The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 12, 2024


Liberal MPs sign letter demanding Justin Trudeau RESIGN!

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Justin Trudeau Mark Carney Michael Ignatieff Randy Boissoneau Arif Varani Francois Philippe Champagne Nate Erskine-Smith Dominic LeBlanc Pablo Rodriguez Mark Gerritsen Jane Philpott Ryan Turnbull Sam Harris Javier Malay Mary Holland Jennifer Law John Fraser Anita Anand Mel Nijoli Obama and 1 more
David Eby projected to lose his riding! (CPBC lead by 6%) Projections show Trudeau Liberals only winning 1 Toronto seat!

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A bunch of Liberal MPs are trying to get other MPs to sign a petition asking for Justin Trudeau to resign as their leader, or at least hold a leadership race to replace him. The problem is, no one knows who to replace Justin Trudeau with, and the other options are as unpopular as the bubonic plague.

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00:00:00.000 The Liberal Party of Canada is an absolute clown show. 0.98
00:00:04.760 We've established this, me saying this doesn't shock any of you, but this kind of did shock me a little bit. 0.96
00:00:11.720 So a bunch of Liberal MPs are going around trying to collect other MP signatures,
00:00:18.300 asking Justin Trudeau to resign as their leader or at least hold a leadership race to replace him.
00:00:25.300 Jennifer L. is posting this headline from the CBC.
00:00:28.360 At one point it reads,
00:00:30.080 One MP who signed the document told CBC News the number of MP signatures has spilled onto a second page,
00:00:38.600 asking for Justin Trudeau to leave as leader.
00:00:42.220 You know, guys, it's about time and it also feels extremely late.
00:00:48.320 We're in like the back half of the final quarter of this Liberal government
00:00:53.460 and you only realize that he's unpopular now?
00:00:57.140 How only now do you guys check and read a poll and notice,
00:01:01.240 Wow, nobody likes us.
00:01:03.660 It was never going to improve.
00:01:05.860 And if you ever needed some evidence to prove that politicians are more incompetent and less nefarious,
00:01:12.460 just look at how the Liberal Party has acted around Justin Trudeau's leadership.
00:01:17.660 Everyone was utterly terrified to say the honest truth that nobody likes this guy and we cannot go into another election with him.
00:01:27.380 I, as a Conservative, have been laughing all the way because it's good for Conservatism in Canada that the Liberal Party destroys itself.
00:01:35.080 But from the perspective of someone who also wants, you know, our politicians to be somewhat intelligent,
00:01:41.340 I'm still frustrated watching these people grope around in the dark and only now find out that Justin Trudeau's approval rating is like 24%, 25%
00:01:52.240 in a country where it's very easy to win as a Liberal because you are artificially considered like the middle party because you're between the NDP, the Bloc and the Conservatives.
00:02:04.420 So you're the middle of the road party.
00:02:06.520 You're the moderate party.
00:02:07.700 Everyone can vote Liberal and not feel like they're a big political partisan.
00:02:11.720 You're the moderate person.
00:02:13.720 It's never been true, but that's the appeal that the Liberals have been always been able to move on.
00:02:20.120 But the problem with trying to get rid of Justin Trudeau now is, although I think Trudeau should resign because we should normalize leaders who suck at their jobs resigning from office,
00:02:30.840 the Liberals don't have anyone to replace this guy with.
00:02:34.520 I know that we all ourselves, they know that they could just replace him with the shoe and that would be absolutely acceptable.
00:02:41.440 But considering the fact that they actually have to pick a human being from the Liberal Party caucus or from the Liberal Party as an outsider to then come into Parliament,
00:02:51.600 there's no inanimate objects we're allowed to replace him with.
00:02:54.940 And the polling is showing all the other options are as popular as the bubonic plague.
00:03:00.440 Nobody either knows who these people are or likes them if they do know who they are,
00:03:04.660 which means that Justin Trudeau is still like the popular people's choice within the Liberal Party.
00:03:10.980 This is an older poll from April.
00:03:13.340 I know that they've done another one recently and it was basically the same result.
00:03:17.280 I just couldn't find the new one.
