Action4Canada - July 10, 2026


Rise of Populist Movements


Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

105.92

Word count

333

Sentence count

22


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In this episode, we talk about the rise of the right-wing populist parties in Europe and why they are gaining ground in the polls. We also talk about why people are ready to vote for a populist party in Europe.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 There's good news coming from Europe.
00:00:01.820 Actually, last month, a very serious and major study was published by The Guardian speaking about, they call it, right-wing populist political parties in Europe.
00:00:16.280 And the good news is they have the support of 25 percent of Europeans are ready to vote for a right-wing populist party.
00:00:26.240 And that's great.
00:00:27.600 And in some countries, like in France, in UK, in Poland, they are first in the polls.
00:00:35.240 So it's going very well.
00:00:36.860 But what I must say, that was not easy for them.
00:00:40.780 You know, all that movement started 30 years ago in 1995.
00:00:47.580 And at that time, populist political parties had only 5% of the vote, 5% of support.
00:00:55.200 It took them 30 years to grow to 25 percent and first in the polls in a lot of countries, like you said in the beginning.
00:01:04.640 So what they did, it's very simple.
00:01:09.540 What you are doing, Tanya, with Action for Canada, that is what they did 30 years ago.
00:01:15.840 They created a strong grassroots movement, grassroots infrastructures.
00:01:21.520 And they were speaking about the real issues that are affecting Europeans, like, and recently, mass immigration, the last 10 years, and because mass immigration is having a huge impact on the national identity, and they want to preserve their national identity, and mass immigration is destroying the social fabric of European countries.
00:01:46.820 So that's an important discussion that they started 10 years ago. And now more people understand that, you know, they were right, these populist parties, they were right 10 years ago. And now we can see the impact of mass immigration in UK, in France, in all European countries. And people are ready to support them.
00:02:08.660 Also, why are they ready to support a populist party in Europe?
00:02:13.400 Because also the establishment political parties did not speak about that.
00:02:19.880 For them, they ignore these issues, mass immigration, nationalism, the economy.
00:02:28.480 They are in a stagnation in Europe right now, stagnation with inflation.
00:02:38.660 Thank you.