The Candice Malcolm Show - The Trudeau government relied on CBC’s fake news to freeze Canadians’ bank accounts

00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appoints a partisan liberal to lead the national inquiry into the use

00:00:05.280 of the Emergencies Act, and the media don't bat an eye. Meanwhile, the Trudeau government

00:00:09.540 confirms that it relied on a CBC report to justify the use of this act, a CBC report that

00:00:15.880 was later retracted. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:30.000 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the program. So the big story of the week was that

00:00:36.580 Justin Trudeau has called a national inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act to quash the peaceful

00:00:42.800 trucker's convoy. This wasn't out of the goodness of Justin Trudeau's heart. He was compelled by law

00:00:48.180 to call this national inquiry. He waited until the last possible moment, and then news came out that

00:00:53.360 the individual that he appointed to oversee this inquiry, the judge that was appointed to oversee

00:00:58.600 it, was none other than a long-time partisan liberal political staffer who was later appointed

00:01:05.680 to the bench by a liberal Prime Minister, Paul Martin. You really can't make this stuff up.

00:01:11.780 Brian Lilly reporting over at the Toronto Sun breaks it all down, talks about how this individual worked

00:01:17.460 for John Turner back in the 80s. He was part of the government's sort of inner circle, the Prime

00:01:24.260 Minister's inner circle, advising him on who to appoint to the cabinet. So we're talking about

00:01:28.580 a consummate insider, a liberal loyalist, a liberal staffer, and yet you won't see this anywhere in

00:01:34.660 the media. Other than the Toronto Sun, other than here at True North, the media just don't really think

00:01:38.700 this is a big deal. They don't think it is important to tell you that this entire inquiry

00:01:43.900 is cooked from the beginning. It is being overseen by a liberal partisan appointee. I want to bring in

00:01:51.240 my producer and True North journalist Harrison Faulkner to the show. Harrison, thanks for joining

00:01:57.000 us. Welcome to the show. What do you think of this big story that we have a national inquiry

00:02:01.140 and it's being led by someone who could very easily just be described as a liberal insider?

00:02:08.480 Well, I wish I could say that I was surprised, Candace, about this. But of course, I think we chatted

00:02:13.740 about this a couple weeks ago. Things were really quiet and the kind of atmosphere around our team

00:02:20.700 was that the liberals must be doing something. They must be cooking up something and when it gets

00:02:25.920 really quiet and this is what it was. I mean, this really is the, this is seriously the height

00:02:30.900 of corruption, right? Putting in a loyalist, a liberal party staffer, you know, that is, I think,

00:02:39.760 par for the course with this government. And the original reporting we saw came from Kian Bextie,

00:02:44.640 who originally said that this judge was a donor. And then Brian Lilly's report kind of, kind of

00:02:52.500 questioned that report, but, but also took a different angle. And it ended up being a lot worse

00:02:56.600 than just being a liberal donor. It wasn't just that this judge would funnel money to the liberals

00:03:01.840 in support of them. He actually worked for them. He worked as a staffer. So again, it's, it's,

00:03:07.180 it's par for the course. It's not a surprise. And frankly, I think every Canadian knows this,

00:03:12.060 this inquiry, this review into the emergencies act was really never going to be about holding

00:03:16.300 the government to account. It was always going to be about trying to find a way, whatever way

00:03:20.620 possible to shine the best light on Trudeau and his government.

00:03:24.560 Well, you could see that even just from the framing and the way that they announced,

00:03:27.900 like what they were specifically looking into. So, you know, they weren't looking into

00:03:32.820 Justin Trudeau's unprecedented use of basically wartime measures, right? The war measures act

00:03:37.920 turned into the emergencies act. This is something that was like designed to be used if Canada was

00:03:43.860 ever invaded, or if there was ever like a real insurrection, the media drummed that storyline up

00:03:49.380 and pretended that we were, you know, had some kind of an insurrection happening. That was never

00:03:53.460 the case. And we'll talk a little bit about this next story with the CBC drumming up fear and,

00:03:58.400 and basically pushing misinformation. But, but I just want to go back to the justification

00:04:02.940 and, and what the national inquiry is called to investigate. So it says that the, the goals are

00:04:09.300 to look at the evolution and the goals of the convoy and blockades, their leadership organization

00:04:14.400 and participants, which we know it will be a witch hunt into looking up, pulling the worst dirt and,

00:04:20.320 and demonizing anyone at the trucker convoy, you know, evolution of their goals and convoy. We know

00:04:26.020 that's just going to be a smear job against the individuals who organized a convoy. Next,

00:04:30.060 they want to look at the impact of domestic and foreign funding, including crowdsources,

00:04:35.220 platforms. That's a story we're going to get to next. Third, the impact and role of misinformation

00:04:39.820 and disinformation, including the use of social media. We know that misinformation, disinformation

00:04:44.740 are the favorite buzzwords of the left and the true to liberals. They basically just use those words

00:04:49.160 to describe stories that they don't like, stories that are inconvenient to the government. We saw

00:04:54.120 last week, the government called a report from Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

00:04:58.740 on a trucker tax that, a pickup truck tax that was in a government report. And they called that

00:05:04.120 disinformation, even though it was in a government report. And then next, the impact of the blockades,

00:05:08.560 including the economic impact, which as we covered very extensively on the show, Harrison,

00:05:13.440 the blockades were, were removed. The border blockades, the Windsor Bridge, the one in

00:05:18.420 Surbush, Columbia, they were all gone. They were removed by the time Justin Trudeau invoked the

00:05:22.620 Emergencies Act on February 15th. So that is, that's fake news right there. And then the efforts

00:05:28.220 of police and other responders prior to the declaration, that will be a witch hunt into

00:05:33.100 police inaction and why the police didn't do the dirty work for Trudeau from day one. So

00:05:36.920 the entire thing is cooked. And, and the thing that, that really troubles me about this Harrison

00:05:41.740 is just a lack of curiosity in the media. Like, you don't, you don't see this story about, hey,

00:05:47.000 you know, the guy that's, that's, that could be holding Justin Trudeau account, the guy that could be

00:05:50.920 looking into the unprecedented power grab and use of force, disproportionate force against peaceful

00:05:56.240 protesters, rather than having a neutral person come in. No, no, he appointed a liberal sufferer.

00:06:02.620 Imagine for a split second that this was a conservative. This would be the biggest story.

00:06:07.720 This, like you said, it would be a story about a conflict of interest and perhaps corruption. And,

00:06:12.560 you know, those, those, those evil conservatives, uh, you know, creating some kind of a, a fake,

00:06:18.240 uh, inquiry here that won't lead to anything. There would be so much scrutiny if it was the

00:06:23.500 other way around. But it's Trudeau that does it. Media, you know, they give them a pass. They,

00:06:28.140 they don't take interest in it. They don't even write about it. It's not even of interest, which,

00:06:32.700 which is, is just so sad and pathetic. Uh, the, the, the, the media in Canada does a disservice to 0.91

00:06:37.900 every single Canadian when they give Trudeau a pass for this kind of thing. I want to get to the

00:06:42.040 latest news though. So there was a special joint committee on the declaration of the emergencies

00:06:46.700 act that took place in Ottawa earlier this week on Tuesday evening. We saw the justice committee,

00:06:51.980 David Lamedi, give a testimony. He testified that the emergencies act was invoked in part because

00:07:00.220 the government was relying on a CBC news report, the CBC news report about foreigners bankrolling

00:07:06.120 the protests. Here is a clip of David Lamedi, the justice minister, the attorney general of Canada

00:07:11.760 speaking on this committee. Here's what that looked like. Thank you. Um, and so it would also

00:07:17.960 be, uh, interesting for me, uh, going back to the point you made in your opening comments, um, on the

00:07:23.840 issue of, uh, part of your restrictions around coming up for people coming to Canada, uh, for the purpose of,

00:07:31.120 of, uh, the protests or such like, um, I assume then that there is some evidence that suggested

00:07:39.600 that we may have had people who were interested in coming across the border from, I would assume

00:07:45.500 the United States, uh, to participate in the protests. And that would be why you would put that

00:07:50.160 in specifically? Uh, that's correct. That's in the public domain, uh, that, that people were,

00:07:56.520 there were reports of people crossing the border. Uh, there were reports, CBC reported, uh, I believe

00:08:01.660 on the 14th of February or the 13th of February that, uh, that there was also foreign funding,

00:08:06.800 uh, through a variety of different sites. So that the, the various pieces of information that we

00:08:13.200 had explained the various measures that we took. So David Mehdi here is just confirming Harrison,

00:08:17.720 something that we already knew, which is something that our colleague, Anthony Fury and our friend

00:08:21.760 over at the Toronto Sun, he reported on this back in February. So on February 17th, he had a report

00:08:27.800 saying that the liberals cite a CBC analysis to justify the freezing of the bank accounts. So this is what

00:08:33.680 Fury wrote back in February. He said, the incredible powers that prime minister, Justin Trudeau has

00:08:38.140 given his government to freeze people's bank accounts is based on the reliance on analysis

00:08:42.600 from the CBC. According to a 14 page document, the government tabled on Wednesday, detailing the

00:08:48.720 supposed rationale for invoking the emergencies act in the first place, they included the CBC report.

00:08:54.000 So the most controversial measure they brought in not relied on nothing, but a CBC report. So as

00:09:00.600 Fury points out, no RCMP intel, no national security briefings, nothing but a story put together by a

00:09:09.180 handful of CBC reporters. It's one thing for the liberal government to rely on CBC for their own

00:09:14.300 opinions, their own opposition research. Fury writes, now it looks like they're framing national

00:09:19.260 security briefings from these CBC stories. Well, it gets even worse, Harrison, because the specific

00:09:25.180 story that the CBC cited had to do, as David LaMitte confirmed in committee, had to do with

00:09:31.120 foreign funding of the Freedom Convoy. We know that was a huge part of the left's and the liberals

00:09:36.040 narrative, which is that these truckers were funded by Trump supporters and mega loving people in the

00:09:43.100 United States, and that it was a foreign insurrection, and it wasn't Canadian, and it was all

00:09:47.560 foreign funded. Well, the CBC retracted that story because it wasn't true. So here is a story from

00:09:53.420 True North. It says that the CBC admits running fake news about the Freedom Convoy. The CBC has

00:09:59.880 publicly retracted a news story about the trucker Freedom Convoy that erroneously claimed that

00:10:05.320 support of the protests had come largely from foreigners. On February 10th, in a report about

00:10:09.740 the protest convoy, CBC's radio, The World This Hour incorrectly said GoFundMe, ended a fundraiser for

00:10:15.660 the protesters over questionable donations to the group, a statement from the broadcaster wrote.

00:10:20.440 February 10th article titled, Convoy protests received hundreds of donations that appear to

00:10:25.540 be from abroad, claimed that donations identified by the CBC are likely only a fraction of all

00:10:30.840 donations made by people outside of Canada. Another story by CBC claimed that at least a third of

00:10:36.540 donations were from anonymous donors. So we know that they drummed out the storyline about foreign

00:10:41.680 funders and about how this was, again, like a Trump insurrection, January 6th, that whole nonsense

00:10:48.300 storyline. However, Harrison, on March 3rd, when GoFundMe executives came to testify at a committee

00:10:55.860 in Ottawa, they said the exact opposite. They confirmed that a very small portion of donors from

00:11:02.040 the original GoFundMe campaign were from foreigners. This is a quote from GoFundMe president. He said that

00:11:08.400 our records show that 88% of donated funds originated in Canada, 86% of donors were from Canada.

00:11:16.380 So the overwhelming majority of those original donors were Canadian. Once that GoFundMe campaign got

00:11:22.780 shut down, there was a new campaign. And by that time, there was more publication, and it became an

00:11:28.820 international story. And there were more foreign donors to that second campaign. But the original campaign

00:11:33.520 and the original storyline about foreign donors was fake news from the CBC, so much so, Harrison, that they

00:11:38.860 retracted that story. And yet the government still relied on that report from the CBC to justify the use of the

00:11:45.520 Emergencies Act. It's so wild. It's so wild. We've said this on the show before. There's like fake

00:11:50.020 stories. It's like fake news wrapped into fake news wrapped into fake news. This is one of those

00:11:54.720 stories that you have to do a bit of digging. It's clear as day that the government used bad intel from

00:12:01.120 the CBC. And yet, again, this story isn't in the likes of the media. They're not reporting on it.

00:12:05.660 They're not focusing on it. They're not talking about it. It's so ridiculous.

00:12:08.880 No, it is ridiculous. And like you said at the beginning of this, if this were any other 0.99

00:12:15.200 government, even if it were a previous liberal government, perhaps a liberal government that

00:12:18.960 hasn't stuffed the news organizations with subsidies and with money to keep them quiet and keep them

00:12:24.100 supportive, this would be a huge story, I think. And it's worse than just the RCMP not having any

00:12:31.880 intelligence to back up the claims. If you recall, Candace, the FinTrack, which is the financial

00:12:37.120 oversight board, the regulator of transactions in the country, FinTrack, when the FinTrack director

00:12:46.400 came to testify to the Public Security Committee, he also said the same thing, that they did not have

00:12:51.980 reports that this was a foreign-funded or there was ideological-motivated extremism in the funding

00:13:00.300 of this convoy. So each time the government looked for legitimate intelligence to back up their insane

00:13:09.260 plans to basically freeze bank accounts, to take the unprecedented measures, they couldn't find it.

00:13:16.900 So all they could do was end up going to the CBC. But they even admit that. So you'd almost think that's

00:13:23.660 kind of an embarrassing thing for a government to do, right? To have to go to the CBC, the same CBC that we

00:13:29.300 make fun of on a weekly basis on this Fake News Friday program. They have to go there, but they admit

00:13:34.620 that they go there. Instead of actually getting legitimate intelligence from our intelligence

00:13:38.860 services, from the RCMP, and from FinTrack, it's incredible stuff. And really, it's the kind of thing

00:13:46.440 that in any other time, in any other government, it would be a huge, huge scandal. But of course, Candace,

00:13:52.940 it's to be expected, like everything with this government, like this whole national inquiry,

00:13:58.260 Canadians should not expect a real honest assessment of the actions. What they should expect

00:14:04.520 is a twisted, purely positive, the outlook is purely positive for the government. That's all

00:14:12.100 they're going to get. They're not going to get accountability. I think that's just the sad state

00:14:16.320 of affairs that we're currently living in.

00:14:17.660 Well, and you always have to go back to, I know you were probably a little too young to be following

00:14:22.380 the news during the Harper years, but to go back to the way that the media constantly, relentlessly

00:14:28.040 treated the Harper government as adversarial, and they were suspicious of every little thing that

00:14:34.080 Harper did. Stories would be dragged out through the news cycle day after day after day. And no matter

00:14:40.100 what, Harper was always painted in a negative light. And you kind of wonder, okay, how's the media going

00:14:44.820 to cover Trudeau? Obviously, they're not going to be as harsh against him. But the difference

00:14:49.120 is just by omission. Like they don't even cover the stuff. They don't even acknowledge it as a

00:14:54.380 problem. They agree so much with Justin Trudeau, and they believe in him, and they have his interests

00:15:00.220 at heart, that they don't even bother covering it. So it's not even like, oh, you know, the difference

00:15:04.780 in the way they cover scandals. It's like, they don't even cover it. It's not even in, it's not,

00:15:09.140 it's not anywhere in, you know, a Canadian press, CBC, Globe and Mail. Like they just,

00:15:14.100 they don't even acknowledge that it's an issue. And it's, again, just such an absolute disservice

00:15:19.560 to Canadians. Absolutely. So, Candice, another, another story came across, came across my desk

00:15:25.300 that I thought was something we had to discuss on the program. And it was Liberal MP Julie

00:15:30.520 Dezueric from Toronto, from a Toronto riding. She accused, incredibly, she accused the Ontario

00:15:37.620 Premier of crimes against humanity. Now, the crime that the Premier has supposedly committed

00:15:44.380 was to basically stick to the original targets that the federal government and the provincial

00:15:50.180 government both agreed to, a climate reduction target, 30% carbon reduction below 2005 levels.

