The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 29, 2023


Liberals whine Poilievre will cut off their gravy train

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conservative cuts to education and indigenous funding cuts in Canada running for nomination
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Pierre Poilievre Doug Ford Khaled Pierre Fiona
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The Liberals are worried that the Conservatives might actually cut spending in the federal government for the first time in a long time, and they're blaming it on the fact that the Tories are actually trying to do something other than what they've been saying all along.

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00:00:00.000 Now, I'm not really sure if the liberals are still dedicated to their odd, pure poly, if the conservatives are ultra-mega, bigoted, racist, evil people talking point anymore, because they seem to have trailed off on that in recent days.
00:00:13.940 They still sort of throw out the weird far-right accusation, for no reason, it falls flat, no one believes it.
00:00:20.180 So they've seemingly moved on to a new one, and that is that you should be deeply afraid that the conservatives might actually cut spending in the federal government for a change.
00:00:31.060 I don't know why they think this is going to work, because maybe it works in an election like back in 2019, or maybe 2021, when the economy wasn't as bad as it is today, and people could be sort of concerned about government services being cut.
00:00:47.440 These days, though, you and I are both way too well aware of the fact that the liberal government is burning money on nothing.
00:00:56.240 There's so many departments in the government that have gotten bloated, there's so many programs and initiatives that you could cut them down 100%.
00:01:04.060 Nobody would miss them, and all it was doing was creating jobs for bureaucratic friends of the liberal government.
00:01:10.420 It's just make-work programs for people with degrees that they shouldn't have gotten in the first place.
00:01:15.080 But I just want to go through now just the unhinged amount of posting that the liberals have been doing, claiming that the conservatives are wanting cuts in all these very sort of sympathetic areas of government.
00:01:26.440 And before I get into this, basically the game is that they know the conservatives want to cut things.
00:01:31.080 The conservatives are very upfront with the fact that they want to cut things.
00:01:33.980 So now the liberals are going to pretend as if every single thing that the conservatives want to cut are only things that most people would agree that maybe you could have some money in that.
00:01:43.780 But what they're going to do is they're going to claim, because the conservatives in this past month voted against expansions to spending in these areas, well, that must mean that they want cuts in those areas.
00:01:54.660 So without further ado, these are in no particular order, but there's a ton of them.
00:01:59.100 I think it started in early December.
00:02:01.020 So the liberals seven hours ago said,
00:02:03.000 Well, you're not stopping conservative cuts.
00:02:15.040 You're the government and the conservatives do not have votes to do anything.
00:02:17.880 They are just merely opposing you guys because either you're subsidizing broken industries like the EV industry, which every middle class job you're creating is just a make work program job.
00:02:29.340 Nobody is buying these EVs in great numbers that justifies EV factories in Canada.
00:02:34.500 And I would say that this is also an issue with Doug Ford's conservative government, Ontario.
00:02:39.260 He is very much the pro subsidy kind of conservative. 1.00
00:02:42.500 It's dumb. 0.99
00:02:43.340 You're creating fake jobs. 0.99
00:02:44.600 But again, with all of the claiming that the conservatives are pushing for cuts, the conservatives aren't putting up bills pushing for cuts.
00:02:52.380 The conservatives keep holding up liberal legislation saying, hey, we'll stop holding this stuff up because we know you guys can pass it anyways.
00:02:59.140 But we will make it as excruciating as possible unless you put a three-year pause, just like heater oil and maritimes, if you put a three-year pause on the carbon tax on all home heating.
00:03:08.860 I don't even think they ask for it for like gasoline at gas stations.
00:03:12.540 They're being very mild on the liberals, proving that the liberals are so radical, they won't even remove the carbon tax on home heating.
00:03:19.940 Something that people need to survive.
00:03:22.620 Anyways, but here's another one.
00:03:24.920 And so it says, just this month, and it's pretty much always the same tweet, but a different subject.
00:03:29.380 Just this month, pure poly of it and his conservatives voted to cut funding to support Atlantic Canadians recovering from Hurricane Fiona.
00:03:35.160 We'll continue standing up for Canadians and stopping conservative cuts.
00:03:38.040 With this spending, Hurricane Fiona happened a while ago.
00:03:41.920 It wasn't like, you know, four years ago, but it wasn't that long ago.
00:03:46.760 A lot of disaster rate ends up just becoming, again, make work program type stuff from the liberal government, creating fake jobs, putting money towards liberal initiatives that have nothing to do with Hurricane Fiona.
