Pierre Poilievre calls out Toronto for voting Liberal
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how Canadian politicians need to stop blaming the voters for not voting for the "compassionate" option. I also talk about why the voters in the big cities that voted for Justin Trudeau are suffering the most because of his disastrous policies.
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I'm not sure if you've seen this clip yet, but I absolutely love it because very few Canadian
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politicians would have the spine to say what was said here. Conservative party leader Pure Polly
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have actually called out the voters in the city of Toronto for having sent 100% liberal MPs into
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parliament in the last three election cycles, while society around them is obviously getting worse
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year after year, both socially and economically. I want to play you the clip right here because
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this is something that politicians are usually advised not to say, but I think it needs to be
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said more. And then I'll talk a little bit more about it on the other side. And now people who
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can't pay their rent are forced to go to food banks. Two million people now going to food banks.
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Two million, a record smashing number. In fact, in Toronto, one in 10 people are relying on food
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banks. The number of people eating at food banks in Toronto today would fill the Rogers Centre seven
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times. That is life in Toronto after eight years of Justin Trudeau winning every single seat in that
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city. Toronto, what have you got for voting for Justin Trudeau? Your streets are crawling with crime and chaos.
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You can't afford the rent. There's division like never before in our streets. Places of worship are
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under attack. People who've lived there all their lives no longer feel at home. The big cities that
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voted for Justin Trudeau are suffering the most because of his disastrous and costly policies.
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You know, look at the crime. Violent crime is up 40%. The number of overdose deaths is up 200%.
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40,000 Canadians have lost their lives to overdoses after eight years of Justin Trudeau's policy
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of decriminalizing crack and heroin and giving out tax subsidized opioids that have heroin level potency.
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Absolutely amazing clip. I think it needed to be said. Right before I get into it a little bit more,
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I just want to quickly mention that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary Signal Hill
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Conservative Party nomination. So if you live in this area, except for the Greenbrow and Bowness areas,
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because they're being cut out when boundaries change in April, buy a Conservative Party membership
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and vote for me. My campaign website is in the description below, WyattClaypool.com.
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Anyways, getting back to it. No advisor would ever tell you to blame the voters for making a bad choice.
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But I frankly think that Polyev actually has to say this to Toronto voters. What can you lose? They
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vote 100% Liberal in terms of the people they sent to Parliament. And eventually they need to be told that
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the people that you're choosing are not the compassionate choice. You get a lot of people who
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vote Liberal, especially in the big city areas like Toronto, who aren't voting Liberal because they
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actually think they're economically better for the country. Anyone with eyes can tell you that
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they've been horrible for our economy. They vote Liberal because it's like the compassionate choice.
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It's the empathetic choice. It makes the choice that makes you feel smarter. There's a reason why people
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with, you know, university, like bachelor degrees and master's degrees tend to disproportionately vote
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Liberal. It's not because it's the smarter choice, but it's the choice that makes you feel smarter.
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They tend to be very wonkish on policy. They're very detailed. They're very much, you know, big public
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policy fans. They like big detailed public policy plans. And it makes the party seem like it's very
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intelligent when a more simplistic approach to all these issues that the Conservatives tend to pitch
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is actually the better, smarter position. But a lot of Liberal voters are looking for the voting
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option that gives them social status. The Liberals tend to have that Laurentian elite,
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elitist status to them. And so they get a lot of voters in the city of Toronto who vote Liberal
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because it's fashionable to vote Liberal. You look like an intelligent moderate, even as the party keeps
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getting more and more left-wing. And Polyup should be calling them out and saying, no, you're not voting
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for the more compassionate, more empathetic, more, you know, fashionable option. You're actually voting
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for the option that's stagnating your society, increasing crime, increasing drug use, increasing taxes on
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people and driving people into poverty. You're not voting for the right option. It's not just that
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every voter comes to different conclusions and all those conclusions are equally good. No,
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you can vote the wrong way there. That's why I'm not someone who exactly, and I'm going to say this,
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and I know there are some people who like left-wingers who are going to say that I'm saying something
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I'm not, but people tend to overly idealize democracy. Democracy is the best system that we have,
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but it doesn't mean that every single thing that people democratically vote for is good. But people
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act like, well, it was popular at the ballot box, ergo, it's the right policy that you should support.
