The Candice Malcolm Show - September 22, 2021


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


Episode Stats

Length

19 minutes

Words per Minute

187.7847

Word Count

3,669

Sentence Count

241

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

The legacy media are coming out in support of Erin O'Toole now that the election is over. That's how we know we have a problem. Candice Malan explains why. The Candice Malcolm Show is on all of the social medias, if you search for it, you'll find us.


Transcript

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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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?
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
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.