Mario Zaleja and Candice Malan discuss the latest poll on whether or not Pierre Polyvenc should stay on as Conservative Party Leader, and why they think he should step down. They also discuss the upcoming by-elections and the impact they could have on both parties.
00:00:00.000Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and welcome to The Candace Malcolm Show. We're back with another segment with Mario Zaleja, and we have some news to break here on The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:09.040Yes, we usually just report the news, but sometimes we break news as well.
00:00:12.460So we did a survey here, and the results of the survey are in.
00:00:16.920So a total of 7,700 people participated in this poll.
00:00:21.660And the question was, do you believe that Pierre Polyev should stay on as leader of the Conservative Party?
00:00:28.240Well, 6,879 people voted yes, only 846 people voted no.
00:00:34.380So 89% approval rating from our poll in the few days after the election for Pierre Polyev.
00:00:43.420So, you know, for all of the media's talks, I think there was a clip of Rosemary Barton challenging Conservative, former Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney, saying that she's, a lot of her friends are saying that they want to,
00:00:55.280a lot of conservative friends apparently she has, say that they want Polyev to step down.
00:01:16.100I think his whole team is happy with him.
00:01:17.900All I saw was nothing but support from the MPs and the MPs elect that didn't maybe get elected into their riding, but they are all behind Pierre Polyev, including myself.
00:01:34.560And we have this uphill battle to fight.
00:01:37.840And the big uphill battle, the biggest of them all was, you know, Donald Trump and the tariffs.
00:01:43.480And it wasn't necessarily about the reaction.
00:01:46.180I truly believe it's more has to do with the fact that it's very similar to what happened in Australia.
00:01:52.360And, you know, if you dig into Australia, I believe their version of the Liberal Party won a majority and they won in a massive landslide because the person, the opposition, the Conservative Party was talking about, you know, deportation.
00:02:09.280They're talking about all these other things.
00:02:11.000And to them, they're like, oh, wow, that sounds very Trump.
00:02:17.420That's literally what happened in Canada.
00:02:20.060Except, you know, I think this is the first time in nearly 100 years where two parties got more than 40% of the popular vote.
00:02:27.040And so I think that is very, very encouraging.
00:02:30.300And I think we are all kind of of the mindset and the understanding that in the next election, I think Pierre Polyev was going to be the next prime minister of Canada.
00:02:48.980But overall, when we're talking about a guy that got 41% of the vote, that would be enough to win any other election in the last two decades.
00:02:53.840So it's not like he's done anything majorly wrong.
00:02:56.360I'm almost hesitant to even criticize him about anything because it's like he massively increases his voter share.
00:03:04.320I saw David Coletto was on CTV with Vassie Capellos talking about how second generation, like first and second generation, Canadians were more likely to vote conservative.
00:03:14.520And that's what helped them in places like the 905.
00:03:17.220And it was really just like brand new immigrants that were most likely to vote liberal, which is super interesting.
00:03:23.020I want to tie this into the upcoming by-elections.
00:03:25.980So we know that Alberta MP, conservative MP Damien Couric has announced that he will be resigning from his seat.
00:03:33.060He just won in Battle River Crowfoot, which is too bad.
00:03:35.660He seemed like a great sort of younger millennial conservative that got elected, an up-and-coming guy.
00:03:40.720Unfortunately, you know, Pierre Paulyev needed a seat.
00:03:42.900This is one thing that I was critical of him last week, Mario, the fact that he didn't win his own seat.
00:03:47.520I think that's like for his campaign manager and for the people around him, that's kind of unforgivable, right?
00:03:52.640It's like if they knew that the demographics were so different with the redrawing of the boundaries, they should have moved their candidate to a safer riding.
00:04:00.580They should have done that two years ago.
00:04:02.140And if it was winnable, they should have spent a lot more resources there.
00:04:06.280Regardless, Pierre Paulyev is set to run in this riding Battle River Crowfoot.
00:04:11.220So since Couric is stepping down, there will be a by-election.
00:04:14.220We're told it's going to happen pretty soon.
00:04:16.320And I want to just tie this all together because one of the other things that was super critical of,
00:04:20.780and I know you were too on social media, was this thing called the Longest Ballot Initiative
00:04:24.460where they just put hundreds of names on the ballot to try to just confuse Canadians,
00:04:29.340like to a normal average Canadian who doesn't know much about politics.
