The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 06, 2025


Carney keeps LOSING： Liberals pause EV mandate after Conservative pressure


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Wyatt Claypool reacts to Mark Carney's announcement that the Canadian government will be rolling back the country's EV mandate, and why it's a good thing it's not Donald Trump's fault that it's happening.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.
00:00:02.780 It has been genuinely kind of surprising how easily Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushed off the ball.
00:00:09.480 Like, I'm all here for the Liberals losing.
00:00:12.420 I hope that they implement none of their agenda because it's terrible.
00:00:17.400 But at the same time, if I was a Liberal advisor and I was trying to get the Prime Minister to be, you know, popular,
00:00:25.520 to be able to get things done, get re-elected, I would tell him to at least try and walk away from some of his commitments quietly.
00:00:35.700 Mark Carney just yesterday said that he is going to put a pause on his EV mandate, which is basically saying it's going to go away.
00:00:45.140 Yeah, in the year's time or a couple years' time, they may continue with the EV mandate,
00:00:49.880 but this is kind of like the soft way of getting rid of it because he's waving the white flag to Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev,
00:00:58.240 who has decisively won on this issue.
00:01:01.040 Other than people who wanted to scream about the environment and that if you don't support the EV mandate, you must hate the environment,
00:01:08.540 there wasn't anyone who actually thought that this was a particularly good idea.
00:01:13.380 But before I get into it, guys, I just want to remind you, if you like the channel, make sure to leave a like on this video,
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00:01:25.560 But here is Mark Carney at a press event where he mentioned that he is going to be rolling back the EV mandate.
00:01:32.880 And it's not all about money. Some of it is about regulation.
00:01:38.440 So to add flexibility to the automotive sector, we will remove the 2026 electric vehicle availability standard,
00:01:46.480 which specifies the share of new vehicle sales that must be electric next year.
00:01:51.200 This will provide immediate financial relief to...
00:01:54.360 I just got to say, before I keep letting him go, he just looks miserable.
00:01:59.660 And again, it's because he's weak.
00:02:02.220 He legitimately doesn't have the ability to stand up for what he believes in.
00:02:06.760 He shouldn't stand up for it because it's stupid.
00:02:09.520 But as somebody who's the prime minister, you'd assume that he'd have a little bit more staying power
00:02:14.760 when it comes to pushing a policy and at least pretending like he still believes in it,
00:02:21.900 even when the polls change on it, and then finding at least a better way of getting rid of it.
00:02:27.640 Just delete the mandate from the website in a month's time and don't actually say you've gotten rid of it,
00:02:32.820 and then have a press release come out on Christmas Day so that nobody knows it happened.
00:02:38.360 But my goodness, he does not look happy about the position he's put himself in.
00:02:42.320 ...financial relief to automakers at a time of increased pressure on their competitiveness.
00:02:48.460 And the government will begin immediately a 60-day review of the EV standard
00:02:52.820 to identify future flexibilities and ways to reduce costs.
00:02:58.360 And we'll advance new options to bring more and more affordable electric vehicles to Canadians.
00:03:05.440 This is not just also pure poly of pushing him off this issue by marketing against it quite well.
00:03:12.040 It's also Donald Trump eating Mark Carney's lunch.
00:03:15.740 The American economy, even with the tariffs, which is hurting it, is doing far better than Canada.
00:03:22.520 The American market likes gas-powered cars.
00:03:26.300 And so a lot of our gas-powered car manufacturers were probably going to just leave to go to the United States.
00:03:33.260 Does he think they were all going to change into electric vehicle manufacturers?
00:03:39.300 Or do you think they would just head over the border into Michigan to build cars instead?
00:03:43.640 It was so naive.
00:03:45.960 And so that's really a major reason also why Mark Carney is doing this,
00:03:50.540 which is hilarious because, again, we are supposed to be in elbows-up mode telling the Americans what it's for.
00:03:55.940 But after Trump also caused the net-zero banking alliance that Mark Carney started years ago to fail,
00:04:03.200 maybe Mark Carney is learning a lesson that all of his green kind of dreams are not going to come true,
00:04:09.220 and he may as well just back off of them now.
00:04:12.440 But this isn't just the only bad news for the liberals.
00:04:15.900 They've also been having really bad, like, just job numbers.
00:04:20.280 I'm not sure if you guys have noticed, but we've lost, as Mark Nixon points out here in this post,
00:04:27.340 we have lost 107 jobs in two months.
00:04:31.680 And he was responding to this person, who's a liberal shill online, GatorGum,
00:04:36.740 who says,
00:04:37.380 Somehow Carney has managed to axe the tax and remove the EV mandate,
00:04:42.000 stealing Polya's platform and yet simultaneously being worse than Trudeau.
