Poilievre's approval remains positive despite Liberal win
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the polls and why Pierre Polyev is actually doing better than Mark Carney when it comes to his own approval rating. I also talk about why it's surprising that he's doing so well in the polls when usually the guy who loses the election ends up with a massive unpopularity blow.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I came across this yesterday and I found it rather surprising.
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Right now, we are undoubtedly in a honeymoon period for Mark Carney and the re-elected
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liberal government. It naturally happens every time an election occurs. Whoever wins naturally
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goes up in the polls. If you do a preferred prime minister poll right now, it's kind of useless
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because even conservative voters will say if you ask who they prefer the prime minister to be,
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they will say, well, I guess whoever won should be the prime minister. Naturally, there are partisans
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who will always say that they prefer their guy be the prime minister. Like if I was to answer one of
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those polls, I would say I prefer Pierre Polyev too. But people who are not big politicos will say,
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well, naturally, the person who won should be the prime minister. But the thing I found shocking was
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is that Pierre Polyev is actually doing pretty well right now when it comes to his individual
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approval rating. Of course, Mark Carney is doing better than him, but he's the new prime minister
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bringing in the king to do the throne speech, doing the G7. He just won re-election. And so
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naturally, a lot of people, you know, have positive thoughts about him. Again, it always happens, you
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know, to the victor goes the spoils. People like to bandwagon on and say that they approve of whoever
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won because, you know, it's a little more depressing to say that we don't like the guy who won. A lot of,
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you know, people who are not super politically engaged are just going to say, well, I assume
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he's a good guy and doing a good job, or at least I want to tell myself that. But I want to get into
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the actual numbers because it's looking decent for Pierre Polyev when usually the guy who loses the
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election ends up suffering a massive popularity blow. But before I get into the numbers, guys,
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year and leave a comment on what you think about the topic of the day. Now let's get into it. So
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this is from Spark Insights, and I like that they have a really big sample size. This poll was
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conducted back on June 9th, 2025, of course, online. And Mark Carney's current approval rating,
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according to Spark Insights, is approval 67%, disapproval 33%. So at the moment, because,
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again, the honeymoon effect is in play, right now only one-third of Canadians disapprove of Mark
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Carney, two-thirds of people approve of him, which isn't too surprising. You're probably going to get
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a lot of block voters saying they like him because, you know, they don't elect prime ministers,
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so naturally they either have to like somebody from the liberals or like something from the
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conservatives. They're used to saying they approve of prime ministers who aren't their guy. And then,
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of course, you'll get a lot of NDP people maybe thinking, oh, I approve of him because he's not
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Polyev. And then even some conservatives who are not hardcores will say, well, you know, he hasn't
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messed up yet, so I suppose I approve. But this is, generally speaking, obviously, a very good poll
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or Mark Carney. I believe this approval rating puts him at where Justin Trudeau was after the 2015
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election. A lot of people already knew Trudeau was a clown in 2015. But again, that doesn't stop
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you from people well-wishing the winner. But now let's get down to Pierre Polyev. Pierre Polyev's
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positive polling is 51% positive to 49% negative. It doesn't do the approval, disapproval, because
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obviously you can't approve of the job of the opposition leader as much. It's more so, do you like
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him or not? And when they phrase it, do you have a positive view of him or a negative view? We have
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51% of people saying they have a positive view of Pierre Polyev. Negative is 49%. Now, naturally, you want
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that to be higher. But considering all the stuff he's had to experience over the last couple of months,
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losing his riding, losing the election, and now being in this limbo period where he's not in the
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House of Commons, the guy could be doing far, far worse than this. And these are good numbers for him
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to be able to slap up on, you know, online on his website when he's moving towards the leadership
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review in January 2026. I will probably be there because I live in Calgary. And of course, I'm a
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Conservative member. So I'm going to try and become a delegate for it. But that's something that Polyev
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is going to want to really highlight going in to that leadership review. By the way, guys,
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people still generally like me, they just happen to want the Liberals a little more than Conservatives.
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The way the NDP collapsed, advantage them. Although I'm, this is the positive spin of it. I obviously
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would add in though, stuff in the Conservative Party still needs to be cleaned up, you know, clean up the
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nomination process, clean up the appointments process, get rid of worthless people from headquarters
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and actually have better individuals running that party. But yeah, but that's still all good stuff
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for the Conservatives. Now, I do want to bring up something else that we saw yesterday. And that is,
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again, Carney is no progressive radical the way that Justin Trudeau was. Is he still going to be
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too left wing for me? Definitely 100% he's going to be not to my liking. But this is where the
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Conservatives have to be careful. Because Carney is not going to explode on the tarmac the way Justin
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Trudeau did on many issues. He's kind of boring, which means that he's never going to throw his
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face in front of the camera and champion hyper progressive causes. But when he does, it should
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be highlighted. Here is him giving this sort of pseudo speech at a Pride season event. And by the way,
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right now, I'll show it to you. The Liberal Party has the whole Pride progress icon for their party
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right now, because it's the month of June, apparently. But what are they Oh, sorry, I'm
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covering that over. But what are they supposed to do when it stops being June? Because they're
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celebrating Pride season? Are they now going to also keep it throughout throughout the entire season
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all the way up till September? Because, you know, based on the rules of engagement that they've laid
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out, that's what they have to do. But here is Mark Carney talking about how we need a stronger,
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fairer and more inclusive Canada. I will tell you, inclusion is not the problem in Canada,
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we are highly inclusive to a fault to the point where we will include people who don't like
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including others. Pride is a promise. It is a promise to every young person, regardless of their
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identity, that they'll be able to walk through their school doors without being afraid of whether
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they can get safely through their day. Safely through their day. This is the type of rhetoric
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that annoys me about stuff like Pride season and Pride month. The idea that this is like some big
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ongoing civil rights fight that you go going through the like, you know, Mitt Romney is going to run
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around the corner and start shaving some kid's head. And he's going to like beat up a kid for being
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kid. What is this? And that's the problem is that we're in the year 2025 and we pretend we're in the
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year 1825. It's a promise to every couple who wants to show affection, to be able to hold hands in
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public without looking over their shoulders. It's a promise to every Canadian that they will be
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respected, that their rights will be protected, that you'll be safe in your own community and proud
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in your own skin. So let's, we, we have gotten well past that point. I don't think anyone feels like
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they're going to be attacked or they need to look over your shoulder. Like they keep invoking that as
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like a boogeyman. Like if we don't do this, we're going to have, you know, people running around the
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street swinging like flails at people to like, you know, stop them from holding hands. It's like,
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no, that's not going to happen. Celebrate pride today through this month, through every month, week,
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day, hour of the year. Well, we had to do it every hour, minute of the year. It's dumb. And then he has
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hoisting the flag aloft. Yeah, no. If anything, you've seen the parades. I can't show you the
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parades or this channel. This video will not only get age restricted, my channel would get taken down
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if I show you some of the things that they just allow at places like Toronto Pride and Vancouver
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Pride. This is something where you will have alliances of gay people saying, please stop doing
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this. It's really weird. Stop having people not wearing clothes walking down the streets. Can we
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not do like parade floats where people are twerking wearing banana hammocks? Please, can we not do that?
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But the thing is that we pretend like everything's we got to do this. Always the government's doing the
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soft stuff and they ignore the crazy stuff where they should be fining people. But we have to do this
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or else people are going to get hurt. I kid you not. Good sir. We are not going to have people being
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attacked unless we do this. Now I just want to move on to one other thing in this video, and that is
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immigration polling. I do not always agree with him, but I think he does a good analysis of this
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because I do like when people who used to work for parties speak out about how parties need to stop being
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dumb. And Anthony Kosh here says, about two years ago, I said immigration would rapidly become a top
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political issue in Canada. I was called a moron by many. Welcome to 2025. I know at one point, Anthony
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was working for the federal conservatives, and I know the federal conservatives can be so obtuse on the
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issue of immigration. And it's because they have to stop listening to certain MPs who are immigration,
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like not even hawks. They are pro-immigration, just full-on, whatever the number, they like it.
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Tim Uppel, who is the deputy leader right now, at one point he advocated and he had to walk it back,
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not because he didn't believe it, but because there was backlash. He had to walk back saying we
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should eliminate English tests for new citizens. No, we should not. That's insane. And here are the
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stats that Anthony Kosh highlights, and these are from Polara, 2,502 people, kind of like Spark
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insights. And it says, attitudes towards immigration levels. In your opinion, do you feel there are too
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many, too few, or about the right amount, number of immigrants coming into Canada? 2002, 45% of people
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said it was the right number. 34% was too many, 14% too few, and 7% don't know. Even in 2002,
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if you were to run an election campaign on reducing immigration, it would probably be a winner,
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because you at least have 34% of people on board. There are 7% who don't know, and even some people
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in the right number range, they're not exactly going to get offended if you want to reduce it by
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50,000 or 100,000, because, you know, maybe housing prices are going up. You could probably get away
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with that. But now let's jump ahead to 2025 above. Only 22% of people think that we are at the right
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number. 8% think it's too few. 10% say they don't know, and I don't believe that they don't know. I
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think that people just don't want to say. 60%, a massive majority of people want, think it is too
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many, especially when you were to just eliminate the don't knows, and then you redistribute that
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portion. This is a massive portion of people. So I tell the Conservative Party again, like Anthony
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Koch, I've been saying this for a while, run on slashing immigration, TFWs, and temporary foreign
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workers by 75%. Slash the current numbers by 75%. I don't care if the population even starts going down
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because the birth rate isn't great, and now our immigration is very low. I don't care. That's not
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the purpose. Immigration is not just some numbers game where we're trying to pump up the GDP. That
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was something an actual liberal said the other day. Well, immigration has been a success because
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the GDP is going up. Who cares? The GDP per capita is going down. Let's have some sense here. It does
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hurt the country to have just hundreds of thousands of people over a million some years entering the
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country. We don't really care about the country. They don't have anything invested in it.
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They're just here because there might be a job, and that's it. And know what? Fair enough. If the
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doors were open, I don't exactly fault them for entering. Maybe I wouldn't personally go to a
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country that I didn't care about because I don't really want to be somewhere where I don't want
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to be, especially because I think it's rude to the people who already live there to occupy space
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when you have no investment in the health of the country, the culture, the history. But I don't fault
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them. I fault the people who opened the door this wide because it's not actually good for the
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culture or the crime rates. It's not good for the job markets. Young people, especially younger
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men, cannot find jobs. It's insane. And right now, the unemployment rate only tracks those who
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are even looking anymore. But anyways, that should be it for me today, guys, in this video. So make
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