The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 13, 2025


Carney runs from press after tariff strategy FAILS!


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Wyatt Clunock talks about how Canada is stuck between a rock and a hard place in the trade war with the United States and why the PM needs to do something about it. He also talks about why Mark Carney should have been on the campaign trail and why he chose to take the day off.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.
00:00:03.100 Well, it turns out being hysterically anti-American was a very stupid idea on Mark Carney and
00:00:08.640 the Liberal Party's part, because now Canada is in a situation where although many of the
00:00:14.240 tariffs on the rest of the world have gone away, Canada is now in timeout with China 0.95
00:00:19.620 because we put reciprocal tariffs on the United States rather than just negotiating.
00:00:24.240 Do I like the tactics that Trump used around his trade war efforts to try and lower tariffs?
00:00:30.980 No, it was a bit aggressive.
00:00:32.960 At the same time, I would inform Mark Carney and the Liberal government that we're Canada
00:00:37.920 and they're the United States.
00:00:40.100 I am a Canadian patriot, but even I can look at our population numbers, compare them to
00:00:44.560 the United States, realize that even each American is making more money than each Canadian before
00:00:50.340 currency conversion and understand that we're not going to be able to beat them in a trade
00:00:54.820 war standoff.
00:00:56.780 But they tried it and now we look like a bunch of morons and now Mark Carney is having to
00:01:01.180 run away from the press, having no ability to justify what he's been doing or how he's
00:01:06.340 going to pivot from here.
00:01:08.060 Anyways, before I get into it, guys, I just want to remind you to like the video if you've
00:01:11.760 been liking my federal election coverage, subscribe to the channel if you're not yet a subscriber
00:01:15.880 and leave a comment on the video on the topic of the day.
00:01:19.380 I always like to scroll through and see what people are saying.
00:01:22.180 I try and comment back at a good amount of people, but when there's like 1,200 comments,
00:01:26.780 oftentimes I scroll through and I find ones that are easier for me to answer.
00:01:30.820 Like if someone's asking me for a dissertation, probably won't talk, you know, type that out.
00:01:35.880 But if it's simpler stuff, definitely will try to.
00:01:38.960 Anyways, here's a video that the conservatives actually had compiled of Mark Carney when he was
00:01:44.700 taking that day off of the campaign trail, running away from the media as they asked
00:01:49.060 him about the trade war going on.
00:01:50.980 So that's all for now.
00:01:52.420 Thank you.
00:01:58.380 Okay.
00:01:59.380 Reporters trying to get more questions in and hoping answers will come, but very few did.
00:02:04.800 And let's be very clear too.
00:02:06.680 He took the day off because he apparently had pressing prime ministerial stuff to do.
00:02:10.600 And then he gets to Ottawa and he's apparently not doing anything because he was obviously
00:02:15.040 just taking a break from the campaign trail because he's bad at campaigning.
00:02:18.960 So he's stuck between a rock and a hard place now.
00:02:21.440 Does he want to admit that he doesn't have anything going on because he just wanted the
00:02:25.780 break from the campaign trail?
00:02:27.500 Or does he actually say he's working on stuff, but then not be able to give anyone detail
00:02:32.200 because he doesn't have anything?
00:02:33.580 Or you'd have to admit that he actually put Canada in a really bad negotiating position
00:02:38.660 with the United States by being like the only country on the planet to align itself with
00:02:43.800 China.
00:02:44.440 Maybe Macau is with China. 0.98
00:02:46.660 But if anyone is siding with China on the trade war, it's going to be basically just very
00:02:52.480 close.
00:02:53.520 So Southeast Asian or I guess East Asian allied states or something like that.
00:03:00.340 And that's it.
00:03:00.860 There didn't provide much of an update.
00:03:03.300 Canada still faces U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos and is retaliating.
00:03:09.620 Nothing changed for Canada when Donald Trump paused global reciprocal tariffs earlier this
00:03:15.560 week.
00:03:15.680 Canada's tariff situation remained unchanged and Prime Minister Carney had nothing to say
00:03:20.660 about any changes to Canada's counter tariff strategy.
00:03:24.080 We were hoping for so much more from Mark Carney, but but remind us, what did we just hear?
00:03:29.240 I am struck by his not taking questions.
00:03:32.720 No questions were taken today.
00:03:34.440 Now, liberals will tell you that they like it when Carney gets to play the role of prime
00:03:39.060 minister rather than campaigning leader.
00:03:41.680 Around the same time that Mark Carney left without taking questions, a GM plant in Ingersoll,
00:03:47.760 Ontario was pausing production, citing slumping sales.
00:03:51.720 And this is why Mark Carney put us in this position.
00:03:56.540 When he got in, he had the chance to deal with the trade issue before he triggered the
00:04:01.560 election.
00:04:02.480 Instead, he triggered the election and went into hardcore anti-American mode.
00:04:07.000 And that has actually damaged Canada's ability to now go while other countries are trying to
00:04:12.300 negotiate to the U.S. and say, hey, can we have some sort of off ramp here?
