Stand on Guard with David Krayden - August 18, 2025


The REAL Reason Carney NOT In DC TODAY at NATO Meeting ｜ Stand on Guard


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00:00:00.000 mark you look like you were about to yeah i was a tell as a european you know as a
00:00:08.100 as a european actually oh you are yeah yeah so there you go well um i speak as a european
00:00:16.080 um i like
00:00:17.280 mark carney of course the european mark carney canada is just like the european so why isn't
00:00:25.600 mark carney with all the other europeans today well maybe you heard some speculation i've got
00:00:32.040 the answer before you when we come back
00:00:33.760 the prime minister lied and his minions continue to lie
00:00:40.960 we need
00:00:46.880 but it's a chain
00:00:49.140 so we also need to resolve
00:00:53.560 please please like the station subscribe we've got to get our numbers up because we cannot
00:01:07.120 stay at this list thank you for your support regardless it's it's a pleasure to come to you
00:01:15.200 today beautiful day here in the ottawa area hope to get out and play some golf today i keep saying
00:01:20.680 i'm going to do that i haven't done it all summer yeah it's some balls but that's about it thanks
00:01:26.220 for watching today you probably saw this announcement this is the prime minister's itinerary
00:01:31.620 and mark carney's not going to washington today to meet with donald trump
00:01:37.300 punk zelinski and most of the most prominent european union
00:01:44.160 leaders he's meeting with doug ford now why is that well you know you can speculate
00:01:51.100 donald trump just doesn't like him and donald and mark carney is ineffective yes that's all true
00:01:56.500 but i'll tell you what's really going on here
00:01:58.720 mark carney wants to buy swedish fighter jets from sweden
00:02:03.700 74 perhaps he's already but we've already bought 16 f-35s and this is the jet fighter
00:02:12.760 we need to buy because of interoperability with our primary allies largely the united states the
00:02:20.660 united states air force flies the f-35 the united states marines flies the f-35 the united states navy
00:02:26.100 flies the f-35 the royal air force flies the f-35 the royal australian air force flies the f-35
00:02:32.460 so what canada's going to have 16 f-35 and what 70 odd swedish built griffins this is stupidity
00:02:42.720 and of course this is really peed off donald trump because he's saying why are you guys doing this
00:02:50.520 and here it is canada sweden advanced the collaboration this is what's going on behind
00:02:55.640 the scenes and nobody else is reporting this in connection in correlation to carney not being
00:03:01.800 at this meeting today the honorable melanie jolly minister of industry and ministry responsible
00:03:07.440 canadian economic development of quebec regions will meet with ebba bush sweden's deputy prime
00:03:13.240 minister and minister for energy business and industry in stockholm to deepen canadian sweden
00:03:18.540 relationship they will be joined by the honorable steven fuhrer secretary of state defense procurement
00:03:23.740 and pat johnson is that pat johnson sweden's minister of defense sorry that's what's going on here
00:03:32.700 and this is why this is important and of course here's mark carney praises trump as minister jet to
00:03:41.600 sweden to talk defense deals and here's the initial news release and this is a backhanded compliment
00:03:48.700 that donald this is what started the animosity because a lot of people said oh how surprising
00:03:55.060 mark carney is praising donald trump's diplomatic skills after the summit meeting in anchorage alaska
00:04:01.860 with russian president vladimir putin so a lot of the mainstream media which of course panned everything
00:04:08.860 saying it's just not what we expected that donald trump is supposed to give russia nothing and
00:04:15.280 and ukraine should keep you crimea and the donbass region this is all of course fantasy
00:04:21.520 this is fairy tales fair these are fairy tales so mark carney says the leadership of president trump
00:04:28.580 in the united states is creating the opportunity to end russia's illegal war in ukraine nothing about of course
00:04:34.540 why russia invaded ukraine nothing about the donbass region wanting to be part of russia nothing about the coup in
00:04:40.820 2014 nothing about ukraine waging war against the people of donbass it's of course it was an illegal
00:04:47.800 invasion but how about all of these illegal invasions the united states indulges in we never talk about
00:04:55.240 those do we no so if you read this the united states is creating credible security guarantees
00:05:05.520 that are essential for you know the future of ukraine security so mark carney is attempting
00:05:14.540 to tell donald trump what he needs to do and well so prime minister carney praises trump as minister
00:05:22.500 justice sweden to talk defense deals so let's have a look at this here because this is this is dynamite
00:05:33.280 and this is this is at the root of why donald trump is so angry right now with mark carney
00:05:42.140 prime minister mark carney issued an unusual statement saturday here's the you know we just love
00:05:58.320 donald trump we love his diplomatic skills it's a backhanded compliment
