The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 18, 2026


Carney's Mouth got Canada in Trouble! Trump removes Canada from Defence Board!


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Wyatt Claypool explains why Canada has been kicked off the NATO defense board and why the Americans don t like it. He also points out that Canada spends far less than the U.S. on its own defense.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.360 So it looks like Prime Minister Mark Carney's snide remarks against the Americans
00:00:10.860 cozying up with China and lack of action on defense has finally caught up with them
00:00:16.960 because U.S. President Donald Trump and the Americans are cutting Canada out of a mutual
00:00:22.860 defense board that we've been together on for 86 years. In fact, before the Americans even got
00:00:29.820 involved in World War II. Now, liberal politicians and liberals in the media, but I repeat myself,
00:00:37.760 are just going to say that this is just nasty American behavior because they like to pretend
00:00:43.520 that Canada exists in a vacuum and nothing we say or do should affect anyone else, but whatever the
00:00:49.720 Americans say and do deeply affects us. Carney has been alienating the Americans. That matters.
00:00:58.280 We were all offended by the 51st state jokes that Donald Trump was making, but every time Carney goes out and slags Trump and the Americans, they're just supposed to get over it, despite the fact that they've been flipping our defense bills for many decades at this point.
00:01:15.580 This is exactly like the whole tariff issue. I don't like the American tariffs, obviously,
00:01:23.020 but they also don't like our supply management tariffs. Are their current tariffs in terms of
00:01:28.140 raw dollar cost higher than ours? Sure, but you could say that ours have been going on for 40
00:01:34.540 plus years, so they probably balance out in terms of general costs on each other's economies at
00:01:40.460 this point. But the current scuffle is over Canada's defense spending, and it probably is
00:01:46.740 about a lot of other things, but at least on the surface, it's about Canada's failure to actually
00:01:51.480 meet its defense commitments. The Undersecretary of War in the United States, Elbridge Colby,
00:01:59.180 put out this tweet this morning, which read,
00:02:02.540 A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately,
00:02:08.680 Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments,
00:02:13.120 DOW is positing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits
00:02:19.380 shared North American defense. We can no longer avoid the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
00:02:26.300 Real powers must sustain our rhetoric with shared defense and security responsibilities.
00:02:31.400 Delivering on shared continental defense begins by recognizing our shared geography.
00:02:36.140 Only by investing in our own defense capabilities will Americans and Canadians be safe, secure, and prosperous.
00:02:43.180 And of course, he shares a map of the United States and Canada here,
00:02:47.020 pointing out, you know, that we're right next to each other.
00:02:50.500 And this is all about the fact that Canada really puts up pretty much no money to its own defense
00:02:56.300 relative to how much money the United States puts up for the defense of Canada.
00:03:01.340 And the touch I really like here of what Elbridge Colby did was he linked the WEF website with the link going to Davos 2026, special addressed by Mark Carney.
00:03:15.920 His extremely snide speech where he talked about Canada and the rest of the middle powers in the world are going to pop out of the great power rivalry and we're going to hold up each other.
00:03:29.100 We're going to take our own defense seriously. We're going to trade more with each other and leave the implied great power rivalry between America and China.
00:03:39.980 Just we're just going to ignore it all. We're going to leave that aside.
00:03:43.780 Despite the fact that when Carney gave that speech, he was just about to sign a new trade deal with China, who he had previously called in the April 2025 election our greatest national security threat. 0.97
00:03:59.100 Mark Carney is a massive hypocrite and the Americans don't like him. Now, in reaction to this, we have liberal hacks, of course, saying that this just demonstrates the Americans are not reliable partners and they're so mean and they're so terrible, to which I ask, is it ever Canada's fault? Do we ever say and do anything that strains the relationship? 0.92
00:04:21.860 Do we ever fail to do something like adequately spend on our own defense that ticks off the Americans?
00:04:28.460 That's a big aspect of the whole trade fiasco going on right now.
00:04:32.500 I think we should have free trade between the countries.
