The Candice Malcolm Show - The Candice Malcolm Show： Iran gets more belligerent while the Left continues to blame the US

00:00:00.160 Justin Trudeau gets tougher with Iran, but is still weak in the face of an evil regime. 1.00

00:00:04.200 The Iranian government gets more and more belligerent, and yet idiots on the left still 1.00

00:00:07.840 insist the U.S. is to blame, and nuclear scare in Pickering shows how incompetent the government is, 1.00

00:00:13.260 and the CBC gets a taste of its own medicine and gets called racist for airing a segment

00:00:17.360 on immigration. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:26.100 Hi, and welcome to the podcast. Thank you for tuning in. If you've been watching the

00:00:29.280 show recently, you know that we've been focusing a lot on the situation in Iran, and no different

00:00:33.360 today. We're going to go through everything that's happened over the past three or four days

00:00:37.280 and try to figure out what is happening. So on Saturday, Justin Trudeau gave another press

00:00:42.380 conference to talk about the Iranian shooting down of a commercial aircraft, the Ukrainian

00:00:47.220 international flight, where 173 people died. Somewhere between 58 and 63 of those were Canadian

00:00:53.080 citizens. It's still not clear how many Canadian citizens were on board. Originally, we were told

00:00:57.620 63 now. Some are suggesting it was 58. A lot of lost lives, a lot of Canadians that were on board.

00:01:03.740 So Justin Trudeau came to address the same situation that he had on Thursday. I will say Justin Trudeau

00:01:08.880 was a lot stronger on Saturday, whereas on Thursday, he was sort of, you know, he came across very somber,

00:01:15.500 very unsure of himself. He just seemed really shaken, and he couldn't really answer a question

00:01:20.800 straight. He fumbled back on his talking points. He was directly asked whether he thought the U.S.

00:01:26.580 was to blame, and he couldn't provide a straight answer. Let's play that clip. This is from Thursday.

00:01:30.700 The CBC's David Cochran asking Justin Trudeau whether the U.S. is to blame and Trudeau not being

00:01:35.580 able to provide a straight answer. Hi, Prime Minister. I just want to circle back to an earlier

00:01:39.620 question. If the intelligence is accurate, then it seems this is the end result of a sequence of

00:01:43.880 events that was sparked by the drone strike ordered by the U.S. president. So given the information

00:01:48.620 you have, how much responsibility does the United States bear for this tragedy?

00:01:54.340 The evidence suggests that this is the likely cause, but we need to have a full and complete

00:02:00.600 and credible investigation to establish exactly what happened. That is what we are calling for,

00:02:07.820 and that is what we are expecting will happen.

00:02:09.780 So again, the United States is Canada's closest ally. They're our most important ally. We're on the

00:02:14.640 side of the United States. In fact, Canadian troops are side by side with American troops in Iraq.

00:02:19.660 They've been there since we've been fighting and addressing the ISIS insurgency. Canadian lives are 0.54

00:02:25.560 at risk in the same way as Americans are when Iran goes and bombs bases, Iraqi bases, housing ally troops. 0.78

00:02:32.860 So the fact that Justin Trudeau cannot unequivocally reject the idea that the U.S. could possibly be to

00:02:38.500 blame, that's shameful. That's shameful. Trudeau should have answered that question very clearly

00:02:42.580 and said, no, this is not an instance of the United States being to blame. It was an Iranian missile

00:02:47.900 launched by the Iranian regime in Iran, in Iranian airspace. There is no circumstance in the world 0.94

00:02:54.560 where it would be another country's fault for the belligerent actions of an adversarial regime.

