Maxime Bernier's PPC Are Not Living In Reality
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Summary
Maxine Bernier is running for the Tory nomination in the upcoming leadership election, but she's not alone in her quest to become the next Prime Minister of Canada. In this episode, I talk about why I think she should have been in a different party.
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I know a lot of PPC supporters are immediately going to disregard this video because I'm
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currently running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination, but I think
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it still must be said that the PPC under Maxine Bernier has been incredibly toxic to political
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discourse in Canada, the way a lot of discourse that comes out of the NDP and the Liberals
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has also been. Maxine Bernier, I think, has been doing a great disservice to his own supporters
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in teaching them all the wrong lessons about how politics works in Western democracies.
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You see, and this is probably not going to come as a great shock to many people, if you're
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ever going to govern a country, it's likely going to be within a very broad-based party
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that brings a lot of different factions together in order to achieve common interests. The
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PPC is selling what I think is the dishonest populist dream that if you are hardcore enough
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about the policies that you believe in and you basically call everyone else phony and
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like is somehow corrupt if they don't believe in you, that you'll be able to somehow muscle
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your way through to victory in order to win seats and be able to advocate for your policies
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in Parliament. It's just really not how it is. Bernier knows better. He was in Parliament
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for quite a while, yet he's trying to basically teach his own people that petulance, that sort
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of hyper-purism, that's actually the way to making change. The funny thing is Bernier is not
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a purist in any way. He used to be a very progressive Conservative Party MP, a little bit more libertarian
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on economics, although go back to the 2017 Conservative leadership race, and he wasn't
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quite sure if he was against the carbon tax or not. He's not a man who's ever been that
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consistent on many issues, especially social issues, yet he's basically telling his own
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people that the reason to distrust the Conservative Party is that they're not as consistent and
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purist as him, a man who's never been consistent and is definitely not ideological pure
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on many different issues. He has been sort of zigzagging between libertarianism on free trade
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and open borders, all the way to stop mass immigration and institute economic protections.
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And I think that, moreover, I think he's actually been rhetorically very toxic to the way that
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his own supporters engage in politics. And I've been reassured he is the man who runs his own
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Twitter account. I still have doubt that because I doubt Bernier is really looking up and saving
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images of pure poly of memes in order to share them to try and mock Pierre. But a lot of this
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stuff I find, and there's a reason why political party leaders and politicians don't share too many
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silly, dumb memes, because you don't want to sort of lower the discourse around politics,
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because it's not good for actually getting your own policies taken seriously. And it's not good for
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professionalizing your support base. But this is actually something that Bernier has been sharing
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recently, December 5. And he said, a vote for the morally and intellectually corrupt fake
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conservatives is a vote for the liberal policies. If you want not just get rid of Trudeau, but also
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get rid of liberal policies, you have to vote for the PPC. And it's like, like the idea that pure
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poly of and Justin Trudeau are the same guy is patently absurd. Yes, if you really dig, you can find a
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couple areas of policy where maybe the liberals and conservatives kind of agree, but you'd really have to
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squint hard. Even the NDP and the liberals really don't agree with each other on that many issues.
