The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - June 22, 2026


Carney Hot Mic ＂MPs are Useful for Votes＂ - Liberals MPs are Puppets!


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Mark Carney was caught on a hot mic saying that MPs are only there to be used as a tool to push through his agenda and that they are only useful as long as they vote the way he wants them to vote.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.040 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been having a real tough time with hot mic moments
00:00:12.080 over the past week. First, it was at the G7 where Carney was caught on a hot mic trying to
00:00:18.140 desperately explain to President Donald Trump his terrible China EV agreement, and now he's been
00:00:24.080 caught in his own office with the prime minister of croatia where carney demonstrated his contempt
00:00:30.720 for canadian democracy and even his own mps check out this moment
00:00:39.520 in case you didn't hear what he said there i'm going to go back a little bit
00:00:56.160 and as indicated on screen he said that mps are useful for votes
00:01:09.520 Right there, he's actually about to say, when he's talking about MPs, he was going to say, you know, MPs, they're not, well, they're useful for votes, demonstrating that he doesn't actually care about the opinions or the skills or perspectives that anyone in his own government actually brings to the table.
00:01:25.020 They are simply there to vote through Carney's agenda.
00:01:29.920 Conservative MP for Calgary Heritage, Chivalry Majumdar, quotes Carney saying MPs are useful for votes.
00:01:36.200 and then he goes on to say, not voices for their communities, not legislators, just warm bodies to
00:01:42.760 clap, sit down, and vote when told. Now, this isn't some, like, secret belief hidden in the heart of
00:01:49.540 Prime Minister Mark Carney. This is how he operates day to day. Why do you think liberal MPs are
00:01:56.000 starting to leak on the man? Because he doesn't care about them. He bullies them when they say
00:02:00.860 thinks he doesn't like, and he does not actually listen to their perspectives. The floor-crossing
00:02:06.540 situation demonstrates what Carney thinks about MPs and power. He simply sees MPs as a conduit
00:02:13.920 for his own power. That's why he would take pretty much anyone who was willing to cross. 0.92
00:02:19.160 Didn't care about their voting record, didn't care about any of their fundamental beliefs.
00:02:22.840 That's why he could have MPs as diverse as the NDP MP for Nunavut, Laurie Idlaut, cross the floor
00:02:29.380 and become a liberal, as well as the previously very conservative Marilyn Gladue also crossed
00:02:35.780 the floor and become a liberal. As long as they vote the way that he wants, they're okay. They
00:02:41.940 are effectively widgets and robots there to simply push through his agenda. So that was quite telling
00:02:48.720 and I hope the conservatives use that clip to dog Carney all the time. Liberal voters should know
00:02:54.280 that if you are voting for a liberal MP candidate in your area, you're kind of stupid because you're 1.00
00:03:00.180 voting for somebody that Mark Carney also thinks is stupid and they are only worthwhile to him 1.00
00:03:05.820 insofar as they vote and do not speak. It is like the old sort of like hyper strict parent line, 1.00
00:03:13.140 children are meant to be seen but not heard. Isn't that a great thing to think about when you're
00:03:18.860 voting for a liberal MP. You are voting for effectively a warm body for Carney to use like
00:03:24.460 a puppet when votes come up. Now I want to take you guys back to his first hot mic moment because
00:03:30.280 although people know about it, I don't think enough people realize the significance of this
00:03:34.920 one. This one just happened like six days ago. Carney really needs to just not speak until
00:03:40.380 somebody actually says, okay, we are officially recording now as he kind of runs his mouth when
00:03:46.180 and microphones are in the room.
00:03:47.740 But check out this moment from the G7
00:03:49.740 when they were around a table with all the world leaders.
00:04:12.480 At the end of there, when Trump kind of gives them one of these
00:04:16.180 he was saying, well, I thought you would have liked that. And he's trying to explain
00:04:21.800 his awful China EV deal. It's not just bad because it's getting in the way of a trade deal
00:04:28.060 with the United States, which is a big problem with it, but it's bad because we shouldn't be 0.90
00:04:32.600 trying to integrate more with communist China. I am a free market guy, but you don't engage in 0.96
00:04:39.540 free trade with a country that steals intellectual property and patents from Canada, America, and the
00:04:45.700 rest of the Western world. I don't care where they steal it from. We don't reward countries 0.74
00:04:50.600 that steal IP because they are not playing on a level playing field. They simply wait for other
00:04:55.880 companies to invest tens of millions to hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in R&D.
