The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Justin Trudeau support has always been fake (ft. Greg Staley - Diverge Media)

00:00:00.200 Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Wyatt Claypool Show.

00:00:04.720 Watching the bleeding out of Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party support over the last couple of years

00:00:10.060 raises the question in my mind, and probably your mind as well,

00:00:14.700 was the support ever real in the first place?

00:00:18.080 The thing I find stunning is just how artificial all the Liberal support has always seemed,

00:00:23.700 in the sense that nobody can really name the good things that the Liberals or Trudeau have done,

00:00:28.440 but it's good and the Conservatives are bad.

00:00:31.340 And I think this is basically how it's always worked since 2015,

00:00:34.780 and that's why as soon as people started questioning whether or not any of the Liberal policies

00:00:39.300 have actually delivered anything positive,

00:00:41.840 immediately their support started dying off once the Conservatives actually had a competent leader.

00:00:46.860 And to talk about this issue further with me, I invited the realist guy I know,

00:00:52.000 Greg Staley from Diverge Media,

00:00:54.460 as opposed to all the fake AstroTurf garbage we're about to talk about today.

00:00:59.260 How are you doing, Greg?

00:01:00.740 I'm good.

00:01:01.780 It's interesting seeing the behind the scenes of it,

00:01:04.280 because I feel like I just watched Amir myself, but like somebody else doing it.

00:01:09.000 Oh yeah, Greg just got to watch me mess up my intro like six times in a row,

00:01:12.600 and it was like so silly to the point where like,

00:01:14.860 I don't like the word the way I said, welcome back,

00:01:17.160 and then I restarted, and then he gets to watch me do it over and over again.

00:01:20.400 But Greg truly is legitimately the realist guy I know.

00:01:24.120 How old are you?

00:01:25.640 30 years old now.

00:01:27.460 And yeah, and Greg is 30, has four kids,

00:01:30.040 runs his own media company while working other jobs.

00:01:33.040 Oh, five.

00:01:33.620 Okay, he is even realer than I thought.

00:01:36.140 And yeah, you do actually really good investigative work,

00:01:40.660 and you're oftentimes the bad cop to my good cop when it comes to Canadian independent media,

00:01:46.620 sometimes having to very aggressively go after fakes on the conservative side of things,

00:01:51.860 calling out people, whatnot.

00:01:53.120 So I do encourage everyone,

00:01:54.760 before we start getting into some of the videos and posts I want to talk about,

00:01:58.220 because I think it's just good highlighting of how bad the liberal media has always been,

00:02:02.860 and the lack of narrative there actually is in favor of them,

00:02:05.740 make sure you go check out his YouTube channel, Diverge Media.

00:02:08.740 I'm going to link it both in the comments below as well as in the description of this video.

00:02:12.980 But Greg, do you ever travel around the QAnon parts of, 0.98

00:02:18.400 or the TrueAnon parts of social media?

00:02:21.300 Yeah, it's a blast, isn't it?

00:02:23.580 Like, the TrueDow can do no wrong crowd is a real entertaining one to watch.

00:02:28.040 And these people are actually serious.

00:02:30.320 So when I say all this is astroturf and fake,

00:02:33.720 I mean in the sense that these people themselves are fake people that we're about to talk about.

00:02:38.640 They believe the things that they're saying,

00:02:40.640 but when you actually dig into the people who are supporting the liberals,

00:02:44.240 it's more about their own kind of identity as progressives

00:02:47.740 than it has to do with the actual policies.

00:02:50.960 Because as we get into these videos,

00:02:53.080 you'll notice that these people don't seem like they're struggling individuals

00:02:56.800 fighting for on behalf of the liberals.

00:02:59.480 They're not working hard.

00:03:01.380 They're just here basically telling you that your life is actually secretly better

00:03:05.480 and you're just too stupid to figure it out. 0.76

00:03:07.360 It definitely doesn't feel better.

00:03:10.420 And that's the thing.

00:03:11.460 Like, the working class would argue vehemently with that statement, right?

00:03:15.500 It's clear as day to any Canadian that's working hard, middle class, working class.

00:03:21.140 It ain't better than it was before Trudeau took the helm.

00:03:24.480 What I always find gross is that these people, like we're about to get into,

00:03:27.700 they act like they speak on behalf of people who are struggling

00:03:31.660 and they're warning you about the excesses of pure poly.

00:03:37.820 He's going to cut your pension.

00:03:40.020 He's going to cut your child benefit.

00:03:41.960 It's like, what are you talking about?

00:03:43.560 Who in their right mind would ever cut somebody's child benefit?

00:03:47.120 In terms of like, that's one of those like mainstay policies that everyone's fine with.

00:03:51.440 But here is this post from Keith.

00:03:53.520 I think a video he's uploaded both here and to TikTok.

00:03:57.040 And he says, conservatives call for no confidence vote by late January.

00:04:01.520 Well, Canadians are calling for pure poly to get a full security clearance immediately.

00:04:06.020 And we also want to see the full foreign interference report before any election happens.

00:04:10.820 I love the framing that Canadians are calling for pure poly to get the full security clearance immediately.

00:04:18.200 Who are these people out there?

00:04:20.060 Diehard liberals are calling for that to happen.

00:04:23.160 And no regular Canadians seem to care. 0.90

00:04:26.160 And apparently Elizabeth May and the Green Party too. 1.00

00:04:29.020 The foreign interference, this issue drives me up the wall 1.00

00:04:31.620 because you have to know nothing about anything

00:04:33.880 in order to think that the security clearance talking point amounts to anything.

00:04:39.400 That like pure poly won't get a security clearance,

00:04:41.560 must have something to hide.

00:04:43.340 If he gets it, he doesn't get anything for it

00:04:45.640 because he can't even talk about what's in the NISACOP report.

00:04:48.420 And if he becomes prime minister, he'll know anyways.

00:04:51.640 And there's people within his matters of parliament that are a part of it and are well aware.

00:04:57.500 So they could inform him if they choose so.

00:05:00.100 They just can't discuss what's in.

00:05:01.300 I even could see there being a conservative mentioned in the report.

00:05:07.180 Kevin Vong, the independent MP from Spadina, Fort York, did a really good press conference

00:05:11.560 where he and Sam Cooper and another investigative reporter named some names of people

00:05:16.800 who are very likely involved in foreign interference.

00:05:19.020 And one was a former conservative senator only out of the Senate because he aged out of the Senate.

00:05:23.600 It could happen.

00:05:24.360 But I think Trudeau knows that the vast majority of people named are liberals.

00:05:28.840 Or if they were all conservatives, you think Trudeau would be the man fighting tooth and nail

00:05:32.680 to make sure all the names came out.

00:05:34.140 It's obvious that it's just not on his side.

00:05:36.640 But let's get into this video and let's hear the case for why apparently we need to have this report out

00:05:42.760 and everything before there's an election.

00:05:44.920 Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everybody.

00:05:47.140 Pierre Polyev is saying he wants a no-confidence vote for the end of January.

00:05:50.560 Now, most of Canadians, majority of us, don't want an election right now.

00:05:54.440 But Pierre Polyev is pushing for it.

00:05:55.780 He's pushing hard.

00:05:56.960 Okay, so here's our demand to you, Pierre Polyev, because you work for us.

00:06:01.540 That's supposed to be the idea.

00:06:03.380 Anyways, but here's the deal.

00:06:05.120 We want a full security clearance done by you.

00:06:08.580 Okay, and you don't need to wait until the end of January to do that.

00:06:10.940 You can start the whole process right now and really get that underway so you can give us peace of mind

00:06:15.320 so that we know you can pass a security clearance.

00:06:17.640 Right, because there's a lot of sketchy things going on all over the world right now

00:06:21.020 and we wouldn't want to fall into any of those sticky situations with somebody who can't pass a security clearance now, would we?

00:06:28.860 I love the attempt at using populist rhetoric in this video.

00:06:35.600 The whole, you know, the majority of Canadians don't want an election right now and that you work for us.

00:06:41.140 I guarantee you he calls people a right-wing lunatic if they ever suggest that Justin Trudeau works for us and he better do this or that.

00:06:49.060 Well, wasn't there just a poll recently, like, the majority of Canadians are calling for an election?

00:06:54.980 So it's so far out to lunch that it's, like, laughable.

00:06:58.040 Oh, he's probably mentioning polls from, like, a year ago or two years ago, back when people definitely didn't want an election

00:07:05.880 because it was so soon after the last one.

00:07:07.860 If you poll people on whether or not they think we need not just a new prime minister but a new government,

00:07:12.580 it's literally, like, 89% of people think that we need a new government.

00:07:16.200 Nobody is on the, nobody is, like, who talks like this in terms of the populist language would ever actually suggest that Justin Trudeau is doing a good job.

00:07:27.360 And that's where everything's become very fake, even with these influencers who, I guarantee you, believe what they're saying,

00:07:34.240 but everything that they're doing is an artificial way of making it about the conservatives.

00:07:38.020 So while they believe the things they're saying, I don't think they actually are acting in good faith in any way.

00:07:44.780 And that's all the liberal stuff has had to turn into bad faith attacks over the last year.

00:07:49.400 I can even have criticisms of the conservatives.

00:07:51.980 But sometimes it will be like this on foreign interference, an issue that obviously has more to do with the liberals.

00:07:57.400 It's now about Polyev because he doesn't want every single pet he's ever owned having a background check

00:08:02.380 for the purpose of not even being able to actually tell anyone what's in the report.

00:08:06.940 That was politics, right?

00:08:08.280 Like, it's the laws of power.

00:08:09.620 Never admit, you know, any mistakes on your side of things.

00:08:13.100 And at the end of the day, like, there's lots coming out right now with Trudeau's liberals, Sam Cooper, Scooper Cooper on Twitter,

00:08:20.680 the Chinese interference into specifically the liberal party and the infiltration there.

00:08:25.620 And then this stuff coming out about foreign interference.

00:08:27.660 Every time I hear it, I think of the reporting by Sam Cooper and I just laugh.

00:08:32.160 Because if anything, their preferred party for foreign interference has been the liberals

00:08:37.480 because they're willing to play ball more.

00:08:39.120 And, like, it wouldn't even make sense to, like, put all your eggs in one basket of trying to, like, influence the conservatives.

00:08:44.860 You don't influence the opposition.

00:08:46.540 And actually, I do believe that I guarantee Trudeau takes to heart the rules of power of never admit to a mistake.

00:08:52.540 The problem with these kind of Machiavellian rules of power and how to kind of, like, work within, like, you know, maintain your power,

00:09:01.320 the problem is once it all collapses, it collapses far harder than if you had actually acted in a proper way.

00:09:08.340 I think that the liberals have probably put themselves eight years behind, actually.

00:09:12.640 Like, after they lose, it's going to be at least two terms before they even have a chance of being close.

00:09:17.560 No, sir.

00:09:18.480 And also, as Canadian voters, we would like to see the full foreign interference report that's supposed to come at the end of January.

00:09:24.820 So we don't want to rush into an election right now with those things just hanging in the balance.

00:09:29.140 We really want to have all the information available so that those things, should they come out and should they cause any issues for either side of the election,

00:09:36.740 you know, liberals, NDP, or the conservatives, then we have all the information available.

00:09:41.360 And we can make the best informed choices during an election that isn't scheduled until next October.

00:09:46.980 And the majority of Canadians don't want to happen until next October.

00:09:50.860 So I know this is going to be a foreign idea for Pierre Paglia, but right now, the Canadian people would like for you to do something for us, right?

00:09:58.660 We'd like for you to act on our behalf and get your security clearance so that we have a, you know, a peace of mind so that we can go into the election in October when it's supposed to be with, you know, all the best information we can get.

00:10:11.200 And we'd also like to see that foreign interference report.

00:10:13.820 So Merry Christmas.

00:10:14.740 Happy Holidays, everybody.

00:10:16.120 It won't surprise you, but this man has me blocked on Twitter.

00:10:20.860 I can't handle the high quality of his video, so he can make sure to block me from being able to see it.

00:10:26.020 Sorry I cut you off earlier by playing it more.

00:10:29.040 But again, I've never seen a man spin his tires more in a minute 45 than right there of going back and forth constantly saying, like, we don't want an election.

00:10:37.860 But before we have an election, he needs to have his foreign, like, you know, his, like, security clearance done.

00:10:43.720 He's actually had, Polyev has had, security clearances done in the past.

00:10:48.040 It's just that this one is super high level to the point where they literally do background checks on every single family member, close associates, and whatnot.

00:10:56.320 And do you, would you ever trust the liberals for you to take a background check that they're not going to leak it?

00:11:01.820 For no benefit.

00:11:03.120 But you get no positive benefit by reading the report effectively.

00:11:06.900 Yeah, there's no political benefit.

00:11:08.640 And then on top of that, like, I'm kind of laughing because I'm in at 45 and the guy's got, like, what's the, I had the thought that it's like the PR training from Catherine McKenna.

00:11:17.960 Like, if you repeat a lie enough times, people will, like, totally believe it.

00:11:21.060 You got to get that lie across the line, like, four or five times just so that eventually they'll have you through just, you know, guerrilla advertising tactics.

00:11:30.420 You will have heard it, like, a few dozen times, and maybe it will start sounding right to you.

00:11:35.420 I guarantee to you this man was not outraged at SNC-Lavalin or We Charity or the ongoing, what is it, the Sustainable Development Technology Corporation green slush fund scandal.

00:11:47.300 None of these people cared to announce about any of it.

00:11:49.880 Like, hypocrisy, duh, is one of the worst things you can, like, one of the worst things in politics.

00:11:54.860 Being a hypocrite is terrible because nobody wants to hear it from you.

00:11:58.420 Let's say even that the foreign interference report is going to show 50-50 liberal conservative.

00:12:04.780 I don't even think it would damage the conservatives that much at this point.

00:12:08.240 Not that it shouldn't.

00:12:09.400 I would hope that if they were involved in foreign interference, it would hurt them.

00:12:12.260 I don't think they are.

00:12:13.620 But with the liberals, though, nobody wants to hear them say that, you know, that this guy over here is corrupt.

00:12:18.840 That's honestly why I think that, like, in my case, I was kicked out of a nomination for no reason in the conservative party.

00:12:24.880 But it doesn't hurt the conservatives for certain people at the top of the party to be acting poorly because the problem is the party that they are trying to unseat, the current liberal government, is so much more corrupt that they could do pretty much anything short of killing somebody.

00:12:40.880 And people would be like, well, at least they're not Justin Trudeau.

00:12:44.100 And I think they are much better than Trudeau, obviously, for the record.

00:12:47.520 But I'm just saying in this scenario, though, that I guarantee that's the danger I've been seeing, that you don't you could basically just show up not insane and be considered much better than the liberals and get too easy terms out of it.

00:12:59.620 So I do want the conservatives to have a higher standard going into the future.

00:13:03.500 But then this is the risk we have.

00:13:05.640 The liberals are so bad, you could do literally anything and be considered better.

00:13:09.960 I think the Canadians would kill for $20 orange juice scandals again, right?

00:13:14.180 Like, it's so far beyond.

00:13:16.620 I mean, we're at Blackface, Auga Khan, SNC Lab.

00:13:20.940 Like, pick your scandal, right?

00:13:22.060 Like, there is a bunch that should have done in any government.

00:13:25.220 The Auga Khan one especially bothers me. 1.00

00:13:27.040 It's like, hey, it's a good family friend of mine that I hadn't talked to in 20 years that was loving my government for money who just happened to give me a vacation to his private island on a private helicopter.

00:13:36.580 It's no big deal.

00:13:37.300 It's a family friend.

00:13:38.780 Yeah.

00:13:39.480 My family friends always do that for me.

00:13:41.840 Exactly.

00:13:42.600 Yeah.

00:13:42.860 It's completely normal.

00:13:44.080 But $20 orange juice is where we draw the line.

00:13:46.900 Duffy had to go.

00:13:48.380 But so this is the thing, like the dichotomy of you talk about hypocrites in politics.

00:13:53.120 It's like $20 orange juice was the scandal of the century for the Conservatives.

00:13:58.120 My goodness.

00:13:59.140 Like, you guys should have kicked Trudeau out the door.

00:14:02.500 I mean, pick a scandal.

00:14:03.780 Like, it could have been in year one, two, three, four, five.

00:14:06.440 Pick one.

00:14:07.100 There's lots.

00:14:08.120 Do you know what's so pathetic?

00:14:09.020 I see publications that are either partisan-funded or they are directly government-funded, either Cult MTL, that Montreal magazine, or Press Progress.

00:14:20.040 Either they're attacking, like, Polyev because he's actually unpopular, don't you know?

00:14:25.040 Or, like, Press Progress.

00:14:26.420 They released an article, and I think it was just either a year ago or two years ago, and it's like, here's eight headlines that prove Stephen Harper was the worst prime minister in Canadian history.

00:14:35.940 It's like, guys, stop it.

00:14:37.840 This is so obvious.

00:14:39.280 It's such obvious propaganda, it doesn't even function anymore as, like, anything positive.

00:14:44.080 It, in fact, hurts you to put out garbage like this.

00:14:47.200 Here's a great headline from Cult MTL.

00:14:49.780 I was going to put it in a video yesterday, but I forgot, but now I can recycle it here.

00:14:53.500 This is real.

00:14:54.320 Look at this.

00:14:57.160 Pierre Polyev's net favorability in Quebec sits at negative 45%.

00:15:00.780 Quebec is the most anti-Polyev province in Canada.

00:15:04.620 Yeah, well, I mean, they're usually anti-anybody other than Quebec, so.

00:15:09.420 Yeah, they're voting for the bloc.

00:15:11.300 Are the liberals popular there?

00:15:13.420 I even dug into the data.

00:15:15.020 Yes, Trudeau is more popular in Quebec than Pierre Polyev is, but there are several provinces where Justin Trudeau has a negative 50-plus rating.

00:15:26.160 But Cult MTL is not going to cover that.

00:15:28.460 I guess they can use the excuse that, well, you know, we're a Montreal-based publication, so we just want to talk about Quebec.

00:15:34.080 But they will talk about Polyev's national approval ratings whenever it suits them.

00:15:38.680 Oh, my goodness.

00:15:40.180 Polyev's net approval rating has fallen into the negatives.

00:15:42.800 I'm like, yeah, Trudeau's has been negative 35 and lower for a very long time, but they never bring it up.

00:15:50.360 And did you know that this publication every year gets at least $40,000 from the federal government?

00:15:55.000 Sweet.

00:15:57.920 Sorry, go ahead.

00:16:00.780 I was going to say, I always hear the stupid response, and I don't like any media subsidies, and we wouldn't need – not that we need them, but nobody would probably even argue if we got rid of them if we just cut taxes.

00:16:10.800 But people always bring up, you know that Post Media, who owns the National Post and other publications, you know that Post Media gets the most subsidies per year?

00:16:18.720 Like, yeah, it's the biggest national publication, so if subsidies are going out outside of the CBC, they get the most.

00:16:25.680 Also, as a percentage of their actual budget, it is way smaller than the National Observer or Cult MTL or the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, who run on subsidies.

00:16:38.020 Yeah, it's not like it's not needed.

00:16:41.440 Like, you still need strong media, and they just haven't switched over the medium, right?

00:16:47.840 This is the new medium, short clips, things like that.

00:16:51.880 They need to find new ways to get out the news.

00:16:53.520 Instead, they continue to focus on the dinosaurs, which is your old newsprint and old-style news reporting, and nobody cares anymore.

00:17:01.700 Like, nobody got time for that.

00:17:03.880 And this is where I want to let everyone know, like, Greg does really good long-form investigative reports.

00:17:11.400 I've done sort of similar things in the past as well.

00:17:14.500 So we're not here as, like, news commentators just talking about the news without having ever contributed to it.

00:17:21.000 We've both contributed to it, done exposés, helped edit, publish exposés on my part, and written them as well.

00:17:27.740 Greg's done his own long-form ones, edited, published them.

00:17:31.080 It takes a lot of work.

00:17:32.540 But this is not what the normal average CBC journalist is doing.

00:17:36.880 And I'm not trying to be derogatory.

00:17:38.120 But it's oftentimes somebody sitting at home wearing sweatpants, basically just serving up whatever press release came out of the municipal government's, you know, communications department, and basically just contextualizing it on the website with a generic thumbnail of, like, City Hall.

00:17:53.000 And that's all a person has to do, maybe once or twice a week, to be getting a $50,000-plus part-time salary from a publication like the CBC.

00:18:01.740 And you wonder how they still lose money every year or they still need to beg for more money or cut jobs because they can't make ends meet despite $1.4 billion in subsidies,

00:18:11.680 which, in fact, is more per capita than Fox News' budget in the U.S.

00:18:19.060 It's startling.

00:18:20.260 That's crazy.

00:18:21.100 Well, it's not even surprising.

00:18:22.680 But no, if you gave me 40 hours a week to research and develop, just as myself, without a production team and things like that,

00:18:30.800 I could put out three to four videos of quality research if that's all I'm doing.

