Some liberals are still trying to pretend like Mark Carney actually won the election, even though he caved to Donald Trump on the Digital Services Tax and the trade deal with the United States. It's silly, and I'm here to mock them.
00:10:22.800But the thing is that we only care about government revenues or what liberals are patriotic about in this country.
00:10:28.740But here's here's Peter Julian from the NDP.
00:10:32.620Mark Carney surrendered to Donald Trump on the digital services tax.
00:10:35.920This actually means that American companies would have paid a little bit of tax for the billions of dollars of profits that they get from Canada.
00:10:44.600No, OK, no, they're not paying a tax on their profits.
00:10:48.860It's a tax on their revenue, which comes before profit.
00:10:51.980Well, this would have meant that they would have to pay tax on the billions of dollars they generate in Canada.
00:10:56.300They have to file corporate taxes in Canada.
00:12:02.120The Carney government has also been subsidizing these American web giants to the tune of over a billion dollars a year in indirect advertising supports.
00:12:11.040That means that we pay twice for these companies that have been taking massive profits out of Canada.
00:12:17.340We need a government and a parliament that will stand up for Canada.
00:12:45.560It's like also he's just saying that he's acting like, oh, and the Canadian government pays them billions a year.
00:12:50.800It makes it sound like they're literally subsidized in the in the in the sense that like we pay Google to even be here or something like that.
00:12:58.580No, the government advertises on their platforms and apparently using their service is now a subsidization to Peter Julian because Peter Julian is stupid.
00:13:08.880That's as that's as simply as I can put it, Peter Julian doesn't know what he's talking about and he's a sitting MP and he's been there a little bit too long to be saying stupid crap like this.
00:13:20.080This is, again, a big liberal account.
00:13:23.160These people, this person usually gets a lot of engagement, not on this one because it was embarrassing.
00:13:27.360It doesn't even matter that they're anonymous accounts, because oftentimes big like anonymous accounts have more reach than people who actually put their like real name and face on their profile.
00:13:38.880This person reacting to Table Salt, who's a, you know, they do a lot of clipping of Canadian news and whatnot in Canadian news press conferences.
00:13:47.460Table Salt says by cutting a seven billion dollar tax on Canadians, Donald Trump has done more for Canadians than any Canadian politician has in over a decade with one tweet.
00:13:57.480And, you know, fact check partially true that he actually has helped Canadians bottom lines better than any Canadian politician has by complaining about the DST.
00:14:06.300And this GatorGum person, and this tweet did not do well, but this person has tons of tweets where they have thousands and thousands of likes and like hundreds, high hundreds of engagements.
00:14:16.900I love that in response to this, this person says, hey Grok, which is the AI on Twitter, because if you tag it, it will answer questions.
00:14:25.620Hey Grok, is the DST a tax on Canadians?
00:14:31.360Does this save Canadians tax money at all?
00:14:33.980Is the $7 billion tax savings for Canadians an accurate statement or absolute misinformation?
00:14:39.760This person thought that a 3% additional tax on companies that are involved in digital services and goods that operate in Canada, this person is unaware that Canadians may have to pay higher costs.
00:14:59.620This is why people will vote for the left in this country, people who genuinely need to, like, Google whether raising taxes will raise prices.
00:15:38.520Again, this person 16 hours ago yesterday says, if you are actively rooting for the leader of a foreign country over the best interest of your own country and those that live here, you are an absolute traitor.
00:15:50.260It was the best interest of us to have a 3% digital services tax that, what, is it going to make our lives better?
00:16:06.120But this person genuinely just thinks, again, liberals and NDP people, and especially the politicians, they are patriotic based on government revenues.
00:16:15.200If something increases government revenues, it's very patriotic.
00:16:17.980If it lowers government revenues, very unpatriotic.
00:16:22.640And the person goes on to say, oddly enough, I have a feeling many of those folks are 51st staters.
00:16:28.220Like 1% of people are 51st staters, maybe.
00:16:31.420Who wrapped themselves in Canada's flags, called themselves patriots, and saying, oh, Canada, while they occupied our capital, not that long ago.
00:16:39.780They occupied the capital because the truckers showed up not wanting to have their careers ruined over needing to get a vaccine, despite the fact that it didn't stop the spread.
00:16:48.940And they do the most isolated work imaginable.
00:16:54.580Outside of the people who, like, sit in lighthouses, a trucker interacts with nobody.
00:17:00.240And these people think that you are not patriotic if you are a trucker and you don't want to get vaccinated or lose your job.
00:17:08.380I think that this is a great take from Pierre Polyev.
00:17:40.980The government must take energy action to bolster Canada's economy, fully repeal the no pipelines law, goes on and on with all these other things.
00:17:50.220The one thing I wish you would say, though, is the government needs to repeal supply management.
00:17:57.340The thing is, I know from the Conservative Party's perspective, you don't want to take off Quebec because there are votes in Quebec.
00:18:24.580You should be, if you want to win seats in Ontario and in British Columbia and in other areas where the Conservatives aren't completely wiping the floor with the Liberals already.
00:18:34.140If you want to make gains in Manitoba, get rid of supply management.
00:18:38.740We have Albertans and we have people in Saskatchewan, people all over the country being arrested because they produced milk out of the dairy quota system.
00:18:57.020The person can't help themselves yesterday.
00:18:59.880How partisan has our country become when today when the Prime Minister pulls a move that was the right call for likes and agrees with and all their feeds are trying to slam and insult him because he's a liberal?
00:21:09.420And as I just said, which answers the translation question, as I just said, is a question of timing in terms of the date for the final negotiations and when the tax was coming in into effect.
00:21:20.440And, you know, it doesn't make sense to collect tax from people and then remit them, remit them back.
00:21:43.380That guy looked like he was ready to take on the world.
00:21:45.980Again, the thing is, people do not are not great.
00:21:51.040These people are just not seeing what everyone else is seeing.
00:21:54.520And again, I'm not trying to, like, attack people who are just like random accounts online, but it's indicative of what a lot of these people believe.
00:22:43.660We're far behind because we are not a communist system that has lights on things.
00:22:48.280These people are easily duped by propaganda.
00:22:52.580I want to jump now to, again, our favorite, Miss Rachel Gilmore.
00:22:59.280I know I just said that Laura Babcock is our favorite, but I'm cheating on Laura Babcock a little bit here.
00:23:04.580And I'm saying Rachel Gilmore is our favorite.
00:23:06.360I'm skipping ahead past the point in the press conference where Caroline Leavitt here, the White House press secretary, was saying that Kearney caved.
00:23:17.340I want to get to Rachel Gilmore trying to explain how the tax even worked.
00:23:21.480...stopping that tax, which is a big victory for our tech companies and our American workers here at home.
00:23:30.500Let me tell you what happened here, what smarter people than me had to say about this when I spoke to them today, and why this is really mortifying for our country.
00:24:01.280So first off, the digital services tax, or the DST as I'm going to call it in this video, was announced in 2020 to make sure that huge digital companies, I'm talking companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Uber, and many more, actually pay taxes on revenues generated from Canadians.
00:24:52.780This is a cash grab because the Canadian government thought they could get away with a tax that mostly only affected American firms other than like places like Shopify.
00:25:02.660The tax mostly only applies to American companies who are selling in Canada.
00:25:07.120And so what they were trying to do was basically pass a tax where the amount of people in the country who would start complaining at them right away was going to be very minimal.
00:25:16.760It was going to hurt consumers, but the average consumer doesn't really notice right away that this content, they hear digital services tax and that it's on companies.
00:25:24.820They're like, oh, it's on the company.
00:25:26.440Most people aren't going to immediately think, well, wait, so this is going to make my, you know, Netflix subscription, my Uber rides cost more every time I order on Amazon.
00:25:34.720People don't really make that immediate connection.
00:25:37.040The Canadian government was being weaselly and trying to get more money out of them.
00:25:40.080It was going to be a 3% tax on money these companies make from Canadian users and customers.
00:25:46.680And the first payments from these digital giants, yeah, they were supposed to start today.
00:25:58.840Given this tax is retroactive to 2022, these massive digital companies were set to pay the Canadian government about 2 billion U.S. dollars.
00:26:07.620But that's not happening anymore because on Friday, Trump threw a mantra.
00:26:11.360And he said that because of our DST, which he called an egregious tax.
00:26:16.220Yeah, it's effectively a tariff just on their companies.
00:26:19.140If they had a specific industry that was only in their country that we did not have in our country and we pass a tax on that industry, we're basically tariffing them.
00:26:28.240We're saying that that company bring their product into our country to sell, they had to pay taxes on that.
00:26:33.420Or whoever they're selling it to has to pay the tax on that, which means that they're going to be demanding lower prices from the actual seller from the U.S.
00:27:38.720And maybe you can hold down a job for more than a year.
00:27:40.600A news release saying, quote, Canada would rescind the digital services tax in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States.
00:27:50.700She tends to upload these things only in short parts because I think she like refuses to pay X for verification so she can put full length videos up.
00:28:13.680We could have looked strong by not implementing it.
00:28:16.140We could even, even if you had it, I would have never passed something like that.
00:28:19.480But even if you had it, like I became the prime minister and I had this tax from a previous government passing it, I could say I'll get rid of the stupid tax if you guys do this.
00:28:29.460If Carney did get something like that during that interview, during that scrum outside of his office, he would have said that he got something out of it.
00:29:12.520Hopefully we can actually one day, you know, take back this country, eliminate all these stupid policies, you know, actually change the system full scale to make it a much better country.
00:29:23.200But I'm at least happy about Canada that we have the potential.