Pathetic： Media attacks Poilievre because Carney is flopping!
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Summary
Justin Trudeau should have been charged for corruption, says Conservative MP Pierre Polyvencic. But the legacy media and some on the right are trying to smear him as a crook for his views on the matter.
Transcript
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. It's pretty obvious at this point that Prime Minister
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Mark Carney and his Liberal government are not doing very well right now. We can check out the
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polling which shows that they spiked right after the election because they just got back into
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office and then slowly descended back into a very competitive polling position with the
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Federal Conservatives. But you don't even have to look at the polling to realize that the Liberals
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are in trouble. Just look at the legacy media coverage which is now attacking Pierre Polyev,
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the leader of the Federal Conservatives, over complete nonsense because there is nothing
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really good to report about Carney's government right now. Now they'll cover his press conferences
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when he announces random stuff that won't actually get done, but they don't actually have any positive
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news to report. Yeah, they can try and make these announcements sound positive, but the average
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person eventually will be like, well, that's not happening for two years, so who really cares?
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And so now the media is just attacking Polyev for having an opinion that the vast majority of
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Canadians also have, which is that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or other members of his
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Liberal government could have been criminally charged for all of the corruption that went on
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those 10 years. But if you're in the legacy media, this is shocking. This is so anti-Canadian
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to want people taking part in criminal activity to be charged for their criminal activity. Now,
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I'm pretty nuanced, and if you don't like nuance, you will hate this video because I will actually
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eventually get into some on the right who are attacking Polyev over stuff later on in this video
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and why I find it kind of dishonest or at the very least unfair. But on this particular story of the
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media going after Polyev saying that Trudeau should have been charged, I'm not the type of guy who
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demands that heads roll every time something corrupt happens in government, every time that money is
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misused. I don't think that we should be always raising everything to the level of someone must go
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for this, someone must be put in prison for this. Sometimes government just sucks. But with Trudeau,
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it was so obvious, the corruption, and it happened so consistently, and it was covered up so feverishly,
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you know something criminal happened. But the media is acting like Polyev saying that he should be
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charged is like him, is like, you know, wacko peer Polyev, just bizarro peer Polyev coming out here
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to say that Justin Trudeau should go to prison while we all don't think that. I read the other day,
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it was just yesterday, an APTN article, the Aboriginal, I think it's like a television and
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media outlet, it's government subsidized. And even they had an op-ed talking about how Trudeau
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and the liberal government basically got away scot-free without criminal charges because the
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RCMP just did not do their job in investigating. Polyev said that the RCMP effectively helped cover
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it up because they effectively helped cover it up. They really didn't push for the documents.
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They really didn't push for testimony from certain employees that could have blown it all open.
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And then they closed their investigation, recommending no charges, because they didn't
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really investigate. Because the upper echelon of the RCMP is very political. And they tend to be
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the right-hand men and women of the government in power. This isn't something to cast aspersions at
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all RCMP officers. Very much, you know, the opposite. This is a small group of people who
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climb their way to the top of the RCMP, not by being good cops, but just simply being very loyal
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to the powers that be. But now I need to take you guys through some of this coverage, because it is
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patently insane, the people who are trying to attack Polyev over this. Right here, this is kind of the red
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Tories going after Polyev, those very liberal conservatives. And this headline from CP24 says,
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top aide to former Prime Minister Harper rips Polyev's comments about RCMP and Trudeau. We're just
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going to read through a little bit of this because I find it stupid. And it says, Ottawa, top aide to
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former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has lashed out at Pierre Polyev over his leadership of
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the Conservative Party and his recent comments attacking the RCMP's treatment of Justin Trudeau.
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No, no. RCMP leadership. If you don't clarify leadership, you are being dishonest. You're just
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acting like he just says, oh, I hate the cops, of course, because they let Trudeau off the hook.
