In this episode of the podcast, I talk about how the Liberals are trying to turn the public against their own party with their new socialist policies, and why they might not be as good at it as they seem to think they are.
00:00:00.000As strange as it is to say, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn't seem like he expected Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives' momentum to be able to keep up this long.
00:00:10.120I think he assumed that after the Conservatives had gotten a new leader, like with Andrew Scheer and like with Erin O'Toole, the party would rise past the Liberals for a short period of time, and then things would kind of go back to normal.
00:00:23.040The problem is that conventional wisdom doesn't really work anymore after all of the Liberal policies have utterly failed, inflation is still terrible, crime is bad, you know, pretty much everything's bad.
00:00:34.480You can't just go back to a 2015-style playbook for the Liberals winning the next election.
00:00:40.360And because of that, it seems like the Liberals, trying to catch some momentum of their own, are trying to stir up controversy and now actually push borderline full-on socialist rhetoric in order to polarize Canadians back towards themselves.
00:00:55.180In a certain sense, this isn't even that stupid of an idea.
00:00:59.600When you see some of the new polls coming out from like Nanos Research here, just take a look at that.
00:01:07.820And yes, while that's still a good result for the Conservatives, especially if that was an election result, that's only a 12-point lead for the Conservatives.
00:01:16.520Whereas in the past, the Liberals have been behind the Conservatives by anywhere from 16 to 21 points.
00:01:22.760So a 12-point, you know, trailing result is not actually that bad for the Liberals.
00:01:28.400And I think part of that, one, Nanos tends to be a little bit more Liberal-leaning in terms of who it polls.
00:01:35.040But also, I think they genuinely have come back a little bit because of rhetoric like this.
00:01:40.680They've been pushing a lot of stuff where they're trying to make pure poly of the representative of the ultra-rich.
00:01:46.200And Justin Trudeau is representing the common middle-class individual, which is hilarious because Justin Trudeau is far richer than pure poly of.
00:01:54.860And his government has been mostly catering towards, you know, rich, Bay Street-type Liberal insiders.
00:02:01.480Lobbyists, other people who end up getting subsidies from the Liberal government, which are not accessible at all for the normal middle-class person.
00:02:08.320And the Conservatives want to cut taxes, regulations, and other things across the board, which will very likely make it, like, far more prosperous in the country.
00:02:17.280Not just for, you know, those in the lower and middle-class sections of society, but for everybody, even the rich.
00:02:25.320But now the Liberals are putting stuff out like this, trying to make you, like, I don't know, fear Polyev?
00:02:32.920Fear Polyev's Conservatives just confirmed they would cut taxes on the ultra-wealthy.
00:02:37.860And then it's showing all the Conservatives in the caucus who voted for it.
00:02:44.820I don't really think that this is going to work as well as the Liberals think it will, in the sense that I don't think that many people are into this class warfare rhetoric.
00:02:56.040But I think that the polling shift shows there's enough people willing to kind of be, you know, told, you know, sweet little lies in their ears about how Polyev is the man who's fighting for, you know, oil barons and the ultra-rich.
00:03:10.220That's the funny thing about politics.
00:03:11.840And this is where I've kind of always dedicated this show to sort of teaching people how politics actually works.
00:03:21.020Oftentimes, whenever I hear parties getting very nervous about controversy, I always think that they are on the road to losing.
00:03:28.020Or at least losing, maybe not in this next election, but losing in the one after that.
00:03:33.240When you avoid controversy, you are avoiding people noticing you.
00:03:37.320And I think the Liberals just realized that over the past couple of years, pure Polyev has been the only one willing to be noticed.
00:03:45.100And Justin Trudeau assumed that if he just acted professional, if he just faded off to the background, that people would get some, like, brand new respect for him that looked how statesman-like he is.
00:03:55.840You should act more statesman-like in politics, you know, be professional, be someone of integrity, have, you know, a good amount of, like, professionalism to the way that you act.
00:04:06.020But at the end of the day, you also want to be somewhat controversial.
00:04:09.380Because controversial ideas are ideas that people vote on.
00:04:13.200People don't show up to the polls to vote for, you know, bland granola and, what is it, oatmeal.
00:04:19.520People aren't really looking for bland options on the ballot.
00:04:23.000Oh, this guy says he'll lower taxes by 0.5%.
00:04:26.200Or this guy says he'll create a new housing, you know, investment program.
00:04:31.360People don't show up and vote for that.
00:04:33.140That's what Aaron O'Toole and Andrew Scheer proved.
00:04:35.420I think Andrew Scheer would have been done far better if he had better advisors, because I think he was getting pressured into the red Tory mold, even though he's far more of a blue conservative.
