The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 04, 2023


Jagmeet Singh Is Canada's Most Embarassing Politician

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Jagmeet Singh is the most embarrassing man in Canadian politics, and I'm here to talk about it. I mean, come on, it's no secret that he's a terrible politician, but what's even worse is that he doesn't seem to know how to actually run a campaign. He's more interested in being on camera and being lauded by media elites, and he loves the attention he gets from them, so why is he so bad at politics?

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00:00:00.000 This video may seem like political blasphemy because it seems to imply that Justin Trudeau isn't the absolute worst, but I can assure you all, Justin Trudeau is the worst, but at the same time, Jagmeet Singh is the most embarrassing man in Canadian politics.
00:00:14.000 It's wild watching him persist on as the NDP's leader after abysmal failures for the NDP in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
00:00:23.300 I guess Jagmeet Singh's special power is he can convince his base that they're rocketing towards the sun in terms of success when he's really just been plowing them into a wall for the past several years of his leadership.
00:00:34.600 Like from a conservative's perspective, like my own, I love watching the NDP and the liberals fail.
00:00:39.620 It's really funny. But at the same time, from a strategic perspective, it's really frustrating watching just how bad Jagmeet Singh is at politics.
00:00:47.180 Right now, the NDP is arguably in one of the best positions they've ever been in, in order to gain more support, like probably ever since Jack Layton's second place finish in 2011.
00:00:59.320 Right now, Jagmeet Singh could have Justin Trudeau over a barrel. He could be getting a bunch of the NDP's agenda passed.
00:01:05.480 He could be rising in the polls by criticizing Trudeau, threatening elections and seeming like a strong leader who could actually be able to beat the conservatives in the next election while Justin Trudeau's time is over.
00:01:16.120 But Jagmeet Singh takes none of the initiative. He is, for some reason, more scared of an election than Justin Trudeau.
00:01:22.080 Jagmeet Singh has like nothing to lose from an election. He could actually gain support if he would just posture himself as being friendlier to the idea of an election.
00:01:30.400 But he doesn't. So everyone thinks he's a complete phony, probably because he is.
00:01:34.880 But and it's not just from a strategic point of view that Jagmeet Singh doesn't seem to be able to know how to exploit the political opportunities set in front of him.
00:01:43.680 From an imagistic point of view, he just doesn't know how to lead a party like his own.
00:01:48.840 The NDP is a socialist trade unionist party. 0.97
00:01:53.120 And from a strategic point of view, he's been alienating his unionized base in favor of like college students, like woke university students, which is a stupid thing to do.
00:02:02.860 At the same time, he's also doing the sort of champagne socialist routine, while at the same time he's arguing against corporate power and wanting to go after grocery giants or whatever.
00:02:12.460 He's walking around with Rolex watches on wearing expensive, you know, like Canada goose coats and carrying a Versace bag.
00:02:20.400 And you'll have some of his allies in the media like attack people.
00:02:23.900 Are you saying a brown man can't carry a Versace bag?
00:02:26.580 Who said that? Like I'm responding specifically to Erica.
00:02:29.860 I think, yeah, Erica Iffel's stupid contention that people are racist for criticizing Jagmeet Singh's like high fashion tastes. 1.00
00:02:38.180 But when you're literally leading a socialistic party, you probably shouldn't come off as the most elite man in the room. 0.96
00:02:46.160 Jagmeet Singh, though, loves being on camera and he loves just like he loves just sort of being lauded by sort of media elites.
00:02:55.260 So the thing is, he kind of acts like media elites because he just loves the attention he gets from them, which is just, again, for his party, which is all about supposedly supposed to be about working class Canadians.
00:03:06.800 He just embarrasses the party by putting on a brand of like a super elite party meant for people who live in high rises in the GTA.
00:03:15.220 Anyways, I want to get to some of his recent posts on Twitter because it just every time he opens his mouth to actually talk about policy, he just demonstrates that outside of watching a couple of online leftists sort of BS about politics, he doesn't actually know anything about the issues.
00:03:34.020 He just knows effective rhetoric to use on sort of these college educated crowds who want to hear politicians sort of use more revolutionary, progressive rhetoric.
00:03:46.340 He just knows rhetoric, nothing about policy itself.
00:03:49.060 So he was recently at some sort of like NDP conference and he uploaded a video from it and it was just not very good.
00:03:56.340 He's been doing this weird WWE sort of fight between him and Galen Weston from Loblaws, assuming that somehow like Canadians are going to flock to him because he's fighting grocery giants when he just lies.
00:04:10.460 He just lies and he gets exposed for the lies so often.
00:04:13.360 He tried to imply and he keeps implying that the grocery chains are making record profits when he includes a bunch of like assets that they've sold off, like, you know, like literal gas stations that Loblaws' parent company sold to or it was like Sobeys to imply that the company was making record profits when they've actually been losing money over time.
00:04:35.980 They just had this one blip on their, uh, they just had this one blip in one of their quarters because they sold a bunch of real estate, which is obviously only a one-time thing, but here's him talking about it.
00:04:46.660 While you're paying even more every time you visit a grocery store, it's getting harder and harder for you.
00:04:52.860 CEOs like Galen Weston are doing just fine.
00:04:55.720 They're making record profits.
00:04:58.020 Last week, we finally heard the great liberal plan to lower, sorry, stabilize grocery prices.
00:05:07.860 Are you ready for this?
00:05:08.680 This is their big plan.
00:05:10.740 They told us in an announcement to check out grocery flyers.
00:05:17.460 Literally, they thought that grocery flyers didn't exist before and that they made this happen.
00:05:23.920 That was their press conference announcement.
00:05:26.340 So, let me get this straight.
00:05:28.280 Canadians are struggling to buy enough food for their families.
00:05:34.120 All they have to do is just do a better job of shopping around according to the liberal government. 0.98
00:05:40.420 What a ridiculous plan. 0.98
00:05:42.960 How? 0.99
00:05:44.300 And notice how in that clip, Jagmeet Singh never actually follows up with his own plan.
00:05:49.060 And as much as I don't like the liberals, again, I'm a conservative, Jagmeet Singh just lied.
00:05:53.740 No, they were telling people to go check out these grocery store flyers to see that prices have gone down.
00:06:02.160 Prices really haven't gone down.
00:06:04.300 The liberals were sort of cherry picking a few items that sort of stabilized in their prices over time and only stabilized because they've sort of stopped spending as much money as they used to.
00:06:13.960 But, like, what's Jagmeet Singh's plan?
00:06:16.620 Jagmeet Singh's plan is literally what the liberals' plan is.
00:06:19.620 It's throwing money at people, inflating the prices of food by just handing out free money, or then trying to then freeze prices at the grocery stores, which is effectively the government trying to come in and operate grocery stores for themselves.
00:06:33.140 But he goes on about these people like Galen Weston making record profits, and look how much money Galen Weston personally has.
00:06:39.640 Jagmeet Singh, give up some of your money if being rich is a bad thing.
00:06:43.140 You're literally wearing a double-breasted suit, man.
00:06:46.120 You are the most pretentious person in politics.
00:06:49.560 But, like, you could literally swap him out with any left-wing Twitch streamer.
00:06:54.280 It would be pretty much the same thing.
00:06:55.580 He's literally gone on Twitch streams with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hassan Piker, the guy who said America deserves 9-11 and is extremely anti-Semitic in his coverage of these Israel issues.
00:07:08.660 But, of course, Jagmeet Singh strategically avoids actually saying what he would do on any of these issues.
00:07:14.800 I would say that's one of the smart things that he does.
00:07:17.640 Avoiding what he's going to do is probably the way of keeping the most credibility that he can.
00:07:22.260 Once he starts talking about his actual plans, that's when Canadians realize that his ideas are that of a freshman college student who took one class in basic economics, did okay, and assumes that that somehow validates their socialist economics, even though an economics class doesn't actually validate socialist theories at all.
00:07:45.080 If you actually take enough economics, you kind of grow quite tired of hearing people argue in favor of socialism.
00:07:49.920 I've never been in favor of socialism, but I have multiple professors in my undergraduate who would call out students who would stump for socialism in class because they didn't know what they were talking about when it came to economic efficiency.
00:08:01.700 But whatever.
00:08:02.600 Here's Jagmeet Singh talking about housing.
00:08:05.120 And this is his actual real position on how we can make affordable housing in Canada.
00:08:10.940 And when he says affordable housing, he specifically means heavily government-subsidized housing.
00:08:15.900 He doesn't actually just mean homes that are built and are affordable without government intervention.
00:08:20.840 About 411 homes, only 13% of them are affordable.
00:08:25.760 And this is on public land.
00:08:27.220 So they're using public land to build homes, which is a great idea, but only 13% are affordable.
00:08:32.920 So then what do you want them to do differently?
00:08:34.380 We want 100% of the homes to be affordable.
00:08:36.540 If you're going to build land or build home on public land, every single one of them should be affordable.
00:08:42.060 How can they do that and do it quickly?
00:08:43.820 Because we are not heading for a crisis, we're in a crisis.
00:08:46.520 100%.
00:08:47.020 But I've spoken to a lot of people who told me, if you build a whole bunch more luxury homes or luxury condos, that's not going to help me out right now because I can't afford those luxury condos.
00:08:56.540 So if we're going to use our public land, we should use every square foot of public land to be public land that's used for affordable homes.
00:09:04.680 And that affordability has to be a big factor.
00:09:07.380 The people I spoke to tell me, we need it to be affordable, something that we can actually manage to afford to buy or to rent.
