The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Justin Trudeau hits 61% Disapproval ahead of grim by-elections

00:00:00.000 A big tell that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows that his Liberals are likely going to lose

00:00:05.340 the upcoming by-election in the Montreal riding of La Salle and Mard Verdun is that he's already

00:00:11.680 making excuses for the Liberals losing before the election has even happened. The election's

00:00:17.760 happening on Monday. It's currently Saturday, and the Liberals, on their main social media account,

00:00:24.900 are posting videos of Trudeau on radio shows where he's saying that, well, you know,

00:00:29.500 it's just because we're too principled. It's because of Francois Legault that we might lose

00:00:34.400 this riding. This riding that has been a solid Liberal riding for a very long time. In 2021,

00:00:42.120 the Liberals won it with like 43% of the vote and like 42% of the vote in 2019. It doesn't sound like

00:00:48.180 world-shattering numbers, but you have to know that the second-place party came in with like 20% or 21%

00:00:55.360 of the vote in both of those elections, those last two elections. This is a safe seat for the

00:01:01.160 Liberals. Montreal, in general, is a safe region for the Liberals. And now Justin Trudeau is having to

00:01:07.020 basically explain away why he's so unpopular without ever actually saying it. I want to get to

00:01:13.500 this clip that the Liberals posted themselves because even in this clip, the radio show host still has to

00:01:18.780 ask Trudeau, well, isn't this indicative of the fact that a lot of people don't like your government?

00:01:23.640 And then he tries to hand wave it away. Before I get into that, I just want to show you

00:01:28.140 the approval ratings for Justin Trudeau right now that came out of Abacus Data. I tend to like

00:01:33.900 their approval-disapproval system because they don't do this nonsense with like

00:01:37.620 somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove. Either you like the guy or not. You don't strongly approve or

00:01:43.000 somewhat approve. You like him or you don't like him or you don't know. Those are the three options.

00:01:48.320 So right now, Justin Trudeau is at his highest point ever for disapproval. 61% disapproval with

00:01:57.420 only 22% of people approving of Justin Trudeau. And I believe in this Abacus Data poll, the Liberals

00:02:04.120 were like at 24%, 25%. So there are people saying they're voting Liberal who don't even like Justin

00:02:10.420 Trudeau. But like in all of my other videos where I cover Abacus Data polls, you'll notice that

00:02:16.060 Trudeau's approval rating is generally around where the Liberals' polling is. If you don't like Trudeau,

00:02:22.940 there is a very slim chance that you're still considered voting Liberal. That's the advantage

00:02:27.240 of actually the NDP and the Conservatives. You can like Jagmeet Singh, but not really want to vote for

00:02:33.260 the NDP. And at the same time, you can not like Kirpalyev, but you can vote for the Conservatives

00:02:38.860 because you like their policies. That also was all wrapped up in the fact that the NDP's leader

00:02:43.740 usually gets glowing coverage from the mainstream media where the Conservatives are constantly

00:02:47.980 attacked. So people will kind of signal the sort of mainstream position that the media gives them

00:02:54.800 that, oh, Kirpalyev is sometimes a mean guy, but they'll still vote Conservative because they don't

00:03:00.180 want to go bankrupt and they want a party in power that's good for the economy. I think Kirpalyev is a

00:03:04.760 great leader, which is actually why he has a positive approval rating, despite the fact that a lot of

00:03:09.480 people hate his guts irrationally. But whatever, that's just how the cookie crumbles in Canadian

00:03:14.660 politics. But now, let's get over to Justin Trudeau. Let's hear him out. Why is he not doing

00:03:20.660 well in this Montreal by-election? The answer might shock you. But anyways, before I get into this,

00:03:26.520 I just do want to quickly mention the fact that I have my legal defense fund in the description of

00:03:31.640 this video below, as well as pinned in the top comments, just so that you guys, if you want to

00:03:36.620 support the show, can donate there. We have a Chinese billionaire suing us for like $900,000.

00:03:41.700 I've spent $32,000 defending ourselves. It's nonsense. It's a defamation case where he hasn't

00:03:46.760 even submitted any evidence proving what we said was defamatory because what we said was reported

00:03:51.920 by tons of people before us. But, you know, he is trying to just basically bully someone he assumed

00:03:57.160 couldn't actually defend themselves in court and pretend that everything ever said about him is wrong.

00:04:01.640 So here's Justin Trudeau. And in this post, and again, note that this is literally the Liberal

00:04:06.880 Party's account, the headline says, we'll keep bringing people together and building a better

00:04:11.560 future for everyone. That preempting the fact that Trudeau is about to talk about how, you know,

00:04:18.400 they're not looking so hot in Montreal.

