The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney has big campaign problems and is too much like Trudeau

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. As I look at Mark Carney's campaign to become the next liberal

00:00:06.240 leader and unelected prime minister of Canada, I am seeing a lot of cracks forming. I know there

00:00:12.700 is a bit of a culture online whenever you see a poll slightly move up for the liberals that we

00:00:18.460 all set our hair on fire and think that the end is nigh because frankly a lot of these people get

00:00:23.780 more views by being sensational. It's not really going to happen and this whole video is going to

00:00:28.960 be an explainer why Mark Carney is not going to happen in the 2025 federal election. Maybe he

00:00:35.740 becomes the prime minister briefly but I don't really think he's in a position to actually win.

00:00:41.700 Yesterday we saw two liberal ministers just up and say that they're not running for re-election.

00:00:47.340 One of them had endorsed Chrystia Freeland which may have been an explanation for why they wanted

00:00:52.160 to get out now but another one of them is an endorser of Mark Carney. So I think they in their

00:00:58.060 Toronto GTA area ridings just realize that they're probably not going to get re-elected and even if

00:01:04.960 they do you know they're going to be in a pretty small opposition. But I want to just go over some

00:01:10.500 of the big issues with Carney's campaign and we'll first start off with one of the silliest and then I

00:01:15.600 want to get into more of the radical policy and how he's obviously just a front for Trudeau's fourth

00:01:21.220 term. Trudeau would be sticking around if he could he can't and so Mark Carney is going to step in in

00:01:28.000 Trudeau's place and just do everything Team Trudeau wants him to do. But first actually I'm going to do

00:01:33.540 this first. Guys if you like the show remember to like the video subscribe to the channel and leave a

00:01:39.160 comment on anything you find interesting or things I need to improve on. But the first silly thing I want

00:01:44.800 to talk about is Mark Carney being caught wearing $2,000 shoes while he was taking this very odd

00:01:51.780 photo of him as a goaltender or whatever at some sort of ice rink. Looks really creepy. He has kind

00:01:59.340 of this Mr. Burns from the Simpson vibe to the way he often acts. But here we have from Morning Buzz

00:02:05.040 Report. Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney caught wearing Zegna sneakers in recent photos worth

00:02:11.520 over $2,000. And honestly I don't know why these things are $2,000. Look at those. Like I'm I actually

00:02:19.800 really like shoes. I'm not sure what the hype of these shoes are. They look like they're like safety

00:02:25.520 shoes for like balance or like he forgot to take off his shoes after getting off a snowboard. I don't get

00:02:30.940 the appeal here. And know what? I feel kind of attacked because I own $2,000 shoes. To be fair I bought

00:02:39.160 them on a heavy discount but they are technically $2,000. I own a pair of Victorian button boots.

00:02:44.700 And this story spoke to me because I got to actually show those for once. But yeah if I ever

00:02:50.560 campaign for something I'm not going to wear this because it looks really stupid. And by the way I 0.98

00:02:56.300 bought those way before I was ever being sued so I'm not like blowing money on that. But this is the

00:03:01.540 thing and again it's not a serious issue but there is something about Mark Carney that just kind of

00:03:06.760 freak snobbish at all times. And I think that it actually is going to be a major problem for his

00:03:12.320 campaign. It was the same problem that John Kerry had when running for president in 2004. Same problem

00:03:17.860 that Michael Ignatieff had in 2011. Frankly it's probably the same problem that John Turner had.

00:03:23.480 The other completely unelected prime minister had back in the 1988 federal election. And some people

00:03:29.960 have come to me after my last video when I said that Carney would be our second unelected prime minister.

00:03:34.820 And they started pointing at other people like Kim Campbell. Those people were elected 0.55

00:03:38.940 in the sense that they were MPs before they became prime minister.

00:03:43.040 Because like even Trudeau doesn't get elected prime minister.

