The Candice Malcolm Show - March 19, 2022


Justin Trudeau’s ‘edgy’ diplomatic efforts embarrass us all


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

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193.16058

Word Count

6,411

Sentence Count

347

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's diplomatic efforts are a complete embarrassment, but of course the
00:00:04.640 legacy media cheer them on. The ultimate fake news story, the Hunter Biden laptop story,
00:00:09.560 turns out to be true, and Canada's Governor General projects her insane left-wing politics
00:00:14.960 onto the Queen. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:30.000 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program. I'm joined as always on Fridays by
00:00:35.000 my producer and journalist here at True North, Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, how are you doing
00:00:38.560 this morning? Pretty good, pretty good. Excited to get into this. Yeah, so the first story we wanted
00:00:43.280 to cover today, it's not exactly news other than just the way that the legacy media portrays. It's
00:00:47.980 not fake news, but this is sort of the embarrassing attitude and way that our government carries
00:00:54.280 itself when it comes to foreign policy and diplomacy. So I'm sure you saw this circulating
00:00:58.780 online. The Canadian embassy in Ukraine tweets out a letter sent to them by the Russian government
00:01:04.680 with their own edits in red. So this is a kind of juvenile, kind of like smack back, you know,
00:01:11.300 own your enemies, kind of just very immature behavior that you see on social media. Usually it's,
00:01:16.920 you know, done back and forth between political adversaries, young people, not serious people,
00:01:24.100 you know, someone trying to troll someone else. And yet this is what our diplomacy has come to,
00:01:29.820 trolling Russians and editing a document. So basically what we see here is a letter that was
00:01:36.600 sent, which was like a fairly serious matter. You can read part of it. He says,
00:01:41.440 Your Excellency, I'm reaching out to you with regard to an urgent matter related to the dire human
00:01:46.180 rights situation in and around Ukraine. And then the Canadian response here adds in an insert saying,
00:01:53.580 which we have caused as a result of our illegal war of aggression. So I won't go through the whole
00:01:58.580 letter because it's just so immature and incoherent and silly. But the idea is that they're, you know,
00:02:05.460 owning the Russians by changing their words to admit guilt. And the craziest thing is that this
00:02:14.140 tweet garnered huge amounts of attention, lots and lots of retweets, 27,600 at the time of recording
00:02:21.440 with 66,000 likes Harrison. I mean, this is what our diplomacy has come to. And again, rather than
00:02:27.900 the media kind of saying, wait a second, guys, this is really immature. This is like the public image of
00:02:33.120 Canada on the world stage, trolling and behaving very juvenile. Instead, we see the legacy media
00:02:39.420 cheering them on, reporting it like, wow, look at this great story of the Canadian embassy hitting back
00:02:46.440 on social media. Our friend Ben Woodford had a great tweet that pretty much, you know, my opinion
00:02:53.260 exactly is already here. It says, he says, this may rack up the likes and retweets, but surely I'm not
00:02:58.800 the only one who is deeply uncomfortable with this kind of edgy, but completely pointless online behavior
00:03:03.840 from government organizations in the face of a catastrophe. It makes a serious and tragic situation
00:03:10.020 seem like a joke. I agree with that 100%. Harrison, what did you think about this?
