The Candice Malcolm Show - May 05, 2025


CBC journalist HUMILIATED twice in ONE DAY, Carney Liberals SLAMMED in new press freedom report, will Alberta SEPARATE?


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

184.35048

Word Count

4,668

Sentence Count

343

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

In this episode, Candice talks to Sheila Gunn-Reed, President of the Independent Press Gallery of Canada, about the decline in press freedom in Canada. She also talks about the impact of Bill C-11, which handed control of the internet over to the CRTC, and Mark Carney, the incoming Bank of Canada Governor.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for you
00:00:07.460 today. We are coming off the election. And let me just tell you, folks, the numbers here at
00:00:11.840 Juno News are spectacular. I want to share a few of them with you because I'm really excited and
00:00:15.860 really proud of what we have built together. I say together because we would not be here
00:00:19.760 without the audience, without viewers like you, without the people who are subscribers to Juno
00:00:24.140 News that pay us $10 a month for all of our news. You're the ones that have propelled this and kept
00:00:28.620 this going. So during the election, during the shortest election that you could possibly have,
00:00:32.320 only five weeks, we published 413 exclusive news stories at Juno News. We had 10 million plus page
00:00:39.940 views across social media, so just X and YouTube. Our videos were viewed 14.2 million times. Our
00:00:47.560 newsletter, which we send out every day, was opened 9.1 million times. It was viewed 9.1 million times.
00:00:53.960 And our premium subscribers grew by 30 percent, folks. So we are so excited to be part of the
00:01:00.820 movement of independent press and independent journalism in Canada. We are on a mission to
00:01:06.280 replace the CBC, and I think we're going to get there. I'm going to ask you just take a quick
00:01:10.640 second and like this video. It really helps us with the YouTube algorithm. But it's not all good
00:01:15.720 news because, as I'm going to report today, Canada has fallen in terms of world press freedom.
00:01:21.780 So you know this and I know this, that Canada is not as free as we used to be. We don't have free
00:01:27.040 speech like we used to. And now it's verified, not by a conservative group. This isn't just a
00:01:31.260 right-wing talking point. This is a factual statement based on the World Press Freedom Index. So to talk
00:01:37.980 about this a little more, I'm very pleased to be joined by my friend Sheila Gunn-Reed. Sheila is a
00:01:42.200 journalist at Rebel News, Rebel Media, and she's the president of the Independent Press Gallery of
00:01:47.140 Canada. Sheila, welcome to the program.
00:01:48.720 Candice, thanks for having me on the show.
00:01:51.480 Okay, well, I saw this on X, and it was really disappointing, but not surprising. So can you
00:01:56.480 walk us through this Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index?
00:02:01.220 Sure. Yeah, the Reporters Without Borders, they put out an analysis of press freedom every single
00:02:06.840 year. And it tracks government overreach, arrests of journalists, violence against journalists,
00:02:14.900 and government censorship. And Canada now ranks 21st in the world with a score of 78.75. Now,
00:02:24.380 the reason this is significant is that this is a huge drop from just 2024. In 2024, Canada was at 14th
00:02:34.580 place. And overall, now this is what I think is really significant, is that, you know, how people
00:02:39.640 used to talk about how mean Prime Minister Stephen Harper was to journalists. But journalists had a
00:02:44.060 really good under Prime Minister Stephen Harper because we've dropped 13 places since 2015 when
00:02:51.960 the Liberals took power. And that is post the Liberals dumping a pile of money on the mainstream
00:02:57.780 media, bailout after bailout. This is post the government overreach into journalism. So we have
00:03:04.480 to remember Bill C-11 that handed basic control of the internet over to the CRTC. So that's the
00:03:12.800 broadcasting bureaucracy. This is post C-18. C-18, as you know, forced tech companies to bankroll
00:03:20.120 failing legacy media outlets. And that prompted Meta to block Canadian news outright, right, where a lot
00:03:26.780 of people consumed their news, but also where a lot of independent journalists were seeing their reach
00:03:33.700 grow. And then now we've got Carney threatening to clean up online pollution, he says, is flowing our
00:03:40.080 way from the Americans, which of course, is a euphemism for purging any sort of dissenting voices. So this
00:03:46.040 is troubling. And this tracks with exactly the time the Liberals took power. Wow, I mean, it is scary. And
