The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 01, 2024


Liberals flop in Q3 fundraising - Release terrible attack ad on Poilievre

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fiscal issues in Alberta
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In this episode, I discuss the dismal fundraising numbers for the Liberal Party of Canada, and why they need to do much better than they are doing right now. I also talk about Jagmeet Singh and his plans to get rid of the election date change, and how Justin Trudeau is trying to make sure all his own MPs get their pensions.

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00:00:00.500 Polling is okay, but the reason I always cover the quarterly fundraising numbers for the major parties in Canada
00:00:07.220 is because I think it gives a better insight into how people are actually feeling about that party.
00:00:14.240 Yes, they might select them in an IVR or online poll because they voted for them last time,
00:00:19.660 but I feel like when you actually are able to pull out your wall and give that party money,
00:00:25.180 that is more representative of who you believe in.
00:00:28.760 And the fundraising numbers have remained awful for the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:00:33.780 No matter how hard they go after Pierre Polyev,
00:00:36.300 no matter how many times they pretend that they have a fresh new face on their government
00:00:40.500 by shuffling around the cabinet or coming out with a new bloated policy,
00:00:44.760 it's remained terrible for the Liberals.
00:00:47.460 Here is what things are currently looking like.
00:00:49.720 So in the third quarter, the federal Conservatives were able to fundraise $8.44 million,
00:00:55.320 the Liberals brought in $3.32 million, NDP $1.27 million.
00:01:00.840 Wonder why those guys don't want to go into a federal election.
00:01:04.240 And the Green Party brought in $379,000, Block $356,000,
00:01:09.780 and the PPC should pack it in because they only brought in $202,000 this quarter.
00:01:13.760 And Maxime Bernier gets paid above six figures for running a party that's not winning seats.
00:01:18.880 But to get into this, I think that this is a really big confidence index from the Liberal donor base.
00:01:26.620 Obviously, the vast majority of Canadians never donate.
00:01:30.240 But donations should come in ratio or should at least represent your ratio of support.
00:01:35.800 Because if, you know, let's say 50% of Canadians supported your party,
00:01:39.720 you would hope that generally around 50% of the donations that quarter were going to you.
00:01:45.500 Right now, you could add up all of the parties other than the Conservatives,
00:01:49.800 and they would not be more than the Conservatives.
00:01:52.280 They would be well under what the Conservatives are currently bringing in.
00:01:56.100 They'd only be past like $6 million in terms of fundraising. 0.99
00:01:59.520 It's absolutely pathetic. 0.90
00:02:01.600 And it's because nobody actually thinks that Justin Trudeau can win. 0.97
00:02:04.560 He can't go down Bay Street and ask people for maxed out donations,
00:02:07.620 because even if it might not mean much for these people to give him $1,750,
00:02:12.340 they know it's immediately going to be burned and nothing's going to come of it.
00:02:17.520 And that's why we're even seeing a story today, I'm not sure if you've heard of this,
00:02:21.500 that Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau are having secret backroom meetings to change the Elections Act
00:02:28.000 so that they can make sure all the NDP and Liberal MPs who have served between 2019 and now
00:02:35.580 get their pensions so they don't fall short by a couple weeks.
00:02:39.340 Remember when that first came out that they were going to extend the election date like a week and a half or so
00:02:44.540 so that Jagmeet, not Jagmeet himself because he was actually elected mid-summer or so
00:02:49.160 since he was like elected in a by-election before the 2019 election,
00:02:52.940 but this is making sure all his own MPs get their pensions.
00:02:56.180 And then when that was discovered by the public, they're like, just kidding,
00:02:59.140 and then they moved the date back, and now they're trying to secretly move the date forward again.
00:03:04.700 Oh my goodness.
00:03:05.540 You know, you gotta love Jagmeet Singh and how incompetent he is.
00:03:08.820 He's like a sitcom character and not a particularly bright one.
00:03:13.300 But obviously, third quarter fundraising, it's a little bit more sluggish.
