The Candice Malcolm Show - The legacy media regurgitates Liberal talking points again and again

00:00:00.080 The legacy media is regurgitating liberal talking points again and again and again.

00:00:05.340 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:13.040 Everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:15.020 It's the last week of the campaign and the last Friday campaign, so we will do Fake News Friday as we usually do.

00:00:20.800 We go through the most egregious examples of the legacy media here in Canada,

00:00:24.940 completely misleading people, presenting their opinion or liberal talking points, partisan spin, as if that is fact.

00:00:32.480 And we see this over and over and over again in the media.

00:00:35.260 In fact, all of the examples on the show today are exactly that.

00:00:38.400 I talked about this phenomenon on my show earlier this week.

00:00:41.040 I covered in depth the CBC town hall events.

00:00:44.240 They did one with Erin O'Toole. The next night was with Justin Trudeau.

00:00:47.260 They also did them with the other party leaders, but I didn't follow those as closely.

00:00:50.620 But what we saw from the CBC and what we saw from host Rosemary Barton was the way that she presented the ideas,

00:00:56.440 the way that she framed the debate and the line of questioning that she was asking Erin O'Toole when he was in the hot seat

00:01:02.700 was exactly based on liberal spin.

00:01:05.160 It wasn't based on the facts. It wasn't based on the truth.

00:01:07.440 It was based on how the liberals have framed this issue to create a wedge issue to try to trap conservatives.

00:01:14.100 And we saw that over and over and over again.

00:01:15.660 Why else would Rosemary Barton be talking about issues that are just not important at all in this election? 1.00

00:01:22.000 She was grilling Erin O'Toole on guns, even though gun violence isn't really an issue in Canada,

00:01:27.400 specifically not the guns that were banned by Trudeau.

00:01:30.880 There is a problem with gun violence in this country.

00:01:33.060 We don't address it because the problem stems from gangs.

00:01:36.240 Most of the guns used are illegal and they're smuggled in from the United States.

00:01:39.440 This liberal gun ban doesn't really address that at all.

00:01:41.840 But again, because it's a liberal wedge issue designed to make Erin O'Toole look like he's, what, a gun-toting hick, 1.00

00:01:49.000 the CBC jumps right in line and hammers Erin O'Toole over that using liberal spin. 1.00

00:01:54.800 Same thing with conversion therapy, the bill that was really, really taken out of context.

00:01:59.660 And again, you just saw this dominating debate.

00:02:02.380 Instead of talking about the economic recovery, instead of talking about jobs and the economy,

00:02:05.500 instead of talking about debt and government spending, the CBC instead focused on a handful of really niche issues

00:02:12.660 that the liberals have used as a weapon.

00:02:15.260 And then when it was Justin Trudeau's turn in the hot seat, well, he wasn't asked any kind of tough question whatsoever.

00:02:20.300 It was the same sort of idea, more liberal, pro-liberal spin in the talking points, really designed to prop him up.

00:02:27.220 And it's no wonder because, once again, Justin Trudeau is pledging billions of dollars, over a billion dollars every single year to the CBC.

00:02:35.180 And so it's no wonder they have such a chummy relationship.

00:02:37.680 But it isn't just the CBC, and I'm going to point this out today.

00:02:40.220 So the first story I'm going to talk about is over on CTV.

00:02:43.040 This story made a lot of hay on social media this week.

00:02:45.400 The headline says,

00:02:46.400 Liberals would make it a criminal offense to block health care buildings and threaten workers.

00:02:50.340 So this is obviously in response to a lot of those protests that we saw over the course of the entire campaign.

00:02:55.720 Lots of people rallying in the big cities.

00:02:58.120 We saw a huge rally the other weekend in Montreal, another one in Toronto.

00:03:01.740 And there have also been rallies that followed the liberal campaign and Justin Trudeau, basically just to boo and heckle him.

00:03:07.260 And we've seen these smaller protests outside of hospitals.

