Greg Staley of Diverge Media joins me to talk about the Liberal Party's continued bleeding of support, and why it may have been caused by astroturf and fake media. We also talk about Pure Poly and the need for a full security clearance.
00:06:05.120We want a full security clearance done by you.
00:06:08.580Okay, and you don't need to wait until the end of January to do that.
00:06:10.940You can start the whole process right now and really get that underway so you can give us peace of mind
00:06:15.320so that we know you can pass a security clearance.
00:06:17.640Right, because there's a lot of sketchy things going on all over the world right now
00:06:21.020and we wouldn't want to fall into any of those sticky situations with somebody who can't pass a security clearance now, would we?
00:06:28.860I love the attempt at using populist rhetoric in this video.
00:06:35.600The whole, you know, the majority of Canadians don't want an election right now and that you work for us.
00:06:41.140I 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.
00:06:49.060Well, wasn't there just a poll recently, like, the majority of Canadians are calling for an election?
00:06:54.980So it's so far out to lunch that it's, like, laughable.
00:06:58.040Oh, he's probably mentioning polls from, like, a year ago or two years ago, back when people definitely didn't want an election
00:07:05.880because it was so soon after the last one.
00:07:07.860If you poll people on whether or not they think we need not just a new prime minister but a new government,
00:07:12.580it's literally, like, 89% of people think that we need a new government.
00:07:16.200Nobody 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.
00:07:27.360And that's where everything's become very fake, even with these influencers who, I guarantee you, believe what they're saying,
00:07:34.240but everything that they're doing is an artificial way of making it about the conservatives.
00:07:38.020So while they believe the things they're saying, I don't think they actually are acting in good faith in any way.
00:07:44.780And that's all the liberal stuff has had to turn into bad faith attacks over the last year.
00:07:49.400I can even have criticisms of the conservatives.
00:07:51.980But sometimes it will be like this on foreign interference, an issue that obviously has more to do with the liberals.
00:07:57.400It's now about Polyev because he doesn't want every single pet he's ever owned having a background check
00:08:02.380for the purpose of not even being able to actually tell anyone what's in the report.
00:09:18.480And also, as Canadian voters, we would like to see the full foreign interference report that's supposed to come at the end of January.
00:09:24.820So we don't want to rush into an election right now with those things just hanging in the balance.
00:09:29.140We 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,
00:09:36.740you know, liberals, NDP, or the conservatives, then we have all the information available.
00:09:41.360And we can make the best informed choices during an election that isn't scheduled until next October.
00:09:46.980And the majority of Canadians don't want to happen until next October.
00:09:50.860So 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?
00:09:58.660We'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.
00:10:11.200And we'd also like to see that foreign interference report.
00:10:16.120It won't surprise you, but this man has me blocked on Twitter.
00:10:20.860I can't handle the high quality of his video, so he can make sure to block me from being able to see it.
00:10:26.020Sorry I cut you off earlier by playing it more.
00:10:29.040But 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.
00:10:37.860But before we have an election, he needs to have his foreign, like, you know, his, like, security clearance done.
00:10:43.720He's actually had, Polyev has had, security clearances done in the past.
00:10:48.040It'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.
00:10:56.320And do you, would you ever trust the liberals for you to take a background check that they're not going to leak it?
00:11:08.640And 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.
00:11:17.960Like, if you repeat a lie enough times, people will, like, totally believe it.
00:11:21.060You 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.
00:11:30.420You will have heard it, like, a few dozen times, and maybe it will start sounding right to you.
00:11:35.420I 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.
00:11:47.300None of these people cared to announce about any of it.
00:11:49.880Like, hypocrisy, duh, is one of the worst things you can, like, one of the worst things in politics.
00:11:54.860Being a hypocrite is terrible because nobody wants to hear it from you.
00:11:58.420Let's say even that the foreign interference report is going to show 50-50 liberal conservative.
00:12:04.780I don't even think it would damage the conservatives that much at this point.
00:12:13.620But with the liberals, though, nobody wants to hear them say that, you know, that this guy over here is corrupt.
00:12:18.840That's honestly why I think that, like, in my case, I was kicked out of a nomination for no reason in the conservative party.
00:12:24.880But 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.
00:12:40.880And people would be like, well, at least they're not Justin Trudeau.
00:12:44.100And I think they are much better than Trudeau, obviously, for the record.
00:12:47.520But 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.
00:12:59.620So I do want the conservatives to have a higher standard going into the future.
00:13:22.060Like, there is a bunch that should have done in any government.
