Election 2025: Day 4, Should the Conservatives be running a front-runner campaign?

[Aiyanatallulah]

I believe Trump is trying to make history, it reminds me of when I was a stay at Home mom with no money in my IRA or any savings of my own, which was scary at 53 years of age. Three years ago I got a part time job and save everything I make. After 3 years, I am 56 yo and have put $9, 000 in an IRA and $40, 000 in my portfolio with CFA, Adriana Genovefa . Since the goal of getting a job was to invest for retirement and NOT up my lifestyle, I was able to scale this quickly to $150, 000. If I can do this in a year, anyone can.

[neolithictransitrevolution]

I really like Sean's pragmatic attitudes he often brings to these conversations.

[ScoobieDoo-tk]

The rallies indicate that Poilievre has an enthusiastic 35% of the vote, unfortunately with the collapse of the NDP that is not enough to win the election.

[BryonAbbott]

Good discusssion, I am at the tail end of the boomers and a conservative supporter. The youth vote needs to get out in support of their future.

[craigyirush]

Rudyard’s question at 25:00 is exactly the right one!

[MarianPettit]

Great conversation. I’m a boomer and a strong Conservative unlike the way you describe this age group. I’m very concerned that the legacy media is partial to the Liberal party and ignoring their record of the past 10 years. The Liberal policies and scandals should have put their party out of power for a long time. Carney is not to be believed and will ruin what’s left of Canada with the zero emissions policy.

[DR_JRE]

Ginny Roth’s analysis is spot on. Don’t copy Carney, blow past him.

[digik]

You're right Poilievre needs to ignore Smith and Trump and keep fighting the election he would have had in 2024.

[AlienEntity]

I'd love to see Pierre offer a great housing policy. Bring it on!! Nobody is going to make Vancouver affordable again in the near future though... I think we understand that, no matter what slogans we hear.

[eddymoretti]

What does the make Canada great movement feel the right military expenditure should be?

[jeffdunn]

Why carney on your screen the whole time?

[CraigHunt-jf]

The problem is PP is a bad candidate for the moment, he was great in a 1 on 1 vs an incredibly unpopular long term PM who had nothing more to offer…as someone who voted Trudeau to O’Toole I would never vote for Pierre and his conspiratorial, anti-journalist, Americanized style of divisive politics

[neolithictransitrevolution]

The emissions cap is an easy win, but it isn't really relevant where Poilievre actually needs to fight for votes. It offers the east nothing, and Alberta's vote isn't at risk.

I would say an east coast pipeline is much stronger.

And also, I don't really agree that the cap on emissions is a cap on production. We aren't even at the cap yet. I want to see SMRs in the Oil Sands on the upgraders and SAGD steam generators, for many reasons, but that would effectively eliminate emissions and end this conversation. And unfair as it is, it isn't a cap on resource emissions, not even O&G emissions, its a cap on oil sands emissions. So framing it as being against resource development, idk if that plays well in Eastern Canada where you only hear about the oil sands if there is a picture of a duck in a tailings ponds, or in the context of it being Canada's largest emitter. Part of why Axe the Tax plays so well is people understand they aren't the thing driving climate change, but that also means they are aware there is a big thing that is..

[neolithictransitrevolution]

I made a comment bout needing a "Make Toronto Great Again" type dialogue (obviously using different words, but PP is the Slogan guy not me).

I think two of Ginny's comments work well in that context. Crime, obviously, Great Cities have less crime.

The other is being bolder on Immigration. However, that has to be balanced with the fear home owners will have that if you cut immigrantion to low, thier house will stop going up or even go down. Of course, OF COURSE, everyone wants affordable housing for all... But preferably thier house, even neighborhood, is the more expensive end. And the talk around immigration and lower housing is great with the young vote, but that vote is not reliable to show up on voting day, and its not reliable to stay conservative next election. Whereas you may scare away some of the older, more established upper income long term Conservative voters, who might even own several properties.

Particularly going into a recession, I'm concerned we will see a million + immigrants leave the GTA if the economy is no longer strong and return to thier home countries. We can't turn back time, and bad policy has filled the country with fairweather citizens with no real connection who came here to do a low skill job for more money than back home. Its one thing to want that number to stop growing, but we need to be careful it isn't collapsing.

[neolithictransitrevolution]

I think there are good points why Poilievre can't copy Carney, and that it would basically be admiting you aren't the right person.

The issue with Poilievre continuing to run on Cost of living/National economic issues is that it hasn't been bold. He will not succeed in selling that we will be saved by allowing more American companies to compete in our market and lowering taxes. There needs to be a promise of actively shaping the outcome.

[Texus]

Ginny is absolutely correct, the Conservatives must be bolder and more aggressive in their approach, and crucially they need to reframe the Trump issue into a critique of the Liberals. I think the argument can be fairly straghforward: Liberals were weak, Liberals broke the country, therefore left us vulnerable to Trump's attack. Every answer Poilievre gives about Trump should lead into this critique, he needs to hammer it home. Otherwise he's gonna lose on that issue and consequently the election.

[HannahHodson]

"We have one advantage in Canada, our natural resources"

This kind of thinking is exactly what we have to move past to build a brighter future of our country. Refusing to imagine a better tomorrow is tragic.

[eddymoretti]

Cosplay at being PM? Really? Really? I’m trying to expand my mind and take in different points of view, especially super partisan ones, but Carney cosplaying as PM? Really?

[channelswillbethedeathofyo]

When you hear a man speak of his love for his country, Canada First, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. Poilievre is such a man. He is a welfare politician who hasn’t worked a day in his life. His rhetoric is warmed over Donald T. Rump.

[Bethany-gblb]

Like it or not Carney does represent change. Canadians tend to vote based on who the leaders are and what the leader's platform is not which party it is.