Juno News - How Pierre Poilievre can TAKE BACK Canada

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you so much for tuning in

00:00:06.420 today, folks. We have a great episode for you. We didn't do a show yesterday. It was Canada Day.

00:00:11.420 And honestly, I usually don't take holidays off. I usually like to work through them unless they

00:00:15.660 are a religious holiday. And Canada Day is kind of a great opportunity to do a show focused on

00:00:20.700 our country and what we are getting right and what we are getting wrong. And that's what I've

00:00:25.620 done sort of historically. But yesterday, my family decided to host a barbecue, a family barbecue

00:00:31.020 at our farm. We had a bunch of other families. It was really, really lovely. And so I didn't do a

00:00:36.580 show, but I did write a post, sort of an essay blog post on JunoNews.com titled Dominion Day Message

00:00:43.680 from Candice Malcolm. So I wrote about why I call it Dominion Day and not Canada Day, how I'm

00:00:48.860 celebrating, which was with the barbecue, what Canada means to me, and why I continue to fight

00:00:54.980 for our country. Because I think that looking back at Canada's history of what it means to be

00:01:00.760 Canadian, who we are as Canadians, it's important. And look, I'll be frank, we have our work cut out

00:01:05.280 for us. Our country is in rough shape. I really think that our country has been destroyed by

00:01:09.980 basically successive Trudeau governments, the first government under Pierre Trudeau, where he erased

00:01:15.420 all of our symbols. He distanced ourselves from the crown and from our tradition. And he sort of

00:01:20.060 rewrote the entire narrative of what it means to be Canadian in a sort of liberal image. And he was,

00:01:25.840 I think he was the first socialist prime minister of our country. The second one was his son, Justin

00:01:30.340 Trudeau. And under nine years, almost 10 years of that government, it is remarkable how much our

00:01:35.640 country has fallen. And so we have our work cut out for us. But that is why we are here. That is why

00:01:40.460 we continue to fight. I truly believe that one of the things that Canada needs to fight back and to

00:01:46.780 have a fighting chance at surviving and not turning into a Venezuela North is a free and 0.53

00:01:52.240 independent media. And that is why we do what we do here at Juno News. That is why we continue to

00:01:56.380 fight. So look, folks, we have a special episode for you today. I have Kian Bexty, my co-founder in

00:02:01.920 the studio. We flew out from Calgary out to Ontario. We're going to be recording a fireside chat a little

00:02:07.440 later today for our paid subscribers only. So if you want to see that, head on over to JunoNews.com,

00:02:12.600 become a premium subscriber, and you will be able to access that. So since I have Kian in the studio,

00:02:18.280 I decided to turn things over to him today. And he has some thoughts on the state of our country,

00:02:23.820 and specifically about Conservative leader Pierre Polyev, and what Kian thinks Polyev needs to do

00:02:30.640 to fight for Canada and to live another day as leader of the Conservative Party. So I am going to

00:02:36.000 vacate the studio and turn things over to Kian, and you will hear a great presentation from him. So over to

00:02:42.120 you, Kian. Thanks, Candice. It's great to be here in your studio in Ontario. I want to talk today

00:02:47.960 about the three things that Pierre Polyev must do in order to win and beat Mark Carney in the next

00:02:53.540 election and even to get on his feet in this parliament. Pierre Polyev is the most popular

00:02:58.900 Conservative leader in our generation. He built a coalition that stretched from Bay Street all the

00:03:04.180 way to backcountry Alberta, and he dominated the airwaves. He set records for online reach, and even

00:03:10.240 after the 2025 loss, millions of Canadians still believe that he is the right guy to lead this

00:03:17.480 country. But this past election showed us something interesting. It's not enough to be right. You have

00:03:25.180 to fight the right fights at the right time in the right way, or else somebody else is going to define

00:03:32.300 the terms for you. And that is exactly what happened in 2025. Mark Carney walked into the role of

00:03:39.880 responsible adult in the room while Pierre, a man who's devoted his entire career to fighting for the

00:03:46.920 taxpayer, was caricatured by the CBC as risky, unstable, and even Trumpian, which was not true. But the ballot box

00:03:55.920 question got completely hijacked, and they let it happen. Here's one of the hard truths. Pierre didn't

00:04:04.020 lose this election on ideas or on qualifications. He lost it on narrative. And that can be fixed, but it

00:04:11.400 means making some changes, ones that are not easy, but ones that are definitely necessary if he wants to

00:04:17.400 win the next election. Here are the three things that I think Pierre Polyev must do to take back Canada.

00:04:23.920 Number one, he needs to set the agenda or be buried by theirs. In 2025, Canadians voted on a question they

00:04:32.780 didn't even know they were answering. Are you scared of Donald Trump? Of course, the answer was yes. And the

00:04:38.980 answer was not Pierre Polyev. This wasn't Pierre's fault, but it became Pierre's problem. Every time he tried to

00:04:45.080 talk about inflation, or housing or freedom, the liberals with a little help from the CBC changed the subject. And

00:04:51.400 instead of bulldozing through it, our side let them. Carney ran on competence, calm, and credibility.

