Mark Slapinski

00:00:00.000 The infamous Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, has once again betrayed the Federal Conservative Party.

00:00:05.520 Now, if you remember, Doug Ford made waves last year after he publicly criticized Paulie Evans' team in the lead-up to the Federal election.

00:00:12.960 On top of that, Doug Ford was also seen eating dinner with Mark Carney before the election was even over.

00:00:17.760 Despite Paulie Evans' team's best efforts to mend the bridge, Doug Ford will not be attending the Conservative Convention in Calgary.

00:00:24.440 Let's take a look at that convention.

00:00:25.600 With me now is Sharon Karr, CTV News political analyst and former Deputy Chief of Staff to former Finance Minister Bill Warno.

00:00:31.620 Sharon, how are you?

00:00:32.920 Good, how are you?

00:00:33.680 I'm good. Let's talk about and get into this issue.

00:00:36.940 Pierre Paulie, have a lot of talk about the number for sure.

00:00:39.260 How much support?

00:00:40.260 People aren't, you know, too concerned in particular delegates about that he's going to pass this leadership review.

00:00:45.100 But what level of support is he going to get from delegates in Calgary?

00:00:49.260 What are your thoughts on that and where do we think he's going to land?

00:00:52.240 You know, it's a tough one when talking about numbers.

00:00:54.020 I am actually here in Calgary right now and I will be at the convention centre with CTV shortly to kind of cover some of the live footage.

00:01:00.760 And one of the things that we're hearing from a lot of people is what is that number going to be like on the floor?

00:01:05.240 Now, my guess is that it's going to have to be resoundingly high.

00:01:08.900 And I'm talking above 80% for there to be this really big rah-rah moment of everyone supports Pierre Paulie.

00:01:16.780 What it's really going to look like is to be determined.

00:01:19.780 I don't see anyone that is kind of standing in the shadows ready to take over.

00:01:24.700 And I think despite all of the errors and mistakes he might have made along the way, he did still bring a large new number of voters into the base.

00:01:32.260 So it'll be interesting to see how the Conservative base from across Canada comparing Calgary responds to that with how they vote.

00:01:38.600 And of course, I'm stating the obvious when I say that Paulieff is going to pass the leadership review with flying colours.

00:01:44.680 I hate to make predictions, but I'm guessing around 80%.

00:01:47.560 And that's an educated guess based on polls.

00:01:50.280 Now I'm going to show you the part where CTV acknowledges Doug Ford's betrayal.

00:01:53.860 Before we get into this, I hate to remind you, but I'm being heavily censored on YouTube.

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00:02:05.220 Right. It'll be very interesting indeed.

00:02:07.300 And, you know, and we touched on, I touched on with Jeremy Scharnel earlier too, the delegation from Ontario that's not there.

00:02:12.820 Because the PC Progressive Conservatives, right, are having their own convention this weekend too.

00:02:17.520 That helped Pierre too as well over the course of, you know, over the course of the weekend?

00:02:21.700 Listen, I don't think there's any secret to kind of the love lost between the provincial Ontario Conservatives and the federal Conservatives.

00:02:28.640 They're a very different party, very different leaders.

00:02:30.880 And call me crazy, but I feel like there might be a little bit of backroom politics around the timing of both conventions at the same time.

00:02:39.200 So I think there might be a bit of a loss for Pierre on the Ontario front.

00:02:43.780 But again, a lot of his base comes from outside of Ontario.

00:02:46.700 So I don't think it's going to be the biggest loss for him.

00:02:49.020 But it is, it shouldn't go unnoticed that both conventions are happening at the same time.

00:02:52.840 Because generally speaking, you don't do that.

00:02:54.580 Yeah, exactly. I think it's the rare part about this time around.

00:02:57.060 I want to ask you, Sharon, too, as well, you know, this message in the speech that we are going to hear, he's going to appeal to his base, clearly in the delegates that are there.

00:03:04.400 But this wider issue that we have of the more appeal that he needs to have, where he trails Mark Carney so clearly in the polls as preferred prime minister.

00:03:12.200 Are you expecting to hear more of that?

00:03:13.740 Or what does he have to do in order to try to increase some of those numbers?

00:03:18.500 Well, the interesting thing here is that his increase in his numbers has come from a lot of how his tone and tenor is and some of the base that he's pulled in.

00:03:26.020 He hasn't pulled from any of the liberal base.

00:03:28.920 He has pulled from the more far right, I would say, People's Party type of base.

00:03:33.620 So I would think that for the sake of him looking prime ministerial or ready to be prime ministerial, he is going to have to have more of a conciliary tone.

00:03:41.780 And we did see that when he responded to the prime minister's speech in Davos.

00:03:46.040 So whether or not his speech is going to be more balanced, more statesly, I'm not sure he's going to be there.

00:03:52.620 He tends to default back to the attack moment.

00:03:55.440 So I think we're going to have to wait and see his remarks tonight to see how that goes.

00:03:58.340 Now, I'm not sure exactly what's going on here, but it's becoming pretty clear that Doug Ford has some problem with pure Polyev.

00:04:04.440 Either he feels the federal conservative party is too far to the right and will hurt his election chances, or Doug Ford secretly wants to be the leader of the conservative party.

00:04:13.400 The funny thing is that while Ford is pretty good at winning elections in Ontario, credit where it's due, he's never going to win a federal election.

00:04:20.080 He wouldn't even win the leadership race for the conservative party.

00:04:23.120 He can't do that.

00:04:24.040 A lot of conservatives across the country hate Doug Ford for what he did during the COVID pandemic.

00:04:29.020 He locked people down.

00:04:30.480 He locked small businesses down.

00:04:32.680 However, he let his friends at the big box stores stay open.

00:04:36.580 People have long memories, and they're not going to forget that.

00:04:39.320 Now, the funny thing is Doug Ford says he's for the people, but in reality, he's for the corporations.

00:04:44.940 And on top of that, he looks like a big teddy bear with golden blonde hair.

00:04:48.780 He simply doesn't have the looks to win a federal election.

00:04:51.380 I've said this a million times, but I'll say it again.

00:04:53.900 You're either on Team Polyev or you're on Team Liberal.

00:04:57.860 That's the only two options you have.

00:05:00.100 And Doug Ford has made it really clear where he stands.

00:05:03.300 He's a traitor, and he's not one of us.

00:05:06.220 I look forward to him losing the next election and then fading into obscurity where he belongs. 0.99

00:05:10.940 Thanks for tuning in.

00:05:12.640 I love you all.

00:05:13.640 Talk to you tomorrow, patriots.

BREAKING： Doug Ford BETRAYS Poilievre (Again)

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