The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 01, 2024


Justin Trudeau's 'Wacko' government is going to fall!


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

185.22292

Word Count

6,121

Sentence Count

338

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

It's another wacky day in Canada, and I'm here to talk about it. Justin Trudeau's carbon tax trip to the anti-Carbon Tax protest in Nova Scotia got a lot of media attention, and the legacy media can't seem to shut up about it, so we're going to talk all about it on this episode of Thick & Thin.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Well, guys, it's another beautiful day in the wacko dictatorship that Canada has become under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and particularly terrible premiers like BC Premier David Eby.
00:00:12.160 I was going to just do some sort of smaller segmented videos like I normally do, but I thought that everything in the news cycle this week is so wacky, so obnoxious.
00:00:21.980 I just wanted to talk about it in its own pre-recorded long-form video, starting off with the story that keeps on trying to live when it doesn't know that it should be dead.
00:00:33.520 The whole thing about pure poly of going to the anti-carbon tax protest on the Nova Scotia border, talking to a few people, which apparently has been literally writing four or five articles a day from the legacy media.
00:00:47.380 This is like fodder for them to talk about all day long, even though there's nothing going on.
00:00:52.820 So I want to quickly cut to this segment from whatever show that Rosemary Barton currently runs on CBC.
00:00:59.580 I guess it's part of The National, a show that nobody should watch and will probably do terrible things to your brain if you watch a full episode of The National like I've done in the past.
00:01:09.020 But here we have all these guests just whining about the fact that poly of talks to voters because that is the actual sign of being far right.
00:01:18.160 You talk to voters. And if we go through any of those voters backgrounds, if any of them have said or done anything unsavory, then you're an unsavory person.
00:01:25.600 Unless you're a liberal party official in which you can literally do and say whatever you want and you'll never be declared far left, even if you're Justin Trudeau.
00:01:34.320 And you go to India with a convicted terrorist part of your entourage.
00:01:38.780 But here's Rosemary Barton and all these clowns talking on The National.
00:01:42.420 The voters should not be put in the position of having to wonder whether the next prime minister of Canada is a mainstream, you know, normal politician or somebody who hangs out with extremists.
00:01:53.660 And the diagonal thing, when I talk about extremists, it's the diagonal flag that we're pointing to, whether he saw it or knew it was there.
00:02:01.000 The flag, the flag, which was a sharpied on flag on a trailer door that apparently had been there for years.
00:02:08.640 This is what we are having for overpaid, foolish people sitting on a panel talking about.
00:02:14.520 I'm trying to use deliberately more like lax language to be nice, you know, wacko individuals on this panel.
00:02:21.100 We are paying all these people probably hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to sit around musing about what implications there might be politically for pure Pollyov walking out of a trailer that had a diagonal flag crudely sketched in on the bottom left corner.
00:02:35.160 And you should be very careful about where you go and what symbols might be there and who you're associating with if you don't know who these people are.
00:02:43.100 But beyond that, I think, you know, Andrew said he's kind of, you know, winking at conspiracy theorists.
00:02:50.680 He's not just.
00:02:51.460 Is he? Is he actually he he met with them, said, yes, I'm against the carbon tax and Justin Trudeau is an idiot.
00:02:57.520 And he says a lot of BS or whatever.
00:02:59.240 That's winking and nodding at like racists.
00:03:02.420 Which one?
00:03:03.540 Like, can you point out the one guy that pure Pollyov was winking and nodding to?
00:03:08.360 He's not trying to attract the Diagon people who are led by Jeremy McKenzie.
00:03:12.960 I know it's technically a fake group, but I don't think he's trying to attract Jeremy McKenzie, who made a joke about sexually assaulting his wife.
00:03:20.260 And it's sick to even propose that pure Pollyov is doing that.
00:03:24.380 It's winking.
00:03:25.320 He is engaging them.
00:03:26.720 He is affirming what they have said on the World Economic Forum, for example, that Justin Trudeau's government is run by the World Economic Forum.
00:03:34.540 We've seen that during door knocks.
00:03:39.200 That's not wrong to say that Justin Trudeau has the same political positions as someone like Klaus Schwab and many other people associated with the WF.
