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?
00:00:00.000Hey 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.
00:00:22.880Because 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.
00:00:36.080The 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.
00:00:47.100So I want to cut to this clip of now Polyev offering to pay the fee because I think this is great rhetorical politics.
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00:01:08.900Anyways, without further ado, here is Pierre Polyev calling out Mark Carney.
00:01:14.240Now, 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.
00:01:25.340He'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.
00:01:35.500Let's have a debate in French where we put together the choice, either a fourth liberal term after costs and crime have gone up
00:01:46.260and 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.
00:01:56.740I'll even pay Mr. Carney's fee so that he can show up.
00:02:03.560Conservatives will even pay the fee to bring him out if he's not afraid.
00:02:06.920And 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?
00:02:13.440It'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.
00:02:18.500I'm not afraid, and I'm ready to enjoy that debate with him.
00:02:22.040Again, brilliant politics. This is the exact line the conservatives need to be taking against Mark Carney if he is not going to debate.
00:02:30.400And 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.
00:02:38.400You shouldn't have to pay to attend a debate.
00:02:40.740Well, it's a private media outlet, and although they do get subsidies, it's not exactly like CBC subsidies.
00:02:46.560So 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.
00:02:53.440And 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.
00:03:03.760It was that Elizabeth May was not being invited to the debate.
00:03:07.420And 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.
00:03:17.960And now everything has gone radio silence with the liberals.
00:03:22.860But it's not just this that is a bad story today for Mark Carney.
00:03:27.500There is also the fact that he is deeply compromised when it comes to China.
00:03:31.940I 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.
00:03:40.140But Polyev today, to start off day three of the election, posted this.
00:03:45.720Breaking in September, Mark Carney officially became the chair of Trudeau's task force on economic growth.
00:03:53.240In October, Carney met with the deputy director of the People's Bank of China.
00:03:57.540Just two weeks later, news broke that Brookfield secured a quarter billion dollar loan from the Chinese state-owned bank.
00:04:05.520Now he owes a hostile foreign regime, and his interests are against Canada's interests.
00:04:12.000Why won't he reveal to Canadians all his conflicts?
00:04:15.660And this is exactly why Mark Carney's personal assets are such a big issue.
00:04:22.120Because what he and what his previous companies have been invested in really do reflect what his priorities can potentially be in office.
00:04:31.960If he has a lot of assets bound up in China, if he has a lot of relationships built up with the Chinese government,
00:04:41.120well, you might notice that he might go super soft on China.
00:04:44.600That 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.
00:04:55.080Maybe he won't be a very good ally of Taiwan because he personally owes, with his former business connections,
00:05:02.640hundreds of millions of dollars to the Chinese government, and he doesn't want anything being exposed on him.
00:05:08.940Because China could always end up exposing him for corruption if it ever suited their interests.
00:05:13.820And if he is the Prime Minister, it would very much suit their interests.
00:05:17.820I actually just quickly want to go back to that previous story on the debate, because I forgot to play this one clip.
00:05:23.980So we're kind of jumping back and forth here a little bit.
00:05:30.980If it was no big deal, I don't think Yves-Francois Blanchet would bother with it.
00:05:36.300But the thing is that Blanchet does smell blood in the water and knows he can probably half what the Liberals have in Montreal
00:05:42.640if he goes after the fact that Carney is being a coward.
00:05:45.820And by the way, it's also not an excuse that, well, Carney's still attending the CBC Radio Canada French debate,
00:05:52.260because that's obviously a debate that's not going to be seen by as many people.
00:05:56.340Obviously, Carney has to do one of them.
00:05:58.620So he is choosing to do the one with the far smaller audience.
00:06:01.800TVA 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.
00:06:13.040So far, I don't know what he's not afraid of.
00:06:16.120This 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.
00:10:18.620It's the worst thing you've ever watched.
00:10:20.440There's just nothing going on with him ever.
00:10:22.640So I don't understand why they picked this guy.
00:10:25.300There's nothing about him that makes me think that Canadians are going to be gravitating to him.
00:10:29.440Here's another thing where Mark Carney now has tried to attack the Conservatives on a day where he was getting absolutely walloped.
00:10:36.600And 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.
00:10:45.420And the first part of Canada Strong, it means an armed forces that are well resourced and has those very resources at the ready.
00:10:59.660And we're here, and we're here, and we're here, and we're here, and we're here to make that happen.
00:11:33.540Do 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?
00:11:42.120Benefits that oftentimes are not even actually properly given to veterans at all.
00:11:46.560But also, who cares what the Conservatives were spending if you guys have been in for a decade?
00:11:51.600And I know the Liberals now can say, well, we spend 1.3% on the military.
00:11:56.960But the problem is, it's all worthless spending.
00:12:00.220There is so much DEI and administrative spending in the military that we've stopped having a military.
00:12:06.040We have an HR department with, like, I guess, some handguns.
00:12:10.120There's just nothing actually substantial about our military.
00:12:13.000We have been dragging our feet acquiring new jets.
00:13:05.860I think it's just that they're doing bad work.
00:13:08.500And 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.
00:13:19.440I'll be making a video after this going over why I think we have to be careful how we read the polls.
00:13:28.800Some polls, I wouldn't listen to them.
00:13:30.620And I'm going to make a point that actually Frank Vaughn made about the Saskatchewan provincial election.
00:13:35.460But again, that will be another video for another time.
00:13:38.520So make sure, guys, to like this video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, and make sure you get out there and campaign.
00:13:45.040You got a local campaign, the Conservatives in your area, you're not like in downtown Montreal where there's like no Conservatives running.
00:13:51.860Although Mount Royal is a very good riding to be door knocking if you live in Montreal.
00:13:56.140Make 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.
00:14:05.740But anyways, other than that, I'll see you guys next time.