The Candice Malcolm Show - February 03, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： The coronavirus, freedom of press, the Super Bowl, and more!


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Candice talks about the coronavirus outbreak in China and why we should be worried about it. Plus, we talk about the Super Bowl and the Trudeau government's attempt to crack down on freedom of the press in Canada.

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00:00:00.440 Politicians say it's racist to take precautions about the coronavirus.
00:00:03.520 The left increases its radical calls for climate action.
00:00:06.820 Plus, the Trudeau government brazenly stamps out freedom of press in Canada.
00:00:11.380 Plus, we'll talk about the Super Bowl.
00:00:12.860 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:20.220 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast.
00:00:22.860 We have a lot to get to, so let's jump right to it.
00:00:24.720 I want to talk about the coronavirus.
00:00:25.840 Not so much just the virus, but the reaction to it, which has been just completely deranged across the board in Canada.
00:00:31.960 Now, if you watch my show, you watch the podcast regularly, you know that I've been talking about the coronavirus.
00:00:36.820 But I've been on the side of, you know, thinking it's not that big of a deal.
00:00:40.160 Thinking that, yeah, sure, take precautions.
00:00:42.220 But it isn't the huge sort of chaotic, you know, rush to, you know, protect us from this dooming, impending illness that's going to sweep the whole world.
00:00:51.920 I think that that's overblown, and I think that the best way to react to these kind of things is just to sort of, you know, wait for information and wait for things to unfold.
00:01:00.020 And like I mentioned several times, you know, more people are going to be affected every year by the common cold, by influenza, than by, you know, this thing that's getting tons of attention, tons of media, you know, coverage.
00:01:13.880 And, you know, the natural reaction is to sort of create panic and create fear.
00:01:18.280 So I was kind of warning against that.
00:01:19.880 You know, the thing that I was interested in more so was the origin of this virus, which seems to have been sort of this, the question seems to have been sort of settled.
00:01:29.200 Well, if you trust the Chinese government, which I absolutely don't, I think the Chinese government is known for lying and we shouldn't really trust anything they're saying.
00:01:36.380 But they say that it came from a food market within Wuhan.
00:01:40.900 Again, still really big coincidence that it happened to, like, originate in the same city where China has its covert biological warfare unit.
00:01:49.320 But there isn't, it doesn't seem to anyone, doesn't seem to be anyone major linking those two aside from that one Israeli intelligence officer that I mentioned.
00:01:56.920 That's not what I want to talk about today.
00:01:58.720 What I want to talk about is, so the virus has gotten bigger.
00:02:01.640 It's affected more people, impacted more people around the world.
00:02:06.100 We have, as I mentioned last week, we have a few cases in Canada.
00:02:09.600 There's four known cases at this point, three in Toronto, one in Vancouver.
00:02:14.020 As of February 3rd, approximately 17,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide.
00:02:19.940 That's included every provincial division of China.
00:02:24.240 The first confirmed death was back on January 9th.
00:02:27.300 And as of February 3rd, there have been 362 confirmed death.
00:02:31.100 Again, we have to rely a lot on information from the Chinese government.
00:02:34.500 And I'm just not inclined to trust the Chinese government.
00:02:37.260 So for all we know, this is a way bigger deal in China and they're lying about it. 0.99
00:02:41.460 Or perhaps for all we know, this is over-exaggerated.
00:02:45.340 And there haven't been this many deaths.
00:02:47.080 But again, it requires us to rely a lot on China.
00:02:50.440 There have been a few cases of transmission outside of China.
00:02:53.520 So the first local transmission of virus outside of China occurred in Vietnam when a father passed it on to his son.
00:03:00.160 And the father had been in China.
00:03:03.080 The first transmission not involving a family member happened in Germany, where a man passed it on to a work colleague.
00:03:11.180 And then the first reported death outside of China has happened as well.
00:03:14.580 And that happened in the Philippines, where a 44-year-old Chinese citizen was confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus and passed away.
00:03:22.200 Anyway, so as a result of what's happening in China, China is massively cracking down on civil liberties, massively cracking down on the ability of travel.
00:03:33.260 Basically, there are 57 million people in that country that are on lockdown, that are on full or partial lockdown, including the termination of all public transportation, all outward transport, train and long distance buses.
