Juno News - April 03, 2026


Pierre Poilievre SLAMS radical NDP leader Avi Lewis and woke convention antics


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00:00:00.000 We've all heard the saying that this isn't your grandfather's NDP anymore.
00:00:04.640 And for Abby Lewis, that's probably a good thing because his grandfather, the former leader,
00:00:09.900 David Lewis, wouldn't recognize the party that his grandson now leads.
00:00:14.220 I'll again thank delegates not to call me Madam Chair or Madam La Presidence. I'm a
00:00:19.060 non-binary person. My pronouns are they, them, and their. Chair is sufficient.
00:00:23.480 Yes, hello. I was standing here with my gender equity card before you called on the previous
00:00:28.400 speaker that's my point of privilege i would like to yesterday this card was used in an inappropriate
00:00:35.200 matter i want everyone to be mindful that these cards for individuals like myself who identify
00:00:41.680 as a black woman have no value outside of this space early on the mic i it's hard as a racialized
00:00:49.800 and transgender delegate to sometimes use this card and and speak up speak to somebody in front 0.89
00:00:54.980 of me in line. I was able to ask Pierre Polyev to weigh in on the utter madness that we saw from 1.00
00:01:10.120 the NDP convention this past weekend, and I'll play his comments for you shortly.
00:01:15.460 There was more substantive debate and discussion over pronouns and speaking order. Who is more
00:01:20.980 oppressed in canada and therefore gets to speak first a black person or a trans person you might
00:01:27.700 think that at a time when the ndp doesn't have official party status and is polling in the
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00:02:05.540 i use juno to get my news and you should too now before we get into it be sure to drop a like on
00:02:10.500 this video subscribe to the juno news youtube channel and the common question for the episode
00:02:15.380 is this will avi lewis be a more successful ndp leader than jagmeet singh let me know in the
00:02:22.740 comments below and let's get into it well pierre poliev has weighed in on the use of equity cards
00:02:29.540 or literal race cards to determine speaking order in the frequent debates and disagreement over
00:02:36.100 misgendering and pronoun use at the ndp convention take a listen last weekend at the ndp convention
00:02:41.780 we saw the use of equity cards to determine speaking order based on skin color,
00:02:46.280 the flying of the Palestinian and Venezuelan flags on stage,
00:02:50.100 and frequent breakdown in debate over misgendering and pronouns.
00:02:54.220 What's your reaction, sir, to the NDP becoming the subject of international mockery?
00:02:59.000 Well, this has been the approach of the Liberals and the NDP for the last 10 years.
00:03:03.680 Both Liberals and NDP have taken on this approach
00:03:09.300 that is completely out of line with everyday Canadians.
00:03:12.840 The Canadian people want us to focus on their common sense priorities,
00:03:16.680 making the country affordable, safe, and strong.
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00:05:29.160 Here, the non-binary chair of the convention 0.97
00:05:32.040 gets misgendered by a non-binary woman
00:05:35.560 wearing a keffiyeh in a battle of oppression
00:05:38.520 between a white LGBTQ woman and a brown LGBTQ woman. 0.51
00:05:44.660 Canada cannot and will not be part of the legacy of blood 0.98
00:05:50.480 that was built in Iraq, in Palestine, and now in Iran.
00:05:55.400 This is a no question debate. 0.98
00:05:58.000 I call this question, Madam and Chairs.
00:06:01.460 Thank you.
00:06:06.800 Your point's quite well made, Speaker.
00:06:09.980 I'll again thank delegates not to call me Madam Chair
00:06:13.320 or Madame la Présidence.
00:06:14.500 I'm a non-binary person.
00:06:15.600 My pronouns are they, them, and their.
00:06:17.020 Chair is sufficient. 1.00
00:06:20.940 Here, a black woman wearing a mask complains 1.00
00:06:24.240 that the literal race card that she is holding 0.99
00:06:27.900 which is supposed to allow her to speak
00:06:29.840 in front of white people, 0.99
00:06:32.040 doesn't have any value outside of the room. 0.70
00:06:34.660 Oh, really?
00:06:36.080 You're telling me now for the first time.
00:06:37.980 Yesterday, this card was used in an inappropriate matter.
00:06:42.980 And while I understand in Ontario, we know this as equity,
00:06:46.900 even if that, this was also used inappropriate
00:06:49.980 in terms of gender.
00:06:51.620 I want everyone to be mindful that these cards
00:06:54.560 for individuals like myself,
00:06:56.500 who identify as a black woman, have no value outside of this space.
00:07:01.880 And check out this clip. 1.00
00:07:02.780 You have an Asian transgender individual complaining that his equity card
00:07:07.320 didn't prevent a cisgender woman from speaking in front of him,
00:07:12.840 despite the fact that she was in line in front of him.
00:07:16.000 You really can't make this stuff up.
00:07:17.460 Let's hear the point on microphone one.
00:07:20.660 I'm sorry, just real quick, point of personal privilege.
