The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 28, 2026


Carney FUMBLES when called out for Liberal tricks by Poilievre in QP!


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The first question period of the year 2026 between PM Mark Carney and Conservative Party Leader Pierre Pouvernage. Today's episode is a mashup of the Prime Minister's answer to a question from a Canadian journalist.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph channel.
00:00:05.600 On the show today, I want to take you guys through the first question period of the year 2026
00:00:12.140 between Federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev and Prime Minister Mark Carney.
00:00:17.680 I think this is actually important to watch because since the holiday break,
00:00:22.540 I would actually say that Carney has been able to, at least in terms of the perception of the public,
00:00:28.280 rack himself up a bunch of victories.
00:00:31.480 Many Canadians do not like Communist China, but based on the media reporting,
00:00:36.920 they will still perceive it as a win because the media presented it as a win because we got a trade deal signed,
00:00:42.560 or Carney signed a bill to do whatever, or he approved a bunch of new nebulous projects out there
00:00:48.800 that if you actually look into it, it doesn't really matter.
00:00:51.940 But again, once you get back into the House of Commons,
00:00:55.420 that's when a lot of the achievements of Mark Carney can be challenged.
00:01:00.060 And so I want to show you guys what happened in question period today.
00:01:04.060 But before I get into it, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the show,
00:01:07.760 make sure to leave a like on this video, subscribe if you're not yet a subscriber,
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00:01:18.560 But let's not waste any time. Let's get into question period today.
00:01:23.060 And know what I actually did for once?
00:01:24.740 I skipped over the little stupid French bit that's always at the beginning. 1.00
00:01:29.240 Sorry, Quebec, I don't speak French.
00:01:31.040 And for some reason, it's like House of Commons tradition.
00:01:33.220 They always make the first question and answer back and forth in French.
00:01:37.340 And it's always confusing to me because I'm thinking like only like 12% of the population,
00:01:42.620 maybe even less than that, can only speak French and not English.
00:01:48.200 Mr. Speaker, yesterday the prime minister held a photo op at a grocery store in front of food,
00:01:53.540 but there was just one thing missing.
00:01:58.040 The price tags.
00:01:59.740 He had ordered his PMO staff to literally show up early at the grocery store and remove the price tags.
00:02:06.780 They're back up today. We went and checked.
00:02:08.540 And they're really high.
00:02:10.000 In fact, grocery prices are rising faster in Canada.
00:02:12.620 Than in any other G7 country, twice as fast as in the States, twice as fast as when he took office.
00:02:19.320 Mr. Speaker, the hidden costs that this prime minister imposes on inflation will not go away
00:02:24.400 because he tries to take down the price tag.
00:02:26.580 Why won't he take down the price?
00:02:28.760 The right honourable prime minister.
00:02:31.120 Now, obviously, right there, you have here, Polly, of referencing the GST grocery rebate
00:02:37.540 that Mark Carney had announced yesterday.
00:02:40.820 That was a press conference where he obviously fumbled all over his words when a journalist asked him if we're going to have a snap election spring 2026,
00:02:49.160 which means that we are probably going to be having a snap election sometime this year.
00:02:53.380 And Mark Carney, in trying to run away from the fact that grocery prices are really high,
00:03:00.060 is now basically just handing out money the exact same way Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did.
00:03:05.520 That's the funny thing.
00:03:06.600 We keep hearing it's a new government, yet they keep using the same really stupid tricks in order to try and keep Canadians on their side.
00:03:14.460 Instead, rather than just cutting taxes and making it easier to operate in our economy,
00:03:19.640 instead, we are going to create a new federal bureaucracy that is going to process checks
00:03:24.620 to hand them out to the bottom 30% of earners to make them forget about the fact that the Liberals ruined the economy
00:03:30.720 and are literally just handing them back some of their own tax dollars.
00:03:34.660 Anyways, let's get into the answer here from the prime minister.
00:03:38.140 Mr. Speaker, yesterday, before I had lunch with the Premier of Ontario,
00:03:44.480 I had a long meeting with the Premier of Ontario.
