The Candice Malcolm Show - Arrogant Australian says Canadian Citizenship Process is “Problematic”

00:00:00.000 Liberal elites get triggered by the word freedom and the sight of the Canadian flag.

00:00:04.260 A legacy media organization nominates a fake news story for an excellence award

00:00:08.300 and the CBC continues to publish incoherent opinion pieces.

00:00:12.080 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

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00:01:05.080 Always happy to be here, Candice.

00:01:06.680 So this is like a reoccurring theme.

00:01:08.640 I think it's just like the latest thing to do on the political left is to talk about how

00:01:13.360 freedom is now a word that means something other than freedom

00:01:16.940 and the Canadian flag is something that we shouldn't feel proud about.

00:01:20.720 We shouldn't see it as a sign of unity or hope or freedom or any of those kind of things,

00:01:25.420 but we should all be ashamed of our Canadian flag and our Canadian symbols.

00:01:29.840 Harrison, so first I want to talk about this.

00:01:32.520 I've heard this so much since the Freedom Convoy.

00:01:36.280 Liberals and leftists sort of wrapping themselves into a pretzel

00:01:39.180 trying to explain how freedom is actually a bad thing.

00:01:42.180 So here we had liberal crony, former CBC talking head, Bruce Anderson.

00:01:47.380 He gets really upset by the word freedom.

00:01:49.180 So here he is on Twitter earlier this week saying that the battle cry freedom

00:01:54.000 seems increasingly like a Trojan horse.

00:01:56.580 Inside are ideas that undermine equal rights, threaten the planet, risk economic chaos,

00:02:02.120 undermine law and order, spirit of community, ability to manage a public health crisis,

00:02:07.060 fact-based news, etc.

00:02:08.200 This is how liberals and people on the left justify the fact that they have completely failed

00:02:13.160 to uphold the chart of rights and freedoms over the last two years, Harrison.

00:02:16.120 The fact that they have abandoned the basic tenets of liberalism.

00:02:19.640 Like these are big L liberals who hate small L liberalism.

00:02:23.420 And here he lays out exactly the ways that he sees that

00:02:27.240 the following things are more important than individual liberty.

00:02:31.380 So he thinks that equal rights, whatever that means, probably equity, equal outcome,

00:02:36.100 threatening the planet.

00:02:37.780 So therefore we should have a climate strategy that undermines individual liberty,

00:02:42.880 risk economic chaos, undermine law and order, spirit of community, and of course,

00:02:47.360 you know, the two main ones that the liberals obsess over these days, ability to manage a 0.96

00:02:51.520 public health crisis.

00:02:52.340 So therefore the government's power to try to manage a public health crisis is more important

00:02:57.600 than individual liberty.

00:02:58.960 And fact-based news.

00:03:00.780 All of this was just over, by the way, Mark Mulroney, son of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney,

00:03:06.100 just tweeted out something about how, hey, if you don't like freedom, ignore it.

00:03:11.660 If you think that a politician's talking about freedom and you think we're already as free

00:03:16.320 as possible, then ignore it.

00:03:17.800 Then he also said there are no caveats to freedom.

00:03:20.300 That really triggered Bruce Anderson.

00:03:22.940 What did you make of this, Harrison?

00:03:24.780 Well, I just think this is all very, very odd.

00:03:27.760 Because again, when you have these liberal CBC talking heads saying that freedom really is

00:03:35.900 just undermining equal rights and it's threatening the planet, I mean, it's kind of heading in 1.00

00:03:42.900 a weird direction.

00:03:43.780 And then spirit of community, you've got that collectivism aspect in there too.

00:03:48.180 I really think it goes back to one of the themes, Candice, that we've talked about on this

00:03:52.820 show, which is the elites, the CBC talking heads, liberals, these people want you to try

00:04:00.500 and believe that the word freedom means something different when they say it to when someone that

00:04:06.400 they disagree with says it.

00:04:07.600 So if you're a working class trucker, for example, when you promote freedom, you're actually 0.84

00:04:12.820 promoting this dangerous Trojan horse.

00:04:15.240 But when someone like Bruce Anderson promotes freedom or when someone like that, when a

00:04:20.320 politician that Bruce Anderson supports talks about the need to protect freedom for Canadians,

00:04:25.760 it means something totally different.

00:04:27.500 So there's this contrast of definitions that I think is very dangerous and very just, it's

00:04:34.480 a very weird, it's a weird thing to witness.

00:04:37.660 It's a weird time to be alive when we're having these weird sort of definitional battles

00:04:43.500 about certain words like freedom.

00:04:45.240 But Candice, it goes on because not only is it about freedom, freedom means two different

00:04:52.600 things when the right person says it, it extends to the flag.

00:04:57.300 And there was this incredible Globe and Mail op-ed that was written at the end of March.

00:05:02.500 And it was written by an author named John Boyko.

00:05:05.200 And the headline of this op-ed is, Recapturing the Flag, Canada is Still Recovering from a Moment

00:05:10.500 of Darkness in Ottawa.

00:05:12.000 And he starts off his op-ed by saying that he cringes every time he sees a Canadian flag

00:05:17.560 and how he is repulsed whenever he drives by a rural home waving a large Canadian flag.

00:05:23.600 Notice that language there, Candice.

00:05:25.220 He cringes and he's repulsed by the sight of the Canadian flag.