00:15:58.440 So the crime that Julie Dezueric, the Liberal MP, is accusing the Premier of committing is reassessing

00:16:05.840 the way in which they're going to reach the targets. Not for anything serious, not for perhaps

00:16:12.700 what other crimes against humanity you may be thinking of. No, simply just rearranging the way

00:16:19.580 in which the Ontario government is going to reach those climate reduction targets. This is the insanity

00:16:25.120 of the far left. This is the climate left that I know you've talked about before, Candice,

00:16:31.860 where any little deviance off of the mainstream path of total climate alarmism, total climate,

00:16:43.120 I kind of consider it to be climate craziness, really. If you try to take any sort of reasonable

00:16:49.900 approach to that, apparently now you're committing the worst crimes possible, crimes against humanity.

00:16:56.260 And so she said this in the House, and I want to play the clip because really, it's incredible.

00:17:00.380 She's very confident in this statement. So watch this clip.

00:17:04.240 I will say something as an aside, Madam Speaker. You know, last week, at the beginning of the week,

00:17:09.700 you know, my heart was in the pit of my stomach when I read that the provincial Ford government

00:17:14.200 was quietly altering their plan to hit their climate change targets. And I'll say to you that

00:17:20.780 no matter how aggressive the federal government gets with $100 billion and 100 actions, there's no

00:17:26.500 way Candice is going to be able to reach its climate targets if our largest province does not do its

00:17:31.540 part. As our climate is changing more quickly than we had thought, these inactions to me are

00:17:37.860 irresponsible, unconscionable, and to me, a crime against humanity. So the actions are irresponsible,

00:17:45.680 unconscionable, and a crime against humanity, Candice. It's a crime against humanity to commit

00:17:50.600 to reducing your carbon emissions by 30%. So apparently that's a crime against humanity.

00:17:56.900 I don't know how you possibly justify such a thing. She was even asked to apologize by a conservative

00:18:03.020 about saying those words, especially in light of what's been happening around the world.

00:18:07.000 And she took the opportunity to double down. So I'd like to get your take on this, Candice. But

00:18:11.700 I guess this is, what else can this be other than just a cheap political hit at the premier before

00:18:18.620 an election? Well, I'm one of those people who don't see much of a distinction between the liberal

00:18:23.780 and the conservative climate plans. It's like a difference without a distinction because the

00:18:28.620 liberals make big audacious plans and then don't keep to them and climate emissions go up,

00:18:34.840 even though they're supposed to go down. Even with all the heavy-headed schemes that Trudeau has

00:18:38.740 introduced, our greenhouse gas emissions and our CO2 emissions are still going up. So the liberals'

00:18:43.800 plan is based on nonsense. The conservatives, especially conservatives like the Ford government in

00:18:49.000 Ontario, basically just do the same thing. Like, they make audacious plans and then they don't stick to

00:18:55.700 it and we don't meet our targets. So this whole idea that somehow, you know, tinkering with the

00:19:02.580 reduction plan, you know, 10 years down the road is somehow going to, what, lead to, like, mass death

00:19:08.840 and extermination. I mean, this is hyperbole, right? This is over-the-top, ridiculous, silly hyperbole by

00:19:16.100 a MP. I think that more journalists should call her out on it because we know that when the 1.00

00:19:22.480 conservatives issue any kind of criticism against Trudeau, we see lots and lots of pearl clutching

00:19:29.100 from the media, lots and lots of people quick to jump and denounce the hyperbole coming from the

00:19:35.020 conservative side. I mean, Harrison, we're all old enough to remember, what, like two weeks ago when

00:19:40.260 MP Brad Redekop said that the Trudeau government's use of the Emergencies Act was akin to

00:19:46.700 dictatorship. Rachel Thomas then read the definition of a dictator and we saw ensuing lots and lots and

00:19:54.860 lots and lots of journalists wagging their fingers at the conservatives. We had Rosemary Barton 0.90

00:20:00.360 saying this, criticize the liberal NDP deal all you want, but this is irresponsible rhetoric from someone

00:20:06.700 who was duly elected. Complaining, we had Steve Chase over at the Globe and Mail, worth noting,

00:20:11.920 conservative MP Rachel Thomas on Monday in the House of Commons said that many Canadians hold a

00:20:16.300 view of Justin Trudeau's definition of a dictator. She did not cite a poll, though. She did not cite a

00:20:23.980 poll. Don Martin over at CTV said, what a crazy thing to say. Makes the whole caucus look bad.

00:20:30.340 Charles Adler, radio host, said, who among conservatives running for leadership will renounce this

00:20:34.900 irresponsible? The irresponsible. Every Canadian school child is getting 100% clarity on what a

00:20:40.240 dictator is. OK, so lots and lots of finger wagging and pearl clutching when a conservative says something

00:20:46.280 hyperbolic about our prime minister. And again, this is like the theme of the show. When a liberal does

00:20:51.200 it, the liberals, the liberal, the media don't bat an eye. Journalists don't bat an eye because they

00:20:56.540 all agree that, of course, Doug Ford is some reprehensible dictator who's committing crimes against

00:21:02.360 humanity for the crime of having a emissions plan that is 2% lower than the liberal emissions plan

00:21:08.900 that they will not meet anyway. Like, it's all such a joke. Harrison, it reminds me of this piece over

00:21:13.800 in the CBC, an opinion piece. Everyone knows my opinion on CBC running opinion pieces. It's complete

00:21:19.520 nonsense. But we had an article in the CBC complaining about how the conservatives are using too much

00:21:27.740 hyperbole against the left. So the title of this piece is called Attacking Opponents as Socialists

00:21:33.980 and Dictators Weakens the Fabric of Our Democracy. We have a political science professor from Simon

00:21:39.460 Fraser University complaining and going on and on and on and on about how wrong it is to call

00:21:45.100 conservative for conservatives to call politicians on the left, socialists, communists or dictators.

