4 Liberal MPs likely to resign in the coming months!
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Summary
Chrystia Freeland, Nate Erskine Smith, Greg Roberts, and Matt Gennaro are just a few of the many Liberal MPs who are going to leave office in the next few months or in the spring of 2026.
Transcript
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One of the most annoying things about the legacy media coverage of conservatives potentially crossing the floor
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and joining the Liberal Party is that not only did every lead fall through,
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Chris Donjermont crossed the floor, Matt Gennaro announced that he's going to just completely resign from office in spring,
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and every single other conservative MP suspected came out and said,
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And then, you remember, there's a bunch of Liberal MPs who are likely to resign from office,
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and that gets basically no coverage from our Liberal media.
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There are about four or five Liberal MPs who, mainly because they have personal problems with Prime Minister Mark Carney,
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are going to probably leave office in the next few months or in the spring of 2026,
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whether there is an election at that time or not.
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But let's start off with talking about the most obvious individual who is going to be leaving office,
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and that being former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
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The trustees of the Rhodes Trust have appointed Chrystia Freeland as the next warden of Rhodes House and Chief Executive Officer of the Rhodes Trust.
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Chrystia will start her role on the 1st of July, 2026,
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taking over from Professor Sir Rick Traynor, KBE,
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who has served as interim warden and CEO since the 1st of January, 2025.
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Absolutely, Freeland is going to be resigning her seat.
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This is a role where she literally needs to be in England in order to carry it out.
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And everyone knows she really doesn't get along with Mark Carney at all,
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which is quite funny considering I believe one of her children, children's godfather, is Mark Carney.
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But Freeland's been having a falling out with him ever since he ended up becoming Prime Minister.
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Because Freeland was actually unfairly thrown under the bus for a lot of the financial problems in the government,
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She was carrying out the orders of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
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who was being advised by Mark Carney as his economic advisor.
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And Freeland then had to take it on the chin when they blew past all of their red lines on the deficit.
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And then Carney got to walk into office pretending like he's going to be the fiscally responsible one now,
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even though he was the one telling Trudeau to do all the stupid crap
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that involved having this massive deficit at the end of the year 2024.
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He was the brainchild behind the GST-HST tax freeze over the holidays,
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but also it caused the deficit to go from $40 billion up to $60 billion.
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Most of that increase in the deficit that year was because of Mark Carney's stupid plan.
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She resigned from cabinet a few months back after she was given just some paltry position
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that really wasn't at her level as a former deputy prime minister and finance minister.
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And so it is now very clear that she will probably be resigning at some point
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her seat in University Rosedale to now pursue this job over at the Rhodes Society or whatever.
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It's basically when people get like a Rhodes scholarship, this is where it comes from.
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But now let's talk about some other individuals.
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The next person I want to discuss is Nate Erskine-Smith.
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Now, you will remember that name from about a video I made like a week ago.
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He was talking, he was criticizing Mark Carney's 2025 liberal budget
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as having basically been a big disappointment compared to how the liberals campaigned in the last election.
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And he has a very deep problem with Mark Carney ever since he was kicked out of cabinet.
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You will remember Nate Erskine-Smith was one of the people in the Liberal Party back in 2024
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who declared that he was not going to be running for re-election in his York riding.
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And then Mark Carney became prime minister and brought Erskine-Smith back
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by promising to make him the minister of housing, which technically Mark Carney did make good on.
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And Erskine-Smith had a wonderful tenure as housing minister for approximately three weeks
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After the election, not only was Erskine-Smith not the housing minister,
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but the biggest insult of all, they deemed former Vancouver mayor Gregor Roberts
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to be a more responsible person for housing than Erskine-Smith.
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Gregor Roberts, famously the mayor when a lot of housing prices in Vancouver had basically doubled.
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When he first became mayor and when he left as mayor after his second term,
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housing prices had effectively doubled in the city in large part because of his own bad policies.
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that is when the Ontario Liberal Party leadership race had just kicked off.
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Bonnie Crombie had severely underperformed in her leadership review,
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Naturally, she could not stay on, so she's resigned.
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And Erskine-Smith very obviously wants to go and try and win that leadership for himself now.
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Because really, what's the point of Erskine-Smith sitting in the Liberal Party
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as a backbench MP with no responsibilities other than some committees to sit on?
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I do want to show you guys the stats from this last leadership for the Liberals in Ontario
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to demonstrate that this isn't like some fringe thing that he might try and do.
