The Candice Malcolm Show - As if we needed another reason to Defund the CBC

00:00:00.000 A CBC journalist quits the state broadcaster in rage and spills the beans about just how

00:00:05.200 far down the woke left rabbit hole the CBC has gone as if we need another reason to defund the

00:00:10.680 CBC. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:18.560 Hi everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in. This is our favorite show of the week here at

00:00:22.820 The Candace Malcolm Show because it gives us the opportunity to reflect on all of the craziness

00:00:27.060 and all of the nonsense that is put out in the Canadian media by the legacy media here in the

00:00:32.880 country and this story in particular. So this came out on January 3rd and we wanted to cover it right

00:00:37.540 away. This is one of those stories that was so big, it was so hot, it was all over social media that we

00:00:41.260 wanted to cover right away but we had discipline and we decided to save it for Fake News Friday

00:00:45.620 because it is the perfect example of the kinds of themes and the kinds of things that we talk about

00:00:50.260 here on Fake News Friday at The Candace Malcolm Show and I'm excited today because I have a special

00:00:55.120 guest joining me on the program today to help sort of understand and break through some of the

00:01:00.700 stories and that is Harrison Faulkner. Harrison Faulkner is a producer and a journalist here at

00:01:05.460 True North. He started out as an intern. He is a student over at Ryerson University in the journalism

00:01:10.780 program and he jumped on board with True North. So first, welcome to the show, Harrison. Thanks for

00:01:15.840 joining us. Thanks for having me, Candace. Fake News Friday is my favorite segment and I think we've got

00:01:20.340 quite a few examples to get into with this one. Exactly and well for you, Harrison, I mean you're

00:01:25.480 young and you're sort of fresh out of journalism school or I think you're still enrolled over there,

00:01:30.500 you're almost done, but you sort of see the dynamic of the, I mean Ryerson is sort of one of the most

00:01:37.140 well-regarded journalism schools in the country. It's right in downtown Toronto so it's sort of like

00:01:42.320 the woke epicenter of the country and so you know you're coming out of that environment and I'm sure a lot

00:01:48.540 of the things that we see, the problems that we see at the CBC, you know, you've lived through it and

00:01:53.380 you know exactly what it's like inside, you know, not that Ryerson is a media company, but the sort

00:02:00.780 of your professors and the mindset and the attitudes I think that you learn I'm sure is very similar.

00:02:06.000 Yeah, well one of the things that I'm not sure many readers of the CBC know or readers of the

00:02:10.940 legacy media know is that a lot of these writers and journalists actually teach classes or they spend some

00:02:16.460 time actually working in these journalism schools and so I kind of got a bit of a glimpse into where

00:02:22.020 things were headed with the CBC and some of these legacy media outlets and it really only led me more

00:02:29.080 and more to outlets like True North because really I just, there was no prospect of me ever working in

00:02:34.820 one of these newsrooms. It's far too biased, far too woke and they've completely abandoned any

00:02:40.700 journalistic principles that they once had. So yeah, I mean I got a front row seat to really the

00:02:47.960 journalist factory, the CBC factory at some of these journalism schools and I got to tell you it's

00:02:53.380 pretty freaky knowing what's coming down the pike. If it's bad now it's going to get a lot worse in

00:02:58.420 about five or ten years. Right, well speaking of a front row view, I feel like that's what Canadians got

00:03:05.060 this week with this sub stack. So I'm gonna go through this a little bit because it's just so

00:03:09.480 interesting and so much of this, so what happened is Tara Henley, a long-time journalist over at the

00:03:15.660 CBC, she's a TV producer, radio producer, occasional on-air columnist, she describes herself as a journalist

00:03:21.340 of 20 years covering everything from hip-hop to news to food to current affairs and she basically just had

00:03:28.280 enough. She said enough is enough, I don't want to work at the CBC anymore and she kind of did this

00:03:33.140 expose or this open letter just explaining all of the problems that had gone on on CBC. It very

00:03:39.060 quickly went viral and really gives us an inside view of what is going on and what is wrong over

00:03:45.360 the state broadcaster. So I'm just going to go ahead and read a lot. I think it's so good and I'm

00:03:49.820 shamelessly just going to like read most of this article because I really find it eye-opening. So

00:03:54.160 the article here is called Speaking Freely, Why I Resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

