Canadian society is obsessed with race
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In this episode, Candice talks about the impact of a CBC investigative report that exposed the DNA of a prominent Indigenous woman, and how the legacy media is celebrating her fall from grace. Candice also discusses the role of race in our society, and why it matters so much.
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Canada now has its own Elizabeth Warren story and the legacy media is celebrating and cheering on this woman's fall from grace.
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I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Everyone, thank you so much for tuning in. I hope everyone out there had a wonderful weekend and welcome to The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Thank you for tuning in. I want to talk today about this story over at the CBC.
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So CBC released this investigative report at the end of October and it really created quite a stir.
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Everyone's talking about it online. So many other reporters in the country and journalists are talking about it,
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celebrating and cheering this piece of investigative work, saying that it is one of the most thorough,
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one of the best pieces of research investigative reports out there.
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And I just have to say I disagree. I find that, look, I'm a journalist. I love good journalism.
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I love a good investigative piece, regardless of, you know, the angle or the political persuasion of the person writing it.
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There's nothing better than a very thorough, well-researched, well-written report that exposes something,
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that digs into something, that shows something that is off, that exposes either some kind of a corruption
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or something that's flawed, some kind of a cover-up.
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There is nothing better than good investigative journalism.
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And while I agree that this piece that I'm about to talk about today is incredibly thorough,
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they've obviously done very painstaking efforts to expose what they're trying to expose,
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just to take a step back and to just say, okay, we now live in a society, we live in a world in 2021 in Canada
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where a person's race, a person's DNA, their family lineage, immigration patterns of their great-great-grandparents,
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and their DNA, their personal DNA is now open season in terms of public scrutiny.
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So we can now have the state broadcaster, the publicly funded, government-funded journalists in Canada
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spending their time exposing the DNA and the race of a high-profile person.
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I just find that, just on a societal level, incredibly sad, creepy and sad that this is now where we live,
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that this is where the progressive left have taken us,
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the progressive left who claims that they are the ones that are best suited to help us heal
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and help us as a society become more fair, have more opportunity,
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have more equality of opportunity in terms of people from different backgrounds,
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and they're the ones that can lead the charge with regards to reconciliation.
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And so we've sort of enabled all of these leaders on the left to take the charge on this issue.
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It has led us to a world that is obsessed with race,
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where everyone is divided in terms of what our background is, what our skin color looks like,
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the innate characteristics that you are born with.
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So instead of living in a society where, you know, we try to minimize the importance of race
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and we try to maximize the importance of a person's character, their skills, their competence, their effort,
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the work that they put in, instead we've sort of flipped it.
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Under the guidance of the radical left, the woke left, race matters, skin color matters,
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what your family lineage is, in some cases is more important than all of those other things.
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It's sort of a sad reflection on where we are and where we've been led to.
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And I do want to go through this story because it is remarkable.
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I just can't help reading through this and thinking not only did the CBC put all of this effort
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but then the reaction is that everybody is sort of cheering them on.
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Everyone in the legacy media is like, you know, applauding job well done CBC.
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And everyone in this woman's life, Dr. Carrie Barusa, is just completely like throwing her under the bus.
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All of her accomplishments are being called into question and being taken away.
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You know, not because she plagiarized her PhD, not because she, you know,
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lied and didn't actually complete the medical school that she said she was.
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No, as far as her skill set and her competency, that's all left unquestioned.
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But the only thing that is now being called into question is her race, is her DNA.
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And that is why everything is being taken away.
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And again, very sad reflection of where we are in a society.
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So this individual, Dr. Carrie Barusa, she seems like an incredibly impressive person.
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She is a professor over at the University of Saskatchewan.
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And she was the scientific director of the Canadian Institute of Health Research Institute
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of Indigenous Peoples Health, which is the leading Indigenous health research unit in Canada.
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And according to her own story, she came from a very, very dysfunctional background.
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She grew up in a dysfunctional family in the inner city, in a very sort of rough neighborhood.
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She was surrounded by addiction, violence, and she claims racism.
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She did a TEDx talk back in 2019, where she talked about her own personal story.
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So part of the story that we're being told here is that, you know, maybe when she was
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a young researcher, when she was working on her PhD, going to grad school, she identified
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She was given extra opportunities, more scholarships, more bursaries.
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There's a lot of programming in Canada dedicated towards helping First Nations people who want
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to, you know, advance her education, have more opportunities available.
