Juno News - Conservatives accuse floor crosser of ＂betraying＂ constituents

00:00:00.000 conservatives are blasting their former colleague mp chris d'antremont who defected from the party

00:00:11.320 and joined the liberals calling him a quote coward and accusing him of betraying his constituents

00:00:18.180 for his own professional ambitions mark carney's federal liberal budget approves 141 billion dollars

00:00:25.440 in new spending and is projected to bring with it 78.3 billion dollars freedom convoy organizer

00:00:32.980 tamara leach is returning to court to appeal her mischief conviction to defend canadians right to

00:00:40.300 assembly and free expression hello canada it's wednesday november 5th and this is the true north

00:00:46.520 daily brief i'm cosmon gerja and i'm jeff knight we've got you covered with all the news you need

00:00:52.160 to know let's discuss the top stories of the day and the true north exclusives you won't hear anywhere

00:00:58.320 else conservatives and their supporters are accusing the house of commons latest floor crosser nova

00:01:07.480 scotia mp chris d'antremont of forsaking his constituents and his values in pursuit of his

00:01:14.840 own ambitions don tremont the mp for acadie annapolis in nova scotia announced his resignation from the

00:01:23.480 conservatives on tuesday as the liberal government released its 2025 budget the liberal party released

00:01:31.460 statements from the former conservative mp announcing that he would be joining the liberals immediately

00:01:37.340 after the budget was released this means the government now only needs two votes from opposition

00:01:43.880 parties to pass the budget and are two mps shy from a majority the budget has a 78.3 billion

00:01:52.360 dollar deficit by wednesday morning don tremont was attending a press conference with prime minister

00:01:58.360 mark carney who immediately lauded him for defecting from the conservatives and joining his government's caucus

00:02:04.920 and i would especially like to thank chris d'antremont uh the member for parliament for acadie annapolis

00:02:13.400 i'm honored uh to welcome him as the newest member of our government caucus on ctv's power plate

00:02:23.160 conservative house leader andrew sheer said that d'antremont left the conservative caucus over quote personal

00:02:29.560 grievances for not being elected deputy speaker and noted that his decision is a betrayal of all the

00:02:36.360 people in his riding who campaigned for his election i know mr d'antremont has had some personal

00:02:41.480 grievances about the fact that you know he didn't get elected deputy speaker he's been kind of upset

00:02:45.960 about that so i i'm disappointed that he let his own personal grievances get in the way of his commitment

00:02:51.880 to his constituents that he would fight for a more affordable budget to bring down the cost of living to

00:02:56.280 lower the tax burden on canadians but again he's going to have to explain to all the people that

00:02:59.720 he looked in the eye uh took their donations put signs on their lawns and then explain why he betrayed

00:03:05.560 them just a few months later according to elections canada don tremont accepted at least 17 850 dollars

00:03:13.160 from 36 donors to re-elect him as a conservative mp in the april 2025 federal election donations ranged

00:03:21.480 anywhere from 250 to a thousand dollars from conservative supporters jeff this has been the

00:03:28.520 big drama on parliament hill and when these sorts of things happen there's a lot of rumors going around

00:03:36.040 that others could follow now as of recording this we haven't seen any indication that other conservative

00:03:43.160 mps will be crossing but what are some of the other responses we've seen with relation to

00:03:50.920 don tremont's decision to join the liberals and abandon the conservatives yeah cosmon conservatives

00:03:58.520 and their supporters are ripping into chris don tremont's floor-crossing move calling it everything from

00:04:03.480 a shameless power grab to outright treason against his voters former conservative mp rick perkins went nuclear

00:04:10.680 daring him to resign and trigger a by-election saying don tremont basically admitted he'd lose if an election hit now

00:04:17.400 and that quote there is nothing in his floor-crossing about principles it was about keeping his job

00:04:22.840 sebastian skamsky ex-media director for polyev labeled it shameful and a betrayal pointing out how

00:04:29.960 don tremont trashed the liberal budget as generational debt just months ago before jumping ship to advance

00:04:35.880 his own personal ambitions michael barrett hammered the hypocrisy noting don tremont promised to fight for

00:04:42.600 an affordable budget but is now backing the exact opposite jenny roth who ran polyev's leadership bid

00:04:49.000 piled on by calling for a by-election and wondering if this means liberals are ditching their zero

00:04:53.880 tolerance for pro-life mps given don tremont's voting record grassroots folks are even harsher

00:05:00.600 one supporter online branded him a despicable example of our species a traitor and spineless coward who had

00:05:06.680 lost all integrity it's a full-on revolt with everyone from caucus to the base feeling stabbed in the back

00:05:12.040 the liberal government has finally tabled its budget projecting a national deficit of 78.3 billion

00:05:21.800 dollars this year fueled by a massive 38 billion dollar increase in spending a 38 billion dollar

00:05:28.760 increase in spending to a total of 581 billion dollars outside of the pandemic era carny's budget

00:05:35.240 deficit is the largest in canadian history total debt is projected to reach 1.35 trillion dollars by the

00:05:41.880 end of this year increasing to 1.59 trillion in 2029 to 2030. under the liberal plan canada will pay 55.6

00:05:51.240 billion dollars in debt interest charges next year rising to 76.1 billion dollars by 2029 2030. in a

00:05:58.680 statement on tuesday finance minister francois philippe champaign said quote budget 2025 is an investment

00:06:04.680 budget we are making generational investments to meet the moment and ensure our country doesn't just weather

00:06:10.200 this moment but thrives in it this is our moment to build canada strong and our plan is clear we will

00:06:16.040 build our economy protect our country and empower you to get ahead when we play to our strengths we can

00:06:21.560 create more for ourselves that can never be taken away conservative leader pierre polyev denounced the

00:06:26.920 plan saying carney's government is quote the most expensive in canadian history while declaring that

00:06:32.200 the conservatives would vote against the liberals he said quote on behalf of all the canadians who can no

00:06:37.640 longer afford to eat heat or house themselves because of liberal inflation we conservatives cannot

00:06:43.160 support this costly liberal budget today the liberals have introduced the most costly and largest budget

00:06:50.760 deficit in history outside of covet the cost of this liberal budget will drive up the cost of food

00:06:57.800 housing and everything else that canadians buy and the prime minister has broken every single promise

00:07:03.320 he made just seven short months ago he promised a 62 billion dollar deficit he delivered nearly an 80

00:07:11.080 billion dollar deficit 16 billion bigger than he promised and twice the size that his predecessor left

00:07:17.640 behind he promised to lower that the debt to gdp ratio he raised it and inflation along with it he

00:07:25.560 promised to spend less he's spending 90 billion dollars more costing fifty four hundred dollars per family

00:07:34.840 in canada and that 90 billion dollars to the prime minister's heckles is above and beyond the promised 16

00:07:41.320 billion dollars that he says he will one day find over the next five years the budget allocates 115

00:07:47.880 billion dollars to infrastructure 110 billion dollars to productivity and competitiveness 25 billion dollars

00:07:54.520 to housing and 30 billion dollars to defense according to the budget its two fiscal anchors include

00:08:00.520 balancing daily operating spending with revenues by 2028 to 2029 and maintaining a quote declining

00:08:06.840 deficit to gdp ratio to ensure disciplined fiscal management for future generations so cosmon we've had

00:08:12.840 a couple days with this budget now what are some of the things that canadians should know about it

00:08:17.240 yeah jeff there are a few big takeaways that canadians should be aware of and a lot of it flies under the

00:08:24.520 radar i mean it's a 500 plus page budget and there's a lot of things jam-packed in there and it's honestly

00:08:32.680 not clear from first reading what is important and what isn't but the two things that caught my eye was some

00:08:41.800 changes to immigration and also to the industrial carbon tax first on immigration the liberals are

00:08:49.960 quietly spending almost 140 million dollars on two separate programs and these programs are designed

00:08:57.480 to fast track refugees asylum claimants otherwise known as protected persons and those holding work

00:09:06.280 permits in a separate program into permanent residency they're calling this a one-time measure

00:09:13.320 but let's be honest because these things rarely stay one time and when the government introduces

00:09:19.640 major changes to the immigration system they remain for quite a while before something is done about it

00:09:27.080 so the plan is to move tens of thousands of people onto the path towards citizenship by granting them

00:09:33.240 permanent residency and this is supposedly done to reduce the number of temporary residents in canada

00:09:41.320 at least that's what the government is claiming but it's ironic because the government's also planning

00:09:46.280 to bring in over a million new temporary workers and students through 2028 so it's a revolving door

00:09:54.840 i've seen their so-called immigration numbers plan and some of it doesn't really add up and i think

00:10:02.840 there's a little bit of fudging the numbers in terms of how many people will actually come in through the

