Juno News - January 30, 2026


Alexa Posa asked delegates at the Conservative convention what priorities matter most


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In this episode, I sit down with Conservative MP for Vancouver-Whistler-Whiteside, Peter Demers, to talk about what the party should be focusing on right now. We discuss the current state of the Conservative Party, what should be the party's top priority, and why they should win the next election.

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00:00:00.000 What do you feel like should be the number one focus for the Conservative Party right now?
00:00:04.140 Well, I believe that affordability is a huge concern here in Canada.
00:00:08.400 We have one of the, for example, Vancouver is the third most expensive city to live in in the world.
00:00:14.980 And I think the cost of living is something that affects people of all political stripes,
00:00:19.200 as a matter of if they vote Liberal, Conservative, NDP, Bloc, etc.
00:00:22.320 And I think that if we capitalize ourselves as being the party of affordability
00:00:27.720 and personal opportunity for growth and prosperity over the Liberal Party that campaigned on
00:00:32.740 that promise and failed to meet that promise a year later, then I think we could come out
00:00:36.380 on top despite the Liberals having Mark Carney, a former economist, as their leader and Prime
00:00:41.480 Minister.
00:00:42.480 Well, there's two ways to look at this.
00:00:44.440 It's about either, you know, staying in line with the vision of Pierre Polyev, the things
00:00:50.800 that he's been putting out which got a lot of reception when Justin Trudeau had the failures
00:00:54.980 with the leadership of the Liberals, or taking a grassroots approach to build up the party
00:01:02.020 again with a new vision that would attack the Liberals and Mark Carney.
00:01:06.140 I think right now it's affordability for housing and food, and that comes not just
00:01:13.160 from me but from Dortmund looking at over 12,000 doors.
00:01:15.920 That seems to be the concern of many, many Canadians, so I think that should be the focus.
00:01:20.180 I also think that we should realize the wealth that we have in this country.
00:01:26.120 We should build pipelines, we should get mines going, we should just realize that we are
00:01:31.980 a very wealthy country and we shouldn't be having problems that we have right now.