Why didn’t anyone from the Parliamentary Press Gallery report on Trudeau skipping town to go to the beach on a solemn day that Trudeau spends so much time virtue-signalling about?
Trudeau is a hypocrite, but the legacy media is complicit in protecting him.
Plus, we’ll talk about the UCP in Alberta pulling a Steven Guilbeault by dishonestly attacking independent media and show the CBC getting destroyed in a brilliant interview with lawyer Marie Henein.
These stories and more on The Candice Malcolm Show.
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service have charged Conservative activist and former staffer Rakesh David with the alleged murders of his grandmother, mother and brother last Friday.
A 25-year-old man is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, charged with the murders of his grandmother, mother and brother, which occurred on Friday 24th September, 2021. pic.twitter.com/27teCDlvYq
Among the victims are 77-year-old Kumari Kowlessar-Timal, 48-year-old Radeshka Timal and 22-year-old Zacahry David. Like the suspect, both Timal and David held Canadian citizenship.
Authorities are reporting that the victims were discovered with gunshot wounds to their heads while the country was celebrating Republic Day on September 24, 2021. David was arrested by Homicide Bureau of Investigations officers shortly after the incident is alleged to have taken place.
Investigators are probing how the murder weapon entered the country after discovering that the pistol involved in the murders was registered in Canada.
David, who described himself as an “MP’s assistant” on his Twitter, made several social media posts before the alleged murders. During the election campaign, David indicated that he was campaigning for Conservative MP Mike Lake.
“For clarity, the Conservative Party has become aware of extremely serious allegations against this individual. His volunteer credentials have been terminated and he holds no formal role with the Conservative Party of Canada,” said Conservative Party of Canada Director of Communications, Cory Hann in a statement emailed to True North.
“For background, while he may describe himself as an MP’s assistant, he also held no formal or staff role in any parliamentary or constituency office.”
One day before the three murders, David posted on his Twitter account saying that he was wearing a blue tie in support of Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole.
He also mentioned that he was on his “last leg of travel for a few weeks.” Meanwhile, on September 21, 2021 David shared a photo on his Facebook page of himself and Conservative Party President Robert Batherson at the Ottawa International Airport.
“Guess who I had the ultimate privilege of seeing today at the Ottawa airport! The one and only Robert Batherson,” wrote David.
Along with three counts of murder, David is also facing charges for possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition, possession of a firearm to endanger life and possession of ammunition to endanger life.
Indigenous leaders and politicians from across Canada condemned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after it was revealed on Thursday that he took a vacation to Tofino, BC on Canada’s first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
Union of BC Indian Chiefs Grand Chief Stewart Phillip called Trudeau’s move a “slap in the face” of residential school survivors.
“Given the fact this is a nationally recognized holiday in regards to truth and reconciliation, it would have been appropriate for the prime minister to fully acknowledge this day,” said Phillip.
“Rather than do that, he has chosen to turn his back on the historical significance of today and hide out in Tofino.”
Phillip was also joined by the regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations Terry Teegee in his condemnation of Trudeau.
“I don’t understand. He is a political leader, a public servant, and today would have been a good day to really demonstrate his commitment toward Indigenous people, to deal with a lot of the ongoing issues, including the long-term legacy of Indian residential schools,” said TeeGee.
Reports of Trudeau’s vacation first emerged on social media after Toronto Sun journalist Byran Passifiume pointed out that Trudeau’s Canadian Forces private jet landed in the town, despite his published itinerary showing him in Ottawa for private meetings.
Trudeau’s whereabouts were later confirmed by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Similarly, Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole released a statement through a spokesperson slamming the prime minister for the vacation.
“Truth and Reconciliation Day shouldn’t be treated like a holiday but that’s what Justin Trudeau did,” said spokesperson Chelsea Tucker.
“This is the pattern Canadians have come to know with Justin Trudeau. He says nice things about reconciliation but never follows through. As Prime Minister, Erin O’Toole will always mark this day with the respect and dignity it deserves.”
At the same time Trudeau was with his family in Tofino, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh attended an orange shirt day ceremony outside of Vancouver’s Aboriginal Friendship Centre.
Canada had its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this week, a new federal holiday aimed at honouring victims and survivors of Canada’s Indian residential schools. While there’s nothing wrong with setting aside such a day, it’s clear that the Trudeau government’s approach to reconciliation is only about platitudes and symbolism, which is why the Canadian flag has been at half mast for four months now. True North’s Andrew Lawton says the flag needs to come up, and the government needs to focus on concrete action on the Indigenous file, such as securing safe drinking water and reforming or scrapping the Indian Act.
Note: This episode was recorded before the news broke that Justin Trudeau spent the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on a beach in Tofino.
Kingston, Ont’s. JAKK Tuesdays Sports Pub can no longer serve alcohol after standing up Ontario’s vaccine passport regime.