00:05:28.200 I mean, how do you recover from that?

00:05:30.680 If that's your base, if that's your starting point on this, then there's some serious issues

00:05:36.940 you need to solve out because that's just a, that's, that's, starting at that point,

00:05:41.660 that is, that's crazy.

00:05:44.020 And then he goes on to say that he believes that our flag has been captured by those who

00:05:48.480 support the convoy and the negative anti-government, anti-science, anti-democracy population.

00:05:53.320 And, you know, uh, I made this point very clear.

00:05:56.360 Sometimes the Laurentian elite will make it very clear to you.

00:05:59.420 They'll, they'll, they'll spell it out exactly how they want you, uh, to read something.

00:06:04.320 And, you know, you can't wave the Canadian flag unless you hold the correct political

00:06:07.680 opinions.

00:06:08.320 You're not, you're, you're anti-government, anti-science and anti-democracy if you support

00:06:12.740 the trucker convoy.

00:06:13.980 And lastly, there are limits on your freedom that you have to accept.

00:06:16.880 That's, that's exactly what they want you to know.

00:06:19.000 And like I said, sometimes they just make it easy for you.

00:06:21.060 Well, they're kind of saying the quiet part out loud, right?

00:06:24.600 Like here's the idea that, that Canada was, was always based on this notion of individual

00:06:29.680 freedom, that, that, that was the founding principle of our country.

00:06:32.680 We have, you know, Wilfrid Laurier famously said that Canada is free and freedom is our

00:06:37.800 nationality.

00:06:38.360 We're not a country that is based upon one ethnic group.

00:06:41.740 We're not a country that's ever been homogenous in terms of our ethnicity, but we are a country

00:06:46.080 that has always rallied around this concept of freedom.

00:06:49.220 Well, interestingly, Harrison, over the last couple of years, the liberals have sort of

00:06:53.780 abandoned these uniting principles and united symbols that we've had that they used to

00:06:59.020 take claim over, right?

00:06:59.880 They used like the Canadian flag, this, this concept of, of, of the chart of rights and

00:07:04.140 freedoms, smaller liberalism.

00:07:05.800 Those used to be the brand of the liberal party.

00:07:07.740 And as the left is becoming more and more illiberal, as liberals start to feel ashamed and embarrassed

00:07:13.520 of Canada's history and they want to get away from that, they're embarrassed about it.

00:07:17.700 They, they, they want to fight against it.

00:07:19.580 We had Carolyn Bennett talking about how Canada needs to decolonize, whatever that means, 0.99

00:07:24.780 right?

00:07:24.980 They, they're deeply ashamed of Canada and, and you see it coming out that they don't,

00:07:29.000 you can no longer celebrate freedom.

00:07:30.380 That's bad.

00:07:31.060 Uh, having individual rights and freedoms, that's not what we want.

00:07:34.340 We have higher priorities now, like, like climate change and, uh, COVID.

00:07:39.400 Uh, and, and then, you know, the, the Canadian flag, again, it was liberals that created the

00:07:43.840 Canadian flag.

00:07:44.480 We used to have the red ensign, we used to have a British flag and, and, and they put together

00:07:49.140 this new flag that represented new Canada in the sixties.

00:07:51.880 And now, you know, as soon as conservatives rally around it and use it as a rallying point

00:07:56.940 for freedom, they no longer want anything to do with it.

00:07:59.800 So you're right.

00:08:01.100 Uh, just one more tweet here from Bruce Anderson.

00:08:02.900 He replied to Mark Mulroney, uh, saying that knowing that conservatives don't want attention

00:08:07.220 drawn to the subtext of the freedom mantra is more reason for people to scrutinize it.

00:08:12.300 Freedom to ignore climate change, to marginalize people of sexual orientation or faith, to avoid 0.99

00:08:17.560 paying taxes by hiding money.

00:08:19.640 So again, you know, for all the issues and all the problems that we have in our country,

00:08:23.740 Harrison, this is what the liberals are focused on.

00:08:25.920 They think that the biggest issues in our country right now are climate change, sexual

00:08:32.320 orientation, and like money laundering or hiding, hiding money, people hiding money from taxes.

00:08:37.960 Like these people are so incredibly out of touch.

00:08:41.220 And again, they're saying that there are values that are higher than freedom, which undermines

00:08:46.060 the entire Canadian experiment and also undermines national unity.

00:08:49.740 Because the good thing about freedom is that you can put your own image of what freedom

00:08:53.540 means.

00:08:54.360 Everyone can have their own idea of freedom.

00:08:56.940 Everyone can have their own idea of Canada and the good life in Canada.

00:08:59.900 And that's one of the great things both liberals and conservatives used to rally around this

00:09:03.280 word freedom.

00:09:04.160 And now you see the liberals moving away from it.

00:09:07.720 It's, it's, it's kind of, it's really dangerous territory that they're, that they're bringing

00:09:10.820 us into.

00:09:11.340 And I think that, again, when you have one side of the political aisle saying we don't

00:09:16.980 care about freedom anymore, we don't care about the flag, not good news for Canada.

00:09:20.760 There was a, this reminds me of this other piece I want to talk about, Harrison.

00:09:24.240 There's an opinion piece in the CBC.

