SMT -- The Changing Mood In Ottawa

You only have to be away from Ottawa for a few weeks to sense things have changed. Like the mood and the tone of the Parliament Hill community. It seems the polls have had an impact on the feel of the place. Bruce joins for SMT and there's lots to talk about.
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[@glennfoote3136]

I don’t see where Canadians are backing away from climate change. People are backing away from the notion that the carbon tax is the best way to fight climate change. Smaller government and a system that rewards using technology to reduce emissions while lowering costs is the approach that most Canadians want to see.

[@louisventer2218]

The whole fight against climate change is a farce. Canada has less than 1.5% of the global carbon emissions, while China, Russia, India and the rest of the "third world countries contribute more than 70 %. Even if we are at 0% it will not change a thing.

[@libshastra]

I've moved away from carbon tax. It is efficient but it's not at all effective. US has no carbon tax and emissions there has dropped to 1980s level. Ours has increased despite the tax and it's getting to the point that is impacting our economy.

[@JulietMartin2022]

Aside from Trudeau’s overspending and ballooning Bank of Canada interest rates, carbon taxes are the next greatest contributor to inflation. The Trudeau government has lead to record breaking levels of poverty and homelessness in Canada yet he continues to welcome over half a million foreigners each year in attempts to buy votes.

[@socksrwooly]

As a farmer, you can not tell me that Pierre is wrong about carbon tax inflating cost of food. Chicken farms have been paying $25000-$35000 in carbon tax alone. Are you saying that wouldn't increase food prices? Shipping by rail has gone up 400% due to carbon pricing, how did that not increase my grain prices?

[@pt93music]

Shhhh you're not supposed to speak facts amongst the Laurentian Elite liberal cheerleaders.

[@Dimcle]

97% of farm equipment fuels are exempt already. Farmers get tax credits for the carbon taxes they pay. The govt. has forked over $500 million to help farmers switch to more efficient grain dryers. Are the figures you're using including the tax credits or not?

[@socksrwooly]

@@Dimcle gas and desiel are exempt. Thats not 90%. There is the carbon tax we pay for transportation of goods (on our farm that was $800 alone) There is propane and natural gas for heating and drying. Farmers also get the bill for the increased costs of fertilizer processing and transportation, as well as seed production and transportation ($18000- $30000) I like how people think farming is just driving a tractor 🤣 Thats not 90% that isn't even 10% of our expenses carbon tax exempt. But please tell me again how 97% of farm carbon tax is exempt? After it leaves our farms it travels by rail (which currently is up 400% in cost), to a processer that uses energy, that increases food price again. Then the storage areas that heat and cool, they also will pass down costs to the consumer. But everyone is so sure that carbon tax isn't increasing cost of food. I want to know, is it lack of education how food is made? Or lack of knowledge how expenses are passed down to the consumer?

[@dava00007]

@@Dimcle You city folks are funny! Either way, someone has to pay the price for those fabulous grain dryers and the carbon tax is not like the GST, people pay it at all levels of the process, so in the end the tax payer pays the sum total of every levels of production, transport, storage, the repair shops and what not that is involved in the process one way or another. Then we need to shell money to the government so that they pay for the upgrade of every single farmers. If the price was worth it they would have upgraded their grain dryer, wouldn't you think?

[@Dimcle]

@@socksrwooly I asked my questions in good faith, and appreciate the info you provided, but where did I say that 97% of the CT is exempt? You might want to reread my post.

[@Griff1984]

Oh boy did Trudeau step in it yesterday. Riding the fence for votes in the Israel Hamas conflict has consequences. On the climate front it's nice to see Peter acknowledge it is low priority for Canadians right now. I would also challenge Bruce to explain how PP is misrepresenting the carbon tax.

[@pt93music]

Don’t hold your breath for that bag of wind to have anything of substance to say on Pierre. All he’s got is “orange man bad” energy.

[@Griff1984]

Well Bruce has stated he has lived in Ottawa for 40 years...explains a lot of his thinking to me.

[@sgtspazz4321]

Too many Canadians are sick and tired of him, his poorly thought out legislation (Bills C16, C21 etc), his spendthrift government and his progressive cabinet. Where is the upside of tolerating him any longer? That said Canadians almost always punt the sitting government after this long. As Mr. T said, "I pity the fool!"

[@chrislarsen1033]

How can so many talking heads not understand what’s going on. Trudeau has been unmitigated disasters for Canada and Canadians .

[@mashmash7877]

Ignorant biased guest. Thank you Peter for acknowledging the Conservatives have been more popular the last 2 elections

[@the_ikiru]

Is that the delusion in Ottawa? Super interesting. Bruce should spend more time outside Ottawa if so.

[@Sydkik]

I couldn't believe my ears. To even suggest pierre has no experience to be PM !!! Is ludicrous. The Liberals pulled a drama teacher from his classroom, and got him voted in on his name, looks and socks. He has screwed up every step of the way and shown why he was a drama teacher. Anyone who knows math and tried to run a household, would never say a budget would balance itself. That's just an idiot.

[@steve6074]

This morning, when I stood up from the throne, I polled what will happen to the liberal party, the results were unequivocal: a quick ride down the shit slide.

[@oldtimer7979]

All Canadians firmly believe the environment and stewardship is very very important, however, more and more Canadians are coming to understanding there is no link between anthropogenic CO2 emissions and climate change. Liberal and ND policies are all built upon their climate scientology house of cards and it is crumbling.

[@louisventer2218]

The whole fight against climate change is a farce. Canada has less than 1.5% of the global carbon emissions, while China, Russia, India and the rest of the "third world countries contribute more than 70 %. Even if we are at 0% it will not change a thing!

[@handyman1001]

Liberals that feel Pierre lacks experience makes me laugh when you consider they have saddled us with the bobble-head drama teacher that has been "leading" us down the big porcelin bowl for the past 8 years...

[@socksrwooly]

This 100%

[@chrisharroun276]

Watching these 2 coping and minimizing the impending tidal wave is pure entertainment.... Get out of your GTA/Ottawa bubble........

[@jmiller2934]

I feel this conversation would improve if somebody wasn’t inside the bubble.

[@micksylvestre2887]

The best news reporters aim to remain neutral, which is how we should be when dealing with politics; yet, we unfortunately drive either hard right or hard left without understanding the history of Canadian politics and policy.

[@stubblejumper9807]

Try to drive an electric vehicle across the prairies in the middle of winter when its 35 below zero see how far you get.

[@jayshahu]

2 liberal elite hacks telling me how I should think and how I should vote

[@gordm3527]

Trudeau embodies the line from Batman: The Dark Knight movie: “you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain”. He’s stayed too long and now he has become the villain. Great show!

[@aljones74]

My daughters 5 year mortgage is up for renewal in 2025 like many other Canadians . Her current rate is 2.25 % . There's a good chance she won't get anything close to that low rate . This will be bad news for her and the Liberal government .

[@RoquetSynce]

Inflation is a global issue, not a Liberal issue. And definitely not isolated to CANADA. No one saw wars and a once in a 100 year pandemic coming. Although we should have because I distinctly remember 2019 saying to 2018 "Oh ya? Hold my beer".

[@JulietMartin2022]

Your daughter is one of the lucky ones. Many folks we know are helping their kids pay their mortgages or having them move back home into their basements.

[@alanj9978]

Only about 20% of eligible voters voted for the Liberals in 2021. So it's reasonable to think that anywhere from 67% to 80% of voters would always want a change in government.

[@lizlevesque5547]

Ahhh. Liberal tears. It never gets old.

[@daleodberg6714]

Thank you. 🌸

[@JulietMartin2022]

Peter, I’ve been tuning into your podcast since the beginning. I remember when you had that beep back then and I remember joking that it was aliens listening in. So much of Bruce’s spin on his polling numbers is detached from reality. This episode really struck me regarding your unshakable liberalism. I voted liberal consistently over the past four decades. (I’m aging myself) Peter, you’re right about assuming everyone “cares” about our environment. That being said, “climate change” is a luxury issue. Under 8 years of Trudeau, young people cannot move out of their parents’ basements and seniors cannot pay their rent, buy groceries and meds. No one I know is considering buying a new Tesla. When Bruce says Pierre Poilievre doesn’t have enough experience to be PM, I laughed out loud. Trudeau’s resume indicates that he was a drama teacher prior to stepping into the PM “role”. Pierre has over twenty years of experience in Canadian and international politics. Really wish your podcast would fairly represent the TRUTH and not just the SMOKE and MIRRORS.

[@albertalakeland]

It would be great to have you discuss the NWT provincial government election model, which does not permit parties.

[@maxinearmstrong9566]

Bruce Anderson … the Liberals have done a good job on this … thus… this….this. These two are so totally baffled …”Why don’t people want Liberals anymore?” They can’t remove their Liberal blinders.

[@stephenletts4942]

Replacing Liberals with Pierre Poilievre will do what exactly? I don't see much variation from what Stephen Harper/ Preston Manning led Party. i just don't see a religious right party solving any of Canadas problems. Poilievre has no constitutional experience and his relationship with first Nations is laughable. He is living in Ottawa while he is supporting Alberta with Oil Agenda.

[@socksrwooly]

​@@stephenletts4942really? You can't tell the difference 8n economy from 8 years ago? The crime levels 8 years ago, the interest rates 8 years ago? That is too bad.

[@codacious141]

Peter: the conservatives are polling over 200 seats. Bruce: …so you’re sayin’ there’s a chance!?!?…

[@treblecharged]

Bruce playing the same hits week after week

[@shanedinapoli2240]

Really love listening to you guys to understand rational liberal oriented members. Where I think liberals have a blind spot regarding climate is the hard reality is that any successful climate policy has to be economically sensible and honest. The carbon tax implementation and messaging did not line up with what people experienced and that type of dishonesty via selective messaging and application of policy ie Atlantic Canada is destroying trust in federal stewardship. There is a public trust that has to be of utmost importance if the climate movement is to be seen as sincere. It comes across as pandering which eventually results in disenfranchised and fragmented voters.

[@louisventer2218]

The whole fight against climate change is a farce. Canada has less than 1.5% of the global carbon emissions, while China, Russia, India and the rest of the "third world countries contribute more than 70 %. Even if we are at 0% it will not change a thing!

[@davidheipel2934]

Ask the polar bears how climate change is going there's plenty to get an opinion from. Now we just have to get a handle on those arsonists.

[@jeffcox7015]

I think Poiliever is going to be a great Prime Minister.

[@relaxgood5214]

About one or two years of a Conservative Majority will wake some people up just a little.

[@jamesryan8091]

David Brooks in the States says that early leads is more an angry response to pollsters about current leadership, but not a voting choice.

[@jimloth6091]

Time for a walk in the snow...

[@davidheipel2934]

Paddle that surfboard out to sea looking for that wave 🌊

[@kevinomahony4139]

Two old time Liberals crying into their beer wondering why Trudeau's "investments" in battery plants aren't connecting with voters and why the Liberals are in a funk. Who wants to tell them?

[@michealmullin9067]

i do not think EV sales are a made in Canada policy? im not sure what policy has made them popular here in Canada. is it not folks like Telsa doing this?

[@christinadoerner6257]

saying Pierre P has no experience is laughable.. compared to a drama teacher that only ran on his last name

[@androidrandom9979]

Polievre is NOT WRONG about the hated Carbon Tax. The moment you live outside of a Laurentian (read: elitist) mind bubble or economic insulation, you would see the stark lines unmistakably connecting the dots between the acceleration of your household misery and the Liberals' absurd taxes-on-taxes-on-taxes. This is palpable to us normies, irrespective of Poilievre's pointing it out.

[@dava00007]

Just a note on "peak oil", when I was a kid I saw a documentary from around the 50s (some of those old American information bubbles) that said we had 40 years left. Either way, we have reached it already in the sense that it costs more and more (efforts, time, money) to extract the ressource from the ground and that's not going to change as we have tapped all the easy oil already. On the other hand, we can get our electric cars (as I did) and make sure we don't use coal and other fossil fuels too much. The truth is that I suspect we are only slowing down the process, at some point these resources will be needed by someone and they will go extract it, thankfully we will have saved it for them with all the co2 reduction measures. As you said also, that small footprint of Canada, that's relevant, very relevant because if the important players are not doing the best they can there really is no point in taking the lead (Germany did, they did it the wrong way with wind and they they are paying the price, it did not work AND they pay crazy prices for their energy). Then on the other hand for all the emission control efforts we made in the last 20/30 years out Asian friends just made tree times as much... so globally there is more Co2, and the occidental countries emit less than before.

[@thegreatdominion949]

If a former cabinet minister and the current leader of the official opposition isn't qualified to become PM, then where does that leave Justin who had no government experience of any kind prior to 8 years ago?

[@glenngrams2928]

People have finally come to realize that Sir Sox of Sussex is nothing more than a pair of empty socks.

[@socksrwooly]

I do really want to know how people think food prices are not effected by carbon tax! Is it lack of education about the steps in farming? Is it the lack of education about cumulative costs as goods go down our system? It is really interesting to me, as everything bought for the farm comes with its own heafty added carbon tax addition

[@user-ew4xw8vx3l]

Well, it was my first time watching and came away thinking that neither of you have a nice thing to say about Poilievre, but often you both cut Trudeau a lot of slack. Trudeau is the one making the world not trust Canada and breaking the law often.

[@goldenyogis]

Peter, I'm such a fan and a new listener to this podcast. But... maybe add some new voices to the mix? Bruce is about as old-school, establishment Ottawa as you can get. Dude is completely self interested in maintaining the status quo. And maybe that's a bit of your own bias as well - having a bit of a contrast would be something to consider. Also, it's such a lazy cop out to constantly blame social media for deterioration in the political sphere. Fox News and MSNBC are not social media and I think they have done more to fuel the demise of trust in media and political debate than most. That doesn't even mention the crazy press environment in the UK. The point is that humankind doesn't need social media to be complete jerks. Any megaphone will do.

[@babsharris6724]

Yes we do want Poliverre for PM 100 %

[@sumeshjoseph2471]

Canada need to get rid of drama teacher 😮

[@theodorestinson50]

Lol the cope from this man “Trudeau is really doing a good job he’s doing all the right policies it’s just the people that arnt paying attention to them guys, really”

[@ashyashmom9020]

I really wish someone could explain how climate change causes natural disasters instead of just saying "everyone agrees, why can't you fall in line."

[@glenwallace8152]

Spoken like a true Liberal.

[@eaglesview1946]

The next time the subject is Climate Change consider a thread along the line of the following. Elizabeth May,as I understand a past member of the IPCC in some capacity has often said the science is clear. This statement leads me to believe that the reference to “science” implies some quantitative evidence. Currently atmospheric levels of CO2 are +/- 420 ppm. Thus I ask the question with replacement oh hydrocarbon sourced energy with alternate sustainable energy sources, carbon sequestration projects such as that in Red Water Alberta, what is the target CO2 level we are striving for. 375ppm? 350 ppm? The clarity of the science should be obliged to put out such a value. Or otherwise are we being duped?

[@gabriellevillecourt5777]

Yes we are all being dupe

[@philcharles238]

I think the problem is that the Trudeau government is a "peacetime" government, and we've moved into a "wartime" period. People were ok with dealing with climate and apologies in 2015-17 because things were generally good, but the world has gone to shit in the past couple of years, and the Trudeau government never adapted.

[@davidheipel2934]

Bring mean tweets back the Middle East was trending towards tolerance. Since the West has taken to Liberal governments we have high inflation Division and violence on national and international levels. There's a lot going on that the media doesn't report. You might wonder what's happening in Spain?

[@davidheipel2934]

The peacetime ended through that style of governance.

[@lyndawatson8312]

Who do you praise makes me wonder with that comment.

[@bradzimmerman3171]

Yeah we wonder about you to lynda

[@lyndawatson8312]

@bradzimmerman3171 well I don't make it sound like I'm for Trudope

[@AS-qg1xu]

You both forgot that Trudeau elbowed a woman in parliament????

[@wellypet]

The media doesn't cover Trudeau when he's announcing work the government is doing for us, but they cover Poilievre rage-farming constantly. What a surprise that the Canadian public has the response that they are groomed to have.

[@socksrwooly]

Can you tell me the rage farming? Truthfully, who do you think is more approachable? The man who said that disagreeing with federal policy is wrong, or a man who comes to your door with a hug and a smile?

[@ashyashmom9020]

If you are going to talk about American politics, at least know what you are talking about: Sanders called the teamster as a witness. They didn't 'disagree about something", the guy threatened the senator online and the senator called him out for it.....your bias is very evident...

[@RoquetSynce]

Hey Peter. I can see why you tend to stay away from the comments. All I see are bots and messages from people where Canadian English is clearly not their first language (thanks to the Russian, Chinese, Iranians, etc who're spending so much time trying to sway public opinion in a country where they don't live). Have you thought about turning off the comments entirely?

[@AS-qg1xu]

Justin, is that you?

[@RoquetSynce]

@@AS-qg1xu Oh look. A KZbin troll... Nothing better to do AS-qg1xu?? Lol. Tw@t.

[@gabriellevillecourt5777]

Oh yeah the old excuse that it is the Russian trolls commenting here...lol...You just can't face the reality that it is in fact Canadians who are really sick of Trudeau...

[@RoquetSynce]

@@gabriellevillecourt5777 rather be sick of Trudeau than dying of a Poilievre.