Trudeau's Last Stand： Will Dissident Liberals Defeat Trudeau in Non-Confidence Vote？｜ Stand on Guard
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While the Prime Minister hides in the fetal position under his desk, will he call a carbon tax election now? Today is caucus day, and today is a historic day. Liberal MPs are going to confront Justin Trudeau, and when I come back, more about what's going to happen.
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While the Prime Minister hides in the fetal position under his desk, will he call a carbon
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It's Peter Polly, not yesterday, but on Monday, talking about a carbon tax election and the
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fact the Prime Minister continues to hide under his desk.
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I haven't got a whole lot of video clips to show you, but there is something very significant
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going on because there might be a lot of Liberal MPs who are prepared to vote against their
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And when I come back, more about what's going to happen, going to happen today.
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So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
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We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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We're beating the YouTube suppression and censorship.
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We're going to beat Trudeau's censorship, Trudeau's censorship bills that are coming.
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And I sense we are in, we are in an historic moment right now.
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I've been saying it's going to be mid to late November.
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You can bet Justin Trudeau is saying, hey, the only one who's guessing this right is that
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No, I don't suggest for a minute he even knows I'm alive.
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But he's probably the one prime minister in the last 20 years I've never actually met shook
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I've met just about every other prime minister since Brian Mulroney and had a chance to at
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Justin Trudeau has never been somebody I even wanted to meet.
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And I'll tell you why as we as the story unfolds here.
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I'm not going to show it right away because we're saving that one.
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Nobody else has discovered this as far as I know in terms of putting this up this morning
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Liberal MPs are going to tell Trudeau today at the caucus meeting.
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My old friend, David Collette, used to be the pollster at Sun News when I worked there.
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57% of Canadians living in a liberal hell riding want their MP to call on Justin Trudeau to resign
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This, my friends, is probably the most important piece of information I'm offering to you today.
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This is why liberal MPs are going to be confronting Justin Trudeau today at caucus.
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It will meet usually for two hours on a regular day.
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It's even not quite as secretive as cabinet, because if you've ever, if you know anything
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about classifications, security classifications, there's such a thing as CC, which is cabinet
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They used to even, all parties used to do this.
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They'd bring cell phones into the meeting and they would be secretly texting information
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out at times, or they would wait till afterwards.
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And then of course it was, oh, I don't know where that came from.
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And I think all the parties were guilty of this, but there's, it's supposed to be confidential.
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You know, as it's like Vegas, you know, what happens in caucus stays in caucus.
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This is going to be a very difficult caucus meeting for Justin Trudeau, because he's going
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And the fact that not only are Canadians fed up with him, but at least 40, I would say it's
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probably 50 caucus members, liberal MPs are fed up with him as well and are saying it's
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There's a famous scene, a conservative prime minister in Great Britain, Neville Chamberlain,
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when he was reaching the end of his tether, he was reaching the end of his rope after years
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of appeasement and after losing badly in the first year of the first nine months of the
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He was forced out by his own caucus and eventually by parliament.
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And of course, there's the famous scene, it is time to go.
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And that's what people are going to be saying to Justin Trudeau today.
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No, you are just doing too much damage to the party, to the country, and to my writing.
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And that's what it comes down to ultimately for these guys and these women.
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Do they have a hope in hell of being reelected with Justin Trudeau in charge?
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So let's have a look here at what happened in question period yesterday.
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Pierre Polyev, Conservative leader, just taunting Justin Trudeau about what's going to happen
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Mr. Speaker, we now learn there are about 40 Liberal MPs that believe that this NDP Liberal
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Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime, and corruption.
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But there's this strange rule in the Liberal caucus that you need to have permission from
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So a Liberal MP wanted to get up and say quadrupling the carbon tax is a bad idea, or doubling housing
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Will the Prime Minister lift the gag so his Liberal MPs can say to his face that he's not worth
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Yeah, I mean, we can go without the slogans, Pierre.
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Trudeau won't allow Liberal caucus MPs to ask a question without his permission.
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That's the whole point of the caucus, is for them to air their differences, to air their
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grievances, to air their notions that the party is not on the right track.
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This is an opportunity to air difference of opinion.
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So if Justin Trudeau is saying, hey, no, no, no, I decide who talks, the man is delusional.
