Trudeau ROASTED by Poilievre in heated Question Period exchange!
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Justin Trudeau is having a meltdown in the House of Commons, and we're here to talk about it. Thanks to our sponsor, Give, Send, Go Legal Fund, for supporting the show! You can support the legal fund here: bit.ly/giveandgolegalfund
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I rarely talk about what goes on in question period in Canada
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because I find most of the time question period in our House of Commons is just politicians
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repeating talking points at each other and not really interacting. Plus, there's that old joke
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that, well, you know, they don't call it answer period for a reason because the government never
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actually answers any questions from an opposition MP. But today, we actually had a blockbuster
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question period. To imitate the character Stefan from SNL for a second, it has everything.
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Polyev making fun of Jagmeet Singh. Polyev making fun of Justin Trudeau telling him to calm down.
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Justin Trudeau having a meltdown. It has everything. It's hilarious. I want to show it to you in just
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a second. But first, I'm going to remind you, if you're not currently a subscriber, go down and hit
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and pinned at the top of the comments. Now, without further ado, here's how, like, this is just a
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section I'm going to show you. It was exciting all the way through, but I'm going to mostly stick to
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all the English stuff leading up to Justin Trudeau having a meltdown and Polyev telling him to calm
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down. The Honorable Leader of the Opposition. No sense, Mr. Speaker. I couldn't agree more.
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Here we have the NDP claiming to have torn up their deal, their carbon tax coalition with the
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Prime Minister. But then they... The context of this is that the previous question was asked by an NDP
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MP, which was extremely hypocritical because they were asking the liberals to do something that the
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NDP have the power to force them to do. And if they're unwilling, they could dissolve this government
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and basically going after them for being deeply unserious.
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He taped it back together when he promised a two-month tax trip. Then after taking credit for it,
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the NDP says they didn't know what was in it. And now they're opposed to it. Mr. Speaker,
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these two leaders can't even figure out how to give away $6 billion properly. Isn't it time for a
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carbon tax election so that we can elect a common sense government?
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And now here is really where it starts. Justin Trudeau is about to go from a 3 out of 10 on the
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agitation scale all the way up to an 11 out of 10 by the time that this is over.
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Mr. Speaker, MPs are supposed to represent their constituents here in Ottawa. But the Conservative Party
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MPs are choosing to represent their leader back in their constituency. I know Canadians across the
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country, including in Conservative ridings, are looking forward to saying no taxes on meals in
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restaurants or on all groceries or on kids' clothes for the next few months. But the leader is making
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them vote against these measures to help Canadians. If Conservative MPs want to stand up for Canadians,
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None of the Conservatives are against tax relief. The reason why they are going to vote as a party
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against these measures is because they're not permanent or it's not getting rid of the carbon
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tax. Justin Trudeau doesn't care about tax relief. He's only removing the HST and GST for two months
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and then giving people $250 in April if you're making under $150,000, which also doesn't apply to
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retired seniors, which is really silly. So what Trudeau is really doing is giving people fake tax
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relief. Economists even show very short tax relief measures like this do not actually spur the economy
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at all because people know it's about to end and they just hold on to the money.
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Well, Mr. Speaker, I think Canadians are ready to stand up and speak for themselves.
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If the Prime Minister wants to lecture us about democracy, then why don't we have a referendum?
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A referendum election where the choice will be the following.
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A tiny two-month tax trick with the NDP Liberals or a permanent axing of the carbon tax
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and axing the sales tax on new homes. Why not let Canadians decide now?
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I hate the stupid talking point that he puts out on this. Like, he says it so often, there's almost
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not even, there's no point in me even debunking it. You guys all know that it's not actually giving you
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back more money than you're paying into it. There's no such thing as a magic box that the
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Prime Minister has where you can take your billions of dollars in tax revenue and then give you somehow
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more back. Even if they are not giving it to large corporations and to richer people, there is still
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more money being spent at the CRA administering this program that would make it impossible to give
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people more money back than they were paying in. Only if you only take the cost of your home heating
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and your gasoline and a couple other things, can you say that you're getting a little bit more back.
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And when I say a little bit more back, like 50 bucks, and that's not even taking into account a lot
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of other products and services that the carbon tax has moved the price up of, which would easily wipe
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out your 50 bucks in a quarter. But, you know, I'll like Justin Trudeau, keep going on that. That one just
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picks me off so much because it is preying on people's, effectively, their sense of immediacy.
