Max Genest - February 02, 2026


How The Conservative Convention Exposed Its Own Rot

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The Conservative Party of Canada just held its convention in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and here s what no one is talking about but everyone desperately needs to hear. Party consultants and party elitists managed to keep control of the party just so they can keep getting rich off of its deep internal corruption. They passed a series of absolutely disgusting motions that would have required the party to give candidates a reason for being kicked out of nomination races, a motion to require the nomination race to take place 8 months minimum before the general election was defeated, a policy to stop non-citizens from continuing to vote in nominations failed, thanks to a single vote.

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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 1.00
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 1.00
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 0.99
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 0.93
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 0.99
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 0.82
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 0.88