The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Trudeau tries and fails to claim Conservative support his housing plan

00:00:00.640 Hello everyone, Wyatt Claypool here. I've noticed over time as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and

00:00:07.040 the Federal Liberals fall further and further behind Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives, 0.95

00:00:11.820 not only has their rhetoric and attacks on the Conservatives gotten more desperate and pathetic, 0.95

00:00:16.960 they're also just not effective at all anymore. They haven't thought any of the stuff through 0.98

00:00:21.340 and they just assume trying to swing at the Conservatives is good enough in order to try

00:00:26.300 and dig themselves out of the polling hole that they're in. It's not working and I think this is

00:00:30.760 a perfect example. So recently, Sean Fraser, the Liberals housing minister, and Justin Trudeau

00:00:36.800 himself have been trying to take jabs at Polyev because members of the Conservative caucus have

00:00:42.600 been requesting that their communities be able to access the Housing Accelerator Fund. They think

00:00:48.620 that this is a great gotcha and it is the typical sort of stupid online gotcha type politics that 0.98

00:00:55.240 you see all over the place, but you don't see it all over the place because it's effective. 1.00

00:00:59.960 It's because it's lazy and stupid. To the average voter, they're either not going to understand what 1.00

00:01:04.660 the heck this tack is actually about, and two, if they do understand it, they're just going to think 1.00

00:01:08.700 that Justin Trudeau is an idiot. I'll show you that here in just a second. But before I get into that, 1.00

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00:01:29.020 Legal Fund in the description below as well as pinned at the top of the comments. But anyways,

00:01:33.940 here is a post by Justin Trudeau himself. And I always like to use the Liberals' own social media

00:01:39.220 to highlight my point. I'm not pulling a clip out of context, him saying something that he didn't

00:01:43.760 really mean, or it wasn't his best swing at Polyev and I'm using sort of his whiffs to show that 0.97

00:01:50.080 Trudeau sucks or something like that. No, no, this is Trudeau's best foot forward in his own 0.93

00:01:54.040 opinion or he wouldn't have posted it. So Justin Trudeau says,

00:01:57.640 Pierre Polyev wants to cut the housing construction underway across Canada. Does he know his own MPs

00:02:03.200 are going behind his back to support our plan? Okay, I'm going to let him talk, but that's not

00:02:07.780 what's happening at all here. But again, if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe the 18

00:02:13.840 Conservative MPs who said clearly that they think those cuts are a bad idea. Pierre Polyev likes to

00:02:20.780 go around saying the country is broken and then demonstrates that he's the one proposing to break

00:02:26.820 it. He's announced that he's going to... I'm sorry, but did Polyev force the GDP per capita fall? My 0.59

00:02:33.800 goodness. I think this is so silly. Cut the housing accelerator funding, billions of dollars to 0.92

00:02:39.960 municipalities. You don't have to take my word for it. We're seeing mayors and leaders from different

00:02:45.700 orders of government across the country speaking out against the billions of dollars in cuts that is

00:02:52.560 the Conservative Party's solution to solving a housing crisis. Here's the thing. Municipal level

00:02:59.120 politicians will always like getting more money. They will always like the idea that the housing

00:03:04.520 accelerator fund gives them more cash to play with. It's useless cash in the sense that you had to

00:03:10.820 follow so many extra federal level environmental regulations, labor regulations, building codes and

00:03:16.540 whatnot that it doesn't actually speed up any house building in general. But of course, a mayor is not

00:03:21.240 going to turn down a lot of money, especially lefty mayors like Olivia Chow and Jody Gondek. But

00:03:27.080 this is like... Nobody's actually thinking that we'd be worse off if we cut this program because housing

00:03:33.040 starts have been going down every single year this program has existed because dollars do not actually

00:03:38.740 get regulations out of the way in order to build easier. It's pretending to get regulations out of

00:03:43.240 the way by trying to eliminate zoning around the country. But zoning was never the problem. We had

00:03:47.900 cheap housing with zoning. It was the environmental regulations, extra taxes, and a lot of other things

00:03:54.320 that they added on to the real estate development industry that has made it unaffordable. And now he's

00:04:00.340 going to say that, well, a bunch of conservatives think it's a great idea. And then I'm going to explain

00:04:03.980 that. It doesn't make any sense. But again, if you don't believe me, and if you don't believe mayors

00:04:09.560 from all different parties across the country, maybe you'll believe the 18 conservative MPs who

00:04:15.740 said clearly that they think those cuts are a bad idea, including two BC conservative MPs, Dan Albus

00:04:22.700 and Frank Caputo. But Pierre Polyev's not interested in investing to solve the housing crisis. Cuts

00:04:30.100 to programs doesn't help a single Canadian get into an affordable home.

