The Candice Malcolm Show - December 13, 2023


Trudeau votes for HAMAS


Episode Stats

Length

14 minutes

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183.33601

Word Count

2,661

Sentence Count

161

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

Justin Trudeau and the government of Canada voted in support of Hamas at the United Nation on Tuesday. Despite Canada s long-standing policy of support for Israel, Justin Trudeau has stabbed Jewish Canadians in the back. He is now calling for Israel to more or less surrender to Hamas, all in pursuit of winning votes for his Liberal Party of Canada.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Justin Trudeau and the government of Canada voted in support of Hamas at the United Nations on
00:00:04.960 Tuesday. I wish I was kidding, but I am not. Despite Canada's long-standing policy of support
00:00:09.460 for Israel, Justin Trudeau has stabbed Jewish Canadians in the back. He is now calling for
00:00:14.500 Israel to more or less surrender to Hamas, all in pursuit of winning votes for his Liberal Party
00:00:19.880 of Canada. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:30.000 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. So it has been an interesting week
00:00:36.040 for Canada's foreign policy when it comes to Israel. In the span of less than 24 hours,
00:00:40.820 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went from breaking bread with Jewish Canadians, lighting the menorah
00:00:45.360 to commemorate the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, to condemning Israel at the United Nations,
00:00:49.940 and more or less calling for them to surrender to Hamas. Yes, Justin Trudeau voted in favor in
00:00:55.380 support of Hamas at the United Nations. So how did this all happen? We're going to go through the
00:00:59.440 timeline on the show today. So this was a scene in Ottawa on Monday evening, Monday, December 12th,
00:01:04.080 at a ceremony on Parliament Hill. Justin Trudeau was there, Chrysia Freeland were there. They were
00:01:08.260 showing their support for Jewish Canadians and paid respect to the religious holiday of Hanukkah,
00:01:13.320 the festival of lights. Now, it may seem a little mundane to acknowledge Hanukkah, but honestly,
00:01:18.040 in 2023, as I talked about on my show yesterday, it actually takes some courage as a woke,
00:01:23.940 progressive politician like Justin Trudeau to attend a Hanukkah event. Leftist politicians
00:01:28.380 from Calgary Mayor Jody Gonduk to California Governor Gavin Newsom have decided to either
00:01:34.100 cancel or completely avoid Hanukkah celebrations, lest we anger our pro-Hamas constituents.
00:01:40.280 Well, Justin Trudeau did show up, and here he is wishing a happy Hanukkah to Jewish Canadians.
00:01:45.020 Hello, everyone. Tonight, Jewish people in Canada and around the world will gather around the menorah
00:01:51.900 for the first night of Hanukkah. I know the past two months have been incredibly difficult for
00:01:57.620 Jewish people. On October 7th, the world watched in horror as Hamas committed acts of unspeakable
00:02:05.620 violence against innocent civilians. Since then, there has been a disturbing rise of anti-Semitism
00:02:13.060 that is making people feel unsafe in their schools, their workplaces, and their communities.
00:02:18.780 We've seen unacceptable, hateful acts that no parent should have to explain to their kids,
00:02:25.140 and that no rabbi should have to explain to their congregation.
00:02:28.780 I want to be clear. Our government stands with you. We will never accept any form of anti-Semitism
00:02:37.500 or hatred, and we will always speak up for Israel's right to exist and right to defend itself.
00:02:45.500 The story of Hanukkah is a reminder that light shines brighter than darkness, and right always
00:02:51.900 prevails over wrong. It's also a reminder of the resilience of the Jewish people who've persevered
00:02:59.340 through periods of unfathomable difficulty before. Canada will continue to stand with Israel and with
00:03:06.860 Jewish communities around the world as we persevere through this as well. I hope that the lessons
00:03:13.900 of Hanukkah and the glowing light of the menorah bring you hope during this difficult time. I also
00:03:20.700 hope you can find comfort and peace as you celebrate your traditions. Whether you're watching the kids
00:03:27.980 play with dreidels, frying latkes, and eating sufganyot together, or listening to the heroic story of the
00:03:35.020 Maccabees. And as we begin the new year, I want you to know that we will continue to stand with you.
