Trudeau tries and fails to claim Conservative support his housing plan
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Summary
Justin Trudeau wants to cut funding for the Housing Accelerator Fund, and 18 Conservative MPs have a problem with it. I explain why this is a bad idea, and why it doesn't make any sense. I also explain why Mayor's across the country are speaking out against it.
Transcript
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Hello everyone, Wyatt Claypool here. I've noticed over time as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and
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the Federal Liberals fall further and further behind Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives,
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not only has their rhetoric and attacks on the Conservatives gotten more desperate and pathetic,
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they're also just not effective at all anymore. They haven't thought any of the stuff through
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and they just assume trying to swing at the Conservatives is good enough in order to try
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and dig themselves out of the polling hole that they're in. It's not working and I think this is
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a perfect example. So recently, Sean Fraser, the Liberals housing minister, and Justin Trudeau
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himself have been trying to take jabs at Polyev because members of the Conservative caucus have
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been requesting that their communities be able to access the Housing Accelerator Fund. They think
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that this is a great gotcha and it is the typical sort of stupid online gotcha type politics that
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you see all over the place, but you don't see it all over the place because it's effective.
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It's because it's lazy and stupid. To the average voter, they're either not going to understand what
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the heck this tack is actually about, and two, if they do understand it, they're just going to think
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that Justin Trudeau is an idiot. I'll show you that here in just a second. But before I get into that,
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here is a post by Justin Trudeau himself. And I always like to use the Liberals' own social media
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to highlight my point. I'm not pulling a clip out of context, him saying something that he didn't
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really mean, or it wasn't his best swing at Polyev and I'm using sort of his whiffs to show that
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Trudeau sucks or something like that. No, no, this is Trudeau's best foot forward in his own
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opinion or he wouldn't have posted it. So Justin Trudeau says,
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Pierre Polyev wants to cut the housing construction underway across Canada. Does he know his own MPs
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are going behind his back to support our plan? Okay, I'm going to let him talk, but that's not
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what's happening at all here. But again, if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe the 18
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Conservative MPs who said clearly that they think those cuts are a bad idea. Pierre Polyev likes to
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go around saying the country is broken and then demonstrates that he's the one proposing to break
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it. He's announced that he's going to... I'm sorry, but did Polyev force the GDP per capita fall? My
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goodness. I think this is so silly. Cut the housing accelerator funding, billions of dollars to
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municipalities. You don't have to take my word for it. We're seeing mayors and leaders from different
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orders of government across the country speaking out against the billions of dollars in cuts that is
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the Conservative Party's solution to solving a housing crisis. Here's the thing. Municipal level
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politicians will always like getting more money. They will always like the idea that the housing
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accelerator fund gives them more cash to play with. It's useless cash in the sense that you had to
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follow so many extra federal level environmental regulations, labor regulations, building codes and
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whatnot that it doesn't actually speed up any house building in general. But of course, a mayor is not
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going to turn down a lot of money, especially lefty mayors like Olivia Chow and Jody Gondek. But
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this is like... Nobody's actually thinking that we'd be worse off if we cut this program because housing
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starts have been going down every single year this program has existed because dollars do not actually
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get regulations out of the way in order to build easier. It's pretending to get regulations out of
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the way by trying to eliminate zoning around the country. But zoning was never the problem. We had
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cheap housing with zoning. It was the environmental regulations, extra taxes, and a lot of other things
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that they added on to the real estate development industry that has made it unaffordable. And now he's
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going to say that, well, a bunch of conservatives think it's a great idea. And then I'm going to explain
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that. It doesn't make any sense. But again, if you don't believe me, and if you don't believe mayors
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from all different parties across the country, maybe you'll believe the 18 conservative MPs who
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said clearly that they think those cuts are a bad idea, including two BC conservative MPs, Dan Albus
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and Frank Caputo. But Pierre Polyev's not interested in investing to solve the housing crisis. Cuts
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to programs doesn't help a single Canadian get into an affordable home.
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Okay, do you know what he's trying to do here? He's trying to pretend that 18 conservative MPs
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requesting that their communities get some of the Accelerator Fund money equals they support the
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program. That's not how it works. Let's go back to 2009 in the United States. So when Obama became the
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president of the United States, he passed a massive stimulus package that gave local governments money to
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build infrastructure. It was an extremely bloated program, it really didn't get that much done. It
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didn't really get that much more built than what was already going to be built. In fact, it was one of
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those situations where the amount of extra federal regulations and building codes and labor codes,
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you had to fall, man, that most of the money just went to servicing the costs incurred by extra government
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like scrutiny. So it ended up being useless. But if you are a local congressperson, or if you're like
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the congressperson for a local area, you can think that the stimulus plan sucks, you're also not going
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to be stupid enough to say that I don't think my community should get any money for a bridge,
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even if it's inefficient spending. If the spending is already going into the dumpster fire,
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you might as well collect some of it yourself. This is what many MPs in the Conservative Party have
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been doing. Michael Cooper, Dan Albus there, Frank Caputo, many other Conservative MPs who are saying,
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yes, I don't like the program, it's inefficient spending. But if you're going to spend the money,
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I will take some of it into my community. I'm not just going to take nothing. If you had to forego
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any of your community had to forego any program that an MP didn't agree with the efficiency of,
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there would be so many programs that would just be completely shut out of certain parts of the
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country. And so then that Conservative MP would be attacked for not taking advantage of the money on
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the table. So it's this stupid gotcha game, lose-lose scenario for the Conservatives.
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You want to cut the useless program, but you also try and take advantage of it for your community
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because some money is better, some inefficient dollars are better than absolutely nothing
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while your taxpayers are still paying for it. Or you don't take advantage of it, and then you can
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be attacked by saying, look at the millions of dollars you kept from going to your community.
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Now you are not going to be able to resurface the roads around here. Now you're not going to be
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able to build the two houses that the plan tried to build in your area slightly faster. It's one of
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these stupid scenarios where Trudeau, by dumping money into a burning barrel, is trying to bait people
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into accepting some of it before it all goes up in flames. So here's another thing he said that kind
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of puts the highlights exactly what's going on here. Justin Trudeau says, who's going to tell him
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above a Toronto Star headline that says, another Tory MP wants liberal housing money that Pierre
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Polyev has pledged to cut, which also shows that he was full of it. He never said that they supported
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the program. Justin Trudeau said they're going behind his back to say that they don't want the
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program cut. That's not what happened at all. What obviously happened here, which is what the
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Toronto Star headline is hinting at, is they just requested their communities be able to access the money
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that is being spent. That is not support. That is saying that if you're going to spend it, I will
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take some of it. But this is all Justin Trudeau has. This is weak. This is not anything that's going
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to attract voters. Think about how long you'd have to take to explain to a voter why the conservatives
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are hypocrites on this specific issue without spilling the beans that, well, why wouldn't this person
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want the money if it's being spent? This is just not how politics works. The thing is that if the
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government money is going out, an MP's job is to make sure the community isn't cut out from all
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of it. That's why conservative politicians, especially in the West, have tended to disagree
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with equalization. It is taking a disproportionate amount of Alberta's taxpayer dollars and spending it
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in the East. That's why a lot of people will want more taxpayer dollars moved back to Alberta.
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It's not because they think the government spending levels are legitimate. They just want more of it
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being spent in Alberta. Albertans, like myself, want less overall government spending. But we also
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don't want to have to pay taxes, but then also get nothing for it. We will want the maximum we can get
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for our taxpayer dollars if the taxpayer dollars are going to be spent. This is just the weakest thing
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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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