Mark Slapinski - December 20, 2025


CTV Makes SHOCKING ADMISSION About Poilievre


Episode Stats

Length

18 minutes

Words per Minute

188.14447

Word Count

3,412

Sentence Count

234

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

In this episode, Vashti Capellos and her team admit that Pierre Polyev has a chance to become Prime Minister of Canada. They discuss the reasons why they think he could be the next Prime Minister and why he should win the next election.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Wow. CTV just did something completely unexpected. They actually aired an episode where they
00:00:06.340 acknowledged, but they admitted that Pierre Polyev has a great chance and could potentially be the
00:00:11.480 next Prime Minister of Canada. Even Vashti Capellos, left-wing Vashti Capellos, even she
00:00:18.060 started off the segment by acknowledging all of the gains that Polyev made the last election.
00:00:23.300 I think it is fair to say that Pierre Polyev's leadership of the party, his focus on an issue
00:00:29.320 set, particularly around cost of living, helped drive the election results to be, you know, a
00:00:36.200 massive gain for the conservatives. And I think you can directly attribute a lot of that to him.
00:00:41.600 My girl, my girl. Vashti essentially admitted the quiet part out loud. Polyev wasn't entirely
00:00:48.480 unsuccessful in the last election. Let's go through it. First of all, there was record
00:00:53.580 turnout. Second of all, there was a lot of ridings that turned blue. And number three, they came
00:01:00.380 literally this close, literally half an inch close of winning a minority government. If they had a bit
00:01:06.480 of extra time, it would have been a minority government. Now, if you watch my channel, you
00:01:10.760 should already know the mainstream media, specifically CTV, is incredibly biased towards
00:01:15.260 the conservatives. So if they say something good about the conservatives, that means that the
00:01:19.800 conservatives are actually doing fantastic. So when they say that Polyev did a good job last election,
00:01:25.600 what they're really trying to say is Polyev did a fantastic job last election. Now let's watch one
00:01:31.600 of the panelists make some excellent points. Yeah, let me say a couple of things. First of all,
00:01:35.620 it's not unusual for the leader of the opposition to be lower, sometimes much lower than the prime
00:01:41.060 minister and preferred prime minister. Usually when you're into a change election, that doesn't really
00:01:46.820 alter until 10 or 15 days before election day. So I don't think anybody should be concerned about
00:01:52.460 that. You're right that the bottom line numbers are fairly static. You know, conservatives won 41%
00:02:00.440 of the popular vote in the last election, which was the highest total since 1988. There were new
00:02:06.180 Canadians that voted for us in larger numbers, young people, blue-collar workers, Ontarians in northern
00:02:14.200 Ontario and southwestern Ontario. So there's a lot of things that actually worked for Pierre Polyev.
00:02:20.280 And I've gone on record of actually saying if the election was just one week longer, I think our
00:02:26.180 message of change and of cost of living and those issues that Pierre was accentuating would have taken
00:02:33.280 us over into at least a minority government. Now this guy makes some fantastic points right here.
00:02:38.600 If you remember, Polyev's poll numbers only went down because Trump started this trade war nonsense
00:02:43.660 and the liberals were smart enough to appoint a new leader that was a supposed economic mastermind.
00:02:50.280 However, if you also remember, Polyev started rising in the polls. The conservative party started
00:02:55.320 rising in the polls around the time the election date was held. And if they had just another week,
00:03:01.320 they probably would have won. Now this guy makes a great point about popularity polls. Remember what I
00:03:06.300 said earlier? I don't care about popularity polls because popularity polls, they don't mean anything.
00:03:13.840 The only poll that matters is whether or not someone is going to vote for a certain party.
00:03:18.820 If the majority of people are going to vote conservative, which is what recent polls are
00:03:22.840 saying, that's all I care about. I don't care if the average person likes Polyev. Quite frankly,
00:03:28.980 his quote unquote, unlikability is also the reason I like him. I'm not saying he shouldn't be liked,
00:03:35.320 but you have to understand Polyev is smart. Polyev is humorous, but he's also the kind of person that's
00:03:41.660 not afraid to do what he needs to do to get the job done. Now that's not a nice trade. And that's
00:03:48.380 probably why a lot of Canadians say they don't like him. However, that's the same reason that I
00:03:53.260 like him. I don't want a nice leader, right? We had Trudeau for around 10 years and he was the
00:03:59.920 nice guy. Okay. But was he a good leader? No, I don't want a nice leader. I want a good leader.