00:03:47.720 And it seems to be like a not friends club, but some sort of association of left wing politicians that people should not be comfortable with Justin Trudeau and Christy Freeland comfortably palling around with because they have very radical proto socialist type ideas.
00:04:04.100 Placating, encouraging people who frankly are detached from reality is not the kind of leadership that we should expect for somebody who wants to be the prime minister of the country.
00:04:19.480 Oh, goodness. These people are paid to do commentary on the news.
00:04:24.300 These people are the ones who are detached.
00:04:26.540 It's wrong to say that the WF's ideas might be outside of the Canadian mainstream and they are not in the best interests and they are not, you know, something that most Canadians would agree with.
00:04:38.400 That's all that pure Pollyov would be pointing out.
00:04:40.700 Justin Trudeau and Christy Freeland are very left wing ideologues.
00:04:44.480 They are left wing ideologues and so they believe in and support a lot of what the WF does, even though if you pulled people on the individual measures that the WF supports, nobody would be in favor of them.
00:04:55.120 But if you mention something bad the liberals are doing, that's called a conspiracy and that's extreme, even though they're all whining about supposedly pure Pollyov associating with extremists.
00:05:05.640 When again, Justin Trudeau brought just Paul Atwal on his first India trip, a man who was convicted of trying to beat a British Columbia premier to death.
00:05:17.020 I believe it was before he was premier, to be fair, but he tried to beat, I think, Ujjal Dasanj to death.
00:05:22.960 I think he also was involved in other plots, like he shot a former Indian minister in Canada.
00:05:28.160 He brought him to India.
00:05:30.900 Justin Trudeau openly associated with Kalistanis, with people associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and no, none of these people would freak out about it.
00:05:38.820 And Andrew Coyne sitting on the panel there pretending to be like the erudite conservative, but I'm not in favor of all this populist pure Pollyov stuff.
00:05:47.260 But Andrew Coyne doesn't have a conservative bone in his body.
00:05:50.000 All he is in favor of is institutionalism.
00:05:52.500 He thinks the conservative thing to do is maintain the institutions of Canada, even if it's a terrible institution that the Liberals created five minutes ago.
00:06:01.400 It would now be an anti-conservative thing in Andrew Coyne's mind to just like to take it apart.
00:06:06.880 The only thing he's in favor of taking apart is maybe the carbon tax.
00:06:10.740 And even then, he'll probably still call Pierre Polyev an extremist once he is the prime minister and he acts the carbon tax.
00:06:17.920 And Andrew Coyne clutches his pearls because you didn't replace it with anything.
00:06:22.440 Now Canada's going to like burn up because we don't have a carbon tax or some carbon price.
00:06:28.180 I don't take these people seriously at all.
00:06:30.700 Anyways, I'm going to move on to another clip of the Liberals whining.
00:06:34.940 This is Justin Trudeau.
00:06:35.920 Around the same time, I believe, that Pierre Polyev was leaving the chamber, trying to now accuse the Conservatives again, because this is the only narrative Liberals have, that the Conservatives and Pierre Polyev are associating with the far right.
00:06:50.120 Any leader that needs the support of a far right white nationalist group to fundraise and get closer to power does not deserve elected office.
00:07:00.880 This is exactly, this is a 19-year career politician who knows exactly what he's doing and thinks he can get away with it.
00:07:10.700 It was a choice to pander to white nationalists, not an accident.
00:07:15.200 And it is a choice to continue to not condemn them and condemn everything they stand for in his quest for votes.
00:07:24.340 Do I even have to say anything about that?
00:07:26.620 What can you say about that?
00:07:27.880 He's pandering to white nationalists.
00:07:29.780 How?
00:07:30.060 What did he say?
00:07:32.160 He's a man who's married to a Venezuelan woman.
00:07:35.520 He has, like Anita Polyev and him, have mixed race kids.
00:07:38.680 I'm pretty sure that pure Polyev isn't down with the whole white nationalist sort of thing.
00:07:44.100 As one of my friends, Raheem Mohamed, pointed out in the National Post, part of his stump speech when he was running as leader was saying,
00:07:51.500 it doesn't matter if your last name is Polyev or Patel, Martin or Mohamed, we're all Canadians.
00:07:56.240 Do you think that man is trying to wink and nod?