00:18:34.560 But, you know, like I got five kids and I work full-time and then I try to squeeze in media around it and it hasn't, you know,

00:18:42.540 it's not a career yet, maybe one day, but it's crazy to think that somebody who's making $50,000 a year,

00:18:47.980 this is the best you're going to get out of them.

00:18:50.280 And I think it's probably even more than that, considering that you, are they unionized?

00:18:55.660 They might be.

00:18:56.300 I don't know.

00:18:56.740 But, like, it's always, they've always had some pretty cushy jobs at the CBC I've seen.

00:19:00.640 There's a reason why I've bumped into a lot of people at university who wanted to work at the CBC.

00:19:05.980 Nobody's ever going to really read the stuff that you put out, but it's a very easy job to maintain.

00:19:13.080 And to go back to the original purpose of this video, like, even in 2015, so much of what pumped up the liberals

00:19:21.520 was fake AstroTurf, poor-quality journalism, covering the Mike Duffy scandal, like, wall-to-wall every day,

00:19:29.900 which was a non-scandal.

00:19:31.840 It is a problem.

00:19:33.340 It was obviously an issue.

00:19:34.600 There was issues with Mike Duffy.

00:19:36.480 But let's not pretend that it was, like, the scandal of the century, like they tried to cover it as.

00:19:41.540 It was a man who was billing taxpayers for, like, food and whatnot that he shouldn't have been.

00:19:45.880 A conservative senator paid it back and basically said, Mike, you're an idiot.

00:19:50.220 Don't do that.

00:19:51.100 And this is what helped get Justin Trudeau elected in 2015, was surface-level, like, just surface-level journalism.

00:20:00.160 That and marijuana.

00:20:01.500 Yeah.

00:20:01.960 That was pretty much it.

00:20:03.280 I was working at a Fortune 500 company at the time the election was going on.

00:20:09.340 And I remember distinctly, because it's stuck in my head nine years later, being stuck with this liberal government,

00:20:15.840 the predominant conversations around the lunch table was, I don't ever vote, or I never vote liberal,

00:20:22.440 but this is our one chance at legal marijuana.

00:20:25.240 So that was a huge push for under 30, under 35 crowd.

00:20:30.160 And, you know, you get what you pay for if you wanted.

00:20:33.460 You got legal marijuana, but you got nine years of crazy high deficits, inflation through the roof,

00:20:38.300 and just, you know, terrible cost of living.

00:20:43.700 Like, I was forced to move Ontario, right?

00:20:46.300 We didn't have a future in that province.

00:20:47.900 I had to move 2,800 kilometers away from family and friends to a more affordable province.

00:20:53.240 As a result of, arguably, Trudeau's policies, I'd put it on him.

00:20:58.060 I know liberals love to put it on the provinces, but ultimately, the federal leader drives the provinces.

00:21:04.440 Like, do any of these people see what the income tax rates are on the federal level?

00:21:09.840 And they'll be like, well, you know, most spending is done by the province.

00:21:12.080 A lot of it's from transfers from the federal government, and a lot of the spending is federal requirements on the provinces to spend on certain things.

00:21:20.240 Even the minimum, I think, income tax bracket on the federal level is like 12%, 13% or something like that, 11%.

00:21:28.240 When in, like, the provincial side of things, it's usually like four or five.

00:21:32.120 It's mostly people getting gouged by the federal government.

00:21:35.300 But anyways, here is our next video, another Keith video, and then we have another one from Creek Pete I want to go over.

00:21:41.220 But I want to focus on the very metropolitan attitude and how the way that these people talk about politics is somebody who's not struggling at all.

00:21:52.400 And as I play this, I also have to go make sure my charger's plugged in, because somehow my computer is not charging.

00:21:58.800 But technical difficulties in even a pre-recorded video like this.

00:22:02.800 But Keith here says, if you voted liberal last election, do it again.

00:22:06.480 And here's why.

00:22:07.300 And so he says, voting for Pierre Polyev while Trump is in power will undoubtedly harm Canada.

00:22:13.060 And I just want to see his framing here and let him go for a little bit.

00:22:18.140 So if Pierre Polyev and Jagmeet Singh won an election, give it to them.

00:22:22.020 Let them have it, okay?

00:22:23.200 So, and here's the deal.

00:22:24.380 If you voted liberal last time, vote liberal again.

00:22:26.660 If you voted NDP last time, vote liberal this time.

00:22:29.340 Okay?

00:22:29.600 Because what we have on the line right now is a lot of things that benefit a lot of people.

00:22:33.740 So, dental programs, daycare programs, the carbon rebate, things like that.

00:22:38.520 So there's going to be a carbon tax.

00:22:40.580 Pierre Polyev is not going to axe the carbon tax.

00:22:43.300 He is going to axe the rebate.

00:22:45.000 So you won't get any money back then.

00:22:46.740 And the bigger issue here...

00:22:48.680 Okay, if there's one...

00:22:49.880 Okay.

00:22:50.540 If I know one thing about Pierre Polyev is that he doesn't like the carbon tax.

00:22:55.840 If I was to boil down the man to anything, I'm pretty sure his main promise is to get rid of the carbon...

00:23:00.300 He's going to get rid of the rebate, don't you know?

00:23:03.600 The funny thing is that these people telling you how much you make from the rebate are probably making more money than allows them to even get the rebate.

00:23:10.680 So they're telling people that, you know, you make more back on the rebate.

00:23:14.040 I don't think this Keith guy and the next guy we're going to be talking about are in the bracket of people who get the rebate.

00:23:19.340 No, and the parliamentary budget made it very clear that, no, they're not giving out more money than they take in.

00:23:26.720 Like, in what world do you tax someone and then give out more?

00:23:30.920 Like, this is some magic money machine they have.

00:23:33.400 The idea is that the big polluters are making it work because they're paying more in and they don't get anything back.

00:23:40.000 Or people who are really rich pay more in and they don't qualify anything back.

00:23:44.300 The problem is, do you really think that even with that said, that the amount of staff that are required to administer this program,

00:23:53.800 all the mailing fees, all the other sort of regulatory hurdles that they have to go through in government to make this all work,

00:24:01.500 the accountants and stuff like that, that that isn't probably eating up the cost as well as it's not offsetting the inflation that it causes.

00:24:09.560 Even if you were to take money out of the economy and then just basically spit it back in 100%, that would still cause inflation.

00:24:16.140 It is called the velocity of money.

00:24:19.180 If you're making a dollar move, take a longer path to going through the economy,

00:24:25.060 which means that it is causing economic stresses everywhere and raising costs.

00:24:31.500 But I guess don't tell this guy, but I like how he's saying, like, if you're a vote, if you voted NDP last time, vote liberal this time.

00:24:37.900 I was like, what's the incentive here?

00:24:39.440 I don't like Jagmeet Singh either.

00:24:41.020 So it's not like I'm endorsing people voting NDP.

00:24:43.760 But if you're an NDP voter, what's the actual, it's just like, it's like this obvious thing that you just owe your vote to the liberals to, like, stop poly up.

00:24:51.420 It's the, it's so shallow.

00:24:53.040 And that's what I was saying at the beginning.

00:24:54.860 It's what is the actual real reason these people can articulate for voting liberal?

00:24:59.200 Not more handouts?

00:25:02.160 I don't know.

00:25:02.980 Ike, it's interesting to see the passion and the assuredness of statements that are, to me, verifiably false.

00:25:11.480 Like, just absurd.

00:25:12.860 Well, hey, this is a cooler layout for us.

00:25:14.400 There we go.

00:25:15.340 Here is that if we take a chance on a young upstart like Pierre Polyev, who's been in politics for 20 years and done absolutely nothing, go ahead, look his record up.

00:25:23.220 It's nothing.

00:25:23.740 Okay, so he's done nothing in 20 years.

00:25:26.540 If we take a chance on a guy like that right now, while Donald Trump is about to take over the U.S. again, that could be disaster for us.

00:25:33.740 What is these people's definition of nothing?

00:25:36.400 They've not done anything.

00:25:37.880 I like nothing in government.

00:25:39.940 I like less in government.

00:25:41.940 I always like whenever they bring up Polyev, you know that he was the housing minister for like 10 months or whatever, because he was the housing minister towards the end of the Harper government.

00:25:48.720 And they're like, he never built any affordable housing.

00:25:51.580 I'm like, well, housing was more affordable when he was around.

00:25:55.380 Yeah, don't even get me started on affordable housing and the absolute frickin scam it is.

00:26:00.540 Listen, if the government was good at doing stuff, we would have good lives.

00:26:04.700 They suck at everything they do.

00:26:06.100 That's the general principle I have for government.

00:26:08.460 When it comes to affordable housing, it's like, hey, do you want to find a way to make building housing more expensive than it should be?

00:26:14.620 Get the government involved.

00:26:16.340 That's basically affordable housing.

00:26:17.800 It's like saying we're going at some point, having too many people doing a task makes that task take longer.

00:26:25.540 Let's say that you have to clean a room of your house and it's either you or you and another person.

00:26:30.760 That's efficient.

00:26:31.940 You know, you can get everything out of the way.

00:26:33.340 Even sometimes having a second person cleaning a room makes it take longer because they have to ask questions.

00:26:38.120 Where do you want this?

00:26:38.980 Oh, blah.

00:26:39.380 And you're like bumping into each other.

00:26:40.700 Government's like having 10 people all crowded into a single bedroom trying to clean it up.

00:26:45.840 It doesn't work because you can't actually do that.

00:26:49.980 Their hands are now impediments to you because them being in the room is preventing you from moving stuff.

00:26:56.160 You have to create a system to pass things to other people.

00:26:58.720 That is what government does.

00:26:59.980 Even though it's acting in good faith.

00:27:01.820 What?

00:27:01.900 What was wrong with that analogy is in your analogy, everybody was working.

00:27:08.280 People were standing around, two people worked.

00:27:11.400 Well, that problem, when you're doing a task that doesn't require this many people, you can get away with doing nothing because nobody's asking you to do anything because you can't help.

00:27:21.000 And so there's a lot of scams that go on in government.

00:27:24.280 People wrongly even assume today, although it's changing in Canada, people understand that government had its own motivations.

00:27:30.520 Just because people work in the public sector or just because bureaucrats are working for the public doesn't mean that they are working for the public interest.

00:27:39.460 They have their bureaucracies, have their own interests, and their main interest is to grow and justify higher salaries for those who work in it.

00:27:47.520 That is the problem with government is that you have an incentive to make it bigger, to then justify bigger salaries for everyone who works in it.

00:27:55.240 Because look at how big the department I'm managing is.

