Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are in Chaos!
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Summary
The Liberal Party of Canada is in a state of chaos after a humiliating loss in a by-election in Toronto-St. Paul. The party officials and MPs are coming out to tell us that everything is fine inside the party, despite the fact that they lost a seat they have held for over 30 years.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada are in an absolute state of
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chaos right now, and I'm here to enjoy myself watching it. Ever since their embarrassing
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by-election loss in Toronto-St. Paul, a riding that they literally held since 1988, and even
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in the dog days of the party with Michael Ignatius were able to retain, the biggest
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tell that things are not going so hot inside the Liberal Party after this loss is seeing
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all the Liberal Party officials and MPs coming out and telling us that everything's completely
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hunky-dory inside the party. We have total confidence in Justin Trudeau, and we're focused
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on fighting for Canadians. No, no, you guys aren't. Everything's obviously not okay. You
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wouldn't have to keep sending people out to tell us this if it was apparent to everyone
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that actually the Liberal Party is completely stable, and although this was a loss, the
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Liberals are still, you know, holding to Justin Trudeau as the charismatic leader that they
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need in 2025. This is all happening. All this gaslighting is happening at the same time that
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we see reporting coming out like this. Liberal MP George Chahal among nine MPs demand immediate
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caucus meeting to discuss extremely concerning by-election loss. MPs say dozens in caucus
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are in support after Liberal MP Wayne Long says the Liberals need new leadership and a new direction.
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You know things are bad when people are agreeing with George Chahal and Wayne Long, some of the
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more loser-ish Liberal MPs that are currently in the Liberal government. I believe both of them are
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just backbenchers at this point because of how much they've embarrassed the party or how little
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they've ever proven themselves. And think about how little you have to have proven yourself to not
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been able to make the Liberal Party cabinet. Like, the only other people I can think of who are so
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incompetent that they can't make it in there are people like Mark Gerritsen. You know, there are other
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MPs, not just George Chahal and Wayne Long, saying that Justin Trudeau needs to step down. Former MP and
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cabinet minister Catherine McKenna came by and said that, like, yeah, it's kind of time for Justin Trudeau to
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take a walk in the woods. Nate Erickson-Smith, who also runs a podcast at the same time, he's a Liberal MP,
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in his show in the nicest way possible said, yeah, maybe for the good of the country and the party,
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Justin Trudeau should, you know, consider a different career and step down. It has not been
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good, to put it lightly. And what's even funnier is seeing all of these Liberal Party MPs now having
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to come out and say, no, no, no, don't listen to what the media is saying that I said. I never said
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that Justin Trudeau was a bad leader. So we have Rob Oliphant here saying, to be clear, neither Justin
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Ling nor editors of the Toronto Star verified comments supposedly made by colleagues about me.
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I can often be disgruntled, ask anyone, but that does not mean I have wanted or ever suggested a
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leadership review. Who knows what motivates some colleagues. And even then, he's even basically
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saying, yes, this is talk happening inside the Liberal Party. Colleagues of mine are using my name
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in order to push for a leadership review. And let's be clear, Rob Oliphant right here is lying. He 100%
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probably called for a leadership review. He just didn't want that to be public knowledge yet.
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Then we have Stephen Gilbeau, also coming out to deny that there's any problems inside the party.
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I want to just quickly read this here. One of the more sycophantic Liberal MPs and cabinet
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ministers to Justin Trudeau, who, again, just by the statement, just by the fact that the statement has
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to exist in the first place, is proving that there's chaos. Nobody thinks that things are great
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when you have to put out statements like this. But anyways, Stephen Gilbeau says this right here.
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I ran to be a member of the Parliament in 2019 because I believe in the Liberal Party and the
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Prime Minister's tireless and progressive leadership. I remain as convinced now, as I was then, that the
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Prime Minister and the Liberal Party of Canada are the best position to deliver the change that
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Canadians elected us to deliver during the last election. One-sided conversations taken out of
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context do not reflect the open and honest exchanges that I routinely have with my caucus colleagues.
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As I have said publicly many times, Prime Minister Trudeau has my full support and I will continue to
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work and support Canadians. Like, dude, it feels like Stephen Gilbeau wrote this with a deer rifle
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put up against the back of his head. All of this is so clunky. It's so bad inside the Liberal Party,
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it's hurting Jagmeet Singh. Like, that's how bad the Liberal Party's brand is. Just Jagmeet Singh's mere
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association with them through the Supply and Confidence Agreement has been utterly destroying
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Jagmeet Singh's popularity. And now he's taking it on the chin constantly in public because after the
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Toronto St. Paul by-election, he refuses to make a move on Justin Trudeau and try and push for a new
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leadership. It's so silly considering that he has the best possible hand right now that any NDP leader
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has ever had. Even Jack Layton never had the position that Jagmeet Singh does. Yes, Jack Layton
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got to be the opposition leader at some point, but he was the opposition leader to a conservative
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majority. You know, I'm no fan of the NDP or the Liberals, but again, as somebody who likes to
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analyze policy and politics, it frustrates me to see people suck at it this bad. So here's a clipping that
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True North did of Jagmeet Singh, unable to justify why his own party also did worse in this Toronto St.
