The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Pierre Poilievre baits Trudeau and Singh into ruining themselves

00:00:00.000 Man, political illiteracy is quite the thing in Canada sometimes. There are so many people

00:00:05.740 trying to attack me over this one post I made at 1.30 in the morning, a post that should have

00:00:10.900 just gone by complete radio silence from when it was posted. There are so many leftists and even

00:00:16.520 some PPC right people getting mad at this tweet just summing up why Pierre Polyev did that no

00:00:23.160 confidence vote on Justin Trudeau. It didn't pass, and that wasn't the point, and all these people

00:00:27.840 don't seem to understand that. But I posted, with the non-confidence vote put forward by Pierre Polyev

00:00:33.320 and the Conservatives, they have successfully forced the NDP and the bloc into tying themselves to the

00:00:38.400 burning log that is the Liberal Party and Justin Trudeau. It's been a fun week, and as you can see

00:00:43.920 there, there's quite a few replies to this fairly innocuous tweet saying that, no, no, no, Pierre

00:00:49.360 Polyev actually lost. Didn't you see the no confidence vote? It went down to flaming defeat 107 to 206 or

00:00:56.580 whatever it was. It's like, guys, that's not the point of the vote. I don't know why I have to

00:01:01.660 explain politics to people, but sometimes the purpose of holding a vote is not simply to get

00:01:07.780 the vote passed. There are a lot of votes that politicians put up that there's no chance it

00:01:13.000 will be passed, but it helps demonstrate where they stand on an issue, and it helps demonstrate

00:01:17.840 where their opposition stands on the issue. What Pierre Polyev did, and this is where the criticism from

00:01:23.100 the PPC types come in, because they're like, well, Pierre Polyev didn't ask Justin Trudeau to just

00:01:28.400 eliminate the entire carbon tax. That shows the weakness of Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives.

00:01:33.440 No, it does not. It actually shows the political savvy. All Pierre Polyev asked Justin Trudeau to do

00:01:38.920 in order to avoid having this no confidence vote was simply cancel the 23% increase to the carbon tax

00:01:45.280 on April 1st, and there will be no no confidence vote, and maybe Pierre Polyev would even come out and

00:01:50.000 say, thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, for giving Canadians some tax relief. That was basically

00:01:54.780 what Pierre Polyev put on the table. If Justin Trudeau said, you know, fair enough, it's like

00:01:59.220 people are struggling right now, I'll cancel it, or we'll put it off until next year, he would have

00:02:03.540 actually won a lot of political points. What Pierre Polyev did is he nearly asked for the bare minimum

00:02:08.780 compassion for taxpayers, and Justin Trudeau, because he is such a partisan hack, ideologically dedicated to

00:02:15.360 the carbon tax, as well as just ideologically dedicated to always disagreeing with Conservatives,

00:02:20.300 even if they have good ideas. Justin Trudeau refused to cancel the increase in the carbon tax,

00:02:25.700 and by then calling for a vote of no confidence, Pierre Polyev then forced the Bloc Québécois

00:02:32.140 and the NDP to embrace the position that Justin Trudeau had taken. He is forcing Jagme Singh and Yves-François

00:02:40.360 Blanchet to say that we stand with Justin Trudeau gouging taxpayers even harder. And you could say,

00:02:46.480 well, they don't want to take down the entire government over something so small. Well, the NDP,

00:02:52.120 at least, Jagme Singh, knew that the Bloc was going to vote with Justin Trudeau, because the Bloc is a

00:02:58.980 Quebec interest party. Quebec already has its own provincial carbon tax, so the federal system does

00:03:04.400 not actually apply to them. And so the Bloc will never actually approve of tax relief for every 0.74

00:03:09.980 Canadian except for Quebecers, also excluding people in BC, because BC still foolishly has 0.82

00:03:15.280 their own provincial carbon tax, too. So the Bloc was not going to vote for this. And so the NDP

00:03:19.880 and Jagme Singh had a great opening to say, well, Trudeau, you're being really petty by not even

00:03:24.800 allowing people to cancel or put off this increase in the carbon tax while people are having problems

00:03:30.860 getting by and paying rent and buying food and all that stuff. Jagme Singh wasn't even willing to do

00:03:36.360 that because he has no backbone. Jagme Singh could have stood up and said, you know, Justin Trudeau,

00:03:40.980 you did a good job on dental care and pharma care, but really, you won't let people have minor tax

00:03:46.680 relief on April 1st. We're voting against you. And he could have had the NDP vote against Trudeau in

00:03:52.420 this non-confidence vote, scored a bunch of points while knowing it that was not actually going to

00:03:56.720 result in the government being dissolved and a new election coming in. Because Jagme Singh does not want

00:04:01.360 an election the same way that Justin Trudeau does not want one because they would both fall flat on

00:04:06.380 their faces. Not only does their polling suck, but their actual fundraising is somehow even worse than

00:04:11.860 their polling. But there are so many people, again, on Twitter, on social media, who just look at these 0.93

00:04:18.780 situations. They say, oh, Pure Ply's non-confidence vote didn't go through. Yes. And it worked. It actually

00:04:25.860 worked. Because the intention of it was the bank shot of the vote failing and exposing how loyal

00:04:33.780 the NDP and the bloc are to the liberals. Because the liberals' brand right now is mud. And if you're

00:04:39.720 the NDP and the bloc, you want to do as much right now as possible to differentiate yourself from the

00:04:44.860 liberals so that whenever the election comes, whether it's like the fall or it's next year, you want to

00:04:50.960 seem like a very different left-wing party from the liberals. So maybe you can siphon off some of their

00:04:55.300 votes. By bear-hugging Justin Trudeau, by bear-hugging this burning log, Jagmeet Singh is

00:05:01.720 just singeing himself for no reason. He is making sure that everyone thinks that the liberals and the

00:05:07.980 NDP are the exact same party and that they'll go vote conservatives if they're actually looking for

00:05:12.620 an alternative. So actually, yes, Pure Ply, the conservative leader here, made a genius political

00:05:18.180 maneuver. He made sure that the bloc, the NDP, and the liberals are perceived as the same party

00:05:24.740 This will probably help the conservatives dig more into Quebec, probably dig more into Ontario.

00:05:31.620 And also, because Pure Ply has been rightfully picking a fight with David Eby over his provincial

00:05:35.920 carbon index, he's also been becoming way more popular in British Columbia as well.

00:05:40.540 What did this whole situation do for Justin Trudeau and the liberals? Nothing. They got no good press out

00:05:47.360 of it. They just look petty for not willing to give a 23% tax relief, sort of like, you know,

00:05:53.340 which is not even tax relief. We're not even asking them to lower taxes. We're just asking

00:05:57.480 them not to raise taxes, and they wouldn't even do that. That is the point. So PPC people saying,

00:06:02.280 Polly didn't ask for enough. No, no, no. He asked for as little as possible on purpose,

00:06:06.560 because it was the point of showing that even the bare minimum was something that Justin Trudeau

00:06:12.180 was not willing to do. Anyways, guys, that should be it for me today. I'll maybe try and do more

00:06:18.900 videos where I try and make general lessons on politics. But this is like, I guess you could say

00:06:24.400 an encapsulation of the value of a show vote. You want to do show votes to demonstrate where people

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 22, 2024

Pierre Poilievre baits Trudeau and Singh into ruining themselves

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