Carney is LOSING IT! Approval rating falls as Liberals come up with nothing!
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PM Mark Carney's approval rating has dropped below 50% in a new poll, and it's not even close to being good enough to keep him in the job. What does it mean for the economy and the country?
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I feel like what we are seeing right now with the federal
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liberal government is the long goodbye that started taking place for Justin Trudeau
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after the 2021 election. I think everyone knows that they're not going to get any better than
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they've already been, and they've not been very good up to this point. It's actually gotten so
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apparent to Canadians that something happened that I really wasn't expecting to at least happen
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yet, and that is Prime Minister Mark Carney's approval rating actually dropping below 50%.
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Now, he's not on net disapproved of. If you combined his approval and his disapproval,
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he is still at a positive rating, but I assumed he was actually going to be able to maintain over 50%
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in most of the pollsters, you know, maybe up until the midway through 2026, or maybe even into 2027.
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The thing with Mark Carney is that he's extremely boring, and it's hard to hate a guy who's as
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boring as he is. But check this out. This is from a Leger poll, and by the way, Leger just released
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some numbers that were actually pretty favorable to the liberals, to the point where a lot of people
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said they probably need to redo some of this stuff. Like, I think their BC sample for the, for like,
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BC, the province, obviously, they had like a 25 point lead, even though it's traditionally between
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Ontario and British Columbia, if the conservatives are going to be leading in one but not the other,
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they're going to be leading in BC, but not Ontario, both tend to be close provinces. But like,
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the Ontario sample was generally pretty close. But then BC, the liberals were way ahead, which is
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probably a big sampling error. So we can probably throw out the top line national numbers for the
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liberals. But still, even with this poll that I think gave the liberals a national six point lead,
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probably because of that sampling error, even with the sampling error, look, Mark Carney job
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approval. Approval rating is now at 47%. Disapproval is at 41%. So he's only at a plus six net approval
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rating. He dropped six points since the last time Leger did a poll, which I believe was only a couple of
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weeks ago. So he's gone from and remember, this was going, this was probably collected,
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or it says it was collected on October 5. This is before he capitulated to Trump on trade. And he did
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it in the worst possible way. There was a way of negotiating this out to try and come to a win-win,
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except he basically deliberately did not negotiate until the very last second where he had to.
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And then he basically guaranteed that Canada got a terrible deal. So his approval rating went from 53%
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last time. And his disapproval was only at what was it like 37. And now it's 41 for the disapproval and
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only 47 for the approval. Again, I thought it was going to be difficult to get this guy under 50%
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because, well, he's the elbows up guy. He's boring, but he's a nice dude. I've heard people
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who've met him. Mark Carney's nice. And that's not a virtue when we want good policy. But at that base
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level, if people meet him, if people see him on TV, they're probably not going to assume this is
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some cranky old man, some curmudgeon who hates people or whatever. Maybe he does, but at least
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he doesn't come across like that in person. And even still, the policy, the performance has been so bad
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that it's starting to affect even the most boring man in the government's approval.
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But now let's move on to some other stuff. The Conservatives have been really hammering them
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on this deal, of course, because my goodness, there's not any blood to squeeze out of the stone
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for the Liberals. So the Conservatives might as well just keep attacking. There's no silver lining for it.
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Americans used to invest more in Canada than we did there. Then the Liberals took power,
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raised taxes, blocked projects, and over half a trillion of net investment has fled.
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Now Carney is saying he wants to push a trillion dollars south with no gains in return. That means
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lost jobs, lower wages, and higher prices. It doesn't necessarily mean that, but at the very least,
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it's demonstrating economic weakness that so much money is willing to go to the U.S. because you just
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can't make a dollar in Canada. And he's showing the chart back here where, yes, back when it was 2006
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and 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, you would see the red bar, which is investment from America into Canada,
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was higher, even if it wasn't by a lot, than the black bar below, which is Canadian investment
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into the United States. And you can see the yellow line showing the net overall effect. And in 2015,
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after Trudeau takes over, Canadian investment mostly starts shifting towards America and not
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America going the other way. And we are all the way down to the point where we are well past $500
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billion of Canadian investment that has at one point moved towards the United States. It's so bad.
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And the thing is, do you know how we could solve all this, boys and girls? We could cut taxes.
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What a concept. We could cut taxes. We could cut regulations. You know, we could make it that if
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someone's doing something, you know, they're doing something productive. They're machining something.
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They're making a new product. We could maybe not kick down the doors of their office and say,
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hey, can you give us basically half of what you're making right now in taxes? Hey, could you
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stop doing that for a second? So somebody could fiddle with your process and regulate you into
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being inefficient? Could you could we do that? And that's just the way in Canada, we just do not
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the people in government don't even think about the guy who's trying to, you know, make the new
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like hot product, the person who's trying to innovate with a new app, who's trying to start his own tech
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company, who's trying to get into better resource development. All those people are hampered because
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a government bureaucrat needs to have their fingers in the pie or else how else could they
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justify their job without screwing with you. But now I want to jump down. Let's let's at least
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let the liberals talk a bit. I always like highlighting what the liberals post online
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because it really demonstrates what kind of rhetorical straitjacket they're currently in
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based by their own decisions. Prime Minister Mark Carney here says, this is a post from yesterday.
