The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney's floor-crossings are breaking Canada's Democracy!

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

00:00:06.500 This recent floor crossing by Conservative MP Matt Jenneroo over to the Liberals is truly a travesty against democracy.

00:00:16.260 Now, I'm one of the people who actually doesn't think we should ban floor crossing,

00:00:21.040 mostly just for a practical reason that you can't actually really ban it.

00:00:25.540 Someone could just end up sitting as an independent and then voting with the Liberal government without crossing the floor.

00:00:32.400 But I still think that as a country, we should reject floor crossing being done the way it has been done over the past few months.

00:00:41.380 Chris Dantremont, Michael Ma, and now Matt Jenneroo are not leaving because they had deep, principled reasons

00:00:48.480 for wanting to cross the floor from one party to the other.

00:00:51.680 They're just crossing for petty, personal reasons.

00:00:55.860 And the fact that Prime Minister Mark Carney may be able to get a majority government

00:01:00.420 because of the pettiness of individual MPs is absolutely insane.

00:01:06.680 It's not democratic, and it's really not why floor crossing was supposed to be done in the first place.

00:01:12.580 It was supposed to be rare, and it was supposed to be because an MP,

00:01:16.700 mainly because of what their constituents wanted, needed to leave their party and go join another one

00:01:23.640 in order to stick by the principles they originally got into politics to uphold.

00:01:29.800 But that is not what Matt Jenneroo is doing.

00:01:32.860 In just a second here, I want to play the tape of Matt Jenneroo and Prime Minister Carney meeting,

00:01:38.220 and then I want to go through some posts that are sort of talking about the problem that this is causing

00:01:44.320 for the democratic integrity of the country.

00:01:47.940 But before I get into it, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the channel,

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00:02:15.820 Anyways, let's get into this video on the CPAC channel,

00:02:19.380 and then we will go through some tweets about it.

00:02:21.300 I will be pausing to commentate as we go through as well.

00:02:24.300 I don't like when sometimes a YouTuber will set up a clip

00:02:27.320 and then just like walk away for five minutes while it's some random clip plays.

00:02:30.660 I find that kind of cheap.

00:02:36.060 Let me say, first off, welcome, Matt.

00:02:39.600 Welcome to the government team.

00:02:41.680 It's a great honor to be on the same team as you

00:02:44.680 at a crucial time for this city, for this province, for this country.

00:02:49.800 You know, Matt brings a wealth of experience

00:02:52.560 from despite his young demeanor.

00:02:56.820 He brings a wealth of experience.

00:02:59.020 First became a member of the Legislative Assembly here in Alberta in 2012.

00:03:04.720 Yeah.

00:03:05.080 And then elected four consecutive times as an MP.

00:03:10.080 Edmonton River Bend.

00:03:11.420 I know it well from my time growing up,

00:03:13.400 although it's changed a bit since I was here.

00:03:17.020 And a lot of parliamentary experience,

00:03:20.420 including as on the international side, on the security side.

00:03:25.020 So vice chair of the Canada-UK Parliamentary Association,

00:03:31.160 founder of a very important parliamentary association, Canada-ASEAN.

00:03:36.660 We're in the process of negotiating a free trade agreement with ASEAN.

00:03:40.920 Canada is right now.

00:03:42.020 As well as contacts, I think, with your colleagues in NATO,

00:03:47.280 parliamentarians across Asia, as well as in the OSTD and beyond.

00:03:53.080 So what Mark Carney is trying to do here is he's really trying to sell the idea

00:03:57.520 that Matt Jenneru is crossing over to his party side,

00:04:02.080 not for petty reasons.

00:04:03.460 It's because he just has so much experience he wants to give to the government.

00:04:08.260 Well, you can do that while still sitting in the opposition bench.

00:04:12.460 If you have experience trying to negotiate a trade deal with Asian countries,

00:04:17.340 you can do that as a conservative MP.

00:04:19.520 We have Jamil Javani going to the United States and trying to break the ice with the U.S.,

00:04:24.600 you know, with U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.

00:04:29.240 Now he's being ripped by the liberals and the media for doing that

00:04:32.100 because, in fact, it's in the liberals and the media's best interests

00:04:35.340 to not get a U.S. trade deal.

00:04:37.520 But Matt Jenneru did not have to cross over.

00:04:39.880 But Mark Carney's acting as if, well, he just had so much he wanted to give us.

00:04:44.420 He had so much to offer.

00:04:45.900 And the way he's going to be able to best utilize those powers,

00:04:48.980 those abilities, those skills he has is by coming over to us.

00:04:52.880 It's a very thin floor crossing.

00:04:55.800 I'm very fortunate Matt is going to be lending some of that expertise directly to me

00:05:00.560 as we're building our partnership as considered as a special advisor

00:05:04.740 on economic and security partnerships at this crucial time for our country

00:05:10.640 as we're developing those.

00:05:11.860 And, you know, we have signed now 19 agreements on the economic and security side

00:05:19.100 in the last eight months over four continents.

00:05:22.700 There's more to come, but there's also putting those agreements into action,

00:05:25.900 and that takes the level of ties and experience that Matt brings to.

00:05:30.780 Can we also ask ourselves, what have we gotten from the 19 agreements

00:05:35.480 that Mark Carney and the Liberal government have signed?

00:05:38.720 This is another one of those things like the interprovincial trade barrier issue.

