Juno News - February 26, 2026
Carney PANICS as Liberal cabinet ministers EXPOSE their radical agenda
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Summary
In this episode of The Candace Malcolm Show, Candace and her co-founder, Kian Bloch, react to the latest immigration news and reaction to it. They play clips of some of Mark Carney's cabinet ministers and discuss the polls, the criticism, and the comments about it.
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i'm candace malcolm and this is the candace malcolm show folks we have a great episode for
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you today whenever the house is sitting and whenever parliament is in session in ottawa
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my job just becomes easier and more interesting and more fun so we have a lot of reactions that
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we're going to give you we're going to play clips of some of mark carney's cabinet ministers let me
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just tell you mark carney may be somewhat popular among canadians but his cabinet is a total dump
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of fire there's so many just terrible people on there that are just the things that they say are
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outrageous we're going to talk about that we're going to talk about the polls and we're going to
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talk a bit about the criticism and the uh comments about juno news uh juno news has been getting a lot
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of publications a lot of attention recently so we're going to go through uh some of the best and
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worst takes on juno news i'm very pleased today to be joined by my co-founder here at juno news
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uh journalist kian beckstein kian thank you so much for joining us my pleasure okay so we're gonna talk
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about the news first and then we'll get into more of like the traditional fireside chat that you and
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i do monthly um but i just i wanted to talk about this with you because we saw that pier poliev came
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out with some new policies and new suggestions to crack down on fraud and abuse in our immigration
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system we know it's rampant and almost immediately we saw an attack against him coming from all sides
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in the liberal party that was really interesting so i'm going to start with mark miller who accuses
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the tories of pandering to immigrants so this is almost like the criticism that you would see
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against pier poliev from the right flank of the party or people even to the right of pier poliev
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so it's really interesting to see a hard left cabinet minister like mark miller former immigration
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minister accusing the tories of doing what the liberals have become infamous for doing so let's
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play that clip mr speaker let's assume for a second that the conservatives actually want to help the
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situation perhaps the member opposite can turn to her right talk to the leader of the opposition who's
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changed so many ridings he's parliament's own temporary foreign worker and ask them to stop
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going around the country pandering to communities promising them not to be deported and promising
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visas for everyone that might help mr speaker wow so that's pretty devastating i think and just to hear
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the jeering again that happened wednesday uh in parliament february 25th um what did you what did you
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make of that kian i i was pretty brutal to watch and uh everything stings a little bit more when it's
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kind of true uh it's it's kind of unclear to me like is the is the conservative party who do they who do
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they want to send back is it just criminals is it just people who overstayed a visa does that make them
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a criminal uh like what about students who are here a year longer than they should be i mean i know what
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i would do i would send them all back but then again pierre's team uh jaz raj halan and i think
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tim upple went and pretty much everyone wearing a turban in parliament on the tory side was just in
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punjab talking about how they can better coordinate immigration so do they want like more legal immigration
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which is sort of the liberal opinion circa 2015 or do they want to just keep canada for canadians
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like that's what the base wants of this conservative party so it's like just really
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confusing what their messages messaging is here on immigration the liberals have picked up on it
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and they're able to throw punches from the right side of pierre polyev because people like you and me
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and and frankly everyone on the right of the conservative party that it has a public profile
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has been making really good points about this over the last two years so um it's gonna be rough for
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pierre if he doesn't like actually sort out this messaging and explain to his party including like
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the the people in his party that rely on extremely ethnic voting constituencies that this is the policy
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of the party and sorry you know we might lose we might lose surrey you know right well i mean you're
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right three three uh conservative mps of indian ethnic origin were in india meeting with a guy who
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was out on bail like it's not a good look um the same week that pierre polyev decides to get tough
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on immigration fraud and it wasn't just from the right right like that that that response from mark
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miller was sort of surprising to me but we also heard the very typical predictable uh liberals and
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sort of media critics journalists uh criticizing pierre polyev the same way that they did to
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daniel smith last week by just quickly saying this is racist your intention must be racist if you
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don't want to have a totally compassionate system that puts immigrants ahead of canadians um then
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you must just be a terrible bad person so here is more of the predictable uh criticism coming from
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justice minister sean fraser accusing the conservatives of pushing anti-refugee policies uh just because
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they're mean-spirited and they're mean let's play that clip mr speaker the translation has been
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difficult to hear over the anti-refugee dog whistle that's been coming through the air all afternoon
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we are talking of people who are fleeing violence war and persecution do you not remember the images
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of the people who died who washed up on the shore alan kurdi from syria have you not sat down with
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members of the ukrainian community who have found safe haven in canada when you have a series of
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questions like this that have come on the floor of the house of commons this week you have to invite
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yourself into the conversations that the conservative party must have had as they were getting ready
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you can imagine them all sitting around saying what are we going to prioritize this week to help
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us raise some money well could we tackle perhaps the canada u.s relationship no that's just going
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to upset our members who think canadians are having a hissy fit could we tackle affordability
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for families no that goes against type could we do health care sure health care but let's make sure
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we do it in a way that helps no one punching down by demonizing refugees saying you're going to cut
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health care is a blatant political opportunity not something that's going to help a single person in this
