The Candice Malcolm Show - October 07, 2021


Justin Trudeau offers a FAKE apology for going to Tofino


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Justin Trudeau's ill-advised Tofino vacation is starting to look eerily similar to his illegal vacation on the Aga Khan's private islands in 2016. We ve got all the details on the show today with Candice Malan ( )!

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00:00:00.240 Justin Trudeau's ill-advised Tofino vacation is starting to look eerily similar to his illegal 2016 vacation on the Aga Khan's private islands.
00:00:09.480 We've got all the details on the show today. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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00:01:11.500 Okay, let's get into the big news today.
00:01:13.920 So there have been some pretty major revelations about this trip that Justin Truro took to Tofino on Truth and Reconciliation Day last Thursday.
00:01:22.940 Now, let me just start by saying, when this story first broke, I thought that it was outrageous.
00:01:27.700 To me, the biggest component of it was the fact that Justin Trudeau lied, the fact that his itinerary said that he was in Ottawa in private meetings,
00:01:34.900 when the reality was that his office knew damn well that he was not in Ottawa, he was out in Tofino,
00:01:40.800 or at least he was on his way out to the west coast of British Columbia, as far west as you can get, the west coast of Vancouver Island in Tofino.
00:01:48.340 And so to me, it was the duplicity, the lies, the trying to cover up where the prime minister is and what he is actually doing.
00:01:55.620 The fact that he decided to go and take a little bit of R&R with his family in a quiet, serene location out in British Columbia,
00:02:03.200 to me, that's not that big of a deal.
00:02:04.960 He just, after all, fought a grueling campaign.
00:02:07.600 And, you know, he's only human. We all need some time, downtime with our families.
00:02:11.800 I don't think it's a big deal that he went to British Columbia.
00:02:14.020 He's sort of from British Columbia. I know he, you know, grew up in Ottawa and he's from a Montreal family,
00:02:19.800 but his mother is from British Columbia. His mother's entire side of the family is from British Columbia.
00:02:23.680 He spent quite a bit of time growing up and in his, as a young adult in British Columbia.
00:02:29.140 So BC is sort of like a second or third home to him.
00:02:32.560 And I don't think that it's scandalous in and of itself that he was there.
00:02:36.360 But now as more details are coming out, it's pretty clear that it wasn't just a lapse in judgment.
00:02:40.160 It wasn't just the fact that his office lied about where he was and what he was doing.
00:02:44.520 There seems to be something else here.
00:02:46.220 And the entire legacy media, every journalist in Canada, is now looking into it.
00:02:51.340 And boy, are they finding things.
00:02:53.080 And again, this is looking really, really, really bad for Justin Trudeau.
00:02:57.180 So I'm going to start by talking about two explosive reports that came out of the Journal de Montreal today,
00:03:03.360 looking into the background and the history of the owner of the house.
00:03:07.420 And so I'll explain to you what I mean when I say this is looking eerily similar to the Aga Khan scandal 0.73
00:03:13.620 that the ethics commissioner found that he was guilty of violating the ethics rules.
00:03:18.800 So let's start with Norm Spector's tweet this morning.
00:03:22.060 Norm is a former chief of staff in the prime minister's office.
00:03:24.900 I believe he was chief of staff in the Mulroney years.
00:03:27.580 He's also a publisher, a longtime journalist.
00:03:30.840 He's an academic with a PhD.
00:03:32.340 And he just spends a lot of time on Twitter posting really interesting things.
00:03:38.320 And so here he posts today, he says,
00:03:40.460 the owner of Trudeau's Tofino Beach House has links to a company in a tax haven
00:03:44.600 and another that lobbied PMO to legalize cannabis.
00:03:48.740 PMO confirmed that Justin Trudeau paid for the rental but would not say how much.
00:03:53.320 So the first story that comes out about this owner, the owner of this house,
00:03:58.520 is basically that the guy has links to some things that are pretty sketchy,
00:04:03.240 some pretty sketchy business dealings.
00:04:05.100 So here is the Journal de Montréal headline,
00:04:07.240 controversial stay, Trudeau on vacation with man linked to Paradise Papers,
00:04:11.440 the husband of the owner of the villa where Trudeau stayed in Tofino
00:04:13.860 has been associated with firms in the Paradise Papers.
00:04:17.120 So here we go, we'll read from the story.
00:04:18.840 And my apologies if the translations are a little bit rough.
00:04:22.160 I'll do my best here.
