In this episode of Stand On Guard, host David Creighton talks about Justin Trudeau's vacation to Jamaica, and why he should be kicked out of Canada. He also talks about the censorship of the internet by the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and whether or not he is a racist.
00:00:00.000Welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard. I'm your host, David Creighton. I promise I'll be back on Sunday, and it's a bit of a surprise. I know you can't wait, but I'll be back in a few moments.
00:00:16.740So we are in a very precarious position in this country. We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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00:02:04.260but I think it's better, because I'm proud of the fact that I do original content for you. I get out there, I interview people, I give you the news, I don't sit in my basement and predict that Justin Trudeau is going to implode tomorrow.
00:02:18.880Believe me, if the end was near for Justin Trudeau, I would be the first one announcing it. But he's going to tenaciously cling to power. You know he will.
00:02:27.560So, before I get into today's topic, which of course is CBC, and you're saying, why would you talk about CBC right now?
00:02:36.360Because once you get into the news cycle, once you get into question period dictating what the top five stories of the day are,
00:02:44.020sometimes you overlook issues and episodes that you really mean to do, and policies that you need to address.
00:02:55.760And defunding CBC is a big one. But before I get into that, I want to share a couple of comments from yesterday.
00:03:03.360You know, I did that broadcast yesterday about Trudeau's vacation. I was playing, broke down in Jamaica. He was staying at this lavish luxury resort on the water that just happened to be a former slave plantation.
00:03:18.020So, I got a great comment from at Joe Knox 2108. And he said, heard this place was a plantation at one time. Wonder if he, Trudeau, did blackface again.
00:03:35.900I love that. I just love that. I wonder too, because it would be so apropos for someone like Trudeau, who has no sense of appropriateness, does he?
00:03:50.020Or no sense of decorum, or no sense of decency. He did blackface most of his adult life.
00:03:56.680From a teenager on, to God knows when he really stopped. He won't say. He can't even remember how many videos he recorded, let alone how many times he did it without a camera present.
00:04:10.080Got away with it. And yet he continues to castigate his political enemies as a bunch of racists.
00:04:18.000Who's the racist? Who's the guy who did blackface? Did he do it in Jamaica at a former slave plantation?
00:04:24.560Wouldn't put it past him. I don't know. But that was one of the funniest remarks.
00:04:31.120The other great remark I had yesterday, I mentioned the Online Safety Act, which is Trudeau's third censorship legislation.
00:04:41.820It's the third part of his censorship trilogy to clamp down on online news and to censor what people can say on the Internet.
00:04:53.380And the Online Censorship Act, sorry, the Online Safety Act is going to outlaw disinformation and misinformation and malinformation without defining what these terms even mean.
00:05:07.940And what defining what kind of news is going to contravene it.
00:05:12.000So meaning everybody who says something Justin doesn't like is going to be guilty of it.
00:05:17.740So that's key. We defeat this legislation this year in whatever way we can in a parliamentary legal manner, obviously.
00:05:26.960But we need to convince enough MPs in the opposition to not support this legislation because it's bad for free speech.
00:05:37.380But anyway, I got a great remark here.
00:05:41.140Dirty Dog 995, who says the Online Safety Act should be where politicians are not allowed online.
00:05:50.480It would be a lot safer, yeah, if politicians in general were not allowed online, especially the ones in this Trudeau government.
00:06:33.980It's helping people to understand the news and helping you to find a means to advance common sense policies in this country and how to fight the nonsensical policies of the Trudeau government.
00:06:50.720I think that's one of the reasons I'm here, because I can say and do what I want to a certain degree, obviously.
00:06:58.260But it's very important you continue to tell me what you want me to say, what you want me to do, what you want me to discuss, because I think that's part of this process.
00:07:36.440And I'm not going to make any remarks about Catherine Tate's demeanor here or anything else.
00:07:44.020Clearly, she is a member of the Trudeau elite.
00:07:48.300She was put there by Justin Trudeau for a reason, which is to keep CBC sucking up your taxpayer money and really to be an organization that mouths Trudeau's policies.
00:10:26.460I can't get a yes or no answer from the Liberals.
00:10:39.460Now, I put that there because Pierre Polyev made defunding the CBC a very important part of his leadership campaign
00:10:51.460when he was running to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:10:58.460I think he needs to follow through on that when he becomes Prime Minister.
00:11:05.460Now, why do I say there's any doubt about that?
00:11:09.460You know, I just mentioned the fact that Catherine Tate is cutting 600 jobs at CBC because they just can't afford it anymore and 200 more jobs on the horizon.
00:11:21.460Now, Pierre Polyev has even joked about the fact that he's going to turn the CBC's Ottawa headquarters into low-income housing.
