The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 21, 2024


Easily the dumbest attack in Canadian politics


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6 minutes

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180.77475

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1,176

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68

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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
00:00:17.260 for one of the dumbest political attacks I've ever seen in my entire life.
00:00:22.460 Here's a headline from Sudbury.com, and it is not an exaggeration.
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.
00:02:38.140 This is a very stupid win that they just handed over to the Liberals,
00:02:42.840 because now the Liberals all day long and the NDP are calling out Pyripaliev
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.
00:04:37.400 But if the conservatives do something stupid,
00:04:39.780 I will have to talk about them.
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.
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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.