The Liberals are very upset with Pierre Paulyev, and we re going to come back in a minute and find out why. We ve got a clip from a great year-end interview between the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.
00:01:42.740Thanks to all of you, by the way, for doing everything you have done.
00:01:47.400And not only on YouTube, but on Rumble, on X, and so many social platforms, Facebook, where we have tried to get the message out.
00:01:59.540And it's a real pleasure to be able to be here right before Christmas.
00:02:04.240But you're going to either feel a lot of anxiety or a lot of hilarity when you watch these clips today.
00:02:14.600And it's quite funny, because what's getting the liberals upset?
00:02:18.660Well, Pierre Paulyev is just being Pierre Paulyev.
00:02:22.780And there's a great year-end interview between the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, the leader of the official opposition, which is two titles, interviewed by Rex Murphy.
00:02:45.640I want you to hear the whole thing, because it's important not only because it's good material, but because it sort of plays into what the liberals have to say in the clips I'm going to show you later.
00:03:04.800But what it boils down to is that the liberals don't like Pierre Paulyev telling the truth, not talking and talking points.
00:03:14.760It's Trudeau and the liberals talking nothing but talking points.
00:03:18.860But Paulyev is actually outlining some very credible, sensible, commonsensical, small C as well as large C, Conservative positions.
00:03:30.920I don't always agree with everything Pierre Paulyev says, but I like this interview because he's hitting on areas of interest that everybody in Canada should be listening to.
00:03:42.120So why don't we watch a bit of this interview?
00:03:46.800And I'll try to stay out of it as much as possible, but I encourage you just to enjoy this.
00:03:52.300I do believe we should reduce emissions.
00:03:55.620My view, though, is it's by creating an abundance of alternative energy through the rapid yet safe approval of nuclear power.
00:04:06.740We have the biggest supply of uranium in the world.
00:04:12.180We have the best nuclear engineers because we invented the can-do.
00:04:16.880We get 50% of our energy from nuclear in Ontario.
00:04:21.820Why can't we speed up affordable, clean nuclear power here at home?
00:04:28.260Why can't we allow Quebec to build more hydroelectric dams?
00:04:33.940Why don't we unleash more energy production and create energy abundance rather than more poverty?
00:04:39.820So, very interesting comments here, because what Paulyev is doing is linking his energy policy to his environmental policy.
00:04:54.040So instead of saying we've got to attack people to death, we have to change to electric vehicles that are unsustainable and that are cost prohibitive,
00:05:04.340he's saying let's find alternate sources of energy to supplement the existing sources that actually are credible because it's not credible to think solar panels and windmills are going to power a modern economy.
00:05:22.660That fallacy only exists in the little minds of Justin Trudeau, Stephen Gilboa, and the other members of the Liberal Cabinet who are on the script and drinking the Kool-Aid.
00:05:36.160Let's hear some more about what Paulyev has to say.
00:05:44.300I have no doubt that he has total disdain for Saskatchewan and Alberta.
00:05:49.360His father did. Surely his father gave him the finger.
00:06:56.400He tries to sideline them to the point of them being not just political opponents, but of being pariahs.
00:07:05.540And he, of course, lied publicly at the Emergencies Act inquiry about what he did say about people who opposed mandatory vaccinations, what he did say about Freedom Convoy protesters.
00:07:25.060He did call them racist and misogynistic, and he lied about that.
00:07:29.960And he calls people who disagree with his social policies hateful.
00:07:39.680Through talks with parents and people who have children in school, I know that schools at that level is not federal, but we're all Canadians.
00:07:46.520What's going on in the Canadian school system that so many school boards, they present themselves as activists in what we, in some derision, refer to as the woke agenda, sexuality politics, ethnic politics, identity politics.
00:08:06.000These things have captured the entire attention of the whole school boards who are very radical in pushing even against the arguments to it.
00:08:14.720I talk, in a sense like you, I have talked to so many parents in schools in Ontario, these are rich schools by any standard, and the parents say, we don't know what to do.
00:08:27.660If we could take, and this is some Catholic schools, city school, if we could take our children somewhere else, they actually fear sending their kids to school because they don't know the ideologies or the political preferences that are now substituting for classroom instruction.
