The Candice Malcolm Show - February 17, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： Trudeau has no idea how to get our economy moving again


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

192.61266

Word Count

4,834

Sentence Count

322

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

A special live edition of The Candice Malan Show featuring the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, who is finally back in Canada after his trip to Iran. We talk about the protests, the fake news, and the conservative leadership race.


Transcript

00:00:00.200 Justin Trudeau bows to a foreign despot. He turns a blind eye to anti-gay persecution,
00:00:06.080 says he admires fascist China, and he has no idea how to get our economy moving again.
00:00:11.620 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:19.100 Hey everyone, thank you so much for tuning in. This is a special live edition of The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:24.400 Happy Family Day to everyone. I think that it's Family Day for most of the country and Canada.
00:00:28.600 It's President's Day down in the U.S., so I think it's Family Day in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick, and so on.
00:00:37.200 So basically, most of the country is off today, so we decided to do a special live edition.
00:00:43.040 Justin Trudeau is finally back in Canada, so I guess that's good news.
00:00:46.540 His embarrassing little world tour trying to get Canada a seat on the United Nations Security Council has finally come to an end,
00:00:53.660 and thank goodness, it couldn't have happened sooner because he was embarrassing the entire country time and time again.
00:00:59.100 So we're going to come, we're going to go through some of that, and we're going to do an update on all of the blockades,
00:01:04.640 all of the fake news that's coming out of them, because the media has really done a disservice to Canadians in reporting on these blockades.
00:01:11.840 They've completely twisted who it is who is actually protesting, because this is not a First Nations protest.
00:01:17.640 This is not an Aboriginal protest. If you pay attention only to the mainstream media, you may believe that this is solely an Indigenous protest.
00:01:26.380 It isn't. That's not true. This is a protest of the far left, the far environmentalist left.
00:01:31.660 And then we're going to talk a little bit about the conservative leadership race as well.
00:01:35.500 So let's get right to it. Thanks so much for tuning in.
00:01:37.960 If you're watching, let me know where you're watching from. Let me know where you are tuning in from.
00:01:42.580 I'm usually in Toronto, but I'm actually down in California right now, so this show is being recorded from San Mateo, California,
00:01:48.860 which is where I'm staying with my family, and my husband took our son out for a walk.
00:01:52.780 So they are out of the house, leaving me some quiet to record this podcast.
00:01:57.160 So thank you to them. Let's get right to it.
00:01:59.100 So this was making the rounds over the weekend, and wow, is it ever embarrassing.
00:02:03.460 Justin Trudeau bowing to a despot, the worst of the worst, an Islamist dictatorship, a fascist who has so much blood on his hands.
00:02:11.580 Now, if you are an Iranian person living in Canada, if you're part of the diaspora, if you left Iran, fled Iran, and gone to Canada,
00:02:20.920 seeing the prime minister bowing to the Iranian foreign minister, bowing to Javad Sarif, is just like a punch in the gut.
00:02:29.840 I mean, this guy has been with the regime since the revolution, since the Islamic revolution back in 1979.
00:02:36.580 He is sort of the academic behind it all, the brains behind it.
00:02:39.960 Like so many sort of, you know, fascist academics in dictatorships, he was educated in the United States,
00:02:47.100 but he is sort of the brains behind the Islamic Republic.
00:02:49.920 And so here's Justin Trudeau sort of doing a surprise pop-in video meeting with,
00:02:56.220 so it was a meeting between the foreign ministers of Canada and Iran,
00:02:59.960 and then for whatever reason, Justin Trudeau decided to come in.
00:03:02.660 Now, the reason the PMO said that he was there was to sort of have a firm conversation with Iran
00:03:07.740 about getting the black box from that flight that was shot down by Iran,
00:03:12.540 which, remember, they lied about for several days before finally admitting, you know,
00:03:15.680 the one that killed 55 Canadian citizens, another 30 permanent residents.
00:03:18.960 We know that most of the people on that plane were heading to Canada.
00:03:21.380 So what is Justin Trudeau?
00:03:22.540 He does this sort of, like, jovial, subservient bow to this disgusting human being.
00:03:29.500 And let me tell you, Persians, it's not even part of their culture to bow, okay?
00:03:33.760 Like Japanese people bow, Arab people bow, Persian people don't really bow.
