Liberals flop in Q3 fundraising - Release terrible attack ad on Poilievre
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Summary
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.
Transcript
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Polling is okay, but the reason I always cover the quarterly fundraising numbers for the major parties in Canada
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is because I think it gives a better insight into how people are actually feeling about that party.
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Yes, they might select them in an IVR or online poll because they voted for them last time,
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but I feel like when you actually are able to pull out your wall and give that party money,
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that is more representative of who you believe in.
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And the fundraising numbers have remained awful for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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No matter how hard they go after Pierre Polyev,
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no matter how many times they pretend that they have a fresh new face on their government
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by shuffling around the cabinet or coming out with a new bloated policy,
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Here is what things are currently looking like.
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So in the third quarter, the federal Conservatives were able to fundraise $8.44 million,
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the Liberals brought in $3.32 million, NDP $1.27 million.
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Wonder why those guys don't want to go into a federal election.
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And the Green Party brought in $379,000, Block $356,000,
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and the PPC should pack it in because they only brought in $202,000 this quarter.
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And Maxime Bernier gets paid above six figures for running a party that's not winning seats.
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But to get into this, I think that this is a really big confidence index from the Liberal donor base.
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Obviously, the vast majority of Canadians never donate.
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But donations should come in ratio or should at least represent your ratio of support.
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Because if, you know, let's say 50% of Canadians supported your party,
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you would hope that generally around 50% of the donations that quarter were going to you.
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Right now, you could add up all of the parties other than the Conservatives,
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and they would not be more than the Conservatives.
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They would be well under what the Conservatives are currently bringing in.
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They'd only be past like $6 million in terms of fundraising.
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And it's because nobody actually thinks that Justin Trudeau can win.
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He can't go down Bay Street and ask people for maxed out donations,
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because even if it might not mean much for these people to give him $1,750,
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they know it's immediately going to be burned and nothing's going to come of it.
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And that's why we're even seeing a story today, I'm not sure if you've heard of this,
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that Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau are having secret backroom meetings to change the Elections Act
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so that they can make sure all the NDP and Liberal MPs who have served between 2019 and now
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get their pensions so they don't fall short by a couple weeks.
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Remember when that first came out that they were going to extend the election date like a week and a half or so
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so that Jagmeet, not Jagmeet himself because he was actually elected mid-summer or so
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since he was like elected in a by-election before the 2019 election,
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but this is making sure all his own MPs get their pensions.
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And then when that was discovered by the public, they're like, just kidding,
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and then they moved the date back, and now they're trying to secretly move the date forward again.
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You know, you gotta love Jagmeet Singh and how incompetent he is.
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He's like a sitcom character and not a particularly bright one.
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But obviously, third quarter fundraising, it's a little bit more sluggish.
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It's the holiday season that tends to be the really, really big donation time.
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That's when parties really rack up their big donation numbers.
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And what I want to highlight here with the liberals, with having terrible donation numbers here,
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only 3.32 million, is that is less than some provincial parties bring in.
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Yes, a provincial party on a good quarter will bring in more than that, not just the average
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But the fact that a provincial party can bring in more money than the federal liberals while
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working with a tiny fraction of the population is utterly pathetic.
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Yes, in different provinces, you can donate far more than $1,750, but still, that still
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would disadvantage when you actually add all these factors up, the provincial parties versus
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And I just want to quickly see what the Alberta donation limit is, just because I think this
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would highlight how pathetic this is even more than I already think.
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Because I don't think it's as big as currently, yeah, I think it goes up to like $2,300 or
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But still, right now, in 2023, in the fourth quarter of 2023 or so, or second quarter of
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And I've seen other quarters where they were at $3.5 million.
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And this is after the provincial election, when the UCP had already won the provincial
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They are absolutely destroying the liberal fundraising.
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And again, it's because nobody likes the liberals.
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And I'm going to show you why nobody has confidence in the liberals, because the liberals have released
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a new, both advertisement on their behalf, as well as an attack on pure Polyev.
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Because conservatives, nasty, conservatives, fascist, and far right and bad, vote for us
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When it comes to strengthening our public health care system, the liberal team is fighting
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After they secured vaccines to protect Canadians from COVID-19, they made investments to
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hire more family doctors and reduce wait lists.
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And they're getting pharmacare done to deliver free contraceptives and diabetes medications.
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Pierre Polyev has made it clear that he would make cuts to all these investments, removing
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health care services from millions of Canadians.
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They're going to push your grandmother downstairs.
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Your guys' bloated programs don't help out anybody.
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You're just threatening Canadians, like I've said so many times before, with a good time.
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You can't just say, well, you know, they're going to cut things.
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It's like if you were in like a family and you were having to make budget decisions on
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what you're going to spend like the family budget on.
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And like one member of the family is just constantly saying, well, this person just wants
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They want to reduce our, you know, entertainment budget.
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And then you realize that we have like 15 streaming services and they're just proposing getting
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rid of half of them because we don't even watch them.
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And that's the great thing about Justin Trudeau for a second, I'm going to say, is that he's
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made Canadians fiscally conservative because they realize that government spending has nothing
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You can raise spending all you want and quality of life will not increase.
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This is how it just happened in British Columbia.
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All of the government spending has resulted in actual job contractions.
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There are fewer jobs in BC as the government keeps spending more money because private companies
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have to lay people off or they go bankrupt completely.
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And then all this means that the wage pool or the income pool goes down.
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And now the government, in order to hire more government workers, has to then increase
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inflation and taxes and then ends up killing the blood bag that it's using to pay for it
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Everyone knows how many of these federal jobs are what we call fake jobs.
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People going in and logging into a computer to play Tetris all day.
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This is a reason why people call it club fed, because you don't do any work.
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You have meetings about meetings and you put together memos or memorandums and reports and
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Things that people will never read that your boss looks at and says, yes, very good, Trevor.
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And then just puts it in some like burning barrel because nobody is going to read your
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report on the diversity of bike lanes or whatever.
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We had like a diversity coordinator for bike lanes and then also for public transportation.
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And that's also something I have a big, big gripe with in Alberta.
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Danielle Smith can talk like a firebrand, but I need her to cut spending.
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Spending is higher than it ever has been before.
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And it's not just because of inflation has been going up.
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I mean, like it jumped when she got into office and we are spending on like DEI and ESG nonsense
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I don't like the idea that, well, it's better than Trudeau.
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Even Trudeau, if he was the Alberta premier, would seem fiscally conservative because we
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So our deficits wouldn't be as bad if you were to like assume that the Alberta economy
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But that doesn't mean that wasteful spending is good at all.
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So I hope more people become very hawkish on fiscal issues.
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And it looks like they are mostly because of the bad governance of people like Justin Trudeau.
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