Mark Slapinski

00:00:00.000 liberal words and good intentions were tradable commodities, Canada would already be the richest

00:00:05.640 nation on earth. Pierre Polyev is back and on track. Today he released a perfect rebuttal to

00:00:11.740 Mark Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum. The Canadian Prime Minister made waves

00:00:15.620 internationally when he stated that the world can no longer rely on the United States as a

00:00:19.600 trading partner. Now Polyev took some time to step back, collect his thoughts, and today he

00:00:24.360 delivered the perfect response to Carney's speech. Listen to how he starts off, very gentlemanly.

00:00:30.000 Prime Minister Carney's well-crafted and eloquently delivered speech at Davos has been widely noted

00:00:35.060 and I want to start by offering my own praise. The Prime Minister is right to restate what many

00:00:41.660 have said for years. Canada must become more self-reliant, less dependent, and work with

00:00:47.280 like-minded countries to advance our interests. And Conservatives are as always willing to work

00:00:53.040 with him to turn these words into results. That was only the start. Now let's listen to Polyev

00:00:58.540 drop the hammer on Carney. What stood out most to me was when he pointed out, quote,

00:01:04.260 the gaps between rhetoric and reality. That's especially true here at home. If liberal words

00:01:11.600 and good intentions were tradable commodities, Canada would already be the richest nation on earth.

00:01:18.080 Unfortunately, after a decade of promises and grand speeches, liberals have made our economy

00:01:24.720 costly and dependent, more so than ever. After nearly a year as Prime Minister, Mark Carney has

00:01:32.100 made things only worse. The deficit has doubled. Food inflation has doubled that in the states.

00:01:37.620 Housing costs have also doubled, the worst in the G7. No pipelines are approved. Anti-development

00:01:44.000 laws removed. The military has a massive recruiting and equipment shortfall. There's still no free

00:01:51.220 trade between provinces. No crime laws have been passed. The Prime Minister's signature promise

00:01:56.440 of negotiating a win with the U.S. is unfulfilled. Indeed, U.S. tariffs have more than doubled

00:02:03.380 on Canada, while Mr. Carney's promised counter-tariffs have vanished along with his elbows.

00:02:10.320 Those unkept promises, which followed grand speeches and announcements, make us especially vulnerable

00:02:17.120 to the world's dangers. We've had enough words. Now we need results. Now we need to unblock our

00:02:23.860 resources. Now we must approve pipelines. Now we must bolster our military to protect our soil,

00:02:30.300 sea, and skies. Now we need to crack down on foreign interference, threats, and intimidation of

00:02:37.220 our people from hostile powers like China, Russia, and Iran. The last five years have shown us that we

00:02:43.640 can't count on others. Our closest neighbor and largest trading partner, the United States,

00:02:49.160 struck us with tariffs and questioned our sovereignty. Now that is short-sighted, and I believe it will

00:02:54.220 hurt them too. But we can't control what they do. And no one can control what President Trump does or

00:03:00.820 says. I know it's tempting to say our relationship with America is over forever. But here's the reality.

00:03:08.820 We still live next door to the biggest economy and military the world has ever seen.

00:03:12.500 We sell 20 times more to the U.S. than we do to China. One in 10 Canadian jobs rely directly or

00:03:18.580 indirectly on trade with America. We owe it to those workers, our friends, family, and fellow Canadians

00:03:25.260 to ensure those jobs don't go away. Growing and diversifying our economy is essential, as all

00:03:31.960 political parties have been saying for decades. But we must also remember that our trade and security

00:03:37.760 partnership with the U.S. is centuries old and will outlast one president. This is a great point by

00:03:43.520 Polyev here, and it aligns with my thoughts exactly. Nobody in the world is saying that Canada should

00:03:49.380 cease trading with the United States. Nobody is saying that. Now, if Donald Trump wants to keep

00:03:53.980 acting like this, hitting us with tariffs, threatening our sovereignty, then unfortunately, Canada has to

00:03:59.840 look for trade relationships elsewhere in the world. And that includes East Asia and West Europe.

