The Candice Malcolm Show - The Trump fever dream lives on in the minds of Canada’s Laurentian elites

00:00:00.000 The Trump fever dream lives on in the minds of the Laurentian elite here in Canada, and the media use COVID as another opportunity to push even more socialism in our already socialized healthcare system.

00:00:12.020 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:19.540 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast.

00:00:22.980 Now, this show, The Fake News Friday Show, is our favorite show here at The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:27.760 It gives us an opportunity to look back at the legacy media, go through some of the most bizarre headlines of the week, and just sort of dissect all of the various problems.

00:00:37.020 There's so many things wrong with legacy media in Canada, and we go through this a lot on this show.

00:00:42.960 I call it the three Bs of the media.

00:00:46.280 First of all, they're beholden to the Trudeau government.

00:00:49.220 They receive their funding from the government, which means that there is a conflict of interest, and they're not going to properly report.

00:00:54.820 The second thing is that they're biased. They're all sort of partisan liberals, or at least they adhere to the same ideology that Justin Trudeau follows.

00:01:02.660 They're liberals. They see the world through that lens.

00:01:05.200 They think that every solution should be fixed by the government, that there's no limits to the things that the government can do,

00:01:12.120 and that they have these sort of trends, like, you know, they're anti-American and anti-conservative and all these kind of things.

00:01:17.720 And the third thing that the media is, the third B, probably the worst crime of all, is that they're boring.

00:01:22.820 It's so predictable. It's so bland. It's so milquetoast. It's so boring.

00:01:25.920 So those are the three Bs of the legacy media.

00:01:29.020 And to join me on this show, I'm bringing on my producer here at the Candace Malcolm Show, Harrison Faulkner.

00:01:33.980 He is formerly an intern, and he's graduated up to a producer and journalist here at True North.

00:01:41.740 So, Harrison, thank you so much for joining us today.

00:01:44.540 Yeah, happy to be here, Candace.

00:01:45.560 Okay, so there's a couple of stories that we wanted to go through.

00:01:50.260 You know, we had the anniversary of the January 6th riots down in the U.S.,

00:01:55.660 and I think that the legacy media in Canada just couldn't help but unleash their sort of Trump derangement syndrome.

00:02:01.560 It's like they spent four years just hectoring on the exact same points.

00:02:05.580 It's sort of like a very naive and simplistic criticism of Trump,

00:02:09.080 like all of the sort of knee-jerk reaction that we first heard on election night in 2016.

00:02:13.820 They just repeat it over and over.

00:02:14.880 They never tried to gain more insight into the Trump phenomenon.

00:02:18.780 There's nothing – it's so unsophisticated.

00:02:21.580 It's just like a basic blunt attack.

00:02:24.160 And, you know, they kind of had to put that to the side because Trump hasn't really been a relevant figure in the U.S. for the last year or so.

00:02:30.640 And now this anniversary has kind of given them an opportunity to bring it back.

00:02:34.740 And so we saw some of the greatest hits return here, Harrison.

00:02:38.480 So let's talk about this first story that we pulled, written by Lawrence Martin, who is a, you know, very long-time left-wing columnist over at the Globe and Mail.

00:02:48.680 And he writes that the disturbing reality is that millions of Canadians support Trump.

00:02:53.260 So I'm just going to read a little bit from this opinion piece because it's exactly what you would expect. 0.95

00:02:58.220 It's the most basic, silly, simplistic take. 0.96

00:03:01.960 He writes this. 0.50

00:03:02.680 So with the anniversary of January 6th, Capitol insurrection on Thursday, many Canadians will be thumbing their noses at the Donald Trump cult and what it has done to the beleaguered Great Republic, except for about six million of them.

00:03:14.520 Six million – that's roughly the number of Canadians, pollsters estimate, who support Mr. Trump and the Trumpism ideology.

00:03:21.120 It's a number, more than the population of British Columbia, that's not easy to fathom.

00:03:25.180 It shows how susceptible Canada is to American currents.

00:03:28.500 It suggests that as we watch Americans recall the horror of that day, we should refrain from gloating the corrosive forces at work in the U.S. are alive and well up here.

