The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 14, 2026


Media Attacks Poilievre to Save Mark Carney from Trade Failures!

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Carney's Lead Has Shrank Despite What Liberal Polls Say! Liberals Tricking Voters into Believing Carney Isn't Failing On Trade!

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00:00:00 The corruption of the Canadian legacy media truly knows no bounds.
00:00:05 In the midst of Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government
00:00:09 making many missteps and concessions on the U.S. trade issue,
00:00:13 what is the legacy media talking about this morning?
00:00:17 Conservative MPs worry about losing their seats,
00:00:20 privately question Polyev's leadership ability to defeat Prime Minister Carney.
00:00:25 Now you could say, hey, news is news.
00:00:27 If they have a story, they're going to run it.
00:00:29 Fair enough, but there's a limited amount of resources that any news outlet has to hunt down
00:00:35 a story, report on it, edit it, and then put it out. This is a story that they could have waited
00:00:41 a month or two to talk about, but instead they're talking about it now when you think there would be
00:00:48 more reporting, more investigations happening regarding Carney going off to Italy during
00:00:54 high-pressure negotiations with the Americans on potential new tariffs? You think that would be a
00:01:00 big story that they would be talking about every day? He left the country amid massive wildfires
00:01:06 and this tariff negotiation. Shouldn't people be looking into that a little bit of what the
00:01:11 heck's going on with the prime minister, why he's not taking this very seriously? Or maybe talk
00:01:17 about Sean Chen, the liberal MP who is resigning, that a lot of evidence has come out about showing
00:01:22 that he's probably a Chinese Communist Party asset in Canada's parliament who has been sitting
00:01:28 as a Liberal MP since 2015 and may have even been illegally voting on legislation while he was in
00:01:36 China. You know, we're not going to talk about that. We need to talk about a bunch of anonymous
00:01:42 MPs mildly complaining about Pierre Polyev. Really, I've read this article from CTV News.
00:01:50 It mostly just details that people realize that they're behind the liberals in the polls.
00:01:55 And if an election happened today, we wouldn't do very well.
00:01:58 If you actually go through the article, I've read through the whole thing.
00:02:01 It's what I would describe as very fluffy.
00:02:05 There's not a lot to it.
00:02:06 There's apparently like 17 or 15 conservative MPs who they spoke to.
00:02:12 Only a couple actually have issues with Polly's leadership or don't believe that maybe he's
00:02:17 the best man for the job.
00:02:19 But it's mostly just people saying, yeah, I'd be worried if we had to go to an election right now.
00:02:24 But then the article just admits like, yeah, but we're not going to go to an election right now because, you know, it's only been a year really since the last one.
00:02:31 And Carney would never call one right now because he already has a majority.
00:02:35 And, you know, things change fast in politics.
00:02:37 But really, the entire article is just about the headline.
00:02:40 So many legacy media stories are just about getting that headline. 0.90
00:02:44 And of course, this one cites that stupid nanos poll that mentions that or that tries to claim that basically all of Canada thinks that Carney cannot be beaten. 0.89
00:02:55 When only 33 percent of respondents in a very left wing leaning poll said that Carney can't be beaten by any conservative leader. 0.91
00:03:04 And that was only because they broke up all the options of who can be Carney among so many different people that obviously the vote didn't consolidate behind any one person.
00:03:14 And yet Harper and Pauly have still got 16% and 15% respectively, which is kind of impressive when you consider the fact that I believe they listed like a dozen options or something like that.
00:03:27 But whatever, maybe I just don't understand the news.
00:03:30 But the whole article is to distract from what is currently going on with trade.
00:03:36 You know, the big issue that if Carney screws up on, he could actually end up losing his base.
00:03:42 This is the thing he got elected for in 2025, the idea that he's the man to take on Donald Trump. He's going to go make a good deal for Canadians. We have had tepid coverage from outlets like CTV News, Global, and CBC on the massive concessions he's been making to the Americans.
