The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 18, 2024


Trudeau's Liberals humiliate themselves on carbon new tax push

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Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are back at it again with another carbon tax rant. This time around, the focus is on the carbon tax and the carbon rebate program, but there's a catch. It's not a carbon tax, it's a carbon rebate.

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00:00:00.000 I don't even know what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are even going for anymore in their marketing.
00:00:07.020 Like, obviously, they can't keep comparing Pierre Polyev to Donald Trump and Donald Trump to Hitler because that resulted in some pretty unsavory things. 0.73
00:00:15.100 But the Liberals aren't even pivoting in a smart direction where maybe they can find a different angle of attack on Pierre Polyev or maybe they can market some new program they have to try and bring some middle class Canadians back towards them.
00:00:26.520 Like, no, they're just doing the carbon tax again. I don't know why. From a purely neutral political analysis perspective, like I am a conservative, but from a neutral perspective, why are you continuing to talk about the issue that Canadians have their minds made up about?
00:00:42.740 You do not enter a room of people and find anyone who's still on the fence with whether or not they like the carbon tax or not.
00:00:49.000 The carbon tax pretty much breaks down to, are you doing really well already and you really don't care about the extra money you have to spend in terms of the carbon tax?
00:00:57.980 Or are you struggling? And most people are struggling, so most people hate it.
00:01:02.400 Calling it a price on pollution, calling it the carbon rebate program is not going to help.
00:01:07.280 And so the Liberals now, in their 17th kick at the can on this one, are just using the same talking points but pairing it up with cringier videos.
00:01:17.840 I don't know how the cringe is supposed to help them, but at least it's resulting in hilarious stuff like this for me to talk about.
00:01:25.620 And so this is one that was done by Prime Minister Trudeau himself, but I'm going to get to some other ones from other Liberal Party MPs.
00:01:34.220 Check your bank account. 0.97
00:01:36.520 You better not have frozen it, you son of a gun. 0.65
00:01:39.520 That would actually be hilarious if you just said, but check your bank account, it's frozen. 0.84
00:01:43.100 See, I'm a pretty powerful dude.
00:01:44.500 You should consider voting Liberal and maybe I'll give you back your money.
00:01:47.840 That would be a kind of a based move, in my opinion.
00:01:50.720 I'd consider voting for him if he was actually pulling videos off like that that were that funny, but I'll let him make his point here.
00:01:57.580 Check your bank account.
00:01:58.960 If you live in one of these provinces and you file your taxes, you receive the Canada Carbon Rebate today.
00:02:05.560 That's money from the price on pollution that gets deposited automatically in your bank account four times a year.
00:02:13.160 Does he actually think we're children?
00:02:14.880 Like, I'm not sure if this was a video that was supposed to go towards new immigrants and, like, explain how the carbon tax rebates work.
00:02:21.620 But everyone knows this.
00:02:23.540 Telling people about how the carbon tax works, again, isn't going to make us, you know, do a little bit of a think and say, actually, I like the fact that I get a portion of my money back in exchange for the government laundering some of it towards their, like, big donor environmentalist friends.
00:02:40.360 Like, nobody's convinced by this.
00:02:42.180 I know they're going to keep saying, you know, somebody in the parliamentary budget office said that eight out of ten Canadians get back more money than they put in.
00:02:49.300 It's just not true.
00:02:50.440 The PBO used to say something else, and then they had them rework the math, basically just change the metric.
00:02:56.580 And you can do that for anything.
00:02:57.800 If you change the metric for anything, it turns out that asbestos is actually very good for you.
00:03:03.220 But now the liberals are just pretending like you're going to be dazzled by the fact that you had something injected into your bank account.
00:03:09.060 I didn't even get it in my bank account.
00:03:10.960 Like, I'm not a well-off person, so I can personally tell you I do not benefit from the carbon tax compared to my costs.
00:03:16.920 But I still get it in check form.
00:03:18.620 So that was disappointing that when I checked, it wasn't even, you know, Justin Trill lied to me.
00:03:23.100 I didn't get money deposited into the bank account.
00:03:25.800 Unless you pollute an awful lot every day, chances are you just received more money than you pay out with the price on pollution.
00:03:34.560 So check your bank account or watch the mailbox for the coming days.
00:03:37.940 Oh, he does have the mailbox part at the end.
00:03:40.100 And again, isn't that kind of sick in a certain sense that we're describing people using energy in a country where, like, it gets below negative 40 in many areas, like in Calgary where I live.
00:03:52.700 That you're casting that as how much you pollute.
00:03:56.040 No, it's necessary energy.
00:03:57.860 I don't know that many people who just burn unnecessary energy for the fun of it.
00:04:02.280 Like, unless we're going to start defining anything but a singular lamp and a heater as more than you need, most people are not frivolously using energy.
00:04:11.620 And that's also the big disconnect with a lot of liberals marketing.
00:04:14.960 Nobody is under the impression that there's a big pollution problem that exists in their day-to-day life.
00:04:21.620 But I want to move on now to another video done by Nate S. Erickson Smith that Trudeau is promoting, which is really funny because Nate Erickson Smith was one of the liberal MPs who very unsubtly implied that maybe Justin Trudeau should be subject to a leadership review or maybe even resign his office and let someone else be prime minister.
00:04:43.280 So the fact that now he's also sharing Nate's videos is quite cool because it means Trudeau's effectively endorsing Nate's perspective on things.
00:04:52.080 The purpose of the price is to change behavior, not to generate revenue.
00:04:56.640 At least 90%
00:04:57.460 Why is he saying that like it's a good thing?
00:04:59.840 It's actually supposed to be for social control, not for any legitimate revenue, you know, need.
00:05:06.300 It's not that the government needs this money to go fight climate change.
00:05:09.000 They can't fight climate change.
00:05:10.060 You can't fight climate change in any way that the liberal government is promoting.
00:05:15.100 And so when he's saying it's not actually taking any money of your pocket, it's revenue neutral.
00:05:19.960 And one, it's not revenue neutral.
00:05:21.560 But even then, it's like, well, what's the point? 0.99
00:05:23.800 Now it's just a stupid financial shell game then. 0.95
00:05:27.300 Some of the revenue is rebated directly to individuals who file their taxes. 0.99
00:05:31.440 And there's a top up for rural Canadians.
00:05:33.780 The rebate makes eight out of 10 households better off on a cash transfer basis.
00:05:38.120 I'll say that again.
00:05:39.220 The rebate makes eight out of 10 households better off on a cash transfer basis.
00:05:43.820 That's...
00:05:44.200 You do have to repeat things a lot if it's a lie and you want people to believe it.
00:05:47.740 Taxes paid and rebate received.
00:05:49.860 That's determined by the parliamentary budget officer.
00:05:53.160 Only the 20% pays more than they receive back.
00:05:55.680 Why?
00:05:56.280 Because they pollute more.
00:05:57.980 According to StatsCan modeling, 94% of households earning...
00:06:01.320 No, that doesn't make any sense because it's based on income level.
00:06:05.600 If anything, actually, people who are richer tend to pollute less because they usually can buy and upgrade appliances in their homes that have lower carbon impact.
00:06:16.120 I don't even care.
00:06:17.400 Use whatever you want.
00:06:18.800 It's not really the government's problem to give you money or to take money away from you based on your behaviors in terms of carbon. 0.99
00:06:27.060 Like, I'm actually kind of mad right now at the Alberta government, which just announced this just rock stupid program. 0.76
00:06:33.420 A $44 million program to help, like, small business owners reduce their carbon footprint. 0.95
00:06:39.240 No, just give people back their tax money anyways and let them use it for whatever they want. 0.64
00:06:44.460 If they want to upgrade their AC system and it produces less carbon, fair enough.
00:06:48.980 If they want to give their staff a wage raise, that's okay too. 0.98
00:06:52.760 But I hate this stupid nanny state garbage where the government's supposed to tell you, the business owner, who actually knows how to create jobs and knows how to, you know, add value back into the economy, how you should spend this money. 0.98
00:07:04.900 People who have never had real jobs, many, for a good portion of politicians, many of these people who have never had real jobs are going to come into your back office and tell you how you should be spending the money the government's giving you. 1.00
00:07:17.180 So, it's ridiculous, condescending, and now let's listen to the rest of his condescending video. 0.56
00:07:23.060 It's only five seconds, I guess. 0.85
00:07:24.320 I mean, $50,000 or less will receive more in the rebate than they pay in the price.
