Wyatt Claypool talks about anti-Americanism in Canada and why it s ruining our political discourse and what it s actually preventing us from solving real problems in our country. He also talks about the amazing job Prime Minister John Carney did in dealing with Donald Trump.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I have to show you a story today that I think highlights a deeply rooted problem in Canadian politics, and sounds just so absurd on its face, but it is real. Look at this from the National Post.
00:00:16.140Majority of Canadians feel unwelcome and unsafe traveling to the United States new poll. Now, is this because of actual personal experiences that Canadians have been having recently traveling to the United States?
00:00:30.000Obviously not. What this is, is an inherent anti-Americanism in Canada that has been running rampant over the last couple of years. Everything in America sucks and is terrible, and everything in Canada is good or at least normal.
00:00:46.040And I'm going to show you some very not normal things going on in Canada right now that I think this anti-Americanism is preventing us from being able to solve, because confronting issues in Canada is like saying that America might be better than Canada in certain ways, and in a certain sense that actually is correct.
00:01:03.840There are things that Canada does better than the US and the things that the US do better than Canada, but to lefty Canadian nationalists, you can't even acknowledge the reality that Americans might do things better than we are, or we might even have the same problems as the United States.
00:01:19.520I want to read you this quote from the article, because this is incredible. And again, I don't doubt that this poll is real. It is real. At the same time, that it's not based on real experience, but it's based on political hype. It's based on sort of a cultural momentum to say bad things about the United States, despite not actually having any personal experience with this.
00:01:43.380So, this National Post article says, and I will be linking the National Post article in the description below as well as at the top of the comments. By the way, guys, like the video, subscribe, leave a comment, do all that great stuff.
00:02:37.020I have been to the United States recently.
00:02:39.240I was down in Texas with Clyde do something where he was actually interviewing Americans on what they thought of Canada. And guess what? Americans just think Canada's a nice place. They have no ill will towards Canada. They have no ill will towards Canadians, especially. They don't care.
00:02:55.320But the thing is, Canada has become such a political bubble that people are convinced, who have not traveled to America, probably in years, that if you go down there, you're going to get picked on. Someone's going to throw a drink in your face because America is bad and Canada is good and they must secretly loathe and stew over how much better we are than them.
00:03:16.200We're not. We're not. We are maybe relatively better in certain ways. We might be relatively worse in certain ways. But that is not something that you are allowed to acknowledge in Canadian political media or in Canadian political circles anymore.
00:03:31.120It's become so politicized. Canadians views of our country and their country. It's absolutely ridiculous. I want to show you some things right here that really sort of put like bring home just how much anti-Americanism is really ruining Canadian politics.
00:03:47.980There's mostly just some headlines as well as some unhinged posts by lefty pro-liberal accounts.
00:03:54.740And again, these are just a microcosm of the issues.
00:03:57.900So Ryan Jarrettson right here says, can you believe the nonsense our mainstream media is pushing?
00:04:03.480And this is definitely mainstream media. It's CTV News, not a fringe outlet like the Jacobin or Press Progress.
00:04:09.900And it says, body language expert says Trump showed respect in meeting with Carney.
00:04:17.980Guys, the meeting with Trump and Carney was very normal. It was extremely normal.
00:04:24.940There was nothing remarkable about it. I disagree with other conservative commentators saying, oh, Carney got wrecked.
00:04:31.620He looked pathetic and weak. Yeah, he wasn't pushing back on Trump, but he was pretty much acting the way any prime minister would with the U.S. president because the U.S. is much more powerful than Canada.
00:04:41.960But then the then the lefty media in Canada, the pro-liberal media in Canada is pretending like this was a big coup for Carney.
00:04:49.660He was very just by the numbers. He was very average for how a prime minister would perform in that scenario.
00:04:56.660He never pushed back on Trump, which he probably shouldn't have. But we, for some reason, are giving him brownie points for having just existed in the same room as Donald Trump.
00:05:05.280Here's another post by Ryan Gerritsen responding to this guy, Mike Gerald Gibbs.