00:04:05.040 Needless to say, I think Polyev made the right choice here. Regardless of how you feel,

00:04:10.260 the majority of Canadians really don't like Trump. So separating himself from Trump was the perfect

00:04:15.160 move. All right, now here's the part where Polyev destroys Carney for his recent deal with communist 0.68

00:04:19.880 China. To quote the British Liberal Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, we have no eternal allies and we have 0.78

00:04:26.900 no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual. And those interests, it is our duty to follow.

00:04:34.480 We should continue to work with allies within the U.S. that are outside the administration to

00:04:40.560 minimize the damage until a larger relationship repair can be completed. And I restate once again

00:04:47.180 my offer to the Prime Minister that conservatives stand ready to help his government fight U.S.

00:04:51.420 tariffs. But while we hope for the best, it would be naive to assume that things will go back to

00:04:57.720 exactly what they were. Whether the next administration is Republican or Democrat,

00:05:02.440 tariffs may be here for the foreseeable future. None of that, though, is an excuse for letting our

00:05:08.320 guard down and repeating past mistakes by making Canada even more vulnerable to aggressive powers

00:05:14.980 like the People's Republic of China, which the Prime Minister himself called our greatest threat

00:05:19.720 only a few months ago. It was with great irony that the Prime Minister quoted one of the greatest

00:05:26.540 heroes of the 20th century fight against totalitarian communism, Baclav Havel, less than a week after

00:05:33.480 launching a, quote, strategic partnership for a new world order with the Chinese communist regime,

00:05:40.220 a partnership that includes plans to deepen engagement on national security issues at a senior level.

00:05:46.040 We cannot throw caution to the wind with a regime that kidnaps our citizens, steals our technology, 0.58

00:05:53.760 interferes in our elections, sets up illegal police stations on our soil, and has a history of using

00:06:00.680 trade as a tool for diplomatic warfare against us. If this is what the Prime Minister meant when he told

00:06:07.580 the Davos crowd that he is calibrating our relationships so their depth reflects our values,

00:06:13.240 then I seriously question his values and, frankly, his judgment.

00:06:17.540 Another great point by Polyev. I understand why Carney feels the need to strengthen his trade

00:06:21.920 relationships with China, considering what's happening with the United States, but we need to

00:06:26.100 be careful. Of course, China is an industrial superpower, and a lot of products that are sold in Canada

00:06:31.800 were either made or assembled in China. However, we can't become beholden to them, and we can't let 0.98

00:06:37.520 our guard down. On top of that, there's many other countries in the world that have democracies that

00:06:42.740 we could also trade with. Before I show you the next part of Polyev's speech, I want to remind you

00:06:46.720 of being heavily censored on YouTube. If you see this part of the video, let me know in the

00:06:50.500 comment section. Let me know what city you're from. Give me a like, and make sure you're still

00:06:54.900 subscribed. All right, let's watch Polyev work his magic.

00:06:58.080 Of course, we have to trade with China, as we always have, but without losing our compass or our

00:07:04.780 national security. At the same time, we must continue the work of Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister who

00:07:11.000 expanded our network of trade with more like-minded middle power countries. It's not a new idea. In

00:07:16.560 fact, we already have free trade with most of the middle powers that the Prime Minister recognized in

00:07:21.920 his Davos speech after the previous Conservative government negotiated agreements with a record

00:07:26.520 46 countries. Given that we already have these agreements in place, what stops us from growing trade

00:07:32.740 with those countries is not their trade barriers on us, but our trade barriers on ourselves. Liberal

00:07:40.480 laws like C-69 and C-48 make it impossible to approve projects or ship energy to other countries on

00:07:47.680 different coasts. It takes 19 years to approve a mine in Canada. The Liberal government has created

00:07:53.700 these laws and obstacles, and almost a year after taking office, Mr. Carney has not removed a single law

00:07:59.580 or bureaucracy, or approved a single pipeline, or removed the industrial carbon tax, which drives

00:08:05.300 food and housing costs up and industry out. There are hundreds of billions of private dollars looking

00:08:11.440 to invest in wildly profitable projects like a pipeline to the Pacific. Money to get Canada's energy

00:08:18.020 flowing and Canada's workers working. We have the resources under our feet. The only thing missing is

