Justin Trudeau's Liberals are desperate. They need to do something to claw back in the polls, and they need to talk about something other than abortion. But they can't seem to find a single thing to get their message across. So what are they doing? They're talking about abortion.
00:00:00.160Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Wyatt Claypool Show. And yes, I did get a haircut, but I'm not here to talk about my pretty good haircut.
00:00:08.980I am here to talk today about the increasing desperation of Justin Trudeau's federal liberals.
00:00:14.880Man, you can tell that these guys were desperate before, but now they're pulling out all the most desperate cards they can use to try and either claw back in the polling or at least get some attention that's not entirely negative on themselves.
00:00:28.120But before I get into the issues that really demonstrate just how sweaty and desperate the liberals currently are, let's just take a little trip down the polling lane and check out what the current polling is like.
00:00:40.820So right now, the federal conservatives, these are polling averages. This is not just the best polls from these parties. These are polling averages.
00:00:48.100The conservatives are at 42.1%, liberals at 24.4%, NDP at 17.7%, Bloc 7.5%, Greens 4.2%, and PPC 2.7%.
00:01:00.180That is an incredible margin for the conservatives, about a little bit less than 18 points.
00:01:07.000You do not see this in Canadian politics.
00:01:26.580And the funny thing is that Trudeau's not having to deal with any new party on his left blank.
00:01:30.800If anything, he's been benefiting from the fact that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is utterly horrific at his job.
00:01:37.480Jagmeet Singh does no favors for the NDP, despite the fact, and I talked about this in one of my other videos,
00:01:43.880despite the fact that Justin Trudeau and the liberals are more unpopular than they've ever been before,
00:01:49.720somehow Jagmeet Singh sucks at his job so much that he cannot exploit the situation properly so that he can actually gain some of the liberal voters.
00:01:58.000All the liberal voters are either saying, I'm staying home, or they're going to go vote for the conservatives,
00:02:02.320because the conservatives actually represent significant change and reform to the things that Justin Trudeau is currently doing.
00:02:09.760All Jagmeet Singh represents is doubling whatever the current liberals are doing.
00:04:47.860Arnold asked for a very reasonable thing in that petition, saying just let's strengthen some laws to protect unborn children.
00:04:56.080And even though the conventional wisdom in Canada is that don't touch abortion, don't be pro-life,
00:05:01.780just say you're pro-choice or say I'm personally pro-life, which is a very weaselly way of saying I don't want to do anything on this issue.
00:05:08.680If you're not pro-life, perfectly fine, you can be that thing.
00:05:11.480But don't do the weird thing like I'm personally for this.
00:05:14.200Are you politically against it or are you politically for it?
00:05:47.960And the liberals are hammering this as hard as they can because apparently they think that this is their path into actually, I guess, winning extra votes.
00:05:56.880I don't know how this wins them votes.
00:05:59.320This just makes them honestly seem like fairly awful people.
00:06:02.760This is like the liberals attacking Donald Trump.
00:06:06.300All you're going to do is make Donald Trump far more popular in Canada because know who's very unpopular in Canada?
00:06:13.600And so if you attack anything or anyone and make that a battle between Justin Trudeau or Donald Trump or Justin Trudeau or abortion,
00:06:22.720you're going to have a lot more people turn against whatever Justin Trudeau's position is because people truly dislike him that much.
00:06:28.960So we see this graphic coming out from the Liberal Party, and it said proudly pro-choice, abortion is health care.
00:06:36.840And again, it might be conventional wisdom that Canada tends to be a very pro-choice country.
00:06:43.280But when you start putting out slogans like abortion is health care, you're going to get a lot of moderates screaming and running to the hills because that's nuts.
00:06:52.380If you ever see the polling on actual abortion practices, things like sex elective, extreme late term, and all these other sorts of practices that most people are not on board with.
00:07:04.320Polling shows that like 95%, 85%, 75% of people want some sort of common sense restriction.
00:07:11.540So the Liberals acting like this is going to be the big election issue of 2025 is only shooting themselves in the foot because they do not have the brand strength to come out as we're the pro-choice party and the Conservatives are pro-life, so you better come back and vote for us.
00:07:27.900Because people aren't voting on this issue in the next election.
00:07:30.700They're voting on affordability, crime, debt, jobs, corruption, a lot of stuff.
00:07:36.240So life issues, even for pro-life voters, probably aren't their number one issue this time.
00:07:42.660So the Liberals bringing this up is only going to make people think, what's Justin Trudeau's position?
00:07:49.180And they're actually going to become more pro-life in opposition to Justin Trudeau's position.
00:07:54.140So in a certain sense, I'm happy to see the Liberals running on abortion because they're only going to make the pro-life conservative position more popular.
00:08:02.660I want to bring up another video because they were trying to make a big deal about this one where I forget what her name is.
00:08:09.320This might be Kathy Wagenthal speaking here, a Conservative MP.
00:08:13.920It's so belittling where they act like the Conservatives are attacking women while a pro-life woman is speaking in front of the March for Life in Ottawa as if she is doing something wrong by having a conscience-based position on the issue of abortion.
00:08:30.240You're perfectly fine to do that, but the Liberals make it that it's either there, no restrictions at all, do whatever you want position, or it's like, I don't know, handmaid's tale.
00:08:43.160And what Arnold Veerson, Kathy Wagenthal, and all these other MPs are asking for, other pro-life MPs like Damian Kirk have said it over time,
00:08:50.340is what the vast majority of Canadians would actually be on board with if there wasn't so much noise and sort of fear about talking about this issue.
00:08:58.080The truth is not being told in general media or in our House of Commons about what abortion really does to your heart and your mind and your soul and your body.
00:09:09.000There are thousands of women in this country that think that they're pro-choice.
00:09:16.340That goes on for a bit. I don't need to watch the full clips. I don't want to just make this an entire just clip show viewing party.
00:09:22.960But this is a very desperate move by the Liberals. Is this going to move the needle at all?
00:09:27.580Maybe in the next month I could see the Liberals recovering by a couple points.
00:09:31.400But again, this is not what the next federal election is about.
00:09:34.720No Canadian really cares about this issue over any of the other issues.
00:09:38.440And the Liberals' position is so uncompromisingly insane that you're going to have a lot of Canadians realizing they're actually somewhat pro-life in some ways.
00:09:47.900Again, look at all the polling on specific practices. Sex selective polls horribly.
00:09:53.220If the Conservatives actually ran against sex selective abortion or they ran against like they want to implement upgraded penalties for assaulting a pregnant mother and making her miscarry,
00:10:04.520the Liberals literally voted against that in the House of Commons. That was insane.
00:10:08.360They basically said if you assault a pregnant woman and she miscarries, that's nothing but a basic assault.
00:10:12.780That is crazy. Do they think that if they push this hard enough, the Conservatives won't bring that up, that they do not care about pregnant mothers?
00:10:22.340That's how pro-abortion they are. They're not just pro-choice.
00:10:25.740They literally do not care about pregnant mothers because they are just the anti-baby party.
00:10:31.500Because if you assault a pregnant mother and she miscarries, they consider that, who cares?
00:10:36.420That doesn't matter because keeping that not a crime helps protect abortion, which is pants on head crazy.
00:10:45.360But anyways, I want to move on to something else. Something sillier. Let's bring in some levity.
00:10:50.100That's a dark issue to talk about. I want to talk about Tim Hortons.
00:10:55.060And more specifically, Tim Hortons coffee lids.
00:10:58.740This sounds very petty, but I thought the whole topic was interesting.
00:11:02.520So the Conservative MP is, what's her name?
00:11:08.120Leanne Rood. I'm sorry. I do not know a lot of Conservative MPs' names by heart.
00:11:12.600Leanne Rood cut this video talking about Tim Hortons and their new lids that they have on their coffee.
00:11:19.280They are implementing paper lids, which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
00:11:23.240And somehow this is going to flight climate change or whatever, even though paper products literally take more emissions to create more energy than plastic ones.
00:12:08.580Well, I don't like talking about serious issues sometimes.
00:12:11.300And I think that this is kind of indicative of how much leftism has kind of creeped into just normal culture.
