The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 07, 2025


Ontario PCs fall hard in polls after Ford hot mic moment and trade war cancelled


Episode Stats

Length

18 minutes

Words per Minute

181.75446

Word Count

3,371

Sentence Count

193

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

In this episode, I review the polling data from Day 7, 8, and 9 of the Ontario election campaign, and discuss why Doug Ford's chances of re-election are slipping away. I also talk about why the early election call might have backfired on Ford, and why he's in trouble.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems to have put himself in a very precarious position.
00:00:05.740 He made the gamble that having an early election and justifying it with Trump bad
00:00:12.240 was going to allow his PC party to easily cruise to another majority government,
00:00:17.640 and that doesn't look to be true anymore.
00:00:20.540 I made a polling analysis video about four to five days ago
00:00:24.200 going over Doug Ford's chances of being re-elected,
00:00:27.620 and back then, I concluded that very likely he was going to get another majority government,
00:00:33.640 and in fact, it could be bigger than his 2022 majority.
00:00:38.100 Now that the election issues have changed,
00:00:41.240 there's not going to be a trade war anymore,
00:00:43.220 and Doug Ford got caught on a hot mic,
00:00:46.020 things are kind of starting to reverse.
00:00:48.360 Let's just do a bit of a review and look over the first three days of the campaign
00:00:52.480 with Main Street's tracking poll.
00:00:54.180 Then I want to look at days seven, eight, and nine.
00:00:59.060 Here was day one, and I like to use the charts this early in a campaign that include the undecideds,
00:01:05.320 because where they split or how many undecided people there are really tells you how the race is going.
00:01:11.220 So day one, PCs are at 32%,
00:01:14.000 the Ontario Liberals and Crombrie are at 24%,
00:01:17.140 and the NDP and Stiles are at 19%.
00:01:20.080 Jump to day two, you have the PCs still at 32%,
00:01:24.960 the Liberals at 24%,
00:01:27.680 and the NDP at 18%.
00:01:30.260 Day three, now what you see where I was starting to conclude,
00:01:34.600 this looks like an Ontario PC race and nobody else's,
00:01:38.680 because the PCs had jumped up from their 32% to a 35%,
00:01:42.220 the Ontario Liberals had fallen to 23%,
00:01:45.060 and the NDP had fallen significantly from day one from 19 points to 16%.
00:01:51.040 Everything was looking really good for Doug Ford,
00:01:54.520 including on day seven, which was a day after the entire trade war was called off.
00:02:02.380 On day seven, the man was at 38%.
00:02:05.700 The Ontario Liberals, 25%,
00:02:08.020 it makes sense that they were going to expand a little bit,
00:02:10.280 because they're clearly the main opposition to Ford in this election,
00:02:14.700 and the NDP was all the way down at 14 points.
00:02:19.120 It gets really bad after that,
00:02:20.680 but maybe before I get into these other stats,
00:02:23.520 these days eight and nine where things start to reverse,
00:02:26.580 I want to highlight this from day eight,
00:02:28.920 that kind of flavors why a lot of people might not be voting Doug Ford anymore.
00:02:33.540 The question of this poll is,
00:02:36.300 do you support or oppose the early election call?
00:02:39.200 Unfortunately, Main Street seems to have stopped collecting this data on day nine
00:02:43.940 that I just looked at today,
00:02:45.340 but I remember looking at these stats earlier on the election,
00:02:49.960 and it was kind of 50-50 whether people supported the early election or not.
00:02:54.300 As people become less undecided on this,
00:02:57.260 it has basically become a 60-40 if not more than that of a prospect.
00:03:03.900 Here, we have 44% of people somewhat or very strongly supporting the early election,
00:03:09.960 but 55% of people somewhat opposing or strongly opposing the election.
00:03:15.660 Obviously, Ford can still win with 42% of the vote
00:03:19.080 if we assume that 42% was on his side,
00:03:22.380 but the problem is it might not be.
00:03:24.300 Some of the people who support the election might actually be from the opposition parties
00:03:28.260 because they want to take a swing at the government whenever they can.
00:03:32.180 And a lot of people who might be ticked off might be PC voters saying,
00:03:35.360 hey, Doug, you had a big majority.
00:03:37.620 Why did you tear that up a year and a half early and force us back to the polls?
00:03:42.500 And before I move forward now into day eight and nine,
00:03:45.660 I just want to mention to you guys,
00:03:47.660 Doug Ford's basically a liberal.
00:03:49.700 He is so liberal that Bonnie Crombie and the liberals,
00:03:52.380 while they're not conservatives by any means,
00:03:55.180 they are arguing that Ford is the one who was more like Justin Trudeau's liberals than they are.
00:04:01.060 Again, they're not conservative, but that's their argument,
00:04:04.280 that we're liberals, but we're not Trudeau liberals,
00:04:06.600 and in fact, Ford is more of a Trudeau liberal than we are.
00:04:10.040 It's very telling, and they're not just saying that.
00:04:12.740 Doug Ford is basically a federal liberal,
00:04:14.980 and I just want to put it out there, guys.
00:04:17.460 If you live in Ontario,
00:04:19.220 please consider voting for the new blue party of Ontario.
00:04:22.760 Basically, if you're a federal conservative,
00:04:25.020 the new blue party of Ontario's views will map on to yours like one-to-one.
00:04:29.780 You know, they're a generally socially conservative,
00:04:31.860 fiscally conservative party.
00:04:33.720 Their entire pitch is basically,
00:04:35.880 how about we actually fulfill the promises the PC party made back in 2018,
00:04:39.840 and so they started a new party vehicle to do that sort of stuff.
00:04:44.000 Anyways, so now I want to move on to day eight and nine,
00:04:47.220 and then I want to get into the hot mic moment
00:04:49.520 that requires a lot of context for, of course, why it ticks people off,
00:04:53.940 as well as why is Ford a liar in more ways than one.
00:04:58.220 Anyway, so here on day eight,
00:05:01.040 things start to reverse a little bit,
00:05:03.580 because as we saw day seven,
00:05:05.340 on day seven, or maybe I didn't show day seven,
00:05:07.560 on day seven, Doug Ford's at 38%,
00:05:10.380 Liberals 25%, NDP 14%.
00:05:12.520 No, I did show this.
00:05:13.660 Now we go to day eight.
00:05:15.540 Ontario PCs under four are 32,
00:05:19.440 the Ontario Liberals are at 23,
00:05:21.860 and the NDP is at 15.
00:05:23.940 Notice how the undecideds went from 14.
00:05:27.340 This was technically the trade war
00:05:29.420 and the hot mic moment happened on day five and six,
00:05:32.440 although news cycles in Canada take a while to catch up.
00:05:35.440 Sometimes you don't have news reports on things until like a day later,
00:05:39.300 and so usually there's going to be a bit of a lag.
00:05:41.760 But that's significant.
00:05:43.240 From day seven, you have 14% of people undecided.
00:05:45.940 Today, you have 22% of people undecided.
00:05:48.800 And you can see that pound of flesh in terms of support
00:05:51.880 mostly comes out of the Ontario PCs.
00:05:54.780 They lose six points overnight.
00:05:57.760 And, well, maybe day nine,
00:05:59.340 people get a little bit less ticked off.
00:06:01.400 No, not really.
00:06:04.100 Day nine undecideds go down,
00:06:06.120 but Ontario PC support also goes down.
00:06:08.960 They are down to 30% with the Liberals at 24
00:06:13.460 and the NDP at 18.
00:06:17.100 That's not very good at all.
00:06:19.200 This is very much getting into death territory
00:06:22.040 for the Ontario PC party,
00:06:24.120 and they deserve it.
00:06:25.340 What have they actually done in office?
00:06:26.980 They're very, very liberal
00:06:28.340 in terms of everything they do that's pro-business
00:06:31.220 is like what Trudeau and Carney would do
00:06:34.020 that's pro-business.
00:06:35.100 So anyone who's like supporting them
00:06:36.520 and saying, well, they're the more pro-business party.
00:06:38.340 No, they're not.
00:06:39.060 They're the subsidy party.
