The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 17, 2026


Carney Liberals plan to NEVER sign a US Trade Agreement!

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Liberals MELTDOWN after Jamil Jivani tells the truth about ＂Elbows Up＂ Canadians! Matt Jeneroux crosses to Liberals - Breaking his word not to cross!

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Unsurprisingly, Prime Minister Mark Carney has screwed Canada over again with another stupid decision when it comes to negotiating a trade deal with the US. This time, he has appointed someone who isn't going to help at all, and I think this is deliberate.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.320 Well, unsurprisingly, Prime Minister Mark Carney has screwed over Canada again 0.97
00:00:12.000 with another stupid decision when it comes to negotiating a trade deal with the United States. 0.98
00:00:17.960 But what I really mean is not negotiating a trade deal with the U.S. 0.99
00:00:22.080 because Mark Carney and the Liberals have no intention of getting an actual trade deal signed
00:00:27.320 because they are trying to passively benefit electorally from being in conflict with Donald Trump and the Americans.
00:00:35.240 They believe that it is more worthwhile to them to not get a trade deal signed and get anti-Trump voters to vote Liberal
00:00:41.800 than to actually get a trade deal signed and make Canadians better off. 0.90
00:00:46.500 That is truly why Canada is such a sick country right now.
00:00:50.860 A lot of people who vote Liberal would rather the country get worse 0.99
00:00:54.840 just to be able to thumb their nose at Donald Trump and call him a big nasty man
00:00:59.400 rather than get a trade deal signed.
00:01:01.920 Am I saying that Trump is fully reasonable?
00:01:05.260 No.
00:01:05.940 Has he done things I don't like?
00:01:07.620 Yes.
00:01:08.480 But we have to deal with the world as it is.
00:01:11.300 We can't basically sit around whining about the fact that the world is the way that it is.
00:01:16.380 You have to try and get a trade deal signed based on how the pieces are set before you on the board.
00:01:22.620 You cannot just wish that they were different.
00:01:24.420 You have to play the game.
00:01:27.060 But now Mark Carney has appointed somebody who just really isn't going to help at all.
00:01:33.220 And I think he did this deliberately so.
00:01:36.100 So Mark Carney has made his head negotiator on trade.
00:01:41.260 This woman, Janice Charette.
00:01:43.980 And I'm going to read a little bit of this news article from the Globe and Mail in just a second.
00:01:48.200 But Janice Charette named Canada's chief trade negotiator with U.S.
00:01:52.660 Now, is she put up, like, a terrible choice, like it's comically bad?
00:01:59.280 No.
00:02:00.140 What she is is basically what you would assume Mark Carney would pick.
00:02:04.400 A career bureaucrat being chosen for a role that kind of needs a little bit more pizzazz for it.
00:02:11.020 We already have really boring bureaucrats negotiating with the U.S. 1.00
00:02:15.120 We have people like Melanie Jolie.
00:02:17.480 And we have, like, who is the other guy?
00:02:19.740 I can't even remember these people's names half the time.
00:02:22.540 Whatever.
00:02:23.200 Our other people who have been talking with the United States are just not inspiring at all.
00:02:27.760 And we are picking another deeply uninspired choice for the chief trade negotiator slot.
00:02:33.840 Anyways, but before I go into more detail about all this, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video.
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00:02:56.080 But in just a second here, I want to get into this article.
00:02:59.020 And then we're going to jump over to some news clips and to an actually really good idea of who Mark Carney should have appointed that I saw when I was just looking at J.J. McCullough's feed yesterday.
00:03:13.040 But now let's get into this article from the Globe and Mail.
00:03:17.300 We're just going to read a little bit of it, but just to give you guys some flavor of what kind of individual we're talking about.
00:03:23.020 Now, there's been some rumors on social media that this is somebody who would have advised Justin Trudeau to use the Emergencies Act to shut down the Freedom Convoy.
00:03:32.640 I'm not sure if that's true or not.
00:03:34.300 I'm just going to deal with what we do know about her that's been published in the media.
00:03:38.200 So it says here,
00:03:39.660 Mark Carney has appointed Janice Charette, a former Privy Council Clerk and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, as Chief Trade Negotiator with the United States, barely four months ahead of a high-stakes continental free trade deal review.
