The anti-Conservative/Poilievre media narrative solidifies and Carney isn't backing a pipeline...

Plus Remembrance Day is upon us.

I told you this would happen, the legacy media is trying to make this whole floor crossing thing into a PC versus Reform Party thing. As I broke down all of the background information that I could muster and tried to present it in a straightforward way, I said this would be a narrative of the MSM.

The reality is, the frustrations exist for a number of reasons but Pierre being too conservative is not the main issue here, it’s that they didn’t win in April. It all goes back to that and how different people interpret that loss and the leader’s response to the loss.

If you haven’t read that piece, it’s worth your time just to understand some of the nuance that you won’t find from other media.

There is no party divide…

The idea that there is still a schism on the modern Conservative Party between old PC voters or members and those that came from the Canadian Alliance or Reform side is not only false, those pushing it are showing their ignorance. The parties merged more than 20 years ago, they governed as the Conservatives for 10 years, anyone that left over this supposed divide left years ago, but the media can’t give this up and so they play into it with Chris d’Entremont on the weekend.

That was followed by Adam Chambers, the Conservative MP for Simcoe North in Ontario who pushed back against the idea that middle of the road Conservatives like him aren’t welcome in Pierre Poilievre’s party.

A hat tip to CBC Watcher on X who grabs so many of these clips and posts them.

Well done by Adam, not that it will help. This is a narrative some in the media are deciding to run with.

They will ignore that d’Entremont first ran under Andrew Scheer, hardly a Red Tory and in fact a so-con and d’Entremont was comfortable with that. Maybe because as a local French CBC outfit pointed out, d’Entremont is also on the pro-life side, the one the Liberals normally hate.

Oh….and another point on CBC’s reporting here. Remember the claim that a staffer was shoved out of the way…this is at the bottom of the CBC article that made the claim.

The Toronto Star will not be outdone…

This is a headline that I can’t believe the Toronto Star actually ran.

I’m pretty sure that columnist Althia Raj is old enough to remember all the way back to the morning of December 16, 2024. I know that was a REALLLLLLY long time ago, like, literally decades (please read that with a Valley girl upspeak).

If you don’t know that date, you will know what happened, because that is the day that Chrystia Freeland stabbed Justin Trudeau in the front, not the back. On the day that she was supposed to deliver the federal government’s fall economic statement, she issued a scathing resignation letter instead.

This of course also came after months of Liberal MPs pushing Trudeau to resign. A letter had even circulated among caucus members demanding he stepped down.

Liberal MPs couldn’t make Trudeau leave, Freeland’s resignation couldn’t make Trudeau leave, the 20 point lead the Conservatives then enjoyed couldn’t make Trudeau leave - it was Trump that did it.

All of that was wilder, had more drama than last week, but sure, tell people we haven’t seen this in decades. The column penned by Raj doesn’t mention Trudeau, it doesn’t mention Freeland, but it does want you to believe we haven’t seen this in like, FOREVER!

Carney won’t be delivering an oil pipeline…

If you were still holding out hope that Mark Carney would deliver an oil pipeline to get our most important and most lucrative export to new markets, then think again.

Carney thinks oil pipelines are boring, his word, not mine.

Give my column in the Sun a read, I detail why Carney is wrong in saying there are no problems for industry, I point out that he won’t deliver an oil pipeline but will likely deliver an LNG project, but one that uses only BC and not Alberta natural gas.

There is a real game being played here.

Lest we forget…

I’m not sure everyone in my family thinks of us as a military family, but I do. I had two grandfathers serve in the Second World War along with lots of Great Uncles and the like.

I was in cadets, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, and then a reservist in the 705 Communications Squadron for a year. I’ve had friends and family serve and even retire from a full career in the military.

My stepbrother Craig just retired after more than 20 years at CFB Petawawa and my friend Geoff, who I convinced to join the reserves with me in 1990 as we finished high school just took his retirement.

Remembrance Day is always sombre for me, a time for reflection, a day I take seriously.

A few years ago, my bosses at the Toronto Sun allowed me to share a fascinating story from my family history. Two of my relatives, who immigrated to Canada long before my parents did, both signed up and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force to fight in the First World War.

They did so, a father and son team, not long after getting here and settling in Toronto.

I hope you enjoy the story.