The Candice Malcolm Show - Now that Erin O’Toole has lost, the media suddenly love him

00:00:00.000 The legacy media are coming out in support of Erin O'Toole.

00:00:03.960 That's how we know we have a problem.

00:00:05.360 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:12.380 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:15.000 So we just spent a five-week-long election campaign,

00:00:18.960 five weeks where we saw the legacy media in Canada

00:00:22.540 treat the Conservatives unfairly.

00:00:24.620 They always treat Conservatives unfairly,

00:00:26.460 but during the election, this was amplified

00:00:28.480 and they really, really ramped it up.

00:00:30.240 They were writing fake news stories, vilifying Conservatives.

00:00:33.440 They were misrepresenting Erin O'Toole's position at every opportunity.

00:00:37.160 They were repeating and pushing liberal talking points,

00:00:40.240 pushing liberal wedge issues in support of Justin Trudeau.

00:00:43.900 And generally speaking, they were vilifying Conservatives at every opportunity.

00:00:47.880 But now that the election is over,

00:00:50.400 we're starting to see journalists have a different tune.

00:00:53.380 They've basically done a complete 180.

00:00:56.280 So now that Erin O'Toole has lost the election, 0.98

00:00:59.360 we are starting to see many journalists in Canada come out in favour of him,

00:01:03.440 giving him words of support and urging Conservatives,

00:01:06.300 urging the Conservative base to leave him on as their leader.

00:01:10.360 Now that Erin O'Toole has no chance of becoming Prime Minister, 1.00

00:01:13.120 or at least not anytime soon,

00:01:15.140 the media are more than happy to pretend that they like Conservatives

00:01:18.900 or pretend that they may give Conservatives a shot in the future.

00:01:22.740 So long as these are Conservatives, of course, who act like Liberals,

00:01:26.620 the journalists are more than happy to support them.

00:01:29.340 So yesterday on the show,

00:01:30.720 I discussed the Conservative strategy in the last election.

00:01:34.580 Erin O'Toole, we all know this,

00:01:35.840 he ran as a moderate.

00:01:37.400 He scrapped any Conservative policies,

00:01:39.540 any Conservative ideas,

00:01:41.100 and he instead decided to shift to the centre

00:01:43.840 and more or less present himself to the Canadian public as a Liberal.

00:01:47.560 He more or less ran as a Liberal.

00:01:49.320 His proposition to voters was something like this.

00:01:52.240 I'm just like the Liberals in terms of my woke progressive values.

00:01:55.600 I'm just like the Liberals in terms of my big spending policies.

00:01:58.900 I'm just like the Liberals in terms of my commitment

00:02:01.600 to keeping Conservatives out of the halls of power.

00:02:05.760 But, this is what Erin O'Toole said,

00:02:07.400 but unlike the Liberals,

00:02:09.020 I'm a little bit more competent,

00:02:11.260 a little bit more trustworthy.

00:02:12.760 I will be a better manager of the government.

00:02:15.520 I'll be a better manager of the big government,

00:02:17.900 big government spending brought in by the Liberals.

00:02:20.500 So, that was the strategy.

00:02:22.000 That was his proposition to voters.

00:02:23.600 And as we saw on Monday night,

00:02:25.260 that strategy failed.

00:02:26.320 Despite Erin O'Toole's best efforts 0.99

00:02:27.940 to distance himself from Conservative values

00:02:30.280 and to more or less replicate the Liberal policy platform,

00:02:35.180 Erin O'Toole failed to win over progressive and Liberal voters.

00:02:38.080 He didn't make inroads in the parts of the country

00:02:40.500 where he was aiming to win over.

00:02:43.140 He didn't win more seats in the 905.

00:02:44.780 In fact, he lost seats in the 905.

00:02:46.640 He lost seats in the lower mainland of British Columbia

00:02:48.880 and around Vancouver.

00:02:50.140 And he was basically at a stalemate in Quebec,

00:02:53.260 went in with 10 seats, came out with 10 seats.

00:02:55.120 So, he didn't add anything in Quebec.

00:02:57.740 So, not only did Erin O'Toole fail

00:02:59.820 to win over the progressive Liberal voters,

00:03:02.840 he also insulted long-time Conservative voters

00:03:05.960 and alienated his own base.