00:21:52.340 He's very, very concerned. He wants to use very specific, very precise language. Look, I'm one of

00:21:59.560 those people that's a bit of a stickler when it comes to language. I think that there is some truth

00:22:03.580 to this concept that when you call people really over-the-top hyperbolic words, it weakens the fabric

00:22:09.220 of our democracy. You sort of normalize the use of over-the-top attacks. The problem is that this piece

00:22:16.580 from this political science professor focuses 100% entirely on defending the left against accusations

00:22:23.260 that they're socialists, communists or dictators. And he doesn't even mention the fact that the left

00:22:27.660 does this every single day. So from my perspective, conservatives do it a little bit. Like maybe the

00:22:32.600 conservatives do it like 10% of the time, right? They call someone a socialist. They call someone

00:22:36.500 communist. Worth noting, by the way, that a lot of people on the left have started calling themselves

00:22:40.660 a socialist, right? So you have someone like Nikki Ashton, a very prominent NDP. She's been endorsed 0.79

00:22:46.600 by the NDP Socialist Caucus. That's the thing. That's the thing. They have a caucus called the

00:22:50.840 Socialist Caucus, right? The Socialist NDP Caucus is in coalition with the Trudeau government right

00:22:56.320 now, right? You have high-profile Democrats in the U.S., people like AOC, Bernie Sanders. They call

00:23:01.420 themselves Democratic Socialists, right? So they take on that name themselves. Yes, sometimes conservatives

00:23:07.400 use that word in a demeaning way. A lot of times, though, it is accurate based on what the description

00:23:13.900 of what these politicians say that they want and the policies that they're putting forth.

00:23:18.220 Regardless, he's looking at conservatives and defending the left against accusations. No,

00:23:23.960 we're not communists. No, we're not dictators. And then he's ignoring the like 90% of the people

00:23:29.160 who do this, which come from the political left, calling people on the right every single name in the

00:23:34.060 book. Like how many times in the last five years have you heard conservatives be called

00:23:37.700 extremists, racists, white supremacists, Nazis, fascists, like on and on and on and on. They 0.92

00:23:43.880 constantly use these terms to describe conservative politicians, conservative activists. They slur and

00:23:50.500 malign the entire right with the most hyperbolic language. I agree it weakens the fabric of our

00:23:55.360 democracy. So does the CBC running opinion pieces where they only criticize one side doing it,

00:24:02.340 not the other side, even though the other side is way worse, way worse of an offender

00:24:06.000 at doing it, Harrison. I mean, this whole thing just shows, again, the double standard,

00:24:11.920 the left and liberals can get away with calling conservatives all kinds of bad names. Justin

00:24:16.960 Trudeau did it. He accused Melissa Lanceman, someone who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors,

00:24:21.480 he accused her of standing with those who wave a swastika. Again, media barely covered it other than

00:24:26.080 just maybe to downplay it a little bit. But they didn't focus on the fact that Trudeau

00:24:30.980 maligned the entire trucker convoy as being Nazis, as did so many in the legacy media.

00:24:37.340 And yet, you know, here we have a liberal MP calling Doug Ford, accusing him of crimes against

00:24:43.700 humanity and crickets from the media. It's so pathetic. Yeah, well, it's just so arrogant from 0.99

00:24:50.820 the political left. They know exactly, as you pointed out, that they can get away with calling

00:24:55.560 conservatives whatever they want. Not only will they be backed up by politicians, and politicians

00:25:01.760 will reinforce the language that those in the media use, but those in the media will back

00:25:08.820 themselves up. They'll write their own opinion pieces explaining why they're allowed to do and

00:25:12.720 why they're allowed to say what they say and why it's wrong for conservatives to accuse the prime

00:25:18.860 minister or the NDP as socialists. And one thing I found to be quite interesting about this op-ed was

00:25:27.280 that he basically, he does the whole communism in principle is not bad, but in practice it ends up being

00:25:35.120 bad. He brings out that whole old line that everyone knows has just totally been debunked. And so he kind

00:25:43.860 of defends, in a way he defends communism here by saying, you know, communist revolutions in theory

00:25:53.220 don't need to be undemocratic, but in practice, however, communist revolutions in the regimes that

00:25:57.780 follow have been just that. So it's a very odd thing by attacking conservatives, by saying that what

00:26:04.060 they're doing is bad for the country. He then slips that in at the end. It's very bizarre. It's, it's,

00:26:08.520 but it is, Candace, as we've always talked about, just another example of the CBC basically providing

00:26:15.100 ammunition for the political left, giving them what they need to, whether it's, whether it's

00:26:20.340 intelligence reports when the government intelligence can't do it, or whether it's basically taking

00:26:25.280 shots at conservatives and covering for the left like this piece does. It's, it's just what we should

00:26:31.400 all come to expect from, from the CBC at this point. Well, it's such a good point. And I think Jordan

00:26:35.760 Peterson has since do a good job of debunking the idea that communism in practice is this righteous,

00:26:41.860 you know, beautiful concept. It's like, no, the very, the, like, right in the philosophy, it says that

00:26:47.900 you don't own what you produce. So they're going to take things away, they're going to force you down. And

00:26:51.880 yeah, seeing a, seeing a professor, you're right, awkwardly make the case that Marxism and communism

00:26:58.000 just isn't that bad, guys. It's like, yeah, it's, it's super transparent, what the CBC is trying to push.