00:06:03.280 while carney was praising trump of carney's own cabinet ministers were preparing for important
00:06:14.900 private meetings in stockholm on monday today to discuss expanding canada sweden trade defense
00:06:22.140 procurement is on the menu in sweden home of manufacturing giant sob which makes the grippen
00:06:28.420 jet fighter far more economical than the lockheed martin f-35 strike fighter also not as good and
00:06:35.040 nobody else uses it except sweden the two developments come as canada tries to hammer out a new deal on
00:06:41.860 tariffs with the trump administration of course this is not the way to do it buy the f-35 you moron
00:06:46.920 get it into your stupid head that we need interoperability with our primary allies but get this
00:06:55.580 the sweden the sweden the sweden company has reportedly offered to build the jets in canada
00:06:59.540 the grippen and created as many as 6 000 new jobs now this is bogus how many of these new jobs are
00:07:07.540 going to be canadian and how many are going to be swedish people relocating to canada in senior
00:07:14.000 management positions so this is all nonsense this is all nonsense and this is what mark carney
00:07:22.940 is up to and this is why donald trump didn't want him at today's meeting and once again mark carney
00:07:29.980 sabotaging every opportunity he has the hammer at a trade deal with donald trump but that's what this
00:07:38.180 guy's about that is what this guy is about he never seems to get it so what's happening carney welcomes
00:07:45.160 european leaders joining ukraine's zielinski for trump meeting so carney had a virtual meeting with
00:07:51.320 zielinski yesterday and has promised more billions of dollars to ukraine this is a sinking ship ukraine
00:07:58.880 will not be around much longer in its current form zielinski will either be deposed assassinated
00:08:05.080 perhaps or simply disappear to one of his villas that he has bought with your money or u.s money
00:08:15.520 that's a good possibility he has been pocketing billions of dollars of cash as of other corrupt
00:08:23.560 ukrainian leaders and and carney can't give them enough even though it's it's not only a black hole
00:08:30.820 it's not only a bottomless pit this money is being stolen by the corrupt ukrainian political leadership
00:08:37.480 and zielinski doesn't won't admit i think he realizes his days his days are finished his days are numbered
00:08:46.220 if he doesn't get out of the country other perhaps worse things will befall him and he's probably at
00:08:54.600 least smart enough to know that but this if you're wondering why mark carney was not invited to this big
00:09:02.760 meeting because he's one of the biggest boosters along with just as justin trudeau was mark carney
00:09:10.240 loves to give away your money to ukraine and loves wants to keep the war going as long as possible
00:09:19.980 now why here's the u.s ambassador to canada explaining why canada should not go and buy
00:09:30.060 the swedish gripping fighter jet and should fulfill the rest of its orders for the af-35
00:09:37.900 the uh the military alliance which has worked so successfully for 40 to 50 years we are thrilled
00:09:48.120 that canadia uh that the canadians are you know signed on to the nato agreement to to move to five
00:09:54.120 percent uh it looks like canada by the end of this year uh may be spinning at a two percent rate which
00:10:01.180 is a number that was agreed on way back in 2014 but we're very thankful uh and appreciative of the
00:10:09.060 moves that the carney government is making in that area uh but at the same time we get mixed signals
00:10:15.460 you're buying 16 f-35s great uh the other 72 have been put on hold uh may be canceled really don't
00:10:25.280 know what the status of the of the next 72 are uh bottom line is canada can't afford two different
00:10:32.460 fighters uh an f-35 i mean maintaining any particular kind of aircraft is very expensive
00:10:39.500 having two different versions basically filling the same niche in your defense portfolio gets to
00:10:45.740 be very expensive these are all things that you know have to be worked through uh as we move
00:10:51.180 and that's exactly it if you don't understand defense procurement it's always about
00:10:59.080 making sure one side of the defense department is robbed of money so we we pay for this particular
00:11:08.080 package if there's enough incentive for canadian industry now the f-35 we have been talking about
00:11:17.640 buying the f-35 for literally 25 30 years this is how ridiculous this has become we've been talking
00:11:26.080 about we were canada was engaged with the f-35 program when they were first talking about
00:11:32.760 developing the jet we promised to buy it through the krecheng years through the
00:11:38.080 harper years nine years stephen harper had the opportunity to seal the deal for nine years he
00:11:46.340 refused to do it and this is to stephen harper who's so supposedly pro-defense he wouldn't do it
00:11:52.980 he was afraid to say yeah we're going to buy it just as you just heard about 16 of the things
00:12:01.100 the remaining one 72 are up in the air so we're going to buy 16 f-35s are going to have what 72
00:12:09.920 grippens this is stupidity for an air force the size of the royal canadian air force today