00:08:23.840 permits. The federal permits from the Carney government, which are still among the slowest in

00:08:29.560 the world. Grand announcements, new government agencies, signing ceremonies, red carpets and stacking

00:08:35.220 new laws and bureaucracies on top of old ones, will do nothing. There's no magic to this. What we need is for

00:08:43.040 the Carney government to get out of the way and approve these privately funded projects. Mr. Carney told the

00:08:49.700 crowd in Davos that, quote, a country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself, or defend itself, has few options. So why

00:08:57.980 can't we? Just this week, Canada was declared the food inflation capital of the G7. And last year, Canadians who can't

00:09:07.380 feed themselves made a record 2 million visits to a food bank every single month, more than double than the number from

00:09:15.320 seven years ago. In a country with almost endless farming potential. Potential. We have the potential to be the most

00:09:25.720 affordable and the richest country in the world because we have the most land, resources and coastline. We need to unblock our

00:09:33.520 potential. Stop stopping and start starting. That's why Conservatives proposed the Canadian Sovereignty Act. It's a detailed plan to

00:09:41.680 unlock and unblock Canada's potential and make our country more affordable, self-reliant and sovereign. It aims to bring home the half

00:09:49.480 trillion dollars of investment that's been driven to the U.S. over the last decade with practical steps like ending capital gains tax on

00:09:56.280 reinvestments in Canada, which would be economic rocket fuel for business startups, high-tech inventions and massive money-making job-creating

00:10:03.680 projects, repealing anti-pipeline and anti-development laws to legalize fast and safe approval of pipelines and shipping energy to

00:10:11.480 our East Coast, including a new pipeline to the Pacific, which would ship a million barrels a day and 30 billion dollars a year, the

00:10:20.280 single biggest increase in our exports overseas. Let's go from having the second slowest permits in the OECD to the fastest. Let's end the

00:10:29.680 industrial carbon tax on industry and farmers so that they can more affordably produce what we need. Let's create free

00:10:37.680 trade bonuses for provinces and territories to open up their markets to fellow Canadians, tear down internal barriers and

00:10:44.680 strengthen national economic unity. We need new rules and tax incentives preventing Canadian technologies, intellectual

00:10:53.680 property, and strategic assets been from being sold to hostile foreign states and state-influenced interests.

00:11:01.680 We need to cut taxes on work, investment, home building, and energy so that we can make more with less. Doing so will make us

00:11:09.680 both autonomous and affordable. The more food we grow, the more energy we supply ourselves, the more we will be able to

00:11:15.680 afford, the stronger our dollar will be, and the more purchasing power our families will enjoy.

00:11:21.680 I love it. Polyev is truly a master wordsmith. But the thing about Polyev is he's not just good at

00:11:27.680 making speeches. He's also really good at making great plans. And as always, Polyev has a plan. I think

00:11:33.680 you're going to like this.

00:11:34.680 That's why I'm announcing today that next week, we conservatives will introduce a motion in Canada's

00:11:40.680 parliament to pass the Canadian Sovereignty Act. Speaking about sovereignty, we need a strong and sovereign

00:11:48.680 national defense. And what we do on defense is something that we control alone. We don't have to ask

00:11:55.680 anybody's permission to have a strong, state-of-the-art military and defend ourselves. But could we really defend

00:12:02.680 ourselves today? Once again, Mr. Carney has talked a big game about building up our armed forces, but after nearly a year as

00:12:10.680 prime minister, he hasn't even begun to deliver. It's been pushing promises down the road, smoke and mirror budgeting,

00:12:16.680 and commitments of things he might one day do. Just trust us. We really want to do it. Just not yet. Look, we all support the

00:12:24.680 sovereignty of Greenland and Denmark. But we must be able to support our own Arctic sovereignty. Right now, we only have 300 full-time

00:12:32.680 members of the military stationed in the Arctic in a territory that is larger than most countries. We have the

00:12:38.680 largest coastline in the world, and yet we have just a regular naval force of 8,400 personnel. A sovereign country

00:12:47.680 must be able to defend its people and its territory. Conservatives have a detailed plan to restore our armed forces at our

00:12:55.680 great martial tradition. To fix our recruitment crisis and expand regular force and reserve force dramatically

00:13:02.680 and immediately. Increase recruitment and promotions by driving merit and not political correctness.