00:04:06.280 And I think you do too. That isn't the way it was, of course. But I think that my message to
00:04:13.000 your viewers is that Canada needs Pierre Polyev, and the concern is now more than ever. And he
00:04:19.800 continues to focus on the issues that are increasingly, by that same polling that you're
00:04:26.000 referring to, that Canadians are concerned about. Cost of living, cost of housing, cost of groceries,
00:04:31.920 crime in our neighborhoods, these kinds of issues are the ones that the Conservatives are
00:04:37.700 focused on. And I think ultimately, with a little bit of patience and not turfing out a leader
00:04:44.340 immediately after losing an election, which we've done three times already, and that hasn't actually
00:04:50.060 worked out for us, I think most partisan Conservatives want to see Pierre continue and continue to grow.
00:04:56.080 Exactly. Polyev is not going anywhere. And that's why I was so upset with some of these commentators
00:05:02.920 like Mr. Sunshine Baby, or as I like to call him, Mr. Cry Baby, Mr. Clickbait Baby. They're crying,
00:05:09.760 saying bad things about Polyev, trying to divide Conservatives. And I'm saying, stop doing that.
00:05:15.260 Stop doing that, because not only is that wrong, but it's unproductive. And now you're seeing just how
00:05:20.640 wrong idiots like him and some of these other people were. They were wrong. Popularity polls
00:05:26.900 don't matter. They're irrelevant. The only thing that matters is voting attention, and Polyev is
00:05:32.180 climbing. Polyev is uniquely qualified to be the Prime Minister of Canada. There's very few, if any,
00:05:37.600 people that are as qualified as him. Even within the Conservative ranks, he got Andrew Sherp,
00:05:42.520 nice guy, smart guy, a little too goofy. He got Aaron O'Toole, smart guy, nice guy,
00:05:48.980 but at the same time, he was too ugly, and his policies were too close to the center.
00:05:53.760 Polyev, also smart, but exceptionally smart, charismatic, and he's not a bad-looking guy.
00:06:00.980 Now you're thinking, why would I bring that up? That's kind of gay or irrelevant. I'm saying it
00:06:06.040 is not gay. It's not irrelevant. Let me tell you why. People don't want to see an ugly dude on
00:06:11.440 television for four years. Whether they admit it or not, whether it's a conscious determinator,
00:06:17.260 whether it's not conscious determinator, people care about looks, and Polyev has the looks,
00:06:22.680 at least in my opinion, to be Prime Minister and someone that you would actually want to see on
00:06:27.280 television for four years, eight years, ten years. Nobody wants to see an ugly person on television.
00:06:33.180 That's why when you watch television, you rarely see ugly people. That's why when you watch the news,
00:06:38.120 journalists try to dress up and look good. They might not always get their facts straight,
00:06:42.160 but at least they try to look good, right? Now you're starting to understand.
00:06:45.660 I also want to point out something I found really interesting about this segment.
00:06:49.580 Vashie doesn't interrupt this guy when he's talking. And here's my theory about why she does
00:06:53.760 this. It's because she secretly knows, she can secretly feel in her heart, that Polyev is the
00:06:59.480 right choice for Canada. He might not be the right choice for her, because it'll end the media bailouts
00:07:05.080 and she'll make less money. And that's why she's not too vocal about it. But deep down inside,
00:07:09.820 she knows in her heart, Polyev's the right guy for Canada.
00:07:13.400 I guess the question just jumping off of that, Marco, is, and I'll sort of reframe how I initially
00:07:19.040 posed it to Tony, like he is a huge asset to the party, but it is apparent through other events that
00:07:25.380 have occurred since or even the loss of his own seat, he can also be a liability. How are those two
00:07:30.080 things reconciled in your view? Or can they be?
00:07:32.500 I'm not sure. And I think, you know, my esteemed colleagues on the panel, James and Tony, and I'm
00:07:40.160 sure many members of their party are really wrestling with that question. I think James had
00:07:45.600 some really, I think, really smart insights into the distinction between, you know, the people who
00:07:52.720 are more concerned with driving a political movement as opposed to those who want to be
00:07:56.640 nation builders. And there's something that Tony said that I want to pick up on, which is that there
00:08:02.300 are many, many people, it seems to me, on the outside looking in within the Conservative Party that do want
00:08:07.640 Pierre to succeed. And in their view, the way for him to succeed is to grow, to evolve. But in the clips
00:08:15.880 that you are playing, you know, Pierre just seems to want to resist that notion, that advice.
00:08:23.320 And I think it's because he believes that steadiness and firmness and resoluteness and projecting that,
00:08:32.100 you know, unswerving quality is the way that he is going to eventually, you know, rally those
00:08:40.040 Canadian voters who are still out there to be persuaded. I'm not sure that is working. And certainly
00:08:46.500 on the, you know, numbers as you've reported them, it doesn't seem to me that it is.
00:08:53.160 So look, you know, Christmas break is holidays are always a great time to go home, you know,
00:08:59.020 have some meals, see your loved ones kind of, you know, exercise, do whatever it is that you do to
00:09:05.080 distract yourself and think hard about the year that is ahead. And I think Pierre has obviously
00:09:10.660 got some reflecting to do.
00:09:11.940 Just a quick note, in case you don't know, Marco Medicino, he's a former Liberal politician.
00:09:17.380 I wouldn't take any advice as a conservative from a Liberal. If a Liberal says I'm doing a bad job,
00:09:23.360 to me, that means I'm doing a good job. If they tell me to do X, in my head, I think I got to do Y.
00:09:29.440 Because you never take your advice from your enemy. I don't take advice from people that don't like me.
00:09:35.440 Right? It just doesn't make sense. Think about that.
00:09:38.020 What do you see as the challenge ahead for Polyev, James?
00:09:41.700 Well, I mean, frankly, it's a challenge that all opposition leaders have,
00:09:45.120 which is you have to push and pull at the same time. You have to be in our system of government.
00:09:49.320 You have to be critical of the government on a daily basis, hopefully in a constructive way
00:09:53.000 that gives a sense to the public that if you were in government, you would do it
00:09:56.960 in a 5%, 10% better way, a smarter way, a more efficient way, a more thoughtful way.
00:10:01.840 So you have to be negative all the time, but at the same time, you have to then pivot back
00:10:05.920 to then presenting yourself as a pan-Canadian, bilingual, thoughtful, continental and global
00:10:11.160 leader who has a vision for everybody. So you go from being negative one day to having to
00:10:16.020 be this bigger voice. There's no question, I think, that Pierre has been a very successful
00:10:20.480 opposition leader. To borrow a phrase by our friend Paul Wells, he says the thing about being
00:10:26.100 a really good opposition leader is if you're really, really good at it, the voters might want
00:10:30.400 to attempt to keep you there. And so to break away from that and to present yourself as the CEO of
00:10:37.300 a G7 country and a government, it's a very difficult thing to do, but it can be done.
00:10:42.280 And as Tony's analysis reminds us, the last election was actually very close. If in the next
00:10:47.640 election, one of these two things happens, Pierre becomes prime minister, if one out of the 20 people,
00:10:53.420 if one in 20 people who voted liberal in the last election switched to conservative, Pierre wins.
00:10:57.680 If one in four traditional New Democrats who went liberal goes back to the New Democratic Party,
00:11:03.480 Pierre wins a minority government. So the margin for him to rise or fall is very narrow,
00:11:09.120 but the task is in front of him. He can do it. The margin is there. He can grow. He can become prime
00:11:14.480 minister. Do you hear that right there? They just admitted on CTV, this is playing on live television
00:11:20.700 all over Canada, that Paulieff has a great chance of becoming prime minister. This isn't coming from
00:11:25.440 Jasmine Lane or Mr. Sunshine baby. This isn't coming from rebel news or the Western standard.
00:11:30.240 This isn't coming from Breitbart or Alex Jones. This is coming from the liberals own propaganda arm.
00:11:36.700 They're saying it out loud on national television. Paulieff has a great chance and will likely be the
00:11:42.020 next prime minister. Now, you know that if CTV says that Paulieff has a chance of winning,
00:11:46.080 you know, the reality is he has a great chance of winning. He's almost guaranteed to win.
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00:11:59.300 Thanks. Let's get back to the action.
00:12:01.020 But that delicate daily balance of being aggressive and tough in opposition while wanting to be seen
00:12:08.900 to be managerially competent and have a proactive positive vision, it's a hard push-pull and not a
00:12:15.840 lot of people pull it off. Last word to you on that, Christy, and then I want to try to get in one
00:12:20.780 quick round of what you guys think the big story next year will be on this subject of Mr. Paulieff to
00:12:25.460 you, Christy. Yeah. So, you know, honestly, I was surprised he didn't resign on election night
00:12:30.800 as leader because, you know, blowing a lead that was that big and, you know, when his party was
00:12:36.600 depending on him, they had all this money, they had all this support and, you know, they ran a
00:12:41.540 really good campaign. I was surprised that he decided to stick around. I think he probably would
00:12:47.280 have done the right thing by his party had he given an opportunity for a refresh there. But it's
00:12:51.780 quite true. When you're in opposition, you can't demonstrate that you are going to be a leader. You
00:12:56.320 can only really demonstrate that you can really oppose things. And the problem that I think Canadians
00:13:01.580 had with Mr. Paulieff was that he seemed like he was all politics all the time. He wasn't about
00:13:10.440 leading. He wasn't about governing. He seemed like he he came across like a guy who just wanted to fight.
00:13:16.600 And, you know, Trump came along and Justin Trudeau went away and Canadians decided that it was time
00:13:23.120 for a serious leader. And I think it is going to be very difficult for Mr. Paulieff to be able to
00:13:29.120 change the way he is thought of by Canadians. Now, he might he might be saved by the fact that
00:13:36.140 because this James and I don't often disagree. But on this idea that the NDP will disappear,
00:13:40.540 I think we very much do disagree. I don't think the NDP are going anywhere. And if Mark Carney doesn't
00:13:48.500 fulfill all of his or much of his promises, if the public sector unions get very, very upset with
00:13:54.280 him over time, and, you know, if some of the environmental groups decide to get behind them
00:13:59.900 again, the NDP may decide that they want to wipe out that NDP vote. So he could get lucky. But
00:14:06.420 I think it's going to be a difficult hill for him to climb in the next few years to look credible,
00:14:12.340 to look positive, but also remain who he is and who he seems incapable of of changing the areas in
00:14:20.340 which he seems incapable, incapable of changing. Well, my own managerial capabilities are limited
00:14:25.880 because I've run out of time to get to what the big stories next year are. So I will hopefully
00:14:30.000 hopefully we can save them and start off the new year in January when we reconvene with your
00:14:35.220 predictions. I appreciate all of you lending us so much of your time and your analysis tonight.
00:14:39.000 So just a quick summary of this video. They're basically saying that Poliev is going to win.
00:14:43.520 Now, I knew that. I'm pretty sure my audience knew that. However, I'm glad to hear that CTV is
00:14:49.740 finally saying it out loud on national television. Poliev is going to win unless he gets assassinated or
00:14:56.420 gets really sick. Fingers crossed that doesn't happen. And we know there's a lot of crazy left
00:15:01.720 wingers that would love nothing more than to see Poliev, you know, but fingers crossed, like I said,
00:15:09.080 that doesn't happen. Now for all the naysayers, I want to point out Basha Capella. She didn't say
00:15:13.760 that directly. She didn't say that directly. She didn't say that Poliev is going to be prime
00:15:17.840 minister next year. But I encourage you, if you haven't got it, step back, step back and read
00:15:24.120 between the lines. Read between the lines and think critically. Maybe she didn't say that directly,
00:15:31.160 but that's what she's trying to say. Listen to what she said. Listen to what she didn't say.
00:15:36.660 Listen to who she didn't interrupt when she usually would interrupt. And I think you're going to come
00:15:41.140 to the conclusion that there's a great chance Poliev is going to be prime minister and it could
00:15:45.900 happen as early as next year. As I said before, I'm still hoping for a blue summer. It's not 100%.
00:15:52.480 I mean, nothing's 100%. The weather's not 100%. What's going to happen in politics is not 100%.
00:15:57.920 However, I still think there's a good chance. There's still a possibility that Carney might make
00:16:03.040 another backroom deal and steal another conservative MP from Poliev. But the only difference that's going
00:16:10.340 to make is that's not going to stop Poliev. He's not going to lose the leadership review. He's not
00:16:14.440 going to go anywhere. All it's going to do is delay things. But you know what? If another conservative
00:16:19.800 MP wants to switch sides, let him do it. They can all switch sides for all I care. Let me tell you
00:16:24.800 why. Poliev needs loyalty. He needs people that have moral substance. He needs people that say one
00:16:32.500 thing and do the thing they said they were going to do. Poliev doesn't need people that ran on a
00:16:37.980 conservative platform and decided a few months later to switch to the liberals. He doesn't need people
00:16:43.600 like that. That is not a failure of Poliev. That's a failure of the people that switch sides. And I
00:16:49.320 hope you understand that. I know you understand that. But for the people in the back, for the people
00:16:53.280 on the left, understand that people didn't defect because of Poliev. They defected because they're
00:16:58.720 terrible people and they're going to burn in hell for what they did. And I'm not mincing my words.
00:17:04.080 Hell has a special place for traitors. And I know the devil's got a bit of room saved for those two
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00:17:49.880 patience. We're going to win. We're going to win bigger than we've ever won before. We're going to
00:17:54.200 win so big that people are going to get tired of winning. Right? I know it's a little, I copied Trump
00:18:01.280 there, but I couldn't help myself. But anyway, have a great Christmas weekend. I'm going to talk to you
00:18:06.300 really soon. Love you all.