Liberals tried to get him to Cross the Floor - He Roasted them!
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A story about the Liberals trying to get Conservative MP Scott Anderson to cross the floor from the Conservative Party of Canada to join them just lit the internet up with its ridiculousness. Also, I cover CBC flack-catchers trying to deflect from this embarrassing story.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. We had a really funny story come out yesterday that confirmed
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a lot of things about Mark Carney and the Liberal Party to me. So I've always speculated that
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despite Chris Dontremont and Michael Ma crossing the floor from the Conservative Party to the
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Liberal Party, that there wasn't really any other Conservatives that anyone could name
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who would be likely to cross the floor. Those two left for such petty reasons, there wasn't a clear
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through line for why they left and what would maybe motivate someone else to leave. Dontremont
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was just mad he didn't get to be the deputy speaker and Michael Ma is in a riding where there's a lot
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of CCP influence and he seemed to be leaving under the idea that if one more Conservative left, maybe
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he could be a powerful person in a majority Liberal government. But since all that went down, there
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seems to not be very many good prospects for the Liberals to the point where they got embarrassed
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yesterday by a Conservative MP that they approached to try and get him to cross the floor just lit them
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up online. That being Conservative MP for Vernon, Lake Country, Monashie, Scott Anderson. He put out this
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long statement about the Liberals approaching him and trying to convince him to cross the floor that just
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reveals the fact that Mark Carney is very desperate right now. And of course Mark Carney is desperate. He
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already has two Liberal MPs likely to leave, Nate Erskine-Smith and also we have Christia Freeland.
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She fully announced that she's going to be stepping down from her seat in the next few weeks. I guess
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she still wants to stick around for a little bit longer so she gets to have her Evita Perron,
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don't cry for me Argentina moment in the House of Commons before she fully leaves. Nate Erskine-Smith could
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technically stay in office while running for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership but he's a shoe-in
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to win and you can't exactly vote in Parliament while you're on the road campaigning for a Liberal
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leader and so basically Nate Erskine-Smith is probably already gone no matter if he resigns his
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seat now or not. He's not going to be present for votes unless he's on the trail online voting the entire
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time and I don't think he cares enough about Mark Carney to do so. But in this video I want to read
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through the statements that Scott Anderson put out to you guys and then I want to cover CBC flack
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catchers trying to deflect from this embarrassing story for Mark Carney because of course they are.
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statement by the Vernon light country Monashy MP Scott Anderson and although before I even read this I
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actually do just want to bring up this because it should flavor how ridiculous it was for the
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conservatives to approach this guy the liberals had a high watermark election result in this riding in
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the last election the conservative Scott Anderson won with 50.5 percent of the vote effectively and
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the liberals came in with about 43 I'm rounding up here uh the liberal did 23 percent better than the
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liberal in 2021's election had done mostly because of the collapse of the NDP and the greens and even the
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conservative ended up doing better in this election despite the liberal doing better too that's
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probably because maybe independents weren't running last time and the PPC candidate wasn't in this
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riding so this was not really a great riding to make a pitch to the conservative MP that he would
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benefit by joining you I don't think the liberals are going to do even better than their best result
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ever in fact they did better more than two times as good in 2025 as they did in 2021 and again that's
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a high watermark election a lot of people going elbows up and voting for the liberals to I don't
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know thumb their noses at Trump but they thought that for some reason that this guy was going to fear
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that he only won by eight percent and was going to cross the floor but here's the statement from Scott
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Anderson it's important for my constituents to know that I like others have been approached by
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the liberals and asked to cross the floor to join them the Liberal Party of Canada is pulling out all
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the stops to lure conservative members of parliament to cross the floor so they can have a majority and
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subject Canadians to more years of economic and social malaise with the complicity of the mainstream
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media there they've promoted the myth that there is some kind of movement to turf our leader and it's
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because they're afraid of Pierre Polyev they'd prefer a milk toast conservative leader and not a
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fighter who stands up for the up to the lie up to their lies and omissions I love what he just said
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right there because it is so true that the media always always trying to shape the conservative party into
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having another milk toast leader like Aaron O'Toole Aaron O'Toole is the perfect leader for the
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conservative party if you are the liberal party he is not he's basically the politician for nobody and
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so even though Justin Trudeau was very unpopular even by 2021 Aaron O'Toole still somehow lost simply
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because he doesn't drive voters out he betrays voters he changes his positions on things so
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naturally a lot of people concluded staying home or voting for the PPC was preferable to O'Toole
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because even if the guy somehow won what's he really going to change he's probably going to have
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a weak minority government then get tossed out in favor of a liberal majority after just two years
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because voters are going to be like well he's not doing anything because he probably wouldn't do
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anything so I in 2021 was happy strangely happy to see at least Aaron O'Toole lose not Trudeau to win
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but O'Toole to lose because it allowed us to re-roll the dice and get someone like Pierre Polyev
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now Pierre Polyev is not perfect but goodness he is 10 times better than Aaron O'Toole and I
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can't really name anyone who would be doing a better job right now but I'm going to keep reading this
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misstatement to the liberals who initiated this contact let me say this your headlines scream
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about the great nation building projects yet almost a year after getting parliamentary approval
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there's no pipelines no new mines no energy corridor and no one formal trade deal indeed
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you haven't even bothered presenting plans because buried in the subtext below every headline are caveats
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that ensure nothing will ever be done simply put you've done nothing to make empty but make empty
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promises increase taxation and throw billions away trying to entrench your power what are you going
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to try to bribe the next conservative MP with if broken promises were the only issue it'd be bad enough
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but I sit across from you every day and see what most Canadians see can't see when they watch CPAC
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I watch you laugh when conservatives bring up the closed minds the shuttered businesses
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the seniors who have to choose between eating and rent I watch your self-satisfied scoffs when we
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ask you to cut taxes and allow Canadians to flourish again I see you sitting across the aisle in designer
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suits paid for by a job that's inflation proof and safe smirking at those who have to try and scrape
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out a living out of the your to scrape a living out of the economic desert you've created I watch you
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boast about your handouts your rental housing that never seems to materialize your leader who shows up a
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few minutes a month for part of qp before jetting off in search of more pointless headlines and I
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and you have the gall to say that our pleading for the little guy is harping I'm frankly disgusted so
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no I won't I won't join your party I have no intention of crossing the floor today tomorrow or ever
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regardless of what you offer me it would be a betrayal of my constituents a betrayal of the office to which
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I have been elected and a betrayal of my own personal core beliefs it'll be a cold day in hell
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before I ever choose if I ever consider betraying my constituents and you should probably stop asking
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because I will certainly advertise it every time you try so that was a amazing statement by Vernon
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Lake Country Monashie MP Scott Anderson and it's exactly what's needed right now if there was even a
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single conservative MP considering crossing the floor and I think if they were considering it they
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would have already done it by now it's gonna probably take a lot of the momentum out of anyone
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even considering leaving in actually doing it here's the thing Mark Carney can't even promise that if you
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cross at this point you're gonna help him create a majority government and he'll give you some big
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ministerial job or some other high-paying you know role like speaker deputy speaker or something like that
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he has nothing to offer right now because he has his own MPs Freeland Nate Erskine Smith probably
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Stephen Gilbeau probably Jonathan Wilkinson and there could be other MPs also looking to leave even
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some MPs who may just leave because of old age like Hendy Frye he actually doesn't even have a majority
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to offer these people because the big thing is that you get to be part of the majority government where
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we're getting things done you can bring things back to your constituents because you can include
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little things for your riding in legislation it's kind of the way that you know pork barreling type
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legislation works in the United States it's not as common in Canada but you can kind of mold
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legislation that's going to benefit your your riding the most but the things he can't even offer that
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because there's not going to be a majority government even if Scott Anderson someone like that crossed
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now well it wouldn't matter because then Freeland resigns and you're out of a majority and maybe
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let's say one other conservative joins or an MDP joins or block joins now you're back in majority
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well then Erskine Smith officially resigns and now you're back out of majority and then maybe you
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somehow get it again because you replace a couple of those people who left but then Jonathan Wilkinson
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leaves and then Stephen Gilbeau leaves it's just not worth it and right now it's very clear that
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that Mark Carney and the liberals are on the downstroke politically they don't look very good right
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now because they have failed in every promise they've so far made they are not a more fiscally
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responsible government the budget proved that they can't get a trade deal done they're not actually
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getting oil and gas infrastructure built they just keep talking about it the major projects
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of office is not doing anything it's simply putting an extra fast tracking stamp on something
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that was about to be completed anyways it's really cynical but now I need to take you guys to the
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the flack catchers over at the CBC who of course are trying to scoff at the idea that the liberals
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would ever approach Scott Anderson that's laughable oh so here's David Cochran the supposedly neutral
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host of power and politics for that in a second I just want to do one more round just on this because
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Brad Scott Anderson who's a conservative member of parliament for Vernon Lake Country Monashie posted on
