The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 13, 2025


Carney Liberals keep LYING and breaking promises! - Conservatives call out corrupt judges


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Wyatt Claypool talks about the incompetence of the Canadian government in its first three months post-election, and how they have managed to do so in the midst of the summer, when it should be hard to create scandals.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. If I had to characterize Prime Minister Mark Carney's
00:00:05.980 liberal government in its first three months after the federal election, I would have to
00:00:10.660 say it's been very amateurish. And amateurish because while they are technically trying
00:00:16.220 to put on a more professional front, seem like they are different from Justin Trudeau's
00:00:21.100 liberal government, they keep making unforced errors. It's the summer. The summer should
00:00:27.840 be really hard to generate new scandals during because Parliament is out of session. Your
00:00:33.020 opposition isn't grilling you in the House of Commons day-to-day, and you're not pushing
00:00:37.080 any legislation forward, so it's really hard to break any promises. And yet, they have
00:00:41.900 managed to do it. Well, let's go through a little bit of the timeline. One, we have a
00:00:47.520 public safety minister who doesn't know what a Canadian gun license is, a PAL and an RPAL.
00:00:52.960 We tried to implement a digital services tax in the middle of a trade negotiation with
00:00:58.260 the United States that caused them to walk away from the table, and then we had to rescind
00:01:03.020 the digital services tax. And then once we were back at the table, we put nothing on the
00:01:07.680 table to offer to try and get rid of the tariffs. We didn't demand anything. We made no threats.
00:01:13.140 We basically just asked politely that they would just remove the tariffs, saying, you know
00:01:17.340 what? We work really well together. That was our pitch. And surprisingly, it didn't work.
00:01:22.480 We blew past Mark Carney's trade deadline to get a deal by July 21st, and we didn't get
00:01:27.580 one by August 1st. And now Trump's administration doesn't even really want to talk to us because
00:01:32.040 we're not really negotiating. We show up, say, hey, guys, we should make a deal. And then
00:01:37.660 they're like, do you have anything to offer? And we're like, no. And then that's why they
00:01:41.740 want to talk to us. We recognized a terror state in Palestine, both the Gaza Strip run 0.90
00:01:46.700 by Hamas and the West Bank run by Fatah, another terror organization. We, for some reason, were
00:01:53.140 harassing a Christian musician trying to do a tour around Canada. And now the government
00:01:58.160 has been exposed for breaking a promise, again, during the summer when it should be really
00:02:03.000 hard to break promises because they've been fudging the immigration numbers, showing they're
00:02:07.380 not actually serious on reducing immigration. Their promises were already super weak. They
00:02:12.860 were going to take immigration from like 395,000 new permanent residents per year to like 370,000
00:02:20.080 to like 365,000, which is still way too high, but they couldn't even follow that. And then
00:02:27.400 in July, we've talked about this previously, but it's more crazy the more you think about
00:02:32.300 it. We somehow lost jobs in the month of July, not a few thousand, 41,000 jobs at a time of
00:02:41.000 the year where it should be very easy to onboard new employees because it's the summer. Students
00:02:46.420 are away from university and high school and they can get summer jobs. And somehow we lost
00:02:51.240 41,000 jobs, of course, from the private sector. No one in the public sector lost their jobs and
00:02:57.200 were supposed to be led by the guy who had a plan. The guy who's worked at Goldman Sachs was the
00:03:03.700 governor of the Bank of Canada in England. It's almost like people should have listened to former
00:03:08.020 prime minister of the UK, Liz Trust, and said that when she said that Mark Carney messed up
00:03:13.060 everything. He thinks that he's a genius and he really doesn't know what he's doing. The man needs
00:03:17.960 adult supervision when doing anything. But now let's move on to some of these recent stories with the
00:03:24.600 immigration numbers. And then I want to cut over to conservative MP Michelle Rempel, who did a very
00:03:30.020 good press conference also going after the soft on crime policies of the liberal government through
00:03:35.680 the court system. But before I get into it, guys, I just want to mention, hey, if you like the show,
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00:03:55.140 and I do enjoy scrolling through, seeing what people are saying and replying to a good handful
00:03:59.560 of people. And now let's jump over to this Globe and Mail article where the headline is,
00:04:06.420 Ottawa pressed to factor in 500,000 undocumented residents as it consults on immigration targets.
00:04:13.440 So, yeah, we apparently have as many from 500,000 to 600,000 people who are in Canada illegally.
