Juno News - The Liberal campaign is spiralling into anger and negativity as they lose momentum

00:00:00.000 the liberal attitude around the campaign shows that they're losing you know the fact that terry

00:00:05.120 guillant assaulted your reporter outside the debates commission last week i mean this is a

00:00:09.920 campaign that is like flailing out of control spiraling in negativity the viral image of the

00:00:15.920 bramford boomer i think is an actual liberal campaign worker with the you know double middle

00:00:22.080 finger at an independent journalist um for daring to just be at a mark carney event

00:00:27.120 and she's not the only one with uh having that experience you know there were multiple images

00:00:34.200 of older angry liberal supporters or staffers you know they're they're really kind of angry

00:00:40.560 and deranged um and then you contrast that with Pierre Polyev who you know he's been getting big

00:00:46.880 union endorsements the former liberal premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell just came out

00:00:52.040 and endorsed him. Moses Simner, the Canadian Association of Retired Persons. He's building

00:00:57.720 this sort of optimistic coalition. I think that they have the momentum going into the final

00:01:03.380 stretch. They've closed the gap. At one point earlier in the campaign, the Liberals and Mark

00:01:07.600 Kearney were up by 10, 12 points. Now, by most accurate, honest pollsters, it's neck and neck,

00:01:14.000 like a tie maybe. I think that Kearney has lost this election. It's just a matter of who's going

00:01:19.760 get the minority is it going to be the liberals is it going to be conservative mostly how is that

00:01:23.440 vote going to be distributed final thing is uh early voting my husband and i went out and uh

00:01:29.920 took part in the advanced poll voting and record elections canada say a record uh 7.3 million

00:01:38.400 canadians voted in the advanced polling which means that we might get the most uh we might set

00:01:44.240 a new record ezra for the highest voter turnout ever so i think canadians agree this is an incredibly

00:01:49.200 important election and really it's like which path we're going down fear and anger and and you know

00:01:55.280 the double middle finger towards others or um this op this campaign of optimism and hope for

00:02:01.440 the future and sort of restoring the canadian promise what do you think yeah david coletto is

00:02:06.320 one of my favorite pollsters he's with a polling company called abacus and he had a tweet the other

00:02:11.040 day that i thought was fascinating he said um is it true that the liberals have lost a 15 point

00:02:17.360 a 12- or 15-point lead in a month.

00:02:19.540 To believe that, you have to believe that they ran a horrible campaign

00:02:22.280 or that the conservatives ran a terrific campaign,

00:02:24.860 or, he posited, is this response bias to pollsters.

00:02:28.700 Let me translate into plain English.

00:02:30.420 David Coletto, a pollster, is saying that people were not telling the truth to pollsters.

00:02:35.620 And I had to Google response bias because I didn't really know what it meant.

00:02:38.720 It means things like you want to tell the pollster what you think is socially acceptable

00:02:43.620 or there's a peer pressure going on, so you'll say one thing,

00:02:47.360 on the phone, but you'll mark it at X on a ballot differently.

Juno News - April 24, 2025