00:13:25.220The Auga Khan one especially bothers me.
00:13:27.040It'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.
00:14:09.020I see publications that are either partisan-funded or they are directly government-funded, either Cult MTL, that Montreal magazine, or Press Progress.
00:14:20.040Either they're attacking, like, Polyev because he's actually unpopular, don't you know?
00:14:26.420They 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.
00:15:15.020Yes, Trudeau is more popular in Quebec than Pierre Polyev is, but there are several provinces where Justin Trudeau has a negative 50-plus rating.
00:15:26.160But Cult MTL is not going to cover that.
00:15:28.460I guess they can use the excuse that, well, you know, we're a Montreal-based publication, so we just want to talk about Quebec.
00:15:34.080But they will talk about Polyev's national approval ratings whenever it suits them.
00:16:00.780I 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.
00:16:10.800But 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?
00:16:18.720Like, yeah, it's the biggest national publication, so if subsidies are going out outside of the CBC, they get the most.
00:16:25.680Also, 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.
00:17:38.120But 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.
00:17:53.000And 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.
00:18:01.740And 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,
00:18:11.680which, in fact, is more per capita than Fox News' budget in the U.S.
00:20:03.280I was working at a Fortune 500 company at the time the election was going on.
00:20:09.340And I remember distinctly, because it's stuck in my head nine years later, being stuck with this liberal government,
00:20:15.840the predominant conversations around the lunch table was, I don't ever vote, or I never vote liberal,
00:20:22.440but this is our one chance at legal marijuana.
00:20:25.240So that was a huge push for under 30, under 35 crowd.
00:20:30.160And, you know, you get what you pay for if you wanted.
00:20:33.460You got legal marijuana, but you got nine years of crazy high deficits, inflation through the roof,
00:20:38.300and just, you know, terrible cost of living.
00:20:43.700Like, I was forced to move Ontario, right?
00:20:46.300We didn't have a future in that province.
00:20:47.900I had to move 2,800 kilometers away from family and friends to a more affordable province.
00:20:53.240As a result of, arguably, Trudeau's policies, I'd put it on him.
00:20:58.060I know liberals love to put it on the provinces, but ultimately, the federal leader drives the provinces.
00:21:04.440Like, do any of these people see what the income tax rates are on the federal level?
00:21:09.840And they'll be like, well, you know, most spending is done by the province.
00:21:12.080A 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.
00:21:20.240Even the minimum, I think, income tax bracket on the federal level is like 12%, 13% or something like that, 11%.
00:21:28.240When in, like, the provincial side of things, it's usually like four or five.
00:21:32.120It's mostly people getting gouged by the federal government.
00:21:35.300But anyways, here is our next video, another Keith video, and then we have another one from Creek Pete I want to go over.
00:21:41.220But 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.
00:21:52.400And as I play this, I also have to go make sure my charger's plugged in, because somehow my computer is not charging.
00:21:58.800But technical difficulties in even a pre-recorded video like this.
00:22:02.800But Keith here says, if you voted liberal last election, do it again.
00:22:50.540If I know one thing about Pierre Polyev is that he doesn't like the carbon tax.
00:22:55.840If I was to boil down the man to anything, I'm pretty sure his main promise is to get rid of the carbon...
00:23:00.300He's going to get rid of the rebate, don't you know?
00:23:03.600The 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.
00:23:10.680So they're telling people that, you know, you make more back on the rebate.
00:23:14.040I 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.
00:23:19.340No, and the parliamentary budget made it very clear that, no, they're not giving out more money than they take in.
00:23:26.720Like, in what world do you tax someone and then give out more?
00:23:30.920Like, this is some magic money machine they have.
00:23:33.400The idea is that the big polluters are making it work because they're paying more in and they don't get anything back.
00:23:40.000Or people who are really rich pay more in and they don't qualify anything back.
00:23:44.300The problem is, do you really think that even with that said, that the amount of staff that are required to administer this program,
00:23:53.800all the mailing fees, all the other sort of regulatory hurdles that they have to go through in government to make this all work,
00:24:01.500the 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.
00:24:09.560Even if you were to take money out of the economy and then just basically spit it back in 100%, that would still cause inflation.
00:24:41.020So it's not like I'm endorsing people voting NDP.
00:24:43.760But 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.
00:25:15.340Here 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.
00:25:41.940I 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.
00:25:48.720And they're like, he never built any affordable housing.
00:25:51.580I'm like, well, housing was more affordable when he was around.
00:25:55.380Yeah, don't even get me started on affordable housing and the absolute frickin scam it is.
