The Candice Malcolm Show： Justin Trudeau is the king of corporate welfare
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UN does an about-face after a report calling natural resource development in Canada a racist, but does it actually help? Iran continues to lie about the downed Ukrainian Airlines flight, plus a huge snowstorm buries Newfoundland, but the community comes together to help.
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The UN does an about-face after a report calling natural resource development in Canada a racist.
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Justin Trudeau is the king of corporate welfare, but does it actually help?
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Iran continues to lie about the downed Ukrainian Airlines flight,
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plus a huge snowstorm buries Newfoundland, but the community comes together to help.
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I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program.
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Hopefully you are surviving the huge winter storms that have been happening all over the country,
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The footage from those storms is just absolutely incredible and we're going to talk about it later in the show.
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But first, this is a story that we covered on the show last week and it is just so absurd that it deserves to be covered again,
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So this story came out, it was in the National Post,
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First Nations Chief Blast Condescending UN Anti-Racism Directive that called for Pipeline to be shut down.
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So if you recall, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
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called for three large-scale natural resource development projects in Canada to be halted.
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The rationale, they said, was that it was bad for Indigenous and Aboriginal Canadians.
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The only problem is that this UN committee didn't actually study the problem.
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They said that investigative journalism is not part of their mandate and they didn't bother to talk to Indigenous people in Canada.
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So a Canadian First Nations chief is slamming that recent report basically because the UN didn't even look into the situation properly.
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So the project that they condemned, the UN called for the immediate shutdown of three projects,
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including the coastal gasoline natural gas pipeline.
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And what they didn't learn, what they didn't bother to study or find out,
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was that that project actually has the sign-on that 20 different Indigenous communities have signed on to that agreement.
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Many other First Nations groups in Canada are supportive.
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So in a interview with Reuters last week, the chair of this UN committee, Nordin Amir,
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admitted that the committee did not study First Nations views towards the project,
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saying he did not know that most communities supported it.
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I did not know that most First Nations agreed on that, he told Reuters.
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This is something new that came to my understanding.
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He further said that he did not seek out further information on the project
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because the role of the committee does not involve investigative work.
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That begs the question, what is the role of the committee then?
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You've made up this United Nations Committee on Racism,
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where you condemn different things in a peaceful, free country like Canada
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for supposedly being racist without studying it, without looking at it.
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And then when you get kind of called out for taking the wrong position
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and not even representing the views of the people who you claim to represent,
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you just shrug your shoulders and you say, well, that's not our role.
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Our role isn't to actually investigate what we're studying.
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Our role is to just put out these ridiculous reports.
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This, in a nutshell, is a problem with the United Nations.
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They are an organization that's mandate is basically just to demonize Western countries,
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demonize free countries like Canada, pit people against each other.
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And again, they shouldn't be butting their nose into our business.
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They're not deriving from resource development projects.
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I wrote a column on this topic in the Toronto Sun.
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So you can catch that over at thetorontosun.com.
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Justin Trudeau is the king of corporate welfare.
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Of course, especially to, you know, big firms that are based in Montreal and based in Quebec
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But when you actually study the outcome of where this money goes
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and what happens to those companies, the picture isn't so rosy.
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So there's a couple of really major examples in the news recently of basically these companies
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pairing with the Canadian government, teaming with the Canadian government,
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getting corporate welfare, taking taxpayer dollars.
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And then the result is not exactly what you want if you are running a business.
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Bombardier is a Montreal-based aerospace manufacturing company.
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In 2017, the Trudeau government bailed out Bombardier with a $373 million federal loan.
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At the same time, the Liberal government in Quebec also provided a taxpayer-funded bailout
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So 18 months after that bailout, the Bombardier announced that it was cutting 5,000 jobs.
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So why is the, you know, taxpayers in Quebec and federal taxpayers giving a company $1.34 billion
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to turn around and have them lay off 3,000 Canadian employees?
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So Bombardier announced their earnings for 2019.
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And the stock price plummeted by one-third of its value in a single day.
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Canadians invested into this company against their will.
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And, you know, the same thing can be said with Loblaws.
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Loblaws, you remember about a year and a half ago,
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Catherine McKenna, the then environment minister,
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did this stupid bailout announcement with Loblaws.
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You know, Loblaws is the biggest grocery store in Canada.
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And yet they had to get a bailout from the Canadian government
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to build some kind of a new, you know, environmentally friendly refrigerator system.
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For whatever reason, Canadian taxpayers shelled over $12 million to this company.
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The company just announced that it was laying off 700 workers
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and closing two distribution centres in Quebec and Ontario,
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noting that the positions were replaced by new technology and automation.
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So was the technology that the Canadian taxpayers gave to Loblaws,
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But still, the idea that these big companies are taking money from the Canadian government
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and then turning around and laying off Canadians is just, there's no excuse for it.
