The Boldest Canadian Political Prediction On The Internet
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Summary
It's the last day of the year and it's time to make a bold political prediction for 2020. I'll tell you who's going to be the next Prime Minister of Canada and why it'll be different than the last election.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today, last day of the year.
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It is December the 31st, 4.54 a.m. I've got the big blue mug of coffee this morning,
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about to go up and warm it up. This one's getting a little bit cool.
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And today, I am going to make a prediction. Now, I said, you know, a few videos ago,
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predictions are BS. Yeah, making political predictions is just fine. But today,
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I'm making a prediction that no one else will be making on the internet today.
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I can guarantee it. If you see somebody else who makes this prediction today,
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you let me know about it in the comments. But I guarantee you'll not be able to find anybody else
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going as bold as I am going today. And I woke up this morning thinking about this, folks.
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This is the kind of stuff that wakes me up at night. And it haunts my dreams, too. You'll get
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the idea in just a minute. So, I said a few videos ago that past behavior is a good way to predict
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future behavior. And I believe politics are the same. Past politics are a good way to predict future
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politics. You probably saw the poll numbers from yesterday. This is unbelievable. Trudeau liberals
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reach all-time low in polls at 16%. I mean, this is just amazing. Look at the numbers here. 45% for
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the conservatives. This is a 29% gap. I'm also wondering about this rise in the NDP. Who are
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you people? Jagmeet Singh is the biggest piece of blank in Canadian political history. I did a video
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on it. More than 100,000 views on that one, folks. He's the guy that's kept Trudeau in power.
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Singh's the real problem here. I hate Justin Trudeau, but Singh's even worse, as far as I'm concerned.
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But 16% right now, it's unreal to think this is where we are in Canadian politics. So,
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Trudeau has to go, right? And how is he going to go? Well, there's a number of different options
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here. Now, if we look at 1993, we're in the same territory now with the liberals. If you look at
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the National Post story, and that poll right there, that's a screen capture from the National Post. I'll
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put a link in the description. They say the conservatives in 93, when they got wiped out, they were at
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16.03% in the polls. So, it's almost exactly the same. So, let's look at what happened in that
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election. By the way, this is the only election. I did not vote conservative in a federal election.
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The only one. I voted, I don't think I voted for a liberal or NDP or not a traitor to my country or
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anything. I voted for a party called the National Party. I don't even think they were a national party
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at the time. And the guy's name, if I remember correctly, I have to look it up. I think his name
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was Andy Boyle. But it was a protest vote because I was sick of Brian Mulroney at the time, as most
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conservatives were. So, I did not vote conservative in this election. But this is from Kim Campbell's
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Wikipedia page. So, I'll put it up on screen right now. I wouldn't suggest going to Wikipedia. Lots
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of misinformation on there. But this is just history. This is how I remember it. So, let me read this to
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you. Mulroney entered 1993 facing a federal election. By then, his popularity had markedly declined.
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And polls suggested that the Tories would be heavily defeated if he led them into that year's
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election. Does this sound familiar, folks? In February 1993, Mulroney announced his retirement
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from politics to take effect after his successor had been chosen. Campbell entered the party leadership
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race to succeed Mulroney. Campbell had served in four cabinet portfolios prior to running for the
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party leadership, including three years as Minister of Justice, and garnered the support of more than half
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the PC caucus when she declared for the leadership. She defeated Jacques Charest at the Progressive
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Conservative Leadership Convention that June, and Governor General Raina Titian appointed her
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Prime Minister on June 25th. Now, let me just make this clear. I don't consider Kim Campbell a Prime
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Minister of this country, even though history does. She was never voted in as Prime Minister. She got the
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job by default. But this is exactly what's going to happen and play out until October when we have an
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election. There will not be a non-confidence vote. There will be a non-confidence vote, but the
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government will not be voted down. The NDP, as I said yesterday, are not going to support peer
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poly. They just won't do it because they hate you if you're a conservative. That was my video yesterday.
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But the other option that hasn't really been talked about much here is maybe here, Trudeau, if he resigns,
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he does it in disgrace. He may prorogue, which is kind of dirty politics, but he may say,
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I'll stick around for a number of months until we find a new leader. That's a possibility as well.
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And I think it's the easiest way out for him. He can just kind of bow out, kind of fade away into
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the background and let politics in the Liberal Party kind of happen so that it kind of takes the
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focus off of him. That might be something that happens. And then the next person that's chosen
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as the Liberal Party leader will be sworn in as the next Prime Minister. And I say Prime Minister
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because I don't declare you the Prime Minister if you haven't been voted that way. They'll be the
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new Prime Minister of the country before an election in October. And the Liberals are going to get wiped out.
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But they've got to stay around, folks. They cannot go to an election in the next couple of months.
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Their numbers are at 16%. So they've got to somehow bring those numbers up. So they need a new leader.
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October election. Again, the 16% even makes that more possible. That's what's going to happen.
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So what is my prediction? Oh, and by the way, I mean, if you look at what the Liberals are doing right now,
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they're lining up. They're lining up for really thick-souled Doc Martens to kick Trudeau out the
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door. And they are. But a lot of them aren't saying it, but they feel the same way. So what is my bold
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prediction for the future for the Liberal Party? Well, Stephen Harper was the next Conservative Prime
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Minister after the 1993 wipeout. It took 13 years. I mean, 13 years in the wilderness for the
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Conservatives. And the Liberals have got a lot of years in front of them after they get wiped out
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in October. And how many years will that be? Probably two election cycles. So probably 10 years.
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It could be even longer. Let's say it's 13 years. Well, if it's 13 years, somebody new will be coming
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on the horizon for the Liberal Party. And here is what you'll not hear on the internet today. A new
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person is going to show up. A savior for the Liberal Party is going to show up. Who will that savior be?
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Well, a young man. Early 30s is going to appear on the horizon. This person will have promise.
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This person, obviously, in the early 30s has youth. They'll have exuberance. They'll have excitement.
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They'll have a familiar name. And they'll be wearing a pink shirt. And this person's name is Xavier
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Trudeau. Sunny ways, folks. Have a happy new year. See you on the next one.