The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney swings Hard Left to get majority - Radical NDP MP Lori Idlout crosses the floor!

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

00:00:06.620 Late last night, another MP crossed the floor and joined Mark Carney's Liberal Party,

00:00:12.480 putting the Liberals at 170 seats in the House of Commons. Now, the Liberals only need 172 seats

00:00:20.020 to get a majority government, and we have three by-elections coming up in April,

00:00:24.800 two of which are in safe liberal areas, which means that Mark Carney is already effectively at

00:00:31.140 his majority government right now. I want to break down what happened here and why this is predicting

00:00:37.460 a radical shift for the Liberal Party, because they needed to embrace some radicalism to get

00:00:43.780 this new MP to cross the floor. But before we get into it all, I just want to remind you guys,

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00:01:03.760 contribution per month. So we had not a conservative crossing the floor this time, which is a nice

00:01:11.080 change if someone is to cross the floor. We had an NDP MP cross the floor, that being Lori Idlout

00:01:18.760 from the riding of Nunavut. Obviously, Nunavut is a riding that just encompasses the entire

00:01:24.580 territory. And as we get into it, you're going to realize what I mean when I say this might be a

00:01:30.560 big radical shift for the Mark Carney liberals, because Laurie Idlout's not some sort of like

00:01:36.200 old trade union NDP that could, you know, maybe fit in with the liberals if you really squint.

00:01:42.280 This person should be in like a green government. This person should be in the BC NDP government in

00:01:49.260 British Columbia, but Carney wants his majority and they will get it no matter what. So I want to

00:01:54.840 start off with the NDP interim leader Don Davies reacting to this, and then I want to talk about

00:02:00.820 the implications a little bit for the NDP leadership race, and then the implications for a

00:02:05.620 federal election, and then talk a little bit about whether or not this is going to be good for Mark

00:02:11.220 Carney in the long run. In a lot of ways, I actually think that this might have been a mistake

00:02:15.940 for him. You know, him getting a majority might not be a mistake in his mind, but I think the way

00:02:21.600 in which he gets the majority really does matter. I'm not even just saying that floor crossing can

00:02:26.260 annoy people and they might not like it. And so, you know, you don't want to get the majority this

00:02:30.880 way. I mean, with the specific MP he took on, I don't think he really wants it this way when he

00:02:36.360 thinks about it. So we have here federal NDP leader Don Davies says, quote, we're very

00:02:44.840 disappointed that Lori Idlout has decided to join the Liberal Caucus. The position of the New

00:02:49.420 Democrats on floor crossing is long-standing and clear. We believe that when someone rejects the

00:02:54.340 decision of their electors and wants to join another party, they should put that decision

00:02:58.320 to their voters. In a democracy, something as important as the choice of party representation

00:03:03.280 in Parliament must always remain with our constituents. We believe that should happen here.

00:03:09.760 Now, I want to jump up to this really ridiculous take I saw earlier, justifying why this is not undemocratic.

00:03:17.680 Now, is floor crossing allowed? Yes, floor crossing is allowed.

00:03:21.640 I always like to separate these two things. Ethical all the time? No.

00:03:26.500 Allowed? Yes.

00:03:28.440 Now, sometimes it's right to cross the floor.

00:03:31.320 Let's say that your party has completely departed from what they said they were going to do,

00:03:37.000 whether it's the government or the opposition. Let's say that your party said that we're going

00:03:42.160 to do this, that, and the other thing. And as soon as you get into office, they're like, yeah,

00:03:45.460 we don't actually believe in that. We're not going to do it. But you as an MP still believe

00:03:49.260 in that. That's a perfectly fine time to cross the floor. That's not what happened with Lori 0.99

00:03:54.580 Idlaut, but I want to start off with this ridiculous take trying to justify why this

00:03:58.480 is totally democratic. We have this guy, Michael Gerald Gibbs, who is a frequent left-wing poster 0.57

