Mark Slapinski

00:00:00.480 Pierre Polyev has successfully broken the brains of the liberal establishment.

00:00:04.960 After suggesting that Justin Trudeau was a criminal and should be sent to prison last week,

00:00:09.440 the whole establishment is trying to destroy him. But they're not trying to take him down

00:00:13.040 because he was wrong. They're trying to take him down because he's right

00:00:16.560 and he's poised to win the next election. Let's take a look at that.

00:00:20.320 What do you think about Polyev's comments on the RCMP? Do you support his viewpoint?

00:00:24.960 What's your stance on the RCMP? What's your stance on the RCMP, sir?

00:00:30.000 Do you have confidence in the RCMP?

00:00:33.440 They support Pierre, that's for darn sure.

00:00:35.360 You support Pierre? Do you support your leader's comments on the RCMP?

00:00:39.040 I support the Blue Jays 110%.

00:00:41.600 Do you support your leaders on the RCMP?

00:00:44.400 Man, look how desperate the media is. They literally camped out outside Parliament Hill

00:00:49.040 so they could wait and ask Conservative MPs stupid questions. They're just like the 1.00

00:00:53.280 paparazzi in California that waits at nightclubs to take pictures of celebrities. 1.00

00:00:57.840 Complete clowns. This is TMZ stuff right here. They're getting really desperate and it shows. 0.96

00:01:03.680 Conservative MPs there dodging questions today about their leader Pierre Polyev and his criticism of

00:01:08.160 the RCMP. Last week, Polyev accused Canada's police force of covering up crimes committed by the Trudeau

00:01:13.680 government and he called the RCMP leadership despicable. In response, a former top aide,

00:01:19.280 Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote a scathing op-ed in the Toronto Star. Dmitry Soudis said

00:01:24.240 Polyev was dismantling the principled, trustworthy, conservative party. Soudis described Polyev as

00:01:30.080 angry, addicted to opposition, and incapable of transformation. And the fallout has only picked

00:01:35.680 up steam. Polyev is facing a number of negative headlines in the media, some drawing direct

00:01:39.360 comparisons to language used by President Donald Trump. Political leaders on Parliament Hill are also

00:01:45.200 making that link. Now here's the part that CBC won't tell you. All those news sources they just

00:01:50.640 showed you, they all lean leftward. And some of them received a lot of money from the Trudeau government.

00:01:56.640 For example, an independent fact-check website determined the Toronto Star uses loaded language

00:02:01.760 to appeal to liberal causes. Also, reports indicate that the Toronto Star was being paid over a hundred

00:02:07.040 thousand a week, not a year, not a month, a week, by the Trudeau government. And as always,

00:02:13.200 I'll attach all my sources in the description so you can take a look at this yourself.

00:02:16.800 But just think about that for a second. If you pay a news outlet over a hundred grand a week,

00:02:21.280 they're pretty much obligated to say good things about you.

00:02:24.240 Now before I get back into this, I think I've been shadow banned.

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00:02:36.800 Some people were actually automatically unsubscribed against their will and against their knowledge,

00:02:41.600 so just take a second to double check. Thanks. Let's get back to the action.

00:02:45.920 Where is Pierre Poiliev's notion that the former Prime Minister should be jailed?

00:02:52.240 It's deeply worrying because this is the kind of thing going on right now in Trump's United States.

00:02:57.760 So I think Pierre Poiliev should reconsider his language, withdraw those words, and apologize.

00:03:03.680 The last thing Canada needs is the disturbing kind of rhetoric that we hear from south of the border.

00:03:10.480 You know, we've heard Donald Trump repeatedly threaten his political opponents with jail.

00:03:15.360 That is unacceptable. It's inappropriate. And frankly, it's dangerous to a democracy.

00:03:21.280 Man, the left is tripping balls over this. It's been almost a week and they can't let it go.

00:03:27.120 They can't let it go. They're making such a mountain out of this molehill.

00:03:30.800 And of course, of course, I think they're 100% wrong.

00:03:33.680 But you're going to have to wait until later in the video for my explanation.

00:03:37.040 Okay, we're going to start there with the power panel today.

