Mark Slapinski - February 17, 2026


CTV Just Let THIS Slip On Live TV


Episode Stats

Length

15 minutes

Words per Minute

193.69637

Word Count

3,040

Sentence Count

223

Misogynist Sentences

3


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, he's in serious trouble.
00:00:03.620 This comes as his propagandists at CTV make a shocking confession.
00:00:07.380 When even CTV is calling out the Liberals, you know they're in serious trouble
00:00:11.420 and the Conservatives are actually winning.
00:00:14.120 CTV is a media company owned by Bell.
00:00:16.880 They claim to be politically neutral.
00:00:19.520 However, Conservatives generally agree that they're pretty left-leaning
00:00:23.020 and some Conservatives will argue they're actually far left.
00:00:26.180 And part of this reason could be the fact that the Liberal government
00:00:29.480 has given them tens and tens of millions of dollars of your money.
00:00:33.920 CTV apologized for airing an altered clip about Pierre Polyev last year.
00:00:38.860 They were also sued successfully by Patrick Brown for defamation.
00:00:43.120 This is not a media organization that has any interest in telling you the truth about Conservatives.
00:00:47.700 So that's why when CTV criticizes the Liberal government,
00:00:51.100 it's less about them being fair and impartial
00:00:53.500 and more about them being unable to deny reality any longer.
00:00:57.860 Sometimes the truth is just so obvious that even CTV is forced to admit it.
00:01:02.380 And what CTV just suggested is that Carney is in serious trouble.
00:01:06.880 This comes after a Supreme Court judge cancelled the Liberal victory in Terrebonne, Quebec,
00:01:12.040 throwing Carney's chances of a majority government out the window.
00:01:15.480 Remember last year when Carney stole two Conservative MPs from Polyev?
00:01:19.560 The MSM was pushing this idea that Carney was going to win a majority
00:01:23.720 and Polyev would be dumped by his own party.
00:01:26.640 You remember that?
00:01:27.500 Now the tables have literally turned.
00:01:29.660 Polyev has literally risen from the dead.
00:01:31.940 He has over 87% of his party's support.
00:01:34.860 This comes as his competitor, Mark Carney, continues to bleed MPs.
00:01:39.140 Krista Freeland?
00:01:40.380 She's gone.
00:01:41.480 And now another MP was just cancelled by a judge.
00:01:44.940 And there's rumors swirling around that even more MPs are getting ready to leave.
00:01:49.200 So you're probably asking yourself, what does this all mean and why should I care?
00:01:53.300 I'm going to tell you.
00:01:54.360 It means that Carney is losing and Polyev is winning.
00:01:58.000 Now you probably have your doubts, but don't believe me.
00:02:01.660 Believe CTV.
00:02:02.660 And I'm going to show you a clip right here that's going to change everything.
00:02:05.540 Now I want to remind you that CTV, they're still being paid by the Liberal government.
00:02:09.840 So they have to be a little careful with their words.
00:02:12.700 I don't.
00:02:13.380 So I'll be around to translate everything.
00:02:15.480 Let's watch this.
00:02:16.280 The numbers have actually been stable, Mike, since the last federal election.
00:02:20.140 There's only a couple percentage points between the Liberals and the Conservatives.
00:02:23.160 There's still just a handful of percentage points between them now.
00:02:26.600 And, you know, it's been pretty well almost a year.
00:02:29.440 Not quite a year, but almost a year.
00:02:31.000 And nothing's really shaken that particular trend line.
00:02:33.360 That was pollster Nick Nanos just a couple of seconds ago, laying out what his latest polling shows when it comes to the national ballot.
00:02:42.840 Now it comes just as the Supreme Court of Canada has annulled the results of a closely contested riding from the last spring's federal election.
00:02:51.140 The Montreal area riding of Terrebonne was initially declared for the Bloc Québécois, but a recount later found the Liberals had won it by just one vote.
00:03:00.800 Well, the Bloc candidate challenged the results, calling on the courts to annul the victory, to annul the results, which they have now done.
00:03:08.780 Now, the ruling means that a new by-election will have to be called for that riding.
00:03:13.740 It also means the Kearney Liberals are further away from a majority.
00:03:17.360 The CTV literally admitted on live television that Kearney is nowhere close to a majority.
00:03:22.960 Now, when they say something like that, it actually means that Kearney is in serious trouble.
00:03:27.640 Remember, this is CTV we're talking about.
00:03:29.800 But that's just the start.
00:03:31.360 You're going to love watching CTV panelists rip apart Mark Kearney on live TV.
00:03:35.640 Before we get into this, I want to remind you I'm being heavily censored on YouTube.
00:03:39.640 If you see this part of the video, let me know in the comment section.
