The Candice Malcolm Show - Poilievre (finally) gets it right on the trans issue

00:00:00.000 The 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.

00:00:12.740 Daniel 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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00:00:51.760 Okay, 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.

00:01:07.960 So Premier Danielle Smith announced the following changes.

00:01:11.400 She said that top and bottom gender reassignment surgeries will not be permitted for children.

00:01:16.720 And let me just confirm, when we say gender reassignment surgeries, we're talking about sex changes. 0.93

00:01:20.920 We're talking about castration, essentially, and removing the uterus for girls. 1.00

00:01:25.420 So this is going to be banned in the province of Alberta for children under the age of 17.

00:01:30.460 It's really remarkable that that isn't already banned.

00:01:33.140 I mean, if you just imagine what is happening in this country, that little kids and children are undergoing surgeries to change their biological sex.

00:01:42.660 And 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.

00:01:52.400 So Alberta is the first one in the country to ban the surgeries.

00:01:56.220 Other provinces, as we'll talk about later, have taken similar measures when it comes to this gender ideology. 0.85

00:02:01.840 But Alberta does go the furthest. 0.99

00:02:04.360 So good on Danielle Smith for introducing all this stuff.

00:02:06.740 And so as we'll discuss throughout the episode, there's other minor changes that are being introduced.

00:02:10.600 This is all just proposed.

00:02:11.780 It hasn't been introduced into law yet.

00:02:13.860 And 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.

00:02:24.600 She 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. 0.93

00:02:33.080 And 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.

00:02:43.900 So like I mentioned, this isn't entirely unprecedented in Canada.

00:02:47.160 It does go further than these other provinces.

00:02:48.860 But in May of 2023, this is New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said that his province wants to review LGBT issues in school.

00:02:58.260 And the law that they changed was that parents have the right to know if their child changes gender in schools.

00:03:04.300 Again, it's pretty remarkable, the idea that parents aren't even told if their child starts transitioning in school,

00:03:11.500 that teachers are keeping that a secret from parents in provinces that are not mentioned here.

00:03:17.320 So we have New Brunswick making that change, and Saskatchewan followed suit with a similar policy change in October 2023.

00:03:24.420 So 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.

00:03:37.700 And 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.

00:03:46.320 And I think the reason why is pretty straightforward.

00:03:49.260 Danielle Smith is just incredibly effective. 0.90

00:03:52.280 She has really triggered the media.

00:03:53.520 She's triggered the extreme left, not only because of the policies, but because of the way she did it, the way that she introduced them. 0.92

00:03:58.640 She came across with compassion, with love.

00:04:01.560 She wasn't being divisive.

00:04:03.040 She wasn't making it like she was targeting these children.

00:04:06.300 She was actually speaking from a position of compassion.

00:04:09.280 And I think that's something that the media was sort of unprepared to deal with.

00:04:12.700 And so I disagree, by the way, with Danielle using some of the left's language.

00:04:18.040 She talked about gender reaffirming care and this gender ideology.

00:04:21.540 Of course, we know that science is real and you cannot simply change your sex.

00:04:25.960 Your sex is your biology and you can't change it just because you want to.

00:04:30.220 But if you take a step back, you know, the policy is a step in the right direction.

00:04:33.800 And, you know, I definitely commend Danielle for taking this step.

00:04:37.660 This is a quote from Lisa Bidley on Twitter.

00:04:41.000 I totally agree with it.

00:04:41.700 Lisa, by the way, is a lawyer for the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedom.

00:04:45.020 And she wrote this.

00:04:46.000 Something that struck me with this speech was how much it sounded like a loving, authoritative parent was finally setting boundaries for her unruly children.

00:04:54.320 It's been a long time since it felt like there was a reasonable adult in charge of this country.

00:04:58.800 We need this and we need this if our Canadian family is to survive and thrive.

00:05:04.140 Tough love and firm spines will be necessary.