00:03:39.440 Vandana Cotter was an advisor to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:03:42.720 Kate Harrison is a conservative political analyst. 0.86

00:03:45.520 Brad Levine is a former national campaign director for the NDP.

00:03:48.800 And here with me is Tonda McCharles.

00:03:50.960 She is, of course, the Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Star.

00:03:54.000 It's good to see you all.

00:03:55.120 Tonda, because you have home field advantage and Blue Jays are in game seven, we'll start with you.

00:03:58.800 I mean, Pierre Poiliev is not apologizing.

00:04:02.560 He's not recanting, but he is putting out a clarification of sorts, saying it didn't quite

00:04:09.280 mean as it's being portrayed.

00:04:10.000 He didn't hit the mark?

00:04:10.560 Is that what he's saying?

00:04:11.280 Well, not really.

00:04:11.840 That's what he's saying.

00:04:12.880 Yes.

00:04:13.200 No, what he's saying is he swung and he hit a big miss, is what he's saying.

00:04:18.080 Last week, for people who didn't actually see the original interview, he made a sweeping

00:04:25.760 condemnation of RCMP leadership as despicable and as covering up for crimes of the former

00:04:30.960 prime minister. And there was no nuance in what he said. Was he too comfortable with a

00:04:35.600 set of friendly interviewers? Perhaps. But he certainly put no nuance there then in those

00:04:42.080 comments and nor did he in the following few days. But over the weekend, he took a lot of hits

00:04:47.200 for it, particularly in the pages of our paper when a former advisor to Stephen Harper came out and

00:04:54.400 just slammed him for being irresponsible and focusing on grievance, not governance and being distracted

00:05:00.160 and making these kinds of comments that undermines responsible leadership of a conservative party

00:05:04.960 leader. So, look, I think that in trying to clarify today, Mr. Poiliev has said, oh,

00:05:12.720 but I didn't mean like all the current RCMP leadership. I only meant the past commissioner

00:05:17.680 and standing by his comments. I'm not sure that he escapes the knock that people within his own

00:05:26.240 party and those opposition leaders you just heard from are putting against him, which is to say

00:05:32.320 the mimicry of Trump's language is hurting the party and it hurts the greater cause of

00:05:37.200 faith in public institutions, faith in the police and that sort of thing.

00:05:40.560 Okay, I really don't think that's true. I'm going to call bullshit on that one. Excuse my language. 0.99

00:05:44.560 But no conservative MP has said that, at least any of the ones I know. And put it this way,

00:05:49.280 if there's a conservative MP that thinks that Justin Trudeau doesn't belong in prison,

00:05:53.040 Poiliev needs to find out who they are and fire them. If you're the kind of person,

00:05:56.960 if you're a politician that believes that Justin Trudeau, he deserves just to sail off into the

00:06:02.080 sunset, kissing Katy Perry or whoever else, maybe some guy into the sunset, you're not a real

00:06:09.040 conservative. You're a traitor and you're just as bad as Doug Ford, maybe even worse. So I think 1.00

00:06:15.040 Poiliev could use this as an excuse to clean up his team. Yeah. And Mike Duem, the current

00:06:20.320 commissioner, he was a deputy commissioner when this happened. And what's at issue here? Because

00:06:26.000 some people have tried to say, oh, what he said about Justin Trudeau isn't news. And like, no,

00:06:30.000 it isn't. But what he said about the RCMP sure was. And saying, you know, the exact quote is,

00:06:35.280 if the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him, him being Trudeau,

00:06:39.600 then he would have been criminally charged. I mean, that's a big allegation to make

00:06:44.000 with zero evidence and zero proof. There was a lot of criticism around

00:06:49.840 commissioner at the time, Lucky's handling of numerous files, whether or not they had

00:06:55.840 enough information to actually make an assessment they were comfortable with on the SNC-Lavalin

00:07:01.280 affair. Obviously, the government tried very hard to redact documents and block testimony at

00:07:06.480 committee that would have perhaps unearthed some information that could have lent the RCMP

00:07:10.320 to make a more, at least a more informed decision as far as that proceeded. And there were a number

00:07:16.000 of other scandals, of course, around the handling of the mass shooting in Nova Scotia and others

