The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 30, 2023


Liberals accidentally spotlight their awful record on crime


Episode Stats

Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

190.72043

Word Count

1,884

Sentence Count

106


Summary

In another massive Liberal Party of Canada failure, in an attempt to attack the Tories on the record of crime, the Liberals end up highlighting how terrible their own record on the issue is. It leads to a baffling post about crime.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 In another massive comms failure by the Liberal Party of Canada, in an attempt to attack
00:00:05.140 Pierre Polyev's Conservatives on the record of crime, the Liberals ended up just highlighting
00:00:09.380 how terrible their own record on the issue is.
00:00:12.960 For some reason, over the month of December, because of this voting marathon that happened
00:00:17.300 where the Conservatives had stated that they were going to oppose every single bill that
00:00:22.120 the Liberals put up unless they put a pause on the carbon tax for home heating, the Liberals
00:00:26.720 have been pretending that this now means that they can post about how the Conservatives
00:00:30.500 oppose every single good thing in the world because technically the Conservatives voted
00:00:34.860 against it or opposed it, even though they stated why they were doing so.
00:00:39.240 It's not working, and this post highlights why it's not working, because when you keep
00:00:43.860 accusing the Conservatives of being bad on some issues, it means that voters are going
00:00:47.720 to evaluate your own performance on the issues.
00:00:50.660 And it led to this baffling post about crime.
00:00:53.460 It reads, just this month, Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives voted to cut funding to
00:00:57.980 combat gun and gang violence, will continue standing up for Canadians and stopping Conservative
00:01:02.540 cuts.
00:01:03.360 Just nutty nonsense.
00:01:04.820 Also, the Conservatives didn't vote to cut anything.
00:01:07.760 They were not in charge of the legislation coming up for votes in the Parliament, and all
00:01:12.440 the Liberal votes were in order to increase funding of something or to divert money to another
00:01:17.980 initiative.
00:01:18.380 And the Conservatives just opposed it, saying that we will support it if you put a pause
00:01:23.700 on the carbon tax for home heating.
00:01:25.800 So the Conservatives never actually voted in favor of cuts because cuts were never what
00:01:30.220 was being voted on.
00:01:31.860 Regardless, whoever posted this from the Liberal Party, whoever strategized that they should
00:01:37.180 post this, should be fired.
00:01:38.900 I'm obviously a Conservative.
00:01:40.400 Shameless plug.
00:01:41.240 I'm running for the Conservative Party nomination for Calgary Signal Hill.
00:01:44.780 If you live in that running, buy a membership.
00:01:46.480 I have the description for my campaign, or the link to my campaign website in the description
00:01:51.220 below.
00:01:52.220 But anyways, whoever posted this needs to be fired.
00:01:55.420 And even though I'm a Conservative, I'll at least give the Liberals some advice as to
00:02:00.260 why you don't post something like this.
00:02:01.940 Because as soon as you post something like that, the typical voter, someone who's not
00:02:05.840 even that engaged in politics, is just going to sit back and think, well, what are you guys
00:02:10.240 doing on crime?
00:02:11.360 Well, didn't you guys lower a bunch of mandatory minimums?
00:02:14.720 Haven't you guys been the ones not actually trying to keep people, like granting bail to
00:02:20.900 repeat violent offenders?
00:02:22.460 Aren't you those people?
00:02:23.420 You guys passed Bill 75 and Bill 5.
00:02:27.060 You guys passed two bills that lowered minimums and reduced penalties for committing crimes while
00:02:32.880 out on bail or violating parole.
00:02:35.580 That's you guys.
00:02:36.460 That's what you never post stuff that makes your own, it gives your opposition or the
00:02:41.800 average voter, you know, room to look through your own backyard.
00:02:45.840 Never do that.
00:02:46.760 Although to be fair, if the Liberals were to avoid issues that they had a bad record on
00:02:51.360 because they don't want the Conservatives or just people out on the internet to counterpunch
00:02:55.260 them, they could effectively talk about no issues because they failed on all fronts.
00:02:59.400 But crime is probably the worst for them.
00:03:02.440 And I just want to highlight a few statistics to go through what the Liberals' record on
00:03:06.720 crime has wrought, just through Statistics Canada here.
00:03:10.460 So that reads here that violent crime has risen by 5% over the year 2022, following a 6% increase
00:03:18.280 in 2021.
00:03:19.720 Now, crime was down in 2020, not by that much.
00:03:23.380 Obviously, people were in lockdown, so they weren't actually able to go out and commit
00:03:27.760 crimes or it would have been riskier to commit crimes because it's harder to, you know, commit
00:03:31.900 a crime when you're the only one on the streets and police can immediately get to wherever you're
00:03:35.600 causing trouble.
00:03:36.880 But the fact that we have been having year on year increases in crime, I've literally been
00:03:41.440 doing a report on crime in the city of Toronto in the background of the show.
00:03:45.460 I'm finishing my master's degree.
00:03:47.820 And since Trudeau took office, almost exactly when he took office in 2015, we've been having
