The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 22, 2023


Trudeau Pretends He Is Pro-Free Speech

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freedom of speech Trudeau's Free Speech pivot cancel culture Trudeau housing plan
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Wyatt Claypool
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Justin Trudeau Gadsad Erin O'Toole
Trudeau Embarasses Canada With Pro-Hamas Rhetoric The Media Whines About Poilievre Beating Them

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Justin Trudeau is a hypocrite who loves to talk about his love for free speech and the importance of standing up for freedom of speech. I mean, come on, who doesn t love a guy who says things like that?

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00:00:00.000 I'm not sure if any of you have seen this, but apparently Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a really big free speech head.
00:00:06.000 If you look at Justin Trudeau, the first thing you think, after all the terrible things are,
00:00:10.520 man, that guy really loves himself some free speech.
00:00:13.320 That guy loves nothing better than waking up in the morning, throwing on a podcast he doesn't really like,
00:00:17.800 listening to what people have to say because he's just that big of a free speech guy.
00:00:21.920 But anyways, he said this in Parliament the other day. 0.98
00:00:24.020 It's truly ridiculous. 0.80
00:00:25.340 I need you to hear it before I start talking about it. 0.75
00:00:27.740 People are forgetting a little bit that we're a country that protects the freedom of expression,
00:00:32.820 that protects liberty of conscience, that respects and supports people even when we disagree with them across various points of view.
00:00:44.860 That has been one of the strengths of Canada for our entire existence.
00:00:48.740 We're a place that does diversity better than just about anywhere else.
00:00:53.000 Okay, well now that might be one of the most ironic statements Justin Trudeau has ever made.
00:00:57.420 And really, I think what he really likes to do when he wakes up in the morning is think about all the most hypocritical things he can do throughout the day.
00:01:04.260 And that definitely has to top the list.
00:01:06.500 Even just outside of the free speech issue, he even mentioned conscience.
00:01:09.940 Like, we have freedom of conscience in this country.
00:01:12.140 Dude, remember when you attacked Aaron O'Toole, who was not pro-life in any way?
00:01:16.220 You attacked Aaron O'Toole for taking the bare minimum position that doctors should have conscience rights?
00:01:21.340 You said that that was an attack on women or something like that?
00:01:23.920 You were that guy who thinks that doctors should not be able to say,
00:01:27.460 I don't want to perform a MAID procedure and I don't want to have to refer you to someone who does it.
00:01:31.740 That's Justin Trudeau.
00:01:33.780 And on the freedom of expression thing and, you know, speech, does he remember the trucker convoy?
00:01:40.140 Him and Freeland literally froze people's bank accounts.
00:01:43.120 He goes after people all the time for expressing their views.
00:01:45.940 He twists their meanings and then assumes that they should be or demands that they be thrown off social media and they shouldn't be allowed to speak.
00:01:53.260 Right now, you are likely watching this on YouTube and not my far bigger Facebook page because I cannot use my Facebook page because the National Telegraph is no longer allowed to post stuff because he tried to extort Facebook to get a bunch of money from them for his legacy media allies.
00:02:08.260 And then Facebook had to basically shut down Canadian news in Canada simply because he was trying to get like $56 million out of them per year for every time someone clicks on a Canadian news article, which would not benefit me in any way.
00:02:21.900 And even then, Facebook doesn't owe me a dime.
00:02:24.320 I get to use their platform for free to connect with people.
00:02:26.820 And now I don't because Trudeau thinks I should get a penny for every time someone clicks on one of my articles, which would get me a grand total of basically no money. 0.98
00:02:34.360 So who gives a crap? 0.97
00:02:35.940 Anyways, but man, this is really demonstrating. 0.99
00:02:38.960 I think that Trudeau is in the middle of a massive pivot right now because think of what Trudeau was like just two years ago.
00:02:45.260 Really wasn't talking about housing.
00:02:47.000 Really didn't care about affordability.
00:02:48.640 They're just denying that there was affordability issues whatsoever and shutting down like the Freedom Convoy, attacking free speech everywhere.
00:02:56.120 And now he's suddenly, you know, trying to remove the carbon tax on specific individuals and he's trying to stand up for free expression. 0.98
00:03:03.860 He's doing it all the stupidest ways possible. 0.92
00:03:05.860 He goes to India and tries to criticize them for cracking down on Calistani extremist expression rates while he cracks down on normal Canadians. 0.99
00:03:13.540 But whatever. 0.94
00:03:14.360 I guess he's technically trying to move in the right direction in the most hypocritical and fake way possible. 0.72
00:03:19.540 But he is technically trying your people.
00:03:21.920 He's not going to save them.
00:03:22.980 But he's at least trying to shore up his legacy so people don't remember him being the prime minister as the guy who basically ruined every single file that he touched.
00:03:31.340 That is who he is.
00:03:32.460 But he at least wants to use some rhetorical tricks around the margins to pretend that he wasn't the guy who froze people's bank accounts, shut down social media free speech and all this other stuff.
00:03:42.360 No, no, no.
00:03:42.860 Justin Trudeau is a freedom lawyer.