00:05:07.240 And we can't give in to the tantrums anymore or they will never stop.

00:05:11.560 So I think that's exactly right.

00:05:12.800 Danielle just sounded firm and she sounded authoritative like a grown up in the room saying to an unruly child, enough is enough.

00:05:20.480 And it's not just Lisa Bidley and it's not just conservatives who agree with Danielle Smith and what she is doing here.

00:05:26.560 This is polling from Agnes Reid.

00:05:28.660 This was from last summer.

00:05:30.480 It said that the vast majority of Canadians say that parents should be informed if their child wishes to change their pronoun in school.

00:05:39.400 So 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.

00:05:48.920 Another 35% say that the parents should at least be informed.

00:05:52.200 So we're talking about four in five Canadians, 78% say that parents should be informed.

00:05:58.420 And we're not just talking about going on hormone blockers here, going on hormone therapies and going towards potentially having surgery, life altering surgery.

00:06:07.360 This is just about socially transitioning.

00:06:09.380 And 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.

00:06:17.640 So 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.

00:06:26.740 And you can see that through the reaction of the media.

00:06:29.480 So 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.

00:06:37.460 You can see that they, first of all, they're trying to ask gotcha questions or trying to like trip her up and embarrass her.

00:06:44.300 And 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.

00:06:53.420 So 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.

00:07:01.860 Play 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. 0.71

00:07:10.380 My understanding is that your legal first name is Marlena. 0.89

00:07:14.780 Why 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?

00:07:26.600 OK, just pause it for a second there. So the idea here of this question is so silly. 0.70

00:07:31.880 It's like they've they've dug up this information about Danielle Smith.

00:07:35.080 They'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.

00:07:45.340 It's an equivalent of changing your gender and getting surgery to permanently change your body. 0.99

00:07:52.780 So the premise of this question is so dumb. 1.00

00:07:55.200 And then Danielle's reaction is just hilarious because it shows how stupid the question is. 1.00

00:07:59.920 So let's play the rest of this clip. 0.96

00:08:01.900 That 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.

00:08:12.660 It was my parents' choice to call me Danielle and it was my parents' choice.

00:08:18.540 So, 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.

00:08:28.320 So dumb, dumb, dumb question. 0.99

00:08:30.560 Danielle Smith handled it beautifully and it just kept coming. 1.00

00:08:33.980 It just kept coming.

00:08:34.620 So 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.

00:08:46.240 And Danielle really knows her stuff. 1.00

00:08:48.320 She really has researched and thought about this policy quite a bit.

00:08:51.620 And this comes through to this question.

00:08:53.480 So let's play this next clip.

00:08:54.540 About depoliticizing the conversation around trans and non-binary children and, as in your own words, not using them as a political football.

00:09:05.220 In November, you made clear you wanted to strike a balance on parental rights.

00:09:08.260 The parental rights policies here are more aggressive than any other province.

00:09:12.200 And the restrictions around hormones and puberty blockers are unprecedented in Canada.

00:09:16.080 So what changed that made you take this approach?

00:09:17.840 So she says that the policies are unprecedented, but the entire framework here is unprecedented.

00:09:27.100 The 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.

00:09:36.860 That's the part that's wild.

00:09:38.120 We finally have politicians that are sort of catching up with this movement and making laws to stop it.

00:09:44.360 But the way that this question is framed is just all wrong.

00:09:46.600 You can tell that the journalist is an activist.

00:09:48.700 You could tell that she's trying to play a gotcha game here.

00:09:52.740 And, okay, let's play Danielle's response here. 0.88

00:09:55.660 To preserve the rights of kids, to be able to make decisions as adults.

00:09:59.120 I think that we've seen in other jurisdictions, I believe in June of last year, New Brunswick made policy changes in the fall.

00:10:08.680 The Saskatchewan made policy changes.

00:10:10.940 We've been watching internationally as the UK has made policy changes, as well as Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden.

