Will Carney kick Michael Ma from Liberal caucus？!？ Liberals begin distancing!
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MP Michael Ma crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join the Liberal government in December of 2018. Since then, he has been a complete disaster for the government and the country. He has been accused of lying to a witness, lying to the media, lying in committee meetings, and lying in question period. Now, he is under fire for his comments in a committee meeting about forced labour in China.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
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This whole Michael Ma situation continues to be a complete PR disaster for Prime Minister
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Mark Carney and the Liberal government. While Michael Ma ran as a Conservative in the 2025
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election, and shame on the Conservatives for letting him do that, it has now become a disaster
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for the Liberals since they let him cross the floor and join their government in December.
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And I think they actually made the problem worse because when Mark Carney signaled openness to the Chinese government in January and went to China with Michael Ma to sign a trade agreement, he signaled to a pro-Beijing man like Michael Ma that he could do whatever he wanted.
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And pro-Beijing talking points were completely above board, and he made himself look like a psychopath and a moron in a committee meeting by basically trying to deny there was forced labor in China.
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It was a completely disgusting line of questioning that he subjected a witness to, and now the liberals are having to run away from him screaming.
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Remember, Mark Carney does not have majority government right now.
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If he only wins two out of the three next by-elections, he ends up getting a majority if Michael Ma sticks around.
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Now, the question is, is Mark Carney shameless enough to keep Michael Ma around in order to have that majority vote?
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Or is he only going to turf him if he wins three out of three by-elections and takes Terrebonne on top of Scarborough South as well as University Rosedale?
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We will have to see, but we will start getting into more of the details of this story in just a second.
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First off, I just want to start off with a minor point of all this story.
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Now, there are two Michael Ma X accounts on X, of course.
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The account name was like Michael Ma CPC in terms of the at.
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now he has MP Michael Ma, because after he crossed the floor, obviously he didn't want
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the acronym for the Conservative Party any longer in the account. But he, back in December,
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used to post a lot from this account. He was also a prominently featured MP on the bench sitting next
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to Steve McKinnon and Mark Carney during question period. It was usually him or Chris
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Dontremont or Matt Gennaro being paraded out there to show the Conservatives, look, we got
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your guys. Well, it doesn't look like that's going to happen anymore. This video comes from our
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friend Vesper on X, where he shows that Michael Ma has effectively deleted everything on his social
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media. You can see that he only had 85 followers at the time that this video was taken, but all he
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has now is his lame excuse post for what he did in that committee meeting, and this post of him
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touring something i think he has another post of him at some random event now but yeah there's
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nobody really following him anymore they are severely cutting him out of the communications
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uh i guess strategy of the liberal party they do not want this guy saying anything and naturally
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he's a complete embarrassment at this point and again he should be an embarrassment for the
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conservative party they were the ones who approved the pro beijing guy to run for them when they
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shouldn't have they even bumped the anti-beijing conservative candidate joe tay who is far better
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from the markham unionville riding in favor of michael ma and then they moved joe tay to danforth
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north which he lost because it's a traditionally very left-wing riding anyways now i want to move
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on to some more substantive stuff we have here researcher andy lee points out michael ma is a
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vice chair of the Canadian Canada-China Legislative Association. He knows exactly what he's doing.
