The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney sworn in as PM - Already dodging new election!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. So Mark Carney has officially been sworn in as Prime Minister of

00:00:07.480 Canada. He is the 24th Prime Minister of Canada. I think a lot of Americans would be shocked by

00:00:13.160 that. I know we've only been around since 1867, but we've still only had 24 Prime Ministers because

00:00:19.540 while some people only have a few months in office like Kim Campbell, you have people like 0.97

00:00:25.240 William Lyon Mackenzie King that are around for like 25 years. But anyways, with Mark Carney being

00:00:32.520 sworn in, this is going to rip up the turf that is Canadian politics over the next few months.

00:00:38.560 I don't think the Liberals even know what's really going to shake out in the near future. That's why

00:00:44.760 after Carney was sworn in, in his first press conference, he doesn't sound too confident about

00:00:50.420 going into an election right away. And it seems like the Liberal team wants to wait and see.

00:00:55.640 And the Conservative team also wants to wait and see what his appeal is in the polling as time goes on.

00:01:01.700 I think right now we are in another period of response bias for Liberals. First, it was when

00:01:07.520 Justin Trudeau resigned and the Liberal leadership race kicked off. And then we have it again with

00:01:13.160 Mark Carney becoming the Liberal leader. A bunch of Liberals are going to be super excited. So no

00:01:17.560 doubt you are going to see a big pop for the Liberals, and then it's going to decline. If the

00:01:22.520 Liberals thought this was a solid, real gain of support, they'd be calling an election ASAP. If

00:01:28.200 they're five ahead of the Conservatives, they'd go for it, like some of these polls are supposedly

00:01:32.300 showing. I don't think they actually believe that, and their internal polling probably doesn't show it.

00:01:37.440 But I first want to start with Mark Carney being sworn in. Then I want to jump to his press

00:01:41.840 conference where he took some questions about Brookfield, as well as the timing of the next election,

00:01:47.040 and sort of analyze what this probably all means going forward. Anyways, before I get into it,

00:01:53.060 though, guys, remember to like this video, subscribe to the channel, as well as leave a comment on

00:01:58.560 anything you find interesting. I always try and scroll through, you know, once, twice, three times on

00:02:03.780 the comments of each video to see what people were thinking. But here is Mark Carney being sworn in,

00:02:09.220 and it's kind of awkward. Like, you think he would have been a little more rehearsed for something he

00:02:13.200 knew was coming? But he's just kind of stiff. And I think this is going to be a, you know, a general

00:02:18.640 abstract problem going for him in the future. Execute the powers and trust reposed in me

00:02:25.540 as prime minister.

00:02:43.920 He's really not beating the allegations that he's like Mr. Burns in real life. He's just kind of

00:02:49.060 awkward, cartoony, stiff, has an entire background where you could say that he's an extremely greedy 0.52

00:02:55.080 man. But yeah.

00:03:06.680 Honestly, the one asset he has is maybe by being this bumbling a little bit, he has that kind of awkward

00:03:12.740 charm with certain people. But now let's jump ahead to him talking about the timing of the next election.

00:03:19.280 The fact that he answers it this way makes me feel like the liberals aren't actually that confident

00:03:24.820 that they're going to be able to win, despite the polls supposedly showing, like, if you aggregate

00:03:30.200 them all together, the liberals are winning. I still trust Abacus data and innovative research the most.

00:03:35.220 Abacus did show a poll where the liberals were only down four points on the conservatives, which is a

00:03:40.340 very scary place to be as a conservatives. I do think it's just because of a leadership bump that will

00:03:45.980 trail off by a few points over the next few days. But the one thing the conservatives have to do is

00:03:51.780 stop playing it safe. Sometimes parties, when they're ahead and stuff starts happening, what they do is

00:03:57.380 they become risk managers. All they do is tell everyone to shut up, don't do anything, and we're trying to

00:04:02.680 maintain our lead, so just say nothing. It's like, well, you've gotten the lead by saying stuff, so doing

00:04:08.140 nothing is just going to guarantee your lead keeps going down. But here's Mr. Mark Carney talking about the

00:04:13.780 timing of the next election. Can I ask you what your plans are for the next few weeks? Are you going to be

00:04:17.780 bringing back the House? Are you going to be calling an early election? And if so, when should Canadians expect to

00:04:22.120 go to the polls? Well, I certainly should expect to go to the polls before November. And the before

00:04:30.640 November also means the maximum length of time that he could be in office, because he must call it sometime in mid-October,

00:04:37.780 which would mean, based on the shortest election period that you could call, 27 days, that it would be

00:04:43.780 sometime in November. So that's what that's kind of a joke in regards to.

