Greg Wycliffe - New to Politics？

00:00:00.000 Canadian politics suffers I think in large part because a lot of voters are more obsessed with

00:00:05.460 the character of its leaders than of the you know substance of their policies. What this guy is

00:00:12.780 describing is not unique to Canada this is just a characteristic of how politics works. What is

00:00:18.220 unique to Canada is we are a relatively young naive and politically disengaged nation most

00:00:24.500 likely because in modern history we haven't really faced that many crises as a nation. We

00:00:29.860 didn't even have to deal with the sort of Vietnam War. This boomer generation didn't even have to 0.82

00:00:33.940 deal with the Vietnam stuff. COVID lockdowns was probably the biggest deal that the nation has had

00:00:39.700 to deal with in the past like decades and decades, possibly half a century. Because of this, Canadian 1.00

00:00:44.680 citizens have not had to contend with corrupt politicians or hardships and a stark decline in

00:00:52.640 quality of life until recently. And I'm speaking from experience. I started to get into politics

00:00:58.280 in 2019. And I started to discover all of these things, like what he's saying of like,

00:01:03.200 wow, can you believe that people don't care that Trudeau wore blackface and he claims to be a

00:01:08.400 progressive? Wow. It's almost like people don't really care about the policies or the actual

00:01:12.640 actions that politicians take. And they just kind of care about the soundbite and they just want to

00:01:17.360 be feel good about the guy who's on camera. This is not unique to Canada. You're just learning

00:01:23.140 about politics. You are a Canadian who has never been engaged in politics because it's not really 0.71

00:01:28.780 something that's been a trend in recent history. So it is an exciting time for Canada. And just to

00:01:33.700 kind of bring you up to speed based on what I've learned in the past six to seven years,

00:01:38.280 most people don't understand politics in Canada at all. They treat it like a thermostat. They maybe

00:01:44.800 change it every now and then. They don't really pay attention. They don't follow it. They don't

00:01:47.840 treat it like a sport like they do in America. And you know who is good at politics in Canada?

00:01:52.380 just the establishment it's people who are part of the liberal party maybe the conservative party

00:01:57.620 they're in the ottawa bubble uh they are near the levers of power they are near the media which 0.96

00:02:03.460 kind of like brokers the power they're talking to the lobbyists they're with these ngos they're

00:02:08.020 with these foreign lobby uh groups or they're rubbing shoulders with them these people know

00:02:13.700 how politics work and that's why they're kind of driving the agenda in the country so if you're

00:02:18.560 outside of that, yeah, you're going to have to play some catch up on how politics actually works.

00:02:23.560 And this is another great example. Oh my God, people only care about the personality and

00:02:27.880 feeling good. Yeah. If this is news to you, you might want to put on your cynical beanie and

00:02:32.920 start smoking cigarettes because it only gets more dark and depressing from here.

Greg Wycliffe - September 18, 2026