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A lot of Liberal policies people technically voted for at the ballot box, it doesn't mean that we should
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keep it around. And just because, like, when the Liberals get voted in, that doesn't mean that we
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should maintain the policies in the past that used to be popular just because maybe they're going to get
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some pushback, they need to start doing deep guts of government programs and reform things heavily.
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Things have gotten really bad, and it's not that the Liberals were on the right track because they
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kept getting voted in election after election. We just need to tweak it here and there in order to
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fix things. Things were bad since 2015 when Trudeau got into office. He had immediately been making it
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bad, and we shouldn't pretend that it's not bad. We should actually go after the voters who
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continue to, in a certain sense, be blind voluntarily. They pretend that the issues
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aren't there, and they pretend like, oh, the crime and poverty and all this, that's because
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of big business and corporations. Oh, it's because of capitalism this is happening. No, it's actually
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because of your socialist policies it's happening, and you kind of have to have your face stuck in it
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a little bit. Anyways, I really like this. Politicians need to grow a spine and actually say sometimes that
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the voters got it wrong. If you have a bad impression of Danielle Smith in Alberta because
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you think she's far right, you're wrong. You're a fool. If you think that somehow safe supply
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programs are good because it's keeping people from overdosing, you're an idiot. You're an idiot.
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Giving people more drugs and keeping them on the streets, this sort of pro-homeless encampment type
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faction on the left, they're not more compassionate. They don't have sort of just a different perspective.
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They have an awful perspective. Frankly, sometimes their perspective is just flat-out evil. Even if
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they think they're a good person for doing it, they have eyes and ears and they should be able to
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figure out their policies are destroying people's lives and making society worse. You don't just act
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like everyone's on the same team and we're all trying to drive towards a better future. Some people
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will drive us into a worse future and they'll smile all the way. Yes, they think it's better, but it
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doesn't mean that we should respect their opinion. You actually have to push back on people and tell
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them they're wrong sometimes. Anyways, that should be it for me today. I just want to,
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again, quickly plug that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative
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Party nomination. It's a really packed race. There's tons of people running here, a lot of
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people who do not live in the riding, a ton of red Tories who, other than saying they want to get rid
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of the carbon tax, are completely mum on most of the issues. I don't think we need more of these
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Aaron O'Toole types getting into conservative nominations. We actually need more real blue
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conservatives in the party. So if you live in this riding, buy a membership, vote for me.
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If you live in Burlington, I think the membership cut off is already done. So if you have a membership,
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though, vote for Emily Brown, great candidate. And in the future, I will recommend more candidates
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and other nominations. Maybe I'll even do just a full on live stream, just talking about good
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candidates and nominations around you. If you can shout out which riding you live in and who's running
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there, I can look at their websites and get a feel for who's probably the candidate who actually
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pursue deep reforms in government. And then other than that, also, I have the Give, Send,
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Go fundraiser for myself and the National Telegraph's legal fund. We have a Chinese
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billionaire suing us. Completely ridiculous defamation case. We had a guest writer call
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him out for funding Aaron O'Toole's campaign back in 2020. He freaked out because our guest writer said
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some true things about him based off a Globe and Mail article that was already out two years ago.
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But he sued us because he thinks he thought we couldn't pay to defend ourselves and that he could
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get a fake apology out of us and pretend that he's some sort of powerful political manipulator.
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I don't really care. But if you want to throw some money at us, you know, it helps us fight back.
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It helps us be able to take the burden of cost off myself and help spread it out a little bit.
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Everyone who's donated so far has been an absolute star, but more donations are needed since,
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you know, obviously I'm not someone who has hundreds of thousands of dollars to throw at
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this case. So any money actually does keep the burden off me. So other than that,
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that should be it for me today. And I'll be back with another video later on.