00:10:10.840 next few years but it doesn't seem like they're actually reducing the numbers they're just changing

00:10:17.240 labels around to make it seem that the immigration situation is being taken care of and then there's

00:10:25.320 the carbon tax side of things so ottawa wants credit for getting rid of the consumer carbon tax

00:10:32.760 we all know that mark carney campaigned on this but in reality they didn't actually get rid of the consumer

00:10:39.720 carbon tax uh or the carbon pricing act what they actually did was they just set it to zero but

00:10:47.160 the legislation still on the books it's still a law and it hasn't been voted on or repealed

00:10:53.880 meanwhile the industrial carbon tax is going to go way up from 80 per ton to 170 per ton by 2030

00:11:03.400 and the feds are going to lock that in for decades they're even giving themselves

00:11:08.200 new powers to reimpose federal pricing on provinces like alberta or saskatchewan and to make it harder

00:11:15.320 for provinces that dissent to the carbon tax uh to fight back against hikes so if a future government

00:11:23.880 tries to roll back those taxes taxpayers will have to compensate these corporations through what they

00:11:30.600 call carbon contracts there's a lot more in this budget i would recommend you guys check out our coverage

00:11:37.880 to see the various angles and aspects that i think are very relevant to canadians

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00:12:57.080 the link in our show notes to apply tamara leach will appeal the mischief conviction that arose from her

00:13:03.480 participation in the 2022 freedom convoy protest against government mandates during the covet 19 pandemic

00:13:12.200 she filed a notice of appeal with the ontario court of appeal on tuesday it reads quote the trial judge

00:13:19.400 materially misapprehended the evidence and or made unreasonable findings by failing to give effect

00:13:27.080 to the absence of evidence linking the appellant to mischief committed by others on the evidence

00:13:34.440 leach did not have a truck nor provide any directions or encouragement to vehicles she did not encourage

00:13:40.360 blocking roads honking horns or proliferating diesel fumes at any time or in any way there was clear and

00:13:47.400 uncontradicted evidence that she did not exert control over all present the appeal seeks to have her

00:13:53.240 conviction overturned reaffirming that peaceful protest is not a crime in canada leach leach will

00:13:59.720 be represented by lawrence greenspin and his legal team at greenspin granger hill and her legal fees will

00:14:06.280 be covered by the democracy fund greenspin argued that the trial judgment fundamentally misunderstood the

00:14:13.960 evidence and infringed on core charter protections the democracy fund wrote in a press release quote

00:14:21.240 despite substantial evidence that miss leach consistently encouraged protesters to remain peaceful lawful and

00:14:28.840 safe the crown failed to establish any direct connection between her actions and the alleged misconduct

00:14:34.680 of others the conviction rests on an impermissible theory of collective guilt rather than individual

00:14:42.040 responsibility so these protests took place in 2022 we're almost four years out from this how long

00:14:51.080 has tamara leach had to face these charges you know go through the courts and what were some of the

00:14:58.760 key parts of her multi-year battle for her role in participating in the freedom convoy yeah cosmon if

00:15:06.440 it feels like tamara leach's case has been dragging on forever it's because it has been it's been going on

00:15:11.240 since her arrest in february 2022 which was right in the thick of the freedom convoy protests in ottawa so

00:15:17.880 that's over three and a half years of legal wrangling her multi-year battle kicked off with a nightmare of

00:15:23.800 bail fights she was denied release multiple times spending weeks in jail before finally getting out

00:15:28.760 on conditions that sparked more appeals charges were piling up mischief counseling to disobey a court

00:15:35.560 order and more but the real grind was the 13-month trial that wrapped up with a guilty verdict on mischief

00:15:41.320 alone in april 2025 sentencing came down october 7th of this year with an 18-month conditional sentence

00:15:48.600 which was house arrest for the first year and then curfew crediting her for pre-trial time served

00:15:54.760 throughout she's leaned on the democracy fund for legal support fought back against what her team calls

00:16:00.120 collective guilt tactics and turned the ordeal into a rallying cry for protest rights all while co-defendant

00:16:06.520 chris barber navigated a similar path with his own guilty mischief finding it's been brutal but her

00:16:12.280 appeal filing this week keeps the fight alive that's it for today folks thanks for tuning in you can stay

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Juno News - November 06, 2025

Conservatives accuse floor crosser of ＂betraying＂ constituents

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