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This is a real possibility that Erskine-Smith could become the Ontario Liberal leader.
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Not only is that party just very, very, you know, dead.
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It's still a third place party in terms of seats.
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But he became, he came very close in the 2023 leadership race.
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He ended up getting 46.59% of the vote when they went through all of the ballot,
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like, you know, the first, second, third vote, because it is a ranked ballot.
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And obviously, if he then goes and runs, he's pretty much the golden child
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who is guaranteed to become leader unless some other, you know,
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inspiring figure comes out from behind the curtains to challenge Erskine-Smith for it.
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So he's another person who probably needs to resign sometime this winter break
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if he wants to actually be able to put together a solid campaign
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to run for Ontario Liberal leader in early next year,
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because I believe that their leadership race is going to be wrapping up sometime in mid-2026.
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We just have three more Liberal MPs I want to talk about potentially resigning.
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It depends on what happens over the next little bit.
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We have the former public safety minister, who is somehow still not as bad as Gary Amasangari is right now.
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We have Bill Blair, who is likely to end up leaving to take some sort of a diplomatic post,
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whether that's in the United States or another country.
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We have Ralph Goodale, a longtime Liberal veteran MP who may take over,
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And then, of course, everyone's least favorite environment minister somehow,
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despite the fact that Catherine McKenna was also environment minister at one point.
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Stephen Gilboa, the former environment minister,
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is also somebody who we are likely to see resign over the next little bit,
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because he has not really been given the big role he's wanted out of this new government.
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I think he's like minister of official languages or something like that.
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But Stephen Gilboa doesn't really have anything else to achieve right now.
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He's gotten his pension that was granted to him this October.
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And right now he just basically is just puttering around in a government that is just not green enough for him,
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And I would love for a bunch of these Liberal MPs to resign early,
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because I want to see Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives be able to test their mettle against the Liberals in a by-election,
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especially seeing where the NDP currently lies.
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Because depending on how much of the vote the NDP is going to get in these by-elections,
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we can kind of determine if the NDP is going to be more punching around 2019 election levels,
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or they're going to be still stuck at this very low 2025 kind of results,
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Previously, even with Singh underperforming, they would get 17, 18% of the vote.
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I think they ended up getting like 22% of the vote or something like that.
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So in places like University Rosedale, in Stephen Gilboa's Montreal riding,
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I really want to see where the NDP and the Bloc Québécois is.
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Obviously, we always want to see the Conservatives doing better.
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And actually, the best chance the Conservatives have to win another riding
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which is kind of in a more conservative part of the GTA.
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Because while he was able to win his seat back in 2025,
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it is an area of town where there is a lot more growth in conservative voting,
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like policy issues that Polly runs on in terms of crime,
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but also just because the Liberal Party, much like the Greens, much like the NDP,
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And in places like, I believe he's in East York,
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you end up getting a lot of people in the Jewish community
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who just can no longer bring themselves to voting for the Liberals
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who seem to be soft on every single group out there who hates them.
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Anyways, I actually maybe want to end this video off
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looking at Erskine-Smith's results in this last election
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to see how feasible it would be to win this thing.
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where there's just no chance the Conservatives are going to win.
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Montreal, literally the Conservatives, are a fourth-place, fifth-place party.
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the Conservatives would get 4% or 5% of the vote only.
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In Beaches, East York, Erskine-Smith got 67% of the vote,
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but it is a place where conceivably the Conservatives could grow.
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Because, again, this used to be 16%, 14% party.
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But in the most recent election, the Conservatives are up to 23%.
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I am wrong to say that they could win the seat.
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I think I was assuming it was more like Eglinton Lawrence.
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Sometimes writing names are just annoying to say.
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where they actually could end up losing a bunch of seats
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just because of the friction inside the Liberal Party.
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why is this something that they're not covering?
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And not all of them are leaving maybe due to age.
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It's the same excuse that Matt Gennaro had from the Conservatives.
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Would Erskine-Smith leave if he was housing minister right now?
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Would Gilboa leave if he was environment minister
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as someone like Stephen Gilboa would have wanted them to do.
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They just passed a budget with the help of Elizabeth May
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But again, Gilboa wants them moving at 100 miles an hour,
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and right now Carney's moving at, like, 30 miles an hour.
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They're still doubling the industrial carbon tax.
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They're still passing their clean fuel standards
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because that guy's an actual, like, left-wing radical