Trudeau's Liberals behaviour is totally Pathetic!
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Summary
Two by-elections are taking place today, one in Manitoba and one in Montreal, Canada, and it's a doosey day in Canadian politics. I talk about how much Canadian politics has changed since the 1970s and 1980s, and why the Liberals are doing exactly what they do.
Transcript
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Welcome back to the Wyatt Claypool Show, everyone.
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I haven't made one of these in a while because, frankly, whenever Canada's Parliament is out of session,
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Canadian politics get very boring and sluggish.
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But today, we actually have a lot to talk about.
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Parliament is back in session, and the Conservatives and Liberals are really going at each other hard.
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I don't want to talk too much about Question Period because, frankly, you kind of know what happened.
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Pierre Polyev goes after Justin Trudeau for being stupid and incompetent.
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Justin Trudeau said something snide, and the world keeps spinning on.
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But we actually have a lot of other clips of Liberals I want to talk about there
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because they are doubling down on their strategy of being deeply condescending to Canadians
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when Canadians have concerns with how they're governing.
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one in Elmwood-Transcona in Manitoba, and one in the riding of La Salamard-Verdun in Montreal.
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It really tells you how much Canadian politics have changed that these two ridings are currently up for grabs
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by a party that wasn't the original party holding it.
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Elmwood-Transcona has been won by the Conservatives before,
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and they are one of the competitive parties in today's by-election up against the NDP.
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But this should be, in theory, a safe NDP riding.
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The NDP have not actually really fallen or risen in the polls much since last election.
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But in this by-election, it's a tough battle between the federal Conservatives and the NDP
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because the NDP have become very much a kind of, I guess you would say, college-town, progressive type of a party.
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And so these old labor ridings are going more for the Conservatives these days
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because, frankly, the Conservatives don't attack workers.
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Yes, the NDP is supposedly a very pro-worker party,
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but they mean that in the old-school, trade-unionist way that you would kind of use in the 70s.
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They're not actually trying to make the economy better for workers.
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But that doesn't really make things better anymore.
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More regulations, more labor laws is not the solution to the crappy economy that we're currently in.
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If anything, it's actually one of the big problems in the economy
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is way too much over-regulation on the labor side of things.
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So the Conservatives look set up to either win that riding
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or significantly tighten up since the last election.
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This is a riding that the NDP would usually win with like 48% of the vote,
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and the Conservatives would come in around, you know, 25%, 28%,
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I honestly don't care as much about that by-election result.
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The one I really care about is this one happening in Montreal
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You know, even more than Calgary is with the Calgary Flames,
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Montreal is the true city of red because they vote liberal every single election,
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The last election that it didn't go basically 100% red was 2011
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with Michael Ignatius' absolutely limp and flabby campaign against Stephen Harper.
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They just basically threw a couple of seats towards the NDP.
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But it's not really because the, you know, it's not because Montreal rejected the liberals.
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It's more so that they just didn't like the leader.
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Right now, everyone doesn't just dislike Justin Trudeau.
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Because Justin Trudeau, if anything, was Montreal's boy.
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He made the party absolutely dominant in that city in 2015, 2019, and 2021.
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Montrealers haven't gotten that cool in the last year.
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But at least they will potentially throw out a liberal riding towards, like, another party.
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This riding, again, just like Elmwood Transcona, would usually go 45% towards the liberals,
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43% with the bloc usually coming in second with 20% of the vote, 21% of the vote.
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Not an overwhelming victory like some rural conservative ridings
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where you have people like Arnold Vearson winning 83% of the vote.
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And then the second place parties like the PPC with 13%.
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And now they could fumble it all and have the bloc or the NDP beat them.
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There's three parties who are competitive in this by-election.
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Jagmeet Singh seems to be on, like, it seems to be dedicated to try and fumble it.
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The man, every once in a while, will do something approximating a good move,
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and then will it immediately take it back through the sloppiest rollout you've ever seen?
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So Jagmeet Singh, as we all know, has now ripped up the supply and confidence agreement
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between his party and Justin Trudeau's liberals.
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And now he's also ostensibly against the carbon tax, at least on consumers.
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But in this by-election, when he should be, in theory, I'm a conservative.
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But if I want him to fail all day, but in theory, if you are an NDP leader running against a very
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unpopular liberal leader, you think you would be trying to tack to the middle a little bit,
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Come off like the new party for center-left, middle-class people who are struggling.
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Instead, Jagmeet Singh is running a candidate who doesn't even have, I believe, the Canadian flag
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He has every other flag but the Canadian flag, and his campaign literature literally features
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the Palestinian flag behind him in the background.
