The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 26, 2025


Carney Liberals are politically bankrupt going into 2026!


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In this episode of the podcast, Wyatt talks about what's going on with the Liberal Party of Canada's social media feeds, and why they need to go all in on the economy if they want to keep Justin Trudeau in office.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and of course, Merry Christmas to everyone watching.
00:00:05.720 I am in fact filming this video on Christmas Day, because although I like my family,
00:00:11.900 I also have no life and like to talk about politics every single day of the year, if I can help it.
00:00:18.420 The only days I've actually missed this year were like when I was like extremely sick,
00:00:22.760 or I was traveling so much there was literally not an hour in the day for me to actually shoot a video.
00:00:28.120 But today I am not going to be talking about the year in hindsight or anything like that,
00:00:34.900 telling you what I love about Christmas.
00:00:36.960 I know other channels and other people I even watch end up doing that.
00:00:40.700 I find it kind of annoying, ends up just being a complete fluff episode that you do not need to watch.
00:00:46.700 I want to talk about actual politics going on in Canada, and that's exactly what we're going to do.
00:00:52.500 Let's skip all the pleasantries and just get right into it.
00:00:55.920 So I really like following the Liberal Party's ex-feed, just their social media in general,
00:01:03.680 because I find you can tell a lot about how a party or a politician is doing by just looking at their social media feed.
00:01:12.420 This is them being able to give themselves as much of a gloss up as they want,
00:01:17.020 and when it's still not working, when if you put yourself in the shoes of the average voter who is apolitical
00:01:23.380 and it's not working on that person, you know they're not doing very well.
00:01:27.820 And the Liberals have absolutely nothing to run on if a 2026 election gets called.
00:01:34.780 It's almost like they haven't achieved anything in 2025, and their own social media feed reflects it.
00:01:41.300 It's absolutely pathetic. We're going to go over some Liberal Party posts, some clips of Mark Carney,
00:01:48.000 and then I want to talk a little bit about the economy, because this is the thing that's going to start dogging Mark Carney.
00:01:53.880 It was affecting Justin Trudeau pretty much the entire time he was Prime Minister.
00:01:58.720 Within a few years of him becoming PM, it was pretty clear that he was not great when it came to the economy.
00:02:05.560 It took a while for the pain to set in enough for it to actually affect a lot of people's voting patterns.
00:02:10.840 But the thing with Carney, even if he is technically performing better relative to Justin Trudeau,
00:02:16.900 the problem is if he has mediocre numbers, well that's it for him,
00:02:20.920 because he was supposed to be the regal businessman who's going to lead Canada into the future
00:02:26.380 with his shrewd maneuvers on trade and trying to grow the economy, but he's just not at all.
00:02:31.980 But anyways, before we get into it more, I just quickly want to plug the fact that my channel has a membership program.
00:02:38.140 If you want to help me make the channel more sustainable and make it less reliant on the YouTube algorithm for monthly income,
00:02:44.160 you can hit the join button below the video.
00:02:46.420 And again, there's just two tiers. I think they're like four bucks and like nine dollars or something like that.
00:02:51.320 And it just throws a few dollars at the channel every month in order to make it more sustainable for me.
00:02:55.840 But you don't want to hear about that. Now let's get into some of these posts.
00:02:59.980 So some of these are from a few days ago, but again, all of the stuff in the latter half of December
00:03:06.180 is the Liberal Party trying to make its case for why that you need to keep them in office.
00:03:12.140 Because again, these guys know there is a very good chance of an election next year,
00:03:16.820 especially after the NDP end up picking a new leader.
00:03:21.140 Liberal Party here says,
00:03:22.560 As we build big, we'll do it with Canadian materials, technology and workers.
00:03:28.460 It's time to build our strength here at home and to be our best customer.
00:03:33.540 And they just posted this translated headline from the Divior.
00:03:37.340 I don't know how to pronounce French words.
00:03:39.120 And it says,
00:03:39.560 Buy Canadian policy comes into effect.
