Poilievre and Smith rightfully resist Trudeau's ＂Team Canada＂ trick
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Summary
The Team Canada op. The idea that liberal politicians like Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford are trying to get conservatives to drop their principles and join Team Canada to resist Donald Trump and the US tariffing us even though we are probably going to avoid the tariffs by just doing basic border security increases.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I think the most obvious op currently in Canadian politics is the
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Team Canada op being run against Danielle Smith and Pierre Polyev and Scott Moe to a lesser extent.
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The idea that liberal and basically liberal politicians like Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford
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are trying to get conservatives to drop their principles and join Team Canada to resist Donald
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Trump and the United States tariffing us, even though we're probably going to be able to avoid
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the tariffs by just doing basic border security increases, which for some reason David Eby doesn't
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want to do, even though he is the main problem to why drugs and people on the terror watch list are
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crossing the border, because who cares about the law? I just want to jump right into this and talk
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first about what Justin Trudeau has said, the man who is literally a dead prime minister walking at
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this point in his political career. And then I want to get to some of the things that other people
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have said on this that I find absurd and just a way of trying to undermine conservatives principles,
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as well as their commitments to their real constituents. Because Danielle Smith is not
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trying to make Canadians happy. Her job is to make Albertans happy. And you know that I'm not saying
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this just because I want to say something nice about Danielle Smith. I have criticized her in the past.
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I voted no on her in the leadership review because I don't think I want the leader to always get 100%
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yeses when there's still a lot of stuff that we need to reform in Alberta. But without further ado,
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let's jump into what what Justin Trudeau said. But guys, remember, like this video, subscribe to the
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channel, do all that great stuff, help us get to 100,000 subscribers by December. And here's Justin
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Trudeau on the official Liberal Party, x account saying, Pierre Polyev has a choice to make. And
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this is all about the whole Team Canada op, or what I'm at least calling the Team Canada op.
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Right now, Pierre Polyev, who wants to be prime minister for all Canadians has a choice to make.
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Either he stands up to fight for all Canadians alongside all premiers, and the federal government
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that are doing that. Or he chooses to stand with Danielle Smith, Kevin O'Leary, and ultimately,
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He's why is he even doing this? Why did the Liberal Party release a video of the guy who is not even
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running in the next election trying to shame Pierre Polyev? I hate the line that are you on Team Canada?
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Are you going to fight for all Canadians? What do you mean by all Canadians? Like, actually,
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what do you mean by that? Because apparently, all Canadians don't want us to do substantial tax
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reform, to deregulate, to be more competitive against the US economically, to crack down on
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illegal border crossings of terrorists, literal people on the terror watch list. Because while we
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don't have millions of people pouring over our border into the United States the way that illegal
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migrants are coming over the Mexican border into the US, we have 10 times the amount of people on the
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terror watch list crossing from Canada into the US than Mexico does. We have fentanyl going into their
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country. And by the way, they have drugs coming into our country and guns. If Polyev and Smith have
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actually had the correct take on all this, they're not saying, I agree with Trump. I'm going to do
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whatever makes Trump happy. That's not their job either. They're supposed to make their constituents happy.
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Polyev's constituents are Canadians, but he is supposed to actually serve those Canadians,
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not play liberal games and try and form up with Team Canada because it's the patriotic thing to do
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because we have said so. He is saying that, yes, he has some concerns about border security. We will
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meet them. But we also expect that the US has to make, has to like firm up their protections on the
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border because they have illegal guns coming into our country. He had a perfectly fine stance and he
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wants to lower taxes. He wants to deregulate. He wants the carbon tax to be, he wants the carbon tax
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gone, which now apparently Christy Freeland and Mark Carney also want to do. That is actually more
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pro-Canada rather than having a bunch of premiers sit along a table and talk about how serious this is.
