Why Conservatives let the Liberal budget pass?!?
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Summary
Wyatt Claypool talks about the Conservative decision to allow the Liberals to pass their budget and why it's a betrayal of Canadians and why they should have fought the Liberals in the election. He also talks about why the Liberals should have called an election.
Transcript
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In this video today, I want to talk about the political strategy of Pierre Polyev and the Federal Conservative Party
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Because the Conservatives and the NDP both effectively allow the Liberals to pass their budget,
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and it has upset a lot of people online who think that this is somehow a betrayal of Canadians.
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Why would they let this Liberal government go any longer when they could have technically defeated this budget and gone into another election?
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I'm going to tell you guys right away, that's stupid.
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You do not want to be the opposition that forces Canadians into a Christmas election.
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I know a lot of people are putting attention on Shannon Stubbs,
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who is one of the two Conservative MPs who didn't end up voting on the budget.
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People don't care as much about Matt Gennaro because he hasn't been around Parliament for weeks,
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and he's the guy who's planning on resigning in the spring.
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But people have been putting a lot of negative attention on Shannon Stubbs.
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I know there's a story about how she just got a surgery, and that's why she couldn't vote,
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and people are saying, well, that shouldn't matter, or even if that's true, she should vote anyways.
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Sorry, you on the Conservatives to look like the Grinch Party by ruining people's Christmas holidays
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by plunging the country into an election when in many parts of the country it's going to be snowing
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and it's not going to be great for grassroots campaigning at the doors.
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What we need is we need to let the Liberals have a little bit more rope to hang themselves with,
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I do want to get into some stuff around the details of this passing and why it's bad for the Liberals
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because they literally had to team up with Elizabeth May to pass this thing.
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They could have passed it technically without her,
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but it's very clear that they courted her vote in order to get this thing passed
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because they obviously would look stupid if they intentionally lost the vote.
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The Liberals can't trigger the election themselves, or they're the people plunging us into a Christmas election,
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but they bent over backwards for Elizabeth May, which makes them look really radical,
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and as we have negative effects coming out of this budget into the future,
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it's going to be a more opportune time to call an election.
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But I like to think about politics from a military perspective.
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If you hang out with me in public, or sorry, not public, I guess in public,
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but in person, especially behind the scenes in politics,
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I talk about politics like it's a war going on,
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we've got to meet them on the battlefield and spill their blood.
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I mean in terms of like you never charge up a hill at an entrenched enemy.
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You don't have your troops run up a hill towards people
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who all they have to do is sit there and fire back down at you.
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That's basically the metaphorical scenario of the NDP, the conservatives, and the bloc
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defeating this budget and going into another election.
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If you're the conservatives, you want to have a more even ground to fight the liberals on.
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You want them to have to charge up a mountain at you,
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or you want to be able to charge down a hill at them in the valley.
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And that's what it would be if the liberals have a terrible economic update,
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they break another promise, a corruption scandal comes out,
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Right now, not enough Canadians are paying attention to know the budget sucks.
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Yes, but perception is reality for so many people,
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and they don't perceive the budget as being so bad.
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Now, the polling on the budget is not very good.
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but it's going to take a while for those kind of feelings of apprehension
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to turn into I'm not going to vote for the liberals again.
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and then putting them into a Christmas election,
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it's just going to mean that they still are more annoyed with whoever called the election
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than those who put up the shaky-looking budget.
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But again, most people aren't going to have digested that right away.
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There are as good indicators that this budget is not going to be helping the liberals at all.
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We have this poll out from Angus, sorry, not Angus Reid,
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Does the budget make you more or less confident that the federal government has a clear plan
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to grow the economy and make life more affordable and protect people from uncertainty?
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I am more confident than before only scores at 16%.
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Now, yeah, if you add as I'm as confident as I was before,
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But you never know if the confident as I was before line
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could be people who already thought it was terrible
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And then there is a decent amount of I don't knows.
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And then when we actually look at the chart on where people are less confident,
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We have Ontario, 38% people think don't like it,
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So this is one of those, like one of those budgets,
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where it's going to start off at this kind of divisive thing,
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and it's probably going to become less popular over time,
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as it's not actually delivering the benefits that the liberals promise.
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that the liberals ended up having to court Elizabeth May's vote
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because they actually can be slapped as being a very radical government,
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a government who paired up with the most radical member of parliament
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in order to get their budget across the finish line.
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Does the Prime Minister agree that it is a deficiency in the budget,
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that our legally binding Paris commitments are not mentioned?
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the government is committed to holding to as far below two degrees as possible,
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and continuing to engage in meaningful Indigenous reconciliation?
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Mr. Speaker, I'd like to thank the Honourable Member
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for real results for climate, for nature, for reconciliation.
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that we will respect our Paris commitments for climate change,
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that consistent with our Kunming-Montreal commitments,
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the nature strategy will release in the coming weeks.
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We will build this country strong, sustainable,
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I'm using the Green Party's own clipping of it.
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The Greens took this as the win, as a win for them.
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Even though technically Carney didn't need her vote,
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and they promised to not get rid of any of them.
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that's going to be hurting the Liberals quite a bit.
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because again, although they didn't trigger an election,
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it's not hypocritical for them to condemn the budget
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At some point, you're just going to look like a pest
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if you don't let the government operate at all.
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Mark Carney's budget will drive up the cost of living
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says, but this is something many people repeated.
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after supposedly experiencing technical problems,
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and they pretended they had technical difficulties