The Critical Compass Podcast - Canadian Media's Adversarial Relationship w⧸Conservatives ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

00:00:00.000 yeah so this is just following the election which is very very close and there are some

00:00:10.360 writings that are within 100 votes which does automatically trigger a recount which is

00:00:16.200 understandable um but he's more or less going to unpack the dynamics behind the election

00:00:23.260 yeah and this is um stephen quinn and he was he was one of the main commentators on the night

00:00:29.920 the election too it was uh like not even not even an attempt to be objective but anyway we'll listen

00:00:37.500 it's about five minutes long here three of four seats in richmond what does that tell you

00:00:42.420 richmond you know with both richmond and surrey uh really when you look at what the conservative

00:00:48.500 vote representative represented it was pretty much you know rural bc uh but also a lot of

00:00:54.580 ethnic minorities whether it's uh chinese canadians or indo-canadians um and so a lot of those

00:01:00.600 groups came together and said you know they had enough whether it was the drugs and crime problems

00:01:05.040 whether it was soji that's going to our schools there's a lot of things that were driving people

00:01:09.020 that wanted to see change um so you i mean drugs and crime and soji are two ways to scare people 0.92

00:01:18.020 basically well i wouldn't say that um necessarily when parents are very concerned about their kids

00:01:23.740 they're concerned about their own safety and sure but is there anything to it but does i don't want

00:01:28.480 to get into it because we do every time but really is there anything to fear from soji really

00:01:33.360 well you know when your six-year-old boy his grandson comes home and sitting at the dinner

00:01:39.200 table and saying you know grandpa is it okay that i'm a boy at six years old should they really

00:01:43.340 be asking those questions why not why wouldn't they ask a question well that's a question i think

00:01:47.480 that the electorate has looks at and says you know they don't find that acceptable when you look at

00:01:51.480 also quite frankly the pornography that is in our school there is no pornography involved in the

00:01:56.600 program there is no pornography in the soji program and i don't want to go through this again

00:02:01.160 because we go through it every time but let's but let's also talk about the crime and drug factor

00:02:05.720 too because you're in richmond warning them against what you are calling drug dens um there are no

00:02:11.800 supervised consumption sites in richmond so first of all let's show let's actually show the books

00:02:17.560 that are being made available in our schools on your television show and let's see what kind of

00:02:21.800 ratings you get with that that are being made available that are being made available right

00:02:25.160 they're not part of a curriculum they came from the soji initiative which is not a curriculum it is a

00:02:31.320 philosophy that has been brought to schools but when it comes to you know what's going on in richmond

00:02:35.480 there was uh housing units that are being put in so that's brilliant because

00:02:44.760 all the times you've seen and this happens at school board meetings this has happened in parliament

00:02:50.760 this has happened where people takes they take books that are available in schools and they're

00:02:57.000 immediately censored or shut down because it's too inappropriate for whatever form it's like the

00:03:02.840 school board meeting it's like well you can't say all these you can't describe that sexual act

00:03:08.040 because that's too graphic or this meeting of adults or it's unparliamentary language and you're like

00:03:15.640 well yeah if we can't read it in parliament why are these kids like why are these books available for

00:03:22.520 like a 10 year old in these schools and and there's a there's a perfect microcosm there of the

00:03:28.680 the it's not happening it happens sometimes and then it's it'll they they moved on but it would

00:03:34.840 have it eventually would have been it's a good thing that it's happening there there is no pornography

00:03:39.640 in schools okay the pornography is there but it's not directly part of the soji and the soji initiatives

00:03:45.160 okay well it's the soji initiatives isn't isn't a program per se but the the books were uh initially

00:03:51.160 acquired by the philosophy that allowed the the that program to proliferate through the schools

00:03:56.120 and this host you can see he's argued these things before i'm not sure specifically with

00:04:04.600 john rudstadt or with just other people on cbc but a good host at that point would ask clarifying

00:04:12.680 questions and would unpack things like what do you mean by this it's like well or what evidence do you

00:04:21.160 have of this what evidence or what exactly not not telling the not telling the guests that that

00:04:26.120 they're wrong and this is why when in fact they're not wrong and and the host is actually wrong it's

00:04:32.440 it would well infuriating the watch so that's just the soji part but we still have the uh the drug

00:04:39.400 element oh yes oh yes it's good where drug consumption is being allowed there was safe injection

00:04:45.160 sites which were proposed to come into richmond and that we said no we will not allow that to happen

00:04:50.360 drug consumption takes place in every neighborhood in this province in in rich neighborhoods and poor

00:04:54.840 neighborhoods all over this province people are consuming drugs so talk to uh talk to the families

00:05:00.840 that live uh in an area where one of these uh housing units have come in and ask them about

00:05:06.120 what's happened with the drugs and the crime within their neighborhoods particularly when it's close to a

00:05:10.120 school or playground and take a look people should be afraid then is what you're saying people are afraid

