Carney's stale campaign, Liberals taxing churches, and political grifters!
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss the Liberal Party's commitment to get rid of the charity tax status for pro-life organizations and churches, and why it could have a massive impact on the country. I also discuss the Liberals' overall campaign strategy and messaging, including the infamous Mike Myers video.
Transcript
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Although during this federal election I have mainly focused on the macro policy issues of the major parties
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and the personality battles between Pierre Polyev and Mark Carney,
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as well as the general election discourse online,
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there is a lesser known issue that we should talk about because it is on the ballot in this election
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and it could have massive ramifications for millions of Canadians all over the country.
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And that is the Liberal Party's commitment in its 2025 budget
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to get rid of the charity tax status for pro-life organizations and many churches.
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This is something that they had actually proposed in the budget
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and it seemed to have gotten quickly overshadowed by the announcement of tariffs by Donald Trump
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that has dominated most of the news up till about now.
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I think the tariff issue is still kind of present in the election,
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although Trump basically backing down on it has made it, rightfully so, a moot point.
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But I want to get into this issue right now just so you're informed about it
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and then I want to move on to some other things about the Liberals' overall campaign strategy and their messaging.
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They are still talking about that stupid video Mark Carney did with Mike Myers.
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But before we get into it all, guys, I just want to remind you,
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Now, without further ado, I just want to quickly read a short excerpt from this very good article
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done by my friend Jeff Park at the publication The Alberta Reformer,
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which will be both linked in the description of this video below as well as pinned at the top of the comments.
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I'm just going to scroll down to the section that I wanted to get to.
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On December 16th, 2024, while Canadians were preparing for Christmas and the political headlines dominated the news,
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a quiet but significant threat to the Christian witness in Canada emerged.
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Hidden deep within the Federal Finance Committee's 462 recommendations for Budget 2025
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were two proposals that should deeply concern every believer.
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Recommendation 429, no longer provide charitable tax status to anti-abortion organizations.
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Recommendation 430, amend the Income Tax Act to remove the privileged status of advancement of religion as a charitable purpose.
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Although easy to overlook, buried in the tail end of a lengthy list and overshadowed by political drama surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation,
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these recommendations strike at the very heart of Christian faithfulness and the public witness in Canada.
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You don't have to be a born-again Christian to understand that this is a very anti-freedom thing that the liberal government is planning on doing.
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You do not put this recommendation in the budget if you don't believe in it.
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And there is nothing that is indicated to me that Mark Carney,
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who would have been the economic advisor at the time that this was put together,
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So, my goodness, if you guys are Christian Canadians,
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or if you're from literally any religious background, or you believe in nothing,
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please go and vote conservative in this election,
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because there are a lot of things at stake in this election,
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other than the size of tax cuts or some policies around trade and other sort of social policies,
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that your church could lose charity tax status because,
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my goodness, they went around witnessing to people and telling them about Jesus Christ,
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because apparently that would be too far for the government.
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And then crisis pregnancy centers that help pregnant women by giving them resources
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if they are struggling and they don't have the resources to take care of a child,
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they apparently need to lose their tax statuses as well,
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because they're terrible because they don't support abortion.
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So, make sure you go out and vote on this Monday if you haven't voted yet.
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You know, the country is kind of on the line in certain aspects.
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I don't think Canada is going to go away if Mark Carney and the Liberals win.
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But I would rather have to repair the country from this point
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rather than sliding at a more exponentially fast rate for another four years
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and then making it so that we need like a two to three term conservative government
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to even get back to par from what the country was like maybe in 2019.
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If you want to read the full article that Jeff Park wrote, it's very good.
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It's in the description below and pinned at the top of the comments.
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But now I want to move on to something a little bit more lighthearted.
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And that is Mark Carney's constant, frankly, I'm going to use the term pimping out of Mike Myers on the campaign.
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Has Mike Myers hit a door for Mark Carney, by the way?
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Because it seems like he just flew into town to film one video with Mark Carney.
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And then since then, he's just been appearing on SNL wearing Canadian tire T-shirts
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and putting his feet up in his home in New York or L.A.
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I love when people think that he's like a true patriotic Canadian.
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At the same time, he hasn't been in the country for absolute decades at this point.
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It's vague nonsense because these people are not actually patriotic.
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They don't care about the country past the way that it can sometimes represent their liberal ideology.
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As soon as Canada becomes a conservative country,
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you know, Canada really doesn't have its soul anymore.
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And they'll start talking about how the country is racist and genocidal once again.
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I'm not even sure if this is a different version,
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And we're the country that stands up to bullies.
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Why is Mike Myers sitting there like he's his son,
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and Mark Carney's like listening to his son talk about how he got pushed on the swings?
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it really kind of gives away the game a little bit.
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I wanted to send a message home to say that I'm with you, you know?
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Because he hasn't been in Canada for a very long time,
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not to just film some sort of liberal propaganda
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The liberal campaign hasn't budged a single inch to this point.
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It has started off with fear-mongering about Trump.
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Because look, Mike Myers, it's the Canadian thing to do.
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They haven't actually really, in my opinion, made an argument.
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You could say, well, have you read their platform?
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Yes, I have read the top points of the platform.
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What do you think that the random little bullet points
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that sound okay make up for the $130 billion of new spending?
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that the things they did before that didn't work
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And they're also still going to take away your guns.
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And they're also still not going to actually enforce the law
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So I do want to move on to one more issue in this video.
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This really doesn't really matter until after the election.
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But there is a problem on all political sides of grifters,
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And I think it has watered down political discourse
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you're kind of responsible for yourself a little bit.
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But this Tyson Hockley guy who posted this video,
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And behind him, he has some conservative signs,
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a poly of change sign, a sign for his local candidate.
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It's frankly a message that a lot of young Canadians
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Let's not overvalue how much money goes into CPP
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We should have less censorship in this country.
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and that there's not crazy hyper amounts of competition