00:06:40.940 But I want to get into this hot mic moment
00:06:42.500 because I know that the Ontario PCs
00:06:44.400 have been throwing tons of mud
00:06:45.800 at Bonnie Crombead.
00:06:48.200 And does she deserve it?
00:06:49.380 Definitely.
00:06:50.140 She's also not a very good politician.
00:06:52.240 But that is to say that Ford and her equally suck,
00:06:54.980 but Ford's supposed to be the one who shouldn't suck
00:06:57.060 because he is the progressive conservative leader.
00:07:00.900 And yet he basically only acts progressive.
00:07:03.480 But this is the thing.
00:07:04.600 On top of the fact that the entire election is now moot,
00:07:07.880 the purpose of it is moot
00:07:09.480 because there's no longer a trade war.
00:07:12.140 You can't have all these protect Ontario signs around you,
00:07:14.840 protect Ontario workers, protect Ontario business.
00:07:17.740 At the same time, there's really nothing to protect them from.
00:07:21.360 And in fact, Ford was even steering Canada
00:07:23.860 into a trade war because he thought it was good
00:07:26.040 for his re-election chances.
00:07:28.920 That by having Trump tariff us,
00:07:31.500 that would make him seem like a strong man,
00:07:34.180 even though unlike Danielle Smith,
00:07:36.180 he wasn't doing anything to protect the border
00:07:37.800 to actually protect Ontarians from a trade war.
00:07:41.460 But check out this news report from, I believe, Global.
00:07:43.740 It was a candid moment caught on camera Monday.
00:07:50.800 Yeah, and so this is Doug Ford saying
00:07:56.460 basically that he was very happy
00:07:58.800 that Donald Trump was elected on election day
00:08:03.000 in November of 2024.
00:08:05.200 But now, oh, I can't believe he turned on us
00:08:07.680 and like did this to us.
00:08:09.640 One, by the way, do you actually think Doug Ford was happy
00:08:14.060 that Donald Trump won?
00:08:15.420 The man endorsed Tim Walz.
00:08:17.920 The man, as soon as Tim Walz was picked
00:08:19.900 as Kamala Harris's vice presidential candidate,
00:08:22.780 talked about how like great it was
00:08:25.120 to see that Tim was going to be on the ticket.
00:08:27.600 He's a great fellow and a great guy.
00:08:30.060 Like he just, the only thing he didn't do was endorse,
00:08:33.260 which you don't really do
00:08:34.320 because you're a Canadian politician.
00:08:35.880 But he did everything short of full on endorsing him.
00:08:38.840 But he's trying to basically assure
00:08:41.580 sort of blue collar conservatives that,
00:08:44.300 oh yeah, I know I like Trump.
00:08:45.760 I just can't believe he yanked us
00:08:47.360 with this whole tariff situation.
00:08:49.720 Like, what are you talking about?
00:08:51.460 One, we know you didn't support Trump.
00:08:53.520 Two, like you were,
00:08:55.480 you've been positioning yourself
00:08:56.700 as the anti-Trump guy
00:08:58.140 and you've been not complying
00:08:59.700 with any of the stuff around border security.
00:09:01.720 You're complete fraud.
00:09:03.160 But then he was caught on something else
00:09:05.100 because he said like the opposite
00:09:06.200 five seconds before he reassured people.
00:09:08.400 Well, no, no, no.
00:09:09.220 I'm a really big Trump guy.
00:09:11.640 That came just moments
00:09:13.460 after Doug Ford had denounced Donald Trump.
00:09:16.600 Do you can still consider yourself a Trump supporter?
00:09:18.800 Absolutely not.
00:09:19.940 It's been a disaster.
00:09:21.580 I'd never support that guy in my entire life.
00:09:24.140 The hot mic comment
00:09:25.220 immediately became campaign fodder.
00:09:28.140 Yeah, and it's going to go into
00:09:29.540 NDP leader Merritt Stiles
00:09:31.100 and Bonnie Crombie
00:09:33.060 and those two are the most boring people on the planet.