00:03:52.380 just for that context, right, like even us at True North, they built a company called True North. And we had a
00:03:58.420 huge audience on Facebook. That was our number one audience in terms of social media. Without warning,
00:04:04.520 they just completely shut it off. We had to migrate over to YouTube. And thankfully, we've been able to
00:04:09.180 build up a large audience on YouTube now. But it took a while, it took a few years of catching up. And,
00:04:15.800 you know, again, thankfully, we have an email list as well. But if you don't, I mean, it's so easy to get
00:04:19.560 cut off from your viewers. And that's the scary thing, right? Like when you have a government as
00:04:24.660 tyrannical and opposed to basic freedoms, as we see with the Liberals, you never know what they're
00:04:30.000 going to cut off next, never know what they're going to do next. I want to read what Mark Carney
00:04:33.840 has to say on Press Freedom Day. So it was on Saturday. And he writes this on X. He says,
00:04:38.700 a strong, independent and free press both defines and defends our values as Canadians. Now more than ever,
00:04:44.060 we need to protect our public forums and defend strong and reliable Canadian voices. So there's
00:04:49.880 so much you can read into that. Sheila, first of all, as we all know, Mark Carney banned independent
00:04:54.840 reporters from any of his events through the campaign starting in Edmonton with his campaign
00:04:59.380 launch. He even had the police get involved to do everything they could to stop independent
00:05:03.960 reporters from asking questions. The only time throughout the entire campaign that independent
00:05:08.620 journalists got to ask questions was at that leader's debate because we had a court order saying
00:05:13.220 that we're journalists and they had to let us in. And now he says, now more than ever, we need to
00:05:17.260 protect our public forums and defend strong, reliable Canadian voices. So all I read from that is he
00:05:24.340 wants more power to shut down his adversarial voices and defend, meaning publicly fund journalism,
00:05:32.360 which is pretty much exactly how we got into this mess. I also want to play from Mark Carney. This was a
00:05:38.880 brief surface clip. This came up during the election campaign, April 10th, 2025. And this is a clip of
00:05:45.320 Mark Carney basically saying the threat is from social media platforms. He says that they've become
00:05:51.840 a sea of racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and hate. And he says, my government
00:05:57.420 will act. Let's play that clip.
00:05:58.440 Mark Carney. Large American online platforms have become seas of racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism,
00:06:04.880 Islamophobia, and hate in all its forms. And they're being used by criminals to harm our children.
00:06:16.000 My government will act.
00:06:18.000 So that's terrifying. What do you think of that?
00:06:20.680 Well, I mean, he says large American platforms, but we know who he means. We know that he means
00:06:25.620 X, which is the one place where people can still freely speak their mind. And it's where a lot
00:06:30.400 of journalists are. So he's going to make sure that the journalists see exactly what he wants them
00:06:36.600 to see. But I also think it's interesting, his focus, right? We know that WeChat meddled in at least
00:06:44.880 the last two elections. And according to the site task force, this latest one, they were using it to
00:06:50.400 target conservative candidates. And yet, nary a word about WeChat ever. If you are looking for a
00:06:59.660 social media platform that is meddling in our democracies, targeting democracy voices, targeting
00:07:07.560 Canadians, you would crack down on WeChat. But it's very clear that Mark Carney is insistent on coming
00:07:14.680 down on X. And I'm worried about what that means. Because will that mean X is just going to say Canada
00:07:22.580 is just not worth the hassle and not allow access to Canadians? I wonder. We saw what Meta did.
00:07:29.320 Meta said, I'm not going to pay the shakedown. And so now Canadians are not allowed to post news
00:07:35.080 links there. So I wonder what this means for us. But this is, I think, hinting at a renewed
00:07:40.780 Online Harms Act. Well, it's interesting that they, you know, they talk, what we think about
00:07:45.500 as free speech, what we think about as independent journalism, they think as like a threat to the
00:07:50.000 democracy or like hate speech. And so they're literally, like, I can't imagine Canada, Canadian
00:07:55.140 political discourse without Twitter or X. Like, I actually can't imagine so much of the conversation,
00:08:00.520 so much of the dialogue, so much news is broken there. And it's almost like a collaborative form,
00:08:04.500 right? Like, I scroll through X every morning to figure out what to talk about my show.