00:04:32.080They show up to vote and there's like a hundred names on the ballot.
00:07:59.040And I can guarantee, I can rally enough people, enough volunteers in Nepean and through Canada to make it happen where we do it to Mark Carney.
00:08:08.460And then we are going to, and then I'm going to look like the bad guy, but it's going to be completely hypocritical.
00:08:13.200If they do 200, I'm going to aim for a thousand.
00:08:15.540I mean, that's the thing about the left is that they know that, you know, we could do that, but we won't because we respect the rules too much.
00:08:21.200And I'm for like a lawsuit against them.
00:08:23.640I just, to me, I looked up the rules and basically in order to get on the ballot, you have to have 100 signatures, right?
00:08:29.620And so it seems to me a pretty straightforward change Elections Canada could make.
00:08:33.720I read on Twitter, someone, a whistleblower also saying that Elections Canada was warned about this well in advance.
00:08:39.640They could have changed the rules in time.
00:08:42.400I mean, the by-election could happen any, it could be announced in the next two weeks.
00:08:45.800So maybe they don't have time to change the rules, but why not just make it 100 unique signatures, right?
00:08:50.540Like once someone signs for one person, because basically the idea is I think they probably have about 100 people that are part of this group.
00:08:57.060And so they all sign each other's and they use their names recycled over and over and over again.
00:09:01.160And so if it was just once you sign one person's nomination paper, you cannot sign another person's, then that would stop this because they just won't be able to get enough people.
00:09:09.440Maybe in a place like Ottawa, but certainly not out in Alberta.
00:09:12.580Another idea is if you can have 100 people to sign your nomination papers to get on the ballot, you have to have at least 100 votes, right?
00:09:20.140When you go through the candidates in Carleton, most of them got fewer than 100 votes, which makes you think, how can you get 100 signatures to vouch for you to be on the ballot, but you can't even muster up 100 votes?
00:09:32.960If they don't get the 100, they should get fined.
00:09:35.100Slap them with a huge fine because that is election interference.
00:09:45.360And you can go back and look, and I think there was at least 20, maybe 30 people who got fewer than that 100.
00:09:50.840If all those people were stopped with a $5,000 fine, this would never happen again.
00:09:54.660So there are things like legal mechanisms that could very easily be taken, but the fact that they don't, it just, I totally agree.
00:10:00.560It makes Canada seem like a joke, like our elections are not secure, and it really undermines public trust, like in the entire integrity of the election.
00:10:09.100And I just wanted to add one thing too.
00:10:11.240I don't know if people realize this, but all the candidates had one registered agent.
00:10:15.900They were all registered by one person, and it was the same person.
00:10:20.900And so, I don't know, why don't you place a limit of two, five?
00:10:42.520Like, maybe, you know, if you do, if you register more than one, then that, that, the amount that you then have to pay for subsequent one goes up to $5,000.
00:10:51.420Then if you go past 10, maybe it's 10,000, maybe it's 20,000 per.
00:10:54.980And so, there needs to be some sort of, like, scale system or whatever the mechanisms are, it's an easy way to resolve.
00:11:22.220There are so many scoundrels out there that just don't uphold that value in public office and in our elections that you actually need more rules and more laws.
00:11:30.780You know, we're talking about how Pierre Polyev has a resounding support of his party, about how 89 percent, according to our Joe News poll, believe that he should stay on as leader.
00:11:40.240There are a few things that we were critical.
00:11:42.240I did a show last week with Wyatt Claypool where we just kind of, you know, suddenly, again, the guy got 41.5 percent of the vote.
00:12:15.020Like he has been doing this for over a decade now.
00:12:18.060And I just so Joe Rogan, speaking of Joe Rogan experience yesterday, he revealed that he did invite Pierre Polyev on his show and he declined.
00:12:28.720I don't know if it was Polyev himself or his campaign team and his advisors.
00:12:32.340I just want to play this quick clip and then I'll get your reaction, Mario.
00:12:35.360So I offered to have that Pierre guy come on the podcast.
00:12:57.440I can see how like in the final week of the campaign, you might not want to do it just because you want to be seen as being in Canada.
00:13:02.720But to me, again, Joe Rogan is like that's where you're going to find the sort of like young men, young Canadian men and women like so many more people watch Joe Rogan than like any other show combined.