00:09:34.960 Frankly, every time I see a photo
00:09:37.220 of Merritt Stiles and Bonnie Crombie,
00:09:39.000 I don't know who it is.
00:09:40.440 I'd have to like put a,
00:09:41.840 like a, like a Sharpie mark on one of them
00:09:43.860 to keep them straight if I was in the same room.
00:09:46.220 It's silly.
00:09:47.700 Anyway, so yeah,
00:09:49.000 this is not going very well for Doug Ford
00:09:51.720 and neither should it be doing,
00:09:53.620 going well.
00:09:54.480 Again, go check out the new blue party of Ontario.
00:09:57.880 Consider voting for them.
00:09:58.860 Consider running for the new blue party of Ontario.
00:10:00.940 If you don't have a candidate in your riding,
00:10:03.640 they're going for a full slate of 124 candidates.
00:10:06.740 But I want to take you through
00:10:07.760 a little bit of the detail right now
00:10:09.640 in the latest poll on day nine
00:10:11.160 of who is feeling trepidation.
00:10:15.220 This is where I'm also going to say
00:10:17.240 Doug Ford is very much a liberal
00:10:19.120 in the sense that the disproportionate amount
00:10:22.080 of his vote comes from,
00:10:23.540 and obviously if you're an older voter
00:10:25.920 and you watch my show,
00:10:26.940 you're obviously a very conservative person.
00:10:28.840 But he gets most of his strength
00:10:30.660 from the 65 plus crowd.
00:10:33.040 His disproportionate support
00:10:34.340 comes from that group.
00:10:35.860 When that is actually much more
00:10:37.460 of the federal liberal voting demographic.
00:10:40.120 When I go through
00:10:41.200 the Doug Ford voting demographics,
00:10:43.500 it kind of lines up very closely
00:10:45.760 with the type of people voting for Justin Trudeau.
00:10:49.320 Older pensioners
00:10:50.480 and people with graduate degrees
00:10:52.580 or like university degrees and whatnot.
00:10:55.380 People who really don't care all that much
00:10:58.700 when it comes to not,
00:11:00.960 and this isn't to say older,
00:11:02.140 it's just that that's the disproportionate group
00:11:03.920 where you get a lot of people
00:11:04.780 who are pensioners.
00:11:06.400 They vote progressive
00:11:07.100 because it sounds nice
00:11:08.960 and they don't work in the economy anyway,
00:11:10.680 so they don't care about how it affects it.
00:11:12.560 And that's really what you see with Doug Ford.
00:11:14.580 People in younger age groups
00:11:16.220 are like really when it comes to his government.
00:11:20.680 And the thing that he's losing,
00:11:22.360 again, is the 35 to 49 crowd
00:11:24.480 and the 18 to 34.
00:11:26.020 That is where there are more than a quarter of people
00:11:28.240 who are currently undecided.
00:11:30.840 And so with Ford calling an early election,
00:11:34.620 it's the winner
00:11:35.280 and a lot of people are going to resent
00:11:36.860 going out and voting.
00:11:38.100 He has put himself in a position
00:11:39.440 where the swing against him
00:11:41.060 could be really bad.
00:11:42.700 In fact, he used to have a 40% with men
00:11:46.620 and now it's down to 34%.
00:11:48.480 He's already behind on women
00:11:50.600 and that was a big reverse again from the start
00:11:53.240 where he was actually ahead
00:11:54.180 with all the different groups.
00:11:56.940 And right now,
00:11:58.140 and this is what really like is insane,
00:12:01.560 he still has a little bit of a lead.
00:12:04.600 It's Southwest and Northern Ontario.
00:12:07.060 And the thing that bothers me the most
00:12:08.660 is the Northern Ontario thing
00:12:10.080 because this guy ripped up
00:12:12.080 the Elon Musk Starlink deal
00:12:14.620 to get better internet service
00:12:16.720 for Northern Ontarians.
00:12:18.100 So the people most neglected by the government
00:12:20.400 got their internet deal torn up.
00:12:23.040 And by the way,
00:12:23.760 he tried to tape it up
00:12:24.880 after the entire like the scuffle
00:12:29.980 with the Americans during the tariff war.
