Mark Slapinski - September 16, 2025


Poilievre RETURNS To The House Of Commons


Episode Stats

Length

16 minutes

Words per Minute

174.77678

Word Count

2,871

Sentence Count

199

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Learn English with Tory MP for Battle River Crowfoot, Chrystia Polak. She returned to the House of Commons today, and as expected, completely destroyed Opposition Leader of the Opposition, Mark Carney, in a debate on supply management.


Transcript

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?
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.
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,
00:06:11.760 unless they're a coward.
00:06:12.980 And Canadians obviously don't care
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,
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
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
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
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.