00:04:34.760 I think we should have zero tariffs.
00:04:37.440 The Americans do have a point when they point out that they spend billions every year on defense that benefits Canada while we barely spend on our own defense.
00:04:46.540 We claim that we are now at 2% GDP on defense, but when you actually look into the details, it's complete nonsense.
00:04:55.880 Do you think that Canada's military is more robust than just a year ago?
00:05:01.960 Not really, but we're somehow spending more, and I'll be getting into that a little bit of just how we're fudging the numbers to make it look like we're actually hitting our NATO commitments.
00:05:09.360 But in response to what Elbridge Colby said, of course, we have the failed, hacky, liberal, former leader of the Conservative Party, Aaron O'Toole, sounding off, saying,
00:05:20.180 This is profoundly misguided and quite strange coming right after the president visits to China.
00:05:25.880 Canada has been and will be an ally that shares values of liberty.
00:05:30.580 As a Canadian whose grandfather deployed to Alaska for joint defense in World War II, I hope we don't lose sight of that. 0.98
00:05:36.380 oh my goodness Aaron O'Toole is the most pedantic fool who's ever been in Canadian politics you 0.95
00:05:44.100 could say no that's Justin Trudeau at least Justin Trudeau wins at least Justin Trudeau 1.00
00:05:49.260 had some people that like him nobody likes Aaron O'Toole because he says stupid things like this 0.98
00:05:55.240 Okanda has been and always will be an ally that shares values of liberty 0.94
00:05:59.480 i'm sorry we're just we don't we have bill 22 on the order paper right now where we're trying to
00:06:06.500 force internet like it's not internet providers but like vpn services to disclose personal
00:06:13.120 information of all their users we're not exactly a great lover of liberty these days as a country
00:06:19.180 ruled by the liberals but also on the defense side i don't care if canada loves liberty i'm
00:06:27.460 a Canadian. I'm a patriotic Canadian that wants our country to be better. But our country passively
00:06:33.400 loving the value of liberty does not actually make us a good ally. A war is going to break out
00:06:39.460 between the Americans and China, and Canada's going to walk into the room with a box of donuts
00:06:44.220 and an essay on liberty. Like, come on, how about we spend on our defense so we don't look pathetic 0.96
00:06:50.140 next to the Americans, so we actually look like we can carry our own weight? Because it's not just 0.76
00:06:55.200 that the Americans spend more on defense because they're bigger than us? They spend more on defense
00:07:01.340 per capita than we do. We basically have the enjoyment of the giant umbrella that America
00:07:08.320 builds around us, and we'll have people making snide remarks of like, well, America would be
00:07:12.700 spending it anyway, so who cares? Okay, you can try and test that theory if you want. I'm unwilling
00:07:20.060 to test that theory because it's really stupid to, especially at a time when we have our own 0.98
00:07:26.220 foreign affairs minister, Anita Anand, admitting that Russia is a threat to us, that also China 0.96
00:07:31.600 is a threat to us, but she won't vocalize that country because we're pretending it's no longer
00:07:35.300 a national security threat. But she knows Canada has threats and America is paying to defend
00:07:40.140 ourselves, to defend us. And now the liberals are trying to ballyhoo, no, no, no, no, we spend more
00:07:45.280 money on defense than we did a year ago. We're actually hitting our 2% NATO commitment now.
00:07:50.060 Not really. And technically, are we hitting it? Yes, but we're being massive weasels by thinking that we are like by claiming that we are based on the circumstances.
00:08:00.360 This is a article from the BBC, and I want to get to the headline of it after I read the body, some of the text, the body text here, just because it's very ironic when I show you what it says first and then we cut to the headline.
00:08:14.080 Right here it says,
00:08:44.080 percent of GDP on defense by 2035. Now, usually when I read, I like to scroll down to show you
00:08:52.240 the next paragraph as I go. I have deliberately obscured the next paragraph because it's quite
00:08:58.100 funny. Canada reached that two percent milestone by increasing salaries as well as pledging to
00:09:04.500 buy new equipment, upgrade existing bases, and build new infrastructure in the Arctic.