00:05:00.820 They steal it and then they just basically start pumping out cheaper versions of it because they
00:05:05.480 don't have to bake in the R&D cost to their finished product, their finished products cost.
00:05:11.520 And what Carney was effectively doing there was trying to like in his own sweaty and desperate way of saying it's only 49,000 EVs.
00:05:18.820 It's a hard cap.
00:05:19.700 It's a hard cap.
00:05:20.600 It's only 5% of the cars being sold in Canada every year, that 49,000.
00:05:25.800 Well, Carney, it's going to go up higher than 49,000.
00:05:29.540 That's part of your deal.
00:05:30.520 I think it was from like 49,000 to 53,000.
00:05:34.020 And it keeps going up from there until I believe the cap actually just gets eliminated and they can dump whatever they want in the Canadian market.
00:05:40.760 Now, I think Trump was like, well, you know, that's good to hear.
00:05:44.260 But Trump is going to get briefed on his own trade team, and he's going to be told that 0.96
00:05:48.560 that's a bunch of hot garbage, what Carney just told him. 0.96
00:05:51.420 And by the way, Carney has been trying to play it. 0.99
00:05:54.440 Who is a cucumber when it comes to trade?
00:05:56.720 Oh, he absolutely has confidence in his trade team with Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Canada's 1.00
00:06:02.940 official trade representative to the U.S., some woman who's too boring for me to remember. 1.00
00:06:08.100 Or it's always, don't worry, we have progress. 0.99
00:06:11.440 Dominic's got it covered.
00:06:13.320 Carney crossed the room to go talk to Trump because it's not going well.
00:06:18.700 Because this is a big sticking point.
00:06:20.880 And the thing that is most concerning is, like I've said in the other videos,
00:06:25.540 this is clearly a sticking point for Carney too.
00:06:28.420 Not that Trump just, like, it's not just a sticking point because Trump doesn't want it.
00:06:31.940 It's a sticking point because Carney doesn't want to have to get rid of it.
00:06:35.280 It's not even good for Canada for us to keep this trade deal with China, but CARDI seems to be allowing a deal with the CCP get in the way with a deal with our biggest export partner.
00:06:50.680 We trade with the U.S. 79% of our exports go to the United States. 5% of our exports go to China.
00:06:57.880 Now, who cares about the cars if we can improve our deal with the 79%?
00:07:05.020 Who cares if our seafood and canola oil gets tariffed again? 0.99
00:07:08.720 Let's have a deal with the Americans.
00:07:10.160 They have to agree to buy a certain amount extra canola and seafood products.
00:07:16.160 Why not?
00:07:16.660 We could probably bake that in to save the canola farmers and the seafood industry in the Maritimes and British Columbia 0.89
00:07:23.900 until we find other places to diversify that trade.
00:07:26.700 how about focus on diversifying canola and seafood rather than bending over backwards for 0.92
00:07:31.480 the CCP? I guess that's too much common sense, so that's why he's not going to actually take that
00:07:36.740 advice. But for the rest of this video, we don't really have anything else to talk about in terms
00:07:42.260 of Carney, but I want to highlight this video I wanted to talk about the other day, but I didn't
00:07:46.380 get around to it. I saw this absolutely ridiculous video from a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube guy.
00:07:54.360 I used to respond to videos from all the time talking about pride flags being flown in the place of Canadian flags in schools.
00:08:03.740 Because I actually am surprised that this progressive guy is being somewhat reasonable. 0.97
00:08:09.600 At the same time, he's still being very silly.
00:08:12.700 I actually have to pause quickly so I can find that clip, but I'll be back in a split second. 0.88
00:08:18.340 Split second over, I have found the golden nugget.
00:08:21.760 we are talking once again about a frank dominic video it's been a while i'm surprised i somewhat
00:08:29.100 agree with him but he also still says extremely silly things in this minute and a half tiktok
00:08:33.740 video he made a school in barry stopped flying the canadian flag during pride let's talk about
00:08:38.200 why headlines like this and stories like this are inflammatory and do not help first off two
00:08:42.540 things can be true at the same time one it is important to fly pride flags at schools to ensure
00:08:46.540 that students feel safe to be whoever they want to be and to live their best life and why does it
00:08:51.880 require specifically a pride flag for students to feel safe and allowed to be who they want to be
00:08:58.000 why doesn't the canadian flag represent that stuff i always find this silly this is where frank is
00:09:03.760 just being a delusional progressive there is nothing about any specific flag that is going
00:09:09.960 to make people feel safe. How about have a safe school where someone has a very low tolerance
00:09:16.780 for bullies? You bully someone, you're going to the office, you're sitting out of class.
