Dueling Videos -- Carney and Poilievre Take Their Battle To YouTube
4/21/202647 min
YouTube is now the pre-eminent TV channel for those watching television. And now it also stars the latest attempts by both Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre to try to influence Canadians. What's behind their dueling videos? Althia Raj and Rob Russo are here with their take.
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First 90 secondsPeter Mansbridge· Host0:00
Are you ready for Raj Russo? They're coming right up. [upbeat music] And hello there, Peter Mansbridge here along with, uh, Althia Raj and Rob Russo. It's your, uh, Tuesday Reporters Notebook, Raj and Russo, and we've got a lot to talk about, as we always do. And this week we're gonna start with, I guess, weh-- you'd, you'd call 'em dueling videos in the YouTube space, which is the preeminent place now in television. YouTube is where people go by the millions. Um, and both Mark Carney with his, um, his toy soldiers and his desk in his prime minister's office, um, hoping to gain a lot of viewers with his latest explanation of where the situation is, uh, for Canada on the big trade front and the relationship with the US, you name it. And in response to what was a heavily produced and edited, um, production by the Carney team comes Pierre Poilievre a day or two later with a very straightforward on-camera presentation of what his view is, basically calling the Carney promises an illusion. So they're at it now, not