The Candice Malcolm Show - The Candice Malcolm Show： Fake protesters everywhere

00:00:00.000 Fake protesters are paid to support a Huawei executive, and more fake protesters are fighting

00:00:05.220 against the pipeline. Meanwhile, real protesters in Virginia are maligned as white supremacists.

00:00:10.660 Federal spending reaches an all-time high under Justin Trudeau. Plus, we'll do fake news and talk

00:00:15.160 about the conservative leadership race. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:19.380 So, Huawei executive Meng Wangzhu was in a Vancouver court this week. As you probably know,

00:00:30.200 she is fighting against extradition charges. She's been under house arrest in Vancouver since she was

00:00:35.380 arrested flying into Vancouver on her way to Mexico. She was held. She is being charged with crimes in

00:00:42.380 the United States for breaking U.S. sanctions. She is alleged to have been wheeling and dealing with

00:00:46.940 the terrorist state of Iran, which breaks U.S. sanctions. And so, she is going to trial this

00:00:52.760 week. Well, she showed up at a Vancouver courtroom, and there was something fishy going on. There was

00:00:56.820 something fishy going on. There were a group of protesters outside the court, supposedly in support

00:01:02.340 of Ms. Meng. And basically, they just looked like a group of young students or perhaps out-of-work

00:01:08.680 actors. When journalists started pressing them, asking them questions, they basically folded.

00:01:13.620 There was incredibly awkward moments. Let's play a little clip of that.

00:01:17.440 Huawei, which group are you with?

00:01:18.720 I'm leaving. Sorry.

00:01:19.880 No, what's your name? You got a free Ms. Meng sign? What school do you go to?

00:01:22.980 I don't think you're allowed to ask us personal questions like that.

00:01:26.120 I'm a reporter. I ask personal questions. Are you paid to be here?

00:01:30.160 I'm not answering any more questions.

00:01:31.840 Yeah, so those don't really look like grassroots protesters. They couldn't really even explain what

00:01:36.200 was going on. They didn't know anything about the extradition treaty. Well, one of those

00:01:40.180 individuals has come forth to say that, yes, she was an actor. She was responding to an ad that she

00:01:45.880 saw, and she basically thought that she was going to a set. She's an actor, and she responded to an

00:01:51.060 ad. An actor who was part of a group of young people protesting outside of Huawei's CFO Meng

00:01:55.440 Wangzhu's extradition here on Monday said she thought she was performing as an extra in a film 0.98

00:02:00.300 shoot, not attending a real protester. So Julia Hack's staff says, this reporter started asking us

00:02:05.920 questions. I don't know how much time it was. It felt like forever. It was probably just 20 to 30

00:02:09.840 seconds. But then I realized, no, this is a real reporter. Amidst the media circus surrounding the

00:02:14.900 extradition trial of Huawei's CFO Meng Wangzhu, a group of young protesters stood out. On Monday,

00:02:19.980 reporters noticed a group of young people standing with hastily made signs that read,

00:02:23.740 Bring Michael home, Trump stop bullying us, and Free Miss Meng, Equal Justice. The protesters couldn't

00:02:29.440 tell reporters their names or what group they represented. But some are now coming forward after

00:02:33.500 footage of the awkward encounter between real reporters and pretend protesters was spread

00:02:38.240 widely on social media. Wow. So there's news that they were being paid $100. Another report that they

00:02:44.500 were getting paid $150. Well, you know, that's that's kind of what you expect when you're dealing

00:02:49.520 with a communist regime like China and a state owned company like Huawei. And those weren't the only

00:02:56.380 protesters out in British Columbia this week. Bigger protests, the protest has expanded for people

00:03:02.600 against the coastal gas link pipeline out on Vancouver Island. This time, they blocked a ferry

00:03:08.780 terminal, a very popular ferry route going from Vancouver out to Vancouver Island. They came up with a list of

00:03:15.660 demands for the British Columbia government, and they claimed to be representing and supporting a First Nations

00:03:23.180 group. Well, the only problem with this, and this is what we talked about last week with the United Nations report that

00:03:29.780 condemned this exact same project is that First Nation groups were consulted in the approval of this

00:03:35.960 pipeline. And many First Nation groups actually support the building of this pipeline. As we've mentioned

00:03:41.620 earlier, 20 different First Nations groups have signed on to this pipeline. They are in support of it. So it's a

00:03:48.460 little bit rich when you see these sort of spoiled young kids having a temper tantrum, blocking, you know,

00:03:54.840 important infrastructure in the province, in the country, making demands, saying that you can't build a

00:04:00.020 pipeline. But then if you like, look at the demands, they go against the people who are affected by this.

00:04:06.820 So this is from a story earlier this week, a collective of First Nations who support the liquefied natural gas

00:04:13.900 industry in British Columbia say human rights advocates failed to do their research when they called for the

00:04:20.100 coastal gas link pipeline project to be halted. Karen Ogden Taos, CEO of the First Nations LNG Alliance,

00:04:27.540 says in a letter to human rights commissioner that the pipeline was approved through a democratic process

00:04:33.140 that indigenous people participated in freely. And neither the committee nor the commissioner

00:04:38.260 consulted supportive indigenous groups before taking a position. So the process by which this pipeline was

00:04:46.440 approved was democratic. It included First Nation groups involved, and many are supportive of it.

00:04:51.080 So again, why are people protesting it? Why can't we just have a functioning country where projects are built,

00:04:57.160 where we take pride in our natural resource development that, by the way, provides incredibly well-paying,

00:05:03.800 good jobs, not just to First Nations people, but to all Canadians, especially Canadians that have working class

00:05:10.100 backgrounds or blue collar background. It is an amazing opportunity for people to get well-paying jobs.

00:05:15.440 And yet we have protesters who are just absolutely demanding things that are having a very negative

00:05:22.720 effect on the country. Again, sometimes it seems like our country is just broken. We can't get

00:05:27.120 anything done. And meanwhile, every other country that has natural resources is going full steam and

00:05:33.600 developing them. It's just Canada that can't seem to get past this issue. So we have these two instances of

00:05:40.160 protesters in British Columbia protesting pretty dubious things that have kind of been shown to, you know, be

00:05:47.760 protesting in, let's say, bad faith. Meanwhile, there was a real protest on the other side of the continent over in

00:05:54.320 Virginia. The Democratic lawmakers passed a very extreme gun control legislation in a state that's, you know,

00:06:02.240 pretty much a Republican or red state typically where, you know, there's a lot of landowners and gun owners

00:06:08.880 and sort of more traditional people with traditional values. So after the Democrats passed these gun control

00:06:13.760 laws, thousands of gun rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on

00:06:20.320 Monday. You know, this was a huge peaceful protest. There was no reports of any kind of violence or anything

00:06:27.360 untowards. It was just a large protest of, you know, patriotic Americans. They were chanting USA,

00:06:34.480 USA and standing up for their rights as Americans to, you know, carry guns. It's right there in the

00:06:41.520 Second Amendment. They have the right to bear arms. And they did. And they were protesting very peacefully.

00:06:47.760 But that doesn't change the way that the media covered the protest. And this, you know, this is going to be

00:06:53.920 my This Week in Fake News as well, because it really, really was unfortunate the way that the media

00:06:59.760 aligned these protesters. This is like one of the biggest criticisms that people have about the

00:07:04.560 mainstream media is that they are reporters by and large are made up of these coastal elites who have

00:07:10.000 never really interacted with people from the center of the country, either in Canada or the US. They don't

00:07:14.800 have any experience with rural people. They don't understand gun culture whatsoever. So they see a bunch of 1.00

00:07:21.600 people carrying guns and trying to protest. And all that the media see are a group of, you know,

00:07:28.240 deranged, far right lunatics. And that's the way they cover it. That's the way they cover it. So this 0.95

00:07:32.800 is an exclusive over at TNC.News. CBC ran with a story that was also on CNN and MSNBC, in which they

00:07:42.000 basically accused people at this rally of being white supremacists and white nationalists. There's a whole

00:07:48.640 montage that someone created of those left wing television networks in the US, basically just

00:07:56.240 maligning these people with no evidence and no good reason. Virginia on the edge. How concerned are you

00:08:02.000 that there might be some people in this crowd that may want to get violent? There's certainly a lot of

00:08:06.240 concern here. Raising fears of a dangerous confrontation. It could be violence. There is real

00:08:10.320 concern there about what the intention is behind this. So the media see Trump supporters. They see people

00:08:15.200 waving Trump flags and they just assume that it's going to turn into some kind of a violent rally,

00:08:19.600 again, with no evidence and, you know, pointing to peaceful protesters, calling them extremists,

00:08:24.640 calling them white nationalists and repeating over and over again that you're worried about violence.

