The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 25, 2024


Leftists like seeing Canadians needing to use food banks to survive

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In this episode of the podcast, I talk about a social media interaction that shows just how far left Canadian politics has become in recent years, and how the food bank system is being used to help feed the poor, even though there are more people in need of food.

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00:00:00.000 Every once in a while, I experience a social media interaction so absurd, so radical, that I need to talk about it on the show.
00:00:07.640 Not just because the situation is easy to make fun of, but also because I think it's indicative of where the country has shifted politically over the last eight years of Justin Trudeau being the Prime Minister of the country.
00:00:19.320 The NDP and the Liberal parties are not the same parties they were back in the 1990s.
00:00:24.080 And they're not even the same parties they were back in 2015 when Justin Trudeau was first elected.
00:00:28.940 Both parties have shifted left a lot.
00:00:32.320 Their only principle now in my mind seems to be big government.
00:00:36.160 They like government getting bigger, and they like more people being reliant on government.
00:00:40.680 Even if those people must become poorer in order to become reliant on government, there are people around Canadian politics cheering it on that people are actually being driven towards food banks because supposedly that's a great thing because we're feeding more people.
00:00:54.380 But I'm going to take a little bit of a back step here and start the story off from the beginning of what happened here.
00:01:01.160 And so this all started with the Liberal Party's ex-account commenting on a tweet that Andrew Scheer put out making fun of the photo of Justin Trudeau riding on a whiteboard in a classroom.
00:01:11.640 Andrew Scheer said in quotes,
00:01:13.020 I got elected right here with, of course, the red line showing the decline of Canada.
00:01:18.320 And the Liberal Party said, 0.91
00:01:20.080 Thanks for showing how child poverty has dropped since 2015, Andrew, which is the dumbest and weakest response you could possibly make to the meme that Andrew Scheer put up.
00:01:29.180 So in response to that, I tweeted this out, and it got a lot of likes over the short period of time that's been up.
00:01:35.640 And I said,
00:01:36.400 Yes, child poverty totally fell despite per capita income going down, food bank use going up, unemployment going up, etc., etc., etc.
00:01:44.960 You guys are lying and cooking the numbers, which they absolutely are.
00:01:48.560 So it's another person that I'm not talking about in this video even said,
00:01:51.620 Well, Stats Canada doesn't cook their numbers.
00:01:53.640 Yeah, they don't cook their numbers. 0.98
00:01:55.020 But the Liberals select which metrics they use to study child poverty.
00:01:59.200 Child poverty is obviously up in Canada.
00:02:01.720 What they do is they take very specific metrics of different products and services that children have access to and pretend that that is what determines if a child is poor or not.
00:02:11.880 So even though we have more poor families in Canada than ever before, our unemployment rate is high, per capita incomes down, all these things are negatively happening in Canada.
00:02:20.780 Somehow, we can still say that we've reduced child poverty since 2012 or whatever by 2.3 million people.
00:02:28.420 No, we haven't.
00:02:29.560 That is an absurdity.
00:02:31.260 It's just cooking the books with numbers in order to pretend that we have, like, child poverty is down because we use certain metrics that make it look like it's down.
00:02:39.100 But then the interaction got really weird with one guy commenting back at me who, again, I think this really represents just how far left a lot of people in Canadian politics have become and why the Liberals have gotten unpopular because this position is unpopular.
00:02:54.000 So this guy, DXC420 on Twitter, says, leave it to a conservative to see, quote, food bank use going up, unquote, and see it as a bad thing.
00:03:04.520 If feeding the hungry is wrong in your book, why should we care about anything you have to say?
00:03:09.420 In which this man, Joshua, who is a reasonable gentleman, said, I mean, food bank use going up can mean two things.
00:03:16.000 More people are getting access to food banks or more people having to use food banks.
00:03:20.220 I think he's probably thinking the latter.
00:03:21.800 I'm not Canadian, but just trying to give some perspective.
00:03:25.600 And which DXC says, both scenarios, food banks are good.
00:03:29.780 The hair splitting over cost is obscene when people are fed.
00:03:34.080 What?
00:03:34.760 Both scenarios are good.
00:03:36.760 These people are not even just left.
00:03:39.020 They are communists.
00:03:40.560 They actually like the fact that people are being driven into desperation and now needing to lean on government services.
00:03:47.720 I know some food banks are private, but government tends to be their biggest contributors.
00:03:52.900 And the government uses food banks as a proxy for getting poor people fed, getting them their sort of food needs taken care of without having to spend money.
00:04:01.840 No, it is not a good thing that anyone ever has to use a food bank.
00:04:05.100 In a perfect world, we wouldn't have to have a food bank.
00:04:07.640 We don't live in a perfect world, so obviously some people fall in hard times, even in a good economy that happens.
00:04:13.120 And it's great that the food bank is there.
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00:04:21.880 But obviously this is not a good thing.
00:04:24.220 But this person is so radical that they believe it's a great thing.
00:04:27.160 And before I get to their final comment against me after I had, quote, tweeted them and kind of made fun of their perspective, I just want to cut to this video because this whole situation really reminded me of this clip of Bernie Sanders talking about how great it is that people are using food banks in Nicaragua.
