The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 20, 2023


The Canadian Media Works For Justin Trudeau

Topics
liberal media attacks on Galen Weston
Hosted by
Wyatt Claypool
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Galen Weston Jagmeet Singh Stephen Harper Justin Trudeau Alex Bollingall Chrystia Freeland Sobeys
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10 minutes

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2,083

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146

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2

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8

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2

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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.

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00:00:00.000 Yesterday, 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. 0.84
00:00:17.020 Obviously, 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.
00:00:28.920 But 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.
00:00:42.600 The problem with the CBC is that their incentives are to favour parties who are going to give them more money.
00:00:48.620 It doesn't matter that Stephen Harper appointed you to the CBC board. 0.75
00:00:51.960 Your 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.
00:01:03.240 That's really what all that's being proven here.
00:01:05.300 And 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. 0.94
00:01:13.640 So I'm pretty sure everyone has found out about the stupid grocery tax that the Liberals are investigating, you know, passing something related to. 0.67
00:01:21.220 But what's really absurd is just the way that the media is treating this grocery store CEOs in this particular situation. 0.96
00:01:29.520 Most Canadians are fairly mad at the Liberals for trying to propose a new tax to supposedly increase affordability at grocery stores.
00:01:37.300 There's never been a tax in the entire history of the world that's actually made things more affordable.
00:01:41.820 But the media doesn't actually care about all those obvious red flags about what the Liberals are doing.
00:01:47.440 There's great questions there to ask the Liberals to justify themselves and what they're doing with this grocery tax.
00:01:53.460 And, you know, the same questions could have been asked with the carbon tax and everything like that.
00:01:58.720 But whatever. I'll just stick to the grocery issue right now.
00:02:01.820 But 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.
00:02:13.380 In a situation where there should be very easy questions that should be asked to Liberals to discredit their push for this new grocery tax.
00:02:21.280 Here 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.
00:02:30.460 as if he has the power to do that with with the very tight margins that Loblaws currently works with.
00:02:36.280 Do you have a plan? Do you have a plan right now that they're asking for a plan?
00:02:43.640 Will you agree to the government's request?
00:02:46.300 Is it too tight a timeline?
00:02:47.660 Anything to say to us?
00:02:51.400 Like those people are legitimately acting like vultures.
00:02:54.040 Like they're supposed to be like objective news people.
00:02:56.300 And as soon as Galen Weston exits his vehicle and walks towards the door, they don't say, hey, Galen, can I ask you a question?
00:03:02.640 I want to ask you a question about the Liberals' grocery tax plan or what do they want you to do to lower grocery prices?
00:03:08.880 Or is there anything that Loblaws can do to lower grocery prices?
00:03:12.740 It's immediately like, when are you going to lower prices, Galen?
00:03:15.140 When are you going to do it?
00:03:15.820 When are you going to lower prices?
00:03:16.900 Well, like, why won't you lower prices?
00:03:18.140 And it's like, what?
00:03:18.840 This isn't questions.
00:03:19.860 These are just attacks.
00:03:20.880 It'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.
00:03:34.580 Even though it's been proven over and over again that these grocery stores, despite their higher prices, are actually making less profit over time.
00:03:41.880 Jagmeet Singh had that really funny community note that was applied to him.
00:03:45.820 I'll just bring it up on screen again.
00:03:47.280 I'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.
00:03:55.260 And he was just basing all this off of their parent company's increase in profits.
00:03:59.700 But that was only because they sold a bunch of gas stations, which is a one-time, you know, like financial exchange.
00:04:06.080 They can't sell those same gas stations next year.
00:04:08.260 That's going to be seen as a loss next year, year to year.
00:04:11.900 Anyways, but despite them going after Galen like that, you'd think, okay, well, maybe the media is just going after Galen Weston and Loblaws.
00:04:19.760 And then when the liberals come, they're also going to go after them.
00:04:21.920 Not at all. 0.72
00:04:22.560 I will show you this very, very ridiculous clip with Chrystia Freeland just breezily walking up to the media.
00:04:28.080 And the media, like, they were like an inch away from saying, you look so pretty today, Chrystia. 0.71
00:04:33.540 But here it is.
00:04:34.940 We understand there are two things which are the most important for Canadians today, prices and interest rates.
