The Candice Malcolm Show - December 27, 2023


Top Stupid Things Politicians Said in 2023


Episode Stats

Length

20 minutes

Words per Minute

173.68213

Word Count

3,521

Sentence Count

251

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

Justin Trudeau was first elected in 2015, and at the end of 2016, I decided to write a book about the stupidest things our Prime Minister said that year, including some of my favorite stupid things that he has said over the years. Trudeau's quotes shed light into the kind of person he is: vain, self centered, image obsessed, narcissistic, uninformed, ignorant, and painfully progressive.


Transcript

00:00:00.220 Politicians say the stupidest things, especially our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:00:04.160 In 2023 was no different.
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00:00:37.000 Hi everyone, so Justin Trudeau was first elected in 2015.
00:00:40.160 And at the end of 2016, I decided to write a book about the stupidest things our Prime Minister said that year,
00:00:45.660 including some of my favorite stupid things that he has said over the years.
00:00:49.620 Trudeau's quotes shed light into the kind of person he is.
00:00:52.680 Vain, self-centered, image-obsessed, narcissistic, uninformed, ignorant, painfully progressive, woke, far left, and so on.
00:01:01.880 Now, interestingly, our legacy media seems totally uninterested in Trudeau's past quotes.
00:01:07.160 They sort of ignore them or gloss over them.
00:01:09.380 They never really cover them or put them under the microscope to begin with,
00:01:12.780 which is part of the reason why we have Justin Trudeau as our Prime Minister.
00:01:15.900 Well, the book did really well.
00:01:17.800 It sold a lot of copies.
00:01:19.000 And every year, people ask me when the next volume will be released.
00:01:23.000 Well, every year, we keep track of the stupid things that Justin Trudeau said that year.
00:01:26.980 And we release an article every year called The Top Stupid Things Trudeau Says.
00:01:31.740 So without further ado, here is the 2023 countdown list for the stupidest things that Canadian politicians,
00:01:38.300 and yes, that includes Justin Trudeau.
00:01:39.940 He dominates this list that they said this year.
00:01:42.520 So let's jump right into it.
00:01:43.520 So number 10, Trudeau says that Canada protects freedom of expression.
00:01:47.600 This just happened on November 21st.
00:01:50.120 So in the wake of a rise of really unprecedented and horrific anti-Semitic attacks and incitements
00:01:56.200 in Canada against our Jewish brothers and sisters, Justin Trudeau steps in and proudly protects
00:02:02.960 freedom of expression, saying that these people can pretty much just say and do whatever they
00:02:06.660 want.
00:02:06.920 Here is that clip.
00:02:08.080 People are forgetting a little bit that we're a country that protects the freedom of expression,
00:02:13.120 that protects liberty of conscience, that respects and supports people, even when we disagree
00:02:22.060 with them across various points of view.
00:02:25.180 That has been one of the strengths of Canada for our entire existence.
00:02:29.060 We're a place that does diversity better than just about anywhere else.
00:02:31.880 Isn't it interesting how Canada protects free speech when it comes to radical Islamists and
00:02:37.160 people who support terrorism?
00:02:38.780 When it comes to the truckers and people who are critical of his government, independent
00:02:42.460 news, Justin Trudeau's love and admiration for freedom of expression seems to disappear.
00:02:48.580 And number nine, Justin Trudeau says that trans women are women.
00:02:51.580 Trans women, of course, are not women.
00:02:53.260 Trans women are men who dress up like women, pretend to be women, and sometimes try to get
00:02:57.480 access to female spaces.
00:03:00.140 They're not women.
00:03:01.020 But according to our prime minister, yes, they are.
00:03:03.280 There's no difference.
00:03:04.120 They're exactly the same as real women.
00:03:06.400 Next, on a similar topic, number eight, Justin Trudeau calls Canadian parents who are worried
00:03:10.980 about trans ideology, he calls them hateful.
00:03:13.780 And then just a few days later, he claims that he never did that.
00:03:16.940 On September 20th, he says, let's make one thing clear, transphobia, homophobia, and
00:03:21.980 biphobia, never heard of that one.
00:03:23.520 They have no place in this country.
00:03:24.520 We strongly condemn hate.
00:03:26.500 And then just a few days later, on October 5th, Justin Trudeau claimed that he never
00:03:31.340 said that people who are worried about parental rights were filled with hate or intolerance.
00:03:35.860 Well, sorry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we have them both on tape.
