Liberal budget could trigger election - Carney has another awful week!
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Wyatt Claypool talks about the worst week of the year for the Liberal government, and why it may need a snap election. Also, a new post on social media promoting free health care in Canada has 1.5 million views and 1.500 comments.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. It's not even surprising anymore when I say Prime Minister
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Mark Carney and the Liberal government had a really bad week. It doesn't even need qualification
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anymore, they've been having bad week after bad week. And I know as Conservatives we're not shocked
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that they've had a bad week, but just from an electoral politics side of things, it's kind of
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shocking that this early on they've been completely unable to get any wins under their belt. Like
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maybe they'll try and point to Bill C-5, the Major Projects Act or whatever, but even that's been
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demonstrated to basically be another boondoggle. We have set up an office to maybe potentially look at
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potentially fast-tracking some projects that we may approve. It's nothing. It's just nothing. And
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everything else that Mark Carney and the Liberals have touched so far have turned to Trudeau. Everything
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has just turned into crappy Trudeau-era policies. I just want to take you guys through some of the
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losses in just a second here to demonstrate how profoundly bad it's been for the Liberals to the
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point where there are now rumors that the Liberals may try and call a snap election instead of releasing
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the budget. Now, do I think that's likely right now? Probably not. But I could see Carney wanting an
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election within the next year or so because of how badly things are going. So before all of the worst
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economic news hits, maybe he's going to force Canadians to go back to the polls. But before we
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get into the specific stories I wanted to talk about today, I just want to remind you that if you live
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in the city of Calgary like I do, check out my endorsement list that I have below for all of the
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positions, mayor, councillor, as well as school board trustee, if you don't know who to vote for yet and
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you're just looking for some options, I have them down there. And then I also have options for places
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like Airdrie, Cochran, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, and Edmonton. Obviously, I haven't been able to hit
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every small municipality around the province because that's impossible and I am one person.
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Anyways, let's get right into it. And again, that's linked in the description below and pinned to the
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top of the comments for that thing if you guys want my endorsements. But this is what IRCC
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had put out, the Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Canada, a federal institution for covering all
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those areas of government. And they seriously posted this on their social media. I will remind you,
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not remind you, I'll indicate to you, this thing has 1.5 million views. 1.5 million people's eyes
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have graced this post and it only has 161 likes and there is 1,500 comments about it. That is a textbook
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ratio. There are also more retweets than there are likes and I can guarantee you those are not
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supportive people retweeting it. Those are quote tweets of people mocking this. This is absolutely
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insane and it's borderline scandalous. I'll read this post for you from the IRCC.
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Thinking about moving to Canada, did you know that Canada has public health care? Learn how it works,
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who can get it, and what services are covered. Get the details and helpful tips. What are we doing?
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We have a mass immigration problem in this country that is affecting housing, health care, jobs, and
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even just societal cohesion. And the liberals are posting advertisements, presumably for the
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consumption of people outside of Canada, because this doesn't make sense if you're inside of Canada
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to be reading, promoting that you can come here and get free health care. No, no, no. In fact, we should
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be changing the rules to make it that you actually should have to buy into our health care more than
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just paying taxes if you've just arrived five seconds ago and you want to basically, you know,
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make a, bring, like, use all of the health care services available to you. We just cannot have us,
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our, like, our country become a doctor's office for everyone around the planet who can't get health
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care in their own countries, or else we won't have health care either. And we really, at this point,
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don't have health care. And rightfully so, you had people like Conservative Party leader Pierre
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Polyev calling this out, how insane it was. It was covered, obviously, by independent media outlets
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like Juno News this morning. Juno News covered the story, and Pierre Polyev here, quote, tweeted their
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story and said, liberal immigration at its best. They spend your tax dollars advertising to people
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overseas, promising them free health care if they come. Well, you can't find a doctor or get care.
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Enough, sign here, to fix the broken liberal immigration system. And it's obviously just a
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conservative petition there. But this was an issue that if you are, let's say that you are liberal,
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you're the liberal party chief of staff, you know, like the liberal government chief of staff, or you're
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the comms director, tell your people to say nothing. Don't say anything. Because this is an obvious loss
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coming for the liberals. Nobody's going to read this. No moderate voter who's winnable is going to
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read this and think that the liberals are right for advertising health care services around the planet
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while we still can't actually get them in a timely manner. But something possessed the man to say
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something. And Mark Miller, the former housing, I think the former immigration minister, I believe,
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has come out to attack Polyev. And he says, this is from the same Pierre Polyev who spent months
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pandering to groups across the country, promising visas for all and to stop deportations. You can't make
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this up. There's actual footage of him doing this if people care to look. It's very funny that Mark
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Miller is now basically acting like the PPC and saying, you know, that Polyev was not pure enough
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on immigration previously. And by the way, I thought Pierre Polyev was way too soft on immigration
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before this last election. And since then, he has toughened up on it a lot. But what's your point,
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Mark? If this was a criticism coming from the PPC about Pierre Polyev, it would make more sense.
