The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - September 06, 2023


The winds of change

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convention prep Carbon Tax rural communities & resource sectors
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Jamie Schmal
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Jamie Schmael Pierre Poilievre John Brennan Justin Trudeau Richard Bragdon Tobik Mactaquak Jagmeet Singh Pierre Pauly John Barlow Abundance Poliev Bragg Jimmy Anna
Inflation： the tax on everything and everyone Subsidy Shock; Billions for Batteries

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In this episode, we chat with the Member of Parliament for the riding of Tobik Mactaquak, New Brunswick, Canada, Richard Braggdon. We discuss the shift in the national opinion polls, the thoughts on the Trudeau government, and the upcoming Conservative National Convention.

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00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome once again to The Blueprint. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm your
00:00:15.100 host, Jamie Schmael, Member of Parliament for Halliburton Corps with the legs. Brock,
00:00:18.720 broadcasting live from my constituency office in Lindsay, Ontario, with new content for you
00:00:23.340 every single Tuesday, 1.30 p.m. Eastern Time. We ask that you like, comment, subscribe, and share
00:00:30.600 this program. Lots to talk about today. We are going to bring back a good friend of the show,
00:00:36.040 someone I don't think has been on all summer but has been working hard around his constituency.
00:00:40.300 We're going to talk about the shift in the national opinion polls, the thoughts on the Trudeau
00:00:45.700 government, and the Conservative National Convention coming up this week. So to chat about that and
00:00:51.620 much, much more. Let's bring in the one and only Richard Braggdon, the Member of Parliament for
00:00:56.160 Tobik Mactaquak in the beautiful province of New Brunswick. We appreciate your time
00:01:01.500 and also the amazing name of your riding. Thank you, Jamie. And I bring you greetings
00:01:08.180 on behalf of the very good people of Tobik Mactaquak. I must say the most beautiful riding in the entire
00:01:14.840 country. It is an absolutely gorgeous place and filled with good, hardworking, common sense
00:01:21.460 people. And glad and honored to represent them. Thanks, Jamie.
00:01:26.860 You do a fantastic job. Hopefully I can live up to your standard. Let's talk about the convention.
00:01:34.420 Welcome. Happy summer to you. Let's talk about the convention coming up this week. We've got lots
00:01:39.060 on the agenda to talk about it. And for those that don't know, it really sets the stage in terms of
00:01:44.420 our party and the documents that we use as a starting point as we develop policy and get a
00:01:51.940 guide on what the members feel is important to them and what they are hearing in their communities,
00:01:56.340 bringing it to the national level so that we can champion that further on on the national stage.
00:02:02.180 Are you looking forward to the convention, Mr. Bragg?
00:02:05.260 Absolutely, Jamie. And I think it does afford all of us as conservatives a chance, obviously,
00:02:11.220 to get together from coast to coast, many longtime activists and a lot of new people in the party.
00:02:16.700 Obviously, a lot of enthusiastic new members who've joined through the leadership process and under,
00:02:22.220 obviously, the bold vision of our leader, Pierre Paulyev, the Honourable Pierre Paulyev,
00:02:26.420 who's done an amazing job out of the gates as leader and is getting across the country and
00:02:31.780 the enthusiasm is building. And I think we're going to see a lot of that enthusiasm on full
00:02:35.940 display at the convention in Quebec City. It's going to be a great time.
00:02:39.460 It is going to be a great time. And I think as we gear up for the next election, which could be
00:02:43.860 coming up really at any time, that's up to Jagmeet Singh and, of course, Justin Trudeau himself.
00:02:49.220 I think some people, including myself, I got to be honest with you, I thought when we wrapped up in
00:02:53.140 June that session, we would be hitting the election coming up in September that the government would
00:03:00.580 be wanting to get. A lot of the bad news that is about to hit, economically speaking in Canada,
00:03:06.740 especially with people renewing their mortgages coming up, they'd want to get the election out
00:03:10.740 of the way before people really start to notice that the interest rate hikes have and will start to
00:03:17.540 really stretch household budgets. And it doesn't look like we will.
00:03:20.900 But the fall, sorry, the spring is always a possibility as well.
