Juno News - Is the media afraid of Pierre Poilievre？

00:00:00.000 I want to ask you, Hamish, because throughout the campaign, we've seen huge rallies, huge,

00:00:05.540 huge numbers of people lining up to go out and see Pierre. It really seems like there's an

00:00:10.100 electricity and excitement around that campaign. And we saw the media sort of try to downplay it

00:00:15.100 and say that, okay, well, you know, he's just picking up the momentum from the trucker convoy

00:00:20.280 and these aren't really voters and it's not going to convert into memberships. It's sort of

00:00:25.120 people being skeptical, I would say, of the ground campaign that Pierre might be able to run. Well,

00:00:29.800 if these numbers are accurate and they turn out to be, I think that Pierre has really proven those

00:00:34.900 pundits and those journalists wrong. What do you take about the difference between the way that the

00:00:41.000 media covered Trudeau back in 2013 and the so-called Trudeau mania, signing up free members versus how

00:00:46.820 Pierre has been treated in this race? Look, what Pierre is doing is he's changing the paradigm.

00:00:51.520 He's connecting with groups of people, Canadians who have never been involved in politics.

00:00:55.680 Overwhelming thing you find if you go to one of Pierre's rallies, and I know, you know,

00:00:58.780 you've had your team there and you're asking people, have you ever been to a political event

00:01:02.140 before? It's no, it's my first one. You hear that again and again and again. And what's happening

00:01:08.180 is that that Pierre is connected with a group of people who are not traditionally being super

00:01:12.540 involved in Canadian politics. And the traditional people in Canadian politics, whether that's the

00:01:17.700 insiders in Ottawa or the media, don't understand that. It's not people like them. It's not their

00:01:23.480 friends going down to a Pierre rally. As a result, they keep coming up with excuses about why it can't

00:01:28.520 be real. Sure, you get big rallies, but it's only in Calgary or in Alberta or a conservative area. Oh,

00:01:33.160 now you're getting big numbers in Windsor and Ottawa and Toronto and places that conservatives don't do

00:01:38.600 well, but those people won't sign up. Oh, now they've signed up, but then we want to actually vote. We

00:01:42.600 keep hearing all these excuses. The reality on the ground is that people are engaged, they're fired up,

00:01:48.920 they're looking for something different. And that's something that's what Pierre is providing.

Juno News - June 09, 2022