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No Canadian flag in sight, because the NDP, as I was saying regarding their problems
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in Elmwood Transcona, are no longer, you know, like a labor rights party or a party for blue-collar
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They are a party for obnoxious urban progressives, for people who are living in college towns
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and people who are out-of-touch, granola-type socialist voters.
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And so I think the NDP can still clinch that by-election.
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I think it would be better if the Bloc won it for Canada, because the Bloc really just takes
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I don't mind if the Quebecers vote for the BQ doesn't really affect me too much, and they're
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less crazy than both the Liberals and the NDP, even though they compete to be as obnoxious
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So that will be interesting to talk about tomorrow, regardless if the Liberals are able to hold
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It's still pathetic that it's even going to be as tight as it is.
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I hope they lose, and I hope Justin Trudeau resigns.
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I know there's a lot of conservatives out there who want Justin Trudeau to stick around
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because it'd be cathartic to beat him in 2025, but I want to re-mainstream the idea that when
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you suck as a leader, especially if you're the Prime Minister, and you've been sucking
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for almost nine years or eight years straight, you should leave.
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We need to normalize people leaving who are bad at their jobs.
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But now I want to jump into what's happening right now on Parliament Hill between the Conservatives
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I'm not going to talk about too many clips from question period because, frankly, you
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You know, Pierre Polyev is going to stand up and say that Justin Trudeau is incompetent
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Justin Trudeau is going to stand back up and answer him by being super snarky and not really
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And it's just going to keep going back and forth.
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And I thank Kat Canada from the Countersignal for clipping it.
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She has a really good X account, has good content.
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Justin Trudeau here talking about why climate change should be the biggest issue in this next
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And really, he's doing kids a favor by bankrupting them early in their lives because, you know,
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climate change would be so much worse even if he doesn't do what he's doing, even though
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the carbon tax doesn't actually help anyone, doesn't reduce the temperature of the planet.
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And what would cost the most money to Canadians at all is his do-nothing climate plan.
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When the Toronto subway gets flooded, it costs money.
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When forest fires hit communities across this country, it costs Canadians money to rebuild.
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When you have droughts that hit farmers and agricultures across this country, it costs money.
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What doesn't cost money is putting money in eight out of ten of Canadians' pockets with
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the Canada Carbon Rebate to support their families and fight climate change.
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Before I get to Mr. Polly's response to this, I always love the fact that Justin Trudeau is
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in such a bad political position right now in order to defend his carbon tax because he
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has two different bases within his party that want two different things.
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He has the hyper-environmentalist group who doesn't actually care about the economic well-being of
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most Canadians, and they just want oil and gas crushed.
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And so he's arguing that we can avoid subways flooding and natural disasters if you pay a bunch
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of money to the government because somehow the climate cares about what the government taxes
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So that's going to somehow stop all these environmental disasters from happening.
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And then he switches and says, also, eight out of ten Canadians are benefiting from it.
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So how are you incentivizing people to use less carbon, to emit less, if they're just getting
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It's a completely nonsensical position that he's holding, that he's both incentivizing people
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to use less carbon, to burn less oil and gas products.
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They're actually not being benefited at all, but at least from the rhetorical position that
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Justin Trudeau's in, his own position doesn't even make sense.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just proved my point.
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His tax doesn't stop floods, fires, or droughts.
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This also from a high-flying, high-taxing, high-carbon hypocrite who flew 92,000 kilometres
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in a fuel-guzzling, tax-funded private jet while he taxes single moms and seniors for
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Now, Carbon Tax Carney wants him to put the tax back on home heating oil.
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Will he reject Carbon Tax Carney and instead allow Canadians to choose to tax the tax?
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And good response, and this is why I'm not really going to play many clips from Question
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Justin Trudeau's getting absolutely battered, and he's just being a snarky jerk in response.
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But I do want to jump over to another liberal saying something outside of Question Period,
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and that is one of our favorite liberal MPs, Karina Gould, who, yes, she indeed did post
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And this is basically the theme of this episode of the Why Claypool Show.
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The liberals are proving that they're incapable of change.
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They're going to keep being condescending until Canadians send them packing in 2025.
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They are incapable of being able to actually see eye-to-eye with their fellow man.
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If you do not already agree with the liberals, the liberals are just going to school-marm you
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like this and pretend you're stupid and hope that you basically just go away and, I guess,
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It's obnoxious, and this is what Karina Gould has always been about.
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I think you've seen clips of her in the past trying to talk down to the conservatives like
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It doesn't work because people actually like the conservatives.
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So when Karina Gould keeps doing that, like she's about to do here, she's condescending
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to Canadians who vote conservative, which is about 50% of the country at this point.
