THE END: No Confidence Vote Coming Soon ⚠️
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PM Mark Carney finally faces a No Confidence vote on his first budget, and it looks like it's going to be a doozy. But what does that mean for the PM and the rest of the country?
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now this is the moment we've all been waiting for mark carney finally faces a no confidence vote
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which will happen next month is this the end let's take a look in about five weeks we're going to
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learn just how much the government is spending that's when prime minister mark carney's government
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the finance minister and minister champagne will table his first budget recently i said that this
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prime minister was just as irresponsible with money as justin trudeau and i now realize that
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that was unfair to justin trudeau how is it even possible for this prime minister to be more
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fiscally incompetent than the drama teacher this government is conducting a comprehensive spending
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review this government is building houses this government is building projects in the national
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interest this government is building canada strong come join us and you can come join us on november
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fourth when we cover that budget because the prime minister is warning of a substantial deficit
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and that could be losing mark carney some key potential parliamentary votes wow cbc just admitted
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that mark carney is going to lose votes over his disastrous budget but just wait that's not the
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worst part that part's coming up they will face canadians and quebecers with the
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the unbelievable deficit which looks like madness i don't see how i do not i cannot see how
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we could support a budget which is first based on some taxes reductions electoral gifts
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and some fantasies in many regards i cannot support that i don't see how we could support that
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yes you heard that right the blog is putting a no confidence vote back on the table and i'll
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explain what that is and what that'll look like later in the video okay so kate a couple of things
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jump out for me there one justin trudeau still catching strays he's gone very unfair um but second
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uh the bloc évecois was looking for a permanent increase in the old age security uh payments last
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year right which is billions of extra dollars excuse me while i pick my jaw up off the floor
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the bloc évecois talking about the inappropriateness of electoral gifts yes but but that is uh you know
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we haven't seen the budget we we have no what the pbo says you know what other people we don't know
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what the deficit actually is but uh that is not a good sign in a minority parliament no for for that
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position to be taken today uh no um and i think the bloc is in a pretty reactive place we also saw
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news today that you know the us is lobbying hard but not to anybody's surprise but lobbying very hard for
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uh a crack at the the dairy market obviously they have key industries that are being hit hard in
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the province by tariffs um and a lot of change happening in the province as it relates to you
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know critical minerals and failed battery plants and a number of things that are going on so um they
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are reacting to a moment i think where they are seeing quebec not achieve much uh and so they are
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dangling early uh i think what they would what they would like to see or at least letting the
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government know that um they uh they will need to be convinced in order to uh in order to support
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this and when you look at the dynamics of the house in terms of how that plays out in numbers
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puts the nep in a very challenging spot to almost definitely support this i know don davies was not
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uh particularly effusive one way or the other but um yeah i think that this is the opening of a
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negotiation i would think for the block as it always is around budget time uh if you want our support
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show us the money yeah i i i don't know if mark hardy will negotiate with the block uh jordan based
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on you know his answers when he's asked about a parliamentary arrangement with the ndp back after
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the election don davies i mean he recklessly said he won't pre-judge a budget he hasn't seen
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but you know the math does uh math against him right and that the ndp who do not want an election
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right now might be forced either abstain or support uh or else risk parliament here well look it's early
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days we still have this is i think you're exactly right this these are the opening rounds in in a
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bargaining situation that maybe prime minister carney's unaware that he's in but he is in it
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he's got a lot of negotiations always be horse trading particularly when votes are going to be
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as close as they are and i think you know it's important to remember that we are talking about
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a pretty slim number of votes that would be required in terms of people uh getting the you know
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the parliamentary flu or staying home in some other way it's you only assuming the liberals have
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all their votes you only need three from any party so it's not a terribly tall order to find that i
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don't think it means that the new democrats need to support this budget and in fact i have a really
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hard time imagining that there's any scenario in which it makes political sense for them to support
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the budget this has been framed up as an austerity budget that's going to be making serious cuts to
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public services that's going to be rolling back on climate commitments where we haven't seen robust
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support for workers and people who are facing unemployment there's not a lot in the window for
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the ndp right now and it's tough to see what what the prime minister might be willing to give them that
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could bring them on board so i think it's it's going to be a math game for the government um i hope
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their whips office is very well rested um but you know at the end of the day i think it's still very
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likely this budget is going to pass but accidents do happen yes austerity and investment jordan this
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is yes we'll see i look forward to that i mean look i i understand what they're saying just we
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need to see the details and look i i am not uh amanda trying to you know gin up any false drama that we're
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headed to an election and the government's going to fall on this but but it could force you to alter
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your plans right in terms of what you want to do in the budget versus what you have to do in the budget
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to get things through i mean what do you make of what mr blanchette had to say and and how you see
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this dynamic maybe playing out well there's theater and then there's blanchette's theater