00:09:20.940 You're going to have to come and do work after school. Be strict on bullying. Putting up a flag
00:09:26.300 and tearing down the Canadian flag doesn't do anything other than it actually kind of makes
00:09:31.260 the school a bit of a hostile progressive environment where progressivism is being
00:09:37.040 enforced and if a kid makes a joke about pride or something like that he's going to be sent to the
00:09:41.120 office that's what we have a problem with is that it represents kind of scold culture not actually
00:09:47.700 cracking down on real bullying but cracking down on kids making dumb jokes cracking down on kids
00:09:53.620 you know having conservative beliefs or christian beliefs or anything of that sort
00:09:58.920 two under no circumstances should you ever take down the canadian flag because 99 of the time the
00:10:05.360 who are freaking out about flying pride flags are usually not doing so for a valid reason
00:10:08.800 but incidents like this literally do inflame the culture more it's a valid reason to say that we
00:10:13.840 shouldn't be flying political flags at public institutions sure a private school wants to
00:10:19.760 be a weirdo progressive school fly it all day long it's your school it's your private property
00:10:25.200 as the owner of the school do what you wish public institutions should not be flying political 0.73
00:10:31.520 flags. Well, but why? The Pride Progress flag isn't political. It's about representing tolerance.
00:10:38.640 Sure, everyone says whatever flag they like represents tolerance. The thing is, it's obviously
00:10:44.480 political. I can find you gay and trans people who don't even like the Pride Progress flag flying. 0.91
00:10:50.700 They don't like pride parades because it's just political sludge. That is the problem with the 1.00
00:10:56.100 flag. It represents an equity agenda. It represents effectively moral relativism in a lot of ways.
00:11:02.800 And that's why people don't like it. That's why you can't fly. You can't fly like the Protestant
00:11:08.840 Christian flag either. I will say as a Baptist Christian, don't fly a Baptist flag if one exists, 1.00
00:11:15.900 because that would be wrong, because that's not what schools are there to do. Have the Canadian 1.00
00:11:20.380 flag, the Alberta flag, maybe the Union Jack, and you can fly other flags for like the police,
00:11:25.320 military or navy because they're canadian institutions anything else should not be there
00:11:31.560 but i do at least appreciate he understands the idea that it looks bad to be ripping down a
00:11:37.800 national symbol or a political symbol it's like his brain is like slowly clicking into gear and
00:11:43.800 he's realizing 99 of the complaints about pride flags are bad but at the same time he understands
00:11:49.960 it looks bad to take down the national flag because it's almost like you're replacing a
00:11:54.680 national symbol with a progressive political symbol or and have no business occurring when
00:12:00.920 you fly the pride flag it indicates that you are a safe space and this is extremely important
00:12:05.400 especially for youth as they are going through the developmental stages our schools are a welcoming
00:12:09.480 and loving place where everybody should be able to live their best life this is where it's this
00:12:14.520 is where it's complete nonsense when we keep saying that it represents a safe space the problem
00:12:19.000 is the people most likely to fly progress pride flags are the sort of people who probably demonize
00:12:25.980 and hate people who are parental rights activists, who simply want parents to have full informed
00:12:31.380 consent about what is being taught to their children. That is the type of people who fly
00:12:36.680 those flags. Not all. I'm just saying it's obviously political. It has obviously been seen
00:12:41.380 as an anti-parental rights flag. It is a flag of saying, well, of course genderqueer should be 1.00
00:12:47.480 available in school libraries for seven-year-olds. That is what that flag represents. Even high school
00:12:52.520 students, that would be inappropriate. If you're an adult with the book Genderqueer in your house, 0.77
00:12:56.500 unless you're using it for pure education of showing here's the crazy books they have in 1.00
00:13:00.680 schools, I'd be scared of you. So no, he's completely wrong to keep implying that it's
00:13:06.540 like a safe space flag. If you had, even let's say you had the thin blue line flag for the police at
00:13:12.740 the school. I would say that's kind of political too. Yeah, don't do that. It makes it seem like
00:13:18.400 a very sort of like there's we're going to enforce a certain type of civic nationalism
00:13:22.980 in this school. If you don't go along with it, then you don't belong. Do not do political things
00:13:27.300 in general. But also the Canadian flag is important. It is part of our culture. It is
