Off the Record - December 06, 2024


How woke is our military？


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38 minutes

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165.85559

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6,396

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368

Misogynist Sentences

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Hate Speech Sentences

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00:00:00.000 All right. Well, I guess the trolling is going to continue from Donald Trump. We're getting
00:00:03.940 AI images. It feels like it's 2019 again. Is he going after Justin Trudeau here or is he trolling
00:00:10.740 the entire country? What do you guys think? Yeah, I think he's more so targeting Trudeau
00:00:18.600 than the entire country. Of course, we recently saw him specifically come after the liberal
00:00:23.320 government and their border crisis saying, look, if you don't solve this, we will inflict a 25%
00:00:28.360 tariff against your goods. So obviously, he has no love for Trudeau. And it's no surprise,
00:00:35.100 perhaps, given previous statements made by not only Trudeau, but his entire caucus, like
00:00:41.920 Minister Freeland, for example, and the things they've said about Trump, why would he have
00:00:46.360 any love for them? My question is whether Trump has a soft spot for Canada, because who would
00:00:54.020 have thought that he'd be the one to solve our border crisis? Well, it's funny, I read reports
00:01:00.020 that he wanted to split Canada into two provinces, one red Republican one, I'm assuming the West or
00:01:07.520 majority of the West and one blue Democratic one to make it even. And the liberals, they're playing
00:01:14.260 this off as like friendly banter, but it's very one sided for it to be banter. It's almost like the
00:01:20.260 liberal government is just sitting there and quietly accepting all of the jokes at their
00:01:26.640 expense without throwing any back towards Trump. And you would think if it's friendly banter between
00:01:32.780 buddies, that would be the case. But they're falsely playing up this idea that, oh, we're all just pals.
00:01:40.900 Well, the legacy media doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humor. They seem to think that Donald
00:01:45.740 Trump is being serious with his AI images. And I think the reality is over the next four years,
00:01:50.780 we should just get ready for some good laughter, for some good trolling, because that's really what
00:01:56.720 Trump is known for. All right, everyone, let's get into this one now. Let's get into the show here.
00:02:06.660 All right, welcome to Off the Record. We are joined here by True North's editor and senior
00:02:13.020 researcher, Cosmin Georgia, as well as the host of Alberta Roundup, Isaac Lamoureux. My name is
00:02:19.120 Harrison Faulkner. We've got quite a good lineup here. But on the topic of Donald Trump's trolling,
00:02:26.260 there's a new story that has come out, which could give Trump lots of ammunition to troll
00:02:30.900 Justin Trudeau over. And the new story is this. It's an exclusive to True North. We have obtained a copy
00:02:36.120 of a leaked internal survey given to soldiers that is basically asking soldiers to discuss
00:02:43.720 the state of extremism in the military. Let's put up the headline here if we've got it. And
00:02:52.080 that's right. So the Canadian military in this extremism, right-wing extremism survey is asking
00:02:59.340 soldiers, for example, if in the past two to five years, they have purchased extremism merchandise,
00:03:05.160 guys, such as a Make Canada Great Again hat. I mean, just imagine the trolling Trump could do with
00:03:11.280 this, you know, giving Trudeau, for example, a Make Canada Great Again hat, putting one on in an AI
00:03:17.060 generated image to talk about how much of an extremist he is. The opportunities are endless.
00:03:21.620 I hope he does get into it. But besides the humor, there's a dark side to this story, because this
00:03:27.120 survey is not just about the Make Canada Great Again hat. It asks soldiers, for example, if they agree
00:03:34.400 with the statements such as the Canadian government restricted freedoms too much during the COVID
00:03:40.020 pandemic, the assumption being that if you agree with that, you're an extremist. Also, they ask
00:03:44.700 questions like the country has let in too many immigrants, something the majority of Canadians
00:03:49.720 agree with, which makes it appear as though the Canadian government thinks the majority of Canadians
00:03:54.160 must be extremists. Even worse, it asks questions of veterans and soldiers if they believe the Canadian
00:04:01.680 government prioritizes immigrants over veterans and if the Canadian government doesn't care about
00:04:06.780 veterans. Once again, the message being there, guys, that if soldiers believe those statements,
00:04:13.380 they are extremists. I mean, I don't know where this is coming from. We know the military is bad,
00:04:19.740 but I didn't know that it was this bad, Tosman.
00:04:21.300 Well, I'll tell you exactly where it's coming from. The Department of Defense, particularly the
00:04:28.000 Liberal Minister of Defense, and it's been consecutive ministers of defense, have had these top-down orders
00:04:35.600 to reform the military based on these sort of diversity, equity, inclusion, and woke principles.
