The National Post has exposed Mark Carney for saying one thing in English and the opposite thing in French. This is a trick you pull in the 80s, like in the 90s, when nobody was paying much attention to it.
00:00:00.000It's only been a little bit more than 24 hours, and Liberal Party leadership candidate Mark Carney is in more trouble once again.
00:00:09.600This time, the National Post has exposed him for basically saying one thing in English and then saying the opposite thing in French.
00:00:18.900This is a trick you pull in, like, the 80s, in the 90s, back when nobody's gonna really check.
00:00:25.300He'd have to be tape recording both French media and English media and having someone who speaks both languages to confirm that they are different statements.
00:00:35.620He's doing this in the year 2025, so I guess he's a bit of a mad lad for thinking he can get away with this, but it didn't work out.
00:00:43.200I'm gonna be linking this article in the description below as well as pinned at the top of the comments.
00:00:48.500It's quite incredible. I don't need to read it for you guys in detail. You can go read it yourself.
00:00:53.140I don't want to, you know, steal the words of the National Post, but generally what has happened here is that Mark Carney on two major subjects when it comes to public finance as well as energy is literally saying the opposite thing in the two different official languages in Canada.
00:01:11.640So in Kelowna, he'll show up and say that he's in favor of building pipelines, he wants to get them expedited so that we can be more energy independent and we can ship our oil and gas products not just to the US, but to Asia and to Europe.
00:01:26.140But then he'll go to Quebec, and if a Quebec interviewer asks him, are you going to force a pipeline on Quebec, even if voters don't want it, which is silly because actually voters in Quebec do in fact want a pipeline, liberal leftists in Quebec don't want it.
00:01:41.100But then when asked that, Mark Carney will say, I'd never force a pipeline onto Quebec.
00:01:47.300Same thing on transfer payments. Mark Carney will be asked, well, Mark, are you going to restructure transfer payments to be between provinces?
00:01:58.220Because it's been something that's been something that's caused a lot of social friction in Canada, and it's a major line item in Canada's budget every year is the transfers between provinces.
00:02:08.840And he says, yes, in English, we need to restructure it, save some money, be able to maybe reduce taxes in the long run.
00:02:16.160But in Quebec, when he is speaking French, and I guess technically also northern New Brunswick, he then says, oh, no, of course I wouldn't do that.
00:02:24.960We're not going to restructure transfer payments. The Quebecers rely on it, and we can't take Quebecers for granted and all this stuff.
00:02:34.520Mark, this is making you look horrible. And I'm all here for it. I'm a conservative. I want him to lose.
00:02:41.180But my goodness, if the Liberals think that this guy is their star candidate, they have another thing coming to them.
00:02:46.900I want to show you again the federal polling numbers right now, because I think as much as people are fearing that Mark Carney is going to be able to catch the Conservatives and that the Conservatives peak too early, I don't think so.
00:03:00.760In fact, I think right now Mark Carney is peaking too early because of the current response bias driven by the leadership going on for the Liberals.
00:03:10.120When you have a party leadership, you're going to have a lot more supporters activated to answer polls, and that's where you get poll models based on new polls like the one based off the Angus Reid poll that Sheree Attiste here has done that shows the Liberals actually winning 166 seats and the Conservatives only winning 141 seats.
00:03:29.960But as my friend Chris from the Great Canadian Bagel podcast has pointed out, I'm going to go find this post, the actual numbers here don't really make sense.
00:03:42.000So Chris here says, it's laughable to me to see polls with the Liberal Party of Canada at 60% in Atlantic Canada.
00:03:51.600That's simply not possible. The Liberals under Carney are not going to beat 2015 numbers here.
00:03:57.800Remember, 2015 was an anomalous year because Harper actively screwed up here.
00:04:03.740Polyev has done the opposite. And he's right. The Liberals back in 2015, I think got high 40s, if not a little bit more than 50% of the vote in Atlantic Canada.
00:04:14.980And that's why they swept the province, literally winning every single seat in Atlantic Canada.
00:04:20.100So Mark Carney is going to somehow do several points better than Justin Trudeau did in 2015 with the terrible government record he has to run on, which is his own record.
00:04:32.240He is not a fresh face. The man advised on economic policy to the Trudeau Liberals for the last four to six years.
00:04:40.900Honestly, at the English language debate, either Ruby Dalla or Chrystia Freeland herself needs to turn to Carney and says,
00:04:50.700you are the one giving the government bad advice for four or five years.
00:04:54.780You and Trudeau forced me, Chrystia Freeland, or if it's Ruby, you forced Chrystia Freeland to pass these bad policies to implement them.
00:05:02.500She tried her best. It inevitably failed because it was bad policies.
00:05:06.360And then you threw Chrystia Freeland under the bus. And by all means, I am not trying to make excuses for Chrystia Freeland.
00:05:13.120She is also a terrible liberal politician. If she had principle, she would have left a long time ago.
00:05:18.460She has somewhat some principles, but it's mostly only when it benefits her.
00:05:23.520Still, the net effect is that Mark Carney has been giving bad advice for several years.
00:05:28.640And once he becomes a leader, he's not going to suddenly be viewed as a fresh face.
00:05:33.240He can market himself that way now, but the Conservatives have literally file folders full of information on everything he's said and done
00:05:42.500over the past four or five years that Canadians absolutely hate.
00:05:46.240And once Canadians know it was him that did it, they're going to hate him as a candidate just like they hated Ignatieff.
00:05:52.340Look at this. This is the Angus Reid poll.
00:05:54.480This is also what proves to me that this is not a very good poll.
00:05:59.660Look, Alberta, the Conservative Party of Canada gets 57% there.
00:06:04.420The Liberals get 27. New Democrats, 14.