00:03:45.440 That guy, every single day, is just waking up in the morning.
00:03:49.500 I've said this waking up in the morning thing three times now, but I'm going back for a while.
00:03:53.460 But he wakes up in the morning definitely trying to fight for Wyatt Claypool's free speech rights.
00:03:59.660 But I think that at this point, these clips, if anything, hurt.
00:04:04.540 Justin Trudeau, any Canadian who sees him talking about this stuff, just kind of groans and in disgust.
00:04:10.220 And anyone who's on Justin Trudeau's side, that's kind of the funny thing, the orange liberal crowd, the hyper-socially progressive people who could care less about economics, those people don't actually like that Justin Trudeau is talking about free speech and free expression.
00:04:22.100 Those people score in free speech and free expression.
00:04:24.460 Not that they're mad at Trudeau for saying this, but this doesn't actually shore up his own base.
00:04:28.540 If anything, this is just kind of like a bit of a wet fart of statement in their minds from Trudeau because they're waiting for more social programs, less free speech rights for those that they don't like.
00:04:39.460 You know, they want Justin Trudeau to basically declare war on Israel at this point because the liberals have inherited a very, very anti-Semitic base these days.
00:04:48.420 That's the one reason I think that they're staying above water is they're fighting the Green Party over all of their Jew-hating voters.
00:04:54.300 So I guess that's what the Trudeau liberals are going for these days.
00:04:59.000 But again, I'm not sure really what Trudeau is even attempting to do right now.
00:05:05.120 A lot of the statements over the past couple months have been just very funny to follow just on all of his sort of commitments to peace and commitments to helping people get into homes or whatever.
00:05:16.600 And all of them are completely contradictory over his actions in the past eight years.
00:05:20.420 But I'm just going to sort of wheel off a little bit here.
00:05:23.240 This might seem like a bit of a strange aside.
00:05:25.060 I'm going to go pull up the tweets if I can.
00:05:27.260 And it's because, and again, this is going to seem like a very odd aside, people don't understand what cancel culture is.
00:05:33.440 There's been a lot of PPC people on my timeline complaining at Gadsad right now because he's been making this statement.
00:05:41.800 I'll just quickly grab a screenshot of this.
00:05:44.020 But he made a statement about how, like, obviously, if someone's pro Hamas, it is perfectly okay to think, well, I don't want that person employed in my business.
00:05:51.840 I don't want that person flying the plane I'm on.
00:05:54.060 I don't want that person cooking my food and all sorts of stuff like that.
00:05:57.440 And you have all these people who really their entire lives are just trying to call hypocrite or they're basically saying you are unprincipled every conservative around when this is a perfectly principled conservative position.
00:06:09.080 But this is kind of what the PPC has become.
00:06:12.160 It's the opposite of Justin Trudeau.
00:06:14.260 It's the not only should free expression, free speech be absolute, which I believe, that you also shouldn't be able to criticize anyone's free speech or say that I wouldn't employ that person for saying that.
00:06:25.200 That's now cancel culture. 0.78
00:06:26.540 But this is what Gadsad said in response to a guy who was going after him.
00:06:30.180 And I think it's absolutely correct.
00:06:31.820 Gadsad said, fighting against cancel culture does not imply that anyone can say anything that they want, voided of possible consequences.
00:06:38.960 The law of cause and effect does not cease to exist just because I'm a free speech absolutist.
00:06:43.720 Example, I support the right of Holocaust for deniers to spew their nonsense, but I do not have to invite them to my birthday party.
00:06:49.800 And that is 100% true.
00:06:51.960 But you have certain people out there who they're not actually very conservative as individuals.
00:06:56.660 They're just looking to be contrarian against people who are conservative.
00:07:00.200 So, again, it's PPC people who, when a conservative takes a conservative position, the first thing that pops up in their mind is, how can I prove that I'm more conservative than this guy?
00:07:09.960 This is why the PPC has never gotten off the ground.
00:07:12.380 It's just a purity testing party where you're always trying to prove that you're better than those blue people over there because we're the purple people and we're far more, we're the real conservatives. 0.61
00:07:21.100 And even though a lot of their positions are just taking a actual conservative position and then adding a bunch of extra nonsense like purity testing sort of measures to it.
00:07:31.440 So, on all this stuff, if someone goes and chants from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
00:07:36.220 And all these genocide implying statements about wiping out the state of Israel, you know, supporting Hamas, calling for a ceasefire when none of these people condemned Hamas for murdering 1,400 Jews in southern Israel.
00:07:48.120 If I was a business owner who has had many employees and someone, one of my employees went to that rally, I'd feel nothing by firing that person. 0.99
00:07:54.380 Because if you have such a lack of moral fiber in your being, unless you're like so stupid that you said it and you're obviously just being like, you know, you're going along with the crowd. 0.98
00:08:04.120 You can tell when someone doesn't actually believe the things that they're saying. 1.00
00:08:06.800 But if you had someone who truly believes this Hamas rhetoric that many activists on the streets are spewing, I would fire that person.
00:08:14.020 I don't want to have to support that person's lifestyle and all their political views.
