Liberal Minister are quitting left and right despite alleged ļ¼polling surgeļ¼
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Is the Liberal Party of Canada surging in the polls? Is it really a party that s surging? I even know the Liberals know that they are not surging, because their own ministers and MPs are declaring that they re not running for re-election in safe Liberal seats historically for the party. Just today, Jennifer O'Connell, the MP for Pickering-Uxbridge and the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Public Safety, is not running again.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. If you're like me, you've been hearing it from the mainstream media,
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liberal cheerleaders online, and various pollsters of dubious quality that the Liberal Party of
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Canada is in fact having a new renaissance in support. They are surging in the polls off of
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the back of the idea of Mark Carney, the star child himself, becoming the Liberal leader and
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unelected prime minister. This is obviously basically a fake political narrative to generate
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artificial hype for the Liberal Party at a time when their approval ratings are at their lowest
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point possible. Mark Carney has less than 50% name recognition. Chrystia Freeland, his next closest
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competitor, does have more than half of Canadians who can recognize her, but they don't tend to like
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her very much. Is this really a party that's surging? I even know the Liberals know that they
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are not surging. How do I know? Because their own ministers and MPs are declaring that they are not
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running for re-election in safe regions historically for the Liberal Party. Just today, Jennifer O'Connell,
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the MP for Pickering-Uxbridge and the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Public Safety,
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is not running again. She's only 41 years old. This is not somebody who needs to retire and go
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sit on a beach somewhere. This is someone who has a long political career ahead of her if she actually
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saw a path to victory. Now, maybe there is personal reasons that is requiring her to step back.
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Obviously, there are MPs who end up having, you know, family issues and they have to take a step back or
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maybe they get a better opportunity somewhere else. But most people who get into politics like to stay
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in politics. And she absolutely assaults our eyes right here with literally three panels of her
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waterboarding us with the reasons why she's not running and thanking everyone and her dog for
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supporting her. It's kind of belabored. But in just a second here, I want to go over just how bad
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the bleed-off in MPs has been for the Liberal Party of Canada. But first, guys, reminder,
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recommend the best and most conservative candidate. Right now in Manitoba, if you live there, take out
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a PC membership and vote for Wally Daldrich in the leadership race. He's a very good candidate. It's
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only two people in the race, and he is not just the best of the two. He is actually a very good candidate
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regardless of how many people there are. And if you live in the Bow River Federal Riding in Alberta,
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I would urge you to buy a federal membership and vote for David Bextie. He is in fact the father of
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Kian Bextie, the former operator of the Counter Signal, which just merged with True North to start
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Juno News. But anyways, now I just want to open up this Wikipedia article just to show you on this chart
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just how bad the actual bleed-off of Liberal MPs has been. You'll notice some conservatives here,
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and some block people, and some NDP. The thing is, the difference between people who are not running
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for re-election who are liberals and people who are not running for re-election who are conservatives
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is that the liberals tend to be quite young. People who could, in theory, be in office for another 30
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years if they wanted. The guy in my riding, Ron Liepert, was the first one in 2023 to announce that he
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wasn't running for re-election. The man in 72, I get it. You don't really want to be in office
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into your 80s. This isn't American politics. People tend to resign, actually, usually in their later 60s or
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early 70s. I ran for that nomination. I got falsely kicked out because somebody didn't want me to win
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the federal conservative nomination. But let's move on. We have here, if I can pull it back up,
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Wayne Long, who isn't running again for the Liberal Party. You could say that he was a bit older.
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The man, I think, is in his early 60s, mid-60s. But he was the first MP to call on Justin Trudeau to
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resign. I think he sees the writing on the wall. They're not going to win again. Lloyd Longfield
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is a bit older. Some of these other people are legitimately a bit older, like Joyce Murray.
