The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 03, 2024


Justin Trudeau is running away from his own Liberal MPs

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Wyatt Claypool
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Justin Trudeau Erin O'Toole Papineau Calgary Skyview George Chahal Jagmeet Singh Andrew Scheer Mark Harrison Karen McDougal Wayne Long Pure Poly
Liberal tries to confront Conservative MP and embarrasses himself Clueless Liberal MP blames Conservatives for Liberal failures!

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In this episode, I talk about why I don t think Justin Trudeau should have a national caucus meeting, why he should have one in person, and why it s a bad idea. I also discuss why I think it s time for a new party platform.

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00:00:00.000 I am absolutely loving the current timeline that Canadian politics is on.
00:00:05.280 Justin Trudeau is such an abysmally unpopular prime minister that not only is he having to avoid the Canadian people for the obvious reasons,
00:00:12.960 but now he's having to avoid his own liberal MPs.
00:00:16.760 His liberal caucus wants to have a national caucus meeting to discuss his ongoing leadership of the country and the Liberal Party.
00:00:23.800 And Justin Trudeau is flying around the country doing press conferences, ducking his own MPs,
00:00:29.940 and then giving these really pathetic answers to justify why actually everything's completely hunky-dory.
00:00:35.680 And even though I don't want to talk to any of my liberal MPs, I'm still open to talking. 0.72
00:00:41.480 I just don't want to actually talk to them.
00:00:43.180 But we can discuss things over the phone through some mediators, but not directly because I don't want to hear about any of the issues.
00:00:51.700 The stuff is hilarious to watch.
00:00:53.540 The amount of hubris this man has that he cannot cut through to act like a normal person and deal with the issues is hilarious to me, and I'm here for it.
00:01:02.140 With all due respect, my two colleagues have asked the same question, and they have not received a specific answer.
00:01:07.400 The question is, will you hold a national in-person caucus with your party, with the MPs?
00:01:15.420 As I've said, I will continue to engage and to talk and to listen and to meet with all my MPs from across the country.
00:01:23.220 Just not in a national caucus meeting with all of them in person.
00:01:28.340 He'll have dialogues with them, but he doesn't want to actually meet the people because they don't like him.
00:01:34.240 And like whenever the Canadian people have a negative approval rating of Justin Trudeau, he just stops doing town halls.
00:01:39.980 He stops meeting with average people, and everything becomes very scripted.
00:01:43.420 Now Justin Trudeau is having to talk to his own colleagues through mediators and through scripted, like, events.
00:01:51.160 He does not actually want to have real human interactions with people who have anything to complain about.
00:01:55.920 To talk about how we can both understand what we need to improve on, given last week's by-election.
00:02:02.900 Okay. No, no, no. You don't need to improve on stuff. You need to stop doing things.
00:02:08.920 This is such a weaselly way of framing the issue.
00:02:11.860 After they lost the Toronto-St. Paul by-election, which is one of the deepest of red ridings,
00:02:17.720 he wants to talk about what we can improve on.
00:02:20.060 No, no, no. You should be talking about how you failed, what things that you should stop doing,
00:02:24.920 what policies Canadians do not like, and you should just outright scrap.
00:02:28.760 That's what you should be discussing.
00:02:30.200 If he was a serious adult, that's what he would be saying right now.
00:02:34.400 But instead, everything has to be framed in the idea of positive language.
00:02:38.380 What can we improve on?
00:02:39.820 What are we doing well that we could do even better to make Canadians like us?
00:02:45.260 People don't like you because you failed at things, not because you've just not improved enough.
00:02:50.280 Defeat, but also how we continue to be there for Canadians in a really important moment.
00:02:56.260 People are anxious in Canada and around the world,
00:02:58.960 and the government needs to be stepping up to deliver for people.
00:03:02.880 Follow-up.
00:03:03.960 Are there members of your caucus that are considering leaving if you do stay on?
