The Candice Malcolm Show - CBC admits to pushing out fake news about a Conservative MP

00:00:00.480 CBC admits they pushed fake news. The legacy media wage a war against Maxine Bernier while also doubling down on an accusation that conservatives are racist.

00:00:08.940 Plus, we'll talk about why you should never, ever, ever listen to the legacy media and their narrative.

00:00:13.980 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:21.420 Hi everyone, welcome to The Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you so much for tuning in. It's Friday.

00:00:24.740 This is the day of the week where we go through the most egregious lies that get pushed by the legacy media.

00:00:29.460 We deconstruct them and we talk about why so much of the information that gets pushed in the legacy media is fake news.

00:00:36.560 So, sometimes here at The Candace Malcolm Show, we come across a story that's just so delicious, so rewarding.

00:00:42.280 And I'm going to focus on this story a bit today.

00:00:44.900 So, you may remember this story. Back in November 2020, almost a year ago, my colleague Anthony Fury over at the Toronto Sun

00:00:51.440 put out a really good report in the Toronto Sun talking about the comorbidity rate that came along with COVID-19.

00:00:58.060 He was using official statistics released by the health department over in Alberta,

00:01:02.680 and he basically found that the overwhelming majority of deaths in that province were of people who had more than three comorbidities.

00:01:10.140 So, people who were suffering serious other illnesses, caught COVID, died.

00:01:14.420 We don't know if they died from COVID or from their other illnesses.

00:01:17.220 This was kind of something that wasn't really out in the open in that part.

00:01:19.780 It was a big report and no surprise, a lot of people were sharing it on social media.

00:01:23.860 One of the people who shared that was conservative MP Rachel Harder, the MP from Lethbridge. 0.54

00:01:30.080 Well, the CBC, being the CBC and doing what they do, they put out a really, really silly story.

00:01:35.440 So, this is the original story.

00:01:36.560 It says, Lethbridge MP under fire for sharing article on COVID deaths, comorbidities, and restrictions.

00:01:42.980 This is like the worst kind of journalism, bottom of the barrel, really, really bad, clickbaity kind of stuff.

00:01:47.760 So, basically, what happens is a news reporter, rather than writing an opinion piece, rather than being honest about their own views and putting them forth as an opinion piece to the audience,

00:01:56.920 they pretend that they're doing journalism.

00:01:58.700 Usually, they'll go out and they'll find an expert that agrees with them, and it'll be like, expert says so-and-so.

00:02:04.000 But when they can't even find an expert, they resort to one step lower, which is social media reacts or social media outrage over this piece,

00:02:11.380 which is really just to say, me as a journalist, I don't like this piece, so I've cherry-picked, like, five angry dudes on Twitter who share my views,

00:02:19.080 and I'm going to write a story, construct an entire story around this.

00:02:21.880 So, this is exactly what we saw here, the journalist at the CBC called Brian Labby.

00:02:27.520 He writes, Rachel Harder shared article that says,

00:02:30.500 Just 10 otherwise healthy people have died of COVID in Alberta.

00:02:34.460 And again, he just finds, like, very random people, like, not people of interest, not public figures,

00:02:40.460 not, like, other politicians or, like, public officials of any kind.

00:02:44.120 He just finds, like, random people out there who are super angry about this, and they're ranting.

00:02:48.900 And the whole story is based around that.

00:02:51.280 So, no surprise, this is the kind of stuff that CBC puts out all the time.

00:02:55.060 The reason I'm talking about it today and the reason why it is so delicious

00:02:57.520 is because there was a complaint about this article.

00:03:01.820 The CBC ombudsman took a look at this report,

00:03:05.140 and they came up with a conclusion that the complaints about this piece were correct.

00:03:09.380 The piece did not live up to their standards.

00:03:11.060 And so, now there's a little editor's note at the top of this article.

00:03:13.480 It says,

00:03:14.280 This article was updated on January 11th, 2021,

00:03:17.000 to better reflect the views of Ms. Harder

00:03:19.000 and contextualize some of the reactions to her original post.

00:03:23.500 So, this is where this all came from.

00:03:25.200 Blacklock's reporter had a piece earlier this week saying,

00:03:27.380 CBC regrets slandering MP.

00:03:29.700 The CBC has expressed regrets over a garbled online story 0.94

00:03:33.200 that depicted re-elected Conservative MP Rachel Harder as callous and ignorant. 0.98

00:03:38.880 Records detailed snide questions from a CBC Calgary reporter 0.85

00:03:42.340 who falsely accused the MP of spreading misinformation about COVID.

