Liberal Minister resigns - Trudeau likely to toss Freeland
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Justin Trudeau's former groomsman, Seamus O'Regan, has decided not to run for re-election in the next election. Seamus joins me to talk about why he's leaving the Liberal Party and why he doesn't think it can win again.
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It's a day ending in Y here in Canada, and you all know what that means.
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There's internal chaos inside of Justin Trudeau's liberal government.
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Like, it's become mesmerizing to me how badly the liberals are at politics.
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They've not been able to stabilize themselves whatsoever in the past year,
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They get walloped by the conservatives every single day,
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like hockey jersey pulled over the face and being slammed over and over again.
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And they have not figured out a way of pulling out of this death spiral.
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And really, it is a death spiral because they are not going to be able to correct course on this one.
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They've betrayed people's trust too often, and now it's just the blame game until the end.
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And we even have close friends of Justin Trudeau resigning from cabinet and saying they're not going to run again.
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I'm always skeptical of when anyone says they're just resigning, they just decided to.
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Oftentimes, it's that either they don't think they can win again.
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They're not just, you know, doing different things now.
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No, you're either going to lose, the leader told you to leave, or you hate the leader's guts, so you are leaving.
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And the most recent man to say he's not going to be running in the next election
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is Justin Trudeau's groomsman from his wedding, Seamus O'Regan, our current seniors minister, I think labor minister.
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And at the very start of his tenure, I believe he was the natural resource minister, three jobs he was terrible at.
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He just posted his statement on why he's leaving a few hours ago.
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It's just stuff like, you know, I did such great work, and me and Justin Trudeau are the best of friends,
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and I, you know, everything's just so great in Canada, that's why I'm leaving.
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Really, he's leaving because the polling's terrible.
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The liberals have stabilized some things inside of their government, but it's just the terrible polling.
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They have stabilized themselves around the low to mid-20s in the polls.
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They used to be neck and neck with the conservatives, even when Pyrapaliev was the leader of the conservative party early on.
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You'll see in 2023 there, just when Pyrapaliev started being the leader,
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they could be within two or three points of the conservatives,
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but the conservatives actually painted a positive vision for the country,
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and the liberals have just been fighting old battles they already lost over and over again,
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like in my last video about the liberals continuing to not stop talking about the carbon tax.
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There's no undecided individuals or people willing to change their position on the carbon tax.
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If you start calling it the carbon rebate or a price on polluters, nobody cares.
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And speaking of the last video, I heard what you guys said,
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and I did get the haircut that a lot of people were saying I needed to get.
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It was already pre-scheduled, so none of you weasels made me get a haircut.
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The day before, I was like, oh, goodness, I really need to get a haircut.
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But to dig a little bit deeper in the polling here,
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in Mr. Seamus O'Regan's writing specifically, it's a bloodbath.
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You see here in Terranova, the Pensulas, I don't know how to say that,
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they are projecting that the conservatives would get 50% of the vote,
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Seamus O'Regan and the Liberals only 37, and the NDP 9,
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giving the conservatives a 96% chance of picking up this writing.
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The writing's called something different now, but through redistricting, the names changed.
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But yeah, I think mostly the real reason Seamus O'Regan is leaving
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I doubt that Justin Trudeau encouraged him to stick around.
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Trudeau wants the idea, he wants the kind of veneer
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that things in the Liberal government have the capacity to change.
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Because look, we got rid of this cabinet minister and we swapped someone else in.
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When they all might as well just be wearing human face masks of Justin Trudeau.
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Because everybody knows, inside the Liberal Party,
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nobody picks up and drinks from a glass of water
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without express written permission by Justin Trudeau himself.
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It's kind of like the reverse of the Biden administration in the US.
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Biden kind of just signs off on a lot of stuff people around him do.
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And so there's a lot of powerful secretaries inside of the Biden administration.
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He's much more of a laid back president, partially because he is 81 years old.
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but for some reason needs everyone to run things by him first,
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even though he can't get through a single speech without falling all over himself,
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because he just doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Which is hilarious, because you think as an actor,
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he would be better at being able to stabilize himself in how he speaks in front of crowds.
