The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 21, 2023


Canadians Want The Opposite Of Justin Trudeau

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Pierre Poilievre vs. Justin Trudeau policies
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Wyatt Claypool
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Justin Trudeau Pierre Poilievre Jagmeet Singh Erin O'Toole Andrew Scheer Eric Blasey Bill C-63 Hyde
The Media Cites ＂Experts＂ Only To Push Liberal Talking-Points Shockingly Bad Seat Projections For Justin Trudeau and The Liberals

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In this episode, I talk about the media's obsession with Justin Trudeau and his wife, and why Pierre Polyev is a better choice for the next election than Justin Trudeau. I also talk about why the media is wrong about Polyev and why he should win the election.

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00:00:00.000 There's no media narrative I like more than a self-defeating media narrative. I'm seeing it increasingly in the headlines from the legacy media these days of trying to cause this sort of contrast between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Polyev, implying that somehow Justin Trudeau is the normal, comfortable kind of leadership style between the two men.
00:00:19.460 And I don't think it's going to work out the way that the media thinks. I think, and this is just my theory, that at this point, what Canadians kind of are looking for is effectively everything that is the absolute opposite of Justin Trudeau.
00:00:32.320 This is where Pierre Polyev, I think, is going to do very, very well in the next election, because I think people are looking for the contrast and change.
00:00:39.360 This is also why I don't think that Jagmeet Singh is going to go absolutely anywhere. One, this is going to be in the next election, his third time around the loop.
00:00:48.200 And I don't think anyone in this particular is going to be taking a hard third look at him this time, as well as the fact that he's basically every single thing that Justin Trudeau is, but just a little bit more intense.
00:00:59.900 You know, his policies are effectively advertising the same failed liberal policies, but just wanting to do them even harder.
00:01:06.260 You know, he advertises himself as the more slick, polished version of Justin Trudeau, which is, I don't think you can even get more sort of artificial than Justin currently is.
00:01:15.380 But Jagmeet Singh is always trying. And then contrast that with Pierre Polyev, who tends to be a little bit more down to earth, or I guess a lot more down to earth.
00:01:23.860 I don't know why I'm hedging with softer language, but he's he's very different from Justin Trudeau.
00:01:28.640 He's a lot more sort of like hard hitting in his commentary about the country.
00:01:33.600 He's far more direct about the things he's talking about, and he doesn't tend to, you know, resort to sort of emotional appeals the same way Justin Trudeau does.
00:01:42.420 I think a lot of Canadians at this point are getting quite tired of emotion being put before the actual, you know, functioning of the government on how well is the government actually performing.
00:01:51.580 I don't care how much the government cares for me. I don't care about how much the politicians are, you know, emotionally invested in certain events and communities and policies.
00:02:01.360 I just want the policies to actually be good. And that's what Pierre Polyev is delivering.
00:02:06.020 But the media doesn't seem to clue into the fact that this is the contrast is probably one of Pierre Polyev's best assets, because I see a cavalcade of articles basically saying like in the midst of the wildfires, like Pierre Polyev is being so tough on Justin Trudeau.
00:02:21.300 That's very off-putting to Canadians. They should be more compassionate and soft like Justin Trudeau is.
00:02:26.240 It's like, no, that's not really what people are looking for. 0.88
00:02:29.020 And the most ridiculous one I saw today was an article, unsurprisingly, from the Toronto Star, written by Eric Blasey. 0.79
00:02:38.320 I don't even know. I can't read French names. I'm very sorry. 0.94
00:02:41.220 But from the Toronto Star titled Justin Trudeau versus Pierre Polyev, redefining the family man, in which this article legitimately tries to argue that because the single parent household rate in Canada has gone up over time,
00:02:53.880 that somehow Canadians are much more comfortable with Justin Trudeau as a family man figure than Pierre Polyev is.
00:03:01.560 And I don't really want to go into Justin Trudeau's separation in any way. That's not really my place to be commenting on.
00:03:07.260 But the idea that the media thinks that somehow Pierre Polyev, in his marriage with being a very solid family man in all of the advertising that they put out,
00:03:17.040 very overtly making that one of the pitches about him as a person, that he's just a great father and husband,
00:03:22.480 and then that he's also sort of a hard-hitting politician wanting to make a lot of changes to the country. 0.89
00:03:28.280 The Toronto Star article is arguing that somehow that Pierre Polyev is a hypocrite and Canadians are going to hate this aspect of him