00:03:38.460 And so, you know, he's just sort of horrified at this idea that there could be conservatives and Republicans and people who support Trump. 0.99

00:03:46.180 To me, Harrison, this just shows such a naive idea of Trump, this idea that if you support Trump, it's because you're an ignorant, you're a racist, 1.00

00:03:54.520 you're stupid, not looking at any more of that. 1.00

00:03:58.680 You know, some of the interesting things about the Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is how he appealed to disaffected voters, to minority voters, to the working class, 1.00

00:04:07.040 to people who just wanted America to be great again, who aspired to the American dream,

00:04:13.640 or perhaps just people who wanted to put their country first.

00:04:16.700 They were tired of the sort of internationalism and the sort of the way that the left and liberals talk down to them.

00:04:22.960 Like, there's so much to the Trump phenomenon.

00:04:25.500 And to just sort of boil it down to the most simplistic aspect and then say, like, oh, and we shouldn't be smug because we have a bunch of these rubes up here as well. 1.00

00:04:34.040 To me, this is just like peak snobbery and shows how out of touch the Globe and Mail and this particular writer are.

00:04:40.840 What did you think of it?

00:04:42.680 Yeah, you know, Candace, it's such a lazy and overused line of attack on conservatives in this country.

00:04:47.200 You mentioned it. It's just the media laying into their Trump derangement syndrome and just either choosing not to understand how the phenomenon and the pressures in the United States that push Trump to the presidency,

00:05:01.740 choosing not to understand that or they really do not have any understanding of reality.

00:05:06.960 And, you know, that six million number, it's not hard to fathom.

00:05:10.420 Lawrence Martin says he doesn't understand how that number could be so high.

00:05:13.120 But how can you blame Canadians, a lot of whom feel that their governments don't represent them and don't work for them anymore?

00:05:20.100 How can you blame them for looking at looking at Trump in the U.S., who's everything Trudeau isn't, who pushes back against the woke pressures of the left and really kind of rails against is an anti-establishment figure who loves his country?

00:05:34.680 I can't blame a Canadian for looking at that and seeing it as refreshing and kind of dreaming of wanting that to happen in Canada.

00:05:41.420 It's not surprising, but really the language that Lawrence Martin uses in this piece is wild.

00:05:46.780 I have to pull a couple quotes here.

00:05:49.120 You know, the way he describes Trump supporters in the U.S. and in Canada by saying,

00:05:54.180 Trump appeals to those that harbor resentment toward minorities, women, and immigrants.

00:05:59.020 I mean, how many times have you heard that in the legacy media, right?

00:06:01.520 And then this other thing at the end where he writes,

00:06:03.860 Canadian Trump supporters are angry and venomous. 0.73

00:06:06.560 I mean, that language is actually quite dangerous.

00:06:09.040 It's just wild, but at the end of the day, it's typical from the Canadian legacy media.

00:06:14.360 It is.

00:06:15.360 And I mean, even, I don't want to get into this sort of, you know, what exactly happened on January 6th.

00:06:21.160 And I think there is sort of a split where, you know, if you're in the legacy media, if you're part of CNN crowd and in Canada, the sort of CBC Globe and Mail,

00:06:27.920 you think that January 6th was like a terrorist attack equivalent to 9-11 or whatever, whereas most people on the political right may say, you know,

00:06:36.720 it was a handful of sort of ne'er-do-wells that were angry and they took a political protest too far,

00:06:43.500 which we've seen so many times in the U.S. where political peaceful protests turned violent.

00:06:48.160 That was sort of the thing that was happening a lot last year with Black Lives Matter and in this case with the sort of pro-Trump movement was happening on both sides.

00:06:55.220 But I just, I saw this, people were sharing this Norm Macdonald tweet from January 6th, 2021.

00:07:03.060 And obviously Norm Macdonald is a great Canadian community, passed away, rest in peace.

00:07:07.440 But he wrote on Twitter, I loved it when the violent terrorists made sure to respect the velvet ropes in the statuary hall.

00:07:16.260 And then there's a picture of like this sort of, you know, what we're told is like a violent, angry, insurrection terrorist mob.

00:07:22.520 And they're all like, you know, walking in line here going through, which, you know, again, again,

00:07:29.740 the sort of how you view reality and how you view events really depends on your political position.