00:03:59.020 is over on Substack which is a sort of opportunity for a journalist or a writer to kind of own their

00:04:06.020 own platform, to have their own blog where people subscribe and they send out newsletters. So it kind

00:04:10.240 of gives journalists the opportunity to kind of be entrepreneurial and do their own thing rather than

00:04:15.260 working for a big sort of corporate legacy media outlet and it's become really popular for sort of

00:04:21.440 dissenting thinkers, not necessarily conservatives but people who just don't go along with the sort of

00:04:26.800 woke mantra dogma that exists on the political left and in legacy media. So here we go. She writes,

00:04:34.980 For months now I've been getting complaints about the CBC where I work as a TV and radio producer and

00:04:39.480 occasional on-air columnist for much of the past decade. People want to know why, for example,

00:04:43.740 non-binary Filipinos concerned of lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC

00:04:50.840 while local issues of broad concern go unreported. Or why are pop culture radio shows coverage of the

00:04:56.200 Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans or comics that did not

00:05:00.920 find it offensive? Or why exactly taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using

00:05:06.340 words such as brainstorm and lame? Everyone asks the same thing. What is going on at the CBC? I agree

00:05:13.680 with all this. I think I remember each of those stories and the idea that something different is

00:05:18.920 going on at the CBC is interesting because from my perspective this has kind of always been the case.

00:05:23.300 They've always been promoting a far-left worldview. They've always been coming up with really obscure

00:05:27.440 stories. And the point of most of their journalism is to kind of scold Canadians and blame Canadians

00:05:32.560 and tell Canadians that we're the problem and that we're racist. So the idea that this is something

00:05:37.320 that's new, that's happened in the last couple of months or over the last two years, I kind of

00:05:42.660 disagree. I think it's been happening for much longer. But my point aside, I'll keep reading here.

00:05:46.900 She writes,

00:05:47.300 When I started at the National Public Broadcaster in 2013, the network produced some of the best

00:05:52.420 journalism in the country. By the time I resigned last month, it embodied some of the worst trends

00:05:56.760 in the mainstream media. In a short period of time, the CBC went from being a trusted news source

00:06:00.800 to churning out clickbait that reads like a parody of a student press. Again, I would probably refute

00:06:05.840 the idea that it was ever a trusted source of news, or at least in my lifetime or the, you know,

00:06:10.280 15 years since I've been a journalist. I don't think the CBC was ever trusted, but maybe in the eyes of

00:06:16.160 more sort of centrist, middle-of-the-road Canadians that used to be trusted, whereas clearly what

00:06:21.440 she's talking about here is that they've abandoned the center and they've really gone to the fringe.

00:06:25.780 Far left, I'll keep reading here. She says,

00:06:28.720 Those of us on the inside know just how swiftly and how dramatically the politics of the state

00:06:32.760 broadcaster have shifted. It used to be that I was one of the furthest to the left in any newsroom,

00:06:38.180 occasionally causing strain in a story meeting with my views on issues like the housing crisis.

00:06:41.980 I'm now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics.

00:06:47.560 This happened in the span of about 18 months. My own politics did not change. I like how she

00:06:51.780 openly admits that she's a leftist. You know, journalists are supposed to be non-biased,

00:06:56.480 especially at the state broadcaster. I'm sure that they all sort of claim that they're neutral

00:06:59.920 and that they're not on the political spectrum. You know, at least she openly admits that she is a

00:07:04.340 leftist and that she used to try to push the stories. To the left, interesting that she says that she

00:07:09.040 hasn't changed her views and she's now considered conservative. I know that this is a lot of the

00:07:14.000 feelings of people who are sort of like old school liberals. They believe in things like,

00:07:18.740 you know, individual liberty and democracy. And these are the kind of things that the new left

00:07:25.600 has sort of abandoned. And so leaving a lot of liberals feeling like they're conservative.

00:07:29.700 I'll keep reading here.

00:07:31.040 To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissidence and to abandon

00:07:36.280 journalistic integrity. It is to sign on enthusiastically to the radical political

00:07:40.740 agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American

00:07:44.860 social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions. It is to pretend that

00:07:50.080 the woke worldview is near universal, even if it is far from popular with those you know and speak to

00:07:55.980 and interview and read. To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most 0.86

00:08:00.400 significant thing about a person and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than

00:08:05.160 others. It is in my newsroom to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book. Unbelievable.