00:03:57.800 And again, they vote against this.
00:04:00.160 They held it up saying, please remove the carbon tax so that people like in the Maritimes who don't use heat or oil might be able to live a little bit easier.
00:04:08.360 Third one.
00:04:09.260 Just this month, pure poly of it and his conservatives voted to cut investment for students in post-secondary education.
00:04:14.220 We'll continue standing up for Canadians and stopping conservative cuts.
00:04:17.660 Another one.
00:04:18.680 Just this month, pure poly of it and his conservatives voted to cut funding to ensure indigenous people benefit from major natural resource projects.
00:04:25.120 We'll continue standing up for Canadians, stopping conservative cuts.
00:04:28.000 Aren't the liberals the ones who keep blocking and helping protesters block energy, energy projects that are going on indigenous lands?
00:04:35.980 The projects that those same indigenous people deeply want because they want those good paying jobs on their land.
00:04:42.900 You guys are the ones who block them like the tech mine, like the pipelines, like passing dumb bills to protect.
00:04:49.360 Just like everything in BC as, I guess, a, you know, some sort of like heritage site or some sort of like protected ecological zone. 0.91
00:04:57.440 It's nuts.
00:04:58.380 But no, it's the conservatives who are trying to attack indigenous people, not letting them get jobs.
00:05:03.240 I know I'm just feeling like, what is it?
00:05:05.280 DJ Khaled or whatever.
00:05:07.540 Another one.
00:05:09.300 Just this month, pure poly of it and conservatives voted to cut support for small businesses and women entrepreneurs.
00:05:14.100 We'll continue standing up for Canadians, stopping conservative cuts.
00:05:16.640 Okay, the one thing I have a bit of a problem here with, more than just the lie that the conservatives are voting against any of this stuff, is why specifically for support for female entrepreneurs?
00:05:27.740 I find that's the most sexist thing in the world, that the liberals are basically coming up to Canadians and say, women aren't good at business. 0.99
00:05:33.700 So we need to give women more money or tax breaks or whatever so that they can compete. 1.00
00:05:38.520 And the thing is, I obviously don't think that's true.
00:05:41.860 And I think that a lot of people are struggling to start businesses, men and women, because of liberal, regulatory and tax regimes.
00:05:48.700 And this would also apply to provincial governments, whether they're conservative, NDP or liberal or whatever they have in Quebec, that it's government regulations and taxes that are making it hard to be a small business owner.
00:06:01.380 However, I've talked about this before, Canada, to my chagrin is heavily becoming a subsidy economy, unless you can get a special tax break, regulatory kind of waiver that you don't have to follow certain rules, or the government just flat out invest money into you the way that they're doing with EV factories, then you're going to be absolutely grinding it out every day to not go bankrupt.
00:06:24.060 Unless you are a long time established business, and even many of those are going under, unless you are a long time established business, it's really hard to break into the market these days, because of just the high costs that are above you.
00:06:36.880 So everyone knows when you start a business, it's like sometimes two to three years before you actually cut yourself a real check as a business owner.
00:06:44.060 And so when we see all, so really, these days, it's more like five to six years where you're not going to be able to pay yourself, because of just the crazy amount of government imposed costs on you.
00:06:55.000 Anyways, it wasn't just the liberals who got into this.
00:06:58.140 It's also the NDP, because as much as the NDP pretends that they are not stooges for the liberal party, they are, they have, they are completely bankrupt as a party, their polling sucks, and their leader is horrible at this.
00:07:09.980 So they're just modeling all of the same liberal talking points, but adding a little bit more of a NDP socialistic spin to it.
00:07:18.080 So it's not just that pure poly of the conservatives are voting for cuts, ooh, like, you know, God forbid, but they're also trying to give money to billionaires and millionaires.
00:07:27.720 They're not actually trying to give them any money, but the NDP considers taxing someone less, like a giveaway.
00:07:32.640 I don't know why, well, I do know why, they're socialists, and they believe that anyone who has money, that money belongs to the public in some way.
00:07:40.900 But here's what the NDP put out.
00:07:42.640 While Pierre and his conservatives voted to cut and go, got funding that would help Canadians, Jagmeet and the NDP delivered results that will make life more affordable, and then it lists a bunch of things that, that, like, poly of either didn't actually vote against, or it's a ridiculously bloated program that most Canadians could probably get behind cutting.
00:07:59.520 Universal dental is a ridiculous program.
00:08:02.640 Most people have dental insurance.
00:08:04.140 The people who do not have dental insurance are not exactly hurting because they don't have dental insurance.