00:27:58.680 I have heard that stuff going on.

00:28:00.420 If you make your department go from 25 people at 50, well, you're twice the manager you were before, even if everyone is equally doing the same nothing that you were doing before.

00:28:11.240 Well, it's the same principle, you know, like why work yourself out of a job, right?

00:28:15.720 You know, you don't want to work too hard.

00:28:17.720 And then if we actually solve the problem, well, then we won't have a job.

00:28:21.360 So you got these homelessness, you know, programs, and then everything you can think of under the sun, housing, so on and so forth.

00:28:28.960 Well, if they were really efficient at it, and let's say they hammered it out in five years, like they built hundreds of thousands of affordable homes, they ended homelessness.

00:28:37.480 Well, guess what?

00:28:37.920 They don't have a job anymore.

00:28:39.040 You know how few people have the integrity to actually be like, yeah, it's the right thing to do.

00:28:43.300 And I'm going to work myself out of a good paying job with a great pension and benefits.

00:28:47.520 People would be shocked how little money can make somebody corrupt.

00:28:51.440 Just having the money be consistent can make people corrupt.

00:28:54.580 I'm not even kidding.

00:28:55.180 I mean, there are political parties where people who are sort of party campaign staff lifers, they don't like actual competent people working on campaigns.

00:29:05.100 Because if we win, and we win handily, maybe they won't even consider hiring me next time, because it's going to be pretty easy if we're doing all the right things.

00:29:14.100 Kamala Harris's campaign, of the $1.5 or $1.3 billion she spent, do you know how much was spent on staff?

00:29:22.400 No, I don't even know.

00:29:23.320 No, between $400 and $500 million.

00:29:25.920 Do you know how much Donald Trump spent on staff?

00:29:28.540 I'm going to guess under $100?

00:29:30.480 About $15 million.

00:29:32.260 Yeah, that sounds about right.

00:29:33.600 To be fair, some of the outreach was done directly by third-party organizations run by like TPUSA or Elon Musk's PAC.

00:29:41.440 But the Democrats also had PACs sending people out volunteering.

00:29:45.020 So, but the thing is that you spend on just people.

00:29:48.260 And that's the problem is that government, when they want to solve a problem, don't spend on systems that make things more efficient.

00:29:53.820 They spend on people to get something done that oftentimes people don't even have the capacity to do.

00:29:59.160 But anyways, I'll let Keith get back to it here.

00:30:01.520 So, we really can't roll the dice on, you know, just because, oh, we don't like Trudeau or, you know, it's time for a change, things like that.

00:30:09.420 No.

00:30:10.440 All those legitimate concerns, put them aside, people.

00:30:14.020 Just put them out of your mind.

00:30:15.600 I got, just for your viewers here, I put something together we'll talk about maybe after I grab the inflation numbers from Stats Canada on basically what I consider, you know, essential goods from the grocery store and how much they've gone up from Trudeau's election till today.

00:30:31.560 That's actually good, because I know kind of what the numbers look like, but I've never had an exact idea of what actually, what the damage has been.

00:30:39.180 Yeah, it'll put the whole Trudeau, you know, he's bad, but come on, in perspective.

00:30:43.940 You know what's happening in every country, don't you know, Greg?

00:30:47.860 My goodness.

00:30:48.640 It's good to change, but to just completely put yourself out and work against your best interests is not a smart thing to do, right?

00:30:56.520 So, if Donald Trump is down in the U.S. talking about making Canada the 51st state and he wants our resources and there's a big faucet, you know, he's looking at our water and things like that, we don't need somebody in power who has the same sort of ideals and philosophies as Donald Trump, right?

00:31:12.720 So, if we have a Pierre Polyev in power in Canada and a Donald Trump in power in the U.S., that does not spell working for the people to meet, right?

00:31:21.400 So, you've already seen how...

00:31:23.000 Yeah.

00:31:24.380 Trudeau is so hated by Trump.

00:31:26.140 If this is your argument, right?

00:31:27.520 Like, well, we got the big bad Trump now and we're going to have to contend with that.

00:31:31.340 Do you really want a guy like Pierre in there?

00:31:33.540 Trump hates him.

00:31:34.720 Like, you want to talk about...

00:31:36.240 Okay, I think Trump's a bit of a narcissist.

00:31:38.960 Like, I'm not a Trump fan, right?

00:31:41.000 There's a lot of people there.

00:31:42.640 Yeah, I think he's maybe the type of guy that might be spiteful just because he doesn't like someone.

00:31:47.500 And if you were the leader of a nation and he didn't like you, he might be spiteful to the point of harming millions of people with tariffs or something like that.

00:31:57.660 And that's just to carry on top of the fact that he already sucks in general.

00:32:02.100 It's not like Trudeau's been knocking out of the park, but Trump doesn't like him.

00:32:04.960 So, I know, should we swap him?

00:32:06.900 And, like, the guy's, like, doing this whole, you know, the funny thing is it's really ironic for progressives to do.

00:32:13.400 You know, the change isn't always good.

00:32:15.220 I thought rocketing toward the progressive future was always the right thing to do.

00:32:18.980 But now suddenly change, you know, progressing is not a good thing because it's not the right type of progression.

00:32:25.900 And what is his actual, like, critique here of Donald Trump?

00:32:28.560 Like, he's not just going for, like, criticisms that you or I could make that Trump's narcissistic, sometimes he can be spiteful, sometimes he gets in his own way.

00:32:37.360 Like, he's, you know, economically conservative.

00:32:40.840 He, you know, doesn't hate business owners and whatnot.

00:32:44.200 He doesn't hate resource development.

00:32:45.960 That's the thing.

00:32:46.580 Whenever people say, you know, pure Polyev's, like, mini Trump, okay, name the Trump policy, explain why it's bad, and then find the same policy that Polyev has or basically the same thing, and then make the criticism.

00:32:59.780 You can't just be, like, he's, like, mini Trump.

00:33:02.540 You have to first prove that Trump is, like, an actual net negative.

00:33:06.280 Well, it's, like, the liberal approach has been to, you know, the maple MAGA type branding they've given.

00:33:12.860 And it doesn't stick because, again, like, I don't like Trump.

00:33:16.220 Most Canadians, well, there's a segment out here that loves him, right, in Alberta, Saskatchewan, that absolutely loves Trump.

00:33:22.540 But in terms of do I like his personality?

00:33:25.260 Not really.

00:33:25.680 But in terms of his, yeah, like, his policies and stuff, if we were to fall in line with some of his economic policies and the immigration, like, if you get the border more sound, is that bad for Canadians?

00:33:36.740 Absolutely not.

00:33:37.420 It's a good thing.

00:33:38.500 So that's where it's the dichotomy is almost funny because it's, like, Trump's asking you to take care of things you should have taken care of already.

00:33:45.140 And if you do, the Canadian people benefit from it.

00:33:48.040 But that's somehow bad.

00:33:49.880 I have literally seen people basically making the argument that because Trump asked us to do it, we shouldn't do it.

00:33:54.580 Because it makes it look like we're, like, kowtowing.

00:33:57.140 It's like, guys, 10 times as many people on the terrorist watch list go over the border from Canada to the U.S. than Mexico to the U.S.

00:34:05.520 That's kind of an objective issue.

00:34:07.240 I like David Eby in British Columbia as well, the BCNDP premier, trying to be, like, the front man for trying to push back against Donald Trump.

00:34:15.680 And it's like, hey, Eby, baby, you're the problem at this family dinner table with all the fentanyl going over the border.

00:34:22.220 I'm pretty sure that you should just, you know, kind of dance back into the background of this stage play for a little bit and pretend you're not here.

00:34:29.940 That's the move you should be making if you're David Eby.

00:34:32.620 Don't, like, start trying to make yourself, like, the champion of Canada.

00:34:37.200 You're, like, literally the king of fentanyl.

00:34:39.340 Can we stop?

00:34:40.540 Like, can we please shut up for a second?

00:34:42.780 Anyways, I'll get back to Keith here.

00:34:43.980 We're how Donald Trump is backpedaling on, hey, I'm going to make things cheaper.

00:34:47.560 Whoops, I can't.

00:34:48.480 You're going to see the exact same thing from Pierre Polyev.

00:34:50.800 Oh, I said I'd axed the tax.

00:34:52.440 Well, I can't do that right yet.

00:34:53.740 And you're going to see it over and over again.

00:34:55.680 The only difference is people like the million people who are helped with the dental plan, they're not going to be helped anymore because he's going to cut all those things because he wants to save money so that he can have more money to give to corporations, more corporate buyouts and things like that.

00:35:08.600 Right. So he has lobbyists for Loblaws working on his staff, things like that.

00:35:13.120 So this is not the time for us to take a chance on a person like Pierre Polyev with Trump in power in the U.S. talking about our resources and us joining the states and all this anti-woke junk.

00:35:23.700 The only people who talk about woke is conservatives and Republicans because everybody else is like, yeah, whatever.

00:35:29.700 Right. So we just want people to be true.

00:35:31.440 What are you talking? What is he talking about?

00:35:33.020 In Canada and in the U.S., anti-woke type stances tend to pull very well with the general public.

00:35:38.780 But also there was like five conspiracy theories there in a very short period of time.

00:35:44.000 So Polyev is going to he is lying about being able to reduce prices.

00:35:48.340 Also, that thing about Trump admitting he can't reduce prices.

00:35:51.220 He was candid and said prices might not go down when I'm in.

00:35:55.800 You know, they might be able to, but at least we could stabilize them and make them not go up.

00:35:59.580 So that's just an outright like fabrication of what Trump said.

00:36:02.940 But he's just like Polyev's not going to cancel the carbon tax and then he's going to take the money and then he is going to give it.

00:36:08.600 To corporations, it's conspiratorial thinking that leads you to basically make a statement where there's a big dot, dot, dot between there is like money being given to corporations.

00:36:20.000 Like, what do you mean? How would he do that?

00:36:22.780 That doesn't even make sense.

00:36:23.820 And I even and I even know the person he's mentioning as a Loblaws, the Loblaws lobbyist.

00:36:29.860 They were the one who got me kicked out of my nomination.

00:36:32.400 You know, there are some bad people around.

00:36:35.020 But how is was Polyev just going to give Loblaws a billion dollars?

00:36:39.520 Wasn't it Trudeau who was giving out contracts to grocery stores and pharmacies that had like grocery stores that had pharmacies in it to give out the covid vaccines?

00:36:49.260 Weren't they given like massive handouts to do something that anyone else could have done?

00:36:52.600 Yeah, that'd be an interesting case study is to look at how much money was handed out during covid for things like that, because it's going to be obscene amounts of money once we get clarification.