00:04:00 I highlight when the CBC is sometimes honest on a panel where they're actually talking about like, yeah, this kind of doesn't look bad. He's going to Italy after a bunch of concessions on DST streaming tax, as well as the Gordie Howe Bridge. And that's oftentimes like a liberal talking. But by the next day, we're talking about Polyev again, or we're talking about Pete Hoogstra being a mean, nasty man as the US ambassador. It's like, what? What is this?
00:04:25 Like, I want to jump over to the CTV news coverage right now, because the way that they're queuing this up, they seem giddy to talk about, oh, people don't like pure poly about there.
00:04:36 Well, our sources in the Conservative Party have, you know, slight apprehensions about an election that's not going to happen for like another two and a half years.
00:04:46 Let's bring in CTV's Jeremy Sherrill from our Ottawa Bureau with more.
00:04:50 Jeremy, good morning.
00:04:51 What can you tell us?
00:04:52 yeah renee look deep concerns about uh mr polyev's leadership uh and as you've touched on
00:04:59 some believe he will not be uh leading this party into the next election those are some of the
00:05:04 takeaways uh from conversations ctv news had with 17 members of the conservative caucus those
00:05:11 conversations were or these people are being kept anonymous because they were able to speak freely
00:05:16 about their beliefs about polyev's leadership and and where the party stands and they act like
00:05:22 that's like somehow like a point against poly of that's every party all the time nobody's nobody
00:05:28 feels open to speaking publicly about what they think about the leader if it's not positive
00:05:33 and by the way we have had seven conservative mps leave since the last federal election
00:05:39 whether it's retirements like kathy wagenthal where there's really nothing going on there
00:05:44 she's 70 she didn't want to stick around for another election and so she's giving
00:05:48 the her replacement running time to get up to speed so that she's not just sticking around 0.96
00:05:53 filling out time then just passing the baton only when the next elections round that's her genuine
00:05:58 reason for leaving it has nothing to do with anything else larry brock leaving because of
00:06:03 health issues he wants to work closer to home the travel does mess with you when you know you're
00:06:08 constantly having to fly to ottawa if you have anything that's causing you fatigue it can really
00:06:13 exacerbate it if you're constantly traveling but the liberals have also had seven people leave
00:06:19 and those ones were far easier to connect with actual personal problems they had with mark
00:06:25 carney because some of them would basically tweet about it like nade erskine smith would frag
00:06:30 carney all the time stephen gilbo would jonathan wilkinson was attacking his pipeline and some
00:06:35 other stuff on the way out and then you have christia freeland who like there's been multiple
00:06:40 media reports, has deep bad blood with Mark Carney these days because of how he threw her
00:06:44 under the bus for the failures of Justin Trudeau's economy, despite the fact that he was the economic
00:06:50 advisor, Carney was, to Trudeau at the time, and Freeland was implementing his ideas. But no,
00:06:57 we're going to talk about how there's a few people who said that maybe he's not the guy for the job.
00:07:03 Cool, that's called party politics. You go into any party right now, and there's going to be
00:07:08 people saying, I think it could be this person. I think this person could be better. And that's
00:07:13 always going to be emphasized whenever a party is down in the polls. Now, the conservatives are not
00:07:17 down in the polls the way Nanos, Ecos, and ResearchCo are saying. You can tell a bad poll
00:07:22 when the liberal numbers go up, even when the news cycle is just objectively not good for them.
