The Candice Malcolm Show - February 26, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： Illegal blockade terrorists


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Protesters are flexing their might looking a lot more like terrorists than anything else and Justin Trudeau doesn t seem to care. Plus, we ll talk about the fallout of the cancelled Tech Frontier Mind Project and this week in fake news.

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00:00:00.320 Illegal blockade protesters flex their might looking a lot more like terrorists than anything else.
00:00:05.540 And Justin Trudeau doesn't really seem to care.
00:00:07.720 Plus, we'll talk about the fallout of the cancelled Tech Frontier Mind Project.
00:00:11.700 And this week in fake news, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:21.760 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in to the program.
00:00:25.300 We are doing a live edition of The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:27.660 If you tuned in on Monday, you would have seen we had some technical issues on the show.
00:00:33.060 The Wi-Fi sort of cut out halfway through.
00:00:35.960 So unfortunately for folks watching on Facebook, they didn't get to see the whole program.
00:00:41.240 But it was on Periscope for the most part, what we could salvage.
00:00:44.640 So let's get to it.
00:00:45.960 Well, first I just want to say I watched the Democrat debate last night.
00:00:50.660 And, you know, it was probably the best Democrat debate so far because people actually went after Bernie Sanders. 0.88
00:00:55.960 And, man, that guy is terrible.
00:00:58.300 Like, I thought that he performed very poorly last night.
00:01:00.880 I totally understand his populist appeal and all that kind of stuff.
00:01:05.240 His policies are awful.
00:01:06.360 But the moment where he was actually doubling down and tripling down on defending the Castros and defending communists.
00:01:12.880 He should ask Justin Trudeau how that turned out.
00:01:15.500 When Justin Trudeau wrote a sort of glowing love letter to the Castro, to Fidel Castro after he died, that was like one of the most embarrassing moments for the prime minister.
00:01:26.700 And that's saying something because Justin Trudeau is always embarrassing himself.
00:01:29.940 But anyways, hearing someone who wants to be the leader of the free world and the leader of the United States of America, which is the greatest force for prosperity and freedom in the world, you know, hearing someone who wants to lead that country praising a socialist dictator and glossing over the horrible atrocities that happened was just pretty despicable.
00:01:50.700 So hopefully Democrats come to their senses and get rid of Bernie Sanders or don't don't elect him as their leader, because I think that that would be a disaster for everyone, for everyone.
00:02:02.720 OK, let's get to the Canadian news today, because while we were told that things were supposed to be going back to normal, that the court injunction was going to be issued and that the protesters were going to be moved away.
00:02:14.680 But as we saw today, that just simply didn't happen. And I'm telling you, I'm telling you, these protesters are looking a lot more like domestic terrorists than anything else.
00:02:24.280 So so the the the the main protesters that were blocking the line in Belleville at the Tyandanaga Mohawk Territory, they moved off the tracks.
00:02:36.280 Well, sort of there were protesters seen sort of blocking the railway and then jumping off the last minute.
00:02:41.080 But the train was successfully able to go through for the first time in a few weeks.
00:02:47.180 But then, of course, other protests popped up. So they decided to go after commuters in the greater Toronto area.
00:02:53.580 Really, really not a good way to win any kind of public support.
00:02:57.340 I mean, it seems at this point that they're really just trying to galvanize the country against them.
00:03:01.480 They recognize that most Canadians want the court injunction followed.
00:03:06.660 They want the protesters removed. They want them arrested, all this kind of stuff.
00:03:09.920 You know, the few people who actually support the protesters after you go after someone's morning commute, you know, that's like the last straw.
00:03:16.880 No one's going to support these protesters after this. So they pull another stunt.
00:03:20.960 They show up at the go train station in Hamilton and basically just block traffic, block traffic.
00:03:29.220 What a nightmare for anyone trying to commute in and around Toronto.
00:03:32.840 And then what I mean, the footage that we saw today was just absolutely remarkable, absolutely remarkable.
00:03:38.920 So we had protesters basically, again, throwing a temper tantrum and really, really, really what I think crossing the line when it comes to what I would describe as domestic terrorism.
