Poilievre embarrasses Liberal propagandist live on air!
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A great interview with Conservative Party Leader Pierre Polyvenc on CBC's "Your Turn" where he takes a liberal propagandist's questions live on air and answers them. He also criticizes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his lack of progress on pipeline projects.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I need to show you a great interview on CBC with Federal
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Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev. And when I say it's great, I mean that it's great
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to see Pierre Polyev taking down a liberal propagandist live on air. It's not a super
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contentious interview, but Polyev ends up having to deal with this person constantly
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trying to throw liberal talking points past him that are easily debunkable or are effectively
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not real questions, just attacks on what he had said. This is not a real interview, and
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I think Polyev handles it great. You can in fact take a terrible interviewer and make
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it the best interview of your entire career. I wouldn't characterize this as that for Polyev.
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He's had a lot of great interviews, but this is just a good example in general. But before
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we get into it, I just want to remind you guys that if you like the channel, make sure to
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what you think. I also forgot to mention this in my video yesterday because I had to re-record
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it so many times. I wasn't wearing my normal button-up shirt or sweater in it because I
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literally walked three hours from the Abbotsford airport to my hotel and was so exhausted I
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just couldn't be bothered anymore. But anyways, let's get right into it. I want to show you
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some segments from this interview. They're kind of back-to-back, so we will be watching a good
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portion of it, but I will also be linking the full version in the description below as
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well as pinned at the top of the comments so you guys can see everything that I'm not
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going to talk about. But we're first going to start off with Polyev criticizing Kearney
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on major projects. Yes, he announced five major projects, but the problem is some of them have
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been literally waiting for approvals for years. Some of them are just minor expansions to a project
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that was already meant to have an expansion, and so Kearney effectively announced nothing. He
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announced that we are going to take a look and potentially fast-track projects that are already
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way behind and should have just been approved now. He's not even approving them. He's giving it to
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the major projects office to look at and potentially approve. But here is Pierre Polyev talking to this
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CBC host. With achievement. Lots of meetings, lots of politicians patting themselves on the backs.
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So is Danielle Smith confused then? Is that what you're saying? If you look at the actual results,
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there have been none. As for a pipeline to the Pacific, we already had one. It was called the
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Northern Gateway. Justin Trudeau killed it. Well, the courts said that there was not sufficient
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consultation. With respect, the justice... That's ridiculous. Well, you know what? The court said this.
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Okay, well, lady, look at all the discourse about that court case. It was a ridiculous court case
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where they said that you just can't build it because there wasn't enough consultation with
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indigenous groups. But the problem is, is that right now in the law, there's no way of actually
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sufficiently consulting, especially because in situations like with the Wet'suwet'en, the ban
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council can literally vote in favor of the project. But then you'll have a hereditary chief just walk out
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of the woods and say, oh, no, no, we can't do it because I say no. It's like, well, yeah, activist judges
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will block anything. And that's why we need laws that just mass approve these projects and can go
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around these ridiculous courts. The project was approved and the Trudeau cabinet killed it.
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They vetoed it. That is a fact. And so that was a multi-billion dollar project that would have been
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completed seven or eight years ago. Mr. Carney testified against that project. So this might be
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another... When you're saying testified at a parliamentary committee. He did. He testified
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at a parliamentary committee against a pipeline from Hardesty, Alberta to Kitimat, BC, which is
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exactly the project with some very minor modifications that Ms. Smith is pushing for now. So we're hoping
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that Mr. Carney has flip-flopped on this and he'll go ahead with it. But what I would really say on this
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is when it comes to these projects, we have 38 projects the federal government has been holding up
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that are in the Impact Assessment Act system already. They're in progress right now. They only
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need to get a permit to go ahead. They don't need a government grant, a government handout,
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a press release, a photo op. They really need one thing from Mark Carney. Get out of the way.
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And this is the problem. I'm going to take this thing off screen for a second. And Polly, I was absolutely
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right about this, is that Carney and the liberals are getting so much praise from the media. This is
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where they become stenographers. They are playing everything that Carney is saying as an achievement
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because he says it's an achievement. Oh, look, we're moving ahead on major projects, even though
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Polly can say there are dozens of more projects that literally just need your sign off and they can get
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off the ground right now and he won't do it. That's pathetic. The media should be covering just
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how many projects literally could be could be started right now if he just actually have his
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cabinet basically just signed off on it. They could do it now. ASAP. They didn't even need Bill C-5 to do
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it. They could have already done it. Cabinet already has the power to overrule regulations or special
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circumstances. And so when the media acts like, oh, well, you're not satisfied with it, but other people
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say they're satisfied. Of course, Smith, of course, other premiers are going to say they're okay with
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this. What are they going to get into a fight with Carney at the same time they're trying to court him
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into actually maybe doing something for them? They're going to play their cards well. And I think
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if that they don't see a pipeline for Alberta in by the end of the year, you will see Premier Smith
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open up on Mark Carney. But obviously, right after a meeting with him, you have to play your cards
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right and you're not going to look like you're the problem in being contentious. You're going to have
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the ball be in his court, see if he screws up, then you can call him out for it. But now we can get
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back to the interview here. Grant a permit so that private money can build private projects that
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actually make money for our country rather than cost the taxpayer. I still do not understand though
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why you are saying he's in the way, nothing to see here. The office, you know, you're dismissing it
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as one employee. That's the CEO. I don't know how many other people have or haven't been hired.
