Candace Malan talks about the Trudeau government's response to the Indigenous protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, Andrew Scheer's speech, and the growing tide of racism and bigotry directed at Indigenous people. Candace also talks about a special live edition of the show featuring a live audience at her son's birthday party.
00:00:00.220Enforcing the law is racist, Andrew Scheer gives a speech of his career, conservatives are not welcome in the democratic process, and a liberal buys ads to shut down jobs in Alberta.
00:00:09.900I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:17.540Hi everyone, welcome to a special live edition of the show. I'm going live today.
00:00:22.480I am recording this podcast right now because my son is having a nap, and so I've been trying to get him to go down for a nap for like the better part of an hour.
00:00:30.140And now that he's sleeping, recording the podcast, if I suddenly have to go offline, it's because he's woken up and he's crying,
00:00:36.100but hopefully he will sleep for long enough that I will be able to record the podcast in full.
00:00:41.440He is turning one years old this weekend, so we're having a little party, and I'm pretty excited about that.
00:00:47.940Actually, it was funny, I was talking to a mom friend of mine, and she asked what theme we're having for our son's birthday party.
00:00:55.300And I'm like, you know, he's one. He's not really into anything.
00:00:59.120He's interested in, like, his parents and, like, food and anything you put in front of him, any toy you put in front of him is what he likes.
00:01:05.840So I don't know if people normally have themes for the first birthday party, but I think the theme will be like, you know, blue and green streamers or something like that.
00:01:20.860So apparently, according to the mainstream media and according to left-wing politicians in this country, it is racist to stand up for the rule of law.
00:01:30.380Standing up for the rule of law, enforcing the laws of the land, telling radical activists that they can't take the entire country hostage and shut down our entire infrastructure.
00:01:40.840That is racist, according to many, many, many voices.
00:01:45.760The first time I heard this accusation, it came from the liberal minister who was sort of charged with going and talking to some members of the Mohawk community.
00:01:56.560And, you know, he distracted from the issue.
00:01:59.920So he would rather, much rather talk about how he believes that Canadians are racist as opposed to the actual issue here, which is that there's a bunch of people just throwing a temper tantrum and trying to shut down the country.
00:02:10.800And so we had the minister, let me just see if I can find this clip.
00:02:14.640We had the minister of Indigenous Affairs, Miller, basically saying this.
00:02:20.640What I've been concerned about over the last week or so is growing tides of bigotry and racism that is being leveled against amazing people that have helped us in hard times.
00:02:38.500So in all this, the biggest concern that he's having is the bigotry and racism being leveled about the protesters.
00:02:42.900Well, a major, major part of the concern for people who are standing up against the protesters is that the protesters are appropriating the First Nations voice in this country.
00:02:52.820So, you know, just like every other community, there are First Nations people who support pipelines and support natural resource projects.
00:02:59.300And there are First Nations people that oppose it, just like any other community.
00:03:02.680The idea that somehow everyone in a community has to think the same way is kind of outrageous.
00:03:08.560It's actually a little bit paternalistic or a little bit racist to just assume that they all have one, you know, position on an issue.
00:03:15.340So just like any other issue in society, there are First Nations people that support the pipelines, First Nations that don't.
00:03:21.920In this case, with the coastal gasoline pipeline, all 20 of the affected First Nation bands had a vote.
00:03:28.460They voted and they're all in favor of it.
00:03:30.700So if you look at the democratically elected people who represent these bands, they're for it because they want the jobs.
00:03:36.120They want the economic development. And, you know, this has gone through a very thorough process.
00:03:40.540This is one of the projects that has worked with the First Nations community along the pipeline all the way.
00:03:46.500There is a great video by Ellis Ross, who's an MLA from that area, talking about how this goes back to like 2004, this consensus building.
00:03:54.040And they came upon an agreement for a project that they were all going to get behind.
00:03:58.380So the idea that the biggest issue right now is somehow racism, it's just sort of pure distraction.
00:04:04.800It's just, you know, the favorite thing of the liberals is to say that the people who oppose them, the people who disagree with them are racist.
00:04:12.760So Andrew Scheer gave one of the best speeches of his career yesterday.
00:04:16.860And we're going to get to that a little later in the show.
00:04:18.720But the reaction to it was just absolutely, I mean, it's what we've come to expect in this country.
