The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 25, 2025


Carney gets exposed as compromised and cowardly! (Runs from debate)

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Polyev's call to debate Carney Mark Carney conflicts Mark Carney's connections with China
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The Conservative Party has offered to pay the $75,000 fee for Mark Carney to appear in a French-language TV debate with Pierre Polyev, but the Bank of Canada chief executive is still refusing to take the stage. Why not just pay the fee?

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and I'm happy to report on the third day of Canada's federal election that the Conservative Party has taken my advice and in the face of Mark Carney and the Liberals saying that they don't want to do the French-language TVA debate because they had to pay $75,000 to do it, that the Conservative Party and Polyev should offer to pay the fee for them.
00:00:22.880 Because obviously the fee is not the problem. $75,000 is a paltry amount to be able to speak to 2 million plus Quebecers all at once in a forum where you also get to criticize your opponents.
00:00:36.080 The reason Carney does not want to do it is because he knows he will lose the debate. His French is poor, his debating skills are poor, and in fact Pierre Polyev's French is fantastic, and he is a very good debater.
00:00:47.100 So I want to cut to this clip of now Polyev offering to pay the fee because I think this is great rhetorical politics.
00:00:54.640 But before I get into it, guys, I just want to remind you, if you like my coverage of the Canadian election, make sure to like this video, leave a comment, and if you're not yet a subscriber, hit the subscribe button.
00:01:05.020 We're trying to get to 100,000 subscribers by mid-December.
00:01:08.900 Anyways, without further ado, here is Pierre Polyev calling out Mark Carney.
00:01:14.240 Now, before I do that, though, I want to just say that I want to challenge Mark Carney to show up for the debate at TVA in Quebec.
00:01:25.340 He's running away and hiding because he believes that he's too weak to defend the lost liberal decade or explain why he thinks liberals deserve a fourth term.
00:01:35.500 Let's have a debate in French where we put together the choice, either a fourth liberal term after costs and crime have gone up
00:01:46.260 and our economy has gone down under the American thumb, or putting Canada first for a change with a new conservative government that will build the homes.
00:01:56.740 I'll even pay Mr. Carney's fee so that he can show up.
00:02:01.620 We'll take that excuse away from him.
00:02:03.560 Conservatives will even pay the fee to bring him out if he's not afraid.
00:02:06.920 And by the way, if he is afraid to have the debate, how is he going to have the courage to stand up against Donald Trump?
00:02:13.440 It's going to take someone who's strong enough to do that, and if he's not afraid, then he'll show up at that debate.
00:02:18.500 I'm not afraid, and I'm ready to enjoy that debate with him.
00:02:22.040 Again, brilliant politics. This is the exact line the conservatives need to be taking against Mark Carney if he is not going to debate.
00:02:30.400 And there are many liberals out there trying to claim, well, no, no, no, he just doesn't want to pay the $75,000 out of principle.
00:02:38.400 You shouldn't have to pay to attend a debate.
00:02:40.740 Well, it's a private media outlet, and although they do get subsidies, it's not exactly like CBC subsidies.
00:02:46.560 So by taking in money from each of the parties, they're able to better pay for the debate and actually make money off of the thing.
00:02:53.440 And also, then after the conservatives brought this up, that, hey, we'll pay your fee for you, the liberals then pivot to the new excuse that, okay, it wasn't the money that we had a problem with.
00:03:03.760 It was that Elizabeth May was not being invited to the debate. 0.65
00:03:07.420 And then so Polyev and the conservatives have said, okay, we will demand that Elizabeth May also be included in the TVA French debate, and we'll pay for her fee too.
00:03:17.960 And now everything has gone radio silence with the liberals.
00:03:22.860 But it's not just this that is a bad story today for Mark Carney.
00:03:27.500 There is also the fact that he is deeply compromised when it comes to China.
00:03:31.940 I just want to tell you about the written version of this, and then I'll play a little bit of the video with Polyev, but it is long, so I'm not going to play the whole thing.
00:03:40.140 But Polyev today, to start off day three of the election, posted this.
00:03:45.720 Breaking in September, Mark Carney officially became the chair of Trudeau's task force on economic growth.
00:03:53.240 In October, Carney met with the deputy director of the People's Bank of China.
00:03:57.540 Just two weeks later, news broke that Brookfield secured a quarter billion dollar loan from the Chinese state-owned bank.
00:04:05.520 Now he owes a hostile foreign regime, and his interests are against Canada's interests. 0.58
00:04:12.000 Why won't he reveal to Canadians all his conflicts?
00:04:15.660 And this is exactly why Mark Carney's personal assets are such a big issue.
00:04:22.120 Because what he and what his previous companies have been invested in really do reflect what his priorities can potentially be in office.
00:04:31.960 If he has a lot of assets bound up in China, if he has a lot of relationships built up with the Chinese government,
00:04:41.120 well, you might notice that he might go super soft on China.