00:03:14.540 Right. Well, you know, this is not the first time we have seen Canada be embarrassing on the world
00:03:20.320 stage. And we wonder why under Justin Trudeau, Canada's place in the world has fallen. We've
00:03:25.960 been left out of these security organizations. We've been left out of these important meetings
00:03:32.140 because this tweet is kind of symbolic of this larger sort of attempt to try and make Canada this
00:03:39.480 weird. I don't know, like, like Ben said, this sort of edgy and pointless diplomatic behavior. This
00:03:45.720 is, this just goes to show you that Melanie Jolie is no Pearson, certainly not. And, and this, this just
00:03:52.920 sort of, like I said, this is symbolic of, of Canada's, of Canada's diplomatic presence. I mean,
00:03:58.940 in the, earlier in the week, Melanie Jolie even admitted that Canada's role on the world stage is to
00:04:03.800 bring people to the table or to try and, to try and encourage diplomacy, which is just a nice way
00:04:08.940 of saying that we don't do anything. And this is quite obviously why this is the case. Well, and,
00:04:14.780 and it's the opposite, Harrison, of what this would be doing. If Canada's role is to bring people to the
00:04:18.500 table, mocking them on Twitter doesn't accomplish that at all. No, exactly. And, and I want to read
00:04:25.060 what the, what the Russian UN ambassador wrote back, because I think it's, it, it kind of is,
00:04:31.980 it points at the point, the problem of this tweet. He says, um, thank you Canada at UN for this
00:04:39.120 kindergarten level russophobic libel. It only shows that your diplomatic skills and good manners are at
00:04:44.540 the lowest ebb and gives an idea why your country's bid for a non-permanent seat in the Security Council
00:04:49.180 was voted down twice in 20 years by UN membership. So he digs right at the UN Security Council,
00:04:55.060 um, loss. He, he digs right to the point. And I think, you know, one thing I wanted to pull was
00:05:00.460 that was a tweet by a political coordinator for Canada's UN mission, who kind of, I think maybe
00:05:06.700 came out to try and do damage control on this tweet. He wrote on Twitter, he said, for naysayers out
00:05:12.080 there, this was done in-house by a creative member of the team who is responsible for protecting
00:05:17.220 civilians, took 30 minutes, only one draft, then published no back and forth with HQ. The aim was
00:05:24.620 transparency for this blatant Russian disinformation, which they sent to all UN members. So the, the
00:05:30.420 actual UN Canadian employee comes out and says, this was one draft. It took 30 minutes to do,
00:05:36.520 and there was no back and forth and HQ didn't even know about this. So, I mean, it kind of paints a
00:05:42.080 picture that Canada's UN mission is, you know, totally without direction and that they're, what they put
00:05:48.680 out on social media is done by a creative member of the team without, without HQ even knowing about
00:05:54.580 it. So, yeah, Candace, this was just, this was just another, another kind of embarrassing moment
00:05:59.340 for Canada's foreign policy.
00:06:00.980 Well, also they go right to process, right? Because I'm sure that some journalists out there may say,
00:06:05.360 okay, let's, let's A-tip this. Let's, let's find out, like, let's put in an access to information
00:06:09.420 and find out how long this took them, how many man hours. And so they're already trying to do damage
00:06:13.600 control saying there is no back and forth. Don't worry. Don't, don't try to investigate this. It
00:06:17.920 only took half an hour. Okay. It was a press release from a government. You, you may say,
00:06:21.920 like, I disagree with the content that they put out, but this is where we, where we've come in
00:06:26.280 our society that if you disagree with something, then it becomes blatant disinformation. It's not
00:06:30.780 just like, you know, we, we, we didn't like the content. We didn't think that they put enough
00:06:35.460 emphasis on the fact that they invaded and that they initiated this war. They just call it blatant
00:06:40.800 disinformation. And again, this, this whole idea that somehow the Canadian government are the
00:06:46.540 arbiters of truth and that there are these super serious diplomats out there with a noble aim,
00:06:52.280 which is to like expose Russian disinformation. It's, it's all just so stupid. And again, it,
00:06:57.520 it projects such an embarrassing image onto Canada. Like this is, this is what we stand for in the world
00:07:03.120 stage now. Pretty, pretty pathetic. Talking about pathetic disinformation, actually. This is a
00:07:10.640 huge, huge story from back in 2020. So, uh, we'll, we'll take you back to the presidential election
00:07:16.340 2020, uh, something we, we in the media call an October surprise, which is a big bombshell that
00:07:22.280 breaks just weeks before the election and could have an impact on the election. That was the Hunter
00:07:27.180 Biden story. So the New York post, which is the oldest running newspaper in the United States. It was
00:07:33.020 started in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, the person, uh, the founding father, one of the founding
00:07:37.940 fathers of the United States, one of the authors of the federalist papers, started this newspaper.
00:07:42.340 It's been running in existence since it's sort of now more of a conservative tablet, um, newspaper.
00:07:48.040 However, it still had this very, this, uh, very real report that came out in October of 2020,
00:07:53.260 right before the election on Hunter Biden. So Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden is this sort of sketchy,
00:07:58.760 um, ne'er do well, uh, you know, son of a, son of a rich, uh, famous politician who uses his
00:08:05.900 father's, uh, power, uses his own last name as his own currency to do deals with adversarial and
00:08:12.160 nefarious government regimes. That's his whole shtick. That's what Hunter Biden does for a living.
00:08:16.760 And so this, this, this, this individual Hunter Biden, he drops off his laptop at a repair shop
00:08:22.200 in Delaware in April, 2019, because he is locked out and he just kind of leaves it there. And so the,
00:08:26.540 the laptop repair shop eventually turns it over to the FBI and the FBI, someone at the FBI,
00:08:32.280 I guess, leaked it over to the New York times and the content of the laptop was incredibly
00:08:37.080 incriminating. It, it included, um, you know, not, not, not just, uh, information emails about
00:08:42.500 his corrupt business dealings and, and all the money that he was making by trading off of his
00:08:46.200 father's name, but also, uh, personal images of him smoking drugs, smoking crack, doing all kinds
00:08:51.820 of incredibly awful and illegal things. Anyway, the, the New York post story got completely censored
00:08:57.600 at the time we were told that this was Russian disinformation, that it wasn't true. Uh, there
00:09:01.760 were all kinds of experts out there telling us that, that it has the hallmarks of, of, of a Russian
00:09:06.280 disinformation theme. And therefore the story was completely discredited. It wasn't taken serious
00:09:12.660 by legacy media and even worse, uh, social media sites and social media giants like Twitter and
00:09:17.660 Facebook prevented people from sharing it. They even locked the account of the New York post.
00:09:21.820 Well, uh, so, so that was all, that all happened nearly two years ago. And part of the reason why
00:09:26.840 I think, uh, Joe Biden was elected was because the story was completely suppressed. Americans weren't
00:09:31.580 able to know the truth about his, his family and his son's business dealings. Uh, and, and the
00:09:36.740 business dealings also included Joe Biden as well in the laptop, uh, in the emails, uh, Hunter Biden
00:09:42.360 made it pretty clear that his dad was involved in some of these deals. Anyway, uh, fast forward to this
00:09:46.900 week, Harrison and the New York times validates the, the, uh, authenticity of this story. So
00:09:56.000 a comprehensive report about the ongoing federal probe into Hunter Biden's tax filings published
00:10:01.460 by the New York times on Wednesday night confirmed the existence of Joe Biden's first son's infamous
00:10:06.460 laptop in October, 2020. The post exclusively reported on the content of Hunter Biden's laptop
00:10:11.840 that he ditched at a Delaware repair shop in April, 2019. The laptop's hard drive contained a
00:10:16.820 trove of emails, text messages, photos, and financial documents between Hunter Biden, his
00:10:20.780 family and business associates detailing how the president's son used his political leverage
00:10:25.940 in his overseas business dealings. The repair shop owner reported laptop to the FBI, which
00:10:31.040 seized the device and its hard drive. So, and, and, and again, you know, uh, Facebook and
00:10:35.520 Twitter both restricted the story. They wouldn't allow people to post it. You couldn't share
00:10:39.980 it. Um, and surely that had an impact. So, so, so this, this is like the ultimate fake
00:10:45.260 news story because legacy media and the social media giants suppressed it, telling us that
00:10:49.240 it was fake news. In reality, Harrison, it was real. So, so the stories that the legacy
00:10:54.060 media tell you are real are fake. The stories that they tell you are fake are real. This
00:10:57.620 is truly incredible.
00:10:59.640 Yeah, we're heading in that direction, certainly. And this, this story about the laptop is, is
00:11:05.020 infamous. It'll go down in history. Uh, as you said, Candace is one of the, one of the
00:11:09.480 worst examples of big tech and legacy media, um, working together to influence an election.
00:11:16.700 Now, this story, as, as people know now was incredibly damaging for Joe Biden's campaign.
00:11:23.300 It outlined how throughout Joe Biden's vice presidency, Hunter Biden used his father's
00:11:29.520 position to gain positions on board, such as the Burisma, uh, energy and gas company in
00:11:35.500 Ukraine. And also how he used, how he, how he was able to get money from, for example,
00:11:41.280 the Moscow mayor's wife at the time. And there's a famous line in all of this between the, between
00:11:46.980 Hunter Biden and some of the Burisma dealings, about 10% for the big guy. That was Joe Biden
00:11:52.480 and how they were basically using their political positions to make money and profit for themselves.
00:11:58.240 Now it's, it's, it's crazy because you hinted at this users on social media on Facebook and
00:12:04.280 Twitter couldn't even share the article in private messages. So do we think for one moment that if
00:12:10.600 there was an article this damaging to, uh, to Donald Trump's campaign, that it would be suppressed
00:12:16.340 because it would be seen as Russian disinformation? Did we see any of the fake articles that turned out
00:12:21.920 to be fake about the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia or the Steele dossier be slapped as
00:12:28.000 disinformation? Of course not. This is, this is political. This is interference. Real journalists,
00:12:34.200 should be very concerned about this. They should be doing their jobs and, and, and doing the job
00:12:38.200 that Miranda Devine at the New York post did in, in originally publishing this story and,
00:12:42.800 and doing their jobs to tell the truth because we're heading in a very dangerous direction where
00:12:46.960 if the, if big tech likes a candidate in a race, they, they, they pick one of the horses in the,
00:12:52.480 uh, in the horse race, they're going to do everything they can. And they're going to wield incredible
00:12:56.320 power to influence that election and to protect their guy. So it's, it's really dangerous. I think
00:13:02.260 we're going to see something like this in Canada if we're not careful about it. And it, it's,
00:13:06.660 it should be a warning. It should be a warning to all journalists to pay attention to this sort
00:13:10.900 of thing, do your job and don't get caught up in the horse race. If you might prefer one candidate
00:13:15.360 over the other. Well, absolutely. And the fact that they did this clearly to, to take down Donald
00:13:21.300 Trump, to, to protect Joe Biden, uh, it's having a catastrophic effect because look at the way America
00:13:26.960 is being run right now, um, by someone who it doesn't really seem fit, uh, for the position.
