The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - 194+ names on Pierre's by-election ballot & Carney LIED about building pipelines!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. On the show today, there are a few topics that I want to tackle.

00:00:06.600 Going over the longest ballot committee shenanigans in Battle River Crowfoot,

00:00:11.660 Mark Carney effectively fully backing off his promises to get a pipeline done,

00:00:16.280 and then I also want to discuss a topic at the end that a lot of people do not know about at all,

00:00:22.280 but if you're in British Columbia, you will want to hear about, and that is the massive debt issues

00:00:28.900 going on inside the BC Conservative Party. But we will start from the top, first going over the 194

00:00:38.400 plus candidate ballot that is in the Battle River Crowfoot by-election, where Pierre Polyev is

00:00:45.380 running to get a seat back in Parliament. This is obviously stupid. We have talked about the story 1.00

00:00:52.580 in previous videos. I had always been saying 120 candidates, 130 candidates, because these are the

00:00:59.460 reasonable, reasonable numbers that had been thrown out of where people thought the ballot was going

00:01:05.540 to finish. And unbeknownst to myself, we have completely shattered those numbers, and now the

00:01:12.500 ballot is at 194 names as I currently speak. We are about to go look at what that ballot currently looks

00:01:21.120 like, at least on the Elections Canada website. But first, I actually do want to plug the investigation

00:01:26.960 that Northern Perspectives released yesterday. Ryan did a fantastic job showing how this is probably

00:01:35.600 illegal. I would say it's definitely illegal, because they are going to candidates, people that may be

00:01:43.000 candidates, haven't put their names forward yet, haven't decided if they want to run, and say,

00:01:46.480 don't worry, we've already collected your signatures for you, which means that they were falsely getting

00:01:53.060 people to sign papers for people who were not running. No names were on the list as people were

00:01:58.820 signing for candidates that did not yet exist, and that seems to probably violate a few regulations

00:02:06.020 of the Canada Elections Act. But what do I know? Maybe this is all above board. It is telling that the

00:02:12.840 Liberal Party has not dealt with this. And by the way, I will be linking the Northern Perspectives

00:02:17.000 video from yesterday in the description below. Guys, go check that out if you want to watch it,

00:02:21.820 or you're probably subscribed to them, just go check it out on their own channel. Again, very,

00:02:26.380 very good investigative work by them. But it's telling that the Liberals have not fixed this.

00:02:31.320 This would take approximately five seconds to fix. In fact, they could have fixed it during the spring

00:02:37.400 session of Parliament, because Damien Couric didn't resign his seat so that Polioff could run in the

00:02:43.540 by-election until the end of spring session. This wasn't like something where they had to call

00:02:48.500 the by-election midway through the session, so there wasn't enough time to change the law.

00:02:53.120 This is something that could be easily changed through just a single line, a Canada Elections Act

00:03:00.560 basically saying that one guy cannot be the financial agent, he cannot be the official agent

00:03:06.880 or the every single candidate. That's not, you can't have the same guy being the financial agent

00:03:13.360 and the official agent, whatever agent, or the candidates. Very simple. And the Liberals would

00:03:19.820 not do it. There's some other edits you could also make to it to also prevent other schemes from

00:03:24.700 taking place that don't actually restrict reasonable people from trying to run. But the Liberals,

00:03:30.220 I think, deliberately did not want to tackle this issue despite them being called on to do it,

00:03:35.440 not just by the Conservative Party, but also the, I believe, not the CEO, but it's like the

00:03:40.560 Commissioner of Elections Canada. He stood up in a parliamentary committee holding up the

00:03:45.420 ridiculous ballot that was in, I'm not even sure if it was the Carleton one, it might have just been

00:03:49.920 the Toronto St. Paul or LaSalle Amard Verdun one, saying that this cannot go on. And that's back when 0.56

00:03:56.140 the ballot was like, you know, almost a meter long. The ballot in Carleton was a meter long.

00:04:03.180 One of the guys from the longest ballot committee made a joke about posing with the ballot, showing

00:04:08.860 that if he taped it onto his wall, it was in fact longer than he was, which also does demonstrate

00:04:13.820 that he might be a pretty short guy. But this is the current list of candidates. And you'll notice

00:04:21.020 that when you look at name of official agent, you know, reasonable candidates in terms of not joke

00:04:26.900 candidates, although like I very heavily disagree with the politics of Grant Abraham, you have Rita

00:04:32.820 Moore as the official agent. You go down a little bit more here. Let's try to find a different name.