00:03:08.940 What's your reaction to that?
00:03:10.220 And are you willing to stay on and lose members of your caucus?
00:03:13.620 I think the conversations that I'm having with MPs directly right across the country,
00:03:20.260 the conversations that we're all having as Liberals are going to continue,
00:03:25.600 and we're going to stay focused on Canadians.
00:03:28.300 I can't speak to what people in the media are thinking.
00:03:32.620 That's your job.
00:03:33.460 But I can speak to the strength and focus that all Liberals have on delivering for Canadians,
00:03:39.600 and that's what we're going to continue to do.
00:03:41.640 I guess the new line is now, this is all just media nonsense.
00:03:45.260 This is just all media reporting that people in my own party don't like me.
00:03:49.140 Ken McDonald today just said he's not running again.
00:03:52.060 He just can't do it.
00:03:53.140 He can't possibly win his riding.
00:03:55.440 He can't win a re-election with Justin Trudeau as the leader of the party.
00:03:59.000 That, Atlantic Canada is completely lost for the Liberals.
00:04:03.120 I'm happy to see it.
00:04:04.140 That's hilarious to me.
00:04:05.380 But from an analyst's perspective of politics, it's frustrating to see a man who,
00:04:10.540 as he continues to demonstrate that people don't like what he's doing, refuses to change.
00:04:17.300 It's crazy.
00:04:18.680 MP Wayne Long, also another MP from the Maritimes, from New Brunswick,
00:04:23.120 is the first MP to put his name to calls for the National Caucus meeting to discuss Justin Trudeau's leadership.
00:04:28.280 He wouldn't do it.
00:04:29.680 George Chahal out in Calgary, Calgary Skyview, wants to have the conversation happen.
00:04:34.620 The conversation's not happening.
00:04:36.320 Notice that all the people who are willing to put their names on the record right now
00:04:39.920 are people in these districts that they just cannot win if Justin Trudeau sticks around.
00:04:45.160 But Justin Trudeau doesn't care.
00:04:46.600 He couldn't possibly lose Papineau, although, fingers crossed, it'd be hilarious if he even lost his own district.
00:04:52.800 He actually only won Papineau by 50% in 2021, which is a good amount of votes.
00:04:59.560 But considering that there's two other parties that can punch above 20%,
00:05:03.160 if he slips a little bit, Papineau could be in play.
00:05:06.260 I actually might want to talk about that in a future video.
00:05:08.940 But it just demonstrates that when you wake up every morning,
00:05:13.480 and ego and hubris is the way you operate on a daily basis,
00:05:17.140 nine years into doing that, it's really hard to actually self-correct.
00:05:21.000 I think Justin Trudeau actually believes that he's doing the right maneuvering to stay prime minister in the long run.
00:05:27.060 He's not going to.
00:05:28.260 The problem is all the people who keep telling him all his ideas are great and super intelligent and politically advantageous
00:05:35.120 are all people who are just designed to agree with him.
00:05:37.700 His entire cabinet is just full of yes-men. 0.95
00:05:40.640 And this is a massive problem for the Liberal Party,
00:05:43.580 is that when you're surrounded by yes-men, you can't make a good decision
00:05:47.100 because you don't know what a good decision is,
00:05:49.000 because every bad decision is ballyhooed by people just looking for a paycheck.
00:05:53.280 The polling, it cannot be emphasized enough, is scary bad.
00:05:57.440 It is not just bad, it's scary bad.
00:05:59.560 45 to 21 in this ECOS poll that was pulled between May 22nd and June 11th.
00:06:05.100 That is a 23 or 24-point lead for the Conservatives.
00:06:11.540 That's unheard of in Canadian politics.
00:06:15.180 Now Justin Trudeau is even skipping the Calgary Stampede.
00:06:19.220 And while, yeah, he's not popular in Alberta at all,
00:06:22.040 they have two MPs in Alberta who are both probably going to lose their re-elections,
00:06:27.620 at least Calgary is usually, or the Calgary Stampede, is a great opportunity for fundraising.
