The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 04, 2024


Justin Trudeau is destroying himself with his own Carbon Tax


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10 minutes

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2,058

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129


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Justin Trudeau's carbon tax has been a disaster from the get-out-of-office standpoint. It's time to take a look at why the carbon tax is such a disaster, and why it's serving no one but Justin Trudeau.

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00:00:00.000 Unless you're as politically meatheaded as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is, it should be absolutely clear to you that after NDP Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu met with federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev, that there was going to be no way of running on a carbon tax and hoping to win the next federal election.
00:00:18.700 And yet Justin Trudeau is still doing it. Wab Kanu is not a political moderate. He is on the political hard left. He is to Justin Trudeau's left. And yet Wab Kanu at least has some political intelligence. He has some populist inclinations. And he knows in order to hold on to his working class base who just voted for him in the recent provincial election, that he has to oppose the federal carbon tax.
00:00:43.900 There are going to be a lot of crossover voters in Manitoba, people who voted NDP in the provincial election who are planning on voting federal Conservative in the next federal election.
00:00:55.840 Justin Trudeau is serving nobody with his stance on the carbon tax. The only people who like the carbon tax are the sort of people that even if Justin Trudeau said he was going to scrap the carbon tax altogether and it was a massive mistake, are still going to vote liberal.
00:01:10.280 It's only Liberal Party ideologues who actually support the carbon tax. It's upper middle class, urban, white collar voters in downtown Toronto and Montreal.
00:01:21.340 And so he is not actually growing his base of support at all by doing all these stupid press events, trying to gaslight people into thinking that the carbon tax rebates are going to make us all millionaires in the long run.
00:01:33.120 It's nonsense. It's effectively a scam. But this is what has led us to fantastic interviews on the CBC with Justin Trudeau, actually getting the tiniest bit of pushback from the host of these shows, asking why he's even pushing the carbon tax when it seems like nobody actually wants it anymore.
00:01:52.920 He is completely befuddled to actually justify himself. But because he's such a narcissist, he has no ability to admit he's made a mistake and pull back on this policy.
00:02:02.920 And he is going to continue destroying himself on the shores of the carbon tax simply because it has become his baby. Check this interview out.
00:02:12.100 Do you think you've made that case?
00:02:13.480 I think we're continuing to make that case. It's understandable that at a time of anxiety, of pressure on costs, of affordability concerns, that some politicians are trying to, you know, drum up support for themselves by scaring people and by giving misinformation.
00:02:31.340 It's unfortunate, but we're going to continue telling the truth.
00:02:34.580 So just to be clear, you don't think you've lost the narrative on this. We had a conversation this week with somebody who's a defender of the carbon tax.
00:02:39.480 He explained it. He talked about it as a dumpster fire in terms of how it's rolled out. You don't think you've lost the narrative.
00:02:44.660 It's not just conservative premiers, though. It's Wob Canoo in Manitoba. It's a fellow liberal in Andrew Fury in Newfoundland and Labrador.
00:02:52.380 What would it take for them to convince you that this is not the right policy?
00:02:57.000 Well, they have the opportunity to put forward a pricing frame that makes sure that pollution isn't free at the same level for the rest of the country,
00:03:05.980 but in a way that works for their province if they don't want to have the federal backstop.
00:03:09.800 So Andrew Fury has said that he wants a meeting with you to talk about this. He wants the premiers to come together with you. Will you have that meeting?
00:03:14.900 I've had a meeting in 2016 with all premiers who have the meeting now with him.
00:03:18.600 I will continue to talk with premiers, but I will continue.
00:03:21.540 One of the reasons why there's great anxiety over this is because, as you've said, there are a lot of people who feel like the system is stacked against them.
00:03:27.440 Young people in particular, they do everything they can. They get a good job. They're working hard.
00:03:32.160 They can't square that circle. You've had nine years in power. To what extent is your government responsible for the fact that that system is stacked against them?
00:03:41.880 We got elected in 2015 focused on supporting the middle class, and we brought in a number of measures that made a huge difference.
00:03:50.420 We cut child poverty in half in this country with the Canada Child Benefit.
00:03:54.740 But particularly since the pandemic, we've seen...
00:03:59.740 Amazing. I like how the CBC host, he's not even exactly grilling Justin Trudeau.
00:04:05.300 He's not doing a bad job at all, but he's just asking him questions that are out there.
00:04:09.300 And not like the nonsensical way where a CBC journalist will go up to pure volume and say,
00:04:13.880 there are people out there who think you're far-right conspiracy theorists.
00:04:16.720 Like, that's silly. He's asking him questions that are commonly out there.
00:04:20.120 Well, why, if so many premiers are opposing you, are you still pushing for this?
00:04:24.500 The most hilarious part of that entire interview is when he says, well, I met with them back in 2016.
00:04:29.560 Eight years ago, I guess is good enough for continuing a policy that has become wildly unpopular.
00:04:35.460 And his contention that, well, if premiers like Andrew Fleury and people like Wob Canu don't like the carbon tax,
00:04:43.040 well, they can always come up with their own pollution framework.