00:07:20.160 that more than conservatives brought attention to. It's in the pages of national media. All that being

00:07:25.360 said, I do think that the conservatives need to stay focused where they do well is in the message

00:07:30.240 discipline on affordability and crime and immigration. And this has now taken the conservatives off

00:07:36.240 of that message track for the last number of days at a time when, you know, workers at Stellantis are

00:07:40.720 looking at job reductions. And we're seeing that happen across the country largely due to the

00:07:44.880 government's actions. So I think that, you know, the lesson here for the conservatives needs to be

00:07:49.920 keep your eye on the prize. Don't get too comfortable for with friendly media and stay focused on the

00:07:54.880 kitchen table issues that connected with so many Canadians just this past April. I disagree.

00:07:59.600 Paulie have said what many Canadians actually wanted him to say. It's only the liberal media that's

00:08:04.160 freaking out about this. And I'll have more to say about this later in the video. So stick around.

00:08:08.640 What are your thoughts on all this? Yeah, I think that's right. I think, you know,

00:08:12.640 it creates a target and not only is he, it's fine to criticize, you know, the RCMP for rightful things,

00:08:18.880 but it's, it's not okay to slander institution that Canadians need to have trust in. And I think the

00:08:23.920 other thing is, you know, to Kate's point is that, is this for Canadians are thinking about right now?

00:08:29.200 When I was in opposition, everything I did with my leader was to make sure we tried to gain more support of the

00:08:33.680 Canadian electorates. And I don't think this does this. I don't think Canadians are thinking about

00:08:38.160 something that happened a long time ago. I don't think they want a leader that advocates for them

00:08:43.600 on those kitchen table items, on affordability, on the things that matter to them every day.

00:08:47.680 And I don't think, I don't think this is what hits the mark, but it makes them look more like,

00:08:52.640 you know, you're not ready to be the prime minister. You're going to stay in opposition.

00:08:56.400 Brad, is this a, I mean, you saw the headlines there. And I don't know if the opposition leader's office cares that

00:09:02.800 the national media is, is, is the columnists are taking a position on this, but it does penetrate.

00:09:08.240 And obviously the put, the statement that they put out today, attempting to clarify it. I'm just

00:09:13.360 wondering what, what this says about where they think this issue has gone for them.

00:09:16.480 Yeah. The, the clarification, uh, that came out this weekend today is an indication that,

00:09:22.160 that they're doing some, some backtracking and, and, and, and feel that, that this is, this has gone on

00:09:27.200 far too, uh, too long and it's gone too far. So I think that's the first clue that, that, that, that

00:09:32.400 is in trouble. The second thing is, is that why is he going after the RCMP about decisions that a

00:09:38.080 former commissioner made a while ago? And why is he using such language as despicable? You could say

00:09:43.520 maybe not thorough enough or maybe, uh, you know, not, not comprehensive enough, but, but, you know,

00:09:48.880 the word despicable is pretty strong. And, and I don't think a lot of Canadians would, would side with

00:09:53.520 that or agree with that. If Polyev's challenge, I mean, I, he's got the January, uh, uh, leadership

00:09:59.920 review. I'm sure he's fine there. I don't think this is going to upset that, but his broader goal

00:10:05.200 is to make himself more likable, not to the far right, who may have some problems with law enforcement,

00:10:10.640 which is funny to say in this day and age, you think that the conservative movement in general

00:10:14.800 would be four square behind, uh, law enforcement. Uh, but why is he going after them now at a time when

00:10:20.320 he's trying to expand, uh, his electoral voter base, uh, among those moderate Canadians,

00:10:25.200 particularly among women where he's having a difficult time breaking in? This is certainly 0.99

00:10:28.640 not a message to do that. The last point I'll make, why is he so confident that after fulsome

00:10:36.000 investigations, that he himself alone knows and has evidence that there was a potential coverup by

00:10:42.880 the RCMP or them not doing their fulsome job in order to protect, uh, Justin Trudeau. Again,

00:10:47.760 Justin Trudeau is not on the ballot. Uh, Mark Carney and the other opposition leaders are going to be

00:10:51.600 on the ballot. So he's still fighting, uh, former wars. Why at this time is he doing so? And why is

00:10:56.560 he going so hard to suggest that he alone has evidence to suggest that our law enforcement in this

00:11:03.360 country, um, turned a blind eye to evidence? If he has such evidence, and I think the current

00:11:08.240 commissioner called about today and said, if you've got something, please bring it to us.