00:06:32.680 The Conservative Party, a massive amount of their fundraising every year,
00:06:36.560 is done through the Calgary Stampede.
00:06:38.180 Even Jagmeet Singh will show up for the Calgary Stampede
00:06:41.160 because it's a great donor opportunity.
00:06:43.980 Justin Trudeau isn't even showing up this year.
00:06:46.060 He is just forgoing all of the fundraising that he could do by being there on the ground
00:06:50.860 because he doesn't want to face any scrutiny.
00:06:54.300 When you are literally making decisions to protect yourself from criticism,
00:06:59.400 when showing up even to face criticism could get you hundreds of thousands of dollars 1.00
00:07:04.820 to run for re-election with, you're an idiot. 1.00
00:07:07.840 What's wrong with you? 1.00
00:07:09.100 Again, I'm a Conservative. 0.98
00:07:10.160 I want to see the Liberals go down in flames.
00:07:12.880 But at the same time, I at least want to fight a competent opponent
00:07:16.200 because that's more interesting.
00:07:18.160 Like right now, the Conservatives are playing on pure easy mode.
00:07:21.620 And in a certain sense, that's a bad thing
00:07:23.440 because the Conservatives are just let to win the election.
00:07:26.780 The Conservatives don't even really win as much as Justin Trudeau just fails to even play the game.
00:07:31.980 Well, to a certain extent, it allows the Conservatives not to stick to certain promises they made
00:07:35.940 because they can say and do whatever they want
00:07:38.380 and it's not going to affect their polling numbers.
00:07:40.740 I think that they will do a lot of good stuff in office.
00:07:43.080 But in a certain sense, having a fierce competitor to fight back against
00:07:47.140 actually is healthy for all parties.
00:07:49.420 That was the problem for the Liberals in the last few election cycles.
00:07:53.140 Andrew Scheer and Aaron O'Toole were not real opponents.
00:07:55.700 So Justin Trudeau did not have to correct any policy failures he had created.
00:08:01.440 But that's just the cycle of politics for you, I guess.
00:08:04.780 I want to follow up on a few other things that have been going on in future videos
00:08:08.840 on just how abysmally sad the Liberal Party has become. 0.98
00:08:12.120 I want to talk about this stupid interview that the Liberal MP from Kingston 0.99
00:08:16.420 in the Islands, Mark Harrison, did 0.99
00:08:17.940 where he's now blaming the Liberals' unpopularity
00:08:21.520 on the Conservatives attacking them over the carbon tax.
00:08:24.380 And he pretends that up until five seconds ago when Pure Poly have entered the scene,
00:08:29.000 the carbon tax was super popular.
00:08:31.120 Just the Conservatives propagandized against it.
00:08:33.240 No, it wasn't.
00:08:34.040 You guys only won a minority in 2019 and 2021.
00:08:37.720 But supposedly the carbon tax was a big vote winner back then.
00:08:41.340 It wasn't.
00:08:42.360 Aaron O'Toole lost the 2021 election
00:08:44.300 because he refused to fight the Liberals on the carbon tax.
00:08:48.160 He reversed himself on that.
00:08:49.320 Whenever a Conservative reverses themselves on an issue,
00:08:52.900 betrays their own Conservative voters to win phantom Liberal voters
00:08:56.760 who will cross over if you water down your policy book enough,
00:09:00.040 that's how you lose.
00:09:01.320 That's just how you lose politics.
00:09:02.680 You need to serve your base first
00:09:04.320 and then try and win some voters in the middle.
00:09:07.400 And you don't win them by watering down the playbook.
00:09:09.980 You win them over by winning them over,
00:09:12.400 by marketing to them smarter,
00:09:14.360 by explaining your policy book better.
00:09:16.700 That's how you do this.
00:09:17.600 But anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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00:10:48.280 Have a good one.