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You know, the Trudeau government is supposedly, you know,
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they get accused of being sort of like neoliberal or free market.
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They have their hands in all these different pockets.
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They want to sort of take credit for companies that are successful.
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And they do so by tacking on these little, you know, handouts to their friends.
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You know, it's not based on which companies are the best
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or which companies, you know, are the most deserving somehow of money from the taxpayers.
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But it's all based on lobbying and whose lobbyists are friends with who
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and who has the most friends in the Liberal government.
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Well, you know, again, partnering with the government makes no sense.
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They have less than 1% of Canadians are now watching their evening news program.
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CBC National News Network, which is their dedicated news channel,
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The total CBC platform across all television markets is 5%.
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So the CBC is getting more money than they ever have before,
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Their audience is diminishing and falling apart.
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And yet we're paying more and more money to bail out this big giant.
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And, of course, the CBC is, again, coming to the Trudeau government saying that they need even more money.
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This is just, again, a terrible example of the government interfering in the free market
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Not even doing it in a way that somehow creates benefit.
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Like, the companies that partner with the government are doomed to fail,
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which is why the government shouldn't be involved.
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You should not be, like, lining up or interested in any kind of government handout or bailout.
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You should be turning in the opposite direction and saying,
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I don't want to partner with the government because of this track record.
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I know a lot of media companies out there are going to the federal government.
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They want to have part of that $595 million slash fund for journalists.
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Well, True North would never take a penny from the Trudeau government or from any government
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So Iran continues to lie about the downed plane that went down in Tehran,
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killing everyone on board, including some 57 or 58 Canadians.
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Most of the people on board of that plane, by the way, 138, according to the Globe and Mail,
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So whether they were Canadian citizens, permanent residents,
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or they were visiting family members in Canada,
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many, many people on that plane had an access or connection to Canada.
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So Iran is basically just going back and forth.
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At first, they said that they would release the black box from the flight,
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and that was sort of what the international community was calling for.
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Well, the most recent news we hear is that they're no longer handing over that black box,
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If the plane was shot down, as the Iranian regime has now maintained,
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this is the one thing they've kept straight for the past week.
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Remember at first that they lied and said that it was engine problems,
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then they lied again, saying that someone else must have shot down the plane.
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Then they finally came to their senses and admitted the truth that they shot down the plane,
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Well, if it really was an accident, why wouldn't you just turn over the black box?
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The fact that they are trying to hide something really, really begs the question of,
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And again, it shows just how evil this regime really is.
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Well, perhaps that's why a recent survey found that 7 in 10 Canadians
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believed that the truth about that night and that plane crash will never be found,
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that they just don't have any faith in the Iranian regime
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or the international community's ability to deal with that rogue regime.
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So 7 out of 10 Canadians felt that we would never get the full story,
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that we'd never really find out, well, Iran is really pushing that
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because they are refusing to cooperate in any way.
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Basically, they had to call in the Canadian Armed Forces to help.
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If you look at some of the photos that have come up on social media,
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you see you open your front door and there's nothing but snow.
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I wouldn't even know where to start to dig myself out for something like that.
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Okay, so St. John's was in a state of emergency
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after Newfoundland was hit with a record-breaking snowfall
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that piled more than two feet of snow onto some part of the provinces
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and wind that was pushing that snow around drifts several feet high.
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So many communities are dealing with power outages
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and there are just tons and tons of reports, you know, like I said,
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people not being able to find their cars because they're completely buried by snow,
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But I think my two favorite stories that I heard about over the weekend
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were both to do with women giving birth or about to give birth.
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So this is something I heard about on the radio
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and I guess Mark Critch, who's a CBC comedian, he also heard about it.
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Radio just reported that a pregnant woman in labor drove herself to the hospital on a ski-doo.
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I'm pretty sure the child will grow up to be the future premier that will lead us to prosperity.
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Wow, this is like the most Canadian story you can imagine.
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A woman goes into labor, needs to get to the hospital.
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but another story about a baby being born in the midst of this crazy, crazy storm
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So Levi Jacob Snow was born during the height of the raging blizzard that knocked out power
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and hit eastern Newfoundland so hard that military has been called in.
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It was 1041 on Friday, about the same time that a record was broken at St. John's International
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Airport for the highest snowfall amounts in a single day.
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So the father asked for some help digging out their St. John's home on social media.
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And by Sunday, 10 to 15 good Samaritans were outside his house with shovels.
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Well, thank goodness for these good Samaritans that came and helped that baby get inside a warm house
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That's the kind of stuff you love, Canadians coming together to help each other
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in the worst of the worst of the winter weather.
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Thank you so much for tuning in and we will be back again on Wednesday.