The Candice Malcolm Show - Canada's legacy media is bought and paid for

00:00:00.000 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in today to a special live broadcast of the

00:00:11.700 Candice Malcolm Show. I want to talk to you today about how the Canadian media is bought

00:00:15.960 and paid for by the Trudeau government. This is why we see when Justin Trudeau is abroad

00:00:20.960 or when we start to have a news cycle in Canada that gains interest in countries outside of

00:00:25.980 Canada, that what you find is that the foreign press are far more fair. They're far more critical

00:00:30.880 of Justin Trudeau than our own press. It is because the Justin Trudeau government pays our press,

00:00:37.340 pays the legacy media in Canada for favorable coverage. There's no other way to look at it.

00:00:42.440 So as you know, Justin Trudeau is in Europe right now. He is over there on his, I don't even know

00:00:48.520 what to call it. It's like a photo op tour. He's out there doing photo op diplomacy. He's going to

00:00:53.340 solve, he's going to create world peace, solve the Ukraine-Russia conflict by doing selfies and

00:00:59.480 taking smiley photos of himself. One of the strangest things that I've seen so far, well,

00:01:05.900 first interesting thing is that Justin Trudeau couldn't even get into 10 Downing Street for his

00:01:10.560 meeting with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson because of the protests. So the fact that in Canada,

00:01:17.060 the legacy media is perfectly happy to just sweep the issue under the rug, say the trucking convoy is

00:01:21.960 over. The emergency act was justified. Everyone who was at the riot were, everyone who was at the

00:01:28.180 protest, sorry, were rioters or violent thugs, insurrectionists, people trying to overthrow the

00:01:33.920 government. The legacy media was perfectly happy to parrot Justin Trudeau's talking points. And yet,

00:01:39.340 when he goes to another country, any other country outside of Canada, he gets treated in a totally

00:01:43.880 different way. He's not even welcome through the front door. And the media notice it. The media notice

00:01:49.380 it. So Justin Trudeau, I don't understand his policy when it comes to masks, because first we

00:01:55.920 saw him meeting with the Queen. The Queen is our 95-year-old monarch. She recently had COVID. And

00:02:02.540 here is Justin Trudeau, a couple of feet away from her, maskless, which I'm fine with that. I don't

00:02:07.480 wear a mask in my day-to-day life. I don't think you need to wear a mask. I think masking is idiotic.

00:02:12.600 And so I'm okay with it. If there were a rare circumstance where I would wear a mask, it might be around

00:02:17.740 a frail, elderly person such as the Queen, especially someone of such importance. And yet,

00:02:23.940 later that day, here is Justin Trudeau meeting with the UK Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer,

00:02:30.440 both masked. What the heck is going on here? Why is Justin Trudeau meeting this time with a young man?

00:02:37.500 I don't know how old the leader of the UK Labour Party is. He's probably in his 40s. So not someone

00:02:42.480 who is in a severe risk category when it comes to COVID. And yet our Prime Minister is masked up,

00:02:48.560 looking like a total idiot, especially given that in the UK, they've completely moved on past COVID.

00:02:54.480 They have, since January, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, made that announcement saying,

00:02:59.380 COVID is over. We're going to learn to live with COVID now. No more masks. No more masks in schools.

00:03:04.280 No more working from home. Life is back to normal. So in the UK, they have a normal life again.

00:03:09.020 In Canada, we're just slowly, slowly getting there. But just the strange optics of seeing our Prime

00:03:15.820 Minister out there wearing masks. There was also a clip of him giving a press conference where he

00:03:23.120 was still wearing his mask. This makes no sense to me. You're speaking. The reason that you're there

00:03:28.260 is to answer questions and to speak. When you have a mask on, it's totally muffled and you can't really

00:03:33.540 understand what the guy is saying. However, when it comes to Trudeau, I'm actually kind of for that

00:03:38.320 because he's just so irritating and everything he says is complete nonsense. So I do want to play

00:03:43.660 this clip. This is him thanking the Latvian Prime Minister for pushing back against what he calls

00:03:49.640 misinformation and disinformation. So according to Justin Trudeau, the key to preserving our democracy

00:03:56.300 is through censorship of information that he doesn't like. This is like his guiding principle

00:04:01.340 here in Canada. So let's play that clip.

