The Candice Malcolm Show - This is NOT how a FREE PRESS should operate

00:00:00.000 Canada's media is captured. They're bought and paid for by the Trudeau Liberals. They have been completely compromised in their ability to publish honest, objective, and fact-based journalism.

00:00:11.720 The latest example comes courtesy of the Toronto Star, a once-respected publication that has now resorted to publishing PMO propaganda created by Justin Trudeau's office.

00:00:24.440 Has Canada's legacy media given up on even pretending to be objective and neutral? It certainly looks like that. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:33.520 Hi, everybody, and thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. So as you noticed, we did not do an episode on Friday. We didn't do our usual fake news Friday because it was good Friday, and we didn't want to compromise that somber holiday by having to talk about the absolute train wreck, which is Canada's media.

00:01:02.240 So we decided to save it and do the sort of fake news Friday-esque show for you today. So we're going to be covering some of the absolute worst examples of media fails in Canada, which just becomes so frequent.

00:01:14.620 It's like low-hanging fruit every single day. There's worse and worse examples, but there was one from last week that really stood out from the Toronto Star.

00:01:22.520 We're going to get to all of that. Before we do, please remember to like this video, subscribe to our True North channel if you're new around here.

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00:01:42.540 Okay, so by now you are very aware of the Trudeau government's online harms bill and how it includes hefty fines and possibly even jail time for online speech.

00:01:54.320 Yes, it includes life imprisonment for crimes that could be motivated by the ill-defined and hazy concept of hate.

00:02:01.320 They never really tell us exactly what that hate means, but we know that it will be defined by Justin Trudeau and his henchmen.

00:02:08.120 So this egregious bill has been discredited by people all around the world and all across the political spectrum from sort of high-profile mainstream celebrities like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan to respected lawyer Michael Geist to renowned author and let me just mention like a hardcore sort of left-wing person, Margaret Atwood.

00:02:28.460 So it's not just conservatives, it's not just the political right that opposes this bill, it's pretty much everybody.

00:02:35.440 And so what does the Toronto Star do? What do readers of the Toronto Star see about the censorship bill?

00:02:41.620 Well, they see a full-throated defense of the Online Harms Act.

00:02:46.280 There was an article published last week, it was titled,

00:02:49.180 Have you heard the one about Justin Trudeau attacking your free speech online?

00:02:53.040 Trust me, it's just rage farming.

00:02:56.760 Trust me, guys, there's nothing to worry about.

00:02:59.080 It's just a bunch of crazy people online that are saying that this is going to be an affront to free speech.

00:03:06.060 But it's not, it's just rage farming.

00:03:08.480 So who is the person who published this piece in the Toronto Star?

00:03:13.600 Well, not that you would know from reading it, but it's not just any old defense of a terrible liberal bill.

00:03:19.440 This article is written by a woman called Supriya Develdi, and she is also a senior advisor to Justin Trudeau.

00:03:27.440 Yes, she works in the prime minister's office. 0.94

00:03:30.180 She works for Justin Trudeau directly, not like the journalists who sort of work indirectly.

00:03:34.940 She is, she's a direct advisor.

00:03:37.100 She's on Justin Trudeau's payroll.

00:03:39.480 And yet her job somehow includes writing articles in a newspaper that Canadians used to trust.

00:03:46.200 So look, the Trudeau liberals are so unpopular right now that if there was an election held today, they wouldn't even be the leader of the opposition.

00:03:52.940 It's likely the Bloc Quebecois would win more seats.

00:03:55.760 It's possible that the NDP and Jagmeet Singh would even win more seats than the liberals.

00:04:00.880 They're, they're absolutely desperate.

00:04:02.800 And so they're resorting to basically forcing the newspapers that they subsidize into publishing their government propaganda.

00:04:10.200 You can always count on the bought and paid for legacy media if you are a liberal and you want to push out your spin.

00:04:17.980 Usually they do it through like a proxy, through someone who's not directly working for the prime minister in the prime minister's office.

00:04:24.980 But they've become so brazen in their ability to manipulate the facts and manipulate the media that now they're just pushing out staffers, like backroom staffers, to write articles accusing any, any, any, any criticism of the prime minister as simply being rage farming.

00:04:44.080 Okay, so let's go through a little bit about what Supriya Devedi had to say about Justin Trudeau's online harms bill.

00:04:52.400 So you can see again, this article, have you heard the one about Justin Trudeau attacking your free speech online?

00:04:57.300 Trust me, it's just rage farming.

00:04:59.460 So yes, this woman is a advisor in the PMO.

00:05:03.760 You have to go all the way to the bottom of the piece to find that out.

00:05:06.540 So let's read from this article.

00:05:08.460 She writes, from the people who brought you classic hits, such as adding gender identity to the Human Rights Act would criminalize free speech.

00:05:15.960 And signing on to the UN Global Compact on Migration would mean Canada's immigration policy is being set by foreign entities.

00:05:22.540 Here comes the latest, newest sensation on the scene, portraying the All in Harbs Act as a total affront to freedom of expression online.

00:05:29.780 Well, just wait a minute, because this is just the intro of the article.

00:05:33.140 And she's already made a couple of blatant errors.

00:05:34.820 So she's trying to claim that adding gender identity to a protected class as part of the Human Rights Act would criminalize speech. 1.00

00:05:42.680 This happened five years ago.

00:05:44.240 And yes, we were warning about this back then, that this is a huge affront to freedom of speech.

00:05:48.940 And those warnings have come true, because there have been several examples of Canadians who have been fined or gone to jail for the crime of misgendering someone.

00:05:58.560 So look at this, a story from October 2021.

00:06:01.680 A BC restaurant was fined $30,000 for using the wrong pronouns.

00:06:07.940 And it's always in BC, another BC story here.

00:06:10.680 A British Columbia father was jailed.

00:06:13.040 He was put in jail for opposing his daughter's sex change operation.

00:06:17.900 Yes, this is because of adding that provision of gender identity to the Human Rights Act criminalizing speech.

00:06:25.200 So even though the PMO staff were here is trying to use it as like a throwaway line, saying like, remember the crazy stuff they told you in the past?

00:06:31.540 It's not true.

00:06:32.580 Except for that's not true.

00:06:33.900 It is true.

00:06:35.060 And the second one that's signing on to the UN Compact on Migration, a United Nations bill that came out, I believe it was 2017, 2018.

00:06:42.460 Us here at True North were some of the biggest critics of this compound.

00:06:48.400 Basically, the legacy media tried to tell you, oh, it's non-binding.

00:06:53.340 It's just emotion.

00:06:54.300 It doesn't mean anything.

00:06:55.720 It's just aspirational.

00:06:57.260 Well, Canada still signed it.

00:06:58.580 Canada still ratified it.

00:07:00.020 This is absolutely radical bill.

00:07:02.800 The UN Global Compact on Migration gave anybody in the world, every single person in the world, the right to migrate to a Western country.

00:07:11.060 So they're putting the rights of a foreigner ahead of your rights as a Canadian. 0.56

00:07:16.180 They're saying that anybody in the world had the right to come to Canada.

00:07:19.600 Well, what happened?

00:07:20.740 I mean, just look at one of my latest news stories that came out in March.

00:07:24.240 How else would you explain a 14x increase in illegal immigration over the past 10 years?

00:07:30.340 Yes, an unprecedented surge.

00:07:32.520 In 2023, Canada saw over 140,000 people cross our borders illegally and make an asylum claim.

00:07:40.580 Those are the kind of rights that were given to them by the same kind of concept that was floated in this UN Global Compact on Migration.

00:07:48.540 So, again, to write that off and just say the people who oppose that UN Compact are crazy, just look at the numbers.

00:07:54.620 Look at how many people came into Canada illegally in 2023.

00:07:58.560 I think we have a graph just to show you how much it has grown.