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Paul by-election, and yet he's criticizing Justin Trudeau's lack of leadership. Again, this is all
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happening to Jagmeet Singh because like people like Stephen Gilbeau, he is a sycophant. He is not a
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public servant. He's not even the leader of his own party. He is the leader of the orange Liberals at this
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point. I wanted to ask you about Toronto St. Paul's. Why do you think your party had a lower
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score than in 2021 this time? Well, I think what that by-election showed is how frustrated Canadians
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are with Liberals, really. This is a clear message that people are frustrated, like Claire was saying,
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at the doorsteps. We hear this again and again. Things are getting worse, not better. The Liberals
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have had nine years to make improvements, and they haven't. And so now people have a real choice,
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and that choice is going to be between conservatives who want to cut and got the services that people
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need. They're going to cut and they've been open about it. They want to make cuts to pensions,
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cuts to EI. And for people that are already hurting, struggling with the cost of living crisis,
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that's just going to make things even worse. And then we will look at, we identify what people are
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going through when you're paying more than ever at the grocery store and you're making, you're paying
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prices that you've never seen before. He's like losing his train of thought so hard right now,
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because he was supposed to say it's a choice between the conservatives. And then he says a
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bunch of things about the conservatives. And I guess he was supposed to probably say
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the NDP because people don't like the Liberals anymore. But I just quickly want to, I don't need
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to bring it up on screen. You can take my word for it. But the NDP did worse. The NDP did much worse
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in the Toronto St. Paul by-election than they did in 2021. In 2021, the NDP got 16.83% of the vote.
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Back in 2019, they got 15.78. Back in 2015, they got 14.72. So they're usually around the mid-teens.
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It's a riding that they probably don't put a lot of focus on. You can't, they can't win it.
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So they basically just throw like some token money at it to look at least half decent. But they only
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got 10.94% in the by-election. And by-elections favor parties like the NDP because the base of any
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party tends to be disproportionate to the population. Your EBA boards tend to be the
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same size in all your parties. And so your default volunteer base should have been enough
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to at least get you maybe 18%, 20%. By his own admission, people are tired of the Liberals,
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and yet he's somehow not benefiting from that at all.
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On the other end of that is the CEO that's been ripping you off. And if we give corporate
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Canada even more power, they're going to rip off people even more. Your prices are going to continue
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to go up. So the way we deal with that is let's bring in changes to the rules that actually protect
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consumers, protect Canadians. And we're the only party that's talking about that.
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And I understand all that, but clearly people made a choice and they clearly did not choose the NDP
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this time around. So concretely, how are you going to reverse the situation in time for the next
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general election? Well, there's a number of things we've got to do. One is we've got to make
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it clear to Canadians that the Liberals have been in power and you're like- You've been in power. What
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are you talking about? This is so pathetic that nothing has anything to do with Jagmeet Singh ever.
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Like I made a video on him, like just talking about Jagmeet Singh's character
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a while back. The man has an inability to take responsibility, even worse than Justin Trudeau,
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I'd argue. Even when, even in this case right now, he's talking like passively, like he has
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nothing to do with the NDP. And, but if I was an advisor, what should the NDP be doing? You failed
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to do that. Why are you still the leader? You lost two elections and you're about to get clobbered
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in your third and 25. And when I say lost, I'm not just saying because he didn't win government.
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Obviously the NDP is a smaller party, but he's only been losing ground. I think he technically
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picked up a couple seats in 21, but even then I think their percentage of the vote basically
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stagnated. They just fluke won a couple fringe seats. They're like, Jagmeet Singh is the worst
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politician I know. It's pathetic watching him. But I like now we see Liberals online attacking the
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dissident liberal MPs, because the party has trained people to be cult members,
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to just eat up anything Justin Trudeau says. And if someone says different, then they're an evil,
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fascist, racist, conservative. And so now we see liberal supporters online attacking these liberal
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MPs. This man right here says, Larry Douglas, Wayne Long, backbencher MP from St. John's, elected on
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Trudeau's popularity in 2015, now wants Trudeau to resign. The stupidity here provides fodder for
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anti-Trudeauers like Coyne, Fife and Post Media, as well as CPC grifters. Someone should resign in it.
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Ain't Trudeau with friends. Like, goodness. I love it. I love these people now having to like reverse and
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take part in a circular firing squad against their own side. I like this Gail woman who was freaking out
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after the by-election and the Liberal Party's waning polling numbers saying,
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y'all are prepared to give this up? How about $10 a day childcare? What about the Canadian child
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benefit? Your right to abortion, ability to retire at 65, LGBTQ2 rights, your weed, elect conservatives
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and kiss all this goodbye. And it's like, you've been in like a sealed off chamber for too long, Gail.
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You gotta realize, half of those things didn't actually come about in terms of they're bloated
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programs that don't work, that nobody likes. And with a lot of those other things, which right of
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LGBTQ people are the conservatives going after? Have the conservatives put forward a full-on abortion
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ban proposal? Have they done any of this stuff? Like, I'm pro-life. I would hope that they would pass some
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pro-life stuff. But what are we actually scared of here, that they might ban sex-selective abortion?
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You'd have to be a flat-out goblin to think that sex-selective abortion is a totally above-board
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thing to take part in. But really, Liberal tactics these days, and it's been for about a year now,
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have just turned into, you like X thing? Well, if you don't vote for us, X thing that you like
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is gonna go away. Do you like candy? Well, if you vote conservative, all the candy's gonna go away.
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It's just five-year-old student politics of just saying, do you guys want more days off
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from school? Do you want less homework? Then vote for us, even though everything has gotten much
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worse under us. That's the funny thing with what Jagmeet Singh was saying earlier. He's pretending
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like people have just gotten tired of these Liberals in power. You're in power with them,
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dude. You're the one who every once in a while, when the Liberals have a big scandal,
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you're like ducking and weaving journalist questions wondering why you're still propping
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them up. Those questions would not be answered if you weren't taking part in this tango with
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Justin Trudeau. You kind of are on a date with him at this point, and whatever he's doing,
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