The Candice Malcolm Show - Who cares about an MPs medical history？ Why is this the top issue in the country？

00:00:00.000 The legacy media prioritized liberal talking points over issues that actually matter to Canadians. 0.99

00:00:05.500 Plus, David Suzuki is a crazy person. Why does the legacy media still take him seriously?

00:00:10.860 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:18.460 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in. It's Fake News Friday, the day that we go over

00:00:23.080 the worst examples of how the media in Canada are completely biased, are completely in the tank

00:00:28.100 for the Trudeau liberals or are just simply pushing an agenda. They are not neutral, they cannot be

00:00:33.860 trusted, and to make matters worse, they take money from the Trudeau government, which makes the whole

00:00:38.780 thing a conflict of interest. So, so many journalists pretend to present the news. This is kind of

00:00:44.440 interesting. So today I'm doing a presentation to a group of elementary school students about the

00:00:49.520 profession of journalism, about the idea of the purpose of journalism, what journalists do day in

00:00:54.760 and day out. And it's a fun opportunity to just sort of reflect upon my profession and sort of go back

00:01:01.140 and read some of the very basics about journalism. And the idea is that there are several different

00:01:05.640 types of journalism. So there's straight news journalism, which is just reporting the facts like

00:01:10.060 the premier says this, prime minister says this, reporting facts to Canadians. Then there is the

00:01:15.920 investigative journalism. So the type of journalism where you dig in and you find something that is

00:01:21.180 inconvenient to those politicians, something that contradicts what they say. So, so a great

00:01:25.080 example of that type of investigative journalism is when you, you catch journalism saying one thing

00:01:30.260 and then doing something very different. And this came out so much during COVID, especially just in

00:01:34.800 the age of social media, where everyone has a phone and everyone can take pictures. So you have

00:01:38.960 instances where you see, for instance, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, saying that restaurants

00:01:44.480 are closed and that you can't eat inside. And then someone catching him at a very expensive

00:01:48.940 restaurant, French Laundry, up in the Napa Valley, doing exactly what he said other people can't do.

00:01:54.160 We saw this example also with Canada's health minister, Patti Haju, where she was very, very

00:01:59.980 adamant that Canadians wear masks. And then we found a picture of her in the airport, not wearing a mask.

00:02:05.640 And sure, you know, her office and her team says, oh, well, she was eating or she was on a phone call.

00:02:09.840 You can clearly see from the picture that that's not the case. And so these kinds of things are very

00:02:13.860 powerful because they undermine the trust of the politician. So that's the sort of

00:02:18.380 investigative news stuff. And then finally, you have opinion pieces. I read an opinion column

00:02:23.180 in the Toronto Sun. It's fact-based. It's informed. It's my opinion based on facts and true information,

00:02:29.600 but it's still my opinion. And so you can take it with a grain of salt. You can agree with me

00:02:33.740 or disagree with me. Now, that's all textbook, right? The reality is that there is just so much

00:02:39.620 gray area when it comes to journalism and so many instances where you have a reporter pretending to

00:02:45.660 present the facts saying, this is straight news. These are the facts. Whereas in reality, when you

00:02:50.140 parse through what they say, when you look at the words that they choose, the information that they

00:02:55.040 choose to put in versus what they omit, the types of people that they interview as evidence for their

00:02:59.480 story, it becomes very clear that it is biased, that it is not straight news, that it is in fact

00:03:04.420 infused with opinion. And this has created, quite frankly, a crisis in my profession, a crisis in

00:03:09.900 journalism when it comes to the authority of journalists, when it comes to the neutrality of journalists.

