The Candice Malcolm Show - February 05, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： Illegal immigration in Canada reaches an all-time high


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

180.02907

Word Count

5,946

Sentence Count

431

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

Illegal immigration reaches an all-time high, Twitter cracks down on memes, and the front-runner in the Conservative leadership race continues to falter. Plus, we ll talk about the State of the Union and fake news.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Illegal immigration reaches an all-time high, Twitter cracks down on memes, and the front
00:00:04.960 run of the conservative leadership race continues to falter.
00:00:07.980 Plus, we'll talk about the State of the Union and fake news.
00:00:10.480 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:17.600 Hi, everyone, and welcome to the podcast.
00:00:19.720 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:21.540 It has just been brought to my attention that today is Dawn Cherry's birthday.
00:00:25.400 So, Dawn, if you're watching, happy birthday from all of us at True North.
00:00:29.160 We love what you do.
00:00:30.480 Keep being yourself, keep being true to you, and you know that you have tons of support from Canadians across the country.
00:00:37.360 Okay, let's get right into this.
00:00:38.680 I mentioned this story a little bit last week briefly about the record number of deportees.
00:00:43.960 So, there are over 50,000 outstanding deportation orders in Canada right now, 50,000 people waiting to be deported.
00:00:51.640 We know, of course, that Canada won't deport them.
00:00:53.960 We've only deported on average about 500 people a year.
00:00:57.040 So, 50,000 people should be deported.
00:01:00.000 We're probably only going to deport about 500.
00:01:02.760 This is the story of illegal immigration that's just not getting reported anymore.
00:01:06.460 The media has basically given up on reporting about illegal immigration because Justin Trudeau essentially told them not to.
00:01:12.200 He said that, you know, if you're not reporting positively about the state of immigration,
00:01:16.680 as per the UN Compact of Migration, that you'd basically be cut off and you'd be challenged by the government.
00:01:25.660 So, they're just not reporting on it anymore.
00:01:27.400 Well, I decided to dig in and look at the numbers, and it is really, really surprising.
00:01:31.220 So, there were 63,830 asylum claimants that registered as refugees in Canada last year.
00:01:39.840 63,800 people.
00:01:42.220 By comparison, in 2018, the prior year, there were 55,000 claims, and the year before that, 2017, there were 50,000 claims.
00:01:49.500 So, those numbers are already incredibly high.
00:01:51.560 You know, when there was 50,000 a year, 55,000 a year, there was media attention.
00:01:55.080 They were focusing in on, you know, what's happening at Roxham Road with tens of thousands of people crossing legally there,
00:02:00.700 and then also a surge of people landing at airports in Canada using false pretenses,
00:02:05.700 basically lying to get into Canada, either with falsified documents or by lying and saying that they're coming as a tourist,
00:02:12.220 only to, when they land in Canada, make this asylum claim and ask for refugee status in Canada.
00:02:17.760 So, there was always a lot of reporting when this crisis was first going on.
00:02:20.980 And really, the reporting has just ceased.
00:02:24.500 You don't see it in the news anymore.
00:02:26.400 It doesn't make headlines.
00:02:27.300 It's not on the evening news.
00:02:28.120 It's not in the newspaper.
00:02:29.240 Talk radio is not talking about it.
00:02:31.100 But what's happening is that this number has drastically gone up.
00:02:34.960 It's gone up 16% in the last year.
00:02:36.840 So, 63,000 people.
00:02:38.820 No wonder there's so many people who have deportation orders pending because so many people are coming to Canada every year.
00:02:44.900 So, that 63,000 number, that is more than the entire number of asylum claimants received in the four years of Stephen Harper's majority government.
00:02:53.020 So, the entire time when Stephen Harper had that majority government, there were a total of 60,000 claims.
00:02:58.960 60,335 claims between 2012 and 2015, the four years where Harper had his majority government.
00:03:06.320 Contrast that with Trudeau's four years, first four years of his majority government, where there was 193,000.
00:03:14.580 It's just day and night.
00:03:15.840 It's day and night.
00:03:16.480 And where is the media to report on this issue?
00:03:18.860 You know, Canada has a huge immigration program.
00:03:22.160 Canada lets in more people per capita than any other Western country in terms of new permanent residents and new citizens each year.
00:03:29.920 The government relies on this sort of consensus among all the parties that immigration is generally good.
00:03:35.440 Conservatives generally said, hey, you know, we need it to boost up the economy, build up GDP.
00:03:39.600 Liberals and people on the left say, you know, it's our obligation, we have a humanitarian obligation to let people into the country.
