The Candice Malcolm Show - March 25, 2022


Trudeau gets what’s coming to him in Europe


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00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets what's coming to him in Europe, and more of the legacy media's
00:00:04.860 fake news narrative about the trucker convoy comes crumbling apart. It's Fake News Friday,
00:00:09.040 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:22.180 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. So we're going to start off with some
00:00:26.480 news, not necessarily fake news per se, but just Justin Trudeau embarrassing himself,
00:00:31.620 embarrassing Canada on the world stage. It's sort of like a weekly occurrence here
00:00:35.140 with our Prime Minister every time he goes abroad. And for some reason, he keeps going back to Europe
00:00:40.020 every time he does, he embarrasses us. So joining me for Fake News Friday is True North producer and
00:00:44.880 journalist Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, thanks so much for joining us today.
00:00:48.360 Yeah, thanks for having me, Candace. I've been looking forward to this all week. And so
00:00:51.600 I know this is going to be a good episode.
00:00:53.380 It's like, I don't really understand why Justin Trudeau keeps going back to Europe. But alas,
00:00:58.640 he is back. This time he is talking to the European Parliament, physically lecturing Europeans,
00:01:04.820 telling them what they already know, pretending that he is this great statesman there to tell
00:01:09.440 everybody, bestow his wisdom on democracy and democratic ethics or something like that.
00:01:15.080 The reality is that Justin Trudeau doesn't know what he's talking about. And more and more people
00:01:20.060 are seeing through this. So Trudeau's office put out a release saying that on March 23,
00:01:24.160 the Prime Minister will address the European Parliament, where he will speak on peace and
00:01:27.720 security, defending democracy and transatlantic cooperation for the people of Canada and the
00:01:33.500 European Union. Trudeau calls the European leaders to unite, to aid Ukraine, and to further
00:01:39.120 sanction Russia. Again, it's just it's just so irritating to see our Prime Minister go out there
00:01:44.220 and lecture people put on his sort of grown up voice and just, you know, tell us again what we
00:01:51.300 already know. Interesting that I won't put you through Justin Trudeau's whole speech because it
00:01:57.540 is pretty cringeworthy. However, there is one part that really, really stood out. And again, I apologize
00:02:02.320 in advance because watching this clip just makes you it's just so it's just so awful. He's so terrible,
00:02:10.060 the way he speaks, the way that he talks, the things that he talks about. So here he is
00:02:14.260 demonizing the truckers. He goes all the way to Europe to lecture them about democracy. And he
00:02:18.100 can't help himself but providing his own revisionist idea of what happened during the
00:02:22.300 trucker convoys. So here he is reliving the trucker convoy, completely making things up about
00:02:27.240 the truckers and and talking about how he sees the situation. Here's that clip.
00:02:31.400 Even in Canada, where 90% of people are vaccinated and our motto as a country is peace, order and
00:02:41.740 good government, we saw anti-vaccine and anti-government protests devolve into illegal
00:02:48.660 occupations of our communities and blockades of our borders. The leaders of those convoys were
00:02:56.000 effective in turning citizens with real anxieties against the system best suited to allay those
00:03:04.460 concerns. So blaming everybody but himself and again, making it seem like he's the good guy,
00:03:09.980 his systems are there to allay our concerns. And anyone fighting against him is just exploiting
00:03:16.280 anxieties and turning people against each other. Well, the legacy media, Trudeau's press gallery,
00:03:22.860 his approved journalists, their job is to make Prime Minister Trudeau look good. And it's a tough
00:03:28.640 job because Prime Minister is just so bad at what he does. Regardless, here is David Akin being a good
00:03:34.360 journalist. And you try to make it seem like Trudeau's speech was more broadly attended than
00:03:39.840 it actually was. The reality is you look at this clip here, you can see that the seats are mostly
00:03:44.220 empty. The chamber is mostly empty. There's 705 members of the European Parliament, most of the seats
