The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 14, 2026


Media Attacks Poilievre to Save Mark Carney from Trade Failures!


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00:00:00.000 The corruption of the Canadian legacy media truly knows no bounds.
00:00:05.600 In the midst of Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government
00:00:09.020 making many missteps and concessions on the U.S. trade issue,
00:00:13.680 what is the legacy media talking about this morning?
00:00:17.280 Conservative MPs worry about losing their seats,
00:00:20.540 privately question Polyev's leadership ability to defeat Prime Minister Carney.
00:00:25.480 Now you could say, hey, news is news.
00:00:27.800 If they have a story, they're going to run it.
00:00:29.260 Fair enough, but there's a limited amount of resources that any news outlet has to hunt down
00:00:35.280 a story, report on it, edit it, and then put it out. This is a story that they could have waited
00:00:41.720 a month or two to talk about, but instead they're talking about it now when you think there would be
00:00:48.100 more reporting, more investigations happening regarding Carney going off to Italy during
00:00:54.540 high-pressure negotiations with the Americans on potential new tariffs? You think that would be a
00:01:00.800 big story that they would be talking about every day? He left the country amid massive wildfires
00:01:06.460 and this tariff negotiation. Shouldn't people be looking into that a little bit of what the
00:01:11.680 heck's going on with the prime minister, why he's not taking this very seriously? Or maybe talk
00:01:17.160 about Sean Chen, the liberal MP who is resigning, that a lot of evidence has come out about showing
00:01:22.980 that he's probably a Chinese Communist Party asset in Canada's parliament who has been sitting
00:01:28.800 as a Liberal MP since 2015 and may have even been illegally voting on legislation while he was in
00:01:36.940 China. You know, we're not going to talk about that. We need to talk about a bunch of anonymous
00:01:42.720 MPs mildly complaining about Pierre Polyev. Really, I've read this article from CTV News.
00:01:50.000 It mostly just details that people realize that they're behind the liberals in the polls.
00:01:55.820 And if an election happened today, we wouldn't do very well.
00:01:58.440 If you actually go through the article, I've read through the whole thing.
00:02:01.580 It's what I would describe as very fluffy.
00:02:05.200 There's not a lot to it.
00:02:06.800 There's apparently like 17 or 15 conservative MPs who they spoke to.
00:02:12.240 Only a couple actually have issues with Polly's leadership or don't believe that maybe he's
00:02:17.820 the best man for the job.
00:02:19.000 But it's mostly just people saying, yeah, I'd be worried if we had to go to an election right now.
00:02:24.620 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.
00:02:31.740 And Carney would never call one right now because he already has a majority.
00:02:35.100 And, you know, things change fast in politics.
00:02:37.440 But really, the entire article is just about the headline.
00:02:40.740 So many legacy media stories are just about getting that headline.
00:02:44.980 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.
00:02:55.880 When only 33 percent of respondents in a very left wing leaning poll said that Carney can't be beaten by any conservative leader.
00:03:04.100 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.
00:03:14.160 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.
00:03:27.500 But whatever, maybe I just don't understand the news.
00:03:30.760 But the whole article is to distract from what is currently going on with trade.
00:03:36.760 You know, the big issue that if Carney screws up on, he could actually end up losing his base.
00:03:42.200 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.
00:04:00.600 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?
00:04:25.600 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.
00:04:36.600 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.
00:04:46.880 Let's bring in CTV's Jeremy Sherrill from our Ottawa Bureau with more.
00:04:50.880 Jeremy, good morning.
00:04:51.680 What can you tell us?
