The Candice Malcolm Show - Fake News Friday Award Show

00:00:00.040 It's the season finale of Fake News Friday. We'll announce the biggest fake news narrative of the year as chosen by you, the True North viewer.

00:00:07.560 Plus, I'll be joined by a special guest who has been criticizing what he calls the media party for years and years now.

00:00:14.940 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:21.720 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the show.

00:00:24.760 So as you recall last week, we laid out what we thought were the top five fake news narratives of the year.

00:00:31.600 We went through each of them and, you know, followed True North and you followed The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:36.060 You know these narratives inside and out.

00:00:38.300 Well, I'm excited to announce the winner of the poll. It wasn't even close.

00:00:42.880 The number one fake news narrative of the year as chosen by you was the idea of moving goalposts when it comes to vaccines.

00:00:50.800 They kept telling us one thing. They kept saying, all we have to do is get fully vaccinated. We'll go back to normal.

00:00:56.220 All we have to do is X, Y, and Z. And it never came true.

00:00:59.280 And so 44% of the vote, that was the biggest fake news narrative chosen by you.

00:01:04.800 Number two, there was a tie for second. The first one was that unmarked grave story.

00:01:10.180 And the second was the legacy media's outright defense of Justin Trudeau throughout the federal election.

00:01:15.920 And so thank you so much to everyone who voted on that. And I am pleased to be joined by another person who is a well-known media critic in this country.

00:01:25.780 He's been doing it for a very long time. Of course, I'm talking about Ezra Levant, Commander-in-Chief over at the Rebel News.

00:01:32.680 Ezra, thanks so much for joining The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:01:35.400 Well, my great pleasure. Thanks for having me.

00:01:37.000 Well, so here you have it. I think that the idea that all we had to do was trust the health experts, all we had to do was trust Justin Trudeau, and our life would go back to normal.

00:01:49.300 That was a mistake. And so many people chose to get vaccinated, Ezra, because they thought that it would just let them go back to normal.

00:01:55.800 It would end the lockdown. It would end the rules. It would end just all the restrictions that we've been living with.

00:02:02.580 And I think that we experienced one of the biggest bait and switches that we've ever experienced.

00:02:08.520 I'm wondering if you could comment on what just happened in 2021 with regards to vaccines and COVID and, you know, what you think, the role that you think that the media played in that.

00:02:21.200 Yeah, I think it's a libertarian's nightmare come true.

00:02:24.880 I mean, for many years, I was a little bit as skeptical of the purest libertarians out there, the Ron Pauls, who would talk about the welfare, warfare state.

00:02:35.600 But I see all of those warnings. I mean, it's almost like the conspiracy theorist of 2019 was simply a couple of years ahead of time.

00:02:46.280 And what I think that when we were told two weeks to flatten the curve, that was to get us to accept something that wasn't acceptable.

00:02:56.280 Hey, guys, I know it's a violation of your civil rights, but just two weeks and we're through this.

00:03:02.220 I don't know if you remember, Donald Trump sent a hospital ship to New York port and the port of L.A.

00:03:08.500 to take thousands of COVID patients who were overflowing the hospitals.

00:03:14.580 They were turning convention centers into makeshift hospitals.

00:03:17.880 The army engineers were working on that. None of those were ever used.

00:03:22.540 The hospitals were not overrun.

00:03:24.420 Even in Canada, where we don't have enough hospital beds because we have a government-run health care system, they were never overrun.

00:03:31.040 So the premise by which we were thrown into this whole emergency was proved fake within two weeks.

00:03:37.580 And yet here we are after almost two years.

00:03:40.020 But it's not just Justin Trudeau.

00:03:42.080 It's the entire public health deep state.

00:03:45.600 And I know that phrase sounds kooky, but really, who's been making the rules the last two years?

00:03:51.400 Very few of these policies have been debated on in Parliament, let alone voted on.

00:03:56.660 They're not even written by cabinet ministers in an executive capacity.

