A Conservative MP asks about the $200 million fake spaceport being built in Nova Scotia, and the corruption surrounding it. Also, opposition to the proposed Alto High-speed rail line is heating up in Canada, and it's going to hurt the Liberals.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.320Truly, I think when Prime Minister Mark Carney's liberal government approval bottoms out,
00:00:11.800it's going to be in large part because of rampant corruption connected to
00:00:16.580contracts the government is currently giving out. It's wild just how much money the government has
00:00:23.100burned on friends that the media is letting them pretty much get away with right now,
00:00:27.980But eventually, it will hit critical mass, and this stuff will start hammering the Liberals' approval ratings.
00:00:34.560Here's a great example from the House of Commons today, where a Conservative MP asks about the $200 million fake spaceport that's being built in Nova Scotia.
00:01:24.500The Honourable Minister of National Defence, Mr. Speaker, our investments in Canada's space capabilities, remember we'll know, will translate into new jobs, stronger supply chains, greater industrial capacity, and a more resilient Canadian economy.
00:01:40.280We're taking decisive action to strengthen our security and sovereignty
00:01:45.680and to reinforce the resilience and long-term strength of the country.
00:06:55.960This is also why I think that Carney's polling numbers are eventually going to go down, and it's going to go down in places where the Liberals cannot afford for the polling to get worse.
00:07:35.960Same thing in Saskatchewan. They have the North Saskatchewan riding. That's all they're really going to get. But if the Liberals lose three or four percent in Quebec or in British Columbia or in Ontario, they are in real trouble of having a problem with seats in the next election.
00:07:51.780They can run up the score in places that they're already doing well in, in downtown Toronto and downtown Montreal and in Victoria.
00:08:00.380But if they start losing West Coast voters to the NDP or the Conservatives because of either the property rights issue or because environmentalist liberals don't like that Carney's even somewhat positively talking about a pipeline.
00:08:13.340and he ends up losing Quebec nationalists in Quebec because of his dumb comments on separation
00:08:18.900and saying that he wouldn't recognize a majority vote for separation, as well as the Alto train,
00:08:23.980you can see where there's kind of these pathways and little kind of corridors and regions
00:08:29.040where both on the left and the right, he's going to start losing votes
00:08:33.380because he just kind of bulldozed through with his project ideas,
00:08:37.600with a lot of his new programs or new agreements without actually consulting anybody.
00:08:43.340And it's not about whether it's a good move or a bad move. It's a politically stupid move. Now, these are bad policies, too. You know, I absolutely think these are bad, but it's more so that I'm marveling at the political incompetence of it all.0.99
00:08:57.320This is also what we're hearing from inside the Liberal caucus that's being leaked out on Carney, all of the MPs anonymously speaking to the media, saying that, yeah, he tends to just say what he wants to happen and everyone has to do it, or you're going to be basically kicked out of the inner circle.
00:09:12.580Well, this is what he's doing in all of Canada as well, just jamming a project forward, throwing money at it, and telling everyone if they don't like it, then you don't believe in Canada or whatever.
00:09:51.200Anyways, but now I want to get into sort of the numbers behind Alto so far.
00:09:57.020We've heard about the $200 million rent for the launch company in Nova Scotia.
00:10:02.220But Alto, despite the fact that, again, this project was only recently approved and there's no actual, you know, products delivered yet, there's no train rail on the ground, there's nothing actually built.
00:10:15.600They have somehow spent, so far, $265.9 million.
00:10:23.840This has been pretty much all for salaries, consulting, doing studies, legal and financial advising, travel, grants for Indigenous participation, and all that.
00:10:37.060There has been zero capital spending, no spending on equipment, no spending on actually building
00:10:45.520anything. They're not building any train stations. They're not building any rail. They have spent
00:10:50.360over a quarter billion just talking. And their budget to get to the point where they might start
00:10:58.760actually building something over the next three years is over $4 billion. So we are literally
00:11:03.720going to spend $4 billion to talk. In Japan, if they had $4 billion, they could actually build
00:11:11.820quite a bit of rail and stations towards a certain destination. I'm not sure if they
00:11:16.460probably couldn't build a train, a track or a train line as long as Toronto to Quebec City
00:11:22.760with $4 billion, but they could get something done. In Canada, we spend $4 billion and we
00:11:28.700literally get a complete goose egg done. Nothing. But now I want to get back over to the question
00:11:36.180period question because another or question period because there's another question I want to
00:11:40.160highlight. That is another more minor spending scandal going on with the liberals. But this is
00:11:45.800one that we've seen repeated multiple times. And again, I don't if someone said the government
00:11:51.860wasted $200,000, you'd probably say, well, it's the government. That's really not that bad. But
00:11:56.520The problem is so much of the money that's being wasted right now is on things that are so petty
00:12:01.660that end up highlighting the elite character of the Liberal government
00:12:05.420that this is going to be a big election issue for the Liberals
00:12:10.140when you have a bunch of your Crown Corporation executives spending $6,500 on a dinner.
00:12:23.740I sure hope they up their game with the answers.
00:12:25.700And the CEO of Farm Credit Canada last year, Justine Hendricks, spent more than $213,000 just on travel.
00:12:34.240She spent another $53,000 on hospitality, including one meal for more than $6,500.
00:12:41.600That's more than a third of what a family of four spends on groceries for an entire year.
00:12:46.880Can the minister tell me how much more out-of-control spending is he going to approve this year?
00:12:51.220now this answer is really bad just from the visuals that the guy who's going to stand up
00:12:59.300is holding his phone obviously being fed an answer to try and justify
00:13:03.080the ceo farm credit candidate blowing money like that
00:13:06.800the honorable parliamentary secretary to the minister for energy fcc is an independent
00:13:14.820crown corporation and operates at arm's length with that said what i can see by the way no it
00:13:21.220does not yes in theory it operates at arm's length but who runs it is not arm's length
00:13:27.460the minister can pluck that person out throw them out and replace them with someone better
00:13:31.700and they have very good cause to fire them without even having to pay them severance based on all the
00:13:37.220money that's being wasted there i hate whenever a crown corporation is overspending or doing
00:13:43.140something corrupt and we can just say it's a crown corporation they operate at arm's length from us
00:13:48.580they only operate at arm's length from you when you want them to operate at arm's length and it
00:13:53.060turns out whenever they do something bad rather than dealing with the problem it's easier to say0.91
00:13:56.740oh wow they're way over there i have nothing to do with that let's go back to claude gay's uh
00:14:03.620answer here though is that farmers and agriculture stakeholders around the country appreciate what
00:14:10.500the good work that is done by fcc we're working hard to grow the agriculture sector
00:14:16.660and the strongest economy in the g7 and fcc is an important part of our effort thank you mr speaker
00:14:23.940the fcc is an important part so shut up about somebody spending six thousand five sixty seven
00:14:29.460hundred sixty five hundred dollars on a single dinner oh who cares maybe there are more people
00:14:34.340at the with them at the table and somehow you know that's justifies a bill that large
00:14:40.020mr speaker the liberals themselves are warning warning public investment in ag research and
00:14:49.700development has fallen by 15 private sector r&d outsourced universities is down 77 and the number
00:14:56.780of firms conducting research in canada has dropped by 30 yet the liberal ag minister himself is
00:15:02.500slashing 115 million dollars in agriculture research science took the hit for 75 percent
00:15:08.840of the cuts in his department did the ag minister personally approve these cuts yes or no no i
00:15:15.580actually don't care about the answer on that one i was just allowing that question to be in as well
00:15:20.340just because of how again ridiculous it is that you have them trying to like them not giving a0.96
00:15:27.880crap about the FCC CEO blowing money. At the same time, they're actually cutting money from actual0.94
00:15:34.680farm research, which does matter. It helps people plan crops. It helps people basically deal with
00:15:40.640soil issues. I don't know all about it, but from actually talking to farmers, it does matter.
00:15:46.320Now, I am in favor of smaller government. I want less government spending in general.
00:15:51.440But the fact that whenever government chooses to cut something, it's always in an area where you
00:15:55.980could argue that it might have been even underfunded in the first place, is just telling
00:16:00.280about the ideology of the Liberals. They just don't like resources. They just don't like oil
00:16:04.680and gas. They really don't like farmers. And where they choose to spend money is, again,
00:16:09.760a spaceport in Nova Scotia they're leasing the land for for $200 million. I think that comes
00:16:15.360with some servicing. They've spent over $260 million on a train's planning stage that is
00:16:23.540still going to go on for multiple years now that nobody actually likes. You have Mark Carney
00:16:28.880flying around the world and on three separate trips, spending $200,000 on airplane food alone.
00:16:36.020And we had to cut money from agricultural research? Really? That's where the money had
00:16:43.320to come out of? They're blowing out the budget everywhere else, but this is where we're going
00:16:46.700to start being frugal, guys. The whole thing is just absolutely annoying to me. Anyways,
00:16:52.420With that all being said, that's kind of where I'm wrapping up this video topic, but I think you guys kind of get what I mean. All of these are kind of little drops, and each one of these issues alone doesn't really matter that much.
00:17:05.820If it was just the spaceport, if it was just the pre-planning on Alto, if it was just Carney's airplane food here and there and the FCC CEO spending on like $6,500 on a dinner, it wouldn't be that bad if it was just one or two of those things in isolation.
00:17:25.580And as time goes on, they keep finding more and more money that the government is misspending under the leadership of a prime minister who's supposed to be some sort of financial guru.
00:17:35.140You think this guy, who's trying to come across rhetorically more conservative, would be trying
00:17:40.800to get some of the spending under control. But of course, Mark Carney doesn't actually know
00:17:45.480what he's doing. And his entire business career before this, when it comes to Brookfield Asset
00:17:50.580Management, was lining up for government subsidies. He is not a small spending guy.
00:17:55.640Even in business, he relied effectively on government to make sure that his ventures
00:17:59.280were actually profitable. And who could have imagined that when you make that guy prime
00:18:03.820minister, he's just going to dump money around the economy and hope it helps. No actual real
00:18:08.540control on where the spending is going, just trying to stimulate the economy. This is what
00:18:13.080he did in the UK. This is what caused the UK to have bad inflation under his watch as the governor
00:18:19.240of the Bank of England. He just dumped money around, hoping that it was going to stimulate
00:18:23.080the economy. Turns out that doesn't actually work, but he's going to try to get in Canada for no
00:18:28.380reason anyways with all that being said thank you guys for watching like share subscribe consider
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