The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - The Blueprint： Update on New Conservative Leadership

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome once again to The Blueprints. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm your

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00:00:33.700 you name it, it is out there. Now, a very interesting week, as I talked about last week with Rick Perkins

00:00:40.040 from the great province of Nova Scotia. We talked about energy, how the East Coast can benefit,

00:00:45.700 as well as the West Coast. Actually, all of Canada can benefit from a strong energy sector,

00:00:50.720 especially when parts of the world, especially Europe, are dying for energy that is ethically

00:00:56.160 produced as it is in Canada. So we did say on that program that we're going to talk about

00:01:01.400 the leadership and what is in store for the next session of Parliament. As you can see,

00:01:05.320 we're back in studio. We're back in Ottawa. Parliament is resuming this week. And we're

00:01:10.480 going to bring on a new member of the leadership team, Jake Stewart, the member of Parliament for

00:01:14.680 Miramichi Grand Lake. He's also the chair of the caucus committee coordinator. Yes, sorry.

00:01:21.700 Good to have you on. Nice to be here, Jamie. Thank you so much. Two East Coasters, two weeks

00:01:26.360 in a row. I love it. That's a big deal. Listen, I'm real happy to be on here. My role on the

00:01:30.780 leadership team is a caucus committee coordinator. Pretty excited about it. So what does that mean?

00:01:35.320 What happens? Basically, the leader, you know, our leader, Mr. Polly, he wants all of our committees

00:01:41.960 to be repetitive and in sync and on the party message. Years past, committees would have a lot of

00:01:48.740 members that were organized. But potentially, we'd be throwing a lot of things at the wall at

00:01:52.780 once. We want to be really zeroing in on our central themes of keeping the affordability down

00:01:58.340 for Canadians, fighting inflation, things like that. No new taxes. We want to really stay on that

00:02:03.940 message. Well, it seems like the message is coming on board. I think more and more Canadians are paying

00:02:08.920 attention, realizing that, you know, the cost of groceries don't have to be this high. The cost of

00:02:13.020 energy doesn't have to be this high. Why are housing prices out of control? The latest polling out this

00:02:17.820 week. And of course, the only poll that matters is on election day. But the latest polls show that

00:02:22.200 the conservatives are heading in the right direction. We have a new leader. As you mentioned,

00:02:26.540 we have a new leadership team, which is going to help set the direction. I think things are in motion

00:02:30.960 and Canadians are looking for that alternative. And we're here to present that. Canadians are feeling

00:02:35.960 the pinch. I know in New Brunswick, I get emails and calls every day, Jamie. People can't afford their

00:02:41.380 heat bills. They can't afford to put gas in their vehicles. And then we got to look at the fact that we

00:02:45.900 could have had an Energy East pipeline in New Brunswick and a natural gas industry in recent

00:02:50.680 years. I used to be the energy critic provincially. And I remember when those two projects failed. And

00:02:56.200 they were basically sidelined with a lot of help from the Trudeau Liberal government. We're seeing

00:03:00.900 the effects of that now, in particular with Russia, which they're buying a lot of their, they're supplying

00:03:06.620 a lot of gas to Germany and France. We could have been doing that now if we develop those industries.

00:03:11.280 So in New Brunswick, we feel like we're behind the eight ball, but we know that the liberal agenda

00:03:15.800 is what did that to us. I'm really excited that our leader is in favor of more pipelines and getting

00:03:22.260 gas to Canadians and basically taking our own energy resources and developing them for the

00:03:27.900 betterment of our own country. I think that's going to be important going forward.

00:03:31.400 I think it is really important, especially when you hear the Chancellor of Germany saying,

00:03:36.720 yeah, we would like to purchase natural gas from countries other than Russia. And the Prime

00:03:44.040 Minister of this country saying, no, there's no big business case for it. I don't see a future for

00:03:49.120 that. Canadians are so disappointed. And just recently, we've seen the Prime Minister singing

00:03:55.380 over there at a piano. I mean, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, she's had a 70-year reign. She is a,

00:04:01.860 I mean, I'm 44 years old, Jamie. The vision I have in my head of her was there from the moment

00:04:09.420 I was born. I seen her on TV. I seen her on money. She was hanging, her picture was always in our

00:04:16.240 classrooms. As much as I used to be a musician and, you know, love to sing, read the room to the

00:04:22.940 Prime Minister. Wrong location for that. And I just think Canadians need a government that's really

00:04:28.160 going to put the public first. And to hear you talk about the German Chancellor, that's interesting

00:04:33.060 as well, because Putin's actually fueling his war machine by selling that product to our allies.

