The Candice Malcolm Show - January 23, 2025


Are there any other genders you’d like to name？ (with Keean Bexte)


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Candice Malan explains why Canada needs an election now, not in three weeks when the federal election is due to be called, and why she is calling for a referendum on whether or not Canada should have a new Prime Minister.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:10.320 Thank you so much for joining us.
00:00:11.660 We've got a great show lined up for you today.
00:00:13.840 But before we get to the news, I want to stop and pause and reflect upon the situation we
00:00:18.740 find ourselves in today, in late January 2025.
00:00:22.820 We don't have a prime minister in this country.
00:00:25.240 We don't have a federal leader, and we don't have anyone representing us in our country
00:00:30.220 or standing up for Canadians.
00:00:32.660 It was just two weeks ago that Justin Trudeau announced that he was resigning.
00:00:37.720 I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next
00:00:45.880 leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process.
00:00:50.960 He said he was stepping down as leader of the Liberal Party and as prime minister, citing
00:00:56.040 internal squabbles in his cabinet and his caucus, in his liberal party.
00:01:00.460 Presumably and notably, he was talking about Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, the
00:01:04.080 finance minister, who resigned.
00:01:06.120 Now she's out there doing media rounds, bashing her former boss, saying that she disagrees on 0.99
00:01:11.120 him on everything from the carbon tax to capital gains taxes to the GST rebate to his strategy
00:01:17.100 in dealing with our American ally.
00:01:19.120 Now, also recall that third party leader Jagmeet Singh has let it be known that the moment
00:01:25.080 the parliament resumes, his party, the NDP, the ones who have been propping up Trudeau
00:01:29.520 and the failed liberal minority government since 2019, they will vote against the libs in
00:01:34.740 a non-confidence vote and trigger an election.
00:01:37.520 So rather than facing this reality, rather than allowing Canadians the opportunity to elect
00:01:43.460 our next leader and our prime minister, instead of allowing democracy to run its course,
00:01:47.720 Trudeau has used a loophole in our Westminster system of government, system of parliamentary
00:01:52.520 democracy, to prorogue the House of Commons to avoid triggering an election.
00:01:57.520 He's just pressed pause on democracy for crass partisan purposes.
00:02:02.320 Now, if this doesn't make you question our very system of government, make you doubt how
00:02:06.480 well our government functions, I don't know what will.
00:02:09.360 It is insane that a prime minister can first derail the economy with his terrible woke policies,
00:02:15.320 and then just pause the democracy to take time to regroup within his own party.
00:02:21.420 Now, that was a situation on January 6th, when Justin Trudeau resigned without actually
00:02:26.420 resigning.
00:02:27.280 Then everything got so much worse, because we just don't have a prime minister.
00:02:31.740 As you know, US President Donald Trump is no fan of Canada's liberal government.
00:02:36.160 He openly mocks Trudeau, calling him the governor of the 51st state, an insult to all Canadians.
00:02:41.820 And he doesn't much like Trudeau's deputy, Chrystia Freeland, either, who goes out of
00:02:47.100 her way to bash him. 1.00
00:02:48.820 Now, Trump is very serious about immigration.
00:02:51.120 He's serious about border security, national security, and energy security.
00:02:54.260 And he is very willing to impose devastating tariffs on our country to protect his country.
00:03:01.420 We need to fix this mess.
00:03:03.600 Canada is already suffering through a cost-of-living crisis unlike anything I have seen in my entire
00:03:08.320 life.
00:03:09.260 Our economy is on the rails, the loonie is collapsing, and every day Canada feels a little
00:03:13.620 bit more like Venezuela.
00:03:15.420 Crime is out of control, drug use is rampant, and overdoses are far too common.
00:03:20.640 Mass, unchecked immigration has created not just ballooning housing prices and rent prices, 0.98
00:03:25.580 but an existential identity crisis in Canada.
00:03:28.980 Being Canadian doesn't mean anything anymore, and foreign tribal feuds are spilling out onto
00:03:33.880 our streets every single day.
00:03:36.320 We need leadership.
00:03:37.660 We need a prime minister.
00:03:39.420 Not these clowns who are making a mockery of our country.
00:03:42.840 Justin Trudeau no longer has the confidence of the House, he no longer has the confidence
00:03:46.320 of Parliament, and he no longer has the support of Canadians.
00:03:49.440 He doesn't have a mandate anymore.
00:03:50.960 He resigned for goodness sake, and he needs to go.
00:03:54.780 Liberal insiders and global elites should not get to select our next prime minister in an
00:04:00.300 undemocratic internal selection process that is ripe for abuse and foreign interference.
00:04:05.840 Enough is enough.
00:04:06.800 Stop being polite, Canada.
00:04:08.840 You should be angry.
00:04:10.180 That is why today I am launching a petition.
00:04:12.880 This is from my own website, CandiceMalcolm.com.
00:04:15.280 It is separate from my journalism and separate from True North.
00:04:18.860 But Canada needs an election.
00:04:20.580 We need an election now. 0.71
00:04:22.620 Not in three weeks when the federal court will hear a case about the legality of progation,
00:04:26.780 and not in March after the liberals have their leadership review and select their next leader.
00:04:32.360 We need an election now. 0.71
00:04:34.180 Now.
00:04:35.140 Please sign my petition so we can send our reckless elite a message.
00:04:40.020 Sign it.
00:04:40.640 Send it to everyone you know, and help me send this message to Parliament.
00:04:45.360 Let Canadians choose our next prime minister.
00:04:48.420 We need an election.
00:04:49.680 We are, after all, a democracy.
00:04:51.780 Thank you very much.
00:04:52.680 In studio with Kian Bextie from The Counter Signal.
00:04:57.880 Kian, great to have you here.
00:04:59.040 Thanks for being here.
00:04:59.980 Thanks for having me.
00:05:00.820 So you were recently down in Washington, D.C., watching the inauguration.
00:05:04.760 And one of the main things that came out, one of the executive orders that I was really
00:05:08.860 excited about was just getting back to common sense, the idea that there are only two genders.
00:05:13.700 So I have it here, Trump's executive order, when it comes to defending women from gender ideology
00:05:19.880 extremism, he says that the executive order reads that sex shall refer to an individual's
00:05:25.040 immutable biological clarifications, classifications as either male or female.
00:05:29.440 Sex is not synonym for, does not include gender identity, that women and women and girls and
00:05:34.880 girls shall mean adult and juvenile, female humans, respectively.
00:05:39.360 Same for men. 0.62
00:05:40.420 The female means belonging at conception to the sex that produces the large reproductive 1.00
00:05:46.620 cell and that male is a sex that produces a small reproductive cell. 0.99
00:05:50.620 I appreciate that it even says at conception, not at birth, but at conception, since there's
00:05:54.400 a bit of a pro-life message in there.
00:05:57.200 That was just one of Trump's incredibly strong executive orders.
00:06:00.720 I know you were talking about his getting out of the WHO as being a major point that you're
00:06:06.920 happy about.
00:06:08.660 What else was sort of the big takeaways from your time in Washington?
00:06:11.760 Well, just those executive orders, it's nice to see that there's like a return to common
00:06:17.660 sense.
00:06:18.400 And you said it well, and I think that it shows that conservatives in Canada have been
00:06:22.380 so ahead of the curve on this.
00:06:24.240 Daniel Smith, her action in Alberta to protect women and girls in sport, and Pierre just running
00:06:30.580 on literally common sense, bringing back common sense.
00:06:34.140 It must be vindicating for them.
00:06:35.900 The question now is, do Canadian conservatives have the same follow-through that Trump has
00:06:41.840 had?
00:06:42.300 Not many conservatives get into office and do what Donald Trump did, and on day one have
00:06:47.300 a stack of executive orders on their desk that tall and just go through, bang, bang,
00:06:52.100 bang.
00:06:52.380 This is law now.
00:06:53.660 Are we going to see some waffling for the first year?
00:06:56.400 I hope not.
00:06:57.260 I hope Pierre knows what to do, knows what Canadians want, and knows what they need.
00:07:02.520 With the WHO, I mean, that was a no-brainer.
00:07:05.020 It's a disastrous bureaucratic organization, very similar to the World Economic Forum, in
00:07:11.000 terms of their waste, in terms of their belief that they know better than the common man.
00:07:18.000 Getting out of that was a huge win for the Americans.
00:07:20.360 The amount of money that they spend on the World Health Organization is sickening, especially
00:07:24.360 when they don't make up the majority of the global population.
00:07:27.260 They're spending that, basically providing free health care through a wasteful bureaucratic
00:07:32.560 organization to everyone on the planet.
00:07:34.500 And they were footing a huge part of that bill.
00:07:37.480 Canada also foots a huge part of that bill.
00:07:39.520 We're the fifth largest contributor to the World Health Organization.
00:07:45.240 We hand the organization about a quarter billion dollars a year.
00:07:52.700 Unbelievable.
00:07:53.140 It's a gross amount of money.
00:07:55.080 And the leadership of that organization is just like, and I'm not even a conspiracy theorist
00:08:01.100 here when I say that they're like this cabal of communists from Africa that are running 0.99
00:08:05.360 it and taking our money and wasting it.