00:04:24.480 They came into the country and applied to be asylum seekers. They were refugees and they were rejected,
00:04:30.020 but they're still around. We had people on work visas or student visas or permanent residents who
00:04:35.500 then were basically rejected and told to leave who have not left. And we are not currently factoring this
00:04:41.260 in to the amount of people that we are still bringing in. We have half a million people who
00:04:46.280 should not be here, but let's just bring in more anyways before we actually deal with this other
00:04:50.420 problem. So down here, the article goes over the promises that the liberal government were making
00:04:57.600 that when you read it, that really demonstrates how pathetic the changes to the immigration system
00:05:03.800 are that the liberals are pursuing. They're like turning it down from a massive crisis to a big crisis.
00:05:10.100 We need immigration reduced by like 80%. And I fully agree with Pierre Polyev, his new stance on 1.00
00:05:19.220 immigration saying that we need net negative migration. We need more people leaving the country 1.00
00:05:24.400 for the next decade than we have entering the country. I'm fine with allowing some people in,
00:05:29.640 you know, you're, you're an engineer, you work in oil and gas, you're a computer programmer,
00:05:33.960 we need you in our economy. That's fine. You're an actual skilled doctor. Great. But if you're just
00:05:40.440 here to work at some sort of like service job, no, we already have enough people doing that. It's
00:05:46.520 ridiculous. But this article says in this line, in October, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and
00:05:52.760 then Immigration Minister Mark Miller unveiled plans to reduce permanent resident numbers from 500,000 to
00:05:59.020 395,000 in 2025. And from 500,000 to 380,000 in 2026. They set a target of 365,000 permanent residents
00:06:09.240 in 2027. Mr. Trudeau said reducing the number of permanent residents would pause population growth
00:06:15.280 over the next two years. And goodness, if you think this small reduction is going to reduce population
00:06:21.900 growth, you're insane. But now let's jump down to another part of the article where it talks about
00:06:28.020 the undocumented people in Canada. I would say that they are illegal migrants or illegal immigrants or 0.99
00:06:34.340 people illegally overstaying visas. It says here, a 2024 Department of Finance briefing document
00:06:42.220 released through access of information laws established, estimated that there are up to 500,000
00:06:48.640 people living in Canada without the required immigration papers. The briefing note from the
00:06:54.200 Deputy Minister of Finance said, quote, this could include those who have overstayed visas or have had
00:06:59.600 asylum claims rejected through evidence in this area, although evidence in this area is rather poor
00:07:06.080 and possibly unreliable. Mr. Miller previously estimated that there could be up to 600,000 people
00:07:13.100 living here without valid immigration status, though he said nobody really knows. And yet,
00:07:18.660 we are still bringing in apparently another 375, 380,000 people in the year 2025. It's ridiculous.
00:07:29.900 No, we need it to be way, way less. And this is not taking into account issues around temporary foreign 0.66
00:07:35.960 workers, students, and then fake refugee claims, which these days probably the vast majority of refugee
00:07:42.720 claims are absolutely fake. The idea that you have to come to Canada if you're a refugee is patently
00:07:49.120 absurd. So what we've had is liberals will say something like, oh, we're going to reduce the
00:07:54.360 amount of permanent residence. Well, temporary foreign workers and students, they're also reducing a bit,
00:07:59.140 but what they've done in a bit of a weaselly fashion is that they are just re-rolling people who
00:08:05.480 were in the TFW program and the student program and giving them visa extensions, which means the people
00:08:11.300 that we used to assume would then leave are not going to leave. And even some of the people ordered
00:08:16.260 to leave are not leaving. And so the problem with the TFW program is the idea is it was supposed to be
00:08:21.420 a limited amount of workers here for a limited amount of time. They were going to go and anyone
00:08:25.540 new is basically just taking the spot of those people who had just left. Now we have new people coming
00:08:31.340 in, maybe a slightly reduced amount compared to what the liberals were previously doing,
00:08:35.260 but we are giving out record numbers of renewals. So nobody's leaving. The rate of increase has gone
00:08:43.840 down, but the rate of people leaving has gone way, way down. So we are in the exact same bad situation
00:08:51.580 that we were in in the first place. But now I do want to jump over to the press conference
00:08:57.860 that Michelle Rempel-Garner put on. I actually don't usually agree that much with Michelle Rempel on a lot
00:09:03.920 of issues. She's more socially liberal. I'm more socially conservative, but she's been knocking
00:09:08.220 it out of the park when it comes to immigration and justice issues. Actually, before I get to that,
00:09:13.540 I do want to read this tweet that Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev put out today because
00:09:17.880 I thought this was a good scorecard of how the liberals have been doing on trade issues and the
00:09:24.720 economy. Pierre Polyev says here, since master negotiator Mark Carney took office,
00:09:30.220 he's twice missed his own deadline for a Canada-US deal. The US has doubled existing tariffs and
00:09:36.740 added new ones while giving Mexico and China extensions. China's hit us with a new 75% 0.75
00:09:42.320 tariff on canola seed. Carney has backed down to Trump on the digital services tax and counter tariffs,
00:09:48.520 getting nothing in return. Mexico snubbed Canadian ministers who flew down to Grovel for a bilateral
00:09:54.940 deal. And Europe has agreed to buy 750 billion in US energy and $0 of Canadian energy. The ugly truth
00:10:03.140 is Carnia's losing abroad and Canadians are paying the price at home. And this last line here is very
00:10:09.320 important. I see liberals on places like Twitter talking about how, well, we don't need the US. We
00:10:16.220 just signed a new deal with the UK. We just signed a deal with France. We were talking to the EU.
