The Candice Malcolm Show - May 02, 2022


Trudeau wants to decide what you see on the news


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What are qualified Canadian journalism outlets and why has the Canadian government put itself in charge of deciding what you get to see for your news? In this episode, we discuss Bill C-18 and how it impacts our free speech and freedom of the press.

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00:00:00.000 What are qualified Canadian journalism outlets and why has the Canadian government put itself
00:00:04.880 in charge of deciding what you get to see for your news? I'm Candice Malcolm and this is the
00:00:08.760 Candice Malcolm Show. Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. So we've been
00:00:24.480 talking in recent days and weeks about the new legislation being put forth by the Trudeau
00:00:29.420 government and how it restricts our ability to speak freely as Canadians. It impacts our free
00:00:34.960 speech as well as freedom of the press and today I wanted to look specifically at Bill C-18 and
00:00:41.620 discuss how it impacts the news that you see. So it's called the Online News Act and part of this
00:00:48.420 legislation is designating certain journalism outlets as qualified Canadian journalism outlets. So in
00:00:55.220 order to be approved by the government, we've learned, you have to be approved by a small board
00:01:00.500 put together by the Trudeau government. So I want to go back to a Twitter thread put out by Jesse Brown.
00:01:06.100 Jesse Brown is the publisher and editor-in-chief over at Candleland. We put out a request to Jesse
00:01:11.100 to see if he'd want to come join the podcast and discuss what he's found. He hasn't gotten back to
00:01:15.980 us. If he does, I'd be happy to have him on the show. But Jesse Brown writes this. He says,
00:01:20.420 In 2020, the Trudeau government started paying ongoing subsidies to newspapers. It was a trip
00:01:26.360 into the unknown. How did government decide which papers to bail out and which to let die? What about
00:01:31.800 independence of the press? Big questions. Now, there are two years of answers threads. So this
00:01:37.300 is a thread that Jesse put together back on April 4th. So he continues. He writes,
00:01:41.860 Meet the five people who decide which news orgs are qualified Canadian journalism outlets,
00:01:46.620 which are known as QCJOs. It's a board of news experts, academics and retired journalists paid
00:01:53.400 by government to read articles from every news organization that applied and decide which are
00:01:59.160 up to the snuff. So here we see the five people who are appointed to this Trudeau government board.
00:02:04.500 And as you can see from this map, we have four people from Eastern Canada. Looks like two from
00:02:09.960 Quebec, one from Ottawa, which is almost basically Quebec, and one from the Maritimes. You have no one
00:02:15.540 from the entire center of the country, no one from the prairies, no one from the West, one person from
00:02:21.980 Vancouver. So really not a very balanced organization here regionally, if you ask me. But these are the
00:02:28.360 people who determine whether or not you are qualified. So Jesse continues. He says, In year one of the media
00:02:34.920 bailout, the board passed judgment on 159 news organizations. In June, they released their first
00:02:40.860 annual report. So how many news orgs from the 159 got in? Which ones? How much money did they get?
00:02:47.240 Also, who got rejected and why? And so he shows a screenshot from the annual report, it shows the
00:02:53.080 statistics. So between March 2020 and March 2021, the board has received and returned to the CRA a total
00:03:00.420 of 159 requests for recommendation. Of those 157 recommendations were QCJO designated applications, and two
00:03:09.800 were rejected. Okay, so so two were rejected, 157 were approved. But as Jesse continues, he says they aren't
00:03:16.840 telling. The names of the news organizations currently funded by taxpayers is a secret. The amounts they receive
00:03:22.500 are a secret. The names of those rejected are a secret. And the reasons why they were rejected are a secret. The board meets in
00:03:29.680 secret. There are no videos online of their meetings, no minutes can be read. Canadian newspapers said
00:03:35.240 that they would die without government aid. This board decides which ones qualify for it. Their
00:03:39.860 rulings could mean life or death for a news org, and it's all kept a secret. And then he says, don't blame
00:03:43.900 the board. It wasn't their choice. Governments chose to put this under the CRA, where tax laws conceal the
00:03:49.420 names of the beneficiaries. This broke an explicit promise of transparency that Minister Pablo Rodriguez made
00:03:56.500 to Evan Solomon. So here is a clip from CTV with Evan Solomon, the journalist, asking the Heritage Minister whether it be
00:04:04.120 secret. And you can see Minister Rodrigo's response right here. Here is that clip.
