The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney's Fake Pipeline Goes UP IN FLAMES - Liberals Defraud Alberta!

00:00:00.000 I am so tired of being consistently right about Prime Minister Mark Carney's fake pipeline.

00:00:07.060 He can sign as many meaningless MOUs as he wants and speak positively about building a pipeline,

00:00:13.220 but he's never actually going to do it. And I think the Alberta provincial government and the

00:00:18.380 oil and gas industry are finally catching on to what Carney's game is. Check out this headline

00:00:24.800 from Globe Politics. Kearney confirms West Coast oil pipeline still without private sector backing.

00:00:33.680 It's almost like the Kearney Liberals have done absolutely nothing to clear the regulatory decks

00:00:41.760 to make it possible to build a pipeline. It's almost like they've also simultaneously been

00:00:47.440 handing out vetoes to the BC provincial government and to First Nation groups like Therkandi. And

00:00:54.320 shockingly there's no private sector backing oh i wonder why it's almost like nothing's changed

00:01:01.440 since prime minister justin trudeau was around it's almost like saying nice things and then

00:01:07.360 trying to get alberta to commit to carbon capture and higher industrial carbon taxes actually makes

00:01:13.520 it less appealing to build a pipeline in fact carney may be worse at building pipelines than

00:01:19.760 Justin Trudeau was. Check out this clip where he answers a question about Alberta putting forward

00:01:25.840 a proposal where he already sounds like he's trying to downplay the possibility of it actually

00:01:31.080 working when he's the only one who has to say yes. Already submitted its pipeline proposal to you

00:01:37.100 and is it sufficient enough in your view to start the process of designating it a project of national

00:01:42.060 interest as well as reaching an agreement on pathways? Thank you. So a couple of things. One

00:01:47.400 is that i will be in alberta tomorrow tomorrow evening and looking forward to that and we've

00:01:54.680 been in close contact the premier and i this is what we call stalling he's trying to figure out

00:02:01.560 what his deflection of the lie is going to be in a few seconds here i always like to point out mark

00:02:07.480 carney's rhetorical tactics that he uses in order to try and be a slightly better liar he always

00:02:13.960 obviously tries to save himself time by just going on and prattling about nothing oh yes i'm going

00:02:19.800 to go to alberta and i like alberta i talk to daniel smith sometimes it's like okay well how

00:02:25.560 about you talk about what you think about the pipeline proposal on your desk our teams as well

00:02:31.480 uh it's uh as you in indicate in your question it's for alberta to submit uh a proposal uh on

00:02:39.560 or around july 1st uh that's uh that's tracking well from their perspective uh but then there's a

00:02:46.440 process that goes uh that takes a few months until october before a decision is made whether or not

00:02:52.440 to refer to uh the major projects office do you hear that so with alberta's pipeline proposal

00:02:59.960 carney can sit on it for another few months and even if he says yes it's not actually rubber

00:03:05.800 stamping the pipeline to be greenlit to start building in a few months he might green light it

00:03:12.120 to send it to the major projects office for them to also do their own regulatory inspection of the

00:03:19.720 project and then decide if it's actually going to be a project of national importance this is

00:03:25.320 a long-winded way of saying it's never going to be done and he's going to make that clear

00:03:30.120 in the next few seconds a variety of things that have to be followed through a variety of stakeholders

00:03:36.440 that have to be engaged and you reference rightly pathways in your in your question and

00:03:45.240 is always been linked all aspects of the implementation what is now an implementation

00:03:49.880 agreement are linked so pathways the reforms to the carbon market potential pipeline a series of

00:03:57.240 of other measures that are taken, including measures by the federal government? You see what

00:04:01.020 he did there? One, again, you should immediately have alarm bells going off in your head. And

00:04:05.760 as soon as we mentioned stakeholder engagement, when it comes to building a pipeline,

00:04:11.460 that means very, very, very long winded consultations with First Nation bands who are

00:04:19.940 mostly incentivized to say, no, there is one area where the pipeline's not going to get built.

00:04:25.460 Oh, and another one of the stakeholders is the B.C. government, which is a radically green left government who also doesn't like the pipeline.

00:04:33.920 And then he also starts talking about pathways and some of the other things they want to see on the carbon markets, which is effectively demanding that Alberta Premier Daniel Smith sign up for higher industrial carbon taxes.

00:04:47.320 I believe like a $20 billion carbon capture scheme, as well as a bunch of other nonsense.

00:04:55.200 And with all that, we get a potential pipeline.

00:04:58.940 Potential, shouldn't it be guaranteed if we do any of this stuff?