00:04:05.680 And pushing back against the Russian aggression that is absolutely unacceptable. Quite frankly,

00:04:12.400 you have been living not just with the military threat, not just with a history of occupation that

00:04:20.020 is all too real for so many of your citizens. But also the daily use of propaganda and disinformation

00:04:28.360 to try and undermine the democracies and the values that you have. Something that is right now being

00:04:35.500 weaponized against Ukraine, but also used very actively in all democracies around the West. And we need to get

00:04:43.620 stronger and learn much from all of you in your capacity to push back with strengthening your citizens

00:04:53.720 against that sort of information and disinformation.

00:04:57.360 I don't understand why he's wearing a mask. But again, it might be better because hearing his voice

00:05:02.460 and seeing his face might be worse than the masked up. The content of what he's saying is so irritating

00:05:09.800 as well. So first of all, he's talking about how there is propaganda when it comes to the war. I

00:05:14.420 completely agree with that. There's propaganda on both sides. There's constant stream of misinformation.

00:05:19.960 I think that everyone should be skeptical about anything that you hear coming out of a war zone

00:05:24.580 on both sides, on all sides. We should all have a skeptical view of information, which is why we need

00:05:30.460 more information. We need to be able to verify what we are seeing and what we're getting. And the only way to

00:05:36.040 verify, again, is having more accounts, more journalists, more people out there, more videos,

00:05:41.240 more perspectives, so that we can try to put things into context and to understand. If we just say,

00:05:46.400 OK, Russian side, misinformation, propaganda, bad censorship, and take everything that's coming 0.80

00:05:52.920 out of Ukraine from Ukrainian officials as the truth without any skepticism, we're going to end up in 0.76

00:05:58.980 a very bad situation. So I think that we should be incredibly skeptical of information that comes out

00:06:03.840 of Russia. I think that we should take everything that's being said with a grain of salt equally

00:06:08.320 the other side. What is Trudeau's solution to this? Well, he says that in order for us to strengthen

00:06:14.820 our democracy, we need to take control of misinformation and disinformation. We know what

00:06:22.320 that means because here in Canada, he has his own internet censorship bills. He wants to be able to

00:06:28.700 censor the algorithm on social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook. And he wants to ban what

00:06:35.280 he calls hate speech, making people take down alleged instances of hate speech within 24 hours,

00:06:40.380 is therefore eliminating the idea of due process altogether. You remember Bill C-10 and C-36 from

00:06:45.760 last parliament. Fortunately, neither of them passed, but now we have the new Bill C-11, which is just as

00:06:51.300 bad because, of course, it covers user-generated content. Absolutely unbelievable. Well, the interesting

00:06:57.520 thing, though, when we see Justin Trudeau abroad and we see him through the lens of the foreign press,

00:07:04.540 they don't treat him with the kid gloves that our media treat him with. They don't give him the

00:07:09.360 benefit of the doubt. They don't spin his propaganda. They don't tell his lies. They hold him to account.

00:07:15.320 And it's refreshing. It's incredibly refreshing. Throughout the convoy, I found myself, part of my job,

00:07:21.740 part of what I do is I read a lot of news. I feel like most people watching probably do as well.

00:07:27.300 You're heavy news consumers. And so I try to get my news from a broad source as possible, including the

00:07:33.660 legacy media in Canada, including independent media, and now increasingly the foreign press. And I feel like

00:07:38.880 the foreign press is so much more accurate. And there's such a difference between the legacy media in

00:07:43.920 countries like the U.S. and the U.K. versus in Canada, so much so that during the trucker convoy, there were two

00:07:51.020 instances where the New York Times put out information. And all of a sudden, they were getting shamed by

00:07:56.080 Justin Trudeau's friends at the CBC and the Globe and Mail to the point where the New York Times

00:08:01.160 censored what they said, edited it, said that they had made a mistake when they said that Canada was

00:08:06.700 suspending human rights or civil rights in Canada, which is true. I mean, the idea that you could have

00:08:12.220 your bank account suspended without any kind of due process, without any kind of court order is a

00:08:16.580 suspension of civil liberties. So it was accurate what they said the first time. But they got shamed by