00:07:59.180 At Jeremy McKenzie, a man who made jokes about sexually assaulting his wife?
00:08:05.460 No.
00:08:06.080 And it's a disgusting lie to even say that.
00:08:08.720 But that's all that we have left in Justin Trudeau's wacko dictatorship.
00:08:12.280 It's disgusting lies to pretend that he is the last line of defense for democracy in Canada.
00:08:19.340 That is something he actually said.
00:08:20.860 I think it was on like a Vox podcast.
00:08:22.700 And if you're talking to Vox or people from AJ Plus, you truly are far left because those are far left outlets, like openly socialist or even Qatari funded outlets.
00:08:32.640 But whatever, I guess Trudeau can do what he wants and he can't be accused of anything.
00:08:36.140 That's just how it works.
00:08:37.380 I actually am mandated to like Justin Trudeau.
00:08:40.040 If you work in media, you have to like Justin Trudeau or you're far right.
00:08:44.140 It's so silly.
00:08:45.500 And then we get to, and I don't need to play a clip of this because you've all seen it and it's a bit long seeing the proceedings go on.
00:08:51.280 But pure Polyev and the conservatives, like Polyev was technically ejected from the House of Commons and the rest of the conservatives rightfully followed him out of the chamber.
00:09:00.340 Getting kicked out of parliament for saying wacko.
00:09:03.160 Really?
00:09:03.740 We're going to clutch our pearls over the word wacko?
00:09:05.740 I find it just tiring that we're going to have all of these journalists from the Toronto Star, Global News, and you have all these other liberal activists say, I can't believe that Pierre Polyev is degrading parliament.
00:09:18.720 How could he say such vulgar language like wacko in the House of Commons?
00:09:25.880 I'm a little bit maybe disbelieving that you guys are actually offended by this.
00:09:32.440 Justin Trudeau, and I'm not saying this because I don't like Justin Trudeau, he's the current prime minister, but it's pretty arguable that he's one of the most corrupt prime ministers we've ever had.
00:09:42.300 Most prime ministers, they have one big scandal and it defeats them.
00:09:45.340 He's had like four or five.
00:09:48.040 We Charity, SNC-Lavalin, CCP Interference, and a few others, Arrive Scam.
00:09:54.180 There's tons of scandals associated with Justin Trudeau and we're going to be offended by someone saying wacko in the House of Commons.
00:10:00.720 No, you guys are not actually offended.
00:10:03.720 You just don't want the conservatives to win.
00:10:05.900 And that's fine.
00:10:06.860 You cannot want the conservatives to win.
00:10:08.700 But all this pearl clutching over the word wacko, pretending like you're just so into principle and this is why you can't stand these words being used.
00:10:18.680 Justin Trudeau back in 2013, literally in parliament, cried out, this is back obviously when Harper was prime minister,
00:10:25.900 oh, you pieces of S, and there was not nearly as much elevation over that.
00:10:32.040 If anything, people saw it as like, oh, wow, what an idiot after that happened and then he had to apologize.
00:10:37.440 Obviously, he'd have to apologize for language like that, even if it wasn't considered unparliamentary, he could be rejected for it.
00:10:43.680 Naturally, you'd want someone to apologize for being that vulgar.
00:10:46.220 There was not just news broadcasts about, well, I can't believe Justin Trudeau would degrade the House of Commons that way.
00:10:53.200 Like people might have made comments, but there wasn't the sort of puff piece generating buzz around those words.
00:11:00.180 And now there is around wacko and everyone's just gaslighting you, pretending like you're weird if you don't think this is bad.
00:11:06.420 And so you get people like this on social media, posting comments like this, unparliamentary behavior is yet another attack on Canada's institutions.
00:11:16.740 The erosion of civility, the decline of deference to expertise and polarization are tearing the fabric of Canadian society.
00:11:25.460 All of this seems deliberate and designed to destroy liberal democracy.
00:11:29.240 Yes, guys.
00:11:30.060 Oh, sorry, I had that a little bit small on screen, but you can see what I was reading there.
00:11:33.820 Yes, guys, it is destroying liberal democracy in Canada because somebody said a word that you didn't like.
00:11:41.400 Not even a vulgar word.
