Justin Trudeau hits 61% Disapproval ahead of grim by-elections
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Summary
Justin Trudeau is at his lowest point ever with only 22% of people approving of him. Why is he not doing well in the upcoming by-election in the riding of La Salle and Mard Verdun? And why is this happening?
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A big tell that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows that his Liberals are likely going to lose
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the upcoming by-election in the Montreal riding of La Salle and Mard Verdun is that he's already
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making excuses for the Liberals losing before the election has even happened. The election's
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happening on Monday. It's currently Saturday, and the Liberals, on their main social media account,
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are posting videos of Trudeau on radio shows where he's saying that, well, you know,
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it's just because we're too principled. It's because of Francois Legault that we might lose
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this riding. This riding that has been a solid Liberal riding for a very long time. In 2021,
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the Liberals won it with like 43% of the vote and like 42% of the vote in 2019. It doesn't sound like
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world-shattering numbers, but you have to know that the second-place party came in with like 20% or 21%
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of the vote in both of those elections, those last two elections. This is a safe seat for the
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Liberals. Montreal, in general, is a safe region for the Liberals. And now Justin Trudeau is having to
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basically explain away why he's so unpopular without ever actually saying it. I want to get to
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this clip that the Liberals posted themselves because even in this clip, the radio show host still has to
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ask Trudeau, well, isn't this indicative of the fact that a lot of people don't like your government?
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And then he tries to hand wave it away. Before I get into that, I just want to show you
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the approval ratings for Justin Trudeau right now that came out of Abacus Data. I tend to like
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their approval-disapproval system because they don't do this nonsense with like
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somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove. Either you like the guy or not. You don't strongly approve or
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somewhat approve. You like him or you don't like him or you don't know. Those are the three options.
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So right now, Justin Trudeau is at his highest point ever for disapproval. 61% disapproval with
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only 22% of people approving of Justin Trudeau. And I believe in this Abacus Data poll, the Liberals
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were like at 24%, 25%. So there are people saying they're voting Liberal who don't even like Justin
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Trudeau. But like in all of my other videos where I cover Abacus Data polls, you'll notice that
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Trudeau's approval rating is generally around where the Liberals' polling is. If you don't like Trudeau,
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there is a very slim chance that you're still considered voting Liberal. That's the advantage
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of actually the NDP and the Conservatives. You can like Jagmeet Singh, but not really want to vote for
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the NDP. And at the same time, you can not like Kirpalyev, but you can vote for the Conservatives
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because you like their policies. That also was all wrapped up in the fact that the NDP's leader
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usually gets glowing coverage from the mainstream media where the Conservatives are constantly
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attacked. So people will kind of signal the sort of mainstream position that the media gives them
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that, oh, Kirpalyev is sometimes a mean guy, but they'll still vote Conservative because they don't
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want to go bankrupt and they want a party in power that's good for the economy. I think Kirpalyev is a
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great leader, which is actually why he has a positive approval rating, despite the fact that a lot of
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people hate his guts irrationally. But whatever, that's just how the cookie crumbles in Canadian
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politics. But now, let's get over to Justin Trudeau. Let's hear him out. Why is he not doing
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well in this Montreal by-election? The answer might shock you. But anyways, before I get into this,
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I just do want to quickly mention the fact that I have my legal defense fund in the description of
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this video below, as well as pinned in the top comments, just so that you guys, if you want to
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support the show, can donate there. We have a Chinese billionaire suing us for like $900,000.
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I've spent $32,000 defending ourselves. It's nonsense. It's a defamation case where he hasn't
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even submitted any evidence proving what we said was defamatory because what we said was reported
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by tons of people before us. But, you know, he is trying to just basically bully someone he assumed
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couldn't actually defend themselves in court and pretend that everything ever said about him is wrong.
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So here's Justin Trudeau. And in this post, and again, note that this is literally the Liberal
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Party's account, the headline says, we'll keep bringing people together and building a better
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future for everyone. That preempting the fact that Trudeau is about to talk about how, you know,
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I have to ask the question, though, for people about to vote here in this by-election. So I'm wondering
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what you tell Montreal's Anglophone population, and I bring this up because I get these calls
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all the time whenever we talk about this, who feel the federal Liberals have let them down.
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First of all, I understand that feeling because people are feeling, well, first of all, they see
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a government in Quebec City, Legault government, that has decided the best way to protect French,
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which is something that I agree with. Yes, we need to protect French, but Legault has decided the
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best way to protect French is to attack the English Canadians. And that doesn't make any sense.
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We see the most egregious example of it lately with the switch in hospitals. We also see it in
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his attacks on our alma mater at McGill and his attacks on Bishops and Concordia. But the idea
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that someone's going into a hospital for a test or something, anxious they might have cancer, anxious
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they might be sick, and is going to have to be worried about whether or not they can get treated
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in English because their French isn't that strong, that's just wrong.