00:04:23.060 But it says that the luxurious home that Justin Trudeau and his family occupied
00:04:26.520 last week in British Columbia is owned by a Calgary woman married to a businessman
00:04:30.200 who has been linked to companies that were established in a tax haven,
00:04:34.200 according to our investigation.
00:04:35.720 The businessman, James McRoberts, also founded a company which registered in 2017
00:04:40.360 to lobby for pro-cannabis, in particular with the cabinet of Justin Trudeau.
00:04:46.680 The name of James McRoberts, the husband of Maren McRoberts,
00:04:50.220 the owner of the Tofino House, appears in the Paradise Paper list
00:04:53.240 disclosed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in 2017.
00:04:58.420 We learned that he was a shareholder in two companies,
00:05:01.480 Pagia Limited and Rx Payments Limited, incorporated in Malta in 2005,
00:05:05.760 a tax haven in the Mediterranean.
00:05:07.700 The firms specialize in internet payment systems.
00:05:10.960 The man who ran Rx Payments, Nathan Jacobson, was convicted in 2008
00:05:15.040 in the United States for conspiracy to launder money.
00:05:19.120 It says, note that the Paradise Papers should not be confused with the Pandora Papers,
00:05:22.780 which were disclosed this week by the consortium,
00:05:25.480 and which also revealed a list of individuals and companies involved in tax evasion activities.
00:05:30.500 So there have been a series of these papers.
00:05:32.300 The first one, the big one, was the Panama Papers,
00:05:34.660 and then these other ones were the Paradise Papers, and now the Pandora Papers.
00:05:38.340 So these are just a series of investigative reports
00:05:40.900 looking at sort of the world's rich and famous people
00:05:43.420 and where they keep their money, how they have these really complicated schemes.
00:05:47.160 Some of them are legal, some of them are illegal,
00:05:48.780 and they're all designed to avoid punitive, heavy taxes
00:05:52.560 in North American and Western European jurisdictions.
00:05:56.460 But anyway, so the individual who owned the house
00:05:59.040 may have been involved in some sketchy business dealings himself,
00:06:02.140 or at least one degree removed from sketchy business deals.
00:06:05.340 And more concerning for this story,
00:06:07.420 and in relation to Justin Trudeau going and staying at this house,
00:06:10.340 is the news that the owner of the house,
00:06:12.340 or the owner of the house's husband,
00:06:13.780 was registered, his company was registered to lobby the federal government,
00:06:18.560 not just the federal government, but the prime minister's office.
00:06:21.620 And this takes us to the second story that was in the Journal de Montréal today,
00:06:25.120 and this one is more information on James McRoberts.
00:06:28.120 It says that he was selling pot online.
00:06:31.220 In the months leading up to cannabis legalization in Canada,
00:06:34.200 businessman James McRoberts and his company Merco
00:06:36.520 lobbied across Canada to promote and oversee the sale of pot online
00:06:40.720 through their online transaction platform.
00:06:42.760 The company founded in 2016 in Calgary
00:06:45.300 was listed in the Canadian Lobbyist Registry in 2017.
00:06:49.540 According to the listing,
00:06:50.520 Merco payments intended to lobby directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office,
00:06:55.260 the Privy Council office, Health Canada,
00:06:57.300 and the Departments of Justice and Public Safety in particular,
00:07:00.560 so that the online sale of cannabis could be allowed.
00:07:03.460 So of course, Ottawa already legalized cannabis.
00:07:05.820 So it says here,
00:07:06.440 Ottawa legalized the use of cannabis in October 2018,
00:07:09.300 but its online sales is still regulated by the provinces.
00:07:11.860 Merco has notably lobbied Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia too.
00:07:16.680 And this is where you get into some really dicey territory.
00:07:18.860 This is where the Prime Minister is really in hot water,
00:07:21.200 really foolish thing that he did.
00:07:23.140 So as the arms specter pointed out,
00:07:24.480 it says that Justin Trudeau paid for the rental himself,
00:07:27.080 but he would not say how much he paid for it.
00:07:29.960 And so we can look at the listing of this house.
00:07:31.880 It happens to be up for sale right now.
00:07:33.860 Now, hilariously, the name of the house is called Surfer's Paradise,
00:07:37.720 which, again, doesn't really help the optics of this story.
00:07:40.580 It's listed for a whopping $18.75 million,
00:07:45.600 six-bedroom, seven-bathroom home, 6,000 square feet,
00:07:49.160 and it is right on the beach.
