The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney playing Dangerous Game - Liberals burn Canada-US relations for political game!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:06.320 Right now, Prime Minister Mark Carney is playing a very dangerous game when it comes to Canada-U.S.

00:00:13.240 relations. On one hand, Carney wants to use anti-American rhetoric to shore up the Liberal

00:00:19.880 Party's base in case of a snap election in 2026. At the same time, he's gotten himself into hot

00:00:27.320 water with U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration. And although most of the liberal

00:00:33.560 base is very anti-American, there's probably about, you know, 25%, 30% of liberals who understand that

00:00:42.040 you can't just throw away our relationship with the U.S. for political gain. That would be a complete

00:00:48.320 disaster for our economy at the very least. So right now, Carney is trying to please what we will call

00:00:55.820 the Laura Babcock liberals, the crazy anti-American liberals who just want to see Carney constantly

00:01:02.680 attack the U.S. And then he also needs to keep the business liberals from getting tired of all

00:01:09.540 the anti-American stuff and voting for the conservatives as to not risk completely blowing

00:01:14.800 up the Canada-U.S. relationship for Carney's own sleazy political gain. And Carney has settled on a

00:01:21.660 tactic to try and marry these two priorities together. It's called lying. Carney is going to

00:01:28.940 keep saying anti-American things while claiming that whatever he said was not actually anti-American

00:01:34.200 and that we have a fantastic relationship with the U.S. In just a second here, I want to play you guys a

00:01:40.300 clip of Carney saying that we have a good relationship with the U.S. And then I want to explain the ongoing

00:01:45.520 lie that he's engaging in. And then we'll move on to some other clips of liberals accusing the

00:01:51.020 conservatives of being mega conservatives because they have nothing. And so now they're just going

00:01:56.760 to smear their opposition as somehow being like foreign Republican insurgents in Canada.

00:02:03.580 Anyways, before we get into it, though, I quickly want to mention to you guys that if you like the

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00:02:29.420 But now, without further ado, here is Mark Carney saying our relationship with the U.S. is great.

00:02:35.760 Given the current state relations with the U.S., what hope do you have that Kuzma will be renewed? 1.00

00:02:42.200 Look, relations are good. We have good conversations, good back and forth.

00:02:45.120 There's a lot of work to be done for the review of Kuzma. That work has started, both reviews in the

00:02:51.660 United States, I mean, internal reviews and consultations. That work has started in Mexico.

00:02:56.520 It's finished in Canada. We'll be ready to sit down and the process will continue.

00:03:00.940 It moves moves on immediately. No follow up. But just hear what he said at the very start when he said

00:03:06.400 when he's talking about the relationship.

00:03:09.220 Given the current state relations with the U.S., what hope do you have that Kuzma will be renewed after July?

00:03:14.120 Look, relations are good.

00:03:15.800 Relations are good. Well, the president and his secretary of the treasury, Scott Besant,

00:03:22.860 had claimed that Carney had to aggressively walk back the anti-American comments that he had made at the

00:03:29.020 World Economic Forum in Davos. But of course, Carney, like I've been describing, is stuck between this

00:03:35.680 rock and hard place where half his base or more than half his base want him to just rip the U.S.

00:03:42.180 and rip Donald Trump all of the time. And then there's a smaller number of liberals who he can't

00:03:48.580 win without their support, who also are getting kind of tired of how Carney keeps poking the United

00:03:54.960 States in the eye and keeps acting like this is all Donald Trump's fault. Eventually, Canada has to

00:04:00.820 actually, you know, contribute something to actually getting a deal signed. But right now, it seems like

00:04:06.240 a big bait and switch. Every once in a while, Carney pretends like he wants to sign a deal and then him

00:04:10.980 or Doug Ford or David Eby then attack the United States and then set the negotiations back a bit.

00:04:17.040 Like the thing is that we can always say, well, the Americans are being too sensitive.

00:04:20.140 Okay, sure. At the same time, would any of these Canadian liberals put up with this stuff being

00:04:26.220 said from the other side? Because frequently, the U.S. and Trump say and do far less. And then

00:04:32.680 they freak out and say, this is this is why we can't sign a deal with the U.S. This is why we need

00:04:36.160 to go and sign a deal with China. But you'll remember the other day, and maybe I can bring up

00:04:41.060 the Fox News clip with Scott Besson here, just for a reminder. But remember that when Carney was then

00:04:48.120 asked, because we had what was his name? Scott Besson claimed that Carney aggressively walked

00:04:55.520 back what he said at Davos. But when Carney addressed it, effectively, what he claimed was

00:05:02.580 that he basically didn't actually lie, or he didn't actually walk anything back because he simply,

00:05:09.800 you know, he or he told the president that he meant what he said. But in this clip here, I just want to

00:05:15.040 show you guys the sort of trick he used in order to both pretend like he's standing by his statements

00:05:21.680 at the same time, he's trying to recontextualize them in a less aggressive way.