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country okay so that was like totally incoherent he was just kind of like yelling off like liberal
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greatest hits including invoking dead syrian kids i mean that was just so pathetic but that is like
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very typical of what liberal people said in response when pierre polyev posted a video got
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millions of views on x and a lot of the comments in the quote tweets were from like journalists and
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like very establishment liberals just clutching their pearls kian and saying this is so unacceptable this
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is so racist um it isn't right the liberals created an absolute boondoggle mess of our
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immigration system they destroyed our immigration system and may have destroyed the country in the
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process it falls on conservatives to fix it i think pierre polyev has to come up with like a much
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broader bigger plan to actually fix this problem but i did just find it interesting that you literally
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have ministers in the house of comments on the same day critiquing him from both the left and the
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right what do you think yeah it was good good point about him bringing up the liberals greatest hits
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and it reminded me of that syrian kid that was found drowned on the beach i think he was crossing
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illegally across the mediterranean or his parents were smuggling his dad was the was the human
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smuggler so like obviously it was it was his father's own fault sadly tragically and it has nothing
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to do with the terrible father that that kid had we were subjected to 10 years of justin trudeau
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it reminded me just in an instant how much that picture had an impact on canadian politics
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and how persuadable canadians are by liberals crying and uh we're willing to sacrifice
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our country and our well-being and our livelihoods uh because of these emotional pleas that they these
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pleas to emotions that the liberals are so good at making it's it's uh i can't i i i don't know how
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many more clips of this uh of parliament we have but it almost makes me sick watching them because
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these guys they don't actually mean what they say whether they attack pierre from the left or the
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right they just want to attack pierre because they know that he's effective and that he's resonating
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with a lot of uh right and center canadians um he has a message and you know canadians believe that
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health care should be for canadians it shouldn't be for people that are just visiting
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shouldn't be for tourists shouldn't be for illegal aliens should be for canadians because when you go
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to a hospital right now you're waiting seven eight hours just to get your toes checked out if you if
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you have frostbite or you know it's just it's an absolute mess in this country because we're putting
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everyone else in the entire world ahead of us when it comes to taking care of our own needs so it's
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just sickening and uh you know i'm tired of these these politicians who just are so out of touch with
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the reality of canadians right now well it's it's so true i did have a clip of the health minister
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basically just saying that um illegal immigrants deserve better health care than canada and that
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we should we should also try to improve health care i'll skip that one just to uh save you the pain
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of having to watch it because it's just unbelievable that a woman like that is a minister she can barely
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string a sentence together i'm told she's from haiti and actually i think her father one of her
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relatives was the president of that country but i will just skip ahead to immigration minister um this
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is lena dia one of the worst ministers ever to be minister in canada uh she was speaking before a
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committee on wednesday kian and she just actually said this that terrorists have the right to become
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canadian citizens so if you are a terrorist out there um our immigration minister believes that you
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have a right a god-given right to become a canadian just really unbelievable that they see these kind of
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things out loud let's play this clip quick question can you assure canadians that no terrorists will
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become citizens through this legislation again what these are people who are already citizens
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haven't has it have not been for thank you minister thank you mr reticob thank you so don't worry
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terrorists uh no no no fear of liberals actually applying our immigration law or trying to protect
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uh canadians interestingly there's a cbc story uh that andrew lottner friend uh former colleague
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who's now an mp um that nine out of ten liberal mps that spoke to the cbc think that immigration
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minister lena dubap lena dia needs to go uh the headline is where is canada's immigration minister
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community groups are asking i feel like this is the part where you really realize that the cbc
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is a communication arm of the liberal government so obviously mark carney is probably not happy with
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this like embarrassment dumpster fire of an immigration minister so he wants to fire her but
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it would look really mean to fire a female like minority cabinet minister so he has to like use
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the cbc to like point out how terrible she is so that he has some cover so that he can fire her
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eventually i mean that that's what it looks like to me what do you think yeah it makes you think about
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how they view canadian citizenship um you know you could some they could swear someone in
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as a canadian citizen at a strip mall which they do frequently you don't even have to say the oath
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anymore and uh they could walk out of that strip mall and go shoot up a a shopping mall and they
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would defend their right to their graves that they should still be canadian because they had that strip
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mall ceremony they think that that means it's something sacred to them right like it did it does
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it's it's the exact same as you and me who i our grandparents came mine mine came from america
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uh to to settle the west and even my great great great great grandfather actually founded
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the city of red deer um and leonard gates was his name there's a there's a street named after him
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there and this strip mall ceremony is the exact same like moral value as as our history in this country
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and they'll defend that and it's just a losing argument because every canadian even people that
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came here you know 10 20 years ago who have contributed to this country know that citizenship
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is more than just an oath that you say next to the denys you know it's it's who you are as a human
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being and it's who you are in your in your soul and if you're just here to like park some cash in a
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bank account or you're just here to commit crimes you're not canadian and and pierre needs to get this
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right because we were talking about this a little bit earlier who is he going to deport who is he
