Canadian Media's Adversarial Relationship w⧸Conservatives ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the recent recount in the federal election, the role of Soji in our schools, and the dangers of soji education in schools. We also talk about the drug and crime problem in the province of Richmond Hill, Vancouver, and how Soji is being used as a tool to scare people.
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yeah so this is just following the election which is very very close and there are some
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writings that are within 100 votes which does automatically trigger a recount which is
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understandable um but he's more or less going to unpack the dynamics behind the election
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yeah and this is um stephen quinn and he was he was one of the main commentators on the night
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the election too it was uh like not even not even an attempt to be objective but anyway we'll listen
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it's about five minutes long here three of four seats in richmond what does that tell you
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richmond you know with both richmond and surrey uh really when you look at what the conservative
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vote representative represented it was pretty much you know rural bc uh but also a lot of
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ethnic minorities whether it's uh chinese canadians or indo-canadians um and so a lot of those
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groups came together and said you know they had enough whether it was the drugs and crime problems
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whether it was soji that's going to our schools there's a lot of things that were driving people
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that wanted to see change um so you i mean drugs and crime and soji are two ways to scare people
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basically well i wouldn't say that um necessarily when parents are very concerned about their kids
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they're concerned about their own safety and sure but is there anything to it but does i don't want
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to get into it because we do every time but really is there anything to fear from soji really
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well you know when your six-year-old boy his grandson comes home and sitting at the dinner
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table and saying you know grandpa is it okay that i'm a boy at six years old should they really
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be asking those questions why not why wouldn't they ask a question well that's a question i think
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that the electorate has looks at and says you know they don't find that acceptable when you look at
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also quite frankly the pornography that is in our school there is no pornography involved in the
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program there is no pornography in the soji program and i don't want to go through this again
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because we go through it every time but let's but let's also talk about the crime and drug factor
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too because you're in richmond warning them against what you are calling drug dens um there are no
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supervised consumption sites in richmond so first of all let's show let's actually show the books
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that are being made available in our schools on your television show and let's see what kind of
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ratings you get with that that are being made available that are being made available right
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they're not part of a curriculum they came from the soji initiative which is not a curriculum it is a
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philosophy that has been brought to schools but when it comes to you know what's going on in richmond
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there was uh housing units that are being put in so that's brilliant because
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all the times you've seen and this happens at school board meetings this has happened in parliament
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this has happened where people takes they take books that are available in schools and they're
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immediately censored or shut down because it's too inappropriate for whatever form it's like the
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school board meeting it's like well you can't say all these you can't describe that sexual act
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because that's too graphic or this meeting of adults or it's unparliamentary language and you're like
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well yeah if we can't read it in parliament why are these kids like why are these books available for
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like a 10 year old in these schools and and there's a there's a perfect microcosm there of the
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the it's not happening it happens sometimes and then it's it'll they they moved on but it would
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have it eventually would have been it's a good thing that it's happening there there is no pornography
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in schools okay the pornography is there but it's not directly part of the soji and the soji initiatives
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okay well it's the soji initiatives isn't isn't a program per se but the the books were uh initially
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acquired by the philosophy that allowed the the that program to proliferate through the schools
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and this host you can see he's argued these things before i'm not sure specifically with
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john rudstadt or with just other people on cbc but a good host at that point would ask clarifying
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questions and would unpack things like what do you mean by this it's like well or what evidence do you
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have of this what evidence or what exactly not not telling the not telling the guests that that
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they're wrong and this is why when in fact they're not wrong and and the host is actually wrong it's
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it would well infuriating the watch so that's just the soji part but we still have the uh the drug
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element oh yes oh yes it's good where drug consumption is being allowed there was safe injection
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sites which were proposed to come into richmond and that we said no we will not allow that to happen
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drug consumption takes place in every neighborhood in this province in in rich neighborhoods and poor
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neighborhoods all over this province people are consuming drugs so talk to uh talk to the families
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that live uh in an area where one of these uh housing units have come in and ask them about