00:03:47.340 He gets elected as an MP and his party has made him the prime ministerial

00:03:50.880 like leader. And so but Carney is truly

00:03:54.820 someone who if he becomes the liberal leader and becomes the prime minister he doesn't

00:03:59.000 hold a seat. He is basically just running the government through

00:04:02.460 recommendation and that the caucus is going to do what he wants. Which really

00:04:06.660 raises the question. What's the point of even electing anyone

00:04:10.020 if it's not even the elected people who are going to be in the important jobs.

00:04:13.440 So in theory Carney could become prime minister. He could return everyone from his cabinet who's a

00:04:19.040 MP to caucus to just to the back benches. And then he could just bring in a bunch of random

00:04:24.540 friends of his to be ministers because he's allowed to do that. And unless caucus stops him

00:04:29.420 in which I'm not even sure if they really have the power to stop him or not

00:04:32.800 then unless they just voted no confidence to the entire government

00:04:36.160 then Carney can do whatever he wants. But let's get into

00:04:40.360 some more serious matters. This was a great find by

00:04:43.940 MB

00:04:44.400 say by M.Brant75 and he

00:04:48.400 says guess who with an image of the Century Initiative

00:04:52.580 website. The Century Initiative is this

00:04:56.040 absolutely insane organization that wants to bring Canada's population from 40 million people

00:05:02.780 and it's more like 42 million people as of today to 100 million people by 2050. 1.00

00:05:10.020 That is obviously stupid. They have this whole section up here on their website that says why 100 million? 0.98

00:05:15.900 And really why 100 million? Because cheap labor. Because artificial economic growth.

00:05:21.760 It's run by a lot of people who are generally tied in with the government who would be very benefited by having a lot bigger population even though each individual will have way less money per capita.

00:05:35.740 We will all be less off less well off as individuals but the country's GDP will be doing very well.

00:05:42.640 That's the kind of psychos who work at the Century Initiative.

00:05:46.640 And look, as a speaker for the Century Initiative, they had Mark Carney, Chair of Brookfield Asset Management and Head of Transition Investing.

00:05:55.620 Yeah, Mark Carney's a big green guy, although he doesn't usually advertise the fact that Brookfield Asset Management, when he was in charge, invested in a lot of oil and gas pipelines in Brazil and the UAE, but refused to invest in anything in Canada because he believes that Canada should be on a green end.

00:06:10.640 He believes that Canada should be on a green energy transition, but not the UAE, not Brazil, not Iran, not a lot of these other countries that have far worse environmental standards, worse human rights standards and all that stuff because Canada is a rich, privileged Western country that needs to get with the program.

00:06:29.400 The UAE, they can do what they want. Brazil, who cares? This is why this guy is going to lose.

00:06:34.520 There are so many contradictions to him, and this one is definitely going to hurt.

00:06:39.380 The fact that he would support an organization that is just, it's not even like he wants higher immigration as a vague generality because it helps our economy.

00:06:48.320 No, no, he's the psycho who agrees with the idea of getting to 100 million, just 100 million because GDP, because pump the stocks.

00:06:58.700 It's obnoxious. Your country always needs a good balance between the stock market as well as individual finances.

00:07:07.280 And the thing is, it's good to do that because you're going to make sure you actually will be a better country more well off in the long run if both those things are balanced.

00:07:16.100 I'm not making an equity argument. I don't care about income inequality. People are going to make different amounts of money because they put different efforts into it.

00:07:25.160 Things just worked out different. We don't need to correct for that.

00:07:28.220 But the country's government shouldn't be worried about the overall GDP more than the overall individual's economic health.

00:07:36.580 But let's move on to a new issue. I'm going to, before I get to another Mark Carney thing, I wanted to talk about this because some people are trying to call Pierre Polyev a hypocrite for advocating for a new military base being built outside of Iqaluit in Nunavut.

