The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - 2 Liberal Minister quitting & Trump talks Canada 51st state!

00:00:00.000 If I'm to resent Donald Trump for one thing, it's that every time he mentions Canada,

00:00:06.500 we get thrown into a patriotism purity spiral where every Canadian pundit and politician

00:00:13.220 has to signal on how much they're wanting to defend Canada from the Americans and America

00:00:19.520 sucks and we're great. Guys, the 51st state comments are not serious. I know this clip

00:00:25.900 exists and we're going to watch it. Even here, Trump is not serious. What real actions has he

00:00:32.260 taken that would cause Canada or Greenland or Panama to be annexed? He already got what he

00:00:38.380 wanted out of Panama, which was them to divest themselves from China so that the Chinese 1.00

00:00:43.320 government cannot control the canal. With Greenland, he probably just wants military bases on Greenland

00:00:49.360 to be leased for free, that they get to build where they want and maybe get some mineral rights.

00:00:53.920 And with Canada, it's the border security thing, our bad national defense spending. And then he also

00:01:00.400 probably wants us to unlock certain industries that we have heavy protectionism over. And absolutely

00:01:05.900 we do. And that's actually really bad for our industry and our own people. Because when we have

00:01:12.420 260% dairy tariffs on the US or basically outside of Canada, dairy tariffs, obviously not only do our

00:01:20.560 prices go up because it's turning into a sort of monopoly, but also like we are, we're basically making

00:01:27.040 it so that our own dairy industry is less efficient because they don't have to be efficient. We could in

00:01:32.300 theory actually sell a lot of dairy into the US, but we've made it so that our own industry can just survive 0.65

00:01:38.180 selling overpriced product to its own people in its own area because you're not allowed to sell into it. And

00:01:43.560 then we have provincial trade barriers on top of that. Ridiculous. Anyways, before I get into the Trump clip,

00:01:48.640 we're going to get to a lot of stuff other than that. But before I do it, guys, remember to like

00:01:52.960 this video, subscribe to the channel if you like watching and leave a comment. But here is the clip

00:01:59.800 that Mark Nixon took from Fox News. It was a good condensation of what Trump said. He does say,

00:02:06.540 yes, I'm totally on board with wanting Canada to become the 51st state. But again, I'm gonna get to

00:02:11.940 why I don't think this is still serious.

00:02:13.840 You announced tariffs on Canada and Mexico. You immediately got action from both of them on

00:02:18.800 border security and drug interdiction. A lot of it. Is that good enough? Is that good enough? No,

00:02:23.780 it's not good enough. So more needed in 30 days. Something has to happen. It's not sustainable.

00:02:29.240 And I'm changing it. You know, the prime minister said this weekend to a group of Canadian businessmen,

00:02:33.740 he was a private meeting. He said that your wish for Canada to be the 51st state is a quote,

00:02:39.580 real thing. Is it a real thing? Yeah, it is. I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st

00:02:45.760 state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada. And I'm not going to let that happen.

00:02:51.920 It's too much. Why are we paying $200 billion a year essentially in subsidy to Canada? Now,

00:02:57.460 if they're a 51st state, I don't mind doing it. You said the tariff is a beautiful word.

00:03:01.920 There are some signs in the markets, consumer confidence, that they're a little jittery.

00:03:06.640 So if all goes to plan, when do you think families would be able to feel prices going down,

00:03:12.920 groceries, energy, or are you kind of saying to them, hang on, inflation may get worse until it

00:03:18.800 gets better? No, I think we're going to become a rich. Look, we're not that rich right now. We

00:03:23.360 owe $36 trillion. That's because we let all these nations take it. I can probably just cut it off there.

00:03:29.080 But that also at the end there is signaling that when he won't say that, no, no, no, I'm not going to

00:03:33.600 help you to hang on. Inflation might get worse because it would get worse in a trade war with

00:03:38.100 Canada. Definitely. Tons of the Americans exports and imports are with Canada. I think a lot of the

00:03:46.040 rhetoric around tariffs and around basically starting a trade war if we didn't secure the border

00:03:51.020 was Trump driving his car at Trudeau's car as fast as possible, knowing that Trudeau was going to be

00:03:57.840 the one to actually pull off the road in this game of chicken. So he got what he wanted while being

00:04:03.600 big and tough, which is what Trump is one to usually do. He likes to use a lot of hyperbole and

00:04:10.240 tough language to get what he wants, even if what he wants probably didn't need that to actually be

00:04:18.140 achieved. And that's what's kind of going on in my mind when you have the whole 51st state thing going

00:04:23.640 on. Does he actually care to get Canada as a 51st state? No. One, that would be something that would

00:04:29.960 be like a two-term project and he only has one term right now. And also, what does he want? Let's just

00:04:36.720 say he can immediately make Canada the 51st state. It's a democratic state. It's going to be a deep blue

00:04:43.940 progressive Democrat party state. Does he want two more democratic senators? And even then,

00:04:50.080 you'd probably have to make Quebec a 52nd state and Western Canada a 53rd state. It's unfeasible.

