Full Comment - November 06, 2023


Driven into the ditch by Trudeau, Liberals have no clear way out


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52 minutes

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176.20631

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9,217

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615

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Summary

Chris Hilley is a political columnist with the National Post and has spent decades covering politicians of all stripes. He's seen governments come and go, and some even rescue themselves from seeming oblivion. But this week, he's taking a political temperature check on the state of the federal government.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 That is why today we are announcing a three-year pause on the federal pollution price on heating
00:00:12.820 oil so that we can give everyone the time and ability to switch to heat pumps.
00:00:21.260 That moment right there, that might be the moment that Canadians realized it was pretty
00:00:26.600 much over for the Trudeau government. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau standing in front of
00:00:31.140 his Atlantic Canadian Liberal MPs and saying with a straight face that he was pausing the
00:00:36.620 carbon tax on home heating oil and claiming that this was about fighting climate change
00:00:41.560 and not just a brazen attempt to save his political fortunes. Hello and welcome to the Full Comment
00:00:47.260 podcast. I'm Brian Lilly, your host, and today we're talking about the state of the Trudeau
00:00:51.860 government. It's been a tough few months for them in the polls, but the last few weeks in
00:00:56.840 particular have been really tough on them. It's one of the hardest falls I've seen in my
00:01:01.960 near quarter century of covering politics. So one of the questions is, can they recover?
00:01:07.120 Is there someone to take over if Trudeau decides it's time to leave? And what about Pierre
00:01:12.620 Pollyup and the Conservatives? Chris Hilley is a political columnist with the National Post.
00:01:16.960 He spent decades covering the political ups and downs of politicians of all stripes. He's seen
00:01:22.060 governments come and go, and some even rescue themselves from seeming oblivion. He seemed like
00:01:27.620 the right guest to have on this week to take a political temperature check and to survey the state
00:01:33.260 of the Fair Dominion. I got to say, the last couple of weeks for the Trudeau liberals have been one of the
00:01:40.940 most disastrous things I've ever watched in politics. And I've seen governments fall apart.
00:01:45.800 We've, you know, I wasn't covering it, but I'm old enough to remember the Mulroney or Kim Campbell
00:01:52.560 Conservatives going down to two seats. But this is a very rapid decline for them, wouldn't you say?
00:01:58.560 It's a rapid decline brought on, as you say, by them just turning tail on some of their,
00:02:04.560 well, carbon tax, their central environmental policy. You can't, I mean, the whole point of a
00:02:11.940 carbon tax is supposed to be that it's simple and that you don't have carve-outs. You don't have
00:02:16.620 special deals for special industries. Now, Canada is a big country. You pretty much have to have
00:02:21.840 allowances for people who live in rural areas as opposed to urban areas.
00:02:25.640 And they've got an increased rebate for rural areas. And so that does account, and they're
00:02:31.400 doubling that across the country. So that is something for everyone. But they were making
00:02:36.560 very clear that this was a means of helping people in Atlantic Canada specifically, because
00:02:42.500 more Atlantic Canadians use a home heating room than anywhere else in the province. And
00:02:47.500 it's ridiculous. You know, only a month ago, you had Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeau saying,
00:02:53.700 you know, how ridiculous would it look if we carved out things for different parts of the
00:02:58.640 province? I mean, it just wouldn't work that way. And then they went and did it, because for that
00:03:02.160 long, Atlantic liberal MPs have been going to their party and saying, you have to do something or this
00:03:07.380 is going to kill us. Exactly. Exactly. And so, you know, I'm barely even seeing anyone in media or
00:03:13.820 anywhere else even giving the benefit of the doubt that this is sort of in any way. I mean, it's helped
00:03:18.980 for Atlantic Canadians, for sure. But it's a political move. And after seven years or eight
00:03:27.180 years of them telling you that this is what we need to do our part to save the planet.
00:03:33.720 And now they go and just torpedo the whole idea of a carbon tax. And for what? I mean,
00:03:39.920 why would you vote for the party that's going to take the carbon tax off home heating oil for three
00:03:46.440 years, presumably bringing it back afterwards, when you could vote for the party that's going to get
00:03:50.940 rid of it altogether? And when they bring it back after the three year pause, they will have increased
00:03:56.200 it three times. Yeah, presumably. Yeah. Because it goes up every April 1st or July 1st. I can't remember
00:04:02.460 which time of the year the carbon tax goes up. But it's remarkable. The line I've been using is
00:04:09.120 this was all done because Justin Trudeau's support in Atlantic Canada was melting faster than the
00:04:14.580 polarized caps. That red wall in Atlantic Canada that surprised many, myself included, in 2015, I thought
00:04:22.260 he would do well in Atlantic Canada. Yeah. I didn't think he would sweep the way he did. And that formed
00:04:28.600 the basis of his majority government. He's still got 24 out of 32 seats in Atlantic Canada. But every
00:04:36.700 poll is showing he's going to be just about wiped out one seat. Some projections say in Newfoundland out
00:04:43.160 of seven, about four in New Brunswick could be wiped out in Nova Scotia and PEI. That's a significant
00:04:49.540 drop. And there's no way that he can form government without that. So do the voters in Atlantic Canada
00:04:55.480 turn around and say, well, sure, it's craven politics, but it helps my pocketbook. So I'll
00:05:01.080 take it. Yeah. Well, look, craven politics is, look, you got to go out there and fight for your
00:05:06.800 best interest in politics. And they've successfully done that. The Atlantic caucus has successfully done
00:05:13.620 that. But that doesn't mean it's going to save their bacon. I mean, you and I have seen all sorts
00:05:18.540 of governments do last Hail Mary passes at the end of the day, throwing out policies that they held
00:05:24.780 dear. It doesn't usually work because at the end of the day, you look ridiculous. And especially if
00:05:30.080 there's another party that's offering you the same relief or better, Atlantic Canadians have proven
00:05:36.460 themselves swing voters. And that's, it helps. It helps when you want to get things done in Ottawa.
00:05:45.020 The, the announcement that Trudeau made, um, it's not lost on me that he made it as Pierre
00:05:53.140 Paulieff, the conservative leader was flying to Windsor, Nova Scotia, middle of the writing of King's
00:05:59.480 hands. Scott Bryson's all writing. Remember the, you know, everything bad happened to the Trudeau
00:06:04.640 liberals at one point was Scott Bryson involved, but he, uh, you know, he held that writing and the
00:06:11.000 liberals have held it for 20 years. That's a long time. Pierre Paulie, I've had a thousand people out
00:06:17.580 in, on a Thursday night in October with no election on. Yeah. That's, you know, when I've covered
00:06:26.120 election campaigns, I have not seen it, you know, it's not, not easy to get a thousand people out at
00:06:32.080 the height of a contested election campaign. And we're potentially two years out, you know,
00:06:37.700 we're not just right in the middle of it. We're not just not in an election campaign. It could
00:06:42.200 potentially be ages. And if I'm the liberals, I don't know why, well, I mean, I don't know what,
00:06:49.140 what you're planning at this point. I mean, you don't want an election now. I guess you hang on as
00:06:52.620 long as you can. If, if that's Justin Trudeau's, uh, if that's what he wants to do, if he just wants
00:06:57.620 to stay prime minister, but you know, I guess the bright side for liberals is there's two, two years
00:07:02.140 to turn things around, but then you wonder what could possibly, what would that be? Um, I guess
00:07:08.380 every two week period can't be as terrible as the last two weeks. Yeah. The last few weeks have been
00:07:13.760 really bad. I do want to point out, I believe, uh, both national post and Toronto sun had news of
00:07:19.660 this poll over the last few days. The latest Leger numbers showed that, um, not only were the
00:07:26.200 conservatives ahead on the national numbers at 40% support, but in Atlantic Canada, they had 46%
00:07:33.660 of course. And that was in a poll taken the Friday, Saturday and Sunday after Trudeau's big
00:07:39.640 announcement, which of course was all the news in Atlantic Canada. Yeah. And this is with Pierre
00:07:43.900 Polyev. I mean, let's not forget how long, how recently people were saying, oh, no, I mean,
00:07:47.480 Pierre Polyev is a terrible choice. He's unlikable. People won't, people won't cotton onto him.
00:07:53.200 People won't, uh, like his, his attitude. I mean, either, I mean, I think he's found something that
00:08:01.340 he didn't have before in terms of his, his presentation. Um, but this, this is, this is
00:08:09.160 Justin Trudeau to me. This is, this is like, this is like when Doug Ford, you know, Doug Ford versus
00:08:14.720 Christine Elliott for the PC leadership here in Ontario, that was really the race to be the next
00:08:18.920 premier. And that was the race with, with the conservatives federally, I think, but I'm
00:08:25.040 impressed with Polyev. I never thought I'd see him in the forties. I thought he would, I thought
00:08:31.120 he could become prime minister, you know, with a mid thirties, um, results with, with a minority,
00:08:36.780 but this is really spectacular to see. And he's over delivering, I would say right now. Um, and
00:08:43.060 the question is, can he keep it? The back in the end of May, there were a lot of polls that
00:08:50.420 still had the, uh, the conservatives and the liberals tied. I think there was a Leger poll
00:08:56.080 then, and then had them, I think it was effectively tied 33 for the conservatives, 31 for the liberals,
00:09:04.940 which would have given us pretty much the parliament we have now. Now, the seat projections would say
00:09:12.740 over 200 seats for the conservatives. And, you know, the, on Monday, they're going to have this
00:09:21.300 vote to, um, you know, for Polyev's motion that says you've got to either expand the home heating
00:09:29.160 oil, uh, tax break for everyone on the carbon tax. Uh, you've got to expand it to people who use
00:09:35.960 natural gas, propane, what have you, or liberal and NDP MPs have to stand up and say, oh no,
00:09:42.660 we won't do that. So they're kind of between a rock and a hard place. And, and, and folks are going
00:09:49.500 to notice if you're one of 76 liberal MPs in Ontario, where almost everyone uses natural gas, how do you
00:09:57.760 turn around and say to your voters? Yeah. You just, we don't care enough. Yeah. Natural gas,
00:10:02.360 which is what 30% cleaner in terms of emissions than home heating oil, which, so there's no way to
00:10:09.380 sell this at all. I mean, you'd have been better off sticking with home heating oil, uh, under,
00:10:16.000 under this plan. And that's just, it, it, you know, I, I feel like they killed the carbon tax dead
00:10:21.760 in a stroke, um, doing that. I don't see how, how, as you say, how can they possibly stand up in
00:10:28.480 the house of commons and tell someone who's burning cleaner, cleaner fuel to heat their home
00:10:34.260 that, that they're not entitled to something who's down the, down the block. Someone's burning
00:10:41.240 dirtier fuel. I mean, the whole idea of the carbon tax is that it should be incentivizing that person
00:10:45.380 with the dirty fuel to get the cleaner fuel. And now they're rewarding. Well, they're not rewarding
00:10:49.360 people. I mean, Atlantic Canada, like you can't just flip a switch and, and, and have a heat pump
00:10:55.560 or have a, or switch natural gas. Well, apparently we're going to flip this way and in three years
00:11:00.740 install thousands upon thousands of heat pumps that may or may not, we may not have enough of
00:11:06.720 the manufacturer. It may not have enough skilled tradespeople to install them. And there's questions
00:11:11.220 about whether they will work in the colder parts of the country. Yeah. Well, those are the sorts of
00:11:14.900 things that I don't think this government really thinks that far in advance. I mean,
00:11:21.100 the, the, the, the announcement, like I've been saying for a while, like the announcement is the
00:11:23.780 policy. You know what I mean? Like, it's like, we're going to come out and we're going to say
00:11:27.920 something and it may or may not happen down the line, but we just want to get through the day here
00:11:34.800 without having too much crap fall down on our heads. And that's what, that, that's what they did for
00:11:40.380 that one day. Uh, and they, you know, probably there's probably some liberal voters in, uh,
00:11:46.100 Atlantic Canada. I think, oh, thank God. Like, all right, now I can go back to my safety vote and I
00:11:50.020 get some money off my home heating, but everyone else, why, why, why would I, I mean, the NDP is,
00:11:56.700 is, as I always called for, you know, to, to, to exempt, um, home heating from certainly the GST.
00:12:02.540 I'm not sure about the carbon tax, not the carbon tax. Um, but you know, there's other options for you
00:12:07.100 out there. If you want to save money on, on your, on, on your home heating. And I just don't
00:12:11.580 understand. And then, and then, you know, other things that the liberals are doing recently, you
00:12:15.220 know, smart, relatively smart things. I think, you know, you got new housing minister, Sean Fraser,
00:12:20.060 who's, who's putting the screws to municipalities that won't, uh, approve dense enough developments.
00:12:27.120 But I mean, that's, that was a pure polyev idea and not originally, but he, he was the one who
00:12:31.700 popularized it just recently. And everyone, all liberals saying, well, that won't work. It's ridiculous.
00:12:35.800 We need to work with municipalities. You know, we need to convene and we need to, and we need
00:12:40.120 to be friendly with everyone. And then suddenly you've got Sean Fraser sending off a, uh, a barbed
00:12:45.660 letter to, to the mayor of Calgary saying, no, we're not going to, we're not going to approve
00:12:49.300 this. Um, we're not going to approve this, this development. We're not going to fund this
00:12:55.060 development unless you make it denser. So let's just do an aside on that. Um, yeah, some good
00:13:02.560 policies in there, but they're going about doing it in a way, what you just described,
00:13:07.120 the announcement is the policy. They're going city by city. Yeah. 444 municipalities just in
00:13:14.200 Ontario. They could have gone to the provinces and Ontario has just gone through a legislative
00:13:19.600 process. British Columbia did to do densification. And that includes saying as of right, you can
00:13:26.500 build three homes on what used to be considered a single family dwelling lot. The provincial
00:13:32.540 government in Ontario went with three because too many municipalities balked at four and they
00:13:38.300 said, well, you know, three works in some, four would work in some, but not others. So
00:13:43.040 they did that. They could have just gone to the province and said, make it four and we'll
00:13:46.320 give you extra money and you can help us distribute it. Yep. But you don't get as many photo ops.
00:13:50.900 No, you don't get to go out with every single announcement. And so they, you know, they, they
00:13:56.680 could have worked with British Columbia and they could have worked with Ontario, the two
00:13:59.700 places where this is the biggest issue, but well, they're not liberals, so we won't work
00:14:05.740 with them. Yeah. It's, uh, it, it is a government that just seems to be, uh, flailing it at every
00:14:12.420 turn. Now you've got this two environmental conferences going on in Ottawa in the days after this
00:14:18.200 carbon tax announcement. You've got Catherine McKenna and future liberal leader, Mark Carney,
00:14:23.820 uh, both criticizing it. Yeah. Uh, well, of course they are, but how can you not criticize
00:14:29.320 it? It's, it's just a complete abdication of the whole idea of a carbon tax. You've had,
00:14:33.900 you've got Percy down and Lawrence Martin, both recently coming up with columns saying that
00:14:38.860 Justin Trudeau has got to go and Percy down is, you know, unless you're a real political
00:14:43.420 want, you're not going to know who he is, but he's a big deal in liberal circles.
00:14:46.900 Yes. He was John Kretchen's chief of staff for a time. He was a liberal Senator for years
00:14:52.940 and Lawrence Martin, you know, globe columnist, who's not been unfriendly to the Trudeau liberal
00:14:58.780 to say the least. And for them to both come out and say, this guy's time's up. That's significant.
00:15:06.140 It's significant, except who, except who replaces him? I mean, yeah, it's, it's quite clear that his
00:15:12.520 time is up, but someone's got to be a liberal leader. And I mean, who wants to donate their
00:15:16.480 body to that cause? I mean, I mean, you know, there are, there's only so many Kathleen wins
00:15:22.060 in the world, right? I mean, that was a, that was a, uh, a clapped out government here in Ontario
00:15:27.580 that Kathleen Wynne came in and she's a great campaigner and she, you know, she pulled it
00:15:31.600 out of the fire. There's not many people that can do that. And I look at the, and she did that in 2014,
00:15:35.980 but not 2018. No, no, that's right. Well, and then, and then, you know, the Ontario liberals have
00:15:40.800 to look at that and say, did we accomplish anything in those four years that is worth
00:15:45.940 the oblivion that we now live in? There's many in Ontario, the liberals who were in power for
00:15:52.840 15 years are now the minivan party. Yeah. They can all commute to work together. That's right. And
00:15:58.000 the liberals have, you know, I don't think the federal liberals are ever going to, you know,
00:16:01.880 they, they hit bottom with Ignatieff. I think that's probably their floor. I don't think they're
00:16:08.220 going to get wiped out to three or four seats, but, but they're not supposed to like this, you know,
00:16:13.920 this is, this is an incredible brand that Justin Trudeau was driving into the ditch here. Um, let,
00:16:21.500 let me ask you about that then, uh, because part of Percy Downs letter was talking about how the
00:16:27.740 liberals need to get back to the center. And there are still liberals out there who
00:16:33.760 talk as if this is a centrist party. They haven't noticed that this is not a centrist party. This
00:16:41.780 is not your grandfather's or your father's or your uncle's liberal party anymore. This is the party of
00:16:48.380 Justin Trudeau. In fact, he, he, he even calls it a movement. He doesn't call it a party. It's,
00:16:52.740 it's a movement built around it. They got rid of membership fees. So like, I'm probably considered
00:16:59.960 part of the movement because as any smart journalist, I've signed up for their mailing list.
00:17:04.200 All they need is your email and you're part of their movement. Yep. Um, I'm sure, you know,
00:17:09.520 you probably don't even have to sign up. It'll probably just arrive.
00:17:12.980 So you and I are likely members of this movement that I don't know about you, but I have no intention
00:17:17.620 of voting for, and they, they've just built it all around Trudeau. And now his brand is falling apart.
00:17:26.920 I think that's exactly right. I think it's, it's not a left, right thing. It's a Trudeau thing.
00:17:30.780 Like Trudeau. Yeah. I, I think he's probably to the left of your, your average liberal government
00:17:37.620 over the, over the decades. But I don't think there's anything like, it's not like he's, he's a
00:17:42.800 coherent leftist or a coherent ideologue of any sort. I just think it's just a mess of preferences
00:17:48.900 and, and weird ideas pinging around his, his head. And there's no one who seems to be in charge
00:17:55.980 who has any ability to sort of, I mean, this has always been true. Like whether he's going on
00:18:02.480 vacation on the Iacons Island or saying some stupid stuff about canoe storage, like this is just,
00:18:07.740 as you say, it's all him. He does what he seems to do, what he wants, even when it seems to be an
00:18:14.140 absolutely terrible idea. Um, and now they're paying the price. All they can do is, is just
00:18:19.640 try and give people what they want. Um, you know, so we're listening after we're going to do all these
00:18:27.400 things that you need after eight years when the opposition parties are promising them as well.
00:18:32.660 I don't know. I mean, I just, I, I, if, if I was liberal, I would probably want a new leader too.
00:18:39.800 But I, as I say, I just can't imagine who would want to do that to their resume, to, to be the
00:18:45.020 person who finally, um, the next Michael Ignatieff. I mean, that's no one, that's not anything to aspire
00:18:51.200 to. You know, there's obviously ambitious people in the party and there's been a lot of talk of
00:18:55.780 Chrystia Freeland. Some people see her as a savior. I don't know why. I don't know why either. Um,
00:19:01.280 like I, I, I, she's a, she's a very intelligent, accomplished person, but I don't, I don't think
00:19:05.600 she's a very good politician. No. So I don't see her translating to retail politics on a national
00:19:12.800 level when she speaks to adults, like she's, uh, reading a bedtime story. Well, that's right.
00:19:17.300 And she's never had to, she's never contested it. She's never even contested a tough riding,
00:19:20.960 right? Which is more than less than you can say about Justin Trudeau. I mean, Trudeau went into a
00:19:26.000 tough riding and, and, and paid his dues in that respect because the party wasn't willing to lay
00:19:31.180 out the, the, um, sort of the red carpet for him, which was in hindsight, probably a pretty good
00:19:37.760 instinct. I mean, I always go back, like, you remember when, before Justin Trudeau took over
00:19:42.200 and they were in the, in the, in the dumps and they had however many ridiculous number of seats
00:19:47.760 and they were like, well, we're going to, we're going to renew, we're going to have a new Kingston
00:19:50.400 conference. We're going to get all of these smart people together and we're going to decide what
00:19:53.840 the liberal party of Canada really stands for. Oh, Justin's in, forget it. It's done. It's done.
00:19:59.040 We're going to win. We're going to win. We're going to win. That's what we want. That's what
00:20:01.680 we like. We like winning. And Justin Trudeau is going to win for us. And when he leaves,
00:20:05.240 they're going to be just as untethered from any kind of, you know, what is this party?
00:20:12.520 What is it? But I think someone like Frankie Bubbles, uh, or industry minister, is that what he is now?
00:20:20.520 Um, Francois-Philippe Champagne, of course, I'm talking about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see.
00:20:24.440 Yeah. Yeah. He's more of an old fashioned business liberal. I'm not going to call him a blue liberal
00:20:31.660 because I don't think he is, but he, but he's a business oriented liberal. Uh, I don't know that
00:20:36.980 the party would accept a guy like that now. It's, you know, has the party changed and morphed? Do they
00:20:43.640 expect that you're just going to, without thinking, adopt the latest cause and change your Twitter
00:20:50.320 avatar, uh, to reflect that you're now with the current thing? Well, I feel like that wave may be
00:20:55.120 kind of cresting. I don't know. Like in terms of what people, I hate, I hate the word woke, but it does
00:21:00.760 paint a picture of, of what we're talking about here. I feel like that's that, that horrible sort of
00:21:08.780 performative Twitter garbage that, that Trudeau and his, his gang are so dedicated to. Um, I feel
00:21:18.860 like that's less of a thing. I'm not, I don't know. It's just, it's just a feeling. Like I feel like
00:21:22.780 people just aren't buying that anymore. And I think Champagne would be, is, would be an interesting
00:21:28.140 choice quite apart from, you know, where, whether he's blue or red or, or whether the party would
00:21:33.100 accept it. But to me, that's like, he's boring. That's kind of almost what I would want if I was
00:21:38.860 liberal. Like, I don't want another cult of personality. I don't want, I want like a manager
00:21:45.660 and someone that voters might just say, well, you know, maybe they don't like Pierre Polyev,
00:21:51.100 but they, they couldn't stand Justin Trudeau. And here's this relatively inoffensive guy in a suit,
00:21:56.380 uh, and regular socks, uh, who doesn't tweet that often. And maybe that's what, but I don't know.
00:22:04.620 I mean, we're, I'm, we're just stabbing in the, I'm just stabbing in the dark here and I don't even
00:22:07.980 have any skin in the game. You mentioned the socks thing and I laughed. And of course, um,
00:22:12.940 it's funny that liberals now get angry when, uh, they, uh, you know, somebody brings up socks,
00:22:19.100 but that was something that they used for their branding to start with. And then when it,
00:22:24.780 you know, started to be the butt of jokes, then they became now, now we, we don't want to talk
00:22:31.260 about socks anymore. Yeah. Well, I mean, look, you look back at, at the early days of Trudeau,
00:22:37.980 and you look at some of the things that were written about him and how he would, you know,
00:22:41.500 rescue the new world order from, I mean, it's just, what the hell, like, what were people thinking?
00:22:47.180 You know, I looked at the guy and saw just, just, I don't want to be too insulting about it,
00:22:52.780 but like just a regular politician, average politician with a famous last name, like why
00:23:00.140 anyone thought that this guy, when then you listen to him talk with his, you know, this weird,
00:23:06.460 this mixture of sort of old time religion, like peacekeeping and, and, uh,
00:23:11.660 which we never got back, which we never, well, we went to Mali for like a year and then scampered out
00:23:16.860 of their UN very small operation with a very small operation. And the UN was like, could you please
00:23:21.180 stay? And we're like, no, no, no, no, no, this is dangerous here. We don't want, yeah. Whoa, whoa.
00:23:26.860 Like that's the, don't you understand the reason we're into peacekeeping is because we don't want
00:23:31.100 to like put ourselves in danger. Like this is, this is, this has always been the scan. Um,
00:23:37.900 and you know, it's, he's sort of, when you look back at the beginning, like he's talking about whipping out
00:23:41.740 your CS CF 18s, you know, he's against, he did admiring China, just, he said all this bizarre
00:23:49.020 stuff and it just, no one noticed. And to me, I mean, I've written a few times over the years,
00:23:54.220 just like, he's weak, like he's a weird guy. Like he, he, he has weird instincts and he says strange
00:24:00.940 things. And for a while people just applauded. And now I don't know how you get that back.
