The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - The Myth Of Red Tory Appeal Destroyed By Premier Blaine Higgs

00:00:00.960 I'm really happy that two things I really want to talk about are colliding right at the same time,

00:00:05.060 so then I don't have to break it up into separate videos. And I think they make for great topics to

00:00:09.560 contrast on. First is Erin O'Toole resigning from the Conservative Party, from his seat in Durham,

00:00:14.380 not, I guess, from the Conservative Party, but, you know, leaving politics and on his way out,

00:00:17.960 trying to trip Pierre Polyev and the more blue Conservatives on his way out. And then the other

00:00:22.560 thing I want to talk about is Blaine Higgs, the Premier of New Brunswick, standing up for parental

00:00:27.920 rights and winning. So what I want to take on is the myth that somehow being unpassionate

00:00:35.360 Conservatives will eventually mean that the Conservative Party will win some massive

00:00:39.460 majority. That was effectively the modus operandi of Erin O'Toole in 2021, or since 2020, after he

00:00:47.400 pretended to be a blue Conservative, won the leadership, and then basically betrayed his base

00:00:51.120 on almost every single issue. He proved that if you moderate heavily, you're not going to have this

00:00:57.080 big flood of Liberals jumping over onto your bandwagon and pushing you to victory. The media

00:01:01.920 is going to keep criticizing you. It doesn't matter if you do exactly what they want to be not called

00:01:06.820 a, like, a big, like, scary, blue, radical Conservative. They're just going to find something

00:01:11.580 else they don't like about you or pretend that you didn't pivot to the left on one of your policies

00:01:15.600 and keep calling you right wing. You're never going to win that way. And it also happened a little

00:01:21.120 bit to Andrew Scheer. Even though I think Andrew Scheer was not a bad leader, he had a lot of people

00:01:25.320 around him basically saying, tone down your message. Don't talk about being a social Conservative.

00:01:29.380 Don't touch social issues. Just talk about boutique tax credits, and we'll just pray that we're going

00:01:34.220 to win. And it just didn't work either. But Erin O'Toole was kind of like the imperfection, perfected

00:01:40.380 version of the moderate Conservative Canada. And it proved that doing that will never actually bring

00:01:46.540 voters out. Voters like to vote for things that are people who are passionate about specific issues.

00:01:51.940 People don't exactly run out of their houses because, you know, Erin O'Toole is going to give 1.00

00:01:56.220 you some O'Toole bucks at the gas pump just so you can buy, like, solar panels. Nobody cares.

00:02:02.260 It's so just a dead, boring issue. No one's going to get excited and donate to the Conservative

00:02:07.820 Party or volunteer. When you abandon your socially Conservative base, who tend to actually be some of

00:02:12.720 the heaviest volunteering members of the Conservative Party, you shouldn't be shocked when your campaigns

00:02:17.880 underperform. Now, going to Blaine Higgs, the Premier of New Brunswick, he's changing policy 713 when it

00:02:25.680 comes to gender and sexual orientation policy in schools. And he's becoming wildly popular in New

00:02:32.760 Brunswick. Yes, there's people resigning from his cabinets who are these fence-riding red Tories.

00:02:37.880 But overall, people in New Brunswick are extremely supportive of the changes that he's making. A poll that

00:02:42.840 came up from Ledger shows that 57% of Canadians all across the country support what Blaine Higgs is

00:02:48.240 doing, which is effectively just, like, girding up parental rights, basically saying that if your

00:02:53.300 child tries to identify as the opposite gender or some sort of weird-in-the-middle thing like being 1.00

00:02:58.680 non-binary, the parents have to be informed. You don't get to keep secrets from the parents

00:03:03.300 at school. No random theoretical justification or excuse of saying, well, maybe the parents will be

00:03:10.180 rude to their kid or be abusive to their kid if they're made known about this. It's a fringe

00:03:16.660 hypothetical to basically undermine parental rights. And Blaine Higgs was not tricked by people trying to

00:03:23.180 push that stuff on him. And again, 57% of Canadians nationally support what Blaine Higgs is doing. In

00:03:28.840 Atlantic Canada, it's 69%. And again, with the 57% who are approving, only 18% nationally disapproved of

00:03:35.820 what Blaine Higgs was doing. And then the rest are probably, you know, undecided seeing what everyone

00:03:40.140 else thinks. And based on the way that public opinion has gone, I guarantee most of the undecided

00:03:44.260 people are also going to break in the direction of supporting parental rights. Again, the media is

00:03:50.000 trying to trash Blaine Higgs. You have Justin Trudeau coming out and basically saying that he's not

00:03:54.740 letting kids be themselves or whatever, as if, you know, as if like buying into gender theory because

00:04:01.200 your teacher is talking to you about it is really being yourself. That's not being yourself. That's

00:04:05.160 just being a pawn to a progressive agenda. Anyways, but this is the 100% polar opposite of what Aaron

00:04:13.840 O'Toole did. Blaine Higgs, and I have to give a lot of credit to Chris Austin, the former New

00:04:19.140 Brunswick People's Alliance Party leader, who I think has been one of the driving forces behind the

00:04:24.240 scenes on pushing the New Brunswick government to change policy 713 to actually support parental rights

00:04:30.440 and make sure that parents are kept informed about what their kids up to at school, that this stuff

00:04:35.760 is demonstrating that people actually like it when you stand up to progressive bullies. Aaron O'Toole

00:04:41.400 always cowered in the face of progressive bullies, and no one wanted to stand up for Aaron O'Toole.

00:04:46.300 No one, if Aaron O'Toole is our leader, why are we going to show up for him if he's always cowering?

00:04:51.220 I don't want to support a guy who's not willing to support me on the issues. Blaine Higgs is obviously

00:04:56.420 willing to back up parents and to back up social conservatives, so he's doing wildly well in his

00:05:01.500 province. Yes, New Brunswick is a little bit more of a socially conservative province compared to

00:05:05.960 somewhere like Quebec or Ontario, but Doug Ford, when he was running in the 2018 provincial election

00:05:11.900 his first time around, even though he's become a very red Tory-ish hack these days, in 2018 he

00:05:18.280 effectively won a lot of the GTA because he stood up for parental rights and he wanted to scrap the very

00:05:23.500 perverted sex ed curriculum in which it's not even sex ed, it's just, you know, sexual ed at this

00:05:28.520 point. It's just kind of pushing almost borderline pornographic materials on children. When you

00:05:34.480 actually run on issues that people are passionate about, no matter what the media says, if it's a

00:05:40.140 popular or unpopular issue, you will win ground. Justin Trudeau, we look at as conservatives at things

00:05:45.880 that Justin Trudeau runs on, and there are these weird fringe socially progressive issues that the vast

00:05:51.780 majority of people do not, you know, care about. And even with very, with a minority of approval on

00:05:57.620 some of these issues, or a minority of the Canadian people agreeing with Justin Trudeau on his hyper

00:06:01.980 progressive sort of virtue signaling kind of policies, he drives out the specific community that like those

00:06:07.900 views, and they vote liberal, and that's what keeps Justin Trudeau in power. And if we only choose

00:06:14.180 policies where 80% of Canadians are on our side, because who could disagree with us on, you know, tax credits,

00:06:20.160 who could disagree with us on being against corruption, you're always going to lose because

00:06:24.500 you're not grabbing a hot button issue that people really care about and giving them a motivation to

00:06:29.720 come out and vote. If all they're coming out to vote for is that they might get an extra $100 or $200

00:06:33.680 back on their power bills, they're not going to show up. And that's kind of what happened in the

00:06:38.360 provincial election with the UCP. I never found that there was a hot button issue that the Conservative

00:06:42.960 Party, the United Conservative Party had jumped on until the last couple of weeks. What probably helped us

00:06:47.020 win that we started talking about crime and cutting income taxes, but it was a little too late. So I

00:06:52.060 think we ended up losing some seats that we didn't need to lose. So at the end of the day, Aaron O'Toole's

00:06:57.140 theory of politics, that the idea that you're just supposed to appeal to that theoretical voter right in 0.98

00:07:03.480 the middle of the country, and you're going to win all you're going to win every election is foolish, 0.51

00:07:07.760 people are passionate about things. And the theoretical average voter that strategy firms come up with 0.95

00:07:13.640 is that unpassionate person. So you always are going to lose elections when you try and assume

00:07:18.700 that there is a way of averaging every single Canadian into one person to pitch to, you're

00:07:23.080 always going to stop talking about any issues that matter to anyone and become the boring in the middle

00:07:27.400 party. It's like becoming, you know, the Alberta Party and Alberta Party, Alberta politics, the Alberta

00:07:33.400 Party stands for nothing. So they lost all their voters after 2019. They basically collapsed. I think

00:07:38.080 they're only running like 17 candidates. It was truly pathetic. So if the Conservative Party wants 0.99

00:07:43.620 to beat Justin Trudeau next time, they should do what Paul Yev actually just did today and back people

00:07:49.540 like Blaine Higgs and say that he's standing up for parents and I'm not going to get in the way of him

00:07:53.640 standing up for parents.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - June 27, 2023

The Myth Of Red Tory Appeal Destroyed By Premier Blaine Higgs

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