00:04:44.260 And the result of that is they're pathologizing. They have a whole army of activist academics,
00:04:52.740 and we'll get more into that later about who the author of this study is. But these activist
00:04:58.500 academics have been hired to essentially pathologize any sort of conservative opinions or stances
00:05:07.400 among soldiers as being extremist, fascist, Nazi, etc., in an attempt to root out and create a culture
00:05:17.120 of paranoia and almost like dictatorial authoritarian surveillance among soldiers that is controlled
00:05:26.500 by this apparatus that has been installed, which is not even part of the military. These professors
00:05:32.860 have nothing to do with the military. They've never been in the military. They've never
00:05:37.200 trained as a soldier. They've never been in the line of fire. They have no idea what it means to
00:05:42.440 operate a functional and combat-ready army. Yet here they are dictating who gets to be in the
00:05:50.020 military, what sort of views they get to have. Isaac, do you think the Department of Defense
00:05:56.180 hates the troops here? Because you've got to think the majority of troops at this point are patriotic
00:06:03.820 nationalists. They want to make Canada great again. It seems as though they actually just despise the
00:06:09.460 rank and file.
00:06:10.060 Yeah, I don't know whether I could say that they hate them per se, though. It's funny you ask that,
00:06:16.340 Harrison. A week or two ago, I was actually talking with someone in my local military, and he was
00:06:22.240 explaining to me how anti-woke they are. He's like, look, I'm in the infantry. This stuff does not pass on
00:06:28.620 the ground. This is not at all how it is. So we have to remember that these really are coming from the
00:06:33.920 higher-ups being led by, of course, the liberal government. But a question I had for you, Harrison,
00:06:39.120 was obviously this in your article there, is you highlight a lot of the far-right extremist
00:06:45.760 questions in this survey. I'm curious, did they in any way, shape, or form address far-left extremism,
00:06:51.340 as you'd expect from an unbiased study, and perhaps, ironically, the more common of the two in Canada?
00:06:56.920 No, in fact, the basis of the study is part of a larger research group, and I have the title of it
00:07:07.760 for you here. And this is from the government of Canada, the internal government of Canada website,
00:07:14.580 basically explaining where this study, where this survey came from. The Ontario Tech University's,
00:07:19.900 quote, network for research on hateful conduct and right-wing extremism in the Canadian armed forces.
00:07:26.300 So someone at the Ontario Tech University, we know who, Dr. Barbara Perry, has set up this network
00:07:33.220 for hateful conduct and right-wing extremism, specifically in the Canadian armed forces. And the military
00:07:39.600 is embracing this. They are really trying to, as they say, as I've written in my article here, and as
00:07:45.020 they have written in these documents, they're trying to combat and detect radicalization and extremism
00:07:52.560 by asking questions like the Make Canada Great Again had, by asking troops if they have listened
00:07:58.320 to extremist music. But you don't know what that even is, like Confederate battle songs or something?
00:08:04.940 We know who the person is, Dr. Barbara Perry. Cosman, you know all too well who this woman is,
00:08:11.480 because you've been trying to track down her research. Explain more about who this woman is,
00:08:15.400 and what is it that she's trying to hide from us. Right. So Dr. Barbara Perry is one of several
00:08:25.140 academics who've made a sort of living out of this anti-hate incorporated industry that has propped up
00:08:34.500 over the last decade or so. And she's renowned and cited frequently by the media, by politicians,
00:08:42.240 NDP and liberal alike, by having originated this idea that there are over 300 hate groups active in
00:08:52.840 Canada, far-right extremist hate groups. Now, we've tried to get Barbara Perry to name these hate
00:09:00.700 groups or provide any sort of tangible evidence that they actually exist. But it's been several years
00:09:07.320 now, and she's never produced a list. In fact, we had to go all the way to the Ontario Privacy
00:09:13.840 Commissioner, go through the process of appeal, mediation, and eventually adjudication to try and
00:09:22.660 get this list. But unfortunately, the way the Ontario Privacy Laws are written, they give academic
00:09:29.180 institutions, which she's represented by and her research was conducted in, quite a lot of leeway to
00:09:35.380 exempt things like research from public prying eyes, even though she gets to benefit from the sort of
00:09:44.480 a claim and all of the attention she gets from making this extraordinary claim. And to me, if you're
00:09:51.580 making extraordinary claims, you need to have extraordinary evidence to back up those claims.
00:09:58.760 So yeah, no evidence whatsoever to back up any of her research that's been made publicly available.