00:03:46.300 I agree.

00:03:46.960 We failed to live up to the high standards we set for ourselves on several fronts,

00:03:50.700 wrote Helen Henderson, Senior Director at CBC Calgary.

00:03:53.800 Henderson added,

00:03:54.420 The piece fell short of what we deem acceptable.

00:03:57.040 Let me reiterate that I regret we did not live up to our and our audience's expectations of CBC News.

00:04:03.280 The CBC last November posted a website story headlined,

00:04:07.020 Lethbridge MP under fire for spreading misinformation about COVID deaths in Alberta.

00:04:11.560 The article recited social media users' comments after MP Harder on her Facebook page posted

00:04:16.860 a November 17th Toronto Sun story.

00:04:19.260 That was a story by my colleague Anthony Fury.

00:04:21.260 The story goes on to say the Sun item correctly stated that a majority of COVID deaths occurred

00:04:26.280 among patients with pre-existing medical conditions like dementia.

00:04:29.820 Figures were supported by subsequent data from Statistics Canada

00:04:32.660 and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, which put the average age of COVID victims at 86.

00:04:37.920 The CBC account read,

00:04:39.120 Harding's sharing of an article on Facebook that says,

00:04:42.000 Only 10 otherwise healthy people have died of COVID-19 in Alberta

00:04:44.440 has triggered angry responses from people who say she is showing a lack of compassion

00:04:48.520 and empathy for those who have died of the disease.

00:04:51.140 The CBC quoted a Calgary doctor as stating MP Harder has little respect for human life.

00:04:55.940 Another person was quoted,

00:04:57.200 It seems as if our officials feel that it is okay that so many people died

00:05:00.820 simply because they have pre-existing conditions.

00:05:03.380 Goes on to say,

00:05:04.340 MP Harder called the CBC story bent, inaccurate and sensationalized.

00:05:08.080 CBC ombudsman Jack Nagler agreed the story appeared manufactured.

00:05:13.020 I am not a big fan of stories based on outrage over social media, he wrote,

00:05:16.920 and that there was no question data in the original Toronto Sun story were accurate, he wrote.

00:05:22.080 The ombudsman called the CBC version a significant failure that failed to test a balance

00:05:27.240 under the Crown Broadcaster's Journalistic Standards and Practices Guide.

00:05:30.860 There were violations of policy,

00:05:32.440 and I hope fervently that programmers will learn from their mistakes, wrote Nagler.

00:05:36.500 The overall package was flawed, he wrote.

00:05:38.700 CBC failed to meet their standards.

00:05:41.020 The network released a text of a written exchange between MP Harder and Brian Labby,

00:05:44.980 the CBC Calgary reporter who wrote the original story.

00:05:47.580 Do you believe people with underlying pre-existing medical conditions are less valued, he asked.

00:05:52.620 Do you think less of the people because they have pre-existing conditions?

00:05:56.320 So you just see how completely biased the CBC reporter is,

00:06:00.000 even the CBC's own management, even their own ombudsman said the story is wrong, 0.95

00:06:04.360 it's manufactured, it's trash, yet for some reason it still exists.

00:06:07.620 It's still up on the CBC's website, 0.94

00:06:09.220 but you kind of get a little glimpse into the process of just how biased the CBC is,

00:06:14.060 that even the CBC's own brass agrees that their journalism is fake and cannot be trusted.

00:06:19.580 So pretty embarrassing moment over at the CBC,

00:06:22.560 and a little bit of indication for Anthony Fury and MP Harder.

00:06:27.240 So interesting to see.

00:06:28.780 Moving on to another story that shows the anti-conservative bias

00:06:32.980 that lives in the hearts of so many legacy media journalists.

00:06:36.240 I'm talking about the story where a bunch of legacy media reporters decided after the election

00:06:40.640 to run on this narrative that the PPC is actually a far-right neo-Nazi party,

00:06:46.180 like actually neo-Nazi parties.

00:06:48.160 Like, I think there's like seven or eight neo-Nazis in the entire country of Canada,

00:06:51.840 and the CBC and other legacy media outlets is convinced that the real base of Bernays' party 0.60

00:06:58.340 is white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and far-right extremists.

00:07:01.960 And the legacy media sort of act as like pack animals. 0.82

00:07:06.120 When one outlet or one reporter has an idea for a story, it's like they all follow suit.