00:04:27.180You know, him taking a firm stance and calling for the rule of law to be enforced, calling for, you know, people who are breaking the law to be arrested, essentially, and just saying enough is enough.
00:04:46.800Jagmeet Singh told reporters that Andrew Scheer was racist for suggesting that the police should go in and clear out the protesters.
00:04:58.040According to Huffington Post, Jagmeet Singh said that Scheer had belittled First Nations by calling them names and sowing division by suggesting he knows who is a real community leader and who is not.
00:05:08.860What he said was so divisive that it rises to the level of racism.
00:05:12.520It rises to the level of racism, according to Jagmeet Singh.
00:05:16.440So, again, I mean, the idea that you can't stand up for the rule of law in this country without being accused of being a racist.
00:05:26.640It's 2020, and you are a racist if you want to, you know, get workers back to work, get, you know, supplies across the country, have a functioning economy, have a functioning country, essentially, that doesn't get, you know, held up at just the slightest.
00:05:45.140I mean, here's the thing, you know, fine, there's some hereditary chiefs in the Wasuwet'en Nation that oppose this pipeline.
00:05:54.000There's a handful of people who don't want anything built ever, right?
00:05:57.720And whatever you negotiate, it's never enough.
00:06:01.020So there's a handful of people saying, no, we don't want this.
00:06:03.520And then what you have is every left-wing environmentalist, not just in Canada, it seems, but from all over North America, who can get themselves to a location where there's a protest being held, has come out in support of this.
00:06:16.240So this is far-left, radical, fringe environmentalists appropriating the First Nations cause, pretending to speak on behalf of First Nations people, even though they don't, and again, appropriating it.
00:06:26.320If I was, let me tell you, if I was in charge right now, not only would I go in and arrest every single protester who is blocking critical infrastructure, be it a roadway or a railway, I would arrest them all.
00:06:37.080And anyone who was a non-citizen who was in Canada blocking our infrastructure, not only would they be deported as soon as I learned that they were not a citizen, they would get banned from entering Canada ever again.
00:07:34.060We're doing the job that should have been happening last week.
00:07:37.040And, you know, Andrew Scheer, I've got to give him credit.
00:07:39.460I was pretty critical of him after the election.
00:07:42.320I was critical of him when he failed to sort of stand up for himself and to maintain his credibility fighting back against all the critics.
00:07:50.540But it seems like now that he doesn't really have a stake in the game anymore.
00:07:53.400He's no longer going to be the permanent leader of the party.
00:07:56.380He doesn't have a big staff anymore, from what I understand.
00:07:58.720He's, you know, down to just sort of bare-bones staff.
00:08:02.120He doesn't have a lot of advisors like he used to.
00:08:04.360Well, now he's acting like the conservative leader that I wish that he had acted like through the last election.
00:08:08.960I think if this Andrew Scheer had been running in the campaign, he would be prime minister right now.
00:08:13.340So I'm going to play part of the clip that he, this is Andrew Scheer speaking in the House of Commons yesterday, responding to Justin Trudeau and talking about the railway.
00:08:24.000That was the weakest response to a national crisis in Canadian affairs.
00:08:33.220Now, I listened to the prime minister's word salad just now, Mr. Speaker, and at least two key things were missing.
00:08:40.900A clear denunciation that the actions of these radical activists are illegal, and some kind of an action plan that would put an end to the illegal blockades and get our economy back on track.
00:08:55.300The prime minister's statement was a complete abdication of responsibility and of leadership.
00:09:05.780Mr. Speaker, we are at an important time in our country's history, a time when we will have to decide who and what our country stands for.
00:09:17.360Will we be a country of yes, where big national projects can get built and our country can grow and develop?
00:09:25.500Or will our country be a country of no, where a few loud voices can shut down development and prosperity for all?
00:09:34.340This is good, Scheer. This is what he's saying here, the rule of the mob. That's what's happening right now.
00:09:39.360A fringe, small group of people who are pretending to stand for the First Nations cause, even though they're not.
00:09:45.060They're just anti-development. They're anti-oil.
00:09:47.600There's a great video of Kian Bexty over at The Rebel, who went over to one of these protests and just started asking the most basic questions to these protesters.
00:09:56.960And, of course, I mean, they don't know what they stand for.