00:08:20.940 the bullies in the legacy media to comply. Well, one of the things that I've appreciated,

00:08:26.500 I've got a couple of them. First of all, here is a radio host, a group of U.K. radio hosts

00:08:32.000 blasting Trudeau, reminding him of what just happened in the trucker convoy. Justin Trudeau was a benefit

00:08:38.400 of an incredibly fast shift in the news cycle, right? So he had the Emergency Act. He cleared out

00:08:45.520 Ottawa over the weekend. They finally voted on it the Monday after he cleared the protests away. And

00:08:50.820 Wednesday, just two days after they had enacted the thing, he revoked it and said that the crisis was

00:08:56.120 now over. Usually that would be the time where the media would start putting a lot of scrutiny and

00:09:00.420 trying to like put together all the loose ends and try to figure out what just happened. But fortunately

00:09:05.800 for Trudeau, a few hours later, Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and announced that invasion. And all of a

00:09:12.140 sudden, we were in a conflict and war. And so everyone in the media immediately shift their focus

00:09:16.980 to that. And they started shaming anyone who was still talking about Canada, like, how dare you talk

00:09:21.900 about something so trite as what happened in Canada? We've got a real war going on. I still see

00:09:27.940 journalists on social media, you know, criticizing someone like Pierre Polyev for talking about Canadian

00:09:33.700 domestic issues, as opposed to like, everyone can only focus on Ukraine and the war. And we're not

00:09:39.380 allowed to talk about anything. We're not allowed to have any complaints or any concerns about our

00:09:42.820 own civil liberties and our own democracy, the decay of our own democracy at home. Well,

00:09:48.420 fortunately, there's still some level headed journalists over there in the UK. So let's let's

00:09:53.300 play this clip of radio hosts talking in a normal way, like normal people see Justin Trudeau,

00:09:59.820 without the filter of the Canadian media, which, of course, are bought and paid for by Justin Trudeau.

00:10:05.760 So here's that clip. He gave this great long diatribe today against Putin, saying that he wants

00:10:14.040 respect for sovereignty. He wants to have democracy stood for. He wants to stay true to these values.

00:10:21.480 He wants to fight for that all over the world. This was a man that basically froze the bank accounts

00:10:26.460 of truckers, decided that he was going to forcibly round them up. He took tactics directly out of the

00:10:34.060 rule book of Vladimir Putin to deal with his own people. And then he has the audacity and the lack

00:10:38.080 of self-awareness to stand at a podium and tell us that he wants to fight for sovereignty and

00:10:42.220 democracy. He's a hypocrite. He has a neck made of brass and he's a moron. He really is. He's been on

00:10:48.680 this show already this year for some of the actions that he's taken. So for him to be on it yet again,

00:10:53.840 that's going to keep him pretty much up there. Yeah, but he also, all the protesting truckers,

00:10:57.800 most of whom were vaccinated, by the way, in any case, he also branded them racist and

00:11:02.220 misogynist, didn't he? He did. And when a Conservative MP stood up and said, like,

00:11:06.720 you can't say that, you can't slander them that way, he said, well, maybe you might be happy to

00:11:11.000 stand with swastikas and confederate flags, but I'm not. She was a Jewish MP. 0.74

00:11:16.700 He really is an absolute idiot. He had no self-awareness as to what he was doing. And now Putin is clamping

00:11:24.980 down on protesters, treating them absolutely appalling. Now, obviously, there's no comparison

00:11:28.760 between what Trudeau has done with his people and what Putin is doing in Ukraine. The Canadian

00:11:32.960 police were pretty rough with them. But the Canadian police were really rough and he was

00:11:35.800 clamping down on free speech and protest. Yeah, yeah, freezing their bank accounts,

00:11:40.220 confiscating their pets. Their pets! With a potential threat of... And also, did he not say he was

00:11:45.720 going to kill the pets? Yeah. If anyone came near Dominique Devereaux or Dolly Parton,

00:11:49.440 I'm telling you, right now, there would be murders. Yeah.