00:12:17.520And I'm not trying to fearmonger, like, first it's the paper lids, and next it's going to be Marxists making you get a hammer and sickle tattoo in order to order coffee.
00:12:27.320No, but the thing is, it's obviously something that conservative individuals, politicians, anyone should be pushing back on.
00:12:35.680That if a company is going to make a silly decision in order to do climate action or whatever, even though it's literally causing more energy emissions and this stuff doesn't even biodegrade and they're not reusable.
00:12:47.860Whereas, like, you can keep putting a plastic lid on another cup and you're fine.
00:12:55.240If you have more than one refill in a drink with a paper straw in it, you need to get another one.
00:12:59.780And a paper straw literally takes 2.7 times more energy to create than a plastic straw.
00:13:06.720And the plastic straw, like Rude pointed out, is actually recyclable.
00:13:11.140But the liberals are so desperate right now for any attention, any stick to try and beat the conservatives with, they were actually willing to make an ad on this.
00:13:22.260They actually created this ad on their official X account in order to go after Liana Rude for talking about the paper lids.
00:13:31.000So the liberal party's count says pure poly of conservatives are so unserious with the National Post headline.
00:13:37.260Conservative MP declares war on Temple Gordon's woke paper lids.
00:13:51.800And they know that their local MP is just making a bit of a joke out of something very fussy, sensitive, and in a certain sense, woke, that Tim Hortons is doing.
00:14:02.500Nobody has turned off the conservative party by the liberals posting this.
00:14:05.880But what many people could be turned off by is this really cringy video that the liberal MP from, I believe, Edmonton posted.
00:14:16.960So this liberal MP, one of the two liberals in all of Alberta, posted this very strange clip of him eating at Tim Hortons as if this was like a big own to Liana Rude.
00:14:37.580But it's probably copyright music, so I can't play the music.
00:14:41.520But he's playing music with, like, this weird banging club beat, like, really chowing down on that donut, looking a little bit too invested in this donut and coffee.
00:14:51.140But what I will point out to you, one, again, nobody, I don't think this is cringy, people don't like this, but also he's not even using one of the paper lids.
00:15:02.000So I also noticed that Randy himself doesn't even like the paper Tim Hortons lids, because they are awful.
00:15:08.140Would you want a plastic lid or a paper lid?
00:15:10.480If you're on a road trip and you order an extra large coffee, you're going to become a conservative by the end of that trip, even if you're a Marxist, just by having to use a paper lid for something that you're going to be sipping on for a long while.
00:15:29.100But now I want to talk about something that's also silly, but it's more so something that it's annoying to.
00:15:37.180So I don't think it's a secret to anybody that the PPC stopped being a real party after the 2021 election, after Aaron O'Toole, especially after the Freedom Convoy, after Aaron O'Toole stopped being the federal conservative party leader, and pure Polyev stepped up and was obviously going to be the, you know, he was going to be the main guy to replace O'Toole.
00:15:59.920The leadership was kind of a walkover for Polyev.
00:16:02.220That's when the PPC became irrelevant.
00:16:04.080And this is a little bit petty for me to bring up, not in the sense that, like, I'm, like, going after someone, I'm being petty to them, like, as an individual.
00:16:11.860I just mean in the sense it seems small.
00:16:13.660But I think that this is very indicative of the fact that the PPC doesn't have a purpose anymore.
00:16:18.580So this is something that Greg Wycliffe posted in order to go after pure Polyev.
00:16:23.420Because, as we all know, the very heavily renowned journalist Rex Murphy passed away a few days ago on May 9th.
00:16:31.540He was an absolute giant in Canadian media, probably one of the last true intellectual characters in Canadian media.
00:16:39.200There's intellectuals in Canada's media by being the perfect combination of a man who's a really deep thinker as well as he is kind of an eccentric political character.
00:16:47.700Everyone loves Rex Murphy for good reason, but not this communist, not Demetrius Laskaris, Demetri Laskaris, who ran for the Green Party leadership race.
00:16:58.040And a good thing Anami Paul beat him back then, because this guy's a flat-out anti-Semit.
00:17:03.760And when I say he's pro-Russia, I don't mean, like, he doesn't have a Ukrainian flag in his name and in his handle on Twitter.
