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The Candice Malcolm Show
- February 18, 2022
As Trudeau destroys his reputation, the legacy media destroy their credibility
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The police move to break up the Freedom Convoy, the legacy media spin into overdrive to cover for
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Trudeau during his time of need, and they remind us who the real heroes of the protests are
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themselves. 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. So it's Fake News Friday, and we are going to get
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to all of our reactions and break down the biggest fake news stories of the week. But because there's
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so much news going on, and there's so much going on right now on the ground in Ottawa,
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I wanted to give you a quick news update. So there's sort of three big things that are going on
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right now. First of all, it's Friday. They were supposed to do an emergency meeting in the House
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of Commons to discuss the Emergency Act. So the debate on the Emergency Act, we learned,
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was canceled. Why? Well, because of the Emergency Act. It's so ridiculous. So here is a story from
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Global News. Parliament acts as Friday plans to meet over Emergencies Act amid police operations.
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So Speaker of the House, Anthony Rota, the Liberal, wrote, the House of Commons will not sit today,
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Friday, February 18th. A police operation is expected in the downtown core of Ottawa. Given
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these exceptional circumstances and following discussion with all recognized party leadership,
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the sitting today is canceled. So again, they cannot meet to discuss the Emergency Act,
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because they've already executed the Emergency Act, and there is a police operation going on. This is
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a total suspension of our democracy, of the rule of law, of liberalism in Canada. And the legacy media
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just sort of shrug it off. This was written into the global media piece. They write,
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while the House of Commons has been in hybrid format for much of the past two years,
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holding the session virtually only likely would have raised questions about whether it broke
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parliamentary rules, wrote Global. So they're covering for the liberals, saying they can't even do this
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even though we've been doing parliament virtually for most of the last two years. Somehow they can't
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even do that. So no, we've canceled democracy, we've canceled the rule of law, and the legacy media
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is doing what they do best, which is cover for the liberals. So on the same vein, the second news story
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I want to talk about is sad news out of Ottawa that Tamara Litch was arrested on Thursday evening.
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You'll remember that she was the original organizer of the GoFundMe campaign. She's also become sort of
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a spokesperson for the campaign. She recorded sort of a teary message on Wednesday evening,
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sort of predicting that she was going to get arrested. She seemed really distraught about it,
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but she was prepared to do it. And so I guess the inevitability happened. Joe Warmington tweeted this
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out Thursday evening at about 8.40 local time in Ottawa. Breaking Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Litch
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has been arrested. And there she is. You can see a picture of her earlier that day. I believe that's
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with her daughter that was tweeted out by the Freedom Convoy. But this is just sort of a sad
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moment for the Freedom Convoy. We know that Tamara has been a fighter and a warrior all the way
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through. She seems like a tremendous person and seeing her get arrested signifies that this is
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all just coming to an end. And again, probably inevitable that they were going to break this up,
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but it is finally happening right now in Ottawa. We'll keep bringing you updates from the ground of
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how that plays out and how that police operation plays out, how this thing finally ends. Third story
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I want to quickly touch on before we get into Fake News Friday here is that there was an actual terrorist
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attack in Canada yesterday. Yes, there was a terrorist attack. No, it had nothing to do with the Freedom
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Convoy. It wasn't in Ottawa. It had nothing to do with the thing that the Trudeau government was
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engaging this Emergencies Act and pushing our country into wartime measures to confront a couple
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hundred truckers in Ottawa. Meanwhile, actual terrorists in northern British Columbia attacking
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a oil and gas site, a natural pipeline work site near Houston, British Columbia. So Stuart Marr tweeted
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this out. He said, disturbing news of domestic terrorism in northern BC. 20 axe-wielding attackers
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set upon security guards early on Thursday at a natural gas pipeline work site. One Mountie injured
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in an arson attack. Unbelievable stuff. The pictures here are really, really shocking. I'll read from the
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news release here with the RCMP out in Houston, British Columbia, which is up in northern BC.