00:05:16.440 when you see the drugs and crime happening in the neighborhood right you know there's random

00:05:20.600 random things going on you seem to think that it is okay for this to be happening everywhere in the

00:05:24.680 province i do not believe that's true i and and i don't believe it's i don't believe it's okay either

00:05:29.640 but what i'm saying is you know when people are looking at the the the issues that they're dealing

00:05:35.480 with on a day-to-day basis blowing things out of proportion taking single incidents that are terrible

00:05:41.800 incidents and trying to turn those into the norm is not necessarily helpful the evidence shows that

00:05:47.240 overall crime is down the evidence shows that stranger attacks are down the you know the evidence

00:05:53.560 shows so stephen i would challenge you on that and the reason why i would challenge you on is this

00:05:58.200 talk to the police about it and the problem is tell you the crime is down overall that stranger

00:06:02.600 attacks are police will tell you that it's down because they can't lay charges because there's no point

00:06:07.240 charges are not going through so many many crimes are going without charges being laid there's a

00:06:12.520 reason why for example save on foods has hired 345 security guards around the province and it's not

00:06:19.320 because it's it's not because they suddenly think that they need those jobs because they've got problems

00:06:24.200 they've got crime they've got drugs coming they've got the things uh stuff being stolen out of the

00:06:28.760 stores right their staff are not feeling safe this is what is going on our crews could it talk to the

00:06:33.000 small businesses could it be because people can't afford to eat talk to the small businesses where

00:06:38.280 things are walking out of their stores on a regular basis and how difficult it is look at how many

00:06:42.280 businesses are closed down now people are not going downtown anymore because they're not feeling safe

00:06:47.320 this is what is out there in our society today and it should not be trivialized and become normal i'm

00:06:52.920 not suggesting i'm not trivializing it at all i'm saying that you see the world in a very particular way

00:06:59.160 in a way that's a dangerous awful place that's it and and i'm i don't know that everybody sees it that

00:07:04.440 way everybody may not see it that way but i can tell you something were there tons of 10 cities all

00:07:08.760 over the house seven years ago no all over the uh the city no i mean a province no there wasn't

00:07:13.800 those are popping up was there people doing drugs all over the place no it was more limited and very

00:07:18.760 serious now there's drugs all over for example there were 10 cities all over vancouver 20 years ago

00:07:24.040 when they built the woodwards building there were 10 cities of science they were not all over the

00:07:27.160 cities in victoria they were not all over the place no they were there have been 10 cities around

00:07:31.480 for a very long time but not to the same level they proliferated all over the communities i mean

00:07:36.440 you just drive down the highway highway one you'll see them here and there and everywhere now those

00:07:40.440 were never there seven years ago well that that that last portion just in particular reminded me of the

00:07:47.160 jd vance's reply to that reporter when they were talking about

00:07:50.440 um the venezuelan gangs taking over those apartment complexes and and i don't i don't

00:07:59.320 can't remember what state it was but where she was like it's not it's not several apartment

00:08:07.000 complexes or something and he was like how many apartment complexes being taken over by venezuelan

00:08:12.520 gangs is acceptable to you like like sorry what level of increase is yeah yeah like how many steven

00:08:21.640 quinn how many tent cities are acceptable and also before that do you did you notice how he told on

00:08:26.360 himself a little bit there where um excuse me with save on foods hiring uh 345 security guards is it

00:08:35.240 because do you think people can't afford to eat hmm whose job might it be to ensure that people have

00:08:44.360 enough money to afford to eat yeah it's you you think there's some ripple effects from the federal

00:08:53.160 but also provincial and who's in power right now and federally in canada and so you have liberals in

00:09:01.080 canada and then ndp in power and bc um so he kept on interrupting i must give credit for john rad said

00:09:12.280 for just pushing through like he oh yeah he was very like yeah he knew when to like

00:09:19.080 some people would they would just they would just chase those answers and they would try to address

00:09:24.520 everything he pushed through and tried to finish his points which were interrupted but his points

00:09:30.600 stood under their own merits therefore like you don't have to argue every little thing

00:09:35.160 that the host is interrupting which shouldn't happen no it was so adversarial you know and that

00:09:41.160 and that's that's just so so um it's just so typical now you know of this this type of media

00:09:49.320 environment we're in right now the host i can see that like in his mind he's like well i have to correct

00:09:57.080 this misinformation in real time i can't you can't let misinformation propagate and here's like oh

00:10:03.880 we're we're we're being balanced by having somebody from the other side on our program but we can't

00:10:10.680 let them get away with misinformation and and in that aspect i think he feels like it's maybe a moral duty

00:10:18.200 i think he feels like it's maybe a moral duty to like correct him

00:10:32.200 so

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The Critical Compass Podcast - October 28, 2024

Canadian Media's Adversarial Relationship w⧸Conservatives ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

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