00:13:15.820And if Pierre could have gone on there and been relaxed and been laid back and shown the other side of himself that we've seen, but that wasn't breaking through to the legacy media, I think it could have helped him.
00:13:30.720If he did it six months ago, it would have gone over well.
00:13:34.020If he did it three months ago or even two months ago or even a month ago during the election or when we knew the election was happening and Trump implemented the tariffs, I think the liberals would have had a majority.
00:13:45.340I think mainstream media would have weaponized it to the nth degree.
00:13:50.640Uh, there's so many hate and misinformation as that happened from, uh, illegal actors that weren't registered as third parties with elections Canada.
00:13:58.540Most people don't realize is that you can actually run hate ads and, you know, basically what I think are misinformation ads against the public.
00:14:05.160I think you can, but I think it would have happened to such a great deal where they will say, look, the same guy that endorsed Donald Trump is now endorsing Pierre Polyev and Pierre Polyev was on a U S podcast.
00:14:15.260I think anything, I think the overall sentiment in Canada is anything that relays or anything that promotes or even supports the U S in any way, shape or form is bad.
00:14:27.660Even, I think even in the, I would say midline conservatives or people who are in the middle, maybe not far left, not far right.
00:14:34.160Well, I mean, obviously the far left is going to attack it, but I think it would have done a lot of damage if he did that.
00:14:39.660And I've always been a believer that there's a lot more damage.
00:14:44.700I would have been done in a perfect example is I went on vacation to Florida.
00:14:48.380I got ripped to pieces for being in Florida.
00:14:58.060And it was just the end of the world for me to be there.
00:15:00.520So for Pierre Polyev to be on the Joe Rogan podcast, I honestly think it would have been a disaster.
00:15:06.420And again, it just ties into this whole, um, hysteria against, you know, anything America, anything U S anything, um, Trump, anything that is remotely tied to Trump, which, you know, by and large is going to include, um, Joe Rogan.
00:15:22.400And I think I remember seeing ads being like, oh, look, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk endorsed, uh, Pierre Polyev, you know, this is so bad.
00:15:29.560He's just like Trump and that that's literally the narrative that, that, that happens, which affects the audience that comes out in mass numbers, which are the 55 and plus, which predominantly voted liberal.
00:15:43.500I think it would have been much, much worse.
00:15:46.740It kind of shows that we still have our work cut out for us here in Canada, right?
00:15:50.140It's like, I felt good about the election.
00:15:51.780I felt like independent media and independent journalists across social media really grew, really expanded.
00:16:10.460We were having influence, but I think you're right.
00:16:13.000Like the idea behind going on Joe Rogan is that you push past the commentary and you just go meet the people where they are and go talk directly to them.
00:16:20.720But even if the, even if the podcast got viewed like 10 million times, right, how many times would those clips get viewed on CBC to the key swing voters in the handful of writings in Ontario that determined the election and how many of those people would have been scared?
00:16:36.120Like it only takes a few hundred or maybe a thousand, you know, middle-aged voters to be like, oh, no, he, he really is like Trump.
00:16:43.520Oh, look, he's, he's going on the same podcast as Trump did.
00:16:46.500And this is like an American right-wing thing that you're right, that I do think it could have gone badly.
00:16:52.760I would like to say that I would have liked to see him on and maybe, maybe in the next election cycle when the CBC has less influence or in the future, I'm so optimistic that we're, we're gaining ground.
00:17:48.900Mike Myers was a pretty predominant part of the beginning of the campaign, the campaign launch for Mark Carney.
00:17:52.860This idea that this American celebrity that's sort of known as being Mr. Canada, Mike Myers, sort of beloved by the boomer crowd, I guess, you know, not the boomers that are watching my show, but like the liberal boomers, I guess.
00:18:06.880It was kind of shocking that Mike Myers may be the first celebrity named in the Diddy trial, another accused, you know, sex criminal, again, with minors.
00:18:19.520Like, it seems like there's a lot of really kind of shocking and very, very, I would say, creepy people who live in these high circles, these high society circles, whether it be Hollywood or, I guess, you know, financial, high financial circles in New York and London, you know, the royals in London.
00:18:40.380It seems like Mark Carney is a part of a lot of these circles.
00:18:43.340And there's a lot of people being exposed for just absolutely predatory behavior, including with children.