00:03:51.380 I mean, if you've seen the footage, go on to Twitter, look at the footage, and you will see that they have, I mean, they're throwing, they were setting fire.
00:04:01.920 There are fires all over the railroad tracks.
00:04:03.880 There's footage of these individuals throwing wooden crates, wooden pallets at a train, at a moving train.
00:04:11.480 And this train is moving like heavy materials.
00:04:14.440 I mean, it looks like part of the train is actually moving oil, petrol.
00:04:19.820 And you have people lighting gas fires, lighting fires with tires and throwing them at the train, throwing them under the tracks.
00:04:27.380 I mean, I don't know in what world this wouldn't be considered domestic terrorism.
00:04:31.900 I mean, this is attempted murder in my books.
00:04:34.120 And it's absolutely crazy to watch these radicals trying to derail a moving CN train. 0.99
00:04:41.320 Not only is it incredibly dangerous for these idiotic protesters, but imagine, I mean, you don't know what the fallout could be. 0.99
00:04:48.100 The driver, they put the driver's life in danger. 1.00
00:04:50.860 And if that train were to derail, where would it go?
00:04:53.540 It would go into a neighboring community.
00:04:55.080 It could go into a subdivision.
00:04:56.540 It could go into a mall.
00:04:57.600 Like, it's just incredibly, incredibly dangerous what these protesters are doing.
00:05:03.000 And again, it looks a lot more like terrorism to me than anything else.
00:05:08.980 Our prime minister is addressing the situation.
00:05:11.720 And let me just tell you, Justin Trudeau, forget about his ideology.
00:05:15.940 Forget about the fact that he allowed this to go on for way too long.
00:05:19.080 When you just look at the approach, it just doesn't seem like he cares.
00:05:21.800 It doesn't seem like his heart is in it at all.
00:05:23.720 He just seems sort of resigned to the fact that this is happening.
00:05:26.740 And the Trudeau liberals have created a huge, huge problem for themselves.
00:05:31.160 Because the dichotomy that they've created, this is the media version of the story that
00:05:35.520 the Trudeau liberals have sort of bought up and promoted as well, is that this is a First
00:05:40.820 Nations protest against a oil and gas project.
00:05:44.100 Well, that's not true.
00:05:44.880 I mean, if you watch my show, if you watch this program, if you sort of look for the other
00:05:49.500 side of the story, you'll recognize that so many First Nations communities support these
00:05:55.300 pipelines.
00:05:55.900 They want the jobs.
00:05:56.800 They want natural research development.
00:05:58.340 They want the economic opportunities.
00:06:00.240 Of course, all 20 elected bans along the route of this coastal gas leak project were in favor
00:06:06.140 of it.
00:06:06.580 So to paint this as a reconciliation issue and to paint it as like First Nations protest
00:06:11.100 is just wrong.
00:06:12.480 It's wrong.
00:06:12.940 But that's what the liberals have done.
00:06:14.240 And that's what the media have done.
00:06:15.660 And now Trudeau has backed himself into a corner because he's supposed to be the prime
00:06:19.560 minister of reconciliation.
00:06:20.460 He's supposed to be the prime minister of healing, of kumbaya, holding hands and talking
00:06:26.560 about our feelings and getting past sort of the decades or the centuries of misunderstandings
00:06:34.920 and mistreatment towards First Nations communities.
00:06:37.240 So he's the prime minister that's supposed to do that.
00:06:39.860 And yet, because he framed this issue as First Nations versus Canadians, he can't take the side 0.99
00:06:44.680 of Canadians.
00:06:45.200 He can't take the side of Canadians, even though that's not the actual dichotomy.
00:06:49.140 The dichotomy is like a group of far left fringe protesters against Canadians and that
00:06:54.460 the far left fringe environmental protesters are appropriating First Nations.
00:07:00.340 They're pretending to be First Nations. 0.84
00:07:01.680 They're trying to wave the flag of First Nations, even though so many First Nations voices are
00:07:06.200 now speaking up.
00:07:07.000 But because Trudeau has done this and the media has done this and the Liberal Party have
00:07:10.280 done this, now they just they're stuck in a corner because they can't come out and
00:07:14.020 be mean and be seen as cracking down on the First Nations cause.