00:03:48.000 And as you know, you know, it was a Chinese New Year that just happened.
00:03:51.660 So a lot of those local festivities were shut down by the Chinese government over fear of this virus.
00:03:59.220 So it's important to keep that all in mind, you know, for all of the reaction that we're having in the West right now.
00:04:04.400 Just keep in mind the place where this is originating in Chinese, communist China, fascist dictatorship.
00:04:10.060 They are really, really cracking down on individual liberty and freedom of movement and other freedoms.
00:04:16.200 So we should keep that in perspective when we're criticizing the West for how they're reacting.
00:04:21.880 I think that there's a reasonable argument that you could make that Canada specifically is not doing enough when it comes to coronavirus.
00:04:26.980 Just given the fact that we know that transmission is human to human and we don't know exactly how it's being passed on.
00:04:35.120 I think because of that, we probably should be taking more precautions, especially with people who have just come from China. 1.00
00:04:41.980 At any given time, there's about 12 planes coming from China to Canada.
00:04:46.120 And so we're talking about, you know, tens of thousands of people, if not more, that have come from China to Canada in the past few weeks here.
00:04:54.220 And as far as sort of any kind of like quarantine, any kind of like, you know, you know, taking someone as they get off the plane and keeping them away,
00:05:03.720 doing, you know, in-depth screening of people as they're getting off those planes, that's still not happening at this point.
00:05:08.920 And I think that that's a lot of the reason why anxieties are spreading because, you know, we're watching other countries take major precautions.
00:05:15.900 And then we see the Canadian government, which, you know, they've handled the situation OK.
00:05:19.680 They're answering questions and, you know, they're being more transparent than they usually are with these kind of like public interest stories.
00:05:26.820 But at the same time, you know, you look at the United States just declared a public health emergency and suspended all entry of foreign nationals who visited China.
00:05:37.940 So, you know, many people in Canada might say that's the kind of that's the kind of reaction that we should be taking.
00:05:42.700 We should be acting firmly right now because we just don't know the, you know, what's causing this virus to spread.
00:05:49.080 All we know is that it's going human to human, whereas Canada has not done that at this point.
00:05:53.900 So the declaration went into effect on Sunday at 5 p.m.
00:05:57.840 U.S. citizens returning to the United States who have been in China's Hubei province in the two weeks before their return will be subject to a 14-day mandatory quarantine.
00:06:08.320 U.S. citizens returning from the rest of mainland China in the two weeks prior will face a health screening at a select number of ports of entry.
00:06:15.760 Those citizens will also face two weeks of monitored self-quarantine to ensure they pose no public health risk.
00:06:21.400 President Donald Trump signed a proclamation suspending the entry of foreign nationals who have traveled in China in the last two weeks.
00:06:29.040 So, you know, that's a pretty firm response.
00:06:31.480 And I think a lot of people are looking to Canada saying, you know, why aren't we doing something like that?
00:06:35.580 Why aren't we at least taking more steps to ensure that, you know, this issue is being dealt with?
00:06:42.780 Well, I'll tell you why Canada isn't doing that.
00:06:45.820 Because Canada has a totally different concern when it comes to the coronavirus.
00:06:49.240 They're not so much concerned about people who have been to China, not so much concerned about the human transmission, not so much concerned about quarantine or screening off planes.
00:06:59.000 No, no, no.
00:06:59.920 What public health officials and politicians and leaders in Canada are worried about is racism.
00:07:06.720 They're worried about you and everyone you know, Canadians, you know, showing their true colors and just being outright racist. 1.00
00:07:13.240 That's basically the accusation.
00:07:15.600 That's what we are being accused of.
00:07:17.700 So leader after leader after leader has done a press conference.
00:07:21.880 It seems like every time you look at the news, you know, anything to do with the coronavirus, it's not about health precautions.
00:07:27.700 It's about lecturing us, lecturing Canadians and calling you racist. 0.82
00:07:31.400 So let's go through a couple of those.
00:07:33.880 This is the health minister on CBC.
00:07:36.340 Now, watch the CBC host.
