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PREVIEW: CANADA: Conversation with colleague Conrad Black re: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in a cowboy hat in his hometown, Calgary, Alberta. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: CANADA: Conversation with colleague Conrad Black re: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in a cowboy hat in his hometown, Calgary, Alberta. More later.

1920 Didsbury, Alberta

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piento Ferries, there is another way.

0:31.0

This is John Bachelor speaking with colleague Conrad Black of the National Post about Pierre

0:37.6

Pallevra, the leader of the Conservatives in Parliament in Ottawa, a man of impressive statistics, but most especially he looks good in a cowboy

0:47.3

hat because he comes from Calgary, Alberta.

0:50.9

And here Conrad Naurley introduces us to his biography, but also to the rodeo, the rally in Calgary, where Pierre spoke of his hometown of being a cowboy and that Justin Trudeau did not

1:07.7

attend. Pierre Pulevera, the man for the future in Canada by Conrad Black or this later tonight.

1:17.0

It's like an agricultural fair, but it's a huge party and it's quite a political occasion so you always get the party leaders

1:26.0

and various of the provincial premiums and so on out there and and so it's going

1:32.2

to get and all these people have never worn a

1:34.3

Stets and hat in their lives that put them on and you know try and pretend they're

1:40.0

auditioning for a Hoplong Cassidy movie or something.

1:43.4

So it's the one occasion in this country where politicians wear funny hats.

1:50.6

So that's what he was doing. He doesn't normally, you know, wear a cowboy hat.

1:57.0

He looked good in it, Conrad. Oh yeah, I know he's funny. He's a very presentable young man, but he and he is from there he was adopted he was given

2:07.6

up for adoption in advance before he was born and he was adopted sight unseen but but obviously it's worked out well and

2:15.5

it was a very successful family arrangement he had growing up but but he was he he has a French Canadian name and and he grew up in

2:26.9

Alberta but but he kept his or he acquired his his French background and so he's very bilingual or he is a very accomplished person he

2:41.3

entered parliament in his early 20s. So he's...

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