Just two days before the Liberal government will table its highly anticipated budget, I sat down with the leader of the Official Opposition, Pierre Polyev, in an exclusive interview ahead of Tuesday's federal budget. In this episode, we discuss Polyev's thoughts on the Supreme Court striking down mandatory minimum sentences for possession and access to child pornography.
00:02:58.480So let's watch what he does and be prepared to take some notes.
00:03:01.560Well, first of all, the accused and convicted offenders are appalling, frankly.
00:03:08.340These are two men who had possession of literally hundreds of images and videos of children.
00:03:15.100One of them had 377 images of children between three and six years old.
00:03:21.540Another had hundreds of videos of children between five and ten.
00:03:26.400They created demand for pornographic material that was made by torturing, humiliating, and defiling innocent children who will never recover from it from the rest of their lives.
00:03:39.160And frankly, they were originally given one-year sentences.
00:03:43.280It should have been way more than one year since.
00:03:45.040There should be a mandatory minimum of more, probably five or even ten years.
00:03:50.580So this ruling is wrong-headed, and I would oppose the ruling, and I would use the notwithstanding clause to overturn it.
00:03:57.920And my future government will introduce mandatory prison sentences for possession of child pornography so that dirtbags like this go away for a very long time.
00:05:02.980They're trying to say, well, if kids can do it, then everybody should be able to do it.
00:05:07.640It's a slippery slope, and this woman knows exactly what she's doing.
00:05:10.880Now let's watch Polyev clean her claw.
00:05:12.800I think the Supreme Court needs to get away from these imaginary scenarios.
00:05:17.200The scenario before them was two men in possession over a long period of time of hundreds of images and videos that were made by torturing innocent children.
00:05:28.380And with those facts in front of them, their conclusion actually should have been that the sentence should have been met much more than the one year and nine months that the two dirtbag offenders received.
00:05:38.900They should go away for a very long time.
00:05:40.780Frankly, if I had my way as a father, I would lock them up and throw away the key.
00:05:45.080Once again, perfect answer and deliciously spicy.
00:05:48.660Polyev is a father, and he can empathize with fathers that have been in this situation.
00:05:53.920Imagine how you would feel if you were a father and your kid was victimized.
00:05:57.960Now, to be fair, what Polyev is offering is a lot milder than what most fathers would do.
00:06:02.640I'm pretty sure most fathers would have a more creative way of dealing with these kinds of perverts.
00:06:07.660And I'm sure people will share their thoughts in the comments section.
00:06:11.140I also want to point out, if you do share your thoughts, be civil.
00:08:44.160They reduce investments because they borrow money out of the economy that would otherwise have been invested in productive private enterprises,
00:08:55.620So when the government borrows, it actually subtracts from the economy by sucking up capital that would have been used for productive purposes.
00:09:03.380So if you want investment, there's only one thing the government needs to do.
00:09:07.720There are trillions of dollars of private investment ready to dig mines, build pipelines, set up LNG plants, build ports.
00:09:15.900We know that that money exists because they're doing it in other countries around the world where there is fast approvals, less red tape, low taxes.
00:09:43.680I just checked and Saudi Arabia has less people than Canada.
00:09:47.280Yet when you look at the way the average person lives in Saudi Arabia, they're living in mansions, they're driving nice cars, they have exotic animals.
00:09:55.340You look at the way the average person lives in Canada, which is supposed to be a rich first world country, and people are literally starving.
00:10:02.520People are going to the food banks all the time, even people with full-time jobs.
00:10:16.040That explanation by that rationale, why would you accept a $42 billion deficit?
00:10:20.240You know, Sean Spears, who was the economic advisor to your former boss, recently said on The Hub, that is a massive shift for a conservative to actually even fathom a $42 billion deficit.
00:10:36.820But it is the disastrous state we're in.
00:10:39.680After 10 years of liberal government, we have a situation where it is impossible.
00:10:44.800This fiscal year, because Mr. Carney, maybe if he had introduced the budget at the beginning of the fiscal year, like most normal, competent prime ministers would have done, and which all prime ministers used to do, we could have affected the deficit.
00:10:55.560But, Rosie, the half to two-thirds of the fiscal year is behind us.
00:11:02.560So I would be lying to people if I said that I owned a time machine that would allow me to go back and unspend money that Mark Carney has been spending for the last seven months.
00:12:08.780And that would make food more affordable for the 2.2 million people lined up at food banks.
00:12:14.160And if the government were in a collaborative mode, recognizing they only have a minority, they would accept my ideas for an affordable budget for an affordable Canada.
00:12:22.200Are you prepared to have an election if that's where we end up?
00:12:25.100I'm prepared for an affordable budget.
00:12:27.040That's what I want the government to introduce.
00:12:28.660And I'm not going to speak about the plans thereafter because I haven't seen it.
00:12:33.940But we're not going to, we don't believe that the choice has to be as the liberals presented, which is between a costly budget and a costly election.
00:13:43.680Except you promised when you were running to be prime minister that tariffs would be paused across the board and that you would get a deal with Donald Trump with tariffs paused.
00:13:51.640I mean, that also doesn't seem very plausible given the way the president has behaved.
00:13:55.520Well, I have to be prime minister for you to find out.
00:13:57.600Now, at the risk of sounding unprofessional, this woman is really dumb.
00:14:11.620If they can't win on the facts, they can't win a debate.
00:14:14.500The interview is not going the way they want it to.
00:14:16.860They pivot back to Trump and they try to scare people.
00:14:19.360But what they're not telling you or what Rosemary doesn't want to admit is that if Paulyev was in power, we'd already have a deal with Donald Trump.
00:14:58.200They hit us with blockades of our beef.
00:15:00.760It seems like everywhere Mark Carney goes, with his grand meetings and photo ops, we end up with more tariffs.
00:15:08.260His failures abroad are costing us at home.
00:15:10.620He met with the Chinese president, though, and they made a decision that their officials were going to get together and try and solve the trade irritants.
00:15:17.200He is trying to make some progress, you know?
00:15:19.680You don't see those things as a bit of progress.
00:15:39.840I said that I would face President Trump and the rest of the world from a position of strength.
00:15:44.820Right now, we're in a position of weakness.
00:15:46.660The Americans know we can't sell our goods to anyone else because we don't have pipelines and LNG plants to get our most valuable export to other markets.
00:15:54.720I would pass the Canadian Sovereignty Act, which would rapidly greenlight and legalize pipelines, LNG plants and other infrastructure.
00:16:03.860Well, the government is doing some of that.
00:16:05.280There's an LNG plant that's happening.
00:17:28.740And that means doing what I was sent here to do by the record 8.3 million people who voted for us, which is to fight for an affordable life, fight for our young people to be able to afford homes, fight for parents to be able to have safe
00:18:42.340Now, the ending right there, that reminds me of a martial arts fight where the loser who just got beaten up is forced to shake the winner's hand.
00:18:49.660And that's what it looks like right here.
00:18:51.140Now, if you weren't paying attention, Polyev was the clear winner in this interview, and Rosemary Barton was the clear loser.
00:18:58.800She has exposed herself as someone who sympathizes with pedophiles, someone who doesn't do basic research, someone who is blindly loyal to Mark Carney and the liberal government, and someone who's just not very intelligent.
00:19:11.660Now, if coming across as a complete idiot on national television wasn't enough to ruin this woman's career, the call she's going to get tomorrow will.
00:19:19.080I guarantee she's going to be called into the head office tomorrow, and they're going to ask her, what happened?