The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - They are falling apart at the seams.

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome once again to The Blueprints. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm

00:00:08.540 your host, Jamie Schmael, Member of Parliament for Halliburton Corps at the Lakes Brock with

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00:00:25.840 talking about the disturbing latest food bank numbers. Also, disarray within the Liberal Party.

00:00:31.900 Justin Trudeau must go. This and much, much more. We bring on the Member of Parliament for Calgary

00:00:37.480 Heritage, Shuv Majumdar. Thanks for joining us. First time caller, long time fan. Great to be here

00:00:42.360 with you, Jamie. How are you? It's great to have you on. That's awesome. I appreciate the time and

00:00:46.680 your insight that we're about to have today. Well, I don't know how much insight I have to offer, but

00:00:50.260 I walk in your footsteps proudly. I do what you tell me to. Like that, how are you not on the show

00:00:55.320 more often? I agree. All right. Disarray within the Liberal Party. They're calling, a number of

00:01:00.940 caucus members are calling for Justin Trudeau to go to step down. So far, Justin Trudeau has said,

00:01:06.440 no, I am staying until the next election. What are your just, I know it's going to be a little biased

00:01:11.300 given the fact that we're on the same team here. Totally empirical perspectives. Exactly. Just give

00:01:16.040 me your outline of what you see in front of us. Listen, after nine long years of Trudeau and Singh's

00:01:20.520 NDP arrangement, NDP Liberal Government arrangement, they've seen nothing but utter devastation.

00:01:25.040 And they're hearing it at the doors. These are politicians who are very pragmatic people.

00:01:30.020 And they are hearing a dissatisfaction by Canadians on a performance that is the height of moral and

00:01:36.700 financial corruption. I don't know the last time you or I would have actually seen this type of

00:01:42.000 obscene levels of moral and financial corruption on all issues, on every aspect of our economy,

00:01:47.580 crime, chaos, drugs, disorder, raining across our streets. And I think they've had enough because

00:01:52.420 they know they have a performative prime minister who isn't delivering actual results for people.

00:01:58.100 There isn't a problem they can't throw a photo op or a publicity stunt at. And I think they're tired

00:02:04.900 of just having to carry that water. I don't blame them. You know, you shouldn't take joy in other

00:02:08.840 people's pain, but they've been part of this problem. So I can't wait until Canadians can go to 0.88

00:02:13.700 the polls and have the election they demand to change a government with one that's adult,

00:02:19.180 responsible, ready to go on day one on a range of issues that Trudeau and Singh have set this

00:02:24.780 country afire with.

00:02:25.960 So I also bring this up for that great analysis as well. I couldn't set it better, but you're

00:02:31.800 bang on. It's not because necessarily because of those issues. That's why the liberal MPs,

00:02:40.800 the 20 or 30 or so, however many have stood up, it's to save their own jobs, not necessarily like

00:02:46.260 you said, the food bank usage, the crime, the drug use, et cetera, et cetera. They're just more

00:02:52.080 into saving their own hides rather than saying, wait a second, Canada's definitely on the wrong

00:02:57.400 track here.

00:02:58.340 You're absolutely right. Think of everything you just said here. Like I know we're going to

00:03:02.180 talk about food bank crisis in Calgary today. We just saw a report that was released that says

00:03:07.800 that food bank usage in Calgary is up 200% since 2019. None of these dissenters are placing the

00:03:16.620 problems of Canadians at the core of why Justin Trudeau needs to go. They're putting their own 1.00

00:03:21.920 political height on the line. This is about survival, not about change for people. And I mean,

00:03:27.400 what do you want me to say? Liberals are going to liberal. This is how they are. But I'm so

00:03:32.960 pleased that our party actually cares about the ideas that have an impact on the lives of everyday

00:03:37.600 people, extraordinary people, people who have been sidelined by this government at every turn,

00:03:43.920 people who you've met at the doors and I met at the doors in my by-election last year.

00:03:47.820 I have never seen people so hurting, so desperate, so angry. I know that there's a lot of commentary

00:03:56.040 about how polarized our country is and how emotional people are. I would say it's not about

00:04:01.620 the emotions that we should be paying attention to. It's about how desperate they are, what's causing

00:04:06.220 that anger, that fear. And what's really troubling, Jamie, is to watch Trudeau and Singh exploit those

00:04:15.100 emotions. Try and divide Canadians every turn on matters of faith, on matters of ethnicity,

00:04:20.880 ethnicity, on any issue. They will lie and smear conservatives for the sake of their own partisan

00:04:27.860 interests over hard national ones. I find that absolutely abhorrent and a flavor of what's to

00:04:33.500 come this year. Yeah, unfortunately, it's not going to get any better. But the overall strategy seems to

00:04:39.540 be the same on how liberals handle the story, right? Globe and Mail story was wrong when we're talking

00:04:44.980 about SNC-Lavalin, right? It was basically to deny, okay, it's happening a little bit. Okay,

00:04:50.380 it's happening, but we're not going to talk about it, right? And what's happening in the Liberal

00:04:54.040 Caucus, this is happening. So here is how the Liberals deal with a media nightmare, okay? And

00:05:00.880 you pointed out a bit here. So let's queue up cut one. Let's play cut one. This is, it's not happening.

00:05:05.960 How do you move past this? How do you quell the dissent? How does the Prime Minister get past this?

00:05:11.980 I mean, you are amplifying something that is very not to the what you, I think you wish

00:05:20.720 it would be. You have MPs. You have MPs in your caucus. I haven't seen anything from any MPs

00:05:26.920 signed by any MPs. You think they're bluffing? I haven't seen anything signed by any MPs and

00:05:33.900 any MPs came to me with something like that. None. Are you saying that's 30 or so MPs?

00:05:41.960 And the Liberal Party were brave enough to sign a piece of paper saying they want Justin

00:05:45.620 Trudeau to move on. The revenue minister there. It's not happening. This whole thing

00:05:50.960 is a fabrication. You know, the media is amplifying it. Okay, so crisis number one.

00:05:56.060 It's not happening. All right, let's queue up number two. Screenshot. Then we say, okay,

00:06:01.000 bang, there are some names. Those are a bunch of MPs. Some of them you may know. Some of them

00:06:04.880 you may not. Yeah, we've got useless Georgia Hall in Calgary. Incredible. The, uh, Mr. Canada Post. 0.54

00:06:10.160 Yeah, yeah. Auditioning for cabinet after trashing on Trudeau. It's incredible. It's an interesting,

00:06:14.960 uh, little, maybe he's trying to save a seat. I don't know. I don't know. That's an interesting

00:06:19.340 thing. So, okay. So now it's happening a little bit. All right. Let's queue up cut three. Okay.

00:06:25.280 It's happening. Let's move on. Do you think, though, the prime minister listened to what he

00:06:29.340 was told yesterday? Yes. I know, I know he did. I was in the room. Yes. Yes, he absolutely did.

00:06:35.320 So he listened. How does it, 18 hours later, he still declares he's staying?

00:06:41.020 He listened, but he wasn't swayed. You know, there's, uh, he, he, he felt very strongly.

00:06:49.360 Our views weren't the only ones. That's that, it is what it is. You know, it's, uh, it's time for,

00:06:56.540 it's time. Well, me personally, I'm moving on. There's been so much, there's so much energy burned

00:07:03.120 on all of this. Um, and that's, that is, that isn't where it needs to be now that this case is

00:07:09.700 clearly closed. All right. They're moving on. It's done. We're not even talking about this anymore.

00:07:14.400 Never happened. It's amazing how this happened. These are not the droids you're looking for. Right?

00:07:19.360 Yeah. They should die until it actually becomes something and then walk away. Just they've decided 1.00

00:07:24.620 we're done talking about it. So we're moving on. Well, thank God we are not. Exactly. We need to

00:07:29.580 get rid of Trudeau. We need to get rid of Singh. Yeah. We need to focus on the issues that, um,

00:07:34.820 our Canadian voters are deeply, deeply distressed about. Uh, we'll stay humble, work hard and get

00:07:40.300 the job done. These guys can't. No, exactly. So it's time they go. So we had the food bank, uh,

00:07:46.000 numbers come out absolutely disturbing, frightening, uh, scary, uh, just everything you can think

00:07:51.500 of a nightmare scenario here. Um, 200% increase in Calgary and in a city, I think most people

00:07:57.100 usually have a mindset or a view that Calgary is, is a fairly, you know, wealthy place to

00:08:03.060 be for the most part. Obviously every city has their challenges, but for the most part,

00:08:07.460 you wouldn't expect these, these kinds of increases in, in that area.

00:08:10.720 All across the country, people are hurting. Um, and in Calgary, you've seen a nine year assault

00:08:17.800 on our energy sector that has denied, not just the people of Calgary from contributing to the

00:08:23.780 success of our country and the security of the world through energy security. Um, you've seen

00:08:28.880 their livelihoods and their incomes gone up in smoke. In my own neighborhood, the Wood Creek

00:08:32.700 Community Food Bank runs out of food, uh, for lower income neighbors within hours of getting stocked.

00:08:39.660 Uh, I had a neighbor of mine, Maria, who, uh, she's a teacher, husband's working as an engineer.

00:08:46.240 They've got two teenage boys and I met them earlier this spring. They are making decisions at the,

00:08:53.260 at the grocery store about which products are expired versus which are not. And they've been

00:08:58.720 on the cusp of going to the food bank, uh, for months. They don't want to go there because they

00:09:02.900 want to preserve the food for people who really need them. Imagine the shock of a dual income home with 1.00

00:09:07.460 two teenage kids now wondering whether they're going to be able to make ends meet. This is serious

00:09:12.040 stuff. Um, you know, I love my city. I love the part of the city I come from. Um, and it's just

00:09:18.820 devastating to see the, the, the cost that people are paying newcomers who, um, are, are just trying

00:09:24.680 to make an honest go of it. Like my parents did in the 1970s. Uh, they came to Calgary. They worked in

00:09:30.140 the energy sector. Dad worked oil. Mom taught, uh, gave me a great life in South Calgary and an

00:09:34.800 opportunity to be a member of parliament for the area that I grew up in. Um, what a, what an amazing

00:09:39.900 story. What an amazing promise. Newcomers now, I see single mothers who at their doors don't know

00:09:45.680 whether they're going to keep the roof over the head with a $900 billion mortgage meltdown on the way

00:09:50.760 with costs of food going up with their kids going to school and taking the C train or bus and not sure

00:09:56.560 that the kids are safe coming home at night. Uh, I mean, these are stories that would have never

00:10:01.080 been heard of before in Calgary. Uh, this is what Justin Trudeau has done to my city and my neighbors.

00:10:06.100 And we have to focus on the fight ahead and get the job done because I can't imagine the kind of pain

00:10:12.080 that will unfold if we do not. Well, some liberals will say, well, look at the interest rates. The Bank

00:10:17.800 of Canada, you know, announced a major change, which some saw, some didn't. Uh, at the same time,

00:10:23.340 they did that, I think for the most part to preserve the, what's left of our economy. If,

00:10:28.400 if, if nothing happened, I think there would be a major, major, uh, implications within our,

00:10:33.560 our economy, uh, the chain as a whole. They have been taxing our economy to death.

00:10:38.380 Yeah. The carbon tax, which is purely ideological, as we well know, like not, not a single climate

00:10:44.420 metric has been met as a result of the imposition of this, this carbon tax. It has been suppressing

00:10:49.540 the price of home building. It has been suppressing the incomes of the lowest income people. It

00:10:54.540 is the most immoral tax on low income Canadians because of how outsizedly it impacts their

00:11:00.160 day to day life on food, fuel, and home heating. The winter is coming and we do not see energy

00:11:05.600 production at a level that would be self sufficient for our country. Um, I'm just saying this is

00:11:10.640 a government that is absolutely not focused on the priorities of Canadians and instead trying

00:11:15.140 to save their own hide by performative things, uh, I wish that, um, some common sense prevailed

00:11:20.400 and the liberal NDP caucus, but we know that they've become more radical than they have been

00:11:24.960 at any point in, in the history of our country. Uh, I remember, you know, I used to work at

00:11:30.260 a nonpartisan think tank, the McDonnell Laurier Institute. I remember that the liberal party at

00:11:35.380 a time was, uh, a voice for how we would end the cold war. Now the liberal party is focusing

00:11:42.960 on partnering with every rival Canada has, uh, and opening our country to become a playground

00:11:49.380 for foreign adventurism. Um, what an abrogation of responsibility, Jamie. I, I just wish we,

00:11:54.840 we could have that election now. And when we're talking about the economy as a whole, again,

00:11:59.640 we've mentioned this many times on the show, when conservatives talk about the economy, it's

00:12:04.280 leveling the playing field, getting government to the, the, the best point it can be, which is

00:12:09.220 usually the least point it can be, lowering taxes to a reasonable and responsible level

00:12:14.320 and letting the, the market lead the way, right? No one government can decide what, you know,

00:12:20.480 40 million plus people want, right? So the market can decide, decide the market will provide

00:12:25.480 the best product price service. Whereas the liberals seem to be saying, we're going to tell

00:12:31.060 you what you're going to want and we are going to invest in those areas. So usually liberal

00:12:37.960 friendly firms get some lucrative contracts without delivering really anything people want.

00:12:42.800 A $400 billion slush fund, a $400 billion slush fund that has gone to invest in liberal insiders

00:12:51.320 for their own personal prosperity at the expense of, uh, anything that would make a difference in our

00:12:56.460 energy mix or electricity distribution, our energy supply to the world. Here we have trillions of

00:13:01.940 dollars of resource wealth, wealth, food, fuel, uranium, oil and gas, energy technologies,

00:13:08.660 all of these things we enjoy in abundance. If we made one deal with one of the foreign leaders that 0.99

00:13:15.160 have come knocking on our doors, if we had made one deal with Germany, the impact that it would have

00:13:19.680 had on our national treasury alone would have been able to help pay off our debt, provide for the

00:13:25.700 social welfare net, an efficient one, a more efficient one that has been delivered by wasteful liberals.

00:13:30.240 Uh, it would have rebuilt our military, help toward reconciliation with first nations, all of the

00:13:35.840 value added benefits of an energy sector that would actually decrease international emissions because

00:13:41.840 of how well we curate our energy resources, uh, has been locked in, has been landlocked and suffocated from

00:13:48.240 global markets, from the markets that would actually demand Canadian goods and services. It's, um, you think about the

00:13:57.240 effort it would take to put aside $400 billion to pay off your friends versus the effort it would take to

00:14:04.280 unlock our resources and improve the lives and livelihoods of Canadians. And they actually have

00:14:10.280 to work harder to steal the way that they do, to cheat, to lie. It takes extra effort. It's actually more

00:14:15.800 efficient to just do the right thing. It would be. And you know, I genuinely wish that they would, but

00:14:20.760 that's how we fix the budget by lowering taxes, unlocking our resources and getting our goods and

00:14:26.360 services, not just to other Canadians, but across the world to a world that's demanding it. And as a

00:14:31.000 global partner, providing the energy that countries in Europe and otherwise need so they don't have to

00:14:35.960 rely on bad actors to supply their energy. You know, every part of the old value chain, which was the

00:14:42.200 oil and gas one, it's controlled by OPEC, which as you know, is a club of oil producing dictators,

00:14:47.240 which Russia is a member, they act through consensus. Every part of the energy transition

00:14:51.480 to come that we're often told about requires refined critical minerals, which China now refines

00:14:57.800 over 80% of global mineral supply. So here you have the old energy economy and the new energy economy

00:15:04.120 controlled by dictators who are not acting in the interest of everyday Canadians. But here's Canada

00:15:09.880 that has energy resources that can displace dictator oil, that has critical mineral resources and energy

00:15:15.480 technology ingenuity that can displace reliance on China, all being locked in to do what? To subsidize

00:15:22.280 the Russians and the Chinese and how they're trying to destabilize the world. We need some more common 1.00

00:15:28.280 sense, I think, in every aspect of our life. Yeah, I know, right? Like we have some trillions below our feet.

00:15:34.920 Trillions. Let's start helping Canada help the world, help ourselves. Everyone will be a happier place.

00:15:41.400 Literally, nobody gets hurt in that proposition. I agree. I agree. All right. We're out of time,

00:15:46.280 but the guests always get the last words or the floor is yours. Listen, I am born of an immigrant

00:15:52.840 family. I've had the honor of doing some remarkable things in my life, including especially now serving

00:15:58.200 the great people of Calgary heritage. Our country had a promise, a promise that if you work hard,

00:16:03.960 do as best of your ability as you can. It doesn't matter where you come from. It doesn't matter what

00:16:09.560 your name is. I worry about the politics of fear and division that NDP liberals will cast about this

00:16:16.120 country to hold on to power. They will cling to power at every turn. And so my message to your audience

00:16:22.120 and to conservatives across the country is stay strong. I know this country is hurting. Our team is

00:16:27.160 ready. Our coalition is big. We're going to stay focused on the priorities of everyday Canadians and never let

00:16:32.600 the politics of fear and division triumph over the freedom and hope that we have to offer. Thank you

00:16:37.800 very much. Well said. Thank you very much. Member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage,

00:16:42.680 Stephen Harper's old seat. Indeed. Appreciate your time. We appreciate yours as well. Don't forget to

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The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - October 29, 2024

They are falling apart at the seams.

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