00:13:32.740 And just, just the fact that, that social media has that kind of power, uh, really you're right,
00:13:38.380 should, should scare every, every journalist. Well, bringing it back to Canada here, Harrison,
00:13:43.420 uh, this was one of these really strange, strange stories. It was like, um, you know,
00:13:49.240 parody becoming reality or something like that. Uh, Dean Blendell, who is a former radio host
00:13:54.280 in Toronto, uh, went on social media to attack conservative leader, Candace Bergen,
00:13:59.420 apparently for not clapping enough. So Dean Blendell has this whole deranged, uh, Twitter
00:14:04.560 thread, uh, attacking Candace Bergen. He writes this, the only person not clapping after his
00:14:11.480 speech to the Canadian parliament, Candace Bergen. So just a bit of background, uh, Vladimir
00:14:15.460 Zelensky, the president of the United States addressed the Canadian parliament, basically doing
00:14:18.980 his best war cry, trying to encourage the West, Canada, the United States, NATO, uh,
00:14:24.180 to join in and, and take part in this war to, to, to escalate it and to turn a conflict between
00:14:29.040 Ukraine and Russia into basically a world war. And, and so he gave this speech and in response,
00:14:35.180 and this is fairly typical when a, when a world leader addresses parliament, uh, unanimous standing
00:14:40.780 ovation from, uh, parliamentarians in the house of commons, they gave a long extended, uh,
00:14:46.820 standing ovation round of applause. So what did Dean Blundell do? He found an eight second clip
00:14:51.800 of, uh, zoomed in on Candace Bergen. You can see it. We'll show it on the screen here where she's
00:14:57.000 just, you know, taking a little break from clapping or whatever. You could, you could see that there's
00:15:00.380 other people who are also taking a break. This was, this was like a few minutes into the standing
00:15:03.480 ovation. I mean, these things are very ridiculous and a lot of them are just for show. Uh, I can,
00:15:07.520 I can look at three or four other MPs here who have stopped clapping because like I said,
00:15:11.160 this was quite a ways into the standing ovation, but still, uh, Dean Blundell's, uh, initial tweet
00:15:17.760 there got plenty of retweets and attention, even though this is fake news. This is fake news because
00:15:23.040 we can see that Candace Bergen was indeed giving a standing ovation and clapping regardless Dean
00:15:28.320 Blundell taking it all out of context. He goes on to say, uh, this is one of those incoherent rounds.
00:15:33.120 I don't, I don't think Dean Blundell is quite, um, in his comfort, comfort zone talking about foreign
00:15:38.060 policy because the words that he's going to say here just don't make any sense. So this isn't
00:15:42.800 something you half-ass. She started to clap, stopped with a few other cons, no Ukraine ribbon,
00:15:48.960 words of support on behalf of just conservatives, not Canadians. She's really not good at hiding her
00:15:54.320 theocratic self. Okay. So first of all, he's piling on saying that she's not even wearing a Ukraine
00:15:59.060 ribbon. What I guess next he's going to say, like, she doesn't have the Ukraine flag in her Twitter
00:16:02.860 profile. She, she's not, she's not, you know, supporting the latest thing with, with us good liberals
00:16:07.740 over here and accuses her of being a the, a theocratic self. I don't think he knows what
00:16:12.320 the word theocratic means because, um, I don't think that this in any way, shape or form shows
00:16:17.940 what Kenneth Bergen is some kind of a Christian fundamentalist who wants to impose Christianity
00:16:23.300 onto others. I mean, that's typically what a theocrat means. Someone who governs by religion.
