The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 11, 2026


69% Disapprove of Carney Fake Pipeline Plan - No Liberal Achievements!


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In this episode of the National Telegraph, Wyatt Claypool breaks down the numbers on the lack of support for Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to build a pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast of Canada. He also goes into why he thinks the pipeline is unlikely to get built.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.120 I have the whiteboard broken out for this video because we will be going into the numbers on the
00:00:11.240 specific issue that we're going to be talking about today, but it is not a national poll,
00:00:16.060 it is an issue-specific poll, and that specific issue is Mark Carney's pipeline plan to build a
00:00:23.480 pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast. Now, if you've been following the show,
00:00:28.500 you know that I think that Mark Carney is not actually serious about building a pipeline.
00:00:33.940 He wants to market himself as Mr. Pipeline while never actually having to get a pipeline in the
00:00:40.220 ground. Now, Premier Danielle Smith has been very positive about the idea that this deal will
00:00:46.220 actually go through. I don't think it's actually going to go through, but I also believe that
00:00:50.800 Danielle Smith kind of has to be artificially positive about it, if anything, even a little 0.68
00:00:56.200 bit artificially naive about the whole thing, because if she doesn't act like it's going to 0.99
00:01:01.340 happen, the media are going to blame her for it not happening. So at the start of this video,
00:01:07.000 I want to start with Danielle Smith answering a reporter's question, already trying to create the
00:01:13.660 narrative that Albertans just didn't want it enough. And that's why this pipeline isn't being
00:01:18.780 built. And then I want to go into the numbers of approval ratings for Mark Carney's current
00:01:23.960 pipeline plan. And then I want to go to the House of Commons for a question that Conservative MP
00:01:29.640 Jacob Mantle had asked the Liberals on the slow moving of all of the new major projects that they
00:01:36.420 wanted to build. We were supposed to have projects being approved everywhere left and right. And the
00:01:42.320 amount of projects that have actually been approved for fast tracking is very pathetic. And most of 0.65
00:01:47.860 these projects are not real in the sense that it's not like a full project being fast tracked. It's
00:01:53.080 like little bits and pieces of a project being fast-tracked. But anyways, before I get into it,
00:01:58.300 I just want to remind you guys, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video,
00:02:02.540 subscribe if you're not yet a subscriber, leave a comment with what you think about all this. Do
00:02:07.340 you think a pipeline's going to actually get built? Do you think Danielle Smith's being played,
00:02:11.500 or do you think she's just being smart in how she's conducting herself? And of course, if you
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00:02:20.280 consider going below the video and hitting the join button and becoming one of the many monthly
00:02:25.820 contributors that allows me to be less reliant on the YouTube algorithm. Anyways, let's get into it
00:02:32.080 first with this video of Daniel Smith answering a reporter's question. I'm just curious, do you
00:02:38.780 feel like Albertans and industry executives are viewing your negotiations with Mark Carney and
00:02:44.700 ottawa through a little bit of trudeau colored glasses they are tainted by what's happened in
00:02:50.220 the past and it's affecting how they're viewing what's happening right now it's i mean it's a good
00:02:54.480 way of framing it because um when you have a different leader you have to take a different
00:02:59.860 approach and i've seen differences in this leader compared to the the former leader and so i'm
00:03:05.580 approaching our discussions from a spirit of of goodwill and in the belief that he genuinely wants
00:03:11.420 to find a, you know, I remember, I think I've said this before, maybe not in front of the Edmonton
00:03:17.680 Press Gallery, but when I talked to him about, we need to find a compromise so we can get to a
00:03:22.820 solution on this, and he said, I don't want to compromise. I want to win-win. And that already
00:03:27.240 is a sea change of difference in attitude from the previous prime minister. And everything I've seen
00:03:32.240 so far has given me reason to believe that he's committed to that. So I'm working in good faith.
00:03:37.020 I believe he is as well. And the proof will be once we land this MOU and everybody can see.