00:07:28 It's just a poll that sample is completely disconnected from what the average Canadian
00:07:33 actually thinks it's too urban, it's too default liberal, and overall it's just a sample that tends
00:07:40 to be the exact same group of people being sampled over and over again. From regions across the
00:07:47 country there are different concerns and different levels of concern. In Ontario, MP CTV News spoke
00:07:53 with believe the party is in trouble and do not like their odds in the province if an election
00:08:00 were to be held uh right now in atlantic canada uh support uh for the conservative party uh you
00:08:06 know mps we spoke with believe is cratered um okay yes they do say that in certain parts of
00:08:13 atlantic canada they believe that their support may have cratered because they were going around
00:08:18 door knocking and supposedly some of these people are saying like oh a lot of people don't like
00:08:21 poly ever a lot of people are warm to carny right now but they also quoted another atlantic mp
00:08:27 in the article who thought that this is temporary it's honestly not that bad poly is completely fine
00:08:32 and mark carney if he screws up on trade everything can basically reset back to where things were and
00:08:38 we might even be able to take an advantage it's such a dumb article because it's a snapshot at
00:08:44 a point in time about an opposition party that's down in the polls to the current government like
00:08:50 this is a useless thing to be covering right now of yes the opposition is down in the polls and
00:08:56 you're going to get some apprehensive MPs on the phone talking anonymously about how they're
00:09:01 worried. Have you ever met a politician before? They tend to be worriers. And even then, there's
00:09:06 a bunch of MPs in this article who are from Atlantic Canada, who are from the West, who are 0.55
00:09:11 from BC, who are from Ontario, who think things are fine and basically agree that Israeli has
00:09:17 nothing to do with Poliev. Mark Carney just has an outsized amount of trust with the Canadian
00:09:22 people right now, because a lot of people trust him to take on the trade issue. And in a certain
00:09:28 sense, you can kind of understand the psychology of non-political Canadians, like people who don't
00:09:33 watch this channel every day, or they don't even really watch mainstream news every day.
00:09:38 You know, they want to think that Carney's going to do a good job. And so his approval ratings are
00:09:43 up and Liberal Party polling is generally up because, well, goodness, how depressing would
00:09:49 it be to think that's going to be another two and a half years of these people completely screwing
00:09:53 things up. Now, like there's some things that get slightly better under Carney. Immigration's
00:09:57 gotten better, although Trudeau was already starting to turn it around because it was just
00:10:00 so obviously a big election loser for the liberals. He even was already reducing the amount of
00:10:05 students in TFWs. That's an area I'll always admit that the liberals are doing a better job on
00:10:09 because they kind of were forced to. Other areas like jobs and economy, mediocre is what you'd
00:10:16 probably call it, since he became prime minister, we've still had a negative 0.1% GDP growth.
00:10:23 It's not like, but we still have like news reports coming out pretending like he's a
00:10:28 maverick because we had job growth in a month. It's like, okay, well, let's wait six months and
00:10:34 see if that job growth actually holds up, especially after they screw up on another trade
00:10:39 deal. And then we get hit by even more tariffs at the same time, they're going to make concessions
00:10:43 anyways for nothing in return like this is the thing that's like just maddening you're you're
00:10:49 making art of you're it's like it's an attack story on the opposition at a time when there is
00:10:57 there is an absolute feast of stories to write on the government i think that generally speaking
00:11:03 you should always focus if you're the mainstream news focus on what the government's doing and if
00:11:09 something particularly spicy happens with the opposition, cover that. Fair enough. But no,
00:11:15 it always happens in reverse, even if there's an absolute goldmine of negative stories for Carney.
00:11:20 Not me trying to like view it as a negative story, but like objectively bad stories. You have the
00:11:26 Sean Chen CCP stuff. By the way, there was also a Canadian intern caught at NATO spying for the
00:11:31 Chinese. It was a Canadian intern of Chinese descent who was basically a CCP plant. That's 0.52
00:11:38 kind of a problem and when
00:11:40 Carney was even actually addressed that
00:11:42 he was like really nervous
00:11:44 not because he's involved because obviously it was a really
00:11:46 bad story because he had just gotten finished
00:11:48 jabbing at Trump and then he's asked about this
00:11:50 NATO story and that looks
00:11:52 a little bit bad right after
00:11:53 he attacked Trump as a conspiracy
00:11:56 theorist and it's like you attack Trump
00:11:58 as a conspiracy theorist and
00:12:00 then you're asked a question about
00:12:02 a Canadian intern at NATO
00:12:04 conspiring against NATO
00:12:06 to help the Chinese government
00:12:08 it's like that was not great but again crazy open season for stories on the liberals the
00:12:14 gordie howe bridge thing just happened condo bailout alto high-speed train the current trade
00:12:19 situation the fact he's in italy sean chen it's not amazing right now that economic data comes out
00:12:27 there's some good economic data too right mixed articles where you poured on both of it fair
00:12:31 enough but why are we talking about the conservatives with this amount of intensity
00:12:35 And as MPs knocked the doors this summer, Pierre Polyev is not liked among, you know, the people that they are talking to.