00:08:08.200 So I hope that Pierre gets the message and follows suit with Donald Trump and the huge success
00:08:13.240 that he's seen in just the first three days that he's had in office and pulls Canada out
00:08:17.100 of the World Health Organization as well.
00:08:18.460 I just think these are such mainstream ideas.
00:08:20.440 I think that when we watch what happened with the pandemic and how these edicts were coming
00:08:25.680 from this World Health Organization, it clearly seemed like a corrupted organization that somehow
00:08:29.620 was having huge power and control over our lives.
00:08:31.840 Now, I know that it's the elected government in Canada that gets to implement the laws, but
00:08:36.640 the edicts were certainly coming from these kinds of organizations.
00:08:39.440 It was a breath of fresh air to see Trump say no to the Paris Climate Accord and no to
00:08:44.340 the WHO.
00:08:45.180 I really hope that the conservatives follow suit.
00:08:47.800 Like you said, like Pierre, if he becomes prime minister, when I'm urging Canadians to
00:08:52.900 sign my petition and call for an election, like we need an election now.
00:08:56.280 77% of Canadians say that they agree.
00:08:59.180 It blows my mind that Justin Trudeau can just pause democracy.
00:09:03.640 He can just press pause for his own party to try to regroup.
00:09:06.360 It's embarrassing in Washington.
00:09:07.820 You were just in Washington.
00:09:10.480 What were you hearing?
00:09:11.720 What were you seeing when it came to Canada and sort of our lack of leadership and presence
00:09:16.700 there?
00:09:18.480 I heard a lot.
00:09:19.420 I spoke with a lot of staffers from the Republican side of Congress, and they seem to think that
00:09:25.120 this tariff thing was a lot of posturing and they just wanted a few simple things.
00:09:31.100 They wanted at least the Canadians to come to the table and negotiate in good faith, which
00:09:36.840 they say they just haven't been.
00:09:38.260 They've been completely AFK, AWOL.
00:09:41.060 They're just missing in action.
00:09:42.880 And that, you know, we know why, because the government is in tatters.
00:09:47.900 Most of Justin Trudeau's cabinet has either committed to resigning or committed to the
00:09:52.880 leadership race.
00:09:53.620 And they're focused on getting Mark Carney elected or Chrystia Freeland elected.
00:09:57.620 So it's just a disaster all around.
00:09:59.200 They're not at the table negotiating with the Americans. 0.64
00:10:01.640 And that's going to be a huge disaster for us, which is why Daniel Smith has taken it upon
00:10:05.880 herself to go.
00:10:07.000 I wish other premiers, you know, Doug Ford has complained a little bit about it.
00:10:10.280 David Eby should go down.
00:10:12.380 Rob Cano should go down.
00:10:14.360 These provincial leaders have a mandate, a fresh mandate in most cases, from their people
00:10:20.120 to put their provinces first.
00:10:22.000 And they should be going down and standing up.
00:10:24.140 And, you know, sure, go with the United Front.
00:10:27.360 Go with a message that is pro-Canada and Canada first.
00:10:30.500 But they have a responsibility to make sure that their provinces are not going to be left
00:10:34.920 scarred by the mistakes of the absent Trudeau regime.
00:10:39.800 Daniel Smith has a huge issue right now, making sure that energy gets.
00:10:44.060 And she's not doing that just for energy producers in Alberta.
00:10:48.480 She she wants energy to be exempted from the tariffs, which is would be great for Alberta.
00:10:52.560 But it would also be great for Ontario, who relies on our energy as well, which gets sent
00:10:57.080 through the American border twice.
00:10:59.660 It goes down south west of the Great Lakes and then back up east.
00:11:02.800 So it's going to be a disaster for Doug Ford.
00:11:05.640 I think that Canadian premiers have got to get on board with what Daniel's doing and
00:11:09.980 actually start fighting for their people.
00:11:11.820 Absolutely.
00:11:12.260 I mean, I'm not from Alberta.
00:11:13.580 I don't live in Alberta.
00:11:14.320 But I think that Daniel Smith speaks for so many Canadians, myself included, when she
00:11:19.180 is saying that, no, the idea to get into a trade war here and have retaliatory tit-for-tat
00:11:23.720 tariffs is not the way to go.
00:11:25.680 Let's negotiate a deal.
00:11:26.720 Let's show up in good faith.
00:11:28.040 We just don't have a prime minister.
00:11:29.860 I do that.
00:11:30.480 OK, I'm going to ask you more questions about your time in Washington.
00:11:32.540 But we have to get to this Pierre Polyev clip.
00:11:35.420 So speaking of gender, we had Trump with this wonderful executive order defending women
00:11:40.760 from gender ideology.
00:11:42.280 And Pierre, not to be outdone, so he was on, I think it was, what was it, Breakfast Television
00:11:45.580 or CTV, one of those.
00:11:47.460 And he was asked whether he would follow suit with what Trump did and only recognize two
00:11:53.000 genders.
00:11:53.220 This is hilarious.
00:11:53.840 It's classic, Pierre.
00:11:54.560 I love this.
00:11:55.180 OK, let's play this clip.
00:11:56.040 First day on the job, President Trump signed an executive order, you know, the U.S. government
00:12:02.220 only recognizing two genders, male, female.
00:12:04.600 They're unchangeable.
00:12:05.680 You know, if elected as prime minister, is that something that you're going to kind of
00:12:09.180 walk in line with?
00:12:10.320 Or what are your feelings on that executive order?
00:12:13.060 Well, I don't know.
00:12:13.980 Do you have any other genders that you'd like to name?
00:12:17.440 Me, personally?
00:12:22.020 Yes.
00:12:22.500 I'm just asking more so if you're in line with what he is saying.
00:12:25.780 Do you agree with what he's saying?
00:12:27.200 Is that something that you would be lockstep with if elected as prime minister?
00:12:31.260 Well, I'm not aware of any other genders than men and women.
00:12:35.500 I mean, if you have any other that you want me to consider, you're welcome to tell me right
00:12:39.860 now.
00:12:40.520 Well, there's, well, there's, personally, I am a man.
00:12:44.240 I am a, as people say, cis man.
00:12:45.980 There are people there who, you know, they say they're gender neutral.
00:12:49.980 You're a man, yes.
00:12:50.920 There are people there who say they're gender neutral.
00:12:52.940 Yeah, they say they're gender neutral.
00:12:55.540 They're, you know, they're a trans person.
00:12:58.800 Is that something that you would recognize here?
00:13:02.160 Whereas in the States, at least with their U.S. government, the way they're seeing it,
00:13:06.440 there's only two.
00:13:09.160 I'm only aware of two.
00:13:10.660 But, I mean, if you have, if you come up with another list, then you're welcome to do
00:13:15.620 that.
00:13:15.820 But I'm aware of two.
00:13:17.660 And as far as I'm concerned, we should have a government that just minds its own damn
00:13:22.000 business and leaves people alone.
00:13:25.000 Amazing.
00:13:25.700 So that was Phil Perkins of CP24 asking the questions there.
00:13:28.900 What did you think, Kian?
00:13:29.680 It was a classic Pierre interview.
00:13:32.280 Just like the Apple interview, he puts the onus on the reporter to actually stand behind
00:13:36.920 the idiocy of what they're asking.
00:13:39.120 He's a smart politician, obviously.
00:13:42.880 That is a great answer.
00:13:44.800 But if you're of, you know, of the position that he should actually take action, it could
00:13:50.700 leave people a little bit concerned because he didn't actually commit to doing what Donald
00:13:54.800 Trump did.
00:13:55.300 He just sort of ridiculed a reporter, which, again, hilarious.
00:13:58.760 Love it.
00:13:59.100 But I want a commitment that says, yeah, there are two genders. 0.99
00:14:04.140 We're not going to allow XYZ on your passport. 1.00
00:14:07.220 We're not going to allow, like, I want, as a ideologically driven person, to hear a commitment
00:14:15.160 that he's going to make Canada better.
00:14:17.460 But, you know, I think I know what he's getting at.
00:14:19.140 I think we both do.
00:14:20.400 So it's good news that he's not allowing reporters to run the show.
00:14:24.480 That's at least the first step.
00:14:26.500 The second step would be, like, concrete action.
00:14:28.360 But we'll see what we do.
00:14:29.500 Well, no, it is classic Pierre.
00:14:31.100 And I love the point he makes where he makes the report.
00:14:34.020 He puts the onus back on the reporter, right?
00:14:35.500 Because reporters in Canada are so used to just having their way with conservative politicians
00:14:39.260 and basically humiliating them based on liberal dogma, right?
00:14:42.900 And so here you have a journalist who's just trying to do what they've always done, which
00:14:47.580 is, like, what Donald Trump did was scary and you have to walk away from it.
00:14:52.340 And then Pierre just so skillfully turns around and it's satisfying because really, like, what
00:14:57.540 is he talking about?
00:14:58.740 Like, what other genders? 1.00
00:15:00.180 Name one, right?
00:15:01.020 Name one.
00:15:01.880 And then, you know, the reporter kind of awkwardly goes back to this idea, like, well,
00:15:05.860 I'm a male, a cis male.
