The Critical Compass Podcast - April 21, 2025


Canadian Politicians Buying Voters with Empty Rhetoric ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

164.71

Word count

542

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Summary

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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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00:00:00.000 do you remember when trudeau was pushing that um school lunch program and was using the
00:00:09.480 conservatives opposition to it as a as a point of argument of like like oh the conservatives don't
00:00:15.560 want your children to have food or something it's like well obviously not obviously no one
00:00:19.960 disagrees with the premise that children should have healthy lunches and good food no one is on
00:00:24.920 the other side of that argument the argument is that should it be the government that's providing
00:00:29.480 that food or should it be should a system of government governance be put in place that allows
00:00:34.120 families to have the type of disposable income that allows them to provide their children with
00:00:40.320 the necessary and healthful food to just get their lunches that's the actual argument the argument is
00:00:47.040 not this straw man that they've constructed of like oh well the conservatives just don't they just all
00:00:51.920 that money that would have gone to that program they want to give to their wealthy bankers or
00:00:55.720 whatever and it's like okay listen bud your party leader is a wealthy banker so like you know this
00:01:01.400 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
00:01:07.700 childhood obesity rates we need less food for children less food in schools james from the critical
00:01:14.940 compass you heard it here first but that's the perfect example of some of these um it's a legislation
00:01:24.480 it's not it's not designed to be effective because you can't feed everybody it's not a top down
00:01:30.740 unless they have the level of control in every school it's the amount of like improvement that
00:01:40.620 they can get is is minimal same thing happens with the dental program like or the child care
00:01:48.280 ccb child care benefit these things sound great when you're delivering a speech then you look into
00:01:57.200 the details and they have very strict stipulations they have very strict income cutoffs and they're actually
00:02:04.440 not helping a lot of people but to a voter it sounds like a good thing yeah and then you see cases of people
00:02:14.380 trying to access the child care benefit and you're like okay well i'm not eligible for it yet or i have
00:02:20.620 to submit a thing and then there's some paperwork yeah it's denied but often the cases with these types
00:02:26.320 of things exactly like what you're saying the incentive is to actually make less money so that you can qualify
00:02:32.460 for these programs the incentive is never in a in a on the more you know progressive you know liberal side
00:02:39.020 the incentive is to never earn more and achieve more it's always if you're earning less and achieving
00:02:44.480 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
00:02:51.320 might have to do an episode where we actually pull up the numbers um there's some good data on this right
00:02:57.560 now even showing that um the money disproportionately goes to new canadians or new uh temporary residents
00:03:06.820 and people who are well they're coming to canada and they're struggling so again you are kind of just
00:03:15.500 buying voters at this point