Mark Carney refuses to fire Liberal staff spreading disinformation!
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Summary
Wyatt Clunis on the ground in Nepean, fighting to defeat Mark Carney in his re-election campaign in the riding of Nanpean-Nepean. He talks about a new scandal involving Liberal political operatives planting "Stop the Steal" buttons at a Conservative conference, and why Mark Carney won't fire them.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I'm currently out in Ottawa planning on helping Conservative
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Party candidate Barbara Ball defeat Mark Carney in the riding of Nepean. And speaking of Mark
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Carney, he has completely ceded the ability to ever criticize Conservatives for anything,
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because it doesn't matter how often he or a Liberal candidate or a Liberal staffer is caught
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doing something wrong, he will justify it as not that bad and refuse to fire them until it's far
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too late. This just happened in the last 24 hours when a CBC report came out showing two Liberal
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political operatives who have been confirmed to be on the main Liberal campaign were planting
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mega-style buttons at a Conservative conference, basically as a false flag operation, to try and
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see if they could get Conservatives to wear them so they could claim that Conservatives believe in
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radical politics, they're going to deny the election results, or there is a lot more infighting than
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like reality would have you believe. These are not the only two buttons that I'm showing you right here,
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this is just a graphic from the front of the article. There were many they were putting out,
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like Daniel Smith for a leader in 2026 and stuff like that, or other sorts of things about like
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banning the Liberal Party or locking up Justin Trudeau. They never actually obviously got any
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Conservatives to wear this ridiculous crap, but this was what the Liberals assumed they could use
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to smear the Conservatives. And in response to this scandal break, this is absolutely a scandal,
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Mark Carney is refusing to fire anyone. And in fact, people have just been reassigned. No punishments.
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The only problem was they got caught effectively in Mark Carney's mind. Members of the Liberal War Room,
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so the Central Campaign, distributed Stop the Steal buttons at a Conservative event. Given the
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anti-democratic implications of this phrase, how much does this event undermine the trust in the way
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that the Liberals operate? And what have you done in response to these revelations?
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Thanks for the question. Look, this is totally unacceptable, to be absolutely clear.
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And I, on behalf of my campaign, I was unaware of this behavior, but on behalf of my campaign,
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I apologize for it unreservedly. I've made it absolutely clear to my campaign that this behavior
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or anything approximating it or in that spirit is unacceptable, cannot happen, cannot happen again.
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Is it unacceptable? When Paul Chang called for Joe Tay to be locked up by the Chinese government
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for a million-dollar bounty, that was not considered a fireable offense. In fact, quietly,
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Paul Chang just said, I'm just choosing not to run again because Mark Carney, after a full day of defending
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the man, didn't have the guts to actually tell Paul Chang to leave himself because he was in too deep
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defending him. Also, I have to get to another quote. By the way, too, the funny thing is that he's acting
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like this is totally unacceptable and this is not something that the campaign would ever condone.
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The problem here is that the article that the CBC released got a quote from the Liberals who
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justified it that the Liberal people had just gotten carried away. Here's some of what the other
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buttons look like if you want to see them. But they said that certain people on the campaign just
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got carried away. And that was a very interesting language because it sounds like there is a mandate
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to go out there and smear conservatives, find ways of attaching them to radical extreme politics or mega.
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And it's just that these guys, you know, did it a little bit too much. Really, again, the problem was that
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they got caught. So this is some of the other buttons that they had posted or put around the
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Canada Strong and Free conference trying to bait people into wearing them. Again, the funniest one
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to me is this Jenny Byrne, Corey to Nike one, as if any conservative, especially an ideological
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conservative, really cares about any of those people and I guess who's campaign director between
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the two of them. So I just wanted to pull up this thing that Stephen Chase has. This was not
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caught on video or at least a video I have available. And Stephen Chase says, liberal leader Mark
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Carney apologizes for campaign staff distributing fake buttons featuring Trump style language at Ottawa
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Conservative Conference. The responsible people have been reassigned within the campaign.
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Not fired? So this is totally unacceptable and beyond the pale, but it's not a fireable offense.