00:04:01.680 These are individual public health officers of every city and province and federally who are just issuing edicts that change regularly, that make no sense in practice, that have no accountability session in a parliament.

00:04:19.320 The judiciary has been compliant to the form, to the point of submissiveness.

00:04:25.260 The media has been cheerleaders for this because the media loves a war.

00:04:30.360 And the war on COVID is also a war on individual freedom, a war on small government.

00:04:38.880 Every institution in society has failed.

00:04:41.840 The courts, the media, the government, and the opposition.

00:04:45.500 Pop culture.

00:04:46.560 I mean, you see late-night comedy shows basically becoming infomercials for Pfizer.

00:04:52.780 And my last point would be, where's the left?

00:04:55.200 You know, until two years ago, the left's big demon was big pharma.

00:05:00.660 Now they're Pfizer salesmen.

00:05:02.700 And until two years ago, the left talked about my body, my choice.

00:05:06.600 Keep your, you know, laws off my body.

00:05:09.260 What about the choice of being forcibly injected?

00:05:13.080 Or, hey, it's your choice.

00:05:14.520 Yeah, well, you're going to lose your job, lose your access to public life.

00:05:17.820 I just think every institution out there has failed.

00:05:20.580 So Trudeau obviously goes along with it because he's not a particularly thoughtful person.

00:05:25.580 And he really is a globalist.

00:05:27.000 And a lot of these ideas emanate from the World Health Organization.

00:05:30.060 But it's been a total failure of the entire system.

00:05:32.760 I compare it to a net, like a fishing net.

00:05:36.040 And if one or two knots on the net fails, well, the net still works because all the other

00:05:40.860 nodes hold.

00:05:42.260 But what if every single knot in the net fails at the same time?

00:05:47.240 That's our democracy during the pandemic.

00:05:51.020 Every system.

00:05:51.640 Where's the civil liberties associations?

00:05:53.980 Where are they?

00:05:55.140 I just think that this is the worst public policy inferno in our lifetimes, for sure, possibly

00:06:02.540 in Canadian history.

00:06:04.260 Well, you certainly break down the problem really clearly there.

00:06:07.660 I mean, it feels like a hot mess.

00:06:09.140 And it's hard at this point to see a way out of it, Ezra, because, you know, like we

00:06:14.400 talked about, it's constantly moving goalposts, even to the point where, you know, when we

00:06:19.240 look back to the beginning of the pandemic and how many beds were used and how full our

00:06:24.020 hospital was, it's nothing compared to what happened later on.

00:06:27.580 And yet we overreacted so much.

00:06:29.800 We sort of slowly gave away those liberties to the point now that nobody is there defending

00:06:34.360 them.

00:06:34.540 You know, the Liberals used to be the party of the Charter and Justin Trudeau won his

00:06:38.980 election in 2015 by saying a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian and we all get these

00:06:43.000 same rights no matter what.

00:06:44.680 And then, you know, fast forward to the 2021 campaign and he's out there completely scapegoating

00:06:48.720 unvaccinated people, calling those people and demonizing them and blaming them for everything

00:06:53.420 in society.

00:06:54.040 We see the Toronto Star, you know, one of the strongest legacy papers in the country.

00:06:59.360 They ran an absolutely horrific, really just a psychotic front cover.

00:07:06.180 I don't know if you know the one I'm talking about.

00:07:07.620 It ran during the summer, but it says, I have no empathy left for the willfully unvaccinated. 1.00

00:07:12.740 Let them die. 0.97

00:07:14.080 I honestly don't care if they die from COVID, not even a little bit. 0.99

00:07:18.020 And I don't even know who that is a quote from.

00:07:20.160 It's just on the front page of the Toronto Star.

00:07:21.760 You go to the full paid paper and article in the paper and it talks about people online

00:07:27.160 saying nasty things about unvaccinated people, but that's the comfort that they chose to 1.00

00:07:30.800 run with.

00:07:31.320 I mean, it's wild, Ezra.

