The Candice Malcolm Show - Is Justin Trudeau a dictator？

00:00:00.000 Legacy media journalists lose their mind after a conservative MP compares Justin Trudeau to a

00:00:06.440 dictator. We will do a comprehensive fact check on this claim to determine whether or not Justin

00:00:11.540 Trudeau is in fact a dictator. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:15.480 Hi everyone thank you so much for tuning into the podcast today. So I will admit when this story

00:00:31.060 first came out it was so stupid that I didn't want to acknowledge it and I didn't really want to talk

00:00:35.080 about it. There was an exchange in the House of Commons where a couple of MPs were sort of

00:00:39.260 speculating and talking about whether or not Canada was a dictatorship, whether or not our

00:00:44.280 Prime Minister was in fact a dictator. Now the spirit of the debate that was going on in Parliament

00:00:49.080 was fairly light-hearted. It wasn't during question period. It was during the order paper updates after

00:00:54.360 question period and you could tell by the sort of jovial attitude amongst the MPs that were talking

00:00:59.120 about it. They weren't making a serious claim. They were sort of talking tongue in cheek. However the

00:01:04.720 legacy media blew it out of proportion as they tend to do whenever there's a conservative who says

00:01:09.040 something that the media deems to be controversial. So that is what happened here. A whole bunch of

00:01:13.240 legacy media journalists lost their minds and accused the Conservatives of calling Justin Trudeau

00:01:18.760 a dictator. So here is the headline over at CTV. It says Rachel Thomas MP for Lethbridge called Trudeau

00:01:25.000 a dictator last week and it quotes Rachel Thomas saying a ruler with total power over a country

00:01:30.320 especially one who has gained it using force. Thomas said now you can tell that that quote is taken out

00:01:34.740 of context because she's not actually calling Trudeau a dictator in this claim. In fact if you look at the

00:01:39.740 clip she was just reading a dictionary definition of what a dictator means and kind of saying using

00:01:44.640 that to say that many Canadians feel that their country is being run by a dictator. So this was in

00:01:50.440 response to a liberal question put to Thomas to get her to respond to a comment made earlier by a

00:01:57.400 conservative MP another one from this one from Saskatchewan West Brad Redekop who blasted Justin Trudeau's use of

00:02:03.040 the emergencies act to clear peaceful protesters. So Redekop said this to call in police forces to

00:02:08.740 crush peaceful protesters under the jackboot of the prime minister's basic dictatorship and then the

00:02:15.660 next thing he said was and at the same time another dictator is currently using his war machine to crush

00:02:20.340 our friends in Ukraine. So so his use of the term another dictator to describe Putin implies that he's

00:02:26.220 calling Trudeau a dictator and then that that use of the term he crushed peaceful protesters under the

00:02:32.500 jackboot of the prime minister's basic dictatorship that of course was in reference to an idiotic

00:02:37.560 comment the prime minister made 10 years ago talking about how he admired China the most and saying

00:02:43.120 that he the thing he loved about China was the fact that their basic dictatorship can be used to

00:02:47.760 just kind of jig the economy around and make it go green on a dime. A very stupid comment by the

00:02:52.760 prime minister back then and so the conservative MP was kind of just like rubbing in how stupid of a

00:02:58.240 comment that was by comparing Justin Trudeau and calling him a basic dictatorship. Regardless of all

00:03:03.280 this context regardless of the sort of tongue-in-cheek nature that the MPs were talking about

00:03:06.820 the media lose their minds there was that CTV story we also had Steve Chase from the Global Mail

00:03:11.960 tweeting this worth noting conservative MP Rachel Thomas knee harder she used to be known as Rachel 1.00

00:03:16.700 Harder she got married over the summer so she's now Rachel Thomas. Rachel Thomas on Monday in the

00:03:21.740 House of Commons said that many Canadians hold the view that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fits the

00:03:25.800 definition of a dictator she did not cite a poll how dare her give an opinion without citing a poll 0.68

00:03:32.400 according to Steve Chase over the Global Mail he was not alone of course Rosemary Barton from the CBC

00:03:36.820 reacted she said criticize the liberal NDP deal all you want but this is irresponsible rhetoric coming

00:03:44.040 from someone who was duly elected six months ago so so Rosemary Barton doing her best impression of a 0.99

00:03:49.720 poll monitor uh scolding and lecturing politicians uh for the rhetoric interesting how that only goes

