00:00:00It looks like Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals are in serious trouble today as
00:00:05Industry Minister Melanie Jolie gets targeted by Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives after
00:00:10several months of manufacturing job losses. The Liberals seem to think that they couldn't be
00:00:16unpopular again because every time Carney fought with President Donald Trump and the Americans,
00:00:21it would artificially boost the Liberals' popularity, but now the economy is catching
00:00:26back up to them. Check out this letter that Melanie Jolie posted on X a few days ago. They
00:00:34knew things were getting bad when it came to the economy and they were throwing out as many excuses
00:00:39as they could find. Melanie Jolie has been doing this game for about like a month now where every0.85
00:00:45once in a while she puts out a letter like scolding a company for laying people off rather
00:00:50than wondering why there are so many companies laying off workers right now. In this letter
00:00:56She says, here's my statement calling on the competition commissioner to review Stelco's actions.
00:01:03Stelco is the steel company that had laid off 500 workers temporarily recently.
00:01:09And for some reason, Melanie Jolie and the Liberals thought it was a good look for them to attack the company and try and potentially take them to court.
00:01:19Except they're probably in the wrong, so everything has really just been a lot of dumb demand letters and threats without ever actually stepping into the courtroom.
00:01:30Following extensive discussions with our legal team over the past week, I sent a letter to the competition commissioner asking them thoroughly examine whether Cleveland Cliffs' conduct in the Canadian marketplace warrants enforcement action under the Competition Act.
00:01:46Last Monday, Cleveland Cliffs CEO Lorenzo Gonglaves stated live on air, quote, I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company.
00:02:02For the workers at Stelco's facilities in Hamilton and Natakok, this was a shocking admission as it was for the government.
00:02:10If negotiations and acquisitions were conducted in bad faith, Canadians deserve to know the company needs to face the consequences.
00:02:20It is the commissioner's responsibility to examine this matter thoroughly and, if warranted, take the appropriate measures.
00:02:26They're now going after Gonglaves for a comment he made in an interview and basically acting as if he nefariously purchased Stelco, which actually saved a bunch of jobs because Stelco was going out of business, only to prevent Stelco from ever succeeding again.
00:02:46It's like, what? He literally prevented the company from going out of business back in like 2020 or 2022 or something like that. It was only a few years ago. And now they're attacking him for being the villain. Like, what? But this is what the liberals have devolved into. Attacking private businesses, especially if they have American owners, for what is a bad economy right now in Canada.
00:03:12And she just did the same thing 22 hours ago to Stellantis because they're going to be selling off a factory in Brampton, which is going to result in thousands of job losses, even though it seems like the liberals were the ones who approved the sale.
00:03:33Stellantis's decision does not erase the commitments they made to workers in Brampton.
00:03:38We remain focused on finding solutions for the more 2,000 affected workers and their families.
00:03:43They deserve answers, respect, and above all, a secure future.
00:03:47All parties must come back to the bargaining table.
00:03:50I have reached out to the representatives of Unifor, Stellantis, the government of Ontario, and the Brampton plant to convene a meeting later this week.
00:03:57I expect them to come to the table with a single focus, protecting good-paying jobs in Brampton.0.99
00:04:09I've solved the problem for you, Melanie Jolie.0.92
00:04:12Cut taxes, cut regulations, and jobs will not leave.
00:04:15But they think that they can strong-arm companies into just keeping people employed, whether the goods they are manufacturing have any end-of-sale possibility or not.
00:04:28The problem is you can't force Stelco to produce more steel than they can sell, and you can't force Stellantis to produce more cars than they can sell.0.93
00:04:40That is what the Liberal government should be doing, but they're not.
00:04:43And that is exactly why the Conservatives right now are targeting Melanie Jolie for destruction, because she is one of the big pillars in this current Liberal government, and if the Conservatives can destroy her reputation, rightfully so, then I think they can start getting at Mark Carney himself.
00:07:31That is why today the official opposition is calling for the Liberal Prime Minister to fire his failed, costly, job-killing Liberal industry minister.
00:07:42We expect Canadians also to get the billions of tax dollars back that the Liberals handed over to this multinational corporation.
00:07:51And because of Mark Carney's arrogant personality and inability to actually take accountability for anything, I doubt he's actually going to get rid of Melanie Jolie, which is exactly what Polyev wants him to do.
00:08:04He wants him to keep Melanie Jolie, but a minister who has an awful reputation.
00:08:10Because Justin Trudeau didn't just become unpopular because he was personally unpopular.0.98
00:08:15It's because his cabinet was full of incompetent buffoons, people like Melanie Jolie, that0.96
00:08:21eventually spoiled the entire thing and the liberals dropped to the low 20s in terms of0.96
00:08:28I want to now take you guys over to what the Unifor president is saying about the liberals
00:08:33Because far be it from me to agree with a union, because typically they support all these government-enforced job requirements and everything, that I find, frankly, ridiculous.
00:08:44Have a good economy. Have a good regulatory environment.
00:08:50And you won't need to tell companies to employ people.
00:08:52They'll employ them because business will be booming.
00:08:55But the Unifor president is right here from the perspective that the liberals keep saying
00:09:01that they're going to enforce these job requirements on companies, and yet they never actually
00:12:19Basically calling the industry minister a liar that when she was been trying to find solutions to this and preserve jobs,
00:12:26that she's actually been sitting there doing nothing.
00:12:29And Unifor and other actors have been the main drivers of trying to actually come to a deal to preserve some of the jobs.
00:12:36Again, I don't like usually a union solution to these type of problems. I like a market-driven solution where we cut government spending, reduce taxes, reduce regulations, and let the market work properly.
00:12:51But from a liberal perspective, from like a left-leaning voter perspective, you couldn't possibly take the side of Melanie Jolie. You're either going to be moving conservative because you're a working class guy losing his job and you like the poly of conservatives more, or you're some sort of leftist who doesn't like that workers are being hurt by the liberal government and you're going to be moving towards the NDP.
00:13:15There's no way the Liberals pull out of this with gaining any popularity, let alone even treading water where they're at.
00:13:23They're going to be losing popularity in this region.0.79
00:13:26I'll let Lana Payne here finish, then I want to jump over to a Brampton riding as an example.
00:13:30And the reality is, is that the problem has been from the beginning that Stellantis has said that they have wanted to sell this plant, and we have said no.
00:13:40the government has said that this is potentially a breach of continued breach of the contract
00:13:45we'll do something about that instead here we are with a sale although I will say if you read
00:13:52closely to their press release today they do say that there are conditions that have to be met for
00:13:57that sale to go through and I would say what are those conditions and we need to make sure that our
00:14:02union understands what that is and I would say all parties including the federal government and
00:14:08Stellantis and Rochelle need to explain what the conditions of those sales are.
00:14:13And so that is also revealing the fact that she has been, Melanie Jolie has been hiding
00:14:20You think Unifor should be one of the parties in this situation that should have all the
00:14:25information at their fingertips, you know, not private information from the company itself.
00:14:29You know, you're not going to be giving all their financial statements over to Unifor,
00:14:33But just more of an insight into what the actual discussions are between the federal government and Stellantis, what the sort of current state of the jobs is at, who the sale is going to, is there going to be a new model of vehicle made at that plant, is it going to bring back the jobs in time?
00:14:54But now I want to take you guys over to a specific Brampton area riding that this will have a big effect on, I believe.
00:15:00So we have here Brampton East in the 2025 election. Maninder Sidhu has won the riding with only 48% of the vote to the Conservatives, 44%.
00:15:14Now, the liberals, the conservatives had gained a lot off of the NDP falling in this area. And it's just because in actual working class ridings with manufacturing, the conservatives are becoming the working class party, whereas the NDP used to be that for a lot of voters because the NDP used to be more of a trade unionist party, not a public sector union party.
00:15:39but especially with Jagmeet Singh and now Avi Lewis, it's a public sector healthcare worker
00:15:45party. It's not a party for people who work at auto plants. The Conservatives in 2025 only lost
00:15:52this riding by 4%, a little bit less than 4%. The Liberals actually fell in this riding from 2021,
00:16:01despite the fact that the Liberals' votes overall in Canada had been going up in 2025. And it's
00:16:07because these sort of heavier industry manufacturing ridings in the GTA and southwestern Ontario are
00:16:15actually becoming more socially, culturally, economically conservative. So with all of this
00:16:21going down in Stellantis-Brampton plant, do you think that they wouldn't be able to close the
00:16:26gap, the poly of conservatives? Very obviously. It would be very easy for the conservatives at
00:16:31this point to end up taking that riding from the liberals, and that's why they will be putting so
00:16:36much uh you know they'll be putting so much um like pressure on this particular issue and going
00:16:42after melanie joe lee here is um mark carney talking about workers in the aftermath of all
00:16:48this news uh not not really giving much hope to anybody that the liberals are going to be able to
00:16:53do something the situation uh in salantis is uh the brampton plan is unacceptable it it violates
00:17:02the obligations that Stellantis has under several agreements, but to be more fundamental.
00:17:12It's a betrayal of the workers, as it is a betrayal of the obligations to Canada and by extension to all Canadians.
00:17:23Apparently, though, Mark Carney himself has no obligation to go and negotiate a trade deal with the Americans,
00:17:28which would actually solve probably half the issues that are currently plaguing things like
00:17:33the auto plants that have been shutting down and the steel mills. If he went and actually
00:17:38hammered out an agreement over time, it's not going to be pleasant, it's not going to be fun,
00:17:43but going in and generally getting what Canadians need, then we could solve all this. But we're
00:17:49going to be going after Stellantis for not meeting their obligations. What are those obligations?
00:17:53I don't know. They're always so vague about how many workers they're supposed to keep employed or if they're allowed to lay off anyone for any reason.
00:18:01And again, they never take them to court, so I can only conclude they know they're in the wrong.
00:18:06And as Mark Warner, the trade lawyer, said on CBC, Canada cannot be a suicide-packed economy where if you invest here, we do not let you lay off anyone.
00:18:17You are not allowed to shrink your operations.
00:18:20You cannot do anything that the Canadian government doesn't want you to do.
00:18:26How are you supposed to bring new investors into Canada when if the economy turns south, the company cannot make any adjustments to try and compensate for it?
00:18:35They're supposed to keep full employment no matter what.
00:18:39We will fully enforce our rights in protection of those workers and protection of Canadian funds.
00:18:47And the issue is not the work, the exceptional work of the Minister of Industry,
00:18:57It is the behavior of the company versus those workers.
00:19:03And there'll be a meeting of all stakeholders, which, I mean,
00:19:07the Minister is in constant contact, I know, because I'm regularly briefed at all hours.
00:19:11and there'll be a meeting of all stakeholders on Thursday on ways to move forward.
00:19:18But make no mistake, we will enforce our rights absolutely in protection of those workers.
00:19:22You know what a topic makes Mark Carney uncomfortable or he's lying because, like always,
00:19:28he always turns into a machine gun of ums and ahs.
00:19:30Now let's contrast that with the way that Pierre Polyev talks about this issue at his press conference today.
00:19:36And what I'm highlighting here is just a stylistic difference.
00:19:40If you're a working class voter or you're married to somebody in a working class area of the economy, you are not going to like Mark Carney's whole, we're going to get all the stakeholders to the table and negotiate and enforce obligations and whatnot.
00:19:58It's boring and just not imagistically good for those type of voters.
00:20:04Whereas pure poly gets working class voters way better than Mark Carney.
00:20:08This is why, despite the fact that both the Conservatives and Liberals increased their vote counts in the last federal election, when it came to a lot of Southwest Ontario ridings and GTA ridings, it was mainly just the Conservatives gaining in those areas and the Liberals trying to fend off Conservative gains.
00:20:27But now check out Polyev, the way he's talking about this issue in front of the plant with union workers protesting behind him. Not about him, obviously, they're protesting the closure.
00:20:38now you asked about food bank loose i'm telling you we are at a breaking point
00:20:44we are at a breaking point the working class in this country is just hanging on by its fingernails
00:20:53it is desperate out there i would say four or five times a day now i have people come up to
00:21:01me in tears saying they have no idea how they're going to make it and they're all saying that it's
00:21:07way worse today than it was a year and a half ago in March of 2025, when Mark Carney took office.
00:21:14This can't go on. Our people deserve a better life than this. And I will commit to you that
00:21:19we will fight for you every single day. My message is to Canadians, don't give up hope.