00:08:12.220 And to actively book more people from some races and less of others. It's wild that this stuff is

00:08:18.540 actually going on at the CBC. The CBC, by the way, has sort of denied that this stuff does take place.

00:08:23.680 But I know a lot of outlets, including True North, are trying to get their hands on what those racial

00:08:28.060 profile forms look like and what they actually say, because I have no doubt that they do that kind of thing

00:08:32.500 over at the CBC. I'll continue. It says, to work at the CBC is to submit to job interviews that are

00:08:38.780 not about qualifications or experience, but instead demand the parroting of orthodoxies,

00:08:43.180 the demonstration of fealty to dogma. It is to become less adversarial to governments and corporations

00:08:49.280 and more hostile to ordinary people with ideas that Twitter doesn't like. I like how she just openly

00:08:54.900 says that they're not adversarial to government. You know, the whole idea is that they're holding the

00:08:58.520 government to account. That is the role of a political journalist. And yet we know because

00:09:02.820 Trudeau funds them. Trudeau pays their bills and they are subservient. They bow down to Justin Trudeau.

00:09:09.320 They do not hold him accountable. They are not adversarial or hostile to them. Instead, like she says,

00:09:14.800 they're hostile and adversarial to just regular old Canadians who might have views that are falling

00:09:19.920 out of fashion. She goes on to say, it is to endlessly document microaggressions, but pay little

00:09:25.940 attention to evictions, to spotlight companies' political platitudes, but have little interest

00:09:30.660 in wages or working conditions. It is to allow sweeping societal changes like lockdowns, vaccine

00:09:35.820 mandates, and school closures to roll out with little debate, to see billionaires amass extraordinary

00:09:40.320 wealth, and bureaucrats amass enormous power with little scrutiny, and to watch the most vulnerable

00:09:46.280 among us die of drug overdoses with little comment. Now, this is interesting because this is the kind of

00:09:50.560 stuff that True North covers, and we're like the only ones that are out there, you know, keeping track of

00:09:55.020 how many people are dying in Canada from opioid overdoses. You know, we're the ones that are sort

00:10:00.340 of raising these questions. The CBC should be, and it's interesting to see that at least one journalist

00:10:04.920 in the CBC or formerly acknowledges that and sees that too. Almost done here, she writes,

00:10:11.180 it is to consent the idea that a growing list of subjects are off the table, that dialogue itself

00:10:15.640 can be harmful, that the big issues of our time are already settled. How many times have we heard over

00:10:20.400 the last decade that the science has settled and that debate is over? We'll go on here. She writes,

00:10:25.840 it is to capitulate to certainty, to shut down critical thinking, to stamp out curiosity,

00:10:30.120 to keep one's mouth shut, to not ask questions, to not rock the boat. This while the world burns.

00:10:37.140 How could good journalism possibly be done under such conditions? How could any of this possibly be

00:10:42.120 healthy for society? All of this raises larger questions about the direction that North America

00:10:46.300 is headed. Questions about this new moment we are living through, and its impact on the body politic,

00:10:51.880 on class divisions, on economic inequality, on education, on mental health, on literature,

00:10:56.760 and comedy, on science, on liberalism, and democracy. These questions keep me up at night.

00:11:02.480 I can no longer push them down. I will no longer hold back. This subsect is an attempt to find some

00:11:07.880 answers, and then she just goes on to lay out what she plans to do and what she plans to write,

00:11:12.200 and invites people to go ahead and share. So pretty powerful stuff there. I mean, I don't know if any

00:11:17.300 of it per se surprises me other than the fact that they fill out racial profiling forms and that

00:11:22.400 they're told to book guests more from one race or another. But Harrison, what is your reaction to

00:11:28.600 this pretty scathing letter about all the problems over at the CBC? Yeah, I mean, this is really like a

00:11:35.100 bombshell that I think a lot of people in, especially in conservative media or right-leaning media,

00:11:40.500 like you said, Candace, we all kind of knew what was being said here. We already knew a lot of this.