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00:03:47.080 All right, let's check out the action.
00:03:48.760 So how does the ruling change the electoral landscape?
00:03:51.340 Let's bring in our front bench.
00:03:52.780 Joining me, our former New Brunswick Liberal Premier, Brian Gallant.
00:03:56.920 He's now the CEO of Space Canada.
00:03:59.180 Former Conservative Deputy Leader, Lisa Raitt.
00:04:01.980 She's the Vice Chair and Managing Director of Global Investment Banking at CIBC.
00:04:06.520 CTV News political analyst and former NDP leader, Tom Mulcair.
00:04:10.360 And the Toronto Star's Queen's Park Bureau Chief, Rob Benzie.
00:04:14.580 A gold medal group, if I ever saw one on this wonderful Monday.
00:04:19.420 And just for people out there who, of course, were watching power play instead of something else,
00:04:23.980 our women won in hockey in the semifinals.
00:04:26.820 They're heading for the gold medal game against the United States.
00:04:30.640 It'll be a tough one.
00:04:31.940 But of course, hey, keep it right here.
00:04:33.820 We'll keep you up to date on all of this.
00:04:35.300 So speaking of medalists, Brian, the math is kind of challenging right now for the Liberals.
00:04:41.220 Before Christmas, they were governing like they had a majority.
00:04:44.540 So are we going to see a change now that the numbers aren't as solid for them?
00:04:49.900 A few things.
00:04:50.940 So I think after an election, even if you have a minority, in this case a strong minority,
00:04:56.240 you're going to govern with a little bit more confidence.
00:04:59.100 Because I think you're going to take to the bank that the other parties aren't going to send you right back into an election.
00:05:04.860 So that's that's the first comment I would make on the dynamics as they've played out over the last sort of almost a year now.
00:05:10.380 The second one is I know a lot of people are saying, oh, wow, in December they were so close.
00:05:14.780 The Liberals were so close to a majority.
00:05:16.940 I never really thought that was going to change a landscape immensely.
00:05:20.280 Only because if you have a majority with like by the one seat, there's so many things that can happen.
00:05:27.080 There are by elections or people that get sick.
00:05:29.340 There are people that cross the floor that that doesn't seem like a big, big monumental kind of accomplishment to have that one majority by one seat with so many MPs with that can obviously have things change quite quickly.
00:05:44.640 So to me, it was never that big of a thing.
00:05:46.200 Is it is it nice would have made it a bit easier for a little while?
00:05:49.380 Yes, would have given would have given them some confidence.
00:05:53.060 Yes.
00:05:53.880 But look, at the end of the day, exactly why I didn't get too excited.
00:05:56.960 It's exactly what happened.
00:05:57.960 We have some by elections that have now occurred now that have now opened up and that are going to have to occur.
00:06:03.080 And that will obviously change the dynamics.
00:06:05.340 So I think at the end of the day, there there nothing really has changed all that much.
00:06:09.600 These by elections will be obviously important and will be a bit of a test to see where some of the regions think the country is going in terms of direction.
00:06:17.980 Did you hear that?
00:06:19.380 It sounds like CTV just did a complete 180 on its stance on conservatives.
00:06:23.260 If you remember a couple months ago, CTV was literally saying that Poliev, he's done.
00:06:29.060 He's going to be voted out by his own party.
00:06:31.460 Conservatism in Canada is dead and Mark Carney is going to win a majority.
00:06:35.460 Now they're literally saying the exact opposite.
00:06:38.780 Mark Carney and his cabinet, they're on shaky ground and the conservatives are still a major threat.
00:06:44.040 And this is what they're saying on live TV.
00:06:46.140 Like I said at the beginning of the video, CTV was literally bought off by the liberal government.
00:06:51.560 They're just giving you the watered down liberal version of reality.
00:06:55.380 So if they're suggesting that Carney's in trouble, that means he's in a lot of trouble and bad things are coming his way.
00:07:01.980 So I'm going to let this segment play for a little bit.
00:07:03.860 These panelists make some great points.
00:07:05.920 Then I'll be back at the end of the video for my usual commentary.
00:07:08.620 And perhaps Lisa Bryan may have known that there may have been a couple of former cabinet ministers that already had a foot out the door looking for appointments.
00:07:17.100 That was the rumor anyways.
00:07:19.160 But Lisa, do you think that the reason that we're seeing this new tone of collaboration is, does it have anything to do with the fact that now they are further away from a majority?
00:07:29.620 Do you think that that's why there's this sort of new tone of working together?
00:07:34.640 No, I don't.
00:07:35.860 And I'll tell you why I was just lucky enough to be at a conference last week in Singapore.