00:04:08.680 Will you promise to make every decision this advisory group makes and the next group makes transparent in terms of how your
00:04:17.180 government decides, who is what your government calls a qualified journalistic organization, and why they got the money? Will all that be
00:04:24.880 transparent and no secrecy? Absolutely. Absolutely. All the recommendations. And so they'll be making
00:04:32.040 recommendations on a lot of things. And some, some will maybe, anyways, 100% of the recommendations, as you were
00:04:39.920 asking, will be, will be public. It is because it's the whole intent of our action, making, making sure that this is done on an
00:04:49.240 arm's length basis, respecting the experts that sit on those panels. You know, the groups that are consulting to name
00:04:56.100 experts, can name people in their organization, can name people outside of their own organization. So we'll listen
00:05:03.600 to them, we'll listen to what they say, and we'll definitely make it public. It's really important that we do so. And we will.
00:05:09.200 And again, he says 100% transparency, the minister promised 100% transparency. And yet, we know nothing. The only thing we
00:05:17.280 know, as Brown later points out in his Twitter thread, is that the only people who we know what funding they receive
00:05:23.860 are publicly traded news companies who have to disclose their funding. So Post Media got $6.9 million in tax
00:05:30.020 credits. In 2020, the Toronto Star got $6.8 million. But we don't know for other newspapers that were privately
00:05:35.720 held such as the Globe and Mail. We do know about one organization that was rejected because they
00:05:41.700 themselves made it public. I'm talking about Rebel News. You may have heard the news last week that
00:05:46.220 Ezra Levant, Rebel Commander and Rebel News is suing the government after their outlet was denied to be
00:05:52.960 covered under this qualified Canadian journalism organization status. And so Levant tweeted this out.
00:05:59.760 He said that the board reviewed his content. They looked at a total of 276 news stories. It took
00:06:07.280 them over a year to do that. And the board, this is a quote from Ezra, they declared to get this,
00:06:13.220 that quote, less than 1% of the content meets the criteria for original news. So what a strange world
00:06:19.560 we live in, where the government is the one that gets to determine whether or not you're a journalist,
00:06:25.260 a qualified journalism organization, whether you qualify for funding, then there's a whole bunch
00:06:30.380 of other consequences that come with that. So joining me today on the podcast, I'm really pleased
00:06:35.180 to welcome my friend and colleague, Andrew Lawton. Andrew is a senior journalist here with True
00:06:40.740 North, and he is the host of The Andrew Lawton Show. Andrew, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:06:46.320 Hey, always a pleasure. Thanks for having me on.
00:06:48.480 So, I mean, I don't think that you will be a very big fan of this regime that's being brought in
00:06:54.200 when it comes to the mix of journalism and government. What do you think of this whole
00:06:59.360 secret panel and a government-appointed panel in the first place getting to determine
00:07:03.500 who is and who isn't a journalist? You know, I remember when the Global Conference for Media
00:07:10.120 Freedom took place back in July of, I think, 2019. And the government of Canada was in the UK talking
00:07:18.260 a big game about media freedom in Congo and media freedom in Venezuela and media freedom in Iran
00:07:24.000 without looking in the mirror and talking about its own very dismal record to media freedom.
00:07:28.880 And this isn't just the Liberal Party banning independent journalists from covering its campaign
00:07:33.300 events, but as we see here, it's the government getting into the business of deciding what a
00:07:39.060 journalist is. And this is something that is quite significant because it also means the government
00:07:44.400 is, as in the case of Rebel, also saying what isn't a journalist. And the idea of a government
00:07:50.540 designation, something that doesn't exist in Canada in the form of a license, is now effectively coming
00:07:56.940 in through the back door through this. Because if you're someone that is, let's just look at the
00:08:01.080 convoy as a great example. When you had police questioning people as to why they were walking
00:08:05.440 down the streets of Ottawa, and you could say, I'm a journalist, and they'd say, well, prove it.
00:08:10.420 And the response that I'd give is, well, there is no national license to be a journalist in Canada.
00:08:15.160 If you want to be a journalist, you just work as a journalist. But now when government is doing this,
00:08:20.120 that they're actually making themselves the gatekeepers. And it's very, very dangerous.
00:08:25.320 Well, I remember you telling the stories about how they were asking for like an official piece
00:08:28.520 of government ID. And to me, that's so Ottawa, that's such an Ottawa mentality that if you're
00:08:32.760 something official, you have some kind of an ID card. And basically what they were asking for was a
00:08:37.980 parliamentary press pass, which True North doesn't have. I mean, we can apply for temporary ones.
00:08:43.720 But this is really formalizing it. So what else? So if you become a qualified outlet,
00:08:50.680 I know you can apply for government funding. True North has chosen not to, because we don't want
00:08:55.800 government funding. We're not interested. So we haven't even bothered putting an application in.
00:09:00.680 What else is this qualification? What does it do? Aside from just government funding, does it have any
00:09:08.260 other powers? Does it have any other ability to prevent or enable journalists from practicing in
00:09:15.360 Canada? Well, not directly, but you have to look at the broader package of what the government is
00:09:21.580 trying to do here. And in the last parliament, there were three bills that significantly regulated
00:09:27.100 the internet. And a couple of those have come back already. Bill C-10 has come back as C-11.
00:09:32.240 One of the other ones came back as C-18, which is what we're talking about now. And then there was
00:09:37.040 also an online hate speech bill. And all of these combined basically expand the purview of the
00:09:43.860 government to regulate the internet and regulate internet content providers. And one of the things
00:09:49.140 that Minister Stephen Gilboa has said is that, well, we're not going to regulate news providers.
00:09:53.800 But the definition of what a news provider is, is now something that the government gets to decide.
00:09:59.980 So if they say, well, we don't recognize you as a news agency, all of a sudden the government is able
00:10:05.280 to regulate someone. So the government could regulate someone like Rebel News, for example,
00:10:09.880 as a group the government does not recognize as a legitimate journalism organization. And the reason
00:10:16.180 this also is significant is one of the things they're trying to do is force social media companies
00:10:21.780 like Facebook and Google to pay for news. So they want big tech to subsidize news.
00:10:27.540 Now, I've got a lot of issues with big tech, but I have to defend the tech companies here
00:10:31.800 because news is a very small subset of what they do. And Facebook has been very transparent or meta
00:10:37.640 rather to its credit about this, as far as the small percentage of their market share
00:10:42.460 that is related to news content. They get a lot more money out of influencers and silly videos and
00:10:49.200 cats and memes and all of that than they do out of news. And what the government is saying that,
00:10:53.920 no, no, no, you need to pay these companies. So it isn't just about the tax credits. It's not
00:10:58.040 just about evading government licensing. It's also about forcing a pipeline of money from big tech
00:11:03.780 companies to subsidize journalism. It's so funny where we're now in the situation where we're
00:11:09.300 defending these tech companies because usually, you know, we're some of the biggest critics of them.
00:11:14.140 But I'm just reading here that Bill C-18, the Online News Act, would ensure that news media and
00:11:20.560 journalists receive fair compensation for their work. So it would require tech giants to make fair
00:11:26.420 deals with outlets for the news and information that is shared on their platform. It just seems,
00:11:30.860 I mean, to me, the idea that somehow the government, the Trudeau government thinks that it is the one that
00:11:36.200 is responsible for ensuring that journalists get fair compensation for their work. Like, I thought that
00:11:42.200 was the job of the market, right? It's like, if you're a competent journalist who is able to get
00:11:47.880 people to pay for your work and encourage people that there's value in your work, that's up to the
00:11:54.220 journalists, that's up to the consumer, that's up to the market. This whole idea that somehow Trudeau is
00:11:59.820 going to like valiantly step in and, you know, be the knight in shining armor to save these media outlets
00:12:06.740 is just sort of, to me, it seems so antiquated and out of touch, Andrew, to your point that most of the
00:12:12.760 people who have huge audiences on social media platforms, it's because they're doing something
00:12:17.560 fun and compelling, not because the government is forcing their hand. I'm just wondering, like,
00:12:26.600 do you think this is going to work? Do you think that somehow this is going to save outlets like
00:12:31.740 Post Media and Toronto Star and Globe and Mail from the fate that they've seen over the last
00:12:36.700 several years of just declining readership and declining profits? I know. I mean, you can,
00:12:42.900 the problem is they need a business model that is going to be modern. And unfortunately, the only
00:12:48.760 alternative that's being offered up by government and also by a lot of these outlets is the subsidy
00:12:54.880 model. That's basically it. I mean, when we say find a new model, we don't mean replace
00:12:59.700 advertising and subscriptions with government subsidy. We mean, be innovative, do what True
00:13:04.880 North is doing, do what Rebel is doing, do what Epoch Times is doing. I mean, there's a whole host
00:13:09.220 of independent media companies that have developed new models, yet newspapers have tremendous overhead.