00:03:46.480 And also, we need to sort of replace the declining birth rates by boosting the population through immigration.
00:03:52.700 So, there's this sort of consensus across the board.
00:03:55.080 But it really relies on Canadians having trust in the immigration system.
00:03:58.800 And when you have a huge illegal immigration problem like Justin Trudeau does that is just undealt with, unchecked, you know, he's completely dismantled the systems that were in place to stop this kind of activity, Canadians lose faith in the immigration system.
00:04:12.940 They lose trust.
00:04:13.620 This was the, that was the thesis of my book, Losing True North, that came out in 2016.
00:04:17.780 That was a bestseller on Amazon.
00:04:19.860 And my most recent book called No Border looks even closer at Justin Trudeau's just complete lack of border security policies.
00:04:27.860 Check that book out.
00:04:28.560 You can buy it on Amazon.ca.
00:04:31.040 If you read it and you like it, please give it a five-star review.
00:04:34.160 It really helps me out.
00:04:35.080 So, right now, the customer reviews of the people who have verified to purchase this book, they gave it a 4.9 out of 5.
00:04:40.920 So, the people on Amazon who read it, like it, I think you'll enjoy it too.
00:04:44.380 Check it out.
00:04:44.840 It's called No Border, Justin Trudeau's Assault on Canadian Border Security.
00:04:49.640 I think it's the most underreported story in the country right now.
00:04:52.620 And it's so important when you think, when you look around the world at all the chaos and all the sort of disorder that's happening,
00:04:58.100 Canada is a secure, reliable, peaceful nation.
00:05:01.920 And part of that is because we have safe, secure borders.
00:05:04.860 If we just open that up and let people from around the world come in, they undermine the rule of law,
00:05:09.080 undermine our security and safety, and ultimately undermine our free society.
00:05:12.380 It's incredibly important.
00:05:13.660 So, please check that book out.
00:05:15.460 All right, moving on.
00:05:16.260 So, Twitter announced on Tuesday that they will be cracking down on memes.
00:05:21.120 Yes, memes.
00:05:22.120 So, apparently, we can no longer be trusted to tell the difference between something that is clearly a spoof or clearly a joke and something that is real news.
00:05:30.240 So, Twitter is jumping in to manipulate the news even more, to manipulate your feed.
00:05:36.080 But they claim that they're cracking down on what they call manipulated photos and videos.
00:05:40.440 So, Twitter safety posted this video.
00:05:43.980 On Tuesday, they said,
00:05:44.940 So, this is just, again, an attack on conservatives on Twitter, basically.
00:06:13.740 Twitter is notorious for cracking down on conservatives.
00:06:16.840 They repeatedly de-platform, remove conservatives while basically ignoring equivalent or worse behavior from activists on the left.
00:06:25.340 You know, when it comes to the sort of meme wars, conservatives are just better at it.
00:06:29.240 Conservative memes are hilarious.
00:06:30.200 And it's sort of a way for conservatives to poke fun at, say, like the mainstream media, the establishment, everyone on the left, including the big social media giants, is to make comical videos and pictures.
00:06:43.800 And, you know, this whole culture of memes has sort of come up on Twitter and now Instagram as well.
00:06:50.060 And the fact that the host of this platform wants to censor that, wants to take that away, to cut that down.
00:06:56.760 You know, we don't need a little label on Twitter to say this is manipulated media.
00:07:01.980 When you see a meme, you know it's a meme.
00:07:03.980 And so, this is just Twitter doing what they've become known for doing, which is not providing a fair playing field, not really being a platform for free speech.
00:07:12.780 But again, trying to manipulate the conversation, trying to manipulate speech in the direction that they ideologically believe in, which is, you know, it's based in San Francisco.
00:07:22.140 Twitter is a far left company in a far left city.
00:07:25.300 And so, at the same time as they announced that they were cracking down on memes, they also cracked down on a very famous high profile conservative journalist named James O'Keefe.
00:07:37.520 O'Keefe is the founder of Project Veritas.
00:07:39.420 If you haven't seen Project Veritas stuff, you have to check it out.
00:07:42.680 It is incredibly impressive.
00:07:44.440 So, O'Keefe has made a name for himself for going undercover.
00:07:47.840 He used to do it himself, but then he became too recognizable.
00:07:51.020 And so, now he has sort of an army of volunteer journalists across the country who are incredibly brave.
00:07:56.060 They're willing to go undercover in a lot of different situations.
00:07:59.480 They've exposed high profile Democrats.
00:08:02.280 They've exposed, again, people on social media in the Silicon Valley talking about how they deliberately censor conservatives.