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Because at least they can say that they've never been in favor of mass immigration.
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The thing is, Mark Miller, you were the one doing the thing wrong. And Mark Miller is basically saying,
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why didn't Polyev oppose me harder? He knew I'm an idiot. He knew I was doing the wrong thing.
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Why didn't he jump in front of me and stop me from doing it? It's like, what are you talking about?
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This is not exactly a way of trying to turn this L into a W. It is still firmly in the L category.
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Trying to say that previously Polyev was on the wrong side does not mean that he is not on the right
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side now. But that was just how the day started. We had a lot of other stuff happen, both today as
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well as in previous days, that did not make the Liberals look very good. Let's jump over to this
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one where we have Andrew Lawton questioning a Queen's University professor who is coming out
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basically to argue in favor of bail reform. You know, the thing that lets people keep getting
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back out of prison every single time they commit a crime, they'll get maybe booked, maybe they don't
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even get charged, but they'll be arrested and then released the same day, no matter how many offenses
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they've committed. And this was somebody that I am not sure if Andrew Lawton brought them in or the
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Liberals brought them in. But my goodness, if you are the Liberal comms director, you should be
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trying to make sure this person never gets in a committee room again, because they are obviously
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crazy. Mr. Lawton, thank you witnesses for your time and testimony today. I'd like to start with you,
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if I could, Dr. Myers, you mentioned that the bail system is the harshest it's ever been. Those were your
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words. Do you think bail should be made easier to access after the culmination of our research here?
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I think it absolutely needs to be more readily available for a lot of people in custody. I think
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we can acknowledge that there are some people who are perhaps too risky or the allegations are too
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serious. We want to focus our attention on those, not an automatic decision to detain, but to be able to
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focus on those. We need to make release more available for all kinds of others who are there for more
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minor reasons. This person teaches university students. This person is saying that our bail
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system has never been more stringent, despite the fact that it is just a well-known fact in this
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country that we have sometimes multiple assault perpetrators and sometimes people who have
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assaulted children just automatically being released from jail the same day they committed their offense.
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This person teaches university students. They are politically delusional. This is just what you
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look like when you become this much of a Marxist. You just do not have the ability to perceive reality.
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And by the way, I don't know why she's dressed like an NFL football player at a divorce proceeding,
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but this is the outfit she chose to come and defend the current bail system and say that it's actually too
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strict. So what are the sorts of offenders that are being detained pre-trial now that you think
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should be getting bail and aren't and don't have it available to them? Most of the folks that have
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been charged with non-violent offenses. And that would be the bulk of the individuals that go through
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our bail court. You guys, non-violent offenses. That means robbing a store. That means shoplifters,
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thieves, people trying to steal cars. The thing is, I think all criminals should not be granted bail if they
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have been repeatedly committing a crime. You're a shoplifter. You get arrested once. It's your first
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infraction. Okay. You can get out on bail. That's fine. Show up to your court date. You do it a second
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time. You're being held until your court date because you obviously cannot be trusted. I hate
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this idea that non-violent crimes don't matter. As long as someone wasn't bludgeoned over the head,
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it's okay. No, it's not. It's actually ruining communities. It's ruining people's lives. It's
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actually preventing people from getting to work when they have their car stolen and Canada has become
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the car theft capital of the world. This is bonkers. The idea that we actually have these people in our
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institutions of higher learning, teaching kids, and they have just no logical common sense. They have
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no common sense when it comes to just being able to read a news story and then conclude,
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maybe it's a bad thing to just let people out over and over again just because, oh, it's a non-violent
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defense. And by the way, we constantly let out violent offenders. So what's she talking about?
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You talked about in your career as an academic, quote, interviewing justice officials and accused
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individuals. You didn't mention victims, victims of crime. Have you interviewed them as part of your
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research? No, I studied the criminal justice system, not rather than what happens with victims.
