The legacy media covers for Justin Trudeau (again)
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Summary
The borders are open, and it is a chaotic mess, but you won t hear about that in the legacy media. Today, I'm going to walk you through what actually happened at the border on the weekend, and why you won't hear about it in the mainstream media.
Transcript
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The borders are open and it is a chaotic mess, but you won't hear about that in the legacy media.
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I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Now, if you get your news from True North, if you follow this program and you listen to it regularly,
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you're probably not one of the people that's going to fall for a misleading headline
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or a really sort of incorrect narrative being pushed out by the legacy media.
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But sadly, too many Canadians still do get their news from the legacy media.
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And so I think it's important when I see a series of headlines that are just wrong,
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that it's still important to go through and really try to dissect it for the viewer,
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especially when the conclusion that the legacy media is drawing is this sort of celebratory good news story
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I'm talking about the news that happened over the weekend about the borders sort of finally opening up
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after, what, 18 months of the land borders being mostly closed to tourism and visitors.
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So two weeks ago when Trudeau first announced that this measure was happening,
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it was met with two things that I think were very unanticipated and bad news for the prime minister.
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So Trudeau announced that he was unilaterally doing this decision.
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The first bad thing that happened was that U.S. President Joe Biden did not reciprocate that.
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He wasn't ready. He said he wasn't going to do it.
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So you have this weird situation where Canada is saying, yes, we're going to allow Americans to come in,
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but Americans haven't yet created that reciprocity to say that Canadians are welcome back into the United States.
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The second thing that happened was that the CBSA union, so CBSA is a Canadian border services agency,
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and their union said that they were not happy, that their contracts hadn't been finalized yet,
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went to the union for a vote, and they voted to strike.
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So the worst possible timing for the prime minister, the worst possible timing to have your border services agents strike
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right when you announce that the U.S. border is opening up again.
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And so interestingly, what the mainstream media, legacy media stories focused on
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was that an apparent deal was reached with these border agents.
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You see a report here in the Toronto Star and another one here in CTV saying,
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CBSA employees agree to deal with government ending days on strike.
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deal with border agents ends traffic snarl up as Canada reopens to the U.S.
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So again, if you were just going to get your news from the legacy media,
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you would assume, okay, wow, they avoided a potentially terrible situation
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where the border guards were on strike right when the borders were opening up.
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Well, unfortunately, I don't actually think that these news agencies sent reporters to the border
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I happened to be coming into Canada over the weekend.
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And as I reported at TNC.news, it was pure chaos at the border.
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It was the exact opposite of what these legacy news stories would have you believe.
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So I'm going to walk you through my story at Pearson Airport.
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I arrived with my family at about 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.
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And keep in mind, this was after we were told that the CBSA had reached a deal.
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So we were told CBSA had announced that they were going to go on strike on Tuesday.
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On Friday, after long negotiations, they reached an agreement.
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During those long negotiations, CBSA, they can't actually strike.
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What they can do is something called work to rule,
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which is because they're essential workers, instead of just walking off the job,
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they basically do their job as slowly as possible to make it as painful as possible
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for whoever they're interacting with, which gives them bargaining power
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with, you know, the person that's doing their contract.
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In this case, the Treasury Board, so the federal government.
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And basically, we're told that we can't get off the plane.
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Now, anyone who's traveled with little kids, I have two little kids,
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anyone who's traveled with little kids knows that as soon as the airplane lands,
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you're basically just, you can't wait to get off the plane.
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The kids are, you know, the kids want to run around.
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You want to let them just have some space after being kind of cramped up in a small airport seat.
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You want to go get some water, maybe something to eat.
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The last thing you want to do is to be forced to sit on a hot airplane longer than you have to.
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Well, that's when the Air Canada pilot came on the PA system
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and let us all know that because of this work-to-rule action with the CBSA,
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And that at that point, they had closed the custom halls to new passengers.
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We had to wait on the plane until more space opened up.
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We were finally let off because we had small kids.
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So we left the plane, went into the customs hall,
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I've entered into Canada, you know, probably hundreds of times in my life.
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The line was snaking back and forth throughout the entire customs hall,
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we were then made to wait another probably about an hour.
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And it was frustrating because typically when you go through customs,
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it's usually quite quickly to just go through a line.
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And then if you do have an X, it's because there's some complication
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And so then you have to go speak to a border guard.
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they were making every single person speak to a border guard.
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And that's sort of the idea behind work to rule
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is that it intentionally makes your visit longer and more unpleasant,
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again, so that the union has more bargaining power.
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It was interesting because the mainstream media,
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the legacy media were telling us that the strike was over.
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And yet, you know, my experience in being there,
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talking to the Air Canada pilots and then actually going through customs
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was the exact opposite, that the work to rule, it was still going on.
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I've spoken to people that say that it is still going on.
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We're told it was done on Friday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
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and now Tuesday, day five after it's supposedly finished
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at that international arrivals desk and customs hall
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You know, if you're taking an international flight,
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most places land in Toronto and then have connecting flights
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So it really does impact all Canadians who were away and coming back
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as well as people who were traveling, tourists, maybe new immigrants.
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Now, interestingly, TNC wasn't the only news agency who reported on this.
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The Toronto Sun had a similar report over the weekend
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describing the same situation that we reported at TNC,
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but attributing it to something totally different.
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sometimes for hours due to Pearson COVID capacity limits.
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COVID capacity limits in Toronto's airport means long delays
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before passengers are allowed to exit their aircraft.
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It says, international passengers are being left
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to sit on hot airplanes for hours due to overcrowding
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inside Canada's largest airport, the Sun has learned.
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Sources tell the Sun that passengers from abroad
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are being forced to languish on planes parked at gates,
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sometimes reportedly for as long as two to three hours
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The GTAA, which is the Greater Toronto Airport Authority,
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means passengers are deplaned in groups of 50 every five minutes
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So interestingly, the Sun paints the same story
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as what we did at TNC and describes the same situation,
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I have no doubt in my mind it's a combination of both,
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that the Work to Rule and the intentional slowness
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by the union compounded with these weird COVID metering rules
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between the TNC report and the Toronto Sun report
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versus what more of the legacy media was saying.
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So like I said, here's a story in the Toronto Star
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that really emphasizes the fact that the deal was made
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They talk about how this was an 11th hour agreement
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to avoid further strikes with the federal government
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had served strike notice to the federal government on Tuesday
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that lasted more than 36 hours into Friday morning.
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It says the agreement is a testament to the incredible hard work
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who worked through the night to reach the deal.
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by forwarding what could have been really disastrous.
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It says, after more than 36 hours of negotiation,
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and customs officers reached agreement on a deal
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The new contract means an end to a work-to-rule strike action
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that the CBSA was still doing their work-to-rule protocols.
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They were still making it intentionally more difficult
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rather than the triage system that I described earlier.
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that the strike is over when the strike is still going on?
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Interestingly, if you go further down into this story,
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there's a whole section on the impact on travel.
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but there is an entire section called Impact on Travel,
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and it doesn't actually talk about the impact on travel.
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the negotiations taking place between the unions,
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and talking, again, from the perspective of the union
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down to the international arrivals customs hall
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to observe with their own eyes what was going on.
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what they were reporting was just not really accurate.
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It was the parroting the talking points of the union
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And the chaos that's happening at Pearson Airport
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to get the facts, and to tell you a straight story.
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Instead, it's always delivered through some weird lens,
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and telling you from the perspective of a trade union
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while leaving out any of the damning information