The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 11, 2025


Carney's has a BIG Pipeline Problem + Charlie Kirk's bright legacy


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Wyatt Claypool discusses the death of Charlie Kirk and the impact it has had on the conservative movement in the United States and Canada. He also talks about Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals' problem with pipelines.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. On the show today we will be discussing Prime Minister
00:00:05.580 Mark Carney and the Liberals' problem with pipelines, but I want to start this video
00:00:10.140 off by briefly talking about Charlie Kirk and his legacy. I don't want to discuss any
00:00:15.820 of the details of his death or any of the nasty people still attacking him online today.
00:00:21.580 Have nothing to do with people who would say and do the nasty things these people are doing.
00:00:27.000 I just want to discuss him from the perspective of what made Charlie Kirk really great. I was not
00:00:34.500 even a frequent viewer of his show, although many things that I do here are actually taken from
00:00:39.540 things that Charlie Kirk did. Even the fact that I even ran for politics in a conservative nomination
00:00:44.840 was partly inspired by the organizing skill and dedication of Charlie Kirk. We do the whiteboard
00:00:51.280 videos because Charlie Kirk and his team, whenever they were doing these war room videos talking
00:00:56.460 about various primaries and registering voters and going over election results, they would always
00:01:01.640 have their whiteboard there and they would be going over the net differences between gains and
00:01:07.480 Democrat signups and Republican signups. I always loved the detail that they would have on the show.
00:01:13.720 They would go and follow the election results in Georgia and they would talk about individual
00:01:19.220 counties and they would bring somebody on who even knew where the Republican and Democrat areas of
00:01:25.360 those counties were. I always found it super fascinating and so that's why I do detailed videos like
00:01:30.340 that. But I think what made Charlie Kirk so good was not just because of his dedication and how willing he was
00:01:37.240 in order to get down on the ground in areas where the work was not flashy but it had to get done. He would
00:01:43.120 reach down to people who had no following at all but he thought that they had talent and he would go out of
00:01:49.180 their way to help them. And I think that oftentimes is missing these days, especially when it comes to
00:01:54.640 online politics. And I would hope that we would all want to now be more involved in politics considering
00:02:00.280 that even though this was the United States and we're in Canada, there is a void left in organizing
00:02:06.960 for positive conservative change with the absence of Charlie Kirk. And I would say that the truly the
00:02:13.360 greatest thing about Charlie Kirk and what made him such a decent man and an effective fighter for
00:02:19.660 positive change was the fact that before loving his country, even before loving his family, that he
00:02:26.180 loved God first. That this was a man who truly wanted to serve his Lord and Savior first and that guided
00:02:33.340 the way that he did his work. It was never nasty. He never attacked people personally. He focused on
00:02:42.720 the ideas. He wanted to discuss things with people and he never wanted to harm anybody.
00:02:47.960 But with that being said, I do want to move into the topic today. It is a heavy day and the videos I
00:02:53.400 put out yesterday were just recorded before all this happened. So in case anyone thought that I was
00:02:57.720 ignoring it, I definitely wasn't. That was pretty, it was quite impactful. But I want to now jump over.
00:03:04.640 We're going to get into the normal news now. So Mark Carney and the liberals are genuinely having a
00:03:10.140 problem with pipelines. As much as it seems like this is an Albertan issue, this is something that
00:03:15.440 Western Canadians are going to care about. But if you're off in Toronto, you just think that pipelines,
00:03:20.340 what are those? I get oil and gas from the gas station. It's kind of like the joke about how
00:03:25.240 people who become disconnected from the economy, from how things work, they think food comes from the
00:03:32.660 grocery store, not from farmers who have to pay taxes and follow a lot of regulations and are
00:03:37.540 oftentimes being pushed down by the supply management system because they don't get to be part of the
00:03:42.840 quota. But this is something where I think there was genuinely a bit of a turning point in Canada
00:03:47.740 where a lot more Canadians consider the issue of pipelines as being a top issue. This was
00:03:56.220 Pierre Polly of reacting yesterday to a headline from the National Post that says,
00:04:01.020 Carney says he understands the quote unquote frustration of pro-independence Albertans.
00:04:06.120 And Pierre Polly says, you know what would heal those frustrations, sir? Approving an oil pipeline.
00:04:11.980 Put it on your list tomorrow. And yeah, we saw the list come out a day ago where there was zero
00:04:19.400 pipelines on the list of projects that Mark Carney wants to get done. In fact, I think that there wasn't
00:04:25.860 really many substantial projects at all. There were projects, but even Ontario Premier Doug Ford,
00:04:31.820 who's not much different than a liberal, was upset by what actually came out on the list. We don't have
00:04:37.640 like the full text list of all the projects they want to pursue, but just based on the preliminary
00:04:43.440 glance that people have had, there are no pipelines. And they're using this ridiculous excuse, well,
00:04:49.460 that no private company wants to come and put up the money. It's like, well, of course they don't want
00:04:53.600 to put up the money. The entire industry has been hogtied by the government's regulations and taxes.
