Jagmeet Singh is not a good Prime Minister. He's not even good enough to be Prime Minister because he's not very Prime Ministerial, and that's a good thing because he needs to be, because Justin Trudeau needs to go.
00:00:00.000I assume you all remember this really funny clip from the House of Commons when Jagmeet Singh stood up and in making a statement, he said, when I'm Prime Minister, and everyone burst out laughing. If you haven't seen it, here it is as a reminder.
00:00:16.520When I'm Prime Minister, I will keep my promises.
00:00:21.400Now, another promise. Let me try again.
00:00:24.540Yeah, it's because Jagmeet Singh is not very Prime Ministerial.
00:00:30.900It's not even just that he's the NDP party leader and the NDP is very unlikely to ever actually gain power in Canada.
00:00:37.220It's that Jagmeet Singh is Jagmeet Singh. He is utterly incompetent at politics.
00:00:43.140Right now, he should be raking in support because Justin Trudeau is deeply disliked and the media and everyone is always attacking the Conservatives for fake things.
00:00:52.820And so the NDP should be the natural dumping point for old Liberal Party voters.
00:00:57.700And they're not going to him because he fundamentally doesn't understand anyone who isn't a carbon copy of himself.
00:01:04.080He is an urban hyper-progressive and he does not understand working class people, which is really funny because historically that was the NDP's base.
00:01:12.960He's traded working class Canadians for effectively 18-year-old white girls who are taking sociology in college and thinking that somehow he's going to be able to win the next election.
00:01:24.380Well, maybe he's girded himself up a little bit in college towns, but that's kind of it.
00:01:29.800He's losing a lot of these working class ridings.
00:01:32.600That's why we saw a spate of NDP MPs saying that they're not going to be running next election in areas that they had held for multiple terms.
00:01:41.140These were safe seats and now they're no longer safe because Jagmeet Singh cannot make his stance clear on issues that affect the working class.
00:01:49.780And a great stance to take in trying to gird up his working class base would be to come out decisively against the carbon tax.
00:01:57.440The carbon tax, even just for consumers, getting rid of it just on consumer purchases.
00:02:02.200But he won't do it because Jagmeet Singh is utterly incompetent.
00:02:06.440Wab Kanu, the NDP Premier in Manitoba, understands this.
00:02:10.880So even though he's a hyper-progressive a lot like Jagmeet Singh, he knew that he had to come out on board the Axe the Tax movement to be able to actually gird up his popularity, make sure he could win the next election in three years.
00:02:25.620That's why David Eby is currently falling from the sky down to the floor as the Premier of British Columbia.
00:02:31.660He used to have an 18-point lead in the polls and now in some polls he only has a four-point lead because he keeps destroying his own working class appeal.
00:02:40.180And here's Jagmeet Singh for two minutes straight being unable to actually state his position on the carbon tax, even if he said he was still in favor of it and he didn't want the consumer carbon tax to go away, he would actually be more popular.
00:02:54.340It's the waffling that is what annoys voters so much.
00:02:58.100This is why Andrew Scheer did so bad in 2019.
00:03:00.960Waffling makes people nervous about how stable you are as a leader.
00:03:05.240And Jagmeet Singh right here is definitely not stable.
00:03:08.340Yes or no, do you support a consumer carbon levy?
00:03:48.900But yes, technically, Jagmeet Singh still does support a price on pollution, quote unquote, the carbon tax.
00:03:55.380And he did vote when Pierre Pauly and the conservatives were calling that non-confidence vote in favor of keeping the carbon tax.
00:04:01.720But ever since then, the person who got hit the hardest in the aftermath of that non-confidence vote was the NDP.
00:04:08.340Because the liberal base knew that Justin Trudeau was in favor of the carbon tax.
00:04:12.680They're generally comfortable with it.
00:04:14.140They tend to be upper middle class, retired voters who are not having to work in the oil and gas industry or manufacturing or other industries being hollowed out by the carbon tax.
00:04:24.040So that's why they're able to hold on to a little bit more of their, you know, downtown Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver bases.
00:04:29.400But the NDP, because they rely on people who actually are younger, working class individuals, that him refusing to break with Justin Trudeau on that vote has utterly destroyed their polling numbers.
00:04:41.460They went from being polling around 22, 23, 21 percent before that vote to now being around like 16 or 17 percent.
00:04:49.940That was a drop observed over multiple different pollsters sampling and methodologies.
00:04:54.780This is not just one pollster said that they dropped.
00:04:57.800No, all the pollsters are showing that they dropped.
00:05:00.240And so now Jagmeet Singh is trying to do the splits over a giant chasm and hold on to the progressives who like the greenie policies.
00:05:08.340And also trying to not alienate private sector union workers who work in Oshawa, Hamilton and have jobs that the carbon tax is deeply affecting.
00:05:18.420And he is doing a terrible job of it because the thing is that the progressives are not going to go back to the liberals.
00:05:24.000The young progressives don't like the liberal party.
00:05:25.820So if he just says, I'm against the carbon tax because it's hurting working class people, the NDP's younger, hyper-progressive greenie base will somehow justify it.
00:05:34.820As long as he is OK with carbon tax on corporations, which is still a stupid idea because it still hurts everybody else, they would stick around.