00:05:10.240And Mike Gerald Gibbs says, Mark Carney is absolutely amazing. My jaw is on the floor. He is so good at this. He is just brilliant. He just brilliantly handled Trump.
00:05:23.740Man, we made a good decision electing this guy. And let's be very clear.
00:05:28.480They would say this regardless of what happened in the meeting. If it was Polyev, they'd be criticizing him up and down.
00:05:35.500And again, that's just silly, lazy partisanship. That's why I find it silly when Canadian YouTubers are pretending that the conservative Canadian YouTubers are pretending the Carney meeting went horrible for Carney.
00:05:45.980It was just meh. It was not what Carney was billing it as because during the campaign, he's pretending like he's going to take a sledgehammer to Trump.
00:05:52.980You obviously was never going to do that. Anyone believing that's silly. But the idea that this was like brilliant. Oh, great. Good thing we elected this guy.
00:06:01.260They'd be saying this regardless, because any time a Canadian leader is or a Canadian liberal is up against Trump or the Americans, they are just given free points for winning.
00:06:11.420Here is a here is a or they are. They're just given points for a free win.
00:06:16.960Carney sat in the same room as American. Oh, it shows that the liberals are so great. And Carney's a genius.
00:06:22.440Look at this body language expert saying that Trump was actually trying to signal, I'm super terrified of Mark Carney. You guys should vote for him again.
00:07:56.860The minimum wage in a place like Montana, where I frequently go, you will see advertisements all over the place for $15 an hour starting positions at Target.
00:08:06.660Because people will pay for labor if it's worth it.
00:08:09.860They will pay more money when it makes sense to.
00:08:12.340Because obviously, $7.25 is not enough to incentivize someone to work, so they raise the wages.
00:08:24.320Federal median income tax rate, $20.5 and $22, that's just not true.
00:08:30.080Especially because if you actually compare the state and federal taxes combined, you don't pay a lot of taxes in the U.S.
00:08:37.920In places like Texas, they don't have income taxes.
00:08:41.720But when they're comparing this, they realize that literally every single jurisdiction in Canada has a higher tax rate, combined tax rate, than any U.S. state.
00:08:52.200You will pay less taxes in California and New York than you would in places like Saskatchewan or Alberta.
00:09:00.580Because it's the combined rate that matters.
00:09:02.800And I also do not believe that that is actually the median federal income tax rate.
00:09:07.180It actually tends to be far lower in the United States.
00:09:09.600They're probably, again, cherry-picking a bad bracket in the U.S.
00:09:12.900And a more reasonable bracket in Canada because you quickly, in Canada, will hit the 33% rate if you start making more than $150,000 a year or $200,000 a year.
00:09:23.920And then we have here health care included with taxes.
00:09:28.360And then we have, with the Americans, $7,000 a year average.
00:09:32.280Well, in fact, Canadians are probably paying around $7,000 a year per year for the public insurance.
00:09:46.480And Americans, most of their insurance is taken care of by their employer who is able to get cheaper rates by packaging insurance for like 100 employees rather than of each individual going out and getting their own insurance.
00:10:03.860This is, again, probably cherry-picking the worst possible state to make it look bad because I have seen insurance rates that are far lower than $7,000 a year on average in the United States.
00:10:13.780Banking regulations are strong in Canada and weak in America.
00:10:44.420Do they think that maternity leave doesn't exist in the United States?
00:10:47.900If you just watch American television shows, sitcoms, at some point, well, someone will mention going on maternity leave.
00:10:54.180Because maternity leave exists in different companies.
00:10:57.400It exists in different states for certain positions.
00:11:00.340It's patently absurd that they're pretending like this is a real view of the differences between Canada and the United States.
00:11:06.920But people like Guy Bellica, who's a big drug pusher in Canada, who is a big supporter of safe supply and safe injection sites, he actually believes that this is a true view of what Canada is compared to the United States, even though the objective numbers give lie to all this.
00:11:25.860When you actually look at the economic power of Canadians compared to Americans, it is not a pretty picture.
00:11:33.320We make less than them without converting for the dollar.
00:11:37.460We have our per capita incomes going down over the last few quarters, where American per capita incomes, I don't think, have gone down for several quarters now.
