The Candice Malcolm Show - Candice Malcolm debunks legacy media lies about the Trucker Convoy

00:00:00.000 The Trucker Convoy was a huge success by every measure.

00:00:03.500 It was one of the strongest movements of patriotism and national unity in recent memory in this country.

00:00:08.780 Meanwhile, the legacy media outed themselves as being aggressively partisan, openly deceitful, and ultimately irrelevant.

00:00:15.360 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:21.720 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast.

00:00:24.560 What a weekend. What an amazing, spectacular weekend.

00:00:27.600 It was one of those things that you just, I was glued to my computer screen, glued to the television all weekend long.

00:00:32.760 I couldn't get enough of these beautiful, beautiful images of Canadians coming together.

00:00:37.180 It was celebratory. It was happy.

00:00:38.880 The mood on the ground, as reported by True North journalists who were there,

00:00:42.200 as reported by the thousands of people who became independent journalists by attending the rally,

00:00:47.100 by posting their own images and videos, it was remarkable, so inspiring.

00:00:51.740 It was so wonderful to see Canadians coming together, and the story made its way around the world.

00:00:56.560 I loved seeing how the story was being passed along different countries, inspiring different people.

00:01:01.980 They're doing their own freedom trucking convoy across Europe, inspired by the Canadians.

00:01:06.720 It was just so good on so many levels, so exciting to see, and it really feels like the country has shifted.

00:01:13.020 It feels like there have been a fundamental change in this country towards lightness, towards freedom,

00:01:18.380 towards going back to our roots of being a free and liberal democracy in Canada.

00:01:23.060 It was so good to see. Congratulations to the truckers themselves who put in the effort,

00:01:28.360 who drove across the country, who made their voices heard.

00:01:31.060 Congratulations to the organizers who kept their heads high, who didn't fall into the fray

00:01:35.420 of the media smears and disinformation, who continued to put forward their ideals and their views,

00:01:41.900 and really just organizing a spectacular event.

00:01:44.480 It isn't over. It's going to continue.

00:01:46.340 According to reports, they have enough money to keep this thing going for a long, long time,

00:01:50.420 so don't expect it to go anywhere, anytime soon.

00:01:52.860 But overall, this was just an incredibly successful event by every single measure.

00:01:58.440 The crowds were huge. The story made its way around the world.

00:02:00.920 There was an outpouring, just so much love, so much support from everyday Canadians

00:02:05.260 who didn't buy into the media narrative, who saw the truckers for what they were,

00:02:08.700 these working class people who are heroes to our country, who stood up, said enough is enough,

00:02:14.020 went on their track, and really proved their point.

00:02:16.720 And so many Canadians just rallied around them.

00:02:18.620 There was, like I said, a fundamental shift in the country.

00:02:22.260 It was inspiring. It was positive and noteworthy.

00:02:25.440 It was the independent media who were the ones telling the story.

00:02:28.800 It was the true north. It was the rebel. It was post-millennial. 0.94

00:02:31.680 It was the people who were on the ground.

00:02:33.160 So many individuals who were there, like I said, taking their own videos,

00:02:36.440 taking their own images, drone shots, showing the story because we knew

00:02:40.900 that the legacy media wasn't going to do its job.

00:02:43.120 And so we saw viral videos, people doing the job that reporters should be doing,

00:02:47.900 individuals, and again, really seeing that shift.

00:02:50.860 And one of the most important stories of the weekend is the legacy media,

00:02:55.040 how they were shut out, how they were exposed as being corrupted and stale and elitist.

00:03:00.420 And frankly, the reports simply fell flat.

00:03:02.760 They didn't resonate.

00:03:03.720 They weren't being picked up in the same way as the independent journalists and reports were.

00:03:08.180 The media were exposed for what they truly are, what we have known here at True North for a very

00:03:12.420 long time. But I think so many Canadians have clued into it from just seeing the transparently

00:03:17.340 bad and awful reporting that we saw by the legacy media.

00:03:21.580 They're wildly partisan. They're so pro-liberal.

00:03:24.120 They can't even accept the idea that there would be a protest against the liberal government.

00:03:29.100 They're completely agenda driven.

00:03:30.780 They were trying from day one to smear this convoy.