00:03:39.160 So here is that clip of Justin Trudeau trying to contradict the first clip that we just showed
00:03:44.360 you.
00:03:44.720 And I never suggested that someone who's concerned about parental rights is somehow filled with
00:03:51.480 hate or intolerance.
00:03:52.720 Number seven, again, on a similar topic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lectures concerned
00:03:57.740 parents on gender ideology, claiming that it is misinformation and disinformation fueled
00:04:04.660 by the American right wing.
00:04:06.280 We know that Justin Trudeau really, really hates Republicans.
00:04:09.060 He hates conservatives.
00:04:10.580 And anything that he doesn't agree with, he just writes off as misinformation and disinformation,
00:04:15.700 probably a conspiracy theory or something like that.
00:04:18.160 So here is what this quote looked like.
00:04:20.180 I ask you, Mr. Prime Minister, to please protect our beliefs and our culture as well, the same
00:04:26.640 that you are doing for the rest.
00:04:28.980 So this is where we're coming from.
00:04:30.320 I know.
00:04:30.680 And I've heard this concern many, many times.
00:04:33.680 And I know that it is a very real issue.
00:04:35.720 First of all, there is an awful lot of misinformation and disinformation.
00:04:41.740 People on social media, particularly fueled by the American right wing.
00:04:46.080 So could you weave that all together?
00:04:47.860 He's trying to say that conservatives hate Muslims, but then Muslims are also against
00:04:52.340 the indoctrination of children.
00:04:54.260 So he's trying to tell the Muslims to stay with him and the liberals.
00:04:57.280 And then it's really the right, the Christian right and the Americans that are to blame.
00:05:00.880 Okay, Prime Minister.
00:05:02.360 Let's move on.
00:05:02.880 Let's give Justin Trudeau a little bit of a break.
00:05:05.140 Let's move on to a different politician.
00:05:07.540 Here we have a liberal MP in Justin Trudeau's caucus.
00:05:10.140 His name is Ryan Turnbull, and he went on a bit of a deranged tirade on social media,
00:05:16.520 claiming that opposition leader Pierre Polyev would fail a security clearance.
00:05:21.880 So this is what he wrote on X.
00:05:23.640 He said, why won't Polyev get security clearance?
00:05:26.980 Either he prefers to remain ignorant of the facts so he can continue to mislead, or he has
00:05:32.540 a red flag in his background, which would have him fail to gain security clearance, causing
00:05:36.960 him embarrassment.
00:05:38.160 So this is all total speculation, so much so that X actually slapped a community note.
00:05:44.240 This is one of the best features that has happened since Elon Musk took over the platform,
00:05:48.680 is that we now have these little real-time fact checks where users can claim that something's
00:05:53.200 false, and if enough of them claim that it is, they slap on this real-time warning to
00:05:57.400 viewers.
00:05:57.940 So the context that is added here, it says Pierre Polyev, leader of His Majesty's loyal opposition
00:06:02.960 in Canada, has already undergone a series of background checks as a former cabinet minister
00:06:07.780 in Harper's government.
00:06:09.400 He was also sworn into the King's Privy Council for Canada as a member.
00:06:13.500 Yeah, so there's pretty much no truth to this.
00:06:15.240 It was just total nonsense made up by a Liberal MP.
00:06:17.840 Talk about misinformation and disinformation.
00:06:20.420 Likewise, another MP makes a list.
00:06:22.280 Here's number five Liberal MP, also in Justin Trudeau's caucus.
00:06:25.780 Ken Hardy blames Pierre Polyev for a shooting in Winnipeg.
00:06:30.840 The shooting appeared to be drug-related.
00:06:33.000 It happened in a very bad neighborhood in Winnipeg.
00:06:36.000 But almost right away, again, a Liberal MP jumps online to just post pure speculation and
00:06:41.320 total nonsense.
00:06:42.300 So this is what Ken Hardy says.
00:06:43.940 He says, beyond troubling to see another mass shooting in Canada, now in Winnipeg, we've lost
00:06:48.520 so many police officers.
00:06:50.020 Might it be the antisocial, burn-everything-down, far-right attitude we're seeing creeping in from
00:06:54.920 the U.S. and the creep on the Canadian side, Pierre Polyev.
00:06:58.700 So this is just kind of funny.
00:07:00.020 Again, these Liberals are really obsessed with the American right and the Republicans and
00:07:04.680 trying to insert it into Canadian politics.
00:07:07.500 The whole idea that the far-right has a burn-it-down attitude is pretty ironic, given that it is
00:07:13.260 the far-left that like to burn everything down in Canada.
00:07:16.060 Remember when the far-left burnt down 83 churches in Canada and the head of the B.C.
00:07:20.520 Civil Liberties Association literally posted online, burn it all down?
00:07:24.260 Yeah, I would say that that is a problem on the left, not so much the right in Canada.