00:11:54.980 So there you have it. Justin Trudeau is the plank of the week. I love British slang and British English

00:12:05.660 because I'd never heard of plank before, but it's such an apt and fitting description of our

00:12:10.800 prime minister. And again, just the real talk, the straight talk. This is how people viewed the

00:12:16.160 protests. This was how the Emergencies Act was viewed. Even the name of the Emergencies Act is a

00:12:21.880 complete euphemization of what it was. It was martial law. It was the suspension of civil liberties and

00:12:27.900 due process. A thuggish prime minister clearing out peaceful protesters because he disagreed with

00:12:32.780 them. Basically, that's what it boils down to. So much of the justification that Justin Trudeau had

00:12:37.040 leading up to the use of the excessive force against protesters was based on fabrication invented

00:12:44.560 by Trudeau, his spokespeople and his friends in the legacy media. They span a story that had no

00:12:51.100 bearing in reality. So many people fell for it. I'm glad that there are real journalists out there

00:12:57.000 looking at the situation, looking at things clearly who haven't fallen for under Justin Trudeau's spell

00:13:02.680 in the way the legacy media is. So, look, I want to talk a little bit. I was invited to give a speech

00:13:07.820 over the weekend and I talked about media bias in Canada. So I wanted to talk a little bit about what I

00:13:13.600 spoke about at this dinner that I spoke on on Saturday night. And it was trying to understand

00:13:18.200 the timeline and how we got to the situation where our media are so bought and paid for by the

00:13:24.800 government. Because some people say, look, the media has always been biased. CBC has always been just

00:13:28.880 awful. But I don't remember it being this bad. I don't remember it being such a hive mentality,

00:13:35.620 such a groupthink in the legacy media, so unwilling to move away from the approved talking points

00:13:42.620 during every election we see where the Liberals will come up with their attack ad of the day,

00:13:48.020 their line of attack against the Conservatives of the day. And the legacy media will instantly pick

00:13:51.800 it up and use that as their line of attack against the Conservative candidate or whoever the

00:13:57.080 Conservative is at that time. And there's so much in lockstep. The media in Canada is so agenda-driven.

00:14:03.960 They are so focused on promoting Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. So how did that come to be?

00:14:08.700 How did that come to happen? Again, CBC has always been funded by the federal government,

00:14:14.480 even under the Harper era. I think Harper made a crucial mistake in not just completely

00:14:18.420 defunding the CBC. I think whoever's the next leader of the Conservative Party needs to just

00:14:22.760 tear it off like a Band-Aid. No cuts, no cutting the budget, no reviewing the mandate. Get rid of it.

00:14:28.000 Get rid of it because it is a cancer in our society and it will constantly forever lead to unfair media

00:14:34.560 coverage in Canada. So the CBC was during the Harper year. In 2012, the Harper government decided

00:14:41.680 that they were going to try to balance the budget. They were going to get rid of the deficit spending

00:14:44.520 that they had run during the financial recession. So they decided that they were going to cut the

00:14:48.220 budget of every single department somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. In that, they decided

00:14:54.240 that they were going to do a 3 percent cut of the CBC. They were going to cut $115 million

00:14:58.120 over three years represents a 3 percent cut to a budget that was over $1.1 billion of federal money

00:15:05.020 at the time. So in the 2015 general election, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, remember him? He used to be

00:15:11.100 the opposition leader and it looked like he was the one that was going to become the next prime

00:15:14.660 minister should Stephen Harper lose. Well, he said that he was going to reverse those cuts. So Harper cut

00:15:20.140 3 percent. Mulcair was going to reverse those cuts. Not to be outdone, Justin Trudeau jumped in

00:15:25.960 and he pledged that he would give the CBC an additional $150 million per year. So that's a

00:15:32.020 15 percent increase to a budget. Harper cut it by 3 percent. Justin Trudeau reacted by pledging to

00:15:37.920 increase it by 15 percent. So you were in the middle of an election and you had one politician

00:15:42.160 bribing, well, two politicians kind of jumping over each other who could bribe the CBC with taxpayer

00:15:47.580 money more. Imagine being a journalist at the CBC. Like, how are you supposed to cover that fairly?

00:15:52.120 One guy wants to cut your budget. The other guy wants to give you a 15 percent raise.

00:15:56.800 How in any world would you be able to objectively and fairly cover the news? It's just not possible.