00:24:08.300 Right. Like there's no, you know, Stephen Harper was, was, uh, disliked, um, by a lot of people in
00:24:15.580 the same way Trudeau was, but he didn't, it, people weren't, people were never crazy about
00:24:21.500 Stephen Harper. There was no Harper mania. Um, there was Trudeau mania. He can't get, get that back.
00:24:28.460 It's just, I don't understand. I, I don't know. And that's why I guess I sort of think maybe a new
00:24:33.660 leader is the only path because how can they, what's going to happen over the next two years?
00:24:39.100 I guess anything could happen over the next two years, but I don't see what,
00:24:41.740 what could possibly rescue them. Um, you know, unless something horrible happens to the opposition,
00:24:48.220 it's, it's, it's a, it's an incredible situation, but we have to realize it is only just a couple of
00:24:51.740 weeks. Um, you know, in a year, some horrible other thing might've happened.
00:24:57.660 Yeah. Well, I mean, six, six months of polling have shown steady growth conservatives. Yes.
00:25:02.460 It's, I'd like to point out voters are fickle and things can change and we're a ways off. Uh,
00:25:07.820 let's take a break here. And when we come back, I want to ask you what Trudeau's legacy, you know,
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00:25:17.660 does he have a solid legislative or managerial record that he can point to? And we'll kick around a
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00:26:44.620 So let's say Justin Trudeau does decide to take the proverbial walk in the snow or the
00:26:50.060 surfboard to Tofino, whatever analogy you want to make. Let's say he does that.
00:26:55.740 What kind of legacy does he leave? I remember an editor before the 2019 election, I think it was
00:27:04.220 summer of 2018. They asked me to go through Trudeau's first three or so years and look at his
00:27:13.980 legislative record and see if he'd accomplished anything. And at that point, he had boosted the
00:27:23.180 Canada Child Benefit, which was started by Stephen Harper. They like to claim that they invented it.
00:27:28.940 He increased it. And he made pot legal. And that was really it. Has he done much since
00:27:38.220 the carbon tax? Obviously a signature policy that he's now killing.
00:27:41.900 Yeah. But what would you look at Trudeau's legacy and say that that's what he did?
00:27:47.740 Well, I think if you talk about the child benefit, I mean, I would say one of the things is poverty
00:27:53.420 rates fell and child poverty rates specifically fell quite dramatically under his watch. Now,
00:28:02.540 they were already historically low. They were already historically low. And I'm not saying that
00:28:06.460 Justin Trudeau waved a magic legislative wand and made that happen. But, you know, prime ministers
00:28:12.540 always take credit for good things that happen under their watch. And I think that's something
00:28:16.860 that he can legitimately point to. I think legalizing marijuana was a good idea, still a good idea.
00:28:22.300 I'm really surprised they did it, to be honest. That was one of the things that I saw that I thought
00:28:26.460 was going to, you know, I thought along with electoral reform, that was just going to fall off
00:28:30.780 because someone would just say, oh, it's too hard. You know, just like they always said,
00:28:34.300 Washington will never let us do it. And then we did it and Washington never made a peep about it,
00:28:39.660 really. So I think that's a, you know, it's not earth shattering. But I think it was an interesting
00:28:47.580 thing to do. Canada doesn't usually lead the way on things like that, unless the courts order us to.
00:28:52.700 Yeah, euthanasia or same-sex marriage, you know, the liberals take credit for that. But,
00:29:00.620 you know, until the courts said they had to do it, they were firmly against the same-sex marriage.
00:29:08.220 You know, I think they've managed the Trump
00:29:13.820 four years, the first four years anyway, pretty well. We'll see about the next four.
00:29:18.220 Yeah. Well, maybe. It's tough to deal with a president when he's in prison. But yeah, like I...
00:29:26.700 Well, I'll quibble with you on that. Because...
00:29:29.500 Sure, you could quibble with any of these things I'm saying.
00:29:31.420 Yeah. But let's talk about it. With Trump, they had to go into the NAFTA renegotiations.
00:29:40.940 And we had this... This document was put out on what our priorities were. It was like five priorities,
00:29:49.740 and it was gender and the environment and stuff like that. The Americans had a multi-page thing.
00:29:56.620 They're required by law to say what their trade priorities and goals are when they're negotiating
00:30:02.300 a deal like this. It was all about more access for their manufacturers, for their businesses,
00:30:07.500 for their services. And we were like, well, we'd like gender equality. Yeah. Well, okay, who's against that?
00:30:13.260 That's a solid quibble. Yeah. Yeah. No. Then why would you waste... Yeah, who's against that?
00:30:17.420 Why would you waste it? If I'm the American, it's like, fine, have gender...
00:30:20.140 Have gender equality. Are you actually negotiating on this? Like, fine, have it.
00:30:25.580 But we want something in return. We're going to take your auto industry.
00:30:28.940 Yeah. And we want access to your dairy industry. Fat chance. Yeah. No, any of these things could
00:30:35.660 be quibbled with. And, you know, that's not to say that another government would have done terribly
00:30:40.540 with Trump. But I just think, you know, there were a lot of predictions of doom is all I'm saying.
00:30:47.100 And I think they did a reasonable job on that. I think you could argue... I think it's definitely
00:30:52.300 out... It is definitely an open question. I think the things he did with the Senate...
00:30:58.620 I'm not quite sure what my verdict is on that in terms of all these independent senators and
00:31:03.660 kicking all the senators out of caucus. But I don't think it was... I don't think it was a
00:31:06.780 conspicuously bad idea. I think if you're going to have a Senate, more independence is better
00:31:11.980 than less independence in terms of actually getting sober second thought, as they always say.
00:31:21.580 I think senators have done some good work.
00:31:23.500 Yeah. The Senate has changed dramatically over the last few decades. It's no longer the place where
00:31:29.660 people sit, sleep and drool while the place is in session. It hasn't been in a long time.
00:31:35.100 So, you know, all I would say is, if he's going to call it an independent Senate, I'd like him to
00:31:44.380 appoint a few people that don't think exactly like he does.
00:31:47.340 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's certainly... Yeah. I mean, a lot of the independent senators he appoints
00:31:56.780 could certainly be also called liberal senators. It was a little while ago, but one of the media
00:32:04.220 outlets did a look at the votes and found that the independent Senate caucus voted more with the
00:32:10.700 liberal government than the liberal senators did previously. Well, the problem, of course,
00:32:14.940 is that the Senate can go around and point out problems with legislation, and I think that's
00:32:21.740 useful if you're going to have a Senate, but then I also don't want them to ever vote down
00:32:26.940 legislation that they're not elected at the end of the day.
00:32:31.820 But if they send back a piece of legislation and say, here's problems to fix...
00:32:35.820 And they've done that on some good files. I mean, one random one that comes to mind was
00:32:41.980 when they legalized marijuana, they implemented these draconian new rules that now a cop can stop
00:32:48.060 you without any cause whatsoever and stick a breathalyzer in your mouth. You can theoretically
00:32:52.540 be arrested after... Like, they can come into your house and arrest you if someone says that they've
00:32:59.100 been... that you've been drinking. And these were just, you know, they were over the top pieces of
00:33:03.900 legislation and the Senate tore them apart. Then it passed anyways. I think the Senate's done good work
00:33:09.980 on euthanasia, although they recommended the mental illness thing. So I don't know. I don't think it's
00:33:20.540 a strong legacy, whatever Trudeau has.
00:33:22.380 I mean, you can't say at the end of it, though, that Canada's back. No, you certainly can't say
00:33:32.300 that Canada's back. I mean, on the world stage, I mean, his legacy is maybe...
00:33:40.140 is maybe Canadians finally realizing how useless we are. But okay. And I've heard that a lot recently,
00:33:46.380 especially after, you know, the India debacle, after the fact that we weren't included on the call
00:33:54.220 to deal with Israel in the war against Hamas in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
00:34:01.020 And people said, well, you know, we're not big anyway. And I think back to the 2008-2009 financial
00:34:08.060 crisis. Stephen Harper was the prime minister. Jim Flaherty was his finance minister. Future liberal
00:34:14.940 leader Mark Carney was the Bank of Canada governor. All three of them chaired different committees
00:34:21.740 at the G20 dealing with the global financial crisis. Canada was sought out for advice.
00:34:28.700 I can't see that happening ever at the current moment. No, I mean, we don't have anything to offer.
00:34:39.980 I did Trudeau's answer when a journalist asked him after the G20 in Delhi. He's like, well,
00:34:47.500 what did Canada offer to the communique? He literally said gendered language. I mean,
00:34:51.820 he offered that up. And again, there's nothing wrong with pushing for gender equality. But,
00:34:59.820 you know, no wonder we weren't on the call two weeks later dealing with Israel. Well,
00:35:04.700 should we call Canada? No, no, we're in war. We don't need gender. Yeah,
00:35:07.900 we don't need gendered language. I mean, that's, and that's one of the, they're so,
00:35:14.460 he and his brain trusts are so dedicated to that symbolic stuff that nothing concrete gets done. I feel
00:35:23.420 like, uh, to, to them, that is actually an accomplishment, uh, better language on gender.
00:35:32.140 The language is, is, is, is, you know, they always take the path of least resistance. I mean,
00:35:37.500 this is a man who admitted, admitted to, to presiding over an ongoing genocide and then
00:35:45.500 nothing happened and he didn't expect to have any consequences. He was just, yeah, all right,
00:35:49.260 fine. It's, I, I just think that it's, it's so performative, the whole government. And I think
00:35:57.980 it drags the good ministers in, in his cabinet down, uh, which is why I would want a new leader.
00:36:05.340 But again, who is it? I mean, it's okay. In the commercial break, our producer Andre got my ear
00:36:12.380 and was saying, is there really no one that can pull it back from the brain can point it out that
00:36:17.100 something you had said earlier that in 2014 or 2013, when she took over, Kathleen Wynne inherited
00:36:23.740 an Ontario liberal party that had been in power close to a decade and was looking rough and it was
00:36:31.420 a minority government. She turned around and got a majority government. Now, partly that was due to
00:36:39.260 the ineptitude of the people running Tim Hudak's campaign. Uh, they announced the policy to fire a
00:36:44.700 100,000 civil servants. I was about to say, was that the firing 100,000 civil servants election?
00:36:48.540 Yeah. Or was it the chain gangs election? That was the previous one. So, um, you know, sometimes
00:36:54.140 it's your, your opposition. Is there anybody that you see that could turn things around? I, I don't
00:37:00.220 think. What's Kathleen Wynne up to? No, I'm joking. I don't think Anita Anand, who's also been floated,
00:37:05.740 is someone who's got that retail politics. Well, that's it. If, if, if, if there's, if there's a Wynne
00:37:11.180 analogy, waiting in, waiting in the wings somewhere, she's a, she or he is a very, very good campaigner,
00:37:17.980 first and foremost. The people we've been talking about are, are, are not so far as we know. Um,
00:37:26.460 I mean, I, I, I, I am struggling here, uh, to think of anyone in the current
00:37:31.260 liberal caucus who has that sort of, uh, ability and who isn't also tied in people's minds to Trudeau.
00:37:43.900 Like who the, you know, they see Seamus or Reagan would be a silly idea, but you know,
00:37:48.300 you look at him and people see Justin Trudeau, I think, um, man, there might be someone out there.
00:37:54.620 Uh, Pierre Polyev is not going to do anything as stupid as Tim Hudak did. I don't think, but
00:38:04.700 he's got two years to step in it and, and politicians often do and politicians often do.
00:38:10.700 Yeah. Let me ask you about Polyev. Uh, you said earlier that you didn't think you would do that.
00:38:17.020 Well, I'm not sure if you said you, you weren't a fan of this, but I'll say that now.
00:38:21.180 No, you're not a fan. I, I, I, I haven't been in the past. I mean, I associate with him, you know,
00:38:27.740 when I think of him and I think certain people of a certain age, uh, think of him as that 20
00:38:32.860 something pit bull and I have some comments who would say anything, uh, you know, whatever the
00:38:40.140 most ridiculous talking point they wanted to put out there, they would have Pierre Polyev deliver and
00:38:44.460 he would do it with gusto. And, and it just, he just rubbed me the wrong way as an ultra partisan.
