Mark Slapinski

00:00:00.000 Polyev returned to the House of Commons today, and as expected, he completely destroyed Mark Carney.

00:00:05.880 Let's take a look at that together.

00:00:30.000 in East-Central Alberta, Mr. Speaker, after which I was honoured to be elected by the great people of Battle River Crowfoot.

00:00:37.400 I thank the great Damien Couric who made it possible, and I thank the Prime Minister for calling a prompt by-election.

00:00:47.040 I wonder if one day he might regret that decision.

00:00:51.320 In a spirit of good faith, I wonder if he agrees that our goal should be a Canada where hard work is rewarded,

00:00:57.020 where food and homes are affordable, where streets are safe, where borders are solid, and where we're all united under a proud flag.

00:01:02.340 I love that opening right there, and you can tell the Conservative Caucus is really happy to have Polyev back.

00:01:08.540 Everyone's smiling, and everyone's excited to have their leader back in the House.

00:01:13.040 Now just wait, the best is yet to come.

00:01:15.700 Mr. Speaker, I'm sure I speak for all parliamentarians in welcoming the member for Battle River Crowfoot back to the House of Commons.

00:01:27.020 He may notice a few things have changed since he was here last.

00:01:36.340 The largest Women's Caucus in Canadian history.

00:01:40.600 And a spirit of collaboration that was shown in the opening session, including in the passage of the Build Canada Act

00:01:59.100 and the Projet de Loi du Bloc Québécois en ce qui concerne...

00:02:03.780 And the Bloc's bill on terms of protecting supply management.

00:02:09.380 I agree entirely with the sentiment and objections of the leader of the opposition.

00:02:16.780 Did you see that? These Liberals are so full of themselves.

00:02:20.560 Who cares if the Liberal cabinet is full of females? 1.00

00:02:23.840 Canadians want good politicians, not DEI hires.

00:02:27.180 Now I want to point out that both Carney and Polyev switched between English and French during the debate,

00:02:32.660 and someone at CPAC is translating it in real time.

00:02:35.760 Just an FYI.

00:02:36.900 Alright, let's watch Polyev's return volume.

00:02:39.180 Some things never change.

00:02:41.300 Mr. Speaker, I'd like to thank my constituents of Battleford Crowfoot,

00:02:47.740 who we had a by-election very quickly,

00:02:53.160 and sometimes the Prime Minister may regret his decision,

00:02:55.520 but I think we all agree with the mission of re-establishing a Canada where hard work,

00:03:02.700 an affordable home and homes and food,

00:03:06.380 in safe streets and solid borders,

00:03:08.800 all united under a proud flag.

00:03:11.200 Does the Prime Minister agree with this?

00:03:13.920 The right Honourable Prime Minister.

00:03:19.160 Mr. Speaker, I agree entirely with the sentiment and objectives

00:03:25.000 that the leader of the opposition has just expressed

00:03:29.820 for our great country.

00:03:33.540 Thank you.

00:03:33.980 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.

00:03:35.900 Mr. Speaker, you know, the Prime Minister mentioned how much it changed,

00:03:41.560 and it's true.

00:03:42.460 I look around this place,

00:03:43.660 and when I left, there was a Liberal Prime Minister

00:03:46.220 who was making excuses about breaking promises,

00:03:49.260 running massive deficits, costs, crime, chaos.

00:03:52.320 We're all out of control.

00:03:53.840 Whereas today, we have a Liberal Prime Minister

00:03:58.360 breaking promises, making excuses,

00:04:01.500 running massive deficits with costs, crime, and chaos,

00:04:05.900 out of control.

00:04:07.740 Mr. Speaker, when will the Prime Minister

00:04:10.120 match the grand promises

00:04:11.700 with the real change Canadians need?

00:04:13.860 Now, in my opinion,

00:04:14.740 Pauly have just destroyed Carney right there.

00:04:17.220 Carney is exactly like Trudeau.

00:04:19.320 He promised Canadians the world and gave us nothing. 0.75

00:04:22.300 We don't have a trade deal with Trump,

00:04:24.140 we have an escalating trade war with China,

00:04:26.300 and crime is getting out of control.

00:04:28.640 This all comes while left-wing assassins

00:04:30.780 are literally putting targets on conservatives' backs.