00:16:02.700 People respond to incentives. Money matters. Follow the money. That's like it's just such a basic

00:16:07.780 principle. The fact that the budget of the CBC became politicized that way, I think, is incredibly

00:16:13.160 undermining to the idea of a fair press, a free and fair, neutral press, because the money is involved.

00:16:18.900 Okay. So anyway, we all know what happened. Justin Trudeau won the election. What did the CBC do with

00:16:23.460 that additional $150 million a year? Well, they put it towards building a digital media site. So

00:16:30.860 cbc.com is the number one news source for Canadians for online news. So when someone is looking up a

00:16:38.740 news story, when someone wants to go read the news, most Canadians go to the CBC. They did a good job of

00:16:43.360 building up and boosting a digital presence online that didn't really used to be there prior to 2015.

00:16:48.660 It had been there, but they really expanded it. Well, at the same time, you have newspapers who

00:16:53.400 are moving from a subscription-based model where people would get physical papers, like my parents,

00:16:57.780 my dad, he still gets the Vancouver Sun delivered to his house every day. He reads it from cover to

00:17:01.940 cover. He's been doing that for his whole life. I don't know, maybe 50 years, reading the paper cover

00:17:06.820 to cover. I haven't read a physical newspaper in years. Most millennials, we read the news in just as

00:17:14.040 great of a number as baby boomers, but we don't read physical newspapers. We read them

00:17:17.420 on a phone or a tablet. So everyone's moving online, including the newspapers,

00:17:21.640 and they're trying to build this value that you have to pay for your news, that it can't be free.

00:17:25.640 So all of these newspaper companies, the Post Media, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, they have

00:17:30.960 paywalls. Well, think about it. If you're searching for a news story and two choices come up, you have

00:17:35.500 one story on the National Post and you have one story on CBC. National Post requires you to pay to read

00:17:41.320 it and the CBC, you read it for free. People are going to click on the CBC. So this upset the

00:17:46.240 newspapers. They said, hey, wait a minute, you're giving CBC this unfair bailout, this unfair

00:17:51.800 tilting of the playing field so that they can provide news for free, whereas we have to charge

00:17:57.460 people for it. And so the newspapers got angry. They started complaining and lobbying to the Trudeau

00:18:02.860 government that because of the Trudeau's own policy towards the CBC, it was basically putting

00:18:07.740 them out of business and making it harder for them to compete. So there's a quote from

00:18:13.180 Philip Crawley, who is the Globe and Mail's publisher. He told the House of Commons Heritage

00:18:18.560 Committee that it's not a level playing field when taxpayer dollars are directed towards the

00:18:23.420 public broadcaster making competition for digital ad dollars more difficult. The former Globe and

00:18:29.900 Mail parliamentary bureau chief, Sean McCarthy, likewise said, how do you persuade people to buy

00:18:34.000 expensive subscriptions to the Toronto Star or the Globe and Mail when they can go and get content for

00:18:38.440 free at the CBC? It's a huge challenge for papers. So this was all happening in 2017, 2018.

00:18:44.840 This debate was going on. Trudeau had a problem. He subsidized the CBC. Those subsidies were going in

00:18:49.960 direct competition with legacy newspapers, and the newspapers weren't happy for it. Well, Justin Trudeau

00:18:55.320 being a completely wise, cynical jackass willing to subsidize absolutely anyone and bribe journalists, 0.72

00:19:02.240 he used his old trick from 2015. The 2019 election, just like he bribed the CBC journalists back in

00:19:08.640 2015 and 2019, he bribed the newspaper journalists. So right before the 2019 election, you had Trudeau's

00:19:15.680 finance minister, Bill Morneau, in the 2019 federal budget announce a $595 million cash injection into

00:19:23.980 Canada's failing newspaper industry. So right before an election, exactly the same thing, $600 million to

00:19:30.960 the newspapers, and the rest is history. I mean, they won that election, they continue to fund the

00:19:36.940 newspapers. How is it that we have a free and fair press in this country that are subsidized or funded

00:19:43.200 entirely by the Trudeau government? It is absolutely mind-boggling that people don't see this as a major

00:19:51.220 conflict, as a major threat to the independence of journalists. I mean, you can say, look, these

00:19:55.440 journalists are professional, and they're not going to let the funding of their parent company

00:20:00.360 impact their journalism. But the fact that they are funded, the fact that their jobs in some way are

00:20:06.800 subsidized and reliant on Trudeau, it begs a question. When you're reading a piece, when you're

00:20:13.140 reading the National Post, go out there and defend Chrystia Freeland, saying that it's not her fault

00:20:17.920 that she was waving a Nazi banner at a Ukraine rally, even though she's Ukrainian-Canadian and she

00:20:21.820 knew exactly what that banner meant. Anyone from Ukraine knows what that red and black banner means?