00:03:49.580 are empty. Here is David Akin saying that he counts about 200 out of the 705. No, I look at that clip
00:03:56.040 and I see maybe 40-50 people. But Akin notes, the gallery, however, is packed. So we're supposed to
00:04:02.160 believe that there's all these adoring fans up top watching Trudeau. The reality is that most of these
00:04:06.800 European politicians and officials, they don't want to hear what Justin Trudeau has to say. They know
00:04:11.360 that he is full of nonsense, that he's not going to say anything when he speaks. So they don't even
00:04:16.040 bother to show up. The few people who did show up didn't take it very well, Harrison. They didn't
00:04:20.880 really like what they saw. And we saw people give Trudeau a piece of their mind. So here we see
00:04:27.220 members of the European Parliament. You know, oftentimes in Canada, we don't think that
00:04:30.740 people are really paying attention to us, especially over in Europe. They have real issues
00:04:34.200 to concern themselves with. Here is a German member of the European Parliament, member of the ADF party,
00:04:39.460 which is the right-wing populist party in Germany, giving Justin Trudeau a piece of her mind. And you can
00:04:44.640 see that she really carefully follows this up. She knows Trudeau, she follows him quite closely,
00:04:49.400 and she gives a pretty scathing criticism of Trudeau. And amusingly, you can see Justin Trudeau is seated
00:04:55.960 right behind her. So you can see he's not very happy, not very pleased with this criticism. But here
00:05:02.020 is that clip. Thank you. Based on Article 195, I found out that it would have been more appropriate for
00:05:09.920 Mr. Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, to address this House according to Article 144, an article which
00:05:17.240 was specifically designed to debate violations of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law,
00:05:23.740 which is clearly the case with Mr. Trudeau. Then again, a Prime Minister who openly admires the Chinese
00:05:30.680 basic dictatorship, who tramples on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing his own
00:05:36.680 citizens as terrorists, just because they dared to stand up to his perverted concept of democracy,
00:05:43.360 should not be allowed to speak in this House at all. Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace for any
00:05:50.460 democracy. Please spare us your presence. Thank you.
00:05:57.120 Again, pretty devastating. And Christine Anderson is not the only one. So this was a theme. The reactions
00:06:02.920 to Justin Trudeau were not rosy. They were not positive. They were not good. Here is another
00:06:07.200 member of the European Parliament. This one from Croatia. Apologies if I get this name incorrect,
00:06:11.620 but his name is Mislaf Klokusi. And he is a former judge and an independent member. He also had a very
00:06:19.340 scathing criticism of the Canadian Prime Minister. Here is what that sounded like.
00:06:23.800 Canada. Canada. Nekada simbol modernog svijeta je pod vodstvom vaše kvazi-liberalne čizme
00:06:34.580 proteklih mjeseci postala simbol kršenja temeljnih ljudskih prava i građanskih sloboda. Gledali smo
00:06:44.280 kako konjima gaze, Ĺľene, kako samohranim roditeljima blokirate bankovne raÄŤune, da ne mogu platiti
00:06:54.800 djeci školovanje, da ne mogu platiti lijekove, da ne mogu platiti račune za struju i vodu,
00:07:02.560 da ne mogu platiti rate kredita za svoje domove. Za vas su to moĹľda liberalne metode.
00:07:10.240 Međutim, za mnoge građane svijeta, to je diktatura najgore vrste. Budite uvjereni da građani
00:07:20.520 svijeta, udruženi, mogu zaustaviti svaki režim koji želi uništiti slobodu građana, bilo bombama,
00:07:30.560 bilo štetnim farmaceutskim proizvodima. Hvala.
00:07:34.880 So for people who were just listening and didn't see the subtitles there, he says,
00:07:38.800 Prime Minister Trudeau in recent months under a quasi-liberal boot, Canada has become a symbol
00:07:43.060 of civil rights violations. The methods we have witnessed may be liberal to you, but to many
00:07:48.020 citizens around the world, it seemed like a dictatorship of the worst kind. Again, truly
00:07:53.340 devastating stuff. And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau goes abroad. He is used to being treated as some
00:07:58.820 kind of a liberal golden boy. He likes to be seen as a sort of last best hope for progressive
00:08:04.540 liberalism on the world stage. The reality is that the rest of the world doesn't see it that way.
