Juno News - April 29, 2025


A whole bunch of GOOD NEWS about the election


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Candice Malan and Kian Bexty recap the results of the Canadian election and take a look at some of the key takeaways from the night. Candice explains why she thinks Pierre Polyev may have lost his own riding, and why she believes there may have been some deliberate sabotage going on.

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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.
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
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.