Trudeau-Appointed Senator Crosses Floor To Join Conservative!
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Summary
Pierre-Pauline Pauline Pauliev and Richard Martel's clash over his appointment to the Senate, Jim Quinn crosses the floor to join the Conservative Senate caucus, and a new Canadian senator joins the Conservative caucus.
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A lot of news coming out of the Canadian Senate over the past 36 hours.
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Yesterday, the Pierre-Paulie of Conservatives took a blow when one of their Quebec MPs, Richard Martel,
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decided to accept an appointment to the Canadian Senate by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Now, the Carney Liberals were highly motivated to get Martel out of the House of Commons and into the Senate
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because his riding of Chiquitimi-le-Fjord is a riding the Liberals can win in a by-election.
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Usually Martel would win that riding with about 40% of the vote,
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which is a pretty good margin considering both the Bloc Québécois and the Liberals are competitive in the riding.
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But in 2025's federal election, Richard Martel won with only 34% of the vote,
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with both the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois getting 31%.
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So this is obviously not good for the poly of conservatives,
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although they have taken the tactic of kind of happy talking their way through the story,
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congratulating Martel on his appointment and saying he's done such a great job in the House
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of Commons and they wish him luck in the Canadian Senate standing up for the conservatism. In a
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certain sense, this was kind of an unavoidable conflict with Martel. Polyev apparently only
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heard he was going to get the appointment a few minutes before it happened, but Martel is a red
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Tory and I could see that him never really getting along with pure Polyev and it would have been a
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stake for Pauliev to try and appeal to the politics of Richard Martel, because if he did that, he would
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start taking off all the actual Conservatives in the party, and there are more actual Conservatives
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than there are kind of wishy-washy, mushy middle red Tories like Richard Martel. But this morning,
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the Conservatives got some positive news out of the Canadian Senate, with a Trudeau-appointed
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Senator deciding to cross the floor and join the Conservative Senate caucus. The Conservative
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Senate leader Leo Housakis put out this statement this morning saying, I'm pleased to welcome
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Senator Jim Quinn to our growing Senate, conservative Senate caucus. Please read my
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statement here. And it says, the Honorable Leo Housakis, leader of the official opposition in
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the Senate, is pleased to welcome Senator Jim Quinn to the conservative Senate caucus. Since
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his appointment to the Senate in 2021, Senator Quinn has brought decades of experience in the
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Canadian Coast Guard, the Federal Public Service, and as President and CEO of Fort St. John to his
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work in the upper chamber. Through his contributions in the Senate, he has established himself as a
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thoughtful and experienced voice on issues important to New Brunswick and all Canadians.
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Senator Quinn's decades of public service and leadership and commitment to New Brunswick
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will make him a tremendous asset to our team, said Senator Housakis. We don't need to go into
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more of this statement, but you get the point, it's boilerplate. Congratulations to Jim Quinn
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for joining the Conservative Senate caucus. And this is a significant win because this guy is not
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a former Conservative politician. He is not a Conservative at all previously. He was part of
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the Canadian Senate group, which is one of the two Senate groups that Justin Trudeau would appoint
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senators into to pretend to be all nonpartisan and whatnot. There's the independent Senate group,
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which is usually full of very left-leaning progressives, and then the Canadian Senate
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group, which is kind of centrist-y, center-left to center-right senators. And so Jim Quinn,
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in the aftermath of Richard Martell being appointed to the Senate, has decided to go
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from the Canadian Senate group to the Conservative Senate caucus, which does help offset some of the
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bad news for Pierre Polyev with Martel leaving to get his Senate appointment. Because we know
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that the Canadian media is going to spin Richard Martel into a giant leadership crisis for Pierre
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Polyev, even though the only way of avoiding Richard Martel leaving would have basically
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been turning back into Aaron O'Toole or becoming like Doug Ford or Jason Kenney. There is no way
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you're going to please people who probably should have been liberal MPs before this. If they want to
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good. At least they're not crossing the floor and joining the liberal House of Commons caucus.