00:08:08.300 Well, his most recent video project was exposing the extremism on the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:08:15.440 So, as you know, Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic nominee in hopes to become president.
00:08:19.560 Well, James O'Keefe did an expose of the Sanders campaign basically just to show how radical, how truly radical his campaign staff is.
00:08:27.620 So, I'll just give you some quotes.
00:08:29.080 He says,
00:08:29.300 Obviously, that's not outward facing.
00:08:37.440 This is the kind of thing that the people who are working for Bernie Sanders, you know, they're true believers in communism, a lot of them.
00:08:44.320 And O'Keefe exposed that.
00:08:45.900 So, after his video came out, of course, mainstream media in the U.S. is just equally as biased and terrible as they are in Canada.
00:08:54.320 The Washington Post wrote a story about it and James O'Keefe requested a retraction.
00:08:58.360 So, he tweeted,
00:08:58.920 And for this tweet, which O'Keefe was just calling out a journalist for being dishonest,
00:09:21.900 Twitter suspended his account temporarily.
00:09:25.280 O'Keefe got a message saying,
00:09:26.700 Your account has been locked.
00:09:28.160 For what reason?
00:09:29.140 They said that they violated Twitter's rules for posting private information.
00:09:33.740 What was the private information?
00:09:35.180 The fact that these two people were still paid workers for the Bernie Sanders campaign?
00:09:40.120 Well, that information is actually public information.
00:09:43.000 And that's how James O'Keefe was aware of it.
00:09:45.160 He included the screenshot of publicly available campaign documents that showed that Sanders' campaign paid these individuals.
00:09:53.120 So, again, Twitter just jumping in, being totally unreasonable, picking sides,
00:09:57.620 and determining that O'Keefe had broken a rule when, in fact, he actually hadn't.
00:10:00.720 And so, his account has been restated.
00:10:03.600 But, again, this is just a state of social media, cracking down on conservatives, being completely biased and unfair.
00:10:08.520 And, you know, the idea that Twitter is some kind of, like, you know, neutral arbiter is just so factually untrue.
00:10:16.380 So many people have sort of given up on Twitter as a mode of communication.
00:10:20.900 And that is why nobody trusts Twitter.
00:10:24.240 Okay, let's move on.
00:10:25.320 I want to talk.
00:10:25.800 There's a lot going on in the conservative leadership race.
00:10:27.820 So, I want to go and do a bit of a deeper dive into that right now.
00:10:32.120 So, Peter McKay is sort of considered the frontrunner in this race.
00:10:35.700 There was an Ipsos poll that came out that basically said that more Canadians would consider voting Tory under Peter McKay than any other contender.
00:10:43.460 So, Ipsos asked 1,000 Canadians, both conservative voters and those who say they vote for other parties,
00:10:48.740 under whose leadership they would consider voting Tory in the next election.
00:10:51.380 A total of 40 percent pointed to Peter McKay compared to just 31 percent for Aaron O'Toole.
00:10:57.500 Aaron O'Toole is also a frontrunner, but Peter McKay is sort of coming out ahead.
00:11:01.540 You know, I honestly think a large part of why people like Peter McKay,
00:11:04.240 I mean, he's got a bit of name recognition.
00:11:08.140 I don't really know what he's known for.
00:11:10.180 Like, he was a Harper-era cabinet minister.
00:11:12.040 He was part of the merger between the PCs and the alliance that created the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:11:16.480 But, you know, I don't really know exactly what it is that he's known for.
00:11:20.400 I think he just sort of looks like a guy who could become prime minister.
00:11:23.840 He has a very sort of stoic and professional look to him.
00:11:28.080 And I think that that is why a lot of people say, OK, yeah, that guy looks like a prime minister.
00:11:32.400 But, you know, you look at what's going on in his campaign and, wow, it is just a total mess over there in the Peter McKay campaign.
00:11:39.860 So there was an exclusive earlier this week over at Post Millennial that says McKay won't commit to moving the Canadian embassy to Jerusalem,
00:11:48.380 breaking with party, Conservative Party policy.
00:11:51.380 Peter McKay told him Post Millennial he would not commit to moving the Canadian embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
00:11:56.280 I said there is a lot of priorities and I want to hear more about those priorities before I make these pronouncements on a whole range of issues.
00:12:04.060 So he basically just said he's not prepared to make a decision on that issue.
00:12:08.580 He was kind of pushed a little bit and he still just said, look, it's a complicated subject and I'm not in a position to do so.
