Mark Carney has taken a break from the campaign trail for the third time in less than a week and a half. What could be so important that he needs to take such a break? And why is he taking it?
00:00:28.100His team pretends that he has important prime ministerial business to attend to back in Ottawa.
00:00:33.800But unless we're defining important prime ministerial business as him going back to his office and lying in the dark in the fetal position, then no.
00:00:43.000He's got nothing important to do back in Ottawa.
00:00:45.560He's even told U.S. President Donald Trump he's not going to talk to him about trade until after the federal election period.
00:00:52.700So, if that wasn't important enough to take a break from the campaign for, what is he taking a break for?
00:00:59.620And the answer is, he sucks at campaigning and he needs a little mini resets.
00:01:05.940But the thing is, Mark Carney lies so much and so obviously that he keeps generating mini scandals that he just didn't need to.
00:01:15.760There are a lot of things he's done wrong and a lot of bad optics that are out there for him already about him associating with CCP front groups and his dealings with Brookfield Asset Management.
00:01:26.020But if he just told the truth about it, none of this stuff would be nearly as big of a deal.
00:01:31.560So today I want to go through some of the things that have caused him to yet again take another break from the campaign trail just four days after his last break.
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00:02:07.420Let's start off with the first news item today that was not very good for Mark Carney.
00:02:13.160We see here, Brookfield used Cayman Islands to register third fund managed by Carney.
00:02:19.260Use of tax havens, legal, widespread among investment firms, but opens liberal leader to political attacks.
00:02:26.520I don't think anyone thought it was illegal for him to do this, but it's obviously deeply hypocritical.
00:02:31.860Even the CBC frames this as like, oh my goodness, he could get attacked for something he did, as if it's like something happening to him and not something he's caused through his own behavior.
00:02:42.520The Conservatives were not arbitrarily attacking him when he moved Brookfield Asset Management's headquarters from Toronto to New York City after Donald Trump was elected.
00:02:52.520They did that because it's just so obviously hypocritical of Carney to be attacking Trump as a terrible man and especially bad for the economy.
00:03:01.540But right after Trump was elected and Carney already knew he was probably going to try and run to be prime minister, he was all aboard to move to the U.S. because frankly they have better domestic economic policies and Mark Carney wanted to be involved with that rather than the economy he had been the economic advisor of for five years.
00:03:20.780And let's be clear, Justin Trudeau is not qualified to lick stamps at a post office.
00:03:27.440Mark Carney, when he was giving him advice as the campaign advisor, or sorry not the campaign advisor, the economic advisor, was probably basically getting to do whatever he wanted.
00:03:37.000Because not a chance was Justin Trudeau going to say, that's a good suggestion, Mark, but I have my own unique idea over here.
00:03:44.320However, Trudeau didn't have any ideas, and Freeland has made it very clear that she wasn't allowed to do anything that Justin Trudeau didn't tell her to do, which means that she wasn't doing anything that Mark Carney did not suggest.
00:03:55.680So, yeah, this is a really bad story because he already has two tax havens for Brookfield Asset Management in Bermuda, and now he has another one in the Cayman Islands.
00:04:05.480At the same time, literally the same day that he was attacking Pierre Polyev for potentially thinking about, hypothetically, reducing corporate taxes, which I think is actually a very good policy.
00:04:18.200But he was attacking him for wanting to reduce taxes for companies, as well as maybe people in upper income brackets, at the same time that Carney would actually be the biggest tax cheat in the country by his own definition.
00:04:31.480He is trying to move heaven and earth to make sure that his company doesn't pay taxes in Canada, and yet he is very, very perturbed at businesses potentially getting to pay a little bit less taxes while they are operating within Canada.
00:04:46.120Make it make sense. Very bad luck. The Carney campaign had basically nothing to say about this.
00:04:52.360Now, let's jump over to something else.
00:04:54.300Again, because the man has had a long history of just opening his mouth and saying the most radical things in front of groups of people who think he's an intellectual powerhouse, there is so much live ammunition you can use against him, where on the campaign trail he's talking about supporting Canadian energy, but then someone can pull up a clip like this that's only from a few years ago, where he's stumping absolutely against it.
00:05:17.020We can't shrink ourselves to sustainability. We need to invest and grow. And the core of that investment, and Jason knows this well, is a complete overhaul of our energy system.
00:05:28.700If more people knew this, I don't think nearly as many people would be considering voting liberal right now.
00:05:35.620He is literally a more left-wing version of Justin Trudeau.