00:04:05.880 on x and he's just a big liberal cheerleader he says the liberals came within less than one percent

00:04:11.800 of winning none of it when laurie idlout says her constituents were pressuring her to join the

00:04:16.520 government caucus she's serious no one can claim her decision isn't democratic mbs have every right

00:04:22.260 to change what caucus they sit in okay they have every right to change the caucus they sit in

00:04:27.840 is this democratic no just because we are in a representative democracy and you are allowed to

00:04:35.120 cross the floor does not make that act democratic. Taking a deuce in the parliamentary washroom

00:04:41.540 doesn't make it democratic because you're sitting in a democratic institution. It's something you're

00:04:45.800 allowed to do, but it doesn't mean that that's the height of democracy to cross the floor.

00:04:50.740 And I love this logic. No one can claim her decision isn't democratic because I guess it

00:04:55.820 was close, which means you can just join the number two team in your riding for no reason,

00:05:01.060 and that's completely fine should that work in reverse all of the writings that the conservatives

00:05:07.160 almost won the federal election and there was a lot of them that came like screamingly close

00:05:11.940 are all those liberals like those 50 liberals allowed to like stand up and leave because they 0.99

00:05:17.840 only won the seat by like two percent or less like what that's stupid again are you allowed to cross 0.99

00:05:25.040 the floor yes i know people want to ban crossing the floor i am telling you now it just doesn't 0.99

00:05:30.920 work that way do you know why and people say oh well you we should force a by-election guess what

00:05:36.660 if you forced a by-election the person would just keep sitting as a conservative or an NDP

00:05:40.480 and they would just keep voting for what the liberals want to do and if you get kicked out

00:05:44.460 of caucus and even if you're not allowed to join the liberals they would sit as an independent and

00:05:48.580 keep voting with the liberals they could find ways around it that's my point about banning it is kind

00:05:53.440 of silly you're banning something that someone could easily just do another loophole to get

00:05:57.700 around. It's like, I don't know, just not really something that I think is very interesting to me

00:06:02.960 of discussing how this is going to work. And so one thing I do want to highlight on how this

00:06:10.020 floor crossing happened is I just want to quickly go over to my grok search about what none of us

00:06:16.560 got in the 2026-27 federal budget that wasn't usually in previous budgets. So it's no coincidence

00:06:26.700 that Lori Idlow left back in like where she had previously not left in December or so but she was

00:06:33.760 asked and she said she wasn't really wanting to do it she wants to be able to remain as a NDP and

00:06:38.880 criticize the government and all this stuff but in the budget following that we have the Arctic

00:06:44.540 Infrastructure Fund which is a billion dollars that's going to go to Nunavut so over four years

00:06:51.300 there's going to be a billion dollars available for infrastructure projects we have more housing 0.53

00:06:56.540 investments 250 million dollars of federal contributions to that in Nunavut we have and

00:07:03.040 we also had a university i think got thrown 40 million or for 100 million at it to start the

00:07:08.460 first uh inuit university in Nunavut it's like okay this feels a little bit like bribery you

00:07:16.120 know if you want an mp to cross the floor you just dump a ton of money in their riding and then you

00:07:21.900 throw up your hands and say oh well if you elect a liberal next time this might this might keep

00:07:26.880 itself up which means the federal government is incentivized to dump money in very select parts

00:07:32.660 of the country and leave other parts of the country completely destitute because now we don't we don't

00:07:37.540 win Athabasca anyways we don't win Calgary Signal Hill anyways who cares about Peace River we don't

00:07:45.220 even win that area so just don't give them any money oh none of it we could win none of it so

00:07:49.860 here's two billion dollars it's just ridiculous the fact that we've literally spent a significant

00:07:55.880 portion of what makes up our deficit basically carny buying an mp by giving her everything she 1.00

00:08:02.160 wants and guess what else she gave he gave her this is the radicalism element for the liberals