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They didn't get demoted even. They're just reassigned. Reassigned to what? What could you
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trust those people to do? Which again, proves that you probably couldn't fire them because this was
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something that was completely above board to do. And they could probably have proved that the Liberal
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Party told them to do this or approved of them doing this. And so firing them would probably be some
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sort of breach of contract since they had been approved or told to go do this. They did it. Now they're in
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trouble for doing said thing. Mark Carney, in a lot of ways, not to bring up American politics into
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this, because the whole point of the story is that the Liberals are trying to Americanize Canadian
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politics, is that this reminds me so much of Joe Biden. It reminds me of his inability to get rid of
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anyone for anything. Failures, corruption, just refuse to get rid of any staff. You've got to ask anyone
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who is planning on voting Liberal. Why you trust this guy to turn the country around if he can't
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even fire derelict campaign staff and operatives? He cannot tell Paul Chang to leave. He cannot
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disclose his own investments. He just basically keeps dodging. Today, I think he says, oh, I actually
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don't have investments at all. I have everything in cash. Sure you do. Sure. That's why he couldn't
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disclose his conflicts of interest. And then he had said he did his due diligence. And two and a half
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weeks since he last said that, now suddenly it's all in cash and molasses or something like that.
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The man has no ability for accountability. How is he going to fix a country when he can't say,
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I was wrong. That person on my team was wrong. It's always that, well, I wouldn't agree with doing
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that. But, you know, they've been moved from this side of the campaign to that side of the campaign
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now. So it's all hunky-dory. No. One of Justin Trudeau's biggest flaws was the sheer amount of
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corruption in his government that he would never deal with. Anyone pretending that Mark Carney would
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be anything different is delusional. He was there for five years while Justin Trudeau was doing corrupt
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things as his economic advisor. He never called it out then. And now he's showing that he wasn't
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just silent about it back then because he wasn't in charge and it's not his authority to do anything.
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Then he didn't want to stand up and lose his job. Even when he's the man in charge, he is the prime
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minister and he won't do it. By the way, is he still in Ottawa pretending that he has any prime
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ministerial work to do? It's absolutely ridiculous that this guy cannot kick it on the campaign trail
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for more than a few days before having to go take a nap in Ottawa, really just to try and avoid all
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the bad press out there. This is why the polls are starting to turn around. In fact, I just saw an Angus
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Reid poll where the Conservatives are only trailing the Liberals by five points. I know that doesn't
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sound good, but considering that Angus Reid has been a pollster in this election cycle that has had
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the Conservatives at some points down 10 or 12 points, that's a major improvement. I just like
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to even point to any poll, even if it's a bad poll. If it shows a momentum shift in favor of the
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Conservatives, that is telling about the direction of the election. And we know it's not an election
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where the Liberals are leading by five. Go around your own suburban neighborhoods, areas where the
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Liberals are supposedly safe. There are a lot of Conservative signs and it does represent something real.
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The Conservatives are going to turn out hard in this election. In fact, in that same Angus Reid poll,
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it showed 79% now of Conservative voters are definitely going to show up and vote Conservative.
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Right now, for the Liberals, only 63% of them say that they are definitely going to show up
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and their choice is very clear to them at this point. At the debate, in a few days, there are a lot
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of votes that can be won by Polyev. And what he has to do is keep proving that Carney was there for
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all the trouble that Trudeau was causing. He said nothing and, in fact, advised him to keep doing
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it. And now he's pretending that he's a reformer. And then what Polyev needs to do is then point out
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every time that he proposes a policy, somehow it's just, it's bad. It's not good enough. It's
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somehow unconstitutional. Just like his proposal to basically put criminals in prison and that the
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courts are maybe potentially going to try and challenge because it's now against the charter to
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actually lock people up. This isn't even about what I was going to cover. I just need to bring
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this up because it drove me up the wall so much. Here is a guy very snidely, I'm not even sure what
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this emotion is he's trying to portray, very smug. He's going to smugly talk about why Polyev's
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three-strike rule to lock up violent repeat offenders for long periods of time is bad.
