00:00:44.840They're in a conflict with us just as we're in a conflict with them.
00:00:48.240Their economy is also being held back because of Trump's trade policies.
00:00:53.820So why is Canada losing jobs but the Americans are gaining jobs?
00:00:57.660It's not that the trade conflict is good for them.
00:01:00.900Generally speaking, tariffs are not a good thing unless you're using them for national security reasons.
00:01:05.660The reason we see the difference in job numbers is that the Americans have a healthy domestic economy and we do not.
00:01:13.700So even if the trade policies are somewhat hurting them, they can still be growing because their domestic economic fundamentals are quite good, whereas Canada's are terrible.
00:01:25.560Now, some are going to point out, well, within the recent 70,000 jobs that we lost in September,
00:01:32.060most of them were in the public sector, and technically, the private sector actually grew
00:01:36.940a little bit. Sort of, we lost 23,000 self-employed people on net, and although technically private
00:01:45.940sector jobs are up a little bit, manufacturing took a major dump, and we lost 19,000 net
00:01:53.060manufacturing jobs in september and while yes most of the job losses were in the public sector
00:02:00.420the problem is most of those jobs were in areas like education and health care it's not bloated
00:02:07.880federal bureaucracy it's not getting rid of frivolous contracts it's health care and education
00:02:13.760now maybe some of those people are in administration and hr and they were dei hires i really doubt it
00:02:19.900because Mark Carney seems to not actually want to cut any of the elites in the federal government.
00:02:25.760He seems to mostly lay off lower-level people who may arguably actually be doing a good job.
00:02:31.680You know, in the midst of all this, I'm really looking forward to people like Laura Babcock
00:02:37.600or people on the CBC coming out and talking about what a great job Mark Carney is doing.
00:02:43.400Because, again, in the midst of all this, isn't he supposed to be the financial wizard of the country?
00:02:49.000Again, we're not really cutting spending in the public sector in order to, like, you know, balance the budget or something like that.
00:02:56.840We're not losing these public sector workers because Carney's such a fiscal hawk and wants to make sure that we're, you know, reducing the bloat of government and pushing things back into the free market.
00:03:07.560No, no, no. We're literally spending right now, apparently, $2 billion subsidizing heat pumps that Brookfield Asset Management just so happens to be connected to.
00:03:20.240I need to bring this up for you guys because this is just wild that the liberals thought they were going to be able to get away with this story.
00:03:27.400It's pure poly of bringing it up, but I think that, you know, it's obviously still a good point, even though it is a biased partisan source.
00:03:35.020it's accurate information here. So here's Pierre Polyev commenting specifically on this new heat
00:03:40.760pump scheme. Prime Minister just finished announcing he's going to take $2 billion
00:03:44.680out of the pockets of Canadians and give it to companies like those owned by Brookfield
00:03:50.220to give people back a small amount on applications for heat pumps. Here's an idea. Why don't you
00:03:58.060leave the $2 billion in the pockets of Canadians, people like you, whom I trust, and if you want to
00:04:03.260spend your money on a heat pump, then the government should leave the money in your
00:04:07.780pocket for you to do so. Rather, Mr. Carney would take the $2 billion out of your pocket,
00:04:12.580give it to the bureaucracy that gives it to big corporations, and you're supposedly going to get
00:04:18.220a rebate for some part of an expensive home transition that you might not otherwise make.
00:04:24.080That's why another example of Mark Carney costing you more money. No wonder we are in an
00:04:30.000affordability crisis. Now, some people say that, and it's not untrue, heat pumps can save people
00:04:36.580money on their power bills over time. It's like, okay, I'm not against people retrofitting their
00:04:42.340houses to be more energy efficient, but why is the government subsidizing people to do this?