00:04:20.140 I have to ask the question, though, for people about to vote here in this by-election. So I'm wondering

00:04:24.400 what you tell Montreal's Anglophone population, and I bring this up because I get these calls

00:04:28.060 all the time whenever we talk about this, who feel the federal Liberals have let them down.

00:04:32.420 First of all, I understand that feeling because people are feeling, well, first of all, they see

00:04:36.580 a government in Quebec City, Legault government, that has decided the best way to protect French,

00:04:42.180 which is something that I agree with. Yes, we need to protect French, but Legault has decided the

00:04:47.020 best way to protect French is to attack the English Canadians. And that doesn't make any sense. 0.71

00:04:51.620 We see the most egregious example of it lately with the switch in hospitals. We also see it in

00:04:57.620 his attacks on our alma mater at McGill and his attacks on Bishops and Concordia. But the idea

00:05:03.680 that someone's going into a hospital for a test or something, anxious they might have cancer, anxious

00:05:09.240 they might be sick, and is going to have to be worried about whether or not they can get treated

00:05:14.380 in English because their French isn't that strong, that's just wrong.

00:05:17.980 Here's the funny thing about this, and I'm going to play the rest of the clip in a second here. I don't

00:05:21.940 want him to go on too long without me breaking it up too. But Trudeau's actually right about this.

00:05:26.740 Trudeau is actually right. The French language laws in Quebec are nothing less than draconian.

00:05:32.840 It's not that they're promoting French, it's that they're promoting, they're demoting anything that

00:05:36.960 isn't French to the point where even though everyone can speak English in Quebec for the

00:05:41.620 most part outside of rural areas, we all have to pretend that you can't speak like English.

00:05:46.300 And every sign's in French, they just don't have English on anything. It's ridiculous. 0.70

00:05:50.340 But Trudeau's a complete hypocrite. He's voted in Parliament on motions to basically just let Quebec 1.00

00:05:57.720 do whatever it wants on these particular issues, even though they're probably charter violating.

00:06:03.080 They did it so that Quebec didn't even have to use the notwithstanding clause. They basically just

00:06:07.780 allowed Quebec to do whatever they want, even though it's obviously patently ridiculous.

00:06:12.360 But now Trudeau is going to pivot over and just talk about how it's just unfortunate that a lot of

00:06:18.500 people are not seeing our way on this because we've just been so protective of the Anglo-Canadian

00:06:26.040 population. So he's basically trying to blame Francois Legault as if because Trudeau has been

00:06:31.940 opposing his hyper-French nationalism, even though he still wants to protect French, that that's hurt him

00:06:37.560 in Montreal because of his deep love for Anglo-Canadians.

00:06:42.320 We've been pushing on the Legault government to emit a new directive.

00:06:46.080 But nothing has happened. There's been no change.

00:06:48.720 I love that, that they still have this in the liberal clip of him basically saying that you're 1.00

00:06:52.660 full of garbage. 0.98

00:06:53.720 They have said, they have committed to putting out a new directive and to change that directive. 0.98

00:06:57.820 And we're going to keep pushing on them as we have to do that. Now, the one thing that Legault wants

00:07:03.140 that I don't want is a fight. He's trying to pit people against each other. And my commitment to

00:07:08.600 Canadians has always been to try and pull people together and picking sides and and trying to trying

00:07:14.140 to say, OK, this one's more strategic for me to back or not. No, I'm a proud Quebecer. I'm a proud

00:07:19.880 Montrealer. I my mom's from Vancouver. My dad's a Franco. What is a francophone? Like I get the 0.69

00:07:25.040 duality. I get the strength of this this this town. I get the strength of this province.

00:07:29.140 He's he actually sometimes is a skilled speaker. And this is him trying to very subtly make excuses

00:07:36.060 for why he lost. He's saying that full Francois Legault is dividing people against each other for

00:07:41.060 his own political gain, because he's trying to he's trying to excuse if the Bloc Quebecois win

00:07:45.740 this next election, because the Bloc looks like the most likely party to win in in La Salle and

00:07:52.960 Mard Verdun. The NDP have a chance to, but the NDP is also a clown party. So they are turning 0.95

00:07:59.120 off a lot of people with their candidates basically running against everything. They're just they're

00:08:05.440 just openly anti Canadian. They have the Palestinian flag on all of their literature. I want to go get

00:08:12.400 that photo of his campaign office. It's full. It's just plastered with a bunch of non Canadian flags