00:07:32.480 So what do you think we can do as freedom-loving Canadians, as people who don't want to live

00:07:38.360 in a healthy state, don't want to live under these restrictions anymore?

00:07:42.260 What do you think we can do to get our country back?

00:07:45.620 Well, I think on a very small level, I think, you know, it's like Solzhenitsyn and other

00:07:50.320 Soviet refuseniks and dissidents.

00:07:54.300 In some ways, it's impossible to fight the total system.

00:07:59.000 I mean, I left out, I think, the worst culprit of the last two years, which is the College

00:08:03.440 of Physicians and Surgeons.

00:08:04.880 I mean, the doctor's motto, do no harm, and the idea of medicine practiced for a particular

00:08:11.680 patient.

00:08:12.240 It's not medicine when public health is not medicine.

00:08:15.880 It's not treating an individual patient by caring about them and listening to their case.

00:08:22.120 You're treating people like ants in a colony.

00:08:25.080 That's politics with a medical degree.

00:08:27.680 That's very different.

00:08:28.480 And the College of Physicians and Surgeons has chosen sides, and they've gone to war against

00:08:33.920 patients who have, against doctors who have a patient-centered approach.

00:08:37.740 Any doctor in Canada who gives a medical exemption for allergic reasons or just because it, or my

00:08:45.860 myocarditis or pericarditis, they are suspended or investigated by the College of Physicians

00:08:51.780 and Surgeons.

00:08:52.420 My point is, for any individual person, it may seem impossible to fight.

00:08:58.280 You might lose your job.

00:09:00.300 Some people are in a position where they can make that sacrifice.

00:09:03.820 But for everyone else, I think the Soviet dissident's advice would be, just try the small step of

00:09:11.100 not participating in the lie.

00:09:13.940 It's maybe impossible for an ordinary person to actually fight the entire world, to fight

00:09:18.800 the entire system.

00:09:20.260 But maybe what you can start by doing is not perpetuating the lie, not telling the lie,

00:09:26.320 not believing the lie.

00:09:28.080 And in my own life, I mean, I hate masks.

00:09:32.160 I think they're fairly pointless.

00:09:33.700 If someone's triple-vaxxed, why do they need me to wear a mask?

00:09:36.480 I don't wear one.

00:09:38.180 And there's certain occasions where I have one in my pocket because I don't want to have a

00:09:42.940 breakdown in my day.

00:09:44.640 Like Uber.

00:09:45.380 I ride Ubers a fair bit.

00:09:46.940 They require you to put on a mask.

00:09:48.980 I never do, and it never comes up.

00:09:51.160 When I go shopping, I just don't wear a mask.

00:09:53.580 And I know that sounds like a petty thing, but it's not actually.

00:09:56.980 It's just I'm not going to pretend that this mask is anything other than a political

00:10:01.320 amulet that's a superstition or a flag of my politics.

00:10:06.920 I mean, because it's the doorway to, well, just two vaccines, just three, just four.

00:10:11.580 Now, if someone wants to take a vaccine, I'm certainly not against that in any way.

00:10:15.760 I would never tell someone not to take a vaccine if they choose to do it.

00:10:20.240 But at a certain point when you're on your fourth booster shot, which in Canada, in some

00:10:27.360 jurisdictions, they're only on their fourth booster shot in one year, maybe it's time

00:10:32.320 to reassess if that really is working and if it really makes sense to force people to

00:10:40.300 get vaxxed to keep their job. 0.84

00:10:42.340 When vaxxed people can get sick in many jurisdictions, most people who are coming down with the virus

00:10:47.940 are vaxxed.

00:10:49.640 I was looking at Saskatchewan's details just the other day.

00:10:52.420 They're on their fourth booster in that province.

00:10:54.420 And a majority of the cases are double-vaxxed people.

00:10:59.080 So I think the rationale falls away.

00:11:02.700 So I'm not saying any individual can fight this monster, but just how about don't be a

00:11:08.720 propagandist for it.

