The legacy media condemns mean tweets
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In this episode of the show, Candice talks about the problem with Canadian legacy media outlets and how they have a conflict of interest that prevents independent journalism from happening in Canada. She also talks about why it's so important that we have independent journalists in the country.
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The bailout group Think Media condemns mean tweets, Canadian media failed trends on Twitter
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for the stupidest reasons, and the Laurentian elite punditry has turned on Prime Minister
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I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the show.
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This is the show where we break apart the media narrative, where we tell you how the
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mainstream media is decepting you, how they are misleading you.
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We point out fake news reports out there, and we really just deconstruct the Canadian media
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And look, we have a media situation in Canada where the overwhelming majority of legacy media
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outlets are paid for or subsidized by the federal government.
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This is such a conflict of interest on the most basic level.
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Anyone, especially, you know, you have a legacy media that is full of people who went to journalism
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school, people who believe in journalism ethics, people who stand and uphold the value of their
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profession and talk about how necessary it is that we have independent journalists in the
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country while also turning around hat in hand and asking for a bailout from the government
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or lobbying the government for their own special interests or really just pushing advocacy as
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The line between advocacy and journalism has never been more blurred.
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And look, here at True North, you know that we take strong opinions on issues.
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We have an entire news division that is fact-based, that presents both sides of the story, that
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And then we have an editorial position, and you see that editorial position come through on
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We believe in conservative principles and ideals.
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You know that when you're watching TNC, when you're watching the Candace Malcolm show, when
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you're on True North, you know that you are getting conservative opinion and fact-based
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Whereas when you go to the legacy media outlets, you are getting left-wing spin.
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You're being told that you're delivered the news in a completely neutral, unbiased way,
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I wish more journalists would just be honest about who they are, who they vote for, what they
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And at least we will be being honest about all of this.
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But I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.
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So first, I want to point your attention to this news release and this tweet that was
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So it says this, in the wake of the heinous and threatening messages sent to journalists from
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different media companies, we are joining forces with other Canadian press organizations to denounce
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And we see this little graphic here that shows us all of the various news agencies that are
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So let me just go through them all because it pretty much represents the entirety of the
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legacy media in Canada, and then a handful of sort of fringe, independent, far left or
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So here we have, it starts with APTN, which is the Aboriginal People's Television Network.
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Next, we have Canada's National Observer, which is a fringe, far left, anti-Canadian energy
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Next, we have the Narwhal, which is something so small and inconsequential.
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I imagine that no one watching the show has ever even seen this outlet, but nevertheless,
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Next, we have Bell Media, which owns CTV and a number of other radio stations.
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Next, we have the Canadian Association of Black Journalists.
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Then we have Canada Land, which is a leftist media outlet that sort of does media criticism.
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And sometimes they just sort of, for no reason, go after people like me.
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Next, we have Chorus, who owns a bunch of radio stations.
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CBC Radio Canada, the biggest media company in the country that gets $1.2 billion from
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La Presse, which is a large French news service.
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Canadian Press, which is a Canadian wire service.
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So their stories appear in newspapers and websites across the country.
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The Walrus, which is a left-wing magazine that has a very, very small circulation and gets
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Post Media, which owns the National Post, a bunch of the regional Post Media papers,
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So we have Torstar, which owns the Toronto Star and all of its regional affiliate papers.
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We have the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Canadian Journalism Foundation,
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So again, pretty much every member of the legacy media here, as well as the fringe lefty
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ones I count, National Observer, Narwhal, Canadaland, and Walrus, all included.
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A strong, diverse media is vital for a well-informed democratic society.
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While criticism is an integral part of journalism and democracy, there can be no tolerance for
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hate and harassment of journalists, or for incitement of attacks on journalists for doing
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These attacks in orderly target women and racialized journalists.
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I don't know exactly what racialized means, but that speaks to the motivation of the people
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We are united in supporting our journalists and newsrooms against those who seek to silence
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their stories and threaten their safety together.