00:03:53.800 Ms. Charette will serve as a Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister and will also work closely with well-known financier and former Pension Fund Executive Mark Wiseman,
00:04:03.420 who has replaced Kirsten Hillman as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. this week.
00:04:10.120 Splitting the trade negotiator and Ambassador roles into two positions, Ms. Hillman's previously did both jobs, 1.00
00:04:17.200 highlights the importance Mr. Carney is placing on a coming review of the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, set to begin on July 1st.
00:04:26.460 The USMCA provides the foundation for the more than $1 trillion in Canadian-U.S. trade and has served as Ottawa's prime defense against Donald Trump's tariffs,
00:04:36.320 with the agreement allowing more than 85% of Canada's exports to the U.S. to cross the border tariff-free.
00:04:43.100 Over a 40-year career in the public service, Ms. Charette has twice served as Clerk of the Privy Council, the head of the public service, the Secretary to the Cabinet.
00:04:51.400 She was also the High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2021, which is around the time that Ralph Goodale would have taken over.
00:05:02.620 A lot of this, though, is, I guess, nice for her, nice that she has this kind of the credentials in her career that, you know, she's worked for.
00:05:13.020 Why is this going to be someone that impresses Donald Trump?
00:05:18.660 Why are the Americans going to take her more seriously than Hillman before?
00:05:25.280 I don't think that they're really thinking this through.
00:05:28.080 If they are, they're trying to pick people deliberately who look professional but are not going to rock the boat,
00:05:34.240 and they're just going to follow Mark Carney's orders.
00:05:36.360 If Mark Carney is not serious about getting a deal done, none of these people are going to push him to do it.
00:05:41.620 But that is the reason why Mark Carney is effectively screwing us over here.
00:05:46.100 We're just picking kind of the B squad to go in and just keep things feeling normal with the U.S.
00:05:53.560 But the thing is, we don't need normal.
00:05:55.120 We actually need to push the envelope a little bit right now if we want to get a deal signed.
00:05:59.880 And so I want to jump over now to this clip from the CBC of them trying to hype up this choice.
00:06:05.320 So it's the former, I think it's the former Privy Council clerk who's going to be speaking about her here in just a second.
00:06:14.300 Mr. Justin Trudeau, and she gave us her perspective on this new role and what Charette brings to it.
00:06:20.600 At different points, the government of Canada has had a unified role of ambassador, also co-appointed as chief trade negotiator.
00:06:29.240 That's what we had most recently under Kirsten Hillman.
00:06:32.240 But that isn't always the case.
00:06:33.820 The chief trade negotiator liaises with negotiators and public servants and stakeholders across Canada,
00:06:41.000 brings forward a unified Canadian position to the negotiating table and works with folks at the political level,
00:06:47.100 ministers, prime ministers and others, to make sure that their interests and their agenda is being represented at that negotiating table.
00:06:53.900 So that's the role that Jenna Charette has been appointed to, as was announced today, coinciding, of course,
00:07:00.400 with yesterday's commencement of the ambassador role by Mark Wiseman.
00:07:04.960 I don't know.
00:07:05.800 And this is that was like a former person who's a trade negotiator, like a trade advisor or whatever.
00:07:11.280 The other person I was trying to think of earlier with Dominic LeBlanc, all of these people are so forgettable.
00:07:15.900 Outside of their failures, you don't really have much to say about them.
00:07:18.980 But, yeah, it's just some person and they're going to be like, well, it's great for keeping continuity with Canada's trade policy or trade negotiating stance.
00:07:29.240 Well, it hasn't been working, so maybe we need to alter it a little bit.
00:07:32.960 And know who, in fact, was doing a really good job on this and got thrown under the bus for it?
00:07:37.500 Well, it was Jamil Javani, who, when speaking to Breitbart News, got in trouble, apparently,
00:07:44.180 because he said the truth that we can't keep having hissy fits over everything the Americans do if we actually want to get a trade deal done.
00:07:52.420 We're, in fact, shooting ourselves in the foot.
00:07:54.360 Here is tape of Jamil Javani saying that.
00:07:57.400 We are shooting ourselves in the foot if we continue this anti-America, you know, hissy fit.
00:08:03.740 And this is the kind of reason I'm trying to talk into our government and some of the liberals who have just gone way off the reservation on this.
00:08:11.520 You know, the ball is in Prime Minister Mark Carney's court.
00:08:14.280 Like, I've offered to help him.