00:04:44.600 That he might want to actually do a lot more free trade with China at the same time that he might deliberately alienate the U.S. on certain projects or other regions around the world.
00:04:55.080 Maybe he won't be a very good ally of Taiwan because he personally owes, with his former business connections,
00:05:02.640 hundreds of millions of dollars to the Chinese government, and he doesn't want anything being exposed on him.
00:05:08.940 Because China could always end up exposing him for corruption if it ever suited their interests.
00:05:13.820 And if he is the Prime Minister, it would very much suit their interests.
00:05:17.820 I actually just quickly want to go back to that previous story on the debate, because I forgot to play this one clip.
00:05:23.980 So we're kind of jumping back and forth here a little bit.
00:05:26.880 But even the Bloc Québécois leader called out Mark Carney on this.
00:05:30.980 If it was no big deal, I don't think Yves-Francois Blanchet would bother with it.
00:05:36.300 But the thing is that Blanchet does smell blood in the water and knows he can probably half what the Liberals have in Montreal 0.95
00:05:42.640 if he goes after the fact that Carney is being a coward.
00:05:45.820 And by the way, it's also not an excuse that, well, Carney's still attending the CBC Radio Canada French debate,
00:05:52.260 because that's obviously a debate that's not going to be seen by as many people.
00:05:56.340 Obviously, Carney has to do one of them.
00:05:58.620 So he is choosing to do the one with the far smaller audience.
00:06:01.800 TVA is like CTV News and Global News combined, whereas Radio Canada is only watched by like a fraction of people when it comes to the Quebec media.
00:06:13.040 So far, I don't know what he's not afraid of.
00:06:16.120 This guy is supposed to be strong enough to face Donald Trump, which is one of the biggest threats on democracy and freedom for a long time.
00:06:23.680 I will face a guy.
00:06:24.800 And then we say, hey, come in Quebec and discuss with us because you want us to vote for you.
00:06:30.940 Oh, I won't go.
00:06:32.180 And I have the perfect pretext.
00:06:33.660 I say, oh, us, the Liberal Party of Canada, we do not have $75,000.
00:06:39.440 We're so poor.
00:06:40.540 Yeah.
00:06:41.160 That's hilarious.
00:06:42.120 I know that he is saying some like not correct things about what Trump's up to,
00:06:46.140 like Trump's not trying to take over Canada and undermine our democracy.
00:06:49.700 But from the left, Carney's getting as much as he's getting it from the right.
00:06:54.100 But now jumping back over to Pierre Polyev on the issue of Mark Carney's connections with the People's Bank of China.
00:07:01.620 But I'm glad that the Liberals put this attack out today.
00:07:06.540 Really glad.
00:07:08.120 Because there's something that's really been worrying me.
00:07:10.120 After Justin Trudeau named Mark Carney his economic advisor, giving him massive power over public policy in Canada,
00:07:21.300 Mr. Carney went over for meetings in Beijing where he just had secret talks with the deputy governor of the Chinese Central Bank.
00:07:32.720 Two weeks later, Brookfield got a quarter billion dollar loan.
00:07:38.240 What did they talk about?
00:07:42.220 What did Mr. Carney in his role as Trudeau's economic advisor offer of China?
00:07:47.900 Why would he be having secret meetings with top bank government controlled bankers about getting a quarter billion dollar loan
00:07:56.220 while he was supposed to be acting in Canada's interest as the prime minister's economic advisor?
00:08:02.100 You guys can watch the rest of that if you go on to Pierre Polyev's own social media feed.
00:08:06.740 They posted that video.
00:08:08.240 They're themselves.
00:08:09.200 But yeah, this is a big problem.
00:08:10.940 And it's not unprecedented.
00:08:12.500 If you actually look at donations to Justin Trudeau's local campaign in Papineau,
00:08:20.220 there's tons and tons of Chinese names, many of them not even citizens,
00:08:24.460 although as a permanent resident you can still donate.
00:08:27.140 Isn't that a little bit sketchy in that in a French riding in the middle of Montreal,
00:08:31.880 somehow there's like 150 Chinese names of people donating maxed out donations to them.
00:08:38.760 That doesn't happen.
00:08:40.700 People tend to just donate to the central party or they donate to their local guy.
00:08:45.580 If you're donating to some other local board, specifically Papineau, not central liberal fund,
00:08:52.760 you're just donating to Papineau, you want them to know that you're donating to them.
00:08:56.540 And that's what I think the Chinese government's trying to do.
00:08:59.000 Making sure that you know where your bread's buttered with Mark Carney that,
00:09:02.880 okay, yeah, come for a loan and you're going to get it from the central bank.
00:09:07.080 So you know where you are, like who you owe, who you owe money to,
00:09:11.620 because we just loaned you literally a quarter billion dollars, which is an absurd amount of money.
00:09:16.740 But yeah, I want to just quickly jump onto this clip of Mark Carney.
00:09:22.300 It's not much of a clip to watch, but I think it's useful in seeing how
00:09:26.440 just poor he is on the rhetoric this entire election.