00:07:35.880 And what we saw from the Globe and Mail was just, you know, I think they kind of miss Trump being president

00:07:41.540 because it gave them so many opportunities to just, you know, sit on their high horse and say, like, 1.00

00:07:46.280 look at those stupid Americans and we up here in Canada are so sophisticated and mature 1.00

00:07:50.860 and we would never have a president like that. 1.00

00:07:53.260 And then, you know, this whole idea that, oh, my goodness, like, clutch your pearls.

00:07:57.300 There's six million of them in Canada, too.

00:07:59.220 Like, we shouldn't be so smug.

00:08:02.660 It's just so predictable, Harrison.

00:08:04.060 And speaking of the Globe and Mail and the opinion page over there,

00:08:09.240 there was another piece that really caught the attention of many people, particularly on social media.

00:08:15.700 But the headline here says,

00:08:18.240 If the next presidential election reveals the U.S. hurling towards possible violence and autocracy,

00:08:24.260 should Canada try to intervene?

00:08:26.160 By John Ibbotson, who's a regular columnist over at the Globe and Mail.

00:08:29.300 So, first of all, just, you know, this concept that Canada would somehow, like, intervene into, like, 0.75

00:08:33.680 a foreign country's election is kind of silly. 0.99

00:08:36.460 I don't know if there's any history, any precedent of Canada ever doing that.

00:08:40.100 But also, you know, to intervene in the democracy of our ally and, you know,

00:08:47.260 the most sort of, like, liberal and free country in the world. 0.87

00:08:49.840 It just, the concept of it seems very silly.

00:08:52.700 So, in the piece here, Ibbotson argues that Canada needs to be prepared for when the U.S. is no longer an ally.

00:08:59.280 And he suggests that is if Trump and the Republicans may be able to form government again in 2024.

00:09:04.920 So, he says,

00:09:06.360 There are risks if our politicians speak up during the election and risks in staying silent.

00:09:10.760 But Canadians must ready themselves for a future in which the United States is no longer an ally and no longer a friend.

00:09:16.640 As hard as it is to think on such things.

00:09:19.240 Basically just saying that, you know, the same kind of stuff, Harrison,

00:09:22.780 that Trump is a dictator and that he's an authoritarian

00:09:25.740 and that if the U.S. elects him as president again, it won't be a free society anymore.

00:09:31.760 Which is, it's a fever dream, right?

00:09:34.540 It's like the thing that every liberal scared themselves into believing when Trump was president.

00:09:41.200 And then none of those things actually happen.

00:09:43.500 And so, they kind of, like, were scrambling to invent things that Trump was doing that were so terrible for the country.

00:09:48.600 But what did you make of this op-ed?

00:09:51.000 It's just crazy.

00:09:52.680 I mean, the idea that Canada is some sort of beacon of democracy

00:09:56.820 and the great, you know, example of how the United States should run

00:10:00.720 and that if the United States decides to vote for a former president again,

00:10:05.340 that then Canada has an obligation to go in and somehow enforce democracy.

00:10:09.780 I don't know quite how we would go about doing that.

00:10:12.500 But yeah, I mean, it's just crazy.

00:10:15.120 And at least, you know, the Globe and Mail is being honest about their editorial direction

00:10:18.740 heading into the midterms in 2024.

00:10:21.040 That if the Americans, in the eyes of the Globe, elect the wrong person,

00:10:24.820 then I guess the American democracy is crumbling and that the country needs help.

00:10:31.060 There's one line in that article, though, about how Canada needs to bolster our military

00:10:35.840 and defend our borders, particularly to the north.

00:10:38.180 Well, I agree with that.

00:10:40.040 But not to defend ourselves against the United States,

00:10:43.280 but to defend ourselves against our actual enemies.

00:10:46.340 I mean, this is just unbelievable.

00:10:48.180 And, you know, of course, the Globe and Mail, as soon as they put this out,

00:10:51.880 it made its way to the United States and they got rightfully mocked by this.

00:10:55.860 I mean, there are some great reactions we want to pull.

00:10:57.920 But, you know, some of them are.

00:10:59.980 This tweet really was quite funny.

00:11:02.180 It's a gif of a Simpsons line.

00:11:04.420 And basically, they're just saying, who are you going to send?

00:11:06.700 The Mounties or Celine Dion?

00:11:08.200 And another person wrote, send the Mounties.