00:05:43.980 Other YouTuber, fellow YouTuber, J.J. McCullough, has pointed out he's had around 11 or 12

00:05:50.100 of these meetings where he gathers all the premiers into the room

00:05:53.160 and talks about building one Canadian economy and getting rid of trade barriers

00:05:56.960 and nothing ever actually happens.

00:05:58.640 With all of these other trade agreements that we've signed with countries like England,

00:06:03.820 France, Indonesia, Luxembourg, China, I guess, is the biggest one.

00:06:08.980 And it's a little bit of it's a really raw deal for Canada overall.

00:06:12.660 But what have we actually gotten from the vast majority of these countries?

00:06:15.940 Many of these countries, like Luxembourg and like Indonesia,

00:06:20.060 we really don't trade much with at all.

00:06:22.380 I think with Luxembourg, there's a couple hundred million,

00:06:25.100 and it's not going to go up much no matter what we sign with them

00:06:27.820 because it's Luxembourg.

00:06:29.120 It's one of the smallest countries on the planet.

00:06:31.680 The thing is, again, Carney is getting fake numbers on the board.

00:06:36.160 He wants to pretend he's getting all this stuff done

00:06:38.040 because look at this pile of stuff I've signed.

00:06:40.380 Well, what number with a B does this add to the value of Canada?

00:06:46.940 How much is the economy going to be boosted by all these deals?

00:06:51.580 I guarantee you most of those deals are either worth squat

00:06:54.340 or they're worth less than a billion dollars.

00:06:57.160 And for a country the size of Canada,

00:06:59.420 doing months worth of work to get like a few hundred million into the economy

00:07:03.740 basically doesn't mean anything.

00:07:06.140 Anyways, I'm going to finish up this clip

00:07:07.780 and then we'll get into some of the posts.

00:07:09.200 Well, thank you, everybody, for coming here to a cold day in Edmonton,

00:07:27.040 but especially you, Prime Minister.

00:07:29.340 It is a real pleasure to have you here in Edmonton.

00:07:32.840 You're always welcome in Edmonton,

00:07:34.500 and we have a lot of history of both of us here in Edmonton.

00:07:37.900 And it's a beautiful part of our country.

00:07:41.240 So I had announced my resignation back in November,

00:07:45.840 largely due to family reasons,

00:07:49.320 but quite simply couldn't sit on the sidelines

00:07:52.220 after seeing what the Prime Minister was,

00:07:55.980 the vicious agenda he was undertaking

00:07:57.640 across the country and across the world.

00:08:01.540 And quite honestly, it was the speech in Davos

00:08:05.260 where you took everything head on.

00:08:08.760 And I think for me, that's where a lot of the world changed.

00:08:12.720 I think it opened a lot of eyes for Canadians,

00:08:14.940 Albertans, Edmontonians,

00:08:16.560 just how serious this national media crisis truly is.

00:08:20.180 And for me, it felt disingenuine and quite simply wrong

00:08:24.260 to be sitting on the sidelines anymore.

00:08:27.000 So he's not sitting on the sidelines.

00:08:29.620 This is what's so obnoxious about what he's saying.

00:08:32.700 You're not sitting on the sidelines.

00:08:34.340 This is just, it's, I don't want to sound too trite about it.

00:08:38.620 It's a fake reason.

00:08:40.640 Really, the Davos speech had the scales fall from your eyes,

00:08:44.840 and you met Mark Carney on the road to Damascus all of a sudden.

00:08:48.200 And you're like, oh my goodness,

00:08:49.200 I should become a shill for the Liberal Party.

00:08:52.940 He said that we can't, you know,

00:08:54.800 in this great super, you know, conflict of superpowers

00:08:58.100 or this great power conflict,

00:09:00.060 Canada and other countries must, you know,

00:09:02.300 like strive on a third path or something.

00:09:05.020 This is microwaved liberal campaign rhetoric

00:09:08.580 from the last election.

00:09:10.180 And I recall Matt Gennaro didn't change his party affiliation

00:09:13.720 during that election or before it.

00:09:15.380 And Carney was saying the same thing

00:09:17.180 before that election as well.

00:09:19.200 What?

00:09:20.400 We were supposed to pat him on the back

00:09:22.480 for having generic anti-American campaign rhetoric?

00:09:25.780 I'm pretty sure that's what the Liberal Party

00:09:27.440 has been doing for its entire existence

00:09:30.560 is anti-American rhetoric.

00:09:32.940 So Matt Gennaro, suddenly he was super hardcore.

00:09:35.920 He was a hardcore conservative

00:09:37.100 who was going to resign from office

00:09:38.900 because he had some family issues.

00:09:40.980 But then Mark Carney made a speech in Davos

00:09:43.540 and he called up his wife.

00:09:44.740 He says, I no longer care about you.

00:09:46.940 I'm joining Mark Carney.

00:09:48.100 Yes, I know I said I can't continue in office

00:09:50.660 because of whatever issues we had.

00:09:52.620 It was all, it's all vague

00:09:53.880 because of course, MPs always just say family reasons

00:09:56.980 of why I'm going to step down.

00:09:58.000 But he's like, sorry, wife. 0.97

00:09:59.520 We were not, I'm not, I'm not visiting.

00:10:01.520 I'm not going to actually move to Victoria

00:10:03.300 or Vancouver, wherever we actually live anymore

00:10:05.880 because I saw Mark Carney say words in Davos.

00:10:09.840 Yeah, clearly Matt Gennaro is not lying, guys.

00:10:15.120 That's the real, super real reason

00:10:17.500 why he's really, really leaving the Conservatives.

00:10:20.760 I reached out to the Prime Minister's office

00:10:23.080 and he'll be joining his caucus

00:10:25.440 and I couldn't be more.