00:07:23.780 I understand there's very little time for delegates to speak,
00:07:28.680 but early on the mic, it's hard as a racialized and transgender delegate
00:07:33.520 to sometimes use this card and speak up, speak to somebody in front of me in line
00:07:38.380 and ask, hey, this pertains to multiple intersecting parts of my lived experience.
00:07:42.820 I'd like to speak.
00:07:43.900 I was rejected when I talked.
00:07:46.520 And it's frustrating when these are my rights being directly under attack right now in Alberta
00:07:52.240 and that a cisgender woman had spoken over me.
00:07:57.660 Yes, by the way, the cards that these people were holding in their hands,
00:08:02.280 equity cards, are like the use of literal race cards.
00:08:06.140 You know, when people pull the race card on you in a conversation or in a debate,
00:08:10.860 well, they have those for real in the NDP.
00:08:13.480 And it's supposed to allow equity-seeking individuals
00:08:17.020 an opportunity to speak in front of cisgender white men, I guess.
00:08:21.820 Now, over three days of this performative race and color-coded privilege debate, one
00:08:28.300 of the most pressing and consequential questions was left unanswered by the delegates of the
00:08:33.780 NDP convention.
00:08:35.400 Who is more oppressed, non-whites or trans people? 0.93
00:08:39.500 If a black woman is standing in line with a pink card in her hand and a trans person 0.88
00:08:44.660 is standing in a different line with a green card in their hand, who gets to speak first? 0.98
00:08:50.920 Forget about questions regarding health care and unions and workers' rights.
00:08:55.100 These are the serious questions facing the delegates of the NDP.
00:08:58.360 It's ironic, of course, that the NDP have elected
00:09:01.080 the scion of an elite Toronto political family to be their next leader.
00:09:06.700 Abbey Lewis's father was the former leader of the Ontario NDP
00:09:10.700 and Canada's former ambassador to the United Nations.
00:09:13.700 His grandfather was the former leader of the federal NDP.
00:09:17.200 The left in our country may snarl at Canada's colonial past and view elites as filthy settlers,
00:09:24.460 but when it comes to politics, they certainly have no issue with dipping back into the well
00:09:28.660 to pick from the established crop. In a way, it's a very Canadian thing to do. It's just funny to
00:09:34.040 see it from the party of mask-wearing, race-card-waving social justice warriors. Now, in the leadership
00:09:41.200 race of the NDP, it turns out that this guy, Rob Ashton, finished in a distant fourth place.
00:09:48.140 And we're done with the ruling class eating us alive. It's time we take our seats at the table
00:09:55.960 and eat the damn rich. By the way, when it was announced that Avi Lewis was elected as the next
00:10:05.960 leader of the federal NDP, take a look at this video here and watch closely to see if you can
00:10:12.880 spot something that is missing from this video. You might not have to look very hard.
00:10:26.080 You didn't see any Canadian flags, but you did probably notice the giant Palestinian flag
00:10:32.900 waving on stage, and maybe you even caught the much smaller but still very visible Venezuelan
00:10:39.660 flag. Two great ally countries to Canada, of course. Contrast that clip you just watched
00:10:46.100 with this clip from 2011 on election night, when NDP leader Jack Layton led his party
00:10:53.780 to official opposition status, the high watermark of the NDP in this century.
00:11:02.900 You can't miss, of course, the hundreds of Canadian flag-waving supporters of Jack Layton
00:11:16.740 on that day. There was no confusion over the election that Jack Layton ran and the country
00:11:22.780 in which he ran it. Whereas with this new NDP, you might be mistaken. Abby Lewis, the
00:11:29.500 new leader of the NDP, he's not shy about his political positions. He wants to abolish the oil
00:11:35.400 and gas industry in Canada. Things have gotten so bad, by the way, with his positions on energy
00:11:41.600 that immediately upon Abby Lewis winning the leadership of the NDP, Alberta NDP leader Nahid
00:11:49.240 Nenshi immediately criticized him on social media and then took questions from the press in which
00:11:55.240 he was asked quite bluntly if he would be considering changing the name of the Alberta NDP
00:12:00.400 so as not to confuse Alberta voters that he might have anything to do with Avi Lewis.