00:07:18.180 So here we have Justin Trudeau today commenting about the, honestly, the terrorism that's happening
00:07:26.260 in our country today.
00:07:27.300 And he sort of just gives a lackluster response, like, like, kind of like, meh.
00:07:32.220 So obviously, we're hoping for a resolution soon.
00:07:35.720 We're continuing to work as we have over the past weeks.
00:07:38.900 It is extremely concerning to see people endangering their own lives and the lives of others by
00:07:44.440 trying to interfere with with the trains.
00:07:46.420 But again, we are continuing to work very hard to resolve this.
00:07:50.200 That was just like low energy, Jeb.
00:07:52.740 That was low energy, Justin.
00:07:54.720 You know, we're going to work our best, blah, blah, blah.
00:07:57.020 It's extremely concerning to see people endangering their own lives and others like
00:08:00.460 like Justin Trudeau just doesn't really know what to say.
00:08:03.480 He doesn't really know what what kind of stance he can take.
00:08:07.020 So he just kind of comes out low energy and blah.
00:08:10.640 Well, I'm sorry, that's not going to cut it.
00:08:12.140 That's not going to cut it in a country where we've really just empowered the far left.
00:08:16.640 Like they're flexing their might now at this point.
00:08:18.460 It's sort of like in your face.
00:08:20.260 You know, we can do whatever we want.
00:08:22.460 We can hold the country hostage with our protest.
00:08:26.680 And we you're not going to do anything to stop.
00:08:29.420 We know you're not going to do anything to stop.
00:08:30.940 You're not going to send in the military.
00:08:31.980 You're not going to arrest us.
00:08:33.180 You're not going to put an end to this, Justin Trudeau.
00:08:35.020 You're just going to, you know, continue to do your thing.
00:08:38.500 And the far left is going to flex over it.
00:08:41.900 So that's incredibly disappointing to see.
00:08:45.000 And again, it's part of a trend.
00:08:46.420 It's now part of a trend that we see with the far left just completely brazenly being
00:08:53.240 anti-Canadian and anti-resource development.
00:08:56.300 I said we're going to talk about the tech resources limited.
00:08:59.220 We talked about it in the last program, but I know that the connection wasn't very good.
00:09:02.540 So I'm going to go over it a little bit more today for folks who missed the Monday podcast.
00:09:07.260 So news came out that the Tech Frontier Mine was pulling the plug on its project.
00:09:12.820 This was a really exciting project.
00:09:14.340 The prospect of it for people in Alberta, everyone I talked to in Alberta, this was sort of like
00:09:18.120 the light at the end of the tunnel, a glimmer of hope in an otherwise very bleak economy,
00:09:22.800 very bleak economy.
00:09:23.680 This is like the opportunity that so many people have just been like waiting for, salivating
00:09:28.200 over.
00:09:28.540 And now it's been killed.
00:09:30.100 So Tech Frontier Mine was supposed to employ 7,000 people during its construction phase
00:09:34.160 and another 2,500 people during its expected 40-year lifespan.
00:09:38.640 The investment was $20 billion, and it was going to create an estimated $70 billion in
00:09:44.700 tax revenue during its lifetime, the lifetime of this mine.
00:09:49.020 The mine was approved by all 14 First Nations community.
00:09:52.460 They wanted it.
00:09:53.380 The consulting had been done.
00:09:55.380 People were happy about it.
00:09:56.580 But because of the state of our country, because of Justin Trudeau's Canada, but anyways, you
00:10:02.760 know, watching the three weeks of absolute chaos and anarchy unfolding in Canada, watching
00:10:08.200 protesters just completely take over the country, shut down the economy, again, hold the entire
00:10:15.420 country hostage.
00:10:16.240 This is domestic terrorism.
00:10:17.480 No other way to put it.
00:10:18.580 Watching that happen.
00:10:19.400 I mean, how can you sit by and say, you know what, I think it's a good idea for my stockholders
00:10:23.480 to invest $20 billion into the country?
00:10:27.260 Well, the CEO of Frontier, the company that was doing tech, he basically said just that.
00:10:34.360 So he was speaking at an investor conference in Florida.