00:11:11.680 Right. Um, why is he, why is he the judge and jury and suggesting not only is there evidence that

00:11:17.680 was covered up, but then he's, he knows so much that he's suggesting that there should be jail

00:11:22.160 time. Uh, that is a pretty far reaching. And if he can't get this stuff, right. And again,

00:11:26.960 I don't know why he's talking about this right now. Um, especially when we've got crime and justice

00:11:30.800 issues that are more important, contemporary, uh, contemporarily, why is he the judge and jury?

00:11:36.160 What does he know that the RCMP does it? And if he doesn't come forward with it,

00:11:39.440 then Canadians, I think are just going to say that he's not ready for prime time.

00:11:42.560 Now it's funny. These panelists are so hypocritical. They really don't understand 1.00

00:11:46.640 how hypocritical they are. They say that Polyev should focus on crime law and order. Let me tell 0.96

00:11:52.480 you something. You can't have law and order unless the law applies to everyone. Of course, Polyev,

00:11:59.200 if he gets into power, he's going to focus on some bad people at the bottom, the crack dealers,

00:12:04.000 the people that are breaking into people's homes, but it shouldn't stop there. It can't stop there.

00:12:09.200 We also need to focus on the higher level criminals, the bankers, the politicians that have stolen

00:12:14.240 millions, if not billions of dollars from the taxpayer. These people are complete clowns and 0.99

00:12:19.440 they don't know what they're talking about or else they know better. And they've been paid off. 1.00

00:12:24.080 I'll let you figure out which one that is. It is clear that there are multiple findings that in

00:12:28.720 the Aga convocation and in SNC-Lavalin ethics rules and conflict of interest rules were broken,

00:12:32.880 but those are not criminal code. That is not, those aren't crimes necessarily. There are violations of

00:12:38.400 ethical frameworks. I'm not saying that to minimize them, but the ethics commissioner is not sending

00:12:42.480 you to jail. But just to read you the clarification from Mr. Polyev, just a little bit of it. The

00:12:47.120 opening sentence is, I stand shoulder to shoulder with the brave men and women in uniform who put

00:12:50.880 their lives on the line every day to protect and serve. Today and every day, I thank them for their

00:12:54.480 service. Clearly, they've been getting some pushback for being too critical of police. And then the key

00:12:59.680 graph is, my comments were directed to former RCMP Commissioner Brenda Luckey, as Tonda said,

00:13:04.320 who has a lengthy track record of publicly documented scandals, deception, and political

00:13:08.240 interference to the benefit of the liberal government. We called for her resignation.

00:13:11.600 We stand by that call to this day. Tonda, what's interesting is I can read that and you have read

00:13:16.160 that because we got it in our emails from the press office in the opposition leader's office. This was

00:13:21.280 not said out loud by Pierre Polyev, despite appearing on camera, and it does not appear on any of the

00:13:25.440 social media channels that I can find. And this is a guy who was shown when he wants a message to have mass

00:13:30.080 penetration. He knows how to do it. They're just sending it to the reporters and the reporters only

00:13:34.800 and not disseminating it on their own channels. Right. And I think that, you know, if I were

00:13:39.040 Brenda Luckey, I'd probably take a really careful look at the language in that clarification because

00:13:45.120 it is pretty aggressive and assertive and potentially damaging to her reputation. You can argue that she 1.00

00:13:54.000 and the force may have made certain calculations that the conservative leader disagreed with,

00:14:02.000 but to state, as this statement does, that she is guilty of a cover-up. And I think that just goes

00:14:10.960 so far as to negate the value of clarifying it. You know what I mean? He's trying to put out a

00:14:17.200 statement to do some damage control, but in the process is revealing still the same sort of,

00:14:22.560 I think, misstep he's made in the first statements. And trying to clarify that it's just, you know,

00:14:30.560 the direction or the characterization of someone being despicable was really only directed at this

00:14:35.760 one leader, I don't think saves him. And I think to Brad's question about why is this happening now,