00:08:18.100 So, I'm not going to contribute to them by letting them be employed in my company, especially if I know that they have anti-Semitic views.
00:08:24.280 That's not cancel culture.
00:08:25.640 That's just reacting to the things that people say in a rational way.
00:08:29.400 Cancel culture is that if you tell a bad joke in an office and someone fires you because they took it out of context and there was a million people flooding the email, like the inbox of your company, and they were calling them up saying, fire this guy, he's a racist, he's a bigot, and you're obviously not, and they're just trying to gin up a bunch of hysteria against you.
00:08:47.500 That's cancel culture. 0.99
00:08:48.780 If you get a swastika tattoo on your forehead and start talking about how much you don't like the Zionist Jewish state, you're probably going to get fired for good reason. 1.00
00:08:58.020 If you burn a Canadian flag and you hate the country and you think that Canada is a colonial state that doesn't deserve the land we're on and you go to land back rallies and that you obviously hate Canadian veterans, a Canadian company should not have to employ you. 0.93
00:09:13.780 That's insane.
00:09:14.960 But at the same time, you shouldn't fire someone who, if a mob comes to you and says that they're a bad person, there's no evidence of it.
00:09:21.280 You shouldn't do that.
00:09:22.640 So, hopefully this video doesn't feel like it's taking a bit of a weird turn here from the Trudeau stuff.
00:09:27.420 But that's where I'm at least trying to take a stand for rationality. 0.97
00:09:31.440 Trudeau is an anti-free speech gangster bully.
00:09:35.900 But I don't think that the remedy to someone like Justin Trudeau being against free speech is that we become moral relativists on the right and we say all speech is basically equal in value.
00:09:46.700 And no matter what someone says, you can't react negatively to it or you're canceling them.
00:09:50.500 No, you're allowed to react how you want to speech as long as you do not try to shut that person's ability to speak down.
00:09:58.560 You are not obligated to employ that person or pay for them or donate to them or amplify them.
00:10:04.680 You don't have to do any of that stuff.
00:10:05.880 I don't think they should be kicked off social media unless they're inciting violence.
00:10:09.040 But the reaction to Justin Trudeau's position is to not go to the other extreme of moral relativism of saying every single piece of free speech is amazing, whereas to oppose Justin Trudeau's, some speech should be canceled kind of a thing.
00:10:24.700 That's not good.
00:10:25.420 And you're never going to win an election based on that basis.
00:10:28.320 And I'm not saying this purely because we should only say things that win us elections.
00:10:32.620 I think that's a foolish thing to do in the long run because you're just going to turn yourself into like, you know, a shell of a politician who only takes positions no one could possibly disagree with, which is a very phony thing to do.
00:10:43.800 But you don't beat Trudeau by just being a contrarian against him.
00:10:47.760 The thing is that 50 percent of the things that Trudeau says are correct.
00:10:51.320 It's not because it doesn't make him a good prime minister.
00:10:53.640 It's hard to not at least be correct on half the things that you say in the day.
00:10:57.360 It's the margin of what he says that's wrong.
00:11:00.720 It's like, is his housing plan 100 percent bad?
00:11:05.160 No, but it's deeply misguided and it's inflating the market and it's probably not going to get a lot of people in houses and it's trying to saddle the taxpayer with more stuff.
00:11:13.820 It's not like his housing plan is burning down houses.
00:11:16.060 That would be the 100 percent wrong thing to do.
00:11:18.420 Obviously, he's not doing that.
00:11:19.800 It's the nuances of his plan that make his actual plan toxic in the long run.
00:11:25.040 Is there anything inherently wrong in the short run if for some reason we had a housing crisis in the next six months?
00:11:32.580 We only knew it was going to take six months to have a rent control plan for six months only.
00:11:38.640 That's not that bad.
00:11:39.780 I could go along with that.
00:11:41.200 That'd be OK.
00:11:42.000 Obviously, rent control is never going to be in place for only six months.
00:11:44.840 And rent control in the long run reduces the amount of rental properties available because no one wants to rent into a market where they might have to offer properties at below market value.
00:11:55.500 That's my point in general is that whenever you're disagreeing with a leftist politician, be specific on what you disagree with or you become kind of a bit of a cartoon the way the PPC does where they just take radically opposite positions to everyone in order just to be contradictory.
00:12:11.520 Like, again, you're never going to disagree with 100% of what someone's saying unless they're truly insane.
00:12:18.320 So what you have to always do is market on the things that you actually differ with them on.
00:12:22.880 Don't just say that Trudeau has a housing plan.
00:12:24.880 Well, we don't have a housing plan and the government shouldn't even touch housing.
00:12:28.560 I think the government should barely touch housing, but there is little bits and pieces of stuff that the government can do on housing.
00:12:35.040 Generally speaking, the government should be much smaller.
00:12:37.760 But just because Trudeau is a big government, like a big government leftist does not mean I'm going to be an anarcho-capitalist to just prove how much different I am than Justin Trudeau.
00:12:49.240 Anyways, hopefully this video didn't feel like it went off the rails.
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