00:07:28.740 Well, remarkably, this Liberal MP doubled down on his insane connection that somehow a
00:07:35.680 conservative politician in Canada is responsible for a drug shooting in Winnipeg, and it's all
00:07:41.280 because of the far-right attitude from the U.S.
00:07:44.120 Okay, so here is a clip of this Liberal MP who's still in caucus, still part of Justin
00:07:48.380 Trudeau's Liberal caucus.
00:07:50.220 He is doubling down on that seat.
00:07:52.200 He just says that he's trying to plant the seed.
00:07:54.520 He's trying to plant the seed so that reasonable people will think about it.
00:07:59.120 So basically, he's admitting that he's just trying to push propaganda and total nonsense,
00:08:03.160 and the media just shrug and let him get away with it.
00:08:04.980 Here's that clip.
00:08:05.480 No, no, I do not.
00:08:08.080 No, the intention there was to plant the seed and to really mark out the fact that Mr. Kaliyev
00:08:13.640 is engaging in very dangerous behavior, you know, behavior that is toxic right across the
00:08:20.600 country.
00:08:20.940 I did not make any connection between him and the event in Winnipeg, except to say that
00:08:27.080 he's creating an environment through his toxicity where some people are going to give themselves
00:08:32.700 permission to do antisocial things.
00:08:34.660 So, no, I don't regret that at all.
00:08:36.740 I planted the seed.
00:08:38.280 Reasonable people will think about that.
00:08:40.300 What I'm saying is, is that it's the environment that the Conservative leader is creating through
00:08:47.320 his consistent misrepresentations and the use of the big lie technique.
00:08:51.760 That environment leads to a rise in all kinds of things that are just simply not good for
00:08:58.260 our society.
00:08:59.420 Now, yes, the Winnipeg one, totally different thing.
00:09:02.540 Mr. Kaliyev, like any reasonable person, would have had nothing directly to do with that.
00:09:07.040 But it's the environment that's being created by the politics that he practices.
00:09:11.720 That's what we really have to be concerned about.
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00:09:43.680 All right, moving on.
00:09:44.780 Number four.
00:09:45.500 Look, we don't discriminate here on the Candace Malcolm Show, and we hold all politicians who
00:09:49.500 say stupid things to account.
00:09:50.760 So number four on our list is Pierre Polyev for calling Christine Anderson racist, hateful,
00:09:56.520 and vile.
00:09:57.020 This was back in February 2023.
00:10:00.100 So Christine Anderson, who is a German politician who has really become well-known for her criticisms,
00:10:05.360 her pointed criticisms of Justin Trudeau.
00:10:07.800 So during her time in Canada, she gave many speeches, she held many meetings, and here she
00:10:11.460 is photographed with some conservative MPs, including Lesley Lewis, who ran for leaders.
00:10:16.740 She was also spotted there with Maxine Bernier.
00:10:20.040 Well, Pierre Polyev didn't like it, and he decided to sort of take a page from Justin Trudeau's
00:10:24.040 books.
00:10:24.220 He said, Christine Anderson's views are vile and have no place in our politics.
00:10:28.240 The MPs were not aware of the visiting member of the European Parliament's opinions, and
00:10:32.120 they regret meeting with her.
00:10:33.820 Frankly, it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place.
00:10:37.140 She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here.
00:10:40.560 Well, again, that sort of sounds a little bit like Justin Trudeau and cancel culture saying
00:10:44.700 that someone is racist, and therefore they're not allowed.
00:10:47.520 Look, I probably don't agree with everything that Christine Anderson says, but that doesn't mean
00:10:51.140 that she doesn't have a right to be here.
00:10:52.860 She's clearly speaking for her people.
00:10:54.700 She's raising some very good points about the problem of mass immigration without integration,
00:10:59.040 and it doesn't really help when we have conservative politicians acting and sounding a lot like
00:11:04.320 liberal ones.
00:11:05.300 All right, moving on, let's go down to number three, back to Justin Trudeau.
00:11:08.820 Well, this one goes to both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his super serious, super smart
00:11:13.620 foreign affairs minister, Melanie Jolie, and their various positions when it comes to Israel.
00:11:19.060 So this one probably takes a cake.
00:11:20.360 Justin Trudeau on November 14th told Israel to, quote, stop killing babies.
00:11:26.820 Here's that clip.
00:11:28.060 The world is witnessing this, the killing of women and children, of babies.
00:11:39.740 This has to stop.
00:11:42.560 Killing of women and children and of babies has to stop.
00:11:46.380 This, of course, led to a number of international media headlines.
