Unify Action - July 17, 2025


The REAL Reason the Conservatives Lost the Election - History The Liberals Don't Want You To Know


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00:00:00.000 History has a really fun way of repeating itself.
00:00:04.180 Have you heard the proverb, there's nothing new under the sun?
00:00:07.040 Well, that statement is just as true of Canadian politics as it is of everything else in life.
00:00:12.400 And studying the events that have happened in the past can help us direct our strategies to win more effectively in the future.
00:00:22.300 Pierre Trudeau resigned from being Prime Minister in 1984.
00:00:26.040 That threw the Liberal Party into a race to decide who would be the next leader of the Liberal Party
00:00:31.120 and who would be the Prime Minister of Canada.
00:00:34.380 Now, this would end up being John Turner, but in June 1984,
00:00:38.000 everyone was still waiting to find out the results of this leadership race.
00:00:41.660 Leader of the official opposition in the House was Brian Mulroney,
00:00:45.500 and he decides to distract the Canadian people from this leadership race
00:00:49.400 by heading down to the United States to the Oval Office to have a meeting with Ronald Reagan.
00:00:54.460 His advisors warn him against this, stating the danger of being associated with Reaganomics.
00:01:00.140 At this time, anti-American sentiment is fairly prominent in Canadian culture.
00:01:05.280 This unofficial meeting between the two political leaders sparks an incredible friendship that
00:01:09.120 would continue for years to come. 1.00
00:01:10.580 What the continent needs is another Irish.
00:01:13.740 But that friendship is not Mulroney's only goal.
00:01:17.200 At the time, a certain piece of steel legislation was working its way through the U.S. House
00:01:21.920 of Representatives, and it would threaten about 5,000 Canadian jobs. According to his memoirs,
00:01:28.320 part of Mulroney's plan was to ensure that the bill didn't pass. He took his concerns directly
00:01:33.600 to then-Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, who agreed that their trade relations were vital.
00:01:40.280 Baldrige would pledge that the steel legislation wouldn't become law, and those Canadian jobs are
00:01:45.760 protected. His unofficial visit distracts from the Liberal Leadership Convention, and Brian Mulroney
00:01:51.500 is seen as an incredible leader in the eyes of Canadians. In September of that year, he would go
00:01:56.160 on to win the election and become prime minister. So in the April 2025 election, we saw American
00:02:03.640 protectionism come to the forefront of Canadian politics. And a lot of the rhetoric that we heard
00:02:08.340 during the election was who is going to protect us and fight against Trump the most. Now what
00:02:13.560 Canadians saw was Mark Carney trying to make deals and talking to Trump. They saw him with
00:02:19.680 the relationship with Trump, at least to some extent, and they believed that he would be the
00:02:24.120 best leader. Now, the Conservatives seemed to be a step behind on this, and they would talk about
00:02:28.660 how they would change things, but there was really no action. The Canadian people were not seeing any
00:02:33.620 action. At the time that Brian Mulroney went down for this unofficial visit, he was in no position
00:02:38.360 to negotiate. He wasn't the Prime Minister of Canada yet. He really had no power to change
00:02:43.920 things in Canada, but he went to the Oval Office anyway. This is not the first time that we would
00:02:48.480 see Brian Mulroney do the controversial thing. And the majority of what we see from the Conservative
00:02:52.920 Party today is them playing it safe and not being willing to fight the battles that actually need
00:02:57.860 to be fought. I won't draw too many conclusions about what happened behind the scenes with Pierre
00:03:02.220 Polyev and his campaign managers, but I want you to think about what could have happened if Pierre
00:03:07.140 Polyev had crafted a good relationship with Donald Trump, especially even before the election was
00:03:11.900 called. Would we have heard as much of the 51st state rhetoric? Would the tariffs have been such
00:03:15.620 a big issue? Would Mark Kearney have really looked like such a good option to ward against
00:03:19.980 American protectionism? These are questions we may never have the answer to, but I want to close
00:03:24.400 with a quote from Brian Mulroney. Politics isn't always about polls. Leadership is what matters.
00:03:30.820 Give that to voters and they will vote for it every time. If you liked this video, please hit
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00:03:41.140 below other stories that you would like to hear about. Bye.