00:08:09.380 Getting a dental procedure when you don't have insurance is not that much.
00:08:13.320 Have you ever gotten your teeth cleaned?
00:08:14.600 It's like a hundred bucks.
00:08:15.560 Yeah, it's not cheap, but this is not exactly the top concern for Canadians.
00:08:19.580 And the fact that Canadians are probably going to be having to pay at least around a hundred dollars a year now in order to pay for this universal dental, it was not worth it at all.
00:08:28.360 And all the people who had insurance now look like complete fools because they paid for insurance for their dental care every single year, and now they also have to pay for everyone else's dental care at the same time.
00:08:38.460 Another NDP post. 0.83
00:08:39.700 So this one says, Pure Polyev's record shows that he's working to defend his corporate coalition.
00:08:44.560 He voted against Indigenous children.
00:08:46.240 No, he didn't.
00:08:47.000 He voted against a suicide prevention hotline.
00:08:49.840 No, he didn't.
00:08:50.840 He voted against school lunch programs for children.
00:08:52.780 Also, what the NDP and the Liberals are doing, which is really funny because they can pass anything they want, but they're so insecure.
00:08:58.340 They've been packaging a lot of these sort of different aspects of like policies into the same bill in order to make it look like the Conservatives are voting against these things.
00:09:06.660 When it's that the Conservatives voted against a bill that implied 15 different things that were going to happen, and they didn't like five of them.
00:09:13.760 And the Liberals and Conservatives or Liberals NDP now are like, the Conservatives hate Indigenous people and women.
00:09:20.220 It's, I know, it's just very gross politics, but it's just how it works.
00:09:23.980 Oh, I also skipped over this one, though.
00:09:26.000 The Liberals also kept posting these weird Christmas things about, well, Pure Polyev and the Conservatives have gotten you cuts for Christmas, even though, again, the Conservatives aren't in government.
00:09:34.260 They haven't cut a single thing, and I'm going to get to it in a bit.
00:09:37.560 Canadians are not actually against cuts in any way.
00:09:40.660 Here's the last NDP post.
00:09:42.540 Pure Polyev and his corporate-controlled Conservatives love to take from working Canadians and give to their wealthy friends. 0.78
00:09:49.000 We're fighting back.
00:09:49.760 What do they mean by corporate-controlled?
00:09:55.040 Corporate-controlled or individual.
00:10:00.260 Donate them every year.
00:10:01.460 There's a pretty low maximum that you're allowed to give in Canadian politics.
00:10:05.560 And so are they corporate-controlled because some people donate to them?
00:10:08.440 Union members donate to them.
00:10:10.040 Union members are almost pressured to donate to the NDP.
00:10:12.760 Are the NDP a union trade unionist-controlled party?
00:10:15.720 Well, they would deny that.
00:10:16.520 No, they're independent.
00:10:17.420 They speak for Canadians.
00:10:18.480 Maybe it's not everyone.
00:10:19.760 Actually kind of just speaks for Canadians and their own ideology.
00:10:23.420 I hate the sniping that goes on in politics as if I'm the only honest man left in Ottawa.
00:10:27.580 I don't take corporate money.
00:10:29.140 You guys all take donor money.
00:10:30.700 Everyone takes donor money.
00:10:31.700 There's nothing wrong with that.
00:10:33.360 But anyways, I want to get to, hopefully I'm not seeming like I'm rambling here.
00:10:36.660 I want to get to just the main point about cuts in Canada in general.
00:10:41.280 Canadians do not actually care if the Conservatives want to cut things.
00:10:44.180 Because every single person in this country could name off the top of their head 10 programs that would be fine to cut.
00:10:50.700 HR and government, DEI programs, maybe tampons and pads and men's washrooms. 0.62
00:10:55.200 I think a lot of Canadians get behind that. 0.99
00:10:57.300 Maybe we could cut the stupid gun buyback program. 0.99
00:10:59.900 Maybe we could cut the media subsidies. 1.00
00:11:03.240 Maybe we could cut the entire CBC budget.
00:11:05.600 Maybe we could cut all the investment into foreign environmental initiatives and education initiatives.
00:11:11.760 Things that we have no oversight on.
00:11:13.260 Maybe we could cut funding to Hamas because we keep giving money to charities in Gaza, which are basically effectively run by Hamas.
00:11:19.900 Maybe we could cut money that goes to other sorts of activist groups, non-profit organizations that promote left-wing ideology.
