The CBC has finally figured out that maybe Mark Carney is kind of a liar. Here's a clip from a recent interview on CBC's Power and Politics with David Cochran where he explains how they were lied to about a budget.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I have a remarkable clip to play for you guys today.
00:00:07.000The CBC has finally figured out that maybe Mark Carney is kind of a liar.
00:00:13.120Last week, I covered through CBC Gem. That did some mental damage to me.
00:00:19.360I hate having to watch things on CBC Gem because they don't actually post their full clips on YouTube.
00:00:24.220You have to watch the full versions on Gem.
00:00:26.280And there was an interaction last week that I had covered between the conservative on the Power and Politics panel, Fred DeLore, and I put conservative in very heavy air quotes.
00:00:36.540He had brought up to the host, David Cochran, that, well, what's with Mark Carney spending $33 billion through an order in council?
00:00:45.240I thought this was the guy who was going to take the economy very seriously and he had a plan and now he needs more time to be able to pass a budget.
00:00:53.760So he's just signing over $33 billion to the different departments of government.
00:00:58.640And David Cochran cut up and said, it's just to get us through the gap.
00:01:01.640This is just the money to get us through the gap right now in the budget because the budget was passed in like late April of last year.
00:01:09.520And so he had to sign that money so that he had enough time over the next three weeks to table the new budget.
00:01:14.600Maybe he needed some time to schedule in King Charles to open up parliament, whatever.
00:01:18.540David Cochran jumped in and he said, no, no, no, there's a good explanation for all this.
00:01:23.980Well, yesterday he basically had to admit, no, there's not a good explanation for this.
00:01:30.760He sat on our show and said that he had a plan and that, you know, he was going to have a budget for this year.
00:01:35.780And now the liberals aren't even tabling a budget.
00:01:38.360And I was already on to this one because I had people correcting me and saying, no, no, no, it's just to get them to the next budget because they need to be able to keep the lights on, the gears of government need to keep turning.
00:01:50.000But what you'll notice about that OIC is that they never said this was just to bridge the gap for the next three weeks.
00:01:55.800And the numbers didn't line up with most of the departments.
00:01:58.900Some of the departments were only given four or five percent of their budget in that OIC, their yearly budget, which is like into like the hundreds of millions.
00:02:08.400They would have been given, you know, 20 million.
00:02:12.780But other departments like the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in that OIC were given things like one hundred and seventy eight million dollars in one shot.
00:02:23.400But you probably know the CBC every single year, it has a budget of one point four billion, but its actual taxpayer portion of the budget is one billion.
00:02:33.120The other four hundred million is through different types of, you know, it's like ad revenue and other sorts of money that the CBC gets in from other non-governmental sources.
00:02:43.600And so why do they need seventeen point eight percent of their budget all in one shot?
00:02:48.840It's almost like Mark Carney is going around and giving money to departments or things other than just keeping the lights on.
00:02:56.340But now here is David Cochran on the power and politics panel talking about how they were lied to.
00:03:04.400So today's award for the fell for it again award goes to David Cochran because he has finally figured out that he fell for it.
00:03:13.640Well, not necessarily the explanations that were given on camera.
00:03:16.680You can you can understand why they might want a bit more time than, you know, two weeks from now to have to table a budget because that's what you'd have to be ready for.
00:03:35.420Fred DeLore, I frequently disagree with him, but he was right to point out that the way that they were using this OIC was not very responsible.
00:03:42.920They kind of signed it in the middle of the night on like Friday, like at the end of the day on Friday, they signed it because obviously they wanted as little attention on as possible.
00:03:51.220And Mark Carney, as a savvy man, would know that bad business news always gets put out on a Friday afternoon so that it doesn't get carried or doesn't get talked about over the weekend.
00:04:30.400The people who lied for 10 years straight in their Trudeau era government are going to keep lying in the Carney government because this is literally all the same people, including Carney.
00:04:41.920But to not even give an update on the deficit projections and the economic projections, Fred, like that I don't get.
00:04:48.780Like you may not have your whole plan ready to go with the dollar amounts and you want to talk to industry and these things.
00:04:53.520But like, we have no idea what the financial track of the government is right now.
00:04:58.260And they're going to ask people to vote on a five to six billion dollar tax cut without knowing where that fits into the bottom line.
00:05:04.940And it goes against the entire narrative of Carney that he is the man with a plan.
00:05:10.800That's why he told Canadians and it's why he won this last election.
00:05:47.200My thing is that it's not like he's incompetent.
00:05:49.560He doesn't want to put out a budget because he just doesn't want to put out a budget.
00:05:53.840Because guess what you get to do when there's no budget?
00:05:56.480You can just kind of keep spurting out a little bit of money here and there.
00:06:00.040Oh, this department needs another five million.
00:06:02.040This department needs another 10 million.
00:06:04.000Oh, CBC needs another 30 million because it needs to make another three unfunny sitcoms.
00:06:08.560And it doesn't really hit big news every time another 20 million is spent or 20 billion is spent overall.
00:06:16.480But at the end of the year, people might realize that, wow, he spent somehow, you know, $70 billion more than Trudeau did in his last year.
00:06:25.940But he just nickel and dimes his way to the top and gives money to all the interest groups that he's trying to keep in line.
00:06:32.280If Mark Carney is savvy in any way, it's on how to manipulate people, how to put on a good false front, how to seem fiscally responsible at the same time he's going to do the exact opposite.
00:06:43.280Seem like he cares about the energy industry.
00:06:45.220At the same time, he's still in favor of cap and trade and increasing the industrial carbon tax to make up for the consumer carbon tax that he's gotten rid of under conservative pressure.
00:06:54.180This is going to be a complete bait and switch government.
00:06:57.320And as much as David Cochran and the CBC realize that Mark Carney is a liar, they're not going to realize too hard because they're still very much financially tied to the government since they are getting most of their budget from taxpayers.
00:07:09.540I'm going to play a little bit more of this and I want to jump over to actually a CTV panel where they were also talking about this.
00:07:15.800And it's hilarious, again, just watching all these people be like, oh, my goodness, he said he had a plan.
00:07:19.840Like, well, he was the, you can, I cannot stop repeating it.
00:07:25.100He was like the economic advisor for like five years.
00:07:33.640And he was in there for five of those suckers.
00:07:35.380And you guys didn't realize that his track record of bad economic performance, of bad plans under Trudeau were going to translate into his government.
00:07:43.960Because Mark Carney is the type of guy, if he's the economic advisor, he's like making all the decisions.
00:07:48.500Mark Carney doesn't stick around as the economic advisor to like walk into Trudeau's office.
00:08:00.320Okay, like Mark Carney's not working for Trudeau unless he gets to control the department that he's advising over.
00:08:06.920And so when people are acting like this is going to be a fresh government, like, no, it's obviously not.
00:08:12.140And saying he has a new plan doesn't make up for the track record because previous results, track record tends to be the best indicator of how someone is going to do in the future.
00:08:22.660Sure, because that was effectively their tryout and he failed in his tryouts, but we're like, but maybe he just needs to be moved up to the big leagues.
00:08:31.220Yes, he failed in the minors, but let's move him to the let's move him to the top ranks because then he will start flourishing.
00:10:41.440I had someone tell me once he doesn't watch cricket, but if India ever loses a cricket match, he highlights it because that's how much of a nutcase he is.
00:10:52.460OK, Larissa, I wanted to ask you when you consider what we had also seen around cabinet and in the corridors outside of cabinet and how there were some mixed messaging there.
00:11:06.740Do you think that they need to have a tighter grip on it or, you know, when you consider the fact that oftentimes you will trust these people to be able to say what they want to say?
00:11:18.040And I'm thinking of, you know, Stephen Guilbeault weighing in on pipelines, even though that's not his file anymore.
00:11:24.040And some of these things, do you think that this is just some of the growing pains of a new government?
00:11:28.840These aren't new people. These aren't neophytes. These aren't people who don't know how to bridge out of a question into something they want to talk about.
00:11:38.540Absolutely. And this also applies to the budget.
00:11:40.980These people, and just as also what Fred DeLore was saying, this is the fourth government and they still are pretending like they need to wait, they need to get their sea legs.
00:11:49.300For so many years, the Liberal government has said one thing to one group of people and another thing to another group of people.
00:11:54.940I think it was glaring today, but I don't think for a hot minute that PMO didn't know exactly what Steve Guilbeault would say, should he be asked that question anywhere he is.
00:12:04.920So anytime he's around national press, they're going to ask him. PMO knows what he's going to say.
00:12:09.900And frankly, I think they're OK with it. They like this idea where you say one thing to one group of people, another thing to another.
00:12:16.480But I have to mention the most glaring thing that happened this week is that we learned that there is no federal budget.
00:12:22.180And for a government that ran on, you know, themes of stability, predictability, reliability, you know, I'm Mark Carney, financial savior for all.
00:12:32.880To say that he's not going to put forward a budget is ludicrous.
00:12:36.500I cannot believe he doesn't understand the value of sharing what your fiscal plan is going to be and the value of having the voice of the people vote on it.
00:12:47.420Right. Like if you just won this big election, put it down on paper, pass it through the class, through the house.
00:12:52.740The idea that we're going to rise in June so we can't sit. Let me think of who could extend that sitting calendar.
00:12:59.160Oh, it's the Liberal Party. It's Mark Carney. He can make them sit.
00:13:02.480He's not bound by any sort of law that's if anything, we should also probably have a longer sitting because we've gone without a government since like I think was it like not even early December.
00:13:14.340I think it was like November. We haven't had a sitting government for a long time to the point where I brought this up in the last episode.
00:13:20.980Mark Carney in his mini government before the election appointed somebody as the new house leader for the Liberals.
00:13:28.040The house never sat during that time and now the lady's no longer the house leader.
00:13:34.800So she is in Canadian history, I believe, the only house leader to never actually lead the house.
00:14:16.960And we made a statement about it last night.
00:14:19.420And then the conservatives were like, God dang, the independents actually said something like in conservative.
00:14:24.780They were like they beat us to the punch.
00:14:27.060So they put out the same clip that I clipped to then feign offense at it, even though they're the ones who got rid of Dallas Brody because she rightfully called out the Graves hoax and Kamloops.
00:14:38.200But they're also going to take issue with the NDP.
00:14:40.480But then they messed it up because one of their morons, Peter Milibar, puts out a tweet basically saying, well, the problem with what the NDP MLI said is she didn't sound sincere.