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No, he's talking about the commissioners. He's talking about those who are in charge of investigating
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who really didn't investigate. But the article goes on to say, in a recent interview with a YouTube
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channel called Northern Perspective, Polyev called the leadership of the RCMP despicable and said many
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of former Prime Minister Trudeau's scandals, quote, should have involved jail time, unquote. Absolutely
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agree. Writing an op-ed in the Toronto Star, Dmitry Sodas says Polyev's recent statements demonstrated,
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quote, unquote, recklessness and, quote, a leadership approach that remains rooted in grievance
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rather than governance, unquote. Quote, in a rule of law democracy, no opposition leader should ever
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call for a prime minister or any political rival to be jailed, he wrote, unquote. Quote, it undermines
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confidence in our justice system, our federal police, and ultimately the crown, unquote. And this
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is absolute pablum. Now, we could keep reading through this, and he also posted a thread, like a long
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post about it on X. He's wrong. Do you actually think there is no threshold at which point somebody
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serving as prime minister shouldn't be arrested for things that they do in office? Or do they just get
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a pure get-of-jail-free card? Doesn't matter how much money is siphoned off from taxpayers to friends
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of the Liberal Party, how blatant it is, you just have to let it go. And I'm even saying, I'm even sitting
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here saying, I don't think, necessarily, every time money goes missing or money is used wrong or a friend
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gets a contract, that doesn't mean we need to charge someone. That's just sometimes called crappy
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government. But when it comes to Trudeau, and again, was so egregious and consistent, eventually
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somebody should be charged, because this is all just willful at this point. It's not just that we kind
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of suck at our jobs and we're kind of self-serving. This is, you know you did something wrong because
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you're covering it up. Mario Zollea, right here, posts a list of the actual times that the RCMP
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has not charged the Liberals for a scandal. Mario says, things the RCMP has not charged the Liberals
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for. Green Slush Fund, billions of dollars, refused to hand RCMP documents and froze government. Yeah,
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so they were giving billions of dollars to friends and their companies, and there was no investigation,
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or they refused to hand over documents to the RCMP who was investigating, and then they froze
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government, and the whole thing went away. SNC-Lavalin, Trudeau interfered, fired Attorney General,
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major corruption charges, WPG Labs, that's probably the Winnipeg Labs, We Charity, $912 million contract,
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Trudeau family paid, Morneau broke ethics laws, lost infrastructure funds, billions unaccounted for in
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quote-unquote green and transit projects, ArriveCAN, $60 million app, fake contracts, missing records,
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RCMP investigating, foreign interference, China and others meddled in 2019-2021 elections,
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Trudeau hid reports, Emergencies Act, court ruled illegal, rights violated, no accountability,
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LeBlanc family deal, 28 million contracts to Cousins Company, ethics breach ignored,
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Ajakon trip, and it keeps going on and on and on. There was a lot more than just some
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oopsie moments inside the Trudeau government, but you guys don't need to be told that Justin Trudeau
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was corrupt. Obviously he was. It's the pathetic way the media, again, is attempting to make this story
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about Pollyup. I'm sorry, this is a common, this is an extremely common view that Trudeau got away
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with effectively murder in government, and the police never actually got, like, never actually really
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pressed him for details and to hand over documents or even have members of his PMO testify.
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Anna Tomola here, who is a former chief of staff to the Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
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and now works at Harper and Associates, says, and she's responding to that CP24 article we just read,
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And that is being said because, of course, that article dishonestly frames this like it's somehow
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like the stance of former Harper aides, because it's just said a former Stephen Harper aide calls
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out Pollyup for this and that. Just say it's the guy's, just say the guy's name, because nobody
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actually cares. He's a red Tory hack who doesn't like that Pollyup's not playing by the rules the
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liberals set. The liberals are allowed to be corrupt as heck, and you're not allowed to do anything
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about it. It's, it's pathetic. Uh, here is the actual, yeah, and this guy, and Dimitri Soda's
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basically posted the exact same thing in his own Twitter post, but I did like this response from
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this Terry, uh, I, or L guy, and he says, Dimitris, you seem to be saying that no matter how corrupt a
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Prime Minister was, and how negligent the RCMP was to not investigate or charge our past PM,
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we should just accept the rule of law doesn't apply to federal liberal politicians.
