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00:01:00.000 So we're going to talk today about Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the NDP party, because from my

00:01:05.940 perspective, it's all his fault. The reason that we're in this mess is all because Jagmeet Singh

00:01:10.680 continues to prop up the civil government. He's now flip-flopping back and forth. Is he going to

00:01:15.420 support the government? Is he not? This shouldn't even be a question, folks. Remember back in December,

00:01:19.440 he made it perfectly clear that he was going to pull the plug, that he was going to vote down the

00:01:23.880 government. He even said, it doesn't even matter who's the leader of the party. The party needs to

00:01:28.120 go down. We need an election. Then on Tuesday, he kind of flip-flopped and now we're back to,

00:01:33.280 we don't really know. So we're going to get into all of that. We're also going to talk about

00:01:37.060 the Alberta COVID report that came out. It was kind of tabled quietly last week, not a lot of

00:01:42.360 coverage outside of Alberta, but there's a lot of really good, important things in there. So we're

00:01:45.860 going to get to all of that. And today I am delighted to be joined by a guest who've never had on the

00:01:50.840 podcast before, but I've been a longtime fan of this individual. His name is Sean Newman. Sean's

00:01:56.360 the host of Sean Newman podcast, where he discusses issues relating to faith, family,

00:02:00.060 and the broader Canadian political landscape. He's a former professional hockey player. He played hockey

00:02:05.200 in Finland, wow, before returning back to Western Canada and transitioning into a career in the oil

00:02:11.780 patch. And now he's a podcaster. He's been doing the show for many years. I started back in 2019,

00:02:16.420 and he's interviewed very influential people, including Danielle Smith, Dr. Robert Maloon,

00:02:22.940 and Dr. Peter McCullough. Wow. Excited to talk to you, Sean. So welcome to the program. Thank you so

00:02:28.620 much for joining us. Yeah. Thanks for, thanks for reaching out. Appreciate you having me on and happy

00:02:33.880 to be here. Great. Well, we're going to get to all of the news. I think this Jagmeet Singh story is just

00:02:39.820 maddening for so many of us, because here's an individual who doesn't have any kind of mandate by

00:02:45.200 Canadians. He's the leader of the third party. He wasn't voted for to lead us in any way. And yet

00:02:50.340 he's the one that's holding the balance of power. I mentioned this on the show on Wednesday, but I'm

00:02:53.920 just going to read it again. This was sent to me by a conservative operative. But he writes that as a

00:02:58.840 reminder, his last count, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP have voted up the Liberals eight times since he

00:03:05.160 supposedly ripped up that supply and confidence agreement. So the supply and confidence agreement

00:03:08.920 was in place. Jagmeet Singh propped up the government 267 times during that agreement.

00:03:14.880 And he had done so 11 times prior for a grand total of 286 times just since the last election.

00:03:20.860 That's how many opportunities he had to pull the plug and take down this awful government.

00:03:24.920 But he hasn't. He's propped them up. His explanations don't really make sense as to why. I think the only

00:03:30.080 reasonable reason this person is still doing this is because he wants his pension. I don't know what

00:03:35.000 else to make of it. I don't know why else he would prop up this terrible government given everything

00:03:39.040 that's happened. So Sean, give me your perspective and then we'll get to the latest here.

00:03:43.440 Well, I mean, I think you nail it. I think there's a whole lot of Canadians. I come from,

00:03:48.940 you know, in my intro, you mentioned I used to play hockey and I'm going to point it out to your

00:03:52.940 listeners because they'll probably dig it up. You know, I was nowhere near the NHL. I want to make

00:03:56.540 that adamantly clear. Every time that gets said, I'm like, well, I did play. But, you know,

00:04:00.620 my hockey career took me in a lot of places, which ended in Finland. And why the reason I think it's

00:04:05.540 important to talk about where I come from is I didn't spend a ton of time on, you know, out in

00:04:09.720 Ottawa or around this, this realm I've been learning. And I think there's a whole new class, a Canadian

00:04:14.340 learning about how the policies and how the structure of our politics really works because

00:04:19.840 COVID really brought it down on all of us. It seeped in everyone's life. It didn't, none of us

00:04:25.160 escaped from it. And since we've come out of there, we've all been waiting for an election. I mean,

00:04:29.440 like, okay, it's going to happen here in 2025. And then we've had more theatrics than, you know,

00:04:36.240 most countries get probably in a, you know, I don't know, in a decade, two decades we've had in

00:04:40.100 the last year, let alone before that. And just when you think we're getting close, you know,

00:04:45.980 Jagmeet Singh comes back to the top of the news cycle. I'm like, this guy just won't let it go.

00:04:50.480 Just, just say you're going to do what you're going to do. You're going to get your pension anyways.

00:04:54.300 Right? Like I think a lot of us had rightly surmised that he's going to wait until he

00:04:59.340 gets his pension. He's just going to dodge every question. None of it's going to make sense.

00:05:03.140 None of it has made sense except for the money. All right. He's going to get his pension. Okay,

00:05:07.360 fine. And, and we're going to get it. And now you, you start to see where he's kind of like,

00:05:11.560 well, we'd have to think about the working class Canadian. We'd maybe have to think about,

00:05:15.860 you know, these, these payments again and all these different things. You're like,

00:05:18.940 what is he doing? Like, I get it. He's, he is the guy that's holding them in. And I'm,

00:05:25.900 I'm just like, I just don't get it. I don't get the NDP. I don't, I, you know, we joke on our show

00:05:30.840 that are not a serious party. They certainly don't have a serious leader. And yet he is,

00:05:35.900 as you pointed out, the person that's holding this thing all together for the liberals right now,

00:05:41.180 because if he just says he's voting them out, you know, in what is it? A couple months, boom,

00:05:45.580 they're gone and we have an election. We're going to have a new prime minister and we carry on with

00:05:49.160 life. And I think a lot of us are starting to wonder, you know, if Carney gets in, which it

00:05:53.980 kind of looks like, you know, that's the way the winds are shifting. Can Carney talk to Jagmeet and,

00:05:59.120 and seed an idea of like, Hey, just leave me in until October and we'll do some things. We'll help

00:06:03.680 you out. We'll do the, and it's like, well, Jagmeet's, um, track record would suggest he'd be open to

00:06:10.420 that conversation. And, um, I don't know, it's, it's, I thought we were out of this, Candace.

00:06:16.960 I really did. And I, you know, at the start, I talked about hockey and how I don't have a

00:06:21.920 background on this. I'm continually learning how our system works. And I think a lot of Canadians

00:06:26.000 are too. And so it'll be interesting to continue to watch and talk about how this is all playing

00:06:31.240 out up here. Well, you know, I, I, the opposite, I've been involved in this horrible world of politics,

00:06:37.380 uh, for, for longer than I'd like to admit, um, you know, getting all the way back. And so when

00:06:42.060 I look at it, I do kind of look at it from like a cynical political, uh, perspective where yes,

00:06:47.020 like these guys are going to hold onto power any way that they know how, and no one wanted Jagmeet 0.99

00:06:52.260 Singh in this position of power, but he found himself in it, propping up the government. And

00:06:56.260 he kind of realized like, look, as soon as there's an election, I'm not going to get another mandate.

00:07:00.900 Like Canadians aren't going to like congratulate me, pat me on the back and give me a raise. 0.88

00:07:04.520 Um, they're not going to promote him to a higher role. This is pretty much as good as it gets

00:07:09.140 for Jagmeet. And so I thought, you know, he, he, he's going to try to, to hold onto this coalition

00:07:14.620 for as long as possible. But I thought like at a certain point that like cynical political

00:07:19.520 attitude wouldn't hold anymore. Like he would feel too embarrassed to his constituents and to

00:07:25.100 the working class people of this country that really built that party, that NDP party is supposed

00:07:29.060 to be for the working class. Uh, I don't think Jagmeet even pretends to be connected to the

00:07:34.760 working class anymore. He's sort of, you know, true north reported that he drives around Ottawa

00:07:39.140 on a Maserati, uh, often with, you know, designer Gucci and Versace handbags. Like he's, you know,

00:07:45.440 as far from it as, as you can be. Yeah. And I agree with you on the, the holding power and

00:07:51.220 everything, but I just, I'd like to think if I'm ever in that position, eventually just walking

00:07:56.060 anywhere in Canada and getting shouted and catcalled and everything. Then you're like,

00:07:59.440 is it worth it anymore? Like, what am I doing? Like, I'm not going to be welcomed anywhere in

00:08:03.340 this country after this is all said and done. See, but I think that people like Trudeau and

00:08:08.040 presumably Jagmeet Singh, they, they have it in their heads that the reason that they're not

00:08:11.980 popular is because of like right-wing extremism and like the MAGA forces and misinformation and

00:08:19.440 disinformation, which is why anytime there's like a problem, I don't know if you saw the foreign 1.00

00:08:23.020 interference report came out earlier this week. And this, the, the recommendation was literally,

00:08:27.080 we need another government agency monitoring online misinformation, disinformation. It's like

00:08:31.400 what we have like a real problem with foreign adversarial agents in Canada operating without

00:08:37.880 check. And your solution is again, we got to crack down on free speech online. And I know Justin Trudeau

00:08:42.980 has said it during interviews that, uh, the real reason he's not popular is because of these right-wing

00:08:48.720 people online. Like I, I think they've convinced himself, like I think Jagmeet Singh's convinced

00:08:52.460 himself that anyone shouting him on the streets is just a terrible racist. That's like the only

00:08:56.480 reason why you wouldn't like, um, a person like him. Uh, but again, to me, it's so cynical. I can't

00:09:02.120 believe that he can, with a straight face, continue to play this game. So let's, let's say with the

00:09:05.960 latest this week, we learned from the Globe and Mail that Ottawa is planning pandemic level relief for

00:09:12.060 workers and businesses. If Trump imposes its tariffs, the federal government is planning a

00:09:16.580 multi-billion dollar pandemic style bailout for workers and businesses. If the 25% taxes come in

00:09:23.300 as early as Feb 1, this is according to sources. We'd kind of heard Trudeau and his officials hinting

00:09:28.620 about this, uh, but then the Globe and Mail kind of spells it out. COVID 2.0, like they, they, they use

00:09:33.860 the COVID pandemic, uh, to lock us all down and then to pay us to do nothing, ballooning the country

00:09:39.740 into like unimaginable debt, not to mention printing so much money, flooding the economy with dollars

00:09:44.840 that's made everything expensive. And we're still dealing with that cost of living crisis.