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on Facebook that he was approached by liberals to join we invited him on the program we were told
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his statement stands um Mr. Anderson who I've not met that he supported the ostrich firm for example
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and things it doesn't strike me as the person the prime minister and is like the the profile doesn't
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fit the profile of who they're trying to recruit but you know they're down one they're now still
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seeking other people I mean what what's your read on where that stands so he's just trying to throw
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mass skepticism on the story that of course the liberals didn't embarrass themselves by trying
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to coax Scott Anderson into leaving he supported the ostrich farm and opposed the way the CFIA had
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been acting well okay well you know Chris Dontremont was a multiple term conservative MP as well as Nova
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Scotia PCMLA he in fact is softly pro-life okay but he left for petty reasons so obviously that kind of
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opened up the door for the sorts of people that Carney was willing to approach we even remember
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the interview don't we it was on your own network David where Mark Carney was asked by Rosemary
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Barton or I believe it was uh Rosemary and he was asked about what kind of MPs the liberals would be
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willing to take on are they willing to take on pro-life transphobic MPs are they willing to take on people
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who like you know support guns are they willing to bring on like all these you know media created
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ideas of like bad people and Mark Carney was coy because obviously Carney's not going to say no to
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anybody which probably meant they were willing to approach anybody at the same time they probably
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thought hey let's approach any conservative who lost by let who won by less than 10 percent of the vote
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and see if they're willing to move not realizing again as I just showed with Scott Anderson's electoral
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history uh chart yeah he only won by eight percent but that was a big over performance by the liberals
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it's probably not going to happen again especially based on the absolute nothing that they are currently
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achieving in office under Mark Carney well let's get back to the answer right here yeah no I I don't know
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um if if this if Kelowna Lake Country member of parliament is is the is the next best fit um I think we're
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running out of conservatives in Atlantic Canada David uh for to move over yes uh to Carney the
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there is no question that there is an all-out effort by the liberal government to pick off
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conservative members of parliament to cross the floor and to do so before the conservative convention
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that was the case before we broke for Christmas that is the case as we come back uh from the break
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uh and I'm I'm still of the opinion that they will uh that there will be news made uh in the coming
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short weeks uh about conservatives coming over uh but which one like name anyone who's a prospect
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you know how ridiculous this got because I'm involved in politics at the same time I do this show you
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know I work for the 1bc party in British Columbia with Dallas Brody I do a lot of stuff provincially with the UCP
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in terms of I sit on boards I try and help organize stuff whenever I can you know I make videos I
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promote stuff I door knock federally I even door knocked in Ottawa I door knocked in Nanaimo around
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Calgary I'm very involved in politics so people bring me stuff this is how desperate the liberals were
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getting at one point the name I heard floated that they were working on to try and get her to cross the
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floor was Melissa Lansman now I know Melissa is not a social conservative she's more of like a true
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red Tory on a lot of issues she can be a little bit more liberal not liberal party liberal but socially
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more liberal maybe she's not a hyper big fiscal hawk but she is a foreign policy hawk she is very tough
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on terrorism she's not joining the liberals at all never never there's no point like if she crosses
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tomorrow I'll sue Melissa Lansman for making me look silly but I do not get the impression that
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Melissa Lansman who wants the Muslim Brotherhood ban in which the liberals definitely do not want
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to do that would ever join them the liberals who excuse terrorism are going to let or going to try
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and get Melissa like apparently they've tried and someone was speculating it could be true it's not
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going to happen it's really not like if I'm going through the rolodex of conservative MPs who might
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cross it's not going to be any of the people that you can kind of think of like all the big prominent
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conservative MPs it's like it's not going to be Andrew Scheer it's not going to be like any of the
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Calgary guys I'm not at least I don't think so um the closest they had was maybe Matt Genereau but
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he's not crossing he's just going to be resigning his seat um I don't I couldn't name anyone like he
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was saying oh there's uh they're running out of maritime MPs to approach the problem is all the
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Newfoundland maritime MPs are like more new are like newer more hardcore conservatives
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basically the ideal profile for a conservative MP the liberals can bring over and this is why I'm
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skeptical if anyone crosses maybe it happens shame on that person if it does but the profile that the
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liberals are looking for is a guy who's been around probably since the around mid-2000s you know
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2000s to early 2010s a little bit more of a softer conservative and someone who has some petty issue
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with pure poly you have to hit like that triad before you're even in the ballpark of getting
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somebody who might actually cross and that person isn't even benefited by crossing because there ain't
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going to be a majority but anyways that should be it for this video guys hopefully you found this
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