Oh Canada…LIBERAL Progress Is KILLING Us
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Summary
In this video, I talk about what I woke up this morning thinking about what happened in the House of Commons yesterday, and why the Prime Minister should be willing to stand up before Christmas and defend the middle-class tax on food.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 4.50 a.m. I hope you're having a great start
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to your Wednesday, December the 10th. I am. I've got my big blue mug of coffee. I appreciate
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you being here. I tip my big blue mug to you today. And I woke up this morning thinking
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about what happened yesterday in the House of Commons. I did a video on it. The tricks
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that Pierre Polyev has to resort to, the stunt, as the liberals called it, that he had to
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resort to yesterday. And it was successful, I believe. I think he did a very good job.
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But what I thought about was how we can't progress in this country anymore, that we seem to be
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slipping backwards on a lot of things. I did a video the other day talking about the failures
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of the liberal government. That's not what this video is about. We're not progressing.
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I would suggest to you, there's a lot of liberals who sit in caucus, who were sitting
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there yesterday, who would call themselves progressives. The main part of the word progressive
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is progress, but we're not doing that. We're regressing in a lot of places. There's three
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things that I've been thinking about. There were a couple of them brought up in the House
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of Commons yesterday, and one other thing that was discussed yesterday that is rather frightening.
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And we're going to get to all of those things in this video. I hope I can make this short.
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So what's the number one thing that concerns you right now? Just think about it for a second.
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What's number one on the list right now that concerns you? I would suggest it would be the
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cost of living. That's what concerns me the most. I think the place you see it the most is when you
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buy groceries every week. You buy a little pile of groceries that's got a big bill. The opposition,
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Pierre Polyev and the conservatives are talking about affordability and the ability to eat. The
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government isn't on the same wavelength as you. They're in another place completely. It was brought
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up over and over and over yesterday. It was what I expected to be the main thing that drives the
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liberal government. As soon as Mark Carney got his name in the race back in January to be the leader of
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the party. While the opposition is talking about affordability and the cost of living,
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the government keeps pushing climate and industrial carbon taxes. Here's Polyev,
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one of his best moments yesterday when it came to question period.
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Yet the Prime Minister is afraid to stand up and debate grocery prices. He says he knows so much
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about inflation. Well, he certainly caused a lot in his life, Mr. Speaker. Then he should be able to
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stand up and defend the very industrial carbon tax that he says is even more than important than a
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pipeline from Alberta. An industrial carbon tax on farm equipment, fertilizer, food processors at a time
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when Canadians are paying twice what they were a decade ago for groceries. At Christmas time,
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will he do the right thing, get rid of this tax so Canadians can eat?
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The Honorable Minister of the Environment and Climate Change.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Apparently, I need to repeat it again and again. So let me do that.
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To make it simple for the member offices, the industrial carbon price does not increase the cost of food.
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It does not apply to farms. But more than that, if we're going to look at that food price report that
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he is referring to, perhaps he wants to refer to the other parts of it, which is climate change and
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weather events have become a growing concern for agricultural producers. And increasingly severe
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and unpredictable weather events are disrupting agricultural production, creating supply challenges
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that continue to influence food prices across Canada. They should get on board to fight climate change.
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Mr. Speaker, no matter how high they raise the taxes, they're not going to change the weather,
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Madam Speaker. And the Prime Minister should be willing to stand up before Christmas.
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And look the seniors in the eye who can't afford to feed themselves, the single mothers who can't
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afford to feed their children and buy Christmas gifts this winter. While he not only does an industrial
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carbon taxes on farmers and fertilizer, but a food packaging tax, which will increase grocery prices
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by a billion dollars across the land. So will the Prime Minister live up to his promise to be judged by
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the prices of the grocery store and get rid of those hidden liberal taxes on food?
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While you're concerned about food prices, the affordability of everyday life, the cost of living,
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the liberals don't seem to care about it much at all. They talk about a middle-class tax break they
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got you. Well, I'll just let you know this. Food prices are going up faster than your middle-class
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tax break. It doesn't amount to a lot of money when you get right down to it over a year. And food prices
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are going to go up a lot next year. I'll get into that in just a moment. The opposition talks about
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affordability and the ability of people to eat. The liberals keep pushing climate change on
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you as the reason everything's going bad in the country. And Julie DeBruzan talks there about how
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food production's down because of climate change and weather events. Is that true?
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No, it's not true. I know the answer to this. It's not. Food production is actually way up.
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Are yields in food going down or up? Over the past several decades, global crop yields rose dramatically.
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Yields for staple crops like wheat, maize, soybean, and rice increase. Wheat yields up 225%.
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Maize, 196%. Soybean, 153%. Rice, 146%. Compared with mid-20th century baselines. Of course,
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chat GPT has to bring up climate change. Countries vulnerable to climate change, poor ones who can't
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do a goddamn thing right when it comes to putting anything in the ground and getting any yields at
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all aren't doing well. But we're doing just fine. We're feeding more people than we ever did before.
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And do you realize, and here's something I was thinking about today. Next year will mark the 20th
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anniversary of Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Right now, we're not supposed to have any
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ice caps. They're all melted, folks. All the polar bears are dead and people are starving to death
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because food yields are down. They're up everywhere right now. Here's Shannon Stubbs, MP. A new report
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warns that after a decade of illiberals, Canadians could pay $1,000 more for groceries for the exact
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same amount of food next year. Let me put this into perspective for you.