00:04:46.500 What an absolutely wild time to be alive.
00:04:49.000 Now, I love posts like this because it is the most naked form of saying that,
00:04:55.360 okay, well, if we win, if we win, but if we lose, we also still win.
00:05:01.280 Nobody actually wanted the EV mandate to stay.
00:05:05.040 No conservative is out there saying,
00:05:06.860 Oh my goodness, I can't believe Mark Carney got rid of the EV mandate.
00:05:10.220 Now how am I supposed to live?
00:05:11.880 No one actually likes the EV mandate.
00:05:14.760 They're criticizing Carney for having ever backed the EV mandate in the first place.
00:05:21.120 That was the problem.
00:05:22.500 But this is also all going into Mark Carney searching for a win before the summer ends.
00:05:28.420 Because he knows if there are no wins, he's going to get absolutely slaughtered in Parliament.
00:05:33.500 So at the very least, what he can do is try and walk back some of his particularly bad policies,
00:05:39.100 so that at least the Conservatives have less to go after him for during the fall session.
00:05:45.060 Now I just want to quickly cut over to this CTV news clip,
00:05:49.060 where they are talking about the EV mandate,
00:05:51.960 and the fact that there was really never much of a market for these electric vehicles in the first place.
00:05:57.600 And this is all stuff that if you said it before Mark Carney got rid of the mandate,
00:06:02.320 you would have been just called an economic flat earther.
00:06:05.960 You don't understand how popular these cars are.
00:06:08.600 This is the way the world's moving, blah, blah, blah.
00:06:10.760 Brian, I wanted to talk about some of the criticism we're seeing out there.
00:06:13.520 I mean, some of it notably coming from environmental groups like Greenpeace,
00:06:17.020 saying that instead we should be, quote,
00:06:19.080 doubling down on renewable energy and EVs rather than bowing before Trump's attack on people on the planet.
00:06:24.860 How do you respond to environmentalists who may feel like this is a walk back
00:06:28.920 and this is not where the industry should be going?
00:06:31.360 Well, I just think they're missing the plot here.
00:06:33.340 The issue is not about whether or not we have enough EVs in the market if we have a supply of EVs.
00:06:39.140 What we're missing is the consumer demand.
00:06:41.940 And I'd like to see these environmental groups and these EV enthusiasts that Flavio mentioned
00:06:46.380 focus on the barriers to adoption.
00:06:49.620 We know what they are.
00:06:50.680 We need more charging infrastructure.
00:06:53.100 Right now, we should have 100,000 public chargers in Canada.
00:06:57.660 This is according to the federal government.
00:06:59.220 There's 36,000.
00:07:00.700 That is a massive gap.
00:07:02.340 So we have to help Canadians make the transition.
00:07:05.220 And you will see more people switching.
00:07:07.800 The supply is here.
00:07:09.020 The inventory is here.
00:07:10.680 You're seeing new models introduced every single month.
00:07:14.300 Let's get at those barriers and you will see higher adoption rates.
00:07:17.780 I think the idea that you somehow need to mandate it, in fact, will actually have the opposite effect.
00:07:22.480 If there's one thing we know is that people don't like to be told by government what to do or what to drive.
00:07:27.560 So let's help them with the transition, not force it.
00:07:29.800 But I disagree with this whole help the transition thing.
00:07:32.900 But I think that's more so just PR nonsense.
00:07:35.440 But again, these people would not be saying this pre the mandate being removed.
00:07:39.840 Only after the mandate is removed has Carney given these organizations the social mandate to say, well, yeah, actually, you know, supply and demand still matters.
00:07:50.840 And people do not demand these vehicles despite the supply being there.
00:07:55.980 Now, I just want to move on to what the liberals have been doing in the media since this has been happening, because at the same time that Mark Carney was removing the EV mandate, which let's be clear, that was the real news yesterday.
00:08:13.400 There was nothing else more important than that.
00:08:15.960 What the liberals were tweeting out about was Mark Carney says, Canada's new government will buy Canadian to build Canadian.
00:08:24.420 They really got to stop saying the new government moniker because it's almost just a mockery of the fact that they're like the last guys entirely.
00:08:30.980 And the vast majority MPs are same.
00:08:33.060 But he's like talking about how they're launching their buy Canadian push in response to Trump tariffs.
00:08:40.200 Prime Minister seeks to diversify the economy as U.S. measures hit lumber and manufacturing sectors.