00:09:48.640 And here they are again, they're going to do it all over again. They've got the playbook.

00:09:51.640 They're going to roll it out. Um, all they need is, you know, someone to support them. And here's

00:09:55.880 Jagmeet Singh on Tuesday saying that he would be open to supporting the government's work relief

00:10:02.100 program. Let's play that clip. Uh, if Trump follows through on his plan with tariffs, would you keep

00:10:06.820 the liberals in power and allow for the passage of a work relief program before supporting a non-confidence

00:10:12.720 motion? Uh, I'll just start off by the fact that I've spoken with a lot of workers who are deeply

00:10:18.900 worried about what the Trump tariffs might mean. They say, you know, I will sometimes I lay awake

00:10:24.920 at night saying, if that tariff goes through, do I lose my job? And what's going to happen to my kids?

00:10:29.100 What's going to happen to my family? And we think about the analysis that's out there. If those Trump

00:10:33.620 tariffs come in place, there are hundreds and thousands of Canadian jobs at risk. Think about what

00:10:40.360 that means for those workers, hundreds of thousands of workers, for their families, for those

00:10:44.580 communities. This could be devastating for our country. So, uh, we do need to have a plan in

00:10:50.600 place to support those, those that are impacted, those businesses, those workers, most importantly.

00:10:55.540 I have not had any conversations with other opposition leaders. I think we need to come

00:10:59.780 together to have a discussion about what is the best way forward. I've not had any discussions with

00:11:03.580 the government related to this. Uh, if there is any desire to move forward, the government should call

00:11:08.880 us together like we did during COVID and discuss a plan that supports workers.

00:11:15.240 So, I mean, the answer to that question should have just been, no, I already said,

00:11:17.960 I was already very clear in December. I'm not propping up this government anymore. Instead,

00:11:21.580 he likes a policy like socialism. You know, he wants to, wants to strike a deal. There is some

00:11:25.860 irony here because even in the Globe and Mail, uh, story, it says that the bulk of potential spending

00:11:30.440 on new programs to help laid off workers and businesses affected by the tariffs will require

00:11:34.700 legislative approval, which could not take place until parliament resumes sitting on March 24th.

00:11:40.740 So the reason that we don't have a parliament until March 24th is because Trudeau prorogued

00:11:44.840 parliament so they could have a liberal leadership race. So if this program was so urgent and so

00:11:49.460 important to deal with Trump, then why would you prorogue parliament to have a leadership? Like,

00:11:54.220 none of this makes any sense. Uh, Jagmeet Singh just really putting his foot in the mouth to the

00:11:58.680 point where I think that he probably heard back from Canadians because on Thursday he came out and,

00:12:03.840 you know, he flip-flopped again. So we have a clip of him saying, you know, actually, no,

00:12:08.640 nevermind. He says after, after previously saying that he'd prop up the liberals, uh,

00:12:12.560 NDP leader now says he'll vote down the government as soon as possible. Um, let's play that clip.

00:12:18.060 The liberals seem more focused on themselves. I have a specific message to the liberals.

00:12:23.120 If you're serious about supports workers, I'm demanding that the liberal government call back

00:12:29.340 parliament. Let's put before parliament a package to protect workers, support workers that are

00:12:35.500 impacted by these tariffs and to support communities. The workers behind me are for

00:12:39.560 Sault Ste. Marie. Sault Ste. Marie is a community in a, in a, in a city that could be hard hit by

00:12:44.520 these tariffs. So let's stand up for this, Sue. Let's stand up for all communities across Canada

00:12:49.600 that are going to be hard hit by the tariffs. And let's put in place supports before the worst happens.

00:12:54.820 So I'm calling on the liberal government to recall parliament, bring parliament back. Let's pass

00:13:01.420 legislation that supports workers because we're going to have an election in the spring. Nothing

00:13:06.020 changes around that. We are going to be voting down the government in March, but there's still two

00:13:10.280 months. If the liberals think that they can wait two months before they bring in legislation,

00:13:15.000 they are wrong. That would allow workers to suffer for two months. That is not the right way to do

00:13:20.400 things. So I'm calling on the liberals, recall parliament, put forward protections for workers

00:13:26.000 before parliament. Let's get the opposition leaders together. Obviously we need to support

00:13:30.200 that kind of package. And then let's have an election in the spring. Sean, this is just so

00:13:35.080 unbelievable. He's saying in the same clip, recall parliament so we can vote back through this

00:13:38.700 legislation. And also we're going to have an election in March. We're going to vote them down.

00:13:42.240 Like which one is it? He, he didn't say that he was going to vote down the government in March.

00:13:45.900 He said at the next possible sitting, he was going to vote them down. So presumably if we

00:13:49.740 recall parliament, he's going to vote them down. Now he's saying, come back to parliament, let's

00:13:53.540 pass this big socialism relief program. And then I'll vote you down. Do you trust a single word? He

00:13:58.600 says, no, I, I listened to the clips and I just, I, I see a, you know, a guy dancing a tune and, uh,

00:14:07.800 I don't like it. I just, I can't believe, you know, like, um, there's lots of things in our

00:14:13.580 government. I just don't fully understand. I try, I keep trying to like, you know,

00:14:16.640 prorogation for Pete's sake. Right. I'm like, what is that? Like, why do they get to do this?

00:14:21.940 You know, oh, the government, and I'm not sitting here just giving the liberals crap. 0.97

00:14:25.500 Conservatives have done it too before. It's not like it's just one, it's just a part of our 0.91

00:14:28.740 government. I'm like, why, why would they, why would we have that allowed? That makes zero sense.

00:14:33.480 And yet they do it. And so we sit here and we're all worried about Trump and the tariffs

00:14:37.820 instead of, you know, like, I just, I, I don't understand this government, but this has been

00:14:42.320 them, their MO from the beginning, instead of just doing what they need to do to get rid of,

00:14:47.520 uh, any, uh, disagreement with Trump, protect the border. Uh, one, maybe get rid of, uh, some

00:14:52.900 illegals going down there too, and, and not having to worry about tariffs. They're like, well, no,

00:14:58.100 maybe we should call them back and have a thing about money spending to protect the workers. It's 0.99

00:15:03.580 like, how about you just fix the problem? No, we're going to get together. We're going to,

00:15:07.760 we're going to get together folks. And we're going to talk about how we're going to protect the

00:15:10.880 workers, protect the workers by fixing the border. I don't know what more you need to say.

00:15:13.940 Like, I just, this is, this is insane, but this is Canada. This is our current government. Um,

00:15:20.560 the NDP is, is, I'm sorry, I'm going to say it, not a real party folks. Like, this is just

00:15:26.600 like, tell Jagmeet, vote them out. Let's have an election. Let's get, let's get on with life

00:15:31.320 so that life doesn't get really, really difficult. Because if you continue to go down this path,

00:15:36.820 assuming Donald Trump ever did put on 25% tariffs, sure. It's going to hurt their

00:15:40.800 economy. It's going to hurt us immensely. And, uh, all we need to do is just fix the problem of

00:15:46.080 what he's talking about. And yet we seem to want to go down this other track and give Jagmeet more

00:15:50.640 screen time and everything else. It just, just drives me nuts. I don't get it. And yet here we

00:15:55.020 are in 2025, Candace waiting for prorogation to, to, to dissolve so we can get them back in there so

00:16:02.340 that we can assume they're going to go, we're voting them down, but nobody can even figure out right

00:16:06.000 now. If the NDP is going to support that, it's just, it's a big frustration on my side

00:16:11.280 with Canada and our government system. It's just, it's messed up. I learned this in Alberta. So I,

00:16:17.980 I, listen, everybody's pointing to if Carney or whoever becomes the next prime minister,

00:16:22.760 he's unvoted or wasn't voted in as a prime minister. But when it was Daniel Smith in Alberta,

00:16:28.720 because the same thing happened, we all applauded it. So which is it, right? We have to,

00:16:33.600 we have to figure this out. And I don't even know how you make large changes like that. I just

00:16:39.040 stare at it. And I go, if I don't vote you in, how can you be the leader of a country? It makes

00:16:43.380 zero sense or the province or anywhere for that matter. And yet in Canada, we're seeing it play

00:16:48.740 out. You're like in the last three years, we've seen it play out multiple times. Like, this is

00:16:52.020 strange. I don't know how this is, how it works, but it is. You're right. Like there's so many times

00:16:56.640 where you hear something, it sounds like a conspiracy theory, right? It's like Canada is about to appoint

00:17:01.360 its first world economic forum, prime minister, who's a selected, he's not elected by the people,

00:17:05.980 but he's like plopped in from like, basically. And you're like, that can't be true. That can't be

00:17:10.380 real. And then you look at it, it's like, Oh no, that's exactly what's going to happen. That is very

00:17:13.420 real. I struggle with that too, because look, like I am not a big proponent of like, like excessive

00:17:19.260 federal power. I don't think that it's a very good thing. I don't like the idea that the prime

00:17:23.700 minister basically has free reign in Canada, like can do whatever he wants, tell the governor

00:17:27.760 general to do. There are balances of power in place that are there to have checks and balances.

