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In videos and podcasts, Poilievre and Trudeau are eager to explain themselves — at length

In videos and podcasts, Poilievre and Trudeau are eager to explain themselves — at length

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Sunday, April 28, 2024 9:59 AM GMT

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the Liberal MP who made a name for himself as a backbencher with his own voice, posted a nine-minute video to YouTube this week about the federal government's carbon pricing policy.

It would be an exaggeration to say the video is setting the internet on fire. As of Friday afternoon, it had a grand total of 329 views. But it's enough to say that Erskine-Smith has contributed to the hottest new trend in Canadian politics: talking at length, and in some detail, online.

Videos like Erskine-Smith's weren't completely unheard of before now — the Liberals, for instance, released a seven-and-a-half minute video about their economic vision in 2014. And long-windedness in politics is hardly a new phenomenon. But Erskine-Smith's video follows the 15-minute video on housing that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre posted in December — a video that seemed like a novelty at the time.

The Liberals responded to Poilievre's video with a three-minute video of their own. Poilievre's Conservatives have since posted an eight-minute video about plastics and a 13-minute video about corporate concentration, and Poilievre has narrated two videos about public debt that each run more than 15 minutes.

Poilievre's fondness for data and number-heavy videos filled with charts and graphs and references to news reports seems to follow from a central theory of political communication he articulated several years ago. He's a politician who loves a snappy slogan (especially if it rhymes) but he also loves facts.

"All of us in politics these days make the mistake of focusing too much on getting the right lines. We say, well, we've got to have the right message," he told me in an interview in 2014. "Actually, what people want are the right facts."

The sheer volume of numbers in Poilievre's presentations also seems to be part of his appeal.

When the Toronto Star's Stephanie Levitz attended a Conservative rally near Ottawa in March, she reported back that several in attendance said they "love how he peppers speeches with specific facts — not just political platitudes." These voters trusted him because, as one told Levitz, "he does his homework."

Poilievre's fondness for numbers also creates an added burden for whoever he is debating — and it distinguishes him from a Liberal government that does not excel at specifics.

Trudeau's Liberals may be adept at summarizing the values they uphold and the ideas they're trying to realize, but explaining what they've done or why they did it has never been their strong suit (with some notable exceptions, such as Trudeau's appearance before the Emergencies Act commission in 2022).

No matter how many facts a politician seems to have at hand, it's still necessary to ask whether those facts are being described fairly and whether they add up to the story the politician is trying to tell. Whether Canada is faced with a looming debt crisis is, for instance, at least debatable.

In his latest video on public debt, Poilievre looks at the large deficits run by the federal government during the pandemic, but then says that "even during the Covid crisis, much of the Trudeau government's spending had nothing to do with the crisis and therefore cannot be blamed on Covid alone." (That comment plays over a clip of what appears to be someone using the ArriveCan app.)

He then points viewers to a report released by the parliamentary budget officer in 2022 — specifically the PBO's conclusion that 35.5 per cent of new spending added to the fiscal framework since the start of the pandemic was not related to Covid. Poilievre then points to the size of the deficit in 2020-2021.

But the PBO's analysis covers a time period that runs beyond the pandemic — it starts with fiscal year 2019-2020 and ends with 2026-2027. And a chart at page 10 of the report shows that the vast majority of the "non-Covid" spending was expected to occur from 2022-2023 to 2026-2027.

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