00:04:55.620 But the thing is, Trump's not the guy that if you ask him, are you serious about this? To say,

00:04:59.360 no, I'm just joking around. Things I say aren't serious. He likes to present the idea that he is

00:05:04.180 serious all the time. But now we have people like Chrystia Freeland doing the whole virtue signaling 1.00

00:05:09.820 thing. I have a message for Donald Trump. I have a message today for President Trump. If you force

00:05:17.680 our hand, we will inflict the biggest trade blow that the United States has ever endured.

00:05:29.060 I don't even know about that. One, there's like the war drums in the back and then like everyone

00:05:34.160 behind her seems to be like almost comatose and reacting to what she's saying. Here and then we,

00:05:40.440 oh my goodness. This is like obviously Mark Carney. I didn't even include this comment here because

00:05:46.240 it's so boring. He's like, well, Canada is not going to become the 51st state. And if Trump tries

00:05:52.040 it, I'm going to do something tough as the unelected prime minister of Canada because he's

00:05:56.740 probably going to get coordinated as the new liberal leader. But we have some news on the front

00:06:01.720 of how are things going for the liberal party? And again, there's so many people on social media

00:06:06.680 saying, Wyatt, you're wrong. The liberals are definitely coming back. Not that they're going

00:06:11.100 to win, but like these are conservative people saying, oh no, you're too overconfident. The

00:06:15.100 liberals are surging. It's going to be a really tough fight and it could end up being a tough fight.

00:06:19.800 I just don't think the evidence is really there on the ground. I trust polls, but you always have to

00:06:25.160 interpret polls as what they are representing. Right now, the liberals have a big response bias because

00:06:31.100 they went from super depressed with Trudeau as their leader to feeling more optimistic with basically

00:06:36.060 anyone as the leader. So they're more likely to pick up the phone and answer a poll. I also don't

00:06:40.520 doubt the liberals have gotten a big bump in support. And when I say big, I mean four or five

00:06:46.020 points. They've gone from 22% to 26 or 27. They've increased a decent amount because Trudeau is no

00:06:53.480 longer weighing them down. And because Jagmeet Singh is the most incompetent NDP leader that they've had

00:06:58.240 in decades, a lot of their vote might get siphoned off to the liberals because it's the patriotic way

00:07:03.160 of trying to fight back against the poly of maple mega conservatives. I want to get into poly of it

00:07:09.000 just a little bit here. But the thing is that this is all artificial, or at least I assume most of it's

00:07:14.620 artificial. Kim Campbell at one point actually exceeded John Chrétien and the polls in the 93

00:07:20.240 election because the PCs started feeling excited again. Their support didn't really bounce back that

00:07:26.060 much, but every PC person was willing to take a phone poll. Right now, every liberal person is still

00:07:31.260 willing to take a phone poll. And even in the polls where the liberals are doing good,

00:07:35.340 the conservatives are still at like 43%, 42%, easily majority territory. If they were actually

00:07:42.600 surging, I wouldn't expect this story to be true. My friend Chase Zaba posted this a little bit ago,

00:07:49.480 and he says, two high-profile liberal cabinet ministers jumped ship on the same day. Mary New,

00:07:54.920 Minister of International Trade and likely CCP Front, and Arif Farhani, the third justice minister after

00:08:01.820 Jody Wilson-Raybould and, what was it? Lamedi? I know it's Lamedi. I'm forgetting his name suddenly.

00:08:10.500 But yeah, like he's like this Team B or Team C, like a justice minister, and they're all leaving.

00:08:17.300 Why would they be leaving with two seats in Ontario ridings that in theory are pretty safe seats?

