Max Genest - The Red Tory Collapse Begins

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Max Jeanette, and howdy, my name is Michael Harris, and today we're going to be

00:00:04.100 talking about the two conservative MPs who just left the party. One crossed the floor

00:00:08.400 to join the liberals, and the other one resigned after being caught in talks to do the same.

00:00:12.920 A source inside the party tells me they're in crisis mode, scrambling for damage control.

00:00:18.540 Is it suspicious that this is all happening within two days of Mark Carney tabling his

00:00:23.500 $78 billion deficit budget? Yeah, it is. And if you think that's a coincidence, it's not.

00:00:29.140 This is not random. It is the result of a deeper problem inside the Conservative Party that's been

00:00:34.080 festering for years. Because when one defection happens, it's a story. When two happen within 48

00:00:40.320 hours, that's a pattern. Solving this pattern starts with asking a simple question. Why are

00:00:45.700 Conservative MPs fleeing the party? Now, it might be because these Conservatives are considered

00:00:51.660 red Tories, people who came from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and might more align

00:00:57.260 with Mark Carney's style of government. Big spending, keeping the government programs up,

00:01:03.240 whereas Pierre Polyev and his conservatives are more like the Reform Alliance conservatives that

00:01:07.940 believe in smaller government. And this might be an indication of a fracturing of the party at whole,

00:01:13.860 where they still have the Progressive Conservative Party, the Reform Party, and the Alliance Party

00:01:18.920 still mingling in its own party, and they can't decide where their future should lay. And we could

00:01:25.060 see here in the following weeks, that it's not just two MPs that quit, that we could see a

00:01:29.500 fracturing where there could be a red Tory, blue Tory split. Michael is correct. These red Tories

00:01:35.680 are liberals. But if these red Tories align so much with the liberals, why haven't the liberals

00:01:40.520 started poaching them sooner? Because the liberals are smart enough to know red Tories are far more

00:01:46.580 valuable to them inside the conservative party than outside of it. But they're doing it now

00:01:52.200 because they're desperate for a majority. And it's easy. Like Michael said, all the red Tories come

00:01:57.820 from the same place, the old progressive conservative wing. They're fiscally liberal,

00:02:02.680 so why are they even in the conservative party? And here's the ugly truth. Red Tories are a small

00:02:08.300 minority in this country, but somehow they dominate the party. Why? Every single leader,

00:02:13.880 Shere, O'Toole, even Polyev, keeps giving them power, handing them nominations, safe seats,

00:02:19.680 and committee roles, while blocking real conservatives from running. The ones who talk

00:02:24.820 about immigration, debt, culture, our national identity are being treated like liabilities,

00:02:30.260 while the red Tories who never fight or speak up are the ones promoted and protected. That is why

00:02:36.320 the conservative party keeps losing, because it's afraid to be conservative. It keeps bending the

00:02:41.700 to the liberals, terrified of controversy, and terrified of being called names. And to keep that

00:02:48.860 surrender going, it fills its own ranks with red Tories, whose whole purpose is to make sure the

00:02:54.800 party never truly represents conservative values, beliefs, and morals. They do not need to cross the

00:03:01.460 floor to weaken the party. They do it from within. Two MPs just left the party, and right now

00:03:07.460 Polyev looks weak. A real leader would flip this into a win. Say he's cleansing the red Tories out

00:03:13.240 the party turn the loss into proof the party's getting stronger more focused more conservative

00:03:19.240 but he's not and if you cannot handle two defections without looking shaken that says

00:03:24.360 a lot about your leadership or lack of it.

Max Genest - November 08, 2025