Pierre Polyev's Canada First rally in Ottawa was a lot of fun, but the Liberals couldn't shut up about it. They tried to embarrass him by playing out-of-context clips from an interview Polyev had with Jordan Peterson.
00:09:03.680A lot of consultants are going to get a lot of money implementing this bloated program.
00:09:07.760He raised the retirement age to 67, which, guys, it kind of needs to be raised because, one, we just have way too many people to spend on who are retiring.
00:09:48.700And then that's their post before the actual tirade started.
00:09:53.340They're just shooting themselves in the foot.
00:09:55.280They are putting a high coward rifle up to their foot and shooting themselves.
00:09:59.540There is nothing about what any of this messaging that's good.
00:10:02.000But I'm going to give an award to Chrystia Freeland for the stupidest take on the rally.
00:10:07.860So here we have from Freeland HQ, which is her leadership HQ's social media account.
00:10:14.980It says, we were wondering where we've seen this movie before with a, ooh, wow, kind of face right there.
00:10:22.720And, yeah, Donald Trump and Peter Polly are now the same because they have rallies.
00:10:26.940Also, people actually have to name a policy of Trump's that's bad past just tariffs because Canadians tariff things all the time.
00:10:36.780So the liberals do not want to play that game since our supply management system requires us to do things like put 200% tariffs on American dairy.
00:10:45.140So what do they actually have a problem with Trump?
00:11:53.760The whole point is that you can believe that Canada has broken policies, the economy's lagging, and that we should put Canada first instead now.
00:12:02.020Like, what does Mark actually think that this post means?
00:12:07.100But let's, now, I think this might be the runner-up.
00:12:10.480The true runner-up for stupidest take goes to Mark Miller, the current failed immigration minister, who I'm not even thinking he's running as for re-election.
00:12:18.520But he comes out with Timbits and coffee because he wants to make some tired illusion to when Polyev brought Tim Hortons to the truckers at the Freedom Convoy, which, by the way, guys, oh, I need to bring that back up.
00:12:35.920Nobody was, like, scared of Polyev bringing truckers, coffee, and Tim Hortons like Timbits.
00:12:41.780In fact, the Freedom Convoy these days is far more popular than it was even at the time it was running because a lot of people looking back are like, yeah, the government overreached.
00:12:52.080But here's Mark Miller trying to dunk on pure Polyev and make the clown Polyev.
00:12:57.660I brought you guys, well, I brought here some donuts today just like he was bringing to Freedom Convoy when he was watching them illegally occupy the hill.
00:13:11.720But, you know, I didn't know if you guys will get locked out, so I got some, you probably can't accept donuts, so I'll go.
00:14:13.800That's what a lot of liberal Canadian nationalists are like.
00:14:16.440But if you're a Canadian patriot, you can say the immigration system's broken, tax system's broken, regulations are too high, our crimes weighted too high, we have drugs everywhere.
00:14:27.800Acknowledging that is not unpatriotic.
00:14:29.600In fact, I think it's fairly unpatriotic to see these problems and not want to fix them.
00:14:33.660Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:14:37.220This was a big own goal for the Liberals.
00:14:40.400Again, all they dented up doing was bringing more attention to a pretty good moment for Pierre Paulyev.
00:14:48.060He hit on great points of his platform.
00:14:50.920A lot of people, if they haven't heard them yet, might have actually now seen it because the Liberals couldn't shut up during the actual event.
00:14:58.820They kept bringing more attention to it, thinking that they were somehow sticking a poll in between Paulyev's spokes.
00:15:06.900And it's like, that's just not how it works.
00:15:08.880If someone's doing something good, you can't just chirp at them and say, you know, he's actually bad to get people to not vote for you.
00:15:17.240But yeah, the Liberal leadership race is boring everyone to death.
00:15:20.600They're scared that this rebrand of Paulyev's from going from the carbon tax election to the Canada first election is going to steal the very small amount of momentum they were getting from kicking Trudeau to the curb and trying to install Mark Carney, which apparently isn't even going that well.
00:15:36.380As I brought up yesterday, the Liberals are actually not even doing very well.
00:15:40.680Like the Carney is actually kind of floundering right now.
00:16:48.340Really not campaigning in PEI because he just doesn't need the seats and he needs to concentrate in getting the win across the finish line.
00:16:55.640If a local candidate thinks they can win Charlottetown, leave it to them.
00:16:59.340But mostly Polyev is focusing on areas you can make gains.
00:17:02.620He's not campaigning in Parkdale High Park because it's just not a riding that's in the cards at the moment.