00:03:37.840 They shake their head, maybe, when they're meeting them,
00:03:39.580 but you can see that the foreign minister of Iran is not bowing to Trudeau,
00:03:43.920 but Trudeau does this subservient bow.
00:03:45.760 Wow, that's just so embarrassing.
00:03:46.980 Justin Trudeau should not have been meeting with this individual in the first place.
00:03:49.780 Canada doesn't even have diplomatic relations with Iran.
00:03:53.120 We don't allow their diplomats into Canada.
00:03:54.940 We don't have an embassy in Iran.
00:03:56.800 We don't have any formal channels of communication with this regime.
00:03:59.920 In fact, we consider it a terrorist regime.
00:04:02.160 They're the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
00:04:03.840 So why is our prime minister meeting with a foreign minister
00:04:07.080 who we don't even have any diplomatic ties to,
00:04:09.740 who we consider to be a terrorist?
00:04:12.280 And not only that, but a sort of friendly, jovial handshake and a bow.
00:04:16.900 Wow, Justin Trudeau looks terrible, incredibly embarrassing for Canada,
00:04:21.000 and especially, again, for the fact that it was just a month ago
00:04:25.040 that this regime shot down a commercial airliner, murdering 176 people.
00:04:30.760 That's the person that Justin Trudeau is bowing at.
00:04:33.620 What a bad look.
00:04:34.560 What a bad look.
00:04:35.540 So first there was that.
00:04:36.860 Then we had this exclusive, well, this is based on a tweet from,
00:04:41.420 so Justin Trudeau was off in Africa.
00:04:43.100 He's trying to convince all of these African dictators to vote for Canada,
00:04:46.900 again, to have a seat on the United Nations.
00:04:48.840 Like, at a time like this in Canada where our country is just in total chaos,
00:04:52.860 our economy is not working, you know, everything is grinding to a halt,
00:04:56.440 and Justin Trudeau is off gallivanting around the world
00:04:58.420 trying to convince African dictatorships to vote for us
00:05:01.200 at the United Nations Security Council.
00:05:02.580 Like, why?
00:05:03.500 I just don't understand why.
00:05:05.040 What is Justin Trudeau going to accomplish on the United Nations Security Council?
00:05:08.660 He can't even manage to keep Canada together as a country.
00:05:12.020 Under Justin Trudeau, we have a resurgence of the bloc in Quebec,
00:05:16.540 the emergence of a huge Western separatist party in Alberta.
00:05:21.400 And, you know, we have railway service that's not even functioning.
00:05:24.980 Railway service in Canada has been shut down,
00:05:27.320 and Justin Trudeau is off trying to convince the rest of the world
00:05:29.660 that we somehow are this model of, you know, diplomacy and conflict resolution.
00:05:35.600 Like, we can't even get stuff done in our own country.
00:05:37.420 So one of the stops for Justin Trudeau was meeting with the president of Senegal.
00:05:41.820 I tweeted this out because it was just so pathetic.
00:05:44.640 Justin Trudeau met with him.
00:05:46.260 The president of Senegal tweeted out that he was so excited
00:05:48.780 that Canada was supporting the economy in Senegal,
00:05:51.260 including the oil and gas industry, which is incredibly ironic.
00:05:54.280 Like, Canada supports the oil and gas industry in Senegal
00:05:57.620 and not in our own country?
00:06:00.260 In what world does that make any sense,
00:06:02.500 that we're supporting Senegal's oil and gas?
00:06:04.620 Well, you know, there's another issue here,
00:06:06.940 which is that Senegal has incredibly harsh penalties against being gay.
00:06:12.580 And the president of Senegal was asked about it,
00:06:15.420 and he sort of just shrugged it off.
00:06:16.760 He said, you know, it's not about homophobia.
00:06:19.480 It's basically just that our cultural values say that you shouldn't be gay.
00:06:24.760 And so because of that, they have a horrible record
00:06:27.300 when it comes to persecution of gays.
00:06:29.160 According to Human Rights Watch, 39 people were arrested
00:06:32.940 just for the sin of being gay.
00:06:35.720 And Justin Trudeau, who's supposed to be this huge ally
00:06:37.800 and this huge supporter of that cause,
00:06:40.240 you know, he doesn't even bring it up.
00:06:41.380 He doesn't even mention it.
00:06:42.560 And he goes ahead and has that bilateral,
00:06:45.580 because he doesn't care about principles.
00:06:46.960 He doesn't care about, you know, his beliefs.
00:06:49.500 He doesn't care about anything.
