Western Standard - Can Mark Carney Make the Liberals Great Again？

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Derek Fuldebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:28.440 We're heading to a likely election to be called next week.

00:00:32.300 And so you're going to see a lot more of me writing a lot more, interviewing a lot more people in and around this election campaign that is going to be very important for Canada and for the West.

00:00:44.600 Our first guest is going to be, in just a few minutes, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel-Garner, the MP for Calgary Nose Hill.

00:00:52.320 But before we get into her, I want to just talk a bit about the new Liberal leader and Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney.

00:01:01.800 Switching out unpopular leaders to stave off election defeat is an old and sometimes successful Canadian political tradition.

00:01:09.100 Here in Alberta, it worked like a charm in the old PC party until it didn't.

00:01:13.280 The most famous example of it most definitely not working was Kim Campbell's last minute tagging in for Brian Mulrooney as PC leader in 1993.

00:01:22.320 The party had hemorrhaged its support into two new parties, the Reform Party in the West and the Bloc Québécois in Quebec.

00:01:29.460 But Campbell's substitution suddenly reinvigorated the PCs, putting them in contention with Jean Chrétien's Liberals.

00:01:36.860 The quick blood transfusion and support in the polls quickly evaporated, though, as people remembered that they still hated the PCs.

00:01:43.380 The rest is history.

00:01:44.540 The PCs disintegrated and went from a majority government to just two seats.

00:01:49.380 the worst defeat for a governing political party in the history of the world.

00:01:54.220 Today's Liberals are attempting a similar leadership transfusion

00:01:57.040 and have received a boost in polling support.

00:01:59.500 How much support there is varies wildly depending on which poll you're looking at.

00:02:04.140 You see, the polls are drunk right now.

00:02:07.280 ECO's pollster Frank Graves believes the Liberals are about to win a historic supermajority

00:02:11.860 of unprecedented levels in every region of Canada outside of Alberta,

00:02:16.580 although his results strangely don't seem to include anything from Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

00:02:21.080 Graves' credibility as a pollster leaves a lot to be desired, and he's almost certainly incorrect.

00:02:27.540 Still, other polling firms have shown the Liberals are closing the gap, or even matching, the Conservatives.

00:02:33.680 Ipsos research shows the Liberals of 38%, a statistical tie with the Conservatives of 36%.

00:02:39.560 Abacus data, meanwhile, has the Liberals making a much more modest comeback to a distant second place at

00:02:46.580 28%, still far behind the Conservatives at 42%. So yeah, the polls are blotto. People are likely

00:02:53.960 to believe whichever poll favors the party they support. But two things are clear. The first is

00:02:59.400 that the Liberals have seen some increased support since Trudeau stepped aside so that the Liberals

00:03:04.120 could anoint Mark Carney. However significant an increase that is, however, is impossible to tell.

00:03:11.100 Depends which poll you like. Second, most of the Liberal gains have come at the expense of

00:03:16.360 Jagmeet Singh's NDP. The NDP elected Singh as their leader, largely because they thought he had

00:03:21.740 a hip tip-talk vibe, like Trudeau. But having spent the last six years as a parliamentary

00:03:27.540 appendage of the Liberal Party, the NDP is left with more of a Trudeau vibe around it than Mark

00:03:33.920 Carney's Liberals. Well, life and politics just aren't fair. Mark Carney's appeal, as with the

00:03:41.400 liberal brand generally resonates most strongly in Eastern and Central Canada, where there's a

00:03:46.760 deep yearning for the Laurentian elitist. And Carney fits that bill, probably better than the

00:03:52.300 dictionary definition. Highly educated, rich, polished, progressivist, internationalist,

00:03:58.120 and intelligent. In many ways, Carney is like Justin Trudeau, but smart. Carney's also smartly

00:04:06.080 thrown overboard two highly unpopular liberal policies, the consumer half of the carbon tax

00:04:10.500 and the increase in the capital gains tax.

00:04:13.380 It was just a month ago that he was claiming that we would all die if we didn't have a carbon tax,

00:04:17.260 but voters have a short memory.

