Stand on Guard with David Krayden - April 21, 2025


Defund CBC Now： The Truth They Won't Tell You ｜ Stand on Guard


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David talks about why the CBC should be defunded, and why the polls are not pointing toward a Conservative win in the election. He also talks about what s going on with the English-language debate and why it didn t go as expected.

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00:00:00.640 Hi, welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard. I'm your host, David Creighton,
00:00:06.280 and I'm coming at you live from our nation's capital in Ottawa. When we come back,
00:00:12.900 why the CBC has to be defunded and the truth about the polling right now.
00:00:24.780 The Prime Minister lied and his minions continue to lie.
00:00:30.000 We need a political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:00:51.100 Happy Easter Eve, if you will. It's Saturday, the 19th of April. Tomorrow is Easter Sunday.
00:00:58.960 I hope you have a blessed Easter Sunday, and I hope you had a very good Easter Friday.
00:01:04.120 But a couple of notes before I get into the main topics today, which, of course, are CBC and the polling,
00:01:10.420 which I can't say enough about, you know, but I'm raring to talk about it.
00:01:17.080 But, you know, I was at a church service yesterday, a good Friday church service,
00:01:24.440 and a very good friend of mine who is a regular viewer of this show,
00:01:29.760 and he probably watches a good dozen shows on YouTube like this one.
00:01:35.620 He had just returned from a trip, and he was noticing the preponderance of Liberal Party election signage around,
00:01:48.380 including three signs near the church where we were attending the Good Friday service.
00:01:56.400 And he said to me, what's wrong with Canadians? 1.00
00:02:03.080 Are they that stupid that they would actually consider giving the Liberals another term 1.00
00:02:10.780 after the catastrophe they've left us? 1.00
00:02:13.420 Do they really think Mark Carney represents change?
00:02:19.280 That he had nothing to do with Justin Trudeau's administration? 1.00
00:02:24.820 I hope Canadians aren't that stupid. 1.00
00:02:30.280 But you know what? 1.00
00:02:31.200 I hear stupid people being interviewed all the time by the mainstream media, 0.99
00:02:36.940 saying that they really think Mark Carney sounds moderate, reasonable. 1.00
00:02:43.960 And they were even impressed by the fact he said nothing during the English language debate.
00:02:53.220 And wouldn't look Pierre Paliyev in the eye,
00:02:57.140 would not even look the camera in his face.
00:03:02.960 He's constantly looking over here,
00:03:06.940 over there like he's detached from the event.
00:03:12.840 And this is what I'm concerned about,
00:03:16.160 that too many Canadians also are detached from this election campaign,
00:03:22.200 and they don't get it.
00:03:24.560 Now, yes, there have been some polls conducted
00:03:30.460 over that English language debate.
00:03:35.880 Now, this is the best news Pierre Paliyev has from the polls that are coming out.
00:03:43.780 And this shows he edged out Mark Carney
00:03:47.160 in terms of which leader did more to win your vote.
00:03:51.820 And I certainly think that's true.
00:03:56.040 As I said yesterday, it was not a knockout punch.
00:03:59.180 I don't think Paliyev was aggressive enough.
00:04:02.620 But I think he did a good job at defining Mark Carney as a continuation of the Justin Trudeau government.
00:04:11.080 And as somebody who is still a firm believer in woke policies and net zero policies and bad policies.
00:04:21.100 However, explain this one to me.
00:04:26.960 How did Mark Carney come out on top
00:04:29.840 as the person who impressed people as the best leader?
00:04:38.120 And clearly, he's five points ahead.
00:04:43.980 Mark Carney looked like anything but a leader during that English language debate.
00:04:50.060 He looked like at times like he was imploding, like he was searching for the right words,
00:04:55.460 like he had forgotten the talking points.
00:04:57.820 And he was thinking, can somebody please give me my script?
00:05:00.580 Because I can't remember what I'm supposed to say.
00:05:04.320 Now, anybody who's out there on YouTube this morning saying,
00:05:08.100 Pierre is surging in the polls.
00:05:09.940 In the first place, you don't even know Pierre.
00:05:12.200 So let's stop being so personal about it.
00:05:15.040 And he's not surging in the polls.
00:05:18.340 What needs to happen?
00:05:19.940 And this is what we discussed yesterday with Kyle Kemper, who was on the broadcast.
