Mark Slapinski

00:00:00.000 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, he's having a really rough week.

00:00:04.020 He came back from the United States without a trade deal,

00:00:06.860 even though he said he was going to get one, and now both sides of the aisle,

00:00:10.440 they're angry. Let's take a look at a recent CTV report that completely rips him apart,

00:00:15.560 then stick around for some commentary. Well, Conservative leader Pierre Apoliev

00:00:19.120 and Prime Minister Mark Carney were both talking about the cost of living for Canadians.

00:00:23.800 That issue has eclipsed Canada-US relations as the number one concern for Canadians,

00:00:29.380 according to Nano's polling. And new today, Nano's has found that since the summer,

00:00:35.180 Mark Carney has experienced a 10-point drop in Canadians' optimism towards the government.

00:00:41.540 Did you hear that? Even the clowns at CTV are admitting that Carney is falling out of favour.

00:00:47.680 How big of a problem could that be for the Prime Minister? Well, 0.89

00:00:50.340 Nick Nano's is the founder and chief data scientist at Nano's Research. He's also CTV's

00:00:55.280 pollster of record. And guess what? He joins us in studio right now. How are you doing, Nick?

00:00:58.740 Good, Michael. How are you doing? Good. So, as I said off the top or earlier on,

00:01:04.000 is the honeymoon officially over or not? Well, it's not as good as it was for Mark Carney and

00:01:09.200 the Liberals, that's for sure. You know, the thing is, during the election, there was a lot of

00:01:12.840 hope coming out of the election. And, you know, the thing is, is that Carney's numbers pulled away,

00:01:19.900 the Liberal ballot numbers kind of, they had a larger gap. But, you know, the thing is,

00:01:24.720 is that when we look at the, how people feel, emotions that people would use to describe how

00:01:29.700 they feel about the government in Ottawa, not the Liberals or Carney, the government in Ottawa,

00:01:33.900 it was actually pretty, pretty positive in terms of the level of optimism. And what we're seeing now

00:01:39.040 is that optimism is eroding. Now, let me translate that. That's a polite way of saying that people

00:01:45.280 are done with Carney. And remember, I told you this is going to happen. You know, the other thing is,

00:01:50.440 you've got to remember, 15% said they're angry, another 22% pessimistic. And if you go to,

00:01:57.320 here's a little tidbit, go to the prairies, they're really angry, much more angry than

00:02:01.980 everybody else. I don't know if you're surprised. I mean, I don't want to call it not breaking news,

00:02:07.500 but yeah, certainly not happy. I mean, and when I was looking at the numbers, it seems like it is

00:02:12.660 back to those April levels. Yeah, it's back to the April levels. I guess the only consolation for

00:02:17.480 the Liberals is that it's not as bad as it was during the darkest days of the Trudeau government

00:02:23.240 where, you know, the people that said that they were optimistic, I can show it like this. You don't

00:02:28.780 need a board. Seven, Michael, 7% of Canadians were optimistic when Justin Trudeau was prime minister.

00:02:34.860 So even the 10 point drop to 33 is better for the Liberals than under the end, the tail end of

00:02:40.760 Justin Trudeau. And so how has that also reflected the party support? I mean, the numbers seem to be

00:02:45.700 narrowing between the two parties. Absolutely. You know, coming off the election, you know,

00:02:48.960 the election was almost a dead heat, right? Between the 43, 41, between the Liberals and the

00:02:53.200 Conservatives. The Liberals did have a honeymoon. They pulled away from the Conservatives, especially

00:02:57.440 during the period when, when Polyev was kind of seeking, reelect, seeking to get elected out West

00:03:02.800 in the by-election. But now the gap has narrowed. It's within the margin of error. It's a statistical

00:03:06.960 toying cost right now between the Liberals and the Conservatives. On the ballot numbers,

00:03:11.600 on the preferred prime minister front, Mark Carney still has a noticeable double-digit advantage over

00:03:17.680 Pierre Poiliev. Talk to me about that. You know, I don't call it an incongruence, but how the party

00:03:22.660 brand and Carney's brand seem to be so different. Well, why don't we say the same thing for both of

00:03:28.020 the front-running parties? So people still don't like the Liberals and are upset about the last 10

00:03:33.060 years, but they seem to like Mark Carney. When people look at the Conservatives and Pierre Poiliev,

00:03:38.740 the Conservatives have a stronger brand right now than Pierre Poiliev. So it's about Canadians who 0.97

00:03:45.640 still want change, think the Liberals have been in power too long. And Pierre Poiliev is kind of like

00:03:51.100 another dimension, not the driver of support for the Conservatives, not in the same way that Carney

00:03:56.240 is driving Liberal support today, at least. And it's interesting because that election was fought

00:04:01.140 so keyly over Canada-US relations and fighting back against the US. And you also have some numbers

00:04:07.820 about how Canadians feel about boycotting travel to the US and buying US items. What's that like?

