The Candice Malcolm Show - March 09, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： Trudeau isn't too worried about the coronavirus


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Candice talks about the coronavirus outbreak in China and how it's spreading around the world. She also talks about Canada's open borders, and how Justin Trudeau is using it to boost his 2020 re-election campaign.

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00:00:00.000 The coronavirus tests Europe's open borders, but Justin Trudeau isn't too worried about it.
00:00:04.660 Canadian asylum seekers are given 20-year golden plate health care cards,
00:00:09.200 and Erin O'Toole gets a huge endorsement in the conservative leadership race.
00:00:12.280 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:19.620 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the program. We were offline last week,
00:00:23.840 so sorry for not having a program, but we are back now, back in our studio.
00:00:27.760 In Toronto, you know, I went to a great event on Friday night.
00:00:31.400 It was the Make-A-Wish Foundation dinner in the Bay Area in San Francisco.
00:00:35.120 I know they have chapters all over Canada as well. It's just a really, really good cause.
00:00:40.100 Basically, what they do is children that have terminal illnesses, children that are diagnosed with cancer,
00:00:45.200 which is really just the saddest thing imaginable, really, really trying situations.
00:00:50.120 They go to those children in the hospital, and they offer them a wish,
00:00:53.720 any wish to kind of give them hope, to give the family something to look forward to,
00:00:58.320 and they fulfill those wishes. Anything from being able to meet their favorite athlete or celebrity
00:01:03.780 or singer to going on a great family trip.
00:01:07.180 Make-A-Wish Foundation has fulfilled over 500,000 wishes in its 40-year history.
00:01:11.900 It's a really, really good cause, so I really encourage all of True North Nation to look into it,
00:01:17.020 to get involved, and to do what you can to support it.
00:01:19.180 I went to this event, and let me just say, it's really heartwarming, really moving
00:01:23.740 to see the kind of stories that come out of this organization.
00:01:26.740 It's a really good cause, so I encourage people to look into that.
00:01:30.020 All right, there is a lot of news today, so let's get to it.
00:01:32.500 I want to start by talking about the coronavirus.
00:01:35.160 So this thing is really taking on a life of its own.
00:01:38.840 I know people who watch the podcast, when the news first came out, I was a little bit skeptical of it.
00:01:43.960 First of all, it was based in China. That was the origin of this disease. 1.00
00:01:47.520 I don't trust anything that the Chinese government did.
00:01:50.180 I think that they made major missteps with hiding information, with lying to the world
00:01:54.320 about how they were dealing with this disease.
00:01:56.920 And it's kind of interesting now, because now it's spread all over the world.
00:02:00.240 It's really, really threatening a lot of people.
00:02:02.800 It's scary, especially, you know, there's a target group that is at risk,
00:02:07.200 and that is people who are over 65 and people with underlying health issues.
00:02:11.900 Everyone knows someone who fits that category.
00:02:14.580 I'm worried about myself, you know, I'm worried about my parents traveling and being out in the community.
00:02:18.920 My parents live in the North Shore in Vancouver, and there's been plenty of cases there.
00:02:22.640 So, you know, they can't really go about their daily lives.
00:02:24.900 They can't do the things that they were usually doing, just out of an abundance of precaution.
00:02:30.100 And so, you know, it really has spread all over the world.
00:02:33.300 And it's interesting, because now so many agencies are praising China and saying, you know,
00:02:37.760 the world needs to do more of what China, China's an authoritarian bad actor on the world stage. 0.98
00:02:43.340 And they're really the reason why this thing has spread so out of control,
00:02:46.820 because of all that misinformation right at the beginning.
00:02:49.700 But let's go through some of these figures.
00:02:53.020 So there have now been 111,753 cases globally of the coronavirus.
00:02:59.540 There have been 3,888 deaths.
00:03:03.940 And out of all the people who have contracted this disease, 62,722 have recovered.
00:03:11.200 So I guess the good news is that some people have recovered and people are able to fight this,
00:03:15.780 their immune systems are able to fight off coronavirus.
00:03:18.120 So it's not, you know, totally deadly.
00:03:20.340 But still, if you're in that risk group, it's pretty scary.
00:03:23.960 And again, China just took absolute authoritarian measures.
00:03:27.020 It's pretty easy for a communist dictatorship to just completely shut down mobility,
00:03:32.720 to shut down any kind of freedom of travel within the Wuhan territory, which, you know,
00:03:36.760 Wuhan's a big city.
00:03:37.940 It's a city of 11 million people.
00:03:39.580 That's the size of New York City.
00:03:41.400 And they just completely shut down any kind of movement, any kind of travel.
00:03:45.740 And, you know, if you're a communist Chinese government, you can do that.
00:03:48.740 The problem is, you know, in free societies and democracies, we can't really do that.
00:03:54.080 And especially so many of the democracies that are now struggling with coronavirus are countries
00:03:59.260 that have always kind of prided themselves on their open border outlook.