00:08:29.280 There may be violence. Violence might happen. You know, this is just this is a problem with the media. 0.78

00:08:34.640 And again, this is why people don't tune in in large numbers anymore, because it's just, you know,

00:08:40.640 they they take a story. They don't know how to cover it fairly. They don't know how to cover it

00:08:45.440 neutrally. And because of that, they end up just completely disgracing themselves. All right,

00:08:51.920 let's move on. The federal government is spending at an all time high, according to a new study from

00:08:56.480 the Fraser Institute. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's liberal government has recorded the highest ever

00:09:01.360 per person spending by any Canadian government in Canadian history. The study found includes governments

00:09:07.280 that were fighting world wars or that were facing huge recessions. They've never spent as much as

00:09:12.720 Justin Trudeau. The high level of spending could lead to rapid deterioration of federal finances should

00:09:18.160 the economy continue to slow or worse enter into a recession, reported co-author Jake Fuss. The study

00:09:25.520 tracked annual per person program spending adjusted for inflation by prime ministers since Confederation,

00:09:30.960 found that spending in 2019 was almost $10,000 per Canadian, which topped the previous

00:09:36.960 record of 8,800 set by Conservative leader Stephen Harper back in 2009. So three of the four highest

00:09:45.520 spending years on record, 2017, 2018 and 2019, are all under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his tenure.

00:09:53.200 So by comparison, the height of the Second World War in 1943 per person spending in 2019 dollars reached

00:10:00.880 $7,500 before dropping back down to $1,700. That's how much the government used to spend before the rapid

00:10:08.400 expansion of the welfare state and the entitlement state, which is what we're living in. Scary times

00:10:14.480 considering the economic outlook. A lot of people are predicting a recession and, you know, the Canadian

00:10:19.600 government has no plan for that. It's spending more than ever, it's borrowing, it's piling up debt and this

00:10:25.520 is in relatively good, stable fiscal times. What would they do if that turned? Yeah, I mean, this is

00:10:32.720 the problem with electing liberal politicians who have no restraint and believe that they can just

00:10:37.840 spend and spend and spend and, you know, someone else can deal with the consequences of that.

00:10:42.960 All right, and the conservative leadership race is beginning to take shape. There really isn't a lot

00:10:47.440 of people willing to throw their hat in this time around. You know, you can compare this to last time,

00:10:51.920 there was just a huge list. There was like hundreds of people that wanted to succeed Stephen Harper

00:10:57.120 and become the next leader of the conservative party. They were hungry to fight against Justin

00:11:00.240 Trudeau in an election and there was just really a lot of like interesting, competent people. You

00:11:05.040 know, you had different wings of the conservative party represented. Maxim Bernier was more on the

00:11:08.720 libertarian side and he was also feisty and willing to talk about issues that other conservative

00:11:13.440 politicians are afraid of. You had Kevin O'Leary coming in from the private sector talking about sort of

00:11:18.800 the business, no nonsense approach. And then you had kind of, you know, the range of sort of

00:11:23.840 establishment conservatives, a lot of Harper cabinet ministers jumping in. But still, you had

00:11:29.600 people interested in talking about ideas. Recall, Kelly Leach proposed the idea of a values test. Now,

00:11:35.680 she got completely demonized and destroyed by the mainstream media, but at least we were talking about 0.80

00:11:40.400 ideas and issues. This time around, I mean, the candidates, again, it's just a group of people who have been

00:11:47.920 involved in conservative politics, basically their whole life. You have Peter McKay, Erin O'Toole,

00:11:53.200 and Pierre Polyev, who appear to be the three front runners. These were all Harper era MPs for

00:11:59.120 the conservatives, all longtime players. And we're not really seeing anyone coming from the outside.

00:12:05.120 I think we should reflect on what happened in the last election. A lot of people are taking the lesson

00:12:09.920 that, hey, Andrew Scheer was too socially conservative. And therefore, what we need to have this time around

00:12:15.600 is a socially liberal or socially progressive candidate who just wants to talk about fiscal

00:12:21.360 issues. Well, the problem with that is that there are already so many parties on the left

00:12:26.800 that cater to that audience. If you are a sort of fiscally conservative or fiscally agnostic person

00:12:33.280 with progressive left-wing values, you can vote for the NDP. You can vote for the Green Party. You can

00:12:38.080 vote for the Liberals. What about people who have conservative values? What about people who have

00:12:42.160 traditional values? Maybe they're religious. Maybe they're just weary of the rapidly changing norms

00:12:47.680 that are happening and being pushed by the progressive left. I mean, defining yourself as

00:12:52.080 a social conservative isn't simply about the two issues that the media are obsessed with talking

00:12:56.560 about. They're always talking about support for same-sex marriage and support for unlimited abortion.