00:08:08.260 I see, you know, tweets from you or tweets from other people in the space. And that's kind of how
00:08:13.080 I get up to speed and what I want to dig into, what I want to research, what I want to talk about
00:08:17.700 on my show. And the idea that that could just go dark because Mark Carney decides that, you know,
00:08:22.700 it's bad for us is truly, truly terrifying. Well, and again, look at Mark, what Mark Carney's
00:08:28.860 focusing on. Did he say that it was a direct attack on democracy, that the debates cancelled the
00:08:36.700 media scrums actually never said really anything about that. He never said, you know, that he never
00:08:43.840 had a problem with journalists having to fight the government to get into the debates. He, there's no
00:08:50.040 possible way he is completely unaware that his campaign kept calling the police on journalists
00:08:56.420 over and over and over again. And this isn't just targeting right-wing journalists or conservative
00:09:02.360 journalists. We saw Kareem Assad, who I don't really know where she falls down on the political
00:09:06.900 spectrum. And I kind of like it that way. She was basically persona non grata at Carney campaign
00:09:12.700 events. And I don't think that's going to change. We haven't really seen him be open and accessible to
00:09:20.940 independent journalists. They've had to shout their questions the way Chris Dacey has from the street
00:09:26.180 or Alexa Lavoie last week from the street. I can't imagine that things are going to change for the
00:09:32.240 better. Well, and there's, it's so tightly controlled, like folks might not understand
00:09:36.420 this. Even for the election night, right? We tried to send Sue Ann Levy. Sue Ann is a professional
00:09:41.840 journalist, a retired reporter for the Toronto Sun. I believe she wrote for the paper for some 30
00:09:46.820 plus years, right? She is by every definition, a mainstream media journalist. Now she works for True
00:09:53.980 North and they wouldn't let her in. They wouldn't let her in. And it really is like, if you're not
00:10:00.260 part of the government funded journalist clique, like if you're not part of either the CBC or one
00:10:07.740 of the other outlets that takes money from the government, they literally just won't let you in
00:10:12.260 the building. I mean, it's honestly, it's almost like a communist system, right? They say it's free
00:10:18.660 speech and premium of the press, but really it's controlled press because they only let people
00:10:23.780 that they've previously given money to or screened or decided that they're part of the Canadian
00:10:29.880 journalism establishment. They won't let anybody else in. And so it skews everything about Canadian
00:10:35.700 politics. Like the entire election campaign, the narrative was set by the reporters in the room
00:10:40.340 who were asking questions day in and day out. And you exclude half the country by excluding
00:10:44.980 independent press and all of the people who get their news from us. And you're not really fighting a
00:10:49.940 fair battle because they're fighting the issues. Both conservatives and liberals are fighting an
00:10:54.320 election based on the left wing issues, the issues that the left wing media decide are the issues. And
00:10:59.040 they're not talking about the issues that we care about and the things that we want to know about,
00:11:02.480 the things that we're uncovering and digging up. And so it's just fundamentally unfair. And it's funny
00:11:07.320 that they don't even recognize that.
00:11:09.500 Well, I think they do because I think they know they lose on the issues that normal people care
00:11:15.720 about. Crime, housing, immigration, cost of living, inflation. They know that if they are forced to
00:11:25.240 campaign or argue or defend the liberal positions on those issues, they lose every single time. So
00:11:30.380 how do you avoid talking about that? Well, you just make sure that the people who are going to ask
00:11:36.060 those sorts of questions are no longer in the room. And I think we're also missing a really
00:11:40.600 important part of this. And that is that the mainstream media, the taxpayer funded government
00:11:47.220 money contaminated journalists are the enforcers in all of this because the government knows they
00:11:52.900 can't enforce this directly a lot of times because that will result in a charter challenge. But you
00:11:59.260 know who can enforce the exclusivity and the boring questions asked by the mainstream media? Well,
00:12:04.320 that's the parliamentary press gallery. So they this is this little cabal of journalists who get
00:12:09.760 together and say, we need exclusive access to these politicians. And so we can't let our
00:12:16.740 competitors come in here and expose us for not doing the job that we're paid to do on behalf of
00:12:21.480 Canadians. So they keep journalists like those at Rebel News out of the parliamentary press gallery.
00:12:27.240 We don't get to ask the politicians questions. And the media continues to get worse and worse and worse.