00:05:25.120 We need to get as many conservative voters out.
00:05:28.380 But yes, and I'm saying that because I don't want Mark Carney to win this election.
00:05:35.440 I would like to see Pierre Pollard win this election.
00:05:38.020 Of course, because I know he is the only option to beat Mark Carney right now.
00:05:44.780 And we have just over a week.
00:05:46.740 The conservative voters have to get out in large numbers.
00:05:50.480 We do not need to tell them that Polly is surging and he's way ahead in the polls.
00:05:56.880 That is irresponsible.
00:05:58.380 That is completely contrary to good politics at this point in any election campaign.
00:06:08.340 All that is, is click bait.
00:06:11.640 And that's why I'm being honest with you.
00:06:14.300 I'm telling you what's actually happening.
00:06:17.440 Here's Pierre Pollard's best chance to win. 0.89
00:06:20.840 Those NDP voters who are disaffected, dissatisfied, unhappy with the new Democratic Party because it's led by a clown by the name of Jagmeet Singh.
00:06:31.900 It propped up the liberal government.
00:06:33.900 It propped up Justin Trudeau for three years.
00:06:38.660 It has virtually been destroyed as a party.
00:06:41.860 A lot of those NDP supporters are not going to the liberals and don't believe what you hear in the mainstream media.
00:06:48.340 They're all going to the liberals.
00:06:49.540 No, they're not.
00:06:50.740 Read this column about how the hard hat vote, which is what it was called in 1972, when Republican Richard Nixon reached out to working class Americans, to unionized Americans and said, I'm the guy you want to vote for.
00:07:05.600 Because I'm for safety in the streets.
00:07:08.020 I'm for sanity.
00:07:09.300 I'm for being tough on crime.
00:07:14.160 And that's what Pierre Pollard is saying and doing.
00:07:16.760 And that's why he's appealing to blue-collar workers who want to feed their families, live a normal life, afford a home, have food on the table, just to get by and to prosper.
00:07:32.200 That's what they want.
00:07:32.860 They're not going to prosper under another liberal government.
00:07:36.640 So I encourage you to read that.
00:07:39.500 That's what the point.
00:07:40.520 And if we have chance later, I'm going to put Nick Nanos on.
00:07:43.360 And I've already said, I don't believe that 18 to 35 voters are breaking for the liberals or that the gap is closing. 0.90
00:07:57.080 I don't think 18 to 35-year-olds are that stupid to say, what does it matter if Mark Carney's elected? 0.97
00:08:05.360 It doesn't matter if I won't be able to afford a home for the rest of my life. 0.99
00:08:09.840 It doesn't matter if it's all going to be government housing that Mark Carney or his company might inevitably build.
00:08:19.220 I'll be satisfied with Mark Carney.
00:08:22.540 I don't believe that for a second, folks.
00:08:25.840 Not for a second.
00:08:27.280 And I think the message we need to get out right now is that this could be trouble.
00:08:35.000 I've already said I think the polls are skewed.
00:08:37.620 But when every last poll is indicating bad news for the guy you're supporting, you need to focus on getting the vote out.
00:08:46.380 And not PO-ing your base.
00:08:53.060 And unfortunately, Pauline did that the night over Ukraine.
00:08:56.160 He's done that at some events.
00:08:57.780 He's got to be the guy talking about freedom.
00:09:02.880 Now, let me get on the CBC here because this is incredible.
00:09:07.640 Now, I've covered this to some extent the last couple of days.
00:09:10.900 I can't leave it alone because for me, this represents, it's emblematic of everything that's wrong with our national press corps, which I said I was a member of for years.
00:09:23.820 I know a lot of these people.
00:09:25.780 I've worked with them.
00:09:27.640 They have totally abdicated their responsibility to bolster or maintain free speech and a free press in this country.
00:09:38.420 They have, they're so subsidized by the federal government.
00:09:41.940 They're so in the pocket of the liberal government that they're now spewing the talking points of Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau, and all of those liberals who want the mainstream media to be in the government's pocket.
00:09:54.880 Now, thank God, Pierre Polyev hasn't backed down on defunding the CBC.
00:10:02.120 He should defund Radio Canada, too.
00:10:04.300 That was a mistake to say, well, we'll make an exception for the French language services.
00:10:08.620 No, we shouldn't be making an exception for that.
00:10:11.420 Defund them all.