00:04:33.840 Now, let's watch Carney try to respond.

00:04:35.560 Mr. Speaker, I understand the Minister,

00:04:40.620 or the, uh...

00:04:41.940 Minister, promotion.

00:04:44.940 Come on over.

00:04:46.400 I understand the Leader of the Opposition

00:04:51.680 was busy.

00:04:53.120 He missed the largest tax cut

00:04:55.080 for 22 million Canadians.

00:04:57.280 He missed the cut on the GSG for new homes.

00:04:59.900 He missed eliminating all federal barriers to trade.

00:05:03.900 He missed...

00:05:04.520 I hope I'll have another opportunity

00:05:06.140 to finish a very long list

00:05:08.300 of what the Leader of Opposition...

00:05:10.420 Get a load of this guy.

00:05:11.640 Carney is such a joker.

00:05:13.560 He keeps talking about this tax cut,

00:05:15.500 but I looked into it,

00:05:16.460 and he only shaved 1% off the lowest tax bracket.

00:05:19.700 That's nothing.

00:05:20.960 Pauly have was offering a lot more than that.

00:05:23.280 Mr. Speaker,

00:05:23.800 this government has been absolutely focused

00:05:26.960 on improving affordability for Canadians.

00:05:29.420 That's why the largest tax cut,

00:05:31.120 22 million Canadians,

00:05:33.020 every taxpayer in this country.

00:05:35.220 That's why the cut to the GST.

00:05:36.900 That's why the launch of Build Canada Homes,

00:05:39.640 which will reduce the cost of home building

00:05:41.980 in this country.

00:05:43.420 That's why we back the CRTC

00:05:45.360 to get broadband costs down for Canadians.

00:05:48.180 We are building the strongest economy

00:05:51.260 throughout the worst crisis in our history.

00:05:56.100 Now, you can tell by the way Carney answers

00:05:57.620 that even he doesn't believe what he's saying.

00:06:00.180 He knows that what he's saying is a lie,

00:06:02.020 and he lacks the courage of conviction in his words.

00:06:04.840 If this whole thing with Donald Trump

00:06:06.080 was such a big deal,

00:06:07.440 why go on vacation?

00:06:09.200 Nobody goes on vacation during a crisis, 0.99

00:06:11.760 unless they're a coward. 0.98

00:06:12.980 And Canadians obviously don't care 1.00

00:06:14.220 about what the Liberals are offering.

00:06:16.120 They don't care about broadband.

00:06:17.240 They want immigration reform.

00:06:19.860 They want crime reform.

00:06:21.380 And they want deep income tax cuts.

00:06:23.960 The kind of policies that only Polyev can provide.

00:06:26.760 All right, so now the best part is coming up.

00:06:28.800 This theory of partisanship,

00:06:30.020 we are simply going to hold this prime minister

00:06:31.500 to his own promises.

00:06:33.140 He promised that he would spend less.

00:06:35.000 He's already spending 8% more.

00:06:37.520 He promised the budget would be in October.

00:06:39.260 Now, he says it will be in November,

00:06:41.680 more than halfway through the fiscal year.

00:06:44.020 He promised that his government

00:06:45.360 would have a smaller deficit

00:06:46.560 than Justin Trudeau.

00:06:49.020 Instead, now, we hear that

00:06:50.300 it might even be doubled.

00:06:52.820 So a trivia question.

00:06:54.280 Can the prime minister tell us,

00:06:55.820 has there ever been a prime minister

00:06:57.800 who has successfully doubled the deficit

00:07:01.120 without even introducing a budget?

00:07:04.180 Now, this is the Polyev that we all know and love,

00:07:06.780 and I'm so glad this guy is back in the house.

00:07:09.100 Now, let's watch Carney try and respond.

00:07:11.520 Mr. Speaker, this government is undertaking

00:07:23.420 the biggest investment in protecting Canadians

00:07:26.960 in the Canadian military.

00:07:29.400 Doubling, doubling our investment

00:07:31.540 in the Canadian military

00:07:33.260 from last year when this member last sat in the house

00:07:36.820 by the end of this decade.

00:07:39.340 This government is more.

00:07:42.220 Now, you can tell Carney got a little angry there,

00:07:44.840 and he should be angry

00:07:45.800 at himself for misleading Canadians.

00:07:49.260 Now, let's watch Polyev finish him off.

