The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 30, 2024


Canada's Liberal government too woke to say ＂Happy Easter＂

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March holiday season central bank digital currencies
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Wyatt Claypool
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Easter O'Toole Pierre Poilievre Daniel Boardman Bonnie Crombie Justin Trudeau Bill C-63
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Easter is a Christian holiday, and yet, the federal government wants to wish veterans and their families a Happy March Holiday Season. I'm not mad about it, I'm just tired of it. Let's get rid of holidays in government.

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00:00:00.000 Whenever I see stupid stuff like this coming out of Canada's federal government, it doesn't offend me anymore. 1.00
00:00:06.000 I'm not mad about it. I'm just tired. 1.00
00:00:09.080 Because it's so tiresome for me to imagine the sort of tedious, woke worldview that would cause someone in the Veterans Affairs office to post something like this on Easter.
00:00:20.500 So the Veterans Affairs Ministry actually posted this on X yesterday.
00:00:24.520 It reads, we want to wish veterans, current members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP and their families a happy March holiday season.
00:00:33.820 Really, guys, March holiday season?
00:00:36.460 Again, I'm not even mad. It's just so stupid. I can't be mad at it. 1.00
00:00:40.140 Really, there was a meeting in the Veterans Affairs Ministry where the comms department came together and somebody posted the default sort of terminology that they would normally use in any other given year.
00:00:51.260 Like, oh, here's the thing that we're planning for our Easter holiday post.
00:00:55.720 And someone said, really, that seems a little bit of like some harsh language.
00:01:00.480 Should we really say something like Easter? That could offend someone.
00:01:04.180 And they actually had to probably have a back and forth discussion about, well, what language is more inclusive around this holiday that is specifically exclusive to Christians celebrating it?
00:01:15.380 I never understand the idea that we need inclusive language around a holiday that is only meant for one specific group who actually cares about the holiday.
00:01:24.540 And remember, the government would never do this around any other religious holiday, pretty much, unless it involves Jewish people, because now the liberals and the NDP are very down on Jewish people.
00:01:34.680 So maybe during Hanukkah, they would just say the beginning of December holiday season.
00:01:39.620 But with Easter, you know that they're only doing this because the liberal government has a strange aversion to explicitly Christian holidays.
00:01:47.580 So in a meeting in the Veterans Affairs Office, they're like, well, March holiday season kind of indicates we're talking about Easter.
00:01:54.080 And maybe it won't offend Christians, but it won't also offend other people who don't celebrate Easter.
00:01:58.560 This is why, if a conservative government beats the liberals, and they very likely will in 2025, I'd actually just like the federal government to just do away with celebrating holidays.
00:02:09.120 Unless it's like an actually federally recognized holiday that applies to everybody, don't post anything.
00:02:16.700 Don't post anything for Halloween, for Easter, for Ramadan, for Hanukkah, for anything, nothing for Passover. 0.82
00:02:23.760 Who cares?
00:02:24.260 I don't think politicians should be signaling to people in their writing that, hey, I sort of celebrate your holidays, too.
00:02:30.440 Because you don't.
00:02:31.540 If you're like an atheist, you're not celebrating anyone's religious holiday, seriously.
00:02:34.940 If you're a Christian, you're not celebrating an Islamic holiday. 0.85
00:02:37.720 If you're Islamic, you're not celebrating a Jewish holiday. 0.70
00:02:40.100 If you're Jewish, you're not celebrating, you know, a Hindu holiday. 0.99
00:02:43.220 It's silly. 0.99
00:02:44.200 I don't like this in government. 1.00
00:02:45.720 It's just pedantic and dumb. 0.99
00:02:48.120 And that's why I get, I can't get mad at it. 0.99
00:02:50.160 It's just so funny to me that there was actually a meeting that took place where liberal government staffers had to find a way of not offending anyone during Easter.
00:03:00.460 Let's call it the March holiday season.
00:03:01.900 If you're going to call it the March holiday season, just don't even bother posting anything about it.
00:03:06.300 If anything, it demonstrates to people that you were maybe going to call it the Easter holiday season.
00:03:10.880 You're like, ugh, too religious. 0.99
00:03:12.680 Let's not do that because we have a strange disrespect for Christian Canadians.
00:03:16.500 And as a Christian Canadian, I don't need a secular government recognizing a holiday that I celebrate, you know, Jesus died on a cross for everybody's sins.
00:03:25.960 And they're not actually going to recognize the real purpose of the holiday.
00:03:29.380 And they're just going to say, happy Easter.
00:03:30.980 Don't post about it at all.
00:03:32.520 If anything, that's actually offensive and pretending like you're actually somehow getting me on board by posting about my holiday.
00:03:39.260 So that's that.
00:03:41.260 Let's get rid of holidays in government.
00:03:43.000 Let's just get down to the actual business of government.
00:03:47.000 And maybe this is a slightly smooth, if not clunky transition.
00:03:50.500 It's both smooth and clunky at the same time.
00:03:52.800 I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill Federal Conservative Party nomination.
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00:03:57.900 I, Wyatt Claypool, I'm running for this riding.
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00:04:07.340 I guarantee, based on the fact that a lot of my videos have like 50,000 views, 20,000 views, 100,000 views, a bunch of you live in my riding and you're lying to me by not clicking on the link and buying a membership.
00:04:19.160 If you want a real conservative representing your conservative ridings, you actually need to buy a membership and vote for the people who are most conservative in your area.
00:04:26.640 Or you're going to end up with a red Tory representing you, somebody who, if they were in Toronto, they'd run for the Liberals.
00:04:32.660 If this was Vancouver, they'd run for the NDP.
00:04:34.920 They happen to be living in Calgary, so they're running in a conservative nomination.
00:04:39.080 So not to pivot away from the normal topic or the topic I started out on.
00:04:44.760 But regardless of what part of the country you live in, buy conservative membership so you can make sure that you have a conservative representing you.
00:04:52.080 The biggest threat to a poly of government right now is a bunch of Liberals running in conservative nominations.
00:04:57.420 So once the Conservative Party is in government, a good third of the MPs actually would have ran for the Liberals if they had a better chance in their riding.
00:05:04.980 So I just wanted to mention that.
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00:05:18.060 Defamation he cannot prove, has not provided any evidence for after two years, and is just dragging this out as long as possible.
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00:05:28.520 You know, and if I was to pivot to something else to talk about right now, it is hilarious to me.
00:05:34.040 After my last video talking about all the experts who came out to oppose Pure Polyev's opposition to the carbon tax and all the other premiers,
00:05:42.240 and even Liberal Party leaders like Bonnie Crombie in Ontario, there's all these people attacking me like,
00:05:48.300 what, you don't believe in climate scientists?
00:05:51.000 What, you don't believe in the climate?
00:05:52.440 You hate science?
00:05:53.780 Oh, you don't like economics because you oppose these economists attacking Polyev's for not liking the carbon tax?
00:05:59.740 I'm like, well, yeah, because I disagree with them, and they're obviously so left-wing.
00:06:05.420 It doesn't matter what the evidence is for whether the carbon tax works or not.
00:06:09.080 They have a skewed perspective on what makes the tax good, and so they will justify the tax based on that.
00:06:15.200 They are not talking in the realms.
00:06:17.400 They are not even in the realm of what Canadians care about when it comes to the carbon tax.
00:06:21.980 They care about government power.
00:06:23.980 They care about climate action.
00:06:26.240 They care about redistributionary governmental tax schemes, so they will support something like the carbon tax.
00:06:33.100 That is not, I don't care about their perspective because they don't have the priority of most Canadians
00:06:37.360 who just want to be able to afford their groceries and their home heating on all the stuff
00:06:41.400 without having excess pressure on them from the carbon tax.
00:06:45.340 That is the priority of most Canadians, and that is why the carbon tax has become wildly unpopular.
00:06:52.400 Just because you can maybe show me that the carbon tax has slightly reduced GHG emissions will not get anyone back on board.
00:06:58.560 Caring about GHG emissions is a luxury belief.
00:07:02.240 You only care about GHG emissions because you have enough money at home to be able to care about it.
00:07:07.780 You don't care if the government's taxing a little bit more because you get to feel good that you take climate change seriously,
00:07:13.780 and it only costs you maybe a couple thousand dollars extra over the next couple of years.
00:07:19.240 Well, okay, well, that's not the priority of people who are low income or struggling to stay in the middle class.
00:07:24.160 They actually care about being able to put food on the table, and that's what you see in the polling right now.
00:07:30.100 I know we start off at Easter.
00:07:31.500 I am way past Easter.
00:07:32.900 I know people like when I go down rabbit holes because it means I cover interesting topics I wouldn't normally make a video about,
00:07:38.960 but there's polling that came out showing that the group who is still most supportive of the liberal government,
00:07:47.040 it's not the people that the liberals would like to think support them.
00:07:50.140 The liberals would like to think it's the middle class, normal, moderate voters supporting them.
00:07:55.100 It's not.
00:07:55.860 It's actually rich people.
00:07:57.500 Rich people really like the liberal government.
00:07:59.860 People who label themselves as extremely economically comfortable, those are the ones who support the liberals.
00:08:05.760 If you are extremely economically, like if you're economically struggling or pinched, you are voting for the conservatives,
00:08:12.020 not even the NDP who tries to make it itself the party of the working class and lower middle class.
00:08:18.060 It is going, they're going to the conservatives because the conservatives realize that when it's not even really profound,
00:08:25.580 the conservatives have even always run on, even under O'Toole, who was a horrible conservative leader.
00:08:31.340 I said liberal leader because basically O'Toole was a liberal leader, but even under O'Toole,
00:08:36.160 the conservatives at least messaged towards keeping more money in your pocket.
00:08:40.000 And no one's going to react to the liberals saying, well, we took more money from you,
00:08:44.420 but we've nickel and dimed a bunch of money back towards you through different random programs you're most likely not even going to access.