00:20:26.580 They actually found someone to whitewash and downplay the idea of blood and soil, a Nazi chant,

00:20:32.100 a racist Nazi chant. When you see stories like that, you kind of have to wonder, well, would you

00:20:38.460 be so defensive of this liberal government? Would you be writing this article if they weren't paying

00:20:43.100 you? It's really, really unbelievable. I think more people should be involved, should be aware of it,

00:20:48.660 and that we should do something to stop it. I absolutely believe that whoever is the next

00:20:51.680 conservative leader has to get rid of this ridiculous relationship that we have in Canada between the

00:20:56.280 media and the government. There needs to be a complete separation between media and government.

00:21:02.860 I mean, it's just, it's mind-boggling that it even needs to be said, but in Canada,

00:21:06.700 it is a major problem. Okay, guys, well, I'm doing a live broadcast today. I don't usually do these shows

00:21:11.620 live, but we decided to try it out here on Wednesday, and so I would like to answer questions. We could do a

00:21:17.920 little bit of a Q&A here for the last five minutes of the show. So if you have any questions that you want me to

00:21:23.160 address, I would be happy to answer those questions. I'm going to ask my producer if we have

00:21:29.980 any questions that have come in through email or through the chat here on Facebook or YouTube. I'll

00:21:38.400 ask a question from Brady Hall. Brady says, where is our country headed? It feels like we are on a very

00:21:47.500 slippery slope, and that before we know it, life in Canada will be completely different. Look, I feel

00:21:54.880 like we've been on a slippery slope for a long, long time. I think COVID was really bad for our

00:22:00.720 country, and it created a lot of divisions between people who had the luxury of working from home,

00:22:06.480 working behind a computer. It actually made their life better and easier because they didn't have to

00:22:10.240 commute and people who had to go out there and work. And I will say I was really disheartened and dismayed

00:22:18.140 throughout much of the pandemic by the lack of pushback by Canadians against really overzealous

00:22:24.320 totalitarian policies, telling people that they couldn't go hiking in a park because they could get

00:22:29.960 COVID, like completely nonsensical rules. I wanted Canadians to fight back. For the most part, we are

00:22:38.060 rule-abiding, law-abiding people, and we went along. And I think that many people hit the end of the

00:22:43.800 rope and said enough is enough. And I think that the Trekker Convoy was one of the most inspiring

00:22:47.840 things that I've seen in this country in a very long time. It gives me so much hope and so much pride

00:22:52.980 in our country. And I think even the idea that the Freedom Convoy, you know, made its way around the

00:22:59.080 world. I did radio interviews and TV interviews in lots and lots of foreign countries, the U.S., the U.K.,

00:23:04.980 India. People were interested in the Freedom Convoy. And I think more and more our Canadian

00:23:08.940 flag has now become synonymous with that sort of uprising against the government and that stand.

00:23:15.200 And I think that's something that we should be incredibly proud and pleased about. So is the

00:23:21.400 country heading in the wrong direction? I think Justin Trudeau is trying to lead us in the wrong

00:23:24.540 direction. Thank God for the common sense of the Canadian truckers and the people who supported them,

00:23:29.460 because that does give me hope that there is another Canada and it's that Canada that we need to

00:23:34.720 tap into and try to represent. Okay, another question here from Layla Dawson. This question

00:23:43.600 says, why is Canadian media so obsessed with the Ukraine conflict and not covering what's going

00:23:49.600 on in Canada? I kind of covered this earlier in the show, the idea that it was like the perfect timing

00:23:56.060 for Trudeau, right? Like it enabled him to avoid any kind of scrutiny, any kind of accountability

00:24:00.500 for the absolute disaster of a policy that he had created. He never went to try to have any kind of

00:24:07.860 dialogue with the truckers. He never wanted to listen to their grievances. He never wanted to

00:24:12.360 address their concerns. He only wanted to denigrate them. He only wanted to smear them and slam them and

00:24:17.680 dismiss them and do everything he can to attack them. Well, the media let him get away with it.

00:24:24.200 And then he took advantage of that changing news cycle. Now he's in Europe, solving the crisis of

00:24:31.200 the world through selfies and smiley photos with soldiers. The media is obsessed with it because

00:24:37.940 it covers for Trudeau and it allows them to fixate on a villain, right? We just had Donald Trump for four

00:24:44.000 years. They fixated on Trump. They fixated on how terrible he was, how horrible it was. It allowed them

00:24:49.220 to not cover what was going on in our own country rather than keeping Trudeau accountable, holding

00:24:54.120 Trudeau accountable, covering Trudeau. Like the whole purpose of the CBC and its mandate is to talk

00:24:58.340 about Canada and tell Canadian issues. You turn on the national most nights during the Trump presidency

00:25:02.820 and the top like three news stories were always about Trump and what was going on in the U.S.

00:25:06.820 Well, now they found a new, even better villain in Vladimir Putin. And so they obsess over him and

00:25:11.640 talk about how terrible he is. Look, I'm in agreement. I think that Vladimir Putin is a tyrant and a war

00:25:18.700 criminal and that he abuses human rights at home and increasingly abroad. I don't think he's good.

00:25:25.860 But I don't think the purpose of the Canadian media is to obsess and fixate on him rather than focus on

00:25:31.820 our own problems in Canada. So I'm with you. I think that we need to focus more on what's happening at

00:25:37.200 home, fix our own country, fix our own mess before we go out and try to meddle in foreign countries.

00:25:42.900 Let's see what else we have. Let's see over here. We have something from Alison McKenzie.

00:25:52.320 Will the defund the CBC petition have any effect? Well, I think I think it will just because right

00:25:59.260 now we're in the middle of a conservative leadership race and we know what happened last

00:26:04.160 time around with Aaron O'Toole. He was one of the main proponents of saying let's defund the English

00:26:09.260 CBC when he was running for leader of the conservative party. Of course, when he became

00:26:13.920 leader and was running the general election, he completely changed his tune and backed away and

00:26:17.020 abandoned all of all of those promises and those pledges, which is why he's no longer leader of the

00:26:21.840 party. But I think the petition matters because it shows how important this issue is to the

00:26:28.860 conservative base, how it motivates people, how angry and upset they are with the media. And I think

00:26:33.680 CBC really is the root of the problem. So, you know, having tens of thousands or hundreds of

00:26:38.240 thousands of people sign that it signals to any future conservative leader that this is a big

00:26:43.140 priority for Canadians and for conservatives. Let's see what else we have here.

00:26:50.980 So this one's from Tanner Meyer says, what can the average Canadian do to fight back? It feels like

00:26:57.660 there isn't anything we can do. And if we do, the government can freeze our bank accounts.

00:27:03.200 This is the point, right? This was the real purpose of the Emergencies Act. It wasn't just

00:27:09.820 to punish the 210 people who had their bank accounts frozen, although it certainly was

00:27:13.620 to put a chill down their spine and to terrorize them. And I want to make a point that following

00:27:19.980 9-11 in the United States, following the terrorist attacks of 9-11 that murdered 3,000 people,

00:27:25.380 including I think 150 Canadians, the U.S. government initiated one of the most like heavy-handed

00:27:30.620 responses in terms of their domestic surveillance, in terms of their security apparatus. And during

00:27:36.380 that time, they only froze the bank account, I believe, of 182 individuals. So when it came

00:27:42.420 to al-Qaeda terrorists, the U.S. government, following the biggest attack on homeland security

00:27:49.460 in American history, they froze 180 bank accounts. Justin Trudeau dealing with basically a bunch of

00:27:56.220 truckers who parked illegally. So like a parking dispute froze more bank accounts than George

00:28:02.400 Bush did after 9-11. So try to rip your head around. But the purpose of it was not just to punish

00:28:08.120 those 100 or 200 people. It was to scare everybody into not wanting to donate to the causes that they

00:28:13.960 believe in, not wanting to donate to a future trucker convoy or to the Conservative Party of Canada

00:28:19.420 or to True North or to the Rebel, making people think twice and feel afraid about donating to

00:28:24.920 those causes because they don't want their bank accounts frozen. They don't want their lives

00:28:27.940 destroyed. And so I think that that is what we have to fight back against. We cannot take this lying

00:28:35.560 down. We have to continue to fight back. What can Canadians do? I mean, I think you have to go out 1.00

00:28:42.380 there. I think that these convoys are continuing. I heard from some people that there's a convoy every

00:28:47.340 single weekend now on Vancouver Island. They drive from the Northern Island all the way down to

00:28:51.100 Victoria. And I saw a bunch of people in Ottawa again over the weekend. I think, you know, we need

00:28:56.500 to get up and continue. This isn't over. This is a movement. It's not just a one-time protest. This is,

00:29:01.800 like I said, an uprising. And I think we have to continue to fight. Okay, let's do one more question

00:29:08.480 here. And then I'm going to jump inside because I got to get my kids dinner and bedtime routine going

00:29:15.560 here. So final question here will come from Isaac Goddard. Sorry if I pronounced that incorrectly.

00:29:22.000 Goddard. Why were the conservatives so quiet for so long? Nobody said anything against vaccine

00:29:27.740 passports during the election. And only now after the protest do we see some conservatives speaking up.

00:29:33.020 Such a good point. Such a good point. And I think that that is, I mean, the answer is right there. It's

00:29:37.840 like we had the conservatives were led by a completely ineffectual non-conservative, someone

00:29:44.900 who wasn't willing to defend conservative ideas and values, someone who wasn't willing to stand up

00:29:49.100 against the legacy media, someone who wasn't willing to push back against polls. So, you know,

00:29:54.120 maybe polls were saying that Canadians wanted vaccine passports or Canadians wanted more government

00:29:58.320 zealous interventions in our society and our economy. What we need in a conservative leader is

00:30:03.880 someone to push back against that. We did not have that in Aaron O'Toole. And that's why he's no longer

00:30:08.120 a leader. That's why he is gone. And so I think there's a lesson in that. Again, I hope whoever is

00:30:13.820 the next leader of the conservative party will learn from the horrendous mistakes made by Aaron O'Toole

00:30:18.520 that you cannot just get elected as a liberal light. That's not what Canadians want. If they wanted a

00:30:26.060 liberal politician, let's continue to vote for Justin Trudeau. They want something different. And

00:30:30.680 Aaron O'Toole didn't answer that. So I hope whoever the next leader is will fight back. We'll say we've

00:30:38.140 just lived through something that is completely unacceptable. We have to go back and examine

00:30:42.740 what happened, what went wrong, why the government was able to undermine our rights, why they disrespected

00:30:48.420 the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, why they didn't follow it. There's so many times, so many instances

00:30:52.900 where the charter was undermined. So let's make sure that that can never happen again, that we never

00:30:57.320 give government that power, that we never give up our liberties in that manner again. I think it's so

00:31:03.180 incredibly important, especially you had Theresa Tam, the chief health officer, make a comment about how

00:31:09.400 we might have to go into lockdowns again if there's another wave. Like, no, no. I think enough Canadians 1.00

00:31:14.860 have said that is not a good solution. That's not scientific. It doesn't help. And it didn't reduce

00:31:20.560 the death toll. It didn't improve anybody's life. It made everything worse. So we're not going to do

00:31:25.660 that again. I think we need strong leadership in this country to push back against that. Well, thank you

00:31:31.720 so much, everyone, for tuning in. It's been really fun to come live with you. Like I said, I got to get

00:31:36.480 inside. I got two little kids. I have a one-year-old and a three-year-old, and they're inside with grandma

00:31:40.580 right now. So I got to go in and help with their dinner and bed. But I really appreciate everyone joining

00:31:45.540 us for the live edition. I think we're going to do it every Wednesday. So watch out for it next

00:31:51.260 Wednesday. I really appreciate everyone tuning in and all your support of True North. Thank you so

00:31:56.140 much for watching. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - March 10, 2022

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