Marilyn Gladew has crossed the floor to join the Liberals, and we're here to talk about it. She's a fourth floor crosser from the Conservative Party, and it's the strangest one I can think of outside of Arnold Vearson.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and I am not going to finish the normal intro because the news cycle is too crazy for me to do that.
00:00:08.280So, we have another floor crosser. We have a fourth floor crosser from the Conservative Party joining the Kearney Liberals,
00:00:16.420and it is the strangest MP I could pretty much think of outside of, like, Arnold Vearson.
00:00:22.780Marilyn Gladjew has decided to cross the floor.
00:00:26.500And this makes no sense if you have followed Marilyn Gladjew's career at all.
00:00:31.640I thought this was a late April Fool's joke, but it is not.
00:00:36.140Marilyn Gladjew, who, if she crossed to another party, I would expect her to cross the Christian Heritage Party before the Liberals.
00:00:43.040But she has decided that she is now a Liberal.
00:00:47.300And we're going to break down the implications of this for Canadian politics.
00:00:51.900what i think motivates maryland gladju and you'd be shocked obviously this is not a principled floor
00:00:58.060crossing it's not because she lines up better with the liberals or on a very specific issue
00:01:02.380that's near and dear to her they're better i don't think it's that i also do not think it's bribery
00:01:09.420opportunism somebody wanting a higher position i think has nothing to do with that either which
00:01:14.540sounds strange because i would pretty much apply that to all the other floor crossings including
00:01:19.580the NDP floor crosser Lori Idlout, Matt Jenneru, Michael Ma, Chris Donchermont, Idlout. It's all
00:01:26.500personal gain in some way. With Marilyn Gladew, I think the key word here is revenge. I think that
00:01:34.980this is a revenge play against an individual or multiple individuals inside the Conservative Party
00:01:42.400because as we are going to get into here, her record is very conservative. She is like probably
00:01:48.860one of the top 10 most conservative members of parliament next to people like head falk arnold
00:01:54.840veerson and some of those other more rural saskatchewan or alberta social conservatives
00:02:00.160she's from sarnia lampton she won the last election by 53 previous elections she won by
00:02:06.860even more than that in fact she probably can't win re-election now no one would probably vote
00:02:12.220for her because in her riding they vote for conservatives they vote for conservative
00:02:16.440conservatives but anyways uh do the normal things like the video subscribe leave a comment consider
00:02:23.080hitting the join button becoming a member but i'm too tired of for all that rigmarole today
00:02:29.480so maryland glad you here says proud to be the newest member of our new liberal government
00:02:35.480dear citizens of sarnia lambton i don't know how to pronounce that the last year has been like no
00:02:42.760other in that canada has faced and i have heard clearly from constituents that you want serious
00:02:47.720leadership and a real plan to build a strong and more independent canadian economy that's why i
00:02:52.760have decided to join prime minister mark carney and canada's new government as the newest member
00:02:57.720of his caucus it is a privilege to have served as your member of parliament for more than a decade
00:03:02.760and i have made a choice to do the best thing for our community's priorities and importantly for our
00:03:07.400country the experience i gained working globally across blah blah blah blah blah blah blah this is
00:03:13.720it's nothing like i want to jump down to this like one of these last lines she says sarnia lambton
00:03:18.580has always was always a bellwether riding meaning that whoever our community elected as an mp was
00:03:23.700typically in government that was true for 52 years before the citizens here elected me four times
00:03:29.200throughout which i have served in opposition and done my best to advocate strongly for you
00:03:33.800Today, there is both the opportunity and the responsibility to build our country's strength and success with more constructive, collaborative approach.
00:03:41.880Like, she's acting like somehow she's now wanting to fall in line with a 52-year-old tradition before she was first elected in 2015.
00:03:51.560So you're saying even though your people kept returning you to office as an opposition MP for four elections, no, what the voters didn't realize is that they were falling outside of the arbitrary 52-year long tradition where Sarnia Lampton's MP was usually part of the government.
00:04:11.060It's like, okay, I guess that's how logic must work on your planet, Marilyn, but come on, I would have actually put her as one of my top 10 favorite MPs.
00:04:22.360She had a great moment in the legislature two weeks ago going after the liberals for appealing the Emergencies Act decision that struck down Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy saying it was illegal.
00:04:36.180She was still going at Steve McKinnon and the liberals on that issue.
00:04:39.820It was brilliant. And now she's joining the people that she thinks doesn't respect civil liberties, have been doing a trash job on the economy, are deeply corrupt and have big conflicts of interest.
00:04:52.360Right now, Carney is in a couple more scandals, one involving Michael Ma and China and one involving his finance minister, Francois Philippe Champagne, building a $90 billion train that only has five stops between Toronto and Quebec City, where his wife is the vice president of environment there.
00:05:08.360like this is the government that she is deciding to join but let's not dwell on some of those
00:05:14.660details for now i want to get into some of the media that came out around this issue we'll go
00:05:20.340to uh carney and maryland glad you having uh their little press moment in his office here uh and
00:05:28.100again i think this should prove to you just how empty this whole thing is maybe she's in her own
00:05:31.600office i'm not sure uh here is her and carney trying to make this whole thing make sense
00:05:37.420By the way, I'm going to keep feeding these things in as we go.
00:08:58.560We have 30% of the petrochemicals in the country,
00:09:01.720and we have the largest economic traffic across the Blue Water Bridge.
00:09:06.080And so we need a serious leader who can address the uncertainty
00:09:09.260that has arrived due to the unjustified American tariffs.
00:09:12.920Sorry, but that's contradictory. So you represent a riding that has 30% of the export traffic into the United States on the Blue Water Bridge. 30% of the exports over that bridge are coming from your riding.
00:09:28.520so you signed on with a guy who has not been able to actually get tariffs removed because he refuses
00:09:35.460to actually negotiate those petrochemicals are probably not going to make it to china
00:09:39.760no matter how big of a deal mark carney signs with the chinese government they're probably
00:09:44.580not going to care about the petrochemicals coming from sarnia lambton in southwestern ontario
00:09:49.320um so this all seems kind of like a fake reason it's like she's just kind of cobbling together
00:09:55.320words and hoping it makes a floor crossing speech and it's just not working out because like again
00:10:01.020if 30 percent of the exports that go over the blue water bridge come from your riding why are
00:10:07.720you throwing in with the guy who evidently doesn't know how to actually get rid of the tariffs and
00:10:12.220make a deal with donald trump like my goodness we need a global leader with a plan to make a more
00:10:18.980resilient canada a stronger canada more self-reliant canada for this critical moment and
00:10:24.860that man is our Prime Minister Mark Carney. He's invited me to bring my experience, my talents and
00:10:31.100my views into the large Liberal tent and I think that will have a better effect inside than it will
00:10:36.980outside and so I am happy to start working with my Liberal colleagues and the Prime Minister
00:10:41.960to build Canada strong. Who wants to bet that they're not actually going to listen to her more
00:10:48.060conservative ideas. This is just like a follow up out of nowhere. I think this is an elucidating
00:10:55.660video on to what Marilyn Gladju thinks about Mark Carney. Hey Marilyn Gladju here. A lot of people
00:11:01.240have been asking me, what do you think about Mark Carney? And so I thought I would let everyone know
00:11:05.800what I think about Mark Carney, starting off with the fact that he's been Justin Trudeau's
00:11:10.400economic advisor for the past five years. So he's part of the disastrous mess that has been created
00:11:16.780by the liberals in terms of the inflation the increased cost of everything and so i don't see
00:11:22.380that he is going to bring any change at all and when you look at who he has appointed as his chief
00:11:29.500of staff marco mendicino i mean marco mendicino was kicked out of cabinet for all of the lies
00:11:35.580that he told when he said that the police requested they enact the emergency measures act
00:11:40.860and the police clearly said they did not and when he said he didn't know anything about paul bernardo
00:11:46.060being transferred to a medium security prison and that turned out not to be true either um and then
00:11:52.220the transition team for mark carney he picked david lametti david lametti was the minister
00:11:57.340in the middle of the snc lavalin scandal so yeah uh good points against carney especially that he
00:12:05.340was trudeau's economic advisor for five years because shock gasp when you make the economic
00:12:11.740advisor to Trudeau, the prime minister, it turns out the economy is not going to improve and that
00:12:17.620we're going to basically stick with the exact same policies minus a couple little tinkering
00:12:22.720changes around the edges in order to kind of pretend like we've changed and we've somehow
00:12:29.720improved. So here's what Mark Carney had to say about all this. So we have Mark Carney here with
00:12:34.820his picture with Marilyn Gladju in his office. I assume it's his office. He says, at this important
00:12:40.280moment for our country's future. Canada, with a broad range of experience and perspectives,
00:12:44.780are uniting to build Canada strong. I am honoured to welcome Marilyn Gladjew today as the newest
00:12:49.000member of this government and our Liberal Caucus. In a time of global economic uncertainty,
00:12:53.320Canada's success will depend on how we build ambition into progress and strengthen to
00:12:58.260sustained advantage. Marilyn brings up the practical results-driven leadership this effort
00:13:03.340demands. I would love to know, with all of the job losses that Canada has suffered over the last
00:13:09.640few months how many of those people lost their jobs from her writing like come on people i i
00:13:17.040assume again i think this is a revenge play just because i'm explaining her logic to you by the
00:13:22.400way does not mean i support the logic i am trying to make sense out of something that is nonsensical
00:13:28.880but that's as that's the best explanation i can bring you guys this is all a revenge play
00:13:33.900And I'm about to bring up that, I'm about to bring that up in a second here, like where I think we're sort of seeing that evidence where this is just get back at Polyev or someone else in the Conservative Party, maybe Jenny Byrne or whoever.
