Floor-crossing MP Marilyn Gladu admits to backroom deal with the Liberals

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]We mentioned her earlier. This is the aforementioned lumbering woman of a floorcrosser. Just a trenling bride of Frankenstein style woman. Um Marilyn Gladadio.

[00:00:12]She admits to the backroom deal.

[00:00:14]>> This is wild.

[00:00:15]>> Now I can't believe she took the backroom deal. If someone offered me that backroom deal, you know what I would have done? Gone public and blown it all up. No instantaneously.

[00:00:24]>> I would be running to the first television camera. you would see a cloud of smoke where I was standing, Roadrunner style, and I would go directly to the first camera and start blabbing as fast as I can. But her, she's like, "What are you offering? I'm listening."

[00:00:39]>> I I just think it's Well, let's let's watch to see what she says and then we can distill uh what we get from it.

[00:00:47]>> So, I I was actually thinking of leaving politics because I had no expectation that the liberals would take me. I mean, everyone who knows me, >> you were kind of told that, weren't you, from even your own party?

[00:00:57]>> For sure. Because we were all looking around, looking at one another, trying to figure out who's the next one to cross the floor. And I, you know, my whip talked to me and I said, "Well, I heard this rumor and that rumor, but all I know is it's not me." And he said, "Oh, well, we don't worry about you.

[00:01:08]They would never take you." So, I was like, "Well, that's what I believed as well that they would never take me because >> you didn't take offense to that comment."

[00:01:16]>> No. Everybody knows I've been a conservative for 10 years, four times elected. I've said terrible things about the government for the last 10 years. So I I didn't expect honestly that they would take me. And so one day I was talking to Evan Solomon. He's the minister in charge of federal economic development.

[00:01:32]>> Okay.

[00:01:32]>> And they had cut the funding for the writing by 50%. And they doubled the size of the writing. So I was on a begging mission and I said, "Evan, you know, here's the great work that they've done with community futures. They've cut their funding. Do you think, you know, you could look at with your team? is there any way they could extend their funding? And he said, "Sure. When are you coming over?"

[00:01:54]And I looked at him and I laughed. I said, "Well, I didn't get a call and I don't expect I will." Right?

[00:01:59]>> And he said, "Would you like a call?"

[00:02:02]>> And I I said, "Well, I think that would be a discussion worth having."

[00:02:06]>> So, at that point in time, like I said, I didn't have an expectation that they were going to be receptive to me coming over, and I didn't know what that would look like. It was the first time I had actually thought of it. So you know we talked and and he talked about uh you know the vision obviously uh the prime minister has leveraged many of the conservative ideas into the platform and so he's got this plan that is basically going to build Canada nation building projects.

[00:02:29]>> What what are those ideas that >> okay conservative >> yeah so uh we were always talking about making Canada an energy superpower and building nation building projects. So that is now one of our tenants. Uh diversifying our trade away from the US.

[00:02:44]I think that's an important one. Um, combating affordability, combating crime, and bolstering our defense, which has been very depleted over the years.

[00:02:53]So, all of these things I think are things that Canadians in general would like, people in Sarnia, Lampton, Beesh, Winon would like, and I personally support. So, um, when he laid out that vision, he said, "Do you want to meet with the prime minister?" So, I was like, "Okay." So, when I met with the prime minister, >> getting a little serious now.

[00:03:11]>> It's getting serious. I said, "Well, thank you for the meeting, but I've said awful things about you and the party for the last 10 years, and I can't really fix that." And he was super gracious. He looked at me and he said, "You know what? I'm not interested in the past.

[00:03:24]I'm interested in moving forward. We've got a critical moment for the country and you know what our priorities are."

[00:03:32]>> Unfreakingbelievable.

[00:03:37]So, uh, Sheila Gun Reed, can we just start at the very beginning? She says that she's going to she was considering leaving politics. So, she was in a place where she didn't feel like she was >> right. She didn't feel like she was in a place where she was able to do the things that she wanted, blah blah blah.

[00:03:55]So, then she cast she was asked about it by the conservatives and she cast suspicion on her fellow conservatives by saying, "I talked about who I suspected." So, she literally threw the attention off of herself.

[00:04:13]>> Then, okay, this is the part, this is the part that gets me nuts.

[00:04:17]>> The she talked to her whip. Who's the whip? Who is it?

[00:04:22]>> Uh oh, I know his name. Chris something, isn't it? Is it not? Is it not?

[00:04:27]>> You keep talking.

[00:04:28]>> Okay. So, she says that she speaks to the conservative whip and he says they'd never take you. What the? Excuse me.

[00:04:36]This is relationship mismanagement >> to the absolute pinnacle. Okay, you lost her in that moment. Conservatives, you lost her in that moment because when you uh when Marilyn Gladu was feeling disillusioned with the whole entire thing, what she needed was a tiny bit of hope that she was still on the right track, that she was doing valuable work, that the Conservative party valued what she was doing for them. And instead you kicked open a door for a slime ball like Evan Solomon to come in and set a honeypot for poor pathetic, desperate Marilyn Gladoo to fall right into. I mean, that's all it took. That's all it took. They would never take you. That's all she needed to hear. As a woman, I'm telling you, that was the moment she was out. You disregarded her to her face, guys.

[00:05:27]>> Well, I think she's a numb skull. like she she says, "Well, look at all these things that they promised to do." Yes, but they've been promising to do things for 11 years and have done absolutely nothing. They managed to make it worse.

[00:05:42]So, she's a numb skull that fell for empty promises.

[00:05:45]>> Uh she said they've m they're making promises on affordability. Inflation is the highest it's been in years. Uh talking about making Canada an energy superpower. Where where we got a shovel in the ground somewhere, sister? nothing uh talking about crime, violent crime is way up, especially in the GTA.

[00:06:06]>> Exactly this. Exactly this. But in her own way, she sort of was admitting that the only way to get help for her riding was to become a liberal because it was a it was just a sort of dead horse in the middle of a field otherwise. And so she said to help my constituents, they offered me a a better deal and I took it. And I just think that this is this was mismanaged and they never should have been able to catch five conservatives. Okay. They never should have been able to.

[00:06:35]>> But again, I think it speaks to the kind of person that she is because when they said, >> well, all of them.

[00:06:41]>> When they said, "Well, we'll have a talk. You want the money back? When are you coming across?" I would have been like, >> "You guys will never believe what Evan Solomon just said to me. I I that recording would not have like I would have had a recording. Nothing would have been said in confidence. I would have told everybody. I would have shown how slimy the liberals are. And then you know what would have happened? All that money would have went back into your writing.

[00:07:05]>> Right. Right.

[00:07:07]>> Lickickety split because they were you would be able to show that it was happening out of vindictiveness. And then she says, you know, I said to the prime minister, "Oh, I've said some mean things about you before. Oh, um, how do I take that back? I can never take that back." And he was so gracious to me.

[00:07:22]Again, total idiot. He wasn't being gracious.

[00:07:25]>> Exactly. Plating her >> opportunistic because you're an idiot.

[00:07:29]>> Yep. Agreed. She He told He absolved her from her feeling of guilt to get her on board. But again, the liberals t the liberals cast a wide net, identified the vulnerable conservatives and then seized that opportunity. And that happens way too easily for my liking. Way too e way too easily for my liking. In no way should we have lost five conservatives to the Liberal Party of Canada after what they've done to us for the last 10 years. Okay. Never should have happened.

[00:08:02]>> Yeah. All right. What's our next clip?

[00:08:06]>> Anyway, that's that's super telling.

[00:08:07]That's super telling. And it just uh I I wonder I wonder if part of that isn't like it's pay for play. It's pay for play. You come join us, we'll give you a ve of money. Is that not somehow against the rules?

[00:08:22]This is also exactly what's happening to Alberta. She just explained it.

[00:08:29]>> How how you how you're lured in with offers of pro prosperity money for your area.

[00:08:36]>> Yes, that true. But we also know the punishment is happening. If you don't vote liberal, we are going to punish you. Well, we don't vote liberal. And guess what's happening to us? We know like we intuitively know this. We see it through policy. We see it through action. We see it through empty promises. We see it. We see it in how they talk about us.

[00:08:56]>> Yeah.

[00:08:56]>> But she just said the thing. She just said, "Okay, if you want to be treated properly and as an equal Canadian citizen, you got to vote for us."

[00:09:07]>> Years like years ago, there was a East Coast Liberal. I forget who she was, but she said, "If you want more money, then you should vote more liberals in." And that's all coming to this is all coming to pass.

[00:09:19]Yeah. Um, God, it's interesting to see her just admit it like that.

[00:09:26]>> Wow.

[00:09:26]>> Feels like a scop.

[00:09:28]>> I feel bad for her. I really feel bad for her.

[00:09:31]>> I don't I don't I like I >> pathetic. Like I have cringe. You know what I mean? Like I do I'm like, "Oh god, Marilyn, you really >> I think this looks good. She thinks this makes it look like she was she was willing to throw herself on the >> p of liberalism >> on behalf of her constituents that she was going to retire from next time around. Like she was done with them.

[00:09:56]They were done with her.

[00:09:57]>> But she's look at me.

[00:09:59]>> I am willing to do anything for you people. That's what she thinks it looks that we're coming away from that looking like. For me, it just looks like she's an opportunistic idiot who is taken advantage of by an smarter opportunistic man.

[00:10:14]>> Well, and that's just and another part of it that's so interesting is all of the people that walked have several successful conservative election. Like she has four, she was elected four times. And so that shows the frailty of the relationships in Ottawa proper.

[00:10:31]Listen, if you if you've got people that are being elected three and four times, walking away from the party that they've been involved with for 10 or 15 or, you know, 20 years, uh, that's real problematic. That's real problematic.

[00:10:44]And I maintain that there are issues within the Conservative party that need to be dealt with. So, >> yeah, I think she was one of them, though.

[00:10:51]>> Yeah.

[00:10:53]>> Looking at that, I think she's one of them. Man, that woman's got an ego on her.

[00:10:57]>> Just wildly disconnected. I I feel like it's actually like peak level cringe that all it took was one conversation from like Evan Solomon of all people.

[00:11:09]>> Yes. Fell for it. Just fell for it.

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