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Police respond to acts of violence on the Martin Forest Service Road near Houston. And so it says
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this, it was reported approximately 20 people, some armed with axes, were attacking security guards,
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smashing their vehicle windows. It was initially reported that some coastal gas link employees were
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trapped inside, but all managed to leave the area safely. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Truly acts of
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violence. You can see they set the site on fire to try to stop the police from getting them. They flipped
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over large vehicles, completely violent, with axes, destroying private property, setting arson,
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setting fire, which was endangering security guards and the police. And basically not a peep from the
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media, not a peep from the Trudeau government. I wonder whether Chrystia Freeland is going to be freezing
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these 20 individuals' bank accounts. Will she be freezing their bank accounts? Will she be treating
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them like terrorists? Will she be freezing the bank accounts of anyone who donated to this cause that
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are paying for these eco-radicals to be wreaking havoc up in northern BC? Well, probably not. Probably
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not because this is happening in a working class blue collar area. So no one in Ottawa cares at all when
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it's happening over there. Unbelievable stuff. And I think that's a good segue into our regular episode of
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Fake News Friday. So for that, I am joined as usual by my producer and True North journalist,
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Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, hey, thanks for joining the show today. Yeah, Candace. Well, as you know,
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we've been covering this for 25 days or so, 26 days, I believe it is, our count. And every single day,
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the legacy media continue to provide us with just as many examples as possible as to how they are so
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opposed to this movement and their rants, which they just put out on Twitter every day. And we have a lot
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to get through. So I'm just going to read to you a couple of these, a couple of these takes from
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legacy media journalists that show just how opposed they really are to all of this. The first one that
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we have is from Rachel Gilmore. And she was so shocked to see that these protesters were having a
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pig roast. Although that like as if that was the worst thing she had seen here, she wrote in all caps,
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a pig roast. Jesus Christ. She couldn't believe that these protesters were enjoying a pig roast
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because they've been there for so long. So it just shows you.
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I think this is like a cultural divide, Harrison.
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Absolutely.
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I know that a lot of people have pig roasts as part of like, you know, maybe a Sunday barbecue,
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watching football or something. It's sort of like a cultural, I wouldn't even say like a working
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class thing, but maybe a more of like suburban rural thing. And the fact that she was just
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beside herself. And the great thing about Twitter is it gives us a window into the minds of these
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elitist legacy media journalists. So they're sort of stream of consciousness. They can't help it.
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They put it out there. And it just shows exactly to your point, like how, how culturally opposed they
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are to these people. It's much more of a cultural issue than it is a political issue in my mind.
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Oh, absolutely. And they're just so shocked. It's like they've never been, they've never been
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faced with, faced with the opposing cultural, uh, the opposing culture like this. So really it's
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quite, it's quite humorous to see them all do this. And, um, I know on your show yesterday,
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you taught, you touched on this tweet. This is from Graham Richardson, a CTV anchorman who basically
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went out and publicly stated that he was really enjoying the process of doxing, uh, people who
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had donated to the, to the give, send, go. He wrote, have spent the last two days calling local
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people who have donated to the trucker convoy, including a former MP, several business owners,
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healthcare professionals, and a property developer trying to understand why they support this very
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few calls back, which, uh, I'm not at all surprised, but clearly he was. And then he responded saying,
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Oh, it appears as though some of you don't agree with what I'm doing. Well, no, no, Graham. Uh, a lot
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of people don't really like when journalists go and dox, uh, citizens do the government's dirty work
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for them. What, what a surprise there. And this, well, and also just like this idea that journalists
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are harassing citizens for a private donation. A lot of these donations, Harrison, were very small
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dollar amounts. So you're talking about $50, a hundred dollars. And in, in return, these people
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are getting shamed. Look, I've gotten lots of messages from people, both firsthand and secondhand,
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uh, like, like someone will show me a message that someone sent them or someone sent me to rest.
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People are afraid. People are really, really afraid that the government is criminalizing
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their dissent, that, that a donation that they made a month ago will somehow retroactively make
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them a terrorist today. And, you know, you and I can kind of laugh and joke about how silly that is
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and how overreaching the government is. But I, I know from, from messages that I'm receiving that
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some people are very scared. This is putting a chill, um, in the hearts of Canadians. They don't
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want to be treated like terrorists. They don't want to get their bank accounts froze. They don't want
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their credit cards or their mortgages cut up. And this is a very real threat and, and a very
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dangerous situation. And the fact that the, that the media is out there doing the Trudeau's
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dirty work, it, to me, it's exposed how corrupted the media are, how these journalists are. And
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they're, and they're so out of touch, Harrison, they don't even realize what they're doing. They're
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so naive about it. They're like, oh, oh, some of you don't agree with me doing this. It's like,
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it's like, do you understand the severity here? The government is telling you, if you donated to
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this campaign, you could be treated like a terrorist. They're equating peaceful protesters and
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Ottawa with terrorists. And the, the, the idea of what terror, like what we do to terrorists in
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society, like, like we unperson them, right? Like they could go to jail, they could lose everything.