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Omar al-Ghabra left because he's corrupt. That's pretty obvious. Anthony Roda had to leave,
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obviously, because of the SS officer or SS soldier scandal, where he brought that hunka guy to
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parliament and everyone stood up and applauded him. I don't blame the other parties except the
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liberals for that, because what are you going to do, not stand up and clap when they introduce
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somebody? Or are you going to demand a background check before you clap? It's their responsibility to do
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it. But as you go down here, most of these people are fairly young. But let's catch up
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to today. Jennifer O'Connell, 41 years old, Hickering Artsbridge. Mary New, on February 10th,
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resigned. She's, in fact, endorsing Mark Carney. So it's not like she endorsed Freeland. She sees
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Freeland's going to lose, so she wants to get out early because she doesn't want to work for Carney.
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No, she endorsed him. Markham Thornhill should be an easy place to win for the liberals.
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Arif Farhani. Parkdale High Park. That is blood red. That should be blood red. But I think he knows
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that either he's going to lose re-election or he's not going to have a very good time in office in
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opposition. Before that, this lady in Quebec, I looked at her. She is not old at all.
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This is a Montreal suburb. Somebody in a Montreal suburb cannot see a path to victory.
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Jenica Atwin. Fredericton, New Brunswick. Not running. Harjit Sejan. Vancouver South.
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Not running again. This is a liberal stronghold. Of course, Justin Trudeau's not running again.
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That makes sense. Anita Anand. Not running again in Oakville.
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Yvonne Jones. Not running again in Labrador. This is insane that these people aren't running again.
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There's dozens and dozens of liberals not running for re-election again.
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And this should put a lot of cold water on the theory from some conservatives than the media that
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Mark Carney is immediately going to call for an election as soon as he gets in as the unelected
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prime minister of Canada. He doesn't have a full slate of candidates. Think about how hard it's
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going to be to get liberals to run in Alberta ridings and Saskatchewan ridings. You're going to
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have to get a lot of paper candidates who are just willing to put up their name as sacrificial lamb
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candidates. It's not going to work. And he has a lot of major ridings to actually fill in
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candidates for. And appointing people looks really bad. People at least want a nomination
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race. And by the way, the nomination process in Canada for all the parties needs to be drastically
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reformed. I really would like to see Elections Canada actually monitor nominations just as the
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American basically election body monitors primaries. There's so much shenanigans that go on
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of nominations in this country. And nominations basically determine who the MP is going to be
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in the vast majority of ridings. And in theory, it really does determine every single riding because
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every single person is either appointed or nominated. But anyways, that's a small digression
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here. But Mark Carney is not going to have a full slate of candidates. I would be shocked if they have
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a candidate for more than 200 ridings right now. And just picking a bunch of people at the last
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second is going to look silly. And by the way, the Liberals have the cash issue that the NDP has.
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Both of the parties are nearly broke relative to the size of the parties. The NDP doesn't even maybe
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have more than four or five riding maxed spending limits because you can spend up to like $200,000
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in a Canadian federal election. In most ridings, you'll never spend anywhere close to that because
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either it's a safe seat for you or it's a seat you have no chance at winning. But the NDP, for the
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ridings that they're going to have to defend and probably drop more than $100,000 into, they do not
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have the money to do any of that. That's why we're also probably not going to see an election until late
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summer, if not right at the very end in October. Plus, Doug Ford, the fake conservative, has just given
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Jagmeet Singh and the Liberals the best reason possible to not call an election. Because there's an
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Ontario election on right now, and you don't want to call an election federally after Ontario just had
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one, or voters are going to be suffering from election fatigue. Doug Ford really just did this
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to help himself out, justifying that, uh, Donald Trump, we need to have a provincial election.