00:04:46.780 The news today is behind me. An exceptional group of individuals who are serving Canada, united, focused

00:04:57.780 cabinet, focused on action, focused on the issues for Canadians. We are, as I said a moment ago, we will be going to take

00:05:04.780 some decisions which directly meet some of the objectives I set out in my remarks and we've been

00:05:09.780 discussing. That's the news for today. There will be other news in the coming days with respect to

00:05:17.780 ensuring that we have as strong a mandate that is needed for this.

00:05:23.780 And what were his remarks at his swearing in? I can tell you it's all just pretty generic. You know, Canada needs to be put on a new

00:05:30.780 path. We need to, you know, innovate more. We need to kind of take a throw out what's old and bring in the new and all that

00:05:37.780 stuff. I expect that Mark Carney is going to try and get rid of the carbon tax before he triggers an election. Everyone

00:05:43.780 that was saying it's going to be an election next week, guys, guys, it's going to be an election next week. Mark Carney is going to do

00:05:48.780 it. The problem is, is that Mark Carney would be truly the unelected Prime Minister in the sense that most people don't even know that he was the

00:05:56.780 Prime Minister, because people don't pay attention that much. So if he went from being sworn into running, there

00:06:01.780 won't even be any footage of him serving as Prime Minister. So he's like this abstract idea that this man is technically

00:06:07.780 the Prime Minister. So like a war breaks out, he'll be on TV, like announcing something. But you know, based on how

00:06:13.780 sleepy Canadian politics can be day to day, it means that they'd have no B roll footage of this guy actually going

00:06:19.780 around and doing the role of Prime Minister, I guarantee they at least want a month to three

00:06:25.780 months in order to have him sort of sit in the Prime Minister's office, writing stuff down, having

00:06:30.780 the photographer take photos of himself looking over the city of Ottawa in a very pensive thinking

00:06:36.780 kind of a pose. They want a lot of footage of this guy so that they have, you know, stuff to use for when

00:06:43.780 they're marketing him as being the Prime Minister that you're voting to reelect even though he was never

00:06:48.780 elected. And the Liberal leadership race was a complete farce. Everyone running against him

00:06:53.780 wasn't even trying to win. By the way, funniest thing on the planet today is do you know who wasn't

00:06:59.780 allowed into cabinet who was previously the House leader? Karina Gould was, or maybe it was Jennifer

00:07:06.780 O'Connell, but Karina Gould was not given a cabinet position. And that man, that lady was trying hard to

00:07:13.780 be getting to get into the cabinet. But I think it's probably was reflective of us all the people

00:07:18.780 standing behind Mark Carney are his personal friends and allies, you know, Christia Freeland,

00:07:24.780 one of her kids, his godfather is Mark Carney, but he's going to stick with the people he knows.

00:07:29.780 And that's probably about it. It doesn't mean he's actually reforming anything. I don't think he's

00:07:33.780 going to start, you know, having good ideas all of a sudden. I think Mark Carney is mostly just going

00:07:39.780 to be trying to make himself comfortable in office. And that's a big flaw with a lot of leaders.

00:07:44.780 They surround themselves with people who make them comfortable, but nobody who's going to push them

00:07:49.780 to do the things that they probably need to do to win. Like the fact he's still keeping around

00:07:53.780 Stephen Gilbeau is madness. Like he's no longer the environment minister, but he has something to do

00:07:58.780 with Quebec, which is still a bad idea because he's going to be telling Quebec to not accept a pipeline

00:08:03.780 probably. Mr. Carney, I'm Jillian Piper with Global News. I understand that your assets have

00:08:08.780 been put into a blind trust. I wanted to ask you, what is the value of the assets and where did they

00:08:13.780 come from? How can Canadians know that there's no conflict of interest if they don't know where the

00:08:17.780 assets come from? That's an odd question or odd way of framing it. The assets are in a blind trust.

00:08:23.780 So and can I point out that for those who don't follow this, I have six months to put or 120 days to put the

00:08:30.780 assets in a blind trust. I already have put the assets in a blind trust.

00:08:36.780 And once assets are in a blind trust, you don't know that by definition, you don't know the assets

00:08:43.780 because the trustees take over the responsibility. 0.99

00:08:46.780 What a stupidly aloof answer to that question. As if he puts, it's like he's an infant who doesn't 1.00

00:08:52.780 understand object permanence yet. They're asking you, what was the value? Was there anything in there that

00:08:58.780 we could maybe see to know if there was any conflict of interests that you might have going into

00:09:03.780 government? Because it might be in a blind trust. But he knows what the assets currently look like.