00:03:01.440 Only in this sort of deranged world that we live in where people hate Donald Trump so much,

00:03:06.580 they hate the U.S. government, that they're willing to tie themselves into knots, to basically say to

00:03:12.680 the Iranians who did this, it's not really your fault. You can't really be to blame. It's the

00:03:17.320 Americans absolving them of a truly evil deed, which is despicable. The fact that Trudeau couldn't

00:03:22.760 unequivocally do that was embarrassing, to say the least. But I will say Trudeau was stronger on

00:03:28.000 Saturday. So he was tougher. He came across more firmly, but he still gave room to the Iranian regime. 0.74

00:03:34.980 So he said that he spoke to President Rouhani, that Rouhani took responsibility. At this point,

00:03:39.940 the Iranians had admitted, yes, it was us. Remember, at first they said that it was an

00:03:44.280 engine failure. And then once it was pretty clear, once video was released and there was intelligence

00:03:49.800 gathered by the Canadian government and our allies showing, no, no, no, it was very clear that this

00:03:53.540 plane was shot out of the sky. Then Iran initially said that it wasn't us, it wasn't our missile,

00:03:58.300 we don't know what happened. And it wasn't until Saturday that they took responsibility. And yet,

00:04:03.260 you know, on Thursday, it was the CBC that was sitting there repeating over and over again that

00:04:07.940 the US was to blame. We have a little montage of a couple of different CBC reporters saying that it

00:04:14.100 was the US to blame. A significant question that Canadians, particularly the families of these

00:04:19.200 victims are going to have is, are 63 Canadians dead because of the unintended consequences of a

00:04:28.900 decision made by the US president. Hi, Prime Minister, I just want to circle back to an earlier

00:04:33.640 question. If the intelligence is accurate, then it seems this is the end result of a sequence of

00:04:37.920 events that was sparked by the drone strike ordered by the US president. So given the information you

00:04:42.900 have, how much responsibility does the United States bear for this tragedy? By Saturday, the Iranian 1.00

00:04:49.380 regime was repeating CBC rhetoric. So CBC's editorial position on Thursday became the official talking

00:04:54.900 points of the Islamist government, the Islamic regime in Iran on Saturday. So congratulations, 0.91

00:05:00.840 CBC, you're on the same side as a maniacal regime. But all that's to say that that derangement didn't

00:05:08.680 just stop at the CBC, it extended throughout the US media and to public figures, and we'll get to that

00:05:13.480 in a bit. My criticism with Justin Trudeau at this point was that he says to the he says during a press

00:05:19.320 conference several times that Iran has taken an important first step that they have claimed and taken

00:05:23.960 responsibility and that he basically praises Iran for doing that. That's total nonsense. Iran lied

00:05:29.700 from the get-go. They lied repeatedly until they were caught into a corner where they had no other

00:05:34.140 option, where all the evidence was pointing to, yes, Iran shot this down, and now their only response is

00:05:38.920 it was an accident. Okay, that's not good enough. That's not good enough. You murdered 173 people,

00:05:44.400 malicious act of war against innocent people, families, children, babies, women, men, university

00:05:51.180 students, some of the brightest young minds in Iran coming to Canada, and, you know, Iran just

00:05:56.640 killed them through their own recklessness and incompetence. You don't just get to say,

00:06:01.200 look, we're sorry. Trudeau shouldn't give them credit for taking responsibility. He should be

00:06:04.700 pressing even further, although this is as far as I have seen him press. And then Justin Trudeau still

00:06:10.720 does his own thing where he doesn't really directly answer a question. He just sort of obfuscates and

00:06:14.660 repeats his talking points. So the post-millennial asked him whether or not he thought

00:06:18.740 Qasem Soleimani was a legitimate target. Qasem Soleimani, as you know, was the head of Quds

00:06:24.540 Force, which was an elite sort of secret unit within the Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Iranian

00:06:30.620 military. It's been designated a terrorist by most Western governments, including Canada,

00:06:35.600 since 2012. So the post-millennial asked, was he a legitimate target since he was leader of a

00:06:40.700 terrorist group and that terrorist group has been listed by the Canadian government as a terrorist

00:06:45.240 group? Trudeau can't answer. He can't provide a straight answer. Let's play that.