00:03:54.880 one way I don't recall Rosemary Barton scolding and lecturing Justin Trudeau over his irresponsible

00:04:00.640 rhetoric uh when he said that that unvaccinated people don't deserve to be in our society and that

00:04:05.760 we shouldn't tolerate them uh but alas uh that scrutiny only goes one way from the CBC next we have Don

00:04:12.180 Martin from CTV commenting saying what a crazy thing to say makes the whole caucus looks bad Charles

00:04:19.000 Adler from Chorus Radio wrote this who among conservatives running for leadership will renounce

00:04:23.720 the irresponsible every Canadian school child is getting 100 percent clarity on what a dictator is

00:04:29.400 hashtag Vladimir Putin when will the Conservative Party of Canada hold itself to the intellectual standard

00:04:34.700 expected of a 10 year old and there's Charles Adler just doing what he loves best which is just

00:04:39.980 having really really emotional over the top takes uh where he uh decries conservatism and and scolds

00:04:47.860 conservatives just like the rest of the media we also had liberal MPs jumping in so here is Mark

00:04:53.800 Gerritsen the MP for Kingston in the islands saying it's quite disturbing and frankly an insult to

00:04:59.380 Ukrainian people the Rachel Thomas MP and Brad Redekop would suggest the prime minister of Canada

00:05:03.960 is a dictator similar to Putin likewise Catherine McKenna former liberal cabinet minister said

00:05:09.840 we just had a free and fair election in Canada suggesting the opposite because you dislike the

00:05:14.260 prime minister is completely irresponsible and demeans the office that this conservative member

00:05:17.900 is privileged to hold be better and finally this is quoted from the CTV story we have the University

00:05:24.300 of Lethbridge professor of political science Trevor Harrison saying and this is a quote if Thomas was

00:05:30.580 taking a course with me I would have to give her an F for the course well sort of letting the cat out of

00:05:36.520 the bag there that a university professor would fail a student because he disagrees with her personally

00:05:42.900 so so that is a standard apparently over the University of Lethbridge in political science

00:05:46.740 if you have a view that the teacher doesn't agree with you get an F for the course uh again saying

00:05:53.140 saying the quiet part out loud over there at the University of Lethbridge okay so so here's the thing

00:05:58.900 we said we're going to do a fact check on this claim in order to do a fact check rather than taking

00:06:02.860 the rhetoric that the media and liberal MPs and and the whole sort of liberal media establishment on

00:06:08.920 social media are drumming up it's best to take a look at the actual exchange and the actual claims

00:06:14.540 that were made because like I said Brad Redikop the MP made the claim that Trudeau used a jackboot

00:06:20.240 to crush peaceful protesters under his basic dictatorship that's obviously tongue-in-cheek

00:06:24.380 in reference to an older claim that Trudeau had made and then the the only part that you could say

00:06:29.060 is that he was comparing Trudeau to Putin because he said and another dictator is doing this and that

00:06:34.120 word another implies that that he is making that comparison however it was Rachel Harder that was

00:06:39.020 the sort of target of all the score and so let's look at what she actually says in the House of

00:06:43.440 Commons this is a clip that is a little longer than the one that was circulating on social media but

00:06:47.220 it's important because it provides all of the context that we need in order to do a good fact check

00:06:51.460 so here is Rachel Thomas used to be Rachel Harder in the House of Commons last Monday making this

00:06:56.940 statement I'm wondering if this member can comment on whether or not she agrees that the Prime

00:07:04.020 Minister of Canada is a dictator in a democratically elected parliament where we had an election

00:07:10.560 not only six months ago does she agree with the rhetoric that came from the previous member

00:07:16.540 Mr. Speaker thank you for the question

00:07:25.700 um dictator it just did a quick review um in uh in the dictionary so according to the Oxford

00:07:34.700 dictionary a dictator is a ruler with total power over a country typically one who has obtained control

00:07:40.340 by force there are many Canadians that would believe that would hold the view that this does apply

00:07:48.500 to Mr. Trudeau the Prime Minister of Canada and it is up to I apologize for using his name to the

00:07:55.700 Prime Minister of Canada and it and it's actually up to the Canadian people to determine that and

00:08:01.700 they'll be determining that at the next election now here's here's the problem with liberal logic is that

00:08:07.700 liberals they like to make other people responsible for a problem that actually isn't their own

00:08:14.700 I'm not the one that made the statement in this house why am I being forced to answer for it