00:09:26.380 Everyone knows my, my thoughts and my feelings about how CBC now runs these opinion pieces

00:09:32.040 where rather than just being subsidized to deliver the news, they also get subsidized to

00:09:37.560 deliver certain opinions, which are always the most extreme far left opinions that you can

00:09:41.280 find.

00:09:42.040 But here's one.

00:09:42.900 They found this individual who has become a Canadian.

00:09:45.540 So a new Canadian writing about his experience of going through the citizenship ceremony and,

00:09:51.640 and becoming a Canadian, usually a very happy, celebrated day in a person's life.

00:09:56.160 Usually they've escaped some kind of a tyrannical hell hole that they don't want to be in anymore.

00:10:01.700 They're so grateful and so happy to be living in a free and prosperous country like Canada.

00:10:05.740 Well, not this individual.

00:10:06.880 Uh, this, this, this guy says, Canada's citizenship process is a problematic piece of political

00:10:13.020 theater.

00:10:13.780 Here's why I did it anyway.

00:10:15.160 And he writes, in the end, I did the Canadian thing.

00:10:17.040 I used my privilege to benefit and protect myself.

00:10:19.920 Now, uh, some viewers know I have a background working in immigration.

00:10:23.700 I used to work in the immigration department.

00:10:25.320 So I'm pretty familiar with the process of citizenship, immigration, the various categories

00:10:31.360 and ways that you can become a Canadian.

00:10:33.440 And so basically we have this guy, he's an Australian.

00:10:36.420 He is a writer and author, born in Australia, decided to come to Canada.

00:10:41.920 And basically what, what he's talking about, he, he has a couple of, of problems with, uh,

00:10:48.080 with Canada.

00:10:49.120 His main thing, he was troubled by just how easy it is for him as a middle-class white

00:10:56.040 Australian compared to those from other countries, particularly agriculture workers.

00:11:00.080 So he assumes that Harrison, that part of the reason why he was able to come to Canada and

00:11:04.680 immigrate so easily is because of his skin color, even though that has absolutely nothing 1.00

00:11:09.400 to do with how our point systems work.

00:11:11.520 The fact that he is an English speaking person who has work experience in Canada means a lot

00:11:16.640 more.

00:11:16.940 We, we, we are a country, we use a point system.

00:11:19.220 Therefore, you know, if you're young, if you speak English and if you have experience working

00:11:23.800 in Canada, those are all things that help you, uh, to, to, to, to, to meet the qualifications

00:11:29.900 to come to Canada.

00:11:30.740 It has nothing to do with skin color.

00:11:32.620 And when he compares himself to agriculture workers, which he does throughout this piece,

00:11:36.700 he, he fundamentally misunderstands something, which is that agriculture workers are temporary

00:11:41.020 workers.

00:11:41.440 They come to Canada on a temporary basis.

00:11:43.340 He didn't do any journalism for this piece.

00:11:45.160 This is just solely opinion.

00:11:46.480 He didn't bother talking to the people who is claiming, um, to speak for, because he's,

00:11:51.020 he's sort of juxtaposing himself to people who work in the seasonal agriculture worker

00:11:54.700 program or the temporary for worker program.

00:11:56.400 The people who work in those programs, Harrison, opt to come to Canada on a temporary basis.

00:12:01.300 They don't apply through the same stream that he did.

00:12:03.940 They didn't try to become permanent residents.

00:12:05.660 They want to become seasonal agriculture workers.

00:12:07.600 I've spoken to many people who come through the seasonal agriculture program and the temporary

00:12:11.020 foreign worker program.

00:12:12.120 They don't want to become Canadian. 0.99

00:12:13.860 The whole purpose is that they come from countries, usually in Latin America, usually people with very 0.88

00:12:18.620 strong, uh, family ties, Catholic ties, strong ties to their own country.

00:12:22.660 They come up to Canada during the spring and summer to make money.

00:12:27.240 They send almost all of the money back to their kids, their wives, their families back home.

00:12:32.320 And then they go back and they join their families.

00:12:34.480 They have no interest in coming to Canada because if they did, they wouldn't come through this

00:12:38.160 program.

00:12:38.540 So, so the whole idea, then the whole motivation behind this program is for these people to make

00:12:43.360 money to send back to their families and then go and reunite with their families.

00:12:47.000 They don't want to become Canadian. 0.99

00:12:47.900 So this guy just, you know, he makes so many logical mistakes throughout this process.

00:12:52.420 He doesn't know what he's talking about.

00:12:54.300 He's just assuming that he knows everything, which is, which is very, uh, typical of, of

00:12:58.440 those on the political left.

00:12:59.960 They, you know, he's on his high horse.

00:13:01.540 He, everything he sees is problematic.

00:13:03.320 He's very upset that he had to pay $630 to, uh, for the citizenship application processing.

00:13:10.860 I guess he thinks that Canadian taxpayers should subsidize him as well. 0.78

00:13:15.560 Incredibly arrogant, incredibly entitled. 0.96

00:13:17.400 No sense of gratitude. 0.97

00:13:19.040 He's angry that he has to pledge allegiance to the queen.

00:13:22.220 He's angry.

00:13:23.260 Uh, this is kind of amusing.

00:13:24.800 He says, he's talking about the study material for the system test.

00:13:27.720 He says, the study material uses blanket terms like first nations to describe hundreds of

00:13:33.120 nations with different languages, cultures, and system of government.