00:03:10.960 People really just protesting for a variety of reasons.

00:03:13.980 They might be protesting against the vaccine.

00:03:15.960 They might be protesting against vaccine passports.

00:03:18.100 They might be protesting against lockdowns.

00:03:20.000 People who are basically just fed up with the lockdowns and the pandemic

00:03:24.600 and all the things we've been having to deal with the expansive growth of government over the last 18 months or so.

00:03:30.400 So people are protesting for their own reasons.

00:03:32.500 We've seen these protesters basically get scapegoated throughout the entire campaign,

00:03:36.900 really being demonized, especially by liberal leader Justin Trudeau, but also in the media.

00:03:41.120 So this is sort of the media's favorite topic right now.

00:03:44.700 It gives them the ability to condemn what they perceive as being far-right protesters

00:03:48.640 and to sort of celebrate the liberals for, what, condemning them and coming down on them.

00:03:53.860 And the only problem with the liberals' announcement here is that this is literally already the case.

00:03:58.560 This is literally already the case.

00:03:59.740 This isn't a new law that the liberals are proposing.

00:04:01.960 This is a law that is already on the books.

00:04:03.840 You cannot block critical infrastructure.

00:04:05.760 You cannot block healthcare workers from getting into their place of work.

00:04:09.480 And so we saw some people point that out.

00:04:11.740 Here's Andrew McDougall, a columnist over at the Ottawa Citizen.

00:04:14.980 He writes, when you announce something that already exists and duped the dot-com team

00:04:18.460 into giving you a straight-up headline, that is embarrassing.

00:04:21.460 And then we have a conservative candidate and MP, Garnett Jenis, who tweets this.

00:04:26.240 He says, this is from page 33 of the conservative platform.

00:04:28.920 Trudeau, a bit late on the issue of blocking critical infrastructure.

00:04:32.180 I know it feels like a long time ago now,

00:04:33.920 but back in 2020, before the pandemic really hit and before it became what it was,

00:04:39.840 we saw a group of fringe, far-left protesters basically hijack the issue of First Nations,

00:04:45.320 pretend that they speak for First Nations and that they oppose any kind of natural resource

00:04:49.080 development or pipelines going across their lands,

00:04:52.600 and basically just absolutely recklessly endangering people's lives by blocking freeways,

00:04:58.600 blocking railways.

00:04:59.560 They entirely shut down the nation's railway system for weeks, for weeks.

00:05:04.420 They prevented people from their livelihood.

00:05:06.760 They stopped people from being able to do their jobs.

00:05:08.600 We saw some crazy footage of people throwing things onto railway tracks

00:05:12.520 when there were trains coming, incredibly dangerous stuff.

00:05:15.580 And when that all happened, when that all happened, Trudeau was basically silent.

00:05:19.560 He didn't do anything to stop the blockades.

00:05:20.960 He didn't arrest anyone.

00:05:21.960 He didn't come out strongly and say enough is enough.

00:05:24.420 He basically just sat back and let it happen and watched it all happen.

00:05:28.080 And so it is a little bit rich now.

00:05:30.540 All of a sudden, when the protesters are protesting something that he doesn't like,

00:05:33.780 he is coming down hard and introducing a law that already exists.

00:05:37.920 Shame on CTV for even publishing this nonsense.

00:05:40.800 Again, this is liberal spin that is being presented as if it is real news.

00:05:45.060 It is not news.

00:05:45.740 It is not news to, with a couple days left in the campaign,

00:05:48.580 introduce a new law that is already a law.

00:05:50.940 That's not a thing.

00:05:52.200 And the fact that they didn't even point out how hypocritical it is for Trudeau to be doing this

00:05:56.100 when he sat silent when those other protests were happening is a joke.

00:05:59.680 It's why, even though CTV is private,

00:06:02.040 even though they don't get as much money as CDBC or other media outlets,

00:06:05.420 they are still in the can and completely untrustworthy.