00:11:45.940 It's not that surprising for us, but it really got a lot of traction around, I mean, Fox News picked

00:11:50.940 it up. A lot of big American blogs picked it up. And this really, I think a lot of Canadians were

00:11:56.620 waiting to hear this and waiting to see something like this, and clearly it ruffled some feathers.

00:12:00.840 And, you know, one quote from that article that really got my attention was this line about how in

00:12:06.660 a short period of time the CBC went from being a trusted source of news to turning out clickbait

00:12:11.280 that reads like a parody of the student press. Now, as we talked about at the beginning, I haven't,

00:12:15.240 you know, I'm still in journalism school, and some of the articles I read out of our student

00:12:20.780 newspapers, I mean, yeah, they're pretty bad, but they're actually a lot better than what you see

00:12:25.140 on the front page of the CBC. And it kind of makes you scratch your head and think, first of all,

00:12:29.260 where do they find these people to write these articles? And really kind of where, how has the

00:12:34.480 CBC gotten to this low of a level? It's really, it's really too bad, but, you know, it's important

00:12:40.220 to remember that all of us pay for the CBC. So anytime you see a really, a really awful story, you

00:12:44.400 know, that's your money that went to that. And I think that that's part of why this, this article

00:12:49.000 from, this article from Tara Henley really, really, you know, made a lot of news. But yeah, I want to,

00:12:55.160 I want to bring up Andrew Lawton's tweet, our colleague Andrew Lawton, who kind of went,

00:13:00.160 went at Aaron O'Toole, who of course jumped on this the moment it was published. Aaron O'Toole,

00:13:04.580 as many of you would know, famously in the leadership election, said that he would

00:13:08.660 cut English television by 50% and then privatize CBC English TV within his first mandate. So he came

00:13:16.760 out strong in the leadership election, but by, by the time it came around for the general election,

00:13:21.240 Aaron O'Toole's stance on the CBC had totally softened. It basically had been brought down

00:13:26.140 all the way into basically a review of their mandate. So he went from being full on in support

00:13:31.640 of defunding to just wanting to review them, not rock the boat, make sure the CBC still gave them a

00:13:37.100 positive, still gave him a positive headline here and there. And clearly none of that has worked.

00:13:41.460 But O'Toole tweeted that he would like to sit down with Tara Henley and to talk about what can be

00:13:46.680 done to fix the CBC. And Andrew responded on Twitter and said, during the leadership race,

00:13:52.260 Aaron O'Toole pledged to unequivocally defund and privatize CBC. During the election,

00:13:57.160 he pledged to review possible changes to its business model. Now he wants to fix it. So clearly

00:14:01.700 the, the line from O'Toole, the line from the conservative party has softened on the CBC.

00:14:07.540 But I think that, I think it's a miscalculation. I think most people

00:14:10.720 now are ready to see some serious reform to CBC, ready to see some serious change.

00:14:16.400 It clearly needs it. But of course, not all the response to Tara Henley's articles have been

00:14:22.360 positive. There have been, there has been some pushback. One article that I think needs to be

00:14:27.440 brought to the attention of our audience is this hit piece on Henley from Gawker. So Gawker was

00:14:33.180 basically destroyed in 2016 by Peter Thiel. He bankrupted them and basically wiped them off the,

00:14:38.840 off the block. And Hulk Hogan, right? Wasn't it Hulk Hogan that they had like published some

00:14:42.780 stuff about him and he teamed up with Peter Thiel was like a, like a private donor. And they just,

00:14:48.760 I mean, this is a terrible website, right? It's just like low, low quality clickbait, full on gossip,

00:14:55.000 like the most salacious kind of things. And yeah, it disappeared. Now all of a sudden it's back to

00:15:00.060 defend, to defend the CBC and the woke, the woke leftist takeover over there. And it's just like this

00:15:06.840 terrible junkie site and yet another, you know, leftist squawking voice. I don't, I don't really

00:15:11.600 understand the business model here, but. Yeah. And so like you, I kind of thought that Gawker had

00:15:16.460 been, you know, fully erased. Like I thought, I thought Gawker didn't exist. And then we saw this

00:15:20.000 article. So I did a bit of research. It turns out they, they came back in the summer of this past

00:15:24.440 summer in 2021, they were relaunched. And so I guess they were relaunched to write articles like this,

00:15:29.080 which frankly is, is a total joke. So they basically go after Henley for say,