00:37:04.520 The data seems to not really be coming out.

00:37:07.120 They're kind of keeping that hush, hush, hush.

00:37:09.440 It seems to be hard to find stuff like that right now.

00:37:11.960 Do you know how that dental plan lie works as well?

00:37:14.740 The whole like he's depriving a million people of dental care.

00:37:17.600 Well, OK, so you benefit like in argument, like one million people benefit.

00:37:23.940 So 40 million people don't.

00:37:26.120 And.

00:37:27.480 Well, I was going to say that he and this is why the liberals phrase it this way, that since the universal dental care plan came into effect, a million people have gotten dental care.

00:37:39.060 They never actually prove that those people are using universal dental, but a million people since the program has come into effect have gotten dental care.

00:37:47.600 Like, well, how many people would have gotten dental care without the program in place?

00:37:52.040 And I would assume it's probably the same number, because frankly, dental care actually doesn't cost that much.

00:37:56.980 Like it can be tight on a budget these days because of how high taxes are in are in Canada and inflation.

00:38:03.060 But I just looked like Alberta Blue Cross the other day.

00:38:06.060 If you were just to get dental care plan, your monthly cost and it would go down, obviously, if you're bundling it with other insurance would be like 30 bucks.

00:38:15.060 Yeah, that's 30 bucks that you couldn't spend on something else, obviously.

00:38:18.340 And that's kind of painful these days.

00:38:20.020 But like 30 bucks is not that much.

00:38:21.960 And I guarantee you, we're all paying more than 30 bucks into making this universal dental care plan work, which basically gets you like half a teeth cleaning every year.

00:38:30.860 I don't know what it actually shakes out to, but I do know a lot of people were going with the expectation they would get free dental and then were shocked to find out.

00:38:38.440 Like, no, no, no, like you're paying, it's only covered up to this much and you're on the hook.

00:38:43.580 Yeah.

00:38:44.760 So you're on the hook.

00:38:46.220 It's not free.

00:38:47.680 Well, it's not free.

00:38:48.320 And the problem is a lot of dentists don't want to take it because they're effectively working for like minimum wage in order to like service those people.

00:38:55.780 Because the dental care plan costs a lot for the government to administer and then once a dentist takes it, the payout to make the budget, to make the dental care plan even slightly realistic in terms of being able to operate, they only pay the dentist out like very little to do anything.

00:39:14.700 So like a teeth cleaning does not give the dentist a very good payout.

00:39:17.960 So they might as well be working minimum wage.

00:39:19.940 So the people who are actually signing up for the dental care plan are usually like extremely new dentists with not a lot of clients.

00:39:27.420 I don't know.

00:39:28.200 I don't know enough about it, but I do know.

00:39:30.040 The way I look at it is you have 40 million people that are hurting.

00:39:33.520 And so if a million, it's like, it's like take any regime, right?

00:39:37.420 You can always find like you can go to any communist nation and find an essential group of people that backs the government that benefits from them being in power.

00:39:44.900 Yeah.

00:39:45.340 But if the ratio is one to 40, that's not a great ratio.

00:39:48.220 We live in a democracy.

00:39:49.220 You try to strike a middle where it's 50 plus one at a minimum, right? 0.75

00:39:54.520 I wonder with all these programs, like the new school lunch program, the universal pharmacare, which only covers a few drugs, universal dental, all these different things, the carbon tax rebates.

00:40:07.780 Let's just pretend that it's paying people up more than they're having to suffer in terms of cost increases and whatnot and paying at the pump.

00:40:15.460 But even if we assume all that, why didn't we need this like, you know, 10 years ago when Harper was still the prime minister?

00:40:23.080 Harper was not perfect. 1.00

00:40:24.360 But why is it that we needed the programs more as time went on, even pre-COVID, even before the economic downturn?

00:40:32.600 Why is it that more people needed support than ever?

00:40:35.440 Because people didn't need the support back like 30 years ago.

00:40:37.980 These would be vote losers if you proposed universal dental in an election back in the 1980s, because people just think that that's, you know, ridiculously gratuitous government spending.

00:40:47.520 None of this stuff was required for Trudeau, right?

00:40:52.500 They have to keep rolling out more and more programs, and we're already broke.

00:40:56.420 Yeah.

00:40:57.040 Well, let's look.

00:40:57.740 He's finishing it up here.

00:40:59.220 Treated fairly in Canada.

00:41:00.840 We're not going to get that with a leader who wants to be the next Donald Trump.

00:41:04.240 So if you voted liberal last time, vote liberal again.

00:41:07.060 Carbon tax isn't going anywhere.

00:41:08.440 The rebates will.

00:41:09.260 You won't get any money back, right?

00:41:10.900 So about 80% of the country gets money back right now.

00:41:13.840 0% will get money back under Pierre Polly.

00:41:16.800 And then we're going to see cuts to health care.

00:41:19.780 We're going to see cuts to education, just like we're seeing in Alberta, just like we're seeing in Ontario.

00:41:25.240 So if you want that at the federal level, then sure, go right ahead.

00:41:28.420 Vote for Pierre Polly.

00:41:31.000 Trust me, bro.

00:41:33.160 Yeah, yeah.

00:41:34.540 My big critique on Smith is she spends too much. 0.98

00:41:38.060 He's increased spending 13% since she got in as premier.

00:41:41.820 Do people think that she still cut the education system and health care system? 0.99

00:41:46.460 Since she got in?

00:41:47.680 She hasn't.

00:41:48.760 Nothing's been cut.

00:41:50.100 That's the thing that drove me nuts here.

00:41:52.660 Like, same thing.

00:41:53.720 Sorry, go ahead.

00:41:54.600 She picked the two stupidest.

00:41:56.400 Yeah, he picked the two stupidest examples possible.

00:42:00.180 Well, it's, yeah.

00:42:01.120 Like, a conservative standpoint on this is like, I always tell people, like, okay, if you are in your personal household, the credit card's max.

00:42:08.040 You don't go, but I got an increase on the limit, so let's go out and spend more with, like, with the government.

00:42:14.680 It's like, no, we can just keep raising the deficit.

00:42:17.000 It's like, yeah, that causes inflation.

00:42:18.600 And then they roll out more government programs to address said inflation.

00:42:21.840 And it just keeps spiraling until you get grease.

00:42:25.060 Like, you reach the point of no return where everyone has so many entrenched benefits and goodies that they feel like, I'm not going to give up my quality of lifestyle.

00:42:33.720 And then the whole system burns and you have to rebuild the rubble.

00:42:37.480 And that's, you know, throughout history happens again and again.

00:42:40.480 And, like, let's, like, let's be clear, too.

00:42:42.860 Ontario and Alberta have been increasing education and health care spending.

00:42:46.900 Maybe it's not quite keeping up with per capita, but the raw dollars are going up.

00:42:50.700 And also, you don't need, especially as, like, you don't need the per capita rate to stay the same because at some point, the Calgary Board of Education is fully funded.

00:43:02.920 Just because another student gets added doesn't mean the Calgary Board of Education needs more dollars or the Ontario or Toronto Board of Education.

00:43:09.780 They don't need more dollars because it's a singular administrative unit.

00:43:13.320 They don't need an extra administrator because the classroom has more kids in it.

00:43:16.360 They are just administering curriculum and standards and whatnot.

00:43:20.020 That doesn't actually require more money.

00:43:21.560 But in British Columbia, they've been increasing spending way higher than what they need to keep up with inflation.

00:43:30.040 And their health care system has been going dramatically down in quality over time.

00:43:34.020 It's almost like it doesn't matter.

00:43:35.320 But also, since the 1990s, has there been any government outside of the debt crisis of the 90s?

00:43:42.100 Has there been any government who's like, let's just cut health care and education?

00:43:45.660 That will make us popular.

00:43:46.980 Nobody's ever done it.

00:43:48.340 Even if I was in government, I wouldn't cut education or health care spending.

00:43:52.180 I would reorganize it to go from useless crap to useful stuff.

00:43:56.080 And then we maybe don't need increases for a while.

00:43:58.200 But nobody is politically suicidal enough to cut those things.

00:44:03.260 Well, Polyev's going to cut your pension.

00:44:04.920 In what universe is Polyev cutting pensions?

00:44:09.560 Yeah.

00:44:10.240 And I just think back to when I was in school.

00:44:13.640 I guess I'm a little bit older than you, right?

00:44:15.520 Probably six, seven years older.

00:44:17.080 Yeah, I'm 25.

00:44:18.380 Yeah.

00:44:18.640 So, I got five years on you.

00:44:20.420 That's not much.

00:44:21.200 Like, I remember going in public school, grade, you know, kindergarten through grade like seven, eight.

00:44:27.220 There was like routinely 28 to 35 in a class.

00:44:31.120 We had split classes.

00:44:32.560 And guess what?

00:44:33.660 Grades were actually better then than they are now.

00:44:35.860 They keep spending more, but the results keep getting worse.

00:44:38.520 And I think one of the things that is the driver of that, and I thought about it quite a bit over the years, is like we used to have separate classrooms for kids that had, you know, mental illness or behavioral issues.

00:44:51.240 Like there was a separate.

00:44:52.380 So, you didn't have those distractions where teachers now, they're already, you know, the minimal resources spreading in among a bunch of kids.

00:44:58.900 But now they're having to address behavioral issues that are distracting everyone in the classroom.

00:45:03.660 That wasn't an issue then.

00:45:04.580 So, I mean, there's that element of it too, and it's almost like a symptom of like that everybody's a winner and we can't tell anybody, you know, they're being bad.

00:45:13.540 Did you see the statistic out of the U.S.?

00:45:16.280 And I can guarantee it's probably the same, if not worse, in Canada, that administrative costs and positions have literally doubled since 2000 in the education system.

00:45:27.320 And you can even see, I've heard people say that, you know, 20, 30 years ago, schools had a principal, vice principal who usually doubled as a teacher for like for other classes.

00:45:38.020 And you'd have like a superintendent for the region and a few other administrative support staff positions, you know, secretaries, somebody who works the office.

00:45:46.180 And they say these days, like schools have two co-principals, a bunch of vice principals.

00:45:51.140 They got like a bunch of random people just sitting around doing paperwork about nothing.

00:45:55.600 And we don't have like a classroom size crisis.

00:46:00.640 We have a lack of people actually doing what they came to the education system to do in the first place.

00:46:06.260 But because teacher salaries have actually been, I would agree, held down because administrative positions keep eating up the salaries because they tend to, if you work in HR in the school system, you make way more than the teacher does.

