The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - June 10, 2024


NDP MP wants Canadians to be poor and cold

Topics
raw emissions in oil and gas industry
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Wyatt Claypool
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Laurel Collins Jagmeet Singh Sellout Singh Lila A. Komi
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Laurence Collins is quickly becoming my favourite politician in Canada. She's standing up for Canadians to make sure that they're not burdened by not freezing to death in the winter. And of course, she is a privileged woman who is an MP for the riding of Victoria, where she doesn't actually have to undergo negative 40 winters. She gets to be nice and comfortable in a far more temperate area of the country, not realizing that a bunch of us actually live in the real world.

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00:00:00.420 Victoria NDP MP Laurel Collins is quickly becoming my favorite politician in Canada.
00:00:07.260 Who else is standing up for Canadians to make sure that they're not burdened by not freezing to death in the winter?
00:00:13.700 I was sat here worried that I might be happy and healthy during the next winter.
00:00:18.940 I might have a warm home to sit in and not freeze to death in.
00:00:22.600 But Laurel Collins has come here to our rescue to hold oil and gas companies accountable for making sure that we all don't die.
00:00:31.940 Obviously, I am being extremely facetious here, but that's really what MPs like Laurel Collins are getting after.
00:00:38.680 They're mad that oil and gas companies and just generally oil and gas resources have made Canada and provinces, especially like Alberta, very prosperous, comfortable, and allowed us to be able to survive negative 40 winters without high casualty ratings.
00:00:55.240 And of course, she is a privileged woman who is an MP for the riding of Victoria, where she doesn't actually have to undergo negative 40 winters.
00:01:03.960 She gets to be nice and comfortable in a far more temperate area of the country, not realizing a bunch of us actually have to live in the real world.
00:01:11.660 And we have real world sort of consequences in being places that she doesn't live in.
00:01:17.140 She assumes that the boundaries of her riding must be like all of Canada.
00:01:21.660 And she's wondering, why do we have to burn so much oil and gas in order to survive?
00:01:25.780 My riding is perfectly comfortable.
00:01:27.640 Like, we should just move her out to, you know, northern Alberta and see what she thinks after just a little bit of time living in high level or in Yellowknife or somewhere like that, not realizing that maybe solar and wind isn't the best idea in the world for trying to fuel the economy and actually keep people safe in a cold climate in a Western developed nation.
00:01:49.920 But this is what she posted today on her social media account.
00:01:53.560 Laurel Collins says Canadians deserve better than dishonest oil and gas CEOs fueling the climate crisis and a federal government refusing to hold them accountable.
00:02:03.720 You are part of the federal government right now.
00:02:06.300 I'm sorry to break it to Laurel Collins here, but her boss, Mr. Jagmeet Singh, Mr. Sellout Singh, is currently propping up the liberal government.
00:02:15.240 So if she's not happy on how fast the liberals are moving towards communism, well, she could always start voting against everything they want and show her boss that she's not willing to let the planet burn up or let people not die in the winter and, you know, have her complain. 1.00
00:02:30.840 No, obviously she's not going to do that because even she probably knows in the back of her head that all her perspectives are really insane.
00:02:37.220 Moving on, she says these CEOs spread misinformation claiming oil and gas emissions aren't increasing per capita emissions have actually been going down for years because we've become more efficient because, you know, capitalism is great.
00:02:50.540 And our trucks, our vehicles, our heating, you know, systems have gotten so much more efficient.
00:02:55.900 So, yeah, our raw emissions go up because she's backing mass immigration. 0.92
00:03:00.200 So naturally, emissions are going to go up when you add more than a million people to the country in a given year because all those people need to not die and they also need heating in the winter.
00:03:09.800 But, you know, she doesn't really want to look at the per capita numbers because, you know, that might put a big old hole in her narrative.
00:03:15.140 And then it ends off saying we need an emissions cap and a windfall tax on oil and gas.
00:03:20.380 Now, I hate the term windfall tax. 1.00
00:03:22.920 Basically, they just mean, wow, you've been profitable this year, dirty capitalist scum. 0.98
00:03:28.020 Well, you owe us all of that money because we've arbitrarily decided that you actually being good at business means that you've done something wrong because all these people couldn't run a lemonade stand without it going under. 0.97
00:03:38.720 So they think that there is some sort of strange alchemy going on whenever a company or individual is actually successful.
00:03:45.960 And because government programs are run so inefficiently and she thinks that's the gold standard for how things should be run because private companies are actually making money every year.
00:03:55.560 It must be that they're stealing from people by, you know, heating their homes and not letting them die.