00:18:25.780But the PPC is so out of talking points to use, other than pure purity testing, that all they can do is just make stuff up.
00:18:32.840I, again, I was just doing a big phone calling blitz yesterday because the membership cutoff deadline for my nomination race I'm in for the Conservative Party in Calgary Signal Hill was yesterday.
00:18:42.940So I was calling through a few people.
00:18:44.460There's a few people that we were cold calling, hadn't called them before, who were big PPC guys.
00:18:48.540I'm perfectly fine with people voting PPC if they like their platform.
00:18:52.960I don't agree with the metric of voting for it when they can't win and they don't do enough even effort on the ground to even plausibly grow their party.
00:19:02.300I understand that the platform is appealing to many people.
00:19:04.920But I had a guy talking about, well, you know Polyev voted for UN Agenda 2030 back in 2005, and he voted for it again back in 2007, and that I don't trust him.
00:19:15.560He's on the payroll, the WF, and it's like, dude, Bernier went to the WF.
00:19:25.780And then he showed up and that he kept going on and on about, like, these really tiny votes from Polyev's career back when he was 25 and 26 years old that he's going to hold against him for the rest of his life.
00:19:38.040Yet, I can point out all these things Maxime Bernier did.
00:19:41.240Maxime Bernier is extremely pro-abortion.
00:19:44.220Maxime Bernier was, like, extremely woke inside the Conservative caucus, if you actually know the positions he took on stuff back then.
00:19:56.160Maxime Bernier's never apologized for that stuff.
00:19:58.300He always pretends like he's always held the positions he currently has.
00:20:01.020Like, when he suddenly became pro-life, when he jumped into the Portage-Lizger by-election, he became pro-life five seconds before that, even though he used to attack pro-life Conservative MPs for not joining him on his positions.
00:20:14.820This is where the PPC isn't taken seriously anymore.
00:21:03.360But then you get other people who are backhandedly saying, oh, the Conservatives aren't brave enough to take a stance on this issue.
00:21:09.760You guys aren't brave enough to run on it because all you guys do is just sign up some random person in a riding to run as your PPC candidate who doesn't campaign.
00:21:17.860And then you stand on social media saying, we have a far more hardcore platform than you.
00:21:23.400And the Christian Heritage Party has a more hardcore platform than the PPC.
00:21:56.880He is a regional organizer in Alberta for the PPC.
00:22:00.380He just resigned because the party does not give any support to the people who are actually working hard to try and grow them.
00:22:06.760They just kick you in the teeth, give you no support, don't help you out in your elections.
00:22:10.860They don't make their constitution that they keep promising.
00:22:14.040This party has proven that they cannot govern.
00:22:16.580And that is the number one thing you have to do to win an election.
00:22:20.780You have to be the guy that people think could actually do the job.
00:22:24.860You can't just be the guy who stands on a lot of principled positions and literally nothing else.
00:22:29.660You at some point have to walk the walk by at least showing the effort to actually win.
00:22:34.940Pernier never puts in the effort to win any of these races he jumps into.
00:22:37.880He never campaigned in both in the two elections in 2019 and 2021.
00:22:43.600And in Portage-Lisgar, he showed up 30 days before the vote to campaign, even though everyone knew the by-election was coming for six months since I think Handisbergen had resigned like five months before that race.
00:22:54.300Everyone knew the race was coming and he didn't campaign because he didn't want to.
00:23:19.960That's pretty much the recap for the episode if for some reason you started this video and you only walked back into the room right now and you just wanted to know the Cliff Notes version.
00:23:27.800But that should be it for me today, guys.
00:23:30.100I just quickly want to plug the donation link for the legal fund.
00:23:35.020If you guys can donate anything to my legal fund, that would really help me out.
00:23:39.360We have this billionaire developer from China suing us for nothing.
00:23:44.260And after two years, he has not submitted any evidence to show that what we said was wrong.
00:23:49.680And he can't because we also weren't even the original ones who said it.
00:23:52.840We based off all our reporting on him from a Globe and Mail article released more than a year and a half before we published our own article about him and others donating to Aaron O'Toole.