00:12:14.840 According to the Post Millennial, in a conversation between Peter McKay and members of the Toronto Jewish community,
00:12:20.340 according to a source in the meeting who spoke on the condition of confidentiality,
00:12:23.760 McKay said that he would not immediately move the embassy to the Israeli capital,
00:12:27.840 despite the majority of Israeli government being located in the city.
00:12:31.220 So McKay had this meeting and he just said, no, I'm not going to do it.
00:12:34.440 Well, that caused some major backlash.
00:12:37.020 I mean, the idea that the embassy should be in the city that is the capital shouldn't be controversial.
00:12:42.980 Countries, sovereign countries get to choose their own capital city.
00:12:46.160 And, you know, anyone who's been to Israel, I visited the Knesset in Jerusalem.
00:12:49.880 It's kind of bizarre that all of the embassies and a lot of the Western countries have their bases in Tel Aviv,
00:12:56.420 which is sort of, you know, a commercial commerce center, but it's not the center of government.
00:13:02.040 The center of government is at the Knesset in Jerusalem.
00:13:04.840 That's Israel's capital city.
00:13:06.080 That's what they consider to be their capital city.
00:13:08.060 And countries get to choose their own capital.
00:13:10.440 So it shouldn't be controversial.
00:13:11.920 Trump made the move to move the embassy, you know, hugely popular in the U.S., especially with Jewish Americans.
00:13:20.040 Andrew Scheer also made that pledge.
00:13:22.020 So the idea that Peter McKay would kind of backtrack on it,
00:13:25.080 it just sort of shows a misunderstanding of the kind of mood and conservative principles and where conservatives are at.
00:13:32.820 And so not very long after, Peter McKay released the following statement about the Canadian embassy in Israel.
00:13:41.220 He says,
00:13:42.040 Canada's Jewish community knows the Conservative Party stands shoulder to shoulder with them.
00:13:45.920 When I was defense minister, I made it clear a threat to Israel is a threat to Canada.
00:13:49.700 I will always stand with one of Canada's closest allies.
00:13:52.500 As I have stated, it will be important to consult with our diplomatic officials at our embassy in Israel to make the necessary preparations for the move.
00:13:59.440 It has always been my personal view that Jerusalem is the undisputed capital of the state of Israel.
00:14:04.940 And that is where Canada's embassy should be and under my leadership will be located.
00:14:09.520 So it's a pretty strong message, especially from a guy who like a day earlier said that he didn't have enough information and that he wasn't prepared to make that decision.
00:14:17.660 So that's a pretty drastic flip-flop from Peter McKay.
00:14:21.240 Just kind of shows a little bit of kind of inexperience and not really knowing what to expect.
00:14:25.920 Well, this wasn't the only misstep this week.
00:14:29.720 So Peter McKay posted the following message onto Twitter.
00:14:35.060 He said,
00:14:35.740 While running for the leader of the Liberal Party, Trudeau's campaign expensed $876.95 in yoga sessions and spa bills for Justin Trudeau.
00:14:46.100 Liberals can't be trusted.
00:14:47.240 And then there's this sort of video showing Justin Trudeau doing all these funny yoga poses and talking about how he rips off the taxpayer by using taxpayer dollars to enrich himself, including going on vacations, going to the spa and taking private yoga classes.
00:15:02.740 So, you know, the video was pretty good and, you know, the message was pretty good.
00:15:07.680 So, you know, what's the problem?
00:15:10.520 Well, the problem was that the media didn't like it.
00:15:12.720 The media were critical of Peter McKay.
00:15:15.220 And then once again, Peter McKay flip-flop.
00:15:17.540 So even though he tweeted this video out from his own account, he came out and told the CBC he was not happy with the tweet and that he wants to remain civilized.
00:15:27.340 So this, according to the CBC, Peter McKay was not happy with the tweet issued by his leadership team poking fun at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's yoga habit, the conservative leadership candidate told CBC News.
00:15:37.760 The tweet from McKay's verified account shows a photo of Justin Trudeau performing a yoga move on Parliament Hill, on his desk on Parliament Hill.
00:15:45.140 McKay says he wants to maintain a civilized tone in the campaign for the conservative leadership and thinks the tweet crossed a line, but he said he won't apologize for it or take it down.
00:15:54.080 Yeah, the tweet is still up right now. So it's kind of a weird move where McKay says, like, I don't like the tweet.
00:16:00.440 It's not civilized. I'm trying to take a civilized tone, but then he doesn't take it down.
00:16:04.960 So is he apologizing for it? Is he doubling down on it?
00:16:08.560 And that brings us to a segment that happened on CTV News.
00:16:12.420 This is just really bad for the McKay campaign.
00:16:14.800 So I'll play the first part of this clip. It starts off as a very positive piece about Peter McKay.