00:15:07.540 It's like, what does that even mean?
00:15:08.780 They know all the words to use, the talking points.
00:15:11.640 And then Pierre says, well, I'm a man too.
00:15:13.760 Like, congratulations.
00:15:15.320 It kind of reminds me, it was about a year ago where we at True North were reporting intensively
00:15:21.660 on this topic of puberty blockers that are going to be given to children.
00:15:25.440 And we didn't know where Pierre stood.
00:15:26.680 I didn't know at the time whether he was going to come out in support of just biological reality
00:15:32.620 or whether he was going to go down this left wing rabbit hole of allowing kids to transition
00:15:37.260 and all kinds of drugs being given to very confused minors.
00:15:42.260 I want to play this clip because it kind of had the same vibe where he kind of almost
00:15:47.000 plays dumb and then he ends up coming to the right place.
00:15:50.540 So let's play that clip.
00:15:51.840 I think that we should protect children and their ability
00:16:21.840 So you think only adults should take puberty blockers?
00:16:30.560 I think we should protect children, let them make adult decisions when they become adults.
00:16:35.280 So that means you are against puberty blockers for kids under the age of 18.
00:16:40.780 Is that clear?
00:16:41.920 Okay.
00:16:43.640 Yeah, that was so good.
00:16:44.760 So that was February 7th, 2024.
00:16:46.300 And again, like, I don't think that Pierre had really come out on record at that point
00:16:51.260 as what his position was on.
00:16:53.240 And you have to like keep it in the broader context, which is that the liberals love divisive
00:16:58.460 social issues.
00:16:59.080 Like that is their bread and butter.
00:17:00.400 That is how they win elections is look at these scary conservatives over here.
00:17:03.940 They want to take us back to like a handmaid's tale.
00:17:06.560 And they try to wrap it all together.
00:17:08.500 And I think that the left lost itself in this gender ideology discussion because they just assumed
00:17:14.500 that they were correct, that they were on the right side, and that Canadians would fall 1.00
00:17:17.960 in line just like they did on gay marriage and abortion.
00:17:20.640 But this is a different issue.
00:17:22.160 And I think when it comes to confused little kids being pushed into this like ideological,
00:17:28.400 I know you said, you know, conservatives are ideological.
00:17:31.020 I think conservatives just stand for common sense.
00:17:33.000 And the ideological part comes from this extreme left idea that boys can be girls and girls can
00:17:39.620 be boys.
00:17:40.000 And it's all just a suggestion and that kids should be non-binary. 0.85
00:17:42.500 Like that is not a mainstream position.
00:17:44.980 And as a mom of little kids, it is something that like really ignites a passion in me.
00:17:49.760 Like I have no tolerance for it at my children's school or with their teachers or with the books
00:17:54.440 they read.
00:17:54.960 I want it as far away from my family as possible.
00:17:58.320 And I'm not alone.
00:17:59.720 Like this isn't one of those positions where I'm like just an extreme conservative on almost
00:18:04.380 everyone I know and almost everyone I talk to is in complete lockstep agreement with
00:18:08.580 me to the point where I think a big part of the reason why Donald Trump was so accepted
00:18:12.820 and is so mainstream now is because of these issues where people are just, we've had enough
00:18:17.400 of the wokeness.
00:18:18.260 We don't want it.
00:18:18.920 We don't want our schools.
00:18:19.960 So it was great to see Pierre come on board and kind of come out in that way saying, no,
00:18:24.680 we shouldn't give drugs to kids.
00:18:27.140 It's an adult decision.
00:18:28.080 And you could see the journalists, they were really kind of hammering on him because he
00:18:31.700 hadn't clarified at that point.
00:18:32.800 I think the journalists were actually just doing their job there.
00:18:34.660 Like, wait, what is your position?
00:18:35.940 What is your position?
00:18:36.540 And he finally came to the right place.
00:18:38.460 But you're right.
00:18:39.900 He needs to actually talk about a policy, right?
00:18:41.700 It's not just about having the right idea and coming to the right position.
00:18:44.700 We need to like get him on record with what he will do on day one and what the policies
00:18:49.260 are.
00:18:49.660 What do you think?
00:18:50.460 Well, you're right.
00:18:50.980 The left stepped on a beehive with this one.
00:18:52.940 They were, they were, they were gallivanting down this path of, you know, enjoying being
00:18:58.940 able to, to set up these social issues.
00:19:01.080 Oh, the conservatives are these scary racist people or, oh, they're trying to prevent, you
00:19:05.980 know, they're trying to force women to have kids and like, like the handman's tail, like
00:19:10.380 super weird stuff.
00:19:11.380 And these were like kind of winning issues for them in the past because they were able to
00:19:15.520 successfully hoodwink Canadians into thinking that conservatives really were these like crazy
00:19:19.740 people.
00:19:20.100 And then they decided to use kids as a pawn in, in their game and parents and even people
00:19:27.600 who aren't parents are just like, bro, like take a step back for a second and understand
00:19:32.240 what you're doing here.
00:19:33.460 When you see the people who have detransitioned and the scars that are literal, literal scars 1.00
00:19:38.200 that are left on their mind and body it's, it's sickening.
00:19:42.140 It's disgusting.
00:19:42.740 There's just so much evidence now that it's a bad idea to allow children, especially children
00:19:47.560 with often parents who they themselves say are trans, who all of a sudden the kids become
00:19:52.660 trans.
00:19:53.160 Like, it's just not, it's not in the best interests of society or kids to allow them to do it.
00:19:58.060 And I think that Pierre, I mean, I'm speaking with people, I've spoken with people close
00:20:02.020 to him and they drew inspiration from Daniel Smith on this.
00:20:05.740 They saw that she, people supported what she did.
00:20:09.500 All you had to do was be bold, stand on the side of protecting children.
00:20:13.700 And the, the, the way forward was paid for you because liberals just are completely in
00:20:19.560 disarray when they have to come to terms with something like this.
00:20:22.460 You know, you're right.
00:20:23.060 It was Daniel Smith's policy that kind of catapulted this whole thing because that was January,
00:20:28.160 sorry, that was February 7th of last year.
00:20:30.300 And then just two weeks later, February 21st, we had Pierre coming out finally with a decisive
00:20:35.860 policy.
00:20:36.580 This was his position on women's prisons and women's sports.
00:20:40.540 Let's play that clip.
00:20:42.480 My question, sir, is should you form the next federal government?
00:20:46.640 Will you make female safe spaces safe again by introducing legislation that bans so-called 1.00
00:20:54.260 transgender women from participating in female sports and getting access into female shelters 0.78
00:21:02.320 and female prisons? 1.00
00:21:03.720 Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males. 1.00
00:21:11.060 The, you asked if I introduce legislation on that.
00:21:14.540 A lot of the spaces you described are provincially and municipally controlled.
00:21:20.520 So it is unclear what federal legislation, what would reach federal legislation would have
00:21:27.740 to change them, but obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should 1.00
00:21:35.080 be for females, not for biological males.
00:21:39.140 First, a little shout out to David Menzies.
00:21:41.120 This is why it's so important to have independent media at these events because they ask better
00:21:44.400 questions a lot of time than the legacy media.
00:21:46.760 So he kind of defaults to, well, these are provincial jurisdictions.
00:21:50.940 One thing I will note with Donald Trump's executive order is that it just shows leadership, right?
00:21:55.280 Like he can't mandate that the entire country fall in line with what he's doing.
00:22:00.520 But when he does it, it gives permission to other people.
00:22:03.360 Like I saw someone noting on X that Silicon Valley is actually like breathing a sigh of relief because they hate these gender ideology 1.00
00:22:11.360 provisions and they hate the diversity, equity, inclusion stuff, and it's like, okay, great.
00:22:15.920 We don't have to do that anymore, right?
00:22:17.200 And it's like gives corporate America an excuse to not do it anymore as well.
00:22:21.360 You're right that Danielle took the lead with banning these sex surgeries and cross-sex hormones to minors. 0.96
00:22:28.420 Have you seen any kinds of changes across Alberta society?
00:22:31.900 And do you think that what Pierre said there is the right approach?
00:22:35.420 I would love to talk to a political expert and understand why Pierre sort of does take this,
00:22:40.760 this route when he sort of like hands off the, the onus to the provinces.
00:22:46.440 Trump does the opposite, even if it's an issue that the States could solve.
00:22:51.040 He does do exactly what you said.
00:22:52.360 He gives them permission to take the right stance as a leader should as, as the first
00:22:58.700 minister of our confederation, Pierre soon to be potentially.
00:23:04.820 Pierre has, has like this, this obligation to show conservatives the way and
00:23:10.260 just say, it's okay to do this.
00:23:12.500 So it's not, it's not a situation of like pushing it onto NDP premiers to solve the issue.
00:23:17.920 It, it really is a national social issue that we need to have some authority on and, and
00:23:24.540 explain what should we be doing here.
00:23:26.860 And we need a standard, standard approach across the country when it comes to this kind
00:23:30.940 of stuff, especially women's prisons. 1.00
00:23:32.180 Um, the fact that some of the most insidious people in this country can do terrible things
00:23:39.080 and then be put, you know, I'm not an advocate for, for other criminals who are rightfully
00:23:44.600 in prison, but these women shouldn't be forced to live their lives with some of the most insane 1.00
00:23:50.600 people in the world who managed to get into a women's prison.
