Radical Liberal MP crashes Conservative presser & Liberals disqualify leadership candidate
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The federal Liberal Party leadership race to replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister has been surrounded by a lot of controversy over the past 24 hours. Just this morning, Chandra Aria, who was probably the third place candidate in the leadership race after Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland, was flat out disqualified by the Liberals' upper brass. I want to talk about that story first, but then I also want to get to the other controversy, where a Conservative MP decided to annoyingly interrupt a press event that Conservative MP Melissa Lantzman was holding outside of a Mark Carney leadership event.
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The federal Liberal Party leadership race to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister
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has been surrounded by a lot of controversy over the past 24 hours.
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Just this morning, Chandra Aria, who was probably the third place candidate in the leadership race
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after Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland, was flat out disqualified by the Liberals' upper brass.
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I want to talk about that story first, but then I also later want to get to this other controversy
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where Liberal MP from Beaches East, Nate Erksen-Smith, decided to annoyingly interrupt the press event
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that Conservative MP Melissa Lantzman was holding outside of a Mark Carney leadership event.
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I think a lot of Conservative influencers and commentators actually got this story wrong.
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They covered it from a bad angle, and they actually missed what the real issue was here.
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Nate Erksen-Smith is deeply insecure, and he's deeply radical,
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and he was interrupting an event because he didn't want Melissa Lantzman being able to lay out
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But we will get to that one in a second, and before we talk about Chandra Aria,
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my boy Chandra Aria, I'm going to remind you guys, this leadership race is mostly boring.
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He says, first and foremost, I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the hundreds of volunteers
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across Canada who have worked tirelessly day and night over the past two weeks to mobilize
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That's really funny because it was, I would say, probably 50% ironic support for Chandra Aria
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He says, your unwavering dedication inspires me.
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I am deeply humbled and honored by the thousands of Canadians who joined the Liberal Party to support
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what I stand for in my policies, aimed at building an economically prosperous Canada for our children
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Today, I was informed by the Liberal Party of Canada I will not be permitted to enter the
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While I await their official communication, I am carefully considering my next steps.
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This decision raises significant questions about the legitimacy of the leadership race,
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by extension, the legitimacy of the next Prime Minister of Canada.
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Because, let's be clear, even with all of the ironic support ginned up by large accounts
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like the pleb and other people telling people to sign up and vote for him, it's a free sign
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You were getting tons of people buying free memberships, or I guess just getting free memberships,
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and saying that they were going to vote for him and all of the other worst candidates first.
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And in the Liberal Party, that, honestly, they should just make a rule that you have to
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But from, like, just a, like, an advisory position, if I was a Liberal and I was trying
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to fix this system, one, I would say make the memberships at least 10 bucks.
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Because when the memberships cost nothing, you're going to get people trolling you.
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And I think the Liberals' plan was by making the memberships free, they would gather a lot
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Well, that goes completely pear-shaped when a bunch of people start taking out free memberships
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just to vote for objectively terrible candidates in your leadership race.
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So now, as a country, as a people, we have to decide whether or not we're going to now
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be backing Ruby Dalla, who, when she was in government between 2004 and 2011, was consistently
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rated like the worst MP to work for, or Frank Bayless, the man who was a one-term Liberal MP
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between 2015 and 2019, just kind of left voluntarily, and then started a fake ventilator company over
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Covid. These are our two options, people. We have to decide who's going to be the new
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figurehead of the Liberal Party going into the next election. And my vote is that if you guys
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want to go get a Liberal membership, they're free. You have a little bit more than a day
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to still get them. And we're all going to be Frank Bayless boys. We're all going to show up and
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we're going to vote for Frank Bayless. Because frankly, he's actually probably the least crazy
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candidate of all of them. He's basically like a half conservative. He's like a progressive
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conservative, I guess. He's like a Doug Ford conservative, you know, still belongs in the
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Liberal Party, but, you know, is at least not exactly a Trudeau, Freeland, Carney radical.
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But I do find this interesting that he has this line in here saying that he's wanting to like look
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into how this election's done, and how it raises questions about the legitimacy of the next Liberal
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leader and Prime Minister, if they're just going to start throwing people out of the race.
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Perfect. Good. We have Liberals questioning how the Liberal Party does stuff. And before anyone
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starts talking about how this just shows that the Liberals are super corrupt, remember that the
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Conservatives also kicked out Jim Carajalios and Richard Dekaree from the 2020 leadership race.
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It happens. There was that other guy running in 2022 that they kicked out all parties. I'm not saying
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that they're all corrupt to the core. This is just saying all parties need to reform how they do
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leadership races and how they do nomination races. Again, remember, I ran for the Calgary Signal Hill
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nomination for the Federal Conservative Party. I had around a thousand supporters. And then I was
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arbitrarily kicked out because they didn't want me in the race. Certain insiders didn't want me in the
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race because, you know, I was doing really well and they didn't want me to beat their favorite guy.
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Okay. Joke's on them. I still made sure that guy lost. But yeah, it's a problem that all these
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parties end up having so much influence from like a small core of people who engineer the races in
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order to get the good outcome. Again, it's not even the same extent in the Conservative Party
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that you can trust the outcome to the 2020 and 22 leadership races, but it ends up kind of feeling a
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bit, you know, hollow when certain people were kicked out. Even though Polyev was obviously going
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to win in 2022, it would have legitimately probably changed the race if Rashad Dakarri and Jim Karahalios
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were in the 2020 race because O'Toole barely won and he was an absolute turkey of a candidate.
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Lewis almost beat him. In fact, she had more votes on the second ballot than he did, but on points,
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he barely edged her out. But now let's jump over to this other controversy. I find it quite silly,
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again, the way that people are covering this. It's not really, in my opinion, true to life how people
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are talking about this. So I want to show you guys the photo that's making everyone basically like,
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you know, go ballistic, that this is an attack or something like that. Or I'm going to show you
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the clip first. This was posted by Michelle Rempel-Garner, Conservative MP for Nose Hill in
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Calgary. And this is supposed to be deeply nasty what Nate Erickson Smith is doing here. Nate Erickson
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Smith. And I don't like what Nate Erickson Smith is doing here. It's annoying and weird. But people
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are calling this creepy. So a lot of people were covering this and we'll talk about more of what
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happened in full because I have the full tape of her of her press event and then seeing Nate Erickson
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Smith interrupted. But people are calling this creepy. And no, Nate was not being creepy. I don't
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consider this in the realms of creepy. She's wearing a heavy coat. He puts his hand on her shoulder,
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on her arm, and like trying to do this whole frenemy type thing. Oh, I'm going to buy you a
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drink and we'll talk about what you're saying about me, all this stuff. This is not the story. He's not
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being creepy. I know, I'll try to bring it up on screen quick. I know people like Jenny Byrne are
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trying to put forward this idea that he's being creepy. She's like a top advisor to Polyev right
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now, by the way, also was one of the people who pushed me out of Signal Hill. But she's saying
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Nate Erickson Smith is a creep. This is sorry, this is not creepy. Do you know what this actually is?
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This is Nate Erickson Smith being extremely insecure about his record. Because if you didn't know,
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Nate Erickson Smith is endorsing Mark Carney, previously who wasn't even going to be running for
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re-election. But Trudeau gave him the minister of housing role. And now Mark Carney's probably
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promised him something else to make him stick around. Because he's going to have a really tough
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time even being re-elected. So to have this guy go from I'm leaving to I'm staying, he's probably been
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offered something. He already is a minister. So I assume he will stay as that under Mark Carney.
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But what kind of policy gimmies will Nate Erickson Smith get? Because the guy, he actually is a pretty
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nice guy on the surface. But he is a radical on policy. The man, let's just start with the least
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serious to the most serious. One, he's a bit, he's really big into boycott, divestment and sanctions
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against our ally Israel. He also does a lot of other criticisms of like American allies like the United
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States who will go after terrorists. The man is just not very good on foreign policy. More minor thing
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right there. And our more major thing, the man is a radical vegan, in the sense that he wants to pass
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policies to basically make it so that it's harder and more expensive to buy meat. And this is pretty
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much part of the whole WEF type agenda that people like Mark Carney endorse the idea that the government
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should take a role in managing personal behavior within the economy to have the most sustainable future
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that the government should maybe limit how much meat people eat because it causes more emissions.
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Or maybe that people should drive less. Maybe we should have congestion taxes. This is the type of
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person Nate Erickson Smith is. And the worst thing about him is he is in favor of legalizing all drugs,
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not decriminalizing, legalizing it. Legalizing meth, heroin, all this stuff. He is perfectly fine with that.
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That is why Melissa Lansman showed up outside of the Spark Carney event to hold this presser to talk
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about all of the crazy positions he's held. Let's cut over to the actual clip from CTV News' camera view
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of her delivering this press event and then having him interrupt it. Because you could tell
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he starts interrupting right when it's all getting pretty uncomfortable for him. That she is kind of
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needling him pretty hard for his radical positions. That is the big exposure for Mark Carney. And Nate
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Erickson Smith is basically endorsing the fact that he is a radical because he knows he has to cut her
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off to prevent this from being a big media moment. Instead, he wants the media moment and the controversy
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to be him touching her shoulder. By the way, Melissa Lansman's a pretty tough lady. I don't think she was
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creeped out. I think she just thought he was being annoying and weird. And she knew exactly what he was
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doing. He was trying to generate a new moment to take away from her moment.
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And today, the minister of housing, the minister responsible for this neighborhood is going to
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endorse Mark Carney in that pub probably less than an hour from now. A minister who is a radical drug
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advocate right here in Toronto. His radical drug advocacy, he brags about it himself. On his own
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website, he brags about passing C5, which has killed mandatory sentences for drug dealers and producers
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in this country. Under the prime minister's watch, 49,000 Canadians have died of drug overdoses. And this
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minister wants to make it even more permissive. So our question is, is what did Mr. Carney promise
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him? You're about to see Nate Erkson-Smith move in here. And this is where she's getting to the
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point of what kind of legislation is Mark Carney going to let Nate Erkson-Smith pass when he becomes
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prime minister, if he's able to beat Freeland, which isn't even exactly like a clear thing if he's
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going to beat her or not, because Mark Carney himself is a horrible candidate.
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Does Mr. Carney believe about drug policy in this country? That's what Canadians want to know. He's
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been hiding. Of course, we know that he's been alongside the prime minister for the ride for the
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last nine years as the economic advisor, the chief architect of the carbon tax. But he hasn't answered
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a single question to any Canadian media about what his plans and what his intentions are. He's about to
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be prime minister potentially in 60 in six weeks. This is a guy who might be prime minister in six
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weeks, and he has yet to announce a single policy or what he has promised Mr. Erkson-Smith, who is
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just about to endorse him, the radical drug advocate. So I think that Canadians, I think that Canadians
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deserve answers. You're saying I'm a radical drug advocate? Yes, you're in favor of legalization.
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You're in favor of full decriminalization. What are you talking about? Of course, that's
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radical. Thank you. I want to know what you promised Mark Carney. I want to buy you a drink.
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Perfect. We want to know what Mark Carney, what Mark Carney promised Mr. Erkson-Smith for his
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endorsement today. So I hope that you asked him, I hope that you asked him these questions. I hope
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that you get the answers today. I'll take your questions. I'm telling you, I asked me nothing.
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When Harvard was in power, he was going to Mark Carney to help me through the economic crisis.
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And that's the real point of Nate coming in here. He wants the whole video that people see of this
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press event to not be the full press event I just showed you right there. Obviously, it goes into
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questions, and he keeps being a complete twit from the side, laughing and making jokes from the side and
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jabbing in here and there. But many of you did not see Melissa Lansman's point because influencers
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online wanted to talk about if Nate Erkson-Smith was being creepy. He wasn't. He's being a twit.
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And Nate Erkson-Smith, it has the thinnest skin on the planet. That was also what was going on there.
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He hates having any negative words said about him. Check out these clips I have where he starts
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getting really mad at people for questioning his integrity. The man has a hair-trigger ego.
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Check this out right here. Oh, I think I need to bring it up on screen first here. This is him
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swearing in a committee meeting, so warnings ahead of time. But here's someone just saying that he
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thought he had more integrity than he does because for some reason he didn't want to go over and talk
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about $400 million of waste associated with the Sustainable Development Technology Corp.
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Point is, I thought Mr. Erkson-Smith had more integrity than that, than to not be worried
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Like, what is this absolute bullshit? This is absolute bullshit.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. My integrity?
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Let's, okay. Okay. He's calling it. He's videoing into this meeting and he can't hold himself
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back at all. All right. All right. And then when it came, when he was asked to apologize for this
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obviously inappropriate language, this obvious outburst from what is not, oh, you're questioning
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my integrity. Yeah, of course they are because you're a hack and you're, and like, you're confused
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that somebody would question you. What? He legitimately sees himself as an untouchable person.
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And then when he's asked to apologize, he can't even apologize the next day.
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Rick, you impugn someone's integrity. You deserve every language that comes your way. There's nothing
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more important than a member's integrity and you have no business, no business impugning mine.
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Because what are you doing right now? What are you doing right now, Rick?
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His integrity has been impugned and that's the worst thing you could do to people.
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Letting people out of prison, repeat offenders, repeat violent offenders who then go on to murder
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people, you know, knife, dozens of indigenous people on their property. If you remember that
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knife attack in Northern Saskatchewan who have repeat offenders killing like children around Canada,
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that's, that's a high integrity move. That's something that Nate Erickson Smith still endorses
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Bill C-5 that allows for same day automatic bail for pretty much everyone, unless prosecutors
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go to the painstaking extent to try and fight to keep someone in prison and usually don't have the
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time for it. That's a good thing. Trying to make meat more expensive for people during a economic
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crunch because he's a vegan. Integrity move. You know, backing legalization of all drugs,
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Rick, you have brought a privilege motion, an incredibly, incredibly high bar. And on what
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basis? Well, before Mr. Baines was even finished his testimony, you brought a privilege motion.
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We're happy to have him back and answer clear questions. And, and, and look, I'm not even disputing.
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You can say, I didn't like all of his questions. He didn't, he wasn't as forthcoming as I'd want him
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to be. You can't say, I don't recall, isn't an answer. That's what, on the one hand, you said,
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he's not answering my questions. On the other hand, you're saying it's insufficient for him to say,
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What a, what a twerp too. So when he was supposed to be apologizing for his language,
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instead, he's not going to apologize. And he's going to say, actually, the person who wanted him
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to apologize and was basically saying, he thought he had more integrity to want to actually ask Mr.
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Baines more questions. That, that was, that was something worth swearing about. But it was actually
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his fault that caused Nate Erickson Smith to, Nate Erickson Smith to, to like, have an outburst.
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He is a five-year-old. He runs his own podcast and he is so self-indulgent. He actually has used
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his podcast to smear other MPs by taking them out of context and like, ambushing them with like,
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really controversial questions when he's supposed to be friends with these people. And that's what
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the clip of him and Melissa Lansman was. These people have probably known each other for a decade
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or more. And Melissa Lansman has only been an MP since 21, but still, she knows a lot of these people
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who are Toronto politicians. And the thing is that it's that Nate Erickson Smith thinks he can do
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whatever he wants. He thinks that he is entitled to interrupt people. It's making, saying things
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about him, saying things about him that are objectively true, other than he doesn't like
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the word radical being applied to him. He is a radical. What, what does he think the word radical
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means other than having like the opinion on drugs that only like 1% of Canadians have, that full
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legalization, decriminalization is perfectly okay. That's radical. And this is hurting Mark Carney
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because Mark Carney is supposed to be the normie guy. And he has been surrounded, slathered with the
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most pro-terror, the most anti-cop, the most pro-tax and regulation, carbon tax people in the party.
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In fact, Freeland, as I talked about in my last video, is actually the anti-establishment
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candidate between the two of them. As weird as that is to say, are they both hacks? Yes. I'm a
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conservative. I'd never vote for either of them. At the same time, Carney is obviously more of the
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Trudeau guy. And Nate Erickson Smith and all these other people are lending their votes to Carney to
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try to push his fat corpse into the leadership of the party, his bloated, like terrible politician
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corpse into the leadership in exchange for something. Do you think that all the pro-Hamas people are
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backing him for nothing? Do you think the pro-drug people, the vegan activist, is backing him for
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nothing? Or do you think that he's going to give them policy cutouts? I'm pretty sure he's going to
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give them something, not nothing, because that's how politics works.