The Candice Malcolm Show - Top Stupid Things Politicians Said in 2023

00:00:00.220 Politicians say the stupidest things, especially our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 1.00

00:00:04.160 In 2023 was no different. 1.00

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00:00:37.000 Hi everyone, so Justin Trudeau was first elected in 2015. 0.57

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, 0.99

00:00:45.660 including some of my favorite stupid things that he has said over the years. 1.00

00:00:49.620 Trudeau's quotes shed light into the kind of person he is. 1.00

00:00:52.680 Vain, self-centered, image-obsessed, narcissistic, uninformed, ignorant, painfully progressive, woke, far left, and so on. 0.91

00:01:01.880 Now, interestingly, our legacy media seems totally uninterested in Trudeau's past quotes. 0.97

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. 1.00

00:01:23.000 Well, every year, we keep track of the stupid things that Justin Trudeau said that year. 1.00

00:01:26.980 And we release an article every year called The Top Stupid Things Trudeau Says. 1.00

00:01:31.740 So without further ado, here is the 2023 countdown list for the stupidest things that Canadian politicians, 1.00

00:01:38.300 and yes, that includes Justin Trudeau. 0.98

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 0.95

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. 1.00

00:02:53.260 Trans women are men who dress up like women, pretend to be women, and sometimes try to get 1.00

00:02:57.480 access to female spaces. 1.00

00:03:00.140 They're not women. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.95

00:04:54.260 So he's trying to tell the Muslims to stay with him and the liberals. 0.93

00:04:57.280 And then it's really the right, the Christian right and the Americans that are to blame. 0.95

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. 0.51

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 0.64

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 1.00

00:09:49.500 say stupid things to account. 0.99

00:09:50.760 So number four on our list is Pierre Polyev for calling Christine Anderson racist, hateful, 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.55

00:10:37.140 She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here. 1.00

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, 0.99

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. 0.98

00:11:58.260 But of course, this promotes the blood libel that Jews just try to murder babies and that 0.96

00:12:03.140 Israel is entirely to blame and Palestinians are innocent. 1.00

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 0.96

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 0.81

00:12:59.220 present at a moderator. 0.81

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. 0.87

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. 1.00

00:17:34.200 It's time for the top stupid thing a politician said in 2023. 0.99

00:17:38.920 This would go back to Justin Trudeau when he claimed, back in April, that he never forced 1.00

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. 1.00

00:19:32.400 Canadian politicians really are very, very stupid and we shouldn't give them as much 1.00

00:19:37.040 power as they have. 1.00

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.

The Candice Malcolm Show - December 27, 2023

Top Stupid Things Politicians Said in 2023

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