00:06:48.740 Do you think Mr. Soleimani was a legitimate target? And my follow-up question to that is if you say

00:06:56.300 his killing contributed to events that unfortunately led to the downing of the aircraft, would your

00:07:03.380 government now, I mean, first, can your government trust the regime on that? And would it follow

00:07:08.780 through on listing the entire Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity as you voted for in

00:07:16.340 September 2018?

00:07:18.340 These are the kinds of questions that we will have to be reflecting on in the coming days and weeks. Our focus

00:07:24.900 right now is providing the support to grieving families that need answers, that need closure,

00:07:30.460 that need justice, that need access to consular support both in Iran and in Canada. We are doing

00:07:38.460 everything we can to ensure that that happens in the short term, but obviously there are reflections in the

00:07:44.460 medium and long term as we move forward.

00:07:46.460 Interestingly, as Trudeau is saying that, a former top official with Canada's Security Intelligence Agency gave an

00:07:52.020 interview with Global News where he went much, much further. So where Trudeau couldn't answer the question,

00:07:57.020 where Trudeau's Foreign Affairs Minister was sort of squishy, a top CSIS official, former CSIS official,

00:08:02.460 came out and really said it like it was about Soleimani. So this was from Stuart Bell over at Global News.

00:08:10.020 Quote, Qasem Soleimani was a brutal yet talented terrorist leader. That's the best way I can describe him.

00:08:16.020 He was supporting organizations that were sympathetic to the Iranian cause and specifically organizations

00:08:20.740 whose mandate was violence. He never ceased his desire to cause mayhem and violence throughout the

00:08:26.340 region. So, you know, whereas the politicians are for some reason too afraid to speak the truth and just

00:08:33.060 come out and say, yes, this guy was a maniacal leader that was destabilizing the entire Middle East,

00:08:38.500 responsible for countless deaths, you know, instead of just saying that, for some reason they feel the

00:08:44.100 need to, oh, well, that's what we need to look into and we need to figure that out. They can't just come

00:08:49.140 out and say it, well, you know, I'm glad that there's someone who was once in the Canadian government

00:08:53.620 who had the nerve to do it. And Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the UK, made similar comments about

00:09:00.500 Soleimani. He said that Soleimani has the blood of British troops on his hands and that Soleimani gave

00:09:07.140 improvised explosive devices to terrorists who, I'm afraid, killed and maimed British troops.

00:09:11.700 The same is true about Canadian troops. We just don't have leaders that are courageous enough

00:09:16.420 to say it. Okay, let's move on. So, Iran is truly becoming more and more belligerent. You know, 0.61

00:09:21.700 many people said that by taking responsibility for the aircraft, they were sort of de-escalating

00:09:25.780 the situation, like trying to calm everything down and lower the tensions. But that's just not the case.

00:09:31.300 They continued with another bombing campaign against bases in Iraq, bases, again, where both

00:09:36.820 Canadian and American troops are being held, being housed, putting lives at risk. You know,

00:09:42.180 they are the ones that are continuing to push this hot war. And, you know, again,

00:09:47.940 the idea that Justin Trudeau just took at their word that, look, this was an accident,

00:09:51.860 we're moving on. The fact that Justin Trudeau was even praising them for that is just so despicable,

00:09:56.420 because even after Iran took responsibility, even after supposedly they said, okay, we lied before,

00:10:02.660 but now we're going to come and tell the truth, they were once again caught in a lie. Once again,

00:10:07.380 caught in a lie. This was barely reported by the news in the West, not reported at all in the US.

00:10:12.820 But basically, a general from the Iranian regime came out and gave a press conference where he was

00:10:18.260 supposedly telling the truth and coming clean about what actually happened. So this is what he said.

00:10:22.340 So the Iranian missile operator who shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet was acting alone when he

00:10:27.380 opened fire because of a communication breakdown, a Revolutionary Guard commander said on Saturday.