00:04:02.580 And that's particularly in Europe.
00:04:04.500 You know, the European Union, the whole concept is free movement of people, free movement of goods.
00:04:09.020 But of course, when you come to a global pandemic like this, it really, really tests that philosophy
00:04:15.100 and that ideology to have free movement.
00:04:17.380 And they're struggling with this right now in Italy because, you know, Italy has a huge outbreak.
00:04:22.960 In northern Italy, this is sort of the most productive part of the Italian, of the countries,
00:04:28.280 sort of the engine of the Italian economy.
00:04:31.260 And some 17 million people are under quarantine.
00:04:35.240 And, you know, they're supposed to be taking after China.
00:04:37.800 But, of course, Italy is no China.
00:04:40.520 So this is from a Quartz article.
00:04:43.880 It says up to 16 million people have been placed under quarantine in northern Italy
00:04:47.240 in a bid by the government to stop the march of coronavirus across Europe's hardest-hitting region.
00:04:53.720 Italy has seen the largest number of coronavirus cases in Europe
00:04:56.560 and reported a steep rise in infections on Saturday.
00:04:59.560 According to Johns Hopkins, the number of confirmed cases jumped by more than 1,200 to 5,883 on Saturday,
00:05:07.260 with 233 deaths.
00:05:10.480 The World Health Organization has applauded China's strict containment measures.
00:05:14.160 In a country where state control is paramount and monitoring citizens is already integral, part of life,
00:05:19.660 scrupulous quarantine and testing measures have slowed the spread of the virus.
00:05:24.100 As in China, this article goes on.
00:05:26.080 It says, but Italy is no China.
00:05:28.160 Italians are better known for flouting rules than following them. 1.00
00:05:31.460 Some citizens say it will never work in Italy,
00:05:34.060 says a 26-year-old local resident of the ban to the New York Times last night.
00:05:38.960 People will run away.
00:05:40.120 They'll go around it.
00:05:40.800 And that's basically what has happened.
00:05:42.140 They issued a strict warning.
00:05:44.300 But people continue to go about their daily life.
00:05:46.440 They continue to get on trains, to travel, to drive, to go about their daily lives.
00:05:50.480 Because it's really hard to just tell people in a free society,
00:05:54.220 hey, you can't go out.
00:05:55.100 You can't go grocery shopping.
00:05:56.120 You can't run your business.
00:05:57.100 You can't, you know, travel to get to work or go see your family.
00:06:00.060 I mean, democracies just don't really work that way.
00:06:02.660 And again, Europe, the whole concept is based on this kind of free flow, free movement.
00:06:07.000 So that's pretty concerning.
00:06:08.420 You know, it's in Italy, but it's not going to stay in Italy.
00:06:11.220 And as soon as it, you know, goes beyond and stretches throughout Europe,
00:06:14.760 then it's really, really going to spread around the world.
00:06:17.440 I mean, it kind of already has.
00:06:18.560 There's plenty of cases already in Canada and the United States.
00:06:22.420 So the total cases in Canada right now are 62.
00:06:24.660 That includes 31 cases in Ontario, 27 in British Columbia, three in Quebec, and one in Alberta.
00:06:31.900 And the Canadian government, they're kind of just shrugging their shoulders about it.
00:06:34.860 I'm just really floored by the response by the Canadian government.
00:06:38.660 I know Justin Trudeau just doesn't really care about Canada.
00:06:41.560 He just seems so checked out.
00:06:43.360 Whenever there's an issue, whenever there's a major crisis,
00:06:45.580 something that I would consider a huge crisis,
00:06:47.600 whether it's illegal border crossings, the total surge,
00:06:50.680 we've never seen this many people crossing into Canada illegally.
00:06:53.780 2019 was the biggest year.
00:06:55.560 The media doesn't really talk about it.
00:06:56.800 Trudeau doesn't really care.
00:06:58.140 You had the blockades totally grinding the Canadian economy to the halt.
00:07:02.120 Trudeau's response was, hey, guys, we need dialogue.
00:07:05.640 No, you don't need dialogue.
00:07:07.120 Look, maybe you have a dialogue when the decision for the pipeline is still being made.
00:07:12.160 But once the decision is made, the dialogue is over.
00:07:14.880 The decision's been made.
00:07:16.160 And then people go and break the law by blocking railways.
00:07:18.680 That's not a time for dialogue.
00:07:19.980 That's a time to arrest people.
00:07:21.180 It's a time for the police to move in, for the military to move in.
00:07:24.560 Justin Trudeau just doesn't really care.
00:07:26.360 And this is kind of more of the same when it comes to Trudeau kind of having a blasé approach.
00:07:32.480 So this is what Justin Trudeau says.
00:07:34.260 We know that keeping Canadians safe needs to be done in the right way.
