00:04:09.500And there might be another group I'm missing here, but, you know, conservatives definitely don't like it. Business liberals don't like it. Farmers don't like it. Quebec nationalists don't like it. And the only people who like it are urbanite people who already vote liberal.
00:04:24.140There is no point in building this train politically for the liberals, other than there's probably a lot of special interests who donate to the liberals who are interested in seeing this train get developed.
00:04:35.800You know, they just bailed out a bunch of real estate developers in Vancouver.
00:04:39.940I have no doubt that a similar issue is taking place here, where friends of the liberals are going to be involved in construction with the Alto Crown Corporation.
00:04:51.280Anyways, but now I want to cut over to the press conference that Pierre Polyev did where this issue was brought up because I think this issue has become a big winner for the conservatives.
00:05:03.000There were a lot of conservatives online when this project was first proposed who are, again, I'm not a NIMBY.
00:05:10.020I'm not someone who's like, don't build anything higher than one story near me or I'm going to have a panic attack.
00:05:15.280I'm pretty permissive of, you know, I think a lot of building codes can sometimes be a little bit too cumbersome in many cities. Now, I don't like blanket rezoning and stuff like that. That's ridiculous. But I'm also not the opposite of YIMBY of, oh, no, public transportation everywhere. Let's just have tower blocks just popping out of suburban neighborhoods and whatnot.
00:05:36.200There are a lot of conservatives I would call YIMBY conservatives who are running around saying, well, the conservatives have to be in favor of something. Why can't they support the Alto train? Them opposing the train just makes them look like naysaying jerks. It's a $90 billion project that's going to serve approximately nobody. And we're naysaying if we oppose that.0.80
00:06:00.660sorry is being conservative now just bad apparently but whatever now let's get into this clip from uh
00:06:07.940from your poly of answering a question about the train from uh my friend jared yeager at sitka media
00:06:13.300thank you hi jared yeager here with sitka media so on the the alto line um sometimes to build for
00:06:20.820the future you need to spend a little bit of money so i'm wondering are you against high
00:06:24.580speed rail in canada as a concept or just the way that this project has gone about
00:06:30.660Now, that is actually a very Jared question, because I'm not trying to take shots at Jared
00:06:35.920here, but he is very much a Vancouver urbanite, so I could see him being very much in favor
00:06:39.840of high-speed rail as just a general matter.
00:06:43.700But I think that Polyev has a good answer to this, because you don't say, oh yeah, I
00:06:48.580could see it being good for some people, but maybe it costs too much.
00:06:51.680Don't even give the project any benefit of the doubt.
00:06:55.840The price tag already makes it a complete failure.
00:06:58.060There is no point of trying to salvage anything from this, and Pierre Paulyab does not do that.
00:07:05.480First of all, the Liberals are promising to spend $5 billion over the next year just to study the idea,
00:07:49.980My idea is let's improve the transportation of every single Canadian by taking the GST off used cars.
00:07:56.640Right now, you're paying double, triple, and even quadruple taxes on the same vehicle as it's sold and resold.
00:08:05.780Conservatives would use the Alto research money to take taxes off used cars so that you can save $2,000 on your next vehicle.
00:08:15.120That would give a real tangible savings to real people rather than forcing British Columbians to spend $8,000 per family on a train they will never get to use and from which they will never benefit, even if it ever gets built.
00:08:31.440Now, I'm not even necessarily against any public infrastructure spending.
00:08:36.600Obviously, somebody like or public transportation infrastructure spending.
00:08:42.600But there has to be a general interest.
00:08:44.700And general interest doesn't just mean if everybody uses it every day, then it's in the general interest. Obviously, no project could ever meet that threshold. But if, let's say, the project cost far less, it was going to be done faster, and maybe we could even have some sort of funding mechanism that allows for more local taxes to go to it, that would be a different situation than Canada's just going to build a train that's probably going to be three quarters empty most of the time,
00:09:13.940and going to cost way more money than it would ever cost to build this sort of train in another country
00:09:19.700where it's actually harder to build stuff like this based on the geography.
00:09:24.180Japan builds similar trains, not maybe as long because Japan's not as big of a country,
00:09:30.520but they can build trains from point A to point B with mountain ranges to go around for a fraction of the cost.
00:09:37.700But now I want to jump over to another answer from Apir Polyev's press conference about the bailout money that is going towards Vancouver developers, because these stories are connected, although they are technically different subjects.
00:09:53.520It's all about special interest funding from the Liberals.