00:08:08.220 They see him for the fool that he is, someone who goes out there, talks a lot of nonsense about
00:08:13.760 liberalism, and then governs in the complete opposite way, not giving people their basic rights,
00:08:19.220 not listening to people, not there in the way that you would expect the Prime Minister. So
00:08:23.340 interesting to see the Prime Minister being called out this way. Final criticism came from an
00:08:27.640 individual in the Romanian member of the European Parliament named Christian Teres. He released a
00:08:33.700 statement. He said that he didn't bother to go to the speech because he didn't want to listen to
00:08:38.360 Trudeau, but he put out a statement. So our own Cosmin Gersha, who is Romanian, or he speaks Romanian,
00:08:43.840 he translated the statement. And he said that Teres blasted Trudeau for having horses trampling
00:08:49.520 protesters during the Freedom Convoy. He writes this,
00:08:52.440 I refuse to validate by my presence the facade of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
00:08:57.080 who gave a speech before the plenary of the European Parliament on March 23. It was the reason
00:09:01.420 for which I was not in the room when he spoke. You can't come and teach democracy lessons to Putin
00:09:06.880 from the European Parliament when you trample with horse hooves on your own citizens who are demanding
00:09:11.820 that their fundamental rights be respected. Pretty devastating stuff. There is an old clip from this
00:09:16.640 same member of the European Parliament back in February 22 reacting to the trucker convoy.
00:09:21.560 He criticized Trudeau for invoking the Emergencies Act used to quash protests in Ottawa. So here is
00:09:27.820 what that clip looked like from February 2022. And what the Prime Minister of Canada, the way he's
00:09:32.920 behaving right now, he's exactly like a tyrant, like a dictator. He's like Ceausescu in Romania.
00:09:40.340 If even you doubt, if you raise doubts about the vaccines, you're outcasted. What's the difference
00:09:48.880 between what he does and what happened under the Inquisition? See, on one side they say, well, we should
00:09:55.140 believe in God. But on the other side, they say, believe in science. We don't have to. Science is not
00:09:59.960 about belief. Science is about measurements, conclusions, hypotheses, and arguments.
00:10:09.400 We got to a point right now where even if you say something, if you raise any doubts,
00:10:13.700 you're already considered, you know, as whatever, you know, they label you in very different ways.
00:10:20.900 This is not okay. And I should just note that this individual, Teres from Romania, as well as
00:10:27.060 the first woman that we showed, Christian Andersen from Germany, they both are described as far right
00:10:32.760 in much of the mainstream media. So not necessarily endorsing them in their individual politics or home
00:10:38.920 country, but just sharing them to show the kind of criticism that Trudeau is receiving on the world
00:10:44.520 stage. Kind of funny enough, the left wing woke blog site Vice lists Teres as one of the most
00:10:50.900 dangerous new MEPs in the European Parliament. I don't know if that's a badge of honor or what.
00:10:54.920 But Harrison, what did you make of this whole situation of Justin Trudeau on the world stage?
00:11:00.300 Well, I mean, he knew what he was going to get with the European Parliament because
00:11:03.700 obviously the Christian Teres speech went viral back during the convoy protest, calling him,
00:11:10.040 comparing him to Ceausescu and saying that he's a tyrant. So he knew he was going to get,
00:11:14.660 he must be some sort of glutton for punishment because it was clear that he was going to get roasted
00:11:18.740 at this address, especially when he's going there to lecture these European politicians
00:11:23.400 on democracy. But I made this point yesterday on Twitter and it's just that I would love to see
00:11:28.340 this kind of energy from the opposition benches in Canada because these European politicians must
00:11:34.060 have been waiting for their chance for quite a while. They knew that he was going to come to
00:11:37.360 come to their own backyard. And so they came up with some, they had some really, really devastating
00:11:42.360 things to say. And I think this all just points up to a much larger problem that Canada has,
00:11:48.180 which is the degradation of our image on the world stage. Canada is not what it used to be.
00:11:54.220 It's not viewed as the country it used to be. And that is largely because, as these European
00:11:58.580 politicians point out, because of the way that our prime minister has behaved. And I think that whoever
00:12:03.320 takes on the role of being prime minister after Justin Trudeau has a lot of work to do. They really do have
00:12:11.120 to take into account the damage to the image and the credibility of our country when trying to repair
00:12:19.740 the damage that Trudeau has done. But as you said, the German MEP, Anderson, she watches Trudeau quite
00:12:28.100 closely. She pulls up the basic dictatorship line, the admiration Trudeau has for China's basic
00:12:33.960 dictatorship. And she says that he trampled on the basic rights of Canadians and that he's a
00:12:40.160 disgrace to any democracy. That's some serious language that cannot just be swept aside. I mean,
00:12:48.080 the country, the prime minister, and the government has to address the fact that the European Parliament
00:12:54.180 does not respect our prime minister. They didn't even show up to his speech. I don't even know,
00:13:00.780 Candice, if the country has ever been viewed this bad on the world stage.
00:13:05.080 It's so interesting, because after the use of the Emergencies Act, I had Cave Chirouz from the
00:13:12.640 McDonald's Laurier Institute come on. We talked about how world dictators and sort of human rights
00:13:17.360 abusers are going to use this as an opportunity to dismiss Trudeau saying, you can't come lecture us
00:13:22.500 about human rights, because look at the way you treat them in your own country. We didn't even cover
00:13:26.460 the fact that other Western liberal democracies might be viewing this in the same way. And they just
00:13:32.200 wouldn't take Canada seriously. I think that, you know, it's one thing to have Xi Jinping or
00:13:36.600 Ahmadinejad or one of these crazy dictators or former dictators mocking Canada. But then on the
00:13:42.620 other hand, having our fellow kind of Western liberal democracy leaders come out and say this
00:13:48.900 kind of stuff against Trudeau is equally as devastating. And I think you're right that Canada's
00:13:54.280 image in the world stage is just simply not what it has been in the past. And the only one to blame
00:14:00.040 for that is Justin Trudeau. Hopefully, you'll have a little bit of a realization about that
00:14:04.840 over there. Harris, I want to move on and talk about this story that got thoroughly debunked this
00:14:11.200 week. This was sort of one of the major talking points on the political left during the Freedom
00:14:15.500 Convoy, this idea that there was an arson attack that was part of the convoy. So going back to February
00:14:22.200 of this year, right in the middle of the Freedom Convoy, this story kind of emerged on Twitter
00:14:26.500 of this apparent arson that was taking place. If you recall, there was a long Twitter thread by an
00:14:32.000 individual who claimed to live in the building. And he was sort of putting all the pieces together.
00:14:36.600 The story didn't add up. I recall Jonathan Kaye, the journalist over at Quillette, he was thoroughly
00:14:42.540 debunking it on social media, how absurd on the face it was. However, so many in the media and
00:14:47.580 especially so many politicians picked up on this idea that the Freedom Convoy was unsafe. And here's a
00:14:52.400 prime example. There was this attempted arson of a building. It went so far and so absurd as to say
00:14:57.980 that some eyewitness claimed that the guy that was trying to burn down the building yelled out,
00:15:02.240 I'm part of the Freedom Convoy or something like that. Like it just, it made no sense. Okay. So
00:15:06.360 anyway, so we now have officially cleared the Freedom Convoy of any involvement. But Ottawa Police
00:15:11.500 Services announced that they had the individual, they arrested him, they knew who he was, and he had
00:15:16.280 nothing to do with the Freedom Convoy whatsoever. So on Monday of this week, the Ottawa Police
00:15:21.360 Services released the statement saying that the man was charged in the February Lisgar Street
00:15:25.660 arson investigation. A man has been charged in relation to deliberately set fire in an apartment
00:15:30.520 building on Lisgar on February 6, 2022. A second man is still wanted by the police. Ottawa Police
00:15:35.780 arson investigators charged Connor Russell McDonald, 21 years old, of Ottawa, with one count of the
00:15:41.360 following. And then it's just a bunch of different charges related to arson and disregard for human
00:15:47.800 life. And it makes a note right here, there is no information indicating McDonald was involved in
00:15:52.540 any way with the convoy protest, which was going on when this arson took place. I could have told you
00:15:57.900 that, Harrison. I mean, even as soon as the story came up, it was so patently clear, like, like, I can't
00:16:02.820 say that every single person at the Freedom Convoy was a good law abiding person. I'm sure that there were
00:16:07.420 some bad people mixed in there. But by and large, the Freedom Convoy was characterized by a bunch of
00:16:12.760 people who were hardworking truckers, people who play by the rules, follow the rules, even just the
00:16:19.100 way that they kept the street clean, they sort of sell police, they were making sure that to do
00:16:23.700 everything they could, you know, to be respectful of the community that they were in. It didn't make
00:16:28.500 any sense that these guys would be out there trying to burn down buildings randomly in the middle
00:16:31.800 of their Freedom Convoy. They were there to make a political point at the home of our democracy.
00:16:36.980 That's what they were doing. And the story never really made sense in the first place. Well, now it's
00:16:41.320 completely cleared. Justin Ling, who was one of the journalists who was really pushing this idea that
00:16:45.140 this was somehow connected to the Freedom Convoy in the first place. He even wrote that that he had
00:16:49.500 information saying this guy was part of the homeless shelter system, that he may have been mentally
00:16:53.700 unwell, or, you know, perhaps on some kind of a drug fueled mentally mental instability. So, so here you
00:17:01.520 have a local person in Ottawa, you know, creating mischief, and it was conflated and blamed on the
00:17:08.680 truckers. To me, this, this just shows the desire by the left and the media. These just so badly
00:17:15.120 wanted the truckers to be breaking law and, and, you know, disregarding human life and threatening
00:17:20.440 people, that even a story that didn't really seem to add up at all, they jumped on it and pretended
00:17:25.540 that it was a huge central part of the trucker convoy. What did you think of this one?
00:17:29.860 I mean, it's, it, you're, you're exactly right that there was a, there was an attempt from the
00:17:35.140 very beginning to use this as a way to promote a, uh, a narrative about the trucker convoy protest.
00:17:44.060 And it was used as a way to, you know, promote the violent crackdown that we saw. Um, you know,
00:17:50.680 which I believe to be one of the, one of the more shameful moments in our recent history. Uh,
00:17:55.060 this idea that these were violent extremists, they were looking that the media, these politicians
00:18:00.300 were looking for any excuse they could to try and complete that narrative about these people.
00:18:04.940 But as you said, Candace, you, you could have, you could have pointed this out from the very
00:18:08.300 beginning when this story was released. So could I, because that's not the, that's not the typical
00:18:12.220 behavior of one of these trucker convoy protesters. Actually, that's kind of the typical behavior of
00:18:17.960 maybe a far radical left-wing activist trying to push for violence. This is more of an Antifa type of
00:18:24.200 act. And the person, it was all on video. The person didn't even look like he was part of the
00:18:28.440 trucker convoy protest. So. Well, yeah, it was a 21 year old guy with purple hair, right? It's like.
00:18:33.800 Yeah. Yeah. So clearly from the start, those that were actually paying attention knew that this was
00:18:37.980 bogus to begin with. Um, but it didn't matter. It didn't stop, um, politicians, obviously from the
00:18:44.820 left, from going out and putting on the public record that this was part of the convoy protest and
00:18:50.240 true North cause in Georgia put together a montage of these politicians saying just that. And this is
00:18:55.360 what that looked like. Violence is commonplace. We saw an example of this violence, an attempted
00:19:02.760 arson downtown of an apartment building where people started a fire. When they exited, they taped the door.