00:07:50.320 It is an absolutely spectacular, beautiful home set on 1.2 acres.
00:07:56.000 Absolutely stunning, stunning home.
00:07:58.440 And so the idea that this home is selling for nearly $20 million,
00:08:04.180 it's hard to imagine what the nightly rate on a place like this.
00:08:07.240 My guess is that it would probably go for about $50,000 a night.
00:08:11.780 $50,000 a night.
00:08:12.740 Trudeau was there for, what, five nights.
00:08:14.300 So we're talking about potentially up to, what,
00:08:17.080 a quarter of a million dollars to rent this house for a long weekend,
00:08:20.240 possibly even more.
00:08:21.460 I'm just speculating on the price there.
00:08:23.200 But really, a house like this would go for a huge, huge premium.
00:08:27.140 And at this point, we don't know how much Justin Trudeau paid for it.
00:08:30.720 And again, this is where we get into dicey, dicey territory for the prime minister
00:08:33.880 because he is staying at the home of a person who once lobbied him
00:08:37.820 for a decision that the government ultimately did, right?
00:08:40.780 This guy runs marijuana businesses.
00:08:42.840 He runs the payment platforms for selling marijuana.
00:08:46.480 And he was lobbying the government back in 2017,
00:08:48.980 likely lobbying them in favor of legalizing pot.
00:08:51.560 That's what Justin Trudeau ran on in his campaign.
00:08:53.900 And then he did.
00:08:54.560 So potentially, Justin Trudeau's decision to legalize marijuana
00:08:57.480 could have made this individual a lot of money.
00:09:00.200 And then now we have this individual renting his luxury home to the prime minister.
00:09:05.220 Did the prime minister pay the full rate?
00:09:07.300 Was it a discounted rate?
00:09:08.660 Was there some kind of a quid pro quo going on here?
00:09:11.740 It's possible that that's not the case at all,
00:09:13.260 that Trudeau paid the full retail price,
00:09:14.940 that he didn't know this individual at all.
00:09:16.700 But again, the optics of this are just so bad for the prime minister
00:09:19.940 because we don't know if there's a quid pro quo.
00:09:22.080 And of course, Justin Trudeau has a long history of doing these kind of things.
00:09:26.100 It's starting to sound like the Aga Khan vacation, 0.92
00:09:28.720 where he went and had this beautiful, luxurious vacation
00:09:32.720 at the Aga Khan's private compound, private island in the Bahamas.
00:09:37.300 Justin Trudeau, of course, was found guilty by the ethics commissioner
00:09:39.960 of taking an illegal aircraft ride.
00:09:42.440 So out of the whole part of that illegal vacation,
00:09:46.160 the thing that the ethics commissioner dinged him on
00:09:48.140 was sort of a technicality.
00:09:49.200 He's not allowed to ride in a private aircraft and he had to get to this private island.
00:09:53.020 He had to take the Aga Khan's helicopter.
00:09:55.220 Of course, to the Canadian public, the bigger, bigger concern
00:09:57.620 was that the Aga Khan lobbies the prime minister.
00:10:00.600 The federal government gives huge grants to the Aga Khan Foundation.
00:10:04.220 And so you have all of this money being passed back and forth.
00:10:06.820 And in return, Trudeau is on this luxury vacation.
00:10:10.200 And that was at the very beginning of his tenure as prime minister.
00:10:13.900 Here we are, what, five years later,
00:10:15.500 and he's still doing the same kind of things.
00:10:17.400 He hasn't learned his lesson.
00:10:18.780 He's still taking luxurious vacations from people who are lobbying his office,
00:10:23.580 from people who potentially could be in a conflict of interest.
00:10:26.440 It's also sort of like the We Charity scandal,
00:10:28.460 where he refused to recuse himself from meetings in Cabinet,
00:10:32.180 where the Cabinet was making decisions on whether to give the We Charity
00:10:35.100 this huge, huge hundreds of millions of dollars,
00:10:37.840 nearly a billion dollar contract,
00:10:39.400 from a charity that has also paid the Trudeau family privately for speaker's fees.
00:10:45.180 It's just such a bad judgment.
00:10:46.800 The fact that Justin Trudeau thinks that he is above the rules,
00:10:49.160 that the rules don't apply to him,
00:10:50.540 really, really bad stuff from the prime minister.
00:10:53.960 And so, like I said, the media is all over the story.
