The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 19, 2024


Justin Trudeau mocked after lying about cutting cellphone plan costs in half

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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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00:00:00.240 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government are in a real bind these days.
00:00:05.340 They are way behind Pierre Polyev and his Conservatives in the polling,
00:00:09.060 and they're very likely to lose the next federal election.
00:00:12.180 And in order to claw back voters, the Liberals think that they need to remind Canadians
00:00:16.440 of all of the great things they've done over the past nine years.
00:00:20.220 The problem, Trudeau and the Liberals haven't done anything good in the past nine years.
00:00:24.260 They have no achievements, or at least achievements that you could actually describe as positive.
00:00:28.500 And so now they've taken to just making things up, 0.94
00:00:32.280 hoping that you're dumb enough to take their word for it, 0.94
00:00:35.140 despite the fact that you live in material reality and you know that they're lying. 0.92
00:00:40.600 And one thing that people are really mocking Justin Trudeau for yesterday
00:00:44.520 is his claim that he's cut your cell phone bill in half since 2019.
00:00:50.280 This is his actual post on X on his personal account.
00:00:53.820 He says,
00:00:54.760 And let me first say, no, competition has not gone up.
00:01:04.300 There's currently a crisis because the Canadian telecommunications market is so bad
00:01:09.040 that our three major telecommunications companies are about to combine into two.
00:01:14.200 And when he says there's more competition, he's probably just meaning that a lot of the big three
00:01:19.360 just keep creating more subsidiaries that they own, and it appears like there's more plans available.
00:01:25.340 But how did Justin Trudeau come to this conclusion that he's cut cell phone bills in half?
00:01:29.740 Let you guys comment in the comments below whether your cell phone bill has been cut in half,
00:01:35.320 or if it's gone up, or if it's stayed the same.
00:01:37.520 I guarantee you it's probably actually gone up. 0.95
00:01:39.760 But what Justin Trudeau and the liberals are basing this fake achievement on, it's ridiculous.
00:01:46.240 They're basing it on what different providers are advertising their base rate to be.
00:01:52.200 So because the economy is so bad these days,
00:01:55.040 and companies are trying to offer basically extremely minimal coverage for as little as possible
00:02:01.080 to make it seem like they have cheap plans,
00:02:03.260 that's what the liberals are basing it off of.
00:02:05.300 And so because the average plan was, let's say it was like, you know, $75 a month,
00:02:10.860 it was advertised at $75 a month for a phone plan,
00:02:14.660 and now they are advertising plans at $34, $32 a month now,
00:02:19.920 that means your cell phone bills have been cut in half.
00:02:23.420 That doesn't make any sense because there are two different products being offered.
00:02:27.460 The economy sucks now, so basically cell phone providers are saying,
00:02:30.760 we'll give you unlimited call and texting for $32 a month,
00:02:35.560 even though before they would advertise $75 a month,
00:02:39.200 and they'd give you unlimited call, texting, and streaming, all these other things.
00:02:43.040 They're just basically giving you less for less money.
00:02:47.460 And now Justin Trudeau is pretending that you're getting the same plan for half the rate.
00:02:53.120 Look, can he point to the policy that he has passed that actually made cell phone plans cheaper?
00:02:58.740 Because he didn't, he hasn't done anything that makes things cheaper.
00:03:01.940 He's increased inflation, he's increased taxes,
00:03:04.900 and now he's actually increasing the capital gains inclusion rate
00:03:07.960 that's going to drive investment in large companies like telecommunications companies.
00:03:12.880 There's no aspect of Justin Trudeau's agenda that would lead anyone to believe anything is cheaper.
00:03:18.460 Like, other than of telecommunications companies who are just making no money
00:03:22.300 out of the kindness of their own hearts to try to achieve a Justin Trudeau promise,
00:03:26.300 he hasn't done anything. He is just merely looking at the, basically the coupon book
00:03:32.100 and noticing that some grocery stores are offering you certain items cheaper than they did previously
00:03:37.800 because they want you to get into their store,
00:03:39.400 even though everything's a little bit more expensive these days because of inflation. 0.99
00:03:43.100 This man's a complete clown. 0.99
00:03:44.760 But it doesn't stop there. 0.99
00:03:45.920 Justin Trudeau is also claiming that he is going to build 4 million new homes by 2031.