00:13:15.880 They've got these giant, you know, multi-million dollar buildings and downtown spaces. They've got
00:13:20.600 real estate holding. I mean, all of this stuff. And it isn't viable. It isn't working at all. But the
00:13:25.380 answer to that is not to get government to bankroll it, when even that hasn't exactly stopped layoffs
00:13:31.560 for media companies. And interesting thing here about social media is that we are talking about
00:13:39.360 companies here that are not messing around in some ways. And they're bigger than the countries
00:13:44.940 that are passing these. I remember when Australia moved very aggressively to do a very similar thing
00:13:50.840 to what Minister Gilboa was doing. And there was a time when Facebook, in protest of this,
00:13:55.460 banned you from sharing a link to an Australian news website. And I know for whatever reason,
00:14:01.400 my website had an Australian server. And there was a time until I got it sorted out where you
00:14:07.280 couldn't share a link to my website because Facebook thought I was an Australian, which may
00:14:12.040 have been a compliment. I don't know. But that was a very chilling thing when all of a sudden you're
00:14:16.640 trying to share a link and you're getting the old New York Post, Hunter Biden laptop treatment of
00:14:20.800 just the link will not post because Facebook has decided it's not worth the hassle. And I fear
00:14:27.060 that could happen in Canada. Any companies that are saying, we want Facebook to subsidize us,
00:14:33.320 I would say, well, are you not posting your content on Facebook? Are you not using Facebook and Twitter
00:14:38.700 to amass an audience? I mean, you need them more than they need you.
00:14:44.060 Well, it's so funny because we were talking about this. I remember when this,
00:14:46.880 because the media companies, the newspapers have been advocating for this for a long time. And it's
00:14:52.060 kind of funny, Andrew, I know in the early days when we were trying to get accredited for the
00:14:56.100 liberal campaign to have you embedded as a journalist there back at the 2019 election,
00:15:01.160 they were saying, no, you guys can't come because you're not journalists, you're activists,
00:15:04.540 right? And you do advocacy or something like that, which we don't, but that's just sort of code
00:15:09.640 their way of saying conservatives aren't welcome, basically, or conservative news outlets.
00:15:14.140 But anyway, at the same time, the newspapers were doing a real advocacy campaign to the Trudeau
00:15:19.340 government lobbying for them to get this kind of treatment. And, and, and one of the things was
00:15:24.100 that, you know, Facebook, everyone knows that Facebook and Google have sort of eaten the lunch
00:15:27.840 of the advertising company, you can you can, if you want to buy an ad for a small business,
00:15:31.320 you can target your audience so much better on Facebook and Google, you can reach the exact type
00:15:36.360 of person where that you want. Whereas if you put an ad in a newspaper, you know, it goes to
00:15:40.660 everybody and most of those people won't even pay any attention to your to your ad and you're not
00:15:46.400 going to get good bang for your buck. So Google and Facebook do a much better job with advertising
00:15:51.440 than these newspaper companies. But the idea was, oh, you know, people can share our content for free
00:15:56.780 on Facebook. You go to like almost any link shared by the Toronto Star. And it's like the only ones
00:16:03.020 sharing it are the Toronto Star. So somehow the Toronto Star wants to be compensated for the fact
00:16:08.660 that they're sharing their own news story on Facebook. And then it's wild, because that's
00:16:13.680 basically what this what this bill does is making sure that Facebook and Google pay these companies
00:16:20.160 for every time their link is shared online, even though they, frankly, they don't get shared that
00:16:25.100 much. A lot of the stuff they put out isn't that interesting. People aren't that, you know,
00:16:29.420 interested in sharing this kind of stuff. I wonder you, you mentioned the whole Australia thing,
00:16:33.840 and how Facebook, Facebook kind of just flex their muscles and said, like, we don't have to do this,
00:16:38.340 because all we have to do is shut you down, you have no recourse. Do you think that the tech
