The Liberals are running a campaign based on the idea that their opponents are just bad people because they voted for the wrong party. This election is a referendum on whether or not the Liberals are better than you, and the answer is no.
00:00:00.080Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. It's great to be back in the normal studio, not trying to make a corner of a hotel room work,
00:00:08.460and we are here to talk about the Liberals' insufferable 2025 election campaign.
00:00:14.580I'm not just saying this because I don't like the Liberals, so I'm going to cast them as extremely negative.
00:00:20.560Think back on the 2021 campaign, the 2019 campaign, 2015, 2011, 2008, 2006.
00:00:27.820You can go back to any election and you will never find a campaign where the Liberals were as insufferably negative and willing to smear their opponents as this one.
00:00:37.900In 2021, we had Justin Trudeau talking about how he doesn't want to sit next to an unvaccinated person on public transit or an airplane or whatever.
00:00:46.980That was gross, but that was trying to divide Canadians for his own political benefit, which is definitely a nasty thing to do.
00:00:54.960But in this campaign, the amount that the Liberals are just projecting hatred at people who are not them is quite insane.
00:01:03.620I liked this post from Kirk Lubinmov, who says,
00:01:08.300How can you tell it's a Mark Carney rally?
00:01:10.440And, well, you can tell because of the insufferable people flipping off cameras or merely asking them why they're there,
00:01:17.880why they're voting for the Liberals and whatnot.
00:01:19.520There is, like, such a high tension right now inside the Liberal campaign as well as with the supporters.
00:01:27.420And there's this insufferable attitude that not only are they right, but they're going to cram down on you and they hope that you're mad about it.
00:01:35.680Now, I don't want Liberals to suffer by the Conservatives getting in.
00:01:40.620I want things to be better for everybody.
00:01:42.580But there seems to be this actual attitude among a lot of Liberal supporters where they have contempt for people who are not voting the same way that they are voting.
00:01:52.400This has been the famous image out of the election so far now.
00:01:57.240This man, who's voting for the Liberals and I believe is a Liberal Party campaign worker, not just some random guy,
00:02:28.680It has nothing to do with making people's lives better because, if you actually look at their plans, nothing was going to make anyone's lives better.
00:02:35.240There are people who I know are Liberals themselves who are economists and have to be at least somewhat honest about what the Liberals are planning to do with their next term.
00:02:45.080And even they're saying, it's just a lot of debt and a lot of massive spending.
00:02:50.080In fact, our debt-to-GDP ratio is going to get worse over time with Mark Carney's plan, even compared to Justin Trudeau's plan.
00:02:58.120Justin Trudeau, the ski instructor and high school drama teacher, was better for the economy than Mark Carney is going to be, based on the plans that Mark Carney has put forward.
00:03:10.480His ideal plan is worse than the reality of what Justin Trudeau was doing.
00:03:15.000Anyway, so before I get a little bit deeper into this topic, I also want to talk about some poll results that are coming out, as well as David Coletto from Abacus Data calling out Frank Graves and Ecos for just being a crap pollster this entire time.
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00:03:43.840The main topic here being just the way the liberal campaign is conducting itself.
00:03:48.800Do you know liberals who are people who are voting liberal?
00:03:52.180Have you noticed an attitude, a sort of, I would say, blind arrogance for the liberal party?
00:03:58.280Just the idea that it's better than you.
00:04:00.280They are better than you for voting liberal because your party is the evil orange man party.
00:04:06.980And I'm going to follow that up with an example, because it's literally how the liberals are running this campaign.
00:04:12.980They're literally running a campaign based on the idea that their opponents are just bad people.
00:04:18.700You vote liberal because Pierre Polyev is like Donald Trump somehow.
00:04:22.940This is an actual new liberal party ad.
00:04:27.480How do you address the concerns of being too closely aligned to a foreign government that is threatening Canada and is destroying its own country right now?
00:04:52.680The liberals are literally passing laws that censor social media as well as could have you put under house arrest or having the capacity to say something hateful and not that someone else report you for.
00:05:05.140That is something the liberals have actually attempted to do.
00:05:09.040There's Bill C-11 to try and change social media and other video and content-providing platforms algorithms to try and show you more good, clean Canadian content.
00:05:23.480There's Bill C-18 that basically shut down news on Facebook in Canada.
00:05:28.160There's Bill C-36, which is the anti-hate speech or the Online Harms Act.
00:05:33.620Again, attempting to put people under house arrest because somebody reports that you may commit some sort of a hateful offense.
00:05:42.040A hateful offense is literally described as shallowly as detesting something, even if that thing should be detested.
00:05:51.700But yeah, this is their actual gambit, is that Polyev, and they've been doing this for two years, Polyev uses some of the same words as Donald Trump.
00:06:25.460Where Mark Carney brings up abortion for no reason and just says that Polyev is going to use the notwithstanding clause to ban all abortion.
00:06:51.880And yet we still have Mark Carney saying this at press conferences, even after being confronted.