00:04:01.580 Of course, Laurel Collins doesn't actually care if you die or not, unless you're liking for from a specific identity group that she cares about that day, because that's how the politics of a woman like Laurel Collins works. 0.99
00:04:14.480 Well, I want to get to this clip here where she for some reason, again, she posts this on her own social media accounts.
00:04:19.760 I didn't ask her to do this.
00:04:21.040 It makes great content for me.
00:04:22.740 But she posted this not realizing how embarrassing it was.
00:04:25.980 Like she's she's catching the oil and gas companies in a sort of gotcha. 0.98
00:04:30.940 But at the end of the day, I don't think she realizes that, yeah, they are not fulfilling the caps or they don't want the caps in place despite them saying it because they're not stupid. 0.93
00:04:42.620 They're just playing along and they've been humoring the NDP and the liberals on their crazy plans for years.
00:04:48.060 There's a clear analysis that the oil and gas emissions cap is already set at a level that is so low that your companies could, you know, simply follow through on your voluntary climate commitments.
00:05:01.540 So it's deeply concerning to me that I've heard you actively lobbying against an emissions cap.
00:05:08.000 So either your intention is to delay climate action further so you can maximize your profits or delay communism.
00:05:14.060 Communism, I can't believe these these corporations don't want to delay communism or want to delay communism. 0.95
00:05:20.340 Disgusting. 1.00
00:05:21.420 Thrash them all. 0.99
00:05:23.200 I don't know why she thinks is a good point.
00:05:24.940 Like, I guess the NDP base likes this, but that's been the NDP's problem.
00:05:29.480 Their base is so small and they only play to this ever shrinking group of hyper progressive college students.
00:05:35.560 You never had any intention of filling fulfilling those climate commitments you made.
00:05:40.740 I think the comments around the emissions cap are a bit different.
00:05:45.260 I think what's been said is we don't need an emissions cap and that all the incentives that are present today are the incentives to reduce our emissions.
00:05:55.600 And we've made those kind of.
00:05:56.840 If it's redundant, why would you lobby against it?
00:05:59.640 You know, you have been promising.
00:06:01.340 Because the population keeps going up.
00:06:04.980 There's more, not just incentives to produce more oil and gas.
00:06:08.660 They must provide more oil and gas resources to city grids.
00:06:13.080 They must actually produce more in order to fuel a country with an exploding population because of your mass immigration policies that you support.
00:06:21.920 I'm not sure also why these people support such high immigration rates.
00:06:25.520 When you're mostly, because Canada is obviously one of the coldest countries on the planet, why is it a smart move then to move people from places where it's warm, where you don't need to be constantly burning energy to not die, to move them to a country where you must do that?
00:06:39.180 So from her own climate action perspective, she's a complete fool for wanting more people to be in a country where necessarily they need to make her cry in order to not die in the winter by burning oil and gas resources because wind and solar ain't doing it.
00:06:55.260 If you followed the story of Alberta's grid almost failing back in this last winter because of the NDP canceling and like basically shutting down all the coal power plants and then replacing it with solar and wind that basically generates nothing during these deep freezes. 0.94
00:07:11.520 But whatever, I'll let her go on.
00:07:13.160 But yeah, obviously the oil and gas companies don't want these artificial restrictions that don't make sense when, again, they have been reducing per capita emissions.
00:07:21.780 She just wants it to be a raw cap, but a raw cap is absolutely unsensible.
00:07:27.560 Like I don't want any cap on this stuff because I'm a capitalist and I think you should be able to do what you want as long as you're not, you know, poisoning rivers and whatnot.
00:07:36.100 But she doesn't.
00:07:37.140 But even in her own, based on her own agenda, they're basically doing what she wants.
00:07:42.020 They're just not going fast enough into like unprofitability.
00:07:45.640 She wants them to absolutely like, you know, like fly into the side of a mountain like Komi and his friend did out in like wherever that was.
00:07:56.200 I think it was Azerbaijan.
00:07:57.760 Good on that helicopter for having taken that guy out.
00:08:02.000 But that is a bit of a weird rabbit hole I'm going down here.
00:08:05.020 But anyways, but for some reason, she thinks that they should want to blow themselves up.
00:08:08.580 They don't want to blow themselves up.
00:08:09.840 And now they're at an impasse here.
00:08:11.560 To reduce your emissions, but your emissions have been going up.
00:08:14.140 I'll just go back a little bit.
00:08:16.060 Promising to reduce your emissions, but your emissions have been going up year after year after year.
00:08:21.700 Why would Canadians trust you?
