The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 12, 2024


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


Episode Stats

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16 minutes

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175.3506

Word Count

2,855

Sentence Count

138

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

Jagmeet Singh and the federal NDP are now apparently against the federal carbon tax, which is something I can genuinely say I did not expect. In fact, I've been making fun of Jagmeet Singh for the last two years for just being incompetent at politics. And for the first time ever, I'm going to say, good move.


Transcript

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
00:07:50.760 in the description of this video below
00:07:52.940 and pinned at the top of the comments.
00:07:55.160 I am in this stupid legal battle
00:07:57.360 with a Chinese billionaire suing myself
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
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
00:08:57.780 or in the comments below.
00:08:58.920 We have the Gimson Go link there.
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.
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.
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
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
00:11:07.420 to prop up this stupid carbon tax
00:11:10.020 until Pure Poly can get into office
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,
00:11:20.180 the absolute coward of a premier
00:11:21.880 of the province,
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,
00:11:30.840 you coward.
00:11:31.800 You called Pure Polyev
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.
00:12:01.380 He's absolutely pathetic.
00:12:02.680 I might need to make
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
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,
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
00:15:42.580 in British Columbia
00:15:43.540 and you don't want
00:15:44.620 David Eby to be your premier
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.