00:23:53.800 And I mean, I won't go into details about, um, the, some of the court cases I've been involved
00:24:00.100 in, in British Columbia with someone who assaulted me years ago.
00:24:03.100 Um, but they, they were of, you know, a similar situation where they would end up in a women's 0.99
00:24:08.660 prison and they should not have been in a women's prison. 1.00
00:24:10.700 Right.
00:24:10.900 A biological man who is having some kind of a mental break and decides that they're a woman
00:24:15.880 and they're also a criminal.
00:24:16.960 I'm not in the case necessarily that you're talking about, but this happens.
00:24:18.940 Like there's a story out of Quebec of a man that murdered three people and then he goes
00:24:22.920 to jail and now all of a sudden he's a woman and he wants to go in the women's prison. 0.77
00:24:26.980 Like I get that female prisoners aren't necessarily the most sympathetic audience that you say,
00:24:31.620 well, they aren't deserving of, you know, the threat and fear of living with a criminal
00:24:35.760 man in their same cell.
00:24:37.060 But it's like at a certain point, like a woman has a right not to be raped, not to be 0.82
00:24:41.580 in a situation where they can be raped. 0.98
00:24:43.320 Everyone does.
00:24:44.320 Even prisoners, even women who are in jail. 0.55
00:24:46.280 And those, those women are put in a hugely unfortunate situation when they're, when they're 0.99
00:24:50.460 forced to shack, like to, to be in a cell with these people, um, you know, a lot of
00:24:55.080 these, a lot of these criminals, women, female prisoners, they're not violent criminals. 1.00
00:25:00.040 Right.
00:25:01.040 Um, they're in jail and they're serving a sentence for society and, um, they shouldn't be put
00:25:06.700 in that situation.
00:25:07.700 So that's the kind of leadership that I would want from our prime minister to, um, to tell
00:25:12.780 premiers, you know, premiers have, have jails that they're in charge of as well.
00:25:16.260 Um, but so does the federal government.
00:25:18.720 There's different types of prisons in this country and they all need an understanding
00:25:23.200 of what is okay and what is not okay.
00:25:25.060 Yeah.
00:25:26.060 And I, I think that's right.
00:25:27.060 That like, well, even many of the women, most of the women, um, who are in women's prison, 1.00
00:25:31.600 even the, the hard offenders who have committed violent crimes is almost always with women,
00:25:36.020 a situation where they've killed their husband or their domestic partner.
00:25:39.440 Like it's, it's almost always like a personal relationship.
00:25:41.700 And so again, the idea that they would be subject to a dangerous male criminal is, is
00:25:48.260 just unfathomable.
00:25:49.300 Um, that's, that's sort of the less sympathetic argument.
00:25:51.600 The more sympathetic argument is when you have women in sports, like teenagers and girls 1.00
00:25:56.640 trying to compete at the top of their level.
00:25:58.320 Um, I was an athlete when I was a teenager and the whole point of female sports is so that 1.00
00:26:04.020 women can have a chance because they can't compete with men. 1.00
00:26:06.520 Men are much bigger and so this idea that you have, uh, men, I know that there's a couple
00:26:10.840 of cases that are going around, it's almost sad.
00:26:14.060 I saw one on social media the other day of a, uh, a male, I think it was a volleyball player
00:26:19.400 on Vancouver Island university, but this, this, this man had gone through a sex, basically
00:26:25.940 transformation as a child.
00:26:27.800 So in this video where, um, he's saying, I want to play sports, um, with the girls because
00:26:34.760 I'm a girl, it's a biological boy, but he says that he was, he started transitioning
00:26:40.160 at the age of five.
00:26:41.800 And so he's, he never went through male puberty and you, you have this like really sad situation.
00:26:47.640 Yeah.
00:26:47.960 Like I actually, I have so much sympathy and I feel for him because I feel like he's
00:26:52.200 been the victim of abuse, um, at the hands of his parents and a society that is delusional
00:26:56.840 enough to, to, to, to allow this to go on.
00:26:59.760 And now you have a person who's in the middle of it and living through it.
00:27:03.240 It's, it's, it's really sad.
00:27:04.600 Um, but at the same time you need the leadership.
00:27:07.160 Didn't you think that the, that clip from Pierre though, on breakfast or on CP two, four, don't
00:27:11.520 you think that is kind of the leadership, the equivalent of what Trump is doing, like giving
00:27:14.800 people permission to take a stance on the decision?
00:27:16.640 I've just been so burned by conservative leaders in the past who say one thing and then,
00:27:21.800 Oh, actually no, the Paris accord is great.
00:27:23.880 You know, so especially Aaron O'Toole has, has really, really burned me.
00:27:28.080 And you know, he, he perhaps luckily was not in a position where he was leading the country.
00:27:34.880 Uh, so we'll see what Pierre does.
00:27:36.920 I just really don't want to count my chickens before they hatch on, on this kind of situation.
00:27:41.840 Fair enough.
00:27:42.440 Definitely been in that situation myself.
00:27:44.800 Uh, okay.
00:27:45.560 Let's, let's talk a bit more about your time in, in Washington.
00:27:47.760 So, um, you know, you were down there, you said you were talking to, um, congressional
00:27:52.280 aides for the Republicans.
00:27:54.480 Tell us first, like what brought you down there?
00:27:56.440 Why were you there?
00:27:57.440 And then maybe talk a little bit about your highlights of your time.
00:28:00.040 Well, the last time I was in Washington DC was to document January 6th, which I feel like
00:28:05.000 I can talk about now because I was like constantly worried that people were going to be upset for
00:28:10.880 me being there as a journalist.
00:28:12.920 Not that I broke any laws.
00:28:13.920 January 6th, 2021.
00:28:14.920 You were there.
00:28:15.920 Yes.
00:28:16.920 For the so-called insurrection.
00:28:17.920 For the so-called insurrection.
00:28:18.920 I don't know if we have to call it that anymore.
00:28:19.920 Yeah.
00:28:20.920 It, I, you see the picture of that guy with his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk and people
00:28:26.680 call him like someone who's like throwing a coup somewhere, you know?
00:28:31.480 Um, and then you see leftists doing the exact same thing, like having a sit in, breaking into
00:28:37.320 someone's office in Congress and sitting in and not allowing them to conduct the business.
00:28:42.520 It happens all the time.
00:28:43.400 It happens constantly.
00:28:45.160 Um, there's like a few people who vandalized that's vandalism.
00:28:49.320 Not great.
00:28:50.120 Did they try to get the codes?
00:28:52.520 Uh, did, did, did they try to overtake the military and, um, hijack nuclear missile silos?
00:28:58.680 No, they didn't.
00:28:59.640 Um, this was not an insurrection.
00:29:01.400 Anyways, last time I was, I just want to say like, there is some social context that's missing,
00:29:05.080 right?
00:29:05.320 Like we were just living through COVID.
00:29:06.760 We just witnessed an entire summer full of the George Floyd riots, black lives matter,
00:29:10.920 burning things down.
00:29:11.880 There were lots and lots of riots all over North America that year.
00:29:15.720 Yeah.
00:29:16.040 Right.
00:29:16.360 And so not to excuse the behavior, I think that there were some bad actors and bad behavior
00:29:21.400 on January six, but by and large, it was a protest, right?
00:29:24.760 It was a protest in support of Trump in, in, in protest against a lot of really crazy things that
00:29:30.280 happened in the 2020 election, a lot of irregularities, a lot of media interference, a lot of things
00:29:35.400 that we now know about the things like the Twitter files, that they were actually manipulating
00:29:39.800 the information behind the scenes, blocking the Hunter laptop Biden story from getting out.
00:29:44.120 Like there was a lot to be angry about at that time.
00:29:47.240 And usually with any kind of situation like this, there's a couple of really bad actors
00:29:51.960 that kind of ignite it.
00:29:53.240 Right.
00:29:53.480 And then everyone else is just there and they kind of get caught in the wrong spot.
00:29:56.520 And we, we know for sure that there were feds there.
00:29:58.760 I think that there was a report that said, what, there was at least 20 or at least 40 feds
00:30:02.440 that were, that were instigating this.
00:30:04.600 And committing crimes.
00:30:05.240 So, so I, you know, I, I don't like the idea that you can just blanket, pardon people.
00:30:09.480 I don't think it was good when Biden was doing it, uh, when Trump did it.
00:30:13.080 But at the same time, I think it had to be done.
00:30:15.320 And I think that a lot of people are happy about it.
00:30:17.000 Well, Biden doing what he did made it the easiest decision.
00:30:20.040 I, I, I wonder if Trump was wondering if it was a good idea or not.
00:30:23.800 And then Biden pardons his family as his last action of government.
00:30:26.760 And Fauci.
00:30:27.160 Yeah.
00:30:27.640 Oh, and that too, like what a disaster.
00:30:29.640 Yeah.
00:30:30.200 So yeah.
00:30:30.920 Anyways, last time I was there was January 6th and the atmosphere was very similar.
00:30:36.840 I, so I wanted to be there for this.