00:03:19.040 It's from Abacus Data.
00:03:21.020 And it showed that these were the preferred choices of people if there was a leadership race to replace Justin Trudeau.
00:03:28.740 They just threw out a bunch of names, people who are cabinet ministers, people who have profile like Mark Carney.
00:03:33.480 And the top polling person was Chrystia Freeland with only 13 percent.
00:03:39.220 Mark Carney at 11.
00:03:40.780 Mel Nijoli at 5.
00:03:42.480 Francois Philippe Champagne at 5.
00:03:44.860 Dominic LeBlanc at 4.
00:03:46.620 John Fraser at 4.
00:03:48.220 And I think he was somebody that Trudeau was actually kind of trying to groom as like the next leader of the party.
00:03:53.740 He's like, you know, this tall, attractive guy who has kind of Trudeau-like qualities.
00:03:59.500 At the same time, I think he's somehow worse than Trudeau.
00:04:02.080 Like he lacks, he's even more plasticky than Trudeau in a really bad way.
00:04:06.960 Anita Anand at 3 percent.
00:04:09.240 And unsure taking the day decisively with 54 percent.
00:04:13.740 Because name me a cabinet minister who has had impact, who feels like they have gravitas.
00:04:20.500 A liberal wanting to win a leadership race has to run for a different party.
00:04:24.320 Now, Pablo Rodriguez is going to run for the Liberal Party of Quebec because at least Quebecers kind of know who the liberals are.
00:04:31.540 But for the rest of the country, outside of the island of Montreal, nobody knows who these people are.
00:04:37.240 Imagine polling somebody like Arif Varani, our current justice minister.
00:04:41.440 Who even knows Arif Varani?
00:04:43.800 Who would ever pick that guy out of a crowd?
00:04:46.560 I could walk past a crowd of Liberal cabinet ministers.
00:04:50.260 And if you ask me which of those people was a cabinet minister, I probably would not, with gun to my head certainty, be able to tell you of any of them or even politicians.
00:04:59.160 Because these people are boring.
00:05:01.040 That's the big thing, the big problem with the liberals.
00:05:04.500 Their brand is rightfully seen as very radical, woke, and left-wing.
00:05:10.200 But their politicians themselves don't come with that kind of fiery punch that you could at least say, like, at least galvanizes people in favor of them or against them.
00:05:20.320 Even a Chrystia Freeland, who absolutely is a radical, all these people are radicals.
00:05:24.760 I look at them and I immediately just feel a sucking void of apathy. 0.51
00:05:28.780 They are boring corporate bureaucrats. 0.69
00:05:32.420 They're the type of people leading awful meetings at your work about nothing.
00:05:36.340 They are the people who swing by your office to tell you that we've changed the car over to the TPS reports. 0.99
00:05:42.360 They're just awful managerial class losers. 0.99
00:05:46.860 And the polling is showing it. 0.98
00:05:48.720 So even though I'd like Justin Trudeau to resign, he should resign. 0.95
00:05:52.720 He is a terrible leader and a terrible person.
00:05:55.320 And I want your poly up to be the next prime minister. 0.97
00:05:57.580 If you're a liberal strategist, do you want Trudeau to resign?
00:06:02.880 So we're in this weird push and pull where a bunch of people want to oust Trudeau.
00:06:07.480 But if you ask these same people who want to oust Trudeau who should replace Trudeau, they'd be like all shoulders.
00:06:13.140 They're like, maybe Mark Carney?
00:06:15.240 Maybe?
00:06:16.120 And really, are you going to run Mark Carney, a central banker, at this time where people hate government management class individuals?
00:06:25.520 This would be like running Michael Ignatieff again.
00:06:28.600 He didn't work out the first time.
00:06:29.960 So you're going to get the guy who was in charge of the Bank of England even farther away than where Michael Ignatieff was living in the U.S.? 0.98
00:06:36.900 It's pathetic.
00:06:38.380 And they have Michael Ignatieff trying to – oh, not Ignatieff, but Carney trying to come in as like the assistant finance minister because they finally realized that Chrystia Freeland's background in writing articles didn't actually translate out to being a good fiscal manager, 0.93
00:06:53.640 especially if you're a lefty fiscal manager where they get deeply involved in the day-to-day operations, the economy, or at least a conservative.
00:07:01.440 You had no experience as a finance guy and you're the conservative finance minister.
00:07:05.960 At least you can say, let's just lower taxes and stop messing around and let people do their own thing.
00:07:09.900 The economy would boom.
00:07:11.380 That's effectively what's happening in Argentina.
00:07:13.740 Javier Melle is just telling them like, hands off, we're going to stop doing anything.
00:07:17.680 The Argentinian people can make their own destiny in the economy.
00:07:21.900 And things are really starting to work out in Argentina because the government got its boot off of people's necks.
00:07:28.800 But yeah, there's not exactly much else I can say about this other than that Trudeau has done a very good job
00:07:34.660 at brain draining the Liberal Party.
00:07:37.040 Back when the Liberal Party started up in 2015 in terms of the government,
00:07:41.880 I thought they actually had a lot of strong personalities in the party.
00:07:45.000 I could see a Bill Morneau being a good leadership candidate, a Jody Wilson-Raybould, a Jane Philpott.
00:07:50.820 There are some personalities inside the Liberal Party.
00:07:53.460 Other ones resigned before the last election.
00:07:55.940 But they used to have people that I didn't like them, but they seem to be their own man. 0.98
00:08:00.920 Everyone in the Liberal caucus right now are a bunch of peevish losers. 0.96
00:08:06.380 Nate Erickson-Smith swearing in a committee meeting because someone said he seemed to have lacked integrity 0.98
00:08:11.260 in something he did, and he starts swearing and swinging wildly.
00:08:14.560 Because the man's nothing but a walking ego.
00:08:17.520 That's why he does more work on his podcast while he's in government,
00:08:20.760 rather than on actual policy, pushing bills to try and sneak veganism more into the diets of Canadians. 0.99
00:08:27.520 It's absolutely ridiculous garbage. 0.99
00:08:29.500 Are we for Rani? Is he going to run? 1.00
00:08:30.980 Mark Gerritsen, would he run?
00:08:33.080 Any of these people?
00:08:34.420 You know, Mark Holland?
00:08:36.300 Ryan Turnbull? 0.99
00:08:37.680 These are horrible, annoying people. 0.98
00:08:39.820 Like, what is that guy? 0.95
00:08:41.160 Randy Boissoneau from Alberta?
00:08:42.900 Or maybe his friend, the other Randy, could run.
00:08:45.560 He sounds more confident than Randy Boissoneau himself.
00:08:48.400 These people lack any sort of real personality of their own.
00:08:52.740 Their egos, walking egos, with no charisma whatsoever.
00:08:58.620 I'm not a particularly charismatic person, especially in public.
00:09:02.000 I could smoke these people in a leadership race, in any race, because all they believe in is corporatism.
00:09:09.320 They just believe in management.
00:09:12.440 Management and regulation.
00:09:14.560 That doesn't make for a very good politician.
00:09:16.720 Trudeau was the one that had personality, and even over time, I think he's actually become really rusty.
00:09:21.260 I thought in 2015 he had energy.
00:09:23.820 Now he's just, like, a sad old man, and he's not even old.
00:09:27.160 He's just bad in interviews.
00:09:29.000 Have you ever seen this guy off script?
00:09:30.980 It's, like, worse than Obama or Kamala Harris.
00:09:33.720 Like, if the teleprompter goes off for Justin Trudeau, it's ums, ahs, and terrible equivocations.
00:09:39.380 Ugh.
00:09:39.560 Anyways, I actually would love to see a liberal leadership race, because I feel like it would be fun to watch how boring it would be. 0.99
00:09:47.540 Just people saying, boilerplate liberal garbage, woke garbage, releasing their, some insert demographic here for Freeland advertisements or whatever. 0.98
00:10:00.060 It'd be hilarious. 0.99
00:10:01.520 Anyways, that's it for me today, guys.
00:10:03.860 Have a good one.
00:10:04.680 Have a good one.