The Candice Malcolm Show - August 23, 2021


Trudeau is in panic mode and resorting to manipulating the truth


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Candace Malan explains why the polls are tilting toward the Conservatives, and why Justin Trudeau is desperate to keep the Liberals in the race. She also explains why O'Toole is doing so well in the polls and why the Liberals are losing ground.

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00:00:00.160 Polls show that the Liberals are trending down, the Conservatives are trending up,
00:00:04.120 and that means that Justin Trudeau and company are resorting to flat-out lies and desperation.
00:00:08.440 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:15.720 Now, I may not agree with many of the policies being put forth by Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole.
00:00:21.220 I wish he was more Conservative.
00:00:22.740 I wish he would differentiate himself more from the Liberals in terms of policy,
00:00:26.500 and I wish that he would take on more of the cultural battles.
00:00:30.000 He may not be my brand of Conservative, but there is one thing that I cannot deny.
00:00:34.800 Aaron O'Toole is running one hell of a campaign.
00:00:37.960 He's incredibly disciplined.
00:00:39.820 He isn't falling into any of the traps the Liberals have set up,
00:00:43.300 be it on COVID vaccines, reconciliation, climate, healthcare, or social policy.
00:00:48.900 All of the typical things that the Liberals and their friends of the media
00:00:52.260 use to attack and demonize Conservatives, well, O'Toole has avoided.
00:00:57.360 Skillfully.
00:00:57.840 And he's being rewarded in the polls, big time.
00:01:02.480 338 Canada is a poll aggregator.
00:01:05.400 It takes all of the credible polls that have been done over a certain period of time
00:01:08.840 and looks at the averages.
00:01:10.780 So on August 13th, 338 Canada had the odds of Justin Trudeau winning a majority government
00:01:16.300 at about 58%.
00:01:17.980 But just nine days later, by August 22nd,
00:01:21.640 its projections show the odds of Trudeau winning majority down to 22%.
00:01:25.940 Likewise, on August 13th, they had the odds of the Conservative Party winning a minority
00:01:30.940 government at only about 1.2%.
00:01:33.800 No wonder Justin Trudeau triggered the election.
00:01:36.640 But now, that same polling aggregator, 338, has the odds of a conservative minority at 20.8%.
00:01:44.180 Now, let's look at the specific polls that True North is tracking.
00:01:48.880 This is the one that's making a lot of headlines right now, an ECOS poll.
00:01:52.680 So ECOS asks, how do you plan to vote in the upcoming federal election?
00:01:56.820 When they asked that question on August 15th, 31% said Conservative and 35% said Liberal.
00:02:03.040 Well, when they asked again over the weekend on August 21st, 33% said Conservative and only
00:02:09.140 32% said Liberals.
00:02:11.360 Yes, the Conservatives are winning according to that poll.
00:02:15.440 And that ECOS poll is not an outlier.
00:02:17.700 Check out the shift in Nanos' polling.
00:02:20.300 Nanos Research asks, for those parties you would consider voting for, please rank your top
00:02:25.340 two choices.
00:02:26.100 So on July 30th, the Liberals were up by six points.
00:02:30.620 The Liberals had about 32% and the Conservatives only had about 25.5%.
00:02:35.220 On August 22nd, the Liberals are basically only up by the margin of error, Conservatives
00:02:41.020 at 31.4% and the Conservatives at 32.5%.
00:02:45.640 Now, this of course is all because Justin Trudeau had a very, very, very bad first week
00:02:52.160 on the campaign trail.
00:02:53.100 First, he triggered the election mere hours after Kabul in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.
00:02:59.820 This intensified the impression that Justin Trudeau is selfish, unserious, arrogant, and
00:03:05.440 an opportunist.
00:03:06.460 His decision to host this vanity election juxtaposed with all of those chaotic images out of Kabul
00:03:11.900 and the mere fact that there were Canadians as well as those who risked their lives and
00:03:16.380 their families who helped Canada left behind was unconscionable.