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Unless he is reading off a teleprompter, it's ums and ahs all the way through.
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He does that more than I do, and I'm not exactly a great public speaker.
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and even that was the most terrifying thing I've ever done in my life.
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But now, before I go on to the backstabbing fight
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that Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau are having,
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although Chrystia Freeland is such a weak character herself,
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she's just kind of letting herself get ousted from her current position as finance minister.
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It hasn't happened yet, but Justin Trudeau is making all the noises,
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and people inside the PMO are making all the noises about,
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you know, wouldn't it be interesting if Mark Carney became the finance minister?
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but wouldn't it be great if Chrystia Freeland just was pushed off the side of a building?
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Like, that's kind of what's going on right now inside the Liberal Party.
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But this polling is very interesting because it demonstrates
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the idea that even Liberals right now want a lot of change,
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that even if they say they're voting for the Liberal government in the next election,
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And Justin Trudeau is kind of trying to, you know, pantomime,
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but at the end of the day, he's just incapable of making real changes
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and Justin Trudeau has never changed his style in the past.
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He merely changes the visuals that you see of who's minister, where, and when.
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I want to get to an analogy I have later for that, too.
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Well, let's start where it's most obvious on in terms of who's angry with the government.
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And we have here, it shows that 83% of federal Conservative Party supporters
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And, you know, different, and this just shows different phrases
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that define the way that conservatives think of the current federal government.
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Not very important. Really, just the top-line number is important.
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Makes sense. 83% of federal Conservatives are angry.
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Sometimes that's just up to people who are very wealthy, very well-off.
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Usually, you're not going to be as emotionally passionate about things
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Jump over, and this is very devastating for Jagmeet Singh.
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53% of federal NDP voters are angry towards the federal government.
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That's pretty bad, considering that Jagmeet Singh might as well be the co-prime minister right now.
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He does control a lot of government policy, or at least he could control more government policy
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But either he is assisting Justin Trudeau in passing terrible policies.
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I actually don't think that NDP supporters dislike the current federal government
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and Jagmeet Singh's popularity numbers have fallen because they're upset that Jagmeet Singh is too,
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He, you know, he shills too much for the liberals.
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I think people are realizing that just Jagmeet Singh and the NDP's policy book is unpopular
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because as soon as the liberals had to partner up with the NDP, it became very apparent that
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outside of just the extremism of each party, how far they want to take public policy, how
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far they want to push big government policy, there wasn't that much different.
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So I think a lot of people just realize that the NDP is just orange liberals and the liberals
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And so that's what I think ends up exposing the NDP.
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The best case scenario for the NDP is they're in an opposition situation where they get to
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complain about everything in a very hyperbolic manner.
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Like the NDP is going to become more popular once Pierre Pollyup is the prime minister because
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they can absolutely like blow, like blow their top on everything.
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They can freak out, light their hair on fire and say, I can't believe you lowered taxes.
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Oh, that's sexist to deregulate agriculture.
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They need something like that to come up against.
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And right now the NDP have nothing to complain about.
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As soon as the NDP have power, people don't like them.
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That's why in so many provinces across Canada, either NDP governments or NDP parties are being
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defeated or the ones who are succeeding are basically having to divorce themselves from
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the ideology of the federal NDP, like in Manitoba.
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Those who are stalwart with it, like David Eby in British Columbia, are falling apart despite
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having every advantage going into the next election.
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And now finally, let's look at the numbers of federal Liberal Party supporters who are
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currently mad at the federal government that they are pledging to vote for.
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This might have been people who voted Liberal in 2021, but to be fair, about 75% of people
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tend to stick with the party they voted for last time.
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In a change election like we have coming up next year, it's going to be more than that,
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17% of federal Liberal supporters are angry with the current government.
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Now, in a certain sense, I think this is just because so many federal Liberal Party supporters
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over time didn't even know what they wanted, because the Liberals have, in a certain sense,
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They just, turns out, they don't like what they voted for.
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It is the joke of the Jaguar, the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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You voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, and you're shocked that the Leopards
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The Liberals, they're like, they're thinking, oh, the economy sucks, inflation's so bad,
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And you're like, but you voted for more program spending, for more money printing,
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for more regulations, for more taxes, all this stuff.