00:27:04.440 Also, also on the CBC opinion page, I, I'm just going to give this one a quick honorary mention

00:27:08.920 because it's fake news Friday. This is a CBC on Twitter, introducing you to a new comedy special

00:27:15.080 that's going on. And so we, we see this, Rush Kazzy is, the headline is, Rush Kazzy is about to

00:27:21.960 achieve the comedy dream, an album and a special coming out on the same day. And on the CBC,

00:27:26.860 on Twitter, the CBC writes, Kazzy is ready to be your new favorite non-binary pansexual South Asian

00:27:35.220 Muslim comedian. Bravo, CBC, you found someone to check like so many of the boxes. This is like 1.00

00:27:41.080 probably the most diverse person that you will ever come across because, you know, of all,

00:27:47.200 of all of my top favorite non-binary pansexual South Asian Muslim comedians, Kazzy is about to

00:27:52.860 become the new favorite one. Harrison, what do you, what do you think of this silliness with the

00:27:58.740 CBC promoting, you know, all kinds of, I don't even know how to describe it. Just pushing the

00:28:05.100 transgender ideology in the most bizarre ways possible. I mean, yeah, like it's got to be that 1.00

00:28:10.460 at one, at least one CBC op-ed a week could easily be read as a satire piece, like a Babylon Bee article, 0.95

00:28:17.720 because it's so, they're so ludicrous. It's so, it's so crazy. And they're so, I mean, the tweet 0.95

00:28:23.580 itself is ready to be your new favorite non-binary pansexual South Asian Muslim comedian. I mean,

00:28:29.740 that can easily be read as a Babylon Bee article. It would, it would, it would totally pass, I think,

00:28:35.100 for most people. And, and one thing about this article, which is, which has been pointed out in,

00:28:39.800 in some of the, in some of the tweets that I want to read, um, some of the responses throughout the

00:28:45.080 whole article, they use the, the, the gender neutral pronouns. They use they to describe,

00:28:51.020 uh, Cassie here. And it's very odd. If you're reading it, it's not easy to follow. It's very

00:28:57.100 confusing. Um, and I want to pull one, one line from the article, cause it's just, it just shows

00:29:02.660 where all this, where all this gender neutral woke language is heading. It's, it's heading in,

00:29:07.800 in a way that is just not even grammatically correct. So this is what one of the lines says,

00:29:12.200 while Cassie is a very proud, is, is very proud of each and every one of their identities,

00:29:16.640 it's important for them to stress that they are also not solely these identities.

00:29:23.720 So it's so hard to follow. It's like, what, what are you even talking about?

00:29:27.320 Throughout the article, it, it, it basically just becomes more and more difficult to understand

00:29:31.900 and read if you're really trying to read it, um, critically.

00:29:35.220 Well, just, just before you get into the, yeah, before you get into some of the tweets,

00:29:39.420 it's like, sometimes I feel like they're trolling, right? They just really want a reaction from the

00:29:43.420 right. And so they put these kinds of silly tweets together, like that, you know, that she's going 0.91

00:29:47.740 to become your favorite, that they are going to become your favorite, uh, pansexual, whatever that 0.98

00:29:53.040 means. Uh, but, but, but yeah, I mean the way that the story is written, it almost sounds like this

00:29:57.460 person has like a multiple personalities disorder or something like, like describing one person as they

00:30:03.080 play. And then trying to like, uh, square that circle that square over and over again, the piece

00:30:08.020 is just, it's, it, it makes it impossible to read, but anyway, carry on. Yeah. The comedy dreams kept

00:30:14.080 gnawing at Cassie though. And by the age of 27, they decided to make their standup debut. It, they don't

00:30:21.300 even try really. And it's, it's exactly, I think you're right, Candace, that they must really be

00:30:26.220 looking to rile, uh, rile everyone up on the right and get a reaction. But I want to read some of the,

00:30:31.420 some of the tweets because they really are, they really are good. Uh, John Kay, who we, who we,

00:30:36.740 we, we pull up his tweets often on this, on this program. He pulls the line that I read about

00:30:42.020 Cassie is proud of each and every one of their identities, but it's important for them to stress

00:30:46.100 that they're also not solely these identities. Uh, he wrote, this is an actual sentence from the

00:30:50.160 article, James Lindsay, who's an American author who, uh, comments on a lot of the woke, um, ideology

00:30:56.720 that's being pushed in America. He writes that she's either funny or she isn't. Everything else

00:31:01.140 is a distraction. Andrew Lawton, who I think had the best take on this. Uh, he wrote on

00:31:06.940 Twitter, but it's such a crowded field, is they sure? So pulling out the, pulling out

00:31:11.980 the fact that, I mean, yeah, there's, I can probably count how many, uh, too many to, too

00:31:17.740 many to name non-binary pansexual South Asian Muslim comedians. So yeah, I don't know if

00:31:22.480 Cassie's going to be my favorite. Um, but yeah, he, he made that, he made that tweet and Derek

00:31:27.220 filled the brand of the Western standard wrote whatever your chosen pronouns using

00:31:31.820 they and them for the singular. Isn't just confused. Isn't just confusing. It's incorrect

00:31:36.880 English, let alone it being very confusing and tough to read. When are we just going to

00:31:41.720 call it out, Candace, that it's not correct English. You can't just call each singular

00:31:47.660 person. They, because then no one knows what you're talking about.

