Conservatives would introduce anti-corruption legislation if elected

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The Conservatives will introduce “the toughest accountability and transparency laws in Canadian history” if they’re elected on September 20th.

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole unveiled the party’s Anti-Corruption Act on Wednesday, saying the act is designed to tackle ethics, lobbying and transparency. 

“Canada’s Conservatives will pass the Anti-Corruption Act to secure accountability for ethical misconduct, including by the Prime Minister,” said O’Toole. 

The Conservatives will strengthen the Conflict of Interest Act by “increasing the monetary penalties in the Conflict of Interest Act from a maximum of $500 to a maximum of $50,000.” The fine will consider the severity of the offence as well as the history and net worth of the offender.

“Justin Trudeau and Bill Morneau both violated Canada’s ethics laws several times but received no penalty or one that was too far low to deter unethical behaviour,” said O’Toole.

“Canada’s Recovery Plan will punish ethical violations by politicians and clean up the mess in Ottawa,” said O’Toole.

The Code of Conduct for MPs will also be amended, as elected officials will not be able to collect speaking fees. 

Under the Conservative plan, organizations such as corporations will now have to register and report their meetings while lobbying. The Conservatives also intend to ban lobbying only on a matter that is the subject of a criminal proceeding. 

These changes are in response to the many scandals by the Liberal government such as the Aga Khan Affair, SNC Lavalin and WE Charity scandal.

This is not the first time the Conservative Party has entered an election offering the Canadian public more accountability and transparency. In 2006 the Harper government put forth the Federal Accountability Act in response to the Liberals then Sponsorship scandal of 2006.

Trudeau cabinet fretted about optics of mask donations from China and others

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Trudeau cabinet fretted about optics of mask donations from China and others

Internal emails show that staffers in the Trudeau government wanted to bury the fact that Canada was receiving sub-par personal protective equipment donations from China and elsewhere. 

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the messages were in response to inquiries by Liberal MP Han Dong who was wondering why Canada wasn’t singing China’s praises for the donation. 

“Han Dong is looking for background on what they donated and why we aren’t touting their donation. To be fair, we aren’t touting any donations,” wrote a staffer. 

Staffers also voice concerns about the negative attention the European Union received for accepting mask donations from Huawei, the China-linked company at the centre of the global 5G debate. 

“The European Union was asked about Huawei’s personal protective equipment donations to Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Greece and Switzerland and whether they constitute ‘mask diplomacy.’ Their response was simply ‘that’s now how things work.’ Just FYI as we may soon get asked to confirm whether Canada is also in receipt of donations from Huawei,” one email claimed. 

Huawei was not the only company that gave Canada health equipment donations, Home Depot and Suncor also donated a substantial amount of masks. 

“Appreciate if we can avoid referring to the quality or grade of masks to the extent possible, but given that it’s a donation I suppose we can’t redirect them to where they are sorely needed (hospitals),” said Travis Gordon a senior policy adviser to the Liberal health minister.

“We will try to avoid this spinning into a story about how some vets in some long term care homes will get N95s while doctors in hospitals are limited to one per day.”

Other cabinet staff said that they wanted to avoid “unnecessary controversy” that the donations might cause. One also stated that they worried “about the optics” or that “it might be awkward” to deal with. 

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government ran into several issues with faulty and shoddy personal protective equipment from China. In May, Health Canada issued a distribution warning for KN95 masks produced in China which they noted “pose a health and safety risk to end users.” 

A month prior to the warning, the Liberal government revealed that one million masks purchased from China were found to be largely unusable and faulty. 

Liberals think Erin O’Toole is a fake pro-choicer

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Liberals think Erin O’Toole is a fake pro-choicer

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says he’s pro-choice, but because he says he also supports conscience rights for healthcare practitioners, the Liberals have unleashed a wave of attacks accusing him of being a pro-lifer in disguise. True North’s Andrew Lawton says Justin Trudeau’s “evil, scary social conservative” attacks against O’Toole, who agrees with the Liberals on social issues, reeks of desperation. Also, Conservative candidate and Afghanistan veteran Alex Ruff joins the show to discuss Canada’s hands-off approach to the Afghanistan crisis.

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Canadians can’t trust the CBC

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Canadians can’t trust the CBC

It’s Fake News Friday on The Candice Malcolm Show!

