The media and the Trudeau Liberals are pushing propaganda and lies about Alberta s new policy, which protects children from extremists, lunatics, and groomers. Danielle Smith is rightly holding her ground, as she should, and Pierre Polyev has finally jumped into On The Correct Side.
00:00:00.000The media and the Trader Liberals are pushing propaganda and lies about Daniel Smith's new policy, a policy which protects children from the predations of extremists, lunatics, and groomers.
00:00:12.740Daniel Smith is rightly holding her ground as she should, good for her, and Pierre Polyev has finally jumped into On the Correct Side.
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00:00:51.760Okay, so as you saw last week, big story, biggest story in the country right now is that Alberta has unveiled new policy on parental rights cracking down on an extreme far-left and dangerous ideology when it comes to gender and children.
00:01:07.960So Premier Danielle Smith announced the following changes.
00:01:11.400She said that top and bottom gender reassignment surgeries will not be permitted for children.
00:01:16.720And let me just confirm, when we say gender reassignment surgeries, we're talking about sex changes.
00:01:20.920We're talking about castration, essentially, and removing the uterus for girls.
00:01:25.420So this is going to be banned in the province of Alberta for children under the age of 17.
00:01:30.460It's really remarkable that that isn't already banned.
00:01:33.140I mean, if you just imagine what is happening in this country, that little kids and children are undergoing surgeries to change their biological sex.
00:01:42.660And then finally, finally, one province has stepped forward and said, no, we're not going to allow that for children under the age of 18.
00:01:52.400So Alberta is the first one in the country to ban the surgeries.
00:01:56.220Other provinces, as we'll talk about later, have taken similar measures when it comes to this gender ideology.
00:02:11.780It hasn't been introduced into law yet.
00:02:13.860And so basically, the idea is that Danielle Smith is just saying that parents should be notified when their child is changing their pronouns, changing their name at school.
00:02:24.600She laid out a plan for making sure that girls and women don't have to compete against men in women's only divisions in sports.
00:02:33.080And then again, saying no to these hormone therapies for little children, children under the age of 15, and absolutely no to surgeries for anyone under the age of 18.
00:02:43.900So like I mentioned, this isn't entirely unprecedented in Canada.
00:02:47.160It does go further than these other provinces.
00:02:48.860But in May of 2023, this is New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said that his province wants to review LGBT issues in school.
00:02:58.260And the law that they changed was that parents have the right to know if their child changes gender in schools.
00:03:04.300Again, it's pretty remarkable, the idea that parents aren't even told if their child starts transitioning in school,
00:03:11.500that teachers are keeping that a secret from parents in provinces that are not mentioned here.
00:03:17.320So we have New Brunswick making that change, and Saskatchewan followed suit with a similar policy change in October 2023.
00:03:24.420So this is Scott Moe saying that parents have the right to know when children under the age of 16 decide to go by a different name or a different pronoun in schools.
00:03:37.700And so you'll notice that the media is reacting very, very differently this time around to Danielle Smith than they did to those two other premiers.
00:03:46.320And I think the reason why is pretty straightforward.
00:03:49.260Danielle Smith is just incredibly effective.
00:04:46.000Something that struck me with this speech was how much it sounded like a loving, authoritative parent was finally setting boundaries for her unruly children.
00:04:54.320It's been a long time since it felt like there was a reasonable adult in charge of this country.
00:04:58.800We need this and we need this if our Canadian family is to survive and thrive.
00:05:04.140Tough love and firm spines will be necessary.
00:05:07.240And we can't give in to the tantrums anymore or they will never stop.
00:05:30.480It said that the vast majority of Canadians say that parents should be informed if their child wishes to change their pronoun in school.
00:05:39.400So you can see on the left here, it says 43% of Canadians say that parents must be informed and give consent in order for their child to socially transition, as they say in school.
00:05:48.920Another 35% say that the parents should at least be informed.
00:05:52.200So we're talking about four in five Canadians, 78% say that parents should be informed.
00:05:58.420And we're not just talking about going on hormone blockers here, going on hormone therapies and going towards potentially having surgery, life altering surgery.
00:06:07.360This is just about socially transitioning.
00:06:09.380And you get 78% of Canadians saying they agree parents need to be involved, parents need to know, parents need to give consent before this can happen.
00:06:17.640So this is one of those issues that should be a winning issue for conservatives and that the left just doesn't really realize how out of sync they are with public opinion.
00:06:26.740And you can see that through the reaction of the media.
00:06:29.480So I want to play a couple of clips for you here of how the media reacted and how they treated Premier Smith, Danielle Smith, in the wake of this announcement.