00:31:50.120 Yeah. It's like, it's, it's, I mean, this is, this is part of the problem. And again,

00:31:54.700 back to Jordan Peterson, like this is, this is what he's saying. You can't compel people

00:31:58.820 to, uh, use a form of English that they're not comfortable with. Like the interesting. And I think

00:32:04.360 the beautiful thing about the English language is that it's constantly changing. It adapts. It's,

00:32:08.540 it's a bottom up language where, you know, things that are slang in one generation may become very

00:32:13.700 common the next. And, and if that evolution happens naturally, then that's fine. But, but having

00:32:19.060 someone force new rules upon society and upon language, it just, it just doesn't work. And,

00:32:25.540 you know, watching the left really kind of grasping at straws, trying to enforce these new language codes

00:32:32.200 and rules that they've tried to come up with. It's just so off-putting. It's so awkward. I, I,

00:32:37.240 I hope that this is just a passing stage. Like, I hope this isn't something that, uh, you know,

00:32:41.800 is here to say, I can't, I can't imagine it is. It seems like, uh, you know, some in our culture are

00:32:46.560 very confused at the moment and, you know, they're just constantly looking for the next

00:32:51.160 progressive woke cause to champion. And, you know, this, this one that they've chosen about the idea

00:32:56.800 that anyone can be any gender and you can change your identity and that you birth, uh, the, the gender

00:33:02.180 that you're given at birth is just a guest by the doctor. This, I really hope this is just a passing

00:33:06.820 phase and that this is not something that, uh, is here to stay in terms of the, uh, culture here in

00:33:13.160 North America and in the West. Absolutely. So very quickly, Candice, I want to bring up one

00:33:17.580 more story. This was released by blog to on Monday. The, the barstool sports president,

00:33:23.760 Dave Portnoy, who's well known, has become quite well known for doing pizza reviews. Um, I think

00:33:28.960 the pizza review channel itself has several hundred thousand subscribers where he just goes to

00:33:33.600 different pizza joints and gives them a rating. It's, it's one of those small things. It's kind of

00:33:36.800 become a big deal. He announced that he was coming to Toronto to do some business, I guess,

00:33:41.660 and do some, do some other work. And when he said he was coming to Toronto, of course,

00:33:46.620 a bunch of Toronto pizza businesses commented on his post saying, Oh, you've got to come try my

00:33:52.040 pizza, rate my pizza, because it really is a good thing for business. He has a huge platform. Uh,

00:33:57.840 and, and if he reviews your pizza and he gives it a good review, it'll be good for business. So

00:34:02.100 understandably a good business owner would want to have Dave, uh, Dave Portnoy come down to their

00:34:06.840 business. But blog to you wrote an article on Monday totally shamelessly. I will say as well,

00:34:12.300 the headline reads Toronto restaurants offering controversial barstool sports president, Dave

00:34:17.540 Portnoy pizza. And this is a perfect example, Candace, of, of journalists admitting that they

00:34:23.340 are just activists and then turning their activism into news when there's no news to be had

00:34:28.920 and trying to find a way to put themselves in the best possible light and make themselves look as

00:34:34.720 though they're, they're heroes. Uh, Dave Portnoy is sort of a, an enemy of the political left.

00:34:39.440 They see him as someone who doesn't, you know, stands up to cancel culture and takes on the left

00:34:44.640 in their worst, uh, and takes them on really and challenges them, um, when they really sink to the

00:34:49.780 lowest levels. Um, and I want to read a couple of the quotes from this, this blog to you piece,

00:34:53.840 because it's really, it's really incredible. Uh, the story starts by saying when controversial

00:34:57.960 barstool sports president, Dave Portnoy announced he'd be coming to Toronto, you'd think at least some

00:35:02.940 people would be telling him to stay away, but a surprising number of restaurants are offering

00:35:06.660 him food. Wow. What a surprise business owners want an actual, want the support of, of a, of a

00:35:12.140 well-known, of a well-known reviewer. Uh, but the story goes on to say he announced he'd be visiting

00:35:17.680 Toronto in a video posted to his social media to the delight of many food lovers. One of the things

00:35:22.720 Portnoy is particularly known for is doing on his channel is reviewing, uh, food specifically on his

00:35:26.920 pizza reviews. And then this is the part where it just gets incredible. It, the story says Italian

00:35:32.220 bakery, San Remo had offered Portnoy had offered Portnoy food in a comment, but changed their mind

00:35:38.000 about it after blog TO reached out and, and the tavern needy restaurants were also unaware of the

00:35:44.240 allegations. So they admit Candace in the article after blog TO reached out after our activist

00:35:50.480 journalists reached out to tell them not to support Dave Portnoy. They then retracted their

00:35:55.260 statement and now they don't want Dave to come. So it's, it's a classic example, Candace of,

00:36:00.220 of, of, uh, Toronto journalists, activist journalists in this city, basically just

00:36:06.920 admitting that they're no, nothing more than activists and trying to kind of cancel businesses

00:36:11.900 or trying to shine them in the worst light. And Portnoy took to Twitter and said, blog TO must

00:36:16.880 be sister blogs with Deadspin, which is an article, which is a blog that tried to take on Portnoy years

