Wyatt Clunis back talking about the Air Canada strike and how the Liberal government is handling it, and why they should have been able to handle it better. Plus, a new piece from a Liberal MP who says the government is wrong about Air Canada.
00:08:59.880And do you know why he's paid $12 million?
00:09:02.920And I'm not trying to be rude, but because he's worth $12 million.
00:09:07.500Shareholders would never put up with the CEO of a company being paid $12 million if he was losing them revenue year after year.
00:09:15.360It's probably because he's at least keeping revenue stable in a tough market, or he's increasing them.
00:09:20.600That's probably why he's paid all that much money.
00:09:22.440But here's Don Davies' ex-post about him at the picket lines, saying,
00:09:27.980It was an honor to join with sisters and brothers supporting flight attendants at YVR this morning.
00:09:34.020The NDP stands with CUPE to defend free collective bargaining, fair wages, and an end to force-free labor.
00:09:40.700Shame on liberals for siding with corporate profits over workers.
00:09:45.200And I want to, oh, that's a different issue there.
00:09:47.740But I want to jump over to another aspect of this whole issue.
00:09:56.380And that is the way that, like, I want to jump into kind of a little bit more of the actual details of what's going on here.
00:10:03.440Because, again, Air Canada is not even necessarily wrong.
00:10:06.140But, again, the way that the liberals are going about this means that it looks like all they are doing is defending a corporation, which has Brookfield asset management ties, which is not a great look for Carney.
00:10:17.960I don't think it's that important of an aspect of the story.
00:11:33.980Air Canada today said that the Canada Industrial Relations Board, CIRB, has declared ongoing strike activity by the company's 10,000 flight attendants is unlawful and has ordered the leadership of the Canada Union of Public Employees to direct its members to return to work.
00:11:52.720Following a hearing on August 17th, the CIRB declared that QP strike is unlawful.
00:11:58.880It ordered the union leadership, which authorized the strike, to immediately tell its members to end the work stoppage.
00:12:05.540It also directs individual members of the union to cease all unlawful activities and return to work.
00:12:11.020It is a ruling the board declared, and then it keeps going and just talking more about the details.
00:12:16.640It should be noted why this is a really bad look.
00:12:19.880Like, yes, this is what the CIRB said.
00:12:25.740Because you know that this can result in jailing of QP leadership if they don't do what the CIRB board is telling them to do.
00:12:35.460It seems a little aggressive on Air Canada's part.
00:12:39.700But going back to just sort of the discourse on this issue, I do just want to talk about one more aspect of it in this video.
00:12:48.120And that is the Conservative Party is right to go after the Liberals on this issue, but I don't think they are doing it the right way.
00:12:57.100They're still going to get benefit out of the issue, but I think if they want to not only be able to land a solid attack on the Liberals, but also promote their Conservative policy, they shouldn't be copying the NDP.
00:13:08.960We are seeing the NDP trying to turn this into a corporate greed story.
00:13:13.300They're making billions in revenue, in actual profit.
00:13:17.280I'm not sure if Air Canada is really making that much money.
00:13:30.580The Conservatives should be saying flight attendants deserve to be paid for every hour they are at work.
00:13:35.720We should be reworking their contract to be able to ensure that that is done at a reasonable wage because you can't let them get their full wage right now for every hour they're at work because many of these flight attendants are being paid like $90 an hour.
00:13:49.300Because the whole point is it's a higher hourly rate because it's only for when the plane's in transit.
00:13:55.940The current rules mean that oftentimes they're being severely underpaid because of flight delays that they're not being paid during.
00:14:03.380But what you can say as a Conservative is say we need to rework the contract for these workers.
00:14:08.900We need to rework the tax system for the airline industry that is basically always teetering on bankruptcy.
00:14:15.320And the Liberal government shouldn't be forcing people back to work without a real solution.
00:14:20.080They are basically just clubbing people back to work and making everyone unhappy at the same time.
00:14:25.380Their actions are just incentivizing more strikes because of how bad their actions look, which means people are missing their flights.
00:14:32.020They are not actually solving the policy problem.
00:14:34.520And they are, in fact, actually allowing for, you know, they're allowing a PR win for unions on an issue that they're not exactly 100% right about.
00:14:43.960Everyone's a little bit right, but a lot of people are also very wrong with the perspective they take.
00:14:49.040So Conservatives, take a Conservative position on this.
00:14:52.800Don't just repeat talking points, you know, working class trade union talking points because they're popular right now.
00:14:59.580You're not going to win these type of NDP voters.
00:15:01.720The public, the QP voter will never vote Conservative.
00:15:04.960So at least say something that makes the people getting their flights delayed want to vote Conservative.
00:15:09.560Say something that makes sort of, you know, people who are small business owners say, you know what?
00:16:43.440Patty Hayes drops a bomb in the middle of the room, and they're all like...
00:16:46.800And then the NDP is taking the initiative from them, which is hilarious because they're probably going to bleed them off about three or four points in the polls.