00:08:47.000I think the school should get back to teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, and we should let parents raise kids and transmit their values to children.
00:08:56.000And when Trudeau stepped in and stuck his nose in the policy decisions of Premier Scott Moe and Premier Higgs to restore parental rights, I told him he should butt out and let provinces run schools and parents raise kids.
00:09:17.000And that's what I believe parents should be able to decide.
00:09:20.000And parents should obviously know what's going on in the lives of their kids.
00:09:23.000But isn't that, again, one of the little index markers of where we are?
00:09:27.000The idea that schools and some principals and certainly some school boards, not almost, with full arrogance saying that if young children come to us with one specific kind of problem, the sexual confusions that obtain, we think we should be able to keep it to ourselves.
00:09:46.000Where do they get the call to say that they're superior to the parents?
00:10:02.000Because I trust parents to make the right decision for their kids.
00:10:04.000And I know that parents are – this is a key area where Justin Trudeau and I just disagree.
00:10:11.000He believes that he should be able to impose his radical ideology on other people's kids by demanding provinces implement his thinking and calling anyone who disagrees, whether they're Muslim, Jewish or Christian parents, hateful.
00:10:28.000And so I think he should butt out and let parents raise kids.
00:10:32.000The last question on that, the other thing about the agenda that is in the schools, and I have too much information not to be completely solid on it, is displacing the function of the school.
00:10:44.000We are to train minds, teach people to write, read, and science, and also some of the social virtues.
00:10:50.000But identity politics pursued with an intensity, it overwhelms everything else.
00:10:57.000And if you haven't gone to the right washroom, or you said the wrong word to the wrong person, suddenly this is it.
00:11:03.000I don't see a month dedicated to arithmetic, a month dedicated to history, but 10,000 months for LGBT or some other foreign cause.
00:11:12.000Well, listen, at the end of the day, I can't promise to fix that one.
00:11:18.000I'm running for prime minister, so I won't be able to fix educational problems, but I think we need to get back to common sense on all of these things.
00:11:27.000And you know, like if I, on these broader social questions, you know, if I were to create a political party from scratch, it would be called the mind your own damn business party.
00:11:37.000I know people can make the decisions of who they marry, who they date, how they live their lives, but also how they raise their kids.
00:11:46.000And I think if we had governments at all levels that live and let live, that had a policy of live and let live, a true policy of live and let live, which ironically is what liberals used to say 25 years ago, then we would have so much more social peace because people could make their own decisions and come to their own conclusions and raise their own families with their own values.
00:12:11.000And I think by and large, parents are human, they'll obviously make mistakes, but by large, at the end of the day, parents and people will make the right decisions for their own lives and their own families.
00:12:22.000And that's why my role as a prime minister is not going to be to impose my values on other people.
00:12:28.000It's to get out of their faces and run a competent government.
00:12:32.000They want a government that can deliver a passport, not a government that runs their lives.
00:12:47.000And that is, of course, exactly what is bothering the liberals, because he's not reading off vacuous talking points.
00:12:55.000He's saying, let people decide, let parents decide.
00:12:59.000And for God's sake, it's it's a parent's right to know what their child is being exposed to in school, no matter what the curriculum is.
00:13:09.000But especially if that curriculum is that children don't have to tell their parents about changing their gender.
00:13:16.000Or being potentially sexually mutilated.
00:13:20.000And Pauliev is saying, parents have a right to know.
00:13:23.000And he's also saying, what is the state doing legislating these kinds of issues?
00:13:31.000Because all Pauliev is saying is what Thomas Jefferson, that great American statesman, president, author, when he said that government is best, which governs least.
00:13:48.000Because it's time that people with common sense ideas, small C conservatives, small C liberal, small L liberal, small L libertarians, all agree on this.
00:14:03.000We need to get the state out of our lives.
00:14:06.000We need to get the state out of making decisions about our families, about our personal lives and get them doing what they should be doing.
00:14:15.000Now, Pauliev mentions getting a passport to you, but that's part of the same thing.