00:07:51.920 And this Roddy guy who is a bigger liberal influencer online, one of these anonymous people, says Pierre Polyev looks like an idiot right now. 0.62

00:08:01.100 And Polyev back a couple of years ago said Arctic ambassador to do diplomacy with who? Santa Claus? 0.98

00:08:07.520 And yeah, Dieter McPherson, who's another liberal, says glad you're taking this seriously.

00:08:12.760 Consular presence in any region is part of the expression of sovereignty.

00:08:16.060 They're saying that this is somehow hypocritical because he opposed an Arctic ambassador because he now wants a military base in Iqaluit.

00:08:26.080 These are two extremely different things which would have very different effects on Canada's power projection, our ability to enforce our sovereignty. 0.93

00:08:36.700 An Arctic ambassador is the type of thing that foolish children who do model UN would come up with.

00:08:42.840 We need somebody who's going to show up to any Arctic conferences there are or go and tell Russia, you better stay out of our territory. 0.98

00:08:50.880 You better not mess with us or we'll complain. We'll complain to the UN. You'll get condemned.

00:08:56.700 It's like it doesn't matter, guys.

00:08:58.720 The thing you want in the Arctic if you care about power projection and maintaining sovereignty is guns.

00:09:05.840 You want jet fighters. You want artillery pieces. You want ways of shutting down the northern passages to the Chinese and the Russians if they start screwing around. 0.98

00:09:16.240 That is what you want. These are not similar things.

00:09:19.480 The Arctic ambassador isn't going to come up with their pencil and wag it at a military ship from Russia who's trying to take control of the northern passage.

00:09:27.480 And this is why Donald Trump was kind of annoyed with Canada when it comes to what he calls our deficit.

00:09:33.900 Trump is absolutely wrong. And we're going to get to the Trump tariffs probably in another video.

00:09:38.140 But he is wrong about having a trade imbalance with Canada. We ship in a lot of raw materials.

00:09:43.020 Obviously, we're going to export more into the U.S. than the U.S. exports into us simply because once we are selling raw materials,

00:09:51.440 we're not going to buy an equivalent amount of raw materials from the U.S.

00:09:54.720 We are far more raw material rich and we don't do as much manufacturing as the United States in a lot of sectors.

00:10:00.940 And so, like, we buy more manufactured vehicles from them and stuff like that.

00:10:06.400 But the thing is, overall, our raw materials end up sort of creating this imbalance because you need raw materials for everything.

00:10:13.100 But we don't really need to buy an equivalent amount of vehicles.

00:10:16.660 Kind of complicated, but generally he's wrong on that.

00:10:19.600 But what he is right on is that they spend a lot of money.

00:10:22.520 The U.S. spends a lot of money protecting Canada to the tune of billions of dollars a year over a period of time.

00:10:28.740 I believe Trump's probably right. It's been over 200 billion that the U.S.

00:10:32.080 has basically subsidized Canada with when it comes to defense and other things like that.

00:10:36.680 And this, with Polioff saying we need a base in Iqaluit, is a great plan to calm the waters with the U.S.

00:10:43.120 and say, see, we are taking control of the situation yourself.

00:10:46.280 We do not resent what you're doing for us and think that we can take it all for granted forever.

00:10:51.660 We have to contribute to our own defense someday.

00:10:54.680 Anyways, another reminder, guys, like the video, subscribe to the channel, do all that great stuff.

00:11:00.600 I'm going to get to that later.

00:11:01.700 I'm going to do that in another video.

00:11:02.780 Someone's advocating that we rip up the Starlink contract.

00:11:06.360 Before I talk about CBDCs, I just want to talk about some of the photos that are coming out of Mark Carney's current leadership campaign.

00:11:14.820 This man is a frontrunner, and he fills up rooms like it's Jean Charest's campaign or Scott Aitchison's campaign from the 22 conservative leadership race.

00:11:24.540 I was at a Jean Charest event in Calgary.

00:11:27.060 I wasn't supporting him as there is media.

00:11:29.540 But this is what it looked like.

00:11:31.100 It's just a small kind of bar event.

00:11:33.220 It's not that full.