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They haven't done anything. Ford and EB and Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh saying that we need to have
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retaliatory tariffs against the US, or I guess that's only something that EB and Singh have said,
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but they all say we need to be on a war footing. We need to be like ready to go when the 25% tariffs
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come into play. None of you have even done a second, have done a second of negotiating with the US on
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what we need to do to avoid tariffs. And you can make that a hardball talk saying that we'll have to
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raise tariffs. If you guys aren't giving us a fair way of being able to increase border security and
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avoid these tariffs, we could easily do that. But none of them are doing it. This is all political
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grandstanding. You have Doug Ford out there wearing the stupid like Canada's not for sale hat.
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Guys, stop playing into the stupid Trump negotiating tactic. He brings up Canada, 51st state, and he's made
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you guys all running around setting your hair on fire about how Canada can't be the 51st state.
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He's not serious. He's getting you to stop talking about serious trade positions that you have and
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instead talk about this other stupid thing. But anyways, let's move on to what Daniel Smith actually
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said, which I thought was a perfectly reasonable stance to take in this current situation.
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She directly addresses the Team Canada approach and what I am again labeling as an op. And what I mean
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by an op is that it is a political operation to try and make conservatives basically become less
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principled in order to be patriotic, which is not at all necessary. And I think it is in fact just a way
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of trying to get the conservatives to stop criticizing liberal policies because it is Canadian policy.
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But Smith here says, the Premier of Alberta, how about this for building a quote unquote Team Canada
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approach? One, stop threatening the livelihoods of tens of thousands of Albertans and Canadians
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via an energy export tax or ban. Two, immediately start constructing on construction on the Northern
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Gateway and Energy East pipelines to diversify our customer base to Europe, Asia, and our own country.
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Three, tell Germany, Japan, and the rest of the world that there is in fact a business case
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for Canadian oil and gas to be sold to them. Four, repeal the unconstitutional and job-killing
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production cap, electricity regs, and C-69, including C-48, the tanker ban. Five, treat with respect
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and as an equal partner the Alberta taxpayers that have been transferring hundreds of billions to
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Quebec, the Maritimes, and even Ontario for decades. That is a good side swipe of Doug Ford,
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who absolutely deserves it here. She finishes off saying, let's start there on building our quote unquote
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Team Canada approach, shall we? And it has this good graphic right here. Great statement by
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Danielle Smith. And as you guys know, I am not somebody who will artificially praise Danielle
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Smith. Oh, she's so good like some people do. Oh, she's the queen, blah, blah, blah. She's good on
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some stuff. Crime, drug policy, parental rights policy, very good in Alberta. She still needs to cut
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income taxes. She still needs to reduce spending. Spending's gone up under her in ways that it really
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didn't need to. But this was a great statement because these premiers are in fact being hacks.
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So look right here. I'm going to bring up this other thing that Doug Ford said because he's doing
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this whole, oh, well, team Alberta is included in Team Canada. Of course there is. We're still in
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favor of protecting your jurisdiction. Protect your jurisdiction. A country comes first. Canada is a
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priority. So protect your jurisdiction, saying this to Daniel Smith. So protect your jurisdiction,
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Daniel Smith, i.e. Alberta, but country comes first. It can't be your constituents, your jurisdictions
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comes first, or your jurisdiction are important, but country comes first. That means they're
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subservient to Canada. That means that Alberta's priorities are of a lesser importance to Canada's
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priorities. And let's be clear, Ontario's priorities. Doug Ford has 40% plus of the population
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in his province. And he is basically saying that Alberta, who is not as big of a part of Canada,
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owes deference to Ontario because we have more warm bodies here and that you should be joining with us
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and not agreeing with anything Trump says, even though some of his demands are reasonable that we
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like firm up on border security. By the way, Trump thinks that Biden's been doing a bad job on
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border security. If anyone's not noticed, he's also going to increase border security. This is
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something we can partner on. And Smith has been doing smart things by going and befriending Trump,
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talking about things that we will work on and things that they can work on. That's a real
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negotiation. Instead, all these premiers are sitting flanked around Doug Ford and Trudeau,
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talking about how we need to have a team Canada approach and we got to prepare for the worst. How about
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we just try and make it a good relationship instead of doing this artificial, like bunkering down,
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trying to survive the onslaught of 25% tariffs? The tariffs will not happen if we do
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things that you just need a lukewarm intelligence to do. Firm up border security,
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write up a new trade position on things that maybe will drop a protection here if they drop a protection
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there. Do something that puts us in a actual solid position to come out on top in a trade
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negotiation. But instead, they're all basically on their back heels playing defense only.
