Pierre DOMINATES By-Election Debate with TOUGHEST Immigration Stance Yet + Liberal gets BOO'D

0:00 We must have more people leaving than coming over the next several years. >> The bi-election debate is done. Welcome back to Moose and Loose. My name is David. Today we have bi-election candidates in Battle River Crowoot having a debate. Pier Polly have just absolutely wiped the floor with everyone. We're going to ping pong some clips here between the debate and other stuff going on in Canada, including we got Kate Harrison dropping a truth bomb on CBC. Got Pete Holstra, Trump's ambassador, saying that he's optimistic a trade deal will happen with Canada. Let's jump into this. Moving over to the b-election debate. This is quite the scene here. So, we've got this guy here, Ashley McDonald, Green Party candidate. Big guy. He's so sleepy and quiet. He's often just reading notes. This guy's a bit of a goof. He's pretty funny. There's a lot of funny moments in here. And right next to him, Pierre Polyv, as you're going to see, very energetic, very passionate, just the polar opposite

0:46 of this guy. Don't want to throw around a slogan. We want ideas from our leaders. >> Listen to this response. So, he's the only one who stood up to talk. It really says a lot. He's commanding the room here. [Music] Thank you. Thank you very much to the chamber. Thank you to the fellow candidates, though I think that there are about 190 of them that are missing. Um, thank you to Battle River Crowoot, the region that feeds, powers, and protects this country. Feeds through the great ranchers and farmers, powers through the ingenious energy workers, and protects through the brave soldiers at CFB Waywright. Makes me proud to be an Albertan. Now, in fairness, I'm from Calgary, born and raised. And Calgary is

1:32 a a little ways from Camros, but there's a lot of shared values across this province and across this country. And my Alberta values taught me about faith, family, and freedom, hard work, helping your neighbors. And those values guided me to fight for the values of this region when I was leader of the party and member of parliament over a couple of decades. that I forced the Liberal government to get rid of their carbon tax. Fought, which is a local issue in rural communities for forced the debate on developing our resources, slowing down out of control immigration, cracking down on drugs and crime. And now I want to take the local issues and provide national leadership to fight against the electric vehicle mandate because driving

2:17 a pickup truck is a local issue in the communities across this region. to fight for law- abiding firearms owners, to fight for farmers, and to expand our military. These are no local issues that required national leadership, and it would be a privilege to provide. >> So his mic gets cut off just like everyone else's mic gets cut off here. So in contrast, let's look at Bonnie Critley us all in one place without any spin or tall tales told. Myself, I am running as an independent. I don't have a party because I firmly believe that party politics would be damaging the Canadian politics. We are not American. We are not a two-party system. And while I may have run as a centrist with conservative leanings, >> yeah, I don't think so. All our leanings

3:03 is very liberal. She's like a center-left liberal. As far as I'm concerned, what I've seen from her, she's very negative. She doesn't offer any hope. She's just all negativity. That's a big difference you'll notice between Pier and basically all the rest of these people. believe that the Conservative Party of Canada has lost its way and I fully intend on standing up for my neighbors. When our previous guy sells us out to let the ne a guy from Ottawa come in, that is not right. I firmly believe that we need somebody here who understands our local issues. It's amazing. She always attacks Polyv. She has got nothing negative to say about Mark Carney. She doesn't care that Mark Carney helped Brookfield dodge 5.3 billion in tax. It doesn't matter. The fact that he's invested in American stocks, over 550 of them, doesn't care. Just outright attacks against Pierre Polyv and then says she's a centerright

3:50 conservative. I don't think so. She's a liberal. >> The issues of right to repair who understands that we do need proper oil sands development. Yes, I saw you there. I'm well aware where you are. And we need the federal government to wake up and pay attention outside the western border of Ontario. >> She is not inspiring anyone. just grumpy and angry and just attacking Polyv. Nothing negative to say about Carney. She's not going to get very many votes. Moving ahead, CBC watcher posting this one. We got Kate Harrison on power and politics. Once again, dropping a truth bomb as usual. >> And I turn to Kate here. Uh because yes, volatility is it as good as the paper it's written on. I mean, frankly, we don't even know if there are papers that have been written on for the European deal. Uh it doesn't seem like anybody's seen that. It's been all word of mouth about what's been communicated. The

