The Candice Malcolm Show - January 27, 2023


Fake News Friday ｜ The CBC doubles down on its fake news

Topics
climate measures and affordability impacts
Hosted by
Candice Malcolm
Mentioned
Danielle Smith Anthony Trudeau Justin Trudeau Werner Atweiler Stephen Harper Antweiler
Fake News Friday ｜ The legacy media ignores the WEF Fake News Friday ｜ An outrageous week for the CBC

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Word count

2,031

Sentence count

119

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In this episode of the True North Daily Brief, we discuss Canada's military assistance to Ukraine, Canada's support for Ukraine, and the potential for Canadian boots on the ground in Ukraine. We also hear about Canada's role in the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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00:00:00.000 Canadian officials confirmed on Thursday the country will donate battle tanks to Ukraine
00:00:12.640 as well as send along Canadian Armed Forces trainers with those tanks.
00:00:17.320 Minister of National Defense Anita Anand announced Canada will fulfill Ukraine's request for Leopard 2
00:00:23.160 tanks, donating four tanks to Ukraine as part of their ongoing military assistance.
00:00:28.280 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has released this year's annual rental market report
00:00:34.140 and notes that in part, migration continues to drive higher demand for rental space.
00:00:39.880 And Canada joined two climate coalitions just last week, but an economist says,
00:00:44.560 well, one of them will at least definitely raise prices for consumers.
00:00:48.600 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is proposing a sustainable jobs alternative to Prime Minister
00:00:54.780 Justin Trudeau's Just Transition proposal.
00:00:59.280 Hello, Canada. It's Friday, January 27th, and this is the True North Daily Brief.
00:01:04.020 I'm Anthony Fury.
00:01:05.440 I'm Cosmin Georgia.
00:01:07.280 We've got you covered with all the news you need to know.
00:01:10.020 Let's discuss the top stories of the day and the True North exclusives you won't hear anywhere else.
00:01:14.680 A day after the United States and Germany each announced that they would be sending tanks to Ukraine,
00:01:27.100 Canadian officials confirmed that they will donate battle tanks to Ukraine,
00:01:30.840 as well as send Canadian Armed Forces to train Ukrainian soldiers in the use of those tanks.
00:01:36.720 On Thursday, Minister of National Defense Anita Anand said Canada is going to fulfill Ukraine's request
00:01:41.500 for Leopard 2 tanks, donating four of them.
00:01:45.000 Anand said the government decided on four tanks after careful consideration around not depleting Canada's own military reserves.
00:01:52.080 However, it may not be the last time Canada makes that consideration,
00:01:55.640 as Anand confirmed Canada may send more tanks to Ukraine in the future.
00:02:01.000 Cosmin, it's interesting to see this development because there are a lot of people out there who want Canada to do more and more.
00:02:08.340 We know that there was a push originally to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine,
00:02:12.000 which would have effectively seen Canada and Western allies almost go to war with Russia in the skies.
00:02:17.660 And then there are others who say, hold on a second, we are concerned that we are sending too many resources, too much money.
00:02:22.900 Right. Well, we have to look at the international level, right?
00:02:26.460 Canada historically is a middle power, and we've used our soft power most of the time to get involved in these sorts of conflicts.
00:02:36.500 But when you actually look at military contribution by GDP, Canada is up there with major NATO countries.
00:02:44.440 In fact, we're actually slightly ahead of the U.S. when it comes to this metric.
00:02:48.540 Canada has contributed 0.23% of its GDP to the Ukrainian war effort, which amounts to about $4.1 billion.
00:02:58.620 Of course, the U.S. has contributed the bulk share just in terms of net worth coming in at $52 billion.
00:03:07.560 But as a larger economy, that's only 0.229% of its GDP.
00:03:14.020 So there's just a little bit of an advantage there for Canada.
00:03:17.600 So, but also like when you break down what is being contributed, obviously the U.S. has much larger military, they have more equipment.
00:03:28.880 So they're putting in a lot more money into delivering that equipment to Ukraine, whereas Canada's commitments have been more financial in terms of loans and other relief packages.
00:03:41.680 So I do think Canada, on the whole, has stepped up to the plate on this, whether more can be done.
00:03:50.420 Well, in terms of financial commitments, I think we've done quite a bit.
00:03:55.720 Is there wiggle room in the military sphere?