00:11:11.460 Well, if you just to go back, if you look at the tweet itself, right,

00:11:15.600 you know, just look at the ratio there.

00:11:17.440 It got 152 retweets and 1,500 quote tweets,

00:11:21.100 which means that, like, everybody was mocking this piece.

00:11:23.300 Like, just a headline.

00:11:24.660 This idea that Canada is here to save America is so funny.

00:11:28.920 And it really just shows the sort of outsized ego that Canadians have. 1.00

00:11:34.480 That, like, you know, this country that doesn't pull its own weight militarily,

00:11:37.620 to your point, that we really should bolster our military spending,

00:11:41.340 not to protect ourselves from America,

00:11:42.900 to protect ourselves from actual enemies and adversarial regimes

00:11:45.440 and people who want to harm us.

00:11:48.100 But no, we should do it to try to defend ourselves or to intervene in America. 0.92

00:11:54.880 It's just such a silly concept.

00:11:56.980 And I think it kind of goes to the thinking of Canada 0.86

00:11:59.020 in its sort of outsized ambition and idea of itself

00:12:03.540 as this, like, country that's more important

00:12:05.540 and better abled than our American neighbors.

00:12:09.000 Which, you know, of course, the reality is that Canada doesn't pull its own weight militarily.

00:12:12.740 We never spend the 2% of our GDP on military as we're supposed to.

00:12:16.940 And we rely unduly and often ungratefully on America to keep us safe and protected. 0.53

00:12:24.060 And then we turn around and bitch about them. 0.98

00:12:25.560 Like, it's just like, it's so open for mockery. 0.84

00:12:28.980 And I'm glad that it did get mocked.

00:12:30.520 But yeah, just absolutely, absolutely wild.

00:12:33.420 And thank God that the Globe and Mail got rightfully mocked for this

00:12:36.940 and that it backfired on them a little bit.

00:12:40.880 Yeah. 0.74

00:12:41.660 Well, again, just sort of a silly concept there.

00:12:45.380 Okay, Harris, let's move on to this story.

00:12:48.280 This one to me very much is fake news.

00:12:50.500 The other two are just sort of bad opinion takes.

00:12:52.240 But this story here, I can't stand it when news agencies do this,

00:12:56.080 when reporters do this, 1.00

00:12:57.580 where they basically take a person's opinion.

00:12:59.340 So this piece, if this was an opinion column,

00:13:02.000 if this was an op-ed written in a newspaper,

00:13:05.060 I would say, okay, I totally disagree with this take.

00:13:07.960 But it's that person's opinion.

00:13:09.880 So, you know, all the power to them.

00:13:12.300 But this is what the news agencies do.

00:13:14.800 They take someone's opinion,

00:13:16.500 they take something that should be an op-ed,

00:13:18.380 you know, an opinion column,

00:13:20.060 and they turn it into a straight news piece.

00:13:22.180 And I get news alerts on my phone.

00:13:24.040 And this one came to me over the weekend.

00:13:25.860 And it was a news report.

00:13:26.800 It's like breaking and breaking news.

00:13:29.340 And so here's the headline,

00:13:31.060 rapid spread of Omicron showing tale of two pandemics,

00:13:34.540 rich and poor.

00:13:36.160 Okay, so again, because this is news,

00:13:38.480 you just assume that it is factual, fact-based,

00:13:41.440 and it is based on the news,

00:13:43.460 not just based on some guy,

00:13:45.380 you know, what some guy thinks.

00:13:46.840 Of course, when we read the piece,

00:13:48.200 we realize that, no, it is not based on facts

00:13:50.420 or statistics or anything like that.

00:13:52.980 It's just some guy's opinion.

00:13:55.320 I should say that this came to us from CTV,

00:13:58.840 but it's written by the Canadian Press,

00:14:01.200 which is the wire service.

00:14:02.020 So this piece would go in newspapers

00:14:04.800 and on websites across the country.

00:14:06.720 You would see it in everything from,

00:14:08.380 you know, post-media newspapers

00:14:09.560 to Toronto Star newspapers

00:14:11.980 to all different kinds of news websites

00:14:14.480 and television station websites as well.

00:14:16.160 So that's sort of the problem

00:14:18.100 that a group like Canadian Press has so much reach

00:14:22.540 because they just, they appear everywhere.