00:06:09.320 All right, moving on.

00:06:10.140 I want to talk about this next story in the Toronto Star.

00:06:12.940 And now I know I could literally go through the Toronto Star every single morning,

00:06:16.400 flip through the entire paper,

00:06:17.720 and explain how each and every story is fake news.

00:06:20.440 But this one is particularly bad.

00:06:21.980 It basically repeats every false left-wing claim about immigration

00:06:26.480 and presents it as fact.

00:06:28.320 And that is the problem.

00:06:29.280 So here's a headline.

00:06:30.080 It says,

00:06:30.840 Aaron O'Toole recycles a sheer era false claim.

00:06:33.960 No, thousands of asylum seekers haven't crossed illegally at Roxham Road.

00:06:37.900 Well, actually, it is a fact that, yes, they have crossed illegally at Roxham Road.

00:06:41.600 I know this because in 2008, I reported from the ground at Roxham Road.

00:06:45.860 I went and traveled there.

00:06:46.820 It's about an hour and a half south of Montreal, right at the New York-Quebec border.

00:06:51.140 There is a big sign right at the border crossing that says it is illegal.

00:06:55.100 It says, stop, it is illegal to cross at this border.

00:06:58.180 Stop, it is illegal to cross this border.

00:07:00.040 That's because according to Canadian law,

00:07:02.000 you cannot enter into Canada other than at a port of entry.

00:07:05.340 So you can only cross into the country at a port of entry.

00:07:08.560 The entire purpose of Roxham Road is because it was an easy place

00:07:12.020 for people to get from the United States to get into Canada illegally.

00:07:15.960 So crossing that border in between points of entry is illegal.

00:07:19.320 It is illegal to cross the border and it is correct to say that the people who do this 1.00

00:07:23.460 were illegal border crossers.

00:07:25.200 This was a huge issue when Trump was president of the United States.

00:07:27.940 The media loved to emphasize and to really highlight the fact

00:07:31.340 that all these people were leaving the United States and trying to get into Canada.

00:07:34.820 They were taking advantage of Canada's generosity, okay?

00:07:37.160 Canada is signatory to a number of immigration laws and treaties, international treaties.

00:07:41.680 Many of them do protect the rights of asylum seekers.

00:07:45.280 So a person does have the right to come into Canada, basically throw their hands up in the air,

00:07:49.500 say, I'm a refugee.

00:07:50.760 And then at that point, they become protected under Canadian law.

00:07:53.800 They get access to a bunch of entitlements and rights, just like a Canadian citizen.

00:07:59.360 And one of them is a fair trial in front of a judge where they get to present their case.

00:08:03.180 And the judge determines whether or not their asylum case is legitimate and whether they can stay and

00:08:08.660 become a refugee or whether it's bogus and they get rejected and they get deported back to their home. 0.63

00:08:14.080 So that part is protected.

00:08:16.960 Once they come to Canada and do that, then they're no longer illegal.

00:08:20.420 Usually when we're talking about immigration, a person is an illegal immigrant if they're not

00:08:25.520 registered to the system.

00:08:26.640 So if they're just in Canada, they haven't registered anywhere, they just kind of come in the country and 0.94

00:08:30.740 go dark, or alternatively, if they are, if they overstay their visa.

00:08:35.080 So if they get rejected by a refugee judge, or if they're just here as a visitor and decide not to

00:08:39.520 leave, if there's a pending deportation order out against them, then that person would also be

00:08:43.720 considered an illegal immigrant.

00:08:45.440 So I agree in theory that if you are an asylum seeker who comes in, you're not an illegal immigrant,

00:08:50.000 but you have crossed the border illegally.

00:08:53.020 And so that's what we're talking about here.

00:08:55.020 And it is just flat out wrong to say that people have the right to do that.

00:08:58.520 And then it's not unlawful.

00:08:59.900 It is illegal.