00:17:32.860 Like, you know, you have a Senate, but our Senate is unelected, completely unaccountable.

00:17:36.740 Our governor general is a puppet head, like a puppet figurehead doesn't do anything really just

00:17:41.440 at the beck and call of the prime minister. And then you look at the American system and like,

00:17:45.900 I'm not a big fan in general of executive orders. I think that the purpose of Congress is to have

00:17:52.160 like legislative legislation passed by elected officials. That's why we elect them or why

00:17:58.160 Americans elect them in the States. But then, you know, when you see how much these institutions

00:18:04.320 have decayed over time and how just absolutely corroded they are and how broken they are,

00:18:09.700 you see a figure like Trump come in with these sweeping executive orders. I think there were 900

00:18:14.180 of them on day one. And I was like cheering him on. I'm like, I'm here for this. Like this needs to be

00:18:19.840 done. The U.S. under Trump is so action oriented. Like every one of those executive orders was just

00:18:25.380 so powerful. And it's like, we're not going to do this anymore. You know, this whole gender, 1.00

00:18:29.780 like ideological nonsense, we're not doing that anymore. That's what are you trying to say,

00:18:33.360 Canis? There isn't 76 genders. Well, can you go ahead and name some of them there, John?

00:18:39.880 But, you know, it's like in principle, I don't really like executive orders, but I do like these

00:18:45.060 ones. And I think that they're so necessary and so needed to change, to change the system.

00:18:50.740 Well, did we ever think we were going to be arguing about men playing in women's sports?

00:18:55.540 Did we ever think that? No, that's an insane idea. And yet here it is.

00:18:59.140 I agree. Look, I grew up as a little hockey player. Like I, when I was like 11 years old

00:19:03.360 and you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be the first woman in the NHL.

00:19:06.960 Like that was the thing I wanted to do. Although I think there was a woman at one point. 0.99

00:19:09.960 A goalie for the Tampa Bay Lightning. And I'm forgetting her name.

00:19:13.620 No, no real. I had her poster on my wall. But I don't, I don't think, I think that that was

00:19:17.820 like a publicity stunt or something. Still, she was the first.

00:19:20.300 She was, she did it. Yeah. And like, that's, that's what I want to do. Then, you know, I,

00:19:23.640 like my parents like allowed me to like continue this delusion for a short while. And then they

00:19:28.620 were like, you know, Candace, like, that's just not going to happen. And like, because I played,

00:19:32.240 I played with my brothers and I played in the boys league when I was little. And then obviously when you get a

00:19:36.400 little bit older, you go through puberty and it's like, okay, this isn't going to work anymore.

00:19:39.680 Like I'm not, I'm not good enough. And I'm not big enough. I'm not strong enough. I went and played

00:19:42.720 with the girls and I didn't like it at first because I was like, I was a better player than

00:19:46.960 them. But eventually like everyone caught up and like, I realized like, Hey, I don't actually want

00:19:51.740 to like play like really competitive hockey. That's not my thing. I still love hockey, but like, you

00:19:57.500 know, I like sometimes think about this. Like if I was 11 or 12 and someone was like, you know,

00:20:02.660 you're a tomboy, Candace, that, that means that you're probably just a boy inside. And, and you think like,

00:20:08.260 what would have that have done to like my mind? I mean, it's just, to me, it's so perverted that we

00:20:12.060 do this to be able to whole purpose of women's sports is to allow women to play like competitively 1.00

00:20:17.560 because if we were just playing against the boys, we wouldn't be good enough and it wouldn't exist.

00:20:21.320 And so this idea that there's boys being allowed to play with girls. And I mean, it's just, it's,

00:20:26.180 it's just so wrong. And I'm surprised that it, it was allowed at all. I think it's just such a

00:20:31.240 breath of fresh air to see someone standing up against it. And I hope the tide like quickly goes across

00:20:37.480 Canada because I think Canada is just so, it's like, we're so nice and we're too polite to say

00:20:44.640 like, actually this isn't right. And this doesn't, this shouldn't happen. I wasn't planning on talking

00:20:49.980 about this topic, but I'm pretty worked up about it as you can tell, Sean. So what's your, what's

00:20:54.380 your perspective on all of it? Well, the executive orders, that's where you started. The thing about

00:20:58.480 executive orders is it really signals which way incoming administration is going to go.

00:21:04.060 And, uh, one of the things that has irritated me immensely since I started into the political

00:21:09.480 realm in Canada is how much we stare at the United States for what doesn't happen here.

00:21:13.540 Right? So even though Trump's doing amazing things in the United States, we're not the United States,

00:21:17.760 but him talking about going back to two genders, him, uh, bringing back, I think it's 8,000.

00:21:24.820 If I recall, maybe it's a touch more than that 8,000 military members who wouldn't get the jab,

00:21:29.160 um, and giving them back pay is like, yeah, that makes sense. And when a world leader signals that

00:21:37.360 is, and it being the U S, which I mean, obviously, uh, there's a reason why we stare at them for a

00:21:43.160 lot of what goes on in the world. That's going to give, and, and I, I think I, I can't remember if

00:21:48.300 you said it before or after we started, but like, it gives confidence to Canadians like, oh, it's okay.

00:21:52.220 And which, which is funny because we already know it's okay. We already know that some of the things

00:21:56.640 going on in our country are not okay. And yet we've allowed them to persist. And I, I can't,

00:22:03.700 uh, scold anyone. I always, I always jump on the grenade myself. You know, when I first started the

00:22:07.900 podcast, I didn't talk about any of this. I was focused on hockey, NHL athletes, et cetera, into COVID.

00:22:17.460 I just kept dragging my feet. And eventually I was like, if we're not going to talk about this,

00:22:21.740 we're never getting out of it. And so I started interviewing all the different people. It's led

00:22:25.300 me, you know, to where I sit today. And I think there's a lot more Canadians, um, realizing that

00:22:30.880 if we don't get active, if we don't start to talk about things, if we don't start to get in a few

00:22:35.300 disagreements with our neighbors, um, then you're never going to have things change. And we're going

00:22:41.120 to continue down this, uh, road of, of, you know, not hiring the best person hiring, whatever

00:22:47.880 diversity looks like so that you have one of each. And, uh, we're seeing that play out and

00:22:54.340 everything. Like, I mean, you, you sent me the article and I, you probably have it somewhere

00:22:58.180 and I'm probably jumping ahead of you, but, uh, the Canadian military. So I called the Canadian

00:23:01.240 military. One of the guys I have on my show regularly, I think it's 72% obesity rate in the

00:23:05.840 Canadian military right now, among all the other problems they have. And we got to talk about it.

00:23:10.760 And he's like, well, I don't know. You played, uh, uh, high level hockey. How many obese guys

00:23:16.300 did you have? And I was like obese. I don't know, maybe one, but I wouldn't call him obese.

00:23:20.500 I would call him, you know, the body type of like, he just carries around more weight.

00:23:23.560 And he goes, that's how the Canadian military used to be. Used to be in a group. There was 600

00:23:27.660 of them all stationed overseas. And I'm like, well, how many of them were obese? He's like, I don't

00:23:31.980 know, maybe two. We'll do the math on that. That's like, that's less than 1%. So let's even go

00:23:36.540 high. 5% folks, 72%. That'd be like watching the Edmonton Oilers. Sorry. Uh, that's a, you know,

00:23:44.440 our team out here. We'd be watching the Toronto Maple Leafs and your top line, like two thirds of

00:23:50.560 them are fat and can't move around. And I know you guys have Phil Kessel and I know there's some

00:23:53.980 things there, but like, that would be your entire team. Like that doesn't, that doesn't even make

00:23:58.880 any sense, but that's, that's where this DEI has gotten us to. And it's really permeated every

00:24:04.580 form, institution, society as a whole here in Canada. And so I go back to the, uh, Trump and

00:24:11.940 what he's done with executive orders and it's really signaled we're getting rid of that. And

00:24:16.200 we're getting rid of that real fast. That's what the United States looks to me, uh, like they're

00:24:19.800 going to be doing here under Trump. Well, I do want to get to the obesity in the military

00:24:24.900 story, uh, that, that, uh, was reported by the national post for this week. We'll get

00:24:28.820 to that. Um, I, I want to talk, uh, first just, just this whole thing, you know, you

00:24:33.100 said that you kind of ended up reluctantly having to talk about politics. You started

00:24:36.640 wanting to talk about competitive hockey and sports. Um, and then you kind of pulled into

00:24:40.600 the political world. I mean, you interviewed some of the real like lightning rods that were 0.99

00:24:45.280 raising the alarm bell, um, with concerns about our entire approach to COVID. And then, um,

00:24:50.700 last Friday we saw the Alberta government release its COVID report. So this is kind

00:24:54.820 of one of those rare instances where the government that was in power, um, premier

00:24:59.300 Jason Kenney got ousted, replaced by Daniel Smith. And she said, okay, let's, let's open

00:25:04.340 up the books and let's figure out what happened. True outsider, because I don't think like in

00:25:08.720 any other province, liberal or conservative, they would allow this sort of like forensic

00:25:12.540 accounting, like, let's look back and really discuss what went wrong and what happened.