00:11:09.720 Just start with that.

00:11:10.560 That's my advice for an ordinary person.

00:11:13.400 Well, that's great.

00:11:13.980 I heard someone else say the same thing, that even though this person is fully vaccinated,

00:11:18.400 they refuse to show their vaccine card.

00:11:19.900 They refuse to participate in a system where we're saying that you need to show papers in

00:11:24.580 order to get into a restaurant or go into a doctor's office.

00:11:27.560 And even though they are vaccinated and they do have the papers, they refuse to show it just

00:11:33.000 exactly like you're saying, a small act of civil dissidence.

00:11:37.380 It's because we don't want to live in a society where we are required to show our papers, to get into basic places.

00:11:44.800 And also that we have one set of rules for one class of people and another for another.

00:11:50.040 So I think that's good advice.

00:11:52.580 It's sort of sad that that's where we've become comparing ourselves to Soviet dissidents.

00:11:59.440 Well, I want to talk a little bit more about some of the big media fake news narratives of the year and some of the stories that the media just showed their true colors.

00:12:09.840 And I know you've been a critic of the media party, what you call the media party, for a very, very long time.

00:12:15.940 So maybe you could just tell us a little bit about why you call the media the media party and if you had one or two of your own examples of some stories that the media just got flat out wrong this year.

00:12:26.400 Sure. I mean, there's a lot of ways to describe the phenomenon that we see in Canadian media.

00:12:31.700 The fact that more than 99% of journalists in Canada take the government bailout from Trudeau.

00:12:38.640 And that's not an exaggeration.

00:12:40.420 There are literally 1,500 media companies in Canada, including bizarrely, like the Canadian Auto Association.

00:12:48.080 You know, they have a little magazine.

00:12:49.940 Even they take the media bailout.

00:12:52.200 Like literally everyone is on the dole except for you and us and Blackwalks and maybe five others in the country, Western Standard Online, Spencer Fernando, and I'm almost on my entire list.

00:13:06.180 So what do you call that phenomenon?

00:13:08.380 Some people call it the corporate media because I think that's true.

00:13:11.800 The legacy media because they used to have gravitas and authority.

00:13:16.920 That's fairly accurate.

00:13:18.340 But I think that if you look at how it operates, I think it operates like a political party.

00:13:22.980 They have a common set of beliefs.

00:13:26.180 And it's really the sameness of it because there's not a broad spectrum of opinion.

00:13:33.160 For example, on the core issue we're talking about, lockdowns, vaccines.

00:13:36.220 If you would dare to say, well, I'm skeptical of vaccines.

00:13:39.900 I've had all my vaccines all my life, but I'm a little skeptical of this one that's been rushed into market, especially now that we know that the virus only really affects the very old in a serious way.

00:13:49.240 And there's some side effects that are showing up, especially for young men.

00:13:52.420 Even if you say it in the most moderate, modest way, you're a kook conspiracy theorist, alt, right? 0.99

00:13:57.760 Like there's no room for a spectrum of opinion in this.

00:14:01.600 What is that?

00:14:02.100 That's a political party.

00:14:03.160 They have a discipline amongst themselves.

00:14:08.020 They will attack anyone within the party who is not on all fours with their policy.

00:14:13.440 They attack outsiders.

00:14:15.200 And of course, during elections, they come to the aid of their favorite candidate, which is typically Justin Trudeau.

00:14:22.800 So they really act like a party, but they don't disclose their partisanship.

00:14:26.900 I mean, I find it very odd that journalists who take money from Justin Trudeau through the media bailout do not disclose that in their reports.

00:14:35.080 I mean, if it was the tobacco industry that was giving hundreds of millions of dollars to these news outlets, that would be a disclaimer or that would be called an ad.

00:14:44.840 Trudeau gives the money and they just nod and wink.

00:14:47.680 But you did ask me a specific question.

00:14:50.700 There's one story I go and check, but once a month to see if it's still online.

00:14:56.520 And it is.