00:04:45.620 Well, that's nonsense because the pollution framework that you have to come up with still basically has to at least make the federal carbon tax pricing as a minimum.
00:04:56.820 This is why, and all these premiers, when he says, like, flippant stuff like that to them,
00:05:01.020 why don't you come up with your own version of the carbon tax?
00:05:03.600 They're looking at people like BC Premier David Eby looking like he might get his lunch eaten by the BC conservatives
00:05:11.120 who weren't even a party a year and a half ago, and they're thinking, well, no, I'm not going to pass my own carbon tax
00:05:17.640 because then I'm the main person responsible for this.
00:05:21.460 They'd prefer Justin Trudeau keep his federal carbon tax in their area than them passing their own provincial carbon tax.
00:05:27.900 They just want the carbon tax gone in general, but they're not going to own the terrible policy.
00:05:32.680 They want at least Justin Trudeau to own it if there is going to be a carbon tax in, like, on the provincial or federal level.
00:05:39.100 He's like watching a turtle stuck on a fence post.
00:05:43.180 He doesn't know what to do here other than basically put out the same platitudes he's been, like, shilling out since 2015.
00:05:50.000 And all those questions were very answerable if he had the slightest bit of humility.
00:05:55.160 If he had an ounce of humility, he would say, yeah, fair enough.
00:05:59.140 If young people are feeling like it's stacked against them, then we should be addressing those issues and those concerns.
00:06:04.300 And if enough people don't like the federal carbon tax anymore, well, I'm a public servant.
00:06:08.720 I'm here to serve the public.
00:06:10.400 And I'll put a pause on the carbon tax and we'll reconsider it later.
00:06:13.140 If he did that, he would at least gain five to six points in the polls overnight because a lot of people who, for some reason,
00:06:20.120 have an irrational hatred for the conservatives are just looking for Justin Trudeau to be rational enough that they can still justify voting for him.
00:06:27.780 He's not rational.
00:06:28.780 So they won't come out and vote for him.
00:06:30.960 It's not that all these liberals are going to go vote conservative, although a lot of them are.
00:06:35.040 It's that a lot of liberals are just going to stay home.
00:06:38.260 This is where the conservatives actually have a very good chance of picking up a lot of seats out in even downtown Toronto.
00:06:44.580 Spadina Fort York, which hasn't gone conservative in forever, could go conservative if Kevin Vong is the candidate there,
00:06:51.260 simply because a lot of liberals are just not going to show up.
00:06:53.860 Because what's the point at this point that if people keep seeing their financial situation get worse and worse,
00:07:00.520 you can't tell them that, you know, the rebates making your life better.
00:07:04.320 No, these people actually grapple with the issues of inflation and their own personal finances.
00:07:10.240 It's not like any of these people are trying to buy a Mercedes at the same time they're dealing with their normal household costs.
00:07:16.280 And that's what's incurring them so much financial burden.
00:07:19.440 No, no, no. These people are buying the same things they used to buy, if not lower quality versions to save money.
00:07:25.820 And after the rebate, they are still telling you, I feel worse off.
00:07:30.580 They're not lying to you.
00:07:32.280 You're just an idiot who won't listen to them and is gaslighting them.
00:07:35.860 You're never going to be able to gaslight people into voting for you.
00:07:39.040 It has never worked in Canadian politics.
00:07:41.160 It's frankly never worked in any other politics around the world.
00:07:44.520 There has to be an underlying truth to what you're saying or people are going to reject you.
00:07:50.760 Wab Kanu joining with Pierre Paulyov should be the decisive moment that the liberals say,
00:07:55.840 fair enough, we'll put a pause on it for at least three years.
00:07:58.920 He won't do it. He doesn't have the humility to do it.
00:08:02.020 Wab Kanu should be a premier who I hope loses next provincial election.
00:08:05.840 He's a terrible premier.
00:08:07.020 He's putting bubbles or zones around abortion clinics, not letting people even silently pray.
00:08:11.500 He is an authoritarian. He is a massive tax and spend NDPer.
00:08:16.460 He is going to put that province in massive debt and hurt their economy.
00:08:19.860 And yet, simply by saying, I am against the carbon tax,
00:08:23.260 he is going to gain a lot of popularity in that province.
00:08:26.220 It's like a cheat code to a video game.
00:08:29.020 Anyways, that's all I want to say about that today.
00:08:32.100 I quickly want to do the normal shameless plug.
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00:08:58.080 We want to stop, frankly, a lot of red Tories simply running against the carbon tax
00:09:02.500 to gain popularity when they're not conservative at all past the carbon tax issue.
00:09:07.340 They're as conservative as Wab Canoe is.
00:09:09.580 And I'm an actual conservative trying to actually represent one of the strongest
00:09:12.600 conservative ridings in the entire country.
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00:09:22.300 We have this billionaire developer suing us for defamation.
00:09:25.420 Defamation, he has no evidence to prove.
00:09:27.320 And our entire article that our guest writer wrote that mentioned this guy
00:09:31.340 simply hyperlinked to a Globe and Mail article that was a massive investigation about him.
00:09:36.400 We basically said nothing new about the guy.
00:09:38.700 And because he never sued Globe and Mail because he knew he'd lose against them,
00:09:41.560 he tried to sue us because he thought he could beat a 21-year-old in court.
00:09:45.840 He frankly couldn't.
00:09:47.160 So now he's just trying to draw this thing out as long as possible.
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00:10:06.000 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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