00:09:57.920They are throwing money at special interests, trying to secure votes for the next election,
00:10:02.240and the Conservatives should keep hammering on Alto. They should keep hammering on the
00:10:05.900developer bailout money, because this thematically does get at the heart of what really bothers
00:10:12.520voters about the government. Sometimes it's not even the dollar value. It's where the money is
00:10:17.600going. Just like Doug Ford taking everybody off by trying to buy himself a private plane,
00:10:22.080and I don't even necessarily think that the Ontario Premier shouldn't have his own plane.
00:10:25.880Maybe he should. But just imagistically, it looks terrible at the time he did it. He has wasted so
00:10:33.340much more money subsidizing businesses that are linked to the PC party all over the place.
00:10:39.620He is a subsidy politician. And although the plane only costs maybe like $20 million or whatever
00:10:46.360it's supposed to cost overall, I'm not sure actually what the price tag is. It's not that
00:10:50.240big of an expense but it just finally stuck a visual that voters hate to a subject that they
00:10:56.560usually don't take seriously and it's taxpayer waste yes it's not that much money but finally
00:11:02.140the thing he spent the money on woke people up to the fact that oh my goodness this ontario0.98
00:11:06.680government is spending money in a really stupid fashion that's what the alto train and the0.98
00:11:11.580developer bailout is doing for mark carney it's finally shaking some voters awake and saying0.98
00:11:18.140really these are the guys saving Canada just throwing 3.2 billion dollars towards Vancouver
00:11:23.160developers and building a train to nowhere that that these are the guys who are elbows up against
00:11:28.880Donald Trump the ones who are just burning your cash for literally nothing to benefit insiders
00:11:34.500and the friends of the liberal party so that's why I really want to highlight uh going forward
00:11:40.660every time the poly of conservatives start hitting the liberals on these issues because this
00:11:45.620is where they need to be if they want to start crawling up the polling on who voters trust more
00:11:51.160on affordability. I was just wondering, you know, what solutions would you propose as an
00:11:56.040alternative to what the Prime Minister is putting forward? And I know that during the campaign,
00:12:00.260you proposed cutting the sales tax on all new homes. That's something that we've seen some,
00:12:05.040you know, initial progress in Ontario with that deal that the Fed struck with the province.
00:12:09.440Would you like to see that apply on a national level? Or is there anything else further you
00:12:12.620would like to do to address the kind of glut of condo sales we've seen in dc and other jurisdictions
00:12:16.560the glut of condo sales is not a problem i like how the the journalist here i'm not sure who it
00:12:21.880is maybe they're from an outlet i usually like or maybe not doesn't really matter but it was it was
00:12:26.460pitched to poly of there as well what would you propose as if what carney did was like a default
00:12:33.240option you you should just nor we just normally just bail out developers for building overly
00:12:38.900expensive apartments that nobody wants. No, we do not. And the way that the media always kind of
00:12:45.540coaches these questions is to indicate to a viewer that, you know, Polyev might be in the wrong.
00:12:51.720You should assume by default that he's in the wrong because Carney's hands were tied. He had
00:12:56.340to do it. Well, what do you propose, Polyev? What would have you done differently? Like not done it?
00:13:02.020That's all Polyev really has to say here. And that's effectively what he does say.
00:13:04.960so first uh your the question sorry the answer to your question is yes i want to see all taxes
00:13:12.600taken off home building the sales taxes and we need to incentivize municipalities
00:13:17.620and provinces to get rid of all of their home building taxes secondly we need to
00:13:22.380insist that municipalities speed up permits and free up land to get more built very quickly
00:13:27.220and my infrastructure policy would do that we need to cut the the bureaucracy red tape
00:13:33.680and taxes that are responsible for our high housing costs under the Liberals here in Canada.
00:13:39.440That is a real solution. What Mark Carney and the Liberals have done is they've inflated a housing
00:13:45.660bubble with too much money printing and immigration driving up demand and too much red tape and taxes
00:13:53.680blocking supply. Having created the housing bubble and now bursting that bubble, now they want to come1.00
00:14:01.020and bail out the bankers and developers who profited from it.
00:14:06.000And this is another example of a tiny club of liberal elites,
00:14:12.060billionaires and insiders getting rich by making hardworking Canadians poor.
00:14:19.900And so I'm calling for the Kearney condo bailout of developers and bankers to be cancelled.
