The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 16, 2024


Liberals release self-defeating attack video on Pierre Poilievre

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The Liberal Party has an astroturfed propaganda video that looks quite expensive, trying to attack Conservative Party Leader Pierre Polyev on the issue of housing, and I think it falls completely flat on its face. I don t think this would convince anybody to vote for the Liberal Party, let alone dislike Pierre polyev.

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00:00:00.000 If you've watched this channel for any length of time, you'll know that I love making fun of incompetent political communication strategies, and today the Liberal Party has given us a gift.
00:00:10.920 With this very astroturfed propaganda video that looks quite expensive, trying to attack Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev on the issue of housing, and I think it falls completely flat on its face.
00:00:23.720 I don't think this would convince anybody to vote for the Liberal Party, let alone dislike Pierre Polyev.
00:00:29.240 It's basically just a bunch of naysaying, pretending like it's exposing Pierre Polyev for, I guess, not being in favor of socialism, but I'll get into the video shortly.
00:00:39.160 I just quickly want to mention the fact that we have a Give, Send, Go link in the description of this video.
00:00:44.600 We're being sued by a ridiculous billionaire developer for defamation. He has no evidence we defamed him.
00:00:50.280 We simply noted the fact that he was maxing out donations to Aaron O'Toole in 2020 during the leadership race,
00:00:55.520 and then we just showed a bunch of Globe and Mail reporting about this guy, and supposedly that's enough for him to try and sue us for $900,000 or $600,000.
00:01:03.720 I've lost count, but it's cost us $26,000 fighting him, so if you want to contribute, there's a Give, Send, Go link in the description below.
00:01:10.900 It really helps us out. And anyways, on to the video.
00:01:14.220 Pierre Polyev pretends to care about helping you find a home. The truth is, he doesn't.
00:01:19.060 Listen to the way he talks about starter homes for young people in this country.
00:01:21.940 A tiny little shack. The woman who lives there defended her house. 1.00
00:01:27.200 He called it a shack. A shack. That was a little embarrassing also, because it's not.
00:01:34.000 Can I just note quickly here that you usually should start your argument off with your best point.
00:01:41.220 And considering that this was apparently their best point, that Pierre Polyev called a shack-sized house a shack,
00:01:47.120 is somehow going to make you dislike Pierre Polyev.
00:01:49.520 Have you seen that house? It was on the market for like $570,000, and it's probably smaller than most apartments are.
00:01:57.540 It's like a tiny little box. You know, cute house. I'd live in it.
00:02:01.620 You know, I would like to own a house like that, because I can't afford any home, because everything's too expensive.
00:02:06.940 But you start off with that point. Pierre Polyev once called a tiny house a shack.
00:02:12.220 Okay, what's your point?
00:02:14.080 And here's his perspective on affordable housing.
00:02:17.580 They don't want nationalized, government-controlled homes.
00:02:20.500 We don't need a Soviet-style takeover of housing.
00:02:24.300 You know, it's interesting.
00:02:24.920 Yeah. Nobody wants socialized housing. 0.62
00:02:28.280 It's a terrible plan. It actually usually shrinks the supply of housing, because every time the government starts taxing people to try and build homes,
00:02:35.320 the buildings come up slowly, it ends up causing all other houses to go up in price,
00:02:40.740 and other rent-control schemes end up just causing everything to be either you're one of the lucky 10% of people in an area who has the rent-controlled house,
00:02:48.540 or you're paying much higher rents or higher prices for homes, because you weren't one of the lucky people to get the subsidized homes,
00:02:55.740 so your house price or your rent cost is now subsidizing that other person's lower cost.
00:03:00.760 I also don't really get this whole graphic thing they're doing with Pierre Polyev's head being taken apart by a construction crew.
00:03:06.960 It just seems odd.
00:03:08.140 Interesting, because as Pierre reminds us constantly, he actually was the housing minister.
00:03:13.040 When I was housing minister, when I was housing minister, when I was housing minister, when I was housing minister.
00:03:18.280 Let's talk about when I was housing minister.
00:03:20.360 The fact is, he wasn't very good at it, and I'm not even sure he cared.
00:03:24.340 He only mentioned the word housing once in the House of Commons, and Canada built fewer homes that year than in any year since we formed government.
00:03:32.460 Okay, but it depends on what the immigration rate is.
00:03:36.200 The immigration rate in 2015 was far lower than it is this year in 2024 or the last few years.