00:03:27.460 It is. And I think, obviously, we have to be ready as Conservatives from coast to coast. And that prep
00:03:32.580 time is now, if not before, in getting ready and making sure we're ready to put to Canadians a bold,
00:03:40.900 clear, contrasting alternative vision for the country. And our leader, Pierre, has been doing a great job of
00:03:47.380 that throughout the summer. The ads, as you've seen, and I know many Canadians have, are crisp,
00:03:52.980 they're good, a lot positive, and showcasing what we want to do for the country. And also,
00:03:59.540 who our leader is, and the type of person he is, and the background he comes from. And I think that
00:04:04.260 ability to identify with ordinary Canadians from coast to coast is key. You know, the old adage is,
00:04:13.780 as many communicate, but few connect. And I find that Pierre has a tremendous ability of connecting
00:04:18.260 with Canadians. And his personal story relates to many Canadians. As you know, he's not a child of
00:04:25.300 privilege. He's someone who was brought up in a very modest, everyday Canadian, I should say,
00:04:31.460 home. And he likes to term it, I like the way he puts it, it's, they're not ordinary Canadians are 1.00
00:04:35.860 actually quite extraordinary, especially in these times that we're in, that Canadians are able to
00:04:40.740 make, somehow, making ends meet, they're doing the best they can. Some of them are working two or
00:04:45.460 three jobs to raise their families and put them through school and do the best that they can to
00:04:49.620 provide in a very challenging environment economically. And I believe Pierre's vision
00:04:56.020 is offering something clear to Canadians and hopeful. Yes, he can certainly get in there and mix it up,
00:05:01.780 as we've seen in the House of Commons, and he can certainly counterpunch politically when need be.
00:05:06.820 But I'm very, very thrilled as well to see him putting forward a clear, alternate vision to the
00:05:14.420 current government that we have with the NDP Liberal Coalition. So it's very important.
00:05:18.740 Well, I really like what he's doing in terms of, on one hand, you know, also reminding people,
00:05:24.900 first and foremost, of how we got here. Because I think if people forget, or they look to their
00:05:32.020 the current circumstance, and aren't reminded that it was bad Liberal NDP policy that got us here,
00:05:38.900 despite objections from Conservatives, pretty much every step of the way, and we told them,
00:05:44.580 and our leader, Pierre Polly, even before he was leader, he was out front telling the world,
00:05:50.420 they're trying to tell Canadians that the path the Liberals were on were going to cause high inflation,
00:05:55.460 high debts and deficits. And we were always pushed back by the media, right? They would,
00:05:59.940 no, no, you guys are, you guys don't know what you're talking about, all that stuff.
00:06:04.100 But also, and the second plan is telling Canadians what we're going to do about it,
00:06:09.220 how we're going to fix it. And the convention that we're having, the upcoming election,
00:06:14.420 all of this combined puts information on our party platform that we are able to take forward.
00:06:20.100 Exactly, Jamie. We've had, I believe, and I'm very thankful for the process they've laid out,
00:06:25.300 a very robust process for involving caucus and others in helping develop the policies and the
00:06:31.300 planks of the platform that are going to be going forward. That's obviously still in this developmental
00:06:34.900 stage. But very, very positive moves there. And I think people are appreciating the efforts that all
00:06:42.100 of us are making in getting out across the country to hear their concerns, meet with them,
00:06:46.820 gathering town halls, as it were. And just recently, about three weeks ago, actually,
00:06:51.140 the leader was on Prince Edward Island in my region here in Atlantic Canada.
00:06:54.900 And Jamie, he was in a riding called Malpac. It's right in the heart of Prince Edward Island. It's
00:07:00.100 between the Borden area where the Confederation Bridge basically comes to a shore in Prince Edward
00:07:07.460 Island. It goes across the whole width of the island to the other coast where it's Cavendish,
00:07:13.220 and that's vacation area, potato country. And it's beautiful in that section of the island.
00:07:18.180 But that area in Malpac has voted Liberal now for over 40 years in federal elections, very consistently.
00:07:26.740 We went to a small rural community in Malpaca, a little area called New Glasgow.
00:07:32.820 And they have a beautiful setting there, but it's small, it's rural, it's classic Atlantic Canadian.
00:07:42.260 And Pierre and his wife Anna came out into that community, and they headed a local Lions Club.
00:07:47.700 The place was packed. It was standing room only in the middle of the summer and a beautiful night.
00:07:52.260 They were out onto the patio deck, down the stairs, out the driveway, cars lined up as far as you can see.
00:07:59.780 And I'm thinking, this is absolutely incredible to get this kind of a turnout for the opposition leader
00:08:06.660 in the middle of summer when they can be out golfing, vacations, the beaches, whatever.