00:03:16.920 It's the summer.
00:03:17.560 People are on vacation.
00:03:18.820 It's the holiday season that tends to be the really, really big donation time.
00:03:25.600 That's when parties really rack up their big donation numbers.
00:03:30.300 And what I want to highlight here with the liberals, with having terrible donation numbers here,
00:03:35.740 only 3.32 million, is that is less than some provincial parties bring in.
00:03:40.760 Yes, a provincial party on a good quarter will bring in more than that, not just the average
00:03:45.200 quarter, obviously.
00:03:46.500 But the fact that a provincial party can bring in more money than the federal liberals while 0.99
00:03:51.900 working with a tiny fraction of the population is utterly pathetic. 0.91
00:03:55.300 Yes, in different provinces, you can donate far more than $1,750, but still, that still 0.90
00:04:02.800 would disadvantage when you actually add all these factors up, the provincial parties versus
00:04:08.700 the federal party.
00:04:10.380 And I just want to quickly see what the Alberta donation limit is, just because I think this 0.90
00:04:16.700 would highlight how pathetic this is even more than I already think.
00:04:20.140 Because I don't think it's as big as currently, yeah, I think it goes up to like $2,300 or 0.70
00:04:29.220 $2,500 or something like that.
00:04:30.740 It might be like $3,000.
00:04:32.140 But still, right now, in 2023, in the fourth quarter of 2023 or so, or second quarter of
00:04:38.780 2023, the UCP brought in $4.4 million.
00:04:43.000 And I've seen other quarters where they were at $3.5 million.
00:04:45.840 And this is after the provincial election, when the UCP had already won the provincial
00:04:52.220 election.
00:04:53.080 They are absolutely destroying the liberal fundraising.
00:04:56.300 And again, it's because nobody likes the liberals.
00:04:58.020 And I'm going to show you why nobody has confidence in the liberals, because the liberals have released
00:05:02.200 a new, both advertisement on their behalf, as well as an attack on pure Polyev.
00:05:08.760 And it's so dull.
00:05:10.180 It's so, who cares? 0.99
00:05:11.760 Because conservatives, nasty, conservatives, fascist, and far right and bad, vote for us 0.98
00:05:16.520 because we're spending money. 0.99
00:05:18.320 Is it good money?
00:05:19.320 Is it we're actually doing anything good?
00:05:21.020 Ah, who cares?
00:05:22.440 When it comes to strengthening our public health care system, the liberal team is fighting
00:05:26.760 for you.
00:05:27.540 After they secured vaccines to protect Canadians from COVID-19, they made investments to
00:05:32.160 hire more family doctors and reduce wait lists.
00:05:35.080 Now they're rolling out dental care.
00:05:36.660 And they're getting pharmacare done to deliver free contraceptives and diabetes medications.
00:05:41.120 Pierre Polyev has made it clear that he would make cuts to all these investments, removing
00:05:45.980 health care services from millions of Canadians.
00:05:48.800 Canadians need progress, not cuts.
00:05:51.140 We won't go back.
00:05:52.680 It's so bad.
00:05:54.100 It's just, oh my goodness.
00:05:56.040 It's just so dull.
00:05:58.000 We've heard this 70 times before.
00:06:00.320 The conservatives are going to cut things.
00:06:02.240 They're going to steal your pet. 0.99
00:06:04.120 They're going to push your grandmother downstairs. 1.00
00:06:06.480 And like, no, they're not.
00:06:07.880 Your guys' bloated programs don't help out anybody.
00:06:10.200 You're just threatening Canadians, like I've said so many times before, with a good time. 0.92
00:06:15.300 You can't just say, well, you know, they're going to cut things.
00:06:17.860 What are they going to cut?
00:06:19.760 It's like if you were in like a family and you were having to make budget decisions on
00:06:25.000 what you're going to spend like the family budget on.
00:06:27.640 Just an example.
00:06:28.880 And like one member of the family is just constantly saying, well, this person just wants
00:06:32.060 to stop spending.