00:12:32.940 It's like watching it slowly circle the drain of a toilet bowl because it's just they keep doing
00:12:38.600 things that reinforce just how bad they are. And the government keeps giving them money correcting
00:12:44.740 them from getting the I guess the market correction they so rightly deserve. So I mean, you have to
00:12:52.120 remember there's it's not just the government, there's this cabal of journalists that are acting as
00:12:56.440 enforcers on behalf of the government. Well, it's so the most obvious the time that this is the most
00:13:02.640 obvious, I think, is watching the CBC. I don't take any joy in watching the CBC. But when clips
00:13:06.920 circulate, I pay attention. And I want to point to this interview that was done with Andrew Scheer,
00:13:12.220 Conservative MP, and CBC's power and politics host David Cochran. This happened late last week,
00:13:17.900 where they're talking about monetary policy, right? And sure, there's two schools of thoughts when it
00:13:23.080 comes to monetary policy. There's sort of like the Keynesian liberal idea. And then there's more
00:13:27.080 like the free market conservative ideals, right? So Andrew Scheer is talking about it from a conservative
00:13:32.020 perspective. And David Cochran is fact checking him with false information. Okay, so this is a bit
00:13:37.720 of a longer clip. It's about a minute long. I'm going to play it. And then I'm going to take a second
00:13:41.460 to just reinforce again why David Cochran is just promoting liberal ideas. He's lying about what's
00:13:47.820 happened. And he's pretending that he's the arbiter of truth. And he's trying to fact check a
00:13:52.220 conservative MP. It's really unbelievable. Let's play that clip. I'm incredibly optimistic about
00:13:56.020 our ability to build off of our gains this time. And I'm optimistic that we'll be able to finish
00:14:01.800 the job in the next election. Right. But you're part of me not be able to rely on post-COVID
00:14:05.840 inflation crisis that was fueled by, you know, war in the breadbasket of Europe. No, no, no. David,
00:14:11.760 David, you know this. You know that inflation is caused when governments print money.
00:14:16.200 Well, okay. That's what the liberals did. The liberals flooded the economy with brand new cash.
00:14:19.660 There's nothing to do. They spent money. They didn't print money. The Bank of Canada did not
00:14:23.720 increase the number of banknotes in circulation in the economy. They used settlement balances.
00:14:27.820 They used settlement balances to buy government bonds to put liquidity. I'm not being dishonest.
00:14:33.660 They created money out of thin air. They massively expanded the money supply. You know this.
00:14:38.680 They did not permanently increase the money supply, Mr. Scheer. But anyway, I don't have an argument
00:14:41.660 on monetary policy. They used settlement balances to buy bonds to lower interest rates to put liquidity
00:14:45.740 into the banking system. And then they removed those settlement balances over time.
00:14:50.160 Are you denying that there is more currency, whether it's digital or real, in the Canadian
00:14:54.820 economy today? Are you denying it? I'm saying they use settlement balances and you're calling
00:14:57.960 out money for it. There may be a small marginal increase, but, you know, it is not the... Anyway,
00:15:03.300 everybody has... All right. Yeah.
00:15:05.680 Okay. So that sounded like a debate between a liberal MP and a conservative MP over monetary policy,
00:15:10.460 but it wasn't. CBC is actively out there pushing the liberal line. Okay. And it's a distinction
00:15:14.940 without a difference anyway. He's saying, oh, it was these settlements. So basically the idea is,
00:15:19.560 yes, the government of Canada pushed a whole bunch of money out, but they have a plan to retreat it and
00:15:23.700 pull it out eventually. So it's not the same as printing money, even though it has the same effect
00:15:28.580 as printing money. And that is exactly what has caused inflation. That is what we can all agree on.
00:15:32.740 And it was just so... To me, it was just so icky to see David Cochran just like really,
00:15:37.400 you know, putting his... Digging his feet in. And I swear he has liberal talking points in front of
00:15:42.520 him. He is repeating the lines that Mark Carney and Mark Carney's staff in office gave him to read.
00:15:48.300 So it's like, you know, what's the point of even having liberal MPs? Why don't we just have CBC
00:15:52.100 journalists debate conservatives on the issues? The idea that the CBC is any kind of, you know,
00:15:58.920 a neutral platform or the people who get to fact check anyone else, they have absolutely no business
00:16:04.060 fact checking because they don't have the facts on their side in the first place. What did you think
00:16:08.080 of that? You know, it's as much as I regret having to see Andrew Scheer go through that, it's nice to
00:16:15.720 see that we are not the only people that David Cochran lies about. As you know, David Cochran went on
00:16:22.440 national TV and said that Rebel News accreditation had been revoked from the post-debate scrums.