00:30:38.440 I wanted to see what, uh, you know, what people were doing.
00:30:42.680 These, these moments in history are always so great to be at and witness with your own
00:30:47.560 eyes because you can share it with your viewers so that they feel like they're there as well.
00:30:51.400 And you can give them like this on, you know, your viewers trust you and you can give them this
00:30:55.480 honest depiction of what happened.
00:30:57.240 If we left it to the CBC who I was standing beside during January 6th to, uh, to relate to
00:31:03.320 Canadians, what was going on.
00:31:05.800 Canadians would think that it was an insurrection and many do.
00:31:09.640 Many do.
00:31:10.280 Yeah.
00:31:10.360 So I'm, I was glad that I was able to be there in case whatever happened happened,
00:31:14.840 we'd be able to be there to, to document it.
00:31:17.080 And I was lucky enough to be able to get into the Canadian embassy, which funny enough,
00:31:20.920 the last time I was there, I was also thrown out by Bill Morneau because I was trying to go to
00:31:25.240 a Bill Morneau press conference.
00:31:26.440 And they threw me out of name, name me persona non grata on my own embassy, which is just weird.
00:31:31.560 Um, it's, that didn't happen this time.
00:31:33.720 Didn't happen this time.
00:31:34.760 I was welcomed in.
00:31:35.640 I mean, there was a lot of conservatives celebrating there.
00:31:37.720 It was sort of like a conservative victory party.
00:31:40.280 So Liz trust was there.
00:31:42.040 Daniel Smith was there.
00:31:43.480 Um, Danielle Smith wasn't like celebrating.
00:31:46.600 She was there doing interviews and working, but Liz trust was pretty happy.
00:31:50.360 Um, there was a lot of liberal staffers there as well though.
00:31:53.320 Um, both like diplomatic staff and actual liberal staffers that were just sort of there.
00:31:58.840 You could tell cause they had the red lanyards on, but if that wasn't, uh, enough of a sign,
00:32:03.560 they were also crying.
00:32:04.680 So it was pretty entertaining to watch.
00:32:06.840 Oh yeah.
00:32:07.160 They were head hand in their head, uh, head in their hands, just completely upset, devastated,
00:32:12.360 sitting in the void.
00:32:13.320 You should have filmed that.
00:32:14.040 We could have had some nice liberal tears.
00:32:15.560 Yeah, exactly.
00:32:16.520 Yeah.
00:32:16.760 I got to get one of those cups from daily wire.
00:32:19.320 Um, but most of it was a celebration.
00:32:22.600 Um, and it was great to be able to chat with Liz trust as well.
00:32:25.400 Um, I interviewed her there and that went, I was a little bit surprised, but extremely
00:32:30.760 viral.
00:32:31.160 Well, we have that clip.
00:32:31.960 Let's play it.
00:32:32.360 This is a key in catching up with former, uh, conservative prime minister of the UK.
00:32:36.600 Liz just talking about Mark Carney.
00:32:38.120 Yeah.
00:32:39.640 Wanting to get your thoughts on Mark Carney and your relationship with him, uh, while you
00:32:43.800 were prime minister of the United Kingdom and any advice you have to Canadians who think
00:32:48.040 he might make a good prime minister.
00:32:49.240 Well, Mark Carney was governor of the Bank of England and under his tenure, too much money
00:32:55.400 was printed, which did damage to the British economy and put our economy off track.
00:33:01.960 He, at the last election, endorsed Rachel Reeve's economic policy.
00:33:06.360 She's now become chancellor.
00:33:07.880 It's been a disaster for Britain.
00:33:09.560 Uh, the country is heading for bankruptcy.
00:33:11.960 So I would strongly recommend not backing Mark Carney or his policies on net zero, which
00:33:18.280 have been disastrous for Britain and would be disastrous for Canada.
00:33:21.880 Do you trust his judgment overall outside of ideological considerations?
00:33:26.600 Well, I believe that he made major mistakes in the management of the Bank of England.
00:33:31.160 He has pushed net zero, which has been a disaster, not just for the UK, but for many countries across
00:33:37.400 the United Kingdom.
00:33:38.680 Yeah.
00:33:39.680 Great interview there.
00:33:40.680 And I mean, you just have this uncanny ability to find people.
00:33:43.480 That's weird, isn't it?
00:33:44.680 And you bumped into Ted Cruz as well in your time there.
00:33:48.680 So, uh, what, what else were your takeaways from DC?
00:33:51.160 Well, I want to take a minute and point out there, like that, that's what I want to do.
00:33:55.640 I want to ask people questions that Canadians and my audience in general want answers to.
00:34:01.560 And I was able to fly across the continent, go to an embassy and ask a former prime minister
00:34:08.360 of a G7 country, a pretty big deal, a basic question and get something that was extremely
00:34:15.160 valuable content wise.
00:34:16.440 That's what I wanted to do with Mark Carney.
00:34:17.960 He wants to be anointed leader of the liberal party and then appointed prime minister of this
00:34:22.680 country.
00:34:23.720 And I wanted to ask him simple questions.
00:34:26.200 It was different questions and he might not have liked to answer them.
00:34:29.640 In this case, of course, Liz Truss was happy to talk about Mark Carney because
00:34:33.080 she really does not like him.
00:34:34.840 She attributes his downfall or her, her downfall in her short term as prime minister to him
00:34:39.880 and his money printing policies.
00:34:42.360 So, you know, it's different questions and obviously they're, they can be prickly
00:34:47.960 and who knows what the questions are going to be.
00:34:50.440 I usually determine what they're going to be about an hour before I ask the person or sometimes
00:34:54.040 on the spot in that case with Liz Truss, it was just out of my pocket.
00:34:56.600 Right.
00:34:56.840 Right. But Liz Truss didn't need to arrest me, even if those questions were going to
00:35:01.560 be prickly or more prickly.
00:35:05.560 There doesn't need to be police intervention.
00:35:07.160 So it makes me wonder, like, why does Mark Carney and and not just Mark Carney,
00:35:10.920 Justin Trudeau as well, Christia Freeland.
00:35:13.000 Why do they rely on the police to prevent them from being asked accountability questions?
00:35:18.680 It's a huge issue in Canada.
00:35:20.600 I can't go into parliament to ask these questions in in a, you know, in a in a
00:35:27.640 official setting.
00:35:28.360 They won't they will not accredit me because I don't live in Ottawa.
00:35:31.560 That's the rule for the press gallery.
00:35:33.240 That's that's what they say.
00:35:34.120 I'm sure if I'm sure if I was anyone else, they would bend the rules.
00:35:36.760 But it means that I have to either find interesting places to find them on the street, on a beach,
00:35:42.520 whatever, or at a press conference somewhere that is not highly controlled by parliamentary security.
00:35:48.280 So it it's frustrating to me that I have to fly across the world
00:35:54.440 to go to a foreign country to ask our own leader.
00:35:57.560 Yeah, a foreign leader questions.
00:35:59.800 I can walk as a Canadian journalist.
00:36:01.720 I can walk into the White House press room.
00:36:03.720 I've done it.
00:36:04.600 I've done it many times before.
00:36:06.040 And it's pretty simple.
00:36:07.240 They say, oh, yeah, First Amendment also applies to you.
00:36:10.040 The rights of media access also apply to you as a foreign journalist.
00:36:13.400 I cannot do that in Canada.
00:36:15.160 In fact, when and during Donald Trump's first term,
00:36:18.760 the only time I've ever been able to get a question close to Trudeau up until that point,
00:36:24.200 obviously, I met him on a beach recently, but I had to fly to the White House.
00:36:28.520 I'd be kicked out of parliament.
00:36:29.960 I'd have to go to the White House for his Trudeau's foreign visit to see Donald Trump there.
00:36:33.880 And then I could ask him questions.
00:36:35.720 Of course, his media team was furious and they pushed me.
00:36:37.640 And did you get questions through it?
00:36:39.640 They didn't respond.
00:36:40.280 But we were able to shout them to him and get the point across what we wanted to ask.
00:36:43.320 And it's the point of it is the access.
00:36:47.480 You have the ability to get there and ask a question.
00:36:49.320 If they want to respond, they respond.
00:36:50.760 It's up to them.
00:36:51.560 But there shouldn't be a police force between you,
00:36:54.680 between someone who represents the people and wants to get answers from those in power
00:37:00.840 and get, you know, relay sort of a message between the two and actually
00:37:04.920 have some accountability between the two.
00:37:06.680 There shouldn't be a police force able to determine if you meet the right partisan,
00:37:13.400 you know, if you check off the right partisan boxes to be allowed in the room.
00:37:16.920 That's insane.
00:37:17.560 And it's totally insane.
00:37:18.920 Well, two points on that.
00:37:20.120 One, it's kind of, it always kind of blows my mind.
00:37:22.760 It's remarkable that, you know, you could get up to a prime minister trust like that
00:37:27.960 and ask her a question.
00:37:29.000 The clip went viral.
00:37:29.960 Everyone was really interested in hearing what she had to say.
00:37:32.760 And no one in the legacy media thought to do that, right?
00:37:34.920 Like for all the resources, all the money that the CBC and CTV and all these different newspapers
00:37:39.800 and outlets, they all had presence in Washington.