00:06:33.140 They're taking money away from us.
00:06:34.560 They want to reduce our, you know, entertainment budget.
00:06:38.120 And then you realize that we have like 15 streaming services and they're just proposing getting
00:06:42.220 rid of half of them because we don't even watch them.
00:06:44.420 Nobody actually thinks that's a bad thing.
00:06:46.740 And that's the great thing about Justin Trudeau for a second, I'm going to say, is that he's
00:06:50.700 made Canadians fiscally conservative because they realize that government spending has nothing
00:06:56.260 to do with your quality of life.
00:06:57.800 You can raise spending all you want and quality of life will not increase.
00:07:02.360 This has happened.
00:07:02.940 This is how it just happened in British Columbia.
00:07:05.420 All of the government spending has resulted in actual job contractions.
00:07:09.780 There are fewer jobs in BC as the government keeps spending more money because private companies
00:07:15.160 have to lay people off or they go bankrupt completely.
00:07:18.540 And then all this means that the wage pool or the income pool goes down.
00:07:23.160 And now the government, in order to hire more government workers, has to then increase
00:07:28.620 inflation and taxes and then ends up killing the blood bag that it's using to pay for it
00:07:33.340 all. 1.00
00:07:33.820 It's stupid. 1.00
00:07:34.800 Everyone knows how many of these federal jobs are what we call fake jobs. 1.00
00:07:39.920 People going in and logging into a computer to play Tetris all day.
00:07:45.080 This is a reason why people call it club fed, because you don't do any work.
00:07:48.840 You have meetings about meetings and you put together memos or memorandums and reports and
00:07:53.940 research papers on nothing.
00:07:55.640 Things that people will never read that your boss looks at and says, yes, very good, Trevor.
00:08:00.120 And then just puts it in some like burning barrel because nobody is going to read your
00:08:04.840 report on the diversity of bike lanes or whatever.
00:08:07.200 And that was a real thing in Calgary.
00:08:09.960 We had like a diversity coordinator for bike lanes and then also for public transportation. 0.71
00:08:15.520 Ridiculous spending.
00:08:16.420 I'm actually about to go to the UCP AGM. 0.75
00:08:19.620 And that's also something I have a big, big gripe with in Alberta.
00:08:22.820 Danielle Smith can talk like a firebrand, but I need her to cut spending. 1.00
00:08:27.040 Spending is higher than it ever has been before.
00:08:29.540 And it's not just because of inflation has been going up.
00:08:31.820 I mean, like it jumped when she got into office and we are spending on like DEI and ESG nonsense
00:08:37.300 and promoting net zero stuff.
00:08:39.060 We have an anti-racism grant fund.
00:08:41.000 It's like, just cut it.
00:08:42.380 Just cut it.
00:08:42.880 And people are going to be like, oh, why?
00:08:44.360 It's only $7 million.
00:08:45.200 It's only $7 million.
00:08:46.980 It's only 70 people's household incomes.
00:08:50.340 What?
00:08:51.060 Let's get rid of the stuff.
00:08:52.940 I don't like the idea that, well, it's better than Trudeau.
00:08:56.040 Even Trudeau, if he was the Alberta premier, would seem fiscally conservative because we
00:08:59.760 have such high oil revenues.
00:09:01.960 So our deficits wouldn't be as bad if you were to like assume that the Alberta economy
00:09:06.740 was like the entire Canadian economy.
00:09:08.600 We would look better.
00:09:09.640 But that doesn't mean that wasteful spending is good at all.
00:09:13.020 So I hope more people become very hawkish on fiscal issues.
00:09:16.340 And it looks like they are mostly because of the bad governance of people like Justin Trudeau.
00:09:23.100 Anyways, that's it for me today, guys.
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00:10:02.960 on who's an actual conservative and who's just simply trying to play games to get into office.
00:10:08.260 Anyways, that's it for me today, guys.
00:10:10.240 Have a good one.