00:14:27.100as for the condos themselves you know what the solution is for them to become affordable
00:14:32.940the developers need to lower the sale price to a to a level that people can afford to pay and when
00:14:41.580they do that those condos will sell and some say well the condos the the the developers will lose
00:14:49.520money somebody's going to lose money so who's it going to be is it going to be the waitress
00:14:54.960and the welder paying for it on their taxes0.63
00:14:57.860so Carney can give a tax-funded bailout,
00:15:01.340or is it going to be the developers and bankers
00:15:03.460who are trying to profit off of the bubble in the first place?
00:15:07.060Now, that kind of reminded me of sort of Milton Friedman's
00:15:11.100Free to Choose series, because everyone acts like,
00:15:14.060well, what's going to happen to the developers?
00:15:24.960they will survive. And if they don't survive, they've made a lot of bad business decisions.
00:15:30.080I'm not like pro-business the way that like a Doug Ford and a Mark Carney is pro-business
00:15:35.680by basically just subsidizing businesses to keep them on life support. That is a liberal policy,
00:15:42.400simply just having the government give artificial demand to markets whenever businesses cannot sell
00:15:49.200their products. Same thing when it comes to labor. They will just simply create fake jobs. They will0.96
00:15:55.900create fake demand for a fake industry so that more people can be employed in it. Conservatives
00:16:01.480should be free market people. This is why I do still harass the conservatives. Don't just run
00:16:07.180on getting rid of the industrial carbon tax or getting rid of the gas tax for a year and some
00:16:11.240of these other tax schemes that they have, which aren't necessarily bad. They're just complicated
00:16:15.420and kind of annoying to listen to. Just cut taxes across the board from anywhere from 15% to 25%.
00:16:23.080I would just say 20% for every bracket, across every bracket, including corporate, and a point
00:16:29.120off the GST. Run on that, because right now, that is how the conservatives are going to
00:16:35.340claw back in the polls, claw back the liberals' lead. Look at this chart from Abacus Data.
00:16:42.340up the rising cost of living right now this is a poll where the liberals were at like 45 percent
00:16:50.300and the conservatives were at 37 the liberals had an eight point lead uh now i'm going to do this on
00:16:56.560the whiteboard someday because it is a very busy chart here but if you look at the top line two
00:17:01.460numbers rising cost of living in the economy the liberals lead on both of them they have the
00:17:06.880advantage. But the Liberals only lead on rising cost of living by five points, and they only lead
00:17:12.580on the economy by three. Now, there's other traditional Liberal issues like healthcare and
00:17:18.720Trump and climate change that, of course, the Liberals are leading on that the Conservatives
00:17:22.960shouldn't look at. They should just focus on the economy ones. They are actually not as far down
00:17:29.480as the overall national lead that the Liberals have. That means that those are issues where a
00:17:36.080lot of Canadians are willing to see the Conservatives as the better affordability party,
00:17:41.400the better party for the economy. And the way that you market yourself is you got to keep it
00:17:47.180simple, stupid. You don't run on, well, if you sell stocks, but you reinvest your money in Canada,1.00
00:17:53.600you're not going to be hit by capital gains taxes, or I'm going to take the GST off of buying a used
00:18:00.100car. How about we just slash taxes in general so that people aren't just getting maybe a thousand
00:18:04.980bucks back on their taxes because there's no industrial carbon tax, no gas taxes. How about
00:18:09.580they pay 20% less income tax in general, and a point comes off the PST, and the company they
00:18:14.900work for pays 20% less taxes, and their take home becomes $6,500 more. We need a massive bout of tax
00:18:24.020reform in this country. And that's how you get to the average person, not through like a long
00:18:29.720presentation of all the micro taxes and boutique credits that are given out in order to try and
00:18:35.260pump the economy up, you just slash it. In fact, our tax revenues will probably go up if we cut
00:18:42.500taxes, because we'll stop chasing people out of the country, and we'll start getting people to
00:18:47.100retire early to live on their pensions, because what's the point of working when the government
00:18:51.380takes like 53% of your money anyways? Just cut it. But overall there, I do like the tone of
00:18:58.740Pierre Polyev in answering that question back. At the end of the day, more Canadians need to ask
00:19:04.300the question, who pays? Who is losing? Because every time the Liberals say, well, we're creating
00:19:11.460jobs, we're helping industry. No, no, you're helping that small special interest in direct,
00:19:19.840which is directly negatively affecting everybody outside of that special interest group.
00:19:26.920The liberals, when you actually see who they direct tax money at, it turns into like 10% of the population of the country who works in very specific areas that only exist or only sustained in their current form based on liberal subsidies.
00:19:42.100The conservatives should run against subsidy culture and should run in favor of freedom culture.
00:19:49.440We want an economic culture of freedom.