The Liberals are investigating Loblaws CEO Galen Weston and his company, Sobeys, over a new grocery tax that they want to introduce, but the media aren t interested in the facts. They're only interested in attacking the grocery store CEOs.
00:00:00.000Yesterday, I encountered the absurd claim on social media that just because former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government appointed many of the people who are currently serving on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's board, that that means that the CBC's news coverage is actually biased in favour of the federal Conservative Party.
00:00:17.020Obviously, this is completely ridiculous. It doesn't take much watching of the CBC or reading of their articles to understand that this is a outlet that is biased towards the political left and especially the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:00:28.920But the person who was responding to me on Twitter trying to prove that somehow the CBC is actually conservative bias because of the appointments, all they're actually proving is that it doesn't matter who appoints who to the CBC board.
00:00:42.600The problem with the CBC is that their incentives are to favour parties who are going to give them more money.
00:00:48.620It doesn't matter that Stephen Harper appointed you to the CBC board.
00:00:51.960Your goal, once you are working for the CBC on the board, is to make sure that you get the most amount of money to subsidise the crap coverage that the CBC provides Canadians.
00:01:03.240That's really what all that's being proven here.
00:01:05.300And I want to pull up a couple of videos here just to prove how obviously biased that the media has become towards the Liberal Party.
00:01:13.640So I'm pretty sure everyone has found out about the stupid grocery tax that the Liberals are investigating, you know, passing something related to.
00:01:21.220But what's really absurd is just the way that the media is treating this grocery store CEOs in this particular situation.
00:01:29.520Most Canadians are fairly mad at the Liberals for trying to propose a new tax to supposedly increase affordability at grocery stores.
00:01:37.300There's never been a tax in the entire history of the world that's actually made things more affordable.
00:01:41.820But the media doesn't actually care about all those obvious red flags about what the Liberals are doing.
00:01:47.440There's great questions there to ask the Liberals to justify themselves and what they're doing with this grocery tax.
00:01:53.460And, you know, the same questions could have been asked with the carbon tax and everything like that.
00:01:58.720But whatever. I'll just stick to the grocery issue right now.
00:02:01.820But I have two clips here that show the very different treatment that the legacy media has towards people that the Liberal government is going after and the Liberal government itself.
00:02:13.380In a situation where there should be very easy questions that should be asked to Liberals to discredit their push for this new grocery tax.
00:02:21.280Here it is. Here's the first clip is Galen Weston walking into some federal building to have meetings with the Liberal government about supposedly reducing grocery prices.
00:02:30.460as if he has the power to do that with with the very tight margins that Loblaws currently works with.
00:02:36.280Do you have a plan? Do you have a plan right now that they're asking for a plan?
00:02:43.640Will you agree to the government's request?
00:03:20.880It's the liberal media trying to put pressure on Galen Weston to make him the villain because Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh have made it the official narrative that it's grocery store price gouging that's leading to inflation on food prices.
00:03:34.580Even though it's been proven over and over again that these grocery stores, despite their higher prices, are actually making less profit over time.
00:03:41.880Jagmeet Singh had that really funny community note that was applied to him.
00:03:45.820I'll just bring it up on screen again.
00:03:47.280I've showed it a few times where he was trying to claim that Sobeys had like an increase in profit of 52%, but they've actually been losing money in terms of their profit.
00:03:55.260And he was just basing all this off of their parent company's increase in profits.
00:03:59.700But that was only because they sold a bunch of gas stations, which is a one-time, you know, like financial exchange.
00:04:06.080They can't sell those same gas stations next year.
00:04:08.260That's going to be seen as a loss next year, year to year.
00:04:11.900Anyways, but despite them going after Galen like that, you'd think, okay, well, maybe the media is just going after Galen Weston and Loblaws.
00:04:19.760And then when the liberals come, they're also going to go after them.
00:05:42.640Like, just a very open-ended softball question to Chrystia Freeland.
00:05:46.960No questions about, hey, do you think that maybe, you know, reducing taxes might help affordability?
00:05:51.740Do you think reducing regulations might help out affordability?
00:05:54.000Where's the evidence that grocery stores are price gouging?
00:05:56.720I know you can pretend that revenues are profits.
00:06:00.200But these companies are obviously losing money based on their own financial reporting.
00:06:04.220Unless Chrystia Freeland and, like, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau are such conspiracy theorists that they think all these companies are, like, cooking the books to pretend that they're losing money.
00:06:14.400But, again, they're literally on the exact same sidewalk in front of the building.
00:06:18.340And someone might claim, well, Galen Weston's walking away from the media and you won't answer their questions.
00:06:23.080Well, does that give you the right as an objective reporter, supposedly, to just scream at him that he might be, like, why aren't you lowering prices?
00:06:30.920Like, you sound like some sort of socialist activist on the side of the road screaming at a CEO, like, why are you stealing my money by, you know, selling people goods and services they need?
00:07:27.820A lot of grocery stores actually make a lot of their profit margins on pharmaceuticals and a little extra impulse items like frying pans that people buy.
00:07:34.800They still make some money on produce, obviously.
00:07:37.100But there's a lot of products in that grocery store that they cannot reduce the prices any more of.
00:07:42.320And nobody's confronting Christy Frilland saying, does this have anything to do with government spending, increasing inflation and making food prices go up?
00:07:49.280How do you know that it's somehow price gouging?
00:07:51.780It's just been framed that the government is sitting down with a serious conversation with these grocery CEOs to get these food prices down.
00:07:59.000That's the way the media is covering it.
00:08:00.960It's just the idea that, look how serious and just like, you know, how serious these, like the liberals are trying to wrangle these grocery CEOs when there hasn't been an ounce of analysis on whether the liberals are right.
00:08:15.480And let's not pretend that this is somehow a government that's been batting a thousand for the last eight years and we can just take their word for it.
00:08:23.420But the energy that the media seems to just click on and off when dealing with someone from the liberal government and then dealing with someone the liberal government is opposing is completely ridiculous.
00:08:34.400This is why the CBC and all other legacy media needs to be defunded.
00:08:38.760They do not have the level of maturity to actually deal with, like deal with politics in an objective way because their incentives are to get more money.
00:08:49.580Even though the Toronto Star is a company listed on the stock market, they even got a massive handout by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
00:08:56.940They got exclusive access to the first online gambling license from the province of Ontario.
00:09:02.800And somehow they still had to shut down a bunch of their local papers because that's how much the Toronto Star sucks at doing business.
00:09:08.320They can't even keep all of their outlets operating while using the gambling losses of addicts, whatever.
00:09:25.080We need to do some terrible news coverage.
00:09:27.520But anyways, this was just – I just wanted to make this video because I saw these two clips and I hadn't seen anyone highlight how just ridiculous the contrast in these were.
00:09:38.320So hopefully this was at least somewhat interesting to you.