The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 21, 2024


Easily the dumbest attack in Canadian politics

Topics
Sudbury holiday inn retreat
Hosted by
Wyatt Claypool
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Kathleen Wynne Jagmeet Singh David Eby Pyripaliev Sebastian Skamski Danielle Smith Alison Redford Blasted Trudeau Steve Boots Ed Stelmack Ralph Klein Doug Ford Notley Rolex Kenny
Jagmeet Singh is Canada's ultimate political hack New polls show BC Conservatives beating David Eby's NDP!

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6 minutes

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180.77

Word count

1,176

Sentence count

67

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1

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9

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Justin Trudeau went on a trip to Sudbury, Ontario, and the Conservative Party of Canada accused him of going on a "lavish retreat" in a Holiday Inn. This is one of the dumbest political attacks I've ever seen.

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00:00:00.000 If you watch this channel even somewhat regularly, you will know two things about me.
00:00:06.020 One, I'm a very conservative person.
00:00:08.700 And two, I appreciate good political communication skills.
00:00:12.860 And that's why today I feel the need to call out the Federal Conservative Party 0.98
00:00:17.260 for one of the dumbest political attacks I've ever seen in my entire life. 0.89
00:00:22.460 Here's a headline from Sudbury.com, and it is not an exaggeration. 0.98
00:00:27.860 Torrey's Blast Trudeau for Lavish Retreat at Sudbury Holiday Inn.
00:00:32.980 Yes, it is a lavish retreat at a holiday inn in Sudbury.
00:00:37.540 For those of you who do not know, Sudbury is a very working class northern Ontario town.
00:00:43.280 It is not exactly a destination for lavish vacations unless you are glamping or something like that with your own RV.
00:00:51.840 It's definitely not a lavish time at the Holiday Inn in Sudbury.
00:00:56.280 But for some reason, the Conservatives, and specifically Sebastian Skaminski,
00:01:02.800 a communications manager or regional manager for the Conservatives,
00:01:07.780 this was the quote from this press release or this email that they sent to their members.
00:01:13.360 It says,
00:01:13.940 Today, Justin Trudeau took a surprise trip up to Sudbury to appease his Liberal MPs from Ontario
00:01:20.200 at their swanky retreat before summer's end,
00:01:23.580 where they will discuss ways to make life more costly and miserable for Ontarians,
00:01:27.920 especially those in northern Ontario.
00:01:30.600 Okay.
00:01:31.560 It would have been a fine email if they just said they've come to Sudbury today,
00:01:35.980 basically just discuss how they're going to make life more unaffordable for northern Ontarians.
00:01:40.480 They don't actually care what we think, and they are just here to pretend that they care about northern Ontario in any way.
00:01:46.620 But to say it is a lavish retreat in a Holiday Inn,
00:01:52.200 just because Trudeau in other cases has been known for lavish type expenses,
00:01:57.780 when he goes on foreign trips where they're spending tens of thousands of dollars more than they need to,
00:02:04.420 yes, the Prime Minister of a country should be well-appointed in terms of the rooms he stays in
00:02:09.520 when he's on foreign diplomatic trips and whatnot.
00:02:12.360 And I don't care if Trudeau spends a lot of money on a vacation.
00:02:15.760 I only care he spends a lot and he goes on tons of vacations.
00:02:19.360 If he only took two weeks of vacation a year and they were expensive, whatever,
00:02:22.600 he's the Prime Minister, but he goes on like 50 days of vacation a year.
00:02:25.920 But if you're the Conservatives,
00:02:27.500 why would you not have somebody read over this email
00:02:31.200 and then smack the person who's about to send it upside the head and say,
00:02:34.780 never apply the word lavish to a holiday in Sudbury. 1.00
00:02:38.140 This is a very stupid win that they just handed over to the Liberals, 0.99
00:02:42.840 because now the Liberals all day long and the NDP are calling out Pyripaliev 0.99
00:02:48.280 for having high-cost fundraising events, which isn't bad either.
00:02:53.300 It's a fundraising event.
00:02:54.780 You're having people pay $1,700 to help fund the party.
00:02:57.880 People that $1,700 isn't a lot of money to, they show up,
00:03:02.560 have dinner, talk to Pyripaliev, he delivers a speech,
00:03:05.120 and it helps the party run in the next election.
00:03:06.800 Every party does it. Every party who can put together a large fundraiser does it.