00:10:13.060 Taxpayers should not be subsidizing any media.
00:10:16.820 We don't need any state media in this country.
00:10:21.460 Now, I've got Rupa Subramaya, who was recently at a symposium discussing this.
00:10:29.220 I'm going to have her on in a second. 1.00
00:10:30.420 But let's watch what Pierre Polyev said about defunding the CBC during the English language debate.
00:10:36.540 Left to right again, and 30 seconds this time.
00:10:40.540 Monsieur Polyev, you've previously promised to defund the CBC as one of your very first acts as Prime Minister.
00:10:46.320 Is that still the plan?
00:10:47.300 Yes, CBC will continue to operate as a self-funded, Canadian-owned and controlled non-for-profit
00:10:54.460 that raises money, like other media organizations, through sponsorships, subscriptions, advertising,
00:11:01.240 licensing fees, and countless other things that will ensure Canadians who still want to listen
00:11:06.880 and view its content will be able to do so.
00:11:09.720 And at the same time, we'll allow freedom of the press so that everybody has their voice heard
00:11:15.040 and they can make their own decisions.
00:11:17.300 Now, he seems to be introducing a concept here I haven't really heard before,
00:11:23.640 meaning it should be Canadian-owned.
00:11:26.420 So whoever funds it has to be Canadian.
00:11:30.260 That's probably a good idea, but I don't think he's actually specified or articulated that in the past.
00:11:36.360 Now, why should the CBC be defunded?
00:11:38.880 Because they want to be the only ones at the table, along with their kindred friends in the mainstream media.
00:11:44.760 They want to exclude all new and independent media that refuses to accept government subsidies.
00:11:52.520 They're not welcome at the table.
00:11:55.280 They're not welcome at the news scrums.
00:11:57.360 They're not welcome at the news conferences.
00:11:59.360 They're not welcome on Parliament Hill.
00:12:01.120 You can't get in as a journalist.
00:12:04.660 And they don't want journalists outside of the mainstream media to get that pass.
00:12:13.160 They don't want them inside.
00:12:14.540 They don't want them asking questions.
00:12:16.740 And listen to this exchange.
00:12:18.600 This is so indicative of how evil the CBC has become.
00:12:24.720 But let me tell you, you would hear the same thing from other mainstream media.
00:12:27.800 You spoke post-debate in those scrums.
00:12:31.060 What did you hear from those scrums?
00:12:33.600 The post-debate scrums were dominated by right-wing media groups who flooded leaders with questions on topics unrelated to the debate.
00:12:41.040 One day...
00:12:41.800 Unrelated to the debate.
00:12:45.460 Who makes up the questions for the debate?
00:12:47.800 Why are we always talking about climate change at these debates, when most Canadians don't give a damn about climate change, don't see it as some sort of existential threat, don't go to bed about it and worry?
00:13:03.060 But these journalists want these questions to be the dominant ones.
00:13:07.240 And don't dare ask any other questions that are actually relevant to Canadians.
00:13:13.220 If I seem upset about this, it's because I'm sick and tired of dealing with these types of reporters who want to exclude anybody that they don't like.
00:13:24.700 And they call them right-wing.
00:13:27.080 Do you even know what right-wing is?
00:13:30.940 What are you suggesting?
00:13:32.060 That there's some sort of fascist tendencies to independent media?
00:13:37.280 Why?
00:13:38.280 Because they believe in free speech?
00:13:39.920 That's not fascist.
00:13:40.780 That's not like what that guy in Germany did in the 1930s.
00:13:47.420 I asked Carney if he felt Trudeau was a good prime minister.
00:13:50.640 Carney said that he was and that they have shared values, including taking care of Canadians, reconciliation and equality.
00:13:56.440 I'm curious what stood out to you, because at one point, when some of those last questions came up, I just checked.
00:14:01.120 Yeah, no, we're in Canada.
00:14:02.940 Because the identity politics questions have not emerged much.
00:14:07.600 This happens on the same day that the United Kingdom court ruled that women and sex refer to biological women and biological sex.
00:14:16.280 True North is a very right-wing website.
00:14:22.040 Groups, flooded leaders with questions.
00:14:24.600 Decided that these people.
00:14:26.160 It's not only very right-wing, it's a website.
00:14:30.680 It's not even considered a media outlet by Rosemary Barton.
00:14:35.320 Allowed to come in and ask these kinds of questions.