This week, Facebook tapped the CBC to “fact-check” competing media outlets during the 2021 election despite the fact that the state broadcaster is notorious for reporting inaccurate information. This news comes just days after the CBC spread fake news about Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s position on mandatory vaccines for the public service, failing to acknowledge that it’s the same plan as Justin Trudeau’s.

Also, Candice Malcolm calls out the Associated Press and the CBC for defending the Taliban and parroting terrorist talking points.

Tune into The Candice Malcolm Show.

Reports emerge of Taliban torturing, beating women

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Reports are emerging since the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban that the terrorist group is now torturing women.

According to eyewitnesses, Newsweek reports that women are being beaten or tortured under the strict regime. Other reports also indicate that the Taliban are executing opponents to their regime. 

A source who wished to remain anonymous told the outlet that the Taliban would “never respect or give value to women’s rights.” 

“We’re scared of wearing some clothes and walking on the street because we fear the Taliban might look at us and torture us because we’re wearing something different,” said the source. 

“We have to wear the burqa. The streets are empty and there are no women and girls in Kabul. I want the UN and the rest of the world to help us in this moment.”

Despite these horrific accounts of the treatment of women at the hands of the Taliban, CBC News ran a story on how the “Taliban vow to honour women’s rights within Islamic law in Afghanistan.” 

On August 14th, the Taliban entered Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul and asserted control over the area.

The move comes as the US finalized its withdrawal from the country, leaving many Afghans who aided the US and its allies stranded during the hostile takeover. 

To date, the Taliban have asserted control over most of the country as the US, Canada, the UK and others attempt to evacuate their personnelle. 

Mayam Sahar, who is a former Afghan interpreter for the Canadian Armed Forces said that Justin Trudeau would be responsible should the families of interpreters be executed. 

“If my family get executed or any other family get executed, know that you have their blood on your hands,” Sahar told CTV News’ Power Play on Thursday. 

“The only person who is going to be responsible for the murder, merciless murder of the interpreters in Afghanistan, that will be only – and only – the leader of this country and that’s going to be Justin Trudeau.”

FACT CHECK: Legacy media largely ignored Trudeau’s “monetary policy” gaffe

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FACT CHECK: Legacy media largely ignored Trudeau’s “monetary policy” gaffe

Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau’s comment stating that he doesn’t spend much time thinking about money policy went largely ignored by Canadian legacy media outlets.

As reported on Wednesday, Trudeau shrugged off a question about rising inflation rates by giving a nonsensical answer that avoided answering the question directly. 

“Do you have a position on the mandate? Would you support a slightly higher tolerance for inflation?” inquired a reporter at a campaign stop in BC.

“I don’t know. When I think about the biggest, most important economic policy this government, if re-elected, would move forward. You’ll forgive me if I don’t think about monetary policy,” said Trudeau. 

“You will understand that I think about families and when we first got elected in 2015 the very first thing we did was raise taxes on the wealthiest 1% so we could lower them for the middle class. Similarly, a re-elected Liberal government will continue to invest in supports for families, for students, for seniors…”

Although Trudeau’s comments were picked up by independent outlets like True North, legacy media outlets including CBC News, the Toronto Star and CTV News largely ignored the gaffe. 

In a report on rising inflation rates, CBC News omitted any mention of Trudeau’s comments which took place on the same day. 

“Speaking to reporters in Vancouver, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau defended his government’s handling of the economy during the pandemic,” wrote CBC News before quoting a more coherent statement given by Trudeau.

In comparison, the Conservative Party’s latest campaign advertisement featuring an edited clip of the popular classic film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was ridiculed widely by Canadian legacy media outlets. 

The advertisement was covered by Global News, CP24, the Toronto Star and others soon after it was removed from Twitter. 

Beyond that, some of the only legacy media outlets to highlight Trudeau’s gaffe was BNN Bloomberg and the Toronto Sun.

“I think he should take it back. Neither Trudeau I nor Trudeau II have been terribly interested in monetary policy, very unfortunately. In any event, he’s wrong. The new government has a very important set of decisions to make coming up on monetary policy and in terms of the renewal of the agreement with the Bank of Canada,” former Bank of Canada governor David Doge told BNN Bloomberg. 

PPC candidate tells “egotistical” Derek Sloan to leave Alberta

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PPC candidate tells “egotistical” Derek Sloan to leave Alberta

An Alberta People’s Party of Canada candidate is telling Derek Sloan to go home to Ontario as he announces his independent campaign. 

“Derek Sloan is an opportunistic Ottawa politician that sees Albertans as nothing more than a ticket, an opportunity for him to advance his own career,” Banff—Airdrie PPC candidate Nadine Wellwood said Thursday.

Wellwood’s statement was released in response to Sloan’s announcement of his decision to run as an independent in the Sept. 20 federal election. Wellwood accused the MP for Hastings—Lennox and Addington of leaving Ontario and coming to her riding of Banff—Airdrie to “steal” a seat from an Albertan. 

Sloan is campaigning under the “make Alberta great again” slogan, but Wellwood says, “Albertans do not want or need another Ottawa politician to ‘save us.’  Albertans want and deserve an actual Albertan to be their voice, their representative in Ottawa.”

Before deciding to run as an independent, Sloan stated he was forming his own federal party in July. At the time, PPC Spokesperson Martin Masse told True North he didn’t think it was necessary for Sloan to run on his own since he seems to agree with most of the PPC platform. PPC leader Maxime Bernier even made several overtures to Sloan to join the PPC and was disappointed that he declined.

“If Derek Sloan wanted to help Alberta, he would have thrown his support behind an Alberta candidate and shown some real leadership,” said Wellwood. “Instead, he has chosen to be selfish and in doing so displayed his own weakness as a leader.”

The Banff—Airdrie riding is currently held by Conservative whip Blake Richards, who is seeking his fifth term. At a campaign event in Cochrane on Thursday, Sloan briefly discussed his decision not to join the PPC or Western separatist Maverick Party:

“God bless both of those parties. But let us have this slice of the pie because we’ve done our homework,” Sloan said. “It’s going to be Blake or me. The NDP or Liberals cannot win. There’s no way. There’s no way.”

Sloan is right about one thing — “there’s no way” the Liberals will win. Blake won 71% of the vote in 2019, with the Liberal runner-up candidate receiving a mere 10.8% of the vote. The Conservatives are projected to gain 52.8% of the vote in this election with the Liberals projected to garner 13.8%. 

Although Sloan’s campaign events have drawn plenty of supporters, it seems very optimistic for Sloan to assume that as a newcomer to Alberta, he would instantly out-perform the Maverick, PPC and Liberals and go head-to-head with Blake. 

Sloan rose to prominence during the 2020 Conservative Party of Canada leadership race. In January 2021, the Conservative caucus voted to remove him, citing a “pattern of destructive behaviour.” 

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole said he would not permit Sloan to run again after it was revealed that Sloan’s leadership campaign received a $131 donation from notorious Canadian white supremacist Paul Fromm.

Sloan has a difficult task ahead of him. Since 1974, only five independent MPs have been re-elected after exiting our being ousted from party caucuses.  

True North reached out to Sloan for comment but did not hear back by the time this article was published.

“Derek Sloan should return to Ontario and leave Albertans to defend Alberta,” Wellwood said.

CBC picked by Facebook to “fact-check” competing outlets during 2021 election

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CBC picked by Facebook to “fact-check” competing outlets during 2021 election

On Wednesday, Facebook Canada picked CBC as a 2021 election fact-checker tasked with monitoring other media outlets for inaccurate claims. 

Blacklock’s Reporter writes that CBC’s french-language division Radio Canada will be in charge of the initiative. 

The fact-checks will link to CBC articles allegedly “disproving” the false claims. 

“When a fact checker rates a piece of content as false we significantly reduce its distribution so that fewer people can see it,” wrote Facebook on its 2021 Canadian election page. 

“We notify people who try to share the content or previously shared it that the information is false, and we apply a warning label that links to the fact checkers’ article disproving the claim.”

The decision to pick CBC was made despite the fact that the state broadcaster has been responsible for several instances where Canadians were misinformed due to their reporting.

In March, CBC News was forced to issue a correction to a report they published which included alleged quotes by former US president Donald Trump to the governor of Georgia following last year’s election. The quotes were later found out to be falsified.

More recently, CBC News spread misinformation regarding Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole’s comment around mandatory vaccination without revealing that his position was exactly the same as the Liberals. 

Alongside the network’s loose relationship with the truth, concerns remain regarding the fact that the Liberal government has promised CBC further funding if elected. 

In 2020, the network received a 9.8% increase to its funding and an additional $33.7 million COVID-19 grant from the Liberals, raising the network’s total taxpayer funding to $1.3 billion annually. 