00:11:33.460And why do I think there's a possibility he won't?
00:11:36.460Now, I believe he's sincere about this.
00:11:40.460But what happened under nine years of the Stephen Harper government?
00:11:45.460I wrote a policy paper in the midst of those nine years.
00:11:50.460It was called Time to Leave Home, a case for the privatization of the CBC.
00:11:56.460And I argued not only that it was tendentiously left-wing in its politics, that it had an obvious bias, that it generally sided with liberal policies, even when the liberals weren't in power, because they thought the Conservatives would not ever cut them too drastically and certainly never defund them.
00:12:22.460So I took this policy paper to various high-profile members of the Conservative government at the time, including cabinet ministers.
00:12:35.460And I said, this paper will tell you how you can justify it beyond just saying we don't like the CBC and we don't like its left-wing analysis of the news.
00:12:47.460It's time for the CBC to function as any other media broadcaster, to go their own way, to stop feeding on the public trop, to stop taking from taxpayers, to stop being tethered to the federal government and receiving billions of dollars.
00:13:08.460Because it's just good for the economy and it's good for freedom of speech and freedom of the press in this country.
00:13:22.460The original reason for the CBC, because it was instituted by a Conservative government in 1935 under R.B. Bennett, a Conservative government.
00:13:34.460The rationale was that we needed Canadian content because we were immersed in American news and American entertainment and we needed to provide unique Canadian content.
00:13:50.460That argument disappeared decades ago with the advent of super cable news.
00:13:57.460And now with the internet, there's no need for a state broadcaster to provide Canadian content.
00:14:35.460They have to do this because it just makes sense.
00:14:40.460There's no need for you and I to continue to subsidize them.
00:14:44.460And it just provides a bad example for other media, which, of course, Trudeau has also put on the government payroll.
00:14:54.460And he's spending tens of millions of dollars to subsidize the legacy media, obviously in the hopes and the realization that they will provide positive media coverage for him.
00:15:11.460Media becomes beholden to the government if the government pays its bills.
00:15:17.460I believe there's enough good journalists at CBC who could probably make that station work quite effectively without 1.3 to 1.4 billion dollars a year from taxpayers.
00:15:32.460Other stations have to function in the real world.
00:15:36.460Let's listen to Catherine Tate, the president of CBC, who is really a gift, a godsend to Pierre Paulio, because she exemplifies everything that's wrong with the CBC, everything that's wrong with the government buying the news.
00:15:57.460She's an elitist and she really believes we can't function without the CBC.
00:16:28.460These are markets that will never be commercially viable, but it's important work and it's absolutely core to our mission.
00:16:35.460But we also have the same pressures with respect to inflation, cost of production, cost of operations, declines in revenue related to our traditional television services.
00:16:47.460All of that has created a perfect storm and the pressure, the unbelievably fierce competition from the foreign streamers that accelerated and was amplified coming out during the pandemic and coming out of the pandemic.
00:17:04.460Sounds like something that's spread very thin.
00:17:20.460They haven't had an increase in their budget in 30 years.
00:17:22.460That is a, that is completely, a complete falsehood.
00:17:27.460Of course, they've had increases in their budget in the last 30 years.
00:17:31.460And what makes CBC so unique, so singular that they can't deal with the economic forces around them, but other companies are expected to do so?
00:17:43.460They have got an immediate $1.3 billion cash infusion.
00:17:49.460Plus they run paid advertising on the television side of CBC.
00:17:55.460They're getting money from government and private sources.
00:18:00.460And yet it's just too much time to get rid of your bloated executive at the very least.
00:18:08.460Time to stop paying people three times the average wage that they would receive in the private sector.
00:18:15.460But even better, it's time to cut off your funding altogether and to say, go it alone or don't go at all.
00:19:38.460She used to come to my base in Comox, British Columbia, when I was the public affairs officer there.
00:19:44.460And she always came with a crew to my base to do stories about the operations we were doing to search and rescue, maritime patrol, fighter ops.
00:19:53.460And it was always a pleasure to deal with Adrienne.
00:19:57.460She was a good reporter and she is a good reporter because she had the guts to at least ask that question to CBC's president.
00:20:07.460And you could see she was expecting a better answer than that.
00:20:41.460And I used to say, how in the hell can you afford to send four people on a story?
00:20:46.460And it was indicative of how CBC loves to waste money, because if I was doing a story with the local CTV station, they would send one journalist.
00:21:26.460So the CBC was always bloated in terms of its personnel and always had too many people assigned to every story because they had the luxury of doing that.
00:21:38.460So when you hear Catherine Tate go on about all the economic pressures and the forces, they have been wasting your money for decades because they assume it's going to keep coming.
