00:00:00.000It's so predictable you could set your watch to it.
00:00:03.940After Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals were embarrassed by a second month of terrible falling job numbers,
00:00:10.980the Canadian legacy media has immediately pivoted to attacking Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives.
00:00:17.480We talked a little bit about this yesterday when Polyev was hit with a ridiculous question about his leadership at a press conference about job losses,
00:00:26.000but now the CBC has done an entire segment just talking about Pierre Polyev.
00:00:32.140Let's not talk about all the Canadians losing their jobs
00:00:34.720and the fact that Mark Carney is not the financial wizard he sold himself as,
00:00:38.960you know, the guy currently running the country.
00:00:41.420No, no, no, let's attack Pierre Polyev
00:00:43.900because Scott Aitchison is going to retire at the end of the year.
00:01:16.120It does make the channel more sustainable for me and allows me to be less reliant on
00:01:20.700the very finical or finical pickle the very fickle youtube algorithm it's the morning still i don't
00:01:28.220say words properly but here is pure poly of getting this awful question from laura stone at
00:01:34.140his press conference yesterday good morning mr polyeth laura stone globe and mail um i want to
00:01:42.300ask about what's going on with your caucus with scott ageson now leaving we've got eight people
00:01:46.620who have departed he talked today in an interview with the star about potentially more people on
00:01:52.780their way out he talked about caucus being somewhat demoralized i wonder a what are you
00:01:57.260doing as the leader of this party to ensure no more members leave your caucus and b what do you
00:02:02.860tell those mps who have been in opposition for several years who are now looking into the future1.00
00:02:08.300thinking i don't think or i don't know if i'll ever be in government this is such a lame stupid0.94
00:02:14.540question because it relies on anonymous sources or hypothetical scenarios there could be mps very0.98
00:02:20.700disappointed in you right now in your caucus because they're not currently a minister and
00:02:25.100what would you say to all these people fearing for their jobs or thinking about retiring early
00:02:30.300just like begging the question assuming that this is all true and now he has to answer for this
00:02:36.300hypothetical scenario where a bunch of people in his caucus are silently mad for him this was at
00:02:41.340at a press conference about job numbers where they were standing in front of a steel plant
00:02:45.800where 500 people had just lost employment. And I thought Polly have answered it very well here.
00:02:51.960Well, listen, I think it's amazing that here I am standing in front of an idle steel facility
00:02:57.160where there are hundreds of people now out of a job who are going home tonight and don't know
00:03:02.220how they're going to put groceries on their table, who are going to be missing mortgage payments in
00:03:07.300a couple of weeks. They joined with the 68,000 Canadians who lost their job last month. And the
00:03:15.42056% of Canadians who don't own a home and believe they never will. And, you know, the last year and
00:03:23.480a half, the media has asked about me, but they don't ask Prime Minister Carney about the people
00:03:27.780that left his caucus, the people that are losing their jobs, the people who are on the other side
00:03:32.680of the water who don't know how they're going to pay their bills. And he's actually more right
00:03:37.420about this than you think. You could say, well, of course they asked Mark Carney about job numbers.
00:03:42.660Yeah, but they never make it personal. They never say, well, what do you say to all the people
00:03:46.560that your elbows up strategy is working when we just had 70,000 people lose their jobs last month?
00:03:52.240It never gets asked that sort of like pointedly to the prime minister. And yes, every time we have
00:03:58.860bad news for the liberals, suddenly we start scrutinizing every single person who leaves
00:04:04.160office early in the Conservative Party when it's happened eight separate times to the liberals
00:04:09.100already. Except in those cases, it wasn't some hacky person who ended up crossing the floor
00:04:14.560like Chris Dontremont or Michael Ma. It's usually somebody who everyone knows has a well-documented
00:04:22.320dislike of Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, Stephen Gilbeau, Jonathan Wilkinson,
00:04:29.280Nader Skine-Smith. Others have also left. Bill Blair was extremely upset. He was basically stuck
00:04:34.300in the backbench despite the fact he used to be a minister and the chief of police for Toronto.