00:10:27.400 Excellent.

00:10:30.180 Fantastic.

00:10:31.620 Yeah, so you might think

00:10:34.540 that this all feels very artificial

00:10:36.660 and that's kind of the problem with it.

00:10:38.620 It is artificial.

00:10:39.940 Now, floor crossings, I guess,

00:10:41.360 are never something that we should encourage in politics,

00:10:43.520 just people crossing the floor all the time.

00:10:45.820 But if someone had a good reason for doing it,

00:10:48.220 I maybe couldn't blame them.

00:10:49.900 Hey, I work in the BC legislature

00:10:52.280 for Dallas Brody at the one BC party.

00:10:55.000 Now she was kicked out of the BC Conservatives,

00:10:58.400 but it's not like even if she had crossed the floor

00:11:01.420 and started her own party,

00:11:02.360 I could get it because the party she was last in

00:11:07.040 inside the BC Conservatives

00:11:08.380 were not letting her say and do the things

00:11:10.580 that she was elected to do.

00:11:12.140 That would be a good reason to cross the floor.

00:11:14.560 Does that sound like what Matt Gennaro

00:11:16.400 is doing here at all?

00:11:17.980 No, he couldn't articulate one thing

00:11:19.980 that the Conservative Party was not doing well.

00:11:22.100 He's like, well, I want to get off the sidelines

00:11:23.920 and start helping.

00:11:26.000 You can help in opposition.

00:11:28.460 Point out what they should be doing.

00:11:29.780 Try and work collaboratively with people across the aisle.

00:11:33.460 You're allowed to do that.

00:11:34.880 The Conservatives are helping pass

00:11:36.320 certain pieces of legislation that aren't too offensive

00:11:38.880 that the Liberals are saying will help.

00:11:41.100 Now maybe the Conservatives don't even necessarily believe

00:11:43.640 that it's going to help,

00:11:44.600 but they will lend their votes

00:11:46.240 if the Liberals earnestly think

00:11:47.940 that their new grocery rebate

00:11:49.620 is going to kickstart the economy.

00:11:51.140 Now it's not,

00:11:52.100 but there's a little bit of some cooperation back and forth

00:11:55.400 to not be contentious over things like that.

00:11:58.040 If it fails on its own,

00:12:00.520 it's the Liberal government's fault.

00:12:02.000 The Conservatives are just not going to get

00:12:03.160 in the way of it passing.

00:12:04.780 He could do that,

00:12:05.600 but instead he has this fake story

00:12:07.240 about how he has to get off the sidelines

00:12:09.000 and join the government.

00:12:10.320 So in the CBC News article,

00:12:11.840 it says people who live in Matt Gennaro's

00:12:13.820 Edmonton River Bend riding

00:12:15.540 react to MP's floor crossing.

00:12:17.660 And the first quote we have here

00:12:20.080 is his decision to cross the floor

00:12:22.960 less than a year after winning as a Conservatives

00:12:25.560 was met with disappointment

00:12:26.780 by constituent Carol Salony.

00:12:29.660 Quote,

00:12:29.980 I've worked for him

00:12:30.760 the last three or four elections

00:12:32.480 and he was very much a Conservative,

00:12:34.380 she told CBC News.

00:12:35.740 I'm very disappointed

00:12:36.740 and I'm surprised.

00:12:39.420 Another person here,

00:12:41.220 Doug Knight,

00:12:41.900 another constituent,

00:12:42.840 says he thinks

00:12:43.400 Gennaro is doing the right thing

00:12:45.180 given the economic threats

00:12:46.400 made by U.S. President Donald Trump.

00:12:49.320 Quote,

00:12:49.520 I appreciate the turmoil

00:12:51.020 that he must have gone through

00:12:52.700 with all this,

00:12:53.740 Knight said.

00:12:54.680 Quote,

00:12:55.080 but I think on behalf of Canada,

00:12:56.940 I think it was a good decision to make.

00:12:59.140 It'll keep a little bit more stability,

00:13:01.780 I think,

00:13:02.340 in the country for a little while.

00:13:04.420 What does that actually do

00:13:06.180 when combating the issue of tariffs?

00:13:09.340 The fact that Mark Carney has a majority.

00:13:11.820 Given him,

00:13:12.440 in a minority government,

00:13:13.780 he has not been attempting

00:13:14.580 to get a trade deal done.

00:13:15.820 If he gets a majority,

00:13:16.780 is he going to try

00:13:17.420 and get the trade deal done?

00:13:19.220 If anything,

00:13:19.960 if he has a majority,

00:13:20.600 he has no incentive to do it at all.

00:13:23.160 Another one here.

00:13:25.140 Oh,

00:13:25.720 do they really only ask

00:13:27.220 a couple of people?

00:13:28.500 Well,

00:13:29.440 there you go.

00:13:30.320 The CBC asked two people

00:13:31.740 what they thought.

00:13:32.840 They probably had to dig

00:13:34.060 to find somebody

00:13:34.880 who thought that

00:13:35.500 it was a good idea

00:13:36.860 for him to cross the floor.

00:13:38.700 Now,

00:13:38.980 a partisan liberal will always say,

00:13:40.360 oh,

00:13:40.480 it's great that he crossed the floor.

00:13:42.500 But is the average constituent

00:13:43.840 actually happy with this?

00:13:45.300 Like independent media,

00:13:46.260 when they go out

00:13:46.840 and just ask people on the street,

00:13:48.400 it takes a while

00:13:49.640 before you find somebody

00:13:50.960 who's actually happy

00:13:52.620 with the fact that they crossed.