00:19:12.800 And an attempted arson, all of which Madam Speaker was caught on video. It has been an illegal occupation
00:19:19.780 that has, uh, been harassing people in residential areas of Ottawa. People don't feel safe in their
00:19:25.180 own homes. There have been reports of attempted arson. Canadians are also concerned hearing reports of
00:19:31.600 an attempted arson in the lobby of a residential apartment building. Because we see, um, hate speech,
00:19:38.600 we see, uh, illegal acts such as arson. The incessant honking, the arson attempts. The
00:19:45.900 incessant honking, the arson attempts. An attempted arson of a residential building
00:19:51.400 in the occupation area. We've seen the active sabotage of 911 emergency call lines and even
00:19:57.500 an attempted arson. Other alleged crimes have even been more egregious. Ottawa police are investigating
00:20:03.820 the attempted arson of a downtown apartment building. The situation persists, fueled in part
00:20:08.180 by foreign funding. We saw reports of attempted arson in some of the buildings. And it certainly
00:20:13.220 does not include arson or pushing into a residential apartment building and barricading the exits
00:20:19.000 with handcuffs. The arrests for conspiracy to murder attempted arson of a residential building.
00:20:24.460 Over the past three weeks, we have watched assaults attempted arson. They have been living in fear,
00:20:30.360 fear that their apartment buildings may be torched by arson. Seen assaults, attempted arson,
00:20:35.660 widespread harassment. There's been attempted arson with the attempt of handcuffing doors shut so that
00:20:42.540 if a fire started, people would be burned alive. Death threats, an attempted arson. A building had an
00:20:50.060 attempted arson where the doors were taped shut. Another building had occupiers attempting to handcuff
00:20:56.600 the doors. There are reports of attempted arson, bomb threats. Hate crimes, misogyny, arson.
00:21:03.680 Horns honked all night long. We saw thefts and attempted arson.
00:21:09.520 So none of those politicians know what they were talking about. None of them bothered to verify or
00:21:12.960 look into the story. It was just too convenient of a storyline. So they just went with it without
00:21:17.420 doing any kind of due diligence. Harrison, what a disgrace. All of those politicians, they all owe an
00:21:22.440 apology to the Freedom Convoy. We're not going to get one. But if the media actually cared about
00:21:27.120 holding people to account, they would be calling up all of those MPs, asking them whether they wished
00:21:32.160 to retract their comments. I want to note one other thing, that the main accuser, the individual who
00:21:37.000 put out the first Twitter thread, he jumped on Twitter to try to sort of circle the whole square
00:21:41.680 of his false accusation in the first place. He wrote this, I said it once and I'll say it again,
00:21:47.280 the convoy created a lawless scenario in Ottawa's core that acted as a catalyst for the arson attempt
00:21:53.000 to occur. We who lived through this and almost had our building burnt down know this. Okay, so just
00:21:59.460 imagine this logic, Harrison, that somehow, even though the truckers had nothing to do with this,
00:22:05.320 even though the guy was a local guy who was part of the shelter system, somehow the truckers are still
00:22:11.160 to blame, even though the guy had nothing to do with the truck. Truckers are still to blame because
00:22:15.040 they created chaos in the nation's capital. What kind of logic? This is just so absurd.
00:22:21.660 Well, of course. And like you said, don't expect any retractions or apologies from any of these
00:22:26.800 politicians. I mean, the mayor of Ottawa, who had his 15 minutes in the spotlight during this entire
00:22:33.040 time, he thoroughly took advantage of that. He said, in regards to the arson attempt, that it was a
00:22:39.820 horrific story that clearly demonstrates the malicious intent of the protesters occupying
00:22:44.540 our city. So again, don't expect anything. Don't expect any apologies from these guys.