00:14:37.500 So there you go.
00:14:38.640 All right.
00:14:38.940 Just watching it, having watched the debate, David, you know, the debate was one type of conversation.
00:14:45.500 This feels very different.
00:14:46.680 I think the debate commission is going to need to be accountable for what's kind of happening here.
00:14:53.000 They moved the time of the debate the day before.
00:14:55.460 They kicked the greens out the morning of.
00:14:57.880 And they've opened up the scrums and the press access to a bunch of groups who sometimes are registered charities
00:15:03.060 or have been defined by their owner as not actually a journalistic organization.
00:15:07.340 Now, this is BS.
00:15:09.360 Who the hell is he talking about registered charities?
00:15:13.860 Rebel News?
00:15:14.580 Is that what he's talking about?
00:15:16.680 It's not a registered charity.
00:15:18.560 It's a media outlet.
00:15:19.720 ...or have been ruled by the federal court to not be a journalistic organization.
00:15:24.300 And in an election like this one with very, very substantive debate on very substantive issues,
00:15:29.520 moderated very well and executed very well by all the leaders.
00:15:32.480 This is where this is going.
00:15:33.920 I think I would like an explanation as a journalist.
00:15:36.700 Anything of substance that you heard there, policy-wise, or that you've heard tonight that you hadn't heard before?
00:15:41.320 Not in any of these scrums because they are being taken over by other agendas.
00:15:46.680 And not, I think, necessarily helping a broad swath of voters.
00:15:51.540 Some people maybe do want to hear some of these questions and answers.
00:15:54.240 But broadly, I don't think they represent sort of what the ballot box question is about.
00:15:58.760 We can talk more.
00:15:59.260 Well, Rosemary Barton takes up a broad swath of the television screen. 1.00
00:16:05.820 But does she actually understand what Canadian voters want to discuss, want to hear?
00:16:11.360 It's not what you want at CBC, Rosemary.
00:16:14.600 No, there are other issues out there, and they don't get addressed by the mainstream media.
00:16:21.520 I'm going to show a bit of this again because this is absolutely shocking.
00:16:26.620 Once again, this is a conservative black journalist who works for Rebel News.
00:16:32.900 Jagmeet Singh refuses to even answer her question. 0.69
00:16:35.540 What if that was a liberal journalist from any mainstream media outlet who is also black, and
00:16:44.900 Pierre Polyev said, sorry, I'm not going to answer your questions because I think you're 1.00
00:16:48.540 full of crap. 0.99
00:16:49.680 I think you're pushing disinformation. 1.00
00:16:53.980 What do you think the response would be from everybody in the mainstream media?
00:16:59.440 Pierre Polyev must be racist.
00:17:01.740 That would be the response. 0.95
00:17:02.860 With Rebel News, your party takes great pride in standing against hate such as white supremacy,
00:17:09.340 Islamophobia, and all that.
00:17:10.380 Sorry, I didn't get your outlet.
00:17:12.620 Drea Humphrey with Rebel News.
00:17:14.020 Okay.
00:17:15.060 Your party...
00:17:15.620 You know where I'm going to go with this, all right?
00:17:17.960 Can I speak?
00:17:18.840 Yeah, you can.
00:17:19.360 I'm just going to say you know where I'm going to go with it, though.
00:17:20.840 That over 200 churches have been targeted by arson and vandalism since claims of remains
00:17:27.360 being discovered at former residential schools swept the nation in 2021.
00:17:31.360 These claims have been disproven by bands that excavated and remain unproven by those that
00:17:38.660 have not.
00:17:40.620 Again, thank you, but I'm not going to respond to an organization that promotes misinformation
00:17:45.120 and disinformation like Rebel News.
00:17:47.180 So no, I'm not going to respond to your question.
00:17:48.620 They have this truck going around with a video wall promoting conspiracy theories and allegations,
00:17:55.500 mostly against Mark Carney.
00:17:57.040 Let's face it, like we're showing it there.
00:17:58.380 Oh, it's a conspiracy theory to say Mark Carney supports net zero, even though that's been
00:18:04.520 a campaign of Mark Carney's for the last 10 or 15 years.
00:18:09.040 He headed up an organization that was dedicated, GFANS, that was dedicated to promoting and pushing
00:18:15.960 net zero policies on banks, on corporations, on governments around the world.
00:18:20.720 That's what Mark Carney's all about.