00:03:46.760 I would like to introduce the leader of the opposition to the Premier of Ontario
00:03:51.300 so he can learn something about cooperation, cooperation on housing,
00:03:55.580 cooperation on building the best auto sector in the world,
00:03:59.140 cooperation on good jobs for Ontarians and Canadians,
00:04:02.120 cooperation on rising wages, which have risen.
00:04:04.840 His people jumped in there fast because I don't think he knew where he was going with that,
00:04:13.380 so they all started cheering so he could sit down.
00:04:16.060 But, like, what did you discuss with Doug Ford?
00:04:18.780 Because Doug Ford was ticked off about the deal he signed with the Chinese government
00:04:23.020 to allow them to start dumping electric vehicles into our economy.
00:04:26.960 Now, I like free trade.
00:04:28.300 The problem is, is that, one, China is a hostile foreign entity to Canada.
00:04:34.540 And, two, while, yeah, I like trade, China uses trade more as a weapon
00:04:39.820 than they actually use it simply because it's just good economics to allow, you know,
00:04:44.300 for free exportation of your finished products around the world so your firms can make money.
00:04:50.040 No, they will concentrate their resources into particular countries
00:04:53.860 in order to take over that economy and make that country reliant on them for certain things.
00:04:59.240 So, I actually do think there is a good case to be made
00:05:02.300 that we should be trying to trade less with China over time.
00:05:05.800 But now let's go back to Pierre Paulyev here.
00:05:08.200 The Honorable Leader of the Opposition.
00:05:11.740 Mr. Speaker, if Canadians could eat the Prime Minister's photo op,
00:05:16.740 there wouldn't be an empty stomach in the country.
00:05:19.260 He's had lots of meetings.
00:05:21.320 He's had signing ceremonies.
00:05:23.240 He's had grand announcements and new bureaucracies.
00:05:26.180 But what he hasn't delivered is real results.
00:05:29.040 His biggest promise was that he was going to make food prices affordable.
00:05:32.840 Since that time, food inflation has doubled, the worst in the G7.
00:05:37.520 It's the result of his hidden taxes, the inflation tax from his deficits,
00:05:41.360 the fuel taxes on farmers, fertilizers, and farm equipment.
00:05:45.820 Why won't he, instead of trying to hide the price tag,
00:05:49.260 why won't he get rid of the cost?
00:05:50.960 You're right, Honourable Prime Minister.
00:05:54.740 Mr. Speaker, here's something we don't hide.
00:05:57.080 Here's something we're proud of.
00:05:58.560 Over 140,000 new jobs net created since the summer.
00:06:01.960 More than the United States.
00:06:03.900 Here's something else.
00:06:05.260 Wages rising every single month of this government faster than the rate of inflation.
00:06:10.180 Here's something else.
00:06:11.400 We cut taxes for 22 million Canadians.
00:06:13.580 We put in place a national food program for 400,000 kids, making it permanent.
00:06:19.360 Yesterday, we announced a benefit for 11, 12 million Canadians, $1,800.
00:06:26.800 He almost said the old number that Justin Trudeau said.
00:06:30.760 I'm like, not even kidding.
00:06:32.120 When Trudeau announced his own grocery rebate, and actually GST isn't on many grocery products.
00:06:38.020 The whole idea is that it's a rebate to help people with their grocery costs.
00:06:42.020 When Justin Trudeau had done this exact same thing just a few years ago, back when he was Prime Minister, he was announcing that it was going to affect like 11 million Canadians.
00:06:52.740 And I guess Carney was still using that old script instead of saying 12.
00:06:56.720 But here's the problem for Carney, is that I don't actually think that many Canadians are going to have their vote driven by program spending.
00:07:06.980 Like, the economy sucks so bad that a check in the mail just feels like placation at this point.
00:07:13.120 And I suggest that the federal conservatives start going after the things that the Liberal Party does do, and actually basically frame those things as the bare minimum.
00:07:26.100 Because it actually makes it sting more when someone helps you, but they don't really help you that much.