00:13:47.360By the way, conservative party, like hire the 1BC team, hire us, including Dallas, hire us all. We can make everything function better. You got to find big issues to run on so that you're not constantly just basically hoping the liberals collapse.
00:14:07.000but then at the same time you hope people from your own party don't cross you need to find
00:14:12.060i don't know just a better communications path to be on they just let go carrie merrifield
00:14:17.620his opposition office communications director i thought she was pretty good i thought she was
00:14:22.780pretty good at her job for some reason there's staff turnover i don't know if it has anything
00:14:26.900to do with maryland glad you but come on we just need a different direction you can't just kind of
00:14:32.240keep taking side steps to the right you have to do something really big and bold or else like
00:14:38.280honestly polio could be on his last legs if he doesn't catch a moment doing the podcast tour
00:14:45.180is good but there needs to be the policy pivot that pairs with his bolder kind of media strategy
00:14:52.720there needs to be a bold policy agenda that makes sense with it uh but here is another post from
00:14:58.540Marilyn, glad you. Over the last 10 years, the Liberals have chipped away at our civil liberties,
00:15:02.880controlling what we say and what we can read and even what you own. And here's the video that
00:15:07.020comes along with it. Aiden's Charter writes, Liberals have sought to control what you see
00:15:11.680and say online. It started with Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, but it should have been
00:15:17.460called the Censorship Act. It gave the government powers to influence what content platforms promote,
00:16:15.760and, of course, a lot of experience as a politician.
00:16:18.180And she's going to be a great member of our team,
00:16:21.260lots of energy ideas, advice on a wide range of issues, including execution, getting things done.
00:16:28.260But they can't actually explain how her ideology marries with them,
00:16:32.340because obviously I think he's willing to take whoever he can get.
00:16:35.660Here's literally Marilyn Gladju from July 2025, standing up for Sean Foyt,
00:16:41.000who is being basically barred from being able to do events in Canada.
00:16:44.680Marilyn Gladju says, freedom alert, we have a free press, free speech problem in Canada,
00:16:48.820same liberals, same liberals, same censorship. As Chris Selle says of liberal MP Sean Casey and
00:16:55.320Shannon Medema, to respect free speech rights, you first have to understand them. These two
00:17:01.460clearly do not. Let's go to another clip that is very funny in hindsight now. Here is Marilyn
00:17:09.220Gladju fighting with now liberal MP Evan Solomon back when he was on CTV News. You say, where does
00:17:16.620it stop? Like, did you have a problem when the school system is asking if our kids have got their
00:17:21.020their polio vaccination? Well, I think, you know, in terms of the risk, people that got polio,
00:17:29.640many of them died and many of them were crippled. And that is not the same frequency of risk that
00:17:35.380we see with COVID-19, although COVID-19 has killed people, as you rightly pointed out.