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Now, this is why I'm predicting he's not going to prorogue Parliament because he doesn't want
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He will go into an election because he thinks, despite all of the odds, despite all of these
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MPs, despite all of the opinion polls, he knows best and he can win.
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Once again, in English, none of these questions have to deal with the administration of government,
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I see the order, I see that the Prime Minister is rising to his feet, the Right Honourable
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Mr. Speaker, it seems that the Conservative leader is confusing rules that apply within
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his Conservative caucus to rules that we have in the Liberal Party.
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But the reality is, Mr. Speaker, we see at which point the Conservative leader is simply
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That's why he wants to talk about things that are not having to do with delivering for Canadians.
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He doesn't want to talk about the fact that close to a million Canadians will be receiving
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dental care because of our Canadian dental program that he says doesn't even exist and
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Now, it's the Honourable Member from Battle River Crowfoot.
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To please not take the microphone when the speaker is up on his feet or when other speakers
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who have been recognized by the speaker is taking the floor.
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I will say here, I'm just looking at some of your comments while we proceed with this broadcast,
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Hey, I wonder if that's a James Bond reference.
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The rebel MPs vote against their own government.
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We're going to get to some evidence of that a little later.
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Mr. Speaker, I'm sorry to have to bring up this terrible rule.
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It's just that Liberal backbench MPs are coming and talking to all of us to say that they're
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And they're wondering if I could perhaps pose some questions on their behalf.
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Mr. Speaker, I guess they can't get anywhere with the current Prime Minister, so they'd rather
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Instead of silencing his own MPs, will he let them get up to the mic tomorrow to tell him
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that he's not worth the cost, crime, and corruption?
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Teague, Mithiri, thank you so much for this gift of $20.
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is he can't administer the government because he's too busy fighting
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for his job after nine years, even if his MPs know it.
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He doubled the debt, doubled housing costs, doubled crime, doubled the cost of living
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He wants to quadruple the carbon tax that's already forced two million people to a food
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bank, one in four kids to hunger, 25% of Canadians to poverty.
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Canadian food price is up 36% faster than in the States.
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StatsCan says we have the biggest gap between rich and poor in our recorded history.
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Will he call a carbon tax election so we can fix it?
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Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition, like all of us in this House, know that Canadians
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How many times have I said on this broadcast, Trudeau's, one of the Trudeau's favourite words
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That doesn't begin to describe the life a lot of Canadians are leading.
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However, is to offer them cuts, is to offer them no programs that they can rely on and
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to vote against things like dental care and pharmacare and investments in a green economy
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that is going to create jobs and careers long into the future.
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Great janitorial positions for anybody wanting them.
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And it's not about cuts and austerity from the Conservatives.
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It's about putting the ball back in your court, giving you control over your life again.
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Whereas Trudeau wants to take control of your life and give you little stipends.
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Oh, we'll give you a little dental care here, a little pharmacare here, and we'll give you
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It's all little stipends while we starve and while we don't make enough money to put food
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He wants to harm Canadians where we're focusing on delivering for them.
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He wants cuts to programs and services while we're busy investing in Canadians and their
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Any minute spent on this garbage is a minute that's not spent on Pierre Polyev and what
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Mark Miller, anything that comes out of this man's mouth is garbage.
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This is the guy who has completely destroyed the immigration system in Canada.
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He puts an immigration cap on, not this year, but after the next election.
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And he's got the nerve to say it's garbage to talk about Justin Trudeau leaving.
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One of Justin Trudeau's closest friends thinks is garbage, has support with some of his colleagues.
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Sources telling Global News up to 30 MPs have signed a document asking the Prime Minister
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Clearly in the public opinion polls, we are not leading.
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There is concern on the part of members of caucus.
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Those concerns, a major topic during today's cabinet meeting, which ran over an hour and
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Leaving the Prime Minister to rush the question period.
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The reality is he can't administer the government because he's too busy fighting for his job.
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The conservative leader is simply focused on playing politics and gaining power.
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Two liberal MPs that spoke with Global News described the largest ever pushback against
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Trudeau's leadership as made up of nearly exclusively males.
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Another MP classifying them as angry white men.
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Oh, this caucus revolt is about angry white men.
