The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 27, 2026


Carney’s Massive Blunder： Tells Alberta No 50+1 Vote… Now Quebec is Enraged


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PM Mark Carney's comments about Alberta Separatists and the court ruling on the "50/1 enough" question have the Bloc quebecois in Quebec freaking out and the rest of the country on edge.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.320 My favorite genre of Canadian political content is watching Prime Minister Mark Carney stick his foot in his mouth
00:00:13.240 because he thought he was rhetorically more clever than everybody else and didn't realize the mess he was causing. 1.00
00:00:20.060 And that's exactly what the man did with his really stupid comments about Alberta separatism 1.00
00:00:26.140 that he didn't seem to realize was going to tick off a bunch of people in Quebec. 0.99
00:00:31.360 It seems like Carney thought he was just going to be able to dunk on the Alberta separatists
00:00:35.280 to make himself more popular in the rest of the country,
00:00:38.840 not realizing he was ticking off people in the liberal stronghold of Quebec
00:00:43.520 that could actually result in him losing the by-election
00:00:47.680 to replace Stephen Gilbeau in his Montreal area riding
00:00:51.680 that, mind you, used to be held by both the NDP and the former Bloc Quebecois leader,
00:00:59.360 Gilles Deceptre. You can't make it up. But anyways, before we get into the details of the
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00:01:47.480 freaking out and only making videos on the most like clickbaitable type topics. I can kind of
00:01:52.960 cover whatever I want because I'm not like, don't have a YouTube algorithm hanging over my head for
00:01:58.420 income. Anyways, so Mark Carney said something really stupid yesterday that started off a 0.97
00:02:06.280 firestorm, not in the province of Alberta, but it also did, but in the province of Quebec. Check 0.99
00:02:12.320 this out 50 plus one enough no it is not uh it is not for under a clarity act it is absolutely not
00:02:19.120 and i would just recommend that you read the clarity act it's very clear not surprisingly
00:02:23.060 the clarity act is very clear no the clarity act is not clear the clarity act is in fact
00:02:29.100 very vague and what he is doing right here is hiding behind vagaries it needs to be a clear
00:02:35.420 question and there needs to be a clear majority voting in favor of separatism in order for you
00:02:41.400 to actually separate i'll let him keep talking here but i'll kind of explain what that really
00:02:46.480 means in reality and how he's twisting it in just a second before we get to the bloc quebecois and
00:02:50.960 the party quebecois freaking out about this uh and a termination uh and there's a series of
00:02:56.120 conditions which i responded in the house uh for the record is 50 plus one enough very clear it's
00:03:01.620 50 plus one i gave uh i i gave a very i gave him sorry just to be clear um the uh because it is a
00:03:10.360 question about a question i mean it's uh it it doesn't it's not a bite it's explicit in the
00:03:15.780 question that it's not a binding referendum this is what i expected but i uh you know as i said
00:03:20.960 uh in french that uh as prime minister and issues particularly issues uh of a constitutional nature
00:03:27.180 i like to make sure i have the uh official advice before us which is why yesterday i was careful in
00:03:32.120 terms of 50 plus one enough no it is not uh it is not for under a clarity act it is absolutely not
00:03:38.420 And then I would. So, yeah, that's just playing again. But like, my goodness, it's just basically what he was previously saying before that guy asked him the question of is 50 plus one enough?
00:03:48.640 He was saying, like, well, it's a question about a question. So really, we don't have to honor it at all because it's not even a clear enough question.
00:03:56.600 Well, it actually is a clear question saying, do you want a binding referendum on separating?
00:04:02.640 Now, Daniel Smith had to do that because the court struck down the Stay Free Alberta question. That was a clear separatism question. They said, you have to consult with Indigenous people and this could affect their rights and everything, so I'm not letting the petition be certified.
00:04:16.580 And so Danielle Smith put up this question so the court wouldn't smack it down again saying, hey, we're not actually affecting indigenous rights. We're just asking if we can even have a question be tabled. And then we'll do all the consulting to ensure that we can actually put that question forward if it gets a yes vote.
00:04:32.940 or, you know, I only think it's a yes vote. Basically, someone marks the box saying, yes,
00:04:37.200 I do want a referendum on that. But then Carney didn't seem to realize that by basically trying
00:04:43.240 to poo-poo the Alberta separatism question, that he's also poo-pooing the Quebec separatism
00:04:50.300 question, which is as if not more popular. And he didn't seem to remember that's kind of a big
00:04:58.260 stronghold for the Liberal Party. He basically just told all of his own voters, yeah, I'm not
00:05:03.900 letting you leave if you ever want to, if you ever rethink being part of Canada. And the Bloc
00:05:10.060 Quebecois party is popular enough at different times of history. A lot of people who vote federal
00:05:15.320 liberal used to vote Bloc, and they probably haven't changed their minds on separatism. They
00:05:20.660 probably just don't see it as very realistic. Unless you kick them directly in the face and 0.99
00:05:26.940 say that even if you voted 50% plus one, I'm not going to actually allow you to leave Confederation.
00:05:33.860 Now, we need to move on to now the Bloc attacking Mark Carney. This is being translated from French,
00:05:41.960 obviously, because this was quite delicious. I'm just going to show you this one interchange
00:05:46.200 that happened at the very start of question period with the Bloc house leader, because you
00:05:52.440 don't need to see like the other three or four Bloc Québécois MPs asking the same question.
00:05:56.940 the fact that they were dogging all dogging him really does show you that this is absolute
00:06:01.660 political blood in the water for the bloc it's 50 of the votes plus one the prime minister knows
00:06:06.460 this all his laws are passed with 50 plus one his majority depends on 50 plus one even his
00:06:13.580 parliamentary secretary for justice said the rule is 50 plus one that is democracy
00:06:19.820 except for referenda because of the clarity act will the prime minister repeal this offer
00:06:28.760 the authoritarian overreach the right now the actual clarity act doesn't say that you can't
00:06:36.220 separate with 50 plus one it basically just says there needs to be a clear question and there needs
00:06:40.660 to be a clear majority clear majority isn't some just abstract concept where if the prime minister
00:06:45.860 determines in his mind that you need 72%, you need 72%. Clear majority and clear question means that
00:06:51.720 you can't ask a deliberately confusing question in order to engineer an outcome. And a clear
00:06:57.240 majority would be like, let's say you had a question where there were multiple outcomes,
00:07:02.300 there were multiple things that you could check off, and a plurality of people chose like, I want
00:07:08.140 to separate. But then there was a bunch of non-separating answers of saying, well, I want
00:07:14.180 to not separate, but I want this too. And I want to not separate, but I don't want any changes. Or
00:07:19.100 I want to not separate plus this or that. You can't engineer an outcome where, oh, a plurality
00:07:26.400 of people or a majority, technically, of people voted to separate because we had a bunch of answers
00:07:33.080 that technically, if you're really squinted, sounded like separatism, but they don't really,
00:07:37.440 but if we cobbled them together, it's technically a majority. That's what the Clarity Act is saying.
00:07:42.440 Again, Clarity Act is not saying it needs to be 55, 60, 75, or 100% of people.
00:07:47.460 It just needs to be a clear majority.
00:07:49.600 A clear majority is 50 plus 1%. 0.74
00:07:51.900 And now the Bloc Abiquar is saying, well, if you can't even read the Clarity Act, right, 0.86
00:07:56.800 well, then we obviously need to repeal it because you're using it in an authoritarian manner
00:08:01.140 to block separatist petitions or referendums that you do not like.
00:08:06.260 So here is Mark Carney's response.
00:08:07.820 Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker, you have to respect democracy. You have to respect parliamentary
00:08:14.940 legislation and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada under...
00:08:19.420 I'm sorry, the Clarity Act isn't democracy simply because it was passed. It was passed by
00:08:23.700 representatives, but representatives cannot pass an anti-democratic piece of legislation.
00:08:29.020 It's not democracy for a majority of MPs to vote for a piece of legislation that is then going to
00:08:35.020 be misinterpreted as we don't care if you vote a majority way, we're just not going to respect the
00:08:40.640 result of your referendum. The Clarity Act, the House of Commons must consider the following
00:08:45.920 factors to establish this determination of a clear vote. The scope of the majority that are valid,
00:08:54.500 expressed in favor of the successionistic option and the percentage of eligible electors who took
00:09:02.640 part in the referendum. It is not 50% plus one. Yeah, so that's complete crap. And now he doesn't
00:09:13.100 just have the Bloc Québécois and their MPs on his back. He also has the leader of the party
00:09:19.700 Québécois, who is very much not happy with this because he runs a provincial separatist Quebec
00:09:26.020 party which by the way is currently leading in the polls in quebec and that's a lot like they
00:09:33.240 are leading with like 32 33 percent of the vote which is a lot considering they have like five or
00:09:38.440 six parties that can presumably win seats in that province so that's a big lead in in quebec yeah
00:09:44.400 i don't i don't think we heard uh your reaction since daniel smith announced that she'll start
00:09:50.300 at the process for a future and potential referendum?
00:09:54.060 How do you react about this?
00:09:57.240 What's happening in Alberta?
00:09:58.680 I'm surprised at what Carney said.
00:10:01.400 Mark Carney seemed to be willing to give many things
00:10:05.960 to Alberta in exchange for some peace.