00:11:42.680 If anything, a silly and lighthearted negative label to put on Justin Trudeau.
00:11:46.920 I think what he's even deliberately done, that Pure Polly have picked a word that nobody in their right mind should have a problem with just to see the reaction.
00:11:55.020 Because you think middle class Canadians who are struggling to pay for things are looking at what Pure Polly have said and saying,
00:12:01.020 I can't vote for him anymore.
00:12:02.200 Can't vote for him anymore.
00:12:03.040 Well, he's going to lower my taxes.
00:12:04.980 He's going to stop institutional corruption.
00:12:07.360 You know, he is an actual normal person, unlike Justin Trudeau, who's a raving, lunatic, left-wing ideologue.
00:12:13.160 But he said, whack, can't vote for that guy.
00:12:15.620 But these guys are gaslighting themselves.
00:12:17.500 They're not even gaslighting us anymore.
00:12:19.320 This is how it works in the wacko dictatorship.
00:12:21.900 The liberals aren't even trying to gaslight you into thinking that they're right and the conservatives are far right or whatever.
00:12:28.860 That the liberals are the ones who are defending democracy.
00:12:31.060 They're just gaslighting themselves and their small base into thinking that they're the heroes.
00:12:36.000 So when they inevitably lose, it was a hero's defeat.
00:12:39.540 We were fighting for civility and honor, and it was the conservatives fighting for far right, white supremacy and incivility.
00:12:47.540 Does this person not think it's degraded Canada's institutions, like a little bit, just a little bit, that we've had so much obvious corruption in government?
00:12:57.280 Does that not kind of undermine the institutions of Canada?
00:13:01.240 Does it kind of not undermine our institutions when, for some reason, the prime minister has not really answered a serious question over the past eight years?
00:13:09.340 That there are people who, in the Liberal Party, are obviously working on behalf of lobbyist groups?
00:13:15.020 That was something that I believe it was Mark Miller just answered, or somebody else.
00:13:19.180 It was somebody in the Liberal government who said it's totally fine for him and other members of his staff who have direct ties to lobbying organizations and different companies while they are in charge of making regulations for those areas of government.
00:13:31.560 We have people saying that right now. No outrage from the Toronto Star. They frankly don't care, because really, they just want their team to win.
00:13:40.580 And so institutional corruption, totally fine, as long as it's being done for the aims of the Liberal Party.
00:13:48.280 If you even buy a $13 glass of orange juice that's conserved, that's when all the Liberals become super fiscal hawks who don't like a single dime being a waste of taxpayer money.
00:13:58.860 But then we all have to clutch our pearls because, did you know that the leader of the opposition office has billed taxpayers a million dollars this last year?
00:14:06.780 I don't even know what the number is, but it's like, that's not that surprising.
00:14:09.480 We're the second biggest country in the world, and obviously, the opposition leader has to travel around the country a lot to advocate for the positions he supports.
00:14:17.680 And then Jagmeet Singh is trying to attack Polyev for spending too much, when Polyev's office, I believe, only spends about $250,000 a year for his staff members and all the resources.
00:14:28.380 And Jagmeet Singh spends like half a million every single year.
00:14:31.200 And that's not even travel expenses.
00:14:32.500 That's just like, you know, pads of paper and office staff members and other sort of secretaries and assistants.
00:14:39.140 Like Jagmeet Singh spends way more than pure Polyev, but we're all going to pretend that we're deeply offended that pure Polyev spends any money, but Jagmeet Singh's spending, that's fine.
00:14:48.360 He's a socialist.
00:14:49.020 He's allowed to spend too much.
00:14:50.900 And that's where, never let the left do this.
00:14:53.020 They love to use your principles against you and pretend as if, they will pretend to be principled depending on if they can benefit from it.
00:15:03.000 If they can benefit from taking on conservative positions, they will do it.
00:15:06.700 I know tons of people like this.
00:15:08.260 They will start to invoke conservative principles and ideas when they can use it against you as if you're not living up to your principles.
00:15:16.080 Never let them do this.
00:15:16.980 They don't actually believe in the principles that they're trying to cite, and they don't actually know if you're violating your principles or not.
00:15:22.680 They're just merely saying it, so you will let them do even more unprincipled things that you would never agree to.