00:05:02.960 It's absolutely wild that you have to jump through this many hoops simply to have your

00:05:09.140 proposal get rubber stamped to then go to the major projects office to be reviewed again

00:05:15.260 by whatever jokers are currently managing that office who have not actually been able to fast

00:05:21.120 track any substantial project that wasn't already most of the way through or a tiny expansion to an

00:05:28.000 already existing project at some point alberta premier daniel smith just has to come out and

00:05:35.080 call him out for being just a complete weasel on this issue he's so clearly kicking the can

00:05:41.620 down the road further and further every time the alberta government makes a substantial move

00:05:47.140 towards actually trying to get something done every time they actually do something to try

00:05:51.940 and get the pipeline built carney immediately goes limp and he starts saying oh you need the

00:05:56.500 major projects office to get involved in this no you don't you can just approve it as the prime

00:06:00.980 minister no one else needs to be involved except the prime minister and he will not say yes which

00:06:08.980 means he's saying no no matter how much he pretends he is saying no check out this article

00:06:15.700 from energy now a more pro oil and gas news organization i've already read this article so

00:06:22.980 i just want to sum it up for you here but the the headline is canada's oil firms look to scrap

00:06:28.100 carbon tax tied to new pipeline now the reason why this is significant is that if you thought

00:06:34.740 and it's very clear from the details of the article. If you thought that putting up with

00:06:39.800 a higher industrial carbon tax would guarantee the pipeline gets constructed, maybe you'd go

00:06:45.880 along with it knowing that maybe seven, eight years down the line, if a conservative government

00:06:49.780 is in power, you can get rid of that carbon tax anyways. They're pushing back against increasing

00:06:55.960 the industrial carbon tax and they want it scrapped because they know it's complete nonsense

00:07:01.380 to impose a higher price on themselves for a potential pipeline,

00:07:05.800 because the potential pipeline is never going to happen.

00:07:09.080 In fact, even in the minor areas of some green reform,

00:07:13.720 of trying to get rid of a bunch of the anti-oil and gas green regulations in place,

00:07:21.480 Carney pulled back on it because he was getting too much pushback from members of his own caucus.

00:07:26.760 is. Remember, at least 14 liberal MPs signed a letter to Carney protesting about the pipeline

00:07:34.120 that he wants to build. That's the funny thing about all this. Carney is trying to walk a

00:07:40.920 rhetorical tightrope. That's stupid for him to be trying to do. He's trying to never get a pipeline 1.00

00:07:46.860 actually built to please the green left, as well as please the business liberal sort of center

00:07:53.200 by pretending he still wants to build one. But that just means both groups do not actually,

00:07:59.280 they are both dissatisfied. He's doing all these political maneuvers and somersaults,

00:08:03.960 and at the end of the day, it's probably just going to result in his political neck being

00:08:07.820 broken on this stunt. Anyways, now I want to jump over to this article from the Frazier Institute,

00:08:14.200 which sort of needles in on the fact that Carney hasn't done absolutely anything to fulfill the

00:08:20.260 federal liberal side of the MOU with Alberta. Check out this one. It's a commentary by Kenneth

00:08:27.180 Green here, and it says, Carney government already clawing back MOU promises made to Alberta.

00:08:33.720 Back in November 2025, the federal government in Alberta struck a memorandum of understanding to

00:08:40.360 help resolve the multifaceted and increasingly fractious impasse between the two governments

00:08:45.320 over Alberta's ability to expand oil production and reach export markets

00:08:49.920 being shipping from Canada's Pacific coast.

00:08:52.880 The two governments were starkly opposed.

00:08:55.080 On one hand, Alberta has long wanted to expand production and development of its oil sands

00:09:00.180 and gain export pipeline capacity to the West Coast with a lucrative market waiting in Asia.

00:09:05.700 On the other hand, Carney's government inherited and assumed prior commitment

00:09:10.120 to make Canada a net-zero greenhouse gas emitter by 2050.

00:09:14.780 Along with other commitments to environmental protections and aboriginal reconciliation, all issues critical to any hope of future Alberta-to-Pacific pipeline development.

00:09:26.040 I just want to go down here to show you the parts where they've now basically clawed back their promises.

00:09:32.800 In the MOU, the Smith government pledges were concrete and immediate, and to begin immediately.

00:09:38.960 The federal government's pledges were much less concrete, much more aspirational, and are a lot more contingent on diffused forces and good fortune.

00:09:49.840 And with the ink barely dry as the MOU enters implementation, the clawback on those diffuse promises is already starting.

00:09:59.060 As the CBC reports, after feedback from thousands, Carney government slows down sweeping environmental changes.

00:10:05.320 The subhead informs that consultations extended from June 7th to June 22nd, pushing them neatly past the current legislative session in Parliament that might have advanced the legislation.

00:10:18.760 This is, by the way, the same legislation the federal government is banking on to fast-track Alberta's potential pipeline.

00:10:25.700 In other words, its major part of the MOU threatened only months after negotiations and formal adoption.

00:10:32.160 So, yes, the federal liberals have absolutely no way of actually fulfilling their side of the MOU until maybe the fall, at which point they then have to wait longer to make the legislative changes that they've sort of half promised to make to build the potential pipeline.

00:10:52.000 It's not going to happen.

00:10:53.700 I'm not trying to be a doomer here, but the pipeline is clearly not happening.

00:10:59.540 Let's, again, go back to that headline from Globepolitics.

00:11:03.660 I don't actually need to show it on screen again.

