Stand on Guard with David Krayden - Trudeau Fails to Save CTV Jobs!! Stand on Guard Ep 88

00:00:00.980 Hi, welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard. I'm your host, David Creighton.

00:00:07.860 And we had a huge firing of reporters this week, and Justin Trudeau's outraged about it.

00:00:16.480 But we're going to break down his response to this Bell Media firing of 4,800 reporters. 0.91

00:00:23.880 And I'm going to explain why he's completely hypocritical, as usual, about it. 0.68

00:00:32.020 We'll be right back. 0.84

00:00:33.600 So we are in a very precarious position in this country.

00:00:37.840 We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.

00:00:53.880 And, like Sasha, my cat, demonstrated, please like the station, ring the bell, and do so right now, if you can.

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00:01:18.580 Because it's like, these people are being propelled there by YouTube.

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00:02:00.300 And if you want to support the station, I thank you for doing so.

00:02:03.600 And 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.

00:02:25.080 I was up with her, and Sasha was a big part of these broadcasts.

00:02:33.660 She was always here with me, watching these broadcasts.

00:02:37.840 And we filmed her ringing the bell to promote this broadcast.

00:02:46.860 And she was a wonderful, wonderful cat.

00:02:51.780 And it's very sad to see her go.

00:02:57.000 And it's difficult.

00:02:58.340 I must say it's difficult.

00:02:59.960 I didn't think it was going to be quite this difficult.

00:03:04.580 But it was cancer.

00:03:06.800 And I believe it was a necessary cancer.

00:03:09.960 And you know how hard I fought against COVID mandates and people being forced to get the vaccine.

00:03:25.240 And I believe this cancer was a direct result of a flu vaccine that suddenly cats were supposed to get.

00:03:33.040 I never thought twice about it.

00:03:35.760 But we battled that with her.

00:03:37.700 We tried a lot of different things.

00:03:39.320 And I'm sorry if I'm talking about personal stuff like this.

00:03:45.940 I just needed to do so.

00:03:48.400 Because you're probably wondering why I haven't been broadcasting as much.

00:03:51.260 I've been trying to keep abreast of the news.

00:03:53.980 And it's been hard.

00:03:54.920 But thank you for listening.

00:03:57.340 It helps.

00:03:58.340 I feel like so many of you out there who listen, who watch this broadcast throughout the week, are friends.

00:04:06.480 And you say so in your comments.

00:04:09.540 You're concerned about me.

00:04:12.440 You're concerned about my family.

00:04:13.860 And you're even concerned about my little cat, Sasha, who was a real member of our family here.

00:04:21.560 And I thank you for that concern.

00:04:24.160 I thank you for all of you who have said so many wonderful things in your comments.

00:04:29.960 And it means so much.

00:04:32.500 It means so much.

00:04:33.660 Because you think you can march on.

00:04:38.340 I'm a military guy.

00:04:39.660 I spent the most part of my non-media career.

00:04:45.720 It was in the military.

00:04:46.600 And you think you can soldier on or you can march on and be unaffected.

00:04:54.440 But no, you can't.

00:04:55.240 We can't.

00:04:55.760 We care.

00:04:57.320 And thank you again for caring for me and for that little cat that was so much a part of my life and my family's life.

00:05:07.900 So it's been a busy news week, hasn't it?

00:05:11.660 There's been so much going on.

00:05:12.780 I put something out about Tucker Carlson and his interview with Vladimir Putin.

00:05:19.240 It got demonetized for reasons I still can't explain or understand.

00:05:26.160 And I'm still trying to do that.

00:05:28.500 But, of course, Trudeau freaked out, didn't he?

00:05:31.460 When 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.

00:06:00.320 Anybody 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.

00:06:09.760 And the chief of defense staff was there that day.

00:06:14.500 And 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.

00:06:26.780 We were allied with the Russians.

00:06:28.660 So I don't want to go on about this, but Trudeau has the nerve.

00:06:32.920 He's still trying to distance himself from a decision he made, from a decision he was very much a part of.

00:06:40.400 He blamed the speaker, insisted the speaker, Anthony Rode of resign.

00:06:44.640 Trudeau has no intention of resigning over this.

00:06:46.700 He has no intention of even owning up to his responsibility for it, that he invited the guy to a reception in Toronto.

00:06:53.600 And 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.

00:07:09.280 Trudeau knew this was coming, and we know that Hanka met with Trudeau before the speech.

00:07:15.700 So what else happened in terms of Trudeau's hypocrisy?

00:07:22.740 I'm going to take you through this, and we'll talk about various censorship legislation that's going on right now, okay?

00:07:34.360 Now you know in Canada we've gone through Bills C-11 and C-18.

00:07:39.520 C-11 was all about Canadian content.

00:07:42.520 Totally ridiculous, because we've got lots of Canadian content on the internet, on cable news, cable entertainment, on social media.