00:07:38.640 And we're going to keep doing things that actively keep Canadians safe.
00:07:43.040 There is a lot of misinformation out there.
00:07:45.400 There's a lot of knee-jerk reaction that isn't keeping people safe.
00:07:48.780 That is having a real challenging impact on communities, on community safety, said Justin Trudeau.
00:07:54.700 So again, Justin Trudeau is more concerned about misinformation and stopping a knee-jerk reaction than actually keeping Canadians safe.
00:08:03.220 He appointed Chrystia Freeland to sort of be the head person to take the lead on this issue.
00:08:08.140 Because, again, Justin Trudeau doesn't really care about Canada, so he just kind of offloads all of the real, like, prime minister stuff, all the responsibility.
00:08:15.480 On to Chrystia Freeland, who at this point essentially is the prime minister of Canada.
00:08:19.880 You know, it's kind of interesting because in the United States, just to compare the two situations,
00:08:24.360 Donald Trump appointed his VP, Mike Pence, to be the head person, the sort of czar on the coronavirus to lead the task force.
00:08:31.360 And the media made a huge deal about it.
00:08:33.600 They were kind of saying, hey, look, Trump's putting this on Pence.
00:08:36.840 He wants Pence to take the fall.
00:08:38.460 This is clearly going to go sideways.
00:08:39.880 This pandemic is going to hit the United States.
00:08:41.940 Trump's going to blame it all on Pence.
00:08:43.340 And they kind of made a big deal about how this was a way for Trump to kind of get rid of Pence so he could put someone else on the ticket in 2020.
00:08:50.320 That's total nonsense.
00:08:51.320 Trump even addressed it to say that's total nonsense.
00:08:53.920 But for all the hay that was made in the United States, Justin Trudeau did the exact same thing.
00:08:58.020 He literally just appointed to his number two, the deputy prime minister.
00:09:01.880 And the narrative by the media was totally different.
00:09:04.120 It was like, wow, Justin Trudeau just trusts Chrystia Freeland so much.
00:09:08.500 He puts so much trust in her.
00:09:10.740 She's so respected.
00:09:12.080 Nothing about how, you know, she's going to be the fall person on this.
00:09:15.280 So Chrystia Freeland takes the lead. 0.69
00:09:17.980 And the government created a COVID-19 committee.
00:09:20.680 COVID-19 is the technical name for the coronavirus.
00:09:23.520 So the fact that the government created a committee to just to deal with this as a task force to react and to deal with it signals that they care about it.
00:09:32.600 Right. The kind of entire exercise is a PR response.
00:09:36.060 Like, hey, look, the government's doing something.
00:09:38.120 They're creating a task force.
00:09:40.540 Rest assured, Canadians, you know, the government is doing something.
00:09:43.320 But then as the head of this COVID-19 committee, Chrystia Freeland comes out and she tells reporters that the government wants to take a Goldilocks approach.
00:09:52.900 She says, not too hot, not too cold, but just right.
00:09:57.060 OK, the entire point of creating a committee is to signal to Canadians that you're doing something, that you are taking the right approach, that you're taking it seriously,
00:10:05.360 and that you're going to do what you can to help prevent or at least contain the spread of this virus.
00:10:10.440 So coming out and saying, you know what, we don't want to overreact.
00:10:13.460 We don't want to underreact.
00:10:14.860 We're just going to find the just right route.
00:10:17.200 This is a total wrong message to send to Canadians.
00:10:19.920 Even if that's sort of the approach that you're going to take kind of behind closed doors,
00:10:23.440 the thing you want to come out and tell Canadians is, look, we are doing everything we can.
00:10:27.940 We know this is serious.
00:10:28.860 We know that a lot of people are going to lose their lives if this is not dealt with properly.
00:10:35.240 Look at China. 0.88
00:10:36.500 Even though China took very authoritarian measures, apparently China did all the right things, 0.96
00:10:40.340 but yet still globally we have nearly 4,000 deaths.
00:10:43.200 So, you know, instead of saying we want to prevent death, we're going to do everything we can to prevent loss of life in Canada.
00:10:48.920 This is the top priority of our government.
00:10:51.380 That's what Canadians want to hear, that the government is really, really taking it seriously.
00:10:54.560 Canadians don't want to hear from the head of a task force created to basically ease fears around this issue
00:11:00.680 that, you know, we don't want to overreact.
00:11:03.160 You know, the main concern is that we don't want knee-jerk reactions.
00:11:06.720 We don't want misinformation out there.
00:11:08.240 No, I think that the message coming from the Canadian government should be, look, we're going to do everything we can.
00:11:12.900 We want everyone out there to be cautious, to do what they can to stop the spread of this disease.
00:11:18.840 You know, if you're traveling internationally, be careful.
00:11:21.980 When you come home, make sure that you're not interacting with too many people.
00:11:25.220 When you're out on the plane, make sure you're not interacting.