00:04:52.740 yeah renee look deep concerns about uh mr polyev's leadership uh and as you've touched on
00:04:59.260 some believe he will not be uh leading this party into the next election those are some of the
00:05:04.180 takeaways uh from conversations ctv news had with 17 members of the conservative caucus those
00:05:11.040 conversations were or these people are being kept anonymous because they were able to speak freely
00:05:16.520 about their beliefs about polyev's leadership and and where the party stands and they act like
00:05:22.580 that's like somehow like a point against poly of that's every party all the time nobody's nobody
00:05:28.460 feels open to speaking publicly about what they think about the leader if it's not positive
00:05:33.380 and by the way we have had seven conservative mps leave since the last federal election
00:05:39.560 whether it's retirements like kathy wagenthal where there's really nothing going on there
00:05:44.680 she's 70 she didn't want to stick around for another election and so she's giving
00:05:48.820 the her replacement running time to get up to speed so that she's not just sticking around
00:05:53.600 filling out time then just passing the baton only when the next elections round that's her genuine
00:05:58.700 reason for leaving it has nothing to do with anything else larry brock leaving because of
00:06:03.760 health issues he wants to work closer to home the travel does mess with you when you know you're
00:06:08.760 constantly having to fly to ottawa if you have anything that's causing you fatigue it can really
00:06:13.340 exacerbate it if you're constantly traveling but the liberals have also had seven people leave
00:06:19.820 and those ones were far easier to connect with actual personal problems they had with mark
00:06:25.220 carney because some of them would basically tweet about it like nade erskine smith would frag
00:06:30.300 carney all the time stephen gilbo would jonathan wilkinson was attacking his pipeline and some
00:06:35.660 other stuff on the way out and then you have christia freeland who like there's been multiple
00:06:40.260 media reports, has deep bad blood with Mark Carney these days because of how he threw her
00:06:44.940 under the bus for the failures of Justin Trudeau's economy, despite the fact that he was the economic
00:06:50.540 advisor, Carney was, to Trudeau at the time, and Freeland was implementing his ideas. But no,
00:06:57.260 we're going to talk about how there's a few people who said that maybe he's not the guy for the job.
00:07:03.280 Cool, that's called party politics. You go into any party right now, and there's going to be
00:07:08.540 people saying, I think it could be this person. I think this person could be better. And that's
00:07:13.120 always going to be emphasized whenever a party is down in the polls. Now, the conservatives are not
00:07:17.540 down in the polls the way Nanos, Ecos, and ResearchCo are saying. You can tell a bad poll
00:07:22.780 when the liberal numbers go up, even when the news cycle is just objectively not good for them.
00:07:28.380 It's just a poll that sample is completely disconnected from what the average Canadian
00:07:33.460 actually thinks it's too urban, it's too default liberal, and overall it's just a sample that tends
00:07:40.820 to be the exact same group of people being sampled over and over again. From regions across the
00:07:47.320 country there are different concerns and different levels of concern. In Ontario, MP CTV News spoke
00:07:53.380 with believe the party is in trouble and do not like their odds in the province if an election
00:08:00.340 were to be held uh right now in atlantic canada uh support uh for the conservative party uh you
00:08:06.840 know mps we spoke with believe is cratered um okay yes they do say that in certain parts of
00:08:13.760 atlantic canada they believe that their support may have cratered because they were going around
00:08:18.100 door knocking and supposedly some of these people are saying like oh a lot of people don't like
00:08:21.480 poly ever a lot of people are warm to carny right now but they also quoted another atlantic mp
00:08:27.000 in the article who thought that this is temporary it's honestly not that bad poly is completely fine
00:08:32.640 and mark carney if he screws up on trade everything can basically reset back to where things were and
00:08:38.180 we might even be able to take an advantage it's such a dumb article because it's a snapshot at
00:08:44.020 a point in time about an opposition party that's down in the polls to the current government like
00:08:50.900 this is a useless thing to be covering right now of yes the opposition is down in the polls and
00:08:56.640 you're going to get some apprehensive MPs on the phone talking anonymously about how they're
00:09:01.320 worried. Have you ever met a politician before? They tend to be worriers. And even then, there's
00:09:06.600 a bunch of MPs in this article who are from Atlantic Canada, who are from the West, who are
00:09:11.240 from BC, who are from Ontario, who think things are fine and basically agree that Israeli has
00:09:17.320 nothing to do with Poliev. Mark Carney just has an outsized amount of trust with the Canadian
00:09:22.220 people right now, because a lot of people trust him to take on the trade issue. And in a certain
00:09:28.240 sense, you can kind of understand the psychology of non-political Canadians, like people who don't
00:09:33.720 watch this channel every day, or they don't even really watch mainstream news every day.
00:09:38.160 You know, they want to think that Carney's going to do a good job. And so his approval ratings are
00:09:43.060 up and Liberal Party polling is generally up because, well, goodness, how depressing would
00:09:49.120 it be to think that's going to be another two and a half years of these people completely screwing
00:09:53.100 things up. Now, like there's some things that get slightly better under Carney. Immigration's
00:09:57.320 gotten better, although Trudeau was already starting to turn it around because it was just
00:10:00.640 so obviously a big election loser for the liberals. He even was already reducing the amount of
00:10:05.300 students in TFWs. That's an area I'll always admit that the liberals are doing a better job on
00:10:09.820 because they kind of were forced to. Other areas like jobs and economy, mediocre is what you'd
00:10:16.180 probably call it, since he became prime minister, we've still had a negative 0.1% GDP growth.