00:14:57.620 And it's a CBC story, a fact check, fighting against disinformation.

00:15:03.520 And it's a CBC story saying those kooky conservatives with their conspiracy theory about COVID quarantine jails. 0.96

00:15:14.500 They're crazy.

00:15:16.520 And that's still, you can find it pretty quickly on the CBC.

00:15:18.960 I check what, I say, is that still up?

00:15:21.100 Because of course, we did have those.

00:15:24.300 Now you can call them what you want.

00:15:25.980 You can call them a quarantine hotel.

00:15:28.300 But you are lawfully required to stay in them.

00:15:32.980 Now they were around for a few months for anyone.

00:15:35.780 They were brought back for the Omicron virus from people from Africa. 0.98

00:15:42.220 There are detention centers in Canada that you must go to on paying a prosecution, even if you're healthy.

00:15:49.700 In fact, if you have the virus, you're not allowed in.

00:15:52.720 Bizarrely, they're only for healthy people.

00:15:55.780 So that is a fact.

00:15:57.880 That's not a conspiracy theory.

00:15:59.240 One of our former reporters was required to stay there.

00:16:02.720 And he later was a plaintiff.

00:16:04.500 We sued the government and federal court.

00:16:06.440 Tian Bexie, I'm talking about. 0.96

00:16:08.240 He counted.

00:16:09.380 He had contact with 14 different people at this COVID jail.

00:16:14.540 Whereas he just wanted to get in his car and go straight home and quarantine at home.

00:16:18.520 So there's no sense to it.

00:16:20.600 But the federal court ruled, not only was it constitutional, but the three-day detention wasn't even a lawful detention.

00:16:29.920 So there was no charter violation at all.

00:16:32.480 So the media lies about it.

00:16:35.240 The courts uphold it.

00:16:37.860 And, of course, there's some hotel chains making a lot of money off it.

00:16:41.580 The entire system's broken.

00:16:43.260 The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, hiding under their desk.

00:16:47.780 By the way, just like in the United States, there's a disproportion of new Canadians and minorities who are skeptical for whatever reason about the vaccines.

00:17:00.240 So you have, if I was a lefty, I'd be talking about systemic racism.

00:17:04.940 Black people, new Canadians, less likely to be vaxxed.

00:17:09.440 So they're being marginalized and segregated.

00:17:11.540 I find there's a classist issue as well.

00:17:15.380 You see all these fancy events where the politicians or the celebrities don't have masks on, but all the serving staff do.

00:17:23.160 What happened to the classists?

00:17:25.160 What happened to the champions of the working men? 0.73

00:17:27.500 You see these unions, Unifor, QP, so many unions, not fighting vaccine mandates, being in league with the employer.

00:17:38.700 You know, there's an old saying, if the union and the company say the same thing, one of them is not needed.

00:17:47.080 So where are the labor union champions for the working men?

00:17:51.040 Because if you're in a labor union and your union won't fight the company for you, you've given away all your rights in collective bargaining.

00:18:00.000 So I think another atrocious failure, I talked about the knots on the net being broken, the labor union movement completely co-opted by the government and big corporations.

00:18:10.340 So I think that's part of the fake news there is that these terrible things, they're not really happening.

00:18:16.600 Those COVID jails are just a figment of the fever dreams of the alt-right.

00:18:22.420 And don't worry about that pastor, Arthur Pawlowski, being arrested like he's a drug kingpin on the roads of Calgary by a SWAT team.

00:18:31.520 Don't even pay attention to that.

00:18:33.440 We're certainly not in a civil liberties bonfire.

00:18:36.420 Everything's fine.

00:18:37.500 What are you, some sort of conspiracy theorist?

00:18:39.680 The whole thing is fake news.

00:18:41.720 Well, you're right, Ezra, there's so many elements there and we're so grateful for the reporting that you do over at True North because I don't think that Canadians would even be aware of what was happening with pastors being arrested and the entire, like you say, bonfire of civil liberties.