00:04:19.260 And politics isn't fair.

00:04:21.780 And there may be just enough voters east of Winnipeg who want a liberal government

00:04:25.560 but are just sick of Justin Trudeau's backfeifengesicht.

00:04:29.880 That's German for punchable face.

00:04:32.580 Maybe.

00:04:33.760 Trump hasn't helped the conservative case either.

00:04:35.760 His chaotic on-again, off-again trade war has deeply unsettled Canadians,

00:04:39.580 including many who are otherwise sympathetic to him. However much the Liberals have dragged the

00:04:44.680 Canadian flag through the mud over the last nine years, they appear to have successfully wrapped

00:04:49.380 themselves in that flag and have caught some traction in labeling anyone who opposes them

00:04:54.220 as traitors. Exhibit A, Albertans who are unwilling to sacrifice the oil industry as a pawn for the

00:05:00.360 East. Polyev is no Trump, but he is a right populist, and that may be enough to convict

00:05:06.440 him in the eyes of swing voters who want to be protected from the bad orange man. The Liberals 0.90

00:05:12.100 have given themselves a shot at survival here by switching out their leader. History has examples

00:05:16.920 of both triumph and tears for what comes next. Will Canadians remember that they still hate the

00:05:21.400 Liberals, or will they fall in line? Time will tell. All right, well, let's bring in our guest

00:05:29.980 today uh michelle rempelgarner is the conservative mp for calgary nose hill uh thank you very much

00:05:37.400 for joining us michelle thanks for having me all right uh i mean it's a pretty poorly kept secret

00:05:43.080 uh some people that we both know who work in war rooms uh in the conservative war room have been

00:05:49.220 all recalled as of about two weeks ago or even a bit more in some cases to ottawa to staff the war

00:05:54.620 room. How likely is it that Canadians are going to see the writ drop and an election called next

00:06:00.860 week? Well, we've needed an election for a long time. So, you know, just speaking on behalf of

00:06:07.240 myself, I hope that the call comes sooner than later. You know, the Liberals should have taken

00:06:13.520 Canada to an election a long time ago. And as you know, you were talking about the NDP ahead of time.

00:06:18.840 The Liberals should have voted non-confidence in the Liberals, you know, months and months ago as

00:06:24.040 well. So, you know, I can't purport to speak for the likes of Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau's

00:06:30.920 inner circle, who have now taken up residence in his new office. But certainly we are on high

00:06:36.800 alert for an election to happen. Is it safe to say that within the Conservative caucus and party

00:06:44.900 in Ottawa, you guys are expected, you're expecting an election to be called by next week?

00:06:50.840 Well, we've been preparing for an election for quite some time because we felt that it was necessary. You know, you've seen Conservative leader Pierre Polyev for months trigger confidence motion after confidence motion. So, yeah, of course, we're calling for an election and doing all.

00:07:13.180 You're ready for one. You're calling for one. But let me put the question in another way to pin you down. Scale of one to 10. If you're putting money down, just personally, no insider information, what's the chances of an election on a scale of one to 10 being called next week?

00:07:30.180 You know, I wish I could give you that answer, and I'll tell you why it's difficult not to be able, or it's hard to be able to do that.

00:07:39.100 You know, you had the NDP last fall at a time where the Liberals were basically at a historic low, and the NDP propped them up.

00:07:49.300 So it's hard to get into the minds of these left-wing politicians.

00:07:54.060 They're going to do whatever is best for them, not what's best for the Canadian who's struggling with rent or to buy groceries.

00:08:01.780 So certainly it's our position as a party that, you know, we don't have confidence in the Liberal government, no matter who's in charge, because it's largely the same team.

00:08:11.680 Right. So I'm certainly hoping that there's one coming soon, that we're going to get one soon.

00:08:17.300 But Derek, who knows what these Liberals will do?