00:03:52.180 Guys, it's not going to happen.
00:03:55.040 And also, we wouldn't have to build 4 million new homes by 2031, by his estimation,
00:04:00.260 if we slowed down and cut immigration severely.
00:04:03.800 We do not have the homes for new immigrants. 1.00
00:04:06.460 We do not have the jobs.
00:04:07.560 We don't have the services.
00:04:09.480 Yet, Justin Trudeau, the liberals, even though he has admitted immigration is way too high,
00:04:14.480 he is still persisting in his mass immigration dream.
00:04:18.120 He knows it's bad.
00:04:19.100 He knows we're taking in too many, but he is simply going to say, well, let's just double our
00:04:24.100 resources.
00:04:24.540 Let's just quadruple our resources. 0.95
00:04:26.320 Then we can have as many immigrants as possible. 1.00
00:04:28.520 Well, wow, I didn't think about it like that.
00:04:30.500 Oh, you don't have enough money?
00:04:31.700 Well, how about you make a million dollars?
00:04:33.460 That's basically the way that Justin Trudeau thinks about things.
00:04:36.320 We're not going to be able to build 4 million homes.
00:04:38.520 We're not even building more homes than we did last year.
00:04:42.300 Over the past three years, new housing starts have collapsed.
00:04:46.160 And it's not because there wasn't enough government incentives.
00:04:49.300 It doesn't matter how many government incentives throw at our housing market.
00:04:53.160 Both federal, provincial, and local building codes make it very difficult to put up new
00:04:58.140 buildings.
00:04:58.600 And it's not a zoning restriction issue.
00:05:01.120 So right now, the liberals are bribing different municipalities to just wipe out all their zoning
00:05:05.720 so that they can build sixplexes and small apartment buildings, triplexes, row housing,
00:05:11.780 no matter what part of the city you're in.
00:05:13.220 That's what's happening.
00:05:13.980 My city of Calgary and our incompetent corrupt mayor, Jody Gondek, is signing on to it because
00:05:19.420 she doesn't want to actually reduce property taxes, which would be a real affordability move. 0.73
00:05:24.540 She'd rather just get more federal funds and then make it so that she can even collect more 1.00
00:05:29.280 property taxes from each individual unit because we'll take one property and cut it up into
00:05:33.980 potentially four houses, which is actually great for developers because they can take
00:05:38.560 any piece of land that they currently own and build whatever they want on it, and they
00:05:42.080 can sell fractions of it for basically 60, 70% of the cost of what the entire area of land
00:05:48.900 would have costed if they just built one singular home on it.
00:05:52.720 So yeah, Justin Trudeau is not going to build new homes.
00:05:54.820 He has not been building more homes.
00:05:57.080 He's actually been decreasing the new home starts no matter what he throws at the problem.
00:06:02.100 And another one I just want to tackle, I don't have a specific tweet from Trudeau on this,
00:06:05.940 but you've all heard him say it, that the liberals have severely reduced or almost wiped out child
00:06:11.620 poverty in Canada.
00:06:12.500 I think they say they've halved it, and these days they probably say we've reduced it by 90% 1.00
00:06:16.660 or something stupid like that. 0.99
00:06:18.400 They have not. 1.00
00:06:19.340 This is another just wacky statistic that has been twisted to the point where you'd be foolish 0.85
00:06:26.880 to think it means anything at all.
00:06:29.160 So what the liberals are basing this all off of is a UNICEF definition of what child poverty
00:06:35.020 is.
00:06:35.260 So yes, I'm not sure if I said child before, but yeah, they're claiming that they've cut
00:06:38.860 child poverty into like a fraction of what it was before.
00:06:41.900 Despite the fact that we're all doing far worse off these days, in 10 years, we've actually
00:06:46.580 had per capita productivity and income fall.
00:06:49.060 But somehow child poverty has been severely reduced.
00:06:52.680 And it's because this UNICEF definition of child poverty is utterly meaningless.
00:06:57.640 And I'll show you the rankings later.
00:06:59.320 They make no sense when you actually see the out of the 39 countries that they list who are
00:07:03.640 like upper income countries.
