Justin Trudeau wants to cut everything but your grocery bill, and the Liberals have no idea how to stop price gouging. Meanwhile, the Liberals are trying to convince us that they have a plan to bring down the price of housing.
00:00:00.000These days, the Justin Trudeau liberals are truly so desperate that they'll attack the conservatives on pretty much anything, even if it makes them look completely stupid in the process.
00:00:10.860And this week, they're pretending to be economically illiterate in order to have an excuse to attack the conservatives.
00:00:18.200So they put this post out on X yesterday. It's a story about one of Trudeau's advisors being a Loblaws lobbyist, a big who cares.
00:00:26.660There's a lot of lobbyists in every single party, and I doubt the liberals would want you tearing through who's worked for them and who they've worked for in the past.
00:00:34.620And this post has the header, pure poly, he'll cut everything but your grocery bill.
00:00:40.540That doesn't make sense in any way. If pure poly cuts everything, your grocery bill will go down.
00:00:47.760There's no way that your grocery bill would not fall if pure poly have cut things like taxes, regulations, government spending.
00:00:56.780Inflation would then go down because of that, and then thusly your grocery bill would go down.
00:01:01.800I don't know who wrote this post. It's like they've never taken an economics 101 class.
00:01:07.400That is actually impossible. And you could say, well, they would let Loblaws price gouge people.
00:01:12.660If taxes, regulations, all this other stuff went down and Loblaws tried to price gouge you, Loblaws wouldn't be a grocery store for very long because they would get undercut by Sobeys.
00:01:22.940They'd get undercut by Safeway, smaller grocery retailers.
00:01:27.560But I guess the Liberal Party's communications team doesn't know this.
00:01:31.800They think it's actually the government's job to tell the grocery stores what to put the price of bread at, what to price milk at, what to put all their other items on.
00:01:41.980They seem to think that we actually do, in fact, live in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany or fascist Italy, where commissars actually go to big retailers and they tell them what they must price things out as, which is actually something that happened in all three of those places, despite the fact that the left pretends that Nazis are far right.
00:02:02.060They're very far left, and you couldn't sell something in Nazi Germany without someone telling you what the price was.
00:02:07.800Not that the Liberals are actually trying to price fix everything.
00:02:11.660They would like to price fix everything, but even the Liberals are not cutting grocery prices.
00:02:17.000They're passing something known as, I think it's like the customers, like the Grocery Bill of Rights or something like that, which is just this vague bill where the Liberals are stopping price gouging.
00:02:28.180They can't name any price gouging on specific items, but they're going to stop it because reacting to inflation is price gouging.
00:02:36.080You know, not just the fact that the Liberals have injected so many extra dollars into the economy.
00:02:41.000Naturally, grocery stores are going to have to ask for more money for each item because each dollar they're being given is worth far less.
00:02:48.120Anyways, here's another video that the Liberals put up of supposed experts opposing Pierre Polyev's housing plan.
00:02:56.700So not only is it the Liberals pretending to be stupid, it's experts pretending to be stupid on this issue, or they should have their PhDs repossessed.
00:03:06.020It's probably the more permanent solution to this problem.
00:03:08.680Everything that Mr. Polyevra is talking about in terms of a problem can only be solved through long-term infrastructure policy, and there's no evidence that decreasing government spending, which is fairly low anyhow when it comes certainly to direct government intervention in housing, is going to help any of the problems identified by Mr. Polyevra.
00:03:34.180It's much more complicated than just the problem of a single Prime Minister or Premier, and we all need to expect more of our policy leaders to give us the hard truths about the comprehensive changes that we're going to need to make.
00:03:48.360Wouldn't one of those hard truths be the fact that we actually have to reduce the immigration rate?
00:03:53.400We cannot handle 500,000 new immigrants every year, plus students, plus temporary foreign workers, and expect that the housing prices are just going to fall over time.
00:04:03.760As if we just wish upon a star enough that enough houses will appear, it will eventually happen.
00:04:11.760That firstly, acting like, well, we can't just pretend like Mr. Polyev's plan, or by cutting out government intervention, that we can bring down the price of housing.
00:04:24.580The thing is, they're not even saying that the Liberal plan is good.
00:04:45.780It doesn't matter if the Liberals think the housing issue is difficult.
00:04:49.980Telling Canadians, well, we looked through the regulatory books.
00:04:54.040We looked through all the problems, and it's just, it's complicated.
00:04:58.520Like, how about you, the government tries to do less and makes the housing market less complicated, and maybe more houses will be built.
00:05:06.520I'm not sure if you've seen the housing build charts, like the data, but there's actually been, as the Liberals have been pursuing this silly housing acceleration fund policy, houses since 2020 have been going down.
00:05:21.640The new houses being started have been going down.
00:05:24.500I have never seen something like it, and I don't know how, like, Mr. Minister, like, Housing Minister Sean Frazier doesn't realize what the problem is, since he literally used to be the immigration minister.
00:05:37.400I agree that local zoning laws and building codes are not the federal government's problem, although they keep trying to inject more environmental upregulations on the industry.
00:05:45.780At the same time, he was the person letting in 500,000 new people a year, and he's like, I don't know how we don't have enough houses.
00:05:53.920Well, maybe it's because we can't build houses overnight, and we just simply do not have the room in Canada in terms of actually built infrastructure, regardless.
00:06:04.900Anyways, that should be it for me today.
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00:06:31.140And then also, I, Wyatt Claypool, I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:06:36.540This is what the riding looks like on the west side of Calgary.
00:06:39.400If you live in this riding by a Conservative Party membership, vote for me number one on your ballot whenever the nomination date comes up, probably after April, because the riding boundaries are changing in April.
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00:07:05.360A lot of people who really are just looking for receipts and don't actually care about making the country a better place there.
00:07:13.380People probably too cowardly to actually push forward real reforms that we need on the federal level.
00:07:19.440Anyways, that should be it for me today.
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