00:04:40.100He felt disrespected, so he left early and took a different job somewhere else. But the media never
00:04:45.120goes into those background stories on what is causing dysfunction around Mark Carney.
00:04:49.920they only ever asked Pierre Polyev these pointed questions. But now I want to move on to the CBC
00:04:55.700coverage because they spent half of the power and politics segment yesterday just attacking Polyev
00:05:02.060and saying, oh my goodness, he was crashing out because he was asked this question. Yes,
00:05:06.260it was a ridiculous question. And that's not crashing out. That was him pushing back on a0.99
00:05:11.160question being very unfair and very inappropriate considering the circumstances. Kind of sympathetic
00:05:17.500at it to the idea that sometimes you get asked questions that that don't seem to be about the
00:05:21.380most important issues right but he's the leader of a party and he does have people who are leaving
00:05:26.600and he does have to answer that question what he did there uh yeah but why is mark carney never
00:05:32.340asked the same questions sure there's a time and place for every question was it that day where
00:05:37.720scott aitchison had actually already announced that he was going to retire like a week ago
00:05:41.660and then laura stone asks him that question at that press conference that was all about jobs
00:05:47.080He has had other press conferences before when Scott Aitchison had announced at the end of the year he's going to be retiring.
00:05:53.740But she waited on it to deploy the question on the day where obviously the news cycle should be about job losses and what the heck is Mark Carney doing.0.95
00:06:02.400Instead, she disrupts the press conference to ask him a stupid inside baseball question about what's going on inside his party.0.95
00:06:09.860from you know like turning on a reporter as he has done many times before but what he did there0.99
00:06:15.300was take something that he could have easily batted away and turned it into an issue that
00:06:19.880that that actually uh sort of gives us more of a display of who he is than what the issues are that
00:06:25.940he was trying to highlight and so if you don't play the play along with the game and you don't
00:06:29.960agree to the insane premise that yes I'm a very unpopular leader that is why Scott Aitchison is
00:06:35.080leaving yes that is why I've had floor crossers I just suck so bad if you if you push back on1.00
00:06:39.720the premise then it's like oh my goodness he's attacking reporters and and being unwilling to1.00
00:06:44.500actually uh you know answer straight questions it's like it's a bad question so apparently
00:06:49.180either you have to agree to the insane premise or you're like battling with the media in in a way
00:06:55.340that makes it your fault by rejecting the idea it's also so much of it is not true i mean you
00:07:00.780know all leaders get asked when when people leave their you know no matter which party
00:07:05.540Stephen Gabo, Bill Blair, Christopher Freeland, Jonathan Wilkinson.
00:07:08.900Yes, they were all asked and on, right?
00:07:21.300Mark Carney was never grilled by reporters of why he lost, like,
00:07:24.020three or four MPs in, like, a couple of months earlier in the year.
00:07:28.140You have to answer them and then find a way to answer them
00:07:31.060so that you can then move on to what it is that you really want to talk about
00:07:33.980instead of what he did there which was to actually make that the issue i do think small
00:07:38.380ticks is a clever turn of phrase i i will give him that and he actually did turn the question
00:07:44.300to what he wanted to talk about it was very well done actually he focused the he refocused things
00:07:50.620on the job losses and actually shamed the media for seemingly not caring about these people losing
00:07:56.060their jobs and instead going pivoting on to as paulia said there into the small ticks of what's
00:08:02.220going on inside of this caucus they get asked questions about you know and and he enjoyed that
00:08:08.460very very much just you know two short years ago so i do think it speaks to the way he became leader
00:08:14.060and that the fact that the liberals pulling you know started to go very very very very down and
00:08:20.540he benefited from that but he still sounds like 2024 when he was talking to today about what
00:08:26.220mr jolie has to do and i thought who are you speaking on behalf of an incredible shrinking
00:08:31.020caucus you have 28 in the policy see i know he is the liberal hack greg mccacher and on this panel
00:08:37.180but i again this is the game and he's actually just saying it outright yes you're he's trying
00:08:42.700to grill melanie jolie and on the and the liberal cabinet for failing on so many of these issues and
00:08:49.180melanie jolie very clearly never made stelco or any other company actually signed something
00:08:55.340legally binding requiring them to keep certain amounts of people employed she messed up on that
00:09:00.940And when Pierre Polyev is basically saying, well, you guys better be putting forward a legal challenge on Monday, you better be doing this and that, and this is how you could probably fix some of these economic problems, Greg McEachern here just kind of leans back and says, people left your caucus.