00:08:11.220 Those islanders were taking time to come and hear from Canada's next prime minister.
00:08:15.140 And I believe on election night, I'm quite hopeful as an Atlantic Canadian that that blue wave is going to start, yes,
00:08:21.860 in places like Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
00:08:26.420 And it's going to be encouraging for our friends in Quebec, Ontario and West to see that wave begin there.
00:08:32.660 And you can tell Atlantic Canadians are tired of this overburdensome, cumbersome amount of level of taxes that they're carrying.
00:08:41.700 We're sick of carbon taxes that keep going up.
00:08:44.660 And as you and I have discussed, Jamie, the carbon tax affects everything.
00:08:49.040 It affects everything that's trucked and shipped.
00:08:51.260 Therefore, it's affecting the cost of heating and eating and driving to and from.
00:08:55.620 And quite frankly, we don't have I don't think hardly any, maybe a little bit in Halifax,
00:09:02.420 but we don't have much for metro and transit services in all of Atlantic Canada.
00:09:07.620 We have to drive wherever we're going and we have to take a vehicle to get where we're going.
00:09:12.740 And those bottom line factors like taxes on fuel have devastating consequences to Canadians pocketbooks,
00:09:21.220 in particular Atlantic Canadians, and they're tired of it.
00:09:23.380 So they're looking for a different direction and they're grabbing on to the conservative vision that Pierre is putting forward at this time.
00:09:29.600 I think I don't want to get too much of a tangent on this, but as you said, you know, the subways and mass transit aren't always available in a lot of rural communities,
00:09:40.300 especially on the island of Prince Edward.
00:09:43.120 Having said that, I think that's also a fundamental difference between, you know, conservatives and kind of those on the left hand of the spectrum.
00:09:51.340 Right. They don't mind government providing endless amounts of service. 0.95
00:09:54.340 Right. Because they believe government knows best.
00:09:56.380 Therefore, government should then make the decisions in everyone's life.
00:10:00.380 Whereas conservatives, there's nothing wrong with taking the bus or the subway when it's available, the train, but at the same time, you also want to own something.
00:10:08.260 And that's something that a car allows you to do.
00:10:10.300 You can go where you want, when you want, with whom you want.
00:10:12.560 You don't have to wait for the bus schedule, right?
00:10:14.780 You don't have to wait for the government to tell you you can move.
00:10:17.940 And that's the freedom that I think conservatives like to say.
00:10:21.740 Yes, we need to reduce the amount of pollution.
00:10:24.200 And I think we're doing that with technology and innovation.
00:10:26.720 But at the same time, we can also say we can invest in transit.
00:10:31.360 So those who wish to take that, who feel it's safe and affordable and accessible, can do that.
00:10:37.140 But at the same time, at the end of a, you know, a seven-year car payment, I'm not saying it's anything special.
00:10:42.200 You can have just four wheels and a steering wheel.
00:10:44.400 You actually still own something.
00:10:45.800 And I think that's the fundamental difference.
00:10:47.440 You have something you can sell for parts.
00:10:49.260 You can sell as, you know, the car itself using a field car.
00:10:53.840 It doesn't, like, you have something tangible.
00:10:57.780 And that's something I don't think the left really can understand because it's all about government control and more government programs.
00:11:05.420 Jamie, I couldn't agree with you more.
00:11:07.160 I think a very troubling trend amongst left-leaning and further and further left-leaning governments, it seems, in our time frame,
00:11:14.780 is away from that absolute critical importance of getting that first home, home ownership, free enterprise, free markets,
00:11:25.920 and allowing individuals to make the choices that are best for them and their families.
00:11:30.460 It's putting more and more onus on a bigger and more expansive and more controlling government.
00:11:35.780 And that philosophical difference is becoming very, very clear across the board.
00:11:39.220 And I like the way we're contrasting with that under the leadership of Pierre Polyev in that he wants Canada to be one of the, if not the freest country on the planet,
00:11:48.680 where individuals can make their choices that's right for them and their families and where, yes, you can have the opportunity of getting a home
00:11:56.920 and it not be priced out of reach for everyday Canadians.
00:12:00.560 Yeah, you can have a car and drive it and take it where you want and not feel this cumbersome guilt
00:12:09.320 that an overbearing government likes to place on people for just doing what they need to do to live
00:12:15.580 and raise a family and go to work and get their kids to sports, et cetera.
00:12:20.480 So I think that contrast is going to be very, very clear in this next election.
