The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Maxime Bernier's PPC Are Not Living In Reality

00:00:00.000 I know a lot of PPC supporters are immediately going to disregard this video because I'm

00:00:04.140 currently running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination, but I think

00:00:08.600 it still must be said that the PPC under Maxine Bernier has been incredibly toxic to political

00:00:14.320 discourse in Canada, the way a lot of discourse that comes out of the NDP and the Liberals

00:00:18.780 has also been. Maxine Bernier, I think, has been doing a great disservice to his own supporters

00:00:23.260 in teaching them all the wrong lessons about how politics works in Western democracies.

00:00:28.460 You see, and this is probably not going to come as a great shock to many people, if you're

00:00:33.460 ever going to govern a country, it's likely going to be within a very broad-based party

00:00:39.600 that brings a lot of different factions together in order to achieve common interests. The

00:00:44.700 PPC is selling what I think is the dishonest populist dream that if you are hardcore enough

00:00:50.880 about the policies that you believe in and you basically call everyone else phony and

00:00:55.920 like is somehow corrupt if they don't believe in you, that you'll be able to somehow muscle

00:01:00.700 your way through to victory in order to win seats and be able to advocate for your policies

00:01:05.420 in Parliament. It's just really not how it is. Bernier knows better. He was in Parliament

00:01:10.740 for quite a while, yet he's trying to basically teach his own people that petulance, that sort

00:01:17.200 of hyper-purism, that's actually the way to making change. The funny thing is Bernier is not

00:01:22.420 a purist in any way. He used to be a very progressive Conservative Party MP, a little bit more libertarian

00:01:28.220 on economics, although go back to the 2017 Conservative leadership race, and he wasn't

00:01:32.600 quite sure if he was against the carbon tax or not. He's not a man who's ever been that

00:01:37.260 consistent on many issues, especially social issues, yet he's basically telling his own

00:01:42.180 people that the reason to distrust the Conservative Party is that they're not as consistent and

00:01:46.820 purist as him, a man who's never been consistent and is definitely not ideological pure

00:01:51.540 on many different issues. He has been sort of zigzagging between libertarianism on free trade

00:01:57.300 and open borders, all the way to stop mass immigration and institute economic protections.

00:02:04.160 And I think that, moreover, I think he's actually been rhetorically very toxic to the way that

00:02:09.640 his own supporters engage in politics. And I've been reassured he is the man who runs his own

00:02:14.920 Twitter account. I still have doubt that because I doubt Bernier is really looking up and saving

00:02:21.040 images of pure poly of memes in order to share them to try and mock Pierre. But a lot of this

00:02:26.300 stuff I find, and there's a reason why political party leaders and politicians don't share too many 0.96

00:02:31.800 silly, dumb memes, because you don't want to sort of lower the discourse around politics, 0.93

00:02:38.260 because it's not good for actually getting your own policies taken seriously. And it's not good for 0.99

00:02:43.800 professionalizing your support base. But this is actually something that Bernier has been sharing

00:02:48.600 recently, December 5. And he said, a vote for the morally and intellectually corrupt fake

00:02:53.520 conservatives is a vote for the liberal policies. If you want not just get rid of Trudeau, but also

00:02:57.640 get rid of liberal policies, you have to vote for the PPC. And it's like, like the idea that pure

00:03:03.320 poly of and Justin Trudeau are the same guy is patently absurd. Yes, if you really dig, you can find a

00:03:10.240 couple areas of policy where maybe the liberals and conservatives kind of agree, but you'd really have to

00:03:15.660 squint hard. Even the NDP and the liberals really don't agree with each other on that many issues.