00:04:37.300 You know, Pierre Polyev, his official agent is Scott Coleman. Okay, cool. But you'll notice a lot of

00:04:43.560 these Thomas names. And this is not a very big family. And these are all unique Thomases. These

00:04:49.500 are this is a single Thomas doing all of this. And the good thing is he has a unique spelling of his

00:04:54.880 name, Thomas. So if I just look up Thomas without the T H, it's a T O M A S Thomas. There is 185 results

00:05:04.220 when I do a command F. And when I actually counted all the names on the list, which was not easy,

00:05:11.720 because they're not numbered, there was 194 candidate names. And by the way, there is still

00:05:19.140 a few more days to register more candidates. And by the way that these people have been going about

00:05:25.100 it, I have no doubt they may be able to get it up to 200. Since again, based on what Northern

00:05:30.700 Perspectives has reported, based on the emails that the longest ballot committee are sending to their

00:05:36.140 own prospective candidates, they're telling them we already have your signatures. So what they are

00:05:40.480 seemingly doing is just getting a bunch of people in the writing to sit down and just sign, you know,

00:05:45.260 their name, their signature to lists for like an hour, just sign it 250 times. And then so we can

00:05:53.240 just keep handing out more finished pieces of paperwork to people who may want to run out in

00:05:58.460 Montreal. And they'll just go to some sort of way of like a register or whatever, to be able to sign

00:06:03.840 that piece of paper and scan it back. It's stupid. But whatever. I guess this is a democracy in Canada 1.00

00:06:11.460 right now. We couldn't somehow solve this. Liberals needed this to go on. And again, this is extremely

00:06:16.780 abusive to people with mobility issues, to the people who having to count ballots, people with

00:06:21.400 sight issues, having to sign a ballot, which by the way, was one meter when it was almost 100 candidates

00:06:28.560 in poly of the writing. That was 91. It is currently more than double that right now. And it might get

00:06:33.760 past 200. So this is going to be a two meter long ballot, because there are regulations to how big the

00:06:42.180 bubbles have to be to how prominent the names have to be, as reasonable ballots should, you can't make

00:06:47.640 one person's name like extremely small, or, you know, basically mess with the the coloring between

00:06:53.400 names, everything has to be done a very specific way. You can't just say, well, more people want to vote for

00:06:58.040 poly of them, a bunch of these joke candidates. So make his name bigger. You can't do that. Everything must be

00:07:02.720 done in this way. I guess over time, the people are going to that are marking the like counting the ballots

00:07:09.680 are going to figure out what the bubbles are that people fill in the most. So they'll go down to poly of

00:07:14.120 bubble first, and then they'll go to maybe then the liberal candidates next, and then they'll go to Bonnie

00:07:18.860 Crickley's bubble after that. But the whole thing has been made a complete farce out of and by the way, there are

00:07:25.520 small independent candidates who are serious. And now they look like a bunch of idiots, because 1.00

00:07:30.780 they're on the ballot with a bunch of people who are signing their names to this who live in Toronto 1.00

00:07:35.440 or Montreal, or they're on Prince Edward Island, or they're in the Yukon, whatever, whatever. Okay,

00:07:42.820 we can move on from that issue. And by the way, guys, if you like the show, do make sure to subscribe

00:07:47.960 to the channel, you know, like the video, leave a comment. What do you think about all this? I

00:07:53.700 genuinely think we're at the point where you could criminally charge these people. And that would not

00:07:58.020 at all be wrong. So we need to now move on to Mark Carney, obviously breaking his promise

00:08:05.300 to build a pipeline to get major projects done. This was announced on the CBC's power and politics

00:08:12.660 on the weekend. So it's not David Cochran hosting. But we have this host announcing that the Carney

00:08:19.300 Liberal government, and notice how this wasn't a press release by the Carney Liberals. This was not

00:08:24.440 an announcement where Carney came out and put his own face to this commitment. They're slowly sliding

00:08:31.400 this out because it's obviously not a good thing. Just like him slowly trying to downplay the fact that

00:08:37.120 he's not going to get a good trade deal signed with the Americans. He's now slowly trying to leak out

00:08:41.460 the idea that he's not going to get any major energy projects done. So check this out.

00:08:46.320 Mark Carney has offered reassurances plans for major projects won't violate modern treaties.

00:08:51.820 This comes amid Carney's push to assure Indigenous leaders there will be full consultation on major

00:08:57.280 projects. It fully respects treaty-based environmental assessment processes. In fact, those will be

00:09:06.400 essential for anything that we move forward.