00:08:19.120 as if these are his favorite countries and favorite demographics. It's absolutely nutty. He'll grab up a

00:08:25.120 lot of the progressives. And that's why they're thinking that a lot of the more middle ground

00:08:30.080 liberals who are sick of Trudeau are going to shift towards the Bloc. The liberals still could win this

00:08:34.960 by-election, but Trudeau is sort of salting the earth preemptively and saying that it's because Legault

00:08:41.360 was dividing people and he pushed a bunch of French nationalists to vote Bloc because, you know,

00:08:46.980 we've just been we've been at odds with him and we've been fighting and he's trying to make everyone

00:08:51.780 he's trying to punish us for us standing up for Anglo-Canadians when Trudeau hasn't stood up a

00:08:56.580 single day for Anglo-Canadians. He makes sounds every once in a while about Legault being a bit

00:09:01.640 extreme, but that's really it. That's that's absolutely it that he just makes like kind of weak

00:09:07.800 noises about that and like he just makes weak noises every once in a while and he's pretending

00:09:13.540 that that's why like Legault has a vendetta against him. Legault doesn't have a vendetta against

00:09:17.620 him other than the fact that him and Legault are both deeply unpopular. So they're trying to start

00:09:22.060 fights with less popular politicians. So both of them are doing the same very cynical thing. But now

00:09:29.200 I just quickly want to bring up on screen the picture of the NDP candidate. Oh my goodness,

00:09:35.220 my computer is being slow. But again, the NDP candidate, there's this big controversy around

00:09:40.220 the Palestinian flag on all of his literature. In a certain sense, I actually think that what he was

00:09:46.560 doing was just trying to cause a media story and that that wasn't probably a big piece of what they

00:09:51.340 were putting out. But the NDP at the very least thought it was worthwhile. So they did do that.

00:09:57.240 Oh my goodness, my screen here is still frozen. Goodness. Technical difficulties, everybody.

00:10:03.940 But anyways, here we go. Here's the photo of this candidate standing next to Jagmeet Singh out front of

00:10:09.380 his campaign office. I'll just bring it up right on the front. So we see there up to his left,

00:10:15.280 we have the trans flag plus the Palestinian flag. I don't think two groups of people that I don't 0.99

00:10:22.180 think mix very well. He has normal rainbow flag below him on the left, the trans flag. He has this 0.51

00:10:28.440 flag of this breakaway Armenian region there, some other flags from other Middle Eastern countries,

00:10:34.600 indigenous flags, you know, the Ukrainian flag, all this stuff. And it's so it's just so 0.98

00:10:40.900 annoying. It's just so annoying. That's the only way of talking about NDP politicians. They're

00:10:47.420 annoying because they're so sanctimonious about one subjects are usually wrong about like, I think

00:10:53.140 that supporting Ukraine is fine, but they usually shove it in your face at the same time that you're

00:10:56.680 like, you guys are the ones who actually don't care when left wing dictatorships around the world

00:11:02.840 are oppressing people. But you know, when you when you label the Russians more right wing,

00:11:07.340 even though the Russians aren't even right wing, the Russians are just kind of authoritarian or like 0.97

00:11:10.600 Putin's just kind of an authoritarian. Now you suddenly care. Well, they praise the they praise

00:11:15.600 the Chinese, or they won't criticize the Chinese when they're like when they're oppressing people, 0.99

00:11:20.360 they won't criticize their favorite dictatorships in the Middle East, they won't criticize their

00:11:24.720 favorite dictatorships in South America. But as soon as the Russians are doing something, 0.77

00:11:28.720 it becomes a problem. I think they're all problems, but the NDP are complete obnoxious hypocrites. 0.99

00:11:33.560 And this election, although Trudeau is trying to play it off that if I lose, it's because 0.95

00:11:38.440 Francois Legault got me, there is going to be momentum. I'm not sure if it actually goes anywhere

00:11:43.620 because the Liberal Party has far fewer spines than they have members. The there are still Liberal

00:11:50.860 MPs pushing to make this litmus test on Trudeau's leadership. And if he loses, he should leave.

00:11:56.840 You have this one Liberal MP, Alexandra Mendez saying, saying that he should be stepping down.