00:13:53.940 I believe when Chris Dantremont crossed,

00:13:55.880 there was even liberal people

00:13:56.960 thinking that that seems

00:13:57.840 kind of shady

00:13:58.500 just to leave

00:13:59.680 and switch parties

00:14:00.680 six months after being elected

00:14:02.120 under one party.

00:14:03.860 But now,

00:14:04.600 let's jump into some things

00:14:05.920 on social media.

00:14:06.820 I want to go through

00:14:07.340 some comments made by creators

00:14:08.780 I really respect

00:14:09.660 and different commentators.

00:14:10.960 So J.J. McCullough,

00:14:12.860 as I referenced earlier

00:14:13.960 in the video,

00:14:14.600 said,

00:14:15.620 the most powerful job

00:14:16.940 in Canada's political system

00:14:18.780 is the prime minister.

00:14:20.280 We elect a prime minister

00:14:21.420 by electing members

00:14:22.360 of parliament.

00:14:23.260 If voters no longer know

00:14:24.540 who they're electing

00:14:25.400 as prime minister

00:14:26.020 because MPs keep switching parties

00:14:27.740 after elections,

00:14:28.760 then Canada's democracy

00:14:29.900 is breaking down.

00:14:31.440 Absolutely.

00:14:32.560 Because people can say

00:14:33.960 all day long,

00:14:35.020 no, no, no, no,

00:14:35.700 people elect MPs

00:14:37.420 and that's who voters

00:14:39.880 know they're electing.

00:14:41.860 No, no one's on

00:14:43.660 like the Matt Jenneru

00:14:44.880 ride or die train

00:14:45.900 where no matter what he does,

00:14:47.200 they're going to be

00:14:47.640 aligned with him.

00:14:48.760 Most voters elected

00:14:50.020 Matt Jenneru

00:14:50.820 because he represents

00:14:52.100 the conservative party.

00:14:53.340 If you swapped out

00:14:54.220 Matt Jenneru,

00:14:54.840 who's a very generic

00:14:56.260 center, center right

00:14:58.180 type conservative guy

00:14:59.320 or I guess he was,

00:15:01.000 you could swap in

00:15:02.300 anyone else

00:15:02.980 who's like that

00:15:03.720 and they would have

00:15:04.220 won the riding as well.

00:15:05.360 If anything,

00:15:05.760 if you put someone in

00:15:06.520 who was more on the right,

00:15:08.140 they would have probably

00:15:08.820 won more than Matt

00:15:10.080 because people who are

00:15:11.320 more on the right

00:15:12.140 and willing to be

00:15:12.760 more controversial

00:15:13.560 tend to get more attention,

00:15:15.220 tend to have constituents

00:15:15.980 who like them better

00:15:16.900 because they actually

00:15:17.400 fight for their values

00:15:18.560 and they have a way

00:15:20.260 easier time getting

00:15:21.060 up volunteers,

00:15:21.980 donors and all that.

00:15:23.140 Matt Jenneru

00:15:23.640 basically wins by default

00:15:24.960 because federally

00:15:25.860 Edmonton is a

00:15:26.900 conservative city.

00:15:28.500 But we have Tristan Hopper

00:15:29.460 here.

00:15:29.760 He had some really great

00:15:30.560 posts regarding what

00:15:31.600 was going on.

00:15:32.880 He said,

00:15:33.740 the problem with ensuring

00:15:34.820 that your caucus

00:15:35.560 is disproportionately

00:15:36.500 filled with amoral drones

00:15:38.380 who do exactly

00:15:39.320 what you say

00:15:40.020 is that the amoral drones

00:15:41.940 may occasionally drift

00:15:43.080 into the slightly

00:15:43.700 more profitable camp

00:15:45.020 that tells them

00:15:45.920 exactly what to say.

00:15:47.280 Now, I find this hilarious

00:15:48.860 and it's a criticism

00:15:49.860 of the party

00:15:52.820 allowing people like you

00:15:54.760 and Michael Ma

00:15:56.500 to be inside your caucus

00:15:57.480 to run for your party

00:15:58.820 when there's really

00:15:59.900 no sign that this person

00:16:01.160 is a hardcore

00:16:02.000 ideological conservative

00:16:03.380 who wants to implement

00:16:04.740 a conservative agenda

00:16:05.860 above all else.

00:16:07.080 That should be like

00:16:07.960 question number one.

00:16:09.340 Do you want to implement

00:16:10.640 the values that you are

00:16:11.840 running on in government?

00:16:13.960 If it's not,

00:16:15.100 if you are not

00:16:16.060 an ideological conservative,

00:16:17.700 I don't want you

00:16:18.860 in the party

00:16:19.400 because you're just going

00:16:20.460 to be more of a pain

00:16:21.520 than anything

00:16:22.160 to actually get stuff

00:16:23.500 done with

00:16:23.940 because you'll constantly

00:16:24.960 flip flop.

00:16:25.820 Oh, someone got mad

00:16:26.920 at me for saying

00:16:28.020 I don't want to do it.

00:16:29.360 You know, can we

00:16:29.940 water down the policy a bit?

00:16:32.360 I got an angry email.

00:16:34.160 The Conservative Party

00:16:35.160 of Canada

00:16:35.720 needs to have

00:16:36.720 real nominations

00:16:37.680 to pick candidates.

00:16:39.720 I've experienced this.

