"Uncharacteristically Clever" | Curse of Politics

[@guelphmortgagebroker]

Great discussion. I wait for these every week. Well done.

[@gailg2327]

Scott was funny tonight (I mean in a good way) and he (everyone) made some fine points tonight, enjoyable episode.Thank you.

[@maximbudnick]

Please cover the SDTC scandal! Its crazy more Canadians do not know whats going on. Thanks for entertaining convo!

[@Sam19509]

Harper created the SDTC.😂😂

[@MrLeeforce]

@@Sam19509He did. Now the criminal liberals have used it to funnel money into companies they own shares in

[@karinturkington2455]

People don't need or want programs. They want money of their own that they can spend as they see fit. I worked in one of these food programs deciding what people will eat. It disempowers individual choice.

[@karinturkington2455]

Kory seems to cut through the bullshit. I listen to him.

[@Sam19509]

Lol he was co-captain of the sinking Harper ship that gave Trudeau his first majority. 😂😂

[@DieselPowerLifter]

@@Sam19509 governments have a shelf life, Harper reached the end of his. Hurley was copilot running Wynnes govt into the ground. Such is politics. Those Harper days were brutal I have to admit. All that affordable housing, price stability, and economic growth was too much to bare…

[@CraigKovatch]

KZbin recommended your podcast a few weeks ago. I'm hooked. I really hope that when the writ is dropped you'll increase the episodes to a couple of times a week. By far the best podcast covering Canadian politics. Now every time I see Scott on CTV I'm anticipating an F-bomb.

[@Griff1984]

Jordan could sell her 'Hey You' if the confrontation was an isolated incident. The 'Hey Bro, Come at Me' moment a few days later shows a pattern for Singh that he might be a little bit of a hothead. Edit: Shoutout to DJ Prime.

[@pt93music]

Singh thinks he can mould into the “tough guy fighter, who is there to fight for YOU!” Role and it’s the best joke I’ve ever seen 😂

[@Griff1984]

@@pt93music IMHO Singh and Trudeau are DOA. Nothing can save them next election.

[@Griff1984]

@@pt93music Trudeau and Singh are both done, its been obvisious for a year + now.

[@stratford374]

Lol. You guys are all so transparent. 10 bucks said if Poilievre had acted a tough guy you would be circle jerking and remixing that clip for weeks. God, the guy ate an apple you collectively splooged your pants thinking it was the greatest thing ever. You just hate that Singh looked strong and stood up to keyboard warriors like yourselves. Lol. Get wrektd, bro!

[@stratford374]

@@Griff1984 Ah, another episode of Curse of Politics and another day seeing the same troglodytes obsessing over Jordan. Guys. She's married with kids and isn't interested in any of you mouth breathing neck beards.

[@pt93music]

Implying Stephen Colbert is cool is really showing your age and tone deafness Scott 😂

[@Griff1984]

As a child of the 90s nobody beat Letterman. The late night shows don't have it anymore IMHO.

[@pt93music]

@@Griff1984 Colbert in 2000 would be mortified of what happened to Colbert in 24. The dirt they must have on that man is long.

[@Griff1984]

@@pt93music With whats going on with Diddy it would not surprise me. That goes for anyone in Hollyweird.

[@pt93music]

@@Griff1984 yup. And a certain PM of a country above the USA was known to frequent a notorious island as well. I’m sure there’s no connection whatsoever… 😂

[@stratford374]

​@@pt93music Man you guys are delusional. Colbert has been ideologically consistent for the last 25 years. He didn't suddenly become woke. He just used to pretend to be conservative to mock then. It's called satire. And Trudeau was not on Epstein's flight logs. That nutter Theo Fleury tweeted he was but that doesn't make it true, despite what you smooth brains want to be true. But Trump was sure on it! Dozens of times!

[@jacktoulouse5390]

Jordan said the liberals have made significant changes to their immigration policy - they have not. Immigration is up 300%. They’ve committed to almost no real reductions. They capped international students at the all time high number. Immigration numbers themselves remain unchanged. International mobility worker numbers remain unchanged. And they hinted at a small change to temporary foreign workers - maybe 10% if I remember. There is quite literally nothing to advertise.

[@raguthanabalasingam2166]

Even the Century Iniative wanted 1% per year max of immigration. We are to closer 4%. Totally irresponsible numbers.

[@Sam19509]

@@raguthanabalasingam2166immigration #s had to go up because Trudeau rolled back the retirement age to 65 from the 67 Harper raised it to. Trudeau also enhanced CPP & doubled GIS for low income Seniors.

[@raguthanabalasingam2166]

@@Sam19509 CPP is fully funded. That is why rate of contribution for CPP1 is much higher than CPP2. OAS and GIS are funded from general revenue. OAS was increased for people over 75. One of the goals of Enhanced CPP, 25% wage replacement to 33%, was ensure less people without pension/RRSP qualified for GIS in the future.

[@sharonlott1986]

So this being Wednesday, Trudeau has been on Colbert. All softball questions lobbed at Trudeau and he managed to get Colbert to disparage Pierre as Trump light. No surprise here.

[@kellyclark2806]

The word Scott was looking for (I think) is "alliteration": the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

[@CarolynL-n3r]

Cory is absolutely right bike lanes are a huge voting issue in Toronto. If you don't LIVE in Toronto you don't understand. One can not go anywhere in Toronto unless you have hours and hours to sit in traffic. To fully understand and THEN comment on bike lanes you are invited to come and witness the horrendous traffic on Bloor street which extends all the way from downtown to Etobicoke. Etobicoke is a basically a suburb of Toronto and Bloor is reduced to 2 lanes resulting in no way for emergency vehicles to get by (i.e. safety issue). It takes 25 mins or more to go a couple blocks and merchants on Bloor Street also want the bike lanes gone. Lots of seniors and they DO NOT bike in neighbourhood ... no SURPRISE! So YES YOU GO FORD and pass the bike lane legislation. There will be throngs of people cheering if it happens.

[@sharonlott1986]

Bike lanes on Woodbine in East York are barely used and have caused major congestion. Same with bike lanes on the Danforth.

[@sheilaenglish9738]

Yay for Scott correcting David’s pronunciation of Quinte.

[@paulvmediaguy]

I have this strange feeling that Trudeau is about to resign. I had this same feeling about Brian M the day before he quit

[@jayebzzz338]

I don’t think so- his God complex won’t allow himself to step down. He truly believes he is the only one who can save Canada, and will never understand Canada needs saving because of him.

[@DieselPowerLifter]

He rides it till the wheels have fallen off and the frame is skidding on the asphalt.

[@stevebuchanan4806]

Agree. The way things feel right now, the miriod of unanswered questions for possible scenarios forward .... Even this Langivan inner sanctum can't be so incompetent than to know what's coming.

[@Sam19509]

He wants his tombstone to read he was PM of Canada from 2015-2025. I predict he will announce he is dropping his re-election bid around March (March break great time for another family vacation) and will stay on as Liberal Leader and PM in the House till the Liberal Party completes a defacto Leadership race to replace him. This way he can bank more days serving as PM above Harper on the official Ledger.😂😂

[@MrLeeforce]

I also encourage Jagmeets fake tough guy routine. Every time he does it makes him look weaker, and weaker and completely ridiculous. It’s hilarious and everyone should see it.

[@Mitchd1337]

Why are we talking about the NDP. They will never gain power ever. At best they could become the official opposition and that’s it and not with strong supporting numbers. If Poilièvre would simply talk like a statesman and tell the public what they want for Canada. Explain that most of us want something different and to take the country in a different direction.

[@Sam19509]

Lol the NDP can form Government if they remove Singh as Leader and replace him with someone who can win seats in Quebec like Jack Layton or Thomas Mulcair. The NDP jumped the gun removing Mulcair as Leader because they were pissed Trudeau did something they never could go from third party to a majority government in one election cycle.😂😂

[@babsharris6724]

Wrong as all hills get canelled

[@stuckinlodi100]

"Cdns put a large measure of trust in our banks." This might be the equivalent of saying Cdns have put any trust in Pablo Rodriguez or even know who he is? I lived in Ottawa for years and thought he was just a lazy page.

[@Sam19509]

Nice hair for his age though.😂

[@Sam19509]

What is Jordan drinking?😂😂

[@raguthanabalasingam2166]

Goodbye Charlie Brown

[@karinturkington2455]

Provinces approach healthcare and housing in different ways. We're not the same. Doug Ford would never get on a bike or live in a multiplex housing situation. Some of us have no choice.

[@marusiagryba5513]

Absolutely not. PMJT does not need to apologize for spending Christmas with a life long friend who happens to be very wealthy His father PET came from a wealthy family ergo they had wealthy friends The real story here is that this family were life long friends of PET and now are life long friends of PMJT . The fact that PMJT has lifelong friends tells me something positive about his character. Besides Michael Cooper who are PP friends? This tells me something about PP’s character which is negative and scary.

[@socksrwooly]

The issue is the favors that come next, Trudeau has been caught many times with sole source contracts and big money for friends

[@goldenyogis]

Love how Jordan's 'very demure, very mindful' comment went totally over these old guys' heads, lol. Not as keen on Jagmeet's 'come at me, bro' energy. Once with that protester was fine. But then peddling it for political points and doing more of it is not on. At a certain point, he starts to look like the bully.