00:03:42.340 Nothing particular, nothing really to say past that,
00:03:46.600 like one of their Buy Canadian policies is now in effect.
00:03:49.140 Is this going to help the economy?
00:03:52.140 Probably not, because we've already lost tens of billions of dollars to the Americans
00:03:55.920 in terms of investment since Mark Carney became prime minister.
00:04:00.100 The idea that we're just going to celebrate the fact that the Liberals have a policy
00:04:03.860 feels like such Justin Trudeau late last six months of his administration.
00:04:10.680 Trudeau did this a lot where he had absolutely nothing to say.
00:04:14.640 Like there was no actual positive metrics for him to highlight.
00:04:17.980 So all he would do is say,
00:04:19.400 Hey, we have a program.
00:04:20.680 Oh, school lunch program is coming into effect.
00:04:22.920 Oh, we have the dental program coming in.
00:04:25.300 All these programs that are not very good.
00:04:28.260 They're inefficient.
00:04:29.660 They cost a lot of money.
00:04:31.060 And in fact, like with the school lunch program,
00:04:33.800 it demonstrates that you have done a terrible job running the economy
00:04:37.460 to the point where literally families would even need the government
00:04:41.480 to potentially kick some money in to pay for their kids' food at school.
00:04:44.660 You know, we never needed that under Stephen Harper, oddly enough.
00:04:47.540 But that's even a policy that Mark Carney has been carrying forward.
00:04:51.020 So I every once in a while see somebody who's supposedly someone on the center right,
00:04:56.220 like Rupa Supramania, come out and congratulate Mark Carney as being like a conservative in some way.
00:05:02.840 You know, he's this, you know, centrist type conservative that even Pierre Polyev would want to be.
00:05:09.120 I'm trying to paraphrase a lot of stuff she said.
00:05:11.020 It's been kind of getting a bit silly.
00:05:12.920 And it's like, no, he's not.
00:05:14.780 He's not more conservative.
00:05:16.280 In fact, he's not gotten rid of any of the terrible Justin Trudeau era policies,
00:05:20.280 except for the carbon tax.
00:05:21.820 And did he really do that?
00:05:23.460 Or did Pierre Polyev force him to do that?
00:05:25.640 And pretty much every leadership candidate running in the last liberal leadership campaign
00:05:30.720 pretty much promised to get rid of it outside of, I think it was, who was it?
00:05:35.880 It was just some like fourth place candidate who said that she would keep it. 0.99
00:05:39.760 I don't even need to mention her name.
00:05:41.420 It doesn't even matter.
00:05:42.800 But let's get to this video of Mark Carney speaking at an event.
00:05:46.560 This may have been their Christmas party, but they thought this was a great clip.
00:05:49.940 They released it on December 20th.
00:05:51.780 And it says, it's not just what we build.
00:05:54.180 It's how we build.
00:05:55.640 Our bold and ambitious plan is empowering Canadians to meet this moment and build a better future together.
00:06:01.540 Man, that's a line.
00:06:03.080 That's a line when you're not doing so hot.
00:06:05.280 It's not about what we build.
00:06:06.820 It's about how we build.
00:06:07.980 It's like, it kind of matters what we build.
00:06:10.720 You know, I want like, you know, actual growth.
00:06:13.880 I want us to be building things that are not subsidized.
00:06:17.700 You know, I want our economy to be self-sustaining, not government run.
00:06:21.860 But it's just all these kind of last shriek on the retreat lines that the liberals are throwing out there as they run into 2026.
00:06:29.720 Again, no trade deal done.
00:06:31.980 The deficit was horrific.
00:06:33.300 They even lied about the budget pretending it's, oh, it's in a big investment when they mislabeled a bunch of money as being infrastructure spending when it was just operational spending that they would be putting money towards anyways in a given year.
00:06:44.040 The entire narrative that Carney put forward in the election was broken by him.
00:06:49.480 You have the public sector unions mad at him.
00:06:51.520 You have like the business liberal types mad at him.
00:06:54.020 You have the green left mad at him over the MOU that's not even going to get a pipeline built.
00:06:58.000 That's in part why the business liberals are mad.
00:07:00.200 It's just been bad.
00:07:02.020 But here is Mark Carney making his pitch to Canadians.
00:07:04.760 But as the Liberal Party, we know that it's not just what we build, it is how we build.
00:07:13.680 We will build inclusively, in full partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Maitseed.
00:07:23.600 We will build in solidarity with workers, creating good union jobs.
00:07:30.500 And we will build sustainably, and we will build Canadians.
00:07:37.240 Now, this is a campaign speech.
00:07:39.600 And you could say, well, he is, you know, always promoting himself.
00:07:42.340 There's a difference between a campaign speech and the speech that you put out as prime minister to promote what you're doing.
00:07:49.040 That was just, again, you should be able to say, you know, we did this.
00:07:53.400 We accomplished this.
00:07:54.960 This thing is now happening because of my leadership, because of our party.
00:07:59.020 You know, this company has just invested $3 billion into southwestern Ontario.
00:08:04.340 We have now brought this company to northern Saskatchewan.
00:08:08.040 We just built a new airbase in whatever, whatever.
00:08:12.000 But the thing is, we don't have that.
00:08:13.460 In fact, quite the opposite.
00:08:14.920 We have auto sector jobs going back to the United States.
00:08:18.380 We have lots of disinvestment from Canada.
00:08:20.480 So he's putting up basically a campaign speech of him promising that if you give him enough time, he might achieve something.
00:08:26.600 It's like, well, you've almost been prime minister for a year now.
00:08:30.080 Yeah, it's been more like eight or nine months.
00:08:32.280 But still, like, you haven't gotten anything done?
00:08:36.060 You know, all of his achievements, anything that you could actually say is an achievement,
00:08:39.320 is technically saying the poly of conservatives pressured them into doing.
00:08:42.820 Getting rid of the carbon tax, lowering income taxes.
00:08:45.360 And his income tax lowering was pathetic.
00:08:47.260 A 1% rate reduction on the first $50,000, which means, like, the average person is getting back, like, $250.
00:08:56.180 Which, in fact, is actually less money coming back to you than Justin Trudeau's carbon tax rebates.
00:09:01.840 Now, the carbon tax rebates were stupid because you'd still pay more money in, you know,
00:09:06.060 extra gas fees and food at the grocery store and all this other stuff than you're actually getting in rebates past a certain income level.
00:09:11.780 But you get my point here.
00:09:14.460 What he's actually giving you back in terms of what you actually see on the checks,
00:09:18.560 what you actually see on your taxes coming back, was less than what even Justin Trudeau was giving.
00:09:23.460 But also notice in this video, this is just a technical complaint.
00:09:28.500 Who is the person at the Liberal Party who just decided not to put any backing music in this?
00:09:33.580 Guys, I am not, this is not like Table Salt.
00:09:37.040 This is not CBC Watcher.
00:09:38.500 This is not myself or other people clipping Carney's videos.
00:09:42.600 And when he was just, you know, making a speech in a quiet room because it was the Christmas party
00:09:47.240 and they didn't want any distracting music, it wasn't someone clipping the live stream of the event.
00:09:52.700 There was no live stream.
00:09:55.120 Carney's people, for some reason, couldn't figure out how to put a track behind the video.
00:10:00.320 I can literally do that right now.
00:10:02.140 I have literally, I have song choices I can put in the background just to prove it to you.
00:10:08.580 Look, look, right, he's now playing behind me.
00:10:12.240 Just to prove that I could give Mark Carney-esque speech right now about,
00:10:16.920 guys, we need to build better and that means buying Canadian 0.79
00:10:21.020 and it also means working with Indigenous people.
00:10:24.380 It's better when you have music backing you up, but he couldn't figure out how to do that.
00:10:28.380 But again, liberal media right now is just kind of limp.
00:10:32.620 They don't have anything to promote.
00:10:34.340 Let's move down a little bit further.
00:10:36.340 And what else is Carney tweeting about on the run-up to Christmas?