00:37:42.600 But they're not doing that.
00:37:43.400 They're not actually doing the kind of journalism that Canadians are interested in.
00:37:46.840 The second point, just so that the viewers and listeners understand the full context.
00:37:51.560 So Kian was one of the journalists who was at Mark Carney's launch party in Edmonton last week,
00:37:57.080 where he launched his leadership.
00:37:58.760 And Kian was basically stopped by police, not allowed into the building, not allowed to go to
00:38:04.280 the event.
00:38:05.320 You know, Mark Carney decided to launch his campaign in Edmonton.
00:38:08.200 I guess he grew up there, spent a bit of time in his childhood there.
00:38:11.240 He certainly doesn't live there now.
00:38:12.520 He's certainly not an Edmontonian.
00:38:14.280 But the idea was that you and a handful of other independent journalists, including True
00:38:18.760 Norris, Isaac Lamoureux, were not, I don't know what their justification was,
00:38:23.160 that you weren't journalists or that you weren't allowed.
00:38:25.240 I mean, you're an Albertan and he's in your province and he's refusing to ask questions.
00:38:29.640 On local media.
00:38:31.080 It's absolutely outrageous.
00:38:33.080 And same with Isaac Lamoureux.
00:38:34.520 I mean, Isaac's more polite than you.
00:38:36.840 He's not going to, you know, try to make a fuss about it.
00:38:40.200 You're a tough cookie.
00:38:41.080 You're not taking no for an answer.
00:38:42.440 And so you tried to fight your way in until the police came and eventually escorted you away.
00:38:47.400 Walk us through a little bit.
00:38:49.080 Like what was their rationale?
00:38:51.000 What was the reason?
00:38:51.720 Why wouldn't they let you in?
00:38:53.400 What do you think Mark Carney's afraid of?
00:38:55.320 Yeah.
00:38:55.720 We didn't publish all of what happened there.
00:38:58.200 I mean, we have most of it on video.
00:38:59.880 Unfortunately, my meta, I got these new like meta sunglasses to film video.
00:39:04.280 They failed on me that day, which disappointed me a bit because
00:39:07.640 those would have caught footage of his campaign team locking my leg in a door,
00:39:13.240 like closing my door, closing door on my leg and then putting their legs and body in between me
00:39:19.960 and the door to keep me locked there, unable to move or go into a different room.
00:39:23.800 Sounds a little bit like assault.
00:39:25.160 I can't believe that happened.
00:39:26.120 Absolutely.
00:39:26.760 Absolutely.
00:39:27.480 And so it's, but I also, I don't want to be known as the journalist who always has to,
00:39:32.200 police called on them.
00:39:32.920 Like it's, it's, it's awful.
00:39:34.440 It's a terrible situation to be in, to have to negotiate with the police to do your job.
00:39:38.600 Like, like I'm not a, I'm not a villain.
00:39:41.480 I'm not dangerous, obviously, or else I wouldn't be allowed in the white house.
00:39:46.520 And they're able to basically tarnish my reputation by saying, look, he's the kind
00:39:52.280 of guy who needs the cops called on him because he's so rambunctious or he's going to break rules
00:39:56.520 or be, you know, a bad person.
00:39:58.360 Like it's, it's weird.
00:39:59.720 Have you ever interrupted an event?
00:40:01.080 Have you ever gone in and like shouted out somebody while they were talking and giving a speech?
00:40:05.240 Like, I mean, we saw Chrystia Freeland giving her announcement and you had a bunch of people
00:40:09.320 out there calling her part of a genocide and pushing their Gaza issue.
00:40:13.960 Um, have you, have you ever done anything like that?
00:40:15.960 I don't think so.
00:40:17.080 I mean, I, I mean, I've only ever seen you ask questions as a journalist.
00:40:20.440 Yeah.
00:40:20.840 I mean, you've shouted questions at someone who's running across the street or we'll get
00:40:24.520 to Justin Trudeau on the beach, but I don't think I've ever seen you interrupt an event.
00:40:28.200 In polite company, you want to be polite.
00:40:30.520 You don't want to be the person that like runs in front of the cameras and busts up an event just
00:40:36.840 so that you can get some silly question to someone who probably won't answer it anyways.
00:40:41.000 That's not the purpose.
00:40:42.200 The purpose is to get a thoughtful question that Canadians want answers to, um, asked to and
00:40:47.400 responded by someone of significance who needs to be held accountable or, or has something of intrigue
00:40:54.520 like Liz Truss, who doesn't need to be held accountable necessarily, but has some advice for
00:40:58.520 people. And you want to be able to give that to your readers and viewers. Um, that's the goal.
00:41:02.360 The goal is not to cause a scene at all. So we, we didn't publish a lot of that because we didn't
00:41:06.920 want to be known, um, as those people that police get called on when we do our job. But we did have
00:41:12.680 to show that Mark Carney is the kind of guy that calls the police on journalists. Cause it wasn't just
00:41:17.720 me, you know, we were, we were accredited. We were, we applied, we received the invitation.
00:41:23.720 That's the only reason we knew where it was. Cause it was actually quite secret.
00:41:26.280 Right. Um, we got the invitation the next morning. I drove up from Calgary and we were
00:41:31.400 steps away from getting in and some guy who would not, who's we were, you were with someone from
00:41:36.120 the Western standard. I was with, uh, yeah, there was someone from the Western standard. We all drove
00:41:39.560 up separately, but you know, Isaac was there, the Western standard was there. Um, Mocha was there
00:41:45.160 and we were about to step in and they just said, no, you're not coming in. And we, we were like,
00:41:50.200 okay, uh, who are you? And he wouldn't identify himself. We asked if he was with the campaign.
00:41:54.440 I'd never seen him before. Um, he was just some guy. And we said, are you with the campaign?
00:41:59.880 No, I'm not with the campaign. I'm just a random guy. He said, and which is weird because.
00:42:03.480 Then why does he have authority? Exactly. Exactly. And then people who I think who,
00:42:08.040 who now later people tell me, uh, it was this guy named Steven Carter, maybe you're something. I,
00:42:13.240 I don't really know him. Um, he was sort of liaising with this thug who was holding my leg in a door,
00:42:20.680 super weird behavior for a political campaign in Canada. It seemed like something out of a third
00:42:24.600 world. And. You know, people needed to see that people need to see that that's what Mark Carney's
00:42:30.040 going to do. Um, I mean, I, I wasn't at Christia Freeland's launch. I was at the inauguration.
00:42:35.240 I wonder if she would have done the same thing. Um. Well, it doesn't seem like her event was nearly
00:42:40.040 as secure. In fact, I was really surprised that those protesters got in, they had like a large banner.
00:42:45.480 Like how do you get a banner like that into a political event? It's so weird. And it's like,
00:42:49.720 in some ways the Canadian political class is like so locked down and you can't get to them. And then
00:42:55.000 in other ways they're totally exposed and like actually could, things could have gone a lot
00:42:59.400 worse. Like if you could sneak a big sign into a campaign launch, what else could you sneak in there?
00:43:04.200 Yeah. And I don't want to be an advocate for tightening up access to politicians. I think
00:43:08.680 that's a great thing about Canada that we are able to get that access. Um,
00:43:13.160 but then you compare it to the United States and it's, it's very different. Um, someone can walk
00:43:18.840 off the streets and go up to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's office, sit in the front office of it
00:43:25.640 and wait for it to come out and, uh, they can get their phone number. Imagine, and they can get their
00:43:30.600 email. The emails of our MPs are hidden. You know, they're not publicly accessible. You can, you know,
00:43:35.800 you could email justin.trudeau at parl.gc.ca and it'll go to a bureaucrat or some, some, um,
00:43:43.240 what hit the actual email that goes to his Blackberry or iPhone or any other member of
00:43:47.320 parliament is like first name dot last name dot a string of digits. And that will go to them if you
00:43:53.960 are an insider or an elite or also a politician. And I get that their phone can't be blowing up all the
00:43:59.400 time and they have work to do, but the access that we have, um, isn't anywhere close to what
00:44:05.720 the Americans get, which, you know, you gotta, you gotta hand it to them being a, uh, congressman
00:44:11.400 or senator. You are, you're accessible to the people. And they know that they know that their
00:44:17.720 job is to represent the people and help them Canadian members of parliament. I don't think
00:44:23.240 have that same, uh, opinion of themselves. Uh, it's interesting that you said that any
00:44:27.960 journalists can kind of show up at the white house and go to a press briefing that their first amendment
00:44:33.800 guarantees that how do they prevent? Cause I just did like play devil's advocate. You hear the,
00:44:38.600 the, the libs or the establishment people in Canada say, well, not just anyone could be a
00:44:42.360 journalist. Like not every citizen from Twitter can just show up and expect to ask questions of
00:44:46.760 their premises. So how does, how does the U S stop just like every single like streamer and citizen
00:44:52.120 journalist on X from showing up to an event or they just don't worry about it. Yeah. Who cares if they
00:44:58.520 do. Yeah. Right. Um, but you know, I shouldn't say that anyone can, um, I was able to get in
00:45:03.800 you submit like some documents to, I think it's maybe Homeland security and they audit you,
00:45:10.600 make sure that you're not a bad person and oh yeah, they're a journalist. Okay. You're in.