00:03:42.360 Now, I don't actually think that she believes that the pipeline is going to get built, but I believe that she believes that she needs to believe that the pipeline is going to get built.
00:03:53.380 Because if she doesn't like with what that reporter was trying to imply, well, isn't it that too many Albertans and business executives are looking at this deal with Trudeau colored glasses?
00:04:03.620 The idea being that people in Alberta are just being too skeptical about this entire thing.
00:04:09.520 Now, what Danielle Smith just articulated there, that Mark Carney is different because instead of saying that we need to come to a deal or a compromise, he said, no, I want to come to a win-win.
00:04:20.180 Now, Mark Carney, his whole win-win strategy is what I've been describing as him saying yes while outsourcing saying no.
00:04:28.940 Because there is no win-win.
00:04:30.440 There is building the pipeline because it's good for the country, and I'm sorry, but Quebec and the environmentalists and the First Nation Band Councils are going to have to lose on this one.
00:04:40.340 Now, not all Indigenous Band Councils are anti-pipeline, but many of them are.
00:04:44.480 But my point remains that there is no win-win here.
00:04:48.060 There is a win for Alberta and Canada, and then there is a lose for all of the anti-pipeline people in Quebec, Toronto, the environmental groups, and the anti-pipeline Indigenous Bands.
00:04:59.940 that is how it's going to be but Mark Carney constantly talking about oh we need to get this
00:05:04.260 win-win is just the way of putting it off it's putting more barriers in front of the project
00:05:09.140 and so the thing that Danielle Smith what will eventually aid her is the Canadian public coming
00:05:15.620 in and just getting sick and tired of the fact that there's no momentum on this whole thing
00:05:20.720 and nobody is going to blame Danielle Smith at the end of the day because look at her she's being 1.00
00:05:26.780 positively credulous about the entire thing. She is absolutely believing, at least performatively,
00:05:34.040 that Mark Carney will actually come through. And that's where we are going to go onto the
00:05:38.480 whiteboard because I want to talk about the new polling coming out of Angus Reid.
00:05:42.400 This is with probably around a thousand or plus people. It is asking people, the specific question
00:05:47.840 here I'm going to start writing down results from is, is the federal government doing enough to
00:05:53.060 build a new pipeline or to build new pipeline capacity. So this is just overall all of the
00:05:59.280 major projects, including a hypothetical West Coast pipeline from Alberta. Now, right now,
00:06:05.460 let's go in reverse order. The amount of people who say too much, the government is doing too much
00:06:12.660 to expand pipeline capacity. That would be your scoldy environmentalists, Quebecers who don't
00:06:20.520 like Alberta and all of the people who, I don't know, just for some reason don't like
00:06:25.860 energy, that represents actually, let's switch colors here just for the thematic element
00:06:32.500 of all this, people saying too much is 21% of people who responded.
00:06:41.680 Now, the amount of people saying that it's just right or about right, about right is
00:06:50.160 obviously higher here, but it's not the highest result here. This one is 31%. 31% of people think
00:07:02.400 that the government is doing about right in terms of trying to increase pipeline capacity.
00:07:07.680 Now, there are those LNG expansions. Those are good. There's small pipeline kind of capacity
00:07:13.360 increasing kind of projects that are going on around the country, kind of in British Columbia,
00:07:18.560 mostly a little bit in Alberta. But like these are kind of small scale type projects. And we're
00:07:23.620 going to be getting into that in the next clip a bit later on in the show in the House of Commons
00:07:27.880 when Jacob Mantle is going after the Liberals for the extremely slow progress and new major projects.