00:08:18.700 but the Canadian people will answer in the next election so you can see the sort of liberal over-the-top theatrics

00:08:24.700 like how how dare they call our prime minister a dictator after all we are in this parliament this

00:08:29.700 democratically elected parliament well evil here's the thing about democracy just because you vote in an election

00:08:34.700 doesn't make you doesn't doesn't doesn't guarantee that your society is built on the values of a Western liberal democracy

00:08:41.700 things like freedom and openness and tolerance just because you have an election doesn't mean any of that there are fake

00:08:47.700 elections all over the world there are elections in almost every country so so just being a democracy isn't really

00:08:52.700 enough you need the the sort of small l liberalism as well which is what many would argue that Justin Trudeau is lacking

00:08:58.700 and then you can see that Rachel Thomas is is sort of taking a light-hearted approach to all of this

00:09:03.700 they're holding her accountable for something that someone else said which is also incredibly worth noting

00:09:08.700 so so so the claims being made in and of itself are disingenuous because it wasn't harder it wasn't Thomas that made the original claim

00:09:14.700 it was a different MP and yet she's being asked to defend it and speak to it and then we have the second broader issue

00:09:20.700 which is that every Canadian prime minister is inevitably invariably compared to a dictator

00:09:26.700 why well because of the structure of our democracy we don't have the same checks and balances

00:09:30.700 we don't have the same separations of power as other Western liberal democracies for instance

00:09:35.700 in the United States they have a very separate distinct branches of government

00:09:39.700 the executive is very distinct from the legislature of the executive is the office of the president

00:09:43.700 the legislature is the Senate and the House and then the judicial branch which are all separate right

00:09:48.700 in Canada those are all sort of merged together you have the prime minister who leads the executive

00:09:52.700 when they have a majority government they also lead the legislature

00:09:55.700 the legislative branch in the House of Commons and they appoint those judges to the Supreme Court

00:10:00.700 so so you don't have the same kinds of separation of power so prime ministers can amass a great deal of power

00:10:05.700 Prime Minister Stephen Harper in an interview last year with Joe Lonsdale of the American Optimist said this exact same thing

00:10:11.700 he said that even when he commanded a minority government in Canada he had more ability to get things done

00:10:16.700 than US President Barack Obama despite the fact that Obama controlled both the Senate and the House of Representatives at the time

00:10:22.700 that is correct because in Canada we don't have those same separations of power

00:10:26.700 and that is why time and time again the media and politicians have called former prime ministers

00:10:31.700 including Prime Minister Harper on many occasions as we'll go through they've called him a dictator

00:10:36.700 so here at True North we had our researchers come up with all of the instances that members of parliament

00:10:42.700 called Prime Minister Stephen Harper a dictator during Harper's time in office

00:10:47.700 so here we go we had Ron McKinnon who is the Liberal MP still the sitting MP for Coquitlam Port Coquitlam

00:10:53.700 he tweeted this on March 5th 2014 he said Harper's dictatorship for democracy coming to an end question mark

00:11:00.700 and then he linked to a far left blog

00:11:03.700 we had Olivia Chow former MP for the NDP party in Toronto's downtown riding of Trinity Spadina

00:11:11.700 according to a tweet from Chris Fox he wrote Chow going after Harper hard

00:11:16.700 Parliament is about democracy she says are we living in a dictatorship question mark

00:11:22.700 next we have Elizabeth May who's a former leader of the Green Party

00:11:25.700 and she is the MP for Saanich Gulf Islands out on Vancouver Island

00:11:30.700 here's a piece in the tie from October 2013

00:11:32.700 Elizabeth May how to stop Harper's elected dictatorship

00:11:36.700 the Green MP on the PM's dangerous decision opposition tactics

00:11:40.700 and rustlings of hope in the Tory bench

00:11:43.700 Elizabeth May is quoted as saying we are living under an elected dictatorship

00:11:48.700 this is a very frequent reoccurring theme this term an elected dictatorship

00:11:52.700 next we have Wayne Easter is a former Liberal MP back in 2010 he said straight out

00:11:57.700 this is a quote from the House of Commons we got it from Hansard

00:12:00.700 he said straight out he's a dictator referring to Prime Minister Stephen Harper

00:12:04.700 we had a Conservative MP in response say he just called the Prime Minister a dictator Mr. Chair

00:12:09.700 is that parliamentary language do you allow that so so again this this whole debate

