Canadian Politicians Buying Voters with Empty Rhetoric ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss some of the perverse government programs and programs that are designed to help the poor, the elderly, and the working poor, but are actually designed to benefit the wealthy, the well-to-do, and those with a lot of disposable income.
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do you remember when trudeau was pushing that um school lunch program and was using the
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conservatives opposition to it as a as a point of argument of like like oh the conservatives don't
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want your children to have food or something it's like well obviously not obviously no one
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disagrees with the premise that children should have healthy lunches and good food no one is on
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the other side of that argument the argument is that should it be the government that's providing
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that food or should it be should a system of government governance be put in place that allows
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families to have the type of disposable income that allows them to provide their children with
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the necessary and healthful food to just get their lunches that's the actual argument the argument is
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not this straw man that they've constructed of like oh well the conservatives just don't they just all
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that money that would have gone to that program they want to give to their wealthy bankers or
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whatever and it's like okay listen bud your party leader is a wealthy banker so like you know this
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is this is my point does that make sense yeah well i'm i'm gonna be the one person to say uh with the
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childhood obesity rates we need less food for children less food in schools james from the critical
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compass you heard it here first but that's the perfect example of some of these um it's a legislation
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it's not it's not designed to be effective because you can't feed everybody it's not a top down
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unless they have the level of control in every school it's the amount of like improvement that
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they can get is is minimal same thing happens with the dental program like or the child care
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ccb child care benefit these things sound great when you're delivering a speech then you look into
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the details and they have very strict stipulations they have very strict income cutoffs and they're actually
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not helping a lot of people but to a voter it sounds like a good thing yeah and then you see cases of people
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trying to access the child care benefit and you're like okay well i'm not eligible for it yet or i have
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to submit a thing and then there's some paperwork yeah it's denied but often the cases with these types
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of things exactly like what you're saying the incentive is to actually make less money so that you can qualify
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for these programs the incentive is never in a in a on the more you know progressive you know liberal side
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the incentive is to never earn more and achieve more it's always if you're earning less and achieving
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less we'll give you more so we're how that's a it's a perverse it's an inverted incentive yeah we we
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might have to do an episode where we actually pull up the numbers um there's some good data on this right
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now even showing that um the money disproportionately goes to new canadians or new uh temporary residents
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and people who are well they're coming to canada and they're struggling so again you are kind of just