On today's show, we have the worst take I've ever heard from a liberal pundit, and it's coming from a woman named Rosemary Barton. She has a plan to cut gas taxes, and the rest of the media have a problem with it.
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00:00:34.380Sunday today on the show. We will be instead talking about the Canadian liberal media, a far
00:00:40.980darker force in this world. It baffles me just how little actual common sense you need to have
00:00:48.020to be a full-time pundit on television in Canada. You can basically know nothing and you can still
00:00:55.340be making more than a full-time salary sitting there having brain farts all day. We are about
00:01:01.780to cut to the Rosemary Barton live show in just a second here. And surprisingly, the person with
00:01:07.960the dumb take on this four-way panel is not Rosemary Barton. It is the woman wearing purple.
00:01:14.940So Polyev has a really good proposal right now to cut gas taxes. Gas prices are massively up.
00:01:22.140The government is already bringing in way more revenues because the GST obviously applies to the final price of the product, and so the government is making money hand over fist on the high price of gas.
00:01:34.800And so the least the government could do right now is get rid of their fuel standard. I think it's like the clean fuel standard regulations and other things that add a direct tax onto the price of oil and gas.
00:01:47.640but somehow in this segment the woman in purple here concludes that by doing that you are playing
00:01:55.040into Trump's hands because they can never give Polyev credit even the guy who had just spoken
00:02:01.260before we are about to hit play here the guy with the mustache nick even he was basically
00:02:06.800trying to mildly naysay what Polyev was doing by saying that it would be bad to just cut gas taxes
00:02:14.000completely. And instead, we should have a gas rebate because then we can target it to the
00:02:18.640right people. Whatever Polyev has a good idea, at the very least, the media have to say that,
00:02:24.220well, there's this other better idea here. So whatever Polyev ended up proposing is somehow
00:02:29.900a lesser idea. But we're going to get to what the woman in purple said in just a second here.
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00:03:01.460let us hear the worst take I've ever heard my entire life. Yeah. And to that end, I mean,
00:03:07.700i think i think i saw emily and you would know better in montreal i think prices hit two bucks
00:03:11.860uh in montreal they certainly have out on the west coast where gary is but this is like a you know
00:03:17.760this is not just a problem right now it's a problem on top of another problem and another
00:03:21.800problem and i wonder how or if ottawa should act quickly on this now warning here that her
00:03:29.020microphone sounds like a drive through intercom but i will try and translate a little bit for
00:03:34.500what she says i honestly don't know how her audio is this bad because she's like a regular guest on
00:03:38.980this show and you think she would have the audio down at some point in her life like
00:03:43.140go to best buy and buy an actual microphone my goodness stop using airpods it's a it's a little
00:03:49.140bit of a um uh of a brain uh issue in a sense that uh there is food there is rent and there
00:04:00.260is gas right those are the three things that come uh to our mind uh the most um and i don't see that
00:04:07.620energy uh for renters and i don't see that energy for food insecurity in the country okay so
00:04:15.220immediately pauliev's idea of cutting the gas tax or suspending it is bad because did you know there
00:04:22.420are other problems out there guys did you know that people are having trouble making rent or
00:04:26.820buying food? You might have not known that. But apparently this now means that Polyev's idea
00:04:32.340to give people relief on the price of gas is bad because there's another problem somewhere else,
00:04:39.140even though cutting gas taxes would in fact reduce prices elsewhere as well.