00:03:08.200 That's why we have a problem.

00:03:09.560 But, of course, none of this matters to the legacy media.

00:03:12.160 In fact, all of these things make them like Erin O'Toole even more.

00:03:17.400 Just look at the reaction by members of the legacy media

00:03:20.640 to the reckoning that is happening right now among Conservatives.

00:03:24.420 This all started right after we found out

00:03:26.540 that Erin O'Toole had lost the election.

00:03:28.540 Here we have an article, an op-ed in the Globe and Mail

00:03:31.720 written by John Ibbotson.

00:03:32.860 And it says Erin O'Toole tried to refashion the Conservative movement 0.95

00:03:36.220 and deserves another chance to lead.

00:03:39.280 So, of course, legacy media journalists who never vote Conservative,

00:03:42.640 never support Conservatives, always vote Liberal,

00:03:45.300 have Liberal values and Liberal ideas,

00:03:47.420 they want Erin O'Toole to stick around 1.00

00:03:49.440 because they want a Liberal version of the Conservative Party.

00:03:52.800 So here is what Ibbotson writes.

00:03:54.680 He says,

00:03:55.060 Then he goes on to say that would be a mistake.

00:04:08.260 The pandemic has made progressives of all of us.

00:04:11.100 And in any case, a Conservative Party of Stephen Harper

00:04:13.440 is ill-suited to the third decade of the 21st century.

00:04:18.020 Every year there are hundreds of thousands of new immigrants.

00:04:20.620 Every year the suburbs expand.

00:04:22.160 Every year the small towns get smaller and family-owned farms fewer.

00:04:26.680 So the point that he's basically making

00:04:28.320 is that Conservatives are old-fashioned.

00:04:30.640 We don't need them.

00:04:31.340 We don't have a place for them in the country.

00:04:33.160 We're slowly sort of urbanizing the whole country.

00:04:35.720 So who cares about rural values?

00:04:37.380 Who cares about smaller towns?

00:04:39.860 Let's all just jump into this idea

00:04:42.180 that Canada is this left-wing cosmopolitan country.

00:04:45.800 I'm not surprised at all that this is what the Globe and Mail believe.

00:04:48.720 Of course, this is the downtown Toronto perspective of Canada

00:04:51.760 that we should all just be a lot more like downtown Toronto.

00:04:55.160 If the entire country just reflected downtown Toronto,

00:04:57.820 we would all be better.

00:04:58.700 And it's a little insulting to Conservatives.

00:05:00.240 Even the idea that just because there are hundreds of thousands

00:05:02.820 of new immigrants that come to Canada,

00:05:04.540 what the Conservatives can't properly govern in that situation.

00:05:08.280 The reality is a lot of newcomers that come to Canada 0.97

00:05:10.680 have traditional Conservative values.

00:05:13.340 They support families.

00:05:14.200 They support small businesses.

00:05:15.740 They want lower taxes, less regulation.

00:05:19.320 They want safe streets and sort of more of a law-and-order attitude.

00:05:22.600 They came to Canada because they like Canada.

00:05:24.960 So the whole left-wing progressive idea

00:05:26.980 that Canada is this horrible, racist country

00:05:29.260 doesn't even apply to them.

00:05:30.620 They don't even agree with that.

00:05:31.700 Otherwise, why would they have moved to Canada in the first place? 0.77

00:05:33.800 So I totally reject the premise and the underlying idea here

00:05:37.040 that because we have immigrants,

00:05:38.740 we can't have a Conservative government,

00:05:40.260 as if those two things don't go hand-in-hand.

00:05:42.200 But the more broader point that Ibbotson is making

00:05:44.720 is basically just that he likes it when Conservatives act liberal

00:05:48.880 and therefore he wants to keep Aaron O'Toole in power,

00:05:52.960 even though it's probably very unlikely

00:05:54.600 that this person would vote Conservative either way.

00:05:58.160 Next, we have Steve Marr, who is a journalist

00:06:01.460 and he is now the editor over at McLean's.

00:06:04.980 He writes this on Twitter.