00:15:28.120 So they will say, find 2% of your argument or the position that you've taken that might be inconsistent with your general principles about politics.
00:15:36.620 But then they'll say that because you are wrong on 2% of this issue, you must let us do 100% of the unprincipled things we want to do.
00:15:44.780 The perfect example of this is people like Maxwell Fawcett, who I believe he works for the National Observer or whatever his paper is, the king of technicalities.
00:15:55.380 He will find technicalities in every single argument you have to prove that either you somehow are hypocritical or somehow your contention is not 100% correct.
00:16:05.380 Because in this fringe part of the issue, somehow his standard is actually more accurate, it's better suited, his policy prescription somehow makes sense on this fringe part of the issue at hand when you're right on everything else.
00:16:22.180 I hate people that argue that way.
00:16:24.620 People who with blanket rezoning in Calgary will argue, well, you can't be against blanket rezoning because I thought you were in favor of freedom.
00:16:32.340 So that means that you're not actually allowed to pick whatever neighborhood you want to live in and the style and layout of that neighborhood.
00:16:39.260 If you're pro-freedom, you must live in a neighborhood that is jam-packed with six plexes, four plexes, row housing, right next to single detached family homes.
00:16:48.200 And it is the pro-freedom position to want that, even though if you point out, wait, you aren't advocating against lower property taxes, you aren't advocating against the city getting its budget under control so that actually you can pay for things.
00:17:00.360 You're not in favor of the government actually saving money on consultants and whatnot in order to pay for some low income housing for people.
00:17:08.340 They will then say, that's beside the point.
00:17:10.980 You're not living up to the principles that I've made up in my head that should apply purely to you.
00:17:16.960 Never engage with stuff like this.
00:17:19.900 Anyways, here's the Liberal Party posting a response from Mark Miller on Pure Poly of walking out.
00:17:26.500 And the Liberals trying to spin this in their favor is quite sad.
00:17:30.060 And this has been what Greg Fergus did in kicking Pure Poly out of Parliament was one of the greatest fundraising emails the Conservatives could have ever gotten.
00:17:38.860 He is the opposition leader and he got kicked out of the House for saying, wacko.
00:17:42.880 Do you think that the Liberals have not just generated the Conservative Party about $50,000 in the course of the last 24 hours?
00:17:49.820 If you don't think that that's what happened, then you're just out of your mind.
00:17:53.540 But anyways, here's Mark Miller trying to respond to what Pure Poly of got kicked out of the House for.
00:17:58.460 Do you think what happened today is going to fuel the narrative that he's being silenced by the Liberals?
00:18:04.220 Who's being silenced?
00:18:05.220 Pure.
00:18:05.520 That guy's never shut his mouth in his life.
00:18:09.380 Who silences him?
00:18:10.420 He keeps saying dumb things.
00:18:11.920 I think it would be good if he shut his yap once in a while.
00:18:15.400 But the stuff that he does in the House of Commons is disgraceful.
00:18:18.080 He plays on that.
00:18:18.740 He's a guy that likes to play outside the lines.
00:18:21.100 When someone steps out the lines to confront him, he freezes.
00:18:25.140 That is the most elitist way of putting this.
00:18:27.740 And the Liberal Party posted this and said, 10 out of 10, no notes.
00:18:32.020 Always never shut his yap.
00:18:33.460 That legitimately sounds like something that would be said in a communist country.
00:18:37.820 If someone was executed for disagreeing with Vladimir Lenin or Stalin and they execute the person and someone asks them, like an American journalist confronts them and says,
00:18:47.880 well, don't you think that that's kind of violating his free speech and that maybe your critics saying that you're silencing speech are correct?
00:18:55.100 And he's like, well, all these people I'm executing, they wouldn't shut up.
00:18:57.780 Obviously, I wasn't silencing them.
00:18:59.700 We just eventually had to step in.
00:19:01.260 So he's saying, well, we're not silencing him, but it would be good if someone did silence him and he should shut his mouth and he was outside the lines.
00:19:08.660 They can't even make sense of their own position here.
00:19:11.700 And again, this is not going to help them in the polls whatsoever.
00:19:15.580 I want to see if I can bring up, I have to load it on screen here, but the current polling does not show that what the Liberals are doing are working.