00:12:15.040 where we basically have anywhere from 80 to 100 operational fighter jets you can't have two
00:12:21.160 different fighter jets the united states doesn't even do that anymore yes there used to be a day
00:12:27.360 when the u.s navy flew the f-18 the u.s air force flew the f-15 and the f-16 and the u.s marines
00:12:37.000 were flying the f-18 doesn't happen like that anymore every service in the united states that
00:12:44.220 flies aircraft flies fighter jets and that includes the u.s marines the u.s navy and the u.s air force
00:12:50.520 they're all flying the f-35 so why does canada think it can play around like this this is all
00:12:57.960 nonsense and it's because carney doesn't understand defense and if there's a former canadian air force
00:13:06.160 pilot on this trade mission with melanie jolly surely to god he understands that that's not going
00:13:13.000 to work for canada because when you buy a fighter jet it's not like it just sits there for the next
00:13:19.240 15 years and you don't have to touch it again it's all about maintenance maintenance cars you need
00:13:24.860 people trained on how to fly these things and how to maintain them otherwise they drop out of the sky
00:13:33.640 maintenance is crucial and i spent many years as a canadian air force public affairs officer
00:13:39.580 explaining why we needed to replace the labrador helicopter as a search and rescue vehicle why we
00:13:46.040 needed to replace the sea kings and eventually why we needed to replace the cfa teams which were
00:13:54.100 first generational cfa teams we didn't even have the upgraded ones so for god's sake give your head
00:14:00.900 a shake marxist carney and your other people in this cabinet that don't seem to understand the
00:14:06.600 common sense here we need to buy the f-35 it's that simple i i am going to try to get the ambassador
00:14:13.020 to the u.s on the show this week to discuss this because i think this is a crucial issue we've got to
00:14:18.700 move beyond well we can get them cheaper from sweden yeah in the end they're not going to be cheaper
00:14:24.600 in the end we're going to be paying a lot more for maintenance and we're going to be paying a lot more
00:14:29.840 to keep these aircraft flying and people are going to be laughing at an air force the size of canada's
00:14:38.060 flying two different fighter jets it's just improbable it's in fact it's impossible but anything
00:14:45.040 with the mark carney government can happen and this of course is exactly what bothers me
00:14:51.380 now i want to move to my good friend daniel smith who i hope to have on the show this week
00:14:58.940 and i want to thank uh antonio tweets for finding this video because this is really good stuff
00:15:07.920 and i i really enjoyed watching this but here's why do i think daniel smith is the leader of
00:15:16.640 principled conservatism conservatism in this country today because she's got guts because
00:15:24.240 she's not afraid to say here's the reality with the media today and she's got the guts this week
00:15:33.140 to host sean point the the u.s musician evangelist preacher who was canceled in cities across canada
00:15:44.200 last month he's back on the 20th that's wednesday yeah he's back on the 20th in winnipeg he's going
00:15:52.780 to be in edmonton on the on the steps of the provincial legislature on friday because daniel smith says go
00:16:03.340 ahead you can play here this province this premier believes in freedom of religion we think you have a
00:16:09.420 right to do that thank god and here's here's daniel smith taking on cbc i just i just love it do you
00:16:20.420 believe the institutions of this country the courts the media the public service do they lean liberal
00:16:29.100 and against conservatives generally speaking well i think cbc just demonstrated that in space they
00:16:36.240 just had a major broadcaster quit with exactly that that same that st travis uh denrage i think
00:16:42.020 yeah that's the allegation and he and he or and he argued that he was allowed to have the full range
00:16:48.920 of perspective being represented uh we just had that happen recently with cbc in fact i talked to my
00:16:54.840 homeless my housing minister about it um one of the reporters was asking him about some of our our stats
00:17:01.240 and we know that she contacted 12 people about our change in policy didn't quote any of them because
00:17:05.760 they agreed with us and she went out of province to quote somebody who would criticize us so i see
00:17:09.560 that over and over and over again so i think part of the reason why the decline in the mainstream media
00:17:14.260 and the rise of alternative media is because for some reason they decided they didn't want
00:17:18.260 conservative voices didn't want conservative
00:17:20.060 and they don't have any today and that's that's i i think something that daniel swift realizes
00:17:28.600 and most of us most of you watching this broadcast that he realized that wanted to show you this clip
00:17:34.640 from global news sorry i forgot that but this cements what i'm what i've been saying about
00:17:39.900 mark carney is two-faced he's double dealing with donald trump again and he's going to sow
00:17:47.320 the seeds of his own self-destruction he's going to reap the consequences he's going to reap the