00:16:44.120 companies are going to go along with this? Because all of this legislation says we've modeled after
00:16:48.500 Australia. When I hear that, I kind of laugh, because I think the Australia legislation was a
00:16:53.380 failure. Like, they introduced this legislation, Facebook flexed by just completely shutting off all
00:16:58.980 the news stories, like you mentioned. And then Australia had to go and rejig and rewrite their
00:17:03.760 legislation so that it wasn't as aggressive because Facebook slapped it down so hard. So
00:17:08.200 I have a hard time imagining that big tech companies in Silicon Valley will go along with
00:17:14.140 government kind of trying to meddle in their business, meddle with their algorithm, tell them
00:17:18.160 they have to pay. Once they do this, it sets a precedent that they're going to have to do this
00:17:21.820 for all kinds of other governments. What do you think? Yeah, that's certainly the concern is that
00:17:26.500 all of a sudden, and again, these companies have invested considerably in government relations and
00:17:31.080 lobbying. So they are engaging with government on this. And I know they're probably trying to exact
00:17:35.980 concessions behind the scenes here. And again, how powerfully they're going to be able to do that,
00:17:40.960 we don't know. Governments are committed more to ideology right now. They want to be able to say
00:17:46.060 they're saving local news and saving journalism and all of this. But the result of it is that you have
00:17:51.280 a journalism industry that is entirely dependent on government. And even if, I mean, this is why it's
00:17:56.900 so brilliant, because government can pass a bill that makes Facebook and Google and Twitter and
00:18:02.160 whatever subsidize news outlets, but it's government that's claiming the credit. It's government that's
00:18:08.040 doing it without actually having to shell out the money. And they're saying, no, no, no, we're not
00:18:12.380 subsidizing. We're not paying, but we're saving, we're saving media. And in doing so, that is going
00:18:18.960 to be very difficult for the next government to take away. And we even saw in the last election in
00:18:24.440 September, Aaron O'Toole, and we can have a different discussion about the why, but Aaron O'Toole was very
00:18:30.080 reticent to say, we're going to rip up the $600 million media bailout and CBC defunding, because it
00:18:36.220 becomes very difficult once government has decided to establish some pot of money for something for
00:18:41.400 another government to go in and take that away. 0.80
00:18:43.960 Which is why you never see the rollback of government policies. And you're right. I mean, I hate to give
00:18:48.840 Trudeau any credit, but it's the brilliance of his campaign. And you can go back because in 2015, Andrew,
00:18:54.340 the Trudeau government pledged to quadruple a cut that had been made by the Harper government. So
00:19:00.940 I think Harper cut $150 million and Trudeau came back with like $500 million or something like that
00:19:08.320 in additional funds. So he basically won that election in part by bribing the CBC saying,
00:19:13.860 if you elect me, you'll get all this money. If you elect the other guy, you won't and you could lose
00:19:17.980 your job, which puts a journalist in a direct conflict of interest where their livelihood could
00:19:22.940 potentially be at stake. They were so successful in 2015 doing that. They brought out the same
00:19:28.140 playbook in the 2019 election, but made it much, much broader with the newspaper bailout because
00:19:33.820 Andrew Scheer, the conservative leader, was opposed to it. So all of a sudden, you know, you have
00:19:38.480 journalists covering an election where their jobs could potentially be at stake. How could anyone be
00:19:43.820 fair in that scenario? How could you provide fair coverage? And then now we're in a situation where
00:19:48.800 they're all on essentially the government dole. I mean, to me, it's wild. It's such a conflict of
00:19:54.200 interest. There is no free press in Canada when you have the government this entangled in it. I mean,
00:20:00.260 Andrew, you've worked in newsrooms, you've worked in legacy media in the past. Why is it that so many
00:20:06.760 journalists are just sort of complacent and they barely cover this and they don't seem to think it's
00:20:11.220 a big deal? They're allowing a government takeover of the free press in this country.