00:38:51.020 Um, person. I think now he, uh, he talks differently. Um, he chews apples while he talks.
00:38:59.260 He chews apple. I mean, that was a remarkably effective now, obviously liberals saw that and
00:39:04.140 seethed with hatred, but I mean, as someone who has not been a fan of him like that, I was like,
00:39:10.060 see, that's a natural unscripted, uh, yeah, it's, it's combative, but rightfully combative.
00:39:19.420 Well, the, the journalist showed up and was asking them loaded questions that I, you and
00:39:25.340 I have been in the business for a long time. I don't know about you, but I've asked dumb
00:39:29.500 questions. My editors have sent me with, and I learned quickly not to do that. I remember
00:39:33.500 Lucien Bouchard, Quebec premier making me feel an inch tall because I asked a ridiculous loaded
00:39:40.140 question that my editor had sent. And I said, I'm never doing that again. I'm going to learn
00:39:45.340 this guy. He's experienced. I think he is the editor. Oh yeah. Yeah. He's the sort
00:39:50.140 of sole proprietor, I think almost of this, uh, and was just asking the most loaded questions.
00:39:54.860 So yeah, of course, rightfully combative. Yeah. And, and it's not the first time, um,
00:39:59.740 that Polly have his face that so sort of like, well, given that, you know, given that you're
00:40:03.980 like Donald Trump, what do you think was just like, there's nobody in Canadian politics.
00:40:10.860 Very few people in American politics or, or anything like Donald Trump. Um,
00:40:15.340 um, yeah, I, I think he has impressed me just with being able to take it, finding another register,
00:40:22.780 I think just sounding more serious. He's clearly, you know, it doesn't matter. Uh, uh, what I think,
00:40:31.020 I live in Toronto center. Um, I, but I think, you know, he's with me both and our votes, our votes
00:40:36.780 don't count for a whole lot, right? He's certainly, um, I mean, the numbers of, uh, younger voters
00:40:43.660 supporting him still, every time I see it just boggles, it doesn't boggle my mind. I understand
00:40:49.340 completely. He's talking about housing and that's the number one issue for, um, for younger Canadians,
00:40:55.660 but it's, it's boggling liberals minds clearly that, that this is, that this is working, but I think it's,
00:41:03.020 it's, it's, it's, it's impressive because it's especially impressive because he, he had so many
00:41:07.260 negatives baked in. Like if you looked at, I can't remember who did this polling, but there was
00:41:12.860 someone compared like how many people had firm opinions about Aaron O'Toole when he took over
00:41:19.580 and Andrew Scheer, when he took over and Stephen Harper, when he took over and here, I've had was
00:41:24.780 far more known than any of them were at the time that he took over the party and far more negatively
00:41:31.660 known. And he's, he's worked, uh, hard to, to switch that. And it's, it's clearly worked. People may not
00:41:40.460 love him, but they're clearly willing to vote for him. And that's all that matters.
00:41:44.620 Well, let, let me give you some numbers because one of the things that we kept hearing was women
00:41:48.860 especially don't like. That's another one. Yeah. Right now there's Leger poll that I mentioned
00:41:53.180 earlier that has them at 40% nationally and leading in every single region except Quebec, um,
00:42:02.620 and leading handily in every single region except Quebec. Well, 36% of women say they would vote for,
00:42:11.980 uh, Pierre Polyev and the conservatives compared to 27% for Trudeau and the liberals and 21% for
00:42:19.740 the NDP. Awesome. Poor NDP. 18 to 34. The liberals are in third. It's 38% for the conservatives, 26%
00:42:29.180 for the NDP, 21% for the liberals. And, uh, the numbers don't get any better for the Trudeau liberals.
00:42:37.580 Um, you know, they're, they're down to their core support of, uh, of women 55 plus. Yeah. Retired civil servants,
00:42:45.420 you know, Alice who used to work at the hospital and, uh, Kim, the, uh, retired teacher. That's,
00:42:51.260 that's their voting base at this point. Well, they had a, they had a, they put an ad on Twitter,
00:42:55.260 I think last week where it was sort of, it was, it was going after Stephen Harper for, uh, for raising
00:43:03.500 the retirement age. And it's like, we'll, and they're like, we'll always have your back because
00:43:07.500 we lowered it. And it's like, but everyone, that's what was a dumb thing to do. Like Stephen
00:43:12.380 Harper took a bullet for future governments in doing that. Right. It was, it was a politically
00:43:19.020 unpopular thing to do, but a smart thing to do. And then the liberals undid it. Now they're trying
00:43:23.820 to boast about it. Well, as you say, if you're, if, if you're 62, uh, and you're looking to retire,
00:43:31.100 which is sort of the core base, the liberals core base now, that's good news. But what are other
00:43:37.100 people saying? I mean, young people look at that. They know they're not retiring at 65.
00:43:41.660 Uh, I mean, they just don't seem to know they seem over 50 and I don't see myself retiring.
00:43:46.940 No, indeed. Yeah. And it's like, I mean, there's, there's always people joke. It's become a joke,
00:43:52.140 right? Like how liberals think that they have communications problems, right? There was,
00:43:57.020 it becomes sort of a running joke. Like, no, you don't have communications problems. You have
00:44:01.100 governing problems, but they also have communications problems. Like they can't keep,
00:44:06.140 it's kind of the point where they can't keep a story straight. Like with this, with this climate,
00:44:09.660 with the carbon tax announcement, you had, if you look, if you look at a Goody Hutchings
00:44:15.660 Twitter account, this is the minister for rural economic development. You'll see, she's got one
00:44:20.540 tweet and it sort of says, um, we're, you know, raising, we're, we're making life easier for people
00:44:26.300 nationwide. This isn't a regional announcement. And then the tweet one below
00:44:30.780 says we're making life more affordable in Atlantic Canada with this announcement,
00:44:34.780 which everyone knows exactly what they're doing, but you're not supposed to say it out loud.
00:44:38.860 I mean, they just, I don't know. Like it almost looks sometimes like they've given up.