00:26:00.540Listen, if the government was good at doing stuff, we would have good lives.
00:27:01.900What was wrong with that analogy is in your analogy, everybody was working.
00:27:08.280People were standing around, two people worked.
00:27:11.400Well, 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.
00:27:21.000And so there's a lot of scams that go on in government.
00:27:24.280People wrongly even assume today, although it's changing in Canada, people understand that government had its own motivations.
00:27:30.520Just 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.
00:27:39.460They have their bureaucracies, have their own interests, and their main interest is to grow and justify higher salaries for those who work in it.
00:27:47.520That 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.
00:27:55.240Because look at how big the department I'm managing is.
00:28:00.420If 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.
00:28:11.240Well, it's the same principle, you know, like why work yourself out of a job, right?
00:28:15.720You know, you don't want to work too hard.
00:28:17.720And then if we actually solve the problem, well, then we won't have a job.
00:28:21.360So you got these homelessness, you know, programs, and then everything you can think of under the sun, housing, so on and so forth.
00:28:28.960Well, 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.
00:28:55.180I 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.
00:29:05.100Because 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.
00:29:14.100Kamala Harris's campaign, of the $1.5 or $1.3 billion she spent, do you know how much was spent on staff?
00:29:33.600To be fair, some of the outreach was done directly by third-party organizations run by like TPUSA or Elon Musk's PAC.
00:29:41.440But the Democrats also had PACs sending people out volunteering.
00:29:45.020So, but the thing is that you spend on just people.
00:29:48.260And that's the problem is that government, when they want to solve a problem, don't spend on systems that make things more efficient.
00:29:53.820They spend on people to get something done that oftentimes people don't even have the capacity to do.
00:29:59.160But anyways, I'll let Keith get back to it here.
00:30:01.520So, 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.
00:30:15.600I 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.
00:30:31.560That'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.
00:30:39.180Yeah, it'll put the whole Trudeau, you know, he's bad, but come on, in perspective.
00:30:43.940You know what's happening in every country, don't you know, Greg?
00:30:48.640It'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?
00:30:56.520So, 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?
00:31:12.720So, 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?
00:31:42.640Yeah, I think he's maybe the type of guy that might be spiteful just because he doesn't like someone.
00:31:47.500And 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.
00:31:57.660And that's just to carry on top of the fact that he already sucks in general.
00:32:02.100It's not like Trudeau's been knocking out of the park, but Trump doesn't like him.
00:32:06.900And, like, the guy's, like, doing this whole, you know, the funny thing is it's really ironic for progressives to do.
00:32:13.400You know, the change isn't always good.
00:32:15.220I thought rocketing toward the progressive future was always the right thing to do.
00:32:18.980But now suddenly change, you know, progressing is not a good thing because it's not the right type of progression.
00:32:25.900And what is his actual, like, critique here of Donald Trump?
00:32:28.560Like, 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.
00:32:37.360Like, he's, you know, economically conservative.
00:32:40.840He, you know, doesn't hate business owners and whatnot.
00:32:46.580Whenever 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.
00:32:59.780You can't just be, like, he's, like, mini Trump.
00:33:02.540You have to first prove that Trump is, like, an actual net negative.
00:33:06.280Well, it's, like, the liberal approach has been to, you know, the maple MAGA type branding they've given.
00:33:12.860And it doesn't stick because, again, like, I don't like Trump.
00:33:16.220Most Canadians, well, there's a segment out here that loves him, right, in Alberta, Saskatchewan, that absolutely loves Trump.
00:33:22.540But in terms of do I like his personality?
00:33:25.680But 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?
00:33:38.500So 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.
00:33:45.140And if you do, the Canadian people benefit from it.
00:34:07.240I 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.
00:34:15.680And it's like, hey, Eby, baby, you're the problem at this family dinner table with all the fentanyl going over the border.
00:34:22.220I'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.
00:34:29.940That's the move you should be making if you're David Eby.
00:34:32.620Don't, like, start trying to make yourself, like, the champion of Canada.
00:34:37.200You're, like, literally the king of fentanyl.
00:34:53.740And you're going to see it over and over again.
00:34:55.680The 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.
00:35:08.600Right. So he has lobbyists for Loblaws working on his staff, things like that.
00:35:13.120So 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.
00:35:23.700The only people who talk about woke is conservatives and Republicans because everybody else is like, yeah, whatever.
00:35:29.700Right. So we just want people to be true.
00:35:31.440What are you talking? What is he talking about?