00:03:20.800 They agree with each other in terms of the general aim. But in terms of the scope and the methods of

00:03:26.080 their policies, they're very different. And if you throw the Greens in there and some other smaller

00:03:31.200 parties, most of the parties exist for a real reason. And I'm going to say the PPC exists for certain

00:03:36.680 on certain issues that, you know, they're separate from the conservatives on some issues. And they're

00:03:40.980 definitely separate from the liberals on many issues. But like the conservatives and the PPC

00:03:46.080 line up on a lot of things. But Bernier's whole donation bill relies on you pretending or him

00:03:52.380 pretending as if the conservative party and the PPC are the two furthest apart parties in the country,

00:03:57.720 as if the conservatives are communists, and he's like a hyper libertarian party. It's just not how it

00:04:03.580 is. But I think stuff like this has really made the PPC sort of hardcore supporter, not people who

00:04:10.880 vote for them or people who've supported them in the past. But the hardcore donors and people who

00:04:14.800 are constantly grinding on about how much they love the PPC on Twitter and Facebook, these people

00:04:20.520 are being given a disservice by making it seem like the way you engage in politics is just purity

00:04:26.220 testing. It's mocking anyone who doesn't fully agree with you. It's not consensus building. It's not

00:04:31.420 door knocking in community engagement. It's just sitting on social media, telling everyone how right you

00:04:36.680 are and how wrong they are. Like I literally have talked to PPC organizers. And some of these people

00:04:42.300 in charge of elections, like the PPC election management, and EDAs and whatnot, they specifically

00:04:48.800 told me that they've never door knocked a day in their lives. On the excuse that, well, I've never

00:04:54.180 had my opinion changed at a door. Well, good for you. Have you ever talked to someone at a door? Most people

00:04:59.260 don't have their minds made up about politics. Go advocate passionately for what you believe in,

00:05:03.360 and then find out that most people don't talk the way that you do on social media. And people just

00:05:08.500 want a pleasant person to speak to. They're not looking for some sort of higher hardcore ideologue

00:05:13.620 to come to their door and badger them about why your immigration number is impure compared to the

00:05:20.140 immigration number I want. It's very, very silly. And so but you get to the point where Bernier is 0.98

00:05:26.340 posting stuff like this. And I guarantee you, 2010 Bernier would have never done something like this,

00:05:30.800 because it's kind of gross. But Bernier on October 7, when a bunch of Jews got massacred

00:05:35.300 in southern Israel said, some people have been asking my position on the ongoing conflict between

00:05:39.560 Israel and Hamas. It's simple. I don't want a single penny of Canadian taxpayers money to go

00:05:43.320 to support either side of another foreign war that has nothing to do with us. Now, I'm not going to

00:05:48.380 argue that you can't take the position or somehow it's immoral to say that, hey, let's just reduce

00:05:52.720 foreign aid towards any war. Right now, I think Canada's in the worst possible position,

00:05:56.580 where while giving money to Israel, which is fine, we're giving money to Hamas through a bunch of

00:06:02.200 quote unquote Gaza charities that obviously are just supporting the terrorist government that's

00:06:06.720 operating in that area. So Bernier can take his position, whatever position he wants on foreign

00:06:11.260 aid. But this idea that even Karen, that a bunch of people were massacred by a terrorist group

00:06:16.720 overseas would somehow make him a less of a purest Canadian patriot is, I think, a fairly disgusting

00:06:22.140 position to take. It's a very trendy populist position to say that if you care about any country

00:06:27.800 at all outside of our borders, well, then you're somehow not sufficiently patriotic and you're

00:06:33.760 somehow, you know, operating on behalf of the interests of a foreign regime. I really like the

00:06:38.600 country of Georgia. I don't think it's made me dislike Canada at all. I can like more than one

00:06:45.060 country at the same time. Obviously, my first loyalty is to Canada and I have some sympathies to other

00:06:51.440 countries, which maybe I would want to help out if they were ever in trouble. But overall, obviously,

00:06:56.620 that's not going to dull my respect for the country I live in and love. That's completely ridiculous. 0.98

00:07:02.320 But Bernier is going down is basically setting up these traps. And I think they're silly traps. I 0.99

00:07:07.300 think they're backfiring on him. But he's setting up these traps to so that if anyone else starts caring

