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.
00:00:00.000If 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.
00:00:10.920With 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.
00:00:23.720I don't think this would convince anybody to vote for the Liberal Party, let alone dislike Pierre Polyev.
00:00:29.240It'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.
00:00:39.160I just quickly want to mention the fact that we have a Give, Send, Go link in the description of this video.
00:00:44.600We're being sued by a ridiculous billionaire developer for defamation. He has no evidence we defamed him.
00:00:50.280We simply noted the fact that he was maxing out donations to Aaron O'Toole in 2020 during the leadership race,
00:00:55.520and 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.
00:01:03.720I'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.
00:01:10.900It really helps us out. And anyways, on to the video.
00:01:14.220Pierre Polyev pretends to care about helping you find a home. The truth is, he doesn't.
00:01:19.060Listen to the way he talks about starter homes for young people in this country.
00:01:21.940A tiny little shack. The woman who lives there defended her house.
00:01:27.200He called it a shack. A shack. That was a little embarrassing also, because it's not.
00:01:34.000Can I just note quickly here that you usually should start your argument off with your best point.
00:01:41.220And considering that this was apparently their best point, that Pierre Polyev called a shack-sized house a shack,
00:01:47.120is somehow going to make you dislike Pierre Polyev.
00:01:49.520Have you seen that house? It was on the market for like $570,000, and it's probably smaller than most apartments are.
00:01:57.540It's like a tiny little box. You know, cute house. I'd live in it.
00:02:01.620You know, I would like to own a house like that, because I can't afford any home, because everything's too expensive.
00:02:06.940But you start off with that point. Pierre Polyev once called a tiny house a shack.
00:02:28.280It'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,
00:02:35.320the buildings come up slowly, it ends up causing all other houses to go up in price,
00:02:40.740and 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,
00:02:48.540or 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,
00:02:55.740so your house price or your rent cost is now subsidizing that other person's lower cost.
00:03:00.760I also don't really get this whole graphic thing they're doing with Pierre Polyev's head being taken apart by a construction crew.
00:03:08.140Interesting, because as Pierre reminds us constantly, he actually was the housing minister.
00:03:13.040When I was housing minister, when I was housing minister, when I was housing minister, when I was housing minister.
00:03:18.280Let's talk about when I was housing minister.
00:03:20.360The fact is, he wasn't very good at it, and I'm not even sure he cared.
00:03:24.340He 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.
00:03:32.460Okay, but it depends on what the immigration rate is.
00:03:36.200The immigration rate in 2015 was far lower than it is this year in 2024 or the last few years.
00:03:43.100We've been bringing in half a million people in per year, plus temporary foreign workers, plus students.
00:06:18.900I 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.
00:07:54.280He'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.
00:08:03.540This 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,
00:08:14.900that you're not going to have massive apartment buildings being put up right next to you.
00:08:18.860It 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
00:08:23.980and you didn't want a massive apartment building right next to you.
00:08:27.260The 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.
00:08:38.880I want the amount of inspections that houses have to go through while they're being built to go down
00:08:43.580because 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.
00:08:49.860I actually want things that will get houses built faster as well as protecting the nature of people's neighborhoods.
00:08:55.520Put 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.
00:09:03.680Okay, you can put all these points on the chart, but that does not mean that houses have been built.
00:09:07.800Again, here's where I'm confused why the liberals are even talking about this issue.
00:09:18.820Right now, 57% of people are pessimistic that they're even going to be able to buy a house.
00:09:24.500Only 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.
00:09:33.100People have not been made more optimistic by the liberals basically shilling money out to different parts of Canada,
00:09:39.680different major cities and other communities to build homes in their bloated housing markets where everything costs too much to build.
00:09:46.940And 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.