00:03:15.460 It's all being called into question and then layer on top of that, this idea that now these

00:03:20.120 journalists are taking money from the federal government, which just creates a conflict of

00:03:23.880 interest. You can't have reporters planning to be objective in covering the news when they are

00:03:28.860 reliant and dependent on the politicians they cover to pay their salaries or to help make ends meet or

00:03:33.940 to ensure the survival of their media outlets. So there is a crisis within journalism and why we have a

00:03:39.600 business model that works in a time when all of these journalists are going hat in hand to the

00:03:43.160 government begging for money when so many of them are laying off journalists and drinking their

00:03:47.840 newsrooms. True North is growing. We're actively recruiting, hiring new journalists. It's really,

00:03:51.960 really exciting. And it's because we offer something different. We tell the other side,

00:03:55.660 but we're also transparent. You know where we stand on things. You know that we have an editorial

00:04:00.440 position that is conservative, small c conservative. And you know that we don't take any money from

00:04:04.920 government, that all of our funding comes from the support of viewers like you. If it wasn't for the

00:04:09.840 generosity of Canadians, we wouldn't have a business model. But because people believe in

00:04:13.660 our journalism, they support us, they pay for us. And that is how we're able to stay on the air.

00:04:18.540 So we do offer this great contrast in journalism. And so that gets me to the story, main story I want

00:04:23.700 to focus on today, which is the fact that the House of Commons is back. We have Parliament sitting

00:04:28.680 again. Finally, after almost two months after the federal election, we finally have MPs back in

00:04:33.260 Ottawa, back to work. We had a throne speech. And if you were to watch the media, watch the reaction,

00:04:38.240 you would think that the biggest issue in the country, the biggest, most important thing facing

00:04:42.940 Canadians today is the vaccine status of conservative MPs. That is all we heard about.

00:04:50.260 That is what the media was blaring. That's the message we heard from liberal MPs. And you can see

00:04:55.620 how the liberal MP message gets morphed into the headlines of the media. So it goes straight from

00:05:01.920 the partisan liberal talking points. And then the media just sort of pick it up, hook, line,

00:05:07.380 sinker, report it to Canadians as if that is the biggest story. And the reason for this,

00:05:12.400 of course, is that the liberals don't want to talk about the record. They don't want to talk about

00:05:15.720 what they're doing. They don't want to talk about the economy, the anemic growth, the huge spending,

00:05:20.800 the huge debt, the runaway inflation. They don't want to talk about any of those economic issues.

00:05:25.160 So they want to distract Canadians. And they do so by fooling the media into thinking that the biggest

00:05:29.760 issue in the country is the vaccine status of conservative MPs.

00:05:34.400 So this is a montage of liberal MPs basically telling the media what to report on. This is

00:05:39.580 their partisan political spin, their talking points. And this is what they have to say about

00:05:44.980 the biggest issue in the country. Well, I think it's fair to say that medical exemptions being

00:05:49.400 as rare as they are, it's kind of surprising to hear that out of 120 odd conservative MPs,

00:05:55.620 there might be multiple when the requirement for a medical exemption is something on the order of

00:06:00.920 one in 10,000 or one in 100,000. You keep mentioning that, have you gotten a list about

00:06:07.620 how many conservative MPs or any MPs in the House, for that matter, have medical exemptions? You keep

00:06:12.300 saying that it's statistically improbable and mentioning 119. Do you have a number that's being

00:06:16.680 put forward of how many MPs say they have medical exemptions? I understand. Again, we're dealing

00:06:23.360 because we won't be giving clear answers. We're dealing in shadows. So I understand there to be

00:06:29.840 multiple members. That's how it has been categorized. And, you know, if they were to say they had one

00:06:35.960 member, then there's, you know, one in five in 100,000, one member out of 119, exceptionally unlikely,

00:06:43.360 but possible. Multiple, if you start, I mean, just start doing the statistical math. If you have

00:06:49.500 multiple people out of 119, and you're saying one to five in 100,000, that's just not, it's just not

00:06:56.720 even remotely in, in any kind of math that makes sense.

00:07:00.500 All right. Is there any response to Mr. O'Toole's speech this morning?

00:07:04.080 So if you're putting your audience ahead of the country with your speech?

00:07:07.700 We're focused on fighting climate change. We're focused on growing the economy. We're focused on

00:07:12.540 reconciliation, the kinds of things Mr. O'Toole should be focused on. Instead,

00:07:16.300 he's focused on getting exemptions for his, his MPs. That doesn't make sense.