00:12:43 Well, in the West, Polyev has some stronger support.
00:12:47 Certainly some of the MPs that CTV News spoke with as part of this reporting in Western provinces are still, you know, vehemently in support of Mr. Polyev,
00:12:58 still squarely behind him and believe he can beat Mr. Carney, despite the fact that most of the
00:13:05 MPs we spoke with believe with the CTV News poll conducted by Nanos Research, which concluded that
00:13:11 most Canadians believe there is no conservative that can beat Mr. Carney.
00:13:17 See, that's a poor framing. They're basically saying, well, the conservative MPs agree with
00:13:22 the poll because they believe if an election was held at this exact moment, Carney would win.
00:13:27 But that's not how really that question from CTV News was conducted saying, can anyone beat Carney?
00:13:32 He wasn't saying if an election was held right now, you think a conservative could win.
00:13:35 I'd say no. It's just the moment in time. It's just how politics works.
00:13:40 And again, no election is going to happen right now.
00:13:42 If he came out and he called a snap, his popularity would collapse because everyone would be like, what?
00:13:48 Why? I thought you were the man with the plan. You have a majority. What are you doing?
00:13:51 So that would never happen. But they're acting as if like their poll saying that Mark Carney's wildly popular.
00:13:57 you know two three years from now even two election cycles nobody can touch Carney that's
00:14:02 not what the MPs actually agreed to they are simply hearing MPs say yeah we ran right now
00:14:07 we probably wouldn't win in this second and they're saying see they agree with the poll it's
00:14:11 like no and they also conveniently keep leaving out that MPs from other regions of the country
00:14:17 also still think they say that they absolutely believe in Polyev and nothing that's currently
00:14:22 going on wrong right now has anything particularly to do with him. By the way, universal rule in
00:14:29 polling. Conservatives, when it comes to general elections, overperform their approval ratings
00:14:34 and liberals underperform their approval ratings. Why do conservatives have usually lower approval
00:14:40 ratings than they actually get in general elections? Well, look at the CTV news coverage
00:14:44 right now that we are currently watching. There are so many negative stories about conservatives
00:14:50 for absolutely no reason, whereas there's always glazing happening of liberals,
00:14:55 even when things are not very good, or certain bad stories that they would report if it was a
00:15:00 conservative gets left out if it's a liberal. If Danielle Smith was currently just on vacation
00:15:07 in Greece right now, do you think they wouldn't be hammering her? Because there's wildfires going on, 1.00
00:15:13 even though if there's not really any going on in Alberta, they would be slaughtering her at the
00:15:17 moment. Carney going off to Italy during wildfires as well as tense tariff negotiations?
00:15:24 Whatever. Fill your boots, man. In fact, there was even people saying, no, no, no,
00:15:27 he's not really on vacation. He's just on reduced work hours. It's like no real world leader takes
00:15:35 a vacation, but he's on what the equivalent of a world leader's vacation is. He's going to be
00:15:40 working like a couple hours a day, answering a phone call here or there, saying yes or no to a
00:15:45 couple decisions that some bureaucrats bring him. That's it. He is on vacation. He has physically
00:15:51 distanced himself, geographically distanced himself on a macro level from the trade situation
00:15:57 in the US because he doesn't want to be blamed for the failure. He wants to be able to, at least
00:16:03 in my opinion, throw someone under the bus if a trade deal doesn't get made or we end up giving
00:16:08 a lot of stuff up for simply just deferring future tariffs, but we're going to keep the current ones
00:16:14 that are hurting our economy that being said even in the western provinces uh there are concerns
00:16:20 one mp cdv news spoke with expressed uh concern about mr polyev's leadership believe wow you
00:16:27 found one guy i like that way they they mentioned the one mp from the west who had concerns but they
00:16:32 weren't mentioning the mps from the east and the in atlanta canada who were vocalizing that they're
00:16:38 totally fine with his leadership and the fact that the conservatives are down don't doesn't
00:16:42 really have anything particularly to do with him. I know there's a lot of people out there who
00:16:46 really don't like Polyev. It tends to be people who are default voting liberals. It's not like
00:16:51 really, again, people just don't like Polyev right now because he's not Mark Carney.