00:25:17.520 Um, so it's, to me, there's value in this report for, for all Canadians and for everyone

00:25:22.340 in the world, because so many governments went down the same disastrous path of like,

00:25:26.820 lock it all down, shut down the schools. I mean, you're, you're a parent of young kids.

00:25:30.600 So am I, um, I was just so totally outraged by the way that they treated us during COVID.

00:25:35.460 Uh, I mean, I, I, I was already pretty, you know, conservative and political. This like

00:25:41.280 really radicalized me. I think radicalized a lot of people to just say like, I don't trust

00:25:45.300 you. I don't want you in charge of anything to do with my life. Like maybe a lot more vocal

00:25:49.380 about it anyway. So I saw you commenting on this Alberta COVID report, uh, really interesting

00:25:55.500 things, things that you don't really hear from government urging, halting vaccines, um,

00:25:59.580 for youth and low risk individuals, uh, talking really about lack of data behind a lot of these

00:26:05.980 protocols that were brought in. Um, why don't, why don't you sort of tell, tell us about your

00:26:11.060 thoughts on this report?

00:26:12.620 Well, one of the things I'm originally from a small town in Saskatchewan and, uh, Saskatchewan

00:26:17.040 and Alberta are very similar, but now I live in Alberta. Okay. So for your listeners,

00:26:21.360 just so there's a background. And one of the things I love about being Albertan now is they

00:26:25.540 are an unruly bunch. We are an unruly bunch, which means if you do stupid things, we are 1.00

00:26:31.500 going to absolutely cat call you until we try and get things right. And, um, so I would, 0.99

00:26:38.320 I would sit here and say, I just actually had Dr. Gary Davidson on the podcast. Right.

00:26:42.640 And it wasn't a, an applaud moment of like, wow, you did an amazing job. Although Dr.

00:26:47.360 Gary Davidson, if you're listening to this, I think he did do an amazing job. I was more

00:26:50.860 irritated, uh, right off the hop, Candace. Okay. And I read this to Gary and I'll read

00:26:55.120 it to you. Okay. Chapter one of this report is governance and flow of information. Sounds

00:27:00.160 lovely. And this is what I commented. Um, uh, there's a few things written in here that

00:27:05.260 were in the report and then some of my comments. And I said, the flow of information is hardly

00:27:08.420 a flow when the author points out there's a reluctance of key stakeholders to acknowledge

00:27:12.960 and engage with our mandate. And that there appears to be a fundamental lack of transparency

00:27:16.880 and willingness to reveal information and discuss decisions and actions taken by AHS during the

00:27:21.780 pandemic. HLS, sorry, is Alberta health services. So, right. A lot of what happened here, we've

00:27:28.280 already had court cases tell us it was the politicians making decisions that they didn't have the data

00:27:32.660 and on and on and on. I'm irritated with this report because the report is supposed to be

00:27:37.600 all the data. Well, where's all the data held? AHS. AHS wouldn't give it to them. So like,

00:27:43.340 we got a report that, that isn't fully complete. In my mind, you know, like this report is amazing

00:27:50.000 because it kind of gives a credence to what a lot of people have been saying. It legitimizes what

00:27:54.680 people have been saying for the last four years, right? Like masks, they weren't effective.

00:27:59.420 The vaccines, there's studies after study, they, they quote in here about, uh, Pfizer's own trials.

00:28:05.240 Uh, they talk about therapeutics. They talk about all these different things that have become very

00:28:09.180 taboo. You know, the most popular ones, ivermectin, probably because of Joe Rogan

00:28:13.500 and CNN. And they, they just walk back through all this stuff. It's in a government form. Uh,

00:28:19.340 now there's 200 and I think it's 59 pages. Don't quote me on that. I urge any Canadian to go give

00:28:24.720 it a read, especially if you're like, let me, is he talking about vaccines? And if you don't know

00:28:29.500 what I'm talking about, this would be eyeopening for me talking about it for four years. I want to,

00:28:34.260 and I think a lot of Albertans want a little more teeth in, in holding our government accountable.

00:28:39.880 And so, um, it getting released at three o'clock on a Friday in the middle of, uh, you know,

00:28:47.480 problems with the border and trade war. Yeah. Right. We go cycle. We see what you're doing and I don't

00:28:53.840 like it. And so it's what I love about Albertans. We're not happy with the report just coming out.

00:28:58.540 We want, we want to see things like Trump is doing. We want to see these action items,

00:29:03.700 um, be laid out. And there are some really cool things, um, that Dr. Gary Davidson and the group

00:29:10.300 that, that built it, uh, kind of say, you should look into getting rid of this vaccine for, for kids

00:29:16.260 and youth and a whole bunch of, uh, you know, um, items that the government of Alberta can chew on.

00:29:22.800 And I really hope they're contemplating them. I really hope they're going to take, uh, uh, some of the

00:29:28.180 information that's been built by Gary Davidson, Dr. Gary Davidson and his team and, and use them.

00:29:33.200 That's my hope. Um, but sitting here in media, after everything we've said about every other part

00:29:37.320 of government, I'm like, well, I think it was Andrew Lawton once upon a time and, uh, others,

00:29:43.500 I should say that told me, you know, you've got great politicians. You've got bad politicians,

00:29:47.840 create the, the atmosphere, create the, the, the conditions for bad politicians do the right thing.

00:29:54.700 I don't think Danielle Smith's a bad politician by any stretch of the imagination, but I certainly 1.00

00:29:58.660 do want to create the conditions that they have to move on some of these action items. And we've

00:30:03.020 seen how mainstream media has demonized it. Like, I mean, have you seen the picture? I think it's

00:30:08.220 out of the Globe and Mail of, you know, her talking to these ugly looking doctors. Meanwhile, all the 0.93

00:30:13.060 associations are against her. And it's like, really? Like, look at the people who are writing this.

00:30:18.540 This is where we're still at in 2025. And, um, so yeah, I, I mean, it's always good though for

00:30:24.560 myself to hear an outside perspective of like, wow, I wish our province would do this. Um, but

00:30:29.560 here in Alberta, we're an unruly bunch and we want more. Well, I think first of all, Danielle

00:30:34.840 Smith deserves to be applauded for even doing this report. Um, I'll just read through a little bit

00:30:39.500 about what the report said. So it was commissioned by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in 2022 mandate

00:30:44.500 to explore the province's response to COVID-19. The task force included prominent medical professionals,

00:30:49.160 as you were discussing, including doctors, Gary Davidson, who's on your show, uh, Jay Bhattacharya,

00:30:53.720 who's a prominent Stanford doctor who just got appointed, um, to, to, uh, the Trump administration

00:30:58.880 and Biriam, uh, bridal. The final report, um, recommended that the provincial government

00:31:04.060 stop providing vaccines for healthy children and teenagers report revealed evidence to suggest

00:31:09.300 that it was not effective. Um, the, uh, report also alleged that Alberta health services

00:31:14.360 removed a dashboard after it showed higher hospitalization rates among the vaccinated

00:31:19.520 than the unvaccinated. Um, and it also said that there's a lack of reliable data providing

00:31:24.960 that COVID-19 vaccines protect children from severe cases. The task force that published

00:31:29.540 the research said COVID-19 vaccines were not designed to stop transmission. I mean, that's

00:31:35.080 all pretty remarkable. And I'll just get to, cause you mentioned the media response. I mean,

00:31:39.080 fake news is going to do what fake news does. We used to do a segment on the Candace Malcolm

00:31:42.460 show called fake news Fridays. Uh, you know, now there's just too much fake news. We have

00:31:46.260 to include it in every show. We can't just save it for Fridays, but, um, just because,

00:31:49.620 hey, it's Friday, let's go through some of them. So this is how the media covered this

00:31:52.400 report. Uh, the CBC said that Alberta doctors and scientists say that the COVID-19 response

00:31:58.880 report should be dismissed. Um, basically just saying that these are, you know, dangerous

00:32:03.620 ideas. Um, we have a city news report saying that the COVID-19 report is slammed as anti-science

00:32:11.260 and anti-evidence. We were pretty disappointed in the findings and, and, and, and how things

00:32:16.220 were represented. The NDP opposition agrees that the COVID-19 response is

00:32:19.860 by doctors, associations and the NDP. Uh, we have a clip of that. Let's play that clip.