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Throw us at, Dimitris, and I agree. This is absolutely pathetic. Uh, and then that we have this
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one person here, Lawrence Barton says, Soudis wouldn't have written this attack on Pollyup without
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Stephen Harper's okay. It means the knives are out to get Pierre Pollyup, and they are big knives that
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could kill his leadership. And this was the purpose of that stupid headline. So that, frankly, mouth
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breathers like Lawrence Martin here can claim, well, this is probably coming from on high from,
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uh, from, from, uh, Stephen Harper. And, uh, and it's not, it's just obviously not. Stephen Harper
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endorsed him in the last campaign. And you could say, well, things change. He disrespected Trudeau,
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and now Harper's coming in for the rescue. Do you think that he cares anything of what people say
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about Justin Trudeau? I can tell you not. I don't know Stephen Harper on a personal level. I've never
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even met him in person. But I can tell you that the man probably doesn't care about you thinking that
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he should be arrested for gross levels of corruption. As Stephen Taylor person says,
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ah, yes, Dimitri Sotas, famous for joining the Liberal Party at Stephen Harper's behest. Because,
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in fact, Dimitri is a Liberal Party member. Of course, that's, yes, the headline, former Harper
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staffer, or whatever, executive, uh, sounds off about Pollyup. Mention the fact that he's a Liberal
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member up front, and maybe people won't care, because they shouldn't care. But again, this is all
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being done in order to try and trip up Pollyup, because he, like Mark Carney, is doing a terrible
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job, and Pollyup is on an upswing again. We even had this pathetic red Tory, uh, what, Fred Delori,
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on power and politics, condemning or chastising Pollyup for his words here.
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People that are looking at this. And by the way, this guy was the campaign, uh, manager for Aaron
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O'Toole, which shouldn't shock you. Across the board, it's, he's the leader of the opposition
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dominating media in the last few days, not in a good way. That's not a good thing. Yes, he has a
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leadership review, and a lot of the people in the party who support him may look at this and be
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nodding along, but there's going to be some people who are thinking, what in the heck are we doing here?
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How are we preparing to defeat the Liberals in the next election if we're talking about this sort of
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thing and running down the RCMP the way we are? That is not how you win elections in this country.
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He didn't run down the RCMP. And, and can, could Fred Delori be projecting any harder that he has a
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massive chip on his shoulder on some personal level of pure Pollyup? Because he, he acts like,
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oh, well, pure Pollyup is all over the news in the last few days, and not in a good way.
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As if Pollyup generated this. Pollyup made a comment on Northern Perspective's YouTube channel
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and the media, who never talks about independent media, who never talks about Northern Perspective.
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No, they wouldn't talk about my channel, Mr. Sunshine Baby, Clyde Do Something. They would never
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talk about Jasmine Lane, all these other people, Josh at Elevate. But they suddenly, they're going to
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cover Northern Perspective because Pollyup said some words they don't like,
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which most people agree with. That massive amounts of corruption in government should result
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in people being charged. And, and Fred Delori is presenting this as if Pollyup's, it's Pollyup's fault.
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Not a pathetic media deflection to try and get off the topic of Mark Carney getting nothing done.
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This is actually what it's about. And Fred Delori is aiding them because he just does not like
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blue conservatives. And the thing is, I say this all as somebody who has in the past been willing to
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criticize Pollyup over things. I thought the immigration platform in the last election was
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extremely weak. I thought that only lowering income taxes by a little bit more than the liberals
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was weak and only under $50,000. But the thing is, I can't stand these just dishonest backhanded
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criticisms from people like Fred Delori. And then I want to get on to Pollyup on the ostriches later,
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because this has been another area where even people I respect were going after Pollyup for not
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sounding off enough. And I'm just sitting there thinking like, guys, an issue can be important
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without the national leader of a party saying something about it. He only has so much bandwidth,
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but we'll talk about that later on. I'll let Fred Delori keep flapping his gums here.
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Mel, I just wonder your thoughts on this, sir. I mean, because, you know,
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I was going to someone else, but I'll let it happen.
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The administration of justice, faith in national policing, faith in criminal investigations.
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When the RCMP says this is a crime we need to charge them, you should believe it.
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And when they say there isn't, you should also believe that too, right? In an ideal world,
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Obvious corruption. Obvious corruption that's obvious happens.