00:03:34.040 Well, day one, they ignored the convoy.

00:03:35.700 Then they had to take the convoy seriously, and it went straight to smears, calling them

00:03:40.300 extremists, calling them far-right, calling them racist, calling them terrorists, calling them

00:03:43.480 every name in the book. And every time they did that, it just made the media look worse and worse.

00:03:48.340 Their reports were factually incorrect.

00:03:50.280 They were ideologically extremists.

00:03:52.320 They were obsessed with the narrative.

00:03:54.200 And the one thing that I noticed, they were just dripping in elitism.

00:03:57.960 They were thoroughly elitist and anti-working man and working class.

00:04:02.120 The contrast between independent reporting, the people like True North, we had three reporters

00:04:07.160 on the ground doing a tremendous job, Andrew Lawton doing his reports, interviewing people,

00:04:11.260 getting the politicians, getting the people, really having his finger on the pulse of the

00:04:15.820 movement, of the convoy to try to understand and explain to the viewers what's going on,

00:04:20.020 what's motivating these people, who are they really, as opposed to what the legacy media

00:04:23.300 were doing, which was just smearing them from afar, not bothering to interview them,

00:04:27.640 not bothering to try to understand them. Instead, just doing these drive-by smears, doing these

00:04:32.320 zoomed-in pictures, and trying to paint the entire crowd based on a very, very, very small

00:04:37.540 handful of like two or three people who are doing inappropriate things. We're going to get

00:04:41.120 to all of that on the show. But again, we had our independent reporters. They were mingling

00:04:44.960 with the crowd. They were talking to people. They were doing what reporters should be doing,

00:04:49.620 as opposed to legacy media, who were sitting on Twitter, looking down their noses, judging

00:04:54.500 these people, and calling them extreme. So we're going to go through some of the worst

00:04:59.160 examples of the legacy media doing just that. Before, though, I want to stop you for a second.

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00:05:14.900 to like this video, share, leave us a comment, tell us what you thought about the weekend,

00:05:18.320 what was your favorite moment, what was some of the worst examples of media malfeasance.

00:05:22.660 We'll try to cover it later on the show if you give us some good tips.

00:05:26.040 Okay, we had a piece over at TNC News Legacy Media's 11 worst spins on the trucker convoy.

00:05:30.840 I'm going to go through a few of them. Some of them we covered on the show last week and

00:05:33.840 on Fake News Friday. First, we saw this. You probably saw it making the rounds on Twitter.

00:05:39.020 So this is what the legacy media think about the trucker convoy and the supply chain.

00:05:43.580 Just a bunch of fascist truckers, just a bunch of truckers promoting fascism. That's the

00:05:47.920 real message of the trucker convoy, according to the Brain Trust over at the Washington

00:05:52.280 Post. I don't think that they know what the word fascism means, because these truckers

00:05:56.180 are protesting against government overreach. They're protesting against Justin Trudeau putting

00:06:01.440 this collective ideal of public health crushing the rights of the individual. That is the

00:06:06.960 complete opposite of fascism. Truckers are fighting against fascism. But I don't think anyone

00:06:12.160 on the left even knows what the word fascism means anymore. George Orwell said it best.

00:06:16.540 He said that fascism has no meaning. It basically just means someone I don't like.

00:06:20.160 And that is exactly right in this case. What a silly, ridiculous thing to put out. Again, 0.99

00:06:25.580 just this idea. This is how the media view the working class. This is what they think

00:06:29.500 of truckers. If you're opposed to something the government is doing, it must mean it's

00:06:33.400 because you're far right, you're a political extremist. If you're a political extremist

00:06:36.320 on the right, it makes you a fascist. No logical sense here, but don't expect that from the legacy

00:06:41.460 media. Okay, moving on. I want to talk about this ridiculous CBC interview that True North

00:06:46.820 helped to popularize. We spread it around the internet. I'm talking about the CBC report

00:06:50.640 where a reporter for the CBC with a straight face asks a liberal cabinet minister if he thinks it's

00:06:57.220 far-fetched to wonder if it's the Russians that are organizing this whole thing. Russian actors,

00:07:02.700 not just fueling the protest, but actually instigating the protest, instigating. She thinks

00:07:07.140 because Canada is siding with Ukraine in the whole brewing war between Ukraine and Russia,

00:07:11.560 that Russia is going to just stop what it's doing with Ukraine, devote a whole bunch of resources

00:07:16.820 to Canada to create this groundswell movement against Justin Trudeau. What a lunatic conspiratorial 0.95

00:07:23.220 thing to say. And this is what passes for mainstream media in Canada. This is what passes 0.86

00:07:28.380 for journalism over at the state broadcaster. This is one of the worst examples. I mean,

00:07:33.060 it goes back to the whole meme of like, when in doubt, blame the Russians. Here is that clip.

