The Left Is SCARED Because Poilievre Is WINNING
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Pierre-Olivier Poiliev apologizes for his comments calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a criminal and calling for him to be sent to prison. But what does he really have to apologize for? Why did he say it? And why does it matter?
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Pierre Polyev has successfully broken the brains of the liberal establishment.
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After suggesting that Justin Trudeau was a criminal and should be sent to prison last week,
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the whole establishment is trying to destroy him. But they're not trying to take him down
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because he was wrong. They're trying to take him down because he's right
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and he's poised to win the next election. Let's take a look at that.
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What do you think about Polyev's comments on the RCMP? Do you support his viewpoint?
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What's your stance on the RCMP? What's your stance on the RCMP, sir?
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You support Pierre? Do you support your leader's comments on the RCMP?
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Man, look how desperate the media is. They literally camped out outside Parliament Hill
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so they could wait and ask Conservative MPs stupid questions. They're just like the
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paparazzi in California that waits at nightclubs to take pictures of celebrities.
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Complete clowns. This is TMZ stuff right here. They're getting really desperate and it shows.
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Conservative MPs there dodging questions today about their leader Pierre Polyev and his criticism of
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the RCMP. Last week, Polyev accused Canada's police force of covering up crimes committed by the Trudeau
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government and he called the RCMP leadership despicable. In response, a former top aide,
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote a scathing op-ed in the Toronto Star. Dmitry Soudis said
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Polyev was dismantling the principled, trustworthy, conservative party. Soudis described Polyev as
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angry, addicted to opposition, and incapable of transformation. And the fallout has only picked
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up steam. Polyev is facing a number of negative headlines in the media, some drawing direct
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comparisons to language used by President Donald Trump. Political leaders on Parliament Hill are also
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making that link. Now here's the part that CBC won't tell you. All those news sources they just
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showed you, they all lean leftward. And some of them received a lot of money from the Trudeau government.
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For example, an independent fact-check website determined the Toronto Star uses loaded language
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to appeal to liberal causes. Also, reports indicate that the Toronto Star was being paid over a hundred
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thousand a week, not a year, not a month, a week, by the Trudeau government. And as always,
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I'll attach all my sources in the description so you can take a look at this yourself.
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But just think about that for a second. If you pay a news outlet over a hundred grand a week,
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they're pretty much obligated to say good things about you.
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Where is Pierre Poiliev's notion that the former Prime Minister should be jailed?
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It's deeply worrying because this is the kind of thing going on right now in Trump's United States.
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So I think Pierre Poiliev should reconsider his language, withdraw those words, and apologize.
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The last thing Canada needs is the disturbing kind of rhetoric that we hear from south of the border.
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You know, we've heard Donald Trump repeatedly threaten his political opponents with jail.
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That is unacceptable. It's inappropriate. And frankly, it's dangerous to a democracy.
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Man, the left is tripping balls over this. It's been almost a week and they can't let it go.
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They can't let it go. They're making such a mountain out of this molehill.
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And of course, of course, I think they're 100% wrong.
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But you're going to have to wait until later in the video for my explanation.
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Okay, we're going to start there with the power panel today.
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Vandana Cotter was an advisor to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Kate Harrison is a conservative political analyst.
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Brad Levine is a former national campaign director for the NDP.
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She is, of course, the Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Star.
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Tonda, because you have home field advantage and Blue Jays are in game seven, we'll start with you.
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He's not recanting, but he is putting out a clarification of sorts, saying it didn't quite
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No, what he's saying is he swung and he hit a big miss, is what he's saying.