00:36:21.460 ago. Imagine calling local places to warn them. I may, I may eat their pizza. Literally nobody

00:36:26.900 recommended San Remo, but now I think I have to go there, which just shows you how the left's,

00:36:31.940 the left's actions constantly backfire. And true North's cause man, Georgia, he wrote the journal

00:36:36.440 activists at blog TO were calling pizza places, warning them that Dave Portnoy might review their

00:36:40.580 pizza. A review from Dave would boost their struggling, the struggling small businesses,

00:36:44.520 but journalists can't let that happen. They're such bitter losers. And I couldn't have put it any 0.99

00:36:48.880 better myself. Well, I, okay. A couple of things. So for people who don't know what blog TO is,

00:36:54.120 it's like one of those like very, very popular local blogs. Like if you're looking for a good

00:36:58.740 pizza place in Toronto or a good sushi place or good patio, they have a really great list of all

00:37:03.660 the best restaurants. They do great reviews. They have great lists. I personally use it all the time

00:37:07.520 while I did, you know, before all the restaurants shut down pre COVID when I used to go out all the

00:37:11.540 time. Uh, it's, it's a great site for that. The problem is just like so many journalists in this

00:37:16.940 country in all over the place that rather than sticking to the thing that they do best, which is

00:37:22.160 journalism and reporting on restaurants so that you can help understand and choose which restaurant

00:37:27.660 you want to go to. They can't help, but get involved in the politics. Obviously they're very

00:37:32.240 far left, just like everyone culturally in Toronto, a part of that scene. So, so, so they're, they're

00:37:37.540 trying to seep their political views into their reporting, which makes it worse because I'm so much

00:37:42.000 less likely to go on blog to you now when I have to sit through, you know, lectures on gender ideology

00:37:48.120 or, you know, this, this story here somehow, uh, you know, a very popular social media personality,

00:37:55.300 David Portnoy, isn't allowed to review pizza places and they need to get warned. Like this

00:38:00.380 isn't journalism. This is just full on activism. Harrison, I hope I, maybe I'll get you to explain

00:38:06.220 a little, cause I'm personally not very familiar with Dave Portnoy. I know my husband loves his pizza

00:38:10.560 reviews. He constantly tries to get me to watch his pizza reviews and I'm like not interested.

00:38:14.360 I don't, I don't get it. It doesn't appeal to me. Um, however, like who is this guy and why,

00:38:20.120 why do these journal activists at blog to you hate him? What do they have against him? What has

00:38:24.820 this guy done? That's so beyond the pale that he can't come and review pizzas in Toronto?

00:38:29.300 Well, I think it all, it all stems from the fact that his company, uh, barstool sports takes on a

00:38:35.860 different angle to the work. They're, they're a journalism, they're, they're a blog. They have a bunch

00:38:40.060 of shows and podcasts, but they just try and take a different angle than the rest of the light,

00:38:45.240 the media. They, they don't buy into the cancel culture. Uh, they don't buy into the woke ideology

00:38:52.720 and Dave Portnoy will vocally oppose it. Um, and I think because of that, because of his persistence

00:38:58.660 in, in opposing the pressures of the left, the left sees him as a threat. So then they've tried with,

00:39:03.940 with other blogs. Um, they've tried to come after him. They've tried to, uh, bring up accusations,

00:39:09.820 um, about his behavior that he, that he thoroughly refutes and, and opposes. Um, and nothing ever

00:39:17.780 comes up of these accusations. So he's kind of, people have tried to cancel him. He's, he's,

00:39:23.060 he's avoided being canceled. Um, and I think that the whole idea of just having fun, making jokes

00:39:28.800 and not, not kind of buying into the, the leftist cancel culture really, really gets under the skin

00:39:34.180 of these, uh, leftist journalists. So all of this stuff, I think just comes from that. I think they,

00:39:40.040 they are a bit bitter about his success. They're a bit bitter about the fact that he doesn't buy into

00:39:44.260 their whole, uh, their, their whole, um, leftist kind of, uh, ideology. His, his writers are not

00:39:52.040 activists. That's for sure. And I think that's a lot, that's really refreshing for a lot of people.

00:39:55.980 Um, and I think that again, it, the fact that someone like him who can have real influence,

00:40:01.780 who can, um, you know, change the fortunes of a pizza business just by going and doing a two

00:40:06.840 minute, three minute video about them, that is a, that's a serious threat to people who I think

00:40:12.400 are kind of just struggling, miserable, disappointed journalists at these kind of lame blogs. Um,

00:40:19.680 that's, that I think kind of is stems is, is the stem of all this, of all this sort of, uh,

00:40:24.640 they, uh, yeah, they want the monopoly on reviews, I guess. And I can't have some

00:40:29.500 sort of funny anti-woke, uh, guy coming in and taking that away from them.

00:40:33.860 Well, Harrison, thank you so much for joining the show. It's been fun to have you on. Thank

00:40:37.520 you for shining light on the activism that creeps into journalism, uh, just on a day-to-day

00:40:42.880 basis here in Canada. Appreciate your report. Appreciate you joining the show.

00:40:46.500 Always a pleasure, Candice. Thanks.

00:40:48.220 That's Harrison Faulkner. I'm Candice Malcolm. It's Fake News Friday,

00:40:51.000 and this is the Candice Malcolm Show.

00:40:54.640 Thank you.

The Candice Malcolm Show - April 29, 2022

The Trudeau government relied on CBC’s fake news to freeze Canadians’ bank accounts

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript