00:02:14.260And I think that it's just democracy in action.
00:02:16.540Like, if that's not democracy, then what is? I mean, it's about exchange of ideas and trying to convince people, you know, that the way that you see things is the way to go forward. So I embrace it. And I think we give everybody a chance.
00:02:29.380yeah well and because he was right there he was justifying why maryland gladju was taken in by
00:02:35.280the liberals despite maryland previously being a fairly conservative conservative mp one of the
00:02:40.580more conservative ones again the democracy in action line oh if this is democracy then what is0.99
00:02:47.900oh my goodness even he knows that's stupid i always find every time i look at mark garrison0.99
00:02:53.340somehow he's sweating it doesn't matter what he's doing he's just always sweating like a water1.00
00:02:58.040Buffalo, no matter what is going on. It's like his pores are rejecting him. I don't know what,
00:03:04.100but now I'm just being cruel to Mark Gerritsen, but I don't feel bad about it. Anyways, now let's
00:03:09.980get into Kelly DeRitter talking about what the liberals are actually trying to do to get people
00:03:14.780to cross the floor, because I find her words quite telling about what is actually going on
00:03:20.780in the background. Now, obviously she doesn't have transcripts of liberals talking to her.
00:03:25.180she doesn't have audio tapes. But the details she does give us completely contradict what Mark
00:03:30.720Gerritsen and the House Leader Steve McKinnon have been saying. This isn't values. It's not
00:03:36.380principles being more in line with the Liberals. And so you're crossing the floor. They're doing
00:03:40.820such a good job. Or Mark Carney, such an amazing unifier, has nothing to do with that. Kelly
00:03:47.140DeRitter is going to tell you what it's actually all about. This isn't something Canadians have1.00
00:03:51.280ever seen before. A government trying to convince sitting MPs to switch sides just to build
00:03:57.460themselves a majority. I know because I was approached by them, because it happened directly
00:04:03.040to me. I can say plainly what that looked like. First, it was pressure. I was told a candidate
00:04:09.160would be running Kitchener Centre with support from both the Liberals and the Greens, and that
00:04:13.840I wouldn't stand a chance as a Conservative. You know what, I'm going to leave that up to the voters.
00:04:19.540When that didn't work, it turned into compliments.
00:04:23.220I was told they'd be watching my work on committees, especially on AI and digital policy,
00:04:28.120and that there could be a spot for me on their team.
00:04:30.660When that didn't land either, it became about benefits.
00:04:34.700I was told switching sides would be very good for my writing,
00:04:38.240giving Kitchener Centre's role as Canada's innovation capital.
00:04:43.480I am not turning my back on the people who elected me,
00:04:46.260and I am not going to help any government build power through backroom conversations.
00:04:52.200Canada is supposed to run on fair elections and straight answers.
00:04:56.800Backroom deals like this are not leadership.
00:05:00.120They're a sneaky power grab and Canadians shouldn't accept it.
00:05:04.860This is exactly why they need to keep committee structure as elected, not recruited.
00:05:10.800Yeah, and what she's saying there at the very end is a comment on how the Liberals are now using the newly gotten majority, not through an election, to reshuffle all the committees, including public accounts and ethics.
00:05:24.280Really, you need to reshuffle ethics to hammer through your legislation. It has nothing to do with it. It's an accountability measure on Parliament.
00:05:31.580And for some reason, that one desperately needed to be reshuffled.
00:05:35.780We need to add a few more liberals onto it to make sure that finance minister Francois
00:05:40.180Philippe Champagne never has to testify.
00:05:42.420Well, let's go through what she said the liberals were offering her because she actually got
00:05:48.420Number one was basically they're saying you should come over because we're going to run
00:05:52.920a strong candidate against you next time.
00:05:54.600And we've gotten the Greens on board into not running a candidate so that they will
00:05:58.740so that the left vote will be more consolidated around the liberal and you who only won by a
00:06:03.640couple percentage points are going to be wiped out because the liberal vote plus the green vote
00:06:07.900is already more than what you have and look at the polls right now okay strike one that is not
00:06:14.820a principled reason to have somebody cross the floor for their re-election does it have do they
00:06:20.360agree with the liberals on anything well no but you could get a re-elected easier that's really bad
00:06:25.500The second one is basically saying, well, you're so good. You're just so good on the AI file and digital security file. You know what? We might have a place for you in our party. We could maybe have you be like the parliamentary secretary to the AI minister.
00:06:42.080I think it's Evan Solomon right now. That's a bribe, by the way. That is saying that for no principled reason, you can come over here and we'll give you a job that pays more money because parliamentary secretaries do indeed get paid more money than just a base level MP.
00:06:58.780you can get paid more to be just an adjunct assistant minister to somebody else if you
00:07:04.660cross over. Again, no conversation about where we may overlap on the issues. No conversation about
00:07:10.420how this could actually be good for your riding. And then number three, this is another form of a
00:07:15.840bribe and in fact is effectively an anti-bribe. Well, if you stay as a conservative, you know,
00:07:23.080maybe Kitchener Center is just not going to get the federal investments that you want.
00:07:27.520But maybe that riding is not going to get the innovation grants, and it's just not going to get any of the tech subsidies that we're throwing around. This is like a mafia shakedown. You know, that's a nice riding you have right there. It would be pretty bad if someone set fire to it or something like that.
00:07:46.320oh, it would be pretty bad if the Green happened to not be running so that the Liberal could get
00:07:50.980rid of you in the next election. This is, you know, it shouldn't be that difficult for me to
00:07:56.800express to you that this is very sleazy. And this goes completely against what that, you know,
00:08:04.740villain character Mark Gerritsen was saying was going on. Oh, people after spending a lot of time
00:08:10.720in the House of Commons just realized we line up so well on the issues. Really? Marilyn, glad you
00:08:16.440had been ripping you guys for her entire career. Just suddenly realized she loves the Liberals.1.00
00:08:21.080She just loves them. Chris Dontremont, a former progressive conservative politician in Nova
00:08:25.720Scotia and two to three term conservative MP. Oh, just suddenly loves the Liberals. It just so
00:08:31.400happened that he was also really ticked off about not getting to be the deputy speaker and make an
00:08:35.940extra $15,000 a year. It just so happens. Michael Ma, first-term guy, connections with the CCP,
00:08:43.220just happens to cross the floor after just being in office for like six months. Oh, he just didn't
00:08:48.960realize that he was really a liberal at heart the entire time. In fact, he probably is just a
00:08:53.240communist at heart, but you know, whatever. And then we even have Laurie Idlow to the NDP who
00:08:58.140crossed and Matt Jenneru, who in fact actually lives where I'm currently sitting in Victoria
00:09:03.800and has been fibbing to stay elected in his conservative riding of Edmonton Riverbend.
00:09:11.000He didn't want to run as a liberal there, but he also didn't want to have to change riding.
00:09:15.200So he was just running for whatever party got him into office.
00:09:17.660So we see with the people who did cross the floor that Kelly DeRitter's, you know,
00:09:23.720basically what she's, the story she's telling kind of lines up with all of them, except Marilyn Gladjew.
00:09:29.920Marilyn Gladjew, from, again, talking to former MPs,
00:09:49.320they started investing heavily in Nunavut right before she crossed the floor.
00:09:53.260We have, with Matt Jenneru, needing to find an easier riding to run in,
00:09:58.160And, well, you know, Edmonton Riverbend, he can't keep up appearances that he lives there forever when he doesn't. So why not become a liberal right in time to change writings to Victoria in the next election?
00:10:09.260For Chris Dontremont, he also had been telling people, not only did he want the deputy speaker role, he also was lamenting the fact that he only won the last election in Nackety, Annapolis, and Nova Scotia just by 1% of the vote.
00:10:22.700Although, you know, he's actually probably, a conservative's probably going to beat him next time, because he only won by 1%, but in previous elections he was winning by like 14%, and that was kind of an outlier election because the NDP lost like 90% of their vote and it mostly went liberal and he still won.
00:10:39.260But regardless, he's overreacted and then went to the Liberals.0.97
00:10:43.240Michael Ma is just like corrupt as heck.0.96
00:10:45.060I don't think we really need to go into that one.0.97
00:10:46.660But all of them line up into the three categories that Kelly Derrida laid out.