00:10:32.820 The operator had mistaken the Boeing 737 for a cruise missile and only had 10 seconds to decide

00:10:39.540 whether to fire. At various stages, it was reported that cruise missiles had been fired towards the

00:10:43.540 country. He said the Ukrainian International Airlines plane was brought down in Tehran hours after Iran

00:10:49.860 launched a volley of missiles at US troops stationed at Iraqi bases on Wednesday. All 176 people on board

00:10:56.180 died. Given the information provided to the operator that it was a war situation and cruise missiles had

00:11:00.980 been fired, the person identified this as a missile. He was obliged to make contact and get verification,

00:11:06.660 but apparently his communication system had some disruptions. Either a jamming of the system was the

00:11:12.820 cause or a network was busy or whatever. He couldn't get in touch to the general. He had 10 seconds to decide.

00:11:20.180 Okay, this entire scenario that they're painting here is like straight out of like an international

00:11:25.460 relations sort of like game theory. Like the guy had 10 seconds to decide. He thought that there

00:11:30.260 was an incoming missile and he had to decide he was really junior. He was supposed to get approval from

00:11:34.420 someone senior, but the line was blocked. I mean, this is like straight out of a Hollywood movie,

00:11:40.340 straight out of a blockbuster. This is not a situation that was realistic. There's so many things

00:11:44.420 that are wrong with this and it's so easy to pull apart. First of all, there is a huge difference

00:11:50.820 just in terms of size and speed of a jet, an air jet taking off, a commercial air jet taking off.

00:11:57.540 The speed would be much, much slower than an incoming missile, which would be at full speed.

00:12:01.780 So just from a very basic perspective, someone who is trained in this situation to be able to

00:12:06.820 spot these kinds of things would easily and very quickly be able to tell the difference

00:12:10.420 between a missile and a passenger jet. So reportedly, the plane flew into restricted airspace,

00:12:16.180 which is why this individual who supposedly only had 10 seconds to decide was even made aware of it.

00:12:20.740 But the idea that he would only have 10 seconds to decide is really a stretch. I find it very,

00:12:24.580 very hard to believe that it wouldn't have been longer.

00:12:26.340 That he had to decide split second, 10 seconds. And then this whole idea that he was supposed to

00:12:32.100 get approval, but there was a jamming in the system or the network was busy or whatever.

00:12:36.660 He couldn't get a touch with a higher Iranian general is just not believable because it's not

00:12:41.860 like calling on a regular landline where you get a busy signal. Supposedly, there'd be a direct line

00:12:47.300 to a commander. And so what this really shows, first of all, is that the Iranian government has a very

00:12:52.580 difficult time with the truth. They can't come out and say it. They have to create these really,

00:12:57.220 you know, over the top scenarios to make it seem like, oh, it wasn't this guy's fault,

00:13:00.820 like he was in this impossible situation. And really all this is to do is just to absolve them

00:13:06.340 of the responsibility. What it really shows though, not only are they reckless, they're just massively

00:13:11.700 incompetent, massively incompetent. Like the idea that they can withstand some kind of accelerated 0.96

00:13:17.700 hot war against the United States is just ridiculous. When you look at the behind 0.57

00:13:21.300 the scenes scenario where they have a junior person in charge of, you know, defending the

00:13:26.180 country from incoming missiles, a guy that can't tell the difference in speed and size between

00:13:30.580 an incoming missile and a passenger jet that is taking off somehow. He only has 10 seconds to decide

00:13:35.940 and he can't get in touch with anyone. Like their systems are so bad and, you know, basic that he can't

00:13:41.060 even get in touch with a supervisor and that he has to make the split second decision. He's obviously,

00:13:46.260 you know, hungry for war and hungry for this sort of, you know, whatever, revenge or hatred against

00:13:52.580 the Americans that he would be so willing to do something so reckless. And the Iranian government is 0.77

00:13:58.900 now sort of like trotting this out as accused. I don't believe this story at all. I don't think

00:14:03.940 that it's accurate. I don't think we're getting a full story. And this is supposedly the Iranians 0.99

00:14:08.660 taking responsibility. That's not taking responsibility. Further belligerence from the

00:14:13.220 Iranian regime. They arrested the British ambassador to Iran. So there has been some talk of Canada