00:07:37.300 I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with

00:07:44.240 Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be

00:07:52.020 continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.

00:07:58.240 Well, again, I'm going to defer to our partners in the public safety, the trained officials and

00:08:06.380 experts in that area. Seriously, that's tinfoil hat stuff. That is one of the most insane things that

00:08:11.520 I've heard on the CBC in a while. And meanwhile, by the way, there was actual evidence of the Chinese

00:08:17.660 communist government, Chinese state interference, and actual disinformation campaign in the recent

00:08:22.800 2021 election. It was against conservatives, though, and so the CBC just never mentions it.

00:08:27.880 But here they are starting a conspiracy theory rumor that the Russians, the Russians are behind

00:08:32.820 this whole trucking protest. What a ridiculous thing. When they weren't trying to make bizarre 0.98

00:08:38.380 and lunatic accusations against the truckers, they were really trying to downplay it. Here's

00:08:43.180 a post-media journalist with, I believe, the Ottawa Citizen, basically saying that the protests

00:08:48.180 aren't that big of a deal. He says, to sum it up, the protest is medium-large by Ottawa

00:08:52.060 standards. The parliamentary precinct is nearly impassable. And past the Queen's Way, it's

00:08:57.420 basically invisible. So try to minimize it, trying to say it's invisible. A few things

00:09:02.560 here. Number one, it is the middle of winter, right? It was minus 30 at times in Ottawa over

00:09:08.540 the weekend. It was incredibly cold. Not exactly perfect protesting conditions. Compare that

00:09:13.580 to all the cancel Canada Day stuff, all the Black Lives Matter protests that always happen 0.97

00:09:17.200 right in the middle of summer. No, this was truckers saying, enough is enough. This has

00:09:21.400 to stop now. And protesting at the worst time of year to be protesting. It was absolutely freezing

00:09:26.460 in Ottawa as it is in much of Ontario right now. And yet here he's saying, oh, this was just medium-large

00:09:33.100 by Ottawa standards. They're trying to downplay it. We know this country. We can see the footage. We

00:09:36.560 can see the images. We can see how huge this was, how inspired it was. And not just in Ottawa,

00:09:41.480 right? There were simultaneous protests all over the country. This is what it looked like in Calgary.

00:09:46.080 Huge, huge crowds of support. People, you know, they wanted to be in Ottawa. They wished they could

00:09:51.000 be there with the truckers. They couldn't. They held their own events. And that was huge as well.

00:09:54.760 We saw the same thing in Victoria. Check out these images of the protests in Victoria. This was a huge

00:09:59.720 movement. Plus, on top of that, we saw thousands and thousands of Canadians throughout the whole convoy

00:10:05.660 lining up on the side of freeways, regardless of how cold it is, regardless of how snowy and how

00:10:10.700 treacherous the road conditions were. We saw Canadians come out. And here are these smug 1.00

00:10:15.480 journalists just trying to downplay it and say, no big deal. I saw so much hand-wringing and so much

00:10:21.220 pearl-clutching by the legacy media. It was really quite something. You know, we saw David Akin complaining

00:10:26.700 that there were cars parked by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I loved how the Ottawa police just kind of

00:10:32.960 came back and said, actually, no, we asked them to move. And they did. So kind of debunking this whole

00:10:38.180 thing that David Akin over at Global News was trying to push. We saw a couple of other

00:10:41.640 journalists, a CBC producer kind of panicking, saying that there is a truck literally parked

00:10:46.940 right outside her house and she was scared. Another one, a city news reporter saying that

00:10:52.740 seeing hordes of cars scared her because she's a visible minority. Look, this has nothing to do