00:10:18.900 I mean, this has been an ongoing conversation over the last number of years.

00:10:22.360 We've been monitoring it very closely.

00:10:24.120 And 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.

00:10:32.160 We want to make sure that those adult decisions are made as adults.

00:10:34.580 I'm not sure what the balance is.

00:10:37.020 Can you be more specific?

00:10:38.960 Well, when you begin hormone therapy, there are health consequences associated with that.

00:10:44.900 It is a decision that impacts your life.

00:10:48.400 Higher risk of osteoporosis, so there's a need to have bone density tests.

00:10:52.720 There's higher incidence of heart problems, so there's a need to have that monitored.

00:10:57.060 Stepping on to the next stage when there's a bottom surgery and top surgery, that, of course, has implications for sex and for fertility. 0.99

00:11:06.880 And 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.

00:11:16.920 And they're adult decisions, so we want to make sure that certain decisions are made as adults.

00:11:20.900 So Danielle, of course, is absolutely right here.

00:11:24.680 And even just that question, like, what do you what do you mean balance?

00:11:27.520 Well, you know, the journalist doesn't even understand the premise of what do you mean by balance?

00:11:31.720 It'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.

00:11:36.640 And 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.

00:11:44.680 And so many of them do.

00:11:46.600 So you can see that the media is just they have an agenda.

00:11:49.240 So many of these journalists are not journalists.

00:11:51.280 They are activists and they can't they can't think objectively.

00:11:54.520 They can't look at an issue objectively and just, you know, cover it for Canadians to decide for themselves.

00:12:00.740 They have to put a spin on it.

00:12:01.920 They have to insert their ideology.

00:12:04.240 And 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.

00:12:12.260 So we can see that when they asked Justin Trudeau.

00:12:15.520 So here is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commenting on Alberta's parental rights policies. 0.96

00:12:21.680 Of 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. 0.87

00:12:31.960 And somehow it's anti LGBT.

00:12:33.840 I 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.

00:12:49.580 And then when they grow up, they don't want to be trans anymore.

00:12:51.960 It just turns out that they were actually just gay. 0.80

00:12:53.980 So if anything, these policies go to protect gay, gay and lesbian children.

00:12:59.140 Anyway, beside the point, you can see Justin Trudeau here with the usual attack against conservatives.

00:13:04.520 Let's play that clip.

00:13:07.360 Good morning, Prime Minister.

00:13:08.820 I'm going to do the Canadian press.

00:13:10.100 Will you invite Daniel Smith to meet while she's in Ottawa next week and directly raise your concerns about her gender policy proposals?

00:13:22.260 Canadian parents love their kids and we want the very best for them and we want them to be kept safe.

00:13:32.800 LGBT youth across this country are among the most vulnerable.

00:13:40.100 To homelessness, to suicide, to a range of things that can harm them.

00:13:48.500 We need to be there to defend them.

00:13:51.620 We need to be there to protect them.

00:13:54.000 And I know Canadians across the country are doing just that.

00:13:58.960 It is telling.

00:14:00.240 Okay, let's just pause it for a second there.

00:14:02.720 Just the way that Justin Trudeau talks, I don't understand, honestly, I don't understand Canadians who take this person seriously.

00:14:08.740 Like, this response is so dramatic.

00:14:12.420 It's like he's an actor on a play, on a stage, right?

00:14:15.660 It's like, this isn't how normal people talk.

00:14:17.680 The way he takes a deep breath and he talks about how gay children are loved.

00:14:22.240 And, like, the whole thing is just, it should be mocked.

00:14:26.880 It shouldn't be taken seriously. 0.99

00:14:28.800 It should be mocked because it's so silly. 0.94

00:14:30.860 And for journalists who have watched this guy for the last decade, how can you sit here and take this person seriously? 0.93

00:14:35.900 Like, he's not talking in an honest and authentic way.