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Um, but, but you have Daniel Smith, Tim Houston, Wob Canu, the business community themselves saying,
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this is important. Uh, Daniel Smith saying, be patient. How is it that you're saying nothing to
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see here when so many other people seem to think across the political spectrum, seem to think that
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this is meaningful? The thing is, it's such a stupid thing for her to say. He's already described
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why this is not that big a deal is that these are not even projects are fast tracking. The,
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the major projects office are, is just going to take on these projects and evaluate what them,
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whether or not they should be fast tracked. These are things that could have been signed off not
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only now, but could have been signed off years ago. And remember Carney was the economic advisor
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to Trudeau and somehow he never advised him to speed any of these projects up. The thing is that
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Polioff's not taking stupid nonsense at face value. Premiers sometimes have to take the prime
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minister's stupid nonsense at face value. But when you're opposition leader, you can actually be a
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little bit more pointed about the lack of achievements from the government. But so she
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references all these premiers. And I think that Polioff handles it very well. Again, I think she's
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right. We have to be patient because of Mark Carney's, uh, snail's pace. Um, I mean,
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but that's not what she's saying. What I'm saying is that, that Mark Carney has been prime minister
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for six months. Now he promised that we would move at unprecedented speeds, uh, that this was like
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wartime six months has gone by. Let me give you an example. The Germans built an import terminal
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for LNG from concept. And I just want to mention too, media never brings up the Carney comments from
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the election. Like they'll mention them, but usually only in the context that a conservative
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is bringing them up and trying to hold them accountable. But you think the media would have
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had way more articles and way more commentary on why are we taking a summer break? Didn't he say that
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we're in a crisis and we got to get moving? This is the problem is that in the media, there isn't
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that sort of memory of anything Carney's ever said because they're deliberately foolish. These
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people know that Carney promised all this stuff and he's contradicting himself by taking this long
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summer break and not really having any projects that are worth having these five very minor projects
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that he's potentially going to approve. They just act like completely unskeptical. Even an old
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Smith likes it. Smith just said, be patient. She isn't even saying he's doing a great
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job. She's just saying that at some point we may actually be able to get something. Implying that
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right now we're not getting something because you have to be patient. To completion in 194 days.
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That is not the permit or the announcement or the press release. That means the thing was
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functional in about the amount of time Mark Carney has been prime minister, during which time he has
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not approved a single major project. What he has done is taken five projects that were basically
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approved already, sent them to yet another bureaucracy, which is going to review them and
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consider them going ahead. And there is not an oil pipeline on that list. I don't want to be
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negative, so I'm going to be positive here. We're proposing the Canadian Sovereignty Act, which would
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get the government out of the way so that we could rapidly build, the private industry without taxpayer
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subsidies could build pipelines, mines, LNG terminals, nuclear plants, and more. It would expedite the 38
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projects that have been waiting for federal approval, and it would invite the hundreds more that the
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federal government is blocking, according to Scott Moe. So let's pass. And this is another thing that the
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media ignores, is that when the government was justifying, when the sources in the government were
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justifying why there wasn't a pipeline on the list, it should tell them that there's not going to be a
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pipeline. Because their own excuse was that there wasn't a business case for it, because no private
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company wants to put up all the money, not realizing that the reason that nobody wants to put up all the
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money is that the amount of money is excessive because of government regulations and taxes. If you solve the
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regulation problem, all the restrictions in legislation on tankers and on building pipelines, because you have to
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have all these extra environmental reviews and consultations, you could get it done. But they act
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like this is just reality. Oh, it just can't happen because they can't put up enough money. As if the
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regulations are like from nature, and they cannot be taken away because it's just a fundamental reality
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of life in Canada. I guess it is a fundamental reality with the liberal government. But it doesn't
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have to be this way. But they act like this is just default. And the media should be far more skeptical
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about any liberal just saying that, oh, it's just the business won't put up enough money. Well, what are you guys
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doing to make it easier for business to put up the money? We're not saying grants. We're saying,
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is there any way that you're going to suspend some regulations for them or rescind some or give them
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a tax break so they can build this thing? No, no skepticism at all from the CBC. And the CBC was the
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one who did the original reporting on why no pipelines, and they just said, oh, there's no business case.