00:06:50.740 He just wants the sort of glory of being on the United Nations Security Council.
00:06:54.280 Again, what a disgrace.
00:06:55.900 What a disgrace.
00:06:56.380 And, you know, I think things kind of things just keep going poorly
00:07:00.520 for Trudeau on the world stage.
00:07:01.800 He can't help but sort of embarrass himself.
00:07:04.060 And I think this was probably one of the worst ones.
00:07:07.200 This is Stephen Chase, who is a reporter with the Globe and Mail.
00:07:12.280 And he says that Trudeau's government had high praise for Xi.
00:07:17.120 So Beijing's account of the Champagne Wang meeting February 14th in Munich
00:07:21.000 says that Champagne, who's the Canadian foreign minister,
00:07:23.620 said that the Canadian side admires the outstanding leadership
00:07:28.040 of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government
00:07:30.940 in their fight against the epidemic.
00:07:33.420 And they're talking about the coronavirus.
00:07:36.060 So Canada admires the outstanding leadership of China
00:07:39.980 when it comes to the coronavirus.
00:07:42.880 Okay, I'm not going to play it on the show.
00:07:44.520 I actually found it very disturbing.
00:07:46.180 But there's video.
00:07:46.840 Just take a minute and Google.
00:07:48.940 Google China's response to coronavirus.
00:07:51.240 And what you'll see are dozens of videos,
00:07:54.800 just some of the most disturbing videos that you can find on the Internet
00:07:57.780 of basically like, you know, police service going and taking people,
00:08:04.040 ripping them from their homes, ripping mothers from their children,
00:08:07.140 taking people who are suspected of possibly having the coronavirus,
00:08:10.700 pulling them out and just taking them away.
00:08:12.920 Because that's what fascist countries do.
00:08:14.940 If you are suspected of being sick, who knows if these people are actually sick
00:08:18.320 or if they're just accused of being sick or if they have some other type of,
00:08:21.880 you know, flu or something like that.
00:08:23.140 But the police in China are rounding people up,
00:08:26.060 taking them and just hauling them away from their family.
00:08:29.180 And that's the kind of thing that Canada supposedly admires.
00:08:32.160 We admire that.
00:08:33.500 I mean, it's just so horrible.
00:08:36.400 Again, I'm not even going to play it on the show.
00:08:37.660 But I've seen some of the clips.
00:08:38.940 And it is very, very disturbing.
00:08:40.480 There's one clip in particular of two police taking two mothers.
00:08:44.000 And you can hear children crying in the background.
00:08:46.320 Like, they've literally gone into their home, ripped these women out.
00:08:49.260 You can see one of the husbands sort of trying to stop it,
00:08:51.820 like, saying, like, no, no, don't take these mothers away from their children
00:08:54.640 or whatever's going on.
00:08:55.900 And these sort of police with their whole, like, you know,
00:08:59.520 gas mask situation going on, just ripping these families away.
00:09:02.860 And that's supposedly what Canada admires.
00:09:05.380 I mean, it's one thing to say, okay, you know,
00:09:08.000 it's a tough situation for China.
00:09:09.340 We appreciate their honesty.
00:09:11.140 We appreciate their openness, which I don't even think is true.
00:09:13.380 I think that China has been lying about the coronavirus from day one.
00:09:16.380 And as things get worse and worse, you know, this is on the Chinese government.
00:09:20.440 And for Canada to say that, once again,
00:09:22.280 remember Justin Trudeau said that he had once said that he admires
00:09:25.300 China's basic dictatorship because they could turn their economy around on a dime.
00:09:29.940 Again, you know, this is what Justin Trudeau says in, you know,
00:09:34.220 when he lets his guard down, when he's telling the truth accidentally,
00:09:38.620 that Canada admires China.
00:09:41.680 Outstanding leadership.
00:09:42.480 Give me a break.
00:09:43.380 Give me a break.
00:09:43.980 China's a fascist dictatorship.
00:09:45.480 It's disgusting what they do.
00:09:46.660 They have absolutely no respect for individual liberty or freedom,
00:09:50.720 personal freedoms.
00:09:51.480 They don't care about individuals.
00:09:53.020 And yet here's Canada sucking up to China on the world stage.
00:09:56.700 So, okay, let's move on.
00:09:58.380 Let's talk about these protests.
00:09:59.900 Let's talk about these blockades that are really just grinding Canada to a halt.