00:06:06.360 He says,

00:06:06.960 Free advice to Conservatives.

00:06:08.420 I think you were doing the right things too quickly in this election.

00:06:11.500 Keep O'Toole, take your time, do your homework.

00:06:15.020 Well, you know, when it comes to free advice for the Conservatives,

00:06:18.060 you get what you pay for.

00:06:19.440 Steve Marr is a leftist.

00:06:21.500 He's an Ottawa-based journalist.

00:06:23.420 I don't think he has ever voted Conservative in his life.

00:06:25.900 So if Conservatives were smart,

00:06:28.120 they would not listen to left-wing members of the legacy media.

00:06:31.120 They would listen to their own base.

00:06:32.840 But here is another article in McLean's

00:06:35.660 where Marr expanded on the same idea.

00:06:38.060 He writes that,

00:06:38.660 Canada has shifted to the left.

00:06:40.300 Elections allow us to get a better read

00:06:41.800 on what the public wants and the results

00:06:43.380 and where the parties move point to a clear trend.

00:06:46.640 This piece is just completely wrong.

00:06:48.260 The whole idea that he says is that

00:06:50.240 you can tell that Canada is more left-wing

00:06:52.040 because even the Conservatives

00:06:53.380 were making left-wing positions throughout the campaign.

00:06:56.040 The examples he used of left-wing positions

00:06:57.620 aren't really even true left-wing positions.

00:06:59.960 The idea that everyone agrees

00:07:02.180 that First Nations should have access to clean drinking water,

00:07:04.540 that's not a left-wing idea.

00:07:06.360 That's a universal idea.

00:07:07.960 And Conservatives obviously believe in equal treatment

00:07:11.080 and equal opportunity for all Canadians.

00:07:13.420 So it's disingenuous as well.

00:07:16.740 But his point is that

00:07:17.740 because the Conservatives moved to the left,

00:07:20.640 that must mean that the country is more left-wing.

00:07:22.820 But the reality is that the Conservatives moved to the left

00:07:25.160 and it didn't work.

00:07:26.680 They didn't win

00:07:27.300 because it alienated their own base

00:07:29.240 who weren't as excited to go out and vote.

00:07:30.800 And it didn't win over any new voters

00:07:32.920 because why would you vote for a Conservative Party

00:07:35.660 pretending to be Liberals

00:07:36.700 when you can just vote for the real thing,

00:07:38.100 when you can just vote for the real Liberals?

00:07:39.560 So again, a really bad take by McLean's

00:07:43.220 and by Steve Marr,

00:07:44.580 urging Conservatives to remain on the left

00:07:47.100 and to keep being Liberals

00:07:48.320 because that's who he might vote for.

00:07:51.400 But that doesn't mean that that's actually

00:07:52.760 what the country wants or needs.

00:07:54.640 So another take from McLean's,

00:07:56.440 this one from the Ottawa Bureau Chief Shannon Proudfoot.

00:07:59.680 She similarly writes,

00:08:01.540 not that anyone asked me,

00:08:02.640 but I don't think the Tories should ditch O'Toole after this.

00:08:05.600 Of course not,

00:08:06.240 because again, the media, the legacy media,

00:08:08.700 they like left-wing politicians.

00:08:10.260 They want more choices of different left-wing politicians.

00:08:12.700 So that is why they would want Aaron O'Toole.

00:08:16.020 And we had a reply from a podcaster here.

00:08:18.900 This guy says,

00:08:19.860 agreed, Harper grew on people,

00:08:21.560 O'Toole could,

00:08:22.700 got to convince cities

00:08:23.840 that the fringe of the party won't shape policies.

00:08:27.040 Do that and he's got a fighting chance.

00:08:28.440 So by fringe of the party,

00:08:30.100 he means the base.

00:08:31.160 He means actual conservatives,

00:08:32.360 people with conservative values

00:08:33.860 who want a conservative party.

00:08:35.900 So this guy is clearly an outsider

00:08:37.760 because he doesn't understand

00:08:38.840 the political culture of the conservative party,

00:08:41.140 of the conservative movement.

00:08:42.300 He says that the fringe of the party

00:08:44.100 shouldn't shape policy.