00:22:50.160 They accomplished their goal, which was to demonize the convoy protesters enough to justify
00:22:55.420 a brutal crackdown on that Saturday. And also, I want to point out this global news story,
00:23:02.100 because one thing that really bugs me about the way that the legacy media report on stories is
00:23:06.900 they may indicate something in the headline, but they'll bury all the actual important details so deep
00:23:12.440 into the story, knowing that no one's going to get there. This global news story, although they
00:23:16.600 point out in the headline that police dismissed the convoy connection, they don't actually put that
00:23:21.620 in the story until the 10th paragraph. After the fact, they've already, in the article about the
00:23:26.840 arson, the person involved in the arson getting arrested, they still go after the incessant honking
00:23:34.220 and the harassment from the protesters. So again, it's, it's, it was a concerted effort by legacy
00:23:40.800 media and these politicians to paint the protest as something that it wasn't and to justify a
00:23:45.940 horrendous crackdown. So it's really, it's really shameful all around. Yeah, it's a huge indication
00:23:51.940 for the truckers and for people who were defending them, because obviously, they weren't violent in
00:23:55.820 nature. And this is just another evidence, a point of evidence. And it's just so devastating for the
00:24:01.500 legacy media. This is, this is like the epitome of a fake news story in Canada. They just completely
00:24:06.680 make up a storyline without validating it. Even when the story gets dismissed and discredited
00:24:11.880 Harrison, they still run with the same storyline. They say, okay, well, well, that part wasn't true,
00:24:15.820 but all this other stuff is still true. It's like, no one trusts you. No one trusts you to the legacy
00:24:19.860 media. And this story is exactly a case in point. Why one final story I wanted to cover here today on
00:24:25.840 fake news Friday, Harrison is this hilarious story. This is just so good. So the CBC reported on a
00:24:31.320 woman who applied for a bank, and the woman is First Nations. And she is outraged, because during
00:24:36.880 the interview process, or during the job application process, she was asked some questions about her
00:24:41.720 indigenous identity. And that is very offensive to her. So the headline reads, a woman outraged
00:24:46.600 CIBC job application suggests traditional regalia for video cover letter. And so we learn about the story
00:24:53.260 of a 21 year old, obisque and MĂ©tis woman who is looking for a job at a bank. She was a part time
00:24:59.040 receptionist at a hair salon. She was looking for another job. She speaks French, and she thought
00:25:03.140 that she would be a good candidate. But then when she went to apply, basically, they asked her a
00:25:08.200 bunch of questions about her heritage that were really trivial and kind of like diminishing or
00:25:13.720 offensive to her. And so the whole story like CBC reports this deadpan, like it's this outrageous
00:25:18.520 thing that this First Nations woman was asked these kind of questions. It's like this is a scenario that
00:25:24.360 the CBC has created. It pushes this like woke idea that we have to have affirmative action hiring,
00:25:29.860 that we have to have special treatment for certain people, and that we need to be more inclusive of
00:25:34.220 people in a certain community. And when the banks go along with that and say, okay, this is what the
00:25:38.860 culture must demand of us. So we'll create all of these special kinds of questions to make people
00:25:44.440 from First Nations communities feel more inclusive. Then the CBC reports that that is offensive. It's like
00:25:49.020 you can never do you can never please the people at the CBC, no matter what you do, they're going to be
00:25:53.280 outraged, you're going to write a negative story. Of course, all of this is predicated on the idea
00:25:57.340 that it was an Indigenous group that created the questions for the bank. So the bank went to a
00:26:02.380 First Nations group said, can you help us come up with some questions to remove the barriers in the
00:26:06.520 application process so that we can attract more First Nations people that they do that. And then it's
00:26:12.840 and then it's offensive to First Nations people who are actually applying for it. So again, there is no
00:26:17.020 pleasing the woke mob, no matter what you do, you will always offend them in some way. This is this is one of my
00:26:21.800 favorite stories. It's just so amusing to watch the left spin itself in circles over this kind of
00:26:27.320 thing. And again, the CBC reported like it's some kind of a scandal when they're the ones that are
00:26:31.240 pushing for this kind of stuff. Harrison, what did you make of this story? Well, the thing about the
00:26:35.180 banks is everyone knows this, that the banks are basically racing to racing each other to be the
00:26:41.040 most woke. It's sort of like a race to the bottom. And they don't frankly care about what other people
00:26:46.060 think as long as they satisfy the people that, you know, the the corporate social responsibility
00:26:51.420 standards that all these banks are trying to reach, which is just basically how woke can you get?
