The Candice Malcolm Show - The Ottawa Temper Tantrums Continue

00:00:00.200 Legacy media journalists have spent the last two weeks doing the Liberals' dirty work by smearing the truckers.

00:00:05.700 Well, it seems like so many of those journalists have bought into their own rhetoric and they're about to snap.

00:00:10.800 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:18.740 Everyone, thank you so much for joining the program. It's Fake News Friday.

00:00:22.100 Every Friday here on The Candice Malcolm Show, we go through the worst examples of fake news in Canada,

00:00:27.220 the lies and the misinformation peddled by the legacy media, the way that they smear working people and push their liberal elite worldview.

00:00:35.680 They do the dirty work of the Liberal Party, pushing whatever the latest spin is from Justin Trudeau, echoing it, repeating it, doing everything they could.

00:00:43.320 And we saw this playing up last week. We saw how Justin Trudeau didn't ever want to take the trucker convoy seriously.

00:00:49.440 He wrote it off and dismissed it as being a small fringe minority. Well, that wasn't true. Of course it wasn't true.

00:00:54.540 We saw a huge upswell of support, a groundswell of people all over the country.

00:01:00.220 I mean, all you had to do is look at some of those scenes from the freeway where it was overpass after overpass after overpass,

00:01:05.940 people lying on the sides of freeways to cheer on the truckers.

00:01:08.940 You could tell that Justin Trudeau was wrong.

00:01:11.220 And so what did the legacy media do?

00:01:13.160 Well, they stepped it up into overdrive to try to do everything they could to smear and discredit this movement.

00:01:17.920 And it has just been such a political hit job.

00:01:20.500 So we've kind of been doing Fake News Friday every day on the program for the last two weeks.

00:01:24.960 This week, we're going to go and really just zero in on some of the most deranged responses from the legacy media.

00:01:31.200 The thing about Twitter is that you can sort of see the stream of conscious reaction of these media journalists.

00:01:37.540 They're sitting in Ottawa.

00:01:38.480 They hate the truckers.

00:01:39.520 They want them out of their city.

00:01:41.020 They want them gone.

00:01:41.960 They have the exact same opinion as Justin Trudeau.

00:01:45.160 They just think that they're beneath them and that they're these filthy, unwashed people and that somehow Ottawa belongs to them.

00:01:50.940 They want them gone.

00:01:51.880 And it's been really interesting to watch the reaction.

00:01:54.360 So joining me on the podcast today is True North producer and journalist Harrison Faulkner.

00:01:59.540 Harrison is in Ottawa.

00:02:00.600 He's been covering the protests.

00:02:02.160 And so he can give us some real insight as to, you know, the way that the media is covering this protest versus what it's like on the ground.

00:02:09.280 So Harrison, thank you for joining the podcast today.

00:02:12.000 Yeah, happy to be here, Candace.

00:02:13.060 So let's just start off by, can you set the scene?

00:02:17.620 What is it like at the Freedom Convoy protest right now?

00:02:21.960 Yeah, so I arrived on Wednesday and obviously the major protest was over the weekend.

00:02:27.840 And that's where we saw the footage of incredible crowds and this great patriotic moment that is going to live on in the history books of this country.

00:02:36.560 But none of the trucks had left pretty much, pretty much none of the trucks had left Ottawa this week.

00:02:43.180 And when I arrived, I would say there's probably over 100 trucks still parked along Wellington Street and along some of the side streets.

00:02:50.440 And it's really just the happiest atmosphere I've been a part of for many years.

00:02:56.380 People are dancing and singing and everyone is just really, really happy.

00:03:01.400 Everyone's talking with one another and sharing food and sharing gas and electricity for the trucks.

00:03:09.240 And so, as I said in one of my reports on Wednesday, I've never seen anything like it.

00:03:14.980 I wish I was there for the weekend.

00:03:16.480 But even the smaller gatherings that have been taking place outside Parliament this week, they've still been incredible.

00:03:24.680 And the energy on the ground is really something to behold.

00:03:28.300 I encourage everyone who can to come out and experience this while everyone is still here because it's something that's truly historic.

00:03:38.240 What do you think about – so one of the things that started to trend in Ottawa this week was the term occupation.

00:03:44.200 They're saying that Ottawa is occupied, that this is some kind of invasion and an occupation.

00:03:48.880 And we also heard the police basically say that they couldn't handle it and people were urging them to let the military take over.

00:03:55.460 So, I mean, I could go through a bunch of examples.

00:03:58.540 The Toronto Star described it this way.