00:16:28.180 Uh, that's not what Kenneth Bergen is doing by not clapping at Zelensky. That's not what Vladimir
00:16:33.380 Putin does. So I don't think he quite knows what that word means. He goes on to say, I don't care
00:16:38.340 what side of the aisle or the color of the party, my disdain for the political commerce and the power
00:16:44.600 centers that run it are effing intense. I'm sorry. I don't really understand. So he's now talking about
00:16:50.740 his disdain for political commerce. I don't know what that has to do with Kenneth Bergen not clapping.
00:16:56.920 Uh, regardless, he, he goes, we have but one choice. We are Canadian. We stand with Ukraine
00:17:03.300 and our support is unilateral. I think he might have meant to say unconditional, uh, unilateral
00:17:09.000 means that one person dictates it to everyone else. Again, this guy like, okay, yeah, he, he made a,
00:17:15.080 he made a point here. Kenneth Bergen wasn't clapping for that eight second clip out taken out of a two
00:17:19.360 minute, uh, clip out of context. And then he just, uh, keeps going and digresses into an insane
00:17:25.760 political rant showing how, uh, clueless and, uh, basically politically illiterate he is.
00:17:31.860 Harrison, what did you think of this one? Well, it was a nice try by Dean, uh, to sound all very
00:17:37.960 grand and, and very, you know, sound on foreign policy, but I think it was a bit of a failure
00:17:42.760 because if you watched the, the speech from Zelensky to the Canadian parliament, what became
00:17:49.140 very clear was, as you said at the beginning, everyone in the house was clapping. Everyone was trying
00:17:53.920 to, you know, engage in the sort of the performative acts that you would do for any sort of speech
00:17:59.340 given to the Canadian parliament. But one thing, one thing when I read this that didn't, didn't make
00:18:04.760 much sense to me was that Kenneth Bergen's speech was actually more, almost more passionate than
00:18:11.360 Justin Trudeau's. She actually called for a no fly zone over part of Ukraine, which is more than
00:18:17.260 Trudeau did and not something I think would be a wise decision. Um, but nonetheless, she was very,
00:18:23.500 very passionate about, um, Canada's defense of Ukraine and it's her job to project the
00:18:29.060 conservative position, not to, not to speak on behalf of the country. That's the job of the prime
00:18:33.880 minister. So again, this just shows a lack of understanding, uh, from Dean Blundell. And I can
00:18:39.880 only think of that, that line in the princess bride about how, uh, you know, you keep using those
00:18:45.120 words, but I don't think they mean what you think they mean. And that's what I, that's what I thought
00:18:49.040 of when I, when I saw this, this ramble, um, this Twitter ramble. And I want to pull quotes from
00:18:54.340 Bergen, from Bergen speech really quick, because I just want to show you exactly what she said. She
00:18:58.880 says, we must stand with Ukraine. It's not a choice. It's a moral duty, which is pretty much in
00:19:03.780 line with, with, um, Dean's final tweet. And then she says, we must do more to work with our allies to
00:19:09.660 secure Ukrainian airspace, which is a rallying cry around, around declaring a no fly zone, at least
00:19:16.560 partially in the areas, um, of the humanitarian corridors, as she said, over Ukraine. So again,
00:19:22.400 this just misses the mark totally. Well, and a, a no fly zone is a euphemism. Uh, a no fly zone
00:19:28.360 means American jets fighting and shooting down Russian jets that would turn this from a war,
00:19:34.440 a conflict between Ukraine and Russia into a hot war between two global superpowers, or at least
00:19:40.620 American superpower and a nuclear armed country, Russia. So, so anyone calling for a no fly zone
00:19:47.420 is, is calling for huge escalation and the involvement of NATO and American planes, which
00:19:52.720 again, would turn this into a very different kind of conflict. I know, I know this, this reference is
00:19:57.320 a little old for you, Harrison, you're, you're a little young for the Seinfeld references, but
00:20:01.600 immediately when you see someone, you know, calling someone out, uh, trying to embarrass them,
00:20:07.500 saying, how, how dare you not wear the Ukraine ribbon? Uh, this, this goes right back, uh, to
00:20:12.880 Seinfeld for those of us who, who, who watched it. You know, we used to say that there's a Seinfeld
00:20:17.040 reference for everything. The brilliant, uh, Larry David, uh, you know, has a great understanding
00:20:21.700 of various situations. So I'm going to play this clip cause I, I, I like Seinfeld and Kramer is my
00:20:27.100 favorite character. So here is an old, old reference. Um, but for those of you that remember Seinfeld,
00:20:31.940 uh, this pretty much exact same thing happened. So, um, we can, we can see in this scenario,
00:20:37.600 Candace Bergen is, is like the Kramer character and everyone yelling at her for not, not being
00:20:41.600 supportive enough for, uh, Ukraine is like the AIDS ribbon. Here's that clip.