00:07:05.480 The ratings don't make any sense at all.
00:07:09.060 And so the UNICEF definition is just basically based on certain material guarantees.
00:07:14.420 And so you can see this chart right here, what a good life is.
00:07:18.240 It's a little bit cut off by the screenshot, but when I went up, it was their definition
00:07:22.880 of what like a stable child's life is and what, and if you don't have these things, it's like
00:07:28.760 poverty and it's like heating and AC in the home.
00:07:32.060 It's having a laptop.
00:07:33.060 It's having a phone plan with data, you know, hygiene products, clean water, money for buying
00:07:39.220 some basic necessities and whatnot.
00:07:41.040 It's all this kind of stuff, a nice bed to sleep in, a good home.
00:07:45.260 But it's kind of just based on rhetoric and not actual real results.
00:07:50.640 And so if you're a country that just provides all the stuff for free and a family doesn't
00:07:55.660 have to go get it themselves, then you've by definition wiped out child poverty because
00:08:00.440 you have declared child poverty is not a thing.
00:08:02.820 And now you no longer have child poverty because there are programs available where the government
00:08:07.040 will give kids free phones and data.
00:08:08.820 They will give like, you know, homes free heating systems if you're in a certain like
00:08:13.300 a low standard of living.
00:08:14.880 But Canada, despite our standard of living going down, somehow child poverty has also
00:08:19.460 gone down.
00:08:20.300 It hasn't.
00:08:21.180 It's just the definition is really warped.
00:08:23.120 So you can be in a very poor country and you could technically have 0% child poverty based
00:08:28.180 on what UNICEF saying, even if the median income was only like $13,000.
00:08:32.540 And so this is the top 26.
00:08:36.020 It goes down to 39.
00:08:37.220 I'll tell you what the third lowest is because it's hilarious.
00:08:39.860 But you'll see us at number 11.
00:08:41.880 Oh, we've gotten very well under Justin Trudeau.
00:08:44.020 We've jumped all the way up to number 11.
00:08:45.460 I think we are number 14 before.
00:08:47.560 But you'll notice that number one country is Slovenia.
00:08:50.500 Their average income per capita income is $28,000 a year.
00:08:54.840 In Canada, our per capita income is $58,000 a year.
00:08:57.820 Somehow also Latvia is very high up there and Estonia and Lithuania and Chechia.
00:09:05.220 I'm just reading something wrong.
00:09:06.780 I'm deeply sorry, people.
00:09:08.400 And not trying to go after those countries.
00:09:10.260 But they're definitely not the richest places in Europe or Eastern Europe.
00:09:14.200 These are very lower income type European countries.
00:09:17.640 I don't think that these places actually have lower child poverty ratings than Canada.
00:09:23.080 Do you want to hear something crazy?
00:09:24.340 Do you know who's number three in terms of the third lowest on this list?
00:09:28.640 Colombia is the lowest, which probably makes sense.
00:09:31.040 A lot of poverty in some of those South American countries.
00:09:33.940 The third lowest is Luxembourg.
00:09:36.400 So the highest is Slovenia.
00:09:38.460 Their average per capita income is $28,000.
00:09:42.680 Do you know what the average income... 0.98
00:09:44.080 I'm just going to verify this to make sure I'm not stupid. 0.82
00:09:46.940 Do you know what the average per capita income in Luxembourg is? 0.85
00:09:51.660 A hundred and twenty five thousand dollars USD.
00:09:55.300 The Slovenia one was also USD.
00:09:57.760 I'm going to posit to you that Luxembourg probably has some of the lowest child poverty
00:10:04.520 rates in the world.
00:10:06.000 Not just on this list, probably in the world.
00:10:08.240 It would be them versus like Liechtenstein and Monaco.
00:10:11.860 These are incredibly wealthy countries.
00:10:14.100 But Luxembourg, it's a country with a massive private banking sector.
00:10:18.140 And so they don't feel like they probably have to provide families a bunch of extra social
00:10:23.400 services, a bunch of free, you know, products and like, you know, giving kids phones with
00:10:29.620 data preloaded on it and whatnot.