00:17:39.740And so what I think we need to do is make sure we have-
00:17:43.420just i just have to be clear you're saying that covet's not as bad as polio like covet has killed
00:17:47.900significantly more people in a shorter time than polio did in canada i'm not i'm not trying to
00:17:51.740compare tragedy by by the way this is completely wrong uh the numbers were completely were skewed
00:17:56.620by bad counting for covet and it's like well yeah if you have a more miners disease that goes
00:18:02.700everywhere technically kills more people but that doesn't mean on an individual level it's more
00:18:06.220dangerous but now oh my goodness i don't want to be transported back to 2021 but but the medical
00:18:11.660I'm just trying, I know you're an engineer. I'm just receiving the information from medical
00:18:15.340experts that talk about the relative risk. I'm not a doctor myself. But they're saying,
00:18:20.620the president of the Canadian Medical Association has said mandatory vaccinations work,
00:18:24.620every medical association and Public Health Agency of Canada are saying these mandatory
00:18:30.860vaccinations are working. If you're listening to the data, wouldn't you support making sure
00:18:36.780everybody's vaccinated. Well I think there's multiple sources of data out there and that's
00:18:41.780part of the work of this caucus is to take a look at all of the different data and sort through it.
00:18:46.400So again she is very conservative as an MP and now again she's now a liberal. But I want to get
00:18:54.660to because we could go on and on and just showing how she obviously had completely different
00:18:58.920positions and now she's crossed. This is a comment I wanted to highlight from
00:19:06.160Lisa McLeod in response to a former conservative staff member. This Jim Burnett guy says,
00:19:15.260I always thought she was nuts, obviously talking about Marilyn Gladue. And Lisa McLeod here,
00:19:21.780who acts as kind of a talking head for conservatives on CTV News now, she says,
00:19:26.300Jim, I will never forget her indiscretion at Georgianne's going away party, I assume Georgianne is some staff member, senator, or something like that, openly criticizing Pierre for muzzling her right-wing views to anyone too polite to walk away from her.
00:19:42.240Carney was literally welcomed someone Pierre thought was too right-wing bonkers.
00:19:46.920Now, the thing about this is Rick Perkins and some of these other people, and I like Rick Perkins,
00:19:52.960some of these people are talking about how it shows how unprincipled she is
00:19:56.520because she was complaining about Polyev, muzzling her for being too right-wing.
00:20:01.180This is where I bring in the revenge angle.
00:20:06.060Because her last time that she spoke in question period was quite good,
00:20:09.540but if you would notice the timing, she was basically stuck at the very last part of question period,
00:20:15.220the day before the weekend when nobody's really even in the house. It's like, you know,
00:20:20.540third of the MPs are maybe even sitting down at all, if even that many. They stalk her at the very
00:20:25.540end. She had this big impassioned moment. She got a lot of media attention. And I'm wondering if she
00:20:30.820basically did that as a bit of a show to the party. Let's get aggressive. Let's do it this way.
00:20:37.920Let's be more conservative if we're going to take on these liberals. We can't just be slightly more
00:20:42.280conservative than the current liberals. And on certain policies, I think the conservatives are
00:20:45.980much better. On other policies, I think the conservatives are not differentiating themselves
00:20:49.500enough. I'm wondering, and I'm not endorsing her joining the liberals. This is a stupid,
00:20:55.980stupid move. But what I'm wondering if what she's doing is basically saying, you won't let me be
00:21:02.480more right wing. You won't let me say what I want to say. You're basically giving me no time
00:21:07.520in question period. And once in a while, what do you do? You stick me at the very end on the verge
00:21:12.260of a weekend. Well, if we're going to act like the Liberals, maybe I'm just going to go and join
00:21:16.760the Liberals and just be able to join a caucus and see if I can make change from there. I am
00:21:22.240wondering if that is what's going on here. She got ticked off for not being listened to, and then so
00:21:26.840she just left. And it had nothing to do with opportunism, has nothing to do with her thinking
00:21:31.220that she's going to get her agenda passed easier than the Liberals, has nothing to do with being
00:21:36.200bribed or anything like that. She's obviously not leaving for principled reasons. She's leaving to
00:21:41.240basically summer nose at the conservative party establishment say well what's the point of even
00:21:46.420being here i might as well just join the government at least i can say i'm a government mp
00:21:50.540anyways but again i'm not enjoying endorsing anyone to leave but this is where i would say hey
00:21:56.260conservatives you should kind of copy 1bc a little bit and make it so that you're not some of the
00:22:02.360guys who left before are purely opportunists you really can't do anything to keep them other than
00:22:06.880have better nominations and elect better people locally through your party members you got to
00:22:13.560nominate better people but in terms of people like maryland glad you i wonder if there's a
00:22:18.300certain type of mp saying maybe i'm even on the right wing of the conservative party but if i'm
00:22:24.700stuck in the corner not allowed to say anything maybe i want to retire saying i was at least
00:22:29.120a deputy as at least a parliamentary secretary or a minister or at least i was part of the
00:22:34.360government for once i'm going to do something audacious right before i retire i don't think
00:22:38.780glad you're actually going to run again but the conservative party needs to run on bolder policy
00:22:43.900because if you and because a big thing that's going to stop floor crossers is gaining in the
00:22:49.360polls and bolder transformative policy solutions policy proposals are how you rise in the polls
00:22:57.160look at 1bc we touch every third rail you're not supposed to touch and we keep rising because it's
00:23:03.240the things people care about. Conservatives need to actually run on a massive tax cut. They need
00:23:08.000to run for more parental rights. They need to run a softly pro-life agenda. They need to be
00:23:12.760significantly different from the Liberals. Now, I think they are significantly different, but
00:23:17.820to the untrained eye of the member of the public, everything kind of morphs together a little bit.