00:13:36.100 So I guess in a, in a basic study guide, rather than saying first nations, he wants us to

00:13:41.220 what lists, list a hundred different nations.

00:13:43.580 Uh, like how is that going to help anybody study for a citizenship test?

00:13:47.840 This, this, uh, this guy is just so out of touch with, with, with how privileged he is

00:13:52.820 to get to become Canadian.

00:13:54.040 And, and of course there's the CBC, uh, paying this guy and publishing this total nonsense

00:13:59.200 where he just attacks Canada for no good reason after we've just offered him citizenship.

00:14:04.560 It's, it's really unbelievable, Harrison.

00:14:06.240 Well, exactly.

00:14:07.920 And the, uh, in the headline, you know, immediately what kind of piece this is going to, this is

00:14:12.060 going to be.

00:14:12.580 And not only just cause it's in the CBC op-ed section, which we know, uh, filters out anything

00:14:17.640 that's not a far left opinion, but to, to call our, our citizenship process problematic

00:14:23.460 using a term right out of the left's, the left's, uh, the, the, the, the left's vocabulary.

00:14:29.180 Um, you knew exactly what you were going to get, but it's always important to remember.

00:14:33.200 It's easy to forget because we see it so often.

00:14:35.480 These, these insane CBC stories, but you pay for these stories to be published.

00:14:40.860 These are coming, all of this is coming from Canadian taxpayers.

00:14:45.160 And as you said, Candace, this, this, this Callum, uh, character, he takes issue with the,

00:14:52.120 with the, with swearing allegiance to the queen.

00:14:54.240 He takes issue with the fact that our citizenship test requires him to know something about the

00:14:58.700 founder of our country, Johnny McDonald.

00:15:00.460 I mean, what, what, what other citizenship test doesn't require a test about the basics of

00:15:05.460 this country?

00:15:06.020 And if you didn't, if you don't like the, if you don't like swearing allegiance to the

00:15:09.780 queen, uh, to the monarchy, then, then leave, then go to the United States. 1.00

00:15:13.320 It's very simple.

00:15:14.940 Um, but here's the other thing too, is this, this entire piece is just basically designed

00:15:19.660 to bash Canada.

00:15:20.800 So Canadian taxpayers pay for an article that just bashes our system.

00:15:25.920 And I wonder if he bothered to ask anyone else that he took the citizenship test with

00:15:29.760 what they thought about swearing allegiance to the queen, what they thought about the

00:15:34.000 citizenship test.

00:15:35.080 If it was really that big of a deal for them, if they really felt that, uh, you know, the,

00:15:38.940 the citizenship test was, was undermining the role that first nations play in our country.

00:15:44.100 It might be Callum that the people you were taking the citizenship test were people who

00:15:49.320 had fought tooth and nail, who would be willing to give up limbs to ensure that they and their

00:15:54.700 family could make it to such a great country like Canada.

00:15:58.240 I do wonder if, if, if this Callum asked anyone else who took the citizenship test with, if

00:16:06.760 they felt proud after the fact, after they became a Canadian citizen, instead of bashing

00:16:10.720 our country right after becoming a citizen, maybe they, maybe they felt proud to be a Canadian.

00:16:15.220 Uh, it's just, it's another, it's another CBC piece.

00:16:17.540 It's another shocking op-ed.

00:16:19.280 And frankly, I don't know why, I don't know why the CBC continues to, to publish these Canada

00:16:25.660 bashing articles.

00:16:26.680 At some point it has to end.

00:16:28.700 People have to stop reading it or they have to, they have to come to their senses.

00:16:32.300 And it's not accurate.

00:16:34.120 Like, like this idea that, that somehow this guy, you know, it was easy for him because

00:16:38.240 he was middle-class and white.

00:16:39.420 Like there's, there's absolutely no data to back that up.

00:16:42.940 That's just, that's just a false accusation against a country, assuming, placing the underground

00:16:49.380 assumption that Canada is a racist country, that you get preferential treatment because

00:16:52.900 you're white, which is not true.

00:16:53.860 There's nothing about race or skin color.

00:16:56.140 So he's, he's putting that in on his own.

00:16:58.900 He is, it's basically like a paint by numbers piece.

00:17:01.640 It's like, uh, I'm super woke and I found this one institution in Canada that's not woke

00:17:06.740 enough.

00:17:07.240 Therefore, I'm going to write this like lazy, intellectually limited piece complaining about

00:17:13.300 it for not being woke enough.

00:17:14.920 And the CBC is going to publish it.

00:17:16.780 Like it's, it's, it's such a sad state where, you know, Canada, Canada is actually pretty

00:17:22.420 lenient.

00:17:23.260 Canada lets a lot of people into the country that we probably shouldn't let in. 1.00

00:17:27.120 And when you hear someone like this was so lacking in gratitude, uh, so spiteful and obviously

00:17:32.880 not at all loyal or committed to Canada.

00:17:35.840 It's like, yeah, you know what?

00:17:37.420 We should become more stringent in who we let in and who we don't.

00:17:40.400 People who have this kind of attitude should not be able to become Canadian.

00:17:43.760 It reminds me of a couple of years ago during the leadership race for the conservative party.

00:17:46.980 One of the candidates proposed bringing in a values test, uh, for people coming in.

