The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - 2nd Liberal MP Resigning! Freeland quits on Carney for Ukraine!

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, we got another one. Another liberal MP is going to be resigning

00:00:07.040 on Mark Carney. This, of course, being Chrystia Freeland, the former deputy prime minister under

00:00:13.640 Justin Trudeau and finance minister. She will be moving on not only to be the president of

00:00:19.560 the Road Society, but also apparently now an economic advisor to Vladimir Zelensky,

00:00:25.700 the president of Ukraine. This entire situation was rolled out very poorly and it kind of caused

00:00:32.360 a mini scandal for Carney at the beginning of the day because it looked like Freeland was going to

00:00:36.760 sit as an MP while also working for a foreign government, which was no bueno. This is also

00:00:42.900 coming on the heels of just a couple days ago, Nate Erskine-Smith making it clear that he will also

00:00:48.500 be resigning to go and run for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party. But let's break this

00:00:54.720 thing down in just a second. We're going to go through Vladimir Zelensky's post that ended up

00:00:58.880 causing a big issue and then what Freeland and Carney have now said since then. But before I get into it,

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00:01:30.720 in the section below. So let's get into it from this Volodymyr Zelensky post first. And in all of

00:01:39.260 this, I know a lot of people use stuff like this to attack Ukraine. Ukraine is a corrupt country. That 0.65

00:01:45.780 is basically every Eastern European country. In all of this, I just find a lot of what Zelensky does

00:01:52.800 really silly. And if he made less stupid PR moves, the West would be so much more cohesively behind 0.99

00:02:00.160 Ukraine. If there was less corruption, everyone would be behind them more. But he keeps making 0.99

00:02:05.380 stupid mistakes, which is really just Eastern European politics in general. But he posted this 1.00

00:02:11.920 morning, another stupid PR move for him. Today, I appointed Chrystia Freeland as an advisor on 1.00

00:02:18.120 economic development. Chrystia is highly skilled in these matters, and has extensive experience in

00:02:24.460 attracting investment and implementing economic transformations. Oh, goodness, no. I'm wondering

00:02:29.840 if Carney secretly hates the Ukrainians, so he's sending Chrystia Freeland to them. But he goes on and

00:02:35.260 says, right now, Ukraine needs to strengthen its internal resilience, both for the sake of Ukraine's

00:02:40.940 recovery, if diplomacy delivers results as swiftly as possible, and to reinforce our defense, if because

00:02:47.460 of delays by our partners, it takes longer to bring this war to an end. I am grateful to everyone who

00:02:52.900 is ready to support our state and our engagement with partners' glory to Ukraine. Now, I don't really

00:02:59.260 want to get into the Ukraine-Russia war thing right here. I just don't really care. I think it's 0.98

00:03:04.120 genuinely a good thing that Russia does not get more territory than it already has. You know, 0.71

00:03:09.540 they were the ones battling Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, and I'm very happy that Trump captured

00:03:14.840 Maduro. The Russian government is bad. I do not like them at all. That doesn't mean that Ukraine's

00:03:22.120 government is good, but in general, I think it's good for the borders to remain as they are and for 0.98

00:03:27.320 Russia to not gain anything. I don't want Ukraine gaining anything either. I just want it to be stopped.

00:03:31.840 But why would you appoint Christy Freeland into this position? Donald Trump doesn't like her.

00:03:38.300 She's annoying to the Americans. Why would you ever do this of yours landscape? It doesn't matter.

00:03:43.760 That will be the mystery of the Sphinx forevermore. I just want to move on now to some of the response

00:03:49.860 that this ended up generating, because it wasn't just from conservatives that took issue with it,

00:03:55.260 but I am going to start with a conservative. This obviously looked really, really bad for Mark

00:04:00.140 Carney. So Rachel Thomas, a conservative MP, responded to this and said, Christy Freeland

00:04:05.340 has accepted a role as an economic advisor to the president of Ukraine without resigning her seat

00:04:10.540 as MP. No matter the ally, this is a clear conflict of interest. Canadians elected her to represent them

00:04:16.920 in parliament, not to work for a foreign government. Christy Freeland must resign immediately.