00:04:41.020 We should be working with our allies. And you can see how they're on the same page as us in that.

00:04:45.980 But we need a government that actually puts the natural resources first in Canada.

00:04:49.940 Well, that would be actually really nice, because the revenue and the taxation that comes from that

00:04:55.500 helps to fund our social programs, helps to build our roads and bridges and pay for hospitals. And

00:05:02.160 I think the government seems to forget that, that the money comes from the economic activity,

00:05:09.260 shutting it down. You still have to get the money from somewhere. It doesn't make sense.

00:05:12.540 The hypocrisy of the liberal climate agenda, the one thing it never details for Canadians is where

00:05:18.440 revenue actually comes from in this country. It's always come from the oil and gas sector. It's always

00:05:24.280 come from places like Alberta, which has the third largest oil reserve in the world. It's always

00:05:30.060 come from there. And I think we've gotten so far, far into this hypocrisy. And as you know,

00:05:36.480 mainstream media is involved in it too. My kids, I have four children, school-age children that are

00:05:41.180 all in school in New Brunswick. And I have to teach them all the time where revenue comes from in this

00:05:46.420 country, because they don't teach that. And they teach them about climate change and the importance of

00:05:50.680 the environment. As a salmon fisherman, I support the environment. I want to protect it. But we have

00:05:56.220 to teach our kids where revenue comes from. We are an energy resources rich country. We've always

00:06:01.340 benefited from that. It's always paid the bills. And we need to get back to promoting the fact that

00:06:06.360 that's been happening for so many decades as it is. And I think we as conservatives, we've never

00:06:10.840 said we're against green energy. The liberal mindset is, let's take away what we have. Let's try to put

00:06:19.020 all these endless grant programs and all this funding into an experimental new green energy. But

00:06:26.820 the technology innovation isn't there yet. You know, there will never be enough wind turbines or solar

00:06:31.560 panels. It should be, as we said before, the energy portfolio must be A plus B, not B minus A,

00:06:39.260 because with abundance equals peace and shortage equals strife. Absolutely. We all want to protect

00:06:45.500 the environment. Conservatives, I mean, we're known as conservationists. We want to protect it. But we

00:06:50.720 still have to, like, if you look at New Brunswick, we had iron ore, tungsten, zinc, natural gas, shale gas.

00:06:59.100 We have potential wind potential off the coast of, like a fundy. We have so much potential in our

00:07:05.880 province, but so many of those resources are not being developed. And what happens is, while our

00:07:11.000 province, you know, fights over doing it or tries to do it, other jurisdictions do it. Places like

00:07:17.260 China, with less regulation, less care for worker safety, less regulations. And then they develop the 0.92

00:07:24.260 very industries that we're sitting on, just in my home province. So, like you, I want to see our

00:07:31.000 country develop our natural resources so we can build a strong future for Canadians. But it's

00:07:35.380 almost like the 1% is telling the other 99% how to live, right? The 1% on whole, the individual 0.68

00:07:42.700 creates way more greenhouse gas emissions and all the carbon footprint, you name it, way more than

00:07:50.020 any individual. Collectively as a whole, the 99% create more. But it's the 1% that is telling the

00:07:56.700 others how to live, but they don't change their lifestyle. And Canadians have had enough of that 0.70

00:08:01.080 mentality. If you look at the leadership campaign, if you look at our leaders' message of giving

00:08:06.680 Canadians back control of their lives, that resonated at a level that sometimes I couldn't even comprehend

00:08:13.200 because every Canadian that heard it took something different from it. But underlying all of that was

00:08:19.880 the fact that the Trudeau Liberal government is always telling them what to do, regardless

00:08:25.260 of which... Lecture after another. Lecture after another. I think that's why our leaders' message

00:08:29.900 resonated thoroughly throughout New Brunswick and of course throughout the country.