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) announced Thursday that it would be suspending JAKK Tuesdays’ liquor licence “for reasons of public interest and safety.”
“The tyranny of this government has got to stop,” pub owner Kelly Hale told Global News.
Prior to the suspension, AGCO officials attempted to “educate” Hale about the provincial government’s new lockdown restrictions, but he said he didn’t intend to comply and posted signs at his bar saying as much.
The liquor license suspension follows numerous fines issued under the Reopening Ontario Act.
Hale does not support mask or vaccine mandates and is a part of the “Ontario Businesses Against Health Pass” Facebook group, which has amassed over 139,000 members. The group contains a wide variety of businesses — from martial arts facilities to restaurants — that are refusing to comply and check vaccination status. All of the businesses are listed on the Ontario Businesses Against Discrimination (BAD) directory.
The directory currently lists 677 businesses. Another social media account called Stop No Pass List has estimated that approximately 200 businesses in the GTA are also refusing to ask for a vaccine passport.
“There’s a silent majority out there that’s fed up with how long this is going and what’s really happening,” said Hale.
Although Toronto Public Health officials say that they have received 122 complaints regarding vaccine certificates, they have not pressed any charges against business owners, “focusing on educating businesses on the province’s new proof of vaccine program.”
Recently, the tide has turned, and the province announced that in the future, businesses who do not comply with checking vaccination status will be punished. In addition to facing Hale’s fate and having a liquor licence suspended, businesses may also face hefty fines. Final regulations are still under development, but non-compliant patrons could face a minimum fine of $750, and businesses will have to brace for a $1000 hit.
“I’m just doing what’s legal,” Hale says. “Not doing something illegal like the government is asking me to do by asking you for your personal medical information when you come into my restaurant.”
The Ontario government introduced the vaccine passport system on September 22. Under the system, Ontario residents must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter public spaces such as restaurants, gyms, bars and clubs.
A study by SecondStreet.org finds that while the private sector was forced to cut wages and lay off workers, the public sector didn’t. True North’s Andrew Lawton sat down with SecondStreet.org president Colin Craig to discuss why during one of Canada’s worst recessions, public sector wages continue to rise while private sector workers faced monumental uncertainty. It has been over 20 years since the federal government has put any real wage growth restrictions on the federal workforce, raising the question, when will the public sector ever have to take a pay cut?
Where oh where is Kevin Vuong? And why is he in hiding?
In the past five days — since issuing a statement on Sept. 25 defending himself against a withdrawn sexual assault charge — he’s been incommunicado, ignoring all media requests for an interview (including from True North).
Despite the mounting pressure for him to resign as Spadina–Fort York MP, he has dug his heels in and vowed to stay on as an independent.
In fact, in the evening of Sept. 25, he issued a terse, rather tone deaf, statement on Twitter, indicating that after reflecting on recent events, he has decided to continue as the independent MP for the downtown Toronto riding.
He apologized, but only for his “lack of disclosure.”
What he was referring to are revelations surrounding a sexual assault allegation from 2019, which only came to light a few days before the Sept. 20 election.
The Crown dropped the charge against Vuong after the victim reportedly contended she didn’t have the “energy” to go through a criminal trial.
After much pressure, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s team dissociated themselves from the 31-year-old Naval Reservist, a son of Vietnam refugees. He is also under review by the Canadian Armed Forces for failing to disclose the sexual assault charge.
Vuong has repeatedly denied the sexual assault allegation.
Early in September reports surfaced that Vuong was also the subject of a $1.5-million lawsuit pertaining to his pandemic mask-making business, Take Care Supply.
The party’s own rules stipulate that would-be candidates must not be engaged in litigation or a dispute of any sort which could bring disrepute to the party.
Vuong must be held accountable for not disclosing factors that might have put him out of the running as a candidate. But the Liberal party is as much, if not more, at fault for parachuting a candidate into a riding with no formal nomination process or a clear failure to properly screen their chosen candidate in a riding previously held by the outspoken far-left Adam Vaughan.
By the time Trudeau and the Liberals acted on the allegations and turfed him from the party two days before the election, Vuong could not be removed from the ballot.
He narrowly defeated his NDP opponent, some of that support coming from mail-in ballots.
Since his win, constituents have voiced their anger on social media and several politicians have taken to Twitter to try to convince him to step aside–the most notable being his predecessor Vaughan who acted as Vuong’s mentor and canvassed with him several times throughout the election campaign:
I have worked hard over the last few days to convince Kevin Vuong to resign. I offered to assist him navigate this move & to do it in a way that respects the person at the heart of the allegation while also showing him how to maintain constituency services for riding residents/1
Joe Cressy, who holds the municipal seat, also suggested Vuong do “the honourable thing” and resign:
Kevin Vuong did not earn the right to represent our Spadina-Fort York community.
He should do the honourable and right thing and step aside. If he wants to sit as an independent MP, he should campaign for the job as one. https://t.co/kKfaOJm9Oy
Vuong ran against the NDP councillor in the 2018 municipal election, placing a distant third.
A petition with nearly 5,000 signatures as of Sept. 30 also calls on Vuong to step down as MP for Spadina Fort-York, claiming having him in office “will further erode society’s trust in elected officials.”
A resident of the riding, who signed the petition, says Vuong’s determination to stay on has “ruffled the feathers of everyone in Spadina Fort-York.”
He said he even sent Vuong a direct e-mail calling on him to step down.
“This guy’s got a lot of gall,” he said.
The resident says he went to his Richmond St. campaign office the day after the election and he was nowhere in sight and his campaign staff had no idea where he was.
The rookie MP is not off to a very good start in public office.
The Canadian Association of Journalists is calling on the RCMP to investigate Maxime Bernier for hate speech because he tweeted a few reporters’ work email addresses and asked his supporters share what they think with them. While this move may not have been the nicest thing to do, it’s not hate speech and to suggest otherwise is responsible and antithetical to the free speech principles the media should be upholding, True North’s Andrew Lawton says. Also, SecondStreet.org president Colin Craig joins the show to discuss the growing disparity between private and public sector pay, plus why Jason Kenney thinks Erin O’Toole should get to stay on as Conservative leader.
A constitutional rights group is putting the British Columbia government on notice over its new vaccine passport program.
The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF), a civil liberties-focused legal charity, announced Tuesday it is mounting a legal challenge to British Columbia’s vaccine passport system and the discriminatory impact it has on people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.
“The BC vaccine passport system is discriminatory on its face, because it does not include automatic exemptions for people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons,” said Christine Van Geyn, the CCF’s litigation director, in a press release.
British Columbia’s vaccine passport program took effect on Sept. 13, requiring people to show that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to go to certain social and recreational settings and events.
British Columbia Premier John Horgan said vaccine passports will increase vaccination rates across the province and make fully vaccinated people feel confident that those around them will not spread COVID-19.
“Vaccines are our ticket to putting this pandemic behind us,” said Horgan. “So I call on all eligible unvaccinated British Columbians to roll up their sleeves to stop the spread, and help protect themselves, their loved ones and the people in their community.”
The British Columbia government is not recognizing medical exemptions from those unable to get vaccinated, instead advising these people to stay home.
The CCF is representing clients who are unable to access some public spaces because of medical conditions preventing them from getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
The applicants are a girl who developed heart inflammation after receiving her first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, a woman who developed nerve damage in her arm following her first dose, and a woman who due to complex disabilities has undergone about 15 surgeries and is contraindicated for numerous medications.
Van Geyn said it is inappropriate to try to force an outcome in one direction through policies such as vaccine passports.
“Adverse reactions to a vaccine are rare, but they do happen,” said Van Geyn. “It is cruel and unconstitutional to add exclusion and isolation on top of physical trauma for a person who has had, or is likely to have, an adverse reaction.”
The first step in the CCF’s challenge to British Columbia’s vaccine passports is a request for reconsideration of the policies related to food and liquor serving premises and gatherings and events dated Sept. 10. Existing case law requires using the administrative route to challenge the order before going to court. The CCF will request the government create categorical exemptions for certain medical conditions.
The British Columbia government did not respond to a request for comment about the lawsuit.
Geoffrey Trotter, a constitutional lawyer at Geoffrey Trotter Law Corporation, will be representing the CCF in this case.
“Our hope is that the government acquiesces and makes the process of obtaining medical exemptions simpler and easier,” said Trotter. “The individuals who need medical accommodation are already facing enough challenges in their daily lives, and the government shouldn’t be making their lives even harder.”
Other similar lawsuits are being filed against various provinces.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), a civil liberties law firm, announced on Sept. 22 it is looking at filing a lawsuit against the Ontario government for their vaccine passport policy. The JCCF has issued a warning letter to the Ontario government on behalf of four clients demanding vaccine passports be revoked.
Rebel News has teamed up with the Democracy Fund, a civil liberties charity, to file lawsuits against governments and businesses across Canada over vaccine passports. Rebel and the Democracy Fund are onboarding 20 plaintiffs and recruiting constitutional lawyers to combat vaccine passports.
Even if you combined the PPC and Conservative vote in the 2021 election, Erin O’Toole would still not be Prime Minister.
On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice is joined by pollster Hamish Marshall to do a deep dive into the election outcome, looking at the numbers, analyzing the close races and dispelling emerging media narrative myths about the election.
The biggest takeaway: this election was a total waste of time that led to a more divided country and a water-down Liberal-lite Conservative Party of Canada.
