Pierre-Olivier Polyev calls out the media for not asking tough questions about the Carney's trade trip, and why they should have been asked the tough questions. I love when stuff like this happens, and this interview does a great job of dismantling her fake neutrality.
00:00:16.020Barton is one of these obviously liberal-leaning reporters who puts on the affectation of being neutral,
00:00:23.880but we all know that she is not neutral.
00:00:26.260And I think this interview does a great job of dismantling her fake neutrality,
00:00:32.560because Pierre Polyev basically calls out not only Barton, but the rest of the media,
00:00:37.400for not asking very basic questions of Mark Carney's trade tour that he's been on around Europe and now Asia.
00:00:45.560What has Carney actually accomplished?
00:00:47.820Well, Rosemary and many other liberal reporters have never actually asked the question or pressed on the issue.
00:00:53.640In fact, we basically do not see reporting on that topic outside of places like the Western Standard
00:00:59.680and the National Post and True North's wire service for Juno News.
00:01:05.240When you read the CBC or the Globe and Mail or Citi TV, you will always just get the neutral,
00:01:12.660and this is fake neutrality, the neutral reporting that Carney's out there trying to make deals.
00:01:17.500They never actually follow through, follow back up, and say, well, did we get a deal?
00:01:22.280Is this actually going to help us out?
00:01:24.320You know, those are what a good reporter would do, but they do this fake neutrality where they just act as stenographers for the media.
00:01:31.460But if a conservative says something, suddenly we need experts, suddenly we need other people to come in and tell us why the conservative is wrong.
00:01:38.820There's tons of follow-up questions, and in many cases, these are good follow-up questions, but it's never put to the liberals.
00:01:45.840They'll sometimes do it to the NDP when they're trying to defend the liberals,
00:01:48.940but it's mostly only against the conservatives that these tough follow-up questions are asked.
00:01:54.580So let's get into the tape here because it is quite great, and of course I'm going to give a shout-out to CBC Watcher on X,
00:02:02.480who does a great job clipping the CBC so people like myself don't have to.
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00:02:39.580But now, without further ado, let's get into this exchange between Pierre Polyev and Rosemary Barton.
00:02:46.620It seems like everywhere Mark Carney goes, with his grand meetings and photo ops, we end up with more tariffs.
00:02:55.360His failures abroad are costing us at home.
00:02:57.660He met with the Chinese president, you know, and they made a decision that their officials were going to get together and try and solve the trade irritant.
00:03:04.340He is trying to make some progress, you know, you don't see those things as a bit of progress.
00:03:08.620What progress? Can you name one tariff line that he's reduced abroad?
00:03:25.520Rosemary is almost blindsided by the fact that Pierre Polyev actually has good questions of what Carney is doing.
00:03:32.360She's like, well, you know, they have another meeting scheduled with the Chinese president's team.
00:03:37.200Who cares? Like, what are we talking about?
00:03:39.900Why do we have tariffs on at all with the Chinese government?
00:03:43.800I know that we have tariffs on some of their electric vehicles, although that is actually something where there's a good argument.
00:03:49.160You should put tariffs on China trying to dump, just waste electric vehicles into our economy because no one wants to buy them there either.
00:03:58.120So they just dump them into our market, which actually lowers the price of better quality electric vehicles.
00:04:53.860I said that I would face President Trump and the rest of the world from a position of strength.
00:04:58.740Right now, we're in a position of weakness.
00:05:00.520The Americans know we can't sell our goods to anyone else because we don't have pipelines and LNG plants to get our most valuable export to other markets.
00:05:08.720I would pass the Canadian Sovereignty Act, which would rapidly greenlight and legalize pipelines, LNG plants, and other infrastructure.
00:05:17.780But the government is doing some of that.
00:05:19.300There's an LNG plant that's happening.
00:05:21.780There's a group approved by Stephen Harper.
00:05:23.400All they're doing is, like, slightly expanding an old LNG plant.
00:06:04.940They could have also just gotten rid of many of the laws that are holding up pipelines rather than creating a new bureaucracy that they didn't even need to try and do end runs around their own bad laws.
00:06:16.520Like, again, if this was explained to Canadians properly, and it's not a conservative thing to do.
