The Candice Malcolm Show - September 24, 2021


CBC admits to pushing out fake news about a Conservative MP


Episode Stats

Length

21 minutes

Words per Minute

190.40176

Word Count

4,101

Sentence Count

245

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

The legacy media wage a war against Maxine Bernier while also doubling down on an accusation that conservatives are racist. Plus, we ll talk about why you should never, ever, listen to the legacy media and their narrative. It s Fake News Friday!


Transcript

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.
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
00:03:33.200 that depicted re-elected Conservative MP Rachel Harder as callous and ignorant.
00:03:38.880 Records detailed snide questions from a CBC Calgary reporter
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,
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,
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
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.
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,
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,
00:08:15.900 it means you're probably a Nazi,
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,
00:08:25.940 like, seriously, straight up, the dumbest kind of thing,
00:08:28.780 the worst insinuation about a person.
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.
00:08:35.800 So for stupid journalists out there
00:08:37.700 who don't know the difference between a libertarian,
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
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
00:09:20.580 basically asking the same idiotic question.
00:09:23.140 And so what did Maxime Bernays do?
00:09:24.740 He took screenshots of these idiotic questions.
00:09:27.400 He posted them on social media.
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
00:09:59.740 for how stupid reporters are
00:10:01.100 because half these questions are incoherent
00:10:03.320 and the people writing them
00:10:04.420 are like illiterate or something.
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,
00:11:31.280 if you want to write to these idiots
00:11:32.900 to tell them what you think
00:11:34.080 of their disgusting smear jobs,
00:11:35.880 here are their email addresses.
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
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
00:12:48.540 remove tweet calling reporters idiots.
00:12:51.240 And of course,
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
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
00:15:21.820 silly double standard,
00:15:23.140 and it's not just
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
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,
00:16:37.780 woke nonsense.
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
00:16:45.100 is just so silly.
00:16:46.140 And again,
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,
00:17:50.760 you're part of the problem.
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
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
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.