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.
00:00:00.000I don't even know what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are even going for anymore in their marketing.
00:00:07.020Like, obviously, they can't keep comparing Pierre Polyev to Donald Trump and Donald Trump to Hitler because that resulted in some pretty unsavory things.
00:00:15.100But 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.
00:00:26.520Like, 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?
00:00:42.740You 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.
00:00:49.000The 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?
00:00:57.980Or are you struggling? And most people are struggling, so most people hate it.
00:01:02.400Calling it a price on pollution, calling it the carbon rebate program is not going to help.
00:01:07.280And 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.
00:01:17.840I 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.
00:01:25.620And 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.
00:02:23.540Telling 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.
00:02:42.180I 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.
00:02:57.800If you change the metric for anything, it turns out that asbestos is actually very good for you.
00:03:03.220But 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.
00:03:09.060I didn't even get it in my bank account.
00:03:10.960Like, 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.
00:03:18.620So that was disappointing that when I checked, it wasn't even, you know, Justin Trill lied to me.
00:03:23.100I didn't get money deposited into the bank account.
00:03:25.800Unless you pollute an awful lot every day, chances are you just received more money than you pay out with the price on pollution.
00:03:34.560So check your bank account or watch the mailbox for the coming days.
00:03:37.940Oh, he does have the mailbox part at the end.
00:03:40.100And 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.
00:03:52.700That you're casting that as how much you pollute.
00:03:57.860I don't know that many people who just burn unnecessary energy for the fun of it.
00:04:02.280Like, 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.
00:04:11.620And that's also the big disconnect with a lot of liberals marketing.
00:04:14.960Nobody is under the impression that there's a big pollution problem that exists in their day-to-day life.
00:04:21.620But 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.
00:04:43.280So 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.
00:04:52.080The purpose of the price is to change behavior, not to generate revenue.
00:05:57.980According to StatsCan modeling, 94% of households earning...
00:06:01.320No, that doesn't make any sense because it's based on income level.
00:06:05.600If 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.
00:06:18.800It'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.
00:06:27.060Like, I'm actually kind of mad right now at the Alberta government, which just announced this just rock stupid program.
00:06:33.420A $44 million program to help, like, small business owners reduce their carbon footprint.
00:06:39.240No, just give people back their tax money anyways and let them use it for whatever they want.
00:06:44.460If they want to upgrade their AC system and it produces less carbon, fair enough.
00:06:48.980If they want to give their staff a wage raise, that's okay too.
00:06:52.760But 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.
00:07:04.900People 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.
00:07:17.180So, it's ridiculous, condescending, and now let's listen to the rest of his condescending video.
00:07:57.900But 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.
00:08:07.180And 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.
00:08:20.460The companies that are drilling oil are paying it on all their machinery.
00:08:25.020You 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.
00:08:37.760But, you know, that's high level thinking for the liberals, or at least they think that you can't do it.
00:19:20.640We've placed a price on pollution that simultaneously reduces our emissions and puts more money in the pockets of eight out of ten Canadians.
00:19:29.080We launched Canada's first national adaptation strategy to build stronger and more resilient communities.
00:19:37.240We became the first major oil-producing nation to introduce a cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector.
00:19:45.400And 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.
00:20:03.120Again, the speech is showing every step of the way that good climate policy is good economic policy.
00:20:23.360And he's, like, talking about, like, socialism or whatever.
00:20:25.880Other foreign leaders actually want to talk about, like, global security and, you know, our alliances together.
00:20:32.260And 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.
00:20:43.080I always hate whenever people post a chart and see the solar industry is just popping off right now.
00:20:48.220And you see this chart where it's, like, going up like a hockey stick.
00:20:51.260And it's, like, yeah, show me the chart now that shows when the subsidies kicked in.
00:21:13.260These people use excuses and they twist words depending on what goal they're trying to achieve.
00:21:18.220So 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.
00:21:50.840If you guys want recommendations for local races, who you can vote for in nominations, municipal, provincial, federal elections, basically I can micro-target you guys in different parts of the country and give you guys information on specific candidates, specific little movements or organizations that you can get involved with.
00:22:07.200I'm just trying to do this to make sure that we're all more connected in Canada because the Canadian media makes politics so boring, because there's so little information on how to get involved and how to vote, what to do.
00:22:18.740I'm trying to get around that by trying to create a little bit of a grouping, a bit of a small movement through my own channel to get people on a localized level involved in places where they can actually make change.
00:22:31.200Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.