00:07:11.680 about Israel, well, then I can accuse you of not caring about Canada. It's a disgusting take. And it's 0.51

00:07:17.440 turning to border a little bit on the anti-Semitic when you actually read some of the what his

00:07:22.680 supporters say about people who at all have sympathies towards Israel. But this is what you

00:07:27.500 get with. And also, I think that the PPC has gotten their own supporters to also start assuming that

00:07:33.280 certain issues that they run on are like the only issues in Canada. Here's their candidate for Durham,

00:07:39.420 who's up against Jamil Javani, the conservative candidate, who's actually a fantastic candidate,

00:07:43.360 very solid fiscal and social conservative. I 100% would vote for him if I was in the riding.

00:07:48.540 But you have this Patricia Collins lady, who I'm not saying she's a bad person anyway, not like far

00:07:53.320 from us. But she's like pushing like this stuff. And it's December 5, pushing, it's simple acts of

00:07:59.160 acts. Well, okay, sorry, one, also two, aren't you guys supposed to be libertarians? Aren't people

00:08:03.320 supposed to be allowed to do what they want with their bodies when it comes to medication? Yet,

00:08:08.200 for some reason, we have to acts of acts. I don't know what that means. And also lady,

00:08:12.120 it's December of 2023. There's no mandates. If there is a mandate, fight about against that

00:08:17.500 specific one. But this is not an issue to be still stumping on. But PPC leadership has made it seem

00:08:23.240 like the only issues that matter are COVID era issues, immigration, and like not getting involved

00:08:30.560 in foreign policy, or like, you know, gender theory, which the conservative party is against now.

00:08:35.800 Well, so what's their deal? But they're going to say they're not sufficiently against gender theory.

00:08:39.420 They'll never be able to say how they're just going to say that they haven't yelled enough about

00:08:43.600 the issue. And that's also the problem with the PPC. They've basically convinced their supporters

00:08:48.240 that noise on an issue, basically reflects seriousness on an issue. At the same, at the

00:08:54.600 same time, the louder and more kind of not professional you are when you're talking about

00:08:59.580 an issue, the less likely you are to actually win on that issue. I see videos of PPC,

00:09:04.780 like, like, candidates like this Patricia lady going to school board meetings, and just yelling, 0.97

00:09:11.500 going on sort of like rambling speeches where she's really raising her voice. And it's like,

00:09:15.500 I understand her intention to do good. But a lot of it is attention seeking. And whatever she was

00:09:20.320 stumping for in that video I was watching, I can guarantee you, she actually made less people 1.00

00:09:24.800 likely to support what she's backing, because she seems a little bit kind of, you know,

00:09:30.520 too elevated about it. Like, especially this is why people, more people should go door knocking,

00:09:35.820 go and find out how most people talk about politics. Most people have a very small voice

00:09:39.680 when they talk about politics. They don't know too many details about it. They have a couple

00:09:43.740 things that they really care passionately about. They're not going to immediately tell you. And

00:09:47.480 through a very calm, pleasant conversation, you can learn a little bit about the person,

00:09:51.680 what they value, you can share what you value, and some interesting ideas you have when it comes to

00:09:56.260 policy. But the PPC does not have, is not training their own people to have the sort of character

00:10:02.400 that someone else can connect with. It's all about hot blooded online politics. But so you have this

00:10:07.180 Patricia lady also sharing stuff like this. It's like this meme that says, it's not about splitting

00:10:11.480 the conservative vote, it's about splitting the globalist vote. And hey, guys, if you don't want

00:10:16.040 people to bring up Bernie who went to the WF, stop trying to pretend like pure poly is a globalist.

00:10:21.220 He's been very clearly taking stances against the UN, going against the UNRWA, which is effectively

00:10:27.140 Hamas front group. And also he said that he's not going to let any of his cabinet ministers go to the

00:10:31.680 WF conferences. What's your point? No, but secretly, poly I'm still not purist enough.

