The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 22, 2024


Chrystia Freeland makes a fool of herself trying to attack Pierre Poilievre

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Pierre Poilievre Justin Trudeau Chrystia Freeland Speaker Karina Gould Mark Gerritsen Sean Fraser Mark Miller Ron Liepert Michael Kim Finance Problem Glenn
Liberals have social media tantrum over a single sentence! The absolute DUMBEST attack on Pierre Poilievre!

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11 minutes

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1,921

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115

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11

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Toxicity

9

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Chrystia Freeland's response to a serious question from Pierre Polyev shows why she's not fit to be our Finance Minister, and why the Liberal Party isn't fit to govern this country. She's too smug and fancy to answer a question from a serious person, so all she has left is to attack a guy who's wearing more makeup than her.

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00:00:00.000 I think we all owe Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland a big round of applause
00:00:05.000 because she just put on a masterclass on how to destroy yourself in Canadian politics. 0.99
00:00:11.380 There's always jabbing that goes on in Canadian politics,
00:00:14.200 people attacking each other personally, trying to undermine each other's credibility.
00:00:18.520 But this clip of Chrystia Freeland responding to a serious question from Pierre Polyev
00:00:24.160 just demonstrated that she is not fit to be our Finance Minister 0.99
00:00:27.780 and the Liberal Party is not fit to be governing this country.
00:00:31.280 Because there's a little bit of a different expectation if you're actually in government,
00:00:35.900 especially if you're a high-ranking minister,
00:00:38.020 that you're going to act a little bit more like an adult,
00:00:40.580 especially since you have the most power in the room.
00:00:43.180 And so you should be able to battle back against tough questions
00:00:45.920 by pointing to your good record on the economy if you're the Finance Minister.
00:00:50.640 The problem for Freeland is that she can't point to her good record on the economy. 0.83
00:00:55.180 The economy is terrible.
00:00:56.200 She is an incompetent Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, 1.00
00:01:00.360 so all she has left is attacking Pierre Polyev in a personal manner,
00:01:04.700 saying that he's wearing more makeup than even I am.
00:01:08.000 Let's just take that at just face value and say maybe that's a good jab.
00:01:12.780 I don't really think it is.
00:01:14.080 One, it's just not true, and it's just trying to go after Polyev
00:01:17.300 because he's very airbrushed in the way that he does his advertising these days.
00:01:21.760 But let's just pretend that for some reason we all believe that this is a good hit on Pierre Polyev.
00:01:27.140 It shouldn't be coming from the Finance Minister.
00:01:29.440 It just makes her look childish.
00:01:31.060 This is something that Mark Gerritsen should be saying.
00:01:33.560 This is something that an NDP MP or a backbench Liberal should be saying.
00:01:38.100 Not the Finance Minister.
00:01:39.620 Check this out and think in the mindset of a Liberal.
00:01:42.860 Does this actually make you like her more?
00:01:45.460 Or would this make you just sort of roll your eyes and say,
00:01:47.920 Christia, focus on your job?
00:01:50.480 Well, I think that you pay down debt by borrowing more,
00:01:55.080 that you stop inflation by printing money,
00:01:57.020 and that you fight the drug overdose crisis by legalizing hard drugs.
00:02:01.740 So at least they're consistent in their irrationality, Mr. Speaker.
00:02:05.860 But now they've been forced to backtrack right before the election
00:02:09.620 on their legalization of hard drugs
00:02:11.860 because Canadians are revolting against the policy.
00:02:16.900 Today we have a motion that will be voted in the House
00:02:19.800 to permanently ban hard drugs.
00:02:22.460 Will this government vote for that motion,
00:02:24.560 or will they admit that they plan to legalize drugs again after the next election?
00:02:29.140 The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Finance.
00:02:38.000 Mr. Speaker, the Conservative leader is wearing more makeup than I am today.
00:02:46.060 Now, I think it's wonderful.
00:02:50.800 I'm going to ask.
00:02:53.960 Colleague.
00:02:54.640 Like, no doubt, Pierre Polyev had some verbal flourishes
00:02:59.120 in his question to Freeland,
00:03:02.000 call it her incompetent and the rest. 0.90
00:03:04.180 But that's kind of normal political discourse.
00:03:06.140 And I'm not coming on the situation
00:03:08.960 from the idea of that's unparliamentary language.
00:03:12.000 I don't really care.
00:03:13.180 Frankly, I think the parliamentary language rules
00:03:15.660 in our House of Commons are way too strict.
00:03:18.060 I think people should be able to yell at each other
00:03:20.080 a little bit more, jeer. 0.95
00:03:21.660 If you say something unkind,
00:03:23.100 that's for the voters to decide
00:03:24.780 whether or not they think it's inappropriate or not.
00:03:26.980 Not Greg Fergus or whoever the Speaker of the House is at the time
00:03:30.660 to determine whether it's good or bad.
00:03:32.960 You can't even say wacko.
00:03:34.380 And I think that in itself is wacky.
00:03:37.100 But Chrystia Freeland just had this kind of smug, 0.87
00:03:40.220 mean girl energy of,
00:03:41.700 oh, well, yes, Pierre,
00:03:43.200 you're asking me a very clear question
00:03:46.120 about the state of the economy
00:03:47.320 and what we can do to turn around our economic fortunes.
00:03:50.200 But you're wearing more makeup than I am.
00:03:53.480 You're the finance minister.
00:03:55.240 You're literally second in command as the deputy prime minister.
00:03:58.660 I don't know how to tell her this,
00:03:59.900 but you seem to have a little bit more of a serious job
00:04:02.360 than to be saying something that seventh grade.
00:04:06.080 But this went on the entire time
00:04:07.900 in the House of Commons with Chrystia Freeland.
00:04:09.920 Here's another response.
00:04:11.040 Sorry if it's a little bit of a longer clip.
00:04:12.640 But Pierre Polyev, again, asks a serious question.
00:04:16.860 And Chrystia Freeland just starts going after him personally
00:04:19.740 and acting just far too smug and fancy
00:04:22.480 to have to answer a question from Pierre Polyev.
00:04:25.700 And the opposition that is 20 points ahead of her in the polls,
00:04:29.060 can I just point that out?
00:04:30.440 Your opposition is 20 points ahead of you right now in the polls.
00:04:34.300 Maybe you should take them a little bit more seriously
00:04:36.480 than pretending that you're way up in the clouds
00:04:39.060 and they're way down there in the filth.
00:04:42.040 You guys are actually losing to the conservatives right now.
00:04:45.400 Maybe you want to consider actually taking your job
00:04:48.580 a little bit more seriously these days
00:04:50.160 rather than condescending to Canadians
00:04:52.320 and then attacking your opposition as illegitimate.
00:04:55.020 Not only does the incompetent finance minister
00:04:57.220 not know the inflation target,
00:04:59.440 she doesn't know that you lock in low rates
00:05:01.380 when you have the chance.
00:05:02.760 Remember when the prime minister was saying,
00:05:04.040 don't worry, we can double the national debt
00:05:05.560 because interest rates are low, Glenn.
00:05:09.060 Problem is, I told him at the time
00:05:11.520 that they should lock in those rates
00:05:13.960 for 10 years or 30 years with long-term bonds.
00:05:18.160 It turns out they didn't do that
00:05:19.560 and now $400 billion of that debt
00:05:22.660 will roll over into these higher rates
00:05:24.860 forcing Canadians to spend more on interest
00:05:27.020 than on health care.
00:05:28.480 Why did he hire the worst mortgage broker in the world
00:05:31.460 to be our finance minister?
00:05:32.620 The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
00:05:41.720 Mr. Speaker, it's clear that the Conservative leader
00:05:45.300 is in a grouchy mood too.
00:05:47.220 And I think we all know why.
00:05:51.180 The only thing he knows how to do is talk down Canada.
00:05:57.640 And what he just cannot bear is the reality
00:06:01.820 that thanks to our fiscally responsible economic plan,
00:06:07.560 inflation is at a three-year low.
00:06:11.560 My goodness, what's actually wrong with this woman? 1.00
00:06:24.020 I don't understand why she thinks this is going to play well.
00:06:27.360 Karina Gould already proves
00:06:29.000 that this sort of third-grade teacher act
00:06:31.120 isn't a good look.
00:06:32.880 People like Pierre Polyev.
00:06:34.400 So when you talk down to Pierre Polyev in that manner,
00:06:37.060 you're talking down to the millions of Canadians
00:06:40.060 who support him and are going to vote for him.
00:06:42.900 Chrystia Freeland could actually lose her riding 1.00
00:06:44.820 in downtown Toronto.
00:06:46.280 That's how bad she is as a politician 1.00
00:06:48.480 and how bad the brand of the Liberal Party is.
00:06:51.120 And the idea that she's going to try
00:06:52.960 and do a rally around the flag moment
00:06:55.280 in the answer of this question
00:06:56.760 or to the answer to this question
00:06:57.920 and say, he keeps trying to drag down Canada.
00:07:01.540 You guys are actually dragging the country down
00:07:04.380 in terms of our standard of living.
00:07:06.460 Again, don't go after him
00:07:08.060 for merely pointing out
00:07:09.580 how bad things currently are
00:07:11.380 and her then trying to pretend like 1.00
00:07:13.380 he's always on about trying to attack us
00:07:16.620 and he doesn't like our fiscally responsible plan.
00:07:20.420 I'm not even going to respond to that.
00:07:21.920 It's not fiscally conservative.
00:07:23.500 We all know it's not.
00:07:24.500 And if anything,
00:07:25.140 this is just a further mockery of Canadians 1.00
00:07:27.420 who believe their lying eyes and ears 0.98
00:07:30.380 and think that you guys are horrible at your jobs 0.96
00:07:33.400 and deeply condescending.
00:07:34.960 Christian Freeland,
00:07:36.400 if I'm Justin Trudeau
00:07:37.400 and I'm actually trying to win the next election,
00:07:39.180 like if I was Justin Trudeau tomorrow,
00:07:40.980 I would just resign
00:07:41.900 and just be done with it all
00:07:43.380 because that's what he should do.
00:07:44.720 But if I was trying to win the next election
00:07:46.340 and I was Justin Trudeau,
00:07:47.780 the first person I get rid of,
00:07:49.500 other than assuming that I can't get rid of myself,
00:07:51.960 I get rid of Christian Freeland in a heartbeat,
00:07:54.300 followed by like Karina Gould,
00:07:56.340 followed by Mark Miller,
00:07:57.740 followed by Sean Frazier. 0.99
00:07:59.000 These people are horrible 0.99
00:08:00.480 and they just seem so condescending. 0.93
00:08:02.960 And you can be a little bit condescending
00:08:04.700 if you're in government
00:08:05.420 and the numbers are great.
00:08:07.540 Like the GDP is spiking,
00:08:10.240 per capita GDP is doing great,
00:08:12.480 unemployment is low.
00:08:13.680 Then you can be a little bit condescending.
00:08:15.980 When everything is as it is now, 0.99
00:08:18.920 shut your mouth, 0.98
00:08:20.600 get back to work. 0.99
00:08:21.760 And if they ask you a question,
00:08:23.540 just be very meek in saying,
00:08:25.040 well, we're working on it.
00:08:26.040 You guys are pressuring us
00:08:27.340 when we're trying to get Canada
00:08:29.280 back out of the pandemic slump
00:08:31.960 that we've just come out of.
00:08:33.020 Like, even that's a lie.
00:08:34.500 But at least be sounding humble
00:08:36.660 while you're lying.
00:08:37.620 But Christian Freeland is incapable
00:08:39.020 because the entire Liberal Party
00:08:41.220 has basically embodied
00:08:43.100 the narcissism of Justin Trudeau.
00:08:45.060 Because, you know, make no mistake,
00:08:47.000 every single person in Justin Trudeau's cabinet
00:08:49.060 might as well be wearing
00:08:50.180 a Justin Trudeau face mask.
00:08:52.060 They all just represent his interests.
00:08:53.760 It's not like a normal party
00:08:55.540 where the different personalities
00:08:56.960 of the minister and their priorities
00:08:58.380 really determine
00:08:59.120 how their portfolio is handled.
00:09:01.060 No, Christian Freeland does not move.
00:09:02.920 She doesn't pick up a glass of water
00:09:04.660 without getting Justin Trudeau's permission first.
00:09:07.080 And that's why she is embodying
00:09:09.280 the smugness that Justin Trudeau also embodies,
00:09:11.940 simply because that's the way you get ahead
00:09:13.720 in the Liberal Party.
00:09:14.800 You pay play to the personality
00:09:16.620 of Justin Trudeau,
00:09:18.160 do everything he says,
00:09:19.460 and hopefully you'll end up
00:09:20.740 failing upwards over time.
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