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So she was obviously the beneficiary of this with a Métis identity.
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And then as she sort of got more advanced in her career, she sort of started embellishing
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And so she started identifying as being from different tribes that she had never claimed
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And even the way that she looked, the way that she dressed, she started wearing more sort
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of traditional First Nations clothing, which I guess was part of the reason that led the
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So she did a TEDx talk where she said, my name is Morningstar Bear.
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She said, choking up, I'm just going to say it.
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I'm Anishinibi Métis from Treaty 4 Territory, she said, explaining that she grew up in the
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inner city in a dysfunctional family surrounded by addiction, violence, and racism.
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She said that her saving grace was her Métis grandfather who would often sit her on his
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knee and tell her, you're going to be a doctor or a lawyer.
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He would make me repeat it over and over as there was chaos going on, usually violent,
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Because there was nobody in my family who had ever gone past grade eight.
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And so as this report details, and it is incredibly long and thorough, so it goes on to say that
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She said that she was a descendant of the Tlingit, a small group of Indigenous people from
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So the premise here is that we learn that she's probably not actually First Nation.
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She probably doesn't have a Métis grandfather.
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So what happened was her sister, she has a sister as well, who also claimed to meet Métis,
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who also sort of benefited from the scholarships and the bursaries and all these things because
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So both sisters seemed to genuinely believe that they were Métis.
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So her sister and her sister's husband decide in 2014 that they're going to go and take
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This was when the sort of 23andMe fad first started, where you can go and you can give
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a saliva sample and you can get your genealogy records.
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So apparently when her sister did it, she learned that she wasn't First Nations at
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And it seems that perhaps these genealogical records had been leaked to this reporter at
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the CBC, who then went through and tried to create like this big family tree and log all
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of the immigration patterns of all of her various ancestors to prove that she's none of these
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She's not a descendant of First Nations tribes in Yukon and the British Columbia.
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That is all sort of just an invention of her imagination.
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And so it seems like at that point in her life in 2014, when her sister said, look, it
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doesn't seem like we're actually First Nations, her sister turned away from the identity.
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Bruce has sort of leaned into it and sort of said, no, you know, I don't believe the
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I'm going to keep going with this and kind of went further and further into it, obviously
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to the benefit of her career because she was celebrated and she rose to great prominence
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So then again, we have the CBC going through and trying to track down all of her ancestors
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again, just to prove that she was not actually First Nations, that she is from Eastern European
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when she was finally sort of caught and said, look, we have the genealogical evidence.
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It shows that you're not First Nations, you're not Métis.
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Brosa sort of changed her story and said, well, I've been adopted into these communities.
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I was adopted into them in my 20s and then some later in life.
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And so her story kind of shifted from her being born First Nations to her being adopted
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And basically now, again, this woman's been thrown under the bus.
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It looks like a lot of her awards are going to be taken away a lot of her positions.
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But just to take a step back at this report, I mean, it's pretty wild.
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They have tracked down her entire family history.
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They have photos of family members from the early 1930s just to say that, look, these people
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In all of my years reading the news, watching reports, I've never seen a takedown like this.
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Like if you compare it to the Elizabeth Warren story.
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So Elizabeth Warren kind of had a similar story in that she believed that she was part of the
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Cherokee Nation and she would use that identity.
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It seemed like she probably used it even when she was going to university, getting into school
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So Elizabeth Warren is a very celebrated lawyer in her field.
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And she ended up working at Harvard Law School.
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Well, it turns out when she was working at Harvard Law School, she identified as a minority.
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And it seems like when she was applying to go there, she sort of checked the box and said
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Well, it all came out partially because of Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump saw that she was sort of rising to prominence in the Democratic Party and that
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He started calling her Pocahontas and kind of challenged her to go and take a DNA test
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and said that if it turns out that she is First Nations, he'll donate a bunch of money
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She released her DNA records on her own volition.
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She decided on her own that she was going to do that.
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And it turned out from her DNA records that the amount that she wasn't part of the Cherokee
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Nation, that she really didn't have an ancestor who was First Nations.
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And if she did, it was, you know, one out of like 64 ancestors or more.