00:04:48.060If it's such a great investment, people can make it themselves, especially because this is a
00:04:52.780technology that doesn't really work all over the country. You need to be in a warmer part of Canada
00:04:58.100in order to really get the full value out of a heat pump. You can't do this in frozen Winnipeg
00:05:03.760or Saskatchewan, or if you're up in Edmonton, you're definitely not going to make much use
00:05:08.460out of a heat pump. Yet we think we can push the envelope and spend $2 billion more on this
00:05:15.520program rather than just giving people some money back on their taxes or paying down the deficit or
00:05:21.620the debt, something like that. It seems like it doesn't even occur to these people. And I want to
00:05:26.300bring this up because this it's crazy that this even happened recently in a press conference this
00:05:32.780morning well pure polyev was out there talking about stelco laying off 350 steel mill workers
00:05:39.980uh that we have all these job losses over the past couple of months and whatnot all these things that
00:05:46.320are obviously failures of the federal liberals now they're going to try and blame the american
00:05:50.460owners of Stelco for the layoffs. The problem with trying to blame them for the for the layoffs
00:05:57.260is the fact that they were the ones who basically did not get Stelco to guarantee that they were
00:06:04.060going to keep people employed for the subsidies they were getting from the federal government.
00:06:08.060They're walking away because they know they're not legally they have no legal obligation to
00:06:14.340actually stay. In just a second, I'm going to pull up this clip, though, because in the midst of all
00:06:19.180this stuff happening that poly of was rightfully pointing out what did the media ask peer poly of
00:06:23.960about oh of course it's about peer poly of leadership okay i found the clip i had just
00:06:30.840watched this this morning this is just absolutely wild that they thought this was an appropriate
00:06:36.460question to ask poly of laura stone globe and mail um i want to ask about what's going on with
00:06:41.960your caucus with scott aitchison now leaving we've got eight people who have departed uh he talked
00:06:47.420today in an interview with the star about potentially more people on their way out you
00:06:52.220talked about caucus being somewhat demoralized i wonder a what are you doing as the leader of this
00:06:57.060party to ensure no more members leave your caucus um and b what do you tell those mps who have been
00:07:03.600in opposition for several years who are now looking into the future thinking i don't think
00:07:08.660or i don't know if i'll ever be in government guys this scott aitchison thing happening that
00:07:15.260where he said he's going to like retire at the end of the year this happened a week ago she could
00:07:20.340have asked this at other press conferences that press conferences that have happened since then
00:07:25.800but no no she's deploying this today right when some awful job numbers come out and mark carney
00:07:32.340gets caught basically trying to subsidize his own company through like heat pump rebates what and i
00:07:40.400think that peer poly absolutely knocks this out of the park because he said almost word for word
00:07:44.840what I would want him to say if I could have scripted it out and he did it on the fly.
00:07:50.500Well, listen, I think it's amazing that here I am standing in front of an idle steel facility
00:07:55.680where there are hundreds of people now out of a job who are going home tonight and don't know
00:08:00.740how they're going to put groceries on their table, who are going to be missing mortgage
00:08:05.200payments in a couple of weeks. They join with the 68,000 Canadians who lost their job last month.
00:08:11.980and the 56% of Canadians who don't own a home and believe they never will.
00:08:20.280And, you know, the last year and a half, the media has asked about me,
00:08:23.900but they don't ask Prime Minister Carney about the people that left his caucus,
00:08:27.580the people that are losing their jobs,
00:08:29.040the people who are on the other side of the water,
00:08:32.320who don't know how they're going to pay their bills.
00:08:34.540And the thing is, too, with the people leaving the Carney government,
00:08:38.740It's actually more significant than people leaving the opposition bench.
00:08:42.700You know, hey, I want to be in government.
00:13:04.360The United States is 38 and Canada is 10.8.
00:13:09.020I assume this is 38 MRI units per 100,000 people.
00:13:13.060OECD is 9.4, and that 9.4 is only as low as it is because of countries like Canada, who only have 10.8 units per 100,000 people.
00:13:24.860The United States is more than, it's about three and a half times more MRI units than Canada.
00:13:32.140I know we can say this has been an ongoing problem in Canadian history, as Kirk Lubomov points out, that we have a model that prioritizes staff rather than equipment, and not even frontline staff, administrative staff.
00:13:47.500But the Liberals have been in power for nearly 12 years or so.
00:13:52.220So at some point, it is their responsibility to have fixed it over a decade.
00:13:58.200They've had over a decade in government.
00:14:00.180Yes, health care is a provincial issue. At the same time, the federal government is in charge of transfers to the provinces for health care spending.
00:14:10.580They are allowed to mandate certain things to have money spent on it if they want their full transfer value.