00:10:39.960 Oh, well, it's something about young people. 0.71
00:10:42.480 Mark Carney says,
00:10:43.080 Democracy is stronger when everyone participates.
00:10:46.000 Proud of our Youth Caucus for ensuring that young people in Canada have a voice in Parliament.
00:10:49.960 And it's the CTV news headline that says,
00:10:53.100 Four young MPs born in the 2000s say they want to be a voice for Canadian youth.
00:10:59.580 That doesn't mean anything.
00:11:01.120 Well, he goes like, oh, our democracy is stronger now that the liberals have a bunch of random young people 0.99
00:11:06.900 sitting as MPs doing apparently something productive we don't know.
00:11:12.300 Well, what have this government achieved?
00:11:14.400 Shouldn't there be at least, am I being too hard on them?
00:11:16.920 And aren't we strengthening democracy because Mark Carney appointed a bunch of young people
00:11:21.880 into easy liberal writings?
00:11:24.040 Maybe I'm being too harsh.
00:11:25.400 But here's a post from Table Salt saying,
00:11:28.100 Major breaking.
00:11:29.340 Canadian GDP per capita falls below Alabama.
00:11:33.200 Canada's GDP per capita, like Green Line,
00:11:35.840 resumes its downtrend after the dismal October GDP numbers.
00:11:39.980 Breaks under $49,000 USD per person, lower than Alabama's $50,383.
00:11:46.920 And this is from Desjardins Economics.
00:11:49.760 And yeah, that is absolutely pathetic.
00:11:52.840 We have GDP per capita or GDP, real GDP going up over time.
00:11:58.600 Not that much more over time back in November 2022.
00:12:02.860 Even if we look at the dip, we're around a little more than $71,000 in real GDP.
00:12:08.500 And now in November 2025, when these numbers were last gathered, because of course, December
00:12:14.080 is not done yet, we're a little above $73,000.
00:12:17.280 But back at that time, and that's not even good real GDP growth.
00:12:21.500 That's kind of sluggish.
00:12:23.100 But back in November 2022, even if I take the slightly higher number right at the beginning
00:12:27.380 of the chart, we're like, maybe we're around $70,000 or so.
00:12:31.620 Yeah, around $70,000 per capita.
00:12:34.580 And since then, we are now around $67,000.
00:12:38.380 And I'm talking about Canadian here.
00:12:40.040 Previously, TableSell was comparing it to USD.
00:12:43.420 And Alabama is not exactly a high net worth state, as you probably understand from stereotypes.
00:12:51.100 You know, Alabama's maybe a little higher than Arkansas.
00:12:53.560 But it's, you know, on the bottom half of the American economy.
00:12:58.860 And now Canada averages below one of the below average American states, where there's not
00:13:05.020 exactly a massive bustling economy out in Alabama.
00:13:07.780 They're not an oil state, to my knowledge.
00:13:09.600 I'm not even sure if they do any fracking, maybe some manufacturing, some other stuff.
00:13:13.840 But the thing is, they have free enterprise down there.
00:13:16.340 So even a state that doesn't have all the advantages of Canada as a whole can still pull
00:13:21.380 off better numbers than Canada.
00:13:23.540 We could solve 80% of our problems by just lowering taxes, my goodness.
00:13:28.960 What do we have here?
00:13:30.080 But here's another one.
00:13:31.920 Here's another post from the Liberals back on December 22nd.
00:13:35.160 It says, we're introducing new measures and investing in made-in-Canada innovations to
00:13:41.440 reduce methane emissions, protecting our environment, and strengthen our economy and energy sector.
00:13:46.660 How does trying to crack down on methane emissions actually make the economy stronger?
00:13:55.400 I cannot stand messaging that just kind of asserts that a regulation that controls something
00:14:01.080 and in fact puts more costs on the economy is somehow strengthening us.
00:14:06.280 What regulation, what tax has ever done that outside of like regulations protecting copyright?
00:14:13.820 Because actually, in fact, protecting copyright does help the economy.