00:03:42.060 At around the exact same time as Trudeau and Freeland were on Parliament Hill with Jewish Canadians
00:03:48.540 showing their support, Trudeau's very unserious foreign affairs minister, Melanie Jolie, was over
00:03:53.580 at the CBC doing an interview where she announced or introduced a bizarre new initiative that seemed
00:03:59.180 to undermine Canada's support for Israel and its right to defend itself. So in this interview with
00:04:03.100 the CBC, Melanie Jolie said that her government will eventually support an accountability system to
00:04:08.220 investigate Israel's military conduct during its war against Hamas. But interestingly in this interview
00:04:13.980 when asked about the ceasefire resolution at the United Nations, Jolie says she's still looking at
00:04:18.860 different versions of the expected resolution and that basically they hadn't decided how they were
00:04:23.260 going to vote. So that was Monday evening. Jolie really showed no intention that they would support
00:04:27.340 a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations, but then Tuesday morning came Tuesday, December 12th,
00:04:32.140 and Canada decided to break its long-standing support for Israel by voting in favor of a ceasefire at the
00:04:37.180 United Nations. Now make no mistake, a call for a ceasefire is support for Hamas. It's a call for
00:04:42.140 Israel to stop fighting against Hamas, to allow Hamas to live another day, to survive, to regroup.
00:04:47.820 It's basically calling just for Israel to lay down its arms, knowing full well that Hamas doesn't
00:04:52.220 really listen to ceasefires. It doesn't really respect ceasefires. They continue to fire rockets.
00:04:56.220 They continue to wage unprovoked attacks on Jewish civilians. We saw that during the very
00:05:00.780 recent humanitarian pause when there was a massacre at a bus stop in Jerusalem against civilians,
00:05:06.380 including a pregnant woman who was murdered and Hamas took credit for it and Hamas celebrated it
00:05:11.820 basically. So we know that a ceasefire only really applies to Israel. It's telling Israel to stop. So
00:05:17.820 why this sudden change in policy? Well here is Melanie Jolie explaining why the Trudeau government flip-flopped
00:05:23.660 on this issue. Here's that clip. We must recognize that what is unfolding before our eyes will only
00:05:31.180 enhance the cycle of violence. Well this will not lead to the durable defeat of Hamas which is necessary
00:05:41.660 and the threat that it poses to Israel. With the future of Israelis and Palestinians in mind,
00:05:49.260 Canada is joining the international call for a humanitarian ceasefire.
00:05:56.940 We have done so in a joint statement with Australia and New Zealand earlier today
00:06:02.140 and we have done so this afternoon at the UN. So somehow we're supposed to believe that stopping
00:06:08.860 the war will help Israel defeat Hamas. Something about cycle of violence doesn't really make a lot of
00:06:15.740 sense. Let's read from the news story. This is from CP on this issue. The headline says Canada breaks
00:06:20.940 with long-standing Israel stance at the UN in voting for Gaza ceasefire. So Canada voted in
00:06:26.540 favor of the non-binding resolution of the United Nations on Tuesday that calls for an immediate
00:06:30.700 humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in a move that broke with years of Canadian policy
00:06:36.060 and shocked Jewish groups. The vote at the UN General Assembly represents a shift in Canada's long-standing
00:06:40.380 position of siding with Israel on major resolutions at the international body and arguing the Jewish
00:06:46.140 state is unfairly called out in global form. We'll continue reading from the CP story. It says the
00:06:51.500 liberals say the carnage in the Gaza Strip led Canada to change its attack. They quote Melanie Jolie a few
00:06:56.300 times from that clip that we just played. Then it provides a bit more context about the war. Then it
00:06:59.980 goes back to another quote from Melanie Jolie and she says thousands of children are now orphans.
00:07:04.780 Countless Palestinian civilians in Gaza are suffering without food, water, fuel or medicine and their
00:07:09.260 homes have been reduced to rubble. So I'm sorry but the fact that thousands of children are now orphans
00:07:14.460 is because their fathers were part of Hamas. They're part of Hamas. They chose to join a terrorist group.
00:07:19.980 I don't quite understand why that's Israel's fault. Same with the idea that Gazans are suffering without
