Mark Slapinski

00:00:00.000 I mean, it was overwhelming. If there were two words to describe the weekend for Pierre Polyev, it was mission accomplished.

00:00:05.680 Did you hear that? The mainstream media finally said something positive about conservatives, and there's a reason for that.

00:00:11.880 The mainstream media is finally saying good things about Polyev because the truth is now impossible to ignore.

00:00:17.800 Despite all the taxpayer-funded bailouts, despite all the pressure from the Liberal government,

00:00:22.900 after years and years and years of lying to the Canadian people, the mainstream media finally snapped, and now they're telling the truth.

00:00:30.220 Let's watch this clip together.

00:00:31.280 Those people who have felt unseen for too long, who are carrying the country on their back and feel underappreciated and overworked,

00:00:40.700 conservatives see you, and conservatives will fight for you.

00:00:48.160 Conservative leader Pierre Polyev on Friday in a rousing campaign-style speech to party members,

00:00:53.420 which touched on a wide range of issues from foreign policy to separatism, immigration, and national unity,

00:01:00.600 and highlighted his proposed Canadian Sovereignty Act.

00:01:04.600 With me today to dig into the substance of that speech and the message, Polyev's overwhelming victory.

00:01:10.440 Did you hear that?

00:01:11.680 Fasha Capello's just admitted that Polyev scored an overwhelming victory this weekend.

00:01:16.080 Even she couldn't spin this one around.

00:01:17.860 Our Sunday strategy session is here.

00:01:20.280 Kathleen Monk is a former NDP strategist and director of communications to the late Jack Layton.

00:01:25.600 James Moore is a CTV News political analyst and a former conservative cabinet minister.

00:01:29.460 And Scott Reed is a CTV News political analyst and former communications director to Prime Minister Paul Martin.

00:01:34.120 Hi, everybody. Very good to see you.

00:01:35.760 We'll start with the number before we get into maybe the substance of the speech.

00:01:39.260 And James, I'll start with you on that.

00:01:40.580 You know, more than 87% among the delegates who were there.

00:01:44.740 What is your view on the greater meaning of that?

00:01:48.560 I mean, it was overwhelming.

00:01:50.220 If there were two words to describe the weekend for Pierre Polyev, it was mission accomplished.

00:01:54.800 He went into the weekend, you know, a lot of, you know, media speculating about his future and floor crossers and all that. 1.00

00:02:01.680 And he came out of it 87.4%.

00:02:03.720 He looked good, presented well.

00:02:05.440 Wow.

00:02:05.840 As CTV panelist, he's not only giving Polyev credit where it's due, but he's saying the quiet parts out loud now.

00:02:11.500 Spoke well.

00:02:12.160 Speech was very well received in the room.

00:02:13.940 And I think beyond, you know, on the personal side, talking a little bit about his daughter and which I think, you know, a lot of politicians are reserved to do for good reason because the brutality of social media and all that.

00:02:24.820 So he's a little bit of vulnerability there.

00:02:26.620 But the human side of Pierre and what his family's been through, I think, makes him, I think, a more attractive candidate to be prime minister because he's walking a path that a lot of people in the country are on.

00:02:36.820 And I think he comes out of it with a lot of wind in his sails.

00:02:39.720 In a democracy, the majority has rights.

00:02:42.360 And a supermajority has real mandate to move forward.

00:02:45.620 So I think caucus members should align.

00:02:48.760 You'll think you'll see that in the next while.

00:02:50.560 And I think the party base has been animated and energized because they see a guy who is up off the floor, who's fighting back, and he seems unthreatened.

00:02:58.980 Body language was good.

00:03:00.360 And I think the party is very much energized coming out of the weekend convention.

00:03:03.860 So I think it was a very good time for Pierre and a very good time for the party.

00:03:07.360 It's unbelievable.

00:03:08.860 After years and years of lying, spinning things around, saying mean things about Polyev, saying he's like Trump, saying he's a white supremacist, the mainstream media is finally telling the truth.

00:03:20.200 Polyev is just doing so great right now that even the mainstream media can't spin it around.

00:03:25.240 And if you listen to that clip I just showed you, they even use the term supermajority.

00:03:29.660 And that's no mistake.

00:03:30.640 Now, if you watch my videos, I've always said that Polyev can win the next election and not just win, but win a supermajority.

00:03:37.600 And even CTV is hinting at it right now.