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Last week, for people who didn't actually see the original interview, he made a sweeping
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condemnation of RCMP leadership as despicable and as covering up for crimes of the former
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prime minister. And there was no nuance in what he said. Was he too comfortable with a
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set of friendly interviewers? Perhaps. But he certainly put no nuance there then in those
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comments and nor did he in the following few days. But over the weekend, he took a lot of hits
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for it, particularly in the pages of our paper when a former advisor to Stephen Harper came out and
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just slammed him for being irresponsible and focusing on grievance, not governance and being distracted
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and making these kinds of comments that undermines responsible leadership of a conservative party
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leader. So, look, I think that in trying to clarify today, Mr. Poiliev has said, oh,
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but I didn't mean like all the current RCMP leadership. I only meant the past commissioner
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and standing by his comments. I'm not sure that he escapes the knock that people within his own
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party and those opposition leaders you just heard from are putting against him, which is to say
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the mimicry of Trump's language is hurting the party and it hurts the greater cause of
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faith in public institutions, faith in the police and that sort of thing.
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Okay, I really don't think that's true. I'm going to call bullshit on that one. Excuse my language.
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But no conservative MP has said that, at least any of the ones I know. And put it this way,
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if there's a conservative MP that thinks that Justin Trudeau doesn't belong in prison,
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Poiliev needs to find out who they are and fire them. If you're the kind of person,
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if you're a politician that believes that Justin Trudeau, he deserves just to sail off into the
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sunset, kissing Katy Perry or whoever else, maybe some guy into the sunset, you're not a real
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conservative. You're a traitor and you're just as bad as Doug Ford, maybe even worse. So I think
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Poiliev could use this as an excuse to clean up his team. Yeah. And Mike Duem, the current
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commissioner, he was a deputy commissioner when this happened. And what's at issue here? Because
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some people have tried to say, oh, what he said about Justin Trudeau isn't news. And like, no,
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it isn't. But what he said about the RCMP sure was. And saying, you know, the exact quote is,
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if the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him, him being Trudeau,
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then he would have been criminally charged. I mean, that's a big allegation to make
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with zero evidence and zero proof. There was a lot of criticism around
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commissioner at the time, Lucky's handling of numerous files, whether or not they had
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enough information to actually make an assessment they were comfortable with on the SNC-Lavalin
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affair. Obviously, the government tried very hard to redact documents and block testimony at
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committee that would have perhaps unearthed some information that could have lent the RCMP
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to make a more, at least a more informed decision as far as that proceeded. And there were a number
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of other scandals, of course, around the handling of the mass shooting in Nova Scotia and others
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that more than conservatives brought attention to. It's in the pages of national media. All that being
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said, I do think that the conservatives need to stay focused where they do well is in the message
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discipline on affordability and crime and immigration. And this has now taken the conservatives off
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of that message track for the last number of days at a time when, you know, workers at Stellantis are
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looking at job reductions. And we're seeing that happen across the country largely due to the
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government's actions. So I think that, you know, the lesson here for the conservatives needs to be
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keep your eye on the prize. Don't get too comfortable for with friendly media and stay focused on the
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kitchen table issues that connected with so many Canadians just this past April. I disagree.
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Paulie have said what many Canadians actually wanted him to say. It's only the liberal media that's
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freaking out about this. And I'll have more to say about this later in the video. So stick around.
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What are your thoughts on all this? Yeah, I think that's right. I think, you know,
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it creates a target and not only is he, it's fine to criticize, you know, the RCMP for rightful things,
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but it's, it's not okay to slander institution that Canadians need to have trust in. And I think the
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other thing is, you know, to Kate's point is that, is this for Canadians are thinking about right now?
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When I was in opposition, everything I did with my leader was to make sure we tried to gain more support of the
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Canadian electorates. And I don't think this does this. I don't think Canadians are thinking about
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something that happened a long time ago. I don't think they want a leader that advocates for them
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on those kitchen table items, on affordability, on the things that matter to them every day.
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And I don't think, I don't think this is what hits the mark, but it makes them look more like,
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you know, you're not ready to be the prime minister. You're going to stay in opposition.
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Brad, is this a, I mean, you saw the headlines there. And I don't know if the opposition leader's office cares that
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the national media is, is, is the columnists are taking a position on this, but it does penetrate.