00:46:18.000 So teachers are incentivized to work as little as possible as a teacher and try and jump up to one of those administrative positions.

00:46:25.060 The same thing with the health care system.

00:46:26.900 Our health care systems are very well funded.

00:46:29.420 The problem is that we fund paperwork, not actual health care.

00:46:33.380 Yeah, I mean, it's political suicide, right?

00:46:35.420 Like if you ever went in and you're like, listen, we have too many positions in the education system.

00:46:40.120 We need to cut some of those admin positions.

00:46:41.700 The first line out of the liberals or the NDPs is the conservatives or whoever says it is they're going to cut education.

00:46:49.000 They don't care about your children. 0.87

00:46:50.380 It's like, no, listen, I just think the grades keep getting worse and we keep spending more money.

00:46:54.820 And at some point you've got to call that stupid.

00:46:56.720 Call a spade a spade and address the real issue.

00:46:59.940 And what point does it become a conspiracy theory to say that they're going to cut education?

00:47:05.920 They're going to cut your pension.

00:47:07.580 They're going to push your grandmother down the stairs because that's what it turns into. 1.00

00:47:10.520 They're going to do bad stuff.

00:47:12.340 Like, no, name me the last government who actually cut spending, not like technically the per capita spending.

00:47:18.840 If you squint went down a little bit, it went from each student has $10,000 spent on them per year or whatever the amount is.

00:47:25.000 And now it's $9,995 or whatever.

00:47:29.300 No, when was the actual raw dollar cut that was made?

00:47:33.040 They can never tell you, but it allows them to basically claim all sorts of things that the conservatives are going to do that are just obviously not true.

00:47:41.060 They're obviously not going to cut any of these like actual needed services.

00:47:45.920 But maybe you should go into the Statistics Canada data crunching that you've been doing recently because I'm interested in that.

00:47:53.080 Yeah, I'll pull it up.

00:47:53.960 This is all from Stats Canada.

00:47:55.180 I just ran it through a percentage calculator.

00:47:57.520 October 2015 when Trudeau took power to October 2024 was the latest data.

00:48:02.840 And I'll list this was just like typical stuff I get at the grocery store.

00:48:06.340 Ground beef, one kilogram, up 38%.

00:48:10.080 Well, that's 27, sorry, 2017 to 2024.

00:48:13.780 Couldn't go back any further.

00:48:15.260 Bacon, up 15.8%.

00:48:17.300 Chicken breast, 8.5%.

00:48:19.560 Four liter of milk, 25%.

00:48:22.400 Butters up, 38%.

00:48:23.940 Eggs up, 39%.

00:48:25.460 10 pounds potatoes, 10.77%.

00:48:28.620 Strawberries, 36.7%.

00:48:31.420 Pasta, 500 grams, 32.6%.

00:48:35.120 Canola oil, 32%.

00:48:37.200 Laundry detergent, 17.5%.

00:48:39.500 And everybody's favorite, gas per liter is up 43.75%.

00:48:44.920 But, you know, it's never been better.

00:48:47.280 That's making up the margin of what people actually were able to save back in the day.

00:48:51.280 I think I've seen the average savings for a Canadian family, a household savings, is literally 0% at this point.

00:48:58.680 People don't save anything.

00:49:00.880 If anything, people probably have to expend more than they take in.

00:49:03.720 And they're having to jump, they're having to claw into the savings from previous years.

00:49:09.000 And that's, like, a country in decline when literally nobody can afford to even save a dollar.

00:49:14.200 Like, unless you're just going to eat, like, potato soup every day.

00:49:17.720 Yeah.

00:49:18.220 Like, go back to the old-timey cabbage soup.

00:49:20.020 Honestly, one of my favorite channels on YouTube, and I want to start doing this, and I kind of did this when I was in Abbotsford for a while.

00:49:27.940 There's this channel called Townsends, and it's, like, 18th century cooking.

00:49:31.200 And I want to do, like, a whole six months or a year of, like, hyperfrugality, of spending as little as possible to get through the year calorie-wise without, like, only eating, like, bread or something like that.

00:49:43.280 Because, you know, I'm probably going to have to pay for that with diabetes or something if I did that.

00:49:47.760 But I did that in Abbotsford.

00:49:49.860 I'd only buy breakfast sausages, like, 1.3 kilograms of breakfast sausages, two days before they would expire.

00:49:56.680 And I kept going back to the same grocery store and seeing if they were available.

00:50:01.700 $7.31 for 1.3 kilograms, by the way.

00:50:05.120 A little tip there for you, Greg, with your massive family.

00:50:09.560 Jeez.

00:50:09.880 Yeah, and then, like, another four years of Trudeau, I might have to, you know, do that diet.

00:50:14.160 So, you know, we got an election hopefully coming up soon.

00:50:16.620 So, hopefully, we can, you know, turn the page from this liberal government, finally.

00:50:22.680 You gave me Tim Walz's wife flashbacks.

00:50:27.700 You ever see that clip of her being like, we got to turn the page.

00:50:31.820 Turn the page.

00:50:32.880 Like, for, like, two minutes until everyone started chanting it with her.

00:50:37.600 Yeah, well, like, okay, so back to this inflation talk, though.

00:50:41.180 I did some other, okay.

00:50:42.340 Bank of Canada, if you trust the government's own stats, right?

00:50:45.260 They say 2% is the benchmark per year for inflation.

00:50:51.700 That's their target.

00:50:52.840 So, in nine years, your target would be 18%.

00:50:55.120 They've been patting themselves on the back so hard because it's, like, 2.5%.

00:50:58.760 Yeah, well, right.

00:51:00.440 But so, it's over 27% since Trudeau took power, according to the Bank of Canada's own stats.

00:51:06.480 So, I don't consider that a patent.

00:51:08.900 So, in 10 years, your purchasing power has decreased by 27% under Trudeau.

00:51:13.700 And that's the government's numbers.

00:51:14.760 That's assuming you trust the government to not massage the data and give themselves the best outcome.

00:51:21.160 And then you go into stuff like Canadian Mortgage Association data.

00:51:24.500 And the average rent price in Canada is up roughly, I think, 42% in 10 years, nine years.

00:51:30.640 Right?

00:51:31.280 So, they're...

00:51:32.080 I've seen it.

00:51:32.920 It's like, it's borderline double.

00:51:35.860 Yeah.

00:51:36.280 Like, I did it based on a two-bedroom.

00:51:38.420 I went through their data from 2015 to, I think, 2022 was the latest data they had.

00:51:43.240 And you're looking at 42%.

00:51:44.900 Like, I remember, and this is the conversation I had.

00:51:48.200 Like, how did you end up in Saskatchewan, Greg?

00:51:50.100 Like, I'm a little bitter about it.

00:51:51.320 I don't know if you know that.

00:51:52.740 But, like, I got family.

00:51:54.240 They're 2,800 kilometers away.

00:51:55.500 It's not like I, like, don't like my family and don't want to be around them.

00:51:58.420 I'm not, you know, I'm not one of those guys.

00:52:00.620 It's just like, yeah, it's much better if I'm far, far away.

00:52:03.460 No, I was forced into it because I was living in Kitchener-Waterloo.

00:52:07.220 We were in a two-bedroom apartment.

00:52:08.640 Tried to move for three, four years.

00:52:10.880 This was not a nice place.

00:52:12.100 This was, like, pretty run down, in my opinion, pretty gross.

00:52:17.340 Two years we were in that place.

00:52:19.060 When we started renting it, I think it was 950 plus utilities or 900.

00:52:23.380 By the time we left, it was 1,070 plus utilities,

00:52:26.640 which is really reasonable by the standards in that area now.

00:52:30.420 But if we re-rented it, it was 1,600 plus utilities.

00:52:34.100 Now I think it's more like 1,800, 1,900.

00:52:36.120 And this is not a nice place again.

00:52:37.760 So for three years, we tried to get out of this apartment

00:52:40.560 and get into a semi-affordable rental situation, like a house or something like that.

00:52:46.260 Because buying a house was basically already off the table.

00:52:48.480 Because I wasn't a smart guy and at 18, put every penny away for three years

00:52:52.560 and bought a house by 21.

00:52:53.720 Because basically, that was what you had to do.

00:52:55.940 Because by the time I was, like, 22, 23, a home that was, like, 150, 200 grand

00:53:00.360 was all of a sudden $400,000, $500,000, $600,000.

00:53:03.900 So in three years, we applied to, like, I don't know how many places,

00:53:08.360 but, like, a lot of different places.

00:53:10.220 And it was like, okay, I have four kids.

00:53:13.860 I have a couple pets.

00:53:15.440 And I'm young and starting out in my career.

00:53:17.500 I don't have perfect credit score on and on, right?

00:53:19.960 So you're competing against, like, Agnes and Frank.

00:53:23.620 And they're retired and worked at NASA.

00:53:26.020 And they got a perfect credit score.

00:53:27.460 And they have no animals.

00:53:28.300 And they don't party.

00:53:29.040 And they go to bed at 7 o'clock.

00:53:30.520 And they're applying to the same place that you're trying to get into.

00:53:33.660 Who are you picking?

00:53:34.680 Right?

00:53:35.620 We would apply to a place and be like, we already got 70 applications.

00:53:38.500 And it was like, you've had it on for two days.

00:53:40.420 They're like, yeah, we know.

00:53:41.420 We already closed the process.

00:53:42.600 We already got somebody.

00:53:44.260 I was door knocking at one point in my riding.

00:53:46.440 And we were just walking around the corner hitting some houses.

00:53:49.080 And there's a house for sale.

00:53:51.340 Like, I walked into the call sack.

00:53:53.540 To the left, there's, like, three houses before this one being sold in the corner.

00:53:56.960 And by the time we got past that house being shown, I think we saw, like, seven or eight cars pull up to tourists.

00:54:03.440 It was, like, the second day that it was on the market.

00:54:05.800 So this was probably even worse the previous day.

00:54:07.840 We're seeing, like, the people who weren't able to get out the day before.

00:54:11.620 It's nuts.

00:54:13.340 So all this to say, by what metric is the country better?

00:54:18.020 And that's the thing.

00:54:19.400 We're watching videos from people.

00:54:21.200 And I want to play this one last one because I think it really puts a fine point on it.

00:54:24.540 We're watching people who don't suffer these problems.

00:54:28.120 They probably owned their own home five, six-plus years ago.

00:54:32.280 They make big enough income.

00:54:34.300 They probably don't even know what the carbon tax rebate is.

00:54:36.880 They probably make six figures.

00:54:38.480 They probably don't.

00:54:40.020 Like, they are doing this for fashionability reasons.