00:10:37.440 And this is a quote from the CEO, Don Lindsay.
00:10:42.000 This is what he said.
00:10:42.840 He said, literally, over the last few days, it has become increasingly clear that there's
00:10:47.340 no constructive path forward, he said.
00:10:49.520 So, you know, he said that Canada has to have a much needed conversation about balancing the
00:10:53.320 environment with resource development, which is kind of sad.
00:10:57.320 I mean, come on, we should have already had that conversation.
00:10:59.600 Like, our conversation has already been had.
00:11:01.300 We need to strike a balance.
00:11:02.240 We need to be realistic that Canada has less than 2% of global emissions, that Canada is,
00:11:07.080 you know, I mean, I won't even go over it all in this podcast, because it's been said
00:11:10.960 so many times.
00:11:11.800 But Canada is a responsible steward of the environment, whereby all the other countries that are really
00:11:17.020 the problem when it comes to carbon emissions and greenhouse gas emissions, they don't care.
00:11:21.860 They don't care.
00:11:22.700 They're not following the Paris Accord.
00:11:24.340 They're not strapping.
00:11:25.540 They're not tying one hand behind their back.
00:11:26.860 They're going forward and building their coal mines and building their oil and gas sector
00:11:31.620 and doing what's best for their own country.
00:11:33.700 Canada is the exception to that.
00:11:35.780 So more from Don Lindsay, the CEO of Frontier, he says, as a result of these illegal blockades,
00:11:41.740 there has been some deep concern expressed across the country, in particular with relation
00:11:45.640 to the safety of railway employees, to the safety of the public and the protesters and
00:11:50.760 the effects they're having on the Canadian economy and individual Canadians, he said.
00:11:56.080 So again, I mean, this whole show, the whole protests and blockades, illegal blockades over
00:12:04.660 the tech frontier mine have just been a showcase to all companies in the world, all companies
00:12:10.460 considering investing in Canada or currently investing in Canada, that Canada is not a functioning
00:12:14.160 country, that Canada is not a reliable environment, that there is no rule of law in Canada.
00:12:20.220 We're basically what Joe Oliver said, a banana republic.
00:12:24.160 And it's a sad, sad day for Canada when that's the case and it is being observed.
00:12:28.780 And so this, you know, this is just this is just one example, because we know that so many
00:12:32.640 companies have been pulling out of Canada.
00:12:35.000 I mean, and Canada and Canada was it's called Energy Canada.
00:12:38.380 It was the Canadian energy company.
00:12:40.120 They pulled the plug.
00:12:40.880 They left, they moved it down to Texas, Kinder Morgan, Houston Oil and Gas, ConocoPhillips,
00:12:46.860 Shell.
00:12:47.660 All these companies have announced that they're leaving Canada, they're leaving Alberta because
00:12:50.760 they just cannot trust the Canadian government to create a predictable environment for them.
00:12:57.200 And so, I mean, this is honestly really a sad day in Canada.
00:12:59.940 But not all Canadians are sad.
00:13:02.620 They don't all recognize the sort of gravity of the situation.
00:13:06.120 Because we had our friends over at the David Suzuki Foundation claim victory.
00:13:10.900 They actually put out a social media post saying, awesome news, tech has withdrawn its
00:13:15.520 application for the frontier oil sands mine.
00:13:18.380 Big thanks to each and every one of you who spoke up to, say, reject tech.
00:13:22.940 And then there was a banner that says victory, victory.
00:13:25.900 So imagine killing at least 9,500 jobs direct, direct jobs.
00:13:32.960 Plus, you know, as the economy works, there's probably thousands of other jobs that are also
00:13:39.160 connected to those initial jobs.
00:13:41.500 So, you know, the investment of $70 billion to the public coffers to pay for social services,
00:13:48.080 to pay for infrastructure, you know, to pay for government.
00:13:51.660 This is what the David Suzuki Foundation is doing.
00:13:53.280 And not just that, but the lost livelihood, all of those individuals in Alberta who had
00:13:58.080 some hope, who had some economic opportunity on the horizon, who were going to be able
00:14:03.060 to put food on their family's table, food on the table, because of this job.
