Juno News - April 07, 2025


Over 6,000 Canadians flocked to see Pierre Poilievre in Oshawa


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Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

137.66753

Word Count

1,219

Sentence Count

79

Misogynist Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 We'll be right back.
00:00:30.000 This is Clayton Demain reporting for True North in Oshawa, Ontario.
00:00:37.980 It just took me about seven minutes to walk the length of this line.
00:00:43.260 There's certainly, I didn't get a good count, but there's certainly thousands of people here to see Pierre Polyev in Oshawa.
00:00:50.980 Recently, Donald Trump just announced 25% tariffs on the auto industry.
00:00:58.100 Oshawa is an automotive town.
00:01:00.960 40% of Ontario's exports are in automobile.
00:01:06.300 Pierre Polyev announced a GST tax cut for all Canadian vehicles that are made in Canada.
00:01:12.580 There's a counter-protest of about 40 mostly pro-Palestinian protesters.
00:01:19.480 I heard calls for the Polyev supporters to go back to Europe, something that's typically used against Jewish Israeli citizens.
00:01:27.980 Conservative volunteers are urging the crowd not to engage with the protesters, which are trying to get a rise out of the estimated at least 4,000 Canadians showing up for Polyev.
00:01:39.700 There's so many people here, thousands of them likely not going to be able to get into the venue.
00:01:47.960 It's just an energized crowd.
00:01:49.660 You hear a lot of people saying that they're trying to take their country back, save Canada.
00:01:58.620 It seems like a lot of people hold that the liberals pose an existential threat to the future of this country.
00:02:07.360 We're going to try to speak with some supporters, listen to the rally, and just get a sense of why people are supporting Pierre in such great numbers.
00:02:15.620 A liberal government that has weakened our economy, left us with unaffordable housing, rising crime, and vulnerable in the face of the threats of Donald Trump.
00:02:37.380 Or, are we going to elect a conservative government who's going to put Canada first for a change?
00:02:56.380 Who's going to change Canada?
00:02:59.380 Who's ready to come to save Canada?
00:03:00.380 Who's ready to come to save Canada?
00:03:01.380 Who's ready to come to save Canada?
00:03:02.380 Who's ready to build some homes for a change?
00:03:06.380 Who's ready to stop the crime for a change?
00:03:19.380 For a change, oh Canada, we stand on time, for thee.
00:03:37.440 It's amazing energy from a lot of great Canadians coming together in the spirit of friendship and love and, you know, wanting to make change in this country, a positive change, right?
00:03:47.680 He wants to work as hard as he can for Canada and for all Canadians to make our lives better.
00:03:52.540 I'm here because after 10 years, after the last 10 years, if things continue as they are, then I don't really see a lot of hope for this country.
00:04:04.040 And I think the way the media has spun the popularity of Carney, it's very dangerous.
00:04:10.640 He may actually win, but he doesn't deserve to win.
00:04:13.920 He hasn't earned the right to win.
00:04:16.460 And I think Canadians are being deceived into who he is, what he stands for.
00:04:22.680 And I think there's a lot, this election really does matter.
00:04:26.440 I'm here to support Paulyev because I'm tired of the Liberals destroying this country.
00:04:32.800 The last 10 years have been excruciating to live in this country.
00:04:36.700 It's been very hard to be proud to be a Canadian in this country because of what the Liberals have done.
00:04:40.680 And I'm here to back the PCs because of Pierre's platform.
00:04:45.900 It couldn't be a better person right now to represent Canada and get this country back to where it used to be before the Liberals took over.
00:04:52.760 What do you think is at risk if the Liberals win a fourth term?
00:04:56.640 Everything.
00:04:57.860 What Trudeau has created in the destruction of this country, Carney will continue.
00:05:02.820 The industry will be decimated.
00:05:04.880 The net zero carbon tax scam.
00:05:07.580 It's disgusting what they're trying to do.
00:05:10.460 Carney is an outsider.
00:05:11.660 He doesn't speak for Canadians.
00:05:13.580 He's going to just be for big business in his Brookfield and all of his assets and just try to make him and his cronies richer.
00:05:21.380 It just would be the destruction of Canada.
00:05:24.800 What do you think about the energy here?
00:05:27.160 The polls are saying that the Liberals and Conservatives are quite tight in the polls.
00:05:33.740 What do you think the energy here tells you and should tell Canadians?
00:05:37.620 The polls are BS.
00:05:39.440 100% BS.
00:05:41.040 Anybody with half a brain that comes out to these rallies and sees what happens here and they watch what happens at Carney's rallies knows what really is happening in this country.
00:05:51.140 It is going to be a PC whitewash.
00:05:52.840 They're going to wipe the Liberals off the map in this next election.
00:05:56.300 I guarantee it.
00:05:57.280 There's no way that the Liberals are going to continue the destruction of this country.
00:06:02.140 Canadians have realized what they're doing.
00:06:04.660 This is over.
00:06:06.260 It's over for the Liberals.
00:06:07.640 Did you think about the energy at the rally today?
00:06:10.620 It's, uh, there was a, you know, everyone's all positive and everything.
00:06:17.260 So, I mean, I think, uh, I have a good, confident, um, idea of, uh, where we're going with this.
00:06:26.100 I think we have a chance, a very good chance to, uh, get this election.
00:06:30.900 What do you think they hope, um, the Conservative leader can bring to Canada?
00:06:35.440 Pierre's right when he says, um, it's been a lost decade, like a lost Liberal decade, and you can see it all around you, like the housing prices, groceries, inflation, and everything.
00:06:47.540 And I do believe in his idea of, like, asking the tax, and hopefully this is what will bring us back to where we were, right?
00:06:56.760 Bring it home.
00:06:57.320 Is there anything I didn't ask you that you think is relevant you'd like to add?
00:07:00.740 I've never, uh, voted before, and the way things are going right now, uh, I'm 30 years old, but it's really come to a time where I think that I need to vote.
00:07:11.600 And if I don't, like, things will get worse. Much, much, much worse.
00:07:18.240 So, hopefully this is for the future. I can make a change, do something, do what I can, and I would say I'll vote. I need to vote. Everyone needs to vote.
00:07:29.280 So, the rally is about wrapped up now. Uh, people have, uh, left. Pierre Polyev said that there was 6,000 people. I heard from organizers 6,500, uh, people showed up. Um, when I was in line 30 minutes prior to the doors opening, I heard from organizers that there was 4,000 people, um, in the line.
00:07:51.280 Speaking to supporters, you hear things like, um, there's no other choice. Um, it's, you know, the fate of the country is at stake. There's, it seems like there's, like, a lot of, um, participants to this rally, uh, truly feel like Pierre Polyev is, is their best hope. Um, and that if the Liberals win, it's, it would be the end of Canada.
00:08:13.980 Uh, we spoke to the Pleb reporter who, who explicitly said that. He thinks that if, uh, if Liberals win, Alberta will secede. There'll be a national unity crisis.
00:08:25.680 There was three medical emergencies that happened. Uh, Pierre had to, uh, stop the, his speech multiple times. Of course, a lot of, uh, protesters are, uh, really hopeful and, and energetic about, and enthusiastic about, uh, a potential conservative victory.
00:08:42.620 And, and we've heard a conservative majority. Um, so, uh, this has been Clayton DeMaine, uh, in Oshawa, Ontario, reporting for True North.