00:06:24.300If they basically just said, oh, well, they're trying to create this Major Projects Office because things like Bill C-69 and Bill C-48 exist and in B.C.
00:06:33.420DRIPA exists and then the federal government also recognizes UNDRIP and that's why we can't get anything done.
00:06:39.780So they're going to create this Major Projects Office that's supposed to try and fast track them through these issues.
00:06:44.400More people would probably just ask, why don't we just repeal all those stupid laws so we don't need another bureaucracy to maybe one day hopefully try and speed up a project a little bit.
00:06:55.740It's so pathetic that this person has a television show that's subsidized by the taxpayers and they cannot ask the most basic questions of the liberal government.
00:07:05.440That's the goal. We're seven months in and the clock is ticking.
00:07:08.800I think we've been through enough goal setting and now it's time for results achieved and we're not getting any results.
00:07:16.220Mr. Carney won't even tell us if he supports an oil pipeline to the Pacific.
00:07:21.340His energy minister says it's just too hypothetical.
00:08:16.860And that means doing what I was sent here to do by the record 8.3 million people who voted for us, which is to fight for an affordable life, fight for our young people to be able to afford homes, fight for parents to be able to have safe streets for their kids to grow up on.
00:08:31.800And that's the job I'm doing, and that's why I believe I'll win the support of both the party and the country.
00:08:37.220And you think that the party will be willing to give you a second chance?
00:08:40.560Because the last time they did that was Stephen Harper.
00:09:29.380I just wanted to point out, I wanted to let the rest of that play out, to just point out the fact that she had more follow-ups about his leadership review in January.
00:09:39.160Oftentimes, like, the same question, just rephrased slightly.
00:09:42.660She wanted to spend more time on that, which is, frankly, kind of a nothing burger of a story, especially in early November.
00:09:49.160Like, this isn't until later in January.
00:09:52.320And we are asking multiple follow-ups on that one.
00:09:55.360But we are cutting off the conversation early, which was actually interesting, about what the liberals are accomplishing on trade.
00:10:04.080What they've accomplished in general for major projects or for actually trying to bring business back to Canada.
00:10:09.940In fact, $60 billion plus has fled from Canada to the United States because of just how poorly, like, how poor business confidence is in Mark Carney's government.
00:10:22.600But, like, in this clip, it was, like, 50% talking about the trade issues and then 50% her asking about the January leadership review.
00:10:33.740But within that first 50%, Polyev was doing most of the topic talking, and Rosemary Barton was trying to obfuscate and move off the topic as much as possible.
00:10:43.580Oh, well, you know, yeah, you're saying all this about Carney, but, well, how would you fix it?
00:10:47.780And then he had a really good answer, and she's like, oh, well, let's move on to your leadership review.
00:10:52.460It's nakedly transparent what's going on.
00:10:55.000Well, let's jump over to another interview that was also on Rosemary Barton Live.
00:10:59.340And that was NDP interim leader Don Davies saying that he is looking for basically a bunch of new giveaways in order to support the federal budget.
00:11:10.800I said, yeah, it was the NDP interim leader Don Davies here.
00:11:15.000If the liberals try and please Don Davies to get him on side, they're complete fools.
00:11:19.160And the thing is for the liberals is that they may be right in just ignoring the NDP because the NDP doesn't have the ability to go to an election right this moment because they're in the middle of a leadership race at the moment.
00:11:32.080And they may just, like, abstain and let the liberals pass the budget with less opposition.
00:11:38.580But I just want to get to this because it's just let's contrast the interviews with Polyev and then Don Davies.
00:11:46.680So, yeah, we have we have said that we want a budget that invests, you know, cutting good family sustaining jobs that exist in the public service at a time when we want to create jobs doesn't seem right to us.
00:12:00.480But, you know, we're going to see where the cuts are.
00:12:02.020You know, there was also a lot of rumours.
00:12:03.560There was a rumour that the government was going to cut the wage program, the women and gender equity program.
00:12:08.280And we saw it came out that they announced that they're going to be funding it.
00:12:11.360So that's why I think it's really important to take a good, thorough look at the budget, analyze it as a whole and see if those investments are there, particularly on the investment side.