00:18:57.140 What is the point of labor union leaders when they just allow their members to be fired for something arbitrary?

00:19:04.440 And that's the point of the labor union is to defend the rights of these workers and yet they're completely letting them down.

00:19:10.700 And I just wanted to comment on the point you made about how they're making conspiracy theories of all of us because I remember back in 2020 when some of our reporters at True North were looking into this idea of a potential vaccine mandate.

00:19:27.480 And we had members of the parliamentary press gallery going crazy about us on Twitter calling us conspiracy theorists and far right and, you know, just give it six months and then there it was, right?

00:19:39.040 It's like anything that you could be a conspiracy theorist about a few years ago, just give it six months and it'll come true, which is pretty scary stuff.

00:19:47.820 Well, I wanted to talk to you about this one story because it sort of made, you know, it made a lot of conservatives sort of raise an eyebrow and wonder about the CBC.

00:19:59.640 First of all, the CBC is doing this weird thing now where they publish op-eds, they publish perspectives and, you know, they're all far left perspectives as you would imagine.

00:20:07.800 But there was one written by a woman, I hadn't heard of her before, her name is Ziha Rehman, and it was about how she was an Elections Canada worker who wrote this really deranged piece about how she greeted people all day and interacted with Canadians who turned out to be hateful, awful people, right?

00:20:27.380 And so you're waiting for the punchline, you know, what was she talking about?

00:20:30.760 Were there a bunch of, you know, people in her district, in her writing that voted for a neo-Nazi party or something?

00:20:36.860 Was there an independent neo-Nazi party? No.

00:20:38.700 She was just talking about the Conservative Party, not even the People's Party, but the Conservative Party.

00:20:42.640 The fact that the CBC decided to run this piece, I mean, what does this say about, first of all, the state broadcaster, but also our elections, the integrity of our elections? 0.86

00:20:54.060 And these are the kind of people who are running Elections Canada, they're so hateful and so deranged that they think that anyone who's white, anyone who's a Conservative is just an evil, racist person out to get them.

00:21:05.140 Yeah, I mean, a good way to test if something is unacceptable or racist, I think a good shorthand is just to switch the race around.

00:21:14.420 And how would you feel if they were talking about a different group?

00:21:17.180 I did read that insane, psychopathic rant.

00:21:22.140 I mean, it was shocking, and what was shocking about it is not just that it was someone's weird imagination, like there was not a single incident.

00:21:30.600 It's just that she was looking at these white people, these Conservatives or whoever, as if non-white people don't vote for Conservative, for example.

00:21:38.740 I mean, Leslie Lewis, is she racist too? 0.96

00:21:43.400 So there was no factual basis for her to call people haters, it was her own hatred that she was projecting on them.

00:21:52.240 If you swap it around, if there was someone saying, well, these Jews were coming in, and I just know what these Jews were thinking, or these Black people were coming in, and I just know. 0.68

00:22:07.820 Like, it wouldn't work in any other way, it would be so obviously racist, and that the CBC would run this shows that we've lost Martin Luther King's concept of, you know, equality before the law by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

00:22:26.660 I mean, that, I don't even think that was a left-wing idea, that was a traditional liberal idea, that was an Enlightenment idea.

00:22:33.980 50 years ago, you had the Martin Luther King style of civil rights, equality before the law, get rid of Jim Crow laws, judge us based on our individual nature.

00:22:48.440 50 years later, 50 years later, 50 years later, we have racism again, but it's not racism, as you just described there in that CBC article, so racism by white supremacists.

00:23:01.140 It's this critical race theory, anti-white racism, anti-Christian bigotry, that's so shocking. 0.87

00:23:08.860 The so-called anti-racists are the biggest racists around, and it's not just at the CBC.

00:23:15.380 I want to point fingers at the National Post, and I worked at the National Post on their editorial board for two wonderful years, about 20 years ago, and I love that newspaper, but boy, has it gone down a funny path.