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And I, to me, the fact that the journalists are out there, I'm happy again, that they're putting
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it out there on Twitter because they're being exposed. And you can see a lot of these tweets
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really get ratioed, not just by the sort of usual suspects here in Canada, but by big international
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accounts, big accounts from the UK, Australia, and the US. Maybe some of these journalists are getting a
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little bit of a wake up call, like, wow, these practices and this behavior that I'm carrying on
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isn't, isn't, isn't acceptable and it's not okay in a free society. Well, it's, it's really maddening
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because in journalism school, the fundamental, one of the fundamentals that they always tell us
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is that journalists are supposed to speak truth to power. They're not supposed to wield the
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government's power for them and to use the government's power to crush dissent on behalf of
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the government. It's, it's really something I've never seen before. And I'm surprised these
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journalists are so, are so proud to be doing that work. It's, it's frankly disgusting.
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And, and speaking about that, as you said, Candace, they are, the government is using this terrorist
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language to paint these protests, which is very, very dangerous. These are Canadian citizens who are
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just exercising their right to peacefully protest. But to, to go with that, these journalists, this,
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a Quebec journalist wrote in, in Quebecor, which is a, which is a French language newspaper.
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Uh, she, she, she's writing these tabloid style headlines in a newspaper calling the protesters
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of the freedom convoy COVID talibans. So basically going as far as she can to paint these, paint these
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freedom protesters, many of whom I had the opportunity to speak to when I was in Ottawa,
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uh, who were our true, uh, salt of the earth Canadians that are fighting for their freedoms.
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Well, the, the journalists are now doing the government's dirty work and labeling them as
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terrorists. And, and Candace, before we move on, there's another tweet that I, I found to be very,
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uh, very enlightening as to where these legacy media journalists are coming from and, and where
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their coverage is coming from. Mackenzie Gray, who's a part of the, uh, parliamentary press gallery,
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um, was covering one of the freedom convoy organizers, press conferences. And he wrote,
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the convoy leadership also reiterates, they have no intentions of acting outside of the democratic
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process to get any of their goals. And he says, after that, I would wager that it's never a great
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sign when you need to add that asterisk to your remarks. So, so I wonder then, uh, I wonder then
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Mackenzie Gray, what, what should they say? Because you are the, they are the ones, the journalists are
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the ones that are painting these organizers as people who are trying to overthrow the government
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as terrorists. So what are they supposed to say? Are they just supposed to say nothing? Are they
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supposed to say that in fact, no, they're not going to, uh, they're not going to make, make claims
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about how they're not trying to act as a democratic process. It's, it's unbelievable, Candace. And
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really it just shows you how far our media has fallen. And, and it's like, it's like a trap,
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right? They set it up. So it's like, it's like, Hey, these guys are here to overthrow the government.
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And then they go, no, we're not. We're not here to overthrow the government. We're here to act
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within the democratic process. And they go, well, the fact that you even needed to say that
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begs a question of whether it's true. It's like, I'm only saying that because you keep saying the
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opposite. And, and it's like, no matter what they do, these journalists won't give them a fair shake,
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won't paint the honest truth. This is why everyone knows this is why no one trusts the media. Like
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this, this journalist is a snake. He's transparently showing us what he truly believes going into overdrive,
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doing everything they can to smear these truckers. Thankfully, many Canadians are seeing through that.
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Unfortunately, many are not. Trudeau is using their rhetoric and their language to justify this
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emergencies act and this assault on our democracy. It's, it's, it's a cycle. And yes, it's transparent
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for us to see, but it's happening. And the fact that it's allowed to happen is not a good sign for our,
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our country, Harrison.