00:45:16.120 So there is some like steps to go through. It's not, it's not a walk in the front door kind of thing.
00:45:20.680 You have to, you have to let them go through your background and cause you're, you're, you're in the
00:45:25.160 president's house. You gotta be safe person. But if you're a journalist that gives you some credibility
00:45:31.000 and, um, obviously you gotta be a good, a safe person, nonviolent, not a criminal, but, um,
00:45:39.160 their definition of journalist is quite broad in the United States. In Canada, they like to think
00:45:43.800 that you have to have gone to, um, some journalism college to have the, the title of journalist.
00:45:49.720 Like it's like some sort of doctorate, but not even that cause true north hires from journalism
00:45:53.560 schools. So Harrison Faulkner went to Ryerson. Um, uh, Rachel Parker went to Carleton journalism
00:46:00.760 school and I don't think that they're getting any, any, any different treatment than you.
00:46:04.840 Like if you work for an independent press, um, outlet, they don't consider you to be a real
00:46:10.360 journalist. Um, you know, it's not just Mark Carney. It seems to be a bit of a theme. So
00:46:14.520 I noticed our mutual friend, Ezra Levant was in Davos, Switzerland. Um, and he, he, he also just
00:46:20.760 unbelievable the ability to find these people. So he caught up with, um, BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink,
00:46:26.760 um, to ask them about their DEI policies in the wake of Donald Trump's victory. So let's play that
00:46:31.880 clip. Mr. Fink, are you going to follow Donald Trump's, uh, plan and get rid of DEI and ESG
00:46:38.440 in your companies? BlackRock really is the opposite of Donald Trump in so many ways. You're
00:46:46.920 authoritarian, you're anti-populist, you're top down. Are you going to change it all in light of
00:46:52.280 the US presidency? How has Donald Trump, have you talked to Donald Trump since he was elected?
00:47:02.680 Is the World Economic Forum a counterpoint to Donald Trump?
00:47:09.880 Why are you running away from simple questions? Just answer a question. Have you talked to President
00:47:13.960 Trump yet? Why are your, why are your bodyguards pushing away journalists, Mr. Fink?
00:47:19.160 So good for Ezra for doing that and getting in there. I think we missed the part where the guy
00:47:24.600 took his phone out and took a picture of it. That was a little bit, um, creepy. You know, Davos is
00:47:29.240 always an interesting time. We had our own Andrew Lawton. Uh, unfortunately, as folks know, Andrew
00:47:34.040 has decided to go and run for parliament. So he's a conservative candidate in London. So he's no longer,
00:47:38.520 uh, doing his show, the Andrew Lawton show. And unfortunately we weren't able to send him to,
00:47:42.360 um, Davos this year, but in the past, uh, Andrew has been our man that goes down there and
00:47:47.080 it's just, it's just so amusing. So I'll, I'll play this clip. Um, this is Andrew Lawton. He caught
00:47:52.040 up with, uh, Christine Lagarde, who's the head of the European Central Bank, tried to ask her a
00:47:57.080 question, um, and she resisted. So let's play that clip.
00:47:59.880 Good afternoon, ma'am. How can people have confidence in digital currencies and government
00:48:04.280 not using it as a tool of control? I'm not giving an interview. I'm not speaking because I'm in a quiet
00:48:09.480 period. This is about rebuilding trust this year. How can people have trust in these institutions
00:48:13.880 when governments wield so much control? Mrs. Lagarde, where's the privacy of the people? 0.71
00:48:19.080 Shouldn't you be answering questions if this conference's theme is rebuilding trust, ma'am?
00:48:24.280 He's a, he's skillful and you definitely lost some talent there because, and, but you know,
00:48:29.320 the great thing is Canada's, Canada's going to gain something there. You know where he's coming from
00:48:33.640 with what he's saying there. That was a really good question that he asked her and something that
00:48:37.880 I wish we actually got an answer to. Well, I mean that I'm, I'm having a quiet period. It's just,
00:48:43.000 it's so perfect for the WEF and how they regard the regular people. And Andrew, such a talented
00:48:48.200 journalist. It's sad to lose him. Although I know he's going to do great things in parliament.
00:48:51.560 Another one he caught up with, this was from a few years ago. He caught up with none other than
00:48:55.800 Mark Carney trying to do an interview on the streets there in Davos. Let's play that clip.
00:49:00.200 Hi, Mr. Carney. Andrew Rotten with True North and Canada. How are you?
00:49:03.880 Nice to see you. I never do, I never do spontaneously.
00:49:09.080 I understand. My one question is because the Canadian oil and gas sector survive
00:49:12.600 the net zero approach that's being promoted here. I, as I said, I never do. You want,
00:49:18.520 if you want an interview with me, uh, like everybody else, you make a request.
00:49:22.840 Okay. And will you accept that?
00:49:26.360 Uh, yeah, he, he never accepted the actual interview surprise surprise, but at least, uh,
00:49:30.520 I like how he, he does an interview cause he's answering the questions just to say,
00:49:34.280 I don't do interviews. It's like, well, whether you realize that or not, Mr. Carney, you're literally
00:49:37.880 doing an interview, um, right now. Okay. I, I, I have to throw to this Kian, cause this is, uh, 1.00
00:49:42.840 something that made you even more famous than you already were. I don't know how you did it.
00:49:46.120 Um, but we have this clip of you from the summer of, was it 2023?
00:49:50.840 With, with Sofino, with Justin Trudeau.
00:49:52.840 Oh, with Trudeau. Yeah. Uh, it was last summer.
00:49:55.080 Last summer. Okay. So, so here is, uh, Kian Bexie who managed to catch up with none other than the
00:50:00.680 Prime Minister of Canada, uh, while he was on vacations by that clip.
00:50:03.960 All right. Have you enjoyed your time on vacation?
00:50:08.600 I am.
00:50:09.240 Good.
00:50:09.640 You having a good time on vacation, sir?
00:50:11.080 I'm happy to speak with you, because actually this is the first time
00:50:13.720 we've been able to speak with you.
00:50:15.080 Are you on vacation?
00:50:15.320 Because your government is so sick.
00:50:19.960 We want to know why you can justify going on a chartered government flight
00:50:25.880 when your minister says that going on a simple road trip,
00:50:29.000 the minister's right here.
00:50:31.560 Sure. Thank you.
00:50:32.200 I'll be with you in a bit.
00:50:32.840 Thank you. I appreciate it.
00:50:33.880 So, tell me.
00:50:34.440 I just want to know.
00:50:35.080 No, no, no.
00:50:35.560 I get that.
00:50:36.040 I ask the questions.
00:50:36.760 You know, no, no.
00:50:37.480 No, no.
00:50:37.640 You can ask me one question and I'll ask you one question.
00:50:38.840 You can ask me one question and I'll ask you one question.
00:50:39.640 Okay?
00:50:39.960 Sure.
00:50:40.440 Do you think Prime Ministers should be able to have a family life?
00:50:44.520 Absolutely.
00:50:45.320 Okay.
00:50:46.600 Can you imagine?
00:50:47.800 No, no, no, no.
00:50:48.680 I get to ask one question.
00:50:49.560 You've asked multiple questions.
00:50:50.840 You haven't answered one, though.
00:50:51.880 I'm going to ask one more.
00:50:53.080 Do you think Prime Ministers get to have a family life?
00:50:55.560 Journalists also get to have access to Prime Ministers.
00:50:58.280 I have.
00:50:59.240 Okay.
00:50:59.960 So, what's your question?
00:51:00.920 Well, I wanted to know if you're hiding from your caucus,
00:51:03.720 why you won't call a caucus meeting?
00:51:05.400 Okay.
00:51:05.960 I am not hiding from my caucus.
00:51:08.200 And I've had many, many conversations and meetings with caucus.
00:51:13.960 That's just the absolute best kind of journalism.
00:51:15.960 And props to you for Cassie.
00:51:18.360 You know, we were just talking about how Canadians don't really have access
00:51:20.840 to our leaders, and so you have to find a way.
00:51:23.560 And you did it.
00:51:25.240 Tell us a little bit about how you managed to get Justin Trudeau
00:51:27.880 and a little bit about the reaction.
00:51:29.960 The reaction was something else.
00:51:32.600 We knew he was in BC.
00:51:34.040 He, unlike most democratically elected leaders in the Western world,
00:51:40.120 we don't get a detailed itinerary from Justin Trudeau.
00:51:43.320 We know where Donald Trump is every second of every day.
00:51:46.280 Maybe that comes with having the codes to nuclear weapons.
00:51:49.400 Maybe it's just being a serious country.
00:51:51.000 I don't know.
00:51:51.800 But all we got was that he was in British Columbia taking personal days.
00:51:55.400 So I thought, okay, where is he likely to be in BC?
00:51:58.600 He's probably not skiing.
00:51:59.880 He goes to Tofino often.
00:52:01.160 I checked the Tofino Facebook group and they're like,
00:52:03.400 Oh, what's this motorcade about?
00:52:04.680 So I was like, okay, so he's there.
