Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party are in a desperate situation. According to a recent Angus Reid poll, only 30% of their 2021 voters want them to win a majority government, and only 52% of them would like them to only win a minority government.
00:00:00.000Imagine how truly pathetic it would be to be a major political party leader in Canada and not actually having your own party's base wanting you to win the next election.
00:00:08.540Yes, your base might actually show up and vote for you in the next election, but they don't actually hope that enough other Canadians show up and vote for you that you'd be able to win a majority government.
00:00:16.960They feel far more comfortable with you being in a minority government situation, whether it's that they just don't think you can handle the power of a majority government, or they think that you are so corrupt and scandal-ridden, while they agree with your ideology, they still want you counterbalanced by another coalition partner who can hold you accountable.
00:00:34.340And as pathetic as the situation is that I've just described, this is the exact scenario that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party find themselves in.
00:00:42.220According to a stat from a recent Angus Reid poll that was a federal national poll, the Liberal Party has 52% of its 2021 voters wanting them to only win a minority government.
00:00:53.740This is what they consider the best outcome after another election.
00:00:57.260I'll just pull up the stat sheet right here.
00:01:00.280The question was, which of the following options do you believe would provide the best government for Canada over the next four years?
00:01:06.140And it's best underlined, so I doubt anyone missed what this question was specifically trying to get at.
00:01:11.080And for the Liberal Party, only 30% of their 2021 voters want them to win a majority government.
00:01:17.84052% want them to win a minority, 7% want the Conservatives to win a majority, and 11% want the Conservatives to win a minority.
00:01:24.240And now compare that to the Conservatives where 82% of the 2021 voters want them to win a majority government, and 12% want them to win a minority.
00:01:33.140And I guarantee the minority section for the Conservatives is made up of a lot of Quebecers and maritime voters who tend to lean a bit more center-left and maybe want their party counterbalanced by the Liberals or by the Bloc.
00:01:44.700Regardless, this is an awful position to be in as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, because while the other polls, like the national polls, are showing that the Liberals are down anywhere from, you know, 8 to 14 points behind the Conservatives, which is already bad enough.
00:02:00.260What this is showing is that the Liberal Party, if they ever want to crawl back in the polls, it's not just a matter of being able to appeal to Canadians on the fence.
00:02:08.340They first have to re-establish their own, basically, credibility within the party.
00:02:14.260They cannot actually hope to win Conservatives over to their side or people who don't know who they want to vote for yet until they've gotten their own party to actually believe in them running a majority government.
00:02:25.160I doubt that they can appeal to the average Canadian if they can't even vote, they can't even appeal to their own past voters.
00:02:31.820This is not exactly a situation that Justin Trudeau, I think, is even equipped to recovering from, because to recover from this, Justin Trudeau would have to have the maturity to be able to say,
00:02:42.440I've made these five mistakes and this is the path I'm going to take to be able to correct all these mistakes that I've made and put Canada on a better road to prosperity.
00:02:50.160He'll never do that because he's too used to, since becoming Prime Minister, having the media sort of paparazzi, always defending him, always saying everything he's doing is fantastic,
00:03:00.500everything that the Conservatives say and do is cruel and disgusting and bigoted.
00:03:04.880So he's just hoping that somehow the legacy media is able to take pure poly of the Conservatives down a notch,
00:03:11.980or that his own party is able to launch enough attacks that maybe Canadians get freaked out and then come home to the Liberals.
00:03:17.700I assume that the Liberals will improve a little bit as the next election approaches because elections tend to make people kind of a little bit silly in the head.
00:03:25.960People tend to return to a party that hasn't done anything for them because that's what they voted for last time.
00:03:30.580But I don't think it's going to be enough for Justin Trudeau to ever be able to be Prime Minister again.
00:03:34.980I think that if you were ever looking for a nail in Justin Trudeau's political coffin, this stat was it.
00:03:40.02052% of his party not wanting him to actually succeed that much.
00:03:44.260Now this other stat from Angus Reid I thought was also interesting.
00:03:47.700The question here was, which of the following federal parties and leaders do you think is best suited to handle Canada's economy?
00:03:54.300Now, of course, the Conservative Party, it's 85% believe in pure poly of the Conservative Party,
00:03:59.040and it's like 3% between the NDP and Liberals.
00:04:03.740So that's probably just, again, the red Tory flakes that are leaving the party after Justin Trudeau stopped being a leader.
00:04:08.520You know, all the people who buy into media propaganda are like, oh, the Conservative Party's bigoted because they want, you know, women's washrooms to be for women.
00:04:15.540And then there's, you know, 10% of Conservatives who just don't know, which probably just means a lot of people who voted Conservative in 2021,
00:04:21.880but just haven't been paying much attention.
00:04:23.820But again, jump over to the Liberal Party stat here.
00:04:27.06054% think that their own party is the best suited party to handling the economy right now.