00:16:58 People don't like Avi Lewis either. Usually an NDP leader has a very high approval rating
00:17:02 because nobody sees them as much as a threat. You know, it's just some friendly neighborhood
00:17:07 socialist or whatever. So Jagmeet Singh for the longest time had a very high approval rating
00:17:11 because he's not going to win. Tom Mulcair always had a high approval rating. Actually,
00:17:15 I think he actually didn't have a good one, but it was because people thought he could become
00:17:18 prime minister. So they started having more realistic views of what they actually think
00:17:23 about him as a person. But Carney's approval rating is effectively why Polyevs and Avi Lewis
00:17:30 and probably Blanchett's are all bad, because they see them as hurting the elbows up. They oppose
00:17:37 the elbows up because they are not the liberals. Even though, as the conservatives keep pointing
00:17:41 out their main opposition to the liberals on trade is the fact that they are doing the opposite of
00:17:47 what they ran on concessions for absolutely nothing like i think the conservatives should
00:17:52 kind of have their own slogan like elbows up but kind of a cheeky uh refuting of it saying tag me
00:18:00 in you guys are screwing this up tag out tag out tag me in i can do this better let's form a
00:18:07 bipartisan negotiating team that all goes down there. We're all in the room together. We have
00:18:13 a liberal MP attached to our liberal minister. We have a conservative critic. We have a block
00:18:18 critic and then include an NDP person on there too. That would be a great pitch by the conservatives.
00:18:25 But again, the Polyev and the conservatives are not unpopular right now because of anything they've
00:18:30 done wrong, although the media will keep pretending that they have. They're only unpopular because
00:18:34 people are still mostly giving Carney a chance. But if you look at more reliable pollsters like
00:18:40 Angus Reid and Abacus Data, although they would show the liberals would win a majority if an
00:18:45 election happened today, they're not running up these plus 20 scores on the conservatives.
00:18:51 It's like six, four, let's say even if it went up a little bit because the trade situation
00:18:57 intensified and even if he's been screwing up on it previously, we'll give him our best
00:19:04 confidence right now, even if they're at seven or eight, that's not a runaway lead. That's
00:19:09 something that can be diminished over time. I don't think that Carney's one or two bad stories
00:19:13 away from becoming unpopular. I think it's more so that he's a few bad news cycles away in terms
00:19:19 of bad trade scripts from his liberal base, not being disillusioned, but just realizing he's not
00:19:25 maybe the, like, he's not really like some maverick politician. He's not the man with the plan
00:19:33 anymore maybe a lot of people still vote for him and you'll still have a generally pretty high
00:19:37 approval but it could slip to the point where he's kind of a typical liberal prime minister in terms
00:19:42 of his approval like he's just kind of paul martin i guess you would say not really exactly
00:19:47 the elbows up liberal champion like he was back in 2025 is that he should consider resignation
00:19:54 and that there are mps across caucus that are concerned about losing their seats in the next
00:19:59 election, including in Western provinces. So a snapshot, Rene, of kind of where caucus stands,
00:20:05 at least some members of caucus right now, at a time when they're spending time in their
00:20:10 constituencies over the summer, gauging how people feel and really hearing from their constituents
00:20:16 in terms of where they stand. Now, in the meantime, there will be several
00:20:21 by-elections at the end of this month. How does this all factor in?
00:20:26 yeah look i think there could be a serious test upcoming in terms of where mr polyev
00:20:33 will stand there's a by-election coming up in brantford ontario this is a riding uh that is
00:20:38 held by larry brock the by-election has not been called mr brock has signaled his intent to step
00:20:44 away from politics uh it's a riding that's been held since 2008 and one ontario mpcdb news spoke
00:20:50 with believes this could be a real test, and that if the Conservatives are not able to hold that
00:20:55 rioting, it could spell trouble for Polyev's leadership. This MP compared this to the Toronto
00:21:04 St. Paul's by-election in 2024 in the lead-up to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation.
