What Everyone’s Missing About Today’s Crucial Vote… CHRISTMAS comes early
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Summary
In the spirit of Christmas, in order to get rid of the tanker ban, we need a new pipeline to the Pacific coast. On Tuesday, the House of Commons will vote on a Conservative motion that will force the Liberals to put up or shut up on oil pipeline construction.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 3.56 a.m., Tuesday, December the 9th. I hope
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you're having a great day today. Perhaps I should call myself Santa John today. I think
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we could get an early Christmas present today, folks. And if you're a conservative, which
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I think you are, you should be rooting for two parties today. I've got a little different
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take on what's going on in the House of Commons and a special vote that's happening. That's
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why I'm wearing the Santa hat. I've got the big blue mug of coffee, and I do have a different
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take on this. I think the conservatives could get a gift today, and we should be rooting
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for Pierre Polyef, who has been great, by the way. I'm going to play a clip of him in the
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House of Commons. The condescension is just glorious. Coming out of his mouth. Just glorious. We
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should also be rooting for the NDP today. Now, don't think I'm nuts. We should be rooting
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for the NDP today. And I'm going to explain more of that in just a moment. What are we
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talking about today? We're talking about this going on, the vote happening today. Conservative
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motion will force liberals to put up or shut up on oil pipeline support polyam. Motion calls
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government to support oil pipeline construction. Adjust BC oil tanker ban. You see, Mark Carney
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has been trying to reimagine himself as a proponent for oil and gas in this country when, well,
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Polyev mentions it, but of course he's talked about keeping half of the oil and gas in the
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ground. And, you know, I think Daniel Smith helped him reimagine himself a little bit by
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signing the memorandum of understanding with him, which she had to do. Don't hold that against
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Daniel Smith. She had to do that, or she would look like she was the one getting in front of
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an oil pipeline and keeping it from happening. The Conservatives helped Carney a little bit with
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this as well by voting in favor of C5, the law that allows Carney to somewhat get around the oil
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tanker ban and oil pipelines to the West Coast, but not really because those laws are still on the
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books. But today's vote is a chance to fracture the Liberal Party. Okay, let's go over here to what
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they're going to be voting on today. Just quickly, we need a new pipeline to the Pacific. On Tuesday,
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the House of Commons will vote on a conservative motion for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific
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coast, overriding the tanker ban to ship bitumen to Asia, bring home jobs, put Canada first.
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And here's how simple it is. And this is using the words of the Liberals in the memorandum of
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understanding. A, take note of the memorandum of understanding between Canada and Alberta of
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November 27th, 2025. And B, supports the construction of one or more pipelines, enabling
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the export of at least 1 million barrels a day of low emission Alberta bitumen from a strategic
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deepwater port on the British Columbia coast to reach Asian markets, including through an
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appropriate adjustment to the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, while respecting the duty to consult
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Indigenous people. So using the words of the Liberals against them. And this could fracture the
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Liberal Party today. Who knows how they're going to vote? And there's another thing that needs to be
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discussed here, which I'm going to get to at the end. Folks, this country is broken.
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Poliev said it over and over and over again. The Liberals used it against him in the last election.
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Canada is broken. I'm going to prove it to you in just a few moments here. So hold on for that as
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well. But we should be rooting for the NDP. So I want to play this clip of Pierre Poliev. Oh God,
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this is beautiful. The condescension dripping from his lips. It's just magnificent. And honestly,
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folks, I'm glad he's back in the House of Commons. I'm glad he won his by-election after losing
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back on April 28th, because this guy is the gift that just keeps on giving.
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In the spirit of Christmas, I decided to take a great act of generosity and lift the words right out
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of the Prime Minister's MOU in order to support a pipeline to the Pacific and a repeal or an
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overriding of the Liberal tanker ban. Now, of course, it would mean Liberals would have to admit they
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were wrong, admit they were wrong to block that pipeline. They were wrong about the tanker ban.
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Will, in the spirit of Christmas, Liberals admit they were wrong, vote for their own wording, approve a
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In the spirit of Christmas, I'd invite the leader of the opposition not to cherry-pick
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parts of the MOU, but to support the entire MOU, which is what all of the Conservative Premiers
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across this country are doing, which is what this side is doing. It's how we will build something.
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Stop being cynical and build this country with us.
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I think the only division here is that the Prime Minister is divided against himself.
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The Prime Minister opposed the pipeline to the Pacific. Now he claims he supports it.
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He supported the tanker ban. Now he claims he opposed it.
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Mr. Speaker, this is the Prime Minister who said he wanted to keep half of our oil in the ground,
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and now he pretends to have changed his mind. He signed an MOU. He says one thing in BC, the opposite in Alberta,
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and here in the House of Commons, he hides under his desk. Why don't the Prime Minister stand up,
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take a position, and announce that he's voting in favour of his MOU language to build a pipeline?
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Wasn't that great? He's the gift that keeps on giving. I said prior to the election that I love him
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in the House of Commons. I think he's one of the best ever. That is just great. So why do I think
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we should be rooting for the NDP today? I've said it here on this channel before that the Liberals
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outflanked the NDP on the left. And they took a lot of their policies, and it made them irrelevant.
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And one of them is the environment. They outflanked the NDP when it came to the environment. And the
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NDP right now are trying to take it back, and today's vote could make that very, very evident.