00:54:43.340 I am liberal because I'm not conservative is, like, the mantra, effectively.

00:54:46.940 Yeah, well, if you have the privilege of being isolated from the reality that many Canadians like myself are facing, yeah, I can see how you, whatever, you fall in love with the sunny ways rhetoric and this idea of, like, kumbaya, it can all be amazing.

00:55:02.840 Not looking at the fiscal reality that we're driving at the cliff.

00:55:07.640 We're pretty well already over the cliff at this point.

00:55:10.100 And the Trudeau government has been driving 100 miles an hour towards oblivion.

00:55:14.900 You know, they use the conservative talking point.

00:55:16.900 They smash through the guardrail.

00:55:18.820 And now they're blaming each other.

00:55:20.560 And they're trying to kick Trudeau out the driver's seat.

00:55:22.520 And he refuses to go.

00:55:23.900 That's always the thing I hate.

00:55:25.540 That the, I hate the idea that now, like, people are trying to pretend, like, ooh, Chrystia Freeland is a hero.

00:55:31.900 And I stand with her.

00:55:33.460 Like, stop.

00:55:34.060 No.

00:55:34.600 She was the one who helped Trudeau back the bus over Bill Morneau multiple times.

00:55:38.760 I don't feel bad for any of these people.

00:55:40.960 It's just funny at this point, watching them all backbiting at the same time that they were attacking anyone for suggesting there might be problems.

00:55:48.340 No, she's seen the writing on the wall.

00:55:50.360 She's a smart enough woman, right?

00:55:51.720 Like, I've read her book, Plutocrats.

00:55:54.280 She's a smart enough woman.

00:55:55.540 She was a former journalist.

00:55:56.920 But she was willing to stab whoever needed to be stabbed to go up the political hierarchy. 1.00

00:56:02.520 And she was willing to be Trudeau's trenchant for many, many, many years.

00:56:06.420 And it reached a point where she even realized, Trudeau is so unpopular, it's only a matter of time.

00:56:13.140 And I'll be damned, she said to herself, if I'm going to be Jody Wilson-Raybould and be shuffled out or kicked out and he's going to use me as a scapegoat.

00:56:21.560 No, I'm going to get him first.

00:56:23.260 So at least she had the foresight to see that.

00:56:25.280 I think she's trying to save herself in University Rosedale, become a hero to some of the metropolitan type residents who kind of soured on Trudeau.

00:56:35.680 And then you can basically make yourself a Raybould in order to gather people around you to push you back into office.

00:56:41.160 I just made a video today and I put it out arguing, and I think this is true.

00:56:44.780 I think Trudeau, one of the main reasons why he wants to stay prime minister is I guarantee if he stops being prime minister, he either has to resign from office or he's not winning re-election in Papineau.

00:56:54.440 Because the numbers in Papineau are already not very good.

00:56:58.280 338 gives him like a 75-26 or 74-26 against the NDP, which is not great.

00:57:05.240 And then Poliwave run by Sheree Attiste, who's actually pretty on point with a lot of his predictions for elections.

00:57:10.640 He actually gives the slight edge to the NDP in Papineau at this point.

00:57:14.780 And I don't know why he – well, I just think he's an extreme narcissist.

00:57:18.980 I think that's why he's wanting to stay on.

00:57:21.040 I think he knows that if he stops being leader too, I think he wants to go down swinging and then thinking that he can come back later like his dad did.

00:57:30.420 His dad sucked, but I think that he also has not even an ounce of the goodwill that his dad had.

00:57:36.500 But here's Creek Pete.

00:57:37.600 The only thing that matters in Canada right now is whether Trudeau is going to resign.

00:57:46.100 This Freeland fiasco and a cabinet shuffle, the push for him to resign has never been stronger, myself included.

00:57:52.760 On Monday, I put out a video saying that he should probably resign.

00:57:55.580 But it's got nothing to do with Trudeau.

00:57:56.880 It's about the media onslaught, the bullying, and the nonstop gossip.

00:58:02.520 Did you know that Trudeau is being bullied?

00:58:04.580 This is why I want to show you this.

00:58:06.260 This is like the main pusher on X aside from BK Belton trying to argue that it's like actually the media who is backstabbing Justin Trudeau right now.

00:58:14.740 And just look at the house.

00:58:16.220 I don't want to go after someone for what they own unless they're a hypocrite, and that's why I'm going after this guy.

00:58:23.240 But look at this house.

00:58:24.740 Do you think that this is the type of man who is struggling?

00:58:27.860 This man who I've seen other parts of his house does not look like he can't afford a renovation every a few years or so.

00:58:35.980 And he is going to tell you that actually it's the media that's lying about Justin Trudeau and that actually all the policies are quite good.

00:58:44.740 The only who believes that that's what I want to like who's the target demographic because all we've watched the last nine years of Trudeau liberal government is the media carry water for this government like every scandal, every turn blowing through budgets, massive deficits, like scandal after scandal, and they found a way to spin every one of them.

00:59:06.120 It was just four days ago that Polyev had the dust up with that lady on CTV News because she was just verbatim citing like government press releases.

00:59:15.120 And that's where like people are saying that Polyev is a misogynist, like because he pointed out that all these programs don't actually work.

00:59:23.900 But she was just verbatim repeating liberal talking points and that he like mocked her for that and now is considered sexist.

00:59:29.740 The media is not against Trudeau.

00:59:32.020 They have run out of excuses.

00:59:33.520 They don't know what to say.

00:59:35.380 And because they don't know what to say, apparently they have now betrayed the man.

00:59:38.720 But I'll let him keep going on this.

00:59:40.040 If I was him, I'd be like, fuck all y'all.

00:59:43.440 I'm out.

00:59:44.120 But I got to admit, I'm back on the fence a little bit with that.

00:59:47.880 And it's mostly to do with the foreign interference thing.

00:59:51.780 That's really what I think that he should hold on until that report comes out.

00:59:56.260 And I'll tell you why.

00:59:58.240 And it's this guy.

00:59:59.820 Not the orange dimwitted puppet.

01:00:02.740 President Musk.

01:00:04.520 The unelected tech bro that is seemingly running the world right now.

01:00:08.900 I have a real problem with that.

01:00:12.260 He's now backing the AFD.

01:00:15.520 The far right extremist schmazi party in Germany.

01:00:19.920 He's going to bankroll Farage in the UK Reform Party as well.

01:00:23.740 What does this have to do with pure poly?

01:00:27.340 They are literally reaching for Elon Musk in the United States.

01:00:32.080 Elon is why he wants for us to Trudeau to now stay in office.

01:00:36.380 Yeah, it's the association assassination, right?

01:00:40.280 If I make enough associations that are vague and plausible enough, you're not stopping and going, wait a minute.

01:00:47.760 How does that make sense?

01:00:48.880 Because you don't have time.

01:00:49.780 So if I just rife off five in a row and go, well, that's associated with this and this and this and this.

01:00:54.600 Therefore, Piers back.

01:00:56.800 And that's all it is.

01:00:57.720 Well, it's like the key video we just looked at where he just names a bunch of things that are supposedly being cut without evidence.

01:01:02.500 And, you know, if you disagree with him, of course you disagree with me.

01:01:06.520 You watch conservative propaganda.

01:01:08.200 Especially this guy, Creepete, is the smuggest man I've ever seen in my entire life.

01:01:13.300 Like, people should look at his videos where he's, like, pretending to laugh the entire time.

01:01:17.360 It's so ridiculous.

01:01:19.200 Also, I even have to address this.

01:01:21.280 Like, dude, stop talking.

01:01:23.860 You don't know what you're saying.

01:01:25.340 There are so many.

01:01:26.120 I even say this even happens in conservative media.

01:01:28.820 You don't know what you're talking about.

01:01:30.780 Stop acting so confident.

01:01:33.200 The issues are a little bit more complicated than my team needs to win.

01:01:37.120 Yeah, if only it were so easy, right?

01:01:40.640 I've even thought about this, like, unrelated.

01:01:43.080 And this is, sorry, maybe a bad tangent.

01:01:45.020 But, like, semi-tide, right?

01:01:47.020 We're talking about cost of living and wasteful government spending.

01:01:49.960 Trudeau, I think since he took power, it's over $50 billion worth of foreign aid.

01:01:58.160 So he basically doubled where Harper was.

01:02:00.000 Harper was, like, $5 to $6 billion annually.

01:02:02.240 And he went, as soon as he took power, it was, like, $6 and a half, $7 billion in the number.

01:02:07.800 But this last, like, two years, it's, like, $15 billion now annually.

01:02:12.000 And I'm not even exactly against the idea of foreign aid.

01:02:15.640 It's a good diplomacy tool.

01:02:17.560 You should be friendly to friendly countries.

01:02:19.820 But the foreign aid, where not only is it way too much these days, it's useless spending.

01:02:24.620 We're paying for abortions in West Africa. 0.98

01:02:28.140 Like, that's not only, like, bad spending.

01:02:29.960 That's, like, immoral spending.

01:02:31.120 So I did a whole thread on that, right?

01:02:33.820 Where I pulled up how we were, like, funding diarrhea research in Bangladesh.

01:02:38.860 It was, like, $16 million.

01:02:40.400 Just ridiculous stuff.

01:02:42.000 But there is, I have pictures somewhere.

01:02:43.800 Just give me a second.

01:02:45.160 Because I pulled it up.

01:02:46.820 And I was looking through the foreign aid breakdown.

01:02:49.040 And I thought it was really interesting.

01:02:50.440 So from 20...

01:02:52.000 Don't you pull it up on screen for you?

01:02:53.100 Yeah, sure, sure.

01:02:55.200 2017 to 2022, 23, $52 billion spent by the Trudeau government.

01:03:01.140 This was the fun part.

01:03:02.540 The breakdown of it.

01:03:03.460 Because you're, like, you're mentioning, right?

01:03:04.760 Like, humanitarian aid.

01:03:06.040 Most Canadians...

01:03:06.880 Maybe zoom in on that for us for a second.

01:03:09.640 Yeah.

01:03:10.160 Is that better?

01:03:11.180 Do a little digital pinch.

01:03:12.880 Yeah, thanks.

01:03:13.280 There we go.

01:03:14.160 Yeah, because the humanitarian argument I can understand, right?

01:03:17.600 Like, there's a hurricane.

01:03:19.060 There's an earthquake.

01:03:20.020 Canadians have the goodwill.

01:03:21.340 We want to make trade inroads with the country.

01:03:25.400 Let's put down, you know, here's $200 million for this big issue that you guys are having.

01:03:29.800 We'll help build a water treatment plant.

01:03:31.720 But you're going to buy some of our oil or something like that.