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No, absolutely not. And the, the government is really playing into this with the media,
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the legacy media. They are, they have now made a move. And we found this out through a Blacklocks
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report, which basically stated that the speaker of the house of commons, Anthony Rhoda is now
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offering reporters armed guards at taxpayers expense. Um, after the parliamentary press gallery
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complained, it was troubled by freedom convoy truck drivers. So parliament Hill guards are now going
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to be accompanying these legacy media journalists as they, as they, as they basically spew this biased
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reporting about this trucker convoy from inside. Now, um, and this is a quote, this is a quote from
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Elizabeth Thompson, a CBC reporter who said, personally, I felt a little uncomfortable because
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there were all of these guys roaming around the street. Um, and there was, and she had to wait for
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the commissioner each time to actually open the door. Um, some were quick, some were quite quick,
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others, not so quick. If there was ever a situation where a member was being threatened and had to get
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into that building quickly, uh, you know, so they're really playing into this, that these, these truckers,
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these protesters are dangerous and that the press need to be shielded from these protesters. Now I was
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in Ottawa. Like I said, I had the, I had the opportunity to go down and see for myself what it was like.
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And that is just not at all the case, Candace. I freely roamed through the trucks. I talked with
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truckers. I was welcomed inside some of their trucks to speak with these people. These are not
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at all people who would, who would threaten journalists. And the very idea that, that the,
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that the government is now playing into this is really, really disheartening.
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Well, it's so true. Like let's, let's just go back. The truckers have been there for 22 days.
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How many assaults have there been? How many attacks have there been? How many people have been
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assaulted or attacked in, in any way, shape or form? How many journalists have been attacked?
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The answer is zero. The answer is zero. Sure. There has been some arrests. There's been some
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people who have acted out, but, but as far as, as, as violence and assaults, there just haven't been
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any. And you know, the fact that you walked around freely, uh, Rupa Supriyama, who writes for the
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national post. She's also, she lives in Ottawa. She's been walking around. She's a person of color.
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She, she, she's a woman. She's had no problems whatsoever. So this whole like moral panic that,
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that the journalists are promoting the fact that they're unsafe. Again, this goes back to culture.
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In my mind, Harrison, I think that the, that there's a cultural divide, these, uh, you know,
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very frail upper middle class, um, like T totling pro clutching journalists, uh, are, are just very
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afraid of, of like working class blue collar men in, in their town. And, and it's so, it's so patently
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obvious. Well, here is Sean O'Shea, a global news reporter who is doing a report on the ground,
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taking advantage of his layers and layers of taxpayer funded security. You can see he's with
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the RCMP and with his private security. I don't understand how it's necessary. Like 10 feet
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over, you see, uh, turn off Andrew Lawton and he doesn't have any security and he is just fine.
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So there's this whole idea that he needs it, um, is, is kind of laughable, but I want to play this
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clip Harrison, because, um, he, he also talks about how the protesters are wrong and the beliefs that
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they hold are incorrect. So let's play that clip. Well, uh, Tracy, to give you some perspective
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here, we're surrounded by, we have private security. We have the police around us because
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many of the protesters have been blaming us, complaining that we're telling them not wrong
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story, which is not true. So he's, he's saying that the protesters believe that the media are at
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fault for saying for the narrative about the truckers. And he's just says like blatantly,
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like as fact, that's not true. And it's like, what do you mean? Of course it's true. The fact
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that the, that the police are there right now, the fact that there is a emergencies act, the fact
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that they're treating this like an insurrection is because the media have spent the last three,
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four weeks now calling us an insurrection, calling us an occupation, calling this a siege.
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The media ramped up the language. The Trudeau government took advantage of that. This is,
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this has all been coordinated. And yet we're supposed to believe, um, that, that again,
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the journalists are the true heroes. Just, just ask them because they will tell you they are,
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they are the true heroes of this freedom convoy, Harrison. And this, this is sort of speaks to a
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broader point. I want to pull up this, this, uh, story from CTV Atlantic, because I think it's,
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it's a great parallel of how the media, again, work in lockstep with the woke left and the Trudeau
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liberals to try to demonize and, uh, just put beyond the pale, any sort of conservative or anti
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government, like broadly people who want smaller government, they jumped to equate that to being
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racist, anti-semit, anti-semitic and far right. So here, here's a story out of New Brunswick.