00:10:04.440 But yet, politicians are crafting hate speech legislation, citing this research in committee
00:10:12.940 meetings and reports. I'm pretty sure even the CAF, the Department of National Defense and the
00:10:19.920 military has cited her figures. Perhaps even CSIS has cited her figures. There's all these departments
00:10:26.520 citing her figures, and nobody even knows what she's talking about. So yes, she's not the only one.
00:10:32.560 There's other researchers. There's Dr. Rachel Zellers. We actually wrote an article about this. She gave a
00:10:39.200 speech at a national defense conference where all of these senior members of leadership, this was last
00:10:46.100 year in January, we reported on this, had to show up for a conference where she says that Canada is
00:10:51.340 completely infected by white supremacy. So just to get an idea of what's going on with the military and the
00:10:58.380 things they're being indoctrinated with, or at least told to silently abide by, it is these sort of activist
00:11:05.560 professors, as I've mentioned, who are leading it. And just one final point, Isaac, you mentioned, you know, have they
00:11:12.820 mentioned far left extremism? No, because I've actually tried to a tip that to get an access to information
00:11:19.160 requests from the Department of National Defense to ask them, where is your reporting or investigation into far left
00:11:26.600 extremism? I used, you know, specific phrases like anarchist, Antifa, anti-authority, Marxist, Leninist,
00:11:35.160 and they haven't turned any single thing up. So it's very one-sided. And if you ask Dr. Barbara Perry,
00:11:41.080 why aren't you paying attention to far left extremism? She'll just ignore you and say, oh,
00:11:45.920 make some excuse. Oh, I'm only, my research is only focused in this area.
00:11:49.580 Well, I must be confused, you know, because when I think about the military, I think about war fighters
00:11:56.560 and troops being able to kill the enemy to win battles and to be lethal. Not about, you know,
00:12:05.080 detecting extremists in the ranks, not about how many diversity boxes you can check off in the ranks
00:12:12.360 and the amount of pride flags you can fit on the mast of a naval ship. But that, Isaac, appears to be
00:12:18.760 the case with our military. And we wonder why young men aren't signing up. Yeah, I mean, look,
00:12:26.400 there's no other way to say it. Our military's priorities have been deeply flawed. And we've seen
00:12:31.720 that reflected in its recruitment shortfalls because they've focused on, instead of promoting
00:12:38.440 diversity, freedom, the things you'd expect in a military, they want to promote their woke DEI
00:12:46.900 initiatives. So I have some data here. In 2022, only 5,242 Canadians enlisted in the armed forces,
00:12:56.420 which was a decrease of 35% from just over 8,000 in 2021. And this decrease, shockingly,
00:13:04.000 came despite the Minister of National Defense announcing that permanent residents
00:13:08.040 were welcome to apply. So you didn't have to be a Canadian citizen. But between November 1st,
00:13:13.340 2022 and November 24th, 2023, while 21,472 permanent residents applied, only 77 were accepted. So
00:13:23.100 obviously that change has in no way, shape or form helped. And then every time we check the numbers,
00:13:28.360 they go down, not up. Right. I mean, to be quite honest with you, the fact that we've opened up,
00:13:33.040 you know, the military to non-citizens is outrageous. And I'm not too concerned that
00:13:40.320 we haven't accepted many. My guess is that most of them who've applied have failed background checks,
00:13:44.700 have failed the necessary background checks that are required. It seems like a national security
00:13:48.900 threat. We're going to park it there with the military, but we're going to move on to a story
00:13:53.920 which is, you know, as they say, it's kind of white pilling, actually. It's kind of nice to see this
00:13:58.680 because in our country for a long time, what have the stories been surrounding Christianity
00:14:03.740 and our Christian faith in this country? Well, it's been dominated by the fact that
00:14:07.300 a hundred churches, more actually, have been burned or vandalized since these outrageous claims made
00:14:13.440 regarding residential schools. In fact, it looks as though at a political level, both municipal and
00:14:20.080 at a federal level, Cosman, things are starting to turn around. What's going on there?
