The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Freeland melts down, calls Conservatives ＂Maple MAGA＂

00:00:00.000 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.

00:00:11.380 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.

00:00:24.520 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.

00:00:36.100 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.

00:00:45.500 That's par for the course. Question period is, frankly, very dull, even at its most spicy.

00:00:51.040 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.

00:01:01.100 But they should at least pretend that they're willing to answer some questions.

00:01:06.060 They should at least, you know, pivot, be cordial and polite.

00:01:09.580 But the Liberals decide to sideswipe Donald Trump and the Republicans and are going after the Conservatives as Maple MAGA.

00:01:17.700 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.

00:01:38.640 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.

00:01:48.200 Still going up, but the government likes to pretend, oh, wow, inflation's down.

00:01:53.440 And they don't tell you that. No, no, no. Inflation's still going up, as it usually does.

00:01:57.960 It's just not going up as fast.

00:01:59.660 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.

00:02:07.740 Anyway, so here is the first exchange between Pierre Polyev and Chrystia Freeland.

00:02:14.400 Canadians in the former Liberal strongholds of Toronto and Montreal have now given their verdict.

00:02:22.100 After nine years, this prime minister is not worth the cost.

00:02:28.800 Taxes up, costs up, crimes up, times up.

00:02:34.520 Mr. Speaker, isn't it time for Canadians to have a chance to render their verdict right across the country,

00:02:41.800 electing a common sense conservative government that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime?

00:02:47.660 Before we get into Freeland's answer here, this sounds like a very strange non sequitur,

00:02:54.540 but I do have to compliment the fact that Polyev has gotten a much better haircut than he used to have.

00:02:59.120 Before, when he took the glasses off, I always found that his face and haircut didn't look like they matched up.

00:03:03.960 Now they do.

00:03:04.900 That's the weirdest comment I'm ever going to make for this week about somebody's appearance.

00:03:09.240 But that's just something I noticed. His haircut has somehow gotten much better.

00:03:12.000 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.

00:03:22.680 The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Finetz.

00:03:27.760 Mr. Speaker, I am so glad to have the chance to talk about the economy.

00:03:32.080 That is because today we had good news for Canadians.

00:03:38.140 Inflation is back down to where it was before COVID hit.

00:03:42.800 Inflation has been within the Bank of Canada's target range this whole year.

00:03:47.600 Wages have outpaced inflation for 19 months in a row.

00:03:51.520 They actually have not. They haven't.

00:03:54.500 It's this weaselly way of presenting inflation as, oh, wow, finally Canadians are outpacing inflation.

00:04:02.280 They're outpacing inflation if their wage increase was only up against this year's inflation.

00:04:09.040 So your wages went up 2.7% and inflation only went up 2.3%.

00:04:14.040 Oh, you've outpaced inflation.

00:04:15.840 But that's not counting the fact that we had basically zero wage growth during COVID between 2020 and 2023.

00:04:25.580 And so we were stuck with 7%, 8%, 9% inflation in some years.

00:04:31.340 And we were not growing in terms of income at all.

00:04:35.560 So when your wages are going up, you're not outpacing inflation.

00:04:39.240 You're outpacing inflation if we artificially only consider inflation having started now.

00:04:44.200 No, like the 2% inflation, it's a little bit more than 2%, but they're just generalizing.

00:04:50.060 The inflation is still on top of everything that came before it.

00:04:53.460 People are still worse off than they are today.

00:04:55.420 And they're being talked down to by this lady who pretends like her deciding, her family deciding to cancel Disney Plus

00:05:02.320 was like showing that she has solidarity with the middle class and all the economic hardships they're going through.

00:05:08.320 Like everything about her screams substitute teacher talking down to seven-year-olds. 0.96

00:05:13.420 But the Conservatives don't want to talk about it.

00:05:16.160 They are so weak and spiteful that for them, good news for Canadians is bad news that they want to ignore.

00:05:24.800 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition. 0.96

00:05:27.380 Speaker, this incompetent finance minister would tell you that you should celebrate

00:05:33.320 that after prices rising faster than at any time in 40 years, they continue to rise, just not as quickly.

00:05:41.180 I'm sure the people living in tent encampments or the record-smashing 2 million people lined up at food banks

00:05:47.280 or the one in four kids going to school hungry after nine years of this government will be celebrating.

00:05:53.120 But what we now find out is that it's worse than we thought.

00:05:56.460 According to a document just released, the government's second carbon tax will cost $9 billion in lost GDP.

00:06:06.140 Why won't we have a carbon tax election to decide?

00:06:10.000 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

00:06:17.340 when we have not actually gotten the raw inflation under control from the past few years.

00:06:23.080 We actually probably need an inflation rate of negative two for a couple of years

00:06:27.600 if we actually want people to be back at where they were in 2019.

00:06:31.280 And they weren't in such a hot place in 2019 either, if anyone can remember.

00:06:35.580 The economy was already slumping in 2019, but falling back into the sophomore slump we are in in 2019

00:06:42.080 is considered like us rocketing towards the moon in terms of prosperity

00:06:46.600 because simply of how bad the economy was in 2022 and 23, that now we're back to 2019 levels.

00:06:55.300 It's like, oh, wow, isn't everything so good?

00:06:57.120 No, not really.

00:06:59.680 The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Finance.

00:07:02.760 Mr. Speaker, I think we all know why the Conservatives are so panicked about the election.

00:07:13.040 It's because they can see that the economic news is good.

00:07:19.840 Apparently, people didn't hear about it in Montreal or Toronto.

00:07:23.500 And she could say, well, the Bank of Canada hadn't announced the news yet.

00:07:27.080 Well, people can usually feel the economy getting better.

00:07:30.640 And you lost in Toronto, St. Paul, and you lost in La Salle, Amard, Verdun

00:07:35.440 because people don't actually think you're better off.

00:07:38.420 That's the thing.

00:07:38.980 I always hate whenever people cite, you get hacky, lefty people in the media saying,

00:07:43.480 well, actually, if you take this study or whatever,

00:07:46.260 it actually says people are benefiting more from the carbon tax

00:07:49.360 than it's being taken away from them, from the rebate.

00:07:51.800 It's like, no, they're not.

00:07:52.860 Do you know how we know they're not?

00:07:53.840 Because they tell you they're not.

00:07:55.380 And then people aren't under the false impression that they got more taken away,

00:07:59.800 even though that's not reality.

00:08:01.280 They know they're worse off because they feel worse off.

00:08:04.700 And the feeling, it's not artificial.

00:08:07.380 Nobody's convinced them that the carbon tax was hurting them more.

00:08:09.960 They were hurting more.

00:08:11.280 So when Polly suggested it was hurting them more, people were like, yeah, it is.

00:08:15.160 It wasn't like a, and this is really just the way the left pretends like,

00:08:19.360 oh, if you actually believe anything conservative, it's because you've been lied to.

00:08:23.200 And so they can never be wrong.

00:08:24.320 It's either that they're right or they're, or like either voters like them because the voters

00:08:28.740 know how well they're doing, how good the liberals are.

00:08:31.520 And if they don't vote liberals, it's because they've been lied to. 0.95

00:08:33.760 And, you know, all this other gnome chompski-ish crap of like, what is it? 1.00

00:08:38.660 Manufactured consent.

00:08:39.640 They can see that we are now back to exactly where we were before COVID hit.

00:08:46.720 They can see the Bank of Canada has lowered interest rates three times in a row.

00:08:52.980 And wages have been ahead of inflation for 19 months.

00:08:56.960 That's good news for Canadians. 0.99

00:08:58.660 It's bad news for conservatives.

00:09:00.440 Yeah, I can see the struggling family just gathering around the television.

00:09:07.580 Some mother says, everyone, get in the room. 0.60

00:09:09.580 Kids, the Bank of Canada is about to make an announcement about the, about, like about the

00:09:14.760 inflation rate this year.

00:09:16.000 Oh, wow.

00:09:16.860 Look, we've been able to reduce the interest rates by three, by like three different times.

00:09:22.720 Wow.

00:09:23.360 Inflation this year is only 2%.

00:09:25.000 Wow.

00:09:25.900 Like nobody thinks this way.

00:09:27.260 But this is the way that liberals and, you know, like the CBC, like CTV Global, especially

00:09:32.860 very lefty papers like the Toronto Star, the TAI, you know, the National Observer.

00:09:37.340 This is how they want you to think about the economy.

00:09:39.400 They want you to think about the economy as just a macro project.

00:09:43.940 So, hey, look, the GDP went up this year.

00:09:46.520 Wowee.

00:09:47.360 Yes, because we added 500,000 new people to the population.

00:09:51.040 Even if every single one of those people only had $100 to their name, technically the GDP

00:09:55.560 went up because we all added, you know, 500,000 times a hundred to the economy in terms of

00:10:01.400 GDP because they all had money on them.

00:10:03.240 That's not actually how an economy grows.

00:10:05.520 Our per capita, like GDP is going down for a reason.

00:10:10.300 And she's saying, oh, wages have gone up.

00:10:12.780 How is our per capita GDP going down then?

00:10:15.240 I know that they're basically just taking a shopping basket of different careers and wage

00:10:20.460 jobs and showing that on average, certain people in those industries are being paid more.

00:10:24.820 But as an overall picture of the economy, people are not making more money unless you're

00:10:30.380 willing to be lied to in this way about like small gains being like the representative of

00:10:36.920 the whole economy.

00:10:37.680 But now let's get over to Melissa Lanceman going after the deputy prime minister and finance 1.00

00:10:44.900 minister.

00:10:45.320 Because I thought this was pretty great that the conservatives have gotten this much under

00:10:49.760 the skin of the liberals.

00:10:51.760 I just had to quickly jump ahead because for some reason we needed to hear from Blanchett

00:10:56.280 and Singh before it got back to Melissa Lanceman here.

00:10:59.540 The honorable member from Thornhill.

00:11:01.760 It's day two in the House as the first female finance minister, again, is being publicly humiliated 0.80

00:11:07.720 by the fake feminist prime minister. 1.00

00:11:10.140 What's worse is that she's being replaced by an unelected man outside of her own caucus who

00:11:15.240 her boss is now shielding from conflict of interest laws that allow him to take her job

00:11:20.580 and keep his money?

00:11:21.680 A man who works against our resource sector, who exports jobs to China while championing 0.99

00:11:26.200 higher carbon taxes on heating and eating for Canadians.

00:11:29.400 Why won't the finance minister talk to her boss about ending the personal attacks on her 1.00

00:11:34.760 own credibility?

00:11:35.500 I do love the kind of babying of Christia Freeland here, that Melissa Lanceman is standing up

00:11:43.780 for the honor of Christia Freeland and pretending like, we're helping you, Christia.

00:11:48.220 We want you to be able to do your job better.

00:11:50.880 And isn't it unfair that Trudeau is basically sidelining you?

00:11:53.980 And this is exactly why Mark Carney couldn't take over for Trudeau.

00:11:57.100 I don't think Mark Carney performs any better than Trudeau does as prime minister in terms

00:12:01.880 of popularity.

00:12:02.680 I think Mark Carney would make a better prime minister, but we're really splitting hairs

00:12:06.660 here in terms of what we consider better.

00:12:09.640 It wouldn't be good, but it would just be slightly better than Trudeau.

00:12:12.880 But there's so many attack factors on Mark Carney.

00:12:15.680 That's why the conservatives, even before Mark Carney has officially slid in as the shadow,

00:12:21.340 the phantom finance minister, they're already able to kick him to death in question period

00:12:26.860 over the fact that he is a big money central bank elitist who has made people's lives worse

00:12:33.020 in the name of failed Keynesian economics and demand side fiscal stimulus plans that just

00:12:39.600 end up spiking inflation.

00:12:41.760 But it's great for the economy overall.

00:12:45.140 I was going to say big business, not even that.

00:12:47.240 It's good for certain ones.

00:12:48.960 It's good for whatever state subsidized businesses exist.

00:12:52.460 It's corporatism effectively.

00:12:53.880 But now is here is Chrystia Freeland, not able to handle herself, and she's going to 0.93

00:12:58.420 go into her Maple Mag a comedy bit.

00:13:03.540 The Honorable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.

00:13:06.900 You know, Mr. Speaker, I am so glad to have the chance to talk about feminism because I 0.99

00:13:13.680 know what a feminist government looks like. 1.00

00:13:16.840 Apparently a feminist government votes in favor of sex-selective abortion, but whatever. 1.00

00:13:21.060 A feminist government builds the first national system of early learning and childbirth.

00:13:29.420 A feminist government makes contraceptives free. 1.00

00:13:34.420 And a feminist government ensures that every single woman in Canada has full control over 1.00

00:13:41.060 her body.

00:13:42.600 Can I again remind you guys, this government voted against upgraded sentencing that the

00:13:52.200 conservatives proposed for criminals who murder pregnant women.

00:13:56.300 They don't actually care about women at all.

00:13:58.300 They just care about getting women to vote for them. 1.00

00:14:01.220 So they won't actually protect women when it's a bill that they think people won't care

00:14:05.800 about.

00:14:06.260 Only when it's like public will they kind of make a big hoopla about that we're voting

00:14:12.080 with women.

00:14:13.000 It's like they're not.

00:14:13.760 They actually don't respect women at all.

00:14:15.880 And it has nothing to do with whether you're like a feminist or not, or if you're a woman 1.00

00:14:21.220 and you care about other strong women.

00:14:23.780 Honestly, that's the most nauseating thing ever when there's like a woman in politics who 1.00

00:14:27.060 talks about other strong women.

00:14:28.820 Like it's very rehearsed all the time.

00:14:31.220 They don't actually care about women at all.

00:14:32.640 They make more women go to food banks than ever before. 1.00

00:14:35.620 They're basically making more women have to go to work than ever before to be able to 1.00

00:14:39.420 pay rent for their family.

00:14:41.000 And that's why they need the childcare. 0.99

00:14:43.200 They need the $10 a day childcare that doesn't even really work because more women have, are 1.00

00:14:47.800 forced to work full-time jobs because their family can't afford groceries and their mortgage. 0.96

00:14:53.800 Disgusting. 0.92

00:14:54.240 The Honourable Member from Thornhill. 1.00

00:15:10.220 Fake feminist Prime Minister throws his finance minister under the bus with all the other 1.00

00:15:15.340 ministers. 0.82

00:15:15.780 The real record of this finance minister is record-smashing a million people visiting

00:15:22.500 a food bank in her province, in Ontario.

00:15:25.840 One in four Canadians living in poverty.

00:15:28.960 Canadians now spend more in taxes than they do on housing, on food, and on clothes combined.

00:15:35.160 No wonder they're putting the training wheels back on for her. 1.00

00:15:38.440 She can tell that to the Prime Minister.

00:15:39.920 The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.

00:15:46.760 Mr. Speaker, I've stood up to Trump and I have stood up to people with juvenile playground

00:15:58.040 insults from the wannabe, mega, maple syrup conservatives.

00:16:04.260 Do not frighten me at all.

00:16:07.680 But what I think is really interesting is that they don't actually want to talk about

00:16:15.440 the economy.

00:16:16.960 And that's because good economic news for Canadians is bad news for them. 0.99

00:16:22.460 How pathetic that they put their own partisan interests first. 1.00

00:16:27.800 Pathetic partisan interests. 1.00

00:16:30.120 You just, can I remind Chrystia Freeland, I know that she is so partisan. 1.00

00:16:37.160 She probably didn't even notice what she did there. 0.66

00:16:40.500 Donald Trump and the Republicans are more likely than the Democrats to be in power after

00:16:46.760 January of next year. 1.00

00:16:49.500 Do I have to explain why that was the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life? 0.99

00:16:57.520 One, what are you talking about? 0.99

00:16:59.640 I think that at this point, people would actually, in Canada, vote for Trump before they'd vote

00:17:05.000 for Trudeau because Trump would lower people's taxes and stop literally stepping all over

00:17:10.320 people when it comes to their own, their free speech rights, autonomy, and all this stuff.

00:17:15.940 But like Chrystia Freeland, one, this is just like out of complete left field.

00:17:21.240 This wasn't even left field.

00:17:22.080 This was like from the other side of the planet.

00:17:24.880 She comes and starts like screaming about Maple Mega.

00:17:28.620 I've stood up to Putin or whatever.

00:17:30.880 Yeah, I guarantee Putin, before he decided to invade Ukraine, was thinking, oh my goodness,

00:17:36.560 what's Chrystia Freeland going to say about this? 0.90

00:17:39.160 But like, he's like, oh, I've stood up to Trump.

00:17:41.040 You failed at the last trade negotiations.

00:17:43.880 And now when Trump's president, do you think he's going to respect you more now when he gets

00:17:49.140 to see clips of you basically attacking your opposition as terrible and evil because they're

00:17:55.460 like him? 1.00

00:17:56.840 You're an idiot. 1.00

00:17:58.220 Thanks for helping hurt Canada. 1.00

00:18:00.540 People are suffering now.

00:18:02.060 It's going to be worse when we potentially have tariffs put on our products because the 1.00

00:18:06.220 Canadian government are being snarky idiots before we actually open trade negotiations. 0.99

00:18:11.140 If I was running for office or I was a politician, guess what? 1.00

00:18:15.500 Do you know what you talk about?

00:18:16.880 Do you know what you say about the United States?

00:18:18.560 It's nothing but nice things.

00:18:20.760 And it's not because we're scared of them for like imperialistic reasons.

00:18:25.180 Oh, the Americans are going to come crush us. 1.00

00:18:26.940 So we have to grovel.

00:18:28.040 No, no, no.

00:18:28.620 You don't necessarily antagonize politicians in another country unless they're actual

00:18:35.280 national security threats or enemies.

00:18:38.920 You don't do that.

00:18:39.740 And the US is the definition of an ally.

00:18:42.260 What's wrong with you?

00:18:43.340 You don't hit Biden.

00:18:44.360 You don't hit Trump.

00:18:45.140 You don't even hit a former president.

00:18:46.520 You don't even say anything about Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.

00:18:50.540 Say nothing.

00:18:51.420 Say nothing.

00:18:52.180 Just focus on our economy and making sure our relationship with the United States is

00:18:57.740 impeccable.

00:18:58.520 This actually helped the conservatives probably a lot.

00:19:01.200 You're going to get a lot of moderate voters in Canada who might not even be saying they're

00:19:05.420 voting conservative yet or maybe they're soft conservatives who are definitely going to 0.99

00:19:09.280 vote conservative because Christian Freeland and these morons are putting our actual trade 0.99

00:19:15.440 at risk with the United States by just randomly just sideswiping the Republicans and kicking 1.00

00:19:20.800 like Trump in the face for no reason.

00:19:23.420 Why do this ever? 1.00

00:19:25.660 It's so stupid. 1.00

00:19:27.220 I thought the liberals stopped doing this after a while because I didn't think that they thought 1.00

00:19:31.480 Trump was going to be like a contender for president again.

00:19:34.020 And then they suddenly were talking about the mega conservatives and all this stuff and

00:19:39.400 oh, they're far right, alt right, mega, something, something, double secret probation

00:19:43.560 conservatives.

00:19:44.900 And then suddenly they stopped because Trump was leading in the polls over Biden.

00:19:49.200 And now I guess because like Kamala Harris has a 40% chance of winning, at least according

00:19:54.380 to Nate Silver, now they feel confident enough again to start attacking.

00:19:58.140 Stop it.

00:19:58.860 What are you guys doing?

00:19:59.860 Like I'm a conservative.

00:20:00.800 I want the conservatives to win.

00:20:02.020 Now I need, now I need the conservatives to win even harder because I don't want our

00:20:06.560 economy to do badly under the liberals, terrible negotiation teams over trade.

00:20:11.160 My goodness.

00:20:12.060 Again, Freeland got her lunch eaten by like Trump's negotiators during the trade talks.

00:20:18.040 They gave up so much.

00:20:19.700 The U.S. had a lot of Canadian industries remove tariffs and the U.S. didn't really

00:20:24.360 remove the same amount of tariffs.

00:20:25.600 I wish we didn't really have too many tariffs between the two countries.

00:20:28.480 It would make things cheaper for everybody.

00:20:30.600 But like Christy Freeland fell on her face during those negotiations.

00:20:33.980 Like even she was embarrassed after the fact.

00:20:36.640 There's a lot of stories that were leaked about just how poor she was at negotiations where

00:20:41.400 like they would like make her proposal and then they would come back and like and beg like

00:20:45.760 a lot.

00:20:46.300 It was horrible. 1.00

00:20:48.040 Anyways, these people suck at their jobs. 0.99

00:20:51.740 I'm not sure if I can say anything else about it. 0.98

00:20:53.780 Like, share, and subscribe for the channel.

00:20:55.760 You know, comment.

00:20:56.540 Do all that nice stuff.

00:20:57.640 It's bad out there.

00:20:58.720 It's really bad.

00:20:59.720 See you guys later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 18, 2024

Freeland melts down, calls Conservatives ＂Maple MAGA＂

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