Wyatt Claypool talks about the failure of the Liberal government to present a budget and why it should have been brought forward before the spring break. He also talks about why the budget should not have been presented at all and why the Tories should have forced the government to table a budget.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. It's very early into the Liberal government's fourth term and they are already failing votes.
00:00:09.160Mark Carney was supposed to be the steady hand this country needed in office and that he was going to put Canada back on track and lead us through this crisis.
00:00:17.240But he is avoiding like the plague actually putting forward a budget, which should not be difficult, and now the Conservative Party has compelled the Liberal government to table a budget before the end of spring session.
00:00:30.600The whole thing is absurd and I need to do a bit of a breakdown of it because there's a lot of aspects of it that demonstrate just how shaky the Liberal government's hold on power is, including the NDP voting against them in this situation.
00:00:42.580But before I get into it, guys, I just want to remind you, if you like my political coverage of things, make sure to drop a like on this video, subscribe to the channel if you are not yet a subscriber, scroll down and click that button, and leave a comment on what you think about this situation and other situations going on in Canada right now.
00:00:59.820So the thing about all this is that Mark Carney came into office pretending like he was going to lead Canada through this very economically tumultuous time.
00:01:11.920Our relationship with the United States has ended, although then he then warmly embraced Donald Trump because obviously it hadn't ended and it was just stupid campaign rhetoric.
00:01:20.440But he was going to be the man we need right now, not in the future, but right now.
00:01:25.060And then he says he's not going to put out a budget in the year 2025 and then the media coverage hits him and then he's like, no, we're going to do it now in like the fall, like September, October.
00:01:36.160And rightfully so, Andrew Scheer, the current conservative House leader, who's just leading right now until pure poly of gets another seat, he said, no, you're going to table a moat, you're going to table a budget in the spring.
00:01:49.280And so he has put forward a vote, a motion that says that they are going to do this in the spring.
00:01:56.460And the Liberals not only lost this vote with all of the other parties voting to compel them to table the budget, but they even didn't have their full team show up and vote against this motion to compel them because they're incompetent.
00:02:13.000Their House leader is currently Mark Gerritsen, who I have historically compared to a sweaty water buffalo.
00:02:20.640He's very aggressive, very ignorant, and just flails wildly whenever a difficult situation happens.
00:02:27.820And now this man is the House leader that Mark Carney has entrusted the government's ability to pass stuff with.
00:02:34.380They should have been going to the NDP or the bloc and trying to make a deal so that they would vote in order to actually give the Liberals more time to table their budget.
00:02:44.740Again, the Liberals should be putting forward the budget right now, but from the Liberals' political kind of viewpoint, they want to extend out the amount of time they have.
00:02:54.940And it seems like nobody in the Liberal Party has done anything to try and bring the NDP on side.
00:03:00.420And I'm going to get to a little bit more of the NDP strategy in a little bit here.
00:03:04.040I think Don Davies is going in not the polar opposite direction, but I think he's going in a very different direction than Jagmeet Singh did.
00:03:11.340He knows that he needs to bloody their noses every once in a while and prove that he can actually, like, you know, stand up to them.
00:03:20.480But the Liberals literally refused to let the NDP become an official party.
00:03:26.240They refused to lower the threshold so that with seven seats, the NDP would get more funding for their legislative offices and they'd be able to hire more researchers and legislative assistants and whatnot.
00:03:39.780And then going into this vote, apparently the Liberals didn't even think that maybe they should try and, like, you know, sidle up to the NDP and say, we'll give you that if you give us more time on the budget.
00:03:50.560But no, they're too arrogant because this is something that you're probably going to see a lot in the future.
00:03:55.880Mark Carney thinks that he just deserves to succeed.
00:03:58.600He operates like he's still in, like, the business world where because he's CEO or he's sheriff, he says something that's going to happen.
00:04:06.420And that's just not how it's going to work here.
00:04:08.020But I think my friend Kirk Lubomov does a really good job breaking this down.
00:04:12.280He says, the Mark Carney Liberals had their first defeat in the House of Commons with the Bloc and the NDP voting in favor of the CPC Andrew Scheer's motion to urge the Liberals to present an economic update or budget this spring before the House adjourns for the summer, which it shouldn't be.
00:04:37.540We're at some decision-making metaphorical point.
00:04:41.740And now we need to go drink pina coladas during the summer because, eh, government can wait.
00:04:47.980I thought we were in a crisis, but apparently it's not enough of a crisis to table a budget or even work through the summer when the Parliament has not been sitting, the House has not been sitting the entire year up until last week.
00:05:00.600We only started sitting a little bit last week, and now we're about to go on vacation?
00:05:34.260It's pretty just a lot of formalities, but basically says we need an economic update or budget this spring before the House adjourns for the summer.
00:05:42.180And this was put forward by Andrew Scheer.
00:05:44.620And you can see the vote result was 166 yay to 164 nay.
00:05:49.800Now, if you know anything about the election results, you will know that the Liberals won with 169 seats.
00:05:59.200Now, one of those is the Speaker, and they tend to not vote unless it's a tie.
00:06:03.080But the Conservatives, like, had, like, I think around 143 or so, the NDP had 7, and then the Bloc had 27.