00:02:32.960If this proves anything, it proves that what Carney is doing is working,
00:02:36.420and what Polly Eve is doing is not working.
00:02:38.540Carney was effectively able to capitalize on Polyev's unwillingness to take a strong stance
00:02:43.020on Trump. To be fair, Polyev did call out Trump at times, but other times he would downplay the
00:02:48.060seriousness of the threat posed by Trump. Carney was the one that properly understood
00:02:52.040that the old relationship with the United States was over and that Canada needs to make new
00:02:56.040alliances. Polyev still holds on to this idea that Trump is a rational actor and he can be
00:03:01.460talked out of his destructive trade policies. Personally, I supported Polyev for years,
00:03:05.780even after he lost the federal election. But as Trump started to act up again in 2026,
00:03:10.280I felt like Polyev wasn't doing enough to call him out. When Trump started an illegal war with
00:03:14.360Iran, Polyev took his side on that, despite the fact that the war led to an increase in gas prices
00:03:19.340worldwide. Polyev also used that opportunity to take cheap shots at Carney over gas prices.
00:03:25.220It appears that the conservative strategy is to blame Carney for not getting a deal with Trump,
00:03:29.060and to blame Carney for the fact that the relations between Canada and the United States
00:03:32.480have soured. Of course, the strategy is proving to be ineffective, and it's cost probably of a
00:03:37.040lot of his longtime supporters, including me. I can't be part of a movement that claims to be
00:03:41.140patriotic, and at the same time makes excuses for a foreign leader who's waging economic warfare on
00:03:46.260my country. I don't think conservatives realize how stupid and hypocritical they look right now.
00:03:51.180Fortunately, some conservatives have noticed what's happening. The former Premier of Alberta,
00:03:55.720Jason Kenney, outlined his concerns during a recent debate on Juneau News.
00:03:59.560I'm curious what your response is to this really strange phenomenon in a way of siding with the United States against Canada.
00:04:07.620Yeah, well, you know, I speak out against this all the time. I find it very disturbing. I do think it is, for those of us who spend any amount of time on social media, we get an exaggerated sense of it, because I think the very online, perennially agreed right-wing populist crowd on Twitter, on X, for example, are not an accurate reflection of the broader movement.
00:04:35.720I keep reminding my federal conservative friends that they lost the last election and they can only win the next election if they regain the trust of older white men who used to be the core electoral cohort for the conservative party, but who believe that the conservatives are not fit for purpose in fighting Trump.
00:05:00.300So it's a complete misdirect if we allow ourselves to be distracted, if the conservative leadership becomes distracted by, you know, a few thousand or tens of thousands of mega north Trump enthusiasts in Canada,
00:05:19.300as opposed to the hundreds of thousands or millions of older traditional conservative
00:05:26.840voters who we lost because we appeared to have surrendered the patriotism card to the liberals
00:05:33.540in the last election. That needs to be regained. But I would say to these folks, have some self
00:05:41.160respect. Frankly, it drives me to distraction to see these voices always instinctively,
00:05:48.080immediately blaming Canada. Look, yes, the Trudeau years were a disaster. Yes,
00:05:56.320Carney has not moved fast enough to undo that damage through deregulation, tax relief,
00:06:01.880fiscal responsibility, major projects, etc. Yes, there are no shortage of targets for the
00:06:08.040Conservatives to focus on like those. But at the end of the day, surely we can all be united,
00:06:14.100especially the members of the movement and the country founded by John McDonald, that we should not be a punching bag for an aggressive man who has attacked, belittled and threatened this country now for the past 18 months.
00:06:34.880this is not hard to figure out. We can be for sensible conservative reforms in this country
00:06:42.520against liberal mismanagement, but not say that Canada is the cause of this disaster in our
00:06:50.040bilateral relationship because we're not. If you're a liberal and you think the conservative
00:06:53.320approach is off, you're right. I worked with Polyev and the conservatives for years and I
00:06:57.400know their approach is off. They're playing right into the hands of the left and they're ensuring
00:07:01.960that they're never going to win a federal election. Sometimes I think that's what they
00:07:05.380actually want. I'm not sure why Polyev didn't do more to stand up to Trump and separate himself
00:07:09.840from him, but that mistake amounts to political suicide. The Conservative Party, they've not only
00:07:15.000failed to separate themselves from the Republicans down south, but in many ways they appear to be
00:07:19.580cozying up to them. One of Polyev's MPs, Jamil Javani, met with US Vice President J.D. Vance
00:07:25.080and they turned around and bad-mouthed Canadians on a far-right radio station. Polyev could have
00:07:29.560earned some respect by immediately kicking him out of caucus. But Pauly just shrugged his shoulders
00:07:33.960and acted like what he did wasn't a big deal. And that's just one example. Part of the reason
00:07:38.440Liberals continue to win elections in Canada is not because they're so good, but because the
00:07:42.400Conservatives are so bad. The Liberals find an issue the majority of people support and the
00:07:47.040majority of Conservatives don't support and they make it the central focus of their election
00:07:50.880campaign. For example, the majority of Canadians, they supported COVID vaccines. So Truro just took
00:07:56.200that and use that to win the 21 election. Majority of Canadians, they want a government that stands
00:08:00.600up to Donald Trump. So the liberals under Carney made that the focus of their campaign and they won
00:08:05.800last year's election. Conservatives are always at a disadvantage because their bases full of
00:08:09.860conspiracy theorists and extremists. They can't win if they don't cater to those people. But if
00:08:14.680they cater to those people, they end up alienating the rest of Canadians. Sometimes people forget
00:08:19.240that Canadians are a lot smarter than Americans. And the strategy that helped Trump win two
00:08:24.060elections won't work in Canada. The strategy to win an election in Canada is to have good policies
00:08:29.220and convince Canadians they can trust you to follow through on them. Conservatives in Canada
00:08:33.380may think that banning trans men from women's sports is an election-winning issue, but I can
00:08:38.080tell you it's not. I want to stress, Polyev will never be Prime Minister. Carney has outmaneuvered
00:08:43.740him in every way possible. A small group of people, they still cling on to the hope that Polyev will
00:08:48.480one day lead the country, but I can assure you that's never going to happen. The only way Canada
00:08:52.720will ever have a conservative government is if an outsider comes in and changes the direction of the
00:08:57.060party. And based on what I've seen in the last little while, that's not going to happen anytime
00:09:01.500soon. This video wasn't made with AI. It's made by real humans for real humans. Thanks for tuning