00:20:49.320 Okay. You're checked in. Thank you. Here's your AIDS ribbon. No, thanks. You don't want to wear an
00:20:53.860 AIDS ribbon. No, no, but you have to wear an AIDS ribbon. I have to. Yes. Yeah. See, that's why I don't
00:20:59.600 want to. But everyone wears the ribbon. You must wear the ribbon. You know what you are? You're a
00:21:06.200 ribbon bully. Hey, hey you, come back here. Come back here and put this on. Hey, where's your ribbon?
00:21:17.780 Oh, I don't wear the ribbon. You don't wear the ribbon? Aren't you against AIDS? Yeah, I'm against
00:21:22.420 AIDS. I mean, I'm walking on it. I just don't wear the ribbon. Who do you think you are? Put the ribbon
00:21:28.320 on it. Hey, Cedric, Bob, this guy won't wear a ribbon. Who? Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?
00:21:36.780 I love Seinfeld. It's just a classic, uh, timeless reference there. And it's pretty much playing out,
00:21:42.060 uh, in front of us. And, and it's not just Candace Bergen, Harrison. There was a Russian
00:21:46.200 tennis player who has been banned from playing at Wimbledon, um, unless he comes out and explicitly
00:21:51.400 condemns Vladimir Putin. So we're talking about, uh, Daniel Medvedev. Apparently, uh, you know,
00:21:57.920 we saw this and I talked about it earlier in the week with Rupa Supramania, um, that,
00:22:02.000 you know, anyone who's Russian is now open season and fair game for harassment, intimidation,
00:22:07.360 uh, Facebook even changed their policies. So they now allow, uh, incitement of violence
00:22:12.320 against the Russians. Well, we're seeing now that it's not enough if you, if you condemn
00:22:17.200 Russia, it's not enough if you condemn, uh, Putin, they want you to like stand up on a,
00:22:21.660 on a pulpit and, you know, disavow your entire country and culture, uh, saying that somebody,
00:22:26.920 someone can't even play tennis now, um, unless they provide assurances that they do not support
00:22:31.960 the Russian, uh, president. This is politics is seeping into every aspect of our life. And this,
00:22:37.560 this, this treatment of Russian, uh, players, Russian performers is, is just, uh, it's so
00:22:43.640 illiberal Harrison. I, it's just, it's something that doesn't belong in a Western liberal society.
00:22:48.760 What do you think? No. And, and you know what, we, we've seen this in sports coming for a long
00:22:53.120 time. We've seen it, um, where, you know, athletes are expected to, you know, pass the purity test to
00:22:58.900 meet the political standards of the people that own the teams or the people that run the leagues.
00:23:05.040 And this is another example of that. This, this tennis player was, um, was, or is currently the
00:23:10.440 number one tennis player in the world. And he won't be able to compete in the number one tennis
00:23:15.600 tournament, which is Wimbledon. I don't know much about tennis, but I think that might be the number
00:23:19.340 one. And unless, unless he comes out and condemns the leader of his country, which may or may not be
00:23:25.480 a dangerous thing for him to do as a Russian when he returns back to his country and not, not to say
00:23:31.240 that it's, it's right or wrong, but it's not just an easy thing to do. The UK sports minister said,
00:23:38.080 this is, I want to say this because this is, this is important to note. The UK sports minister
00:23:41.560 minister said, absolutely nobody flying the flag of Russia should be allowed or enabled. We need what,
00:23:47.600 we need some potential assurance that they are not supporters of Putin. And we are considering what
00:23:52.040 requirements we may try to get some assurances along those lines. And then, you know, you compare
00:23:58.780 that statement to the statement of, of this guy, this tennis player Medvedev, who just says, it's tough
00:24:05.180 to talk on this subject because I want to play tennis, play in different countries. Uh, my message
00:24:09.980 is always the same. I want peace in all the world, all countries. I mean, the guy is just a tennis
00:24:14.260 player. He's not, he's not, he's not part of the, part of the, the plot in this war. And it just shows
00:24:20.540 a direction that we're heading in, which I think is really disappointing. Sports should be an escape
00:24:24.860 from politics. It should not be dominated by, um, what seems to be very partisan political engagement.
00:24:32.620 And I think in general, we should all just be, we should all just want to have some separation.