00:11:27.660 And maybe we could cut funding to any post-secondary institution that doesn't actually stand up for free speech.
00:11:32.720 But I guess I want to cut university education.
00:11:35.680 I don't care about university education now, according to the Liberals.
00:11:38.460 No, I care about the Constitution, the Charter.
00:11:42.580 I care about actually having free speech in our institutions, freedom of expression.
00:11:46.840 But I guess having standards means that because I want to cut money because I have standards, I want to hurt Canadians. 1.00
00:11:53.740 As if any of this stuff is benefiting any Canadian.
00:11:56.820 Bloated government budgets do not benefit Canadians.
00:12:00.000 But the government acts like it's more important than it is because it contributes so much to the GDP.
00:12:05.540 It doesn't actually.
00:12:06.500 It takes your money through you from legitimate and illegitimate forms of taxation.
00:12:11.360 When I say illegitimate, I mean like taking more money way past the point where the government needs it for basic services and things that Canadians actually need. 0.93
00:12:19.960 And the government gets to pretend like, well, we're a massive contributor to the economy because it taxes people's money and spends it on garbage.
00:12:26.500 And with the Liberals, the Liberals wouldn't even cut a program if it was just burning money in a barrel.
00:12:30.600 Basically, the Liberals are complaining that the Conservatives want to cut the barrel burning program.
00:12:36.260 Think of all the jobs of people shoveling money into a barrel and burning it.
00:12:40.580 The Conservatives don't care about those good, clean, middle class jobs. 0.95
00:12:45.020 This is pretty much all that's going on here.
00:12:47.320 The cuts narrative is not going to work because every Canadian thinks that the government spends too much money.
00:12:53.260 There are going to be people who are already on board with the Liberals and the NDP who will parrot these talking points.
00:12:57.620 But most people know that the Conservatives aren't going to cut roads.
00:13:01.180 They're not going to cut CPP.
00:13:02.780 They're like the Liberals are pretending like the Conservatives are going to like push your grandmother down the stairs.
00:13:07.420 They do this every election.
00:13:08.780 And it's the most conspiratorial thing ever that the Conservatives secretly want to cut like, you know, health care spending.
00:13:13.960 They secretly want to cut the police budget, military budget.
00:13:17.020 They secretly are like a bunch of anarcho-capitalists who want to get rid of all government spending completely.
00:13:22.460 That's not what's going to happen.
00:13:24.000 And everyone knows it.
00:13:25.600 Anyways, that's it for me today.
00:13:27.120 Sorry about the long rambling rant, but that's just sometimes what you get out of me in a given day.
00:13:33.600 But just to quickly plug, I have a give-s-and-go link in the description of this video.
00:13:38.500 I'm still being sued by a billionaire.
00:13:40.260 It's cost me $25,000 to fight back on behalf of myself and the National Telegraph against this very silly defamation suit.
00:13:47.580 It's completely frivolous.
00:13:49.060 He's just racking up the lawyer hours to see if he could bankrupt me.
00:13:52.740 It's not working.
00:13:53.460 I've been able to nickel and dime my way to be willing to pay for all this stuff.
00:13:56.900 We're getting to the point where I think he actually might drop the case.
00:13:59.180 Who knows?
00:13:59.560 But other than that, I'm also running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:14:05.040 So if you live in Calgary Signal Hill, check out the link in the description of this video, whyclaypool.com.
00:14:11.220 You can go check out my priorities, my platform.
00:14:13.840 If you like me, hopefully you'll like me enough to buy a membership and vote.
00:14:16.980 Your entire household, 14 years old and older, can buy memberships and vote.
00:14:20.720 So if you could rank me number one on your ballot, if you live in Calgary Signal Hill, I'd greatly appreciate it.
00:14:25.520 And if you don't live in Calgary Signal Hill, make sure you know what riding you live in.
00:14:28.920 It's very important for you to be able to engage in politics better, that you can name where you live, who your representatives are in your provincial riding, your federal riding, and your ward.
00:14:37.840 Because I find so often in Canada, bad things happen because people don't even know the basic riding they live in.
00:14:45.980 They don't know the ward that they live in.
00:14:47.280 They don't know who their elected officials are.
00:14:48.700 So there's no ability for them to hold any of them accountable.
00:14:51.920 But other than that, I'll see you guys later.
00:14:53.840 Might do a live stream tonight.
00:14:54.960 Might not.
00:14:55.500 I think I made that promise yesterday and I failed to deliver.
00:14:57.840 But hopefully, I'm not lying this time.