00:17:54.500 whirlwind for what he's doing here carney is praising what he calls an openness by the u.s to
00:17:59.880 provide security guarantees to ukraine without clarifying what those could be in a statement carney
00:18:05.680 said robust and credible security guarantees are essential to any just and lasting peace between
00:18:11.780 russia and ukraine no deal was struck yesterday when u.s president donald trump met russian president
00:18:18.540 vladimir putin in alaska but we are learning more about what did happen between the two leaders
00:18:23.520 and what might happen next candace cole reports there's no deal until there's a deal u.s president
00:18:31.160 donald trump's meeting with russian president vladimir putin friday yielded no tangible results in terms of
00:18:37.620 peace for ukraine as the two heads of state met in anchorage without ukrainian president volodymyr
00:18:43.380 zelensky president speaking during a press conference where no questions were allowed putin
00:18:51.100 told reporters all of russia's concerns must be addressed and called for a quote fair balance of
00:18:56.720 security for europe and the world and mr putin got what he wanted he's back on stage he could meet with
00:19:02.500 the leader of the western world political scientist clemens fisher says the meeting between trump and
00:19:07.540 putin was more about peace between the u.s and russia ukraine what's wrong with that this is about
00:19:14.600 avoiding world war three and so that's why i maintain and i still say this was a very successful
00:19:23.540 summit because when you get these two world leaders talking the potential
00:19:31.320 for a nuclear war is decreasing it's lessening the tensions are decreasing and that's a great thing
00:19:40.780 now does ukraine really think it's going to keep crimea i mean they're delusional if they think so
00:19:47.640 but more so that is europe is the european union and specifically keir starmer and the uk
00:19:55.240 prime minister keir starmer of great britain and president emmanuel macron
00:20:01.320 of france do these bozos really think they're going to get into a war with russia
00:20:06.560 so that ukraine can keep crimea or keep the donbass region of ukraine do they really think they're going
00:20:16.420 to do that because as i've said repeatedly the united kingdom cannot even defend itself it doesn't even
00:20:23.180 own its own nuclear weapons are they prepared to start a nuclear war over ukraine i don't think so
00:20:29.260 i think this is a bluff and if it's not a bluff these people are mad they're insane
00:20:34.820 because they're not going to win any conventional war with russia and it's and if they provoke a
00:20:43.620 nuclear war it's the end of us all now it's time for these people to give their heads a shake
00:20:49.860 and for these these political scientists to say well we need to build up our arms
00:20:55.820 that we need an arms race again so we can put russia in its place
00:21:00.700 when they say things like that
00:21:04.100 it was merely an excuse for the two superpowers to hold court
00:21:10.100 for ukraine it was a very sad moment because at the end of the day ukraine wasn't even
00:21:14.880 on the table as a chance to see that they might possibly get a truce or a ceasefire nothing was
00:21:21.920 on the table but now zelensky is poised to meet with trump monday in the oval office after a
00:21:27.240 conversation with trump late friday during which trump reportedly told him putin would freeze the
00:21:32.900 front lines in herson and zaporizhia in exchange for the donetsk and luhansk regions saturday trump
00:21:39.200 praised his meeting with putin saying the best way to end the war between russia and ukraine
00:21:43.980 is to broker a peace agreement rather than a ceasefire which quote oftentimes do not hold up
00:21:49.880 it's a reversal from trump's past efforts putin has long said moscow is not interested in a temporary
00:21:56.400 truce zelensky in a post on x says he and trump are coordinating with european leaders but says a
00:22:03.540 lasting peace must be achieved he's called for stronger sanctions against russia if putin acts
00:22:09.380 in bad faith and greater security guarantees from the u.s and eu for the europeans it is i think one
00:22:16.300 of the last calls to wake up and to start building up the armed forces again because they have to do
00:22:23.700 anything to show deterrence against the russia well let's have another arms race these people are
00:22:31.120 absolutely delusional and it's incredible how they think yes let's let's build up the arms let's have
00:22:38.880 an arms race who benefits from that the military industrial complex every bloody time and that's all
00:22:48.240 this is about and these people are mouthpieces for these organizations they're mouthpieces for the
00:22:53.760 military industrial complex and that's all they are now when we come back after this break after this
00:22:58.860 break to look at at the store we're going to be talking about the by-election today in battle river
00:23:05.320 crowfoot and what do i think is going to happen
00:23:09.980 we'll be doing well
00:23:17.720 well
00:23:24.280 where
00:23:28.600 well
00:23:29.000 well
00:23:30.480 i
00:23:39.100 We'll be right back.
