Hey Justin, Snow Is Expected On Wednesday
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Summary
Trudea Freeland has resigned as Finance Minister, what does this mean for the future of the Trudeau government? And what will it mean for our economy and the economy at large. Also, the snow forecast for the week.
Transcript
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Hi there, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is Tuesday, December the 17th with my big blue mug of coffee just before 5 a.m.
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Eight sleeps until Santa. Merry Christmas to you and yours. And what a day it was yesterday.
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I made a video, I think was one of my best yesterday, and within 90 minutes it was out of date because I mentioned Christia Freeland in it
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and she resigned, as you know, as the Minister of Finance.
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Check it out, it's still very pertinent, but hasn't got many views because I had to put it in the description before Freeland resigned,
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So today I think I'm going to make a connection that I don't think many others have.
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You can correct me if I'm wrong, but it's one of those bits of information that I think kind of flew under the radar
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Today I want to talk about a few things. I'm not going to do a lot of speculation because who knows what's going to happen
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by the time you look at this, right? I mean, Trudeau could resign today. Who knows?
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So anyway, first off, watch Pierre Polyev's speech in the House of Commons yesterday.
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An absolute banger of a speech. I think he spoke for about 12 minutes.
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Here's just a short, short bit of what he said yesterday in the House of Commons.
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A country where people are proud again to fly the flag, where they know the government is a servant and not a master,
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where they understand that every day the Commons, this place, works for the common people,
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not for the ego of one man desperate to cling on to his job.
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We must remember that we are servants in this place. We have a job to do on behalf of the people who sent us here.
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Our personal dramas are not important. The dramas that should seize all of our concern and imagination
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are the daily dramas of the working women and men that build this country.
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We are in it for them. We're going to give them back control of their lives in the freest country on earth, Canada.
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Great speech from Paulie Evel. Put a link in the description.
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I actually think he should have looked across at the Liberals yesterday and asked them to vote non-confidence in their own government.
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Because I'm sure there's a lot of them who are disgusted with that $61.9 billion deficit.
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Had to read it. I knew what it was. I had to read it.
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We pay more than a billion dollars a week to service the debt in this country now,
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which is more than federal transfer payments for health care to the provinces.
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Or at least, does he have cover if Trudeau resigns, which he asked him to do yesterday?
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Because if Trudeau were to resign, he could now maybe wash his hands of the situation and say,
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listen, the architects of the deficit, they're gone.
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So I'm going to continue to support the Liberals until Election Day in October.
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As far as Trudeau goes, who knows what he's going to do.
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And for those of you who have been following Canadian politics for a long time, you'll get my reference here.
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There was open rebellion from Liberal MPs in the media yesterday.
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23 MPs who previously asked him to step down a couple of months back or back at it again.
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Now, we've had a number of non-confidence votes.
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Paul Yev called for one yesterday on that mini-budget.
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Trudeau apparently isn't going to show up in the House of Commons today.
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After today, Parliament doesn't sit until January 27th.
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We've got weeks to speculate unless he steps down today.
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Again, by the time this video goes up, he could be gone.
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But the reason why we haven't had a successful vote of non-confidence,
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Do you really think he's going to vote non-confidence in the government
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when there are seven NDPers waiting to get their pensions on October 27th?
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It's almost like there's an incestuous relationship going on.
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So this is from an article in the National Post on March 26th, 2024.
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But Democratic Institutions Minister Dominic LeBlanc
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has introduced a suite of changes to the Elections Act.
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While it includes expanding days for advanced voting
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it also moves the current proposed fixed election day
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And the reason they said they're doing that is because of Diwali
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if the date of the election is moved back one week.
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who is holding on for dear life to get his pension,
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is going to screw over seven NDPers to get theirs?
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And the guy that changed the date of the election to the 27th