00:07:33.140 But I guess 31% are currently satisfied with the small increases in pipeline capacity. Now,
00:07:40.820 too little people who think that we are not doing enough to actually increase pipeline capacity,
00:07:46.460 if you add the two numbers currently together right now. It's the biggest of the numbers. So
00:07:52.540 too little is currently sitting at... I should put it in red again because of the whole idea
00:08:01.260 that's missing the mark. Right now too little is at 48 percent of Canadians. Now the interesting
00:08:10.060 thing about these results right here is that in a lot of ways even though the people who argue
00:08:16.300 too little and too much are completely in disagreement with what should be done with
00:08:20.660 pipelines. They're spiritually connected here in the sense that they do not like what Mark Carney
00:08:27.140 is doing. The problem with Mark Carney is he refuses to pick a lane, which is why right now
00:08:32.480 his current approach is polling at 2% under one third. There is less than one third of Canadians
00:08:40.420 who think that he is doing about a good, you know, about the right amount when it comes to
00:08:46.160 increasing pipeline capacity in this country, which means that when you combine the numbers
00:08:51.220 of people, we all do basic math here, when you combine the numbers of people who think it's too
00:08:56.080 much and too little, that is 69% of Canadians who are not particularly happy with the Carney
00:09:04.960 liberals performance on this issue. And you can't blame them. There's no real real life sort of,
00:09:11.980 I guess, evidence that we've actually expanded our oil and gas production. And now that we are
00:09:17.720 exporting and moving around more oil and gas products, frankly, if we were, we wouldn't be
00:09:23.740 getting hit nearly as hard by the war in Iran, we would have our own domestic supply and our prices
00:09:30.160 wouldn't be like, what is it, like 30 or 40% higher than the American prices, obviously adjusted
00:09:35.740 from gallons to liters. We are paying way more, even though per capita in Canada, our oil and gas
00:09:43.000 production per capita should be better than the United States overall, since there's many states
00:09:48.200 where there's obviously zero oil and gas production and Alberta has some of the biggest reserves on
00:09:52.820 the planet. But because the liberals have very restrictive policies on extracting oil and gas
00:09:58.700 and then moving it around, we aren't actually doing all that well.
00:10:02.560 So right now, Carney is sitting with 31% of people thinking he's doing a good job,
00:10:07.960 and he's kind of in a bit of an impossible situation here,
00:10:11.560 whereas the people who say too much and about right are the liberal base.
00:10:17.440 Too liberal, too little doesn't really actually contain that many liberals in it.
00:10:22.600 So if he starts doing more to expand pipeline capacity,
00:10:26.040 the problem he will then be running into is that he will probably move a bunch of people.
00:10:31.260 He will move people from too little to about right, but he'll move a bunch of people from
00:10:35.040 about right to too much who live on the West Coast or who live in Quebec. And then he will
00:10:39.380 fuel the Bloc Québécois polling or the NDP or the Green Party's polling. Remember,
00:10:44.800 one of the outgoing liberal MPs, Jonathan Wilkinson, the MP for North Vancouver Capilano,
00:10:51.560 that guy, even on his way out, said, I think that Mark Carney is going to do the right thing.
00:10:56.040 and that he's not going to force a pipeline onto the West Coast that does not want it.
00:11:00.680 I'm paraphrasing him, but that's what he said, and that's what he has been saying for around several months now.
00:11:06.240 He has been one of the big people who is very anti-pipeline,
00:11:09.920 who's been very oddly happy with how Mark Carney's going about this,
00:11:14.560 because he secretly knows Carney's never actually going to get a pipeline done.
00:11:17.760 Again, he wants to be Mr. Pipeline with never actually having to get a pipeline done,
00:11:22.200 and the way he does that is he keeps saying yes, but then says,
00:11:25.460 Oh, but David Eby doesn't want to do it. Oh, but this random First Nations chief doesn't want to do it. Oh, but the Tides Foundation wants us to do another environmental review. That is how he's going to block it up as long as possible.
00:11:38.140 But now, never you mind those numbers, we are now going to go to the House of Commons, where there was a very good interaction in question period. One of the MPs I'm growing to appreciate more and more is Jacob Mantle here, I believe he is from Ontario, sitting actually next to my MP for Calgary Signal Hill, David McKenzie on his left there.
