Jagmeet Singh and the other party leaders react to Justin Trudeau stepping down as Prime Minister and the prorogation of parliament that comes with it, and the reaction from the other major parties to Trudeau's decision to resign from office.
00:00:00.000So in the aftermath of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing his intention to resign from office in March after a liberal leadership race and after the prorogation of parliament that Trudeau simultaneously declares ends, the other party leaders obviously have big thoughts about this.
00:00:17.580And so I want to take you through both what Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are saying, as well as what Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives are saying, because I think the contrast really matters here, seeing how unprepared and pretty classless the NDP is about this whole thing, and how focused and sharp Pierre Polyev is, even as this news was breaking less than an hour ago.
00:00:40.580Polyev was able to make a video. Jagmeet Singh was not. This was Jagmeet Singh's announcement. Yes, he said he's going to speak in front of the media later, but later is not now.
00:00:52.000Even as I am speaking, and it's been over an hour since Trudeau has announced his resignation, Singh is still not going to speak for another two hours.
00:01:00.540He just released this thing, saying, same statement on the resignation of Trudeau.
00:01:05.620So, leader of Canada's NDP, Jagmeet Singh, issued the following statement in response to Justin Trudeau's resignation.
00:01:12.340Justin Trudeau's liberals let down Canadians. You were there with them, letting people down. You guys were partners in crime on it.
00:01:19.440This whole thing is going to be hypocritical, so that's my one injection into this statement.
00:01:24.140But Singh goes on to say, they let you down on home prices. They let you down on health care.
00:01:29.500They let you down by allowing corporate greed to run wild. Even with the country facing another serious blow to Canadian jobs and our cost of living, this time for Donald Trump, they're still focused only on themselves and their political fate.
00:01:44.000The problem is not just Justin Trudeau. It's every minister that's been calling the shots.
00:01:48.620It's every liberal MP that looked down their nose at Canadians who are worried about high costs or crumbling health care.
00:01:55.360The liberals do not deserve another chance, no matter who is the leader.
00:02:00.400Canada's middle class families have the biggest fight just ahead.
00:02:03.640Here, polyos conservatives will cut from people to give more to CEOs.
00:02:07.080What do you mean give more to CEOs? You mean reduce taxes?
00:02:10.200That's not giving. And by the way, that's good for everyone.
00:02:14.440They will cut health care, pensions, dental care, and more.
00:02:17.620Well, those were things you helped the liberals pass.
00:02:22.180So he does things with the liberals, and it's a big NDP accomplishment, but the liberals have also failed by Singh's estimation, even though he's been rubber stamping everything along this path.
00:02:35.620Anyways, okay, I'm interrupting this way more than I intend to do.
00:02:39.120I've been a fighter my whole life. Oh, have you, Jagmeet?
00:02:42.900This time, a working class movement of fighters is growing all around me.
00:02:46.760People who oppose callous conservative cuts to health care and everyone who opposes rich getting richer while everyone else falls further behind.
00:02:55.000I'm asking them all to stand together this time to stop the conservatives and build Canada's first government for working people.
00:03:01.160Okay, good statement, Jagmeet. Extremely sanctimonious, but what can you expect from the NDP?
00:03:08.360And when I said that wasn't happening about people getting poorer and the rich getting richer, the point of it is that rich people are not getting richer.
00:03:14.940The entire economy is losing right now.
00:03:17.860But Jagmeet Singh has to make everything class issue because he is a socialist.
00:03:21.460Anyways, let's contrast this with an actual good statement from a leader.
00:03:27.620Here is Pure Polly of reacting to the news.
00:03:30.120And I'll just unplay it if it's full because I think it is worth watching the full statement.
00:03:34.600And obviously, I don't need to pause it as much because I don't think he's going to say something deeply hypocritical like Jagmeet.
00:03:53.680Every liberal MP in power today and every potential liberal leadership contender fighting for the top job helped Justin Trudeau break the country over the last nine years.
00:04:04.800All liberal politicians actively worked to pass into law the job-killing inflationary carbon tax, a tax that Carbon Tax Carney endorsed in his book.
00:04:15.480All supported a law quadrupling the tax over the next five years.
00:04:20.660All voted for or actively supported Trudeau's out-of-control spending, debt, and immigration.
00:04:26.360All passed Trudeau's housing policies that doubled the cost of homes.
00:04:30.640All liberal politicians helped pass catch-and-release bail and house arrest for the most rampant free offenders.
00:04:36.540Policies that increased violent crime 50%, gun crime 116%, and hate crime by 250%.
00:04:45.220So given that liberal MPs and leadership contenders unanimously supported everything Trudeau has done,
00:04:52.200why dump him now, right before an election?
00:07:43.880So, like, a much better statement than Jagmeet's, to put it lightly, Jagmeet's was very silly in the sense that it's trying to pretend like,
00:07:54.400you know, all those things we did with the Liberals, that was Trudeau's fault.
00:07:58.300Jagmeet Singh is throwing Trudeau under the bus just as much as all the other Liberal MPs are throwing Trudeau under the bus,