Juno News - A whole bunch of GOOD NEWS about the election

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you so much to everyone who

00:00:07.020 joined us for our live stream last night. We had a fantastic broadcast. We were joined by some big

00:00:12.540 guests, including Anna Polyev, the wife of Pierre Polyev. My co-host Kian Bexty was recording live

00:00:19.600 from his father's campaign. His father was elected as a member of parliament last night. So we're

00:00:26.000 going to spend the show today going through and highlighting some of the good news from the

00:00:30.620 election campaign. Because if you look on social media, if you're watching the legacy media,

00:00:34.680 they will be pushing this message that the Liberals are back, that they want a decisive victory,

00:00:40.160 and that Canadians gave them a fourth term because they love the Liberals. Obviously,

00:00:44.080 that's not true. I have a different perspective. I'm going to ask you to like this video. It really

00:00:48.760 helps us with our algorithm. We want to reach as many Canadians as possible. I couldn't believe it.

00:00:52.700 We had nearly half a million live viewers with us last night. Despite some technical difficulties,

00:00:57.880 it was a great broadcast. I really appreciate everyone who came on as new premium subscribers

00:01:03.280 over at Juno News as well. We had a decision desk. We had a live chat for those premium subscribers.

00:01:09.260 It was a really fun night. We broadcasted for, I think, a little over seven hours. So y'all have

00:01:14.040 to forgive me. I'm a little tired today. I'm going on, I think, less than four hours sleep. We finished

00:01:18.720 a broadcast at 2 a.m. last night. I don't think I fell asleep until about three. And then my children,

00:01:24.280 you know, they didn't know that there was an election last night or they didn't care. So

00:01:27.040 they had my husband and I up, oh, I don't know, maybe 5.30 this morning. So going on very, very

00:01:31.480 little sleep. But we will get to these key election takeaways. I wrote this on social media. I'm going

00:01:37.900 to read through it here. These are my major takeaways from the election. So, you know, you know,

00:01:42.780 the top line, the Liberals have won. Mark Carney is the prime minister. They won a minority. And the

00:01:48.340 big takeaway was the total and utter collapse of the NDP. These are some of the facts, though,

00:01:53.640 that you might not hear in legacy media. Number one, the Conservative Party of Canada had its best

00:01:58.800 night ever. 7.9 million and counting. There's still some absentee balance that are being counted

00:02:05.780 right now in those early votes. But 7.9 million Canadians marked Conservative Party of Canada on their

00:02:12.620 ballot. That represents 41.6 percent of the vote. That is historic. The Conservatives haven't had that

00:02:19.420 high of a vote since 1988, when Brian Mulroney was a party leader. And that was back when the party was

00:02:25.220 called the Progressive Conservative Party. So since the new rebranding of the Conservative Party of Canada,

00:02:29.880 they've never had anything like this. They've never had a victory with 7.9, basically 8 million Canadians

00:02:36.020 voted for the Conservatives. That is the highest number in Canadian history. So some good news there.

00:02:42.620 Yes, Pierre Polyev, leader of the party, he did lose his own seat. This was surprising to me.

00:02:46.940 And I said this last night on the broadcast, I'll say it again. There were some shenanigans going on.

00:02:51.460 I think that there needs to be an investigation into what happened in the riding. It doesn't make

00:02:55.800 sense to me that the Conservatives can go from getting 51 percent of the vote in 2021. Pierre Polyev

00:03:01.980 has represented this riding for almost two decades. Usually party leaders have a huge boost. And yet,

00:03:06.860 Pierre Polyev did lose his own riding of Carleton, in part, I will say, because of this ridiculous

00:03:12.980 sabotage campaign that makes an utter, complete mockery of our democracy, this thing called the 0.98

00:03:19.520 longest ballot initiative, where there was, I don't know, some 100 independent people that threw their

00:03:24.440 names in, a bunch of pranksters trying to just confuse the voter. I don't think that's the only

00:03:28.520 reason why Pierre Polyev lost. I think that Ottawa is a government town. I think that his riding of

00:03:33.240 Carleton, while it does represent a lot of the rural parts of the region, it's becoming more and

00:03:38.000 more suburban. More and more suburbs in Ottawa are dominated by federal employees. And we know

00:03:42.740 that the federal government and its unions are basically the base of the Liberal Party and the

00:03:47.720 constituency. And so they managed to overtake Polyev. Maybe he took his eye off the prize. He was

00:03:52.260 campaigning coast to coast, helping all these local candidates push themselves across the finish

00:03:56.560 line. And perhaps he did neglect his own Ottawa riding. It doesn't matter, though. He's still the leader of

00:04:02.360 the party. Recall that Mark Carney became leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister when he did

00:04:06.800 not have a seat in the House of Commons. Yes, it'd be helpful for Pierre to have a seat. And I think

00:04:11.160 at some point today, we will hear a story of a Conservative candidate in a safe seat somewhere else

00:04:16.680 in the country, offering his seat up to Pierre Polyev so that Polyev can be a member of Parliament.

00:04:21.960 This is a disappointment. But again, I think there's something foul here. And I would like to see

00:04:26.980 an investigation. Overall, look, the votes are still being counted right now. And like I said,

00:04:31.320 there's still the advanced votes. There's still a few seats that haven't been called. But this is

00:04:34.820 based on our decision desk at Juneau News and where we think the election results will finish.

00:04:40.260 We have the Conservative Party of Canada picking up a net new 24 seats, might be 23, 23 or 24 net new

00:04:48.480 seats. That is the biggest increase in the election. So some ways of looking at this, folks,

00:04:52.660 the Conservatives picked up the most seats, 24 new seats. The Liberals also picked up some seats. It looks

00:04:58.060 like they'll pick up around 11 seats. The NDP, of course, this is the story of the campaign,

00:05:03.560 complete and utter collapse, down 19 seats in this election. It looks like they'll end up with seven

00:05:08.320 seats. So they will not make party status. Wow. What an utter fall from grace. I'll just say this. I

00:05:13.520 don't think the party's completely over, though. Some people are saying this is the end of the NDP.

00:05:18.020 I don't think so. I think that they'll regroup. They'll get a new party leader out with Jagmeet Singh,

00:05:21.740 push away that champagne socialist, that party pandering, that vote bank politics style,

00:05:27.140 and bring in someone more mainstream, someone a better retail style politics. Maybe someone like

00:05:32.380 former Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, current Manitoba Premier Wab Canoe, or maybe even someone

00:05:38.220 like Avi Lewis, who is a famous journalist and sort of public intellectual who has a big following.

00:05:44.060 He did run for the NDP in Vancouver and lost. But you never know. There are a lot of other candidates

00:05:49.000 out there that I think that can capture the imagination of working class Canadians and more

00:05:52.860 typical left-wing Canadians. I think that in the next election, the NDP will be back,

00:05:57.280 and they'll be back to a normal election. This was a very abnormal election. So NDP pretty much wiped

00:06:02.160 out. And then you also had the block down 11. I said last night in the broadcast that I thought

00:06:07.000 that E. Francois Blanchet did a pretty good job. Listening to him during debates, I thought that he

00:06:11.900 did really hit on some interesting points. But, you know, that wave of anti-Americanism,

00:06:16.740 the media narrative around Trump, Trump, Trump really stuck in the minds of a certain demographic

00:06:21.300 of Canadians, enough to allow the Liberals to get that path to victory. Remember we said

00:06:25.540 that as long as the block won something like 25 to 30 seats, the Liberals wouldn't win the election.

00:06:31.380 It looks like the block will finish with 23 seats, which did, in part, pave the path for the Liberals to

00:06:38.900 win last night. Okay, next. Next takeaway. Jagmeet Singh. Jagmeet Singh lost his seat. I think he will go down in

00:06:45.700 history as one of the worst political actors in Canadian history, a totally useless leader. 0.98

00:06:53.380 And I think the Canadians are all better off that he has lost. And yes, last night he did step down 0.80

00:06:58.100 as leader. Okay, next. Maxime Bernier lost his riding, lost his own seat in the BOSE in Quebec. Again,

00:07:04.100 not that surprising. He has lost several times in a row and the vote of the PPC basically collapsed. I think a

00:07:10.020 lot of the people who voted in protest for the PPC against the system back when Erin O'Toole was part

00:07:15.940 of the COVID machine, you know, in lockstep with the other leaders pushing for mandates, pushing for

00:07:21.460 vaccines. And there was a lot of people rightfully protesting against that. The party didn't make as

00:07:26.020 much sense this time around. Maxime Bernier was mostly out of the country, not really campaigning.

00:07:30.500 And so it's not surprising that they didn't do very well. But the very, very small number of votes

00:07:36.500 that the PPC got, specifically look at some writings in and around Ontario, places like Brampton,

00:07:41.300 places like Kitchener, a few hundred votes is all that separated the Liberals from the Conservatives.

