Carney exposed for LYING during election about his assets!
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On Friday, we finally got a look at the Prime Minister s many financial interests, interests that he kept carefully hidden throughout the election, and about which he told numerous falsehoods. And now, he s doing the bare bare minimum to distance himself from these conflicts while he is in government, and Federal Conservative Party Leader Pierre Polyev has called him out for this.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. It's the year 2025 in Canada, so of course Prime Minister
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Mark Carney and his Liberal government do not have a budget for us yet, but they do
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have a new political scandal for us to talk about surrounding Mark Carney's financial
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conflicts of interest that he's been avoiding disclosing to Canadians up until a couple
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days ago when the Ethics Commissioner effectively forced him to disclose. And even now, he's
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doing the utter bare minimum to actually distance himself from these conflicts while he is
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in government. Earlier today, Federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev called him out for
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this, and I think he did a very good job in this press conference, so I want to break it
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down today with you guys. But before we get into it, I just want to remind you, hey, if
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also leave a comment on what you think about this issue. Now, let's get into it. By the
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way, I do want to link the Western Standards X account in the description of this video
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below. Go follow them. They did a very good job clipping this press conference as it was
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coming out, and it is what the basis of this video is on, their clips that they posted. So
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go give them a follow if you are an ex-user. But here is Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev
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calling out Mark Carney in this first clip for having been lying about his financial conflicts
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since effectively he stepped foot in federal politics.
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On Friday, we finally got a look at the Prime Minister's many financial interests, interests that
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he kept carefully hidden throughout the election, and about which he told numerous falsehoods during
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that same campaign. And so these are what the revelations tell us. One, that Mr. Carney was
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not upfront or honest with Canadians during the election. He made numerous false statements,
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statements he would have known were false when he made them. Two, there is a cornucopia of conflicts
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of interest in these investments like we have never seen before from a Canadian Prime Minister.
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Let me go through and document all of these claims one by one.
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Before he gets into that, I also just want to point out myself that Carney actually probably
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should have been disclosing these conflicts of interest, not even just back when he was running
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for election in 2025 in the federal election. He should have been disclosing when he was running
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for Liberal Party leadership. That was actually originally when the questions started arising.
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And I would actually say, even before then, we probably should have known what his investments
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looked like back when he became former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's economic advisor in 2020.
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Because as the economic advisor, you can do a lot to benefit yourself financially,
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get the government to put out a new subsidy program that benefits all the green energy companies
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you're invested in, or to give a contract to this company or that company, because you can
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vouch that they're really good, not disclosing that you have millions invested in them.
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So I think this goes back even farther than Polyev is highlighting, but obviously it doesn't
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really need to go back that far. Really, the most recent election was the most impactful one
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when it came to Mark Carney covering this stuff up. But now he's going to get into debunking some
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of these points. First of all, during the election campaign, Mr. Carney said, and I quote,
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I own nothing but cash and personal real estate, and that's not going to change in public life.
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Well, it turns out, while he said that he knowingly owned 574 stocks and deferred profits
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assets and stock options in Brookfield and other companies. So it was patently and now provably
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false for him to say he owned nothing but cash and real estate. Two, my assets are now in a blind
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trust, so I don't know what exactly is in there. That too is false. He must have known what was in
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that blind trust, because he was the one that filled out the paperwork for the ethics commissioner
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to report those holdings. So he knew exactly what was in his blind trust.
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And as we went over in a video yesterday, it's very obvious to guess what he was invested in.
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Tons of Brookfield, like companies, like it would be like Brookfield Renewable or Brookfield
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something or other. Tons of random green energy companies and a lot of stuff where it did with
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obviously, if it's in a blind trust, well, he knows exactly what's in it because nothing's changed.
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And so if Mark Carney's in government with the current rules in place, just saying that he cannot
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be directly involved in any decision that would affect those companies, he knows that if he starts
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a new green energy subsidy, it's going to go to a bunch of his companies because they're used to
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already getting money from the government, and it's probably not going to change. So by just putting
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out blanket programs that could technically benefit any of these companies, any green energy company,
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he knows that his companies are going to be first at the trough. But I'll let this clip play out with
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Polyov. And he just did not want Canadians to know before they went to the polls. Finally, he said,
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and I quote, I do not have a connection with Brookfield Asset Management. Well, it turns out
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that he has continuing stock options and deferred share units in Brookfield Asset Management. And
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these options cannot be sold, or at least not easily. And we have no reason to believe they have
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been. So when he said that he had no connection to Brookfield, he was stating a patent falsehood.
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And remember, the 2025 election was very close. Do you know the difference between currently the
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liberal minority government and a conservative minority government? I believe it was 8,800 votes,
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8,800 votes across Canada. That was in the closest ridings. So it is in a more concentrated area.