00:14:23.280 Right. Sure. I'll just begin with municipally. We've seen multiple municipalities and cities adopt
00:14:31.780 what's called Christian Heritage Month. And most recently, we had one of our reporters, Clayton
00:14:37.700 Domain, go out to Mississauga where they raised the Christian heritage flag. As you can see from the
00:14:44.700 photo, it's just a white flag. I'm assuming representing faith, purity, et cetera, and this blue square
00:14:51.020 was a red cross. And that's meant to be a sort of ecumenical, if I may use a fancy word, representation
00:14:58.280 of all Christian faiths, whether it's, you know, evangelical, Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox,
00:15:05.060 Coptic, et cetera, which there are, you know, a wide array of in Canada. It's one of the biggest
00:15:11.400 religions in this country, if not the biggest religions practices in Canada. So that happened
00:15:18.360 at the municipal level. Federally, we have a new petition started by Conservative MP Jameel
00:15:25.280 Giovanni, and it's an attempt to protect Christians in Canada. The petition itself is called Protect
00:15:33.000 Christians Canada. And it's a national campaign that he hopes to present to the House of Commons
00:15:39.520 in February. And it highlights several things that he hopes governments at all levels will do,
00:15:46.620 including, as you mentioned, address the crimes against Christian places of worship, including
00:15:52.860 the fires and instances of vandalism, as well as protect the conscience rights of professionals,
00:16:01.820 including doctors, to not provide maid or abortion. And additionally, to protect the charitable
00:16:09.340 status of Christian organizations in Canada, which have contributed a huge amount of fundraising and
00:16:16.980 charity to those in need. I think worldwide, globally, a lot of people don't know this, but the Catholic
00:16:23.820 Church is one of the number one providers of charity. And these things are so overlooked. So I wanted to pass
00:16:31.720 this on to you, Harrison, and just ask, you know, these are small steps to take. Obviously, they're not, you know,
00:16:40.040 we're not really addressing the fundamental problems. And there's been such a huge, growing, almost enmity and
00:16:49.140 contempt that's been sowed by politicians and the media alike against Christians. And how do we confront that
00:16:58.540 particular aspect, the continued demonization of an entire faith, or rather a multitude of faith, groups of
00:17:06.220 faith against that Christianity is? Well, I think, you know, to see Jamil Giovanni be so honest and upfront
00:17:14.260 about the reality that Christians are facing in our country, it is persecution. There isn't as better
00:17:22.220 an example of Christian persecution than churches being burned down, then arsoned to the ground and vandalized.
00:17:29.820 And it's nice to actually hear a politician say the words and to affirm what Christians are feeling across the
00:17:36.460 country. Christians are being persecuted in this country, and we need leaders to actually take it seriously. So, you know,
00:17:42.800 this is a small step. The flag raising is symbolic. I will say Mississauga is one of the most Muslim
00:17:49.780 cities, I'm quite certain, in the country. So, to see that in Mississauga is actually
00:17:53.960 kind of a nice thing. And I'm not really big on the flags thing, as you pointed out earlier, Cosman. It's not the
00:17:59.220 biggest. It's very symbolic. Nothing's really going to happen. But having a conservative MP be so honest about the
00:18:04.960 reality we're facing here is nice to see. Another thing that needs to happen is we need to recognize that Canada is a
00:18:11.600 Christian country. It's very, very simply a Christian country because our head of state, the leader of this
00:18:18.180 country, the King of Canada, is a religious leader as well. He is the leader of the Church of England, which
00:18:24.700 basically makes you, by any other definition, any other country whose head of state is a religious leader,
00:18:30.940 that would make them a Christian country. So, Canada is a Christian country, and our people, our Christians,
00:18:35.980 deserve to have this recognition. So, look, pointing it out and acknowledging that Canada is a Christian
00:18:42.740 country will go a long way, I think, to what will be a long process, Cosman. But it is what needs to
00:18:48.020 happen. We need to start calling out these things and be honest about who we are as a people. Isaac,
00:18:53.620 what did you make of this sort of shift we're starting to see?
