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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Sarah Dotzert
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Brian Mulroney Pierre Poilievre Mark Carney Malcolm Baldrige Pierre Trudeau Ronald Reagan Donald Trump John Turner Leadership
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History has a really fun way of repeating itself. Have you heard the proverb, "There's nothing new under the sun"? Well, that's just as true of Canadian politics as it is of everything else in life. And studying the events that have happened in the past can help us direct our strategies to win more effectively in the future.

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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.