00:14:40.860 He's making a grandstanding political speech.

00:14:43.600 He's politicizing this issue.

00:14:45.160 Everything he says is spin.

00:14:48.020 It's lies.

00:14:49.220 It's not true.

00:14:49.820 And, again, the fact that people in this country continue to take this man seriously is beyond me.

00:14:54.980 Okay, let's play the rest of the clip.

00:14:57.700 Welcoming far-right American conservative Tucker Carlson to her province to sit with him on stage.

00:15:05.360 Danielle Smith has now moved forward with the most anti-LGBT policies of anywhere in the country.

00:15:13.580 Canadians need to know that the federal government and all Canadians will be there to protect youth.

00:15:24.300 Protect youth.

00:15:25.300 So, in Justin Trudeau's perverse world, protecting youth means letting little kids make life-altering decisions

00:15:31.660 and giving them drugs, giving them hormones, and letting them have surgeries.

00:15:35.320 That's protecting kids in this person's mind.

00:15:37.620 Wow.

00:15:37.820 And, of course, for good measure, let's just blame it all on Tucker Carlson and the American right

00:15:43.660 because this worked in the past, so let's just stick with that angle of attack.

00:15:48.480 Okay, last political reaction here.

00:15:51.160 This is an NDP MLA who is talking at a protest, but she's not really talking.

00:15:56.420 She's just sort of sobbing and crying.

00:15:58.220 So, let's see what that looked like.

00:16:05.660 To all the queer and trans youth out there.

00:16:07.820 Just know that you are so loved, and we're going to be with you for every step of this fight.

00:16:15.180 We love you so much.

00:16:21.360 So, she can't even keep it together.

00:16:23.680 She is sobbing and crying for the youth, the youth out there.

00:16:27.580 It's interesting because, again, the media and the political left will say that conservatives are politicizing this issue

00:16:34.080 and that they're creating hysteria and that they're creating harm for trans kids.

00:16:38.960 Really, though, it's those activists who are the ones that are pushing hysteria.

00:16:43.640 I mean, the fact that if you're a little kid and, you know, you believe that you're trans or you believe that you're gay

00:16:49.160 and you're like 14 and your political idol is up there, she can't even hold together.

00:16:53.600 She's bawling and crying.

00:16:55.320 Like, you're going to actually think that you are in danger.

00:16:58.240 You are in some kind of danger and that the country is out to get you, which is not true.

00:17:01.760 Obviously, it's not true.

00:17:02.640 These laws are pretty mild and they really just go to protect children from making bad decisions.

00:17:08.560 And, again, it's the left and it's these deranged protesters that are making this into a huge, huge issue.

00:17:15.580 You 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. 0.87

00:17:23.260 I want to show you this.

00:17:24.200 This is a tweet from Jonathan Kaye who has screen grabbed the CBC's website.

00:17:29.240 Their entire news section at one point was dedicated entirely to this issue.

00:17:35.660 And, of course, it's all incredibly one-sided.

00:17:37.780 You can see the main headline there.

00:17:39.600 Transgender allies in Calgary and Edmonton protest.

00:17:42.580 Alberta's proposed new policies.

00:17:45.220 Danielle Smith says legislation coming this fall.

00:17:47.780 And then look at all these follow-up stories.

00:17:49.320 Okay, we have athletes and activists pushing back against Alberta's policies.

00:17:54.020 Next, we have at issue.

00:17:55.420 So, a bunch of talking heads talking about Alberta's gender ideology policies.

00:17:59.360 Next, we have doctors and nurses going against Danielle. 1.00

00:18:04.940 They're there to walk.

00:18:06.100 So, apparently, they're urging the province to walk back the gender policies.

00:18:09.660 We have transgender columnists having a mixed reaction.

00:18:13.140 Literally every single article is a negative reaction and a negative response to Danielle Smith and this policy.

00:18:20.740 How is that for balance?