00:14:20.000Making sure we have a functioning military, that we have courts and a justice system and police.
00:14:29.000That's where you want the state involved.
00:14:33.000You don't want the state making personal decisions about your schooling and about ideology and extremist ideology at that.
00:15:23.000But it's fascinating what the liberals are upset about.
00:15:27.000And they called a news conference with two of their second or third tier MPs, second tier, to express their outrage that Pierre Pauliev is talking common sense matters and he's telling the truth.
00:15:45.000And he's talking about how he believes because the liberals, all they can talk about is fighting climate change, LGBTQ month, and how we have to keep giving billions of dollars to Ukraine.
00:16:37.000Mr. McKinnon and I are here today to discuss what we think is a very serious issue.
00:16:42.000This is a response to what we've been seeing coming out of Mr. Pauliev in the last few days.
00:16:49.000Mr. Pauliev has had an opportunity now with at least three different news organizations, friendly news organizations, I would add, to lay out his plan, what his plans are, what he plans to do moving forward.
00:17:04.000And we have yet to see anything substantive.
00:17:06.000He's had long form interviews with some very friendly news organizations, and we're not seeing anything come from him.
00:17:13.000Instead, what we're seeing from Mr. Pauliev is a throwback to 25 years ago, pining over having a political party.
00:17:20.000I think he phrased it the mind your own damn business political party.
00:17:24.000We've seen in the last few days as Mr. Pauliev choose some very comfy, fuzzy little interview spaces where he can spew his right wing stuff.
00:17:47.000That looked like a comfy, fuzzy interview space. I thought they were sitting in the basement someplace.
00:17:53.000But of course, it's got nothing to do with the surroundings. It's got everything to do with what Pauliev is saying and the questions he's being asked.
00:18:00.000And the liberals are upset that he wasn't actually facing reporters who wanted his head.
00:18:07.000He was facing reporters who had real questions for him, and these guys are crazy.
00:18:12.000Without really having any kind of aggressive questioning, we have not heard Mr. Pauliev be questioned on policy, on specifics,
00:18:22.000on how possibly, having spoken about housing for all these months, how he could possibly arrive with a plan that is less ambitious than ours,
00:18:32.000which does not project new housing starts like ours does, which does not act transparently in terms of the interest of communities and of Canadians.
00:18:41.000How he can get away with not talking about specifics on climate change, how he can talk about axing one of what is the world's most effective carbon limiting mechanisms,
00:18:53.000which is a price on pollution, and how he could...
00:18:57.000Price on pollution? Sorry, nobody's buying that anymore.
00:19:02.000It's a punitive tax on ordinary Canadians who have to drive their cars and heat their homes.
00:19:09.000And these people have the nerve to drag out their talking points.
00:19:13.000Wait till you hear what they accuse Pauliev of.
00:19:16.000Get away with withdrawing climate incentive checks from Canadians that Canadians benefit from.
00:19:21.000All of that being said, we are not going to sit here and listen to Mr. Pauliev's reductive talk without it being responded to,
00:19:32.000and make sure that Canadians are drawn, that we draw their attention to not only what he's saying, but what he is not saying.
00:19:40.000And what he is not saying is anything about a specific plan to move Canada forward.
00:19:50.000I mean, how far back on your heels are you that you feel the need to do that?
00:19:54.000We haven't seen the Conservatives respond to any of the Prime Ministers.
00:19:56.000Actually, what it says is that we're putting...
00:19:58.000We have confidently, for four months in this House, put forward plans, specific plans, detailed plans, on everything that I just talked about.
00:20:09.000And Mr. Pauliev arrives with these tropes and these slogans and doesn't manage to get questioned at all aggressively about his specific plans to improve the lives of Canadians.
00:20:23.000Actually, that's a complete fabrication.
00:21:10.000But to Louie's point, are you sort of trying to unroll a new strategy in that you, the Liberals, are trying something new or trying to fight back more against Pauliev?
00:21:58.000Ironically, this is the same media that Trudeau is trying to buy off with subsidies is on to the Liberals and saying, we're not buying any of this.