00:12:20.240If there's projects of national importance for building high speed rail between Windsor and Quebec and supporting mine development in partnership with indigenous people for putting people who work across this country with good jobs, you know, that has to be taken into account as well.
00:12:35.540I don't see. I mean, you tell me, do you want an election?
00:12:38.340You're the interim leader. There's other things going on with the party.
00:12:41.720Where was the follow up question on if there was any sort of wasteful spending that Don Davies would be OK with cutting?
00:12:49.500That's the problem is that the bias on the CBC is so obviously to the left that it just seemed natural not to even wonder if cutting things could be considered a good thing.
00:12:59.620And let's be clear, the liberals are not really cutting anything.
00:13:02.760They are redistributing their own budget towards different areas.
00:13:06.420Maybe it's going to reduce some inefficiencies here or there, but they're not actually reducing the size of the budget.
00:13:11.800The budget's going up. That is why we are running a massive deficit this year and probably next year as well, because they're not actually cutting spending.
00:13:20.380They're just moving spending from this area over to this other area.
00:13:23.800Maybe more subsidies or maybe they're going to try and fund some more infrastructure projects.
00:13:28.820Yeah, maybe some of the infrastructure projects are, you know, positive overall.
00:13:33.040But if you're not actually reducing bloat out of the budget and they're going to be doing very minor cuts, we're not getting anywhere.
00:13:39.420We're pretending we're getting somewhere, but we're not actually moving in the right direction in a significant way.
00:13:45.360But again, we're just going right on to, oh, do you want an election?
00:13:48.280No question about whether or not the government actually has gotten too bloated over time and whether the NDP's philosophy of just the government creating jobs is a right one.
00:13:57.140Yeah, you know, it's the other thing is it's not about us.
00:14:00.960Like the reason I think the context is so important is because I think this budget should be about Canadians.
00:14:05.400It shouldn't be about partisan interests and parties jockeying as to whether it's good or bad for them to have an election.
00:14:11.800Personally, I don't think Canadians want an election is my feel.
00:14:16.940It's only been six months since the last one.
00:14:18.920And frankly, given the serious issues facing us, I'm not sure that an election is good for the country at the moment.
00:14:26.140But, you know, as Mr. McKinnon said, people have won an election.
00:14:30.700But if an election is necessary, then we're prepared to fight one.
00:14:35.080Like, again, we're it's just limp questioning from Rosemary Barton on specifically like, well, what what makes it too early for an election?
00:14:48.920Have the liberals done anything that actually deserve them sticking around for six more months?
00:14:53.000Or is it just because it's not been long enough since the last one?
00:14:56.400And like, obviously, she should have asked about, well, are you guys willing to do or are you going to wait until the leadership review is done first or the leadership race is done first for the NDP?
00:15:07.460I know that the clip would have gone on longer.
00:15:09.280And this is the CBC Watchers cut of it.
00:15:11.780But overall, the way that she was questioning Polly on his leadership review compared to and she didn't want to ask him about having an election because obviously he wants one and he's confident in moving towards an election.
00:15:23.080So we didn't have a question about that, but the question was put to Don Davies, who is a purely borderline irrelevant figure in Canadian politics.
00:15:31.720He's an interim leader who doesn't really have the power to move his party into an election right now, but he's getting the significant national election questions, but not Polyev.
00:15:40.740We're going to badger Polyev over his leadership confidence vote in January, which he is very likely to pass.
00:15:54.380Like most people, he's not perfect, but I would say he's probably the best person to lead the party.
00:15:58.480And I've really liked the improvements he's made to the conservatives since the election loss, because unlike John Rustad in British Columbia and unlike many other conservative leaders, he hasn't gotten softer since the election.
00:16:09.640He's actually firmed up on areas where we thought he was going a little bit too soft when he was running against Carney in the general.
00:16:16.420Anyways, well, with that being said, thank you guys for watching this video.
00:16:20.120I will be back later talking about Doug Ford fighting more with Carney over the Reagan ad, and then BC Premier David Eby now backing off of his own anti-American advertising campaign.
00:16:33.500Anyways, until then, I'll see you guys later.