00:07:24.700 food, water, fuel or medicine. We know that Hamas steals those supplies. We know that Hamas controls all
00:07:29.580 those supplies. Why is it that Israel is getting the blame for this when it is clearly Hamas that
00:07:34.460 is doing those things? This is the kind of stuff that just makes you shake your head about the
00:07:37.740 things that Melanie Jolie says. The things that she freelances about and that she's allowed to say
00:07:41.900 she really doesn't know what she's talking about. So okay literally up until hours before the vote
00:07:46.540 happened Canada's position, Trudeau's position was that they did not support the ceasefire. They have
00:07:51.180 been saying that throughout the war that they do not support one. They supported a humanitarian pause
00:07:55.020 but they did not support a ceasefire. Canada supported Israel's right to defend itself,
00:07:59.020 to recover those hostages, to eliminate the terror threat on its border. It was the NDP,
00:08:03.420 the left-wing NDP and a small handful of left-wing Liberal MPs who supported a ceasefire,
00:08:08.700 who independently put out that statement saying that they wanted a ceasefire but the Trudeau
00:08:12.620 government did not. In fact interestingly even now after the Liberals have come out and moved
00:08:17.500 their support away from Israel, some Liberal MPs are publicly breaking ranks with Trudeau,
00:08:22.380 with the Liberal Party. They have made statements on social media and let me just emphasize that this is
00:08:26.380 something that is very rarely done in Canadian politics. Party solidarity is very strong in
00:08:31.020 Canada. You very rarely see a Liberal MP breaking ranks with the Prime Minister or a Conservative MP
00:08:36.780 breaking ranks with the Conservative leader. So first we had Anthony Housefather on Twitter,
00:08:41.020 this is what he writes. In my view any cessation of hostilities requires Hamas to release all
00:08:45.980 hostages and lay down arms and surrender. Hamas, a terrorist organization, is entirely responsible for
00:08:51.660 starting a war. I disagree with our vote at the United Nations today. Good on Anthony
00:08:56.380 Housefather to speak his mind. Likewise we had Marco Mendicino on Twitter also putting out a statement,
00:09:02.540 also saying this, I disagree with Canada's vote at the United Nations today. I do not support his
00:09:07.180 call for Israel to agree to what is effectively an unconditional ceasefire at present that would
00:09:12.460 only place in further jeopardy the safety and security of Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza. So
00:09:18.220 good for those Liberals to speak their mind and to remain principled. Now oddly after the vote,
00:09:23.740 Melanie Jolie jumped back on Twitter to add a bunch more facts and a bunch of more demands that are
00:09:29.100 actually counter to what the United Nations had voted for, counter to what she said in those stories
00:09:34.620 to the Canadian press and to CBC. So she writes this,
00:09:37.660 Hostages must be released. Foreign nationals, including Canadians, must be able to leave
00:09:42.460 Gaza and more aid must be able to enter. Hamas must lay down its weapons. Canada supports efforts
00:09:48.460 to a sustainable ceasefire, which cannot be one-sided, but none of those were conditions to
00:09:54.220 the ceasefire that she voted at at the United Nations. So in a nutshell, this is the problem with
00:09:59.420 the United Nations resolution. It only focuses on Israel. It's telling Israel to stop. It ignores the
00:10:04.940 party that wages the war, the party that endangers its civilians by fighting in plain clothes as
00:10:09.420 militant combatants in heavily dense, heavily populated civilian areas. It ignores the party
00:10:15.260 that doesn't care about ceasefires. It doesn't acknowledge ceasefires. And that, of course,
00:10:19.420 is Hamas. So Melanie Jolie, of course, was called out for her response. This is CJA,
00:10:24.140 the Canadian-Israel-Jewish alliance. They wrote this, Empty words. You just voted for a UN resolution
00:10:29.980 that intentionally and explicitly included those considerations. Minister Melanie Jolie,
00:10:35.020 you cannot have it both ways. Well, that is exactly right. Now, many Canadians, especially
00:10:39.580 Jewish Canadians, are probably now wondering, what led to Justin Trudeau's change apart?
00:10:44.220 Why did Canada suddenly shift away from its longstanding position? Why the sudden flop?
00:10:48.780 Why the sudden knife in the back to his Jewish allies? Well, the answer is quite easy. This one article,