00:18:48.280The fact that Mike Myers is named in the Diddy trial is really concerning to me.
00:18:52.880And then the fact that just recently Carney chose to associate with him.
00:18:56.480I don't know if he knew that this was coming, but it really, again, you know, the legacy media has no interest in this stuff.
00:19:24.920I don't have a memory of him directly being asked about this or the story even running.
00:19:29.700It was almost like this was like AI or some sort of conspiracy theories.
00:19:32.940The only people that were talking about it were independent media and people like myself.
00:19:37.760And obviously it was very concerning because, I mean, if I could guess the views just on that topic alone, it had to have been over 50 to 100 million views at minimum.
00:19:45.940Um, and there still is concern because people are still bringing it up and he still has not addressed it head on, um, for the Buckingham palace.
00:19:55.540It's more, I believe it was more than one dinner.
00:19:57.940I, I, from my understanding is, um, there was multiple dinners that were had that, um, Prince Andrew would host and he would host, uh, people like Mark Carney and I think other, you know, bankers are influential, but I thought it was several dozen.
00:20:12.260Like it was quite a bit and he, he said that they were actually parties.
00:20:16.980And so those are things that, you know, obviously are concerned because we don't know what it was, right?
00:20:22.920It could have been this kind of big boys club that who knows what they're doing at any given point in time, but there are these odd connections.
00:20:30.520The Mike Myers, I don't know much details about it other than I think they asked the jurors, like, you know, do you know who Mike Myers is?
00:20:38.020And obviously, you know, he was one of the biggest endorses, endorsers of, uh, Mark Carney during the election.
00:20:44.180And so I think these are all very real and valid questions that people have that I think it would just be so simple to just address head on.
00:20:50.900And I, I don't understand why media needs to shy away from it.
00:21:23.060Maybe he's on trial for some other reason.
00:21:24.720I'm just saying that, like, there's no curiosity in the legacy media, right?
00:21:28.180Like, we can now link Mark Carney, our prime minister, to some of the biggest sex trafficking and child abuse stories of our time, of our lifetime, of the century, right?
00:21:40.100Whether it's Jeffrey Epstein, whether it's Diddy, even the story that we broke earlier in the campaign, Mario, on the Tavistock clinic, notorious for abusing children.
00:21:50.160And Mark Carney's own daughter went there for therapy, right?
00:21:52.720So, like, we have him linked to these incredibly nefarious world events, and the media is like, not only are they just totally disinterested in it, they actually actively play defense for the prime minister, coming after people like me, coming after people like you for daring to even, for even noticing this stuff.
00:22:10.340I mean, it's almost a tired game to play.
00:22:12.860But, like, could you imagine if Pierre Polyev was linked to any of this stuff or linked to any kind of known child predator?
00:22:20.360It would be an unrelenting news story that would destroy his career.
00:22:24.540We know that because it's happened before, right?
00:22:26.880But when it's Mark Carney, this, like, liberal, they just, they will not allow anyone to talk about it.
00:22:35.440I think it's deeply concerning, and I think this is just the, what I keep saying is the hypocrisy of mainstream media, and I've been very, very vocal in my disdain for them.
00:22:45.220I actually, I've been asked by, you know, CBC to do an interview.
00:23:21.440That's a temporary measure of a four-year term, but a big problem.
00:23:24.380Like, I can elaborate so much more, but they will cut off every other piece.
00:23:28.400And that has always been my consistent experience with mainstream media, and I always tell people that you have to take everything with a grain of salt because there's always more to the story.
00:23:39.440And I find that there's this new wave of, you know, citizen journalism, independent media that is taking such a stronghold.
00:23:47.420And I think it's for the exact same reason why, and I think you and I briefly discussed it, you know, offline, but, you know, why Fox News is now significantly bigger in viewership than CNN or NBC.
00:23:59.420People have completely lost trust in what they say.
00:24:02.180And when you give people so much propaganda, especially when it is state-sponsored propaganda, and they are getting billions of dollars, and Mark Carney saying, we're going to give them more money because we need to fight disinformation.
00:24:34.740We're not a serious country at this point, and no one would respect America.
00:24:39.020We care more about pushing propaganda and brainwashing Canadians than we do about the actual physical safety of Canadians and ensuring that there aren't, like, foreign actors interfering in our country.