00:08:01.840 You know, Canada went from having maybe 10, 12, 14,000 people come in illegally per year all the way up to 143,000 in one calendar year.

00:08:11.920 I mean, how else would you describe that?

00:08:13.460 How else would you explain that?

00:08:14.820 I don't think you can just use that as a throwaway point when that is literally exactly what has happened.

00:08:20.300 Okay, so let's go back to this Toronto Star PMO piece.

00:08:25.120 She says, critics are once again engaging in bad faith tactics, trying to frame the issue of online harms as a false economy between freedom of expression and clamping down on online harms, including online speech.

00:08:35.860 Don't let them.

00:08:36.680 She writes, while our government is certainly up for debate on how to improve the bill, including hearing from stakeholders, experts, and everyone in between on which provisions they feel should be fired into the sun, we have to have a conversation that is rude in reality.

00:08:50.200 Fortunately, a lot of the commentary on the bill has been light on facts and heavy on hyperbole.

00:08:56.060 She goes on and on about how basically like peace bonds are just fine and that there's like a history of common law.

00:09:03.980 And so Canadians just basically shouldn't worry about it because we live in a free country.

00:09:07.240 So something bad like getting thrown in jail for life or saying something or thinking something could never happen.

00:09:13.200 She doesn't really provide a very good defense of the bill. 0.99

00:09:16.240 And the reaction was pretty fierce and pretty strong.

00:09:19.960 So we had Conservative MP Michelle Garner tweet, this Toronto Star article was written by Prime Minister's office's key spin person with no mention of her employer in the Apple News edition.

00:09:33.040 Toronto Star is heavily subsidized by federal tax dollars.

00:09:36.260 I would love the opportunity to write a rebuttal.

00:09:39.360 I don't believe that they extended that offer to Michelle Garner, but they probably should if they want to be seen as fair.

00:09:45.880 If they're going to publish a PMO Liberal, they should probably publish some Conservatives.

00:09:51.120 We also heard from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and basically debunking this claim.

00:09:57.660 They said that Ms. DeVetti in her Toronto Star op-ed claims that large online platforms are currently unregulated companies,

00:10:04.560 prioritized harmful content over these types of content to maximize engagement and profits ignores the fact

00:10:11.580 that posting child pornography as well as intimidations or threats directed at an adult or child

00:10:17.500 by advocating for violent overthrow of government sedition are already criminal offenses.

00:10:22.780 Perhaps law enforcement need more resources to enforce laws that are exist.

00:10:26.880 DeVetti also ignores the fact that what she and her prime minister consider harmful

00:10:31.400 will differ from what others see as harmful.

00:10:35.280 Now, to their credit, the Toronto Star did publish a opposition voice, a respected lawyer

00:10:41.100 and the head of the Canadian Constitutional Foundation, Christine Van Gein, had an article the next day

00:10:47.160 writing that name-calling won't sound Justin Trudeau's critics.

00:10:51.320 Maybe it's time for the Liberals to stop lecturing and start listening.

00:10:54.920 She has a very good legal refute of the original article.

00:10:58.900 I recommend you go take a look at that.

00:11:01.000 I won't read it out, but I will say she has a very good point at the end here, which I will read.

00:11:05.220 She says,

00:11:05.560 These criticisms are not rage-farming or bad faith.

00:11:08.940 Free speech is not a threat to peace, security, or democracy.

00:11:12.600 It's a precondition for them.

00:11:14.540 This government would do well to remember that and to listen to its critics instead of attacking it.

00:11:20.320 That's some good free advice to the Toronto Star.

00:11:23.640 Rather than publishing propaganda pieces from the PMO, maybe you should be publishing more Canadians

00:11:29.180 and their concerns around some of these Liberal government bills and to the Prime Minister's office.

00:11:34.860 Not that they would ever listen to criticism, but when it comes to cracking down on so-called online harms

00:11:42.140 and basically just cracking down on your opposition and what they can say and read and what they can write online,

00:11:48.620 not a very good sign for a Liberal free democracy.

