The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 22, 2024


The Liberals' shameless gaslighting of Canadians on the economy

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taxes and budget carbon tax unemployment rate
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Wyatt Claypool
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Bill C-63 Pascal St. Doge Pascal Saint-Ange Justin Trudeau Chrystia Freeland Highlands Norwood Mark Zuckerberg Counter Signal John Gruden Janice Irwin Meta
This is why Justin Trudeau is losing Canada's climate tyrant doesn't care what the courts say

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In this episode, I talk about why Canada is not better than other first-world countries, and why the Liberals are lying to us about it. I also talk about the fact that Canada is actually closer to a balanced budget than the US, Australia, and the UK.

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00:00:00.000 One of the most annoying things that happens all the time in politics that Canadians have become extremely used to over the past eight years of Justin Trudeau's liberal government is politicians just gaslighting you into thinking that the state of the country is much better than it actually is.
00:00:15.680 I'm not trying to be very doomerish here and pretend that all is lost in Canada. Canada still has obviously a lot of virtues, but we are obviously also in economic decline right now because of crazy high taxes, regulations, anti-oil and gas regulations, all the stuff that the liberals have imposed on Canadians.
00:00:33.740 Our GDP per capita in 10 years has actually slightly gone down, even though a first world country like Canada has no reason not to be growing at a rapid rate. 0.94
00:00:44.660 It's because the liberals have been getting in the way. But don't worry, they are here with their own statistics and very skewed studies.
00:00:51.860 I just call them studies because I get annoyed whenever someone's like, I have a study here that actually shows we're doing great.
00:00:57.060 And that's what Minister Pascal Saint-Onges, the heritage minister, is doing with this report about the G20.
00:01:03.740 She says on X, Canada leads the G20 with the strongest overall budget balance sheet, outpacing countries like Australia.
00:01:11.640 We know that there is always more work to do to build an economy that delivers for every generation, so let's keep making Canada even better.
00:01:18.760 I'm sorry, Canada's not better because we're slightly closer to a balanced budget than the US, Australia and the UK.
00:01:26.420 Do you know why we're slightly closer to a balanced budget? It's not because of fiscal responsibility, it's because we jacked taxes up.
00:01:32.680 In theory, we could have a perfectly conservative balanced budget. If the liberals just raised middle class income taxes by another 10% or 15%, we could be fully balanced.
00:01:42.840 We could have a surplus. And as a conservative person, I actually really don't care that much about a balanced budget if the budget is being balanced off of the personal prosperity of individual Canadians.
00:01:54.140 I think that the government should be getting control of its own spending, and when the spending is under control and taxes are low, then they can take pride in a balanced budget.
00:02:04.240 A balanced budget is like a symptom of a good economy.
00:02:07.740 If you just force the symptom to happen by jacking up taxes, I don't care about that.
00:02:12.860 But Pascal St. Doge and other liberal ministers going around repeating little statistics like this, little minor who cares achievements that, wow, we're actually at the top for not having a high debt-to-GDP ratio, or we're getting really close to a balanced budget.
00:02:29.700 Who cares? The economy sucks and taxes are high.
00:02:33.560 But anyways, before I move on, I want to cover Christia Freeland saying some other stuff and just other nonsense I see liberals pushing to pretend the economy is better. 0.78
00:02:41.080 I quickly want to plug the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:02:47.820 This is what the riding boundaries are now.
00:02:49.860 So if you live in this riding, buy conservative federal membership, vote for me number one in your ballot, and visit my website in the description below, wyattclaypool.com.
00:02:59.100 Anyways, but before I get to this Christia Freeland clip where she pretends that the carbon tax is actually making us super competitive and we're bringing in so many jobs, 1.00
00:03:06.580 I hate this idea that, well, the liberals' current budget plan puts us on course to reducing our debt-to-GDP ratio.
00:03:15.180 And it's like, I don't believe you, just because this budget, because we are taxing people more and ergo are reducing the deficit,
00:03:22.400 that's not an achievement that in the long run it will reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio.
00:03:27.040 Cool, but that's also requiring some Canadians to be having to pay well over 60% of their income in taxes.
00:03:34.100 Also, that sort of, I would say, fake trend line that's assuming that we're going to be reducing the debt-to-GDP into 2028,
00:03:42.400 that's the kind of stuff that we had been assuming would happen back in 2015, and then debt-to-GDP keeps going up,
00:03:48.700 and every time the liberals put out a new budget, there's some random guy with his study online showing that right now,
00:03:55.000 if we actually maintain this sort of spending, the debt-to-GDP will fall down.
00:03:58.700 When have they ever actually gotten control of spending?
00:04:01.280 You're just lying to yourself, or you're lying to other people knowing that whatever you're saying isn't true.
00:04:06.460 That's not true.
00:04:07.820 You can't, a government official can't just come out with idealized numbers from their budget.