00:07:51.060 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.

00:07:53.460 There's a lot more debt, is what there is,

00:07:56.120 Mr. Speaker.

00:07:57.020 A lot more debt than we ever imagined would be possible.

00:08:00.500 This is a prime minister who said

00:08:01.840 we'd have the fastest growing economy in the G7.

00:08:04.660 We have the fastest shrinking economy in the G7.

00:08:07.000 He said grocery prices would go down.

00:08:08.540 They're going up faster than ever before.

00:08:10.640 He promised to create jobs.

00:08:12.140 He has the second highest unemployment in the G7.

00:08:14.680 He's really reminding us all of that sign at the bar.

00:08:18.140 Free beer tomorrow.

00:08:20.060 But you come back the next day

00:08:21.840 and the beer is still not free

00:08:23.940 and tomorrow never comes.

00:08:26.100 Mr. Speaker, why is it that all of

00:08:27.900 this prime minister's promises of yesterday

00:08:29.980 turn into today's disappointments?

00:08:31.940 I think that quote right there

00:08:33.420 is one of my favorites from Polyev.

00:08:35.300 Polyev has said a lot of smart things,

00:08:37.140 but that's definitely one of the top things he said.

00:08:39.900 You can tell Polyev really practiced this whole summer

00:08:42.320 preparing for this battle.

00:08:44.060 Mr. Speaker, I think if we are going to build

00:08:47.640 the strongest economy in the G7,

00:08:50.860 and we will.

00:08:53.800 We need to be clear.

00:08:55.800 We need to be clear about the scale of the crisis we are in.

00:09:00.420 We need to be clear about the scale of investment that we need.

00:09:04.260 So as you can tell, Carney's way over his head here.

00:09:24.740 He stepped into the ring with a pro and he got beaten down.

00:09:28.100 Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if Carney just avoids the House of Commons altogether from now on.

00:09:32.700 Now, there was other notable parts from Conservative MPs,

00:09:35.600 but I wanted to show you the highlight of today's debate.

00:09:38.160 Next, I'm going to show you some further analysis by Tom Alcaire,

00:09:41.000 and then I'm going to give us some commentary at the end of the video.

00:09:43.760 If you're enjoying this video, don't forget to like and subscribe.

00:09:46.760 Let's go.

00:09:47.800 Good to be with you, Todd.

00:09:49.080 All right, you were listening in.

00:09:50.220 I saw you there taking notes and keeping track.

00:09:53.120 What did you make of it?

00:09:55.500 Absolutely as predicted and as billed between Carney and Polyev.

00:09:59.540 I do sense, because I have known Poitier for the better part of 20 years,

00:10:03.560 and I sat in front of him for many, many years in the House.

00:10:06.660 He can be actually quite a bit more snide than that,

00:10:09.920 and I think he was holding back a little bit.

00:10:12.280 The advice that he seems to have gotten from many quarters,

00:10:14.820 which is make your point, but you don't have to keep drilling it in.

00:10:17.780 You don't have to keep needling your adversary.

00:10:20.100 I think he's taking some of that to heart.

00:10:22.380 Carney, good on some questions.

00:10:24.940 Very good.

00:10:25.400 He seemed to get caught off guard by the very short time frame that you have

00:10:29.580 to put together your answer a few times.

00:10:32.040 So that's going to come with experience, but overall, again, he's got an easy smile.

00:10:35.780 He doesn't take this stuff too personally,

00:10:37.740 and he had several announcements that he wanted to keep re-insisting on,

00:10:41.900 notably, of course, the announcement that came out over the weekend on housing.

00:10:46.320 It's interesting to see some of the old pros in there.

00:10:49.420 Even though he's new to the House of Commons,

00:10:50.880 Gregor Robertson is a very experienced politician,

00:10:54.660 and boy, does it show when he stands up to give his answers.

00:10:57.380 Everything is compact.

00:10:58.560 Everything is prepared in advance.

00:10:59.800 He knows exactly where he's going.

00:11:01.100 Of course, the same thing with finance minister Francois-Felic-Champagne.

00:11:04.640 So a very interesting question period.

00:11:07.380 We have seen tougher over the years,

00:11:09.760 and I think that everybody's trying to get used to each other

00:11:12.380 and get the measure of their adversary.

00:11:14.080 And there'll be lots more sparks, of course, as the days and weeks roll on.

00:11:17.220 Yeah, just for people watching across the country,

00:11:19.340 you may not be familiar, Gregor Robertson, long-time mayor of Vancouver.

00:11:22.620 So people outside of B.C. might not know who he is,

00:11:24.820 but now a prominent member of Team Kearney in Ottawa.

00:11:28.720 And a very effective player in question period, as we just saw.

00:11:32.080 Yeah, as we did.

00:11:32.840 Okay, so what do you think Mark Kearney needs to do now

00:11:35.580 in the initial days and weeks here as we get closer and closer to a budget?

00:11:39.420 We know a lot of Canadians think that he's got what it takes on the economy.

00:11:42.800 Others are skeptical,

00:11:43.780 and it certainly seems like the Conservatives will really be pushing him, Tom, on that,

00:11:47.900 saying, look, you promised to deal with the trade war.

00:11:50.720 Here we are still in a trade war.

00:11:52.460 You promised to get these tariffs lifted.

00:11:54.520 Here we are still dealing with tariffs, and on it goes.

00:11:57.560 Yeah, in one of his answers to the bloc,

00:11:59.560 Kearney was very clear.

00:12:00.720 You know, we've got a much better deal

00:12:02.000 than almost all of the other trading partners with the Americans,

00:12:04.320 and that is objectively the case.

00:12:06.360 So I do think that a good faith analysis

00:12:09.040 always shows that there is a fair bit of progress

00:12:11.680 compared to a lot of our trading partners

00:12:13.420 and the U.S. trading partners.

00:12:15.400 At the same time,

00:12:16.580 the budget is going to be a huge problem,

00:12:18.720 but don't forget,

00:12:20.280 who was the Prime Minister of Canada at the beginning of 2025?

00:12:23.640 Oh, that Trudeau fellow.

00:12:24.900 So they'll bring in a budget, probably in November,

00:12:27.340 and they'll say, well, you know,

00:12:28.340 we're sort of mopping up after the Trudeau era.

00:12:31.380 Our first budget will be next year,

00:12:33.680 and then you'll see things will be getting better.

00:12:35.660 I think that that's why there's been some leaking

00:12:37.720 of information around the budget,

00:12:39.280 which is usually verboten.

00:12:40.320 You're supposed to be quite careful

00:12:41.580 about what you leak around the budget,

00:12:42.960 but senior people have been leaking to senior journalists.

00:12:46.680 The fact that the deficit for this next budget

00:12:50.580 will actually be double would have been predicted.

00:12:52.960 So we were looking at the 40, 45 billion range.

00:12:55.840 Now we're looking at maybe it's something closer to 100 billion.

00:12:58.900 Now that's probably on the high side.

00:13:00.980 If it comes in at 78 billion,

00:13:02.780 well, then Carney and his liberals would get to say,

00:13:04.500 well, it's not as bad as it could have been

00:13:05.840 because we took all these steps to be austere

00:13:08.320 and to cut back on the size of government.

00:13:10.580 That's something that they're learning to be careful on.

00:13:12.500 Over the weekend, Steve McKinnon, their house leader,

00:13:14.220 very experienced politician,

00:13:15.280 whose writing is in the Ottawa area,

00:13:17.560 went quite far in hinting

00:13:19.200 that they would actually be cutting jobs

00:13:20.900 in the civil service.

00:13:21.820 That's a battle they don't want to have

00:13:23.300 with the civil service unions.

00:13:24.880 Carney, the same day, was out there correcting that at touch,

00:13:29.020 saying, no, no, no, this is through attrition.

00:13:31.400 There's a, you know, the tail end of the baby boom, 0.99

00:13:33.600 we'll be leaving the civil service in large numbers,

00:13:35.720 and we won't have to start firing people.

00:13:37.620 So that was a message that I think

00:13:39.680 should have been better prepared in advance,

00:13:41.320 and it shows that there's still a little bit

00:13:42.640 of practicing required on the liberal side

00:13:44.620 in terms of messaging.

00:13:45.780 Let's show the party standings, Tom,

00:13:47.540 just for people across the country

00:13:48.720 who may not remember.

00:13:50.080 The liberals, of course, do not have a majority,

00:13:51.960 but they're oh so close,

00:13:53.420 just by a couple of seats.