00:04:43.560But Aaron O'Toole modeled it perfectly.
00:04:45.780When you stand for very little, people aren't going to tend to come out and vote for you.
00:04:50.480People like to vote for things that are, in a certain sense, hot-blooded.
00:04:54.240They want to vote for something like, you know, making sure that we crack down on crime, that we lower taxes, lower regulations, that we seemingly have a revolution in politics and do things differently.
00:05:04.900And that's what Polyev was offering, and that's why he easily won the 22 leadership race.
00:05:09.300And since he won the leadership race, he's been almost ahead in the polls the entire time over Justin Trudeau's liberals, because it feels like they're voting for something different.
00:05:17.680And now the liberals are even trying to market themselves as being something different.
00:05:21.900Now they're trying to be working-class, you know, heroes and defenders.
00:05:25.860And so they put out this graphic, too.
00:05:27.580Breaking pure polyvistic conservatives just voted against our plan to make the ultra-wealthy pay a bit more so we can deliver pharma care, dental care, nearly 4 million homes and more.
00:05:37.320The 4 million homes thing is hilarious because they can't even do that.
00:05:40.140But anyways, but the 4 million homes thing is still controversial in the sense that it almost is like the audacity of hope that if you vote for the liberals, then you believe we can build 4 million homes even though we should be cutting immigration, because that's the real problem here.
00:05:54.740And 4 million homes is quite literally impossible to do.
00:05:58.380You'd have to be building a home every three minutes, or I think it's like two minutes in Canada.
00:06:05.160But that is something that polarizes people towards you.
00:06:08.760And a good example of this, of where it's worked recently, outside of the party politics realm, because you could say, well, in politics, if people don't like the liberals, they go to the conservatives.
00:06:19.860If people don't like the conservatives, they go to the liberals.
00:06:21.420So it's not that surprising that the conservatives are ahead and that if anyone stops voting conservative or says they want to vote for something else, they're more likely to go back to the liberals.
00:06:30.180But I think a great example was Carolyn Parrish winning the Mississauga mayoral by-election.
00:07:05.100People went after her because she made statements against gender theory.
00:07:08.340Her plan was to pass new bylaws, which is actually a great plan, pass new bylaws to hold thieves in prison, that they're not going to go through the federal system and just basically hope that federal judges and federal laws will hold people in prison.
00:07:21.800No, they'll pass new bylaws to hold repeat offenders in prison.
00:07:27.720Her saying that they're going to oppose blanket rezoning and they're only going to have rezoning in select small areas near transit and near downtown.
00:07:37.440Like, the thing is that I wouldn't agree with everything that Carolyn Parrish believes in, obviously, even though she is more of a 90s liberal who generally believes in, you know, keeping spending under control.
00:07:47.440But she proved, and this is exactly what Rob Ford proved when he won the mayorship of Toronto in 2010, you have to be controversial.
00:07:58.620You have to say something that makes people sort of sit up and say, well, what is this person talking about?
00:08:02.560The problem is, and this is what I hope the Conservative Party doesn't do, is when you're ahead or if you're behind, in the case of BC United and British Columbia, if you're ahead or behind, there's no point of your sort of political journey where you just settle back and say nothing and hope that you win.
00:08:21.440You always need to be pushing some new ideas or at least fighting for old ideas in new ways.
00:08:28.080And controversy doesn't mean being rude, doesn't mean being strident, being a jerk, sort of acting like I'm always right and everyone's always wrong.
00:08:38.080Oftentimes, it's just taking a stance and saying, you know what, we need a two-thirds reduction in immigration.
00:08:44.720That's what I was going around Calgary Signal Hill campaigning for, for the Conservative Party nomination before I was disqualified for, no reason effectively.
00:08:52.220But that was what I would tell people at the doors of, like, alongside things like passing a federal parental bill of rights.
00:09:00.100And I would have people say at the door before I had said any policies, they said, I'm a centrist person.
00:09:08.980And when I mentioned my policies, they're like, you know what?
00:09:11.900Actually, that sounds like a really good idea.
00:09:13.700I've been waiting for somebody to say something like that.
00:09:15.720You taking controversial stances makes people run to you faster, whereas if you just take a mild in the middle stances, people will maybe side with you, but they're not going to run out the door to do it.
00:09:29.760And I don't think the Conservatives have pumped the brakes yet, but what they need to be able to keep in their minds is that if they pump the brakes, that is the death of their brand.
00:09:38.100And they are going to have very average performance if they just start saying average in the middle things for a Conservative.
00:09:44.240Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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00:10:33.360Hopefully this one wasn't too rambling.
00:10:34.820I had like three or four ideas when I sat down today, and I decided to do all of them.