00:11:51.660 Okay, so this article in the Toronto Star written by a Trudeau propagandist got a lot of attention.

00:11:57.300 A lot of people raised their eyebrows, raised some concerns and alarm bells about a Prime Minister's spin doctor

00:12:04.020 and propagandist being able to write in a mainstream newspaper.

00:12:07.580 It wasn't the only example of Trudeau having influence over the press.

00:12:11.100 We see it all the time.

00:12:12.180 One of the worst culprits of this is the Canadian press.

00:12:14.940 The Canadian press is a news syndicate.

00:12:16.960 So they write news articles that go across the entire legacy media and you see them everywhere from CTV to CBC to every single newspaper.

00:12:25.240 A lot of digital news outlets, they all use Canadian press reporting.

00:12:28.920 So in some ways, Canadian press has an even bigger influence than any of the individual newspapers, possibly even bigger than the CBC, although it is close.

00:12:37.560 So I noticed this article that popped up last week as well, and it's talking about how Muslims are turning their back on Pierre Polyev.

00:12:46.620 The headline says, we won't forget, and basically how Muslims are opposed to Pierre Polyev now because of Pierre Polyev's support for Israel and its right to defend itself in its war against Hamas. 0.59

00:12:58.660 Okay, so let's take a look at this article.

00:13:02.020 Let's take a closer look.

00:13:03.040 I did a Twitter thread about it, and we can walk through that to show you some of the major issues, sort of the anatomy of how a Canadian press journalist will try to pass off Trudeau government propaganda as journalism.

00:13:17.360 So here's a tweet.

00:13:18.640 I wrote, the Canadian press is once again publishing Trudeau liberal propaganda, trying to pass it off as journalism.

00:13:24.100 Here is our latest, telling us that Muslim Canadians won't vote for Pierre Polyev because of Polyev's support for Israel and its fight against genocidal terrorism. 0.83

00:13:33.160 We won't forget how some Muslims view Polyev's stance on the Israel-Hamas war.

00:13:38.360 And so basically, they go out and they talk to a guy.

00:13:41.560 They talk to a Muslim guy who kind of pretends to speak on behalf of all Muslims in Canada, saying, we really don't like Polyev. 0.98

00:13:47.860 We really don't like his position.

00:13:49.180 So to go back to my tweets, I write, the main source of the story is a man called Tahir Nawaz.

00:13:56.980 The article features half a dozen quotes from him, telling the reader that Muslims won't forget how Polyev said he was a friend of Israel.

00:14:04.000 You can see how I've highlighted his name.

00:14:07.240 You can see how many times he was referenced.

00:14:10.200 He's disappointed in Polyev's opposition to funding.

00:14:14.820 They just call it the UN aid agency, UNRWA.

00:14:17.780 Well, UNRWA was found to have hundreds of individuals that were involved in the terrorist attack in October.

00:14:24.140 So it's not exactly a neutral United Nations body.

00:14:27.740 It's a body made up of Palestinian activists and many terrorists.

00:14:32.780 He goes on to say there's no chance the Muslim community will forget the conservatives' position here.

00:14:38.060 Okay, and as I mentioned earlier, this story was published in newspapers and digital media platforms, including CTV, Yahoo News, the Winnipeg Free Press, Montreal Gazette, and really across mainstream media.

00:14:51.220 And they all imply this individual Tahir speaks on behalf of Muslims in Canada.

00:14:55.980 So what did the Canadian press miss?

00:14:59.640 Well, a simple Google search of the man would have shown that his online profiles all picture glowing and friendly pictures with him and Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:15:10.600 So this isn't just a regular person, a regular Muslim who speaks on behalf of many other Muslims.

00:15:15.440 This is an activist.

00:15:16.520 This is someone who stands on stage and introduced Justin Trudeau at events, and they smile at each other.

00:15:24.140 They're professional colleagues of some sort.

00:15:26.340 They know each other.

00:15:27.060 They work together.

00:15:27.780 They're friends.