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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
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want him to go on too long without me breaking it up too. But Trudeau's actually right about this.
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Trudeau is actually right. The French language laws in Quebec are nothing less than draconian.
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It's not that they're promoting French, it's that they're promoting, they're demoting anything that
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isn't French to the point where even though everyone can speak English in Quebec for the
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most part outside of rural areas, we all have to pretend that you can't speak like English.
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And every sign's in French, they just don't have English on anything. It's ridiculous.
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But Trudeau's a complete hypocrite. He's voted in Parliament on motions to basically just let Quebec
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do whatever it wants on these particular issues, even though they're probably charter violating.
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They did it so that Quebec didn't even have to use the notwithstanding clause. They basically just
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allowed Quebec to do whatever they want, even though it's obviously patently ridiculous.
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But now Trudeau is going to pivot over and just talk about how it's just unfortunate that a lot of
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people are not seeing our way on this because we've just been so protective of the Anglo-Canadian
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population. So he's basically trying to blame Francois Legault as if because Trudeau has been
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opposing his hyper-French nationalism, even though he still wants to protect French, that that's hurt him
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in Montreal because of his deep love for Anglo-Canadians.
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We've been pushing on the Legault government to emit a new directive.
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But nothing has happened. There's been no change.
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I love that, that they still have this in the liberal clip of him basically saying that you're
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They have said, they have committed to putting out a new directive and to change that directive.
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And we're going to keep pushing on them as we have to do that. Now, the one thing that Legault wants
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that I don't want is a fight. He's trying to pit people against each other. And my commitment to
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Canadians has always been to try and pull people together and picking sides and and trying to trying
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to say, OK, this one's more strategic for me to back or not. No, I'm a proud Quebecer. I'm a proud
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Montrealer. I my mom's from Vancouver. My dad's a Franco. What is a francophone? Like I get the
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duality. I get the strength of this this this town. I get the strength of this province.
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He's he actually sometimes is a skilled speaker. And this is him trying to very subtly make excuses
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for why he lost. He's saying that full Francois Legault is dividing people against each other for
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his own political gain, because he's trying to he's trying to excuse if the Bloc Quebecois win
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this next election, because the Bloc looks like the most likely party to win in in La Salle and
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Mard Verdun. The NDP have a chance to, but the NDP is also a clown party. So they are turning
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off a lot of people with their candidates basically running against everything. They're just they're
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just openly anti Canadian. They have the Palestinian flag on all of their literature. I want to go get
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that photo of his campaign office. It's full. It's just plastered with a bunch of non Canadian flags
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as if these are his favorite countries and favorite demographics. It's absolutely nutty. He'll grab up a
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lot of the progressives. And that's why they're thinking that a lot of the more middle ground
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liberals who are sick of Trudeau are going to shift towards the Bloc. The liberals still could win this
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by-election, but Trudeau is sort of salting the earth preemptively and saying that it's because Legault
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was dividing people and he pushed a bunch of French nationalists to vote Bloc because, you know,
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we've just been we've been at odds with him and we've been fighting and he's trying to make everyone
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he's trying to punish us for us standing up for Anglo-Canadians when Trudeau hasn't stood up a
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single day for Anglo-Canadians. He makes sounds every once in a while about Legault being a bit
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extreme, but that's really it. That's that's absolutely it that he just makes like kind of weak
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noises about that and like he just makes weak noises every once in a while and he's pretending
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that that's why like Legault has a vendetta against him. Legault doesn't have a vendetta against
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him other than the fact that him and Legault are both deeply unpopular. So they're trying to start
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fights with less popular politicians. So both of them are doing the same very cynical thing. But now
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I just quickly want to bring up on screen the picture of the NDP candidate. Oh my goodness,
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my computer is being slow. But again, the NDP candidate, there's this big controversy around
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the Palestinian flag on all of his literature. In a certain sense, I actually think that what he was
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doing was just trying to cause a media story and that that wasn't probably a big piece of what they
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were putting out. But the NDP at the very least thought it was worthwhile. So they did do that.
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Oh my goodness, my screen here is still frozen. Goodness. Technical difficulties, everybody.
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But anyways, here we go. Here's the photo of this candidate standing next to Jagmeet Singh out front of
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his campaign office. I'll just bring it up right on the front. So we see there up to his left,
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we have the trans flag plus the Palestinian flag. I don't think two groups of people that I don't
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think mix very well. He has normal rainbow flag below him on the left, the trans flag. He has this
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flag of this breakaway Armenian region there, some other flags from other Middle Eastern countries,
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indigenous flags, you know, the Ukrainian flag, all this stuff. And it's so it's just so
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annoying. It's just so annoying. That's the only way of talking about NDP politicians. They're
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annoying because they're so sanctimonious about one subjects are usually wrong about like, I think
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that supporting Ukraine is fine, but they usually shove it in your face at the same time that you're
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like, you guys are the ones who actually don't care when left wing dictatorships around the world
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are oppressing people. But you know, when you when you label the Russians more right wing,
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even though the Russians aren't even right wing, the Russians are just kind of authoritarian or like
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Putin's just kind of an authoritarian. Now you suddenly care. Well, they praise the they praise
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the Chinese, or they won't criticize the Chinese when they're like when they're oppressing people,
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they won't criticize their favorite dictatorships in the Middle East, they won't criticize their
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favorite dictatorships in South America. But as soon as the Russians are doing something,
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it becomes a problem. I think they're all problems, but the NDP are complete obnoxious hypocrites.
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And this election, although Trudeau is trying to play it off that if I lose, it's because
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Francois Legault got me, there is going to be momentum. I'm not sure if it actually goes anywhere
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because the Liberal Party has far fewer spines than they have members. The there are still Liberal
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MPs pushing to make this litmus test on Trudeau's leadership. And if he loses, he should leave.
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You have this one Liberal MP, Alexandra Mendez saying, saying that he should be stepping down.
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The headline here reads Liberal MP says her constituents are very adamant Justin Trudeau
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needs to go. She herself is another, she herself is another Liberal MP in Montreal,
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or I believe right outside of Montreal. Her specific riding, if I can look it up here is
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Broussard St. Lambert, another safe Liberal riding. And when she's sounding the alarm,
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it probably means that even she's scared that she might be at risk in the next election,
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because everyone thought Toronto St. Paul was a fluke, or at least all the Liberals thought
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Toronto St. Paul was a fluke. Heavy Jewish population, they're mad at us for being very
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soft on anti-Semitism, as they should be mad. But that can't be repeated in other metropolitan
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ridings. Well, this riding, Verdun, does not have a heavy Jewish population. Liberals are still
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super unpopular. It might just be that this chart is reflective of reality, that 61% of people don't
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like Trudeau. Only 22% of people do. And you can't win an election with only 22% of people approving
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of your leader. Somebody who the media is constantly trying to like, like fluff up and make him look
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like such a like, it's like a positive progressive figure. Oh, he's so skilled at politics. The media
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can't put the shine back on. And so the Liberals, if they were smart, would dump them. I know there's
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many Conservatives who say, no, Justin Trudeau should stay because it makes it easier for us to
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win. Guys, stop being pansies. We should want to fight the toughest Liberal possible because we are
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better than them. I always hate this nonsense where Conservative strategists sit around hoping that
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the Liberals just make mistakes. Guys, how about we start doing things well? Pierre Polyev actually does
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stuff really well. I think Pierre Polyev would mop the floor with Mark Carney. I think Pierre Polyev would
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mop the floor with any Liberal leader right now because Liberal policy has failed. We can beat any
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of them. But I always, and this is a completely separate rant, I hate the idea of people like, oh, you
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shouldn't want Trudeau to step down or we want him to stick around. Like, I know it's kind of a half joke.
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Oh, yeah, we definitely, you know, we want Trudeau to win the by-election so he's dumb enough to stick
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around for the next election. I don't. I think in Canada, we should re-normalize people getting out when
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they should have gone. You know, I mean, Justin Trudeau's expiration date was a long time ago and
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I don't really care about the catharsis of beating him in election. That's fun. At the same time, I
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want it to be that when Canadian politicians are screwing up big time, they leave. That would be a
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great thing to normalize, that you'll leave when you suck at your job. And Trudeau has been sucking
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at it since he got into office. So I don't want him to stick around for another year because he could do a
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lot of damage out of spite on his way out. At least throw in a Mark Carney who thinks that he's
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delusional enough to actually recover their popularity and still plows into the side of a
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mountain, but at least somewhat pumps the brakes on some of the worst liberal policies. Because,
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you know, hoping that Trudeau sticks around for another year is basically saying, let's hope
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another 10,000 people go bankrupt based on Trudeau's bad policies so it's easier for us to beat him.
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Let's hope for the best possible future in the shortest possible time. You know, let's hope for a new
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election as soon as possible. I don't think it's going to happen, but let's hope. Anyways, that
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should be it for me today, guys. If you want to donate to the Give, Send, Go, I encourage you to
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as it's been going on, he's realizing that we have been able to pay for it as the case has been
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sort of developing. And now he's scared that if he gets to the end of the case, he's going to lose
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and get completely embarrassed. That is the future that we want to manifest here. And so we are trying
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to make sure that we keep the pressure on and we're going to try and apply somewhat soon to have
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