The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 03, 2024


Pierre Poilievre blasts incompetent Liberal Housing Minister

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federal meddling in housing starts Sean Fraser's video and response to Pure Poly
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Sean Fraser Polyev Danielle Smith Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders Tucker Carlson Barack Obama David Eby Legault Kenny
Canada's saddest political party - BC United has collapsed Liberals are full denial mode on immigration

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In this episode of the podcast, I'm joined by Sean Fraser, Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities, to talk about the housing crisis in Canada and how the Liberal Party of Canada is failing to solve the housing shortage.

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00:00:00.000 I think you know that the Liberal Party of Canada is intellectually bankrupt by the fact that they keep rolling out Housing Minister Sean Fraser to talk about the Liberal government's housing agenda.
00:00:11.760 Like, if I'm running the Liberal Party of Canada, the two rules I would immediately make up on day one is that Sean Fraser isn't allowed talking and nobody's allowed talking about housing.
00:00:22.140 Because those two things are deeply unpopular.
00:00:24.920 Sean Fraser, despite the fact that the Liberal Party keeps trying to market him like Trudeau 2.0 and that the housing agenda is helping get Canadians into affordable homes, it's all a lie.
00:00:37.080 Everyone sees it.
00:00:38.060 So stop doing it.
00:00:39.700 And now Sean Fraser has this weird, like, fan edit video on his ex account where he's, like, trying to market himself as, like, a cool, like, hot, successful guy helping Canadians get into a home.
00:00:51.960 And it's just, one, incorrect, and two, nobody's buying it.
00:00:56.220 And when nobody's buying it, you've got to stop trying to sell it.
00:00:59.580 So Sean Fraser in this expo says, home ownership shouldn't be a pipe dream.
00:01:03.820 You shouldn't have to take another job just to make your rent.
00:01:06.660 No Canadian should go to bed without a roof over their head.
00:01:09.660 Over the last year, we've been working to solve this crisis.
00:01:12.520 Here's a recap of some of that work.
00:01:14.020 And can I please just say, before we get to the video here, and hopefully this video doesn't get hit with a copyright strike because they keep playing a lot of music in their videos.
00:01:22.860 Like, why would you say, over the last year, we've been working to solve this crisis.
00:01:27.080 So are you admitting that you haven't been taking the crisis seriously for the past year?
00:01:32.360 Like, this is just, like, only until the past year you've been taking it seriously.
00:01:35.840 The other eight years, who cares?
00:01:37.640 Only this last year we've been trying to solve it.
00:01:39.880 Really, what he doesn't want to admit here is that this is, like, version three of the Liberals' attempt to try and lower the price of housing.
00:01:48.380 It doesn't work because their immigration rates are crazy high. 1.00
00:01:51.360 Sean Fraser should know this because he was literally the immigration minister who ended up contributing to these massive one million spikes in population over a single year.
00:01:59.680 But the idea that we're going to pretend that now we're taking the issue seriously, now we're going to try and make sure that we can lower the price of housing, it's like, it doesn't work.
00:02:10.420 And now there's this really cringy video that goes along with it that, if anything, I find most people just think as insulting, knowing how badly they've been performing on this portfolio.
00:02:20.880 The Honorable Sean Fraser, Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities.
00:02:26.180 We're joined now by Sean Fraser.
00:02:27.780 Today we're announcing a new path forward, and we're starting here in London.
00:02:31.400 We're going to use federal leadership and federal funding to change the way that cities build houses.
00:02:36.580 How is that different from what they were doing previously?
00:02:39.960 Previously, the Liberals' plan was, through liberal leadership and funding, we're going to get more houses built.
00:02:46.420 They've done that in different iterations for, like, the past five or six years.
00:02:51.100 It hasn't helped because to even take federal money, you must now follow federal regulations.
00:02:55.820 And to follow federal regulations, you need a lot more lawyers, consultants, and other people who get to pay out a lot of that federal money to just get anything underway.
00:03:06.080 So it ends up just being completely worthless.
00:03:08.380 It's like back in 2009 when Barack Obama became the U.S. president.
