Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh are not trying to rig the next election, they are trying to fulfill a promise they made to the coalition government that they formed in order to keep themselves in office. This isn't proportional representation, this is rigging.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, it's Wyatt here. I just wanted to do a quick little address for this recent controversy that's been going around on social media about people claiming that Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh are trying to rig the next federal election in their favor and that somehow they are going to try and fortify the vote and keep themselves in office through sneaky changes to our electoral system.
00:00:21.680I can tell you right now, as much as I dislike Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh, this is not true. People saying that they are rigging the next election, I find, are just trying to get attention online. They're trying to make a big headline and drive clicks either on their website or just get attention for their social media accounts.
00:00:40.260Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh, what they're effectively doing is trying to fulfill a promise of the coalition government that they made to basically make a few changes to the way that voting works in the country.
00:00:51.460This isn't proportional representation. It's not mass mail and ballots. It's not any of that. Basically what they want to do, and I can show you this in their plan that they put out, it was 0.7 in their agreement, making democracy work for people.
00:01:04.900And it says, recognizing our shared commitments to maintaining the health of our democracy and the need to remove barriers to voting and participation, we will work with Elections Canada to explore ways to expand the ability for people to vote, such as, and again, this is an agreement between the liberals and the NDP in order for basically the NDP and Jagmeet Singh to lend their votes to the liberals to pass legislation.
00:01:56.180Bring your paper ballot to the polling station that you live near, just so we can kind of get a good idea of where the sort of votes came from in the riding based on where people live. But I don't think that's a bad change.
00:02:07.080I don't like the three days of voting. I think that's silly. I think that it kind of is lowering the barrier to entry to voting in a bad way.
00:02:15.300I think that voting, you need a certain level of commitment. It shouldn't be the thing where I don't want to do it today. I'm not feeling like it. And then you go to grab some eggs at the store later in the day, you're like, I guess I have time to vote now.
00:02:27.140If that's your attitude towards voting, you really shouldn't be voting. I like single day voting only on paper ballots. That's the kind of voting I want. And with the paper ballots thing too, with paper ballots, it actually goes faster, the counting, because you just need a couple extra volunteers to count them.
00:02:42.660Whenever they use voting machines in like the municipal races in Calgary or provincial races, even just all they do is just add up all the paper ballots and carry like, you know, add them up and then put up the results. It always slows things down. Technology does not actually make elections faster.
00:02:58.960But a lot of this stuff like the Quebec thing is just a thing in there to make the French happy. And then the improving the mail and ballot process. That's actually a good decision on the liberal and NDP's part.
00:03:09.720A lot of the mail and votes didn't get counted in the 2021 election. And most of them were probably conservative votes based on where they were coming in the country. I do not think it would have changed the election outcome. It was just that slow mail and ballots just didn't end up getting counted. And it was usually probably from areas of Canada that conservatives were all already going to win and it would have just improved their margin. None of this actually adds up to Reagan though.
00:03:32.220And I do think that there is kind of a culture on places like Twitter, X and Facebook with populist accounts trying to get attention on any single thing, every single thing that Justin Trudeau does as the most corrupt thing that's ever happened.
00:03:47.440Justin Trudeau is easily the most corrupt politician that Canada's ever had leading the country.
00:03:51.780But that doesn't mean that when he wakes up in the morning and has a drink of water, there's something wrong that occurred there.
00:03:58.520I think we actually need real instances of corrupt behavior or rigging in order for us to shout out about it.
00:04:05.500I don't like three days of voting. At the same time, this isn't rigging.
00:04:08.620And I don't think it's going to amount to a hill of beans in 2025.
00:04:12.420These electoral changes don't change the fact that nobody likes Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh and their fundraising numbers are horrible.
00:04:19.980And Justin Trudeau is never going to pass proportional representation.
00:04:23.100That might keep him in office, but it would ensure that the liberals also never win a majority government again because it's a party hard stuck underneath 30% of the polls these days.
00:04:32.640So yeah, nothing like that's going to happen.
00:04:34.160And then I even had some people criticizing me as if I was being like not a real conservative by saying this wasn't rigging.
00:04:40.220It's just not rigging. And I'm not going to pretend that it is.
00:04:43.060And then they're like, well, he is going to rig the next election.
00:04:45.180He makes voting easier. And then he's going to pass UBI.
00:04:48.160Justin Trudeau is not going to pass UBI. You know why? He might want to.
00:04:52.020He's not going to do it despite maybe even the NDP wanting him to do it.
00:04:55.420And it's because UBI at this point, it would cost so much, even the most lukewarm, like IQ liberal voter in Eastern Canada, who does not pay attention to politics, but they think Justin Trudeau deeply cares about them.
00:05:10.280Even they're going to think that costs too much and you're going to spike inflation.
00:05:13.680There's no electoral trick at this point, at least in my opinion, that Justin Trudeau can pull in order to stay in office.
00:05:19.480And I know people in the comments are going to be like, well, he's going to have the CCP give a bunch of money to him and he's going to rig the election somehow through foreign interference.
00:05:27.580Okay. In 2021 and 19, there definitely was CCP foreign interference, but they really can only affect like ridings where there's a heavy Chinese population for them to bully and intimidate into voting for the right candidate.
00:05:39.580And it's really not going to happen in this next election, because if there's even a whisper of the CCP trying to help Justin Trudeau, pretty much a lot of people are going to swing blue just to spite him because people tend to not like foreign interference, no matter what the source of it is.
00:05:54.160And the people will be like, well, he's going to buy some votes.
00:05:57.160Justin Trudeau has tried to buy every single vote in the past two elections that he could possibly could.
00:06:01.640He still couldn't get a majority government.
00:06:03.020Now with an even worse economy, do you think this guy is going to be able to convince people that if he waves a $5 bill in front of their faces, that they're going to vote for him?
00:06:11.880It doesn't matter what amount of money you give people.
00:06:13.800People are not confident about the economy and they realize all of this government money is basically a poison pill at this point.
00:06:20.180There's a reason why we are having polls like this Angus Reid poll that came out showing that the conservatives would have been 222 seats.
00:06:26.420There's not an electoral system change.
00:06:28.400There is not a fundraising cap increase.
00:06:31.920There is not a voting day expansion type change that could save Justin Trudeau at this point.
00:06:37.340The liberals might be trying to maybe wiggle the rules here and there so maybe they can get an extra couple seats out of it.
00:07:13.020But yeah, I would just say don't believe this kind of stuff when people go around saying Justin Trudeau is trying to make himself a dictator.
00:07:18.520Justin Trudeau tries to act like a dictator.
00:07:25.860It's making, I think, voting more casual in a bad way.
00:07:30.240Same time, I don't really see too much of a problem with some of the points.
00:07:33.560And then the other points are just kind of silly and they're not going to save Trudeau.
00:07:36.860And again, the mail and ballot process, I think that nobody should be mailing in ballots unless they're bedridden at home or they're like overseas for some reason.
00:07:44.640And even then, I think only people who are like part of the military overseas should be voting by mail.
00:07:49.300This stuff's not going to make a difference.
00:07:52.140And yeah, so that's really all I can say about that is that people should just stabilize themselves a little bit, not get too taken by populists online, trying to make everything the next big thing to freak out about.
00:08:03.360There's a lot of stuff to freak out about when it comes to Trudeau.
00:08:09.820It's usually just more boring, slow, grinding corruption.
00:08:13.240Anyways, that should be it for me today.
00:08:15.540Just want to mention I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Conservative Party nomination for Calgary's Signal Hill.
00:08:20.660If you live in this area, buy a Conservative Party membership and vote for me.
00:08:24.240And then also I have my legal defense fund in the description of this video below.
00:08:28.060We are being sued by a Chinese billionaire for doing accurate reporting on him.
00:08:32.100Reporting that mostly relied on things that were already reported about him that he's never disputed and is factually correct, but now he's suddenly all mad about it.
00:08:39.880It's cost us $25,000 so far defending ourselves.
00:08:44.080I've been assured by my lawyers that this thing is very unlikely to even go to court because they would never be able to get a judge or a jury on their side on this one.
00:08:53.900There's no, we're not going to give people fake apologies or bow down to them just because they have a lot of money.
00:08:59.380So other than that, I'll see you guys in my next video and always throw in some suggestions for what you want me to talk about in the description.
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