00:26:56.200 How far are you willing to go and willing to push it? But it just sort of, you know, this is exactly
00:27:02.220 the kind of thing that happens when people get so lost in this race to be the wokest that they just
00:27:08.280 they just end up losing all kind of semblance of common sense. The there's a there's a screenshot
00:27:13.740 of the question that this woman was asked in the CBC article. And it's so it's crazy. I mean,
00:27:20.600 part of the question, which it's a totally different application for indigenous applicants,
00:27:25.700 which I find to be, which you would think would be almost problematic in its own in its own way.
00:27:31.740 But one of the questions was a part of one of the questions says, feel free to write a song,
00:27:37.880 poem, dress in traditional regalia, or bring in backup dancers.
00:27:42.340 Exclamation point. Yes, exclamation point, you know, to, to, to your application for the bank.
00:27:50.780 I just don't, I, it's, it's, it's just incredible to me what these people were thinking. And of course,
00:27:56.620 this was written by, by an indigenous group. Of course it was, right? Because it just plays into
00:28:02.100 this narrative that, you know, the further you go into this woke rabbit hole, the more you lose your
00:28:07.400 mind and you end up just sounding, you know, insane. I mean, what were these people thinking?
00:28:12.340 Uh, did they not expect to get some sort of pushback on it? And I found this to be interesting
00:28:16.120 because this seems to be kind of a new segment. The CDC has added this go public segment. I've
00:28:21.280 never seen it before. And it's basically looks like it's some sort of opportunity for citizens
00:28:25.260 to air their grievances, uh, and to have it kind of masked as a, as an investigative journalism piece.
00:28:30.460 But really this is just an example of, of how things that go woke end up turning out to be very
00:28:36.340 bad. Uh, and they just make people look absolutely ridiculous.
00:28:40.580 Well, it's a total misreading of it as well, right? Like they're kind of making it seem like,
00:28:44.220 oh, the bank is disrespecting the sacredness of regalia. We're like, like, as if it was like,
00:28:49.860 you know, some like white corporate people that had written this question in a very condescending
00:28:54.220 way. Of course, the reality, no, it wasn't. It was people from the community trying to actually
00:28:58.240 do like genuine outreach. Um, it's just that again, it comes across as incredibly condescending.
00:29:03.400 So it's so, it's so odd, Harrison, that the CBC is kind of almost like holding the bank
00:29:09.640 accountable for being condescending to first nations people, even though it was the first
00:29:14.820 nations people groups, uh, that came up with these initiatives in the first place. It's,
00:29:18.760 it's just, uh, such, such a, such a sad state of affairs when it comes to this sort of official,
00:29:24.840 official woke, uh, perspective in, in today's culture that permeated throughout the media,
00:29:30.320 throughout banks, uh, everywhere. And, uh, yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm grateful that the CBC
00:29:35.420 reported it because it's so silly. Uh, it gives us a, a little window into the absurdity of woke
00:29:40.780 culture, uh, happening over there. So, uh, lots, lots of, lots of fake news as usual. Harrison,
00:29:47.760 thank you so much, uh, for joining us today. It's, it's been a fun show.
00:29:51.560 Absolutely. A pleasure to be on.
00:29:53.180 All right. Thank you so much. That's Harrison Faulkner. I'm Candace Malcolm. It's
00:29:56.280 fake news Friday on the Candace Malcolm show.
00:30:00.320 All right. Thank you.