Jagmeet Singh is the new leader of the federal NDP and Justin Trudeau is the Prime Minister. The two are locked in a slap fight over climate change and other issues, and the media are covering it in all sorts of bizarre ways.
00:00:00.000I think this story, more than any other, proves why political consultants in Canada are some of the dumbest people on the planet.
00:00:07.860Because in the aftermath of Jagmeet Singh, the federal NDP leader, ripping up the supply and confidence agreement between his party and Justin Trudeau's federal liberals, Trudeau, for some reason, is calling the NDP climate deniers.
00:00:24.160Instead of, you know, maybe talking about some issues that actually matter to Canadians, Trudeau is going to continue doubling down on stupid and making himself look like an out-of-touch elitist.
00:00:34.820He's effectively challenging Jagmeet Singh to an out-of-touch elitist competition.
00:00:40.980And so that has resulted in some pretty bizarre social media posts, and Pierre Polly, the leader of the federal conservatives, just gets to sit back, eat his popcorn, and make fun of both of them,
00:00:52.180because both of them are in a slap fight over pretty much nothing.
00:00:56.320Before I get into it, though, I just want to highlight how sloppy Jagmeet Singh's rollout has been of breaking up with Justin Trudeau and then saying that he is no longer in favor of the carbon tax.
00:01:08.100It's all been so haphazard and made himself look so unprofessional that his approval ratings have actually slipped farther in the aftermath of this.
00:01:16.540In the long run, I actually frankly think that Jagmeet Singh is going to improve in his popularity,
00:01:22.580because by being oppositional to Trudeau, he can at least separate himself from Trudeau,
00:01:27.880because that was the reason before why Jagmeet Singh's approval ratings had fallen so far down.
00:01:33.320He used to be very high up in the positive ratings, because people saw him as inoffensive and unthreatening,
00:01:39.840because he's the NDP leader, he's never going to become prime minister.
00:01:42.440When he partnered up with Trudeau, a bunch of people started really paying attention to what Jagmeet Singh says and does,
00:02:45.100Jagmeet Singh not only needed to separate himself from Justin Trudeau because he was making him deeply unpopular,
00:02:50.660but he also wants to sort of capture that populist energy that Pir Paliyev and people like Wab Kanu have.
00:02:58.160The problem is that Jagmeet Singh has been around since 2018 as the NDP leader.
00:03:05.480So nobody actually trusts that he's somehow changed.
00:03:09.540He is simply saying enough to try and gain a little bit in the polls.
00:03:13.860But, you know, that's not really a big, you know, most people who pay attention are going to know that Jagmeet Singh is still the Rolex socialist.
00:03:23.860But now let's jump over to the liberals, because the liberals are doing this in response to what the NDP are doing.
00:03:32.320They posted this meme with the headline LOL, and it says,
00:03:36.260Pierre Paliyev's climate denial and the woman in the foreground, and then it shows Jagmeet Singh and Canadians who care about fighting climate change.
00:03:45.580Who are the consultants advising Justin Trudeau?
00:03:49.400This just makes them look like college progressives.
00:03:52.960And I guess that maybe because Jagmeet Singh is saying that he doesn't want the, he would like try and vote to get rid of the consumer carbon tax.
00:04:01.160The liberals think that college-age progressives are up for grabs, but they're assuming that college-age progressives are thinking people and are going to somehow abandon Jagmeet Singh and the NDP over this.
00:04:12.740They're not because they don't pay attention to politics very much.
00:04:15.780They just vote for the NDP because they are perceived as the most left-wing mainstream party outside of the Greens, but the Greens are completely irrelevant.
00:04:24.280So, if anything, Justin Trudeau is probably just going to hemorrhage more middle-class voters.
00:04:28.500Jagmeet Singh is going to mostly just hold on to the same progressive voters he already had, and union voters and working-class people are going to continue to move over to the conservatives who actually respect them.
00:04:40.900It doesn't matter what Jagmeet Singh says to pretend that he cares about working-class people these days.
00:04:46.940He just so obviously is a white-collar elitist that no one who works in sort of tough, unionized labor are going to care that he's super pro-union.
00:04:57.620They'd rather vote for the conservatives, who actually tend to oppose too much union power in industries because at least they actually respect working-class people.
00:05:06.580And from my perspective, that's a good thing.
00:05:08.440If anything, unions have actually been a massive drag on the economy.
00:05:12.460It's great that you can get a select few workers more benefits, but what they actually end up being are gatekeepers to more workers entering the workforce.
00:05:20.320And the thing is that these unions, because they are taken over by progressive activists at their upper levels, people like Fred Hahn in Ontario, that they actually support mass immigration that has been undercutting labor.
00:05:34.140But whatever, I guess that I'm some anti-union scab or something now, or some stool pigeon, whatever old-school trade unionists are going to say,
00:05:44.160even though I'm entirely right about the fact that they could be getting paid more if we actually just stopped mass immigration and stopped union bosses from killing industries.
00:05:52.100But whatever, here is the video that came along with the Liberals' attack on Jagmeet Singh.
00:06:03.140And here is Justin Trudeau trying to take a jab at Jagmeet Singh.
00:06:07.020He put a world-leading price on pollution across this country that does two things.
00:06:13.420It drops emissions, and it puts more money back in the pockets of the middle class and people working hard to join it.
00:06:21.640Eight out of ten Canadians in regions across the country that have the federal price on pollution get more money with the Canada carbon rebate.
00:06:32.880And yet, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are caving to the political pressures from Pierre Polyev and from the Conservatives.
00:08:46.260If the NDP is ever going to survive, it has to at least be somewhat of a working class populist party.
00:08:52.800It has to be able to take both some left wing as well as some centre right positions depending on the issues.
00:09:00.400It's gotten so socially left wing and so fiscally left wing that they just cannot sustain anybody outside of the narrow 16% of the vote that they already have.
00:09:11.600There's some other ridiculous things Jagmeet Singh is doing right now that's completely contradicting his more populist stance on the carbon tax
00:09:19.720when he's saying that, well, we need to ban like large corporations or large renter organizations from buying up properties
00:09:27.800and building new rental properties on them because that's them taking away an affordable house from other people.
00:09:33.140There are people already pointing out how ridiculous this is that if there's a tiny shack on a large yacht, a lot,
00:09:39.520that you can't knock it down and build a bigger house that can fit more people on it or build two houses and split the lot
00:09:45.540because it was made back in the 80s and has way too much room around it compared to how houses are built today.
00:09:51.600And that like Jagmeet Singh's plan would actually make it so that there's less housing available.
00:09:56.700The solution to most problems is expand supply.
00:09:59.660Don't just try and meet, like just don't try and like meet the problem from the demand side.
00:10:06.300You have to meet it from the supply side because you can't fix, you can't, you can't make demand work with small supply.
00:10:13.640You can only make the demand work with a rising supply, not take a fixed supply and make the out of size demand fit in.
00:10:27.880Supply side economics are where it's at.
00:10:29.920But that should be it for me today, guys.
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