00:10:05.160 I mean, sometimes Canada really feels like a failed state.
00:10:07.340 It feels like a country that just cannot get anything done.
00:10:09.600 We can't build critical infrastructure.
00:10:11.020 We can't even have a functioning railway system because we allow a group of far left fringe environmentalists to use the heckler's veto and take the entire country hostage.
00:10:22.100 It happens time and time again.
00:10:24.660 And it's really disappointing.
00:10:26.140 It's really disappointing that we don't have the leadership required to just say, you know what, enough is enough.
00:10:31.920 It's time to, if you're blocking a railway, if you're blocking, you know, trains from being able to deliver products to Canadian, being able to allow people to get their products to market.
00:10:42.180 Someone on Periscope is saying Canada is the number one place to live.
00:10:45.440 Look, I agree.
00:10:46.160 I think Canada is a wonderful, wonderful country.
00:10:48.620 It is a model in so many ways.
00:10:50.500 But when it comes to the way that we treat protesters, the way we treat a fringe far left group of protesters, we give them a national stage.
00:10:58.660 We allow them to throw basically a collective temper tantrum and to grind our economy to a halt.
00:11:05.140 Okay, enough is enough.
00:11:06.080 You've made your point.
00:11:06.960 You don't like oil and gas.
00:11:08.080 Well, guess what?
00:11:08.620 Too bad.
00:11:09.240 This is the democratic process, okay?
00:11:10.760 This pipeline has been approved by every level of government.
00:11:13.760 It has been approved by Justin Trudeau's government, which is, as we know, incredibly anti-pipeline, anti-energy, anti-roiling gas.
00:11:19.500 They've already approved it.
00:11:20.480 The British Columbia government, the far left NDP government, has approved this pipeline.
00:11:27.260 And the local governments, the elected band leaders, 20 First Nations elected band leaders have approved this pipeline, including, and this is something that doesn't often get published,
00:11:38.760 doesn't often get the press that it should, even the Wattastowin First Nations, the people that started the initial protests, the hereditary chiefs of that nation,
00:11:49.660 The elected leaders of that nation have approved this pipeline.
00:11:53.880 So everyone's approved of it.
00:11:55.420 And yet, a group of people don't like energy.
00:11:57.500 They don't like oil and gas.
00:11:58.660 We know that.
00:11:59.680 Their goal is not to create a greener economy.
00:12:03.520 No, their goal is to shut down the economy.
00:12:05.180 And they have been allowed to get away with this all.
00:12:09.140 And I think that probably the worst part is how the media misrepresent them and talk about it like it's a First Nations protest.
00:12:14.980 Okay, this isn't First Nations people protesting.
00:12:16.860 We know this.
00:12:17.460 We know this.
00:12:17.940 I've gone through this several times in the podcast, that there are countless interviews and videos of people in the First Nations community,
00:12:25.280 in this specific community, that are supportive of the pipeline.
00:12:30.060 They want the jobs.
00:12:31.080 They want the opportunity.
00:12:31.920 They want, you know, responsibly developed – by the way, this isn't even – this isn't an oil.
00:12:37.040 This is liquefied natural gas.
00:12:38.400 This is one of the greenest forms of energy that you can have.
00:12:41.780 And it will bring tremendous opportunity, especially for, you know, young men.
00:12:46.760 And that's something that gets overlooked.
00:12:48.720 So if you're watching the media and they represent this as a First Nations protest,
00:12:54.620 then you know that you're not getting the full story.
00:12:57.340 The full story is that this – and even the Trudeau government.
00:13:00.860 So Justin Trudeau canceled his trip to Barbados.
00:13:04.200 He, I think, finally realized how big of a deal these blockades are.
00:13:06.980 He was sort of ignoring them at first and just hoping that, like, his lower ministers could deal with it.
00:13:11.220 Well, the problem's not going away.
00:13:12.620 And, yes, we need the prime minister.
00:13:14.000 This is why we have a prime minister.
00:13:15.940 Okay, so he came back and he had a meeting today.
00:13:18.160 And what do we get from the meeting?
00:13:19.180 Kind of just more of the same.
00:13:20.260 Like, the message from Justin Trudeau is Ottawa wants a quick, peaceful resolution to the pipeline protests.
00:13:26.320 Okay, genius.
00:13:27.740 What are you going to do about it?
00:13:28.820 What are you actually going to do?
00:13:29.680 Justin Trudeau, this is a CP report that came out just today.
