The Candice Malcolm Show - Trudeau votes for HAMAS

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 0.95

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 0.96

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 0.98

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 0.57

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 0.63

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 0.97

00:05:41.660 and the threat that it poses to Israel. With the future of Israelis and Palestinians in mind, 0.77

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 0.65

00:07:29.580 those supplies. Why is it that Israel is getting the blame for this when it is clearly Hamas that 0.95

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 0.88

00:08:45.980 hostages and lay down arms and surrender. Hamas, a terrorist organization, is entirely responsible for 0.74

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 0.98

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 1.00

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. 0.85

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 0.72

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 0.99

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.

The Candice Malcolm Show - December 13, 2023

Trudeau votes for HAMAS

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