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Protect your jurisdiction, but country comes first. Canada is a priority. And I don't believe in
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jeopardizing one sector or another. Premier Smith's oil is Ontario's auto sector. When Donald Trump comes
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at us, he's not going to say it. And by the way, sorry, Alberta's oil and gas sector is not Ontario's
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auto sector because the auto sector in Ontario is like 50% fake at this point. It is subsidies
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through and through. It is subsidies all the way down. He has partnered with Justin Trudeau. By the way,
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if you live in Ontario, vote or even consider running for the new blue party of Ontario because the PCs
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are basically just the blue version of the Liberals. The Liberals are the red version of the NDP.
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All three of those parties basically agree on like 95% of stuff. Yeah, the PCs are technically
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better than the Liberals, but in such a minor technical sense that I think the difference
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between the Liberals and the PCs in Ontario are closer than even the differences between O'Toole
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and Justin Trudeau, which were very minor. So vote or run for the new blue party because this guy sucks.
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But no, the Alberta oil and gas industry, that's an insult to the oil and gas industry,
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is not your subsidized bloated EV battery plants and electric car manufacturing plants that you're
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subsidizing with Trudeau's federal government. When Donald Trump comes at us, he's not going to say,
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well, let's not worry about Ontario. They're good people or Alberta. He's coming full tilt
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at Canadians as a whole. The interests of this country. You're not coming full tilt because he
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just said, oh, I want you guys to take border security more seriously, which we honestly haven't
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been. That's why there's just a lot. We literally facilitated illegal migration on Roxham Road. Not
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as bad as illegal migration on the southern border of the US, but obviously we don't seem to take that
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much care about crime and illegal activities around the border. That's why we have tons of guns
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all over our major cities, which are, we're illegally smuggled into Canada because we just
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don't really care to monitor the border that close.
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The country means we're going to have to hold. The interests of this country means we're going
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to have to look at everything we can and we'll make sure that it's fair across the country,
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but nothing can be off the table if the US continues to choose to move forward with these
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Of course, Justin Trudeau knows what's good for the country. That's why it took him until
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January 7th to realize that maybe he shouldn't be the prime minister anymore. And he's still going
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to be the prime minister until sometime in March. Oh my goodness. No, no. What he's proposing there
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about nothing can be off the table is that Alberta should be agreeing to not send oil and gas products
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to the US if we get into a trade war. How about, if nothing's off the table, how about you go down
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to Mar-a-Lago to have a serious discussion with Trump or go to his inauguration to have a serious
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discussion on border security and trade? Not going down and seeing what's up with Trump and maybe you
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shouldn't tariff us, please, we're very scared, but not actually make any commitments on border security.
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He almost at one point did, and then he just went back into this sort of Canadian patriotism
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war footing thing that Doug Ford and people like David Eby are doing. The dumbest of MPs sounded off
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on this, Mark Gerritsen. I need to bring this back up on screen. He posted this graphic and said,
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there is no place for aspiring leaders to be silent at a time like this. Because the idea is that
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Poliev should now condemn Donald Trump and Daniel Smith. In fact, Daniel Smith is currently
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quarterbacking this issue for Canada, and Pierre Poliev has been taking the right stance that he can
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take as the opposition leader that there are some reasonable demands on both sides and we can come to
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an agreement. Perfect. Good. But he quotes, he then posts this graphic with the quote,
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Conservative leader Pierre Poliev won't say whether he backs the premier's and prime minister's threat
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to impose export tariffs or restrict the supply of oil and gas bound for the United States as a
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possible response to President-elect Donald Trump's promise to tariff, promise tariff for Zim. It's not
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promised. It's threatened if you don't do basic border security. And he is quoting the CBC who has done a
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truly bad job of reporting on this issue. But I must now bring up one more man's response to this whole
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issue. And that is Premier David Eby, who is the problem child of Canada right now. He is quite
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literally the man who is allowing for fentanyl to flood into the United States. He is the guy who has
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decriminalized drugs. And there are drug manufacturing facilities, like making and processing illegal drugs
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that are within like kilometers of the US border. You think the Americans are not going to have a
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problem with us when they just arrested a Canadian trucker from BC with $32 million of drugs in his
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truck in Arizona. We just had two large drug busts in small towns along the border in BC. Do you think
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the Americans aren't going to bring that up? If we start to say work, why do you think we should have
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to increase border security? Because of stuff like that. Do the Americans have to do it too? Yes.