00:03:10.960 You can't even donate that much in Canada,
00:03:12.840 so I always find it ridiculous whenever they say a high-cost political fundraiser.
00:03:17.480 $1,700 would make any American politician yell at you
00:03:21.560 if you thought that you sent them a lot of money.
00:03:23.580 They would yell at you and say, get me $30,000,
00:03:25.660 because $1,700 is not that much money.
00:03:28.720 But they just opened the door for the Liberals to counterpunch them 0.92
00:03:31.800 and pretend actually it's Pyripaliev, who's the lavish living politician.
00:03:35.560 And he's obviously not.
00:03:38.020 It's obviously not.
00:03:39.180 It's people like Justin Trudeau,
00:03:41.300 who live far more undeserved, lavish lifestyles than Pyripaliev.
00:03:45.200 It's Jagmeet Singh wearing Rolex watches
00:03:47.540 at the same time he's pretending that he cares about workers at all.
00:03:51.600 But, again,
00:03:53.340 a bad political attack
00:03:55.980 allows for a better
00:03:57.340 political counterpunch.
00:03:59.120 This is a fundamental rule of Canadian politics.
00:04:01.780 A punch that does not land
00:04:04.300 opens the door for a counterpunch.
00:04:06.200 And this was a horrible attempt at a punch.
00:04:09.480 And I'm also making this video,
00:04:10.700 just to make it very clear,
00:04:12.040 that I'm not making some sort of conservative propaganda channel.
00:04:15.480 I go after the NDP and the Liberals all the time
00:04:18.100 because I disagree with them a lot.
00:04:20.120 It's not like, you know,
00:04:21.260 that guy I've covered a couple times on the channel,
00:04:24.020 Steve Boots,
00:04:25.080 who pretends,
00:04:25.840 oh, he only talks about,
00:04:27.420 like, you know,
00:04:28.420 conservatives all the time
00:04:29.900 because they lie so much.
00:04:31.860 He just doesn't like them.
00:04:33.200 That's why.
00:04:33.800 I don't like the ideas of the Liberals and the NDP.
00:04:36.000 I talk about them a lot. 1.00
00:04:37.400 But if the conservatives do something stupid, 1.00
00:04:39.780 I will have to talk about them. 1.00
00:04:41.400 A video from me will be coming out soon
00:04:43.640 on why Danielle Smith needs to right the ship
00:04:46.520 and figure out actually how to govern
00:04:48.540 because she is not focused on actually achieving
00:04:51.120 conservative priorities by the next election.
00:04:53.460 And if she doesn't,
00:04:54.640 she is going to have a very major problem
00:04:56.620 organizing her base.
00:04:57.700 I want her to succeed,
00:04:59.320 even though back in the 2022 leadership race,
00:05:02.360 I was warning people,
00:05:03.900 she's actually a lot more like Alison Redford
00:05:05.940 and Ed Stelmeck than she is like Ralph Klein,
00:05:08.280 even though she portrays the opposite.
00:05:10.140 So we will have to call her out when she needs it
00:05:13.060 if we want her to do the right thing.
00:05:14.900 We need taxes cut.
00:05:16.280 We need the gas tax cut.
00:05:17.640 We have a massive surplus
00:05:19.060 and we're celebrating that apparently.
00:05:21.080 At the same time,
00:05:21.680 we're not lowering taxes.
00:05:23.160 We're spending on like high speed rail lines
00:05:25.780 that nobody asked for
00:05:26.940 and our budget's 20% higher
00:05:28.920 than anything Notley or Kenny ever passed.
00:05:31.600 That's a problem.
00:05:32.520 And I will be calling that out at some point
00:05:34.280 because I care about principle.
00:05:36.180 Not like these lefty channels
00:05:37.720 who will attack Doug Ford
00:05:39.760 for doing things that Kathleen Wynne
00:05:41.560 was doing five seconds ago
00:05:43.100 that they never cared about
00:05:44.180 when it was Kathleen Wynne doing it.
00:05:45.620 It's bad, but they don't care.
00:05:47.620 They just care about the particular label of party
00:05:50.320 that's doing these things,
00:05:51.660 which is why they really don't call out people
00:05:53.740 like Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh,
00:05:55.740 or in the case of British Columbia, David Eby.
00:05:59.180 That should be it for me today, guys.
00:06:01.000 If you want to donate to the channel,
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00:06:07.080 And if you live in British Columbia,
00:06:08.900 make sure you've donated to the BC Conservatives
00:06:11.500 because they have a major disadvantage fundraising.
00:06:14.320 The BC NDP and United get millions of dollars
00:06:17.000 every year by basically forcing the taxpayers
00:06:20.320 to give them a subsidy per vote
00:06:22.140 that they got in the 2020 election.
00:06:24.340 Actually insane.
00:06:25.640 And David Eby has made that subsidy permanent.
00:06:28.840 Anyways, see you guys later.