00:07:21.620 So, so, so that's the, that's the political partisan talking points of the liberals. And now

00:07:26.680 let's look at the media and what they're talking about, because lo and behold, surprise, surprise,

00:07:30.940 it is eerily similar that the headlines, the talking points that you hear from the journalists when it

00:07:36.240 comes to the important issues facing Canadians. Finally, the House of Commons is back in session,

00:07:40.440 and this is what they're reporting on. So here's Evan Solomon doing the liberals dirty work,

00:07:45.000 asking the question, the exact question that the liberals want asked.

00:07:49.320 Tell us the number. We can lay this darn thing to rest. 0.99

00:07:53.220 Evan, what we asked our caucus to do was to comply with the order from the Board of Internal Economy. 0.98

00:07:59.260 And we didn't, we did not pull over.

00:08:00.720 Right, but just how many, so just tell us how many had a medical exemption.

00:08:03.960 You, you'd have to ask the House of Commons because-

00:08:04.320 But you don't know, you don't know how many got vaxxed?

00:08:06.660 We, we did, we just asked them to comply with the directive from the Board of Internal Economy.

00:08:11.540 And so that question could be answered by, by House administration, who we have every

00:08:16.580 confidence did their due diligence. Okay. And so, and so we saw that Liberal MP Adam Van

00:08:21.920 Coverden, the former Olympic athlete, talking about how he thought it was strange that there

00:08:26.000 were medical exemptions among the Conservatives. And look at that, Global News reports exactly,

00:08:31.180 exactly the same headline, statistically improbable, multiple Tory MPs have valid COVID vaccine

00:08:36.760 exemptions. That's according to Global News. So again, they're doubting whether or not these

00:08:41.260 Conservatives are being truthful. And, and, and here's the Toronto Star again, emphasizing that

00:08:45.640 this must be the most important issue in the country. Vaccination policy dogs Aaron O'Toole

00:08:49.660 as Conservative MP tests positive for COVID vaccines. So again, you could be forgiven for thinking

00:08:55.160 this is just the biggest issue in the world. And so in response to all this, here we have

00:08:59.200 Conservative MP Pierre Polyev pointing out what he thinks is probably actually a much,

00:09:04.340 much bigger issue to Canadians, a bigger deal to Canadians, which is of course the skyrocketing

00:09:09.240 cost of living in this country, the insane prices that we're seeing at the gas pump in the grocery

00:09:14.140 store when we're out buying our Christmas gifts. Pierre Polyev talking about the real story and not

00:09:18.720 just doing that, but calling out the media, calling out the media saying, look, you're, you're being

00:09:23.740 duped. You're being duped. You're doing the liberal dirty work. Let's see, Pierre Polyev saying just that.

00:09:27.980 But yeah, listen, Mark Holland's not a doctor. What he is, is a politician. And the only,

00:09:34.620 the only thing he's trying to accomplish is to distract people from his inflation tax.

00:09:40.460 I mean, the number one issue facing Canadians that they want, the people want addressed in

00:09:45.360 this speech from the throne is the skyrocketing cost of living. Liberals who have caused that

00:09:52.020 crisis now want to distract from it by talking about everything else under the sun.

00:10:00.620 And I reiterate, the liberals must announce a plan to end the inflation tax in today's speech

00:10:06.320 from the throne. That's what Canadians and conservatives are demanding. 0.99

00:10:09.420 So, of course, Pierre Polyev is completely correct in talking about the real issues that matter and calling

00:10:15.420 out the media for just doing the dirty work for the liberals. So interestingly, surprisingly, maybe,

00:10:20.600 the CBC did pick up on this issue talking about how Pierre Polyev was talking about inflation as the

00:10:25.700 biggest issue facing Canadians and something that Justin Trudeau is personally responsible for

00:10:29.800 in the way of his out-of-control spending, his huge surge of the printing of money,

00:10:33.760 which, of course, is the cause of inflation. Here is Aaron Weary, probably Justin Trudeau's