00:07:09.820 That's why Ezra Levant calls them the media party,

00:07:12.160 because not only are they completely anti-conservative,

00:07:14.520 and their just innate bias is that they hate conservatives, 0.96

00:07:17.080 they're also completely unoriginal, very dull, very boring,

00:07:20.420 and they just follow what the other one does.

00:07:22.720 So this is a perfect example of that.

00:07:24.640 They all decided that Bernays' real base,

00:07:26.540 you know, Maxime Bernays is a libertarian.

00:07:29.320 He expanded his coalition in this past election

00:07:31.960 because he really appealed to the anger and frustration that existed

00:07:35.920 over really overzealous lockdown policies.

00:07:38.660 So I would call him a pro-freedom, libertarian, anti-lockdown,

00:07:43.880 just a pro-freedom guy that was able to attract people from a broad spectrum of Canadians

00:07:48.700 across the ideological spectrum, but also from diverse backgrounds,

00:07:52.440 more so among people who come from more of a blue-collar background, I would say.

00:07:56.720 And for the mainstream media, they just don't see it that way.

00:07:59.680 They can only see it in this, like, very linear way

00:08:02.120 that the conservatives are like the center-right party,

00:08:04.980 even though they're more center or even center-left these days.

00:08:07.580 And so the PPC must be to the right, and therefore they must be far-right.

00:08:12.220 So they just come up far-right.

00:08:13.860 Okay, if you're far-right, it means you're racist, 0.84

00:08:15.900 it means you're probably a Nazi, 0.76

00:08:17.200 and they kind of just, like, do this paint-by-numbers thing.

00:08:19.600 So apparently a whole bunch of them reached out to Maxime Bernays

00:08:22.500 asking if Maxime Bernays was courting Nazis, 0.99

00:08:25.940 like, seriously, straight up, the dumbest kind of thing, 0.99

00:08:28.780 the worst insinuation about a person. 0.99

00:08:30.720 You have Maxime Bernays, a freedom-lover libertarian,

00:08:33.540 and you're accusing him of being a fascist. 1.00

00:08:35.800 So for stupid journalists out there 1.00

00:08:37.700 who don't know the difference between a libertarian, 1.00

00:08:40.460 basically the concept of being a libertarian

00:08:42.180 is that you don't want big government.

00:08:44.100 You want very limited government,

00:08:45.440 very small government, very controlled government.

00:08:47.640 Whereas if you understand properly what a Nazi is 0.73

00:08:51.260 and what a fascist is,

00:08:52.980 they're on the other end of the spectrum

00:08:54.300 in terms of authoritarians.

00:08:55.760 They believe in big, all-powerful government,

00:08:58.040 social control, controlled order,

00:09:00.020 order at the threat of violence,

00:09:01.760 which, again, is on the opposite end

00:09:03.740 of the political spectrum from Maxime Bernays.

00:09:05.720 So to the journalists who just don't understand this,

00:09:07.880 maybe you should try reading a book.

00:09:09.440 Just read one book about history

00:09:10.660 and try to understand what a libertarian is

00:09:12.940 versus what a far-right fascist is.

00:09:15.480 I think it would serve the entire country very well.

00:09:17.860 Regardless, Bernays got a whole bunch of requests 1.00

00:09:20.580 basically asking the same idiotic question. 1.00

00:09:23.140 And so what did Maxime Bernays do? 1.00

00:09:24.740 He took screenshots of these idiotic questions. 1.00

00:09:27.400 He posted them on social media. 1.00

00:09:29.300 He said,

00:09:29.640 check the offensive requests we've received yesterday

00:09:31.640 and today from far-left activists

00:09:33.340 masquerading as journalists.

00:09:35.060 We tell them to get lost.

00:09:36.620 Others wrote defamatory columns

00:09:38.020 comparing our supporters to neo-Nazis

00:09:39.880 and saying we are violent and racist.

00:09:42.100 They're panicking, which is exactly right.

00:09:44.000 Maxime Bernays is correct in this observation.

00:09:46.280 These are not journalists.

00:09:47.180 These are left-wing activists

00:09:48.300 masquerading as journalists.

00:09:50.220 And then he took the screenshots

00:09:51.340 and shared the questions.

00:09:53.060 I'm going to read a couple

00:09:54.080 because they're just so steeped

00:09:55.860 in left-wing ideology and woke ideology.

00:09:57.980 And also you can kind of get a glimpse 1.00

00:09:59.740 for how stupid reporters are 1.00

00:10:01.100 because half these questions are incoherent 1.00

00:10:03.320 and the people writing them

00:10:04.420 are like illiterate or something. 0.65

00:10:06.160 So this is a request from Global News.

