The Candice Malcolm Show: Everyone knows China lied except the Trudeau government
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Candice Malan talks about a bizarre exchange between Canada's Health Minister, Patti Hadieu, and a reporter who asked a question about a Bloomberg report, and why she doesn't trust China's coronavirus death toll numbers.
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Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm for True North. Now, I want to talk about a remarkable exchange that
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happened between Canada's health minister, Patti Hadieu, and a reporter. The reporter asked a very
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basic, very straightforward question about a Bloomberg report. The Bloomberg report detailed
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how U.S. intelligence officials don't trust the official Chinese line and the official Chinese
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numbers when it comes to coronavirus. Now, this is what the Canadian health minister had to say.
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There's no indication that the data that came out of China in terms of their infection rate and their
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death rate was falsified in any way. In fact, if you look at the death rate overall in China,
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it's much higher than the one we're seeing now.
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So I would say that your question is feeding into conspiracy theories that many people have
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been perpetuating on the internet. And it's important to remember that there is no way
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to beat a global pandemic if we're actually not willing to work together as a globe.
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Okay, did you hear that? First, Patti Hadieu, she says that there is no indication that the data that
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came out of China in terms of their infection rate and their death rate is falsified in any way,
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that there's no indication. Okay, wait a minute. The entire premise of the question came from a
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Bloomberg report that does just that. It does give a very clear indication that China has falsified
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their report. So let me just read from this Bloomberg report here. The headline says China
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concealed extent of the virus and outbreak U.S. intelligence officers say. Here, I'll read from the
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report. It says China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country. Under
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reporting both total cases and deaths it suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community
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concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials. The
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officials asked not to be identified because their report is secret and they declined to detail its
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contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China's public reporting on cases and deaths is
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intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that China's numbers are
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fake. China's numbers are fake. They're fake. So this is Canada's top ally, our most important partner
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and our North American security partner. And here we have the Canadian health minister
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basically saying that she doesn't trust the U.S. information, that she doesn't trust the story
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that was based on U.S. intelligence sources and a document given to the White House. So rather than
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trusting our top ally and our sort of cultural neighbor and partner, instead the Trudeau government
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says that they would rather trust China. They would rather trust China. Just think about that for a
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second. In a situation where the globe is in the midst of a pandemic, a health pandemic that originated in
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China. That was the result of bad practices in China. The origin of this disease is believed to
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have come from a wet market where exotic animals are killed or sold alive and eaten by people. That's
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the origin of this disease. The Chinese government refuses to crack down on it. Then the Chinese
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government lied for weeks, if not months, about the human-to-human transmission of this virus.
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China is to blame. China is a very, very bad actor in all of this. They deserve to pay for
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what they have done. And yet the health minister is actually kind of defending China and in some ways
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repeating propaganda lies from the communist regime. China does not have a free and fair press,
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so we have to take with a grain of salt and a high degree of skepticism the numbers that come out of
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China. It's an autocratic communist regime that has lied throughout this entire pandemic. So we
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shouldn't trust them. They don't have a free press like we do in Canada and in the West. So even the
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press is highly suspect. It's all kind of communist government owned. But there are free journalists,
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there are independent journalists, many of them who are early whistleblowers have been arrested or
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disappeared by the communist regime because they've been speaking out. But there was a report that came
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out of Radio Free Asia. This came out on March 27th. And it says estimates show Wuhan death toll far higher
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than official figures. And let me read from this because this also provides some evidence to suggest
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that China is lying. So it says, as authorities lifted a two-month coronavirus lockdown in the central
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Chinese city of Wuhan, residents said they were growing increasingly skeptical of the figure of
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some 2,500 deaths in the city to date. It was accurate. Since the start of the week, seven large funeral
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homes in Wuhan have been handing out cremated remains of around 500 people to families every
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single day, suggesting far more people died than ever made the official statistics. It can't be right
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because the incinerators have been working around the clock. So how can so few people have died,
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a Wuhan resident said on Friday. Okay, so seven funeral homes currently serve Wuhan. Social media users have
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been doing some basic math to figure out their daily capacity. So one news outlet reported that there
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were 5,000 urns delivered to just one funeral home in one day alone. That would be double the official
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death rate for the entire region to one funeral home in one day. So some other estimates suggest that
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there have been 3,500 urns every single day in total among the seven funeral homes. So just doing some
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basic calculation, the estimate of the number of people who died just in Wuhan alone, just in that
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one Chinese city, the epicenter of the virus, the communist government says it's 2,500. Estimates range
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from 42,000 all the way up to 46,800. That's just based on the use of those funeral homes and the
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number of urns. So to go back to Patty Haiju's comment, and saying that there's no indication to
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believe that China is lying, yes, yes, there's so much indication. There are so many things that
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have happened to make us believe that China is not telling the truth, or at least to bring some
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skepticism toward it. And seeing a Canadian official just brazenly call out a reporter to defend the
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communist regime as they have unleashed this deadly pandemic on the globe, and also to call out that
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journalist as a conspiracy theorist for asking questions and doing his job, that's a shameful,
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shameful moment for Canada. Let me just say Patty Haiju is looking more like an autocratic leader from
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China than she is the health minister of a free and democratic country of Canada. For True North,