00:04:49.420 And as I said a couple of weeks ago, our government is going to do everything in our power to make sure prices stabilize.
00:05:00.400 This meeting today is part of that effort.
00:05:04.480 So I'll just cut her off there as she starts speaking French. 1.00
00:05:10.400 But, like, there was literally reporters there.
00:05:12.840 And, again, this is the exact same group of reporters.
00:05:15.560 This is Alex Ballengal from the Toronto Star uploading both of these videos onto his X account or whatever.
00:05:21.760 I'll still call it Twitter.
00:05:22.580 I like saying Twitter better.
00:05:24.120 But these are the exact same groups of reporters.
00:05:28.320 I'll even go back to the Galen clip just to show the contrast again.
00:05:31.300 But when Chrystia walks up to them, you have some of them sitting there being like, oh, I'm so sorry.
00:05:35.380 Can I step back for you, Chrystia?
00:05:37.000 Oh, Chrystia is here to talk. 0.70
00:05:38.460 Everyone just ask her the nicest question.
00:05:41.260 What's going on today, Chrystia?
00:05:42.640 Like, just a very open-ended softball question to Chrystia Freeland.
00:05:46.960 No questions about, hey, do you think that maybe, you know, reducing taxes might help affordability?
00:05:51.740 Do you think reducing regulations might help out affordability?
00:05:54.000 Where's the evidence that grocery stores are price gouging?
00:05:56.720 I know you can pretend that revenues are profits.
00:06:00.200 But these companies are obviously losing money based on their own financial reporting.
00:06:04.220 Unless 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.
00:06:13.100 That's obviously not true.
00:06:14.400 But, again, they're literally on the exact same sidewalk in front of the building.
00:06:18.340 And someone might claim, well, Galen Weston's walking away from the media and you won't answer their questions.
00:06:23.080 Well, 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?
00:06:30.120 Why aren't you lowering prices?
00:06:30.920 Like, 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?
00:06:39.460 Whatever.
00:06:39.780 But here's the Galen Weston clip.
00:06:41.960 Will you lower food prices?
00:06:46.120 Do you have a plan?
00:06:47.160 Do you have a plan right now?
00:06:48.180 They're asking for plans?
00:06:49.040 Will you agree to the government's request?
00:06:50.600 Is it too tight a timeline?
00:06:53.060 Anything to say to us?
00:06:55.760 I think the pipsqueak saying, do you have a plan?
00:06:58.340 I think that's Alex Bollingaw himself.
00:07:00.520 But he's like, do you have a plan?
00:07:01.800 Galen, do you have a plan?
00:07:02.920 And then going on, like, how are you going to lower food prices?
00:07:05.660 Are you going to lower food prices?
00:07:07.220 As if Galen Weston can just say, oh, yeah, let's just have a loss on all products that we sell.
00:07:12.660 Even, I only think people realize, a lot of grocery stores sell items that they do not make money on.
00:07:17.880 I worked retail for a while.
00:07:19.200 I could have pointed out 15 items on our shelves that we literally did not make money on.
00:07:23.060 We lost money every single time we sold someone it.
00:07:26.160 Like, it's been pointed out before.
00:07:27.820 A 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.
00:07:34.800 They still make some money on produce, obviously.
00:07:37.100 But there's a lot of products in that grocery store that they cannot reduce the prices any more of.
00:07:42.320 And nobody's confronting Christy Frilland saying, does this have anything to do with government spending, increasing inflation and making food prices go up?
00:07:49.280 How do you know that it's somehow price gouging?
00:07:51.780 It's just been framed that the government is sitting down with a serious conversation with these grocery CEOs to get these food prices down.
00:07:59.000 That's the way the media is covering it.
00:08:00.960 It'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.
00:08:14.120 And they've been frequently wrong.
00:08:15.480 And 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.
00:08:21.900 We obviously cannot. 0.73
00:08:23.420 But 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.
00:08:34.400 This is why the CBC and all other legacy media needs to be defunded.
00:08:38.760 They 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.
00:08:49.580 Even though the Toronto Star is a company listed on the stock market, they even got a massive handout by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
00:08:56.940 They got exclusive access to the first online gambling license from the province of Ontario.
00:09:02.800 And 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.
00:09:08.320 They can't even keep all of their outlets operating while using the gambling losses of addicts, whatever.
00:09:16.320 But they're an ethical company.
00:09:17.780 Well, I can't judge them.
00:09:19.380 They're ethical, liberal, progressive people.
00:09:21.120 They know what they're doing.
00:09:22.560 People destroying their family gambling.
00:09:24.440 Who cares?
00:09:25.080 We need to do some terrible news coverage.
00:09:27.520 But 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.
00:09:38.320 So hopefully this was at least somewhat interesting to you.
00:09:41.580 But that should be it for me today.
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