Arrogant Australian says Canadian Citizenship Process is “Problematic”
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Libel elites get triggered by the word freedom and the sight of the Canadian flag. A legacy media organization nominates a fake news story for an excellence award, and the CBC continues to publish incoherent opinion pieces. To join me, as usual, we have Harrison Faulkner, who is a producer and journalist here at The Candice Malcolm Show.
Transcript
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Liberal elites get triggered by the word freedom and the sight of the Canadian flag.
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A legacy media organization nominates a fake news story for an excellence award
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and the CBC continues to publish incoherent opinion pieces.
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It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Welcome to Fake News Friday, our favorite show on The Candice Malcolm Show.
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We do an analysis and we go through the fake news stories in the legacy media,
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point out all of the various flaws and the ways that they do not uphold their own journalistic ethics.
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To join me, as usual, we have Harrison Faulkner, who is a producer and journalist here at True North
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and someone who actually went to journalism school.
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You went to Ryerson, or I think you continue to go there, Harrison,
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but you can tell us whether or not these journalists are following the guidelines
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that you are taught in journalism school and whether they actually practice what they preach here.
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I think it's just like the latest thing to do on the political left is to talk about how
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freedom is now a word that means something other than freedom
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and the Canadian flag is something that we shouldn't feel proud about.
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We shouldn't see it as a sign of unity or hope or freedom or any of those kind of things,
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but we should all be ashamed of our Canadian flag and our Canadian symbols.
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I've heard this so much since the Freedom Convoy.
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Liberals and leftists sort of wrapping themselves into a pretzel
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trying to explain how freedom is actually a bad thing.
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So here we had liberal crony, former CBC talking head, Bruce Anderson.
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So here he is on Twitter earlier this week saying that the battle cry freedom
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Inside are ideas that undermine equal rights, threaten the planet, risk economic chaos,
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undermine law and order, spirit of community, ability to manage a public health crisis,
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This is how liberals and people on the left justify the fact that they have completely failed
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to uphold the chart of rights and freedoms over the last two years, Harrison.
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The fact that they have abandoned the basic tenets of liberalism.
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Like these are big L liberals who hate small L liberalism.
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And here he lays out exactly the ways that he sees that
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the following things are more important than individual liberty.
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So he thinks that equal rights, whatever that means, probably equity, equal outcome,
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So therefore we should have a climate strategy that undermines individual liberty,
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risk economic chaos, undermine law and order, spirit of community, and of course,
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you know, the two main ones that the liberals obsess over these days, ability to manage a
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So therefore the government's power to try to manage a public health crisis is more important
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All of this was just over, by the way, Mark Mulroney, son of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney,
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just tweeted out something about how, hey, if you don't like freedom, ignore it.
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If you think that a politician's talking about freedom and you think we're already as free
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Then he also said there are no caveats to freedom.
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Because again, when you have these liberal CBC talking heads saying that freedom really is
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just undermining equal rights and it's threatening the planet, I mean, it's kind of heading in
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And then spirit of community, you've got that collectivism aspect in there too.
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I really think it goes back to one of the themes, Candice, that we've talked about on this
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show, which is the elites, the CBC talking heads, liberals, these people want you to try
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and believe that the word freedom means something different when they say it to when someone that
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So if you're a working class trucker, for example, when you promote freedom, you're actually
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But when someone like Bruce Anderson promotes freedom or when someone like that, when a
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politician that Bruce Anderson supports talks about the need to protect freedom for Canadians,
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So there's this contrast of definitions that I think is very dangerous and very just, it's
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It's a weird time to be alive when we're having these weird sort of definitional battles
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But Candice, it goes on because not only is it about freedom, freedom means two different
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things when the right person says it, it extends to the flag.
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And there was this incredible Globe and Mail op-ed that was written at the end of March.
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And it was written by an author named John Boyko.
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And the headline of this op-ed is, Recapturing the Flag, Canada is Still Recovering from a Moment
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And he starts off his op-ed by saying that he cringes every time he sees a Canadian flag
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and how he is repulsed whenever he drives by a rural home waving a large Canadian flag.
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He cringes and he's repulsed by the sight of the Canadian flag.
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If that's your base, if that's your starting point on this, then there's some serious issues
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you need to solve out because that's just a, that's, that's, starting at that point,
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And then he goes on to say that he believes that our flag has been captured by those who
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support the convoy and the negative anti-government, anti-science, anti-democracy population.
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And, you know, uh, I made this point very clear.
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Sometimes the Laurentian elite will make it very clear to you.
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They'll, they'll, they'll spell it out exactly how they want you, uh, to read something.
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And, you know, you can't wave the Canadian flag unless you hold the correct political
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You're not, you're, you're anti-government, anti-science and anti-democracy if you support
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And lastly, there are limits on your freedom that you have to accept.
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That's, that's exactly what they want you to know.
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And like I said, sometimes they just make it easy for you.
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Well, they're kind of saying the quiet part out loud, right?
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Like here's the idea that, that Canada was, was always based on this notion of individual
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freedom, that, that, that was the founding principle of our country.
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We have, you know, Wilfrid Laurier famously said that Canada is free and freedom is our
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We're not a country that is based upon one ethnic group.
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We're not a country that's ever been homogenous in terms of our ethnicity, but we are a country
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that has always rallied around this concept of freedom.
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Well, interestingly, Harrison, over the last couple of years, the liberals have sort of
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abandoned these uniting principles and united symbols that we've had that they used to
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They used like the Canadian flag, this, this concept of, of, of the chart of rights and
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Those used to be the brand of the liberal party.
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And as the left is becoming more and more illiberal, as liberals start to feel ashamed and embarrassed
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of Canada's history and they want to get away from that, they're embarrassed about it.
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We had Carolyn Bennett talking about how Canada needs to decolonize, whatever that means,
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They, they're deeply ashamed of Canada and, and you see it coming out that they don't,
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Uh, having individual rights and freedoms, that's not what we want.
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We have higher priorities now, like, like climate change and, uh, COVID.
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Uh, and, and then, you know, the, the Canadian flag, again, it was liberals that created the
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We used to have the red ensign, we used to have a British flag and, and, and they put together
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this new flag that represented new Canada in the sixties.
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And now, you know, as soon as conservatives rally around it and use it as a rallying point
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for freedom, they no longer want anything to do with it.
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Uh, just one more tweet here from Bruce Anderson.
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He replied to Mark Mulroney, uh, saying that knowing that conservatives don't want attention
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drawn to the subtext of the freedom mantra is more reason for people to scrutinize it.
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Freedom to ignore climate change, to marginalize people of sexual orientation or faith, to avoid
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So again, you know, for all the issues and all the problems that we have in our country,
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Harrison, this is what the liberals are focused on.
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They think that the biggest issues in our country right now are climate change, sexual
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orientation, and like money laundering or hiding, hiding money, people hiding money from taxes.
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Like these people are so incredibly out of touch.
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And again, they're saying that there are values that are higher than freedom, which undermines
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the entire Canadian experiment and also undermines national unity.
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Because the good thing about freedom is that you can put your own image of what freedom
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Everyone can have their own idea of Canada and the good life in Canada.
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And that's one of the great things both liberals and conservatives used to rally around this
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And now you see the liberals moving away from it.
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It's, it's, it's kind of, it's really dangerous territory that they're, that they're bringing
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And I think that, again, when you have one side of the political aisle saying we don't
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care about freedom anymore, we don't care about the flag, not good news for Canada.
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There was a, this reminds me of this other piece I want to talk about, Harrison.
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Everyone knows my, my thoughts and my feelings about how CBC now runs these opinion pieces
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where rather than just being subsidized to deliver the news, they also get subsidized to
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deliver certain opinions, which are always the most extreme far left opinions that you can
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They found this individual who has become a Canadian.
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So a new Canadian writing about his experience of going through the citizenship ceremony and,
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and becoming a Canadian, usually a very happy, celebrated day in a person's life.
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Usually they've escaped some kind of a tyrannical hell hole that they don't want to be in anymore.
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They're so grateful and so happy to be living in a free and prosperous country like Canada.
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Uh, this, this, this guy says, Canada's citizenship process is a problematic piece of political
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And he writes, in the end, I did the Canadian thing.
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I used my privilege to benefit and protect myself.
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Now, uh, some viewers know I have a background working in immigration.
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So I'm pretty familiar with the process of citizenship, immigration, the various categories
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And so basically we have this guy, he's an Australian.
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He is a writer and author, born in Australia, decided to come to Canada.
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And basically what, what he's talking about, he, he has a couple of, of problems with, uh,
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His main thing, he was troubled by just how easy it is for him as a middle-class white
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Australian compared to those from other countries, particularly agriculture workers.
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So he assumes that Harrison, that part of the reason why he was able to come to Canada and
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immigrate so easily is because of his skin color, even though that has absolutely nothing
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The fact that he is an English speaking person who has work experience in Canada means a lot
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We, we, we are a country, we use a point system.
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Therefore, you know, if you're young, if you speak English and if you have experience working
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in Canada, those are all things that help you, uh, to, to, to, to, to meet the qualifications
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And when he compares himself to agriculture workers, which he does throughout this piece,
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he, he fundamentally misunderstands something, which is that agriculture workers are temporary
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He didn't bother talking to the people who is claiming, um, to speak for, because he's,
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he's sort of juxtaposing himself to people who work in the seasonal agriculture worker
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The people who work in those programs, Harrison, opt to come to Canada on a temporary basis.
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They don't apply through the same stream that he did.
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They want to become seasonal agriculture workers.
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I've spoken to many people who come through the seasonal agriculture program and the temporary
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The whole purpose is that they come from countries, usually in Latin America, usually people with very
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strong, uh, family ties, Catholic ties, strong ties to their own country.
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They come up to Canada during the spring and summer to make money.
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They send almost all of the money back to their kids, their wives, their families back home.
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And then they go back and they join their families.
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They have no interest in coming to Canada because if they did, they wouldn't come through this
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So, so the whole idea, then the whole motivation behind this program is for these people to make
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money to send back to their families and then go and reunite with their families.
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So this guy just, you know, he makes so many logical mistakes throughout this process.
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He's just assuming that he knows everything, which is, which is very, uh, typical of, of
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He's very upset that he had to pay $630 to, uh, for the citizenship application processing.
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I guess he thinks that Canadian taxpayers should subsidize him as well.
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He's angry that he has to pledge allegiance to the queen.
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He says, he's talking about the study material for the system test.
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He says, the study material uses blanket terms like first nations to describe hundreds of
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nations with different languages, cultures, and system of government.
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So I guess in a, in a basic study guide, rather than saying first nations, he wants us to
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Uh, like how is that going to help anybody study for a citizenship test?
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This, this, uh, this guy is just so out of touch with, with, with how privileged he is
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And, and of course there's the CBC, uh, paying this guy and publishing this total nonsense
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where he just attacks Canada for no good reason after we've just offered him citizenship.
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And the, uh, in the headline, you know, immediately what kind of piece this is going to, this is
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And not only just cause it's in the CBC op-ed section, which we know, uh, filters out anything
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that's not a far left opinion, but to, to call our, our citizenship process problematic
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using a term right out of the left's, the left's, uh, the, the, the, the left's vocabulary.
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Um, you knew exactly what you were going to get, but it's always important to remember.
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It's easy to forget because we see it so often.
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These, these insane CBC stories, but you pay for these stories to be published.
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These are coming, all of this is coming from Canadian taxpayers.
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And as you said, Candace, this, this, this Callum, uh, character, he takes issue with the,
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with the, with swearing allegiance to the queen.
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He takes issue with the fact that our citizenship test requires him to know something about the
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I mean, what, what, what other citizenship test doesn't require a test about the basics of
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And if you didn't, if you don't like the, if you don't like swearing allegiance to the
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queen, uh, to the monarchy, then, then leave, then go to the United States.
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Um, but here's the other thing too, is this, this entire piece is just basically designed
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So Canadian taxpayers pay for an article that just bashes our system.
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And I wonder if he bothered to ask anyone else that he took the citizenship test with
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what they thought about swearing allegiance to the queen, what they thought about the
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If it was really that big of a deal for them, if they really felt that, uh, you know, the,
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the citizenship test was, was undermining the role that first nations play in our country.
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It might be Callum that the people you were taking the citizenship test were people who
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had fought tooth and nail, who would be willing to give up limbs to ensure that they and their
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family could make it to such a great country like Canada.
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I do wonder if, if, if this Callum asked anyone else who took the citizenship test with, if
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they felt proud after the fact, after they became a Canadian citizen, instead of bashing
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our country right after becoming a citizen, maybe they, maybe they felt proud to be a Canadian.
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Uh, it's just, it's another, it's another CBC piece.
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And frankly, I don't know why, I don't know why the CBC continues to, to publish these Canada
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People have to stop reading it or they have to, they have to come to their senses.
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Like, like this idea that, that somehow this guy, you know, it was easy for him because
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Like there's, there's absolutely no data to back that up.
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That's just, that's just a false accusation against a country, assuming, placing the underground
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assumption that Canada is a racist country, that you get preferential treatment because
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He is, it's basically like a paint by numbers piece.
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It's like, uh, I'm super woke and I found this one institution in Canada that's not woke
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Therefore, I'm going to write this like lazy, intellectually limited piece complaining about
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Like it's, it's, it's such a sad state where, you know, Canada, Canada is actually pretty
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Canada lets a lot of people into the country that we probably shouldn't let in.
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And when you hear someone like this was so lacking in gratitude, uh, so spiteful and obviously
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We should become more stringent in who we let in and who we don't.
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People who have this kind of attitude should not be able to become Canadian.
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It reminds me of a couple of years ago during the leadership race for the conservative party.
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One of the candidates proposed bringing in a values test, uh, for people coming in.
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I, I assume that this person with all of his hatred and all of his bitterness and, and anti
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Canada sentiments that, that, that he would be the kind of person that would be screened
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And I, and, and again, I think the fact that the CBC publishes this nonsense is a total
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Well, that's not the only thing, uh, that the CBC, uh, publishes.
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I want to jump to this other piece that the CBC wrote about, um, in their, uh, opinion section.
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This one is written by a woman called Maria Glavine and she writes, I'm a new mom trying to keep
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So here we have a lady who is a new mom and she is very angry about the end of the vaccine
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passports and mass mandates, because in her estimation, the only way to keep her child
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safe is to basically compel the entire Canadian public, um, to follow rules that don't make
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any sense that didn't actually protect anybody from the pandemic for the last two years, um,
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And yet, uh, because she is an emotional new mom and anger is her secret weapon, Harrison,
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she, she believes that everybody should be forced to follow these arbitrary rules.
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Again, this is the kind of stuff that the CBC publishes angry, bitter, resentful leftists,
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um, who, who hate freedom, who, who don't care about individual liberty at all, who want
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to basically bend the world and conform it, uh, to, to, to, to fit their own needs.
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Well, this piece is absolutely insane, Candace.
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I mean, when you read through these, when you read through some of these paragraphs, it's,
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She goes off by saying that everyone should wear a mask for everything, outdoor activities,
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given that she was able to wear a mask during labor.
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That means that people, uh, this is a quote from the article, um, that surely people wouldn't
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mind putting one on to run an errand or two, if it meant keeping, uh, safe those who couldn't
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Then she goes on to say that the only way Canada can exit out of the pandemic is if there's
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a vaccine approved for, uh, for those who are under five years old for, so for her, her
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child, um, then we can lift vaccine passports and mask mandates.
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Um, and she says that unmasking before having everybody vaccinated, um, is, uh, is apparently
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And then of course, she goes on to say that she's only using services that require or enforce
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So again, you're never going to see a piece in the CBC that is at all, uh, contrary to
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this, the super hard line stance of everybody must be, must follow draconian rules.