00:07:38.300 Watch how smug she is and how much joy she takes out of accusing Canadians of being racist. 0.62
00:07:43.700 It's like she knows she firmly believes that Canadians are racist. 0.99
00:07:47.620 And here's just another opportunity of you Canadians being just racist. 0.98
00:07:52.100 And instead of, you know, being friendly and nice when it comes to how we deal with the coronavirus, you know, they're just these bigots showing their true color. 0.96
00:07:59.900 So here's the first clip.
00:08:00.860 So, Minister, we're hearing from members of the Chinese-Canadian community that the fears are leading to some prejudice here.
00:08:08.660 Are you concerned about racism?
00:08:12.880 It absolutely concerns me, Wendy.
00:08:15.260 So the very first question the CBC reporter asks the health minister of Canada.
00:08:19.220 Now, you know, this isn't the minister in charge of, like, social harmony or something.
00:08:22.820 This is the minister in charge of health.
00:08:24.400 Her job is to make sure that Canadians stay healthy and, you know, avoid risks from these kind of global pandemics.
00:08:31.520 The very first question she asks is about racism.
00:08:34.360 And, of course, the Trudeau minister is going to say, yes, I'm very, very concerned about racism.
00:08:39.300 The risk of the virus itself, let's not talk about that.
00:08:42.140 But let's just talk about racist Canadians. 0.99
00:08:44.120 Far from being the only one. 0.93
00:08:45.820 Far from being the only one.
00:08:47.000 So we have the mayor of Toronto, John Tory, basically making similar comments.
00:08:52.620 He gave a statement, they gave a press conference where official after official after official got up and scolded Canadians, scolded Torontonians for being racist.
00:09:03.080 Here's John Tory.
00:09:03.740 I've been very troubled to hear of reports, one as recently as at lunchtime today, of people treating our Chinese-Canadian community differently.
00:09:13.860 That they in some way are being or should be shunned or quarantined or suggesting Chinese businesses should be avoided.
00:09:20.920 Okay. Now, what John Tory said is just over the top, of course.
00:09:25.000 And the idea is that, okay, should Chinese-Canadians be quarantined? 0.51
00:09:29.880 Should they be accused of carrying disease?
00:09:32.100 No, of course not.
00:09:33.080 Of course you shouldn't make accusations towards someone just based on how they look or whatever.
00:09:37.280 But when he says, you know, the Chinese-Canadian community are being treated differently, well, look, if you went to China, if you're a person who lives in Canada and has family members back in China or you personally went back to China for Chinese New Year and you came back to Canada, yeah, you should be treated differently.
00:09:56.020 You should be treated differently than someone who didn't go to China. 1.00
00:09:58.600 Because if you went to China, you're at much, much greater risk of having, being contracted of the coronavirus.
00:10:04.760 And the thing about the coronavirus is that people don't immediately show signs of it.
00:10:09.340 There's no, there's no immediate, you could be a carrier of the coronavirus without showing signs of it.
00:10:14.920 So just because someone's not like sniffling or sneezing or coughing doesn't mean that they couldn't potentially have the virus and just not be showing signs of it.
00:10:23.200 There's also been cases of people who have passed on the coronavirus even though they didn't have it.
00:10:28.240 So it's affecting some people, not affecting others.
00:10:30.720 Obviously, in the situation where we just don't have the right kind of knowledge, you have to treat people differently because you have to be able to read through the information.
00:10:38.000 And again, I'm not saying that you should, you know, refuse to work with or communicate.
00:10:43.060 You shouldn't be prejudiced.
00:10:44.300 You shouldn't be biased.
00:10:44.940 You obviously shouldn't be racist.
00:10:46.120 And I don't believe Canadians are. 1.00
00:10:47.380 But the idea that you're not even allowed to treat people differently if they happen to have just been in China, that is totally absurd.
00:10:53.940 And again, just one of many, many examples.
00:10:56.820 You watch the rest of this press conference, you see over and over again, officials scolding Canadians and Torontonians for how they're reacting to this.
00:11:03.240 We are facing an emergency, not necessarily in a public health sense, but an emergency within the trans-Canadian communities because we are being singled out.
00:11:12.480 We are being stigmatized because of the coronavirus.