00:13:32.900 They just had this meeting earlier today.
00:13:34.420 So Canadian Press reporting.
00:13:36.540 Justin Trudeau says his government is committed to finding a quick and peaceful resolution to the anti-pipeline blockades that have shut down swaths of the country's train system and temporarily blocked bridges and highways.
00:13:46.620 Comments came Monday as Trudeau emerged from a closed-door meeting with Cabinet in Ottawa, where the liberal government has been under growing pressure to end the blockades.
00:13:53.680 This prime minister who said he has spoken to a number of premiers and indigenous leaders did not offer any specifics on how the government would plan to deal with this crisis.
00:14:01.500 Surprise, surprise.
00:14:03.180 In quote, I understand how worrisome this is for many Canadians and difficult for many people and families across the country, Trudeau said in the steps of the building housing the prime minister's office.
00:14:13.140 We're going to continue to focus on resolving this issue quickly and peacefully, and that's what's going on.
00:14:17.560 Okay, so nothing, basically nothing, just more of the same, more, you know, empty rhetoric.
00:14:22.200 But, you know, the real issue is that this is a group of fringe far-left environmentalists who have co-opted this cause.
00:14:30.520 They sort of claim to be representing indigenous communities and First Nations, even though we know that so many people from not only the Wasuotan Nation, but also broader First Nations across the country support oil and gas, support the pipeline.
00:14:45.940 So, as reported, this is coming exclusively from TNC.news.
00:14:49.840 So, first we learned that two far-left extremist websites are offering detailed instructions and maps on how to sabotage rail lines and other critical Canadian infrastructure.
00:15:00.400 So, the websites in question are North Shore and Warrior Up, and they both instruct readers to disrupt Canada's rail, pipeline, road, and communication networks.
00:15:09.600 In one North Shore blog post, the author calls for people to stand in solidarity with the Wasuotan protesters by attacking railroads.
00:15:17.200 North Shore describes itself as a place for far-left extremists from southern Ontario to gather and organize.
00:15:22.980 Rail traffic creates excellent opportunity for state and economic disruption.
00:15:26.500 Infrastructure is so sprawling, it's relatively indefensible.
00:15:30.140 That's what the website says.
00:15:31.580 Historically, even short disruptions by actions and rail strikes have had large economic impacts.
00:15:37.700 After just two days of recent rail strikes, the federal government started drafting emergency legislation.
00:15:41.860 I have a concern for the economy.
00:15:42.940 In 2012, a nine-day rail disruption dropped the local GDP by 7%.
00:15:47.380 Okay, so this website is actually celebrating a fall in the GDP.
00:15:51.580 I mean, these people are radical communists.
00:15:53.460 These people are radical far-left communists.
00:15:55.640 They're environmentalists.
00:15:56.640 They're so fringe.
00:15:57.920 They're celebrating the fact that people are losing jobs.
00:16:01.600 They're celebrating the fact that people's livelihoods are being threatened.
00:16:04.360 Not just people who work in oil and gas who might work on these specific projects, but the sort of, you know, the flow of the economy, the one-offs.
00:16:13.660 You know, imagine if you're a farmer right now and you can't get your grain to market or, you know, if you have to commute to work, if you can't be with your family this weekend because you were unable to get a train.
00:16:23.180 I mean, the entire, just to think about all the ramifications, the paramedics in British Columbia put out a statement saying that people's lives are at risk because, you know, road blockades threaten ambulances and fire trucks and the ability of just, you know, people to respond in emergency situations.
00:16:39.160 And so you think about all of the ramifications of these blockades, and then you find these fringe-left websites that are instructing people to do it more and celebrating the fall of our economy and GDP.
00:16:52.340 And then you have the prime minister, again, treating this like it's environmental protests.
00:16:56.540 So he's dispatched his environmental, sorry, his indigenous affairs minister, Mark Miller, to sort of be the spokesperson.
00:17:03.680 Mark Miller said this.
00:17:04.820 He said, quote, we have the experience of OCA 30 years ago where people went in with the police and someone died.
00:17:10.640 My question to Canadians, my question to myself and fellow politicians, regardless of party, is whether we do the same thing the same way and repeat errors of past or do we take the time to do it right?
00:17:22.220 So, again, he's comparing this to the OCA crisis 30 years ago.
00:17:25.140 But how is this the same?
00:17:26.420 I mean, this is a group of fringe far-left environmentalists.