00:10:23.780 It's not like, but we still have like news reports coming out pretending like he's a
00:10:28.320 maverick because we had job growth in a month. It's like, okay, well, let's wait six months and
00:10:34.300 see if that job growth actually holds up, especially after they screw up on another trade
00:10:39.640 deal. And then we get hit by even more tariffs at the same time, they're going to make concessions
00:10:43.640 anyways for nothing in return like this is the thing that's like just maddening you're you're
00:10:49.460 making art of you're it's like it's an attack story on the opposition at a time when there is
00:10:57.220 there is an absolute feast of stories to write on the government i think that generally speaking
00:11:03.360 you should always focus if you're the mainstream news focus on what the government's doing and if
00:11:09.120 something particularly spicy happens with the opposition, cover that. Fair enough. But no,
00:11:15.180 it always happens in reverse, even if there's an absolute goldmine of negative stories for Carney.
00:11:20.840 Not me trying to like view it as a negative story, but like objectively bad stories. You have the
00:11:26.380 Sean Chen CCP stuff. By the way, there was also a Canadian intern caught at NATO spying for the
00:11:31.420 Chinese. It was a Canadian intern of Chinese descent who was basically a CCP plant. That's
00:11:38.760 kind of a problem and when
00:11:40.720 Carney was even actually addressed that
00:11:42.680 he was like really nervous
00:11:44.240 not because he's involved because obviously it was a really
00:11:46.620 bad story because he had just gotten finished
00:11:48.660 jabbing at Trump and then he's asked about this
00:11:50.700 NATO story and that looks
00:11:52.580 a little bit bad right after
00:11:53.960 he attacked Trump as a conspiracy
00:11:56.680 theorist and it's like you attack Trump
00:11:58.720 as a conspiracy theorist and
00:12:00.700 then you're asked a question about
00:12:02.280 a Canadian intern at NATO
00:12:04.720 conspiring against NATO
00:12:06.540 to help the Chinese government
00:12:08.200 it's like that was not great but again crazy open season for stories on the liberals the
00:12:14.260 gordie howe bridge thing just happened condo bailout alto high-speed train the current trade
00:12:19.740 situation the fact he's in italy sean chen it's not amazing right now that economic data comes out
00:12:27.200 there's some good economic data too right mixed articles where you poured on both of it fair
00:12:31.140 enough but why are we talking about the conservatives with this amount of intensity
00:12:35.940 And as MPs knocked the doors this summer, Pierre Polyev is not liked among, you know, the people that they are talking to.
00:12:43.580 Well, in the West, Polyev has some stronger support.
00:12:47.400 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,
00:12:58.540 still squarely behind him and believe he can beat Mr. Carney, despite the fact that most of the
00:13:05.180 MPs we spoke with believe with the CTV News poll conducted by Nanos Research, which concluded that
00:13:11.260 most Canadians believe there is no conservative that can beat Mr. Carney.
00:13:17.460 See, that's a poor framing. They're basically saying, well, the conservative MPs agree with
00:13:22.640 the poll because they believe if an election was held at this exact moment, Carney would win.
00:13:27.060 But that's not how really that question from CTV News was conducted saying, can anyone beat Carney?
00:13:32.240 He wasn't saying if an election was held right now, you think a conservative could win.
00:13:35.940 I'd say no. It's just the moment in time. It's just how politics works.
00:13:40.080 And again, no election is going to happen right now.
00:13:42.120 If he came out and he called a snap, his popularity would collapse because everyone would be like, what?
00:13:48.220 Why? I thought you were the man with the plan. You have a majority. What are you doing?
00:13:51.160 So that would never happen. But they're acting as if like their poll saying that Mark Carney's wildly popular.
00:13:57.060 you know two three years from now even two election cycles nobody can touch Carney that's
00:14:02.180 not what the MPs actually agreed to they are simply hearing MPs say yeah we ran right now
00:14:07.900 we probably wouldn't win in this second and they're saying see they agree with the poll it's
00:14:11.140 like no and they also conveniently keep leaving out that MPs from other regions of the country
00:14:17.200 also still think they say that they absolutely believe in Polyev and nothing that's currently
00:14:22.160 going on wrong right now has anything particularly to do with him. By the way, universal rule in
00:14:29.000 polling. Conservatives, when it comes to general elections, overperform their approval ratings
00:14:34.260 and liberals underperform their approval ratings. Why do conservatives have usually lower approval
00:14:40.160 ratings than they actually get in general elections? Well, look at the CTV news coverage
00:14:44.720 right now that we are currently watching. There are so many negative stories about conservatives
00:14:50.320 for absolutely no reason, whereas there's always glazing happening of liberals,
00:14:55.480 even when things are not very good, or certain bad stories that they would report if it was a
00:15:00.700 conservative gets left out if it's a liberal. If Danielle Smith was currently just on vacation
00:15:07.900 in Greece right now, do you think they wouldn't be hammering her? Because there's wildfires going on,
00:15:13.420 even though if there's not really any going on in Alberta, they would be slaughtering her at the
00:15:17.340 moment. Carney going off to Italy during wildfires as well as tense tariff negotiations?
00:15:24.380 Whatever. Fill your boots, man. In fact, there was even people saying, no, no, no,
00:15:27.980 he's not really on vacation. He's just on reduced work hours. It's like no real world leader takes
00:15:35.000 a vacation, but he's on what the equivalent of a world leader's vacation is. He's going to be
00:15:40.160 working like a couple hours a day, answering a phone call here or there, saying yes or no to a
00:15:45.620 couple decisions that some bureaucrats bring him. That's it. He is on vacation. He has physically
00:15:51.020 distanced himself, geographically distanced himself on a macro level from the trade situation
00:15:57.080 in the US because he doesn't want to be blamed for the failure. He wants to be able to, at least
00:16:03.200 in my opinion, throw someone under the bus if a trade deal doesn't get made or we end up giving
00:16:08.600 a lot of stuff up for simply just deferring future tariffs, but we're going to keep the current ones
00:16:14.320 that are hurting our economy that being said even in the western provinces uh there are concerns
00:16:20.280 one mp cdv news spoke with expressed uh concern about mr polyev's leadership believe wow you
00:16:27.400 found one guy i like that way they they mentioned the one mp from the west who had concerns but they
00:16:32.740 weren't mentioning the mps from the east and the in atlanta canada who were vocalizing that they're
00:16:38.560 totally fine with his leadership and the fact that the conservatives are down don't doesn't
00:16:42.820 really have anything particularly to do with him. I know there's a lot of people out there who
00:16:46.280 really don't like Polyev. It tends to be people who are default voting liberals. It's not like
00:16:51.980 really, again, people just don't like Polyev right now because he's not Mark Carney.
00:16:58.160 People don't like Avi Lewis either. Usually an NDP leader has a very high approval rating
00:17:02.820 because nobody sees them as much as a threat. You know, it's just some friendly neighborhood
00:17:07.300 socialist or whatever. So Jagmeet Singh for the longest time had a very high approval rating
00:17:11.900 because he's not going to win. Tom Mulcair always had a high approval rating. Actually,
00:17:15.460 I think he actually didn't have a good one, but it was because people thought he could become
00:17:18.600 prime minister. So they started having more realistic views of what they actually think
00:17:23.980 about him as a person. But Carney's approval rating is effectively why Polyevs and Avi Lewis
00:17:30.520 and probably Blanchett's are all bad, because they see them as hurting the elbows up. They oppose
00:17:37.360 the elbows up because they are not the liberals. Even though, as the conservatives keep pointing
00:17:41.700 out their main opposition to the liberals on trade is the fact that they are doing the opposite of
00:17:47.520 what they ran on concessions for absolutely nothing like i think the conservatives should
00:17:52.820 kind of have their own slogan like elbows up but kind of a cheeky uh refuting of it saying tag me
00:18:00.300 in you guys are screwing this up tag out tag out tag me in i can do this better let's form a
00:18:07.580 bipartisan negotiating team that all goes down there. We're all in the room together. We have
00:18:13.820 a liberal MP attached to our liberal minister. We have a conservative critic. We have a block
00:18:18.920 critic and then include an NDP person on there too. That would be a great pitch by the conservatives.
00:18:25.240 But again, the Polyev and the conservatives are not unpopular right now because of anything they've
00:18:30.220 done wrong, although the media will keep pretending that they have. They're only unpopular because
00:18:34.600 people are still mostly giving Carney a chance. But if you look at more reliable pollsters like
00:18:40.820 Angus Reid and Abacus Data, although they would show the liberals would win a majority if an
00:18:45.780 election happened today, they're not running up these plus 20 scores on the conservatives.
