Justin Trudeau admits to his biggest regret, and it's not even close to being the most self-serving thing he's ever done in his political career. It's the kind of thing you'd expect from a politician, but it's also the most pathetic thing you'll ever see from a Prime Minister.
00:00:00.000I think I've discovered truly one of the most pathetic moments I've ever seen from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:00:06.980A clip, like always, that he posted to his own social media account, not realizing how much of a self-own it actually is.
00:00:15.980So Trudeau, the other day, went on the podcast of Nate Erickson Smith.
00:00:20.300He is a fellow liberal MP who happens to do his own podcast while he's in office, which I actually think is an interesting concept that a politician actually keeps doing media work.
00:00:30.900Because your only job is to communicate, and even though I disagree with Nate Erickson Smith on absolutely everything, I think this is at least useful to do as a politician.
00:00:40.600But Justin Trudeau went on this podcast to talk about his biggest regret in terms of an unfulfilled promise.
00:00:47.380And it's the most self-serving thing I've ever seen in my life and looks utterly pathetic.
00:01:09.820He says it for himself because currently Justin Trudeau and the liberals are on average anywhere from 19 points underneath the conservatives to 22 points.
00:01:21.700They've even been in one poll 26 points below the conservatives with those who were certain to vote.
00:01:28.280He is absolutely dead in the water right now.
00:01:30.980So, of course, he regrets not pursuing electoral reform because at least proportional representation would allow the liberals, in theory, to hold on to 22% of the electorate, the NDP might be able to get 20%, the Greens might be able to cobble together five or so, and they can keep the conservatives out.
00:01:48.420That's the only reason that he now regrets not having proportional representation because before he thought the current system, first past the post, advantaged him, so he wants this one.
00:01:58.960And this is also why we should never change the electoral system because we have this one, we've had it forever, and so nobody is changing it to try and benefit themselves.
00:02:08.720The only people asking for the system to be changed are those who it would benefit, and even they tend to be very inconsistent because people who are in favor of proportional representation still put up arbitrary barriers like, oh, you still have to have 5% of the vote to be able to win a seat.
00:02:23.660Well, why not 0.3% like each would be if you had a certain rate where it would actually only be like 0.25% to get a seat?
00:02:35.920Oh, well, you know, we don't want parties too small to getting in.
00:02:39.100Okay, well, then just admit that you just want the Green Party to have more seats, but you don't want like the Christian Heritage Party or the Marxist Leninist Party to win a seat because that's really what you're doing here.
00:02:47.740But I'll let Justin Trudeau keep going and justifying himself.
00:02:51.780Actually, in one sense, I do say it just for you because I know in just about any other interview.
00:03:51.600The federal conservatives who have traded governments with the liberals for over 100 years, they're an example of the excesses of populism.
00:04:04.100I'm actually not the biggest guy in terms of liking populism because I do find that populism actually doesn't mean anything because it's a changing definition.
00:04:37.740That's another example of why I don't like populism.
00:04:40.100People like Justin Trudeau frequently benefit from it from time to time.
00:04:43.620But like, no, there's not like, oh, we need it to stop the wave.
00:04:48.280So he's admitting that he wants proportional representation to stop who he views as his primary political opponents now.
00:04:55.380Now, the winner take all version of first past the post that we have right now where you can get elected as the MP for 100% of people in your riding with 30, you know, 32% of the vote.
00:05:10.180If it's properly divided, if it's divided amongst other parties, is not just devaluing the votes of so many others, but it's giving you a false sense of, you know, being the only legitimate voice for your community.
00:05:31.600Because this is very much how he typically acts, is that he is, because he has a majority government back when he did, that he's the one who speaks for Canadians.
00:05:39.480Even with minority governments, he pretends that because the Conservatives cannot get their no-confidence motion through, simply because other parties are politically interested in blocking it, not that Canadians don't support it, that that means the Conservatives are unpopular.
00:05:52.840The man contradicts himself, like, habitually.
00:05:56.700The man cannot keep a consistent position on absolutely anything.
00:06:01.540And the idea, and really, he's just salty about the Montreal by-election that happened recently, where his party got, like, 27% of the vote, and he got beat out by the bloc, who had, like, 28%, and then the NDP had 27%.
00:06:13.460And what I'm just going to say to that is it happens.
00:06:16.020It sometimes happens at a first past the post system.
00:06:18.420But look at the vast majority of seats.
00:06:20.280It's usually someone winning with 48% of the vote, 52%.
00:06:23.960You go to rural areas for Conservatives, 82% of the vote.
00:06:26.820And what should we have the person control the riding, who got 17% of the vote, 20% of the vote?
