The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Poilievre's Conservatives hit record high in polls - Jagmeet Singh opposes Carbon Tax

00:00:00.000 Hello everyone, Wyatt Claypool here, and we have some very good news and some very weird news to talk about today.

00:00:08.340 I want to go through both pieces in this video.

00:00:11.840 First off, we have very good polling news for the Conservative Party of Canada.

00:00:16.480 And then second, which is the weird news, is that Jagmeet Singh and the federal NDP are now apparently against the federal carbon tax,

00:00:26.260 which is something I can genuinely say I did not expect.

00:00:29.400 In fact, I've been making fun of Jagmeet Singh for like the last two years for just being incompetent at politics.

00:00:36.780 He doesn't know how to position himself on an issue.

00:00:39.760 And for the first time ever, I'm going to say, good move, Jagmeet.

00:00:43.240 That's actually a solid position to take.

00:00:45.600 Does it contradict everything he's said over the past seven years?

00:00:49.820 Yes. Yes, it does.

00:00:51.920 At the same time, it's still smart for him to do.

00:00:54.800 Anyways, first, let's get into this new poll from Ipsos.

00:01:01.100 It shows the Conservative Party of Canada currently at its strongest position ever in the polls.

00:01:07.140 We've seen polls where the pure poly of conservatives are at 44%, 43%, but never 45%.

00:01:14.800 45% is like 230 seats territory.

00:01:19.500 And even though this poll is showing the Liberals doing a little bit better than some of the other polls have been showing them,

00:01:26.140 you know, a lot of other polling firms have them at 22%, 23%.

00:01:29.860 This one has them at 26%.

00:01:32.000 And I think this poll does actually kind of reveal why the NDP is now ripping up its supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals

00:01:41.200 and taking this anti-carm tax position.

00:01:43.260 They are only polling at 16%.

00:01:45.600 Despite the fact that this poll shows the Liberals down about 7% since last election,

00:01:52.660 the NDP is still also somehow down because the NDP is no different than the Liberals.

00:01:57.960 And to be clear, as much as Jagmeet Singh is pretending that because he's ripped up the supply and confidence agreement

00:02:05.100 that he is now against the Liberals, this carbon tax, this anti-carbon tax stance that Jagmeet Singh has taken

00:02:11.940 is evidence to the idea that he's going to be more aggressive on the Liberals.

00:02:16.780 But overall, he still agrees with them on 99% of issues.

00:02:21.380 He's still going to have his party mostly vote with the Liberals

00:02:24.580 or symbolically vote against them here or there whenever there is, you know,

00:02:29.880 a vote where they know the bloc's going to back up the Liberals and it's not going to trigger.

00:02:33.500 But before I move on to talking about Jagmeet Singh and the carbon tax more in depth,

00:02:39.620 I want to move over to another polling result that I thought was quite telling about the position

00:02:45.220 that the Liberals are specifically in right now.

00:02:48.420 I'll also talk about it relative to the Conservatives,

00:02:50.720 but it's really hard to pull the Conservatives on this particular issue because of media coverage.

00:02:56.280 But this poll result from, I believe, let's see what the firm is, I don't want to get it wrong,

00:03:02.280 Angus Reid here, it asks people,

00:03:05.240 do you feel the Liberal Party has shifted?

00:03:07.500 And then they answer, you know, more left, more right, or they've stayed the same.

00:03:11.620 Now, when you've asked Canadians this question,

00:03:14.140 29% of people think that the Liberal Party of Canada has moved way more over to the left,

00:03:19.320 14% say a bit more to the left,

00:03:22.160 28% of people say it stayed the same,

00:03:25.580 10% say more right,

00:03:27.440 5% of people say way more right,

00:03:29.920 which really, I think, just suggests that, you know,

00:03:33.220 the NDP will always say,

00:03:34.920 like a lot of people who vote NDP and Liberal

00:03:36.960 will always accuse the Liberals of being right or something.

00:03:41.760 It's because they really aren't any different than the Liberals,

00:03:44.240 so they have to pretend they're corporate or something like that,

00:03:46.760 ergo, they're somehow right-wing.

00:03:49.520 If you think the Liberal Party of Canada and Justin Trudeau are right-wing,

00:03:53.900 I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you,

00:03:56.220 you know, give me a million dollars and I'll pay you back next week in, like, crypto or whatever.

00:04:01.540 If you believe the Liberals are somehow at all center-right even,

00:04:06.520 I don't know what planet you live on.

00:04:08.460 But the fact that you have 29% of people saying that they've gone way more left is very telling.

00:04:15.600 Probably 28% of people who are saying they've stayed the same

00:04:19.320 pretty much encompasses all of the Liberals' current supporters,

00:04:23.040 since you tend to assume your own party has never changed at all.

00:04:27.240 You know, I liked it 20 years ago and I still like it for all the same reasons,

00:04:31.340 even though this is very much not Chrétien or Paul Martin's party.

00:04:34.300 This is a far more ideologically left-wing, progressive Liberal Party.

00:04:39.720 They don't care about economics.

00:04:41.580 They care about ideological purity to the narrative,

00:04:45.520 to the progressive narrative about equity and about diversity and inclusion

00:04:50.040 and whatever else the Liberals believe in.

00:04:53.280 They believe in very abstract, esoteric ideas around, like, fairness,

00:04:58.360 even though they actually make everyone worse off.

00:05:00.660 Although, in a certain sense, that actually makes everything more fair

00:05:04.040 if everyone is similarly broke.

00:05:07.080 But I want to jump over to the Conservatives' polling

00:05:09.540 and just to more so demonstrate why a lot of this polling doesn't really work with Conservatives,

00:05:14.620 because media, in a certain sense, the poll's accurate.

00:05:18.520 In a certain sense, it's not.

00:05:19.840 So it asks people, do you feel the Conservative Party has shifted it,

00:05:23.260 just like the last one?

00:05:24.480 And the results are way more to the right, 29%,

00:05:27.520 a bit more to the right, 19%,

00:05:29.760 stayed the same, 26%,

00:05:31.460 a bit more left, 8%,

00:05:33.160 a way more left, 4%,

00:05:34.740 and which is probably a lot of people who either don't know how politics works

00:05:38.260 or are voting for the PPC.

00:05:40.700 Although, the last poll we looked at,

00:05:43.120 even though it wasn't the same company,

00:05:44.400 only showed 1% of people were voting PPC.

00:05:46.940 But, in a certain sense,

00:05:48.080 it is correct that the Conservative Party has shifted right,

00:05:52.060 especially since Aaron O'Toole.

00:05:54.220 Aaron O'Toole was a center-left Conservative Party leader.

00:05:58.420 He didn't believe in any fundamental Conservative beliefs around social conservatism,

00:06:03.940 around smaller government.

00:06:05.540 He was basically just somebody who wanted to manage the Liberal government

00:06:09.120 slightly more efficiently.

00:06:11.020 And that's not really conservatism in my mind.

00:06:13.720 I think it was a Douglas Murray point

00:06:16.060 that the problem with so many Conservatives,

00:06:18.840 and this very much applies to Conservatives outside of the U.S.,

00:06:22.240 is that they only live to basically manage Liberal governments

00:06:26.920 more conservatively than the people who came before them.

00:06:30.740 They're fighting for values that are not their own.

00:06:34.000 So, they never actually stake out new positions.

00:06:37.920 Pierre Polyev is very successful because he's saying,

00:06:41.380 okay, rather than fighting for a status quo that's not our own,

00:06:45.100 how about we fight for a vision of a new status quo that we can establish

00:06:49.160 and then defend, rather than, like, the Aaron O'Toole's of the world

00:06:53.320 who defend the status quo of, like, 2017.

00:06:57.640 Wouldn't it be great if we could bring things back to 2017?

00:07:00.880 2017 wasn't that good either.

00:07:03.120 Yeah, I'd take it over 2024,

00:07:05.080 but we still had Justin Trudeau back then,

00:07:07.840 and everything we have going wrong now

00:07:10.320 is a consequence of things happening back in 2017.

00:07:13.880 So, that's where Aaron O'Toole couldn't even bring himself

00:07:16.860 to be against the carbon tax.

00:07:18.760 But now, smooth transition,

00:07:21.060 we have Jagmeet Singh and the federal NDP

00:07:23.860 saying they are against the carbon tax,

00:07:26.480 or at least intimating they are.

00:07:28.120 What they're going to do is this kind of theater.

00:07:30.700 They're going to pantomime being against the carbon tax.

00:07:33.720 At the same time, they will justify the existence of the carbon tax.

00:07:37.600 Just say, oh, it shouldn't be applying to normal, everyday people.

00:07:40.600 It should just apply to corporations and oil and gas companies,

00:07:44.040 all that stuff.

00:07:44.920 Before I talk about that more in detail,

00:07:46.980 I just want to shamelessly plug my legal fund

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00:07:55.160 I am in this stupid legal battle 0.99

00:07:57.360 with a Chinese billionaire suing myself 1.00

00:07:59.380 and the National Telegraph

00:08:00.740 for writing an article back in 2020.

00:08:03.580 It's been a while.

00:08:04.400 That basically mentioned a bunch of reporting

00:08:07.440 about him from the Globe and Mail

00:08:09.360 who reported about him a year and a half

00:08:11.980 before we even talked about him.

00:08:14.060 It's ridiculous, but he's suing us for defamation 0.67

00:08:16.380 just to, you know, show that he's powerful or something.

00:08:19.540 And in over two and a half years,

00:08:20.700 he hasn't even provided any evidence

00:08:22.480 that he's been defamed

00:08:24.060 and that we were somehow lying about him.

00:08:26.240 He just, one of the pieces of evidence

00:08:27.940 he submitted to the court

00:08:29.860 was his LinkedIn profile,

00:08:32.280 was his libel notice,

00:08:34.060 his LinkedIn profile,

00:08:35.100 his company website,

00:08:36.680 and I guess our article.

00:08:38.880 He had no actual evidence to prove

00:08:40.540 that we had said anything that was false,

00:08:42.400 which he even acknowledges it wasn't

00:08:44.600 because he never sued the Globe and Mail

00:08:46.060 for reporting on him.

00:08:47.020 And that's our primary source on the guy.

00:08:50.060 Anyways, so if you guys want to contribute,

00:08:51.860 it's costed me over $32,000 fighting this case.

00:08:54.420 You can contribute in the description below

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00:09:00.820 So now Jagmeet Singh,

00:09:02.680 headline from Globe Politics,

00:09:05.780 Singh signals NDP plan to oppose carbon tax,

00:09:09.440 says it puts burden on acts of working people.

00:09:13.180 Oh my goodness, how can I not read that?

00:09:15.180 It feels like I'm dyslexic for a second.

00:09:17.200 But yeah, so he's going with the narrative

00:09:18.840 that the carbon tax is hurting working class people

00:09:21.520 too much these days,

00:09:22.720 which really brings up the question of,

00:09:25.940 well, why, how wasn't it hurting people

00:09:27.860 before this point?

00:09:29.300 Jagmeet Singh has just realized

00:09:30.760 that the carbon tax is not good for the economy. 0.77

00:09:33.060 And when the economy sucks,

00:09:34.440 it's not good for the average person.

00:09:36.540 And this is where Jagmeet Singh

00:09:37.840 is going to try and have his cake and eat it too.

00:09:40.100 Carbon tax, like carbon taxes are fantastic,

00:09:43.420 according to Jagmeet Singh,

00:09:44.920 but not when it hurts working class people.

00:09:46.820 Well, how would you not tax the whole economy

00:09:49.540 and not hurt working class people?

00:09:51.420 You can't.

00:09:52.180 And there's no way of saying that,

00:09:54.640 well, we should just tax the billionaires

00:09:57.060 and millionaires and oil and gas companies

00:09:59.020 and corporations because they're the real polluters. 0.97

00:10:01.940 Okay, well, if you tax them,

00:10:03.940 their prices are going to have to go up.

00:10:05.820 Not because they're mean and greedy,

00:10:07.660 but because they can't run a company

00:10:09.680 on a zero profit basis.

00:10:11.400 That's not how most industries work.

00:10:13.740 You don't do all this hard work

00:10:16.620 to make no progress into the future

00:10:19.400 just to pay for your groceries

00:10:20.680 and to keep the heat on.

00:10:22.420 You work and you expand your company

00:10:25.220 so that you can benefit.

00:10:27.360 But Jagmeet Singh is going to act as if

00:10:30.180 somehow he can isolate the negatives

00:10:33.020 of the carbon tax to just these specific industries.

00:10:36.180 But in a net consequence,

00:10:38.400 that means he's probably going to come out

00:10:39.860 and say that we need to scrap

00:10:41.380 the federal consumer carbon tax

00:10:43.320 and only apply it to industry.

00:10:44.960 I think both need to go,

00:10:46.640 but at least this is progress

00:10:47.820 and puts Justin Trudeau in the corner.

00:10:50.180 Luckily for Justin Trudeau,

00:10:51.920 he still has the Bloc Québécois

00:10:53.480 who will vote for the federal carbon tax

00:10:55.660 all day long because Quebec 0.97

00:10:57.280 already has a provincial carbon tax.

00:10:59.920 And the Bloc Québécois will never vote

00:11:01.940 for something that benefits all Canadians

00:11:04.320 except for Quebecers.

00:11:05.820 And so they will just keep voting 1.00

00:11:07.420 to prop up this stupid carbon tax 1.00

00:11:10.020 until Pure Poly can get into office 1.00

00:11:12.580 and scrap it,

00:11:13.540 at which point I actually would think

00:11:15.520 that the Quebec government

00:11:16.880 would get rid of it.

00:11:17.920 Already in British Columbia, 0.99

00:11:20.180 the absolute coward of a premier 0.99

00:11:21.880 of the province, 0.96

00:11:22.900 David Eby from the BCNDP said,

00:11:25.780 oh, well,

00:11:26.440 if the federal carbon tax goes,

00:11:28.140 we might scrap our own carbon tax.

00:11:29.920 Like, oh goodness, 0.99

00:11:30.840 you coward. 1.00

00:11:31.800 You called Pure Polyev 1.00

00:11:34.120 and his anti-carbon tax campaign

00:11:36.420 a bologna factory

00:11:37.920 when he wrote you

00:11:39.520 a very nice letter

00:11:41.980 asking if you would get on board

00:11:44.420 the anti-carbon tax campaign.

00:11:46.380 But now that Jagmeet Singh,

00:11:48.340 the leader of the party

00:11:49.420 with the fourth most seats

00:11:50.960 in parliament,

00:11:51.680 says that he might be

00:11:52.920 against the carbon tax,

00:11:53.980 David Eby starts falling

00:11:55.020 all over himself

00:11:55.900 to get out there

00:11:56.980 in front of a microphone

00:11:58.000 and say,

00:11:58.460 oh, we might be against

00:11:59.620 the carbon tax too. 1.00

00:12:01.380 He's absolutely pathetic. 0.99

00:12:02.680 I might need to make 1.00

00:12:04.620 an entire other video

00:12:05.760 on David Eby.

00:12:06.940 The man is always

00:12:08.380 like five to ten years

00:12:11.140 behind the times.

00:12:14.020 Every time something happens,

00:12:15.700 he is the last one

00:12:17.100 who seems to get it.

00:12:18.440 And this is no exception.

00:12:20.160 He ended up shooting himself

00:12:21.360 in the foot

00:12:21.800 on the carbon tax

00:12:22.680 multiple times.

00:12:23.860 But then Jagmeet Singh,

00:12:24.980 a man with no real power 0.52

00:12:26.600 in Canada,

00:12:27.440 tells him that he should

00:12:28.680 get rid of the carbon tax.

00:12:30.080 David Eby, you know,

00:12:31.160 stands up straight

00:12:31.920 for the first time

00:12:32.600 in his life and says,

00:12:33.640 maybe we'll get rid

00:12:35.140 of the carbon tax too

00:12:35.960 if Jagmeet Singh's

00:12:36.820 on board with it.

00:12:38.340 But now I want to jump over

00:12:39.980 to the Conservatives' response

00:12:41.760 to Jagmeet Singh

00:12:43.260 and the NDP

00:12:43.820 being against the carbon tax

00:12:45.120 because it's quite brilliant.

00:12:46.740 As much as it is

00:12:48.100 a smart move

00:12:48.740 for Jagmeet Singh

00:12:49.660 to say,

00:12:50.180 I'm a working class leader

00:12:51.360 like Wab Kanu, 0.98

00:12:52.620 I'm against

00:12:53.280 the consumer carbon tax,

00:12:55.120 he also has way too long

00:12:56.720 of a history

00:12:57.360 to actually make this

00:12:58.680 look genuine.

00:12:59.680 It still will probably

00:13:00.580 benefit Jagmeet Singh,

00:13:01.740 but the benefit

00:13:02.780 is heavily dulled

00:13:04.280 from the fact

00:13:04.940 that he couldn't

00:13:06.060 keep his trap shut

00:13:07.220 and he couldn't figure out

00:13:08.420 that voters were

00:13:09.080 against this issue

00:13:10.180 for like a very long time.

00:13:12.820 So here's Pierre Pauly

00:13:13.800 of saying,

00:13:14.780 sellout Jagmeet Singh

00:13:15.860 and the NDP

00:13:16.480 voted 24 times

00:13:17.940 to support Trudeau's

00:13:18.900 carbon tax

00:13:19.540 and his plan

00:13:20.360 to hike it up

00:13:21.140 to 0.61 cents

00:13:23.720 per liter.

00:13:24.460 That's their record.

00:13:25.400 If they want

00:13:26.280 to flip-flop,

00:13:27.200 let them vote

00:13:27.760 to trigger a carbon tax

00:13:28.860 selection now

00:13:29.720 and then this

00:13:30.680 comes along

00:13:31.220 with this video

00:13:31.880 which I think

00:13:32.320 was pretty well done.

00:13:33.220 And it keeps going.

00:14:02.740 This video is literally

00:14:03.700 a minute and 15 seconds long

00:14:05.660 and that's only

00:14:06.140 the first 29 seconds.

00:14:08.560 I think it will win

00:14:09.740 Jagmeet Singh some votes.

00:14:11.080 Will it throw some progressives

00:14:12.420 back over to the liberals?

00:14:13.960 Maybe.

00:14:14.740 If this hurts Jagmeet Singh

00:14:16.200 in the polls,

00:14:17.080 in theory,

00:14:17.840 in theory,

00:14:18.380 it should help him.

00:14:19.520 If it does hurt him,

00:14:20.880 I think that will just prove

00:14:22.220 that he has overloaded

00:14:24.400 his own party

00:14:25.340 with so many progressive,

00:14:27.140 you know,

00:14:27.820 climate alarmist activists

00:14:29.160 that now when he tries

00:14:30.640 to take the sensible position,

00:14:32.100 they all abandon him.

00:14:33.300 But the people

00:14:33.980 who are already

00:14:34.720 against the carbon tax

00:14:35.820 are pretty much

00:14:36.680 all voting conservative already.

00:14:38.760 So I could be wrong

00:14:40.320 when I say

00:14:40.740 that this could help him.

00:14:41.800 That's how it might hurt him.

00:14:43.920 But for the most part,

00:14:45.580 it was a surprising move

00:14:46.760 by Singh

00:14:47.220 and I actually,

00:14:48.300 you know,

00:14:49.240 tip my non-existent hat

00:14:50.620 at him

00:14:51.000 for actually taking a chance

00:14:52.280 for once in his life.

00:14:53.520 Will it pay off?

00:14:54.900 I don't know.

00:14:55.660 Nobody really trusts Jagmeet Singh.

00:14:57.320 Nobody really likes him.

00:14:58.740 And this is actually

00:14:59.460 kind of the problem,

00:15:00.300 not to sideswipe the PPC now,

00:15:02.480 but that's kind of the problem

00:15:03.460 with Maxime Bernier.

00:15:04.680 People don't really trust him.

00:15:06.220 And when you're not

00:15:06.900 an inherently trustworthy figure,

00:15:08.840 you can't just take good positions

00:15:10.640 and say people should vote for you

00:15:12.240 because you have

00:15:12.600 the correct position.

00:15:13.740 Well, you know,

00:15:14.540 you don't have exactly

00:15:15.220 a track record

00:15:16.100 of being a responsible leader.

00:15:18.240 So I don't,

00:15:19.160 I'm not going to work hard

00:15:20.200 to try and elect you

00:15:21.500 or any of your MP candidates

00:15:23.260 when you, in fact,

00:15:25.440 it takes you a while

00:15:26.460 to even get the right position

00:15:27.780 or you're only saying it

00:15:28.880 because you're not popular

00:15:30.080 and nobody cares

00:15:30.980 what you're doing.

00:15:32.580 Anyways,

00:15:33.520 that should be it

00:15:34.160 for me today, guys.

00:15:35.280 If you want to contribute,

00:15:36.220 again,

00:15:36.640 to the legal fund,

00:15:37.720 it's in the description

00:15:38.520 of this video below.

00:15:40.080 It's in the comments section.

00:15:41.600 And if you live

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00:15:43.540 and you don't want

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00:15:46.200 after October 19th,

00:15:47.900 make sure to donate

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00:15:50.540 I also have a link

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00:16:13.720 Anyways,

00:16:14.620 that's it for me today, guys.

00:16:16.260 Have a good one.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 12, 2024

Poilievre's Conservatives hit record high in polls - Jagmeet Singh opposes Carbon Tax

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