00:06:37.460You can see that they, first of all, they're trying to ask gotcha questions or trying to like trip her up and embarrass her.
00:06:44.300And then they're also just so sort of gobsmacked that someone would gobsmacked, but that someone would introduce a policy like this that that's so against their sensibility.
00:06:53.420So the first clip is someone from the Edmonton Journal attempting to embarrass Danielle Smith by pointing out the fact that her legal name is actually Marlena.
00:07:01.860Play this clip. This is just a silly, silly example of a media, of a journalist trying to ask a gotcha question and then it just sort of blowing up in her face.
00:07:10.380My understanding is that your legal first name is Marlena.
00:07:14.780Why did you choose, I'm wondering why did you choose to go by a different name and why you would take steps to restrict the same freedom for others to do the same?
00:07:26.600OK, just pause it for a second there. So the idea here of this question is so silly.
00:07:31.880It's like they've they've dug up this information about Danielle Smith.
00:07:35.080They're trying to embarrass her, implying that her mom gave her one name, but then she chose to go by a different name, her middle name, Danielle, as if that's like some kind of an equivocation.
00:07:45.340It's an equivalent of changing your gender and getting surgery to permanently change your body.
00:07:52.780So the premise of this question is so dumb.
00:07:55.200And then Danielle's reaction is just hilarious because it shows how stupid the question is.
00:08:01.900That question, because I've been I've been ever since 9-11, I've been telling her how difficult it is that she decided to have me go by my middle name and not my first name.
00:08:12.660It was my parents' choice to call me Danielle and it was my parents' choice.
00:08:18.540So, again, it was actually her parents' choice. Marlena's her middle name, but her mom and dad decided when they named her that they liked the ring of Marlena Danielle better than Danielle Marlena.
00:08:34.620So next we have a journalist again trying to ask a gotcha question, trying to imply that Danielle was Danielle Smith is divisive and that she's targeting trans kids.
00:08:54.540About depoliticizing the conversation around trans and non-binary children and, as in your own words, not using them as a political football.
00:09:05.220In November, you made clear you wanted to strike a balance on parental rights.
00:09:08.260The parental rights policies here are more aggressive than any other province.
00:09:12.200And the restrictions around hormones and puberty blockers are unprecedented in Canada.
00:09:16.080So what changed that made you take this approach?
00:09:17.840So she says that the policies are unprecedented, but the entire framework here is unprecedented.
00:09:27.100The idea that children are being told that they're born in the wrong body and that the way to fix it is through hormone therapies and drugs, that's unprecedented.
00:10:10.940We've been watching internationally as the UK has made policy changes, as well as Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden.
00:10:18.900I mean, this has been an ongoing conversation over the last number of years.
00:10:22.360We've been monitoring it very closely.
00:10:24.120And we wanted to make sure that we struck the right balance so that kids are not making irreversible decisions when they may not be mature enough to make those decisions.
00:10:32.160We want to make sure that those adult decisions are made as adults.
00:10:38.960Well, when you begin hormone therapy, there are health consequences associated with that.
00:10:44.900It is a decision that impacts your life.
00:10:48.400Higher risk of osteoporosis, so there's a need to have bone density tests.
00:10:52.720There's higher incidence of heart problems, so there's a need to have that monitored.
00:10:57.060Stepping on to the next stage when there's a bottom surgery and top surgery, that, of course, has implications for sex and for fertility.
00:11:06.880And so when we start down this pathway, we want to make sure that kids know the consequences that it's going to have on their life and that they're mature enough to be able to make those decisions and live with the consequences.
00:11:16.920And they're adult decisions, so we want to make sure that certain decisions are made as adults.
00:11:20.900So Danielle, of course, is absolutely right here.
00:11:24.680And even just that question, like, what do you what do you mean balance?
00:11:27.520Well, you know, the journalist doesn't even understand the premise of what do you mean by balance?
00:11:31.720It's like, well, just because a little kid says that they want to change their body doesn't mean that it's a good idea.
00:11:36.640And yes, of course, it's a balance because we're children and we have to have laws that protect children from making decisions that they could live to regret.
00:12:04.240And it just so happens that their ideology and their worldview is exactly the same as the liberal government and as left wing politicians across the country.
00:12:12.260So we can see that when they asked Justin Trudeau.
00:12:15.520So here is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commenting on Alberta's parental rights policies.
00:12:21.680Of course, he does the usual schtick where he makes it seem like the conservatives are super mean and super scary and that this is really just a way to to punish gay kids.
00:12:33.840I don't really know what it has to do with lesbian, gay and bi people other than the fact that so many of the individuals who transition when they're kids, it turns out that they're not actually trans or not actually they just had sort of gender dysphoria in their youth.