00:16:41.020 I ran for the

00:16:41.640 Calgary Signal Hill

00:16:43.220 Conservative Party nomination

00:16:44.580 and because people

00:16:46.180 at the top of the party,

00:16:47.660 Jenny Byrne,

00:16:48.620 wanted somebody else

00:16:49.660 to win my nomination,

00:16:50.980 they kicked me

00:16:51.820 and Leela Ahear

00:16:52.860 out of the race.

00:16:54.040 We were probably

00:16:54.580 the top two competitors

00:16:55.720 in the riding

00:16:56.280 and they were trying

00:16:56.920 to get another guy to win.

00:16:58.440 They got really ticked

00:16:59.780 at me because I then

00:17:00.740 told all my supporters

00:17:01.660 to vote down ballot

00:17:02.540 against the guy

00:17:03.340 that they wanted

00:17:04.060 and he ended up

00:17:04.720 not winning.

00:17:05.620 They then appointed

00:17:06.640 that guy into

00:17:07.500 another Calgary riding

00:17:08.900 and surprise, surprise,

00:17:11.120 the one Calgary riding

00:17:12.400 that was won by the Liberals

00:17:13.780 was the one they appointed

00:17:15.240 that guy into

00:17:16.700 because it's almost like

00:17:18.700 people didn't want him

00:17:19.800 but they'll never learn it.

00:17:21.420 They wanted somebody

00:17:22.240 who was going to be loyal

00:17:23.120 and it's stupid 0.91

00:17:24.000 to just appoint loyal people.

00:17:27.180 They should be loyal

00:17:28.060 to ideology

00:17:28.840 not to the person

00:17:30.080 that is giving them a seat.

00:17:31.980 That being given a seat

00:17:33.520 is not like

00:17:34.440 that's far from

00:17:36.560 a real ideological commitment

00:17:38.860 to the brand.

00:17:39.940 I want someone

00:17:40.420 with an ideological commitment

00:17:41.940 not just a personal relationship

00:17:44.140 because you're giving them

00:17:45.400 free stuff

00:17:46.080 because if someone else

00:17:47.120 gives them more free stuff

00:17:48.340 like with Matt Jenneru,

00:17:49.800 like with Michael Ma,

00:17:50.900 like with Chris Dantremont,

00:17:52.280 they are subject

00:17:52.940 to just leaving on the spot

00:17:54.360 just for no reason.

00:17:56.660 Tristan Hopper here says,

00:17:57.800 I understand the disillusion

00:17:59.860 but that's what they want.

00:18:01.980 They want you to think

00:18:02.920 it's too late

00:18:03.580 and you should just

00:18:04.200 shrug your shoulders

00:18:04.920 as they sell your homeland 0.94

00:18:06.620 for scrap

00:18:07.220 and he is responding

00:18:08.460 to those

00:18:09.100 who are becoming

00:18:10.320 very upset

00:18:10.940 by Matt Jenneru leaving

00:18:12.380 thinking that

00:18:13.340 this is basically

00:18:14.160 the end of Canadian democracy,

00:18:16.000 we'll never recover.

00:18:17.400 It's an extremely

00:18:18.180 unhelpful perspective

00:18:19.380 to take.

00:18:20.380 There's always going to be

00:18:21.320 another way of fixing things

00:18:22.540 and in fact,

00:18:23.900 this is the thing

00:18:24.580 that annoys me

00:18:25.220 about a lot of

00:18:25.720 Alberta separatists.

00:18:26.800 Now, I like a lot

00:18:27.540 of Alberta separatists.

00:18:28.760 I'm friends with many people

00:18:30.120 who are separatists

00:18:31.140 but you get the type

00:18:32.560 of people who will say,

00:18:34.400 well, see,

00:18:34.760 you can't vote your way

00:18:35.580 out of the problems

00:18:36.200 with Ottawa

00:18:36.600 and they never actually

00:18:38.160 help in elections.

00:18:39.320 They just basically

00:18:40.120 sit on the side

00:18:41.240 and naysay against you trying

00:18:43.440 even though they then

00:18:44.700 expect people like myself

00:18:46.220 to help them

00:18:46.860 in their separatist initiative

00:18:48.140 even though they never

00:18:49.640 helped in previous elections

00:18:50.940 try and get rid

00:18:51.740 of the federal liberals

00:18:52.620 for the most part.

00:18:54.360 Here's another post

00:18:55.240 from Tristan Hopper.

00:18:56.500 He's a writer

00:18:56.980 at the National Post

00:18:57.840 by the way.

00:18:59.020 He said,

00:18:59.840 one thing I'll say,

00:19:00.900 the floor crossers 1.00

00:19:01.780 are getting progressively

00:19:02.800 skeezier 0.85

00:19:03.580 with each iteration.

00:19:05.040 At this rate,

00:19:05.620 the next guy

00:19:06.120 will just be holding

00:19:06.840 sacks of money

00:19:07.760 at his

00:19:09.260 I'm a liberal now

00:19:10.160 press conference.

00:19:11.720 I like the following comments.

00:19:13.840 Quote,

00:19:14.160 these aren't sacks of money

00:19:15.540 and another one,

00:19:16.660 quote,

00:19:17.060 why do you show up

00:19:17.960 to work in a Porsche

00:19:18.860 reading Brookfield

00:19:20.660 Asset Management

00:19:21.460 on this side?

00:19:23.500 And I like,

00:19:24.940 part of the reason

00:19:25.840 why Matt Jenneru

00:19:26.660 ended up leaving

00:19:27.120 was probably

00:19:27.680 because of personal

00:19:28.540 conflicts inside

00:19:29.500 the Conservative Party.