00:08:50.200 And so you're actually better off with us if you become an extreme governmental couponer and you apply for every single program to try and drag back $5 here,
00:09:00.100 $100 here and whatnot, try and like let the government swap the lights in your house to be able to get a tax credit.
00:09:05.980 That's not how humans think.
00:09:07.860 And this is why red Tory and leftist election strategies inevitably lose over time.
00:09:13.360 The liberals can win when people are comfortable in 2019 and 2015 and they're willing to vote for sort of high-minded leftist political ideology.
00:09:24.060 But when they're actually in a crunch, they don't care about all the little like minutiae of government programs that are making their life better.
00:09:32.860 They just want the money themselves because people like to be able to control their finances directly.
00:09:37.880 This is why, and I was actually the one who got pure poly of both myself and other National Telegraph writers.
00:09:44.140 We were the ones who got pure poly of in the 2022 leadership race to embrace a policy to ban central bank digital currencies.
00:09:52.040 And I believe his campaign thought that was a fringe issue at the time.
00:09:55.460 Not that pure poly of wasn't against CBDCs.
00:09:58.140 He was against CBDCs before we got him to take a stance on it.
00:10:01.660 There's a lot of politicians have a lot of views.
00:10:03.540 They don't advertise because they don't think it's appealing to the vast majority of people.
00:10:06.780 When I did a short 40-second interview with pure poly of and wrote up an article about it, it literally got 15,000 or so likes the first time I posted it on Facebook.
00:10:16.840 And I didn't exactly have the biggest Facebook page for the National Telegraph at the time.
00:10:21.480 Whoa, I can't even accept that page anymore because Justin Trudeau's Bill C-18.
00:10:25.180 But that basically convinced pure poly of the leadership campaign that they should take a stand on that issue because 12 days after my article came out and did wildly well on Facebook and Twitter at the time now called X, within 12 days, his campaign rolled out graphics saying how much he was against CBDCs.
00:10:43.580 It started becoming a part of his stump speech.
00:10:45.800 And if you remember the 2022 leadership election, and this is not a point against poly of, not at all, but he had a very standard stump speech he would give no matter what province he was pretty much in.
00:10:56.060 Outside of a couple of factors he would bring in here and there because it applied to a specific local region, obviously pure poly of generally stuck to a very standard speech he'd give everywhere.
00:11:06.060 And it was only after my article that speech changed and he started taking like a five minute section just to talk about the government trying to monopolize financial policy or financial controls of the Canadian economy by introducing central bank digital currency.
00:11:23.180 And so he actually is in favor of banning it now.
00:11:25.660 And this goes back to why, even though that seems like a fringe issue, it actually appeals to a lot of people because what the liberals want to do is saying, well, you're better off by giving more power to us and us controlling your money. 0.82
00:11:37.960 That's why opposition to CBDCs is actually very popular with a lot of Canadians because as the ultimate stand against the government, taking control of your finances, being able to tax you directly from your bank account level, being able to monitor what you buy and whatnot, people hate that crap.
00:11:54.100 And so even a middle class, very moderate voters, like pure centrist, they are not a liberal, they're not a conservative, they could vote either way.
00:12:01.960 Saying that I don't want the government controlling your bank account directly actually does get a lot of those people on board because they like the ability to have all of their money being controlled by them and they only have to interact with the government when they are interacting in the economy publicly or in terms of like their income and like taxing that.
00:12:20.960 That's fine for most people. Once the government goes past that, people really get their backs to the wall and they start fighting back because they don't like the idea that the government is going to, this is why wealth taxes, people hate the idea of wealth taxes.
00:12:32.900 The idea that governments can come in and audit all that you have to start taxing you directly based on your assets is not just incredibly like socialistic in terms of the attack it would be on your personal finances, but it's also a massive attack on your privacy that the government gets to send in auditors if you have a certain amount of wealth and figure out what everything's worth so they can start taking it away from you.
00:12:55.520 That's nuts. That is a totalitarian move to make and a CBDC would be a first step towards it.
00:13:02.260 So this has been a very long video of me starting off with the government not being able to say the word Easter and going all the way to central bank digital currencies, but this is to say everyone doesn't like the liberal government anymore.
00:13:14.440 Even from the smallest things of not being able to say the word Easter, that is just sort of emblematic of the fact that the liberals are deeply out of touch with what people want.
00:13:24.860 They think that everyone lives and breathes through the government. That's why they can't say Easter because they think everyone has so much investment in government that if they say Easter, it's going to alienate people because people care what the government says.
00:13:37.100 People don't care what the government says. They want the government out of their lives. So they don't care if the government says Easter or not. They want the government to stop taxing them so much.
00:13:44.920 They want the government to not pass the CBDC. They want the government to stop censoring what people see online and trying to enforce hate speech laws.
00:13:53.640 Sorry about the long video. I just got on a roll and I'm going to stay on a roll if I ever get on one.
00:13:58.840 Have a great day, everyone. I'll probably be back someday with a live stream with Daniel Boardman.