00:05:42.640And if he would just get rid of the consumer carbon tax, his working class base could do the mental gymnastics in their head to think that this is still a party for them,
00:05:51.140even though it's not even just that Jagmeet Singh doesn't care about working class people, he fundamentally hates them.
00:05:56.380If you have calluses on your hands, Jagmeet Singh thinks that's icky.
00:06:00.340He doesn't want to talk to you if you ever have dirty hands from doing real hard work.
00:06:04.700He's a man who owns more Rolexes than some people have been alive on this planet.
00:06:11.400Jagmeet Singh is deeply out of touch with the way voters actually think about issues.
00:06:16.220Like his wife puts up TikTok videos where she's showing the $20,000 worth of jewelry that she owns.
00:06:22.320And I'm not trying to go after someone's spouse, but she posts it publicly.
00:06:25.460And it definitely shows the social environment that Jagmeet Singh is in is not the typical NDP working class trying to get better contracts for workers kind of things.
00:06:35.700And in order to try and make it seem like he's still on the side of working class people,
00:06:39.720then he gets into fights with Loblaws and Galen Weston, which is funny because every single measure that Jagmeet Singh would pass would end up only empowering Loblaws
00:06:48.480and losing a lot of other people who work for smaller grocers their jobs because actually large grocery stores,
00:06:54.220large corporations like heavy regulations, higher minimum wages because their competition can't pay for it.
00:06:59.460And even if it damages their profits or the revenue a little bit, the thing is that they actually will have less competition in the long run.
00:07:07.420So even though their profits will be hurt in the short term, in the long run, they'll be much better off.
00:07:12.900The same thing with telecommunication companies.
00:07:15.380Telecommunication companies in Canada love heavy regulations because the few that are in the game,
00:07:20.080it ends up benefiting them and making it so that no other smaller company could break in.
00:07:24.720And as I just want to watch a little bit more of Jagmeet Singh floundering here, just because I find it funny.
00:07:30.260Concern. Our concern. We have absolutely been very clear. Our position has not changed.
00:07:37.000And so you can look at our voting record and our position is very clear.
00:07:40.160But my concern is this, and I want to be very clear on this concern.
00:07:43.600I want to spend the time that I have talking about my concern.
00:07:46.740The liberals say to working class people, we don't have money for you to buy heat pumps.
00:07:52.740We don't have money to support heat pumps are utterly useless in like 90% of Canada.
00:07:57.780It may be in B.C., may be in the Maritimes, some Maritimes, not in the rest of Canada.
00:08:03.020It's such an excuse of a position to take.
00:08:06.180But we've got billions of dollars for oil and gas companies.
00:08:09.740Workers tell me that is unfair. And that's what we pointed out.
00:08:27.340I like how his justification here doesn't even make sense.
00:08:30.440Well, people are losing faith in the liberals love for the working class or something like that because they're giving billions to oil and gas companies,
00:08:38.520which is untrue because obviously the liberals take billions and billions of dollars from oil and gas companies over and above the normal corporate taxes and income taxes and payroll taxes and whatnot.
00:08:49.500They're just giving oil and gas companies back in subsidies money that they had taxed away from them through different regulatory schemes and different surcharges and stuff that ends up costing oil and gas companies massive amounts of money.
00:09:04.460So it's really just the subsidies really giving oil and gas companies their money back.
00:09:08.200But what does this have to do with his position on the carbon tax?
00:09:13.000Jagmeet Singh is just filling the time with words until he can stop talking and people will leave him alone.
00:09:19.460That trust by not saying clearly that.
00:09:23.500Jagmeet Singh going after anyone for not saying things clearly right now is a comedy in and of itself.
00:09:29.620Who side are we on? The liberals right now are making it seem like they're on the side of big polluters and they're not on the side of working class people.
00:09:37.380How can this government justify billions of dollars in subsidies for oil and gas companies and say no to working class people?
00:09:45.380That is wrong. And I want to focus on that.
00:09:47.600Our position on fighting the climate crisis has not changed.
00:09:50.320We believe absolutely on a price on pollution.
00:09:52.760But we also believe the plan has to be fair.
00:09:54.820And right now the liberals are not making a fair plan.
00:09:56.780He said you want to throw everything he had at the climate crisis.
00:11:14.140Even Elizabeth May probably has a better chance of like increasing the Green Party's popularity and becoming the prime minister.
00:11:21.060The thing with the thing with Jagmeet Singh is that he is so obsessed with appearances and aesthetics and seeming like on the cutting edge of progressive politics
00:11:30.400that he utterly bungles every single major issue in Canada because it turns out university town politics are not the politics of the rest of the country.
00:11:39.800He is basically playing to about 10 ridings, and that is why all of his MPs are quitting on him because you're not going to be getting any support from the NDP HQ.
00:11:49.320The NDP HQ is too busy trying to win ridings in Montreal that don't like them, and it is ignoring places in Edmonton, in Hamilton, in Oshawa, London, Ontario,
00:12:00.300just all the kind of prairie provinces, all of them.
00:12:13.320He wants people who have anthropology degrees, and that's because he is an aesthetic politician who wants – he's like very concerned with what the people supporting him look like behind him in a photo,
00:12:24.180and he wants them all to be very fashionable, progressive people.
00:12:27.620Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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