00:14:42.080 I think we all have to sort of look at a few things that were happening there, and several things can be

00:14:46.960 true at once. He was comfortable in that interview very clearly with friendly interviewers and perhaps

00:14:54.640 relaxed too much. But we all know Mr. Poliev is a very skilled political commentator and,

00:15:01.440 as you pointed out, messenger. And so what message is he sending to conservative party voters,

00:15:07.920 for starters? Never mind that it's pissed off. Sorry. A whole bunch of people who are his political

00:15:14.800 opponents in the Commons. Forget that. I mean, what is it saying to broader voters and broader

00:15:21.440 conservative party voters who are going to come up in January? Is he the leader that learned any

00:15:26.640 lessons out of the last campaign where a lot of people felt he should have broadened his coalition?

00:15:30.640 Or is he doubling down on the leader who presented himself and lost the last election?

00:15:34.960 So, Kate, this media strategy here reminds me of when some of the members of the Conservative

00:15:39.920 Caucus had lunch with Christine Anderson, the controversial German member of the European

00:15:43.760 Parliament. And when Pierre Poliev wanted to disavow their participation in that, a statement went to

00:15:49.680 the press gallery. Nothing went on social. Nothing was said at length on camera. And when we reported

00:15:56.160 a statement, we were accused of fake news because it wasn't on his social media channels. If he wanted to

00:16:01.520 correct this record more broadly, he knows how to do it. They're choosing to do it this way. What does

00:16:05.840 that say to us? Yeah, I think that it will make its way out there through the mainstream media. I'm

00:16:13.120 sure if he were to be asked about it, then you might get a similar response. I think one thing,

00:16:18.880 David, that could be done that would be helpful is to take the current commissioner up on his offer to

00:16:23.680 meet. Because I do think that it's important that the Conservatives reinforce their relationship with the

00:16:29.360 National Police Force and their commitment to crime and public safety issues. And I believe that the

00:16:35.840 current commissioner made that offer last week and Poliev should take him up on it. I think that the

00:16:40.080 longer we're debating and clarifying things, the more Conservatives are not focused on the issues

00:16:46.800 that the majority of Canadians do connect with around affordability and around crime. There's plenty

00:16:52.000 of red meat for Conservatives to go after on those two issues as it relates to the current government,

00:16:55.840 not the last one. Yeah, look, he could have a press conference tomorrow, but we'll see if he wants to

00:17:01.600 address it directly. But Vandita, what do you make of this compartmentalized comms strategy that his

00:17:07.600 social channels are the way Mr. Poliev communicates directly with his supporters and with his base?

00:17:12.480 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

00:17:18.320 what the statement was to appease some stakeholders and maybe some caucus members who felt that that was

00:17:22.800 deserved. I think for him, he stands by what he says. And I think he is trying to gear that towards

00:17:30.800 a very small group of the Conservative base that may feel strongly about what he said and may feel that

00:17:38.720 they have concern with law enforcement and institutions in general. I don't think that

00:17:43.520 serves the Canadian public, but I don't think he necessarily cares to share that or to clarify that.

00:17:48.880 So he, if he wants to get a message out, he will, but it ends up being an old goal for him. So every

00:17:54.160 day that people are talking about this and that his own party is criticizing, and maybe it's not his

00:17:58.480 caucus, but members outside, it is going to hurt him. So every day we're not talking about this is

00:18:05.520 a day we're missing, talking about what's the Conservatives saying on affordability or an attack

00:18:10.800 to the government, which is what an opposition is meant to do. So I think it's an own goal. I think it's

00:18:15.920 a misstep. Does he feel that way? I don't think so. I think he stands by it and he knows exactly what

00:18:20.320 he's doing. I'm getting some creepy Jim Jones kind of vibes from the Liberal media these days.

00:18:25.920 I truly believe that if Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney shot someone on Yonge Street,

00:18:29.680 the Liberal media would cover for them and the Liberal voters would still vote for them.

00:18:33.600 Brad, those images of Conservative MP after Conservative MP running by the cameras. I mean,

00:18:38.560 it becomes a 10-foot pole, 11-foot pole, 12-foot pole every time the question is asked. Last word

00:18:43.200 due and then we're going to take a break. I mean, why do you think it is being done this way?