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There are areas where Canada, the United States can compete and areas where we are stronger together.
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We're focused on building that strength to create new opportunities for businesses, workers and their
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families. And then it comes with this 29 second video where they're trying so hard to make this trade
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deal look like it was a success. We're going to be talking about, well, there's not even a deal made,
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they just talk. But the thing is what he's already put on the table is absurd trade. We're going to
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be talking about a lot of different things, but we've had a very strong relationship. We are the
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second largest trading partner of the United States. We are the largest foreign investor in
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the United States. There are areas where we compete. And it's in those areas where we have to come to
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an agreement that works. But there are more areas where we are stronger together. And that's what
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we're focused on. And we're going to get the right deal, right deal for America, right deal for Canada.
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We're going to be talking. It's remember the elbows up rhetoric that he's out there to fight for
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Canadians, and that's all he cares about. And then in that clip, when he was in the office with Trump,
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he's saying, let's make sure we get the right deal for America and Canada. And by the way, I agree.
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But this wasn't the campaign rhetoric. This was not the elbows up rhetoric. And in fact,
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he's not getting a good deal for Canada. If he cared about getting one, he would have tried to
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go for this win-win deal months ago, rather than screwing around to the point where he doesn't
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really have many cards to play at this point. We didn't offer to get rid of supply management
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because he, of course, still needs his Quebec dairy farmer vote and also Ontario. But most of the
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quota ends up disproportionately going to Quebec. But he needs all these people. So he won't actually
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he won't actually try and protect our entire economy by getting rid of this stupid protectionist
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policy that, in fact, makes things like dairy and chicken products, poultry products, more expensive
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for Canadians. But now let's jump down to another post of Mark Carney. Here's another one where he's
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talking about building the country stronger, everyone. He's going to build the country stronger.
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Our message to young Canadians, our message to people who are thinking of going into,
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for example, the skilled trades, is we are not just going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs,
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we're going to create hundreds of thousands of careers. We are going to build this country for
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the next three decades. If you want to go into the skilled trades, you are going to have work all
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the way through. Who shot this where they like, didn't tell him, can we roll the tape back Mark
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so that you don't like so like, um, um, like twice in the video, it's a 20 second video, and he couldn't
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nail it without an um. And what is that? Like, oh, we're not just building jobs in the trades.
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We're building careers. It's like, oh, wow, my heart's fluttering, Mark. My heart's fluttering.
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You, you, you took that, you took the difference between the word job, and then you said, no,
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it's not just going to be a job. It's going to be a career. It's like, okay, well, job numbers are
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down, idiot. What are you talking about? Guys, I have a plan to do something that my government has
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been completely incompetent to do at this point, including back when I was the economic advisor
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to Justin Trudeau. Here's, here's now Mark Carney devolving into just offering money to people.
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Remember how we were going to spend less to invest more? Well, now Mark Carney wants to
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increase benefits to families. And then they will receive all the benefits to which they're
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entitled. In the case of the example I just gave, that's more than $25,000 for their family.
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Canada's new government will start pre-filing tax returns in the 2026 tax year, scaling up to that
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five and a half million number of low-income Canadians by the 2028 tax year. This program will pay out
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hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits in the next few years that would otherwise be left
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unclaimed, helping our most vulnerable get the supports that they need. So we are going to now
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expand the availability of benefits to the point where in the next few years, we are going to be
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paying hundreds of billions of dollars more. You know what we could do, which is the best anti-poverty
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program. I said it at the beginning of the video, we could lower taxes. That's all we need to do.
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But we have these idiots who think that the only way we're ever going to have prosperity is the
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government signing a check to somebody. But now let's just get to question period from today. I just
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want to play at least one of the exchanges. This just wrapped up about an hour ago to demonstrate
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genuinely just the poor footing the liberal government is on. They know they're going down right now.
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They know that there's nothing good on the horizon that people are looking forward to at the moment.
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The Honourable Member for Sherwood Park, Fort Saskatchewan.
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Liberal policies are causing a deepening youth unemployment crisis, leaving the next generation
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in an increasing state of desperation. Today's unemployment numbers show a further spike in
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youth unemployment, now up to 14.7 percent and approaching half a million unemployed Canadian youth.
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Youth unemployment was already at recession levels before these further increases. Liberals promised
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change, but their broken promises are pushing yet more young people out of work. Do they
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understand that these unemployment numbers aren't just hurting youth today, but are setting
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them up for more struggle and pain throughout their lives?