00:16:19.100 Peter McKay sits on a board that helps children who have been abused.
00:16:22.280 And this is really highlighting the positive aspects of Peter McKay's sort of career and public life and his priorities.
00:16:29.220 It is a very positive piece.
00:16:30.820 So this is clearly a friendly journalist who's doing a nice, positive piece on Peter McKay.
00:16:36.060 He should be grateful for that. I'll play the first part of the clip here.
00:16:39.400 Peter McKay invited CTV News along for a visit to Boost, a child advocacy center that helps victims of abuse.
00:16:46.460 He co-chairs the board.
00:16:47.820 In my estimation, there is no higher priority than protecting children.
00:16:51.640 So as you can see, it's very gentle.
00:16:53.200 And then they sit down and they do the second part of the segment, which is an interview with Peter McKay,
00:16:57.980 where they're talking about, you know, like I said, why he's getting back into public life.
00:17:02.180 And this is where it really takes an awkward, awkward turn.
00:17:05.960 And I really don't understand the mentality here of Peter McKay's staff.
00:17:09.500 So let's play the second part of this clip.
00:17:11.220 This is a sit down interview.
00:17:12.140 This is when things really get off the rails.
00:17:13.920 I noticed there was a video put on Twitter talking about Justin Trudeau's yoga expenses.
00:17:20.500 And is that civil, though?
00:17:22.060 I mean, highlighting 800 and some odd dollars in yoga expenses?
00:17:27.100 No, it isn't.
00:17:27.840 And that was something that happened that I'm not proud of.
00:17:32.680 I don't have the opportunity always to vet every single thing that goes on that social media account.
00:17:38.620 So we're going to do better.
00:17:39.400 At that moment, his team abruptly ended the interview.
00:17:46.860 So really, that was a very reasonable question.
00:17:49.260 And Peter McKay handled it well.
00:17:50.660 I mean, the idea that he said, you know, he wants to bring a civilized tone.
00:17:53.620 She brought up the tweet, which was a reasonable connection.
00:17:56.460 And she did it in a gentle way.
00:17:58.180 And Peter McKay handled it just fine.
00:18:00.340 He handled it just fine.
00:18:01.360 He's a grown up.
00:18:02.160 He can handle a quasi tough question.
00:18:04.760 If really, if this is what his staff believe is a tough question, they are really going to be in for it.
00:18:09.480 If Peter McKay becomes a candidate and he runs in a general election, because that was a very soft question by media standards in Canada.
00:18:17.360 But no, his staff literally jumped in, interrupted the reporter in the middle of an interview to say, that's it.
00:18:22.540 We're done.
00:18:23.240 This is just terrible, terrible media relations.
00:18:26.660 This is just staff overbearing.
00:18:28.780 I cringe when I watch this.
00:18:30.060 Let's play the rest of the clip.
00:18:31.020 I, that's, that's quite, he said civility.
00:18:34.420 I mean, she's just doing her job.
00:18:36.180 She's a journalist.
00:18:36.720 I'm doing my job, guys.
00:18:37.980 He's made a decision that we'd like to stop the interview.
00:18:41.880 Okay.
00:18:42.220 Like the idea that they say he went, she went way over.
00:18:44.880 That was hardly way over.
00:18:45.860 And the fact that Peter McKay himself jumps in and says, hey man, she's just a journalist.
00:18:49.380 She's doing her job.
00:18:50.320 McKay was on the side of the journalist.
00:18:51.940 And his staff come across as bullies here.
00:18:54.180 Of course, CTV plays that clip.
00:18:56.300 So what could have been a positive puff piece story showcasing Peter McKay's compassion in helping little, little kids and children that have been victims of abuse.
00:19:04.940 Instead, the story becomes, you know, true.
00:19:08.400 McKay walks out of an interview because he can't handle a tough question.
00:19:11.980 So, you know, this, this is just really bad.
00:19:14.280 This is not the way that you handle a leadership campaign.
00:19:17.500 And again, Peter McKay is the front runner.
00:19:18.860 More Canadians see him as being the leader of the Conservative Party and say that they'd vote for him.
00:19:23.440 And yet, you know, we have misstep after misstep after misstep.
00:19:26.600 It is just not great to see.
00:19:29.080 And on the other side of the campaign, Aaron O'Toole is, you know, what Peter McKay is not doing, Aaron O'Toole is stepping up and doing.
00:19:36.540 He's taking a strong position.
00:19:38.460 He's really coming across as sort of the, you know, he's the sort of law and order military guy, but he's coming across as a blue Tory.
00:19:46.020 And that's, you know, that's, that's the angle that he's going at.
