On today's show, Candice talks about Mark Carney and his very first day as Prime Minister designate, and she's joined by Chris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and Clayton Domain of True North to talk about voter fraud in Ontario.
00:01:30.000Thank you so much for joining us, everybody. We have a great show lined up for you. We're going to talk about Mark Carney and his very first day as Prime Minister-designate. Later in the show, we're going to talk about the latest with President Donald Trump, the trade war, and Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford's escalation in that battle between neighbours.
00:01:50.160Later in the show, we're also going to be joined by True North's Clayton Domain to talk about voter fraud in Ontario. There's been some investigative journalism that has uncovered a huge problem when it comes to voting in Canada.
00:02:04.160And I'm pleased to be joined for most of the show today by our friend Chris Sims. Chris is the Alberta Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Hi, Chris. Thanks so much for joining us today.
00:02:15.180Good morning, Candice. Thanks for having me.
00:02:17.220Well, I want to just take a minute to plug a new piece of work that we have done over at Juno News. So if we head on over to Juno News, you will see that we have done a deep dive. We've done our own bit of investigative journalism into the new Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
00:02:32.960We have a clip of that documentary that I would like to play for you now.
00:03:02.960So very excited to be releasing that. We went through many of the claims that Mark Carney has made that he has been contradicted on.
00:03:32.960And frankly, Chris, we did the job that the legacy media refuses to do, which is just dig into it, dig into the claims, try to figure out what the truth is when it comes to the things that we're told about Mark Carney.
00:03:45.860And we've been told so many things that have just turned out not to be true. So we spent a bunch of time and effort putting that together.
00:03:52.020And if you'd like to see the entire documentary, please head on over to JunoNews.com.
00:03:56.300It is available at this point exclusively to our subscribers. And we think it's incredibly important that Canadians get this message.
00:04:05.320So as everybody saw on Sunday night, Mark Carney was selected as leader of the Liberal Party, which means that he will succeed, succeed Justin Trudeau and become our next Prime Minister.
00:04:16.500We still don't even know when he's going to be signed in. So at this point, he is just the Prime Minister designate.
00:04:22.360But I want to talk a little bit about that leadership vote on Sunday night, Chris, because there were a couple of things that just don't, just doesn't really add up to me when it comes to what happened.
00:04:34.580And so first, I want to point, let's just do a comparison between the Liberals and the Conservatives.
00:04:38.800So first thing, we were told that the convention that the Liberals held on Sunday evening in Ottawa had fewer than 2,000 people in attendance.
00:04:51.240Compare that to Pierre Polyev, who did a rally in London, Ontario, a much smaller city.
00:04:56.500And this is just a rally. And there were an estimated 2,500 attendees.
00:05:00.800This is according to Juno News. And so just even the idea that they are electing, selecting a new leader for the Liberal Party.
00:05:10.480And there are a few people that just go to like your run of the mill, Pierre Polyev rally that's not even during a campaign.
00:05:19.680You know, you had two former Prime Ministers in attendance in Ottawa, and they couldn't even pull out a crowd of more than 2,000 people.
00:05:26.820And then when it comes to the number of people who voted. So we had been told that there were 400,000 registered Liberals that were going to be voting in this race.
00:05:36.820And remember that in order to be a Liberal member, you don't have to pay any money.
00:05:41.360Unlike in the Conservative Party, you do have to pay. For the Liberals, you don't even have to be a citizen of Canada, which to me is just so outrageous.
00:05:48.040And you can, they open membership to anybody over the age of 14.
00:05:51.520So you could have a 14-year-old who is a foreign national and not a Canadian, who didn't pay any money, has nothing invested, and you could go ahead and you could vote.
00:06:01.940So we were told that was 400,000. And yet the party said that 151,000 people voted in the race.
00:06:09.740Interestingly, they said that 163,000 people successfully went through the authentication process.
00:06:17.960So out of 400,000, only 163, it seems, could be confirmed to be real people.