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and we are very familiar with what this looks like we remember all of the you know the many votes
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of the last sessions and he would find his time to get up to the mic uh prior to those votes and make
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his grand standing case and this works well for him right because i think otherwise where is the
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relevance on the federal scene like how does he how does he attract that kind of attention and i
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think that this is one area that he's quite successful at when you know he makes these uh
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these big statements uses a lot of rhetoric that he knows will play well in his home province uh of
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quebec uh at the same time i agree with everything jordan said this is a numbers game there there are three
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votes away i don't think anyone thinks that this budget won't pass i think that that would be uh crazy
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because nobody wants to go to an election right now just a quick note i'm pretty sure a lot of
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conservatives would like to have a new election at least that's what people say in my comment section
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it looks like cbc is back to its old practice of hiring pro carny characters uh so well i would
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just chalk it up to a little bit of theater on blanchette's part and potentially yes the beginning
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of a bit of a negotiation although i know i'm not sure how much negotiation is necessary on the part of
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the government right now well and tanya there's no big demands out there i know that the pierre
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polyev basically says pass all of my ideas as sort of his solution to things but there's no big
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car he's working on it i was going to say wait long enough i think you might get it as well
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touche but like that's what polyev's blanchette said today you know you have pierre polyev in the
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prime minister's office you know he's a he's a conservative in a red dress so uh he didn't say dress
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that was a really dumb comment of course carney stole all of polyev's good ideas however
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carney will never be half the politician that polyev is i'm not sure where cbc finds all these
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bimbos let's not start any rumors here on the show but but you know what what is there to negotiate
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here is what i want i don't know that there's something to negotiate because i think two things
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i took away from that scrum with mr blanchette and by the way i love blanchette theater in french and
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english um but he pretty clearly said there's no consultation going on whatsoever with this pmo and
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any of the opposition parties and i find that interesting uh you know 30 days out from roughly
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a budget that's billed as and i'm going to say austerity budget because the rest is you know
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let's see uh there's no talking to the opposition parties in a minority parliament interesting and the
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other thing i took away from what he said is he criticized pretty much all the you know on the
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postal strike on the deficit everything you can think of federally that's being done right now the
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the projects an oil pipeline he slammed the federal government at every turn as a centralizing force
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that's not well managed and so that's playing into his argument in quebec in a year ahead of what's
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expected to be an election that will see an independent or a sovereignist party elected and
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potentially leading down the road to a referendum he has promised to build that case in parliament and
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outside parliament this year and i think we always have to hear him in that context you know kate i i
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don't know what consultation is happening with the various parties i do uh earlier today i was going
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to try to open up this email elizabeth may was asked about the budget uh pre-question period she
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confirmed she is going to have a meeting with the prime minister very soon so there they will be
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speaking to the greens i don't know that's one vote no yeah there you go i need two more but i don't
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know if you then move your way up through the standings is that how you do it you know um i i don't
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know but uh there's some conversations seemingly happening these people really annoy me they seem
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to think the politics is a joke they're laughing they're having fun they're clowning around but
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what's funny what's funny about the fact that immigration and crime are out of control what's
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funny about the fact that our economy is falling off a cliff these people really need to be defunded
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i don't think it is um a stretch to suggest that a lot of the consultation is happening at 80
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wellington street and nowhere else i think about some of the recent announcements that have happened
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and they seem to take members of the liberal caucus by surprise in terms of of the details contained
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therein uh so the the central agency and the pmo is behaving very much as a central agency uh you you
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had the house leader on a couple weeks ago when parliament started talking about you know who he was
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willing to work with and maybe those that he wasn't so willing to work with um if this is being
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developed in a vacuum the budget being developed in a vacuum and negotiations around it uh i think that
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would be very typical of the prime minister's management style today well stephen mckinnon
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in the morning of that day of that interview jordan said we're gonna have a budget in october
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and then when he sat down with me at five o'clock he said well we'll have it soon and then we found
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out it was november so things are changing when the defense policy was announced while the minister
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was on a plane like there's a real pattern in in that behavior and you know and i think and this is
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this is something that tanda wrote about this week this is a government that has a problem
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communicating not just with canadians about what it is that they're up to and how they're
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delivering results but even within their own caucus so they have a significant challenge
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ahead of the budget to tell the story about the sacrifice that they're talking about for the
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potential long-term gain that they're laying out but they need to be communicating more with
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canadians about what's going on and that hasn't really been happening it's very internally focused so i
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think that they've got challenges there not just in communicating with the other parties but in
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in building the overall narrative uh for this budget in a way that actually makes sense to
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people on the ground now i want to add carney isn't communicating with the public because he
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hasn't accomplished anything if he accomplished something he'd be telling people the reason he's