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And Trump is already doing that. We take this deadly seriously. Do you? Do you, David?
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In terms of the impact on somebody that loses their job. He doesn't care about the 6,000 private
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sector workers who just lost their job, because technically we gained jobs this month because we
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we hired 12,000 public sector jobs. I cannot stand this guy. He's such a hypocrite. And our projections are
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that we're foregoing more than 100,000 jobs and people actively losing employment in this province
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as a result of these tariffs. I want people to know that we're going to do everything we can.
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Except cut provincial taxes, by the way. He won't do any of that. That insane. Make our economy freer?
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Insane. That's ridiculous. To do two things. One is to respond and to make sure the people who are
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inflicting on this, inflicting this on us, that they feel it back and they get the message about
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how important it is that we work together, not at odds, but also that we're going to be there for
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them. That we're going to structure government in a way to respond to this new reality. That we
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understand it's a new reality and we're going to make sure we deliver for them. He's not going to
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restructure government in an effective way here. He's not going to get government out of the way so
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that BC is just a lower tax jurisdiction and we actually suck jobs up from Oregon and Washington
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into our area. No, he's going to put up tariffs. He's going to try and put restrictions on American
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products. It's so silly. I honestly think some of these premiers know the tariffs are not coming.
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So they're trying to act all tough and puff out their chests and act like,
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you know, really, we're not going to be taking your guff, Trump. At the same time,
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they're secretly increasing border security behind the scenes a little bit. And when Trump says,
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okay, you guys increase border security, no tariffs. They're going to be like, see,
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we scared them, even though they had nothing to do with it. And these are still complete clowns
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pretending like they actually have, like they're like tough leaders of their provinces. They're
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bureaucrats. They have taxed their provinces to death. The top marginal tax rate right now
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in Ontario combined with the federal top marginal tax rate is like 53%. And that's not even taking
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in other taxes into account, as well as your property tax. Ontario does this really weaselly
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thing where technically its top marginal tax rate for personal income taxes is 13%. But it's really 20%
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because they tax you more once you've given them a certain amount of money. So past $5,000,
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they tax another 25% on what you've paid, and then past $7,200 of taxes paid, you then owe them
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another 33% taxes on everything you've paid past $7,000. It's nuts. These people don't know what
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they're talking about. They're the ones who have been losing jobs year after year for Canadians.
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They're the ones who have been making it harder to live. They're the ones causing inflation,
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specifically the federal government. And they're now going to look down their nose at Daniel Smith and
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Pierre Polioff because they're not joining the setting your hair on fire club. No, this is stupid.
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Again, if you live in Ontario, vote for the new blue party. It's an actual conservative party,
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and it's basically running on the on the idea that maybe we should fulfill the actual promises
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the PCs made in 2018 to cut taxes, cut wasteful spending, you know, actually stand up for parental
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rights, actually reform the education system, all that stuff. Vote for the new blue party if you're
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Ontario. In BC, vote for the BC Conservatives. And I give Daniel Smith props and I was always going to
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be voting UCP next election, but I'm doing it even harder now. Anyways, so that's it for me today,
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guys. Remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel. Hopefully this whole video wasn't too
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ranty for you. I have an interview coming out tomorrow with JJ McCullough, a great Canadian YouTuber,
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almost at a million subscribers. So I appreciate he has condescended to me to come on to my channel
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that is much smaller. But it was a great discussion, kind of a chat that goes all over the place. But
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hopefully you guys like that sort of thing. And I'll see you guys next time.