00:24:38.280 Politics shouldn't dominate every single aspect of our lives, but we're getting to that point and it's
00:24:42.920 quite disappointing. Well, and the whole point behind international competition is to build
00:24:47.320 bridges and to make inroads and to understand each other. Right. And so the idea that if you don't
00:24:53.060 have the exact same line of thinking and you don't say the exact same things condemning different
00:24:57.800 countries, you can't participate. I mean, that's, that's completely the opposite of the idea of these
00:25:02.940 international sport competitions. So, uh, you're completely right. One final story I want to talk
00:25:06.920 about here, Harrison, this just drives me absolutely crazy. The politicization of the position
00:25:12.500 of the governor general and the cheerleading and stenography that happens over at the CBC. So I'm
00:25:17.780 talking about this headline, governor general, Mary Simon says she and the queen discussed
00:25:21.660 reconciliation and Canada's real history. Okay, here we go. So, so, so we are basically told here
00:25:27.700 that we're going to rewrite Canada's history books, um, to include all the latest woke talking points,
00:25:33.860 um, basically saying that all the English people, all the British people who settled Canada,
00:25:37.880 the, the pioneers of this country, the people who came and put together our liberal democracy
00:25:43.040 or tradition, our great tradition that we got from the British, uh, that that's all out, um,
00:25:48.340 out with that in with this idea that we are nothing but a group of the Canadians are nothing
00:25:53.160 but, uh, colonial settlers, um, imperialists who, who came and committed genocide, basically.
00:25:59.420 That's, that's the idea. So, so governor general, Mary Simon is, is basically coming back
00:26:04.200 and telling the CBC what her and the queen talked about in a private meeting.
00:26:08.400 So much for the idea, um, that the governor general is a figurehead head of state and that
00:26:13.380 they don't get into the fray. I'll just say, I love Queen Elizabeth. I think she's a tremendous
00:26:17.100 individual, incredibly strong woman in her nineties, still the monarch. Uh, she's set an incredible
00:26:22.040 example for the Royal family as to how not to engage and, and, and put herself in the middle of
00:26:27.660 the politics of the day. She's stayed completely out of the fray for the most part. She's incredibly
00:26:32.400 classy woman who, who really represents the elegance of the crown. Mary Simon could learn
00:26:37.140 a lot from the queen except for instead of going to meet the queen and trying to learn
00:26:40.140 from her, she's trying to lecture the queen and, and, uh, purport her own worldview onto
00:26:45.460 the queen. So, so this story Harrison is not based on what actually happened during that
00:26:49.700 meeting. Cause we don't know what happened. It's a private meeting. It's based on what Mary
00:26:53.600 Simon, the governor general reported back to the CBC about the conversation. So let me just
00:26:58.380 read a few lines here. I, you know, the whole thing about how we're going to rewrite
00:27:01.600 our history books is just appalling. Uh, but that's sort of what we've come to expect
00:27:05.000 from the woke left today. Uh, she says that she, uh, so this is from the CBC piece. It
00:27:10.100 says Simon said she felt that the queen was well informed on issues affecting Canada, including
00:27:14.680 the recent occupation of Ottawa by anti-vaccine mandate protesters. So that's the CBC's own
00:27:19.400 editorialization, um, classifying the protest, uh, freedom convoy as an anti-vaccine mandate
00:27:25.140 protest and calling it an occupation. Now this is what Simon said. She said, I think she
00:27:29.820 found it difficult to understand. Simon said of the queen's reaction to the blockades.
00:27:34.420 It's like the Ukraine crisis. She finds it difficult to understand. See, I, I interpret
00:27:38.660 that Harrison as the queen's diplomatic way of saying that she thinks that the situation
00:27:43.300 is far more complicated than the way that the media paints it and the way that Justin Trudeau
00:27:46.980 paints it, then probably the way that Mary Simon paints it. Again, this is her not getting
00:27:51.500 involved in the frame, not validating the sort of politicized way of describing the freedom
00:27:57.780 convoy and just saying that she, she thinks it's more complicated and that it's difficult
00:28:01.660 to understand. Again, um, this, this, this is the queen taking the high road and Mary
00:28:07.260 Simon continuing to push her own ideology onto the queen. So it goes on, it says, Simon said
00:28:11.620 the queen told her she knows what it's like to live in a city under siege with the air raid
00:28:16.380 sirens going off at all hours. So the queen's trying to be empathetic and saying, oh, it must
00:28:20.720 have been hard for you to be in Ottawa when all those horns were honking. Um, I, I can relate
00:28:25.660 because of this, um, situation that I lived through world war two when the Nazis were actually
00:28:31.240 bombing Britain during the, um, during the air raids, um, and the battle of Britain there.
00:28:37.300 So, so here we have the governor general comparing the truckers to Hitler's war during the second
00:28:44.740 world war and projecting it and saying that it was really the queen that was saying that.