00:07:32.440 They do the bare minimum to keep you happy.
00:07:35.260 So I think that's what the conservatives should just keep hitting on.
00:07:38.240 Well, you did something, but it was the bare minimum that you could do.
00:07:41.600 You're effectively trying to bargain with people and take them for fools, thinking that if you kind of like to calculate how many beans you have to give them, they'll leave you alone for a couple of years and maybe give you a majority government.
00:07:52.480 Because nobody likes to be taken for a fool, and I think the conservatives need to make it clear.
00:07:57.360 If you fall for this, you're kind of being foolish.
00:08:00.220 They're bribing you with your own money and then printing more when it's not enough, inflating prices.
00:08:04.900 At the same time, they're trying to help you deal with higher prices.
00:08:07.720 This is something that the Venezuelan government would do when people can't afford food, is just print up a bunch of money, give it to them, and then maybe people can run out of the house and buy stuff before the prices go up.
00:08:18.580 But now let's go back to Pierre Pauly as follow-up here.
00:08:23.520 Mr. Speaker, Canadians have never had it so good that 2.2 million of them are lined up at food banks.
00:08:29.480 One of the reasons is that we can't get our resources to market.
00:08:33.080 Now, while the Prime Minister, we worked in collaboration to give him exceptional powers to get things done.
00:08:39.580 Instead, he spent the time on photo ops, signing ceremonies, re-announcing projects that had long ago been approved.
00:08:47.980 His new bureaucracy, the Projects Office, has not approved a single new project.
00:08:54.260 So why won't he get out of the way and accept our plan by passing the Canadian Sovereignty Act today?
00:09:02.360 Mr. Speaker, part of how we move this country forward is collaborating with provinces and territories.
00:09:14.040 The great territory of Nunavut.
00:09:16.200 I'd like to welcome the Premier of Nunavut is here.
00:09:18.260 One thing we've done in six months is the three on Great Bay Point, which is going to open up Arctic Sovereignty, open up the future of this country, make Canada strong.
00:09:30.580 This is the funny thing with Mark Carney, and I think there's one more back and forth here between the leader of the opposition and the Prime Minister.
00:09:38.640 Mark Carney, despite the whole business background and being the former governor of the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, and, you know, working for Goldman Sachs and being the chair of Brookfield, he's really crap on the details.
00:09:53.820 He tends to not be very good once you actually start getting him nailed down on specifics.
00:09:58.180 That's where he starts getting more hesitant and being less willing to answer directly.
00:10:04.560 He starts getting very nervous when you hit him on specifics.
00:10:07.320 That's where, if I was the Conservatives, because sometimes it's the temptation of the opposition to ignore every single thing the government did and just focus on things that they're not doing or the things they failed to do or the things that they failed on.
00:10:22.820 No, no, no.
00:10:23.460 Go look through their successes and tear the successes apart.
00:10:27.780 Make videos where you go over what the Liberals are effectively doing with the grocery rebate.
00:10:33.940 They're taking all those taxes that they are secretly raising behind the scenes through the industrial carbon tax, the clean fuel standard, just the extremely high income taxes and corporate taxes, and they're giving you a little – they're tearing off a little strip of that and then giving it back to you so that you will leave them alone.
00:10:51.760 And that's how, again, because this is a commentary channel, but I also do like speaking in how I would do things if I was like in charge of the Conservatives or I was doing the strategy.
00:11:02.500 You effectively want to frame, and it's accurate.
00:11:05.340 I'd never lie in doing a campaign.
00:11:07.600 It is accurate to say effectively what the Liberals want to do with the school food program, with the grocery rebate, with a lot of the other things.
00:11:15.720 Like the 1% income tax cut under $50,000, which is nothing.
00:11:21.220 You don't even pay taxes on the first $18,000.
00:11:23.880 So you're going to pay – the rate is going from like – I don't know what it is, like 11% to 10% or 12% to 11%.
00:11:30.080 You'd have to remind me what the lowest bracket is.
00:11:32.600 It might only be like 9%.