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If we look at what happened in the last election, despite what the left will tell you on how
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Pierre Polyev lost a huge lead in this election, the Conservatives picked up 25 seats. Polyev did
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very well. If it weren't for the NDP losing all these seats, look at how many they lost,
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and the Bloc Québécois, the Conservatives would have won, not because the Conservatives did poorly,
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but because the other parties did. So the NDP has a chance to win in a big way today. Here's Pierre
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Polyev talking about the NDP. I think he sees what I'm talking about here today, which I don't think
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other people are saying. The NDP voting tomorrow to block a new pipeline to the Pacific and keep
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the costly Liberal oil tanker ban in place. In fairness, at least we know where the NDP stand.
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Meanwhile, Mark Carney is hiding under a rock, refusing to tell his position.
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We go over to this one here. Calgary Liberal MP indicates he is voting against a pipeline to the
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Pacific, betraying the city's driving industry. The keep it in the ground caucus of the Liberal
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Party is still in charge, despite the hype and announcements. So here's what might be happening.
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If you look at somebody like Stephen Gilboa, former Environment Minister, Environment and Climate
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Change, by the way, that's the title. He's no longer a minister. He's pissed off about this.
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Stephen Gilboa belongs in the NDP, not the Liberal Party. And there are a lot of Liberal MPs sitting
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right now. There's, I think, at least five right now that are talking about walking. But a lot of
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people in the Liberal Party are like Stephen Gilboa. This is the huge issue for them, the biggest issue
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for them. And they have constituents who voted for them on this issue alone, pipelines and oil and
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climate change. And they would be better off in the Liberal Party. You could see a fracturing happening
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here today. And the NDP is trying to take the mantle of environmentalism out of the hands of the
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Liberals once again, because they were always the party that outflanked the Liberals on the left when
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it came to that issue. If we go over to this story here from the Hill Times.
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Sell out of the century, NDP leadership candidates decry Alberta energy deal in the first debate.
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Ottawa and Alberta's memorandum of understanding paving the way for a pipeline project running from
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Alberta's oil patch to BC's coastline became a topic of discussion as NDP leader hopefuls faced off in
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their first debate in Montreal on November 27th. This is a huge issue for them. They see an
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opportunity here to drag some Liberals across the aisle to their side. This is a big, big thing today.
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If you look at Abby Lewis, far leftist, not likely to win this thing. Heather McPherson,
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I think she might be the leader here, who happens to be from Alberta and is running against Danielle
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Smith. If you follow her X account, here's Abby Lewis. This is his Green New Deal, which he came
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out for the other day, all about climate. And if you go down here, he pumps power lines, not pipelines,
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no federal approvals for new pipelines. There are people in the Liberal Party who think this.
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Here's Pierre Polyev again, asked about this Green New Deal by Abby Lewis. Listen to this.
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Avi Lewis today came out with a Green Plan Canada. Shut down all fossil fuel production and all the
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jobs in that sector will go to something else. He also made a suggestion during the recent debate
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that... Sounds like what Mark Carney was writing about in his book called Values. I think Mark Carney
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will like the idea. He, you know, he wrote all about it and he believed in it for a decade. So...
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I gave Stephen Gilboa credit when he resigned as minister after the Memorandum of Understanding was
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signed between Carney and Danielle Smith. At least he has the strength of his convictions.
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And if there's a vote in the House of Commons today in favor of a pipeline and the Liberals vote in
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favor of it, I wouldn't be surprised if he just resigned his seat completely or walked across the aisle to
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the NDP. This is the religion of these people. You remember, this is Stephen Gilboa right here.
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Greenpeace activists scaled the CN Tower. One of them, Stephen Gilboa, 31. You've seen the picture.
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Here he is in his jumpsuit. There he is. This is what he believes. And there could be other ones in
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the Liberal Party. I think people are missing out on this. This is huge today. Could be huge. We could
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get a Christmas present. Now, here's the other thing that I think is... It just shows how broken Canada is.
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This is from Global Energy Monitor. Okay. And these are pipelines, oil and gas around the world right
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now. I mean, you look at here. This is where I live. This is Alberta. It's as if the hand of God
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came down and said, here are wealth and riches beyond what you can imagine. Albertans get it out
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of the ground. Trillions of dollars to make you rich. It's right here and we can't get a lot. And we have
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a lot of pipelines, but look at very few go over to the coast. We've got much, not much is coming out
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of the province, folks. And if you look what's happening over here, let me just zoom out a little
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bit. Over here, you've got proposed, announced, or discovered. All these green dots are proposed,
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announced, or discovered. And they're everywhere. And the blue ones are in construction. And they're
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everywhere. There's blue dots all over this. And in Canada, we have to play games in the House of
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Commons in order to get a single pipeline built. It's maddening. What is wrong with this country?
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Canada's broken. It's right there in Alberta and other places across the country. And we have to play
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games in the House of Commons in order to get any support for a pipeline. It's just so infuriating.
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Going to be interesting today. So I'm rooting for the conservatives. I'm rooting for the NDP because
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if people go over to the NDP and voters go over there, the conservatives slip right down the middle.
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We're dividing the left here, folks. Thank you very much for watching. If you liked the video,
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