00:13:54.620 The conservatives at 144,

00:13:56.460 the block at 22,

00:13:57.460 the NDP only at seven,

00:13:58.700 and Elizabeth May there from Saanich Gulf Islands 0.90

00:14:00.880 with one seat for the Green Party.

00:14:02.540 You talked about Trudeau,

00:14:03.720 so let me ask you,

00:14:04.560 I mean, we are seeing Mark Carney

00:14:06.300 really trying to move the liberal party

00:14:07.960 to the right in certain ways,

00:14:09.660 trying to appeal to those so-called blue liberals

00:14:12.200 or red Tories,

00:14:13.280 the voters in the center

00:14:14.400 that helped to decide Canadian elections,

00:14:17.060 certainly much more so

00:14:18.420 than we saw under Justin Trudeau.

00:14:20.340 Absolutely,

00:14:21.020 and he's moving away

00:14:21.920 from that part of Trudeau's legacy,

00:14:23.700 which was to always flash left anyway,

00:14:26.180 even though very often he would turn right,

00:14:28.400 but it's very tricky for Mark Carney

00:14:30.780 because this is where he is,

00:14:32.080 this is what he believes,

00:14:32.900 he thinks that there's too much government

00:14:34.260 and too much red tape

00:14:35.400 and too much bureaucracy,

00:14:37.060 but a lot of what he's taking away

00:14:38.620 are guarantees for future generations.

00:14:40.640 It's the sustainable development angle,

00:14:42.440 it's the environment.

00:14:43.880 So you say you're taking away the obligation

00:14:45.560 to have more zero emission vehicles.

00:14:48.460 You're taking away the consumer-facing carbon tax

00:14:51.320 that would have been a guarantee

00:14:52.280 to lower greenhouse gas emissions in Canada,

00:14:54.900 and over the weekend,

00:14:56.220 Tim Hodgson,

00:14:56.820 his energy minister is saying,

00:14:58.100 well, we're talking about perhaps removing the caps

00:15:00.980 on emissions from the oil sands.

00:15:03.400 So those are just some of the examples

00:15:05.320 on the environment.

00:15:06.180 So this is an area

00:15:07.100 where caucus is extremely sensitive

00:15:09.680 because they know that they are liberals

00:15:12.320 and that they've been elected by other liberals,

00:15:14.640 and they think that protection of the environment

00:15:16.800 and care about sustainable development

00:15:18.400 are core values for them.

00:15:19.940 And Mr. Carney has got to remember

00:15:22.160 that he is the leader of the Liberal Party.

00:15:24.800 No matter what his reflexes

00:15:26.700 or those of Mr. Hodgson,

00:15:28.360 he's got to remember that

00:15:29.560 because we saw last week

00:15:30.980 the formation of within caucus

00:15:33.780 a group of concerned liberal MPs

00:15:37.060 saying we're going to have a caucus group

00:15:38.680 that discusses the environment.

00:15:40.520 And that's a very subtle warning to their leader

00:15:43.220 that you better not go too far

00:15:44.760 in dismantling environmental protections

00:15:46.780 and guarantees for future generations.

00:15:48.460 Now I do think Mulcair has a bit of a point here.

00:15:51.340 However, I think Polyev did a good job.

00:15:53.860 Personally, I like it when Polyev's a bit spicier 1.00

00:15:56.140 than he was today,

00:15:57.120 but he still did a good job.

00:15:58.960 He said what he had to say

00:16:00.280 and he toned it down a little bit,

00:16:02.480 but I think he's toning it down

00:16:03.700 because that's the advice he's been given.

00:16:05.740 Now in case you missed it,

00:16:06.740 I did do a live stream today.

00:16:08.520 Unfortunately, I got started a little bit late,

00:16:10.300 but I still streamed around an hour.

00:16:12.320 I would have done more,

00:16:13.200 but unfortunately my computer crashed.

00:16:15.240 I'm still figuring out the live stream thing,

00:16:16.900 so bear with me as I figure it all out.

00:16:19.180 But overall, I'm glad to see Polyev back in the house 1.00

00:16:21.340 and I'm excited to see what he has in store tomorrow.

00:16:24.320 See you during the live stream.

Poilievre RETURNS To The House Of Commons

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