00:07:30.000 Yeah, no, if you notice the language they're even using here.
00:07:33.840 You receive more in the rebate than you pay in the price.
00:07:37.940 And they're being very limited here.
00:07:39.740 They're not saying everything that the carbon tax affects.
00:07:42.860 They're talking about the price on pollution part of it.
00:07:46.240 So, yes, if you make less than $50,000 a year, you will get more back than you maybe pay in gasoline or home heating.
00:07:54.580 Some of you will.
00:07:56.180 Many of you still won't.
00:07:57.900 But that's not taking into account groceries, other services, everything within the economy that the carbon tax has been applied to multiple times before it even gets to you.
00:08:07.180 And let's be clear, the carbon tax even applies more on your gas than the liberals are accounting for because the truck that shows up to bring you the gas is paying the carbon tax on the gas it's using to transport.
00:08:20.460 The companies that are drilling oil are paying it on all their machinery.
00:08:25.020 You know, the carbon tax applies like six, seven, eight times down the supply chain before you're even paying the small portion of liberals are actually counting when you stick the nozzle into your car.
00:08:37.760 But, you know, that's high level thinking for the liberals, or at least they think that you can't do it.
00:08:42.300 Oh, goodness.
00:08:42.880 This one's just cringy.
00:08:44.120 I'm going to show you it too quickly.
00:08:45.400 I saved it for a reason because I found the cringe funny.
00:08:48.700 I'll just start off right here.
00:08:49.660 It's a liberal from New Brunswick, Jeanette Pietipas-Taylor.
00:08:55.040 I can't say French names or whatever country she's, her family's from.
00:08:58.520 I don't get it.
00:08:59.280 She says, New Brunswickers will receive the carbon, Canada carbon rebate today.
00:09:04.560 Good climate and economic policy.
00:09:06.520 Good for Canadians.
00:09:07.480 And then switches to French.
00:09:08.960 And then she just has this, where it just like makes a ding sound or whatever.
00:09:15.820 Do politicians legitimately think that you're five years old?
00:09:19.660 They actually think that they're geniuses.
00:09:22.620 Despite the fact that they've never actually created a job themselves, they've never owned
00:09:26.500 businesses, many of them never really even practiced their area of expertise very long.
00:09:31.140 Like so many people who are lawyers in government never really practiced as lawyers.
00:09:36.300 They just kind of immediately jumped over to being government employees and then eventually
00:09:39.740 became politicians.
00:09:41.580 And in a certain sense, I don't mind.
00:09:43.420 I don't really care how much experience you had in the economy before you become an elected
00:09:48.200 MP.
00:09:48.520 There are tons of people in government who used to be business owners who still suck at
00:09:51.880 politics as politicians.
00:09:53.000 I want people who are good at their jobs being politicians, regardless of how much experience
00:09:58.220 they have.
00:09:58.500 Pure poly, I've technically never really had a major career before he was an MP, but he's 0.86
00:10:03.900 a good MP.
00:10:04.500 So that's the kind of good type of career politician I like.
00:10:08.260 So whenever people ask me if I like the idea of term limits, I usually just say it depends.
00:10:13.900 For certain positions, maybe there should be term limits.
00:10:15.960 Maybe you get three or like 12 years maximum to be the prime minister of the country or
00:10:21.840 maybe like 10 years.
00:10:23.060 I don't know.
00:10:24.180 But in terms of being an MP, would you rather just to get rid of an Arif Verrani in a few 1.00
00:10:30.240 terms?
00:10:30.680 Would you sacrifice getting rid of pure poly of who's actually very good as a politician
00:10:34.220 and getting things done?
00:10:35.180 That's always the rub I have.
00:10:37.240 But the problem is, is that it's insulting on top of the fact that they're bad politicians,
00:10:41.680 that they also don't even have any experience in the real world.
00:10:45.560 But yeah, every liberal is just posting all this stuff about how check your bank account.
00:10:49.980 Stephen Gobo here saying today's the day acting like it's Christmas.
00:10:54.500 The second installment of the Canada carbon rebate will start being sent out as of today,
00:10:59.500 unless you are a major polluter.
