Liberal Minister bills lobster to taxpayers as Canadians struggle
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the Liberal Minister of Agriculture, Lawrence McCauley, who took a photo of himself eating lobster while on a government trip to Malaysia and then posted it on social media. It's the dumbest thing he could possibly do.
Transcript
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Guys, I think it goes pretty much without saying, but if you ever become an elected
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official in the Canadian government, never do this. So yesterday, the Liberal Minister of
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Agriculture, Mr. Lawrence McCauley, went on a trip to Malaysia, and right after he touched down,
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he decided to take a photo of himself eating lobster on the taxpayer's dime. I don't know
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what possessed him to do this. It's the dumbest thing he could possibly post,
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but I want to get into it after just reading the post first. So Lawrence's team, because I don't
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even think Lawrence is dumb enough to do this, think about it this way. Multiple people had to
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see this before it was posted, and they all thought this was a totally cool thing to do
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while people can't even afford groceries in this country. So the post from Lawrence says,
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Touchdown in Malaysia. I'm looking forward to a productive week of meeting with officials,
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industry leaders, and partners from Canada and the Indo-Pacific to promote our world-class products
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like the lobster I enjoyed for lunch in Kamala Lumpur. Dude, what? Wait, wait. So that was
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Canadian lobster that was imported into Malaysia that he ate at a fancy restaurant and then billed
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to taxpayers. This is an optics nightmare. There has been other conservative officials in the past
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who have been roasted for buying $16 glasses of orange juice. And this guy's casually over here,
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probably spending $70, $80 on lobster in a foreign country while taxpayers are paying for the entire
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thing. And he decided to post this travesty on social media so he could get roasted. Like,
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I don't even know what they thought the benefit to posting this was. Did they think that he was
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just going to get a bunch of high fives? Oh yeah, Lawrence is eating lobsters and he a cool guy.
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Nobody thinks that. Dude, just have butter toast in your hand every time you take a photo on a trip
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while you're eating food. Nobody wants to know that you spent more than $5. The risk to reward
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of posting this, the reward was maybe a couple people think, oh man, Lawrence like lobster? I like
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lobster too. Wow, that's cool. That's the best case scenario of posting this. Worst case scenario is
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what is happening right now where even liberal journalists are saying, yeah, this guy's an
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idiot and doesn't know how politics is done. Like, does he not think, does Lawrence, Lawrence,
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baby, do you not think in your riding this is going to be the main advertisement run against you
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that while Canadians are unable to pay for basic necessities or struggling to do so,
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you're off in Malaysia, a country I think this had a crazy coup go down and I'm not sure why we're
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even in Malaysia right now, but you were in another country billing taxpayers for your lobster lunch.
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That is going to be a great ad run against you. And like, let me be very clear. Lawrence is not
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exactly in like a safe seat and is just overconfident. He's probably going to lose. I guarantee this drops
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him off another five or 6% in the projections. Just look at 338. 338 has the average for the next
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election. 41% conservatives, 39% liberal and 12% NDP. There's not even that many NDP votes that could
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consolidate behind Lawrence to keep him in. This guy's going down. If he was already down before
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this, he's definitely going to be even further down after everyone sees that the guy is like literally
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billing them like, you know, like, like at a hundred dollar lunch in Malaysia when he didn't have to
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take. And again, most of these trips that we do to talk to business leaders and foreign officials,
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it's a lot of nonsense. We're just talking to people to make it look like Canada is a very
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international kind of a country in, in which we don't really pass any new deals. We don't really
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do that much productive. We basically just show up there to show that Canada is a player on the world
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stage. And then we come home. If we're going to do these stupid trips just to show that Canada has
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presence, like, you know, have a glass of water and some grapes. That's your lunch. Just keep it
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like, or if you're going to post the lobster, post it and then hold up the, your card that is paying
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for it. Do not do this pretending like everyone's going to think that you're such a cool guy. Cause
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you like lobster. The, the, the communications team inside the liberal party needs to be fired.
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I'm a conservative and shameless plug. I'm a conservative. Wyatt Claypool. I'm running for the
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Calgary signal Hill conservative party nomination. So if you live in that riding by membership and
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vote for me. So I'm not even saying this from a liberal perspective that I'm frustrated. The
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liberals aren't doing better. I'm just frustrated as someone who does a lot of communications work,
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how terrible the liberals have been over the past five years. They previously used to be at least a
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little bit good at sort of projecting charisma around their, their politicians. They used to be
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decent at trying to counter conservative messaging. I could see right through usually the schemes
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they were putting forward and the lies that they would kind of mold into narratives to try and
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overcome the conservatives. But these days they're like, they're literally putting up posts saying
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the economy is not just about numbers. It's about people, which is a tacit omission that, uh, that they
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know that their economy sucks right now. And they're saying, well, who cares about the numbers? It's about
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the people. Whoever approved him posting this lobster photo should be cut. Like this is, this is a
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absolute travesty in terms of communications work. Whoever is writing the scripts for Justin Trudeau
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whenever he goes up and speaks to the press needs to be fired. Whoever is putting out the social media
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stuff for the official liberal account needs to be fired. These people don't know what they're doing. And
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it's because they are so reliant on the mainstream media to prop them up that they have become very lazy
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in terms of their own communication skills. Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. If you want to
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videos shorter. This video doesn't really deserve to be over eight minutes long. Just talking about
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lobster, but I still enjoy just talking about just absolutely gutter trash communications skills from