The Liberals' desperation cannot be hidden
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Summary
A post on the Liberal Party of Canada's official social media accounts reads: "Pure, right-wing American's priorities" and then it lists a list of far-right priorities, including denying climate change, cutting taxes for the wealthy, curbing gun control, and eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for illegal guns.
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I think if you boiled down pure political desperation and encapsulated it in a singular
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social media post, it would look a lot like this one posted by the Liberal Party of Canada
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on their official X account. It was quite literally made on just the Notes app of someone's iPhone.
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I guess they thought that this was really clever. So an intern spun this up on the Notes app and
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then took a screenshot of it and posted it. And it reads in scratched out text first,
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far right American. And then it continues reading as like the real title,
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pure polio's priorities. And then it lists deny climate change. And I'm going to take these one
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by one because they're just so dumb. What do you mean deny climate change? You got to actually
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define your terms. Disagreeing with the carbon tax is not denying climate change. And just like
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pointing it out because it just bears repeating, the carbon tax doesn't do anything to reduce
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emissions. There is a reason why Stephen Gilboa, the environment minister and the Liberal government
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do not even track whether or not the carbon tax has had any effect on climate emissions,
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because it doesn't. They just know it doesn't. And if they actually studied whether it does or not,
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they would just be shown to be complete frauds. But anyways, moving on to the second point,
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then it says cut services to cut taxes for the wealthy. What services have the conservatives
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decide they're going to cut? Which services? The budget in Canada, the federal government budget,
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has gone up from $269 billion in 2015, Harper's last year's prime minister, all the way up to now,
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which is about $449 billion. And it's probably going to go even higher once they actually roll
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out the official budget for the 2024 fiscal year. I don't know what they think that the conservatives
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are going to have to cut to balance the budget that's deeply important. There is so much administration
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in HR that can be cut in order to actually give tax cuts to all Canadians. I don't know where they've
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decided that Polyev's only going to cut taxes for like the top 1%. His entire narrative has been
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cutting taxes for everyone, which cutting the carbon tax would also do. Okay, third point,
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it says gut the middle class. What middle class? I'm pretty sure Justin Trudeau's already done a good
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enough job gutting the middle class. I don't think I even have to say anything more on that one.
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And then the fourth point is we can gun control. The liberals in Bill C-5 have lowered the sentences
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or I think actually eliminated mandatory minimum sentences for carrying around an illegal handgun.
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If you have an illegal handgun, not like an law-abiding citizen that the liberals are trying
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to attack for like owning weapons and, you know, using them responsibly. They have lowered the
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mandatory minimum. If you are a gangbanger carrying around a handgun in your waistband,
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if you get caught, you don't actually have to go to prison anymore. So who's actually weakening gun
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control here? The law-abiding gun owners are not a threat of violence to anybody. And pretending that
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they are is just cowardice and not wanting to deal with the real violent threat, which is gangs in urban
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and rural areas. Oh, okay. Completely annoying, but that's what the liberals have basically fallen down
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to. They're just posting notes pages, basically saying the conservatives suck. They're far right.
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Guys, level with me here. It didn't work before Durham. You got destroyed by Jamil Giovanni,
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the conservative candidate in that riding. Yes, it's been a conservative riding since 2004,
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but the conservatives did way better than they even normally do. And the liberals lost votes,
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the vote share since they last ran in that riding. It's horrible for them. And they threw
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everything they had at that riding. You guys are not going to be able to try and recover your polling
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numbers by running the same play after the Durham by-election. If anything, most voters just look
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at you and think, well, they're out of ideas. And your own base is probably not going to show up
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because they just detect that you also think that you're going to lose. But now I just want to cut
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over to a video of Justin Trudeau now marketing this new Pharmacare plan that he came up with,
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with himself and Jagmeet Singh. It's complete trash. It's going to cost taxpayers billions of dollars
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to effectively not deliver any benefits to anybody. But there's a certain element of this
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I just find hilarious the way he talks about the plan.
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Far too many people are having to make choices between putting groceries on the table or paying
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rent or paying for their medication. Well, the only medications that the current Pharmacare plan
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covers are diabetes medication, which you could say that some people have trouble paying for,
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and contraceptives. That's just a weird narrative to me. Families are having to choose whether or not
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to put food on the table or condoms. No, they're not. That's actually never been a choice. I know
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there's other forms of contraception, obviously, but that's never been a choice for reasonable people,
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whether they buy eggs and butter or they buy, I don't know, they buy the pill and condoms. That's
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never been a choice. And with diabetes too, that's usually something that afflicts older Canadians.
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It's not really something that many 15-year-olds, 24-year-olds have. Yeah, there are some, but this
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is usually people who can afford to pay for the medication that now the taxpayer is subsidizing.
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And most people already had insurance plans that covered these pharmaceuticals. Yes, we have public
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insurance for medical emergencies and other sort of necessary things you need from hospitals,
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but pharmaceuticals you would have to buy insurance for. And like very few Canadians were not covered
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for that. And these are not exactly like crisis things that you need to cover. Yes, some people
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benefit from a pharmacare plan, but that's every program. Every program benefits somebody. And if
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we passed a program that we passed every single program that would benefit somebody, we would
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effectively have no money left in people's wallets because we'd be too busy paying for things that
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might be helpful. It's a foolish plan. And when they miss medication, not only does it lead to
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much worse health outcomes for them and quality of life issues, but it ends up costing our medical
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system much more in serious consequences. So how does this not justify just cutting taxes in general,
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the carbon tax, income taxes, payroll tax, you know, gutting corporate taxes so that companies can hire
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more people at higher wages? Why not? But he's never going to think of that because he likes the power
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that taxing people more comes with. So moving forward on pharmacare, contraceptives and
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and diabetes medications just makes sense in terms of not just being there for Canadians.
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Oh yeah. Who cares about real arguments, guys? It just makes sense. It just makes sense. You know,
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I remember in my dad's day when people didn't have to worry about putting a big old box of condoms on the
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table for their family and making sure they have all the opportunities to succeed and have great
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full fulfilled lives, but also countering the affordability challenges that we know Canadians
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are facing right across the country. Goodness. Imagine having to be one of those women that he
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forced to stand behind him to do this announcement as if you're like really into this very pathetic plan.
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Jagmeet Singh got absolutely nothing out of this pharmacare plan. He's going around pretending like I did it.
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I got our pharmacare plan for our progressive labor base. It's like you got nothing for diabetes
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medication and contraceptives. Who cares? And again, we're probably going to be paying way more
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in taxes in order to pay for this stuff that not many people needed. And remember, whenever there's
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a pharmacare plan or a universal dental plan or like our medical system already is, a public insurance
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program, what it does is it chases away supply because what the government's doing in order to secure
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better deals for the Canadian public, it's not just bulk buying that's reducing the cost.
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It's that they are trying to mandate that pharmaceutical companies pay or sell these
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items to the government for less than they would have normally sold them on the free market.
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So you're going to have a lot of people who produce diabetes, like medication, insulin,
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all this type of stuff. They're just not going to produce as much for Canada because there's no
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money in it. And there's nothing wrong with wanting money and providing a service that people want
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because if you had no incentive to do it, nobody would ever do it. Just look at socialist
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countries. They're not exactly known for their robust supply of food, medicine and other sorts
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of services. But anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. Just want to want to quickly plug
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