Juno News - June 09, 2022


Is the media afraid of Pierre Poilievre？

Topics
Pierre's ground campaign engagement
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Pierre Trudeau
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Length

1 minute

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207.01

Word count

394

Sentence count

22


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In this episode, I sit down with Hamish Pritchard and discuss the impact Pierre Trudeau has had on the ground campaign so far, and why the media should be paying attention to it. We talk about the difference between the way the media covered the Trudeau campaign back in 2013, and the way it's been handled in this campaign.

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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.