00:10:21.560 I guess so. But what are we actually getting though? Because even if we get a free trade deal with
00:10:29.120 them, those countries don't have any money to invest in Canada. Not only because they are obligated to
00:10:35.500 buy goods from the United States, including cars and energy, but because the thing is that Canada's
00:10:41.720 economy is just mediocre. We're not really producing much of anything unique. We have a very difficult time
00:10:47.180 exporting energy products. And so we have increased our exports abroad outside of the United States.
00:10:55.920 But when I read the numbers, it was like we've increased non-US exports up 14%. But our US exports
00:11:03.140 have gone down 12%. And if you know anything about Canadian trade, we were trading with the US more than
00:11:09.920 80%. So that 12% is way larger than that small increase of 14% with the minority of our exports.
00:11:18.960 But now we can actually jump over to the thing I was promoting first. And that is this press conference
00:11:24.400 with Michelle Rempel. She is calling out the practice of Canadian judges, giving lighter sentences
00:11:32.480 to people who are permanent residences, TFWs and students so that they don't get deported.
00:11:40.080 This is absolutely absurd. We've been knowing this has been going on for a while. And I think this is a
00:11:44.880 great issue for the Conservative Party to grab a hold of and push because there is no excuse for giving
00:11:51.800 lighter sentences for somebody who is already only a guest of this country, because we don't want them to 0.91
00:11:57.560 be deported. So we're not serving justice. And we're not serving justice to somebody who doesn't
00:12:02.800 deserve the benefit of the doubt, because they're a guest. They're not naturally supposed to be here.
00:12:08.040 We are allowing them to be here to see if they can become a citizen, or they're only here for a few
00:12:13.000 years to do work we need them to do. Yet they are costing taxpayers money by committing crimes.
00:12:18.600 But here's Michelle Rempel going after this practice. 1.00
00:12:21.640 Today, I'm announcing that Conservatives will introduce legislation to amend the Criminal Code
00:12:26.280 and restore the value of Canadian citizenship by ending the practice of judges considering
00:12:32.120 a non-citizen's immigration status in sentencing. Since 2013, a Supreme Court ruling has permitted judges
00:12:40.360 to consider immigration status when sentencing. This has been seen in several recent high-profile cases.
00:12:47.000 For example, a permanent resident received a conditional sentence after being convicted of trying to
00:12:53.080 purchase sexual services from a 15-year-old, as a stronger penalty would have hindered him and his
00:12:59.000 wife from obtaining Canadian citizenship. Another non-citizen in Canada on a visitor's permit was
00:13:05.720 convicted twice of groping an 18-year-old woman's genitals at a bar, yet received a discharge to avoid
00:13:12.600 a permanent criminal record and to allow for an appeal of their deportation. Anyone seeking residence or
00:13:19.480 citizenship in Canada has responsibilities as well as rights. When it comes to sentencing non-citizens,
00:13:26.440 Canada has essentially adopted a form of two-tier justice where judges can and have given lighter
00:13:32.680 sentences to individuals who are non-citizens by virtue of this ruling. This offends all principles
00:13:39.480 of fairness that should be foundational to our justice system. This is why once the House of Commons resumes
00:13:45.720 this fall, Conservatives will introduce legislation to amend the Criminal Code to rectify this issue.