00:04:47.940I hope that she realizes that food isn't just from the grocery store. It in fact
00:04:52.180gets driven to the grocery store by trucks, and farmers need gas in their operation of their farms
00:04:59.840and all the other stuff. I know this is blowing her mind right now, but in fact, getting rid of
00:05:04.800the gas tax temporarily is a good thing. But of course, it can never just be that Polyev has a
00:05:10.380good idea. They need to just naysay it to death. These people seem to be driven crazy by the fact
00:05:16.980that poly of is able to uh you know flex common sense and so every time he says something common
00:05:22.960sense they immediately need to deflect to something completely unrelated so that the
00:05:27.640liberal audience of the cbc will not have their ears hurt by poly of saying something that that
00:05:32.840actually starts that sounds pretty good to them they need to just completely deflect but let's
00:05:38.600get back to her here so it's it's like we we we want to help the people with the car part of it
00:05:48.620is because we see the signs at the the sign of ours at the side of our suite to jumping at us
00:05:55.520with the big prices I wonder if there were more solutions for food insecurity or for poverty in
00:06:02.460this country if it was the price of eggs or the price of bread or the price of milk that had big
00:06:06.660red numbers flashing in the side of the world as well. Has she ever followed Polyev on social
00:06:13.460media? He posts basically every month what food inflation currently is and what he would do to
00:06:21.860try and tackle food inflation. Now, you can disagree with his solutions to it, but this
00:06:26.940isn't something that he only cares about taxes on gas because you can see the price of gas on the
00:06:32.980big screens in front of the stations no he actually talks about housing affordability
00:06:39.220food prices gas and general taxes all the time but again we have to pretend like polyev doesn't
00:06:46.660do that because by by just agreeing that his idea is good here well that would make him look good
00:06:53.000and we can't do that so we have to imply that somehow all these other issues he doesn't care
00:06:57.500about at all. But I'll let her finish here. My goodness. This one is very immediate. It's on
00:07:02.840the brain of everyone. Well, by the way, too, like, why wouldn't we take more action right now
00:07:10.780to solve the gas tax problem? Because right now, the government's making money hand over fist on
00:07:16.020GST revenues. So Polyev is basically saying, how about we bring it back to neutral by getting rid
00:07:20.820of some of the taxes? The government will still get quite a bit of revenue, but we can give people
00:07:24.560like 25 cents less on per liter at the pump the reason why he's tackling this now is because it's
00:07:31.200an immediate issue he's been tackling the other stuff over years at this point uh because of just
00:07:37.040the way that you know you see it at the pump and it's just screaming at you from the side of the
00:07:40.960highway uh but but the affordability crisis is more complex than this um and there is that risk
00:07:48.480of helping people who don't need it and not helping people who do need it the most
00:07:52.160we have a homelessness crisis in this country oh yeah guys you know heaven forbid we ever help
00:07:59.140somebody who didn't quote unquote need it what yeah we can never actually just help people in
00:08:05.420general you're gonna have emil nicholas here show up and be like oh no you helped the wrong person
00:08:11.340that person makes too much money you have to help this person over here how about we just help
00:08:15.920people this is the problem with the socialist mindset somehow doing the right thing is bad
00:08:21.880if we can if we can point to somebody who didn't necessarily need the help who got the help too
00:08:28.120like this is like the margaret thatcher quote they would rather the poor be poorer
00:08:33.240as long as the rich were less rich yeah and and but it's not screaming at us in the same way and
00:08:40.280so we really need to be smart about the policy aspect of it um but but there's always that urge
00:08:47.400uh to act on what is the most evident rather than what is necessarily the most effective
00:08:52.840and actually relieving the crisis in this country yeah those are all excellent points
00:08:57.800i've gary as someone who is dealing with really high prices out there this also may not you know
00:09:04.600no she in fact did not make a good point she made a terrible point but we're going to get back to
00:09:09.640when she speaks again later in this panel because this is where she starts making the point about
00:09:14.360donald trump so we've already naysayed polyev to death and said that it doesn't matter if he
00:09:19.480has good ideas because there are other problems in the country that we are implying that he doesn't
00:09:24.200care about even though he does care about them so if he makes a good proposal it doesn't matter
00:09:29.080because he did not solve all of the world's problems in his one proposal but now we have
00:09:34.360her coming back and you know doing her signature move of bringing up donald trump for no reason
00:09:39.960and naysaying polyev's idea from the other angle that this would be good for trump somehow
00:09:50.040absolutely and amongst those things there is the fact that the geopolitics of it uh aren't we just
00:09:57.720making donald trump's uh terrible catastrophes just more sustainable by uh making the basically
00:10:09.000Are we just enabling him by basically having all the Western governments cutting themselves up revenues as to subsidize Donald Trump's foolishness?
00:10:30.660Also, she had to throw her whole body into making that suggestion to the audience.
00:10:35.620Well, aren't we just subsidizing Donald Trump's war in Iran by actually giving people tax relief?
00:10:44.360Like, what are you saying, Emily, that we shouldn't give people tax relief because we're not really, we should be putting the screws to them to make them mad at Donald Trump.
00:10:55.220We shouldn't actually do anything to make our economy more healthy because then they will not artificially blame Donald Trump for their problems.