00:12:03.360 The headline here reads Liberal MP says her constituents are very adamant Justin Trudeau

00:12:07.580 needs to go. She herself is another, she herself is another Liberal MP in Montreal,

00:12:16.320 or I believe right outside of Montreal. Her specific riding, if I can look it up here is

00:12:20.980 Broussard St. Lambert, another safe Liberal riding. And when she's sounding the alarm, 0.58

00:12:26.400 it probably means that even she's scared that she might be at risk in the next election,

00:12:31.080 because everyone thought Toronto St. Paul was a fluke, or at least all the Liberals thought

00:12:35.780 Toronto St. Paul was a fluke. Heavy Jewish population, they're mad at us for being very 1.00

00:12:41.200 soft on anti-Semitism, as they should be mad. But that can't be repeated in other metropolitan 0.98

00:12:46.380 ridings. Well, this riding, Verdun, does not have a heavy Jewish population. Liberals are still 1.00

00:12:53.060 super unpopular. It might just be that this chart is reflective of reality, that 61% of people don't

00:13:00.800 like Trudeau. Only 22% of people do. And you can't win an election with only 22% of people approving

00:13:07.520 of your leader. Somebody who the media is constantly trying to like, like fluff up and make him look

00:13:15.240 like such a like, it's like a positive progressive figure. Oh, he's so skilled at politics. The media

00:13:20.340 can't put the shine back on. And so the Liberals, if they were smart, would dump them. I know there's

00:13:24.920 many Conservatives who say, no, Justin Trudeau should stay because it makes it easier for us to

00:13:28.800 win. Guys, stop being pansies. We should want to fight the toughest Liberal possible because we are

00:13:35.120 better than them. I always hate this nonsense where Conservative strategists sit around hoping that

00:13:40.120 the Liberals just make mistakes. Guys, how about we start doing things well? Pierre Polyev actually does

00:13:45.280 stuff really well. I think Pierre Polyev would mop the floor with Mark Carney. I think Pierre Polyev would

00:13:50.080 mop the floor with any Liberal leader right now because Liberal policy has failed. We can beat any

00:13:55.920 of them. But I always, and this is a completely separate rant, I hate the idea of people like, oh, you

00:14:00.980 shouldn't want Trudeau to step down or we want him to stick around. Like, I know it's kind of a half joke.

00:14:05.140 Oh, yeah, we definitely, you know, we want Trudeau to win the by-election so he's dumb enough to stick 0.98

00:14:10.260 around for the next election. I don't. I think in Canada, we should re-normalize people getting out when 0.97

00:14:16.860 they should have gone. You know, I mean, Justin Trudeau's expiration date was a long time ago and

00:14:22.620 I don't really care about the catharsis of beating him in election. That's fun. At the same time, I

00:14:27.400 want it to be that when Canadian politicians are screwing up big time, they leave. That would be a

00:14:32.620 great thing to normalize, that you'll leave when you suck at your job. And Trudeau has been sucking 1.00

00:14:37.680 at it since he got into office. So I don't want him to stick around for another year because he could do a 0.98

00:14:42.440 lot of damage out of spite on his way out. At least throw in a Mark Carney who thinks that he's

00:14:46.880 delusional enough to actually recover their popularity and still plows into the side of a

00:14:51.340 mountain, but at least somewhat pumps the brakes on some of the worst liberal policies. Because,

00:14:56.140 you know, hoping that Trudeau sticks around for another year is basically saying, let's hope

00:15:00.200 another 10,000 people go bankrupt based on Trudeau's bad policies so it's easier for us to beat him.

00:15:05.580 Let's hope for the best possible future in the shortest possible time. You know, let's hope for a new

00:15:10.680 election as soon as possible. I don't think it's going to happen, but let's hope. Anyways, that

00:15:16.200 should be it for me today, guys. If you want to donate to the Give, Send, Go, I encourage you to

00:15:21.300 do that. It costs us a lot of money to fight back against this guy who can easily pay for any litigation

00:15:26.920 he wants. It's nonsense, but now even he's ducking us. So the case has slowed down quite a bit because

00:15:33.180 as it's been going on, he's realizing that we have been able to pay for it as the case has been

00:15:39.720 sort of developing. And now he's scared that if he gets to the end of the case, he's going to lose

00:15:43.400 and get completely embarrassed. That is the future that we want to manifest here. And so we are trying

00:15:49.920 to make sure that we keep the pressure on and we're going to try and apply somewhat soon to have

00:15:54.760 summary judgment to get the sky out of our hair. So if you want to contribute to that, it's in the

00:15:58.960 description of the video. It's pinned in the comments below. If you can give anything that's

00:16:03.480 really helpful. You can't keep watching the videos, like, share, subscribe, do all that great stuff.

00:16:08.040 And I'll see you guys in my next video.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 15, 2024

Justin Trudeau hits 61% Disapproval ahead of grim by-elections

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