Western Standard - On the Floor at the CPC 2026 Convention

00:00:00.000 I'm Jackson Loy. And I'm Liam Ashit. And we're here at the 2026 Conservative Convention talking

00:00:05.440 to people asking what they think about Pierre Pauliev's leadership. Yeah and we got some pretty

00:00:10.160 interesting stuff so you should tune in and watch the whole video. So should you state your name

00:00:14.800 and what riding you're from? Costa Dib, Laval et Zille in Quebec. Okay, will you be voting for or

00:00:20.560 against Pierre Pauliev's leadership? I'll be voting for, yes. Oh why are you voting for that? Because

00:00:24.880 behind Pierre Pauliev we saw a beautiful gathering of a lot of Canadians, we saw breaking 0.75

00:00:29.600 record-breaking numbers since Moroni time. We've gathered over eight million conservative

00:00:33.680 fellows, Canadian fellows that have voted for the Conservative Party. And yes, it wasn't an easy

00:00:38.560 run but we're going to continue pushing and next time we're going to cross the line. Do you feel

00:00:41.920 that as somebody from Quebec that the Conservative Party represents your region? Yes, I do believe so.

00:00:47.680 I do believe that the Conservative Party, when we're in power, we do see a very united Quebec and

00:00:54.240 Canada and I guess Quebec is a different beast but I think that we are more united than the

00:00:59.200 Conservative government. And what number would you say like percentage-wise would for you constitute

00:01:03.600 overwhelming approval from the party for Pierre Pauliev? I wouldn't be able to state a number.

00:01:07.040 Full access. Thank you. So why don't you just start by telling me what's your name and what's your

00:01:12.320 writing? Well my name is Joseph B. Ratchett and my writing is Von Wibridge and I'm part of the

00:01:17.760 EDA and I'm a delegate for Von Wibridge Riding. So also what kind of, what policies are you really

00:01:25.760 looking forward to being discussed at this event today? I'm looking at very closely at a lot of

00:01:32.400 these amendments and I think they move our party forward to get better candidates, better nominees

00:01:38.080 in the process and so that's what I'm looking forward to supporting. But none like specifically

00:01:42.800 that you're particularly? I don't have anything specific that I want to go over just generally.

00:01:49.040 And how much percentage-wise approval rating would Pierre Pauliev have to get to see like an

00:01:54.960 overwhelming approval from its delegates? I don't know. I mean I think I think he's going to get

00:02:00.480 a lot of support and I think he'll definitely stay on. I think he'll definitely get over like 70 to 80%

00:02:07.200 I think. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. My name is Dr. Collins Sugachuku. I'm from Edmonton Gateway.

00:02:17.520 How do you how do you feel about the current leadership of Pierre Pauliev? Wonderful. He's our leader and

00:02:24.480 he has my support any day, any time. So you'll be voting yes obviously for the- I'll be voting for him

00:02:28.800 for sure. Okay. He's a strong leader who wants him to be our next prime minister for sure. What number

00:02:34.480 would you say for the leadership vote would constitute overwhelming support from the party? I think it's

00:02:39.600 going to get up to 95%. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Thank you. That's it. Cheers. Thank you. Just introduce yourself and

00:02:47.920 what kind of policy- oh and also what riding you're in as well. My name is Mario Zelaya and I'm from

00:02:53.280 Burlington, Ontario. And so what kind of policies are you really looking forward to seeing discussed at

00:03:00.960 this event today? Honestly I think the big one for me is going to be Castle Law. I've been a huge advocate

00:03:06.000 for some form of Castle Law for probably the last year and a half and I think I've been a big proponent of

00:03:12.160 it and I've been pushing it on social media quite heavily actually and I think that's something that

00:03:17.120 I've been very very strongly in favor of and I think we we're at a point now where we need it in Canada.

00:03:22.480 Okay. Yeah. Is there also any other ones that you're looking forward to being discussed?

00:03:29.840 I mean there's I think there's an extensive list of them but I think that's probably going to be one

00:03:34.000 of the main ones. I think the more internal ones uh not necessarily the external ones are just uh

00:03:38.720 certain things that are more I think constitutional for uh the Conservative Party but I think there's

00:03:44.640 there's a few things that I think EDAs that are that they're very interested in making sure that

00:03:49.360 certain uh also policies are put in place internally and uh yeah I'm looking to support it.

00:03:55.200 Cool. Um okay one last question. How much of an approval rating percentage-wise do you think Pierre

00:04:02.000 is going to have to get to see like an overwhelming amount of approval by his delegates?

00:04:06.720 I don't know if there's a magic number um I don't have any magic number off the top of my head.

00:04:11.840 I think it's gonna I think he'll probably end up getting somewhere in the 70 to maybe a high 70 range

00:04:17.920 is where I think it might end up being but uh it could end up being higher. I've heard people saying as

00:04:21.600 low as uh in the low 80s or as high as the low 80s but uh I guess we'll see today. I'm excited

00:04:27.600 I'm excited to support him and vote in his favor but I think I mean I think he's he's he's he's the

00:04:32.720 person of the party. Okay interesting. Okay thank you very much Mario. I appreciate it. Thank you.

00:04:37.360 Appreciate it. All right so I'm here with uh former Conservative leadership candidate uh Scott Acheson.

00:04:42.320 Well you should just call me Conservative member of Parliament Scott Acheson. That was a

00:04:46.560 lifetime ago. So uh what are you looking forward to here at the convention? Oh conventions are just a

00:04:52.240 great opportunity to just say hi and get to visit with lots of members from across the country. There's

00:04:58.320 uh you know no political party operates without volunteers and uh this is the biggest convention

00:05:03.040 we've ever had. So it's great that so many people are here. It's great to catch up with folks uh hear

00:05:07.600 their thoughts on you know what we need to do and what we need to focus on and and how we need to win

00:05:12.880 the next election. So it's great. I love that. Yeah um what would you say um the support you're expecting

00:05:18.320 for Pierre Paul even the leadership uh vote there? It'll be it'll be resounding. Pierre has done so

00:05:23.920 much for this party. He's grown it. He's uh you know he's grown our he's he grew our our our vote

00:05:29.600 catch in the in the you know count in the in the last election tremendously. He's animated an entire

00:05:34.560 generation of young people like it's amazing what he's done uh and frankly if you look at some of the

00:05:39.680 policies that the current liberal government are starting to take from us it tells us that you know

00:05:44.160 what he was he was really on the right track and Canadians need to understand that uh it's going to be

00:05:48.160 overwhelming. He's done great things for a party and the best is yet to come. You kind of touched on

00:05:52.080 that like with the liberals sort of centering themselves as opposed to where they were a couple

00:05:56.560 years ago how would you say what we say the conservatives need to do to differentiate

00:05:59.360 differentiate themselves and make themselves the appealing party to Canadians? Well I think that we

00:06:04.560 need to continue on with the with the messaging we've continued with right it would focus very much

00:06:08.560 on affordability issues you know you look at what Mark Carney is actually doing uh he's you know traveling

00:06:14.000 around the world he's really signed no real new trade agreements uh you know Stephen Harper signed

00:06:20.000 dozens of free trade agreements with middle powers all around the world so those already exist

00:06:24.080 we see really no real new trade agreements he was supposed to be the guy that was going to deal with

00:06:28.800 Donald Trump that's not really worked out for him either and meanwhile while he's doing all those

00:06:33.360 things purportedly to create new markets for Canadian products food is still outrageously expensive in

00:06:39.040 this country and food bank use is through the roof these are the these are the real life everyday

00:06:44.000 challenges that Canadians are facing uh and and I don't think Mark Carney and his team really truly

00:06:49.120 understand that Pierre Polyevre on our team and our volunteers our team we understand those issues

00:06:54.800 and we're going to stay focused on those issues that affect the lives of everyday Canadians. There's one

00:06:58.480 last question for you here how would you say a conservative government would tackle the

00:07:01.920 American current trade war differently than the current kind of liberals? Well obviously the Americans aren't

00:07:08.080 like crucially important to our livelihoods here we need to make sure that relationship is strong

00:07:12.800 this is about relationships and building those relationships is important I don't think it's

00:07:17.120 necessarily a good idea to be you know creating enmity between us and and that's important to

00:07:21.920 maintain those relationships but you know one of the biggest things that we can do here as Canadians

00:07:25.840 is we can get our own house in order this is one of the challenges that we have and whatever you

00:07:29.920 think of Donald Trump there's a bit of a wake-up call in there I mean we have we have let our systems and

00:07:35.920 our institutions get slower and more expensive I always talk about housing and the cost and the

00:07:40.720 process you have to go through just to get permission to build a house in this country

00:07:44.480 is outrageously long it's it takes longer to get a building permit in Canada than almost any other

00:07:49.360 country in the OECD that's that's something we can fix and that will do a lot to improve our economy

00:07:55.840 and make Canadians wealthier at the end of the day and get this country moving again so you know maintain

00:08:01.040 our relationships in the states we need to work with our American counterparts but we need to get our own

00:08:05.040 house in order and the only one talking about that is Pierre Polyev thank you very much

Western Standard - January 30, 2026

On the Floor at the CPC 2026 Convention

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