00:03:40.320 Now, let's see what else they have to say.

00:03:42.120 Before we get into this, I want to remind you I'm being heavily censored on YouTube.

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00:03:53.380 All right, let's check this out.

00:03:54.760 Scott, what's your read on the number?

00:03:57.560 Pretty similar.

00:03:58.260 I mean, this question on people's minds, I think, going into the weekend was, is Pierre Polyev absolutely in control of his party?

00:04:05.340 And the answer is absolutely is.

00:04:06.920 Whoa, now Scott Reid is saying nice things about Polyev.

00:04:09.920 This is a complete 180 from their usual talking point.

00:04:12.660 And, you know, that comes even in the face of very discouraging polling numbers, which show that his gap in terms of preferred prime minister remains with Mark Carney.

00:04:23.460 Carney appears to be getting a bump after his travel abroad, the deals in China, the speech in Davos, friction with Trump.

00:04:32.540 And the party says, listen, notwithstanding all that, we are pushing all of our chips in the middle of the table.

00:04:37.740 We are sticking to our cards.

00:04:41.020 We are standing on our bet.

00:04:43.060 And that means no change in strategy, no change in leader, no change in approach.

00:04:47.920 So I thought it was a confident speech.

00:04:49.640 It was an endorsing vote.

00:04:51.240 But the real message of the weekend, and who knows, they might be right.

00:04:54.680 The real message of the weekend was, we think we can do it again and win this time.

00:04:59.680 But we're not changing, that's for sure.

00:05:02.140 Nice.

00:05:02.940 You know Polyev is really on a roll when even left-wing hack Scott Reid has nice things to say about him.

00:05:07.980 Now, it is true that Carney is ahead when it comes to favorability polls.

00:05:11.240 However, when you look at voting intentions, conservatives and liberals are neck to neck.

00:05:16.140 In some categories, including with men, the conservatives are dominating.

00:05:20.380 So we're doing pretty good.

00:05:21.580 We just need to get the woman to catch on. 1.00

00:05:23.600 Yeah, I think the tail end of what Scott just said is accurate.

00:05:26.760 And certainly I had the sense that what was really encouraging to people in the room as they listened to Pierre Polyev's speech was a doubling down on the approach that they've taken before.

00:05:37.220 They are really resistant to this idea that has emerged that there needs to be a significant pivot from a policy perspective or any other perspective in order to be able to win another election.

00:05:47.980 And they were really encouraged, I think, from the conversations that I was able to have, by the fact that that convention and that speech seemed to cement the fact that that would not happen.

00:05:59.440 Yeah, for sure.

00:06:00.120 I mean, that speech wasn't a pivot at all.

00:06:02.220 It was a reinforcement of all of the messaging that was in the election and, frankly, since his leadership election in 2022.

00:06:08.760 It's his message time and time again.

00:06:10.220 But, certainly, conservatives are feeling happy coming out of this convention.

00:06:14.020 They cleared the bar of Stephen Harper, his 84 percent to Pierre's 87 percent.

00:06:19.120 But I want to pick up on one word that James just mentioned, that the caucus should now fall in line.

00:06:27.240 And that's the next question.

00:06:28.620 Because, certainly, the people who voted at convention aren't the same voters that are going to vote in the next election.

00:06:33.600 They're a difference set altogether.

00:06:34.900 And there's a lot of work that still needs to be done, as Scott just said, to close the gap, the favorability gap, between Carney and Polyev.

00:06:41.560 He's way ahead of Polyev right now.

00:06:43.820 So, how is he going to do that?

00:06:45.000 And who are they going to target?

00:06:46.160 They have to start targeting women. 1.00

00:06:47.760 They have to start targeting those 55-plus.

00:06:50.100 And they also have to do work, as James mentioned, on their own caucus.

00:06:53.540 Because there's still the Reform Act.

00:06:55.620 He won the vote resoundingly in Calgary this weekend.

00:06:58.920 But he has to convince the caucus to stay with him.

00:07:02.060 And it's still not clear whether those MPs that were considering flirting with the Liberals and moving over aren't still going to do that in the coming months.

00:07:09.700 And I think that's the concern.

00:07:10.940 There's the Reform Act that exists.

00:07:12.720 They could actually still put a leadership test to Polyev.

00:07:15.840 Or it could be a public shaming with more MPs crossing the floor.

00:07:20.880 Yeah, there were some Liberals who were observing.