00:03:11.800 His stimulus package to build infrastructure around the United States and create shovel-ready jobs was a complete, like, clown show because in order to get the money, you had to follow so many increased federal labor regulations, environmental regulations, and all this other stuff that you burned through all the money just hiring people to help you navigate all the rules, help you, you know, work with unions to get your labor from unionized workers only because that was a federal regulation.
00:03:39.320 All this other stuff. That's exactly what's happened here. And that's why housing, house bills have not gone up.
00:03:46.020 Yes, it will go up a little bit one year, but that's compared to the previous years where it's been down.
00:03:50.540 So even when progress is made, it's only a little bit of progress compared to the previous year, which is not progress at all because it's been going down for multiple years.
00:03:58.840 And we've barely ticked up. In fact, in some places in Canada, housing starts are actually going down.
00:04:04.220 But I'll show that chart in just a little bit here.
00:04:06.360 Vancouver has become the latest city to make a housing deal with the federal government.
00:04:10.460 Taiwan has become the second municipality in Canada to sign on how it's going to happen.
00:04:14.460 And the federal government has struck a deal as Toronto grapples with the housing affordability crisis.
00:04:19.400 New construction for apartment buildings, rentals specifically are going to be exempt from the GST.
00:04:28.920 I think you get it. I think you get it after just watching that little bit of that video.
00:04:35.420 The idea that you're going to like swap people with like all these little things we've done.
00:04:39.300 Look, we've signed a deal with this city and that city and this city.
00:04:41.900 And we have new GST, we have the new GST rebates and all this other stuff.
00:04:45.700 The problem is people are still paying $1.3 million for a crack shack in Vancouver.
00:04:52.420 And so nobody's looking at this and being like, wow, they're really working hard because you at the end of the day have to balance all of your costs.
00:05:01.000 And when you see that nothing's really improved for you as an individual, you're not going to look at this video and say, wow, Sean Frazier is so inspiring.
00:05:08.560 Man, he's a good egg. He just knows what he's doing.
00:05:11.900 Nobody looks at this and thinks that this guy is in control and knows and is helping the problem at all.
00:05:18.820 And I'm going to bring up the chart now here.
00:05:22.200 This is the performance this year, and this is only 2024 so far.
00:05:26.240 So they are still at the end of the year.
00:05:28.380 This could also turn even more negative than it is.
00:05:30.920 Housing starts are up 7% this year so far.
00:05:33.660 I will note that housing starts last year and the year before were down 5% or 6% per year for the last three years.
00:05:42.160 So this isn't even like a good number.
00:05:44.120 This is just like what it was like back in 22 when housing starts were also down.
00:05:48.580 But housing starts are down in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, BC, and they're only up in Quebec and Alberta in terms of major population centers.
00:05:56.360 This has not been successful, and you could probably give credit more so to Premier Legault and Premier Smith and previously Kenny for housing starts being up in those two provinces.
00:06:07.940 Because if nationally, housing starts are not consistently up everywhere, obviously the program isn't working.
00:06:14.700 I always hate when I see people and they're like, housing starts are up in Alberta, and they're up in Quebec, and they're up nationally 7% in Canada.
00:06:22.860 Okay, well, why are they down in Ontario, BC, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan?
00:06:28.300 Oh, it must be a provincial government problem.
00:06:30.640 Like, well, so it's the provincial government doing it.
00:06:33.340 Because it seems like it's the provincial government driving the success.
00:06:36.140 Because, in fact, the Housing Accelerator Fund deals were made quite recently in Alberta.
00:06:42.860 They've been actually in place longer in places like BC and Ontario.
00:06:47.520 And so, really, what this probably tells me is that when the federal government started meddling in those jurisdictions, those provinces started having house starts fall.
00:06:57.000 But anyways, now I want to jump over to Pure Polly of responding to Sean Frazier and absolutely destroying the man.
00:07:03.420 And he gives a very weak response.
00:07:06.040 But this is what Pure Polly of says in response to Sean Frazier's post and his video.
00:07:11.940 And he says, Sean, you have made housing a pipe dream by doubling the costs.
00:07:16.180 You're an immigration, quote unquote, out of control to quote your cabinet colleagues before you became housing minister and spent billions building bureaucracy. 0.96
00:07:23.700 Now you put out a vanity video of your best photo ops to put lipstick on the pig. 0.98
00:07:29.420 And that's exactly what that video looked like.