00:06:28.260So the Liberals are running around today saying that 93% of their party voted in this race, but only if you take that smaller number.
00:06:37.080And 163,000 people, I mean, that seems kind of like a lot.
00:06:42.180But in the world of politics, I mean, that is significantly smaller than the Conservative Party.
00:06:47.880The Conservative Party had 417,000 people vote in their leadership race.
00:06:53.440I mean, 160,000 people, that's fewer than the number of people who receive emails from me, like on my email list.
00:07:00.000And I'm sure it's the same with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:07:02.840Not a very large percentage of Canadians.
00:07:05.340And so we're told, sure, Mark Carney got 80, 85%, I believe, of the vote.
00:07:10.680But again, that's of that smaller number.
00:07:13.800This isn't any kind of a resounding mandate from Canadians.
00:07:18.700And it raises so many questions, Chris, about the authenticity or how secure this process is.
00:07:26.300If 400,000 people were on the list and only 150,000 of them actually voted, what happened to the others and why weren't their votes counted?
00:07:58.520So that's not including Fraser Institute or any other group.
00:08:01.280That's just the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:08:03.820And so to have that small group of Canadians now selected the prime minister-designate, he hasn't been sworn in yet, is really quite eye-opening.
00:08:13.360I found it interesting on where these folks apparently were voting from.
00:08:18.140And so apparently they were voting largely from, say, downtown Toronto, downtown Ottawa, really kind of hyper-urban places, but not the more what you would call kind of the working class, middle-income, newer Canadian areas.
00:08:36.380So, for example, my uncle actually works in London as a security guard near the soup kitchen there, which unfortunately, by the way, is getting flooded with people.
00:08:45.240Record numbers of people are going to the food bank in the soup kitchen there.
00:08:51.700Down the street is where that Pierre Polly of Raleigh was being held.
00:08:55.280So I found that very interesting that I was hearing numbers everywhere between 2,500 and 3,000 people at the Pierre Polly of Raleigh.
00:09:02.580Yet in downtown Ottawa, where they're selecting a new prime minister of Canada, kind of a big deal for that.
00:09:09.120Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, if that's your party, that seems like a pretty big deal.
00:09:13.640And they were able to only pull in a smaller crowd.
00:09:16.520And it was a smaller crowd, even apparently according to the CBC, saying this is a smaller crowd.
00:09:22.200So I found it really telling that the issues of affordability and people just being broke, broke, mattered more, if you take a look at the tea leaves and the data sets, than the glitz and glamour that was going on in Ottawa.
00:09:50.660They had kind of like a stellar lineup if you're a Liberal and you're excited.
00:09:54.040Like imagine if there was an event that had Stephen Harper speaking, that had Pierre Paglia speaking, like had all the big players in the conservative movement.
00:10:03.820I'm telling you, there'd be tens of thousands of people in attendance for that.
00:10:08.780And again, I just find it really worrying and concerning that so many people who had signed up to vote in the Liberal leadership race didn't get to vote.
00:10:17.600And I'll tell you, Chris, like my inbox was filled with concerned Liberals who had been turned away.
00:10:23.760I received many of these sort of tips of people who had registered, who are Liberals, who wanted to vote.
00:10:29.400And some kind of trivial discrepancy meant that they were blocked.
00:10:34.520Like one, you know, an example would be like if you're, if you go by Dan, but your name's Daniel.
00:10:39.880And so, you know, when you register and you wrote Dan, but then the idea that you tried to produce said Daniel, and they just wouldn't let you vote.
00:10:46.600And, you know, when that happens on scale, I mean, we had the Globe and Mail pointing out that only 40% of the registered Liberals voted, which means that 60% were rejected.
00:11:00.680I mean, how can you walk around and say that Mark Carney has this huge mandate, even from within the Liberal Party, when 60% of the people who wanted to vote were somehow found to be illegitimate and not able to vote?