00:04:21.660 And this is all sketchy since we just sent the Ukrainian government another $2.5 billion for

00:04:27.740 economic development. How much did Christy Freeland have a hand in organizing that? I'm not even

00:04:33.180 necessarily against aiding our allies, but did we overlook a lot of corruption issues and a lot of

00:04:39.500 other things that we needed safeguards for because Freeland was already planning on going to work

00:04:45.080 for Vladimir Zelensky? It's a legitimate question. Again, I actually don't mind spending

00:04:51.500 some money to prevent Russia from absorbing Ukraine, just as I would be okay with spending 0.99

00:04:56.220 some money if China tried to absorb Taiwan, because that would make the world a worse place. 0.94

00:05:01.740 But still, the corruption angle of all this is a problem. The conflict of interest angle of all this

00:05:06.940 is a problem. But of course, it was not just MPs like Rachel Thomas. We also had people like NDP

00:05:15.420 leader Don Davies reacting to this, saying that it was deeply inappropriate. I want to bring up that

00:05:21.020 now. And Don Davies said, who I normally will never agree with, Don Davies says,

00:05:28.460 While I respect Ms. Freeland, one cannot serve Canada and another country at the same time.

00:05:34.380 Taxpayers should not be paying for an absent MP, especially one working for a foreign government.

00:05:39.980 She must resign as MP immediately. And I had already kind of known at the start of the day,

00:05:45.420 based on everything else she was doing, like her agreeing to become the president of the Road

00:05:49.820 Society, she was probably not going to hold on as an MP and work for Zelensky at the same time. It's

00:05:56.780 probably that the messaging was rolled out in a bad way. She was supposed to announce she was

00:06:02.060 resigning, and then Zelensky was supposed to say his part. But Freeland, a little over an hour ago,

00:06:08.860 tried to do a bit of a cleanup job on this thing and said, Ukraine is at the forefront of today's 0.99

00:06:14.460 global fight for democracy, and I welcome this chance to contribute on an unpaid basis as an

00:06:19.980 economic advisor to President Zelensky. In accepting this voluntary position, I will be stepping aside

00:06:25.980 from my role as the Prime Minister's Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.

00:06:31.420 In the coming weeks, I will also leave my seat in Parliament. I want to thank my constituents for their

00:06:36.060 years of confidence in me. I am so grateful to have being your representative." Well, apparently

00:06:42.380 they didn't really like her that much, because you will remember back in March, you know, March 2025's

00:06:48.940 liberal leadership race, that she actually didn't even win her own seat against Mark Carney. That's

00:06:54.860 if you believe the whole thing wasn't rigged. Like, I'm not someone who goes around claiming random

00:06:58.940 elections are rigged, but that liberal leadership race was probably rigged. Or at least all the candidates

00:07:04.780 other than Carney were not actually trying to sell memberships and win, and they were just letting

00:07:08.700 Carney win. Because how does Karina Gould, Chrystia Freeland, and all the other people running, I think

00:07:15.260 there's only another couple of them, but how did they not at least do better in their own riding? Even

00:07:21.100 if Freeland didn't just not win her riding, she lost her riding to Mark Carney by like a similar proportion

00:07:29.100 of the vote as she did in every other riding. Like, Freeland did as bad in like Regina as she did in her 0.95

00:07:36.300 own riding of University Rosedale. It was very, very strange. But we've been hearing for a long time

00:07:43.420 that she does not actually get along with Mark Carney, which is kind of surprising because he is the

00:07:48.620 godfather to one of her children. But it seems like because Carney was the economic advisor to Justin

00:07:55.420 Trudeau and he was pushing a lot of the really bad spending ideas and a lot of the really dumb

00:08:00.860 programs like the the the late 2024 GST freeze or HST freeze that caused lots of problems.

00:08:07.900 I think Freeland and Carney ended up kind of coming to loggerheads where she was being blamed for

00:08:14.540 implementing a lot of the dumb ideas that Trudeau forced her to implement, which were in fact Mark

00:08:20.140 Carney's ideas. So she ended up taking it on the chin in some cases, having to implement 0.68

00:08:25.340 a stupid idea from Mark Carney that Justin Trudeau forced her to do. But here is Prime Minister Mark 0.98

00:08:31.980 Carney's response to her. And he says, Thank you, Chrystia, for your important work as special

00:08:37.660 representative for the reconstruction of Ukraine. You are uniquely qualified for this important new role.

00:08:43.420 It is a further credit to Canada's steadfast support for Ukraine that a Canadian is taking on this role

00:08:48.380 at this crucial moment for Ukraine's future. Canada will continue to stand with Ukraine to ensure a

00:08:53.900 just and lasting peace. OK, the big elephant in the room here is that Carney is losing another MP.

00:09:01.820 So he's losing Nate Erskine Smith to run for the Ontario Liberal leadership.