00:12:14.700 back and forth of the opposition calling the Prime Minister a dictator is nothing new

00:12:18.700 Hedy Fry who's a former Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre likewise said the Prime Minister behaves as if he is a dictator

00:12:25.700 this likewise is from Hansard so this is something that she said in the House of Commons

00:12:30.700 in the official transcript of a debate in the House of Commons

00:12:33.700 likewise also in the House of Commons Carolyn Bennett who is Liberal Minister of Mental Health and Addiction

00:12:39.700 she said leaders who want to make the rules are called dictators this is a test will the Prime Minister accept the Canadians

00:12:46.700 and their Parliament make the rules and restore the long form census now so again there was a whole hullabaloo over Harper changing the census

00:12:55.700 and yes many many people at the time called him a dictator for changing the census including it looks like Liberal MP and now Cabinet Minister Caroline Bennett

00:13:05.700 so again this tradition of calling the Prime Minister a dictator is nothing new

00:13:10.700 and aside from Liberal MPs saying it there are also many examples of commentators people in the media calling Stephen Harper a dictator

00:13:17.700 so here Stephen Taylor a Conservative analyst points this out that there is a little bit of a media bias

00:13:22.700 because Rosemary Barton who was clutching her pearls over the idea that that a Conservative MP would call Justin Trudeau a dictator 0.99

00:13:29.700 well lo and behold a couple years ago back when Harper was in charge

00:13:34.700 Rosemary Barton had a very different tone 1.00

00:13:36.700 she tweeted in a sort of jovial way

00:13:38.700 uh oh Bob Ray just basically said this government is a dictator

00:13:41.700 so it was totally okay for Bob Ray to do it back then

00:13:44.700 he got a pass whereas now when a Conservative MP is doing it

00:13:47.700 it is a threat to democracy and the worst thing ever

00:13:50.700 likewise the Globe and Mail had a tweet saying

00:13:53.700 introducing Canada's minority dictatorship Stephen Harper's opportunity to use prorogation

00:13:57.700 so again lots of accusations we have Pam Palmiter who is an Indigenous activist 1.00

00:14:03.700 and a professor over at Ryerson University

00:14:06.700 she tweeted this

00:14:07.700 women against Stephen Harper time to remove the dictator and restore legitimate government 0.99

00:14:12.700 likewise Michael Harris who is a columnist over at the Hill Times

00:14:15.700 who had a very severe severe case of Harper derangement syndrome

00:14:19.700 he hated Harper so much he wrote a book called Party of One

00:14:22.700 Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover

00:14:25.700 again this accusation that Stephen Harper was autocratic

00:14:28.700 that he was a dictator

00:14:29.700 we heard it time and time and time again

00:14:31.700 Farley Mowat a celebrated Canadian author and poet

00:14:34.700 he wrote that Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being

00:14:38.700 ever elected to power in Canada

00:14:41.700 that was an excerpt from a book

00:14:43.700 so again and here's another piece from Michael Harris writing over in the Narwhal