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The Honourable Minister, Secretary of State for Youth.
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Mr. Speaker, let's talk about those jobs numbers today. Statistics Canada reported that employment
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has increased by 60,000 jobs. That is 28,000 jobs in manufacturing, 14,000 new jobs in health
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care, 106,000 full-time jobs. What is she doing with her hands here? No doubt we ended up increasing
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manufacturing and health care jobs. We dumped billions of dollars into them in order to just hire
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more people. And what do they mean by health care though? Because we still have a health care
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professional shortages everywhere. I guarantee this is just some sort of like, oh, we've hired
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assistants. We've hired people to do like health care adjacent jobs. There's some janitors in some
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hospitals like, oh, we got 60,000 jobs. Well, we were losing jobs in previous quarters. So I guess this
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is a nicer previous months that we had net losses in jobs. Oh, I can't believe we, the government took the
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money it takes people, the crazy amount of money that the government takes in tax dollars. And now
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it's given it to a few select industries and said, can you just hire people? That's not actually
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creating more productivity. Will they create some productivity? Sure. But it's extremely inefficient
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and it will eventually, the wheels will fall off the car. Mr. Speaker, we have a plan. We are making
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progress and we are going to be there to create good paying career starting jobs for all Canadians.
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Mr. Speaker, only an out of touch liberal would try to congratulate themselves when we have a
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significant increase in youth unemployment in this country. These are the facts. Over 17,000 young
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people in Ontario. Oh, by the way, I wonder if they actually calculate the TFW numbers into the
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new jobs. Oh, we've hired 60,000 people. How many of them aren't even Canadian? Like, I'd like to know
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how many of them didn't come back. How many of them got from playing from Amateur? And now they are an
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employed person in Canada, when in fact, it's actually causing somebody who is, you know, below the
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age of 30 to not actually have a job. Like, this is something that needs to be asked.
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Ontario alone lost their jobs in the last month. Overall unemployment remains at 17.1% and
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continues to increase in major cities, including the city where that parliamentary secretary is
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supposed to represent. How can these Liberals dare try to pat themselves on the back when
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Statistics Canada today shows even more young people out of work? Very good.
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Mr. Speaker, let's deal in facts here. These jobs numbers are for September. At the end of the
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summer, many, many youth are actually leaving jobs, going back to school, back to other other
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work. But coming back to the coming back to what the Liberal government is doing, we're investing
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a billion dollars, for example, in Red Seal trades for apprenticeships. We're investing in work
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integrated learning. We're investing in co-ops, Mr. Speaker. But most importantly, we are going to be
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building the houses and investing in the project. She has the most dramatic hand movements of anyone
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I've seen so far. She keeps like posing and like moving like she's like a like a 2D animated
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character that they didn't work too hard on. Projects that are going to create tens of
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thousands of jobs for all Canadians, right across the country, beginning with our young people.
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A member for Sherwood Park for a successful one. Mr. Speaker, the Parliamentary Secretary said
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these numbers might reflect young people leaving the workforce to go back to school. That suggests
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she doesn't actually understand how the unemployment rate is calculated, because the unemployment rate
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is the percentage of those in the workforce who are trying to work and aren't able to. And
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the unemployment rate has gone up. It's approaching 15 percent, approaching half a million young
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people who are unemployed. That's one in seven. Mr. Speaker, it's time for the government to
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stop trying to pat themselves on the back and recognize that this is a crisis for Canadian
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young people. It's time for them to reverse course. When will they?
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Mr. Speaker, the data doesn't lie. In September, we created a hundred, over a hundred thousand new
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full-time jobs in this country. Those are good jobs for all Canadians. We are, we are embarking
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on a plan that is going to not only build projects, but build homes, make those homes more affordable.
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They haven't approved a single job yet. They're just, they're just looking at projects.
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However, yeah, like, what the heck's wrong with the people? Like, we've brought in a hundred
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thousand new jobs. I'm like, okay, how many private sector jobs did we lose, though? Because
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the problem is the government can create, also, wait, I'm just thinking of saying that, aren't,
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isn't, aren't all these ministries supposed to be cutting staff by, or cutting personnel
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expenses or whatnot by, like, 15%? So what are we doing? We're just like, we're creating a bunch
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of government jobs, but then all these ministries are supposed to be cutting their, the actual,
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like, their budgets by 15%. Are we even doing that anymore? Or is this just going to be just,
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like, still more Justin Trudeau era style economics, where we just keep dumping money
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into an industry, hoping that that will make us look good by the next election before everything
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falls apart again? Anyways, well, we have just peered into the gaping maw that is our elementary
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politics on a federal level. No doubt we will look at it someday soon again. But I have to jump
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on a plane at some point here and go to my next destination, which is not even home, it is Saskatoon.
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No doubt I will still be making videos there. But this is all very hectic. So, hey, if you support
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