00:15:33.600 for basically accusing her of, of trying to imitate writers like Glenn Greenwald and Barry

00:15:37.920 Weiss, who are kind of just, you know, leaving their legacy media jobs and going, searching for

00:15:44.120 a cheap buck by calling out, you know, legacy media for being too woke and too liberal and just kind

00:15:49.280 of jumping on this substat grift. It's, it's, it's so ridiculous to call it a grift though. I mean,

00:15:54.040 it's like, okay. So someone like Barry Weiss was a columnist at the New York times, the most

00:15:59.400 prestigious American newspaper. And, you know, she, she, she's kind of like the description we 0.93

00:16:04.280 were talking about earlier, a liberal, you know, she's by no means on the right in any way. She's 0.99

00:16:08.200 not conservative. The only position that she might have that would be considered conservative is that 0.73

00:16:11.780 she's pretty pro Israel, but, but you know, everything else is like she, she, she gave up a

00:16:17.380 very prestigious position at the New York times as an editor to go completely independent. It's a huge

00:16:22.680 risk. I don't know how much money she makes from, from a substat, but, but asking people who enjoy 0.83

00:16:28.720 your work and who read your stuff to, to, to fund you as opposed to going through some big

00:16:33.720 corporation. I mean, to me, that's honorable. It's like an entrepreneur doing their thing.

00:16:37.360 And so, and so to just like the way that Gawker does it, just dismiss it as a grift and say that,

00:16:41.780 you know, they're just trying to make money. It's like, it's probably the opposite. My, my guess is

00:16:46.800 that most of these names and including Tara here, she's probably making less money, quite a bit less 0.50

00:16:52.420 money doing her own thing and trying to solicit individual donations versus working at, 0.93

00:16:58.720 you know, a plush fancy news outlet, like the CBC or the New York times that you, you know,

00:17:04.040 you get paid really well over there. Yeah. And, and, you know, Gawker is an alternative media site

00:17:08.960 and you'd think maybe they'd be interested in, well, maybe not propping up these old legacy media

00:17:13.620 outlets like the CBC and New York times. But I mean, when you read this article, you see exactly

00:17:18.160 where they're, where they're coming from and you kind of understand, well, actually it doesn't

00:17:21.500 surprise, shouldn't surprise anyone that they're defending CBC. So a couple of quotes I just have to

00:17:26.500 bring up. So in, in Tara Henley's Substack article, she, she talked about two CBC headlines,

00:17:31.940 which I think we've covered on this show before, because they're just so ridiculous. And again,

00:17:37.080 it's important to remind everyone listening that when you read these CBC headlines, just know that

00:17:41.520 your money went to the funding of this, of this journalism. So obviously she, she brings up this

00:17:46.720 non-binary Filipinos article about how basically it's a question. It's how non-binary Filipinos

00:17:53.020 reconcile their identities with their language's lack of LGBT terms. So I think everyone can

00:17:58.480 understand that that is a ridiculous headline, frankly, not something that, you know, should be

00:18:02.560 written about in the CBC. But the way Gawker attacks Henley's, you know, sort of interpretation

00:18:08.640 of this article is just crazy. So they basically call this, they say this in describing this Filipino

00:18:15.940 article, it is by all standards, a normal and well-reported piece of journalism about language and

00:18:21.700 colonialism. So, I mean, that is just, that is straight out of the CBC newsroom. That's basically

00:18:26.500 the way any CBC author would write about this article. And then the second article is about how,

00:18:32.580 you know, it's racist or it's, it's, it's offensive to basically use modern basic words in,

00:18:40.480 in the English language. So the CBC published a, published a story, which we covered, which goes

00:18:44.480 through, you know, words like blackmail. So apparently using that is racist and it comes from a point of

00:18:50.820 privilege, I guess. And then the, the Gawker article basically said it was wrong to criticize

00:18:56.060 this, this article because it doesn't scold anybody, but instead provides, but instead provides

00:19:03.180 context about the evolving meaning of certain words in public discourse. That's so stupid. I mean,

00:19:08.720 it's, it obviously, the whole point of the article was to scold Canadians. I mean, it just really,

00:19:13.700 really like scraping the bottom of the barrel there to defend Terry Hanley. And, and they didn't go

00:19:18.260 after that. The Gawker article didn't defend the CBC against all these accusations that they're not

00:19:23.320 focusing on the important issues of her time. I, to me, the most powerful part of Tara Henley's

00:19:28.340 article and, and, and sub-stack column there was, she was talking about the big questions of her time.