00:10:56.960 The legacy media is really unrelenting
00:10:59.020 because they know something fishy is going on,
00:11:01.880 that the more that we dig into the story,
00:11:03.780 the more it unravels.
00:11:05.180 And the worse it looks for Justin Trudeau.
00:11:07.640 And this is starting to look perhaps like his worst offense
00:11:10.380 in terms of these really, really silly lapses in judgment
00:11:13.380 and potential ethics violations.
00:11:15.640 So the media was hounding Trudeau about this.
00:11:18.420 They asked him about it yesterday.
00:11:20.140 And this is what that looked like.
00:11:22.980 Hi, Prime Minister Ashley Burke, CBC News.
00:11:25.740 What made you decide to take a personal trip to Dofino
00:11:28.160 on a day that your government set aside
00:11:29.860 to honor the victims and survivors of residential schools?
00:11:33.280 Like I said, it was a mistake to travel on that day.
00:11:36.300 This is an important moment for Canada
00:11:40.640 and for Canadians to reflect not just on the past,
00:11:43.240 but on the present.
00:11:44.720 I was in error to choose to travel on that day.
00:11:49.700 And I apologize directly to Chief Casimir
00:11:52.180 for not having attended the event that she invited me to,
00:11:56.100 which is why I'm looking forward to going to the community
00:11:58.880 and sitting down with them in the coming weeks.
00:12:00.520 So I want to break apart that apology,
00:12:03.620 that fake apology that Justin Trudeau gave,
00:12:06.260 because he always does this.
00:12:07.640 So first of all, he apologized for traveling
00:12:10.180 on Truth and Reconciliation Day,
00:12:11.700 which the fact that he traveled on that day
00:12:13.880 is not that big of a deal.
00:12:15.360 He's a prime minister.
00:12:16.220 If he had to travel to multiple cities
00:12:18.160 to attend multiple ceremonies,
00:12:19.460 that would be completely fine.
00:12:21.420 No one would have any issue with it.
00:12:22.960 And we wouldn't be in the situation we were in.
00:12:24.800 So the way that he apologizes for traveling,
00:12:27.460 which isn't the misdeed.
00:12:29.100 The misdeed is the fact that he,
00:12:30.800 well, there's so many, right?
00:12:31.860 It's like he is the one that created this holiday,
00:12:34.700 supposedly a solemn day,
00:12:36.120 not a holiday to go and have a beach vacation,
00:12:39.000 but a holiday to have a solemn remembrance
00:12:41.580 and reminder of some of the awful things
00:12:43.640 that happened in Canada's history
00:12:45.120 in regards to our First Nations people
00:12:47.380 and particularly residential schools.
00:12:49.720 So Trudeau is all about virtue signaling
00:12:52.260 and he was doing a heck of a job
00:12:53.880 virtue signaling about this day.
00:12:55.680 And then when it actually came,
00:12:56.780 he selfishly just took the day to himself
00:12:59.040 with his family.
00:13:00.020 So he didn't attend any events
00:13:01.160 despite being invited.
00:13:03.240 And he just,
00:13:04.700 he really didn't do anything
00:13:05.900 to acknowledge the day
00:13:07.180 other than lie to Canadian public
00:13:08.840 and go on a beach vacation with his family.
00:13:12.240 So no, he's not apologizing
00:13:13.960 for the right aspect of things here.
00:13:16.280 And then he goes back to this familiar line
00:13:18.340 that this is like a learning opportunity
00:13:19.760 for the whole country.
00:13:20.660 So he doesn't really take personal responsibility.
00:13:22.900 He steps back and says,
00:13:24.380 you know, this is a time for us
00:13:25.800 to all reflect on,
00:13:27.360 you know, how we can do better in the future,
00:13:29.500 which again is sidestepping the issue.
00:13:31.540 We're not worried about the country doing better.
00:13:33.800 The country did a pretty good job
00:13:35.000 of acknowledging this holiday
00:13:36.300 and recognizing much of the mistakes
00:13:39.220 that we made in the past.
00:13:40.840 It's the prime minister who didn't.
00:13:42.320 So it's not about traveling.
00:13:44.120 It's about not recognizing it.
00:13:45.700 And second, like I mentioned earlier in our show,
00:13:47.320 it's about lying.
00:13:48.360 It's the fact that the prime minister's office
00:13:49.700 put out his official itinerary
00:13:51.600 that said he was in Ottawa,
00:13:53.420 knowing damn well that he was not in Ottawa.