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Like she had a very, very small part, not enough to warrant the claim that she was actually
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But again, at least it was Elizabeth Warren herself who chose to go and do the DNA test,
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And at the time, interestingly, a lot of people on the left, a lot of people in the media sort
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of defended her, saying, you know, a lot of people have family lore, family stories that
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I mean, when I read this story as well, the other thing that I started thinking about was
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Recall a couple of years ago, we learned that Mary Amonsef, who was a cabinet minister in
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the Trudeau government, she had this incredible story as well.
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Her origin story was touted throughout the media.
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Even Barack Obama mentioned her because we were told that she was a Afghan refugee who
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They fled the Taliban, came to Canada and got refuge.
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But we learned that she wasn't from Afghanistan, that that whole story that her being from Afghanistan
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But the idea that she wasn't actually born in the country that she said, that her family
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had already fled the war and was already living in Iran when she was born, it meant
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that so many elements of the story were fabricated.
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And we were supposed to believe at the time, she basically just blamed it all on her mother
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We're supposed to believe that a kid growing up in Iran until the age of like 11 or 12 didn't
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And so again, we saw this huge defense from the legacy media.
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Even the prime minister came out and defended her and criticized anyone who was writing
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or talking about the story, saying that it didn't really matter.
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And that anyone who was talking about it was just sort of trying to like sow division in
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And so again, it's interesting because, you know, when it came to Mariam Monsef, the media
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And so here we have Heather Malick writing over the Toronto Star.
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She writes birthers, hands off Mariam Monsef, basically saying that children are not at fault
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when their parents peddle misinformation about the family's origin stories and that it shouldn't
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matter at all what Mariam Monsef's story actually is.
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And so the child shouldn't be held responsible for a parent's misinformation.
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Even when those children like Mariam Monsef have grown into adults.
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It's still not her fault, even though she's peddling this false origin story for personal
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If you look at how the Toronto Star is reporting on this story about Dr. Kerry Brusa, it's pretty
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Like basically they're calling for more investigations.
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They're calling for groups like universities and other institutions to stamp down Indigenous
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So what they want people to launch their own investigative reports into people's heritage,
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Here is an op-ed over in the Globe and Mail that Kerry Brusa's story is yet another example
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Muncheisen syndrome is when you believe you're sick or you pretend to be sick to get more sympathy
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They're really just a sneering piece of writing here.
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He says, for the longest time, Brusa told the world her ancestry was Métis, but since
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the reports questioned those claims, she has been unable to verify her ancestry.
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Now relieved of her high profile position, she can spend all of her time jigging, beating
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National Post similarly just called her a fanciful white woman.
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So you do see this sort of sneering from the media.
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And what I think is the absolute worst is this idea that we should have investigations
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into people's races to make sure that they are who they say they are.
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It's wrong to pretend you are someone who you're not.
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I do believe, though, the fact that both her and her sister both once claimed to be Métis
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seems that there was some genuine confusion on her part about her family history.
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It's the case with so many people across Western Canada.
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I mean, we only know our own family heritage based on the stories that our parents tell
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us, the stories that we hear from our families.
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And so if there is sort of folklore that's mixed in with family history, it's hard for
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So many people in Western Canada do have a First Nation relative, people who don't identify
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They might have one grandparent or one great grandparent who is part of a tribe or who is
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And again, it's hard as a society, like that we all should supposed to be bookkeeping and
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keeping track of all of our relatives and all of our race.
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Here we are as a society under the guidance of the radical left.
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So when I was growing up in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, I was told and I genuinely believe
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that the goal of our society was to build a country that had moved past racial animosity,
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that we were a country that didn't judge people based on the race, they didn't care
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about your skin color, where people could succeed based on merit, based on their own
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competence, their own character, their own effort, and what they do.
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And that race didn't define us, it didn't hold us back, and it didn't give some people
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I saw friends, I saw peers, I saw people all around reach great success based on their
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It's not based on what they looked like, not based on their race, not based on where
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I saw so many people who came from other countries, they may have been discriminated against in
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other countries, they may have been refugees in other countries, they came to Canada because
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they were smart, because they worked hard, they were able to be successful.
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That is the society that I want to live in, that is the Canada that I grew up in.
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But sadly, I think this story, the story of Dr. Kerry Barusa, and the way that the
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media, just the very fact that the CBC did this investigation in the first place, the
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way that they did it, and the way that everyone is sort of cheering on the demise of this woman,
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it clearly shows that this goal of a society that doesn't care about race, that that's
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Instead, we are a society that is obsessed with race, and it is not looking good, it is
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I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.