00:13:03.680 There's also a lot of other issues, I think, that would define whether or not you're a social

00:13:08.000 conservative. I mean, if you're a social progressive these days, you basically believe that gender is

00:13:14.800 a social construct, that biology, that biological sex is a social construct, that words amount to 0.97

00:13:20.880 violence, that Canada is this racist white supremacist country. You know, there's a whole slew of things 0.96

00:13:27.840 that the left is constantly pushing. Those are the extreme positions in my view, but they never get

00:13:32.320 pushed under a microscope in the same way as social conservatives seem to always be demonized by the

00:13:38.640 media. I think the important lesson from Scheer's time as leader is that, you know, the conservative

00:13:43.600 leadership job is not an easy job. If you look at the way that the media just absolutely destroys you,

00:13:48.640 you know, they dig into any aspect of your personal life to try to embarrass you,

00:13:53.200 and they really push you on these issues. Andrew Scheer clearly wasn't prepared. He didn't want to talk

00:13:57.280 about his personal social views, and he didn't have the ability to articulate them. He didn't have the

00:14:01.840 ability to push back against the mainstream media that was trying to force him to take a position,

00:14:06.880 take their position on the issue. I think that, you know, they've created a situation, the media

00:14:13.040 and also the Conservative Party have created a situation where it's just such an undesirable

00:14:17.520 job. You know, Justin Trudeau is the golden boy. The media are always going to have his back and

00:14:24.320 to sort of take the courage to, you know, define yourself as a conservative, perhaps even be a social

00:14:29.600 conservative and take that message to the Canadian public. You know, there's so many barriers that

00:14:34.640 you have to go up against, not only in the media, but in your own party now. So many people are just

00:14:40.000 saying, you know, don't take social conservative positions. And we've seen that already with Pierre

00:14:44.960 Polyev, who's already saying that he's not going to talk about abortion, he's not going to legislate.

00:14:51.520 On that, again, you know, where are social conservatives supposed to go in this country? I think that,

00:14:57.600 you know, there's been some interesting ideas put out through thought leaders in the media. There

00:15:03.040 was a really interesting article by Ken White in the Globe and Mail, and he made the argument that

00:15:08.320 the conservative leader should not be bilingual, that conservatives should just pick a person who

00:15:13.440 represents, you know, conservative values, who's articulate, who's going to run a good campaign,

00:15:18.880 who's confident, who can provide leadership, who has leadership qualities. And, you know, that one

00:15:24.400 component of whether or not they can speak French well, that you can always sort of appoint a deputy

00:15:28.560 in Quebec. You could always find someone to speak for the party in Quebec, aside from the leader.

00:15:34.000 And that would really open up the pool, instead of just having, you know, a small circle of basically

00:15:38.800 career politicians who have forced themselves to learn French, or, you know, someone who's from an

00:15:44.080 elite family in Montreal or Ottawa. Those are really the only two groups of people in the country that

00:15:48.720 are truly bilingual. And, you know, that just really excludes so many potential good candidates.

00:15:55.920 I think that's good advice. I think that if you got rid of that one component of saying that you have

00:16:00.000 to speak French, a lot more people, you know, people from the business community, people from other,

00:16:05.200 you know, areas that have different backgrounds and different expertise, they may be willing to throw

00:16:09.120 their hat in and create an actual interesting leadership race, once again, where we talk about ideas,

00:16:13.760 where we have, you know, people who are willing to defend ideas instead of these like super polished,

00:16:20.400 super vanilla politicians, which is what we have right now. I would like to see that. I think that,

00:16:26.320 you know, nothing against Peter McKay or Pierre Polyev, maybe they would be good leaders. We really don't

00:16:32.560 know much about what their policies are and what they stand for just yet. So we'll continue to watch that

00:16:38.160 and report on that. But I think that it would be good for the party and good for the country if there's just

00:16:42.080 more people in the leadership race and more ideas being put forth, to have an actual debate about

00:16:47.440 ideas and really pick the leader that has the most leadership qualities that can lead us into the

00:16:52.960 election and have a shot at representing conservatives and becoming prime minister.

00:16:58.320 Okay, I'm going to leave it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in and we will be back again next week.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 22, 2020

The Candice Malcolm Show： Fake protesters everywhere

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