00:09:08.780 It's not like as soon as you put your assets in a blind trust that they all get mixed around and he

00:09:14.780 doesn't know if he has money in housing or he has money in molasses or he has money in oil and gas.

00:09:19.780 He doesn't know. He knows what he has. He knows the value of it. Obviously, he does.

00:09:24.780 This is the problem with Mark Carney, too. And I'm a conservative. I want to see him lose.

00:09:28.780 So I guess this is a good thing for me. But from the perspective of a liberal advisor, you will probably

00:09:34.780 face palm at least two or three times a day because the way he answers questions reminds me a lot of the

00:09:40.780 aloofness of Kim Campbell whenever I've seen election footage of her. The questions can be easily spun and

00:09:48.780 his bad answers into really bad attack ads on him. Do you know how bad he's been at like kind of like

00:09:55.780 pushing off criticism? The NDP has a new attack ad against him. And it's not bad. It's actually not bad.

00:10:04.780 If you can be such easy fodder that the NDP have a good solid attack line on you, that's a problem.

00:10:10.780 Here's an ad the NDP released featuring Hamas lover Nikki Ashton.

00:10:15.780 Which brings me to Mark Carney and Brookfield Asset Management, the person who has been touted as having the

00:10:22.780 solutions to our economic challenges. And yet Mark Carney is very much the poster person for the broken

00:10:28.780 system, the hollowing out of Canada that has made us so vulnerable today.

00:10:33.780 Mark Carney has a clear track record of pushing for wealth accumulation for the rich at the expense

00:10:40.780 of workers and Canadian communities. A 2023 report from the Center for International Corporate Tax

00:10:46.780 Accountability and Research called Brookfield Canada's top tax dodger.

00:10:52.780 Like that's a good ad. Or is the NDP's point still kind of asinine because they seem to think that having 0.67

00:10:59.780 wealth is inherently a bad thing. Yeah, they're stupid, but it serves a certain portion of the Canadian 1.00

00:11:04.780 public that you would kind of like, I guess, describe as core left, you know, very left across 1.00

00:11:10.780 the board voters might be offended by this. A lot of kind of progressive, especially women. 1.00

00:11:16.780 I'm not trying to go after women. Any woman watching my channel is probably not voting NDP. 1.00

00:11:21.780 But there is sort of that kind of urban, progressive, Olivia Chow, Jody Gondack, you know,

00:11:29.780 whoever the hyper progressive out in Vancouver is. I know that it's not Ken Sims, it's somebody else.

00:11:33.780 But the type of person who votes for those type of municipal candidates around the country,

00:11:37.780 those are the type of people who this would appeal to. And I've seen some other ads coming out from the

00:11:43.780 NDP where they actually are good at going after Mark Carney as a fairly corrupt figure.

00:11:48.780 And I think that's honestly one of the only angles I've seen that was intelligent by the NDP,

00:11:53.780 because them going after like, pure Polyev is a bootlicker for billionaires.

00:11:58.780 Like that doesn't work on Polyev because, one, the Conservative Party has never been the party

00:12:03.780 that's afraid of wealth creation. They don't care if you become wealthy. 0.98

00:12:07.780 They just want you to do it fairly for the most part. And so when the NDP tax them like,

00:12:12.780 oh, Polyev is a bootlicker for billionaires because he wants to lower people's taxes.

00:12:15.780 A lot of people just hear that and they're like, oh, he wants to lower people's taxes.

00:12:18.780 That sounds good. Where if you go after Mark Carney for it, it actually kind of sticks a little bit more

00:12:23.780 from the left side of the aisle because he's not somebody who's going to lower anyone's taxes.

00:12:28.780 He's not going to be someone who's going to lower regulations.

00:12:31.780 So when he ends up benefiting the hyper wealthy, it's legitimately at the expense of middle class people

00:12:38.780 because he ends up giving them government subsidies and other sort of contracts

00:12:42.780 that end up actually boosting their revenue artificially, whereas Conservatives don't really do that.

00:12:49.780 Yeah, there's always government contracts that exist,

00:12:51.780 but the Conservatives make people wealthy by lowering everybody's taxes.

00:12:55.780 So it's very much more equitable from the NDP's perspective. 0.95

00:12:59.780 That's why it's always a dumb attack on Polyev.

00:13:01.780 But here was sort of, I guess, the thing that Liberals posted about Carney's speech after the swearing in,

00:13:08.780 that I guess this is their, you know, the really good 51 seconds that they want you to see.

00:13:13.780 So let's all evaluate on the merits. I haven't even watched it yet.

