Greg Wycliffe - January 16, 2026


Pierre Poilievre deserves criticism

Topics
polyev megaphone influence
Hosted by
Greg Wycliffe
Mentioned
Pierre Poilievre Justin Trudeau Jasmine Lane Mark Carney Jagmeet Singh
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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

179.35

Word count

932

Sentence count

57

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

3

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Jasmine Lane has a new video on her YouTube channel about the new Conservative Party of Canada's new candidate, Pierre Polyev. In it, she argues that the party is not a conservative party, and that they need to do more to unify behind the post-nationalism of their leader, Justin Trudeau.

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00:00:00.000 People have commented on my videos as well, being like, why didn't you talk about the fact that Pierre didn't talk about this other thing?
00:00:06.640 This is a very valid criticism that I've had over the years.
00:00:09.580 And I'm going to react to this video because Jasmine here kind of gets it totally wrong and shows her ignorance of how politics actually works. 1.00
00:00:16.600 My goal here is the mission of having a conservative government because I genuinely believe that we will all benefit as a result of it.
00:00:26.920 And that right there was the exact same mission statement that the pleb repeated over and over again as he kind of rose to stardom in this sort of conservative content space.
00:00:38.900 And let's unpack that real quickly.
00:00:40.260 You see, it's all about defeating the libs.
00:00:42.240 It's all about getting the conservatives in.
00:00:44.120 So it's all about this establishment party winning the election.
00:00:47.360 What are our actual beliefs?
00:00:49.460 What are our actual convictions?
00:00:51.620 What is the actual long-term vision of the country?
00:00:54.080 Well, it's just getting Pierre Polyev in as the prime minister.
00:00:58.580 In terms of what all those ideas are, it's just going to be a bunch of slogans like acts to tax, etc., etc.
00:01:04.460 This is a problem.
00:01:05.400 We've seen why it's a problem.
00:01:07.060 The status quo, the liberal status quo of the media hasn't changed at all with Pierre Polyev.
00:01:12.900 And this is kind of, in my opinion, why this party stinks and does need to be criticized a lot, a lot more by conservatives in Canada.
00:01:22.340 My mission is not to tear that down, to create distrust or say things that will push people away from the conservative movement.
00:01:30.860 It's one of the biggest problems conservatives have.
00:01:32.940 I don't really understand where this framing is coming from because the biggest problem conservatives have in Canada is not actually being conservative.
00:01:40.840 This is what pushes people away.
00:01:42.260 This is what makes them not want to trust them.
00:01:43.960 This is what makes people not respect them because they don't really stand on their convictions.
00:01:47.420 They're very kind of mealy-mouthed and they always pussyfoot around everything. 0.98
00:01:50.600 And they do very little to actually disrupt the liberal status quo in Canada.
00:01:55.260 Polyev has hardly come out strongly against the transgender movement, for example.
00:02:00.340 Polyev has hardly pushed back against mass immigration, not nearly strongly enough at all.
00:02:06.000 And he also once said this.
00:02:08.800 Ours is a nationalism not based on bloodlines, birthplace, or background.
00:02:14.400 We are all Canadians and Canadians first.
00:02:17.100 Yeah, if everyone is Canadian, then no one is Canadian. 0.93
00:02:21.960 Do I have to explain to people why this is not at all conservatism?
00:02:25.460 This is the post-nationalism from Justin Trudeau that we hated, remember?
00:02:30.140 But for some reason, this new conservative party with Polyev and all these little gatekeepers and supporters like Jasmine Lane here, 0.96
00:02:39.140 or for some reason, we don't question this post-nationalism, that's exactly the same as Justin Trudeau's.
00:02:45.420 Because it's all about accountability.
00:02:47.480 And with that, we hold our own to account as well.
00:02:50.800 Do we?
00:02:51.700 Because the whole point of this video you made is like, hey, we need to be like the right wing needs to be more united.
00:02:56.900 And I would kind of make the counter argument.
00:02:58.340 I feel like there's more unification around the liberals and the conservatives being united around post-nationalism
00:03:05.100 and really not disrupting the liberal status quo in the media.
00:03:08.700 To me, that's the big problem.
00:03:10.500 And we should, as real conservatives, be holding the conservative party accountable
00:03:14.280 for not actually disrupting that and kind of being in bed with the liberals when it comes to this post-nationalism.
00:03:20.280 Again, when you have this framework of just trying to help an establishment party win the election,
00:03:25.140 you know, convictions don't really matter anymore, right?
00:03:27.600 It's all about this weird strategy of trying to win.
00:03:30.560 And hey, I'm not poo-pooing strategy, but I think the strategy needs to be disrupting the liberal status quo
00:03:35.340 that will actually change the culture, not just getting a new politician in.
00:03:39.340 Or maybe you'll be personally offended or angry or feel like you can't trust him as an individual leader of the party
00:03:46.420 because an MP is covering something and it's not him directly saying it.
00:03:51.360 That's how our parliamentary system works. 0.63
00:03:53.620 Yeah, but that's not how campaigning and marketing works.
00:03:56.860 I know this video is getting long, but this part's really important.
00:03:59.660 When you think of NDP, you think of Jagmeet Singh.
00:04:02.380 You think of the leader.
00:04:03.360 When you think of the liberals, you either think of Justin Trudeau or you think of Mark Carney, the leader.
00:04:08.240 What the leader of the party says is the most important thing to influence the conversation across the country.
00:04:17.620 Here's a visual to help understand this concept because it's very, very important.
00:04:20.920 Here's Mark Carney.
00:04:22.080 Here's Pierre Polyev.
00:04:23.100 They are on a stage and they have microphones.
00:04:26.400 What they say is heard by everybody's heard by the whole country.
00:04:31.600 These are the only people who have access to this stage.
00:04:36.540 For the blue team, Polyev is the only guy who has access to this microphone to reach the entire auditorium,
00:04:44.980 aka the entire country, and influence the mainstream conversation.
00:04:49.800 So although, Jasmine, there are other MPs who do say better stuff than Polyev,
00:04:56.240 they are not on the stage.
00:04:58.680 They are not the leader of the party.
00:05:00.720 What they say, what they do at a parliamentary hearing is not nearly as impactful
00:05:05.440 because they don't have the big megaphone and microphone that Polyev does by virtue of standing on...