00:12:23.920 And I think Canadians are really, really going to render a clear verdict as we head in that direction.
00:12:30.700 That's our hope.
00:12:31.560 And we've got to continue to share the message and make sure that that gets out to as many Canadians as possible.
00:12:36.620 Another area, too, that I find that's resonating in Atlantic Canada in particular,
00:12:40.020 and I know this is across the country, Jamie, is in my travels this summer and in meeting with farmers,
00:12:45.900 we had John Barlow, our agriculture shadow minister down through.
00:12:48.760 We went to visit, I think, over 25 farms in my region and throughout New Brunswick.
00:12:55.440 And, of course, he's been to Prince Edward Island several times.
00:12:58.380 We're hearing similar things.
00:13:00.240 And whether it's in agriculture or in natural resources, our region is blessed and our country is blessed with so much of it.
00:13:07.940 We need government in place that has vision for what Canada can become and utilize the potential that we have.
00:13:14.060 The world wants Canadian energy.
00:13:15.940 The world wants Canadian food.
00:13:17.360 How can we get both to international markets and make sure that good Canadian-produced goods are getting to those markets?
00:13:24.420 Instead of putting the boot on industry, instead of putting the boot on our farmers and on those who grow our food and literally keep our land,
00:13:30.740 let's encourage them in what they're doing.
00:13:32.980 Let's stand with them.
00:13:34.260 And let's make sure that we're telling the good news that is the Canadian energy news and the Canadian resource sector as well as Canadian farming sector.
00:13:43.080 I get passionate about this stuff because we hear it every day.
00:13:46.420 I'm in a riding that's resourced and agricultural-based, and I see how much potential we have.
00:13:50.980 And yet, right now, our federal government has no vision for either sector other than putting the boot further onto their backs.
00:13:57.840 Anyway, so I better stop or I can keep going.
00:14:00.560 Well, that's one way to lower prices, right?
00:14:03.480 You add supply, right?
00:14:04.860 Abundance equals peace.
00:14:05.780 Absolutely.
00:14:06.080 Shortage equals strife.
00:14:07.200 So if you want to lower the price of food, you add more supply to the overall market, you want to do the same to energy, it doesn't matter what you're talking about.
00:14:17.140 You add more of something, the price will go down.
00:14:20.000 Supply and demand, the laws are almost absolute.
00:14:23.140 You mentioned the carbon tax.
00:14:24.280 We have East Coasters starting to really rebel against the ongoing price increases that are crippling that part of the country.
00:14:31.780 But at the same time, British Columbia, the province with the carbon tax in, I believe, the longest in the country, emissions continue to go up.
00:14:38.500 So at that point, it becomes a revenue stream.
00:14:41.700 It doesn't become an environmental plan.
00:14:43.600 And that is something we clearly point out each and every time.
00:14:47.040 While at the same time, all that really does, as you mentioned, is punish those on the lower to middle of the spectrum, of the income spectrum.
00:14:56.260 So it really stretches the budgets of those regular working class Canadians.
00:15:01.860 While the rich don't seem to care, same thing like congestion prices that we see in New York City and London, England, right?
00:15:08.800 It basically signals to the rich that we're clearing the streets.
00:15:12.080 Government is clearing the streets for the wealthy to drive downtown.
00:15:18.480 In the island of Manhattan, you look at the congestion pricing that's up.
00:15:21.900 At the same time, the regular folks, the working class, can take the subway, take the bus, be stacked and packed, elbows closed. 0.99
00:15:29.900 And at the same time, driving up the price of the goods that need to be shipped into that area.
00:15:35.840 And it creates a very significant gap.
00:15:39.580 You have the uber rich, the ultra rich, and you have the ultra poor.
00:15:45.060 The middle is pretty much gone.
00:15:47.020 And this is what's happening right across the country.
00:15:49.680 This is what the Liberals are doing.
00:15:51.360 And the East Coast is noticing it now and down that they have to pay the new price set by Ottawa.
00:15:56.540 Absolutely.
00:15:58.860 And I think people want to return, and I know it's an overused phrase, but they want to return to what is understood as common sense.
00:16:06.160 And they want, and they know that this is, this is not doable.
00:16:13.760 Continuing down this road that we're on is leading to all kinds of problems.
00:16:19.100 Whether it be the young couple that's starting out that has a dream of owning their own home, or that young man that's dreaming of getting a car and being able to drive it and go for a cruise, or maybe somebody get a truck, something like that, that he's dreamed about.