00:14:21.620 reopening its embassy. There was an article in the Globe and Mail, an op-ed calling for Canada to

00:14:26.340 reopen its embassy because of situations like this. They say that we need Canadian officials on the ground

00:14:30.980 to deal with the fallout and that it would be a lot easier if Canada had an official presence

00:14:36.020 in Iran. Well, Iran reminds us of why we don't. Back in 2012, Canada pulled its entire mission. They

00:14:42.500 named Iranian ambassadors in Canada persona non grata, expelled them from the country, and we pulled

00:14:48.340 our own in part because the diplomats in Iran were not safe. They were no longer deemed safe. An Iranian 1.00

00:14:54.900 mob had broken into and ransacked the UK embassy, making it seem like, you know, this could possibly

00:15:01.620 happen to Canada. Part of the reason Canada pulled it, well, Iran has done it again. 0.99

00:15:05.700 This time they have arrested the ambassador of the British government. So Britain has announced the

00:15:12.180 arrest of its ambassador to Iran as a violation of international law as a new diplomatic row broke

00:15:17.300 out between London and Tehran over anti-government protests engulfing Iran. Basically, the Iranian 0.92

00:15:21.940 regime accused the British ambassador of being part of the protest. So huge protests have broken out in

00:15:26.980 Iran after the government admitted that it downed the jet and the Iranian government paranoid, 0.99

00:15:31.860 schizophrenic, schizophrenic, crazy. They said that it was the British government who was actually 0.83

00:15:36.100 planning these protests and thus arrested the British ambassador. Tehran said it had summoned

00:15:42.980 McCary, who's the British ambassador, to justify his, quote, illegal and inappropriate presence, unquote,

00:15:48.660 at the protest, despite the ambassador denying that he had taken part. And then meanwhile, it says a group of

00:15:54.260 pro-regime protesters gathered outside the U.S. embassy calling for its closures. Again,

00:15:58.820 this is, to me, one of the most concerning parts. It's happening in Canada and now it's happening in

00:16:02.260 the UK, that there are all these loyalists, these Islamists who are loyal to the Iranian regime.

00:16:07.220 For whatever reason, they're in the West and they're kind of doing the government, the regime's dirty work

00:16:12.100 by putting pressure on Western governments. You know, one of the things, so many people in the Iranian 1.00

00:16:17.380 diaspora in Canada fled the regime. They hate the regime. You know, these are the ones that are 0.70

00:16:21.940 protesting in Toronto in solidarity with the protests in Iran. And then the fact that there

00:16:26.020 are these thugs who are loyal to the regime, you know, the most wicked government in the world, 0.57

00:16:30.980 in my opinion, an absolutely despicable human rights record, a despicable record of interfering 0.93

00:16:36.900 in the region, destabilizing the entire Middle East by sending out proxies, sending out terrorist 0.74

00:16:40.900 groups, the largest state sponsor of terrorism, a country that literally bankrolls 0.75

00:16:45.860 wicked terrorist groups throughout the world, throughout the Middle East. 0.78

00:16:48.980 And, you know, somehow there are people in the West who are loyal to this regime 0.97

00:16:52.660 and they're willing to go out and do their dirty work. That is despicable. But again,

00:16:56.420 this really just shows how deranged the Iranian government is, how belligerent they are. 0.92

00:17:00.500 And to all the people who are sitting and saying this is really the US's fault, well,

00:17:03.860 is it also the US's fault that now London and Tehran are in this feud, that now the UK and Iran are

00:17:11.220 going head to head. Like, it's not the United States. The United States isn't the problem here.

00:17:16.100 A country that would arrest and detain an ambassador, accusing him of just something outrageous

00:17:21.940 and silly, you know, this is not a sane government. This is not a responsible government. And 0.89

00:17:27.220 again, shame on anyone who is really defending this regime. And every time you sit and say Trump is

00:17:33.780 to blame, the US is really to blame, what you're doing is, again, absolving Iran 0.95

00:17:38.340 of responsibility that it needs to take and it needs to have on it. So, like I said,

00:17:44.260 big protests are breaking out in Iran and the Iranian regime is cracking down. Unsurprisingly,

00:17:50.500 video surfaced of Iranian police shooting at protesters. And, you know, the good thing about 1.00

00:17:56.100 this time around is that the world is watching. So, you know, I felt like the world completely ignored

00:18:02.100 the protests that erupted about a month ago when there was huge calls for regime change.