00:44:43.980 So do you think Canadians are willing to, I mean, right now the polls say, yeah,
00:44:50.060 they would back the conservatives, but as we've discussed, election could be as much as two years
00:44:55.500 away. Um, and the liberals are turning now and they're attacking them and saying, oh, uh, these
00:45:02.940 guys will cut or on Fran say the other day, uh, one of the ministers was jump, jump, jump. She said in
00:45:09.340 the, uh, in the house of commons, you've got them going after the fact that probably have this saying,
00:45:15.420 common sense conservatives. And they're saying, well, we saw what happened when there were
00:45:19.660 common sense conservatives in Ontario. You had Walker did. No, that was, you know,
00:45:23.820 two guys that drank a lot on a Friday afternoon and didn't do their job.
00:45:26.700 Also, it was 25 years ago. I mean, or longer, no longer. Like, like who, I mean, I'm picturing
00:45:33.260 a 28 year old voter saying like, who the hell's Mike Harris? Like, why are you talking about this?
00:45:39.020 Who's Stephen Harper for that matter for some of these voters? I mean, they, they just, yeah. Like,
00:45:44.140 like that stuff. I mean, that's just, you know, that's old time liberal religion, right? You just
00:45:48.460 show a picture of Mike Harris and everyone's like, Whoa, where do I vote? Where do I vote? Um,
00:45:56.220 yeah. Do these boogeymen work though with, with abortion? Well, they have worked, but, but will they
00:46:01.820 work this time? I mean, you look at their, uh, their latest move on the gun ban issue. They said on
00:46:08.860 Yeah. Well, there's another example of them. Yeah.
00:46:10.780 May 1st, 2020, they announced they're going to ban all these guns and they'll develop a buyback
00:46:15.180 program. It's, you know, as we record today, it's November 2nd, 2023. They haven't bought back a
00:46:22.860 single gun. They don't have a plan to buy back any guns because they don't know how to do it. Yeah.
00:46:27.740 And they've extended the exemption until October 30th, 2025. So five and a half years after they said
00:46:36.140 these guns are too dangerous to exist, we must, you know, confiscate them. Yeah.
00:46:41.020 The announcement is the policy. Again, they're still going to be in the basements and gun safes
00:46:44.780 of your neighbors. And, and I mean, I think, I mean, probably that was interesting, right?
00:46:49.820 Because every now and again, you see them try to sort of, or you see liberals. I'm not, I'm not sure
00:46:54.700 about the liberal. I'm trying to think if I've seen the liberal party go after him as sort of a
00:46:59.980 social conservative because he really isn't. No, like that's the problem, right? I mean,
00:47:05.740 Andrew Scheer was probably the most socially conservative, outwardly socially conservative
00:47:09.980 leader we've seen in federal politics recently since stock day. This is stock with it. Yeah,
00:47:16.220 that's true. Um, like, I, I just, I don't think there's anything there. Like if, if, you know,
00:47:23.580 he gave a, uh, uh, a really interesting interview, it was in French, not by accident, uh, about how he
00:47:30.300 changed his mind on same sex marriage. Um, but I mean, who can't, who's voting on that? Exactly.
00:47:36.780 It's done. It's, it's, it's a thing that like, um, and, and there's nobody voting for the conservatives
00:47:45.180 to have them reverse same sex marriage. If, if, if that's what you're voting on, you haven't voted for
00:47:51.100 the conservatives in 20 years or you're a glutton for punishment, which frankly, a lot of Canadian
00:47:55.660 social conservatives seem to be, um, in terms of supporting the conservatives and they never get
00:48:01.820 anything. I think that the most that they would say about Stephen Harper is he didn't make things worse.
00:48:08.860 Yeah. Well, and that's not, I mean, you know, that's part of the reason people vote conservative
00:48:13.260 is to just stop, you know, uh, a conservative government might be seen not to have done that
00:48:20.620 many things, but that's kind of part of being conservative is conserving, uh, the good things
00:48:27.420 you have and, and not messing around with them. Um, so Polly, Polly, does, does he keep going or does
00:48:37.660 he step in it? It's, it's, it's tough, right? Two years trying to maintain that, uh,
00:48:45.980 uh, trying to maintain where he's at. I don't think I, I seem to have a really good read on,
00:48:56.380 on what people care about and the, the things that are working for them, especially housing are not
00:49:03.580 going to get any better in the next two years. They're going to get worse. I mean, you look at
00:49:08.060 the number of housing starts we need to solve the problem versus the number of, and the housing
00:49:12.700 starts going down. I mean, it's, it's, it's talk to the developer, brutal talk to the developers,
00:49:19.500 especially the ones getting beaten up as, um, uh, you know, just, uh, jealous or, uh, greedy, um,
00:49:26.700 kleptocrats in Ontario. They'll tell you it's the, uh, the, the interest rates are, are killing the
00:49:32.940 ability of people to buy the ability of them to build. Um, and so you keep blaming that back on
00:49:39.020 Justin Trudeau. I, I would say that if, uh, Trudeau's numbers were better, I think he would
00:49:44.940 have tried to go to the polls this fall, engineer his own defeat, come up with a reason to call an
00:49:50.700 election. But if the numbers keep looking like this, I don't, uh, you know, I think you'll try
00:49:55.420 and drag it out, uh, you know, uh, until he's forced to go to an election because there's no upside at
00:50:01.820 the moment. Well, yeah. I mean, I, I can't imagine the party would be too happy with them calling
00:50:06.540 election right now. I mean, you're in the twenties, buddy. Yeah. Like what? Um, and
00:50:14.940 yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's, it's going to be, I just, I don't know why, I don't know why he
00:50:21.660 wants to be, I mean, I guess what, why does anyone want to be prime minister? They're ambitious.
00:50:25.900 They have, but I mean, he's been prime minister for eight years and, and he's just spinning his wheels.
00:50:31.580 He can walk away at this point and say, I had a good run. He did have a good run. And I mean,
00:50:37.740 I don't know why, you know, I'm not going to bring up his family into it, but I mean, you know,
00:50:43.500 it must be pretty, pretty exhausting getting beaten up day after day after day in the press
00:50:49.980 and you've got other things to worry about in your life. Um, but I don't know. I mean, I, I, I can't
00:50:56.380 put myself in the, in the, in the mind of a prime minister because God knows the things I would
00:51:02.140 have had to do to get there. Well, Chris, thanks for coming in. Thank you. Great first, uh, appearance
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