00:35:33.020In Canada and in the U.S., anti-woke type stances tend to pull very well with the general public.
00:35:38.780But also there was like five conspiracy theories there in a very short period of time.
00:35:44.000So Polyev is going to he is lying about being able to reduce prices.
00:35:48.340Also, that thing about Trump admitting he can't reduce prices.
00:35:51.220He was candid and said prices might not go down when I'm in.
00:35:55.800You know, they might be able to, but at least we could stabilize them and make them not go up.
00:35:59.580So that's just an outright like fabrication of what Trump said.
00:36:02.940But 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.
00:36:08.600To 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.
00:36:20.000Like, what do you mean? How would he do that?
00:36:23.820And I even and I even know the person he's mentioning as a Loblaws, the Loblaws lobbyist.
00:36:29.860They were the one who got me kicked out of my nomination.
00:36:32.400You know, there are some bad people around.
00:36:35.020But how is was Polyev just going to give Loblaws a billion dollars?
00:36:39.520Wasn'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?
00:36:49.260Weren't they given like massive handouts to do something that anyone else could have done?
00:36:52.600Yeah, 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.
00:37:04.520The data seems to not really be coming out.
00:37:07.120They're kind of keeping that hush, hush, hush.
00:37:09.440It seems to be hard to find stuff like that right now.
00:37:11.960Do you know how that dental plan lie works as well?
00:37:14.740The whole like he's depriving a million people of dental care.
00:37:17.600Well, OK, so you benefit like in argument, like one million people benefit.
00:37:27.480Well, 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.
00:37:39.060They 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.
00:37:47.600Like, well, how many people would have gotten dental care without the program in place?
00:37:52.040And I would assume it's probably the same number, because frankly, dental care actually doesn't cost that much.
00:37:56.980Like it can be tight on a budget these days because of how high taxes are in are in Canada and inflation.
00:38:03.060But I just looked like Alberta Blue Cross the other day.
00:38:06.060If 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.
00:38:15.060Yeah, that's 30 bucks that you couldn't spend on something else, obviously.
00:38:18.340And that's kind of painful these days.
00:38:21.960And 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.
00:38:30.860I 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.
00:38:38.440Like, no, no, no, like you're paying, it's only covered up to this much and you're on the hook.
00:38:48.320And 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.
00:38:55.780Because 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.
00:39:14.700So like a teeth cleaning does not give the dentist a very good payout.
00:39:17.960So they might as well be working minimum wage.
00:39:19.940So the people who are actually signing up for the dental care plan are usually like extremely new dentists with not a lot of clients.
00:39:28.200I don't know enough about it, but I do know.
00:39:30.040The way I look at it is you have 40 million people that are hurting.
00:39:33.520And so if a million, it's like, it's like take any regime, right?
00:39:37.420You 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.
00:39:49.220You try to strike a middle where it's 50 plus one at a minimum, right?
00:39:54.520I 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.
00:40:07.780Let'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.
00:40:15.460But 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?
00:40:24.360But why is it that we needed the programs more as time went on, even pre-COVID, even before the economic downturn?
00:40:32.600Why is it that more people needed support than ever?
00:40:35.440Because people didn't need the support back like 30 years ago.
00:40:37.980These 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.
00:40:47.520None of this stuff was required for Trudeau, right?
00:40:52.500They have to keep rolling out more and more programs, and we're already broke.
00:42:01.120Like, 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.
00:42:08.040You don't go, but I got an increase on the limit, so let's go out and spend more with, like, with the government.
00:42:14.680It's like, no, we can just keep raising the deficit.
00:42:17.000It's like, yeah, that causes inflation.
00:42:18.600And then they roll out more government programs to address said inflation.
00:42:21.840And it just keeps spiraling until you get grease.
00:42:25.060Like, 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.
00:42:33.720And then the whole system burns and you have to rebuild the rubble.
00:42:37.480And that's, you know, throughout history happens again and again.
00:42:40.480And, like, let's, like, let's be clear, too.
00:42:42.860Ontario and Alberta have been increasing education and health care spending.
00:42:46.900Maybe it's not quite keeping up with per capita, but the raw dollars are going up.
00:42:50.700And 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.
00:43:02.920Just because another student gets added doesn't mean the Calgary Board of Education needs more dollars or the Ontario or Toronto Board of Education.
00:43:09.780They don't need more dollars because it's a singular administrative unit.
00:43:13.320They don't need an extra administrator because the classroom has more kids in it.
00:43:16.360They are just administering curriculum and standards and whatnot.
00:43:20.020That doesn't actually require more money.