00:09:09.780 Just drop that in the middle of a press conference. Nothing really to it. Yeah, what he said there, and he said

00:09:15.720 in the most boring way possible, where the media had to interpret what he was saying as rightfully so,

00:09:21.520 that he's not going to get any projects done. He's going to go through the full consultation.

00:09:24.840 Obviously, the CBC didn't say it in the partisan way I'm saying it, but I'm saying it in the real way,

00:09:30.200 and what this actually means. A full consultation means potentially years before a project can even

00:09:37.880 get approved. And a project being approved doesn't mean shovels in the ground the next day. It means

00:09:42.340 that we can start the process of actually, you know, making, getting permits and whatnot to put

00:09:47.720 shovels in the ground. Because you're not going to permit a project and then make them go through

00:09:51.400 the consultations. They had to go through the consultations first. And then there's still going

00:09:54.780 to be eco-activists challenging them or trying to hold up the projects in their own irregular ways. 1.00

00:09:59.500 This is stupid. And by the way, now, this is actually something I didn't predict. But Wob Canu 0.98

00:10:05.760 is now also saying that he will not approve a pipeline without indigenous approval, without

00:10:12.900 indigenous consultation. I have to go find this clip. I think I ended up burying it on myself.

00:10:21.480 This was one of those things where I actually thought he was maybe going to be somewhat serious

00:10:25.200 about trying to get a pipeline built to Hudson's Bay. But immediately, he's pulled

00:10:29.400 back on that and says he's no longer wanting to do it. Can I find the clip here?

00:10:35.460 If I cannot find the clip, I don't think it matters too much. But you can take my word for it. I did,

00:10:40.120 in fact, see that. But we're not getting anything done. Oh, and by the way, do you know

00:10:45.200 something else that popped up yesterday?

00:10:47.880 This story right here. Thank you for Alberta Secession Y for posting this. Quote,

00:10:58.300 Canada's indigenous communities are seeking deals with China that could give Beijing access to the

00:11:04.680 country's natural resources. Canadian indigenous groups seek deals with China despite security fears.

00:11:11.080 So when I see indigenous band councils, not individual indigenous people, individual indigenous

00:11:17.980 people would probably say approve the projects. They're good for the country. What the heck are

00:11:20.900 you guys doing? It's the band councils who are in the business of holding up projects in order for

00:11:25.500 checks to be signed. And so also the politics of it are so left wing anti-colonialist. They won't work

00:11:34.900 with the Canadian government because that is who they have painted as the enemy. But they will go

00:11:40.700 and sign deals with Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party who, you know, starved 50 million people to 0.94

00:11:47.740 death in their own country. Yeah, let's sign a deal with them so that they can have access to natural

00:11:54.000 resources, mines, oil and gas, lumber, all that stuff. Because, well, at least they're not colonialists.

00:12:01.620 They just shoot people in the back of the head into a ditch because they weren't part of the right 0.93

00:12:06.220 party in China. Whatever, whatever. But yeah, so we have Wab Kanu saying now he won't actually approve 0.99

00:12:13.920 a pipeline without indigenous consultation and full, like, you know, consent and approval. We have 0.97

00:12:19.360 Carney saying, well, I'm saying yes, but the indigenous people are saying no. So I can't say yes. He's not 1.00

00:12:25.320 saying yes if he's basically outsourcing saying no to somebody else. That's effectively what he's doing.

00:12:31.000 And then we have indigenous groups now trying to sign deals with Beijing, which should immediately

00:12:35.620 have every Canadian politician rightfully say, okay, I don't care about your opinion anymore. You're being

00:12:40.060 ridiculous. I don't care. I'm not going to go through this artificial consultation process when we can just 1.00

00:12:46.060 bypass you because this is all crown land. Very triflingly little land in Canada is actually real reserve

00:12:53.860 land. If you're building a pipeline, you should be able to go all around it. But because in provinces like

00:12:59.000 British Columbia and in Canada in general, we either pass legislation like DRIPA that requires

00:13:05.620 us to honor these overly expansive title land, like guarantees where like basically everything in the

00:13:13.400 province of British Columbia becomes title land under DRIPA rules. Now nothing can get done. And in

00:13:18.680 Canada, we don't have that passed, but we have like motion saying that we're going to be respecting

00:13:23.480 UNDRIP, which is what Carney is effectively doing by now saying, you know, we're not going to do any

00:13:28.560 natural, we're not going to do any big projects without full consultation, which means we're not 0.96

