Juno News - Poilievre SLAMS Liberal majority as ＂backroom deal＂

00:00:00.000 Well, the Mark Carney-led Liberals have gained a majority in Parliament, as expected,

00:00:09.960 thanks to a combination of three by-election wins last night and five MPs crossing the

00:00:15.700 floor from other parties.

00:00:17.500 Prime Minister Carney today denies getting his majority using backroom or undemocratic

00:00:23.020 means.

00:00:23.580 Are you concerned the way you got your majority will erode Canadians' trust in our democracy?

00:00:28.700 Well, first, I'd point to the election results last night, and we have a majority now in the House of Commons,

00:00:40.700 thanks to the electors in Scarborough Southwest and Terrebonne and in University Rosedale.

00:00:47.260 And as concerns individual deputies who make a choice to support the government's program at this crucial time for the country,

00:00:55.460 whether they're from whatever political stripe, orientation, geographic region they come,

00:01:02.080 consistent with the government program, we're fortunate to have them,

00:01:05.640 and we're moving forward together with them.

00:01:08.220 Meantime, the state-funded CBC celebrated the Liberal Party's, quote,

00:01:12.580 remarkable political turnaround.

00:01:14.640 The fact that 15, 16 months ago, the Liberals were facing extinction,

00:01:20.340 where 40 seats would have been a miracle to now be at 40% plus in almost every major public opinion poll.

00:01:28.300 And they need to go one for three in three seats they won on Election Day in 2025 to form a majority government.

00:01:35.800 It is a remarkable political resurrection for the Liberal Party.

00:01:40.480 And, you know, it gets dismissed and criticized as a Frankenstein majority, but it's a majority.

00:01:45.700 And there's not a party in the world that wouldn't do the same thing.

00:01:49.300 Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev issued this statement.

00:01:53.300 The Kearney Liberals did not win a majority government through a general election or today's

00:01:58.660 by-elections.

00:01:59.360 Instead, it was won through backroom deals with politicians who betrayed the people who

00:02:04.420 voted for them.

00:02:05.120 And while the Prime Minister spent the year on his cynical power grab, he has doubled

00:02:10.960 the deficit and given Canada the worst grocery prices and housing costs in the G7.

00:02:18.620 Today, Kearney suspended the federal fuel excise tax starting Monday until Labor Day. Let's listen.

00:02:25.060 On the gas tax, did you get this idea from the Conservatives and will you continue to lean on the opposition for ideas now that you have a majority?

00:02:33.240 Well, let me, no is the answer, the short answer to your first question.

00:02:40.740 But to your second question, second part of your question, we're open to ideas from anyone.

00:02:47.280 Certainly any deputies, ideas that could come from the Senate, above all ideas from Canadians, from stakeholders and others.

00:02:55.780 That is what governing in a collaborative way means in governing for Canadians.

00:03:02.560 Conservatives have been calling for a cut in gas taxes for months.

00:03:06.840 It's expected the government will now use its parliamentary majority to stop investigations into suspected ethics violations.

00:03:13.680 This post by Conservative MP Michael Cooper.

00:03:17.280 Breaking last night, the Liberals blocked an ethics probe into Minister Champagne for directing billions of dollars to Aalto, where his partner is a VP.

00:03:29.520 CPC is calling the Ethics Committee back today.

00:03:33.280 Canadians deserve answers. 0.72

00:03:35.180 Liberals must stop covering up for Champagne.

00:03:38.840 Our guest today is business consultant and political commentator Kirk Lubomoff, joining us from Calgary.

00:03:44.680 Welcome, Kirk.

00:03:45.940 Hey, how are you?

00:03:46.580 I'm great. Thank you. So the Liberals have their majority. This is what they wanted.

00:03:52.500 They didn't really seem to care how they got it, except by going to the polls and getting it the

00:03:57.220 old fashioned way. But they do have that. So I guess things are going to change.

00:04:02.740 How is that playing out west where you are?