00:11:16.140 We know that inaccurate information, misinformation continues to spread.
00:11:24.120 And this is creating unnecessary stigma against members of our community.
00:11:30.300 And again, here's a headline over at the CBC.
00:11:32.560 Canada's chief public health officer condemns racist acts linked to the coronavirus outbreak.
00:11:36.940 Again, why isn't Canada's chief public health officer more concerned about the virus and how we're handling all the people coming back from China?
00:11:44.780 Why is she, why is it her role to be, you know, lecturing Canadians and talking down to them? 0.90
00:11:52.680 Theresa Tam says that discriminatory slurs are unacceptable and very hurtful.
00:11:57.060 OK, I agree. You should, you know, you shouldn't make discriminatory slurs.
00:12:02.500 You shouldn't, you shouldn't say racist things.
00:12:04.120 But the idea that the public health officer, the chief public health officer in Canada is concerned about how Canadians are reacting as opposed to actually treating the virus is concerning.
00:12:15.340 And one of the other problems I have with this, all this coverage, is that there's never any specific examples, right?
00:12:21.200 Like the specific examples are always like, oh, people are saying mean stuff on social media.
00:12:25.460 Well, earth to like every journalist and every politician in the world, social media is filled with people saying not very nice stuff all the time, every day, 24-7, to every single group, to every single side.
00:12:37.540 So this isn't just something like new and we really shouldn't take, you know, people's rhetoric on social media to mean that an entire country is racist.
00:12:47.620 I mean, I'm just, I'm just so, so sick of this.
00:12:51.600 And of course, whenever there's, whenever there's an accusation of racism or discrimination, trust Justin Trudeau to jump up and start lecturing Canadians.
00:13:01.280 So here he was at a Lunar New Year event, scolding Canadians.
00:13:06.700 Justin Trudeau takes so much joy in calling Canadians racist.
00:13:10.120 This is like him at his best.
00:13:11.920 Like you could just see he's so energetic.
00:13:13.820 He's so excited and happy.
00:13:15.760 Like he just, he's at his best.
00:13:17.400 He's at his happiest when he's scolding Canadians and calling them racist. 0.86
00:13:21.600 Just like here today, we need to support each other and stay united.
00:13:27.200 Let me be clear.
00:13:28.680 There is no place in our country for discrimination driven by fear or misinformation.
00:13:35.320 This is not something Canadians will ever stand for.
00:13:38.980 Okay, again, so no real solid examples of Canadians actually being racist or any public figure or anyone, anyone actually saying anything that could be deemed as being racist or xenophobic or discriminatory against Chinese people in Canada.
00:13:55.620 And yet, that's all we're hearing is these accusations.
00:13:58.760 So the closest thing that you can say to be tied to Canadians actually being, you know, xenophobic about this issue is that there's been a couple petitions.
00:14:07.760 So there was a petition in the York District School Board.
00:14:11.400 York District is just north of Toronto.
00:14:13.720 And more than 9,000 signatures were collected on a petition that were calling for the school board to keep children whose family members had recently traveled to China home for 17 days.
00:14:24.880 And so because of this petition, a lot of people are saying, like, wow, look at those racist parents in York Region.
00:14:33.160 They're calling on Chinese families who went to China to keep their kids home from school.
00:14:38.960 And that's apparently a horrible, horrible example of racism.
00:14:42.880 A couple of things, though.
00:14:43.940 York Region is one of the most diverse areas in all of Canada.
00:14:46.700 So not only did a lot of Chinese people sign this petition, but it's people literally from all over the world who came to Canada, new immigrants and all Canadians alike who signed this petition.
00:14:56.420 So, you know, a lot of Chinese people signed this petition just to say, hey, that's so racist that you created this petition.
00:15:01.980 And also, if the school board had been taking precautions, if they had said, you know, anyone who went, maybe not anyone who went to anywhere in China,
00:15:08.160 but if you were specifically in Wuhan and you came back, maybe those family members should just sort of self-quarantine and stay at home.
00:15:16.440 Or, you know, like we could follow suit with what all the other Western countries in the world and make it mandatory.
00:15:22.220 But instead, because, you know, obviously there'd be a lot of anxieties.