00:06:57.420It is in French here, but you can see her.
00:07:13.840You can hear her saying the word explicitly because she is talking about how he has explicitly said that he will not be passing any law restricting abortion.
00:07:23.480Well, it's an accusation, but it's not an accusation.
00:08:08.440Because Polyev wants to use the notwithstanding clause to change the way sentences work for mass murderers so that if you've killed six people, you don't serve those sentences concurrently.
00:08:26.100You serve the first term, then your second term, then your third term.
00:08:28.500You don't get to murder ten people and then it's considered basically one sentence of 25 years that you carry out.
00:08:35.660It happens one after another, which is a sensible policy.
00:08:39.860And he would use the notwithstanding clause if a court tried to challenge that, which I think the vast, vast, vast majority of Canadians would support.
00:08:47.460And Carney, because let's be very clear here, he's a lying scumbag, is then going to use the fact that he's willing to use the notwithstanding clause, when 95% of people would support it, that now he is against abortion and he's going to take it away.
00:09:02.760He's now going to, I don't know, he's going to strike down French language laws in Quebec.
00:09:10.980He's going to do anything that voters would react negatively to.
00:09:42.840And the media has been complicit in all this.
00:09:45.380It's good that somebody actually asked him that question because, for the most part, the media has actually been mostly just focusing on the fact that Paulieff doesn't let him, let them ask him enough questions.
00:09:57.520This is what the election really needs to be about.
00:09:59.700The fact that they don't feel like they get enough alone time with Mr. Paulieff.
00:10:03.340Here's a great clip of somebody who asked Paulieff a question, and Glenn McGregor at CTV News deemed it too friendly of a question.
00:10:12.920So he grilled that person outside the press event afterwards.
00:10:16.480I understand that, but we get only a limited amount of questions to ask.
00:10:25.400You're coming here, you have an issue.
00:10:26.960I understand how passionate you are and how important it is to you personally.
00:10:30.180But you're asking a question that sounds like to a lot of people who's in the home that he was planted by the campaign.
00:10:34.480And you're attacking the list of his opponents.
00:10:43.120We know for a fact that the health care ministry has delivered to activists millions and millions of dollars funneled down to support what?
00:11:00.620An investigative report came out, and I don't know specifically what the background on this question was, but her whole thing is that an investigative report came out showing the government had done something wrong.
00:11:10.880And she was asking Pierre Paulieff his opinion on it because it had just come out.
00:11:16.000And Glenn McGregor at CTV News had to, let's be very clear here, intimidate her over it.
00:11:21.040And after, she had the audacity to ask her question at a press conference that wasn't negative enough for him, that he had to go outside and bring her aside and ask her why she even said, were you planted by the campaign?
00:11:34.860It's a press conference, and you took up our time.
00:13:03.180A bunch of groups who sometimes are registered charities or have been defined by their owner as not actually a journalistic organization or have been ruled by the federal court to not be a journalistic organization.
00:13:13.900And in an election like this one with very, very substantive debate on very substantive issues, moderated very well and executed very well by all the leaders, this is where this is going.
00:13:23.320So look, the debate commission was set up to make this stuff run in a professional, coherent way, shifting the time for a hockey game, kicking out the greens.
00:13:32.920Why was it bad that they shifted for a hockey game?
00:13:35.340The whole point is they wanted people to watch, but the CBC doesn't want people to watch and they want Polyev and Blashev to have less time to speak.
00:13:45.620Basically, they wanted Mark Hardy to win.
00:13:47.140They're like, well, why, why would they change sensible things at the last moment to allow it so that Mark Carney might not guaranteed win this debate by basically limiting his opponent's time and putting it at a time of day where no one's watching so effectively it doesn't hurt his polling numbers in Quebec.
00:14:05.340About a problem that has been known about for a week and now this, I think I would like an explanation as a journalist.
00:14:12.400I think a lot of people at home would like an explanation as to why it happens this way.
00:14:15.760I mean, who knows what's going to happen with the English debate tomorrow?
00:14:18.700But we've seen this, that they're talking about.
00:14:21.280There was immigration questions in the debate, a consensus on living up the safe third country agreement.
00:14:26.800Can you really do that with an administration like the Trump administration right now, where you send people back when the foundational principle of the safe third country agreement is people you deny access at your border are going to get due process and proper legal treatment.
00:14:41.680In the country you're sending them back to, when people are just being snatched and sent to, they sent an American citizen to Central America.
00:15:06.540And the thing is, the safe third country agreement, I guarantee David Cochran doesn't know what the third safe country agreement is.
00:15:12.740The whole point is that people, as El Salvador is a country I'm thinking of, you don't get to come from like, let's say, Peru or Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela.
00:15:21.760You don't get to come all the way to the U.S. or Canada.
00:15:24.640In the safe third country agreement, you have to go to the next safe country.
00:15:29.100You don't get to all pile into your dream jurisdiction before then you claim asylum.
00:15:34.100You have to claim asylum at the next place that makes sense, not whatever feels right for you.