00:08:45.360 Who exactly is the fringe?

00:08:46.880 Because most conservatives want a conservative party.

00:08:50.300 They want a leader that expresses their values.

00:08:52.940 They want a focus on the fiscal issues.

00:08:55.560 They don't want big government spending programs.

00:08:57.400 They want a government that balances the budget.

00:08:59.700 They want limited government.

00:09:01.260 They want all of these things

00:09:02.580 that weren't evident at all

00:09:04.740 in Aaron O'Toole's platform.

00:09:06.060 So the idea to this guy

00:09:07.980 that it's the fringe that wants something,

00:09:10.320 no, that's not true.

00:09:11.160 It's the base of the party

00:09:12.600 who wants conservatism,

00:09:14.120 which is why when Aaron O'Toole

00:09:15.520 was running as leader of the party,

00:09:17.060 he pretended to be true blue.

00:09:19.060 He presented himself,

00:09:20.080 he misrepresented himself

00:09:21.200 as a real conservative

00:09:23.360 running against a red Tory.

00:09:25.440 And then as soon as he won

00:09:27.160 and the election rolled around,

00:09:28.600 he revealed that he was actually a red Tory as well,

00:09:31.560 which is why so many people are so angry.

00:09:34.720 And it's not just these hot takes on Twitter.

00:09:36.580 There were several articles that were written

00:09:38.300 that similarly make the case

00:09:40.240 for keeping Aaron O'Toole.

00:09:41.480 This one appeared over in Global News.

00:09:43.380 This was up on election day.

00:09:45.040 And it says,

00:09:45.720 O'Toole's election gamble,

00:09:47.320 swinging Tories to the center.

00:09:48.940 So this reporter goes out

00:09:50.960 and interviews a couple of red Tories,

00:09:53.520 people who didn't like the Conservatives,

00:09:55.880 wouldn't have voted for the Conservatives,

00:09:57.220 but just like the media believed,

00:09:58.900 just like Aaron O'Toole's own strategy believed,

00:10:00.860 they were people who identify as red Tories

00:10:03.180 or more centrist, more liberals,

00:10:04.760 and they were won over

00:10:06.060 and decided to go vote for Aaron O'Toole.

00:10:08.980 So we heard from an individual in Nova Scotia

00:10:11.120 that fits that description

00:10:11.900 and another one in St. Catharines, Ontario,

00:10:14.800 basically saying the same thing.

00:10:16.000 They like the idea of Aaron O'Toole

00:10:18.420 sort of as a moderate,

00:10:19.420 as a left-winger,

00:10:20.260 someone with a big government plan.

00:10:22.960 And this is just so unbelievable,

00:10:25.220 so typical of the legacy media.

00:10:26.820 So this is a line in the article.

00:10:29.220 It's not a quote.

00:10:30.080 It's not attributed to anyone.

00:10:31.200 This is just the reporter

00:10:32.320 who is not an opinion journalist,

00:10:34.540 but a reporter,

00:10:35.600 basically just stating his opinion

00:10:36.880 as fact in the piece.

00:10:38.420 So it says,

00:10:39.220 O'Toole calls himself

00:10:40.160 a true blue conservative,

00:10:42.260 but in his leadership victory speech,

00:10:44.660 he made a direct appeal

00:10:46.080 to Indigenous, LGBTQ2,

00:10:49.360 and racialized Canadians

00:10:50.800 to see themselves reflected in his party.

00:10:53.620 So the insinuation here

00:10:55.520 is that if you are a true blue conservative,

00:10:59.120 you can't also want to appeal

00:11:01.320 to Indigenous, gay, and racialized,

00:11:04.060 which is just the left-wing buzzword

00:11:05.620 for saying someone who is a minority,

00:11:07.800 someone who is not white.

00:11:09.580 So he says he's a true blue conservative,

00:11:11.380 but then he also made an appeal

00:11:13.520 to Indigenous, gay, and minority,

00:11:16.280 non-white Canadians,

00:11:17.320 and somehow that's like a contradiction.

00:11:19.060 So the underlying message here

00:11:20.480 that this reporter is sneaking into his piece

00:11:23.160 as a fact is that

00:11:24.600 if you are a true blue conservative,

00:11:26.460 it means that you are racist, 0.72

00:11:28.960 homophobic, and hateful.