00:18:58.260 Yeah, you said that Mississauga might be one of Canada's most Muslim cities. But even still,
00:19:03.480 according to Statistics Canada, in 2021, 49.5% of Mississauga's population was Christian. So,
00:19:10.640 that really speaks to what we're talking about here. And I've been keeping a close eye on this
00:19:14.940 list from christianheritagemonth.ca, which is, they have a list of every municipality that has
00:19:20.100 officially signed a proclamation to make December Christian Heritage Month. And I was keeping an eye on
00:19:25.940 this list because Saskatchewan was supposed to announce yesterday that they too were joining the list,
00:19:30.600 and I just checked the list. They're on it, despite not being a municipality. So, that would,
00:19:35.200 I think, make them the first province to do so, though I haven't seen an official release from
00:19:39.340 the province, but they are on the list, alongside 36 municipalities. And I've been checking this list
00:19:45.700 over the last few days. I think when I first checked it, it was either at 32 or 35. So, it has
00:19:49.760 been growing. And I'm not sure how many other municipalities plan to join in making December
00:19:56.520 Christian Heritage Month. But truthfully, I don't know how I feel about that, because really,
00:20:00.900 there aren't enough months, there aren't enough days in the year to please every special interest
00:20:05.820 group, let's say. So, really, I'm more in favor of removing all these months, like Pride Month,
00:20:12.780 Christian Heritage Month, all the months, although December is sensible for Christian Heritage Month,
00:20:16.440 given Christmas. But I don't know that we need to celebrate each little thing like that. Instead,
00:20:21.300 we should focus on things where Canadians can truly be united as a whole. Yeah, what do you think about
00:20:27.220 that, guys, on the whole, dedicating a whole month to Christianity there? Well, I was going to ask that
00:20:33.720 question to you, Cosme. I was going to just frame it in this sense, you know, as you point out, Isaac,
00:20:38.000 there's Islamophobia Awareness Month, there's Pride Month, you know, there's, I'm sure there's a month
00:20:43.600 for, you know, like some Indian religions, whatever, right? Just stuff that is not the majority in our
00:20:50.680 country. And it would be nice to be able to have a month for Christians, and it's nice to have a
00:20:55.920 month for veterans. But I feel like if you do, if you do give, if you do have a month that is
00:21:00.260 Christian Heritage Month, you're, you're delegate, you're, you're kind of relegating Christianity to
00:21:04.980 one month, when it should be every month of the year. It should be every day, every month of the
00:21:09.540 year, right? So what do you think? Do you think that we should even bother with the Christian Heritage
00:21:13.320 Month? Or should we just acknowledge that Canada is a Christian country, the majority in this country
00:21:17.880 are Christians, and we don't need a month because the majority here are Christians?
00:21:23.960 Right, I think, to your point, recognizing Canada as foundationally a Christian country,
00:21:30.100 the pioneers and people who built this country were faithful people, and they wrote it into the laws and
00:21:37.280 into the Constitution and into the Acts of Confederation, that Canada is founded on certain
00:21:43.940 principles that come from Christian thought, and, you know, past theology, thought about law, etc.
00:21:52.000 And it's, it's, people like to ignore that, because we live in a secular society. But the fact is,
00:21:59.680 even secularism, the things we value in secularism, poured out of Christian belief and Christian
00:22:05.920 thinking. It was, you know, the, the church fathers and all the theologians preceding them,
00:22:11.800 whether Protestant or not, who came up with a lot of the concepts, we believe about, you know,
00:22:17.160 God given liberties and freedoms. So, absolutely, whether this competing idea of like, oh, I have
00:22:25.360 this month, you have that month. I'm not a big fan of it, because it just points to this idea that we
00:22:32.080 have to just accept we're this multicultural fragmented society, and that we're just constantly
00:22:37.620 vying for attention and space in the calendar year. And as you mentioned, as a Christian,
00:22:44.660 it depending on the denomination, but all Christians celebrate certain vital celebrations
00:22:51.320 and, and, and holy days that are marked, you know, by the life of Jesus Christ. But more so,
00:22:58.860 if you're a specific denomination, like Orthodox, where you have like saint days, or even Catholics
00:23:04.180 have a whole liturgical calendar, Advent, etc., right? So it's not, it's, it's kind of like just
00:23:12.080 accepting this like piece of the pie, instead of recognizing how foundational this religious and
00:23:22.020 spiritual system has been to the things we cherish as a free and, and liberal, so to speak,
00:23:31.340 a free society that values liberty. And, you know, as, as Canada has, you know, pushed itself further
00:23:40.320 and further away from its Christian roots, we've, our, our leaders have brought us closer to the radical
00:23:46.620 LGBT woke ideology, where we have to fly the flags of this movement. We have to fully embrace the most
00:23:56.040 radical elements of this transgender ideology, the LGBT ideology, where if you don't fly the gay flag
00:24:05.020 in your town, or you don't, you don't paint your crosswalk, the rainbow colors, we're going to fine
00:24:10.200 you. And we're going to try to bankrupt you personally. Isaac, this story has been making
00:24:14.900 national headlines. What's going on here?