00:32:22.420 A new $2 million report on Alberta's pandemic response is calling for a halt to COVID-19 vaccines,

00:32:26.420 but the document is being widely criticized called anti-science and anti-evidence by the Alberta

00:32:31.700 Medical Association. We were pretty disappointed in the findings and, and, and how things were represented.

00:32:38.260 The NDP opposition agrees, arguing the money should have instead been used to improve health

00:32:45.300 care. $2 million would have funded orthopedic surgeries at the Royal Alex Hospital for eight

00:32:51.940 years. And we spent $2 million to throw taxpayers money at every anti-vax extremist around the

00:33:00.140 world, not Albertans, not experts. Let's show a few more. The Edmonton Journal

00:33:04.260 accusing it of, so it sows distrust. Alberta doctors slammed the government's COVID-19 task

00:33:09.700 report report as misinformation. Uh, everything's misinformation. Um, and then I think this is a global,

00:33:16.340 oh, this is, oh, this is global news. Um, they said that anti-science and anti-evidence report,

00:33:21.060 uh, doctors pan report into Alberta's pandemic response. So of course the media doesn't like it because

00:33:28.260 the media were the ones propping up this nonsense throughout the entire COVID pandemic. I mean,

00:33:33.300 Sean, you say that Albertans are an unruly bunch. What's with your media? What's wrong with the

00:33:37.860 journalists there? Why don't they like, like what, why are they pushing the line and trying to?

00:33:42.340 Well, I love Nahid Nenshi saying $2 million could have been used this way. You know how much AHS

00:33:47.940 Alberta health services gets in a year or at least, uh, this coming year, I think $16.4 billion.

00:33:54.260 Now I just, I'll leave it to your listeners to do the math on that. I get 2 million is a big number.

00:33:58.420 I do. Cause I have my own qualms with it. Um, uh, not in the way Nahid Nenshi's talking about it,

00:34:04.020 but I'm like, we got $16.4 billion going to our Alberta health services and they suck. Like, I mean, 0.90

00:34:09.940 I can safely sit here and say, um, there's lots of wonderful people in here. I'm not saying that people

00:34:14.580 suck. I'm saying how many people, you know, do you talk to in Alberta and we can't find a doctor. 0.99

00:34:20.580 We're just like anywhere else in, um, in Canada. Now you're asking media. I don't know why, why,

00:34:27.140 why I always go back, you know, I'm, I'm so new into this, right? Relative. I go back to the

00:34:34.820 Freedom Convoy. I, I, uh, I caught it in Ontario, the edge of Ontario and followed it. And, um,

00:34:40.340 I interviewed people along the way and I remember thinking, where are all the reporters? Like, where

00:34:45.300 are they? Where like CBC wants the ratings go up. They should have a live stream of this thing going

00:34:50.660 to Ottawa. Everybody would have tuned in. I mean, everybody was tuning into anything that was put

00:34:55.620 out about it and they didn't. And so you go, well, why are they demonizing Daniel Smith and everything

00:35:02.900 else? Well, probably that's the only way their listeners are still paying attention because the

00:35:10.500 rest of us have tuned them out a long time ago. Like all those stuff. I'm just like, this is a joke.

00:35:14.820 I don't even think half the, well, no, it's, it's an insane, always have Chris Sims from the Canadian

00:35:19.300 Taxpayers Federation on. So shout out to her. She's fantastic. And we talk about the CBC and like,

00:35:24.900 you know, like primetime viewership in Canada and like, I don't know, was it 2%, uh, or less?

00:35:31.300 Yeah. No, like they're a dying breed. They're, they're on their way out. Candace would be my, 0.98

00:35:37.540 my honest opinion. I don't know why they haven't changed. I assume there's, there's some incentive

00:35:42.340 in the background that I don't know about. Um, they know where their bread is butter. They know

00:35:46.660 where the Trudeau bucks are coming from and it's in towing the line and promoting the narrative.

00:35:50.980 I remember the COVID or sorry, the, the freedom convoys, the three year anniversary. And it, that was

00:35:56.580 like one of the worst examples of just like, just two, two storylines that don't line up,

00:36:02.740 right? Like I'm watching the freedom convoy online, uh, you know, straight directly from

00:36:07.860 the people that are in it and, and showing remarkable scenes of Canadians lining up on overpasses.

00:36:14.260 Like to me, it was just like a moment of solidarity, um, before they even got to Ottawa, when you're

00:36:20.020 seeing those trucks and those big rigs driving down the road with people, uh, cheering them on,

00:36:24.900 you know, I heard from volunteers that were like giving out sandwiches and little kids were writing

00:36:29.780 messages of hope to these truckers. Um, to me, they were like, they were carrying the mantle for

00:36:35.060 all of us. They were expressing the things that I had been feeling about the, um, about the lockdowns

00:36:41.060 from day one. And it was like a beautiful sight. And then the media just instantly, uh, said that

00:36:46.900 these were radicals and that they were extremists. Actually at first, I don't know if you remember this,

00:36:50.660 the first CBC report on the freedom convoy said that the truckers were actually protesting,

00:36:56.020 um, unsafe road conditions and, and they were pretending that it was about something totally

00:37:01.780 different. And then, you know, the next day it was like, no, they got a memo. Let's change the

00:37:06.020 narrative. Oh no, these are Nazis. These are radicals. And it was like, I can see with my own 0.80

00:37:10.260 eyes who these people are and they're not how you described. I can't believe that Canadians continue, 1.00

00:37:14.180 um, to take the media seriously after that. That, that to me was one of the worst examples of it. And

00:37:19.300 to this day, when I walk around Ottawa, people come up to me and they say like, thank you for

00:37:23.460 true north. Thank you for your coverage of the freedom convoy. And that was the first time I

00:37:26.500 really saw how much the CBC deceives us and how much they lie because I saw the convoy with my own

00:37:32.580 eyes. And then I was watching on the CBC and it was like, they were covering two totally, totally

00:37:36.580 different events. Uh, Sean, I want to talk a little bit more about what's happening down in the

00:37:40.420 States because, uh, Robert Kennedy, uh, junior RFK jr. Uh, had his confirmation hearing earlier this

00:37:47.700 week and, you know, you said that you were kind of new to politics. I feel like I'm kind of new to

00:37:51.860 this like health and wellness trend. I've always been like a bit of health freak and, and really

00:37:56.980 like kind of particular when it comes to food, but I think having kids and then also just the pandemic

00:38:02.180 and the fact that I just don't feel like I can trust the people who I was supposed to trust before,

00:38:07.700 made me like really radical on this kind of thing. Like the idea of like, I don't want my kids eating

00:38:13.380 food that's like manufactured somewhere in a plastic bag with ingredients that I can't read,

00:38:19.220 um, things that like food that I ate as a kid. And then you just kind of trust that, oh, well,

00:38:24.420 I ate it, you know, like fruit loops or like goldfish or anything. And then you read the labels and it's

00:38:30.100 just like horrifying. It's like, why are we giving this stuff to our children? Um, you know, or anything,

00:38:35.780 even just like the idea of like the number of like micro plastics that are in our food and all the

00:38:40.340 different chemicals that go in from like the pesticides that are sprayed all over our food

00:38:44.420 to the way that they're preserved to the packaging, it's just like compounding. And then you look around,

00:38:48.980 I mean, we're talking about obesity in the media, but the reality is that we are a very unhealthy

00:38:54.420 society. Like, I think this should be a much bigger political issue. I know it's like a little bit touchy

00:38:59.940 because people don't like to talk about, you know, it's, it's a personal thing. And I'm kind of a

00:39:03.460 libertarian to like live and let live. But the idea that it's like, there's a lot of ingredients that

00:39:08.100 are in our food that I would consider to be poison. It's hard for me to explain to my kids,

00:39:12.020 like, why can't they have the junk food that comes in the goodie bag at the end of the birthday party?

00:39:16.500 And I'm saying like, you know, it's not healthy. It's not healthy. It's hard to,

00:39:19.460 it's hard to make that case to your kids when they just want to like be kids and eat icing and

00:39:24.260 eat unhealthy food when all their friends are. Um, but I love the idea that more and more people

00:39:29.060 are waking up or demanding change. So I think RFKJ really represents this change. Um,

00:39:35.620 let's play a couple of clips here. Um, so this, this one here, Robert Kennedy Jr. is saying that

00:39:40.820 he won't take away your snacks. He says, I won't take food away from anybody. That's not what he's

00:39:44.260 trying to do. He just wants us to be aware of the health impacts of our food. Let's play that clip.

00:39:51.300 I don't want to take food away from anybody. If you like a cheeseburger, a McDonald's cheeseburger,

00:39:57.860 a Diet Coke, which my boss loves. And I, you should be able to get them. If you want to eat

00:40:05.460 Hostess Twinkies, you should be able to do that, but you should know what the impacts are 0.97

00:40:10.580 on your family and on your health. Like I would go even further than that,

00:40:14.660 because I don't think that we need to have some of these ingredients in our food.

00:40:18.100 Uh, next clip here is on RFKJ saying that he's going to end the chronic disease epidemic.