00:07:53.860 This is Canadian content.

00:07:56.080 90% of the material I do here on Creighton's right, on stand on guard, is Canadian first. 0.57

00:08:04.280 I often talk about the U.S., sometimes Europe, but mostly this is Canadian politics.

00:08:10.460 So it's Canadian content.

00:08:11.320 So C-11 was unnecessary.

00:08:13.660 C-18 was all about extorting money from social media agencies to give to the media.

00:08:24.220 Now, Google has agreed to do that.

00:08:26.940 Meta still isn't doing that, because they don't think they should be paying for this content,

00:08:33.560 when by putting it up on Facebook and Instagram, they are quadrupling, sometimes tenth-folding,

00:08:44.960 the amount of people who are seeing this material.

00:08:50.620 So it's really a moot point.

00:08:53.540 We know the online safety bill is a third part of Trudeau's censorship, has yet to be named.

00:08:58.580 It's going to be called the online safety bill, but the bill has yet to be given a numerical designation.

00:09:04.100 I'm predicting that's coming in the spring.

00:09:08.040 Trudeau is very enthused about doing this.

00:09:10.520 It's already passed in Great Britain as the online safety bill.

00:09:14.420 Now it's the online safety act.

00:09:18.300 Australia has the online safety act.

00:09:20.260 These are dangerous provisions that the government can use to eliminate any news or information they don't agree with,

00:09:30.720 because these bills, these laws, this legislation says we're banning disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation

00:09:40.900 without even bothering to define what that is.

00:09:44.160 So this is dangerous.

00:09:46.340 Now what else has Trudeau done in terms of trying to control the media in this country?

00:09:53.680 Well, it's very, very well known that he has subsidized the mainstream media, the legacy media.

00:10:00.720 So we have the state media, CBC, getting $1.3 billion annually of taxpayer money.

00:10:10.360 And they're still cutting positions, even though, and they're still getting paid advertising on the television side of CBC.

00:10:20.080 Turn the television on, watch CBC.

00:10:22.980 There's still lots of advertising going on there, isn't there?

00:10:25.820 And they're getting paid for it.

00:10:26.980 So they've got huge subsidy coming from the taxpayer that is also supplemented by advertising revenue that's coming in faithfully.

00:10:41.180 So CBC continues to suck up huge amounts of tax dollars.

00:10:47.300 Trudeau 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.

00:10:59.940 Literally, to pay for journalists' salaries.

00:11:03.360 Now, 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.

00:11:15.640 He pays your salary, you'd better be giving him positive press, positive media.

00:11:23.180 And that's exactly what the anticipation was.

00:11:25.720 And often, that's exactly how too many journalists deliver the news.

00:11:33.180 We'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.

00:11:45.140 But 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.

00:12:03.080 Not executives, not administrative support, journalists.

00:12:08.120 And they say, well, we're still going to do what we want, which is maximize profits and get rid of the journalists and say,

00:12:37.840 bye-bye, bye-bye, you're not working here anymore.

00:12:42.380 Is this a crime?

00:12:44.440 To be taking money with your right hand from the government, and with your left hand, firing the reporters on your network.

00:12:56.220 Let's listen to Heritage Minister Pascal Saint-Hong, who I think has been a lousy Heritage Minister since she inherited the job

00:13:06.880 from Pablo Rodriguez.

00:13:09.840 And you have to remember, it's Saint-Hong who is carrying forth the next branch of Trudeau's censorship legislation,

00:13:17.640 as we just discussed, the Online Safety Act.

00:13:20.260 That's going to be her billy-whack, that this legislation is going through the Heritage Ministry.

00:13:26.180 God knows why, because it's not really a Heritage issue.

00:13:29.940 It should be a justice issue, because it's amending the criminal code, really.

00:13:36.300 It's making, it's banning news.

00:13:38.940 I don't know why this is being bequeathed to the Heritage Ministry.

00:13:45.880 But here is Saint-Hong.

00:13:47.000 Oh, I think she looks like she's on the verge of crying as she talks about this Bell Media decision.

00:13:53.640 Let's have a look.

00:13:54.140 The past decade, when acquisition were allowed for those big companies to acquire a television station or a radio station,

00:14:01.860 it came with the promise that they would deliver on news content.

00:14:05.920 And today, they are backing from that promise, even though they were allowed to acquire all these,

00:14:12.800 this privilege, Canadian privilege.

00:14:15.080 She looks really surprised, betrayed.

00:14:21.720 Well, you can expect that.

00:14:24.220 And this is what happens when the Liberals hand over your money,

00:14:28.400 whether it's to state media or bought in-your-pocket media.

00:14:35.640 They will screw you every time. 0.99

00:14:37.600 Just like the CBC is in the massive job cuts.