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It says a commissioner says Fredericton COVID-19 protests include racist symbolism and imagery.
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So apparently the New Brunswick government has something called a commissioner on systemic
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racism. This individual's name is Manju Varma. And she issued a statement Tuesday stating that she
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reviewed materials from social media from an event held outside the provincial legislator and found
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racist symbolism referencing white supremacy, anti-semitism and far right extremism. So
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Harrison, you might be, uh, wondering what, what was this racist, uh, imagery? What was this white
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supremacist, far right extremism symbolism? Um, it was a don't tread on me flag. It was,
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it was a very common, uh, libertarian. I think I used to have one of these flags, um, on my office desk
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when I was like 22 years old. Don't tread on me. Very common, uh, message that people like to say to
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the government. It just basically means limited government, leave me alone, get out of my life.
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It, it, it is a widely held sentiment across society, but apparently according to this commissioner
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who's, who gets paid, um, to try to find examples of systemic racism, um, she has to reach pretty far
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to say that a don't tread on me flag is somehow an example of that. But again, I think this just goes
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to the broader cultural, uh, idea, the, the idea that the media drum this up, that, um, they're
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trying to demonize any kind of conservative thought or conservative protest as being something
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nefarious, something beyond the pale, something that's not acceptable, and basically trying to
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equate all conservatives or all people who just want like small government, responsible,
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limited government, um, equating them with some kind of a scary far-right racist movement. It's,
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it's, it's, it's a sad sign of, of what's happening in our society, Harrison.
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Well, I just think that because they, they've seen the don't tread on me flag at Trump rallies,
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that automatically, uh, that, that automatically makes that flag a racist flag. And, and of course,
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at a freedom rally in Canada, the expectation is that people are going to fly flags that are all about
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having their freedoms, all about making sure that the government gives them what they promise to
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give them, which is freedom in this country. And it goes so far, Candace, uh, that even the state
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broadcaster has been putting out articles which say the word freedom itself is, is becoming a common,
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a common term among the far right, and that it's a useful rallying cry for protesters. Well,
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it is a useful rallying cry because freedom is what everybody wants. Freedom is the goal of most people
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in the world. That's why they come to Canada in the first place, because they're promised
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in this country that they'll get freedom. But I want to read part of this article because
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I can just read quotes out of it because it's so absurd. So the article begins by saying the word
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has become common among far right groups, experts say. And then the article just goes on to say,
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the concept of freedom can be used to reject equality. To see the word freedom bandied about
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as part of these protests points to a broader circulation of what Elizabeth Anker calls
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violent forms of freedom. Freedom is a slippery concept, said Anker, an associate professor of
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political science at George Washington University. And then, and then she goes on to say,
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on the far right, individual freedom is often translated into somebody who refuses to be bound
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by norms of equality, treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality, whether that's trying
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to remedy racial discrimination or gender discrimination. So that's just a classic
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leftist word salad article there from the CBC. But Candace, they are now basically saying that those
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who use the word freedom, those who want freedom, like most people in this country, I think, are
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actually just parroting a far right talking point, which is, well, that's just absolutely absurd.
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Yeah, no, I saw, I saw a headline, I can't remember exactly where it is, I'll try to find it.
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But it said that someone had spray painted the word freedom on a wall. And the headline said,
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anti-vax protesters, something about how it was like an anti-vax slogan. And it's like,
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how is freedom, anti-vax, how is, how is the concept freedom of violent, of something violent? Like,
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this is, this is, this is, you know, it's not funny. It's like Orwellian, like concept creeped
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here that that something so basic and so universal as freedom, you know, a word that appears throughout
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our national anthem, you know, throughout our constitution, throughout even the, the guide
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that we give to newcomers to Canada, like freedom is so core to the Canadian identity, that it's
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synonymous with Canada. And yet here we have the CBC telling us that experts, there's experts out
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there, who say that freedom is a slippery concept, like, it's, it's, it's such a parody of itself.
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And I think, I think maybe this is a silver lining, Harrison, throughout this, this is the way that
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the media have covered this is that there's been so many stories like that, that go viral, like in
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a negative way, where, where are, you know, English speaking cousins around the world, are sort of
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perplexed as to what's happening in Canada. And you start to get people from the UK,
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Australia, the US, throughout the world, even India, sort of asking, like, what, what's going
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on? Are you guys okay up there in Canada? And really, the over the top wokeness is being exposed.