00:09:08.940 We also ended up just redefining a bunch of our regular infrastructure money spending that we never actually considered defense spending in the first place. It's now defense spending. Fantastic. So we're just spending more on salaries and defense commitments.
00:09:26.960 you know we might buy something someday so that is money spent now on defense you know we're
00:09:34.240 gonna get invaded by russia and we're just gonna post on some big billboards that in five years 0.91
00:09:39.580 we might buy jets and they're gonna run scared they're gonna be like oh my goodness the canadians 0.56
00:09:44.540 might do something which feels like the entire carny liberal government watch out he might do
00:09:51.180 something guys he's really thinking about it and he'll sign an mou about how he might do something
00:09:56.080 So don't you try and mess with Canada, because he's going to show up with a long essay about how much he likes liberty and how much the great power rivalry doesn't interest him.
00:10:07.140 Okay, okay, thanks, Mark. Thanks, Mark. That's really great.
00:10:10.500 But yeah, so no, we fraudulently got to 2% of our GDP spent on defense. And then we're all shocked, we're all surprised Pikachu at the fact that the Americans are calling our bluff and saying that, well, it doesn't look like we actually need to have this mutual defense board anymore, because you guys aren't even involved in actually defending the continent.
00:10:33.360 it. What does having Canada involved in the board achieve? I think like you'll every once in a while
00:10:39.760 get some Canadians saying, well, we spend more on icebreakers than the Americans do. It's like,
00:10:44.780 well, it turns out they don't have as much Arctic waters in their territory. And good for us.
00:10:50.340 That should be a default. I assume we also spend more on icebreakers than the Congo. 0.90
00:10:56.020 We probably spend more on winter coats than people in South Sudan. 1.00
00:11:01.580 It turns out that, yes, if you pick a stupid test, you might beat the Americans on that stupid test. 0.99
00:11:08.860 We should be spending 2% of our GDP on arms, on personnel, on actual equipment that can be used to defend us. 1.00
00:11:18.240 You know, radar, stuff like that.
00:11:21.440 This is the actual headline to that BBC article.
00:11:26.020 Why Canada is seeing its biggest military recruitment surge in 30 years?
00:11:30.900 No.
00:11:32.140 In fact, the vast majority of the money was spent on salaries and commitments to maybe buy something.
00:11:39.020 Yes, our recruitment might be up.
00:11:41.020 Those are not all military personnel.
00:11:43.740 And by the way, we've never had good military recruitment.
00:11:46.880 You didn't have to try that hard to boost it above levels that we haven't seen in 30 years.
00:11:52.560 We had a more professional, effective military in, let's say, 2010 when Stephen Harper was still prime minister than we do now because our military was focused on the ability to defend our country and strike at enemies.
00:12:08.820 And we no longer have that.
00:12:11.180 And what do we think this is setting us up for when it comes to renegotiations on, like, the USMCA in Kuzma?
00:12:18.740 We look really stupid right now considering that they just pulled us off of this board because we aren't really hitting our defense commitments. And then Carney's going to swagger up and say, I demand zero tariffs and a fantastic deal for Canada. And Trump is going to say, okay, I'll give you that. You just need to start spending another $10 billion every single year on defense because you're not properly paying for your own defense. I'm paying for it. And you're looking at me like I'm doing something wrong to tariff you?
00:12:48.120 Now, again, I don't like the tariffs, but we've seeded a big argument to Trump here.
00:12:52.620 I just want to get to this clip here of Anita Anand on Al Jazeera talking about military spending,
00:12:57.800 because, of course, she was here spreading the misinformation that Canada's military is being beefed up.
00:13:03.180 And, of course, she went on to a Qatari propaganda channel like Al Jazeera to talk about this.
00:13:08.940 Canada is now spending 2% of GDP on defense as per the NATO suggestions or requirements, depending on how you put it.
00:13:17.580 This is after years of previous governments in Canada sort of dragging their feet, I think we can agree, on that target.
