The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 23, 2024


Hilarious： Chrystia Freeland pretends she gets around on a bike!

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3 minutes

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736

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50

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Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has been accused of using public transit to get around the city of Toronto, but what about riding her bike? Is she actually riding a bike? And if she is, why is she doing it?

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00:00:00.000 I just wanted to put out this very random short video here because I found this oddly hilarious.
00:00:05.540 Remember last year that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland claimed that for climate-related reasons,
00:00:12.980 she purely used public transportation as well as a bike to get around the city of Toronto to her various political engagements,
00:00:19.580 and that was quickly proven to be complete nonsense in that she spends thousands of dollars on chauffeurs, limousines, Ubers, and whatnot, 1.00
00:00:26.980 sometimes just to go like three blocks down the road somewhere that she could easily walk in just a few minutes,
00:00:33.560 yet for some reason she needed to bill taxpayers, you know, like hundreds of dollars just to take that small trip.
00:00:41.240 Well, I just wanted to highlight the fact that her ministerial staff seems to be really wanting to get more footage of her riding a bike,
00:00:49.580 and I like how the idea is, well, okay, we've lied in the past about her riding a bike,
00:00:53.860 so now we just need a little, we need a couple clips of her riding a bike. 1.00
00:01:01.640 Guys, controversy over. Look, she's holding a bike. She's riding a bike. She coasts in. 1.00
00:01:05.660 Look, she's coasting in. She's not even pedaling, though.
00:01:07.840 She walks, and then she walks the bike over. Perfect. 0.86
00:01:11.000 Guys, she rides a bike. She cares about climate change now, according to her. 0.99
00:01:14.320 Look, we have one clip of her actually riding a bike once in her life. 0.90
00:01:18.460 I don't think she's never ridden a bike, but, man, I love how silly political communications are. 0.58
00:01:24.220 Guys, guys, we need some footage of her riding a bike to prove that she sometimes does this,
00:01:28.300 even though she obviously didn't bike here because where did the rest of her comms team,
00:01:32.660 what did the rest of her team do?
00:01:34.460 Did they drive in a car and then film her riding her bike?
00:01:37.760 Because you know that's probably what they did.
00:01:39.740 The bike was in the trunk of the car.
00:01:41.740 They got her to take it out, put on the really nice blue helmet that clearly has never touched
00:01:46.220 an ounce of dirt in its entire existence, and just quickly ride down the street here.
00:01:51.080 Oh, yes. Good job, Freeland.
00:01:52.580 Oh, yeah. No, look at that.
00:01:53.700 She cares about the climate now, guys.
00:01:55.240 She totally rides public transit because we have her riding a red bicycle going to a bike shop 0.99
00:01:59.920 to talk about frivolous policies that are not actually helping Canadians that she thinks are
00:02:04.960 like needs that we have, even though a lot of these things are only needs now that Canadians are so broke
00:02:10.700 because of liberal policy.
00:02:12.840 Ugh. Silly stuff. I love silly stuff. 0.99
00:02:16.700 I love political communications teams who just think to themselves,
00:02:20.900 oh, goodness, this person needs to feel like a family person.
00:02:23.880 Let's have them taking a photo next to a family. 1.00
00:02:26.460 Oh, guys, we have to have them holding a baby so people think they're compassionate.
00:02:29.900 Or how about just act compassionate? How about just act consistent?
00:02:34.240 Like, you can't cover over hypocrisy by trying to retroactively do the thing that you said you were doing.
00:02:40.160 Again, she spent thousands of dollars on limousines at the same time she was saying she was riding the train.
00:02:45.260 You almost immediately knew that was untrue because if the deputy prime minister was riding the TTC in Toronto,
00:02:51.900 there'd be tons of little photos of her on social media saying, 0.88
00:02:54.580 oh, hey, I just noticed the deputy prime minister here.
00:02:57.100 That's neat. 0.94
00:02:57.680 Or people are like, I hate her guts.
00:02:59.040 It's Christy Freeland.
00:02:59.960 Look at a photo of her. 0.83
00:03:01.040 You never saw that.
00:03:02.080 Everyone knew off the bat it wasn't true.
00:03:04.240 Also, I just wanted to highlight the fact that Christy Freeland is also a bit of a drag racer.
00:03:08.680 If we all remember, she was, like, caught driving, like, 160 or something like that in Alberta,
00:03:13.680 driving from, you know, like, Medicine Hat to somewhere, got pulled over and got a $275 ticket.
00:03:19.280 So the lady has a need for speed. 1.00
00:03:21.540 And I don't begrudge her for that.
00:03:22.960 I just begrudge her for lying about the fact that she doesn't use actual motor vehicle transportation
00:03:28.820 and then also trying to shame other people for doing the same thing and tax them.
00:03:33.740 But what can you do these days?
00:03:35.760 Have a good one, guys.