00:03:59.140 Well, that remains to be seen because, as you know, our own troops face problems in that regard.
00:04:05.680 Another aspect I find very interesting is a lot of the public attention and media attention has been on the sending of the tanks.
00:04:12.280 But sending those Canadian Armed Forces trainers along with those tanks, that's effectively sending boots on the ground who could conceivably be involved in combat.
00:04:21.100 I very vividly remember the debate back almost a decade ago when the Stephen Harper government decided to send in advise and assist officers, training personnel, to help in the battle against ISIS, to help the Iraqi forces in that battle.
00:04:35.320 And there was a lot of grilling in the House of Commons as to whether or not we were essentially getting involved in a ground game.
00:04:39.860 And questions were asked, okay, if they are fired upon, do they have the right?
00:04:44.560 Are they authorized to fire back?
00:04:46.920 And the answer was yes.
00:04:47.880 And he said, okay, you're going to be in a firefight, which means you're basically on the ground engaged in war.
00:04:52.140 I think a similar thing happens here.
00:04:53.800 So it's quite something that people aren't more concerned about.
00:04:56.600 Okay, we got Canadian soldiers on the ground potentially going to war with Russia.
00:05:00.520 The Liberal government wants to welcome 500,000 new immigrants to Canada annually by 2025.
00:05:10.780 And a new Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation report shows that migration will continue to drive higher demand for rental space as Canadians struggle with high rent and finding housing.
00:05:22.220 Economists with the CMHC blamed growth and demand outpacing housing supply driven by, quote, significantly higher net migration.
00:05:33.540 In 2022, Canada's vacancy rate fell to an over 20-year low.
00:05:39.900 CMHC economists wrote,
00:05:41.640 A recent Leger poll showed that excessive strain on Canada's housing availability and healthcare system are on top of mind for Canadians when it comes to high immigration numbers.
00:06:04.420 The survey found that 49% of Canadians said that Ottawa's plan was too ambitious at the present time.
00:06:12.480 So, Anthony, when it comes to not only housing supply, but also the strain on the healthcare system,
00:06:20.440 should Canadians have some questions about the immigration targets the government has come out with in recent years?
00:06:28.560 Yeah, they should.
00:06:29.380 And to your point, the Leger poll is already showing they have those concerns.
00:06:32.520 I think having honest conversations about the effects of immigration on the system are becoming less of a third rail.
00:06:39.860 It was previously thought if you wanted to criticize immigration targets, you were doing so because you had a problem with the country of origin or the religion of origin or ethnicity or what have you of the people who were coming here.
00:06:51.640 So people were always reticent to say, I'm not comfortable about these immigration numbers.
00:06:55.580 But now I think you hear from people who are recent immigrants themselves, of course, who say, well, I'm having problems accessing my services.
00:07:02.220 One example I give is the community of Brampton, which has a very high volume of new immigrants residing there.
00:07:08.420 And they have a lot of problems with housing pushing up against the urban boundary.
00:07:11.660 They can't build new homes.
00:07:12.940 They're actually lacking a hospital.
00:07:14.800 They're supposed to have a second hospital built. 0.98
00:07:16.380 It's not there.
00:07:17.400 And it's very close to Pearson Airport.
00:07:19.600 So a lot of new arrivals to Canada want to live in that community.
00:07:23.200 And they're really feeling the strain.
00:07:24.860 And I think you hear some concerns from those persons.
00:07:27.480 Right.
00:07:27.860 And I think a lot of what goes overlooked is the fact that new immigrants kind of go to certain destinations.
00:07:34.940 And these are big metropolitan areas with high population density.
00:07:39.320 So it will definitely impact services and housing.
00:07:43.160 Canada joined two climate coalitions just last week.
00:07:49.900 And an economist says one of them will definitely raise prices for consumers.
00:07:54.280 In an interview with True North, UBC economist Werner Atweiler said market interventions from the First Movers Coalition will spike production costs in several industries.
00:08:03.500 He said the coalition's mandate to push for more green technology use throughout the economy will be expensive and companies won't have much of a choice but to pass the cost on to consumers through bigger price tags.
00:08:18.060 As True North reported last week, the First Movers Coalition, which Canada signed on to at the World Economic Forum last week, is a group of top global players that have agreed to steer money away from carbon-intensive production methods