00:24:17.120 Yeah, so basically, a human rights commission find the rural township of Emo for discrimination
00:24:25.140 after they voted not to recognize June as a pride month. Yeah, so the fines are said to amount to
00:24:32.560 $15,000, that'll be $5,000 for the mayor, and $10,000 to the town and the Human Rights Tribunal of
00:24:39.500 Ontario is trying to force them to pay it. So the tribunal found that Emo Mayor Harold McQuaker,
00:24:47.080 his tie-breaking vote, which refused to declare June as pride month, they called that discriminatory
00:24:52.780 and ordered him not only to pay the fine, but also to undergo LGBTQ training. Unsurprisingly,
00:25:00.320 the mayor said he won't pay the fine. He called it extortion and said that he won't take no such
00:25:05.740 training. So I'm curious to ask you guys if either of you think that he'll be forced to take the
00:25:11.500 training and then your general reaction to the tribunal essentially trying to force everyone to
00:25:18.300 celebrate pride month. Osman, what do you think? So, you know, having been born into like a post-communist
00:25:27.860 country in Romania, I see so many parallels between this type of quasi-judicial structures that exist
00:25:37.680 in those authoritarian regimes that are only meant to enforce the ideological conformity to party lines.
00:25:48.280 And this is what the human rights tribunals have become, in my opinion. Perhaps the people who
00:25:55.360 originated this had some other intention, but when you create these bodies that are manned by
00:26:02.540 essentially activist lawyers, when you actually look at who makes up the
00:26:07.600 tribunal membership and the adjudicators who make these decisions, they're all people who've been
00:26:14.100 trained in this sort of diversity, equity, inclusion, human rights law field that is relatively
00:26:20.440 like new and has also branched out into being something completely different than just addressing
00:26:27.020 basic human rights. And it's become more about what I mentioned in endorsing ideological conformity.
00:26:34.660 And it's really troubling because it defeats the purpose. And they almost like play a double role.
00:26:43.160 Like, why can't courts just figure out what human rights are? Why do we need to have this extra body
00:26:48.180 that doesn't actually help? And anyways, if he's disputing their ruling, it's going to have to go
00:26:54.620 to a court. He can appeal it in a court. He doesn't have to pay it. They don't have any enforcement
00:27:00.040 capabilities. They can't send a bailiff to you and throw you in jail and make you pay it, you know,
00:27:06.520 garnish your funds. They don't have that power. They're sort of like it's a glass house and they still
00:27:14.840 have to go to a court. So it's still a waste of resources anyways. And you know what? I've just
00:27:19.800 found out that there isn't even a flagpole that could be used to hoist the pride flag in the
00:27:24.080 township of emo other than the Canadian flag. What are they going to do? Take the Canadian flag down
00:27:27.980 and hoist the gay flag. I mean, it is absurd, right? But this guy, like this is, you know, this is epic,
00:27:34.660 but we shouldn't like this guy, Harold McQuaker, great Canadian. I said he was a Canadian of the week
00:27:39.600 yesterday because, you know, you just love to see this stuff. You love to see someone actually
00:27:44.100 standing up against this nonsense. But you know, why is this, why is the township of emo, this small
00:27:50.580 town in the, you know, west of Lake Superior getting all this attention? Other cities across
00:27:55.960 the country should be doing this too, right? But it's just Harold McQuaker, town of emo. As you point
00:28:01.700 out, Cosman, he's being forced to pay $5,000 personally. Personally, he has to pay $5,000 for not
00:28:08.920 celebrating pride, for not raising the flag and painting his crosswalk. I bet you they only have
00:28:15.340 one crosswalk too. I bet you they only got one crosswalk, not even one flagpole to hoist the
00:28:20.920 pride flag. And it's a penalty for not, not displaying it. Like it's so stupid that by, you
00:28:27.080 know, we have to, we have to, you know, fly this flag because somehow that's going to make life easier
00:28:33.100 and better for gay people with a township of emo. It's not going to do anything for the town people of
00:28:37.940 emo. I don't get it, Isaac. It's crazy. Yeah, well, I will say this because I plan to talk about
00:28:44.360 this on Alberta Roundup this week too. It's nice to see, I suppose, that in Ontario, like Alberta,
00:28:51.200 small towns are the ones who seem to be standing up for freedoms where the cities aren't. For example,
00:28:57.700 in Alberta this week, Barhead, a small town, passed a motion banning all non-neutral,
00:29:03.240 essentially anything, buildings, crosswalks, you name it, on public property. So they too were
00:29:10.640 another small town saying, hey, we're not playing by these rules. Although this was actually a town
00:29:14.540 vote, not just the mayor, the entire town voted on it. But I don't know. Why do you think,
00:29:20.660 Harrison or Cosman, that these small towns seem to be so much more eager to stand up for the freedom
00:29:26.560 of their citizens when compared to the cities? Well, on the other side, the fact is that they're
00:29:34.380 also targeted because leftists and progressivists have an astuteness when it comes to manipulating
00:29:42.380 bureaucratic processes. And they're very much involved in municipal governments. I track
00:29:48.780 municipal agendas all the time. And you always see these delegations from leftist organizations,
00:29:55.560 whether it's pride organizations, environmental groups, et cetera, pressuring local governments to
00:30:02.320 do certain things, whether symbolic or actually actions that affect people financially, the taxpayer.