00:03:20.820 Not to mention the fact that Trudeau flip-flopped over whether or not he would recognize the
00:03:25.180 Taliban as the official government of Afghanistan.
00:03:29.340 Next, Trudeau's entire campaign gamble was predicated on the wedge issue of mandatory
00:03:34.960 vaccines.
00:03:35.660 The Liberal Brain Trust wagered Trudeau's minority government on the assumption that the
00:03:40.880 Conservatives would oppose forced vaccinations for civil servants and federally regulated industries.
00:03:46.640 But O'Toole called him on his bluff and adopted more or less the exact same position as the
00:03:52.400 Liberals.
00:03:53.660 O'Toole said he supported mandatory vaccines, but also said that Canadians have the right
00:03:57.820 to determine their own health choices.
00:04:00.480 He instead suggested making alternative measures for those who fail to get vaccinated, including
00:04:05.640 masking and testing.
00:04:07.400 Now, Trudeau dishonestly tried to push the idea that O'Toole's position was meaningfully
00:04:12.620 different, but it wasn't.
00:04:14.460 It just wasn't.
00:04:15.360 Basically, their position is the exact same.
00:04:17.580 And even the bailout media caught on to that.
00:04:21.060 Robin Urbach over at the Globe and Mail called out the CBC on Twitter that CBC was the only
00:04:26.240 media outlet that was trying to push the Liberal spin, that the positions were different.
00:04:30.260 They weren't.
00:04:31.120 Robin called CBC out on Twitter twice for misleading Canadians by saying that their position was different.
00:04:37.460 And Chris Selle over at the National Post explained it perfectly, so I'm going to read from his
00:04:42.260 article that he wrote last week.
00:04:43.840 Here we go.
00:04:44.400 It says,
00:04:45.020 It was a classic Liberal wedge issue, albeit even more cynical than usual considering the
00:04:50.380 topic, and it seemed to be going to plan.
00:04:52.940 But the wedge had lost considerable structural integrity on Monday.
00:04:57.180 Whenever governments talk about mandatory vaccination, even for healthcare workers and nurses, the
00:05:01.800 union's reaction is central.
00:05:03.220 After the mandatory vaccine policy became official on Friday, the Public Service Alliance of Canada,
00:05:08.900 also known as PSAC, wasted no time demanding the government provide accommodation for workers
00:05:14.320 who cannot be vaccinated for reasons protected under human rights legislation, including health
00:05:18.620 concerns and presumably religious ones as well.
00:05:21.720 This planted a seed of doubt.
00:05:23.720 How mandatory would mandatory really be?
00:05:25.760 Canada's Chief Human Resources Officer, Christine Donohue, answered that in a memo to Deputy Ministers
00:05:32.420 published on the Treasury Board Secretariat's website.
00:05:35.600 For those who refuse vaccination, we will need to consider alternative measures such as testing
00:05:39.980 and screening, it said.
00:05:41.500 O'Toole's basic position, in other words.
00:05:43.860 Whoops.
00:05:45.240 This is all still from Chris Selle's piece, which is really good.
00:05:47.940 So here we go.
00:05:48.520 In theory, Justin Trudeau could have accepted that mandatory didn't mean literally everyone,
00:05:53.820 but that it was nonetheless a worthwhile policy.
00:05:56.860 Instead, he insists still that a vast gulf lies between his virtuous position and that
00:06:02.660 irresponsible Claude O'Toole's.
00:06:04.500 That boat might have floated had Donohue's memo not vanished from the web as quickly as
00:06:09.700 it appeared.
00:06:10.400 The Treasury Board Secretariat and the Liberals insist that's because the information was inaccurate.
00:06:15.380 But it's beyond suspicious.
00:06:17.260 Reporters smell political interference and a potential violation of the caretaker convention
00:06:22.240 that binds government-civil servant relations during campaigns.
00:06:26.720 And that is when the media caught on and intensified its questions against Justin Trudeau.
00:06:31.600 This is a final part from Chris Selle's piece.