00:10:31.580 Your parents can pay for that. 1.00
00:10:33.000 But that means there's a lot of child poverty in Luxembourg based on UNICEF's extremely stupid 1.00
00:10:38.080 definition. 0.99
00:10:39.200 This is how you lie with statistics.
00:10:41.240 This is why I hate statistics. 1.00
00:10:42.920 I don't want to read your stupid study about how actually the liberal policies are doing 1.00
00:10:48.720 very well. 0.98
00:10:49.920 And I don't even I don't have this saved or maybe I can go grab it for you guys right
00:10:53.460 now.
00:10:54.000 The funniest thing I saw yesterday came up where this leftist guy actually correctly
00:10:59.840 identified that Justin Trudeau is lying.
00:11:02.220 But I found it deeply ironic.
00:11:04.100 Sorry for the screenshot sound I'm about to make here.
00:11:05.980 It was David Musgrove, who I know hates my guts, but he made the incredibly he made the
00:11:13.100 true point that that Justin Trudeau is just lying on the cell phone bill and nobody in
00:11:17.960 their own lives actually has noticed their cell phone bills having.
00:11:21.140 So David Musgrove says checks bank account.
00:11:23.640 Sir, I do not believe this is true.
00:11:25.720 But David is the type of guy to say that conservatives are lying, that people aren't betting fitting
00:11:31.120 from the carbon tax, because don't you know, the prime of the parliamentary budget office
00:11:36.200 has released a study showing that we've all been made way better off.
00:11:40.100 We're actually all secretly billionaires right now because of the carbon tax.
00:11:43.980 It's not true at all.
00:11:45.320 But the PBO has messed with the numbers of what they're including on your carbon tax sort
00:11:51.880 of costs and what they're including on the rebate.
00:11:54.000 And they've deduced that six out of 10 Canadians are better off for it, which is funny because 0.99
00:11:58.940 before the PBO said eight out of 10 people were worse off and the Liberal Party was saying
00:12:03.080 that eight out of 10 were better off.
00:12:04.880 And now that they've told the PBO to go back and crunch the numbers again, now they're saying
00:12:09.260 it's six out of 10.
00:12:10.420 When statistics suddenly change, when it's politically convenient, when the policy hasn't changed,
00:12:15.480 you should be a little bit suspicious of what's going on there.
00:12:19.140 But again, David's the type of guy who, in this, because he's not ideological on the idea
00:12:26.160 of cell phone bills, even though he is like a socialist, like he's written articles for
00:12:30.320 Jacobin Magazine, which is a hard blood red publication.
00:12:34.940 And so on cell phone bills, he knows Justin Trudeau is lying.
00:12:38.300 But if I replace cell phone bills with carbon tax rebates and say you're making more, then
00:12:43.300 he's in favor of it because David Musgrove is a massive greenie. 1.00
00:12:46.960 I see this happen all the time.
00:12:49.140 It even happens on the right.
00:12:50.740 You will agree with something when it's on one subject matter.
00:12:54.540 But as soon as I swap in a different subject, even though the context is pretty much the
00:12:59.780 exact same, because I'm applying it to a slightly different subject, now you don't agree at
00:13:03.880 all and you have the opposite opinion.
00:13:05.740 This is what partisanship does to people's brains.
00:13:08.420 Well, not even exactly partisanship.
00:13:09.960 I'm definitely partisan.
00:13:11.180 I'm a very conservative person.
00:13:13.060 At the same time, I try not to be an algorithmic thinker and think carbon tax, good.
00:13:18.200 Well, but I don't want to have to pay as much in cell phone bills.
00:13:20.940 So the liberal cell phone bill claims are bad, but their carbon tax claims are good.
00:13:25.140 Never do this.
00:13:26.080 Never do this.
00:13:26.700 No matter what the subject is.
00:13:28.280 Actually see if it's true or not.
00:13:29.840 And then make a deduction based on the facts at hand.
00:13:34.440 Huh.
00:13:35.240 Sorry.
00:13:36.060 Miniature rant there at the end.
00:13:37.960 But, you know, I like to, if I'm on a roll, I like to stay on a roll.
00:13:42.240 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:13:44.960 I just quickly want to plug, as I always do, that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the
00:13:49.840 Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
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00:14:00.220 And so if you live in this area of Calgary, buy a federal Conservative Party membership.
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