Justin Trudeau has ruined Canada and doesn't care
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Summary
Justin Trudeau has done absolutely nothing to improve the quality of life in Canada under his tenure as Prime Minister. In this episode, we take a look at government debt, violent crime, and poverty, and compare them to pre-Justin Trudeau years.
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Welcome back to the Wyatt Claypool Show, everyone.
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Justin Trudeau has truly made absolutely everything worse in Canada during his tenure as Prime Minister.
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There is literally not a single metric that has improved under Justin Trudeau's tenure,
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and I just want to take you through a few of the major indicators of quality of life in Canada.
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Let's just start off with just government debt.
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Government debt has absolutely exploded with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with the purse strings of the country.
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This is a chart over the last 10 years showing that our overall debt has gone from less than $600, $500 billion up to $1.12 billion, which is $1,100,000,000 debt.
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And you could say, well, it was COVID-era spending, but the debt didn't exactly explode in 2020.
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You could say it was a trailing debt that mostly showed up in the next year.
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But why does it keep rapidly going up after 2021, 2022, and 2023 faster than it was in the previous years?
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These guys cannot pull themselves back from spending.
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And every dollar they're spending is not because they truly think it's going to make the lives of Canadians better.
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It's because they think it's going to buy some votes.
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They think that more programs means that Canadians are going to see that they're doing more good.
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The GDP of the Soviet Union was almost entirely controlled through government spending.
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The government spent basically everything in the Soviet Union.
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It didn't mean that people's lives were better than in countries where the government spends less.
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It's always the quality of the spending that matters, not the quantity or the ratio of overall GDP.
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Well, one thing, we've actually decriminalized a lot of stuff,
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and the police do not actually really enforce the law like they used to,
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because police officers who are doing a good job themselves know that they cannot hold criminals anymore,
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that it's catch and release these days, which has severely undermined our ability to enforce the law at all.
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But let's talk about violent crime, because violent crime is almost always followed up on by the police.
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Police don't just say, oh, you know, you got shot.
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It's mostly the real tail theft that reporting has gone down on,
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because they know nobody's going to do anything.
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Violent crime is, in fact, worse per capita now than it was in the late 90s,
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when we had comprehensive Stats Canada statistics on it.
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Our rate of violent crime in 1998, when violent crime and just crime overall was extremely bad,
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Assault, battery, homicide, other sorts of physically violent crimes.
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So it goes from 1,300, it ticks up into the early 2000s,
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and then it starts to really go down as our tough-on-crime laws back in those days come into effect.
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And it gets all the way down to 1,044 violent crimes in 100,000.
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It was 1,344 and 1,494 in 2000, in 1998 to 2000.
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And by 2014, things are actually starting to look pretty good.
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Then Justin Trudeau gets into office and it starts moving up a little bit,
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when more of the liberals' soft-on-crime laws start to hit the books,
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we see violent crime start exploding, especially after 2019.
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obviously we don't have statistics for 2024 yet since the year's not over,
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compared to the high crime area of the late 90s.
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It was worse in the early 90s, just like it was in the U.S.,
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but I'm talking in terms of our actual stats that were being collected,
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and this is the most comprehensive stats we have that started being collected in 98.
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And this isn't like, well, you know, things aren't so good out there,
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I actually have a master's degree in public policy,
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And my point that I proved was that poverty actually has very little to do with crime,
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because people argue that, well, people only steal,
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people only commit crimes because they're materially deprived.
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I have studied different neighborhoods in Toronto,
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oftentimes will have lower crime rates than neighboring neighborhoods
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just because they actually have strong family structures
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Material wealth doesn't really have that much to do with it,
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but that's just an aside to say that they'll try and justify, like, theft
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and those kind of crimes, selling drugs, whatnot, because of the bad economy.
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Is it violent crime because people, you know, are poor?
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You don't commit an assault of any variety because you don't have money.
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Maybe Justin Trudeau is doing something right and I'm just not noticing it yet.
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Here, let's look at Canadians' wealth over time.
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So Canada's GDP per capita has fallen for the sixth quarter in a row.
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And this doesn't mean that before then we were just rising towards the sky
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and the Canadians were getting wealthier every single quarter.
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No, that just means it was maybe more mixed before.
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But now in the third quarter of 2024, that marks our sixth quarter in a row
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of us becoming poorer over time, per capita poorer.
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I hate the stupid talking point from the liberals that,
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well, you know that Canada's the fastest growing economy in the G7.
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What we are is the fastest growing country in terms of population,
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which you'd have to work really hard to raise our population as fast as we have
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Even if every single immigrant that comes to the country only has $5 to their name,
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technically we added $5 to the economy and our GDP went up.
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It's not like it's been going down only like a percent.
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Our GDP per capita has only been going down a percent over the last six quarters.
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In this last third quarter of 2024 alone that we just got through,
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So people's overall per capita wealth in this country,
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That is a single quarter and almost a half a percent.
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each person is half a percent less well off than in the previous quarter,
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And now this is why the liberals are trying to reverse course on immigration,
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because so many of these problems are the fault of the liberals' immigration policy.
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but mainly the housing crisis is the fault of just having too many warm bodies in the country.
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You can't then bring in 1.3 million people in a year,
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even if some are temporary and think that we're going to find an apartment for everybody,
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which has resulted in either people not having homes,
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people's mortgage payments or rents being like a massive chunk of their monthly incomes,
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eating up a massive chunk of their monthly incomes,
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and then having to be jammed into half a basement suite with like six or seven other people.
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It's a horrible position that we're currently in.
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And now the liberals don't even know how they're actually going to get people out of the country
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who have visas that are expiring in the next year or two.
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I just wanted to cut now to this clip with Tom Kamich,
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questioning Canada's Immigration Minister Mark Miller
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on how he can even keep track of those who need to be leaving the country soon.
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How will you ensure that a person whose visa has expired will leave?
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We know that just on study permits, there are 766,000 expiring by the end of December 2025.
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How will your department ensure that at the end of those study permit periods,
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Again, he's actually stuck on the most basic questions.
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You bring people into the country, how do they then leave if they have to leave?
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You would think that it's one of like the top 10 things that you need to know as the Immigration Minister.
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There are many ways that people leave the country, Tom.
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The vast majority leave voluntarily, and that's what's expected.
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We work with our partners, including CBSA, to investigate, obviously,
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and prosecute those who violate immigration law.
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If someone refuses to leave, they're in violation of the law.
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And CBSA, after due process, has the legal obligation to remove people.
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But the whole point is you need to actually be able to find those people so that you can remove them
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This is so bureaucratic and policy-esque of him.
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Like the thing is, my master's degree, again, I don't really bring up my education much
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I only bring it up because I find policy people drive me up the wall.
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That's the vast majority of times I bring up the fact I have a master's in public policy.
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I hate policy people so much, not like hate in a real emotional way,
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They think, well, the law says they have to leave, and the law says a CBSA agent will enforce it.
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Okay, well, how are we actually practically going to do it?
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It's like, no, you actually need to be able to find these people to remove them if you are to remove them.
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The start of his question or start of his answer was the real answer.
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Usually the first thing you say is probably the real thing, like your real position.
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Mark Miller just thinks that people leave voluntarily, and if they don't,
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I guess technically a CBSA officer might go and pick them up.
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Again, this isn't something that is taken lightly, but in the vast majority of cases,
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those people that have come here temporarily and do not have the right to stay, in fact, leave.
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So then my next question will be, your plan calls for a cap on international students, 485,000 in 2024,
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So obviously there's a discrepancy between the two.
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So how many do you project will leave the country then at the end of December 2025?
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What are the forecasts that the department has?
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Between the number of people who will be allowed into the country
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and then the number of people who will be on a study permit that's expiring.
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So those who are expiring the end of December 2025, how many of them will actually leave?
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Or are you going to send CBSA to chase all 766,000?
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Some people get postgraduate work permits and stay a longer period.
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And we do work with CBSA to monitor these things.
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Mark, we don't care about the people who are going to be getting extensions
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That's obvious that we are not going to have to remove them.