00:04:35.680 Okay, do you know what he's trying to do here? He's trying to pretend that 18 conservative MPs

00:04:41.360 requesting that their communities get some of the Accelerator Fund money equals they support the

00:04:46.380 program. That's not how it works. Let's go back to 2009 in the United States. So when Obama became the

00:04:53.420 president of the United States, he passed a massive stimulus package that gave local governments money to

00:04:59.440 build infrastructure. It was an extremely bloated program, it really didn't get that much done. It

00:05:04.880 didn't really get that much more built than what was already going to be built. In fact, it was one of

00:05:09.260 those situations where the amount of extra federal regulations and building codes and labor codes,

00:05:14.140 you had to fall, man, that most of the money just went to servicing the costs incurred by extra government

00:05:20.120 like scrutiny. So it ended up being useless. But if you are a local congressperson, or if you're like

00:05:26.220 the congressperson for a local area, you can think that the stimulus plan sucks, you're also not going 0.97

00:05:31.660 to be stupid enough to say that I don't think my community should get any money for a bridge, 0.98

00:05:36.160 even if it's inefficient spending. If the spending is already going into the dumpster fire, 1.00

00:05:41.880 you might as well collect some of it yourself. This is what many MPs in the Conservative Party have

00:05:47.440 been doing. Michael Cooper, Dan Albus there, Frank Caputo, many other Conservative MPs who are saying,

00:05:53.960 yes, I don't like the program, it's inefficient spending. But if you're going to spend the money,

00:05:59.320 I will take some of it into my community. I'm not just going to take nothing. If you had to forego

00:06:04.840 any of your community had to forego any program that an MP didn't agree with the efficiency of,

00:06:10.520 there would be so many programs that would just be completely shut out of certain parts of the

00:06:13.960 country. And so then that Conservative MP would be attacked for not taking advantage of the money on

00:06:19.820 the table. So it's this stupid gotcha game, lose-lose scenario for the Conservatives. 1.00

00:06:26.020 You want to cut the useless program, but you also try and take advantage of it for your community 1.00

00:06:30.960 because some money is better, some inefficient dollars are better than absolutely nothing

00:06:35.820 while your taxpayers are still paying for it. Or you don't take advantage of it, and then you can

00:06:40.680 be attacked by saying, look at the millions of dollars you kept from going to your community.

00:06:45.380 Now you are not going to be able to resurface the roads around here. Now you're not going to be

00:06:50.000 able to build the two houses that the plan tried to build in your area slightly faster. It's one of

00:06:55.780 these stupid scenarios where Trudeau, by dumping money into a burning barrel, is trying to bait people 1.00

00:07:02.260 into accepting some of it before it all goes up in flames. So here's another thing he said that kind 1.00

00:07:07.740 of puts the highlights exactly what's going on here. Justin Trudeau says, who's going to tell him

00:07:12.460 above a Toronto Star headline that says, another Tory MP wants liberal housing money that Pierre

00:07:18.880 Polyev has pledged to cut, which also shows that he was full of it. He never said that they supported

00:07:23.880 the program. Justin Trudeau said they're going behind his back to say that they don't want the

00:07:27.940 program cut. That's not what happened at all. What obviously happened here, which is what the

00:07:34.660 Toronto Star headline is hinting at, is they just requested their communities be able to access the money

00:07:40.300 that is being spent. That is not support. That is saying that if you're going to spend it, I will

00:07:45.900 take some of it. But this is all Justin Trudeau has. This is weak. This is not anything that's going

00:07:52.660 to attract voters. Think about how long you'd have to take to explain to a voter why the conservatives

00:07:58.560 are hypocrites on this specific issue without spilling the beans that, well, why wouldn't this person

00:08:04.760 want the money if it's being spent? This is just not how politics works. The thing is that if the 0.96

00:08:09.900 government money is going out, an MP's job is to make sure the community isn't cut out from all

00:08:14.800 of it. That's why conservative politicians, especially in the West, have tended to disagree

00:08:19.440 with equalization. It is taking a disproportionate amount of Alberta's taxpayer dollars and spending it

00:08:25.380 in the East. That's why a lot of people will want more taxpayer dollars moved back to Alberta.

00:08:30.220 It's not because they think the government spending levels are legitimate. They just want more of it

00:08:35.120 being spent in Alberta. Albertans, like myself, want less overall government spending. But we also

00:08:40.960 don't want to have to pay taxes, but then also get nothing for it. We will want the maximum we can get

00:08:46.960 for our taxpayer dollars if the taxpayer dollars are going to be spent. This is just the weakest thing

00:08:53.540 I've ever seen at all. This is the weakest attack I've ever seen from Justin Trudeau on the conservatives.

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 10, 2024

Trudeau tries and fails to claim Conservative support his housing plan

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