00:19:31.000 Maybe not even

00:19:31.680 exactly ideology,

00:19:33.040 maybe not even

00:19:33.840 exactly being given

00:19:34.860 some sort of bribe,

00:19:36.180 but basically

00:19:36.780 thumbing his nose

00:19:37.800 at whoever he disliked

00:19:39.340 in the upper echelon

00:19:40.600 of the Federal

00:19:41.300 Conservative Party.

00:19:42.680 Now,

00:19:43.100 there's a couple more

00:19:43.920 things I want to

00:19:44.480 talk about here.

00:19:46.120 And one of them

00:19:47.440 is this issue

00:19:49.640 of,

00:19:51.140 I guess,

00:19:51.560 people not reacting

00:19:53.400 properly to Matt Jenneru's

00:19:55.320 floor crossing.

00:19:56.880 Now,

00:19:57.380 I just have to call this out

00:19:58.280 because it is important

00:19:59.280 to call out stuff like this.

00:20:01.040 Mario Zalaya,

00:20:02.040 the day that he ended up,

00:20:03.780 Matt Jenneru ended up

00:20:04.880 crossing the floor,

00:20:05.720 says,

00:20:06.320 I am going to be the guy

00:20:07.460 that breaks it to Matt Jenneru's

00:20:09.020 wife

00:20:09.380 that Matt,

00:20:10.280 what Matt has done

00:20:11.480 while in Ottawa.

00:20:12.480 I'll tell you this much,

00:20:13.980 the staffers,

00:20:14.960 they know.

00:20:15.420 Don't post stuff

00:20:17.540 like this,

00:20:18.120 guys.

00:20:19.180 Don't.

00:20:20.040 It's not worth it.

00:20:21.500 It's not right.

00:20:22.920 By the way,

00:20:24.120 if,

00:20:24.760 why would you say it now?

00:20:26.200 If something was worth

00:20:27.780 telling somebody's wife,

00:20:29.800 I don't even know

00:20:30.560 what he's getting at.

00:20:32.140 But if he,

00:20:32.940 because like,

00:20:33.240 honestly,

00:20:33.440 I hear so many stories

00:20:34.420 about so many MPs,

00:20:35.360 it doesn't even matter

00:20:36.040 to me anymore.

00:20:36.880 A lot of it's just made up.

00:20:38.320 But if there was something

00:20:39.080 worth telling her,

00:20:40.320 why are you doing it

00:20:41.200 only after he crossed

00:20:42.300 the floor to being a liberal?

00:20:43.720 It's just an immaterial

00:20:45.380 thing to even bring up.

00:20:47.160 Don't do it.

00:20:48.140 Don't get into the mud

00:20:49.520 because you don't like

00:20:50.420 what Matt Jenneru did.

00:20:51.880 It helps the liberals

00:20:53.060 win the next election

00:20:54.080 if a headline gets to read

00:20:55.760 conservative influence

00:20:57.020 who extorts

00:20:58.720 for an MP

00:21:00.080 for crossing the floor.

00:21:01.500 I don't like him

00:21:02.340 crossing the floor,

00:21:03.440 but don't do that.

00:21:05.140 Now,

00:21:05.360 I think a better response

00:21:06.560 came from my friend

00:21:08.420 Brittany on X here.

00:21:11.400 She brought up the fact

00:21:12.440 that Matt Jenneru

00:21:13.320 hasn't really lived

00:21:14.580 in his own riding

00:21:15.940 for quite a while now.

00:21:17.580 And this is actually

00:21:18.740 something that should be exposed.

00:21:20.540 Now,

00:21:20.780 if the conservatives knew

00:21:21.660 he wasn't living

00:21:22.340 in his own riding,

00:21:23.580 frankly,

00:21:24.060 shame on them.

00:21:24.900 Expose the fact

00:21:25.640 that your guy

00:21:26.260 or basically punish your guy

00:21:27.960 if he's not actually

00:21:28.700 living with his constituents.

00:21:29.800 That's a problem here.

00:21:31.240 But I'll let Brittany

00:21:32.100 take it away and explain.

00:21:33.820 Since we're all talking

00:21:34.980 about Matt Jenneru

00:21:35.860 and his secrets,

00:21:37.060 let's talk about a secret

00:21:38.460 that we're all wondering about.

00:21:40.620 And why has he moved away

00:21:43.740 from his constituency

00:21:44.920 to Victoria,

00:21:46.260 British Columbia?

00:21:47.180 So he's meant to be

00:21:48.660 representing Edmonton Riverbend.

00:21:50.700 He had 30,000

00:21:52.260 some odd people vote for him.

00:21:53.700 He won by,

00:21:54.860 say,

00:21:55.020 3,000 votes,

00:21:56.920 over 50% of the vote

00:21:58.300 in Edmonton

00:21:59.080 for the conservative party.

00:22:02.080 So what did Matt

00:22:04.980 have promised to him

00:22:06.420 from Mark Carney

00:22:07.260 to join the liberals?

00:22:08.340 Is he going to be given

00:22:09.700 a seat in Victoria

00:22:12.220 in the next election?

00:22:13.920 That, to me,

00:22:14.560 makes the most sense.

00:22:15.980 We'll give you

00:22:16.560 a safe liberal seat

00:22:18.120 somewhere else

00:22:18.820 so that you can move

00:22:19.780 across to a different province

00:22:21.460 and you won't have to worry

00:22:22.300 about if you win

00:22:22.920 in Edmonton again.