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They see the money that gets taken from them in the carbon tax is taken over time, but they're given
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the carbon tax rebate all at once in each quarter, which makes it seem like a lot of money, even if
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you were nickel and dimed way more than you got back in the carbon tax.
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People's homes four times a year and delivers more money to middle-class Canadians than the price on
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pollution actually costs, while at the same time decreasing emissions. And in regards to housing,
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his failed housing proposal was to cut billions of dollars from cities across this country that
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they're investing in building housing. That's not his housing proposal. His housing proposal is that
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the money you're spending is going nowhere and just being burned up in regulations and increased
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federal oversight on building. So you can get rid of it, save taxpayers a bunch of money,
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money, and then just tell basically municipalities without destroying zoning laws to just make it
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easier to get each individual building like approved faster.
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But property taxes for homeowners, that would make it harder to build homes. He has a proposal
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that is electorally interesting for him, but won't do anything for Canadians.
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Electorally interesting. That's his condescending way of saying Canadians actually like my plan.
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That was a perfect way of putting that too, exactly what I'm thinking. And I don't preview these. I knew
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what the kind of the direction that this clip was going to go in, but it's a really good follow up to
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comment on the fact that, yeah, you're saying it's electorally interesting because it's popular.
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Electorally interesting means that your plan isn't popular and mine is.
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Because Canadians have figured out that after nine years of this weak prime minister,
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weak, spending $80 billion on housing, with the result being the doubling of housing costs,
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that spending billions more won't make any difference. We're going to slash that bureaucracy
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and use the savings to ax the sales tax on Canadian homes. Why won't he let Canadians decide?
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And that actually is a really good plan because it doesn't matter how much the government pours in
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to trying to create more of something. The problem with trying to create housing by the government just
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feeding in more cash into a bloated bureaucratic system is that the bureaucracy then grows and then
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eats up the money that you throw in. This is what happened with the stimulus that Obama had passed
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in 2009 when he became the US president. To get out of the 2008 market crash, he dumped a bunch of
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money into creating shovel-ready jobs. And then because to get the money, counties and municipalities
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had to basically sign on with the federal government to follow certain codes and environmental regulations.
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All the money got destroyed through following the regulations to get the money. It was completely
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worthless. And that's what happened with the housing accelerator fund.
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Mayors from Kelowna, Abbotsford, Uclua and all in Conservative ridings across the country are speaking
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up that the investments we're making in the housing accelerator is helping them cut red tape,
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increase densification, create more homes more quickly. And the plan the Conservative Party has put
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forward to remove those billions of dollars from municipalities just as they're tackling the
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housing crisis would harm Canadians. But the leader of the opposition doesn't care about harming
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Canadians. What he wants to do is gain power. He'll do anything he can to do that. While we stay
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It's such a stupid talking point because aren't you trying to hold on to power at like all costs?
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He doesn't have a majority government. It's not like saying, hey, people elected us to a majority.
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Of course we don't want an election. People elect us to a four-year term. Yes, technically every election
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is the people electing you to a four-year term. But he has a currently a government that's barely
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being held up by the NDP and only being held up by the fact the NDP is bankrupt and really nothing more.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has run a groundbreaking experiment. He's put billions of dollars in a sack
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and offered it to politicians. And the finding? They're willing to accept the money. Incredible.
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Groundbreaking sociological study. He wants to give more money to local politicians who block home building.
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We want to use the same money to cut taxes for the people who buy homes and build homes.
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Why won't we allow Canadians to decide whether they want the money to go to the politicians
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I'm just kind of commentating along with how effective this is as we go. Like,
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the thing that's so good about this question period clip, or I guess just the whole thing in general,
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is that Polioff's funny. That's the one thing that most politicians suck at,
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yet delivering really high-quality information while being fun and quippy. That's the thing.
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Actually, I have started kind of, not souring in any way,
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I started getting kind of bored by some of the stuff Polioff was doing in question period over
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the last couple of months, maybe more like three or four months, because it became a little bit too
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much ax the tax, do this to that, you know, verb the noun kind of stuff. He's way better when he kind
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of freewheeling like this. And you can guarantee that there wasn't a script for this because they
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are truly just trading blows back and forth here, although Justin Trudeau is really not getting any
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good jabs in. Sorry, I do really like the rather pronunciation there.