00:19:33.800 And she was talking about how the way that the, the woke left, even though they, they tend, they,

00:19:37.500 they pretend to be striving for justice and peace and all these things. It's like, you know,

00:19:44.000 they're, they're, they're obsessed with race. They're focused on these really niche issues that

00:19:47.020 don't impact and don't really affect Canadians. And meanwhile, they're ignoring these huge,

00:19:51.760 huge, you know, growth of government, amassing a power among corporations and, and governments,

00:19:57.060 without question, you know, really huge societal changes, ignoring them all, ignoring the plight of

00:20:02.520 the, the, the, the lowest among us, the, the people who are struggling and addicted to drugs,

00:20:08.960 you know, that stuff gets said. So, so just really kind of a pathetic little response by,

00:20:15.580 by Gawker there. But I, you know, Jonathan Kaye over on Twitter has done a really good job.

00:20:20.320 He's, he's with Colette. He's done a good job of collecting the, the sort of mainstream legacy

00:20:26.320 media's response to Tara Henley's piece, because you would kind of think that people would applaud

00:20:32.500 her for her bravery of coming out, that they would recognize that some of the trends that she talked

00:20:37.220 about, even if we don't agree with everything that she wrote, we would agree that some of the trends

00:20:40.520 that she talked about were serious and deserved our attention. So instead you see a Toronto star

00:20:46.240 columnist replying. So Jesse Brown over at Candleland said that he was going to have Tara on his show.

00:20:51.180 And she just responded by saying, I hope you're joking as if like, how dare you give this person

00:20:56.860 a further platform? Uh, we, we had other people, uh, straight out accusing her of being a racist 0.99

00:21:03.500 and a bigot. So this is an individual who's a former correspondent for the Globe and Mail. He wrote

00:21:09.060 reading the anti-CBC rant by Tara Henley a second time. I found it even more one-sided, superficial,

00:21:14.980 and wrongheaded feeding into people's anti-CBC prejudices. I love the idea that, that, that if you

00:21:22.280 don't like CBC, it's because you're prejudiced. It's like the CBC is now like a protected group or

00:21:26.900 something like that. Um, there are more here. This is an individual who is a, a former journalist,

00:21:32.480 he says, and a, um, author for Harper Collins. And he wrote, it's very lucrative to write an

00:21:38.620 anti-woke substack. Racism has all the money and it needs content creators. Again, just not true. 0.93

00:21:44.540 There's no way that Tara Henley is going to make more money from a substack than she got paid from 1.00

00:21:48.940 the CBC. Remember they get $1.2 billion a year from the government. Um, I, I don't know how much

00:21:55.660 Tara Henley is going to raise from her substack, but my guess is it won't be anywhere near a normal

00:21:59.980 salary for a high paid journalist over at the CBC. This is an executive and administrator over at the

00:22:06.160 University of British Columbia, UBC. He just makes a point that she is making a conscious decision to

00:22:11.140 quote, monetize their own racism. So, uh, again, the taking, taking Tara Henley's substack and 0.97

00:22:18.680 concluding that she's a racist and a bigot, and the whole purpose of it is to monetize off her racism 0.56

00:22:24.340 bigotry. And that there's a huge audience, uh, for racists in Canada really just shows you how much

00:22:29.540 the typical woke leftist hates Canadians. Like the, the whole problem with the CBC, you see it echoing

00:22:35.340 out, um, on, on, on Twitter here. And John Kay did a really, really good job of that. Well, Harrison,

00:22:42.220 I want to move on to another story here because this, this one, this one is like the definition of

00:22:46.920 fake news. The CBC, uh, not surprising another story from the CBC, the CBC basically just invented

00:22:52.520 a news story here that had no bearing to reality and they were completely caught out

00:22:57.300 on it. So I'm talking about this poll that they did. They ran a story saying basically flat out

00:23:03.620 that Canadians don't want to live in Alberta, Alberta bound. Only half of Canadians say they'd

00:23:09.120 feel comfortable making the move. This is just so ridiculous. So basically the CBC commissioned a poll