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Tom is asking, so how are you going to make up the difference between people who
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within that 700,000 whose visas expire because their degrees are over
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or because they never reapplied and making sure that the number of visas that expire
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and do not get extended, how are you going to make up for the amount of people
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They take into account a whole variety of factors in estimating how many people are here
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So at the end of this year, 2024, how many international students do you expect to leave
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and how many have left so far when their study permits expired?
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There's a bunch of charts on page 22 starting about temporary resident immigration to Canada,
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So how can you not know what that number would be?
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These government documents are signed by your parliamentary secretary that were tabled
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So they're supposed to be expiring study permits by in December, 84,642.
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So how many of those people are still in the country?
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And how many of them have CBSA now looking at them?
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What I can provide to you as a number is the expected decrease over that period of over the year.
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And like, he knows that we know that Tom knows that he's lying.
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Who could guess why the U.S. is very nervous about the border with Canada
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when we have a crazy amount of people who have entered the country in the last two years?
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Obviously, the vast majority with visas and work permits and are either permanent residencies.
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And how are they going to, how are they, like, confident that when all these things expire,
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that we're not just going to let these people walk over the U.S.'s northern border?
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I know it's not going to happen, like, predominantly with these people.
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But obviously, it's a big problem because the liberal government is absolutely incompetent.
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And so let's move on to another thing that the liberals have messed up.
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Because they cannot project strength on a global level.
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It is the trade, the kind of opening trade negotiations with the U.S.
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Yes, it was about the border and it was about potential tariffs.
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But it's really the opening act to the upcoming trade negotiations.
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So Justin Trudeau just posted this an hour ago saying,
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Today, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Safety and I
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briefed opposition leaders on my meeting with President Trump and the Canada-U.S. partnership.
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It's in the interest of every Canadian worker and business
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Let's just get the border secure and done correctly.
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Trudeau acknowledged that that was what Donald Trump was asking for.
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But he's too weak to pursue it without this mealy-mouthed language about,
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Oh, we need a Team Canada approach and we're trying to protect workers.
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This is why Donald Trump and even the U.S. under Joe Biden doesn't take Justin Trudeau seriously.
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There was that kind of joke, and it really is a joke.
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It's just a meme that President Donald Trump says,
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Oh, you know, Canada should just become the 51st state of the U.S.
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if you guys can't keep ripping this off for like $100 billion every year to keep your economy afloat.
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In response to Trudeau at dinner saying, you know, a 25% tariff would ruin the Canadian economy.
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Again, I think this is all just kind of silly table talk.
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Justin Trudeau saying, you know, a 25% tariff would destroy us.
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Knowing that it's probably not going to happen anyways, and Trump's jabbing him back.
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And in fact, in that story that was reported on Fox News,
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it's not even correct that Canada's ripping off the U.S., just as the U.S. isn't ripping off Canada.
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If anything, Canada has always been ripping off itself because it does not get the most out of trade with the U.S.
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Every single province in Canada has higher income taxes than the highest taxed state in the U.S.
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In California and New York, although leaving out property taxes because that's extremely variable depending on where you live,
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California and New York, Massachusetts, states like that have lower income taxes than even provinces like Alberta
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when you combine provincial and federal taxes and you combine state and federal tax in the U.S.
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That's why Canada loses on trade with the United States.
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Yeah, there's some issues there among, even though we have free trade, we do have some over,
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we still have some protectionism on certain products that we have.
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The U.S. has some protectionism on products that they have.
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But at the end of the day, the main problem between the U.S. and Canada in terms of trade,
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at least on the Canadian side of the border, is that our taxes are too high and our regulations are too high.
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If we deal with those two things, we would be absolutely fine.
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There's been a lot of people on what I'd call the paleocon right, the paleoconservative right,
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who have been arguing that John Turner is right about trade.
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Guys, if we had a wall with the U.S. and we didn't trade at all, that wouldn't create a bunch of prosperity in Canada.
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That would just mean a bunch of people would leap over the wall and go work in the U.S.
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If our regulations and economy suck, our tax system sucks, people will leave whether we trade with the U.S. or not.
