The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Trudeau has breakdown over Carbon Tax opposition

00:00:00.000 I don't think that the video clips I'm going to show you today need much introduction at all.

00:00:04.620 It's just Prime Minister Trudeau having an absolute breakdown during a press conference, 0.99

00:00:09.820 complaining about all of the people opposing his stupid carbon tax plan. 1.00

00:00:13.920 You can tell all of his exasperation is just coming from the fact that he used to think 1.00

00:00:17.860 that he was so beloved across Canada, and the hatred that a lot of Canadians have is

00:00:22.520 finally catching up to him. But before I get into the first clip, I just quickly want to mention

00:00:26.320 the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.

00:00:31.420 If you live on the west side of Calgary, see if you live in the riding and buy a membership

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00:00:38.380 wyattclaypool.com. And without further ado, here's the first clip of Justin Trudeau

00:00:42.720 having an absolute breakdown. And that's an easy thing for short-term politicians,

00:00:49.560 short-term thinker politicians, to say, oh, we'll get rid of the price. They don't talk about the

00:00:55.000 fact that they're also going to get rid of that check, the Canada carbon rebate, that puts more

00:00:59.900 money in the pockets of the vast majority of Canadians. And they don't have a plan, or they don't talk

00:01:07.640 about how they're going to actually use the heavy hand of government through regulations, or through

00:01:12.600 subsidies, or some other way to pick winners and losers in the economy, as opposed to trusting the

00:01:18.240 market. Now, your question, Rick, is sort of, well, that all makes sense. Why are so many people still

00:01:25.380 against it? Well, you know, that's a question we all have to ask. But my job is not to be popular.

00:01:33.200 My job, although it helps, my job, my job is to do the right things for Canada now, and do the right

00:01:41.740 things for Canadians a generation from now. And that's what I've been focused on. And yeah, it's

00:01:48.980 not always popular. But I know that doing the right things today, that support people today, that

00:01:58.000 deliver that better future, a generation from now, two generations from now, is going to make a huge

00:02:05.240 difference in the path we take forward. Okay, three things on this clip. First, his only support for

00:02:12.980 why the carbon tax should stay is effectively bribery. Well, these people who want to get rid of the carbon

00:02:18.120 tax are trying to take money away from you. They're taking away your rebate benefits. Well, man, if the

00:02:24.380 actual rebate was benefiting the vast majority of Canadians, why would you have paused the carbon tax on

00:02:30.640 heater oil in the Maritimes? It is a per unit tax and a rebate that goes to people regardless of what

00:02:38.660 type of fuel they use. So in theory, people using heater oil, even if heater oil is generally more

00:02:44.000 expensive than natural gas, it should have still been benefiting them. But it wasn't, so they paused it.

00:02:49.900 And then the second thing he says is he accuses his opposition of wanting to use the heavy hand of

00:02:55.120 government to stop them like the free market from operating as it wants. What are you talking about?

00:03:00.420 This is my thing with Justin Trudeau. He accuses everyone other than himself of being Justin

00:03:06.620 Trudeau. Everything that he has done, he accuses other people of having done. The Conservatives

00:03:12.380 obviously want to actually lower the amount of government intervention in the market on

00:03:18.000 environmental grounds and all these other things. Obviously, every party utilizes the heavy

00:03:22.500 handed government in some way, other than if there was like an anarchist party. Every party is going to

00:03:27.340 have some regulations, taxes, and whatnot. The thing is, the Liberals have the heaviest amount

00:03:33.100 of regulations, restrictions, and taxes. He's not leaving it up to the market. I know people market

00:03:38.080 the carbon taxes. It's a market-based solution because it just simply puts a small price on

00:03:42.640 pollution and then lets the market figure it out after that. You guys block pipelines. You guys prevent

00:03:47.720 people from being able to ship oil and gas off the West Coast. You guys are actually one of the

00:03:53.160 most restrictionist governments when it comes to energy on the planet, yet you're trying to accuse

00:03:59.240 like the NDP and the Conservatives of being worse. Completely insane. And then the last point, 0.92

00:04:04.780 I actually kind of agree with Justin Trudeau that it is not his job to be popular. Like, you know,

00:04:10.820 Ralph Klein, Jean Chrétien, and Mike Harris, when they cut spending in Ontario, Alberta, and like

00:04:17.440 federally, they were not trying to be popular. The popular thing was just feed more money into the 0.88

00:04:22.780 economy through governmental means and then, you know, just basically give up people a bunch of

00:04:27.620 handouts and be the popular guy who's just going to tell people good news and say that we don't have

00:04:31.940 to cut anything. They did the unpopular thing at the time, and it was the right thing to do.

00:04:36.300 The ironic thing is Justin Trudeau only does things to try and be popular. It's just in the last

00:04:41.980 couple of years, all of his policy failures have finally arrived, and now everyone's turning on him,

00:04:47.280 and now he's pretending that I'm just the principal politician trying to do the right thing, even if

00:04:52.060 it might not be popular. The whole point of the carbon tax was to hand out rebates to people and

00:04:57.360 pretend that you are helping them in order to be popular. That's why your only defense at the start

00:05:02.380 of this question was to say, well, you're there trying to take away your rebates. You know, the

00:05:06.920 thing, the only reason anyone still likes the carbon tax is because they're under the impression

00:05:10.900 they're making more money than they're just being taken away from them, which is untrue. It's only true

00:05:15.240 if you only look at the cost of energy and the rebates you get back, not the increased costs of

00:05:19.640 food and other services. Okay, insane. Anyways, here is another clip of Justin Trudeau even more

00:05:25.500 exasperated. Well, how do you fight climate change? There are lots of different ways you can do it.

