All does not seem well for Mark Carney's liberal government right now, with the NDP threatening to vote no on the Throne Speech and collapse the government mere months into his tenure as Prime Minister. This is an actual crisis for the liberal government, and it all spawns from a motion vote where the NDP, the Bloc, and the Conservatives join together to try and compel the Liberals to actually table an economic update before the end of the spring session.
00:05:27.920He's not exactly correct that there's going to be $28 billion in cuts,
00:05:31.940because do you actually expect the Liberals are going to cut anything?
00:05:35.080No, they're just going to run the debt up more.
00:05:37.520He has found that they technically now have a gap in their budget,
00:05:41.620because they previously said they were going to raise money with tariffs and find efficiencies.
00:05:46.220So Don Davies and the NDP are slamming those two things together
00:05:49.000and accusing the Liberals of cutting things.
00:05:51.300From a political perspective, this is smart for Don Davies to be doing.
00:05:55.440Accusing the Liberals of moving right and abandoning working-class families,
00:05:59.800not committing to building public housing and cooperatives and Indigenous housing and whatnot.
00:06:04.440Be the party that stands up for working people and services.
00:06:08.980Now, I think they're still wildly off the mark of where Jack Layton had done things right when he was leader.
00:06:14.500Again, I wouldn't have never voted for Jack Layton.
00:06:16.540But again, from a purely, you know, like a strategic political perspective,
00:06:22.340Jack Layton really quartered the market on the sort of hard hat wearing working class voters who relied on public services.
00:06:29.600Whereas Don Davies is trying to do a little bit of that, but this is still probably 75, 100% better than what Jagmeet Singh was like as leader.
00:06:38.040So we will be voting no against the throne speech and making sure that the interests of working people across this country are reflected
00:06:46.000and we'll continue to fight for those measures that we know that so many millions of Canadians and working families need in this country.
00:06:54.120And so this is, again, an actual good move on the part of the NDP.
00:07:01.420And just by happenstance, it's very good for Conservatives if another election is called.
00:07:05.960Now, the Conservatives do need to fire a lot of people in their headquarters because there are a lot of people in their headquarters who have their heads where their hindquarters should be.
00:07:16.460They don't really know what they're doing when it comes to reaching out to voters and building confidence.
00:07:22.040They let the Liberals set the narrative in the last election, and I think that they need people who are going to be more visionary in their strategic planning meetings.
00:07:30.940There's too many people who want to just sit there, and they literally are saying this, and I don't like it.
00:07:35.480I don't like when the Conservatives start talking about how we're just going to be the government in waiting.
00:07:39.880We're just going to wait here and wait to inherit the government when Canadians get, you know, tired of the Liberals.
00:07:45.800I've said it before. The Conservatives need to get good at winning elections.
00:07:50.520Winning elections. Not waiting for the Liberals to lose them.
00:07:54.200Will the Liberals eventually lose? Sure, but that's not much of a victory.
00:07:58.280I think the Conservatives actually need to stake out ground on big vision things that they want to do with the country.
00:08:04.040When I say that, I mean, like, it can't just be taxed are too high.
00:08:09.800Crimes up. Let's reduce some of the bail reform laws that the, or let's get rid of the bail reform laws that the Liberals brought in that are letting criminals out.
00:08:17.400On, you know, on immigration, we'll ratchet it back a little bit.
00:08:19.940I think on all those issues, including other ones that weren't talked about at all in the last election, the Conservatives need a big, audacious reform that they're proposing.
00:08:28.700On immigration, slash everything 75% for the next five years.
00:08:32.580On taxes, cut taxes 20% across the board.
00:08:36.900On spending. Commit to cutting wasteful spending.
00:08:40.780Get rid of DEI. Get rid of needless HR.
00:08:43.720Reduce administration and move it back to either the front lines or give the money back to taxpayers.
00:08:48.760That's going to be a big winner of an issue.
00:08:51.440But now, to get back to the NDP, sorry for going off on all these kind of rabbit holes.
00:08:56.700What the NDP is trying to do, hopefully, not just for themselves, but for the country as well, is that they are following Jack Layton's lead in 2004.
00:09:07.240People forget it was Jack Layton who, in fact, was the one who forced the 2006 election.
00:09:13.460Paul Martin was still the prime minister in 2004, although in a minority government situation.
00:09:18.260And although, let's even just check the numbers, because I don't actually know the numbers off the top of my head.
00:09:26.520In 2004, Jack Layton and the NDP were the fourth biggest party, and they had 19 seats.
00:09:32.640They were up five since the previous election, and Paul Martin's Liberals had 135 seats, and they needed 155 to get things done.
00:09:41.520So I think they still needed the bloc as well.
00:09:43.980But I believe Layton was the one who pulled the plug on the government and was threatening to do constantly if the Liberals didn't do exactly what he wanted.
00:09:54.520Jack Layton didn't care that Stephen Harper became the prime minister in 2006.
00:09:59.720He didn't care that he became the prime minister again in 2008 or that he won a majority in 2011.
00:10:04.180Because Jack Layton understood that if the NDP is going to work, and this is any political party, if any political party is going to work, it needs to win seats.
00:10:13.940And it can't be threatened by the idea that, you know, the conservatives might win, so you can't call an election.
00:10:19.760That's where Jagmeet Singh constantly fell on his face.
00:10:22.680He was more scared of the conservatives winning, which is actually a great outcome for the country.
00:10:27.480Not sure why he's scared of it, but I digress.
00:10:30.560But he was so scared of the conservatives winning that he wouldn't hold the liberals to account, so he became the party for nobody.
00:10:37.200It became the party for, like, downtown progressives who love Hamas and are, you know, going to college.
00:10:45.660Anthropology students who hate Israel and love Hamas.
00:10:48.240And so now the party actually needs to show that it has muscle and stands for more things than just being the radically socially progressive party that agrees with the liberals and pretty much everything else.
00:10:59.600And hopefully that's what Don Davies is doing.
00:11:01.840And by saying he's not going to vote with the throne speech is a clear sign that he may be using the Jack Layton playbook.
00:11:43.060So, yeah, there's other things going wrong for the liberals right now.
00:11:46.180It's going to have to be another video, but a liberal independent senator that Justin Trudeau appointed very early on in his time as prime minister has crossed the floor from seeing as an independent.
00:11:57.620Really, most of the independents are actually to the left of the normal liberal MP.
00:12:01.440He went from independent, and now he's joined the conservatives.
00:12:04.120I want to break down his reasoning in the future, but I don't doubt it's because of the radicals that Justin Trudeau was appointing to his Senate slate.
00:12:13.680And I think this guy has said, this is not the liberal party I signed up for a decade ago.
00:12:43.920I saw it, but it's one of those things I think it requires its own breakdown because we have the NDP turning on the liberals.
00:12:49.920We have some liberals turning on the liberals.
00:12:52.740Mark Carney may seem like a professional steady hand, but I don't think he understands politics well enough to actually keep the liberals in power for long enough to get anything done, potentially.
00:13:05.940At the same time, right now it seems like Carney has this arrogant side of his personality where he thinks because he said it, it's going to happen.
00:14:07.280He can't be the elbows-up guy and then start working with Yves-Francois Blanchet on issues when Yves-Francois Blanchet is, like, the most anti-Canadian leader in Parliament right now.
00:14:16.620If he does it, which he could, it will absolutely do a major blow to the liberal party's credibility.
00:14:23.940But that's neither here nor there for now.
00:14:27.100Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys.
00:14:30.920Sorry if I start ragging on the conservatives more in some of these videos when it comes to strategy.
00:14:35.280But it is frustrating when I see lobbyists and consultants writing articles saying,
00:14:40.180this is why Jenny Byrne should stay on as the national director of the party.
00:14:44.280I have never seen someone fail at politics this often and this hard.
00:14:48.400And somehow have people running out of the woodwork to say, why are we blaming her?
00:14:52.160My goodness, the buck stops with the campaign manager.
00:14:55.520And twice now, 2015 and 2025, she has ran a lackluster campaign that could have won and didn't.
00:15:02.100And somehow we still have people sitting around saying, well, maybe give her a third kick at the can.
00:15:06.160No. And one of the major problems with her as leader is that she, or national director,
00:15:11.840is that we have had a major spate of nominations not being taken seriously in conservative party.
00:15:17.420People being appointed, people being kicked out of nominations like myself.
00:15:21.400Remember, I ran in Calgary Signal Hill, could have easily won that nomination,
00:15:25.160was kicked out because someone else was wanted, who was so incompetent that I even made sure
00:15:29.400they still didn't win by telling my people to vote against them in the nomination.
00:15:32.580And then they ran, got appointed to another riding, and then lost that again because they're a bad
00:15:37.200candidate. And I'm the bad guy here, even mentioning it sometimes. Not that anyone's saying
00:15:42.180that in the comments, but goodness, you will get attacked for saying like the most obvious truth
00:15:47.860in the party because it like ruffled two people's feathers. Even if every other person agrees with
00:15:52.260you, it's nuts. Like 99.9% of the people in the conservative party are perfectly fine with me.
00:15:58.060They like me, or at least they don't dislike me.
00:16:00.320And then you'll have other people who like hate your guts for no reason, and it's so weird.
00:16:05.960And that one of those people is Jenny Byrne. Well, whatever. Can't do anything about it for now.
00:16:10.800So now I will truly see you guys later. Mini rant at the end, sorry.
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00:16:49.380video later. It's pathetic. But anyway, so see you guys later. I was about to go into another rant,
00:16:56.180and I probably shouldn't, and I should be more professional. I'm sorry, people. I'll be
00:17:00.180more professional. See you guys later.