00:07:31.840 That's why nobody is convinced by it.
00:07:34.160 It just looks like Sean Frazier is basking in the sun, basking in the light of achievements he hasn't actually achieved.
00:07:42.700 It's just signing deals about nothing that we have not even seen if there's any fruits to it yet.
00:07:48.160 Just because housing starts are up in Alberta and Quebec, where not a lot of housing deals have been signed, does not actually mean the federal program is working.
00:07:56.780 The federal program is simply living vicariously through the work that the provinces are already doing or not doing, depending on the location.
00:08:04.880 Anyways, oh, now I want to jump over to what Sean Frazier said in response to this, because it was also embarrassing.
00:08:11.560 Well, he's like posting photos of Polly of holding up a piece of wood and talking about inflation, because I guess this is supposed to be embarrassing for for pure Polly of or something. 0.85
00:08:21.560 So we have Sean Frazier here saying, pure.
00:08:24.380 Thanks for watching my video.
00:08:26.120 I hope it gives you a break from using incel hashtags to find friends online begging for the attention of the far right and posting weird wood videos.
00:08:34.160 Remember to like and subscribe.
00:08:35.980 Oh, my goodness.
00:08:37.260 Oh, I was supposed to show that on screen.
00:08:39.740 But there you go.
00:08:40.600 That's what he posted.
00:08:41.280 Like, goodness, stop trying to use the weird moniker that the DNC is using down in the United States.
00:08:47.420 The conservatives all the time get accused of trying to import American style politics.
00:08:52.880 It's literally always the left who doesn't Canada.
00:08:56.160 Bernie Sanders spoke at the last NDP convention.
00:08:59.280 Hillary Clinton was at the last liberal convention.
00:09:02.020 Who are the conservatives inviting to their conventions?
00:09:04.800 Nobody.
00:09:05.860 Daniel Smith did an interview with Tucker Carlson.
00:09:08.240 Wow.
00:09:08.620 He's an interviewer.
00:09:09.420 He did an interview with a public figure. 0.98
00:09:11.540 It's ridiculous. 0.98
00:09:12.340 Wow. 0.99
00:09:12.540 I can't believe that.
00:09:14.100 And he's going to go in response to Polyev attacking him for his horrible record.
00:09:19.380 He's like, you post incel hashtags.
00:09:23.160 It's going back to the stupid thing that when Polyev posted a video, one of his communications people was just adding hashtags and they add the hashtag MGTOW, which MGTOW stands for men going their own way.
00:09:35.940 So it's like some anti-feminist thing. 1.00
00:09:37.320 It's like, sure. 0.99
00:09:38.460 Dumb thing to do. 0.99
00:09:39.800 Is that really your only attack? 0.99
00:09:41.760 The fact that Polyev did videos with Wood where he was explaining inflation.
00:09:45.920 That's weird to you?
00:09:47.180 That he understands how inflation works?
00:09:49.140 These people are just bad at politics.
00:09:53.040 Like, again, if I was running the Liberal Party, the first two rules I would implement are Sean Fraser's not allowed to talk and definitely nobody's allowed to talk about housing.
00:10:01.520 These are just death of issues to talk about for the Liberals because Polyev can just point and say housing prices are doubled.
00:10:09.740 And that's all he has to say because it's true.
00:10:12.660 And Sean Fraser can't change that at all.
00:10:15.460 I'm trying to work on how I say Fraser.
00:10:17.940 There we go.
00:10:18.480 I said it right.
00:10:19.220 Because I always say Fraser.
00:10:20.280 And it's not because I don't know how to say it.
00:10:21.980 If I'm to call it an accent, my accent is mumbling.
00:10:26.640 And so Fraser is the way I say it when I'm being lazy.
00:10:29.800 So it's Fraser.
00:10:31.240 Fraser.
00:10:32.020 I'm in the Fraser Valley.
00:10:33.740 And his name is Sean Fraser.
00:10:35.580 I've seen so many people in the comments pointing out to me that I say it wrong.
00:10:38.640 And I couldn't in my mind even figure out what was wrong with how I was saying it until somebody, like, really sounded it out for me.
00:10:46.160 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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