00:08:33.320 It really did because no matter where you are, like as we talked about before, groceries are out of

00:08:39.260 control. Housing, you know, the Bank of Canada is trying to do whatever it can to slow down this

00:08:44.760 inflation. Something our leader, Pierre Polyev, warned two years ago that this is going to happen.

00:08:50.100 And of course, all the so-called experts said, no, we're going to have deflation. It's going to be,

00:08:54.000 you know, transitory, et cetera, et cetera. Every excuse they could. But when you inflate the money

00:08:58.440 supply, what did you expect to happen? Government doesn't even have a monetary policy. You know,

00:09:03.360 like we've traditionally had inflation of somewhere between zero and 2%, depending on the decade or the

00:09:09.040 year. But to see inflation where it is right now, you get there by printing money,

00:09:14.280 putting it back into the system and then bidding the cost up of everything that we need to live

00:09:18.720 on, whether it's bacon, the cost of fuel, gas for the vehicle, groceries, the list goes on.

00:09:24.560 Canadians are paying way more than they should for everything they need to live. And Trudeau's

00:09:30.040 continuing to tell them what to do and how to live. And that's why this resonated so well with

00:09:35.780 our leader's message. Absolutely. Because not only do we expand it, but you also have price inflation

00:09:40.400 because we have more dollars chasing fewer goods, raising the price for it, right? So you have both

00:09:45.840 things happening at the exact same time. And it doesn't necessarily mean your house is worth that

00:09:51.280 much more. It's just, there's that much more money in the atmosphere and more people, because they have

00:09:55.920 more money, are buying the things that are available.

00:09:58.840 That's right. I've seen houses in New Brunswick, just in my riding of Miramichi Grand

00:10:03.280 Lake, in areas where real estate was hard to part with and you didn't always get a good dollar for

00:10:09.720 your property. I've seen houses that would have been worth maybe a quarter of a million 10 years

00:10:14.500 ago, or now they're selling for like $600,000. Hard to believe in a place like Miramichi Grand

00:10:20.240 Lake. We have a beautiful place, but we've never had a booming housing market. Because the Liberals

00:10:25.760 printed so much cash and flooded all the markets with cash, the costs went up of everything. And

00:10:30.720 people's houses, it was a good time for people to sell a house, but a terrible time for people to

00:10:35.820 buy a house, or for a young family to try to get into a new house. And that was one of the central

00:10:40.620 messages that our leaders shared during the leadership campaign. And one of the things this

00:10:44.480 government continues to do is continue to spend, right? It's one program after another. They're,

00:10:49.780 of course, taking in more money than ever before, but they're still spending it at a record pace.

00:10:54.440 And until the government starts to realize that they can't spend their way out of this crisis,

00:11:01.400 they actually have to have some fiscal policy here and actually think about what their decisions do

00:11:08.440 and the implications that causes for everyday Canadians. The Trudeau government has no fiscal

00:11:13.240 policy. They have no monetary policy. They literally believe they can print their way out of the

00:11:19.420 situation they've put themselves in. Most Canadians think inflation may have moved a bit.

00:11:24.400 during this period, but not the level it went to. They were every, I was in the finance committee,

00:11:29.440 and every time we were going in to review a new bill, 70 billion in new spending. You know,

00:11:36.160 every time we went in, it was more and more dollars that they were just printing. And there was no,

00:11:41.120 there was nothing attached to it, like no parameters. It was just, we're going to spend some more money.

00:11:46.000 Here you go. Canadians. Great. We're giving back. But in all, they were just putting the price up of 0.98

00:11:50.400 everything else.

00:11:51.040 Well, here's my fear. And yesterday I fueled up is $1.40 a litre in Ontario, still way too high. But

00:11:58.320 my fear is there are, you know, the conditioning that comes around it, right? The left wants high

00:12:04.480 gas prices to get people out of their cars or in government transportation, right? So does this

00:12:10.560 become normal? Does $1.40 just become, oh, that's normal now? In my opinion, that's still way too high.

