Juno News - May 10, 2022


Legacy Media journalists want Conservatives to be boring and meek


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2 minutes

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191.49869

Word count

437

Sentence count

23


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Patrick Brown skipped the Conservative leadership debate. Why did he not participate? Is it because he didn t want to be a part of the debate, or because he was too afraid to be called out by his fellow candidates for his flaws?

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00:00:00.000 They would rather us never talk about the areas where we disagree, to just sort of pretend that we all agree about everything and not talk about the issues so that what it comes across as more gentlemanly.
00:00:11.440 I think this is a very wrong and outdated view of politics.
00:00:16.040 Likewise, Brian Lilly over at the Toronto Sun said that the conservative leadership debate was a poor performance.
00:00:21.660 He said it was angry, confrontational, and at times bitter are some of the ways you could describe the performances.
00:00:27.140 It wasn't the fault of the organizers, the Canada Strong and Free Network, from putting together a debate that allowed for a free exchange of ideas.
00:00:32.840 The problem is what the candidates were saying.
00:00:35.660 It's hard to say if anyone won, though I would say that Polyev and Lewis both lost.
00:00:40.940 And then he said the next debate is May 11th in Edmonton, and he hopes for some better performances then.
00:00:47.140 Again, I don't quite understand, I don't agree with Brian Lilly here, because when he says better performances, does he just mean like more agreement, more gentlemanliness?
00:00:54.540 Like, I think the idea of a debate is to debate ideas.
00:00:58.280 You want to see the candidates pushing back, calling each other out, saying the weaknesses of the other candidate, not just getting up there and saying, you know, the conservatives are so great, the conservatives, we all agree.
00:01:11.020 It's like, no, conservatism is a big tent.
00:01:13.820 There's lots of different directions the party can go in, depending on who wins and who's leader.
00:01:17.740 And we want to be able to judge that.
00:01:20.020 So I don't understand this take, and I don't think that you, I don't think a boring debate is a better debate.
00:01:26.420 I think a boring debate is a worse debate.
00:01:28.460 Likewise, this website, toronto.com, says, I rule generating political theater.
00:01:34.740 Patrick Brown explains his decision to skip the conservative debate.
00:01:37.900 So he's quoted as saying this, instead of participating in yesterday's I rule generating political theater, I was on the ground in Atlantic Canada.
00:01:47.240 The support I've already received from my campaign in Atlantic Canada has been amazing.
00:01:51.920 I was working all week building the party in areas my opponents have very little connectivity.
00:01:57.180 So Patrick Brown patting himself on the back and applauding himself for being too afraid to come to the debate, not wanting to participate in that exchange of ideas, not wanting to be called out by his fellow candidates for, you know, the very, very many flaws that he has.
00:02:13.580 And instead, he's going to, my guess, his very small rooms.