00:15:28.320 Could it be that this man is a liberal activist, a partisan who's wielding influence over the bought and paid liberal media to smear conservatives and boost the liberals?

00:15:38.860 Because that's kind of what it's looking like here.

00:15:41.220 I mean, like, did the Canadian press even bother to find out this about him?

00:15:46.040 Did they know that?

00:15:47.080 Did they know that his profiles feature photos of him with the Prime Minister when they featured him throughout the story?

00:15:53.140 Because the story certainly didn't mention anything like that.

00:15:56.380 Okay, but wait, there's more.

00:15:59.020 So I did a little bit more digging through Elections Canada database.

00:16:03.220 And guess what?

00:16:04.240 An individual by the same name, Nawaz Tahir, also from London, Ontario, is presumably the same individual.

00:16:10.100 He donated over $13,000 to the Libs over the past five years.

00:16:15.680 It's pretty much the max that you can give to an individual.

00:16:18.640 So as you can see, just scrolling through Elections Canada database, you can see all of the donations this individual made to the Liberals over the years.

00:16:28.480 Just donation after donation after donation, always to the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:16:32.580 This would show all donations that he made to any party.

00:16:35.900 And you can see that he donates to the Liberal Party over and over and over and over and over and over again.

00:16:44.320 Okay, so what do we have here?

00:16:46.040 We have a high-priced donor and liberal activist who is in the paper, in the news, smearing conservatives.

00:16:54.680 That's the main source of the article, smearing conservatives, happens to be a liberal donor, an activist.

00:17:01.340 Why wouldn't the Canadian press include that information?

00:17:03.720 Why wouldn't they tell you that the main person in their story is actually just a liberal activist who's smearing the opposition, which is what a liberal activist would do?

00:17:12.740 And this is a sad reality.

00:17:14.440 The Canada's media, including the Canadian press, but also all those newspapers that publish this article without any comment or without any edits, which include Bell, Post Media, Toronto Starglades, Media, basically all of the media outlets in Canada, all of them.

00:17:28.100 They're all corrupted by government funding.

00:17:29.880 And you cannot trust them to tell the truth.

00:17:32.960 I mean, what other explanation would there possibly be for publishing a story based on an individual who is a donor?

00:17:41.080 I really wonder if the journalists even bothered to find that out.

00:17:44.980 Now, interestingly, about two hours after I put out this information onto Twitter, I went on the Canadian press story and I noticed that they had made an update.

00:17:54.920 They had edited their story.

00:17:56.700 And so let's go back to my tweet here.

00:17:58.560 Here it says, update, the Canadian press inserted this stealth edit following my thread.

00:18:03.780 So normally, if a newspaper is going to make a correction, if they've made an error in their piece that they want to correct, they write at the top, correction.

00:18:10.880 And then they say, this story has been changed to reflect the fact that X, Y, and Z.

00:18:15.780 But that's not what the Canadian press did in this in this instant.

00:18:19.360 They just added a paragraph.

00:18:21.180 They just is sneaky.

00:18:23.000 Just added a paragraph into the article, hoping that no one would notice.

00:18:26.760 And this is what the article says.

00:18:28.480 We can go back to that tweet.

00:18:29.460 It says, Tahir acknowledged being a liberal supporter in the past, but now he considers himself nonpartisan, given his advocacy work.

00:18:38.740 He said he's donated money to the liberals and the NDP, as well as conservatives, for whom he helped sign up 500 Muslims during the last leadership race.

00:18:47.180 Okay, so he just kind of shrugs his shoulder and said, yeah, I donated money in the past, but that was ancient history.

00:18:52.360 That was like 2023.

00:18:54.140 That doesn't even count anymore.

00:18:55.360 And I've also donated to the NDP and the conservatives.

00:18:58.680 Well, when you look at Elections Canada and that database, it doesn't show any donations to conservatives, none.

00:19:03.920 It does show one to the NDP a while ago.

00:19:05.960 It doesn't show anything to the conservatives.