00:04:01.020 Six days into the occupation of Ottawa streets by the so-called freedom, convoy freedoms and scare quotes there,

00:04:08.200 counter-protesters have began a movement of their own protesting the truckers, the response from the city and the Ottawa police.

00:04:14.680 CBC has a similar thing where they call it the occupation.

00:04:17.980 Just from your perspective, Harrison, does it feel like the city is being occupied?

00:04:22.700 Usually that's a term that we reserve for like a foreign occupation like of another country.

00:04:28.840 You know, for instance, people might say that Russia is looking to occupy Ukraine.

00:04:33.500 It's sort of jarring and weird to hear about Canadian citizens occupying their own capital that by definition belongs to the people of the country.

00:04:42.920 What's your take on that?

00:04:43.860 Well, Candice, if this was an occupation, it's one of the weakest occupations I've ever seen because police are interacting with the crowd, smiling.

00:04:54.040 I was talking with some of the protesters today on Wellington Street about how they've been interacting with the police.

00:05:01.160 And they say that the police are superstars there.

00:05:03.880 Every single one of them gets a wave, gets a cheer.

00:05:06.220 People are chatting with them.

00:05:08.500 And in fact, some of the some of the police who are off duty, these protesters told me that they come up and and interact with them and they all say they support what's going on.

00:05:16.120 So, you know, this is not an occupation.

00:05:19.360 The city of Ottawa is not under siege, as the liberal legacy media might want to paint it as.

00:05:24.560 It's it's clear, Candice, that they're so desperate to paint this as some sort of occupation.

00:05:30.380 They haven't given up on the January 6th narrative, as we talked about in last last episode, last Fake News Friday episode.

00:05:38.040 They are they are just so, so stuck on this narrative that it must be negative.

00:05:44.300 And it's just not.

00:05:45.920 So police police have been driving through Wellington Street since I've been there.

00:05:51.480 I've had to get off the road to let police drive through.

00:05:54.600 So they haven't blocked off critical roads.

00:05:57.600 They haven't blocked the police from making it making their way through the city.

00:06:01.500 That's just not true.

00:06:03.360 And also, like I said, the police and the protesters are interacting peacefully together.

00:06:11.340 Everyone is just happy to be there.

00:06:13.480 The police are happy to be there.

00:06:15.120 And also what I've noticed is that the police are kind of walking along in groups in groups of about five or 10 walking alongside streets,

00:06:24.800 just kind of looking as though they're actually trying to fill their time to do something.

00:06:28.800 I talked to Peel Region Police who were shipped in to provide backup, I guess, to the Ottawa police.

00:06:35.740 And they were just walking along some side street together.

00:06:38.600 And I asked them, oh, I said I noticed that they were from Peel.

00:06:41.580 And I said, were you guys shipped in here to provide backup?

00:06:44.440 And they were just walking along trying to fill their day.

00:06:47.500 So nothing to do.

00:06:48.240 They don't even have anything to do exactly.

00:06:51.680 Well, another one of the words that I keep see thrown around is that these are blockades.

00:06:56.960 And so this raises a whole question of, you know, what we've seen in this country over the last several years is the increase in popularity of blockades on the left,

00:07:06.060 on the left side of the political spectrum who don't want pipelines.

00:07:09.600 They don't want oil getting to market.

00:07:11.500 They want to shut down the oil sands.

00:07:12.780 And they pretend to speak for the First Nations community, which they definitely do not.

00:07:16.880 But it was about two years ago in January of 2020, pre-COVID, that we saw huge blockades where they were blocking railways or blocking freeways.

00:07:28.320 They were driving our supply chain to a halt.

00:07:31.760 This was all pre-COVID.

00:07:33.320 And, you know, you saw some conservatives sort of saying we need to implement the rule of law.

00:07:37.120 We need to be able to get our goods to market.

00:07:39.900 And speaking against this blockade.

00:07:41.520 So I want to get you to comment on this because, first of all, I'm not sure if it's a blockade.

00:07:46.340 I don't really see from the images I'm seeing.

00:07:48.680 I don't see trucks blocking through fares.

00:07:51.240 I don't see them blocking critical infrastructure.

00:07:53.060 I see them parked on the side of the road.

00:07:54.900 I know there's one or two intersections in Ottawa that are blocked.

00:07:58.680 But that doesn't constitute the equivalent of a blockade, say, of a freeway or a railway where there's no alternative route.

00:08:05.220 In Ottawa, it's a city.