00:15:25.480 Like if your child went to school with someone and you knew that there was kids in her class that were from China
00:15:30.900 and that they had just been recently visited the, you know, ground zero outbreak of this virus,
00:15:36.440 wouldn't you be a little anxious, too, about sending your kids to school?
00:15:39.840 But no, we're not allowed to have any of these anxieties.
00:15:41.820 We're not allowed to have any of these fears because that would be considered racist.
00:15:45.540 And there was another petition from the University of Waterloo where a student called on the Ontario government to shut down all of campus to prevent the further spread of the virus.
00:15:53.280 This was last week. And by mid last week, the petition had already garnered 30,000 signatures.
00:15:58.140 So all that is just to say that a lot of Canadians feel anxiety, feel fear because of the lack of action that's happening from officials, from the government.
00:16:05.840 That's not because they're racist. It's not because they're xenophobic.
00:16:08.380 It's not because they're just, you know, waiting for an opportunity to like turn on their fellow Canadians.
00:16:13.120 No, it's just that, you know, there's this global pandemic sweeping the globe.
00:16:16.420 It originated in China. We don't feel like officials are doing enough to address the issue.
00:16:21.520 And so people have, you know, fears about that.
00:16:24.300 That doesn't mean Canada's a racist country and shame on all of the politicians and all of the journalists who are taking glee right now and accusing Canadians of being xenophobic.
00:16:33.220 OK, let's move on. I want to talk about the sort of radical left.
00:16:37.900 You know, there was a lot of talk a couple of years ago about how the, you know, the far right is a problem.
00:16:44.140 There's a radical right that's risen up.
00:16:45.880 And a lot of people said, you know, there isn't a good distinction between the far right and just sort of mainstream conservatives.
00:16:51.660 That was like one of the favorite talking points among the media, among left-wing journalists.
00:16:55.840 They would sort of accuse all conservatives of being part of the far right, which, of course, is total nonsense.
00:17:01.700 But I think you could make a really reasonable case that that is true on the left, especially when it comes to the environmental movement.
00:17:07.720 So, you know, we have people like Greta Thunberg, who is this sort of like huge global phenom. 1.00
00:17:12.500 She was recently just nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:17:15.940 She was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
00:17:18.160 She is sort of like a mainstream leftist, let's say.
00:17:22.520 She literally called for the end of all fossil fuel use. 0.98
00:17:27.400 She said that our goal shouldn't be net zero carbon emissions.
00:17:31.240 Our goal should be zero carbon emissions, as in shut off the entire planet, just shut it all down, shut it all down.
00:17:39.020 We're all going to, you know, go back to the Stone Age.
00:17:40.800 She literally called for that. 0.93
00:17:42.160 So, you know, you have someone like her who really should be a fringe figure based on what she's calling for. 0.57
00:17:47.180 But because the media just, you know, love the image of her and the creation of her, she's sort of front and center.
00:17:53.200 And Extinction Rebellion is another one of those groups.
00:17:55.660 This is a really, like, disturbed radical leftist group.
00:17:59.700 If you look at some of their public displays, you know, they do this weird art form.
00:18:05.920 They do this dancing.
00:18:07.040 They're dressed in a really distinct way that makes them seem like they're sort of, like, you know, opposed not just to carbon,
00:18:14.400 but to, like, bathing and keeping clean and, like, presenting themselves in a normal way.
00:18:20.520 This is a fringe group by, like, all accounts.
00:18:23.480 And yet 250 Canadian professors signed a letter of support for Extinction Rebellion's battle against the climate crisis.
00:18:32.240 So this group is calling for all universities to completely withdraw their investment in the fossil fuel sector entirely.
00:18:40.160 Basically, what they're calling for is for, like, hundreds of thousands of working class, blue collar Canadians to be out of work.
00:18:46.500 That's what Extinction Rebellion is calling for, and now that's what 250 university professors are also calling for.
00:18:53.540 They want their universities to sell all assets to completely withdraw any investment that they have in the fossil fuel sector
00:19:00.300 to sort of go down this sort of climate alarmism, drastic measures to deal with the climate emergency path.
00:19:06.180 Among the professors that signed this was also David Suzuki.