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And I think I think that is part of the silver lining. We've seen that a little bit with,
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I'll give you an example, Ilhan Omar, who is one of the most left wing, sort of woke, I find her to
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be unpalatable and despicable. And most of her views, she's, she's out and out anti Semite.
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And regardless, she, you know, she's part of the squad, she hangs out with AOC, she's one of these
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like, cool, fresh faced, new Democrats. And even she was showing her total dismay and, and, and
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you're shocked at the way that the Canadian journalists were covering this whole freedom
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convoy. So, so she responded to a journalist from the Ottawa citizen who had put out one of those
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doxing stories about how this store owner in Ottawa had to shut down because she donated $250
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to the freedom convoy. So Ilhan Omar wrote this on Twitter, she said, I fail to see why any
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journalists felt the need to report on a shop owner making such an insignificant donation,
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rather than to get them harassed. It's unconscionable. And journalists need to do better. So wow,
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I'm really surprised that I agree with Ilhan Omar, but good for her for jumping in and not just taking
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the knee jerk leftist reaction, like every journalist in Canada's done, but actually sort
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of looking at the situation critically and saying, wait a minute, why is a journalist trying to do
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this? There's no reason other than to get them harassed. Likewise, another Democrat, high profile
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Democrat, Marianne Williamson, who's a former presidential nominee, she wrote Canada, are you
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okay? So we're starting to see not just the usual suspects. I know we've had like big high profile
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Americans like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, they're all commenting,
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and they're all helping us understand sort of the absurdity of what's happening in Canada.
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But you're also starting to see sort of other people who aren't on the sort of conservative
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side of the aisle stepping in, and not only shining light on Trudeau and his terrible behavior,
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Harrison, but shaming the journalists and saying, you guys just really aren't doing your job. This is
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not fair. You even had, this was a surprise, the New York Times editorial board put out an editorial
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backing the truckers and saying that they had the right to peaceful protest. So, you know, you didn't
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even see that in Canada's top papers, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, they've kind of oddly been in
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favor of this police military crackdown on peaceful protesters. And it takes outside observers, more
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neutral, people who aren't tied up with the Trudeau liberals, and all the inside drama, the cultural
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aspects of this, to have like a fair, sober minded look at the situation. And I really do think they're
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shaming Canadian journalists, I think that you do start to see some journalists in Canada asking better
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questions to the Trudeau government, kind of upping their game in terms of their role, which is to hold
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these people to account and expose bad behavior. And I think that that, that we're starting to see
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some movement in that direction. I don't think there'll be an overall shift at this point or big
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win. But I do, I do see glimpses of positivity, just in the fact that the journalists are being
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shamed from their international colleagues to do better.
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Yeah. And one thing, Candace, that I've heard from American pundits is the idea that America
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always is, you know, a couple months or a few months behind Europe or Canada when, when their news
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happens. And I think there are enough people in the United States, uh, both on the left and the
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right to recognize that, uh, the precedent that's being set by the Canadian government here and how
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they respond to this is very dangerous because Ilhan Omar, as a, as a far left Democrat, her base
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are the protest, her protest class. And she is watching, uh, the way that journalists are attacking
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those who engage in peaceful protest. And I think she sees this as a dangerous precedent. And we're
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seeing that on the right and the left in the U S and also in the UK as well. So I think, as you
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said, there is, there, there are some glimpses of hope. I think, I think that Trudeau's credibility
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has been destroyed across the world by his response to this. And I think there are more eyes on Canada
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now than there have been in my lifetime because of the way that this government has responded. So
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my hope is that the people learn, uh, that this government has overstepped considerably,
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that the people, the people around the world, uh, look at this government as, as a government that
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has lost its credibility. And I think that overall, um, that is, that is hopefully a positive sign
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going forward that this country is not going to hopefully make these same mistakes again.
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That's such a good point. All right, Harrison, let's leave it at that. Thank you so much for
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joining the program. Yeah. Thank you for having me. All right. It's been fake news Friday. I'm
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Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm show.
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Yeah. Thank you.
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