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.
00:00:00.000Every once in a while, I experience a social media interaction so absurd, so radical, that I need to talk about it on the show.
00:00:07.640Not 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.
00:00:19.320The NDP and the Liberal parties are not the same parties they were back in the 1990s.
00:00:24.080And they're not even the same parties they were back in 2015 when Justin Trudeau was first elected.
00:00:32.320Their only principle now in my mind seems to be big government.
00:00:36.160They like government getting bigger, and they like more people being reliant on government.
00:00:40.680Even 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.
00:00:54.380But 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.
00:01:01.160And 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.
00:01:20.080Thanks 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.
00:01:29.180So 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.
00:01:55.020But the Liberals select which metrics they use to study child poverty.
00:01:59.200Child poverty is obviously up in Canada.
00:02:01.720What 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.
00:02:11.880So 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.
00:02:20.780Somehow, we can still say that we've reduced child poverty since 2012 or whatever by 2.3 million people.
00:02:31.260It'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.
00:02:39.100But 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.
00:02:54.000So 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.
00:03:04.520If feeding the hungry is wrong in your book, why should we care about anything you have to say?
00:03:09.420In which this man, Joshua, who is a reasonable gentleman, said, I mean, food bank use going up can mean two things.
00:03:16.000More people are getting access to food banks or more people having to use food banks.
00:03:20.220I think he's probably thinking the latter.
00:03:21.800I'm not Canadian, but just trying to give some perspective.
00:03:25.600And which DXC says, both scenarios, food banks are good.
00:03:29.780The hair splitting over cost is obscene when people are fed.
00:03:40.560They actually like the fact that people are being driven into desperation and now needing to lean on government services.
00:03:47.720I know some food banks are private, but government tends to be their biggest contributors.
00:03:52.900And 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.
00:04:01.840No, it is not a good thing that anyone ever has to use a food bank.
00:04:05.100In a perfect world, we wouldn't have to have a food bank.
00:04:07.640We don't live in a perfect world, so obviously some people fall in hard times, even in a good economy that happens.
00:04:13.120And it's great that the food bank is there.
00:04:15.280Donate to your local food bank unless you want to donate to my legal fund in the description below.
00:04:21.880But obviously this is not a good thing.
00:04:24.220But this person is so radical that they believe it's a great thing.
00:04:27.160And 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.
00:04:44.440In 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.
00:05:04.880Yeah, this is exactly what this guy is basically saying to me.
00:05:07.900It's a great thing because people are being fed.
00:05:10.180And 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.
00:05:48.700If 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.
00:06:01.120That is just the death knell of a country when the government is only dealing with problems the government has caused.
00:06:06.740And that is what happened in Nicaragua back in the day.
00:06:09.180That is what happened in the Soviet Union back in the day.
00:06:11.300That's what happens in poor countries all over the place where the government has effectively taken over the economy.
00:06:17.440And 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.
00:06:29.180He says, they hate it so bad when poor people have access to food.
00:06:48.580We need to let poor people be able to go and make their own money.
00:06:52.160Most people are not poor because they just don't want a nice job that was offered to them.
00:06:56.740They cannot find a job because the government has siphoned so much money out of the economy.
00:07:00.600Unless you know someone in government to get a fake job where you push paper doing nothing all day, you are going to be deprived.
00:07:06.540Right now, Canada's unemployment rate is about 6.1%.
00:07:09.780And that's not so screamingly high as we've seen in the past.
00:07:14.140But right now, that's a 6.1 unemployment rate with a massive amount of people who have stopped looking for jobs entirely.
00:07:20.880In the past 10 years, 2014 to 2024, we have seen per capita incomes falling.
00:07:26.660And also, I would like to point out some of the food bank use is not exactly legitimate.
00:07:30.860If 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.
00:07:41.620What 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.
00:07:49.460The 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.
00:08:04.020Although 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.
00:08:18.340And right. And so what we have is the government pumping the GDP through population growth and government spending.
00:08:25.520When 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.
00:08:39.820I think this is since 2020. So over the past four years, and this is February, this is not during the sudden drop in jobs.
00:08:47.000This is right before the drop up and jobs happened. Oil and gas jobs and mining jobs have like barely gone up.
00:08:52.760They'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.
00:09:01.240It 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.
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