00:10:57.640 with race. The media kept trying to push this as some kind of a race, a racial issue. There

00:11:02.340 weren't racial elements. Anyone who paid attention to the protest knows that there were people

00:11:06.460 from all backgrounds here. Canada is a diverse country. The movement was a diverse country. It

00:11:10.600 was not about any of that. What I see when I see these reporters looking down their noses and all

00:11:15.920 the hand-wringing and all the pearl-clutching, people talking about how they're scared. What I really see

00:11:20.700 is a bunch of elite, college-educated snobs who are frankly a little afraid of these rough-around-the-edges

00:11:28.520 blue-collar truckers. These truckers are a little rambunctious. They're not the same kind of

00:11:33.100 refined people that you typically see in Ottawa. This is what I tweeted. Reports of people feeling

00:11:37.120 scared in Ottawa about one thing and one thing alone. This is a class divide. The well-fed,

00:11:42.560 woke, bureaucrat types are very, very afraid of the working class. They want them gone ASAP.

00:11:47.280 I think that's what's happening here. I think that people are just really uncomfortable because of

00:11:51.760 the type of people that are in Ottawa. They're not usually the type of people that are there.

00:11:54.900 Well, I've got news for all the elites in Ottawa. Those are Canadians. That's probably a more 0.98

00:11:58.760 accurate portrayal of what Canadians are like by and large across the country. They're not the 0.95

00:12:03.740 Ottawa crowd. They're not your typical Laurentian elites. They're just normal Canadians. They're

00:12:07.300 normal working people. And that sort of scares the bureaucrats and the elites and the Ottawa types.

00:12:12.280 I had another tweet earlier on the weekend saying this, watching a bunch of college-educated,

00:12:16.760 middle-class government employee types who work nine to four, have six weeks of paid vacation,

00:12:21.020 and a defined benefit pension, i.e. liberal voters, mocking the blue-collar working class is really

00:12:26.620 something. And I think that's pretty much what we saw all weekend. Lots of moral panic among

00:12:31.000 journalists, lots of open disdain for the working class, and really going into overtime to try to

00:12:36.360 smear the protests. So what did the media choose to focus in on? They sort of got four things. There's

00:12:41.840 four kind of elements, four negative things that did happen. And the media just really, really focused

00:12:47.320 in on that and tried to pile on and tried to portray an entire crowd of people by these few select

00:12:52.980 unfortunate incidents. And we'll go through each of them because none of them are nearly as bad

00:12:57.520 as what the media portrayed. So the first one is that there were two people, from best I saw,

00:13:02.960 I looked at thousands and thousands of pictures. I watched endless, countless hours of video footage

00:13:08.580 from these events. And from best I could saw, from best I could tell, there were two guys that had

00:13:15.000 Nazi flags. Two guys. One is the main guy that everyone talked about, the Nazi flag guy. We really spent a

00:13:20.900 lot of efforts at True North trying to identify this person. We still are. There was the Nazi flag

00:13:25.780 guy who, from best I can tell, was at the protest for maybe five minutes. He walked about 100 meters

00:13:31.560 total, and then he completely disappeared. And the media made so much about him. The second one

00:13:36.360 was a guy who had a Canadian flag, and he had drawn a swastika on the flag, and he happened to be

00:13:43.060 waving it right behind Michael Cooper, the MP from St. Albert, as he was giving an interview. So these two

00:13:49.260 instances of the Nazi swastika took over, and that became the legacy media narrative. These people are

00:13:55.420 racist. They're openly Nazis. All of them. All of them. And here is the evidence to prove it. Okay. 1.00

00:14:00.760 So if you were online on the weekend, hopefully you saw our story trying to identify this guy. What

00:14:05.660 the media did was they showed pictures of him, and they said, here's a Nazi flag guy, and this means

00:14:11.420 that the entire protest were Nazis. We saw this one picture circulating around, and it was interesting

00:14:16.880 because we only saw that one picture from the one angle. It didn't really look like it was inside the

00:14:20.860 protest. It looks like it was somewhere else. And there were a couple things about it that were a little

00:14:24.820 bit weird. People were pointing this out to me. Some people thought it was Photoshop. The flags, the wind