00:08:45.960 Again, this has nothing to the the real story yesterday was the EV mandate pause, because if you're actually trying to fight back against tariffs and you're trying to have our auto industry not sink into the sea,
00:09:00.020 well, then what you want is to get rid of the EV mandate.
00:09:04.020 But we're going to pretend like everything.
00:09:06.080 The only important thing was the buy Canadian initiative, because it sounds nice.
00:09:10.120 Mark Carney here says, Canada's new government is building big things with Canadian materials.
00:09:15.660 We're introducing a buy Canadian policy.
00:09:18.640 This is no longer only a best effort to support Canadian industry.
00:09:22.100 When it comes to federal contracts, it will be a clear obligation.
00:09:25.640 OK, so we're going to spend even more Canadian taxpayer dollars at times when we could, in fact, be getting something cheaper overseas.
00:09:33.260 And I don't want to buy stuff from China as a general rule.
00:09:37.500 But like at the time on the economy, when we have a ninety two billion dollar deficit, you know, we might want to consider trying to just get whatever is cheaper.
00:09:46.600 Also, how about we just lower taxes?
00:09:48.080 If we actually care about people buying Canadian, how about lower their income taxes as well as corporate taxes?
00:09:55.080 But I guess that would be a difficult thing to do.
00:09:57.880 Oh, my goodness.
00:10:00.060 I'm being very facetious there.
00:10:01.580 It'd be very easy to cut taxes.
00:10:03.120 Oh, my goodness.
00:10:03.640 But there could be a bigger deficit.
00:10:04.900 OK, cut bad spending.
00:10:06.420 Easy.
00:10:07.240 Then Mark Carney says, today we've launched a major new initiative for workers and businesses and sectors most impacted by tariffs.
00:10:14.920 As we transform our economy to be more resilient, we're making sure workers and industries have the tools to drive the transformation and thrive in it.
00:10:25.520 Oh, my goodness.
00:10:26.040 Well, we're not transforming or innovating towards EVs anymore.
00:10:29.740 Again, good thing.
00:10:31.100 But I love that we're still keeping around the same language that the liberals would usually talk about stuff like trying to get people to drive EVs.
00:10:38.980 But now it's talking about like just government subsidies.
00:10:42.280 Only the Canadian government would try and characterize subsidies as like a dynamic economic policy.
00:10:50.280 Anyways, I, again, going back to this gator gun person and when you actually, the person can actually get like thousands and thousands of likes on a lot of their posts.
00:10:58.840 But I like accounts like this because of what represents what the street level liberal thinks.
00:11:04.420 I love this post.
00:11:05.380 First, breaking, Prime Minister Mark Carney has rolled out a series of measures that he says will transform Canada's economy into a force that can withstand the trade shocks of the Trump administration.
00:11:16.060 CBC reporting, this won't bring the brokenness out at all.
00:11:21.700 And they're like, I guess because it's like, oh, he did something good.
00:11:24.920 But the people who think Canada's broken are going to complain anyways.
00:11:29.500 I highly doubt this person even knows what happened.
00:11:32.460 It's called subsidies.
00:11:33.960 And that's not an economic policy.
00:11:36.320 It is just a band-aid solution to the current state of Canada's economy.
00:11:41.360 Again, we could lower taxes and be out of this.
00:11:43.760 But that would be too difficult.
00:11:45.800 Anyways.
00:11:46.600 But that should be it for this video, guys.
00:11:48.600 I'm actually about to film something about the new Angus Reid poll that's out because, goodness, it is actually kind of shocking just how much Mark Carney is falling into the dumps right now in terms of his personal approval.
00:12:01.380 Is he still above water?
00:12:03.200 Yes.
00:12:04.020 But the fact that he's only five months in and he's fighting to stay above, to stay in the positive approval ratings is absolutely ridiculous.
00:12:13.240 He should be having a very easy time staying popular for like a year and a half.
00:12:17.660 But the thing is that he's been fumbling every single ball thrown to him every single time he tries to do some new initiative.
00:12:25.360 It blows up in his face immediately.
00:12:27.380 There's just nothing going on.
00:12:28.860 We have a Major Projects Act gets passed.
00:12:32.640 And then all we do within 170 days of him being prime minister is we announce the opening of the Office of Major Projects.
00:12:41.040 We don't even need a Major Projects office.
00:12:45.700 How about we just rubber stamp a bunch of projects so that if a company wants to take it up, they're already free and clear to have the whole thing fast-tracked.
00:12:55.240 But anyways, with that being said, thank you guys for watching.
00:12:58.700 Like, share, and subscribe.
00:12:59.820 I will see you guys later.
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