00:07:23.100 And certainly, James had, you know, reacted to the speech afterward.

00:07:26.700 They seemed pretty enthused by the fact that the Conservatives were doubling down, that the leader of the party was kind of doubling down on their approach.

00:07:34.620 And, you know, like it's a rumor factory.

00:07:36.340 They're all like, oh, there could be four more this week, etc., etc.

00:07:39.800 I also did get the chance, though, to speak to Steve Outhouse about some of that, who's managing the next Conservative campaign.

00:07:45.860 He didn't manage the last one.

00:07:46.740 That was Ginny Byrne.

00:07:47.340 He's managing this one.

00:07:48.380 And he did concede, in particular, women, some writings in Ontario.

00:07:53.260 Like, there were gaps that they had to close.

00:07:56.040 But, again, didn't seem to intimate that, like, a massive policy pivot was in store or personality, you know, changed for Mr. Polyev.

00:08:03.500 He said there'll be a bit more humor, a bit more of himself, which we saw evident in the speech.

00:08:07.600 But it didn't sound like, other than tinkering in those areas, like more was going to be on the table.

00:08:12.880 Do you think that's the right move?

00:08:15.240 Yeah.

00:08:15.720 Well, look, you do strategy.

00:08:17.340 You don't talk about your strategy.

00:08:19.460 If there are slight different emphases that Pierre is going to put forward in the next little while, I think you'll see it.

00:08:25.240 You'll discern it.

00:08:25.960 And you'll know it.

00:08:27.440 There's that.

00:08:28.100 With regard to Liberals in the room and, frankly, Liberals across the country, I don't often actually watch, you know, the daily things that are going on in the House of Commons.

00:08:36.700 But this past week, I did watch Question Period.

00:08:38.440 And I noticed that Liberal cabinet ministers, some of the sort of habitual answers they've gone to, they were kind of snickering, saying to Pierre in Question Period, you know,

00:08:47.400 we wish you a good number this week.

00:08:48.700 We hope you stick around.

00:08:49.740 We hope you're still the conservative leader.

00:08:51.560 You know, this week on Parliament Hill will be the unveiling of Stephen Harper's portrait on Parliament Hill in the 20-year anniversary of his ascension and election as prime minister of the country.

00:09:02.440 And I remember 2004 and 2005, leading into that campaign and Stephen's election in 2006, there were a lot of Liberals who were saying, I hope Stephen Harper, after you lose in 2004, I hope he sticks around.

00:09:13.520 I hope you guys stay with that guy who doesn't have experience.

00:09:15.780 I hope he's the guy with, you know, that everybody thinks will never win.

00:09:19.180 And I hope you stick with, I was having a little bit of flashback to those times when the sort of Liberals who were 20 points ahead in the personal popularity of Paul Martin relative Stephen Harper and all that,

00:09:30.400 who are pretty self-righteous about the certainty of things to come.

00:09:35.440 And we saw how that ended.

00:09:37.440 And I was hearing echoes of that right now with Pierre Polyef and people thinking that this guy can never win.

00:09:42.320 Pierre is the hardest working politician I've ever seen.

00:09:44.780 He's got wind at his back.

00:09:45.800 He's fighting.

00:09:46.760 The party wants him to succeed.

00:09:48.400 And I think Liberals who assume too much today about what's going to happen in the next three to six months, you're walking down a path that we've seen before.

00:09:57.160 What I'm getting from this clip is that the CTV executives have a bad feeling that Carney's going to lose soon, and now they're hedging their bets.

00:10:03.520 That's what I'm getting.

00:10:04.780 And I think you'll understand that too, or come to the same conclusion, if you really watch this clip closely and read between the lines.

00:10:10.660 I'll explain this more later, but first, let's watch the rest of the clip.

00:10:13.480 Do you think they are underestimating Polyef, Scott?

00:10:16.520 And I would discern a big difference from, you know, the end of Justin Trudeau where there was not an underestimation of Pierre Polyef to now.

00:10:23.680 They're like the, you know, I get told in the past two days, one trick pony, they often use the word like, they're like, you know, I don't mean this,

00:10:31.620 but they're conveying to me, loser, like, there's a lot of dismissing.

00:10:34.320 I think I've put this to you before.