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But if you consider what 1% of the vote is, if the conservatives gained 1%, maybe even just 0.7%
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of the vote, they probably would have picked up those ridings because they were the ridings where they
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were disproportionately probably going to be gaining new voters if they were converting people over or
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driving out their base more. And I feel like it would have affected the election if a lot of
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liberal or potential liberal party supporters realized that this guy has massive financial
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interests in the things that the liberal governments have been tossing money at over the last five years
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when he became the economic advisor to Trudeau. Because even though it's not like a driving thing for
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people's votes, there's a lot of people who do care if someone's corrupt or not, or somebody may be
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getting into government because it financially benefits them, or they're getting into government
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and maybe they get super financially benefited. You know, they do care about doing the job right, but
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maybe federal policy is going to be guided by whatever happens to benefit them. That's not exactly great
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for everybody if everything is triangulating towards, you know, whatever benefits people who are exactly like
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Mark Carney, you know, downtown Toronto, woke liberal investors. Anyway, so let's move on to another clip.
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I think it gets better as he goes on. I want, I think this is a great clip where Polly of points out
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basically how this should actually be handled in government. It shouldn't just be that Carney puts it in
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a blind trust or says, I won't, I swear, I won't make any decisions about anything that would benefit
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one of these companies directly. It needs to be done more firmly. There needs to be a way that he,
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that he cannot benefit himself because all of his stocks are sold off and put into different areas
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that he has no clue about. We're calling on the prime minister to sell his investments,
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turn them into cash, hand them to a trustee who can invest them in a way that is completely blind to
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him so that he does not have any knowledge of what he owns. That is the spirit of a blind trust.
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A blind trust is meant to be something that the owner does not know anything about. That's what
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it means to be blind of the assets. But right now, Mr. Carney is clearly not blind of what he holds
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because even we know what he holds due to this disclosure. And this will put him in an impossible
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position where he will be conflicted at every turn. So either he will have to get up three or four
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times every cabinet meeting to avoid stumbling over the 100 plus potential conflicts that he,
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that, that the ethics commissioner has identified, or he will act in the cabinet to potentially favor
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his own interests. Neither of those possibilities is acceptable. I actually think there's a third
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possibility here where Mark Carney would have full plausible deniability that he's benefiting himself
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in government. And that would be from the angle where maybe cabinet ministers trying to curry favor
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with Mark Carney would just happen to always favor Brookfield or different companies that he is
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heavily invested in. It's not at all out of the realm of possibilities that you start giving out
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sole source contracts that make you more popular with Carney so that maybe you get to be a deputy prime
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minister as well as whatever role you currently have, or that the liberal party is going to put more
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resources into your riding to make you more popular for reelection if you are in a less stable riding.
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There's a lot of ways, or maybe you get kickbacks in some way. There is just too many ways where we
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can hypothetically come up with, you know, with, with schemes to be able to make money for both Carney
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as well as those surrounding him. But anyways, so let's jump over to another con, another clip here of Carney
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of Carney calling out how that like basically right now you can't, you don't really have a real prime
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minister. If at any, every corner there's constant distractions preventing him from making objective
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decisions. We need a prime minister whose only purpose is serving the Canadian people to reverse the
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massive damage liberals have done to reverse the out of control, immigration, inflation, crime,
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debt, and our spiraling economy. And here we are, a prime minister who's going to be constantly
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distracted by his private interests when the public interest is in such desperate need of attention.
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Look at how bad things are in Canada today and getting worse. The debt is growing faster under Mark
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Carney than it was under Justin Trudeau. The, he says Mr. Carney is spending more in his first budget bill,
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his first financial bill spending more than Justin Trudeau was spending.
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I do want to talk about this myself as well, because while yes, Mark Carney is cutting things,
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is he actually cutting things from the bottom line of the budget or is he just shifting it around?
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In some ways I actually support the ways that he is shifting money. I would like us to cut spending.
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That's the, one of the big problems here. It doesn't matter if you move money from a, like, you know,
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a, like an area where it's basically being burned to an area where it's being used better.