00:19:49.240 I don't know exactly how genuine it is.
00:19:51.120 I've never known Aaron O'Toole to be like a staunch blue Tory, but he's hitting the right notes.
00:19:56.140 So here he is.
00:19:57.300 By contrast, when Peter McKay flip-flopped on the Israel issue, Aaron O'Toole released this tweet.
00:20:03.020 Canada needs to stand with Israel again.
00:20:05.020 As we did under Stephen Harper, it's time to recognize the reality that Jerusalem is Israel capital and move our embassy there.
00:20:11.180 Very strong message with that image of O'Toole.
00:20:14.520 So that is great.
00:20:15.880 And same thing with, when it comes to Justin Trudeau's licensing and his attack on the media, Aaron O'Toole is there fighting back against it.
00:20:25.400 So he says, look who's running attack ads against me, media union boss Jerry Diaz.
00:20:30.400 He's right to be worried.
00:20:31.560 If I'm PM, I'll cancel Trudeau's media bailout.
00:20:34.640 Help me do it.
00:20:35.380 So that is great to see.
00:20:36.740 I think that the idea that Justin Trudeau is bailing out the mainstream media is horrible for our freedom of press and for democracy.
00:20:44.100 So it's great to see a strong conservative say and fight back against that and say, no, no, no.
00:20:48.220 When I'm prime minister, we will not be bailing out the media.
00:20:51.540 And of course, because of that, he's getting attacked and he's fighting back.
00:20:54.380 So that's exactly what we want to see conservatives doing.
00:20:57.540 But the concern that I have with Aaron O'Toole is I just don't know how genuine it is.
00:21:02.160 Like all of a sudden, he's kind of coming out strong as the sort of blue Tory in the race, you know, when Pierre Polyev withdrew, that sort of left a void on the right side of the party, the blue side of the party.
00:21:13.200 And so Aaron O'Toole is sort of filling that gap.
00:21:15.420 You know, maybe this is just Aaron O'Toole coming into his own, coming into his thoughts, becoming more of a leader when it comes to pushing back against what is pretty obviously, you know, an uneven playing field, pushing back against the media, standing up for our allies in Israel.
00:21:29.500 That's all well and good. But this was pointed out to me, brought to my attention.
00:21:33.780 So one of the areas where Aaron O'Toole hasn't been so good on is standing up to attacks on free speech in the past.
00:21:42.040 So in the 41st Parliament back in 2015, an NDP MP introduced a private members bill called An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code Gender Identity.
00:21:53.840 And so a summary of the bill here, the enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to include gender identity as a prohibited ground of discrimination.
00:22:02.580 And so this private members bill was passed in March 2013 with the help of Aaron O'Toole.
00:22:08.420 So most conservatives voted against it. Here's the voting record right here.
00:22:12.840 137 conservatives voted against it. In favor of it was the NDP, Bloc, Liberal and Green.
00:22:19.460 And then a handful of conservatives, a handful of conservatives.
00:22:23.180 So it was really close, 149 to 137.
00:22:25.460 And if those conservatives hadn't voted alongside with the left-wing party, this private member's bill wouldn't have passed.
00:22:30.380 Of course, this is a precursor to Bill C-16, which was one that Jordan Peterson was speaking out against that basically said that you cannot misgender someone.
00:22:38.280 Misgendering someone could be against the law.
00:22:41.120 So you have to adhere to the whim of an individual to determine whether or not they believe that they are a man or a woman.
00:22:48.120 This is frankly an attack on our freedom of speech and our freedom of thought in Canada.
00:22:52.560 And there you see right there Aaron O'Toole voting alongside the red Tories, enabling this left-wing bill to pass.
00:22:59.040 So that's a bit concerning. I don't know if anyone has asked O'Toole about why he voted this way,
00:23:03.740 but I would like to see a journalist ask that question and put that to him to find out whether he still believes that that's the right course,
00:23:10.660 whether he thinks that gender identity should be a protected class within the Human Rights Act,
00:23:17.000 or whether he's had a change of heart on that issue.
00:23:20.540 Okay, let's move on. I want to talk briefly about the State of the Union.
00:23:23.400 I don't usually talk too much about U.S. politics on this show,
00:23:25.880 but sometimes there's just so much going on down there that's important culturally even for us up in Canada.
00:23:30.960 I mean, first of all, the fact that the Iowa caucus results have still not been announced.
00:23:35.400 I mean, they didn't announce the first round until 24 hours after they were supposed to.
00:23:41.260 There was a major malfunction when it came to how they were reporting the data through a new app.