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what's happened with the drugs and the crime within their neighborhoods particularly when it's close to a
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school or playground and take a look people should be afraid then is what you're saying people are afraid
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when you see the drugs and crime happening in the neighborhood right you know there's random
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random things going on you seem to think that it is okay for this to be happening everywhere in the
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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
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but what i'm saying is you know when people are looking at the the the issues that they're dealing
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with on a day-to-day basis blowing things out of proportion taking single incidents that are terrible
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incidents and trying to turn those into the norm is not necessarily helpful the evidence shows that
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overall crime is down the evidence shows that stranger attacks are down the you know the evidence
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shows so stephen i would challenge you on that and the reason why i would challenge you on is this
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talk to the police about it and the problem is tell you the crime is down overall that stranger
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attacks are police will tell you that it's down because they can't lay charges because there's no point
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charges are not going through so many many crimes are going without charges being laid there's a
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reason why for example save on foods has hired 345 security guards around the province and it's not
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because it's it's not because they suddenly think that they need those jobs because they've got problems
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they've got crime they've got drugs coming they've got the things uh stuff being stolen out of the
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stores right their staff are not feeling safe this is what is going on our crews could it talk to the
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small businesses could it be because people can't afford to eat talk to the small businesses where
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things are walking out of their stores on a regular basis and how difficult it is look at how many
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businesses are closed down now people are not going downtown anymore because they're not feeling safe
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this is what is out there in our society today and it should not be trivialized and become normal i'm
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not suggesting i'm not trivializing it at all i'm saying that you see the world in a very particular way
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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
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way everybody may not see it that way but i can tell you something were there tons of 10 cities all
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over the house seven years ago no all over the uh the city no i mean a province no there wasn't
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those are popping up was there people doing drugs all over the place no it was more limited and very
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serious now there's drugs all over for example there were 10 cities all over vancouver 20 years ago
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when they built the woodwards building there were 10 cities of science they were not all over the
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cities in victoria they were not all over the place no they were there have been 10 cities around
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for a very long time but not to the same level they proliferated all over the communities i mean
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you just drive down the highway highway one you'll see them here and there and everywhere now those
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were never there seven years ago well that that that last portion just in particular reminded me of the
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jd vance's reply to that reporter when they were talking about
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um the venezuelan gangs taking over those apartment complexes and and i don't i don't
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can't remember what state it was but where she was like it's not it's not several apartment
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complexes or something and he was like how many apartment complexes being taken over by venezuelan
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gangs is acceptable to you like like sorry what level of increase is yeah yeah like how many steven
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quinn how many tent cities are acceptable and also before that do you did you notice how he told on
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himself a little bit there where um excuse me with save on foods hiring uh 345 security guards is it
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because do you think people can't afford to eat hmm whose job might it be to ensure that people have
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enough money to afford to eat yeah it's you you think there's some ripple effects from the federal
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but also provincial and who's in power right now and federally in canada and so you have liberals in
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canada and then ndp in power and bc um so he kept on interrupting i must give credit for john rad said
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for just pushing through like he oh yeah he was very like yeah he knew when to like
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some people would they would just they would just chase those answers and they would try to address
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everything he pushed through and tried to finish his points which were interrupted but his points
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stood under their own merits therefore like you don't have to argue every little thing
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that the host is interrupting which shouldn't happen no it was so adversarial you know and that
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and that's that's just so so um it's just so typical now you know of this this type of media
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environment we're in right now the host i can see that like in his mind he's like well i have to correct
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this misinformation in real time i can't you can't let misinformation propagate and here's like oh
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we're we're we're being balanced by having somebody from the other side on our program but we can't
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let them get away with misinformation and and in that aspect i think he feels like it's maybe a moral duty
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i think he feels like it's maybe a moral duty to like correct him