CARNEY & the Liberals Subsidizing MEDIOCRITY & Demise - Voters REJOICE!
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In this episode of the Big Blue Mug, John talks about the Canadian economy and how the government is using doublespeak to cover up the fact that there are more than 80,000 unemployed workers in Canada. He also talks about why the government should be investing in infrastructure and other infrastructure projects.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 403 a.m. Sunday, March the 15th. Beware the Ides
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of March. I hope you're having a great day today with the Big Blue Mug of Coffee. Hope
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you're having a good weekend as well. And you know, I'm 61 years old. You might be a
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little bit older, a little more well-seasoned, I guess we could say. Don't feel like I'm
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1961. But, you know, I've gone through a lot of things in my lifetime, particularly when it comes
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to the ups and downs of the Canadian economy. I've seen it all really over the years. Things have
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been good. Things have been bad. I remember when my sister and brother-in-law were struggling to
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afford their mortgage because the mortgage rates were at 17, 18, 19%. It might even have been more
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than that. It's been a long time. I think that was around the early 80s. Can you imagine? You know,
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I remember the economic downturn in 2008. Lots of things have happened in my lifetime, but
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I expect things to get better. And generally, these things are short-lived and things return
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to normal pretty quickly. But I don't see that happening in Canada right now.
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I say Canada is a mediocre country. I believe that it is now.
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And what's happening right now is the government, about to be a majority government under the
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liberals aren't solving any problems. They don't fix the problem. They subsidize problems in this
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country. And it's fine with the liberal voters. Now, I came across a clip here. I'm going to play
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it for you. And here is Mark Carney. And this clip is absolute gold when it comes to how
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he uses doublespeak and doesn't really answer the question and really use bullshit to baffle
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the brains of Canadians. Let's listen to this clip. Absolute gold, less than two minutes,
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and we'll go through it. I'll jump in occasionally.
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From Mr. Carney, I just want to go back to a response you had to a question about Canadian
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job losses. Earlier today, you primarily talked about macroeconomics, the major projects office,
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which has yet to actually approve the project, and some more things the government has announced
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that are going to be more medium to long-term projects.
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Okay, so let's just start with that. The Major Projects Office, which is yet to really approve
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any major projects. The Project Office is here in Calgary. And no doubt, there's hundreds of
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people working for this Major Projects Office, which costs money. When it comes to jobs as well,
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government always grows during economic downturns when things are not good. The private sector
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loses, the government grows. The government doesn't have to claim as many job losses because
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it just hires more people. But there are really no jobs been announced. He announces an office,
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a bureaucracy, and nothing happens. He announced a major housing office.
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And all we got was the bureaucracy. Have you heard about any houses being built?
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The government will claim they're happening, but they're not. If they were happening,
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they would show us the proof, but nothing is being built. No major projects,
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no houses. And we haven't even got to the meat and potatoes of this, which is
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the job losses. Let's go back to the video. The government has announced that there are going to
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be more medium to long-term projects, but what's your message to the 84,000 additional Canadians
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who are looking for work right now, who are worried about their bills today? Well, the first thing is
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that any job loss, of course, is a challenge for the individuals, for their families.
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Okay, so I'll give you that. I mean, he's right there. It is certainly a challenge
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for the individuals and the families. It's the only thing in this clip that he actually says
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that is true. Let's go back over to the clip and we'll watch some more. Here we go.
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And what's important is that we're putting in place not just the measures for the long term,
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by the way, I don't have time to go through all the elements of the premise that aren't exactly
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accurate there in terms of approvals and moving forward, but also that we're providing
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support in moving the economy forward. So support in moving the economy forward. What is that
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support? Well, it's basically welfare. You know, we know that the government is spending more money
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on people who are unemployed. This is an article, actually from the Prime Minister of Canada's
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website, September 5th, 2025. So this goes back months. Launches new measures to protect, build,
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and transform Canadian strategic industries. Really, none of this is happening at all. There's
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a transformation happening here, and it's a transformation to unemployment. Canadian workers
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have felt the impact of U.S. tariffs most acutely. Canada's new government investing in our workers.
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It's more EI, employment insurance. We used to call it unemployment insurance, but they
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put a positive spin on that. But this is more basically welfare paid for by taxpayers. They are
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not fixing the problem. They are subsidizing it. They're going to re-skill 50,000 workers. That's
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50,000 people who are out of work. And they're doing the same thing when it comes to business.
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As businesses adapt to the new economic landscape, they need time to invest in their future.
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Canada's new government is spending $5 billion on the new strategic response fund. This is
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government failure. That's what this is. And the funny thing is, if you look up here,
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you can see where I searched in this for U.S. tariffs, one of four matches. It's mentioned
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four times in this short little bit from the government. And the reason they're doing that
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As I've said here, it's not Donald Trump's fault.
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So he talks about the income tax cut. Well, it doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy
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world, as Rick Blaine would say in Casablanca. Let's take a look at the Liberal tax cut. This
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article takes us back to December 7th, 2025. Liberal tax cut gives poorest Canadians just
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$11 annually. And they're the ones who need a break more than anybody. They can't afford food
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right now. We're going to come around to that in just a moment. We'll come back around to the jobs
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as well. Carney's campaign promise to implement tax cut to deliver real change will amount to
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working Canadians in the lowest tax bracket, saving about $11 annually. And when the government
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gives you something, liberal government gives you something, they usually take it away somewhere
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else. This is from an article about a week later after the Juno one, major tax changes in 2026
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report, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, right here in payroll taxes, the federal government raising
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the maximum mandatory Canada pension plan and employment insurance contributions in 2026. These
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payroll tax increases will cost a worker an additional $262 a year. Meanwhile, you know,
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they took away the consumer carbon tax about a year ago now. Remember when he signed the document,
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sort of making it look like an executive order, a la Donald Trump and the White House? I don't
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even think they've taken the carbon tax off the books yet officially, but they've raised the
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industrial carbon tax, which is going to cost more money. And they're actually increasing fuel
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standards in the country. Car manufacturers have to produce cars that go farther on a tank of gas,
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which ends up costing you money, probably about seven cents a liter. So where they give you
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something here, they take away from it here, but we're not done. This clip is a minute and eight
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in. We've still got 50 seconds left. There's still lots of gold here. Let's see what he has
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to say. And we'll get around to the jobs in just a minute. Providing groceries and essentials
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benefit to Canadians, so the Canadians most affected. That's a benefit that reaches millions
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of Canadians, including up to about $1,400 over the course of a year for a family of four.
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so let's talk a little bit about that I have a real problem with this you've hit rock bottom
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when people can't afford food anymore and it's disgraceful that this has to happen in this
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country the liberals and their voters they applaud that this is going on I got a Reagan
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quote for you in just a moment that shows you how ridiculous this is you know there's there's a rule
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when you go out into the woods, you don't feed bears. There was a, I remember a couple of years
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ago, I was working at the radio station. They had to close down 93 highway between Castle Junction
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into British Columbia over towards Radium Hot Springs because there was a tour bus that went
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there that stopped and allowed a group of tourists to go out and throw food to bears on the side of
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the road. Major problem because what happens is the bears, they become dependent. And first of
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all, they lose their fear of people, but they become dependent. Well, people are worse than
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bears. If you start giving them something, they're going to want to keep it. And it's simple to do
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that. I mean, again, I'll use a quote I've used here before, George Bernard Shaw, the politician
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that robs Peter to pay Paul will always have a friend in Paul. And this is basically vote buying.
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But is Carney really doing anything to help people with food prices? People can't afford to buy food.
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food. It's the most basic thing that people need to afford and they can't buy food. Taxpayers now
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have to subsidize people in food and they spin it into stories like this. Look at this headline.
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Prime Minister Carney announces new measures to make groceries and other essentials more
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affordable. Is that really what he's doing here? No. Food prices are going up. This is from January
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26. The Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit, that's what this is called, to the tunes of
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billions of dollars again for 12 million Canadians who can't afford food in this country. Let's go
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back over to what Carney has to say and we'll continue along. It continues. Now wait just a
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second. I almost forgot something. I watched the video back and went, you know, I wanted to mention
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this. Carney didn't bring it up, which I'm really surprised about, how he's making life so much more
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affordable for people. But he forgot to talk about the school lunch program. So not only is
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he subsidizing people when it comes to just regular groceries, which are totally unaffordable,
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he's also subsidizing children at school. What an absolute failure. Liberals rejoice.
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There's other measures that are coming that would provide immediate support. And the government is
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very focused on growing this economy and part of how we're going to grow this economy. Yes,
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it's immediate measures, as I've just indicated, but it's also getting the confidence and the
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investment in the country, a country that's more independent, that's diversifying our
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partnerships, that's building first and foremost at home, and then secure abroad. Thank you very
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much. He talks about investing, but really, is he doing anything to help when it comes to the
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confidence in Canada when it comes to investing. You've heard Kevin O'Leary talk about this. He
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doesn't invest in Canada. You know, I can think of a great place we can invest in Canada if we
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could just get the government out of the way and government regulations and laws under the way. We
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need a pipeline here. We really want a pipeline. Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, is trying to
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find an investor in a pipeline because of this memorandum of understanding. The government
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passed Bill C-5 last year to try to get around other bills and laws they've created, the anti-pipeline
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bill, the anti-tanker ban, but they didn't get rid of those. If you want to get investment,
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Mr. Carney, why don't you just get out of the way? But he's not really helping there.
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You know, when it comes to people who've lost their jobs, is he helping them? Is he creating
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jobs? No, we're losing jobs. He's subsidizing people and creating more welfare for people
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because they can't find jobs. And he hides it around some kind of, you know, retraining program.
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And businesses are failing simply because of the government. So what does he do with that?
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creates another welfare program when it comes to businesses. People that can't afford to buy food,
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so what does he do? He creates a program to give more money to people to buy food. He doesn't fix
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the problem. Prices continue to go up. And children, well, parents can't afford to feed their children,
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create another program, another welfare program when it comes to children because parents can't
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afford to feed their children anymore. This is liberal failure. Now, when it comes to welfare,
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this is a Ronald Reagan quote and read this and this is true see what happens here is
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and it's very sad somebody like myself points this stuff out and people on the left and people
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who vote liberal and people who like Mark Carney in the liberal party say but look at the great
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things they're doing this is a success people being out of work and getting money is a success
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People at home who can't afford food and giving them money is a success.
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People who can't afford their children and you give them money, this is liberal success.
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And this was what Ronald Reagan said about welfare.
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We should measure welfare success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many people are added.
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We continue to add more people to government welfare.
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And you can wrap it up in employment insurance.
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You can wrap it up in school food programs, but it comes down to welfare.
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And we'll run through this and see what he has to say about jobs.
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If you look at the performance of the labor market over the course of the last six months,
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uh we've created over 80 000 jobs net over the last six months so is what carney says here true
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let's go back over to kirk this is his x account you might want to follow him and this is the
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video i downloaded from kirk right here same clip this is a complete lie by mark carney responding
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to the disastrous february job loss of 84 000 carney claims canada gained net 80 000 jobs quote
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if you look at the performance of the labor market over the course of the last six months
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Over the last six months, September to February,
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total employed went from, I'm gonna round these numbers,
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Private sector went from 13.7 million to 13.47 million.
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public sector went from $4.59 million to $4.62 million, a job gain of $25,000. They pad the
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employment numbers by hiring more people, which costs you more money. Either Mark Carney is lying
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or completely clueless to what is going on in Canada. Both are equally alarming. Now, here's
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where I disagree with Kirk. He's either lying or completely clueless. He can be both, Kirk.
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I think he's lying, and I think he's completely clueless at the same time.
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This takes you back to the July numbers, the jobs report, a source of Stats Canada.
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And here's the private sector lost jobs as of July 2025, self-employed lost jobs.
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And the public sector, of course, went up when it comes to jobs.
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So right now, pretty much in every metric, Canada is failing.
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it's not Canada I guess we need to be more precise there the people who are subsidizing
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this mediocrity is you feel very very sad for the people who are losing their jobs because getting
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a check from the government is not solving your problem getting this so-called training from the
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government is not solving your problem getting money from the government so you can afford food
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is not solving the problem and if you can't afford to food feed your kids giving them school lunches
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is not the problem. But people on the left, people who vote liberal, seem to think these things are
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successes. And you can go back and read the Reagan quote, which I just showed you. But here's another
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quote I want you to read to end this. It's actually from Proverbs, and it goes like this.
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As a dog returns to its own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. And what is the fool doing
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in this case. Well, not eating his own vomit. But the fool keeps voting. Liberal. Thanks a lot for
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