00:08:07.440 it was just on february 20th and then it was discovered like more than a week later that the

00:08:14.000 Kearney liberals signed this insane Musqueam Agreement that basically gives the entire lower

00:08:20.360 mainland of British Columbia to the Musqueam Indian Band. A band of 1,400 people apparently

00:08:26.680 needs aboriginal land title over the entire lower mainland so that they can have joint decision

00:08:32.160 making and effectively have veto over everything that goes on in the area. They might be able to

00:08:36.540 demand property taxes from local governments. They may be able to actually approve or disapprove

00:08:42.400 new developments from going in, whether they block developments they simply don't like,

00:08:47.120 or they let developer friends of theirs be able to do end runs around the rules that everyone

00:08:51.800 else has to follow. That's not a coincidence that Laurie Idlout left after that. Mark Carney just

00:08:58.080 did the most land-back thing I've ever seen an elected official in Canada do, and then he gets

00:09:05.040 an NDP MP to cross. Well, I feel like these two things are connected. He just did something that

00:09:11.720 basically signals he's going to let First Nation ban councils do whatever they want, probably have

00:09:16.100 veto over any pipeline. And the lady who doesn't like pipelines, the lady who wants First Nations 1.00

00:09:22.200 veto over everything, decided that maybe now after a billion dollars and this decision, now she's 0.95

00:09:29.320 ready to cross the floor and join the liberals because they've effectively joined the BCNDP

00:09:34.180 in their landbag agenda, and as another NDP MP, she was very much a BC NDP progressive.

00:09:42.480 And so Carney, instead of just making a good reason of why she should support a one Canadian 0.85

00:09:48.100 economy and how we need to build together and unify, he didn't use his normal liberal rhetoric

00:09:53.520 to get her to cross. He just basically became a landbag radical like Eby. There is no chance of

00:09:59.660 a pipeline being built right now, and this is actually why I think this could end up being a

00:10:03.240 terrible decision for Mark Carney. In the long run, sorry, in the short run, this is a victory

00:10:08.520 for him. Medium to long term, this could end up hurting him pretty badly because now it's not

00:10:14.600 really the government the business liberals signed up for. They didn't sign up for the bribery party

00:10:20.040 that's going to pay progressives to join them to block pipelines. This is not what they did.

00:10:26.100 So now I just want to jump over to some, one, this very funny thing that happened the other day.

00:10:33.000 So the NDP, as you know, are going through a leadership election right now.

00:10:36.880 The two frontrunners are Avi Lewis and Heather McPherson.

00:10:41.460 And so check this out down here.

00:10:44.120 This guy named Mark Ram is reporting here, says NDP leadership contender Avi Lewis.

00:10:49.120 It's a surprise nod from Nunavut MP Laurie Inlout as he gets as he gets set to address a packed Carlton Dominion Chalmers Center in Ottawa, around 800 people.

00:11:01.080 so Lori Idlout came out and endorsed Avi Lewis five days before she left this is like Michael

00:11:11.740 Ma going to both Christmas parties back in December he went to the conservative Christmas

00:11:16.200 party then crossed the floor and joined the liberals the next day and didn't even give the

00:11:20.040 secret Santa gift back literally that happened and uh Mark Graham is uh then follows up that

00:11:26.560 report and says MP Lori Idlaut is now crossing the floor to Mark Carney's Liberals, according

00:11:31.560 to a late Tuesday night statement from interim NDP leader Don Davies. 0.96

00:11:36.580 Yeah, that's absolutely pathetic. 0.93

00:11:38.420 I like this Mackenzie Gray thing. 0.98

00:11:41.260 Two things to consider.

00:11:42.560 Idlaut endorsed Avi Lewis in the NDP leadership race last week as a big event in Ottawa.

00:11:47.200 At a big event in Ottawa.

00:11:48.660 Carney is going to Yellowknife Norway and UK starting Thursday.