00:40:23.220 And the first thing I've done every morning for the past 20 years is to get on my knees and pray

00:40:32.660 to God that he would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic and to help

00:40:39.700 America's children. That's why I'm so grateful to President Trump for the opportunity to sit before

00:40:47.140 you today and seek your support and partnership in this endeavor.

00:40:53.300 And so, I mean, he, he, he's kind of the face of this. I, I don't necessarily like him or agree

00:40:57.940 with him. You know, he's, he, he's a, he's a Democrat. He's a Kennedy. He's got like a very

00:41:01.620 kind of interesting past, colorful past, let's put it that way. Um, but he's kind of come to

00:41:06.500 represent this. And, and I loved the fact that his movement, the make America healthy again,

00:41:10.820 moving, you know, he ran for president for the Democrats and the Dems blocked him and wouldn't

00:41:14.180 let him run, which is why he was running as an independent. And then he came over and endorsed

00:41:18.580 Trump. And at that time it was like, you know, this movement is very mainstream. Like if you're

00:41:22.740 on Instagram, if you're a parent, this is the kind of thing that I see. And I love the fact that there's

00:41:27.300 a community that I can kind of like commiserate with on how hard it is to make sure your kids are

00:41:32.900 healthy. The steps that are needed. Like I try really hard to make sure that my kids aren't eating

00:41:37.380 off of like plastic plates or using plastic things like water bottles, all that kind of stuff,

00:41:42.020 um, to avoid the microplastics that they are getting into their system, um, and could have

00:41:47.300 really, you know, scary impacts. Um, I just, I just think it's great that this is now mainstream.

00:41:52.580 It's in front of us. Uh, we're making these changes. Um, curious to hear your thoughts on all this.

00:42:00.020 Huh? Well, that's, that's a, that's a big topic. I think one of the, um,

00:42:05.780 effects of COVID unintended consequences, if you would,

00:42:09.140 is to make America healthy again, slogan, everything like that's come with it, because,

00:42:15.140 you know, if you'd asked, I don't know, out of 10 people, you take it, you can put that number

00:42:21.220 higher, lower, wherever you want to put it about vaccines. I mean, if we just do that right off the

00:42:25.140 hop, I, I don't know how many people would have said they were against them before COVID. I, I would

00:42:30.100 argue is probably eight and 10 were for them. I I'm just ballparking. Yeah, I think that's

00:42:35.860 probably right. And now I'm not saying that eight out of 10 are against them, but I, I would say

00:42:40.420 their it's majority would question them now. And so when, when RFK juniors up there talking,

00:42:47.380 um, he, he has been a vocal person through COVID and for a lot of people to see him, uh, get put into

00:42:54.900 the new Trump administration and to, uh, have an opportunity to open up this conversation around

00:43:00.420 just food in general, uh, is been really interesting to watch. Uh, I think if you're a

00:43:08.500 parent and you don't think eating McDonald's every single day is probably not the greatest idea.

00:43:14.820 I don't know what RFK in, in that position is, is going to do for you. Um, he's probably not

00:43:20.340 going to do much, uh, that, uh, you know, most of us don't already know is what I guess what I'm

00:43:24.500 trying to say, but there are other things that are coming into, you know, you mentioned pesticides,

00:43:28.740 different things like that. Um, there's lots of things that I think, uh, we haven't studied

00:43:33.140 or in the mainstream hasn't been out there. And some of it is, is the, is the technology we

00:43:38.900 interact with on a daily basis, the different lights. There's been a lot of stuff coming out

00:43:42.740 about blue light and, and the different lights and how they affect, uh, the human body and stuff.

00:43:47.540 And with us not going away from technology, but coming closer to technology as a parent,

00:43:52.980 I want to understand that more because I can watch my children and see how they react after

00:43:57.700 watching TV or, or, uh, an iPad or something like that. I can see the effects of that as quickly

00:44:03.780 as I can see if they drink a can of Coke and watch them go from zero to 10,000 in, uh, about two

00:44:09.860 minutes, maybe less. And so, uh, I think for a lot of people, him being, uh, kind of a figurehead that

00:44:17.460 gets put in there, uh, that's what he represents. He represents somebody who's going to go in there

00:44:21.940 and rattle some cages and try and get some answers. And I think if you're, if you're, you know, watching

00:44:27.700 the Canadian military and seeing the obesity rate, or you're, you're just looking at the American

00:44:32.100 population and seeing the obesity rate there, and then all the health problems that kids have and on,

00:44:37.380 you're going, something's something just doesn't make any sense. And they need to look into that.

00:44:42.340 They, they do. And, uh, my hope is they, they will. And my hope is, is that they find some things

00:44:48.180 that they can change that, uh, will make, you know, it, the burden on parents maybe go down just a

00:44:55.060 smidge, because if you're worried about being on a plastic plate or drinking out of a plastic water

00:44:59.780 bottle or the 10,000 other things that as parents worry about, my hope is that they can find some things

00:45:06.340 that just makes sense that they can get rid of, or, um, you know, maybe veer away from so that we

00:45:13.300 don't have to worry about absolutely everything that goes into every substance product, you know,

00:45:19.780 on and on and on, because, you know, like I sit here on this side of a dad of three kids and there's

00:45:25.140 a lot of things you have to worry about on a day to day basis. Well, absolutely. And that's why I think

00:45:29.940 like, like I said, like I'm a libertarian and I think that people should generally be able to do

00:45:33.780 what they want. And like 10 years ago, I would have said like a tax on soda is ridiculous. If

00:45:37.780 people want to drink soda, like let them drink it. But then you think about like the other way around

00:45:42.580 that, like w you know, we have so much faith in our institutions. We give so much like trust to these

00:45:49.700 officials who get to like regulate our food. And then especially in the States, this is a major issue

00:45:55.380 where these senators and these like heads of these government agencies go back and forth between

00:46:01.620 working for big pharma, big food and working in government or, you know, the politicians are

00:46:07.300 getting funded by these people. So it's like, do you actually really have our best interest in

00:46:10.820 mind? Are you just trying to make money off of us? Because it's a little bit cheaper to use this

00:46:14.340 product, but this product hasn't really been studied and it might have like a long-term health impact.

00:46:18.420 Like I had this issue during my pregnancies where I'd have like bad heartburn. So I took heartburn

00:46:23.700 medication. And then when I had, like when I got pregnant again, I went to go take that heartburn

00:46:28.260 medication and I had been pulled off the shelf because it was like a carcinogen and had been

00:46:31.540 causing cancer. And it's like, gee, like, thanks guys. I'm supposed to trust you to keep me safe.

00:46:36.340 And I can't. Right. And so I just, I just think that it's like, I'm not trying to shame parents. I'm

00:46:42.820 like, I get it. Right. It's really hard. And like, I have a lot of them. So it's like, I have four kids

00:46:47.460 and like, sometimes you just have to give them an iPad or, you know, to get through a long car drive,

00:46:52.660 or, you know, you just have to give them some packaged food because they're hungry and it's all that's

00:46:56.420 available. Uh, but really like when you look into the, some of the ingredients and the impact that

00:47:01.460 it's having, it's like, this stuff shouldn't be on the shelf. I know that there was a pretty viral

00:47:05.780 scene, um, during a recent Senate commission, a committee hearing in the, in the States again,

00:47:10.340 where the woman showed two different, um, uh, fruit loops. One was in Canada and one was in the States.

00:47:15.860 And in the States, it was like neon and like bright colors because they use these artificial dyes.

00:47:20.420 And in Canada, they don't, um, they use like natural food, uh, like coloring. Um, and it's like,

00:47:26.820 why can't we at least have the same standards that Canada has? I think that those kinds of things are

00:47:30.580 just like, so important because being a busy mom and like just wanting to be able to trust that,

00:47:37.060 but that's why that's Candace. That's what we hope out of media. Right. So like what we're learning is,

00:47:42.260 is, you know, you gotta be selective on your media now. Right. Cause once upon a time,

00:47:46.100 we just trusted the CBC and probably at one point in time, they did, they went and investigated this

00:47:50.500 all for us. Cause that's what journalists are supposed to do. Then they're supposed to give

00:47:53.060 us the information and we're supposed to go, uh, I don't care if my kids have fruit loops or I do care.

00:47:59.220 And what we're learning here over the last, once again, I just point to my own career last five

00:48:05.060 years is that's not quite the case anymore. Right. Like journalism has been bought. Um,

00:48:12.580 um, big pharma has been doing a lot of buying, uh, you know, like when it comes to the food industry,

00:48:18.180 they've been doing some things right. And on and on it goes. And, and that doesn't mean you don't

00:48:22.340 trust anyone, but, uh, it's certainly as a parent, I, um, I'm doing a lot more vetting of where my trust

00:48:29.620 goes before I just believe something wholeheartedly. And, uh, it's okay to shame parents, right? Like,

00:48:34.660 I think in today's world at times we've, we get so busy and we think we're so busy that we, we farm

00:48:42.180 out who's going to look after our kids except for us. So, you know, daycares. Okay. Schools. Okay.