00:19:07.660 But he doesn't really say that he donated to the conservatives.

00:19:10.540 He just said, to the conservatives, I helped sign up 500 Muslims during the last leadership race.

00:19:15.520 Presumably, he signed them up to vote for another candidate, not Pierre Polyev.

00:19:20.200 And then when Pierre Polyev won the leadership race, we don't even know if these individuals are still members of the conservative party.

00:19:26.580 So he was basically just wielding support in his community to try to weaponize it against Pierre Polyev.

00:19:32.440 And now he's not involved in the conservatives anymore.

00:19:34.520 I'm sorry.

00:19:35.120 Somebody who claims to be a nonpartisan activist wouldn't have a picture of the liberal leader in his online profiles.

00:19:42.380 If he's truly nonpartisan and his new role, he considers himself nonpartisan, maybe take down the pictures of you grinning and smiling ear to ear, standing next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:19:53.860 Just a little bit of a tip.

00:19:56.200 And again, this isn't the only time it's happened.

00:19:58.740 So someone sent me this tip after I put out that Twitter thread.

00:20:02.320 Almost the same thing exactly happened last summer.

00:20:04.880 So back in August 2023, we saw a Canadian press story telling us that Pierre Polyev's Conservative Party was embracing the language of mainstream conspiracy theories.

00:20:17.420 The Tory leader's some or some speeches included a ramped up rhetoric about the World Economic Forum.

00:20:23.200 Again, this is Canadian press, but again, it appears throughout legacy media.

00:20:26.320 So here it was in the CBC.

00:20:28.540 Once again, throughout the piece, we see quotes from an individual named Khosr Ahmed.

00:20:35.180 We're told that he's a professor at the University of Winnipeg with a research specialty in conspiracy theories.

00:20:41.720 Well, he's not just a professor.

00:20:43.860 Turns out he's also a liberal donor.

00:20:46.540 Activist, as was pointed out by our friend Gary Keller, he wrote this on Twitter, that actually the source of this story is a liberal donor.

00:20:56.520 And you can see from the story itself that it features multiple quotes from this individual telling us how dangerous and how scary Pierre Polyev is for having the audacity to criticize the World Economic Forum and basically just saying that it's all nothing but conspiracy theories, mainstream conspiracy theories, whatever that means.

00:21:18.020 Now, you would think that a responsible journalist would include that information in their story.

00:21:23.380 You think they'd bother to check, bother to do the research.

00:21:26.380 Maybe they did.

00:21:27.660 Maybe they knew that all of these sources and their stories are actually just Justin Trudeau donors.

00:21:34.120 Maybe they just don't even care.

00:21:35.360 Or maybe they consider being a liberal donor to be a qualifier in order to be featured in a Canadian press story.

00:21:42.080 Maybe that's how they find their stories.

00:21:43.440 Maybe they just scroll through the list of Justin Trudeau donors and come up with, you know, call them up and ask them if they have any story ideas or any news tips.

00:21:53.220 Of course, it's not how journalism works.

00:21:55.560 It's not ethical.

00:21:56.260 It's not honest.

00:21:57.280 And it's not neutral.

00:21:57.940 This is not how a free press is supposed to work.

00:22:00.400 This is not how a democracy is supposed to work.

00:22:02.740 Canada is entering into dangerous territory where one party, the liberals, have bribed our country's journalists with billions upon billions of dollars.

00:22:11.160 As a result, the journalists have been compromised.

00:22:14.700 We cannot trust a word they tell us.

00:22:17.720 Over the course of the past few years, we've seen Canada slide into an authoritarian one party rule.

00:22:22.600 It's fueled by once trusted media journalists now pushing out government propaganda and lies to prop up their man, Justin Trudeau.

00:22:31.260 This needs to end.

00:22:32.540 We need to restore freedom and democracy in this country.

00:22:35.360 And the first step, the very first step, is to cut off all government funding to the legacy media.

00:22:42.280 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - April 02, 2024

This is NOT how a FREE PRESS should operate

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