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It's silly. Anyways, if you live in Ontario, please vote for the New Blue Party. Literally,
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the PCs and Liberals and NDP are basically the same. I am not saying that to be hyperbolic because I just
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like New Blue, it's true. The PCs Ontario are to like the left of Erin O'Toole's version of the federal
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conservatives, which were basically not conservative at all. But anyways, so the thing too here is that I
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really don't, like, this is why I don't believe the polls. When they show the Liberals surging, why are these
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people leaving if supposedly they're surging? So not only can Mark Carney not call an early election, because he has to,
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you'd have to appoint like a hundred candidates at least in a lot of these ridings, not only are they
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not pretty cash strapped, they don't have a lot of money on them right now, but whenever you actually
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see a good quality poll come out, like from Abka's data, they are still way behind. Plus, all of the
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issues right now in the election are not going their way, and Mark Carney is having all of his skeletons
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fall out of the closets right now, because he is an elitist at heart. And all of his very elitist
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assumptions about Canadian politics are just spilling out onto the floor. The idea that he
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thinks that there is no fentanyl crisis in Canada, it's just a challenge. Talking about carbon tax
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tariffs, central bank digital currencies, all this stuff. He just is very out of touch with Canadian
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politics. It's pretty crazy to watch. But yeah, so, and another thing that the Liberals have is that
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the talent in the current party is just bad. The fact that Arif Farhani was even the justice minister
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is very telling. It's the C squad that the Liberals are currently working with. And like I showed in the
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Abacus data video where I went over their most recent poll, the government's approval rating is only at
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27% right now. With only a little bit more than a quarter of Canadians generally approving of the
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party's government after Trudeau stepped down and a lot of people are potentially coming back,
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that's pathetic. Mark Carney is going to want a little bit more room to run with. And I don't
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think it's going to help him at all. So I think he's wanting to stay in office as long as seemingly
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possible. In fact, he might even push back the date of this next election. But yeah, things are not
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going very well for the Liberal Party of Canada. And again, a lot of these people are endorsing Mark
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Carney. They're endorsing him on their way out. Maybe they want to jump to provincial politics.
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Maybe they want to go somewhere completely different, get a job on Bay Street. But yeah,
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the fact that at this surge time in February, we're having all these people leave is pretty pathetic.
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Again, look, Sororia Martinez-Feranda, who dropped out on February 6th, not an old lady. She is not old
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by any means. And they're not running yet. And I think Jenica Atwin, isn't she like the former Green
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Party person who's like extremely anti-Semitic, also not very old. Fredericton, easy territory
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for the Liberals. In fact, let's look at Parkdale Hyde Park right here, just so I can make my point.
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This is 2021. Arif Farhani won with 42.45% of the vote. The next closest opponent was the NDP,
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and they're not doing very well these days. So I doubt they're going to be much of a challenge.
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The fact that this might be a riding that the Liberals can lose is utterly pathetic. Even
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after redistribution, because some of the riding has changed by a block or two, the boundaries,
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his margin of victory has actually, in fact, gone up. The Conservatives only got 12.9% here.
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Insane. And this guy's not running again, because the Liberals have terrible prospects.
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Anyway, so that should be it for me today, guys. By the way, another riding I wanted to shout out,
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a good candidate is if you live in Abbotsford, South Langley. I've mentioned this one before.
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Make sure you have a federal conservative membership. I've heard there's like 8,000
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memberships in that riding. It's pretty massive. There was a lot of candidates at one point.
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Vote for Steve Schaefer, number one, on your ballot in that riding. I believe there was somebody else I
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was recommending before. Mike Murray. He's a good number two. And you could probably put
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Suk Mingil as number three or so. Mike DeJong is a terrible candidate. The guy is a flat-out liberal.
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He actually was the one who proposed the provincial carbon tax that BC passed under Gordon Campbell.
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He was the one who sponsored that. He sponsored Soji. Just an awful candidate. Please put in Steve
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Schaefer or Mike Murray. Steve Schaefer is an orthodox conservative. Mike Murray, too. I just think
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Steve Schaefer has a little bit more experience and is good as a good political organizer. Anyways,
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so that's it for me today, guys. Remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel,