As if we needed another reason to Defund the CBC
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A CBC journalist quits the state broadcaster in rage and spills the beans about just how far down the woke left rabbit hole the CBC has gone. As if we need another reason to defund the CBC, it's Fake News Friday with Harrison Faulkner!
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A CBC journalist quits the state broadcaster in rage and spills the beans about just how
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far down the woke left rabbit hole the CBC has gone as if we need another reason to defund the
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CBC. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
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Hi everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in. This is our favorite show of the week here at
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The Candace Malcolm Show because it gives us the opportunity to reflect on all of the craziness
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and all of the nonsense that is put out in the Canadian media by the legacy media here in the
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country and this story in particular. So this came out on January 3rd and we wanted to cover it right
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away. This is one of those stories that was so big, it was so hot, it was all over social media that we
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wanted to cover right away but we had discipline and we decided to save it for Fake News Friday
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because it is the perfect example of the kinds of themes and the kinds of things that we talk about
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here on Fake News Friday at The Candace Malcolm Show and I'm excited today because I have a special
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guest joining me on the program today to help sort of understand and break through some of the
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stories and that is Harrison Faulkner. Harrison Faulkner is a producer and a journalist here at
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True North. He started out as an intern. He is a student over at Ryerson University in the journalism
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program and he jumped on board with True North. So first, welcome to the show, Harrison. Thanks for
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joining us. Thanks for having me, Candace. Fake News Friday is my favorite segment and I think we've got
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quite a few examples to get into with this one. Exactly and well for you, Harrison, I mean you're
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young and you're sort of fresh out of journalism school or I think you're still enrolled over there,
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you're almost done, but you sort of see the dynamic of the, I mean Ryerson is sort of one of the most
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well-regarded journalism schools in the country. It's right in downtown Toronto so it's sort of like
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the woke epicenter of the country and so you know you're coming out of that environment and I'm sure a lot
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of the things that we see, the problems that we see at the CBC, you know, you've lived through it and
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you know exactly what it's like inside, you know, not that Ryerson is a media company, but the sort
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of your professors and the mindset and the attitudes I think that you learn I'm sure is very similar.
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Yeah, well one of the things that I'm not sure many readers of the CBC know or readers of the
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legacy media know is that a lot of these writers and journalists actually teach classes or they spend some
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time actually working in these journalism schools and so I kind of got a bit of a glimpse into where
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things were headed with the CBC and some of these legacy media outlets and it really only led me more
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and more to outlets like True North because really I just, there was no prospect of me ever working in
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one of these newsrooms. It's far too biased, far too woke and they've completely abandoned any
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journalistic principles that they once had. So yeah, I mean I got a front row seat to really the
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journalist factory, the CBC factory at some of these journalism schools and I got to tell you it's
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pretty freaky knowing what's coming down the pike. If it's bad now it's going to get a lot worse in
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about five or ten years. Right, well speaking of a front row view, I feel like that's what Canadians got
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this week with this sub stack. So I'm gonna go through this a little bit because it's just so
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interesting and so much of this, so what happened is Tara Henley, a long-time journalist over at the
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CBC, she's a TV producer, radio producer, occasional on-air columnist, she describes herself as a journalist
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of 20 years covering everything from hip-hop to news to food to current affairs and she basically just had
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enough. She said enough is enough, I don't want to work at the CBC anymore and she kind of did this
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expose or this open letter just explaining all of the problems that had gone on on CBC. It very
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quickly went viral and really gives us an inside view of what is going on and what is wrong over
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the state broadcaster. So I'm just going to go ahead and read a lot. I think it's so good and I'm
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shamelessly just going to like read most of this article because I really find it eye-opening. So
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the article here is called Speaking Freely, Why I Resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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is over on Substack which is a sort of opportunity for a journalist or a writer to kind of own their
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own platform, to have their own blog where people subscribe and they send out newsletters. So it kind
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of gives journalists the opportunity to kind of be entrepreneurial and do their own thing rather than
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working for a big sort of corporate legacy media outlet and it's become really popular for sort of
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dissenting thinkers, not necessarily conservatives but people who just don't go along with the sort of
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woke mantra dogma that exists on the political left and in legacy media. So here we go. She writes,
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For months now I've been getting complaints about the CBC where I work as a TV and radio producer and
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occasional on-air columnist for much of the past decade. People want to know why, for example,
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non-binary Filipinos concerned of lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC
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while local issues of broad concern go unreported. Or why are pop culture radio shows coverage of the
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Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans or comics that did not
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find it offensive? Or why exactly taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using
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words such as brainstorm and lame? Everyone asks the same thing. What is going on at the CBC? I agree
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with all this. I think I remember each of those stories and the idea that something different is
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going on at the CBC is interesting because from my perspective this has kind of always been the case.
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They've always been promoting a far-left worldview. They've always been coming up with really obscure
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stories. And the point of most of their journalism is to kind of scold Canadians and blame Canadians
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and tell Canadians that we're the problem and that we're racist. So the idea that this is something
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that's new, that's happened in the last couple of months or over the last two years, I kind of
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disagree. I think it's been happening for much longer. But my point aside, I'll keep reading here.
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When I started at the National Public Broadcaster in 2013, the network produced some of the best
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journalism in the country. By the time I resigned last month, it embodied some of the worst trends
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in the mainstream media. In a short period of time, the CBC went from being a trusted news source
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to churning out clickbait that reads like a parody of a student press. Again, I would probably refute
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the idea that it was ever a trusted source of news, or at least in my lifetime or the, you know,
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15 years since I've been a journalist. I don't think the CBC was ever trusted, but maybe in the eyes of
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more sort of centrist, middle-of-the-road Canadians that used to be trusted, whereas clearly what
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she's talking about here is that they've abandoned the center and they've really gone to the fringe.
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Those of us on the inside know just how swiftly and how dramatically the politics of the state
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broadcaster have shifted. It used to be that I was one of the furthest to the left in any newsroom,
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occasionally causing strain in a story meeting with my views on issues like the housing crisis.
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I'm now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics.
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This happened in the span of about 18 months. My own politics did not change. I like how she
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openly admits that she's a leftist. You know, journalists are supposed to be non-biased,
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especially at the state broadcaster. I'm sure that they all sort of claim that they're neutral
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and that they're not on the political spectrum. You know, at least she openly admits that she is a
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leftist and that she used to try to push the stories. To the left, interesting that she says that she
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hasn't changed her views and she's now considered conservative. I know that this is a lot of the
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feelings of people who are sort of like old school liberals. They believe in things like,
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you know, individual liberty and democracy. And these are the kind of things that the new left
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has sort of abandoned. And so leaving a lot of liberals feeling like they're conservative.
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To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissidence and to abandon
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journalistic integrity. It is to sign on enthusiastically to the radical political
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agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American
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social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions. It is to pretend that
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the woke worldview is near universal, even if it is far from popular with those you know and speak to
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and interview and read. To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most
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significant thing about a person and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than
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others. It is in my newsroom to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book. Unbelievable.
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And to actively book more people from some races and less of others. It's wild that this stuff is
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actually going on at the CBC. The CBC, by the way, has sort of denied that this stuff does take place.
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But I know a lot of outlets, including True North, are trying to get their hands on what those racial
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profile forms look like and what they actually say, because I have no doubt that they do that kind of thing
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over at the CBC. I'll continue. It says, to work at the CBC is to submit to job interviews that are
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not about qualifications or experience, but instead demand the parroting of orthodoxies,
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the demonstration of fealty to dogma. It is to become less adversarial to governments and corporations
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and more hostile to ordinary people with ideas that Twitter doesn't like. I like how she just openly
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says that they're not adversarial to government. You know, the whole idea is that they're holding the
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government to account. That is the role of a political journalist. And yet we know because
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Trudeau funds them. Trudeau pays their bills and they are subservient. They bow down to Justin Trudeau.
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They do not hold him accountable. They are not adversarial or hostile to them. Instead, like she says,
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they're hostile and adversarial to just regular old Canadians who might have views that are falling
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out of fashion. She goes on to say, it is to endlessly document microaggressions, but pay little
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attention to evictions, to spotlight companies' political platitudes, but have little interest
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in wages or working conditions. It is to allow sweeping societal changes like lockdowns, vaccine
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mandates, and school closures to roll out with little debate, to see billionaires amass extraordinary
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wealth, and bureaucrats amass enormous power with little scrutiny, and to watch the most vulnerable
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among us die of drug overdoses with little comment. Now, this is interesting because this is the kind of
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stuff that True North covers, and we're like the only ones that are out there, you know, keeping track of
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how many people are dying in Canada from opioid overdoses. You know, we're the ones that are sort
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of raising these questions. The CBC should be, and it's interesting to see that at least one journalist
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in the CBC or formerly acknowledges that and sees that too. Almost done here, she writes,
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it is to consent the idea that a growing list of subjects are off the table, that dialogue itself
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can be harmful, that the big issues of our time are already settled. How many times have we heard over
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the last decade that the science has settled and that debate is over? We'll go on here. She writes,
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it is to capitulate to certainty, to shut down critical thinking, to stamp out curiosity,
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to keep one's mouth shut, to not ask questions, to not rock the boat. This while the world burns.
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How could good journalism possibly be done under such conditions? How could any of this possibly be
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healthy for society? All of this raises larger questions about the direction that North America
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is headed. Questions about this new moment we are living through, and its impact on the body politic,
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on class divisions, on economic inequality, on education, on mental health, on literature,
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and comedy, on science, on liberalism, and democracy. These questions keep me up at night.
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I can no longer push them down. I will no longer hold back. This subsect is an attempt to find some
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answers, and then she just goes on to lay out what she plans to do and what she plans to write,
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and invites people to go ahead and share. So pretty powerful stuff there. I mean, I don't know if any
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of it per se surprises me other than the fact that they fill out racial profiling forms and that
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they're told to book guests more from one race or another. But Harrison, what is your reaction to
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this pretty scathing letter about all the problems over at the CBC? Yeah, I mean, this is really like a
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bombshell that I think a lot of people in, especially in conservative media or right-leaning media,
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like you said, Candace, we all kind of knew what was being said here. We already knew a lot of this.
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It's not that surprising for us, but it really got a lot of traction around, I mean, Fox News picked
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it up. A lot of big American blogs picked it up. And this really, I think a lot of Canadians were
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waiting to hear this and waiting to see something like this, and clearly it ruffled some feathers.
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And, you know, one quote from that article that really got my attention was this line about how in
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a short period of time the CBC went from being a trusted source of news to turning out clickbait
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that reads like a parody of the student press. Now, as we talked about at the beginning, I haven't,
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you know, I'm still in journalism school, and some of the articles I read out of our student
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newspapers, I mean, yeah, they're pretty bad, but they're actually a lot better than what you see
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on the front page of the CBC. And it kind of makes you scratch your head and think, first of all,
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where do they find these people to write these articles? And really kind of where, how has the
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CBC gotten to this low of a level? It's really, it's really too bad, but, you know, it's important
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to remember that all of us pay for the CBC. So anytime you see a really, a really awful story, you
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know, that's your money that went to that. And I think that that's part of why this, this article
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from, this article from Tara Henley really, really, you know, made a lot of news. But yeah, I want to,
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I want to bring up Andrew Lawton's tweet, our colleague Andrew Lawton, who kind of went,
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went at Aaron O'Toole, who of course jumped on this the moment it was published. Aaron O'Toole,
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as many of you would know, famously in the leadership election, said that he would
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cut English television by 50% and then privatize CBC English TV within his first mandate. So he came
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out strong in the leadership election, but by, by the time it came around for the general election,
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Aaron O'Toole's stance on the CBC had totally softened. It basically had been brought down
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all the way into basically a review of their mandate. So he went from being full on in support
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of defunding to just wanting to review them, not rock the boat, make sure the CBC still gave them a
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positive, still gave him a positive headline here and there. And clearly none of that has worked.
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But O'Toole tweeted that he would like to sit down with Tara Henley and to talk about what can be
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done to fix the CBC. And Andrew responded on Twitter and said, during the leadership race,
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Aaron O'Toole pledged to unequivocally defund and privatize CBC. During the election,
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he pledged to review possible changes to its business model. Now he wants to fix it. So clearly
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the, the line from O'Toole, the line from the conservative party has softened on the CBC.
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But I think that, I think it's a miscalculation. I think most people
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now are ready to see some serious reform to CBC, ready to see some serious change.
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It clearly needs it. But of course, not all the response to Tara Henley's articles have been
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positive. There have been, there has been some pushback. One article that I think needs to be
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brought to the attention of our audience is this hit piece on Henley from Gawker. So Gawker was
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basically destroyed in 2016 by Peter Thiel. He bankrupted them and basically wiped them off the,
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off the block. And Hulk Hogan, right? Wasn't it Hulk Hogan that they had like published some
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stuff about him and he teamed up with Peter Thiel was like a, like a private donor. And they just,
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I mean, this is a terrible website, right? It's just like low, low quality clickbait, full on gossip,
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like the most salacious kind of things. And yeah, it disappeared. Now all of a sudden it's back to
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defend, to defend the CBC and the woke, the woke leftist takeover over there. And it's just like this
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terrible junkie site and yet another, you know, leftist squawking voice. I don't, I don't really
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understand the business model here, but. Yeah. And so like you, I kind of thought that Gawker had
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been, you know, fully erased. Like I thought, I thought Gawker didn't exist. And then we saw this
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article. So I did a bit of research. It turns out they, they came back in the summer of this past
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summer in 2021, they were relaunched. And so I guess they were relaunched to write articles like this,
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which frankly is, is a total joke. So they basically go after Henley for say,
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for basically accusing her of, of trying to imitate writers like Glenn Greenwald and Barry
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Weiss, who are kind of just, you know, leaving their legacy media jobs and going, searching for
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a cheap buck by calling out, you know, legacy media for being too woke and too liberal and just kind
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of jumping on this substat grift. It's, it's, it's so ridiculous to call it a grift though. I mean,
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it's like, okay. So someone like Barry Weiss was a columnist at the New York times, the most
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prestigious American newspaper. And, you know, she, she, she's kind of like the description we
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were talking about earlier, a liberal, you know, she's by no means on the right in any way. She's
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not conservative. The only position that she might have that would be considered conservative is that
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she's pretty pro Israel, but, but you know, everything else is like she, she, she gave up a
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very prestigious position at the New York times as an editor to go completely independent. It's a huge
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risk. I don't know how much money she makes from, from a substat, but, but asking people who enjoy
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your work and who read your stuff to, to, to fund you as opposed to going through some big
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corporation. I mean, to me, that's honorable. It's like an entrepreneur doing their thing.
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And so, and so to just like the way that Gawker does it, just dismiss it as a grift and say that,
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you know, they're just trying to make money. It's like, it's probably the opposite. My, my guess is
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that most of these names and including Tara here, she's probably making less money, quite a bit less
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money doing her own thing and trying to solicit individual donations versus working at,
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you know, a plush fancy news outlet, like the CBC or the New York times that you, you know,
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you get paid really well over there. Yeah. And, and, you know, Gawker is an alternative media site
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and you'd think maybe they'd be interested in, well, maybe not propping up these old legacy media
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outlets like the CBC and New York times. But I mean, when you read this article, you see exactly
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where they're, where they're coming from and you kind of understand, well, actually it doesn't
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surprise, shouldn't surprise anyone that they're defending CBC. So a couple of quotes I just have to
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bring up. So in, in Tara Henley's Substack article, she, she talked about two CBC headlines,
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which I think we've covered on this show before, because they're just so ridiculous. And again,
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it's important to remind everyone listening that when you read these CBC headlines, just know that
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your money went to the funding of this, of this journalism. So obviously she, she brings up this
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non-binary Filipinos article about how basically it's a question. It's how non-binary Filipinos
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reconcile their identities with their language's lack of LGBT terms. So I think everyone can
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understand that that is a ridiculous headline, frankly, not something that, you know, should be
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written about in the CBC. But the way Gawker attacks Henley's, you know, sort of interpretation
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of this article is just crazy. So they basically call this, they say this in describing this Filipino
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article, it is by all standards, a normal and well-reported piece of journalism about language and
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colonialism. So, I mean, that is just, that is straight out of the CBC newsroom. That's basically
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the way any CBC author would write about this article. And then the second article is about how,
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you know, it's racist or it's, it's, it's offensive to basically use modern basic words in,
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in the English language. So the CBC published a, published a story, which we covered, which goes
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through, you know, words like blackmail. So apparently using that is racist and it comes from a point of
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privilege, I guess. And then the, the Gawker article basically said it was wrong to criticize
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this, this article because it doesn't scold anybody, but instead provides, but instead provides
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context about the evolving meaning of certain words in public discourse. That's so stupid. I mean,
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it's, it obviously, the whole point of the article was to scold Canadians. I mean, it just really,
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really like scraping the bottom of the barrel there to defend Terry Hanley. And, and they didn't go
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after that. The Gawker article didn't defend the CBC against all these accusations that they're not
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focusing on the important issues of her time. I, to me, the most powerful part of Tara Henley's
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article and, and, and sub-stack column there was, she was talking about the big questions of her time.