00:08:15.880 I think it'd be awesome if we went down there together.
00:08:18.240 I think we'd get a lot done working together.
00:08:20.640 But he's got to decide whether that's something he wants to do or not.
00:08:23.420 And after that, as I was saying, he was then torn to shreds by liberals, not legitimately, but they kept attacking him because apparently that was treasonous for him to go down in an attempt to speak to the Americans.
00:08:37.740 Here's somebody on CBC commentating after that tape was played.
00:08:41.680 I would hope his northern tour takes him into the Arctic if I were Pierre Polyev over the next little bit.
00:08:48.140 Like, I do not see any benefit.
00:08:50.200 Jamil Javani is not being a team player right now, right?
00:08:52.340 The first time he announced his U.S. tour was the same day that Pierre Polyev was in meeting with Prime Minister Carney, which is a significant thing for the opposition leader to do and is supposed to be a reset.
00:09:02.860 Instead, he was stepping on that message.
00:09:04.300 Once again, this week is now even apologists for the Americans in some way, which to me is just not helpful.
00:09:09.680 Yes, Mr. Jamil Javani is very, very intelligent.
00:09:12.160 He's got many connections to the U.S. administration.
00:09:14.440 I think he could be tremendously useful if he could be trusted.
00:09:17.080 But it's the Jamil Javani show, which is very apparent.
00:09:20.220 What makes him untrustworthy, though?
00:09:22.100 Like, people just throw these things out.
00:09:23.940 Oh, he's not trustworthy.
00:09:25.300 Oh, he's stepping on the message of unity.
00:09:27.500 Is he?
00:09:28.520 He was literally going to help Mark Carney.
00:09:30.920 Oh, well, he wasn't helping him in the way that Mark Carney wanted.
00:09:33.600 You mean because he wanted to get a trade deal done?
00:09:35.740 Because that is the real reason why he was stepping on anything.
00:09:38.980 He was stepping on Mark Carney's plan to not get a trade deal done while pretending to so that he could blame Donald Trump and then benefit electorally.
00:09:47.740 To me, based on, I think, and all the people in this room.
00:09:50.460 So how far can he be trusted to work with the prime minister or to advance anyone's interest?
00:09:55.100 So I think it's unfortunate.
00:09:57.260 I think Rob put it well, right?
00:09:58.380 He squandered, I think, an opportunity to really help his country.
00:10:01.880 And instead, it is about self-promoting.
00:10:04.260 And I think that's a real reason.
00:10:04.940 He's squandered.
00:10:06.160 Like, what do these people want?
00:10:07.780 Well, really what they want, if they were to articulate it, was basically, can Jamil Javani just go down to the U.S. 1.00
00:10:14.300 and be elbows up and tell Donald Trump that he's a big stupid monster or whatever, 0.99
00:10:19.360 and we'll not get a trade deal done, and he'll fist bump Mark Carney, 1.00
00:10:22.580 and we'll all pretend that we somehow achieved a great victory by getting absolutely nothing done.
00:10:27.740 If the current Carney government's actual strategy here is waiting until after the midterm elections,
00:10:35.360 they are delusional.
00:10:37.420 They are delusional.
00:10:38.720 That's just not going to get anything done.
00:10:41.280 It's not.
00:10:42.200 Are you going to wait until Donald Trump's not the president anymore?
00:10:45.400 By the way, you could elect someone else who's even more pro-tariff.
00:10:48.700 That is not out of the realm of possibilities.
00:10:50.960 In fact, historically, Democrats are more pro-tariff than Republicans.
00:10:54.740 Donald Trump just happens to be a more pro-tariff Republican than the average.
00:10:59.520 But my goodness, we can't wait.
00:11:01.740 How many Canadians are going to lose their jobs and have, like, default on their mortgage
00:11:06.520 in order for Mark Carney to, like, do this strategy where he's going to electorally benefit himself
00:11:12.500 by getting into conflicts with Donald Trump and then hoping a year or two down the line
00:11:17.160 somehow the tariffs are going to get removed magically. 1.00
00:11:19.660 It's so dumb. 0.98
00:11:20.960 And attacking Jamil Javani for trying to break the ice just demonstrates why this country 1.00
00:11:25.940 is in the position that it is in.
00:11:28.060 But now I want to get you to, now I want to get over to the actual, as J.J.