00:11:49.780 It's interesting.
00:11:50.280 This was a Reuters story.
00:11:51.100 It was picked up by news agencies all over the world, except for Canada.
00:11:54.640 They didn't really cover it so much.
00:11:56.000 They like treating Justin Trudeau with kid gloves.
00:11:58.260 But of course, this promotes the blood libel that Jews just try to murder babies and that
00:12:03.140 Israel is entirely to blame and Palestinians are innocent.
00:12:06.280 Well, Justin Trudeau's position on Israel has been back and forth and questionable, but
00:12:10.420 I think his foreign affairs minister, Melanie Jolie, really takes a cake on some of her
00:12:14.620 clips and quotes when it comes to this war.
00:12:17.580 So back on October 12th, when we were just worried about Canadians trapped in a war zone
00:12:21.260 and whether they could get out, whether the embassy was actually open over Canadian Thanksgiving
00:12:24.860 weekend, Melanie Jolie just sort of brushed it all off.
00:12:28.180 And she said, look, I'm a very busy woman and I can't always be found.
00:12:32.180 It's not my responsibility to worry about all this stuff.
00:12:34.680 Here's what that clip looked like.
00:12:35.740 I'm working 24-7 on this.
00:12:38.220 Meanwhile, there's so many issues happening in the world and trying to address all of
00:12:42.220 these.
00:12:43.300 But my goal right now is to make sure that this assisted departure is well done.
00:12:48.320 Next on November 10th, Melanie Jolie said that she wants Hamas, yes, Hamas at the negotiating
00:12:53.620 table.
00:12:54.280 She said she looks forward to a negotiating table where Israelis, Hamas and Qatar are all
00:12:59.220 present at a moderator.
00:13:01.160 And this leads us to one of the silliest comments that we've seen so far.
00:13:05.160 Melanie Jolie says that a two-state solution is more feasible since the grotesque, gruesome
00:13:11.300 October 7th terrorist attacks.
00:13:12.920 Yes, more, more likely to get a new state because, you know, the international community
00:13:17.360 just loves to reward brutal, vicious terrorists for sadistic killings of families in their
00:13:23.060 homes.
00:13:23.360 Here she was on December 17th talking to Vashi Kapelos over at CTV saying that Palestinians
00:13:29.620 are probably going to get their own state because of all this.
00:13:31.300 The possibility of it, though, after what has occurred over the last two months is diminished
00:13:37.020 even relative to where it was prior to the start, prior to Hamas's initial attack.
00:13:41.760 You know what, Vashi?
00:13:42.480 I think the contrary.
00:13:43.580 Really?
00:13:43.800 Why?
00:13:44.000 I think because this conflict is so difficult for Israel, so difficult for the Palestinians,
00:13:53.080 so difficult for the world, not only in Canada because we've seen the rise of anti-Semitism,
00:13:58.580 the rise of Islamophobia and just the rise of tension.
00:14:02.600 But that's the case here.
00:14:04.300 That's the case in Europe.
00:14:06.240 That's the case south of our border.
00:14:07.900 That's the case in Arab countries.
00:14:09.760 We are amidst an international security crisis, so we need to take a chance on peace.
00:14:15.320 Next number two on our list, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that he has always been
00:14:19.580 fiscally responsible.
00:14:20.980 Yes, always been fiscally responsible.
00:14:22.860 The man who ran an election of running modest deficits, only to balloon into the largest
00:14:27.560 deficits in Canadian history, racking up more than $1.2 trillion in debt.
00:14:33.140 The growth of debt per day, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, is more than
00:14:36.900 $100 million per day.
00:14:39.120 Your personal share of federal debt is now up over $30,000.
00:14:43.260 But no, no, Justin Trudeau has always been fiscally responsible.
00:14:46.320 Here's that clip.
00:14:47.360 We're going to continue to step up with investments in housing, in affordability, in supporting
00:14:52.600 stronger communities while we fight against increasing impacts of extreme weather events
00:14:57.760 due to climate change.
00:14:59.060 And we're going to do it in a fiscally responsible way.
00:15:02.680 Because we have been so fiscally responsible over the past years, we have room to respond
00:15:09.140 if there is no more to do.
00:15:10.920 We have the lowest deficit in the G7, the best debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7.
00:15:17.280 The international bond rating agencies have confirmed Canada's AAA rating.
00:15:22.900 We're the third largest economy in the world with a AAA rating after the U.S. and Germany.
00:15:29.880 So we will continue to be there with a responsible plan to invest in Canadians.
00:15:36.740 While the Conservatives continue to propose cuts in services and programs as a way of creating