01:03:33.820 That's fine.

01:03:35.060 Which is...

01:03:35.860 By the way, foreign aid is often used as a policy tool.

01:03:38.600 Like, I'll help you here, but we're going to get this trade back, vice versa.

01:03:43.880 You can make arguments whether that's good or bad.

01:03:46.120 But I thought it was funny.

01:03:47.720 Like, humanitarian aid is third in the list in terms of where it went.

01:03:51.460 Number one, health and sexual, and then other aid expenditures.

01:03:55.380 And then I can break this down a little bit more.

01:03:58.420 Global affairs got $33 billion of it.

01:04:01.420 Here it is.

01:04:02.340 I'll zoom in on this one.

01:04:05.000 See, breakdown percentage-wise, gender equality, 52% of it.

01:04:10.960 Wow.

01:04:11.980 And then it goes into environmental sustainability, 22%, climate change.

01:04:16.840 They have two different...

01:04:18.860 Apparently, they don't care that much about the environment

01:04:20.860 because the environment kind of gets short shrift here by the liberals

01:04:23.540 compared to gender equality. 0.89

01:04:25.660 Well, like, gender equality is like the Frank's red hot sauce 1.00

01:04:28.740 of government handouts for foreign aid.

01:04:31.140 It's like, you know, gender equality for this, that, and the other in Ethiopia,

01:04:35.300 and they hand out, like, $30, $40 million.

01:04:37.460 Also, are they spending this money in Iran as well?

01:04:41.920 Like, no.

01:04:42.580 They're spending it in countries that don't really need it,

01:04:45.180 don't have problems, or whatever.

01:04:47.260 But, yeah, it's ridiculous.

01:04:49.000 And, my goodness.

01:04:52.420 Well, that's the thing, right?

01:04:53.380 So, Canadians have this goodwill, humanitarian aid,

01:04:56.460 but we're talking $15 billion annually right now where it stands,

01:04:59.880 and, like, 50% of that is into gender stuff.

01:05:03.200 Do you remember when ISIS was slaughtering people

01:05:06.100 and the liberals literally sent, like, winter jackets?

01:05:10.160 No.

01:05:10.940 I do remember that, but it's not a while.

01:05:12.880 That's, like, the most representative thing about foreign aid from the liberals.

01:05:16.300 Even all their Ukraine aid is utterly worthless

01:05:19.120 because we don't send them any offensive weapons.

01:05:22.140 We don't send them anything.

01:05:23.160 I don't think we started on that.

01:05:24.600 That frustrates me more than anything.

01:05:26.460 Why are we, okay, Canadian military is broke.

01:05:28.660 We're not even, that's why I think we are literally,

01:05:29.400 do you know, we're sending them drones,

01:05:31.560 non-offensive drones made in China.

01:05:33.720 You know, a Russian ally?

01:05:35.260 Yeah, that's probably not going to have a bunch of data leaked for the Russians.

01:05:38.360 Just pay, we should just pay Russia to send Ukraine stuff, 0.99

01:05:41.300 or North Korea.

01:05:42.420 Maybe we'll do that.

01:05:43.460 That sounds fun.

01:05:45.100 It's wild.

01:05:45.920 No, it frustrates me.

01:05:47.020 The whole Ukraine thing,

01:05:49.060 I'm not even going to say where I stand on it

01:05:51.500 because that's a whole other video.

01:05:53.200 But, like, the Canadian military is broken.

01:05:55.520 We don't have our own equipment, and you're sending it.

01:05:58.400 Like, that's where I'm standing on it.

01:06:00.020 We're not even paying our own.

01:06:01.820 And then doubled back with, like,

01:06:03.640 okay, for every vehicle we send,

01:06:04.980 we're going to bring in two to our military, 0.86

01:06:06.640 or at least one to one.

01:06:07.960 Well, what the Americans do, 0.60

01:06:09.320 the Americans actually don't suffer a big loss

01:06:11.760 from sending anything.

01:06:12.960 They usually, what they do is send old U.S. military equipment

01:06:15.900 to Ukraine or to other allies,

01:06:17.840 even when there's no wars going on.

01:06:19.380 They do this because, you know,

01:06:20.660 you get some old trucks out of the bay,

01:06:22.300 you send them to a South American country, 0.98

01:06:24.400 or to, like, you know, the Dominican Republic.

01:06:26.940 They need some more trucks or tractors or whatever.

01:06:30.000 And then you build yourself some new military trucks and tractors.

01:06:33.140 That's how you do it.

01:06:34.180 What we do is we are just literally taking money

01:06:36.300 and burning it by giving useless aid to Ukraine,

01:06:39.380 and we pay China to provide it.

01:06:41.220 What?

01:06:42.000 That's insane.

01:06:43.100 What we should be doing is we should have a military good enough

01:06:45.660 that if something ages out,

01:06:46.680 we just send it to somebody else,

01:06:47.900 and then we basically give them Canadian,

01:06:50.840 like, we basically also then require them

01:06:52.580 to buy other stuff for us in the future if we gift this,

01:06:55.360 which the Americans do with Ukraine.

01:06:57.100 These are mostly based on loans, actually.

01:06:59.100 Yeah, Canadians who serve know that all of our equipment's out of date

01:07:03.000 and that we have no new equipment,

01:07:06.020 so why are we sending any equipment?

01:07:08.080 Like, but that's, like, that's what I mean.

01:07:10.240 I'm not even going to, like,

01:07:10.940 that's a hot topic for a lot of people.

01:07:13.800 But for me, it's just, like, how are we sending aid

01:07:16.900 when we don't have a military that's functional as is?

01:07:20.640 Yeah.

01:07:20.820 It'd be one thing if we were built up

01:07:22.320 and we had extra things we could do,

01:07:24.000 but it's, like, you're sending what we don't have to give,

01:07:26.980 and then it's not even really helpful at the same time.

01:07:29.700 Well, and then as you have personally experienced,

01:07:32.820 they gutted a lot of good people from stupid vaccine mandates

01:07:35.760 that were obviously coming down the pike 0.82

01:07:37.660 when you decided to jump out of the way.

01:07:39.900 Yeah, well, yeah, a little background.

01:07:41.900 I mean, it was basically I was a reservist

01:07:43.580 when COVID happened, told the unit to stand down,

01:07:47.860 and I hadn't even gone to basic yet,

01:07:49.540 and it was, I could see where it was heading

01:07:52.240 based on the military's going to be the first in line

01:07:56.140 for vaccines, and I just had a feeling

01:07:59.520 it was going to be mandated,

01:08:00.460 and I didn't feel comfortable based on my family's history.

01:08:03.020 So I got out to cover media.

01:08:05.160 That was kind of what I did.

01:08:06.300 I asked for a release to cover politics.

01:08:08.360 Can't talk about politics and be in the military

01:08:10.200 at the same time.

01:08:11.580 And that's how I got started in media.

01:08:12.960 But, yeah, you got people that were being dishonorably discharged

01:08:16.540 over refusing a vaccine,

01:08:18.060 only for the government that, like, two, three years later

01:08:20.380 turned around and go,

01:08:21.760 hey, please, please come back.

01:08:24.080 Like, we really need you guys.

01:08:26.100 Like, we were already in a major deficit.

01:08:28.380 March in line properly, apparently.

01:08:31.220 If you saw that video from Edmonton,

01:08:32.480 I like all the people, like, defending it.

01:08:33.960 They're new.

01:08:34.720 They're, but, yeah, but who's the idiot

01:08:36.700 who let them go out there like that?

01:08:38.280 That's the problem.

01:08:39.800 Who's the idiot who hasn't trained them properly?

01:08:41.880 We only did a few drill classes in, like, the,

01:08:45.360 like, we only did a few drill classes

01:08:47.080 in, like, the three months I was there.

01:08:48.720 And I can tell you in, like, three, four hours,

01:08:51.020 I've seen crisper movements out of a group of people

01:08:53.460 than that video.

01:08:54.900 It was bad.

01:08:56.240 You think even when you probably know

01:08:58.240 you're about to go into a situation

01:08:59.500 where we don't probably know what we're doing,

01:09:01.360 you think you'd like, okay, guys, huddle,

01:09:03.260 this is the way we're going to do it

01:09:04.520 to make it look decent.

01:09:06.400 You know what I mean?

01:09:07.120 Look at, like, you know, legs together.

01:09:08.800 We're going to try and get this done.

01:09:10.400 Everyone, look at your neighbor.

01:09:12.100 You know what I mean?

01:09:12.620 Like, that was, like, zero prep,

01:09:15.640 naive people being led by

01:09:17.100 completely incompetent bureaucrats.

01:09:19.360 But anyways, this is probably a good...

01:09:21.040 Symbolic of the liberal government.

01:09:23.060 That's what it was.

01:09:24.260 So this is probably a good place

01:09:25.860 for us to end here,

01:09:27.400 but I just want to remind everyone,

01:09:29.320 go and follow Greg Staley's channel,

01:09:32.020 Diverge Media,

01:09:32.980 linked in the description below

01:09:34.260 and the comments.

01:09:35.700 I do a lot of daily videos,

01:09:37.620 and I don't doubt that Greg

01:09:38.940 will probably start putting out more stuff,

01:09:40.420 but I would definitely subscribe to him

01:09:42.180 on the endorsement

01:09:43.020 that his investigative work is very good,

01:09:45.200 and you're probably going to get

01:09:46.260 a lot of very quality breakdowns

01:09:48.040 on stuff like inflation

01:09:49.240 and what the actual damage has been

01:09:52.000 by the numbers.

01:09:53.860 So maybe I'm signing up to make a video

01:09:56.300 you weren't planning on making, Greg,

01:09:57.780 but you have the research there,

01:09:58.900 so why not?

01:10:00.360 But is there anything left

01:10:02.400 that you want to remind the audience of?

01:10:05.480 Nope.

01:10:06.360 That's pretty much it.

01:10:07.400 Check out my work,

01:10:08.420 and there's going to be more consistent

01:10:10.220 going forward

01:10:11.000 in terms of shorter videos

01:10:12.280 and things like that.

01:10:13.880 But yeah,

01:10:16.000 Chudo's got to go. 0.99

01:10:17.180 I think that's all I need to say.

01:10:19.220 A good utilitarian way

01:10:20.420 of ending off the video.

01:10:21.820 Well, see everyone.

01:10:22.940 Make sure you like this video,

01:10:24.260 subscribe to the National Telegraph as well,

01:10:26.540 and I'll see you guys

01:10:27.620 in another video next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 28, 2024

Justin Trudeau support has always been fake (ft. Greg Staley - Diverge Media)

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