00:13:09.680 Re-establishing a permanent military presence in the Arctic with CFB Iqaluit, a new Arctic naval base, and upgrade

00:13:17.680 Inuvik to full base status for fighters and tankers. To back sovereignty with real hardware by requiring

00:13:24.680 four new icebreakers, including AWACS aircraft, to detect threats to our Arctic skies. To fast-track upgrades

00:13:34.680 to submarines, helicopters, northern hubs. To strengthen boots on the ground presence by doubling the

00:13:40.680 Canadian Rangers and creating an Army Reserve unit in Whitehorse. So far, Mr. Carney in this regard and in every

00:13:47.680 other has been very fortunate to be judged by his rhetoric and his stated intentions rather than the

00:13:53.680 by his results. Because nearly a year into his term, the rhetoric has changed, but the reality is not.

00:14:01.680 The illusion of purpose is there, but the results have not shown up with it.

00:14:05.680 We need to do things, not just say them. Canada Strong can no longer be a slogan, nor True North Strong

00:14:11.680 and Free just a motto. We must put our people and our country first in everything that we do.

00:14:17.680 Then and only then will Canada be autonomous and affordable, secure and self-reliant.

00:14:25.680 To paraphrase Henley, we are the masters of our fate.

00:14:29.680 It's almost as if Polyev took the words right out of my mouth. From watching this, you would think that

00:14:34.680 Polyev and I are coordinating talking points. But I can assure you, I can say that I don't have any

00:14:39.680 direct connection to the Conservative Party. I've only met Polyev once, and that was a few years ago in

00:14:44.680 Toronto. However, I think this is just evidence that great minds think alike, and me and Polyev have a

00:14:49.680 similar understanding of the situation. Polyev gave Carney credit for a good speech of the WEF, but he also

00:14:55.680 reminded us that Carney is often all talk and no action. Of course, it's one thing to talk the talk,

00:15:01.680 but can the Liberals walk the walk? And if 10 years of a Liberal government in Canada has taught us anything,

00:15:07.680 the answer to that question is no. I also love how Polyev defended Greenland sovereignty during this speech.

00:15:13.680 It's important to have allies in times like this, and a lot of people seem to forget that the world is a

00:15:18.680 really big place and the United States is only one country. A lot of people this week falsely claimed that

00:15:23.680 I'm a Liberal, and that was all because I gave Carney a bit of credit for his speech of the WEF. I also

00:15:28.680 called out Donald Trump for threatening to invade Greenland. However, unlike others, I'm the kind of

00:15:33.680 person where I give credit where it's due, and I call out people where they need to be called out.

00:15:37.680 And in my opinion, Carney deserves at least some credit for his speech of the WEF. And I also believe

00:15:43.680 that Donald Trump deserved to be called out for threatening to invade Greenland. That's the way I see it,

00:15:47.680 and I stand by it. Now I want to make something really clear. I'm still on Team Polyev, and I have been

00:15:53.680 since day one. It's entirely possible to give Liberals credit where they deserve it, and not be a Liberal.

00:15:59.680 It's entirely possible to criticize Donald Trump when he acts up, and not be a Liberal. And I hope

00:16:04.680 people understand that. That being said, I'm glad that Polyev said what he did right here, and now

00:16:09.680 there's no doubt in my mind that Polyev is going to win and become the next Prime Minister of Canada.

00:16:14.680 If things go well, we could still see a blue summer, a conservative supermajority in the not-too-distant

00:16:20.680 future. It can still happen. Like I always say, just have some patience, have a bit of faith. We're

00:16:26.680 going to win, and we're going to win big. It might just take a little bit more time than we expected.

00:16:30.680 We don't need Donald Trump to save us. As Canadians, we're quite capable of saving ourselves. And Polyev,

00:16:36.680 he's the man leading the way. Thanks for tuning in. I love you all. Have a great night, Patriots.

Poilievre Has PERFECT Response To Carney's Davos Speech

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