Justin Trudeau mocked after lying about cutting cellphone plan costs in half
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Summary
Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government are in a real bind these days. They are way behind in the polls, and they know they are going to lose the next election, so they need to remind Canadians of all of the great things they ve done over the past 9 years. The problem is, Trudeau and the Liberals haven t done anything good in the past nine years. They have no achievements, or at least achievements that you could actually describe as positive. And so now they've taken to just making things up, hoping that you're dumb enough to take their word for it, despite the fact that you live in material reality and you know they're lying.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government are in a real bind these days.
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They are way behind Pierre Polyev and his Conservatives in the polling,
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and they're very likely to lose the next federal election.
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And in order to claw back voters, the Liberals think that they need to remind Canadians
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of all of the great things they've done over the past nine years.
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The problem, Trudeau and the Liberals haven't done anything good in the past nine years.
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They have no achievements, or at least achievements that you could actually describe as positive.
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And so now they've taken to just making things up,
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hoping that you're dumb enough to take their word for it,
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despite the fact that you live in material reality and you know that they're lying.
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And one thing that people are really mocking Justin Trudeau for yesterday
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is his claim that he's cut your cell phone bill in half since 2019.
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This is his actual post on X on his personal account.
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And let me first say, no, competition has not gone up.
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There's currently a crisis because the Canadian telecommunications market is so bad
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that our three major telecommunications companies are about to combine into two.
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And when he says there's more competition, he's probably just meaning that a lot of the big three
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just keep creating more subsidiaries that they own, and it appears like there's more plans available.
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But how did Justin Trudeau come to this conclusion that he's cut cell phone bills in half?
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Let you guys comment in the comments below whether your cell phone bill has been cut in half,
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or if it's gone up, or if it's stayed the same.
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I guarantee you it's probably actually gone up.
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But what Justin Trudeau and the liberals are basing this fake achievement on, it's ridiculous.
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They're basing it on what different providers are advertising their base rate to be.
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and companies are trying to offer basically extremely minimal coverage for as little as possible
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And so because the average plan was, let's say it was like, you know, $75 a month,
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it was advertised at $75 a month for a phone plan,
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and now they are advertising plans at $34, $32 a month now,
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that means your cell phone bills have been cut in half.
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That doesn't make any sense because there are two different products being offered.
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The economy sucks now, so basically cell phone providers are saying,
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we'll give you unlimited call and texting for $32 a month,
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even though before they would advertise $75 a month,
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and they'd give you unlimited call, texting, and streaming, all these other things.
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They're just basically giving you less for less money.
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And now Justin Trudeau is pretending that you're getting the same plan for half the rate.
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Look, can he point to the policy that he has passed that actually made cell phone plans cheaper?
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Because he didn't, he hasn't done anything that makes things cheaper.
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He's increased inflation, he's increased taxes,
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and now he's actually increasing the capital gains inclusion rate
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that's going to drive investment in large companies like telecommunications companies.
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There's no aspect of Justin Trudeau's agenda that would lead anyone to believe anything is cheaper.
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Like, other than of telecommunications companies who are just making no money
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out of the kindness of their own hearts to try to achieve a Justin Trudeau promise,
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he hasn't done anything. He is just merely looking at the, basically the coupon book
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and noticing that some grocery stores are offering you certain items cheaper than they did previously
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even though everything's a little bit more expensive these days because of inflation.
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Justin Trudeau is also claiming that he is going to build 4 million new homes by 2031.
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And also, we wouldn't have to build 4 million new homes by 2031, by his estimation,
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if we slowed down and cut immigration severely.
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Yet, Justin Trudeau, the liberals, even though he has admitted immigration is way too high,
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he is still persisting in his mass immigration dream.
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He knows we're taking in too many, but he is simply going to say, well, let's just double our
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Then we can have as many immigrants as possible.
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That's basically the way that Justin Trudeau thinks about things.
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We're not going to be able to build 4 million homes.
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We're not even building more homes than we did last year.
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Over the past three years, new housing starts have collapsed.
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And it's not because there wasn't enough government incentives.
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It doesn't matter how many government incentives throw at our housing market.
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Both federal, provincial, and local building codes make it very difficult to put up new
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So right now, the liberals are bribing different municipalities to just wipe out all their zoning
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so that they can build sixplexes and small apartment buildings, triplexes, row housing,
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My city of Calgary and our incompetent corrupt mayor, Jody Gondek, is signing on to it because
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she doesn't want to actually reduce property taxes, which would be a real affordability move.
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She'd rather just get more federal funds and then make it so that she can even collect more
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property taxes from each individual unit because we'll take one property and cut it up into
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potentially four houses, which is actually great for developers because they can take
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any piece of land that they currently own and build whatever they want on it, and they
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can sell fractions of it for basically 60, 70% of the cost of what the entire area of land
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would have costed if they just built one singular home on it.
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So yeah, Justin Trudeau is not going to build new homes.
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He's actually been decreasing the new home starts no matter what he throws at the problem.