00:22:09.000Listen, first and foremost, we're going to keep delivering for Canadians.
00:23:05.000It's also important for us to highlight and show Canadians what the alternative is, quite frankly.
00:23:10.000And we've given Mr. Pauliev now where he's had three opportunities to lay out in the most friendliest forms possible over a 45 minute to an hour long period what he will do.
00:23:21.000And the reality is, is that he's not saying much.
00:23:24.000He's just a lot of the same repeated talking points.
00:23:27.000It's time for Mr. Pauliev to start saying what he will do about the environment, how he will...
00:24:18.000This is about misinformation, which the Liberal government is going to try to outlaw in the next bill, the online safety bill.
00:24:28.000Yes, it's about outlawing misinformation.
00:24:31.000So can we outlaw the official opposition?
00:24:35.000Can we say that Tyr Pauliev has to be silenced and censored because anything he says is misinformation?
00:24:43.000Because this idiot, Garretson, Mark Garretson, doesn't agree with it?
00:24:48.000Do you want to do you want speech regulated by morons like this who can't even put a sentence together that makes any sense at all?
00:24:59.000Do you want them defining what misinformation is?
00:25:02.000And do you want them making outrageous claims that if you disagree with the Trudeau government, somehow you're part of the Make America Great movement and a supporter of Donald Trump?
00:25:14.000I mean, what does one have to do with the other?
00:25:17.000One of our jobs is going to be to point that out, and that's exactly what we're doing here today.
00:25:21.000But isn't this what an election campaign is for?
00:25:25.000Like, pardon me, we're not in a campaign.
00:25:27.000That's typically when a leader will put out a platform.
00:25:55.000And we paved the way for that election platform well in advance.
00:25:58.000But listen, it's about talking about what we stand for.
00:26:02.000Mr. Pauliev, if you actually listen to what he says, stands for nothing other than to try to take down the current prime minister.
00:26:09.000And all we're saying is, if you actually stop and listen, as we did, we listened to the 45 minute long interviews, you actually end up hearing nothing.
00:26:19.000And, you know, we find that concerning.
00:26:22.000We think that Canadians would find that concerning.
00:26:24.000The Conservative Party of Canada, this is a party that used to support Ukraine.
00:26:41.000It's now a party that won't even vote in favour of a free trade agreement with Ukraine, won't vote to support elements of Operation Unifier that directly supports Ukraine.
00:26:51.000Has something changed? Absolutely. The Conservative Party of Canada has changed.
00:26:55.000It's changed dramatically just in the actions that we've seen in the last four months.
00:27:01.000This is why Mr. McKinnon and I think it's so important to keep, you know, to make sure that Canadians are informed,
00:27:08.000to make sure that they have all of this information, because it's absolutely critical.
00:27:12.000It's about a new Conservative Party of Canada.
00:27:15.000It's about a Conservative Party of Canada that is more based like the mega alt-right Republicans that we see in the United States,
00:27:21.000like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:27:23.000That seems to be who they're heavily influenced by now.
00:27:31.000No, what I'm saying is that Mr. Polyev is trying to give you the impression that he's something that, quite frankly, he's not.
00:27:37.000Because when you actually listen to what they say in the House, when you see how they actually vote,
00:27:42.000you start to realise that, you know, they are not the Conservative Party of Brian Mulrooney.
00:27:52.000Brian Mulrooney's Conservative Party dealt with acid rain.
00:27:55.000They dealt with fixing the ozone layer, literally led the world in that regard.
00:28:04.000And now what you see is a Conservative Party of Canada where they can't even get half their membership to agree that climate change is real.
00:28:12.000Why do you think their message is resonating?
00:31:01.000And the liberals have to start talking about the ozone layer and acid rain.
00:31:07.000And God, we wish we had Brian Mulroney back.
00:31:10.000It shows you how bankrupt that party has become.
00:31:14.000And when they put out two non-entities like this at a news conference to try to explain what their liberal party stands for,
00:31:23.000and they can't even enunciate a policy position except to say Ukraine and climate change and everything we say in question period every day,
00:31:36.000it shows you that they really have nothing to offer Canadians anymore.