00:21:52.460They have such a sense of entitlement.
00:21:55.460It is just like everything else that is feeding off public trough.
00:22:02.460They think it's never going to end and it never should end because they're so special in the work they do.
00:22:08.460But I respected Adrian for those questions.
00:22:10.460I wanted to make that clear and glad she did that.
00:22:12.460But it really is time to move on, folks.
00:22:31.460There's never been a more opportune time to defund the CBC.
00:22:36.460I think most Canadians would agree with it and applaud it heartily.
00:22:42.460And it's necessary not just to save a billion dollars plus a year.
00:22:47.460It's necessary to save free speech and freedom of press in Canada because we've got to get rid of a state media and eliminate all subsidies, all subsidies to legacy media.
00:23:01.460Otherwise, journalists are in the pocket of the government, no matter what that government may be.
00:23:13.460It illustrates, I think, how arrogant the CBC can be.
00:23:18.460And this is the deputy conservative leader, Melissa Lansman.
00:23:21.460Quite hard on Melissa a couple of weeks back when she said she was going to write a blank check or that a conservative government should write a blank check to Ukraine to keep this war going for as long as it takes.
00:23:36.460And the mistaken idea that if we don't keep funding the black hole of Kiev, there's going to be a continued movement from Russia into Western Europe.
00:24:56.460Yeah, I'm sorry, Ms. Lansman, your time is up.
00:25:01.460Good job, Melissa Lansman, exposing the CBC, telling everybody how much money they waste and the fact their ratings are on the decline.
00:25:11.460Now, when the war in the Middle East and Gaza began, Catherine Tate made the editorial decision and gave the order in an internal memo telling reporters for CBC that they could not use the word terrorism or terrorist and apply that to Hamas.
00:25:31.460Now, I'm not enthusiastic about what Israel has done in Gaza since October 7th anymore than I wouldn't say it was a slaughter by terrorists against Israelis on October 7th.
00:25:48.460But the point is, you cannot tell reporters to use politically correct language based on what policy.
00:26:10.460And I wouldn't want to sugarcoat what is happening in Gaza right now by the Israelis by saying, oh, we can't be critical because, well, we just don't do that because we put political opinion and we put political language ahead of objective truth.
00:26:28.460And we don't want to report the events as they really are.
00:26:33.460So Lantzman made a very good point here.
00:26:36.460Don't tell reporters they can't refer to Hamas people as terrorists.
00:26:40.460Because once you start doing that, you politically define the war, you politically define anything that is news.
00:26:51.460But of course, CBC has been doing that for years, haven't they?
00:26:54.460Because you look at their coverage of conservative, small C conservative or libertarian events, and they're never important.
00:27:09.460They always underestimate the amount of people.
00:27:13.460When we had the one million person march for children, they grossly underestimated or grossly lied about the amount of parental rights champions who are on the streets fighting against gender ideology.
00:27:31.460They did that intentionally because they were ideologically in tune with the whole LGBTQ agenda.
00:27:40.460And they were opposed to parents knowing about what their children are doing in schools.
00:27:47.460They are ideologically in tune with Justin Trudeau and his extremist social agenda.
00:28:30.460When you are Prime Minister, Mr. Polyev, follow through on one of your paramount promises.
00:28:37.460Defund the CBC, save Canadian taxpayers $1.3 billion a year, and reinvigorate freedom of press and freedom of speech in this country by saying no more state media and get rid of those subsidies for legacy media as well.
00:28:53.460Glad we had a chance to talk about this today.
00:28:56.460I'll be back tomorrow with the news of the day.
00:28:59.460No more question period for another four weeks or so.
00:29:05.460But there's always news magically appearing after the Christmas and New Year break.
00:29:11.460And we'll be seeing a lot of news happening in the next couple of days and weeks.
00:29:16.460And I'll be following it, and I'll be passing it on to you.
00:29:19.460And I'll be commenting on why it's important and where we're going.
00:29:23.460This is going to be a very, very pivotal year.
00:29:27.460Now, I keep saying it, and I'm going to say it one more time.
00:29:30.460We have to resolve to resist what the Trudeau government is doing to us.
00:29:34.460We have to convince enough opposition MPs that the Trudeau government needs to fall this year before it wreaks more damage on this country.
00:29:49.460Before it causes a major catastrophe from which we cannot recover.
00:29:56.460We need the Liberal government to fall this year.
00:30:00.460And we can do that through parliamentary means.
00:30:03.460We just need to convince MPs that it's for everybody's good, the national good, as well as theirs.
00:30:11.460But we're going to keep fighting and giving you the news, reporting the issues, and letting you know what's important on Stand On Guard.