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And obviously the put, the statement that they put out today, attempting to clarify it. I'm just
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wondering what, what this says about where they think this issue has gone for them.
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Yeah. The, the clarification, uh, that came out this weekend today is an indication that,
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that they're doing some, some backtracking and, and, and, and feel that, that this is, this has gone on
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far too, uh, too long and it's gone too far. So I think that's the first clue that, that, that, that
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is in trouble. The second thing is, is that why is he going after the RCMP about decisions that a
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former commissioner made a while ago? And why is he using such language as despicable? You could say
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maybe not thorough enough or maybe, uh, you know, not, not comprehensive enough, but, but, you know,
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the word despicable is pretty strong. And, and I don't think a lot of Canadians would, would side with
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that or agree with that. If Polyev's challenge, I mean, I, he's got the January, uh, uh, leadership
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review. I'm sure he's fine there. I don't think this is going to upset that, but his broader goal
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is to make himself more likable, not to the far right, who may have some problems with law enforcement,
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which is funny to say in this day and age, you think that the conservative movement in general
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would be four square behind, uh, law enforcement. Uh, but why is he going after them now at a time when
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he's trying to expand, uh, his electoral voter base, uh, among those moderate Canadians,
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particularly among women where he's having a difficult time breaking in? This is certainly
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not a message to do that. The last point I'll make, why is he so confident that after fulsome
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investigations, that he himself alone knows and has evidence that there was a potential coverup by
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the RCMP or them not doing their fulsome job in order to protect, uh, Justin Trudeau. Again,
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Justin Trudeau is not on the ballot. Uh, Mark Carney and the other opposition leaders are going to be
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on the ballot. So he's still fighting, uh, former wars. Why at this time is he doing so? And why is
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he going so hard to suggest that he alone has evidence to suggest that our law enforcement in this
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country, um, turned a blind eye to evidence? If he has such evidence, and I think the current
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commissioner called about today and said, if you've got something, please bring it to us.
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Right. Um, why is he, why is he the judge and jury and suggesting not only is there evidence that
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was covered up, but then he's, he knows so much that he's suggesting that there should be jail
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time. Uh, that is a pretty far reaching. And if he can't get this stuff, right. And again,
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I don't know why he's talking about this right now. Um, especially when we've got crime and justice
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issues that are more important, contemporary, uh, contemporarily, why is he the judge and jury?
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What does he know that the RCMP does it? And if he doesn't come forward with it,
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then Canadians, I think are just going to say that he's not ready for prime time.
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Now it's funny. These panelists are so hypocritical. They really don't understand
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how hypocritical they are. They say that Polyev should focus on crime law and order. Let me tell
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you something. You can't have law and order unless the law applies to everyone. Of course, Polyev,
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if he gets into power, he's going to focus on some bad people at the bottom, the crack dealers,
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the people that are breaking into people's homes, but it shouldn't stop there. It can't stop there.
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We also need to focus on the higher level criminals, the bankers, the politicians that have stolen
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millions, if not billions of dollars from the taxpayer. These people are complete clowns and
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they don't know what they're talking about or else they know better. And they've been paid off.
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I'll let you figure out which one that is. It is clear that there are multiple findings that in
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the Aga convocation and in SNC-Lavalin ethics rules and conflict of interest rules were broken,
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but those are not criminal code. That is not, those aren't crimes necessarily. There are violations of
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ethical frameworks. I'm not saying that to minimize them, but the ethics commissioner is not sending
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you to jail. But just to read you the clarification from Mr. Polyev, just a little bit of it. The
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opening sentence is, I stand shoulder to shoulder with the brave men and women in uniform who put
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their lives on the line every day to protect and serve. Today and every day, I thank them for their
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service. Clearly, they've been getting some pushback for being too critical of police. And then the key
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graph is, my comments were directed to former RCMP Commissioner Brenda Luckey, as Tonda said,
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who has a lengthy track record of publicly documented scandals, deception, and political
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interference to the benefit of the liberal government. We called for her resignation.
