Justin Trudeau's embarrassing interview on Stephen Colbert's late night show yesterday was both bad for Trudeau himself as well as Canada as a country, because if Americans see this as like our leader, the sort of person that our country elects, it's not good for Canada's stock.
00:00:00.000I really want to talk about this frankly embarrassing interview that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did on Stephen Colbert's late night show yesterday.
00:00:10.560It was both bad for Trudeau himself as well as Canada as a country.
00:00:15.260Because if Americans see this as like our leader, the sort of person that our country elects, yeah, not good for Canada's stock.
00:00:23.240Canada's stock is going down if Americans think that this is somebody that a significant portion of us actually approve of.
00:00:30.980I don't want to belabor this thing too much.
00:00:32.960I just want to jump in and talk about a few sections.
00:00:36.280This was just, in my opinion, a terrible interview.
00:00:39.060Trudeau obviously only showed up because Stephen Colbert was willing to give him mostly a back rub of an interview.
00:00:53.240But I just want to note before I start playing clips from this thing, look at the title of this video, the upload that the Stephen Colbert show did.
00:01:01.520Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Canada's Trump and the rise of far right xenophobia in Canada.
00:14:47.300So diabetes medication and prescription contraceptives will be free.
00:14:50.440These are the kinds of things that we're investing in so people can actually get a relief and have more money to pay for groceries or what have you.
00:15:01.740I'm just going to end it there because you don't need to watch the entire interview through me here.
00:15:06.180But, like, that's such a terrible answer.
00:15:08.840Like, people aren't feeling the major economic growth that we have.
00:15:13.640So we're going to invest in contraceptives?
00:15:16.880Like, guys, yeah, I guess for some people.
00:15:19.540And you could have just made it a plan for low-income seniors or low-income people in general to give them cheap diabetes medication in terms of, like, heavily subsidized diabetes medication.
00:15:43.540But he thinks that people think like this.
00:15:45.700Every once in a while, somebody will comment at me, whether in person or, like, you know, online, talking about how, well, Trudeau knows what he's doing.
00:15:55.420He has a plan to win this next election.
00:16:01.520They just assume that Justin Trudeau has a grand plan to, like, buy off voters or something like that.
00:16:06.540You know, you get a lot of parties that genuinely try and do that in terms of they announce a big amount of spending, and I'm going to give you $1,000.
00:16:14.100You know, we have a big rebate program that will give you $1,000 if you vote for us.
00:16:18.120And it's like not – they're not giving them a rebate for any reasons, basically just sending people checks.
00:16:22.400Like, the BC Conservatives actually have a great plan that actually makes sense to give people the ability to write off a large portion of their rent costs and mortgage costs per month off of their income taxes.
00:16:33.740It'd be a great tax cut for a lot of people because people at the lower end of the income spectrum don't pay a lot of provincial income tax.
00:16:40.720But this would actually probably result in them getting a full-on rebate, not just paying less taxes.
00:16:47.340So that's a good policy because it's actually giving people back their own money that they gave to the government.
00:16:53.220Some people are trying to display this like, oh, that would cost $3.5 billion.
00:16:56.320It doesn't cost any money to give people their own money back.
00:16:59.660I hate the stupid talking point that tax cuts will cost $5 billion.
00:17:04.360Oh, on the national level, a poly of cutting this whatever would cost this much.
00:17:09.620No, it doesn't cost anything to cut taxes.
00:17:12.920The other garbage we spend on does cost money.
00:17:15.860And when I say garbage, I mean like DEI programs, the bloat of HR and administration, a lot of other just initiatives that don't do anything for anybody.
00:17:24.860It just creates fake jobs in the federal government.
00:17:32.080There is a reason why in the federal government they have the joke of working for club fed, like club med, because it's so easy to work many of these jobs.
00:17:41.520You can just like file a couple of reports in a week about nothing.
00:17:53.280You can work from home and just play Tetris or whatever.
00:17:55.440And then they pass this ridiculous new policy of like, you know, workers, some workers rights policy.
00:18:01.480And it only applies to federally regulated workers.
00:18:04.080And it says, you don't have to like, you don't have to state you like a manager cannot make you stay late at work to complete tasks or whatever.
00:18:44.480Anyways, but I want to quickly bring up, to not make this too rambly, I want to quickly bring up this post that someone made about the Colbert interview that I just saw, found was so intriguing that somebody actually posted this.
00:19:02.700Deborah Gibson here, and it's not like this isn't a major person, like, you know, don't ask this person to go after them.
00:19:09.840But I saw so many people posting stuff like this.
00:19:12.560Most of the comments of this are positive, saying, oh, yeah, he did do a great job.
00:19:16.660Deborah Gibson here saying, our prime minister was effing fantastic on Stephen Colbert.
00:19:46.840This is kind of like every time, and I'm not trying to get too much into American politics just because I want this channel to be very Canadian in orientation.
00:19:55.480Whenever people be like, oh, Kamala Harris just did a great interview on whatever show.
00:19:59.800And you watch it, and you're like, you have to watch this interview through the lens of a moderate.
00:20:04.460When I say moderate, not that they don't have strong opinions about everything.
00:20:07.580Moderates often have strong opinions, but just about slightly different things than a party partisan would.
00:20:13.460So, like, you know, a Republican has very conservative opinions on pretty much everything, and a Democrat has more liberal opinions on everything.
00:20:20.040And then moderates will have conservative opinions on some things and very liberal opinions on other things.
00:20:24.400Aaron O'Toole's conception that moderates don't have strong opinions about things is stupid, but whatever.
00:20:29.380Not to go down too many rabbit holes here, but they'll be like, oh, Kamala Harris did so well.