In this episode, I talk about the backlash to former Prime Minister Kim Campbell's criticism of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poutine, and why maybe he's not the right PM. I also talk about why I'm running for the Conservative nomination in Calgary and why you should vote for me.
00:00:00.000Two days ago, Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev's political career was sent into an utter death spiral because former Prime Minister Kim Campbell came out to criticize him, saying he is a hate monger and that the current Conservative Party no longer represents her values.
00:00:15.980Like myself, you've probably all already ripped up your Conservative Party memberships and joined the Liberal Party dedicated to vote for another term for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:00:26.140Or at least that's what the legacy media thinks that Conservatives should do in response to Kim Campbell's criticisms.
00:00:32.600It's really funny to watch the legacy media not understand how typical Canadians, especially Conservative Canadians, think.
00:00:40.060Like, we're all going to, you know, deeply care about the opinion of a woman who was Prime Minister for approximately seven seconds, got decimated in the 1993 election,
00:00:50.180and since then has basically gone on tour saying any real Conservatives are bad people because they should be more like me.
00:00:59.340And that really is the mantra of so many Red Tories, just like what Andrew Coyne does from the pages of the Globe and Mail or Aaron O'Toole did after stepping down as the Conservative leader.
00:01:09.440A lot of Red Tories just exist to try and convince real Conservatives to become Liberals, that the only way they can win the next election,
00:01:17.560or at least the only way that they can hold on to the support of people like Kim Campbell, is to effectively act exactly like Justin Trudeau.
00:01:25.180Especially Andrew Coyne, not to go down too much of a rabbit hole, but that guy's just the worst.
00:01:33.040If the Liberals create a carbon tax, he then will claim that the most Conservative thing to do is enforce that carbon tax,
00:01:40.000because to get rid of the carbon tax would be to attack an institution, and Conservatives, in his mind, only exist to preserve institutions.
00:01:48.620But getting back to Kim Campbell, I don't know why the media thinks this is like a hard hit against Polyev.
00:01:54.220I guess it's because it was like International Women's Day yesterday or whatever,
00:01:58.320that a lot of us are supposed to come out and think that, wow, you know,
00:02:02.740Pierre Polyev was attacked by Kim Campbell, our only ever female Prime Minister, on International Women's Day.
00:02:08.920Wow, that really makes you do a think, and maybe Pierre Polyev isn't the right Prime Minister.
00:02:13.960Maybe Justin Trudeau is the best Prime Minister we've ever had, because Kim Campbell doesn't like Pierre.
00:02:20.260It would be like in Alberta if, like, Dave Hancock came out to criticize Danielle Smith.
00:02:25.480And I have nothing against Dave Hancock, I don't really know that much about him.
00:02:28.920He was only the Premier of Alberta for, like, a few seconds, and so why am I supposed to care, because of his position, what his opinion on Danielle Smith is?
00:02:37.900It would be like in Ontario, I don't even like Doug Ford, he's way too liberal for my liking.
00:02:42.800But it'd be like if, like, former Premier of Ontario, Frank Miller came out to criticize, like, Doug Ford, it'd be like a who cares?
00:02:54.100Frank Miller, not the comic book artist and writer.
00:02:57.340Frank Miller, the former Premier of Ontario, does not really hold a lot of weight with many people.
00:03:02.700It's like, you know, Henry Strom, the former Premier of Alberta, came out to criticize Danielle Smith, or whoever the lady was right after Bill Vanderzam was the Premier of, like, B.C.
00:03:15.740These interim Premiers and Prime Ministers, frankly, don't really capture the imagination of Canadians.
00:03:22.680And whenever you read Kim Campbell's criticisms of Pyrapaliev, it's just all backhanded stuff.
00:03:28.940It's not saying that Pyrapaliev has done something against the values of conservatism that she believed in.
00:03:34.520She can't name a value of conservatism that she actually believes in.
00:03:37.880And she's, like, one of those people where she's like, I believe in equity and social justice because I'm a conservative.
00:03:44.280People who just think that if they just say, I'm a conservative, and then they say liberal values after it, it makes those values conservative.
00:03:51.220Like, again, shameless plug, I'm running for the Calgary-Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:03:56.160If you live on this west side of Calgary, go check out my website, whyclaypool.com.
00:04:00.980Make sure you can vote for me number one on your ballot when the nomination comes around.
00:04:04.400But I have tons of people in this nomination running against me.
00:04:07.540There's, like, 14 of them who you could tell if the Liberals had a better chance than this riding, they would have voted for the Liberals or they would have run for the Liberals.
00:04:14.620There's people in my riding who, like, have stumped for equity.
00:04:18.380You know, we need international gender equity.
00:04:39.160There's a lot of conservatives out there who think that just spending more efficiently in government, you know, using the money that the government takes from Canadians a little bit more responsibly than the Liberals makes you a conservative.
00:04:52.680Maybe in the 1970s that makes you a conservative.
00:04:55.060But today, I think you actually need to have a view of government not needing to be as big a part of people's lives.
00:05:01.740You have to believe in small government, traditional values, all that sort of thing.
00:05:05.780And if you don't, just run for the Liberals.
00:05:09.360And that's always been the thing with Kim Campbell.
00:05:11.840She's never explicitly been a Liberal since she stopped being the Prime Minister, you know, that long time, that serious time of history.
00:05:20.620But since she stopped being Prime Minister, she's pretty much just been a Liberal.
00:05:24.600But she won't admit it because she likes the star power of being able to go around, like, claiming to be a former PC Prime Minister and that, like, conservatives, like, you know, big, like, capital P Progressive Conservatives should listen to her opinion.
00:05:38.780I have not met a single person who cares about what Kim Campbell said.
00:05:43.000Pure Polyev, in response to her, basically just said, hey, look at her record and then determine whether or not people should really care what she thinks because she was trying to criticize his record.
00:06:15.220You know, like, what am I supposed to say about this?
00:06:17.780But because the legacy media just hates Pure Polyev so much and they're so desperate, they're wheeling people out like Kim Campbell as if it's going to affect the race at all.
00:06:38.460I think maybe only 20% of people think he's doing a good job on the housing file.
00:06:42.680Not many strong supporters of him, even in that poll question, like, in terms of, like, the 20% who liked him.
00:06:49.440A large portion of that was not people who are strongly in favor of how he's been treating it.
00:06:53.360But the media is so desperate to try and beat Pure Polyev, they're wheeling out Kim Campbell.
00:06:59.420They know that Justin Trudeau cannot be recovered on his own reputation, that there's nothing that Justin Trudeau can do at this point that's going to make Canadians like him.
00:07:07.680So all the media can do now is sling the mud at Pure Polyev.
00:07:11.280That is why, and these are coordinated attacks.
00:07:13.760As soon as this article came out, like a bunch of morons, all the people inside the Liberal Party as well as the left-wing media came out and said,
00:07:21.180oh, this is a big hit against Pure Polyev.
00:07:23.420How embarrassing a former prime minister had to come out and attack him.
00:08:34.020That's why they sued us in Alberta rather than Ontario, because in Alberta, there's no anti-slap legislation to make frivolous lawsuits go away faster.
00:08:42.500So we've been grinding this out for more than two years.
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00:08:56.900I'll probably do a live stream later today.
00:08:58.760So, you know, prepare yourself for that.
00:09:00.240And I'll probably try and get some more content out regarding a lot of the really funny media discourse that's been going on these days as well as the new Abacus poll, because I think that actually does warrant coverage.