00:09:12.860 So then what needs to be in place in order to make that stipulation?
00:09:15.660 Because developers are going to develop things that are going to give them profit.
00:09:18.300 That's how that goes.
00:09:19.100 Right.
00:09:19.340 So it's the requirement of affordability.
00:09:21.860 There could be funding to make that, to achieve that.
00:09:23.780 There could be incentives to achieve that.
00:09:25.680 But the definition for the land that's being developed, if you want to use public land, the requirement has to be we'll provide this public land, we'll provide incentives.
00:09:34.820 But the outcome has to be that the project that's being built has to be affordable or we're not going to support it.
00:09:40.300 Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said in October, the government's current spending plans, are his words, were not helpful for fighting inflation.
00:09:47.560 How do you think you can accomplish your goals on housing and pharmacare without also increasing inflation?
00:09:53.220 That's a really important question.
00:09:54.440 One of the things we noticed is that the inflation, right now the inflation that we're experiencing, a major driver is actually the cost of housing.
00:10:01.060 If you look at the breakdown, it's groceries is one big factor.
00:10:04.540 And the other factor is the cost of housing.
00:10:06.960 Building homes that people can afford is actually going to fight inflation.
00:10:10.320 We can bring down the cost for rent, the cost to own a home.
00:10:13.800 That's one of the right now major drivers.
00:10:16.340 Do you hear this man?
00:10:18.400 That last part is hilarious.
00:10:20.460 She's just saying, OK, the Liberals' plans in terms of trying their affordable housing plans, their grocery price plans, all this other stuff, it requires a lot of spending of money.
00:10:30.800 And someone from the Bank of Canada said that this is all going to be – this is all not helpful when it comes to reducing inflation.
00:10:37.660 How are you not going to raise inflation while you're trying to do all this affordable home stuff and whatnot?
00:10:43.240 And his actual answer is, well, you know, that housing costs are one of the biggest factors in inflation.
00:10:50.400 It's costing Canadians the most.
00:10:52.360 So if we have affordable housing, it will help reduce inflation.
00:10:57.340 I'm like, but you realize all of your plans imply that taxpayers are going to have to pay more money in order to put a small minority of people in affordable housing.
00:11:07.400 And let's say what affordable housing is.
00:11:08.800 It's rent control.
00:11:09.860 Do you know why on public land Trudeau could only probably get up to 13% of the housing to be affordable housing or rent control housing?
00:11:18.300 It's because the rest of those units are then increased in their price to pay for the lower price of that 13%.
00:11:26.260 Like Jagmeet Singh's whole thing is that if everyone lives off of everybody else, then we can all be rich.
00:11:32.680 That's not how it works.
00:11:33.840 You can't just basically have everyone just get affordable housing from every other person.
00:11:39.860 That's not how that works at all.
00:11:42.600 And it's like, what?
00:11:43.580 He's talking about incentives for builders?
00:11:46.000 Incentives for builders?
00:11:47.060 Like that, what do you mean?
00:11:48.060 A tax breaks?
00:11:48.980 Well, no, that's a tax.
00:11:50.120 That's a tax cut for the rich because he demonizes Polly for wanting corporate tax cuts and income tax cuts on all levels in order to lower the prices of things. 1.00
00:11:59.560 But so what's Jagmeet Singh's incentive?
00:12:01.460 Give money to them.
00:12:02.240 So give the money from Canadian taxpayers, including those who are in need of cheaper housing, to a developer to build cheaper housing, in which case, even if that person who needs the affordable housing gets it, they've already paid so much in tax dollars towards building the stuff that they pretty much could have just probably bought another house that was a little bit more expensive anyways.
00:12:25.620 Anyways, it's completely silly.
00:12:27.340 It's just taking money from someone's left pocket and putting it in their right.
00:12:30.380 But even that isn't a one-to-one transfer.
00:12:33.480 You always lose a bunch of money throughout the bureaucracy and the inflation of it all.
00:12:38.600 But this is Jagmeet Singh's actual position on things.
00:12:41.140 That is just like, well, it's public land, so it should be 100% rent controlled.
00:12:45.860 No, it shouldn't be.
00:12:46.880 No, it shouldn't be.
00:12:47.460 But it's just every single idea he has is pie-in-the-sky student union stuff that everyone should have a $100,000 job.
00:12:55.240 Nobody should have to work in sanitation.
00:12:57.640 Well, nobody should ever have to go, like, you know, no one should ever have to work nine to five.
00:13:03.380 People should only have to work two days a week.
00:13:05.260 This is all of his ideas.
00:13:06.360 It's just kind of, it's just idealism.
00:13:09.300 And at the same time, he's trying to achieve this idealism by exacerbating the problems that don't allow everyone to live a more ideal lifestyle.
00:13:17.960 If you keep taxing and spending, you are going to actually hurt the poorest the most.
00:13:23.880 It's the rich who can actually weather inflation the best.
00:13:27.480 It's people who are living in small apartments who only have minimum wage jobs, who cannot afford for things on the grocery shelves to go up another 3%, 4% over a year because they're already at their limit.
00:13:38.800 Giving them some rent controlled apartment is not going to help things because everything is going to be inflated so much more to get them into that rent controlled apartment.
00:13:47.440 This man does not know what he's talking about.
00:13:49.640 And it's so embarrassing watching this journalist.
00:13:52.540 And even though, again, I want him to fail, but this journalist is sitting there asking him basic questions.
00:13:57.760 I guarantee he would imply that she was being too aggressive.
00:14:00.920 But she's asking him basic questions and he's struggling so much to figure out how his plans are any different than Trudeau's.
00:14:08.180 His thing with Trudeau is that he'll never criticize Trudeau's plans because he doesn't know really what's wrong with them.
00:14:14.100 He just says they don't go far enough.
00:14:15.740 So really, he should be saying Trudeau's doing a good job.
00:14:18.120 He should just do it more, but that's not exactly a great pitch.
00:14:21.860 So he has to imply that he's also somehow like a stooge to like grocery store chains and rich developers or whatever.
00:14:29.020 But that's the funny thing is when he's going after developers because developers in the public land, they can't exploit to build all this luxury apartment buildings and whatnot.
00:14:38.160 And then like, but then he still has to acknowledge he desperately needs the developers to make any of his plans work.
00:14:43.480 And this is the contradiction of socialists in general is that they demonize the free market, but at the same time, they still need to harness the power of the free market to get anything done.
00:14:53.160 Even in like the Soviet Union, they effectively had to take over the private privately run businesses in order to even get the Soviet Union running. 0.97
00:15:03.000 Those idiots would have never been able to get a single factory up, but they had to start from scratch. 0.98
00:15:06.940 They were still having to stand on the shoulders of giants, and then they slowly drove that country into the ground. 1.00
00:15:13.500 Anyways, but this is why I think that Jagmeet Singh is a completely embarrassing person.
00:15:18.540 The funny thing is you can go through Jagmeet Singh's Twitter feed, his ex-feed, and all the things he's like posting, other than that last interview, he's posting it himself.
00:15:28.360 He does not understand that his kind of like college, 18-year-old college white girl political positions are not appealing to Canadians.
00:15:37.140 He's only at 22% in the polls, not because he's succeeding, but it's just because Justin Trudeau is failing hard.
00:15:43.840 I just made a video recently, Canada's biggest loser, Justin Trudeau or Jagmeet Singh, where I kind of personally concluded Jagmeet Singh is more embarrassing.
00:15:51.820 Because he could easily get 26%, 27%, 28% in the polls.
00:15:55.700 He could be in a Jack Layton position for the next election, but he chooses not to because he's focused on fashionable things, fashionable bags, fashionable watches, fashionable political positions.
00:16:07.780 But the thing is with fashionable political positions is that they're usually only fashionable with people online who don't even vote in the first place.
00:16:14.320 So, you know, good riddance to Jagmeet Singh's political career a couple years early.
00:16:19.520 He's probably not going to be around after a few years, which we can all look forward to.
00:16:24.500 But until then, I'm just reminding you all, I have my legal fundraiser linked in the description of this video.
00:16:29.700 I'm $25,000 deep into my lawsuit defending myself from a billionaire.
00:16:34.340 I'm winning.
00:16:35.380 Unlike Jagmeet Singh, I actually fight billionaires, and in court, I'm currently winning this case. 0.89
00:16:39.840 The case is ridiculous.
00:16:41.040 They have no evidence.
00:16:41.720 We've said anything wrong about them in one of our articles that we had up.
00:16:47.000 And so if you want to pitch in $5, $10, $15, Denise, one of our viewers, she's donated $800.
00:16:53.940 She's an absolute star and really saved me a couple of times, so I never had to pay any dead-on credit cards during this whole ordeal.
00:17:00.620 So that was fantastic.
00:17:01.540 So donate if you want.
00:17:02.760 The link's in the description below.
00:17:04.340 And if you live in the conservative riding of Calgary Signal Hill, obviously in the city of Calgary,
00:17:09.840 buy a conservative party membership and vote for me when the nomination date comes up,
00:17:15.000 probably in the next few months, four, five, six months or so,
00:17:18.420 whenever they hold the vote for who's going to be the next MP candidate for the conservative party in this riding.
00:17:24.560 It would really help me out.
00:17:25.700 I also have my website for my campaign linked in the description next to Whiteford or Calgary Signal Hill.
00:17:31.360 So go check that out if you want to sign up for email updates about my campaign or if you want to volunteer, donate, do anything like that.
00:17:38.880 Other than that, I'll see everyone in my next video.