00:18:51.940 It's like six, four, let's say even if it went up a little bit because the trade situation
00:18:57.320 intensified and even if he's been screwing up on it previously, we'll give him our best
00:19:04.040 confidence right now, even if they're at seven or eight, that's not a runaway lead. That's
00:19:09.420 something that can be diminished over time. I don't think that Carney's one or two bad stories
00:19:13.920 away from becoming unpopular. I think it's more so that he's a few bad news cycles away in terms
00:19:19.520 of bad trade scripts from his liberal base, not being disillusioned, but just realizing he's not
00:19:25.800 maybe the, like, he's not really like some maverick politician. He's not the man with the plan
00:19:33.280 anymore maybe a lot of people still vote for him and you'll still have a generally pretty high
00:19:37.800 approval but it could slip to the point where he's kind of a typical liberal prime minister in terms
00:19:42.960 of his approval like he's just kind of paul martin i guess you would say not really exactly
00:19:47.500 the elbows up liberal champion like he was back in 2025 is that he should consider resignation
00:19:54.560 and that there are mps across caucus that are concerned about losing their seats in the next
00:19:59.620 election, including in Western provinces. So a snapshot, Rene, of kind of where caucus stands,
00:20:05.620 at least some members of caucus right now, at a time when they're spending time in their
00:20:10.560 constituencies over the summer, gauging how people feel and really hearing from their constituents
00:20:16.660 in terms of where they stand. Now, in the meantime, there will be several
00:20:21.940 by-elections at the end of this month. How does this all factor in?
00:20:26.000 yeah look i think there could be a serious test upcoming in terms of where mr polyev
00:20:33.320 will stand there's a by-election coming up in brantford ontario this is a riding uh that is
00:20:38.860 held by larry brock the by-election has not been called mr brock has signaled his intent to step
00:20:44.400 away from politics uh it's a riding that's been held since 2008 and one ontario mpcdb news spoke
00:20:50.940 with believes this could be a real test, and that if the Conservatives are not able to hold that
00:20:55.920 rioting, it could spell trouble for Polyev's leadership. This MP compared this to the Toronto
00:21:04.880 St. Paul's by-election in 2024 in the lead-up to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation.
00:21:13.600 Do we see what's happening here? Like, we're talking about a by-election that has not been
00:21:18.100 called in the writing that the conservatives are probably going to be able to retain they won it by
00:21:22.880 like 11 12 points last time and that was a diminished lead because the liberals way over
00:21:28.040 performed mostly because the ndp had collapsed and we're already like basically talking about
00:21:34.120 well polio is going to probably have to resign if he loses this branford brant six nations by
00:21:39.700 election that's not going to be called until at least september or at least until like november
00:21:45.900 or December. This is what the news coverage is. We're talking about Polyev hypothetically resigning
00:21:52.960 after hypothetically losing a safe conservative seat in a by-election that hypothetically might
00:21:59.780 happen in October or November or December. What? Again, why aren't we talking about Carney?
00:22:07.480 I'm not saying that it all has to be on him, but there's been a lack of intensity
00:22:12.500 when things are very intense in reality in terms of what is currently going on.
00:22:19.260 Again, why was there not a lot of outrage that he was going to sacrifice,
00:22:23.660 and I didn't even like it in the first place,
00:22:25.280 but we're going to sacrifice the booze ban,
00:22:27.660 we're going to soften supply management,
00:22:29.260 which I don't even exactly like either.
00:22:31.180 I definitely don't like supply management.
00:22:32.640 And we're also going to get rid of the cap on American auto imports into Canada
00:22:37.420 for deferring the new 50% tariffs on 5% of more Canadian goods,
00:22:44.980 5% more Canadian exports, that's nothing.
00:22:48.080 And we have not really seen wide coverage about just how ridiculous that is.
00:22:52.280 It's been oddly quiet.
00:22:54.080 There's little bits of coverage about that here and there,
00:22:57.640 and then the media seem to get the message that everyone's now supposed to shut up.
00:23:01.480 But now I want to end this video off by playing a video clip of Stephen Harper
00:23:07.200 speaking. This was from back in 2018. He is on stage with Dennis Prager talking about how the
00:23:15.100 media effectively worked to defeat him back in the 2015 election. I'm just going to let this
00:23:21.760 whole thing play out because it perfectly describes what the media is currently doing,
00:23:27.260 except it's in reverse and even grosser because the liberals are in government and the conservatives
00:23:37.200 Conservatives are in government and they were never even fair to the Conservatives when they
00:23:40.920 were in government. The other story why there's no Fox News is more interesting and this is a
00:23:46.920 major reason I am no longer Prime Minister of Canada because in the before the last election
00:23:54.060 a couple years before the last election one of my former communications directors got this bright
00:23:59.500 idea that he would take he would he got a kind of a dormant television license got a big backer
00:24:06.940 and he would set up a fox news north it was called sun news and he went out and he hired
00:24:12.920 virtually all of the right of center journalists in the country there are not a lot it's a minority
00:24:18.880 but there were some he hired them all and then he promptly went bankrupt and then i went in the
00:24:25.360 last campaign with virtually and by the way sun news would actually only went bankrupt not because
00:24:31.600 it was like mismanaged or anything like that or people didn't want to watch it it was because it
00:24:36.160 wasn't extended the same like requirement to be on every normal television package that like cbc
00:24:43.280 ctv news global and all these other ones are so like it never got off the ground it never got any
00:24:48.400 traction because there was literally no way of actually watching it on tv to be able to get it
00:24:54.640 you'd have to like voluntarily go and find a provider who would then like what you'd have to
00:25:00.960 pay to have it per month it was just a ridiculous hurdle for it so that's why they went bankrupt
00:25:05.840 It's not because people wouldn't have watched it. People really liked it.
00:25:09.060 Ezra Levant was on it back in the day. I'd love to watch Ezra Levant on primetime at night.
00:25:13.680 No right-of-center journalist in any outlet in the country.
00:25:17.180 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.
00:25:23.980 You have to know that in Canada, every TV network, we've got three major networks, every TV network is MSNBC.
00:25:31.140 They're all MSNBC.
00:25:33.280 You know, I hear British people complain to me,
00:25:36.580 and I've checked this out with people who live in both Britain and Canada,
00:25:39.160 complain to me, well, you don't have the BBC.
00:25:41.660 The BBC in Canada would be the farthest right network
00:25:46.160 by a country mile on television.
00:25:48.860 It's that bad.
00:25:49.780 So in the last election, and look, there were many reasons I lost,
00:25:53.220 but one of them was the last election,
00:25:54.780 they would not cover my announcements.
00:25:56.880 They would not cover any gaffe of my opponent.
00:25:59.040 They scrubbed it out.
00:26:00.000 They actually met every day to coordinate their coverage.
00:26:02.540 They they would not run any ad I had that showed footage depicting my opponent in a unfavorable light.
00:26:10.360 They simply refused to run the ads. So we literally were censored out of the coverage.
00:26:15.940 And now seems very startlingly familiar. Now, I'm not going to just say conservatives get screwed by the media.
00:26:25.500 That's why they lose. You know, that's not all of it.
00:26:28.220 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.
00:26:46.920 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.
00:27:01.940 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.
00:27:23.220 Do not let the liberals pick the issue of the election, because whoever picks the issue typically wins.
00:27:29.260 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.
00:27:41.380 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.
00:27:52.660 Run on something big, because right now, when the Conservatives just talk about removing the
00:27:56.860 gas tax for the end of the year, or slightly lowering income taxes more than the Liberals,
00:28:02.420 or, you know, getting rid of the industrial carbon tax, I can maybe even agree with those
00:28:05.880 things in principle. But I can see also how a member of the general public doesn't even notice
00:28:11.420 that it was even mentioned, because it wasn't big enough. That's also something the Conservatives
00:28:14.920 need to be cognizant of, is that you can kind of allow yourself to fade into the wallpaper.
00:28:20.380 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.
00:28:42.060 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.
00:28:56.760 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.
00:29:01.900 And then Carney will find some way of getting himself momentum again.
00:29:04.880 and then they'll turn back away.
00:29:07.460 Ending the consumer carbon tax before 25 election
00:29:10.180 was for a while a really good issue for Polly.
00:29:14.520 It's a really great kind of bumper sticker issue to run on,
00:29:18.020 but as soon as Carney took it away from him,
00:29:19.720 it's like the conservatives didn't replace it
00:29:21.460 with anything substantial and they should have.
00:29:24.400 Anyways, with all that being said,
00:29:26.660 thank you guys for listening to this.
00:29:28.480 I know it's always a bit of a rant and a ramble with me,
00:29:31.240 but hopefully that's not too bad.
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