00:08:06.240 So I imagine there's alternative routes.

00:08:09.100 But I want to play you this clip.

00:08:10.260 So first, Robin Urbach, who's a journalist over at the Globe and Mail, she writes this comment on it.

00:08:15.820 She says, this is making the rounds today.

00:08:17.320 And who, boy, that is some in-your-face hypocrisy.

00:08:20.580 Okay.

00:08:20.820 And so this is Pierre Polyev, who is hopefully going to become the leader of the Conservative Party or at least be one of the frontrunners.

00:08:27.320 Because he's very, very well-spoken and passionate about Conservative issues.

00:08:31.580 And so the tweet is from a Power and Politics episode that came out in February 2020.

00:08:37.420 So exactly two years ago, almost.

00:08:39.780 And this is what Pierre Polyev sounded like.

00:08:41.920 You have the right to swing your fist.

00:08:43.280 But that freedom stops at the tip of another person's nose.

00:08:46.940 And right now, these blockaders are taking away the freedom of other people to move their goods and themselves where they want to go.

00:08:54.960 And that is wrong.

00:08:56.420 And the government has laws and tools in place to combat it.

00:08:59.660 Right now, the Prime Minister is...

00:09:00.740 Right. What should they do?

00:09:01.540 If the Prime Minister were to, say, force the RCMP to go in, that could escalate things and backfire in a big way.

00:09:07.100 Right now, the Prime Minister is globetrotting, campaigning for a UN Security Council seat.

00:09:13.160 While here at home, all hell is breaking loose.

00:09:16.340 Our economy is about to be turned on its head.

00:09:18.920 Our entire transportation system is being blockaded.

00:09:22.680 We have CEOs of some of the largest employers in the country who are stepping forward to say that this is a crisis.

00:09:28.100 And what we hear from the government is that they're observing the situation.

00:09:33.060 So, Harrison, what's your reaction to that?

00:09:34.460 Do you think it's actual hypocrisy?

00:09:35.680 What did you think about what Pierre was saying versus the situation today?

00:09:39.020 No, it's not hypocrisy at all.

00:09:41.220 So, first of all, no one is being blocked from accessing Ottawa.

00:09:46.720 Any pedestrian, anybody can actually get through.

00:09:50.240 And it's two different separate issues.

00:09:53.000 One is to block railroads and railways from passing critical infrastructure.

00:09:59.780 The intent is to basically take out their political frustration on the people by blocking railroads.

00:10:06.820 That's what the rail blockades were. 0.92

00:10:08.560 That's what the wet sweat and protests were back then.

00:10:11.800 That's what Pierre was talking about.

00:10:13.340 This is totally different.

00:10:15.040 The protesters here in Ottawa are fighting for everyone's freedom.

00:10:18.060 They're doing this so that everyone, no matter who you are, no matter what your vaccination status is, no matter what your political stripe is, they're doing this so that you can live a life that is free.

00:10:28.980 You have free passage across the country.

00:10:30.960 And that is the big difference here.

00:10:33.040 So, of course, the usual suspects in the legacy media are going to trot out this clip as some sort of-

00:10:38.300 Pretend that it's equivalent.

00:10:39.040 But also, to me, it's like a railway, you have no alternative path, right?

00:10:43.240 Once you're on the tracks, it's not like you can just take a different route.

00:10:45.920 Whereas, from my understanding, it's like one intersection in Ottawa.

00:10:49.180 It's like, just go to the next intersection or just go around.

00:10:51.960 I know exactly where that is.

00:10:53.200 I used to live in Ottawa.

00:10:54.120 A lot of times coming home from the airport, it would be really busy along there because there would be a traffic jam.

00:10:58.300 So the taxi driver would just go a different route and that was it.

00:11:01.300 And, like, I agree.

00:11:03.900 I think it's silly.

00:11:04.460 The other thing that they're sort of saying here is that a lot of small businesses are being harmed,

00:11:09.940 that wage earners, that people who work at Rideau Centre, which is the mall right there that's closed or reportedly closed.

00:11:16.200 You can confirm that, Harrison, that a lot of these sort of workers in Ottawa aren't able to do what they do.

00:11:22.760 So Catherine McKenna, who's a former Liberal cabinet minister, she- 0.87

00:11:27.460 Well, I'll just go through her tweet.

00:11:28.900 So at first she tweeted out,

00:11:30.100 Making the analogy, I guess, that the people at the protest, Harrison, are far right, which is quite a stretch and really reckless, I think, for a high-profile liberal to say.