00:10:08.180 It says,

00:10:08.520 I'm contacting you regarding a story

00:10:11.420 on BIPOC voters.

00:10:13.820 So BIPOC is an acronym,

00:10:15.500 a new acronym,

00:10:16.160 another new acronym among the left.

00:10:18.240 And it means Black, Indigenous,

00:10:20.400 and people of color.

00:10:21.440 So basically just not white.

00:10:22.900 That's what BIPOC means.

00:10:24.460 So he says,

00:10:25.060 I'm contacting you regarding a story

00:10:27.580 about BIPOC voters

00:10:29.260 and their feeling toward the PPC.

00:10:32.360 They fear the PPC is pushing far-right extremism

00:10:36.740 and allowing people who have xenophobic

00:10:39.200 in the public to run as candidates.

00:10:41.580 I just read it as it's written.

00:10:42.820 You can tell that it's not very,

00:10:44.400 it hasn't been proofread.

00:10:45.480 Let's just put it that way.

00:10:46.480 Another email from the Hill Times.

00:10:48.500 It says,

00:10:48.780 I'm working on a story about the violence

00:10:50.060 and incidents of hate

00:10:51.720 that was seen on the campaign trail.

00:10:54.340 Another request.

00:10:55.100 I spoke with political experts

00:10:56.680 who share an opinion

00:10:57.660 that the PPC ran an anti-immigratio platform

00:11:02.320 that attracts and is endorsed

00:11:04.100 by far-right groups,

00:11:05.440 including neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

00:11:08.060 And another request says,

00:11:10.040 Mr. Balgord said the PPC is a party

00:11:12.540 which has the support of white supremacists.

00:11:15.760 Does the party believe

00:11:16.740 it is supported by white supremacists?

00:11:18.480 So again,

00:11:18.840 they all just jump on the same narrative,

00:11:20.340 pushing vile, vile stuff against Maxime Bernier.

00:11:23.040 Good on him to hit back.

00:11:24.460 The problem is Bernier goes probably

00:11:26.340 a little too far with this one

00:11:27.700 and he retweets his original tweet

00:11:29.900 and he says this, 1.00

00:11:31.280 if you want to write to these idiots 1.00

00:11:32.900 to tell them what you think 1.00

00:11:34.080 of their disgusting smear jobs, 0.51

00:11:35.880 here are their email addresses. 0.99

00:11:37.500 They want to play dirty,

00:11:38.620 we will play dirty too

00:11:39.600 and he provides three email addresses

00:11:41.420 to the three reporters.

00:11:42.520 Of course, this is doxing.

00:11:43.500 This goes against Twitter's rules.

00:11:45.180 So not a good idea.

00:11:46.140 Maxime Bernier to dox these reporters.

00:11:47.880 I will just say,

00:11:48.720 most reporters have a public email

00:11:50.800 so you can find these emails very easily

00:11:52.900 on perhaps your Twitter bio

00:11:54.940 or at the end of the story.

00:11:56.440 Most journalists have a public email.

00:11:58.520 So I don't think that Maxime Bernier

00:11:59.920 was doxing in like the traditional sense.

00:12:02.080 He didn't share any new information

00:12:03.580 that hadn't been out there.

00:12:05.160 But, you know, this idea to like,

00:12:06.980 hey, these are the three journalists,

00:12:08.460 go after them.

00:12:09.260 Not the smartest thing,

00:12:10.360 although I understand the anger

00:12:12.060 that Bernier was coming at.

00:12:13.340 So no surprise,

00:12:14.240 Twitter restricted Bernier's account

00:12:15.640 for 12 hours

00:12:16.500 and he was forced to take the tweet down.

00:12:19.380 So the problem with Bernier

00:12:20.980 is that even though he's right,

00:12:22.640 he's not very calculated.

00:12:23.820 He's not very calculated.

00:12:25.840 He's not very strategic

00:12:26.540 about what he's doing.

00:12:27.540 So he's just kind of acting

00:12:28.440 out of anger on Twitter,

00:12:30.020 which feeds into the journalist playbook

00:12:31.780 because this is exactly what they want.

00:12:33.520 Right now they get to write stories

00:12:34.860 about how horrible Bernier is,

00:12:37.340 about how he's not only 0.61

00:12:38.540 is he far right and extremist,

00:12:39.940 but he's dangerous

00:12:40.940 and he's a threat to journalists.

00:12:43.180 And so we saw lots of headlines

00:12:44.940 that looked like this.

00:12:45.840 We'll play dirty too.