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not saying anything is because he hasn't done anything the way i see it this isn't a communication
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issue this is a competence issue amanda do you see it that way that there's an issue communicating
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with canadians here that the public opinion numbers would suggest that the prime minister's
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personal numbers remain high even if there has been some erosion since the election which is
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a normal course of things i mean do you think they're in that kind of a situation yet because
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this is going to be a complex budget by all signs and it's going to need a it's going to
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need a narrative yeah well i think it's just it's the nature of the complex time though as well
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it's not just solely focused on the budget and delivering the budget messages we have you know
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the prime minister in different areas of the globe negotiating with other leaders to find
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new arrangements in the wake of the trump tariffs and so there's a lot of narratives at play at the
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same time although they're doing quite a bit of telegraphing they're talking about a substantial
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deficit they're saying that it's a result of uh the tariff supports of tax cuts for affordability
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so they're and for defense spending so they are telegraphing some of it um and i would say the other
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thing on on you know whether or not the prime minister is speaking to blanchette or speaking
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to anybody else just because he's not speaking to blanchette or the office isn't speaking to
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blanchette doesn't mean that they're not speaking to others so i i don't know that that's necessarily
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um an accurate portrayal of what's happening i would imagine with the budget just being a few
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weeks away that those discussions are underway and i don't think they're just happening in the pmo
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tana on the communications issue i mean there's communications issues that this town and this
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profession gets seized with and then there's the bro you know there's normal canadians and their
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uh communication and conversation with you know the the direction of government how do you see it do
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you think there is a broader challenge uh that this government is facing in terms of reaching the
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people who just selected them back in october uh i think six months five six months into kearney's
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government um we have seen a pattern of a a reluctance of reticence to um be more open to
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canadians more broadly and i'm not talking about answering emails from journalists i'm talking
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about explaining rationales for policy debates around policy options explaining once the policy
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is adopted what's really going on behind it for example you know the latest yesterday's uh
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loan to algoma i mean trying to parse through exactly what the government's conditions are for
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that and the rationale for it has taken us two days um so i just uh i do see that they have a bit of a
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problem and a reticence to do some of this work and i think to jordan's point it's not just about
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political marketing of something it's also social acceptance of something i think that if the
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government is planning uh you know the cuts at the level that they seem to be telegraphing
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you get buy-in from people if you treat them like adults and explain some of it and so maybe
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yeah sure we can all wait till they start spinning it november 5th but um i think that the government
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itself could do uh everybody a favor by speaking about its tariff strategy its trade talks uh its
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international discussions with ceos abroad on trade diversification on budget cuts all of that i think
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they could do a better job of explaining that to canadians and um i no i think it is very much
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sort of a corporate uh his corporate leanings it's it's it's mark carney as ceo of an asset
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management firm called the government of canada yes he doesn't want to communicate on process but
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more decision points and outcomes yeah actions and we'll let you know when we have something to let you
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know about and that's stephen harper my god how many times we tell us i'll tell you i'll make an
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announcement when i have something to announce and but stephen harper also did a fair bit of retail
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politics that's what's missing for prime minister that's the difference so if prime minister
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carney is unable to articulate uh for canadians in a you know a palatable way the status of trade
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diversification the negotiations with canada us all of the things that he was elected to do and he's
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also unable to communicate on crime and immigration and housing and affordability policies what on earth
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is he communicating on and he was elected to do the former not hearing much there and he's therefore
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leaving the lane open on the retail political issues okay so what to say here despite cbc's attempts
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at whitewashing the situation i truly believe carney is on his way out the ndp wants nothing to do
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with him the bloc wants nothing to do with them the conservatives want nothing to do with them
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and most canadians want nothing to do with them he simply doesn't have the support to continue so
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what is a no confidence vote anyway a no confidence vote is a motion that declares that
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the sitting government has lost majority support if it passes the government is either forced to
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have a new election or the prime minister has to resign if it passes the government either dissolves
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and there's a new election or the prime minister is forced to resign now there is a history of
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successful non-confidence votes even in canada if we go back to 2009 paul martin's liberal government
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was successfully defeated by a no confidence vote more recently the prime minister of france was
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booted out due to a no confidence vote now france has a different political system than we do but
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it's similar now like i've said a hundred times before i truly believe mark carney's days are
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numbered the cbc is turned on him or mostly ctv is turned on him his budget officer turned on him
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his liberal mp was caught on tape admitting his gun buyback program is a complete scam
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now we have the ndp turning on him the bloc turning on him and it seems like everyone is turning on him
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every day carney goes lower and lower in the polls whereas polyev and the conservative party go higher
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and higher it's only a matter of time before mark carney gets forced out or he decides to leave have
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a bit of faith have a bit of patience we'll get what we want very very soon i promise you that have