00:04:58.760 He offered a tax cut, a military budget, and a quiet return to the status quo. And after a decade of

00:05:04.500 Justin Trudeau, that sounded pretty appetizing to Canadians. But underneath that, he's still the

00:05:09.540 same globalist banker who brags about his Rolodex in Davos. He gave the United States first refusal on

00:05:15.740 Canadian strategic minerals. He signed a massive pact with the EU just days into his term. He didn't

00:05:21.840 stand up to Trump. He traded our sovereignty for a seat at his table. He's on his leash now. That

00:05:28.920 should have been the ballot question, but it wasn't. Pierre has got to go into the next election setting the

00:05:34.520 terms, not reacting, not rebutting, leading. That means driving the conversation towards ideas

00:05:41.200 that Canadians actually care about. Like fairness for women and protecting kids from transgender 1.00

00:05:49.660 ideology. That means deporting illegal migrants and going scorched earth on Canada's immigration system. It needs 1.00

00:05:58.060 to be completely revamped, reconsidered, and brought down to nearly zero, if not a negative system. A country where rules

00:06:06.220 and laws mean something again. And rebuilding the high trust society that Canadians who lived in the 1900s

00:06:13.660 remember from the 1900s. The Canada that we're living in is unrecognizable to what it was in the 1980s.

00:06:20.540 These aren't fringe issues. They're majority issues. They're moral issues. And when we avoid them, voters think

00:06:27.340 that we're scared, that we don't want to talk about what really matters. But when we lead with courage and

00:06:33.420 clarity, even critics start to respect us. In short, we need to be the ones asking the question, not the

00:06:40.940 ones trying to answer it, not the ones responding to what Rosemary Barton is angry about on any given day.

00:06:46.940 Now, the second thing that Pierre needs to do is embrace Alberta and respect its instincts. Let's be

00:06:52.300 clear. Alberta has never turned its back on Pierre Polyev. In 2025, Conservatives won with like 63% of the vote

00:06:59.100 here, up eight points. The Conservative Party took almost all of the seats. And it was Alberta MP Damien

00:07:05.980 Couric who stepped up and said, come on to my riding, we've got your back. Conservatives have each other's

00:07:11.900 back like family, but even family has expectations. And here's what Alberta expects. A leader who doesn't

00:07:19.020 treat us like a region to be managed, but as a partner to be respected. Alberta is a place where people

00:07:26.380 believe in hard work, fairness and freedom. But it's also a place that's tired of being told what

00:07:32.300 it's allowed to even want. When Cam Davies ran on an independence platform in Old Stidsbury,

00:07:37.900 Three Hills and got 17% of the vote, media said Alberta has spoken. But let's be honest,

00:07:42.860 that was a vote against Cam Davies, not against the idea of Alberta independence. If real serious,

00:07:49.580 if a real serious referendum was held with a clear question, the numbers would be much, much higher.

00:07:55.260 Here's the opportunity. Pierre doesn't have to endorse separation. He just has to respect Albertans

00:08:00.780 enough to make the decision on their own. If Pierre does that, Alberta will go to war for him. If he 0.93

00:08:07.580 doesn't, someone else will fill that space. Lastly, and very importantly, he needs to let the grassroots

00:08:14.620 lead again. Pierre built this movement from the ground up. He's a campaigner, a fighter, a hustler,

00:08:20.700 but over time, the party around him started making backroom decisions that don't reflect the same

00:08:26.220 ethic. In 2025, we saw a riding after riding where local members were shut out of nominations.

00:08:32.780 Candidates were parachuted in, often last minute, often for optics. Good people were disqualified

00:08:39.500 without explanation. Michael De Jong in BC was one of them, a former finance minister with five balanced

00:08:46.460 budgets blackballed. Why? No one knows, but you can look at who replaced him. Or take Brampton,

00:08:54.940 where every single conservative candidate was of one background, not because they earned the nomination,

00:08:59.180 but because someone in charge of appointments thought that that's what the community wanted.

00:09:03.660 The problem isn't diversity. The problem is tokenism. Canadians can tell the difference. And frankly,

00:09:09.260 most conservatives don't want either. The irony is, when you let local members choose their candidate,

00:09:15.740 they usually pick a winner. Pierre needs to own this moment, and he should promise an overhaul of

00:09:21.020 the nomination process. Every riding gets a vote. Every riding gets to choose who will represent them on

00:09:28.060 the ballot. No more late appointments. No more appointing people because of their last name,

00:09:34.700 or of what church they go to. No more trust us, we know best from Ottawa. That alone would electrify the base.

00:09:44.140 When nomination votes happened, largely good candidates won. And while we're at it, let's talk about the

00:09:49.980 front bench. Pierre is a strong leader, but next to Mark Carney, he needs a wingman who's lived a different life.

00:09:57.420 Not someone who's been in politics or a policy nerd. Someone who speaks human. Someone like a nurse,

00:10:05.900 a vet, a trucker, a business leader. Someone who hasn't spent the last 20 years in parliament. Not

00:10:10.780 that there's anything wrong with that. The movement just needs someone to compliment Pierre. The movement

00:10:16.460 is bigger than Ottawa. And let's show Canadians what Canada actually looks like. Here's the bottom line.

00:10:23.660 Pierre Polyev is still the most important political leader in Canada. He has a larger,

00:10:29.020 more durable coalition than Mark Carney, deeper grassroots, and a better instinct for the moment

00:10:34.700 than anyone else. But even the best leaders need course corrections. This isn't about abandoning what

00:10:41.180 worked. This isn't about abandoning the team. It's about doubling down and making sure that the next

00:10:48.140 time voters don't just hear the conservatives, they believe them. If Pierre sets the agenda,

00:10:54.540 respects Alberta, and opens the gates to the base, he can beat Mark Carney. He will beat Mark Carney.

00:11:01.740 Most importantly, he can rebuild this country into a country that we can recognize.

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Juno News - July 02, 2025

How Pierre Poilievre can TAKE BACK Canada

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