00:12:16.160 They're trying to change our behaviours. Now, I'll give you another example, and it's in the same line

00:12:21.040 of thinking. Electric cars. Where I live in Miramichi Grand Lake, there's hardly, there's very few

00:12:26.320 places you can plug in an electric car. So they incentivized getting an electric car. But then when

00:12:32.240 you actually order one, it can take a year, sometimes a year and a half for the car to come in. So you're

00:12:37.760 waiting 18 months for the car. When it comes in, there's nowhere to plug it in hardly, because you're in

00:12:42.480 a very rural area. No planning whatsoever. They're trying to precondition Canadians to get us all 1.00

00:12:48.720 driving electric cars. But we have to wait for them to show up. And then we have no place to plug

00:12:53.200 them in, in certain jurisdictions. So it's really, it's the cart before the horse completely. And

00:12:59.040 Canadians know it, because Trudeau's always telling us what to do. And if he can't convince us what to

00:13:04.160 do, he'll force us by just printing more money and flooding the markets. Controlling your behaviour

00:13:09.600 the tax code too. That's right. Yeah. I always said that they're doing it to you, not for you,

00:13:14.880 right? Everything is on purpose. It's planned. That's right. And this is following their plan.

00:13:20.000 But at the same time, you know, in some cases when you're getting lithium that's needed for these

00:13:24.880 batteries, what do you, what do you need to do to get lithium in many cases? You need to use hydraulic

00:13:29.280 fracking. But at one point, I'm old enough to remember, the left was against hydraulic fracking.

00:13:33.920 But it's okay now with lithium. But then you can't still recycle the batteries when you're done with

00:13:38.480 it to the need that is growing because of the more electric cars that are becoming on the market.

00:13:46.160 And there's a lot of lithium that, you know, obviously the country of China has a lot of

00:13:50.640 lithium deposits and they make a lot of the, I've seen it in the car industry this year,

00:13:55.040 a lot of the chips that come with vehicles. I was looking at getting a new vehicle at one point,

00:13:59.360 and the vehicle was going to come in 10 months late. And when it came in,

00:14:03.360 some of the technology wouldn't work because of the lithium aspects in the chip. So like our cars are

00:14:09.600 being made, the lithium aspect, a lot of that is being made in China. So it shows, I find during

00:14:15.840 the, during COVID, Canadians got a real good look at how globalism doesn't always work in their favor.

00:14:23.120 And, and I, I think it, I think I, another example I'll give you from Miramichi Grand Lake is what do

00:14:29.120 we have in Canada? I always hear the leader talking about a cold air. So in New Brunswick,

00:14:33.280 we've got lots of cold air. We've got four separate seasons. We've got a winter. People drive snowmobiles.

00:14:39.200 My daughter wanted a snowmobile jacket. She likes to snowmobile. I went down to the, to get her the 0.91

00:14:44.000 snowmobile jacket. They said, we've been waiting six months for these jackets. So I know the guy who runs

00:14:49.520 the business. And I said, well, how come it's taken so long to get a snowmobile jacket? I just

00:14:53.440 couldn't wrap my head. I mean, I'm commit, I'm Canadian. We had a great winter season. And that's

00:14:58.880 something I thought that wouldn't be hard to get. But during COVID, we've seen how different products

00:15:03.920 were hard to achieve. So I said, where is, where is it made anyway? China. And then it hit me.

00:15:11.040 We're waiting six plus months for a winter snowmobile jacket in Canada. Now I wasn't faulting the guy who ran

00:15:18.720 the company. But the fault is we've put so much emphasis and support on globalism that as soon as

00:15:25.920 COVID hit, we actually seen how it wasn't going to serve us. And that's just, those are small examples.

00:15:32.160 Well, it also showed that we need to bring those jobs back and manufacturing back and why it's so

00:15:36.640 important to have these jobs here. So we need to make sure the environment is right to allow these

00:15:41.360 businesses to come back and actually make a profit and create jobs, opportunity, wealth in our communities.

00:15:46.320 That's right. And that was, and that was what I was getting at. I mean, it's,

00:15:50.160 it's hard to believe in a sense, but it kind of shocked me that day, just something as simple

00:15:55.360 as a snowmobile coat. But anyway, this is, this is great, man, being on the show. It's,

00:15:59.360 I've heard of your show a lot, and I'm glad I could be on here today with you.