00:08:23.940 Well, it's probably because they know even if they get re-elected, you're not going to be in

00:08:28.560 government. You're going to be some oppositional person. I believe one of them is even endorsing

00:08:33.360 Carney. One of them is endorsing Freeland. So it's not like the Freeland people think they're going to

00:08:37.700 lose, so they're going to exit quietly. Just people are leaving. They know that like it's not going to go

00:08:43.840 well for them in the next election. And even if like the, if they win, win, they'd be in a minority

00:08:50.160 government again, getting nothing done. Maybe Carney doesn't keep Verani around because he

00:08:54.620 endorsed Freeland. Mary New maybe has some more investigations coming her way when it comes to 1.00

00:08:59.880 her engagement with CCP front groups. So they're all leaving at the back door. Carney, if he becomes

00:09:06.280 a leader, let's assume he is, is going to have a lot of problems with filling his benches for the,

00:09:12.540 for the election. They have a lot of open seats that they need to fill. So I've heard this rumor

00:09:18.020 that in March, Carney is going to become the leader on March 9th. And then within like a week,

00:09:23.300 he's going to call the election because he thinks that there's more trade threats going on or

00:09:27.580 whatever. He could use that issue to kind of pump himself up in the polls, vote liberal to vote against

00:09:33.420 Trump or whatever. I don't think he can do that unless he's willing to just appoint people into

00:09:39.780 nominations. Like mass scale, appoint like 75 candidates, 100 candidates in a weekend. Can't

00:09:47.720 really do that. And a lot of people resent when their people are just picked by a party boss

00:09:52.140 pointing at them. And so I think really what's going to happen, and we've already seen this with

00:09:57.240 Jagmeet Singh, they're going to be waiting. They're going to be taking their sweet time

00:10:01.480 in picking their new, their new, like in picking, getting their candidates picked and they're going

00:10:07.660 to wait till October. We have this video that the CCFR put up of Jagmeet Singh already creating

00:10:14.180 excuses to not vote, no confidence in the new liberal leadership and let them basically persist

00:10:20.440 on for a couple of months. I think it sends a clear message of where we stand. We want to make

00:10:25.260 it very clear that if you pick a fight with us, we're going to fight back. They want to recall

00:10:30.040 parliament. I've said, do it. Recall parliament and let's get to work to put in supports for workers.

00:10:36.580 Let's recall it, get supports in place. There are going to be by, by law, confidence votes at the end

00:10:43.820 of March. I'm voting against the government. Then we still have two months, two months to bring in

00:10:48.380 laws, protections, supports. Yeah. He's saying he'll still vote no confidence at the end of March,

00:10:54.720 but I don't believe him. You'll, they'll get into negotiations. They'll have difficult time

00:11:00.800 passing stuff. Oh, the conservatives are forcing us to debate these bills rather than just shoving

00:11:06.680 them through. I need my finking couch in another five months to figure out what I'm going to do.

00:11:11.440 He'll do that because Jagmeet Singh is an incredibly predictable politician. The man only looks up for

00:11:17.860 himself. And right now, if you look at the seat projections again, it doesn't mean it's going to

00:11:22.680 happen, but at the very least, it's the same things that he, his people are going to be looking at

00:11:27.180 that. The seat projections show that depending on what Burnaby riding, he tries to run in,

00:11:31.660 he's probably going to lose, especially if he tries to move seats outside of Burnaby, where people

00:11:37.100 definitely haven't seen his name come up on ballots and on street corners for a while.

00:11:41.400 He's just going to get crushed too. He couldn't go back to Brampton where he used to be an MPB. He'd

00:11:46.340 get absolutely slaughtered. But now I actually just want to point something out that Pierre Polyev has

00:11:53.120 done recently. I guess I don't really need to bring up his post in particular. I'm just going to bring up

00:11:58.140 a leftist reacting to it. So this guy right here, Team Canada Jiggly, says, when I'm Prime Minister,

00:12:05.080 I'm going to cut foreign aid with a Trump-like haircut edited on top of Pierre Polyev. Because

00:12:11.120 Pierre Polyev is a very bad man, apparently, because he also now supports cutting bad Canadian foreign aid,

00:12:19.180 slashing foreign aid. I am very happy to see this because it demonstrates that Pierre Polyev and his

00:12:24.760 team are not scared of being compared to Donald Trump to do the right thing on an issue. Oh my goodness,

00:12:31.040 but if we do this, because this is what it would be like if there was O'Toole still in. We can't do that,

00:12:35.200 or people are going to compare us to Trump and Elon Musk, and then all of our voters are going to set their

00:12:38.940 hair on fire and vote for the Greens or whatever. Irrational. No. The foreign aid in Canada is worse

00:12:46.340 than the USAID spending. Do you think that the woke people in Canada can't find dumber ways of spending

00:12:53.240 money than the woke people in the American government? I guarantee our woke people are

00:12:57.980 crazier, and they have crazy spending everywhere. So it's good Polyev is doing this, because it's a

00:13:03.820 great thing you can bring up on a debate stage. Show the litany of stupid spending that the liberals

00:13:09.440 have pursued, and say, Carney, are you going to cut any of this because you haven't cut it yet?