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And she was talking about how the way that the, the woke left, even though they, they tend, they,
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they pretend to be striving for justice and peace and all these things. It's like, you know,
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they're, they're, they're obsessed with race. They're focused on these really niche issues that
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don't impact and don't really affect Canadians. And meanwhile, they're ignoring these huge,
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huge, you know, growth of government, amassing a power among corporations and, and governments,
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without question, you know, really huge societal changes, ignoring them all, ignoring the plight of
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the, the, the, the lowest among us, the, the people who are struggling and addicted to drugs,
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you know, that stuff gets said. So, so just really kind of a pathetic little response by,
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by Gawker there. But I, you know, Jonathan Kaye over on Twitter has done a really good job.
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He's, he's with Colette. He's done a good job of collecting the, the sort of mainstream legacy
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media's response to Tara Henley's piece, because you would kind of think that people would applaud
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her for her bravery of coming out, that they would recognize that some of the trends that she talked
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about, even if we don't agree with everything that she wrote, we would agree that some of the trends
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that she talked about were serious and deserved our attention. So instead you see a Toronto star
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columnist replying. So Jesse Brown over at Candleland said that he was going to have Tara on his show.
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And she just responded by saying, I hope you're joking as if like, how dare you give this person
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a further platform? Uh, we, we had other people, uh, straight out accusing her of being a racist
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and a bigot. So this is an individual who's a former correspondent for the Globe and Mail. He wrote
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reading the anti-CBC rant by Tara Henley a second time. I found it even more one-sided, superficial,
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and wrongheaded feeding into people's anti-CBC prejudices. I love the idea that, that, that if you
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don't like CBC, it's because you're prejudiced. It's like the CBC is now like a protected group or
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something like that. Um, there are more here. This is an individual who is a, a former journalist,
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he says, and a, um, author for Harper Collins. And he wrote, it's very lucrative to write an
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anti-woke substack. Racism has all the money and it needs content creators. Again, just not true.
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There's no way that Tara Henley is going to make more money from a substack than she got paid from
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the CBC. Remember they get $1.2 billion a year from the government. Um, I, I don't know how much
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Tara Henley is going to raise from her substack, but my guess is it won't be anywhere near a normal
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salary for a high paid journalist over at the CBC. This is an executive and administrator over at the
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University of British Columbia, UBC. He just makes a point that she is making a conscious decision to
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quote, monetize their own racism. So, uh, again, the taking, taking Tara Henley's substack and
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concluding that she's a racist and a bigot, and the whole purpose of it is to monetize off her racism
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bigotry. And that there's a huge audience, uh, for racists in Canada really just shows you how much
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the typical woke leftist hates Canadians. Like the, the whole problem with the CBC, you see it echoing
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out, um, on, on, on Twitter here. And John Kay did a really, really good job of that. Well, Harrison,
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I want to move on to another story here because this, this one, this one is like the definition of
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fake news. The CBC, uh, not surprising another story from the CBC, the CBC basically just invented
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a news story here that had no bearing to reality and they were completely caught out
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on it. So I'm talking about this poll that they did. They ran a story saying basically flat out
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that Canadians don't want to live in Alberta, Alberta bound. Only half of Canadians say they'd
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feel comfortable making the move. This is just so ridiculous. So basically the CBC commissioned a poll
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where they only asked Canadians if they would want to live in Alberta. They didn't ask them about
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other, other provinces. So the whole point of this article was to attack Alberta, to say that
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Canadians don't like Alberta and that most Canadians wouldn't feel comfortable. I'm going to read a
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little bit about it because it's just so, it's such a farce. So Alberta bound, only half of Canadians
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say they'd feel comfortable making the move. New poll suggests many wouldn't feel at home and worry
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climate change mitigation isn't a priority. Okay. This is the start of this article. Cowboys,
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nodding oil pump jacks on the prairie landscape, conservative politics. You could fill a Ford
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F-150 pickup truck with stereotypes about Alberta, but a new national poll suggests Canadians' views
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of Alberta are a lot more complex than the cliches. And so then they talk about how they did this poll
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of 1,500 people and they found that 53% don't think Albertans care enough about climate change. So
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they're kind of making the point that Canadians don't want to live in Alberta. That's basically the
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whole point of this article, kind of saying Alberta is different. We don't like Alberta.
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Most Canadians wouldn't want to live there, wouldn't feel comfortable living here. I mean,
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not only is like the whole purpose of this article so transparently, clearly just a attack on Alberta
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for no reason, just to say like, look at them, they're different. We hate them. But it's not true.
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It's not true. The facts and the statistics in Canada are basically the complete opposite. They're
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the complete opposite. I mean, a simple search on Google, if you, if you literally just type in on
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Google, what Canadian province has the highest net migration? Meaning what is a province the most
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Canadians move to from other provinces? The answer is Alberta. Over the past five decades, Alberta has
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had the highest net increase from interprovincial migration from any province. This is a report
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from our friends over at the Fraser Institute. And just look at this graph. Okay. The first graph
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right here looks at net migration in Canada over the last 40 years from 1970. So, so over the last 45
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years. And as you can see, the province where most people have left is Quebec. Of the, of the 45 years
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that they, that they kept track out of 43 of them, Quebec has had more people leave the province each
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year than come. You can see all the way down. Alberta is the lowest, the least number of people leave
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Alberta each year on net. They've had fewer years where more people have, have, have left the province
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than come. Next graph right here is even more clear. This is the net cumulative interprovincial
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migration. As you can see, almost half a million Canadians have left the province of Quebec over
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the last five, four and a half, five decades and gone to other provinces. You can see very clearly here
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that Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and yes, even Ontario have
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all had net loss of, of residents. People from those provinces have left the two main beneficiary
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provinces, the two places in this country where the most people want to live, British Columbia and
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Alberta. More people want to live in Alberta. More people have moved to Alberta. There have been
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over a million people moved to those two provinces. More than half, 600,000 have been going to Alberta.
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So CBC cooks up this completely fake idea that people don't want to live in Alberta. Meanwhile,
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the data, the statistics, the facts back up the exact opposite, that in reality, the choices that people
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actually make in this country are to move to Alberta, to vote with their feet, to go to the place where
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there is opportunity, where there is freedom, where Alberta is a great place to live. I lived there for
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four years during university and I lived in Calgary a little bit later on for a while. It's a great,
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wonderful, beautiful place to live and that's what the facts show. But there's CBC over there making
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the exact opposite point. Rightly so, they were called out. Jason Kenney, the premier of Alberta,
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called it a drive-by smear. He said that he accused CBC correctly of treating the province as a
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convenient sort of punching bag. He wondered where the research was on Canadians' attitudes towards
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Quebec and Ontario. Well, feeling shameful and being called out, the CBC did what they should have done
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the first time. They went back and they redid the survey. They asked all Canadians where they would live
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and what did they find. Well, pretty much exactly what the facts show, which is that Canadians say that the place
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that they would most like to live is British Columbia as well as Atlantic Canada, probably because the
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weather is more temperate and housing prices maybe in eastern Canada would be part of the draw.
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Interestingly, that people say that they would want to live in Atlantic Canada, where again, the facts
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show the opposite, that people leave Atlantic Canada every year because there's just not a lot of jobs and
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not a lot of economic opportunity. But the third place province tied with Ontario right there
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is Alberta. More Canadians say that they would feel comfortable living in Alberta. Interestingly,
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Quebec was at the very, very bottom of that list. So almost half of Canadians say that they would want
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to live in Alberta, whereas only 24% of Canadians say they'd feel comfortable living in Quebec, probably
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largely because of the language issue, but still the exact opposite of what the CBC said. So this is a
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perfect example of fake news of CBC sitting around saying, let's cook up a news story to demonize
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Alberta to make them feel awful, to show how out of step they are on this one issue of climate
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change. Meanwhile, forgetting all of the other facts about the situation, all of the nuance, all of the
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real world statistics that show literally the opposite. Again, this is why this is why CBC can't be
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trusted. What do you think of this one, Harrison?
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Yeah, well, there's so much wrong with this, this article, Candace. I mean, I don't always agree with Jason
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Kenny, but his characterization of this article is spot on. It's a, it's a smear job. You can just
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picture the activists in Toronto sitting around in the newsroom, kind of thinking about how they can,
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how they can tweak the data, uh, leave important facts out about Alberta, about the migration,
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interprovincial migration of Canadians, and just find every way possible to politicize their news.