00:19:23.180 And people could say, well, this is just something that's happened in the last 24 hours.
00:19:27.060 Why? Of course, it just happened in the last 24 hours.
00:19:29.420 That's not lost on me.
00:19:31.060 But the thing is that this is what the Liberals playbook has been for probably the last year, that the Conservatives are far right.
00:19:37.740 They're a threat to democracy, that they have no plan.
00:19:40.700 That's my favorite one.
00:19:41.940 They have no plan because they want to cut government spending and different departments and whatnot.
00:19:47.640 That is a plan because right now our problem is overspending.
00:19:50.840 There is no new government program that Pure Polyev could propose that would solve our problem.
00:19:56.120 So naturally, cutting is a plan.
00:19:59.460 Fiscal responsibility is a plan, but leftists, especially in the media, don't consider it a fulsome policy position unless it requires billions of more dollars to be spent.
00:20:10.940 Legitimately, by saving money, that is the absence of a plan because it costs negative dollars to implement cost-saving measures like cuts to various useless departments in government.
00:20:23.100 But this is what the current polling looks like based on the ledger poll that just came out.
00:20:27.240 The Conservatives are now at 44% and the Liberals are at 23%.
00:20:31.640 The Conservatives are at 21% ahead of the Liberals.
00:20:35.880 They almost have double what the Liberals have.
00:20:38.680 The NDP are down there at 17%.
00:20:40.680 The Bloc Quebecois are at 8% and the Green Party of Canada is 5%.
00:20:44.500 PPC at 2%.
00:20:45.540 Guys, you've got to pack it in.
00:20:47.280 Other 1%.
00:20:47.880 The reason why the Conservatives are winning is not even just like the personal magnetism of Pure Polyev.
00:20:54.700 I like Pure Polyev.
00:20:55.720 I'm, you know, shameless plug running for the Conservative Party in Calgary-Signal Hill where I'm trying to run for the nomination.
00:21:00.900 You know, shameless plug again, if you live in the riding of Calgary-Signal Hill on the west side of Calgary, go check out my website in the description below,
00:21:08.980 WyattClaypool.com, and buy a Conservative Party membership, vote for me number one on your ballot.
00:21:13.960 But people are voting Conservative in part because they like Polyev and they like his more common-sense approach that he's been marketing.
00:21:20.960 But they also just hate Trudeau and the Liberals.
00:21:23.420 The Liberals don't realize that this is a them problem.
00:21:26.100 They just simply assume, or at least they trick themselves into thinking that it's that Polyev is tricking Canadians into voting for him.
00:21:34.280 It's a far-right conspiracy to get Canadians to hate Justin Trudeau and to like Polyev.
00:21:39.720 And they merely have to pierce the veil and prove that Polyev is a phony who has no plan.
00:21:45.780 He has far-right connections and all this stuff.
00:21:47.880 It's not going to work, guys, because the problem is you.
00:21:50.380 The problem is you and your crazy policies because, you know, it's kind of one of the fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
00:21:58.960 And now Canadians do not want to be the fool.
00:22:01.680 They have seen for eight years disastrous negative outcomes out of all the Liberal Party policies.
00:22:07.080 And no matter how many wonks get on television and say, actually, the policy helped, and if only the policy was doubled in size, things would be much better.
00:22:15.000 People don't fall for that these days.
00:22:16.480 When the policies keep getting implemented with the promise that in one year, two years' time, everything will be better, and four years on, everything is much worse, nobody's just going to say, well, give Justin four more years.
00:22:27.960 And what I always say is that if Trudeau would just almost come out and admit that he's made mistakes, he'd actually do far better in the polls.
00:22:37.140 Part of the reason people hate the Liberals is of how out of touch they are.
00:22:40.320 It's not even the policy.
00:22:41.320 The policy is probably 40%, 60% of the problem, but another 40% of the problem for the Liberals is the fact that they just pretend that there are no problems, that everything's actually great.
00:22:52.760 So whenever they release numbers saying, well, actually, Canada reduced child poverty by 2.3 million children over the past five or so years.
00:23:03.180 No, they have not.
00:23:04.620 Food bank use is up.
