the media have really done Trudeau's work in presenting this bill as a bill to protect kids
00:30:11.160 from predators on the internet, which I mean, even my personal view is like, that's the job
00:30:16.080 of the parents. That's my job and my husband's job to keep our kids offline, keep them from doing the
00:30:20.580 kinds of antisocial things that sadly, tragically, Amanda Todd chose to do. You know, they had her
00:30:26.740 mother on these shows talking about how somehow it was the government's fault that she killed
00:30:30.580 herself. No, she made really bad choices. She didn't have parents in her life that were doing
00:30:35.120 what they should have. Yes, there were some predators that were doing awful things to her.
00:30:40.400 But anyway, I think that the way that they've painted it, they've done, liberals show good at
00:30:46.080 this, they've created this wedge issue, that now they'll say to the conservatives, you know,
00:30:50.480 do you really even care about kids and protecting kids? How are you going to vote against this bill?
00:30:53.860 Harrison, what do you think?
00:30:54.660 Well, I remember the Amanda Todd story, because when we were when we were in middle school,
00:30:59.260 they were bringing that up to us as sort of a lesson and to be careful about the internet. I
00:31:03.620 remember hearing about that quite a lot. This is really, this is really dangerous stuff, because
00:31:08.960 I made sure to go back to the original online harms bill, the original one that was proposed in
00:31:13.800 June of 2021. There is not a single mention of the word children, let alone in any interest in
00:31:19.560 trying to protect children from online exploitation. The government has no interest in that,
00:31:24.420 because if they did, it wouldn't have taken them that it wouldn't have taken them this long to
00:31:28.160 actually protect children online. So maybe if it really could have saved her life, they could have
00:31:31.920 done it in 2021. That was never their intention. They had to find a way to push this bill through
00:31:36.940 by adding all of this, all of these protections for children, which we all agree with. I think we
00:31:41.740 can all say that actually, yes, there should be protections for children to avoid exploitation
00:31:46.120 online. The government doesn't care about that, because if they did, they would have put it in the
00:31:49.580 original bill. They basically took the original C36 and took all of the dangerous, authoritarian,
00:31:57.200 dystopian legislation that would basically create a digital police state in this country, which could
00:32:02.880 put you under house arrest for a pre-crime, right? Which could put you in life in prison for violating
00:32:08.180 hate speech online. They've taken that and packaged it with this nice glossy finish for protecting
00:32:14.380 children. And they'll use that as a political weapon to attack conservatives to say, you don't care about
00:32:19.120 children online. You don't care about protecting children. It's perhaps one of the most disgusting things
00:32:24.300 the federal government has done. And that is a tough bar to pass for this government. But this is, this is
00:32:29.500 unbelievable. And Candace, I'm, I really hope that the conservatives don't vote for this. I think to be
00:32:34.580 quite honest, if the conservatives vote for this bill, that's going to be the final straw for many Canadians, it will
00:32:39.940 really expose the conservatives for either being politically correct, not wanting to rock the boat,
00:32:45.900 not wanting to have real, real debate. I mean, we've seen it with bill C4. We've seen with other
00:32:51.160 bills that conservatives have voted for, but if they vote for this, this is going to be something
00:32:55.240 that exposes the conservatives. I'm hoping they don't. I'm hoping Rachel's prediction is more accurate
00:33:00.120 that actually this gets bogged down, that this gets stuck in debate. And hopefully, you know, even NDP
00:33:05.320 members might vote against it. But this is something very sick to see the see the liberals use children
00:33:11.520 this way to push censorship. It's unbelievable. Well, and even just the way that the Trudeau
00:33:16.660 government presented it, right, when the justice minister got out there and presented the bill, I think the
00:33:21.320 first like 30 minutes of the press conference were all talking about families that had experienced sexual
00:33:27.600 exploitation for their children. Like, that was all they talked about. That was the entire emphasis. Most of the
00:33:33.320 news stories about this have been about, you know, protecting kids in that aspect. And only really
00:33:39.540 like in the opinion columns and the analysis, you get people pointing out sort of how terrifying
00:33:46.220 some of these measures are on the free speech side. I don't want to be too cynical. I think you're
00:33:51.680 right. I think that the conservatives ultimately will oppose this bill, but they're going to make it hard
00:33:55.920 because, you know, you've seen the conservatives in the past. They're the party that are the ones that
00:34:01.600 are harsh on pedophiles and want to lock these people up and keep them off the streets and keep
00:34:06.300 them away from kids. And the liberals have been the policy, the party, more of like a revolving
00:34:10.760 prison door and allowing people second and third and fourth chances. And so it's really interesting
00:34:15.720 that they've taken this component. You're right. Harrison is super manipulative. Exactly what we would
00:34:19.940 expect from the liberals, exactly what we expect from the media to cover for them and make it seem
00:34:24.720 entirely like it's one thing when really we're talking about something totally different. Rachel,
00:34:31.040 did you have any final thoughts on this topic? Yeah, just that I agree with Harrison's points.
00:34:34.940 Like this is a big issue for the conservative party. And I think if they flop on this, a lot of
00:34:39.860 people, because, you know, Pierre Paulyev is very popular, but especially here in Alberta, I have a lot
00:34:44.520 of people asking me, is he the real deal? Because there's just been so much mistrust with the
00:34:49.680 conservative party. We've had a series of bad leaders. Aaron O'Toole, you know, famously lied to
00:34:54.100 conservatives about what he would do once he became leader and then backtracked on those promises.
00:34:57.940 Andrew Scheer wasn't as bad, but he wasn't much of a leader and he didn't really have a lot of
00:35:01.140 original ideas and definitely didn't have much of a backbone as the conservative leader. So people
00:35:06.080 are really looking to know that they can trust and believe in the conservative party. Again, I think
00:35:09.840 that Pierre Paulyev has finally come out in support of women and in support of children and is finally
00:35:15.420 taking a stand against the transgender issues. As we mentioned earlier, that, of course, he only did once he
00:35:20.140 saw that it was safe to do so because Alberta Premier Danielle Smith did it first. We see
00:35:24.080 that with Pierre Paulyev time and time again, he comes out and speaks up on an issue once he knows
00:35:27.900 that it's safe to do so. I'm sure that they're getting lots of pulling in the background. He's
00:35:31.380 deciding which way to lean. So we'll see what he does here. I mean, those have been good things.
00:35:35.080 He's still not strong on Ukraine. We're still sending tons of money to Ukraine. He said he wants
00:35:38.420 us to send even more to Ukraine. He hasn't said we need a huge cap on immigration. Those are some of
00:35:43.380 the biggest problems facing our country right now. So the conservative is still kind of walking a fine
00:35:47.540 line. I think we can all agree that a conservative government would be good for this country,
00:35:51.300 but Pierre Paulyev is still going to have to earn that trust back from conservatives.
00:35:55.280 Yeah, that's a good way of thinking about it. I certainly do think that if Aaron O'Toole was
00:35:58.760 leader of this party, it would be a different outcome when it came to this particular bill,
00:36:03.040 the all-on-run harms bill. I don't know. I have a soft spot for Andrew Scheer. I mean,
00:36:06.880 it's interesting because, you know, he didn't quite make it as leader. He still got more votes than
00:36:12.040 Justin Trudeau in the 2019 election. And now you see him leading the charge with the
00:36:16.460 arrive scam committee hearings. And he's just like a star over there doing his job and holding
00:36:22.760 the liberals account and really unearthing some pretty damaging, scandalous things that liberals
00:36:26.760 did during COVID. But overall, I think you're right. I think that conservatives need to be
00:36:31.720 vocal to maintain, to make sure that the party and the leader knows that he can't take our votes for
00:36:39.820 granted. Final story, guys, I want to move on to. This happened a couple of weeks ago, but we saw
00:36:46.500 that Google introduced its new Gemini AI program. It was a total train wreck. It was just one of the
00:36:52.920 absolute worst rollouts of new technology that I have ever seen in my entire life. And, you know,
00:36:57.980 we're talking about one of the biggest companies in the world, like a company worth, I think, a trillion
00:37:02.260 dollars that controls so much of the internet when it comes to search and advertising. And what
00:37:09.220 happens, they introduce this AI tool that I guess maybe they programmed it to hate white people or
00:37:16.240 to pretend white people didn't exist or to erase white people from our history books. And so what
00:37:22.420 did we see? People were playing around with it and sharing their images on social media. But basically,
00:37:27.580 any historical figure that you would search for, you would just see a non-white version of it. So I
00:37:33.180 think we have an image here of what the Pope supposedly looks like. So create an image of the Pope.
00:37:37.360 Pope. We see a South Asian woman and an African man. Neither of those demographics have ever been
00:37:44.520 Pope. Popes have always looked pretty much one way. And it's not like this. We also had an image of
00:37:51.060 George Washington, the first president of the United States. Apparently, he was a black fella.
00:37:56.320 And what was the final one here? Oh, Vikings. We had images of Vikings. And apparently,
00:38:01.480 they were actually, I don't know, Samoan or Southeast Asian or African, Mongolian, maybe. I mean,
00:38:10.200 it's just kind of interesting that whoever wrote the code for these computers basically told them
00:38:15.200 that white people shouldn't exist or don't exist. So Google kind of had to embarrassingly
00:38:20.640 walk this back. But I think this presents a pretty terrifying future where you have,
00:38:25.820 you know, a woke Silicon Valley firm pushing its values. Its values, apparently, that they just
00:38:31.060 hate white people or don't want white people to exist. And, you know, what the ramifications of
00:38:37.140 that could be. Harrison, I know you have strong opinions on this one. Well, it's extremely dangerous.
00:38:43.140 The reality is it's funny to laugh at, but there is a deeply sinister underlying aspect to this,
00:38:48.940 which is AI is going to be a major part of our lives over the next, basically the next century.
00:38:54.520 It's going to continue growing and influenza is going to start writing, writing code, writing scripts,
00:38:59.540 writing news stories. And there's clearly ideological bias built in and it's, and it's,
00:39:05.820 they can't even hide it. This resulted in a $70 billion market value hit to Google's parent company
00:39:12.620 when this catastrophe was, was unfolding on social media. And they had to pull the entire AI image
00:39:19.180 generating software offline to try and fix it. But I don't have confidence that they're going to just
00:39:23.960 find a way to take out all the ideological bias out of this AI. All of these major companies are going
00:39:30.860 to start doing this. Google being one of the most popular, one of the most valuable is going to have
00:39:35.200 an AI product that is going to be involved in our, every aspect of our life. And if it's extremely
00:39:40.440 biased, if it's anti-white, if it's anti-Christian, if it's, if it's got this bent to it, that has some
00:39:47.040 serious problems going forward. It's not something that we can just laugh at and joke at. Although
00:39:50.820 it is funny to see a black George Washington and black Vikings that it is, it is hilarious,
00:39:55.580 but there is something deeper going on here and it needs to be called out. And I'm glad that
00:40:00.540 they pulled it, but I don't have confidence that this is going to be turned around anytime soon.
00:40:04.740 Someone maybe perhaps on the right should start developing their own AI to try and counteract this.
00:40:10.440 Well, I think the saving grace is that they caught it, they, they exposed it and they were so mocked.
00:40:15.660 Again, this is like the change in the zeitgeist of the last few years, because I think like this
00:40:19.620 woke ideology was much more mainstream back in like 2020, 2021. And now it's like laughable. It's like
00:40:25.640 so absurd. Google got caught and they had to walk it back embarrassingly, apologize, they were caught
00:40:30.820 lying. Like people just don't want this anymore. And I, you know, hopefully they'll change or maybe,
00:40:36.940 maybe, maybe you're right. This will be the beginning of the end of Google and some other
00:40:40.520 company that, that, that, that's more trustworthy and more like thoughtful or common, has common
00:40:45.840 sense. Uh, we'll, we'll, we'll take over, uh, with this kind of technology. Rachel, what do you
00:40:50.860 think? I mean, I'm really only surprised that they did apologize in the end. I, I just kind of expect
00:40:55.460 people to double down on these things nowadays, but it was probably for what Harrison mentioned,
00:40:59.380 you know, it did have a big impact on their bottom line. So of course that's gets company moving.
00:41:03.340 And on that note, that's really what the issue is. It's that these are private entities that have
00:41:07.720 more power than the government does. They've got more influence than the government does. And so the
00:41:11.920 government has been sort of late to legislate things and I'm all for the free market. But when
00:41:15.500 we look at the internet, there is some regulation needed there, of course. And I think it's been
00:41:19.080 slow to do that. And now we're having all these types of problems where we have companies like
00:41:22.420 Facebook and Twitter and Google that are so powerful and so corrupt and they hate conservatives.
00:41:27.020 And obviously a big win for us was that Elon Musk was willing to put his money where his mouth
00:41:31.500 was and bought Twitter. And now we really have that as an actual free speech platform.
00:41:36.360 You know, to Harrison's point, someone could start developing equal technology on the right.
00:41:40.000 That'd be great. But Google has already capitalized on the market so much so. So it's really going to
00:41:44.180 take a lot for people to move away from them. At this point, I guess we can be grateful that
00:41:48.160 they are sort of walking it back. But yeah, I'm not super optimistic at this point. I think on the
00:41:52.480 internet side of things, I tend to be a little bit more cynical seeing what's coming down and
00:41:56.140 not really sharing where we go from here to see some actual solutions.
00:41:59.360 Well, it's just funny, like anecdotally, I saw a couple of really funny individual, not even just
00:42:05.480 with images on Gemini, but just AI in general, right? Like, I think someone wrote in, hey, make the
00:42:11.800 point, make the case for having four children or more. And basically the computer said, like, it's
00:42:17.880 irresponsible to have four kids or more. It's bad for the planet. And then like counter to that,
00:42:22.420 they said, make the case for not having any children. And then the computer like came up with this
00:42:27.100 long thing about how like, you know, you'll be richer and you have financial freedom and
00:42:31.580 like, why have kids? It's just like, it's baked in like this like horrible anti-human
00:42:36.860 ideology or even just again, anecdotally yesterday, I'm a big proponent of like trying to learn new
00:42:43.400 technology and make sure that you stay up to date. So I was using AI and just doing it for research for
00:42:48.480 my show. So I typed in, I was doing something on Canadian press and I wanted to find out like what
00:42:54.200 government grants they were getting. So I said to the AI technology, I said, is the Canadian press
00:43:00.980 government funded, right? And they said, no, no, Canadian press is independent. It's not funded by
00:43:06.740 the government. And then I reworded it and I said, does the Canadian press receive any money from the
00:43:11.740 government? And then the answer was, yes, here are all the various grants that they receive. So they're
00:43:16.400 not government funded. However, they are funded by the government. Do you see that? And you can just
00:43:22.440 see how, you know, they throw in this wording to be sneaky, but it's like bureaucraties basically
00:43:30.540 written into the code of the computer to lie to you. Harrison, what do you think of all this?
00:43:35.700 I mean, just thinking about this, I'm picturing how, for example, AI will be used in government
00:43:41.200 services. Canadians using AI to try and receive services from the government digital services, how AI
00:43:47.340 will be used, for example, in hospitals, how it will be used for triage purposes. You know, there is,
00:43:53.060 we can see how this is going to play out and it's not looking very good at the moment. Like someone
00:43:57.880 has to really figure this out because the minute you get that ideological bent into the, into the
00:44:03.660 system learning, whatever it's called, I'm no expert in AI. I don't know how you get it out,
00:44:07.640 right? And I don't think we should be expecting governments to all of a sudden hire AI experts to
00:44:13.340 machine learn government tailored AI that will be perfectly unbiased, that will treat every Canadian
00:44:18.640 the same. They're going to obviously use these private companies who are building this technology
00:44:22.800 because these are the only companies that have this technology, as Rachel said. So you can see how
00:44:27.720 this plays out, not just online, not just making jokes about, you know, Mongolian Vikings and, and,
00:44:33.640 you know, black George Washington's, but how this could play out in an emergency, how this could play
00:44:38.640 out in a hospital, how this could play out in, in, in government services. It's frightening and it
00:44:44.980 really needs to be addressed. I just don't, I, like I said, there's no, there's no way the government
00:44:48.900 is going to build an AI that is going to be completely unbiased. They're going to have to
00:44:53.660 rely on this and it's obviously driven by ideology. No, you're absolutely right. But, but just one,
00:44:58.440 one more funny, funny aspect about this because Elon Musk, uh, jumped in, you know, he had all these
00:45:03.600 pictures of black George Washington and he jumped in, uh, saying, I can't believe Gemini made these
00:45:08.820 unfair pictures of Justin Trudeau. Oh wait, no, that was actually all real. So, you know, we, we,
00:45:16.040 we could still poke fun in it as part of the way that we expose the corruption and, and hey, our prime,
00:45:21.740 that's our prime minister. That's who he is or who he was, uh, for, for most of his life prior to jumping
00:45:27.160 into politics. Uh, Rachel file thing, you know, we saw Pierre Polyev mock Justin Trudeau the other
00:45:32.240 day for wearing blackface and saying, how can he, you know, be the regulator of hate speech when he
00:45:37.720 himself was a hateful person in his twenties and thirties wearing blackface. Uh, the media got like
00:45:42.660 up in arms, like how dare Pierre Polyev bring this up? Like, like that's, that's irrelevant or
00:45:48.320 whatever. Uh, what, what, what do you think of, of Pierre Polyev making, uh, news again, uh, over
00:45:54.620 Justin Trudeau's, uh, blackface, uh, incidents that he, that he had in the past? The blackface
00:46:00.000 incidents are really, it's really one of those things that the people on the right bring up at
00:46:03.740 every opportunity that they have, because it's just so funny and the photos are just so hilarious.
00:46:08.740 It's like every time Justin Trudeau does something stupid. So most days you find people on the internet,
00:46:13.900 they find a way to tie it back to the blackface. Like he's never going to live this down. Like it's
00:46:17.680 always going to come up. There's going to be like major chapters dedicated to it in future political
00:46:22.140 biographies that are written on him. Cause it's just something he can't escape. I don't know why
00:46:25.960 the legacy media chose to get angry about it. Like they didn't necessarily have to cover it,
00:46:29.680 but it's, it's not worth getting angry about it is something that he did. And I think it's fair
00:46:32.660 that people would try to tie that back to him. Of course, now, as he's trying to be this huge
00:46:36.820 sort of cultural icon and, you know, always kind of harping on the right for accusations of racism
00:46:43.900 and discrimination. So it's just one of those things that's going to follow him forever. And I'm here for
00:46:48.340 it. Yeah, I agree. I think it's hilarious. I think, I think it shows a different side of the
00:46:52.460 prime minister, a side that he himself tries to hide that the media try to hide. Um, you know,
00:46:57.480 he, he's supposed to be like this pure woke figure that can't do any wrong. And it's like the reality
00:47:01.940 is he was kind of a jerk. Like he was pretty insensitive and rude and maybe racist, uh, up until
00:47:08.540 the time he decided that he wanted to be prime minister. Harrison, I'll give the very last word of
00:47:13.100 the show to you. Well, that's why you pay off the media, right? So that you can just run,
00:47:17.460 you can have all your, your, your moral failings covered. Uh, and then you can attack your
00:47:22.860 opposition for anytime they address it. I think Tucker Carlson said it best when he's told Canadians
00:47:27.600 that we should be making fun of Justin Trudeau over this every time we can. There's no reason
00:47:32.100 to not make fun of him for it. He is the man who accuses Canadians who are unvaccinated of being
00:47:37.060 racist. He's the man who accuses his political opposition of, of dog whistling to the far right of
00:47:42.340 being, you know, these evil MAGA Republicans. Imagine if Pierre Polyev wore blackface once,
00:47:47.620 um, or even, or even, you know, darkened his face to, to dress up as some sort of,
00:47:52.680 uh, you know, like the Arabian Nights thing. If it had, if that happened once, it would be the end
00:47:57.280 of his political career because Pierre Polyev doesn't give the media hundreds of millions of
00:48:01.720 dollars. So, you know, I think Trudeau made a point about this is exactly why he pays off the media,
00:48:06.680 but I guess it does, it does show that if you, if you give them money, they'll run cover for you
00:48:11.240 every time. Well, and I think that's the most important thing that Tucker said when he was in
00:48:15.300 Canada was you should be making fun of this guy like every day. He is such a ridiculous person.
00:48:20.640 He is so silly. He's not serious. Like if you laugh at him, it takes away his power. So I think that's
00:48:27.840 a good reminder. Precious ego. Exactly. All right. Well, Rachel Harrison, it's been a blast. Thanks for
00:48:34.240 tuning in. Thanks for joining us. And remember everybody, everything you just heard was off the record.
00:48:41.240 Are you guys both Gen Z or are you millennials?
00:48:48.140 Gen Z. I'm the, I'm the oldest generation of Gen Z. So at times I, um, find I fit more into the
00:48:54.380 millennials. Like I did the whole plucking my eyebrows too thin thing. And now I'm like, oh,
00:48:59.260 I wish that I had thick fluffy eyebrows, but it's too late. I followed the millennials
00:49:02.500 off the hill on that one. You have thick, beautiful eyebrows. I'm the one like,
00:49:07.360 I have like new eyebrows. So, but I had no eyebrows before I ever plucked them. So.
00:49:13.520 Well, at least you aren't like living in the regret of your decisions now.
00:49:17.500 Fair enough.
00:49:18.860 Well, how old are you, Harrison?
00:49:20.560 Uh, 24. So I'm a zoomer.
00:49:22.900 Yeah.
00:49:23.280 Two zoomers.
00:49:24.320 Yeah.
00:49:25.060 Great. You guys are like, you guys are our 30 under 30.
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