00:29:10.020
Because of course this was, this was characterized as a news piece, uh, to, to find ways to politicize
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the news and just tarnish, uh, tarnish a whole swath of Canadians. Um, many of whom don't fit the,
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the, uh, the stereotypes that the CBC put in at the beginning of that article. And,
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you know, this is, this is a classic problem. I think part of this is, is the bias of omission.
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Leaving data out can be just as bad as, as cooking up fake information. Sometimes the, the idea that,
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that the CBC would just completely, I mean, they must've done the research themselves. They must've
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known that actually the facts tell a different story than this poll they commissioned.
00:29:46.820
Well, I thought it was interesting, Harrison, that the author of the piece, I went to look up who,
00:29:51.000
who wrote it, because you kind of assume it might, might be some junior guy writing in Toronto or
00:29:55.140
something, someone who's never set foot in Alberta. Contrere, uh, this was written by a 20-year
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professional reporter, producer over at the CBC, who is also, uh, of course, teaching journalism at
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Mount Royal University. So he's in Albertan. He lives in Calgary. He, he, he's been at the CBC
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for 20 years. And of course he's, he's a journalism prof as well. Uh, what, what, what shoddy
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journalism. And, and I feel sorry for these students who are paying good money to get a
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journalism degree over at Mount Royal University being taught, uh, by this kind of individual here.
00:30:26.580
Yeah. I mean, seriously, it's just, it's just ridiculous. Um, and frankly, this is, this is
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something that always needs to be reminded. And I mean, Albertans pay for their province
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to be tarnished and to be written about like this, uh, in the CBC. And I just think, you
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know, if you ever needed more of an example of, of the CBC's bias, their, their ability
00:30:48.060
to spin things just perfectly to fit their ideology, uh, this is, this is, this is it. This must
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be the one that, that basically shows to every Canadian, um, you know, the data does not, does
00:30:59.880
not basically match what they're trying to say. And, you know, of course the CBC would
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never try and offend the sensibilities of the front of the Quebecers in Canada. Um, you
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know, they would never try and, uh, paint, paint Ontario to be, you know, some desirable
00:31:13.040
place on equal level as Alberta. Of course, their whole view of the West of the West in
00:31:17.820
this country is a negative one. Uh, and they'll try and do everything they can in their news
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to tarnish Albertans. Uh, and I, I, I, I mean, I think it's partially why no one even, no
00:31:29.120
one listens to the CBC. They're so irrelevant. Uh, they're grasping for anything they can.
00:31:34.000
Um, it really, it's, it's a shame to see it because at the end of the day, it is, it is
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causing, it's, it's a, it's a negative to Canada. It's not doing us anything positive to have a public
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broadcaster write these articles about the country. And it just makes you wonder what their real
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goal is. Why would they do this? Their whole, their whole job should be to promote Canada,
00:31:51.580
to make it a better place, not to try and divide it, uh, regionally.
00:31:54.820
And, and I thought it was funny because when you read the opening of that story, like, oh,
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these, you know, these, these conservatives driving F1, uh, Ford pickup trucks, it's like,
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if you, if you drive like an hour outside of any city in Canada, that's what it's like. It's not like,
00:32:09.560
you know, Alberta is completely different, um, than rural parts of British Columbia, Ontario,
00:32:14.940
Newfoundland, like any, any rural part of the country has similar characteristics and a similar
00:32:19.500
culture. And, and this idea that Alberta is just a stark different place, it's, it's, it's untrue.
00:32:24.580
For any Canadian who has spent time in, in, in Alberta or in any sort of place outside of urban
00:32:31.620
center, to me, it just shows again, how out of touch. When I read it, I really did think it was
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written by some downtown Toronto woke intern and not a 20 year veteran, um, living in Calgary. Well,
00:32:42.280
Harrison, thank you so much for joining the program. It's been fun to have you on and thank you to the
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audience for listening. Look, it's clear that the CBC pushes a divisive race obsessed woke worldview.
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It invents fake news meant to divide the country and pit Canadians against each other, all the while
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milking us, taking our money and wasting it away. It's time to defund the CBC. It's fake news Friday.
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I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm show.