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Those who step out of line are, uh, are, are these crazies who have a death wish and we all
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need to basically, you know, fall in line behind the government orders and edicts.
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I don't really have much more to say about this other than that.
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Well, it's not, it's not just that they don't even believe that they're, that they're crazies
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They think that they're out to kill you or out to kill in this case, her daughter, like
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she even writes, I have to try to balance my daughter's safety and pacifying those who
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Um, if you have the, you have the right to keep your kid at home, you have the right
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And I understand that this woman, uh, her, her daughter has some kind of an auto immune,
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uh, deficiency or, or, uh, bad kidney and that she, she, you know, she's extra worried
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I have two little kids and obviously your role as a parent is to do everything you can
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Um, however, this idea that, you know, well, first of all, she's writing a piece in the CBC
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That's, that's not exactly a productive solution, uh, to this issue, but she's clinging to these
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The, the, the best way that you can protect your kid is, is actually to help build up
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their immune system, get them outside, get them interacting with other kids.
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Uh, you know, that, that's how you, that's how for generations, uh, for centuries, that's
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So this idea that we're going to just wrap ourselves into like a plastic bubble and stay
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away from everybody, not going to, not going to turn out well in the long run.
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And again, this is just the kind of drivel, uh, that we see in the CBC.
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And, and Candace, I, one, one thing as well, you know, I kind of feel bad for some of these
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people because they have been, they have been duped into being so afraid of this and it's
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I mean, how many people do you, have you interacted with that are very scared about COVID?
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They're, they're, they're paying attention to the latest wave, looking at all the, all
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the numbers and, and, and worrying about their, their health and safety and their family's
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health and safety when it's, it's overblown really, uh, they, they don't need to be as
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But these people have been, have been, you know, whether it's, whether it's, they've been
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duped or whether they've been, they've been pushed into it.
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A lot of people, um, even today who still wear double masks, who are afraid to touch public
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services, I mean, that is, that is something that are, we're going to have to reckon with,
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Are we to believe that all these people who are so afraid of this virus that in several
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years from now, they're not going to, they're not going to have some of that, some of that
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I think, I think, you know, we have to really come to terms with the fact that, uh, the mental
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health that has, you know, been damaged across the board, it's taken a toll on both sides.
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People don't want to be stuck in lockdown, but other people are being conditioned to be
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so afraid of this virus that I think we're going to have to, we're going to have to deal
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And it's going to become a part of, a part of how we end up dealing with things like regular
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I think it's, I think it's kind of sad in a way too.
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We should, we should, uh, see, see these kinds of cases with, with compassion and recognize
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that we have to figure out a plan to get everyone out.
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It's, it's funny, uh, you just reading this piece again, for me, I also have little kids
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and I think the exact opposite instincts as this lady, this lady is like, uh, you know,
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I don't know what the long-term consequences of COVID are.
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Therefore I'm going to do everything to like, I got to wrap my child in bubble wrap and keep
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For me, uh, my perspective was, okay, what we see about COVID is that it doesn't really impact
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They, my, my son had COVID, he's three, uh, he, he had like a sore throat for a day and
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I don't know what the long-term impact is, but I also don't know what the long-term impact
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of keeping kids isolated from their friends and peers.
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That, that was not something I was willing to do.
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Uh, I, the, the, the long-term impact of making little kids wear masks is insane.
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And we know that it will have long-term impact in their ability to communicate, their ability
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to socialize all these things that when, you know, when you have a little taller, that's
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what you're trying to do is get them out to meet other people.
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So, you know, there's, there's the adverse side of this as well.
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And this idea that we should rush to get little babies and little kids vaccinated.
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Well, what about the long-term impact of vaccines?
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We don't know that as well, especially this vaccine, because it's novel and it's new.
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So, you know, my, my instinct are almost exactly the opposite of this woman.
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I wanted to make sure my kids still had some kind of a semblance of a normal childhood
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that they could still go and play, that they could go to parks.
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I go out of my way to make sure that the kids have playdates, that they interact with
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people, they see the world, that, that it's not always just this like strange, uh, you
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know, everyone wearing masks and everyone's so distant from each other.