4:36 Japanese deal is very, very thin. the details to be worked out later. What happens for Canada given that we have to renegotiate this thing by law anyway a year from now? >> Yeah. Well, it's clear Canada's strategy here is to try and keep their powder dry on as much as possible until that broader renegotiation uh because any give now uh could give way to some bigger concessions as a part of the formal KOSMA renegotiation that happens in 2026. So you can you can understand the strategy behind wanting to concede as little as possible uh for for the current government, but that is coming up against the political reality and the economic reality of continued tariffs particularly for really uh key industrial sectors in Ontario and in Quebec with auto and and steel respectively. Uh and again the prime

5:22 minister being the one to raise the stakes about the focus and the importance of achieving a new economic and security pact with the United States. This was a one-issue election for the prime minister. Many Canadians held their nose and voted Liberal because they thought that Mark Carney would be the guy to get a deal done. So I think there is a lot of goodwill being extended to the prime minister because we are dealing with, you know, a a volatile actor in the White House. But at some point that's going to come up against the reality of the tariff environment, continued inflationary spending and again missing that bigger picture on affordability challenges that are facing people because we're talking about tariffs. We're not talking about the cost of groceries right now. We're not talking about the housing crisis. These are still problems that Canadians are grappling with. >> And Canadians held their nose, as she said, voted for Mark Carney, and now we're all gasping for air. We still have

6:09 all these problems. Groceries, cost of living, all of it. But now we're getting new problems like ED mandates. The cost of cars is going to be going skyhigh. The infrastructure is not there. The electricity grid's not there. That's just another problem. We have so many problems right now. The biggest one is this tariff battle that's ongoing. We've only got a day left here. What is going to happen? So the because Mark Carney has raised expectations on this issue, he is going to be the one that probably falls to some of those expectations that he has set. >> We're going to see how good Mr. Banker is. Doesn't look like he's getting a deal. Nor does it really matter to him. He's not invested in Canada. The Liberals need to raise tariffs to help pay for their massive debt. Either that or higher taxes. Yeah, no thanks. No more higher taxes. They can get rid of gender sensitive farming in Uganda. That's where they need to save some money. Canadian voter is easily fooled. After 10 years of Trudeau, they voted

6:55 liberal again. Isn't that the truth of it? Canadian voters so easily fooled. This has shown a major problem in our society that needs to be fixed. I don't know how it gets fixed. We need people questioning the government more cuz this Liberal government cannot be trusted. So, next up, I just want to highlight what Pier says on immigration and on first longest ballot. >> Well, first of all, this longest ballot thing is a total scam and it must be stopped. Um, I'm the only leader that this cin interest group seems to have targeted for some reason and uh that that I find interesting, but it is a total scam and there is no good public interest reason to do it. I think anybody should be allowed to run, but they should have to get unique signatures and they should have a unique financial agent. If you did that, you'd guarantee this would never happen again. when I, God willing,

7:41 if I have your support and I get to parliament, I will put forward legislative changes to make sure that this never happens again anywhere in Canada. That's just it. We need to have individual finance years for each candidate and then you wouldn't have this problem as well as having an individual person signing up every candidate. There's no way these guys would be able to get a 100red people to sign up all of these people. It just won't happen. And speaking of accountability, we need to build on Steven Harper's Accountability Act to crack down on the loopholes that liberals, including Mark Carney, have exploited. We need to ensure that our leaders are working for you and not for their private profit. Thank you. >> Isn't that the truth? Mark Carney invested in over 550 American stocks. He's not serving Canada at all. >> And permanent immigration. Immigration

8:27 is great when it's done right. [Applause] >> I agree. And we did it right for 150 plus years. Whether it was the frontier p frontier pioneers who came and settled the prairies or the great Italians and Portuguese who came and built roads and founded families across Canada or the or my wife who came as a refugee. Her dad picked fruit in a farm field so that he could pay the rent and now they're a successful story. But over the last 10 years, the liberals have adopted a postnist ideology. They call it the Century Initiative to triple our population to favor globalist interests and multinational corporations at our expense. They've driven down wages with excess temporary foreign workers with um

9:13 bringing abusing the temporary the international student program and allowing fraudulent and often criminal uh arrivals to to come in and abuse our system. That abuse must stop. We must have more people leaving than coming over the next several years as we bring down our population, allow our health care, our housing, our job market. That's so well said. Having more people leaving than coming, it still allows us to bring in people whether we need to bring in more doctors or bring in more nurses or bring in whatever we need construction workers. But as long as we have more people leaving than coming, we are going to be in a better state. This is a great stance that Pier is taking here and he's not afraid to say it. He's leaning into it. This is what he needs to do. This is going to be the most pivotal topic of the next election. Mark Carney doesn't want immigration to go down because he's invested in

9:59 Brookfield. Brookfield has both Sean and First National. They just bought the other day for mortgages. They want more mortgages. They want more people. They'll make more money. Moving ahead here, we've got Pete Hora, one of Donald Trump's right-hand men for negotiations. He's optimistic a trade deal with Canada will be reached. He has said this in the past before. >> Optimistic and passionate. That's how the US ambassador described his feelings about the US Canada relationship today, adding he's hopeful a trade deal good for both countries can still be reached. Pete Hora spoke in Winnipeg today days before 35% US tariffs could kick in with more on his visit. CTV's Jeff Keel joins us now live. So Jeff, why is Hookstra confident a favorable deal all around can still get done? He compared the two

10:45 countries relationship to a cloth. While it's being stretched right now, he believes it will become a new stronger shape. As a Friday deadline looms, 35% US tariffs on Canadian goods if there is no trade agreement in place. The American ambassador to Canada tried to reassure Winnipeg businesses. >> The framework will change, but we will continue to be strong partners. Pete Hookstra told a Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce crowd he is hopeful the two countries can reach a trade deal that benefits both sides and that the relationship between the two can continue to be the envy of the world comparing it to a cloth that is currently being stretched and reshaped. >> And what we need to do is make sure that we don't do anything uh that starts to tear apart that fabric or that fiber.

11:32 >> President, >> it's too late for that. That fabric is already shredded. Just look how Canadians feel about America now. They're not going on vacation to America. The vacation rates in Tofino are hitting record highs. It's insane. Like $600 a night for a hotel. Canadians are spending their money here. They're not going down to the beaches on the east coast of America. And a lot of these people are rich Laurentian elite Canadians. They are not going to spend their money in America anymore, probably ever again. This fabric is not stretched. It is torn. There's nothing they can do to mend that now. No. No trade agreement is going to mend that. Donald Trump has already placed 50% tariffs on Canadian aluminum and steel. New numbers show inflation jumped slightly in the US last month. Hookster was asked what the US position is on the connection between tariffs and inflation. >> Obviously,

12:19 this administer we don't see a direct link between the tariffs and inflation. History has shown uh when you increase the cost of a good through its manufacturing process, that cost is ultimately going to be borne by the final purchaser of that product or service, and that's the consumer. >> The ambassador sparked controversy recently when he said there are reasons President Trump believes Canada can be mean and nasty to deal with. Inside the chamber event, the response for Hookster was anything but. But outside, a group protested during the ambassador's visit. We need to be independent of the US and we don't want to go down the same road that the US is going down right now. >> Hookster spoke for about 10 minutes and took questions for another 40. >> Jeff, other countries have signed trade deals with a 15% US tariff rate. Did the

13:07 ambassador give any kind of insight on a tariff amount Canada could be facing in terms of a final deal? >> Yeah, he said he doesn't know. He says he is not in the room negotiating and if he was he wouldn't say as they don't negotiate in public but he did say he believes most deals are made in the last 72 to 96 hours and merily that's pretty much where we are right now. >> When it comes down to it Trump is making these deals not Pete Hulstra while he might be optimistic and we will go forward selling oil and gas and all of that to America. The fabric though the relationship it is frayed. There's a bunch of Canadians want to have nothing to do with America. I have no problem buying American cherries and enjoying them. But there's a lot of Canadians who will boycott everything American probably for the rest of their lives. I don't think Trump realized how badly he damaged this relationship. This whole

13:53 51st state rhetoric has pissed off about 80% of Canadians. No deal better than a bad deal. Don't sign away our sovereignty, Carney. That's a pretty bad take. I mean, when it comes down to it, would you rather have a 20% tariff with buying some American jets and whatever or a 35% tariff? I think what a lot of countries are doing is are getting the best deal they can and they're just going to struggle limp through it until Donald Trump is out of office. That fiber is already frayed. The peace arch the gates are closed. Cut off supply of energy. Stop buying American. Ditch the bully. Like these comments, they're so far off. You just can't you can't cut off the energy because Canada relies on the sale of that energy. It's like the electricity going from Ontario down to America. If we cut it off, okay, they don't have that electricity, but then Canada can't pay the bills. This relationship is badly frayed. The fabric

14:41 has been ripped. We got a clip here of Daisy Speedy. This is the liberal candidate. Listen to this. He he starts gushing about Mark Carney and how great he is and he gets booed. >> I think one of the reasons I took this uh position to be the candidate for the Liberals is because I'm impressed with the leader. I come from about a 35 year career in business and I'm very thankful for it and I like Mark Garnney's government and his approach to leading from a position of experience. He has been the bank central banker for two major economies in the G. >> There's a bunch of people you're not getting a lot of support in Alberta for Mark Carney. This is significant. And when I see his actions now, I'm impressed. So for me as a

15:29 farmer, I want commodity prices for my crops to be good. >> This is disgraceful. This guy hasn't even researched Mark Carney. Hasn't looked into them. He probably doesn't even know that most of Mark Carney's stocks are in American companies. So I just want to jump to the final remarks here. This green candidate guy is hilarious. Listen to this. >> Well, I actually would like to say I'm a little disappointed in Pierre. I tried to get everybody to do a drinking game backstage where we where we would all take a drink of water when he said woke and he's not once said it. So, it's really kind of disappointing to me. I was really looking forward to this. All right. Thank you everybody. >> So, these final statements here, Bonnie Critley coming with absolute cringe. >> We're sitting back in the back. Uh, I believe it was uh Jonathan and Darcy and

16:14 I were discussing a certain old folks home that we all know because we live here. Out of curiosity, who here can vote? This guy's like, "What are you talking about? She's trying to take a dig at Polyv cuz he doesn't vote in Alberta because he lives in Carlton." >> Yeah, that's kind of my point. We live here. This is our home and we sure as heck don't want to be doing this again in January now, do we? >> It's so cringe. This is not how this works, Bonnie. She's taking a dig at Polyv because if he loses his leadership position in January with his review, then she's saying that he'll lose his writing. That's not how this works.

16:59 He'll become an MP, not the leader of the party. He'll still be the MP. She doesn't even know how the system works. This is so embarrassing. So, I have no personal aspirations. I'll say it again. I've said it before. I'll say it again. I don't want to do this. I was enjoying my retirement from the military, but it is important to me that we have a voice in Parliament. >> So, she doesn't want to be here, but she's doing it. That's really inspiring. And doing on the platform of anger and grumpiness. Congratulations. >> I firmly believe that Missure Puv is too busy with his own personal ambitions to give a rat's backside about us. And with him facing leadership review in January, are we doing this again in February? >> That's not how this works. Bonnie, he's still going to be an MP, even if he does

17:45 lose leadership. Get her off the stage. And finally, Pierre Plev's closing remarks. >> The great Damen Kurrick, who's mentoring me and teaching me every day things I didn't know, tells I'm not a farmer, but he tells me if I were that I'd be outstanding in my field. and and his mentor Kevin Sorenson. You know, my mission here is to give national leadership to the issues that are of local importance. For example, reversing that EV mandate to allow you to drive your truck. That is a local issue. And it will take national leadership to overturn it the way I overturned the carbon tax. Your right to protect and keep your firearms. That is a local issue. If you're a hunter in Empress or Troshu or Consor, cutting taxes or for example letting our farmers have zero

18:33 capital gains when they reinvest the sale the proceeds in our communities. That is a local issue. >> That is a great campaign promise that he had. Surprised Carney hasn't ripped that one off. >> Reforming our prisons so that our guards down in Drumheller are safe. That's a local issue that requires national leadership. Fighting against the Chinese tariffs on our canola. That is a local issue. These local issues require strong national leadership and it would be the privilege of my life to provide both the local representation and the national leadership to the community. >> Good speech. I mean, he just demolished everyone there. It was not even close. But there's basically just a bunch of complaining by uh her, this guy, Bonnie, and the Liberal candidate here. They're all attacking Pierre. None of them

19:19 provided a outlook that is positive for battle river crowoot. I want to do a little update on this one coming from Blackbox reporters. There seems to be a lot of confusion on this story. So Anita Nan's husband John Nolton is a senior managing director with OMR's infrastructure. If you look at the wording of this, they held 34% share in Straight Crossings development, the toll bridge. They don't currently hold that anymore. They sold that back in 2022. But the reason why this is a conflict of interest is because we don't know the conditions of that sale of of the shares with Mark Carney dropping the price that might have triggered a payout that would go to as well as straight crossing development based on the agreement of selling the shares. Currently, Anita Nan's husband doesn't own shares in this bridge, but he might benefit from the

20:05 reduction of the price, the $50 down to $20 cuz it might trigger something in the back end with the deal of selling these shares. I should have brought up that stuff and broken it down. I just went through the main points on their article here. But that's the situation with this. So, there still is a conflict here. We just don't know because there isn't transparency with the government.