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They agree with each other in terms of the general aim. But in terms of the scope and the methods of
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their policies, they're very different. And if you throw the Greens in there and some other smaller
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parties, most of the parties exist for a real reason. And I'm going to say the PPC exists for certain
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on certain issues that, you know, they're separate from the conservatives on some issues. And they're
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definitely separate from the liberals on many issues. But like the conservatives and the PPC
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line up on a lot of things. But Bernier's whole donation bill relies on you pretending or him
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pretending as if the conservative party and the PPC are the two furthest apart parties in the country,
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as if the conservatives are communists, and he's like a hyper libertarian party. It's just not how it
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is. But I think stuff like this has really made the PPC sort of hardcore supporter, not people who
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vote for them or people who've supported them in the past. But the hardcore donors and people who
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are constantly grinding on about how much they love the PPC on Twitter and Facebook, these people
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are being given a disservice by making it seem like the way you engage in politics is just purity
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testing. It's mocking anyone who doesn't fully agree with you. It's not consensus building. It's not
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door knocking in community engagement. It's just sitting on social media, telling everyone how right you
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are and how wrong they are. Like I literally have talked to PPC organizers. And some of these people
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in charge of elections, like the PPC election management, and EDAs and whatnot, they specifically
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told me that they've never door knocked a day in their lives. On the excuse that, well, I've never
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had my opinion changed at a door. Well, good for you. Have you ever talked to someone at a door? Most people
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don't have their minds made up about politics. Go advocate passionately for what you believe in,
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and then find out that most people don't talk the way that you do on social media. And people just
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want a pleasant person to speak to. They're not looking for some sort of higher hardcore ideologue
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to come to their door and badger them about why your immigration number is impure compared to the
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immigration number I want. It's very, very silly. And so but you get to the point where Bernier is
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posting stuff like this. And I guarantee you, 2010 Bernier would have never done something like this,
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because it's kind of gross. But Bernier on October 7, when a bunch of Jews got massacred
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in southern Israel said, some people have been asking my position on the ongoing conflict between
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Israel and Hamas. It's simple. I don't want a single penny of Canadian taxpayers money to go
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to support either side of another foreign war that has nothing to do with us. Now, I'm not going to
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argue that you can't take the position or somehow it's immoral to say that, hey, let's just reduce
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foreign aid towards any war. Right now, I think Canada's in the worst possible position,
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where while giving money to Israel, which is fine, we're giving money to Hamas through a bunch of
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quote unquote Gaza charities that obviously are just supporting the terrorist government that's
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operating in that area. So Bernier can take his position, whatever position he wants on foreign
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aid. But this idea that even Karen, that a bunch of people were massacred by a terrorist group
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overseas would somehow make him a less of a purest Canadian patriot is, I think, a fairly disgusting
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position to take. It's a very trendy populist position to say that if you care about any country
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at all outside of our borders, well, then you're somehow not sufficiently patriotic and you're
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somehow, you know, operating on behalf of the interests of a foreign regime. I really like the
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country of Georgia. I don't think it's made me dislike Canada at all. I can like more than one
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country at the same time. Obviously, my first loyalty is to Canada and I have some sympathies to other
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countries, which maybe I would want to help out if they were ever in trouble. But overall, obviously,
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that's not going to dull my respect for the country I live in and love. That's completely ridiculous.
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But Bernier is going down is basically setting up these traps. And I think they're silly traps. I
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think they're backfiring on him. But he's setting up these traps to so that if anyone else starts caring
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about Israel, well, then I can accuse you of not caring about Canada. It's a disgusting take. And it's
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turning to border a little bit on the anti-Semitic when you actually read some of the what his
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supporters say about people who at all have sympathies towards Israel. But this is what you
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get with. And also, I think that the PPC has gotten their own supporters to also start assuming that
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certain issues that they run on are like the only issues in Canada. Here's their candidate for Durham,
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who's up against Jamil Javani, the conservative candidate, who's actually a fantastic candidate,
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very solid fiscal and social conservative. I 100% would vote for him if I was in the riding.
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But you have this Patricia Collins lady, who I'm not saying she's a bad person anyway, not like far
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from us. But she's like pushing like this stuff. And it's December 5, pushing, it's simple acts of
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acts. Well, okay, sorry, one, also two, aren't you guys supposed to be libertarians? Aren't people
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supposed to be allowed to do what they want with their bodies when it comes to medication? Yet,
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for some reason, we have to acts of acts. I don't know what that means. And also lady,
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it's December of 2023. There's no mandates. If there is a mandate, fight about against that
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specific one. But this is not an issue to be still stumping on. But PPC leadership has made it seem
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like the only issues that matter are COVID era issues, immigration, and like not getting involved
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in foreign policy, or like, you know, gender theory, which the conservative party is against now.
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Well, so what's their deal? But they're going to say they're not sufficiently against gender theory.