00:23:05.640 There's a lot of other indicators of economic weakness that are way up, and you can't pretend that this is a good situation in the country is in simply because we found a fringe metric to say that we're doing great.
00:23:19.200 Whenever they roll out the GDP numbers and say, well, we grew by 0.5% in January alone, it's all government spending.
00:23:26.200 All the manufacturing and oil and gas and mining sectors are either suppressed in their growth or actually in negative growth.
00:23:33.620 Nobody is going to pretend that because the government hired 50,000 other people that our employment rate is getting much better and the economy is booming.
00:23:44.820 Every single year of the Soviet Union, they could have claimed that the GDP is up, things are better, and in a technical sense, they would have been better.
00:23:52.980 But obviously, when we're in a sluggish economy that's not growing and, in fact, contracting, just finding a fringe metric that shows that technically we're doing well is not satisfactory at this point.
00:24:07.080 You actually need to make things noticeably better, not just better on paper, but actually better.
00:24:12.800 And because the liberals refuse to acknowledge that, people don't like being fooled.
00:24:17.980 And when you're trying to fool them, when they are struggling to make payments for things, and you bring out statistics like saying, well, you know that Calgary is actually the third best city in North America to live in.
00:24:30.520 Okay?
00:24:31.580 You raise property taxes.
00:24:32.760 I can't afford my rent anymore.
00:24:34.180 I don't care about some random organization's ranking of cities.
00:24:38.340 I don't care that UNICEF says Canada is actually the fifth best for child poverty in the top 39 Western countries.
00:24:47.660 No, I'm not going to buy that.
00:24:50.180 Luxembourg somehow is at the bottom of those lists, even though it's one of the richest countries on the planet.
00:24:54.500 I'm not going to pretend.
00:24:56.080 Like, whoever in StatsCan cooks up these numbers is actually dealing honestly with us.
00:25:01.080 Anyways, but that was what is going to lead me to just quickly talking about drug decriminalization in British Columbia.
00:25:07.920 And how this is oddly going to be a really big wedge issue for Justin Trudeau and the liberals in a negative sense.
00:25:15.660 Pure Polly, like I said in a video yesterday, is going after both British Columbia Premier David Eby and Justin Trudeau really hard on this issue.
00:25:25.180 And it's because I think he senses that as unpopular as Justin Trudeau is in Canada, somehow David Eby is even less popular.
00:25:33.820 Yes, he is technically the second most popular premier in the country.
00:25:38.780 That's only a byproduct of the fact that there really wasn't any opposition to the NDP for the last year and a half.
00:25:44.420 So naturally, a lot of people were artificially saying that they were voting NDP and artificially saying that they like David Eby because the only other option was like Kevin Falconson or Kevin Falcon and nobody likes him.
00:25:55.000 But now that John Rustad is actually getting more popular, I guarantee a lot of the positive metrics on David Eby are going to sort of reverse now.
00:26:03.280 So David Eby, because of all the radical policies he's pushing, is a massive liability to Justin Trudeau.
00:26:09.800 Justin Trudeau should be scared to be associated with David Eby at all.
00:26:13.320 And he's so scared to be associated with David Eby as David Eby is trying to reverse decriminalization.
00:26:18.980 Justin Trudeau won't even acknowledge the effort and help pass federal policies or enable the B.C. government to start arresting people for using illicit drugs in public parks.
00:26:28.960 It's a super weak walk back since it really doesn't change that much.
00:26:32.640 But David Eby is begging Justin Trudeau to let him enforce the law on illicit drug use in parks and to make a cutout in the decriminalization policy that Justin Trudeau has allowed for.
00:26:43.140 That still allows the B.C. government to arrest drug users in these parks, because that's kind of the problem here.
00:26:49.500 It should be just automatic that you arrest drug users, people using illicit drugs like meth and crack and fentanyl in parks in front of schools and in front of private businesses.
00:26:59.020 But the problem is, is that because B.C. has been given a blanket decriminalization just waiver, well, you can't just say, well, but we're going to arrest them in the parks.
00:27:09.240 Well, is decriminalization active or not?
00:27:11.020 An RCMP officer cannot arrest somebody for using illicit drugs when we are under a state of decriminalization because what am I charging this person under?
00:27:20.300 What am I arresting or detaining this person under?