00:18:46.560 Yeah, that's a good question. It's still a mystery. We don't know the answer to that,

00:18:50.800 but I know briefing caucus members in front of cameras as they walk in out of the House of

00:18:55.920 Commons. It's not an accident that nobody wanted to talk about it. It's because this is a highly

00:19:00.480 uncomfortable topic for Conservative caucus members. They don't have their marching orders of what to

00:19:06.000 say, or at least they haven't designated a spokesperson to get this right. And they've issued

00:19:11.280 a statement as opposed to putting the leader out. So all of these things in the communications game

00:19:15.760 tell us that they are in retracting mode and that they're hoping that it goes away, hoping for

00:19:23.040 something else maybe to take over the news cycle. Well, just last note, they actually did get

00:19:28.080 their marching orders. They did get talking points this morning of what to say in public,

00:19:31.520 and none of them chose to even embrace what Mr. Poliev's own talking points were today.

00:19:36.320 Well, that's a bigger issue than Tonda. Yeah. And the comments in the podcast were in the

00:19:40.240 present tense, not in the historical sense. The leadership is. So anyway, further clarification,

00:19:45.680 invite Mr. Poliev if you'd like to come on. Now it's funny, Poliev has been talking about other

00:19:49.920 things. In the interview where Poliev originally made the comments, that was Northern Perspective,

00:19:54.960 it was a rather long interview, around an hour, and they talked about a lot of stuff.

00:20:00.000 The liberal media, they just took that one little thing he said, that one tiny little thing he said,

00:20:04.960 and blew it up into a big story. And they've been talking about it for almost a week now.

00:20:09.760 Of course, Poliev is focused on affordability, fighting inflation and keeping taxes down.

00:20:14.640 He's been talking about that for 20 years, but he says other things too. And that's where the

00:20:19.600 liberal media gets all confused. So here's my analysis. I don't think Poliev said anything wrong.

00:20:25.200 Quite frankly, I think they're scared because he said everything right. In my opinion, and the opinion of

00:20:30.640 many other Canadians, Justin Trudeau did in fact commit crimes and he should be held accountable.

00:20:36.320 That's a fair and balanced opinion. I think what's happening is that there's a lot of

00:20:40.480 corrupt liberals in Ottawa. Business people, government officials, they're scared. And they

00:20:45.840 know that Poliev is rising in the polls and they want to shut him down. They want to stop him.

00:20:50.720 Poliev's Conservative Party is slightly ahead of the Liberal Party, according to a recent poll by

00:20:55.360 Bacchus conducted only last week. The media is back to its tried and tested dirty tricks.

00:21:00.960 They're trying to conflate Poliev with Trump. And in reality, they're actually completely different.

00:21:06.800 And now the context that the media is conveniently leaving out is the fact that Poliev isn't calling

00:21:12.560 for Trudeau's arrest because he doesn't like him. He's calling for Trudeau's arrest because he's a

00:21:17.680 criminal and he broke the law. And that's a pretty important piece of context. But either way,

00:21:22.800 at least on my end, the media's attempts at crucifying Poliev, they won't work.

00:21:28.160 The more they try to crucify him, the more I like him. And I think a lot of people can say that.

00:21:32.960 They're tired of the lies and the spin from the mainstream media.

00:21:36.640 I don't know about you, but I want a prime minister that's tough on immigrants,

00:21:40.640 tough on crime, and keeps those taxes nice and low. If he manages to clean up Ottawa and arrest a few

00:21:48.000 dirty, criminal, liberal politicians, I'm all for it. Look, I've said this before and I'll say it 0.84

00:21:53.280 again. I truly believe that Poliev will be in office in a matter of time, probably somewhere

00:21:57.840 around six months. There's no way that Carney's going to last. No way at all. You can't just keep

00:22:03.200 talking about Trump over and over again. Even the polls suggest that Canadians are tired of hearing

00:22:08.240 about it. So once again, have some patience, have some faith. We'll have Poliev in office soon enough.

00:22:14.160 Have a great night, Patriots.

The Left Is SCARED Because Poilievre Is WINNING

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