00:09:00.720 Like I said, there's a big sign that says stop is illegal to cross here.

00:09:03.040 And also the reason that they're doing it.

00:09:04.400 So Canada is part of a treaty with the United States called the Safe Third Country Agreement.

00:09:08.500 There's a lot of countries around the world that accept refugees.

00:09:11.180 And basically the assumption for everyone is, look, you can come, you can come to Canada

00:09:16.040 and try to get refuge here.

00:09:17.700 But the idea is if you're truly fleeing persecution, if you're fleeing danger, you will present your

00:09:23.140 refugee case at the very first safe country that you get in. 0.98

00:09:26.060 So say you're fleeing, I don't know, some Arab country in the Middle East and you get on a boat

00:09:33.700 and you take that boat and you land on an island in Greece, right?

00:09:37.300 So you can't just say, okay, well, Greece doesn't really offer a lot of welfare benefits.

00:09:42.100 So I'm not going to make my asylum come here.

00:09:44.100 I'm going to get back on a boat and try to make it to France because I know that France has a better package.

00:09:48.600 You can't do that.

00:09:49.600 And so Canada and the U.S. have this agreement called the Safe Third Country Agreement saying,

00:09:53.460 if you land in the United States, you have to make your application there for refugee status.

00:09:56.960 If you land in Canada, you have to make your application there.

00:09:58.880 There are a few exceptions, say, if you have family members in one of the other countries

00:10:02.560 or you might have a reason that you would be better suited to go there.

00:10:05.980 But by and large, it is illegal.

00:10:07.780 So all this is just to say, it's illegal.

00:10:10.620 Of course it's illegal.

00:10:11.540 It's illegal to cross a border.

00:10:12.940 It's illegal to shop around and choose which country you make your asylum claim in.

00:10:17.240 But what this story is really saying is the opposite of that, that everything is just fine and dandy

00:10:23.220 and that this is just an example of mean old Aaron O'Toole who is unnecessarily scapegoating refugees,

00:10:29.920 just like mean old Andrew Scheer did in 2019.

00:10:32.840 And that's basically just what they say.

00:10:34.060 They find an activist lawyer to say it is not illegal to cross the Canada-U.S. border

00:10:38.500 for the purpose of seeking refugee protection.

00:10:40.900 It is illegal if you cross in between crossings.

00:10:43.540 If you showed up at a border crossing and tried to present refugee status,

00:10:46.840 then that wouldn't be illegal, but they would turn you away.

00:10:49.080 They would say, no, you can't do this.

00:10:50.540 So the reason that people are going in between the border crossings

00:10:53.140 is literally because a loophole has presented itself.

00:10:56.000 And that is what Aaron O'Toole wants to get rid of.

00:10:58.700 Now, interestingly, when the Conservatives and Aaron O'Toole released their platform,

00:11:02.280 this was included.

00:11:03.420 And I think True North might have been the only outlet that covered it,

00:11:06.060 that the Conservatives specifically talked about cracking down on this loophole,

00:11:11.620 closing the loophole, stopping the illegal immigration,

00:11:14.080 and protecting the integrity of our immigration system.

00:11:16.940 Not many people picked up on it.

00:11:18.320 True North did cover it.

00:11:19.160 I think it was a good policy, and I'm happy to see it in there.

00:11:21.460 And I was a little surprised that the media didn't catch up on it.

00:11:24.000 And here it is, what, two weeks later, 0.70

00:11:26.100 the Toronto Star has done this ridiculous hit piece,

00:11:29.020 literally saying the opposite of what's true. 0.68

00:11:31.460 They found another immigration activist to say,

00:11:33.440 it's perfectly lawful.

00:11:35.400 Well, it is.

00:11:36.380 And this is also something I found interesting.

00:11:38.480 So you can see that they posted this sign,

00:11:40.440 a picture of this sign.

00:11:41.460 It says, notice, claiming refugee status in Canada.