00:11:26.980 Like, you know, give strict, strict message to Canadians, strict guidelines about what you should and shouldn't do.
00:11:32.600 Instead, we have the Canadian government just saying, you know, we're not really going to do much.
00:11:37.340 And the health minister kind of goes even beyond that.
00:11:39.860 The health minister, Patti Hadju, was on 680 News in Toronto,
00:11:44.020 and she tells them that the more countries that have outbreaks, the less relevant borders become.
00:11:50.180 A virus knows no borders.
00:11:52.780 So, fine, that's true on the surface, but, you know, countries are the ones that are responsible for reacting.
00:12:00.220 And as the person, the health minister in Canada, you don't want them, again, to just sort of shrug their shoulders and say,
00:12:05.460 well, borders don't really matter, so we can't really stop and contain this.
00:12:08.760 No, borders do matter, especially in a country like Canada that has this sort of natural advantage
00:12:13.020 in that we're separated from the rest of the world by vast oceans.
00:12:16.540 All we really have to do is control our airport and our land border,
00:12:20.400 which is fairly easy compared to, say, what's happening in Italy or how the virus spread, say, from China to Iran
00:12:27.500 because the two countries do so much business together.
00:12:29.620 All Canada has to do is secure their airports, but we don't.
00:12:33.180 We don't have any restrictions on flying.
00:12:35.440 We have people coming in from China, people coming in from Iran on a daily basis with no quarantine measures.
00:12:42.100 I flew over the weekend. I flew from California to Toronto on Saturday.
00:12:47.280 I saw nothing at the Toronto airport.
00:12:49.660 Pearson Airport had no kind of, you know, health, there were no health officials there,
00:12:53.940 going through customs, going through security.
00:12:56.920 You know, there was, there was just, there was nothing.
00:12:59.180 There was no one there even, you know, checking to see if people were coughing and sneezing in that border lineup.
00:13:04.580 So Canada is literally just doing nothing, telling people to kind of handle it on their own.
00:13:08.780 And we have our own health minister sort of shrugging and saying, well, there's no borders.
00:13:13.500 There's no borders when, you know, borders are irrelevant when there's outbreaks like this.
00:13:18.500 That is a defeatist attitude.
00:13:20.300 And again, not what you expect.
00:13:22.380 So once again, the Trudeau government is just totally failing when it comes to keeping Canadians safe and taking the lead.
00:13:30.500 And meanwhile, this is what the WHO says.
00:13:33.080 The WHO, the World Health Organization, has urged governments to take decisive action to halt the spread of an epidemic
00:13:40.160 that has infected more than 100,000 people around the world, citing China's containment measures.
00:13:45.040 So again, even global authorities, global bodies are saying everyone around the world should be a little bit more authoritarian.
00:13:51.980 Meanwhile, Canada is just sort of shrugging its shoulders.
00:13:55.120 Iran, as I mentioned, is another country that's been really hard hit by this. 0.97
00:13:59.360 And I think this just goes to exemplify what a crappy country Iran is, what a really, really lousy place it is. 1.00
00:14:06.120 It is an Islamist dictatorship. 0.99
00:14:08.040 There is absolutely no freedom in this country. 0.91
00:14:10.220 It is just a horrible place to live.
00:14:11.760 So an investigative journalist that I follow on Twitter, he's really, really good.
00:14:15.560 His name is Heshmat Alavi.
00:14:17.260 He has a thread on how Iran is just totally botching the reaction to the coronavirus.
00:14:22.200 And it's just, you know, this is sort of like what the reality is of living in a tyrannical state,
00:14:28.380 living in an Islamic dictatorship like Iran, the kinds of things that they do. 0.99
00:14:32.920 They're just so clueless and so evil, so vicious in how they respond to this.
00:14:39.700 So one of the things that they were doing, basically they're kind of profiting off of the coronavirus.
00:14:44.540 They're trying to profit while also trying to downplay it and sort of getting help.
00:14:48.680 You know, the World Health Organization is, again, kind of applauding Iran. 0.97
00:14:52.380 They said that they were doing positive work and that they've made amazing advances in dealing with coronavirus.
00:14:58.840 Meanwhile, a member of Iran's National Influenza Committee said that they're estimating that 30 to 40 percent of Tehran's population will be affected by COVID-19 by March 20th.
00:15:11.400 So that's within two weeks, 30 to 40 percent of a city with a population of 12 million people.
00:15:16.920 So we're really talking about a major outbreak.
00:15:19.660 That's not now. That's just what the estimates are.
00:15:21.960 There's all kinds of footage of just how horribly the government has been handling, even just dealing with with bodies of people who have passed away,
00:15:30.760 sort of throwing them into mass graves, which is just a terrible way to deal with a, you know, a body,
00:15:38.040 but also very dangerous when you're talking about people who have perished because of this disease.