00:17:29.920 And as my colleagues at Shermorth have pointed out, we know that they're fringe far-left environmentalists.
00:17:34.880 They're not all First Nations people because we can see videos.
00:17:37.800 We can see images of the people.
00:17:39.700 And we can tell that they're not indigenous people.
00:17:43.060 Most of the people in the protest, a lot of the people in the protest are not indigenous.
00:17:46.200 We've also seen American license plates.
00:17:48.440 So you have fringe far-left Americans coming to be part of the, you know, be part of the crisis, be part of the blockades, and be part of the action.
00:17:58.700 Again, this isn't in solidarity with indigenous people.
00:18:01.320 This is someone co-opting the entire movement, pretending that they're indigenous because they get more credibility and more sympathy from politicians and the media.
00:18:09.940 But really, this is just fringe far-left environmentalists.
00:18:14.100 And our government has no idea how to handle that.
00:18:16.680 You know, they're making it seem like it's a reconciliation issue.
00:18:19.980 No.
00:18:20.560 Go talk to the First Nations people.
00:18:23.060 Go talk to the elected chiefs.
00:18:25.880 Go talk to young men in the region that are desperate for jobs.
00:18:30.060 And you will find out that they're not in support of this fringe far-left environmentalists.
00:18:35.320 They're really not.
00:18:36.480 And, you know, the sooner our prime minister clues in on that, the sooner that he sends the police in to do their job, get these protesters out of there.
00:18:44.960 I mean, enough is enough.
00:18:46.600 It's time to take a law-and-order approach.
00:18:48.860 It's time to send in the military, send in the police, get these people off the railways, get our economy moving again.
00:18:55.540 All right.
00:18:56.280 That's my two cents.
00:18:57.180 Okay, one more thing I want to talk about before we get going.
00:18:59.600 This is kind of exciting.
00:19:00.880 So conservative, hopeful Aaron O'Toole, as you know, he's been running a pretty conservative campaign.
00:19:06.360 He has been, you know, saying a lot of great stuff, saying a lot of really conservative, making a lot of conservative points.
00:19:14.260 I hope he remains this conservative and this committed to doing the right thing.
00:19:19.420 But he announced over the weekend that a conservative government led by Aaron O'Toole would slash funding for CBC's English language television programming and digital properties and eventually privatize them.
00:19:31.780 So O'Toole, who's running for leadership of the Conservative Party, announced the policy on Twitter on Friday.
00:19:36.800 So this is Aaron O'Toole's Twitter.
00:19:38.660 He says, actually, let's play a clip.
00:19:40.400 He's got a clip right here.
00:19:41.360 Let's play it.
00:19:41.900 An O'Toole government will modernize and reform the CBC.
00:19:45.580 We will end funding for CBC Digital and we will cut CBC English TV budget by 50%.
00:19:52.420 Our plan will phase out TV advertising with a goal to fully privatize CBC English TV by the end of our first mandate.
00:20:00.760 We will preserve CBC radio.
00:20:03.120 It is commercial free and delivers public interest programming from coast to coast.
00:20:07.500 Public interest, but from a left wing perspective.
00:20:09.980 He doesn't mention that, but I mean, fine.
00:20:12.200 You know, it is a, at least the radio is sort of serving local markets and it's doing what you kind of imagine a public broadcaster would do.
00:20:21.080 Whereas, you know, the actual CBC news, I mean, it's so redundant.
00:20:24.940 There's so many Canadian delivered news sources like the program you're watching right now.
00:20:29.400 You know, I don't need government subsidy to do this.
00:20:32.360 Canadians can get their news from a number of ways.
00:20:34.340 We really don't need a far left, you know, distorted vision of the country while also paying for it.
00:20:41.140 Let's continue this Aaron O'Toole app.
00:20:43.200 We will also preserve Radio Canada, which plays an important role connecting Quebecers and francophones across Canada in their own language.
00:20:51.960 The world of broadcast media has changed dramatically, but our public broadcaster is stuck in the past.
00:20:57.660 When the CBC was created in the 1930s, it was an early way to connect the vast dominion of Canada.
00:21:04.180 Radio and later TV broadcasts were new and often the only way to connect the nation and tell our story.
00:21:10.760 Almost a century later, Canadians are connected to the world with a swipe of their finger.
00:21:16.000 They carry their own broadcast studio in their pocket and have unlimited media streaming options 24-7.