00:17:52.220 I, I assume that this person with all of his hatred and all of his bitterness and, and anti

00:17:57.900 Canada sentiments that, that, that he would be the kind of person that would be screened

00:18:03.180 away.

00:18:03.680 And I, and, and again, I think the fact that the CBC publishes this nonsense is a total

00:18:08.600 disgrace, Harrison.

00:18:10.460 Well, that's not the only thing, uh, that the CBC, uh, publishes.

00:18:15.300 I want to jump to this other piece that the CBC wrote about, um, in their, uh, opinion section.

00:18:21.680 This one is written by a woman called Maria Glavine and she writes, I'm a new mom trying to keep

00:18:27.280 my baby safe in the pandemic.

00:18:29.580 Anger is my secret weapon.

00:18:31.240 Okay.

00:18:32.120 So here we have a lady who is a new mom and she is very angry about the end of the vaccine 1.00

00:18:39.940 passports and mass mandates, because in her estimation, the only way to keep her child 0.95

00:18:45.760 safe is to basically compel the entire Canadian public, um, to follow rules that don't make

00:18:53.600 any sense that didn't actually protect anybody from the pandemic for the last two years, um,

00:18:58.420 that have been abject failures.

00:19:00.400 And yet, uh, because she is an emotional new mom and anger is her secret weapon, Harrison, 0.97

00:19:07.320 she, she believes that everybody should be forced to follow these arbitrary rules.

00:19:12.200 Again, this is the kind of stuff that the CBC publishes angry, bitter, resentful leftists,

00:19:16.780 um, who, who hate freedom, who, who don't care about individual liberty at all, who want

00:19:21.880 to basically bend the world and conform it, uh, to, to, to, to fit their own needs.

00:19:27.140 What, what, what did you make of this piece?

00:19:29.080 Well, this piece is absolutely insane, Candace.

00:19:31.880 I mean, when you read through these, when you read through some of these paragraphs, it's,

00:19:36.260 it's incredible, really.

00:19:37.900 She goes off by saying that everyone should wear a mask for everything, outdoor activities,

00:19:43.520 given that she was able to wear a mask during labor.

00:19:46.440 That means that people, uh, this is a quote from the article, um, that surely people wouldn't

00:19:52.540 mind putting one on to run an errand or two, if it meant keeping, uh, safe those who couldn't

00:19:57.020 vaccinate or who were the most vulnerable.

00:19:58.940 So there's that.

00:19:59.880 Then she goes on to say that the only way Canada can exit out of the pandemic is if there's

00:20:05.000 a vaccine approved for, uh, for those who are under five years old for, so for her, her

00:20:10.400 child, um, then we can lift vaccine passports and mask mandates.

00:20:15.280 Um, and she says that unmasking before having everybody vaccinated, um, is, uh, is apparently

00:20:22.260 some very dangerous, uh, dangerous thing.

00:20:24.760 And then of course, she goes on to say that she's only using services that require or enforce

00:20:31.460 mask mandates and vaccine passports.

00:20:33.560 So again, you're never going to see a piece in the CBC that is at all, uh, contrary to

00:20:40.680 this, the super hard line stance of everybody must be, must follow draconian rules.

00:20:47.580 Those who step out of line are, uh, are, are these crazies who have a death wish and we all

00:20:53.940 need to basically, you know, fall in line behind the government orders and edicts.

00:20:59.320 Um, uh, it's just, it's, it's insane.

00:21:01.940 I don't really have much more to say about this other than that.

00:21:05.660 Well, it's not, it's not just that they don't even believe that they're, that they're crazies

00:21:08.860 with a death wish. 0.95

00:21:09.580 They think that they're out to kill you or out to kill in this case, her daughter, like

00:21:13.540 she even writes, I have to try to balance my daughter's safety and pacifying those who

00:21:17.620 are over it.

00:21:18.440 Again, just trying to compel other people.

00:21:20.140 Look, you're, you're a mom.

00:21:21.260 Um, if you have the, you have the right to keep your kid at home, you have the right

00:21:24.520 to try to protect your kid in any way you can.

00:21:26.440 And I understand that this woman, uh, her, her daughter has some kind of an auto immune,

00:21:30.580 uh, deficiency or, or, uh, bad kidney and that she, she, you know, she's extra worried

00:21:36.520 and cautious about it.

00:21:37.840 I totally relate to that.

00:21:38.540 I have two little kids and obviously your role as a parent is to do everything you can

00:21:42.140 to protect them.

00:21:43.200 Um, however, this idea that, you know, well, first of all, she's writing a piece in the CBC

00:21:49.360 about how angry she is.

00:21:51.000 That's, that's not exactly a productive solution, uh, to this issue, but she's clinging to these

00:21:57.080 methods that we know fail.

00:21:58.500 Like wearing masks doesn't do anything.

00:22:00.820 It doesn't stop the spread.

00:22:01.920 Okay.

00:22:02.560 The, the, the best way that you can protect your kid is, is actually to help build up

00:22:06.700 their immune system, get them outside, get them interacting with other kids.

00:22:10.100 Uh, you know, that, that's how you, that's how for generations, uh, for centuries, that's

00:22:14.600 how we built up children's immune system.

00:22:16.320 So this idea that we're going to just wrap ourselves into like a plastic bubble and stay

00:22:20.600 away from everybody, not going to, not going to turn out well in the long run.

