Easily the dumbest attack in Canadian politics
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Summary
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.
Transcript
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If you watch this channel even somewhat regularly, you will know two things about me.
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And two, I appreciate good political communication skills.
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And that's why today I feel the need to call out the Federal Conservative Party
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for one of the dumbest political attacks I've ever seen in my entire life.
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Here's a headline from Sudbury.com, and it is not an exaggeration.
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Torrey's Blast Trudeau for Lavish Retreat at Sudbury Holiday Inn.
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Yes, it is a lavish retreat at a holiday inn in Sudbury.
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For those of you who do not know, Sudbury is a very working class northern Ontario town.
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It is not exactly a destination for lavish vacations unless you are glamping or something like that with your own RV.
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It's definitely not a lavish time at the Holiday Inn in Sudbury.
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But for some reason, the Conservatives, and specifically Sebastian Skaminski,
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a communications manager or regional manager for the Conservatives,
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this was the quote from this press release or this email that they sent to their members.
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Today, Justin Trudeau took a surprise trip up to Sudbury to appease his Liberal MPs from Ontario
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where they will discuss ways to make life more costly and miserable for Ontarians,
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It would have been a fine email if they just said they've come to Sudbury today,
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basically just discuss how they're going to make life more unaffordable for northern Ontarians.
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They don't actually care what we think, and they are just here to pretend that they care about northern Ontario in any way.
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But to say it is a lavish retreat in a Holiday Inn,
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just because Trudeau in other cases has been known for lavish type expenses,
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when he goes on foreign trips where they're spending tens of thousands of dollars more than they need to,
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yes, the Prime Minister of a country should be well-appointed in terms of the rooms he stays in
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when he's on foreign diplomatic trips and whatnot.
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And I don't care if Trudeau spends a lot of money on a vacation.
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I only care he spends a lot and he goes on tons of vacations.
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If he only took two weeks of vacation a year and they were expensive, whatever,
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he's the Prime Minister, but he goes on like 50 days of vacation a year.
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why would you not have somebody read over this email
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and then smack the person who's about to send it upside the head and say,
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never apply the word lavish to a holiday in Sudbury.
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This is a very stupid win that they just handed over to the Liberals,
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because now the Liberals all day long and the NDP are calling out Pyripaliev
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for having high-cost fundraising events, which isn't bad either.
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You're having people pay $1,700 to help fund the party.
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People that $1,700 isn't a lot of money to, they show up,
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have dinner, talk to Pyripaliev, he delivers a speech,
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and it helps the party run in the next election.
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Every party does it. Every party who can put together a large fundraiser does it.
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so I always find it ridiculous whenever they say a high-cost political fundraiser.
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$1,700 would make any American politician yell at you
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if you thought that you sent them a lot of money.
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They would yell at you and say, get me $30,000,
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But they just opened the door for the Liberals to counterpunch them
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and pretend actually it's Pyripaliev, who's the lavish living politician.
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who live far more undeserved, lavish lifestyles than Pyripaliev.
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at the same time he's pretending that he cares about workers at all.
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This is a fundamental rule of Canadian politics.
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that I'm not making some sort of conservative propaganda channel.
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I go after the NDP and the Liberals all the time
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that guy I've covered a couple times on the channel,
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I don't like the ideas of the Liberals and the NDP.
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because she is not focused on actually achieving
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So we will have to call her out when she needs it
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They just care about the particular label of party
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there is the legal fund in the Give, Send, Go link
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make sure you've donated to the BC Conservatives
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because they have a major disadvantage fundraising.