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If we're still falling into debt faster, I think we should increase defense spending,
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but I think we should increase defense spending at the same time that we are cutting
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wasteful programs that we are slashing is stupid foreign aid spending. You know,
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we fund abortions in West Africa right now to give you an example of somewhere where we should be
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cutting off foreign aid spending. And so right now the government is putting us in debt faster than
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the Trudeau liberals. At the same time, I see people praising them being like, Oh, look, they're going,
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they're cutting off the money from like these useless bureaucracies or whatever. Those bureaucrats
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aren't getting fired. They're going to be shifted somewhere else. That is the problem here. And also,
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the thing is too, we're probably going to have a tax increase because everything that Carney is doing,
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all of his promises, because he's not willing to actually cut from the bottom line, he is then
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going to have to find new revenue sources. We already see the media floating the idea of increasing
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the GST by 2%. And by the way, another thing on conflicts of interest, Carney can say, this won't
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distract me. I'm a professional. I'm super ethical. He's already decided to give another $150 million a year,
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through the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is actually the source of a second scandal
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right now for the liberal government. It doesn't directly have to do with them, but it has to do
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with them. The CBC is obviously a liberal party front group. You and I have known that for years,
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but for the average Canadian who doesn't think about politics all that much, it actually is a shock to
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have a CBC host leave and basically say, yeah, they're trying to skew every story in favor of the
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liberals. They're not letting me have conservative guests on. They are politically corrupt. And that
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is a problem when Carney obviously knew this stuff. The thing is that they know who runs the CBC. They
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know that these people are liberals. They can see what the coverage is like. He was giving them $150,
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$150 million more because it benefits him, because it benefits his party. There is a massive conflict of
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interest with the government giving extra money to the CBC and campaigning on it. And he did that.
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So why would I then trust that he is not going to benefit himself by giving money to, well, what
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happens to just be a good green company? Oh, it just happened. Brookfield Renewables just happens to be a
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fantastic company or this other solar or wind company. It just happens to be the best bidder on
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this contract. So I'm going to have to give it to them. It's like, I don't trust that that's not going to
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happen in his government. But anyways, getting back to Polyev here. The deficit looks like it could be
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even bigger under Carney than it was under Trudeau. And that is true. We're already at $92 billion of a
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deficit for this year. We thought it was only going to be $56 million or $56 billion last year with Trudeau for
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the year 2025. Now it's going to be $92 billion. And I don't think it's going to stop there. I think we might
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crank a hundred. We have rising unemployment, a crisis of jobs for our young people.
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Housing is still unaffordable. And Mr. Carney has so far kept the unsustainable immigration numbers that
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Justin Trudeau left behind, numbers that are overwhelming housing, health care and jobs that
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are dividing our country and breaking up any notion of integration. We need a prime minister who's fully
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focused on undoing the damage that the Liberals have done, not continuing that damage and focusing
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on his private interests. Now I want to move over to the last clip I wanted to play. And by the way,
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I have to give some compliments to Pierre Polyev. This isn't exactly a channel where I've ever been
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lacking on good things to say about him. I've also never shied away from saying I disagree with him doing
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this or that. But he has actually toughened up a lot on immigration. I'm going to make an entire
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different video on that showing where his positions have shifted over time because
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it has all been in a positive direction. I thought he was weak in the federal election on immigration.
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Now he is saying basically what I am saying. Let's reduce immigration heavily by like 80% and let's
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make sure everyone here on a TFW visa or student visa, especially if they try and overstay, leaves the
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country. Who cares if the population goes down? Let's stabilize the country first. And by the way,
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immigration, high immigration rates actually lower your birth rate because it ends up causing a lot
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of financial and like economic friction in the country. People are worse off when their per capita
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incomes go down. So then they don't have kids. So then the people you're even bringing into the
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country are also not going to have kids. And so you're always just constantly falling into the same
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problem of not having enough people having their own kids. They bring in more people, which causes
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people not to have kids. So you need to bring in more people. But that's me rambling about something not
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in this video. But now I got to get to this last clip here where he talks about the contradictions
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in Mark Carney's claims about his financial interests.
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Mark Carney Why should we care? Why should Canadians care about this? Well,
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Mr. Carney has shown in the past his willingness to use his political connections in order to profit
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himself. For example, he said, let me see here. He gave public endorsement of Westinghouse in the
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leaders debate. Westinghouse is a nuclear energy company which Brookfield is invested in. He has
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announced he's going to spend billions of dollars on modular homes. Brookfield is invested in modular homes.
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He says he wants to subsidize heat pumps. Brookfield is invested in heat pumps. He says that jet fuel,
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he in the past he has said that he helped influence regulatory changes forcing aviation companies to
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buy certain kinds of jet fuel that he that one of his companies was invested in so that Canadian so that
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air passengers have to pay more for their airline ticket to subsidize this specialty jet fuel that
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profits a company in which Mr. Carney had a financial interest. And by the way, something else scary
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about Carney's conflicts of interest is when you go through those 103 companies that he has a financial
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stake in, you find I think someone corrected me on my last video, there is one natural gas company, and I
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think it's like a natural gas, like power company. So it's not really involved in like the the supplying of
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natural gas, it takes natural gas, and I think like, you know, it puts it on the grid or whatever for power.
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There, it is just chock full of renewable companies green like solar, wind, hydrogen, all this stuff.