00:13:13.300 You've been the economic advisor for three, four years to Trudeau, and you haven't told him to cut

00:13:19.200 any of this stuff. In fact, you helped advise him to blow out the deficit up to $62 billion.

00:13:25.720 That should be his tactic. Polyev is also doing great things on wanting life sentences for people

00:13:31.540 dealing fentanyl, wanting to increase military spending, especially in the North, and establish

00:13:37.340 a permanent military base outside of Iqaluit. Great. Good. Very good ideas. Ingratiates us with the

00:13:44.660 Americans for things we should have been doing before anyways. We get to be the people as the

00:13:49.920 conservatives who want to avoid the trade war, who are obviously not supporting a 51st state movement.

00:13:56.280 Basically, nobody does. And then what the liberals are going to try and do is accuse the conservatives

00:14:02.720 of being too conciliatory. At the same time, all the things that the conservatives want to do are

00:14:07.700 common sense. I think that's not exactly something they want to fight over. Oh, here's one pro-Karni 0.97

00:14:14.800 comment I want to talk about right before we end here. This guy right here, Mike Gerald Gibbs,

00:14:21.120 he, him, LGBT flag and Ukraine flag in the bio because, of course, and he with this great picture

00:14:28.900 of Karni below says, I'm supporting Mark Karni to be prime minister of Canada. I think our best chances

00:14:34.880 of creating an income floor to stop poverty in Canada is with Mark. Okay, one, you're also never

00:14:40.080 going to stop poverty. Poverty is like gravity. You can't stop poverty because it's just one of those

00:14:46.960 things that's going to happen. Your country could be incredibly rich. You are eventually going to have

00:14:51.500 someone who makes stupid choices and becomes poor, even if you live in a society with basically no scarcity.

00:14:58.060 He also goes on to say, I also think only Mark Karni can stop Pierre Polyev.

00:15:02.920 We need a mature, responsible leadership at this time of global upheaval. And he's going to show his

00:15:09.400 striking maturity when he's like a 40-year-old man wearing like a skater or like snowboarder hat.

00:15:15.940 And he's talking about, we need an income floor. You mean universal basic income, a minimum amount of

00:15:21.360 money that everyone makes regardless of what they do. No. And the thing is that this is demonstrating

00:15:27.940 how lefty Mark Karni is. All of the people who support central bank digital currencies and UBI

00:15:34.020 are supporting this guy. And the real reason that he is supporting him here because they would vote

00:15:40.640 for anyone to not vote for Polyev. The fact that the number two thing here is I also think only Mark

00:15:46.120 Karni can stop Pierre Polyev demonstrates that the liberals have become a party that doesn't really have

00:15:52.040 that many ideas. Yeah, every once in a while there's somebody who supports proportional representation

00:15:57.260 or UBI or whatever inside the Liberal Party. Maybe Karni does. But you only can define them by how much

00:16:03.920 they spend. They're just the fiscal irresponsibility party. They spend a lot on programs. They generate a

00:16:10.000 lot of new programs. And they basically grow the economy through government investment, not actually

00:16:16.480 free market initiative. That's why we are economy right now, combining federal and provincial spending.

00:16:22.720 Our GDP is like 64% government spending, or at least the spending originates from government. So like

00:16:29.720 contractors and other sort of things like that, people being paid to do things on the government's

00:16:34.660 behalf. When you add that in, like almost two thirds of our entire economy right now is government

00:16:39.960 spending. And it wasn't this way when Harper was prime minister. It wasn't this way when Paul Martin or

00:16:45.320 John Chrétien were prime minister or Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell even. Spending was like 30%, 40%. And now

00:16:53.960 it's like a majority because they can't help themselves. Anyways, that should be it for me today,

00:17:00.280 guys. Later video today, because I just got back from helping out a robotics tournament. And I didn't

00:17:06.240 get back to my house yesterday until 1.30 in the morning. I left home or I woke up at 5 in the morning to

00:17:12.580 go and help at 7.30, recorded a video in the morning. And then, yeah, I didn't really wake up

00:17:19.560 today until like 3 in the afternoon. Woke up for like an hour to go get a haircut, came back, and then

00:17:25.520 I just slept again. It was crazy. Anyways, regular video schedule will be returning, probably doing

00:17:31.360 two shows a day. But yeah, that's it for me, guys. See you later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 11, 2025

2 Liberal Minister quitting & Trump talks Canada 51st state!

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