00:08:23.200 I think if you look at the energy industry as a whole, our emissions actually peaked in 2017.
00:08:28.360 And although production has continued to increase, our intensity has actually gone down.
00:08:33.660 And as an individual company.
00:08:35.000 And what he means by intensity is the per capita is how much for the jobs that they're doing.
00:08:40.840 How much are they having to emit in order to basically fulfill these jobs? 0.56
00:08:46.040 And obviously the intensity, the size of the jobs that they're having to fulfill with the amount of people in the country supplying power grids, being able to refine oil and gas for people's cars and all that.
00:08:56.140 Obviously, the emissions have been going down.
00:08:57.580 And that's not because of the government.
00:08:58.980 It's because people are naturally incentivized to buy as much oil and gas products for as little money as possible and have those products last as long as possible.
00:09:07.860 And I can tell you the same things happen with us.
00:09:12.380 We are down too many.
00:09:13.160 Emissions in the oil and gas sector have continued to rise year after year.
00:09:18.520 Emissions in the oil and gas industry peaked in 2017.
00:09:24.060 I don't even know why she clipped it that way. 0.99
00:09:27.840 She ended up making herself look like a fool by the end. 0.98
00:09:30.420 He actually is right. 0.98
00:09:31.360 I believe even raw emissions have been falling.
00:09:33.480 But that's mostly just because the economy has declined so much that the need for energy isn't there anymore simply because to be productive, you need energy.
00:09:42.640 But the economy has been gutted through lockdown measures, higher taxes and whatnot, as well as the increased capital gains inclusion rate is going to make investment go somewhere else.
00:09:52.980 And so that means like manufacturing, refining, a lot of other services, just industries in general, manufacturing, especially mining, are just leaving the country or they don't want to invest more.
00:10:03.120 So that's how actually raw emissions have gone down.
00:10:05.980 But her like kind of trying to giggle at them. 1.00
00:10:08.200 I don't think that's quite true.
00:10:11.100 No, no, it is.
00:10:12.920 Also, people, you know, tend to like to live.
00:10:16.560 And Laurel, I understand you pretend like you want good things for the planet.
00:10:21.180 But, you know, I kind of like living.
00:10:25.040 I like not dying.
00:10:26.060 And so I'm not going to destroy the whole country.
00:10:31.280 I, as being generally Canadians, don't want to really destroy the country so that a highly privileged woman out in Victoria gets to feel like she's taking climate action.
00:10:42.140 Because I like not freezing to death.
00:10:44.100 And I don't want to freeze to death for climate action. 0.99
00:10:47.420 Just a little bit of like, you know, like a pesky little hang up I have with dying for stupid reasons. 0.70
00:10:54.680 Anyways, but that should be it for me today, guys.
00:10:57.700 I just quickly want to plug the TNT Give, Send, Go legal fundraiser we have linked in the description below and in the comments.
00:11:04.900 If you guys want to contribute to that, it really helps us out.
00:11:08.420 Pay for our legal costs for the stupid defamation case from a billionaire developer who is suing us for defamation that he has not actually provided any evidence for in over two and a half years of this case going on. 0.84
00:11:20.460 It's just called lawfare. 0.96
00:11:21.600 People simply throwing the legal paperwork at you and forcing you into court, going through depositions and having to provide evidence for something that they know you didn't actually do wrong.
00:11:30.880 But the amount of money that they have to pay in order to make you pay a similar amount means nothing to them.
00:11:36.180 At the same time, I, at the start of this case, was a 22-year-old who could barely pay for any of this stuff.
00:11:42.040 I was literally giving over 100% of my income into actually paying these fees.
00:11:46.020 And I actually only started up the Give, Send, Go when I had exhausted all my funds.
00:11:49.760 So if you guys can donate to that, it really helps me out.
00:11:52.500 And just so that people know, I stopped plugging the fact that I'm running for the Conservative Party nomination in Calgary Signal Hill because I was randomly disqualified for no perceived reason, for no discernible reason, alongside Lila A.
00:12:06.180 Here, the former MLA.
00:12:07.200 Anyway, we have still not been given a reason.
00:12:09.760 I am appealing.
00:12:10.720 Hopefully, this will be taken care of.
00:12:12.780 And if not, obviously, I'm going to have to start figuring out what the reason is through all the evidence I've collected of people coming after me in the background for no good reason other than it seems like they want somebody else to win.
00:12:24.360 Other than that, I hope you guys have a great day.
00:12:27.180 And I'll be back with another video later.
00:12:29.220 I'll be back with another video.