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And it's, it's, it's just part of the subsidy economy. Everything that Carney, not everything,
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but like so much of what Carney has money in is not financially like it's not, it's not profitable
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businesses. These are subsidy businesses, businesses that the only way they profit is by the government
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giving them massive amounts of money to do something where if they did it themselves would be at a net
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loss, they only get make money because the government is propping them up battery companies,
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all this stuff, wind, solar that gets massive subsidies from taxpayers in order to sell their
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power onto the grid. This is, again, it just demonstrates the kind of mindset that Carney has,
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the worldview he has where he invests in things that are not actually good for the economy. It's not
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actually good for people, but it makes him money because it's politically fashionable and it gets
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a lot of subsidies. I know people will be like, oh, no, the renewables are good for the planet in
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some way. No, natural gas is good for the planet. Producing something that's actually affordable and
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efficient is what you want, which capitalism is a great at identifying because people will buy the
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energy that is cheapest that will get them the furthest in their vehicle, or the cheapest that
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heats their home the longest. That is what people will naturally do because capitalism is fantastic.
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But getting back to pure poly of here. And the list of potential conflicts goes on and on. How
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can he possibly be involved in developing a budget when all the tax policies could impact on his
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investments directly or indirectly? How could he address things like competition policy when his
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companies might be impacted? Then there's, for example, the digital services tax. The digital services tax
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is paid by some of the companies that he has invested in. And therefore he has a potential
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or perceived conflict of interest in that as well. So conservatives are calling for two things today.
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One, we call on the prime minister to come before you and explain the contradiction. How is it that he was
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telling Canadians that he only had real estate and cash when he knowingly had stocks, stock options,
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and other deferred benefits? How is it that he claimed he didn't know it was in his blind trust when we
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now learn that he knew exactly what was in that trust? And how is it that he said that he had no
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financial interest in Brookfield when he knew exactly that he had stock options and deferred share units?
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Finally, so we want him to say, explain why he told Canadians the opposite of the truth during the
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election campaign. I would say at this point that Carney, his big way out of this one to give like,
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I guess if I'm to put on the liberal strategist hat, he needs to build a pipeline. If he doesn't
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build a pipeline, it's going to seem so sketchy that this guy who's invested in every single renewable
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company is going to not build a pipeline that would look really bad and just increase like
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renewable subsidies. I know he wants to make this energy corridor that he's going to,
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he wants to be powered by green energy, but unless he approves either like an Energy East pipeline,
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which doesn't look like he would do because he has to get Quebec on board and he will not
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say no to Quebec, he will not overrule them with the notwithstanding clause. He also,
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maybe he'd do the Wab Canoe one where Wab Canoe, the NDP Premier of Manitoba, wants one to Hudson's
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Bay. Maybe he'll do that one because it's easy or potentially he forces David Eby to take one in
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for the West Coast. He could always do that. But I remain skeptical if he does it good. But at the
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same time, I feel like this is a government where if anything good happens, it's going to be dragging,
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kicking, pulling and shaming Carney into doing it. And I think that this particular financial scandal
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he has about his conflicts of interests and lying constantly may actually, oddly enough, force him
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to do some good stuff just to basically bury the story. But like, you know, don't be mad at me. I just
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cut your taxes even more. Don't be mad at me. I just help approve a pipeline. The problem for Carney,
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though, is that pipelines actually take a lot of time to build. And so it's going to be difficult
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to actually prove he's serious about it because the amount of planning that goes into one means
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that he never actually has to let anyone put shovels into the ground by the end of a term
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because of all the time it will take to even get something started. And so if he's popular enough,
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he could say yes now to become popular and cancel it later when the economy is just naturally doing
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a little better because maybe world economic trends. But that's where that I'm going to kind
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of leave us in this video. I thought Polyev did a really good job on that. I think that the
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conservatives really need to run with both this story and the CBC one. They need to, from again,
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a strategic, I put on a conservative strategic hat right now, they need to be constantly jumping
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between the two. Carney's corrupt and part of his corruption is funding the CBC to continue pumping
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out liberal propaganda. Talk about the CBC to diminish their reputation because they don't
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deserve the reputation they have as a neutral arbiter of the truth, a neutral presenter of the news.
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They need to be absolutely hammered on this Travis Dunraj scandal where Travis left to blow the whistle
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on them and then constantly hammer Carney over all of the times that he has lied about
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his financial conflicts of interest and how he's probably the prime minister because of his lies.
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Because if people knew about this stuff, those middle of the road voters may have, you know,
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fallen down a different, may have gone down a different path and voted conservative instead.
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Again, only 8,800 vote difference between conservative minority government and liberal minority
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government. And if maybe Carney was more truthful, 100,000 votes or so may have gone the other way.
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And the 8,000 votes they needed in those specifically closest ridings would have actually flipped the
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ridings for the conservatives. But anyway, so that should be it for me today, guys. I hope you don't
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