00:30:09.700 So they've developed this ability to manipulate the existing bureaucratic structure. And they not
00:30:17.240 only do it at the municipal level, they have all of these avenues of complaints, like the tribunals,
00:30:22.160 et cetera, for them to get what they want. And I think people who are, you know, conservative minded,
00:30:29.660 right wing minded, whatever, need to recognize that because I feel like we've dropped the ball
00:30:35.340 there. Like nobody's engaged at that level. Nobody's really taking the time to go there and represent
00:30:41.220 themselves and to push the issues and push back against the other side in a sense, because that's what
00:30:49.500 it'll take. Like there's nobody running for school boards. There's nobody running who represent these
00:30:54.700 views for, you know, municipal council. It's like, then what do you expect? Because you're going to,
00:30:59.800 you're let, you're leaving the field open for the other team to take it. Right.
00:31:04.720 Absolutely. And, you know, I just want to highlight, I mean, those are absolutely
00:31:07.680 truly important points. Conservatives have neglected. Municipal politics are neglecting
00:31:12.720 the actual inner workings of bureaucracy at a municipal and a provincial level. They,
00:31:17.740 there aren't any conservatives in these bureaucracies. That's just the reality they
00:31:21.080 are. They get forced out. They look at and say, there's no way I'm going into that mess.
00:31:25.040 But this story about Harold McQuaker, it gets crazier because he was also forced to go through
00:31:30.860 re-education, LGBT re-education training, which he has of course said he's not going to do. Like
00:31:37.860 he said, he's not going to pay the fines. I mean, if this guy opens up a GoFundMe or a GiveSendGo
00:31:42.320 more likely, he's going to get a lot of money here. He might be able to raise money for the town.
00:31:46.500 They'll be able to buy a new flagpole, hopefully not to put up a pride flag, but they probably would
00:31:51.320 be able to put up a lot of new stuff and more Canadian flags. We need more Canadian flags,
00:31:55.800 not more of this absolute garbage, absolute nonsense. So you know what? That could be the good
00:32:00.780 thing that comes from it. We're going to end the show with a discussion like we did at the top of
00:32:05.460 the show about Trump's trolling, the commander in chief of trolling. He really is. And he hit us,
00:32:12.520 he hit us all of Canada with this AI generated image on Monday, knowing that the Canadian media
00:32:18.640 were going to have an absolute meltdown over this, of a picture of him standing on top of a
00:32:23.540 mountain with a Canadian flag saying, Oh Canada. Right when the discussion about Trump joking about
00:32:29.280 annexing us, he hits us with this and the legacy media go wild. Uh, Isaac, does the legacy media
00:32:36.180 just have no sense of humor anymore? Yeah. I mean, how can you not look at that photo and just laugh?
00:32:43.440 Of course, I was just laughing just now, even though I've seen it many times, you know, it makes you
00:32:47.220 laugh. Plus it's, I mean, come on, how seriously are we going to take something that's AI generated?
00:32:52.240 It's not like Trump literally hiked a mountain and in Canada and placed a flag in it. I don't even know
00:32:57.800 that that's a Canadian mountain. I saw some suggestions online that it was like based on a
00:33:03.160 picture or a mountain from Switzerland. So, I mean, the fact that legacy media have taken it so
00:33:08.700 seriously, I mean, it speaks to a lot of things, but if you can't look at that picture and laugh and
00:33:14.640 say, ha ha, good one, Trump. Uh, I, I really don't know what you're doing.
00:33:17.880 Yeah. It just perpetuates the ongoing meltdown that's been happening, uh, with the legacy media
00:33:26.700 in particular since the election. I remember watching the election night coverage and the
00:33:31.560 ensuing, you know, op-eds about the, the world is ending, you know, the end is nigh, like where
00:33:36.720 everything is going to collapse. The democratic world has, you know, shuttered. It's ridiculous.