00:04:06.660 Well, Canada has entered a new era, majority government. Unfortunately, not all of it came

00:04:12.340 democratically uh you know floor crossing without asking the uh that questions of of your voters is

00:04:20.900 very undemocratic as far as i'm concerned uh you know to west is now has all eyes on action we want

00:04:28.420 to see mark carney actually do something instead of just talk about everything uh you know the

00:04:34.820 independence movement in alberta is definitely going to get more fire under it now um but it's

00:04:41.380 that we really need to see some serious action now.

00:04:44.840 Yeah, let's talk about the independence movement

00:04:47.240 because I saw some posts from people like Jeff Rath

00:04:51.420 who said, Canada is done, we're out of here.

00:04:54.720 Canada is a dictatorship.

00:04:56.660 So, I mean, you must know people

00:04:59.300 who maybe were sitting on the fence before,

00:05:02.000 waiting and expecting that maybe

00:05:04.660 there would be a change in government.

00:05:06.980 I guess they've maybe thrown in the towel,

00:05:09.020 at least some of them.

00:05:10.120 Fair?

00:05:11.380 oh 100 uh you know the this by-election the results yesterday has really put fire

00:05:18.260 under the fence sitter uh this is exactly who's going to get motivated to vote uh for independence

00:05:24.420 or uh you know it is we just start to realize more and more that the you know the federal

00:05:31.060 government the liberal government is going to be in power for a long time and it does not look good

00:05:35.380 for alberta um markarni is going to have to work on something to restore confidence within voters

00:05:41.380 in alberta and i'm sure he will take some action of sort of some kind uh but albertans just do not

00:05:49.140 trust what's happening the scene with their eyes the seat every time they go to the grocery store

00:05:54.260 to fuel up uh and every time they try to get a job it's just not as strong economy as it should be

00:06:00.740 for aubergence and a lot of people are sick and tired of it yeah now there's been a cut in the

00:06:06.260 excise tax so he's sort of addressing the affordability issue finally the conservatives

00:06:12.700 have been calling for this for months and here it is announced the day after the by-elections

00:06:17.540 i thought i think the timing is a little weird isn't it wouldn't you announce beforehand in

00:06:24.600 order to give voters incentive to vote for you instead he waits until a day after and the only

00:06:30.640 reason i can think of is that he didn't want to anger the base the liberal base which favors you

00:06:37.360 know high taxes on when it comes to fuel the only reason i can think of what about you yeah it's

00:06:43.760 definitely a political stunt uh right he needed to after the election he needed to show some serious

00:06:50.000 action uh and uh you know a reinforcement of the right decision this is what it's really about you

00:06:57.280 You know, they're announcing a cut, a savings after the election, which gives a lot of voters reassurance.

00:07:04.020 And this is really what this announcement was about.

00:07:07.200 You know, removing the taxes our own governments put on us is not something to celebrate.

00:07:13.020 We shouldn't have a lot of the taxes we're even talking about.

00:07:16.340 He mentioned that they reduced the consumer carbon tax as well after huge political pressure.

00:07:24.120 And let's remember, he increased industrial carbon tax and he campaigned on carbon tax and as a mode of competitive trade as well, which is absolutely the opposite of what's happening in the world.

00:07:38.460 So we're, you know, we're tap dancing around something that we know is going to come back and it's going to come back harder.

00:07:46.540 Yeah, it is interesting. I mean, Canada, of course, with its resources, is in a great position to fill the vacuum.

00:07:54.120 As a result of what's going on in the Gulf, specifically the Strait of Hormuz, where the Americans have blockaded the Strait.

00:08:02.840 And what's happened is, as you're aware, many of the oil tankers have gone to the United States empty because Trump has said, look, you want oil, we've got it.

00:08:18.160 And so come to us and get it.

00:08:20.100 So all sorts of traffic is headed, has left the Gulf and headed for the United

00:08:25.520 States and Texas and Mexico and all that area around the Gulf of America.

00:08:31.640 And so we are kind of left out of this.

00:08:35.200 I mean, we could be a major player here.

00:08:37.180 Instead, nothing's really changed from our vantage point.

00:08:40.360 We don't have the infrastructure really to increase by much exports

00:08:46.180 to the countries that are desperate for energy, whether it's LNG or oil.