00:11:45.420 I hit back and I responded.

00:11:46.980 I just kind of took her words and changed them a little bit to reflect, I think, a better reality.

00:11:52.160 I said, a liberal government that smears the working class as far right is bad for the country and terrible for democracy. 0.97

00:11:57.720 Well, McKenna hit back again, claiming that she was a true defender of the working class or something. 0.98

00:12:05.840 She says, I stand for the working class, including those in Ottawa who can't get to work because it's currently being occupied by folks who want to deny residents their freedom to go to work, to sleep, to buy groceries, and to access critical services.

00:12:17.860 So, first of all, I question whether the bureaucrats who work in Ottawa are accurately described as working class, because I would describe them as middle class or upper middle class.

00:12:27.240 But that's a little bit beside the point.

00:12:29.500 McKenna ended up blocking me because she just really hated that I asked her this question or pointed this out.

00:12:34.460 But the idea that folks who live in Ottawa can't, they don't have their freedom to work, to sleep, to buy groceries, or to access critical services.

00:12:44.440 I'm wondering if you can comment on that accusation, speak to it.

00:12:48.020 Are people able to get to work?

00:12:49.840 Are people able to buy groceries?

00:12:51.560 And are they able to access critical services?

00:12:53.540 I'm not exactly sure what that means.

00:12:54.900 I assume she means get to a hospital or a doctor if they need medical attention.

00:12:59.440 Are those three things being prevented right now, Harrison?

00:13:02.100 No, and let's just break it down.

00:13:04.460 So, critical resources or access to critical resources, like you said, Candice, if that's the hospital, there are plenty of routes around Ottawa.

00:13:13.340 It's just on Wellington Street is where you can't drive through.

00:13:17.120 So, as you said, there's a lot of different options for people to get there.

00:13:20.140 Grocery stores and all that, those are open.

00:13:22.520 Small businesses are open because this is an incredible business opportunity.

00:13:26.560 It's not that often that this many people from around the country come together in Ottawa.

00:13:32.520 And are ready to spend money.

00:13:34.240 And actually, they're camped out for several days.

00:13:36.500 So, of course, they're going to spend money.

00:13:37.620 Most small businesses are open.

00:13:39.240 There are some larger businesses, larger food chains that are shut.

00:13:43.260 But Rideau Center is open.

00:13:44.940 So, again, this is just not true, the way that the media is trying to paint this.

00:13:49.660 And, again, the idea that residents in Ottawa can't sleep, that is just patently false.

00:13:58.060 Throughout the night, it actually gets quiet.

00:14:00.100 Truckers stop honking their horns.

00:14:02.140 They do it during the day.

00:14:03.200 There's plenty of footage to show that.

00:14:05.020 I have footage of that.

00:14:06.540 And other people have taken footage of that, Candice.

00:14:08.500 So, I'm not surprised to see Catherine McKenna do this.

00:14:11.120 Let's throw to that because I found this on Instagram.

00:14:14.640 And I really like this account.

00:14:15.760 There's an account called People of Color for Freedom Convoy.

00:14:19.140 And they put out this clip kind of debunking the media.

00:14:22.040 They put a lot of great content debunking the general media narrative.

00:14:25.500 But they put this one out showing the streets.

00:14:28.320 I think it's the corner of Metcalfe and Gladstone, which is right in Centertown.

00:14:32.360 And they show a clip at 8.30 and, again, at 10 p.m.

00:14:35.440 And it's completely quiet.

00:14:36.540 So, let's play that clip.

00:14:37.520 Yeah, so it seems like so many in the media and so many journalists and people on social

00:15:05.640 media want you to believe that the honking that we see is just like nonstop and it's

00:15:09.400 driving them all towards a mental breakdown.

00:15:11.820 That video seems to suggest otherwise.

00:15:14.580 I want to show this other clip quickly because this, I mean, this is kind of sad that people

00:15:20.540 are so wound up so tight in this country that they're behaving this way.

00:15:23.900 This kind of reminds me of someone, you know, how the average person behaves on Twitter.

00:15:28.780 This is like what it would look like in real life.

00:15:30.440 But this guy is just completely losing his mind.

00:15:32.980 He looks like a bureaucrat to me and he just really doesn't want these truckers in his 1.00

00:15:37.440 city.

00:15:37.760 So, let's play a clip.

00:15:38.700 We have to bleep out like half of what he's saying because there's a lot of F-bombs in 1.00

00:15:41.920 there, Harrison.

00:15:42.460 But let's play this clip.