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What I heard yesterday from Mr. Polyev was so over-the-top, so irresponsible, so immature,
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When he is focused on having an election on the carbon price, what he's trying to do is
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By the way, I thought it was now called the carbon rebate.
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But, you know, Karina Gould is getting, letting the cat out of the bag once again and referring
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to it as the old thing, as a price on pollution, a carbon price.
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When he talks about the fact that, you know, he cares about how Canadians are feeling in difficult
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He actually, in fact, does care about those things.
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When it comes to our seniors, the only thing that we've heard is that he wants to raise the
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age of retirement, cut pensions, and remove their access to dental care.
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When it comes to families who are struggling, what are his plans?
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Get rid of affordable childcare and scrap the school food program.
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When it comes to making sure that Canadians have access to good quality information in a
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time of incredible disinformation, what does he propose to do?
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Why does he think that this is going to play well?
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And you can poll people, say, do you think that the CBC, does the CBC make you feel patriotic
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And a polling firm will get back that like 72% of people say they like the CBC or yes, it's
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Because some people remember them back in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s when they used to
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And it's like 100,000 people might watch them in a night.
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That's overall viewership in a night is like 100,000 people.
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In a country of 42 million people, nobody watches these people.
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And the thing is that what she's doing throughout this entire clip is just listing bloated liberal
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programs that haven't made people's lives better.
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You guys have more spending, more social security spending, more social assistance spending than
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And people are worse off than they've been in decades.
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Can you answer why your programs haven't accelerated us towards the sky in terms of our prosperity?
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Well, the conservatives are going to cut dental care and the food program.
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And then they might be able to afford all those things themselves.
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Notice how when Stephen Harper was the prime minister, we didn't have problems affording
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groceries and rent and people being able to go get their own dental care.
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It was very affordable because people's dollars went further.
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It doesn't matter if you throw money at people, if the dollar stopped being worth anything.
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I think I saw the other day, it was like getting just a cheeseburger from McDonald's is now
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I think it wasn't that like an item back in the Harper days that was literally a dollar.
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You know, I'm not, I'm no lawyer here, but I'm pretty sure that $3.99 is more than like
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$1.50 or $2 or whatever it was less than a decade ago.
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But whatever, I'm not going to get too political on this issue.
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And the thing is that, again, this is just condescending.
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Her acting like she's directing her comments at pure Polyev and showing Canadians how much
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of a fraudster he is, the exact word she used, just makes it sound like she's insulting
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Canadians who actually believe Polyev has a plan because he does have a plan.
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Reducing government spending, reducing taxes, reducing regulations, all this stuff is actually
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a plan, but you get a lot of wonky policy people saying, ooh, pure Polyev hasn't released
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his 80 page dissertation on what he thinks Canada needs to do to get back in the black.
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Like, no, he has a vision and it's a broad vision.
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It's vague at times, but it's because really nobody should be speaking about the specific
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policy points that need to be implemented until they're actually in government and can see
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all the problems. Aaron O'Toole released like a hundred page plan on what his platform was
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in the 21 election. And guess what? Nobody but Andrew Coyne cared because people don't care
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about how detailed your plan is. They care about whether it's going to work or not.
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The liberals have detailed policy plans and proposals they put out all the time.
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And people are worse off than ever. But I'll let Karina Gould finish here.
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And all of you as journalists have experienced firsthand how he treats people who try to ask
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him tough questions. You mean bad questions? He asks them follow-ups to substantiate their points
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like, you're a conspiracy theorist. And some people say you're dog whistling to the far right. And he
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says, who said that? How did I have done that? And they can't answer back. It's not bullying to ask
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somebody accusing you of being a bad person, what they mean by their baseless questions.
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Who try to have him face the scrutiny of what he puts to forward. And how does he react?
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As a bully. As someone who will not stand to scrutiny, who will not respond respectfully,
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not just to you as journalists, but on the questions you're asking on behalf of Canadians.
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Because your job is to get that information to Canadians. And there's a reason why he doesn't
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want Canadians to know what his true agenda is. And it's because he knows that they won't like it
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if they find out. And so what we are here to do...
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Polly has advertising all over the place with links to go to the Conservative Party website and read
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the general points that they want, like the general platform points that they want to implement.
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Like, what is she talking about? And her comment about, he's a bully. You're a bully. She actually
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is a bully. She's actually, her, like many of her allies in the media, bully anybody who disagrees
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with them. They imply you're a bad person. They accuse you of being a far right. It's in fact
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bullying to accuse somebody who's not bullying people of being a bully.