00:14:08.740 And this is what the David Suzuki Foundation is celebrating.
00:14:11.360 This is what they're cheering.
00:14:12.280 So pretty, pretty despicable stuff over there.
00:14:15.040 But the David Suzuki Foundation is not alone.
00:14:18.020 There is an American organization.
00:14:20.620 It used to be called Forced Ethics.
00:14:22.180 They've changed their name to Stand.Earth.
00:14:24.260 They are hiring a full-time campaigner to stop the LNG projects in British Columbia.
00:14:32.380 LNG is a liquefied natural gas.
00:14:34.160 It's a very clean, very green form of petroleum.
00:14:37.720 And yet this is what the U.S.-based company is paying someone a full-time position, going
00:14:44.680 to pay them $70,000 a year, $70,000 to $85,000 a year for this position.
00:14:49.420 And they're, and they're advertising this.
00:14:52.420 They're advertising this.
00:14:54.580 So pretty, pretty, pretty despicable stuff, honestly.
00:14:59.680 The fact that someone in the U.S., so there's a job posting, senior oil and gas campaigner,
00:15:06.580 Stand on Earth is seeking a passionate, experienced campaigner to develop and implement strategies
00:15:10.820 to raise awareness, to build power, to stop the expansion of the oil and gas sector.
00:15:14.660 This is a position in British Columbia.
00:15:17.060 So why is the U.S. company paying someone to organize these illegal blockades in Canada?
00:15:23.660 I mean, this is, again, this is foreign interference into our democracy, into our country. 1.00
00:15:28.240 And we don't have a government that's willing to put an end to it, to actually wake up to
00:15:33.740 what's happening in our country and put a stop to it.
00:15:36.620 So, again, this is what's going on.
00:15:39.000 It's hidden in plain sight, plain to see, but we don't have a prime minister that has
00:15:43.560 any kind of courage or any kind of interest in standing up for Canadians, for standing 0.79
00:15:48.900 up for workers and people who might have the opportunity to, again, provide for their family
00:15:53.940 through working in the energy sector.
00:15:56.480 It's pretty sad.
00:15:58.120 It's a pretty sad day in Canada.
00:15:59.660 OK, let's move on.
00:16:00.540 I want to do fake news of the week. 0.67
00:16:02.060 So this isn't news, but the CBC did this pretty pathetic little bit, sort of attacking
00:16:11.480 conservatives for threatening to pull funding from the CBC. 0.74
00:16:17.160 So this is the problem in Canada.
00:16:18.440 We have a government.
00:16:20.240 We have this infrastructure where the government pays journalists.
00:16:23.520 So we have all these government funded journalists who work for the government, some directly like
00:16:27.840 the CBC and then others indirectly, like all the media bailouts and all of the different
00:16:32.720 grants that media companies can apply for.
00:16:36.040 And so when it comes to CBC, they directly they directly drive their salaries from the
00:16:40.860 government.
00:16:41.640 And so when a political party ever has the courage to say, hey, you know what, we're not
00:16:45.440 really getting good value for our money.
00:16:47.140 And in a free society, we shouldn't have a government funded press anyway, as a conservative
00:16:52.320 doing right now, they get attacked by the media machine at the CBC.
00:16:55.820 So it's just this really ridiculous balance of power.
00:16:59.660 And so Aaron O'Toole, who's running for leader of the conservative, has pledged to drastically
00:17:04.580 cut down the budget to the CBC.
00:17:07.880 I've praised him before on this program, on this podcast.
00:17:11.740 And so the CBC is getting afraid, I guess.
00:17:16.200 They're getting upset.
00:17:17.940 And so they put out this ridiculous little comedy bid on 22 Minutes, which is their supposed
00:17:23.080 comedy show.
00:17:23.900 I say supposedly because it's just really not funny at all. 1.00
00:17:26.920 It's really stupid. 0.98
00:17:28.620 But anyway, so so so here here we have the CBC government comedian who is doing a riff on 0.99
00:17:37.600 Aaron O'Toole.
00:17:38.840 And I mean, it's not comedy at all.
00:17:40.360 It's not funny.
00:17:40.960 It's really just a political attack.
00:17:43.240 It's a political attack.