00:11:44.060 And then it just basically lets people know that,

00:11:46.180 look, this isn't a free ride.

00:11:47.280 You still have to go through a legal process,

00:11:48.780 and it's possible you'll get rejected.

00:11:50.880 And that, you know, it literally says here,

00:11:53.680 claiming asylum is not a free ticket into Canada.

00:11:56.100 Not everyone is eligible for asylum.

00:11:58.200 So anyway, I've been to this location.

00:12:00.400 There's that sign right there.

00:12:01.800 And literally right next to that sign,

00:12:03.560 this is how dishonest the star is.

00:12:05.100 They show this sign.

00:12:06.380 Literally right next to that sign is a sign saying,

00:12:08.900 stop, it is illegal to cross here.

00:12:10.600 But they don't show the full picture of the two signs.

00:12:12.900 They just show the one sign kind of detailing

00:12:14.840 what it's like to claim refugee status.

00:12:18.540 Again, unbelievable, completely fake news.

00:12:21.260 And I really don't expect anything better

00:12:22.980 than the Toronto Star, but had to point that out.

00:12:25.500 All right, moving on.

00:12:26.200 Next, we have a story in the CBC.

00:12:28.300 The headline reads,

00:12:29.500 between violence and vandalisms,

00:12:30.900 the parties are experiencing a very ugly campaign.

00:12:34.180 And they found a group called

00:12:35.120 the Canadian Anti-Hate Network

00:12:37.280 to say that this is the worst campaign

00:12:39.320 in recent memory for far-right activism.

00:12:42.240 So basically, just this story

00:12:43.560 is that we're seeing a lot of vandalism,

00:12:46.200 a lot of protesters,

00:12:47.740 a lot of profanity on the campaign trail this time around.

00:12:50.560 And of course, they blame it all on,

00:12:52.200 you guessed it, the far-right.

00:12:53.320 So this group, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,

00:12:55.920 they're a government-funded organization.

00:12:57.800 Basically, the entire purpose of this network

00:12:59.680 is to demonize the right,

00:13:01.680 to make the right seem like

00:13:02.940 they're this really dangerous, shattery organization.

00:13:05.120 Every single time that they're quoted in a news piece

00:13:07.460 is exactly the same.

00:13:08.680 They're fear-mongering and trying to scare us.

00:13:10.600 They're trying to just broadly demonize the right,

00:13:12.920 very broadly, not very specific.

00:13:14.700 So look, of course, there are crazy people on the right, 0.78

00:13:16.740 just like there's crazy people on the left.

00:13:18.180 What this organization really focuses on

00:13:20.480 is making it seem like the right in Canada.

00:13:23.200 And that means the conservatives sort of by proxy,

00:13:25.760 but that that's the biggest threat to our country.

00:13:28.200 And so they sort of parade them out,

00:13:30.440 the CBC and other legacy media networks

00:13:33.080 kind of parade them out to repeat this schtick

00:13:35.960 time and time again.

00:13:36.960 So we're supposed to believe

00:13:37.620 this is the worst campaign in recent memory.

00:13:38.920 Maybe it is.

00:13:39.460 Look, I've been watching partisan politics for a long time.

00:13:41.760 We always see this kind of stuff.

00:13:42.900 It's kind of ugly.

00:13:43.640 But again, some people just really hate politicians.

00:13:46.480 They really hate the electoral system.

00:13:49.100 They might hate a specific party

00:13:50.340 or their specific candidate.

00:13:51.740 And this is how it manifests.

00:13:53.280 Of course, vandalism is wrong and it's illegal

00:13:55.840 and we should crack down on it.

00:13:56.920 I like how all of a sudden vandalism is a big problem

00:14:00.120 when it's targeting a liberal and yet all summer

00:14:02.940 when we saw vandalism of churches across the country

00:14:05.720 and statues, you know, we didn't see any kind of outreach.

