Justin Trudeau's response to the firing of 4,800 Bell Media reporters, and why he's completely hypocritical, as usual, about it. Also, the death of my cat Sasha, and Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin.
00:02:00.300And if you want to support the station, I thank you for doing so.
00:02:03.600And it's painful to see Sasha ring that bell, because as some of you know, from my last House of Commons question period, live podcast, Sasha left us the other morning, very early.
00:02:25.080I was up with her, and Sasha was a big part of these broadcasts.
00:02:33.660She was always here with me, watching these broadcasts.
00:02:37.840And we filmed her ringing the bell to promote this broadcast.
00:02:46.860And she was a wonderful, wonderful cat.
00:05:28.500But, of course, Trudeau freaked out, didn't he?
00:05:31.460When Putin said, if you don't think Nazism is a problem today, if you're not concerned about this issue, just watch this episode from the House of Commons, where a former Waffen SS soldier, Yaroslav Hanka, received two standing ovations from the House of Commons, even though he was introduced as somebody who was fighting against the Russians during the Second World War.
00:06:00.320Anybody with any sense of history, and I know Justin Trudeau doesn't have a very strong sense of history, but anybody with any sense of history.
00:06:09.760And the chief of defense staff was there that day.
00:06:14.500And I would think the top military officer, the top military general in the Canadian Armed Forces, should have known whose side the Russians were on in the Second World War.
00:06:28.660So I don't want to go on about this, but Trudeau has the nerve.
00:06:32.920He's still trying to distance himself from a decision he made, from a decision he was very much a part of.
00:06:40.400He blamed the speaker, insisted the speaker, Anthony Rode of resign.
00:06:44.640Trudeau has no intention of resigning over this.
00:06:46.700He has no intention of even owning up to his responsibility for it, that he invited the guy to a reception in Toronto.
00:06:53.600And obviously he knew he was invited to the House of Commons to sit in the gallery, and that he was going to be recognized by the speaker, and obviously get a standing ovation or an ovation of some kind.
00:07:09.280Trudeau knew this was coming, and we know that Hanka met with Trudeau before the speech.
00:07:15.700So what else happened in terms of Trudeau's hypocrisy?
00:07:22.740I'm going to take you through this, and we'll talk about various censorship legislation that's going on right now, okay?
00:07:34.360Now you know in Canada we've gone through Bills C-11 and C-18.
00:10:26.980So they've got huge subsidy coming from the taxpayer that is also supplemented by advertising revenue that's coming in faithfully.
00:10:41.180So CBC continues to suck up huge amounts of tax dollars.
00:10:47.300Trudeau has also allocated tax dollars to the legacy media through tax breaks and direct infusions of cash into the media to pay for journalists' salaries.
00:10:59.940Literally, to pay for journalists' salaries.
00:11:03.360Now, I always had a problem with that because journalists should not want their salaries paid for by the government, especially the Trudeau government, which expects reciprocity.
00:11:15.640He pays your salary, you'd better be giving him positive press, positive media.
00:11:23.180And that's exactly what the anticipation was.
00:11:25.720And often, that's exactly how too many journalists deliver the news.
00:11:33.180We've seen breaks in that over the last two years, as people become increasingly fed up with the arrogance and the hypocrisy and the authoritarianism of the Trudeau government.
00:11:45.140But then the story breaks on Friday, that Bell Media, let's say CTV, that's how we largely know Bell Media, is killing 4,800 positions.
00:12:03.080Not executives, not administrative support, journalists.
00:12:08.120And they say, well, we're still going to do what we want, which is maximize profits and get rid of the journalists and say,
00:12:37.840bye-bye, bye-bye, you're not working here anymore.
00:16:13.320This is a garbage decision by a corporation that should know better.
00:16:17.580We have seen over the past years, journalistic outlets, radio stations, small community newspapers, bought up by corporate entities, who then lay off journalists, you know, change the offering, the quality of offering to people.
00:16:36.540And then when people don't watch as much or engage as much, the corporate entity says, oh, see, they're not profitable anymore.
00:16:45.120This is the erosion, not just of journalism, of quality local journalism at a time where people need it more than ever, given misinformation and disinformation.
00:17:06.540And why is it that it's safer to listen to the news from media that's bought off by Justin Trudeau than it is from independent media, like what you're watching right now, or the new media that I continue to work for than I've worked for over the years?
00:17:23.700And I've worked for mainstream media in the past.
00:17:30.060But why does Trudeau make the assumption that somehow all of this misinformation, disinformation is coming from outside of the legacy media?
00:17:56.100Our abilities to tell stories to each other of how people's lives are, stories that reflect our own communities and not, you know, central offices in our biggest cities,
00:18:08.680is part of what binds this country together from coast to coast to coast, with incredible diversity of experiences, of geographies.
00:18:22.520And over the past years, corporate Canada, and there are many culprits on this, have abdicated their responsibility towards the communities that they have always made very good profits off of in various ways.
00:18:40.620And they need, like, as a government, we have been stepping up over the past years, fighting for local journalism, fighting for investments that we can have, all the way off, fending off attacks from conservatives and others who say,
00:18:55.180no, no, no, you're trying to buy off journalists.
00:18:57.140We're trying to support journalism in this country and across this country.
00:19:00.900But whoa, you are buying off journalists.