00:12:32.160 He for some reason put that on the table
00:12:33.940 as if it mattered
00:12:34.820 that he was going to rip up the Starlink deal
00:12:37.120 to tick off Elon Musk
00:12:38.460 because Elon Musk works for Trump
00:12:40.500 in some capacity.
00:12:42.620 Elon then said,
00:12:44.240 okay, fair enough.
00:12:44.980 We'll put it back together.
00:12:45.860 Fair enough.
00:12:46.480 Water under the bridge.
00:12:47.760 And then Doug Ford said this
00:12:49.220 because he's still trying to be tough.
00:12:50.960 He says,
00:12:51.640 probably in response
00:12:52.620 to the hot mic moment
00:12:53.520 seemed even more anti-Trump in response.
00:12:56.240 The people didn't care
00:12:56.940 if he was pro-Trump or anti-Trump,
00:12:58.340 although I always knew he was anti-Trump.
00:13:00.520 At the same,
00:13:01.040 people just didn't like the inconsistency,
00:13:03.300 the obvious lying.
00:13:04.140 And now he says,
00:13:05.260 I can't support someone hell-bent
00:13:06.800 on destroying our province.
00:13:08.500 Ford tells CNN
00:13:09.320 he remains prepared
00:13:10.520 to rip up the deal
00:13:11.780 with Elon Musk.
00:13:14.740 Doug Ford's such a putz.
00:13:16.020 Why are you ripping this up?
00:13:18.460 Why are you threatening to?
00:13:20.040 Basically, you're saying,
00:13:21.160 I will threaten you
00:13:22.360 by not letting
00:13:23.220 Northern Ontarians
00:13:24.200 on the internet
00:13:24.960 to really irk you.
00:13:27.220 I am prepared
00:13:28.160 to irk you
00:13:29.040 pretty hard there, Elon.
00:13:30.880 And to do it,
00:13:31.860 I'm going to keep
00:13:32.820 kicking the Ontarians
00:13:34.560 in the face
00:13:35.140 who get kicked
00:13:36.060 in the face the most.
00:13:37.420 The people who are
00:13:38.060 constantly neglected
00:13:39.140 in the northern part
00:13:40.660 of the province,
00:13:41.360 even though you have
00:13:42.300 extremely important industries
00:13:44.160 up there
00:13:44.680 that you should probably
00:13:45.880 not be taking people
00:13:47.020 off around.
00:13:48.000 If you live
00:13:48.700 in northern Ontario,
00:13:50.000 like if you live
00:13:50.680 in any other part
00:13:52.420 of Ontario,
00:13:53.500 please vote for
00:13:54.020 the new blue party.
00:13:54.900 Again, I'll link them
00:13:55.640 in the description below.
00:13:57.120 Check out if you have a candidate.
00:13:58.320 If you do not,
00:13:59.340 please consider running
00:14:00.140 for them.
00:14:01.240 These guys do not deserve
00:14:02.200 to be re-elected.
00:14:03.420 I'm not saying,
00:14:04.240 oh, well,
00:14:05.120 the Ontario Liberals
00:14:06.120 should get elected,
00:14:06.840 the Ontario NDP
00:14:07.760 or the Greens
00:14:08.340 should get elected.
00:14:09.340 No, no, no.
00:14:10.020 The whole point is
00:14:10.560 they all suck.
00:14:11.560 And there needs to be
00:14:12.440 probably a new force
00:14:13.800 in politics
00:14:14.440 being built up
00:14:15.260 in that province
00:14:15.920 that's actually conservative.
00:14:18.160 And I've said this before.
00:14:19.220 This is not like
00:14:19.880 the PPC is more conservative
00:14:21.820 than the conservative party,
00:14:23.380 so you can't vote
00:14:24.080 federal conservative.
00:14:25.600 The federal conservatives
00:14:26.720 with pure poly
00:14:27.480 are very conservative.
00:14:28.960 They are increasingly
00:14:30.180 becoming more conservative
00:14:31.380 over time.
00:14:32.480 That should be rewarded.
00:14:34.020 I don't like purity testing.