00:12:49.580And then when they grow up, they don't want to be trans anymore.
00:12:51.960It just turns out that they were actually just gay.
00:12:53.980So if anything, these policies go to protect gay, gay and lesbian children.
00:12:59.140Anyway, beside the point, you can see Justin Trudeau here with the usual attack against conservatives.
00:17:02.640These laws are pretty mild and they really just go to protect children from making bad decisions.
00:17:08.560And, again, it's the left and it's these deranged protesters that are making this into a huge, huge issue.
00:17:15.580You know, these trans kids wouldn't even know about this policy if it wasn't for the really deranged reaction that we are seeing from the far left.
00:18:21.780How is that for presenting both sides, being fair, being honest with the public, when every single story on your website is one-sided and it is against the side of common sense?
00:18:33.480It's against the side that 78% of Canadians agree with.
00:18:40.500They are pushing the worst of the worst.
00:18:42.880Okay, so let's move on to the Conservative Party reaction.
00:18:46.580What do the Conservatives have to say about all of this?
00:18:49.320So, just for a quick timeline, Danielle Smith introduced the policy changes last Wednesday, January 31st.
00:18:55.180A lot of that press conference and those clips that I showed you earlier, that was from Thursday and Friday of last week.
00:19:02.700And we didn't really know where the Conservatives stood.
00:19:05.300There was this Globe and Mail story that came out on Thursday, February 1st, the day after the announcement.
00:19:09.220And it just said that the Conservatives, apparently there was a leaked memo that said Conservatives tell MPs not to comment on Alberta transgender policies and basically just to ignore the issue and not talk about it.
00:19:23.400So, interesting that the Conservatives were sort of nowhere to be seen and we were told that they were told not to comment at all.
00:19:31.740Pierre Polyev gave a couple of interviews early in the week and last week where he just really didn't comment one way or another.
00:19:38.180And he just sort of pivoted away from the conversation when asked directly.
00:19:41.400But he finally broke his silence on Tuesday, February 6th, so yesterday, finally, when he was being questioned by far left-wing reporter Justin Ling.
00:19:53.600Justin Ling was pushing him, again, sort of pushing nonsense and saying things that weren't quite true.
00:19:59.620And you can see Polyev just kind of snaps and is like, enough is enough and calls out Justin Ling, accuses him spreading disinformation, and finally lets us know where the Conservatives stand on this issue.
00:23:22.720But it's like, once you start talking about what kind of health care they're talking about,
00:23:26.580they're talking about hormone drugs, talking about surgeries to remove your biological sex, your genitalia.
00:23:32.920Like, if Justin Trudeau or this reporter, Justin Ling, were to actually say those things, they would lose the argument.
00:23:40.800They would lose the argument right off the bat, which is why they don't, why they keep it vague.
00:23:43.680So, good for Pierre to point that out.
00:23:45.700But then, as you could reasonably assume, that did leave some confusion because the conservatives hadn't really taken a position at this point.
00:23:52.940Like, they hadn't really come out in favor of what Daniel Smith is doing.
00:23:56.780They haven't come out in favor of protecting children from this sort of trans ideology that's pushing the fact,
00:24:02.620pushing this nonsense onto kids that they need to have surgeries and go on hormones and drugs in order to change their sex.
00:24:09.360So, when Pierre Polly went to give a press conference, he was scrummed by journalists in Ottawa on Wednesday or just earlier today.
00:24:34.520It took a week, took a bunch of pushing, took a lot of questions, but he finally got there.
00:24:38.840So, here is Pierre Polly making it clear what his beliefs are.
00:24:43.140Do you support age restrictions for puberty blockers and hormone therapies for trans kids?
00:24:49.620I think that Justin Trudeau is trying to divide and distract Canadians by spreading disinformation about the decisions that premiers and parents are making.
00:30:44.080And finally, they say that the trans community wasn't consulted in these decisions.
00:30:48.080Well, perhaps the most extreme voices on the far radical left were not consulted, but there were many gay and trans and gender dysphoric people who were consulted.
00:30:57.080Many of them have come out in support of this policy.
00:31:00.080True North had a report recently all about that.
00:31:03.080So again, the true liberals think that they can win on this issue.
00:31:06.080The legacy media, of course, is already running cover for them.
00:31:08.080They're already spreading lies and promoting this far left, frankly, unhinged ideology.
00:31:13.080The idea that it's okay to sexualize little kids and that there's they're telling kids that there's something wrong with their bodies that require drugs and surgery to fix them.
00:31:23.080And then they're pretending all of that is mainstream.