00:20:15.880 Yeah. And I think a lot of them are, I mean, there are good people I've worked with in mainstream
00:20:21.760 media newsrooms that I think know, well, I'm not affected by this. I'm not going to subsidize. I'm
00:20:28.060 not going to, you know, write favorably about the government because they've done this. So they don't
00:20:31.600 see the broader implication. I mean, in every other space, the illusion of a conflict of interest is
00:20:35.860 just as dangerous as a genuine conflict of interest. And I think there's a challenge in how the
00:20:41.540 newsrooms themselves are. I mean, when the National News Media Council or whatever it's called has
00:20:46.200 advocated for this, they have had coordinated campaigns for the front pages, literally the front
00:20:51.320 pages of all mainstream media newspapers are instead a letter to the government saying, do this,
00:20:57.700 implement this policy. And again, if you were to have to go back to our previous exchange about
00:21:03.460 a party wanting to roll that back, if you were to have a party in, let's say, 2025 or 2029 or
00:21:10.040 whatever, saying we're campaigning on rolling this back. Well, how are those newspapers going to
00:21:14.640 respond during the election? Is there going to be a big letter on the front page of newspapers telling
00:21:20.600 people why this policy is wrong? So the newspapers themselves have become the advocates, even if the
00:21:27.560 individual journalists aren't. And that can't not filter down to the coverage that people are reading.
00:21:33.880 Well, that's why I find it so funny and amusing that they would call us, you know, activists and they
00:21:38.500 would say that we engage in advocacy when they literally, you know, they're pushing for specific
00:21:43.780 legislation. True North would never do that kind of stuff. And for sure, I mean, who knows what kinds
00:21:49.260 of stories are buried or killed or, or what, you know, I mean, just as an example, it was a US
00:21:56.400 publication, Time Magazine, that first reported that Justin Trudeau was wearing blackface. And almost
00:22:00.560 immediately, a bunch of Canadian outlets put out follow up stories that they had other pictures. So they
00:22:05.460 were just holding, it was like the middle of an election. I think it was CTV and maybe the Global
00:22:09.360 Mail or something. Global had another one that they had not done anything with. Global. Yeah,
00:22:14.140 they were, and they were just holding it. And so it's like, okay, well, we might as well release this
00:22:17.320 now. It's almost like, what else do you have that you're not reporting? Because for whatever reason,
00:22:23.320 you've justified to yourself that it's not in the public interest. Again, I think we're, we're heading
00:22:27.700 down a pretty, I mean, we're already there. We're already in this weird dystopian world where
00:22:32.080 independent journalists are deemed to be activists, like the rebel, like True North.
00:22:38.120 Whereas the actual legacy media outlets are doing advocacy, successfully lobbying the government,
00:22:43.940 getting money from it. And then they create this club where they lock themselves out. So I guess,
00:22:48.980 final question here, Andrew, what does this mean for outlets like True North? What does this mean for
00:22:53.540 organizations like the Independent Press Gallery?
00:22:56.440 I think it means, well, I mean, for the Independent Press Gallery, I think it means there needs to be a
00:23:00.880 counterbalance to this. And I've always been very, very impressed, not just as a counterbalance to the
00:23:05.940 Parliamentary Press Gallery, but even to the National News Media Council and to these institutions that are
00:23:10.940 advocating for more of a relationship between government and the press and more of a financial
00:23:16.440 relationship. And I think for outlets like True North, it means that we have to be able to just continue
00:23:22.440 doing what we're doing. I mean, what government is trying to do is, as you mentioned earlier,
00:23:26.700 Candice, manipulate the market. They're trying to create a business model to keep these things going, 1.00
00:23:32.120 but they're only doing that because these outlets are in a very bad place otherwise. And I think the
00:23:37.900 fact that we are growing and hiring an independent journalist, I mean, the Western Standard has been
00:23:42.000 on a hiring spree in the last couple of months. And while they are a competitor in some way, I'm
00:23:46.880 actually quite pleased to see growth in independent media in general. So I think eventually it may take
00:23:52.420 some time, but the audience is going to have the final say on this. Well, you're right. And the
00:23:56.720 idea that during an election, you know, if the Conservative leader comes out and says, we're not
00:24:01.460 going to renew this, and all of a sudden you have front page ads in newspapers, I just think that that
00:24:06.340 further drives people away from legacy media. It'll drive people to independent media because it's like,
00:24:11.040 how can you trust these guys? They're not even pretending to be objective anymore. Well,
00:24:16.100 Andrew, I always appreciate your perspective and your opinion. Thank you so much for joining the show.
00:24:19.860 Thank you. All right. That's Andrew Lawton, host of the Andrew Lawton Show here on True North.
00:24:24.920 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is the Candice Malcolm Show.