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Like, I don't want to cram down on people too much, because obviously, a lot of people
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Most people don't even decide who they're voting for, or don't even start cluing into
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what the election issues are that are defining the race, until a few days beforehand.
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McCullough had posted some results from that showed about only 65% of people knew who Pure
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It actually might have been only 53%, and 65% knew what his name was.
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Pure Polyev could be the most powerful man in Canada, and people don't know who he is.
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I don't mean like that from the perspective of, oh, they don't know Pure Polyev, Fear
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I mean it in the sense that, you know, he's a very important player in Canadian politics,
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and almost half the country doesn't know who the guy is.
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Like, we need way better civics education in Canada in our, for like social studies or
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But now, I'm going to jump over to what's going on with Christian Freeland, but I'm going
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to pause this video for a second because I'm stupid and didn't realize my computer is about
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But to take us into our next segment, I'm just going to quickly play some news coverage
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of the current fighting between, kind of silent, there's a bit of a cold war going on, but the
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fighting between Christian Freeland's office and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the upcoming
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cabinet meeting, which sounds like the only agenda item is pushing Christian Freeland over
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I'm actually not going to play any more of that.
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I realize that that segment might be very quiet.
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StreamYards does not boost the audio of clips that I play to, like, equalize them with my
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So sometimes it's just like, you'll hear me quite loud, and then it's like a drop off.
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But basically what's happening is that there's been leaking going on between Freeland's office
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Obviously, it started with Trudeau, people saying that, oh, yes, the Prime Minister's
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just disappointed in Christian Freeland's performance on marketing the liberal government's
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Freeland and Trudeau are both terrible at their jobs.
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Maybe Freeland's even more incompetent than Trudeau because she even listens to him,
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But what we have going on right now is that Freeland is basically taking, or they're going
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to try and make Freeland take the fall for not marketing Trudeau's terrible policies properly.
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There's no way of polishing these turds to make them seem okay.
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And now Trudeau's kind of doing this, like, thing he did exactly to Bill Morneau.
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A lot of news starts coming out of PMO staffers saying, well, Christian Freeland, just not
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Oh, Bill Morneau, really letting down the Prime Minister.
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And when people started calling out this pattern, because Trudeau is just not very good
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But really, the name recognition of being a Trudeau is like 80% of his political power.
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As soon as the media started noticing, well, you're doing to Freeland exactly what you
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And then Trudeau runs out of his office and says, no, I love Christian Freeland.
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Also, I really like Mark Carney, and maybe Christian Freeland should die.
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Even while he's trying to walk it back, PMO staffers keep hyping up the fact that, oh, Mark
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Carney is talking with Justin Trudeau, maybe this is going to be a new finance minister.
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And he wouldn't even deny in a press conference that he might just not let, like, he might,
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you know, maybe Christian Freeland doesn't stay on as the finance minister.
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And I got to say, if you're Mark Carney right now, and you're dumb enough to become the finance
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minister to prop up Trudeau for another, like, year, you're an idiot.
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You could actually potentially be the Liberal Party leader with a real shot to becoming the
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If you just wait until after 2025, you let Trudeau get absolutely clobbered by Pierre
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This is the same hostage situation that's currently happening inside the Democratic Party in the
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They want Biden to go, but nobody really wants to be the presidential candidate, because
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why wouldn't you just want a clean shot for 2028 and run on your own terms rather than
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being the candidate that really represents the last streak on the retreat?
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Would Gavin Newsom going to run this year, you know, with no money on hand right now?
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No, like, name recognition that doesn't actually extend across the entire country because you
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Like, it's scary how a lot of people probably in the U.S. also don't know who Gavin Newsom is,
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even though he's been the governor of California for quite a while, and then the mayor of San
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But you need a while to become just not known in your state, but known across the country,
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But Mark Carney is, I guess, doing it the opposite direction, that for some reason now he wants
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to get involved in politics, not even be an elected MP and become the finance minister,
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just become the finance minister without being an actual MP, which is allowed.
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It does look bad, so I don't know why the liberals think this is going to give them a shot
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Like, truly, the liberals are in their Gary Cherone era, if we assume the liberal party
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You know, the David Lee Roth era ended a long time ago, it ended before the 2019 election.