00:24:09.100 We'll be right back.
00:24:39.100 He only got 75% of the vote.
00:24:43.840 I, that should mean a leadership review.
00:24:47.780 Watch the liberals say that tonight.
00:24:50.220 I think he's probably going to get in the 80% range, even though this is a farce with these write-in ballots and 200-odd candidates.
00:25:01.880 It's ridiculous.
00:25:03.800 It's clearly aimed at just making life miserable for Prypoli and the people in that writing.
00:25:11.760 But of course he's going to win.
00:25:12.700 And I hope to have a show on tonight and invite an Albertan analyst on with me just to talk about the results and what we think it means.
00:25:23.380 Clearly this is going to be a victory for Prypoli.
00:25:26.180 And no matter what liberals say, no matter what the Carney government has to say about this, Prypoli is going to continue to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:25:38.220 As I've said on many occasions, I don't always agree with Prypoli.
00:25:42.720 I don't think he goes far enough.
00:25:44.440 I don't think there are issues he wants to talk about.
00:25:47.100 But there's nobody in the Conservative Caucus who could possibly replace him right now.
00:25:51.920 There are maybe people in the Conservative Caucus who are more principled Conservatives.
00:25:58.600 I think of Jamil Javani, for instance.
00:26:03.400 But people who are just elected a year ago are not going to be the leader of the party.
00:26:09.220 Prypoli has been there for 21 years.
00:26:11.520 And nobody is going to take his leadership away if he doesn't get 85% of the vote today.
00:26:18.360 So he's going to go back in the House of Commons.
00:26:20.440 He's an effective speaker.
00:26:23.460 He's an effective debater in the House of Commons.
00:26:26.360 And that's one of Prypoli's strong points.
00:26:28.940 Maybe because that's the only job he's ever known as an adult.
00:26:33.080 And that's very true.
00:26:34.300 He's been in the House of Commons his entire adult life.
00:26:37.860 And that's what he does.
00:26:41.160 And it's very true that a lot of people in that writing are going to feel one of two things.
00:26:47.360 Hey, it's great.
00:26:48.100 We've got the official opposition as our MP.
00:26:50.680 Other people are going to say, unfortunately, the official opposition leader is far too focused on national issues and not the constituency.
00:26:57.500 So it's a win-lose situation.
00:27:00.320 But Prypoli is going to win.
00:27:01.940 Here's the CBC report.
00:27:03.340 I think it's basically not bad for the CBC.
00:27:07.780 Voters in the Alberta riding of Battle River Crofit head to the polls tomorrow in a closely watched by-election.
00:27:14.360 That is where Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is running after losing his Ottawa area seat in the last federal election.
00:27:22.080 The riding is seen as one of the safest Conservative seats in the country.
00:27:25.980 A record 214 candidates are on the ballot.
00:27:30.500 But a large number of those are part of the longest ballot committee, a protest group calling for changes to Canada's electoral system.
00:27:37.760 For more on tomorrow's by-election and what we could expect to see and what it'll mean when the House of Commons gets back, we're joined by my friend Kathleen Petty.
00:27:47.580 She hosts the radio show Alberta Noon at Noon and the podcast West of Centre on CBC.
00:27:53.800 And she's in Calgary.
00:27:54.960 Hey, Kathleen.
00:27:56.620 Hey there, Eli.
00:27:57.480 Good to see you.
00:27:58.340 Nice to see you.
00:27:59.060 So this riding is the safest of safe Conservative seats.
00:28:04.480 Is this kind of a fait accompli for Pierre Polyev?
00:28:08.780 Look, Eli, I don't know anyone who suggests that we should all be sitting on the edge of her seat waiting to see if he's going to win this.
00:28:16.780 I mean, I'm not into the prediction game, but I don't know anyone who seriously thinks he's under any threat.
00:28:22.800 I think what the focus is going to be is what share he gets and has been pointed out.
00:28:29.300 Generally speaking, Conservative candidates garner somewhere in the 80s in terms of the vote share.
00:28:35.780 Occasionally a bit lower in 2021.
00:28:38.480 The CBC was actually a force, somewhat of a force in that riding.
00:28:43.600 And so the vote share was about 71%.
00:28:45.640 But clearly people will look at the share and reach a conclusion.
00:28:50.020 And I would suggest that that conclusion will be seen through a very partisan lens.
00:28:55.020 So if there is a way, if you're, say, a Liberal, to look at that share and see that, you know, it's something below what Pierre Polyev should get,
00:29:05.740 then that's the narrative they will advance.
00:29:08.800 Conservatives, I think, will advance another narrative, not least of which is the fact that there are 213 people running against him.
00:29:18.440 Right.
00:29:19.120 Now, does the fact that…
00:29:20.580 Of course, I've said repeatedly, this is a farce, 213 people running, again, 214 total candidates in his riding.
00:29:28.200 This has nothing to do with making a constructive statement about how Canadian politics should be run or how elections should be run.
00:29:36.220 This is just clearly nuisance.
00:29:39.460 You have chose this riding, one of, if not the safest seat for Conservatives in the country.
00:29:47.520 Do you think it changes the way Canadians see him?
00:29:51.080 Does it change kind of the appeal he may or may not have right now?
00:29:54.920 I think people probably reached that conclusion initially when it was decided this was the riding he would run in.
00:30:03.760 Obviously, you want to run your leader in a riding that you know he's going to win.
00:30:07.980 There is, you know, as you point out, the specter of, wow, could you make it any easier?
00:30:12.240 There was one riding that had a higher boat chair, believe it or not, and that was Sirrus Moose Mountain in Saskatchewan, which was closer to 84%.
00:30:21.920 You know, that I didn't know.
00:30:25.460 Thank you, Kathleen Petty, for pointing that out.
00:30:28.280 Sirrus Moose Mountain.
00:30:29.640 When I worked on the Hill, I knew the MP, the former MP from that riding.
00:30:34.880 And I worked, one of my colleagues on the Hill worked for that MP.
00:30:39.520 I won't give any names.
00:30:40.900 And he was quite certain that when that MP decided to retire, he was basically going to hand the seat to him.
00:30:47.840 In other words, he was going to endorse my friend and say, here's the person we should nominate to be the next MP.
00:30:54.320 He never did that.
00:30:56.580 And it never happened for him.
00:30:58.800 And he was not very happy about that.
00:31:02.100 But I had no idea that riding is the bigger conservative majority than the other one.
00:31:09.580 That's incredible.
00:31:10.320 But, yeah, it doesn't get much safer than this.
00:31:15.120 But, honestly, I just think people will move on.
00:31:17.800 People will take a look at that boat chair.
00:31:20.460 And then, you know, and then he's going to hit the ground running because he's essentially been, although, you know, he certainly has made statements.
00:31:27.440 And he's entered into the political conversation.
00:31:30.740 He hasn't really had the impact, I think, that he would normally have if he was, you know, an elected MP and returning to the House as leader of the opposition, which, as it stands right now, he's leader of the party, but not leader of the opposition.
00:31:46.900 Kathleen, do you have any sense how locals feel about him in this election, other than the longest ballot committee and that push for electoral reform?
00:31:56.360 Because I could see on the one hand, well, now you have the leader of a political party representing your riding, and that's great.
00:32:02.800 But others might see him as a bit of a carpetbagger.
00:32:06.280 Well, Bonnie Critchley would be the one who would have been the most vocal and has made that point.
00:32:12.060 I don't know if this is a direct quote, but it's pretty close.
00:32:14.800 Well, I have to say this, there's an irony here that nobody in the mainstream media has pointed out.
00:32:24.480 Maybe somebody on YouTube has, I don't know.
00:32:27.700 But people said that about Pierre Pagliav when he won as a conservative in the PN, and he was a carpetbagger, because he hadn't spent a week in that riding, maybe a week.
00:32:40.980 But he had literally just arrived in Ottawa.
00:32:44.800 From Calgary.
00:32:46.260 He had no history in Ottawa at all.