00:15:43.460 They also were showing how the government was selling supposedly antibacterial sprays that they were selling in stores.
00:15:53.500 It turns out that they were basically air fresheners.
00:15:56.000 They were just air fresheners with a label that the government had put over top of it to say antibacterial sprays.
00:16:01.160 You could kind of just peel it off and realize that it was nothing but an air freshener.
00:16:05.720 So, again, this is the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is their military basically profiting off of selling people air fresheners instead of antibacterial sprays.
00:16:18.720 So this is just a reminder of, you know, the worst possible reaction, an incompetent totalitarian government showing you, you know, what you don't want to do with corona.
00:16:29.240 And, again, the reason that so many people in Iran are being affected by this disease is because Iran, basically no Western country will do business with Iran. 0.95
00:16:37.200 Iran is a terrorist state. 0.86
00:16:38.440 So the only country that will do business with them is China. 0.80
00:16:40.960 So the early measures when a lot of countries were stopping flights from China, Iran wasn't doing that.
00:16:46.260 So even members of their government, high-ranking officials in the Iranian regime, fell victim to coronavirus.
00:16:52.520 And themselves, a deputy health minister, contracted the disease.
00:16:56.880 So it's really just running rampant over there.
00:16:59.820 Pretty scary stuff for people who live in Iran. 1.00
00:17:03.720 All right.
00:17:04.080 And speaking of open borders and the total lack of control over borders, there is an exclusive in the Toronto Sun.
00:17:11.960 I broke the story.
00:17:12.760 It is about how illegal border crossers and asylum claimants whose cases have not even been heard in front of an immigration judge are being granted 20-year health cards, 20-year all-access cards to gold-plated health care services above and beyond what Canadians receive.
00:17:29.780 So this is including anything under the Canada Health Act, any health care services, as well as full dental coverage, which Canadians either pay for through their employer and insurance or right out of pocket, and prescription drugs.
00:17:41.940 So they get free, unlimited prescription drugs.
00:17:45.460 This is all part of a program called the Interim Federal Health Care Program.
00:17:49.320 But what is new is that we didn't know that the government was issuing 20-year cards.
00:17:54.100 I mean, the whole point of being a refugee is that you come, you become a refugee, you maybe get the Interim Federal Health Program while you're waiting for, you know, your papers to come in, your paperwork, all that kind of stuff, until you can become a permanent resident and then a citizen.
00:18:11.080 And then once you're a citizen, you're no longer a refugee, you're now just a Canadian.
00:18:14.760 So why on earth is the government issuing a 20-year card?
00:18:19.540 So I talked to a whistleblower who works at a medical office in York Region.
00:18:25.260 This person is a medical assistant, and they spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, but they did provide a lot of supporting documentation to back up the claims.
00:18:33.100 And basically what I saw was certificates issued by the government that said 20 years.
00:18:38.780 So they were issued in February 2020, and they expire in February 2040.
00:18:43.580 And so this whistleblower was basically just really concerned because they'd never seen this before, and they didn't really understand why a person who has crossed into Canada illegally, someone who's not even deemed a refugee yet, they haven't even had their case heard,
00:18:58.280 why they are being given health care coverage above and beyond what Canadians receive, not just Canadians, better health care than veterans, better health care than people in indigenous communities, better health care than the elderly, than homeless people, than single mothers, better than anybody.
00:19:14.240 Why are they given this?
00:19:16.240 One of the examples of the documents that I saw was issued to an Iranian woman who was in her 70s, and she had just arrived in Canada, just made her refugee claim, and again, she was given a 20-year certificate.
00:19:27.920 So presumably, for the rest of her life, she's going to be able to receive that gold-plated health care in Canada that Canadians are not entitled to.
00:19:38.340 So on the certificate, on the document, it says, the above-named individual is eligible for coverage of health care costs under the interim federal health program.
00:19:47.680 This coverage can be cancelled without notice if the individual's immigration status changes.
00:19:52.240 So according to the form, it kind of says, well, this is what they get until the status changes, and then this gets taken away.
00:19:57.880 But in practice, we know the interim federal health program has become a political punching bag in Canadian politics over the last few years.
00:20:05.280 The previous Harper conservative government, so before Trudeau was Harper, and he made changes to the interim federal health program.
00:20:13.420 He basically tried to limit it so that people whose asylum claims were rejected or people who arrived and made asylum claims in Canada but were from, like, safe European countries or just safe countries, the United States, Western Europe, they didn't get access to this.
00:20:27.220 So this was only reserved for true refugees, while the media and the Trudeau liberals spun that to make it say that the Harper government was trying to cut health care for refugees,
00:20:39.180 even though the people they were cutting were explicitly not refugees.
00:20:42.580 A federal court ruled in favor of that sort of left-wing perspective, the liberal point of view,
00:20:49.220 and a federal judge said that it was cruel and unusual, it's a quote, cruel and unusual for the government to withhold this free health care to illegal immigrants.
00:20:58.720 So they scrapped the program, and then when the Trudeau liberals came in, they made all kinds of changes to the refugee determination program to make it a lot more generous,
00:21:06.420 a lot easier for refugees to come and make claims and get the free health care.
00:21:12.340 So, you know, even though the form says that the interim federal health program can be taken away if the person's immigration status changes,
00:21:20.680 we know that in practice the Trudeau government will not take it away because they accused the Harper government of being cruel for taking this away.
00:21:30.520 So basically what's supposed to be a temporary program, what's supposed to be a limited program, is the opposite.
00:21:36.880 20 years is not temporary, and the whole idea that it's limited is not true because it literally includes all the kind of health care,
00:21:43.420 including things that Canadians are not eligible.
00:21:46.240 So I think it's a big story.
00:21:47.700 I reached out to the government and basically asked, like, what's going on?
00:21:51.700 Is this new?
00:21:52.480 When did this come about?
00:21:53.780 And I received several responses from them saying, look, we're working on this.
00:21:57.780 We're going to get you an answer.
00:21:58.980 We're going to figure something out.
00:22:00.000 And then they just never got back to me.
00:22:01.500 They never gave me a response.
00:22:03.180 They never gave me an explanation about this.
00:22:05.280 I think Canadians deserve an explanation because why is it that a person who might not even have a real claim can be a refugee? 0.75
00:22:12.100 Just because someone says they're a refugee, they actually have to prove it.
00:22:14.980 The whole point of our system is that you have to provide evidence and prove to an immigration judge that you are, in fact, a refugee,
00:22:21.800 that you do face a well-founded fear of persecution.
00:22:24.840 And the people who are being given the health care, the gold-plated 20-year access health care cards, haven't proven that yet.
00:22:30.480 So why is it that foreign nationals, people who are not permanent residents, not citizens, are getting a lot better health care than people who pay into the system? 0.77
00:22:38.800 I think it's a big, big story.
00:22:40.860 And I wish that the mainstream media would pay attention to these kind of things because I think that Canadians really, really care about them.
00:22:47.220 All right, moving on.
00:22:48.120 Let's talk conservative leadership race.
00:22:50.140 So I think there's basically a new frontrunner in the race now.
00:22:53.820 The media were really trying to paint Peter McKay as sort of the heir apparent of this party, the person who kind of deserves to be the title.
00:23:02.300 And they really, really do paint him as a frontrunner, even though, to be completely frank, he's running a very lousy campaign.
00:23:07.680 Like any time he takes a stance on an issue, give him like 24 hours and he will reverse it.
00:23:12.560 This has happened over and over and over again with Peter McKay.
00:23:15.400 He now says that he regrets, a big comment that Peter McKay made right after the election is that he said that Andrew Scheer's social values hung around his neck like a stinking albatross during the campaign.
00:23:27.500 Well, he now says that he regrets that comment.
00:23:29.900 He said that he was not happy with his own team for tweeting out pictures, a video teasing Justin Trudeau over his yoga expenses.
00:23:39.480 So he really quickly, you know, tweeted it out and then backtracked on it and he backtracked on his position about the Israel embassy being in Jerusalem.
00:23:48.880 You know, he basically said in an interview that he didn't think that he would keep it there or he didn't think he would move it there.
00:23:54.040 And then after some pressure, he changed his mind and said he would.
00:23:56.820 So Peter McKay is just all over the place.
00:23:58.480 He doesn't know what he believes in.
00:23:59.980 His team is saying one thing and he's sort of saying something else.
00:24:02.880 And Aaron O'Toole really is emerging as a frontrunner, as a conservative.
00:24:07.780 Aaron O'Toole is kind of hitting all the right notes and he's really, really painting himself as a, you know, true blue, to quote Jason Kenney, a true blue conservative.
00:24:17.780 And that's why he has now received the endorsement of Jason Kenney.
00:24:22.080 I think at this point, you know, Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, the two of them are probably the most influential conservatives in Canada right now.
00:24:29.560 Jason Kenney even more so because Stephen Harper is not in an office right now, whereas Jason Kenney is the premier of Alberta.
00:24:35.560 So he endorsed Aaron O'Toole last week.
00:24:38.800 He publicly endorsed O'Toole's conservative leadership bid in an email to Conservative Party of Canada members.
00:24:44.480 In the letter, Kenney embraced O'Toole as a true blue leader party needs.
00:24:49.020 I saw his passion for serving veterans, his relentless work ethic and his common sense in solving difficult political challenges.
00:24:57.300 Kenney wrote O'Toole, that's the leadership we need.
00:25:00.560 Aaron O'Toole respects the breadth of our Big Tent coalition.
00:25:04.000 Every conservative would be welcome in a party led by Aaron.
00:25:07.740 Now, this is just kind of interesting.