00:15:44.980 growth, which makes absolutely no sense, we're going to keep investing in housing, in supporting
00:15:51.820 families, in building a better future while we fight climate change.
00:15:55.600 Now, speaking of fiscally responsible, Justin Trudeau also said that Canadians should use
00:15:59.520 a credit card to pay for large purchases.
00:16:02.320 Yes, if you're going back to school, if you want to go into debt to build a new home or
00:16:06.140 to expand on your home, just throw it on your credit card.
00:16:08.460 That's the fiscally responsible thing to do.
00:16:10.780 Here's Justin Trudeau talking in a town hall in Moncton, New Brunswick, back in April.
00:16:15.860 So, yes, you know, if you used your credit card for the first time, you're
00:16:21.800 using your credit card to invest in a huge flat-screen TV home theater system for your
00:16:28.260 basement, okay, you know, that's going to be something you're going to be paying off
00:16:31.520 for a while.
00:16:32.620 But if you use your credit card to go back to school, or if you use your credit card,
00:16:37.940 you go into debt to build an expansion on your house that you're then going to be able
00:16:42.660 to sell your house for more, if you're making investments that are going to return, that
00:16:47.600 is how you grow a strong economy.
00:16:49.380 Because, quite frankly, confident economies invest in themselves.
00:16:54.500 And that's exactly what Canada has done.
00:16:56.300 And that's why Canada is looking so good for the future.
00:16:59.700 And our fiscal path is responsible, restrained, and is going to leave people with more opportunities,
00:17:07.000 not burden, in the coming years.
00:17:08.760 So, yeah, I don't recommend taking financial advice from our Prime Minister, from the man
00:17:13.940 who is driving Canadians' fiscal future into the ground, the man who, under his watch,
00:17:20.980 nobody can afford a home.
00:17:22.160 Home prices are out of control.
00:17:23.400 Grocery prices are out of control.
00:17:24.740 Gas prices are out of control.
00:17:25.980 But don't worry, everybody.
00:17:27.340 Justin Trudeau says that he is fiscally responsible.
00:17:31.420 Okay.
00:17:31.960 And it's time.
00:17:32.920 It's time.
00:17:33.520 Drumroll, please.
00:17:34.200 It's time for the top stupid thing a politician said in 2023.
00:17:38.920 This would go back to Justin Trudeau when he claimed, back in April, that he never forced
00:17:44.240 anybody to get vaccinated.
00:17:46.300 No, no, no.
00:17:46.920 You must be misremembering the past.
00:17:48.880 You must be misremembering history.
00:17:50.800 Justin Trudeau would have never, ever told anyone to get vaccinated.
00:17:54.440 That's just not what he was doing.
00:17:56.140 Here is Justin Trudeau trying to make this claim.
00:17:58.680 My responsibility was to keep as many Canadians alive as possible.
00:18:04.560 And all of the scientists and the medical experts and the researchers, not just in Canada,
00:18:12.660 but around the world, understood that vaccination was going to be the way through this.
00:18:20.520 And therefore, while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated, I chose to make sure that all
00:18:27.840 the incentives and all the protections were there to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated.
00:18:34.000 And that's exactly what they did.
00:18:35.440 We got vaccinated to a higher level than just about any other of our peer countries.
00:18:39.700 And that's why we had a less deadly pandemic than most other countries.
00:18:45.840 Now, I see a lot of people nodding along with that.
00:18:48.440 But boy, oh boy, you know, the comments section on the live stream right now is exploding with
00:18:55.460 people who are in deep, deep disagreement.
00:19:00.260 It was just incentives, folks.
00:19:01.920 It wasn't coercion.
00:19:02.860 It wasn't as if you would lose your job and lose your livelihood and not be able to travel,
00:19:06.620 not be able to get on a train or a plane without getting the shot.
00:19:10.680 No, no, no.
00:19:11.300 It was just it was just a series of incentives.
00:19:13.640 And Justin Trudeau presided over a free country.
00:19:16.380 Must be nice to just simply get to revise the past, rewrite the past and to have many
00:19:20.520 Canadians nodding along saying, oh, yeah, that's right.
00:19:23.040 Justin Trudeau would never do something so vicious, so tyrannical as forcing people to
00:19:28.880 get a shot that they didn't want to get.
00:19:31.280 Well, there you have it, folks.
00:19:32.400 Canadian politicians really are very, very stupid and we shouldn't give them as much
00:19:37.040 power as they have.
00:19:38.060 That's our list.
00:19:38.860 That's all for us.
00:19:39.540 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:19:40.540 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:19:46.380 Thank you so much for tuning in.