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That's the sovereignty. I'm offering Mark Carney to take the act and pass it. I'll give him credit for it.
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Again, Scott most of the time there were 100 projects that were priorities. He did not say the federal
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government was blocking it. But I want to talk to you about a related issue here, which is...
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Again, that's another snipe across, trying to throw another ball across home plate there,
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where she's saying, well, he just said there was a bunch of projects that were priorities.
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Okay. So why aren't we fast-tracking those ones? That's the thing. Yes, nobody thinks these are
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federal projects. It's all going to be their own projects. And yeah, like Scott Moe never said that
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the government was specifically holding them up. The problem is that regulations hold them up.
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The problem is the system holds them up. And he's supposed to be the guy wanting to fast-track
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this stuff. About emissions, carbon emissions. I've been covering you for years. I cannot recall
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hearing you talk about concerns around climate change. Do you worry about what climate change
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will do to our planet, Pierre Polyev? What a thing to ask a question about in an interview with the
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opposition leader. I haven't felt that you're taking this seriously enough. Why aren't you talking
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about climate and emissions? It's like, what? We're in an economic crisis right now. And by the
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way, our actual per capita emissions keep going down because it turns out it has nothing to do
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with government regulations. Capitalism has been lowering emissions for a very long time because
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people want the fuel that they buy to stretch as far as possible by having more efficient homes and
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engines, all that stuff. It's not the government telling business that they have to value their
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dollar for business to value their dollar and want energy to be more efficient, obviously.
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But the whole idea that we are going to waste Polyev's time, basically with an attack, this is
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effectively an attack saying, I've never heard you talk about climate change. The implication being
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that he doesn't care. He doesn't care about the planet. And if you care about the planet,
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then you can't vote conservative. This is just a crappy question. But anyways, let's get back to it.
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I thought this is where I think he does a really good job of calling out the nonsense about thinking
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that caring equals doing something. Sure. And that's why I'm so disappointed with the very
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problematic approach of the liberal government, which has been to drive up energy costs and block
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projects from going ahead that would help the environment. So are you an environmentalist,
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Pierre Paulian? Sure. You can. What was with that? What was with that voice she had there?
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Oh, you're an environmentalist? Oh, I'm laughing because it's so ridiculous to think that you would
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care. You don't care. You're just an environmental villain. Call me whatever you like. No.
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The environment. So are you an environmentalist, Pierre Paulian? I'm sure you can call me whatever
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you like. No, I want to know what you'd call yourself. Do you? I mean, we are talking about
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like sea levels rising, worried about loss of biodiversity. You worry about those things.
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Sure. And I also have solutions. Like if we were to displace sturdy Asian coal fire plants with clean
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Canadian natural gas, according to the National Bank, we could reduce global emissions by 2.5
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billion tons, which is three times the emissions of all of Canada for a year. And but to do that,
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you need liquefaction terminals like the one that Prime Minister Harper approved, LNG Canada. And we
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shouldn't be talking about having one more. We should be talking about having 18 or 19 LNG
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liquefaction plants. That's the number that were proposed when the Liberals took office.
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And so what I propose, let's take our natural gas, which is very clean, which is very cheap in Canada.
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Right now, we only get $3 per million metric British thermal units. And let's sell it to Asia for $14.
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We could help power the biggest, the most populous continent by getting them off of dirtier coal
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and reducing global emissions. What's she going to say? What's she going to interrupt him
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to say here? He's making good points backed up by the by the woes at the World Bank, the Bank of
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Canada or whatever, like something about that. This is just math. If you replace coal from these
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countries with natural gas from Canada, the overall amount of emissions on the planet will go down.
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And it's not because anyone's mandating that these countries use natural gas. This is in government.
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It's capitalism giving people a more efficient form of energy that they want, but cannot get access to
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because our economy, our country is being run so poorly. We can't build LNG terminals. If we could
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do that, we could build more liquefaction plants. You could export this stuff in much larger quantities.
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Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. But, but, but, but, but,
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it's like populous continent by getting them off of dirtier coal and reducing global emissions.