00:05:30.840 You can bring in the heavy hand of regulations to force people to do different things. You can bring

00:05:38.700 in, you know, different incentives and subsidies and rewards to, you know, invest in companies that

00:05:45.940 are actually doing the right kinds of things. But that all involves the heavy hand of government

00:05:51.560 weighing in on how we're going to do that. I prefer a cleaner solution, a market-based solution

00:05:59.680 of saying, you know what? If you're behaving in ways that are going to cause pollution that is going

00:06:09.280 to impact the whole community, you should pay for that pollution so the community then doesn't suffer

00:06:16.100 the negative sides of it or have to clean it up on their own dime. This is just stupid. The guy seems 1.00

00:06:23.180 like he needs to be on lithium or something to calm himself down. No, Justin Trudeau is not in favor of

00:06:28.880 market-based solutions. A market-based solution is something that happens inside of the market. I hate

00:06:33.300 this argument that whatever the government does, they can just label it as a market solution and

00:06:37.560 suddenly it's not the heavy hand of government. Again, like, let's just ignore the carbon tax for a

00:06:42.420 second. Look at all the other environmental regulations that the liberals have passed while

00:06:46.140 they're in government that restrict the ability for oil and gas companies to operate, that put extra

00:06:51.340 taxes on different industries for environmental reasons. They shut down the tech mine in Alberta

00:06:56.860 for not passing their environmental assessment sort of, like, review. And, like, these people who had

00:07:02.260 been paying massive amounts of money into trying to get this mine started up, and the government was

00:07:06.040 just putting them on hold and then suddenly said, nope, and basically wasted hundreds of millions of

00:07:10.220 dollars on that project that never actually got to go forward. And the thing is, too, like, he's acting

00:07:17.380 like this is the carbon tax is a tax meant to stop, like, smog in cities. It's trying to go back to,

00:07:25.440 like, the Milton Friedman, more libertarian argument for certain taxes on certain behaviors. Yes, it makes

00:07:31.980 sense that you are taxing, like, cigarettes because cigarettes are bad and it puts pressure on the public

00:07:36.900 health care system. So people should have to pay for things that are, like, it's significantly bad

00:07:41.200 for their health in a way that you couldn't even argue that doing it a little bit doesn't affect

00:07:44.860 you. And then so Milton Friedman's argument back in the 60s and 70s was, yes, you can have a pollution

00:07:51.300 tax on every new car sold because that car will be putting out pollutants into the air, which back

00:07:57.420 from the day was actually causing such massive amounts of pollution that you couldn't even see in Los

00:08:02.720 Angeles because of all the smog. We do not have smog problems anymore. We are, pollution is carbon

00:08:08.940 going into the atmosphere, which in some vague and abstract way might be causing slight warming of the

00:08:15.140 temperatures. The carbon tax doesn't do anything to actually alleviate the emissions because it is

00:08:20.800 taxing things that people need. People can't just decide, well, the carbon tax is pretty high, I'm just not

00:08:26.160 going to drive to work anymore, and I'm going to walk. That's never going to happen. People aren't just, like,

00:08:31.040 unless you bankrupt people, people will always choose to cut back spending on more elastic goods

00:08:36.900 before an inelastic good like food or energy. That's just something that people cannot not spend

00:08:43.340 on. But man, Justin Trudeau is playing a very vigorous game of chess against his worthy opponent,

00:08:50.060 Justin Trudeau. Every press conference these days is Justin Trudeau attacking Justin Trudeau,

00:08:55.200 but then just slapping the label of pure poly of or vague opposition onto them. There's only

00:09:00.800 one premier currently in Canada who is actually in favor of the carbon tax, and that's David Ebby.

00:09:05.980 And it's only because BC already had its own carbon tax, so they kind of have to own it at this point.

00:09:11.660 And even then, he might be the most popular premier in Canada, but that doesn't mean that

00:09:16.280 the carbon tax isn't a significant, like, giant exposure for him as a premier. If he got rid of

00:09:23.020 the carbon tax provincially, he would become more popular. There's a reason most other premiers are

00:09:28.520 wanting the carbon tax to go, even in Newfoundland, where the liberals are going to win a massive

00:09:32.800 landslide for their government there. The liberals are extremely popular in Newfoundland, and they

00:09:38.580 want the carbon tax gone. Justin Trudeau should maybe listen to these people, but, you know, he's

00:09:43.400 going to pretend that the only people who oppose him are Premier Daniel Smith, Scott Moe, and

00:09:48.660 Vyrupalia, because all those other opponents to the carbon tax, like Wab Kanu, and like, you know,

00:09:54.440 Houston and Newfoundland, all of these other provinces, they're less convenient opponents

00:09:58.660 because they all tend to be allies of him on other issues. Anyways, that should be it for me today.

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00:11:10.600 that should be it for me today, guys. Have a good one.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 14, 2024

Trudeau has breakdown over Carbon Tax opposition

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