00:22:24.040 And again, this is just the kind of drivel, uh, that we see in the CBC.

00:22:29.080 And, and Candace, I, one, one thing as well, you know, I kind of feel bad for some of these

00:22:33.240 people because they have been, they have been duped into being so afraid of this and it's

00:22:39.680 not their fault.

00:22:40.420 I mean, how many people do you, have you interacted with that are very scared about COVID?

00:22:44.640 They're, they're, they're paying attention to the latest wave, looking at all the, all

00:22:48.900 the numbers and, and, and worrying about their, their health and safety and their family's

00:22:52.840 health and safety when it's, it's overblown really, uh, they, they don't need to be as

00:22:57.260 afraid as they are.

00:22:58.000 But these people have been, have been, you know, whether it's, whether it's, they've been

00:23:03.480 duped or whether they've been, they've been pushed into it.

00:23:06.340 A lot of people, um, even today who still wear double masks, who are afraid to touch public

00:23:12.000 services, I mean, that is, that is something that are, we're going to have to reckon with,

00:23:15.800 uh, going into the future years past this.

00:23:18.580 Are we to believe that all these people who are so afraid of this virus that in several

00:23:23.700 years from now, they're not going to, they're not going to have some of that, some of that

00:23:27.400 same concerns from that same fear.

00:23:29.380 I think, I think, you know, we have to really come to terms with the fact that, uh, the mental

00:23:34.240 health that has, you know, been damaged across the board, it's taken a toll on both sides.

00:23:39.640 People don't want to be stuck in lockdown, but other people are being conditioned to be

00:23:44.800 so afraid of this virus that I think we're going to have to, we're going to have to deal

00:23:49.080 with this, um, in the future.

00:23:51.200 And it's going to become a part of, a part of how we end up dealing with things like regular

00:23:55.380 flus and, and different illnesses.

00:23:57.800 I think it's, I think it's kind of sad in a way too.

00:24:01.500 I agree.

00:24:02.360 And you're right.

00:24:03.300 We should, we should, uh, see, see these kinds of cases with, with compassion and recognize

00:24:07.560 that we have to figure out a plan to get everyone out.

00:24:10.180 It's, it's funny, uh, you just reading this piece again, for me, I also have little kids

00:24:14.540 and I think the exact opposite instincts as this lady, this lady is like, uh, you know, 1.00

00:24:20.180 I'm so afraid of COVID.

00:24:21.220 I don't know what the long-term consequences of COVID are.

00:24:23.500 Therefore I'm going to do everything to like, I got to wrap my child in bubble wrap and keep

00:24:27.280 them safe.

00:24:27.680 For me, uh, my perspective was, okay, what we see about COVID is that it doesn't really impact

00:24:33.700 little kids.

00:24:34.580 They, my, my son had COVID, he's three, uh, he, he had like a sore throat for a day and

00:24:38.900 then he was fine.

00:24:40.080 Uh, sure.

00:24:41.060 I don't know what the long-term impact is, but I also don't know what the long-term impact

00:24:44.560 of keeping kids isolated from their friends and peers.

00:24:47.780 That, that was not something I was willing to do.

00:24:49.940 Uh, I, the, the, the long-term impact of making little kids wear masks is insane.

00:24:54.580 And we know that it will have long-term impact in their ability to communicate, their ability

00:24:58.540 to socialize all these things that when, you know, when you have a little taller, that's

00:25:02.140 what you're trying to do is get them out to meet other people.

00:25:04.480 So, you know, there's, there's the adverse side of this as well.

00:25:07.620 And this idea that we should rush to get little babies and little kids vaccinated.

00:25:12.160 Well, what about the long-term impact of vaccines?

00:25:14.560 We don't know that as well, especially this vaccine, because it's novel and it's new.

00:25:18.840 So, you know, my, my instinct are almost exactly the opposite of this woman. 0.99

00:25:22.940 I wanted to make sure my kids still had some kind of a semblance of a normal childhood

00:25:27.540 that they could still go and play, that they could go to parks.

00:25:30.020 They could spend time outside.

00:25:30.860 They could spend time with other kids.

00:25:32.280 I go out of my way to make sure that the kids have playdates, that they interact with

00:25:35.780 people, they see the world, that, that it's not always just this like strange, uh, you

00:25:40.460 know, everyone wearing masks and everyone's so distant from each other.

00:25:44.000 Um, you know, I want to make sure my kids have a normal life.

00:25:46.840 And it's, it's, it's sort of sad that some people are so wrapped up and paranoid with fear

00:25:52.500 that they can't, they can't offer that to their kids.

00:25:55.380 And then again, the CBC is out there promoting this worldview to try to say, no, no, it's normal

00:25:59.780 for you to just try to completely isolate your child and not let them be around anyone, not

00:26:03.300 let them see anyone and just be counting the days until they have a vaccine available for

00:26:08.040 a zero year old baby.

00:26:09.420 Like it's, it's pretty wild.

00:26:11.380 Okay.

00:26:11.500 Harrison, I do want to get to this one final story because it's fake news wrapped in fake

00:26:15.660 news.

00:26:16.460 Um, true North reported on this a couple of weeks ago that this journal journalist organization

00:26:20.980 won't retract a false statement about a pipeline protest arrest.