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And, but the real difference between myself and the, and the liberals on this is they believe in
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keeping it in the ground. Those are Mr. Carney's words, by the way, he wrote them. We can debate
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whether he's, he's flip-flopped on that as well, or are the conservative approach, which is let's use
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our energy to grow the paychecks of our people and protect the environment. I, they believe
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in energy poverty. I believe in energy abundance. And that is the approach that we would take to the
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environment. If you are worried, you say you're worried about climate change. Why have we not
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seen you ever commit to emissions? Oh, it's no, just who cares about the points he was making there?
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It has nothing to do with my talking points. So let's just go back to the talk. Why haven't I,
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why haven't I seen you, uh, hugging a fern, Mr. Polioff? Why, why have I never seen you chained up to a
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redwood tree? You know, I, I don't recall you owning the criterion edition of the Lorax. I, I don't,
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I don't recall ever seeing you, uh, take it, like, take a picture while you're planting saplings.
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What the heck is this interview? Yes, he has a more coherent, uh, vision when it comes to
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climate than the liberals. And she can't have that. So she goes back to, back to saying,
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oh my goodness, I've never seen you block, uh, block an oil tanker with Greenpeace. That's the
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real sign of being caring about the environment. My goodness is, is becoming like the pole pot
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of economics and saying that we need degrowth. Reductions. I just did right now. That's not a
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target. That's saying we should do more to reduce emissions reductions. I love it. I love it.
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She also goes into, to, to, she also goes into the voice of someone who really cares.
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She, she really cares because she's lowering, lowering her voice down to the level where you
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barely hear her. She is at church most levels of speech wondering, Mr. Polio, why haven't I heard
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you talk about it? And then he falls up and you're like, we, what was I just doing?
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About climate change. Why have we not seen you ever commit to emissions reductions?
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I just did right now. That's not a target. That's saying we should do more to reduce,
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to reduce our emissions. That's not about meeting the Paris targets. That's not.
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Who cares about targets? Well, if we're reducing, who cares? If we're reducing the amount of emissions
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per capita, who cares? Oh, no, we need raw emissions going on. What are you going to do,
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Saying our 2030 targets are right, wrong, should be higher, lower.
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The current government is not meeting its emissions targets.
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But I'm asking whether you think those are valuable targets, not about what the federal
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government is doing, which you've been clear about.
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It would be very easy. In fact, it would be much, it'd be very easy to meet all of those
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targets if we include the global reductions that the export of Canadian nuclear and natural
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gas would engender. And so I'd say, sure, not only could we, we could reduce, we could displace
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the equivalent of three years of emissions in Canada by sending our Canadian natural gas over
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to Asia and displacing dirty coal. I mean, you know, the, the.
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You're a racist, Mr. Polly. Don't say dirty coal. That's horrible. Like, I don't even know
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how she can respond to this. I think she just tries to move on.
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Asian economies are adding these coal fire plants one after the other, because they don't
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have access to affordable natural gas. We have the most affordable gas. It's easy for
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us to liquefy it because our cold climate does most of the work. And we have the shortest
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shipping distances to both Asia and Europe of any country in the Americas. So why would
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we not use that kind of pragmatic approach that enriches rather than impoverishes us?
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I want to turn to another one of your policy proposals here.
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Oh, we got to move on. We have to move on. What is this point that she's trying to bring
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Oh, our time is finite. I can't, I can't, we can't talk about the nonsense. I'm, I just,
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you, the nonsense I've been saying that you like destroyed.
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On the government to get rid of the temporary foreign worker program.
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Oh yeah. Okay. She's just fully moving on to saying else. So if you guys want to see
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the full version of that interview, linked in the description below, pinned at the top
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of the comments, like, yeah, I love seeing CBC journalists get destroyed like this. And
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that was someone being destroyed. She, she has this soft tone. Well, I've never seen you,
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Mr. Polyev, you know, I've never seen you play in the mud and declare your fealty to mother
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earth. Well, how can you be an environmentalist? Oh, we got to move on. We got to move on.
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Another topic. My goodness. So that was a great moment for Pierre Polyev. And I
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hope to see him destroy people like this more in the future. But yeah, it's just the, it's only
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liberal talking point. It's just trying to sow doubt in the viewer's mind that whatever he's
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saying doesn't really, it's not, it's not good enough. Or what he's, what he's saying is a
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deflection because where's your, where's your Paris targets? Well, why, which target do you
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prefer? Who cares? And that's a good point. The government doesn't hit their, hit their targets
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and they're super serious about it apparently. So maybe let's just stop with the stupid targets
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anyways. So with that being said, guys, thanks for watching. Thanks for tuning in. I'm about to go
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off to the 1BC event that we are holding here in Abbotsford. No doubt I'll be telling you guys
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about it in the future. But remember, of course, to like the video, subscribe, leave a comment,
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