00:19:10.680 So, again, David Suzuki is supposed to be a mainstream figure, and yet he's signing a letter of support among universities,
00:19:16.580 which are also supposed to be mainstream institutions in Canada, saying that they're, you know, in agreement
00:19:23.060 and that they back the cause of Extinction Rebellion, which is a far-left group.
00:19:27.540 I don't think you can really tell the difference between the radical environmental left
00:19:31.260 and just the mainstream environmentalists and the mainstream left in Canada anymore.
00:19:36.020 There's no distinction.
00:19:36.800 They all agree on this issue.
00:19:38.480 They take very extreme positions, and, you know, that's sort of, that's where we are right now.
00:19:44.840 You know, they basically just want to put, shut down the oil industry, now be damned with all those workers
00:19:51.680 and all those families who would be devastated by that.
00:19:54.740 Okay, let's move on.
00:19:57.120 All right, so there's a video making the rounds over the weekend of the Heritage Minister talking to Evan Solomon,
00:20:02.900 the host of CTV's Question Period show, which aired on Sunday nights.
00:20:08.080 So this is basically, they're talking about bringing licenses for media organizations,
00:20:12.940 which is sort of the most Orwellian thing that you can imagine.
00:20:15.580 The federal government wants to regulate the media.
00:20:18.960 They want to regulate websites, regulate the internet, essentially.
00:20:24.860 And he's saying that you would have to have a license if you want to practice journalism.
00:20:28.640 So if you want to be considered a trusted media site, you have to go to the government,
00:20:33.600 go to Justin Trudeau, and ask for a license.
00:20:36.140 Can you imagine what that would do?
00:20:39.320 You know, there's already a left-wing bias in the news.
00:20:42.380 Imagine if a left-wing government was the one that got to determine whether or not you could be determined a trusted news source.
00:20:48.580 So this all came from, this was an exclusive over at Black Locks.
00:20:52.640 It all came from a Black Locks report that came out last week.
00:20:55.300 The feds propose a media registry.
00:20:57.780 A cabinet advisory panel created a bunch of recommendations that they gave to the government
00:21:02.240 involving, you know, how to handle the new age of digital media or whatever.
00:21:08.840 And so among these recommendations included a media registry.
00:21:12.980 So the Heritage Minister went on Evan Solomon's show on Sunday to talk about what that would be like.
00:21:19.200 So here is a clip from that show.
00:21:21.680 As far as the licensing is concerned, if you're a distributor of content in Canada,
00:21:26.940 and obviously, you know, if you're a very small media organization,
00:21:32.400 the requirement probably wouldn't be the same as if you're Facebook or Google.
00:21:36.960 So there would have to be some proportionality embedded into this.
00:21:44.100 But we would ask that they have a license.
00:21:46.280 Yes.
00:21:46.920 So the idea, the very idea that the government would require licenses,
00:21:50.320 that the left-wing government would say, hey, you know what,
00:21:52.560 the media landscape in Canada isn't quite left-wing enough.
00:21:54.980 Everyone who knows the media, anyone who pays attention,
00:21:57.360 knows that the media bias is already very left.
00:21:59.240 But according to the Trudeau government, it's not quite left enough.
00:22:02.020 So now they want to regulate everything.
00:22:03.440 And they want to be the arbiters in charge of who is an actual trusted news source and who isn't.
00:22:09.660 Of course, the mainstream media just totally missed the plot on this one.
00:22:13.960 So the headline over at CTV News from this, which was really a train wreck of an interview,
00:22:18.540 it went on, I watched the whole thing.
00:22:20.240 Basically, the guy's not only arguing that websites should be regulated
00:22:24.400 and that you should need a license from the government in order to operate a news site,
00:22:30.340 but he was also calling for more taxes to be imposed on the big, big social media sites.
00:22:35.980 So Facebook, Google, and Netflix.
00:22:38.320 The liberals proposed a Netflix tax and basically had to walk away from it because it was so unpopular.
00:22:44.060 Well, Evan Solomon was accusing the Trudeau government of basically bringing in one through the back door
00:22:48.380 because they want to impose HST onto these big companies because they have users in Canada.
00:22:53.880 It was really the whole thing was just sort of showing, you know, just how much the government wants to micromanage.