00:10:38.320 number one fan in the CBC. And that's saying something because there are a lot of number one

00:10:42.760 fans for Justin Trudeau over in the CBC. But Aaron Weary probably takes the cake for the biggest

00:10:47.300 Trudeau supporter over there. And so this is what he says about Pierre Polyev's point. It says,

00:10:53.260 the conservatives' inflation argument is flawed, but it still might work. The surge in price is being

00:10:58.180 driven by factors outside of Ottawa's control. But politics is politics, says Aaron Weary. So,

00:11:02.940 of course, this has nothing to do with Justin Trudeau. It has nothing to do with Justin Trudeau.

00:11:07.020 It's because of the supply chain and because of global finances. And this is my favorite. He

00:11:11.260 defends Justin Trudeau because, I guess, Trudeau doesn't know the cost of a package of bacon or the

00:11:16.140 price of a two-by-four. So Aaron Weary goes into a long defense about how Justin Trudeau would never

00:11:20.920 have to go to a grocery store. That's so beneath him. And how dare conservatives even suggest that he go

00:11:25.440 to a grocery store. And he's not responsible for fixing the official residences of the prime

00:11:31.740 minister. So how would he possibly know what the price of a two-by-four is? To Aaron Weary, the idea

00:11:36.800 that Justin Trudeau is so out of touch that he doesn't know how much things cost in the country,

00:11:40.480 it's not because it would have been his job as an individual to go grocery shopping or to go out and

00:11:45.080 buy lumber, but perhaps that as a prime minister, as a politician, as a prime minister, a leader of

00:11:49.280 this country, he would take the time to inform himself, that he would bother to ask Canadians to talk

00:11:54.960 to people, even to talk to people and his staff to find out these kind of things. So the fact that

00:11:59.560 Aaron Weary here, the neutral journalist over at the CBC, is going out of his way to defend

00:12:04.680 Trudeau on something that's perfectly reasonable, that a prime minister and a politician should be

00:12:09.600 aware of the cost of things in their country, just shows you how in the tank CBC and Aaron Weary in

00:12:15.520 specific are for Trudeau. Then Aaron Weary goes and cherry-picks a bunch of left-wing economists to say

00:12:21.960 that the inflation doesn't have anything to do with government programming and that it's totally

00:12:27.040 different. And one of my favorite lines in this piece that I want to point out as an example of

00:12:31.780 how journalists sometimes stealthily infuse their own opinion into a news piece is that in this

00:12:37.560 report, he doesn't talk about government spending once. The word spending or expenditures or the

00:12:43.180 money spent doesn't, is it mentioned in this piece, neither is the printing of money or the

00:12:48.180 monetary policy. And instead, when Weary wants to talk about government spending and the increase in

00:12:52.900 government spending, this is the way he phrases it. So he's talking about Kevin Page, who's a

00:12:56.200 former parliamentary budget officer who did an interview on CBC. And it said, and Kevin Page did

00:13:00.940 say that, of course, spending is one of the reasons that drive inflation. But this is the way that Aaron

00:13:05.220 Weary phrases it. He doesn't say spending. He doesn't say expenditures. He doesn't say anything

00:13:08.580 like that. Instead, he uses the word support, he says. But he did suggest that government support

00:13:13.940 was boosting consumer demand. So he doesn't even bother to use the accurate word of what we're talking

00:13:20.420 about, which is how much money the government spends, the government spending. Instead, he uses the liberal

00:13:24.300 euphemism, government support, which sounds so much better. It sounds so much more friendly

00:13:29.380 and something that people can get behind as opposed to spending, which might make you think,

00:13:33.620 hey, why is the government spending so out of control? So of course, there are real issues

00:13:37.780 at play in this country. There are really serious things aside from whether or not conservative

00:13:42.180 MPs are vaccinated. So over at TNC.news, we had a report, economic issues take a backseat

00:13:48.720 in Trudeau government's throne speech. Issues pertaining to Canadians' economic livelihoods,