00:11:31.100 And so Aaron O'Toole is not those things,

00:11:32.940 so he's like kind of what,

00:11:34.080 pointing out a contradiction.

00:11:35.600 It's just so unbelievable

00:11:36.600 the way that legacy media journalists

00:11:39.220 write about conservatives is so offensive,

00:11:41.600 so wrong.

00:11:42.620 And next he picks up on this thing

00:11:43.880 that Aaron O'Toole started doing

00:11:45.040 last week of the campaign.

00:11:46.700 He writes,

00:11:47.460 O'Toole has been saying

00:11:48.460 this isn't your grandfather's conservative party

00:11:50.780 while getting endorsement

00:11:52.520 from the grandfather of Canadian conservatism,

00:11:55.640 former progressive conservative

00:11:56.800 prime minister Brian Mulroney.

00:11:58.320 So the reporter loves to just throw that in

00:12:00.460 to try to say like,

00:12:01.540 gotcha, Aaron O'Toole,

00:12:02.500 you're a contradiction here.

00:12:03.940 You're saying this isn't

00:12:04.640 your grandfather's conservative party

00:12:05.920 while getting this endorsement

00:12:07.480 from Brian Mulroney.

00:12:09.380 I'll admit it is kind of silly

00:12:10.720 that Aaron O'Toole

00:12:11.880 was saying this line,

00:12:13.620 this isn't your grandfather's

00:12:14.720 conservative party.

00:12:15.460 We're not your dad's

00:12:16.520 conservative party anymore.

00:12:18.180 It reminds me of

00:12:19.640 Alison Redford,

00:12:20.800 the progressive conservative

00:12:21.760 premier in Alberta,

00:12:23.380 probably the most left wing

00:12:25.120 of all the progressive

00:12:26.120 conservative leaders in Canada.

00:12:28.820 Alison Redford's a leftist.

00:12:29.900 She's straight up leftist.

00:12:30.780 She won the leadership

00:12:31.680 of that party

00:12:32.340 by courting all the

00:12:33.880 teachers unions

00:12:34.680 and pulling the teachers unions 0.98

00:12:35.900 from the left,

00:12:37.200 from the NDP,

00:12:38.320 getting them to sign up

00:12:39.140 as progressive conservative

00:12:40.080 members and turning the party

00:12:42.500 into a big left wing party.

00:12:44.620 And she literally ran 0.95

00:12:45.840 full page newspaper ads

00:12:48.060 saying this exact line,

00:12:49.460 this isn't your grandfather's

00:12:50.640 conservative party.

00:12:51.620 Back then with Alison Redford

00:12:53.300 in I think it was 2012,

00:12:55.140 the idea was the conservatives

00:12:56.920 are now a big left wing party.

00:12:58.700 And so I don't know exactly

00:13:00.120 if that's what Aaron O'Toole

00:13:01.560 was going for,

00:13:02.440 but he used Alison Redford's

00:13:04.160 slogan and platform.

00:13:05.620 And yeah,

00:13:05.880 it was obviously a contradiction

00:13:06.940 to get Brian Mulroney

00:13:08.360 out campaigning.

00:13:09.980 And to this reporter,

00:13:11.220 no, Brian Mulroney

00:13:12.320 is not the grandfather

00:13:13.180 of Canadian conservatism.

00:13:15.100 That would be

00:13:15.600 Sir John A. Macdonald,

00:13:16.620 the founder of the country

00:13:18.380 and the first conservative

00:13:19.580 prime minister.

00:13:20.820 So a silly fact there.

00:13:22.360 But anyway,

00:13:22.780 this piece kind of goes on

00:13:23.960 to quote at length

00:13:25.640 a conservative lobbyist

00:13:27.160 from downtown Toronto

00:13:28.200 that basically just says

00:13:29.860 the same thing,

00:13:30.480 that the conservatives

00:13:31.680 need to continue

00:13:32.440 on this leftward path,

00:13:33.860 that we need to keep

00:13:34.500 Aaron O'Toole

00:13:35.160 and that the party

00:13:36.060 should remain a big

00:13:37.040 government left wing party.

