The Lesson in Trudeau Resigning
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Summary
Justin Trudeau resigning as Prime Minister of Canada is a big deal, but what does that actually mean for the rest of the Liberal Party? And why does it actually mean nothing? In this episode, I talk about why Justin Trudeau's decision to resign actually means nothing, and why some conservative party people are wrong about it.
Transcript
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but trudeau is saying he's going to resign now aside from the implications of all that i want
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to focus on what some conservative party people are saying because it's really a great lesson
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in politics that canadians should know about but first let's let's go back a bit let's look back
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remember the snc lavalin scandal with trudeau well andrew sheer was the leader of the conservative
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party and he was saying trudeau must resign sheer was making tweet after tweet about this at the
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the time resign resign resign but now today sheer post trudeau's resignation actually changes nothing
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here's why you could take the naive approach and say well that was different back then and i like
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the liberal party things weren't that bad then or you can be realistic and learn a lesson about
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politics here politics is about winning winning votes and winning support or on the contrary
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making your opponents lose votes and lose support back during the snc level in scandal andrew
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sheer didn't actually think trudeau would resign he was saying that as a rhetorical device rhetoric
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the art of effective or persuasive speaking saying you must resign as a rhetorical device to make
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trudeau lose support but now that he's actually resigning they have an election to win and they're
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like crap most of our messaging for the conservative party was all about shitting on mr trudeau and
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now with him actually resigning, they have a chance to rebuild their reputation before the
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next election. So that's why him resigning actually means nothing. And yes, Pierre Polyev
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is also guilty of calling for Trudeau to resign during the SNC-Levelin scandal. And most recently
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this summer he said, Trudeau must be fired. And then what does he say today? Nothing has changed.
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Actually, it's the entire Liberal Party that sucks. Even though Chrystia Freeland, Marco
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Mendocino, multiple liberal ministers have been stepping down. So the reason I'm pointing all of
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this out is because I think Canadians need to be more cynical when looking at their politics. Okay,
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let's not be naive. And I'm not saying that people shouldn't call other people to resign. I think
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that's a very effective rhetorical device. That's why it's being used here. But I'm saying it because
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the conservatives are politicians. Okay, they're an establishment party who is acting just like
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any career politician would. So when they get elected and they tell you what you want to hear,
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they screw you over. Don't be surprised because they're cut from the exact same cloth
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as Justin Trudeau. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, guys.