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Do you think that the experiences of victims should have any bearing on how offenders are treated by the
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justice system? Absolutely. The victims are critically important in all of this, but nonetheless, we need
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to remember the very important constitutional rights that we have and that those must absolutely be
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protected and that while there may be harm to victims and we... Where is the constitutional protection
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to never be held in jail before your trial because you keep committing thefts? Because you keep
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engaging in larceny. Like, what are we talking about? You have the constitutional right to
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basically keep running around committing your offense until the trial date where they maybe will
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put you in prison and often they don't anyways. You can provide those supports that they may need
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outside of the criminal justice system where they would be far better served. But why in 20 years of
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researching this has interviewing victims not factored in if you think they do have a role to play in
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the way these decisions are made and these policies are drafted? Because it has not been part of my
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research agenda. I've spent the time sitting in court and talking to those who I'm interested in the
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process of bail. I'm sitting in court. I've heard from many of victims about their experiences that
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comes out in the open court. So you do indicate that people should as I'm paraphrasing but you said
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they should be punished after a conviction. So who should be held behind bars pre-trial in your view?
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I think a very limited number of people. If we go back 40 years we used to be sitting much closer
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to about 20 or 30 percent of those in our provincial jails were in pre-trial detention. I suspect those
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are the folks that needed to be there while other folks were able to be better managed in the community.
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Well how does she know that those ones should be there but the ones who are getting out now shouldn't
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have been there? Like and also listen to that answer to the question. He says who should be held
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pre-trial. Reasonable non-crazy people I would say that you should basically be holding repeat
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non-violent offenders and just any violent offenders. If you've committed a violent crime and it wasn't
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just getting to a stupid fight at a bar or something like that yeah you should probably be held. If you
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stabbed somebody you should be held because unless it was a crime where we can determine that you had a
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specific problem with this person and now we're going to make sure that you're not going to see them
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again in some way or whatever you should pretty much always be held if you're a violent offender
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uh unless again circumstances dictate that it's just it's a one-off but you still need to face
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punishment but you can still you know go to work or whatever the next day. I would say all non-violent
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offenders who repeat the offense should be held too but if she wasn't crazy at least say well of course
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violent offenders all she says is a very limited number of people because I guarantee you when we get
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to a violent offender she'll be like well what race are they and then we'll determine whether or not
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they should actually be held. Do you think that anyone who's charged with first degree murder should
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uh be behind bars pre-trial? I would leave that to the decision makers to properly examine the
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information that's been provided to assess the risk and make those decisions. So you think bail for first
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degree murders is actually legitimate at times? I think in some circumstances it could be possible. I'm not a
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lawyer. I'm not the one making these determinations. There are actually some cases where you could make
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the case where somebody who was accused of committing first degree murder could be let out. It would be
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like a situation where the person was accused of killing a very particular individual but there's no
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indication the guy's going to go on a spree or whatever if he's even guilty of it. But in general
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generally speaking most first degree murders are the type of uh you know criminals who shot somebody in
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the commission of crime that you cannot let out of prison. Most first degree murders are not these
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you know whodunit cases where the person is like a lawyer who's accused of killing like you know their
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ex-wife who's a baker down the street or something like that. Most of them tend to be gang related and
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they should absolutely always pretty much be held. And I trust the professionals who have all of the
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available information to be able to make the appropriate decision in these cases. Another comment you had
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made was that we cannot predict future behavior. You were basically you were saying that we can't
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predict who will commit future offenses. So I would assume from that you're against three strikes you're
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out laws that have been proposed correct? Absolutely. So how many convictions is enough for the system to
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actually say we have a pretty good indication this person is going to re-offend? Well you know we might be
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able to look at measures that indicate that somebody has a record of offending and those are exactly the kinds
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of pieces of information that are considered by those who are making bail decisions. So you do think multiple
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convictions you do think should actually count against someone in their their bail eligibility?
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I think it should be a factor that is considered and weighed appropriately. It should not be the
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driving and the only reason. Each one of those convictions that individual has already been
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punished and held accountable for those offenses. At some point we have to acknowledge that they have
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moved on. What happens if they keep getting re-arrested before any trials take in place because trials
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take a while? That is like most shoplifters in every city in Canada. It's people who just keep doing it over and
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over again because they know they're not actually going to be held accountable and they tend to
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operate in kind of small gangs where they pool all the stuff they sell and then they have someone
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else sell it for them and they all know that the system is not actually going to punish them. That's
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why they do it oftentimes in the middle of the day. I used to work at a liquor store. It will happen in
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the middle of the day because they were never going to be arrested. Let's focus on what the
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allegations are saying of what they've done now. So someone who's committed murder against an intimate
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partner, someone who has robbed a bank, someone who has committed violent offenses, they are arrested.
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No, I'm talking about someone who's convicted. They have five convictions under their belt.
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Your view is that that is a clean slate if they've already served their sentence the next time they're
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up for bail? I said nothing about it being a clean slate. I said absolutely no. You said they've already paid their price.
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They have paid that price but nonetheless the criminal record is a critical component that is
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considered by decision makers when making the evaluation on the level of risk. We cannot
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perfectly predict. We can make predictions on the base of offenses or records but they are imperfect,
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meaning we are getting it wrong a lot. Nicole Myers, Queen's University, impeccable scholarship no
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doubt right there. Again, I can't get over that outfit right there. Andrew Lawton has also put out a
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tweet today that I thought it was a really good summation of the current liberal approach to justice reform.
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We have Bill C2, which actually it's rumored that they actually might just kill themselves because
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of how unpopular it is. But Andrew Lawton says, Bill C2, border bill that bans large cash transactions
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and allows warrantless mail searches. Bill C8, cyber security bill that lets government force
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people offline without oversight. Bill C9, justice bill that lowers threshold for hate. Can the liberals do
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anything without tampering on civil liberties? And Bill C9 too, the way that they have basically altered the
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word hate that allows them of our broader scope to go after people, it's not that you are trying to
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directly incite hate and violence against a person. Like saying that guy over there, there, he did this,
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that and the other thing and they're not true and you're saying someone should get that guy.
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Yeah, that person should be obviously arrested. But now they just say the idea that you're just kind of
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generally spreading hatred. Just generally, your opinions are too hateful and then so you should
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be arrested. That's basically what Bill C9 is. It's patently insane. And it's one of those things
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where you'll even have people on the left calling it out as kind of being draconian. But now let's move
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on to some economics here with conservative MP Kyle Seback, who in actually back on October 10th,
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but this has actually ramped up just today, was calling out the liberals for their really poor,
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I guess, approach to trying to save the auto industry in Canada in the face of tariffs.
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Because other than throwing just cash at the industry, they're not actually trying to make
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it a better place. They're not trying to make Canada a better place for the auto industry.
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They're simply basically keeping all the same bad tax and regulations, but just throwing
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a bag of cash to the industry every once in a while, hoping that that's going to be enough
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to keep them in Canada. And we have just proven today that it's not.
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Yesterday, we retreated to an incredibly embarrassing display as the Prime Minister
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stood here and bragged about a 10% tariff on Canadian auto. I had the privilege of meeting
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with Unifor auto workers earlier this week, and they told me a 10% tariff on auto will mean the
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end of the Canadian auto industry. So either the Prime Minister is unbelievably uninformed about what
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will hurt the auto industry, or he actually doesn't care when President Trump says he wants to take the
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auto sector. Is that why the Prime Minister is going to send a billion dollars of investment
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to the United States so they can build more auto jobs for the Americans?
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives need a reality check. At the end of the day, there are 60,000
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jobs created. Almost half of those are in the manufacturing industry.
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Now on the breaking news in Canada's auto industry, Stellantis is moving Jeep Compass production that was
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planned for its Brampton, Ontario plant to the US. Don't try to give us a lesson. We have a Prime
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Minister that understands the needs of Canadians. That's why we're building Canada strong.
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It's all been going very well, of course. So yeah, we're losing that Stellantis plant, the Jeep Stellantis
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plant in Brampton, because we're not a good place to set up shop for any businesses. Again,
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it's one of those things where lower corporate taxes, lower general income taxes, lower regulations,
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because at some point, if all you're trying to do is just throw enough money to keep the industry here,
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the thing is, the industry is just going to get tired of just hoping for bailouts, and they'll just
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go down to where they can actually make money in the US. So what are we even possibly attempting to
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do in this country right now? I like this. And this is the thing that the Liberals have been
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pushing on. Now they're trying to attempt to pretend that they are now trying to re-reform
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bail reform. We're going back to this issue a bit. And it says, Liberal Party, new,
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we're strengthening Canada's criminal code to keep violent and repeat offenders out of our communities.
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quote, we're making bail stricter to keep you safe. PM announces bail reform bill. And I want to get up
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to the next post because it feels like they just assume that the way that they're going to convince
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you that he's actually serious about this is just having more police standing behind him in photos.