00:12:46.980 Twitter makes Maxime Bernier 1.00

00:12:48.540 remove tweet calling reporters idiots. 0.99

00:12:51.240 And of course, 0.98

00:12:51.740 the Canadian Association of Journalism

00:12:53.500 says going after reporters

00:12:55.020 for doing their job

00:12:55.900 is unacceptable and dangerous.

00:12:58.420 Well, I'm old enough to remember

00:12:59.820 what, a week and a half ago

00:13:01.260 when a handful of reporters

00:13:03.280 from the rebel

00:13:04.100 were ordered by a federal judge

00:13:05.780 to be able to attend

00:13:06.820 the leaders' debates.

00:13:08.160 So these journalists

00:13:09.540 were deemed by a federal judge

00:13:11.520 in Canada

00:13:11.960 to be legitimate journalists

00:13:13.360 and enabled them

00:13:14.420 to attend the debate

00:13:15.360 and ask their questions

00:13:16.700 to the political party leaders.

00:13:19.340 Both Justin Trudeau,

00:13:20.600 the liberal leader,

00:13:21.460 and Jagmeet Singh,

00:13:22.420 the NDP leader,

00:13:23.480 completely refused

00:13:24.620 to engage with them,

00:13:25.580 refused to answer their questions.

00:13:26.640 And Justin Trudeau

00:13:28.280 went on pretty much

00:13:29.280 an unhinged tirade

00:13:30.940 against the rebel media,

00:13:32.340 basically blaming them

00:13:33.600 for all the problems in society,

00:13:35.520 blaming them for the protests,

00:13:36.920 blaming them for a rise

00:13:38.420 in conspiracy theories,

00:13:40.300 and really, really not holding back

00:13:42.300 in his attack

00:13:43.340 and his hatred

00:13:44.180 for right-wing media outlets,

00:13:46.680 right-wing Canadians,

00:13:47.340 and journalists.

00:13:47.940 This is what that looked like.

00:13:49.020 First of all,

00:13:51.060 questions around accreditation

00:13:52.740 were handled by

00:13:53.640 the press gallery.

00:13:55.880 Organizations like yours

00:13:57.340 that continue to spread

00:13:59.860 misinformation

00:14:00.700 and disinformation

00:14:02.080 on the science

00:14:03.980 around vaccines,

00:14:05.760 around how we're going to

00:14:06.680 actually get through

00:14:07.980 this pandemic

00:14:09.600 and be there for each other

00:14:11.180 and keep our kids safe,

00:14:12.660 is part of why

00:14:13.960 we're seeing such

00:14:15.440 unfortunate anger

00:14:18.300 and lack of understanding

00:14:21.320 of basic science.

00:14:22.680 Your,

00:14:23.720 I won't call it

00:14:24.660 a media organization,

00:14:25.660 your group of individuals

00:14:28.200 need to take accountability

00:14:30.460 for some of the polarization

00:14:34.200 that we're seeing

00:14:35.220 in this country,

00:14:35.940 and I salute

00:14:36.600 all extraordinary,

00:14:38.520 hard-working journalists

00:14:39.480 that put science

00:14:41.040 and facts

00:14:41.940 at the heart

00:14:42.680 of what they do

00:14:43.540 and ask me

00:14:44.320 tough questions

00:14:45.060 every day,

00:14:46.060 but make sure

00:14:48.000 that they are

00:14:48.680 educating

00:14:49.600 and informing

00:14:50.740 Canadians

00:14:51.280 from a broad range

00:14:52.480 of perspectives,

00:14:53.080 which is the last thing

00:14:54.780 that you guys do.

00:14:56.120 So wait a minute,

00:14:56.760 why is it okay

00:14:57.380 for left-wing politicians

00:14:58.520 to be deranged 0.83

00:14:59.960 and angry

00:15:00.660 and completely

00:15:01.880 non-responsive

00:15:03.020 to journalists

00:15:04.360 if they come from

00:15:05.040 a conservative outlet

00:15:05.980 or a right-wing outlet,

00:15:06.920 but when you have

00:15:07.700 a right-wing party

00:15:08.620 reacting negatively

00:15:09.740 to left-wing journalists

00:15:11.040 who are doing

00:15:11.500 activism journalism

00:15:12.520 the same way

00:15:13.460 as the rebel,

00:15:14.520 somehow it's like

00:15:15.320 this national outrage

00:15:16.340 is a threat to democracy

00:15:17.660 the Canadian Association

00:15:18.880 for Journalism

00:15:19.680 is chiming in.

