The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 26, 2024


Poilievre's No Confidence vote exposes Singh as Trudeau's lackey


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Jagmeet Singh voted against the Tories on a motion of no confidence in Justin Trudeau's government, and now he doesn't owe anything to Justin Trudeau anymore. Is he really fighting back against the Liberals? Or is he just a lackey of the Prime Minister?

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00:00:00.280 It's been an exciting day in the House of Commons surrounding the no-confidence motion put forward by pure Polyev's Conservative Party.
00:00:09.560 Obviously, everyone knew it was not actually going to pass, and there's a lot of liberals online invested in the idea that because the motion wasn't successful and Justin Trudeau is still standing, that means that Polyev failed, and it's a big embarrassment for the Conservatives.
00:00:25.940 If you think this, you don't actually understand how politics works, how political optics works, and the purpose of motion votes.
00:00:35.080 Having the vote on this motion that the Conservatives knew very well was not going to pass is to show where Jagmeet Singh and Francois Blanchet stand, the Bloc Québécois and the NDP.
00:00:46.900 And what Polyev has done is he has baited Jagmeet Singh once again into showing that he is just a lackey of Justin Trudeau.
00:00:54.200 This happened a few months ago where Pierre Polyev showed that Jagmeet Singh is absolutely standing by Trudeau on the carbon tax, no matter how unpopular it is.
00:01:04.500 And when he says, I'm having this motion of no confidence so we can have a carbon tax election, he did that a few months ago.
00:01:11.980 Jagmeet Singh looked bad.
00:01:13.240 Now he's doing it again post-Jagmeet Singh ripping up the Supply and Confidence Agreement.
00:01:17.820 So he doesn't owe anything to Justin Trudeau anymore, apparently, that he's fighting back against the Liberals.
00:01:23.980 And he's going to be a pitbull opposing them because the Liberals are apparently too corporate, even though Jagmeet Singh was voting for everything alongside Justin Trudeau and still does.
00:01:34.260 And so if there's anything too corporate going on, it's partially to blame on Jagmeet Singh.
00:01:38.920 I always find the insult of somebody being corporate as very stupid.
00:01:43.260 It really just means things I don't like.
00:01:45.460 But in this case, Jagmeet Singh was voting for them, so he liked them up until he noticed his poll numbers and especially donation numbers were so low, he needed to separate himself from Trudeau.
00:01:54.460 But yeah, Jagmeet Singh has been demonstrated that his entire act of ripping up the Supply and Confidence Agreement is just an act.
00:02:02.440 Nothing's changed.
00:02:03.360 He's still voting alongside the Liberals.
00:02:05.640 He's not willing to put his money where his mouth is and actually take on Justin Trudeau in an election.
00:02:11.300 And Jagmeet Singh, I think there's two reasons why he won't vote for this motion.
00:02:15.880 Even though he could vote for the motion and he would still, like, the government would still stand.
00:02:22.860 Blanchette and the Bloc were never going to vote for it because the Bloc has never had it better than they do now.
00:02:28.080 If an election happens, it's basically guaranteed to be a conservative majority.
00:02:33.260 That means the Bloc loses all of its influence.
00:02:35.400 So the Bloc wants to keep Justin Trudeau propped up for as long as possible so they can bring as many benefits specifically to their province in Quebec.
00:02:44.580 And so Jagmeet Singh could have voted with the Conservatives and looked like he was a populist against the consumer carbon tax like he claimed he is now.
00:02:54.480 The problem, though, is that he's also way too paranoid of being seen as being in league with the Conservatives because that's what he accuses the Liberals of all the time,
00:03:04.960 that the Liberals and the Conservatives are secretly of one mind on all of the issues.
00:03:10.520 It's complete nonsense.
00:03:11.860 Jagmeet's obviously the one who's in league with Trudeau.
00:03:15.080 And so he doesn't want to vote with the Conservatives on this, even though it's guaranteed to be a safe vote.
00:03:19.640 But another thing is I think he's genuinely paranoid that if the Bloc suddenly voted for the motion and he voted for the motion and an election was triggered,
00:03:27.720 that the NDP would be completely screwed in an election because, you know, this is not much of a secret.
00:03:35.580 Alex Zoltan posted these documents on Twitter the other day.
00:03:39.100 You should all give him a follow.
00:03:40.700 It's very good financial work digging this stuff up.
00:03:43.240 It's all public, but it's very difficult to find on publicly accessible finance websites, public finance websites.
00:03:51.180 So the federal NDP under the heroic management of Jagmeet Singh only has $289,000 on hand, really demonstrating that socialists are not good with money.
00:04:05.160 This is the real reason that Jagmeet Singh does not want to have an election.
00:04:09.900 He's broke.
00:04:10.780 He can't afford to have an election.
00:04:12.140 So he can't afford to put pressure on Justin Trudeau at all.
00:04:15.520 He puts token pressure on him, calls Justin Trudeau corporate, and then backs off a little bit, kind of dances back in the background and lets Justin Trudeau fail on his own terms while still voting with everything the liberals are doing.
00:04:25.480 So what, so, and like, this is such little money, it's hard to emphasize how little money this is.
00:04:32.200 I think right now, and the conservatives are spending a lot of money since they have, they have the cash and they are raising, they keep raising more and more.
00:04:40.560 The conservatives have like 10 million.
00:04:42.480 So put that into perspective.
00:04:43.480 The NDP only has $289,000.
00:04:48.340 That is not even enough to have two ridings funded to the max that you're allowed to spend.
00:04:55.380 That's pathetic.
00:04:56.480 We have 342 ridings, I believe, in Canada, 343, just for context, that the NDP couldn't fully fund two of them because I believe you can spend up to $150,000 per riding,
00:05:08.460 which in a certain sense is actually not that much money considering how big Canadian ridings are and the amount of money per, like, I guess, square meter of your campaign is actually very low.
00:05:19.440 That's another topic for another day.
00:05:21.020 Canadian politics, American politics, you could arguably say has way too much money in it.
00:05:25.500 Canadian politics has not enough money in it at all.
00:05:28.040 There is not enough money to actually really get your message out in an effective way.
00:05:31.200 But still, Jagmeet Singh has nothing at all because his party does not have confidence in him, or at least those who actually have money to donate do not have confidence in him.
00:05:40.860 Jagmeet Singh knows this was bad for him.
00:05:43.660 It was a terrible look, which is why over the past couple of hours, he's just been posting videos about health care and saying that the conservatives want privatized health care.
00:05:53.560 I'd like it if the conservatives want privatized health care. 0.82
00:05:56.140 The conservatives want more private options, which is good.
00:05:58.960 That's a good first step.
00:06:01.040 One, this is not a good pitch.
00:06:02.620 The public health care system around Canada is terrible.
00:06:05.580 Wait times are terrible.
00:06:06.420 And it's because the combination of public insurance plus public delivery means wait times are extremely high as well as costs are extremely high.
00:06:14.920 If you take the percentage of public spending that we have on health care and you apply that to your income taxes, the standard Canadian family is paying like $6,000 a year for like terrible health care.
00:06:26.660 But whatever, if we go private, then everything's more expensive, even though we pay more than Americans do for nothing.
00:06:33.360 But yeah, tons of these liberals on social media saying like, F you Pierre Polyev, our government will continue to work for Canadians.
00:06:40.740 And this Captain Colby guy saying that, oh, the conservatives are wasting money on no confidence motions and that the no confidence motion didn't pass because everyone knows Polyev's not going to survive until 2025.
00:06:53.320 You guys don't understand how politics works.
00:06:56.840 That's all I can say.
00:06:58.140 But I want to play this clip now from the CBC where Kevin Lemieux from the liberals came over and he came on to television to say that, and this was in fact posted by a liberal cheerleader.
00:07:10.720 They thought this was a good clip.
00:07:12.140 This is not like a liberal making a fool of themselves and a conservative posting it.
00:07:16.460 But Kevin Lemieux argues that Pierre Polyev, this no confidence motion is actually all about Pierre Polyev, not the unpopularity of the liberal government and the fact that the conservatives are currently at 45% of the polls and very confident in having an election.
00:07:32.140 How confident are you in the strength of your government to last what appears to be a series of persistent tests?
00:07:37.860 Well, you know, it's from my perspective, I look at it and I say I love what it is that the government house leader said earlier.
00:07:46.320 If you really give this some deep thought, what you'll find is this confidence is more of a confidence vote on Pierre Polyev than it is on the government.
00:07:57.160 What he means by saying that this takes some deep thought is he means it takes a heavy amount of drugs to think that this is a no confidence motion based in Pierre Polyev.
00:08:09.960 This is all about people's confidence in Pierre Polyev.
00:08:12.640 It's not.
00:08:13.620 Pretending like, oh, wow, I can't believe these partisan anti-conservative parties voted against the conservative motion really shows the conservatives are not that popular.
00:08:21.460 And that's why 45% of people want to vote for them and the next closest party is like the liberals at 23.
00:08:28.580 No, this is not.
00:08:30.020 I don't know what Kevin Lemieux is on, but I will let him finish.
00:08:33.700 He is so much focused and his thirst for power is so, so real that at the end of the day, he's more concerned about the conservative party and himself than he is about Canadians.
00:08:46.580 And as the prime minister has clearly said, we need to be working for Canadians as opposed to paying these type of political gains that we have seen today and previously, even last week.
00:09:00.100 The filibustering that's taking place to prevent any form of legislation from ultimately getting into a committee stage.
00:09:08.200 It's ridiculous.
00:09:09.080 They need to start focusing on what Canadians have to say and they're doing and serving Canadians. 0.84
00:09:16.500 That's why we're here.
00:09:17.860 Oh, my goodness.
00:09:18.560 How many times can someone say serving Canadians without ever actually making a point?
00:09:23.820 The conservatives are actually serving Canadians by filibustering, by trying to block motions in committee, by pushing for these motions, by opposing the liberals.
00:09:33.140 They are the opposition.
00:09:34.000 Not only is it their job to oppose, but the things that they are currently opposing are deeply unpopular.
00:09:39.720 The conservatives are absolutely doing their jobs.
00:09:41.280 Like, what does Kevin Lemieux want the conservatives to do?
00:09:44.260 Come and take a jerry canful of gasoline and help the liberals burn down the country faster?
00:09:50.200 No, that's stupid.
00:09:51.760 He has no point, but he's just saying things.
00:09:54.840 I think we've already talked this to death.
00:09:56.500 Maybe the last thing I'll say about the no confidence motion is Blanchet and the bloc are obviously just keeping the liberals propped up.
00:10:04.520 And regardless of how the NDP voted, the bloc would have still voted for to keep the liberals in power.
00:10:10.920 Again, they've never had it any better.
00:10:12.900 If the conservatives get in with a majority, the bloc will lose all of its power.
00:10:16.020 But at the same time, I'm wondering if this is actually going to hurt the bloc back in Quebec, because although the bloc are getting a lot of legislative cutouts made for Quebec because of their power in parliament right now and the fact that the NDP have ripped up the agreement, even though they'll still do whatever the liberals want, is that I think that this actually still might make a lot of Quebec voters resent the bloc a bit.
00:10:41.980 But they're like, no, vote against Trudeau, because most people don't think about it in that really meta sense that even though they hate the liberals and their voting bloc, that the bloc actually need the liberals around to get what the bloc wants.
00:10:53.140 So I'm not sure if this is going to hurt them even after the LaSalle-Amard Verdun by-election victory against the liberals.
00:11:00.820 We'll wait and see.
00:11:01.680 That's just something I want to keep a tab on.
00:11:03.460 But now I want to move over to another story that really doesn't deserve its own video, and that is the reaction to CTV News being caught out for just editing clips of Polly of Talking, pretending the no confidence motion was about dental care, that pure Polly of hates kids getting dental care, hates seniors getting dental care, and that's why we're putting this motion forward.
00:11:26.120 They literally took a paragraph and took a sentence here, a sentence down there, and a sentence there, and then cobbled it into a two-second burst of audio from Polly of pretending that this was all the motion was about.
00:11:41.020 No, the dental care program is bloated and stupid, but the conservatives are also not stupid enough to phrase their motion as being against dental care.
00:11:50.460 They oppose the motion because of the dental care program because it's bloated, terrible, and not going to get that many people actual dental care.
00:11:58.900 The program is just counting anybody who goes into the dentist as receiving universal dental care because the plans apply to everybody.
00:12:06.660 Even though most people have better private plans, that's how the liberals are able to pump the numbers up. 0.98
00:12:12.800 Because if you believe that 700,000 people in a very small amount of time were able to access universal dental while no dentist was accepting it, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
00:12:23.780 But now I want to just jump over to what happened.
00:12:27.160 Of course, CTV News had obviously been forced to apologize for what they did, but I want to get to this clip of them talking about what happened on CBC, what happened with CTV.
00:12:40.900 And there's Kate Harrison on this clip going after CTV News as well as the excuse making CBC makes.
00:12:50.040 But I think it's almost so much more interesting outside of the CTV News issue itself, just how much the legacy media closes ranks to pretend that this must have just been an innocent little mistake, even though you couldn't possibly have done all this editing by mistake.
00:13:05.200 They've admitted the mistake. It was basically human error and incompetence, or like, you know, that happens in this business, right?
00:13:12.360 I'm not saying CTV News is incompetent, but we all make mistakes in this business and we apologize for it.
00:13:16.260 And they published it and their chief anchor said it on the show.
00:13:19.460 But to have them, to demand that they apologize for the malicious nature of the editing, to admit to a malicious intent here, that's a demand that's difficult for a news agency to accept.
00:13:29.680 I'm not sure that we should wave it away as just a mistake, because this is not a misattribution.
00:13:35.900 It's not even taking part of the same sentence and applying it in a different context.
00:13:40.080 This is taking a full paragraph, a variety of sentences that Pierre Polyev said, taking bits and pieces from each sentence to craft a new sentence.
00:13:49.540 That is journalistic malpractice.
00:13:51.180 Okay, so, and yeah, and him saying, well, why, why, are you, should you really be saying it's malicious?
00:13:56.740 Well, we can't conclude it's malicious.
00:13:58.980 What am I supposed to think here, that it was done out of love, that it was done just out of complete confusion?
00:14:03.920 Because you wouldn't go to that much effort if there wasn't some extra intent behind it.
00:14:10.380 And it's not like this is just out of nowhere.
00:14:12.620 Oh, CTV News is usually so good.
00:14:15.440 No, all of these legacy media sources will do the pretend we're neutral thing.
00:14:19.700 Oh, we quote a conservative, we quote a liberal in a story when we move on, even though their anchors and the way that they frame stories is always implying, at the very least, that the liberals are the compassionate, reasonable ones.
00:14:31.860 And then we have a conservative over here complaining about what the liberals are doing.
00:14:35.840 That's really how they end up framing stories.
00:14:38.620 And this is just the grossest version of it.
00:14:42.040 Can we really conclude that there was malicious intent?
00:14:44.760 Yes, you guys no longer get the benefit of the doubt, because you've been shown too often to take, obviously, left-wing positions and attack conservatives.
00:14:53.780 It's not just the activist journals like Press Progress and Anti-Hate.
00:14:58.700 CBC does it.
00:14:59.540 CBC even quotes places like Anti-Hate and Press Progress, even though they are left-wing, flat-out communist rags.
00:15:06.540 So many people who work for Press Progress are open socialists who hate veterans and celebrate, like, the Bolshevik Revolution.
00:15:12.920 I'm not even kidding.
00:15:13.800 I wrote an article about it a long time ago.
00:15:15.960 All these people are, like, retweeting people saying that we should stop celebrating Remembrance Day and swap it out for the Bolshevik Revolution Memorial.
00:15:23.740 Insane.
00:15:25.380 But, yeah, I want to get back to what, like, Harrison here, destroying them.
00:15:30.260 So just, and I'm not defending this.
00:15:32.360 I'm explaining this.
00:15:33.800 No, you are defending them.
00:15:35.100 That's, you just said that you're explaining it right afterwards.
00:15:37.420 Yeah.
00:15:37.760 You're, like, acting as CTV News' advocate, which is defending them.
00:15:41.080 The sentence that Pierre Polyev said is, that's why it's time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election.
00:15:49.020 For whatever reason, they spliced together different things he said in that scrum to create the sentence.
00:15:54.380 That's why we need to put forward a motion.
00:15:57.700 Now, it's not like it was changed to him saying something outrageous.
00:16:00.480 It's not a sentence he uttered.
00:16:01.840 No, no, but the framing of the story before CTV News played him saying that was the dental care issue.
00:16:10.080 And then they cut to Polyev saying, this is why we need to put forward a motion.
00:16:14.320 When you just talked about the universal dental care and the controversy around it, and then you talk about Polyev's putting forward a no confidence motion, he says, and this is why we need to do it.
00:16:24.540 Every viewer who's not completely pretending to be gormless knows that the implication is he was doing it over universal dental.
00:16:33.480 I think a lot of viewers probably knew that CTV News was up to something because that's ridiculous.
00:16:38.300 Polyev always talks about the no confidence motion in regards to the carbon tax.
00:16:43.080 And why would you remove carbon tax from it?
00:16:44.900 It would have been so easy in the editing process to include carbon tax.
00:16:48.680 Carbon tax, when you actually look at the paragraph said, was like adjacent to the words that they did put in.
00:16:55.000 They couldn't extend it for literally 0.3 seconds to include the carbon tax.
00:16:59.240 But no, no, no, just the news is just so fast paced in Canada.
00:17:04.960 They couldn't include that third of a second.
00:17:07.620 We need to get to a terrible product on our advertising that are like our subsidized advertisers are running right now.
00:17:14.800 It does not say it's about a carbon tax election.
00:17:16.980 And in the way it was presented in the story, it makes it sound like he wants an election to stop dental care.
00:17:21.480 So I get why they feel they're taken out of context.
00:17:24.600 And CTV admitted to that and apologized for it.
00:17:27.440 But the suggestion from Mr. Polyev's tweets that the Bell Canada corporate suite is somehow weaponizing its news agency to get favorable treatment by the truth of government is a lot to say.
00:17:37.580 I don't think that they're feeling that they've been taken out of context.
00:17:40.740 They were taken out of context.
00:17:41.980 Absolutely. I agree.
00:17:42.980 When you are the fifth estate, you are in the accountability game, just the same as politicians are.
00:17:49.200 And a quick apology the same day for something that is so egregious that action to be taken is not going to be enough when we're talking about the table stakes of not favorable coverage, fair and balanced coverage.
00:18:01.520 And that's all conservatives are asking for.
00:18:03.260 They're asking for fair coverage.
00:18:04.460 They're not asking for glowing reviews.
00:18:06.080 They just want the facts to be reported as they are.
00:18:09.480 So I don't think that it is, you know, delving into conspiracy theory.
00:18:12.740 We had three separate sentences.
00:18:14.580 A Frankenstein sentence emerges as a result.
00:18:16.800 That deserves to be called out.
00:18:18.140 And I think that should be called out regardless of who says it in the House of Commons or which journalistic entity makes such a bad decision.
00:18:23.780 And that's a great statement from Harrison there.
00:18:27.380 And what we should also mention that the host was talking about, they're like, well, they deserve the benefit of the doubt and we should just move on.
00:18:34.120 It's like the problem is the damage has been done.
00:18:35.960 And the idea that the conservatives should be glad to just take a weak apology is pathetic.
00:18:42.840 No, they shouldn't.
00:18:44.000 And the thing is, like, yeah, you don't get the benefit of the doubt anymore, as well as the fact that, like, you would think that the party that's most popular in Canada could get a few more seconds to actually make their case.
00:18:58.800 That's the thing.
00:18:59.340 Everything's so filtered in Canadian media these days.
00:19:01.400 Even if there's a conservative on a panel, she's a rare case of a conservative who's actually doing a really good job defending them.
00:19:07.820 Usually it's like Fred DeLore sitting there.
00:19:10.300 It's somebody like Andrew Coyne.
00:19:12.800 People, I would say, are not conservatives.
00:19:14.860 They're not at all conservatives.
00:19:16.140 Andrew Coyne is openly anti-Polioff.
00:19:18.160 Fred DeLore, I think, is jaded because he was Aaron O'Toole's campaign manager and, frankly, one of the worst campaign managers since Jenny Byrne in 2015.
00:19:27.000 They never actually have good people to make good cases for conservatives.
00:19:30.260 So when they misreport something and they make a quick apology, you're never going to have a conservative on panel tomorrow saying, outside of this one case, saying, well, you guys keep messing things up.
00:19:39.500 So I'm actually going to say what's right and where are your buys.
00:19:43.000 They never get held accountable.
00:19:44.360 That's why I walk up to so many people at doors when I go campaigning who legitimately just think, oh, well, you're guys extreme.
00:19:50.560 You're guys an extremist.
00:19:51.520 I watch, and I even had a guy the other day saying, well, I have a diverse media diet.
00:19:56.480 I watch CTV News.
00:19:57.500 I watch Global.
00:19:58.200 I watch CBC.
00:19:59.300 Those are borderline the same outlets.
00:20:01.460 They are borderline the same outlets.
00:20:02.720 They run the same stupid rip and read stories every single time.
00:20:06.300 There was a great tweet a little bit before I saw it right before I started filming this from JJ McCullough.
00:20:12.140 He has a great YouTube channel.
00:20:13.380 You probably don't even need me to recommend it.
00:20:14.860 He has like a million subscribers at this point.
00:20:17.360 JJ McCullough.
00:20:17.920 I'll still go check it out if you haven't, he posted that every single legacy media story these days is vague description of something that happened.
00:20:25.840 And here's a left-wing professor to give you their opinion.
00:20:28.760 What?
00:20:29.520 This is in the news section.
00:20:30.800 This isn't like analysis.
00:20:32.420 It's a long 2000-word article where at some point they cite a lefty source and then they go to someone more on the right later.
00:20:39.960 This is like every sort.
00:20:41.340 I've seen it in weather stories.
00:20:43.100 You'll just have a random left-wing professor because a fire broke out talking about climate change.
00:20:47.140 Why?
00:20:47.920 What does that have to do with anything?
00:20:50.060 This is where they bring up press progress and anti-hate and different organizations who are, you know, around like DEI garbage, commenting on stories from a left-wing social perspective.
00:21:01.240 No, this is so such garbage.
00:21:04.460 No, they don't.
00:21:05.380 The reaction to the conservatives calling out CTV news was first met with they're complaining, they're complaining that they're being held accountable.
00:21:13.660 This is more bullying of journals until the proof came out of how filleted the clip was.
00:21:18.820 And the apology was not in proportion to how badly they were treated up to that point, especially being basically called whiners by everybody in the legacy media as well as in left-wing politics.
00:21:30.540 That's it for me today, guys.
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00:21:40.900 I keep rambling a lot of these shows, so they go for more than 20 minutes.
00:21:44.160 Hopefully, you don't hate that sort of a thing.
00:21:45.760 But I'll see you guys here tomorrow with more news, with more analysis, probably some new polls.
00:21:51.200 There's a bunch of new polls out for the British Columbia provincial election looking very good for the B.C. conservatives.
00:21:57.100 A lot of undecideds, and I don't think those undecideds are going to decide to split in favor of the B.C. NDP, especially because they just had a new corruption scandal hit today.
00:22:05.920 See you.