00:33:42.540 Like it's preposterous. And the fact is that like Trump's actions are also preposterous in a way
00:33:50.140 and over the top, because that's what he is. He's always been this over the top figure who
00:33:55.420 is extravagant and almost like, uh, larger than life in many ways. And he exerts that and people
00:34:04.020 react, but they don't react rationally. They react irrationally. They take it seriously,
00:34:10.280 right? Like you made that point. They take it seriously, but any rational person would look at
00:34:14.800 that and be like, of course, this is a joke. And I think, I think there was a video of the
00:34:18.900 Nelk boys, like egging Trump on to, to do this. No, I have to correct. I have to, I have to correct
00:34:24.920 the record. That was a joke. I made that video up. It was a mix of two videos because, because I did it
00:34:31.680 because you can imagine that that was exactly what happened. That video was when the Nelk boys were on
00:34:37.580 Trump's plane and they showed it, they showed him a video of them, uh, doing a prank with Kamala
00:34:44.340 Harris supporters. And Trump was just telling his advisor, put that up on my website. I want that up
00:34:49.720 on my social media. And that's obviously what's happening here. Right. Yeah. One of his staffers
00:34:54.840 who's, you know, tuned in, knows what's going on in Canada and knows there's an ensuing meltdown
00:34:59.260 happening, made the image and go, sir, you got to look at this. This is going to blow the heads off
00:35:03.620 the legacy media in Canada. And he's like, yeah, put it up. That's clearly what happened. Right. So,
00:35:08.540 you know, they've got to just figure this out. When I saw that original post, I thought, you know,
00:35:13.120 my, my first reaction guys was God, imagine Andrew Coyne seeing this picture. He would have gone
00:35:19.800 crazy. Right. And so many of them, Rosie Barton and David Cochran, I'm pretty sure they all did
00:35:25.080 segments on it. And we're talking about the likelihood of Trump actually, you know, wanting to
00:35:30.900 make Canada the 51st state. Uh, it's, it's funny Harrison. Cause you got me live on camera. So
00:35:36.840 I'm going to report you for a misinformation. It got community noted. It got community noted.
00:35:42.140 And I was saying to the, I was saying to the team here when we, when I, when I made it yesterday,
00:35:45.860 I was like, you know, surely this is like, you know, people know this is a joke. And I realized,
00:35:51.480 Oh no, my editing must've been so good that it pieced it all together. No, I mean, it got community
00:35:56.900 noted. I'm thankful it did. Cause it was supposed to just be like a joke, you know,
00:36:00.880 this is probably how it went down in some way. Um, but it reminds me of when Donald Trump was
00:36:06.700 the president in 2019, he started to like leak ideas about buying Greenland, you know, as one
00:36:14.060 normally does as a U S president normally does that way. He was just messing around and contemplating
00:36:18.760 this. And then somebody clearly made, made a meme of a Greenland, the village in Greenland with a
00:36:24.920 giant gold Trump tower. And he goes, I promise not to do this to Greenland. We have that right there.
00:36:30.020 Let's throw this up on the screen. It is so funny. You know, this is just how he is. And if you are a
00:36:35.380 legacy media journalist in this day and age in the Trump era, and you are not tuned in to Trump's
00:36:41.160 sense of humor, you're a problem. Like you got it, you got to get tuned into it. So, you know,
00:36:46.660 you can't just be taking everything literally. I guess that's what we're going to get though.
00:36:50.700 Right. Isaac. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's crazy. It's craziness. Uh, we've got some other
00:36:57.640 memes that he's been posting recently. It's like his meme game. Cosmin has, has actually been turned
00:37:02.040 up. His time, his time out of office has made him, you know, even better at memes. Let's show the
00:37:06.720 ones we've got on the screen. Now we've got, uh, that, that whole meltdown with, uh, the squirrel.
00:37:13.840 I'm pretty sure. Uh, I would try to figure out peanut. That's who he is. Peanut and the squirrel.
00:37:19.280 There we go. Yeah. Peanut rest in peace. Uh, there should be another one as well that we've got
00:37:24.980 just, you know, this guy is a joker. Yes. The Haitians and the cats. I mean, come on. Like I
00:37:31.960 said before, if you're not, if you're not attuned to this stuff, then you're just not, not, not in the
00:37:36.020 game. No, the older guys love their AI generated images. It's boomer memes. The new boomer memes
00:37:45.700 are just AI, right? Uh, we are in for a crazy ride. Well, let's leave it there. Remember that
00:37:52.200 everything you've just heard between the three of us is off the record. I'm rusty with the, uh, with
00:38:03.220 the throws, the ins and outs on this show. I got to remember the, the, the little slogans
00:38:08.000 off the record and, and all of that, but I think it went smoothly. Yeah. Yeah. You know,
00:38:13.020 it's funny. I was just thinking back to like, I think it was last new year's. I did a thread
00:38:17.820 about how I did AI generated about how bodybuilders were taking over Ottawa and demanding Justin
00:38:24.900 Trudeau, a squat 300 pounds or something like that. And it went viral and it did get a community
00:38:31.100 note. And it's like, obviously this is not real.