00:11:03.560because, of course, it's Donald Trump's fault that there is a theocratic terror regime that
00:11:09.400was threatening everyone, eventually went too far by killing tens of thousands of their own people,
00:11:13.720and America and Israel stepped in. This is apparently their fault, and we should be making
00:11:18.680sure not to give Canadians too much tax relief because they will forget about the biggest issue
00:11:23.500on this planet, which is orange man bad. We must be mad at orange man right now, and if we cut taxes,
00:11:30.000we get rid of the gas taxes and lower the prices by 25 cents a liter, that might make the single
00:11:36.440mother less mad at Donald Trump. So this woman, who apparently was first nascenting Polyev's idea
00:11:45.140from the angle that it wasn't making everyone's lives better in every aspect of their lives,
00:11:51.280even though actually getting rid of the gas taxes would in fact make everything more affordable,
00:11:55.360mainly gas but it would have trickle effects on everything else she said her his plan was bad
00:12:00.780because it didn't have anything to do with housing and affordability and like food deserts or like
00:12:06.620access to to like you know cheap healthy food that's why it was bad but it's also bad because
00:12:13.840if you make people's lives better they will blame trump less for their problems i am detecting
00:12:20.480i'm not i'm like me i'm not trying i'm not sherlock holmes here but i'm detecting that
00:12:26.920her points are contradicting each other but this is the this is the caliber of pundit you get on
00:12:31.580the cbc is yeah polyev doesn't want to have a tax break just before the end of the year obviously
00:12:38.640this is just pushing the ball further down the road in terms of making a dent into the systemic
00:12:42.900sorry polyev doesn't want tax relief like i guess she's trying to imply that she want he wants the
00:12:49.560economy to be worse under Mark Carney in a strategic manner. And perhaps the conservatives
00:12:55.400would see bad economic news and realize it's good for them. That's just politics. I think
00:13:00.520Polyev is perfectly fine with Carney taking his idea since he was the one who proposed it,
00:13:04.940and people would obviously see it as Polyev's idea. But really, we're going to now say that,
00:13:10.440well, Polyev doesn't even want this to happen. He said he wanted it to happen. You naysayed it
00:13:15.560because it doesn't solve all the world's problems.
00:13:17.860Then you said that reducing taxes is bad
00:13:20.120because it would make people less than Donald Trump.
00:13:22.260And now you're flip-flopping again and saying,
00:13:23.920Paul Yevon, you want any of this stuff
00:13:25.660because in fact, he wants the country to get worse.
00:13:43.520Of course, Rosemary Barton is here to agree with her because the neutral host is, of course, always coming down on the side of the liberal on the panel.
00:13:50.820Although it's the CBC, they're pretty much all shades of liberal.
00:13:54.480There is a question. I cannot still believe how rich it is for during that same week, have the leader of the position question the high speed rail train.
00:14:06.240and basically the idea that we should also invest in infrastructure
00:14:11.900that makes Canadians less dependent on their cars
00:14:14.840and therefore the volatility of oil prices.
00:14:18.440Okay, we now have stupid thing she said number four.
00:14:42.060Then she said, well, if we make things more affordable, people will blame Trump less for their problems because it's helping sustain Trump's war.
00:14:52.080Then number three was her saying that, well, Paulie doesn't even want any of this stuff to happen because he wants the economy to get worse so he can blame the liberals.
00:15:00.560that's really dumb because he was the one who pitched the idea so obviously he would want it
00:15:05.900implemented you know maybe there's something in the back of his mind that also says if i pitch
00:15:10.140this and carney doesn't do it he looks even worse but politics are politics and he was the one who
00:15:15.500proposed it so i think we should always assume in good faith the person would actually want to do it
00:15:19.680and now we have a point number four which i actually want to hear her say it again to make
00:15:26.180sure my ears are clear. The idea that we should also invest in infrastructure that makes Canadians
00:15:33.060less dependent on their cars and therefore the volatility of oil prices. Oh, so yes. So we should
00:15:40.300now spend, because oil prices are high, instead of getting rid of the gas taxes, it would be more
00:15:46.600logical from Emily Nicholas's perspective to spend $90 billion, $90 billion, on a train from Toronto
00:15:56.980to Quebec City, the Alto train, that will only have five stops. Apparently everything just has
00:16:05.040a conclusion where the government should spend more money in her mind. We have a big affordability
00:16:10.840problems? Better set $90 billion on fire so that people from Toronto going to Quebec City
00:16:17.140can technically get there cheaper. Although, let's be clear, this is a driving country and
00:16:23.740people are not getting rid of their cars. So people will still have to own a car, or at least
00:16:28.480the smart people will still have to own a car. And then some people can pay slightly less money
00:16:32.840getting to specifically Quebec City and a few other stops between. If you take the auto train,
00:16:38.640that will cost taxpayers 90 billion dollars to build and it will probably take over 20 years
00:16:44.420to actually be completed brilliant stunning insight there emily oh my goodness can we can
00:16:51.180we make her prime minister guys oh my goodness we she needs to be prime minister she's amazing
00:16:55.140which is always going to be a thing as long as the geopolitics is what it is yeah yeah and so
00:17:01.440there and that is also been the case in europe of with the war in russia trying to invest
00:17:06.480and transitioning away no in germany they shut down their nuclear power because germany is
00:17:13.440currently being run by complete numpties like what is she saying like oh europe's transitioning away
00:17:18.540no actually they are still overdosing on russian oil and gas while they are funding the ukrainians
00:17:24.360to fight them because logic does not exist in europe like and rosemary barton of course just
00:17:29.820sitting there like a muppet just like you know nodding and saying yep yep to all of her points
00:17:34.060as if this isn't the dumbest thing everyone's ever heard.
00:17:36.740And this needs to be as part of the conversation
00:17:39.260as much as, you know, immediate relief.