00:14:29.100 was blowing in the wrong direction. Someone else pointed it to me like, you know, it was minus 25 out on

00:14:34.400 Saturday morning. Why are there just people sitting on a park bench? You wouldn't really be sitting on a park

00:14:38.740 bench at minus 25. That's the kind of weather where you got to be moving, or you're going to be

00:14:43.500 inside. You can't just be sitting on a park bench leisurely. So that might suggest that this was not

00:14:47.780 taken in Ottawa. Well, I think that there was enough evidence to show that this was taken in

00:14:51.760 Ottawa. Users tell me that it was taken at a place called Majors Hill Park, which is basically right 1.00

00:14:56.800 behind the Chateau Laurier, which is right across from the Parliament buildings in Ottawa. So the original

00:15:02.000 picture was probably taken there, and you can see that the person walked up and can be seen walking

00:15:07.380 along the terrace of the Chateau Laurier. So this is the second image that started circulating

00:15:11.660 online. So same guy holding up his flag with the F. Trudeau flag on top and this horrific vile

00:15:18.180 Nazi swastika flag underneath. But again, you know, we're talking about a huge event with tens of

00:15:23.500 thousands of people. Everybody's got a camera. Everybody's got a phone. And it is a little

00:15:27.060 strange that there are so few pictures taking this guy, especially because that flag is just so

00:15:30.980 jarring. It is so when you see it, you just have this very uneasy feeling. And you're wondering why the

00:15:36.640 heck is this guy flying this flag? Again, the legacy media didn't do their due diligence. They

00:15:41.160 didn't try to find out who this person was. They didn't try to figure out what he was doing. Who

00:15:45.160 is he? Is he part of the protest? Is he protesting against the protest? Is he an actual Nazi? Is he

00:15:51.000 a some kind of a paid disruptor trying to discredit the whole movement? There's so many legitimate

00:15:56.340 questions. And instead of trying to figure out who this guy is, and trying to get answers, the legacy

00:16:01.200 media were all too happy to just stand back and smear. We at True North are different. So I put an original

00:16:06.160 call saying that I would pay $1,000 for tips leading to the identity of this person. I got a

00:16:11.140 whole bunch of people coming in, doubling it, offering $1,000 more. Our pod is now up to $6,500

00:16:16.640 for any information that can lead to identifying this individual. I did get a good video of it. So

00:16:22.520 I got a good look at the guy's face. He looks like an older gentleman. And here he is. This is what he

00:16:26.740 looks like waving his despicable flag. I want to know who he is. I want to identify him. I want to

00:16:31.500 expose who he is. I want to find out. So if you have any information about this guy, if you know who

00:16:35.600 this person is, please, please contact us at True North. My email is just candace at

00:16:40.720 truenorthcanada.com. We can go to Twitter. My DMs are open. Send me a DM. I want to find out who this

00:16:45.880 guy is. Unlike the legacy media, there's journalism to be done here. And we should try to get to the

00:16:50.720 bottom of that. And next, like I said, Michael Cooper was doing an interview. Some idiot behind

00:16:54.820 him had a Canadian flag that he had drawn. A swastika. That has nothing to do with Michael Cooper. 1.00

00:16:59.380 Okay. He's speaking at a crowd. Someone did something stupid. That has nothing to do with

00:17:03.860 him. Of course, CTV piling on saying that there are now people calling for him to resign over this. I

00:17:09.860 don't know why conservatives even bother responding to this stuff. This is just so bottom of the barrel.

00:17:14.380 This should be ignored. But we always get sucked into it. So here's Michael Cooper's statement,

00:17:18.700 which is absolutely correct and saying what he should say. Today, I attended a peaceful protest in

00:17:24.760 support of truckers and other Canadians defending their freedoms and their jobs. I did an

00:17:28.480 impromptu interview with CBC. Moments later, I learned from social media that unbeknownst to me,

00:17:32.980 someone with whom I'm not associated with was standing some distance behind me holding a flag

00:17:37.120 with an evil symbol on it. Had I seen the symbol, I would have condemned it as I do now. Naziism is

00:17:41.840 the purest form of evil and I have always condemned it completely. Whoever flew this flag is personally

00:17:45.820 responsible for that reprehensible decision and should be eternally ashamed of him or herself.