00:12:06.600 Off to a great start. Are you still open to changing the party's name? I believe you were
00:12:10.480 at one time. Does this make you more likely to do that? You know, I suppose the next step would be
00:12:15.440 to change the name if people wanted to, but I think the example we've seen from BC United is
00:12:20.440 that shockingly most people don't follow politics we had a focus group recently where we asked people
00:12:26.840 do you prefer new democrat or ndp and a number of you know engaged thoughtful people had never
00:12:32.520 stopped to think about that ndp stands for new democrat party uh so given that i think albertans
00:12:38.600 are smart enough to understand that we are different look it's no secret the ndp is not
00:12:42.840 the party of tom mulcare a man who goes on ctv and openly praises pierre polyev for example
00:12:49.960 it's certainly not the party of jack layton it isn't the party of avi lewis's grandfather and
00:12:55.960 it's certainly not the party of tommy douglas once voted the greatest canadian that debate and
00:13:02.760 that result can be argued about in a separate video tommy douglas in comparison by the way would
00:13:09.480 be considered today so conservative that he would be kicked out of the conservative party for some
00:13:14.680 some of his views. It is a well known fact, for example, that Mr. Douglas was a proponent of
00:13:20.160 eugenics. He wrote his thesis on it. But have you heard this guy's take on homosexuality? Take a
00:13:25.720 look at this and imagine what Tommy Douglas would be thinking if he were around to witness
00:13:30.340 his party's convention this past weekend. If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new
00:13:35.480 attitude to homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime and driving 0.93
00:13:41.320 it underground. We ought to recognize it for what it is. It's a, it's a mental illness.
00:13:45.500 It's a psychiatric condition, which ought to be treated sympathetically, which ought 0.79
00:13:50.340 to be treated by psychiatrists and social workers, the era of prairie populism and genuine
00:13:56.660 left-wing patriotism from the NDP. It seems to be well and truly over the NDP is an important
00:14:04.760 political institution in Canada. Tommy Douglas and the CCF, they've left a serious imprint
00:14:11.260 on Canada. And there was a real strain, a genuine political ideology that was rooted
00:14:19.380 in Tommy Douglas's politics. One that was pro Canada and pro worker, not my politics,
00:14:26.660 but one that I could genuinely respect. Today's NDP is just not the same. The idea that the
00:14:31.920 NDP is genuinely patriotic, for example, doesn't seem to be the case. Tommy Douglas was a proud
00:14:39.340 monarchist for example he believed in canada's institutions and our history he wouldn't be
00:14:45.580 cheering on the toppling of canadian statues he wouldn't be supporting the erasure of canadian
00:14:51.100 history does anyone get the sense of genuine patriotism from the ndp of avie lewis now
00:14:57.420 electorally let's just take a look at the politics behind this you don't need to be a political
00:15:03.420 science expert to recognize that a radical, unpopular and extremely left-wing NDP benefits
00:15:12.660 Mark Carney. This is probably the best thing for Mark Carney. If you have an extremely
00:15:18.120 woke, unpopular and radical NDP, well, that party is not a threat to split the left-wing
00:15:24.660 vote in Canada. That party is not going to make serious inroads in Toronto and the GTA.
00:15:31.880 On the flip side, what conservatives want is a somewhat popular and serious NDP, a party
00:15:38.520 that can actually take votes away from the liberals, actually challenge liberals in some
00:15:44.700 of these swing ridings and split that left wing vote.
00:15:48.320 It's no surprise that in 2011, when Stephen Harper claimed his majority government, the
00:15:54.080 NDP had their high watermark led by Jack Layton, a broadly popular and electable NDP.
00:16:01.860 NDP leader. I never supported or agreed with Jack Layton's politics. I was mostly too young
00:16:07.220 too anyways. But looking back on it, I would never question Jack Layton's motives or intentions,
00:16:14.100 let alone his patriotism and love for Canada. Isn't it pretty obvious at this point that
00:16:19.160 this extremely hyper woke race card waving nonsense is unpopular now? That might have
00:16:26.920 played a few years ago but the time for this is obviously over the ndp is clearly lost in this
00:16:34.200 the ndp today seems to be the party for university students young radicals who haven't experienced
00:16:41.080 the real world yet how this party is genuinely a working class party how this party is going
00:16:47.880 to appeal to blue collar working class union members is beyond me i don't think it will
00:16:54.520 I asked Pierre Pauliev that exact question. Is the NDP still a blue-collar working-class party?
00:17:00.680 Because it's no secret that Pierre Pauliev himself has spent quite a long time positioning his party
00:17:05.300 to appeal to union members and workers. Here's what he had to say on that.
00:17:09.800 You think the NDP is still a party for blue-collar working Canadians?
00:17:14.400 No. The NDP, just like the Liberals, wants to block resource projects, ban hunting rifles,
00:17:21.480 tax fuel stop people from driving pickup trucks they have an anti the liberals and NDP have an
00:17:30.460 anti-rural anti-working class agenda over the last 10 years of NDP liberal policies
00:17:37.040 we've seen the working class completely screwed over unable to buy homes unable to afford fuel
00:17:44.400 and food, confiscated of their legitimate hunting rifles and their way of life. Only
00:17:52.900 Conservatives will stand up for the hardworking people who build this country. We will ensure
00:17:58.260 you have, you can drive your pickup truck, you can put fuel in it, you can afford food
00:18:03.520 for your family, that you're safe on your streets, that you have the right to defend
00:18:07.160 yourself on your property, and that the good, solid, traditional Canadian values that built
00:18:12.760 this country, we'll do so again.
00:18:42.760 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.