00:09:06.380 He's losing Chrystia Freeland to the Rhodes Society and to Ukraine.

00:09:10.460 And he's probably also going to be losing Stephen Gilbeau as well as Jonathan Wilkinson.

00:09:14.540 And you've even had Melanie Jolie's name thrown in there as well. And there's a couple other people

00:09:19.820 like Bill Blair, some of these older Liberal MPs who are now just sitting as backbenchers or

00:09:25.580 parliamentary secretaries, very low level jobs, which at this point in your career, you're like

00:09:31.740 68, 72 years old. You know, some of these people like Henry Fry also might just resign because of their

00:09:37.420 age. You're really at that age just sitting as a backbencher or some minor advisor within caucus.

00:09:43.660 These people are probably going to end up leaving. And this is completely throwing a massive wrench,

00:09:49.820 like I said yesterday, into Carney's plan to try and coax conservatives over into joining the Liberal

00:09:56.220 Party, because what's the point of joining the Liberals when they don't actually even have power?

00:10:02.380 They don't have the majority. Don Stremont left for petty reasons. He didn't get to be deputy speaker

00:10:07.660 because the Conservatives voted for Tom Kamik. It had nothing to do with thumbing their nose at him.

00:10:11.820 He previously was in the role. They voted for somebody else, probably because Tom had maybe

00:10:15.740 been asking people to vote for him and making a good case for himself. There was no hard feelings

00:10:20.220 against Don Stremont. He got ticked off though and crossed the floor and joined the Liberals.

00:10:24.620 And then about a month later, a month and a half later, we have Michael Ma, right after attending

00:10:29.340 the Conservative Christmas party, announces that he is going over and joining the Liberals. And then he got

00:10:34.700 to go to their Christmas party too. Maybe he's just a really big Christmas guy. But he was probably

00:10:39.260 leaving because, well, if only one more guy leaves, then we will have a majority and maybe I get to

00:10:45.340 become a minister or I have some other important position in government and I get to get stuff done

00:10:50.460 and deliver things to my constituents and be an important political individual because I was the

00:10:56.220 one who caused this majority government to happen. But now, Carney doesn't just need one more Conservative,

00:11:02.860 he needs three more MPs, whether he elects two more Liberals in by-elections or he ends up having

00:11:10.060 three more Conservatives leave. The Conservatives, not that many Conservatives are crossing. In fact,

00:11:14.620 there's actually been Conservative MPs just blowing the whistle on the fact that Liberals are trying to

00:11:19.100 approach them to kind of coax them into leaving. Scott Reid posted something on his own social media

00:11:24.460 saying, yeah, they've been pursuing me for a long time and I keep saying, no, I'm not joining the party

00:11:29.900 that laughs at the plight of Canadians struggling economically because the Liberals just want to

00:11:34.780 thumb their noses at the Conservatives. So it seems like the fact that they're approaching people like

00:11:39.580 Scott Reid, at least to me, tells me that they actually don't know what Conservative MPs want to

00:11:46.460 cross. And definitely, probably no one wants to cross at this point. In Nate Erskine-Smith and

00:11:53.020 Chrystia Freeland's writings, there's a very low chance that anyone but a Liberal is going to win.

00:11:58.060 But this is still causing Carney to be in this awkward position where whenever a Liberal MP decides

00:12:04.780 to leave, it opens up a bigger gap in his party, at which time the Conservatives block and NDP could

00:12:11.020 get together and just vote no confidence and get rid of them. There is no requirement for people to

00:12:17.100 wait for Carney to fill that seat before a confidence vote is launched. An NDP could actually potentially

00:12:23.580 win Erskine-Smith or Freeland's ridings. Those are actually not complete, uh, outside chances. Now,

00:12:30.060 it's not the biggest, it's not the biggest probability in one of those two ridings, uh,

00:12:34.860 Beaches East York as Nate Erskine-Smith. And then of course, as I said before, uh, University

00:12:39.420 Rosedale as Chrystia Freeland's. It was actually a two-term Liberal occupied that seat, I believe,

00:12:44.300 I believe, like 2008 to 2015, uh, before Freeland got the seat. At least there was a Liberal between

00:12:50.860 2011 and 2015. Uh, but those two ridings, lesser chance of being lost. But if Gilbeau goes, that one

00:12:58.380 actually has a good chance of being won by either the NDP or the block, because Gilbeau was like the

00:13:03.660 first Liberal to win it since like the 80s or 90s. It had been a while. It was a NDP and then a Quebec,