00:03:36.860 because he legitimately labels the way that Pierre Polyev acts as a Jekyll and Hyde routine,
00:03:42.840 pretending that somehow it's a contradiction in kind for Pierre Polyev to be a great husband and family man,
00:03:50.480 but then to be a tough critic inside Parliament and online.
00:03:55.300 I don't think that Canadians care. 1.00
00:03:57.640 If anything, they are looking for someone to actually be speaking truth to power these days
00:04:02.160 when they have been very used to oppositional figures like Aaron O'Toole,
00:04:06.560 who soft-pedal every single bad piece of news that comes out about the Liberal government
00:04:10.800 and effectively lets the Liberals off the hook.
00:04:13.460 They're looking for someone who is tough.
00:04:15.380 And it's strange to me that this Toronto Star author actually sees being a man and being a father
00:04:23.020 as being, in a certain sense, weak.
00:04:26.120 He thinks that being a tough politician, a tough critic of the Liberal government,
00:04:30.760 is a contradiction with being a good father,
00:04:33.860 which I think that just demonstrates to you the Liberals' very hyper-progressive view of sort of social roles
00:04:40.760 in our world these days.
00:04:42.840 And I don't think most Canadians are on board with that,
00:04:45.260 but they do actually believe, or I think at least they trick themselves into believing,
00:04:49.740 out of desperation, that somehow Justin Trudeau's new single-father image
00:04:53.700 is going to somehow win him more voters.
00:04:55.640 I really don't see that as going to be like something that's going to materialize at all,
00:04:59.860 especially with new Canadians who tend to have very strong family bonds.
00:05:05.520 But whatever, I think that it's been very funny to watch how, frankly, sweaty and desperate
00:05:10.760 the mainstream media has gotten.
00:05:12.480 And you can even see this in all the polls.
00:05:13.940 Not only are the Conservatives doing far better in the polls than the Liberals,
00:05:17.260 but Pierre Polyev is actually out-polling Trudeau right now in terms of his approval rating.
00:05:21.420 And that's pretty impressive, considering, I'd say, a good 30% of the population,
00:05:26.560 maybe even 40%, really don't know who Pierre Polyev is right now.
00:05:30.160 That's just the way that Canadian politics goes.
00:05:31.980 I think I saw a chart the other day that showed that the top 10 podcasts in Canada
00:05:36.400 for politics are all about the U.S.
00:05:38.620 And that's not at all surprising that a lot of people a year on to Pierre Polyev's leadership
00:05:43.600 or almost a year on still don't even know who he is.
00:05:46.040 And the fact that he's already beating Justin Trudeau in approval with a far smaller portion
00:05:50.580 of the population to actually understand who he is and vote in favor of him is very telling.
00:05:56.520 Justin Trudeau's approval rating, not only is it weak, he's only about 29, 30% in the new
00:06:01.760 abacus data polls.
00:06:03.240 But his disapproval rating is like 54%.
00:06:06.020 And although that we're like a multi-party system and you can win with only 33% of the vote
00:06:12.000 like the liberals have done in the last couple of elections, I really don't think that that's
00:06:16.660 going to be possible when you're actually competing against a fairly competent conservative
00:06:21.300 leader who is able to actually make proper critiques of the liberal government.
00:06:26.640 I think that Pierre Polyev is doing enough contrasting these days that I think anyone
00:06:31.220 who's dissatisfied with the government is going to default to the conservatives.
00:06:34.920 Whereas before with Andrew Scheer and Aaron O'Toole, because they were weaker critics,
00:06:38.580 it made it a little bit more up in the air who's going to be who is kind of like the opposite
00:06:42.900 of the liberals, because that's effectively what happens every time people want to change
00:06:46.320 in government.
00:06:46.960 They want the opposite, like they want to vote for whoever is the most, most unlike the
00:06:53.140 current party, but can also win elections.
00:06:55.040 That's, of course, why the PPC has not been benefiting at all from the downfall of the liberal
00:07:00.020 party in the polling.
00:07:01.580 But anyways, but that's kind of just what I want to talk about today.
00:07:04.840 And I'll probably put out some more videos today as well.
00:07:07.060 But that's been the very funny thing I've been noticing is every single headline has
00:07:11.320 turned into just sort of an attack on Pierre Polyev as somehow being too brutish to run
00:07:16.320 the country with a comparison to the soft touch of Justin Trudeau, as if anyone is at all
00:07:21.360 compelled by this appeal to a soft touch when they're, you know, literally struggling to
00:07:25.720 make mortgage payments and they can't buy groceries.
00:07:28.360 It's ridiculous, but it demonstrates the very downtown Toronto worldview many of these people
00:07:34.020 have. 0.85
00:07:35.000 But that's going to be it for me today.
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