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We stand by that call to this day. Tonda, what's interesting is I can read that and you have read
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that because we got it in our emails from the press office in the opposition leader's office. This was
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not said out loud by Pierre Polyev, despite appearing on camera, and it does not appear on any of the
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social media channels that I can find. And this is a guy who was shown when he wants a message to have mass
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penetration. He knows how to do it. They're just sending it to the reporters and the reporters only
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and not disseminating it on their own channels. Right. And I think that, you know, if I were
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Brenda Luckey, I'd probably take a really careful look at the language in that clarification because
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it is pretty aggressive and assertive and potentially damaging to her reputation. You can argue that she
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and the force may have made certain calculations that the conservative leader disagreed with,
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but to state, as this statement does, that she is guilty of a cover-up. And I think that just goes
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so far as to negate the value of clarifying it. You know what I mean? He's trying to put out a
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statement to do some damage control, but in the process is revealing still the same sort of,
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I think, misstep he's made in the first statements. And trying to clarify that it's just, you know,
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the direction or the characterization of someone being despicable was really only directed at this
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one leader, I don't think saves him. And I think to Brad's question about why is this happening now,
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I think we all have to sort of look at a few things that were happening there, and several things can be
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true at once. He was comfortable in that interview very clearly with friendly interviewers and perhaps
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relaxed too much. But we all know Mr. Poliev is a very skilled political commentator and,
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as you pointed out, messenger. And so what message is he sending to conservative party voters,
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for starters? Never mind that it's pissed off. Sorry. A whole bunch of people who are his political
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opponents in the Commons. Forget that. I mean, what is it saying to broader voters and broader
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conservative party voters who are going to come up in January? Is he the leader that learned any
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lessons out of the last campaign where a lot of people felt he should have broadened his coalition?
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Or is he doubling down on the leader who presented himself and lost the last election?
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So, Kate, this media strategy here reminds me of when some of the members of the Conservative
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Caucus had lunch with Christine Anderson, the controversial German member of the European
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Parliament. And when Pierre Poliev wanted to disavow their participation in that, a statement went to
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the press gallery. Nothing went on social. Nothing was said at length on camera. And when we reported
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a statement, we were accused of fake news because it wasn't on his social media channels. If he wanted to
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correct this record more broadly, he knows how to do it. They're choosing to do it this way. What does
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that say to us? Yeah, I think that it will make its way out there through the mainstream media. I'm
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sure if he were to be asked about it, then you might get a similar response. I think one thing,
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David, that could be done that would be helpful is to take the current commissioner up on his offer to
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meet. Because I do think that it's important that the Conservatives reinforce their relationship with the
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National Police Force and their commitment to crime and public safety issues. And I believe that the
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current commissioner made that offer last week and Poliev should take him up on it. I think that the
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longer we're debating and clarifying things, the more Conservatives are not focused on the issues
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that the majority of Canadians do connect with around affordability and around crime. There's plenty
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of red meat for Conservatives to go after on those two issues as it relates to the current government,
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not the last one. Yeah, look, he could have a press conference tomorrow, but we'll see if he wants to
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address it directly. But Vandita, what do you make of this compartmentalized comms strategy that his
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social channels are the way Mr. Poliev communicates directly with his supporters and with his base?
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If he wants to clear this up, he can do it there and he's choosing not to. He doesn't want to. I think
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what the statement was to appease some stakeholders and maybe some caucus members who felt that that was
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deserved. I think for him, he stands by what he says. And I think he is trying to gear that towards
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a very small group of the Conservative base that may feel strongly about what he said and may feel that
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they have concern with law enforcement and institutions in general. I don't think that
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serves the Canadian public, but I don't think he necessarily cares to share that or to clarify that.