00:23:00.480 They always overstep their boundaries.
00:23:02.260 They believe that, you know, every single problem in society should be met with more government, more control,
00:23:07.740 you know, more power to the federal government.
00:23:10.520 You know, anyone, not just, you know, conservatives watching this, anyone,
00:23:13.540 especially people on the left who consider themselves social libertarians or just concerned with social liberty,
00:23:19.820 civil liberty, should be concerned about a government wanting to have this kind of control over the Internet,
00:23:25.660 which is supposed to be sort of the last bastion of freedom in our society.
00:23:30.180 Again, quite a train wreck interview.
00:23:32.640 And yet the CTV headline here says,
00:23:35.340 licensing for media companies in Canada would likely be proportionate.
00:23:39.480 So the major takeaway from CTV over that interview wasn't the fact that the government was actually calling for a registry,
00:23:47.320 but that licensing would be proportionate.
00:23:49.900 So don't worry, guys.
00:23:51.020 The little guys aren't going to have to have the same kind of requirements as the big guys.
00:23:55.340 Pretty absurd stuff.
00:23:56.720 And I think because there's so much backlash over this interview, which was disastrous.
00:24:00.620 And again, the government just openly saying that they want to crack down on freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
00:24:06.480 Well, first of all, our friends over the post-millennial put this little post on Instagram, which I greatly enjoyed.
00:24:12.640 Dear Justin Trudeau,
00:24:14.460 you're never going to make us get an effing government license to be able to criticize you regards the post-millennial.
00:24:20.380 Good for the post-millennial, as I feel the exact same way.
00:24:23.200 There is no way that True North would go groveling to the Trudeau government to ask for a license in order to practice journalism.
00:24:30.340 We live in a free society.
00:24:31.600 We live in a free country.
00:24:32.400 And you don't need a license to be a journalist.
00:24:35.240 Well, because of all that, the heritage minister basically had to walk it all back today.
00:24:39.340 He did a press conference on Monday morning where he basically just clarified his response, walked it all back.
00:24:45.780 So here's that clip.
00:24:46.900 Let me be clear.
00:24:48.960 Our government has no intention to impose licensing requirements on news organizations,
00:24:55.480 nor will we try to regulate news content.
00:24:58.960 So, you know, the first time around, he told us what he really thinks.
00:25:02.060 And then because of the reaction, he had to walk it back and come up with a new sort of government line.
00:25:06.720 But you know that this is what the Trudeau government wants to do.
00:25:09.060 You know this is what the heritage minister wants to do.
00:25:10.980 They want to control.
00:25:11.980 They want to regulate.
00:25:12.880 They believe that the government is the solution to every problem in society.
00:25:16.620 And so their instinct is always to say, yes, we need to regulate it.
00:25:19.660 Yes, you need licenses.
00:25:20.780 Yes, we're going to tax it.
00:25:21.760 That's the liberal mindset in a nutshell.
00:25:25.520 Okay, let's move on.
00:25:26.320 If you're like me, you were watching the Super Bowl last night.
00:25:28.480 Of course, of all nights is the night we were watching the Super Bowl where Rogers, our internet provider, decided to kick out.
00:25:35.220 So we had to stream the game on our phones.
00:25:38.180 And it wasn't quite as good as watching it on, you know, regular internet.
00:25:42.440 But it just wasn't working for us.
00:25:44.180 And I will say, I've spent the last couple of years in the United States.
00:25:47.240 So I got so used to just watching the regular Super Bowl, I almost forgot that Canada still has this silly system where Canadians aren't allowed to watch the actual commercials for the Super Bowl.
00:25:59.280 And it just drove me crazy.
00:26:00.460 I could barely even enjoy the game because all I was doing was thinking about how frustrated it was.
00:26:04.980 It's like you just feel like you're living in some kind of like a fascist society where they won't let you watch the actual commercials.
00:26:11.520 So you have to watch these sort of like, you know, these horrible knockoff commercials that are like cringeworthy and Canadian content and just so bad.
00:26:22.780 Like for me, the Super Bowl is a cultural event.
00:26:25.360 It's not just about football.
00:26:26.560 I'm not really a huge football fan.
