The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Justin Trudeau refuses to resign despite Liberals turning on him

00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm coming to you from a different location than I'm usually in,

00:00:05.020 but it's kind of fitting because everything Canadian politics is massively in flux right now

00:00:09.780 with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau obviously being in a position where he should be resigning

00:00:15.200 from office and letting the Liberals pick a slightly more competent leader, but he won't.

00:00:20.780 It's one of my favorite things to watch, the Liberals now having to deal with the egotism

00:00:26.020 and hubris of Justin Trudeau, the thing that they've been trying to deny was a problem for years.

00:00:31.720 Justin Trudeau wasn't too full of himself, he doesn't just make decisions for personal gain,

00:00:36.300 he's fighting for you, the Canadian people. And now that the Liberals are down the polls by like

00:00:42.540 20 points, now they're annoyed with Justin Trudeau not leaving office, now they're like,

00:00:48.200 oh goodness, this guy cannot be controlled, he doesn't see logic, and we're all sitting here like,

00:00:52.980 yeah, that's what we've been telling you guys, and you guys have been backing him to the hilt

00:00:58.360 until five seconds ago where there's all these Liberals secretly behind the scenes with a few

00:01:03.860 of them actually putting their names for him, saying that Justin Trudeau either needs to be

00:01:08.240 subjected to a leadership review or just needs to outright resign completely. And now Justin Trudeau

00:01:14.580 is on this big media offensive to try and undermine those saying that he should be stepping down

00:01:20.000 by going to every single friendly media outlet and saying, I'm staying on, I'm gonna see this

00:01:25.720 thing through, trying to preempt these people to try and, you know, play a game of chicken with some

00:01:31.040 of these Liberal MPs who want to see him gone, and then force their hand into either coming out

00:01:36.040 publicly against him or falling back into line. In a certain sense, this is kind of politically

00:01:41.460 intelligent for Justin Trudeau to be doing, but in terms of the actual functioning of the country,

00:01:46.800 this is disastrous for all of us, but at least we can sit around and laugh about it. But here is

00:01:52.740 Prime Minister Trudeau on CBC today saying that he's going to be in it for the long haul as Prime

00:01:58.480 Minister. I'm wondering in terms of personal contemplation, if there's any discussion or a

00:02:03.540 thought for you of a 10th Canada Day as Prime Minister, because as I have you, I would be remiss

00:02:09.720 if I didn't ask about what has happened in the last week since the by-election in Toronto,

00:02:15.020 St. Paul's and the calls from caucus members and former cabinet colleagues, they say it's time for

00:02:20.960 a new leader.

00:02:21.960 Listen, there's always going to be lots of reflection after a tough loss, but there's also so much to do,

00:02:28.140 and I am committed to doing the work of building a better Canada every single day. So I look forward

00:02:33.480 to next year's Canada Day, and I look forward to many more Canada Days. This is the kind of work that we

00:02:40.780 have to remember really, really matters. Tough days and there are better days, but Canadians 1.00

00:02:46.720 are strong and resilient, and that's why we keep moving forward.

00:02:49.460 Goodness. I like how he even says there that, you know, there are tough days and we need to reflect

00:02:54.960 after a bad loss like this, but he's not reflecting. He immediately in the next step just says,

00:03:00.720 but there's a lot of work to do, so I'm not going to step back. I'm not going to acknowledge any of my

00:03:05.060 colleagues might have a point. He knows they have a point. That's why he's aggressively doing media

00:03:10.180 interviews and putting up press releases and having lackeys like Christian Freeland go out and say,

00:03:15.200 no, he's the strong leader we need, because he's trying to create like a wall of propaganda now between

00:03:20.980 himself and his own colleagues. He used to do this to try and insulate himself from the Canadian people,

00:03:27.000 having the media just repeating his talking points over and over again, talking to cabinet colleagues

00:03:32.040 saying that, no, actually, Justin Trudeau is doing a brilliant job. It doesn't matter that

00:03:35.880 there's more poor people than ever. Look at this fake metric that we have that says we're doing a

00:03:40.340 good job, but now he's having to do this inside his own caucus, going out himself and having other

00:03:45.920 cabinet ministers go out like Mark Holland and Christian Freeland saying, yes, we hear all the

00:03:51.480 concerns of our caucus colleagues, but, you know, things are tough, and that's why we need the guy

00:03:56.940 who's been failing for eight years. That's the hilarious thing. Like, no, no, this is not just

00:04:01.020 like a rolling up your sleeves kind of a moment and saying, now we got to really get down to the

00:04:05.880 hard work. You're on your third term, bro. I'm not sure if I have to explain this to him. I, in a

00:04:12.400 certain sense, think he understands all this. He's just gaslighting now his own colleagues.

00:04:16.580 But once you're at your third term, there's no like, well, you know, we've had a bad day and now

00:04:21.780 we had to push forward. It's been eight years. If this was year three and he's been taking some lumps,

00:04:26.760 but, you know, it's not time to, you know, change out horses yet, that would make sense.

00:04:32.520 Eight, going on nine years now, I think we're actually closer to year nine than we were to the

00:04:37.260 beginning of year eight. This is the time when you need at least a leadership review. The fact that

00:04:42.480 he's denying the chance for even a leadership review proves he knows he's vulnerable. When MPs like

00:04:48.120 Wayne Long are coming out and saying that you have to go, Wayne Long, who's been a massive Trudeau

00:04:53.160 sycophant, that's when you know you need to go. When even your sycophants are getting uncomfortable

00:04:57.660 defending your record and they think that maybe you should be taking, you know, a long walk off a

00:05:03.080 short pier, that's deeply telling. When George Chahal thinks you need to go, that's scary. George

00:05:09.340 Chahal is one of the most useless liberal MPs and he's thinking that if he wants to have even a 10% 0.91

00:05:14.300 shot of winning re-election in Calgary Skyview, he cannot be on the same ticket as Justin Trudeau. 0.86

00:05:19.960 You can even tell from the by-election in Toronto St. Paul, a riding that the Liberals had held since

00:05:25.400 1988, the Team Trudeau thing that used to be like a big part of their marketing and branding in 1921

00:05:32.200 suddenly shrank to like a tenth of the size. Like if you take a magnifying glass, you can see

00:05:37.420 the little thing that says Team Trudeau on it, but it's been de-emphasized because he's a boat anchor

00:05:43.300 on the brand. And in a certain sense, you could say at this point, the Liberal brand does not exist

00:05:48.560 anymore. It's either that you like Trudeau or you hate Trudeau. If you don't like Trudeau,

00:05:53.620 you're not then going to say in the next thought, but I do like the Liberal Party because every

00:05:57.940 single Liberal MP and cabinet minister might as well just be wearing a mask of Justin Trudeau's

00:06:03.660 face because they have no ability to do anything that Justin Trudeau doesn't order them to do.

00:06:08.760 You can have criticisms of Stephen Harper when he was prime minister. In a certain sense,

00:06:13.460 Stephen Harper was very much someone who liked to control things. Like he liked to micromanage

00:06:17.700 things a little bit too much. He's a bit of a perfectionist. But when a minister was put into

00:06:23.400 their role, they would very much shape their personality, their priors would shape that

00:06:28.160 minister's office because they were actually allowed to do what they wanted to a certain extent.

00:06:33.220 With Trudeau, that does not exist. If Trudeau does not want it to be done,

00:06:37.100 then it does not get done. That's what's made all of these cabinet shuffles such comedies.

00:06:42.280 Is that, well, you know, Sean Frazier was not really the right man for immigration. So let's

00:06:47.880 make him the new housing minister. And now let's slot in Mark Miller. There's no difference. It's

00:06:52.740 still Justin Trudeau controlling 100% of the decisions that those people make. That's why as

00:06:58.660 this, like the lesser names being slotted into cabinet, as like the smaller, the names that have

00:07:04.200 been put in start happening, nothing's changed. Aref Arani is frankly just a complete loser. And he's the 0.99

00:07:10.180 justice minister now, but there's no difference between him and David Lametti. Aref Arani is

00:07:15.420 completely incompetent. But the whole point is that the decisions have not changed in their tone

00:07:19.900 and tenor because it's still just Justin Trudeau doing it. The minister is purely just a delivery

00:07:25.320 system for what Justin Trudeau wants. And that's somewhat true in every government, but it's especially

00:07:30.540 true in the liberal government. That's why they can't go into 2025 with him as the prime minister if

00:07:36.060 they want even a chance of keeping the conservatives to just a minority government, because every

00:07:41.740 negative is baked into his name. There is no positives that really come along with Justin

00:07:47.260 Trudeau anymore that the liberals would not keep by swapping out a different leader. There's some

00:07:52.840 benefits that they get from Justin Trudeau just being a highly recognized name in Canadian politics

00:07:58.160 that you might not get with Mark Carney. But at the same time, the benefits are just so heavily

00:08:03.400 outweighed by the negatives. And the negatives are not being, you know, I guess what you would

00:08:09.380 just say is the negatives are not being then remedied by a good bench by a good like, you know,

00:08:16.020 by good cabinet ministers that people trust or good MPs who are, you know, local pillars of the community

00:08:21.900 because they're not allowed to be because they are purely just there to serve Justin Trudeau. And so

00:08:26.800 there's no such thing as a liberal MP. There's just the guy who is representing Justin Trudeau in your

00:08:31.460 area. Anyways, a bit of a longer rant, but this has been a lot of fun to watch seeing Trudeau

00:08:37.240 bumbling around these different interviews, trying to basically shore up all the support. He's in a

00:08:42.220 very uncomfortable position right now, which is very comforting for me to watch. Anyways, that should

00:08:48.460 be it for me today, guys. If you want to donate to the legal fund, there's a link down in the

00:08:52.720 description below if you want to help us out in this legal battle we're in with this Chinese 1.00

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00:09:02.280 to actually say how we defamed them or provide any evidence. And then also in the description below,

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00:09:23.020 into something that will allow us all to have a bigger voice nationally. Anyways, that's it for

00:09:28.900 me today, guys. Sorry if this is a bit rambly. I'm in a new location. It's a bit odd. I will be back

00:09:33.800 the old location soon, but no, I'm over the border in the south, you know, in the United States at the

00:09:39.660 moment. So this is what things are going to look like for a little bit.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 03, 2024

Justin Trudeau refuses to resign despite Liberals turning on him

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