00:17:44.980 The CBC pulls no punches.
00:17:46.580 They make it so brazenly clear that they hate conservatives and that they're anti-conservative
00:17:50.340 that they don't even really have jokes.
00:17:51.980 They just kind of like rail against them.
00:17:54.460 And then that's the joke. 0.67
00:17:56.260 And it's like, OK, you're not a very good pundit and you're like a terrible comedian.
00:18:00.760 So this is just like has no entertainment value for anyone unless you're just like a 1.00
00:18:05.420 diehard CBC fan, which I guess that is the CBC audience.
00:18:09.180 The CBC audience is just people who are diehard fans of the CBC.
00:18:13.680 So I'll play a bit of this.
00:18:14.680 This is just, man, this is just so brutal, though.
00:18:18.000 But here we go.
00:18:19.480 Conservative leadership candidate Aaron O'Toole thinks he knows what Canadians want.
00:18:24.240 An O'Toole government will modernize and reform the CBC.
00:18:27.940 We will end funding for CBC Digital and we will cut CBC English TV budget by 50%.
00:18:34.820 Screw you, Aaron.
00:18:37.080 Now, if you're watching this, I assume you're either a fan of the CBC or you're stuck in a 0.98
00:18:41.940 hospital waiting room.
00:18:42.940 So thanks for watching and I hope it's not infected.
00:18:47.200 Aaron wants to get rid of the CBC, but why?
00:18:50.060 The world of broadcast media has changed dramatically, but our public broadcaster is stuck in the past.
00:18:55.840 Oh, look, a guy who won't march in pride parades is saying the CBC is out of touch.
00:19:00.380 OK, that's like a low blow. 0.99
00:19:01.540 That's a stupid cheap shot because we know that Aaron O'Toole said that he won't march 0.99
00:19:05.820 in the pride parades because of the way that they exclude the police. 0.99
00:19:09.160 So he actually said that he would march in pride parades, just not the Toronto one because
00:19:12.980 of the way that they exclude police.
00:19:15.000 So really just lying, like just lying to make a point that's not even really a good point.
00:19:20.340 So that's that's a pretty bad start for this CBC government commedia.
00:19:25.420 Canadians are connected to the world with a swipe of their finger.
00:19:32.660 So, Aaron, you're saying we should replace the CBC with Tinder?
00:19:36.200 Could it be that some conservatives are afraid of the CBC?
00:19:38.920 Anyway, the whole bit is just so bad.
00:19:41.520 And the reason it's brutal is because one, he says that conservatives are afraid of CBC.
00:19:44.860 No, CBC, conservatives are not afraid of you.
00:19:47.120 Conservatives just loathe you because you're so biased and you're so unethical and you're 0.99
00:19:51.000 such liars that you can't even come out and say you're biased. 0.99
00:19:54.220 You pretend that you're neutral, but you're really not. 1.00
00:19:56.560 And you're just a total waste of taxpayer money.
00:19:58.900 And not only that, but you have a really negative impact on our democracy because you slant 1.00
00:20:02.560 the entire perspective and you slant everything towards the left, which is just entirely
00:20:07.240 unethical.
00:20:07.760 So, it's not like conservatives are afraid of the CBC.
00:20:10.220 It's just that the conservatives understand what the CBC is and understand how wrong it
00:20:14.400 is on so many levels.
00:20:15.900 And then he says, he makes all these unsubstantiated claims about how Canadians love the CBC.
00:20:23.140 No, I don't think the Canadians love the CBC.
00:20:25.140 I think that the CBC is a relic of an old time when Canadians didn't have choice.
00:20:28.900 And now we just have so much choice that Canadians choose not to watch.
00:20:32.380 And you can see that from the ratings.
00:20:33.580 So, he can talk about how, you know, polling says that some Canadians support the CBC.
00:20:39.600 Well, you know, that's not really good enough when, you know, we actually have viewership
00:20:44.800 numbers and I show that people are not tuning in and not watching it.
00:20:48.340 So, I'm going to leave it at that.
00:20:49.600 Thank you so much for tuning in and we'll be back again next week.
00:20:52.060 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:20:54.120 Thank you.