Lessons from Pierre Poilievre's by-election win
Voter turnout in Battle River-Crowfoot was unusually high for a by-election, bringing in 59% of the voting population.
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Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, Pierre Poilievre is elected in the Battle River-Crowfoot, Alberta by-election — and how the media covered it teaches us a lot.
Ezra begins by pointing out that last night's election results showed a very high turnout for a by-election; around 59% of registered voters showing up to cast their ballots, whereas your typical by-election would garner maybe 20-30% of the voting population.
Ezra believes the media is largely attributable for that. They had this dream of turning Alberta to the Left with their support of independent candidate Bonnie Critchley. The CBC, the National Observer, and The Tyee all featured her as a real contender in the by-election race.
They painted her as almost Conservative, putting emphasis on her veteran status. The Tyee went so far as to say she was deployed in combat, although that was false. In the end, she garnered close to 10% of the vote — not bad, given the circumstances.
Ezra points out that Critchley attempted to stir up controversy for Poilievre by criticizing him for parachuting into the riding. Strangely enough, she did not make the same critique of herself, for doing the same thing, or of any of the other 200+ candidates on the Battle River-Crowfoot ballot.
The hundreds of other candidates, of course, are the fruits of the Longest Ballot Committee, whose attempt at sabotaging the by-election resulted in Elections Canada changing the voting procedure to have voters write in the name of their desired candidate. In Ezra's mind, the scheme is an anti-democratic way to suppress voting, only ever perpetrated against Conservatives, this being the second time they've targeted Poilievre.
Ezra concludes on the hopeful note that Albertans are not easily fooled, and showed up in droves to make certain of the outcome, regardless of any Elections Canada or mainstream media tampering. If only the rest of the country was so wise.
GUEST: John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), to speak on their client Amy Hamm's outrageous $100,000 fine for speaking in defence of female-only spaces.
COMMENTS
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Robert Wojcik commented 2025-08-25 17:32:56 -0400wot happens when you let women vote? Your country fails. -
Fran G commented 2025-08-25 16:45:07 -0400Ford is an idiot
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Lynne Bryant commented 2025-08-21 07:51:56 -0400Doug Ford is appealing to the fashionable anti-Americans in our midst.
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Barbara Santamaria commented 2025-08-20 07:41:18 -0400Doug Ford has ambitions to become leader of the Federal Conservative Party so that he can ultimately ascend the throne to assume the role of Prime Minister of Canada (Lord help us). He thinks he is reading the room by insulting Trump. It really is that simple!
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Anthony Salotti commented 2025-08-20 06:30:12 -0400Glad to see him back .
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David Heinze commented 2025-08-20 02:07:29 -0400I believe we had to wait to 60 days after Carney was sworn in before he had to declare his assets (conflicts of interest). So how do you know what you are voting for? It seems to me that you should have to publicly declare your assets etc., before your name goes on a ballot. Being transparent is the right thing to do & expect, not to mention how many of the 200 plus people who’s names were on the ballot yesterday would have been on it had that been the rule?
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Paul Scofield commented 2025-08-19 21:18:15 -0400I was very glad to see Poilievre win but wonder a little bit, if his time is too late for Alberta and Saskatchewan, like Bernier’s is for Canada in toto. Here is hoping that Poilievre brings some boldness to the House of Commons, but I don’t see even that stopping a 2026 Alberta referendum on leaving Confederation. Always glad to see and hear from John Carpay. He is a national treasure.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-08-19 20:55:29 -0400Bonnie Cringley more like. What an unlikable person she is. The leftist media’s fawning over her makes them totally ridiculous. Let’s hope non political folks see what a load of rubbish those legacy media types push out and on our dime too.
