Poilievre and Carney war over Carbon Tax - Liberals pull dirty trick
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Summary
Pierre-Olivier Polyv and Mark Carney are going to war over the carbon tax, and I think Polyv has actually found a unique and effective angle to keep the issue alive without having to talk about the consumer carbon tax.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Well, it looks like Pierre Polyev and Mark Carney are going
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to be going to war over the carbon tax. And I think that Pierre Polyev has actually found
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a unique and effective angle to keep the issue alive without having to talk about the consumer
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carbon tax. In previous videos, I've said the conservatives really have to lay off the
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consumer carbon tax issue because while we all know who actually follow politics closely
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that the consumer carbon tax isn't really gone, Carney has just probably temporarily turned its
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rate down to zero percent and he can always bring it back in the year if he wants, that it's still
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an issue that the average voter thinks has been resolved. Carney's gotten rid of it for all
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intents and purposes and so it's no longer a federal election issue. So what Polyev has done is rather
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than continue to talk with the consumer carbon tax and have long-winded debates about how it's still
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around, he has now pivoted to saying Carney should be getting rid of the industrial carbon tax too,
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which is in fact a good move because the industrial carbon tax in fact adds more to prices than the
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consumer carbon tax ever did itself. And the good thing with this too is there's a great patriotism
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angle that I don't think the conservatives have quite mentioned yet, but it's easily there to be
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exploited. And that is, if we are currently at loggerheads with the Americans on trade,
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why are the liberals unduly burdening our industry with an industrial carbon tax that industry isn't
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paying in the United States? Basically, the liberals are weakening our economy and letting the Americans
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eat our lunch and that's what I think the conservative messaging around this issue has to be.
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I just want to quickly cut to a video of Pierre Polyev, then I want to talk about what the liberals have
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been doing on the carbon tax because it truly demonstrates just how little principle the
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liberal party has. They were the big carbon tax party for a very long time and suddenly they're
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celebrating wall to wall how they just got rid of it. But before I get into that guys, remember to
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I always like to skim through the comments to see what people's thoughts are. Anyways, so here is
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Pierre Polyev at his announcement just today. Our per capita GDP has been the worst growth among all of
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our competitors. Housing costs have doubled and gone up faster than in any other G7 country. And now the
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liberals think they should be rewarded with a fourth term in office. Furthermore, they brought in a carbon
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tax in this law. This law is still in place, even though Mr. Carney has signed a fake executive order
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to hide the tax for 35 or 40 days leading up to the election. It is still in place and it applies
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across the board. The tax is scheduled to go up 300% over the next five years and hiding it for a few
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weeks will not change that. Furthermore, the full carbon tax also applies to industries. Industries like
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those here at Ivaco. Ivaco makes hot rolled steel wire and steel billets. And these taxes drive up the
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cost of the entire domestic steel industry. Mr. Carney has said that he wants to expand the industrial
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carbon tax beyond the already eye-watering increases the government has passed into law.
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That's where I'm going to leave that there because it is a 20-minute press conference. I just jumped to
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the point where he was introducing this. I do want to point out, before I start talking about this in
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more detail, notice how when Polyev's comms team bring him to a heavy industry sort of area, he's in a
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warehouse. They don't stick the big hard hat on him, they don't put goggles on him, and they don't
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have him wearing like 50 safety vests. Guys in political communications never put a candidate in
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a weird-looking outfit. If he has to wear the hard hat, I'm talking about Mark Carney here, if he has to
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wear the hard hat to be in there, don't be in there. Go outside, learn from Michael Dukakis in 1988,
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never wear the big chunky helmet that makes all your worst features look even worse. So Polyev did the
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right thing here. And by the way, notice how he can actually get workers to stand behind him and not
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look depressed, whereas when Carney had people behind him, it was very clear that they did not
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want to be there. They're looking around. And Carney, in a three-minute and 40-second statement that he
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made at that steel plant in wherever he was, it doesn't really matter, 45 seconds of it was him
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literally going um, um, uh, because he's a terrible speaker. This is one of the more subtle
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things that I think is a big oversight for Carney is that he's one of these guys who is just not
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optically confident. He doesn't give the average person the idea that he's in command. He seems
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nervously in control, kind of. It's like someone put him in that place, but he shouldn't be there,
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which is a great way of describing him. This is a great policy. Again, they should be slamming the
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liberals every single day on the fact that they are the greatest allies of the Americans when it comes
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to actually just hollowing out our economy and moving jobs down south. The liberals are the ones
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who've been kicking the economy in the face for literally a decade now, and they're saying, no, no,
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no, just give us another four years and everything will be fine. You know, we, and even when they've
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pivoted, they've pivoted in the direction of what the conservatives have been saying for them to do.
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Why is it Canadian? I think Canadians will be mostly voting conservative this next election.