00:04:59.840 If you actually reduced regulations, you got rid of the nine pieces of legislation and regulations
00:05:07.660 that conservatives all across the country have been pointing to that need to go away if you want
00:05:13.300 pipeline and oil and gas development. If you don't get rid of that stuff, of course, private companies
00:05:18.800 aren't going to invest. People are saying, well, see, the private sector doesn't want to do it
00:05:22.940 because there's no business case. Ergo, we should stop talking about pipelines. Pipelines are being
00:05:27.400 built everywhere else. Everywhere else there's an oil and gas industry, there are pipelines being built
00:05:32.420 because it makes economic sense. The whole idea that because we can, if you regulate something into
00:05:39.640 the floor, obviously it's not going to get off the ground. And so we need to actually fix the
00:05:44.940 regulatory and tax system if we actually want to foster these projects. And I think the liberals
00:05:49.940 very deliberately don't want to foster these projects. So what I've said that they're doing,
00:05:54.960 and it seems like exactly what they're doing, is that they are saying yes to pipelines. Oh,
00:06:01.240 we want pipelines. Absolutely. Somebody just has to propose one. Well, what company in their right mind,
00:06:07.300 even just to call the liberals bluff, would put up billions more to build a pipeline than it would cost
00:06:13.660 in another country because of the massive amounts of regulations and restrictions around building
00:06:19.500 them. You can't even ship oil and gas effectively off the West Coast because of the tanker ban. 0.54
00:06:25.540 And we're just supposed to, you know, figure it out. The oil and gas industry is just supposed to build
00:06:31.120 a new port up in Yukon or something like that. Or I guess there's no actual, you know, West Coast
00:06:37.040 there. But, you know, they had to build one up to the Arctic. And you can't even build one to the
00:06:40.700 Hudson's Bay because even Wob Canoe saying, oh, yeah, of course, I want a pipeline will effectively
00:06:45.740 give indigenous bands a veto, which means you're never going to get one built because there's so 1.00
00:06:50.340 many people along the way incentivized to say no. So Carney and some of these premiers can say yes,
00:06:56.420 all they want. But unless they're actually going to do things to make it easier to build a pipeline,
00:07:02.040 it's not going to happen. Well, I want to now get to this poll that just came out regarding what
00:07:09.060 people think, what major projects people think that Canada needs to be building.
00:07:14.200 This poll out from Leger with 1,592 people polled says those who say X would have the greatest 0.95
00:07:20.900 impact on strengthening our economy. Number one here is pipelines. 46% of people pick pipelines as one of
00:07:30.920 their top two major projects that they think that the country needs. Second is expansion of the
00:07:37.160 electricity grid, which I kind of agree with, but not for the same reason that maybe liberals would
00:07:42.920 be saying. A lot of people think that, you know, we need to be investing more heavily into just
00:07:46.800 electrification. We need to have a larger grid so everyone can own an EV. It's like it's never going
00:07:53.200 to happen. An EV, powering up an EV from zero to 100 is more than your house uses in multiple days.
00:08:00.300 And you think we're going to be able to expand the grid enough in all of these cities in order to be
00:08:04.980 able to accommodate it? Here's the great thing about oil and gas. It comes in liquid and gas form.
00:08:13.860 You don't have to stick it through a wire and have it be taking up more capacity that we don't have.
00:08:19.880 You can literally take a jerry can of it and have it in your garage just in case you need more fuel.
00:08:26.020 Isn't that great that we have compartmentalized energy sources that are not interfering with one
00:08:31.520 another? Apparently, this is too hard to understand for many liberals out there, but whatever.
00:08:36.860 And even in third place, we have new LNG facilities. New expanded seaports is at 15% here, which I
00:08:44.380 actually can agree with. We actually have a very limited port infrastructure. And if we had more of
00:08:50.500 it, we would not have to be paying China to build ferries for British Columbia. 14% say high-speed rail,
00:08:57.200 which I think is slightly delusional. Yeah. Would high-speed rail be cool? Sure. At the end of the
00:09:03.360 day, it's a country where you probably just need, you probably just need, yeah, you probably do just
00:09:10.040 need air travel. Building even a high-speed rail between like Calgary and Toronto would be quite
00:09:16.080 incredible in terms of an engineering feat and all the safety features that you would need in place
00:09:21.500 because of weather and because of wildlife and whatnot. This is not exactly like snaking a train
00:09:27.640 along the coast of Japan. And then we have 13% say expand new mass transit. 12% say expand new
00:09:35.540 highways. Increased investment in electric vehicles gets 9% and expand air port capacity 4%. But this
00:09:43.780 should really tell you pipelines is the big thing. Effectively, one in two people are saying pipelines.