00:07:46.580 And that is what the PPC did. They acted as a spoiler and they potentially helped Mark Kearney

00:07:53.140 with his victory win in those few key writings. Look, folks, when you look at the numbers in around the

00:07:57.700 GTA, it is incredibly close, incredibly shocking. I was looking at the 905 where I live and there were so

00:08:03.780 many places where the Conservatives won with a majority of the vote, more than 50%. I'm just

00:08:09.540 going to give you a few examples here because it's just so interesting. So for folks who don't

00:08:13.860 know the shorthands for Toronto, the 416 is the area code for the sort of inner Toronto and the

00:08:18.980 bureaus that actually make up like City Hall, the amalgamated city of Toronto. So I'm talking about

00:08:23.060 Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough and Toronto itself. And then you have the outer ring and it kind of

00:08:28.900 goes all the way out. But that's what we call the 905. It's based on the area code. And it's interesting

00:08:33.700 because in some parts of the 905, especially sort of southwestern, southwest of Toronto,

00:08:38.660 the Liberals did pretty well. They won places like Burlington, Oakville, both the Oakville seats,

00:08:44.580 Mississauga Lake Shore and these Brampton seats that I'm saying, you know, they lost just by a tiny

00:08:49.940 hair. But then if you go just outside, you get a lot of Conservative victories and big Conservative

00:08:54.580 victories. So here in Milton East, Halton Hills, the Conservatives won with 48.6% of the vote.

00:09:01.140 Wellington, Halton Hills, Michael Chong won with 51.4% of the vote. Dufferin Kaladin, Kyle Seabach gets

00:09:08.980 58% of the vote. Next, we have King Vaughn, Anna Roberts elected with 61%. Folks, these are like

00:09:16.100 rural Alberta numbers, 61.8% in the 905 in King Vaughn. More Vaughn Woodbridge, Conservatives won with 60%

00:09:24.420 of the vote. In Thornhill, Melissa Lansman won with 66% of the vote. Oh my goodness. And York Centre,

00:09:32.020 Roman Baber, former MPP in Doug Ford's government, stepped down out of that caucus in protest of the

00:09:38.980 Orwellian lockdown policies and the just complete and utter abuse of power by the Ford government,

00:09:46.340 sat as an independent, ended up switching over federally and wins with a big majority. Again,

00:09:51.220 54.8% of the vote in York Centre. Wow, interesting. Okay, Richmond Hill, another one. We have

00:09:58.980 Conservatives at 52%, Richmond Hill South. Aurora Oak Ridge is Richmond Hill, 52.8% for Costas Menegakis.

00:10:07.060 Interesting, we had a True North reporter there last night. Marcum Unionville, the riding where Paul

00:10:13.460 Cheung was a candidate and he ended up getting ousted while he stepped down after the scandal with regards to

00:10:19.140 the Chinese bounty story. He was replaced by Peter Yuan and they lost. The Conservatives won with 50.9%.

00:10:26.260 I could go on and on going around the 905. I think that this is really, really a good sign. The fact

00:10:30.820 that Pierre Polyev did this well, this close to Toronto, to me, tells me that they captured something

00:10:36.260 and that there was a blue wave last night. Unfortunately, it just wasn't enough to form

00:10:40.580 government, but there was a blue wave. Now, speaking of Ontario, Doug Ford in this election has been outed

00:10:46.820 as a Liberal. He is a Liberal, folks. Yes, he runs under the banner of the Progressive Conservatives,

00:10:51.860 but make no mistake, his government is a continuation of the Dalton McGuinty, Kathleen Wynne,

00:10:57.540 big spending, big government, deficit spending, low growth, low productivity, Ontario in decline,

00:11:03.780 government. There's no getting around it. They push terrible education policies and woke social

00:11:08.420 policies and it is just incredibly disappointing. So him and his cronies interfered in this election.

00:11:14.660 They put out stories, planted stories to try to deflate and defeat Pierre Polyev. And guess what?

00:11:21.380 All this talk about the idea that Pierre Polyev needs to learn from Ford and that Ford

00:11:26.820 did like a master class on how to win in Ontario, that just doesn't hold up by the facts. Let me just

00:11:31.540 tell you, Doug Ford won his election in February just three months ago with 42.9% of the vote.

00:11:37.940 Okay. Last night, Pierre Polyev got 44.5% of the vote in Ontario. He outperformed Doug Ford. So I

00:11:46.100 don't want to hear any more about how Polyev needs to make nice with Doug Ford, follow his lead,

00:11:51.620 buddy up with Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney. No, no, no, no, no, no. That is not going to happen.

00:11:57.060 And you know what? Rightly so. I'm not the only one that feels this way. Conservative MP who was reelected

00:12:02.420 last night in Bowmanville, Oshawa North. Talking about Jamil Javani, friend of the show. Him and I

00:12:07.860 moderated the 2021 conservative debate together. He's a really nice guy. He was reelected last night.

00:12:14.820 And you know what? He was at the end of his rope when it came to the Ontario progressive

00:12:18.900 conservatives. Here is his rant against Doug Ford. This is brilliant. Let's play that clip.

00:12:23.700 Doug Ford just went through an election. I have differences of opinion with him. I don't like

00:12:28.180 how he's managed healthcare or education, but out of respect, we didn't say anything. Federal

00:12:32.900 party, we didn't get in his way. When it was our turn to run an election, he couldn't stay out of

00:12:36.900 our business. Always getting his criticisms and all his opinions out, distracting our campaign,

00:12:42.340 trying to make it about him, trying to position himself as some kind of political genius that we

00:12:46.820 needed to be taking cues from. Was it him specifically? Was it his campaign manager,

00:12:50.820 Corey, tonight? Do you see Doug Ford as a problem for the federal party in the outcome of this race?

00:12:56.580 I see Doug Ford as a problem for Ontario and for Canada. I think he's not doing a great job in

00:13:01.700 running this province. And now he's trying to exercise his influence over other levels of

00:13:06.100 government. And it's not like this guy is doing anything particularly well. You did used to work for

00:13:10.580 him. I did. I'm speaking from experience. I tried to fix problems in this province,

00:13:14.820 and he kept getting in his way and all his goons around him all the time.

00:13:18.180 They wouldn't make anything better. And now we're seeing him because he, you know,

00:13:21.620 this guy's a political genius because he beat Bonnie Crombie and Steven Del Duca.

00:13:25.620 And now we got to sit around getting advice from him. No, no, he has taken the provincial

00:13:29.700 conservative party and turned it into something hollow, unprincipled, something that doesn't solve

00:13:34.500 problems. He's glad handing with Christia Freeland, having coffees and lattes with Mark Carney.

00:13:39.780 And I'm sitting here saying we need to be fighting for change in something new and something

00:13:43.620 different, not being a hype man to the Liberal Party.

00:13:46.980 Jameel Giovanni is 100% right. Congratulations to him for being reelected. I want to go through

00:13:50.500 some other big wins from the party. People who are friends with the Candace Malcolm Show have been

00:13:54.180 guests here on the show. First, Dr. Matt Strauss. He was elected in the riding of Kitchener South

00:14:00.020 Hespeler. Congratulations to Matt. Next, Andrew Lawton, our good friend, Andrew Lawton,

00:14:05.380 longtime colleague of mine at True North. Before that, he was a radio host in London. He won decisively

00:14:11.940 yesterday in his riding of Elgin St. Thomas, London South. Congratulations. Andrew,

00:14:16.740 we look forward to seeing what you do in Ottawa. Next, Aaron Gunn. Aaron Gunn is a former colleague

00:14:22.340 of mine at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. He became a documentary filmmaker, another friend of

00:14:27.220 True North and the program, despite a very coordinated attack from him, from the leftist media,

00:14:33.780 trying to sink him, saying he held unacceptable views, crazy, you know, controversial things like

00:14:39.780 defending Sir John A. MacDonald against the most insane accusations. And no, didn't work. Couldn't

00:14:46.260 take Aaron Gunn down. Aaron Gunn was elected in the riding of North Island, Powell River. Congratulations.

00:14:52.260 Andrew, finally, David Bexty, I mentioned off the top of the show, he and Bexty's father was elected in an

00:14:57.300 absolute landslide in Bow River. So we love to see it. Lots of new faces are going to be in Ottawa.

00:15:04.900 Look, Mark Carney thinks that he won the election last night and I read through the numbers. Yes,

00:15:10.340 he got the highest numbers in terms of popular vote and seats. They picked up 11, but again,

00:15:15.140 the Conservatives picked up more. The Conservatives had the momentum. There was a blue wave. It wasn't

00:15:19.700 enough to push them over the top. But Mark Carney last night just kind of let his worst side out.

00:15:24.260 He was making partisan jabs at Pierre Polyev. He reiterated this nonsense that our relationship

00:15:29.460 with the United States is over, sort of turning the anti-Americanism up to overdrive. I didn't like

00:15:35.060 the tone of his speech whatsoever. I don't think he's going to preside over a very stable government.

00:15:39.620 I predict there will be another election inside two years. We will be here for it. We will be ready

00:15:44.900 for it. Last night, our goal was to replace the CBC. Look, we didn't quite get there. Okay,

00:15:49.860 our numbers didn't quite match what the CBC were, but we're on our way. We have our work cut out for

00:15:54.020 us. We're going to continue to work incredibly hard to provide Canadians with fact-based news,

00:15:59.460 reporting that they can trust, and an alternative to the CBC. I think the major difference between

00:16:04.020 Juneau News and the CBC is that you know where we stand. You know our values. We are open about them.