00:12:01.600 But Jacob Mantle does a good job of kind of summing up the new push that the conservatives are making to effectively just mock the liberals into submission in terms of their failure when it comes to actually getting pipelines built or just any major project at all.
00:12:16.500 And the liberal response to this is quite telling.
00:12:20.180 But overall, it kind of encapsulates the numbers that we've just gone over.
00:12:24.080 There's not that many people who think the liberals are actually like our big sea change in terms of how projects are getting done.
00:12:32.300 The speed to which they've increased things since Trudeau is like very difficult to calculate.
00:12:39.140 It's so infinitesimally small. But here's Jacob Bantle.
00:12:42.000 Mr. Speaker, CBC is reporting that the liberals will change the rules for resource development and pipeline approvals to allegedly try and speed them up.
00:12:49.800 but forgive me we've been here before last year they promised big projects that's been never seen
00:12:55.160 before if the minister was right we'd have projects coming out of everywhere but in that year no
00:12:59.720 project has been approved in the national interest nothing has been fast-tracked not one anti-development
00:13:05.000 resource law or tax has been removed it's beginning to feel a little bit like alice in wonderland where
00:13:09.320 the rule is pipeline tomorrow pipeline yesterday but never a pipeline today so if that's not the
00:13:15.080 case will he tell us when the next pipeline will be approved there was a pipeline being built from
00:13:29.880 taylor to gordondale he would have heard there was an expansion of the largest pipeline system
00:13:35.240 in british columbia he would have heard there was eight billion dollars just being spent in goose
00:13:40.200 bay he would have heard there was 500 billion dollars being spent on a new wood farm in nova
00:13:45.000 scotia he would have heard about the new transmission line between nova scotia and new
00:13:49.160 barnswick i could keep going mr speaker they should listen a little more carefully yeah yeah
00:13:54.040 these are not actually new projects many of these were expansions already in the works for like a
00:14:00.840 decade and now they are finally being built it has nothing to do with the liberal government this is
00:14:05.880 simply catch up that would have already been happening, whether Carney was Prime Minister
00:14:09.860 or Trudeau was Prime Minister. Many of these are just LNG terminal expansions. They are just
00:14:15.960 expanding the capacity of a current small-time pipeline. Now, I'm not anti those things happening,
00:14:22.640 but these are the type of projects that you should be celebrating if you are the premier
00:14:28.420 of a single Western province. If you were the premier of Saskatchewan or Manitoba or maybe
00:14:35.260 British Columbia, you could kind of celebrate these things as wins if they weren't grossly
00:14:41.360 behind schedule, which they are. But in terms of Canada's national economy, we are not expanding
00:14:47.140 our economy much at all these days. In fact, our economy is actually shrinking. If you have seen
00:14:52.340 the numbers, I will go now to a CBC article, as much as I'm loathe to do that. They report here,
00:14:59.340 Canada's economy dropped 18,000 jobs in April as unemployment rose to six-month high.
00:15:05.260 Now, maybe I'm just a persnickety one, but I feel like if we were actually building more new projects and our economy was going great guns, we wouldn't be losing month to month tens of thousands of people.
00:15:17.320 In fact, since the beginning of the year, 2026, on net we have lost 112,000 jobs.
00:15:25.740 We had a big fall in January, another big fall in February, I believe in March it ticked up a little bit, and then in April it fell again.
00:15:33.640 And even this from the CBC is burying the lead a little bit. That is a net drop of 18,000 jobs. But the thing that's offsetting the drop a little bit is that we have a lot more people working part-time these days.
00:15:49.100 it says, look right here, it says, the drop was concentrated in full-time jobs, which lost a net
00:15:55.400 of 46,700 people, offset only by a gain of 29,000 jobs in the part-time sector. This is also why I
00:16:04.240 do not like the CBC. The real headline is we lost a net 46,700 full-time jobs. I'm sorry, the part-time
00:16:12.460 jobs, yeah, it kind of stomped, stops the bleedings. What is the thing? Staunch is the bleeding?