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Actually deliver for Canadians. We know, as we saw during the pandemic, as we've seen
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through the inflation challenges, working together with the provinces, working together
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with municipalities to get things built for Canadians is what they want. What does the leader
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of the opposition do? He insults people. But then he also votes against direct money
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in Canadians' pockets, whether it's with investments in child care or dental care,
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whether it's investments in taking the tax off of groceries for the next few months.
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These are things that he's... Well, it's not even a few months, it's a couple of months,
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Justin. And all this is just more fear mongering of cuts. Cuts are actually very popular today.
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62% of Canadians want cuts to spending, because eventually, even though we are in a country where
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it's normal to always think that, oh, we should put more money into that program. Oh, of course we
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should spend more money on poverty programs. Oh, of course we should spend more money upgrading
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our infrastructure and doing this or that. These days, the spending is so silly and so bloated,
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the vast majority of Canadians will say, yes, cut it. And that's 62% with a margin of people saying,
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I don't know. And they're probably going to break in the direction of, please cut stuff.
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Standing against, out of political self-interest.
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Just shows how out of control he's become. He can't stay on a subject.
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He brings up housing, so I agree. I just threw away my script and said, let's debate housing.
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So he now changes the subject back to his two-month tax trick. Well, here's the trick,
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everyone. After the tax break runs out in February, they're going to hike the carbon tax on heat,
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housing, gas, and groceries, all as a part of a plan to quadruple the carbon tax to 61 cents a liter.
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So will he get himself under control, show some strength for a change, and call a carbon tax
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Again, just to say this, you could easily clip all of this for an ad. The Conservatives could
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easily make a federal ad just based on cutting between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Polyev here.
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I would just dump money showing this to people, because I think most Canadians who don't watch this
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would be blown away that the Prime Minister is legitimately this bad at articulating themselves,
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and Pierre Polyev is this good at cornering him.
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I figure every day I get up in this house, I talk about one thing and one thing only.
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Canadians. No, I talk about one thing and one thing only. Obfuscations.
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And how we're there to help Canadians. How we're there to grow a stronger economy for Canadians,
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with direct investments that will support them, with free insulin, with dental care,
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with more spaces in child care, all things that the leader of the opposition is voting against.
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Yes, we're investing in the most ambitious housing solution that this country has ever seen.
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Things that he didn't do when he was Stephen Harper's failed housing minister.
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How much did housing cost back when Pierre Polyev was the housing minister?
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A lot less. And not like a lot less by inflationary standards, like a lot less by like real GDP standards.
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We're going to stand up and fight for Canadians while the leader of the opposition gets up,
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pulls off his little performances, and fights against me.
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He said he was going to talk about one thing, and then he rambled on about 10 or 15 things,
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all things he hallucinates that one day he might do,
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if only he were given another nine years in office, Mr. Speaker.
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Instead of talking about his real record, which is that he doubled housing costs,
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and now he wants to quadruple the carbon tax to 61 cents a liter.
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Mr. Speaker, we need a prime minister who's in control of himself,
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so why doesn't he call a carbon tax election so we can get one?
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I'll play a little bit more of this, but this is almost where, you know,
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That was, again, why I consider this blockbuster.
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That was actually interesting, which is so different from the normal Canadian parliamentary operating standards,
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especially in question period, where it's just seeing people say,
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you guys aren't doing a good job, and then Christy Freeland gets up and say,
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Canadians know that we're looking out for them by burning their tax dollars and taxing them more, or whatever.
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I won't even, I'm actually, I'd be shocked if Justin Trudeau actually answered this one back,
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I give him credit for even trying to come back from that one.
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Oh my goodness, he's going back to factory settings,
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But the leader opposite wants to talk about one thing.
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This is a program that sends federal dollars directly into school boards.
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Why are people having to use food banks more than ever when you're a prime minister?
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I don't care about giving kids free meals if we could just reverse a bunch of your other policies,
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and the parents could give them whatever they want for lunch.
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He's basically impoverishing you, and then trying to then paternalize your family by saying,
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I know that you can't handle paying for your kids' lunch because I've broken your knees economically,
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but I'm here to be such a nice guy and feed your children.
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Like, Justin Trudeau is just a, you know, so-and-so, you know, one of those soft words.
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Directly to support delivering good food programs for kids.
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No bureaucracy, just investments in school food programs.
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Think about how many school systems you have to interact with,
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and then how many outside companies to be able to acquire the food, make the food,
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have outlines for who gets what food because people have dietary restrictions.
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It's almost like we could just cut Canadians' taxes, and they could pay for their own kids' food.
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And then they can do all the bureaucratic stuff themselves.
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They don't have, they know if their kid can't eat peanut butter, for instance.
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The Conservative leader voted against it, and worse, he forced his own MPs to vote against it,
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to stand up against their constituents and side with him instead of in Canadians who need help.
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Oh, yeah, Pierre Polyev's forcing his MPs to not, to stand against their own constituents.
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What do their constituents think again on these issues?
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Only 17% of people with undecideds removed, in the latest Main Street research poll,
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47%, 30% more were going to vote for the Conservatives.
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But, yeah, Pierre Polyev is just standing in the way of his own MPs from serving their constituents.
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And I don't even think Jagmeet Singh was there.
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then I guess I can go see if Jagmeet Singh's doing anything slightly useful.
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By the way, there is a no-confidence motion in the tomorrow being put forward.
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Who's going to think that we're going to see Jagmeet Singh vote for the no-confidence motion
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If I used any betting apps or, you know, gambling, I gambled at all,
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I would just put money every single day on Jagmeet Singh not collapsing the government.
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Obviously, not very many people would be voting on the other side of that.
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But whoever it would be would just be giving me their money at that point.
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But here's Jagmeet Singh in a recent, like, I guess, I don't even know.
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He looks like he's at, like, a roller disco or a laser tag facility.
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My expectation is let's pass the GST holiday right now separately and then fix the checks.
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And when I mean fix the checks, I want to see a fix that includes seniors,
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people living with disabilities, and those that weren't able to work.
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Now he's trying to patch holes in what he previously did,
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So here probably have alluded to this at the beginning of that clip.
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Jagmeet Singh signed on to the stupid GST holiday and the April checks and then quickly had to backpedal when he realized that the GST holiday wasn't going to come until in the near end of holiday shopping, of Christmas shopping.
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And then he also didn't know that, yeah, people with disabilities who aren't working and retired seniors don't get the $250.
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But for some reason, we're giving $250 to people who are making up $250,000 who I know can be economically struggling.
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But you wouldn't think you'd be giving it to someone with that much money.
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You'd think you'd be giving it to everyone making, like, $100,000 or less,
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and then you could actually give some to seniors and people with disabilities.
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And what I also have to mention about this clip that I just showed you, he's so low energy.
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That's the big contrast between good opposition with pure Polyev and bad opposition with Jagmeet Singh.
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Really, his only opposition to Justin Trudeau at this point is wanting to move back the GST holiday date and give some more people onto these checks.
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They don't care about those things because they think that collecting tax revenue is an inherent moral good.
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The more dollar signs that the government collects, the better it is.
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He just wants the government to have more money.
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He doesn't care about poor people doing better.
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He just cares that rich people don't do as well because Jagmeet Singh is really just a, I guess, malcontent is a great way of putting it.
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And it is prompting me to have to play, once again, the Margaret Thatcher clip of her owning a Labour MP at the end of her tenure,
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pointing out that they don't actually like poor people.
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What the Honourable Member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich.
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That way you will never create the wealth for better social services as we have.
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Yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided the rich were less rich.
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Kemi Badenoch at least looks really good as the Tories' leader in the UK right now,
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actually willing to deport people, send migrants back,
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basically have, like, a sea security system to prevent migrant boats to come into the UK.
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I hope she sticks to it and doesn't do whatever a UK Tory leader does and eventually super softens
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and then just ends up serving a lot of big business interests who want more warm bodies in the country.
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And it's not even, like, big business interests.
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Real businesses that are operating in the free market don't want just more random people in the country
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who are committing crimes and changing the culture of the country.
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They have independent MPs being easily elected in certain areas because the population is,
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let's just be very clear here, Islamist, and they will vote for whoever hates Israel the most and likes Hamas.
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It's nuts what's happening in the UK at this point.
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That was a great time in Question Period we had.
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I'm probably not going to return to talking about Question Period for a while,
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although I might talk about Kevin Vong asking Justin Trudeau a question in this same session of Question Period
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because Trudeau gets really petty at Kevin Vong just pointing out some failures of his on the border
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that's leading to Donald Trump threatening to tariff us.
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And I think Kevin Vong needs more attention as easily one of the best MPs currently in our House of Commons.
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