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We will continue to advocate for industry-wide response to end this behavior, which I guess
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is probably alluding to the fact that all of these media outlets support the proposed
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online harm legislation that is coming from the Trudeau liberals.
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And Stéphane Guilbault, who was the heritage minister.
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I'm not sure if he'll be the heritage minister again after this election, but here we see
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again all the lists of all of the media outlets that condemn this hate.
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I know there have been some screenshots of emails that some journalists have been getting circulating
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But obviously, you know, when we're talking about incitement of attacks or threats of violence,
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And so the fact that they're trying to advocate for an industry-wide reaction to end this behavior.
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I'm pretty outspoken when it comes to my opinions online.
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I get some pretty, pretty vicious attacks on social media.
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I don't let them bother me when I get a nasty email in my inbox.
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I usually just delete it without fully reading it.
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And I don't let it bother me because people just want to blow off steam.
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Some women receive a mean tweet or a mean email, and they want to share it to show the
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Maybe, maybe other people aren't aware of this.
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Look, I have done in the past where I've gotten something nasty and I've decided to share
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it just to show people a little bit of what's going on.
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But the idea that all of these journalists are kind of coming together to condemn this
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behavior, I don't know if it's specifically about those handful of mean emails that were
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circulating or whether this is in relation to Maxine Bernier, who the media accused of
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And I went through this on Fake News Friday a couple of weeks ago.
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And this was all in response because a bunch of journalists decided to smear Maxine Bernier
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in the People's Party of Canada saying that they're Nazis, saying that they're white
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And Maxine Bernier just simply had enough of it, called them out on their BS.
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And because of it, they sort of all sniveled and whined and pretended that it was some
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Here, we even see that kind of language in this tweet.
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In the wake of heinous and threatening messages, I'm sorry, the definition of heinous is something
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You know, when you think of a heinous act, you usually think something like a school shooting
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You don't think of someone writing a mean tweet, writing a nasty email.
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And look, I admit that this kind of stuff does exist out there.
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And I think that this reaction by all these journalists to put their names together, put
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their logos together, and sort of what, create a united fight.
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First of all, how come they didn't include anyone from the Independent Press Gallery of
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I see, like I said, all the legacy media who all, more or less, all lean left or far left.
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And then they also had to go out and find four independent left-wing outlets on there.
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And I say independent very loosely because a lot of them do receive money from the federal
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They're just not the establishment legacy media.
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Why not reach out to True North and ask if we wanted to be a part of this?
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Why not reach out to anyone in the Independent Press Gallery?
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There are a whole bunch of right-of-center or conservative independent media outlets.
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They're allowed to have an ideological worldview and values that they present.
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When anyone on the left, any journalist in legacy media gets any kind of a threat, it's a huge
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big deal, and everybody stops and comes together and rallies behind them.
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When any of this kind of stuff happens, for instance, to Sheila Gunn-Reed over at the Rebel,
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when she's denied entry into a press conference, or when she gets punched in the face at a woman's
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rally in Edmonton, none of these journalists say anything.
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They were nowhere to be found to defend Sheila when that happened.
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In fact, a lot of them were accusing Sheila of being the one at fault.
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Similarly, when my colleague, Sue Ann Levy, went to a rally and her photographer or cameraman
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was assaulted, nobody said anything, nobody cared.
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And for myself, I was the victim of a series of death threats.
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This is when I was reporting on Kalistani extremists operating in Vancouver, who some
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of them had connections to Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP.
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I reported it as part of the investigative journalism that I was doing at the time.
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And in response, I got a series of death threats.
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I got some very serious, specific, credible threats, and they were also leaving things
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Interestingly, the media in India were telling me that they supported me and reaching out
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I didn't see any of that from any of these organizations that are listed here today.
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So let me just say that this is more about politics, more about lobbying for support of
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the Trudeau government and pushing their what's to come.
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You know, the Trudeau government's attempts to censor the internet.
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This is all just the media preposition and saying that they support this kind of measure.
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And it's just whenever you see all the legacy media in lockstep agreeing on something, putting
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a statement out like this, it's just there to be mocked.