00:15:20.860 This is a completely 0.88

00:15:21.820 silly double standard, 0.87

00:15:23.140 and it's not just 0.98

00:15:24.060 the Canadian Association

00:15:25.120 of Journalism

00:15:26.040 that's saying that.

00:15:27.020 We have the statement

00:15:27.720 that was put out

00:15:28.460 by the CBC.

00:15:29.320 It says,

00:15:29.820 Statement,

00:15:30.340 Recent Online Harassment

00:15:31.680 of Journalists.

00:15:32.940 We at CBC Radio Canada

00:15:34.500 add our voice

00:15:35.540 in support of all journalists

00:15:37.100 who are subject

00:15:37.900 to online harassment

00:15:39.200 and worse

00:15:40.100 because of the work

00:15:40.920 they do.

00:15:41.640 It should be obvious

00:15:42.380 to all Canadians

00:15:43.100 that this harassment

00:15:44.000 is unacceptable behavior.

00:15:45.940 When the incitement

00:15:46.740 to harass journalists

00:15:47.960 comes from public figures,

00:15:49.880 it is even worse.

00:15:51.160 The work of journalists

00:15:52.160 is vital to an informed public

00:15:53.980 and a healthy democracy.

00:15:55.560 Criticism comes with a job,

00:15:57.180 but online harassment,

00:15:58.740 particularly inciting others

00:16:00.340 to attack someone

00:16:01.340 for doing their job,

00:16:02.500 puts the safety

00:16:03.220 of people at risk.

00:16:04.640 That the worst

00:16:05.260 of this abuse

00:16:05.960 targets women 1.00

00:16:06.800 and racialized journalists

00:16:08.840 should make clear

00:16:09.720 just how dangerous

00:16:10.780 this is.

00:16:11.960 So again,

00:16:12.680 remember when Justin Trudeau

00:16:13.740 did that tirade?

00:16:14.500 That was against

00:16:15.000 a female rebel reporter.

00:16:17.200 No statement from the CBC.

00:16:18.880 No statement from

00:16:19.600 the Canadian Association

00:16:20.360 of Journalists.

00:16:21.300 But when it is

00:16:22.200 a right-wing politician

00:16:23.040 doing it against

00:16:23.980 left-wing activist journalists,

00:16:25.340 then everybody

00:16:25.960 is so outraged.

00:16:26.960 They call it harassment.

00:16:28.120 They call it incitement.

00:16:29.460 They say that it is

00:16:30.180 an attack on healthy democracy.

00:16:32.900 Forgive me

00:16:33.380 if I'm a little skeptical

00:16:34.380 that this is all

00:16:35.380 just performative,

00:16:36.600 anti-conservative, 0.91

00:16:37.780 woke nonsense. 0.71

00:16:38.740 Look, I agree.

00:16:39.880 Bernier probably

00:16:40.480 shouldn't have overreacted.

00:16:41.660 He shouldn't have done

00:16:42.440 what he did.

00:16:42.960 It wasn't right.

00:16:43.840 But this overreaction 0.93

00:16:45.100 is just so silly. 0.96

00:16:46.140 And again, 0.99

00:16:46.360 that's why Bernier

00:16:47.320 isn't as successful

00:16:48.200 as he could be

00:16:48.800 because he plays

00:16:49.740 into the left-wing media.

00:16:51.080 He allows them

00:16:51.900 to shape this narrative

00:16:53.300 against him

00:16:54.100 and really falls

00:16:55.320 into their trap.

00:16:56.040 So unfortunate to see.

00:16:57.340 But yes,

00:16:57.760 this is fake news, folks.

00:16:59.740 Okay, next story here.

00:17:00.920 Just a reminder

00:17:01.680 that the left-wing media

00:17:02.880 outlets in Canada

00:17:03.700 are obsessed with race.

00:17:04.980 All they want to do

00:17:05.780 is divide us

00:17:06.720 based on race,

00:17:07.380 pit us against each other.

00:17:08.620 All they care about

00:17:09.300 is race.

00:17:09.840 They're obsessed with it

00:17:10.820 and they're even more

00:17:11.620 obsessed with it

00:17:12.260 when they can use it

00:17:13.000 as a club

00:17:13.600 to bat conservatives,

00:17:15.140 to beat conservatives.

00:17:15.940 And this is what

00:17:16.340 we're seeing today.

00:17:17.400 So both the CBC

00:17:18.200 and the Toronto Star

00:17:19.260 ran with this story.

00:17:20.580 The CBC writes,

00:17:21.660 after Monday's vote,

00:17:22.640 the Federal Conservative Caucus

00:17:23.860 will be 95% white.