00:04:11.640 And this budget's not even exactly ideal. 0.97
00:04:13.300 It's full of, like, crap spending that's not going to help anybody else. 0.97
00:04:17.240 It's not going to reduce poverty. 0.99
00:04:18.380 It's not going to make anything more affordable.
00:04:20.760 The dental care is not actually going to show up for anyone. 0.95
00:04:23.160 The pharma care is useless. 0.99
00:04:24.600 All this stuff sucks. 0.96
00:04:25.920 But technically, if we keep spending exactly at this level for the next 10 years, 0.95
00:04:29.740 the debt-to-GDP will go down.
00:04:31.460 When has a liberal government not proposed new spending?
00:04:34.040 I would say, like, John Chrétien, when we needed to cut the budget.
00:04:36.840 It's never happened in my entire lifetime.
00:04:40.220 I'm not that old, to be fair.
00:04:41.500 But it's never happened in, like, the last 100 years that a liberal government gets control of spending outside of that crisis scenario in the 90s.
00:04:49.320 And this is what I said in another video.
00:04:51.260 I hate when I see liberals come out and say,
00:04:52.960 we've actually reduced the amount of children in poverty in Canada by 2.3 million since 2015.
00:04:59.080 No, you're full of it.
00:05:00.320 No, you haven't.
00:05:01.040 That's a fake achievement.
00:05:02.640 That doesn't mean anything.
00:05:03.920 What they did was they have an arbitrary metric for what makes children, like, poor or in poverty.
00:05:11.520 And they have specifically addressed those couple of issues, even though, objectively, Canadian families are worse off than they were 10 years ago.
00:05:20.140 How did we raise 2.3 million children out of poverty when the poverty rate of Canada has not been higher since Justin Trudeau took over?
00:05:29.260 That doesn't make any sense. 0.93
00:05:30.500 It's always on stupid metrics, like, well, you know, teenagers can access free contraceptives, and they can, like, get hygiene products, and they can get data plans from the government for phones. 0.98
00:05:42.520 That's not wealth. 1.00
00:05:44.120 That's just stupid bureaucratic metrics for what makes someone not in poverty. 0.94
00:05:48.540 That's why I highlighted that UNICEF chart of what, like, of child poverty. 0.95
00:05:52.900 The best-achieving country on child poverty is, like, Slovenia.
00:05:55.980 And the worst was, like, Luxembourg.
00:05:58.120 One of the worst was Luxembourg. 1.00
00:05:59.300 That doesn't make any sense.
00:06:00.900 Anyways, here's Chrystia Freeland saying that actually the carbon tax is making us tons of jobs and making us super prosperous.
00:06:08.180 And I can tell you, global markets will not be open to us unless we have a strong and credible climate plan.
00:06:18.540 So from my perspective, there are a lot of reasons we need a strong climate plan.
00:06:24.040 But the number one reason is because our economy, the jobs of today, and the jobs of tomorrow depend on having one.
00:06:32.100 Thank you, Rebel News, for clipping that.
00:06:35.520 But I feel so bad for all the people in the background looking like they didn't know why they didn't call in sick that day.
00:06:41.220 But you see what Chrystia Freeland was doing there. 1.00
00:06:43.480 It's called lying because she's a liar. 1.00
00:06:46.280 How is it that Canada's jobs are going down over time, yet nobody will invest in us unless they have the carbon tax?
00:06:52.680 So at what moment does the rest of the world recognize, wow, gee whiz, that Canada sure does have a carbon tax.
00:06:59.560 Let's send all of our workers there. 1.00
00:07:01.140 Let's open up like, you know, seven new manufacturing plants in Oshawa because Canada has a carbon tax.
00:07:08.040 And they're going to gouge us for our money, for our tax money, for our revenues if we set up shop there.
00:07:13.360 That's not true.
00:07:14.340 If you look at any of the charts of Canadian employment, our employment rate has actually, unemployment rate has been going up.
00:07:20.900 The only way our employment rate looks somewhat good is if you minus off all the discouraged workers.
00:07:26.460 The amount of discouraged workers in Canada is crazy.
00:07:28.980 So the unemployment rate in some months will come down, but it's because people stopped looking for jobs.
00:07:33.540 We did not add any jobs that month that would justify the unemployment rate falling because we're looking at in January, February, March.
00:07:41.560 The net amount of jobs added was like nothing.
00:07:43.760 Yet somehow the unemployment rate fell further because we are now considering people who've lost all hope to now no longer be an employment problem.
00:07:52.180 That's insane.
00:07:53.280 And all the employment is in the state.
00:07:55.620 Sorry, we needed a carbon tax so that we could get more employees in the state.
00:07:59.380 And that's really what it's about.
00:08:00.660 The carbon tax allows the government to employ thousands of people just to deliver that one policy.
00:08:05.660 This happens all the time.
00:08:07.000 People act like because it's the public sector, it holds up the public interest because it's called the public sector.
00:08:13.860 No, bureaucracies, unions, everyone involved in the public sector, in government, has their own incentives that they follow.