00:12:19.520So with $2,000 a month for an entire family in the U.S. for no weight.
00:12:26.740I'm not sure of quite what he means by that, but I only think it's $2,000 a month in the United States for health care.
00:12:32.080Maybe for an entire family, but for individuals, I've seen people be able to get good health insurance for maybe $1,000 a month, maybe high hundreds a month.
00:12:39.840And that's for, like, total coverage, cancer, everything, broken bones, emergency services, everything you need, transplants.
00:12:48.320And in Canada, yeah, it's free, but you're paying a lot per year in your taxes for the health care to not even be able to access it in a healthy amount of time.
00:12:56.320Literally not a healthy amount of time because people end up dying waiting for surgeries or other diagnoses to even happen within Canada.
00:13:05.080Anyway, so another thing I wanted to bring up here was this story, another one that Ryan Gerritsen had posted.
00:13:12.060He's been on a bit of a tear going through all these headlines.
00:13:15.540And Ryan Gerritsen says, but don't dare say Canada is broken, ahead of another CTV News headline here that says,
00:13:23.020Frustration rise as human waste on Vancouver streets reaches peak levels.
00:13:28.440And somebody read me this article today because they were, like, blown away by it.
00:13:33.280And they informed me that within the article they were talking to activists who are paid to go around cleaning up the waste on the streets of Vancouver who were saying,
00:13:42.200you know, the real problem here is that there's just not enough friendly cafes providing a friendly atmosphere so that unhoused people can come in and use their facilities.
00:13:51.040Why do they think Starbucks's and other coffee shops are starting to become very, you know, hesitant to let people use their bathrooms unless they're a paying customer?
00:13:59.640It's because of the drugs. It's because people lock themselves in the bathroom and use it as a shelter.
00:14:05.480It's because it's just chaos out there. It's not because people aren't friendly enough.
00:14:10.320It's because the friendly policies to people just wanting to shelter wherever they want, use drugs, use safe injection sites, has been so liberal that it has basically let them take over the streets.
00:14:22.820It sounds cruel. It's really not. But do you know how you stop campsites from opening up?
00:14:28.840One, again, lower taxes, make housing cheaper, do all that stuff, enforce the law.
00:14:33.300But you don't let people camp because don't let people start to set up shop on the streets, start using drugs, start accessing safe supply programs, all that stuff.
00:14:41.800Because what you're doing is letting someone ease themselves in to basically deteriorating on the streets.
00:14:47.320You don't let people get into the position where things are going to get much, much worse.
00:14:50.460And people can say, well, they have no other place to go.
00:14:53.220No, there are other places. It might be difficult.
00:14:55.800You might have to try and find a family member they can stay with.
00:14:58.420You might have to try and create more flex shelter space.
00:15:02.200But it's better than people just overdosing on the streets.
00:15:05.700I don't know why that's controversial, but for some reason it is.
00:15:09.100Here is another story that we have to talk about that is absolutely disgusting.
00:15:13.980So there's this story of, I believe, a three-year-old and a six- or seven-year-old who have gone missing in Nova Scotia.
00:15:22.160And when the police did a press conference this morning, three or four days after the children went missing,
00:15:27.520probably, like, tragically, probably they are not with us anymore,
00:15:30.880or the police, the RCMP, decided to do a land acknowledgement before getting into the news.
00:19:35.360Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys.
00:19:38.620In this video, I'm going to be starting on my video where I go riding by riding through a few areas of Canada
00:19:44.000and demonstrate some high points for the conservatives, some high points for the liberals in the federal election,
00:19:49.200and kind of the roadmap to the conservatives being able to win in the next federal election.
00:19:53.920I also want to talk a little bit about conservative strategy and what they need to be doing going forward to shake up the headquarters of the party in order to actually win.
00:20:03.360Because right now, it does seem like a lot of people inside the conservative party don't care about winning.
00:20:07.660They just want to make sure their positions are secure, whether we win or lose.
00:20:11.380And that is how you lose elections is when you're not motivated by the win.
00:20:16.220You are motivated by keeping your job.
00:20:18.840Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys.