Commie housing by Carney (Reagan vs Carney)
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Summary
It's April Fool's Day and the Liberals are taking a victory lap over their failed plan to get government back in the business of building affordable homes in Canada. Today's mashup is based on a quote from Ronald Reagan and the idea that the private sector can do this better than government.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is Tuesday, April the 1st, 5.19 a.m. with the big
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blue mug of coffee. It is April Fool's Day today. Don't forget, if you fill up your tank today and
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prices have dropped a little bit because the consumer carbon tax is gone, be sure to thank
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Pierre Polyev. It's because of him that's gone down. Don't allow the liberals to take a victory
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lap today. So today I've got something a little bit different for you. I woke up in a bit of a
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quandary. What am I going to talk about today? Big news yesterday was Mark Carney rolled out
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his communist-style government housing program. We're getting government back in the business
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of building affordable homes. Acting as a developer, Canada, Build Canada Homes will work with industry
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to build affordable homes at scale, including on public lands. We'll make good on the promise
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to unlock federal lands for home building on a post-war scale. Build Canada Homes will also
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provide $10 billion of low-cost financing to builders to construct deeply affordable homes
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for those most in need, as well as housing for students and seniors.
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Where he really did contrast himself from what Pierre Polyev is doing. Polyev's plan has been
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to eliminate the gatekeepers, and that means less government control. And when I thought about
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that today, I thought about a saying from a famous politician of the past. I'm going to do that
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today and use a few quotes from the great communicator Ronald Reagan in this video. All right? I've got
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three of them for you. But before we get to that, let's go back not too long ago and let's find out what
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the liberal policy was when it came to building housing in this country.
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And I'll be blunt as well. Housing isn't a primary federal responsibility.
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You probably know that clip. It wasn't very long ago that he said that. So what has changed?
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Why all of a sudden are the liberals talking about housing? That's because a leader came along.
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A leader with vision who wants to make things better for you. The leader is Pierre Polyev. I've said many
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times on this channel that Polyev has been leading the government for a couple of years. He's led on a
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number of different issues and certainly on this one. Until Polyev started talking about housing,
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housing wasn't a government responsibility. I mean, Mark Carney wouldn't have walked out yesterday and
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talked about this if it wasn't for Pierre Polyev leading on this issue. And he's been leading on
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this issue for a very long time. The liberals have cocked things up when it comes to housing in this
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country. They've let far too many people into the country. Too many people, too few houses, housing prices
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go up. Supply and demand, right? So what their plan is, is to fix all the other plans that screwed up
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for them. They've got what are called the Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund, Canada Housing Accelerator
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Fund. They've hardly built any houses. Big government agencies. Lots of bureaucracy. Lots of money.
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Absolutely nothing. Which made me think of another one of my favorite Ronald Reagan quotes. And here he is
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here. This goes back to 1964. A time for choosing, I think, was the name of the speech. Listen to what
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he says here. And the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. I love that saying. And, you know,
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government has already created a number of housing programs in this country. Canada Housing Infrastructure
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Fund, Canada Housing Accelerator Fund. Both of them have failed. They haven't built many houses.
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And they spent billions of your dollars employing hundreds of people, no doubt, pushing paper around
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to get nothing done. The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. And Carney's is just these other
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plans on steroids. Complete government control of housing. And we should open this up to the private sector.
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That's what it should be about. The private sector can do this better than government. I'll get to my
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next Reagan quote in just a moment. But what is Carney's plan? Well, he laid all this out
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just a year ago in the Globe and Mail. Here's Kosman Zerdsa. I believe that's how you pronounce
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his name. I apologize if it's not correct. And he rightfully says, Carney laid out his affordable
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homes plan in a Globe and Mail op-ed last year. He wants to tear down single detached homes,
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remove density limits, and build government-run housing projects with no parking. Young Canadians
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dreaming of owning a home deserve better than this. And I sit here in Southeast Calgary. I've got a
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modest house, nice little backyard. My flowers are going to start growing pretty soon. And that's
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what your dream is. That's not what Mark Carney's dream is. Remember, he's the climate zealot as well.
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So he wants to make sure he controls where you live, where you can go, what you can eat. All of
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these things are his plans. Here's the article right here, special to the Globe and Mail, Mark Carney.
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This was just over a year ago on March the 14th. I'm not going to read this whole thing to you,
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but let's go over here. And let's read this first slide that
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Cosman put up here. First, we need to build up rather than out.
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That means no semi-detached or single detached housing. Focus housing growth in cities and
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communities where there is existing infrastructure such as roads, water lines, libraries, and community
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centers is faster, less costly, and more climate-friendly. To enable building in these areas, we need to
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legalize density. It simply much would be easier for a home builder to turn a 75-year-old bungalow into a
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cluster of townhouses or an aging strip mall into a modern and affordable mid-rise apartment complex.
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So there you go, folks. No backyard for you. To do that, government should eliminate unit
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maximums, abolish parking minimums, and allow taller buildings and more density near transit lines
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as of right. So that is Mark Carney's plan for you. Complete government control and you're going to live
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in a box. No house. And that's not what Polyev's talking about. He wants to build a home. What would
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Ronald Reagan have to say about this? And here's his famous saying. You probably saw this one coming
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a mile away. Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
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No matter what you may think of Ronald Reagan and his politics, he sure was quotable and boy could he
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deliver a line. They called him the great communicator. Now I've got another clip coming
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up from Reagan in just a moment. I'm going to tie that in with a group of people who could be dooming
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this country to generations of problems. So stay tuned for that. It's a less well-known clip. I might
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end with another clip as well. Maybe I'll make it four from Reagan. But before we do that, I think
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Pierre Polyev is really missing out in an opportunity to show how much of a leader he really is. I've
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mentioned two things in this video. Right off the top, I talked about the carbon tax. It was his crusade
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that led the liberals to get rid of the carbon tax on the consumers today. The other thing is housing.
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They wouldn't be talking about housing if it wasn't for Pierre Polyev. Why is he not taking credit for
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these things? He's led on car theft. Liberals didn't mention it. I've said this before in my videos. Car theft,
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crime, drugs, other things as well. So he should be using this to his advantage in this election
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campaign. So the last clip from Reagan, I'm directing towards the boomers. An article in the National
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Post talking about how the boomers, it's not about ideological lines here in this election,
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it's generational. And the boomers, sitting back in their nice homes, mortgage paid off,
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car paid off, pension, everything's just fine for them. They've retired, and they're going to sell
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the country down the river for elbows up and Canada Strong and Mark Carney. And they're going to sell out
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their grandkids as well. So listen to Ronald Reagan in this clip. I think this one is pretty right on point.
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But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. For decades,
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we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary
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convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural,
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political, and economic upheavals. That's from the inauguration in 1981. Amazing to hear the man speak.
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And he's right. Deficit after deficit, mortgaging our future for some temporary convenience.
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That's you boomers. You're selling the country and your grandchildren down the river for some temporary
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convenience. I know this is a little bit different. I appreciate you watching. I really do.
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If you liked the video, please give me a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. Ring the bell for
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notifications. I'm going to play one more Reagan clip, a famous one from him for sure. And I'll see
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you in the next one. I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the
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English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.