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?
00:00:00.280It's been an exciting day in the House of Commons surrounding the no-confidence motion put forward by pure Polyev's Conservative Party.
00:00:09.560Obviously, 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.
00:00:25.940If you think this, you don't actually understand how politics works, how political optics works, and the purpose of motion votes.
00:00:46.900And what Polyev has done is he has baited Jagmeet Singh once again into showing that he is just a lackey of Justin Trudeau.
00:00:54.200This 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.
00:01:04.500And 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.
00:01:13.240Now he's doing it again post-Jagmeet Singh ripping up the Supply and Confidence Agreement.
00:01:17.820So he doesn't owe anything to Justin Trudeau anymore, apparently, that he's fighting back against the Liberals.
00:01:23.980And 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.
00:01:34.260And so if there's anything too corporate going on, it's partially to blame on Jagmeet Singh.
00:01:38.920I always find the insult of somebody being corporate as very stupid.
00:01:43.260It really just means things I don't like.
00:01:45.460But 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.
00:01:54.460But yeah, Jagmeet Singh has been demonstrated that his entire act of ripping up the Supply and Confidence Agreement is just an act.
00:02:03.360He's still voting alongside the Liberals.
00:02:05.640He's not willing to put his money where his mouth is and actually take on Justin Trudeau in an election.
00:02:11.300And Jagmeet Singh, I think there's two reasons why he won't vote for this motion.
00:02:15.880Even though he could vote for the motion and he would still, like, the government would still stand.
00:02:22.860Blanchette and the Bloc were never going to vote for it because the Bloc has never had it better than they do now.
00:02:28.080If an election happens, it's basically guaranteed to be a conservative majority.
00:02:33.260That means the Bloc loses all of its influence.
00:02:35.400So 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.
00:02:44.580And 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.
00:02:54.480The 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,
00:03:04.960that the Liberals and the Conservatives are secretly of one mind on all of the issues.
00:03:11.860Jagmeet's obviously the one who's in league with Trudeau.
00:03:15.080And so he doesn't want to vote with the Conservatives on this, even though it's guaranteed to be a safe vote.
00:03:19.640But 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,
00:03:27.720that the NDP would be completely screwed in an election because, you know, this is not much of a secret.
00:03:35.580Alex Zoltan posted these documents on Twitter the other day.
00:03:40.700It's very good financial work digging this stuff up.
00:03:43.240It's all public, but it's very difficult to find on publicly accessible finance websites, public finance websites.
00:03:51.180So 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.
00:04:05.160This is the real reason that Jagmeet Singh does not want to have an election.
00:04:12.140So he can't afford to put pressure on Justin Trudeau at all.
00:04:15.520He 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.
00:04:25.480So what, so, and like, this is such little money, it's hard to emphasize how little money this is.
00:04:32.200I 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.
00:04:40.560The conservatives have like 10 million.
00:04:56.480We 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,
00:05:08.460which 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.
00:05:21.020Canadian politics, American politics, you could arguably say has way too much money in it.
00:05:25.500Canadian politics has not enough money in it at all.
00:05:28.040There is not enough money to actually really get your message out in an effective way.
00:05:31.200But 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.
00:05:40.860Jagmeet Singh knows this was bad for him.
00:05:43.660It 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.
00:05:53.560I'd like it if the conservatives want privatized health care.
00:05:56.140The conservatives want more private options, which is good.
00:06:06.420And it's because the combination of public insurance plus public delivery means wait times are extremely high as well as costs are extremely high.
00:06:14.920If 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.
00:06:26.660But whatever, if we go private, then everything's more expensive, even though we pay more than Americans do for nothing.
00:06:33.360But yeah, tons of these liberals on social media saying like, F you Pierre Polyev, our government will continue to work for Canadians.
00:06:40.740And 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.
00:06:53.320You guys don't understand how politics works.
00:06:58.140But 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.
00:07:12.140This is not like a liberal making a fool of themselves and a conservative posting it.
00:07:16.460But 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.
00:07:32.140How confident are you in the strength of your government to last what appears to be a series of persistent tests?
00:07:37.860Well, 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.
00:07:46.320If 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.
00:07:57.160What 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.
00:08:09.960This is all about people's confidence in Pierre Polyev.
00:08:13.620Pretending 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.
00:08:21.460And that's why 45% of people want to vote for them and the next closest party is like the liberals at 23.
00:08:30.020I don't know what Kevin Lemieux is on, but I will let him finish.
00:08:33.700He 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.
00:08:46.580And 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.
00:09:00.100The filibustering that's taking place to prevent any form of legislation from ultimately getting into a committee stage.
00:09:18.560How many times can someone say serving Canadians without ever actually making a point?
00:09:23.820The conservatives are actually serving Canadians by filibustering, by trying to block motions in committee, by pushing for these motions, by opposing the liberals.
00:09:51.760He has no point, but he's just saying things.
00:09:54.840I think we've already talked this to death.
00:09:56.500Maybe the last thing I'll say about the no confidence motion is Blanchet and the bloc are obviously just keeping the liberals propped up.
00:10:04.520And regardless of how the NDP voted, the bloc would have still voted for to keep the liberals in power.
00:10:10.920Again, they've never had it any better.
00:10:12.900If the conservatives get in with a majority, the bloc will lose all of its power.
00:10:16.020But 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.
00:10:41.980But 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.
00:10:53.140So I'm not sure if this is going to hurt them even after the LaSalle-Amard Verdun by-election victory against the liberals.
00:11:01.680That's just something I want to keep a tab on.
00:11:03.460But 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.
00:11:26.120They 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.
00:11:41.020No, 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.
00:11:50.460They 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.
00:11:58.900The program is just counting anybody who goes into the dentist as receiving universal dental care because the plans apply to everybody.
00:12:06.660Even though most people have better private plans, that's how the liberals are able to pump the numbers up.
00:12:12.800Because 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.
00:12:23.780But now I want to just jump over to what happened.
00:12:27.160Of 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.
00:12:40.900And there's Kate Harrison on this clip going after CTV News as well as the excuse making CBC makes.
00:12:50.040But 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.
00:13:05.200They've admitted the mistake. It was basically human error and incompetence, or like, you know, that happens in this business, right?
00:13:12.360I'm not saying CTV News is incompetent, but we all make mistakes in this business and we apologize for it.
00:13:16.260And they published it and their chief anchor said it on the show.
00:13:19.460But 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.
00:13:29.680I'm not sure that we should wave it away as just a mistake, because this is not a misattribution.
00:13:35.900It's not even taking part of the same sentence and applying it in a different context.
00:13:40.080This 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.
00:14:15.440No, all of these legacy media sources will do the pretend we're neutral thing.
00:14:19.700Oh, 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.
00:14:31.860And then we have a conservative over here complaining about what the liberals are doing.
00:14:35.840That's really how they end up framing stories.
00:14:38.620And this is just the grossest version of it.
00:14:42.040Can we really conclude that there was malicious intent?
00:14:44.760Yes, 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.
00:14:53.780It's not just the activist journals like Press Progress and Anti-Hate.
00:15:13.800I wrote an article about it a long time ago.
00:15:15.960All these people are, like, retweeting people saying that we should stop celebrating Remembrance Day and swap it out for the Bolshevik Revolution Memorial.
00:16:01.840No, no, but the framing of the story before CTV News played him saying that was the dental care issue.
00:16:10.080And then they cut to Polyev saying, this is why we need to put forward a motion.
00:16:14.320When 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.
00:16:24.540Every viewer who's not completely pretending to be gormless knows that the implication is he was doing it over universal dental.
00:16:33.480I think a lot of viewers probably knew that CTV News was up to something because that's ridiculous.
00:16:38.300Polyev always talks about the no confidence motion in regards to the carbon tax.
00:16:43.080And why would you remove carbon tax from it?
00:16:44.900It would have been so easy in the editing process to include carbon tax.
00:16:48.680Carbon tax, when you actually look at the paragraph said, was like adjacent to the words that they did put in.
00:16:55.000They couldn't extend it for literally 0.3 seconds to include the carbon tax.
00:16:59.240But no, no, no, just the news is just so fast paced in Canada.
00:17:04.960They couldn't include that third of a second.
00:17:07.620We need to get to a terrible product on our advertising that are like our subsidized advertisers are running right now.
00:17:14.800It does not say it's about a carbon tax election.
00:17:16.980And in the way it was presented in the story, it makes it sound like he wants an election to stop dental care.
00:17:21.480So I get why they feel they're taken out of context.
00:17:24.600And CTV admitted to that and apologized for it.
00:17:27.440But 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.
00:17:37.580I don't think that they're feeling that they've been taken out of context.
00:17:42.980When you are the fifth estate, you are in the accountability game, just the same as politicians are.
00:17:49.200And 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.
00:18:01.520And that's all conservatives are asking for.
00:18:18.140And 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.
00:18:23.780And that's a great statement from Harrison there.
00:18:27.380And 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.
00:18:34.120It's like the problem is the damage has been done.
00:18:35.960And the idea that the conservatives should be glad to just take a weak apology is pathetic.
00:18:44.000And 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.
00:19:18.160Fred 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.
00:19:27.000They never actually have good people to make good cases for conservatives.
00:19:30.260So 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.
00:19:39.500So I'm actually going to say what's right and where are your buys.
00:20:17.920I'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.
00:20:25.840And here's a left-wing professor to give you their opinion.
00:20:47.920What does that have to do with anything?
00:20:50.060This 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.
00:21:05.380The reaction to the conservatives calling out CTV news was first met with they're complaining, they're complaining that they're being held accountable.
00:21:13.660This is more bullying of journals until the proof came out of how filleted the clip was.
00:21:18.820And 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.
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00:21:45.760But I'll see you guys here tomorrow with more news, with more analysis, probably some new polls.
00:21:51.200There's a bunch of new polls out for the British Columbia provincial election looking very good for the B.C. conservatives.
00:21:57.100A 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.