The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 13, 2024


How did Canada end up with Justin Trudeau？


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Length

9 minutes

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195.05588

Word count

1,920

Sentence count

91

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Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

2

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How did Canada get their own Justin Trudeau? Why does anybody still like Justin Trudeau, and why is he still popular in spite of all the things he says and does that no one else in Canada seems to care about?

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00:00:00.000 In the comment section of my last video, I saw a lot of people replying with the thing I actually predicted would get posted a lot, which was along the lines of 25%. How do 25% of Canadians still like Justin Trudeau? Because my last video was about Justin Trudeau's record high disapproval rating. 25% still like him. And a lot of people in exasperated fashion react to the fact that anybody still likes Justin Trudeau.
00:00:24.240 And that still does surprise me as well. Although I think when you start talking to voters, most people are not so high information that they know all the things that you know about Justin Trudeau that makes you dislike him. A lot of people think, well, he's positive, so I like him. But that got me thinking more deeply about, well, how did Canada have Justin Trudeau become prime minister? Or how does any country around this planet get their own Justin Trudeau? Because make no mistake, Justin Trudeau is not a unique politician.
00:00:50.160 There are a lot of Justin Trudeaus around this planet who promise the exact same things. And not to sound too simplistic, but the reason that Canada got Justin Trudeau is not because he tricked Canadians, not because Canadians were being dumb or just didn't like Harper. That's part of it.
00:01:07.180 I think that people didn't like Harper for silly reasons. But the reason that Justin Trudeau got elected in Canada back in 2015 and even got re-elected in 2019 and 2021, other than the fact that Aaron O'Toole sucked as a conservative leader in 21, was the fact that Canadians wanted Justin Trudeau.
00:01:23.720 Not, again, they weren't tricked. They knew exactly what they were signing up for. Justin Trudeau was not just popular because he was a Trudeau. It's because he was offering the things that Canadians basically declared that they had wanted. And thankfully, many Canadians are walking away from that going into 2024. This is why the Conservative Party and Pierre Polyev are so popular.
00:01:45.760 But the thing that Justin Trudeau was playing to was the fundamental shift in politics over time because of moral relativism and other sorts of hyper-progressive type political thinking that ended up kind of infecting the country.
00:02:00.760 And when I say that, I mean the idea, it's the fundamental philosophy behind Trudeau's statements like the budget will balance itself. People who don't want to take serious issues seriously, and they want what they want, and they want to be able to choose their own morality, and they want to be able to ignore the laws of economics.
00:02:17.440 They don't want to have to care about public finance. They don't want to have to care about foreign policy and standing up for our allies. They just want Justin Trudeau to say sweet nothings in their ear, and then promise a lot of different programs and different sort of, you know, woke type policies that make them feel morally superior to Americans.
00:02:35.800 That is kind of the fundamental problem with a lot of Canadian politics over the past few decades, is a lot of Canadians tend to pick their politics in order to oppose what they see as like right-wing American, like vulgar politics.
00:02:50.760 And so they end up taking very vulgar left-wing Canadian politics, which ends up being, again, very much a authoritarian, progressive type, like a progressive type flavor of politician, which Justin Trudeau 100% represents.
00:03:07.920 Justin Trudeau does not care about property rights. He does not care about tax burden. He does not care. He doesn't even really care about the environment.
00:03:14.420 He just cares about making, he just cares about believing that we can control the environment, basically standing for the right things.
00:03:22.580 Canadian politics in 2015 had become very childish, in large part because not only the academic world in Canadian universities, but also because of the media.
00:03:32.440 The media very much cast Stephen Harper, who was a serious politician, who took serious problems seriously as basically being very dark and demure, unfriendly, uncaring, even though Harper, through his actions, proved he cared way more about people than Justin Trudeau ever did.
00:03:51.300 Stephen Harper cared about people in a serious manner. He actually cared about how much taxes they were paying.
00:03:56.280 He cared about the quality of services they were getting and what services the government can actually provide, which are going to be high quality and efficient, and not just a waste of taxpayer money, spending money on things that makes us feel good because we stood up for the right set of values.
00:04:11.420 It's like what, it's the type of rhetoric and type of thinking that backs up the universal dental plan from the NDP and the Liberals.
00:04:18.600 Are they actually going to provide quality dental services for Canadians in any large degree?
00:04:23.520 No, they're only offering it to people above the age of 85 and some children.
00:04:28.560 It's a very small subsection of children who can even apply for the program.
00:04:32.560 And I guarantee it's going to be slow and it's going to slow down the entire dental industry in Canada as the government basically tells dentists that you have to treat this person's, like to treat this patient, you know, this like for like whatever, get their teeth clean, get a cavity filled, all this stuff.
00:04:48.440 And you have to take a lower payout from the government.
00:04:51.080 And we're going to ignore all those consequences of a program like that in favor of believing that we did the right thing.
00:04:57.240 Justin Trudeau offered this sort of hollow politics to Canadians because Canadians desperately wanted this type of hollow politics because American politics, the sort of politics that brought Barack Obama into the presidency, was this sort of hollow do-goodism despite the fact that it wasn't actually backed up by trying to actually make sure that the things that we were doing were actually doing good by people.
00:05:19.500 We don't care if we're hurting people as long as we set our sights on the right goals.
00:05:23.620 This is obviously the motivation behind woke social politics.
00:05:27.880 We stand up for the disenfranchised by attacking the supposed privileged majority and we don't really benefit the minority that we supposedly are standing up for.
00:05:37.880 This is 100% the entire left-wing reconciliation agenda.
00:05:42.820 They're not helping Native Canadians in any way and they're only attacking mostly white Canadians. 0.60
00:05:48.660 It's just a way of trying to divide people in order to feel good about yourself because I stood up for the right things.
00:05:55.420 And this is why I think that in the Conservative Party, the biggest threat to a new Conservative government is not a resurgence in the Liberals or the NDP.
00:06:03.600 I think they're done.
00:06:04.340 I think a lot of Canadians have become far more serious again about politics, wanting the government to only do what the government is good at doing and stay out of the social realms, stay out of the lives of parents, all that sort of thing.
00:06:15.740 But the biggest threat to the Conservative Party now, at least what I believe, and this is why I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination, I think the biggest threat to the Conservative Party is red Toryism getting into the Conservative Party and holding back a Conservative government from doing what it must do in getting into government and repealing all this bad left-wing nonsense that Justin Trudeau has pushed on us over the past eight years.
00:06:39.120 The thing with red Toryism is basically it goes along the exact same lines of the Liberals and the NDP's philosophy towards politics, but just thinks that we should do it a little bit less.
00:06:51.720 You'll find a lot of red Tory politicians like Aaron O'Toole, Alison Redford, even a lot of Doug Ford is pushing the idea that we can have all the things, the fake hollow things that the Liberals and the NDP promise,
00:07:04.840 but we can do it with a little bit less taxes and a little bit more efficiently on the government sort of service side and the service quality side of things.
00:07:13.300 It is the exact same fundamental mistake that by setting our sights on good things that we will get good things.
00:07:21.320 The government has no business getting into a lot of these realms that the Liberals, the NDP and red Tories want us to get into.
00:07:27.180 And just because a red Tory offers that we can do the same stupid things the Liberals are doing, but for maybe 5% less of a burden of taxes, it's not a good plan.
00:07:36.220 It's basically like so many other people, so many people use this example before.
00:07:40.780 Red Toryism is just telling the Liberals that they should drive towards the edge of the cliff a little bit slower.
00:07:47.140 By we shouldn't stand up for any sort of good social values in government, we shouldn't really stand up for deregulation or full tax cuts in general.
00:07:55.540 We usually just, most red Tories never even cut taxes.
00:07:58.700 We should just basically promise what the Liberals are promising, but say that we are more serious, sober-minded people and we can get you those impossible things a little bit faster.
00:08:08.100 Or, like, in a better condition or whatever.
00:08:11.600 It's childish.
00:08:12.480 It's childish politics and Canada really needs to get rid of that out of our mindset in order to get rid of Justin Trudeau.
00:08:19.400 Hopefully this didn't seem like too much of a ramble.
00:08:21.780 I just felt like talking about this because it was, like, racking my brain for hours today.
00:08:26.540 That's really how this whole show works.
00:08:28.420 I'll think about something for four hours and unless I put it onto this camera, I'm going to go insane.
00:08:33.280 So, other than that, my usual Gibson Go fundraiser is in the description of this video.
00:08:38.880 If you want to contribute to the legal defense, you can.
00:08:41.380 I've already cost me $25,000 defending myself in the National Telegraph from a billionaire.
00:08:46.560 He has no case.
00:08:47.340 He has no evidence.
00:08:48.060 He even filed his evidence so late a judge required him to give me $1,800.
00:08:52.960 I'll probably win the case, like, easily win the case.
00:08:56.440 My own lawyers have told me that these guys are probably not going to want to go to trial because of how embarrassing what they've presented so far.
00:09:03.020 It looks like or how embarrassing it looks.
00:09:05.420 And then also, again, I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill conservative party nomination.
00:09:09.180 So, if you live in this side of Calgary, go check which riding you live in if you live in Calgary.
00:09:13.960 Because if you vote for me, we can help prevent a red Tory from occupying a safe conservative seat.
00:09:19.060 Because if Pahlia becomes the prime minister, what we do not want to see is a bunch of red Tories pump the brakes every time he actually tries to pursue real reform. 1.00
00:09:27.020 These are the type of people we're going to say, well, maybe don't define the CBC.
00:09:30.580 That's going to create a lot of havoc.
00:09:31.920 Well, maybe don't cut taxes that much.
00:09:33.980 Well, maybe don't cut that woke department in the government. 0.96
00:09:36.580 We can't have these people because they're going to end up turning a conservative party into a lame duck party. 0.92
00:09:41.780 And Justin Trudeau or Jagmeet Singh types will just walk back in after four years.
00:09:46.260 Other than that, I hope everyone has a fantastic night and doesn't mind the rambling too much.