00:22:24.180 And you don't have to worry

00:22:24.900 about representing

00:22:25.400 those people

00:22:25.900 because you're not going

00:22:26.520 to stay anyways.

00:22:28.420 And Matt,

00:22:29.140 you know what I'm wondering

00:22:29.940 is you said

00:22:31.060 you were going to donate

00:22:31.680 the rest of your salary

00:22:33.040 to charity

00:22:33.660 and we haven't seen

00:22:34.900 any proof of that.

00:22:35.800 So since you haven't been

00:22:37.320 to work for the last

00:22:38.700 however many months,

00:22:41.040 we would love to see

00:22:41.840 where you donated your money

00:22:43.300 and I really hope

00:22:44.180 you put it

00:22:44.720 into your constituency.

00:22:46.740 Thanks.

00:22:47.900 So that's a great video

00:22:49.200 by my friend Brittany.

00:22:50.160 I will be linking

00:22:50.840 her YouTube channel

00:22:52.180 and her ex account

00:22:53.060 in the description below.

00:22:54.840 But this is

00:22:55.780 the far better attack

00:22:56.820 on Matt Jenneru

00:22:57.760 that is because

00:22:58.940 actually, okay,

00:22:59.820 I can give

00:23:00.400 the conservative party

00:23:01.380 some credit

00:23:01.940 so I'll reverse

00:23:02.780 my shame on them comment

00:23:03.980 because he was stepping down

00:23:06.000 after shortly moving

00:23:07.480 away from his riding.

00:23:08.540 He now apparently

00:23:09.420 lives in Victoria.

00:23:10.700 Some also say Vancouver.

00:23:12.740 And so is he now

00:23:14.100 living there

00:23:15.000 being promised to see

00:23:17.420 because the whole idea

00:23:18.300 was maybe he was

00:23:19.260 going to resign from office

00:23:20.320 because he no longer

00:23:21.060 lives in the riding anymore

00:23:22.280 and it doesn't make sense

00:23:23.260 for him to continue

00:23:24.440 representing Edmonton Riverbend

00:23:26.020 while living in Victoria.

00:23:27.360 But now he's reversing

00:23:28.760 the decision

00:23:29.220 and he's going to keep

00:23:30.120 representing Edmonton Riverbend

00:23:31.760 when he has no intention

00:23:34.060 of ever even attempting

00:23:35.520 to run Edmonton Riverbend again

00:23:37.140 and he actually lives

00:23:38.580 in Victoria.

00:23:39.960 So is he going

00:23:40.980 to donate that money

00:23:41.960 from his salary

00:23:43.040 where he wasn't

00:23:43.920 showing up for works

00:23:44.820 for two or three months?

00:23:46.820 Does that money

00:23:47.400 now go back to his

00:23:49.480 like to go to the charity

00:23:50.520 that he promised it?

00:23:51.900 Or is it now,

00:23:53.360 oh, hey guys,

00:23:54.220 whoops,

00:23:54.560 I'm not going to actually resign

00:23:55.740 so I'm also not going

00:23:56.460 to donate anything

00:23:57.240 to charity.

00:23:58.300 It's just pathetic.

00:23:59.660 This is just

00:24:00.140 pathetic behavior.

00:24:02.740 Oh, I can see

00:24:03.480 why a lot of people

00:24:04.140 lose faith in Canadian democracy.

00:24:06.060 At the same time,

00:24:06.820 I don't think it's useful to.

00:24:08.700 One more thing

00:24:09.480 I want to mention here

00:24:10.460 before we wrap up the show.

00:24:13.040 This will need

00:24:13.620 to be investigated

00:24:14.280 a little bit more

00:24:14.960 in the future,

00:24:16.180 but I will link

00:24:17.800 this article

00:24:18.320 in the description below

00:24:19.500 from Sam Cooper

00:24:20.700 over at the Bureau,

00:24:22.100 his website.

00:24:23.380 Here he says,

00:24:24.100 exclusive,

00:24:25.240 Floor Crossing MP

00:24:26.440 Michael Ma

00:24:27.180 was director of group

00:24:28.620 explicitly named

00:24:29.840 United Front Organization

00:24:31.800 in Landmark

00:24:32.640 Jamestown Foundation

00:24:33.700 Study.

00:24:35.220 Now, if you don't know

00:24:36.260 the United Front Organization

00:24:37.780 or the United Front

00:24:38.900 Workers Department,

00:24:40.140 it is effectively

00:24:40.960 a Chinese government

00:24:42.660 spy agency

00:24:43.660 or influence operation.

00:24:45.040 Put massive amounts

00:24:47.160 of money into it

00:24:47.880 every year,

00:24:48.720 basically to set up

00:24:49.800 non-profits,

00:24:50.980 different cultural associations,

00:24:53.060 basically CCP front groups

00:24:54.600 all over the world

00:24:56.140 to influence people

00:24:58.500 in business,

00:24:59.920 government,

00:25:00.640 you know,

00:25:00.900 and other areas

00:25:02.420 in order to basically

00:25:03.900 try and extend

00:25:05.300 the power

00:25:06.140 of the Chinese government

00:25:07.160 outside of its own borders.