00:08:22.240 They have their own interests and they're not like nasty and terrible.
00:08:25.900 They just have the incentives to create more work for themselves so they can justify higher pay and they can employ more people in their department.
00:08:32.720 That's how it works.
00:08:33.740 That is a major reason why the liberals want to keep the carbon tax.
00:08:36.480 They have thousands of people who they employ, who support the liberal priority, and probably donate because they work in high-level bureaucratic jobs just administering the carbon tax, just administering universal dental and the pharmacore program.
00:08:50.020 This allowed them to hire a ton more people even if they don't deliver a single free dental care plan.
00:08:57.060 It's nonsensical.
00:08:58.540 Never believe this stuff.
00:08:59.720 It's just smoke and mirrors.
00:09:00.960 But I want to now highlight this one last expose from, again, the heritage minister, Pascal Saint-Onges.
00:09:07.600 This was the cringiest thing I've ever seen.
00:09:09.920 It's her team pretending that they posted this without her knowing because we just love Pascal so much.
00:09:16.180 And it says,
00:09:16.540 Yeah, thanks for helping crush more independent media.
00:09:33.760 Even if Meta, who is still rightfully holding out, I can't access my Meta page, my Facebook page right now for the National Telegraph, I do not begrudge Mark Zuckerberg or the Meta team.
00:09:45.040 It's not their fault that the liberals are trying to extort them.
00:09:48.140 Even if they paid up, it wouldn't benefit Wyatt, and I'm just saying this on principle that I don't want them to pay.
00:09:53.220 Even if they paid, I'm even slightly being selfish here.
00:09:56.000 Even if they paid, I wouldn't get a cent of it because all the money would go to global, CBC, CTV, the legacy media outlets.
00:10:02.920 What she has actually done is she has restricted the money that Google has to pay independent media outlets because it's saying that they need to pay the legacy media outlets more for their news.
00:10:13.860 Only accredited media gets to actually access the money that the liberals are getting a hold of.
00:10:19.660 So really, they're not actually taking money from Google.
00:10:21.920 Google is just going to slash ad rates for websites like the National Telegraph and True North and Rebel News and Counter Signal and all the others, and then they're going to hand that money to the CBC.
00:10:34.260 This is just a money grab.
00:10:36.560 This is them giving already rich subsidized journalists who are making six figures for doing a terrible job, and they are giving them even more money that I would have previously earned.
00:10:46.400 So I'm being selfish here, but I think it's still principled selfishness that, yes, it benefits me to not want Bill C-18 and Bill C-11 to be implemented, and especially Bill C-63.
00:10:57.080 At the same time, it's just the right thing not to do this.
00:11:00.260 It's the right thing not to curb algorithms for your media friends to force those companies to pay your media friends more who somehow can't manage a $1.4 billion budget without having to cut employees because these people have massive departments.
00:11:14.220 And these, like, massive journalistic organizations that do nothing.
00:11:18.060 This is the reason why, and this is turning into a rant, why Alberta, and I'm going to call out my own province of Alberta.
00:11:23.840 Alberta, we spend the most per capita on health care, on education, and we have the longest wait times for a lot of procedures, and we have the biggest class sizes.
00:11:33.620 It's because we actually don't spend that much on health care and education.
00:11:36.400 I'm not saying we should spend more.
00:11:37.980 We could literally cut the health care budget in Alberta by probably 20%, and we could have better health care because it's not about the dollars.
00:11:45.300 It's about how you spend the dollars.
00:11:46.860 And we spend half of our dollars in health care on people creating messes, creating paperwork, HR, administration, people who have nothing to do with actual health care delivery.
00:11:56.700 Same with schools.
00:11:57.960 I've heard from teachers themselves that about 10, 20 years ago, schools were one principal, one vice principal, some other support staff members, a superintendent who manages multiple school, like the school district and whatnot.
00:12:10.480 And now what we have is like seven vice principals in schools, two co-principals, a bunch of extra support staff.
00:12:19.700 And that's why we don't have like we don't have enough teachers to reduce class sizes because there's a lot of people incentivized not to teach, to get paid more, to be in these administrative jobs.
00:12:29.320 And these administrative jobs tend to be things that the unions are actually in favor of, even though you think they'd be against management, because these jobs tend to be handed out to the most loyal Alberta Teachers Association members.
00:12:39.740 This is how Janice Irwin, the current MLA in Edmonton, like Highlands Norwood, barely worked as a teacher. 1.00
00:12:46.120 She became a vice principal almost immediately because she was a very, very key ATA asset.
00:12:51.320 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:12:54.120 I don't want to go on too long about this topic since I know economics can kind of bore people.
00:12:58.380 Hopefully I make it entertaining.
00:13:00.280 But plug again, I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
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00:13:30.220 but are merely trying to attack us because they don't like independent media investigating things.
00:13:35.060 Anyways, that's it for me.
00:13:37.160 Have a good one, guys.