00:23:24.100Yes, the Conservative Party is significantly different than the Liberals, and the government
00:23:27.260on their Conservatives would be way better. But you need to have a high amount of volume
00:23:32.040on your agenda, you have to have a very flamboyantly different agenda from the current
00:23:37.800government or the average person who's not a deep political watcher is not really going to notice
00:23:42.680because they don't really follow the news that much. And if they do follow the news,
00:23:45.600they're probably reading global news and the CBC who are not actually showing how the conservatives
00:23:51.220are better or they're not demonstrating what the conservative platform is properly to inform a
00:23:57.140voter but anyway so there's a lot of other stuff uh here maybe this is a couple interesting things
00:24:04.500from the left on this is that in a certain sense this is kind of opening up the liberals to attack
00:24:10.000from the bloc and the ndp here is bloc quebecois leader uh blanchette going after the liberals for
00:24:17.180now being a uniparty the ideological differences between the liberals and the conservatives
00:24:23.480is getting are getting thinner and thinner by the minute and if you are a progressive liberal
00:24:32.360in that liberal caucus you must start asking yourself who the hell is talking for me
00:24:40.660in that caucus and in that party so yeah that was the bloc kebecois response to this and i want to
00:24:48.680bring up something else because i think this is interesting in the aftermath and i think you're
00:24:54.780going to see a lot of this in the aftermath of maryland glad you crossing the floor you saw this
00:25:00.680uh liberal lisa kirby not a liberal mp of course but just one of those kind of like liberal voters
00:25:08.000somebody who's very active in politics says as a progressive liberal i'd rather a general election
00:25:14.040than taking anti-gay anti-abortion conservatives so yeah like her characterization of like of glad
00:25:23.040you was like anti-gay or whatever is obviously like liberal hyperbole and whatnot but i'm
00:25:27.740wondering if this is actually going to open up the opportunity now for the ndp to win seats in
00:25:33.440toronto because now the liberals can't attack the conservative party as being like the convoy party
00:25:39.080Oh, you guys are the anti-woman's rights party because apparently wanting unborn children not to die is against other people's rights.
00:25:48.080But they can no longer actually attack the Conservatives on all these social and cultural kind of issues because they literally have Marilyn Gladchew in their caucus.
00:25:57.000Now, I'm not trying to say this is a great silver lining, but it is a silver lining that Avi Lewis might actually be able to win in Beaches, East York,
00:26:05.460Once Nate Erskine-Smith leaves the Liberal Party federally and becomes the Ontario Liberal candidate for Scarborough Southwest's provincial by-election, federally, Avi Lewis could run in that very progressive riding and win on the idea that the Liberals are now no longer real progressives.
00:26:24.320Now, we all know the Liberals are not going to budge on social policy and Gladju is not going to have any influence on what they do.
00:26:39.160Anyways, with all this being said, very disappointing. Canadian politics remains insane all the time, and I'll be back later with more stuff, probably about this, probably about stuff happening in British Columbia, but now I need to take a mental break for a few hours and come back and look at the news a bit later.
00:26:58.820Anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys for watching.