00:08:20.040 okay uh the conservative party has had a record fundraising for several years now you guys

00:08:28.580 uh i won't go on too long because i know you want to raise some more money but

00:08:32.480 but you guys have a war chest ready to fight i think a couple of campaigns here

00:08:37.140 at this point uh i'm not sure if all i don't think all of the conservative candidates are

00:08:41.740 selected but most there's a there's a few nomination races i think outstanding which

00:08:46.120 I'm kind of surprised they've not been wrapped up yet, but okay.

00:08:50.320 But how prepared is the Conservative Party for an election if it were to be called next week?

00:08:57.060 Well, you know, I always start the answer to that question with,

00:09:00.800 do we have a message and a plan that's going to resonate with Canadian voters, right?

00:09:04.660 That really is where election preparedness starts from.

00:09:08.000 And you've seen Conservative leader Pierre Polyev start to roll out major policies

00:09:13.320 that have been in that platform, like removing the GST on new home builds to address the housing

00:09:19.560 crisis. He's been out over the last couple of weeks talking about our Canada first plan to

00:09:25.460 secure the Canadian border to shore up the Canadian economy after 10 years of liberal

00:09:30.620 ruination, which has left the Canadian economy very vulnerable to American tariffs. So, you know,

00:09:37.780 I could spend the entire show talking about that. But on point number one, I'm really excited to see the policies that we've been rolling out that make a lot of sense and that I think we've seen have resonated with Canadian voters and will continue to do so.

00:09:52.040 And then, you know, we have seen, like you ask about some of the other preparedness things like fundraising, like candidates. I think it's because we started that with that foundation of a solid plan that resonates with a lot of the issues that have been facing Canadian voters, that we've seen a lot of interest in folks wanting to run for us, that we've had a lot of folks reach out to us with financial support because they understand that change has to happen.

00:10:17.840 You know, the Liberals are asking for a fourth term. They've had 10 years in government. They've doubled the debt. You know, they put us into an inflationary crisis. You know, I could go through all of the problems, but people understand that when the Liberals are asking for a fourth term, it's going to make life a lot harder on them.

00:10:33.820 So I think that, you know, some of the other metrics that you talked about there, they're a result of us having a strong plan and people saying, yeah, we want change. Let's work together on that. So, again, it's time for an election.

00:10:48.440 So, you know, you talked about having the message ready.

00:10:52.600 And that's where I want to go with this, because, I mean, six months ago, everything was cost of living.

00:10:57.620 It was inflation, carbon tax.

00:11:02.240 Carney has said he's scrapping the carbon tax.

00:11:04.460 That's only half true.

00:11:05.460 He's said, half true at best, I should say.

00:11:08.860 Yeah, he said he'll scrap the consumer facing carbon tax, which still leaves it in place.

00:11:13.100 The industrial carbon tax, which also hugely drives up cost of living.

00:11:17.380 makes our economy less competitive.

00:11:21.180 Although I don't, you can correct me if I'm wrong.

00:11:23.780 I'd like to be corrected.

00:11:24.920 I have not heard a conservative leader,

00:11:26.980 Pierre Pauly, have commit that he'll get rid

00:11:28.300 of the industrial carbon tax as well,

00:11:29.800 only the consumer carbon tax.

00:11:31.920 But at least he said he'll just get rid of it

00:11:34.220 and it's just done.

00:11:35.240 Whereas Carney has talked about

00:11:36.880 some very weird convoluted replacements for it.

00:11:40.440 So we'll get a new carbon tax probably in place of it.

00:11:43.160 But at least as it's being reported in the legacy media,

00:11:46.180 he's it's gone he's getting rid of the carbon uh the consumer carbon tax he's getting rid of the

00:11:50.720 capital gains tax so two of the two of the big arrows in the conservative quiver but you know

00:11:56.000 six months ago it was cost of living and inflation today you know it's wall-to-wall coverage and i

00:12:02.640 think reasonably so of the on again off again trade war with donald trump uh canada's probably

00:12:09.180 wrong on on a on a few files but it seems to be he's been rather irascible and irrational

00:12:14.980 in how he's dealing with this.

00:12:16.680 And I think this has scared a lot of people.

00:12:18.460 So I think, you know, I want to know

00:12:22.580 how is the Conservative Party adapting itself

00:12:25.660 to the shift in narrative away from cost of living,

00:12:29.540 which is not going to go away as an issue,

00:12:31.420 but I think it's being eclipsed as the dominant issue.

00:12:34.900 How is the Conservative Party adapting its platform

00:12:37.600 and its messaging from cost of living,

00:12:40.640 carbon tax issues towards trade war, 51st state annexation rhetoric from Trump.

00:12:47.760 There's so much to unpack there. I want to get into the carbon tax, but

00:12:52.260 you kind of made an assertion that cost of living isn't top of mind right now.

00:12:57.680 I guess I'll ask you a question. Do you think that your viewers would think that

00:13:01.140 rent magically got cheaper in the last two months?

00:13:04.300 No, but I think it's fair to say it's gone from the overwhelming dominant issue to at least

00:13:09.820 roughly equal with the issue of the trade war.

00:13:13.980 Would you say that your listeners would think that groceries have gotten magically more affordable

00:13:18.460 in the last few months? None of these things have gotten better, but in terms of what's top

00:13:22.340 of mind and voters' minds and a lot of the polling out there,

00:13:26.640 the trade war has become a massive issue.

00:13:30.620 So obviously what voters are talking about has changed.

00:13:34.320 What about crime? Has downtown Calgary LRT gotten magically

00:13:38.460 safer in the last two months? No, no. It's a disaster. The point I'm trying to make is

00:13:45.960 I have been doing this job a hot minute, and I know when certain legacy media outlets try to

00:13:52.840 tell me something is the most top of mind issue for Canadians. I'm not saying that tariffs aren't.

00:13:57.920 They're a problem. But what is top of mind for Canadians is the fact that rent has not magically

00:14:02.920 gotten cheaper in the last two months, that the streets have not gotten safer, and that people

00:14:07.920 still can't afford to eat. So for me, when I look at the tariff issue, the reality is, is that Canada

00:14:14.080 has been left vulnerable. Canadians have left been left in a position where they can barely

00:14:19.100 afford to make ends meet. They're in, you know, experiencing extremely unsafe situations in

00:14:24.700 virtually every part of the country, because of liberal crime policy. So the tariffs, what they've

00:14:30.000 done is exacerbated the impact of 10 years of disastrous liberal policies. And, you know,

00:14:36.160 Of course, the Liberals, of course, the Liberals, Derek, want people to forget that it was them that caused these problems, that it was them that left Canada vulnerable.

00:14:46.560 And then somehow believe that they just by changing the figurehead on Justin Trudeau's team, like the hood ornament on Justin Trudeau's team, that's all that they've done, that somehow those issues will magically go away.

00:14:56.440 And I think it's actually really irresponsible for people who are considering running in a federal election to assert somehow that rent has gotten cheaper, that crime has gotten better, and that groceries are more affordable.

00:15:08.940 So we have to simultaneously address those problems.

00:15:11.760 The Liberals don't want to because it doesn't help their electoral prospects, right?

00:15:16.440 They want people to forget where these things came from.

00:15:20.140 So that's why, you know, you've seen conservative leader Pierre Polyev come out and say, no, Canadian voter, Canadian citizen, I understand where you're at.

00:15:28.300 I understand that the immigration system is broken, that the Liberals are broken.

00:15:31.380 I understand that the Liberals' catch and release policies have made crime unsafe, that their drug policies have created an even worse opioid crisis, right?

00:15:40.360 And propose solutions for those issues, too.

00:15:42.860 The Liberals, you've got, see, now with Mark Carney, you've got this guy who, I don't think, like, I don't think he's ever knocked a door in his life, right?

00:15:50.140 And he's being told by Justin Trudeau's advisers what they think, where they think they need to lead the mainstream media to fool Canadians into voting them for another term.

00:16:00.160 And we're not going to go there because it's not, you know, that's not a that's not a productive path to correct the damage that the Liberals have inflicted on the country.

00:16:08.800 Now, again, of course, tariffs are a huge problem.

00:16:11.780 That's why you've had Pierre Polyev out talking about our Canada First plan to address those issues and strengthen the economy.

00:16:17.440 And then just very briefly on the carbon tax. I mean, Derek, he, Mark Carney was the arch priest of net zero up until what, five minutes, literally five minutes ago. So pardon me if I don't believe that he's changed his stripes magically overnight. And, you know, the proof's in the pudding. Even since he announced his leadership bid, he went on Atlantic television, mocked the steel industry, said, well, how much steel does anyone use?

00:16:42.460 proposed a new tax on the steel industry in the middle of the tariff crisis, right, related to

00:16:47.600 carbon pricing. And like, just like, pardon me for not believing that a liberal who is the arch

00:16:54.160 priest of net zero policy is going to somehow change his stripes overnight. And that's why I

00:16:59.780 think, you know, we have such a compelling narrative to the Canadian voter that we take

00:17:04.000 these issues very seriously, but we also have a serious plan and a track record of authenticity

00:17:09.180 on managing on these issues.

00:17:11.100 And that's, I think, the contrast

00:17:12.860 that you're going to see

00:17:13.700 in the upcoming election campaign.

00:17:18.200 It's not just a shift

00:17:19.440 around the set of issues

00:17:22.360 before voters right now,

00:17:23.600 but it's also the personalities.

00:17:25.360 And personalities play, I think,

00:17:27.060 a huge role in how, you know,

00:17:28.340 people don't vote for a prime minister,

00:17:29.780 technically, they vote

00:17:30.940 for a member of parliament.

00:17:32.560 But, you know, in many ways,

00:17:33.680 we all know it's kind of acts

00:17:34.980 as a proxy electoral college

00:17:36.560 almost in Canada.

00:17:37.700 A lot's going to depend on who people want to be the prime minister, the personality and the big chair.

00:17:47.020 The Conservatives had done a very good job in holding up a mirror to Justin Trudeau and Canadians were obviously done with him.

00:17:55.880 That led to bad numbers that eventually led to his caucus very, very belatedly getting rid of him when it was far too late to actually do it in a way that would be any good for the country.

00:18:05.140 But perhaps it'll be good for the Liberal Party.

00:18:07.700 But, you know, as I said in my opening remarks, Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney are very, very similar on the policy front.

00:18:22.840 But I think it's fair to say, at least for now, Mark Carney's less annoying.

00:18:27.960 He doesn't have that backfifengashecht, a punchable face.

00:18:33.440 You know, maybe you think he does.

00:18:35.000 But I think, you know, he's just not viscerally, as viscerally dislikable to look at and to listen to.

00:18:44.040 What's the Conservative Party doing to, or how is it adapting to having to shift from Justin Trudeau being its main target to Mark Carney?

00:18:57.080 Well, I mean, it behooves me to say I don't advocate for physical violence against any politician.

00:19:02.480 I've got to start with that.

00:19:03.560 For anyone without a sense of humor, I suppose you have to say that.

00:19:08.820 But in all seriousness, Carney has really built his own narrative around his interchangeability with Justin Trudeau by virtue of his senior role with the Liberal Party over the last several years, right?

00:19:24.400 I mean, just even dating back to the pandemic, he was, I think his title was, I'd have to look, something like the Build Back Better advisor.

00:19:31.140 So he was part of the senior advisory team that really built a lot of the inflationary spending that Justin Trudeau put in place, right?

00:19:39.800 He's Pristia Freeland's son's godfather.

00:19:43.000 He was named a senior economic advisor.

00:19:45.920 And he's been the global architect of a lot of the policies that the Liberals implemented, particularly around net zero and the disastrous consumer carbon tax.

00:19:56.560 So there is a big record to litigate on Mr. Carney.

00:20:00.540 But, you know, the reason why I think a lot of people are just starting to become familiar with him is because the Liberals probe Parliament for a reason, right? They shuttered Parliament to prevent people like me raising some of these issues in forums like Parliamentary Committee or in the House of Commons, where Canadians typically see clips of these things in the House of Commons.

00:20:23.540 They shut us off for a reason, right? Because they don't want Mark Carney to be vetted. And in fact, a lot of the Canadian mainstream media has not vetted Mr. Carney. Since he announced his leadership bid, he's only taken, what, a handful of questions? And he's only gone on, you know, American softball, like, late night shows.

00:20:42.960 So I think that under the glare of an election campaign, when Canadians are getting coverage of all of the leaders at the same time and really starting to weigh their choices, particularly for casual observers who might not think about politics on a day to day basis, Mr. Carney's track record is going to be litigated.

00:21:02.520 it will be. The other thing that I'll say is that when you watch Mr. Carney, when he does,

00:21:09.660 when in his few handful of public appearances over the last couple of months, he the minute

00:21:15.720 that he's not reading a teleprompter, his true self comes out, right? So for example, I look to

00:21:21.080 his very flaccid speech that he gave after winning the leadership race on on Sunday night, the one

00:21:30.460 time he went off the teleprompter, he mocked, he openly mocked derisively the request that he

00:21:38.680 disclose his sizable financial assets to the Canadian public in order to understand what

00:21:43.580 his conflicts of interest were. And then again, I'll reference that disastrous interview he gave

00:21:49.620 with CTV Atlantic, where he mocked putting an additional carbon tax on steel producers during

00:21:55.020 a time of, you know, American tariff threat. So I think that you're probably going to see more of

00:22:00.420 his inexperience and frankly, out of touchness with the Canadian public. Somebody who has

00:22:06.480 knocked doors and who has their finger on the pulse of the average person who can't afford to

00:22:11.900 buy groceries or pay their rent wouldn't be so dismissive of these types of concerns or wouldn't

00:22:16.920 give off such elitist vibes. So I think there's going to be a lot of vetting to be done of Mr.

00:22:23.560 Carney over the next few months. I'm sure that the mainstream media, I'm sure that the CBC doesn't

00:22:27.480 want to do that. That's why outlets like yours are important to give alternative viewpoints

00:22:32.540 as opposed to a narrative that might just be, you know, sort of pumping his tires.

00:22:39.080 Well, I just want to point out that Mark Carney has refused on multiple occasions to allow

00:22:44.400 Western Standard reporters into his events, including reporters who are accredited with

00:22:48.460 the various press galleries across the country here. He has allowed exclusively only regime

00:22:54.100 subsidized media into his events. He's clearly uncomfortable. I mean, he didn't even have to

00:23:00.640 let my reporters ask questions. He just wouldn't even let them in the door to take a picture and

00:23:04.860 stand in line to not get a question. That's ridiculous. And I think it was the Canadian 1.00

00:23:09.740 Association of Journalists actually came out and supported you, right? And pointed this out,

00:23:14.980 that this is it was insane so um you know again just underscoring that he's not making himself

00:23:20.140 available to the public for a reason it's because he doesn't want his record litigated he wants

00:23:24.880 people to forget that he was the architect of many of the policies that led Canada to this place and 0.99

00:23:30.820 uh you know just just hope that people will forget but I don't think Canadians are that dumb 0.96

00:23:34.720 well I the last uh last section I want to go to here I want to talk about the party that 0.81

00:23:41.220 no one's really talking about anymore that's the NDP um the NDP have got as I said my opening

00:23:49.060 remarks at least I think in public perception not in reality but in public perception the NDP have

00:23:53.960 actually are carrying more of Justin Trudeau's stench around them than the liberals right now

00:23:59.620 the liberals have got a new leader but Jagmeet Singh has been tied at the hip to Justin Trudeau

00:24:04.700 in policy uh so both substance uh and perception uh for six for at least six years now depending

00:24:12.220 on how we're defining this but conservatively six years um and you know there's the polls are drunk

00:24:20.440 it's impossible to tell who's right out there and who's wrong uh but there's been at least some

00:24:25.960 uptick in in liberal support which is very common when you switch out the leader but uh in all of

00:24:30.940 those polls most of the that new support for the liberals is coming at the expense of the NDP

00:24:36.480 not maybe life isn't fair guys but it's come at the expense of the NDP but traditionally a strong

00:24:45.200 NDP has been helpful to a conservative campaign when you have kind of the hard left vote split

00:24:51.860 between two parties how come the conservatives yeah maybe I'm not watching closely enough but

00:24:59.840 it seems to me that the conservatives uh aren't talking about jay meet singh anymore they're done

00:25:04.540 with him uh you know he's that he's kind of thrown in his lot with with the liberals and he'll keep

00:25:10.160 i actually think because of the polling support jay beat singh would vote to keep carney in power

00:25:15.080 through the spring if he uh if carney wanted it like indications are that carney's just gonna

00:25:19.960 yeah i think indications are carney wants to take this bump in support however big or not it is

00:25:24.560 and just roll the dice now so i think the one who doesn't want an election the most is actually

00:25:29.020 Jagmeet Singh. But how come the Conservatives, at least to me in appearance, don't seem to be

00:25:36.060 talking about the NDP and Jagmeet Singh anymore? Well, you know, Derek, I often think that people

00:25:41.840 think that there's this magical five-dimensional chess that happens with regard to, you know,

00:25:47.940 political positioning ahead of a campaign. And it's actually, and you know this, you have to

00:25:52.740 have your own plan and focus on your own political strategy. And that's why, you know, you've seen

00:25:57.660 Pierre Polyev focus very much on the crisis issues that the countries are facing right now.

00:26:03.880 So you talked about tariffs earlier. Pierre has been out talking, Mr. Polyev has been out talking

00:26:07.900 about our Canada First plan, border security measures, economic, you know, bolstering the

00:26:14.280 economy measures, all very tangible things. He's been out there trying to reassure Canadians

00:26:18.800 that there is an adult in the room and it's him. And that's showing he's getting a lot of really

00:26:23.620 good feedback from that. You know, I hate to try to, you know, you're kind of asking me an

00:26:29.360 impossible task, which is to get into Jagmeet Singh's head and understand what he's doing. I

00:26:34.620 mean, this is not a party that has, you know, been the smartest on the political tactics side.

00:26:39.940 But I will, like, I can't believe I'm saying this, give them one sort of positive kudo.

00:26:44.560 And that's in the last week, they've decided finally to start litigating the Liberals, which

00:26:49.400 which they should have been doing the whole time, given that their role is an opposition party.

00:26:54.100 But they've been litigating the Liberals on the issue of Brookfield had a lot of,

00:26:57.780 this is Mark Carney's, the former multi-billion,

00:27:01.020 it's a multi-billion dollar everything corporation that he chaired up until just a few weeks ago.

00:27:05.560 And they've been raising questions about some of their accounting practices and taxation practices

00:27:10.540 and what role Mark Carney had in that.

00:27:13.500 And when I saw that, I was like, yes, you're doing your job.

00:27:16.920 Oh, good.

00:27:17.660 So, you know, I can't purport to speak on, you know, on behalf of the NDP, but they need to figure out that their job is an opposition party and that the governing liberals that they've propped up for so long has a lot to be held to account for.

00:27:31.600 And so, you know, Godspeed to them on those issues.

00:27:36.420 Well, learning that they should act like an opposition party a week out from a potential election.

00:27:42.020 Better late than never, boys.

00:27:43.040 okay uh well uh michelle rumplegarner you've been uh very generous with your time uh despite

00:27:50.520 your answers i think you're about to leave and go to a secret campaign office and start putting

00:27:54.380 together signs i think that's i'm gonna suspect i i'm just guessing that that's probably what

00:27:59.820 you're doing from here uh thank you very much how green o's hill conservative association does

00:28:04.560 have a campaign office set up oh well there we go i think that's more illuminating than anything

00:28:11.920 you can say yes yes all right well uh michelle uh thank you very much for joining us uh today

00:28:18.000 and uh godspeed on the campaign trail thanks so much all right uh well just before i wrap up i

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Western Standard - March 14, 2025

Can Mark Carney Make the Liberals Great Again？

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