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And again, you know, you're allowed to criticize journalists.
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No, you're not allowed to incite violence against them, but you're allowed to hate them.
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You're allowed to say mean and nasty things to people in our society.
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It's rude and it's not something that I personally advocate for, but it is not illegal and we should
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I'll just say my family, my husband and I have started doing a digital detox on the weekends.
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So we try for most of the day to keep our phones away, turned off, and just especially
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We want to be able to enjoy time with the kids.
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We want to enjoy our little kids at this stage.
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And we don't want to be distracted by the phone.
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And again, going on social media for me is more like work because of my job and I'm
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I can't remember exactly why, but for some reason I went online last weekend and I saw
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the hashtag Canadian media fail trending on Twitter.
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I was amused because, you know, this is the theme of my show.
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This is, I devoted an entire episode of the Cannons Malcolm show every week on Canadian
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So I just clicked on it to check out what was going on.
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And I was a little surprised because it wasn't what I expected.
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I expected it to be sort of conservative Twitter, you know, complaining about something that
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the legacy media was doing, complaining about the CBC.
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It was liberal Twitter who was angry that the media was covering the Tofino Beach holiday
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They thought that it was a nothing burger, that it was sort of an attack on Justin Trudeau's
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privacy and his family and their ability to have a nice quiet weekend.
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And I just thought that was sort of amusing that there are people on Twitter who believe
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that the legacy media is what, like a right wing news organization is trying to take out
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And so it must be kind of embarrassing for all those people who are really pushing this
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idea that it was this total fake story when the prime minister himself came out and apologized
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And now we're hearing all kinds of new revelations about the sketchy business dealings of the owner
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of the house and the fact that he once lobbied the prime minister's office, lobbied Justin Trudeau
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to enact legislation that Justin Trudeau eventually did.
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I devoted my entire show yesterday on this topic.
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And if you haven't watched it yet, I encourage you to go over and check it out.
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But it's true that the media are turning on Justin Trudeau and we're seeing it.
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We're seeing the Laurentian elite, the people who usually have Trudeau's back, really turning
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So I'll give you a couple of examples of columnists.
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This week, we had Don Martin over at CTV, a very, very influential journalist in Ottawa,
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And he writes this on a national day of indigenous reflection.
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Tasha Carradine over at the National Post writes about, well, this article is both about
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Trudeau and O'Toole, but it really, really rails into Justin Trudeau.
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It says weak leadership leads Trudeau to Tofino and O'Toole into trouble.
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The lessons in both cases is that leadership demands authenticity.
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I know Tasha Carradine is a conservative, but she is sort of the Laurentian elite's conservative.
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Another one from the National Post is John Iveson.
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And it says there are few signs a prime minister learns from his mistakes.
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How many times has Justin Trudeau begged forgiveness for transgressions that would probably
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John Iveson does a pretty good job of recounting all of the various times that Justin Trudeau
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has been found himself in similar kinds of situations where just total lapses of judgment,
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really, really bad from an optics perspective, conflicts of interest, and ethics violations.
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Finally, John Iveson in the Globe and Mail, who is usually can be counted on to defend
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He writes that Tofino trip may only hasten Justin Trudeau's departure.
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So when the Laurentian elites turn on you, you know that you're in trouble.
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There are two sort of themes that I want to pick up and criticize, though, when it comes
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to the Laurentian elite's criticism of Justin Trudeau.
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By the way, those are just four examples of many, many, many more.
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There were probably hundreds of columns written in the last week of Justin Trudeau and talking
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But there were two elements of the story that I disagree with.
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First of all, this is just a personal pet peeve of mine.
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But as someone who grew up in British Columbia, someone who grew up in Vancouver and sort
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of has come to get used to the way that the Laurentian elites, people from Toronto, Ottawa,
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and Montreal, the way that they talk about the rest of the country, especially the West,
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and somehow in particular, British Columbia, it almost feels like British Columbia is not
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And going to the beach in British Columbia is somehow illegitimate.
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I'm not trying to pick on Tasha Carradine because I have quite a bit of respect for her,
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but there was just one line in her piece that really, really irked me.
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She says, Trudeau was caught on camera hitting the beach, but not just any beach, a beach
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So this is somehow saying that because the beach was across the country in British Columbia,
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It's almost like they equate going to the beach in British Columbia with, again, going to a
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different country, like going to the Caribbean or going to Hawaii or something like that.
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And they treat it like there's something scandalous in and of itself of going to British Columbia.
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I've got news to journalists, and I'll just make it clear for Tasha Carradine in this specific
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line, she was talking about how it wasn't a spontaneous trip.
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It wasn't just like deciding to pack the car on a store of the moment trip, but it required
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But I did see this line in other pieces that there was something nefarious because he decided
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Well, I've got news for journalists in this country.
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I've got news for people in Ontario who have this very Toronto and Ontario-centric view
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British Columbia is just as part as much, British Columbia is just as much a part of Canada
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It is perfectly legitimate for the prime minister of this country to go to British Columbia
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His mother and his entire side of the family is from British Columbia.
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He spent a lot of time growing up and in his 20s living in British Columbia.
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If he wants to go on a vacation to British Columbia, that's entirely his prerogative, entirely
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Of course, the problem here is the whole idea that he went on truth and reconciliation day
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I devoted my entire show yesterday, like I said, to talking about just how bad the story
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But just that concept, that line that's buried in, that going to British Columbia was somehow
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To me, it strikes me of the Laurentian elite's vision of Canada that basically everyone outside
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of Ontario, especially everything to the west of Ontario, is treated sort of like it's a
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The west, the prairies, it's there for resource extraction.
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British Columbia is there for holidays and vacations and nothing else.
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People who live in that part of the country are just as much Canadian as anyone else.
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And the second component of the media narrative that I find off-putting and completely wrong
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is this idea that this might hasten Trudeau's departure, as John Ibbotson said, that Trudeau
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is on his way out and that this is just a sign that Canadians are done with him and he's
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had enough sort of speculating that he's going to resign.
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There are only two ways that Justin Trudeau would be removed from being the prime minister.
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At this point, he's not going to lose an election.
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My guess is that they won't have an election for another four years.
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But there's two ways where he could stop being prime minister if the party somehow decided
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to oust him or if he himself decided to resign.
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Neither of these two things are going to happen.
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So the first one, the Liberal Party is basically a cult.
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It's a cult of personality around Justin Trudeau.
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He can do no wrong, even though some people have sort of turned on him just in terms of
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how much of a fake feminist he is, how he's fake woke, all these kind of things.
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He still has the unveiling support of basically his entire party.
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And so according to a poll that True North commissioned, Trudeau has a support of 95%
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95% of Liberal voters told us they have a positive view of Justin Trudeau.
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In the eyes of Liberal voters and Liberal members, Justin Trudeau can do no wrong.
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That is an incredible level of support for Justin Trudeau.
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They're not going to get rid of their cult leader over something like this, especially
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as I said, you know, the whole fact that Canadian media fail was trending on Twitter.
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Liberals don't think that Justin Trudeau did anything wrong.
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As far as Justin Trudeau himself, the idea that what he's checked out and that he's done,
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I think he's probably just fatigued from the election, wanted to have some downtime with
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A couple of weeks ago on the election campaign, media and reporters asked him just that.
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They said, what are you going to do if you lose this election?
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What are you going to do if you are leader of the opposition?
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I am not done with the hard work Canadians expect for a better future for everyone.
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He told CBC that calls for Trudeau to resign are not going to go anywhere.
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He said, I think retiring from politics would be the furthest thing from Justin Trudeau's
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It's a four-year mandate unless the government is brought down.
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So again, the idea that Justin Trudeau is going anywhere is nothing but wishful thinking.
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It is not reflected in any facts or any of the information that we have out there.
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But again, what do you expect from the legacy media?
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Thank you so much for tuning into Fake News Friday.
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I'm Katis Malcolm and this is The Katis Malcolm Show.