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Anyways, so now I need to move on to another story involving the Senate, and that is one of
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Mark Carney's other appointments, which is Tom Pitfield, who was a liberal campaigner as well
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as a former, I believe, like advisor or some sort of like a staff member for Prime Minister Mark
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Carney. This is obviously not very ethical looking. It's even less ethical than basically
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bribing a conservative MP to take a Senate appointment so you can try and win his seat
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in a by-election, because this guy has basically been working to get liberals elected his entire
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career. I feel like the Senate should mostly be people who are not complete partisan hacks,
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but Mark Carney has recently changed the rules so that he can appoint pretty much anyone he wants,
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whether they be opposition MPs to get them out of the way for a by-election, or loyal liberal
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hacks that he now wants to, you know, reward with a 20-year-long career in the Senate getting a
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high-paying job, and all they have to do is rubber stamp liberal legislation that comes through.
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A friend of the channel, Kirk Lubomov, here says, Mark Carney is trying to keep a straight face
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explaining why he appointed his campaign staffer and advisor to the Senate. And he's quoting him
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here, but I want to actually hear it directly from him. And then I'm going to get into a little
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Is Tom Pitfield's appointment to the Senate a reward for helping you win the election?
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Absolutely not. Tom Pitfield is an entrepreneur. He's a philanthropist. He's got deep
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technological knowledge, knowledge about technology. And particularly with respect
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to the last aspect, it's, you know, we look at the Senate as a whole and what the competencies
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are. And obviously familiarity with government, familiar with legislative processes, other things
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are helpful. But we want some core competencies in there as well. And where the Senate is more
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deficient and there's people who are willing to serve, I'm very pleased that they are.
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Sorry, but what about Tom Pitfield? What about his experience that's so unique to anyone else
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that you could appoint? With Jim Quinn, the guy who just crossed and joined the Conservative
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a caucus, the guy's never been a conservative politician. He's never actually been in partisan
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politics. He's always been a longtime public servant and bureaucrat. And he, you know, as it
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was mentioned before, he was the CEO of the Port Authority of St. John's, you know, lifelong New
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Brunswicker. That's why he was appointed. He's kind of like what you would consider to be like
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a stalwart public servant that they are then putting into the Senate who has a lot of
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administrative experience. He has a lot of experience with ports and exports and shipping
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and all that stuff, maritime type policy. So they put him in there. He's actually always been a
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somewhat more fiscally conservative guy, but on social issues, he's probably a typical New
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Brunswick or a little more socially conservative, but not so much so that he would himself be like
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a partisan conservative politician. So he crossed over to the conservatives now, but Tom Pitfield
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is somebody who, yes, might be a philanthropist and business owner, but his biggest credits are
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helping elect liberals like Mark Carney and operating as one of his advisors post-election.
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He's the only one you can find. Now, previously, the prime minister always recommends senators for
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appointment in the Senate, but there was a rule where if the person, I forget who's the person
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who ends up officially putting them into the Senate, but that person would take in the
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recommendation and mostly just process it and put them through, unless the person was clearly
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partisan. That doesn't mean that they are very liberal. You can put very liberal people, if you
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want, into the Senate. The problem is, is putting someone who directly worked for your campaign and
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was a staff member of yours into the Senate, because now it's turning the Senate into just a
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way of rewarding political allies with high-paying jobs that really don't take much effort to
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actually, you know, keep that job. And so now I want to get back to what Kirk Lubomov was saying
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there in his post. Continuing down from the quote that he posted here, he says,
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surely if you were going to for domain experience, you wouldn't be appointing a longtime liberal
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insider who is part of a basic analytics firm. Oh, and he is married to a liberal MP, Anna Ganey.
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I'm sure it's nothing. Yeah, this totally doesn't have anything to do with trying to basically
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please insiders of your party, paying them off with these highly prestigious Senate jobs with
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big expense accounts, with a really good salary, and with the prestige that comes with the office.
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It's just Tom Pitfield just happened to be the best man for the job.
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And all of this is coming on the heels of a new scandal, a new scandal on top of another new scandal,
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because the condo bailouts was already a scandal in and of itself in Vancouver.
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But now there's another scandal because it turns out only 15 weeks before the Kearney Liberals decided to bail out the condo developers
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in the Lower Mainland, mostly in Vancouver and Burnaby,
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Brookfield just happened to take a big stake in a lot of these condo developments
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right in time to get a big bailout from the Liberals.
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and the Liberals have just shut down the Ethics Committee investigation
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because they don't want any questions being asked about this.
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Because as we know, everything the Carney liberals do is totally above board. That's why they're making the American Alberta Premier Daniel Smith jump through dozens of hoops to maybe one day get a pipeline built. But in the meantime, the Carney liberals insider friends are going to benefit massively from the carbon capture pathway scheme, as well as the higher industrial carbon tax rates that is going to pump up the value of their carbon credits.
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The last thing I want to talk about in this video is kind of going back to the Richard Martel, Chikutimi, Lefjord issue.
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There are a lot of hacky conservatives in the media and from strategy firms and campaigning organizations trying to attack Pierre Polyev.
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Because, oh my goodness, there's a rupture in the party right now.
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Because, look, Richard Martel is leaving to the Senate.
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And Polyev attacked Corey Tanike at the stampede.
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And I don't know, apparently we're supposed to feel bad for Corey Tanike.
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Apparently this is a massive faux pas for Pierre Polyev to refer to him as a liberal lobbyist from out east.
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Just because he is associated with Doug Ford doesn't mean he's not a liberal.
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And I find it highly suspicious that we have all these people only now coming out to critique and attack Pierre Polyev.
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There was this truly bad article that came out from Brian Lilly at the Toronto Sun, I believe.
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That acted pretty much as just an infomercial and a defense of Corey Tanike and Doug Ford.
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It just so happens that Brian Lilly lives with and is dating Doug Ford's director of media relations. That's not weird. That's not really sleazy. And I've known this about Brian Lilly for a while. It in fact was a news story a few years ago. But people who only got involved in politics in the last two years don't really know about it.
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because I'm a big supporter of the new blue party of Ontario.
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And I know a lot of people will say, well, I don't really like them.
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It's like, it doesn't really matter, guys.
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And I am perfectly willing to vote for a conservative alternative option
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I fully endorse right now the Manitoba Keystone party.
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The Keystone party in Manitoba and Wally Daldrich is currently running
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in the by-election for Keystone in the PAW's by-election.
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If you are in the PAW, vote for Wally Dalgerton in the Keystone party
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If a party is barely not even attempting to represent conservative values,
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And that is what Corey Tanike and Doug Ford represent.
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But we have all these flack catchers suddenly coming in to defend Corey Tanike
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right in time for Corey Tanike to try and take out Pierre Polyev in favor of either bringing in
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Doug Ford, Mark Malaruni, or Jason Kenney to run for the Conservative Party leadership.
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You guys know me. I actually am very willing to criticize Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives
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when I don't think they're doing the right thing, when I don't think their policy is bold enough,
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even when I want Polyev to desperately take off the navy blue tie and wear a different colored
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a tie, because that is one of my big pet peeves
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all the time, and it's a little boring. I liked
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People are trying to make fun of his stampede outfits.
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and now you're showing up for all these abstract complaints
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about, oh, Polyev is attacking a good conservative man
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Corey Tanike's a machine political organizer.
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He just lost an embarrassing leadership campaign
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for Caroline Elliott alongside a bunch of other dorm room jokers.
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they simply do well in politics because they are good at making a lot of promises to people
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and a lot of people have special interests in getting that politician elected who cory to
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nike and these other people are associated with anyways i'm going to cover more of that in another
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video because i find the current setup to try and take out polyev as the conservative party leader
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to be disgusting dishonest and completely bad faith the other day this was a couple months ago
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I saw someone criticizing Polly of speech at the Ottawa Canada Strong and Free Network event saying, oh, my goodness, it was a low energy event with not a lot of people. And that's called Canada Strong and Free, guys. It's not exactly TPUSA. It's a mostly an event for kind of insidery, culturally conservative red Tories. And that's kind of it.
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You don't get a lot of kind of maverick conservatives showing up to Canada Strong and Free Network.
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And then suddenly people saying, oh, my goodness, it wasn't a very well attended event from people I have never heard criticized Polyev before.
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Always strikes me as are you working for some sort of a strategy firm because it never made any criticisms before.
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And suddenly you're here with microwaved garbage criticisms because you can only make bad criticisms of Polyev because any criticism you probably make of him on policy would also apply.
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even harder to Doug Ford or Jason Kenney or Mark Mulroney.
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Anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys for watching.
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