00:14:47.700 Harper's dictatorship for democracy coming to an end

00:14:50.700 that was one that the Liberal MP linked to before

00:14:53.700 so again very common and it wasn't just Harper

00:14:56.700 it wasn't just Harper

00:14:57.700 I remember back in the years of Jean Chrétien

00:14:59.700 Jeffrey Simpson who is a former columnist for Globe and Mail

00:15:02.700 very blue chip thinker

00:15:04.700 he had a book out that said exactly this

00:15:06.700 he called Jean Chrétien the friendly dictator

00:15:08.700 his book was called The Friendly Dictatorship

00:15:10.700 and this is a synopsis of the book

00:15:12.700 is Canada a dictatorship albeit a friendly dictatorship

00:15:15.700 in this thoughtful book

00:15:16.700 Jeffrey Simpson argues that the Liberal Party's re-election

00:15:18.700 to a third majority government must raise the question

00:15:21.700 is Canada in danger of becoming a de facto one party state

00:15:24.700 ruled by an all-powerful leader

00:15:26.700 and again he's alluding to this idea that we don't have the same

00:15:29.700 separations of power

00:15:30.700 and in times like the time that Jean Chrétien was elected

00:15:33.700 when there wasn't really a strong opposition party

00:15:35.700 because the right was fractured

00:15:36.700 there wasn't really a government in waiting

00:15:38.700 there wasn't a strong opposition

00:15:39.700 and therefore you could take away that

00:15:42.700 that we lived in something that resembled a dictatorship

00:15:46.700 so despite all of the hand-wringing

00:15:48.700 and all of the pearl clutching by the Liberals

00:15:50.700 by the legacy media

00:15:51.700 there's actually a lot of discussion and thought around this idea

00:15:54.700 that the Prime Minister of Canada has too much power

00:15:57.700 that we don't have the correct and the proper separations

00:16:00.700 to protect ourselves from a Prime Minister that goes rogue

00:16:04.700 a Prime Minister that wants to amass power

00:16:06.700 that is power hungry

00:16:07.700 that wants to punish people in his country

00:16:09.700 and to Rachel Thomas' point

00:16:10.700 many people in Canada feel that we are at that place right now

00:16:13.700 so here at True North we also came up with a list

00:16:15.700 of eight times that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

00:16:17.700 has ruled Canada by decree

00:16:19.700 so this idea that someone abuses power

00:16:21.700 that someone takes advantage of the fact

00:16:23.700 that we don't have the same separations of power

00:16:25.700 Justin Trudeau has done this time and time again

00:16:28.700 here are some examples

00:16:29.700 so here we go back in 2019

00:16:32.700 it was real the Prime Minister and senior members

00:16:34.700 of his staff and cabinet worked to pressure

00:16:37.700 the former justice minister the former Attorney General

00:16:40.700 Jody Wilson-Raybould to interfere in a criminal proceeding

00:16:43.700 against SNC-Lavalin

00:16:44.700 of course SNC-Lavalin

00:16:46.700 is a big donor and a big supporter of Justin Trudeau

00:16:49.700 and the Liberals the ethics commissioner at the time

00:16:52.700 Mario Dion found that the Prime Minister

00:16:54.700 had broken conflict of interest laws

00:16:56.700 by attempting to interfere

00:16:58.700 doesn't exactly sound like a liberal democracy does it

00:17:01.700 next using an order in council to evade debate

00:17:04.700 on the gun debate

00:17:06.700 likewise Trudeau was able to bypass debate

00:17:08.700 in the House of Commons through an order in council

00:17:10.700 that effectively made 1500 types of guns illegal

00:17:14.700 he just banned guns without going through

00:17:16.700 the proper parliamentary procedures

00:17:18.700 he likes to evade parliament this guy Justin Trudeau

00:17:20.700 so he also prorogued parliament back in 2020

00:17:23.700 there was an investigation in the committees

00:17:25.700 dealing with the WE charity scandal

00:17:28.700 remember that they were investigating the Prime Minister

00:17:30.700 they were investigating the fact that members of his family

00:17:33.700 received half a million dollars for speaking engagements

00:17:35.700 whilst the Liberals also awarded a multi multi hundred million dollar

00:17:40.700 sole source contract from the federal government to the WE charity

00:17:44.700 they were investigating whether or not that was a conflict

00:17:46.700 what did Trudeau do?

00:17:47.700 he prorogued parliament

00:17:48.700 he ended it all

00:17:49.700 he decided that he didn't want the scrutiny

00:17:51.700 and so he killed those committees proroguing parliament

00:17:54.700 again remember when Stephen Harper did it

00:17:56.700 everyone screamed foul and called him a dictator

00:17:58.700 when Trudeau did it

00:18:00.700 the media just sort of shrugged their shoulders

00:18:02.700 now we're getting into COVID-19

00:18:04.700 so many of Trudeau's COVID measures were seen as draconian

00:18:08.700 authoritarian and yes something that a dictator would introduce

00:18:11.700 so he refused to offer a timeline for lifting federal mandates

00:18:15.700 he spent a debate on government spending for two years during COVID

00:18:18.700 he barred unvaccinated Canadians from boarding planes

00:18:21.700 trains domestically and international

00:18:23.700 Canada is the only country in the world with such strict and drastic steps

00:18:28.700 and he used public health orders to fire unvaccinated public sector workers

00:18:31.700 employed by the federal government or working in federally regulated industries

00:18:35.700 including the Canadian Armed Forces

00:18:37.700 so I alluded to one of these but I want to go into it in a little bit more detail

00:18:41.700 because in March of 2020 Justin Trudeau tried and failed to introduce sweeping COVID measures

00:18:46.700 to give himself unlimited access to spending without parliamentary approval