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Polyev's three-strikes platform is terrible failed justice policy. It's already failed in
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the United States. There are thousands of journal articles and studies that will tell you the same
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thing. Now, honestly, mass incarceration of criminals, obviously not people who didn't commit
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a crime, mass incarceration of criminals, repeat offenders, violent offenders, actually caused crime
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to absolutely bottom out during the early 2000s and the 2010s. That was when that policy was perfected
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and we had the lowest crime rates pretty much in history. First of all, a criminal actor is not
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engaged in some sort of rational cost-benefit analysis to deter them from crime before they
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commit it. They're not like, hmm, if I do this, they are people under duress trying to survive. You would...
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Oh my goodness, this stupid talking point. All criminals are Aladdin. All criminals are just trying
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to steal that television to go feed their hungry kids. No, they are not. Criminals are rational
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actors, which is why when you make it easier to commit certain crimes, the amount of people committing
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those crimes goes way up. When we stop enforcing shoplifting laws, when we stop enforcing, you know,
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we stop actually locking up repeat retail thieves, we get a lot more retail theft. That is one of the
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crimes that has been skyrocketing over the past 10 years is retail theft. Do better to try and solve
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the underlying issue that's compelling them to commit the crime in the first place. I don't know,
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drug addiction probably, socioeconomic struggles, etc. Second of all, mandatory minimums of three
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strikes laws are notorious for sweeping people up into the justice system and disproportionately
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affecting Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. Are they committing the crime? If they are,
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then they should, you know, do the time. It literally doesn't matter what you look like. If
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you're committing a criminal offense, you should be locked up. In fact, this is the racism of low
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expectations to think that, well, we can't lock up somebody because they're Indigenous because that
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would be a crime against the Indigenous community. How racist is it to basically imply that a criminal
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on an Indigenous reserve is like a pillar of the community, and if we lock him up, everyone's going to be
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sad or lose hope. No, what you're in fact going to do is make it easier for other people to actually
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run their businesses, be able to actually get a job in the area, because there is not a criminal element
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driving down the economic prospects of everyone. Because in fact, and this is my research paper
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that I did for my master's, it is poverty, it's crime that drives poverty, not poverty that drives
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crime. Any area that has a lot of crime, you'll see all the businesses shut down. It's not like
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people in that area of town don't need to eat, it's just not worth it.
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The research tells you that. And lastly, this is inevitably going to lead to privatization
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of prison complexes because we're going to need more detention spaces. So the private prison
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contractors are licking their chops right now, and private prisons are no...
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Okay, who cares? Who cares? Does someone need to be locked up? I don't care if they go into a public
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or private. I don't care if it's a co-op run by hipsters, as long as you're locking up the
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criminals. It's notorious for human rights offenses and trying to cut costs to maximize profits. This
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is a mess. It's honestly not one of those things that's been widely proven that private prisons are
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worse than public institutions, because the private prisons tend to use their money more efficiently.
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That's the only difference. People will look at it and be like, this private person per prisoner is
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spending so much less than the public institution. It's like, yeah, because it's a business who knows how
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to actually use their money effectively. So they're still providing the three square meals a day and all
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that stuff. They just do it without wasting all their money because they're not the government.
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My goodness. I hate the left on crime. They have no clue what they're talking about. But anyways,
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that should be it for me today, guys. I'm going to be over at Barbara Ball's office tomorrow. I'm just
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dropping by, going to be doing some door knocking. I'm not sure if they want me to lead the team for
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them or whatnot. I'm just kind of showing up to do as much as I possibly can, because I would love to
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see Mark Carney not win his seat in this election. So I'm going to be hitting as many doors, doing some
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persuasion door knocking to get people to maybe switch their vote towards conservatives. This is,
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in fact, actually a very winnable riding. In fact, the former liberal MP for this riding,
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Chandra Aria, without saying it, effectively endorsed Barbara Ball, saying that, you know,
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things haven't been going super well in the last 10 years. And I think that we need fresh people
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in government. And he wasn't talking about Mark Carney. Anyway, so that's it for me today, guys.
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