00:07:41.100 It's called Canada and Asia.
00:07:42.360 It's being held by the Canada, the Asia Pacific Foundation that's chaired by Pierre Pettigrew, former liberal cabinet minister.
00:07:49.660 Sorry.
00:07:50.440 And this is the sense that I got when you're outside of the country.
00:07:54.240 That is, we have a very short time in order to be able to build a kind of trade arrangement that's going to make Canada's economy fire on all cylinders.
00:08:03.580 The Carney government is really focused on this.
00:08:07.200 I'm very surprised how focused they are on it, how many balls they have in the air right now all over Asia, talking to people in Europe.
00:08:15.800 I can't imagine that this administration wants to take a break of 30 days, 31 days to go and run an election.
00:08:24.180 I don't think that's top of mind for them.
00:08:25.760 I think they've got so much going on right now and what they're trying to accomplish that there's no way that they want to see an election.
00:08:31.800 If it happens, it happens.
00:08:32.840 But they're just going to have all of these by-elections happen across the country now.
00:08:36.940 It's going to be from B.C. to Quebec.
00:08:39.120 We may be seeing by-elections.
00:08:40.720 And they'll get a good flavor as to what's going on.
00:08:43.040 But no, I don't think that they're focused on the majority at all.
00:08:46.180 I think they're going to govern like they have a majority.
00:08:48.360 But they have a much bigger prize in their eyes right now.
00:08:52.540 And it's not domestic politics.
00:08:54.300 And it's interesting, Tom, because Nick Danos was talking about how the liberals are really slipping in Quebec, even saying that they could lose upwards of six seats there.
00:09:04.900 Do you think that they have to, in their minds, show that they've done their homework, show that they actually have results before they go back to the polls again?
00:09:14.840 That's a great question, Mike.
00:09:16.480 And I think it's an open one right now.
00:09:18.560 Take the case of the outgoing MP in Taliban, Tatiana Auguste.
00:09:25.660 She was not given much profile by the liberals.
00:09:28.460 And I think that that is a huge mistake that they're going to pay dearly for.
00:09:31.860 People are very upset about what happened.
00:09:33.640 By the way, zero complaint against one party or the other.
00:09:36.820 It was a pure blunder on the administrative side.
00:09:39.340 But people feel bad about it.
00:09:40.380 And they also think that it wasn't a fair result, which is what the Supreme Court signaled on Friday.
00:09:44.500 That case started at 9.30 in the morning in the Supreme Court, and the decision was rendered at 1 in the afternoon.
00:09:50.160 That's record time.
00:09:51.600 So I think that we're going to see the real possibility.
00:09:55.020 I think it's actually a strong possibility of the liberals losing that seat.
00:09:58.460 What signal does that send?
00:10:00.040 Would they ever have the chance?
00:10:01.940 You know, it's the Edmonton area.
00:10:03.960 Matt Jenner, who is a fairly progressive guy on the conservative team.
00:10:08.460 Would they ever be able to find just the right chemistry to poach that riding from the conservatives?
00:10:14.180 If they lose Terrebonne, as I'm predicting they will, and they lose, they weren't able to pick up, DeGeneres riding in Edmonton.
00:10:21.760 What happens if Wilkinson is one of the ministers who steps down?
00:10:25.280 What are their chances in B.C. with all the issues involving new pipelines and protecting the coast and so forth?
00:10:31.560 Sure, picking up Bill Blair's seats or Christy Freeland's seats, that's a no-brainer.
00:10:36.380 That's easy stuff.
00:10:37.640 But you've got to be careful of perception.
00:10:39.500 And if the perception is that Mark Carney, who, by the way, personally remains very strong in Quebec,
00:10:44.600 but if Mark Carney's beaming out, we're starting to lose by-elections, even a riding that we had, and perhaps two,
00:10:51.780 then that changes people's perceptions of where we're going politically.
00:10:55.200 And I think it'll play into whether or not the liberals decide that they're going to go early.
00:10:59.920 I haven't completely discounted the fact that they're looking at that.
00:11:03.660 I'm a little bit different from Brian on that one.
00:11:05.560 And I understand Lisa's calculus, which is, why in heaven's name would they do that?
00:11:09.380 They're governing.
00:11:10.180 They're there.
00:11:10.840 Why would they take a chance?
00:11:12.720 It's all about the game of perceptions and whether or not they can get past what they're going to be going through.
00:11:17.560 And then maybe this will hand the conservatives a few points in the polls.
00:11:21.940 Then the complexion changes.
00:11:23.100 So I do think that it's become more of an open question.
00:11:25.900 And I think that the likelihood of them going early is greater today than it was before that Supreme Court ruling,