00:03:43.100 We've been bringing in half a million people in per year, plus temporary foreign workers, plus students.
00:03:48.920 It's like about a million a year.
00:03:50.680 Some of those, again, are temporary.
00:03:52.040 But the thing is that we didn't need to build as many houses back in 2015.
00:03:57.260 And noting that Pierre Polyev only mentioned housing once in the House of Commons.
00:04:01.240 Okay, well, he wasn't exactly the housing minister for very long.
00:04:05.120 And we actually had far lower housing prices.
00:04:08.420 So, again, what's your actual point?
00:04:10.500 These are such manipulated metrics to pretend that Pierre Polyev was not good as the housing minister.
00:04:16.520 And that's the total number of homes that were built across the...
00:04:19.200 And even note that this chart is actually showing that the housing starts are falling since 2021.
00:04:25.180 They shot up artificially because we didn't build that much during 2020 because of the pandemic.
00:04:30.860 Like, you know, it's a little bit higher than 2019, but it really just shows how low 2019 was.
00:04:35.000 But despite the fact, again, we have 500,000 to a million people in terms of total number of foreigners coming into the country.
00:04:42.940 And we are only building a little bit more than we used to build in 2015 when the immigration rate was like sub 300,000, sub 250,000.
00:04:51.780 The entire economy.
00:04:53.340 But when you actually look at what the government got done when Pierre was housing minister, his record's even worse.
00:04:58.420 I like that the government didn't get a lot done when he was housing minister.
00:05:02.260 I don't want socialized housing.
00:05:04.180 I do not want socialist housing.
00:05:06.600 That, again, usually is just billing taxpayers to build very few homes for the amount of money being expensed.
00:05:12.800 It always happens that way.
00:05:14.340 You'll see ridiculous reports where they built like two apartment buildings that can hold 100 people.
00:05:19.000 And they ended up spending like 60 million dollars.
00:05:21.720 They supported exactly zero new apartments across Canada while he was minister.
00:05:28.020 They withdrew from cooperative housing and supported none.
00:05:31.360 And when it comes to affordable housing...
00:05:32.760 And yet housing was cheaper back then.
00:05:34.720 Wow.
00:05:35.460 Housing was cheaper back in 2015 and the government was less involved in the housing industry.
00:05:39.940 I think that the government could have gotten even less involved in the housing industry back in 2015 than they were.
00:05:46.120 And even then, I think they could have probably lowered immigration a little bit because we did have housing prices starting to rise.
00:05:50.960 But the rise during Harper compared to the rise during Trudeau is immensely different.
00:05:56.600 I think since Trudeau took over in nine years, housing prices have gone up by like 40%.
00:06:01.180 ...housing.
00:06:02.300 Pierre was responsible for a grand total of six affordable units across the entire country.
00:06:07.980 Now, these stats aren't a coincidence.
00:06:09.820 They're a direct consequence of decisions that Pierre and his government made to make massive cuts to home building.
00:06:15.280 And now he's promising to make those cuts again.
00:06:17.840 In fact, Pierre...
00:06:18.900 I always like whenever we talk about cuts, like we're cutting home building as if, again, it's even the government's responsibility to build homes for people.
00:06:27.660 It's not.
00:06:28.780 Yes, we can feel all warm and fuzzy that we built someone a home.
00:06:32.040 But you built someone a home for usually five times the cost.
00:06:35.100 Way more bureaucrats got involved.
00:06:36.520 And you're basically just using this one person's poverty issues as a reason for the government to take over the housing industry.
00:06:44.480 One person getting a home does not mean that we should then tax to death, you know, thousands of other people.
00:06:50.280 That's effectively what's happening.
00:06:52.180 Every time the government under Trudeau has spent more for more housing, they are putting more businesses under.
00:06:57.680 They're putting more taxpayers into bankruptcy by taxing them too much in order so they can build very limited housing,
00:07:03.920 which doesn't even keep up with the amount of poor people they're generating through their terrible policies.
00:07:09.040 Pierre has gone so far as to say that governments should get out of the business of home building altogether.
00:07:13.820 Yeah, they're bad at it.
00:07:15.640 And there's some weird stuff in this plan that just doesn't make sense.
00:07:18.820 There's some weird stuff in this plan.
00:07:21.000 Dude, you know what's kind of weird?
00:07:22.080 How much you've been investing into housing and housing starts have been going down over the past three years.
00:07:27.620 He wants to create a super bonus that only applies to a few select cities across Canada and has very little money in it.
00:07:34.440 Certainly not enough to make.
00:07:35.740 Yes, if you look at those cities, those cities are the biggest cities in Canada.
00:07:40.540 You don't exactly need to give people super bonuses for building like a home in like Blackie, Alberta or High Level
00:07:46.260 because housing prices have not skyrocketed there because they have not experienced the crazy amount of concentrated immigration.
00:07:53.140 Make a difference.
00:07:54.280 He's proposing to create an entire bureaucracy just to service a snitch line so people can rat out their neighbors if they disagree with their housing policies.
00:08:02.800 No, no, no, no.
00:08:03.540 This is pure poly of rightfully opposing mass rezoning so that if you purchased a home in a single detached family, like a family housing unit area,
00:08:14.900 that you're not going to have massive apartment buildings being put up right next to you.
00:08:18.860 It was kind of part of the deal of you buying a house there in the first place that you wanted a single family detached home
00:08:23.980 and you didn't want a massive apartment building right next to you.
00:08:27.260 The thing is that now you have liberals coming out and saying, you don't want just random houses, random apartments going up all over your neighborhood.
00:08:34.300 Oh, what a NIMBY. 0.97
00:08:35.600 What a NIMBY. 0.76
00:08:36.600 No, no, no.
00:08:36.940 I want property taxes to go down.
00:08:38.880 I want the amount of inspections that houses have to go through while they're being built to go down
00:08:43.580 because it's just ridiculous and bloated these days how much you have to have inspected over and over and over again just to put up a single house.
00:08:49.860 I actually want things that will get houses built faster as well as protecting the nature of people's neighborhoods.
00:08:55.520 Put billions of dollars on the table to support the construction of hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units for low-income families across the country.
00:09:03.680 Okay, you can put all these points on the chart, but that does not mean that houses have been built.
00:09:07.800 Again, here's where I'm confused why the liberals are even talking about this issue.
00:09:11.860 I want to quickly show it on screen.
00:09:13.180 This is the worst issue for the liberals.
00:09:15.300 I think it's this one.
00:09:17.220 Oh, no, no, no.
00:09:17.780 It's this one.
00:09:18.820 Right now, 57% of people are pessimistic that they're even going to be able to buy a house.
00:09:24.500 Only 19% of people are actually somewhat or very optimistic that they're going to be able to purchase a home in their lifetime if they're a first-time homebuyer.
00:09:33.100 People have not been made more optimistic by the liberals basically shilling money out to different parts of Canada,
00:09:39.680 different major cities and other communities to build homes in their bloated housing markets where everything costs too much to build.
00:09:46.940 And that's why the liberals are just throwing money at the issues, which will cause more inflation, which will make home housing prices go up. 1.00
00:09:53.400 It's stupid. 1.00
00:09:54.880 And he promises to take that away. 1.00
00:09:56.900 We've put new incentives in place to reduce taxes on homebuilders by removing the GST on the construction of new apartments.
00:10:03.260 Pierre wants to put those taxes...
00:10:04.540 All these tax breaks, though, come with more government requirements.
00:10:08.680 They never mention the fact that you're going to have to go through more environmental inspections,
00:10:12.560 that you're going to have to do things their way,
00:10:14.100 that you're going to have to have a certain amount of rent-controlled units to get that 5% tax reduction.
00:10:19.720 So at the end of the day, it's not worth it because the government's going to saddle you with even more requirements.
00:10:27.320 Taxes back on for hundreds of thousands of middle-class homes across this country.
00:10:31.280 He plans to do away with the fund that has already landed dozens of agreements with cities in every region of the country.
00:10:37.580 Yes, because those agreements come with requirements to remove all zoning across the city
00:10:42.840 so that you can have buildings like apartments being put up right next to single-family homes.
00:10:47.500 That's why Polioff wants property taxes to go down, wants other building requirements to go down,
00:10:53.200 so that houses can go up faster.
00:10:55.500 Again, despite the Acceleration Fund and other past liberal housing policies,
00:11:00.860 prices have only gone up and housing starts have been going down over the past few years.
00:11:05.180 It's official. The city of Halifax and the federal government have struck a deal to fast-track housing in the capital.
00:11:11.520 Wow, did it actually get fast-tracked?
00:11:13.560 Vaughn.
00:11:13.980 London, Ontario.
00:11:14.960 Edmonton.
00:11:15.540 Toronto.
00:11:16.160 Calgary.
00:11:16.500 Vancouver.
00:11:17.160 And the city of Winnipeg.
00:11:18.500 What's more alarming than what...
00:11:19.820 Just naming all these cities where housing is terrible, even after the liberals passed these new policies.
00:11:25.740 And again, they've been pushing...
00:11:28.100 Everyone's acting like, well, you can't criticize the liberals' housing plan.
00:11:31.360 They've only started this new plan over the last year.
00:11:33.800 What, were they just too incompetent to get the problem solved over the past eight years previously?
00:11:38.900 No, this is just a rebranded version of what they were doing before,
00:11:41.960 throwing money at cities, but now they're just throwing other requirements on cities in order to get the money.
00:11:46.400 He is in this plan, is what's missing.
00:11:49.000 There's no mention of students, no mention of seniors, no mention of workers, no mention of the most vulnerable,
00:11:54.180 and not a single measure designed to help you own a home.
00:11:57.220 Pierre's plan isn't going to solve the housing crisis.
00:11:59.600 The thing is that the government can put whatever they want in plans.
00:12:03.660 Execution is what matters.
00:12:05.440 Actually covering government spending, taxes, and a lot of other just government measures
00:12:09.260 is going to make houses far cheaper.
00:12:11.620 Cutting immigration is going to make housing far cheaper, 0.99
00:12:14.080 and at no point are you ever going to say, we're going to help the vulnerable.
00:12:17.560 Yet you help the vulnerable more because you don't simply focus on,
00:12:21.880 you don't just simply focus on the intentions of the plan,
00:12:25.300 you focus on getting results.
00:12:27.220 And oftentimes results don't mean just giving people cash
00:12:30.160 because I support vulnerable Canadians,
00:12:32.140 so I'm just giving them a bunch of money even though that's inflating the housing market.
00:12:35.820 Because Pierre doesn't care about the people that it impacts most.
00:12:38.920 Pierre doesn't care about your community.
00:12:40.900 Sean Frazier, you are the immigration minister,
00:12:43.000 and you were literally told by your own staff
00:12:45.760 that your immigration policies were driving up the cost of housing,
00:12:48.800 and you didn't care.
00:12:50.140 Yet I'm supposed to now be all offended at Pierre Polyev
00:12:52.860 because he didn't care about you when he was a housing minister.
00:12:57.280 He's not going to care about you now. 0.97
00:12:58.380 You didn't give a crap a few years ago when you were immigration minister 0.93
00:13:01.980 and approving hundreds of thousands more people to enter the country 0.96
00:13:05.040 into a housing market that didn't have enough space.
00:13:08.720 Pierre doesn't care about building more homes.
00:13:10.720 The thing that Pierre cares about most...
00:13:12.520 when I'm prime minister, when I'm prime minister...
00:13:15.280 well, when I'm prime minister...
00:13:16.460 when I'm prime minister...
00:13:18.320 is Pierre.
00:13:18.740 sorry what in what world is peer poly have not able to say when i'm prime minister obviously
00:13:24.000 he's going to say those words referencing what he's going to do when he's prime minister
00:13:28.620 regardless terrible video i you guys can leave your impressions in the comments i do read the
00:13:34.880 vast majority of comments that people believe but like man does that do you think anyone watching
00:13:40.760 that video is going to start voting liberal because of that because yes if someone just
00:13:44.980 avoids themselves from all contexts they could see like oh peer poly it seems like a bad guy
00:13:49.220 but in the context of living in this country is anyone going to think well wait the liberals are
00:13:54.300 actually good on housing you know housing keeps going up in my city rent keeps going up you know
00:13:58.960 there's fewer homes year over year compared to the amount of people in the country but you know what
00:14:05.360 actually the liberals are quite good nobody with any context for what's been going on in canada is
00:14:10.120 going to look at that and say wait sean frazier is actually good at his job nobody cares because the
00:14:14.480 thing is that people actually see the results and they're living with the results so they're not
00:14:18.140 going to be mad with peer poly of wanting to do something different from what the government's
00:14:22.000 currently doing the government's current plan and they're actually trying to pass a new housing plan
00:14:26.120 or push forward a new housing plan because this housing acceleration fund has so obviously failed
00:14:30.700 they're going to be ditching it quite soon that they want anything that's different from what the
00:14:35.640 liberals are doing peer is offering that and that's why he's popular anyways quickly just plugging the fact
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00:15:07.500 that should be it for me today i'll be back making fun of more liberal stuff later