00:10:10.320 And I think the premier of Alberta, Daniel Smith,
00:10:13.740 is just doing her job as a premier,
00:10:17.480 saying that of course they are free to consult their population and of course they're a parliament
00:10:22.920 free of making any laws that they deem fit that they deem fit to uh for their objectives
00:10:31.160 so for mark carney to all of a sudden start saying that uh it's a bluff it's dangerous
00:10:37.320 i think it's really out of out of line and i'm i'm not sure where that is heading but
00:10:42.280 make me let me make clear that in the case of quebec our laws are clear the historic
00:10:49.800 the history of the two referendums are very clear we are free to consult our population at any time
00:10:55.880 and there's no blackmail or any comment that will change that principle and i'm pretty sure that
00:11:01.320 it's the same reasoning in alberta right now yeah so he didn't specifically mention the 50 plus one
00:11:07.800 thing, but those comments were triggered afterwards
00:11:09.860 because he had also been making
00:11:11.520 comments about how the
00:11:13.680 separatist referendum is a dangerous bluff
00:11:15.920 and effectively acting like
00:11:17.920 he's not going to let a pipeline go forward
00:11:19.900 if Danielle Smith lets the referendum
00:11:21.740 go forward, even though she's not doing
00:11:23.860 it, she's simply letting the petition
00:11:25.940 the citizen's petition
00:11:27.740 process play out
00:11:29.400 because a judge blocked it 1.00
00:11:31.660 unfairly, she's putting up her own version
00:11:33.940 of the question to actually
00:11:35.740 honor the fact that they had actually collected
00:11:37.620 more than enough signatures to trigger it happening. And just because of a judge's
00:11:42.820 ridiculous opinion, it's not going forward. And so, yeah, this is not great for Mark Carney,
00:11:49.420 considering that he has now somehow unified Alberta and Quebec against him and his arrogant
00:11:57.960 kind of perspective on federalism just being a massive cram down from Ottawa onto the provinces.
00:12:04.540 And even if you vote to leave, he'll read the results wrong and decide that you can't leave.
00:12:10.800 So great work, Mark Carney. 1.00
00:12:14.020 You may have lost a by-election from your big stupid mouth. 1.00
00:12:18.220 And also at the same time, you may have made Quebec and Alberta partners in confederation, 1.00
00:12:23.840 even though those two provinces disagree on effectively everything other than the fact that Ottawa sucks. 0.95
00:12:32.440 So, I don't know what else to say here. 0.54
00:12:35.300 Actually, maybe we will grab up one more clip of the Bloc Quebecois
00:12:39.720 complaining at Mark Carney because I do find that entertaining.
00:12:42.820 So, I might actually just pause this to grab one more
00:12:45.140 just so we can end off the show with that.
00:12:49.480 Okay, we are back for some entertainment.
00:12:52.780 Here is another one of the Bloc Quebecois MPs
00:12:56.040 coming at Mark Carney with piss and vinegar here
00:12:58.660 because of his 50% plus one comments.
00:13:01.820 The Honourable Member for Rivière-du-Nord.
00:13:04.960 Mr. Speaker, there is no place in a democracy for a law that does not respect the will of the people expressed by 50% of the votes plus one.
00:13:14.140 There's no place in a democracy for a law that overturns the people's decisions by claiming after the fact that either the question or the results of the vote was not clear enough.
00:13:24.460 There is no place in a democracy for a law that flouts the rules of the ballot when the result just doesn't suit the government.
00:13:30.640 This is an authoritarian overreach we must avoid.
00:13:34.700 Will the Prime Minister finally repeal the anti-democratic law on referendum clarity?
00:13:41.280 The Right Honourable Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker, we respect the laws of Canada.
00:13:50.420 The Clarity Act is clear.
00:13:52.700 At the same time, we respect the will of Quebecers, that is, to build a strong, resilient Quebec within a strong and resilient, independent Canada. 1.00
00:14:06.180 Like, oh my goodness, what a stupid response. 0.99
00:14:08.900 He's basically saying that I respect Quebecers when they agree with me. 1.00
00:14:13.300 When they voted in a lot of Liberal MPs, I liked them.
00:14:16.520 But provincially, they put forward a referendum question on separating.
00:14:21.500 That's illegitimate based on the fact that I'm prime minister and I have a lot of Quebec MPs.
00:14:26.700 I'm sorry, how does it change a Quebec separatist referendum if the liberals want a majority or not even a majority, but they want a plurality of the Quebec seats?
00:14:37.500 Sorry, they could win. They could literally vote in this case based on how we saw them.
00:14:41.020 They could they could vote like 90 percent to separate in Quebec right now.
00:14:44.740 And he'd be like, well, I feel like they voted for me to, you know, they voted for a strong elbows up liberal government.
00:14:52.240 They wanted a strong Quebec and a strong Canada.
00:14:54.960 I feel that way.
00:14:55.840 So the question's not clear enough.
00:14:57.720 Like, what is this?
00:14:59.620 Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys.
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