00:09:15.260This whole idea, we can dismiss anything Polyev says by going to caucus problems.
00:09:22.040Oh, he had, he had, he's losing the great Scott, Scott Aitchison.
00:09:26.660I don't care if Scott Aitchison is leaving.
00:09:28.520he's a massive urbanite red Tory type conservative. I don't care that he's going. He can go. It
00:09:34.720doesn't matter to me. How does this have anything to do with the fact we've had two months of massive
00:09:40.680job losses at the same time the Americans are massively increasing the number of jobs?
00:09:50.040Sorry, I had to bring the thing back up on screen. Just one of those little things I mess up in the
00:09:56.480polls and you sound like these demands are you know you're so forceful it sounds exactly like
00:10:01.920he was a couple years ago and people when people wanted change they would listen to short messages
00:10:06.580that just were more about rhetoric they were they don't listen to that now in the same way
00:10:11.320and look in opposition there are plenty of things that you could do and we've talked a lot about how
00:10:16.640the conservatives just make noise the recently when uh seafood was going to be uh in a retaliatory
00:10:23.500tariff and was removed yeah uh justin ling mentioned that in his column last weekend i
00:10:29.460talked to an atlantic liberal mp this week and they were working furiously internally to get
00:10:35.420that done and they were sure that conservative mps were going to beat them to the punch
00:10:39.880and make it a public issue and then which they could have easily done and taken credit for it
00:10:44.660but they never did there are things that they could be doing concrete things and they don't
00:10:50.340Yeah, the reference to Jolie, Fred, just for people at home, is Melanie Jolie has sent a letter to the parent company of Stelco, giving them until Tuesday to rescind their layoffs for face legal action.
00:11:19.820he's not just sitting there behind her and she says Tuesday and he's like Monday his whole point
00:11:24.680is that it should have already been done so why are we waiting extra days but going back to what
00:11:29.020Greg McEachern was saying there about well there's these other issues they could have been jumping on
00:11:33.140if they did jump on those issues Greg McEachern would find an excuse to not actually care about
00:11:38.140their opposite like what they said because he seems to have this idea that because the liberal
00:11:43.100government is not literally falling apart right now that you criticizing them is like criticizing
00:11:47.960Canada itself. Now I want to jump over to what Fred DeLore said on this panel, because he is
00:11:53.680supposed to be the resident conservative on the CBC Power and Politics panel, but he is a just
00:12:00.140red Tory hack at this point in his life. People will bring up, oh, he did great things for Stephen
00:12:05.560Harper in 2011. And it's like, okay, sure. What have you done for me lately? I don't care. You
00:12:10.420used to be good. I care about how you finished the race, not how you started the race. And on the CBC,
00:12:15.620He has just turned into somebody who naysays Polyev as the guy who you would assume would be actually offering some, you know, advocacy on behalf of what conservatives believe.
00:12:26.220And he's always just critiquing how Polyev goes about his business.
00:12:29.900Frustration. Is that just the inability to set the narrative anymore, set the agenda to come into play? Or what do you think it is?
00:12:36.260Yeah, look, it's all of our issues boiling to the top right now.
00:12:39.680There's no question morale is very bad in caucus.
00:12:41.740We've lost our eighth member and there's rumors of more to go.