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Um, you know, I want to make sure my kids have a normal life.
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And it's, it's, it's sort of sad that some people are so wrapped up and paranoid with fear
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that they can't, they can't offer that to their kids.
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And then again, the CBC is out there promoting this worldview to try to say, no, no, it's normal
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for you to just try to completely isolate your child and not let them be around anyone, not
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let them see anyone and just be counting the days until they have a vaccine available for
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Harrison, I do want to get to this one final story because it's fake news wrapped in fake
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Um, true North reported on this a couple of weeks ago that this journal journalist organization
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won't retract a false statement about a pipeline protest arrest.
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So basically the, uh, the, the, the Canadian association of journalists, which bills itself
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as a national voice for Canadian journalists, printed a statement statement in November, accusing
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So there is this reporter that worked for an outlet called the narwhal who was part of an
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anti-pipeline protest, basically this, so this happened back in November in Northern British
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There was a group of unlawful people who were unlawful protesters who were ignoring police
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They were, they locked themselves up in a cabin protesting against a pipeline, ended up getting
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One of the people, one of the protesters, it turns out was a journalist who wrote about
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So, so, so, so even though she was part of the protest, part of the people who got arrested,
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uh, she wrote about it, which I always thought that that was sort of unethical.
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I mean, you're the one that went to journalism school.
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Maybe you can comment on that, but she, she, she wrote about it herself.
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Uh, unfortunately the facts that she got didn't, uh, didn't line up with, with what actually
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The RCMP put out their own report, the department in the government department put out their
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own report, basically refuting facts from her news piece.
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And, and so not only did the narwhal, which is a government funded news organization, far left
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focused on environmental, uh, catastrophe, uh, climate alarmism, all those kinds of themes.
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The Canadian association of journalists, uh, applauded them and put out a statement condemning
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And then it gets even worse Harrison, because now the Canadian journalism foundation is, is,
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They gave them an, uh, they nominated them for an excellence award for this same piece
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that has been refuted and debunked by the RCMP and by a government, uh, report.
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This shows how wildly out of touch these people are.
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Like they can report something that didn't happen, that it's totally made up, pretend that
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there was police brutality involved, pretend that they were illegally arrested.
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And not only are they allowed to publish it with no consequence, when it turns out to
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They're awarding, giving themselves awards and patting themselves on the back.
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This is, this is one of the most, uh, remarkable stories I've seen in a while, Harrison.
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Well, when I first read this, I have to admit, I thought this was a troll.
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I thought it was, I thought it was them trolling, uh, the RCMP and basically everyone else because
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of just how ridiculous it is to award themselves an excellency in journalism award.
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for, uh, basically a story, uh, in which the journalist who inserts herself as an activist
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into the story makes it all about her perspective.
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Uh, and of course she makes it out to seem like she's this hero, like she's this, uh, very
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brave, um, you know, activist who's fighting back against the RCMP.
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And I just want to get into some of the, some of these things that I told about this article
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And first you, you talk, you chatted about the ethics behind putting yourself in the
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I can tell you that in, in modern journalism school, the, the expectation is that you believe
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as a journalist, you play a role as an activist.
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I remember just as, as an, uh, as an example, one of the papers they asked us to write was
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to, was to basically defend journalists being activists.
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Can a journalist be an activist was the prompt of the art of the essay they had us write.
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But just, just so we're, just so we're clear on this, the Canadian association of journalists,
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which were, were the original, uh, the, the original organization to defend this journalist
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after being caught lying, essentially in her piece, their, their, uh, their ethical, their
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code of ethics states very clearly that they do not allow their own biases to impede fair
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and accurate reporting. Accuracy is the moral imperative of journalists.
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When we make a mistake, whether in fact or in context, and regardless of the platform,
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we correct it promptly and in a transparent manner, acknowledging the nature of the error,
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Candace. So I don't know how that code of ethics fits in with awarding themselves a
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excellency in journalism, uh, award after being called out. Um, but again, you'll never see the
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CAJ or the CJF, the two organizations, um, that are obviously just activist organizations
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masquerading as, as journalism, uh, entities or those that defend journalists. You'll never
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see them defend journalists that are actually, uh, in the, that are actually have their rights
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stripped from them or are, uh, or are impeded by the government. For example, our own Andrew
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Lawton, who was pepper sprayed at the freedom convoy protest. I didn't, I didn't hear anything,
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uh, from them about defending Andrew and defending journalists like Andrew and Alexa
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Lavoie from rebel. Did you, I, I, I didn't, didn't make it across my desk.
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No, of course not. They don't care about, uh, journalists who work for Canadian organizations.
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They only care about their own mostly government funded, mostly far left agenda driven activists
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here. I mean, this, this woman was illegally, uh, they were occupying private property and present,
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preventing people from doing their job. They got arrested. She didn't identify
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herself as a journalist. She didn't say that she was there covering the story. The police
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had no idea. They just arrested all the protesters after giving them ample warning saying, you
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guys have to leave. You have to get out enough with your protests. It's time for these people
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to be able to go to work. And, and, and, and, and it was written right here that Bracken
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was detained by police and her ensuing report, which a federal memo found was one-sided and omitted
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key information led to the arrest being labeled as unlawful by the journalists. So to your point,
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Harrison, when you make a mistake, this woman, it wasn't a mistake, right? She, she knew what
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happened. She left out key information on purpose, but you could, you could say, okay,
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the Canadian association of journalists didn't know that. So when they issued the statement saying,
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you know, condemning the police for this unlawful arrest, uh, they, they, they didn't have the full
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picture. Well, then, then the full picture did emerge. You would expect the CAJ to reverse and,
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and say, okay, we made a mistake. We didn't have the full information to your point. That's,
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that's the, that's the duty of a journalist to focus on accuracy and truth. But here we see that,
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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
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kind of a troll because they doubled down by nominating it for an award. Why would you nominate
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that for an excellence awards? These, these people are just so out of touch, Harrison. They're so,
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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,
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they're, they're congratulating themselves for lying essentially.
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Yeah. And I want to read some of this excellent reporting. I mean, remember this report was,
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it was nominated and this is what, this is what was in the report. Just so, just so we're all aware,
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uh, this, this journalist writes, no one in Canada should tolerate police efforts to intimidate
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journalists or limit news coverage. My arrest actually makes me a big part of a national
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reckoning with press freedoms. So again, just inserting herself and making her a part of the
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story, making her the hero. She goes on to say, police put me in handcuffs when I should have
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been doing my job. I felt kidnapped having never been arrested before. It is the best word I can
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think of to describe being taken so abruptly out of my life and work in violation of Canadian
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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.
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Uh, but again, you just don't hear that there it's, it's not, if there's, there's no equal
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standard, right? The charter rights were not violated. This journalist charter rights were not
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violated. She refused police orders to leave an unlawful protest. Journalists at the freedom convoy
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who were arrested for covering the news, who were pepper sprayed, who were, uh, who were beaten by
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batons. Those journalists had their charter rights violated. That's the truth. We saw it all on
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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
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doesn't exempt you from laws, right? Like if you're part of a protest that the police are saying,
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you can't do this anymore. We've given you ample warning. You now have to be removed. Unless you
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identify yourself as a journalist, like it's not like RCMP just magically know who is a journalist
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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
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that's what Andrew Lawton and Alexa Duarte did during their, during that it's on video. They identify
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themselves as being journalists and yet they're still brutalized. But of course, no word from the
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Canadian association of journalism, uh, on those assaults, not nothing at all. We don't fit into
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the mold of, of, of a good leftist journalist who gets government funded. So, so we don't get the
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same treatment. It's, it's all such a farce, such a sad state of journalism here in Canada. Well,
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that's, that's the whole purpose of this show and fake news Friday. So thank you so much for
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tuning in Harrison. Thank you so much for joining us. Happy to be here. Always. Right. That's Harrison
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Faulkner. It's fake news Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is the Candice Malcolm show.