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You knew this for coming from a woke party in a woke cabinet that wants to pretend this is
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This is all about these white folks trying to take down this Trudeau government that is
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so concerned about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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But this is how people like Mark Miller and these other jokers, these other clowns who
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call themselves cabinet ministers are responding to this.
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At the end of the day, I'm approaching tomorrow's caucus meeting just like any other caucus meeting
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where we talk about issues that are important to Canadians.
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But debating the prime minister's leadership isn't a normal topic, even though it'll be the
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Questions for the prime minister as to why he should run again and what he's in it for.
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What's important is that we actually have a conversation on this.
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And the deputy prime minister believes the Liberals will leave that conversation unified.
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Do you expect that this issue will be put to bed tomorrow once the caucus meets?
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We have become to expect this sort of thing from Christian Freeland.
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It's comical how they are all trying to pretend reality isn't staring them in the face.
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And, of course, Justin Trudeau won't comment on this because it's just...
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This cannot be happening because I'm just too much in control.
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We've watched his interviews with the prime minister, which are really, really difficult at times.
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He got Trudeau to admit that he wants an early election.
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And this is why I keep saying we're going to have an earlier election because Trudeau thinks he can win.
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He's one of the liberals that brought down the carbon tax in Atlantic Canada.
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Now, Ken McDonald is just a typical guy from Newfoundland.
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And I'm thinking, I don't want to be stereotypical.
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I've known a lot of great people from Newfoundland.
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And Ken McDonald, this is the same guy who, after he says, I've had enough of the carbon tax,
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he votes with the government when Pierre Pauly have introduced a carbon tax non-confidence vote.
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Remember that scene where he's standing up and the conservatives are saying, hey, what happened to your opposition to this?
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And Ken McDonald is just so funny in this interview.
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And I have to thank the good folks at Northern Perspective who actually found this last night.
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And I think it's one of the most newsworthy items that we can possibly show right now.
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Because this shows you that the liberal dissidents are prepared to vote against their own government in a non-confidence motion.
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If Trudeau doesn't wake up, they want him to resign.
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If he's not going to resign, well, they'll vote against the government.
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Now, that's not going to mean Trudeau is going to leave.
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He will still lead the party into that next election and get the thrashing of his life.
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As one of the MPs planning to ask the prime minister to resign, and he joins me now.
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Ken McDonald, it's good to see you again. Thanks for being here.
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People would not be surprised to see you as part of this effort to have the prime minister leave.
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What is your understanding of how this is supposed to roll out tomorrow in caucus?
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I think somebody will introduce it to the prime minister and probably give him the sheet and probably give a bit of a talk on it, I would think.
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It's all kind of hush-hush until it actually happens.
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And the thing about it is, of course, what happens in caucus stays in caucus.
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I'd be very surprised if anybody comes out of that meeting and talks to reporters or anything about what was said or what was done.
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Well, what happens in caucus stays in caucus in theory, Ken McDonald.
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But, okay, I want to just put a couple of things down here as clear facts.
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Okay, when you signed it, this was what, a week ago, two weeks ago?
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It was Thursday, the week has been two weeks ago.
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At least he's got the honesty to say, I signed the letter, yes.
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So, okay, thank you for your frank, honest, weeks.
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It's like the 10th of October, right around then, right that way, okay, when the house was sitting.
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And how many signatures were on the letter at the time you signed it?
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Because there's talk now that there are as many as 30.
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Ken Hardy said today he knows 18 people who have personally signed the letter.
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There, I signed, my signature was on the top of a clean page.
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I didn't leave through it to see what was below the page.
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I've been saying 50, and I believe that's accurate.
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But there were signatures there, you saw, so you just didn't screw down.
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There were signatures on the page, underneath the page that I was signing, but I couldn't pick out who it was or who they were.
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Okay, and so what you put your name to, is it as simple as we want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down as Liberal leader?
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Okay, so this is going to be the request that is made to the Prime Minister in caucus tomorrow.
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I was speaking to someone who's part of this group, because you're all curved up into little pieces where everybody has a piece of it, but nobody knows all of it, is how it seems.
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And I'm told the plan is for one or more MPs to stand up in caucus, to make the request formally to the Prime Minister, but not necessarily, to say how many MPs have signed the effort, but not to necessarily give him the full list of the names.
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No, I don't have any information on how they plan to present it, whether they're going to give him a copy of it, or read him the names, or just say a number that's on the document.
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You think Ken's being entirely trustworthy or trustworthy and truthful here?
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He gets the information out there, but it has nothing to do with it.
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I just signed the letter, but don't ask me what's going to happen on Wednesday.
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I think he has probably a better idea about what's going to happen today.
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So on this program a week or so ago, Sean Casey came out and said that he thinks the Prime Minister should go.
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He has later confirmed that he has signed the letter, but that was after he made his intentions clear.
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How do you think the Prime Minister respond to it when it seems a lot of the people behind this effort are anonymous, or in your case, not running federally and leaving?
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Yeah, well, it's not just about me not running.
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They're talking about liberal writings disappearing, because there's a lot of people in those writings, liberals, who want them to vote against, who want them to get Trudeau to leave.
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I would hope that the Liberal Party will take notice of what happens tomorrow and do something about it.
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If the Prime Minister doesn't go, how does he fix it and come to terms with the people who signed that actual document?
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This is what I'm struggling with here, Ken McDonald, because everyone says, you're signing a letter saying, we want the Prime Minister to go, but what's the or else?
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Because that doesn't seem to be clear, even amongst the people who are planning this.
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Yeah, and I don't think there's a definite plan.
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What I think to myself, and I haven't mentioned this to anyone, is that the thing I'd think about is, if the Prime Minister doesn't respond in some way to this letter and the signatories that are on it, what happens when the next confidence vote comes before the House of Commons?
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And that's the crux of what we're talking about today.
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You don't want to do what we're telling you to do.
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We'll vote against you in the next non-confidence vote.
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Are we going to stand and vote with non-confidence, or are we going to stand and vote with the government?
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So maybe how the Prime Minister responds to this letter tomorrow might give some indication of, okay, are we okay the way we're going, or do we let the Prime Minister continue as is?
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I mean, for you to say that voting non-confidence is an option, is that something that's been discussed?
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It's just something that's in my head that I think could possibly happen.
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Something in my head that could possibly happen, yes.
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I think this is, he would not, let's put it this way, he would not go on a CBC broadcast and suggest that there are a number of MPs, not two or three, but enough MPs to defeat the government.
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He would not be saying that unless this had not been discussed privately for the last week or so.
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Look, the Liberals are operating from a minority government already.
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They need the support of the NDP or the Bloc to win a non-confidence vote.
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If they get 40 to 50 Liberal MPs voting against their own government, it's history.
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In fact, at that point, we don't even need, it doesn't matter what the NDP or the Bloc decides to do.
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The Liberal government will implode because it's lost the support of that many caucus members.
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Now we already know the Bloc has said it's going to vote against the government in the next non-confidence vote.
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So that means the NDP could still save this government if there's no threat from Liberal MPs themselves.
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And I'm telling you, this is a viable threat and this could well happen.
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And if this, if this idea, if this threat is not squashed today after caucus, listen very carefully.
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I, you know, I will be watching to see exactly what is said after caucus today.
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And if nobody addresses the potential for a non-confidence motion being supported by Liberal MPs, you know it's going to happen.
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Justin Trudeau believes he can win this next election because he believes in himself that much.
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He is so ego-driven, so narcissistic, that he believes nobody else can pull this off.
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Nobody else can pull the Liberals out of their slump, their 19 to 20 percentage points behind the Conservatives.
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He believes that all it takes is just a little bit of his charm, a little bit more of his socks, more hair, more of his nonsense.
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Now that's where Justin Trudeau is coming from and he'll continue to come from there.
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And that's what you'll hear from Justin Trudeau.
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If you hear anything at all, if he even acknowledges what happened in caucus today, but his days from this point forth, from October 23rd, the days of Justin Trudeau are numbered.
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As leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada, we are going to be having an early election.
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But Justin Trudeau thinks he can win that early election.
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Thankfully for the history of Canada and for our future, I don't think he can win that election.
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I will be back again tomorrow with more of the news you need to know and we'll be watching all day.
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And like I said, pay careful attention to exactly what the Liberal Cabinet Ministers and MPs say after this caucus meeting.
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Because I tell you, the Riot Act is being read to Justin Trudeau today, probably about 11 o'clock Eastern Standard Time.
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with all the news you need to know so we can all continue to resolve to resist.