00:48:49.060 Uh, the TV and on and on and on it goes. And, um, you know, at some point you got to step in and be

00:48:55.060 the parent and I'm not scolding your listeners. I'm, uh, you know, I, every time I say these things,

00:48:59.220 folks, it's as much for me as it is for anyone else. And, uh, you know, there's, there's tough

00:49:04.820 decisions in there. There's, there's things you got to draw back from. There's, there's ways you

00:49:08.420 can be around your kids more and more. And the thing is, is if you're around your kids a lot,

00:49:12.340 you're going to start to understand that giving them TV all day long, although might make your,

00:49:17.220 your immediate life a touch easier, the consequences of that, after trying to pull them off of that,

00:49:22.980 you're going to see firsthand. And then long-term they're having ideas. Cause I mean, like the,

00:49:27.620 just look at, uh, Disney and different platforms, some of the content they're giving our kids now,

00:49:33.300 right. You used to be able to trust that a Disney cartoon wouldn't have a bunch of things in there

00:49:37.620 that you're like, why is that in there? I don't even understand. And so I think, um, we're just

00:49:43.460 beginning to understand that a lot of these, uh, realms that parents used to trust, we have to be

00:49:49.860 very cautious on and, uh, have to really pay attention and have to be involved. And if you're involved,

00:49:55.300 you're gonna, you're gonna find some things out about your kids and be like, oh, they just

00:49:59.220 shouldn't have X and kids are different. All of them are, I mean, the effects of sugar are

00:50:04.420 pretty much standard across the board, I think. And the kick, uh, the effects of not getting enough

00:50:08.500 sleep, let's say are pretty standard across the board. And there's some standardization of effects

00:50:13.860 on kids, but there's going to be different kids that can handle different situations. And that's for the

00:50:18.020 parent to be involved in and to watch your children and have conversations with them and all these

00:50:23.140 wonderful things that being a parent is all about. And we just have to be involved in our kids' life,

00:50:27.700 no matter how busy you get or I get. Um, you know, like, uh, sometimes as a parent, you got to make

00:50:33.380 some sacrifices, uh, on your own side of the pleasure scale to ensure that your kids are getting what

00:50:38.740 they need. Oh, I completely agree with all of that. Like I say, I don't mean to shame parents.

00:50:42.900 Cause I get that. Like, I think I'm in like a very lucky situation where, you know, I have four kids.

00:50:47.860 I'm kind of a stay at home mom, but I also get to run this cool media business on the side. Uh,

00:50:51.780 my mom lives with us. So I have like, kind of like a second, like a built-in stay at home grandma

00:50:55.940 that's always there for the kids. Like I'm personally very opposed to daycare. I don't

00:50:59.140 think that kids should be going to daycare at all. It's not good for the kids. It's not good for

00:51:03.140 their attachment. Um, it's not good to, to have strangers like changing their diaper or giving them

00:51:07.700 a bottle. Like, like my personal standards for my kids are quite different. I think then like what has

00:51:12.420 become the norm in our generation. And I don't like the fact that it's the norm that a woman will drop her kid 1.00

00:51:17.380 off to daycare. So she can go to a job that she doesn't like. Um, I think it'd be much better,

00:51:21.220 more fulfilling for that woman to just raise the kids herself and the kids would end up better. 1.00

00:51:25.940 Um, like I, I have, I have all these kinds of views, but I get it. And to your point, like when

00:51:30.340 you give your kids sugar, you're going to see the negative consequences immediately. Uh, when you

00:51:34.420 allow your kids an iPad, it's like crack to them. Right. And you'll see the naughty behavior come out 0.99

00:51:39.460 like almost instantly, which is why it's instantaneously. Yeah. And same with, I mean, with like even

00:51:44.020 something innocuous, like cocomelon, it's like, Oh, it's a nice little nursery rhyme. So the next

00:51:47.380 thing you know, there's like kids in drag and like two dads. It's like, no, no, no. You have to like,

00:51:52.180 take that away and just tell your kids to stop. I want to segue that to, um, this, uh, unbelievable,

00:51:58.900 uh, image that I saw. Um, the choppers drug mart has basically gone woke. I don't think that they

00:52:04.020 got the memo that we're sick of this stuff and we don't want to see it anymore. Um,

00:52:07.620 they're about to can. Yeah, I hope so. My tweet went a little viral and show that I just said,

00:52:11.940 this is creepy and insulting to Canadian women. Didn't corporate Canada get the message that 1.00

00:52:15.620 we're sick of this woke nonsense. I don't want to see this while I'm out shopping with my kids,

00:52:20.180 like take it down our face and boycott. I don't want to see that. Like it's weird and creepy. I

00:52:24.980 don't need to see a man with a beard wearing makeup. Like it's just like, it's a weird fetish thing.

00:52:30.900 It's creepy. It's sexual. If I'm out shopping with my kids and my four-year-old daughter's like,

00:52:35.380 mommy, why does that woman have a beard? Like, I don't want to have to explain that to her. 1.00

00:52:39.380 Right. Like I'm going to explain that to her when she's age appropriate. Right. When,

00:52:43.300 when she's a little older and she might understand it, but when you're out in public and you see

00:52:46.900 something like that, it's like, they're forcing it on you. And I just, I don't want to see it.

00:52:50.980 I'm done with it. And I think that if anything, the fact that Trump got elected, he's given us

00:52:55.300 permission to just say like, enough is enough. Canada needs to get like, catch up to speed.

00:53:00.260 Like I have no problem with being gay. I have no problem with gay marriage. Like we accept that.

00:53:04.500 That's fine. It's your business. Keep it to yourself. I don't need to know about it. Stop

00:53:09.460 like, like shoving it in my face, especially around my kids. And when it comes to the trans stuff, 1.00

00:53:14.180 men and women's sports, men and women's change rooms, like men with beers, like, no, I just,

00:53:19.140 just men and women's prisons. I mean, you know, it's funny to like, it isn't funny. Okay. But it is kind

00:53:26.980 of funny that choppers brings us out and you're like, okay, like, I don't know who I need to talk

00:53:33.460 to in there, but you had, you had Bud Light. And I mean, like that didn't go so well. You had

00:53:38.740 Gillette razors that didn't go so well. You know, you had Victoria secret. I think it was good to put

00:53:45.940 a trans man, trans woman, sorry. Oh man. In lingerie. I'm like, make it stop. Right. And, and, and then, 1.00

00:53:55.220 and all you gotta do is just see the trend line on how much money they're making. And, and I mean,

00:54:00.820 and you're seeing companies, uh, reverse course and trying to, trying to correct. You're seeing

00:54:05.620 all these big stores, get rid of their DEI. Uh, you're seeing Donald Trump make an executive order

00:54:11.300 on it. Like it's coming. It's just like shoppers drug mod. I don't know. I don't even know what to

00:54:16.420 say. I'm like, I saw it. I'm like, really 2025. We're still there. I don't know.

00:54:21.700 Oh yeah. That's what I felt like. They didn't get the memo. It's like,

00:54:24.260 they're stuck back in 2020 where it's like the woke mind virus is just, you know, forcing anyone.

00:54:29.540 And I saw some of the replies, like someone basically just said, I think we have this here

00:54:34.500 that, um, it's homophobia, nothing else. Like, you know, if, if, if you don't like this, it's

00:54:40.740 because of homophobia. Um, let people, uh, be exactly who they want to be. How does this affect

00:54:46.740 you? Well, I'll tell you how it affects me because I'm shopping with my kid and they see it and they're

00:54:50.980 like, mommy, why does that man have a beard? Why does that lady have a beard? Like it's, 0.99

00:54:54.740 it's weird and confusing. And like, it's not homophobic to say that I'm just, I'm sick of it.

00:54:59.140 I don't want it anymore. I think it needs to go away. And hopefully, uh, to your point,

00:55:03.380 like we saw with Bud Light and target and many others, uh, there will be,

00:55:06.420 well, I think, I think that's, what's going to happen. Um, uh, how does it affect you? It's

00:55:11.780 like, well, we're perpetuating a lie. I don't know. Right. Like men can't be women. You can 1.00

00:55:17.460 choose to do a lot of different things to your body and your parents and everything else.

00:55:20.820 That is your choice by all means. Um, once again, do what you want to do, but we don't have to act

00:55:27.700 like it's, it's, um, you know, like all of a sudden five of 10 kids are going to be, uh, swapping

00:55:33.460 things and everything else. I think that's honestly insane. And I, I, I mean, you call it

00:55:38.740 what you want. Your listeners can call it what they want. I call it common sense and life is just

00:55:43.620 going to carry on. Uh, I don't lose any sleep over it. I laugh at the shoppers drug nerd thing

00:55:48.340 because I'm just like, it's ridiculous. And so I won't be going there and I'm going to can carry on 0.85

00:55:53.620 going somewhere else. And that will be my life. And my hope is that they follow the trend of Bud Light

00:56:00.420 and all these different places that when they did it, I mean, you're seeing it on X. It's not

00:56:05.460 like all of a sudden you put it out there and nobody thought, yeah, that's a great idea. They

00:56:08.980 all said, you know, there's a reason why it went viral. Lots of people are not for this. We're seeing

00:56:12.900 it. There's a reason why Donald Trump is signing an executive order saying, get rid of DEI policies

00:56:18.020 like immediately. And, uh, sadly Canada right now is still under the intend to resign Trudeau and,

00:56:24.900 um, you know, the, the, not a real party Jagmeet Singh. And we are sitting here waiting for a new

00:56:31.620 prime minister to come in and hopefully start speaking a little bit of common sense so that

00:56:37.060 things can maybe veer a different direction. Okay. The last story I want to get your thoughts,

00:56:42.420 and we've already talked about it a little bit, but let's just go through it here. So obesity in

00:56:45.940 the Canadian military report showed that it's higher than in the general population, according to an

00:56:50.900 internal briefing. This came out on Monday. Uh, the thing that surprises me actually kind of shocks me

00:56:56.260 if we can just put that back up on the screen there. Um, it says that 68% of Canadian men are

00:57:03.220 considered obese or overweight. And that rate is 78% of men in the military. So like the vast overwhelming

00:57:12.420 majority of people in the military are not healthy. And the vast overwhelming majority of Canadians are not

00:57:19.140 healthy. Like how is this not the biggest problem in the country? Like we're not taking care of

00:57:23.700 ourselves. I don't know if it's because our food is poisoning us or because of our lifestyle or because

00:57:28.500 of something else in the environment, but something is severely broken when you have those statistics.