00:14:35.720 I am not purity testing
00:14:37.300 Doug Ford.
00:14:38.240 He has gone in
00:14:39.040 on every stupid subsidy,
00:14:41.040 boondoggle,
00:14:41.820 green energy,
00:14:42.440 groondoggle
00:14:43.080 with the federal Liberals.
00:14:44.600 He went in with them
00:14:46.020 with lockdowns,
00:14:47.260 with mandates.
00:14:48.160 There are still mandates
00:14:49.800 on nurses and doctors
00:14:51.040 in Ontario.
00:14:52.400 And even though
00:14:53.820 they still have
00:14:54.400 the best wait times
00:14:55.460 in Canada,
00:14:56.740 which is really just
00:14:57.660 because of the fact
00:14:58.980 that it's the biggest province
00:14:59.900 and a lot of people
00:15:00.600 want to live in it,
00:15:02.120 they are starting
00:15:02.920 to have wait times
00:15:04.360 that are looking
00:15:04.940 like the rest of Canada
00:15:06.040 when it comes to healthcare.
00:15:07.580 And this isn't like a,
00:15:08.820 Ford isn't funding
00:15:10.120 the healthcare system enough
00:15:11.300 like the Liberals
00:15:12.060 and the NDP will say.
00:15:13.880 Ford funds it heavily.
00:15:15.560 He funds it in the same way
00:15:16.660 that any lefty
00:15:18.040 would fund it,
00:15:18.720 just dump money into it
00:15:19.820 and be inefficient.
00:15:21.380 But it's the fact
00:15:22.500 that he had basically
00:15:23.340 undermined nurses
00:15:24.300 and doctors
00:15:24.980 that is causing them
00:15:26.620 to have a shortage
00:15:28.200 of people,
00:15:29.320 like hands on deck,
00:15:30.240 of beds.
00:15:31.020 It's the same problem
00:15:31.940 that David Eby caused
00:15:33.200 in British Columbia.
00:15:34.620 You fire a bunch
00:15:35.320 of nurses and doctors
00:15:36.280 and you don't bring
00:15:37.280 them back
00:15:37.660 and when you kind
00:15:38.340 of start bringing
00:15:38.880 them back,
00:15:39.700 it's like you still
00:15:41.440 make them jump
00:15:41.980 through 50 hoops
00:15:42.780 and they don't trust you
00:15:43.640 so they're not going
00:15:44.160 to do it
00:15:44.460 and they go down south
00:15:45.320 or they go to
00:15:46.160 another province.
00:15:47.280 If anything,
00:15:47.880 Alberta has actually
00:15:48.940 benefited a lot
00:15:49.780 from the incompetence
00:15:50.960 of David Eby
00:15:51.660 in British Columbia
00:15:52.660 and Doug Ford
00:15:53.760 in Ontario
00:15:54.260 because we are getting
00:15:55.100 more nurses
00:15:55.680 and doctors every day.
00:15:57.340 Still not great wait times,
00:15:58.720 but that's the Canadian
00:15:59.460 healthcare system for you.
00:16:01.300 But yeah,
00:16:02.160 right now,
00:16:02.920 Doug Ford is in a position
00:16:04.020 where he could falter
00:16:05.100 really hard right now.
00:16:06.940 If an election was held today,
00:16:08.620 probably doesn't win it
00:16:09.680 and if anything,
00:16:10.360 it would be the ideal scenario.
00:16:11.680 It'd be a hung parliament
00:16:12.620 and nothing's going
00:16:13.340 to get done
00:16:13.940 because that is all
00:16:15.620 we can really hope for
00:16:16.500 in a place like Ontario
00:16:17.560 that they don't do anything
00:16:19.660 because every time
00:16:20.440 these politicians do stuff,
00:16:21.880 your taxes go up,
00:16:23.240 services become poorer quality
00:16:25.000 and corruption increases.
00:16:27.040 That's another thing
00:16:27.740 going on with Ford.
00:16:28.840 They had a corruption scandal
00:16:29.880 where staff members
00:16:31.060 were basically acting
00:16:32.160 as lobbyists
00:16:32.900 for their friends
00:16:33.620 to get them
00:16:34.400 new land acquisitions.