00:21:22.220 The Trudeau government increased the CBC budget by over $600 million to expand its digital and TV presence.
00:21:29.600 This expanded CBC digital presence hurt local newspapers and media outlets fighting for declining advertising revenue.
00:21:36.840 The result? Trudeau created a $600 million media bailout fund to repair the damage caused by his CBC expansion.
00:21:45.560 Can you imagine? Can you imagine?
00:21:48.200 Trudeau just wants his hand in every pot, every media pot.
00:21:51.240 And it's really of a distorting impact.
00:21:53.140 You can't trust a reporter that gets paid by the government.
00:21:55.700 You just can't.
00:21:56.400 You know that they're not going to deliver an honest assessment of the situation because they rely on the government.
00:22:02.020 You're never going to have sort of a libertarian worldview represented because why would they show the libertarian side,
00:22:08.140 which would say the government has absolutely no business being involved in the media?
00:22:12.260 I mean, you can even argue it's a conservative position as well.
00:22:15.220 So the media playing field is incredibly biased in Canada.
00:22:19.000 If it wasn't bad enough, Trudeau upped the ante, gave CBC an extra $600 million, then had to give the newspapers an extra $600 million to even it out.
00:22:25.980 So good for Aaron O'Toole.
00:22:27.240 This is really good stuff.
00:22:28.820 The fact that he is, you know, running this campaign from a conservative perspective, he is putting the facts out there.
00:22:34.880 I mean, the great thing, too, about social media is that you can use this to hold him to account.
00:22:39.520 So if he does become leader of the party and then he tries to sort of, like, back away and get scared of his shadow in the way that Andrew Scheer did,
00:22:46.800 at least you have, you know, these kind of videos that you can hold up and say, wait a minute, Aaron O'Toole, you pledged to defund the CBC, let's hold you to it.
00:22:54.600 And honestly, I was a little skeptical of Aaron O'Toole at first.
00:22:57.360 I think he's a really nice guy.
00:22:58.420 I think that he has a very impressive record with regards to his military service to Canada.
00:23:03.480 I wasn't really sure how conservative he was because he's never really struck me as a sort of super conservative, brave person that's willing to not only hold conservative convictions,
00:23:13.580 which is sort of easy because they're sort of the natural convictions that you would have, you know, trying to preserve this great country that we have,
00:23:20.940 but have the strength and the character to stand up to a very corrupt establishment, the media, the bureaucracy, you know, the Liberal Party,
00:23:31.060 to stand up to them and say, no, no, you people are wrong.
00:23:33.420 You don't represent most of Canadians.
00:23:34.960 You don't understand how most Canadians feel.
00:23:36.620 This is what we're going to do.
00:23:39.000 And having that resolve, that's the tough part.
00:23:41.360 And so if Aaron O'Toole is successful in winning this leadership race by putting forth these really great conservative positions and platforms,
00:23:50.540 you know, I think he would have a lot of support across the country.
00:23:54.220 And if he's willing to, again, continue to push back against the corrupt establishment, I think that would go a long way.
00:24:00.480 All right, guys, I'm going to leave it at that.
00:24:01.820 Thank you so much for lending me some of this time on this family day long weekend.
00:24:07.360 Hope you are enjoying the time with your family.
00:24:09.380 Hope you are doing well, despite the fact that, again, our country doesn't really seem to be functioning as a country.
00:24:17.160 We don't have a leader.
00:24:18.260 We don't have a prime minister who knows what to do when a crisis is in front of him.
00:24:22.360 He would much, much rather be off gallivanting.
00:24:25.200 He was supposed to be in Barbados today.
00:24:27.500 He'd much rather be off bowing to despots of Iran, turning a blind eye to actual anti-gay persecution.
00:24:35.640 You know, for all the concern that he has when a conservative won't even march in a pride parade,
00:24:40.900 where is that concern when you're standing up next to a leader that actively persecutes gay people
00:24:46.240 and actually bans it and has laws on the books banning them?
00:24:48.980 Where's his courage then?
00:24:50.280 Oh, right, he doesn't have any.
00:24:51.800 He's off talking about how much he admires China for being a despicable fascist dictatorship.
00:24:57.280 Well, that's Canada in 2020.
00:24:59.600 So we have a long way to go, a long way to go.
00:25:02.520 All right, I will leave it at that.
00:25:03.660 Thanks again, guys.
00:25:04.360 Have an awesome day.