00:21:13 Do we see what's happening here? Like, we're talking about a by-election that has not been
00:21:18 called in the writing that the conservatives are probably going to be able to retain they won it by
00:21:22 like 11 12 points last time and that was a diminished lead because the liberals way over
00:21:28 performed mostly because the ndp had collapsed and we're already like basically talking about
00:21:34 well polio is going to probably have to resign if he loses this branford brant six nations by
00:21:39 election that's not going to be called until at least september or at least until like november
00:21:45 or December. This is what the news coverage is. We're talking about Polyev hypothetically resigning
00:21:52 after hypothetically losing a safe conservative seat in a by-election that hypothetically might
00:21:59 happen in October or November or December. What? Again, why aren't we talking about Carney?
00:22:07 I'm not saying that it all has to be on him, but there's been a lack of intensity
00:22:12 when things are very intense in reality in terms of what is currently going on.
00:22:19 Again, why was there not a lot of outrage that he was going to sacrifice,
00:22:23 and I didn't even like it in the first place,
00:22:25 but we're going to sacrifice the booze ban,
00:22:27 we're going to soften supply management,
00:22:29 which I don't even exactly like either.
00:22:31 I definitely don't like supply management.
00:22:32 And we're also going to get rid of the cap on American auto imports into Canada
00:22:37 for deferring the new 50% tariffs on 5% of more Canadian goods,
00:22:44 5% more Canadian exports, that's nothing.
00:22:48 And we have not really seen wide coverage about just how ridiculous that is.
00:22:52 It's been oddly quiet.
00:22:54 There's little bits of coverage about that here and there,
00:22:57 and then the media seem to get the message that everyone's now supposed to shut up.
00:23:01 But now I want to end this video off by playing a video clip of Stephen Harper
00:23:07 speaking. This was from back in 2018. He is on stage with Dennis Prager talking about how the
00:23:15 media effectively worked to defeat him back in the 2015 election. I'm just going to let this
00:23:21 whole thing play out because it perfectly describes what the media is currently doing,
00:23:27 except it's in reverse and even grosser because the liberals are in government and the conservatives
00:23:37 Conservatives are in government and they were never even fair to the Conservatives when they
00:23:40 were in government. The other story why there's no Fox News is more interesting and this is a
00:23:46 major reason I am no longer Prime Minister of Canada because in the before the last election
00:23:54 a couple years before the last election one of my former communications directors got this bright
00:23:59 idea that he would take he would he got a kind of a dormant television license got a big backer
00:24:06 and he would set up a fox news north it was called sun news and he went out and he hired
00:24:12 virtually all of the right of center journalists in the country there are not a lot it's a minority
00:24:18 but there were some he hired them all and then he promptly went bankrupt and then i went in the
00:24:25 last campaign with virtually and by the way sun news would actually only went bankrupt not because
00:24:31 it was like mismanaged or anything like that or people didn't want to watch it it was because it
00:24:36 wasn't extended the same like requirement to be on every normal television package that like cbc
00:24:43 ctv news global and all these other ones are so like it never got off the ground it never got any
00:24:48 traction because there was literally no way of actually watching it on tv to be able to get it
00:24:54 you'd have to like voluntarily go and find a provider who would then like what you'd have to
00:25:00 pay to have it per month it was just a ridiculous hurdle for it so that's why they went bankrupt
00:25:05 It's not because people wouldn't have watched it. People really liked it.
00:25:09 Ezra Levant was on it back in the day. I'd love to watch Ezra Levant on primetime at night.
00:25:13 No right-of-center journalist in any outlet in the country.
00:25:17 You have to know that in Canada, so that's, you know, we've got a little bit of print that's right-of-center, tiny, tiny bit of radio.
00:25:23 You have to know that in Canada, every TV network, we've got three major networks, every TV network is MSNBC.