00:23:14.240 where they only asked Canadians if they would want to live in Alberta. They didn't ask them about

00:23:20.340 other, other provinces. So the whole point of this article was to attack Alberta, to say that

00:23:25.520 Canadians don't like Alberta and that most Canadians wouldn't feel comfortable. I'm going to read a

00:23:29.220 little bit about it because it's just so, it's such a farce. So Alberta bound, only half of Canadians

00:23:34.140 say they'd feel comfortable making the move. New poll suggests many wouldn't feel at home and worry

00:23:39.020 climate change mitigation isn't a priority. Okay. This is the start of this article. Cowboys,

00:23:45.360 nodding oil pump jacks on the prairie landscape, conservative politics. You could fill a Ford

00:23:50.960 F-150 pickup truck with stereotypes about Alberta, but a new national poll suggests Canadians' views

00:23:56.320 of Alberta are a lot more complex than the cliches. And so then they talk about how they did this poll

00:24:01.900 of 1,500 people and they found that 53% don't think Albertans care enough about climate change. So

00:24:09.220 they're kind of making the point that Canadians don't want to live in Alberta. That's basically the

00:24:14.440 whole point of this article, kind of saying Alberta is different. We don't like Alberta. 0.99

00:24:18.740 Most Canadians wouldn't want to live there, wouldn't feel comfortable living here. I mean,

00:24:23.080 not only is like the whole purpose of this article so transparently, clearly just a attack on Alberta

00:24:29.120 for no reason, just to say like, look at them, they're different. We hate them. But it's not true.

00:24:33.560 It's not true. The facts and the statistics in Canada are basically the complete opposite. They're

00:24:38.680 the complete opposite. I mean, a simple search on Google, if you, if you literally just type in on

00:24:42.300 Google, what Canadian province has the highest net migration? Meaning what is a province the most

00:24:47.740 Canadians move to from other provinces? The answer is Alberta. Over the past five decades, Alberta has

00:24:53.740 had the highest net increase from interprovincial migration from any province. This is a report

00:24:58.460 from our friends over at the Fraser Institute. And just look at this graph. Okay. The first graph

00:25:02.980 right here looks at net migration in Canada over the last 40 years from 1970. So, so over the last 45

00:25:09.760 years. And as you can see, the province where most people have left is Quebec. Of the, of the 45 years

00:25:16.540 that they, that they kept track out of 43 of them, Quebec has had more people leave the province each

00:25:22.860 year than come. You can see all the way down. Alberta is the lowest, the least number of people leave

00:25:28.020 Alberta each year on net. They've had fewer years where more people have, have, have left the province

00:25:33.340 than come. Next graph right here is even more clear. This is the net cumulative interprovincial

00:25:38.800 migration. As you can see, almost half a million Canadians have left the province of Quebec over

00:25:44.600 the last five, four and a half, five decades and gone to other provinces. You can see very clearly here

00:25:50.500 that Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and yes, even Ontario have

00:25:55.620 all had net loss of, of residents. People from those provinces have left the two main beneficiary

00:26:02.660 provinces, the two places in this country where the most people want to live, British Columbia and

00:26:06.980 Alberta. More people want to live in Alberta. More people have moved to Alberta. There have been

00:26:11.320 over a million people moved to those two provinces. More than half, 600,000 have been going to Alberta.

00:26:18.280 So CBC cooks up this completely fake idea that people don't want to live in Alberta. Meanwhile,

00:26:23.400 the data, the statistics, the facts back up the exact opposite, that in reality, the choices that people

00:26:29.740 actually make in this country are to move to Alberta, to vote with their feet, to go to the place where

00:26:35.340 there is opportunity, where there is freedom, where Alberta is a great place to live. I lived there for

00:26:40.240 four years during university and I lived in Calgary a little bit later on for a while. It's a great,

00:26:45.340 wonderful, beautiful place to live and that's what the facts show. But there's CBC over there making

00:26:51.240 the exact opposite point. Rightly so, they were called out. Jason Kenney, the premier of Alberta,

00:26:56.920 called it a drive-by smear. He said that he accused CBC correctly of treating the province as a

00:27:03.780 convenient sort of punching bag. He wondered where the research was on Canadians' attitudes towards

00:27:09.320 Quebec and Ontario. Well, feeling shameful and being called out, the CBC did what they should have done

00:27:15.700 the first time. They went back and they redid the survey. They asked all Canadians where they would live

00:27:21.280 and what did they find. Well, pretty much exactly what the facts show, which is that Canadians say that the place

00:27:27.540 that they would most like to live is British Columbia as well as Atlantic Canada, probably because the

00:27:32.500 weather is more temperate and housing prices maybe in eastern Canada would be part of the draw.