00:10:55.020 published about four days ago, says it all. So here it is in the CBC. It says,
00:10:59.420 Group representing Canadian Muslim donors pulls back from Liberal Party over stance on Gaza. From
00:11:05.740 the letter, it says, Representing influential Canadian Muslim donors to the Liberal Party of
00:11:09.740 Canada has dropped out of the ranks of the party's top donors, citing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's
00:11:14.540 disinclination to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, CBC News has learned.
00:11:20.300 In a formal letter sent to Party President Sachit Mehra on November 27th, the group, which says it
00:11:25.980 has 400 members, says that it has called on Trudeau repeatedly to request a ceasefire. The leader does
00:11:31.980 not appear to be interested in truly listening nor interested in giving true value to international
00:11:36.700 law. With broken hearts, we must depart to the Laurier Club, the group said. The donor club is mostly
00:11:41.260 made up of Canadian Muslim professionals such as lawyers and doctors formed in December 2014. The group
00:11:45.980 helped Justin Trudeau to win his first election victory in 2015. Well, there you go. Now we know
00:11:51.340 that part of the reason that Justin Trudeau won his first election was because this group of
00:11:56.540 influential Muslims, 400 Muslim donors, who the CBC is telling us helped him win. So that's the reason.
00:12:03.580 It's just that simple. For Justin Trudeau, it is all transactional. It is about votes. For his entire
00:12:08.940 tenure as Prime Minister, since he was running for this position in 2015, Trudeau has put the Liberal Party
00:12:14.620 and its electoral interests ahead of the well-being of Canada, ahead of our unity, ahead of our national
00:12:19.740 interests. I wrote a book on this topic back in 2016. It is called Losing True North, which became
00:12:24.540 a number one bestseller. It sold tens of thousands of copies, which is really unprecedented for a Canadian
00:12:29.500 political book. But there was a lot of interest in it and the words that I wrote are true. It is
00:12:34.140 still happening. Trudeau has a deliberate policy to change Canada's long-standing immigration
00:12:38.940 tradition. Orient our immigration towards intake from the Arab and the Muslim world. And rather
00:12:45.180 than making attempts to integrate and to assimilate these new Canadians, rather than telling them to
00:12:49.580 leave their tribal hatreds at home and to come to Canada and embrace Canadian values, Trudeau has done
00:12:54.460 the opposite. He's told them that they can remain exactly as they are. He's fueled radical Islamists
00:12:59.260 and he has defended them at every opportunity. Under Justin Trudeau's tenure as Prime Minister,
00:13:03.900 Canada has welcomed more than half a million Muslims and Trudeau wants to make sure that every
00:13:08.540 single one of them will forever vote for his party, will forever vote for the Liberal Party.
00:13:13.820 And that is what this is all about. Jewish activist Anthony Cook pointed this out on Twitter last night.
00:13:18.700 He says, the Liberal Party understands demographics. They're making a choice based on a very cold and hard
00:13:24.220 political reality. There are far more Muslims in Canada than there are Jews. And as time goes on,
00:13:28.940 the disparity will likely continue to grow exponentially. That's all there is to it.
00:13:33.820 I think that's right. I think it's that simple. There's just one more element, which is why I added
00:13:37.020 this tweet. I said the demographic shift didn't just happen. It was a deliberate change in policy
00:13:41.500 by the Trudeau libs. They prioritize immigration from Arab and Muslim countries for this reason.
00:13:47.820 So the demographics are going to continue to shift in that favor, which is why eventually we knew that
00:13:52.380 Trudeau was going to make this jump. Well, it happened on December 12th. The mask has slipped and
00:13:56.540 Canadians can now see the truth. Justin Trudeau doesn't care about principle. Justin Trudeau doesn't really
00:14:01.020 care about democracy or stability in the Middle East. He doesn't really care about supporting
00:14:05.900 an ally or fighting against radicalismism and terrorism. No, he doesn't care about those things.
00:14:10.540 Justin Trudeau cares about himself and he cares about the Liberal Party of Canada winning the
00:14:15.340 most votes. That's all there is to it. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.