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The PMO refuses to hand over documents. They refuse to let employees testify.
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And the RCMP said there's nothing to see here, so we shouldn't think there's nothing to see here.
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Like, David Cochran is putting basically out this opinion as the neutral show host,
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just basically saying, well, you know, Pollyup really should lay off the liberals because the
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RCMP said so, as if becoming the commissioner of the RCMP is not an extremely political thing.
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That you have an incentive to be nice to the government and not do a great job when you're
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investigating them. And that Pollyup's just supposed to take it. That you do, you just
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absolutely, you know, dump all the spaghetti on the floor and Pollyup's going to be like, well,
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it happens sometimes. No, they messed up. They basically covered up either through negligence
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or deliberately. And I'm not sure if either one is better than the other.
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I kind of have three thoughts when I hear him talk like that. The first one is
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really dangerous and rhetoric, divisive, right? You're, you're...
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Oh, dangerous and divisive. The two D words. Dangerous and divisive. Dangerous how?
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Point in doing this is to pit people against each other. And what's weird about it is...
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Pit people against each other. It's pitting people who want justice enacted, who want real justice
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against Justin Trudeau and a few of his, few of the members of his government, and also the
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upper echelons of the RCMP who just do a terrible job. Well, he's pitting people against each
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other as if like Pollyup said something racist or something like that, or he said something
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bigoted and he's trying to pit people against each other. Or he's like standing out in a
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parking lot and he's like, get him. What are we talking about? Pitting people against each
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other. Calling for standards to be enforced is apparently pitting people against each other.
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We saw police associations across the country line up with Piotr Piotr in the last election.
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they still will. Do you know who hates the commissioners of the RCMP more than anyone?
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The RCMP rank and file who influence who their police unions endorse. They will endorse Pollyup
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again. Oh, Pollyup may be on the rocks now. He may be on the rocks with the police. An average
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police officer is going to see him criticizing the commissioner and say, I can't believe him.
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I loved my corrupt commissioner. Well, I can't vote for him anymore because he thinks that Trudeau
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should be arrested for committing crimes. This is asinine. That's all I can describe it as. I keep
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Disparage RCMP officers is, I find strange. Disparaging officers. No, the leadership.
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The institution that we should be very careful to not bias in any way, I find that strange. The second
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is desperate. It feels desperate and desperate in you've got a leadership coming up and you are
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literally trying everything that Canadians rejected in the last election to shore up your, I don't know,
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your base going into that leadership. What did they reject that he's rehashing here? Like genuinely,
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I don't know what she's talking about. He's in fact been moving away from things that Canadians
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rejected. Like they didn't want a soft immigration stance. They didn't want a soft stance on taxes.
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They wanted a harder stance on it. And he's hardened his stances, which is also why when I will sometimes
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criticize things that the Conservative Party and Pierre Pollyup do, if they go the right direction,
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I'll be here saying that's a great thing. But these people act like he got rejected for being
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some far-right radical. And look, Pollyup is still being a far-right radical.
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With this, with the Freedom Convoy stuff, with all sorts of stuff, with the DEI stuff over
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Thanksgiving weekend, like this just seems like you're just throwing everything you can at the
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wall to shore up folks. And the third thing that it makes me think of is you're kind of out to lunch.
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Prime Minister's gone. This is something that happened in 2017. Why are we still talking about
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it? There's been, how many elections since then? Three. Canadians decided in every single one of
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those elections that they didn't care, that they were still going to vote for the Liberals.
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The Liberals won the election. Corruption over. Corruption investigation over. People voted for
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the Liberal Party. People voted for the Liberal Party in elections where the RCMP hadn't even wrapped
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up its investigation. They failed to do any investigating. And then in 2023, they're like,
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nothing to see here. We decided to, you know, we really stared at a stack of papers that contained
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no evidence in it because the Liberals didn't pass us any. And we were like, really rubbed our chin
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for a while. And they're like, nothing here. And then we walked away. It's so infuriating. These
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people act this way as if it's at all logical. This is, they act like these are points. Now I just need
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to play a TikTok video from somebody or an Instagram video because we need some low-hanging fruit to eat
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at the end of this, even though all of the fruit today has been low-hanging. This isn't low-hanging
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Air Polyev is back at it again today. He's undermining trust in national institutions,
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My goodness, guys, it's really dangerous. Who wants to guess that this girl posted a Black Lives
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Matter black square on her Instagram and called the police racist in support of defunding them?