Conservatives would build 1 million homes in the next three years to address the housing crisis

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Conservatives would build 1 million homes in the next three years to address the housing crisis

The Conservative’s housing plan will “give all Canadians a chance to build the life they dream of,” according to leader Erin O’Toole. 

To rapidly increase supply, the Conservatives plan to build 1 million homes in the next three years if elected on September 20. To build the homes, the Conservatives plan to release at least 15% of the buildings that belong to the federal government. They aim to connect jobs and homes by building near transit to increase density.  

“We have a housing crisis in Canada. The supply of homes to own as well as to rent is not keeping up with our growing population,” said O’Toole at a press conference on Thursday.

In the past 50 years, Canada’s population has risen from 22 million to 38 million. This increased demand but a lack of supply has caused a significant increase in prices. 

The homeowners’ replacement cost index, which is related to the price of new homes, rose at its fastest rate in July 2021 since 1987, according to a report released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.

In April 2021, the average Canadian home price reached $723,500. Single-family homes in Toronto now cost more than $1 million, and homes in Vancouver are just under $2 million. From 2005 and 2020, the annual average of the Canadian Real Estate Association’s monthly Seasonally Adjusted Composite MLS House Price in Canada has increased from $255,625 to $609,892.

“Foreign investors are also making the situation worse; they are bidding up prices, and in some cases, they are sitting on their investments,” according to O’Toole. 

“This throws up barriers to young families looking for more space for their kids, people who found a job and want to find a home, and retired empty nesters who are trying to downsize,” he said.

To address this issue, O’Toole plans to ban foreign investors from buying homes in Canada unless they plan to live or move here. He will instead encourage them to invest in “purpose-built rental housing.”

To help Canadians afford homes, the Conservatives plan to “develop a new market in 7 to 10-year mortgage terms to provide stability both for first time home buyers and lenders.” The party will also change the mortgage stress test and insurance requirements to make it easier to qualify for financing.

Liberal candidate called early vaccine-takers “guinea pigs” and “entitled”

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Liberal candidate called early vaccine-takers “guinea pigs” and “entitled”

The Liberal candidate for Calgary Nose Hill suggested on her personal Twitter account last year that those who were the first to take the then-newly-developed COVID-19 vaccine were “entitled” and “guinea pigs.” 

Jessica Dale-Walker, who was acclaimed by the Liberals in the Alberta riding Tuesday, made the comments in response to a Twitter thread about those hesitant to get the novel vaccine right away being accused of being anti-vaxxers. 

“The reply to those is as follows: I chose to allow the entitled to flock for the vaccine like they demanded to be the guinea pigs, that way should there be problems those with brains were left behind,” Dale-Walker tweeted on November 23, 2020.

By November 2020, Pfizer-BioNTech had first submitted its emergency use authorization for its mRNA vaccine in the US. Several vaccines were also already being developed at the same time by Moderna and others.

True North reached out to Dale-Walker on social media to give her an opportunity to clarify the past statements but did not hear back.

In a separate tweet dated March 13, 2020, Dale-Walker suggested that conservatives and capitalists should be required to pay $20,000 to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, while for everyone else it should remain free. 

“So in other words before giving the Vaccine (sic) two questions should be asked. Are you a capitalist? And Are (sic) you a conservative? A yes answer to either will cost $20,000 for the vaccine. A no answer to both is free with a lollipop,” tweeted Dale-Walker. 

Calgary Nose Hill is currently held by Conservative Michelle Rempel Garner, who is seeking reelection.

In a statement to True North, Rempel Garner called Dale-Walker’s comments “bizarre and unhelpful” to vaccination efforts.

“Vaccines are a safe and effective tool to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and I encourage everyone to get one. As the shadow minister for health I fought hard to get the Liberals to fix their mess on procuring vaccines and get them to Canadians as fast as possible,” Rempel Garner said. “Right now, the Liberals should be working to improve access and education for those who haven’t received one. This candidate’s comments are bizarre and unhelpful to that cause.”

On March 13, 2020, Dale-Walker tweeted that closing borders in response to a pandemic would be “economic suicide.” In other tweets, Dale-Walker refers to herself as a “socialist,” and also decries capitalism. 

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has accused Conservatives and Rempel Garner herself of spreading misinformation. 
During an exchange in the House of Commons in March, Trudeau claimed that the Conservatives said that the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t real and that people shouldn’t be wearing masks. In reality, a True North fact check found Trudeau’s statements to be false.

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