00:04:14.560 Absolutely. In the survey that we did, we asked Canadians whether boycotting US goods or boycotting

00:04:19.820 travel to the United States would help or hinder the Canadian bargaining position. You can see that

00:04:26.000 80% or thereabouts of Canadians, 8 out of every 10, think that these types of boycotts help the

00:04:32.440 Canadian bargaining position. So it's pretty strong right across the board by gender, by region,

00:04:36.900 and stuff like that. Moral to the story, Michael, you poke a bear, it's going to respond.

00:04:42.960 Yeah, true.

00:04:43.640 No, right? It's what Canadians can do.

00:04:45.900 True, but you've had Pete Hoekstra, the US ambassador to Canada and Donald Trump,

00:04:52.340 both kind of push back against that, saying that they don't appreciate him. He's even brought up in

00:04:56.720 the Oval Office this week that travel to the US is down about 23%. And so while Canadians believe that

00:05:04.500 it is a good thing, it almost seems like it's more of an irritant to the US.

00:05:08.920 Well, maybe if it's an irritant, it's working. Think of it this way.

00:05:12.540 True.

00:05:12.840 Like if they didn't care, it'd be like, yeah, sure, do whatever. We can do whatever we want

00:05:15.960 because there's no repercussions. I think the fact of the matter, there are a lot of American

00:05:19.280 enterprises, especially close to the border, that rely on Canadian customers, visitors,

00:05:24.560 all that kind of stuff. And they're having a more difficult time than they have in the past.

00:05:28.740 Do you think, given the numbers that you are spelling out for us and how Canadians are feeling,

00:05:34.020 that that sort of bodes well for how Mark Carney is attacking Canada-US relations, even though

00:05:39.260 it's not the number one priority for Canadians right now?

00:05:42.380 Yeah. Yeah. I think for Mark Carney and the Liberals, they want to talk about Donald Trump

00:05:47.800 and the binational relationship. But for Pierre Poiliev, his strength, and for the Conservatives,

00:05:53.540 their strength has to do with the cost of living, affordability, inflation, the cost of housing,

00:05:59.720 paying for the groceries and stuff like that. So think of it as a battle of the ballot questions

00:06:04.400 right there with the Liberals wanting to talk Trump and the Conservatives wanting to talk about

00:06:09.660 the cost of living.

00:06:10.720 Yeah. And we always appreciate that when you come here, you talk Turkey. And that is a happy

00:06:15.620 Thanksgiving reference.

00:06:17.020 Thanks for not calling me a turkey.

00:06:18.360 Yeah. Never. Never. I would never do that. Founder and chief data scientist at Nanos Research,

00:06:22.780 that's what I'll call him. Nick Nanos. Appreciate that, Nick.

00:06:26.100 Okay. Let's quickly summarize what just happened here. Nick Nanos is being really nice,

00:06:30.800 but I'll say the quiet part out loud. Carney is done. Let me say it again. Carney is done.

00:06:38.260 Now, if I remember correctly, Carney was supposed to be coming home with a good trade deal this week.

00:06:43.100 Instead, he came home with nothing but a bag full of excuses. And of course, we all knew this was

00:06:48.840 going to happen. At least anyone that watches my channel regularly.

00:06:52.180 The next video I'm going to show you is a video of Polly Yev ripping apart Mark Carney and the 0.96

00:06:56.020 House of Commons earlier this week. If you're enjoying this episode so far,

00:06:59.940 take a second to like and subscribe. Let's go.

00:07:02.620 I think we're beginning to see how it is that the president has been able to bulldoze over this

00:07:07.720 prime minister. He won't even stand up when he is confronted by the Americans. Just over an hour

00:07:13.400 ago, a report came out that the U.S. commerce secretary said there will be no relief for

00:07:19.720 American Canadian made automobiles going in to the United States. The prime minister is back down on

00:07:25.660 counter tariffs, back down on the DST, back down on defense. Yesterday promised to push a trillion

00:07:32.440 dollars of private sector investment out of our country. How is he going to look those Canadian 1.00

00:07:37.300 autoworkers in the eye and tell them how he got nothing for them in return?

00:07:41.060 Mr. Speaker, it is a sad day in this House when the leader of the opposition suggests that

00:07:49.120 standing up for the defense of this country, when the leader of the opposition suggests

00:07:54.680 that spending for, to defend our borders, that spending to defend our filament in NATO,

00:08:02.200 that that is backing down on defense. We will shame, shame.

00:08:06.560 Mr. Speaker, at least he finally got up, but he didn't address the question about autoworkers.

00:08:13.460 There are autoworkers who are sitting at home right now who do not know how they're going to

00:08:17.800 pay their mortgages. This prime minister looked them in the eye and said he was going to protect

00:08:22.120 their jobs. And then he said he would put his elbows up. And then he said he would get a win by

00:08:27.120 July 21st. Then he said that he would have a deal. There's been no deal. There's been no win.

00:08:33.080 And now for these workers, there is no job. Today, we learned that he's backing down again

00:08:38.800 on auto tariffs. Why is it that he's selling out our autoworkers at a time when they need him most?

00:08:43.860 Japan, the European Union, the United Kingdom, every other country in the world is paying a

00:08:50.520 higher tariff than Canada has gotten on automobiles. And we are not done. That is why we have not signed

00:08:58.440 an accord on autos. That is why we are fighting hard for our autoworkers. And I put the president

00:09:05.800 on notice yesterday about the consequences of not having that accord.

00:09:11.060 Mr. President, you have been warned. If you put in another tariff, he's going to give you

00:09:15.760 yet another trillion dollars.

00:09:19.520 This is the tough negotiator that we hired?

00:09:22.260 The guy who broke his promise to have a deal on July 21st. A guy who broke his promise to

00:09:28.700 negotiate a win, who simultaneously removed the counter tariffs while he was giving speeches

00:09:34.160 promising to have them in place. And yesterday, he offered more concessions to the U.S. president

00:09:39.960 knowing that the tariffs that are killing our auto sector would stay in place. Why does he

00:09:46.400 always back down and give our jobs to the Americans instead of- 0.56

00:09:50.840 Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, and I think it's important for the entire House to understand,

00:09:56.120 that we have a strategy with the United States that means that our auto sector is paying less

00:10:09.400 less than 10% tariff when Japan, when Europe, when the U.K., when the rest of the world is

00:10:15.640 paying 50, which is bigger than 10 or higher. And we are not done yet because we refuse to

00:10:23.680 sign a deal that isn't better in the interests of Canadians, and that's why we're here today.

00:10:28.640 He is already signing a deal that makes us worse off because he makes concession after

00:10:34.040 concession after concession while getting nothing in return.

00:10:37.840 Yesterday, he announced that his policies will drive a trillion dollars of private sector

00:10:43.540 money out of our country as part of the agreement that he is going to sign with the United States.

00:10:49.960 That means factories and plants closing in Canada, most of all in our auto sector, which

00:10:55.760 is on the verge of being wiped out after he promised to save it. So can he tell me, did

00:11:01.480 he demand the president lift all tariffs on Canadian autos, yes or no?

00:11:06.200 Mr. Speaker, our agreement yesterday, the president and myself, is to focus now on steel, on aluminum,

00:11:17.900 on energy, the building blocks of our broader competitiveness, including our auto sector.

00:11:23.900 Those negotiations on autos continue. From a position that is the strongest in the world,

00:11:30.600 10 is less than 15, which is less than 25, which is less than 50.

00:11:35.600 Zero is less than 50. Zero is the paycheck that those workers who've lost their jobs are getting

00:11:40.900 right now. And Mr. Speaker, seventh is last place in the G7 when it comes to growth or in

00:11:48.840 this case, negative growth. This prime minister has to get his excuses straight. He blames the

00:11:55.500 tariffs for the fact that we have the second highest unemployment in the G7 and the fastest shrinking

00:12:01.100 economy. And then he claims at the same time that the tariffs are really not so bad. So which is it?

00:12:07.180 Why is our economy so weak? Because of his diplomatic failings abroad or his disastrous economic policies

00:12:12.460 at home? And like always, Polly Eve is 100% right. Carney promised Canadians the world. He gave Canadians

00:12:18.680 nothing. Carney promised he'd be elbows up. Instead, he's ankles up, folding like a cheap tent at

00:12:25.520 every single turn. Now here's the good news. And I like to give you people good news. Everyone is

00:12:31.460 turning on Carney. Let's look at it. CBC turned on Carney. CTV turned on Carney. Other left-wing

00:12:37.540 media organizations, they turned on Carney. His MPs, they're unhappy. One of them left,

00:12:42.900 Christopher Freeland, and there's rumors many more are going to follow her. On top of that,

00:12:47.420 his right-hand man, his budget officer, he turned on him. Everyone hates Carney right now,

00:12:52.900 and it just gets worse and worse every time I talk to you. And as a bonus, I heard Carney is

00:12:57.400 just like Trudeau in the sense that he's a complete jerk to women, and women don't like 1.00

00:13:01.740 being around him. Now this is my prediction. It's only a matter of time before Carney gets kicked out 1.00

00:13:06.560 or resigns. He knows the walls are closing in, and he's not going to make it. So like I always ask

00:13:12.320 you, please, have a bit of patience. Have a bit of faith. Conservatives are going to win,

00:13:18.040 and we're going to win big. Thanks for tuning in. Have a great Friday. Have a great

00:13:22.880 weekend. If you enjoyed this episode, take a second to like and subscribe. It really helps.

00:13:28.060 Talk to you tomorrow.

CTV Drops BOMBSHELL, Has Bad News For Carney

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