00:11:16.060To me, that is so suspicious and it's so alarming.
00:11:20.020I hope that someone is able to uncover.
00:11:22.860We're talking to, we're talking about a whistleblower later in the show who has done some undercover journalism to expose flaws in the Ontario voting system.
00:11:31.120But I would really like to see what is happening with the Liberals, because that is a huge percentage of people who were unable to vote.
00:11:39.540And again, just for context, because we keep hearing that 85% of Liberals voted for Mark Carney and only 62% of Conservatives voted for Pierre Polyev back in 2022 when he became leader.
00:11:49.440And yet, everybody said that Pierre Polyev had like a resounding victory.
00:11:53.860But if you just look at the numbers, 132,000 people voted for Mark Carney, whereas 295,000 voted for Pierre Polyev.
00:12:05.840And so more Canadians, twice as many Canadians, in fact, cast their vote in a leadership race for Pierre Polyev.
00:12:16.500And, you know, I have a hard time really believing that Mark Carney has any kind of a mandate.
00:12:22.080I want to just stay with the Sunday night event, because there was a couple of things that were really kind of resounding to me.
00:12:30.760One of it was that Mark Carney pledged that he would get rid of the capital gains tax and get rid of the carbon tax.
00:12:36.040So I imagine you folks over at the Canadian Tax Federation were giving yourselves a little pat on the back because you were the ones that were really leading the campaign against these disastrous taxes.
00:12:45.660And so the fact that both parties kind of are in agreement about that is good.
00:12:49.440One thing that I really noted was that when Mark Carney announced to the liberal audience that he was getting rid of carbon tax, the place like erupted in cheers.
00:12:57.780And it just seems so ironic to me that like the liberals who for the last 10 years have been pushing this green agenda, saying that the planet is on fire and that we have to tax ourselves and shut down our industry in order to save the planet.
00:13:10.020And, you know, the key policy of Prime Minister Trudeau had been this carbon tax, which was also championed and demanded for by Mark Carney in the background.
00:13:20.240And here you had the entire liberal convention applauding, like erupting in cheers over the fact that they were getting rid of it.
00:13:26.880So from a taxpayer's perspective, what do you think of all that?
00:13:30.940Very briefly, just touching back on the issue between mandates, I will point out that Pierre Polyev has been a member of parliament since he was in his early to mid 20s, and he was then the opposition leader.
00:13:45.000However, with Mark Carney, this is the first time that someone with zero parliament hill experience.
00:13:51.120So has not been a member of parliament, has not been a senator, has not been a cabinet minister, is now going to be catapulted directly, do not pass go, do not collect $200, all the way into the seat of the PMO.
00:14:04.720So yes, John Turner had taken a turn out of parliament, and then he was put back in.
00:14:08.580There were a few earlier prime ministers that kind of fall under that, but they had been senators before, or they had been cabinet ministers before, or even prime ministers previously, before they became prime minister again.
00:14:18.980This is the first time that somebody, you know, off the street, so to speak, is now becoming prime minister.
00:14:25.960And so I think that is why there's more scrutiny from across the board.
00:14:30.120It's been mainstream media and independent media going, this is pretty interesting.
00:14:33.900So I think it's the severity, the level of power that is giving more scrutiny to this mandate, whether or not he has one.
00:14:40.960To the issue of the carbon tax, we were happy to hear Mark Carney say he's going to scrap the carbon tax,
00:14:48.460but he said that, this is the catch, he said that in a leak through his leadership team early on, and that soaked up all the headlines.
00:14:57.680It was like that ShamWow commercial with the blanket.
00:16:47.000So we're going to take him at his word right now and push him to get rid of the consumer carbon tax so at least it's off of everybody's heat bills
00:16:54.220and off the price at the pump between now and April 1st.
00:16:57.840Then we're going to see what's going to happen during the election.
00:17:00.640Well, I would say it's not quite like a vegan eating steak because he hasn't actually eaten it yet.