00:11:32.020 striking down the one-vote liberal victory that came last Friday.
00:11:37.500 Robin, pick up on what Tom said about perception.
00:11:40.160 There was a perception once upon a time that those Toronto area ridings would stay red.
00:11:45.420 I think we all remember the folly of the summer of 2024, Toronto, St. Paul's.
00:11:53.120 So is there any danger for them there in taking that for granted?
00:11:58.240 Or do they still have to really get the work done?
00:12:01.220 I mean, everybody understands.
00:12:02.600 They've got to fight for every vote.
00:12:04.300 But are they as much of a slam dunk as people might think?
00:12:07.000 Well, in Toronto, they are a slam dunk, Mike.
00:12:10.120 I actually live in University of Rosedale.
00:12:11.960 And I had someone from the liberal candidate, Danielle Martin, at my door yesterday.
00:12:17.280 I don't vote in elections, but others in my household do.
00:12:22.640 So I was interested to see the canvassing.
00:12:24.840 That tells me that Mark Carney is going to be calling the by-elections in Toronto, at least pretty soon.
00:12:29.460 And Dolly Begum, the liberal candidate in Scarborough Southwest, was just elected last year as an NDP MP, MPP rather.
00:12:38.960 So she switched from being a New Democrat to a liberal.
00:12:41.500 And she's very popular in that riding as a New Democrat.
00:12:44.420 I presume she'll also be popular as a liberal.
00:12:46.580 So I think they'll do okay in these two Toronto ridings.
00:12:50.240 But Terrebonne is a different story.
00:12:52.740 And I'll defer to Tom's expertise on Quebec.
00:12:54.820 Heck, I'm more concerned, frankly, about the precedent, Mike, that was set with that Supreme Court ruling.
00:13:01.880 We haven't seen a written decision yet.
00:13:03.360 But I know that the superior court ruling, the lower court ruling, had said that it was human error, that the Bloc Québécois voters' ballot got mailed back to her.
00:13:15.040 It was a postal error or something like that.
00:13:17.600 So I think I'm not crazy about the Supreme Court annulling election results like this.
00:13:22.780 They haven't done something like this in forever.
00:13:25.520 I mean, I think the last time might have been the early 20th century when we had an election result annulled by the courts.
00:13:32.240 It was 88.
00:13:32.720 Oh, there was one in 88?
00:13:33.700 Okay, in 88.
00:13:34.500 Okay, so I stand corrected.
00:13:36.220 But I don't love the precedent.
00:13:37.840 I think it sets a dangerous one going forward.
00:13:41.560 We have lots of close races and we have lots of recounts.
00:13:46.420 This is going to be a tough one.
00:13:47.940 So 1988, okay, well, that's before I was born, though, Mike.
00:13:51.060 I was going to say, I mean, you couldn't have known.
00:13:56.680 There's no way you could have known, Rob.
00:13:58.720 Mike, you and I are probably able to vote in that one.
00:14:03.480 You know what?
00:14:04.180 People who listen to our radio segments on Vashi's radio show know that we're the old guys on that panel.
00:14:09.620 And looking at this panel, we're obviously the older ones out of all of the five, he said, realizing that he has to compliment everybody on the panel.
00:14:20.180 And as I do, I just want to say gesundheit to Brian for that sneeze off camera.
00:14:25.740 We did pick it up.
00:14:26.940 Okay.
00:14:27.380 So if you watch closely, CTV panelists, including the host, they're subtly hinting that Carney's days are numbered.
00:14:34.900 And if they're subtly hinting that Carney's days are numbered, that means Carney is in a lot of trouble and his days literally are numbered.
00:14:42.740 This means that the truth is now impossible to deny.
00:14:45.860 And Mark Carney's own paid propagandists are literally running cover for him.
00:14:50.480 Think about that for a second.
00:14:51.620 Now, after seeing CTV's episode, I'm now 100% confident the conservatives will win the next election with a supermajority.
00:14:58.840 We just need to hang tight for a little bit, wait for Polyev's numbers to go up just a little bit, and then hope that Carney is stupid enough to call an election in the summer.
00:15:07.480 Then we can get that nice warm blue summer we've all been dreaming about.
00:15:10.900 I also want to remind people, my stance on Polyev simply has not changed.
00:15:15.020 People have criticized me.
00:15:16.200 They've called me a liberal.
00:15:17.600 But if you watch my videos and you follow me online religiously, that is not true.
00:15:23.460 I'm no liberal.
00:15:24.460 I'm a big fan of Polyev, and I'm still expecting him to win that next election.
00:15:28.240 So if you take away one thing from this video, it should be this.
00:15:32.220 Conservatives are going to win, and they're going to win big.
00:15:35.040 Just have a little bit of patience and a little bit of faith.
00:15:38.020 Thanks for tuning in.
00:15:39.220 I love all of you.
00:15:40.460 Talk to you soon, patriots.