00:25:09.380 I'll just make this point quickly.
00:25:11.160 But Jason Kenney was publicly saying that he wanted Ronna Ambrose to be leader of the party.
00:25:16.040 He was encouraging her to jump in and publicly talking about it.
00:25:19.660 Then she kind of ruled it out.
00:25:21.320 Next, all of a sudden, he was publicly calling on John Baird.
00:25:24.480 John Baird should get in the race.
00:25:25.740 John Baird should be leader.
00:25:26.620 John Baird didn't get in the race.
00:25:28.340 So we're kind of down to like, you know, two frontrunners, Aaron O'Toole and Peter McKay.
00:25:33.100 And so Jason Kenney's like, OK, you know, now that no one else is going to be running,
00:25:37.380 now that all the other people that I was trying to call on and trying to get into the race,
00:25:41.840 now that none of them are doing it, Aaron O'Toole is the true blue.
00:25:45.220 He's the leader that we need.
00:25:46.320 This is kind of like a consolation endorsement.
00:25:48.760 But it will still give Aaron O'Toole a boost.
00:25:50.820 I think a lot of people in the Conservative Party and the Conservative movement do look to Jason Kenney
00:25:54.920 as sort of one of those visionary leaders.
00:25:56.900 You know, there's people in politics who are just politicians because that's the job that they want.
00:26:01.880 They want to be a prime minister.
00:26:03.640 They want to be an MP because they think it'd be a fun job or it's just a job that they want.
00:26:07.840 And then there's others who have a vision and have a message and really want to implement change.
00:26:12.860 I think Jason Kenney is one of those sort of conviction politicians.
00:26:15.700 And so if he's pointing to Aaron O'Toole and saying, you know, this is the guy that can lead our party
00:26:20.560 and lead our movement, I think a lot of people are going to listen to that.
00:26:24.020 So, yeah, that gives Aaron O'Toole a big boost.
00:26:26.360 You know, the first deadline is passed.
00:26:28.020 So we have the only people that are left in the race are people who have jumped past the first hurdle
00:26:32.780 of raising a certain amount of money and collecting signatures.
00:26:35.100 There will be another cutoff in a couple of weeks.
00:26:37.620 And I think it's possible that it'll just be O'Toole and McKay at that point.
00:26:42.000 And in the head to head between those two, again, the Jason Kenney endorsement will really
00:26:46.220 help Aaron O'Toole.
00:26:47.840 All right.
00:26:48.100 One more story I want to talk to you about on the podcast.
00:26:50.820 You know, math is just so hard.
00:26:53.200 Economics is just so confusing sometimes.
00:26:55.460 And, you know, if you're on the left, you don't really think about that kind of stuff.
00:26:59.100 You don't think about math.
00:27:00.180 You don't think about economics.
00:27:01.220 You just think about your feelings and how you feel about things.
00:27:04.780 So this is an example that really, really, really shows how little people think.
00:27:10.580 You know, the people that you watch on television, the pundits, the news anchors, the hosts that
00:27:14.140 you watch on television, you kind of trust that they, you know, at least have given something
00:27:19.200 a little bit of thought.
00:27:20.280 You know, they've at least thought about something a little bit before they come to you on live
00:27:23.840 television to tell you their opinion, to tell you why they're right about something.
00:27:28.040 Well, this is just a reminder to all of us that some of the people on TV just don't think.
00:27:32.220 They really don't think.
00:27:33.180 They really don't think they don't use their minds.
00:27:35.920 So Brian Williams, a host of MSNBC, a pretty respected longtime journalist.
00:27:40.260 I know he's had some issues, but a lot of people still respect him.
00:27:42.960 He sat down with New York Times editorial board member, Maragay, and they wanted to talk
00:27:50.020 about Michael Bloomberg's campaign.
00:27:51.520 Bloomberg was running for the Democrats to become the presidential nominee.
00:27:55.240 He dropped out after Super Tuesday after a pretty dismal, dismal placing despite spending,
00:28:00.600 I think he spent $500 million on his campaign, which is a heck of a lot of money to not really
00:28:06.540 do anything.
00:28:07.200 I think the only delegates that he got were from American Samoa and American Samoans don't 0.94
00:28:12.200 even vote in the actual election.
00:28:14.120 So it was a really, really dismal performance by Michael Bloomberg.
00:28:18.380 It was because his debate performance was just so awful.
00:28:20.660 Anyways, these two, you know, brilliant, you know, these two coastal elites with probably
00:28:29.460 fancy university degrees were talking about how Michael Bloomberg had misspent his money.
00:28:35.460 So let's let's just play this clip for you.
00:28:37.900 But you see it as a possibility if he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he
00:28:42.900 could do it.
00:28:43.340 Absolutely.
00:28:45.200 Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every
00:28:49.420 American a million dollars.
00:28:51.280 I've got it.
00:28:51.420 Let's put it up on the screen.