00:11:52.200 if Idlow cut a deal like Mangenero did, she'll be on that trip.

00:11:57.340 Yeah, so no doubt if she's now part of the inner circle

00:12:00.040 and that he's going to take her along for the inaugural trip.

00:12:03.940 But isn't that kind of funny that she endorses him right before she leaves?

00:12:07.720 You wonder if it's because the Liberals know Avi Lewis is a complete dud

00:12:11.260 and so they encouraged her to endorse the most radical person in the group

00:12:15.560 who's going to have a hard time being able to rip away

00:12:18.260 more reasonable Liberal voters back over to the NDP.

00:12:22.200 So I just want to bring the, we don't need to talk about that. I want to jump over to this post that we had from, should I do this one? It doesn't really matter. I just remember that Rosemary Barton had said some really inappropriate things yesterday. 0.99

00:12:42.160 she just posted another one after don davies put out his statement which in itself is not bad

00:12:48.340 but later on in the night someone questioned her uh about this and she ended up making a

00:12:54.120 having a really dismissive response which she might as well just start wearing a liberal t-shirt 0.98

00:12:58.920 on television based on how biased she is check this out my friend uh britney screenshotted this

00:13:04.560 interaction and she says bro it's all made up anyways which is a famous quote now from rosemary

00:13:11.000 Barton caught on a hot mic. And this person named Society Unveiled says, corrupt liberals are 0.79

00:13:16.320 stealing a majority government and morons like you act like it's normal. Rosemary Barton then 1.00

00:13:21.300 says, bro, you may not like it, but it's allowed. Which sounds like the sort of thing that is a

00:13:26.700 liberal staff member trying to be snark, you would say, because Rosemary Barton is a liberal staff

00:13:32.180 member. So I want to now jump down to this video of Mark Carney introducing Lori Idlout to a bunch

00:13:40.700 of cameras and laurie not having a great reason for why she's crossing right now kind of like all

00:13:46.520 the other floor crossers again i actually don't have any big problem with people crossing the

00:13:51.560 floor if they have a reason if you're just crossing the floor because well i'm you know

00:13:56.740 unity stability it's not a reason if you knew you ran for the smaller party as an ndp you can't say

00:14:03.440 i'm doing this for the sake of unity you run for a small third party you crossing the floor is just

00:14:10.000 office seeking. It's just a position upgrade that you want. Because what principled reason

00:14:15.940 are you leaving for? Oh, stability is not a principled reason. You can't have a principle

00:14:19.920 about stability because there's no one on the other side of it. There's no one in favor

00:14:23.160 of instability.

00:14:24.160 Good morning.

00:14:25.160 Good morning.

00:14:26.160 Good morning, everyone.

00:14:27.160 Well, I'm very honored to welcome Laurie Inlow to our conference.

00:14:33.160 It is a great pleasure.

00:14:36.160 One of Canada's greatest constituency MPs.

00:14:41.160 You represent a riding that is the size of Mexico and very downturn.

00:14:47.160 And we've had conversations about what we can do, both large and small, in Nunavut.

00:14:53.480 Large projects, but also helping everyone get ahead.

00:14:58.880 So all for Canada, Canada for all. 0.83

00:15:01.240 C'est un grand plaisir, je suis très honnête.

00:15:03.880 There is something kind of corrupt about the fact that one MP can represent an entire territory.

00:15:09.580 Because unlike an MP from like Ontario or Saskatchewan or Alberta or any place other than the territories,

00:15:15.960 if you get the government to like make a transfer into your province it gets shotgunned out around

00:15:22.680 like tons of different uh ridings a billion dollars that goes to none of it just goes to

00:15:28.640 none of it and all of those people are now voters of laurie idlout if you're an mp who crosses the

00:15:34.060 floor in alberta like matt genero and you get him to hand alberta 50 billion dollars which mark

00:15:39.620 carney would never do it wouldn't even benefit you that much because it's 50 billion dollars

00:15:43.520 for a province of 5 million people spread like thinly out that money.

00:16:02.400 Could you respect the democratic process and allow the definition of this?

00:16:13.520 Lori, what did the government say to get you to cross the floor?

00:16:16.820 Did they tangibly promise you more consultations, specific asks?

00:16:21.380 What incentivized you?

00:16:23.480 Even the media, right off the bat, knows that indigenous consultations are a big thing.

00:16:28.640 And again, it's veto with her.

00:16:30.720 They want to give them veto. 0.87

00:16:32.800 That is what Carney's own Musqueam agreement basically says.

00:16:36.700 Joint decision making.

00:16:38.100 If it's joint decision making, it means it's a veto.

00:16:41.240 with any complicated issue it wasn't just one thing that happened there are a variety of many

00:16:47.000 things that have allowed me to really focus on this and i'm very thankful to be so warm

00:16:53.160 So as you can see there, Lori, Lori, Lori does not know why she's leaving.

00:17:21.000 There was many factors. Name one of them. Name one. You knew you were going to cross the floor.

00:17:27.780 You couldn't write one down and say, well, you know, is this or that? You know, he did this.

00:17:31.780 Because if she named one of them, it'd probably just scream of corruption. But yeah, so the reason

00:17:37.900 why, again, this is not potentially great for Carney, in the short run, he's going to get a lot

00:17:42.380 more stuff done potentially, although it is federal politics. In provincial legislatures,

00:17:47.580 if you have a majority, you can basically hammer anything you want through. You can end debates

00:17:51.400 very quickly. You can just basically move like a well-oiled machine. Federally, if you have a

00:17:58.320 majority, especially just a bare majority, your opposition can still disrupt legislation pretty

00:18:03.320 easily. There is way more leeway for the opposition to call motion votes, to demand more debate,

00:18:10.920 to hold stuff up in committees. It's just way more, yes, you can eventually end the debate.

00:18:16.700 you can end filibusters, you can end endless committee meetings if you have a majority,

00:18:22.620 but they still have a certain large span of time they're allowed to use in order to scrutinize

00:18:28.180 their legislation. You can't just vote and say we're going to slam it through, especially with

00:18:32.220 only a bare majority. So if the Liberals then win Scarborough South and University Rosedale,

00:18:38.240 the two safe Liberal seats, they are up to 172 seats, but one of their Liberal MPs has to be

00:18:45.400 the Speaker, which means that they have to go through the more annoying process of making sure

00:18:50.220 every single Liberal is in the room so they can vote to basically have a tie with the opposition,

00:18:56.000 and then the Speaker has to break the tie. And there is this tradition in Parliament where you

00:19:02.080 pair MPs. If one Liberal has to go to a dental appointment and they can't make it into work that

00:19:07.480 day, a Conservative will say they won't show up either to make it so it's balanced so that we're

00:19:12.460 not in this constant brinksmanship the problem is the liberals aren't playing by the rules anymore

00:19:17.540 and I think that means that the conservatives are going to stop playing by the rules too

00:19:21.280 and the NDP and Elizabeth May and the Bloc Quebecois they're probably also going to stop

00:19:25.880 pairing MPs if the liberals want to vote something through every single one of them is going to have

00:19:30.760 to be there or else the conservatives and the Bloc and the NDP is going to vote it down

00:19:35.220 or just basically not let it go through like maybe Carney's going to have to keep liberally

00:19:40.420 using the uh you know confidence votes to try and scare people into voting for stuff but that's

00:19:47.080 only works for so long eventually your own the processes and committees are going to start

00:19:53.200 slowing down because not everyone is present all the time and the conservatives can make sure that

00:19:58.260 you have to do more consultations more meetings more expert witnesses and whatnot before you can

00:20:04.940 pass certain things anyways but so if Carney though goes in this land back direction this

00:20:12.200 radical progressive direction for his majority I think in the next five or six months he's giving

00:20:17.280 back an opening to the conservatives to make an argument that if anything they're actually more

00:20:22.400 radical than the Trudeau liberals because Trudeau kept the NDP people in the NDP caucus now Carney

00:20:28.340 is bringing the NDP into his government someone pointed out something about this the other day

00:20:34.040 where they said Trudeau actually started off pretty popular in 2015 and 2016, but he became

00:20:40.240 very contentious later in 2019. So a popularity turnaround can happen quite quickly. And part of

00:20:47.320 that was because of radical policy he had been passing at the time. Just a very hard left

00:20:53.020 progressive turn is what started taking people off with Carney, sorry, with Justin Trudeau.

00:20:58.360 If Carney makes the same progressive radical turn and starts letting land back activists

00:21:03.760 have veto power over his legislation, you're going to have a lot of ticked off business liberals.

00:21:09.180 And now in Scarborough South, you're going to have a lot of ticked off Persians and Jewish voters 1.00

00:21:13.460 because they're running Dolly Begum, an Ontario NDP member of provincial parliament,

00:21:19.720 is running as their federal replacement for Bill Blair. And she is a crazy Hamas apologist. 1.00

00:21:26.480 The lady condemns Israel and the United States all the time in the Middle East 0.94

00:21:29.520 and cannot lay a finger on a terrorist organization in the Middle East.

00:21:33.760 they're running hurt. Like, this is something that the conservatives in time are going to be

00:21:38.660 able to exploit, especially while the liberals are basically pretending like it's no big deal

00:21:44.340 that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members are literally walking around Canada right now,

00:21:49.760 and they feel no obligation to deport these people who are part of the terror arm of the

00:21:55.480 Iranian government. 700 plus of them are in Canada walking around, and apparently that's just no big

00:22:02.040 deal. Anyways, with that all being said, thank you guys for, oh, actually, no, no, we're not

00:22:07.320 moving on from that. I have one more thing to show from Brian Breguet. Brian says politicians

00:22:13.320 are so full of S, but so are voters. And he just wanted to demonstrate the percentage of people

00:22:19.500 who are in favor of floor crossings between 2018 and 2026. This is something that Angus Reed put

00:22:25.460 together. So in 2018, 41% of people were in favor of floor crossings. In 2026, only 43%

00:22:33.500 are in favor of them. It went up a little bit. But in 2018, conservatives were 57% in favor of

00:22:40.280 floor crossings. In 2026, only 14% are. Liberals are 38% in favor back in 2018, and 69% are in favor

00:22:50.620 of them in 2026. NDP, 37% are in favor of floor crossings in 2018. 68% are in favor in 2026.

00:22:58.740 But if you hold these people again, now that Idlaut had left, they're probably not going to

00:23:03.420 like it, which demonstrates kind of how cynical our politics has become, that if it benefits you,

00:23:08.740 you like it. And if it doesn't benefit you, then it's anti-democratic. Now, is it anti-democratic?

00:23:13.780 yeah is it allowed yeah i think it's more so that people dislike bad floor crossings if you're

00:23:21.340 floor crossing for no particular reason that is in fact bad you shouldn't do that if you are

00:23:27.540 crossing the floor for a real principled reason that's fine but right now you're going to have

00:23:32.940 a lot of canadians i think start to really turn on this floor crossing stuff because it's just

00:23:38.580 feel so sleazy, I guess. It feels just kind of wrong that someone is getting a majority

00:23:44.140 government. You're not just gaining an extra MP because that MP had some problems in their own

00:23:48.580 party. You're gaining an MP because you dumped money in their riding and you really wanted a

00:23:54.740 majority, even though that person in any other scenario would not back you at all.

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 11, 2026

Carney swings Hard Left to get majority - Radical NDP MP Lori Idlout crosses the floor!

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