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And another one I just want to tackle, I don't have a specific tweet from Trudeau on this,
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but you've all heard him say it, that the liberals have severely reduced or almost wiped out child
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I think they say they've halved it, and these days they probably say we've reduced it by 90%
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This is another just wacky statistic that has been twisted to the point where you'd be foolish
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So what the liberals are basing this all off of is a UNICEF definition of what child poverty
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So yes, I'm not sure if I said child before, but yeah, they're claiming that they've cut
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child poverty into like a fraction of what it was before.
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Despite the fact that we're all doing far worse off these days, in 10 years, we've actually
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But somehow child poverty has been severely reduced.
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And it's because this UNICEF definition of child poverty is utterly meaningless.
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They make no sense when you actually see the out of the 39 countries that they list who are
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And so the UNICEF definition is just basically based on certain material guarantees.
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And so you can see this chart right here, what a good life is.
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It's a little bit cut off by the screenshot, but when I went up, it was their definition
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of what like a stable child's life is and what, and if you don't have these things, it's like
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poverty and it's like heating and AC in the home.
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It's having a phone plan with data, you know, hygiene products, clean water, money for buying
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It's all this kind of stuff, a nice bed to sleep in, a good home.
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But it's kind of just based on rhetoric and not actual real results.
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And so if you're a country that just provides all the stuff for free and a family doesn't
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have to go get it themselves, then you've by definition wiped out child poverty because
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you have declared child poverty is not a thing.
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And now you no longer have child poverty because there are programs available where the government
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They will give like, you know, homes free heating systems if you're in a certain like
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But Canada, despite our standard of living going down, somehow child poverty has also
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So you can be in a very poor country and you could technically have 0% child poverty based
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on what UNICEF saying, even if the median income was only like $13,000.
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I'll tell you what the third lowest is because it's hilarious.
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Oh, we've gotten very well under Justin Trudeau.
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But you'll notice that number one country is Slovenia.
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Their average income per capita income is $28,000 a year.
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In Canada, our per capita income is $58,000 a year.
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Somehow also Latvia is very high up there and Estonia and Lithuania and Chechia.
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But they're definitely not the richest places in Europe or Eastern Europe.
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These are very lower income type European countries.
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I don't think that these places actually have lower child poverty ratings than Canada.
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Do you know who's number three in terms of the third lowest on this list?
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Colombia is the lowest, which probably makes sense.
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A lot of poverty in some of those South American countries.
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I'm just going to verify this to make sure I'm not stupid.
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Do you know what the average per capita income in Luxembourg is?
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A hundred and twenty five thousand dollars USD.
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I'm going to posit to you that Luxembourg probably has some of the lowest child poverty
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It would be them versus like Liechtenstein and Monaco.
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But Luxembourg, it's a country with a massive private banking sector.
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And so they don't feel like they probably have to provide families a bunch of extra social
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services, a bunch of free, you know, products and like, you know, giving kids phones with
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But that means there's a lot of child poverty in Luxembourg based on UNICEF's extremely stupid
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I don't want to read your stupid study about how actually the liberal policies are doing
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And I don't even I don't have this saved or maybe I can go grab it for you guys right
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The funniest thing I saw yesterday came up where this leftist guy actually correctly
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Sorry for the screenshot sound I'm about to make here.
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It was David Musgrove, who I know hates my guts, but he made the incredibly he made the
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true point that that Justin Trudeau is just lying on the cell phone bill and nobody in
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their own lives actually has noticed their cell phone bills having.
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But David is the type of guy to say that conservatives are lying, that people aren't betting fitting
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from the carbon tax, because don't you know, the prime of the parliamentary budget office
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has released a study showing that we've all been made way better off.
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We're actually all secretly billionaires right now because of the carbon tax.
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But the PBO has messed with the numbers of what they're including on your carbon tax sort
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of costs and what they're including on the rebate.
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And they've deduced that six out of 10 Canadians are better off for it, which is funny because
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before the PBO said eight out of 10 people were worse off and the Liberal Party was saying
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And now that they've told the PBO to go back and crunch the numbers again, now they're saying
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When statistics suddenly change, when it's politically convenient, when the policy hasn't changed,
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you should be a little bit suspicious of what's going on there.
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But again, David's the type of guy who, in this, because he's not ideological on the idea
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of cell phone bills, even though he is like a socialist, like he's written articles for
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Jacobin Magazine, which is a hard blood red publication.
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And so on cell phone bills, he knows Justin Trudeau is lying.
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But if I replace cell phone bills with carbon tax rebates and say you're making more, then
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he's in favor of it because David Musgrove is a massive greenie.
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You will agree with something when it's on one subject matter.
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But as soon as I swap in a different subject, even though the context is pretty much the
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exact same, because I'm applying it to a slightly different subject, now you don't agree at
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This is what partisanship does to people's brains.
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At the same time, I try not to be an algorithmic thinker and think carbon tax, good.
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Well, but I don't want to have to pay as much in cell phone bills.
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So the liberal cell phone bill claims are bad, but their carbon tax claims are good.
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And then make a deduction based on the facts at hand.
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