00:18:51.700 so Trudeau said at the time that the proposed sweeping new powers

00:18:54.700 to let the government spend money without parliamentary approval

00:18:57.700 were needed because the coronavirus presented an exceptional situation

00:19:01.700 those include broad new powers who authorize the cabinet to spend money until the end of December 2021

00:19:06.700 remember this is in March 2020

00:19:08.700 2020 and the Trudeau government tried to slip through a bill

00:19:11.700 that would allow them to spend money without oversight

00:19:14.700 till the end of 2021

00:19:16.700 so we're talking about nearly 18 months

00:19:18.700 and in some cases without any limits at all

00:19:20.700 without having to put their proposals to a vote in the House of Commons

00:19:23.700 this is quoting from Global

00:19:24.700 it says this

00:19:25.700 the proposals are highly unusual because the power to tax and spend

00:19:28.700 are powers that belong to the Parliament of Canada

00:19:31.700 by removing the need for parliamentary approval

00:19:33.700 the proposed measures would eliminate the ability of MPs

00:19:36.700 in a minority government to vote for or against him

00:19:39.700 so again eliminating the entire idea of Parliament

00:19:42.700 so all those liberals who were so outraged over the accusation

00:19:45.700 that Trudeau that you could even suggest that this guy's a dictator

00:19:48.700 in a democratically elected House

00:19:50.700 it was a democratically elected House Parliament

00:19:52.700 that Trudeau was trying to bypass

00:19:54.700 to just push through his spending as much as he wanted

00:19:58.700 moving on Justin Trudeau's hateful rhetoric

00:20:01.700 he has an open intolerance towards unvaccinated Canadians

00:20:04.700 we all know the quotes

00:20:05.700 we all know

00:20:06.700 we've all heard Justin Trudeau talking about the unvaccinated

00:20:09.700 he called them extremists

00:20:10.700 he said they don't believe in science

00:20:11.700 they're often misogynistic

00:20:13.700 they're racist

00:20:14.700 and he then posed the question as to whether or not

00:20:17.700 we should tolerate these kind of people

00:20:19.700 whether or not we tolerate living in a society like that

00:20:22.700 who talks like that?

00:20:23.700 who talks like that?

00:20:24.700 does he sound like a dictator to you?

00:20:25.700 well you be the judge

00:20:27.700 don't take it from me

00:20:28.700 this is what Bill Maher

00:20:29.700 the American comedian

00:20:30.700 had to say about Justin Trudeau

00:20:32.700 and the rhetoric that he is using

00:20:34.700 he started to read what

00:20:35.700 he said

00:20:36.700 this is a couple of weeks ago

00:20:38.700 he was

00:20:39.700 or maybe this is September

00:20:40.700 but he was talking about

00:20:41.700 people who are not vaccinated

00:20:43.700 he said they don't believe in science

00:20:45.700 they're often misogynistic

00:20:46.700 often racist

00:20:47.700 no they're not

00:20:48.700 that was not

00:20:49.700 right

00:20:50.700 he said

00:20:51.700 but they take up space

00:20:53.700 and with that we have to make a choice

00:20:55.700 in terms of a leader as a country

00:20:57.700 do we tolerate these people

00:20:59.700 it's like tolerate these

00:21:00.700 now you do sound like Hitler

00:21:02.700 that's

00:21:03.700 that

00:21:04.700 and recently he talked about them

00:21:05.700 holding unacceptable views

00:21:07.700 wow

00:21:08.700 this

00:21:09.700 I'm surprised to hear that Trudeau said those things

00:21:12.700 you didn't see the black face?