00:26:28.160 I actually kind of hate the sport and like a lot of the values that it purports and what it pushes.
00:26:33.820 I specifically hate the San Francisco 49ers.
00:26:37.600 But, you know, it's a Super Bowl.
00:26:39.260 So you watch it because of the commercials.
00:26:41.000 This is a time where they're putting out all the best new ads that, you know, the companies are spending millions and millions of dollars to have that ad location.
00:26:48.440 And because of that, they're introducing all kinds of new products.
00:26:50.720 So it was always kind of fun culturally to just watch the ads.
00:26:54.820 And the fact that you can't do that in Canada just makes you feel like, you know, you're just not as free.
00:26:59.200 You don't have the freedom as our cousins do down in the United States.
00:27:02.900 So that was a little frustrating.
00:27:04.680 And, of course, a halftime show.
00:27:06.180 So, you know, I won't criticize J-Lo or Shakira for their performance.
00:27:11.340 I thought they did great.
00:27:12.140 I never really understand, though, why they pick who they do for the halftime show.
00:27:17.240 Like, I don't know.
00:27:18.360 I feel like J-Lo hasn't really been relevant culturally for like a couple of decades.
00:27:22.660 And the same with Shakira.
00:27:24.040 Like, all the songs they were singing were from like the 90s and the early 2000s.
00:27:28.340 I don't get it.
00:27:29.340 Why couldn't they have chosen someone with like songs on the radio today?
00:27:33.260 It was the same last year.
00:27:34.680 Maroon 5 was the halftime show.
00:27:36.500 And all the songs they were singing were from like the early 2000s.
00:27:39.700 You know, there's good musicians out today.
00:27:42.460 So why do they insist on having people that were famous 20 years ago?
00:27:47.040 I will say I'm quite happy with the result, mostly because I hate the San Francisco 49ers.
00:27:50.920 I lived in San Francisco.
00:27:52.260 I went to a lot of football games.
00:27:54.620 And I just can't get over my hatred for that team.
00:27:57.580 One of the games I went to was like at the height of the whole political kerfuffle over
00:28:02.460 the national anthem when Colin Kaepernick refused to stand.
00:28:06.300 So I went to a game with a couple of friends.
00:28:08.160 We're all Canadians in the audience.
00:28:10.340 First of all, not only did Kaepernick refuse to stand for the national anthem, but so did
00:28:14.260 most of the people in the stands.
00:28:15.940 Most of the crowd also refused to stand, which I thought was pretty disrespectful.
00:28:19.300 So, you know, we the Canadians were standing for the American national anthem.
00:28:23.400 That's fine.
00:28:24.220 They were having their political moment.
00:28:25.620 And San Francisco is a notoriously sort of left-wing city.
00:28:29.640 But the problem I really had was later in the game, they did a moment where they were
00:28:33.600 honoring veterans in the audience.
00:28:35.580 And, you know, what they usually do is they tell a story of a veteran and talk about their
00:28:39.480 history and how they serve the country and how they keep us safe.
00:28:42.160 And so as they were announcing these veterans, again, me and my Canadian friends get up and
00:28:47.500 start applauding and start cheering for these veterans, thanking them for their service,
00:28:51.320 for freedom.
00:28:52.120 And I looked around and literally no one else in the section was standing.
00:28:56.020 Like people were applying that, you know, we refuse to stand for the national anthem because,
00:29:01.040 you know, their whole thing was that they didn't respect the country and they didn't think
00:29:04.880 that America was a country where everyone could prosper or whatever.
00:29:08.280 They thought that police were, they were protesting its supposed police brutality.
00:29:13.760 But that also carried on.
00:29:15.440 So people were also not standing and not paying respect to the troops, to the veterans who
00:29:21.060 keep us safe and protect our freedom.
00:29:23.320 You know, that was sort of like the last straw.
00:29:25.780 You know, I know a lot of the players are different now and that things have changed,
00:29:29.540 but I just had to cheer against San Francisco for that reason.
00:29:32.940 Could never cheer for that team.
00:29:34.340 And so I was happy that they didn't win.
00:29:37.000 OK, I'm going to leave it at that.
00:29:38.000 Thank you so much for tuning in and we'll be back on Wednesday.