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We're in a honeymoon period for the liberals, and even during their honeymoon, they're only
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like tied with the conservatives or they're four or five points behind. If that's your honeymoon
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period, I think it could get really bad for them in the next month and a half. And so, but it really,
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they're taking conservative ideas and then just pretending it was actually all of them.
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Look at this. I'm trying to find this here, but we have videos, and I just bookmarked tons and tons
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of these on my X account. The liberals, wall to wall celebrating the fact that they're getting rid
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of the carbon tax. Like, look at this statement that they posted from Mark Carney. It's like
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bizarro world. This man was Trudeau's economic advisor for four or five years, pretty much the
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entire time the carbon tax was in place. And he'd been supporting carbon taxes well before the liberals
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supported, like a past one that you'd never gotten rid of it in those four or five years where he was
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effectively in control of the economic policy. But now here's him again, signing a fake order in
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council saying that the carbon tax doesn't actually exist anymore. This will make a difference to
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hard pressed Canadians, but it is part of a much bigger set of measures that this government is
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taking to ensure that we fight against climate change, that our companies are competitive and
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the country moves forward. So it's my honor on behalf of my colleagues to sign this.
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It's all just pageantry. There was nothing that was actually substantial about him signing that.
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Yeah, he kind of has the power to not enforce the carbon tax, which is kind of what he's doing right
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now. But what do you, would you actually have confidence in the man not to bring it back,
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considering that his entire caucus supported it and mocked anyone who didn't like the carbon tax for
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years, including himself? I like how he says, oh, we need to keep our companies competitive. Well,
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that's the problem. They're not being competitive at all. They're literally, they've actually hurt
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them. Look, there's another video they posted about this. But yeah, they're not making our companies
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competitive. They're keeping the industrial carbon tax on. And in fact, they are planning on passing the
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consumer carbon tax cost onto industry, which means that Canadians are still paying it because
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obviously the cost trickles down. So carbon tax canceled. Mark Carney got it done. Mark Carney
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canceled the carbon tax. You'd think they were the ones fighting about it for years. We canceled the
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carbon tax while pure poly of offers empty slogans. We're taking action to fight climate change,
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put more money in our pocket and build a strong economy. This sounds like it was accidentally posted on the
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liberals page, but it was a conservative thing. And they just forgot to say Mark Carney instead of
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pure poly of, they literally just took the conservatives point from the last five years.
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And they're like, oh, look, see, we got rid of it. Here's another one. This is action for Canadian
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city news. Prime Minister Mark Carney decision fried to eliminate the consumer price. We'll see the price
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of gasoline reduced by 17.6 cents on April 1st. And like, what are what? It's terrible. Like this is
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like they have no principle. And I want to highlight this one guy. I think I have it safe. But it was
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hilarious watching like liberals gloating over the fact that they did this. And it's like, weren't you
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the one saying we're stupid if we don't think the carbon tax is actually benefiting people more than
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it's hurting them? It's completely ridiculous that this is actually something that happened.
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I don't think I have it here. But it was like that, like one of those fake doctors who was like
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a paid liberal shill on social media saying looks like the conservatives don't have any policies to
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run anymore. They're so empty. And like, and like they all they have is empty slogans. Like you guys
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don't have anything. All you guys have is doing half of a conservative policy. And then pretending like,
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oh, look, the conservatives never did that for you. Like, yeah, they're not in government.
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You guys are. And you still didn't technically do it because he's terrified. Mark Carney is of
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calling back the legislature because then he could face criticism. And he doesn't want that right now
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because you know, he's in his honeymoon phase. He's going to try and muscle his way through to the
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next election without getting any criticism and hoping that Canadians rally around the red Canadian
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flag and vote liberal to oppose Donald Trump or something like that. Now, do I really
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think that's going to be the big issue in the next election is Donald Trump? Not really. It might
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be top four, might be top five. Right now, with many pollsters showing as the number one issue,
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I think once an election gets underway or a couple months have passed and there hasn't been an election,
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generally domestic issues are going to come back to the forefront. Very rarely does foreign policy
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or other kind of personality battles or kind of niche issues become the big item. And even then,
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the conservatives can still make the Trump issue a winning issue for the conservatives. Like I've
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been saying, and this is not just something that conservatives need to implement, you guys in your
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own households and your own friend groups and people you meet can implement this too. And if people are
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saying, well, the liberals are going to protect us from the Americans, the conservatives are too pro-American
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for some reason, I guess, because they're conservative and Donald Trump is conservative, which is a
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nonsensical position. But you can just ask them, well, wasn't it the liberals who have made our economy so weak
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that the Americans can take advantage of us? We're an economy so weak that when Doug Ford threatened 25%
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electricity tariffs after Trump announced 25% steel and aluminum tariffs, he folded in less than 24 hours. And it's
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because he doesn't have any padding to push back on. He doesn't have any economic strength. The
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province of Ontario and Canada as a whole is deeply in debt. We're running massive deficits. Our economy
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is actually getting weaker over time when it comes to per capita incomes. Our productivity is really bad
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right now. And we're going to blame the conservatives for not rallying behind the liberals in doing the
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same dumb policies for another four years. That's where the conservatives and conservative individuals
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can push back on the liberals by saying you guys were the ones who basically made Canada so vulnerable
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that anybody could take a piece from us. The Chinese are currently threatening us with 100%
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tariffs on canola oil and other things, as well as like 25 to 50 to even 100% tariffs on other
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agricultural products, as well as seafood, to the point where the entire BC seafood industry could get
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completely wiped out. And by the way, the BC NDP and David Eby haven't said a word about it.
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They've been attacking Americans. They've been taking American wines off liquor store shelves.
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But have they raised a finger to wag at the Chinese for trying to implement even tougher tariffs? Yes,
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we did tariff Chinese electric vehicles. But that's because they are not very good quality. And there is
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kind of a like, you know, also a industry capture element where they will literally offload electric
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vehicles for below their actual manufacturing price just to destroy your own auto sector. And in response to
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that, plus, I also don't care about their economy considering they're a dictatorship. And in response to that,
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they're going to try and tariff 100% of our canola. We also tariff things that the Americans want to sell into
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our country, like cheese, dairy, softwood, lumber, a lot of other things. So it's so hypocritical that
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with a similar situation, but with the CCP, the liberals federally, and the NDP in British Columbia
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provincially, as well as other jurisdictions around Canada, haven't said a word, because they're scared
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of the CCP. They're scared of criticizing them. But they think it's a free for all when you can go
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after Trump. And should Trump be criticized for the tariffs? Sure. From Canada's perspective,
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we don't want tariffs on our imports. At the same time, we kind of look stupid when we've had import tariffs
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on them for literally decades. And then when they put up a tariff on our steel and aluminum, we get very upset,
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even though historically, we've always had more tariffs on their products than they've had tariffs on our
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products. In fact, outside of economies like Singapore and others, where they obviously need everything
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important, and they'd be stupid to tariff any of it. America is one of the biggest manufacturing hubs
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in the world, service hubs, all that stuff. They have some of the lowest tariffs on other countries.
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And then when they finally raise tariffs on other people, everyone sets their hair on fire.
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Do I want those tariffs going up? No. But the problem is we have put ourselves in a losing position
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for no reason, because we look like hypocrites. And we weakened our economy to the point where if Trump
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tariffs us, well, we're dead. We're basically dead because we've bankrupted ourselves. It's like the
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Canadian politicians are really mad at Trump because it's their job to hurt Canadians. Now he's hurting
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Canadians. And don't you know, Donald Trump, that it's our job to kick Canadians in the pants?
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But anyways, that's a little bit of a rant there. But yeah, I think right now, this is going to be a
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long-term issue. And I think it's a good angle that Polyev has taken on this to go after the
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liberals on the industrial side of the carbon tax, making it look like Carney is only willing to do
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half measures and he is still mostly like Justin Trudeau. Anyways, so that should be it for this
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video, guys. I'm probably going to be back later today talking about polls again, but not a polling
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update where I'm telling you what the horse race is looking like. I want to demonstrate what a response
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bias is, because some of you have already pointed out to me on social media, I saw the poll from Angus
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Reid showing that right now, Justin Trudeau, after leaving office, now has a near neutral net approval
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rating. His approval rating has shot up and his disapproval rating has shot down. This is what I mean when
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there is a response bias in the polling, because Mark Carney is the shiny new toy, and Justin Trudeau has
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finally left us alone. Their approval ratings are going up and Justin Trudeau's disapproval ratings are
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going down. This isn't real. This is not what actually Canadians think. It's not because Angus
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Reid is rigging the polls. In fact, Angus Reid is personally a conservative guy. I think they are just
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not properly making up for in their samples for the fact that they are having a lot of liberals
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responding to their polls, and that the phrasing of their questions is making a lot of people willing
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to say nice things just simply because Mark Carney is the new prime minister. If you ask people,
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do you think Mark Carney is going to be significantly different than Justin Trudeau?
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Things change a lot. In fact, Abacus Data even asked people, do you think that Mark Carney is
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just like Justin Trudeau? If people say yes to that, they are very unlikely to vote for Mark Carney.
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If they believe he is significantly different, they are more willing to vote for Mark Carney.
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So now, the conservative mission, this next election, is to make sure people know that Mark Carney
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was the economic advisor for four or five years. It's not even that Carney is like Trudeau. It's
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that Trudeau is like Carney because Carney told him to do everything over the past four or five
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years. Even Freeland technically can't be blamed. It was all Carney's idea. And now he's swinging into
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office pretending that he had nothing to do the last four or five years, and he is the fresh breath
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of air that Canada needed. So that's kind of where we're at right now at the field. Expect that video a
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