00:14:16.580But we would rather employ a bunch of people who will hopefully vote for the Liberal Party rather than actually make sure the money is going to places it needs.
00:14:25.520this is a thing that plagues so many provinces like almost every other dollar in a lot of
00:14:30.440provinces in the health care system has nothing to do with health care i mean like we're not talking
00:14:35.480about floor managers we're not talking about people who are maybe not nurses and doctors but
00:14:39.900are useful in hospitals like janitors and whatnot you know but like half the dollars are being spent
00:14:44.740on paperwork and paperwork that if it all blew away nobody would miss it but that's a great way
00:14:51.280of making jobs, like creating make-work jobs in order to keep people employed. Now, we're saying
00:14:58.080this all in the same context that we just lost a bunch of healthcare jobs, but I really doubt it's
00:15:03.100any of these administrative individuals that we could do without. I just want to move on to this
00:15:09.120other quick video. This was from the Western Standard putting this together. Melanie Jolie
00:15:13.760was reacting to the Stelco job layoffs and trying to blame the company for something that is so
00:15:20.120obviously the liberals fault for not actually hammering out in paper understand in the case
00:15:25.400of stelco is that the company committed to keep the same amount of jobs uh and the circumstances
00:15:32.760that the circumstances that we are uh seeing right now which is basically the fact that
00:15:39.720there is an entire trade war against steel workers oh it's the trade war guys and it was stelco's
00:15:45.720fault because they committed where did they commit is it in legal is it legally binding is
00:15:51.720it a legally binding commitment because if it's not you're incompetent you're going to give them
00:15:56.120a big subsidy to stay in canada as they were giving to all the steel companies you know
00:16:01.560justifiable in many ways because we need to make sure that we're keeping people employed during
00:16:06.200the trade conflict but you're going to be giving up subsidy money and you're not going to have it
00:16:11.800be legally binding because nowhere does she say here that they've broken some contract with the
00:16:16.120government that if they're not going to employ these people they owe us back a bunch of money
00:16:20.280and we can hold them accountable it just sounds like it was like a handshake agreement or verbally
00:16:25.160they said yeah we'll try and keep people employed and now they're trying to pretend like it's their
00:16:29.320fault and the trump administration's fault that they can't manage their own business cannot be used
00:16:35.720against these commitments and at the same time the ceo of cleveland cliffs that owns felco has
00:16:44.760clearly said that he's in favor of these u.s tariffs against steel workers and so they cannot
00:16:51.960say that this is now uh act of god or force major and basically say that now they cannot commit and
00:17:00.440what is the number of jobs you expect them to retain in canada more responsibility i expect
00:17:05.240them to keep the jobs period yes okay perfect question from that one journalist how many jobs
00:17:11.720were they supposed to keep i expect them to keep the jobs what jobs you actually need to have a
00:17:16.360number they need to have something you can hold them to but she clearly has nothing she can hold
00:17:20.440them to so we gave them a bunch of money with no commitment to actually keeping the jobs number uh
00:17:26.760the number is actually uh more than uh a thousand five hundred so basically we'll provide you the
00:17:32.680details. But right now, what is affected is 500 jobs. And have they responded in any way to you
00:17:40.520yet? Not yet. More than 1,500 jobs where? Is that just an idea that they were supposed to
00:17:45.720keep a certain number of jobs employed somewhere? Do they have fewer than 1,500 jobs
00:17:51.740in Canada now? Or is this 1,500 jobs in this particular mill or in a particular role?
00:17:59.600They didn't think any of this stuff through.
00:18:01.600And them trying to say, well, they said that they approve of Trump's steel tariffs on Canada.
00:18:07.020It's like, yes, they're in the steel business and they're heavily invested in America.
00:18:10.280Of course, this may actually benefit them.
00:18:12.420The problem is you should be trying to make Canada's market, you should be trying to make our industry, our domestic economy more competitive than theirs.
00:18:21.480But so much of Canada's economy right now relies on federal liberal tax breaks and subsidies and grants in order to try and get companies to stay here when in a normal free market world, they would leave Canada because unless the government's paying you to stay here, there's no point in actually trying to operate in this country.
00:18:42.200Again, I thought Mark Carney was a financial wizard.