00:13:53.800 such as inflation, supply chain disruptions, and the ballooning federal debt took a backseat

00:13:57.960 in the speech from the throne on Wednesday as the 44th Parliament session convened. Other issues

00:14:02.760 like reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and tackling climate change were at the forefront

00:14:06.760 of the liberal government's priorities. In total inflation and supply chain, each received

00:14:11.560 one measly mention, while the federal debt received no mention at all. And True North wasn't

00:14:15.840 the only ones who noticed this. McDonald's Laurier Institute also said that the throne speech

00:14:20.560 lacked any serious thought on tackling inflation. So it's just clearly not a priority to the liberals.

00:14:27.280 And rather than the media talking about that or bringing concern about that, they would much,

00:14:31.980 much, much, much, much, much, much rather talk about the things that the partisan liberals want

00:14:36.040 them to talk about, which is the vaccine status of conservative MPs. Well, I would be remiss if I didn't

00:14:43.160 talk about David Suzuki, good old David Suzuki, the CBC golden boy, who is back in the news this week

00:14:49.140 because he was inciting terrorism. He was calling for terrorism in the news. David Suzuki says that

00:14:54.840 pipelines will be blown up if leaders don't take action on climate change. That sounds like terrorism.

00:15:00.540 That sounds like inciting terrorism or warning about terrorism. This is the kind of thing that a

00:15:05.600 crazy, crazy person would say. And of course, David Suzuki is a saying. So here is David Suzuki saying that. 0.95

00:15:11.100 We're in deep, deep doo-doo. And they've been telling us, the leading experts, for over 40 years.

00:15:18.080 This is what we've come to. The next stage after this is there are going to be pipelines blown up

00:15:23.160 if our leaders don't pay attention to what's going on. So David Suzuki, after making those insane

00:15:28.880 comments, was reached by the National Post on Monday. And he said that violence within the

00:15:32.680 environmental movement is already happening. Although he identified the police action against

00:15:37.280 the anti-logging and the anti-oil and gas pipeline protesters as a culprit. So he said that the

00:15:41.860 violence was being carried out by police. Asked whether he would support the volume of pipelines.

00:15:46.140 Suzuki said, of course not. Of course, it's not the first time that David Suzuki has said crazy things.

00:15:51.620 In a 1972 clip, David Suzuki compared humans to maggots. That's what he thinks of humans. That's what so

00:15:57.960 many people in the environmental movement think of humans. They elevate the earth and the natural

00:16:03.220 environment above human life, above the dignity and liberty of individuals. That's nothing new.

00:16:09.020 David Suzuki once called for politicians who ignore climate science to be jailed. Suzuki called for an

00:16:14.660 end to immigration, saying that our country was already full, Canada's full. And he called the

00:16:19.000 program disgusting. And yet, despite all this craziness, all the evidence of him being off his

00:16:25.340 rocker, the legacy media love to hold him up as a hero, as an activist, as something that we should

00:16:30.660 all aspire to. And they still regularly have him on. He was on CTV a few weeks ago talking about

00:16:36.100 the COP26 summit. He is frequently on CBC, and he is still frequently the subject of glowing profiles,

00:16:43.580 loving profiles in Canada's legacy newspapers. Why do the legacy media hold up someone who is clearly

00:16:50.360 a fringe, far-left activist? Well, because he shares their values. He shares their worldview. And

00:16:56.220 because of that, they see nothing wrong, even when he is outwardly calling for violence,

00:17:00.480 outwardly calling for terrorism. This tells you everything you need to know about what is wrong

00:17:05.520 with the worldview of so many in the legacy media that think that there's nothing wrong

00:17:10.140 with David Suzuki. And therefore, they continue to hold him up as a saint. And it's just another

00:17:15.580 reason why you should be incredibly skeptical of the legacy media here in Canada. It's Fake News

00:17:20.900 Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:17:26.220 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm.

The Candice Malcolm Show - November 26, 2021

Who cares about an MPs medical history？ Why is this the top issue in the country？

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