00:13:17.780 I just want to see the kind of content that they're creating around Mark Carney.

00:13:20.780 Is this truly all in Canada? Wow. Well, it says, let's build Canada stronger.

00:13:31.780 Do they post a French club? Man.

00:13:33.780 ...forcer les fondations de notre nation durant cette crise et pour battre un Canada encore meilleur.

00:13:43.780 J'ai le plaisir de vous présenter l'équipe extraordinaire et qualifiée qui servira au sein de mon gouvernement

00:13:53.780 et qui défendra les valeurs qui nous tiennent au cœur.

00:13:59.780 Notre gouvernement changera notre façon de travailler.

00:14:03.780 They truly just posted a full clip of him speaking French and this is a complete pablum.

00:14:08.780 You probably don't even need to have been reading the subtitles there to know that he wasn't saying anything particularly interesting.

00:14:13.780 Does he have the non French one? I don't think he does. Wow. 1.00

00:14:21.780 And even there like other clips of him are like really shaky looking.

00:14:26.780 Okay. Well, we'll try and watch this to try and get a general sense of what he was saying at the press conference.

00:14:32.780 It is, it is my honor to respond to the governor general's request that I form a government.

00:14:38.780 By the way, I am not, my computer's not lagging. This is truly the bad quality of the Liberal Party's stream of his speech.

00:14:46.780 It's just frozen.

00:14:47.780 And it's a solemn duty to serve as prime minister at this time of great consequence for our country.

00:14:55.780 The ceremony, the wonder of a country. Indigenous.

00:15:03.780 It's not even, again, it's not buffering. It's literally just there's no audio at all.

00:15:11.780 Opening and closing.

00:15:12.780 Okay. Good job, Liberal Party.

00:15:14.780 Okay. You guys are going into the idiot box because you couldn't figure out how to actually get your own video to work properly. 1.00

00:15:21.780 Yeah, it's a fairly black kind of startup from Mark Carney. Could he win the next election? Sure. 1.00

00:15:30.780 I've never said that they can't. I just think that the conservatives are still going to win.

00:15:34.780 Could the conservatives fumble all they have and only win a minority government or potentially even let the Liberals back in?

00:15:39.780 Sure, they can. Anything can happen. And I find that the people who tend to get to the HQ of any party who are in the leadership positions, not talking about the MPs, but talking about staffers, so often the people who are in the HQ are some of the most incompetent people that you've ever seen.

00:15:57.780 They truly think that going mild will bring the moderate voters in. I've said this before. There is no such thing as a moderate voter. A voter that has no clear, you know, passionate issues that they care about are called non-voters. They stay home. They don't vote. Those are the 40% of people who do not vote.

00:16:18.780 Any voter who actually goes out and casts a ballot cares deeply about something. And when the Conservative Party over the last three months kind of starts easing off the gas and they aren't quite sure about what they're doing, you're playing into the Liberals' hands.

00:16:33.780 The ground has been torn up and the soil of the election is going to be different. But that doesn't mean you start not firing away. You always fire your ammunition downfield. Doesn't matter if you're not hitting anything. You just fire for the sheer practice of it.

00:16:50.780 I find it obnoxious every time a party kind of becomes unsure of itself and they don't really put out any new messaging. They don't put any new advertising out. They don't know what kind of angle to take to attack this guy.

00:17:00.540 Just open fire, guys. Like, have you ever fought in a war before? You don't really negotiate every time you decide to fire your rifle or not. You just put lead down range.

00:17:09.880 And I think that's what the Conservative Party is going to have to do over the next couple of months. Lead down range is the, you know, the message of the day.

00:17:19.220 When you're going after Carney, you're going to want to rip the, tear the bark off this guy and make it very clear he's going to be no different than the previous Justin Trudeau liberal government.

00:17:28.620 And in fact, he's even more left-wing, which is why I call him Marx Carney. Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys. Or not today. I might make another video today. I'm a liar.

00:17:38.820 Make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, do all that great stuff.

00:17:43.560 And check out my website, WyattClaypool.com, if you want to sign up to my mailing list so that I can keep you informed with any good nominations going on around the country.

00:17:52.880 Maybe I'm not going to be able to recommend too many people this cycle because we're coming to a close.

00:17:56.760 But in the future, it gives me a way of there's a, you know, provincial by-election going on or provincial nomination going on in Saskatchewan.

00:18:04.760 I will have 50 people in that riding. I can let them know about the most conservative person I'm aware of running for that nomination.

00:18:12.280 So anyways, that's it for me, guys. See you later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 14, 2025

Carney sworn in as PM - Already dodging new election!

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