00:27:22.560 They're using drugs like illicit drugs in a park when decriminalization is active.
00:27:26.720 There's no statute that says, yes, you can use illicit drugs, but not here.
00:27:31.480 But Justin Trudeau refuses to even pass a federal policy that would make that a chargeable offense because he doesn't even want to acknowledge David Eby's existence at this point, which in a strange way means that Justin Trudeau is owning this issue even harder because he refuses to help David Eby walk back some of his decriminalization.
00:27:50.960 Now Justin Trudeau is taking ownership of decriminalization.
00:27:54.460 That's why Polioff's walking out media posts like social media posts like this, going after them and tying the two together.
00:28:01.520 This is such a bad look for Justin Trudeau to be seen as the enabler of David Eby.
00:28:06.380 And he entirely has been.
00:28:07.780 Since decriminalization started getting rolled out around the country, Justin Trudeau and his government have been the ones signing waivers and saying that they will get out of the province's way if they want to let people smoke meth wherever they want.
00:28:18.580 And this has led to some of the highest drug deaths in all of North and South America in Vancouver, on the east side of Vancouver, and actually all over Vancouver now.
00:28:28.720 And everyone who says, well, it stops death or, you know, it reduces the amount of overdose deaths to have these safe injection sites to have to have safe supply programs.
00:28:38.600 No, it does not.
00:28:39.900 All that does is means that for someone to overdose and die, they require now seven overdoses rather than just three before you have the safe injection sites and safe supply programs.
00:28:51.620 But the amount of overdoses absolutely skyrockets because even though you and I as rational adults would never start using fentanyl or coke or any illicit drugs just because there is a slight bit of a safety net, there are some people who will react to those incentives.
00:29:08.660 You cannot be surprised when incentives and safety nets are set up and people react to it with more risky behavior.
00:29:15.680 If you enable risky behavior, you cannot be, you can't be shocked that there is more people doing said risky behavior.
00:29:24.260 And so, yes, we keep fewer deaths from happening per overdose, but the amount of overdoses, the denominator of overdoses extends rapidly.
00:29:34.660 And so we have way more people dying.
00:29:37.360 We just have them dying in a more technically safe sense.
00:29:40.660 It is the most Canadian British Columbia thing in our wacko dictatorship that we celebrate safer dying, that this person is going to deteriorate on the street and die, but we want it to be in a safe, comfortable manner.
00:29:54.660 It reminds me of the whole George Carlin bit about, you know, soft language around things.
00:30:01.300 It's not an overdose.
00:30:02.780 It's an accidental over like indulgence.
00:30:06.020 We should be using terms like this if we want to be truly inclusive to those who are poisoning themselves effectively.
00:30:13.280 And we need to, and that's, that's exactly what safe supply is.
00:30:16.100 It's a soft, bureaucratic, corporate term, avoiding the fact that the government is giving people government manufactured smack.
00:30:25.480 What?
00:30:26.340 That's shit.
00:30:26.960 That's insane.
00:30:27.720 And the fact that people are talking about pure poly of using the term wacko in parliament or being next to a trailer door that diagonal on sharpied on flag, that is something that the legacy media is talking about when nobody is acknowledging.
00:30:42.660 Like there are some, obviously, Adam, Adam Zivo at the National Post and other conservative commentators will talk about this.
00:30:48.520 But all the prim and proper, neutral, down the middle of the road and pearl clutching legacy media journalists barely talk about this.
00:30:56.160 They don't talk about this as a crisis.
00:30:57.800 They don't describe David Eby as a radical.
00:31:00.540 He is absolutely radical.
00:31:02.380 He hates the police.
00:31:03.400 He wrote a book about how to sue the police for frivolous reasons.
00:31:06.560 He voted to defund the police.
00:31:08.460 He was part of defunding the police movements.
00:31:10.320 He's forced the police to invest more in like social worker programs and away from actual on-street officers.
00:31:16.340 The man is a left-wing, far-left radical, but the media will never describe him that way because that would be far-right to do.
00:31:23.840 Describing the left accurately is, in fact, very far-right and very, very bad.
00:31:29.000 It is opposing the wacko dictatorship, and opposing the wacko dictatorship is the most extreme thing you could possibly do in this country.
00:31:37.000 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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