00:09:30.420 I forget exactly where this is, gander somewhere or whatever,
00:09:35.000 but his rhetoric is still so dry.
00:09:38.980 I don't know who watches this and gets excited to go and vote liberal.
00:09:42.620 In these decades, we found a way in true Canadian fashion to disagree agreeably,
00:09:47.720 to choose diplomacy over demagoguery,
00:09:52.800 to put our shared values over our selfish desires.
00:09:58.980 Why?
00:10:00.420 Well, as President Reagan said in Quebec City almost 40 years ago to this day,
00:10:07.380 I quote,
00:10:08.540 we're more than friends and neighbours and allies.
00:10:11.980 We are kin.
00:10:14.820 Every clip of Mark Carney is death.
00:10:18.620 It's the worst thing you've ever watched.
00:10:20.440 There's just nothing going on with him ever.
00:10:22.640 So I don't understand why they picked this guy.
00:10:25.300 There's nothing about him that makes me think that Canadians are going to be gravitating to him.
00:10:29.440 Here's another thing where Mark Carney now has tried to attack the Conservatives on a day where he was getting absolutely walloped.
00:10:36.600 And in his attempts to attack Conservatives, he's blaming, of course, Stephen Harper for the fact that the military currently sucks after 10 years of the Liberals.
00:10:45.420 And the first part of Canada Strong, it means an armed forces that are well resourced and has those very resources at the ready.
00:10:59.660 And we're here, and we're here, and we're here, and we're here, and we're here to make that happen.
00:11:05.500 Our military is still underfunded.
00:11:08.940 Who did that? 0.91
00:11:12.580 Who did that, Mark? Tell us.
00:11:13.900 The last Conservative government, when Pierre Polyev was a minister, that government was spending less than 1% of GDP on defence.
00:11:25.940 And Conservatives abandoned our armed forces and shamefully abandoned our veterans.
00:11:31.520 What is he talking about?
00:11:33.540 Do people not remember the clips of Justin Trudeau being confronted by veterans, and he was saying that they were asking for too much when it came to their benefits?
00:11:42.120 Benefits that oftentimes are not even actually properly given to veterans at all.
00:11:46.560 But also, who cares what the Conservatives were spending if you guys have been in for a decade?
00:11:51.600 And I know the Liberals now can say, well, we spend 1.3% on the military.
00:11:56.960 But the problem is, it's all worthless spending.
00:12:00.220 There is so much DEI and administrative spending in the military that we've stopped having a military.
00:12:06.040 We have an HR department with, like, I guess, some handguns.
00:12:10.120 There's just nothing actually substantial about our military.
00:12:13.000 We have been dragging our feet acquiring new jets.
00:12:15.800 Our Navy is a joke.
00:12:17.280 We do not have troops ready for combat.
00:12:19.440 I think only about 50% are actually combat ready who are supposed to be in reserve roles for combat.
00:12:25.460 We don't have any weapons.
00:12:27.120 Everything's just terrible.
00:12:28.640 And this guy's going to come out and be like, you know, Stephen Harper didn't do a good job.
00:12:34.240 It's like, okay, yeah, maybe he spent less than you guys.
00:12:38.740 But it was more effective, which is why we were able to fight ISIS when Harper was around.
00:12:43.000 And since Trudeau's been in office, we wouldn't be able to fight a Girl Scout troop.
00:12:47.360 But anyways.
00:12:47.940 Yeah, so I would say that that's a good way of summing up day three so far.
00:12:54.380 The campaign, I think, is going to be starting to swing really hard in the Conservatives' favor.
00:12:59.140 Yes, you'll keep seeing polls coming out showing the Liberals ahead.
00:13:02.420 I think, again, maybe it's pollsters manipulating things.
00:13:05.860 I think it's just that they're doing bad work.
00:13:08.500 And then it's your conclusion on whether or not they're doing bad work on purpose or they are just genuinely making their best try and they keep putting out really, really scuffed polls that favor the Liberals.
00:13:19.440 I'll be making a video after this going over why I think we have to be careful how we read the polls.
00:13:25.760 Some polls generally are okay.
00:13:28.800 Some polls, I wouldn't listen to them.
00:13:30.620 And I'm going to make a point that actually Frank Vaughn made about the Saskatchewan provincial election.
00:13:35.460 But again, that will be another video for another time.
00:13:38.520 So make sure, guys, to like this video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, and make sure you get out there and campaign.
00:13:45.040 You got a local campaign, the Conservatives in your area, you're not like in downtown Montreal where there's like no Conservatives running.
00:13:51.860 Although Mount Royal is a very good riding to be door knocking if you live in Montreal.
00:13:56.140 Make sure to go out, hit some doors for your people, make some phone calls, donate, do whatever, especially if you are in a swing riding that has a chance for the Conservatives to pick it up.
00:14:05.740 But anyways, other than that, I'll see you guys next time.