00:28:48.180 So, so this is a quote, it says during the years of the Hitler regime, I guess she was very
00:28:52.580 much affected by that. And she said, I think I could almost see some similarities happening.
00:28:58.120 And she talked about that. So again, look at how many times that the governor general couches
00:29:03.600 her words here. I think she could almost see some similarities happening. So, so this is,
00:29:09.120 this is not the queen saying that there are similarities. This is Mary Simon saying that she
00:29:13.540 thinks there are some similarities to some things like three removed again, putting words into the
00:29:19.400 queen's mouth, making the queen sound like she's the one politicizing this. No, this is,
00:29:23.480 this is the governor general of Canada comparing freedom loving truckers to Nazis in the CBC and the
00:29:29.640 CBC just publishing it like it's no big deal. There's so much wrong here, Harrison. There's layers
00:29:35.020 and layers and layers of just incompetency and corruption. Um, but this is sort of what we've
00:29:39.740 come to expect from our state broadcaster and our embarrassment of a governor general.
00:29:44.180 Well, under Justin Trudeau, the position and the institution of the governor general, which used
00:29:49.360 to be this, this great thing in our country, at least in my, my opinion, it used to be great has
00:29:55.220 now become a total joke. You know, we went from, we went from scandals with Julie Payette as
00:30:00.860 governor general now to a far left political activist filling the role in Mary Simon. And I don't
00:30:07.540 like to, I don't like to say those things about the institution, but we're really getting to that
00:30:11.220 point. And when you read articles like this, it, it really makes me angry because it shows just how,
00:30:17.620 just how, how much of an embarrassment, um, that, that institution has become the idea that the
00:30:23.180 governor general could go to, uh, could go to meet with the queen and even make the insinuation that
00:30:29.700 there is some sort of comparison to what happened in Ottawa to the blitz is totally insulting. It's,
00:30:36.140 it's, I mean, there are other words to describe it, but I won't get into them here. Um, it's just,
00:30:41.220 it's really, really disappointing to see this. And I think you, you touched on this Candace when,
00:30:46.200 when the queen said that, or supposedly said that she didn't understand the, the, the way that the,
00:30:52.960 the story was being pushed or, or she just said that I think that's because frankly, the queen knows
00:30:59.000 better. She has been around to experience everything from the second world war up to now. And she knows
00:31:04.860 better than to just accept the CBC line regarding what happened in Ottawa. And she knows better than to
00:31:10.740 just accept the, uh, the, the message being pushed about what's happening around the world.
00:31:15.960 She's clearly very wise. She, she knows exactly what's going on. And it, it shows the, the complete,
00:31:23.560 the complete contrast between the queen and the queen's representative in Canada, which couldn't
00:31:29.520 be further from the truth. Frankly, after reading this, I don't believe Mary Simon represents the
00:31:33.440 queen at all. I don't believe Mary Simon at this point is, is, is a, is a reasonable representation of
00:31:39.880 the queen, which is what the governor general should be. So it's really disappointing to read this and
00:31:45.200 it's, it's a sad state really how far the institution has fallen. Right. A governor general should be seen
00:31:51.340 and not heard. I don't think that she's a cabinet minister. Her position isn't to go out there and
00:31:55.600 spout off her opinion on things, uh, or to go lecture the queen and then turn around and boast to
00:32:01.140 the CBC about it, getting them to write a news story. It's a complete abomination of the title and
00:32:06.300 the role. And again, good for the queen for not falling into the traps, even in Mary Simon's own,
00:32:12.520 you know, reenaction of, of what happened. I mean, she's the one that's recounting this to the CBC. Uh,
00:32:18.680 she, she, she lets it be known that the queen wasn't going along with her leftist ideology, ideological
00:32:24.000 nonsense. Uh, but, but again, this story does not reflect well on Mary Simon, does not reflect well on the
00:32:30.520 CBC. There's not an ounce of critical thinking or skepticism whatsoever. The way that the CBC covers
00:32:36.880 this, it's just really promoting Mary Simon and her ideology, not taking any account of the fact
00:32:42.580 that this is a symbolic role. She's representative of the queen. She's not a cabinet minister. She
00:32:47.800 doesn't get to spout off her own opinions. Um, and yet that's all we see from this piece. So I would,
00:32:53.160 I would chalk this up as a, uh, all in days work over at the CBC, a typical failure of our media,
00:32:59.360 as well as our institutions. But that's, uh, that's what the show is all about Harrison. So
00:33:03.600 thanks so much for joining us today. It's been a fun to have you on the show.
00:33:07.520 Thanks for tuning in. It's fake news Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm show.