Juno News - September 16, 2023


Do the Conservatives have a path to victory？ (ft. Melissa Lantsman)

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Conservative message and coalition in Canada
Mentioned
Melissa Lansman Andrew Lawton Show Stephen Harper Thornhill Pierre Poilievre
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Melissa Lansman is the Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada in the House of Commons. She's been a member of the Thornhill MP for Thornhill since she was elected in 2015, and has been on both sides of politics for the past 20 years. In this episode, she talks to Andrew Lawton about the current state of the party and what she's looking forward to in the upcoming election.

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00:00:00.000 You're tuned in to The Andrew Lawton Show.
00:00:08.660 Sitting down at the Conservative Party of Canada-Quebec City Convention with the Conservatives'
00:00:13.780 Deputy Leader, Thornhill MP Melissa Lansman. Melissa, good to talk to you.
00:00:17.400 Nice to see you.
00:00:18.140 Let's talk about the enthusiasm here, because oftentimes when a party's in opposition,
00:00:23.420 there can be a bit of a pall over things. And in this particular case, it's a party that's lost
00:00:28.160 the last three elections, but that's not the vibe that you're picking up in this room here.
00:00:32.720 It's certainly not the vibe. And with thousands of delegates from across the country,
00:00:37.040 every single riding represented in beautiful Quebec City, that doesn't hurt with nice weather.
00:00:44.280 The vibe here is electric. People are excited. Look, it's not lost on you. The poll numbers look
00:00:52.160 good, and that has an effect on people. It means that all of the work that all of these folks do,
00:00:57.500 every single day on the ground, in their ridings, is resonating. And the message that we've been
00:01:03.920 on track with for a number of years, and particularly in the last year, is resonating with Canadians.
00:01:10.660 Do you think it's that the Conservative message under Pierre Polyev has kind of shifted to one
00:01:15.660 that's resonating with more Canadians? Or do you think it's that the climate in Canada and the
00:01:19.260 circumstances in Canada have changed to catch up with where Conservatives are?
00:01:23.320 Look, realistically, I think it's both. But we have, you know, we've got a leader who is non-stop,
00:01:28.500 every single day in a different corner of the country, oftentimes with his wife, who is often
00:01:35.600 talked about as the not-so-secret weapon. But he's talking about what Canadians are actually talking
00:01:42.920 about. And what we see is a Prime Minister who isn't. A Prime Minister who is off at the G20,
00:01:50.200 an environment minister who would raise the carbon tax here and then run off to China,
00:01:56.840 a bloc leader who's fighting for sovereignty in Europe somewhere. This is not where Canadians are
00:02:04.060 at. And we finally, you know, we finally have a leader that after a year in power is speaking
00:02:09.160 to the very chaos in this country.
00:02:12.200 You're obviously an MP in the GTA, in Thornhill. And I'm curious where,
00:02:16.840 because you've obviously been on campaigns before. So, you know, the strategic aspect of this.
00:02:21.740 You've done it better than a lot of MPs have, because you've been on both sides of this. And
00:02:24.960 I'm curious where you think the road to victory is, because in 2011, Stephen Harper won a majority
00:02:30.320 by just cleaning house in the GTA, but not really breaking through in Quebec. And I know in 2021,
00:02:36.220 we saw the Conservatives try to do both GTA and Quebec. Neither really were. Like,
00:02:40.400 where is that path? And you can't say all 338.
00:02:42.960 No, I, although that would be nice. Look, I think the coalition, it looks a little bit,
00:02:49.480 the country looks different than when Stephen Harper was prime minister, by the way, a great
00:02:53.540 prime minister. And that 2011 victory was, was like an outstanding victory for Conservatives.
00:03:01.280 One that we didn't probably see coming until, into, into the campaign. So shifts turn. So the tide
00:03:08.120 turned within the campaign. I think this coalition looks different. And I think that no matter who
00:03:12.500 you are, no matter what lot, walk of life you're from, you know, no matter, you know, if you came
00:03:17.620 to this country five days ago, five years ago, 500 years ago, there is a spot for you in the Canadian,
00:03:24.100 in the, in the Conservative Party. And because the country looks different,
00:03:27.400 the coalition looks different. So, southwestern Ontario, the 905 certainly, the van, the greater
00:03:33.440 Vancouver area, all of these are, are targets.
00:03:37.520 What is it that you would like to champion personally under a Conservative government?
00:03:41.520 And I'm not asking you to, like, pick your cabinet spot if you had one, but, but going in there, I mean,
00:03:45.420 No, we shouldn't do that.
00:03:45.960 What are the issues that you really personally see yourself as being to bring outside of an opposition role
00:03:51.260 and in a government role, if that's where the tide takes you?
00:03:53.360 Look, if the tide takes us there, and we're lucky enough, and we're going to do the work
00:03:56.800 every single day to, to try to get there. But there are so many things to fix in this country.
00:04:02.800 Attracting investment back to this country is, is certainly one of them.
00:04:06.400 Our role on the world stage, making, fixing our, our, our very broken bureaucracies,
00:04:12.720 our services to, to Canadians, and getting back on track, on a, on a, on a fiscal track,
00:04:17.920 a path to balance, and making life more affordable for Canadians.
00:04:21.360 So there's no shortage of, of, of areas to, to fix, and no shortage of areas, uh, that will really have
00:04:27.360 an impact on people's everyday lives that I'm interested in.
00:04:29.840 Melissa Lansman, thank you.
00:04:30.960 Melissa Lansman, thanks for having me.
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