00:09:49.980 And when you even include the LNG answer, you may actually have people who say LNG,
00:09:56.120 the new LNG facilities, those probably double up as a lot of pipeline supporters as well.
00:10:02.440 And so this is one of those things where the building pipelines has always been popular,
00:10:07.520 but it depends where you are. In the GTA area, I would say in the last couple of elections,
00:10:12.880 not in 25, but I mean 2021 and 2019, you could have probably had more of a cynical reaction from
00:10:18.380 voters out there that, well, who cares? We don't need a pipeline. Why should we have to build a 0.99
00:10:24.580 pipeline for Alberta, blah, blah, blah, when we need to transition our energy? But I think that we are
00:10:30.060 genuinely in the era when I think Eastern voters are going to become energy voters too. Naturally,
00:10:37.520 that 46% is going to be heavily concentrated in places like Alberta and Saskatchewan, where I wouldn't
00:10:42.860 doubt it's like 70% of people think that one of the big things we need to be building is a pipeline.
00:10:48.600 But you're probably going to get a third of people, 35% of people with multiple options to pick,
00:10:54.540 were picking pipelines within their top two. And that doesn't mean everyone else opposes pipelines.
00:10:59.380 That just means that it didn't happen to be part of their top two, like expanding highways and stuff
00:11:04.720 like that. You never know if someone just lives in an area where just the highway infrastructure is
00:11:09.020 terrible. I lived in Abbotsford for three months. I could see why someone in Abbotsford would think
00:11:14.480 that we need to invest more in expanding highway infrastructure. But this means that in places
00:11:19.600 like southwestern Ontario and places like the GTA, because obviously pipelines are not going to pull
00:11:25.040 nearly as well in Quebec or some of the maritime provinces that the pipeline's not going to run
00:11:29.500 through, you're going to get a lot of people where this is going to become a key voting issue for
00:11:34.200 them that the Liberals have not gotten a pipeline done. And so I'm going to be switching over to
00:11:38.860 the Conservatives. We are already seeing on so many issues, the Liberals are being nickel and
00:11:44.140 dimed down. The Air Canada fiasco, this pipeline issue, many other issues around the deficit and the
00:11:50.960 budget, I think are going to be causing a lot of people to say, okay, Mark Carney seems like some very
00:11:56.500 buttoned down banker or accountant who seems like he should be very well organized. And other than
00:12:01.780 making all of the Liberal ministers and staffers start to stick on leather shoes and ties again, I'm not
00:12:08.140 really seeing the professionalism here. I see the aesthetic need or the aesthetic want of more
00:12:14.080 professionalism, but I'm not seeing the professionalism in the policy. Again, I think Mark
00:12:19.240 Carney at the end of the day is a lefty ideologue that he believes in the green transition. And although
00:12:26.600 that he has to say good things about the energy industry now, because he would seem really stupid
00:12:30.880 at the time when we are in a trade conflict with the United States, that Carney will do his best in
00:12:37.640 order to always be able to find an excuse to not actually approve a pipeline, make it so that it's
00:12:42.600 impossible for a private company to actually get the capital together to be able to put up for a new
00:12:47.220 project, nor will they even want to do it because of all the risk. And he's also going to just dump a
00:12:52.140 bunch of money into green projects and then have no money left over to support a pipeline project if
00:12:56.920 the government was ever interested in actually financially backing one with a loan or something
00:13:02.280 like that. I think he's just going to keep sticking to his guns and say, well, unless they put up all the
00:13:06.640 money, I'm not going to do it. And so, yeah, this is going to start being something that the liberals
00:13:12.660 can't really run away from if they have to either make the pipeline or they're going to suffer the
00:13:17.880 consequences in the polls. And even then, they actually may suffer the consequences even if they
00:13:23.280 do approve one, because the thing is that they have to rely on a lot of former NDP and some green
00:13:29.540 voters who may actually rebel against him if he even does the right thing. So conservatives will be mad
00:13:34.960 that he's dragging his feet doing the right thing if he eventually does it. And then the left will
00:13:39.100 attack him for having done the right thing if he does it. But right now, we're in this limbo space
00:13:43.820 where he's not making anyone particularly happy because he's not outright saying no to a pipeline,
00:13:49.340 but he's also not approving a pipeline. But anyways, that should be it for this video, guys. I will be
00:13:54.940 back with more updates on this issue in the future. Obviously, condolences to Charlie Kirk and his
00:14:01.860 family. Hopefully, I hope everyone would pray for his wife and kids because obviously this is going
00:14:06.980 to be a very difficult road for them. But I think it is good to highlight the positive legacy that
00:14:12.200 Charlie Kirk has left. At the young age of 31, it's quite incredible that he had accomplished so much
00:14:18.100 and having been just 31 years old and having like, he was a big deal even 10 years ago. And he's only 31
00:14:27.140 years old 10 years later. It's incredible. But anyways, with that being said, I will see you guys all later.