00:16:27.980 That was completely untrue. He maybe wasn't wise enough to keep his powder dry. I think that's
00:16:35.300 what he had hoped his conversations with the debates commission would turn into. But I mean,
00:16:39.940 this is what $1.4 billion and a promise to increase CBC funding by $150 million more buys you. It buys
00:16:50.300 you a network that acts as the communications arm of the Liberal Party of Canada. There was absolutely
00:16:57.520 no bias there. And you can, you can tell, you know, Andrew Scheer, or I'm sorry, there's absolutely
00:17:02.580 no balance there. And you could tell that Andrew Scheer, it's almost as though his audio was turned
00:17:07.680 down so that they weren't actually competing for the same set of years. It's so interesting. Yes. And
00:17:14.360 our audience will know David Cochran very well by this point, because we showed many, many clips of
00:17:19.060 him during the debates commissions and just the absolute hysterical meltdown that he had. I have one
00:17:23.180 more clip of him. I'm not trying to pick on him, but well, I kind of am because he's so terrible.
00:17:26.560 I am.
00:17:27.760 Yeah. He was speaking with Globe and Mail journalist Robert Fyfe. Robert Fyfe is supposed to be
00:17:32.220 like the grandfather of Canadian journalism. He's the one that gets all the scoops and he's so stoic.
00:17:38.000 And, you know, a lot of people on the conservative side like him because he'll break stories. He's an
00:17:41.880 equal opportunist when it comes to breaking devastating stories about liberals and conservatives. But here he
00:17:46.580 kind of like lets the masks slip a little bit. He's talking to David Cochran on the same show,
00:17:50.940 power and politics. I don't even want to repeat what he calls Pierre Pauliev. I'll just,
00:17:55.060 you can listen to it for yourself. Let's play this clip.
00:17:57.820 You have MPs that have told me that they found it really difficult going door to door because a lot
00:18:04.920 of people were saying, we like some of the policies you're doing, but we think your leader's a dick.
00:18:10.580 And we, really? And we think he is, you know, I'm sorry, but that's what they're telling me.
00:18:17.180 All right. I'm going to have some ombudsman's paperwork to fill out before I go home tonight.
00:18:22.460 But yes, not in such language, but I have heard similar sentiments expressed from conservative candidates.
00:18:30.540 Okay. So just first of all, the giddy laughing after laughing hysterically, right? Again,
00:18:35.320 how are we supposed to believe that this is fair and balanced? This is the state broadcaster. This
00:18:39.660 is why we have to pay $1.5 billion a year to get, first of all, foul language about the conservative
00:18:45.600 leader. And let me just say to Robert Fyfe, okay, that is not journalism. You're talking about a
00:18:50.280 secondhand account. He spoke to MPs who said that they were saying at the door that someone else
00:18:54.660 said it. So someone else said it, an MP heard it, an MP passed it along to Robert Fyfe. He doesn't
00:18:59.520 speak in specific enough terms for me to believe that that is a specific example, like saying,
00:19:05.120 I have a specific example. I have it on tape. No, he's just speaking broadly. They're basically
00:19:09.440 just mocking Pierre Pauliev, making fun of him, saying what they all say about him behind closed
00:19:13.640 doors. And it was so shocking to, well, not so shocking, but so titillating to the CBC host and
00:19:18.860 the other guests that they couldn't control their laughter. They're laughing like schoolgirls about
00:19:22.680 it. Sheila, could you imagine if, I know this wouldn't happen, imagine if you got invited on
00:19:27.560 the CBC and you said something like that about Mark Carney. I have a feeling that David Cochran
00:19:31.800 wouldn't be laughing like that. And I have a feeling that you would not be invited back on the
00:19:35.780 CBC if you did that about a liberal leader. What do you think? I think you could hear a pin drop
00:19:39.880 after I had said something like that. But I'm from the prairies. We call what we just saw there a hen
00:19:46.900 party. Usually involves middle-aged women with too much time on their hands, but apparently that's
00:19:52.340 what amounts to a CBC panel these days. I wonder would that all cost us. Now, again, they're gossiping.