00:14:40.920 See, TV's gone one step further.

00:14:42.980 Really big job cuts.

00:14:46.480 Let's listen to the outrage expressed by Justin Trudeau.

00:14:50.040 I will be interrupting his outrage because it's rare to see Justin Trudeau really upset about anything

00:14:57.860 that's not related to climate change or transgender ideology.

00:15:01.960 But he looks a little bit upset about it. 1.00

00:15:05.060 Maybe because he looks so stupid. 1.00

00:15:07.460 He's giving your tax dollars to Bell Media. 1.00

00:15:09.920 Bell Media turns around and slaps him in the face.

00:15:14.580 Justin doesn't like that.

00:15:16.600 But I will be commenting throughout here.

00:15:18.540 The minister accused Bell Canada of breaking its promise to invest in local news after receiving $40 million in regulatory funding.

00:15:26.780 What is your view on these layoffs?

00:15:29.860 And what is your commitment to future government support with that company?

00:15:33.400 I will just pause here for a second to note.

00:15:38.920 This is Mark Holland, his unhealthy minister, over there.

00:15:44.440 I think this announcement, this interview, this news conference is in Mark Holland's writing.

00:15:50.500 It's probably why he's there.

00:15:52.300 But I have nothing but contempt for Mark Holland.

00:15:54.800 This is Mr. Medical Assistance in Dying.

00:15:58.300 He loves this program.

00:16:00.660 He loves the euthanasia program.

00:16:02.860 That's why I call him not the health minister, but the unhealthy minister.

00:16:07.060 But let's continue with Trudeau.

00:16:11.160 I'm furious. 0.99

00:16:13.320 This is a garbage decision by a corporation that should know better. 0.97

00:16:17.580 We 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. 0.96

00:16:36.540 And then when people don't watch as much or engage as much, the corporate entity says, oh, see, they're not profitable anymore.

00:16:43.100 We're going to sell them off.

00:16:45.120 This 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.

00:16:56.540 But it's eroding our very democracy.

00:17:00.600 Did you hear that?

00:17:02.780 Misinformation and disinformation.

00:17:04.500 There he goes.

00:17:06.540 And 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?

00:17:23.700 And I've worked for mainstream media in the past.

00:17:27.000 Yes, I have.

00:17:28.540 Probably never will again.

00:17:30.060 But why does Trudeau make the assumption that somehow all of this misinformation, disinformation is coming from outside of the legacy media?

00:17:39.600 Obviously, it's not.

00:17:41.040 And does he take any responsibility?

00:17:44.660 Is he accountable at all for the monies that he has infused into Bell Media as it lays off and fires reporters?

00:17:53.800 No, not at all.

00:17:54.920 This has got nothing to do with him.

00:17:56.100 Our 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,

00:18:08.680 is part of what binds this country together from coast to coast to coast, with incredible diversity of experiences, of geographies.

00:18:20.680 We need those local voices.

00:18:22.520 And 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.

00:18:40.620 And 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,

00:18:55.180 no, no, no, you're trying to buy off journalists.

00:18:57.140 We're trying to support journalism in this country and across this country.

00:19:00.900 But whoa, you are buying off journalists.

00:19:05.420 That's what you're doing.

00:19:06.500 You're not supporting journalism.

00:19:09.620 The state, the government should not be buying off journalists, should not be infusing vast amounts of money into the media.

00:19:18.180 Because the expectation is that there's a quid pro quo, that the media should and is somehow needed to give you something back,

00:19:32.980 that the media is compelled to give you the news you want.

00:19:39.440 So don't give me this nonsense that you are supporting journalism.

00:19:44.600 You are buying off media agencies and reporters.

00:19:48.160 And it looks like it didn't do you any damn good, did it?

00:19:52.360 No government can do it alone.

00:19:54.700 Canadians need to demand better, as we will be demanding better,

00:19:59.720 from corporate leaders, like in this case, Bell,

00:20:03.680 that are eroding Canadians' ability to know each other,

00:20:09.060 to trust each other,

00:20:11.160 and to trust in the country and the future we are building together.

00:20:16.200 So yeah, I'm pretty pissed off about what's just happened.

00:20:21.620 Oh, he's pretty pissed off about what just happened.

00:20:25.560 Well, that's unfortunate, Justin.

00:20:27.720 You didn't control what happened.

00:20:30.580 And talk about these vague threats to do something differently.

00:20:34.660 Yes, you will continue to try to keep the media in your pocket.

00:20:40.880 That's your strategy.

00:20:42.200 That is what you are all about.

00:20:44.520 You really don't care about these job losses

00:20:49.380 so much as you care about reporters not being in your pocket.

00:20:53.540 And you really are upset that these big media organizations

00:21:01.000 just ignore you and betray you. 0.56

00:21:05.260 And your government money didn't add up to very much in the end.

00:21:11.140 But that is all about Justin Trudeau's inability

00:21:15.300 to be honest with himself or with Canadians 0.52

00:21:19.820 about what he's really doing here.

00:21:21.780 Trudeau's media strategy is a scam.

00:21:28.680 And it's all about control.

00:21:30.180 It's all about controlling new media,

00:21:33.880 controlling independent media through censorship,

00:21:37.800 and controlling the legacy media through dollars.

00:21:43.720 And he can't understand that the old-time media is dissolving

00:21:50.720 because people are leaving it in droves.

00:21:55.240 And if it fails to adapt to the new audience,

00:21:59.880 to the new technology,

00:22:01.640 to what is required in 2024,

00:22:05.400 not 2004,

00:22:07.640 it's going to fail.

00:22:09.620 And millions and billions of government dollars

00:22:13.340 are not going to reverse that.

00:22:16.020 That is what Justin Trudeau refuses to acknowledge.

00:22:18.600 One other point here you might have noticed in the background there. 0.99

00:22:23.000 Who's the dumb-looking premier 0.96

00:22:26.900 standing behind Trudeau like he always does? 0.99

00:22:30.400 Well, that's Ontario Premier Doug Ford,

00:22:32.520 the faux conservative

00:22:33.520 who lets you down during COVID

00:22:36.560 with some of the toughest and harshest lockdown measures in Canada,

00:22:41.600 who watched businesses close all over the province

00:22:45.840 for no reason at all,

00:22:48.260 who forced you to take the vaccine,

00:22:50.580 and who supported Justin Trudeau

00:22:54.020 in the invocation of the Emergencies Act.

00:22:56.200 And when a federal court said Trudeau had gone wrong,

00:23:00.000 and he'd overstepped his authority,

00:23:01.720 that the invocation of the Emergencies Act

00:23:03.600 was unjustified, unreasonable, and unconstitutional,

00:23:05.880 who backed him,

00:23:07.180 and who said Trudeau is right to appeal it?

00:23:10.940 Doug Ford, again.

00:23:13.460 And here he is standing with his buddy,

00:23:16.300 his political ally,

00:23:20.860 Justin Trudeau.

00:23:22.160 These two are birds of a feather.

00:23:25.320 These two love each other,

00:23:26.960 and they love each other's policies.

00:23:29.060 So don't take Doug Ford seriously

00:23:30.960 as a conservative of any kind.

00:23:33.340 He's not.

00:23:35.440 And beware of journalists who are in his pocket.

00:23:40.420 Thank you so much for watching today.

00:23:44.760 It's been a difficult broadcast.

00:23:48.080 I want to thank you all again

00:23:50.120 for the concern

00:23:52.140 and the sympathy

00:23:55.800 you've shown me in the last couple of days

00:23:59.200 over the loss of my cat,

00:24:03.000 Sasha.

00:24:04.220 Thank you for watching.

00:24:05.500 We're going to continue to bring you the news

00:24:07.260 you want.

00:24:09.500 I'm going to continue to work hard

00:24:11.200 for you.

00:24:13.280 And one thing I can promise you in 2024

00:24:15.600 is we don't bring you clickbait.

00:24:18.580 We don't bring you 1.00

00:24:19.940 stupid headlines 1.00

00:24:23.280 and stupid thumbnails 1.00

00:24:24.780 that are inaccurate, 1.00

00:24:27.100 that are basically lies.

00:24:29.940 we bring you

00:24:31.500 the truth.

00:24:33.380 We don't promise

00:24:34.680 what we can't deliver.

00:24:37.720 Unfortunately,

00:24:38.460 too many outlets out there

00:24:39.800 are doing just that.

00:24:42.280 And it will

00:24:43.280 catch up with them

00:24:44.660 sooner or later.

00:24:45.900 You cannot continue

00:24:47.200 to misrepresent

00:24:48.200 the truth.

00:24:49.440 Whether you're in the

00:24:50.400 mainstream media

00:24:51.480 or the independent media.

00:24:53.800 Thank you for being

00:24:56.020 a faithful

00:24:56.620 viewer of this station.

00:24:59.340 And I will be back

00:25:00.460 and I promise

00:25:01.360 I'm getting a haircut soon.

00:25:03.280 I promise.

00:25:04.620 We're going to start to look

00:25:05.580 like Pablo Rodriguez.

00:25:06.580 but I honestly

00:25:09.060 haven't had an opportunity

00:25:10.420 in the last couple of weeks.

00:25:14.160 But I will

00:25:14.960 going in Monday.

00:25:17.320 Thank you

00:25:17.980 and God bless you all

00:25:19.980 for your continued support.

00:25:22.320 And I'll see you soon.

Stand on Guard with David Krayden - February 12, 2024

Trudeau Fails to Save CTV Jobs!! Stand on Guard Ep 88

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