00:11:05.740 But the fact that Carney's harping on the private backer, the private proponent,

00:11:12.180 is a very big tell that that is going to be his long-term excuse.

00:11:16.920 Oh, I signed an MOU with Alberta, and Alberta's supposed to propose the plan and go find the proponent,

00:11:23.360 and they just haven't done it yet.

00:11:25.340 It's like, well, because you're the problem.

00:11:27.400 This is like if a town wanted to bring in more business.

00:11:32.360 It's a city that wants to bring the tech sector into town.

00:11:35.660 They want to be a part of the growing tech industry.

00:11:38.800 And they promise businesses, if you come and you set up shop in our city and bring jobs here and make this your new headquarters, you'll get something.

00:11:49.960 And then they ask, well, what do we get?

00:11:52.340 And then you're like, well, you have to come and set up shop first, and then we'll tell you all the incentives we're going to offer, to which they would be correct in assuming you have absolutely nothing.

00:12:04.760 It's like saying, well, if you do everything I want, if you put billions of dollars into the Pathways Carbon Capture Project, increase the industrial carbon tax, and pass a bunch of other green regulations, they don't give you what's in this box over here.

00:12:20.180 You can't know what's in the box, but it's really cool.

00:12:23.980 You'll like what's in the box.

00:12:25.680 Can I have any indication of what's in the box?

00:12:27.780 What's the dollar value?

00:12:29.100 Oh, that's secret.

00:12:30.840 But you really want this box.

00:12:33.020 So can you guys start trashing your own oil and gas industry for the promise that there

00:12:38.300 might be a pipeline in this box?

00:12:39.940 This is effectively what's happening.

00:12:41.680 And this is why Daniel Smith has to pull out of this farce.

00:12:45.140 He's effectively getting her to implement green measures that she would have normally never agreed to on the vague, foggy promise that eventually we might approve something that will then go to the major projects office to be reviewed again, to be probably just completely killed by the B.C. government and First Nation groups.

00:13:06.400 But if we roll 100 on a 100-sided dice and we actually get through all those stages, maybe from five or six years from then, we will build the pipeline, although we still haven't gotten rid of Bill C-48 and Bill C-69, which makes it pretty impossible to build it.

00:13:23.220 But who cares? Just live on the fumes of hope, Daniel Smith. It's all going to be okay.

00:13:30.240 This thing needs to die. This is a stupid project that's never actually going to get finished. 1.00

00:13:36.400 The Alberta government should pull out, the oil and gas companies should pull out, because continuing to go down this trail is simply artificially boosting Mark Carney's approval ratings based on vapor, based on nothingness, based on the promise he might build something. 0.99

00:13:52.580 Danielle Smith has to say, I've been so willing to work with them.

00:13:57.040 And every time we make a proposal, every time we try and propose something that will actually make it far more likely to build the pipeline,

00:14:04.300 the liberals act dumb and they say, oh, there's no private proponent.

00:14:07.600 Why should I get the regulations out of the way if there's no private proponent? 0.98

00:14:11.040 It's almost like no private proponent is going to show up if there's no ability to actually do anything with it. 0.98

00:14:16.220 It's so dumb.

00:14:17.120 It's like kind of a, you need, it takes two to actually get this done, but Mark Carney's pretending like Alberta is going to implement everything, propose the route, get the proponent, and then the federal government will start the slow process of actually fixing up the regulations for this project. 0.97

00:14:34.940 Remember, you know that crazy project called the Alto high-speed rail line?

00:14:40.600 We've spent over $260 million taxpayer dollars at the Alto Crown Corporation just studying the stupid high-speed rail project that nobody actually wants. 0.94

00:14:52.360 It will serve a very small portion of the population. 0.94

00:14:55.560 The approval ratings on it are abysmally low for it being so early into the project's life.

00:15:02.260 And that has multiple routes.

00:15:05.060 They don't know which one they're going to take,

00:15:06.900 says nobody wants the thing.

00:15:08.620 And we've already attached

00:15:09.900 an up to more than $90 billion price tag to that project.

00:15:14.900 A pipeline's not even gonna cost anything close to that.

00:15:18.120 And yet we require private sector proponents

00:15:20.820 for the pipeline, 0.99

00:15:22.000 but the stupid Alto train can just kind of drift around 1.00

00:15:25.220 spending hundreds of millions of dollars, 1.00

00:15:28.260 never actually getting to the starting point

00:15:30.200 of even building the train,

00:15:31.640 just studying roots, just looking at what they're going to do and consulting with stakeholders and

00:15:39.200 whatnot. Alberta Pipeline, you have to show up day one with everything already neatly packaged

00:15:45.080 together on Mark Carney's desk, including billions of dollars of promised investment capital,

00:15:50.320 and then he might think about building that potential pipeline. He might think

00:15:53.440 about deregulating after, of course, he lets David Eby shoot the project in the head.

00:15:57.980 anyways so with all that being said thank you guys for watching make sure to like the video

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - June 30, 2026

Carney's Fake Pipeline Goes UP IN FLAMES - Liberals Defraud Alberta!

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