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They'll never be able to say how they're just going to say that they haven't yelled enough about
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the issue. And that's also the problem with the PPC. They've basically convinced their supporters
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that noise on an issue, basically reflects seriousness on an issue. At the same, at the
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same time, the louder and more kind of not professional you are when you're talking about
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an issue, the less likely you are to actually win on that issue. I see videos of PPC,
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like, like, candidates like this Patricia lady going to school board meetings, and just yelling,
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going on sort of like rambling speeches where she's really raising her voice. And it's like,
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I understand her intention to do good. But a lot of it is attention seeking. And whatever she was
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stumping for in that video I was watching, I can guarantee you, she actually made less people
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likely to support what she's backing, because she seems a little bit kind of, you know,
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too elevated about it. Like, especially this is why people, more people should go door knocking,
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go and find out how most people talk about politics. Most people have a very small voice
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when they talk about politics. They don't know too many details about it. They have a couple
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things that they really care passionately about. They're not going to immediately tell you. And
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through a very calm, pleasant conversation, you can learn a little bit about the person,
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what they value, you can share what you value, and some interesting ideas you have when it comes to
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policy. But the PPC does not have, is not training their own people to have the sort of character
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that someone else can connect with. It's all about hot blooded online politics. But so you have this
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Patricia lady also sharing stuff like this. It's like this meme that says, it's not about splitting
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the conservative vote, it's about splitting the globalist vote. And hey, guys, if you don't want
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people to bring up Bernie who went to the WF, stop trying to pretend like pure poly is a globalist.
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He's been very clearly taking stances against the UN, going against the UNRWA, which is effectively
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Hamas front group. And also he said that he's not going to let any of his cabinet ministers go to the
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WF conferences. What's your point? No, but secretly, poly I'm still not purist enough.
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Shut up. You're just wrong. You're just wrong. You don't know what you're talking about.
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But then you have other people and like this, Joe's usually nice enough to me online. I'm not like,
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again, trying to impugn anyone's character. But when you have people like this in the PPC,
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who now just see parliamentary tradition as somehow corrupting, he's saying funny how the
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conservatives want Fergus to resign. And this is in reference to the conservatives wanting Fergus,
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Greg Fergus to resign as the speaker of the house after he was appearing at liberal donor events in
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his in his robes, which is, you know, not something you should be doing because the role of the speaker
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should be completely neutral. And you shouldn't be dressing up as the speaker to go to partisan events.
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But he says then, after that line, Joe says, they seem to have no problem with him a couple of
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months ago. And then the picture of Pierre Polyev and Justin Trudeau dragging Fergus up to the seat,
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a parliamentary position that has been going on for hundreds of years, in which the two leaders
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drag up the or the prime minister and the opposition leader drag up the speaker to go sit
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on the speaker seat. The idea is that nobody actually wants to be speaker. So ha ha ha, we have to drag
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him up. It's a it's a dumb, cute little tradition. But because that's it's too hardcore to have a
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little moment that's kind of fun that involves Justin Trudeau. Like what was Bernie going to do
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spit on Trudeau, you know, slap Fergus? No, he's not. If he was the opposition leader, he'd go along
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with it too. And guess what? Good for him. He should take part in the tradition. It's actually good to
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have a couple traditions between MPs. So they don't hate each other's guts at all times. And so like
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you're allowed to advocate for your position strongly and not absolutely spit on your other
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parliamentary colleagues. But Bernier, again, and the PPC leadership have basically told their own
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people that like the politics is always about the fight. It's about fighting at all times. You got
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to get online. You got to fight. You got to not go to the doors because that might be useful. But
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whenever you see someone in real life that you disagree with, you got to fight. You got to go to a
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school board trustee meeting and you got to fight. Don't actually campaign so you can win seat,
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but you got to fight. It's very, it's just kind, it's against the same thing the liberals and the
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NDP do. Whenever something like parental rights comes up, they fear monger about it. Someone's
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taking your rights. Oh, everything's always a fever pitch about the conservatives trying to crack down
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on whatever group's rights or whatever. It's always about there's constant chaos going around.