00:11:34.760 You know, it's, I guess, for a small local band that's a full group of people.

00:11:39.280 And the thing is, when you actually look around the room at the amount of people with cameras, there's a lot of media here.

00:11:44.220 If you sucked all the media out of this corner over here, what are we left with, like 100 people?

00:11:50.260 Polyev, during his leadership race, could casually get a couple thousand people in a room.

00:11:55.060 And this is Winnipeg, which is actually, in fact, a partial conservative stronghold.

00:12:00.500 I think once they start actually trying this guy out in a real race, in, like, against, like, Polyev, it's not going to go very well. 0.84

00:12:10.560 And, again, I'm going to look up the 1993 polling because I think a lot more people need to see it. 0.98

00:12:15.200 All these people are saying, you're stupid if you don't think the liberals have a real chance now. 0.99

00:12:20.040 They're coming back, all this stuff. 1.00

00:12:21.680 Again, some guys just want content because it makes for shocking content that, oh, look, they're coming back.

00:12:27.540 Oh, is McCartney going to win?

00:12:28.860 And people click on it being like, oh, my goodness, he's going to win.

00:12:31.700 And then it makes everything seem very, you know, everything seems very intense and newsworthy for a bit.

00:12:39.380 Here's what, I had to take this off screen for a second and get the new screen up.

00:12:42.680 This is what the 1993 polling looked like after Kim Campbell took over for Brian Mulroney.

00:12:50.320 Around when the PECs are below the NDP in the polls, that is when Mulroney is getting swapped out with Kim Campbell.

00:13:00.160 And then we see a big run for the PECs.

00:13:02.660 They, in fact, overshoot, they actually eclipse the liberals late into the election in May.

00:13:11.700 But by November, it's fallen down again.

00:13:14.820 Guys, the exact same amount of time is going to transpire before Mark Carney is actually getting people to put votes in ballot boxes for him.

00:13:25.380 He's not going to be able to maintain this.

00:13:27.400 He's not even in the lead.

00:13:28.780 Maybe he gets a poll that makes it look really close after he becomes leader.

00:13:33.760 But what you should look at, and it's the same for the conservatives right now, look at the liberals polling.

00:13:39.120 Let's just start at 90, like let's start at 92 or whatever.

00:13:43.960 The liberals in 1993's election cycle are above 40 percent and they dip a little bit into the high 80s.

00:13:51.740 And then by the end of it, they're back up at the high 40s.

00:13:54.820 And I think the federal conservatives this year are going to do better than just low 40s simply because they don't have to compete with a big party on their right the way the PCs did with reform.

00:14:06.160 Really, it was a reform that was competing with the PCs because the PCs were dying.

00:14:10.040 But the thing is that they maintain the 40 percent.

00:14:14.960 If you look at current polling, you will see that it's basically been an entire two years of the federal conservatives at the low 40s to the high 40s.

00:14:24.780 I don't think a bunch of Canadians are going to decide, yes, Polyev is the right man for the job.

00:14:29.740 I hate Trudeau.

00:14:30.720 But then when Mark Carney runs along saying, hey, we need central bank digital currencies.

00:14:35.260 By the way, the economy should or the country should have a population of 100 million people and that we need to intensify the green transition by trying to ramp up energy through green tech.

00:14:46.260 But that's not going to get a lot of people to shift their votes.

00:14:49.940 People are already where they're at right now.

00:14:52.100 What the liberals are experiencing is a response bias.

00:14:55.840 They are less depressed because Trudeau is no longer the rotting peach of a figurehead for them.

00:15:00.900 And so more people are picking up the phone and saying, yeah, I'm voting liberal.

00:15:04.160 The amount of actual raw number of people in the country willing to vote liberal really hasn't gone up that much.

00:15:09.480 But those people have gone from 60% likely to take a poll to 90% likely to take a poll.

00:15:15.960 Kamala Harris had this.

00:15:17.260 A lot of people have had this where they're pulling shoots up because a lot of people are suddenly a little bit more energetic in their camp.