00:13:54.960 The prime minister's office,
00:13:56.200 whoever put out that personal itinerary
00:13:58.800 knew that he was going to Tofino.
00:14:01.600 It's not like you can just sort of
00:14:02.980 spontaneously decide to go.
00:14:04.780 It's not like something that could just
00:14:06.060 sort of spur of the moment.
00:14:07.400 You know, we don't have anything going on
00:14:08.520 or our meeting fell through.
00:14:09.540 Let's jump on a plane and go to Tofino.
00:14:12.340 No, it requires a lot of work,
00:14:14.220 a lot of planning,
00:14:15.060 a lot of things in advance,
00:14:16.600 including renting this house
00:14:17.600 and setting up that deal,
00:14:19.620 getting his whole family,
00:14:20.960 getting the plane loaded,
00:14:22.140 everything like that.
00:14:22.740 This is a premeditated act.
00:14:24.340 It wasn't a spontaneous act.
00:14:25.420 So yes, it was an intentional lie
00:14:27.460 on behalf of whoever put out that itinerary,
00:14:30.300 which ultimately the prime minister
00:14:31.580 is responsible for.
00:14:32.760 So this is really a mealy mouth apology.
00:14:35.420 It's a non-apology.
00:14:36.200 It's a fake apology.
00:14:37.540 And I am not the only one who said that.
00:14:40.260 This is from Blacklock's reporter.
00:14:42.300 And it says PM's apology not accepted.
00:14:45.420 So here I'm going to read a little bit
00:14:46.600 from this Blacklock's report today.
00:14:47.940 It says the Native Women's Association yesterday
00:14:50.220 questioned if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
00:14:52.140 had suddenly seen the light
00:14:53.500 after he apologized for observing
00:14:55.200 Truth and Reconciliation Day
00:14:56.320 with a beach holiday.
00:14:57.400 Do better, said the group's CEO.
00:14:59.720 Sadly, we recognize this moment of contrition
00:15:01.700 comes after much public pressure,
00:15:03.440 not necessarily because
00:15:04.620 you have suddenly seen the light.
00:15:06.580 She said in a statement,
00:15:07.460 it will now be up to you
00:15:08.500 to rebuild trust in our communities.
00:15:10.920 The prime minister yesterday
00:15:11.980 said he was sorry
00:15:12.740 after photographers caught him
00:15:13.960 strolling by the sea
00:15:14.940 at Tofino, BC
00:15:16.020 and enjoying a glass of beer
00:15:17.320 on the patio
00:15:17.880 on the beachfront resort property.
00:15:19.800 Trudeau holidayed on September 30th,
00:15:21.600 the first ever federal observance
00:15:23.060 of Truth and Reconciliation Day
00:15:24.460 to commemorate the deaths
00:15:25.740 of Indian residential school children.
00:15:28.680 Traveling on September 30th
00:15:29.920 was a mistake
00:15:30.560 and I regret it.
00:15:31.540 Trudeau told reporters
00:15:32.520 and the story goes on
00:15:34.400 to remind Canadians
00:15:35.420 that the prime minister's office
00:15:36.460 was not truthful,
00:15:37.420 was not honest about where he was.
00:15:38.940 It says the prime minister's office
00:15:40.380 at the time
00:15:41.040 flew an Indian residential school
00:15:42.760 survivor's flag
00:15:43.580 outside his vacant office
00:15:45.300 falsely issued a statement
00:15:46.700 claiming Trudeau
00:15:47.400 was in private meetings in Ottawa
00:15:48.720 and told reporters
00:15:49.860 he wasn't on a beach.
00:15:51.660 So again,
00:15:52.360 they distinctly lied,
00:15:53.740 which is what Trudeau
00:15:54.860 should be apologizing for,
00:15:56.360 not the fact that he traveled.
00:15:57.780 But again,
00:15:58.160 Trudeau is the master
00:15:59.180 at sideswiping the issue,
00:16:01.580 downplaying his misdeeds
00:16:03.000 and just kind of pretending
00:16:04.360 that nothing happened.
00:16:05.400 Usually the media
00:16:06.080 is all too happy
00:16:06.860 to go along with it.
00:16:07.860 But in this case,
00:16:08.800 let me just say
00:16:09.400 the legacy media are angry.
00:16:10.620 They're out for blood
00:16:11.320 and this is not going to end well
00:16:13.140 for Justin Trudeau.
00:16:14.660 I'm Candice Malcolm
00:16:15.180 and this is
00:16:15.820 The Candice Malcolm Show.