00:11:33.720 So you're going to take that, reduce by one point, so you pay a little bit less taxes on – I guess that's like the 38th – or like what is that?
00:11:43.500 That's like taking $32,000 that you actually pay on?
00:11:48.420 It's nothing.
00:11:49.280 And that's where the Conservatives should frame this.
00:11:51.020 They're just trying to make you leave them alone.
00:11:53.280 They will give you a few beans and go sit in the corner.
00:11:57.440 Mark Carney is serving his friends.
00:11:59.900 You – just go sit at the kids' table.
00:12:01.480 The Canadian people are effectively sitting at the kids' table while all Mark's elitist friends are sitting at the adults' table.
00:12:08.900 This is the messaging, and it is absolutely accurate.
00:12:12.300 But let's get into the final exchange we got here going here.
00:12:15.640 And shout out to the premier of Nunavut for getting that standing ovation there.
00:12:21.920 He was effectively just used as a political distraction in that moment for Mark Carney because he had nothing.
00:12:27.140 But, you know, I guess he got mentioned, which is great for a guy who's the premier of a province of like 40,000 people.
00:12:34.460 You know what?
00:12:35.120 I have to say, premier of Nunavut, remarkably white, remarkably white-looking guy.
00:12:40.780 Like I feel like when I saw him, I'm like, this guy should own a hipster coffee shop in downtown Toronto.
00:12:45.920 But know what?
00:12:47.180 Torontonians can do anything.
00:12:48.800 And so he became the premier of Nunavut.
00:12:50.720 Maybe he grew up there.
00:12:51.580 I'm just joking.
00:12:53.900 I assume the prime minister meant that the premier of Nunavut was in the area, not in the house.
00:13:02.360 The honourable leader of the opposition –
00:13:04.160 Oh, he wasn't even in the room.
00:13:05.460 Oh, my goodness.
00:13:07.280 Mr. Speaker, of course we love the premier of Nunavut, but all the prime minister has is meetings, announcements, signing ceremonies,
00:13:15.460 but never shovels in the ground, never results that matter to people, not a single pipeline approved.
00:13:23.440 His project office has not approved a single new project.
00:13:28.540 In fact, he hasn't removed a single pre-existing liberal bureaucracy or single pre-existing anti-development law.
00:13:37.660 All he has to do is get out of the way, adopt the Canadian Sovereignty Act so that we can get building and become self-reliant and strong.
00:13:45.460 The right honourable prime minister.
00:13:50.000 Mr. Speaker.
00:13:53.440 Mr. Speaker.
00:13:54.940 Mr. Speaker.
00:13:56.560 We – last time we were in this house, the member opposite stood up and had a semblance or a reduction of the MOU with Alberta.
00:14:05.600 Alberta –
00:14:06.560 Why would you bring that up?
00:14:08.100 You're reminding people the fact that you couldn't even vote in favour of your own MOU.
00:14:11.720 And then they had some stupid excuse like, oh, well, they didn't have the full text of it included.
00:14:16.380 I'm like, are you guys so dumb you can't comprehend the hypothetical the concert has put in front of you?
00:14:22.580 They're saying, regardless of everything else, pipeline, yes or no?
00:14:26.300 Pipeline? Pipeline.
00:14:28.200 And they're like, oh, no, no, we can't do that.
00:14:31.180 We're voting against it because you didn't include the entire text as well as my birthday and a greeting card for me within the text.
00:14:40.420 If you had included that in a very beautiful haiku, then I would have voted for it.
00:14:46.180 But for some reason, Mark Carney is even invoking that.
00:14:49.300 Like, Mark Carney is remarkably bad at political optics.
00:14:54.080 This is why he needs Donald Trump to run against rather than running against his actual opposition because he doesn't actually stand up very well in debates.
00:15:02.760 He's clumsy.
00:15:03.760 He oftentimes puts his foot in his mouth in the – like, despite the fact that he's supposed to be like a business professional, very calm, cool, collected.
00:15:12.100 He's just not any of those things.
00:15:13.360 It's a semblance or a reduction of the MOU with Alberta.