00:18:21.780 How 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?

00:18:33.480 It's against the side that 78% of Canadians agree with.

00:18:36.660 That is the CBC in a nutshell.

00:18:38.820 They are fringed. 0.98

00:18:39.820 They are deranged. 0.96

00:18:40.500 They are pushing the worst of the worst. 0.92

00:18:42.880 Okay, so let's move on to the Conservative Party reaction.

00:18:46.580 What do the Conservatives have to say about all of this?

00:18:49.320 So, just for a quick timeline, Danielle Smith introduced the policy changes last Wednesday, January 31st. 1.00

00:18:55.180 A lot of that press conference and those clips that I showed you earlier, that was from Thursday and Friday of last week.

00:19:02.700 And we didn't really know where the Conservatives stood.

00:19:05.300 There was this Globe and Mail story that came out on Thursday, February 1st, the day after the announcement.

00:19:09.220 And 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.

00:19:23.400 So, interesting that the Conservatives were sort of nowhere to be seen and we were told that they were told not to comment at all.

00:19:31.740 Pierre Polyev gave a couple of interviews early in the week and last week where he just really didn't comment one way or another.

00:19:38.180 And he just sort of pivoted away from the conversation when asked directly.

00:19:41.400 But he finally broke his silence on Tuesday, February 6th, so yesterday, finally, when he was being questioned by far left-wing reporter Justin Ling.

00:19:53.600 Justin Ling was pushing him, again, sort of pushing nonsense and saying things that weren't quite true.

00:19:59.620 And 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.

00:20:10.900 So, let's play that clip.

00:20:13.200 You often said you support medical freedom, that you oppose the state imposing medical choices on the Canadians.

00:20:21.760 Yesterday, you were asked about a new policy in Alberta which restricts health care for transgender youth in particular.

00:20:28.700 I just want to point out how he's framing this question.

00:20:33.160 So, it's a gotcha question, right?

00:20:34.340 He's saying, in the past, you've been for medical freedom, and he's painting this as if it's an issue of someone's right to health care.

00:20:42.480 And even just how he's framing it, that Danielle Smith is restricting health care access.

00:20:47.760 Again, most people wouldn't consider this restricting health care access.

00:20:51.140 They would consider this protecting children from unnecessary medical treatment that's probably being pushed on them.

00:20:57.140 Just to point out, this is a very far left-wing reporter pushing propaganda, pushing nonsense in his question.

00:21:04.240 Let's resume the clip.

00:21:06.200 How do you stand on those regulations?

00:21:08.340 You attacked journalists who asked you that question as peddling disinformation for the Prime Minister.

00:21:14.640 So, can you say now where you stand on the state restricting health care access for transgender youth?

00:21:21.420 And can you confirm whether or not your caucus is allowed to speak freely on this issue?

00:21:27.900 First and foremost, you are spreading disinformation.

00:21:31.720 And you refuse to even describe the policy proposals that are being debated.

00:21:36.420 You refuse to even list any of them.

00:21:37.980 And the reason you do, let's be clear why you don't do it, because you don't want to lose the debate.

00:21:45.040 And so, if you keep it vague, and you actually refrain from actually describing the policies that Premier Smith is putting in place,

00:21:53.720 then you think that you can misrepresent them and misrepresent conservatives.

00:21:58.520 This is exactly what Justin Trudeau has done.

00:22:01.780 You notice that Trudeau has not given a single example of any of the policies that Premier Smith has brought forward

00:22:08.620 that he individually disagrees with, because he doesn't want to be specific about it.

00:22:14.560 And that's because he and you want to peddle in disinformation in order to demonize Premier Smith and parents.

00:22:25.780 And Justin Trudeau has spread hatred against parents.

00:22:32.140 He's accused Muslim parents of being hateful, because they were standing up for their kids.

00:22:38.300 He's attacked Christian parents.