00:23:26.940 You might recall that just over a year ago, that a majority of their newsroom signed a petition denouncing them for running a column by Rex Murphy.

00:23:40.660 It's a wonderful column, it just says, Canada is not an inherently racist country, we really bend over backwards to make people feel welcome, multiculturalism and open immigration are hallmarks of our country, we're not a racist country.

00:23:55.560 That's all he said, and not only did a majority of National Post writers condemn him, and demand that he not be able to speak on those subjects again, but the management of National Post actually had a staff town hall, like a struggle session, where one after another denounced the paper for even letting him have a voice there.

00:24:18.980 So it's not just the CBC, and there's a new obsession with race and racism, and the trouble is demand exceeds supply.

00:24:31.380 It's like Jussie Smollett in the U.S.

00:24:33.960 He had to manufacture a racist incident against himself, because it just wasn't enough natural racism, and he needed to get some publicity for his acting career, and I think in Canada it's the same thing.

00:24:48.720 I think we are probably the most tolerant country in the world, I really can't think of any country that could beat us in terms of racial harmony, and I challenge the CBC or the National Post wokists to find a better place. 0.90

00:25:02.020 There's a reason why a third of a million people from around the world come here every year, most of whom are visible minorities, because we're not racist, and these journalists, these activists, and that absurd CBC election worker who should never be allowed anywhere near a public process again, they found, you know, we found the enemy, and it is us.

00:25:27.320 They found the racists, and it's them.

00:25:30.580 They're the ones obsessed by race.

00:25:32.660 The CBC just had a story on 18 words you shouldn't say anymore, including the word blacklist or first world problems. 0.99

00:25:40.880 Like, you're crazy. 0.99

00:25:43.460 Black hole. 1.00

00:25:44.560 The word black hole is racist. 0.99

00:25:47.160 Manitoba. 0.73

00:25:47.820 I'm kidding about that.

00:25:48.780 That was on the list. 0.99

00:25:50.300 They're crazy. 1.00

00:25:52.000 That's mental illness. 1.00

00:25:53.500 And I know that's cool in the faculty lounge, but you talk to an ordinary person of any race about that.

00:26:00.160 It's like that affectation to call people Latinx.

00:26:05.660 No Latinos say that. 1.00

00:26:07.340 That's only what white liberals say. 1.00

00:26:09.460 Those are crazy people. 1.00

00:26:11.280 Right. 0.98

00:26:11.500 It's like they've gone so far, Ezra, that they have become the butt of the joke, and they don't even recognize it.

00:26:16.180 Like, I got that piece sent to me by about 20 different people, that CBC piece, and everyone was laughing at it.

00:26:21.580 It's like they don't even recognize how absurd they sound to Canadians, because the people who wrote that were completely serious.

00:26:27.460 They're like, these are the words that you should purge from your dictionary and that we should expel from the English language.

00:26:31.140 And it's like, who do you think you are?

00:26:33.460 Right.

00:26:33.800 And I just think that they've really gone too far with this race thing.

00:26:38.400 I think that most Canadians recognize that Canada is a great country.

00:26:41.120 We're not racist.

00:26:42.040 Sure, there's a couple of racist people here and there.

00:26:43.860 Some of them work at the CBC, to your point, but trying to paint the whole country with that brush is just patently absurd. 0.62

00:26:49.940 It's laughable, and I do think it's backfiring on them.

00:26:53.940 Well, I was going to say thank you so much for joining us on Fake News Friday.

00:26:57.300 It's a lot of fun to have you on the show, and we'll have to have you back in the new year.

00:27:01.280 And why don't you give us a little bit of an update as to what's happening over Rebel,

00:27:05.080 because you're sort of one of the leading forces in the counter-fake news business,

00:27:09.600 trying to inform Canadians of what's actually going on, not what the propagandists that are paid by Justin Trudeau want you to believe.

00:27:17.460 So why don't you give us a little update on what you're up to?

00:27:20.320 Sure.

00:27:20.840 Thanks for asking.