00:15:17.320 The Alberta MOU is not consistent with the Sovereignty Act.
00:15:21.680 The Alberta MOU will build a pipeline to Tidewater.
00:15:25.560 The Alberta MOU will build carbon capture and storage.
00:15:28.680 It will build nuclear.
00:15:29.600 It will build data centers.
00:15:30.800 It will build our future.
00:15:32.200 The Sovereignty Act will destroy.
00:15:35.100 Oh, the Sovereignty Act will destroy.
00:15:37.040 This is always ridiculous liberal logic.
00:15:39.020 Like, oh, my goodness, if you just do the thing, that thing won't get done unless you go through an endless First Nations consultations and environmental inspections.
00:15:48.620 You'll never get it built.
00:15:49.960 The only way to get it built is by doing things that will never get it built.
00:15:54.100 But if you get rid of all that stuff and you just try and build the thing, that's how you know it's not actually going to get built.
00:15:59.460 Like, guys, I would almost just, if I was Polyev, I would just get back up and just say, like, okay, well, you sound very confident.
00:16:07.440 When is the pipeline going to be built?
00:16:08.980 Is by the end of March.
00:16:11.800 We'll give you a timeline.
00:16:13.120 End of April.
00:16:14.720 Approve a pipeline.
00:16:15.740 Just sign something that approves a pipeline.
00:16:17.780 But that's the end of the exchange between Pierre Polyev and the Prime Minister for today.
00:16:24.400 We will definitely be back in the future to break down some more question periods between the two.
00:16:30.980 Mark Carney was criticized heavily last year for effectively barely ever showing up.
00:16:36.340 Like, Parliament wasn't even really in session very much last year.
00:16:39.000 And even then, if they were, let's say, in a three- or four-week period, you might see two appearances by the Prime Minister to answer questions from the opposition.
00:16:49.100 Like, I'm somebody who works at the British Columbia Legislature, and the Premier actually does get up.
00:16:55.540 You know, I can give David Eby some credit.
00:16:57.280 He actually does get up and face down opposition.
00:17:00.020 Where Mark Carney sometimes, even when he does show up, he'll have, like, one back and forth with Polyev, and then he'll, like, leave the room because it wasn't working out so well.
00:17:09.040 And I guess he was thinking he was going to perform better now because he's gotten some fake achievements under his belt.
00:17:13.980 But I don't mind Polyev's messaging on the fake achievements, too many photo ops, too many, you know, fake signings.
00:17:20.420 That's great.
00:17:21.460 Still do that.
00:17:22.320 That's good messaging.
00:17:23.500 The other part of the messaging is what I've been saying.
00:17:25.580 It's that they are doing the bare minimum, and they are basically seeing what they can give you to make you go away, go back and sit down at the kids' table, and leave them and their friends alone at the adult table.
00:17:36.460 Canadians are at the kids' table, and they are giving you the bare minimum to get you to leave them alone. 0.98
00:17:43.140 They will give you back some of your own tax dollars and then hope that you'll shut up.
00:17:47.140 That is effectively what liberal policy currently is in the year 2025.
00:17:51.160 And you might notice this feels a lot like Justin Trudeau's policy.
00:17:56.500 And it's because Mark Carney is not better at this than Justin Trudeau.
00:18:00.320 You may remember Mark Carney was the economic advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:18:07.300 It's almost like, almost, you might, it might be, I'm a bit skippy about the fact that maybe the guy who is driving the economic agenda for Trudeau,
00:18:17.160 making him the Prime Minister is not going to improve the economic agenda of the government.
00:18:22.500 But apparently it's a new government because he swapped out the face of, at the top of the party, even though that guy was, there was the economic advisor.
00:18:29.580 But apparently it's a new government.
00:18:30.800 I've been told by Carney and like David Cochran and Rosemary Barton, and I only believe what they tell me.
00:18:37.580 But anyways, without all being said, thank you guys for watching.
00:18:40.440 Like, share, subscribe, hit the join button, and I will see you guys all later.