00:43:21.560But in British Columbia, they've been increasing spending way higher than what they need to keep up with inflation.
00:43:30.040And their health care system has been going dramatically down in quality over time.
00:44:33.660Grades were actually better then than they are now.
00:44:35.860They keep spending more, but the results keep getting worse.
00:44:38.520And 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.
00:44:52.380So, you didn't have those distractions where teachers now, they're already, you know, the minimal resources spreading in among a bunch of kids.
00:44:58.900But now they're having to address behavioral issues that are distracting everyone in the classroom.
00:45:04.580So, 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.
00:45:13.540Did you see the statistic out of the U.S.?
00:45:16.280And 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.
00:45:27.320And 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.
00:45:38.020And 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.
00:45:46.180And they say these days, like schools have two co-principals, a bunch of vice principals.
00:45:51.140They got like a bunch of random people just sitting around doing paperwork about nothing.
00:45:55.600And we don't have like a classroom size crisis.
00:46:00.640We have a lack of people actually doing what they came to the education system to do in the first place.
00:46:06.260But 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.
00:46:18.000So teachers are incentivized to work as little as possible as a teacher and try and jump up to one of those administrative positions.
00:46:25.060The same thing with the health care system.
00:46:26.900Our health care systems are very well funded.
00:46:29.420The problem is that we fund paperwork, not actual health care.
00:46:33.380Yeah, I mean, it's political suicide, right?
00:46:35.420Like if you ever went in and you're like, listen, we have too many positions in the education system.
00:46:40.120We need to cut some of those admin positions.
00:46:41.700The first line out of the liberals or the NDPs is the conservatives or whoever says it is they're going to cut education.
00:47:29.300No, when was the actual raw dollar cut that was made?
00:47:33.040They 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.
00:47:41.060They're obviously not going to cut any of these like actual needed services.
00:47:45.920But maybe you should go into the Statistics Canada data crunching that you've been doing recently because I'm interested in that.
00:49:18.220Like, go back to the old-timey cabbage soup.
00:49:20.020Honestly, 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.
00:49:27.940There's this channel called Townsends, and it's, like, 18th century cooking.
00:49:31.200And 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.
00:49:43.280Because, you know, I'm probably going to have to pay for that with diabetes or something if I did that.
00:54:40.020Like, they are doing this for fashionability reasons.
00:54:43.340I am liberal because I'm not conservative is, like, the mantra, effectively.
00:54:46.940Yeah, 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.
00:55:02.840Not looking at the fiscal reality that we're driving at the cliff.
00:55:07.640We're pretty well already over the cliff at this point.
00:55:10.100And the Trudeau government has been driving 100 miles an hour towards oblivion.
00:55:14.900You know, they use the conservative talking point.
00:55:34.600She was the one who helped Trudeau back the bus over Bill Morneau multiple times.
00:55:38.760I don't feel bad for any of these people.
00:55:40.960It'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.
00:55:48.340No, she's seen the writing on the wall.
00:55:56.920But she was willing to stab whoever needed to be stabbed to go up the political hierarchy.
00:56:02.520And she was willing to be Trudeau's trenchant for many, many, many years.
00:56:06.420And it reached a point where she even realized, Trudeau is so unpopular, it's only a matter of time.
00:56:13.140And 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.
00:56:23.260So at least she had the foresight to see that.
00:56:25.280I 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.
00:56:35.680And then you can basically make yourself a Raybould in order to gather people around you to push you back into office.
00:56:41.160I just made a video today and I put it out arguing, and I think this is true.
00:56:44.780I 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.
00:56:54.440Because the numbers in Papineau are already not very good.
00:56:58.280338 gives him like a 75-26 or 74-26 against the NDP, which is not great.
00:57:05.240And then Poliwave run by Sheree Attiste, who's actually pretty on point with a lot of his predictions for elections.
00:57:10.640He actually gives the slight edge to the NDP in Papineau at this point.
00:57:14.780And I don't know why he – well, I just think he's an extreme narcissist.
00:57:18.980I think that's why he's wanting to stay on.
00:57:21.040I 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.
00:57:30.420His dad sucked, but I think that he also has not even an ounce of the goodwill that his dad had.
00:58:06.260This 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.
00:58:24.740Do you think that this is the type of man who is struggling?
00:58:27.860This 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.
00:58:35.980And 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.
00:58:44.740The 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.
00:59:06.120It 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.
00:59:15.120And 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.
00:59:23.900But she was just verbatim repeating liberal talking points and that he like mocked her for that and now is considered sexist.