00:14:09.300 We didn't see the Canadian anti-hate network

00:14:11.180 coming out and condemning it.

00:14:12.780 Of course not.

00:14:13.320 It's because it's a partisan group

00:14:15.100 who is really just designed to create fear

00:14:18.120 and hatred of the right. 0.92

00:14:19.660 And it is really disgusting and gross to see. 0.96

00:14:22.580 All right.

00:14:22.900 And final story I want to talk about here on Fake News Friday

00:14:25.500 is a op-ed that was published in the CBC.

00:14:28.340 This headline says,

00:14:30.800 As an Anishinaabe citizen,

00:14:32.500 I can't vote in good conscience in the federal election.

00:14:35.760 Casting a ballot in the federal election

00:14:37.720 erodes the sovereignty of First Nations.

00:14:41.020 So the entire idea here is what?

00:14:43.720 That Canada is this horrible colonialist state

00:14:46.420 and that even the very act of us having a government

00:14:50.260 and having an election undermines the rights

00:14:53.160 and freedoms of First Nations people.

00:14:55.260 This is just really chock full of all the leftist woke nonsense

00:14:59.200 that we've been hearing. 0.92

00:15:00.180 Canada is a colonialized system full of suppression

00:15:03.220 and oppression of First Nations

00:15:05.800 and really just over the top hatred of Canada

00:15:10.360 saying that everything about our society

00:15:12.640 is irredeemably broken

00:15:13.860 and therefore voting is just cementing that in.

00:15:16.860 Instead, First Nations people should not vote, 1.00

00:15:19.020 which is just really disheartening.

00:15:20.720 If you're a young person on a reserve

00:15:22.940 or in a First Nations community,

00:15:24.560 the message that you should hear

00:15:25.960 is encouraging you to get involved,

00:15:27.560 make positive change,

00:15:28.780 get out there,

00:15:29.720 speak for your community,

00:15:30.900 speak for yourself,

00:15:31.940 and participate.

00:15:33.420 And instead, this is the exact opposite message.

00:15:34.960 It's so sort of cemented in defeatism,

00:15:37.940 all the buzzwords that you would expect,

00:15:40.460 and the outcome is just sort of sad

00:15:43.360 because what?

00:15:44.260 You want a Marxist revolution

00:15:45.680 and you refuse to participate until then

00:15:48.180 that the only way to fix Canada

00:15:49.280 is to completely tear it apart to the ground

00:15:51.960 and build something new up.

00:15:52.880 Well, I've got news for you.

00:15:54.000 If you do that,

00:15:54.660 if you go ahead and do that,

00:15:55.600 the thing that will be built in Canada's place 0.98

00:15:57.660 will not be as good as Canada.

00:15:58.960 It will not be as fair and safe and secure

00:16:02.180 and free as Canada

00:16:03.160 because it is an ideological experiment in utopia

00:16:06.780 and those never work out.

00:16:08.220 That never works out.

00:16:09.520 So this message is just really disheartening

00:16:11.740 for the CBC to publish,

00:16:13.160 especially on the eve of the federal election campaign.

00:16:16.220 Shame on the CBC for encouraging people

00:16:18.720 not to vote and not to participate,

00:16:21.000 especially people who are part of communities

00:16:22.920 that really we would want more representation

00:16:24.860 and more involvement.

00:16:26.160 So again, just a really sad, pitiful message

00:16:29.540 for the CBC, typically amplifying,

00:16:31.760 but really do expect any better.

00:16:33.380 I do not.

00:16:34.420 All right, I'm going to leave it at that.

00:16:35.500 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:16:37.080 Have a great weekend

00:16:37.860 and we will be back for election coverage on Monday.

00:16:40.760 Thank you so much.

00:16:41.360 I'm Candice Malcolm

00:16:41.840 and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:16:46.220 Thank you so much for tuning in.

The Candice Malcolm Show - September 19, 2021

The legacy media regurgitates Liberal talking points again and again

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