00:18:21.880 But listen to QBall Cochran's suggest that, oh, it's so bad, Rebel News is asking questions
00:18:30.720 that are so bad, we can't even show you what they are.
00:18:33.240 You can see this on the screen.
00:18:35.860 You know, that is one of the few things we can show on TV that appears on the side of
00:18:41.680 that, that the same sort of thing happened with people stacking the microphones and the
00:18:46.440 questions is going in a totally different direction.
00:18:48.180 Well, there's only so much we can do to control free speech, you know.
00:18:51.640 I understand that.
00:18:52.440 You got to understand that.
00:18:53.340 But, you know, lifeguards got to look after the pool, right?
00:18:58.600 Just gag the mail. 0.99
00:18:59.840 And this is where we've ended up in this election.
00:19:01.980 With everything going on with Donald Trump and everything going on in this economy and
00:19:05.000 everything going on in the world, this is where the national Canadian election debate
00:19:09.120 has ended up.
00:19:09.960 And it's just exhausting.
00:19:12.580 And it's been, it is the end product of multiple years of rage farming for.
00:19:18.180 Who's responsible for the rage here, Cochran?
00:19:24.100 You're the ones who can't stand sharing the stage, sharing the questions with anybody in
00:19:31.580 the independent or new media.
00:19:33.660 That's where I see the rage coming from. 1.00
00:19:36.880 And just cry someplace else, you pitiful crybaby. 0.88
00:19:40.800 Narrow political gain and financial benefit for a very small group of people who blew this 0.93
00:19:47.220 up today.
00:19:59.140 Of admitting the rebel news, et cetera, into this thing.
00:20:01.860 I think we've now seen the last nail in the coffin of any idea that these people are just
00:20:05.820 sort of alternative media or independent journalists or anything resembling. 0.96
00:20:09.980 These were bully boys and thugs. 0.78
00:20:11.600 These are performance artists. 1.00
00:20:13.060 These are grifters.
00:20:13.780 All right.
00:20:16.220 I've Andrew Coyne, what credibility do you have?
00:20:22.160 Look at the, they parade these aging journalists up here to suggest that they're the ones, they're 1.00
00:20:28.200 the keeper of the flame, they're the ones who enhance the truth, they're the ones who ensure
00:20:36.980 that you get the news, they're the ones who filter all of that unnecessary content that
00:20:46.600 you don't need to know about.
00:20:47.560 That's what people like Andrew Coyne are doing.
00:20:52.600 Now let's listen to Rupa, Shrupa Maya, talk about why CBC needs to be defunded.
00:20:59.600 Already supplies news, entertainment, and commentary across countless platforms, television, radio,
00:21:06.520 podcasts, streaming services, and of course, the internet.
00:21:09.860 Canadians are not suffering from a shortage of media options.
00:21:13.060 Yet, last year, the CBC received $1.2 billion in taxpayer funding.
00:21:18.420 Its president and CEO took home $133,000 in bonus.
00:21:23.400 Other executives of the CBC pocketed large bonuses, even as the CBC was shedding staff
00:21:28.720 and reporting declining ad revenues.
00:21:30.960 So what we have is a taxpayer-funded broadcaster laying off its own employees while losing audience
00:21:35.900 share, losing advertising revenue, draining advertising dollars away from private media,
00:21:41.040 all while funneling bonuses to its executives.
00:21:44.500 And for what exactly?
00:21:45.760 CBC does not offer a unique public good.
00:21:48.500 It distorts the media market by unfairly competing with private outlets.
00:21:52.740 While pushing content, many Canadians increasingly feel marginalizes their views.
00:21:58.080 They're forced to pay for a broadcaster that often seems openly hostile to their perspectives.
00:22:02.860 As an example, just last week, I watched a segment where instead of questioning why Mark
00:22:06.620 Carney is rising in the polls despite minimal public appearances, and little scrutiny, the
00:22:11.480 reporter at the CBC turned the question into an attack on Pierre Polyever for supposedly
00:22:15.740 dodging the question when he was asked why Carney was doing well despite few public appearances.
00:22:20.920 This is not an isolated case.
00:22:23.040 Take the ad issue panel with Rosemary Barton.
00:22:25.600 It features mostly voices that are antagonistic to the Conservatives.
00:22:31.540 Let me be clear.
00:22:32.740 I'm not calling for the CBC and Radio Canada to be killed off.