00:27:22.880 Rebel News, because the world is so bad, people want to hear the other side of the story.

00:27:27.240 I know that True North has had a banner year.

00:27:29.840 Rebel News now has 50 staff.

00:27:31.580 We have a team in Quebec, both reporting in English and French.

00:27:35.300 We have reporters in the UK again, and of course, in Australia, the amazing Avi Yamini.

00:27:40.440 Here in Canada, we have new reporters in Saskatchewan, Kelly Lamb, great team in Vancouver.

00:27:45.880 We're trying to cover the other side of the story.

00:27:48.980 Our focus, of course, is video-based journalism.

00:27:52.120 We try and get out of the office and onto the ground.

00:27:54.320 But really, I think what defined 2021 for us is we spun off our civil liberties work into a charity called the Democracy Fund.

00:28:05.520 As you know, we were defending people by crowdfunding lawyers if they got a lockdown ticket.

00:28:10.800 And so we sort of pushed that into its own entity called the Democracy Fund.

00:28:14.300 And I think that that's probably our greatest achievement in 2021 is that, I mean, I've always felt odd about that moment where someone has a cell phone, and there's a terrible thing happening, and they take out their cell phone, and they record the terrible event, a crime, a tragedy, a crash, a fire, whatever.

00:28:33.380 Because on the one hand, I'm really glad that I saw it, and I wouldn't know about it if they didn't film it.

00:28:38.580 But on the other hand, part of me thinks, put down the phone and help.

00:28:41.780 So what should you do?

00:28:42.960 And so with the Democracy Fund and our Fight the Fines project and now our FightVaccinePassports.com project, we split the two functions.

00:28:52.300 So Rebel News, we tell the story, but now the Democracy Fund, its own separate entity, can try and do something about it.

00:29:00.540 So we'll still hold the camera, but we're going to try and do something about it.

00:29:03.980 And we've actually got a little network of 25 lawyers.

00:29:06.640 And as you may know, charities have to disclose their financials every year.

00:29:12.480 So the Democracy Fund is coming up on its first year.

00:29:15.640 And again, totally separate entity from Rebel News, different board, different directors, different bank, different everything.

00:29:22.940 It is now, at $5 million a year, the largest civil liberties organization in Canada.

00:29:31.200 It's triple the size of the defunct Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

00:29:36.380 It's even larger than our good friends at the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.

00:29:39.640 And again, I'm happy that we built it, but I'm tragically sad that it's so necessary.

00:29:45.760 But I feel that if I look back on the last year, the greatest thing we did wasn't even journalism.

00:29:50.420 It was helping 2,100 people fight back against the madness.

00:29:56.680 That's just a drop in the bucket, by the way.

00:29:58.660 We probably could have helped 200,000 people if we had the funds.

00:30:02.020 But that's sort of what we've done the last year.

00:30:04.100 And I think the next year, unfortunately, will be just as bad.

00:30:06.900 Well, it is incredible what you're doing.

00:30:09.280 And I know you're one of the biggest critics of the sort of defunct, what you say, civil liberties organizations in this country that exist or existed to defend people like the ones that you're defending now.

00:30:20.740 So it's really great to see you step up, step into that role and fill a really, really necessary and vital role in our society, which is defending individual people against the massive encroachments by the government.

00:30:35.080 So congratulations on that, Ezra.

00:30:36.980 It's great to see your success and all the work that you're doing.

00:30:39.340 It's really incredible.

00:30:40.240 So thank you.

00:30:41.200 Thank you so much for being a guest on The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:30:43.620 It's great to have you.

00:30:44.920 And happy holidays.

00:30:46.640 I know Hanukkah's over already, but I'll say Merry Christmas to you anyway, Ezra.

00:30:50.280 And I hope you take care.

00:30:52.340 Thanks, my friend.

00:30:53.220 All the best to you.

00:30:54.540 All right.

00:30:54.880 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:30:56.160 It's Fake News Friday.

00:30:57.040 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:30:59.040 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - December 17, 2021

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