00:27:37.840 Interestingly, that people say that they would want to live in Atlantic Canada, where again, the facts

00:27:41.660 show the opposite, that people leave Atlantic Canada every year because there's just not a lot of jobs and

00:27:46.420 not a lot of economic opportunity. But the third place province tied with Ontario right there

00:27:53.480 is Alberta. More Canadians say that they would feel comfortable living in Alberta. Interestingly,

00:27:59.660 Quebec was at the very, very bottom of that list. So almost half of Canadians say that they would want

00:28:03.900 to live in Alberta, whereas only 24% of Canadians say they'd feel comfortable living in Quebec, probably

00:28:10.080 largely because of the language issue, but still the exact opposite of what the CBC said. So this is a

00:28:15.520 perfect example of fake news of CBC sitting around saying, let's cook up a news story to demonize

00:28:21.440 Alberta to make them feel awful, to show how out of step they are on this one issue of climate

00:28:28.320 change. Meanwhile, forgetting all of the other facts about the situation, all of the nuance, all of the

00:28:33.420 real world statistics that show literally the opposite. Again, this is why this is why CBC can't be

00:28:40.660 trusted. What do you think of this one, Harrison?

00:28:43.320 Yeah, well, there's so much wrong with this, this article, Candace. I mean, I don't always agree with Jason

00:28:48.040 Kenny, but his characterization of this article is spot on. It's a, it's a smear job. You can just

00:28:53.280 picture the activists in Toronto sitting around in the newsroom, kind of thinking about how they can,

00:28:58.580 how they can tweak the data, uh, leave important facts out about Alberta, about the migration,

00:29:04.480 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

00:29:14.820 the news and just tarnish, uh, tarnish a whole swath of Canadians. Um, many of whom don't fit the,

00:29:22.220 the, uh, the stereotypes that the CBC put in at the beginning of that article. And,

00:29:26.240 you know, this is, this is a classic problem. I think part of this is, is the bias of omission.

00:29:31.240 Leaving data out can be just as bad as, as cooking up fake information. Sometimes the, the idea that,

00:29:37.780 that the CBC would just completely, I mean, they must've done the research themselves. They must've

00:29:43.140 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

00:30:00.700 professional reporter, producer over at the CBC, who is also, uh, of course, teaching journalism at

00:30:08.720 Mount Royal University. So he's in Albertan. He lives in Calgary. He, he, he's been at the CBC

00:30:13.040 for 20 years. And of course he's, he's a journalism prof as well. Uh, what, what, what shoddy

00:30:18.060 journalism. And, and I feel sorry for these students who are paying good money to get a

00:30:22.040 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

00:30:32.260 something that always needs to be reminded. And I mean, Albertans pay for their province

00:30:37.080 to be tarnished and to be written about like this, uh, in the CBC. And I just think, you

00:30:42.400 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

00:30:53.620 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

00:31:03.380 never try and offend the sensibilities of the front of the Quebecers in Canada. Um, you

00:31:08.200 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

00:31:23.500 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

00:31:38.620 causing, it's, it's a, it's a negative to Canada. It's not doing us anything positive to have a public

00:31:43.560 broadcaster write these articles about the country. And it just makes you wonder what their real

00:31:47.740 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,

00:31:58.720 these, you know, these, these conservatives driving F1, uh, Ford pickup trucks, it's like,

00:32:03.980 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

00:32:35.940 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

00:32:46.980 audience for listening. Look, it's clear that the CBC pushes a divisive race obsessed woke worldview.

00:32:52.900 It invents fake news meant to divide the country and pit Canadians against each other, all the while

00:32:59.320 milking us, taking our money and wasting it away. It's time to defund the CBC. It's fake news Friday.

00:33:06.140 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 07, 2022

As if we needed another reason to Defund the CBC

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