00:16:54.200And, yeah, three or four points in the polls is not everything, but considering the fact that they're supposed to be very popular right now, three or four points sinks them back to kind of mediocre, you know, January numbers when Trudeau had first stepped down and the Liberal leadership race started up, but people didn't really know what to think about them.
00:17:15.760I just want to quote somebody who I tend to agree with a lot, and they're the best polling analyst in the country at the moment.
00:17:24.320This is actually one of the funnier things I saw.
00:17:27.960This is both from Polling Canada, who was run by an NDP guy, as well as Shreya Teest, who I detect is more of a conservative guy.
00:17:35.280But they're talking about where the current Liberal actions are being defended the most, and I find this funny.
00:17:42.600Polling Canada says, the place I've seen come to the defense of Air Canada the most is Blue Sky, LMAO.
00:17:48.720And then Shreya Teest says, there's a reason why Twitter is more politically diverse than Blue Sky, because on Twitter you can find people from all sides of political spectrum, and on Blue Sky, the only type you can find are Liberals.
00:18:02.500So on the Twitter competitor Blue Sky, that is very Liberal and very Progressive, they're mostly defending Air Canada, because it's where all the diehard Liberals end up going to.
00:18:15.200But Shreya Teest predicts, because of the fallout of this issue, he says, I think the Liberal polling numbers will only come down by like 2-4%, that's it.
00:18:26.180And he does phrase that in such a way where it's like, oh, it's only 1% or, you know, 2-4%.
00:18:30.620In many of the polls, the Liberals are only leading the Conservatives by 3-6 points.
00:18:37.620If you lose 2 points to 4 points, it's now within a margin of error polling divide between the Conservatives and the Liberals.
00:18:45.180And again, the Liberals are in their honeymoon period, although I think this actually does demarcate when the honeymoon period ends.
00:18:51.600And in future videos, we're going to get into just how bad the Liberals are looking like on the world stage.
00:18:58.140They have all the Hamas activists that they were trying to pander to, still harassing them, still attacking them.
00:19:04.140They have the NATO countries not inviting them to conferences, to, you know, leaders meetings in the United States over the Ukraine-Russia issue.
00:19:14.240We are just being cut out of everything.
00:19:16.400And eventually, not all of them, but eventually a lot of the elbows-up Liberals will realize that this is not what they signed up for.
00:19:23.720I will have a lot of people in comments say, well, you know, you can't convince Liberals.
00:19:35.320You'll get a party diehard, you'll meet, let's say, half of any party's voters are diehards who, unless you basically just start torching the party's platform and you stop standing up for the things that you're supposed to stand up for, those people are ride or die.
00:19:49.860They'll always say that you're doing the right thing.
00:19:52.000But elections are not won based on whose support completely collapses down to just 5%.
00:19:58.420The Liberals don't need to collapse for the Conservatives to win a new election.
00:20:02.600They just need to outpace the Liberals.
00:20:05.320And if the Liberals fall from 43%, like we've seen in many of these polls, maybe, let's say, 44%, and they fall down to 39% over this or 41%, and the Conservatives rise from, you know, 38% to 40%, now the Conservatives are in a really good position.
00:20:19.360And then when we have bad economic news hit the headlines, in the aftermath of a lot of people having the shine taken off the Liberal government for them, people are going to start reacting far more aggressively negatively.
00:20:32.400And I think if you're a Conservative, this is a good thing.
00:20:35.520This is probably the first issue that isn't just something that Conservatives will take issue with with the Liberal government.
00:20:41.560It's something that a lot of different types of voters will take issue with, and it will make them more likely to hear about the other scandals that are currently going on with the Liberal government that they've wanted to ignore and just say, that's just Conservative propaganda.
00:20:54.040Who cares about what's going on with, you know, Carney's conflicts of interest and Brookfield and what happened with Canada blood services and the $92 billion deficit and this, you know, all the other stuff.
00:21:04.740That, it's all Conservative conjecture.
00:21:07.260Well, now it's not all Conservative conjecture.
00:21:10.020Even the NDP, even the Liberals are criticizing the Liberal government for how they ended up handling this particular issue.
00:21:17.240That should have been way easier to handle than they've made it look like.
00:21:21.440But anyways, with that being said, thank you guys for tuning into this video.
00:21:25.820I am going to be doing a live stream tonight on the Battle River Crowfoot by-election.
00:21:30.240It's probably going to be a poly of win, obviously, but I think it's still fun to watch the results roll in, especially in the context where there are 214 candidates.
00:21:41.500Let's see how many candidates get zero votes.
00:21:46.840I think there's like 195 candidates in this by-election who are longest ballot committee candidates.
00:21:53.020Predict out of 190, or I think it's like 195, 198, however many there are, predict what percentage of the longest ballot committee candidates will not get a single vote.
00:22:05.240But with that being said, I will see you guys all later.