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So he, if he wants to get a message out, he will, but it ends up being an old goal for him. So every
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day that people are talking about this and that his own party is criticizing, and maybe it's not his
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caucus, but members outside, it is going to hurt him. So every day we're not talking about this is
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a day we're missing, talking about what's the Conservatives saying on affordability or an attack
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to the government, which is what an opposition is meant to do. So I think it's an own goal. I think it's
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a misstep. Does he feel that way? I don't think so. I think he stands by it and he knows exactly what
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he's doing. I'm getting some creepy Jim Jones kind of vibes from the Liberal media these days.
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I truly believe that if Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney shot someone on Yonge Street,
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the Liberal media would cover for them and the Liberal voters would still vote for them.
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Brad, those images of Conservative MP after Conservative MP running by the cameras. I mean,
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it becomes a 10-foot pole, 11-foot pole, 12-foot pole every time the question is asked. Last word
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due and then we're going to take a break. I mean, why do you think it is being done this way?
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Yeah, that's a good question. It's still a mystery. We don't know the answer to that,
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but I know briefing caucus members in front of cameras as they walk in out of the House of
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Commons. It's not an accident that nobody wanted to talk about it. It's because this is a highly
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uncomfortable topic for Conservative caucus members. They don't have their marching orders of what to
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say, or at least they haven't designated a spokesperson to get this right. And they've issued
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a statement as opposed to putting the leader out. So all of these things in the communications game
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tell us that they are in retracting mode and that they're hoping that it goes away, hoping for
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something else maybe to take over the news cycle. Well, just last note, they actually did get
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their marching orders. They did get talking points this morning of what to say in public,
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and none of them chose to even embrace what Mr. Poliev's own talking points were today.
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Well, that's a bigger issue than Tonda. Yeah. And the comments in the podcast were in the
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present tense, not in the historical sense. The leadership is. So anyway, further clarification,
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invite Mr. Poliev if you'd like to come on. Now it's funny, Poliev has been talking about other
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things. In the interview where Poliev originally made the comments, that was Northern Perspective,
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it was a rather long interview, around an hour, and they talked about a lot of stuff.
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The liberal media, they just took that one little thing he said, that one tiny little thing he said,
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and blew it up into a big story. And they've been talking about it for almost a week now.
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Of course, Poliev is focused on affordability, fighting inflation and keeping taxes down.
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He's been talking about that for 20 years, but he says other things too. And that's where the
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liberal media gets all confused. So here's my analysis. I don't think Poliev said anything wrong.
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Quite frankly, I think they're scared because he said everything right. In my opinion, and the opinion of
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many other Canadians, Justin Trudeau did in fact commit crimes and he should be held accountable.
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That's a fair and balanced opinion. I think what's happening is that there's a lot of
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corrupt liberals in Ottawa. Business people, government officials, they're scared. And they
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know that Poliev is rising in the polls and they want to shut him down. They want to stop him.
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Poliev's Conservative Party is slightly ahead of the Liberal Party, according to a recent poll by
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Bacchus conducted only last week. The media is back to its tried and tested dirty tricks.
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They're trying to conflate Poliev with Trump. And in reality, they're actually completely different.
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And now the context that the media is conveniently leaving out is the fact that Poliev isn't calling
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for Trudeau's arrest because he doesn't like him. He's calling for Trudeau's arrest because he's a
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criminal and he broke the law. And that's a pretty important piece of context. But either way,
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at least on my end, the media's attempts at crucifying Poliev, they won't work.
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The more they try to crucify him, the more I like him. And I think a lot of people can say that.
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They're tired of the lies and the spin from the mainstream media.
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I don't know about you, but I want a prime minister that's tough on immigrants,
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tough on crime, and keeps those taxes nice and low. If he manages to clean up Ottawa and arrest a few
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dirty, criminal, liberal politicians, I'm all for it. Look, I've said this before and I'll say it
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again. I truly believe that Poliev will be in office in a matter of time, probably somewhere
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around six months. There's no way that Carney's going to last. No way at all. You can't just keep
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talking about Trump over and over again. Even the polls suggest that Canadians are tired of hearing
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about it. So once again, have some patience, have some faith. We'll have Poliev in office soon enough.