00:22:40.920 He has suggested that parents cannot be trusted with their kids.

00:22:45.540 And I disagree with him.

00:22:46.980 I think we have to trust parents.

00:22:48.920 No one cares for their kids more than parents.

00:22:51.960 And that's why Justin Trudeau should butt out.

00:22:56.280 He should let parents raise kids and let provinces run schools and hospitals.

00:23:01.820 So, good for Pierre for finally jumping in, giving a firm response.

00:23:05.540 And he is absolutely right.

00:23:06.560 You could tell that Justin, just the way that he set up the question, as I pointed out,

00:23:09.820 he made it seem like this was just about restricting health care.

00:23:13.060 So, if a Canadian sitting at home is only hearing that, oh, Daniel Smith and Pierre Polly want to restrict health care,

00:23:20.140 that sounds really unfair.

00:23:21.480 That sounds wrong, right?

00:23:22.720 But it's like, once you start talking about what kind of health care they're talking about,

00:23:26.580 they're talking about hormone drugs, talking about surgeries to remove your biological sex, your genitalia.

00:23:32.920 Like, if Justin Trudeau or this reporter, Justin Ling, were to actually say those things, they would lose the argument.

00:23:40.800 They would lose the argument right off the bat, which is why they don't, why they keep it vague.

00:23:43.680 So, good for Pierre to point that out.

00:23:45.700 But then, as you could reasonably assume, that did leave some confusion because the conservatives hadn't really taken a position at this point.

00:23:52.940 Like, they hadn't really come out in favor of what Daniel Smith is doing.

00:23:56.780 They haven't come out in favor of protecting children from this sort of trans ideology that's pushing the fact, 0.97

00:24:02.620 pushing this nonsense onto kids that they need to have surgeries and go on hormones and drugs in order to change their sex.

00:24:09.360 So, when Pierre Polly went to give a press conference, he was scrummed by journalists in Ottawa on Wednesday or just earlier today.

00:24:18.140 There was a lot of confusion.

00:24:19.300 Journalists were rightfully asking a bunch of questions.

00:24:21.360 And I'm going to show this clip right here.

00:24:23.580 Pierre Polly finally takes a stand.

00:24:26.020 He finally lets us know exactly where he stands, what he believes.

00:24:29.920 And I'm happy to report, happy to announce that he falls in the right position.

00:24:33.500 He takes the right stance.

00:24:34.520 It took a week, took a bunch of pushing, took a lot of questions, but he finally got there.

00:24:38.840 So, here is Pierre Polly making it clear what his beliefs are.

00:24:43.140 Do you support age restrictions for puberty blockers and hormone therapies for trans kids?

00:24:49.620 I think that Justin Trudeau is trying to divide and distract Canadians by spreading disinformation about the decisions that premiers and parents are making.

00:25:02.080 I want to know your position.

00:25:04.080 What do you think?

00:25:05.080 I want to know your position.

00:25:06.080 I want to know your position.

00:25:07.080 It's your own party policy.

00:25:08.080 It's your own party policy.

00:25:09.080 I think we should protect the rights of parents to make their own decisions.

00:25:12.080 What does it mean?

00:25:13.080 With regards to their children.

00:25:14.080 And I believe that adults should have the freedom to make any decision they want about their bodies.

00:25:19.080 With minors.

00:25:20.080 How would you demand surgeries and medical interventions for minors as your own party members suggested?

00:25:24.080 Medical interventions like what?

00:25:25.080 That is the language that your party used.

00:25:27.080 What medical interventions?

00:25:28.080 Well, you would have to ask your party members.

00:25:30.080 What medical interventions?

00:25:31.080 Such as puberty blockers and hormone replacement.

00:25:33.080 For minors?

00:25:34.080 Yes.

00:25:35.080 Irreversible?

00:25:36.080 You're talking about your...

00:25:37.080 I would like to understand your...

00:25:38.080 I just want to be clear.