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If your boss came to you right now and said, things are a little tough. I'm cutting your pay
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by $1,000. How much would that affect you? It's the same thing. What's the top issue when it comes
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to Canadians right now? Climate change? Let's take a look. This is from September. Abacus data.
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This year, rising cost of living, 57%. The economy, 37%. Housing affordability and accessibility, 34%.
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Donald Trump and his administration. Look, it's not even close to the number one thing, but a lot of
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people voted on this. Screwing over the people that are worried about this. Where does climate change
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come in here? Climate change in the environment, 15%. This is what the government's focusing on.
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Not this. The other thing they're focusing on is Indigenous reconciliation. Most people don't
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give a damn about that. Meanwhile, you've got the government spending $40 million over the next
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two years on a youth climate core so they can indoctrinate children. And then we move on to
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our next thing. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but pipelines. This is what this is
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about yesterday. We can't get anything done. We're regressing. There's no progress here at all.
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Let me put this into perspective. I found this on my wife's Facebook the other day. This is what's
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happening. Now, this talks about Alberta, but the pipelines that are built from Alberta,
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maybe to the West Coast, will benefit all of Canada. Because a lot of that oil from Alberta,
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that money ends up going to Canada. This is why we want to leave. We want to keep more of the money
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for ourselves. Get rid of income taxes, things like that. This is how it works right now.
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You'd have to be nuts to continue doing this. What's the definition of insanity? Here it is
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right here. Here's the trap. $20 billion handout. How Alberta subsidizes the U.S. economy.
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One, the trap. Canada has the third largest oil reserves. 98% of exports go to one customer.
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They set the price. That's the United States. The math, the ripoff. Landlocked, we sell cheap to U.S.
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refineries. They keep the profit. The cost. $20 billion per year. This discount bleeds billions
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from Canada. Money that should fund Canadian hospitals, schools, and infrastructure. The solution.
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Tidewater. The only way to stop the handout is to reach the coast. When the U.S. competes for our oil,
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the discount disappears. See, the people who don't want the pipeline, the people who want to support
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Mark Carney and not having a pipeline, are feeding Donald Trump and the United States of America,
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who the left seems to hate right now. And that's all I'm going to say. This is the system we've got
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right now in this country. And we can't put a pipeline to the coast. How regressive is that?
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This is not progress. This memorandum of understanding is not a guarantee for a pipeline.
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It's not going to happen. Would you invest in this country? And then let's move along to this.
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Freedom of speech. Let me just go to this Franklin quote right off the top.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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Benjamin Franklin. It's true. Here are your fundamental freedoms in the Charter of Rights and
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Freedoms. You should know them all. About the first 15 sections are the most important.
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Number one is the most important. That's the one that gives the government the right to take away
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your rights, which should not be able to happen. It's the number one thing.
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You have all of these freedoms. You have all of these rights unless we can take them away. It's
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what they did with the convoy. But the things that are really important to me in here, they're all in
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here. Freedom of the press, freedom of association, peaceful assembly, freedom of religion, freedom of
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thought, freedom of belief, freedom of expression, freedom of speech. It's utter attack.
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Andrew Lawton has been great on this. Absolutely great. Here he is in the House of Commons.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's a great honour to present a petition on behalf of Canadians
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concerned, I would say actually alarmed, that Liberal block amendments to Bill C-9 will be
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used to criminalise passages of the Bible, the Quran, the Torah and other sacred texts. A lot of this
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concern emanates from the fact that the man who's now the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture said
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that prosecutors should be able to, quote, press charges, unquote, for people citing scripture the government
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finds objectionable. The petitioners believe the state has no place in religious texts or teaching of any faith
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community and that this house must stand firm and protect freedom of expression and freedom of religion. The
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undersigned call on the Liberal government to protect these fundamental freedoms and reject any incursions on them in
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C-9 or any other legislation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Is this progress? Well, no, it's not progress. If you're taking away the rights of somebody or an organization
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or a church, it's a step backwards. By the way, we have laws already on the books against violent speech.
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If you threaten somebody's life, you can't do that. I think you should be able to say anything but that.
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But what does this do? It has a chilling effect on what churches might say. They might not agree with, say,
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same-sex marriage. Is that going to be considered hate speech now? And I guess this is progress in a way.
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It progresses us to the next spot, the next place, the next logical place, and that's going after your speech
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because that's coming next. Pretty soon, I probably won't be able to say some things on YouTube. You won't be able
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to post anything on Facebook or on X that the government doesn't like that they deem against the law.
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And you say, John, that's ridiculous. We have the freedom of expression. It's written into
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Section 2. It's our fundamental freedoms in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They thought the
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Someone has been caused, obviously, anxiety based upon your social media page.
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30 people a day are arrested in England right now for saying things online. 30!
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Can you imagine? There's 365 days in the year. Do the math just for saying something because somebody
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was offended. Meanwhile, the liberals supported the block on this. It's going to get passed.
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And we progressed down the road. As George Washington said, if freedom of speech is taken
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away, then silent and dumb we shall be led like sheep to the slaughter. So we can't progress when
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it comes to food because of climate change. How progressive is that? We can't have anything because
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of climate change. It's the reason why we can't have nice things in this country. We don't have any
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progress. We can't have any pipelines which would progress the country, which would progress Alberta,
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which would progress us because we'd have better health care and better social services,
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better jobs with better pay. And we can't have our speech anymore because going backwards to the left
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is considered progressive. That's considered progress.
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