00:10:37.440 Shut up. You're just wrong. You're just wrong. You don't know what you're talking about. 1.00

00:10:41.080 But then you have other people and like this, Joe's usually nice enough to me online. I'm not like,

00:10:46.080 again, trying to impugn anyone's character. But when you have people like this in the PPC,

00:10:50.120 who now just see parliamentary tradition as somehow corrupting, he's saying funny how the

00:10:55.400 conservatives want Fergus to resign. And this is in reference to the conservatives wanting Fergus,

00:11:00.880 Greg Fergus to resign as the speaker of the house after he was appearing at liberal donor events in

00:11:06.580 his in his robes, which is, you know, not something you should be doing because the role of the speaker

00:11:11.260 should be completely neutral. And you shouldn't be dressing up as the speaker to go to partisan events.

00:11:16.080 But he says then, after that line, Joe says, they seem to have no problem with him a couple of

00:11:20.680 months ago. And then the picture of Pierre Polyev and Justin Trudeau dragging Fergus up to the seat,

00:11:25.760 a parliamentary position that has been going on for hundreds of years, in which the two leaders

00:11:30.540 drag up the or the prime minister and the opposition leader drag up the speaker to go sit

00:11:35.360 on the speaker seat. The idea is that nobody actually wants to be speaker. So ha ha ha, we have to drag

00:11:40.360 him up. It's a it's a dumb, cute little tradition. But because that's it's too hardcore to have a 0.99

00:11:47.360 little moment that's kind of fun that involves Justin Trudeau. Like what was Bernie going to do

00:11:51.220 spit on Trudeau, you know, slap Fergus? No, he's not. If he was the opposition leader, he'd go along

00:11:57.160 with it too. And guess what? Good for him. He should take part in the tradition. It's actually good to

00:12:02.060 have a couple traditions between MPs. So they don't hate each other's guts at all times. And so like

00:12:06.920 you're allowed to advocate for your position strongly and not absolutely spit on your other

00:12:13.700 parliamentary colleagues. But Bernier, again, and the PPC leadership have basically told their own

00:12:20.980 people that like the politics is always about the fight. It's about fighting at all times. You got

00:12:25.260 to get online. You got to fight. You got to not go to the doors because that might be useful. But

00:12:29.080 whenever you see someone in real life that you disagree with, you got to fight. You got to go to a

00:12:32.080 school board trustee meeting and you got to fight. Don't actually campaign so you can win seat,

00:12:36.260 but you got to fight. It's very, it's just kind, it's against the same thing the liberals and the

00:12:41.640 NDP do. Whenever something like parental rights comes up, they fear monger about it. Someone's

00:12:46.720 taking your rights. Oh, everything's always a fever pitch about the conservatives trying to crack down

00:12:51.120 on whatever group's rights or whatever. It's always about there's constant chaos going around.

00:12:56.340 There's secretly people always out to get you. And the PPC kind of does the same thing about

00:13:00.660 there's secretly someone always out to get you, which creates a lot of paranoia and pessimism.

00:13:04.900 I find that there is a lot of PPC supporters who are very open to sort of strange beliefs about

00:13:10.040 policies where the facts just don't go. I don't like a lot of liberal policies, but I always find

00:13:15.000 that a PPC sort of influencers take on the policy is the least useful one in arguing against it.

00:13:22.380 There's usually, usually the most simple way of arguing against the policy is the best way to do so.