00:26:24.920 So basically the, uh, the, the, the Canadian association of journalists, which bills itself

00:26:31.320 as a national voice for Canadian journalists, printed a statement statement in November, accusing

00:26:35.820 the police of making an illegal arrest.

00:26:38.400 So there is this reporter that worked for an outlet called the narwhal who was part of an 0.61

00:26:43.500 anti-pipeline protest, basically this, so this happened back in November in Northern British

00:26:48.060 Columbia.

00:26:48.380 There was a group of unlawful people who were unlawful protesters who were ignoring police

00:26:54.020 orders.

00:26:54.520 They were, they locked themselves up in a cabin protesting against a pipeline, ended up getting

00:26:59.220 arrested.

00:27:00.100 One of the people, one of the protesters, it turns out was a journalist who wrote about

00:27:03.520 her own story.

00:27:04.720 So, so, so, so even though she was part of the protest, part of the people who got arrested,

00:27:08.360 uh, she wrote about it, which I always thought that that was sort of unethical.

00:27:12.460 I mean, you're the one that went to journalism school.

00:27:13.820 Maybe you can comment on that, but she, she, she wrote about it herself.

00:27:17.280 Uh, unfortunately the facts that she got didn't, uh, didn't line up with, with what actually

00:27:23.800 happened.

00:27:24.200 The RCMP put out their own report, the department in the government department put out their

00:27:28.280 own report, basically refuting facts from her news piece.

00:27:31.720 And, and so not only did the narwhal, which is a government funded news organization, far left 0.50

00:27:37.460 focused on environmental, uh, catastrophe, uh, climate alarmism, all those kinds of themes.

00:27:44.120 Um, so, so they wrote a piece that was fake.

00:27:46.720 The Canadian association of journalists, uh, applauded them and put out a statement condemning

00:27:51.580 the police in it.

00:27:52.620 And then it gets even worse Harrison, because now the Canadian journalism foundation is, is,

00:27:59.360 is offering them an award.

00:28:00.460 They gave them an, uh, they nominated them for an excellence award for this same piece

00:28:05.480 that has been refuted and debunked by the RCMP and by a government, uh, report.

00:28:12.880 This shows how wildly out of touch these people are.

00:28:15.700 Like they can report something that didn't happen, that it's totally made up, pretend that

00:28:18.920 there was police brutality involved, pretend that they were illegally arrested.

00:28:21.760 And not only are they allowed to publish it with no consequence, when it turns out to

00:28:26.100 be fake, they actually get awards.

00:28:28.500 They're awarding, giving themselves awards and patting themselves on the back.

00:28:32.100 This is, this is one of the most, uh, remarkable stories I've seen in a while, Harrison.

00:28:37.180 Well, when I first read this, I have to admit, I thought this was a troll.

00:28:40.500 I thought it was, I thought it was them trolling, uh, the RCMP and basically everyone else because 0.56

00:28:46.320 of just how ridiculous it is to award themselves an excellency in journalism award.

00:28:51.760 for, uh, basically a story, uh, in which the journalist who inserts herself as an activist

00:28:58.400 into the story makes it all about her perspective.

00:29:00.920 Uh, and of course she makes it out to seem like she's this hero, like she's this, uh, very

00:29:06.280 brave, um, you know, activist who's fighting back against the RCMP.

00:29:10.660 And I just want to get into some of the, some of these things that I told about this article 0.71

00:29:14.580 because it's really, it's really ridiculous.

00:29:17.100 And first you, you talk, you chatted about the ethics behind putting yourself in the 0.59

00:29:21.740 story and being an activist.

00:29:22.780 I can tell you that in, in modern journalism school, the, the expectation is that you believe

00:29:30.100 as a journalist, you play a role as an activist.

00:29:32.540 I remember just as, as an, uh, as an example, one of the papers they asked us to write was

00:29:37.720 to, was to basically defend journalists being activists.

00:29:41.880 Can a journalist be an activist was the prompt of the art of the essay they had us write.

00:29:47.280 But just, just so we're, just so we're clear on this, the Canadian association of journalists,

00:29:51.200 which were, were the original, uh, the, the original organization to defend this journalist

00:29:55.880 after being caught lying, essentially in her piece, their, their, uh, their ethical, their

00:30:02.740 code of ethics states very clearly that they do not allow their own biases to impede fair

00:30:08.460 and accurate reporting. Accuracy is the moral imperative of journalists.

00:30:12.660 When we make a mistake, whether in fact or in context, and regardless of the platform,

00:30:16.780 we correct it promptly and in a transparent manner, acknowledging the nature of the error,

00:30:21.160 Candace. So I don't know how that code of ethics fits in with awarding themselves a

00:30:27.820 excellency in journalism, uh, award after being called out. Um, but again, you'll never see the

00:30:33.900 CAJ or the CJF, the two organizations, um, that are obviously just activist organizations

00:30:40.320 masquerading as, as journalism, uh, entities or those that defend journalists. You'll never

00:30:45.820 see them defend journalists that are actually, uh, in the, that are actually have their rights

00:30:52.440 stripped from them or are, uh, or are impeded by the government. For example, our own Andrew

00:30:56.600 Lawton, who was pepper sprayed at the freedom convoy protest. I didn't, I didn't hear anything,

00:31:01.100 uh, from them about defending Andrew and defending journalists like Andrew and Alexa

00:31:05.760 Lavoie from rebel. Did you, I, I, I didn't, didn't make it across my desk.

00:31:10.780 No, of course not. They don't care about, uh, journalists who work for Canadian organizations.

00:31:15.460 They only care about their own mostly government funded, mostly far left agenda driven activists

00:31:21.060 here. I mean, this, this woman was illegally, uh, they were occupying private property and present, 0.96

00:31:26.800 preventing people from doing their job. They got arrested. She didn't identify

00:31:30.880 herself as a journalist. She didn't say that she was there covering the story. The police

00:31:34.580 had no idea. They just arrested all the protesters after giving them ample warning saying, you

00:31:38.580 guys have to leave. You have to get out enough with your protests. It's time for these people

00:31:42.620 to be able to go to work. And, and, and, and, and it was written right here that Bracken

00:31:47.540 was detained by police and her ensuing report, which a federal memo found was one-sided and omitted

00:31:53.360 key information led to the arrest being labeled as unlawful by the journalists. So to your point,

00:31:59.060 Harrison, when you make a mistake, this woman, it wasn't a mistake, right? She, she knew what 0.84

00:32:03.660 happened. She left out key information on purpose, but you could, you could say, okay,

00:32:07.460 the Canadian association of journalists didn't know that. So when they issued the statement saying,

00:32:11.420 you know, condemning the police for this unlawful arrest, uh, they, they, they didn't have the full

00:32:16.100 picture. Well, then, then the full picture did emerge. You would expect the CAJ to reverse and,

00:32:22.420 and say, okay, we made a mistake. We didn't have the full information to your point. That's,

00:32:25.500 that's the, that's the duty of a journalist to focus on accuracy and truth. But here we see that,

00:32:32.120 you know, they put, they put their, they put their ideology and their belief in the righteousness

00:32:37.320 of these anti-resource, anti-natural resource development protesters. Um, and, and then it is

00:32:43.560 kind of a troll because they doubled down by nominating it for an award. Why would you nominate

00:32:47.080 that for an excellence awards? These, these people are just so out of touch, Harrison. They're so,

00:32:51.900 they have no idea what the public wants. They have no idea how bad they look. No wonder people

00:32:57.000 trust the media less and less. It's like, how can you trust these people? They, they're,

00:33:01.260 they're, they're congratulating themselves for lying essentially.

00:33:04.600 Yeah. And I want to read some of this excellent reporting. I mean, remember this report was,

00:33:08.940 it was nominated and this is what, this is what was in the report. Just so, just so we're all aware,

00:33:14.100 uh, this, this journalist writes, no one in Canada should tolerate police efforts to intimidate

00:33:19.600 journalists or limit news coverage. My arrest actually makes me a big part of a national

00:33:24.080 reckoning with press freedoms. So again, just inserting herself and making her a part of the

00:33:28.860 story, making her the hero. She goes on to say, police put me in handcuffs when I should have

00:33:32.620 been doing my job. I felt kidnapped having never been arrested before. It is the best word I can

00:33:38.040 think of to describe being taken so abruptly out of my life and work in violation of Canadian

00:33:42.760 charter rights, protecting freedoms of the press. Oh no, her charter rights. Almost as if Candace,

00:33:48.320 uh, the charter rights of journalists, uh, were severely violated as well in the freedom convoy.

00:33:55.560 Uh, but again, you just don't hear that there it's, it's not, if there's, there's no equal

00:34:00.220 standard, right? The charter rights were not violated. This journalist charter rights were not

00:34:05.060 violated. She refused police orders to leave an unlawful protest. Journalists at the freedom convoy

00:34:11.860 who were arrested for covering the news, who were pepper sprayed, who were, uh, who were beaten by

00:34:17.860 batons. Those journalists had their charter rights violated. That's the truth. We saw it all on

00:34:22.760 camera. It's just unbelievable. And again, like you said, it has to be a troll, right? I mean, this,

00:34:28.140 this, this has to be a joke that they're playing on us. And also like, just because you're a journalist

00:34:33.440 doesn't exempt you from laws, right? Like if you're part of a protest that the police are saying,

00:34:38.180 you can't do this anymore. We've given you ample warning. You now have to be removed. Unless you

00:34:43.440 identify yourself as a journalist, like it's not like RCMP just magically know who is a journalist

00:34:48.660 and who isn't, who's going to go write, uh, uh, an opinion piece for an art, uh, an outlet called

00:34:54.200 the Narwhal, which no one's ever heard of. Like you have to identify yourself as a journalist. And

00:34:58.560 that's what Andrew Lawton and Alexa Duarte did during their, during that it's on video. They identify

00:35:03.080 themselves as being journalists and yet they're still brutalized. But of course, no word from the

00:35:08.880 Canadian association of journalism, uh, on those assaults, not nothing at all. We don't fit into

00:35:13.920 the mold of, of, of a good leftist journalist who gets government funded. So, so we don't get the

00:35:18.500 same treatment. It's, it's all such a farce, such a sad state of journalism here in Canada. Well,

00:35:24.720 that's, that's the whole purpose of this show and fake news Friday. So thank you so much for

00:35:28.540 tuning in Harrison. Thank you so much for joining us. Happy to be here. Always. Right. That's Harrison

00:35:34.220 Faulkner. It's fake news Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is the Candice Malcolm show.

00:35:38.880 Thank you.

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