00:04:16.600 Because we're such two closely entwined economies, can Canada get an auto or steel and aluminum
00:04:22.620 exemption?
00:04:23.760 We could have been doing that.
00:04:24.940 But Carney has put himself in a position where he even told Trump, I'm not going to talk to
00:04:28.840 you until after after the federal election is over.
00:04:32.360 So we're between a rock and a hard place.
00:04:34.440 Every country is getting in to negotiate before.
00:04:36.880 We kicked them in the face for no reason.
00:04:38.880 Carney's been kicking Trump in the face every single day on the campaign trail.
00:04:41.980 But it turns out we're still Canada and we can't exactly push the Americans around on
00:04:47.840 this one would have been far smarter to have engaged in actual serious negotiations with
00:04:53.760 the U.S.
00:04:54.060 Even if we don't agree with every point they're making, you know, increased border security
00:04:57.800 crackdown on fentanyl in our country, which we should already be doing anyways.
00:05:01.360 And then we can talk seriously about trying to get some sort of exemption on steel and aluminum
00:05:08.880 tariffs or auto tariffs when they were implemented.
00:05:11.900 Instead, we basically acted as Chinese allies rather than American allies.
00:05:17.660 Anyways, I want to move on to another story.
00:05:20.260 That's it for that one.
00:05:21.300 I want to jump over again to the TikTok left, who is convinced that they have another kill 0.92
00:05:28.040 shot on Pierre Polyev, and that is he is like Donald Trump because he is tough on crime.
00:05:35.600 This is not going to play as well as these people think.
00:05:38.520 Pierre Polyev's new policy announcement is literally what Trump did.
00:05:41.580 This this is this is literally what Trump did.
00:05:43.660 He wants to replace the court.
00:05:45.100 What is literally what Trump did?
00:05:46.400 It says conservatives pledge to appoint.
00:05:48.760 I think it says strict judges basically to crack down on like to be more tough on crime.
00:05:55.740 And he was trying to paint this as a bad thing because that's what Trump did with new judges
00:06:00.480 that are stricter or more conservative.
00:06:02.660 He he wants to politicize the courts, the unpolitical courts that we have in Canada.
00:06:06.080 He wants to politicize them.
00:06:07.240 He wants to do what Trump did.
00:06:08.320 He literally wants to do what Trump did.
00:06:10.340 He can't help himself but continue to associate himself with MAGA and MAGA identity and MAGA
00:06:14.960 politics.
00:06:15.700 And there are ways to talk about this without like going insane, because, yeah, a lot of the
00:06:19.200 catch and release style things aren't liberal policies.
00:06:21.620 This is coming.
00:06:22.520 They're they're very liberal policies.
00:06:24.340 In fact, they are progressive policies from the courts, because we have a pretty rock solid
00:06:28.840 charter of rights and freedoms.
00:06:30.360 And that also means that people have the right to due process and they have the right to be
00:06:33.300 treated equally and fairly under the justice system.
00:06:35.140 And maybe we need to reevaluate what that means.
00:06:37.520 But we don't do that by taking over the courts and appointing people who are ideologically
00:06:42.080 the same as us.
00:06:42.880 That is completely inappropriate.
00:06:45.080 That is completely under inappropriate.
00:06:47.780 Frank, what is this over here?
00:06:50.980 What is this?
00:06:51.840 What's this article?
00:06:52.940 What's this thing I'm about to pull up on screen?
00:06:55.180 It's probably not something that's going to contradict Frank, because his point was absolutely
00:06:58.880 rock solid.
00:06:59.800 He understood.
00:07:00.620 He understands the goings on in Canadian politics.
00:07:03.220 What is this National Post headline?
00:07:05.440 Trudeau's Law Society.
00:07:07.220 Exclusive data analysis reveal liberals appoint judges who are party donors.
00:07:12.360 What's that all about?
00:07:13.520 Probably it's probably a big coincidence.
00:07:15.860 This is probably an 11 minute read because there's nothing in it.
00:07:18.960 And it's not that the liberals are deeply corrupt and they're not just appointing people who
00:07:23.920 are ideologically liberal, but they are appointing people who are ideologically liberal, who give
00:07:28.800 thousands of dollars over time to the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:07:32.700 The courts are already politicized.
00:07:35.260 And do you know what is not actually politicizing the courts?
00:07:38.160 It is putting in place judges who will enforce the law.
00:07:40.980 Now, if that is considered political, and basically everything is political, but the left will
00:07:47.380 always tell you that everything is political, and yet everything is only ever political when
00:07:52.020 the right does it.
00:07:53.620 Make it make sense, but I'm not going to attempt to do that because I want my brain to not break
00:07:58.440 in two.
00:07:59.620 Let's jump over to this other video of another person on the sort of left-wing content creator
00:08:05.700 circuit having another freak out about Pierre Polyev.
00:08:10.060 This is their entire campaign.
00:08:11.800 It's freaking out about Trump, and then it's freaking out about Pierre Polyev with no real
00:08:16.860 policy points.
00:08:18.260 These are the same people who laugh when Mark Carney gets rid of the carbon tax because it
00:08:23.080 hurts the conservative campaign.