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But now Polyev is really undermining institutions. Maybe that's not what she's talking about,
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but I remember the context of this was the police thing.
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It's also what populist leaders do, which is why we stay away from populism. But today,
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he decided to go after the RCMP. Now, don't get me wrong. I am sure there are valid criticisms that
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people have about police, but this really isn't it. He's claiming that the RCMP...
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Oh, it affects the liberals. It affects the liberals. So this isn't it, guys. Go cast to get your local
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RCMP officer for being racist, for arresting a criminal. This isn't it. This affects the party
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I vote for. This isn't it, guys. We can't do that. No. No, no, no, no, no, no. No. Nasty. Bad.
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Stinky. I don't want to talk about things that hurt the party that I like.
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Covered up Trudeau-era scandals. He's claiming that they covered up scandals involving Justin
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Trudeau that otherwise would have led to criminal charges. Supposedly. He's claiming...
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Democracy Watch! Basically, one of our institutional watchdogs is saying that he effectively covered
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it up by not investigating very well. They just did not push to get any document disclosures.
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They didn't push to get any interviews of PMO staff. And then it turns out that, you know,
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it's like investigating a murderer, a murder, and you're trying to find evidence. And you're going
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through the murderer's house. And they say, you can check every room, but not my study. And then
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the police were like, don't worry, we won't touch the study. Obviously, there's no evidence in there.
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And then they sweep the rest of the house. They're like, nothing here. And then they leave. And
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they're like, see, and then they clear the guy. That's basically what we're talking about.
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And again, this is Democracy Watch. This is APTN. This is left wing outlets who think that Trudeau
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got away with corruption. That was charge worthy. They should have involved jail time. Now's the
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time to ask, what scandals? So he's talking about the SNC-Lavalin affair. He's claiming that these
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normally would have led to criminal charges, but he's claiming that the RCMP covered it all up.
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Okay, here's the thing. Did the RCMP cover up SNC-Lavalin? No, we all know about it. And don't
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get me wrong. Oh, oh my goodness. Okay, we're just gonna stop the video. Well, they didn't cover
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up SNC-Lavalin because we knew the scandal existed. That's not how a cover-up works. A cover-up occurs
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because people know you did something and you're gonna try and get rid of the evidence that would,
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you know, make it criminal. You know, people know there's something up, but you're gonna burn all
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the paperwork that could actually show that you had criminal intent. Or you're going to go and try
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and throw someone else under the bus. Or you're going to try and recontextualize all the evidence
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by only passing over what you actually want to pass over that makes you look like everything was just
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a big oopsie. These are voters. These people are allowed to vote all the people we've talked about
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today. And that's sad. But I'll get off of this one a little bit. It's already been a long enough
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description below and pop the comments if you want my endorsement list. But I want to talk a little
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bit about the Polyev-Ostrich situation now. Because we've talked about the left-wing media and Red
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Tories being extremely dishonest and attempting to attack Polyev over nothing. And now I want to talk
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about people who I don't think they're being dishonest. I think people on the right who are
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attacking Polyev over the Ostrich situation are just not being fair. Now, I was originally going
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to make a video about this like last week. I think I was even going to make it before I went to
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Victoria the first time. I'm going to Victoria again tomorrow to work again with the 1BC party.
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I like doing that, but a lot of travel, obviously. I was going to make a video on this because it was
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getting under my skin when I constantly see people attacking Polyev because he's not speaking out
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strongly enough on the Ostriches. Even though Conservative MPs Scott Reid and Mel Arnold are
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already quarterbacking that issue, we have people in British Columbia politics, including my party,
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1BC, who are speaking out about it and questioning their local officials. We have Ezra Levant at Rebel
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News going after the federal health minister on this. I think we actually have it pretty well covered.
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And where I find all this kind of dishonest when people attack Polyev and look, he's not a real
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conservative because he's not speaking out on the Ostriches, is that they frankly don't know how
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politics works. The leader doesn't need to speak out on an issue for it to be important. And Polyev,
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when he's already dealing with the liberals on about four to, I think actually it's more like seven
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different issues, the really big issues around Bill C-2 that they basically finally shot down in
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in Parliament and it's being returned as Bill C-12 in a completely defamed state. That's good.
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They're dealing with Bill C-8, they're dealing with Bill C-9, they're dealing with the budget,
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they're dealing with the party's conflicts of interest, they're dealing with bail reform.
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If you throw ostriches on there, it's not, they're going to not be able to get all these other
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important things done. Leave that to other local MPs or the Conservative Party to deal with.
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Polyev dealing with it himself is not going to help. Plus, you know that the courts
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are actually allowed to basically dismiss a case if they become political. If Polyev says
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the Supreme Court, who's hearing about the case right now, should just let the ostriches go and
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the CFIA should back off, they could rule that the case now cannot be ruled in the farmer's favor
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because of political interference. And also, or they'd have to like restart the case and do a bunch of
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other stuff. But also, Polyev, I support the ostrich farm. I think what the CFIA is doing is
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draconian and over, like just absolutely high-handed. They are not being transparent,
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they seem to be just wanting to flex bureaucratic power by doing whatever they want. But what I will
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say is that in the midst of all this, there is still risk. And you could say that Polyev could and
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should just take on the risk. Should he, when he's already dealing with so many big national issues,
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could he stake his reputation defending the ostrich farm when he already has MPs doing that and local
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MLAs doing that in British Columbia, when there is a chance? Now, I think it's very minimal and I
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don't think they should be culling this herd of ostriches. There's a difference between having to
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cull chickens and culling ostriches. And they seem to have recovered and all that stuff. But if avian flu,
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bird flu, goes from that farm to another farm and wipes out a bunch of people's chickens and the
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insurance companies have to pay out massive amounts of money and it becomes some big scandal,
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that could destroy here Polyev as the federal conservative party leader for an issue that,
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let's be clear, there is not 1% of people, not even 1% of people, who are going to change their vote
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based on what Polyev does here. Now, I like principled politicians, but you should also want to be
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principled for a reason, not simply just stating positions all day long because it's like the
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principled thing to do. The leader at the end of the day has an agenda he needs to get across the
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finish line. And if by speaking out on an issue that's already being spoken out on by other people
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who are a little bit closer to the situation, what is the point of doing this that is going to risk the
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rest of your agenda? And there is a sliver of a chance, even if it's tiny, there's a sliver of a
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chance something goes wrong and then you're going to get blamed for something. I'm not saying that
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politicians should run away from any issue with risk, but when there's literally nothing to gain,
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I don't think we need to be putting all of our chips in on these issues, or at least in the
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leader's case, where nothing will be gained if he's right. You'll lose everything if you're wrong,
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but you will gain nothing if you're right. This happens a lot in politics. People just sit around
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sounding off on things. They'll sound off on issues in American politics, something happening
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in Europe, and you're running for office in Canada. And all you're doing is just creating
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verbal clutter. You're creating just cluttered posts on social media that people aren't really
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going to understand. The average person doesn't really even know what the ostrich situation is.
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So for Polyev to talk about it, he would immediately be letting Carney and the liberals off the
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hook. Even if he stood up in parliament and he said, why won't the minister make the CFIA be
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more transparent? You know what the minister is going to do? They are going to stand up and say,
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the CFIA is an independent regulatory body, and we do not interfere in their decisions.
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And then that will be it. That is literally all that will go to. So let Mel Arnold, let Scott Reed,
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let 1BC and our leader, Dallas Brody, and our other MLA, Tara Armstrong, deal with it. There's some BC
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conservatives who also speak out on it. Let us handle it. This does not need to be at the level of the
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leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. But anyways, so that should be it for me today,
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guys. Hopefully this wasn't too much of a long ramble. I know some people like the videos in
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these styles. I know others think my videos are too long. They are the way they are. But anyways,
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