00:21:14.700 I mean he's

00:21:15.700 he's

00:21:16.700 he's

00:21:17.700 no I'm kidding about it

00:21:18.700 I'm not

00:21:19.700 I mean

00:21:20.700 that was not a good look for him

00:21:21.700 I don't like that

00:21:22.700 but I mean

00:21:23.700 come on

00:21:24.700 I mean that's

00:21:25.700 I think what gets under people's skin

00:21:27.700 so

00:21:28.700 so yes Justin Trudeau

00:21:29.700 in a democracy

00:21:30.700 you have to tolerate people

00:21:31.700 you have to tolerate people

00:21:32.700 that you disagree with

00:21:33.700 and I'm glad that Bill Maher was there

00:21:35.700 to point out

00:21:36.700 the fact that yeah

00:21:37.700 he does sound a little bit like a dictator

00:21:39.700 in that regard

00:21:40.700 and now finally we get to

00:21:41.700 the major issue

00:21:42.700 that made so many Canadians

00:21:43.700 come around to this idea

00:21:44.700 that Justin Trudeau

00:21:45.700 is not a Western liberal democratic leader

00:21:48.700 and that was of course

00:21:49.700 invoking the emergencies act

00:21:51.700 to clear peaceful protesters

00:21:53.700 he did this on February 14th 2022

00:21:55.700 and of course he famously

00:21:56.700 did not get parliamentary approval

00:21:58.700 to use police force to move peaceful demonstrators

00:22:01.700 until the police had already removed the protesters

00:22:04.700 at which point he got his parliamentary approval

00:22:06.700 and then he rescinded it a couple of days later

00:22:09.700 so not only did he use excessive police powers

00:22:11.700 that are usually reserved for wartime

00:22:13.700 in order to crush a peaceful protest

00:22:15.700 he also assumed new powers to freeze bank accounts

00:22:18.700 to have the bank accounts of protesters

00:22:20.700 as well as donors

00:22:21.700 arbitrarily frozen

00:22:23.700 lock their bank accounts

00:22:24.700 essentially just destroy their life

00:22:26.700 to punish them

00:22:27.700 for being on the opposite political side

00:22:30.700 and final final example here is this NDP coalition

00:22:33.700 so as you know

00:22:34.700 Justin Trudeau was just elected

00:22:35.700 with the smallest minority government

00:22:37.700 the smallest share of the vote

00:22:39.700 in Canadian history

00:22:40.700 and counter to the democratic will

00:22:42.700 of the Canadian people

00:22:43.700 he essentially turned it into a majority government

00:22:45.700 by forming a coalition pact with the NDP

00:22:48.700 allowing himself to push through his own legislation

00:22:51.700 without the fear of going into another election

00:22:54.700 so Justin Trudeau is using every single bit of power

00:22:57.700 that he can mustering it all together

00:23:00.700 to assert more and more power in a country

00:23:02.700 that already has a relatively weak system

00:23:04.700 of checks and balances

00:23:06.700 so is Justin Trudeau a dictator?

00:23:08.700 let's get to our final verdict here on the show

00:23:11.700 of this fact check

00:23:12.700 whether or not it is a fair claim to say

00:23:14.700 that Justin Trudeau is a dictator

00:23:15.700 well of course everything is relative

00:23:17.700 so is Canada a repressive authoritarian dictatorship?

00:23:20.700 not compared to say China or Iran, no 0.53

00:23:23.700 but compared to Canada a hundred years ago

00:23:26.700 compared to Canada 50 years ago

00:23:27.700 25 years ago

00:23:28.700 maybe even five years ago

00:23:30.700 well yes we are heading in that direction

00:23:32.700 we're experiencing the decay of our democratic institutions

00:23:35.700 and our systems

00:23:37.700 we are experiencing increasingly authoritarian culture

00:23:39.700 that punishes dissenting views

00:23:41.700 and excommunicates those who do not comply

00:23:44.700 with increasingly draconian police orders

00:23:47.700 Trudeau is overseeing a series of significant crises in our country

00:23:52.700 and his handling of these crises is dividing us

00:23:55.700 and making us weaker

00:23:56.700 Canada is not invincible

00:23:58.700 it's not impossible for us to slide further and further away from freedom

00:24:02.700 away from our birthright

00:24:03.700 away from the things that our country was founded upon

00:24:06.700 and towards more undemocratic autocratic policies

00:24:10.700 and towards a dictatorship

00:24:12.700 so to Rachel Thomas's suggestion

00:24:14.700 which was really Brad Reddikop's suggestion

00:24:16.700 that to many Canadians

00:24:18.700 they feel that Justin Trudeau is a dictator

00:24:20.700 well our fact checkers here at True North

00:24:22.700 say that that claim is true

00:24:25.700 I'm Candice Malcolm

00:24:26.700 and this is the Candice Malcolm Show

00:24:33.700 in Rhode Island

00:24:40.700 a couple of days

00:24:44.700 and now I am sorry

00:24:46.700 it was a very obvious

00:24:47.760 and when I find out

00:24:49.700 I see a few of them

00:24:50.700 a very obvious

00:24:51.700 i'm going to make it

The Candice Malcolm Show - April 05, 2022

Is Justin Trudeau a dictator？

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