The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 20, 2026


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


Episode Stats

Length

28 minutes

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177.64938

Word Count

4,991

Sentence Count

262

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

Matt Jenneroo crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Mark Carney's government. This is a travesty against democracy, and I'm here to talk about it. I also talk about why Matt Jenneroo should not have crossed over to the other party.


Transcript

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.
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
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
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
00:19:01.780 are getting progressively
00:19:02.800 skeezier
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
00:25:30.400 in the Conservative Party
00:25:31.420 thinking,
00:25:32.360 oh, he's a shoo-in
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.