00:13:09.580 uh, block, Quebec riding before him. And then Jonathan Wilkinson's riding, before it was him,

00:13:15.420 I think there was one more Liberal before him. Actually, I think it was just him. But before that,

00:13:19.500 it was an Alliance Reform Conservative riding. And yeah, maybe it's changed a lot and it's become more

00:13:25.500 Liberal, but you know, in a by-election, depending on the political atmosphere of the moment, you could

00:13:30.460 win that one. Remember, the Conservatives won Toronto Centre at the bottom of, of Justin Trudeau's

00:13:36.940 popularity. And the riding that Jonathan Wilkinson occupies is not nearly as strong as Toronto Centre

00:13:44.380 usually is for the Liberals. And then Melanie Jolie, some of these other people who might leave. Yeah,

00:13:49.580 very likely the Liberals still end up retaining these seats. But again, until a by-election is

00:13:55.020 called and actually held, the opposition has the ability to completely disrupt the Liberals from

00:14:00.940 actually getting anything done. Or they can even call a new confidence vote to throw this government

00:14:06.300 out and trigger a new federal election. So there is a lot of positive developments this year already

00:14:11.740 for the Conservatives. And I'm going to be coming back probably later today to talk more about how

00:14:17.420 the media is absolutely destroying themselves on this Nicolas Maduro story. Donald Trump was absolutely

00:14:24.220 right to capture Nicolas Maduro, but the media is trying to spin really, really hard against Trump,

00:14:30.620 because they know the Liberals only got elected this last election because of the Trump issue.

00:14:36.300 And now they're trying to generate a new anti-Trump movement in Canada in time for a potential new

00:14:42.700 snap federal election. I really don't think it's going to work because at the end of the day,

00:14:47.420 I think Canadians, even on the centre-left, dislike Nicolas Maduro more than they dislike Donald Trump.

00:14:54.140 Maybe people complain about Trump a lot, but communist dictator who murders people up against

00:14:59.740 Donald Trump, I think even at least moderate Liberals can understand why you should congratulate

00:15:06.060 Trump for capturing that guy, and Pierre Polyev was absolutely right to do it, and Carney looks like 0.99

00:15:10.940 an idiot by just dodging. He is just refusing to even name Donald Trump in any of his statements, 0.99

00:15:16.620 even though this is an objective Trump victory. Other Liberal politicians in other countries,

00:15:22.540 Democrats in the United States are congratulating Trump. Not all of them, but some of them. And

00:15:27.340 even in the US, there's more reason for them to take issue with Trump because, hey, partisan political,

00:15:32.220 you know, interests are at play here. But even some of those people are willing to congratulate Trump

00:15:38.060 because it's an objectively good thing to have happened. Anyways, well, with all that being said,

00:15:43.820 thank you guys for watching. I will be back sometime later or whatever. I'm actually screwing up the

00:15:49.100 end of this video. By the way, actually, no, I need to mention the fact that in my last two videos I

00:15:54.780 did on Venezuela, I am sorry, I could not pronounce... Why is every single time I try and say... Because

00:16:02.860 it was the capital of Colombia, and every time I make a video, I draw a blank and cannot say Bogota.

00:16:10.060 There we go. I said Bogota or something, because that's how it's written. And in the back of my mind,

00:16:14.220 I'm like, I know it's not Bogota. I know it's Bogota. And I had heard the name Bogota

00:16:19.900 tens of times because of certain documentaries I've listened to. But it's just the way these

00:16:23.660 videos work. I'm revealing how video creation works. I'll be like 14 minutes deep in a video.

00:16:29.580 I'll be reading something, and I will forget how to pronounce something I absolutely know how to

00:16:33.980 pronounce. But you got to white knuckle it. You just got to keep going. Because, goodness,

00:16:37.820 am I going to restart a video 14 minutes in because I couldn't say Bogota? But the guy who pointed it out to me,

00:16:43.580 fair enough. You got me on that one. I did respond to you on X. But that was a funny little thing,

00:16:48.540 because I have heard that name so many times and pronounced it right so many times. But as soon

00:16:53.740 as I'm in video mode, I go into just stupid moron mode, and I can't actually pronounce 0.99

00:16:58.940 like very well-known capitals. But anyways, with that all being said, 0.98

00:17:02.380 thank you guys for watching. I'll see you all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 05, 2026

2nd Liberal MP Resigning! Freeland quits on Carney for Ukraine!

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