00:17:26.620 And then the Toronto Star says,

00:17:27.960 Aaron O'Toole promised

00:17:28.820 to remake the Conservative Party.

00:17:30.360 So why are his MPs

00:17:31.820 so white and male?

00:17:33.160 Of course,

00:17:33.580 this is what they focus on.

00:17:34.520 Of course,

00:17:35.160 this is what they care about.

00:17:35.880 They don't care about

00:17:36.700 a member of Parliament's experience.

00:17:38.540 They don't care about

00:17:39.000 their aptitude,

00:17:39.720 their background,

00:17:40.300 their profession.

00:17:41.140 They don't care about

00:17:41.700 their character

00:17:42.300 and their capabilities.

00:17:44.080 What they care about,

00:17:45.080 all they care about

00:17:45.760 is identity politics,

00:17:47.360 pushing the swedge issue,

00:17:48.660 intersectionality.

00:17:49.600 If you're white and male, 0.97

00:17:50.760 you're part of the problem. 0.86

00:17:52.000 Everyone else is accepted

00:17:53.160 and good.

00:17:54.260 And so,

00:17:55.020 I mean,

00:17:55.400 this is just patently obvious

00:17:56.660 that they're trying

00:17:57.300 to divide the country.

00:17:58.100 They don't care.

00:17:58.760 They don't even look

00:17:59.360 at the makeup

00:18:00.700 of the 95% white

00:18:03.740 Conservative Caucus.

00:18:05.060 They don't talk about

00:18:05.600 how many of the MPs

00:18:06.620 in the Conservative Caucus

00:18:07.500 are immigrants

00:18:08.080 or the children of immigrants.

00:18:09.380 They don't talk about

00:18:10.140 the social class.

00:18:11.200 Maybe some of them

00:18:11.760 grew up poor

00:18:12.440 and made something

00:18:13.480 of themselves,

00:18:13.960 became successful.

00:18:15.000 None of those things matter.

00:18:16.260 The CBC and the Toronto Star

00:18:17.800 only care about

00:18:18.720 pinning us against each other

00:18:19.700 on race.

00:18:20.480 And it's even more

00:18:21.520 interesting than that

00:18:22.400 because the Toronto Star story

00:18:23.980 talks about how

00:18:25.140 there were a bunch

00:18:25.980 of good candidates

00:18:27.320 for the CBC

00:18:28.400 who were from

00:18:29.460 different backgrounds,

00:18:30.320 who were Chinese

00:18:30.980 or Arab 0.67

00:18:31.840 or different backgrounds,

00:18:33.500 but they didn't

00:18:34.080 win their seats.

00:18:35.040 So part of

00:18:35.660 Aaron O'Toole's

00:18:36.380 failed strategy

00:18:37.220 in the last election

00:18:38.020 was that he

00:18:39.080 changed the party.

00:18:40.440 He became

00:18:41.060 a meek moderate.

00:18:42.440 He was trying

00:18:42.960 to appeal

00:18:43.440 to suburban voters

00:18:44.560 who typically vote liberal.

00:18:46.560 And because that failed,

00:18:48.200 the conservatives

00:18:48.560 ended up losing

00:18:49.200 a lot of seats

00:18:49.900 in and around Vancouver

00:18:50.820 and the 905

00:18:52.060 of the suburban belt

00:18:52.660 around Vancouver.

00:18:53.540 That's where a lot

00:18:54.220 of their ethnic candidates

00:18:55.280 or their non-white candidates

00:18:56.460 were running.

00:18:57.480 So even though

00:18:58.600 the conservatives

00:18:59.040 had these candidates,

00:19:00.120 they didn't win,

00:19:01.180 which doesn't really

00:19:01.820 say anything

00:19:02.200 about the conservatives

00:19:03.080 other than the fact

00:19:04.080 that Aaron O'Toole

00:19:04.540 ran a bad campaign.

00:19:05.580 It also says something

00:19:06.340 about Canadians

00:19:06.960 that they didn't vote

00:19:07.700 for those candidates.

00:19:08.520 They voted

00:19:08.800 for different candidates.

00:19:10.620 So again,

00:19:11.240 just this whole storyline

00:19:12.140 is completely designed

00:19:13.560 to pit us

00:19:14.420 against each other.

00:19:15.420 Canadians should

00:19:16.220 rightly reject this.