00:25:39.080 No, I want to be clear.

00:25:40.080 I want to be clear.

00:25:41.080 I want to be clear.

00:25:42.080 You agree blockers for minors?

00:25:43.080 Yes.

00:25:44.080 Do you agree with that?

00:25:45.080 I think that we should protect children and their ability to make adult decisions when they

00:25:49.080 are adults.

00:25:50.080 So you think only adults should make...

00:25:53.080 You said yes?

00:25:54.080 Just to be clear.

00:25:55.080 You said yes?

00:25:56.080 Only adults should take puberty blockers?

00:25:58.080 I think we should protect children.

00:26:00.080 Let them make adult decisions when they become adults.

00:26:03.080 So that means you are against puberty blockers for kids under the age of 18.

00:26:08.080 Is that...

00:26:09.080 Yes.

00:26:10.080 Okay.

00:26:11.080 What about...

00:26:12.080 Can I ask you about...

00:26:13.080 By the way, I just want to make another comment on this.

00:26:15.080 Justin Trudeau is again puffing out his chest, trying to divide Canadians and attack parents

00:26:20.080 who are trying to protect their kids.

00:26:23.080 He will, in the end, back down on this, just like he had to back down on his firearms policy,

00:26:29.080 just like he had to back down on bringing in medical assistance and dying for people suffering

00:26:35.380 from mental illness, just like he's backing down again and again and again, he will back

00:26:40.520 down on this because he is not interested in protecting kids, he's interested in using

00:26:46.840 this as a divisive wedge to distract from doubling housing costs and quadrupling carbon

00:26:53.960 taxes on our people.

00:26:56.080 For you, you're against puberty blockers for kids under the age of 18.

00:27:00.080 What about opting in...

00:27:01.080 Yes, I am.

00:27:02.080 What about parents in Alberta having to opt in for sex ed?

00:27:05.080 Where do you stand on that?

00:27:06.080 Every lesson, sir.

00:27:07.080 That's a decision for the province.

00:27:09.080 No, but what do you think?

00:27:10.080 Yeah, so you can see two things that Pierre did there.

00:27:12.080 First of all, the reporters were asking vague questions about medical intervention, right?

00:27:16.080 And he knew exactly what he was doing.

00:27:18.080 He wanted them to specify exactly which medical interventions they were talking about.

00:27:22.080 Again, so that they couldn't clip him just out of context.

00:27:25.080 So he made them say exactly what it was, which is puberty blockers, which is hormones, artificial

00:27:31.080 hormones to change a child's, stop a child from going through puberty.

00:27:34.080 And once they got that out, then he was more comfortable replying.

00:27:39.080 So good for him for, again, preemptively basically stopping them from taking him out of context,

00:27:45.080 making them say the policy, because when you say the policy, it's so much easier to say

00:27:49.080 that you're opposed to it because it's such a bad idea.

00:27:51.080 And then second, he makes a point that Justin Trudeau will probably abandon this issue.

00:27:55.080 He probably will.

00:27:56.080 Canadians don't agree with this stuff.

00:27:57.080 They don't like this stuff.

00:27:58.080 They don't want little children to be exposed to this stuff.

00:28:00.080 So what Justin Trudeau is doing strategically is trying to paint all conservatives as bigots,

00:28:06.080 trying to say that they're homophobes, trying to say they're just like Tucker Carlson.

00:28:09.080 Look, Tucker Carlson came in, and now all of a sudden the conservatives are emboldened

00:28:13.080 to make these decisions.

00:28:15.080 But the reality is this isn't really working.

00:28:17.080 This isn't really getting very far.

00:28:19.080 The conservatives are correct.

00:28:21.080 The liberals and the media and the left are out of step with Canadians.

00:28:25.080 So Trudeau will probably abandon this issue, and he probably won't talk about it again,

00:28:30.080 which is why it's important for conservatives to bring us up to make Justin Trudeau own his words.