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going to get rid of uh is it just the illegals is it just the people who overstayed on visas
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or are there people who are canadian citizens right now that really shouldn't and that's a
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question they're going to have to grapple with because the answer is not an easy one right you're
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right and i mean i've been critical of justin trudeau's immigration and citizenship policies for over
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a decade one of the things that he did the worst thing he did was he cut down the amount of
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time needed to spend in canada to become a citizen uh down to three years part time right so like you
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don't even really need to live in canada in order to get the passport and so people take advantage
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of the system they scam they commit fraud or even they just spend the bare minimum number of days
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in the country to qualify to get the passport and so anyone who would argue that that a person who
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gets citizenship that way and just got their citizenship a couple weeks ago and has like no
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interest in the canadian project or in canadian history and symbols but that person's just as
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canadian uh as you and i or people watching the audience you know this isn't a comment on skin
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color or race it's really just a comment on culture and value and the the you know the the integrity
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of our citizenship what it means to be canadian everyone everyone on the conservative side agrees
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that what the liberal's done has been unconscionable it needs to change um but but but then you know
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let's focus on that let's focus on changing the actual integrity of our citizenship and then we can
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debate later you know whether or not some of these people actually deserve to be citizens or not
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i want to change gears a little bit kian and talk about the polls because these numbers are surprising
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to me um not what i would have thought in the the week after the floor crossing because from my
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perspective canadians hate floor crossing and seeing someone who was voted in as a conservative
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across the floor we've seen three times now uh to me that would turn people away from the liberals but
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somehow canadians are the opposite so the latest angus reed poll has the liberals up 13 points
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13 points this is a poll that came out yesterday february 24 sorry two days ago um they ascend to a
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13 point lead over the conservatives this is so devastating right like it we were kind of neck and
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neck in january the liberals are at 41 conservatives at 38 and because they're just falling down to 32
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and 45 and it's not just that one poll right like if you look at um this which is just all of the
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polls conducted in february you will see the liberals just absolutely dominating out that's
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like every poll from february 2nd up to february 23rd the liberals have a lead they have a commanding
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lead in some in some areas they have like a 15 point lead um this is a nightmare scenario for
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peer polio because if mark carter gets too confident and looks at these numbers and says you know what
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i can call an election now and i can wipe the floor with conservatives get my majority and govern for
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four years without having to worry about it um that will probably be the end of peer polio as leader
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of this party what do you what do you think i'm just looking up right now uh the ndp will select its
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next its next leader at the winnipeg convention held from march 27th to 29th a writ period is about a month
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so he has like three days left to call an election with with that um
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with this with this like political scenario this very unique position that he's in where the look
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the ndp have no leader and they were just leave they're just you know coming off
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well half a decade how long was jagmeet there uh they're just coming off a long sprint with the most
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like unpopular ndp leader they've ever had right so this is just not like a real political scenario
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that mark carney's dealing with right now and it's it's i mean it's rapidly ending too so if he
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doesn't call the election like now or today or tomorrow uh this is going to change dramatically
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the ndp are going to attack him because mark carney is governing frankly as a progressive conservative
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his his caucus is still the insane bag of nut jobs that justin trudeau is carrying around with him
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for the last 10 years but mark carney himself these numbers that say that the liberals are
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pulling highly this is mark carney pulling highly it's not it's not the liberal in calgary confederation
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that is wildly popular uh cory hogan's not wildly popular in calgary uh liberals are not wildly popular
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in calgary despite what the western standard polling says uh which you know these like these all these
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any company that takes federal money says that the liberals are surging in uh in alberta suddenly
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it's just not true it's not true speak to anyone in an elevator go to the mall go outside touch some
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grass liberals are not popular in alberta and uh and across the country mark carney is going to have
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to start dealing with uh an ndp leader i think it's going to be abby lewis who is attacking for you know
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for us all the typical things that they're always attacked for right like austerity it's not real
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austerity it's just like it's like austerity light right now and but the liberals are going to sorry the
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ndp are just gonna be screaming about it and their their message resonates with like 20 of canadians
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pretty pretty like consistently it just failed in the last election and they have no leader right now
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so pierre it you know if if this was if the ndp had died and they were never coming back pierre would be
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like i don't know why you would even continue on at this rate right like where's where's the light at
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the end of the tunnel but the light at the end of the tunnel is the fact that mark carney is
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governing with nobody on his left and that's going to change so let's see what happens in a month
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it is it is true but the the one counter i point to that is that whoever the ndp leader is and i mean
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they had a leadership debate the other night it was a total clown show let's put it that way but
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whoever wins like they don't have name recognition they don't have national exposure like people don't
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know people don't know who avi lewis is right like he's like an obscure like hard left academic
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journalist or like whatever he does like he it's it's not like suddenly he's just going to become
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like vastly popular like even jack leighton it took him several election cycles for the canadian
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public to actually like understand who he is and and what he's all about so i yeah i i think it's it's
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it's it's interesting times for sure kian okay uh we're gonna flip over to the uh juno news
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