Juno News - Marilyn Gladu DEFECTS to the Liberal Party to help Mark Carney form a Majority Government

00:00:00.000 Wonderful, thank you so much. I'm very happy to be the newest member of our new Liberal government.

00:00:06.300 The Liberals violated the Charter Rights of Canadians by freezing their bank accounts

00:00:10.700 when the threat of a national security threshold was never met.

00:00:14.860 They've wasted millions of dollars of taxpayer money

00:00:17.740 and now they are appealing this court decision for a third time.

00:00:21.360 mp marilyn gladu once known as a staunch conservative from southern ontario has joined

00:00:35.520 the liberal party making her officially the fourth conservative mp to cross the floor and to join

00:00:42.300 mark carney's government caucus the majority government is now all but certain of the four

00:00:47.980 conservative floor crossers of the liberals, MP Marilyn Gladue's floor crossing is the most

00:00:53.500 damaging to Pierre Polyev, but also the least logical personally for Marilyn Gladue. Now,

00:01:00.240 before we get into what this actually means for Mark Carney and Pierre Polyev,

00:01:05.240 it's important to mention that Marilyn Gladue won her seat in 2025 with over 53% of the vote.

00:01:12.980 that was the most dominant electoral victory of the four that she has won according to 338 canada

00:01:19.940 right now maryland gladu's riding is projected to be a 47 conservative riding so what gives

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00:01:44.160 on Substack. Before we get into it, as usual, be sure to drop a like on this video, subscribe to

00:01:49.180 the Juno News YouTube channel, and the common question for the episode is this. Will Pierre

00:01:54.380 Polyev be able to hold on to the leadership of the Conservative Party by the end of this year?

00:01:59.540 Let me know your answer in the comments below, and let's get into it. Here is Mark Kearney

00:02:03.640 announcing maryland gladu as the newest member of the liberal government caucus uh it is a great

00:02:10.520 pleasure uh to welcome maryland gladu to and we'll do it officially yes it's a handshake in english

00:02:16.360 uh a officially to the government caucus uh and to the liberal caucus um maryland has a tremendous

00:02:25.640 experience in business as an engineer, international business experience and ten years, four elections

00:02:34.720 of experience in Parliament and one of the most collaborative members of Parliament working

00:02:40.440 across party lines on important issues and really dedicated to her electors in Sarnia,

00:02:46.920 which I am informed rightly, means where the waters meet.

00:02:53.920 And the waters, in my analogy, are meeting in service of Canadians.

00:02:59.920 Mark Carney now has 171 members on his government benches,

00:03:04.920 just one shy of a majority government.

00:03:07.920 With the results of three by-elections being counted this coming Monday,

00:03:11.920 Mark Carney needs to win only one to have his majority.

00:03:15.920 as majority none of that actually matters though because scarborough southwest and university

00:03:20.800 rosedale are guaranteed to go liberal so the majority government is essentially here the

00:03:27.120 writing of terrebonne in quebec however becomes a little more interesting and far more important

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00:05:31.100 and fastest ways to take back control of your personal information. 338 Canada projects Terre

00:05:37.280 Bond to be a Liberal bloc toss-up, a very close race. Now, Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

00:05:44.820 looks set to probably win the Ontario Liberal leadership race, which would result in him

00:05:50.460 resigning his seat. Now, if Mark Carney was to lose Terre Bond and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith was

00:05:55.800 to win the Ontario Liberal leadership race, that would bring Mark Carney's numbers to 172,

00:06:00.340 a one-seat majority. What happens now with Stephen Gilbeau and Jonathan Wilkinson,

00:06:05.260 and two former Liberal cabinet ministers who are now fully outside of Mark Carney's inner circle.

00:06:11.780 This will not be an overwhelming majority government for Mark Carney.

00:06:14.740 Now, of course, Canadian voters didn't give him one, and they didn't give him one on purpose,

00:06:19.920 but even if he is able to cobble this together, the majority will be one seat, maybe two, if he wins Terrebonne.

00:06:27.740 But more importantly, the signal that this sends to the country is far worse for the Conservative Party.

00:06:34.020 Let's look at this as objectively as possible. Pierre Polyev has lost his fourth conservative

00:06:39.820 MP to the government benches. His communications advisor, Kate Merrifield, resigned the day before

00:06:46.400 Marilyn Gladue crossed the floor. Given that, of all people, Marilyn Gladue just crossed the floor

00:06:51.640 to the liberals, the likelihood of this train of floor crossers having any breaks is pretty low. 0.96

00:06:59.280 So the possibility of more is quite high at this point. 1.00

00:07:03.540 Furthermore, Mark Carney still remains dominant in the polling.

00:07:06.740 The idea that Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives are going to beat the Liberals

00:07:11.680 if an election is called anytime soon is extremely low.

00:07:17.380 So what is actually going on here?

00:07:19.660 How did a Conservative MP that openly supported the trucker convoy...

00:07:24.260 The Emergency Measures Act has been ruled unlawful by the courts twice.

00:07:29.060 The Liberals violated the charter rights of Canadians by freezing their bank accounts

00:07:33.400 when the threat of a national security threshold was never met.

