Managing the Canadian decline – Mark Carney News Conference
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Summary
Mark Carney's comments in front of the military and during a media scrum were not about raising the military's pay, but about how much he really cares about Alberta and Saskatchewan, the West. And how much does he care about the cost of living in the West?
Transcript
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Great to have you along today, 5.43 a.m., Saturday, August the 9th.
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Hope you're having a great start to your weekend.
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It really sucks if you have to work all week, and then Saturday and Sunday it rains.
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So today I wanted to take a little bit of time, not a lot.
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I don't want this to go on and on and on and on today, because it is Saturday after all.
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Yesterday, Mark Carney did a news conference where he was standing in front of the military,
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and he was talking about raising the pay of the military.
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But during the media scrum afterward, he answered a bunch of questions,
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So we're going to find out how much Mark Carney really cares about Alberta and Saskatchewan,
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We're going to talk a little bit about how the liberals are not doing anything about the
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cost of living, although Mark Carney thinks he's doing that.
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He's just managing the decline right now, folks, because we're continuing to go into the abyss.
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He's going to talk about Canada and Palestine, showing how irrelevant Canada really is on the
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And I want to start off with him talking about military pay.
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Yesterday, he made announcement about raising military pay, and I want to give credit where
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Thank you, Conservative Party of Canada, for finally getting the military a pay raise.
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In Halifax a few months ago, I shared our vision to rebuild, rearm, and reinvest in the
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Canadian Armed Forces in order to protect Canada's sovereignty, to bolster our industrial capacity
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And at that time, I committed that Canada's new government would raise the pay of all members
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And today, with Minister McGuinty and with Deputy Millett, I'm proud to fulfill that commitment
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by announcing that all members of the Canadian Armed Forces will receive a pay raise.
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So he's giving the military a much-deserved pay raise, but we all know what the Liberal
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Party thought of the military prior to the election campaign.
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It became part of their election platform merely because of Pierre Polyev, who was all over
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We will cut back on wasteful aid that goes to dictators, terrorists, and multinational
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We're going to put that money back in our military to support our troops.
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It's because of Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party that this happened yesterday, but Carney
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Like he took credit for signing away the Consumer Carbon Tax, which he did yesterday as well.
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But just a little refresher for you of what the Liberals actually think of the military,
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everybody remembers this clip as a Canadian veteran confronted Justin Trudeau.
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Because honestly, Mr. Prime Minister, I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty when
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What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister, is Canada turning its back on me.
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So which veteran was it that you were talking about?
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Why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court?
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Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now.
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Further on in the news conference during the media scrum, and this gives me an opportunity
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to push Alberta independence once again, Carney's asked about the poor job numbers.
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He certainly doesn't like the conservative premiers out in Alberta and Saskatchewan, because
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that's immediately where he jumped to criticize the two provinces out here about bad job numbers.
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As a follow-up, could I get your reaction to the jobs reports, a loss of 41,000 jobs, worse than expected?
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One is that obviously we look very closely at developments in the labor market.
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We had a very strong job report in June, over 80,000 jobs created.
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We now have the July jobs reduction of just over 40,000.
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What's interesting about if you look across those areas, the geographic spread is in the July report
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Less in the manufacturing sectors where we will expect, we expect to see pressure.
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And there are pressures, which is why we're taking action in steel and lumber, and we will
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Immediately after talking about the poor jobs report, he shifted into how his government is
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helping make life more affordable for Canadians with the cost of living.
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Now, I'm not going to show you what he said yesterday in that news conference, because
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I wanted to show you basically what he talked about in an email I get.
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I get regular email from the Liberal Party, and I got this one yesterday.
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We're making life more affordable for Canadians, John.
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Here are five ways Mark Carney and our Liberal team are delivering real results.
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Middle class tax cut, putting up to $840 more in Canadian pockets every year.
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Well, thank you, Mr. Carney, but prices are still going up, and if we'd elected Polyev,
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As far as a Canadian dental care plan, it's not much of a plan.
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It may be helping some people, but I haven't got poor teeth, so it's not helping me at all.
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And a lot of dentists don't want to be part of this.
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Affordable housing, eliminating GST on homes up to a million dollars, saving first-time
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Well, I seem to think that this was pure Polyev's plan, although Polyev's plan was better.
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Helping families save money and discover more of Canada's national parks.
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Well, I guess he did save me money about $20 a couple of weeks ago when I went to Banff
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I did a video on a bike ride I did from Banff to Lake Louise and back.
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I guess he saved me $20, but you're not really saving anything when you're in debt.
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Your country is broke and you're giving away free stuff.
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And building one Canadian economy, we're breaking down trade barriers, speeding up nation-building
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Things are more fractured now than they ever were.
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Then we got into a question regarding what's going on in Gaza.
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He basically showed how irrelevant Canada is in this world.
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And I asked the question again, if Canada had to take up arms in this conflict, what side
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Prime Minister, given that you have said that Canada will recognize a Palestinian state,
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and given that Prime Minister Netanyahu has an arrest warrant issued by the International
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Criminal Court, and yet he is still considering and will, he wants to take over parts of Gaza
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Will the Canadian government consider sanctions against Israel?
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President, we are working on multiple fronts to try to bring a level of stability to the
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region, then security, then peace to the region.
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And in terms of those fronts, yes, working with allies, working with the French, working
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with the British, working with partners in the Middle East, other partners in the Middle
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East, to work towards stabilization of the situation.
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He's asked if Canada will take up sanctions on this issue.
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His answer should immediately have been no, but instead he goes into some spiel to make
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it look like Canada is somehow relevant when it comes to this issue.
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He's better off trying to increase the value of his portfolio, because that's who this guy
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He should be taking his offer of recognizing a Palestinian state right off the table, because
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the people on the other side, the terrorist organization that he supports, has said they're
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Manage the decline, folks, because that's where we are right now.
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Canada used to have some relevance, but we don't have any at all now.
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And here's the thing that really bothers me, and I've been thinking about this quite a
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bit over the last several days, is this guy could do anything and people will blindly
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They'll follow him right into the abyss and still support him.
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If an election were held today, he might get a majority.
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Anyway, that's it from what happened yesterday.
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Just a few things to show you how bad things really are when it comes to the country and how
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poorly people chose when it comes to electing a new prime minister.
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Hope you have a great day today, a great Sunday.
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