00:08:52.000 And so it's kind of a shame, it seems like a lost opportunity for Canada, doesn't it?

00:08:57.420 You know, every day is a lost opportunity.

00:08:59.940 If you look at the time it took us to build the TMX expansion, uh, due to the

00:09:05.620 coast to deliver just under a million barrels of oil, uh, to us is out of over

00:09:11.580 five, seven million barrels of oil exports during the same period of time.

00:09:16.180 um you know regardless our capacity to export oil is about to be maxed out in the next couple years

00:09:23.140 so we need a pipeline getting starting to get built yesterday every day that we're waiting

00:09:28.100 is going to cost us billions of dollars regardless even of the current market but what we know is

00:09:34.020 that the world has a lot of demand for oil uh it's growing and the world wants canadian oil because

00:09:41.060 it's safe from political uh aspects from wars and all that stuff uh so the fact that we're not

00:09:48.820 delivering a product when there's so much demand for it it just makes absolutely no business sense

00:09:54.900 at all it's the complete opposite of what we should be doing yeah absolutely and chances are

00:10:01.300 the americans are selling our oil or at least alberta oil crude they're selling our oil and our lng

00:10:08.580 right because they get it from us at a steep discount and they're selling it probably

00:10:16.020 at the global price i mean you talk about a raw deal for for canada yeah yeah and yet there it is

00:10:25.860 uh how do you see this playing out i mean oil prices are still hovering around 100 bucks

00:10:31.700 um what are your contacts in the oil industry saying right now about where prices might be

00:10:38.980 headed any any idea yeah well there is really two stories here right for alberta for canadian oil

00:10:47.060 it's the the question is do we how do we invest in more oil production um and the hard part is

00:10:55.780 all the government regulations the time it takes the new industrial tax the the carbon capture

00:11:02.660 nonsense that we're talking about so the the alarming part is that there is not a lot of

00:11:08.100 money moving to uh more oil production in uh in the western world in in the western can in

00:11:15.300 particular there's some good developments on the eastern uh offshore stuff but it's very minimal

00:11:22.100 So this is the issue that really is concerning for Canada.

00:11:26.320 We're just not attracting the CapEx dollars that we used to, especially in the current scenario and current product and current product prices.

00:11:35.420 Now, the overall long term, you know, there's been over a billion barrels taken off the market from the straight of Hormuz closure.

00:11:45.100 So it's a serious thing.

00:11:46.200 Um, there is a lot of, a lot of countries in particular in Southeast Asia, they're dependent

00:11:54.020 on that for majority of the oil and gas imports, uh, and there is some infrastructure damage

00:12:01.580 as well, even including from Russia, uh, from a Ukrainian drone strikes.

00:12:06.920 So there's a lot of infrastructures actually been hurt in the last, uh, I would say a couple

00:12:13.960 and and that will have some effect the the thing is that there is uh quite a bit of production

00:12:20.280 elsewhere like in venezuela is starting to ramp up again uh the us has you know brought on a ton

00:12:27.480 a ton of exports um so so there is some relief the the the situation with n plus there's a lot of

00:12:37.240 reserve have been released the situation that i don't think most people think about is uh we're

00:12:45.560 okay with it right now because of what's been built up so far but if this except if this uh

00:12:52.760 continues and if there is uh and if there is any more damage to any infrastructure

00:12:59.160 it really to pain acceleration is going to go through the roof so it's not something that's

00:13:04.040 going to build up slowly if it goes to the wrong side it's going to go from bad to worse really

00:13:09.160 really quick because we're just running out of any other option so that is the really the big fear

00:13:16.520 but of course uh alberta canada really benefits from the oil price regardless uh from a tax

00:13:23.160 generation point of view a royalty generation point of view so for the government coffers

00:13:29.000 this has been really good as well right now trade negotiations with the united states

00:13:34.680 i guess they're going to be picking up steam heading into the summer as kuzma i guess reaches

00:13:40.760 the end of the line and would be in a position to either be renewed or not do you have any word on

00:13:48.840 what might happen i mean in the months ahead as canada and the united states sit down and try to