00:13:38.360 No surprise there.

00:13:40.100 A final story that I want

00:13:41.520 to point your attention to,

00:13:42.480 and this one was getting

00:13:43.120 a lot of attention

00:13:43.840 on social media

00:13:44.940 the day of the election.

00:13:46.200 So I'm going to go through it

00:13:47.180 in a bit of detail.

00:13:48.480 This was in the Toronto Star.

00:13:51.020 And so the headline here says,

00:13:52.980 O'Toole's campaign chair

00:13:54.180 says holding Trudeau

00:13:55.380 to a minority

00:13:56.060 would be a win

00:13:57.360 for the conservatives.

00:13:58.600 So here we have it, right?

00:14:00.740 We're in the final hours

00:14:01.900 of Canada's 44th election.

00:14:04.040 This is Monday afternoon.

00:14:05.120 The story goes online.

00:14:06.140 Everyone's online.

00:14:07.100 Everyone's kind of like

00:14:08.240 waiting to see

00:14:08.820 when the results are going in,

00:14:10.000 seeing if there's any big news

00:14:11.100 in the final hours

00:14:12.320 before the polls close.

00:14:13.680 And this story all of a sudden

00:14:14.820 makes a huge splash

00:14:15.940 all over social media.

00:14:17.320 And this idea

00:14:17.920 that Aaron O'Toole's

00:14:19.400 campaign chairman,

00:14:20.880 an individual named

00:14:21.860 Waleed Solomon,

00:14:23.220 is telling the Toronto Star

00:14:24.880 that even if the conservatives lose,

00:14:26.740 they'll consider it a win.

00:14:28.580 This was just so embarrassing

00:14:29.800 for the conservatives.

00:14:30.880 Such a bad strategy.

00:14:32.620 So disheartening.

00:14:33.560 You know, the idea

00:14:34.120 that in the final hours

00:14:35.180 you should be

00:14:35.960 trying to drum up your base,

00:14:37.520 trying to get everyone excited,

00:14:38.800 trying to push

00:14:39.440 conservative enthusiasm,

00:14:40.860 trying to remind

00:14:41.800 conservative voters

00:14:42.600 to go to the polls,

00:14:44.060 give it everything you have,

00:14:45.520 throw everything out

00:14:46.560 to try to win this election.

00:14:48.940 And here you have the guy

00:14:50.360 who's running the campaign

00:14:52.100 saying, yeah,

00:14:52.920 we're probably going to lose,

00:14:54.020 but it's okay

00:14:54.640 because we'll see that as a win.

00:14:55.980 And so they're obviously

00:14:56.780 pre-positioning

00:14:58.120 and trying to set the stage

00:14:59.240 that Aaron O'Toole

00:15:00.160 actually won this election

00:15:01.240 and that we should

00:15:02.320 keep him on as leader

00:15:03.260 because, again,

00:15:04.040 we're heading in this

00:15:04.660 left-wing direction

00:15:05.320 as a party.

00:15:06.360 The media likes it.

00:15:07.420 Let's just keep going.

00:15:08.400 That's basically

00:15:08.900 what this story says.

00:15:10.200 It was so bad,

00:15:11.320 so embarrassing

00:15:12.120 for the conservatives

00:15:13.260 that the individual

00:15:14.640 in question,

00:15:15.740 Sivali Solomon,

00:15:16.580 had to actually walk it back.

00:15:17.960 So he jumps on Twitter

00:15:18.880 to do damage control.

00:15:20.420 He writes,

00:15:21.100 my comments in the star

00:15:22.220 are being misrepresented.

00:15:23.820 Unfortunately,

00:15:24.260 let me be clear.

00:15:25.720 This election

00:15:26.280 is too close to call.

00:15:27.520 We may not know

00:15:28.480 the results for days.

00:15:30.260 Every vote will count.

00:15:31.740 And this tweet

00:15:32.300 has since been deleted.

00:15:33.540 I'm not exactly sure

00:15:34.280 why he deleted it,

00:15:35.460 but the whole idea

00:15:36.260 that he was doing

00:15:37.100 damage control

00:15:37.980 about his own tweet.

00:15:38.880 Look,

00:15:39.280 here is some advice

00:15:40.700 to conservatives.

00:15:41.680 The Toronto Star

00:15:42.400 is not your friend.

00:15:43.740 The Toronto Star

00:15:44.360 is not the newspaper

00:15:45.460 that conservatives read.

00:15:46.840 It is the most

00:15:47.700 left-wing newspaper

00:15:48.900 in the country.

00:15:50.120 Conservatives

00:15:50.600 don't like the Toronto Star.

00:15:51.780 The Toronto Star

00:15:52.300 is never fair

00:15:53.280 to conservatives.

00:15:54.240 It is a far-left paper,

00:15:56.140 so much so

00:15:56.700 that it is written

00:15:57.520 into their editorial position.

00:15:59.380 Everything that is written

00:16:00.460 in the Toronto Star

00:16:01.440 is done with an eye

00:16:02.860 on social justice

00:16:03.780 and pushing the country

00:16:05.000 further to the left.

00:16:06.300 They openly state this.

00:16:08.180 It's called

00:16:08.380 the Atkinson's Principle,

00:16:09.680 and it is the guiding principle

00:16:10.740 of that newspaper.

00:16:12.080 So perhaps,

00:16:13.000 maybe conservative strategists,

00:16:14.440 conservative insiders,

00:16:15.560 people running

00:16:16.300 the campaign,

00:16:18.220 running the war room,

00:16:19.400 shouldn't be running

00:16:20.100 to the Toronto Star

00:16:21.580 with their leaks.

00:16:23.020 Why not go to a newspaper

00:16:24.580 where conservatives

00:16:25.360 actually get their news?

00:16:26.440 Why not go to a journalist

00:16:27.600 that's actually friendly

00:16:28.400 to conservatives

00:16:29.140 that might actually vote conservative

00:16:30.580 that likes conservatives?

00:16:31.720 Instead,

00:16:32.340 they went to the Toronto Star.

00:16:33.540 Perhaps,

00:16:34.220 it seems like they say

00:16:34.920 that they got burnt a little bit

00:16:36.040 that the story

00:16:36.480 was taken out of context,

00:16:37.680 but just the very idea

00:16:38.680 that they were going

00:16:39.520 to the Star

00:16:40.100 with this information

00:16:41.380 on election day.

00:16:42.080 Don't talk to the Toronto Star,

00:16:43.340 especially not on election day.

00:16:44.620 Focus on getting out the votes.

00:16:46.640 So that was a huge mistake,

00:16:47.740 and if you look

00:16:48.260 at the piece itself,

00:16:49.360 I'll give you some quotes.

00:16:50.280 It's just so cringeworthy.

00:16:52.260 He says,

00:16:52.980 the victory comes

00:16:54.080 in advancing the dialogue

00:16:55.720 with Canadians.

00:16:56.780 At the start of this race,

00:16:57.940 nobody would have expected

00:16:59.420 that we'd be in a knife fight

00:17:01.460 in strongly held liberal ridings,

00:17:03.700 and today we are.

00:17:04.600 And we are very proud

00:17:05.880 of Erin O'Toole

00:17:06.700 and the incredible campaign

00:17:07.960 that has been run.

00:17:09.300 As far as we're concerned,

00:17:11.100 we've won

00:17:11.700 by simply advancing the dialogue,

00:17:14.020 and I think caucus members

00:17:15.500 and candidates recognize that.

00:17:17.480 Such a bad take.

00:17:19.320 No, no.

00:17:20.160 It's not a victory

00:17:20.860 to advance a dialogue

00:17:22.100 with Canadians.

00:17:22.820 You're pushing,

00:17:23.440 the dialogue that you're having

00:17:24.400 with Canadians

00:17:24.860 is pushing the Conservative Party

00:17:26.120 further left,

00:17:27.040 apologizing for Conservatives,

00:17:28.660 distancing yourself

00:17:29.420 from Conservatives,

00:17:30.380 and pledging to voters

00:17:31.640 that you will not be Conservative.

00:17:33.160 So that is not

00:17:34.000 a productive dialogue

00:17:34.940 in and of itself.

00:17:36.400 And this whole idea

00:17:37.180 that they were in a knife fight

00:17:38.540 and strongly held liberal ridings,

00:17:40.440 I don't think so.

00:17:41.820 You lost all of the 905. 1.00

00:17:43.440 You lost all of the Lower Mainland.

00:17:45.360 You lost all of Quebec.

00:17:46.360 He didn't come close,

00:17:47.920 so you don't get to come out

00:17:48.900 and say all this.

00:17:50.460 So much so,

00:17:51.140 the Conservatives

00:17:51.600 were in damage control,

00:17:52.720 so this was sent out

00:17:53.560 by someone from

00:17:54.360 the Conservative War Room,

00:17:55.760 sent out to people

00:17:56.540 that sometimes speak

00:17:57.280 to the media

00:17:57.940 on behalf of Conservatives.

00:17:59.280 It says,

00:17:59.680 good afternoon.

00:18:00.400 Please be advised.

00:18:01.240 You may be asked

00:18:01.820 to comment on a story

00:18:02.760 by Alex Boudelier

00:18:03.820 in the Toronto Star.

00:18:05.600 Please refer to

00:18:06.180 the following key messages.

00:18:07.820 After an incredible campaign

00:18:09.480 from Erin O'Toole,

00:18:10.560 we're in an election

00:18:11.200 too close to call.

00:18:12.720 Every vote matters today.

00:18:13.900 Whatever the outcome tonight,

00:18:15.460 Canadians are clearly saying

00:18:16.620 no to Trudeau's power grab

00:18:17.980 and yes to change.

00:18:20.120 So just the mere fact

00:18:21.180 that they're out

00:18:21.700 doing damage control

00:18:22.720 rather than focusing

00:18:24.020 on winning the election

00:18:25.440 just shows you

00:18:26.440 what a total mess it was

00:18:27.640 over at Conservative HQ.

00:18:30.300 So this whole exchange

00:18:31.340 in the final hours

00:18:32.300 of the campaign

00:18:32.960 was a microcosm

00:18:34.540 of the entire

00:18:35.280 Conservative campaign,

00:18:36.700 the entire strategy

00:18:37.600 that went so wrong.

00:18:39.240 Instead of trying

00:18:40.080 to fire up the base,

00:18:41.460 instead of trying

00:18:42.260 to get Conservatives excited,

00:18:44.020 instead of trying

00:18:44.540 to win over Canadians,

00:18:46.160 the Conservative campaign

00:18:47.680 and Erin O'Toole's campaign 0.97

00:18:48.740 was instead focused

00:18:50.140 on trying to win over

00:18:51.700 the legacy media.

00:18:53.380 And now that the legacy media

00:18:54.640 can safely say

00:18:55.560 that Erin O'Toole 0.99

00:18:56.360 has lost the election,

00:18:57.660 they can pretend

00:18:58.280 that they like him too.

00:18:59.820 After all,

00:19:00.600 to the legacy media,

00:19:01.840 Erin O'Toole

00:19:02.340 is the perfect

00:19:03.420 Conservative leader.

00:19:04.820 He's non-threatening,

00:19:06.080 he's proven

00:19:06.620 that he cannot beat

00:19:07.820 Justin Trudeau,

00:19:08.940 and when it comes

00:19:09.700 to his values,

00:19:10.860 when it comes

00:19:11.460 to his policy,

00:19:12.900 he is a progressive.

00:19:14.280 He says so himself.

00:19:15.200 He's a liberal.

00:19:15.860 He is on the left.

00:19:17.500 That's exactly

00:19:18.220 what the legacy media

00:19:19.300 look for

00:19:20.060 in a Conservative leader.

00:19:21.900 But if you're like me

00:19:23.220 and you want

00:19:23.820 a Conservative leader

00:19:24.620 who unapologetically

00:19:26.020 champions Conservative ideas,

00:19:28.220 then don't listen

00:19:28.980 to the legacy media.

00:19:30.540 I'm Candace Malcolm

00:19:31.060 and this is

00:19:31.580 The Candace Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - September 22, 2021

Now that Erin O’Toole has lost, the media suddenly love him

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