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There's secretly people always out to get you. And the PPC kind of does the same thing about
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there's secretly someone always out to get you, which creates a lot of paranoia and pessimism.
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I find that there is a lot of PPC supporters who are very open to sort of strange beliefs about
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policies where the facts just don't go. I don't like a lot of liberal policies, but I always find
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that a PPC sort of influencers take on the policy is the least useful one in arguing against it.
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There's usually, usually the most simple way of arguing against the policy is the best way to do so.
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But sort of if this has turned into a bit of a rant, I just always see a lot of these
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PPC posts as I'm going by on Twitter and or X, I guess. And I always just find it's just like,
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I don't understand how this party is still taking money at this point, like I said before,
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or maybe I said in a different take and I forgot, but like the PPC in my mind has basically become a
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big donation scam. Like give Maxine Bernier hundreds of thousands of dollars. I think they almost have
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like a million dollars in 2023, hundreds of thousands of dollars to what? Well, are they
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signing up new members? Are they starting their EDAs? They keep having EDAs get deregistered because
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there's nobody actually managing them. Are they going to, you know, concentrate their forces to
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win a writing? No. Well, that's how like they, they should seriously take a page out of Elizabeth May's
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book. The Green Party, when they wanted a writing, they found a writing where they did a little bit of
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research. They found that there was a little bit of an opening to a third party
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that kind of Vancouver Island area is actually kind of like, if I was to compare it to an American
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state, a lot like Minnesota. Minnesota has elected kind of these democratic socialists in the past.
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They've elected very conservative people. They elected Jesse Ventura because they're kind of open
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to that third party type of a candidate. Vancouver Island was the same. This was literally a formally
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reformed alliance writing that Elizabeth May won in like Guelph or not Guelph, something in the
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Saanich Islands. That they knew what they were doing and they concentrated all the Green Party's
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volunteers and forces and money into that writing. They literally had Green Party USA volunteers fly
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out to Victoria to come and help Elizabeth May. They knew what they were doing. Bernier did not do this
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in Boast back in 2019 and then failed to do it again in 2021. And even when he ran in that writing
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to that after, I forget what it was called again, but it was Candace Bergen's writing, Brandon Leslie
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ended up winning it. Bernier showed up and he can, he gave the appearance of seriousness because
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as the rip dropped, he immediately said he was running for that writing as the PPC candidate
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and started driving around campaigning, hosting events. And it looked like he was campaigning
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really hard. And I don't doubt that during that couple of months, he was campaigning for decently
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hard. The problem is we knew Bergen was stepping down. There was a conservative nomination race for the
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longest time to replace her. And, you know, Bernier just didn't show up until it was a little bit way
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too late for him to actually make any impact in that writing. He could have been there as soon
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as he knew that Bergen wasn't going to run again and there was going to be a by-election.
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He basically showed up the last minute, campaigned for a month and a half, which is really not that
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much work considering the fact that he's not working the rest of the year. He loses and then
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he declares he might run there again. I think he kind of lives in the riding, which I guess is
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somewhat progress. But again, he could have done this in Boast and he's not going to win this time.
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It's just not a riding that's going to vote for a guy like Bernier, who has a bad record
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on socially conservative issues. Anyways, regardless, that's finally it for me today.
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You can donate to my legal fund in the description below. It's the give, send, go link. I have a
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billionaire suing me. It's a nonsense defamation lawsuit that billionaire type people throw out at
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people even when they have zero case. I'm winning it currently. My questioning went fantastic.
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His questioning went awful from my opinion or my perspective. And then I also had the link to my
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campaign site for Calgary Signal Hill. So if you live in Calgary Signal Hill, buy a conservative
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membership and then vote for me as number one on your ballot when the nomination probably comes up
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in the next few months or so. Other than that, I'll see everyone in the next video. I really didn't
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expect this video to go on past 17 minutes, but I don't know. Once you start, once you wind me up,
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I start ranting. Not really ranting, I guess. But now I'm starting to talk to myself about whether
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or not I'm ranting or rambling. I'd say rambling. Anyways, now I'm finally actually going to end the