00:28:36.080 Be sure to run an election on this.

00:28:38.080 If the liberals really think it's a good idea, liberals really feel so passionately about this issue,

00:28:42.080 make them run an election, run a campaign,

00:28:45.080 talking about how boys, grown men should be able to swim with girls,

00:28:50.080 how men should be allowed to compete against girls in girls sports and girls leagues,

00:28:55.080 and about how it's a good idea for children to go through medical surgeries that will forever change their biological sex

00:29:03.080 because of confused feelings that they're having while they're going through puberty.

00:29:08.080 And so the reality of all of this is that the left and liberals, the politicians and the media,

00:29:13.080 they're being dishonest.

00:29:14.080 Almost everything that they say is untrue.

00:29:16.080 You can go through and you can see it.

00:29:17.080 They say this is a fringe right wing issue that is imported from Tucker Carlson and the American far right.

00:29:22.080 Well, as Danielle Smith pointed out earlier in the broadcast in one of her clips,

00:29:26.080 this is actually just a common sense policy.

00:29:28.080 It's being adopted around the world, throughout liberal Scandinavia and even Britain,

00:29:33.080 in other places in Canada.

00:29:35.080 It's not just Alberta.

00:29:36.080 And of course, 78% of Canadians agree.

00:29:38.080 The left and the liberals will claim that this targets and harms kids.

00:29:43.080 Tell me again how this harms trans kids.

00:29:45.080 It protects them.

00:29:46.080 It stops them from making a terrible, life altering, irreversible change to their body while they're still a child.

00:29:54.080 It says, you know, fine, you could do that.

00:29:56.080 But at least wait until you're 18.

00:29:57.080 Wait until you're mature enough to understand the gravity of the decision that you're making.

00:30:02.080 You know, it's really the activists.

00:30:04.080 As I said, they're the ones that are pushing fear and hysteria.

00:30:07.080 They're lying to kids.

00:30:08.080 They're telling trans kids that they're somehow being targeted.

00:30:10.080 They're being harmed.

00:30:11.080 They're not. 0.78

00:30:12.080 The left also claims that somehow this will lead to more suicide from trans kids.

00:30:17.080 Sadly, that's not true.

00:30:19.080 The opposite is true.

00:30:20.080 There's been several sad studies that show that suicide rates actually increase post transition.

00:30:27.080 So after you get the surgery, you're five times more likely to try to commit suicide.

00:30:31.080 And 19 more times more likely to die of suicide after the surgery.

00:30:36.080 So again, the studies, people who say that this leads to more suicides for trans kids aren't, they're not being honest.

00:30:43.080 They're not telling the truth.

00:30:44.080 And finally, they say that the trans community wasn't consulted in these decisions.

00:30:48.080 Well, 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.

00:30:57.080 Many of them have come out in support of this policy.

00:31:00.080 True North had a report recently all about that.

00:31:03.080 So again, the true liberals think that they can win on this issue.

00:31:06.080 The legacy media, of course, is already running cover for them.

00:31:08.080 They're already spreading lies and promoting this far left, frankly, unhinged ideology.

00:31:13.080 The 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.

00:31:23.080 And then they're pretending all of that is mainstream.

00:31:26.080 Well, it isn't.

00:31:27.080 They're wrong.

00:31:28.080 The left is wrong on this issue.

00:31:29.080 And the liberals will lose spectacularly if they try to push this issue any further than they try to run on it on the election.

00:31:35.080 So good for Danielle Smith for being brave.

00:31:38.080 Good for her for being principled, for standing her ground and for protecting children.

00:31:41.080 She was the one that took the stance and it was later conservatives like Pierre Polyev who came around.

00:31:47.080 So good for Pierre Polyev for finally jumping in and finally taking the right position.

00:31:51.080 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - February 07, 2024

Poilievre (finally) gets it right on the trans issue

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