00:16:08.980 We are open about the fact that myself, Kian Bexty, many of us here at Juneau News, we are

00:16:13.620 conservative. We are small-c conservatives. We have conservative values. We love our country. We love

00:16:18.260 Canada, and we're unapologetic about that. We want the best for our country. Whereas at the CBC,

00:16:23.620 they lie to you. They tell you that they are completely neutral, complete arbiters of the truth,

00:16:28.580 that they are unbiased, and that they don't put their finger on the scale one way or another.

00:16:33.300 Well, the mask is starting to slip. I think it's completely off, but they just cannot help

00:16:37.700 themselves. And there are so many examples last night of the CBC reporters just openly cheerleading

00:16:43.220 for the Liberals. We'll play a few clips here. First, here's CBC's Adrienne Arsenal saying that

00:16:47.620 she was very relieved to see that Charlottetown was okay. Of course, she's talking about when the

00:16:52.180 votes were coming in, and it was obvious that the Liberals were going to win. She said that she's

00:16:56.740 very relieved to see that they're okay. Let's play that clip. Well, very relieved to see that

00:17:00.900 Charlottetown is okay. Good. We're getting first results from Charlottetown. Let's have a look at that.

00:17:06.100 And to that, Rosemary Barton quip right back. Glad to see Charlottetown is doing okay. I don't

00:17:12.020 understand. Are you actually just openly cheering for the Liberals on your broadcast? Because it's

00:17:16.660 pretty embarrassing. You might as well just come right out and be honest about it. Do what I just

00:17:20.260 did. Do your acknowledgement. Say, look, everybody, I'm a partisan Liberal. I love Mark Carney. I'm here

00:17:25.460 to promote him. He's giving me billions and billions of dollars to stay afloat. Fine. Be honest about it.

00:17:30.340 Be authentic instead of this charade that you are objective and that you're not cheering for one

00:17:37.140 party or another. Let's play that Rosemary Barton clip. Thank you for that, Adrienne. Glad that

00:17:41.700 Charlottetown is doing fine. Yeah. We like it there. Okay. Just a couple of final points. The

00:17:47.060 pollsters and legacy media were dead wrong about the campaign. They said that the Liberals were going to

00:17:51.140 win the landslide, just but all of them predicted a Liberal majority that did not happen. I believe

00:17:56.100 that Juno News' predictions were the most accurate. I'm going to read through them for you right now.

00:18:02.020 So Juno News' decision desk and our in-house pollster at this election had the following

00:18:07.300 projections. So we projected 165 seats for the Liberals. As of right now, there are 168. We

00:18:13.700 projected 150 seats for the Conservatives. Right now, they are at somewhere around 145. We projected

00:18:19.780 three seats for the NDP. As of right now, they are about seven. Look, that's about as close as you get.

00:18:24.740 And I believe we were much, much closer than the legacy media. So not only are we trying to make the

00:18:29.300 CBC irrelevant, trying to replace the CBC, I think that we found a way to poll Canadians in a way that's

00:18:34.740 much more accurate than all of the fancy pollsters and all of the people who get paid big, big bucks.

00:18:39.700 Part of what they were doing was trying to deflate Conservatives, trying to encourage Conservatives to

00:18:43.780 stay home. It didn't work. It didn't work. And you know what? I would have guessed that the morning

00:18:49.060 after Pierre Polyev defeat, if Mark Kearney wins the election, I would guess that I would have been

00:18:53.940 pretty depressed, pretty unhappy. And, you know, looking towards these ideas and these movements of,

00:18:59.380 you know, Wexit or Alberta separatism, that we'd be at the point where we'd be like,

00:19:03.220 enough of this country. Something has to change. Let's move on. But that's not how I'm feeling today.

00:19:07.460 I think the Canadians are waking up to the truth. 8 million Canadians voted to take back our future

00:19:13.860 last night. I think that that is an incredibly optimistic sign. Young Canadians showed up and

00:19:19.460 voted for the Conservatives. New Canadians showed up and voted for the Conservatives. Pierre Polyev has

00:19:23.700 built a new coalition. Like I said, he did better than any previous leader. And I actually feel quite good.

00:19:29.220 I think that we are waking up. We live on to fight another day and that we are going to take our

00:19:35.140 country back, folks. All right. That's all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:19:39.220 We'll be back again tomorrow with all the news. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm Show.

00:19:42.980 Thank you. Thank you and God bless.

Juno News - April 29, 2025

A whole bunch of GOOD NEWS about the election

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