00:09:59.460They don't even know what the pipeline is carrying. Right. It's not carrying crude.
00:10:04.420It's not carrying oil. It's carrying liquefied natural gas, which is one of the greenest forms.
00:10:10.120And it's not even crossing a national or provincial boundary.
00:10:13.280It's going from British Columbia to the coast and and out.
00:10:17.040So, I mean, the protesters just don't really know what they're talking about.
00:10:19.940Most of them don't know that the First Nations along the route are all unanimously in agreement with the pipeline.
00:10:29.100You know, they just they just hate hate oil.
00:10:31.540They hate Canadian oil specifically because it's sort of like the weak link.
00:10:35.320No other country would allow this this kind of stuff to happen.
00:10:38.900And so they go in and it's been proven time and time again that these are not First Nations protesters.
00:10:44.820Sure, there are some First Nations protesters, as I talked about at the beginning of the show.
00:10:49.380You know, there's some First Nations people that agree with it and some that don't.
00:10:52.120They don't like the entire First Nations community doesn't just think with one collective brain.
00:10:55.920They have some people that agree with this stuff and some that don't.
00:10:59.160But the idea that that somehow this is like a uniquely First Nations cause, it isn't.
00:11:03.640It isn't. We know that there are far left radical groups.
00:11:06.600True North has exposed a couple of them on their Web sites.
00:11:09.300They talk explicitly on how to damage critical infrastructure, how to, you know, damage railroad tracks, which is incredibly dangerous.
00:11:33.580So so for all the, you know, talk to the left likes to play a big game about them being sort of the working class, the voice of the working class, like that's what the NDP is supposed to be representing.
00:11:44.840Yet again, they're on the wrong side of this issue because working class people are the ones that are disproportionately being harmed, not only just losing opportunities in the energy industry,
00:11:54.720but also now people being laid off from their jobs, people who work for CN, you know, this is a country that's just not functioning the way that it should.
00:12:05.080And so because of Andrew Scheer's speech, which I thought was great, I thought that that was, again, the Scheer that we should have.
00:12:10.640I wish that we had seen more of that in the in the election, just, you know, speaking clearly, saying what this is.
00:12:17.140None of that sort of sugarcoating like the liberals like to pretend that this issue is all about reconciliation.
00:12:21.640This is nothing to do with reconciliation. No, this is this is this is about Canada not being able to function.
00:12:28.160Canada's not being able to enforce the laws in our society and having our entire economy being held hostage by special interest groups, by fringe environmentalists who don't speak for anyone other than themselves.
00:12:41.040And in fact, many, many First Nations voices, you can find them on Twitter, who who are actually frustrated, saying like enough is enough.
00:12:49.360You don't speak for us. You don't speak for us. And you saw you saw a lot of this.
00:12:55.360Let me let me find this tweet. So there was a just find this tweet.
00:13:02.200Here it is right here. So this person called Tez Burra Berman writes, Dear Canada,
00:13:09.060We have enough oil and gas development and pipelines to meet our needs while we transition cleaner, safer, low carbon economy.
00:13:16.340Building new ones is not consistent with the Paris agreement and climate emergency.
00:13:20.980How about we stop punch? How about we stop pushing them on indigenous communities?
00:13:25.220And the response that she saw in my timeline anyway, was basically just a whole bunch of First Nations people like screaming at her saying, like, you don't speak for us.
00:13:34.700Stop trying to, you know, take over our cause.
00:13:39.180So Ali Q, who is a First Nations Canadian, and she writes, you are a user swooping in to use First Nation people to further your ideology.
00:13:50.100Show us where you've helped any indigenous people here or anywhere else overcome poverty, housing, access, treatment, water.
00:13:55.320I mean, I can't imagine how frustrating it would be if you were a First Nations person who was supportive of this kind of project,
00:14:01.980who wanted the economic opportunities in your community, who wanted the prosperity that comes along with it, the jobs, the opportunity,
00:14:10.160So many of them don't have hope because they don't have access to the same kind of economic opportunities that Canadians who live in cities do, frankly.
00:14:17.500So having a big project like this, bringing wealth and opportunity to your region would be really exciting.
00:14:23.100And especially after, like, a long process where they've been trying for, what, 15 years to get this pipeline going forward.