00:08:24.880 At the same time, they won't really reason through why they are cool with getting rid of
00:08:29.340 it.
00:08:29.500 At the same time, they were mocking conservatives for so long for saying that we should get rid
00:08:33.620 of it.
00:08:33.960 We heard this week from, I love this part, Ford's top campaign guy that he dropped so
00:08:42.880 many F-bombs about Polyev and how he screwed up a 20-point lead and how it's campaign mismanagement
00:08:50.280 or malpractice.
00:08:51.440 But then he took it even further on CTV when he said, and I quote, they're petrified of a
00:08:58.960 Polyev government.
00:09:01.120 Get petrified of Polyev. 0.98
00:09:03.120 If you want to just create a hashtag for the way the country feels about Polyev's MAGA,
00:09:08.380 then that's it.
00:09:10.680 Guys, take your lithium out there.
00:09:13.460 If you need your lithium, take your lithium.
00:09:16.500 Corey Tanike is an idiot.
00:09:18.580 Doug Ford is also an idiot.
00:09:20.700 Doug Ford's also not conservative.
00:09:22.260 He runs the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, but it would be more accurate if that
00:09:26.640 party just started calling itself the Progressive Party of Ontario because they've done nothing
00:09:30.760 conservative in their entire tenure in office since 2018.
00:09:35.100 I feel most bad for the few actual conservatives that exist in that party who are sitting MPPs
00:09:40.740 who can't really say and do anything and are having their reputations absolutely trashed
00:09:45.560 by the fact that they're willing to follow this idiot Doug Ford around.
00:09:49.000 cut no taxes, do nothing conservative, do nothing pro-parental rights, don't actually reform the
00:09:55.320 curriculum, don't cut wasteful spending, don't do any of this stuff, and yet they still have
00:10:00.380 to stand up and pretend this is all conservative.
00:10:02.200 Sam Oosterhoff, my goodness, I wouldn't want to be Sam Oosterhoff.
00:10:06.300 I keep having people, especially a few years ago, tell me, oh, that guy's such a young rock
00:10:10.640 star in Canadian politics.
00:10:11.800 Is he?
00:10:12.920 Is he?
00:10:13.620 He seems like kind of just a coward to me at this point.
00:10:16.580 He won't stand up to Ford.
00:10:17.920 He won't do anything conservative.
00:10:19.660 And he even had to stand up at one point before the 22 election and report out positively
00:10:25.460 about an NDP bill to add anti-racism curriculum to the Ontario curriculum for people in like
00:10:34.560 middle school and high school.
00:10:36.800 Yeah, Sam Oosterhoff, political rock star right there for the conservatives.
00:10:40.180 But the entire thing, people pretending like Corey Tanike is telling us that, ooh, the Polly
00:10:47.400 of conservatives are falling apart because they're not doing the strategy we used in Ontario.
00:10:52.460 Do you know why Doug Ford won the 2025 election so handily?
00:10:57.640 Because his opponents suck.
00:11:00.000 Doug Ford is the best beneficiary of bad opponents.
00:11:05.000 The man has had to take on Kathleen Wynne, Andrea Horvath, which was Andrea Horvath's second
00:11:12.260 election.
00:11:13.560 He had to then take on Andrea Horvath again in 22 and Steven Del Duca.
00:11:18.860 And now in 2025, he took on a Bonnie Henry campaign that was completely comatose.
00:11:23.580 And Merit Stiles, who looked like the long lost sister of Bonnie Henry running the NDP.
00:11:27.740 And then I guess Mike Schreiner's in there.
00:11:30.980 He has the best opponents to be running against if you always want to be able to win re-election.
00:11:36.420 And Doug Ford hasn't done anything.
00:11:37.880 He just inherits a lot of liberal voters who don't like the liberal options on the ballot
00:11:42.600 because they're incompetent. 0.86
00:11:43.840 And Doug Ford's already doing everything they want.
00:11:46.000 So what's the point of voting for the liberals?
00:11:48.320 It's always hilarious to me when I see people, especially like Frank Dominic from the first
00:11:52.560 video, talking about how much of a disaster Doug Ford is, while he implements policies
00:11:57.840 that those same people are apparently in favor of on a national level.
00:12:01.940 So when Ford does it, they don't like it because he's the PC guy.
00:12:05.140 But if the liberals propose effectively the same thing, he's totally okay with it.
00:12:09.800 Anyways, okay.
00:12:11.440 That should be it for me for this video, guys.
00:12:13.420 I'll probably be back later.
00:12:14.560 There's this crazy video of liberal operatives trying to plant campaign buttons that make
00:12:20.020 the conservatives seem very mega at their conferences, and it's totally backfired.
00:12:25.160 They were exposed, and I think it tells you something about the liberal campaign.
00:12:28.900 Like I was saying, the entire campaign is Trump is scary and evil, so Polly of a scary and evil.
00:12:34.180 There's no actual policy going on here.
00:12:37.700 Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys.
00:12:40.580 Like the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, and I'll see you later.