00:13:55.480 hammer out an agreement which trump says they don't need and i mean i think he's right when

00:14:02.160 he says we need it more than than they do but i think if we don't get a kuzma agreement a renewal

00:14:09.180 of some kind i think that's going to really hurt us going forward what do you think oh a hundred

00:14:15.680 percent the kuzma deal is our best trade document that we have uh you know it gives canada a huge

00:14:23.400 access to the world's largest economy pretty much uh 98 tariff free it's a little more now but it's

00:14:30.840 still the lowest tariff access in the world uh most of our exports go to the us the us did reduce

00:14:37.960 their imports from canada last year uh unfortunately as they pivoted a wave to to other countries but

00:14:45.160 But, you know, any increase in tariffs on Canada or any decrease in access to the market is going to be, you know, one of the biggest shocks to the Canadian economy.

00:14:59.900 You know, our exports essentially benefited from increase in gold exports last year and the gold price.

00:15:06.760 And that's one of the things that really saved Canada's trade outlook when you look at it.

00:15:13.020 So any changes to the Kusma and any more, I guess, difficulty from Canada entering to the world's largest market, it's going to be extremely painful.

00:15:26.220 You know, we've seen our manufacturing sector has dropped by over 40,000 jobs over the last 12 months.

00:15:33.080 And that is alarming because we need our most productive industries this century to be firing at all cylinders for our economy to grow.

00:15:41.540 We need our oil and gas, our resources industry to build.

00:15:45.760 We need to actually manufacture and build things.

00:15:48.900 We just can't keep bloating our public sector,

00:15:51.860 which is right now over 25% of the employed Canadians in Canada,

00:15:57.140 which is completely unsustainable.

00:15:59.700 Yeah, absolutely.

00:16:00.760 I want to read this post, getting back to the by-elections. 1.00

00:16:05.240 Canada has some of the dumbest voters on the planet 0.99

00:16:08.220 have to hire private security 1.00

00:16:11.160 because there is so much crime

00:16:13.140 due to liberal policies,

00:16:15.740 increase their votes for the liberals.

00:16:18.640 And then you reposted this,

00:16:20.560 Toronto's Rosedale residents invest in patrols,

00:16:23.920 increase security after a spate of break-ins.

00:16:27.360 And then right underneath,

00:16:29.560 liberals win by-election

00:16:30.820 in Toronto's University Rosedale.

00:16:35.480 Do you want to unpack that?

00:16:38.220 I'm not sure what else you can add to it.

00:16:41.160 You know, it's hard to understand what bubble people live in.

00:16:44.560 You know, if you're voting for the policies that brought so much crime to your streets and to your household that you have to hire private security for your neighborhood,

00:16:54.240 and then you turn around and vote for the exact same people that brought you these policies and this cost, you know, it's just the complete definition of insanity.

00:17:04.020 you know it's just it's it's absolutely mind-boggling what's going on into you know

00:17:11.280 into voters heads in canada sometimes but it also should be a substantial wake-up call for the

00:17:18.640 conservative party to really figure out what's going on and why their reach is just not resonating

00:17:24.880 with the voters yeah i mean i'm sure they would talk about the record number of people who voted

00:17:31.700 conservative last time around is 8.3 million. They had about 41% of the popular vote. And so

00:17:39.860 that's really why I think Pierre Polyev was able to stick around as leader was because of those

00:17:45.960 numbers. But, you know, when you have a collapse of the left, which like the far left in this

00:17:51.620 country, like the NDP, then I think the liberals were beneficiaries of that, but they may not

00:17:56.820 always be because the ndp under new leader avi lewis might be making a resurgence in which case

00:18:04.420 a lot of those liberal votes will end up repatriated back from once they came yeah

00:18:09.220 his policies are even scarier how do people find you online uh under my name kirk lubimov on x

00:18:19.460 uh facebook page i just started one the same uh same name and uh on my substack blog and

00:18:25.940 kirk lubimov as well kirk thank you so much for coming on the show we appreciate it i appreciate

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Juno News - April 14, 2026

Poilievre SLAMS Liberal majority as ＂backroom deal＂

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