00:16:36.300 The thing is,
00:16:36.840 I don't like the Greenbelt.
00:16:38.360 It's overly large
00:16:39.360 and it's overly restrictive
00:16:40.640 on house building
00:16:41.460 and it's basically
00:16:42.180 just an arbitrary line
00:16:43.400 where you can't build.
00:16:44.640 There's nothing outside
00:16:45.980 of the Greenbelt
00:16:47.000 even further
00:16:47.700 that's unlike the Greenbelt.
00:16:49.220 It's not the rainforest.
00:16:50.800 And I actually support
00:16:51.960 selling off some of the land
00:16:53.100 for development.
00:16:54.240 The problem is,
00:16:54.840 even when Ford does that,
00:16:56.280 he always does it
00:16:56.780 for the wrong reasons
00:16:57.660 and starts trying to sell
00:16:58.720 the land to his friends.
00:17:00.660 When he wants to privatize
00:17:02.040 the LCBO,
00:17:02.900 which I generally support.
00:17:04.320 In Alberta,
00:17:05.280 we mostly have private liquor stores.
00:17:07.440 Far better,
00:17:08.080 far better for the economy,
00:17:09.560 everything.
00:17:11.040 The LCBO,
00:17:12.120 even when he starts
00:17:12.900 talking about privatizing it,
00:17:14.340 he starts basically
00:17:15.220 lining up friends of his
00:17:16.400 to be on the board
00:17:17.060 to get first dibs
00:17:18.060 to buy it.
00:17:18.820 Did you know
00:17:19.740 that he gave
00:17:20.780 the Toronto Star
00:17:22.120 the first online
00:17:24.040 gambling license
00:17:25.080 in Ontario?
00:17:26.420 Tor Star,
00:17:27.060 that left-wing rag,
00:17:28.480 was about to go out
00:17:29.800 of business.
00:17:30.940 And maybe to get
00:17:31.700 better media coverage,
00:17:33.340 Doug Ford organized
00:17:34.440 with their lobbying group
00:17:35.660 to give them
00:17:36.680 an online gambling license.
00:17:38.160 So now the Toronto Star
00:17:39.280 is fully funded
00:17:40.000 by gambling addicts
00:17:41.340 because Doug Ford
00:17:42.320 is such a principled man.
00:17:44.180 He is not.
00:17:45.100 I am being very sarcastic.
00:17:47.160 Anyways,
00:17:48.020 that should be it
00:17:48.720 for me today, guys.
00:17:50.200 I'll see you
00:17:50.920 in another video.
00:17:51.540 I need to cover
00:17:52.080 this ongoing election
00:17:53.380 interference issue
00:17:54.580 in British Columbia.
00:17:55.760 It's crazy.
00:17:56.360 People are signing affidavits
00:17:57.800 that they're being
00:17:58.340 threatened at this point.
00:17:59.780 I'll be covering
00:18:00.300 the Ontario election more.
00:18:01.720 I, in fact,
00:18:02.380 will be probably flying out
00:18:03.620 to Kitchener, Cambridge
00:18:05.060 to do door knocking
00:18:06.140 on the 20th.
00:18:07.840 So I'll try and do
00:18:08.540 like a big spurt
00:18:09.560 of like five days
00:18:10.680 straight of door knocking.
00:18:12.320 So I put my money
00:18:12.960 where my mouth is.
00:18:13.740 I might be an Albertan,
00:18:14.600 but I will be coming
00:18:15.320 to show up
00:18:15.880 to support
00:18:16.760 the new Blue Party.
00:18:18.600 But again,
00:18:19.220 other than that,
00:18:20.180 that's it for me today, guys.
00:18:21.380 Make sure to like the video,
00:18:22.500 subscribe,
00:18:23.120 check out the new Blue Party,
00:18:24.380 and leave a comment
00:18:25.560 on anything you want me
00:18:27.260 to, you know,
00:18:28.160 talk about next time
00:18:29.440 or that you noticed
00:18:30.440 about the topic.
00:18:31.620 Anyways, see ya.