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I'm not saying that the liberals used to be good, I'm just saying in terms of their public
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Then their Sammy Hagar era was, you know, 2018 to basically 2021.
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They were able to muscle through the last election because they were running against Aaron
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Aaron O'Toole is running against you in politics, you get to win.
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And now, after that, now we are in the Gary Cherone version of Van Halen for the liberal
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We are just bringing in recognizable names from other walks of life, because Gary Cherone
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I don't even really listen to that much music, especially rock music.
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And he's coming in to pretend that this is a new, professionalized version, very responsible,
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Nobody thinks anyone in the liberal party does anything without Justin Trudeau's express
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I don't even think Mark Carney will be given any more leeway than anybody else was given.
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It's just swapping up the faces right before the ship goes down.
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Chrystia Freeland, if anything, it's also going to open up some rifts between sort of
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the corporate Bay Street liberals who actually are decently warm to Chrystia Freeland.
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They like Trudeau too, but she'd be popular in those Bay Street sort of ridings.
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A lot of media people like Chrystia Freeland, because she is one of them.
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You know, if you're a liberal legacy media journalist, she actually used to be a fine
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journalist back in the day too, which is sad that she's devolved to this point, but she
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So knifing her at this point is only going to tick off Justin Trudeau with his Toronto
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Justin Trudeau very much is still a Montreal politician.
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He's very popular in Montreal and his appeal in Toronto only works if he has other power
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players inside of Toronto who are also on his side.
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You cut off Chrystia Freeland at the knees and then just throw her in as the deputy
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I've been disrespected after being your bag man for so many years.
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There's no saying they couldn't lose a lot of other ridings in the city of Toronto.
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If anything, I'd like, obviously I'd like the liberals to lose.
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But if this happens, I want them to toss out Freeland because it might tick off enough
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people that if Kevin Vong, the independent MP, then brought into the Conservative caucus,
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even in the Spadina Fort York area, he could win as a conservative, even though that used
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to be a riding where it was either orange or red.
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That's crazy to think about that a red-orange riding can now go blue simply because the King's
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court politics that Justin Trudeau has been playing is utterly backfiring on him.
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But now I just want to quickly jump over to one more video because I found it funny because
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it was just the thing that reminded me that Justin Trudeau is not very good at public speaking.
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He just blathers all over himself while trying to deliver a fairly straightforward message
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He's just doing some jobs, transportation announcement here.
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See, these people actually know how to crank up the volume on the clips that they put out.
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What we're doing today is making sure that you guys have good jobs, not just for years
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The focus that we're doing right now as a federal government is stepping up with the kind of
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predictable, long-term transit funding that means that partners like the City of Toronto
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and Olivia Chow can plan for not just the next couple of years, but for the next decade
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It's permanent transit funding that's going to make it easier to have those longer-term
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plans that we know is part of it, but it also gives both you the certainty in the...
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Imagine how many times he's effectively already repeated himself while saying um and ah in
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He's repeated so many times that we need certainty in funding so that we can have long-term jobs,
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and that means we need long-term funding for certain...
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The work you're doing, but especially Torontonians, the certainty that transit is going to meet
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I even like when you see in the background here, there's guys like looking the other direction.
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And people look super interested in Justin Trudeau, just not looking at him while he's
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Like, I think they're hoping that when Donald Trump likely becomes the next U.S. president,
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that that creates like an anti-conservative backlash in Canada that the liberals can ride.
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Like, obviously, they can't compare Polyev to Trump anymore because of the assassination
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attempt, and it looks kind of callous to keep hammering on Trump when a lot of the
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Someone can dislike Trump, but pretending that he's like racist and evil and like Hitler
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And then to then apply that comparison of Hitler to Trump and Trump to Polyev is very in bad
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So if Trump becomes the U.S. president, if anything, I think it's just going to make
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more Canadians like Trump because people are going to be like, the U.S. has jobs.
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You know, they don't have an immigration issue anymore.
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That's what's going to end up, if anything, even further cementing the liberal defeat
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that the person that the liberals have been attacking the conservatives with for a year
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