00:10:35.440 I really have noticed it over the past few months. 1.00

00:10:38.680 Yeah, look, only cocky, only stupid people get cocky. 0.98

00:10:42.240 But I want to pick up on what James is saying in the comparison of the 2004-2006 example, because I lived through it. 0.99

00:10:47.900 He wants to talk about flashbacks.

00:10:49.060 Well, he just fed me a giant tab of acid, so let's stay there.

00:10:52.740 And here's my recollection, and I think it's really important, because I hear conservatives make the comparison all the time.

00:10:58.540 Remember, Harper lost in 2004, rallied one in 2006.

00:11:02.020 Pierre Polyef can do the same, but they're following a fundamentally different path.

00:11:06.440 The truth of the matter is that Stephen Harper took stock of his 04 loss and made adjustments.

00:11:13.160 He made changes.

00:11:13.880 He changed his tone.

00:11:14.960 He changed his approach.

00:11:16.320 He moved people around.

00:11:17.980 He moved policy approach around.

00:11:19.700 And so what we saw this weekend, this kind of death crypt dedication to doing the same, is not the Stephen Harper script.

00:11:28.560 So I will be interested to see how it unfolds.

00:11:31.860 And I've got to tell you, I can remember 2004-2006.

00:11:34.520 I was there.

00:11:35.040 I was on the front lines.

00:11:35.900 And the reality is that as Harper made those adjustments, we were nervous.

00:11:41.760 We obviously were concerned, because we could see that he was attempting to move himself into a more appealing electoral position.

00:11:50.500 I'm not saying that Pierre Polyef isn't going to be competitive in the next election.

00:11:55.640 I think he is competitive.

00:11:57.220 He's running at 39%, 40%.

00:11:58.660 But they have decided they will not follow the Stephen Harper script.

00:12:02.360 They have decided they are sticking completely and utterly, unapologetically, and unblinkingly with the same course.

00:12:11.600 Kathleen, last word to you.

00:12:13.020 Yeah, I think it showed for sure.

00:12:14.900 His speech showed that they're sticking with the same course.

00:12:16.860 I mean, you heard his new campaign manager, Steve Otho, say they're going to just double down, bring his authentic self, and as you mentioned, introduce more humor and more family man into it.

00:12:26.740 Is that going to be enough for Canadians who may have actually already cemented their opinion of Pierre Polyef?

00:12:31.220 I'm not sure.

00:12:32.020 And just to go back to the 2004-2006 example, remember, yes, Stephen Harper pivoted, changed his policy approach, but also the liberals were mired in scandal.

00:12:41.700 Unless I'm suffering from auditory hallucinations, this far-left commentator, a friend of Jack Layton, she even admitted on live television that the liberals were involved with scandals.

00:12:51.680 And the ad scam that happened that actually really pulled them down in the Gombrie report.

00:12:55.720 So it was those two things that led to Stephen Harper being so successful.

00:13:00.020 Right now, you see Carney, in fact, maybe adopting and strengthening his positions by taking up so much of that center space that it's hard for, frankly, any party, New Democrats or the conservatives to get the oxygen to break through.

00:13:12.620 There you have it.

00:13:13.860 Polyev is winning.

00:13:15.300 And it's not just me that's saying it.

00:13:17.180 Even Carney's paid propagandist at CTV, they're saying it too.

00:13:21.480 And that's great news.

00:13:22.540 However, we should still be very suspicious of these people.

00:13:25.780 Very suspicious.

00:13:27.180 These are the same people that spent years lying about conservatives, twisting the truth, and not being honest with the Canadian people.

00:13:34.100 So it's entirely possible this could be the calm before the storm.

00:13:38.020 I expect a series of hit pieces in the not-too-distant future.

00:13:41.320 And I also expect, if a spring or a summer election is called, that the mainstream media will use every dirty trick in the book to make sure that Polyev doesn't get elected so they can protect their precious, precious bailout packages. 0.61

00:13:53.200 That being said, there's no doubt in my mind that Polyev is going to win the next election and secure a supermajority.

00:13:59.420 Especially after watching his speech this weekend, there's no doubt in my mind at all.

00:14:03.380 The more Polyev talks, the more confidence I have in him.

00:14:06.920 And there's very few people I can say that about.

00:14:09.020 So like I always say, hang in there.

00:14:11.400 We're going to win.

00:14:12.320 We're going to win big.

00:14:13.600 Thanks for tuning in.

00:14:14.960 I love you all.

00:14:16.060 Talk to you soon, Patriots.

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