Christia Freeland is running for the Liberal Party leadership, and it was a pretty meh day. In fact, it was so meh, in fact, that there were protesters interrupting her entire speech and heckling her throughout the entire event.
00:08:56.540I'm a friend of Karina's, just like all of you in this room. Yes, thank you.
00:09:12.080They're going to play music. I can't play the rest of this or I can at least put the sound on. But Karina Gould's campaign launch was weird overall. She only has like two endorsing MPs. And the theory is that she's only in this race to try and disrupt
00:09:26.520Christian Freeland's ability to win and probably working on behalf of the Mark Carney set, I guess the Mark Carney camp. But there is one candidate who is actually not bad. And this sounds so weird to say about a liberal leadership race, but you also are not going to expect who
00:09:47.520this is. So this actually came out from the Campaign Life Coalition, a Catholic pro-life group, and they're endorsing one of the candidates because there's this man, Michael Clark, if I can bring it up on screen here. Sorry, I was having to fiddle around with this. But Michael Clark, I had never heard of him before, but he is a pro-life centrist liberal running in this leadership race and is in fact,
00:10:14.520actually already gotten the $350,000 supposedly to run in this race. And I guess he's part of like Liberty Coalition of Canadians or something like that. And he was kind of like this liberal centrist who is campaigning against lockdowns and vaccine mandates and is pro-life and is kind of like a 90s liberal. So if you want to sign up for a liberal, you know, if you want to sign up for a liberal membership to vote for somebody,
00:10:43.520I would have first suggest voting for this guy, Michael Clark, hopefully I didn't accidentally say Michael Smith, but Michael Clark, and then I'd vote probably number two Frank Bayless and then three Chandra Arya because Chandra Arya is hilarious, because he cannot speak French and barely can speak English. But yeah, so far, very weird race. Do I think that
00:11:07.520that Christian Freeland, here's the thing, everyone keeps talking about it as a coordination for Mark Carney, every day, I only see him as a weaker and weaker candidate. When I see videos like pure Polly of questioning him in a committee meeting, which I'll probably play on another episode, and Mark Carney being evasive, I don't see this guy someone who's going to stand up to Polly have added debate. When I see Mark Carney only able to bring in $125,000 for his campaign in 24 hours, which is nothing.
00:11:35.520Considering that all of his donors, considering that all of his donors, all of his friends knew he was announcing. And that is only the equivalent of 71 max donations in 24 hours and people knew he was going to run probably for months. That's nothing.
00:11:47.520Christia at least has a lot of the liberals who are kind of sick of Trudeau, because as much as you and I hate Trudeau as conservatives, there is also a faction of liberals who equally despise him because they think that he is losing them the next election.
00:12:04.260They should lose, by the way, but those people are more likely to get by in Freeland. And so far, she's actually winning the endorsements race and her endorsers tend to be longer term liberal MPs who really hate the sort of like Trudeau camp that's brought in all these sycophantic MPs who only do what Trudeau says.
00:12:24.440There's a lot of just ethnic community candidates, a lot of people who are just given their nominations, people who are like ruining the brand through bringing like pro terror type politics into the party.
00:12:34.840That's why the like, that's basically what is happening with Freeland's camp and actually some of the smaller candidates, I guarantee some of these smaller candidates, like Bales and Chandra Aria are going to be kicking their support over to, over to Freeland later on.
00:12:49.700Chandra is actually a very strategic person in this race, because as you see, Mark Carney is getting all the seek MPs endorsing him, all the some of them are just seek MPs, they come from the seek community, obviously, not everyone's a Calistani.
00:13:02.120But then some of them are definitely Calistanis or like Calistani adjacent, where they like wink and nod to that crowd. They're all behind Mark Carney.
00:13:10.060Chandra Aria is a Hindu Canadian and very few Hindus are in federal politics. And so what I think he's doing is that he is meant to go around to all the WhatsApp chats with a bunch of Hindu uncles from their families, get family signed up to vote in the liberal leadership election.
00:13:25.820Maybe he makes it onto the ballot too, and is able to get enough of his friends to cut him $1,000 checks, so he can clear the $350,000 he needs.
00:13:34.240But all he is meant to do there is basically create a big Hindu wedge to then give over to Freeland, while Mark Carney tries to get all these seek politicians to collect him enough memberships and votes that he is able to win potentially on first ballot.
00:13:48.560Because Mark Carney is, and this is not, not that he is like this person at all. He's kind of like the Danielle Smith of this race, in the sense that he comes with a lot of momentum.
00:14:00.020Artificially so, Danielle Smith had organic momentum. But he comes with a lot of momentum, and if he does not make first ballot by quite a margin, it's going to be hard for him to crawl his way back up the ballot.
00:14:11.600Because maybe some of the Karina Gould camp people, maybe half of them will go for Carney because she's in the race to try and sabotage Freeland.
00:14:18.880But everyone else is either pro-Carney and pro-Team Trudeau, or they're not, and they're either voting for Freeland or somebody else, but they will eventually vote for Freeland to stop Carney.
00:14:30.500That's how I see this whole thing going.
00:14:32.820Leave your predictions in the comments. It's a wild race. Boring, because all the people in it are pretty boring, except that Michael Clarke guy, that's interesting.
00:14:40.860There's a pro-life guy who supposedly will be on the ballot. I like to see that happen.
00:14:45.960But it's boring, but at least the dynamics in the background, the sort of like, you know, the knife fighting in the background could be interesting.
00:14:55.020But that's it for me today, guys. Remember to like this video, subscribe to the channel, and I'll be back in another video at some point.
00:15:02.620There was some weird stuff going on with Freeland throwing Trudeau under the bus. I'll probably be covering that.
00:15:06.880And I'll probably pair it up with that video of Polly roasting Mark Carney a few years ago in a committee meeting.