00:20:00.540 This isn't news. This isn't journalism. This is gossiping. And again, I am skeptical now of
00:20:10.200 everything Bob Fyfe says. And that again goes back to the debates. Because he went on TV and he said
00:20:17.760 that independent journalists, yours and mine, were in the debates scrum acting up and acting wild. Instead,
00:20:24.420 we were the victims of ongoing workplace harassment at the hands of the CBC and the other journalists in
00:20:30.080 the room. But he went on TV and completely lied. Gossiped again. Didn't know anything firsthand.
00:20:35.920 Just went on TV and gossiped. So now I know that about Bob Fyfe. I'm skeptical that any conservative
00:20:42.780 MP actually talked to him about what they were hearing at the door. Because he just peddles in
00:20:48.440 gossip third hand. Right. And if you are an MP watching this and you're conservative, don't trust
00:20:53.920 the legacy media. What are you doing? Absolutely. Hopefully the conservatives will finally take the
00:21:00.480 cue and just stop talking to the legacy media. I think Pierre Polyev did a pretty good job of this
00:21:04.340 of just saying like, you know what, I don't need you. I'm going to go talk to other people. All right,
00:21:08.020 Sheila, I can't let you leave the show without just asking you very quickly about what's happening
00:21:13.600 in Alberta. Last week, Premier Danielle Smith made changes to the Citizens Initiative Act. And you hear a lot
00:21:20.140 of people online talking about referendum and independence for Alberta. So what's your take
00:21:25.400 on this whole thing? I think this is a long time coming. I've been around longer than I would like
00:21:34.100 to admit. And the separatist movement in Alberta, it sort of ebbs and flows. The tide comes in and then
00:21:42.600 the tide recedes. I know one of the biggest wet blankets on a separatist movement in Alberta was the
00:21:48.860 election of Stephen Harper. Actually, it all sort of went away. And then it was rising when in the
00:21:54.900 dying days of Rachel Notley's government. And then they got Jason Kenney and it all went away. And
00:21:59.300 then it sort of came back when Jason Kenney wasn't exactly what everybody thought he would be. And then
00:22:04.660 Daniel Smith came and it went away again. But you've got a lot of people in this province saying
00:22:11.380 something has to change. There's a structural inequity that has gone back to the very beginning
00:22:19.300 where in Alberta, we cannot vote blue any harder with the exception of a couple of historically left
00:22:25.700 leaning ridings. Can't get any more conservative. And yet it gets us nowhere. And they do feel
00:22:31.660 culturally incompatible with the rest of the country. They do feel like they are a distinct society out
00:22:39.140 here. And I wouldn't say that they are wrong. Danielle Smith, I think, has done the right
00:22:46.240 thing. She fixed a piece of legislation that was doomed to fail. It was a citizen-led initiatives
00:22:53.980 act that you had to overcome an absolutely insurmountable barrier within 90 days. She's
00:23:00.920 rolled that back to 10% of the last election's number of people who voted, which I think is
00:23:09.060 about 170,000 as opposed to 600,000 before, and extended the time to collect signatures from 90
00:23:15.980 days to 120. Now, I think this is fair. I think Alberta's future is whatever Albertans should so
00:23:22.880 choose it to be. And I think Danielle Smith, without conceding that she's a separatist, and I don't
00:23:28.620 think that she is, is, I think this gives people an opportunity to actually have their voice heard.
00:23:35.140 And when you see, it's like 30% of people are like, yeah, we're, we'll go right now, thank you very
00:23:40.860 much, without any overtures from the Americans to match our assets one for one. Once you start
00:23:46.140 talking like that, I think that number just keeps going up and up. I think people write it off as
00:23:53.320 fringe at their own peril. Wow. I think, I think, I think you're right. I've known Premier Smith for a
00:23:58.820 long time, and she's never struck me as a separatist in any way. However, she is someone with a lot of
00:24:03.740 integrity who really, truly cares about Alberta that will do whatever is best for Alberta, whatever
00:24:08.780 it may be. So that's the story that we are keeping an eye on very closely. All right, Sheila. Well,
00:24:14.400 thank you so much for your time and a great time to have you on the show. We'll have to have you on
00:24:18.060 again soon. Thanks so much. Thanks, Candace. All right, that's Sheila Gunn-Reed. I'm Candace
00:24:22.160 Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm Show. We'll be back again tomorrow with all the news. Thank you and God
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