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Today, as liberals in this house going to do, and what we're going to be doing moving forward,
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is to make sure that we stand up every single day for Canadians. That we push back on his bullying
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tactics. That we push back on his irresponsible and immature antics in this place. We have an
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important role to do as parliamentarians. And that is to work hard for Canadians.
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We have an important job. That important job is to work hard. She almost sounds like Kamala Harris here.
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We know our task. And we know that Canadians know that we need to work hard for them to get stuff
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done. I want them to work less hard. That would actually make things better. Things get better in
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Canada every time Justin Trudeau goes on vacation. So that's where I'd disagree with Pierre Polyev.
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I don't want to shame Justin Trudeau for taking a lot of private jet flights. I want him to take more,
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because that means he's not in the country as often. Anyways, but now I want to jump over to
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Chrystia Freeland, who's actually asked a good question by a Toronto Star journalist,
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which actually shocked me. But she's asked a question about the liberals going after the
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conservatives with this very hot rhetoric about them being liars and fraudsters and all this stuff,
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directly referencing the things that Karina Gould had been saying. And the fact that the liberals are
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accusing the conservatives of being so mean and rude when the liberals are literally easily worse
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We don't have an announcement about that today.
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And then a follow up question is, you've been very, the government has been very critical of
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Pierre Polyev's rhetoric and political style. But your colleagues have been recently calling him
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now a liar and this morning was a fraud. So just how do you square that with the position you've
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I think that it is really important for us as the government and also...
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Okay, you can immediately tell whenever Chrystia Freeland doesn't know what to say yet,
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because she starts doing that thing where she just starts saying,
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you know, it's really important that we as a government have discussions. And she'll just
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say nothing for the first 10 seconds, because she's still thinking of what her answer here should be.
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Really important for us as the government, and also for us as liberals, to be really clear with
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Canadians about what the Conservative Party is saying, about what it is standing for,
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and about the veracity or not, of the statements of the Conservative leader and of Conservative MPs.
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We owe that to Canadians, and we are going to continue to be, first and foremost, focused on Canada and
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Canadians, focused on what do Canadians need right now, and what can we do to make their lives better.
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Oh my goodness. Either she is giving speaking lessons to Kamala Harris, or Kamala Harris is giving
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speaking lessons to her. She's saying nothing. Nothing. It's actually maddening. You just want to
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start screaming. Say actually anything. Just say what you're going to say. Just say that, yes,
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we're calling out the Conservatives for things that they're doing wrong, and I don't think that's
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bad. Fine answer. It's stupid. You're wrong, but it's a fine answer. She's like waterboarding us
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with nothing. Just nothing. She's talking about the significance of words, and how Canadians are
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Canadians, and they expect us to work hard for them. Today is an example of that. We were all in our
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communities this summer. We all traveled across Canada, and we heard from young people, I really
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want to buy my first home. Yeah, and why have you made it so impossible to do that, guys, by flooding
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the country with new migrants or new immigrants who also can't afford homes because there's not
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enough houses? For me, the strongest data point there is 750,000 Canadians, actually more than 750,000
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Canadians, have already opened a tax-free first home savings account. That means 750,000 people
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who are putting up their hand and saying, I really want to buy a place to live.
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Wow. Does that what that means? 750,000 people took advantage of a program that we created,
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and that really shows that they want to buy a house, and that's important because housing is
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important. Housing is that roof over your head that keeps you from getting wet when it's raining.
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It's horrible. Why is who let her speak in front of a microphone? This is horrible, and it's like,
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yeah, you guys started those tax-free savings accounts for new housing, which isn't even a bad
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idea. It's not even a terrible idea. Let people have the first $40,000 they're saving for a house
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tax-free. That's only been considered necessary because of how much you guys have overheated the
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housing market with way too many new permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, and students.
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This is all your guys' fault. These programs are unnecessary. Some of them aren't a terrible idea,
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but they're unnecessary if you guys didn't do what you're doing. But she's like, man, isn't it great
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that people are taking advantage of our programs because we've made them this desperate? Not really.
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We support that. That is people believing in saving every day for their future, saving for Canada.
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And what people have also said to us is, it's still too hard. And so today, we're putting forward
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concrete, practical, specific measures that are going to make it easier for young Canadians
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to buy that first home. I like how she admitted, all these people told us, well, it still sucks out
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here. And she's like, okay, I know. So we're going to put forward some practical solutions. Why were
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the practical solutions already implemented? It's almost like whatever you're about to implement
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is just doubling down on the same policies that didn't work before. A practical solution is something
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that actually solves it. That's the implication of a solution. These aren't solutions. There are more
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money being dumped into the market, overheating the market, making housing prices higher.