00:15:24.220 And then the camp starts, you know, going back to their normal energy levels.

00:15:28.100 And then they like end up having bad turnout again.

00:15:30.700 Just how it works out.

00:15:32.220 It's politics, baby.

00:15:33.560 You know, all that good stuff.

00:15:35.660 So another thing I need to talk about is central bank digital currency.

00:15:39.480 I've mentioned this in another video.

00:15:41.960 We actually at the National Telegraph were the ones who got encouraged Polyev to take a stance against central bank digital currency.

00:15:48.880 This is a massive, like, gaping hole in Mark Carney's campaign that the conservatives can exploit.

00:15:56.980 I hope when Shapiro Polyev has that big Canada first rally in Ottawa on the 15th, he brings up CBDCs.

00:16:03.400 I saw Polyev in Vancouver.

00:16:05.300 I brought up the fact that Carney is in favor of CBDCs.

00:16:08.140 I said that he's basically Mr. CBDC.

00:16:11.180 There are articles where he's quoted advocating that the government needs to get involved in CBDCs or the private sector is going to exploit it.

00:16:18.500 So for the public's protection, we need to have a massive privacy, you know, massive privacy violating CBDCs as the currency of the time. 0.99

00:16:28.620 It's obviously stupid. 0.94

00:16:29.500 There's no private company who could start a CBDC that the world would start using. 1.00

00:16:33.580 It's not an actual regional currency.

00:16:35.980 So it would become kind of like a niche product like Bitcoin or Ethereum.

00:16:40.700 Nobody cares about it.

00:16:42.500 But Carney used the excuse that the private sector, big tech, could exploit it to say that Canada and the U.S. and all these other countries need CBDCs.

00:16:50.500 By the way, you know, in a country that's a big fan of CBDCs, China, because it lets them monitor everything that you're buying, that you're trading, how much they can directly tax you.

00:17:00.920 If they tax you more for doing the wrong things, it can, you know, it can plug into your social credit score.

00:17:06.480 It is a massive problem.

00:17:09.540 But anyways, the thing about this all is that Carney is still Mr. CBDC.

00:17:15.460 Again, there are articles where he, I didn't say this yet, but there are articles where he advocates for this, saying we have to cut off the private sector.

00:17:23.260 And then the same article will quote another central banker who basically, they're not asked about what Mark Carney said,

00:17:30.360 but they're pitched the same idea that the government should get involved in CBDCs to cut off the private sector. 1.00

00:17:35.280 And they're like, no, are you stupid? 1.00

00:17:37.400 This is like a massive privacy issue. 1.00

00:17:40.060 It's a civil liberties issue to have CBDCs.

00:17:42.520 People should be able to spend cash if they want, use credit cards, use their bank as their interface for saving money.

00:17:49.580 Having the government be your banking interface is a massive problem, you know, because your bank doesn't really have partisans in it.

00:17:57.140 The government does.

00:17:58.400 And the government can decide what charities it wants to crack down on, what kind of behavior it wants to crack down on. 0.98

00:18:03.220 So I hope Polioff makes this a big thing with Carney, that he believes in all this neomania, crazy garbage. 0.93

00:18:10.600 And when I say neomania, I mean a mania, a love for anything new. 0.65

00:18:15.660 New technology, new ways of the government being able to monitor you, to be able to make things more efficient, that actually makes your life harder.

00:18:24.000 But it makes it better for bureaucrats to settle down.

00:18:26.140 That's a big thing that they need to be going after and for.

00:18:29.800 And now the second thing is something that the Trudeau government's doing, but they're obviously doing it under the advice of Carney because he's been pushing for this for years.

00:18:37.420 That under a potential energy crisis with the United States, if we get into a trade war with them, that instead of trying to build pipelines and do all this other actually effective stuff around oil and gas to secure our energy future, instead we need to put up spinny windmills and we need solar panels that barely work in the winter, especially if you live in Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba.

00:19:02.200 No, we should not. That is stupid. That is going to greatly increase the price of energy. 0.99

00:19:08.620 Because yes, all energy on the energy market that gets sold onto the grid is sold at a flat rate.

00:19:15.940 But green tech companies, solar companies and wind companies, they get extra money for every kilometer or so that they have to shift copper wire along the ground in order to actually get the energy to these grids.

00:19:29.620 The problem is, is that it actually incentivizes company because the payout is way better than it would be if you just had a much closer wind farm to the grid that you're actually incentivized to build a wind farm as far away from the grid as possible.

00:19:43.420 And then stretch kilometers of copper wire to get to that grid because you're being paid subsidies that are way better than the actual energy that you're selling in terms of the value of it.

00:19:55.340 That the distance that you're transporting, the same amount of energy is giving you more money, even though oil and gas companies don't get this for having to build pipelines or having to drill or any of this more complex engineering feats compared to green tech.

00:20:09.420 This is why green tech is a scam. Green tech gets literally like if it's, let's say, 10 cents a kilowatt hour, 9 cents a kilowatt hour for oil and gas products onto the grid.

00:20:21.740 For green tech, it's like 24 cents. It's like 30 cents. Technically, they're only getting the 9 cents for the energy.

00:20:29.000 But the back end subsidy is making it far more expensive.

00:20:32.440 And the government's been perfectly fine splurging because this is our new green energy future.

00:20:37.960 It's not. It's stupid. It's extremely. 1.00

00:20:41.100 This is why Ontario having an 8% green energy mandate on the grid.

00:20:46.120 It was started under Kathleen Wynne and Dalton McGinty, but has continued with Doug Ford.

00:20:50.680 That 8% of the grid represents like 40%, 50% of an Ontarians power bill at the end of the month. 1.00

00:20:57.900 It's stupid. Anyways, so that's probably it for me today, guys. 0.94

00:21:03.960 I think Mark Carney is going to be a massive dud when he becomes a leader.

00:21:07.920 Let's even, I need to go back and check.

00:21:09.660 I'm pretty sure even Ignatieff had a bump, but he's not going to actually win.

00:21:14.600 And I'm not saying this because I don't want him to win.

00:21:17.000 I'm pretty realistic. I'm willing to say I don't like people who are bad.

00:21:20.980 And I'm not always just on Team Conservative. It really depends.

00:21:25.620 But I'm checking it out.

00:21:27.160 Yeah, I don't think they ever, the Liberals never eclipsed the Conservatives during the 2011 election,

00:21:32.240 but they did rise after Ignatieff became the leader.

00:21:35.700 Carney's going to perform the same way.

00:21:37.940 Is anyone truly excited over Carney outside of psychotic Liberal cheerleaders? 0.90

00:21:43.100 No, not really.

00:21:43.980 An image is power in politics. Name recognition is power.

00:21:48.400 Carney probably still has a sub-30% name recognition, maybe 40% if I'm being generous.

00:21:54.400 Most people don't really know him.

00:21:56.080 And there's a difference between recognizing him and trusting him.

00:21:58.940 Polyev has that trust factor, which is why even at the midst of the Liberals supposedly surging,

00:22:04.360 the Conservatives are still at anywhere from 40% to 44% in the polls.

00:22:08.500 That is a very, very stable majority territory type polling number.

00:22:14.140 The Liberals have mostly been taking their polling gains, a couple points from the Bloc and a few points from the NDP.

00:22:22.680 That's really it.

00:22:23.440 And then the undecided numbers have sort of shrunk a little bit.

00:22:26.900 But the Conservative Coalition has not had anyone leave it yet.

00:22:31.120 So anyways, that's it guys.

00:22:33.320 Like the video, subscribe to the channel.

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00:22:37.380 Really helps me on the algorithm.

00:22:39.360 And I'll see you guys next time.

00:22:40.800 Thank you.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 11, 2025

Carney has big campaign problems and is too much like Trudeau

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