00:08:32.400 and instead direct the money to clean technologies that cannot yet compete at a cost-effective level.
00:08:38.960 Antweiler said, quote, there is no free lunch here.
00:08:41.580 Any new technology that replaces an older fossil fuel technology tends to be more expensive.
00:08:46.920 At the end of the day, switching to cleaner technologies poses a cost that needs to get passed on, essentially, to the final users.
00:08:55.500 Cosmin, what I find so interesting and so concerning, I'm writing a column about this.
00:09:00.120 I speak about this a lot in this podcast and everywhere I can.
00:09:04.180 There's an unrelenting series of announcements related to climate measures right now coming from the Liberal government,
00:09:09.500 joining more and more coalitions, bringing more and more regulation.
00:09:12.780 And one of the things they all have in common is that they do make life less affordable for regular Canadians.
00:09:18.520 It seems like there is no break here.
00:09:20.020 We see it time and time again where the government seems to be putting ideological commitments to the green agenda
00:09:30.780 before economic and financial realities, especially at a time when we're seeing record levels of inflation.
00:09:39.660 I mean, we saw it with the recent announcement to only sell electric vehicles in Canada.
00:09:46.700 We saw it with the government's 2020 plan to reduce fertilizer emissions by 30%,
00:09:54.940 which will inevitably cost farmers an input cost and potentially impact their yields.
00:10:02.240 So I think this is happening all the time.
00:10:06.720 And the government, it doesn't matter how the economy is going.
00:10:09.840 They're refusing to change course.
00:10:12.040 They're refusing to temper these announcements.
00:10:15.720 So I've always said, you know, reality will eventually slap us in the face if we're committed to ideology,
00:10:24.900 which has no concern for the metrics and hard truths of economics.
00:10:33.500 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says,
00:10:36.040 Alberta's relationship with the federal government has reached a crossroads
00:10:40.440 as the government prepares to table its just transition legislation.
00:10:44.500 Smith is proposing a sustainable jobs alternative to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's just transition proposal,
00:10:51.680 which she says would face irrepressible opposition from Alberta.
00:10:58.760 In an open letter, Smith wrote,
00:11:00.620 Alberta and Ottawa can work in partnership on a plan that will signal to all Canadians and investors from around the world
00:11:09.180 that our governments have cooperatively designed a series of incentives and initiatives.
00:11:16.280 Alberta's initiative would seek to accelerate private and public investment in infrastructure
00:11:22.140 that utilizes and develops carbon capture utilization and storage,
00:11:27.320 bidumen, beyond combustion, geothermal technology,
00:11:31.900 petrochemicals, hydrogen, lithium, helium, zero emission vehicles, and nuclear technologies.
00:11:39.340 Alberta would also seek to attract a larger skilled workforce
00:11:43.520 to positions in the conventional energy sector and emerging industries,
00:11:49.380 as well as increase LNG exports and other responsibly developed oil and natural gas resources
00:11:57.500 to Europe, Asia, and the United States, she said.
00:12:01.860 How do you think Anthony Trudeau is going to respond to this?
00:12:06.140 You know, he's always talked about being willing to work with Western Canada,
00:12:11.320 being willing to work with Alberta.
00:12:14.280 Do you think he's going to sit down at the table with Danielle Smith on this
00:12:19.180 and change his just transition strategy?
00:12:23.360 I don't think so at all.
00:12:24.220 And it goes back to what we were just saying in the previous segment,
00:12:27.180 that it seems like all they do is bring forward new climate measures.
00:12:31.660 It's almost a single-minded obsession of this government.
00:12:34.800 And you were running the tally of all the different things that applies to
00:12:37.600 and just transition is just yet another example of it.
00:12:41.300 I will say that Danielle Smith has been very smart politically,
00:12:45.160 tactically, and probably genuinely to flip it back on Trudeau and say,
00:12:48.960 well, hold on a second.
00:12:49.720 I have an alternative proposal here.
00:12:51.600 She's not just saying, I don't like what you're doing and I want you to stop it.
00:12:55.060 She's saying, let's do this instead.
00:12:56.840 And what she's put forward is a very reasonable appeal,
00:12:59.160 although I don't know if he'll be a taker.
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