Liberal majority government is new enough that the cabinet has barely unpacked, and it has already put a gas tax cut on the board and a Conservative caucus that cannot stop bleeding members. Mark Carney called it a new government. The people in this conversation are still deciding whether that framing holds.

The Quiet Question in Every Conservative Interview

There is something specific about watching a party line up to declare support for its leader while everyone is still calculating how many more will go. The Liberals have been openly and deliberately recruiting from the other side in a way Canadian politics has not seen at this scale before. Whether that continues now that the majority is secured is the question nobody is answering on camera.

Here for a Good Time, Not a Long Time

Gas up 60 cents in a month in Ontario. A 10-cent temporary cut announced as the first act of a new government. Lindsay said it plainly: you cannot take back what you gave. Jamie said the plan is for oil prices to drop before the cut does, so nobody notices the ceiling coming back down.

Topics: Liberal majority government, Pierre Poilievre leadership, floor crossing Canada, gas tax Canada, Mark Carney, Canadian affordability

GUEST: Jamie Ellerton | conaptus.com and Lindsay Broadhead | broadheadcomms.ca

Originally aired on 2026-04-15