Juno News - Melissa Lantsman on Mark Carney's caucus crackdown

00:00:00.000 The image emerging of the Prime Minister this week, at least according to some, is one of

00:00:04.360 a Jekyll and Hyde character, joking with reporters and smiling when he's on camera, but of a

00:00:10.680 short-tempered demagogue behind closed doors.

00:00:14.440 Our guest today is Melissa Lansman, MP for Thornhill.

00:00:17.240 Welcome to the show, Melissa.

00:00:18.240 Thanks for having me.

00:00:20.240 Tell me, what do you make of some of the reports coming out of media regarding these caucus

00:00:26.940 meetings and some of the behavior that we're hearing about as far as the prime minister goes

00:00:32.460 towards his mps i think you're seeing uh exactly what we've been talking about for uh for months

00:00:39.500 and months and almost you know more than a year now since he's been elected there is the the reality

00:00:44.380 and there is the illusion and that uh that's true in all of the policy announcements that he's been

00:00:50.940 making versus the actual delivery of results. And it's also true, it turns out, in his personal

00:00:57.000 character. But more than just personal character, I think it says something about him that the

00:01:03.620 people should pay attention to. You see, MPs are there as a conduit, as representatives of

00:01:10.020 constituents, of real Canadians on the ground. We hear these stories day in and day out. And to have

00:01:16.540 a guy who just doesn't want to hear any of it, I think tells you everything you need to know about

00:01:21.800 the world that Mark Carney lives in. Like the high-flying sort of Davos speeches versus the

00:01:30.500 everyday pain that Canadians from coast to coast to coast are feeling on groceries, on gas,

00:01:38.180 on the price of homes. That stuff's uninteresting for him. And he's dismissive of that. And that's

00:01:44.620 exactly what i think when he's dismissive of an mp yeah the sense that he's this plutocrat

00:01:49.580 you know completely bubble wrap uh as far as the pain that canadiens are feeling it also if he's

00:01:56.880 showing this level of disdain towards his own members of parliament i mean imagine how little

00:02:01.500 he thinks about the rest of us well that i mean that's it's it's it's one in the same right like

00:02:06.480 you're there really as first of all privileged position to be there but you're there really as

00:02:11.880 a conduit for the people that you represent. And you're supposed to go to Ottawa with the

00:02:16.280 voice of those people. You're not supposed to be the voice of Ottawa in the constituency.

00:02:20.640 And I think he's got it all wrong. And I think it speaks to his character. I think it speaks

00:02:26.400 to the type of prime minister that he is.

Juno News - June 08, 2026