Max Genest - How The Conservative Convention Exposed Its Own Rot

00:00:00.000 So the Conservative Party of Canada convention just happened in Calgary, Alberta, I was there,

00:00:05.360 and here is the thing no one is talking about, but everyone desperately needs to hear.

00:00:10.660 Party consultants and party elitists managed to retain control of the party just so they

00:00:16.120 can keep getting rich off of its deep internal corruption.

00:00:19.380 They passed a series of absolutely disgusting motions.

00:00:22.980 The motion that would have required the party to give candidates a reason for being kicked

00:00:28.220 out of nomination races was defeated. The motion to require the nomination race to take place

00:00:34.440 eight months minimum before the general election was defeated. The motion to limit how many

00:00:40.340 candidates headquarters in Ottawa can appoint was defeated. A policy to stop non-citizens

00:00:46.720 from continuing to vote in nominations failed, thanks to Deputy Leader of the Conservative

00:00:52.300 Party, Tim Upple, Pierre Polyev's right-hand man, which I grilled him on afterward. And then he said

00:00:58.560 he was just maintaining the status quo. Mr. Upple, do you believe that non-citizens should

00:01:04.020 vote in your party's nomination races? That's the way it is right now. But you voted to allow it.

00:01:09.280 Why? I voted the entire room, actually. No, but you personally voted to allow it. Why is that?

00:01:16.180 sorry? Did I? Yeah, you voted to allow. I just voted to allow the status quo.

00:01:24.720 Then a few hours later, the party's comms director, Sarah Fisher, confronted me saying,

00:01:31.300 ambushing is not allowed. If you keep doing it, you will face serious consequences,

00:01:35.880 which was intimidation. It was a threat. It doesn't make any sense though, because

00:01:39.880 Mr. Upple fully consented to the interview by answering my questions. It's not my fault.

00:01:45.660 I made Upple look like a moron. Also, lobbyists registered as delegates so they can successfully

00:01:52.260 vote down the motion on barring them from being in the National Council. And the people pushing

00:01:58.880 this stuff were the minority, which raises a very serious question. Where were the rest of the

00:02:04.740 delegates? Why didn't they vote on this stuff? Why didn't they stop this blatant destruction?

00:02:10.460 because the truth is a huge number of delegates had no idea what in the hell they were doing.

00:02:16.160 Like a guy literally walked up to me on the convention floor and asked, how do I vote?

00:02:21.120 What am I voting for? I don't know what I'm doing. That terrified me. It gave me chills.

00:02:26.280 They don't know what they are voting for. They don't know what it means to be delegate.

00:02:29.700 Some don't even know the definition of the word. And why hasn't the party taught them what to do?

00:02:36.420 Why hasn't the party properly trained them? Because delegates voting is not the point.

00:02:42.800 The convention is designed around open bars, networking, and socializing. It is a place to

00:02:48.540 hang out, meet friends, meet MPs, and meet your favorite conservative influencers,

00:02:55.320 not to seriously govern the party. And on top of this, the constitution votes were deliberately

00:03:01.280 scheduled at the same time as policy votes. And that matters because they designed it that way

00:03:06.680 to confuse delegates. The constitution is far more important. Policy barely matters since at the end

00:03:12.920 of the day, the leader decides the policy anyways. He decides what goes on, what happens in the

00:03:18.440 platform. So this should be very simple. One day for the constitution, one day for the policy. Now

00:03:25.440 here's another issue. I attended as an independent journalist and I had to pay a thousand dollars to

00:03:30.580 get in as a member observer. Meanwhile, free conservative influencer badges were handed out

00:03:36.520 to content creators who never hold the party accountable and who constantly shill for them.

00:03:42.300 And free media badges were also handed out to the legacy media. And a whole bunch of actual

00:03:48.300 independent journalists were outright banned from the convention. The conservative party even told

00:03:53.740 rebel news journalist Tamara Lich to delete an old post criticizing the CBC because apparently

00:04:00.260 the party needs to deal with them in good faith, even though the CBC clearly does not act in good

00:04:06.320 faith ever. Then, Conservative MP Tamara Cronus said that opposing a law that makes it easier

00:04:12.700 for children to transition to another gender is too divisive. Tamara Cronus, I'm the Member of

00:04:18.380 Parliament for Nanaimo Lady Smith. We are the party that believes that Canadians should be

00:04:24.480 able to have an affordable home on a safe street under a proud flag. We should not be adopting

00:04:31.280 policies that divide us. This policy divides us, and I urge you to vote no. That means she supports

00:04:39.440 policies that cause irreversible harm to children, including medical sterilization and permanent

00:04:45.440 bodily damage to our most vulnerable kids to the future of this country. And additionally,

00:04:51.840 anti-abortion proposals did not receive enough support at the breakout workshops to make it on

00:04:58.000 the convention floor including talking about banning third trimester abortions which is

00:05:03.760 blatant murder at that point you're murdering a full-grown baby and they couldn't even talk about

00:05:10.480 that now do not get me wrong some good policies did pass castle law doctrine passed defunding

00:05:17.520 the cbc pass including a lot of support from quebec delegates the majority of quebec delegates

00:05:24.720 actually supported that that's surprisingly amazing there were solid wins a hundred percent

00:05:31.360 but the real question is if the good policies passed why didn't the bad ones get shot down as

00:05:37.360 well and the answer is simple the party is destroying itself it is committing institutional

00:05:43.360 suicide and far too many people inside the room

00:05:46.880 are either too oblivious or too arrogant to realize

00:05:50.640 what is happening

Max Genest - February 02, 2026

How The Conservative Convention Exposed Its Own Rot

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