00:06:33.740 He writes,
00:06:34.180 Are you just playing with words to score points?
00:06:36.260 One reporter asked Trudeau and Mark Montari on Tuesday.
00:06:39.240 Do you think it's responsible to turn vaccines into a wedge issue?
00:06:43.020 Asked another.
00:06:43.540 So in other words, the media, that is aside from the CBC, most members of the media have
00:06:49.120 not bought into this wedge issue, have not bought into the idea that Trudeau and O'Toole's
00:06:53.780 position are meaningfully different.
00:06:55.520 And look, if Trudeau has lost the media after giving billions and billions and billions of
00:07:00.120 dollars to the media, then he is in serious trouble.
00:07:03.560 And that's why we've seen the Liberals crank up the spin, the deception, and the misinformation
00:07:08.600 about Aaron O'Toole and the Conservatives.
00:07:11.040 So over the weekend, the Liberals turned to its old, tried-and-true, favorite methods
00:07:15.920 of fear-mongering against the Conservatives.
00:07:18.400 First, they said that the Conservatives have a hidden agenda to ban abortions.
00:07:22.300 And second, they said that the Conservatives have a hidden agenda to privatize healthcare.
00:07:26.720 We've seen this movie before.
00:07:28.200 We've seen this movie a thousand times before.
00:07:30.500 We've seen it for decades.
00:07:32.200 We've seen it so often that it has lost all meaning.
00:07:35.000 And unfortunately for the Liberals, the Conservatives are running a candidate in this election campaign
00:07:39.880 that simply does not live up to the Liberal boogeyman status.
00:07:43.920 Aaron O'Toole is just as pro-abortion as Justin Trudeau.
00:07:46.920 Again, there isn't a meaningful distinction in their policy.
00:07:50.180 Here is what Aaron O'Toole said on August 19th.
00:07:52.940 But let me be perfectly clear.
00:07:55.440 As a pro-choice leader of this party, I will make sure that we defend the rights of women
00:08:00.140 to make the choice for themselves with respect to their own health.
00:08:03.560 And on the exact same day, this is what Justin Trudeau said.
00:08:07.300 I think it's clear that there's something fundamental that Aaron O'Toole doesn't understand.
00:08:13.400 Pro-choice doesn't mean the freedom of doctors to choose.
00:08:17.900 It means the freedom of women to choose. 0.98
00:08:22.940 Leaders have to be unequivocal on that.
00:08:26.640 And once again, Aaron O'Toole is not.
00:08:28.940 And he's saying certain things to some people and it's opposite to others.
00:08:33.060 That's not good enough.
00:08:34.240 Rachel Aiello, CTV News.
00:08:35.640 You're attacking the Conservatives today over their position on conscience rights.
00:08:39.280 However, in your legislation on assisted dying, you protected doctors' freedom of conscience.
00:08:44.960 If the concern now is doctor referrals, why haven't you and would a Liberal government
00:08:49.440 move legislation to further enshrine abortion rights?
00:08:52.040 I think it's very clear that the Conservatives, Conservative Party, once again, doesn't understand
00:09:00.440 what pro-choice actually means.
00:09:03.440 Pro-choice isn't the power for doctors to choose.
00:09:07.420 It's the power for women to choose. 1.00
00:09:10.480 And that is what we are going to continue to defend unequivocally.
00:09:14.420 And quite frankly, the Conservatives have demonstrated time and time again that they will not.
00:09:18.740 Again, there is no meaningful difference in their policy and yet Trudeau is out there saying
00:09:23.660 the exact opposite and he had his minister for the status of women, an Afghan refugee no 1.00
00:09:29.440 less, unleash this deranged and untrue tirade on Twitter alleging that O'Toole is secretly
00:09:35.740 against abortion.
00:09:36.900 Now, I won't read through this entire thread because really it's just the same and you know
00:09:41.280 exactly what it says.