00:32:48.540 And a lot of people said, hey, he's a carpetbagger.
00:32:50.740 He's a parachute candidate.
00:32:52.200 People said that 21 years ago, when Pierre Pagliav first entered politics as a member of parliament.
00:32:59.280 When he won that nomination in the PN.
00:33:02.260 A lot of people accused him of being a parachute candidate.
00:33:05.120 Which, in fact, he was.
00:33:09.120 But here he is again, going from Ottawa back to Calgary.
00:33:13.260 So I think there's actually less, there's less reason to call him a carpetbagger this time.
00:33:23.000 Because, yes, he did grow up in Calgary.
00:33:25.400 He did spend time in Calgary.
00:33:27.100 He did work on campaigns in Calgary.
00:33:30.720 So he does have some history there.
00:33:32.180 But it's quite fascinating.
00:33:33.360 A rat's backside about the people in that riding.
00:33:36.740 In other words, this is just a vehicle back into the House of Commons.
00:33:40.080 Obviously, he would push back against that.
00:33:42.240 I think it's fair to note that he's been in the riding a lot.
00:33:45.160 He's been going to a lot of events, talking to a lot of people.
00:33:47.900 I mean, he is campaigning hard.
00:33:49.260 He even participated, Eli, in a debate in Camrose not so long ago.
00:33:56.600 Which is not something we would normally expect from Pierre Pagliav.
00:34:00.980 But he did that.
00:34:03.080 So, and, you know, people in the riding.
00:34:05.080 CBC's been there.
00:34:06.140 Other news outlets have been there.
00:34:07.760 They've talked to voters.
00:34:09.640 And many of whom are voting for him.
00:34:13.080 But even those who are not sort of acknowledged, they expect him to win.
00:34:17.580 And those who are understand that this is a vehicle back into the House.
00:34:22.660 But I think largely conservatives are okay with that because they're conservatives.
00:34:28.380 Exactly.
00:34:29.600 I mean, what do you expect?
00:34:31.580 You're going to run the leader of your party in East Vancouver?
00:34:35.780 I mean, how stupid do they think we are?
00:34:38.940 Obviously, they're going to run him in a safe seat.
00:34:41.420 And he's going to win.
00:34:42.160 And he's going to win with over 80% of the vote, I predict, right now.
00:34:45.320 He's going to win with over 80% of the vote.
00:34:47.520 It's going to be a resounding success for him.
00:34:50.220 And I have to give him credit for the fact he took this by-election seriously.
00:34:55.660 I'm going to be objective about this as possible.
00:34:58.560 He could have just pretended he had it in the bag, which he did.
00:35:03.360 But he did participate in town halls.
00:35:05.500 He did participate in debates.
00:35:07.140 He did put out regular videos of himself door-knocking, which he didn't have to do, obviously.
00:35:15.040 And he provided the evidence that he was out there fighting for this seat, not taking it for granted.
00:35:21.160 So I give him credit for that because, as I've said before, it must have been heartbreaking for him.
00:35:28.560 It must have been earth-shattering for him to lose that seat in the peon.
00:35:34.100 I'm sure he thought he couldn't lose.
00:35:36.560 And the party took it for granted.
00:35:38.960 They didn't really work hard enough.
00:35:40.800 They should have worked harder.
00:35:42.320 And I'm sure it was a crushing moment in his life.
00:35:46.300 He got through it.
00:35:47.300 He put on a brave face.
00:35:49.000 He smiled that night of the federal election.
00:35:53.400 He got through it.
00:35:55.180 His wife stood by him.
00:35:56.720 And he got on with the job.
00:35:59.200 And I think he's done a good job of campaigning overall.
00:36:02.480 I don't think he's always answered the questions very well.
00:36:05.140 I don't think he's addressed Alberta separation very well.
00:36:08.540 But he's fought the good fight.
00:36:10.980 And he does deserve to win tonight.
00:36:13.040 And he will win.
00:36:14.220 Big.
00:36:14.660 Thanks for watching today, folks.
00:36:16.380 I'll be back again tomorrow.
00:36:18.080 I know that.
00:36:18.560 And possibly tonight, I'll let you know in plenty of time, if I can do an evening show on the by-election results.
00:36:24.400 Thanks for watching.
00:36:25.940 God bless this country.
00:36:27.180 Godspeed to all of you.
00:36:28.200 And continue to resolve to resist.
00:36:29.680 Bye for now.