The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 09, 2024


Trudeau desperately tries to Bribe Canadians to stay in office

Topics
bribery and election strategy
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Wyatt Claypool
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Justin Trudeau Pierre Poilievre Harper
The Liberals universal dental plan is already failing Trudeau has a tantrum in Parliament over question from Pierre Poilievre

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Justin Trudeau's political prospects are currently barreling into the sun for the next election. He could try and fix a lot of the policy mistakes he's made in the past, and clean up the corruption in his government, but that's too difficult for him. So the one he seems to have settled on is bribery. He's going to try and bribe Canadians with their own money into trying to vote for him again. Spoiler alert: this is not going to work.

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00:00:00.000 So because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's political prospects are currently barreling into the sun for the next election, he's in desperate need of a new political strategy.
00:00:10.140 He could try and fix a lot of the policy mistakes he's made in the past and clean up the corruption in his government, but that's too difficult for him.
00:00:17.120 So the one he seemed to settled on is bribery.
00:00:20.720 He is going to try and bribe Canadians with their own money into trying to vote for him again.
00:00:25.540 Spoiler alert, this isn't actually going to work.
00:00:28.220 At the very least, it's going to be a lot of fun to watch.
00:00:31.460 So the Liberal Party has been releasing videos like this, where under the guise of just criticizing pure poly of the Conservatives program of austerity,
00:00:40.720 the Liberals get to advertise to Canadians just how much money they're willing to throw at them, pretending like they're going to make your life better, and the Conservatives aren't.
00:00:49.800 This is effectively, again, just trying to bribe Canadians with their own taxpayer money by basically stealing money from Canadians with excessive taxation,
00:00:58.220 and then giving it back to people in these really bloated programs that nobody really ever accesses.
00:01:04.340 And even if you do access it, it's not worth the money and the inflation.
00:01:08.560 But here's Trudeau trying to fearmonger against the Conservatives while promoting all the money he's spending on you.
00:01:14.080 Pierre Polyev has continued to promote austerity and cuts as the path forward for Canada and for Canadians.
00:01:23.280 Before I let him keep going, isn't it kind of just odd how he seems to always be on the teetering edge of almost crying in every speech he does?
00:01:32.880 I don't know why that says only acting style is sounding really, really emotionally concerned about something.
00:01:40.060 As if the tears are about to come out now because I'm just so passionate about bloated government programs.
00:01:47.900 Sorry, but I'll let him go.
00:01:48.940 He is wrong when he says that investing in dental care for 1.6 million seniors across this country, so far, is inflationary.
00:02:03.940 He is wrong when he says that the price on pollution that is both fighting climate change and putting more money in people's pockets is responsible for inflation.
00:02:13.400 He is wrong when he suggests that building more infrastructure for child care or accelerating the construction of homes across this country is inflationist.
00:02:24.000 Indeed, experts and economists are almost unanimous on the fact that those kinds of investments are not inflationist.
00:02:32.400 And we've seen inflation come down significantly.
00:02:37.400 We need to continue to keep an eye on it.
00:02:39.400 We need to continue to be responsible.
00:02:41.400 But once again, Pierre Polyev is wrong, is not listening to experts and economists,
00:02:50.400 economists, and he's willing to hurt the things that Canadians rely on to get through these difficult times to pursue his ideological plan to cut services to Canadians.
00:03:04.220 Okay, is that making y'all want to vote for Justin Trudeau now? 0.66
00:03:08.100 I hope not, because if you're watching the show, I hope you have a brain.
00:03:12.300 But what Justin Trudeau, again, is doing there is just pimping out all of the new programs that he's spending on, which are 100% inflationary.
00:03:20.760 And he didn't also mention the fact that all of them have already fallen on their face.
00:03:24.680 Yes, technically his housing plan is new, but he's had three identical housing plans before.
00:03:29.980 This is just an intensification of it, and those previous housing plans have actually slowed down the rate of new buildings being put up.
00:03:37.740 And the dental care plan is a complete joke.
00:03:40.400 Oh, he thinks it's inflationary to spend $1.6 billion on seniors' dental care.
00:03:45.780 Well, you're not even – you're spending – it's like the most pure form of inflation I've ever seen.
00:03:50.760 They're spending $1.6 billion on this plan, taking it out of the economy,
00:03:55.040 and barely any dentists are signing up to this universal dental program because the way that they're going to somehow get you free dental care,
00:04:03.260 which is just paid for by taxpayers, is trying to force dentists to take way less money than they usually would accept for their procedures.
00:04:12.460 So, you know, dentists don't want to do that, so they haven't signed up.
00:04:15.840 All of the other things – him mentioning the carbon tax rebate as if that's not already a debt issue.
00:04:20.540 Even in the origin point province of the carbon tax, British Columbia, only 29% of people actually want to keep their provincial carbon tax.
00:04:29.180 And federally, the numbers are even worse outside of Quebec, where for some reason the carbon tax is popular because it's a Quebec-based solution.
00:04:36.340 It doesn't really matter.
00:04:37.480 But the idea that he's going to keep citing experts in the face of Canadians actually hurting is quite amazing.
00:04:44.580 I think people have gotten really tired of the expert talk that I'm supposed to just be in favor of policies that are objectively hurting me on my own personal finance ledger at the end of the day
00:04:54.700 because somebody from some university who doesn't live in the real world told me that the rebate's actually benefiting me,
00:05:01.720 even though if you take into effect not just gasoline, heating costs, grocery costs, but also the costs on every other good in the economy,
00:05:08.940 as well as the increased amount of bureaucracy in the federal government that taxpayers pay for on all this stuff,
00:05:14.760 that nobody is making a single cent off of it.
00:05:17.580 You can make any policy look good on paper if you mess with the numbers enough.
00:05:21.400 When you actually have to live with the policies, that's when you see how well it works.
00:05:25.680 Every terrible policy throughout human history has always had numerous experts saying that on paper,
00:05:32.020 it should actually work by the end of the day.
00:05:33.620 And as it continues to fail, those same experts just say, well, the plan wasn't done well enough or the plan wasn't big enough.
00:05:39.980 And it always goes through that normal cycle.
00:05:43.020 And again, he's like, fear mongering against pure poly of making cuts to these specific programs.
00:05:47.640 I'm not sure what programs pure poly is going to cut.
00:05:50.280 But the federal budget went up by 66% since 2015 after Harper left office.
00:05:55.180 I don't think that all that that's necessary spending.
00:05:57.660 But this is Justin Trudeau's new election plan that he is going to take money away from you or print new money,
00:06:04.260 which is another way of taking money away from you and offer you these big dollar sign programs
00:06:10.100 that are apparently being given to you that nobody can actually access and are not even benefiting anyone.
00:06:15.880 And he's acting like this $6 billion infrastructure program is going to go away if you elect pure poly of 0.99
00:06:21.900 as if Justin Trudeau is a magician and is just making this money appear as thin air backed by gold somewhere or whatever.
00:06:28.000 So it's not hurting the economy and some inflationary, everything that the government does in inflationary.
00:06:32.740 We have to stop doing this.
00:06:33.880 I hate like left wing economists who pretend that the GDP that the government generates in spending is equivalent to the free markets GDP.
00:06:43.220 It is not.
00:06:43.860 I've taken so many economic classes where I've had some great economics professors,
00:06:49.260 but you get other ones where they pretend as if if the government's spending a dollar or if you are spending a dollar,
00:06:56.040 those are equivalent dollars.
00:06:57.720 They're not.
00:06:58.600 The government is not allocating money to where it's places where people actually want the money spent.
00:07:03.600 It is putting money in different places of the economy based on political priorities,
00:07:08.720 not actually market priorities, but we all will pretend that the government has market solutions
00:07:14.600 with stuff like the carbon tax and other sort of green energy restrictions and subsidies
00:07:19.180 because it's going into the market.
00:07:21.100 So it's a market based solution.
00:07:22.800 All this stuff drives me up the wall.
00:07:24.540 But yeah, this is bribery.
00:07:26.340 And I think for Canada to move forward, not only do we need pure poly and the conservatives
00:07:30.260 to get elected and form the next government in Canada,
00:07:32.740 but we also have to end the mentality that somehow the government spending money on like the public,
00:07:40.040 them spending taxpayer dollars is altruistic.
00:07:42.920 It's not altruistic to take other money, people's money and spend it on other people.
00:07:47.660 Sometimes it's necessary.
00:07:49.140 I'm fine with arguing whether it's necessary or not.
00:07:52.140 Obviously, we need disability programs.
00:07:54.240 Obviously, there needs to be some sort of EI programs.
00:07:57.440 We need some sort of charitable spending that comes from the government.
00:08:00.800 We need some health care programs.
00:08:02.960 Obviously, even if somehow we had a privatized health care industry,
00:08:06.100 like the country of Georgia has a fully privatized public health care system.
00:08:09.960 I'm not advocating for any type of system in Canada,
00:08:12.400 but even in their fully private system, they still have public spending.
00:08:16.960 Obviously, public spending is always going to exist,
00:08:19.440 but it doesn't mean that the government cares more about you
00:08:22.180 because they are willing to spend a higher portion of the GDP on you.
00:08:25.700 They're really just not letting you spend your own money on the things that you want.
00:08:29.560 It's actually very selfish because let's not pretend that just because public servants are
00:08:34.920 called public servants that they are not spending money based on their own interests.
00:08:39.660 Bureaucrats have their own interests, and their interests are to expand the programs,
00:08:43.400 start new programs, have more staff that justify them having larger salaries because,
00:08:48.400 hey, I now manage 50 employees under me, not 20.
00:08:52.280 I better get $150,000 a year in my salary rather than 120.
00:08:56.060 This goes on all the time in the government.
00:08:58.880 Just because it's not the private sector and people aren't exactly making tens of millions of dollars a year
00:09:03.620 doesn't mean that there aren't very self-interested people running the governmental programs
00:09:08.200 and making sure that they can expand these programs in order to justify hiring more staff
00:09:12.720 who will then vote for the governing party because they effectively rely on them for their income.
00:09:17.900 So, ugh, mini rant on economics.
00:09:21.380 Hopefully you guys don't mind.
00:09:22.960 But that should be it for me today, talking about Justin Trudeau's bribery campaign for the next election.
00:09:28.420 I just quickly want to plug the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool,
00:09:31.520 I'm running for the Calgary-Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:09:35.060 This is what the riding boundaries will look like on the west side of Calgary
00:09:38.260 after they get redrawn at the end of April.
00:09:40.040 If you live in this riding, buy a Conservative Party membership and mark me number one on your nomination ballot.
00:09:46.620 Check out my website, WyattClaypool.com.
00:09:48.840 And if you don't live in the riding, consider donating to the T&T Legal Fund.
00:09:53.640 We get lawsuits quite often by random people who have no case against us.
00:09:57.620 They send libel notices or they actually go through with fully trying to sue us
00:10:01.340 for dumb defamation matters, basically just trying to abuse us with legal costs.
00:10:05.300 And we refuse to apologize to these people and give in to their illegal bullying.
00:10:10.100 And so we do actually run up more than $31,000 in legal bills over the past few years.
00:10:15.340 So if you can donate anything to that, it really helps take the burden of cost off of us.
00:10:19.260 But anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:10:21.600 See you later.