00:15:43.700 Let's play this clip from Twitter.

00:15:45.500 I lost my mind because I haven't slept in five f-bombs days.

00:16:03.220 It has to f-bombs stop. 0.65

00:16:06.400 The honking will continue until freedom improves.

00:16:10.720 Simple as I.

00:16:11.780 Simple as I.

00:16:12.680 So, people are wound up pretty tight.

00:16:19.420 You've been in Ottawa for a few nights now.

00:16:21.260 How have you slept?

00:16:22.420 And what do you have to say about this complaint about the loud noise?

00:16:26.960 Well, it gets quiet at night.

00:16:28.200 So, I've slept totally fine.

00:16:29.600 I think if I were here on Saturday, like on last Saturday, then it might have been different

00:16:35.160 because the energy was obviously higher.

00:16:37.080 But there is a level of respect that the people here who brought their trucks in the convoy

00:16:42.680 have for what they're doing and for the people.

00:16:45.620 Like I said, when I speak to them, they always remind me that this is for everyone.

00:16:49.000 This is not just for truckers.

00:16:50.720 This is not just for their own kind of people.

00:16:52.540 So, they understand that this protest is targeted at politicians and at the liberal government.

00:16:58.260 So, again, it's sad to see these bureaucrats getting so wound up, but they don't own this 0.95

00:17:04.140 city.

00:17:04.400 The city belongs to all of Canada.

00:17:06.900 And, I mean, all you can do when you see that is laugh a little bit because I guess this

00:17:11.340 is what happens when the people that make these decisions get confronted with the truth.

00:17:16.360 Well, and with their own sort of privilege, your point that these bureaucrats really believe

00:17:21.920 that Ottawa is their city, that it belongs to them, and that these truckers need to leave

00:17:25.280 because they're encroaching on their city.

00:17:29.080 And to me, that just gets democracy so wrong, right?

00:17:32.220 Like I lived in Ottawa for a year.

00:17:33.780 I go back quite a bit.

00:17:34.960 I go there for speeches, for interviews, all kinds of stuff.

00:17:37.940 And there's basically four kinds of people that live in Ottawa.

00:17:40.440 You're either a politician.

00:17:41.920 There's a lot of politicians in there, not just the MPs.

00:17:44.160 All the MPs live there, but also the municipal city hall is right there.

00:17:48.840 And so you have all the municipal politicians.

00:17:50.980 You have the bureaucrats, which is like, I think, like 80% of the city because it's not

00:17:54.600 just government employees, also political staffers.

00:17:57.160 And then you also have all the diplomats, all the embassies that are there.

00:17:59.700 So government employees for other governments.

00:18:01.940 You have all the quangos and the sort of what they call themselves non-government, but they're 0.54

00:18:05.820 funded by government.

00:18:06.580 So they're kind of like government.

00:18:08.160 And then the third category is journalists.

00:18:10.860 Lots of journalists who live around Ottawa.

00:18:13.460 The CBC has a huge, huge, huge headquarters there.

00:18:16.560 So does CTV.

00:18:17.920 Lots of journalists.

00:18:18.600 The fourth category is students who go to the University of Ottawa.

00:18:22.220 So you don't really have an accurate representation of the Canadian population.

00:18:26.660 You kind of have these four elite sort of groups.

00:18:30.180 And look, there are a lot of people who work at the restaurants, work at the bars, work at

00:18:33.200 the shops, but they usually don't live in Ottawa.

00:18:36.500 They live somewhere cheaper out in the suburbs and then they commute in.

00:18:39.020 So the people who live there, the people that you see this sort of outsized complaining

00:18:43.700 from, these are all people that you could very easily classify as liberal, progressive

00:18:49.800 elites.

00:18:50.920 And I think that's so much of the reaction that we're seeing here, Harrison, is just how

00:18:54.400 out of touch they are with their country.

00:18:56.220 And it isn't just liberals.

00:18:57.380 I see a lot of conservatives, a lot of the sort of elite, fancy insider conservatives expressing

00:19:03.080 the sort of same exact opinions, sneering at the truckers and saying that they need to

00:19:08.020 leave, they need to get out of the city.

00:19:09.820 And to me, it's really exposing a class divide in this country that is upsetting to see because

00:19:16.420 we don't usually think of Canada as a really hierarchical class-based society.

00:19:21.420 But it seems like we're sort of heading in that path.

00:19:23.940 Now, I want to talk a little bit about the conservative MPs, because it seems like now

00:19:28.100 that Aaron O'Toole is gone, they have unleashed themselves.

