Freeland melts down, calls Conservatives ＂Maple MAGA＂
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Summary
Chrystia Freeland lashes out at the Tories for their questions during question period, and the rest is downhill from there. The economy is still growing, but it's not as fast as it was a few years ago, and wages are still not keeping pace with inflation.
Transcript
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So, apparently I missed that this happened yesterday, but Liberal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, or soon to not be the Finance Minister of Mark Carney, ends up entering the cabinet.
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She lashed out at Conservatives' in-question period and is just for some reason deciding that for political gain to undermine Canada's trade relationship with the United States.
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I'm going to get into a little bit more on how she did that, but as a general rule, don't attack the neighbouring country's potential future president when you're dealing with your opposition.
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Like, I know other parties tend to ask slightly snarky questions to the current government whenever they ask about the economy or security or whatever.
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That's par for the course. Question period is, frankly, very dull, even at its most spicy.
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And so, when the Conservatives are jabbing at the Liberals, the Liberals, well, one, they should attempt to answer the questions, but I'm not expecting them to do that because they've been not doing that for eight straight years.
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But they should at least pretend that they're willing to answer some questions.
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They should at least, you know, pivot, be cordial and polite.
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But the Liberals decide to sideswipe Donald Trump and the Republicans and are going after the Conservatives as Maple MAGA.
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But first, let's just sort of get into the preamble of what happens first, the exchange that Polyev and Freeland had in English before Freeland freaked out at a question from Melissa Lantzman about the very fraudulent way that the Liberals are trying to cast the, you know, improving Canadian economy.
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It's not improving. We have slight positive, like we have slight positive movement when it comes to wages and inflation has come down in terms of its rate.
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Still going up, but the government likes to pretend, oh, wow, inflation's down.
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And they don't tell you that. No, no, no. Inflation's still going up, as it usually does.
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But that doesn't really help anyone who still hasn't caught up to where they used to be at financially like five, six, seven years ago.
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Anyway, so here is the first exchange between Pierre Polyev and Chrystia Freeland.
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Canadians in the former Liberal strongholds of Toronto and Montreal have now given their verdict.
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After nine years, this prime minister is not worth the cost.
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Mr. Speaker, isn't it time for Canadians to have a chance to render their verdict right across the country,
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electing a common sense conservative government that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime?
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Before we get into Freeland's answer here, this sounds like a very strange non sequitur,
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but I do have to compliment the fact that Polyev has gotten a much better haircut than he used to have.
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Before, when he took the glasses off, I always found that his face and haircut didn't look like they matched up.
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That's the weirdest comment I'm ever going to make for this week about somebody's appearance.
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But that's just something I noticed. His haircut has somehow gotten much better.
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I ask members, especially members on the far side of the House, to please not to take the microphone until they're recognized by the Speaker.
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The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Finetz.
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Mr. Speaker, I am so glad to have the chance to talk about the economy.
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That is because today we had good news for Canadians.
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Inflation is back down to where it was before COVID hit.
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Inflation has been within the Bank of Canada's target range this whole year.
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Wages have outpaced inflation for 19 months in a row.
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It's this weaselly way of presenting inflation as, oh, wow, finally Canadians are outpacing inflation.
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They're outpacing inflation if their wage increase was only up against this year's inflation.
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So your wages went up 2.7% and inflation only went up 2.3%.
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But that's not counting the fact that we had basically zero wage growth during COVID between 2020 and 2023.
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And so we were stuck with 7%, 8%, 9% inflation in some years.
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And we were not growing in terms of income at all.
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So when your wages are going up, you're not outpacing inflation.
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You're outpacing inflation if we artificially only consider inflation having started now.
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No, like the 2% inflation, it's a little bit more than 2%, but they're just generalizing.
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The inflation is still on top of everything that came before it.
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People are still worse off than they are today.
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And they're being talked down to by this lady who pretends like her deciding, her family deciding to cancel Disney Plus
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was like showing that she has solidarity with the middle class and all the economic hardships they're going through.
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Like everything about her screams substitute teacher talking down to seven-year-olds.
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But the Conservatives don't want to talk about it.
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They are so weak and spiteful that for them, good news for Canadians is bad news that they want to ignore.
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Speaker, this incompetent finance minister would tell you that you should celebrate
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that after prices rising faster than at any time in 40 years, they continue to rise, just not as quickly.
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I'm sure the people living in tent encampments or the record-smashing 2 million people lined up at food banks
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or the one in four kids going to school hungry after nine years of this government will be celebrating.
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But what we now find out is that it's worse than we thought.
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According to a document just released, the government's second carbon tax will cost $9 billion in lost GDP.
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Why won't we have a carbon tax election to decide?
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He made the exact point I was going to make that, yeah, I hate whenever people pretend like getting the inflation rate down is a win
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when we have not actually gotten the raw inflation under control from the past few years.
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We actually probably need an inflation rate of negative two for a couple of years
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if we actually want people to be back at where they were in 2019.
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And they weren't in such a hot place in 2019 either, if anyone can remember.
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The economy was already slumping in 2019, but falling back into the sophomore slump we are in in 2019
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is considered like us rocketing towards the moon in terms of prosperity
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because simply of how bad the economy was in 2022 and 23, that now we're back to 2019 levels.
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The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Finance.
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Mr. Speaker, I think we all know why the Conservatives are so panicked about the election.
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It's because they can see that the economic news is good.
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Apparently, people didn't hear about it in Montreal or Toronto.
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And she could say, well, the Bank of Canada hadn't announced the news yet.
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Well, people can usually feel the economy getting better.
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And you lost in Toronto, St. Paul, and you lost in La Salle, Amard, Verdun
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because people don't actually think you're better off.
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I always hate whenever people cite, you get hacky, lefty people in the media saying,
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well, actually, if you take this study or whatever,
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it actually says people are benefiting more from the carbon tax
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than it's being taken away from them, from the rebate.
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And then people aren't under the false impression that they got more taken away,
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They know they're worse off because they feel worse off.
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Nobody's convinced them that the carbon tax was hurting them more.
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So when Polly suggested it was hurting them more, people were like, yeah, it is.
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It wasn't like a, and this is really just the way the left pretends like,
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oh, if you actually believe anything conservative, it's because you've been lied to.
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It's either that they're right or they're, or like either voters like them because the voters
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know how well they're doing, how good the liberals are.
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And if they don't vote liberals, it's because they've been lied to.
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And, you know, all this other gnome chompski-ish crap of like, what is it?
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They can see that we are now back to exactly where we were before COVID hit.
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They can see the Bank of Canada has lowered interest rates three times in a row.
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And wages have been ahead of inflation for 19 months.
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Yeah, I can see the struggling family just gathering around the television.
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Kids, the Bank of Canada is about to make an announcement about the, about, like about the
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Look, we've been able to reduce the interest rates by three, by like three different times.
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But this is the way that liberals and, you know, like the CBC, like CTV Global, especially
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very lefty papers like the Toronto Star, the TAI, you know, the National Observer.
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This is how they want you to think about the economy.
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They want you to think about the economy as just a macro project.
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Yes, because we added 500,000 new people to the population.
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Even if every single one of those people only had $100 to their name, technically the GDP
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went up because we all added, you know, 500,000 times a hundred to the economy in terms of
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Our per capita, like GDP is going down for a reason.
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I know that they're basically just taking a shopping basket of different careers and wage
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jobs and showing that on average, certain people in those industries are being paid more.
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But as an overall picture of the economy, people are not making more money unless you're
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willing to be lied to in this way about like small gains being like the representative of
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But now let's get over to Melissa Lanceman going after the deputy prime minister and finance
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Because I thought this was pretty great that the conservatives have gotten this much under
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I just had to quickly jump ahead because for some reason we needed to hear from Blanchett
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and Singh before it got back to Melissa Lanceman here.
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It's day two in the House as the first female finance minister, again, is being publicly humiliated
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What's worse is that she's being replaced by an unelected man outside of her own caucus who
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her boss is now shielding from conflict of interest laws that allow him to take her job
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A man who works against our resource sector, who exports jobs to China while championing
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higher carbon taxes on heating and eating for Canadians.
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Why won't the finance minister talk to her boss about ending the personal attacks on her
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I do love the kind of babying of Christia Freeland here, that Melissa Lanceman is standing up
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for the honor of Christia Freeland and pretending like, we're helping you, Christia.
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And isn't it unfair that Trudeau is basically sidelining you?
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And this is exactly why Mark Carney couldn't take over for Trudeau.
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I don't think Mark Carney performs any better than Trudeau does as prime minister in terms
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I think Mark Carney would make a better prime minister, but we're really splitting hairs
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It wouldn't be good, but it would just be slightly better than Trudeau.
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But there's so many attack factors on Mark Carney.
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That's why the conservatives, even before Mark Carney has officially slid in as the shadow,
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the phantom finance minister, they're already able to kick him to death in question period
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over the fact that he is a big money central bank elitist who has made people's lives worse
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in the name of failed Keynesian economics and demand side fiscal stimulus plans that just
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I was going to say big business, not even that.