00:23:46.120 But really all it makes you think is the Democrats are the party that wants to basically have a national takeover of the health care industry in the United States.
00:23:53.720 They want to be the ones that are regulating social media.
00:23:56.280 They want to be the ones that have more and more control over the economy.
00:23:59.620 And yet they can't even manage to count the votes in a state where less than 200,000 people voted.
00:24:06.980 I mean, it was an absolute mess, a total mess.
00:24:09.220 We still don't know who won Iowa.
00:24:12.440 Wow, what a mess.
00:24:13.820 And so things aren't going well for the Democrats at all.
00:24:16.960 They failed to convict Donald Trump on his impeachment.
00:24:20.060 Trump's on his way to being acquitted on those impeachment charges.
00:24:25.000 You know, they couldn't figure out who won Iowa, which is just a total mess.
00:24:29.380 And then the State of the Union happened.
00:24:31.000 And Donald Trump did something that the Democrats just hate seeing.
00:24:34.560 They hate seeing Trump delivered an amazing speech.
00:24:36.820 It was very unifying.
00:24:37.840 It was very presidential.
00:24:39.140 He stayed on script.
00:24:40.260 He didn't get into the sort of gutter politics at all.
00:24:43.600 He was very, very good.
00:24:44.940 And because of that, the Democrats just don't know how to react.
00:24:48.700 And so they do what they typically do, which is basically they suck.
00:24:53.020 They look like a bunch of sore losers.
00:24:54.760 So the story coming out of the State of the Union, which, again, was very unifying.
00:24:58.480 There were some really touching moments.
00:25:00.020 It was really uplifting.
00:25:01.600 Trump talked about the economics of his record, which are solid.
00:25:04.680 And the Democrats refused to cheer over and over and over again.
00:25:10.100 They refused to celebrate the economic success of blacks, Latinos, women and Asians.
00:25:16.180 So this was part of the speech that Trump gave.
00:25:19.260 And you can see that the Democrats, the women in white and the Democrats side, they just refused
00:25:24.480 to applaud and cheer over what really should be a good news story for the entire country.
00:25:29.560 African-American youth unemployment has reached an all-time low.
00:25:38.680 African-American poverty has declined to the lowest rate ever recorded.
00:25:49.100 The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest level in almost 70 years.
00:25:54.220 And last year, women filled 72 percent of all new jobs added.
00:26:08.780 And there's there's there's several examples of that.
00:26:11.800 There's several examples of that from the State of the Union.
00:26:13.940 So the Democrats, again, refuse to applaud for a young black girl who receives a scholarship.
00:26:19.080 Numerous Democrats appeared to not celebrate a fourth grade black girl who received a scholarship
00:26:23.840 on Tuesday night from President Donald Trump during the State of the Union.
00:26:27.140 So here's a tweet.
00:26:27.920 Another stunning but unsurprising moment from the Democrats during the State of the Union.
00:26:31.880 Democrats remain seated as President Trump awards an opportunity scholarship to a fourth grader.
00:26:36.480 Janiya's mom, Stephanie, is a single parent.
00:26:40.400 She would do anything to give her daughter a better future.
00:26:43.280 But last year, that future was put further out of reach when Pennsylvania's governor vetoed legislation
00:26:50.280 to expand school choice to 50,000 children.
00:26:55.140 But Janiya, I have some good news for you because I am pleased to inform you that your long wait is over.
00:27:02.460 I can proudly announce tonight that an opportunity scholarship has become available.
00:27:08.440 It's going to you and you will soon be heading to the school of your choice.
00:27:20.460 So a very touching moment there.
00:27:22.080 And you can see the Democrats, again, just sulking and refusing to applaud.
00:27:25.760 Really, really classless there.
00:27:27.880 And, you know, again, this happened over and over again.
00:27:29.800 So Trump mentioned the assassination of Soleimani.
00:27:33.260 Many Iranians on Twitter were celebrating this.
00:27:35.740 And you can see, again, that the Democrats, Nancy Pelosi claps for this one here.
00:27:40.940 But really, there's not much enthusiasm compared to the Republicans.
00:27:44.700 And then I think this was perhaps the best moment of the night.
00:27:47.260 Well, there's two top moments of the night for me.
00:27:49.460 So here, President Trump shares a story of Kayla Mueller, who was a humanitarian worker who was in Syria.
00:27:56.680 She was captured by ISIS, enslaved, and was kept by al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS,
00:28:01.860 as his sort of personal slave until he finally murdered her.
00:28:05.640 So they paid tribute, paid homage.
00:28:07.880 And you can see the parents there.
00:28:09.400 Really, really touching moment.