00:13:32.780 part of our heritage. And to take it down for any reason is unfathomable. The Canadian flag
00:13:37.940 should always be the top flag on a flagpole. The Canadian flag should also be the largest flag on
00:13:42.680 flagpole and if you have the pride flag or a different flag on a separate flagpole from the
00:13:47.320 canadian flag it should not be flying in front of the canadian flag nor should it be taller or larger
00:13:52.120 than the canadian flag this is a frank is is confusing me at times he's being kind of he's
00:13:57.880 being kind of cool kind of based here at the same time then his progressive training keeps kicking
00:14:03.640 back into gear and saying but we still should have it because it shows that the place is safe
00:14:09.000 is it more safe because of it i really don't think so he's actually running for burlington ward six
00:14:14.920 so if you live in burlington ward six don't vote for him do not vote for him but you can tell he's
00:14:20.120 running for in politics because he used to be like the he used to be a much more unhinged progressive
00:14:26.360 and now that he's running for something he actually has to understand at least partially
00:14:30.440 the views of an average canadian common sense thing that i think pretty much every canadian
00:14:35.160 can agree upon. And none of those rules or regulations in any way circumvent the value
00:14:40.080 or the importance of the pride flag. But taking down the Canadian flag is a problem. It creates
00:14:44.760 unnecessary tensions and flies in the face of the whole point of being proud of our nation and our
00:14:48.860 flag. And I'm sure the comment section of this video are going to be very reasonable and level
00:14:52.680 headed. So let's see what you guys have to say. Here's the problem. I just want to comment on
00:14:56.480 one last thing he says here about national pride. A problem. It creates unnecessary tensions and
00:15:03.380 flies in the face of the whole point of being proud of our nation and our flag here here's the
00:15:08.260 problem again the sort of people and i'm trying to point to the politics of it because people can say
00:15:13.500 my flag isn't political it's just a fact and i've been at tons of protests i've been at lots of
00:15:20.280 town halls ones put on by my party in british columbia that dallas brody leaves 1bc the people
00:15:26.600 who fly the Pride Progress flags are also the people who fly the Palestine flags. And if they
00:15:33.600 have a Canadian flag, it's going to be upside down. These people tend to not be very pro-Western
00:15:39.200 culture. They tend to be very anti-West in terms of the initiatives and the nations that they
00:15:46.240 support. They're the type of people backing Iran against America and Israel because, you know, 0.81
00:15:52.900 screw the west that that's effectively what these people believe they're all land back activists
00:15:57.860 that is the problem can we put a land back flag up can we put a we should we put indigenous flags up
00:16:04.260 to denote that this is really their land oh it's not political white we're just being respectful
00:16:08.580 it's political guys and i'm not being one of those people saying oh everything's political
00:16:13.140 i always think that's overstated if go eat i don't know like go eat some cornbread that's
00:16:18.340 That's not political. Go, I don't know, watch hockey. It's not political. I hate when people
00:16:24.280 are like, oh my goodness, it's political to do anything. Breathing air is political. No, it's
00:16:28.940 not. Most things aren't political. The things that aren't political should be separated away
00:16:33.460 from the things that shouldn't be. Hockey games shouldn't be political. Now, if a hockey team's
00:16:38.760 owner wants to be stupid, let him be stupid, I guess. People are going to stop buying tickets 1.00
00:16:43.220 no matter what politics he starts pushing. If he's being annoying, people will stop showing up for
00:16:47.500 games public schools should not be political you know you could say well it's hard to teach social
00:16:53.020 studies because social studies will have political elements in it sure that's why we work hard to
00:16:56.860 make it neutral perfectly fine with me should have a you know a patriotic element to it you know but
00:17:03.340 you don't want to go into some ultra nationalist direction where we just like you know pretend
00:17:08.060 we're the best country ever but currently our social studies in so many provinces can do bad
00:17:12.540 That is the problem, and that is the sort of politics that undergirds things like the Pride Progress flag, that Canada is intolerant and not progressive enough, and that's why this flag must fly to fight back against the forces of intolerance out there, despite nobody getting in your way to doing what you want to do.
00:17:29.840 As long as it doesn't involve children who do not consent to things, go for it. Whatever you want.
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