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His actions are totally outrageous. So this ends up proving that when Michael Ma was going off in
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that meeting, it's not because he's just some random backbencher who's, you know, like, he's not
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some random backbencher who's just going off. He is specifically in charge of the Canada-China
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relationship this previous post from andy lee on february 3rd reads here's something even better
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michael ma is a vice chair of the canada china legislative association giving the liberals extra
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weight in the parliamentary group invaluable given our newest strategic partner and so yeah that guy
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was basically you put in charge of something it was like when matt jenneru came in as some sort
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of trade advisor the title they ended up giving michael ma was this title about him managing the
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Canada-China relationship. So he is, again, not some random backbencher. This is something that
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the liberal government really wanted Michael Ma to be quarterbacking. And I guess he quarterbacked
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it very well, depending on your perspective. If you're from the CCP or the United Front Work
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Department, you're super happy with his performance. As we saw in the last video,
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pro-CCP publications loved his performance in that committee meeting. But if you're the liberals,
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it's a bit awkward, because at the very least, you didn't want him to go that strong pro-CCP
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that fast radshaw here says is michael ma not hosting carney now on march 30th for the fundraiser
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this happened on uh she posted this on march 27th i think earlier in the day and here it showed a
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bunch of the upcoming fundraising events for the liberals you see there is one in uh this one uh
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hamilton mountain riding and it says an evening with mark carney date march 30th 2026 an evening
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with Mark Carney, location Markham, Ontario, featuring the right Honorable Mark Carney,
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Honorable Gary Amasangari, Honorable Tim Hodgson. Now, that's funny because Michael Ma used to be
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on the ticket. It's in Markham, you know, the place where Michael Ma is literally the MP.
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Apparently, he is no longer safe for work and you cannot have him on your, you can't have him
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on your fundraiser anymore again the far better conservative candidate joe tay here says in 2021
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mps including liberals voted to recognize the rp the republic of china's genocide including forced
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labor of uyghurs in response the liberal government has imposed sanctions on an on a uh rpc entity
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and for rpc officials in zhijang for their human rights violations i think he's saying the republic
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of China. About the same time, ACEUM Article 23.6 came into force prohibiting imports produced
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through forced labor in North America Free Trade Agreement. Yesterday, a Liberal MP made it clear
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that forced labor by Uyghurs has not happened, while questioning a former official, Margaret
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McQuaid Johnson, who later on apologized. The Liberal government needs to answer the following
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questions. Does the government still believe that there is forced labor of Uyghurs happening
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This is important if the government no longer values
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I think he must have been doing voice to text here
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because the Uyghur thing wasn't pronounced correctly
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or wasn't spelled correctly, but I get his point.
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that obviously what Michael Ma was trying to do
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was try and do an end run around current trade rules in Canada
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by arguing that China doesn't really fit into those trade rules anymore.
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We don't actually have to feel any shame trading with them
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because, well, it's just conjecture that there might be forced labor in that country.
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Now, I want to show you guys another post by someone who is an actual expert
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pointing out Michael Ma's crap excuse does not actually stand up to scrutiny
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in terms of the claims that, well, there might be forced labor in that province,
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but in the province where EVs are made, there are none.
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Just a second, I need to pull this up because this is important.
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I want to bring up this post from Chengqing Kuang,
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who says in response to Michael Ma's terrible excuse
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for what he said during that standing committee meeting,
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She says, sorry, mate, there's this thing called labor transfer scheme in Canada,
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Xinjiang, or Xinjiang, I can't really pronounce Mandarin words, sorry, all tainted by forced
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labor. So she's pointing to something that's not specifically about Uyghur Muslims, but basically
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forced labor schemes that go on in the rest of the country. She also had this other post where
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she ends up highlighting some of the associations that Michael Ma has. We're not going to read the
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whole thing. But she goes over all of these different basically like United Front Work
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Department organizations that Michael Ma has spoken at. The United Front Work Department
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is effectively China's overseas influence operation. In fact, this might end up involving
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the Chinese billionaire who is suing me. One of Michael Ma's associates, I need to look into it
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more. That's why I'm not naming the person. Somebody who is suing me is actually likely
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connected to Michael Ma and these United Front Work Department organizations. And you know when
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I was disallowed from being a conservative candidate in the 25 election, they didn't let
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me actually go through the full nomination, even though everyone had greenlit me up to that point
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and I had a lot of memberships sold. One of the things they used in a long list of like a dossier
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of why Wyatt can't run was I was being sued. Who am I being sued by? Somebody who in the media,
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well-documented, has connections to pro-CCP organizations, to pro-Beijing or anti-Taiwan
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organizations, which I believe Michael Ma actually has overlap with. So Michael Ma was cool,
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but I'm not cool because people connected to Michael Ma don't like me. You can't even make
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it up, guys. Anyways, so now I want to move on to the, or I think, oh, did I actually do it? But
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yeah, so right now, we have the Liberals just ripping Michael Ma's name off of everything.
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He actually used to be on that list of fundraisers. He was going to be a part of it,
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and now he is no longer going anymore. This is the actual other Joe Tay post I was trying to find
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here. So yeah, this is the one that proved that Michael Ma was originally going to be at this
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event. So this is the before and after photo. Look, this is the email that would have gone out
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to people in the Liberal Party. An evening with Mark Carney. You have to spend $1,775 to show up
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to this. Youth age 35 and under, you get $925 to get into this event. And look, hosted by,
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featuring Mark Carney, hosted by Gary Amasangari, MP Scarborough Guilford Rogue Park,
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and also hosted by Michael Ma and Tim Hodgson. So Michael Ma was originally going to be at this
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event. So now you have to ask yourself, is this just a tactical retreat on the part of the Liberal
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Party with Michael Ma, or is this going to be a situation where they're going to have to dump the
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man? Because you know that the Conservative Party is going to keep hammering them on this issue.
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Yes, they were dumb enough to let Michael Ma run for them, but he wasn't the one who blew up in
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their faces, so why not cash in while the going's good? Plus, again, the Conservative Party could
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maybe argue, I don't think it's a great argument, but they could argue that, well, maybe we didn't
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know, but you've created such a permissive environment to be pro-CCP that this guy we
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didn't know was pro-CCP is now letting his freak flag fly. Now, my one thing is they should have
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known that the guy was dirty. Regardless, that whole situation is over now, and now this is a
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major black spot for Mark Carney and the liberals. This is why I also stress that the Conservative
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Party, I think, needs to be more ambitious with these by-elections in Scarborough and University
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Rosedale. Now, in Terrebonne, let the Bloc Québécois do well, or if you're going to run a
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conservative candidate, just have them door knock the liberal parts of neighborhoods. Just have them
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try and rip away some liberal voters, but let the Bloc win that one. You want to keep the liberals
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from getting their full majority. They can still get the full majority by just winning University
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Rosedale and Scarborough but now the entire thing is going to be tainted by the presence of Michael
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Ma as one of the majority MPs so the thing that the conservatives need to do though is take these
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other two by-elections seriously are they safe liberal ridings sure but we just saw is news
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cycles can change maybe the Michael Ma thing is going to basically change nothing on the ground
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but you have to run bold candidates even in ridings you don't think you can win and I'm not
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trying to slag anyone here, but the people that the Conservative Party is running in University
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of Rosedale or Scarborough South doesn't feel like the candidate you put forward when you're
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really going to try and reach for that brass ring, even though you know it's probably not
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going to be a win. You want to push as hard as possible to improve your performance over the
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last election because that does help build momentum. Even if you lose, you don't just want
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23% of the vote like you got last time in a Toronto riding, you want 35%. So you got to push
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hard. So I don't really like the current strategy that they're going with right now. But
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overall, at least Polyev knows that this is a bad look for the Liberals, and he has been plugging
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away on it. Again, Conservatives would probably send out a note to the membership saying we will
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never pick a Michael Ma again. And we will have, you know, people like Joe Tay and Kenny Chu tell
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us who's who in the zoo in terms of CCP people, and we will not run those guys. But Polyev here
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says, liberal Mark Carney must tell us where he stands. Does he agree with his liberal MP saying
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there's no forced labor in China? Yes or no. And obviously a little bit of this is Pierre Polyev
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being slightly cheeky because he knows that Carney can't point the finger back at him and say,
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he used to be your candidate. So it's like, okay, so do you want him on your side of the field or
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not. He's no longer my guy. You have to eat this one because you were so proud of him before as a
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liberal MP, and I was the one saying that he was a traitor. You know, he was just being a traitor
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against the Conservative Party, not Canada yet, but it's not like Poliev has been saying nice
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things about him for three months the way that Mark Carney has. But isn't this the way of
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politics? Everyone's screwing up somehow, but it ends up only blowing up in one party's face.
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anyways so that should be it for me today guys thank you for watching the show make sure to
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