00:09:42.600 None of it is true and she was called out on Twitter over and over again, accused of
00:09:47.220 lying, fear-mongering, pushing hate and division and perhaps most damning, neglecting to talk
00:09:52.880 about the civil war and terrorism takeover in her country, in Afghanistan, and instead being
00:09:58.820 pushed out to push this trite and tired storyline.
00:10:02.940 It's all very sad.
00:10:04.800 But that wasn't it for the Liberals or for Trudeau making the ladies in his cabinet do his 1.00
00:10:09.680 dirty work.
00:10:10.680 Next, he had Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister, the deputy prime minister, the former
00:10:15.080 foreign affairs minister, a Harvard grad and a once respected person, a respected journalist.
00:10:21.680 He had her stoop even lower by pushing out a manipulated video to twist O'Toole's position
00:10:27.680 on healthcare.
00:10:28.680 Freeland tweeted out this video, which as you can see is just very clearly deceptively edited.
00:10:33.620 It's full of choppy jump cuts, making it painfully obvious how fake it is.
00:10:38.320 Here's the clip.
00:10:39.320 Would you be prepared to allow provinces to experiment with real healthcare reform, including
00:10:45.080 the provision of private, for-profit, and non-profit healthcare options inside of universal
00:10:50.800 coverage?
00:10:52.220 Yes.
00:10:53.880 Now, I'll elaborate a little bit more.
00:10:55.300 We can't have just one old model that is increasingly becoming inefficient, and we have
00:11:02.740 to find public-private synergies, and that capital will come in to drive efficiencies.
00:11:11.000 I've run on this for several years now.
00:11:14.220 So, it's deceptively edited.
00:11:16.080 You can tell that right away.
00:11:17.440 And, rightly, Twitter put a warning label on this tweet and on this video to warn viewers
00:11:23.740 that it had been deceptively edited.
00:11:26.240 Think about it.
00:11:26.920 The Liberal Party has, for months, been pushing and defending Orwellian legislation that will
00:11:32.600 censor what you can say and what you can see online.
00:11:36.600 They want that power.
00:11:37.940 They want the power to determine what you can say and what you can see.
00:11:41.340 They want to take that power away from Silicon Valley tech firms like Twitter and give it to
00:11:46.760 Liberal staffers in the Prime Minister's office.
00:11:49.740 The same Liberal staffers who have just been caught pushing fake information and spreading
00:11:54.960 a manipulated, dishonest video on Twitter.
00:11:58.400 And they had the Finance Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, no less, be the one to push it out.
00:12:03.820 This is irony at its best, and it's also peak Liberal hypocrisy.
00:12:07.840 All of which, of course, is lost on the Liberals, who gleefully continue to push their fake wedge
00:12:13.500 issue.
00:12:14.040 Freeland was so pumped about her deceptive tweet that she doubled down on it during a
00:12:18.660 campaign event.
00:12:19.720 Let's see what that looked like.
00:12:21.160 Had we not won the 2019 election, I wake up in a cold sweat thinking about that.
00:12:27.840 Do you think the Conservatives would have provided the support to individuals and to businesses
00:12:33.040 that we did?
00:12:33.980 Do you think they would have bought the vaccines that we did?
00:12:37.060 I don't think so.
00:12:38.860 And so it really, really matters.
00:12:41.080 And it matters for the future.
00:12:45.220 We put out, I think we put this out already.
00:12:48.440 If not, you guys are going to get the scoop on the rest of the country.
00:12:51.460 But we tweeted out some video of Aaron O'Toole during the Conservative Leadership campaign,
00:12:59.820 where he talks about privatizing Medicare.
00:13:03.420 Can you believe that?
00:13:05.180 But again, here's a problem.
00:13:06.540 It isn't true.
00:13:08.020 So let's go back to Freeland's deceptive editing, and I will show you the full clip of what Aaron
00:13:13.160 O'Toole actually said with all its context.
00:13:15.920 Here is that clip.
00:13:17.940 Now, I'll elaborate a little bit more.
00:13:19.980 I refer to my previous leadership quite regularly.