00:13:33.620 going to do it because he's a political coward. He is effectively just another liberal politician 0.96

00:13:37.800 who doesn't want to get into a fight with the indigenous band leaders, whatever. But this leads us to now

00:13:44.120 talking about our last topic, which is British Columbia provincial politics. Full disclosure, I work for

00:13:50.920 the one BC party and the two MLA's Dallas Brody and Tara Armstrong. I also will mention I basically make

00:13:58.060 nothing doing it because I don't like how much people pay themselves in party politics to do things

00:14:03.700 that should be given reasonable salaries to but so often people are getting over hundreds of thousands

00:14:10.260 of dollars in order to basically do nothing. So the BC Conservative Party, and this is all to say,

00:14:16.020 why did I eventually not want to help with the BC Conservative Party anymore? Well, not only have they

00:14:22.020 basically shredded their platform since the election, that party is no longer against DRIPA, you know,

00:14:27.620 the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act that makes it impossible to build anything,

00:14:32.100 they're not really against it anymore. I have a tape from a podcast, Mo Amir's show on Czech News,

00:14:38.100 Angelo Isidoro, the director, the executive director of the BC Conservative Party, went on

00:14:45.060 that podcast with Mo Amir, and when he was trying to find an example in his head of things that should

00:14:50.180 be up for a free vote, he said that DRIPA should be a free vote because not everyone in caucus agrees.

00:14:56.020 Sorry? Not everyone in caucus agrees on DRIPA? That was part of the platform to repeal it,

00:15:01.860 but now we're no longer repealing it because people like Peter Milibar, Alia Warbus, Eleanor

00:15:08.820 Sterko, Gavin Dew, Scott McInnes, and a lot of other very liberal MLAs no longer want to get rid of it.

00:15:17.140 And so what was the point of running as a BC Conservative? Well, they're really just BC Liberals

00:15:21.620 trying to stay in office or trying to get into office. Now they're not even against SOGI. I have

00:15:27.700 showed in previous episodes that the BC Conservatives proposed legislation to not repeal SOGI but to

00:15:34.580 change SOGI is a nothing. It's like let's make a committee that overlooks whether certain books

00:15:40.420 should be in schools or not. I know Alberta is kind of doing that, but they also explicitly are 0.82

00:15:45.460 trying to ban certain books as well with saying that the committee must ban books that are like

00:15:49.860 this, which means they're automatically on a ban list. But the thing is that Alberta doesn't have SOGI

00:15:56.660 really. The thing is BC does. So passing a law that would modify SOGI just to make sure that we don't

00:16:02.980 have like outright explicit books and libraries is like maybe 10% of the problem. The main problem

00:16:10.340 is the SOGI program that is in the classroom. I really doubt many kids are taking out these

00:16:15.940 inappropriate books. It's symbolic of the problem. It's a symptom of the problem. But do you think a kid

00:16:20.980 is really going and getting the book genderqueer and showing it to his friends without being made fun of?

00:16:25.620 Not at all because it's a weird book that you shouldn't be reading. But it's symptomatic of

00:16:30.740 the crazy stuff that's going on in the classroom. Teaching kids gender theory, you know, teaching 0.55

00:16:35.460 overly sexual politics in the classroom. That's wrong. And now here and then the BC conservatives

00:16:42.900 also rigged their AGM. I'm not even kidding. They just basically bust in a bunch of people because

00:16:47.780 John was not going to get the slate he wanted. So buss in 100 guys who didn't pay for tickets

00:16:52.340 so that they can just vote, put ballots in a ballot box and say that whatever John wants,

00:16:57.860 John gets and he gets to keep around the executives, literally giving themselves $177,000 bonuses

00:17:04.820 after they lost the election. Is that technically in their contract? Sure. But what reasonable member

00:17:10.340 would think that that's okay that based on the metrics of how many seats and votes the party got,

00:17:15.060 that you as the executive director or other people in the party can get up to $177,000 in a single bonus

00:17:22.100 on top of your already fairly fat salary, like making $40,000 during the writ period of the election

00:17:28.180 alone? No, that's inappropriate. And who could have thunk that the party that was giving out $177,000

00:17:37.140 bonuses, fat contracts to terrible advertising firms? It's now in $4.5 million in debt. And that's after

00:17:47.300 I take away cash on hand. Check this out. And by the way, guys, check out the 1BC website. It's

00:17:52.660 literally just the numeral 1BC.ca. 1BC.ca, check out our platform, check out what we're trying to do.