00:11:33.180 McCullough puts it, inspired potential choice for the chief negotiator position.
00:11:40.020 So this person that J.J.
00:11:43.080 McCullough is responding to, Mick Barnard, says, and to think we could have appointed Kevin
00:11:48.620 O'Leary, to which J.J.
00:11:50.700 McCullough responds, I actually think a choice like him would have been inspired.
00:11:55.040 Carney yaps about everything, how everything is different now, then appoints the most generic
00:11:59.840 Ottawa bureaucrat in the world to handle a supposedly, supposedly completely president-shattering
00:12:04.880 U.S. administration.
00:12:07.100 Like, genuinely, Kevin O'Leary would be a great choice.
00:12:10.420 Now, maybe he wouldn't want to work with the liberals, although Kevin O'Leary, like
00:12:14.200 him or don't like him, he is a big self-promoter and I think he'd probably do it anyways.
00:12:18.440 Why not?
00:12:19.600 Trump likes Kevin O'Leary.
00:12:21.360 Have him speak to him.
00:12:22.820 That would be smart.
00:12:23.800 Why are we going to send some random boring office jockey to go talk to Trump about how
00:12:28.860 we should just remove the tariffs because?
00:12:31.720 Send someone interesting.
00:12:33.340 Send someone a little eccentric.
00:12:34.880 What are we doing?
00:12:36.180 This is the problem.
00:12:37.840 Carney knows that everyone he's appointed, that Jolie, LeBlanc, this new Charette woman, 1.00
00:12:44.900 Mark Wiseman, they are not going to rock the boat.
00:12:47.540 They are not going to say anything different than what Mark Carney has already said himself,
00:12:51.600 which means nothing's going to change.
00:12:54.340 Or else we're insane and we think if we just keep saying the same thing over and over again,
00:12:58.460 eventually Trump is just going to be like, ah, let's sign something.
00:13:01.680 Maybe they think Trump is going to get worried before the midterms and want to get a deal
00:13:05.800 signed.
00:13:06.760 At the same time, we're going to have to concede on something because Trump's not going to make
00:13:11.140 no concessions and then look like he surrendered right before the midterms either.
00:13:15.080 We have, it takes two guys.
00:13:16.840 You have to give a little bit to get a little bit here.
00:13:19.560 You have to make a concession to get some other demand that you want done.
00:13:24.380 If we put, if we put the, like effectively the supply management system on the table and
00:13:30.840 we severely weaken the supply management system, which isn't even good for Canadians in the
00:13:35.720 first place, we would actually be so much further ahead.
00:13:40.560 Put that down as a bargaining chip and we may be able to get very close to zero tariffs,
00:13:45.540 if not zero tariffs.
00:13:46.900 Note what we could also do, say we are going to tear up the agreement we just made with
00:13:50.720 China.
00:13:51.540 That's another way of turning the China deal into something positive.
00:13:55.260 Using it as a bargaining chip that by signing a deal with Trump, we light it on fire and
00:13:59.280 we declare that Trump's the leader of the free world.
00:14:01.960 That would be a very easy, low effort thing to do.
00:14:05.320 But that's too much of a concession for even Mark Carney and the liberals to make, because
00:14:09.520 again, they want to electorally benefit by constantly being in fights with Donald Trump.
00:14:14.820 Anyways, that should be it for me today.
00:14:17.680 There's another topic I keep forgetting to cover and I could do it right now, but I want
00:14:21.080 to save it for later.
00:14:22.280 It will be kind of along the same lines as when I did that whole video on the fashion
00:14:27.600 sense of different politicians and why you actually want to look more unique than you
00:14:32.240 want to look like attractive as a politician. 0.85
00:14:35.320 I need to make a video eventually on this issue of Pierre Polyev going on that fitness
00:14:40.600 podcast and why I think it was such a big mistake.
00:14:43.980 Now, I really like Pierre Polyev, but there are certain things that either he or his team
00:14:49.280 is choosing to do that I think they need to realize why it's not helpful.
00:14:54.320 It's not like it's the worst thing in the world, but I'll explain later at another date
00:14:58.240 why imagistically it's not helpful to Pierre Polyev to kind of lean into being like a cool
00:15:04.240 fit man.
00:15:05.900 Anyways, but with all that being said, thank you guys for watching.
00:15:09.520 Like, share, subscribe, and I'll see you all next time.