00:57:33.460 Like, I don't know what it is. I don't know how to fix it, but I just think that this is like,

00:57:38.660 like an alarm bell going off and everybody is ignoring it because, you know, we go back to like

00:57:43.940 personal responsibility and like, you know, everybody live their own life and do whatever you want. But it's like,

00:57:49.140 at a certain point, like our society is not going to be able to function. We're not going to be able

00:57:52.580 to defend ourselves. Like if there were ever an external, like war or something facing like a

00:57:57.860 crisis where men had to go and fight and protect the country, they wouldn't be able to, if we continue 0.73

00:58:03.140 down this path. Uh, what, what do you think of that? Yeah, they would, if you let them with Twinkies,

00:58:07.860 they just might not do a great job. Um, the 78% thing. Yeah. Uh, I talked to, uh, I have, uh, military

00:58:14.500 round tables on the podcast, um, usually monthly. Uh, and I talked to guys who've been in and around

00:58:20.260 the military all their lives. And we've been talking about this problem for, I don't know,

00:58:25.940 as long as I've been doing the podcast essentially. And it's just a lack of discipline, right? So like,

00:58:31.300 you know, it used to be, you had to have a certain haircut, you had to do certain things,

00:58:35.300 you had to live up to certain standards and well, that's discriminatory because now, you know, what

00:58:43.460 if a person can't do that? And what if you can't, well, we don't want you in the military then,

00:58:48.340 right? Like, and instead, that's not what they did. And so now you have obesity on their eyes

00:58:54.260 and you have, uh, certain people being excluded and you have on and on and on this goes. And so

00:58:59.300 you see exactly like, this isn't shocking folks. DEI is in full force here in the military. We,

00:59:06.500 we like you, when you have a military force, what do you want in there?

00:59:12.660 I mean, can women be in the military? Absolutely. They can, but you want the very best. You want 1.00

00:59:18.100 healthy fit males who can fight. That's what a military is. And our military has gone the opposite

00:59:26.180 way. I mean, we have tampons in the men's bathroom for Pete's sake. And so now to see this obesity

00:59:31.620 rate, it's like, I don't know, this, this doesn't shock me on the side. You know, I've probably become

00:59:36.580 very cynical on this. Like we need a change of culture in this country. We need a change of

00:59:41.540 culture in the military to get us out of this. Like we need, somebody needs to, you know, like we just,

00:59:46.980 somebody needs to get, uh, bumped into, break them out of whatever fog they're in. Because,

00:59:52.260 you know, when you say, well, maybe if there's a war, it's like, we're on the,

00:59:55.620 we're on the cusp of it. Like, I mean, it doesn't matter what side of Ukraine, Russia you're on.

01:00:01.620 I don't care. Okay. NATO is talking about sending 200,000 people there. We're a part of NATO. Like,

01:00:11.140 we just need to get it through our heads. Like, you know, we're living, we have lived in the most

01:00:16.500 peaceful time in human history as far as I can see. And I hope it carries on. I really hope it

01:00:22.180 does, but it doesn't carry on while you're sitting, eating Cheetos, watching the hockey game.

01:00:26.660 Like you have to become in my books, a strong man capable of speaking your mind and knowing

01:00:32.260 when something isn't, uh, isn't right and stomping it out immediately. So we have a very weak military.

01:00:37.860 It is not great. Uh, there's still good people in there, but they're being pushed around and pushed

01:00:43.220 out because of DEI policies among other things that are, that are happening across society.

01:00:49.460 And, uh, you know, I could probably rant and rave about this all night long. It's 78%. It doesn't

01:00:54.340 shock me. This is what you get when you go this direction. And we're seeing it play out in the

01:00:58.100 military among other places in our country. Well, and, and really like you could, you could

01:01:04.900 talk about any, uh, public safety force for this. And we just saw it with the Los Angeles fires,

01:01:10.020 uh, where you had like diversity equity hires leading the fire department and there's like no

01:01:14.980 water. And like, there's, you know, promoting the fact that they're lesbians and that they're 1.00

01:01:18.820 overweight. It's like, I don't care. Yeah. I don't care. Yeah. I need you to save someone from a fire.

01:01:24.100 Like, can you run into a burning building and carry an adult? To bring it closer to home, Candace,

01:01:30.580 for me, Jasper, we had the big forest fire. Right. And we did a bunch of talking about it and they,

01:01:36.660 like the people around there that are in the logging industry and, and, and, and forest

01:01:41.540 management and all that knew this was coming. They've been trying to get the government to

01:01:44.900 listen, but we're so focused on saving the planet. We didn't do forest management.

01:01:50.980 And so then the town burned down and there we are. And now they just pile a bunch of money.

01:01:54.020 And it's like, look, can we just do what we need to do to make sure that we don't burn ourselves up?

01:01:59.700 And that'll actually, as far as I understand, we'll promote, um, lots of great things in the

01:02:06.180 forest by doing it. But we equate cutting a tree down with, we're destroying the planet. Well,

01:02:12.420 it's more complex than that. And I think more people are like beginning to understand this

01:02:16.980 and understanding that there's more to all these arguments. It's not so simple. You know, I, I listened

01:02:21.380 to, uh, uh, I believe it's Ron Paul, Senator Ron Paul talk about, uh, Kennedy and, and just all the

01:02:27.860 different things. It's more complex than just a one size fits all. And too much of our society

01:02:33.300 is like, Oh, we've got one answer. That's all it is. And boom, that's what we're going to do.

01:02:36.820 Okay. Well now you get California fires. Now you get a Jasper and it ain't going to get better

01:02:41.700 anytime soon until we start to, uh, adjust how we're doing these things. It doesn't mean

01:02:46.580 go pollute everything. It doesn't mean destroy the planet, but the planet folks wants to kill us. 0.51

01:02:51.860 We live, we live in a place that gets minus 40 and I've read my ancestors, uh, accounts of coming

01:02:58.340 here. It wasn't a friendly place and we made it a pretty friendly habitable place. We start taking

01:03:02.740 away things that make it habitable. It's going to become unfriendly very fast. And, uh, we're going

01:03:07.860 to realize, man, we're going to have to cut down some trees and do some things that, uh, we've been

01:03:12.900 told are, you know, negative when the whole argument, the whole discussion is more complex than that.

01:03:19.380 And we have to allow for that, uh, complexity to be aired and to be discussed so we can come to

01:03:25.860 informed decision-making and make the best choices for our country instead of letting,

01:03:31.300 I'm going to bring it all the way back to the start of the show, NDP Singh hold up Trudeau and

01:03:36.820 this government and just watch the destruction of our nation happen right in front of us. It is just

01:03:41.060 wild to me and we need more Canadians to get involved. So to all your listeners, I appreciate you

01:03:47.460 being involved because if you're watching this late in this show, you probably are the people

01:03:51.700 that, uh, don't need preach to you. You're, you're probably wonderful human beings and you

01:03:55.380 want to understand and get to the bottom of how Canada works. And I think that's a lot of us here

01:03:59.300 in Canada. We're trying, um, and realizing how many issues we've really got.

01:04:05.220 Well, Sean, it's an absolute breath of fresh air to hear you. I could talk to you all day.

01:04:09.140 Um, but unfortunately we've run out of time. Uh, what we're going to do Candace is we're

01:04:13.300 going to have you on my show and we'll continue the conversation. And then, uh, my audience can,

01:04:17.300 and can hear a little bit about who Candace is and I appreciate you having me on.

01:04:21.380 I would love nothing more than that. Before the show started, uh, Sean invited me to come

01:04:24.980 out to his ranch in rural Alberta and shoot some guns. So I, my husband, I would love to do that.

01:04:29.460 I'm going to take you up on that. That sounds fun. Uh, really a pleasure to have you on the show.

01:04:33.460 Uh, thank you so much, Sean Newman. Go check out the Sean Newman podcast on Substack, everyone.

01:04:37.940 Uh, thank you so much, Sean. It's been great. Yeah. Thank you again.

01:04:40.820 All right, folks have a great weekend. It's been such a pleasure. We'll be back next week with all

01:04:46.020 of the news. Uh, I'm Candace Malcolm. This is a Candace Malcolm show. God bless.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 31, 2025

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