00:16:33.140 Those things are getting more and more remote for more and more Canadians.
00:16:36.260 That should never be the case in a land such as Canada.
00:16:40.580 And we are on top of so much potential.
00:16:44.240 And all of us believe in being responsible, good stewards of the environment.
00:16:49.140 Absolutely.
00:16:49.860 We want to hand on to future generations a cleaner Canada and a cleaner world.
00:16:53.900 That makes sense.
00:16:54.960 But how we get there needs to make sense as well.
00:16:58.340 And we need to do the things that are effective and the things that are genuinely going to make a difference.
00:17:04.180 And you're going to help me with this, Jimmy.
00:17:05.460 No liberal has ever been able to explain this to me yet.
00:17:08.400 How does it do the planet any good to replace Canadian energy and Canadian produced goods and minerals, et cetera, rare earth minerals, with those produced in nations that have no such thing as an environment commissioner, that don't have near the regulation that we do, let alone some places that don't have anywhere near the ethics that we have in Canada and treat people with equity and pay good wages.
00:17:34.580 How is that better for the planet to replace Canadian resources with those coming from countries that don't have any such regulation and have no intention of meeting any of them?
00:17:45.360 They've never explained that to me.
00:17:46.720 Have they explained it to you yet, Jamie?
00:17:48.120 I have not heard an explanation yet.
00:17:49.500 I have not heard an explanation, but at the same time, their environmental path doesn't seem to make any sense, right?
00:17:57.460 You see, we've talked about this many times in the show about what China is doing to Africa. 0.83
00:18:02.940 It's basically going into countries that are usually socialist, communist, maybe a combination or somewhere in the middle of those two.
00:18:13.580 They're basically kissing cousins anyways, the communism and socialism spectrum.
00:18:17.700 But at the same time, they're building infrastructure.
00:18:19.660 But in exchange, they are getting foreign access, drilling rights, mineral rights.
00:18:24.960 And they're doing that in places that use child labor. 0.96
00:18:27.760 As you mentioned, no environmental standards.
00:18:29.560 You look at what China did. 0.83
00:18:30.860 It bought a lithium mine in Argentina.
00:18:33.760 They are basically cornering the markets on these, air figure quotes, green technology or renewables.
00:18:39.860 The materials needed to make those batteries, while at the same time, shutting down, we, the Liberals and the NDP, are shutting down our oil and gas industry.
00:18:51.020 An industry that provides abundance, that provides energy, that is reliable, that is safe, that is affordable for the vast majority of Canadians.
00:18:58.960 They're taking that wealth and giving it to countries like China, that are awful players in the world market. 0.94
00:19:07.200 The communist dictatorship in Beijing, that is what we are up against as a country.
00:19:12.920 That is what the Liberals and NDP are pushing it towards.
00:19:15.960 It almost makes them feel better that they're doing this.
00:19:18.620 And I'm not sure why.
00:19:20.380 It takes away, as you said at the beginning of your answer, common sense.
00:19:26.740 Yeah, it does, Jamie.
00:19:28.040 And I think when you talk to producers and you talk to the farmers and you talk to those in the energy sector and the resource sector across this country, no one's more vested than they are in ensuring that it's done responsibly.
00:19:44.240 It's their livelihoods that are on the line.
00:19:45.880 And it's the future, for many of them, livelihoods for their families, if it's in the farming sector or in the energy sector.
00:19:53.060 Some of these communities are very dependent on these particular industries.
00:19:56.280 Who's going to be more diligent in making sure that they're going to take good care to do things in the most responsible environmental way than those whose livelihoods depend on those very sectors?
00:20:10.180 What we've done is we've eliminated the direct influence and impact that those whose lives are most affected by the decisions that we as governments make.
00:20:21.080 We have removed them so much and taken them out of the equation so that, as it were right now, the current liberal NDP government are tone deaf to the concerns as well as the solutions that those very sectors are coming up with to some of the challenges we're facing.
00:20:36.760 And the same thing here in the East Coast with our fisheries, when it comes to those who are involved and whose livelihoods and whose family's way of life is dependent upon a vibrant fishery here on the East Coast, who better to talk to than those whose livelihoods depend upon a healthy environment where fish and lobster and other crab can be produced and grow?
00:20:59.240 Well, they're going to take care of that area and make sure it's clean and make sure it's clean and make sure it's done properly and make sure that they're protecting the future of those stocks because that's their livelihood at stake.