00:13:26.760 But sort of if this has turned into a bit of a rant, I just always see a lot of these

00:13:31.060 PPC posts as I'm going by on Twitter and or X, I guess. And I always just find it's just like,

00:13:38.040 I don't understand how this party is still taking money at this point, like I said before,

00:13:42.780 or maybe I said in a different take and I forgot, but like the PPC in my mind has basically become a

00:13:48.340 big donation scam. Like give Maxine Bernier hundreds of thousands of dollars. I think they almost have

00:13:53.100 like a million dollars in 2023, hundreds of thousands of dollars to what? Well, are they

00:13:58.100 signing up new members? Are they starting their EDAs? They keep having EDAs get deregistered because

00:14:02.580 there's nobody actually managing them. Are they going to, you know, concentrate their forces to

00:14:07.280 win a writing? No. Well, that's how like they, they should seriously take a page out of Elizabeth May's

00:14:13.060 book. The Green Party, when they wanted a writing, they found a writing where they did a little bit of

00:14:18.780 research. They found that there was a little bit of an opening to a third party

00:14:22.680 that kind of Vancouver Island area is actually kind of like, if I was to compare it to an American

00:14:27.740 state, a lot like Minnesota. Minnesota has elected kind of these democratic socialists in the past.

00:14:33.320 They've elected very conservative people. They elected Jesse Ventura because they're kind of open

00:14:37.080 to that third party type of a candidate. Vancouver Island was the same. This was literally a formally

00:14:42.420 reformed alliance writing that Elizabeth May won in like Guelph or not Guelph, something in the

00:14:48.340 Saanich Islands. That they knew what they were doing and they concentrated all the Green Party's

00:14:53.120 volunteers and forces and money into that writing. They literally had Green Party USA volunteers fly

00:14:58.760 out to Victoria to come and help Elizabeth May. They knew what they were doing. Bernier did not do this

00:15:04.480 in Boast back in 2019 and then failed to do it again in 2021. And even when he ran in that writing

00:15:10.460 to that after, I forget what it was called again, but it was Candace Bergen's writing, Brandon Leslie

00:15:16.580 ended up winning it. Bernier showed up and he can, he gave the appearance of seriousness because

00:15:20.960 as the rip dropped, he immediately said he was running for that writing as the PPC candidate

00:15:24.980 and started driving around campaigning, hosting events. And it looked like he was campaigning

00:15:28.900 really hard. And I don't doubt that during that couple of months, he was campaigning for decently

00:15:33.240 hard. The problem is we knew Bergen was stepping down. There was a conservative nomination race for the

00:15:39.460 longest time to replace her. And, you know, Bernier just didn't show up until it was a little bit way

00:15:45.180 too late for him to actually make any impact in that writing. He could have been there as soon

00:15:49.360 as he knew that Bergen wasn't going to run again and there was going to be a by-election.

00:15:52.740 He basically showed up the last minute, campaigned for a month and a half, which is really not that

00:15:56.660 much work considering the fact that he's not working the rest of the year. He loses and then

00:16:01.540 he declares he might run there again. I think he kind of lives in the riding, which I guess is

00:16:05.360 somewhat progress. But again, he could have done this in Boast and he's not going to win this time.

00:16:09.900 It's just not a riding that's going to vote for a guy like Bernier, who has a bad record

00:16:13.840 on socially conservative issues. Anyways, regardless, that's finally it for me today.

00:16:19.300 You can donate to my legal fund in the description below. It's the give, send, go link. I have a

00:16:23.380 billionaire suing me. It's a nonsense defamation lawsuit that billionaire type people throw out at

00:16:29.380 people even when they have zero case. I'm winning it currently. My questioning went fantastic.

00:16:34.700 His questioning went awful from my opinion or my perspective. And then I also had the link to my

00:16:41.340 campaign site for Calgary Signal Hill. So if you live in Calgary Signal Hill, buy a conservative

00:16:46.240 membership and then vote for me as number one on your ballot when the nomination probably comes up

00:16:51.900 in the next few months or so. Other than that, I'll see everyone in the next video. I really didn't

00:16:56.980 expect this video to go on past 17 minutes, but I don't know. Once you start, once you wind me up,

00:17:02.840 I start ranting. Not really ranting, I guess. But now I'm starting to talk to myself about whether

00:17:08.660 or not I'm ranting or rambling. I'd say rambling. Anyways, now I'm finally actually going to end the

00:17:13.580 video. Bye.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 07, 2023

Maxime Bernier's PPC Are Not Living In Reality

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