00:19:31.300 They have a lot more freedom.

00:19:32.860 And what did we see?

00:19:34.500 A whole bunch of them went out to the rally to show their support for the truckers.

00:19:39.080 So why don't you tell us a little bit about that, Harrison?

00:19:42.220 Yeah.

00:19:42.380 So as soon as Aaron O'Toole was gone, and as soon as Candace Bergen was elected to be

00:19:47.860 the interim leader of the Conservative Party, one of the first tweets that really triggered

00:19:52.980 a lot of the journalists living in Ottawa was a group, was from Kevin Waugh, and it was

00:19:59.460 a group of the Saskatchewan MPs taking a photo on the streets with the truckers.

00:20:04.580 And as I've been here, I've interacted with MPs walking through the convoy.

00:20:08.960 Conservative MPs really do support this movement.

00:20:11.880 And so, yeah, I mean, that tweet really got a lot of liberal heads exploding.

00:20:18.540 Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, said that the photo Kevin Waugh took with his Saskatchewan

00:20:24.040 colleagues was a disgrace, and that residents had been harassed and protesters had been basically

00:20:30.560 destroying local businesses there.

00:20:32.380 So, you know, really, they couldn't handle this.

00:20:35.740 The fact that Conservative MPs really were unleashed after being held down for so long.

00:20:42.020 Robin Urbach of the Globe and Mail tweeted that one of the CPC's problems is that they

00:20:46.400 don't know how to read the room.

00:20:48.240 They only know how to read their room.

00:20:50.200 And obviously, that just shows the insular nature that these journalists live in, the

00:20:56.080 journalists in Ottawa live in.

00:20:57.760 Well, they think that everyone agrees with them, right?

00:20:59.680 Like, I think Robin is in Toronto, but it's like, I saw this a lot, this read the room,

00:21:04.620 like journalists saying, read the room.

00:21:06.420 Last year at Canada Day, when, you know, the whole zeitgeist of the media was like, Canada

00:21:11.540 is terrible.

00:21:12.180 We're this awful country.

00:21:13.360 Look at our history with residential schools.

00:21:15.660 And then if you had like anyone coming out saying like, happy Canada, they'd be like,

00:21:18.980 read the room.

00:21:19.620 Like, as if you weren't supposed to say that, because you're supposed to be deeply ashamed

00:21:23.120 of Canada now.

00:21:23.680 And it's like, you guys don't realize that it's you that is so out of touch.

00:21:27.860 Like, you know, Robin Urbach saying that the conservatives only know how to read their room.

00:21:32.160 It's like the most ironic hypocritical thing, because these journalists sit in this little

00:21:36.360 bubble.

00:21:36.860 They're very isolated from the rest of the country.

00:21:39.920 And they think that the views that they put out on the, you know, on the pages of the

00:21:43.300 Globe and Mail or on the airwaves of the CBC, that that represents popular opinion.

00:21:47.340 But it doesn't.

00:21:47.920 They're wrong.

00:21:48.340 And when they put this stuff out showing they're sort of looking down their noses at

00:21:52.620 the rest of the country, I think it really exposes them.

00:21:54.860 And just to take a broader example of that, Harrison, is all of these people complaining

00:22:01.200 now about how small businesses are getting shut down.

00:22:04.960 It's like, where have you been for the last two years?

00:22:06.680 Give me a break.

00:22:07.500 All of these pro-lockdown, pro-vaccine mandate politicians who have pushed these ridiculous

00:22:13.420 policies like the Ottawa mayor, all of a sudden trying to be the champion of small businesses

00:22:18.200 like, give me a break.

00:22:19.360 I'll believe that when I see it.

00:22:21.160 Where have you been for the last year and a half?

00:22:24.260 Yeah, well, I just got to say this one thing in regards to Aaron O'Toole and his removal

00:22:29.540 from the party.

00:22:30.360 When all the liberal journalists and all the legacy media journalists come out and defend

00:22:35.600 you after you've been gone, I think that's a sign that conservatives made the right decision.

00:22:40.040 Since when should conservatives basically take the endorsement of the journalists that constantly

00:22:45.500 criticize them for everything they do, every little thing they do as some sort of direction

00:22:51.040 they should head in.

00:22:51.960 So it's unsurprising that so many of these journalists came out and basically criticized

00:22:57.300 conservatives and defended Aaron O'Toole and criticized them as soon as they got out

00:23:01.920 to support the convoy.

00:23:03.520 And of course, like you said, Candace, where were these people when businesses were being

00:23:07.120 shut down and destroyed due to lockdowns?

00:23:09.100 Now they apparently care because they're all in their own city.

00:23:11.520 Right, and because it's just the opposite side, the side that they're available to

00:23:16.140 take.

00:23:16.260 It's such a good point.

00:23:17.060 We did see a lot of people coming out talking about how great of a leader Aaron O'Toole was.

00:23:20.700 It's like, you guys were so unfair to him every step of the way.

00:23:23.320 You asked him such ridiculous questions.

00:23:24.900 You tried to paint him as an extremist and a radical and as a Donald Trump lookalike, even

00:23:29.700 though he obviously wasn't any of those things.

00:23:31.940 And now that he's gone, they're all like, oh, what a great guy he was.

00:23:36.480 Too bad he didn't become prime minister.

00:23:37.680 It's just so despicable and predictable to watch.

00:23:41.460 All right, Harrison, I had one final thing I want to talk to you about because there was

00:23:45.580 this video that Glenn McGregor posted.

00:23:48.280 He is a CTV journalist, and he was sort of getting heckled and one might even say harassed

00:23:54.880 by some of these protesters here.

00:23:57.020 And so he tweeted this video.

00:23:58.500 He says, this is a pretty typical example of what it's like trying to cover these protests.

00:24:02.400 It's happening to every TV network's crews.

00:24:05.020 Well, I will just say it's not happening to True North.

00:24:07.260 It's not happening to Rebel.

00:24:08.280 It's not happening to the networks that are trying to cover the convoy in a more neutral

00:24:14.560 way, right?

00:24:15.260 It's only happening to the legacy media who have spent the last week slurring these people,

00:24:20.740 calling them Nazis, calling them far right, trying to paint them as very worst, you know,

00:24:25.980 find one guy doing something despicable and try to cover the whole crowd with that description.

00:24:30.920 So I never condone the harassment of journalists.

00:24:34.220 I think it's wrong.

00:24:34.820 I think that when it happens to independent journalists, the legacy media should defend

00:24:39.060 us and stand up for us, which they never do.

00:24:41.800 I won't say that this is good.

00:24:44.060 I won't say that it is acceptable.

00:24:46.200 I will, however, just say that this is a little dose of karma because you reap what you sow.

00:24:50.860 And again, the legacy media have been absolutely slanderous in the way that they've treated these

00:24:56.880 convoys.

00:24:57.520 And guess what?

00:24:58.800 People pay attention.

00:24:59.780 So people know that when they see CCTV, CBC Global, they know that these people have been

00:25:04.160 lying about them for the past week.

00:25:05.640 So why would they sit there and allow themselves to be the backdrop to some reporter smearing

00:25:10.140 them?

00:25:10.760 So what did you think about this, Harrison?

00:25:14.160 These people in the trucker convoy deeply respect journalists that are there to do their jobs

00:25:19.660 properly, that are there to actually tell the truth.

00:25:22.380 When I interact with these people in the protests, they always tell me how much they appreciate

00:25:28.420 True North's work, how much they appreciate the work of alternative journalists, because

00:25:31.600 we're the only ones, Candace, that are actually interviewing these people and giving them a

00:25:37.380 reasonable opportunity to tell their story to Canadians.

00:25:40.980 And of course, you never like to see mistreatment of journalists.

00:25:45.740 But here's the thing.

00:25:46.960 It's really easy to tell the truth.

00:25:49.000 I'm a one-man band here in Ottawa right now.

00:25:51.240 I'm walking on my own, filming myself with my own audio and telling the truth.

00:25:56.540 These journalists at the legacy media outlets have way more money, way more resources, and

00:26:01.300 yet it seems they are incapable of doing their jobs properly, of doing their jobs and telling

00:26:05.360 the truth.

00:26:05.920 So again, you don't like to see it, but as you said, this is karma.

00:26:10.140 This is what happens if you slander these people so aggressively.

00:26:14.720 What, are you just going to expect them to give you free food and hugs?

00:26:18.500 I mean, come on, what can these people expect?

00:26:20.320 It's just ridiculous.

00:26:22.100 Yeah, I completely agree.

00:26:23.900 And so we want to contrast what the media and what the journalists are saying.

00:26:27.860 And obviously, they're agenda-driven, right?

00:26:29.700 They want to confirm Justin Trudeau's narrative.

00:26:32.540 They want to back up what Justin Trudeau is saying.

00:26:35.120 Justin Trudeau is saying the most slanderous things about the protesters.

