Traitor: Conservative MP joins Carney Liberals - Is this Bribery?!?
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Summary
Another Conservative MP crosses the floor to the Liberals. This time, it's Markham Unionville MP Michael Ma, who is now a Liberal. What does this mean for the future of the Conservative Party of Canada? And what does it mean for our economy?
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I was going to make a video on an entirely different subject,
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but we have a piece of major breaking news right now, which is another Conservative Party member
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of Parliament has crossed the floor over to Mark Carney's Liberals. In this case, it is
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Markham Unionville Conservative MP Michael Ma, who is now becoming a Liberal. Now remember,
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the riding of Markham Unionville used to be the riding of Liberal MP Paul Chang. You will remember
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in the April election that he had to be replaced by the Liberal Party because he was making threats
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against a Conservative MP candidate, and that guy's family back in Hong Kong was being threatened.
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And now, oddly enough, we have a Conservative MP crossing the floor towards the CCP Liberals.
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This is all very confusing, but what I want to say right off the bat about this situation,
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this is just a personal feeling. I don't think there's actually a leadership crisis
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with Conservative Party leader Pierre Pollyop. That is going to be the media spin.
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That is going to be the Liberal Party spin. I think the actual crisis here is that we have
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a bribery crisis in Canadian politics. The other Conservative MP who ended up crossing the floor
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was Chris Dontremont from Acadianapolis, whose main issue that caused him to go over to the Liberals
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is that he was passed up for the role of deputy speaker that came with another $50,000 attached to
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the MP salary. Everything else we had heard about that situation basically pointed to the fact that
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Chris Dontremont left and joined the Liberals for purely petty reasons, just stupid personal petty
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reasons, because his actual official justification was extremely hollow and contradicted everything he
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had been saying up to that point. And now Michael Ma is effectively making the exact same excuses as
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Chris Dontremont is? Oh, well, Mark Carney's a steady hand and we need him right now. I'm going to get
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into the letter that was released by the Liberal Party in a second here, as well as some other concerning
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information about Michael Ma. But before I do that, I just want to encourage you guys to like the video,
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But anyways, now here we go with the letter out from the Liberal Party. This was being, this was posted
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by Trending Politics, but this was from the Liberal website. And it says, statement from MP Michael Ma.
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Today, the Liberal Party issued the following statement from Michael Ma, member of Parliament for
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Markham Unionville. After listening carefully to the people of Markham Unionville in recent weeks
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and reflecting with my family on the direction of our country, I have informed the Speaker and the
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Leader of the Opposition that I will be joining Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Government Caucus.
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Quote, this is a time for unity and decisive action for Canada's future. I came to Canada at 12 years old
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as the youngest of seven, quickly learning the importance of hard work and resilience. Those values,
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building up others, delivering results, and choosing a path that creates opportunity have guided me
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throughout my career in business that now is a member of Parliament. In that spirit, I have concluded
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that Prime Minister Mark Carney is offering the steady, practical approach that we need to deliver
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on the priorities I hear every day while door-knocking in Markham Unionville that includes making life more
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affordable, growing a strong Canadian economy, strengthening community safety, and creating a real,
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creating real opportunities for young people and families who are working hard to build their
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Canadian dream. I entered public service to help people to focus on solutions, not division.
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I look forward to working with Prime Minister Carney to make sure Markham Unionville and all of Canada
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can move forward with confidence and build a stronger and safer and more prosperous future.
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That is what we call political pablum. He is not saying anything. Mark Carney is a stable figure right
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now. He is quite literally at his weakest position yet since he became Prime Minister.
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The MOU motion vote went up like a lead balloon. All of his trade, all of his efforts on trade deals
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with the United States have utterly failed. And many of his other promises of trying to bring the budget
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into like a more like, you know, trying to be more responsible spending and debt has been a complete
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fraud. The man has not actually really achieved pretty much anything and things have only gotten
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worse over time. And he's saying that I need to like join this government so we can focus on security.
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The Liberals just shut down the committee on Bill C-14 to try and do some minor bail reform.
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So apparently they're not that concerned about crime. And instead they are focusing on Bill C-9,
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which is this hate speech law that could criminalize people for having basic traditionalist religious
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views. This guy's just lying. I think we can all tell. And really what this goes back to is the man
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probably should have never been a candidate for the Conservative Party in the first place.
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I know he ran for the Conservatives back in 2019, but oftentimes you get community figures pushing
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people forward as like a good guy who can connect with the community. But we never actually have his
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Conservative credentials put in front of us. He's just some guy who wanted to be an MP. And maybe as
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Carney's government has gotten weaker over the last couple of months, maybe his bidding price
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has gone up. And I'm not saying that an envelope of money showed up at his house and now he's switching
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over. But maybe he's going to be in a more prominent position with more power and more notoriety
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because Carney's in a worse position now than previously when Chris D'Entremont ended up crossing the
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floor because, you know, we need unity, not division. It's like you didn't claim all day long the people
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in your riding of Markham Unionville wanted you to cross the floor, but they elected you as a
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Conservative. In fact, they elected you despite having had previously a Liberal MP who ended up having to be
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thrown out of the race by his own party for obviously effectively being a CCP agent. And now we have Michael
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Ma switching over. And isn't it a little bit weird that we have this news from back on the on April 10th
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of this year? This person's account, and I don't know if they're Conservative or not, they actually
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may even be a Liberal and they're reporting on on a weird shady stuff Michael Ma was doing. This person
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says, again, well before this, back on April 10th of 2025 before the federal election, it's odd that the
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CPC candidate in this riding posted a photo of himself with the disgraced former Conservative Party
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of Canada MP, Bob Soroka, who took a trip to China paid by the CCP. As long, as soon as I called Michael
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Ma about this, his ties to Soroka, he deleted the photo from his ex-account. I wouldn't trust him.
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Yeah, so that's a little bit weird that this MP who was hanging out with somebody who was compromised
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by the CCP suddenly decides that actually all the unity is with Mark Carney. Obviously, people wanted
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Mark Carney in his riding, and that's why they voted for him as a Conservative, not for the Liberal who
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replaced Paul Chang in the race. It's completely backwards logic to pretend as if somehow you have
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a mandate to cross the floor when in fact you were literally mandated to be an opposition member of
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Parliament. Now, I'm not even against floor crossings depending on the context. If you cross the floor
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because you've stuck to your principles and your party ended up kind of leaving you, and you have to
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join another party or create a new party because that actually represents the principles that you've
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been sticking to, that's fine. I don't think Michael Ma has any principles. I think it's simply that
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there was an opportunity to maybe gain a little bit more power, and so he crossed the floor. We are now in
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a situation where the Liberals literally only need, in theory, Elizabeth May to vote in order to pass
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stuff, because if she ends up voting, that means the Speaker could, in theory, break the tie, or I think
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they need another one after that, but we're getting, like, dangerously close to the Liberals having a
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majority government. Cross your fingers and pray that a court appeal in the riding of Terrebonne in Quebec
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ends up overturning that result, because remember, we had a judge say, yeah, the Liberals only won by
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one vote, and there was massive incompetence by Elections Canada in that riding, but who cares?
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It affected everybody. It's like, well, we literally don't know who won if it's by one vote, and there
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was massive issues with vote counting and people mailing in ballots to the wrong addresses as the
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Elections Canada printed it wrong. This is just a clown show at this point, and again, I don't think this
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reflects badly on Pierre Polyev. Maybe whoever pushed forward Michael Ma, that person should be blacklisted
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and never listened to again, and they actually thought Michael Ma was a sure thing. Like, he's a great
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conservative, guys. He told me so. Okay, well, apparently not. We need better quality conservative MPs, and
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most of them are great, but the problem is in the last election, there were people pushing for a lot of
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appointments, and this is why we cannot have appointed candidates. We need nominated candidates by grassroots
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conservatives who can vet the people themselves if this is the right guy for the job. I actually hear on
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convention, they're going to be bringing more nomination rules forward where the leader can still appoint
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candidates, but to a far more limited number, which makes sense. Sometimes you do just need to appoint people when
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there's some last-minute by-election, or somebody ends up dropping out. The leader needs to be able to put in
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somebody that they can trust, that's fine. But overall, there should be more nominations, and there
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should be more grassroots say over what goes on here. But again, yes, this is a very crazy situation
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that we are at the point where Mark Carney, at a time when, if another election gets called, he could lose,
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that he may be able to just cobble together a government by taking some weak-willed individuals who
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want a payoff in some way, some shape or form, maybe even in a legal way, where, hey, you get to be, you
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know, minister of whatever if you come over. This really isn't sure how politics should work. Is it
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illegal? No. But I think we all understand for a healthy society, this is not how things should
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actually work, and I think Canadians should be rejecting this cloak and dagger stuff. Now, there is
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still a slight silver lining here, because the Liberals are going to be faced by about five or
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six Liberal MPs this winter or over the next year who are likely going to be resigning from office
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completely. Chrystia Freeland, Jonathan Wilkinson, Nate Erskine-Smith, I believe, like, I think I've
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heard Melanie Jolie's name might be in there as well, other people, Stephen Gilbeau. There are many of
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these individuals who may leave office and could, in theory, get replaced by someone who, at very least,
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is not a Liberal MP. Many of these are more default Liberal ridings, but at the same time, Mark Carney
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has done a good job of taking off both the left flank of his party as well as the right flank of his
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party. I consider them the green-orange Liberals on the left and the business Liberals on the right,
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the people who are fiscally conservative but maybe on social issues, they're more socially progressive or at
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least mildly socially Liberal and in their Bay Street life, it seems like a normal option to be
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Liberal. But, my goodness, can we just sort politics out in this country? We need to shut down
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Canadian politics until someone figures out what the heck is going on. I was going to talk about a
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bunch of things the Liberals were squaring up today, and that's not propaganda. They are not doing very
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well on many policy fronts. There was an embarrassing interview with Gary Amasangri on CBC Power and
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Politics because when David Cochran isn't the one interviewing people, the guy who fills in for him,
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JP, actually does a really good job. The Liberals are trying to justify themselves on Bill C-9, which
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just comes across as an anti-free speech hate bill. We have them screwing up when it comes to actually
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cracking down on real gun crime from illegal firearms. The MOU motion vote just went terribly for the
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Liberals. The budget's terrible. The trade situation is terrible. All the major projects are effectively
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fake. Oh, but Michael Ma has to leave because, oh, they're so stable. Guys, they're so, they're so
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dang stable. Mark Carney is like a rock. He's immovable. He is implacable. That is why he's literally
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having to block his own MPs from talking to the media during, like, times when they're in the hallway and
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they would normally get scrummed because this liberal government is on the rising road of
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prosperity. It's so dumb. Somebody should genuinely investigate some of these MPs who are leaving
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and actually get them on the record to actually say what is motivating them because I don't think
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Michael Ma is leaving because of stability because right now it's about a 50-50 who would win another
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election. And we're probably going to be having an election in 2026 unless Mark Carney can just
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figure out a way of just making sure that another conservative MP or an NDP ends up crossing the
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floor and joining his ranks. This is ridiculous. But that's the kind of country we chose to live in.
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I still like Canada, but, you know, Canada is stressing me and it's making it difficult at times,
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better so that I'm not like stressing out about it. But yep, that's it. I hope nobody else leaves.
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And I hope the Conservatives can pick up a new seat if one of these Liberals resigns and a by-election
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is called. Honestly, at this point, I don't know if Aaron Gunn, who's rumored to be wanting to run
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for the BC Conservative leadership, can leave right now because that riding could possibly go to the NDP
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or the Liberals. It was like a three-way race between Aaron Gunn, the Liberal candidate, and the NDP.
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I don't think he can do it anymore. Honestly, it's just that's not the situation the country is in.
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And whatever by-election ends up getting triggered over the next few months, if one is, the Conservatives
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need to throw heaven and earth into it. $100,000, $200,000, get every activist to show up, get every
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single person who would ever consider voting Conservative to show up in that by-election because
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it is getting really dire at this point if there's anyone else who decides that they might leave the
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party. Anyways, that's it for me today, guys. I will see you all next time.