00:22:36.540 I think they should be spun off as independent entities.
00:22:39.280 If they can raise funds from viewers, from private donors, or from institutional supporters,
00:22:45.340 like what you have in the U.S. with PBS and NPR, they should survive, but not on the public purse.
00:22:51.660 Now, I anticipate a counter-argument that the CBC serves remote communities that the private
00:22:57.440 media would ignore.
00:22:59.000 This may have held some truth about half a century ago, but today we have something called
00:23:04.420 the Internet, and the barriers to entry for media production have never been lower.
00:23:09.180 If there's a demand for local news, someone will meet it at a fraction of the cost and
00:23:13.260 without forcing taxpayers to pay for it.
00:23:16.020 Frankly, in my opinion, if there's a genuine public good here, it is universal broadband access,
00:23:20.980 not propping up an outdated broadcasting model.
00:23:25.520 So basically, in my opinion, there's no compelling case for a taxpayer-funded broadcaster in today's Canada.
00:23:31.620 Canadians should be free to choose what they watch and read rather than being forced to fund
00:23:37.420 a state-backed media outlet.
00:23:39.500 And as history shows, public broadcasters are always at risk of becoming instruments of the state,
00:23:45.080 not defenders of freedom, which is what I care about, but threats to it.
00:23:48.840 The CBC is a billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy for a broadcaster many Canadians aren't watching.
00:23:56.140 They're pushing narratives they don't trust in a media market that no longer needs it.
00:24:01.360 It's time to pull the plug.
00:24:03.080 I urge you to support the motion.
00:24:04.320 A hundred percent, Rupa.
00:24:10.000 And I'm trying to get Rupa on this show to talk about this very issue and the election before April 28th.
00:24:17.200 I always enjoy listening to her talk and enjoy her writing.
00:24:20.740 She's very, very articulate.
00:24:23.660 And I always agree with what she's saying.
00:24:26.980 I could also mention, I wrote a paper on this about 15 years ago,
00:24:30.800 but why should we privatize the CBC?
00:24:33.840 The question always was for me, if the CBC is so damn good,
00:24:39.560 if they're so professional, if they're so necessary for Canadian unity,
00:24:45.060 if they're so essential to keep Canada together,
00:24:48.760 why can't they do that as a private sector outlet like everybody else?
00:24:53.280 Why do they need $1.3 billion in your tax dollars to do that?
00:24:59.260 The answer is, they don't.
00:25:02.340 And to add insult to injury, they're not only getting subsidized,
00:25:05.980 they're going after, it's not ad-free.
00:25:10.340 So let them raise their own money like the private sector media outlets do.
00:25:14.780 And I'll go one step further.
00:25:16.420 Stop all subsidization of all media in this country.
00:25:23.180 Immediately.
00:25:24.720 This is another thing Pierpaglia needs to stress, needs to reinforce.
00:25:29.840 Stop subsidizing media.
00:25:33.040 It is an affront.
00:25:34.660 It's an attack.
00:25:36.620 It's an erosion of free speech in this country.
00:25:39.880 We do not need media tied to the government through money.
00:25:44.100 Media that's been bought off by the government.
00:25:47.500 That's the worst possible respect.
00:25:52.220 And that's we, in the time we have left, I want to show a bit about this.
00:25:56.920 And this is not to say that it's dire for Pierpaglia.
00:26:03.400 This is to say we need to get as many people energized about this election in the last week.
00:26:10.840 Because people will inevitably begin to believe the polls simply because they're repeated over and over again.
00:26:20.940 I'm not even going to show this whole clip.
00:26:23.320 But this is Nick Nanos essentially telling you that it's over for Pierpaglia.
00:26:28.780 I don't believe that.
00:26:30.800 But we need to ensure that people get out and vote on April 28th.
00:26:37.140 The latest three days rolling from April 15 to April 17th, sampled by Nano's research shows,
00:26:43.020 the Liberals in the lead with over 45% support, almost eight points ahead of Conservatives, who are at 37.1%.
00:26:51.860 The NDP is third, with over 8% support on the question of the preferred prime minister.
00:26:59.500 Mark Carney is still in the lead at 48%.
00:27:02.640 Pierre Poliev is a second at 33.6%.
00:27:06.920 NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is third, just below 5% support.
00:27:12.500 Nick Nanos is here to break down the numbers.