00:13:24.940 I wonder, was this because you could no longer count on the United States to guarantee Canada's security?
00:13:33.140 Now, in this interview, she should immediately say no.
00:13:37.800 No, America's a reliable partner.
00:13:40.080 We're very good allies.
00:13:41.340 She should say that.
00:13:42.320 Now, because Al Jazeera is a Qatari propaganda outlet that, although it technically is an ally of the United States, isn't really an ally of the United States.
00:13:51.240 It's more of just an ally out of convenience at the same time that they are one of the biggest private facilitators of financing between terrorists and different sketchy organizations.
00:14:05.240 Of course they asked it in such a way where they want to blame America.
00:14:08.720 She should be pushing back on that.
00:14:10.180 But because she is a terrible foreign affairs minister, she's going to screw this whole thing up and immediately start playing in to the narrative that Albrecht Colby put out in his tweet.
00:14:20.540 We committed to reaching 2% of GDP as one of the founding members of the NATO alliance.
00:14:27.520 And so that's exactly what we did this year.
00:14:29.740 We're also on track to meeting 5% of GDP by 2035.
00:14:35.320 And I'm asking you why it didn't happen sooner.
00:14:36.660 There is a commitment to security and defense, specifically given the changing geopolitical environment.
00:14:46.660 We are seeing the Russian threat move further and further north towards the Arctic Circle.
00:14:53.000 This has become more and more palpable since the illegal further invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022.
00:15:00.880 I was the minister of national defense at the time.
00:15:03.140 so no no credit to the americans but she does vaguely point to oh yes changing geopolitical
00:15:11.080 environments have caused us to spend more just say that the americans are forcing you to spend
00:15:15.660 more just blame them for this even though this is an obligation you should have been taking care of
00:15:20.740 for a long time and even harper wasn't taking care of it you know shame on him too although he
00:15:26.320 actually spent what he did spend on real military like you know equipment real defense but you can't
00:15:33.020 even actually throw a bone to the americans who have been paying for our defense for a very long
00:15:37.760 time yeah we partially cover our own but it's so partial if the americans didn't exist we'd have 1.00
00:15:43.440 to be spending so much more than we currently do and she can't do it because left-wing orthodoxy 0.98
00:15:49.900 won't allow her to even pretend to be an ally of the united states again we are now working closely 0.93
00:15:57.860 with China. And Aaron O'Toole, in his tweet that I read earlier, tried to make like a snide
00:16:04.080 insinuation of like, basically undercutting Canada right after he went to China, as if he's up to
00:16:10.400 something with China. No. In fact, America is the country that is best at holding China accountable.
00:16:17.260 People say, well, America trades with China. Well, they talk about trade deals with China.
00:16:22.720 Yeah, but they're also paying for our national defense. 0.59
00:16:26.060 They also don't let Chinese spies into their country or they prosecute them when they find 0.85
00:16:30.760 them. 0.98
00:16:31.240 We don't.
00:16:32.080 So we don't really have the privilege to say, well, they trade with China. 1.00
00:16:36.000 What a bunch of hypocrites. 0.99
00:16:37.220 I'm like, yeah, you got them. 1.00
00:16:39.200 I guess you got them.
00:16:40.100 You got the country that's paying for your defense and doesn't want you deepening your
00:16:44.700 ties with China.
00:16:45.980 Not as just because we can.
00:16:48.600 As an oppositional move against the United States. 0.70
00:16:51.140 Maybe that ticks off the United States a little bit, that we're growing closer to China, not because we have the wherewithal to, you know, benefit ourselves through trade while being able to stiff arm them on on their national security threats, on their ability to affect our country.
00:17:07.040 No, we're just doing it as a U.S. replacement, which is absolutely pathetic and was always going to lead to the United States taking retaliatory actions like cutting us out of this defense board.
00:17:17.240 and I can't disagree we probably don't add very much to the board at this point anyways with all
00:17:24.440 that being said thank you guys for watching make sure to like share subscribe do all that fantastic
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