00:18:07.380 Uh, there were big protests throughout Iran and the government just absolutely started cracking

00:18:11.860 down. Murdered somewhere between fifteen and sixteen hundred young Iranian protesters, peaceful

00:18:16.820 protesters. They started doing mass arrests and really cracking down. They shut down internet in

00:18:21.540 the entire country to kind of try to suppress these, uh, protests. And, you know, no one was paying

00:18:28.420 attention. No one was watching. Well, this time around the world is watching. Uh, President Trump made that

00:18:33.780 known. Yeah, President Trump tweeted in support of the Iranian protesters and he said to the regime,

00:18:38.900 he warned the regime that there cannot be another massacre of peaceful protesters. So, you know,

00:18:44.260 hopefully the people in Iran will push for regime change and hopefully this will give them the strength 0.98

00:18:49.700 to know that, you know, the regime can't just simply start arresting them and kidnapping them and

00:18:53.780 murdering them. And if they do, hopefully there will be repercussions because, again, the world is watching.

00:18:59.220 Now, as I mentioned, the CBC trotted out this idea that the US is really to blame for the plane crash.

00:19:04.500 Well, they were not alone. A CEO of a company joined in that derangement. Uh, Michael McCain,

00:19:10.900 who is the CEO of Maple Leafs Food, took to Twitter through the official Twitter handle of Maple Leafs Food

00:19:17.860 and decided to jump in the realm of politics. He says, I am very angry and time isn't making me less

00:19:24.260 angry. A Maple Leafs Foods colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless,

00:19:28.820 irresponsible series of events in Iran. US government leaders, unconstrained by checks and balances,

00:19:34.740 concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes. The world knows Iran is a dangerous 1.00

00:19:40.900 state, but the world found a path to contain it. Not perfect, but by most accounts, it was the right

00:19:46.500 direction. A narcissist in Washington tears world accomplishments apart, destabilizes region.

00:19:51.300 US now unwelcomed everywhere in the area, including Iraq. Tensions escalated to feverish pitch,

00:19:57.620 taking out despicable military leader terrorists? There are hundreds like him standing next in line.

00:20:03.780 The collateral damage of his irresponsible, dangerous, ill-conceived behavior? 63 Canadians 1.00

00:20:08.820 needlessly lost their lives in the crossfire, including the family of one of my Maple Leafs

00:20:12.740 Foods colleagues, his wife and 11 year old son. We are mourning and I am livid.

00:20:17.380 Okay, so this is just like a perfect example of the derangement that many on the left have.

00:20:22.100 He can only view the situation through the lens that America is the bad guy, America is at fault,

00:20:28.180 and Iran is just, you know, they just happen to be the targets. This is the exact response of someone

00:20:35.380 who just hates Donald Trump so much that they can't think clearly, they can't think rationally. So to him,

00:20:41.460 everything is straight out of a Hollywood movie. Trump is this sort of like evil caricature of a 0.97

00:20:45.860 president. And it's all, you know, because Trump has his political woes at home. So he's trying to 0.65

00:20:51.380 change the channel and he's trying to do something different. Again, this kind of shows someone's

00:20:55.540 ignorance of the region, of what's going on in Iran. Because to say that the United States was the

00:21:01.300 one who initiated this is just, it's just completely ignorant, completely untrue. If you look back, 0.93

00:21:07.940 you know, it says right here, the world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path 1.00

00:21:12.740 to contain it. It's not perfect, but by most accounts, it's the right direction. This is not

00:21:16.740 true. The Obama plan and strategy with Iran was a complete failure. The idea was basically that

00:21:22.740 they would sign a piece of paper saying, yeah, sure, we won't develop our nuclear weapons.

00:21:26.340 And in response, Obama not only freed up hundreds of billions of dollars in cash that was given to

00:21:31.300 the regime, which was then used to bankroll terrorist groups across the region, which caused

00:21:35.460 massive destabilization and untold loss of life. But it really just emboldened Iran. It had no 0.91

00:21:40.580 restrictions on Iran in terms of human rights, funding terrorism. And by most accounts, Iran was

00:21:46.420 continuing to covertly develop its nuclear weapons. So the Obama policy was just a total failure.

00:21:52.260 And somehow this individual believes that Iran was contained. No, they weren't. They were completely 0.97

00:21:57.460 acting out of turn. They shot down an American drone in June in international airspace, which was

00:22:05.540 a violation of international law. There was a huge attack on Saudi's oil fields. It destroyed about

00:22:13.460 5% of Saudi Arabia's oil output, which was a huge natural disaster as well. Where's the environmentalists

00:22:20.500 looking at that and questioning that? You know, Iran, they seized British tanker in July 2019,

00:22:27.780 not to mention the fact that they killed their own protesters, about 1,500 or 1,600 of them over

00:22:32.580 Christmas. And then what really escalated the situation, this is what the left is just completely

00:22:37.700 blind to, was that on December 27th, unprovoked, Iran attacked a military base in Iraq. They killed

00:22:45.140 an American citizen. Donald Trump always had a red line saying, don't kill an American. We won't escalate

00:22:50.100 this. If you avoid killing Americans, well, the Soleimani and the Iranian regime killed an American

00:22:55.620 on that 27th strike. Then on the 29th, they orchestrated an attack on the US embassy in Baghdad.

00:23:01.540 So this is two solidified actions of the Iranians attacking American assets, attacking Americans. 0.98

00:23:08.900 And so it was in response to that, that Trump ordered the strike. There is also intelligence

00:23:13.620 pointing that Soleimani had plans to actually bomb and blow up the embassy in Baghdad, the US embassy

00:23:21.460 trying to kill the ambassador, just like they just kidnapped the ambassador of the UK. So they were

00:23:26.500 actively planning attacks. They were actively attacking America when Trump responded. And so again,

00:23:32.260 just to say that this was Trump acting and, you know, escalating the situation shows just a real 0.97

00:23:37.620 ignorance. You know, not of, not of like far off history of like the last two weeks of foreign

00:23:42.180 affairs. It just shows like a total misunderstanding. So again, this is just derangement. And this is the

00:23:47.540 kind of stuff that like, if you're a leader of a company, focus on running your business and leave

00:23:52.020 like foreign policy and politics to people who actually follow and know what's going on. We don't

00:23:56.500 really care about your derangement. And a lot of people are now calling to boycott Maple Leaf Foods.

00:24:00.980 I don't eat Maple Leaf Foods anyway. I don't really subscribe to the whole idea that we should boycott

00:24:05.860 companies because of stupid remarks by people involved. But you know, if you want to boycott 0.99

00:24:10.580 them, you can go ahead and do that. Okay, let's move on. So if you were like me, you received a

00:24:15.540 text message early Sunday morning saying that there was some kind of an incident at the nuclear plant

00:24:22.180 in Pickering, Ontario. We got an alert saying this is a province of Ontario emergency bulletin,

00:24:28.900 which applies to people within 10 kilometers of the Pickering nuclear generating station.

00:24:33.700 An incident was reported at the Pickering nuclear generating station that there has been no abnormal

00:24:39.780 release of radioactivity from the station and emergency staff are responding to the situation.

00:24:44.660 People near the station do not need to take any protective actions at this time.

00:24:49.220 Remain tuned in to local media for further information and instructions. Pretty scary stuff,

00:24:54.180 right? So, you know, you get that on your cell phone. Everyone had it.

00:24:58.340 So about an hour after that initial report was sent, after that text message,

00:25:03.300 Ontario Power Generation clarified on Twitter that the message had been sent in error. So it said,

00:25:09.380 important update, the alert regarding Pickering nuclear was sent in error. There is no danger

00:25:14.660 to the public or environment. So basically just total incompetence on the part of Ontario Power

00:25:21.460 Generation. This is the kind of stuff that really feeds into the fear that people have

00:25:25.540 with nuclear power in general in the first place, which is unfortunate because it is, you know,

00:25:31.300 much cleaner and safer than so many of the alternatives. But, you know, you can't really

00:25:35.860 trust government to do anything competently. All right. Final story we have here. This is an exclusive

00:25:40.820 over at TNC.News. Investigative journalism fellow Lindsay Shepard tells us that the CBC now faces a complaint

00:25:49.300 from a group of 30 immigrant rights organizations. They sent an open letter to the CBC Ombudsperson

00:25:56.100 calling for an investigation into an episode of the CBC program, The Fifth Estate titled Passport Babies,

00:26:02.020 The Growing Shadow Industry of Birth Tourism, which aired on January 5th, 2020. So the complaint,

00:26:08.260 which was sent by the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, claims that the episode is spreading

00:26:13.700 misinformation and that increases the risk of violence and hatred towards migrants and their

00:26:18.660 families. Some of the group that signed the complaint include the Montreal anti-fascist group,

00:26:25.220 Idle No More, Butterfly Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network, and the group No One Is Illegal.

00:26:33.860 So really a group of crazy far left organizations saying that it is the CBC that is racist. They accused 0.67

00:26:40.100 the CBC of spreading racism, xenophobia, and dog whistle politics. Basically the CBC does a legitimate

00:26:48.820 episode on a growing problem. We know that birth tourism is a problem in Canada and it isn't really

00:26:54.420 a problem that affects sort of like the hardest done by the the worst off of migrants, you know, 1.00

00:27:00.180 the people that you really envision when you think of refugees coming from war-torn countries or

00:27:04.740 incredibly poor places. No, this is like relatively well-off rich women coming from most 1.00

00:27:09.940 mostly China but also countries like Russia and other European countries. They come to Canada

00:27:15.220 when they're, you know, heavily pregnant in their third trimester, they have their babies,

00:27:19.300 get the passport for their babies, and then leave. This is a legitimate problem of people 1.00

00:27:24.260 free-riding, taking advantage of Canadian generosity, taking advantage of a Canadian law

00:27:28.340 that allows anyone born on Canadian soil to become a Canadian citizen, regardless of whether the

00:27:32.740 mother or the parents have any legal status whatsoever in Canada. And so again, CBC looks at this,

00:27:38.660 which is a legitimate issue. And, you know, of course, of course, the far left, the further

00:27:45.140 far left, accuses them of racism. It's kind of amusing because it's the CBC that usually leads

00:27:50.580 this charge, right? It's the CBC that usually accuses other people of racism. Remember they

00:27:54.820 created that whole fake news idea, they hired someone to pretend to be a Trump supporter,

00:27:59.300 and they put him out on the streets to try to see if he could roul up other Canadians into racism.

00:28:04.260 The CBC is often the ones that are trying to paint Canadians as racist or trick Canadians into being

00:28:09.780 racist. And here they are doing a fairly straight news story, which was probably still way too

00:28:15.140 sympathetic to people who are clearly just trying to take advantage of Canadian generosity. And now

00:28:19.780 the shoe's on the other foot, and they are getting called racist. I wonder if this will make the CBC

00:28:24.820 lighten up and stop calling Canadians who care about, you know, immigration and care about immigration 0.98

00:28:30.660 laws being followed, if they'll ease up and stop calling those people racist. I highly doubt it,

00:28:35.060 but it's amusing that CBC got a little bit of a taste of its own medicine. All right,

00:28:39.780 I will leave it at that, and we will be back again on Wednesday. Thank you so much for tuning in.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 15, 2020

The Candice Malcolm Show： Iran gets more belligerent while the Left continues to blame the US

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