00:04:44.440 In fact, as poor as Nicaragua is, one of the nice things that I saw is that as a result of government policy, direct government policy in terms of the distribution of food, people are not hungry, by and large.
00:04:56.500 I think it's fair to say.
00:04:58.060 You know, it's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, but people are lining up for food.
00:05:03.600 That's a good thing.
00:05:04.880 Yeah, this is exactly what this guy is basically saying to me.
00:05:07.900 It's a great thing because people are being fed.
00:05:10.180 And again, he doesn't care that the private sector is feeding people through giving them good wages and they're able to go to grocery stores and afford their own food.
00:05:17.560 He doesn't care about that.
00:05:18.680 He actually likes the idea that some people are being forced to use the food bank.
00:05:22.160 This is what this man is saying.
00:05:23.720 And someone could say, well, it's an anonymous account on Twitter.
00:05:26.500 But I don't think we saw this thing eight years ago.
00:05:28.420 I don't think we saw as many people like this eight years ago.
00:05:31.480 And this is the problem with bad left-wing policy.
00:05:34.100 Bad left-wing policy has a spiraling effect in the minds of people who believed in it in the first place.
00:05:39.360 That all it requires is a little bit more.
00:05:42.020 A little bit more government intervention.
00:05:43.900 A little bit more government spending.
00:05:45.640 And everything will be hunky-dory.
00:05:47.820 Not how it works.
00:05:48.700 If you're passing new policies to fix the problems of old policies, you shouldn't be surprised when that spiral is going to keep happening with new policies trying to patch old policies or trying to patch old policies.
00:06:01.120 That is just the death knell of a country when the government is only dealing with problems the government has caused.
00:06:06.740 And that is what happened in Nicaragua back in the day.
00:06:09.180 That is what happened in the Soviet Union back in the day.
00:06:11.300 That's what happens in poor countries all over the place where the government has effectively taken over the economy.
00:06:17.440 And so after I had referenced this Bernie Sanders clip to him and linked to it, I said, you know, the quote about it's being funny about American journals talking about how bad a country is because of the bread lines.
00:06:29.180 He says, they hate it so bad when poor people have access to food.
00:06:33.660 No.
00:06:34.360 I have a problem with poor people even existing in a country that is full of wealth. 1.00
00:06:39.860 And I don't mean that in the socialist way where we need to tax the rich more.
00:06:43.780 We need to eat the rich because we can then distribute their money back to the poor.
00:06:48.080 No.
00:06:48.580 We need to let poor people be able to go and make their own money. 1.00
00:06:52.160 Most people are not poor because they just don't want a nice job that was offered to them.
00:06:56.740 They cannot find a job because the government has siphoned so much money out of the economy.
00:07:00.600 Unless you know someone in government to get a fake job where you push paper doing nothing all day, you are going to be deprived.
00:07:06.540 Right now, Canada's unemployment rate is about 6.1%.
00:07:09.780 And that's not so screamingly high as we've seen in the past.
00:07:14.140 But right now, that's a 6.1 unemployment rate with a massive amount of people who have stopped looking for jobs entirely.
00:07:20.880 In the past 10 years, 2014 to 2024, we have seen per capita incomes falling.
00:07:26.660 And also, I would like to point out some of the food bank use is not exactly legitimate.
00:07:30.860 If you saw the TikTok of the Indian immigrant trying to teach other people how to exploit food banks and sort of free food at university campuses in order to never have to pay for food. 1.00
00:07:41.620 What we need in this country is more people being enabled to go make money where there's actually money to be made, where there's productive work to do.
00:07:49.460 The liberal government has been increasing the GDP by simply importing people into the country through mass immigration, more than 1.1 million people last year, who obviously bring some amount of wealth with them and obviously add some amount of productivity to the country.
00:08:04.020 Although it is massively diminishing returns at this point where people are starting to cost more than they actually contribute to the country in great portions, especially with refugees, quote unquote refugees, people who in the United States come up into Canada on false premises.
00:08:18.340 And right. And so what we have is the government pumping the GDP through population growth and government spending.
00:08:25.520 When you look at the job market growth, it's all in government services, administration in crown corporations, and we are actually losing jobs in manufacturing and in places like oil and gas over the past like eight to 10 years or so.
00:08:39.820 I think this is since 2020. So over the past four years, and this is February, this is not during the sudden drop in jobs.
00:08:47.000 This is right before the drop up and jobs happened. Oil and gas jobs and mining jobs have like barely gone up.
00:08:52.760 They've maybe gone by 5,000 jobs in a country that has been adding massive portions of our population per year in new immigrants and temporary foreign workers.
00:09:01.240 It is unsustainable. But this guy sees it all as a great solution to driving more people towards the government, because more government is the solution to everything if you are on the left.
00:09:12.420 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. Just want to, again, plug the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary Signal Hill riding on West Calgary.
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00:10:45.240 Have a great one.