00:28:53.040 When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.
00:28:58.620 Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads.
00:29:00.640 U.S. population, $327 million.
00:29:03.440 Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math.
00:29:05.440 He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.
00:29:11.260 It's an incredible way of putting it.
00:29:13.680 It's an incredible way of putting it.
00:29:15.800 It's true.
00:29:16.420 It's disturbing.
00:29:17.500 It does.
00:29:18.060 It does suggest, you know, what we're talking about here, which is there is too much money
00:29:22.320 in politics.
00:29:23.440 It is incredible.
00:29:24.660 You know, it's true.
00:29:25.620 It's disturbing.
00:29:26.380 No.
00:29:26.660 OK, these people.
00:29:27.600 It just it's so mind boggling.
00:29:29.080 You know, OK, first of all, of course, you know, Michael Bloomberg spent $500 million.
00:29:32.880 There's 300 million Americans.
00:29:34.440 That's not a million dollars each.
00:29:35.600 That's a dollar each.
00:29:36.460 There's a dollar 50 each.
00:29:37.840 OK, that's just a really, really basic, basic math.
00:29:39.880 If you have a thousand dollars for a thousand people, that's a dollar each.
00:29:43.860 Right.
00:29:44.080 If you have a million million dollars for a million people, that's a dollar each.
00:29:47.720 So if you had 500 million dollars for 330 million Americans, how on earth is that a million
00:29:52.560 dollars each?
00:29:53.720 It's just so mind boggling that this got through on air.
00:29:56.600 You kind of think of how many people would have had to see this tweet and just not even
00:30:01.300 been able to compute the basic math.
00:30:03.460 You know, there was a person who sent out the tweet in the first place who later doubled
00:30:07.120 down on it, by the way.
00:30:08.180 Um, this person, her name, you know, this this wasn't someone who was making a joke.
00:30:14.000 This person's called Makita Revis.
00:30:16.120 She contributes to The Washington Post.
00:30:18.520 And so she tweeted out completely unironically and then later tweeted out, blah, blah, math,
00:30:23.820 blah, blah.
00:30:24.360 People are telling me my numbers are wrong.
00:30:26.080 But the point still stands.
00:30:27.160 He could have easily afforded to give everyone a million dollars and literally never noticed.
00:30:30.980 Again, no, that's not true.
00:30:32.840 That's not true.
00:30:33.620 Michael Bloomberg is worth about 50 billion dollars.
00:30:36.480 If he had given if he wanted to give his entire net worth away distributed across all
00:30:41.240 of Americans, it would be like a hundred dollars each.
00:30:44.080 It wouldn't be a million dollars.
00:30:45.300 So no, the point doesn't still stand.
00:30:46.920 So this person put out the tweet.
00:30:48.420 Enough people retweeted it that when the host, Brian Williams, and this New York Times correspondent
00:30:53.140 saw it, they didn't immediately see that it was debunked.
00:30:56.460 They didn't know that it was wrong.
00:30:58.300 Enough people were tweeting it that they thought it was right.
00:31:01.220 They brought it to the show.
00:31:02.560 You know, you have producers, you have editors, you have camera people.
00:31:05.600 You have so many people that would be part of this show before it went to air.
00:31:09.920 And no one flagged the point that they were off by a factor.
00:31:13.740 You know, the decimal point was off by what?
00:31:15.960 Five zeros.
00:31:17.160 They were off by five zeros here.
00:31:18.820 And just no one over at MSNBC, no one at the New York Times editorial board had any clue.
00:31:25.740 So again, this is an epic fail on behalf of the left.
00:31:28.400 It really kind of gives you an insight into how people on the left think.
00:31:31.900 They really don't care about numbers.
00:31:33.260 They don't care about math.
00:31:34.340 This is why no one on the Democrat side, their platforms don't come anywhere near adding up.
00:31:39.340 This is how Bernie Sanders can get away with a proposal to spend more money in his proposal
00:31:45.640 than the entire economy in the United States.
00:31:48.060 I think someone tallied up all his plans and it worked out to about $40 trillion over a decade.
00:31:54.280 By comparison, the U.S. GDP, the total amount of money in the entire economy is about $20 trillion.
00:32:00.920 So, you know, Democrats, people on the left have no care about how much money they spend.
00:32:06.580 Numbers don't really matter to them.
00:32:07.960 It doesn't really add up.
00:32:08.880 You could say the exact same thing about the Trudeau liberals here in Canada.
00:32:12.560 Hence why Justin Trudeau said that budgets were going to balance themselves.
00:32:15.960 And he said that he was going to have $10 billion deficits, which we know they've spiraled out of control over the last five years.
00:32:22.100 So never trust anyone on the left when they're talking about numbers because they just don't know how to do math.
00:32:27.420 All right, I'm going to leave it at that.
00:32:28.400 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:32:29.560 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:32:31.880 Thank you.