00:03:52.720 a few to like a 1% to like 5%, 6% increase in crime, I think even higher on some years,
00:03:59.120 every single year since he took office in 2015.
00:04:01.840 It's not been pretty.
00:04:03.620 And it has been a direct result of Supreme Court rulings, as well as a Liberal Party
00:04:08.820 legislation that takes crime far less seriously, that reduces mandatory minimums for gang
00:04:15.180 members carrying illegal weapons.
00:04:16.940 That's something they did.
00:04:17.880 And they have the, like, gall to try and go after the Conservatives on gun violence issues.
00:04:24.020 It's because the Conservatives supposedly don't want to confiscate assault-style weapons.
00:04:29.560 One, assault-style weapons is a nonsense term.
00:04:32.360 And two, law-abiding gun owners are one-third as likely to commit a violent crime compared to
00:04:37.580 the average Canadian.
00:04:39.280 The law-abiding gun owners are not only not the problem, they are the antithesis of the
00:04:44.340 problem, they are those who are definitely not committing crimes.
00:04:48.460 It is gang members and other criminals who the Liberals are letting get away with their
00:04:53.620 crimes who are the major cause of gun violence.
00:04:56.920 Who buys a gun registered to themselves to commit crimes?
00:05:01.020 That's a stupid crime, which is why nobody pretty much does it.
00:05:04.580 It's a blue moon scenario to ever happen.
00:05:06.920 But the Liberals, for some reason, think that you're just going to read this post and think,
00:05:11.860 wow, the Conservatives are trying to cut funding to combat gun violence and gun crime?
00:05:18.400 Nobody's actually going to think that, unless you're the most hardcore, true-and-on liberal
00:05:22.320 who thinks Trudeau can do no wrong, even if Trudeau admits he did something wrong.
00:05:26.700 That's happened in the past.
00:05:28.220 Trudeau's admitted he did something wrong, and the true-and-on folks are still trying to
00:05:31.720 justify why he's completely in the right.
00:05:33.820 It's nutty.
00:05:34.500 But anyways, moving on.
00:05:35.540 I just want to highlight a couple more of these statistics, because I do like the way
00:05:39.720 that statistics kind of lays things out.
00:05:42.120 One government department, if I was in government, I would not cut anything to.
00:05:45.380 They do good work.
00:05:46.480 I wish they actually had a better budget so they could make better graphics, but budget
00:05:51.500 limitations.
00:05:52.500 But crime severity in 2022 went up by 4.3%.
00:05:55.820 In crime for 100,000 people, 5%.
00:05:59.660 4.6% for violent crime.
00:06:02.440 Nonviolent crime went up by 4.1%.
00:06:04.300 And I hate the way that the left talks about nonviolent crime, shoplifting, loitering,
00:06:10.420 encampments by homeless people, drug use.
00:06:12.800 They act like they're all victimless crimes because no one got physically hurt.
00:06:16.960 Retail theft, all this drug use that happens in the downtown cores of our cities, those destroy
00:06:22.580 businesses.
00:06:23.040 They destroy neighborhoods.
00:06:24.800 It's a myth that poverty drives crime.
00:06:27.920 It is the most dumb correlation ever to think that because someone's poor, they're committing
00:06:33.600 crimes.
00:06:34.400 Every criminal is technically poor because no one wants to employ them because they're
00:06:38.180 a criminal.
00:06:39.200 It's actually, in fact, that crime drives poverty.
00:06:42.760 Go to areas with high crime, and it's always going to be that there's no businesses there.
00:06:46.960 Nobody wants to start a business.
00:06:48.180 There's crazy amounts of theft, so who in their right mind would try and sell anything when
00:06:52.480 you have to have so many extra security features and whatnot?
00:06:54.920 I worked in a liquor store.
00:06:56.580 Our prices went up significantly because of crime, because of all the extra measures we
00:07:02.240 had to take in order to try and prevent it or in order to raise prices to make up for
00:07:06.340 thefts we had.
00:07:07.360 It's just the reality of the world.
00:07:09.880 There's a reason why you can find poorer neighborhoods where nobody commits crime because
00:07:13.900 poverty has nothing to do with crime.
00:07:15.600 It's all about character and social stability, and the liberals have been doing great work
00:07:20.280 in destabilizing Canada's social bonds as well as making people poorer, and then they're
00:07:26.340 saying that, well, it's obviously poverty that's causing crime.
00:07:28.740 Well, if it is poverty, stop taxing people so much.
00:07:31.500 It's ridiculous.
00:07:32.880 They're illogic when it comes to the crime issue.
00:07:36.300 But anyways, I just want to highlight that incredibly dumb post.
00:07:39.700 It's great to see that they're being bit for it.
00:07:41.500 I think they were getting severely ratioed.
00:07:42.980 I don't think I showed the statistics in that tweet, but yeah, every comment's like, you
00:07:47.820 guys realize that you reduce mandatory minimums for illegal weapon possession.
00:07:52.440 There was so many people saying, hey, hasn't crime been going up?
00:07:55.420 Hey, hasn't been gun violence going up?
00:07:57.180 Hey, haven't you guys been literally not enforcing the law through these really loose
00:08:01.660 bail rules that you've been passing?
00:08:03.900 Everyone knows that they're full of crap on this.
00:08:06.640 Anyways, that should be it for me today.
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