00:14:24.720 I'll just read a little bit of the story here.

00:14:27.400 So some of it, you know, I actually kind of agree with.

00:14:30.920 It's just the direction he takes.

00:14:32.400 So they write this.

00:14:34.400 As parts of Canada see staggering rises

00:14:36.460 in COVID-19 activity amid Omicron's rapid spread,

00:14:39.760 experts say the highly transmissible variant

00:14:42.340 is trading a spotlight on social inequalities

00:14:44.860 across the country.

00:14:46.340 Dr. Amit Ara, a palliative care physician,

00:14:48.980 Mississauga, Ontario,

00:14:50.200 and Dr. Andrew Buzari,

00:14:51.780 who leads the social medicine program

00:14:53.680 at Toronto University's Health Network,

00:14:55.860 both say Omicron's rise

00:14:56.960 continue to show a tale of two pandemics

00:14:59.080 with those who can afford

00:15:00.400 to better protect themselves

00:15:01.540 pitted against those who can't.

00:15:03.000 Okay, so Harrison, on the surface,

00:15:04.320 I kind of agree that

00:15:05.160 if you are a frontline worker,

00:15:07.080 if you're a blue collar worker,

00:15:08.160 you don't have the luxury of staying at home.

00:15:10.300 So, you know, going all the way back

00:15:11.940 to April 2020 or March 2020,

00:15:13.460 when it was like two weeks to flatten the curve,

00:15:15.680 do your part,

00:15:16.400 it's patriotic to stay at home.

00:15:18.060 It's like, you know what,

00:15:19.100 if you have a white collar job,

00:15:20.500 if you're a journalist,

00:15:21.360 if you're a government bureaucrat,

00:15:23.680 even if you're a teacher

00:15:24.440 who can teach through Zoom,

00:15:26.500 it's not that big of a deal to stay at home.

00:15:28.400 In fact, you might actually prefer staying at home

00:15:30.580 because you don't have to commute,

00:15:32.060 you don't have to go out in a snowsuit,

00:15:33.920 you don't have to shovel the driveway.

00:15:35.560 It's sort of a luxury to stay at home.

00:15:37.600 And so all of the people who are out there

00:15:39.800 like hectoring people

00:15:41.480 and sort of demanding that everyone stay home,

00:15:44.640 it's like those were often the people

00:15:46.580 who it was really easy for them to stay home.

00:15:48.800 On the other hand,

00:15:49.520 when you have like blue collar workers,

00:15:51.560 people who work with their hands,

00:15:52.820 people who have to go to a physical workplace,

00:15:55.660 frontline workers,

00:15:56.820 these people don't have the luxury of staying at home.

00:15:59.000 They don't have the luxuries

00:16:00.080 that many of the people calling for the lockdowns have.

00:16:03.580 And it's much harder on them.

00:16:04.780 You know, the people who lose their jobs,

00:16:06.140 the people who had to shut down their restaurants,

00:16:07.580 the people who run small businesses,

00:16:09.320 those are the people who are more heavily affected

00:16:12.100 and they carry the bigger brunt of COVID.

00:16:14.680 And so that part I completely agree with.

00:16:16.360 But that's not the point

00:16:17.380 that they're making in this article.

00:16:19.520 They kind of allude to it.

00:16:20.480 But no, the main point that they're making, Harrison,

00:16:23.880 is that our healthcare isn't socialized enough.

00:16:27.260 That because there are like these little glimmers

00:16:29.080 of private sector delivery of places

00:16:32.500 where you can get better testing services,

00:16:35.360 for instance, if you pay money,

00:16:36.660 you can get your results immediately

00:16:38.060 as opposed to having to wait a couple of days

00:16:39.720 if you get it for free at your local hospital.

00:16:42.520 But these are the examples

00:16:43.760 of the tale of the pandemic.

00:16:45.680 It is unfair that some Canadians can pay $160

00:16:48.740 and get same day results

00:16:50.860 while other Canadians who don't want to spend $160

00:16:55.420 have to wait.

00:16:56.740 And these are the examples.

00:16:57.580 So basically what they're saying here is communism,

00:17:01.360 is that we need to get rid of money.

00:17:03.240 Money is the root of all evil.