00:17:51.260 He or she does not represent the thousands of peaceful protesters who waved Canadian flags

00:17:55.140 and acted responsibly. I stand with them and will continue to fight for the Michael Cooper MP,

00:18:00.480 St. Albert Edmonton. Great statement. I completely agree with it. Again, I just think it's so stupid

00:18:05.060 that conservatives have to go down this path and pretend to grovel over something that was just so 0.99

00:18:11.500 clearly had nothing to do with him. The legacy media wanting to obsess over this, that's their problem.

00:18:15.800 That's their problem. It's so idiotic. If the media want to obsess over it, they can. It is just so idiotic 1.00

00:18:21.140 and so silly that the media focus on this and try to make this the big scandal of the events. Okay, 1.00

00:18:25.240 so the first thing that they did was try to portray all of these people as Nazis because,

00:18:29.400 like I said, two people, two individuals, both of whom we don't know who they are or anything about

00:18:34.200 them. And speaking of this whole Nazi thing, so we had a news story here about how some anti-hate

00:18:40.660 activists said that the protest convoy had the worst display of Nazi propaganda in the country trying

00:18:46.500 to make it seem like it was just so beyond the pale that these two random people showed up holding

00:18:51.280 this evil symbol. Meanwhile, there was some great response to this, which was a bunch of people

00:18:56.760 on Twitter pointing to the obvious fact that every time there is an anti-Israel protest,

00:19:02.280 any time there is a protest of Palestinians or Iranians or any number of groups in the Middle East,

00:19:07.600 you always see the swastika. They love to do this. They love to equate the swastika 0.69

00:19:11.340 with the Jewish star of David. They love to wave that thing. I've seen it so many times at rallies

00:19:16.440 in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary. They always do. You always see it. It is a spickle thing to see.

00:19:22.260 Somehow when it happens in these sort of fringe Islamist movements, the media ignore it. And

00:19:28.340 suddenly when they see two examples of it in this, at this, at the track or rally, it becomes the

00:19:33.980 biggest story. So, so, so I'm sorry if I'm going to save my consternation. Yes, the Nazi flag is evil.

00:19:39.460 I hate seeing it in Canada. No, this is not the worst example in the country. We unfortunately

00:19:43.520 see this very often. Okay. So, so we had the media obsessed over the two guys with the swastikas.

00:19:49.480 Next, we had the media obsessed and completely focused on the Confederate flag. There are a few

00:19:53.820 examples circulating of people with the Confederate flag. And again, again, journalists, rather than

00:20:00.720 trying to ask questions, they just snap their photos from afar and try to use it to paint the entire

00:20:05.220 movement as racist. Interestingly, I tweeted this video. Here's an individual with a Confederate

00:20:09.900 flag. And look at this guy. Look at this guy. His face is completely covered. His identity is

00:20:14.560 completely concealed, which raises some flags. Who is this person? Is he really part of the

00:20:18.840 trucker convoy? Or is he some instigator, some paid protester who's there to make them all look bad?

00:20:24.200 And you can see how he's holding his stupid little flag. And basically the crowd tells him to go away. 1.00

00:20:28.840 They say, we don't want you here. Go away. Watch. This is a great video.

00:20:42.280 Now he's going. Now he's gone. We called him out. He knows. He's going to hold his head in shame now.

00:20:50.180 Of course, that's not the video that the legacy media wants you to see. That's not the video that

00:20:53.360 they're showing you. They're making it seem like all of the people at the trucker convoy supported the

00:20:57.160 Confederate flag. No, they didn't. Not true. That is fake news. Okay. The third big thing that the

00:21:02.020 legacy media picked up on and tried to use it to smear the entire protest was the supposed

00:21:06.560 desecration of the Terry Fox statue. Okay. Let me just say one thing. I don't like it when people put

00:21:12.340 things on statues. I think statues are there to be commemorated and they're usually there to celebrate

00:21:16.880 great people, be it Terry Fox or John A. MacDonald or Queen Victoria or Queen Elizabeth. I don't like it when

00:21:22.600 people put things on statues, but all of a sudden the media has this impossible standard. Okay.

00:21:27.040 So first of all, this is what the Terry Fox statue looked like. Okay. Someone put an upside down

00:21:31.020 Canadian flag. Someone put a flag around his neck and there was a sign saying mandate freedom.

00:21:36.120 This is hardly desecration. For a country that has seen so many of our statues torn down over recent

00:21:41.280 years and the media hardly bat an eye over it. Remember Canada Day last year? Remember what they did

00:21:45.780 to the Queen Victoria statue? Remember what they did to the John A. MacDonald statues? This is what

00:21:50.640 happens on a regular basis in the country. Remember what happened to the Egerton Ryerson statues

00:21:54.760 in Toronto? They get desecrated. They get destroyed. Okay. This, what happened with Terry Fox,

00:22:00.880 this is a couple people making a political statement with the Terry Fox statue. It was quickly taken down

00:22:06.020 and as you can see, Kian Beckstein, an independent reporter, showed later on in the weekend, people

00:22:11.140 were cleaning it up. People were doing their best to keep it safe, to keep it clean. Not what the legacy

00:22:16.080 media reported at all. Instead, we see story after story after story lying and pretending that

00:22:21.120 that something inappropriate happened with the Terry Fox statue. Look at this global news

00:22:25.880 headline. Just sickening. Just sickening. Give me a break. And many Twitter users were quick to point

00:22:31.520 out how frequently other people put things on Terry Fox. It is very frequent in recent years. They put

00:22:36.760 masks over him. They put medical masks because of COVID. They put toques on him. Here he is with a

00:22:41.860 liberal activist holding a gay pride flag. Okay. So this isn't something that's never happened before.

00:22:46.760 This is something that is somewhat common and really hearing the media all of a sudden getting

00:22:51.340 upset and getting worked up over wanting to protect our statue. Give me a break. Give me a break. We

00:22:55.920 all know exactly where you stand, where you were over the last two years when we've seen countless

00:22:59.980 statues getting torn down in this country. So no, I'm not buying into that. The fourth story,

00:23:03.840 the legacy media wanted you to be concerned about when it came to the convoy is this idea that they

00:23:08.420 were being disrespectful to the war memorial, all because of a video of one lady who was standing up

00:23:14.340 on the tomb of the unknown soldier. And you can tell from this video that she's acting completely

00:23:19.060 by herself. She clearly doesn't know where she is or what she's doing. Look, if you've never been to

00:23:22.460 Ottawa before, you might not know what all these statues mean. You might not understand what they

00:23:26.560 are and how important they are for the community that you live in. There's still no excuse. And you

00:23:30.720 can tell from the video that the woman is basically being told by the people around her,

00:23:34.340 hey, get off that. That's not something that you can stand up on. Come on. And you can see she 1.00

00:23:39.040 rectifies and corrects her behavior right away. Here's that clip. So no, this wasn't a group of

00:23:53.760 people dancing on the war memorial. This isn't people being disrespectful at the memorial. This

00:23:57.000 is one person making a mistake, quickly rectifying it and a story. But you know, the media tried to

00:24:02.500 obsess over it, try to make it seem like this is the biggest story. And we even saw the police

00:24:07.200 saying that they are now investigating the supposed desecration of the unknown soldiers memorial as

00:24:13.800 well as the Terry Fox statue. This is so silly. This is so silly. Give me a break. Okay, the final 0.96

00:24:19.740 thing I want to talk about here is how much of a success this weekend is. There were zero arrests.

00:24:24.400 This is my report over at True North. We went through all of the police scans from the Ottawa police

00:24:29.000 for the entire weekend. There were zero arrests, zero arrests given the size and magnitude of this

00:24:34.500 protest pretty remarkable, no violence, no arrests. So this despite the legacy media trying to preposition

00:24:40.200 trying to spin trying to forecast that this was going to be a violent protest. Here's a headline

00:24:44.660 from CTV News from Friday, Trudeau concerned trucker convoy converging on Parliament Hill could turn

00:24:49.960 violent. Of course, I'm concerned said Trudeau talking about violence. So they're they're trying

00:24:54.760 to preposition the idea that this was going to be violence. We saw so many media report hinting and

00:24:59.700 alluding to violence. They had so many people. They talked to so many experts, experts saying that

00:25:04.660 these people are violent. The rhetoric is violent. This crowd is going to be violent. The reality was