00:25:09.300 If the Conservative Party

00:25:10.660 knew any of this,

00:25:12.900 if they knew

00:25:13.300 any of the organizations

00:25:14.540 Michael Ma

00:25:15.160 was associated with,

00:25:16.560 and they had a long time

00:25:17.960 to look up stuff about him

00:25:19.040 since he ran for them

00:25:19.880 both in 2019

00:25:20.740 and this last election

00:25:22.060 before crossing the floor,

00:25:23.980 shouldn't they have

00:25:25.140 probably disqualified

00:25:26.360 him themselves

00:25:27.900 or was some moron 0.67

00:25:30.400 in the Conservative Party

00:25:31.420 thinking,

00:25:32.360 oh, he's a shoo-in 1.00

00:25:33.360 to win Markham Unionville.

00:25:34.880 Don't look at his background,

00:25:36.220 he'll win.

00:25:37.480 We should care about

00:25:38.440 what's in the backgrounds

00:25:39.320 of our MPs.

00:25:40.360 We should care

00:25:41.140 if they're ideological

00:25:42.000 Conservatives.

00:25:43.160 Now, not everyone

00:25:43.940 needs to be a fire-breathing

00:25:45.400 dragon of Conservatism,

00:25:46.880 but they should at least

00:25:47.900 meet minimum thresholds

00:25:49.680 for what they believe in

00:25:51.020 and that they should be

00:25:52.260 relied upon

00:25:53.440 or they should be reliable

00:25:54.820 to not just jump

00:25:56.500 to a different party

00:25:57.360 because wouldn't life

00:25:58.600 be easier if I did that

00:26:00.000 or they offered me a job

00:26:01.640 or they bribed me

00:26:02.920 or something like that.

00:26:04.340 People always act like

00:26:05.700 the super-hardcore

00:26:07.020 right-wing Conservatives

00:26:08.380 are unsophisticated,

00:26:10.820 hard to control,

00:26:12.460 they're controversial,

00:26:13.880 but guess what?

00:26:14.780 They're not going to leave.

00:26:16.060 They actually believe

00:26:16.880 in the stuff they're doing

00:26:17.680 and they're the type of people

00:26:18.600 who are going to door-knock

00:26:19.540 thousands and thousands

00:26:20.600 of doors themselves

00:26:21.620 in their own riding

00:26:22.760 because guess what?

00:26:23.600 They believe

00:26:24.600 in the mission they're on.

00:26:26.320 The laziest MPs

00:26:27.380 are the ones

00:26:27.840 who are not ideological

00:26:28.820 because they could

00:26:30.620 take or leave politics.

00:26:32.200 They're doing it

00:26:32.780 because they want

00:26:33.180 the Wikipedia page.

00:26:34.320 They want to be known

00:26:35.060 as someone who used

00:26:35.800 to be an MP.

00:26:36.860 They don't really care

00:26:38.020 about making the government

00:26:39.120 smaller or cutting

00:26:40.320 bad policies.

00:26:41.680 That's why so many times

00:26:42.920 you'll get a Conservative Party

00:26:44.640 beating a Liberal

00:26:45.600 and getting into government

00:26:47.180 like in Ontario

00:26:48.140 and they just act

00:26:49.200 like Liberals

00:26:49.780 because they're not

00:26:50.760 ideologically Conservative

00:26:52.120 and it's easier

00:26:53.280 just to continue

00:26:54.100 with what our policy

00:26:55.040 was left over

00:26:55.860 by the last guys

00:26:56.740 and try and manage it

00:26:58.060 a little bit better

00:26:58.760 and call that Conservative.

00:27:00.820 But anyways,

00:27:01.480 with that all being said,

00:27:02.560 thank you guys for watching.

00:27:04.120 I'm going to be covering

00:27:04.860 more of this in the future

00:27:06.260 because obviously

00:27:07.280 more is probably

00:27:08.180 going to come out

00:27:08.900 on the reasons why

00:27:10.180 Matt Jennerow

00:27:10.940 was saying why he left.

00:27:12.720 Maybe there might be

00:27:13.560 some back and forth

00:27:14.360 fighting between himself

00:27:15.500 and the Conservative Party.

00:27:17.100 Maybe more people

00:27:17.920 will cross the floor.

00:27:18.800 Although right now

00:27:19.840 Parliament is in this

00:27:20.800 weird position

00:27:21.640 where there's a bunch

00:27:22.440 of by-elections coming up

00:27:23.680 and the Liberals

00:27:24.600 in order to get a majority

00:27:25.700 would have to sweep

00:27:26.500 all of them.

00:27:27.580 Now, most of them

00:27:28.620 are safe Liberal seats

00:27:29.840 but the riding in Quebec,

00:27:32.000 Terrebonne,

00:27:32.840 that got overturned

00:27:34.180 by the courts

00:27:35.000 is actually leaning

00:27:36.420 towards the Bloc Québécois.

00:27:38.300 They won it by a single vote.

00:27:40.120 Elections Canada

00:27:40.720 had made a bunch of mistakes

00:27:42.200 requiring a new election

00:27:44.540 to be called

00:27:45.180 and now the Bloc Québécois

00:27:47.240 might actually be able

00:27:48.160 to pick that seat up

00:27:49.180 which would mean

00:27:50.300 that the Liberals

00:27:50.940 even with Matt Jennerow

00:27:52.160 crossing the floor

00:27:52.980 would be in the same position

00:27:54.340 they were before

00:27:55.360 he crossed the floor

00:27:56.300 still one seat short

00:27:57.880 of a majority.

00:27:59.260 Anyways,

00:28:00.120 without all being said,

00:28:01.340 like, share, subscribe,

00:28:02.640 do all that fantastic stuff

00:28:04.200 and I'll see you all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 20, 2026

Carney's floor-crossings are breaking Canada's Democracy!

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