00:18:00.100 By the way, we're solvent. We aren't $4.5 million in debt. Who would give money to these people

00:18:05.700 knowing that you are not, you do not actually get, you don't, you're not going to have any,

00:18:11.700 if you give money to the BC Conservatives, it's going to fat salaries, and it's going to debt

00:18:15.860 repayment. Even if they put every dollar of the per vote subsidy that they get every year to debt

00:18:22.180 repayment, it will take them a full three years to pay it off, assuming that their expenses hit zero.

00:18:27.140 And I guarantee you that their expenses are not zero. Good job, Robert McGrudden. Good job. You have

00:18:33.060 now put the party, or at least the people you've been enabling have put the party into, let's see,

00:18:39.380 $4,551,654.22 of debt. Because look, column A, they have $543,393.20 cash on hand, total assets.

00:18:54.660 Total current liabilities and long-term liabilities is a total of $5,095,000. And then when you take

00:19:06.260 cash on hand out, they are at a total of that $4,551,000 in debt. And $1 million debt is total

00:19:14.820 like current liabilities. That's not even long-term liabilities. And they couldn't even pay off their

00:19:19.860 current liabilities with their cash on hand. No wonder their actual quarterly fundraising

00:19:27.060 in 2025 has been terrible. Who'd want to give money to the people who are burning it on nothing?

00:19:32.740 But whatever. What do I know? I just don't know anything, apparently. Because I keep having people

00:19:37.620 say, people in BC just want to get the BC NDP out of government. Stop criticizing the conservatives.

00:19:42.260 Well, these guys can't win. They can't even host. They couldn't even pay for anything. They're literally

00:19:48.100 completely screwed. So this actually does warrant a new party at this point, a party that isn't

00:19:54.500 going to be spending the next three years just trying to get to zero debt. And then you get

00:19:59.140 one year to maybe fundraise enough to take on the NDP. By the way, I'm not cherry-picking just what the

00:20:04.580 BC conservatives currently have in their assets, their debts and credits. The NDP has $4 million on

00:20:13.460 hand. They don't have any debt, and they have $4 million. The BC conservatives cannot beat these

00:20:18.420 people right now. And then they've also shredded their entire platform. So if they did win,

00:20:22.500 they wouldn't get anything done. One of their MLAs, Harman Bangu, the other day, his critique

00:20:27.300 of the NDP was so shallow, it was hilarious. He was saying that the NDP spend too much,

00:20:32.420 so we should start canceling infrastructure projects. Goodness. The one area of government I

00:20:37.540 would actually endorse spending more in would be infrastructure. Yes, there's massive cost overruns

00:20:42.180 in these infrastructure projects. If you cut red tape and you sped up processes and you wouldn't,

00:20:47.380 and with these government contracts for construction companies, developers, you wouldn't let them have

00:20:52.180 these large cost overruns without actually penalizing them. You could actually solve this.

00:20:57.140 You're going to cancel the Petulo bridge that's almost done because the cost overruns, it's almost

00:21:04.180 done, that bridge. I could even maybe agree that it's probably cost too much, but the thing's almost done.

00:21:09.300 But Harman in this interview entraps himself by saying, oh, we're spending too much. And the

00:21:13.780 interviewer's like, would you cancel or pause any project? He's like, I would. And then he's like,

00:21:17.300 so which projects? And it was a friendly interview. And Harman's like, oh crap. I got to think of a

00:21:21.940 project I'd cancel. And the one project he said, I'd definitely not cancel is this tunnel that hasn't

00:21:26.420 even been started. Then he's going to cancel a bridge that's almost done. Like we're like a few meters

00:21:30.820 away from connecting it to the other side so that people can start driving again. But whatever.

00:21:36.260 What do I know about politics, guys? But again, if you live in British Columbia, check out the 1BC

00:21:41.860 party. We're going to be back in session in October and hopefully we're going to get a lot of good

00:21:47.140 work done with the party. Tamara or Tara Armstrong and Dallas Brody, Dallas Brody being the leader,

00:21:53.140 are going to have way more time to speak since they're not just independents anymore. They are now

00:21:57.380 the fourth party in the legislature after the Greens. In fact, we have the same amount of MLAs as the Greens,

00:22:02.740 but first come, first serve. They were the official third party first. So now we have to be the fourth.

00:22:07.540 Maybe we can grab up a BC conservative MLA and we can have three and then we become the official

00:22:11.780 third party. But that's a goal for the future. Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys. See you all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 26, 2025

194+ names on Pierre's by-election ballot & Carney LIED about building pipelines!

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