00:06:33.440I hope we would pick the person who got the most vote.
00:06:35.980Because the point of electoral systems is to elect a government who is at least a coherent voice.
00:06:41.460That's why I don't like proportional representation.
00:06:43.880It leads to very incoherent governments where nobody gets what they want.
00:06:47.400And not like the nobody gets what they want in the sense of, like, the U.S., where there's a lot of checks and balances and a lot of push and pull.
00:06:54.420In the U.S., actually, people tend to get what they want because of the freedom of being able to vote against your own party and whatnot.
00:07:00.920But in Canada, when all the parties mostly just vote down the line of what the leader wants, it leads to just pure gridlock on PR systems.
00:07:12.360They have an election every five minutes because every single time they go back, people vote for their extremely niche interests.
00:07:19.120And then you end up in another government where you have to partner with, like, five or six parties who don't want to do most of what you want to do.
00:07:26.420And they think that they deserve to have everything that they want just because they're upholding your government.
00:07:32.540If I could do things differently, I don't know exactly how I would have, but I certainly would have done things differently around electoral reform to try and make sure that we are not going to be fighting this next election under first past the post again.
00:07:47.680Yeah, that's easily in nine years the worst day I had as a liberal caucus member was the day we broke that promise.
00:07:54.980It looked, I mean, there's a, it looked a little bit cynical to say, oh, we couldn't, we can't figure out a path.
00:08:03.220And so we're going to, you know, just burn it to the ground, never talk about it again.
00:08:06.600That's probably not how you would feel about it.
00:08:08.300I made two, two big mistakes on this one.
00:08:12.440I would say the first one was promising in the first place.
00:08:15.740It was just, again, a dumb populist talking point for the 2015 election, who Trudeau had no reason to fulfill because he won the 2015 election on a very first past the post basis.
00:08:28.860He didn't get the majority of the votes, but he got the majority of the seats.
00:08:32.660Frankly, the conservatives and the campaign director at the time, Jenny Byrne, ran a bad campaign.
00:08:37.420And even though Harper is 10 times the prime minister, Justin Trudeau will ever imagine he is, that at the same time, if you run a bad campaign and you lose, it's kind of on you.
00:08:47.540Because of some very strong voices in my caucus who were very, very clear that they wanted to at least be able to make an argument for proportional representation, which I feel very, very strongly would be a mistake for Canada.
00:09:04.080I left the door open to proportional representation instead of ranked ballot, even within my own team.
00:09:11.400And that made a whole bunch of people who heard me say last election is first past the post, translate that into he's going to bring in proportional representation, which I was not, which I never.
00:09:23.660Oh, so he doesn't want proportional representation because that wouldn't quite benefit the liberals even more than he'd want to.
00:09:31.820I want to actually move on to another clip of a liberal cheerleader online who doesn't believe in polls because really they just show the conservatives ahead.
00:09:40.000But they're biased towards conservatives, even though they've been shown to be consistently right.
00:09:43.920But Trudeau doesn't want proportional representation, he wants ranked balloting because the liberals, in theory, are the middle party.
00:09:51.780They're really fairly to the left these days, but because the NDP is a little bit more left and the bloc are kind of, depending on the bloc constituency, they're either a little bit to the left of the liberals or a little bit to the right.
00:10:03.800But they also rely on the liberals to get all their Quebec nationalist type policies and benefits passed in parliament that he believes that people rank a ballot eventually, especially if conservatives can't win a riding or the NDP can't win.
00:10:17.400They all eventually have to pick the liberals, because if you're a conservative, you ain't picking the Greens.
00:10:22.480You're not picking the NDP because they're worse.
00:10:24.580It doesn't mean the liberals are good.
00:10:25.900It just means that the liberals are 90% the worst thing you've ever seen in your entire life, and the NDP are 95% the worst thing you've ever seen in your entire life, and the Greens would be 100% the worst thing you've ever seen in your entire life.
00:10:38.800It's a false choice, and that's why I don't often like voting systems like this.
00:10:43.480It's fine for, like, a leadership race where you're picking between personalities and individuals within a party, so nobody inherently dislikes the other people.
00:10:52.380Nobody disagrees fully, but is forced to pick the guy.
00:10:56.280That's not how that works in parties, which is good.
00:10:59.360But in general national elections, it means that voters are coming up with a fake majority consensus over candidates that they have no interest in,
00:11:10.660when, in theory, the conservative candidate could have gotten 45% of the vote.
00:11:18.160But he doesn't get to win because a bunch of other parties that might have only gotten 10% on the first ballot, and 7, and 25, and whatnot, they don't just keep jamming their stuff together until they have 51% of the votes,
00:11:31.580and they're not actually really representing even their own people who are having to pick them down-ballot in a strong way.