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And then we're going to cycle back and subsidize demand more. That's the difference between
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conservative and liberal policy solutions. Liberals consider everything a demand side issue. Well,
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people don't have enough money for housing. We'll just give them more money. The conservatives see it
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as a problem that it's too hard to get new housing permits. There's way too many environmental
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regulations. Inspections needed to be done. Way too much paperwork to get a housing approved. That
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doesn't mean that zoning laws are bad. I don't like blanket rezoning taking place in Calgary.
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It doesn't get to the root cause that it makes it difficult to build anything. It doesn't matter
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that all they're doing is trying to basically bribe developers by saying, hey, even though we still
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made it almost impossible to build something or because it's very difficult to build things,
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well, at least you can build a sixplex instead of just two single detached homes. And you can get
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more bang for your buck selling each of those of those units in the sixplex rather than just two
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houses. But they're still, everything's still over-costed to build because of all the building
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codes and regulations and extra paperwork you have to go through. By offering them 30-year
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amortizations by raising the level from 1 million to 1.5 million of the insured mortgage market. And
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at the same time, we're creating another incentive to get more homes built faster by allowing 30-year
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amortizations for new builds. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Did she actually write something on her hand
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there? I got to go back. I'm not trying to be a conspiracy theorist here, guys. More homes built
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faster by allowing 30-year amortizations for new builds. So that is about... Sorry, I didn't want
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to go down that rabbit hole, but I was like, oh my goodness, did she write down some notes on her hand
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to remember during this press conference? What she's proposing is not helping. Mortgage insurance,
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you mean if somebody defaults on their mortgage? That's not something that's going to keep somebody
00:27:47.280
in a home. That's like worst case scenario type issues of needing a home mortgage insurance.
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They've not made it easier to build. That's why housing starts year over year over the past three
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years have been going down. It doesn't matter how much money you pump into the market to incentivize
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more people to build or trying to make it easier to buy. You have to increase the supply by making it
00:28:13.360
easier to provide supply. Not just saying, here's 20 bucks. Can you build another home? That's not
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how it works because it's impossible to build. It doesn't make it better. It truly is like seeing
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hyper-privileged, hyper-wealthy people just thinking that if they throw money at the problem, it'll go
00:28:30.400
away. At some point, the money's not the problem. The problem is the problem. You can't solve it just by
00:28:35.920
dumping money on it. Anyways, yes, the liberals have not learned anything. They have not learned
00:28:42.880
anything, both in being extremely condescending like Karina Gould was and Christy Freeland was there,
00:28:49.760
but also doubling down on the same stupid non-solutions that they have on things like housing
00:28:57.680
and doubling down on things like the carbon tax that Canadians have gotten back to them on time and
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time again saying they don't like it. They don't believe the lie that they're making more money on the
00:29:08.480
rebates than they are being taxed through the carbon tax. But Trudeau, now I guess because Jagmeet
00:29:16.000
Singh has abandoned the carbon tax, he thinks that he can now pick up a bunch of Jagmeet Singh's
00:29:20.460
environmentalist supporters. I don't even think that's exactly going to be possible because I think
00:29:25.780
even the environmentalist types, there are some hardcores who are going to abandon Jagmeet because
00:29:31.040
he's no longer a big environmentalist, but Jagmeet's probably going to actually win over some
00:29:35.620
middle-class liberal voters who are secretly against the carbon tax but don't want to voice it.
00:29:41.380
But they'll go vote NDP because for some reason they're insecure about voting conservative.
00:29:46.760
And in all this, conservatives are going to benefit the most because everything is complete chaos on the
00:29:51.640
left side of the aisle. And the only party with an actual stable vision of what they want to do with
00:29:56.840
the country are the conservatives. And it's a good vision. But in terms of the political strategy
00:30:02.100
here, usually conservatives, bad conservative strategists like Fred DeLore and others would be
00:30:08.500
saying, tack to the middle, to go and try and occupy the territory that liberals are giving up.
00:30:14.880
Pierre Polyev has been making the right moves on actually tacking towards the right, having more
00:30:20.020
principled conservative positions, having a strong platform that he personally is passionate about,
00:30:26.120
and having Canadians come over because they like his vision and his passion, rather than just
00:30:32.300
having watered down liberal policies. And you hope that since that you've lined yourself up slightly to
00:30:38.280
the right of the liberals, that when liberal voters walk away from that party, they'll naturally come to
00:30:42.960
you first. Didn't work for Erno Toole, and Pierre Polyev is proving the opposite strategy to be successful.
00:30:50.420
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