00:21:08.400 But it seems like this government's become so disconnected from common sense, they're not engaging with those who are most affected by these decisions.
00:21:17.060 And trust me, some of these coastal communities, if the fisheries go down and they're allowed to close certain fisheries, some of those communities will never come back.
00:21:25.560 And the strength of Canada is not just in our big urban centers.
00:21:29.700 Our strength is in those small towns and rural communities across this country that grow our food, produce our goods, a truck and ship and haul our goods that feed our big cities as well as the rest of the world.
00:21:41.180 And that's what I appreciate about Mr. Poliev.
00:21:43.760 He gets it and we as a conservative team, I believe, gets it.
00:21:46.620 We understand the vital role that rural Canadians, small towns and those in the resource and natural resource and food sectors provide to this country.
00:21:57.320 It's not only about our past, but it's so much about our future and the world's future.
00:22:02.440 The world wants our goods, Jamie.
00:22:04.260 They want Canadian energy.
00:22:05.940 They want Canadian food.
00:22:07.460 And I think if we could hear our producers and our resource sector and the workers in that field, you know what they'd be telling us?
00:22:13.300 Let the farmers farm. 0.99
00:22:14.380 Let the producers produce.
00:22:17.060 Let us get back to work and do what we love to do and get off our backs.
00:22:21.040 That's the message I hear from coast to coast.
00:22:23.100 And I know that's the message that our leader has been picking up.
00:22:26.120 And I get, again, I get really impassioned about this because I see we're so far beneath our potential.
00:22:32.000 And Germany and other countries are coming to us.
00:22:33.800 Please get some LNG.
00:22:35.280 Get us this natural gas.
00:22:36.540 We want your goods.
00:22:38.140 We want to do business with Canada.
00:22:40.060 There's no business case.
00:22:41.120 There's no business case.
00:22:42.000 And there's no business case, according to our prime minister, who still thinks budgets balance themselves.
00:22:46.120 That's working out really well.
00:22:47.720 So, anyways.
00:22:48.640 Yeah.
00:22:49.040 Tell me about it.
00:22:49.740 Tell me about it.
00:22:50.560 We have to get it.
00:22:51.440 Believe it or not, that flew by.
00:22:52.860 I think we've got to get out of here.
00:22:54.140 We're way over time.
00:22:56.020 Sorry.
00:22:56.560 Just get the parting word.
00:22:57.760 No.
00:22:58.420 No.
00:22:58.620 I love here.
00:22:59.560 You got me fired up there towards the end.
00:23:01.900 Almost to the point of incapacitation.
00:23:03.840 So, because of that, you get the closing words, my friend.
00:23:08.500 Well, Jamie, it is a thrill to always be, to come on and be with you anytime.
00:23:13.440 I enjoy that.
00:23:14.120 It's a great time.
00:23:14.940 And I always enjoy these interviews.
00:23:16.300 And thanks for the opportunity to share from, at least here in the East Coast, Atlantic Canada.
00:23:21.460 I want to say there is a change underway.
00:23:23.520 And I believe that we've got a lot of reasons for hope.
00:23:27.300 And that you're going to see, I believe, on election night, a blue wave that's going to come.
00:23:32.280 And it's going to start, yes, in Newfoundland.
00:23:34.500 And it's going to work its way westward.
00:23:36.760 And we're going to see a big change come.
00:23:39.440 I'm very hopeful.
00:23:40.720 And I just want to say this, Jamie.
00:23:41.840 I really feel like we have so much potential as a country.
00:23:45.900 And Canada's best days are yet ahead of us, not behind us.
00:23:49.420 We have a rich history we can learn from and grow from.
00:23:52.720 But we have so much to look forward to in our future if we get the leadership question right.
00:23:56.500 And I think we're on the cusp of that.
00:23:58.880 I know the only poll that matters is on Election Day.
00:24:01.760 But I'm loving the numbers I'm seeing out of the East Coast and across the rest of Canada as well.
00:24:06.680 Ontario, we're way out in top.
00:24:09.240 Hopefully that holds.
00:24:10.400 And we appreciate your time, Mr. Brangton.
00:24:13.620 Thank you, Jamie.
00:24:15.120 All right.
00:24:15.700 Richard Brangton, Member of Parliament for Tobik Maktiquak in the beautiful province of New Brunswick.
00:24:21.260 And as we pointed out, the poll numbers are holding steady.
00:24:24.800 But we need your help to ensure it remains that way, but also grows at the same time.
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