Juno News - February 22, 2020


The Conservative Leadership Snoozefest

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4 minutes

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941

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In this episode, I talk about the Conservative leadership race, and why I don't think there's much to be excited about in it right now. I also talk about why I think it's time for a new conservative leadership candidate to enter the race.

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00:00:00.000 talk about a snoozefest wake me up when it is all over the conservative leadership race boy it's
00:00:11.400 pretty boring what is at stake what are the ideas that are being put forward what is the excitement
00:00:17.160 what is the energy where are all these things because right now they seem to be lacking you
00:00:21.960 know i'm now finding myself hearkening back for the 2017 leadership race where we saw some some
00:00:26.940 big ideas debated with gusto supply management was discussed by a lot of people do we get rid of all
00:00:33.060 of this and then andrew shear was of course accused of being backed by the dairy lobby and that had its
00:00:38.520 reverberations for a long time maxime bernier conservatives aren't supposed to talk about
00:00:42.920 that guy anymore they're not supposed to like him anymore because of course he went rogue started
00:00:47.300 his own party didn't fare too well for him in terms of winning seats lost his own seat but back in 2017
00:00:53.320 bernier he really put together some very aggressive ideas he was a really ideas based campaigner out
00:01:00.140 there lots of policy proposals and a lot of people loved it of course he almost won he was quite uh
00:01:06.300 closely tied there with andrew shear on that final ballot where is that kind of energy where is that
00:01:11.920 excitement i'm just not feeling it right now erin o'toole great guy he's he's uh he did a great job
00:01:19.060 as veterans affairs minister he's a lawyer he's also in the canadian armed forces lots to like
00:01:23.840 about erin o'toole but when he launched he said in one of his videos oh i'm gonna take on the radical
00:01:29.260 left and i'm gonna deal with cancel culture and i was watching that and i thought okay i agree but
00:01:34.920 that more sounds like something i would say or you know many other people talk that way but erin o'toole
00:01:39.560 does not customarily talk that way and i thought hang on a second are you actually kind of focus grouping
00:01:45.880 your campaign are you saying i'm not going to do the things that i really want to do that i desperately
00:01:51.380 passionately care about and i'm going to be myself and all the priorities that matter to me and the
00:01:56.240 vision that i want to put forward am i instead going to go listen to various advisors and strategists
00:02:01.420 and cobble together some composite candidate of what i should be we see that from politicians all the
00:02:06.440 time i just quite frankly don't think it's a genuine one and i don't think it's a right one as a path
00:02:11.760 to victory seeing something similar from peter mckay who has a social media account where he gets
00:02:16.520 in trouble for various tweets and then they delete them and they sue to apologize for them and so forth
00:02:21.180 i thought this could all be totally prevented from happening if you just only issued out statements that
00:02:27.440 were true to yourself and what your views were and your own policy convictions without i don't know
00:02:32.500 focus grouping these things or having them be approved by different people in the campaign and all that
00:02:36.520 kind of stuff i mean the one thing that i always thought was great about donald trump and his
00:02:41.020 candidacy was you could tell it was coming from the gut whether you liked or disliked the guy or his
00:02:46.260 various views this was a guy who said things because he wanted to say them hillary clinton she focus
00:02:53.220 grouped uh focus tested her campaign slogan something like like 40 times or had 40 different campaign
00:02:59.040 ideas make america great again where did that come from well i remember on election night i was
00:03:03.100 watching i think it was on an abc panel and there was a journalist who said that when was the election
00:03:07.980 in 2016 so there's a journalist who said he ran into donald trump i think it was in 2014 or 2013 he
00:03:13.300 said i hear you might be thinking of running for president donald trump said yeah i'm thinking of
00:03:17.220 doing that because what are you going to run on what's your slogan going to be and trump said
00:03:20.140 i think it's make america great again because we got a whole lot of problems i'm really pissed off and
00:03:25.780 frustrated about them and i want to address them and i want to they're stopping us from being great
00:03:30.260 so whatever you think of all that he clearly he created this campaign slogan himself it was in him
00:03:36.020 it was this burning fire that he'd been carrying around for several years and we're just not seeing
00:03:41.260 that right now out of these few candidates that we have currently running for conservative leader
00:03:46.360 maybe we will maybe the current candidates will get that and they'll show that it's pretty early
00:03:51.000 pretty early on in the race right now so maybe they're just taking their time getting started maybe
00:03:55.920 someone new will enter the race who has that and i do think erin o'toole peter mckay either of these
00:04:00.860 would make great alternatives to justin trudeau they'd probably be pretty great leaders and serve
00:04:05.420 as decent prime ministers but to get the backing of the leadership the grassroots and then to inspire
00:04:11.200 other people in the rest of the country we've got to see that fire we've got to hit that snooze
00:04:16.220 button and say no let's wake up and let's really get this thing rolling
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