00:25:09.520 the exact opposite. There was no violence. There were no arrests. And this is a huge contrast to your

00:25:14.360 typical leftist rally or protest that turns into a riot. Just go back and look at the left-wing rallies

00:25:20.160 every time. I have a couple of examples of it in the story. In November 2020, there was a Black and 0.98

00:25:24.580 Digital Lives Matter protest. A dozen people arrested and charged. Back in 2016, there was a

00:25:30.940 huge, huge anti-pipeline protest. 99 people were arrested and they were later charged with

00:25:36.720 trespassing. Why? Because they breached center block, right? We heard so many people talking about

00:25:40.420 how this was going to be Canada's January 6th. They were going to try to do an insurrection.

00:25:44.380 They were going to try to breach the parliament building. Of course, it didn't happen. That was never

00:25:47.700 going to happen. In fact, that did happen six years ago with an anti-pipeline protest. They breached

00:25:52.860 parliament. Almost 100 of them got arrested. But of course, the media are downplaying that and

00:25:57.640 they're just doing everything they can to make you think that this is a violent rally, that this is

00:26:01.460 something that it isn't. They even covered the same story that I covered. This was in the Canadian press

00:26:05.480 and they reported the exact same facts that there were zero arrests. There was no violence. But this

00:26:10.140 is how it read. I'll read you the opening line because it is so absurd. Police haven't reported any

00:26:14.540 physical violence at the ongoing Ottawa rally against vaccine mandates. But critics warn that

00:26:20.040 conflating the absence of bloodshed with peaceful protests downplays the dangers of the weekend

00:26:24.940 demonstrations. So again, they're reporting that there are no violence while also making it feel

00:26:30.340 like they're violent while also drumming up fear against these people and really just trying to

00:26:35.080 paint them in the most negative light possible. Okay, final thing here that I want to say is that

00:26:40.000 this came out today. Incredible, incredible stuff. Most Canadians agree with the convoy. We're at a point

00:26:45.760 in the country where 54% of Canadians, the majority now say it is time to end COVID restrictions and leave

00:26:51.940 responsibility for isolation to those at risk is up from 40% in January. So the whole point of this

00:26:57.080 convoy is to tell the government enough is enough, leave us the hell alone, get rid of these stupid 1.00

00:27:01.000 COVID restrictions. Canadians agree 54%. So this whole idea that is a small fringe minority, these people 1.00

00:27:07.060 are extreme that they don't represent the mainstream. That's wrong. That's wrong. This is the mainstream

00:27:11.580 opinion in Canada is not fringe. It is mainstream. And important to note that the protest is not over.

00:27:17.900 This is really just beginning. Yes, we had a really successful, really fun weekend. It was so great to

00:27:22.380 see. But it's not over that this isn't just one of those things where the truckers are just going to

00:27:26.340 pack up and leave. This is here to stay. There has been a fundamental shift in this country. You can feel

00:27:32.420 it. Canada today feels freer. It feels more united, more optimistic, and frankly, more Canadian than it has felt

00:27:39.040 in a long time. And this makes the elites afraid. This is why the bureaucrats and the government employees and all

00:27:44.740 the politicians and all the journalists in Ottawa are freaking out. Because they like the status quo. They like the

00:27:49.420 liberal government. They like government power. And they like the woke ideology just being able to steamroll

00:27:54.600 everyone else. And right now in this moment, they can feel it all slipping away. And that's why they're reacting the way

00:28:00.440 they do. That's why we saw all the media smears. That's why we saw all the hysteria online over the weekend.

00:28:05.840 It's because they know that they are losing. Now, for Canadians, this weekend was a success in just so

00:28:11.560 many measures. And for us here at True North, it proved the perfect contrast in journalism. Legacy

00:28:17.540 media exposed themselves as being corrupted and biased. They're pro-liberal. They're pro-Justin

00:28:22.280 Trudeau. And they're against the people. They're against you and me. They're against the working man.

00:28:27.320 Their disgraceful attempts at propaganda and smearing the good people, the good truckers who united this

00:28:32.720 nation will not soon be forgotten. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - February 01, 2022

Candice Malcolm debunks legacy media lies about the Trucker Convoy

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