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On this post from Mark Carney's account, it says, strengthening the criminal code is one way we're
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combating crime. We also need the people and the resources to enforce the law. That's why Canada's
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new government is hiring 1000 more RCMP personnel across the country to keep your community safe.
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Do you know how pathetically low that number is? And apparently we're also supposed to hire like
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1000 new border agents, but we've still not hired a single one. 1000 RCMP officers across the country.
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Currently, we are in a Calgary mayoral election where the candidate I am backing,
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Sonia Sharp, in one city, the city she's running in, obviously, is planning on hiring 500 new police
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officers. So Mark Carney, the prime minister of the country, is planning on hiring just double the
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police officers that a local mayoral candidate is in Calgary. This doesn't mean anything. Like,
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and he's just surrounded by cops as if he's some big pro cop prime minister. He's not. And the whole
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bail reform thing that they're going to re-reform bail, it's nothing. They're giving extra tools
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to prosecutors to maybe hold people, but they're not getting rid of Bill C-75 that is the same-day
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automatic bail reform law that is currently causing all the problems. So prosecutors have more tools to
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potentially keep these people from accessing the same-day automatic bail, but it's not going to help
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things out much because prosecutors still have to bend over backwards to utilize the tools the federal
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government is giving it to try and argue that somebody should not be released. But right now
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in the current system, they pretty much get released within a few hours giving prosecutors basically no
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time. And so we are not going to see literally anything improved because of this, because that's
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stupid. We still have the underlying problem with a small band-aid on top of it. But yeah, this was the
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week that we had with the liberals. It was not very good. The jobs reports have not been great. And we
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also have basically pretty much the liberal brand falling apart in many parts of the country. The
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Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election, despite the PCs there being probably really squishy
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type Tim Houston PCs, it was demonstrative of the fact that in a place in the country where the liberals
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should still be strong, especially on a provincial level, the brand just isn't there anymore.
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John Hogan, the premier of Newfoundland, he wasn't on the job for very long. He was only on the job
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since March, I believe, March or May. He had a very high approval rating, but it turns out it doesn't
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matter because at the end of the day, people don't like the liberal policy. So they can like your smile,
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they can think that Carney's a nice guy, but I don't think they're actually going to vote for him in
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another election. They didn't vote for him last time, they just voted against Trump. And now that
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issue, based on all the pollsters polling, has fallen down to like fifth and sixth place in terms
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of what people care about, which is a far cry from being the number two issue for all Canadians.
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And the reason why the liberals won is a large portion of Canadians made that their one and only
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issue was to spite Trump. Because yes, that's why we vote in Canada, to spite a world leader on the
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other side of the border, which doesn't have that much to do with us. Yes, we have the tariff issue.
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But the thing is, if we actually had a better leader, the tariff issue wouldn't have actually
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been an issue, because we could have solved it, rather than fumbling around and then having to
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beg to just get back to the negotiating table, as we keep doing things to tick them off, and then we
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don't actually play ball at all when we actually are at the table. It's maddening. But this is why people
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think that Mark Carney may be attempting to call an election earlier than we thought, because the budget
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is apparently going to be a bloodbath in terms of all the debt, the size of the deficit, and the
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size of the deficit it's likely going to predict for the next year. So Carney may actually want to
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have an election within a year from now, so that all of the bad economic news doesn't hit him before
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the election happens. Because usually, bad decisions made today takes a couple of years to actually see
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the light of day. The sort of consequences of those bad decisions germinate for a while,
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and then they burst onto the scene. So Carney is going to spend up a storm, promise all these new
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benefit programs, promise all these new welfare programs, dump a bunch of money into select
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industries, and then he will see if he can run himself into a majority government to save himself
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from a snap election happening when all the bad economic news finally hits. But anyways,
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that should be it for this video today, guys. Again, if you live in the city of Calgary,
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check out my endorsement list for the Calgary mayoral and council elections in the description
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and pinned at the top of the comments. I have a full list from mayor, every single council seat,
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as well as public school board. I'm only missing one public school board position, and then I only
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endorse two Catholic school board positions. Naturally, those kind of positions can be a
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little bit more vague on who the good candidate is. And frankly, I don't vote in Catholic school
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board elections. So I just endorsed a couple people that I know are personally good, but it's not like
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I've interacted with these people before that much, or that I interact with that level of government
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in any way. So I believe the only one I'm missing is like Ward 5 and 9 or something like that
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when it comes to school board, but everything else is currently filled in. So check that out if
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you're still undecided on who you want to vote for and you just want my recommendation.
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And with that being said, thank you guys all for watching, and I will see you guys next time.