00:28:10.840 Really good stuff from President Trump.
00:28:12.480 Kayla was kidnapped, tortured, and enslaved by ISIS and kept as a prisoner of al-Baghdadi himself.
00:28:19.500 After more than 500 horrifying days of captivity, al-Baghdadi murdered young, beautiful Kayla.
00:28:30.320 She was just 26 years old.
00:28:33.020 On the night that U.S. Special Forces operations ended al-Baghdadi's miserable life,
00:28:39.200 the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, received a call in the Situation Room.
00:28:45.040 He was told that the brave men of the elite Special Forces team that so perfectly carried out the operation
00:28:52.600 had given their mission a name, Task Force 814.
00:29:00.120 It was a reference to a special day, August 14th, Kayla's birthday.
00:29:06.780 Carl and Marsha, America's warriors, never forgot Kayla, and neither will we.
00:29:13.480 Thank you.
00:29:15.040 So that was a beautiful moment.
00:29:20.420 And another great moment was when Rush Limbaugh, longtime conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh,
00:29:25.260 was sort of surprised by Trump.
00:29:26.960 And he was given a Medal of Freedom by the President.
00:29:31.140 They did it right there on the spot.
00:29:32.780 You can see Rush is surprised and really moved, really touched by this news.
00:29:37.080 Rush Limbaugh just announced that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer,
00:29:42.160 kind of shocking everyone.
00:29:43.360 You know, Rush is an institution, especially for conservatives in the U.S. and around the world.
00:29:48.740 Limbaugh, 69, told his radio audience on Monday that he had been diagnosed with advanced stage of the disease.
00:29:55.080 He said the diagnosis was confirmed on January 20th.
00:29:58.280 So a beautiful moment from Trump there.
00:30:01.340 Unfortunately, again, the Democrats' bad behavior is sort of overshadowing all this.
00:30:06.320 So at the end of the speech, at the end of the State of the Union, Nancy Pelosi, who is the House leader for the Democrats,
00:30:12.700 stands up and tears up a copy of the State of the Union address.
00:30:16.980 Just really looking like a poor sport there.
00:30:19.640 She just sort of angrily, with rage, just tears up this speech, which, again, just makes her look really petty and bad.
00:30:26.560 Well, I'm going to combine this with the fake news story of the week, because this is just kind of pathetic.
00:30:32.000 The Toronto Star, of course, of course, they celebrate Pelosi for this.
00:30:37.160 So the headline over at the Toronto Star says,
00:30:40.280 Pelosi shreds Trump's speech right there on the podium.
00:30:44.680 This is an Associated Press story, but it was carried in the Toronto Star.
00:30:48.880 So here's a story. It says, Washington.
00:30:51.500 And then she tore up the speech.
00:30:54.360 No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped the paper it was printed on into two.
00:31:02.880 Right there, on camera, behind Trump's back.
00:31:05.980 As he stepped down, she ripped it again, then a third time, and a fourth.
00:31:10.080 If Trump knew about the American carnage going on behind him, he didn't react as he left.
00:31:14.440 But Pelosi was on her turf with a deep understanding of her audience, and she wasn't finished.
00:31:20.800 So, again, Pelosi's little pathetic piece of theatre became the focus.
00:31:25.640 And, of course, the Toronto Star is celebrating Pelosi.
00:31:29.140 Well, the Toronto Star might not be aware.
00:31:31.020 Nancy Pelosi is incredibly unpopular, incredibly unpopular.
00:31:35.160 The whole sort of impeachment attempt where, you know, the Democrats really trumped up this news as if they had something, as if they had something.
00:31:42.640 And then they failed to, they didn't have the goods, they were unable to impeach Trump, or they were unable to convict Trump on his impeachment.
00:31:50.160 Nancy Pelosi is not very popular.
00:31:52.100 A recent poll found that three-quarters of Americans say that Nancy Pelosi should be replaced, including half of Democrats.
00:31:59.320 So even Democrats don't like her, they don't want her, but trust the Toronto Star to really celebrate Nancy Pelosi for basically throwing a temper tantrum at the end of the State of the Union.
00:32:09.660 That is the state of the Canadian media.
00:32:11.420 They have Trump derangement syndrome.
00:32:13.020 They can't even acknowledge the fact that Trump gave a pretty good State of the Union address, and instead they print this story obsessing over Nancy Pelosi and how cool they think it was that she ripped up the speech.
00:32:24.360 Okay, Toronto Star, that is why no one takes you seriously.
00:32:27.840 All right, I'm going to leave it at that.
00:32:28.900 Thank you so much for tuning in, and we will be back again next week.
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