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It's good for whatever state subsidized businesses exist.
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But now is here is Chrystia Freeland, not able to handle herself, and she's going to
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The Honorable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
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You know, Mr. Speaker, I am so glad to have the chance to talk about feminism because I
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Apparently a feminist government votes in favor of sex-selective abortion, but whatever.
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A feminist government builds the first national system of early learning and childbirth.
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A feminist government makes contraceptives free.
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And a feminist government ensures that every single woman in Canada has full control over
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Can I again remind you guys, this government voted against upgraded sentencing that the
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conservatives proposed for criminals who murder pregnant women.
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They just care about getting women to vote for them.
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So they won't actually protect women when it's a bill that they think people won't care
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Only when it's like public will they kind of make a big hoopla about that we're voting
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And it has nothing to do with whether you're like a feminist or not, or if you're a woman
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Honestly, that's the most nauseating thing ever when there's like a woman in politics who
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They make more women go to food banks than ever before.
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They're basically making more women have to go to work than ever before to be able to
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They need the $10 a day childcare that doesn't even really work because more women have, are
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forced to work full-time jobs because their family can't afford groceries and their mortgage.
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Fake feminist Prime Minister throws his finance minister under the bus with all the other
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The real record of this finance minister is record-smashing a million people visiting
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Canadians now spend more in taxes than they do on housing, on food, and on clothes combined.
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No wonder they're putting the training wheels back on for her.
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The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
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Mr. Speaker, I've stood up to Trump and I have stood up to people with juvenile playground
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insults from the wannabe, mega, maple syrup conservatives.
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But what I think is really interesting is that they don't actually want to talk about
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And that's because good economic news for Canadians is bad news for them.
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How pathetic that they put their own partisan interests first.
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You just, can I remind Chrystia Freeland, I know that she is so partisan.
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She probably didn't even notice what she did there.
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Donald Trump and the Republicans are more likely than the Democrats to be in power after
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Do I have to explain why that was the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life?
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I think that at this point, people would actually, in Canada, vote for Trump before they'd vote
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for Trudeau because Trump would lower people's taxes and stop literally stepping all over
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people when it comes to their own, their free speech rights, autonomy, and all this stuff.
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But like Chrystia Freeland, one, this is just like out of complete left field.
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This was like from the other side of the planet.
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She comes and starts like screaming about Maple Mega.
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Yeah, I guarantee Putin, before he decided to invade Ukraine, was thinking, oh my goodness,
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what's Chrystia Freeland going to say about this?
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But like, he's like, oh, I've stood up to Trump.
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And now when Trump's president, do you think he's going to respect you more now when he gets
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to see clips of you basically attacking your opposition as terrible and evil because they're
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It's going to be worse when we potentially have tariffs put on our products because the
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Canadian government are being snarky idiots before we actually open trade negotiations.
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If I was running for office or I was a politician, guess what?
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Do you know what you say about the United States?
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And it's not because we're scared of them for like imperialistic reasons.
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You don't necessarily antagonize politicians in another country unless they're actual
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You don't even say anything about Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.
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Just focus on our economy and making sure our relationship with the United States is
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This actually helped the conservatives probably a lot.
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You're going to get a lot of moderate voters in Canada who might not even be saying they're
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voting conservative yet or maybe they're soft conservatives who are definitely going to
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vote conservative because Christian Freeland and these morons are putting our actual trade
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at risk with the United States by just randomly just sideswiping the Republicans and kicking
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I thought the liberals stopped doing this after a while because I didn't think that they thought
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Trump was going to be like a contender for president again.
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And then they suddenly were talking about the mega conservatives and all this stuff and
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oh, they're far right, alt right, mega, something, something, double secret probation
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And then suddenly they stopped because Trump was leading in the polls over Biden.
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And now I guess because like Kamala Harris has a 40% chance of winning, at least according
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to Nate Silver, now they feel confident enough again to start attacking.
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Now I need, now I need the conservatives to win even harder because I don't want our
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economy to do badly under the liberals, terrible negotiation teams over trade.
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Again, Freeland got her lunch eaten by like Trump's negotiators during the trade talks.
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The U.S. had a lot of Canadian industries remove tariffs and the U.S. didn't really
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I wish we didn't really have too many tariffs between the two countries.
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But like Christy Freeland fell on her face during those negotiations.
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There's a lot of stories that were leaked about just how poor she was at negotiations where
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like they would like make her proposal and then they would come back and like and beg like
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I'm not sure if I can say anything else about it.