00:00:00.000let's talk about mark carney and what he has been doing out on the campaign trail this has kind of
00:00:04.480become a little mini scandal this idea that he is refusing to go on tvr the french language uh
00:00:11.680debate face to face and he originally said that he was going to do it and then suddenly he says
00:00:17.040that he is not doing it so at a campaign stop out in gander newfoundland mark carney said he would
00:00:22.320accept pierre polyev's challenge to go on tvs debate let's play that clip bonjour monsieur
00:00:28.960So he says we, like, of course I will.
00:00:47.220But then, despite saying that he would, this is reported in the Toronto Sun, Carney now says that he won't take part in the TVA debate and that the top liberals face scrutiny
00:00:58.560for his french skills particularly during the liberal leadership race some people online saying
00:01:04.000that it's something about how they were charging the campaign that they were charging people 75
00:01:08.800000 to do this campaign and that's that's the real reason because somehow the liberals are now
00:01:16.240morally opposed to giving media money even though they fund all the newspapers and they fund the cbc
00:01:22.240but this is a line too far and they're not willing to pay to be part of this debate what do you
00:01:26.400you think, Josh? Well, don't worry about it, liberals. I know you're broke. It's okay. But,
00:01:30.380you know, Paul, you have extended an olive branch about 20 minutes ago saying, don't worry,
00:01:35.280liberals. I'll cover it for you. The conservative party will cover the fee. Just come to the table
00:01:39.500and have a conversation. But no, the real conversation, the reality is Mark Carney
00:01:43.580doesn't want to debate in French. And I do, I think you're gonna have to correct me on this
00:01:48.440because this is where it's been a little confusing. I know he's agreed to the opposite
00:01:52.280the english language debate and he has agreed to a french language debate tvr i believe was the
00:01:56.680additional it was like almost a third debate a second yeah and i think that's something we just
00:02:01.160need to clear up there where this isn't him trying to avoid a french language debate this is him
00:02:06.200avoiding trying to get wrecked again in a second like french language debate that's right well
00:02:10.760yeah because he knows he would um he i was talking to a friend who has a grandfather who lives in
00:02:16.760quebec and she was asking him who's a staunch liberal his whole life and asked him what were
00:02:22.840your thoughts on mark carney's french and he said good luck in quebec that's all he said
00:02:28.680and that's kind of what we're going to be seeing here is this is again a play to making sure that
00:02:33.400um they minimize the amount of stage time he has with polyev especially in french because polyev
00:02:38.600from alberta i'm not a francophone but i i've heard enough people from quebec speak french
00:02:44.280and his nuances his uh cadence how he does that you know starts up speaking like he's
00:02:50.280got a down pat you think he's a francophone the way he talks is actually kind of impressive and
00:02:54.520And it almost freaks me out in some ways, but that is what they're trying to avoid.