00:26:38.160 And so it's the media's job.

00:26:39.240 They get paid by Justin Trudeau, and it's their job to loyally, like loyal soldiers to the

00:26:43.380 prime minister, go along, do his dirty work, and find exactly what Trudeau wants, which

00:26:47.540 is a way to smear the entire group.

00:26:49.800 Well, the opposite is happening, right?

00:26:51.520 There was some unsubstantiated report that Justin Trudeau mentioned that the protesters

00:26:56.000 were stealing from the homeless.

00:26:57.740 I haven't seen anything to verify that.

00:27:01.200 What were the truckers actually doing?

00:27:03.680 They had signs.

00:27:04.720 They were making food for everyone in the area.

00:27:06.720 And I did see some footage of homeless people going and getting the food because there's

00:27:10.540 so much free food at the convoy.

00:27:12.740 So the opposite of stealing from the homeless.

00:27:15.440 They were giving food to anyone who wanted, anyone who's hungry.

00:27:18.300 Here they are making pizzas out of a truck.

00:27:20.600 You saw that sort of happy, peaceful moments, dancing and singing to Bob Marley.

00:27:26.520 There was a bunch of families and kids singing We Are the World, really heartwarming stuff.

00:27:31.640 We saw people of all backgrounds, right?

00:27:34.040 This whole idea that these people were white nationalists.

00:27:36.380 It's like if you spent any time watching videos, you would see that there was a whole bunch of

00:27:40.040 First Nations people there.

00:27:41.300 There were a whole bunch of Sikh people there.

00:27:42.880 And there were just people of all backgrounds, just like in Canada.

00:27:46.080 I told you about that Instagram account that I really like called People of Color for the

00:27:50.440 Trucker Convoy, or I think it's called People of Color for the Freedom Convoy.

00:27:56.020 Their entire channel is just dedicated to collections of people who are not white, who are part of

00:28:02.040 this movement, who are sort of supporting them and cheering them on.

00:28:04.640 So that's fun to see.

00:28:06.280 We saw protesters doing the most Canadian thing possible, which was playing a game of pickup

00:28:10.700 hockey there right in front of the parliament building.

00:28:13.580 That was great to see.

00:28:14.600 And Harrison, I wanted to finish off the show by sharing a clip, a montage clip that our

00:28:20.040 friends over at People of Color for the Freedom Convoy put together with Justin Trudeau's

00:28:25.080 speech contrasted to what the actual convoy looked like.

00:28:29.480 So here is that clip.

00:28:31.160 Over the past few days, Canadians were shocked and frankly, disgusted by the behavior displayed

00:28:38.780 by some people protesting in our nation's capital.

00:28:41.620 By those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers and steal food from the homeless.

00:28:50.060 We won't give in to those who fly racist flags.

00:28:55.060 We won't cave to those who engage in vandalism or dishonor the memory of our veterans.

00:29:02.460 Lord, this weekend has been a peaceful protest.

00:29:07.500 No one has gotten arrested.

00:29:09.400 I've never been more proud to be a Canadian right now.

00:29:14.860 I'm more proud of my country.

00:29:17.860 And I'm proud of the world.

00:29:19.020 I just want to say to everyone, I love you.

00:29:21.280 That was a great clip and it just perfectly contrasted how full of nonsense our prime minister is.

00:29:28.760 What an absolute ridiculous smear he did against the truckers and just how blatantly untrue it was.

00:29:35.480 I hope and I wish that more Canadians would pay attention and look past the media narrative,

00:29:40.940 that they would go and look for information on their own, that they would seek it out,

00:29:43.980 that they would come to, if not independent media like True North, but just go out and look on social

00:29:48.800 media for yourself.

00:29:49.640 These videos are absolutely everywhere.

00:29:51.420 You can see the contrast.

00:29:53.000 And I do think more and more Canadians are doing that, Harrison.

00:29:56.280 I just wish more I would.

00:29:57.300 I wish like everyone in the country would because the legacy media to me is just so full of nonsense

00:30:01.840 and so agenda driven that it's just painful at this point.

00:30:06.240 But anyway, thank you so much for joining us.

00:30:08.600 Keep up the great reporting on the ground there at the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.

00:30:13.400 Will do, Candice.

00:30:14.420 It's great to be here.

00:30:16.400 All right.

00:30:16.760 Thank you so much.

00:30:17.520 It's Fake News Friday.

00:30:18.220 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - February 04, 2022

The Ottawa Temper Tantrums Continue

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