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Trading is basically just, not trading or protectionism, is just a band-aid solution trying to pretend that we are not living in reality
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and that it doesn't matter if our economy sucks.
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We can keep all the manufacturers and producers here.
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If it's not profitable to be here, they will leave.
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Patriotism does not mean anything when you can't make a go of it.
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But this, and now we have, and now our entire society is just getting worse
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because of just how much the left has screwed stuff up.
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So there's an occupation at parliament right now of a bunch of pro-Palestine,
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I think it was a Jewish organization that was occupying parliament for Palestine
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and then they're using the fact that they're Jewish to try and, like, I guess, justify all this.
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But, yeah, we have idiots taking over our institutions.
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And have the liberals cracked down on these people?
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Have the liberals made sure to clear out these people who are trying to take over our parliament?
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You're allowed to take over Canadian institutions if you're on the left.
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Because society has become so permissive of left-wing violence and intimidation under the liberals
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This is why there are black bloc Antifa people burning things and breaking windows in Montreal
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And if there's a single right-wing person who dares to protest
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or even cover a protest like Ezra Olvant did in Toronto,
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Trudeau has absolutely shredded our credibility around the world because of stuff like this.
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Because he can't find reason to remove these people who are actually blocking staircases,
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but he runs over an elderly indigenous woman with a horse for daring to protest lockdowns
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and the Rive Can app in Ottawa in the 2022 Freedom Convoy.
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Justin Trudeau is doing so bad in the polls right now.
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So let's just do a polling update to close this video out.
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but I know some people like the long-form content,
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Canada should not become the 51st state of the U.S.
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because we don't want to put all of our eggs in one basket.
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But Canada's policy used to be better than the U.S. at certain points.
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Especially Canada, like Canada when Barack Obama was president
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and Harper was the prime minister, was far better.
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Yes, the U.S. Constitution is stronger for individual rights than the charter,
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and probably end up just watering down the U.S.
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and making it easier for the Democrats to win elections down there.
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I am patriotic in the sense I want Canada to always be better.
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By the way, we were the country that technically helped end slavery around the world
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because we ended it first in the British Empire.
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We advocated against first, which caused the British Empire to get rid of it everywhere,
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which then caused the U.S. to get rid of it eventually and many other jurisdictions.
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Canada has done a lot of great stuff over time,
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so let's not, you know, surrender the country because Justin Trudeau sucks.
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But, you know, let's hold our horses a little bit here in terms of being like,
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This is the current chart of polling right now in Canada.
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Think about how much the liberals have done in terms of new programs,
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Now they're going after crisis pregnancy centers
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because the liberals cannot abide pro-life people doing anything good,
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literally helping pay for the newborn children of pregnant women
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The liberals haven't gotten any juice out of any of this stuff
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So if I'm to argue that the liberals have at least done one good thing in Canada,
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they've made the best case possible for why we need conservatism again,
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that actually cares about small government and free markets
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This has been, if anything, the only silver lining of the Trudeau legacy.
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If anything, if Trudeau was only a one-term prime minister,
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maybe we'll still be dealing with woke politics in 30 years.
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I can see woke politics potentially ending in Canada in the next decade
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because they've had to grow up with the woke teachers.
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They've had to deal with woke activists at their universities,
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silly woke friends who are absolutely delusional to the realities of life.
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And that is what's driving the rise in conservative polling numbers.
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But it's also because of how awful the left has become.
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So, I guess that's a great place to end it off here.
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to talk about that ridiculous CBC article that they put out,
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trying to claim that Pure Poly must have stolen
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the 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.
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Patrick Brown is the king of ballot box stuffing.
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And he got kicked out of the conservative leadership race
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like somebody spec'd that he'd be lying or something like that.
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That Patrick Brown must have been up to something.
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And no, it wasn't Indian government aides that did it.
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I somehow have gained the ability to wear sweaters now.
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I don't need to just wear jackets all the time.
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But I still gotta wear the button-up shirt at all times.
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that will be in the description of this video below,
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and I have enough people in the area to reach out to,
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so that I can kind of give you guys my perspective
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on very microscopic and small political battles