00:14:17.020 Because who would want to work in an economy where anyone can just look over your shoulder
00:14:20.460 and seal anything you're doing?
00:14:22.040 But in general, something like a methane, like somehow methane-like regulations or methane
00:14:29.280 restrictions here.
00:14:31.140 Reduce, we're not doing anything.
00:14:33.620 This is not strengthening the economy.
00:14:35.320 But they have a graphic down here that says, Ottawa announces new measures to reduce methane
00:14:39.200 emissions.
00:14:39.660 They say measures because they don't want to say regulations because people have got caught
00:14:44.040 wise to the fact that regulations aren't a good thing.
00:14:46.620 So they're trying to change the language.
00:14:49.000 Here's another liberal post on the 23rd saying, we're building Canada strong by focusing on
00:14:54.900 what we can control, boosting our productivity, protecting and empowering Canadians, and diversifying
00:15:00.160 our partners abroad to create more opportunity and greater independence.
00:15:03.880 Well, our exports overall are down.
00:15:06.460 We're going to focus on what we can control.
00:15:09.900 Well, why don't we control the flipping, you know, taxes much lower rather than giving
00:15:14.560 people one point off of their taxes under $50,000?
00:15:18.200 Another one down here at Liberals say, one of the first things Mark Carney and our new
00:15:21.500 liberal government did was cut taxes for 22 million Canadians, cutting taxes for middle
00:15:26.420 class, ensuring 22 million Canadians take home more every paycheck.
00:15:30.180 This is literally them celebrating the 1% tax cut.
00:15:36.020 You don't even pay any taxes on the first, I believe, $18,000 to $20,000 on your federal
00:15:41.460 income taxes.
00:15:42.660 But guys, don't worry.
00:15:43.900 On the rest of that $50,000, they've reduced your taxes by one point.
00:15:49.460 Vote Mark Carney.
00:15:50.740 He's going to save us.
00:15:53.180 But yeah, I don't even need to go into anything else.
00:15:55.320 I just want to pitch all this to you and tell you that if this is the best foot forward
00:15:59.920 the Liberals are putting forward as we come to the end of the year, these guys cannot win
00:16:05.340 another election.
00:16:06.020 Now, they can win.
00:16:07.200 Any party that's in the top two parties has a chance of winning.
00:16:10.600 But these guys need a floor crosser from the Conservatives because if an election happens,
00:16:15.240 and there still absolutely could be an election even if someone else crosses to the Liberals
00:16:19.440 and they technically get a majority, we could still have one.
00:16:21.820 I can break that down in another video at some point.
00:16:24.580 But with all this going, the Liberals don't have a narrative for an election.
00:16:31.180 No trade deal with Trump, despite Mark Carney making that his only promise, pretty much,
00:16:35.740 and said he was like the Trump whisperer and he knows how to deal with men like him.
00:16:40.080 The budget's blown even more than how much Trudeau did.
00:16:44.600 The GDP per capita is down.
00:16:46.480 In fact, GDP raw in October fell.
00:16:52.120 There's nothing to talk about.
00:16:54.200 Everything else they've done is just program announcements.
00:16:56.980 Program announcements, and that's kind of worn thin after 10 years of Justin Trudeau
00:17:01.180 when people realize just because he's going to announce something that promises to boost
00:17:04.840 the economy doesn't mean it's actually going to happen.
00:17:08.220 But anyways, that should be it for this video today, guys.
00:17:11.960 I do actually just want to link something in the description below.
00:17:14.740 I always like to go to church on Christmas Eve every single year, but if you weren't able
00:17:19.980 to go out or your church wasn't holding a service, I do want to link something below
00:17:23.220 if you didn't get to see a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day service this year.
00:17:27.280 If you want to check it out, I always like to link something John MacArthur or Phil Johnson
00:17:30.840 related around this time of year.
00:17:33.060 But with that all said, thank you guys for watching.
00:17:36.420 Like, share, subscribe.
00:17:37.820 Tell a friend about the channel before the end of the year, and I will see you all next time.
00:17:42.460 Thank you.
00:17:44.460 Thank you.
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