00:21:24We'll keep fighting for you. So I think that's far more compelling to the average Canadian when it
00:21:29comes to the current economy than Mark Carney's, well, we'll get into a boardroom and discuss it
00:21:35with stakeholders type way of dealing with these crises. Mark Carney contrasts well with a
00:21:42President Donald Trump, and him getting into these little mini rhetorical jouts with Trump
00:21:46does make Carney more popular. But when you start to seem out of touch with the actual,
00:21:52you know, kitchen table issues with Canadians, that is going to kill your chances of being
00:21:57reelected. Look at Trump in the United States. Before the midterms, he started saying things
00:22:02about the economy that made him seem out of touch about how, well, who cares if diesel prices and
00:22:07gas prices are up overall, you know, things are quite good. He would sort of say things that
00:22:12seem dismissive of people's problems. And that caused a lot of voters to turn on the Republicans.
00:22:18Mark Carney is doing that on steroids when he's trying to address massive job losses by saying,
00:22:24we're going to have a little, you know, roundtable discussion with, you know, with scones and coffee
00:22:55Genuinely, I can't name anything that would make the average Canadian want to line back up for him
00:22:59Other than, I guess, a more diminished elbows-up pitch, it's not going to be nearly as powerful in, like, a year or two when Donald Trump is either only president for another six months or there might be a different president.
00:23:14Anyways, but before I end this video, I do want to just show one more thing that is a big pet peeve of mine when it comes to polling and the way that people interpret it.
00:23:23But Trending Politics here, which is associated with the Canada Proud brand, put out this polling number related to Mark Carney's popularity.
00:23:33They're just putting out, you know, polling information and news items that, you know, could go viral on social media.
00:23:40I think they put stuff out like this because it will annoy conservatives and they'll be sharing and saying, oh, my goodness, I can't believe this is a bunch of nonsense.
00:23:47But the way that they served up this poll is just wrong. One liaison is not a good pollster. Even this pollster actually still showed the polling tightening. It had the Bloc Québécois at only 5% nationally, which, no, they're not. They're much higher than that.
00:24:04The PQ just won the Quebec provincial election, and you think the Bloc Québécois is going down in the polls? No. If anything, PSPP, now being the Premier of Quebec, is going to boost the Bloc. But even this poll about Carney's popularity, his approval rating, does not say what trending politics says that it says.
00:24:24You actually need to look at the poll itself to determine what it's actually attempting to say.
00:24:30And it's not even a good quality poll, but even then, the poll is still not as good for Carney as this post is making it out to be.
00:24:39Prime Minister Mark Carney's approval edges up to 65% after his budget, with disapproval holding at 28%.
00:24:46The Liberals lead by 23 points among women, but just 3% among men, even though both groups approve of Carney at similar rates.
00:24:54liaison strategies no no this was not but this was not he that his approval is not edging up
00:25:01after his budget this poll was conducted between october 25th and november 5th that is not or it
00:25:09was of november 7th that is only two days that would have actually taken into account the budget
00:25:16being released this is not mark carney's approval rating going up after the budget and by the way
00:25:22This poll also showed the Liberals' national polling going down.
00:25:27Whenever you have a pollster that is showing both a leader's approval going up by multiple points,
00:25:33at the same time their party's actual polling is going down, it's a bad poll.
00:25:38By the way, that gap between men and women is just cartoonishly big.
00:25:43It's just probably way too many urbanites being polled at the same time that they have a really bad sample when it comes to Alberta and the prairies.
00:25:51I think they showed that the gap between the Liberals and Conservatives in Alberta was only 5%.
00:26:15Alberta would still be won by the Conservatives by a pretty good margin because it's Alberta.
00:26:20Just as if the Conservatives started leading the Liberals by 15%, like a real 15%, they wouldn't be winning Toronto ridings. It's just Toronto is Toronto, and the culture is just not something that overlaps very well when it comes to Conservative politics.
00:26:35Conservatives would still come fourth or fifth place in Montreal because it's Montreal. Whenever I see these polls purporting to show the realities of Canadian politics completely inverting, I reject it outright.
00:26:50I'd need to see an actual result demonstrating that that region of the country is moving hard
00:26:56for the liberals. Do you think Saskatchewan farmers are moving for the liberals? No. No,
00:27:02they're not. That's not happening. Because it is a rural Saskatchewan voter who doesn't like
00:27:07the social politics, the fiscal politics, or even just the general cultural politics
00:27:12of the federal liberal party. Anyways, with all that being said, thank you for listening to my
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00:27:27sustainable. And with that being said, thank you guys for watching and I'll see you all next time.