00:11:39.100Where the 45% would get strongly represented, they believe in the conservative party's platform,
00:11:43.560and then the other side who gets 51% after you put a bunch of votes together, well, they, you know, they kind of believe in it.
00:11:51.800I guess they like them a little bit better than the conservatives, but that's not coherent.
00:11:55.900And that's my point, is that I don't like voting systems that lead to very incoherent, vague outcomes.
00:12:01.180And just because somebody gets elected doesn't mean it's not vague.
00:12:04.540It's vague because you don't really know what people got out of this.
00:12:09.440Anyways, now I want to jump to this next little thing.
00:12:13.480This next, actually, was still on the same bookmark page.
00:12:16.980Now I want to go look over at this guy's TikTok video.
00:13:59.220In the Manitoba by-election in Winnipeg, they went from having 25% of the votes to 43% or whatever.
00:14:06.220It was super close between them and the NDP.
00:14:08.860The polls have actually been pretty accurate.
00:14:11.160And before he goes into what he's about to say, know this.
00:14:13.980The polling firms do most of their political polling for free because they use it as free advertising to show how good they are at market research.
00:14:23.380So when an election comes around, they're incentivized to be as accurate as possible, unless it's like a strategy firm or a public affairs firm that's obviously biased towards one way or the other,
00:14:33.400and they get their money from specific people on the political spectrum, so they like to push out numbers that help their party.
00:15:55.580And there are churches being burned by arsonists all over the place.
00:15:59.120There's just this one instance that happened to be an actual construction site accident that they're now using to pretend that church burnings have not been happening.
00:17:25.880I'm just going to bring this up on screen.
00:17:27.460I know people think that, uh, Kudo Maggie from Main Street Research is, like, like, conservative because he, like, is friendly with conservatives online.
00:17:50.300Like, he keeps, he, he bakes in left-wing bias questions into his polls where he asks conservatives, like, questions about disinformation.
00:17:58.600And he always concludes, oh, conservatives believe the most disinformation.
00:18:01.640Because he just, he only throws questions that conservatives believe in disinformation.
00:18:05.840And half the time, his questions don't actually indicate whether somebody believes disinformation or misinformation or not.
00:18:12.200He just simply, it's basically the rule according to Frank Graves.
00:18:15.980But, like, relay strategies, Ipsos, again, Nanos, we have, like, we have tons of pollsters here that, like, are all showing the ND, like, the, the conservative smashing.
00:18:29.980Like, where is the bias in with all these?
00:18:40.880This is what predicted, all this national polling is what predicted the Toronto-St. Paul by-election was going to be super close and the conservatives won it.
00:18:49.520Even though other people are saying, oh, it's a downtown Toronto right.
00:20:56.880We have a Chinese billionaire suing us over nothing.
00:20:59.620He's just suing us for defamation that in basically three years he has not substantiated.
00:21:06.100I believe on, like, the 1st of December or late November, that's the anniversary, 30-year anniversary of this lawsuit going on.
00:21:12.820So if you want to help me out, that really helps if you contribute to that.
00:21:16.520It's what cost me over $33,000 fighting this guy.
00:21:19.740You know, he's dragging it out at this point because he knows he can't win.
00:21:22.380And I'm going to be pursuing the win because we don't like bullies on the National Telegraph.
00:21:27.560And I guess in the future, so contribute to that if you want, pinned to both in the description and the comments below.
00:21:33.720So I'm going to be trying to get Daniel Boardman on to do more shows with me, to do more solo shows on stuff more in Eastern Canada as well as foreign policy stuff and try and do more joint live shows.
00:21:45.480So if you haven't seen me do a live stream in a while, it's because I'm out door knocking in British Columbia for the BC Conservatives.
00:21:53.280I had the BCNDP trying to attack me yesterday over something that I was fully right about, saying one of their candidates who calls themselves a trade unionist is in fact a trade unionist.
00:22:03.380Trade unionism is not just being in favor of trade unions.
00:22:07.000Trade unionism is what you call syndicalism because that's the English word taken from like trade unionism is the English word for syndicalism.
00:22:14.280syndicalism is about the idea that unions should not just monopolize all labor, that all labor should be unionized.
00:22:22.020It means that unions should control businesses.
00:22:24.760All the businesses should be run by the unions, which is an insane far left fascistic socialistic concept.
00:22:35.620Oh, all these people don't know what they're talking about, but they tried to attack me and it absolutely flopped as hard as like, you know, a fat guy jumping into a pool.
00:22:43.100Just how it works out sometimes have a good one guys.