00:16:17.540 some word like that. It slows the bleeding a little bit, but you don't replace... If I told
00:16:24.540 you that we gained 10,000 jobs, let's say, in a month, but it turned out we lost 50,000 jobs, 0.99
00:16:33.360 full-time jobs, and we gained 60,000 part-time jobs, you'd probably call me an idiot, probably 0.99
00:16:38.800 because I would be pretty idiotic for saying something like that. No, you didn't gain jobs. 1.00
00:16:44.320 You have lower quality jobs. Now, the quality of jobs has fallen probably by at least half in terms of the amount of money they make, the benefits they bring, and the stability they provide a family. So, you know, get out of here with we only lost 18,000 jobs in April. We lost 46,700 net full-time jobs, and we have risen a little bit in terms of part-time employment.
00:17:11.020 But what do I know?
00:17:12.160 I'm not a business economics guru like Mark Carney is.
00:17:16.660 That's the thing that the Conservatives need to do.
00:17:18.780 Just mock Mark Carney relentlessly. 1.00
00:17:22.580 This guy's an idiot. 1.00
00:17:24.100 He likes to pretend that he understands the economy 1.00
00:17:27.140 because he's been in effectively just professional settings for a long time.
00:17:31.220 He's been the governor of the Bank of Canada,
00:17:33.160 where he only did a good job because he listened to Jim Flaherty.
00:17:36.680 And I know MPs who were around at the time,
00:17:38.380 And they said, yeah, if Jim Flaherty wasn't telling him what to do, Mark Carney was going to do what he later did as the governor of the Bank of England and just wanted to print massive amounts of money and stimulate the economy.
00:17:49.280 That is what Barack Obama did as president after 2009, and it ended up having the United States economy recover extremely slowly from the housing crash, because it turns out just dumping money into the economy and printing it, inflating the currency, doesn't actually improve the economy.
00:18:07.900 it just spreads the pain out a little bit. Again, what do I know? I was never a Goldman Sachs man
00:18:14.620 and I never helped Justin Trudeau plow the economy into the side of a mountain. It proves
00:18:19.020 that he has experience and I don't. I love his little stupid retort when Oliyev was chirping 1.00
00:18:25.340 him about not actually having a trade deal signed with the United States yet. You know, that thing 1.00
00:18:30.340 he promised to do at the end of last July, you know, July 2025 that we're coming upon the
00:18:36.500 anniversary of in a couple months now. When Pauliev was chirping about that, Mark Carney's
00:18:42.380 response was, well, when has he ever signed a trade deal? When has he ever negotiated a trade
00:18:48.220 deal? You got him. You got him. I guess that's why he's not prime minister and you are. Now,
00:18:55.220 how about show him, know what would really get under Pierre Pauliev's trade? Know what really
00:18:59.540 is sticking his craw, you know, and get his goat and all those other, you know, random sayings.
00:19:04.880 maybe signing a deal. Sign a deal.
00:19:07.720 Show Pierre Pauly of how it is
00:19:09.460 and he'll be, you know, crying and gnashing
00:19:11.640 his teeth and tearing his garments
00:19:13.180 out of just sheer jealousy of how great
00:19:15.700 you are at signing trade deals
00:19:17.800 but you have to do one
00:19:19.540 first. You might have to do
00:19:21.800 one of those things, you know, one of those
00:19:23.700 incredible things. Maybe
00:19:25.340 sign one of those things that you
00:19:27.080 are dunking on Pauly for not doing.
00:19:29.780 Maybe do one of those and then you
00:19:31.600 can dunk on him. Apparently we just
00:19:33.640 you know it's like counting your eggs before they hatch but it's like trying to cash in your dunks
00:19:38.760 before you've actually done anything well whatever that should be it for this video guys uh sorry for
00:19:44.920 all the rambling at the end of these videos uh anyways make sure to like the video subscribe
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