Western Standard - Trudeau may be down, but don't count him out yet

00:00:00.000 you know, slippery like an eel. He's not gone. And I'm going to kind of explain why. I mean,

00:00:04.360 in the polls, he's just, you know, getting decimated. He's easy. It looks like he's going

00:00:08.200 to, you know, his government be wiped out if an election was held tomorrow. The problem is an

00:00:11.140 election, if it's held, is probably going to be two years away. I'll explain why. So let's talk

00:00:16.640 about Canadians. Everybody, everybody's an environmentalist, or at least they are until

00:00:20.440 it comes time to pay the bill. And the tune changes dramatically. So I mean, the Trudeau

00:00:25.280 regime, lately, they've been discovering the hard way that support for the government's

00:00:29.360 continuing with its freefall and public support. Climate change, I mean, it doesn't mean a damn

00:00:33.660 thing to Canadians when they can't make the rent or fill the refrigerator. Canadians are drawing that 0.90

00:00:38.660 link now between the economically damaging climate taxes and policies and the difficulty they're

00:00:43.700 having in making ends meet. And they're taking it out on the federal liberals. A recent polling,

00:00:48.200 though, shows that still 72% of Canadians are concerned about climate change. Concerned, but

00:00:52.920 you know, they aren't dismissing it or whatnot. But when they see, when you measure by what's your top

00:00:58.740 issue, only 5% of Canadians see that as their top issue. It's among the issues, but it's not at the

00:01:03.580 top. Inflation is at the top right now at 20% of Canadians, with healthcare at 14, housing at 13,

00:01:09.920 and the economy at 11. So building windmills while political leaders virtue signal at lavish

00:01:16.860 overseas climate conferences doesn't sit well with Canadians who can't find a family doctor or just one

00:01:22.100 paycheck away from losing their homes. And the Trudeau government stubbornly remains blind to the

00:01:26.840 sentiment of Canadians as it continues to pile on more regulations and taxes, contributing to

00:01:30.940 more inflation. And public support for the liberals continues to collapse. Like I said,

00:01:35.560 if an election was held today, they'd be obliterated. Now, while Canadians are sick and tired of the

00:01:39.820 ineffective liberal policies raising the cost of living, one has to ask, you know, if Canadians are

00:01:44.260 ready to face the austerity that comes with fiscal responsibility. See, among those who polled who felt the

00:01:51.120 country needs to transition away from carbon-based energy generation, only 5% of them felt the price

00:01:57.280 of that transition should be paid by consumers. Well, 32% felt that industry should pay for the price

00:02:04.140 for this transition through taxes and regulations. Another 18% felt the government should have to pay

00:02:09.400 for the changes. Well, a quarter of the respondents felt nothing should be done and the technology will

00:02:14.640 fix things over time. Well, what the vast majority, obviously, of respondents don't seem to understand is

00:02:19.340 they're always ultimately going to be personally paying the bill, no matter which way you do it.

00:02:23.080 There's no magical form of government money generation aside from taxation. Likewise, corporations,

00:02:28.440 they get their funds ultimately from consumers. There's no escaping the fact that individuals

00:02:33.080 eventually end up paying the bill. The only thing people are escaping is reality. Conservative supporters,

00:02:39.560 they have to look at those numbers and remind themselves not to get complacent while the liberal

00:02:43.960 numbers plunge. You see, clearly electors are fed up with the liberal government, but it doesn't mean

00:02:48.040 they're ready to embrace austerity either. In the next election, the Trudeau liberals are going to

00:02:52.520 promise to save the world from climate change. They'll promise citizens they won't have to pay

00:02:56.160 the bill to do so. I mean, it'll be a clear lie, but we have a large segment of the population that

00:03:01.480 would rather be lied to than face the hard realities of what they have to pay for. Trudeau can't seem to

00:03:07.060 go a day without another spending announcement, despite the bleak federal outlook and a huge growing

00:03:12.000 federal deficit. These actions aren't simply fiscal incompetence, though. There's plenty of that to be

00:03:17.280 found in the liberal ranks, but no, this is strategic. What they're doing is establishing

00:03:21.500 programs and getting an ever-increasing number of Canadians dependent upon them. They're spending

00:03:25.980 generations, the next generations of Canadians, into debt to try and buy electoral love, and you know

00:03:30.960 what? It might work. You see, conservatives have to campaign carefully. Calling for the elimination of

00:03:36.620 spending programs and entire government departments might sell well to the conservative base, but remember

00:03:41.260 there's going to be imagery of thousands of people being laid off, and it's going to be tugging at the

00:03:44.500 heartstrings of the Canadian swing voters. Remember, they don't like fiscal reality. They just want more

00:03:49.260 promises and more shiny things. I mean, the conservatives shouldn't give up on campaigning

00:03:53.660 based on fiscal responsibility. This nation desperately needs it, and it'd be disingenuous to

00:03:58.260 hide such intentions while campaigning. They just have to be really careful about it. Canadians need to be

00:04:03.900 eased back into reality. The campaign in the next couple of years needs to be respectfully

00:04:08.540 educational. People need to understand the need for spending restraint and how they're ultimately

00:04:15.040 going to benefit from that. In the early 1990s, we faced double-digit interest rates.

00:04:19.600 That shocked voters into supporting balanced budgets as debt servicing costs exploded, and

00:04:23.700 while Canada's pouring, what, $40, $50 billion a year into debt servicing, the waste of maintaining

00:04:28.140 such a large debt still isn't number one in the minds of many voters, though it should be.

00:04:32.360 Maternal liberals have fostered dependency, complacency, and fiscal ignorance among Canadians during 0.92

00:04:37.240 their term in power. The conservative government, or the conservative up-and-comers, need to reverse

00:04:42.560 that damage, but it's got to be done with care. People are seeing the need to get things back in

00:04:47.320 fiscal order, but they still don't understand that they're ultimately going to have to pay all those

00:04:50.820 bills. Trudeau could conceivably campaign on unicorn power and get away with it in 2025 unless the

00:04:56.540 conservatives have built a voter base of informed realists by then. So until then, guys, don't dance

00:05:02.700 on the grave of the Liberal government yet. Don't take any polls for granted. Like it or not,

00:05:07.860 the Liberals are not out of the picture yet.

Western Standard - December 07, 2023

Trudeau may be down, but don't count him out yet

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