00:52:06.600 So we get on a plane, like a float plane.
00:52:10.200 And we go out there and we walk around and we find his motorcade.
00:52:14.520 Pretty easy to spot.
00:52:15.880 We see his RCMP detail between this house that we knew that he had stayed at in the past
00:52:21.960 and the beach.
00:52:22.600 And we just sort of waited out there in beach gear, sort of.
00:52:25.880 If we could catch him on a stroll, then we'd ask him a few questions.
00:52:29.000 This wasn't something that I thought would be extremely controversial.
00:52:31.560 Global News did this before when he went to that very same house on Truth and Reconciliation Day.
00:52:37.640 That was newsworthy.
00:52:38.600 A news organization deemed it to be newsworthy.
00:52:41.480 And the reaction, the value that people saw in that afterwards deemed it as well.
00:52:46.680 And his minister had just told Canadians that going on a road, like the context of this is
00:52:51.000 his minister, just Mark Holland said that going on a road trip is causing the world to burn.
00:52:57.400 And it is the responsibility of Canadians to ration how often they go on vacation.
00:53:02.360 And then Justin Trudeau charters a private jet.
00:53:05.080 Right. Because somehow us driving in our car for like two hours is going to like end the planet.
00:53:09.160 Yeah.
00:53:09.400 I mean, while this guy's off on a private jet going around the country.
00:53:12.200 Okay.
00:53:12.440 Yeah.
00:53:12.840 So we, I wanted to ask him about that.
00:53:15.720 Don't you see the hypocrisy?
00:53:16.920 But of course he thinks he's different.
00:53:18.360 He really does at the base of his personality.
00:53:20.840 He thinks that he has been bestowed on Canada by God to save us as a Trudeau.
00:53:25.800 So he thinks that the rules are not for him.
00:53:27.720 Even the rules that he sets are not for him.
00:53:29.720 And we weren't asking those questions.
00:53:30.920 Now, did I expect to get like 14 minutes?
00:53:32.680 I think it was with him.
00:53:33.880 No, I was glad that I was able to like get some.
00:53:36.600 I had a lot of questions stacked up over time to ask him.
00:53:39.400 And it was nice of him to give me that time.
00:53:40.920 But you could tell from the start of that interview that he didn't think I was a journalist.
00:53:44.200 He thought that I was just a regular guy on vacation because I was in beach gear probably.
00:53:48.680 But, you know, we had some serious questions to ask him and I was glad we were able to.
00:53:52.200 The reaction was, you know, from our audience, they were very happy.
00:53:56.200 We get arrested when we show up to ask him questions, as evidenced by what happened with Mark Carney.
00:54:02.200 It's his staff running Mark Carney's campaign.
00:54:03.960 So it's, you know, exactly the same thing.
00:54:05.720 We're banned from parliament.
00:54:07.080 I've been arrested and hauled out of Rideau Hall when he was having a COVID press conference because his press advance, Terry Guion, who's a terrible, terrible piece of scum, human, worst person in the world.
00:54:21.320 Justin Trudeau has him deciding what journalists are allowed in and out.
00:54:24.840 He sicked the RCMP on me to send me away.
00:54:28.440 So we, you know, we have to find novel ways of finding the prime minister.
00:54:32.520 And it was on a beach.
00:54:34.280 The prime minister was on vacation, but he takes like 116 days of vacation a year.
00:54:39.400 So it's like a one in three chance that he's going to be on vacation on any given day.
00:54:43.800 So are we just not allowed to talk to the prime minister for a third of the year?
00:54:46.840 Absolutely not.
00:54:47.800 Some people were upset, mainly liberals.
00:54:49.880 And the reaction that they had was just completely unhinged.
00:54:53.080 Personal attacks, death threats, threatening to show up at private events of my family, unhinged behavior.
00:55:01.080 I'm not the leader of a G7 country.
00:55:03.000 I don't control the military.
00:55:05.320 I don't control an economy and I don't get paid like 200 bajillion dollars a year.
00:55:10.200 Justin Trudeau does.
00:55:12.120 And he has an obligation to respond to questions and explain to Canadians why he thinks he still
00:55:19.160 has the moral authority to govern.
00:55:20.760 This was right after his poll numbers plummeted.
00:55:23.000 He was pulling at like 20% at this point in time.
00:55:25.800 Eight in 10 Canadians wanted him out.
00:55:28.600 So how is it my fault for asking questions?
00:55:31.400 Well, liberals told me that I was just an evil, terrible person for doing this.
00:55:34.680 Conservatives, they loved it because they knew that this is the only way you can actually get questions.
00:55:39.480 The mainstream media, although that there's that one guy, I think his name was Jordan Armstrong,
00:55:44.680 came to that same beach house to ask him questions two years prior.
00:55:47.800 Not many people in the parliamentary press gallery would ask him the questions that I asked him.
00:55:51.480 No, they were pointed.
00:55:52.280 They were good.
00:55:52.760 They're professional.
00:55:53.640 I have to give you credit because you could see, I was first of all to say,
00:55:57.000 I was impressed by Justin Trudeau for kind of pushing.
00:55:59.240 I think that those were like his bodyguards.
00:56:00.680 He kind of pushed him back and said, I'm going to go for a walk with Kian.
00:56:03.320 He kind of grabs you and he's really up close to you doing what Trudeau does,
00:56:07.480 but he was trying to charm you, right?
00:56:09.240 And he was trying to evoke sympathy and he was trying to come across as very human.
00:56:13.640 And you were having none of it.
00:56:14.920 Like you answered his questions and you were super respectful.
00:56:17.160 I don't think you were rude.
00:56:18.200 I don't think you were unruly, respectful, but you weren't buying into his BS.
00:56:21.640 He's probably not used to that.
00:56:22.600 He's probably not used to being able to, you know, he puts on the charm and then the people
00:56:27.080 fall in line.
00:56:27.640 And that's everyone around him, probably his entire life.
00:56:30.680 So I think it was a little bit, um, you know, put them off guard for, for someone like you
00:56:35.160 to be so firm, but also this is of their own making, right?
00:56:38.760 They create an environment where independent journalists who have valid questions who speak
00:56:42.280 for millions and millions of Canadians don't get the chance to actually ask our prime minister.
00:56:46.680 Like I would love for you to go find Justin Trudeau wherever he is right now and do the same
00:56:50.280 thing and be like, why haven't you stepped down?
00:56:52.040 Why are you still prime minister?
00:56:53.240 Why are you putting liberal party ahead of the good of the country?
00:56:56.040 Like, what are you doing?
00:56:56.760 Why weren't you down in Washington?
00:56:57.880 Why aren't you negotiating with Trump?
00:57:00.120 There's again, a million questions that Canadians would love to know of this guy.
00:57:03.320 I don't know where the media is.
00:57:04.680 I don't know why they're not answering these questions.
00:57:06.360 And this is all Justin Trudeau's fault for not allowing you in in the first place.
00:57:09.320 He's made his own bed when it comes to this kind of thing, um, by sheltering himself from
00:57:14.360 questions that are, you know, Donald Trump lets any reporter ask him tough questions.
00:57:19.240 He, maybe he ridicules them.
00:57:20.920 Yeah.
00:57:21.240 Um, but he shut, maybe he shuts them down.
00:57:23.880 I mean, Justin Trudeau just doesn't, I think that they know deep down, he doesn't have the
00:57:27.480 competency to do that.
00:57:28.680 He is disarming a little bit when you're interviewing like that.
00:57:31.320 You mentioned he grabs you, like he physically grabbed me and said, okay, we're walking this
00:57:34.920 way, which is a weird thing.
00:57:36.280 You know, he does that.
00:57:37.160 He does that too.
00:57:37.960 I've heard a lot of people say that he does that to them.
00:57:40.280 And it's weird when it happens to you, um, he's very handsy person and he tries to control
00:57:45.560 the conversation and because he he's, that's who he, who he is.
00:57:49.640 He thinks that everything revolves around him, that he determines when you can speak,
00:57:53.720 where you can stand, when you sit, when you talk.
00:57:56.600 And he, you know, he doesn't like answering questions.
00:57:59.240 So that's, that's sort of played into this whole nine years of him avoiding any sort of
00:58:03.960 accountability and us having to find novel and unique ways to speak to him.
00:58:07.880 Well, it's not a good sign that Mark Carney is doing the same thing, hiring the same thugs.
00:58:12.280 I do think he'll be the next prime minister of this country.
00:58:14.680 Hopefully not for very long.
00:58:16.440 Hopefully at some point we'll get a democratic election.
00:58:19.800 I launched a petition today.
00:58:20.920 I encourage everyone to go check out my website, CandaceMalcolm.com.
00:58:23.960 Please sign that petition.
00:58:24.920 I would love to get a million signatures and hand it to the governor general.
00:58:28.360 Like I'll, I'll get you to come with me.
00:58:29.880 We'll track down the governor general.
00:58:31.480 We'll hand it to her, uh, in person.
00:58:33.480 It needs to be done.
00:58:34.120 We need an election Canada. 0.97
00:58:35.240 Okay.
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00:58:36.760 Thank you so much for coming out here and keep up the great work.
00:58:40.440 Okay.
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