BREAKING! Trudeau Liberals Give Canadians the Finger ｜ Stand on Guard Take 5 #carbontax #Trudeau
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Summary
A vote in the House of Commons, where a liberal MP gives everyone in Western Canada the middle finger. Why did Ken McDonald do that? Well, we re going to find out in a minute what this is all about.
Transcript
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Why did your dad give everyone in Western Canada the middle finger?
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Well, we're going to find out in a minute what this is all about,
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because we had another middle finger today from another liberal.
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So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
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We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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I had a big vote in the House of Commons today, right after question period.
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I did the broadcast live during question period,
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waited until this big vote on the carbon tax pause.
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It wasn't another act, the tax vote, as some people were saying.
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But it was a vote to expand Trudeau's three-year carbon tax exemption
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to more than just home heating oil and include natural gas and propane.
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So the rest of the country can at least get a little bit of relief.
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Now, this was a conservative motion introduced by opposition leader Pierre Polyev.
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But there were some really unexpected things happened today,
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and we're going to watch what that was right now.
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That's Ken McDonald, the liberal MP from Newfoundland, technically Avalon.
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Now, ironically, Ken McDonald has voted with the conservatives
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But it looks like Mr. McDonald got what he wanted from Justin Trudeau
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when Trudeau exempted Atlantic Canada from the carbon tax,
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And there was talk that the conservatives were asking
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Ken McDonald to cross the floor to the conservative side.
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And it looks like McDonald gave his answer today.
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It certainly looks that way to me in this picture, doesn't it, to you?
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And I think that's indicative of how this government really feels about things.
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It certainly looks like he's giving Canadians the finger,
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as the opposition House leaders said immediately after the vote,
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that the member from Avalon was giving everybody the finger,
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So, this motion was to extend the pause to all home heating.
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The report, I recognize the honorable house leader.
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We just had a very important vote to Canadians.
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And the member from Avalon literally gave the finger to those Canadians as he stood to vote for our motion,
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which was to give them a break and a reprieve on home heating costs.
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He gave the finger to the senior choosing between heating and eating.
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He gave the finger to all those struggling to make ends meet in an unaffordable Canada.
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The speaker shut it right down there, didn't he?
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Yeah, and here's Ken McDonald's about to rise and explain himself.
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I scratched the side of my head with two fingers.
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So if they think it's one finger, that's up to them.
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Would you believe I was just scratching my head with two fingers?
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If honorable colleagues will allow me to take a look at this issue,
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When members are often offered an opportunity to explain their actions,
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And if necessary, I will come back to the House.
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But I hope that this will be the end of the points of order on this particular issue.
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Yes, and the speaker certainly hopes this will be the end of the issue.
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This is a disaster of a speaker, by the way, who is the most partisan speaker I've ever seen.
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It's six premiers now are standing up to Trudeau and saying,
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No, you can't just give Atlantic Canada the pause, the exemption from the carbon tax and ignore the rest of Canada for the population is for goodness sake.
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But six premiers now, B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick are all saying enough of this crap, this BS, Trudeau.
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And Trudeau is just absolutely encircled by political opponents now, by his political foes.
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Once he admitted the carbon tax really wasn't about stopping catastrophic climate change,
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he opened the door to everything else falling in on him.
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And that's exactly what's happened, because he's admitted it's got nothing to do, really, with Canada's global footprint,
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which remains at 1.4, 1.5 percent, which is insignificant in the larger realm, in the aggregate.
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So, you know, that is what we are up against here, is a prime minister who is essentially against everything now.
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Now, why is this significant beyond today, historically?
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Because Justin Trudeau's father was well known for giving the finger.
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At a train stop in British Columbia, he gave the finger to protesters outside of his train window.
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And certainly if you went through that campaign, Trudeau was at the nadir of his popularity at that point.
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And it was a very trying time economically for Canada.
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And this topic came up at a session when Trudeau was addressing a school in Calgary.
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The parents had told them about the time the elder Trudeau had gave his finger,
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not only to British Columbia, but to the entire West.
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He really wasn't too positive about Western power and the emergence of the West as a real kingmaker in Canadian politics.
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So he was asked about this by one of the children.
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Did your dad give everyone in Western Canada the middle finger?
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My father had an approach to politics that not everyone agreed with.
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And no matter how nice and good and smart any politician is,
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there's always going to be people who disagree with some of the decisions.
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Because really, in politics, you do have to make big decisions.
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And whenever you make big decisions, there's going to be people who agree with it
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There's going to be people who disagree with it.
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And let me tell you, Trudeau made a big decision to put a pause on the carbon tax,
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but not other provinces and other parts of Canada are going to benefit from that decision.
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And apparently a Liberal MP today made a very stupid decision
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And this was really something that is inexplicable.
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Especially since he supported conservative initiatives in the carbon tax in the past.
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It's not clear what was going on in his mind, why he did this.
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But this whole scenario is unraveling for the Trudeau government and for Justin Trudeau.
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Let's hear what Pierre Pauly has to say about it.
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What I learned is that he's now got a new carbon tax coalition
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Given that the NDP was forced to flip-flop on Trudeau's plan to quadruple the tax,
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he had to find a new partner to keep him in power
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and avoid this non-confidence vote from passing.
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He's now signed on with the separatists to divide Canadians into two separate classes.
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Those who will have to pay carbon tax on their home heat
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and a small minority who will get a pause from the pain.
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All of Trudeau's MPs sold out their constituents
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and voted to make their home heating more expensive.
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Trudeau and his costly MPs have divided our country,
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raised our taxes, and pushed our people out into the cold.
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But what's more ominous here is Mr. Pauly's assertion
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and the fact that the Bloc supported the Liberals,
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because they really seem to see some political danger in the carbon tax.
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They voted with the government against the Conservative motion.
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to guarantee their support not only on today's motion
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Even Justin Trudeau's father would have found that abhorrent
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including an obsession with official bilingualism