00:16:02.880 I appreciate you coming on. And we should also point out New Brunswick and Ontario,

00:16:06.640 two of the provinces with nuclear power. So we do have that green energy portfolio

00:16:11.680 that works in our favor. We've got Point Le Pro in, in New Brunswick. And we also have,

00:16:16.240 we're working on some small nuclear reactors as well. There's some projects in the future.

00:16:20.880 There's some hydrogen ideas. We've got some great project ideas in the province of New Brunswick. And

00:16:25.440 I do want to let you know too, that New Brunswick was, was very strongly in support of our leader

00:16:30.080 during the leadership convention. We were, we were probably over 70% would be the average. And

00:16:35.680 my home riding of Miramichi Grand Lake was 82.1%. So a lot of Pierre Polyev supporters.

00:16:42.240 Well, you, you chaired Pierre's campaign out in New Brunswick. So you certainly did deliver.

00:16:46.560 That's right. Yeah, we worked hard and I mean, but we all did. I mean, you looked at that night,

00:16:51.120 we looked at the results, every province was, was a fan of our leader, you know, no matter how you

00:16:56.000 looked at it, he won almost every riding, but just wanted to give a little plug in there for

00:16:59.760 Miramichi Grand Lake. Absolutely. Well, Pierre did win 330 out of 338 ridings. I think that's a

00:17:05.360 pretty solid message. It shows the party is united and, and behind Pierre and ready to take on the

00:17:10.080 Liberals. And a fresh face. I found, found one of the interesting things on the campaign, Jamie,

00:17:14.960 is that you could look at any room that, that Pierre Polyev visited and, and let's say there's 400

00:17:21.440 people in the room or 500. It was interesting to see in the lineups for a photograph when it was over,

00:17:27.360 everybody get in that lineup. No one left. They all wanted to be, they all wanted to meet the leader

00:17:32.400 and shake his hand and get the photograph. But what was interesting is you had people that were

00:17:36.960 18 years old. You had young couples with young kids in their 20s and early 30s. You had, you had

00:17:42.400 people from not old enough to vote yet to like 90 years old. And I, it never ceased to amaze me. Every,

00:17:49.680 every generation was represented in support of, of, of Mr. Polyev. He didn't have generational gaps.

00:17:57.120 I never noticed any. Every decade of Citizen, he had, he had them. He had them lined up.

00:18:02.560 And it was a lot of new faces that we haven't really seen before.

00:18:04.800 Brand new. Yeah. I was pretty impressive.

00:18:06.480 In my own writing, I met a lot of people. I never, I mean, I have 65,000 constituents. I don't

00:18:11.120 know them all personally yet, but I met a lot of people I'd never met before just because they're

00:18:15.520 inspired by, by Pierre. It's that message. It's that message.

00:18:18.480 They love his message. Absolutely. We have to get out of here. Question period's coming out. We, we ran a bit late.

00:18:22.960 I always seem to do this. I always say I'm going to stay on time and then I go away after. But as,

00:18:27.760 as you probably know, the guests always get the, the final word, a couple of thoughts about

00:18:32.080 anything we talked about or really anything you see coming up in parliament this, this, this fall.

00:18:37.040 Just wanted to say a big thank you to Mayor Michie Grand Lake. We're opening up another session. I'm

00:18:41.680 just really proud to be here on working on their behalf. Very proud to be on the leadership team for Pierre

00:18:46.720 Polyev and really want to have a strong session, want to work hard, want to get that message out to

00:18:52.240 Canadians that, that a poly of conservative government is going to work hard to gain their

00:18:56.640 trust and to get, get control of this government and put the liberals out of power. I love it.

00:19:00.640 Jake Stewart, member of parliament, Mayor Michie Grand Lake is also the caucus committee coordinator,

00:19:05.360 part of the leadership team. We do appreciate his time and we do appreciate yours as parliament

00:19:09.680 starts sitting again this fall and we have new content. We did not stop this whole summer. New content

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The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - September 22, 2022

The Blueprint： Update on New Conservative Leadership

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