00:17:04.480 And if we just didn't have any money,

00:17:05.780 then things would be better,

00:17:07.300 which to me, again, this is not news.

00:17:09.740 This is not a news piece.

00:17:10.820 This is an opinion piece.

00:17:12.120 This is saying that, yes,

00:17:13.360 our healthcare system is totally socialized.

00:17:15.500 The idea that rich people get better

00:17:16.840 service isn't even true.

00:17:18.460 They only do if they're willing to go to the US 0.87

00:17:20.540 and pay out of pocket.

00:17:21.740 Otherwise, they're stuck in the same queues

00:17:23.180 as everybody else.

00:17:23.980 But this idea that all we have to do

00:17:26.800 is get rid of these little private options

00:17:30.180 here and there,

00:17:31.120 and somehow the pandemic would be equal,

00:17:34.080 it's just so out of touch.

00:17:35.720 It's a bad take.

00:17:36.560 And the fact that it's wrapped up in a news story

00:17:38.980 makes it just one of my biggest pet peeves

00:17:41.620 in journalism.

00:17:42.680 What do you think about this one, Harrison?

00:17:44.660 Yeah, I mean, the unfortunate reality of COVID,

00:17:47.260 as we've come to know,

00:17:48.840 and as you pointed out,

00:17:50.000 is that, yes,

00:17:50.720 if you do have the luxury

00:17:52.700 of working from a computer at home,

00:17:54.680 then you aren't putting yourself

00:17:56.180 in harm's way of COVID.

00:17:58.300 And those that have more blue-collar jobs,

00:18:00.440 of course,

00:18:01.180 are at more of a risk,

00:18:03.320 and that's obvious.

00:18:04.860 But, I mean,

00:18:06.040 the solution is basically

00:18:07.260 to just go in

00:18:08.200 and to embrace

00:18:10.340 the healthcare system

00:18:12.020 that is supposedly

00:18:12.880 unable to manage

00:18:14.360 the rise of COVID cases,

00:18:16.200 unable to

00:18:17.820 house the ICU

00:18:18.900 beds that we need.

00:18:21.740 We hear from governments

00:18:23.340 that our healthcare system

00:18:24.440 is on the verge of collapse.

00:18:26.140 But this article,

00:18:27.160 and this doctor,

00:18:28.340 wants us to

00:18:29.100 just go and fully embrace that system.

00:18:31.380 Don't provide any alternatives

00:18:32.720 to alleviate the healthcare system.

00:18:35.620 And everyone has to be stuck

00:18:37.100 with the public healthcare system

00:18:40.100 that apparently

00:18:40.640 can't even manage this load.

00:18:42.460 But one thing at the bottom of this article

00:18:43.920 that I thought was interesting to note,

00:18:46.380 and just kind of plays into this whole idea

00:18:47.820 that this is not a news piece,

00:18:49.080 this is an opinion piece,

00:18:50.560 and a wild one at that.

00:18:52.280 It basically talks about how

00:18:53.880 it's dangerous and problematic

00:18:55.840 to call Omicron mild.

00:18:57.600 And how,

00:18:59.160 by saying that Omicron

00:19:00.500 is perhaps a way out of COVID

00:19:02.760 and that it's not as dangerous

00:19:04.280 for the majority of people,

00:19:05.980 apparently,

00:19:07.060 that is

00:19:08.200 ableist

00:19:09.700 and harmful language

00:19:11.800 to call Omicron mild.

00:19:13.660 So really,

00:19:15.240 this piece just descends

00:19:16.800 into complete socialism,

00:19:19.580 complete,

00:19:20.060 you know,

00:19:20.720 complete opinion,

00:19:22.560 and it's a shame to see

00:19:23.560 that it's being pumped out

00:19:24.520 on our wire services

00:19:25.420 across our news.

00:19:27.200 That's a good point.

00:19:27.980 You can't even make a point

00:19:29.600 that's so obvious

00:19:30.380 that

00:19:31.120 you hear it all over the world

00:19:32.880 from doctors

00:19:33.500 and from politicians

00:19:34.640 in other countries.

00:19:35.660 Everyone's saying

00:19:36.280 this thing is mild.

00:19:37.440 But in Canada,

00:19:38.160 you can't even say that.

00:19:39.140 Maybe that's one of the words

00:19:40.280 that the CBC will add

00:19:41.360 to their words

00:19:42.720 that should be scrubbed

00:19:43.480 from the English language.

00:19:44.600 I just have to add

00:19:45.420 a final point, Harrison,

00:19:46.800 which is that

00:19:47.280 no woke left-wing

00:19:49.680 news piece

00:19:50.440 would be complete

00:19:51.140 without also bringing

00:19:52.780 in the race element

00:19:53.580 because we know

00:19:54.200 that the woke left

00:19:54.920 is obsessed with race.

00:19:56.000 Everything must be about race.

00:19:57.680 And so,

00:19:58.280 you know,

00:19:58.860 no surprise here.

00:20:00.640 But he also,

00:20:01.640 they also included

00:20:02.620 a quote

00:20:03.080 talking about how

00:20:04.480 essential workers

00:20:05.900 by definition

00:20:06.540 have to leave

00:20:07.280 the house to work.

00:20:08.360 He said,

00:20:08.920 this is one of the doctors

00:20:09.980 quoted in the piece,

00:20:11.200 Dr. Arya,

00:20:12.400 saying they might be

00:20:13.480 taking public transit

00:20:14.220 to work,

00:20:14.660 they might be working

00:20:15.300 around 400 people

00:20:16.680 in a distribution center,

00:20:18.420 and of course,

00:20:19.040 many frontline workers

00:20:20.180 are racialized.

00:20:21.660 They're immigrants to Canada. 0.67

00:20:22.880 They live in multi-generation 1.00

00:20:24.040 households with elders

00:20:25.260 and vulnerable children

00:20:26.180 who aren't vaccinated.

00:20:27.960 So that's just like

00:20:28.960 a statement

00:20:29.400 that doesn't have

00:20:30.520 any backing

00:20:31.580 in facts or reality.

00:20:33.580 He doesn't quote

00:20:34.300 any statistic

00:20:35.840 to say why he thinks

00:20:37.480 that many frontline workers

00:20:38.680 are racialized.

00:20:39.640 In fact,

00:20:40.200 I don't even really know

00:20:40.900 what that word racialized means.

00:20:42.280 I guess it just means

00:20:42.920 if you consider yourself

00:20:44.200 not white or not Canadian,

00:20:45.640 I don't know exactly

00:20:46.540 what he means by that.

00:20:48.760 But just kind of

00:20:49.620 throwing that out there

00:20:50.400 as well,

00:20:51.480 you know,

00:20:51.680 not only is our problem,

00:20:53.400 not only is our

00:20:54.120 healthcare system problematic

00:20:55.380 because there's like

00:20:56.900 one or two places

00:20:57.620 where you can pay

00:20:58.220 to get better service,

00:20:59.460 but also,

00:21:00.200 of course,

00:21:00.400 it's racist.

00:21:01.200 So no surprise there.

00:21:04.340 But again,

00:21:05.220 this is just my

00:21:06.120 biggest pet peeve

00:21:06.860 when it comes

00:21:07.320 to news pieces

00:21:08.120 that quote

00:21:09.080 so-called experts

00:21:09.940 who are really just,

00:21:11.340 you know,

00:21:11.500 people that the journalist

00:21:12.320 agrees with

00:21:13.140 and they want to write

00:21:14.660 an op-ed

00:21:15.140 to look like a news piece

00:21:16.520 and this is a prime example.

00:21:18.780 All right, Harrison,

00:21:19.460 well,

00:21:19.700 thank you so much

00:21:20.520 for joining us.

00:21:21.000 We really appreciate

00:21:21.540 your contribution

00:21:22.400 and joining us

00:21:23.040 on Fake News Friday.

00:21:23.900 It's great to have you.

00:21:25.580 Yeah, great to be here, Candice.

00:21:26.600 Thanks.

00:21:27.800 All right,

00:21:28.040 that's Harrison Faulkner.

00:21:29.080 Thank you so much

00:21:29.760 for tuning in.

00:21:30.600 It's Fake News Friday.

00:21:31.380 I'm Candice Malcolm

00:21:31.960 and this is

00:21:32.700 The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:21:36.860 The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 14, 2022

The Trump fever dream lives on in the minds of Canada’s Laurentian elites

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