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610 CKTB - The Toaster Over Turncoat - Tory MP Gladu Crosses Floor to Grits · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: All right, One of our great storytellers on the show
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  Speaker 1: is John Litcky. He joins us this morning and good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Gene. Interesting piece that you have just published
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  Speaker 1: on your website. You're calling it the toaster oven Turncoat.
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  Speaker 1: So the Liberals are descending on Montreal today for their
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  Speaker 1: national convention. They're bringing a lot of I guess we
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  Speaker 1: could call it some interesting baggage with them. John, You're
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  Speaker 1: looking at the floor crossing of Maryland Glade that nobody
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  Speaker 1: can figure out. But you're not seeing a growth moment here.
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  Speaker 1: You're calling it a leveraged buyout. What's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Gene, it's so interesting. We're looking at
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  Speaker 2: a political lobotomy. First of all, here with Maryland Glado,
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  Speaker 2: someone who has spent over a decade building a brand
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  Speaker 2: in the industrial heartland as the adult in the room,
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  Speaker 2: someone who's stem educated, obviously representing the oil and gas sector,
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  Speaker 2: a defender of it. But we saw a technocratic center
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  Speaker 2: old banker Mark Karney performing a leveraged buyout of this
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  Speaker 2: political asset. He decided that his elusive majority was worth
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  Speaker 2: more than his bass values. That minutia that we all
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  Speaker 2: like to pay attention to Glado is treating her constituents,
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  Speaker 2: her vote and quite frankly, her own integrity as a
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  Speaker 2: commodity to be sold to the highest bidder, packaged. She
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a road to Damascus conversion on liberal policy.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get real. She must have seen the polling that
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  Speaker 2: we're all seeing about the CPC under Pierre Paualiev, saw
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  Speaker 2: an opening and jumped ship before the Tories hit the rocks.
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  Speaker 1: John she is a died in the wool Conservative since
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. She won her riding by fifty three percent
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  Speaker 1: of the vote last year. I played a clip on
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  Speaker 1: Valitis on the News at nine oh five from Question
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  Speaker 1: Period a mere fourteen days ago, where she suggested that
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  Speaker 1: the Liberal Prime Minister of Kent it is corrupt, where
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  Speaker 1: she said if you're looking for corruption and if you're
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  Speaker 1: looking for money, go no further than the Liberal Party,
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  Speaker 1: and she went on and on and on. She's a
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  Speaker 1: big supporter of the Convoy, the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I mean she stabbed her
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  Speaker 1: constituents in the back. Oh and by the way, on
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  Speaker 1: the subject of crossing the floor in the past, she
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  Speaker 1: has always said, if you're going to cross the floor.
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  Speaker 1: You need to have a by election in your writing
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  Speaker 1: to see if you're constituent constituents still support you. So
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  Speaker 1: how do you explain this to the people of Sarnia.
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  Speaker 2: You don't explain it to them, Genie. Can't you tell
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  Speaker 2: them that their vote has been packaged and sold for
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  Speaker 2: a handful of federal magic beans. She basically wrote a
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  Speaker 2: letter to her constituency admitting that this was a quid
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  Speaker 2: pro quo. She said explicitly in her letter that she's
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  Speaker 2: joining the Carnie Liberals because he's a quote serious leader
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  Speaker 2: who she believes will delve her quote projects for the riding. Translation,
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  Speaker 2: I'm holding your representation hostage and exchange for pork barrel projects.
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  Speaker 2: She's treating the voters of her riding like minority shareholders
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  Speaker 2: who just got wiped out in a back room deal.
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  Speaker 2: You can't spit in the eye of fifty three percent
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  Speaker 2: of your neighbors and expect them to say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You know the title of your piece on your website
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  Speaker 1: is the toaster Oven take us back because I remember this,
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  Speaker 1: but some of our listeners may have forgotten.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this goes back to twenty sixteen, when the Liberals
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  Speaker 2: were first talking about legalizing cannabis. She was one of
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  Speaker 2: the ones clutching her pearls in the house, terrified that
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  Speaker 2: children were going to start smoking lead out of toaster
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  Speaker 2: ovens gene. It was peak Reefer madness two point zero.
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  Speaker 2: It was such theatrical ignorance. It became a permanent fixture
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  Speaker 2: of the Canadian cannabis political parody. We still make fun
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  Speaker 2: of it today. She's called mpt toaster Bud. But now
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  Speaker 2: she just has a different hue to the clothing she wears,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose. But you know, guess what. By twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: she changed her tune. She was standing shoulder to shoulder
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  Speaker 2: with the medical cannabis sector urging government to remove unfair taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently she finally got cool with toaster oven weed when
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  Speaker 2: she realized that donor class was willing to be donating.
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  Speaker 2: It's a master class in MasterCard social conservative flexibility.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. You know, I think people have heard of hot knives,
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  Speaker 1: but not a toaster ovenska.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well I hadn't heard about it either, But I've
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  Speaker 2: been trying to I've been trying.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I have to feel for Pierre Paulio's you know,
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  Speaker 1: he had the lead. He was supposed to be the
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  Speaker 1: next prime minister. Everything fell apart. You know, my political deal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still a political orphan. I don't have a party.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, he is demanding that she resign
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  Speaker 1: and face a by election, just as she suggested all
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  Speaker 1: floor crossers. You know, I couldn't agree more. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna happen, and our prime minister will likely have
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  Speaker 1: a majority government after the bye elections on Monday. Sounds
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  Speaker 1: pretty hypocritical, kind of sounds like what you're saying in
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  Speaker 1: your article as well.
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  Speaker 2: There's enough hypocrisy here to go around for everyone, Geene,
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  Speaker 2: we can all grab a plate of it. Isn't this
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  Speaker 2: the same Pierre pauliev who voted against having mandatory by elections.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a guy who's perfectly fine with
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  Speaker 2: the lack of accountability when it served his interests. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: but let's be honest to have people who convert to
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  Speaker 2: the Church of democratic purity only when it serves their
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  Speaker 2: own interests or because the house is burning down, And
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  Speaker 2: let's be honest that it's burning down right now. We
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  Speaker 2: just saw Toronto Starr put out a piece saying that
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  Speaker 2: and this was from inside the Conservative House that forty
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  Speaker 2: Conservative MPs are terrified that pauliev is going to be
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  Speaker 2: costing them their seats. I mean, this is you have Gladow,
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  Speaker 2: she was a leadership candidates like a There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of words I want to say out loud, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: biting my tongue right now. So I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: just it's a masterclass in shredding any integrity that you have.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, it's politics. Integrity need be left at the door.
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  Speaker 1: A quick final couple of questions. Here is the Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister putting winning ahead of values?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, he's putting a winning a head of values here.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the biggest problem that we have here. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how you could possibly be a liberal heading
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  Speaker 2: to the convention the party right now in Montreal and
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  Speaker 2: looking at people in the face. I mean, she's going
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  Speaker 2: to obviously be speaking tonight, I'd imagine at the convention,
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  Speaker 2: and how are you supposed to walk by her and
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  Speaker 2: rub shoulders and keep on a straight face. But I
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  Speaker 2: guess that's what it's supposed to be when you're a
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  Speaker 2: dutiful member of a party.
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  Speaker 1: One other person here, Dolly Begum. She was a member
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  Speaker 1: of the Ontario Legislature in the NDP party. She's running
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  Speaker 1: in one of the Liberal bye elections on Monday, after
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  Speaker 1: describing Liberals as untrustworthy, conniving and the surest path to
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  Speaker 1: greater evil. I'm just wondering, does our Prime minister, I've
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  Speaker 1: asked this question already a couple of times this morning,
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  Speaker 1: does our Prime minister have some bizarre Harry Potters sort
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  Speaker 1: of powers that he can look into the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: Conservatives and just make them walk across the floor. It's frightening.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a magic wand or a potion.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it was Lisa McCloud. He said on
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  Speaker 2: one of the stations yesterday that he's like the pied
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  Speaker 2: piper and that he can play a flute and everyone
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  Speaker 2: sort of follows him around. But don't forget that the
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  Speaker 2: pied piper was the one leading a lot of rats
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day. Absolutely, it seems like
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  Speaker 2: he has that kind of mystique that Trudeau was able
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  Speaker 2: to have. But how well did that work out for
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  Speaker 2: Trudeau after a while here? You know, quite frankly, it's
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  Speaker 2: all a sham. Jean talks on all of their houses.
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  Speaker 1: Well, like I always say, same head, different socks, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. Thank you, John, always a pleasure to have
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  Speaker 1: you on. There he goes. John Letke, publisher and broadcaster,
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  Speaker 1: love his storytelling abilities.