00:05:40.140He quotes Karl Marx in the last chapter of his book called Values, talking about the labor theory of value, which Mark Carney thinks is an interesting theory,
00:05:49.720despite the fact that it has been a very long-time debunked economic myth that somehow the more effort you put into making a product means that it should be valued more,
00:06:00.940which is ridiculous because if you find a diamond with no effort, that is still more valuable than somebody who took 10 hours making a bunch of mud pies.
00:06:09.280Anyways, let's now move on to the next one.
00:06:14.920So Mark Carney claimed today, when the Globe and Mail ran a story about the fact that he had basically had engagements with a bunch of CCP front groups in Canada,
00:06:27.000that he said that he didn't even know these organizations and he can't trust everything printed in the Globe and Mail,
00:06:33.200when the organization in question, the JCCC, which stands for something that I don't need to break down,
00:06:40.500they literally were posting photos of them with Mark Carney at an event.
00:06:44.920This was their event that he attended, and there is everyone from the board with Mark Carney,
00:06:51.120and yet he had said that he had never met them before, even though this isn't even the only photo.
00:06:55.920The man has taken more photos with the JCCC than I have photos of myself.
00:07:02.660And yet he thought that he was just going to get away with saying,
00:07:06.140nuh-uh, no, I never saw any of those people.
00:08:58.280Well, criminals are trying to illegally import guns to Canada.
00:09:03.340Pierre Paulyevre is trying to import irresponsible American-style gun laws into our country.
00:09:09.940You can't be serious about being tough on crime if you're not willing to be tough on guns.
00:09:17.320This man is the one who is belittling Trump for saying that we need to crack down on the border and all of the illegal drugs that are going over the border.
00:09:28.840Canadians should have actually been jumping at the opportunity to secure the border because we should have been doing it for years because of all the illegal guns coming over the border.
00:09:55.140But confiscating law-abiding gun owners' weapons is somehow going to stop gangs in downtown Toronto from shooting each other with illegally smuggled-in guns from the United States.
00:11:14.940Carney plans focuses on particular steps to address gun crime, in particular child exploitation, securing the border target, that increases to RCMP and CBSA in priority areas, among other things.
00:11:46.040The whole point of locking up criminals is to incapacitate criminals so they cannot keep committing crimes.
00:11:52.280Nobody's locking up criminals because they don't want that guy over there to stop committing crimes.
00:11:56.920They want to lock up this guy because this guy is committing crime.
00:12:02.660If that guy's committing crime, too, let's lock him up, too.
00:12:06.040I know I sound like a barbarian here, thinking that maybe if you commit a crime, you should do the time.
00:12:12.240But, you know, that's usually what has caused low crime rates to occur.
00:12:16.160But this man is praising Carney because instead of locking up criminals, he is going to kind of secure the border, although he's, like, belittling Trump on that issue, so I don't trust him.
00:12:28.840He's going to do something on guns, take away old Farmer John's shotgun, and that's going to prevent Somali gangs in Toronto from shooting people.
00:12:42.560And again, this is why the man is taking another break off the campaign trail.
00:12:47.580All of his campaign promises that he's announced have flopped.
00:12:50.780They've just been exposed to something that Justin Trudeau wanted to do as well and never did, even when Carney was around as the economic advisor.
00:12:58.200Or he's just been caught in the dumbest possible lies or with a bunch of CCP connections or with tax havens and all his other crazy anti-oil and gas rhetoric.
00:13:11.780And luckily, again, the tariff issue is going away, so I actually believe in the next week or so we are going to start seeing big polling shifts.
00:13:20.020In fact, yesterday, Main Street's numbers were, like, a 7.8% lead for the Liberals, and that made sense because that poll was conducted before the tariffs had gone off between America and the world.
00:13:32.340And so, obviously, that was going to be the high watermark where there was the big rally around the flag moment for the government because people sometimes don't see the difference between the Canadian government and, like, the Liberal Party.
00:13:45.740So when there's trade tensions with the U.S., people are artificially in favor of whoever is currently in government in Canada.
00:13:52.340And already over the past day, that 7.8% lead, I believe, has fallen to 5.
00:13:57.640So it's already gone down by 2.8% in a single day because tariffs and trade is just not going to be an issue for the rest of the election.
00:14:05.780And I think the Conservatives really need to drill in on that.
00:14:09.160The U.S. will still be an issue, but I think the Conservatives can now control the narrative that the only reason that all happened and that we were vulnerable is because the Liberals have done such a bad job managing this country.
00:14:20.500They gave the excuse of the border and fentanyl to the U.S. to impose tariffs on us, and our economy is so weak, the tariff threat is actually crippling to Canada because we have no savings, our credit rating sucks, our taxes are too high, our regulations are too high, and Carney over here doesn't want to deal with any of that.
00:14:37.840In fact, I'm a bad person, apparently, for wanting to do it.
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