00:05:26.840 Scott Besson says that you walked back your comments on Davos in a conversation with Mr. Trump. Is that the case,

00:05:33.360 Prime Minister?

00:05:34.060 As I said, well, first off, I'm going to skip ahead. Because if you guys have seen this clip before,

00:05:39.600 you will know it takes him over a minute to actually address that question there.

00:05:45.060 About some of the modalities and things on the way forward. But to be absolutely clear,

00:05:49.020 and I said this to the to the president, I meant what I said in in Davos.

00:05:54.620 So he says, I meant what I said in Davos, but then see the rhetorical sleight of hand he uses here.

00:06:00.600 It was clear it was a broader set of issues that Canada was the first country to understand the

00:06:07.240 change in US trade policy that he had initiated. And we're responding to that we're responding

00:06:13.100 positively by building partnerships abroad, we're responding positively by building at home.

00:06:18.000 And we're prepared to respond positively by building that new relationship through Kuzma.

00:06:23.200 He understood that and it was a good conversation, as I say.

00:06:26.120 So that was not what he said at Davos, though. So he can always say, well, I'm not running away

00:06:31.160 from what I said. I stand by what I said. And what I said was, I understood that the US wanted to

00:06:38.400 change the way it trades. And we were the first to react. And Canada is taking some positive steps

00:06:45.380 in trying to find new avenues for trade and build more at home. Like, that's not what you said.

00:06:50.200 You were talking about the great power rivalry that Canada and other middle powers need to reject.

00:06:55.740 And the whole implication was that Canada and many other parts of the world should basically

00:07:01.140 start moving away from the United States and moving towards other allies. And in that speech,

00:07:06.760 it was so hypocritical, because he claimed that like, well, we don't want to be part of this great 0.72

00:07:11.580 power rivalry. And it's like, weren't you the guy four days ago signing a deal with Xi Jinping? 0.77

00:07:18.600 Didn't you pick a side here? And people could say, well, there's nothing wrong with a trade deal.

00:07:23.080 Well, the problem is, he didn't just sign a trade deal. He wants to have a stronger security

00:07:28.260 relationship. He wants to have stronger cultural ties, things that the United States, if they were

00:07:33.700 dealing with the Chinese, would never agree to, because it's a really stupid thing to get on board 1.00

00:07:38.400 with. Anyways, but now I want to move on to another clip. And this is what the liberals whole strategy 0.99

00:07:44.360 seems to be now here. It's just attacking the conservatives for being mega in some way.

00:07:50.200 So we're going to start off with the first speaker here on this CBC panel. And then

00:07:54.460 former conservative MP Lisa Wray is going to step in and at least talk some sense into a panel that 0.79

00:08:01.460 usually probably wouldn't have much if she wasn't there. 0.99

00:08:04.100 I'll provide the other standpoint. But instead, what we have is the conservatives in particular

00:08:07.880 defaulting to a mega messaging standpoint that I think works against them. And if nothing else,

00:08:14.460 just draws other Canadians around to the defense of the prime minister.

00:08:16.940 Lisa, what are your thoughts on that one? I have seen a few MPs jumping on it and others

00:08:21.560 saying more proof that Mark Carney is lying. I think it was Roman Baber who put that on his

00:08:27.400 socials. What are your thoughts?

00:08:29.980 Well, I know that people are always...

00:08:32.040 What kind of setup was that? This is the thing I can't stand about David Cochran. I don't want to

00:08:37.080 go on about it too much, but he's such a bad host of power and politics. He so frequently just

00:08:43.460 outright agrees with more left-wing panelists. And then he poisons the well by just going out

00:08:49.500 there and saying, well, you know, a lot of MPs have been saying this and like, you know,

00:08:52.900 and this is a big concern out there. It's like, dude, you're a host. Go to the next guest. Nobody

00:08:57.120 wants to hear your opinion if you're supposed to be the neutral host.

00:08:59.840 He's going to want to talk about individuals who are making these comments, but it's a hell of a

00:09:04.260 generalization. Those are not any kind of talking points coming from the Conservative Party,

00:09:10.360 I can assure you of that. And it's interesting to me that once again, we're talking about the

00:09:16.200 Conservative's reaction to something that I believe the Prime Minister fumbled, which is he should have

00:09:22.220 put the readout out before the Americans had a chance to give a narrative on what happened on the

00:09:27.080 call. But it's our fault as Conservatives because somebody said something somewhere in the bowels of

00:09:32.200 the internet. I don't think that's fair. And I think it's taking up too much oxygen. I'm happy that

00:09:36.800 the President and the Prime Minister are talking. I wish they would give better readouts. I wish the

00:09:41.620 Americans didn't exaggerate and lie to the extent that they do. But it doesn't mean the fact that

00:09:47.100 we shouldn't be getting some kind of information or that we blame Conservatives or try to label them

00:09:51.880 mega, which I'm quite frankly, I'm sick of as well. Okay, well, look, this is going to get clipped and

00:09:56.380 I'm going to get packed for it. I wasn't suggesting I was just letting asking you to respond to what Andrew

00:10:00.200 raised, right? No, that wasn't you at all. Okay. But I would say, though, that what David does is

00:10:06.860 he cosigns what other people say. He doesn't say it himself. He just agrees that that that is a

00:10:11.740 common belief out there when it's not a common belief. The one thing I would disagree with Lisa

00:10:16.240 Radon is that it's not anti-Canadian for me to say this, but she's probably playing a little bit of

00:10:20.760 the game here. The Americans were not lying about the readout. They said that Mark Carney aggressively

00:10:26.940 walked back his comments in Davos. He did. You know, on the call, he doesn't start like they're

00:10:32.900 not like on the readout of the call. He's not like babbling incoherently and being like, I'm so sorry.

00:10:37.560 I wish I didn't say those things. Please forgive me. Obviously, he didn't do that. What Carney did

00:10:43.260 was he completely changed the meaning of what he said when explaining it to Trump and the Americans

00:10:49.340 because he's really overstepped and he's put at risk our ability to get a trade deal signed.

00:10:54.200 And so now he has to basically, at least to the Americans, at least to certain little bits and

00:11:01.560 pieces towards Canadian media too, he has to pretend like, oh no, I was just talking about

00:11:05.860 how Canada needs to stand up on its own two feet and we understand the new trade relationship that

00:11:10.220 America wants. That was not the tone. He's been saying stuff like our relationship as we've known

00:11:16.860 it with the United States is over. And also like a lot of this other stuff where he's been

00:11:21.580 doing his old elbows up rhetoric that has obviously been aggressively targeted at the United States.

00:11:28.300 And now it's his right to do that. But at the same time, it's the right of the Americans to also

00:11:32.400 not like that, not want to work with us. That Doug Ford ad, that old one with the Reagan stuff,

00:11:38.000 that was one of the dumbest political moves I've ever seen. And it's because when you're negotiating 0.91

00:11:43.160 with somebody, especially when they have more power at the negotiating table,

00:11:46.760 you don't give them reason to get up and walk out of the room and force you to give a concession just

00:11:52.720 to get them to come back. But that's what Carney keeps doing because his elbows up stuff that he

00:11:58.020 does in order to gird up his liberal base is, it doesn't do very well. And when it comes to a

00:12:04.140 negotiation. So every time Mark Carney tries to please his liberal base, he's literally setting the

00:12:09.480 country back, which means he's effectively hurting our trade relationship with the U.S., attempting to win a

00:12:15.680 majority government. That's what we have going on here. I want to jump over now to another video

00:12:22.460 here. It's just, well, actually, let's quickly grab this video of, what's his name? I always forget

00:12:29.920 what this guy's name is. You'll know, it's this guy. It's this guy who looks like if Matthew Roderick

00:12:34.760 was a Quebec liberal. He was reacting to the fact that the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, who is in fact

00:12:43.280 from the Labour Party, basically distanced himself from the things Mark Carney said. Because everyone

00:12:49.660 around the planet knew what Carney was saying. They knew it was an attack on the U.S. And now he

00:12:56.940 is going to be asked, again, I don't know what this guy's name is. I've seen it in the past day. But like

00:13:03.060 so many liberals, he's very forgettable. But here's him responding to journalists asking him about what

00:13:07.660 Keir Starmer said. So he's admitting now that in fact, Mark Carney's tone was aggressive. It was

00:13:28.760 supposed to be slightly offensive. The whole idea is that he's saying the things that people out loud,

00:13:33.780 the people, the things that people are thinking. Now, a characterization like that usually infers

00:13:39.240 the whole idea is something that people are usually too polite to say, or they don't want to get into

00:13:43.400 a conflict. So when Carney tries to recontextualize what he said to being, oh, no, I was respecting the

00:13:48.860 fact that the U.S. has a new trade kind of strategy they're pursuing. And I was just acknowledging that

00:13:55.180 Canada has to react to that by building more at home. And, you know, maybe finding other trade partners.

00:13:59.940 That's not what he meant. Because even his own liberals are effectively admitting that he was

00:14:04.480 saying, quote, unquote, like the quiet part out loud that other people don't say.

00:14:08.960 Keir Starmer knows that it was meant to be a jab, which is why he's distancing himself from Carney's

00:14:13.300 own jab.

00:14:13.760 A lot of people thought private prime minister said out loud with a lot of people thought privately.

00:14:20.780 And I can speak for him, but I would say the vision that he presented is one that resonated. And I can

00:14:31.400 tell you, Canada is really a country where people look up now for investments, for our values resonate.

00:14:39.000 And certainly we're happy to work with all our partners.

00:14:41.460 So it's a big dodge. But effectively, that's him admitting the fact that, yeah, Carney was jabbing

00:14:47.940 him because the whole idea is he was saying the thing that other people won't say out loud.

00:14:51.320 But in the middle of all this, because, of course, the liberals have to keep gaslighting their own

00:14:56.700 base. They they literally posted this on the prime minister of Canada's ex account, not Mark Carney's

00:15:03.500 ex account, the prime minister of Canada's like the official PMO's office one.

00:15:09.560 They in the midst of Mark Carney, because this is January 28. This is posted in the midst of him

00:15:15.860 denying that he had any sort of aggressive tone, any anti-American tone. The liberal party posts this

00:15:21.940 or the prime minister's office of Canada was this. The old order is not coming back. Nostalgia is not

00:15:27.720 a strategy from the fracture. We can build something better, stronger and more just and is choosing

00:15:32.920 honesty, strength and action. Now, this implies that the old order, which was the United States

00:15:39.540 basically being the main superpower of the planet, that that is that is somehow these days out of

00:15:46.260 line with the values of honesty, strength and action. And when you say fracture, you're saying

00:15:51.300 that there's something fractured that's because of the United States, because that's what he keeps

00:15:55.680 saying in all of his other speeches. And so this is the speech that went along with it from the

00:16:00.340 World Economic Forum.

00:16:01.220 We have capital talent. We also have a government with immense fiscal capacity to act decisively.

00:16:09.540 And we have the values to which many others aspire. Canada is a pluralistic society that works.

00:16:18.340 Our public square is loud, diverse and free. Canadians remain committed to sustainability.

00:16:25.540 We are a stable and reliable partner in a world that is anything but.

00:16:31.060 Now, let's be clear. That was, again, a shot at the Americans. Someone could say, well, that could also 0.58

00:16:37.860 include China as well. No, it can't because we just signed a deal with them. We just said that we have

00:16:42.660 a lot of shared values and we want to culturally integrate more with them and we want to integrate

00:16:48.580 more on security and work better together. He signaled that they're fundamentally a very Canadian

00:16:54.420 kind of a group of people to work with in terms of all the shared values. But all of his other

00:16:59.460 rhetoric has always been talking about how whenever he explicitly calls down a country, he's always

00:17:05.220 calling down the United States. And so, no, Carney cannot run away from what he's doing. I think

00:17:10.260 that this could blow up in his face. It could pay big dividends to Carney, too. It could pay him big

00:17:14.580 dividends to go anti-American, shore up the left side of the Liberal Party and make sure they show up in

00:17:18.900 the next election. But right now, he's kind of on a tightrope, as I've been saying, where if he goes

00:17:24.820 too much and he offends the Americans too much, you could have a lot of business liberals who voted

00:17:29.460 Liberal in this last election who maybe don't even exactly like Trump themselves. But they don't

00:17:35.380 exactly want Carney to take his personal hatred for Trump and destroy Canada's ability to get a trade

00:17:41.380 deal signed. But anyways, that should be it for this video, guys. Thank you for watching.

00:17:47.060 I actually tried to record this video yesterday, and I just couldn't get it done. I had to switch

00:17:50.660 topics, and I finally did it today. But no, got a haircut, put on a suit. I'm going to head out to

00:17:56.900 the Conservative Party convention here in Calgary in a bit. I'm actually going to go pick up my party

00:18:01.620 leader, Dallas Brody, at the airport, and then we're going to go on a mini podcast tour while we're

00:18:05.700 in town as well. Lots of stuff going on. If you're going to the convention, come up and say hi,

00:18:10.340 especially if you're from British Columbia, because I'll give you a 1BC pin. But for the rest of you,

00:18:15.540 just stay in at home. Thank you guys all for watching. Like, share, subscribe, and I'll see you all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 29, 2026

Carney playing Dangerous Game - Liberals burn Canada-US relations for political game!

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