00:27:14.500 He is the founder and chief data scientist at Nanos Research.
00:27:17.900 Nick, great to have you on the show.
00:27:18.920 Thank you for your time.
00:27:20.520 Great to join you.
00:27:21.120 So, walk us through the latest polling survey conducted April 15th to April 17th.
00:27:26.040 Does the tracking include both the debates?
00:27:29.640 Yes, it does, actually.
00:27:30.940 You know, the thing is, is going into the debates, the Liberals had about a five-point advantage.
00:27:34.440 According to the nightly tracking, and we tracked the night of the French debate, the night of the English debate,
00:27:39.140 we still have a couple more days to see what the full impact of the debate might be for either one of the two frontrunners.
00:27:44.300 But it suggests at least that the Liberals have been able to widen their margin from about five percentage points to eight percentage points nationally, at least as of last night.
00:27:53.220 So, where are we seeing this change?
00:27:55.500 From where are the Liberals getting more numbers?
00:27:58.540 You know, it's interesting when you look at the breakdown that the Liberals are picking up some steam in British Columbia.
00:28:04.780 The other thing is, is that the Liberals are starting to close the gap among younger voters.
00:28:08.720 And if you remember, over the course of most of the campaign, and actually for the last couple of months,
00:28:13.060 voters under 35 years of age had been most likely to favor the Conservatives.
00:28:17.800 Now we're seeing the Liberals in the last week close the gap.
00:28:23.040 I'm sorry.
00:28:24.380 I cannot buy that, Nick.
00:28:26.920 That age group that has been probably the worst affected by the Trudeau government, the Trudeau-Carney government.
00:28:37.200 Now they're going to the Liberals?
00:28:39.880 I'm sorry.
00:28:41.200 I don't believe that.
00:28:42.440 I don't believe that gap is being closed.
00:28:44.520 But I do believe we have to fight back on this.
00:28:47.420 When I come back in a minute, some closing remarks about what my friend said in church yesterday
00:28:52.980 and how that affects where we're going in the next week.
00:28:56.980 And I'll see you next week.
00:28:58.440 I'll see you next week.
00:29:00.540 Thank you.
00:29:02.540 Thank you.
00:29:32.540 Thank you.
00:30:02.540 The hoodies, the mugs, they all are ways for you to express not just your support for the station, but what you believe and what you stand for.
00:30:13.340 I think it's very important. 1.00
00:30:14.460 So as I go back and as I started this broadcast, my friend in my church yesterday asked me, are Canadians that stupid? 1.00
00:30:23.060 I don't think so. 0.98
00:30:26.540 And I think a lot of liberals and I think a lot of media people are going to be very surprised on April 28th. 0.98
00:30:33.140 But I hope and pray Canadians aren't that stupid because electing another liberal government under Mark Carney will be even worse than the preceding one under Justin Trudeau. 0.99
00:30:48.180 I cannot overstate that fact. 1.00
00:30:52.540 Mark Carney is dangerous and toxic for Canada.
00:30:56.940 It's that simple.
00:30:58.540 Well, it's Easter Sunday tomorrow.
00:31:02.180 Please go to church.
00:31:04.480 If you're a Christian, Jesus Christ is king.
00:31:09.340 And I can say that because we still have freedom of religion in this country.
00:31:14.100 I wish you all the best.
00:31:17.080 My show will be a little later tomorrow because I'm going to church at nine o'clock.
00:31:22.920 So I'll probably be doing a noon or later show.
00:31:26.900 We've got some exciting guests on next week.
00:31:29.380 Just confirmed Colonel Douglas McGregor, who you know from Redacted and Judge Napolitano.
00:31:37.540 He's on every week there.
00:31:39.760 He has his own show, Our Country, Our Choice.
00:31:42.740 He is one of my heroes in terms of a military analyst who is, I think, 100% right, 100% of the time.
00:31:52.360 He's coming on the show Tuesday.
00:31:55.700 And we've got Jasmine Lane on Wednesday.
00:31:58.080 And I've got some other things cooking for later in the week.
00:32:01.600 It's an exciting week ahead of us.
00:32:03.940 God bless Canada.
00:32:06.180 Keep on fighting for truth and freedom.
00:32:09.820 And Godspeed.
00:32:12.740 And I'm David Creighton.
00:32:14.300 And I'll be back again tomorrow.
00:32:15.560 Thank you.