00:13:23.440 Our team now calls that the warm-up, because we're going to win this one.
00:13:27.060 But I also ran on this principle, Kate, because if we're expecting innovation and more choice
00:13:34.200 and better performance, we can't have just one old model that is increasingly becoming
00:13:41.260 inefficient because of the amazing new drugs that are dragging some of the funds into other
00:13:47.500 areas in our healthcare system, especially biologics, which the Trudeau government also
00:13:52.040 messed up in terms of the NAFTA negotiations.
00:13:55.160 If we want to see that innovation, we have to find public-private synergies and make sure
00:14:02.740 that universal access remains paramount.
00:14:05.860 And I actually praised what Brad Wall did with respect to diagnostic imaging, because he's
00:14:11.440 actually making sure that wait times for everyone go down as a result of the investment by the
00:14:19.540 private sector to make sure there are more diagnostic imaging machines.
00:14:22.920 I thought that was a brilliant move to show the public at large there's going to be an
00:14:27.280 overall benefit because everyone's wait times will go down, but people will be able to access
00:14:32.720 services and that capital will come in to drive efficiencies, drive innovation.
00:14:39.080 In fact, there was a decision in Quebec, the Charouli decision, that says it's a right for Canadians.
00:14:45.280 Now, because it was a civil code, not everyone applies it across the country.
00:14:48.420 It is certainly. If the same issue came to the Supreme Court, there's no way they could say
00:14:54.100 the state can prevent people, as you said, the communist China example.
00:14:59.660 So let's try and do it in a way that's fair, measured, and keep the public with us.
00:15:04.500 I've run on this for several years now.
00:15:07.820 And I do think in the 905 My Region, people are open to it, provided we don't let the liberals
00:15:13.420 define us. We have to have someone that can defend these principles and these ideas. And I
00:15:19.460 think in this race, I'm the only one who can.
00:15:21.700 Now, as you can see, he's not talking about privatizing health care. He's talking about
00:15:25.740 improving health care through competition, through more choice within the universal framework.
00:15:32.080 Isn't it funny, by the way, how the liberals claim to be pro-choice when it comes to abortion,
00:15:36.560 but all of a sudden they hate choice when it comes to the broader health care system.
00:15:41.200 It's my body, my choice when it comes to one narrow example for women, but no choice whatsoever 0.99
00:15:46.620 when it comes to vaccines and no choice whatsoever when it comes to getting a second opinion when
00:15:51.960 it comes to health care. Now, look, even the tech overlords in the Silicon Valley slapping a warning
00:15:57.600 label on Freeland's tweet and video, warning the viewer that it isn't true. Well, that didn't stop
00:16:03.480 Justin Trudeau from again doubling down, tripling down at this point onto this liberal spin.
00:16:08.820 Here's Justin Trudeau. Watch how worked up he is. He knows he's losing badly and he is obviously
00:16:15.160 in panic mode. Here's that clip.
00:16:17.160 In the pandemic, came out clearly in favor of a private for-profit health care system for Canada.
00:16:27.580 Shame on you. In a pandemic, no less. He was talking about this. When the stories of this pandemic
00:16:33.840 were how vulnerable people are made more vulnerable in a health crisis like this that we have to
00:16:40.060 continue to step up for, and he's saying, no, no, no, I've always believed in a for-profit health care
00:16:45.420 system. We need to ensure better access for wealthy people who can skip the queue and move
00:16:51.180 forward quickly. Well, that is wrong.
00:16:54.200 Trudeau is not telling the truth. The reality is that increasing public funding to our government-run
00:17:00.600 public health care is the biggest ticket item in Aaron O'Toole's election platform.
00:17:05.760 He has pledged to add an additional $60 million to increase health care funding within the government
00:17:13.720 system. That's literally the opposite of what Trudeau and the liberals are saying. But the liberals are
00:17:18.760 desperate. They're losing any hope they may have at a majority government, and they may just lose this
00:17:23.820 entire election. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.