00:07:37.440 That has opposed the Liberal government's use of the Emergencies Act,

00:07:41.360 that voted against the so-called conversion therapy bill,

00:07:45.500 which actually was just a piece of legislation to criminalize parents

00:07:49.460 from telling their kids that they might not actually be trans. 0.94

00:07:52.580 She also voted in favor to ban the disgusting act of sex-selective abortions. 0.98

00:08:01.060 This woman, Marilyn Gladue, is not a bleeding-heart liberal by any stretch of the imagination. 0.96

00:08:07.640 It should be noted, by the way, that in both of those bills, Marilyn Gladue voted opposite

00:08:12.980 Pierre Polyev. Prior to this floor crossing, one could have easily made the case that Marilyn

00:08:18.400 Gladue was more conservative than Pierre Polyev. At the very least, it would have been safe to say

00:08:23.960 that Marilyn Gladue was part of the conservative wing of the conservative party. Now, hilariously,

00:08:29.460 in response to the previous three other MPs that crossed the floor before she did, 0.75

00:08:36.160 Marilyn Gladue endorsed the idea that those floor crossers should face a by-election from 0.96

00:08:42.180 their constituents. Now, if I was a conservative voter in Sarnia-Lambton, I wouldn't be expecting 1.00

00:08:47.420 to see Marilyn Gladue on a by-election ballot anytime soon. She also previously celebrated 0.98

00:08:53.340 other conservative MPs for not crossing the floor after they announced that they were the

00:08:58.640 subjects of previous liberal attempts to lure them away. Listen to former liberal staffer Scott

00:09:05.940 Reed on CTV describe the situation that we're looking at here. We've never seen anything like

00:09:11.480 this we've never seen an election in 2025 and one year within one year a stampede of five members

00:09:20.460 of parliament from another party into the sitting government caucus not as a move on mass not as

00:09:26.840 some realignment within the house of commons but just individual members of parliament saying

00:09:31.860 i've decided the party i ran for just months ago is no longer the party i wish to be aligned with

00:09:36.720 instead i'm going to cross the floor to this other party this is a staggering political development 0.99

00:09:41.840 but what's even funnier is that because marilyn gladu has this subtle social conservatism streak 0.52

00:09:48.020 in her this is actually offending some of the more progressive side of the liberal party this was a

00:09:54.440 tweet from justin trudeau staffer supria dwivetti earlier today in response to gladu's floor

00:10:01.320 crossing. Guys, maybe we should all reread values. It's possible we all missed the part where Carney

00:10:06.800 said we don't actually have to have any. So this has left many Canadians, both conservatives and

00:10:13.340 even some liberals, very puzzled to say the least. What does this say about Pierre Poliev's grip on

00:10:19.440 the party if he is managing to bleed out socially conservative MPs to the Liberal Party, or at

00:10:25.200 least MPs that claim to be social conservatives? I'm not going to be the guy to oppose floor

00:10:29.940 crossing. It's part of our system. It's part of the system that we have inherited. Sometimes it

00:10:35.720 goes the way of conservatives. When Andrew Scheer was leading the party, he convinced Leona Alislev

00:10:41.020 to cross from the government benches to the opposition benches. Now, does this scream

00:10:46.420 democracy? Obviously not. Canadians did not give Mark Carney a majority mandate. They gave him a

00:10:54.160 minority mandate. Now, it would be decent if he wanted to secure a majority mandate by letting

00:11:00.760 Canadians decide. But I also don't believe that this signals the end of Canadian democracy. I'm

00:11:05.900 not going to be hyperbolic about this either. The biggest problem here is that Mark Carney is just

00:11:10.940 a cunning individual, far more cunning and Machiavellian perhaps than most Canadians

00:11:16.880 anticipated. He doesn't strike the frame of some backroom political brawler. But evidently,

00:11:23.180 that seems to be who he is. He's obviously not particularly concerned about ideology the same

00:11:28.980 way Justin Trudeau was, for example. He's obviously just far more concerned about securing power

00:11:33.880 and playing politics. When Mark Carney does get his majority government, the biggest problem

00:11:38.660 facing him will be in committees. Right now, the liberals do not hold the balance of power

00:11:44.800 in committees. This could stymie his legislative agenda. Unless, of course, he wanted to prorogue

00:11:50.060 parliament in order to reshape the committees now last week he was asked about this and mark

00:11:55.580 carney flatly denied the reporting that he was considering a prorogation take a listen if you

00:12:01.660 get a majority government in 10 days are you considering proroguing parliament which may get

00:12:06.060 in the way of any potential legislation okay the first i can answer the second one first absolutely

00:12:11.260 not it has never even entered my thinking the possibility of that uh so i couldn't have been

00:12:19.500 more surprised to see a suggestion that what that was under consideration so if he's not going to

00:12:24.460 prorogue parliament with his newfound majority government the only other way to reshape the

00:12:29.260 committees is to dissolve parliament and call an election now if you're a liberal you might

00:12:33.660 be thinking to yourself we have majority government let's use it if the polling is to be believed

00:12:40.300 the liberals are not facing electoral defeat in the next election in fact they're looking at a

00:12:45.260 a liberal majority government. They're looking at securing an even larger majority, one in which

00:12:50.620 Mark Carney can be the one bleeding members, but still not lose his control over parliament.

00:12:56.280 But for Pierre Polyev, the priority has to be about how to stop the bleeding. This obviously

00:13:02.420 can't go on. It's getting out of control and morale must be quite low. But look, don't count

00:13:08.820 out the conservatives either. Things can change quickly. Look at what Mark Carney was able to do

00:13:14.560 the liberals things can change it can be done but right now from the outside from where i'm standing

00:13:21.520 and where i believe many canadians are looking at right now things look pretty bleak and the

00:13:27.520 conservatives have their backs up against the wall a reminder that you can get a discount on

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00:13:39.100 Also, another reminder, let me know your answer to the comment question below.

00:13:43.560 Is Pierre Apaliev going to hold on to the leadership of the Conservative Party by the end of this year?

00:13:49.460 Alright everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the show.

00:13:52.080 Thank you so much for watching.

00:13:53.600 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.

Juno News - April 10, 2026

Marilyn Gladu DEFECTS to the Liberal Party to help Mark Carney form a Majority Government

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