00:11:01.060 Guys, again, stop calling people just trying to survive polluters or people creating jobs
00:11:05.600 polluters.
00:11:06.500 Unless you are a major polluter, you'll get more money back than you paid, leaving you
00:11:10.540 better off and helping to fight climate change. 0.98
00:11:13.460 It's so manipulative and silly.
00:11:15.540 Every single one of them has like their own version of the graphic to post.
00:11:18.780 Ahmed Hussein here said, check your bank account today for the Canada carbon rebate.
00:11:23.220 Our plan to fight climate change is working.
00:11:25.480 Working how?
00:11:26.420 We haven't actually really lowered emissions in any like raw form.
00:11:32.220 Yes, per capita emissions are down.
00:11:34.320 That's just because the economy fell in 2020 and 2021.
00:11:37.960 You'll notice that they only start, they'll say like, look how well the carbon tax has done
00:11:43.060 at lowering emissions.
00:11:44.160 They'll start the chart at 2018.
00:11:46.320 The emissions go up, even though the carbon tax is in place.
00:11:49.480 2020 hits, lockdowns hit, and then emissions fall.
00:11:53.700 But it's falling with the GDP as well.
00:11:55.780 It's falling with economic growth.
00:11:57.720 So as the economic growth comes back, emissions are going to go up because the carbon tax doesn't
00:12:01.880 really do anything.
00:12:02.800 All it does is make suffering people's lives harder and bankrupts people who are only on
00:12:08.460 the fringes.
00:12:09.180 It's doing absolutely nothing to make people change behavior, and neither should they be
00:12:14.180 changing their behavior.
00:12:15.740 People should be acting in their own best interest to make sure that their lives are as comfortable
00:12:20.140 as possible.
00:12:20.840 The liberal's philosophy is that it's the government's job to determine what you can
00:12:26.220 and cannot do to better your life, which is deeply insulting, in my opinion.
00:12:31.460 Okay, this one's pretty great.
00:12:33.360 It's a two-minute video of Stephen Gilbeau talking to another liberal party MP, trying to 1.00
00:12:39.040 explain to you, bunch of idiots out there, why the carbon tax is actually quite good for 1.00
00:12:44.240 you. 1.00
00:12:44.480 Hi, Stephen.
00:12:46.280 Nice to see you.
00:12:48.160 It's always good to see you.
00:12:49.440 It's always good to see you.
00:12:49.700 Thank you.
00:12:50.260 Thank you.
00:12:50.740 Especially now with all this misinformation about carbon tax.
00:12:54.260 I hate videos where it's like just two normal guys talking to each other in their office,
00:13:00.500 just like, oh, it's so great to meet you.
00:13:02.320 You guys are fellow MPs.
00:13:03.820 I assume you see each other all the time.
00:13:05.380 Again, the government thinks you're five-year-olds, and that's why they cut videos like this.
00:13:10.060 In pricing, I thought we could take a minute to explain to our viewers why carbon pricing
00:13:14.640 work and why it's so important for Canada and Canadians.
00:13:18.540 The good news is that I'm an economist, and 300 economists just recently wrote a letter
00:13:25.660 to explain to the conservatives in particular why putting a price on carbon and a price on
00:13:31.260 pollution is the most efficient, the best way to fight pollution, making life more affordable
00:13:37.320 for Canadians, and fighting climate change.
00:13:40.600 In fact, one of those economists has won a Nobel Prize for his work on carbon pricing, William
00:13:46.780 Nordic's. On the one hand, we have economists, parliamentary budget officers, experts from 0.87
00:13:52.400 Environment and Climate Change Canada and Health Canada, all saying carbon pricing is
00:13:57.120 the best way to fight climate change.
00:13:59.140 Guys, it's a staged video, and they can't even get it smooth.
00:14:03.500 Just the idea, too, that, wow, there's 300 economists out there who agree with us that
00:14:07.880 more taxes are better.
00:14:09.980 Like, yeah, it's not that hard to find big government liberal or socialist economists.
00:14:14.480 And it's like, and one of them has a Nobel Prize in this.
00:14:17.020 I'm like, yeah, so, well, his carbon tax objectively on paper does not work.
00:14:21.340 And this guy is selfish enough to defend his own research by coming and saying that you guys
00:14:26.380 are actually doing a good job, even though everyone can see it's terrible.
00:14:30.020 It's not surprising that someone's going to come and defend their own research by backing
00:14:34.380 you, Hacks. 1.00
00:14:36.300 I'd love to see the stats that if you showed this video to 1,000 Canadians, how many people
00:14:41.160 actually would have their minds changed?
00:14:43.560 And again, the framing here is terrible.
00:14:45.700 Look how much space is above Stephen Gilbeau's head.
00:14:48.900 Like, I don't even know if Stephen Gilbeau is a particularly short man, but they're making
00:14:52.860 both of them look just absolutely tiny in this office with all of this, like, with all this,
00:14:59.100 like, blue sky above their heads.
00:15:00.760 Not actually blue sky, but you get my point.
00:15:02.500 With all this daylight over top of them.
00:15:04.460 It puts more money in most Canadians' families' pockets.
00:15:10.700 And on the other hand, we have this guy who says that it doesn't work and we shouldn't
00:15:14.560 believe, we shouldn't even believe in climate change.
00:15:16.660 So I think if we have a choice between the two, I'll...
00:15:19.500 Genuinely, Stephen, when did he say that?
00:15:22.260 When did Pierre Polyev say that he doesn't even believe in climate change?
00:15:26.440 Find me the quote.
00:15:28.560 Find me the actual quote where Pierre Polyev said that climate change isn't real.
00:15:32.640 Nobody's ever said that.
00:15:34.600 Like, yeah, you'll have some people who might say that.
00:15:37.440 It's a very small group of people.
00:15:39.100 There's a debate on whether or not humans cause climate change in a, like, major way.
00:15:45.000 Like, they're a major contributor.
00:15:46.400 You could do literally...
00:15:47.200 You could put anything in the atmosphere and it will technically change the climate in
00:15:50.480 some way, even as infinitesimally small as it might be.
00:15:53.380 If you, you know, just fire off Cheeto dust into the atmosphere, yes, you will change
00:15:58.340 the climate in some way.
00:15:59.720 But it really depends on what one of the major factors is.
00:16:04.040 But Stephen Gilboa has no citation for saying that Pierre Polyev doesn't believe in climate
00:16:08.220 change.
00:16:08.840 It's just a convenient thing for him to say in order for him to at least keep the progressive
00:16:14.400 base on the left on side with the liberals, pretending that their own opponents don't
00:16:18.460 even believe in climate change.
00:16:20.180 I'll choose to go with the economists.
00:16:21.520 And it's not only about economists, it's about us in public health experts, doctors and nurses
00:16:27.400 who understand that if you live in a clean environment, your own health is better.
00:16:34.080 Clean air, clean water, clean soil, biodiversity, that's good for the environment.
00:16:39.520 It's also good for you to help.
00:16:41.740 Now, these experts understand that.
00:16:43.840 The others that we see in the health don't seem to understand that yet.
00:16:47.040 No, and they seem to forget that each year in Canada, 18,000 people die prematurely because
00:16:52.500 of poor air quality.
00:16:54.080 So the more we fight climate change, the more we reduce our dependence.
00:16:57.240 That's just not true.
00:16:58.420 It's just flat out not true.
00:17:00.540 The idea that people are dying because of poor air quality.
00:17:03.780 And that has nothing to do with carbon emissions.
00:17:05.500 No one, nobody's dying of carbon emissions.
00:17:08.560 That's just not an actual thing.
00:17:10.580 18,000 people are dying prematurely in Canada or maybe off unless I missed it.
00:17:15.580 He said the world.
00:17:16.180 If he's saying the world, that's not really our problem.
00:17:18.460 But like, no, like they're acting like we're in London in like 1880 and or like 1965 or something
00:17:25.800 like that.
00:17:26.220 And there's actual smog in the air.
00:17:28.620 Like just to get a newsflash to you guys, there's nothing wrong with the air in Canada.
00:17:34.140 Yes, if you live in a downtown core, there might be a little bit more emissions from tailpipes
00:17:39.760 and whatnot.
00:17:40.580 But most people don't exactly hang out on the streets and handling it.
00:17:43.840 This is not what like Toronto looks like.
00:17:46.380 It doesn't look like London back in the mid-century.
00:17:49.420 Like newsflash to Stephen Gilbeau here.
00:17:51.460 And like even then when they're showing this, that's not, no.
00:17:54.300 And they're going to say like, oh, because people might have died from smoke inhalation
00:17:59.680 or from wildfire smoke.
00:18:01.560 That's not climate change.
00:18:03.260 That's a wildfire.
00:18:05.080 I don't think wildfires, to my knowledge, were invented as of 10 years ago.
00:18:10.020 On fossil fuels, which cause bad air quality, we will help save lives.
00:18:15.060 So it's good for the economy.
00:18:16.580 It's good for the planet.
00:18:17.660 It's good for the health of Canadians.
00:18:20.360 What's not to like about it?
00:18:21.420 Well, that's great.
00:18:22.440 That's great to explain that to our conservative friends in the health of Canadians.
00:18:25.920 It's good.
00:18:27.800 I'm dying of cringe.
00:18:29.920 That hurt me.
00:18:30.960 I'm just tired.
00:18:32.180 I'm just tired of all this.
00:18:33.720 Well, I at least want to play one more video.
00:18:37.920 Once again, trying to defend his, their policies on the climate, their big carbon tax program.
00:18:47.040 It's just, again, that's tiring.
00:18:48.880 It's tiring.
00:18:49.500 These are like talking points.
00:18:50.640 And puts more money.
00:18:53.940 Why is this freezing?
00:18:57.120 Also, I got to say, this is really embarrassing that he's actually giving the speech at NATO.
00:19:01.260 When we should be talking about the military, he's out there talking about, you know, putting a price on pollution.
00:19:08.700 Can we have, you know, tanks again?
00:19:10.900 That'd be nice.
00:19:11.780 I don't know.
00:19:12.460 I'm not, I'm not an expert on the military, but I think we should probably have some military equipment.
00:19:17.380 And addressing the climate crisis.
00:19:20.640 We've placed a price on pollution that simultaneously reduces our emissions and puts more money in the pockets of eight out of ten Canadians.
00:19:29.080 We launched Canada's first national adaptation strategy to build stronger and more resilient communities.
00:19:37.240 We became the first major oil-producing nation to introduce a cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector.
00:19:45.400 And we're creating hundreds of thousands of good-paying, sustainable jobs from coast to coast to coast with our $160 billion investment in our net zero economic plan and green industrial strategy.
00:20:03.120 Again, the speech is showing every step of the way that good climate policy is good economic policy.
00:20:10.960 And, again, the speech is at NATO.
00:20:13.240 Look at the flags behind him.
00:20:14.380 This is about NATO or, like, is it about TPP?
00:20:17.800 I'm pretty sure that's the NATO flag. 0.98
00:20:19.080 I'm looking it up just to see if I'm stupid or not. 0.84
00:20:21.620 Like, no, that's the NATO logo. 0.96
00:20:23.360 And he's, like, talking about, like, socialism or whatever.
00:20:25.880 Other foreign leaders actually want to talk about, like, global security and, you know, our alliances together.
00:20:32.260 And Justin Trudeau is up there talking about how, you know, we're creating basically socialist job programs through dumping money into the, like, failing green energy sector.
00:20:43.080 I always hate whenever people post a chart and see the solar industry is just popping off right now.
00:20:48.220 And you see this chart where it's, like, going up like a hockey stick.
00:20:51.260 And it's, like, yeah, show me the chart now that shows when the subsidies kicked in.
00:20:56.520 This is not organic growth.
00:20:58.640 Notice how, too, every time you propose taking away the subsidies, the left then accuses you of not believing in free market economics. 0.98
00:21:05.540 Utterly stupid considering the idea that I'm pretty sure that government putting its finger on the scale is not free market. 0.98
00:21:12.700 But whatever. 1.00
00:21:13.260 These people use excuses and they twist words depending on what goal they're trying to achieve.
00:21:18.220 So if you're opposing socialistic type program, if you're opposing, sorry, socialistic type subsidy programs for green energy, then you are attacking the free market because you're trying to reduce competition by not artificially propping up a failing industry that nobody asked for.
00:21:36.740 But what can you do?
00:21:38.080 That's it for me today, guys.
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