00:19:17.920 And the final thing

00:19:18.660 I want to talk about today

00:19:19.600 is after the 2019 election,

00:19:22.800 there sort of became

00:19:23.600 conventional wisdom

00:19:24.640 that was pushed

00:19:25.280 by the legacy media.

00:19:26.340 The legacy media concluded

00:19:27.540 that Andrew Scheer

00:19:28.520 was too much

00:19:29.000 of a right-winger

00:19:29.600 and that was a liability.

00:19:30.880 They said that he was pro-life

00:19:32.440 and that he was a Catholic

00:19:33.700 and those things

00:19:34.620 were very, very bad,

00:19:35.680 we were told.

00:19:36.440 And so the solution

00:19:37.480 to this was that

00:19:38.320 the conservatives

00:19:38.880 needed to moderate.

00:19:40.060 They needed to run someone

00:19:40.980 who wasn't pro-life.

00:19:42.140 They needed to run someone

00:19:42.980 who was more liberal

00:19:44.220 in their social values.

00:19:45.700 And for some reason,

00:19:47.460 the conservative party

00:19:48.240 went along with that.

00:19:48.980 They listened to that.

00:19:49.640 They believed

00:19:50.520 that that was

00:19:51.360 the correct analysis

00:19:52.760 of the 2019 election.

00:19:54.820 I think that following

00:19:55.780 this past election,

00:19:56.880 seeing Aaron O'Toole

00:19:57.680 run as a moderate,

00:19:58.480 run as a left-winger,

00:19:59.760 lose ground in the places

00:20:01.260 that he was trying to win,

00:20:02.580 we can safely say

00:20:03.600 that that narrative

00:20:04.520 that was crafted in 2019,

00:20:06.540 mostly by the legacy media,

00:20:07.860 mostly by people

00:20:08.600 who do not vote conservative,

00:20:10.220 will never vote conservative,

00:20:11.420 don't have conservative interests

00:20:12.860 in mind or in their heart,

00:20:14.600 they were wrong.

00:20:15.980 It was absolutely not

00:20:16.940 the right takeaway

00:20:17.660 from that election.

00:20:18.860 The reality is that

00:20:20.820 Canadians want an alternative

00:20:22.200 to the Liberals.

00:20:23.580 They want a conservative party

00:20:24.760 that's actually conservative.

00:20:26.360 And so I think that

00:20:27.440 while we're doing

00:20:28.280 this whole post-election,

00:20:29.840 post-mortem,

00:20:30.440 trying to figure out

00:20:31.140 what went wrong

00:20:31.960 and what we can do

00:20:32.700 to improve the conservative

00:20:33.820 movement in Canada,

00:20:34.880 we shouldn't start now.

00:20:36.000 We should start in 2019.

00:20:38.520 Take a look at the bad advice

00:20:40.280 that we were given

00:20:40.820 by the legacy media

00:20:41.760 and keep this in mind,

00:20:43.640 that the legacy media

00:20:44.920 is not in touch with Canadians.

00:20:46.560 They're not insightful

00:20:47.260 about conservative

00:20:48.460 political campaigns.

00:20:49.900 And basically,

00:20:50.560 conservatives should not listen,

00:20:52.140 should not engage,

00:20:53.240 should not take their advice

00:20:54.560 to heart

00:20:55.200 because we did that last time

00:20:56.440 and it didn't turn out very well.

00:20:58.280 Now the new narrative

00:20:59.380 that's being formed

00:21:00.120 by the legacy media

00:21:01.080 is that Erin O'Toole 0.98

00:21:02.340 did a great job,

00:21:03.600 he deserves a second chance,

00:21:04.820 and that the country

00:21:05.600 is just more left-wing now

00:21:06.960 and that we should all

00:21:07.820 just be resigned to that,

00:21:09.060 accept it,

00:21:09.620 and embrace more

00:21:11.140 social progressive wokeism

00:21:13.180 in our conservative party.

00:21:15.160 That's the wrong message.

00:21:16.360 That is wrong.

00:21:17.340 Ignore the legacy media.

00:21:18.840 They're not right.

00:21:19.740 They don't understand the country.

00:21:20.920 They don't understand

00:21:21.460 the conservative movement.

00:21:22.820 And the less the conservatives

00:21:24.300 listen to the legacy media,

00:21:25.740 the better off we all are,

00:21:27.340 the better off Canada is.

00:21:28.660 Thank you so much

00:21:29.240 for listening, everybody.

00:21:30.240 I'm Candice Malcolm

00:21:30.780 and this is

00:21:31.580 The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - September 24, 2021

CBC admits to pushing out fake news about a Conservative MP

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