00:25:31 They're all MSNBC.
00:25:33 You know, I hear British people complain to me,
00:25:36 and I've checked this out with people who live in both Britain and Canada,
00:25:39 complain to me, well, you don't have the BBC.
00:25:41 The BBC in Canada would be the farthest right network
00:25:46 by a country mile on television.
00:25:48 It's that bad.
00:25:49 So in the last election, and look, there were many reasons I lost,
00:25:53 but one of them was the last election,
00:25:54 they would not cover my announcements.
00:25:56 They would not cover any gaffe of my opponent.
00:25:59 They scrubbed it out.
00:26:00 They actually met every day to coordinate their coverage.
00:26:02 They they would not run any ad I had that showed footage depicting my opponent in a unfavorable light.
00:26:10 They simply refused to run the ads. So we literally were censored out of the coverage.
00:26:15 And now seems very startlingly familiar. Now, I'm not going to just say conservatives get screwed by the media. 0.78
00:26:25 That's why they lose. You know, that's not all of it.
00:26:28 I'm also going to always reiterate my point that the poly of conservatives, just as the O'Toole conservatives, but goodness, O'Toole would have never done this, just as the sheer conservatives should have done this, and just as even the Harper conservatives in 2015 should have done this, you need to run on bolder policies that get more attention.
00:26:46 Even if the mainstream news isn't going to cover them, you need something that can spread like wildfire on social media, where right now, I think one of the problems with the current conservative approach is it's a wait-and-see approach on whether or not the liberals are going to screw things up.
00:27:01 And they probably are. They're the liberals. But the thing is that when they do screw things up, the way you properly capitalize on it to turn that screw up into momentum for a conservative victory is running on bold, audacious policies that get attention, that galvanize voters, and that set the narrative for the next election on your terms.
00:27:23 Do not let the liberals pick the issue of the election, because whoever picks the issue typically wins.
00:27:29 And so the conservatives should do something like, I always suggest, run on a 20% across-the-board tax cut, all income tax brackets, all corporate taxes, as well as take a point off the GST.
00:27:41 I've had tons of other people in the audience suggest other great ideas around criminal justice reforms and whatnot that would be like really big reforms, massive crackdowns on crime.
00:27:52 Run on something big, because right now, when the Conservatives just talk about removing the
00:27:56 gas tax for the end of the year, or slightly lowering income taxes more than the Liberals,
00:28:02 or, you know, getting rid of the industrial carbon tax, I can maybe even agree with those
00:28:05 things in principle. But I can see also how a member of the general public doesn't even notice
00:28:11 that it was even mentioned, because it wasn't big enough. That's also something the Conservatives
00:28:14 need to be cognizant of, is that you can kind of allow yourself to fade into the wallpaper.
00:28:20 Now, this isn't saying that because they're not doing that, that's why the Liberals are polling high. It's a bit of everything. That's something that the Conservatives should be doing because I don't like the wait and see approach for the Liberals to screw up. Because guess what? If the Liberals do screw up, but you're not offering a bold change alternative, people will let the Liberals limp along, get back their sea legs, and then they'll go back to the Liberals.
00:28:42 You have to basically when your opponent's down, you keep them down by proposing something big and different that people like as the alternative rather than, you know, when your opponent falls down, they look towards you and they're like, oh, they're not really still not really doing anything.
00:28:56 They'll they'll it'll take a long enough for them to be they'll be indecisive, wondering if they should change parties or not.
00:29:01 And then Carney will find some way of getting himself momentum again.
00:29:04 and then they'll turn back away.
00:29:07 Ending the consumer carbon tax before 25 election 0.99
00:29:10 was for a while a really good issue for Polly.
00:29:14 It's a really great kind of bumper sticker issue to run on,
00:29:18 but as soon as Carney took it away from him,
00:29:19 it's like the conservatives didn't replace it
00:29:21 with anything substantial and they should have.
00:29:24 Anyways, with all that being said,
00:29:26 thank you guys for listening to this.
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00:29:31 but hopefully that's not too bad.
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