00:13:51.480 Our bill will add a section after Section 718.202 of the Criminal Code, which will expressly outline
00:13:59.640 that any potential impact of a sentence on the immigration status of a convicted non-citizen offender
00:14:06.040 or that of their family members should not be taken into consideration by a judge when issuing a sentence.
00:14:11.640 So I thought that was a brilliant thing for them to be putting forward, but I would like them to
00:14:17.640 also extend it to the GLADU principle, which also brings race into account. And this is why you get
00:14:23.800 people from different backgrounds getting much lighter sentences than, you know, let's say a white 0.99
00:14:28.760 offender would get. Obviously, all offenders should be getting the same sentence if they committed the same
00:14:34.360 crime. And in fact, all criminals should be getting far larger sentences than even the maximums that are
00:14:40.120 currently being given out because we are so soft on crime in this country. Yesterday, I did a video
00:14:47.400 on the whiteboard where I went over how the media is effectively like squinting to pretend that crime
00:14:53.400 is really going down. Crime is not going down. Was crime higher in 2023 than it is in 2024 overall?
00:15:01.080 Sure. But you don't measure from the peak and say, wow, crime's down 4%, which it wasn't. I actually
00:15:06.680 looked at it was only down 3.4%. And when you factored in that Alberta was one of the actual
00:15:12.440 leaders in reducing crime, basically crime was unchanged in most parts of the country. Like
00:15:17.000 Quebec, it was down 0.6%. And Ontario is down 1%. But in Alberta, it was down 8.6%. So really,
00:15:23.800 crime isn't down in Canada, there is a slight reduction everywhere else that's like not even
00:15:28.680 worth considering. And then in Alberta, it was down substantially. BC was also down, but they also
00:15:34.040 don't enforce the law on drugs. So I don't believe their numbers. But we have the media pretending
00:15:38.840 that crime is not a problem. Look, it's going down. Yet, violent crime has basically remained
00:15:44.040 unchanged. Overall, crime in most provinces has basically remained unchanged. And when we are
00:15:49.640 talking about the actual five to 10 year window, it's way up. You don't measure crime from the peak.
00:15:56.920 You don't just say, oh, wow, this is the highest point. And we're a little bit down. I want to know where
00:16:01.560 we were at back 2015. Because if we're here now, and this was 2023, and now we're here,
00:16:07.640 this was 2015. We're way up. And then we had a slight reduction from the absolute mountain peak
00:16:13.640 that we had in 2023, which I guarantee you could easily be dwarfed in the next few years unless they
00:16:20.840 change a lot of these laws. In fact, if you are a judge giving out lighter sentences to non-citizens 0.96
00:16:27.720 than you would to a citizen. Also, again, we'll take care of the race based stuff to get rid of 1.00
00:16:33.000 that. But if you're giving anyone lighter sentences, or political or identity considerations,
00:16:39.480 I would hope a conservative government in the future would start saying you will be removed
00:16:43.960 from the bench if you are not actually dealing out justice. A judge is supposed to bring their own
00:16:51.000 judgment to the trial. But the sentences should be the sentences if they are found guilty for a crime.
00:16:56.920 You cannot downgrade what someone's crime is preemptively so that you don't have to hit them
00:17:01.000 with a big charge. Prosecutors should have to charge what they committed. They cannot downgrade it if
00:17:07.240 there wasn't some other offense. Yes, I know there's some dealing with criminals. We'll knock your
00:17:11.240 sentence down if you tell us about what this guy was doing. But you can't take somebody that you've
00:17:16.440 just caught dead to rights doing something and you don't need information from him and say,
00:17:20.040 well, it wasn't really attempted murder. It was an assault. It's attempted murder if it's attempted
00:17:24.680 murder. You don't get to knock it down just because it makes the trial faster. And this is actually
00:17:28.680 one area of government where funding is actually low. We need way more money for more judges and
00:17:34.360 bailiffs and prosecutors. It's just an area where cases get dropped all the time because there's not
00:17:39.720 enough court resources to go through all the cases. So some cases age out after a few years and justice
00:17:45.560 has never actually served. But anyways, now I want to jump over to another clip of Michelle
00:17:50.680 Rumpel from the same video or from the same press conference. This, I thought, was another great
00:17:57.720 point that she made talking about the current wildfire situation in Canada and how, no, this is
00:18:04.760 not an issue of climate change. This is an issue of poor forest management. Not that she said those
00:18:10.680 words specifically, but she's calling up the poor preparation for wildfire seasons every single year
00:18:16.360 that have now caused certain governments across Canada, like in Nova Scotia, to start saying that
00:18:20.680 you are banned from hiking, even if there's no fire risk in the area. And by the way, do you want to
00:18:25.640 correct myself? Newfoundland's premier, Corey Hogan, has been far more sensible in all this. I believe
00:18:32.680 it's Corey Hogan or something like that. I might be mixing up with another person. But the premier of
00:18:38.440 Newfoundland, he has increased fire, like for the fire penalties where you might go to prison or you might
00:18:44.360 have to pay like $170,000 if you like start fires in dry conditions. Same time, it might be a little
00:18:51.720 harsh, but he hasn't put in place the hiking bans. And in fact, even condemned other provinces for doing
00:18:56.520 it by saying it's a completely ridiculous thing to try and enforce. And it is not what is actually
00:19:02.120 causing fires. It's, you know, people live in rural areas. The idea that you can prevent them from walking
00:19:07.800 through the woods is ridiculous. The bans that are in place of hiking and other recreational
00:19:13.160 activities in forested areas in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, given the wildfire considerations right
00:19:18.360 now? Sure. Well, first of all... And shout out to Raheem Muhammad for being the one who asked that
00:19:26.840 question. I can recognize his voice from anywhere. The fear that people experience during wildfire season
00:19:34.520 is something that a lot of Canadians know. You know, I think back to what happened in Jasper National
00:19:40.760 Park last year as an Albertan. And so my hearts are with them and their concern. And also with the
00:19:48.200 firefighters and first responders who put their lives in harm's way during these situations.
00:19:55.000 But I also think about the utter lack of action from the federal government on the issue of forest fires.
00:20:01.720 I think it's four seasons ago now. Four full wildfire seasons ago, the Liberals promised
00:20:09.960 more water bombers, more firefighters. Where are they? The other thing is that my conservative
00:20:15.480 colleague Mark Dalton put forward a bill to increase the penalties for people who commit arson that causes
00:20:23.320 a wildfire. So these are both measures that could have prevented and contained wildfire. And the Liberals
00:20:29.240 have done nothing. So wait, my concern is this. Whenever there's a major crisis, what the Liberal
00:20:39.560 government has done by their inaction has conditioned Canadians to expect that the only response they
00:20:46.280 can see out of their federal government is to restrict their movement. And again, I understand that
00:20:52.760 people like I understand the fear and concern of people in the Maritimes right now, but that the
00:20:59.560 only response they get from their federal government is a tacit, well, I guess you're going to have to
00:21:04.040 restrict your movement. That's not right. So, you know, today we're calling upon the federal government
00:21:08.760 to actually get serious about this issue, pass our bill, put forward the resources that they promised so
00:21:14.360 that Canadians aren't put into this situation.
00:21:16.520 I honestly, they've been doing a really good job on put on basically raising the bar for the
00:21:21.880 Liberal government. I've been saying this to the party in general, what you really want to do is
00:21:26.840 run on a big audacious vision that you are not just going to be different than the Liberals, you are
00:21:33.240 going to be the opposite of the Liberals. And I think stuff like what Michelle Rempel is suggesting
00:21:37.000 there and going after this issue one is a good step forward. If this was another conservative party
00:21:42.520 under like O'Toole, you would have had them basically just saying, oh yes, I stand in solidarity
00:21:47.000 with Tim Houston, not allowing people to go hiking. You got to go after the policy failures of the
00:21:51.560 Liberals or you're letting them get away with stuff. But anyways, so that should be it for me today,
00:21:56.760 guys. I do just quickly want to plug the fact that I will be one of the speakers at the We Unify
00:22:03.080 event in Calgary this September. I believe it's September 19th to 21st. Naturally, I'm going to be
00:22:08.840 there. I live in Calgary. But if you want to come out and see me and other creators, politicians,
00:22:13.960 whatnot, do some speaking events and sit around and do some roundtables and stuff like that,
00:22:19.560 that will be going on in September in Calgary. So you can check out the link in the description
00:22:24.120 below if you want to swing by. I believe you have to buy a ticket, but you can also, it's like
00:22:29.720 the way I've had it described to me is that you can buy a ticket, but you can also just show up in the
00:22:33.880 sense that you can buy one if you want to help the event, but if you can't afford it, that's okay too.
00:22:39.400 But yeah, so that's going on in this next month. I will likely be there. And also,
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