Candice Malan and Kian Bextie recap the results of the Canadian election and give her major takeaways from the results. Candice explains why she thinks Pierre Polyev should have won his own seat.
00:05:18.600So I think that they'll regroup, they'll get a new party leader, out with Jagmeet Singh, push away that champagne socialist, that party pandering, that vote bank politics style, and bring in someone more mainstream, someone a better retail style politics.
00:05:31.260Maybe someone like former Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, current Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu.
00:05:37.180Or maybe even someone like Avi Lewis, who is a famous journalist and sort of public intellectual who has a big following.
00:05:44.120He did run for the NDP in Vancouver and lost.
00:05:47.740There are a lot of other candidates out there that I think that can capture the imagination of working class Canadians and more typical left-wing Canadians.
00:05:54.360I think that in the next election, the NDP will be back.
00:05:57.340And they'll be back to a normal election.
00:06:02.820And then you also had the bloc down 11.
00:06:05.360I said last night in the broadcast that I thought that E. Francois Blanchet did a pretty good job.
00:06:09.840Listening to him during the debates, I thought that he did really hit on some interesting points.
00:06:14.580But, you know, that wave of anti-Americanism, the media narrative around Trump, Trump, Trump, really stuck in the minds of a certain demographic of Canadians, enough to allow the Liberals to get that path to victory.
00:06:24.760Remember, we said that as long as the bloc won something like 25 to 30 seats, the Liberals wouldn't win the election.
00:06:31.560It looks like the bloc will finish with 23 seats, which did, in part, pave the path for the Liberals to win last night.
00:07:07.100And the vote of the PPC basically collapsed.
00:07:09.840I think a lot of the people who voted in protest for the PPC against the system back when Erin O'Toole was part of the COVID machine, you know, in lockstep with the other leaders pushing for mandates, pushing for vaccines.
00:07:22.020And there was a lot of people rightfully protesting against that.
00:07:25.160The party didn't make as much sense this time around.
00:07:27.360Maxime Bernier was mostly out of the country, not really campaigning.
00:07:30.680And so it's not surprising that they didn't do very well.
00:07:33.040But the very, very small number of votes that the PPC got, specifically to look at some writings in and around Ontario, places like Brampton, places like Kitchener, a few hundred votes is all that separated the liberals from the conservatives.
00:07:48.780They acted as a spoiler and they potentially helped Mark Carney with his victory win in those few key writings.
00:07:55.960Look, folks, when you look at the numbers in and around the GTA, it is incredibly close, incredibly shocking.
00:08:00.680I was looking at the 905 where I live and there were so many places where the conservatives won with a majority of the vote, more than 50%.
00:08:09.380I'm just going to give you a few examples here because it's just so interesting.
00:08:12.680So for folks who don't know the shorthands for Toronto, the 416 is the area code for the sort of inner Toronto and the bureaus that actually make up like City Hall, the amalgamated city of Toronto.
00:08:22.600So I'm talking about Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough and Toronto itself.
00:08:27.100And then you have the outer ring and it kind of goes all the way out.
00:08:33.160And it's interesting because in some parts of the 905, especially sort of southwestern, southwest of Toronto, the liberals did pretty well.
00:08:39.880They won places like Burlington, Oakville, both the Oakville seats, Mississauga Lakeshore and these Brampton seats that I'm saying, you know, they lost just by a tiny hair.
00:08:50.560But then if you go just outside, you get a lot of conservative victories and big conservative victories.
00:08:55.260So here in Milton East Halton Hills, the conservatives won with 48.6% of the vote.
00:09:01.380Wellington Halton Hills, Michael Chong won with 51.4% of the vote.
00:09:05.720Dufferin Kaladin, Kyle Seabach gets 58% of the vote.
00:09:11.800Next, we have King Vaughn, Anna Roberts-elect with 61%.
00:09:15.340Folks, these are like rural Alberta numbers, 61.8% in the 905 in King Vaughn.
00:09:21.900Moore, Vaughn Woodbridge, conservatives won with 60% of the vote.
00:09:26.100In Thornhill, Melissa Lansman won with 66% of the vote.
00:09:29.800Oh, my goodness. And York Center, Roman Baber, former MPP in Doug Ford's government, stepped down out of that caucus in protest of the Orwellian lockdown policies and the just complete and utter abuse of power by the Ford government.
00:09:46.640Sat as an independent, ended up switching over federally and wins with a big majority.
00:09:51.060Again, 54.8% of the vote in York Center.
00:10:07.700We had a True North reporter there last night.
00:10:11.400Markham Unionville, the riding where Paul Chiang was a candidate, and he ended up getting ousted while he stepped down after the scandal with regards to the Chinese bounty story.
00:10:20.860He was replaced by Peter Yuan, and they lost.
00:10:26.340I could go on and on going around the 905.
00:10:28.560I think that this is really, really a good sign.
00:10:30.700The fact that Pierre Polyev did this well, this close to Toronto, to me, tells me that they captured something and that there was a blue wave last night.
00:10:38.900Unfortunately, it just wasn't enough to form government, but there was a blue wave.
00:10:42.900Now, speaking of Ontario, Doug Ford in this election has been outed as a liberal.
00:10:49.480Yes, he runs under the banner of the progressive conservatives, but make no mistake, his government is a continuation of the Dalton McGinty, Kathleen Wynne, big spending, big government, deficit spending, low growth, low productivity, Ontario in decline government.
00:11:21.560All this talk about the idea that Pierre Polyev needs to learn from Ford and that Ford did like a master class on how to win in Ontario, that just doesn't hold up by the facts.
00:11:31.420Let me just tell you, Doug Ford won his election in February just three months ago with 42.9% of the vote.
00:11:37.780OK, last night, Pierre Polyev got 44.5% of the vote in Ontario.
00:11:46.100So I don't want to hear any more about how Polyev needs to make nice with Doug Ford, follow his lead, buddy up with Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney.