The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 31, 2025


Carney’s Terrible first performance in Question Period

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The problem for Prime Minister Mark Carney is the aspects of being a politician that he is worst at are the ones that he needs to draw from most often. Today, in question period, things did not go particularly well for Mark Carney because he's not very good at answering questions on the fly. If anything, the federal debate was the worst aspect of the campaign for Carney's Liberals, and now in Question Period, he seems to be assuming that he can fumble his way through questions and that will be good enough.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. The problem for Prime Minister Mark Carney is the aspects of
00:00:06.980 being a politician that he is worst at are the ones that the Prime Minister is going to have to
00:00:12.680 draw from most often. Yesterday, in question period, things did not go particularly well for
00:00:19.660 Mark Carney because he's not very good at answering questions on the fly. If anything,
00:00:24.580 the federal debate was the worst aspect of the campaign for Carney's liberals. Carney was not
00:00:31.020 very good on stage compared to Pierre Polyev's or Yves-François Blanchet, and that was a low point
00:00:36.900 for his support. That's probably when a lot of the liberal support started bleeding off and why they
00:00:42.000 weren't able to achieve a majority government. And now in question period, it seems like he hasn't
00:00:47.680 really learned any lessons from that debate and just continues assuming that he can sort of fumble
00:00:53.840 his way through questions and that will be good enough. I was told that after this exchange with
00:01:00.040 Andrew Scheer, Mark Carney had to get up and leave the House of Commons because, again, he just was
00:01:06.420 not very good on his feet and he knows he needs practice.
00:01:09.420 Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:01:12.620 Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I would like to welcome the Prime Minister to his first official
00:01:21.240 question period. This is where democracy lives and this is where we provide rigorous scrutiny on every
00:01:27.120 word he says and every dollar he spends on behalf of Canadians. Now, let's talk about those words and
00:01:33.020 dollars. During the election campaign, it was elbows up as he put retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.
00:01:37.920 Then secretly, he dropped those tariffs to effectively zero. But he didn't stop there. He told Canadians
00:01:43.880 that the government would collect 20 billion dollars in revenue from those tariffs and use it to cost
00:01:48.800 his platform. Now that those tariffs are going to bring in zero dollars, two quick questions. Why wasn't
00:01:54.560 he honest with Canadians during the election? And how is he going to make up the shortfall? Is he going to
00:01:58.840 borrow it, print it or tax it? Now, I got to say, before we get to Mark Carney's answer, the biggest
00:02:05.900 tragedy in Canadian politics in 2019 was that Andrew Scheer had the worst advisors on planet Earth.
00:02:12.660 The man is actually great on camera. He's really charismatic and they ended up destroying him in
00:02:19.340 2019. His advisors basically walked into his office every single day when he was up against Justin Trudeau and
00:02:25.080 says, Andrew, be boring. Don't be likable. Be nervous and scared. It's like, I like Andrew Scheer unscripted.
00:02:32.200 He's so good at this. Some of the best ads from the 2025 federal election were Andrew Scheer filming
00:02:38.700 fun ads, you know, telling people, don't go back to your old ex. They're terrible, implying it's like
00:02:44.300 the Liberal Party right now. Yeah. So I just needed to have a quick aside about that. I really like
00:02:49.700 Andrew Scheer when he's just being himself. By the way, guys, if you like my coverage of politics in
00:02:55.060 Canada, make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, do all that great
00:02:59.180 stuff. And now I'm going to get to Mark Carney's answer. Just said, Mr. Speaker, our tariffs have
00:03:06.820 maximum impact on the United States, minimum impact on Canada. And we are dedicating all the revenues
00:03:13.580 from those tariffs to supporting the workers and businesses affected by the unjustified American
00:03:18.620 actions.
00:03:18.920 Now, that was very obviously a non-answer, but it wasn't even a good non-answer from Mark Carney.
00:03:29.160 And that was so short, you've got to run out the clock if you're trying to lie as the government.
00:03:35.140 That actually is what I witness here in British Columbia. When I watch Question Period in the
00:03:41.720 Victoria legislature, the NDP, David Eby, they're very good at taking a non-answer and stretching
00:03:49.220 it out for two minutes. Just make it boring, make it not clippable. Mark Carney just says,
00:03:54.680 well, I know I lied about that, but I didn't really lie because we, and then he just repeats
00:03:59.180 like a talking point from the election. It's nothing that any Canadian would watch would say,
00:04:03.560 well, I can see what he means by that. Like, no, he's just lying. That's all you can say.
00:04:10.200 Anyone, even a liberal voter would be like, well, I thought, you know, I thought he was
00:04:14.140 going to actually come up with a real reason why Andrew Scheer is wrong.
00:04:20.360 Well, he didn't take long to pick up old liberal habits of not being able to answer questions.
00:04:25.840 But since the election, Canadians have been inundated with grand rhetoric and pretty speeches
00:04:31.080 from this liberal party, but they are still suffering under all those policies. Household debt
00:04:36.280 up at record levels. Number of people who can't pay their mortgages, increasing. Food
00:04:40.620 bank use, continuing to rise. Now TD Bank is forecasting a recession with hundreds of thousands
00:04:45.800 of lost jobs. The PM said undoing the damage of the last 10 years would require great speed,
00:04:51.020 but he's not going to table a budget for six months. If he's the man with the plan and the
00:04:54.340 guy you hire in a crisis, why won't he table a budget before he goes on summer vacation?
00:04:58.320 Mr. Speaker, I understand the member of the opposition is very busy, didn't have a chance
00:05:04.620 to study closely the 100 day plan of the former from Ottawa, Carleton.
00:05:17.360 I think that's kind of like a non issue, like the conservatives didn't have a budget like
00:05:22.380 well, they weren't presenting themselves as the crisis managers of the country like he
00:05:26.500 was include a budget. Our plan includes legislating. Our plan includes legislating for one Canadian
00:05:35.560 economy and nation building projects immediately to grow this economy. And we expect we expect
00:05:43.000 the support from all in this house. They must be really afraid to come clean with Canadians 1.00
00:05:48.460 if they're going to punt it off into the fall. But Mr. Speaker, with the throne speech yesterday,
00:05:52.960 the Liberals have effectively admitted that it was their policies that caused the suffering
00:05:58.020 for Canadians. The reckless borrowing and massive deficits caused the inflation. The carbon tax
00:06:02.120 drove up prices and drove away investment. And their anti-development bills chased jobs out
00:06:07.260 of Canada. Now, the Prime Minister is claiming that somehow the Liberals have changed. Well,
00:06:11.300 he has a chance to prove it to Canadians. If he's serious, will he tell Canadians that pipelines
00:06:17.620 are part of his values by repealing Bill C-69, the No More Pipelines Bill.
00:06:22.620 Canada's new government is acting immediately to grow this economy. I just made my maiden speech
00:06:34.280 in this house. Canada's new government, Mr. Speaker, is acting immediately to grow this economy.
00:06:40.320 One Canadian economy out of 13 nation building projects. One project office working with the
00:06:47.340 provinces to cooperate. We expect the support for the members office. And this is the problem.
00:06:52.680 It doesn't matter. Oh, we have a plan and we're going to start building nation building projects.
00:06:56.420 Is that does that include pipelines? If it doesn't include pipelines, the economy is not going to get
00:07:00.260 fixed. You need it to include pipelines. You need it to include mines. You need it to include more
00:07:05.360 energy projects that aren't subsidized green energy projects. Or you're just basically trying to create
00:07:11.100 a bunch of fake jobs the way Trudeau did. And shock, I can't believe Mark Carney's doing the same
00:07:15.980 things as Trudeau after being his economic advisor for five years straight. The questions,
00:07:21.160 I'm not going to show you other footage of other ministers answering questions. It's pretty much the
00:07:25.700 same that we've been seeing over the past few years. When we see more egregious stuff, I will be
00:07:30.020 bringing it up. Conservatives have been doing a pretty good job over the last few days of being able to
00:07:35.220 characterize what the new liberal government's like, what's wrong with them already. They do have
00:07:40.400 to kind of tread lightly a little bit because you have to wait for the liberals to screw up before
00:07:44.840 you pounce on them. Right now, basically saying, where's the plan? What are you guys actually going
00:07:49.560 to do in the next several months? That is a good line of attack because it doesn't seem like the
00:07:54.500 liberals know what they're going to do. And that was kind of what they ran on. The idea that they know
00:07:58.940 what's going on. So leave it to them. They're going to hit the ground running. They're going to get
00:08:03.880 stuff done. And the fact that they can't even put a budget together with this guy whose entire
00:08:08.420 background is supposed to be finance is absolutely insane. But yeah, right after that clip, apparently
00:08:15.280 Mark Carney then leaves the House chamber because he didn't want to have to answer any more questions.
00:08:20.960 And the prime minister can just choose not to answer questions while he's there. But obviously,
00:08:25.660 it looks bad when people are directing questions to the prime minister, and he's then passing it off
00:08:30.880 to other people. So he just exited the House. So then he had a perfect excuse to not actually answer
00:08:36.940 because he was busy. He had to get on a meeting, even though this is the first question period.
00:08:42.040 And this should be the one that you stick it out in and prove that you're a gladiator. And I'll stand
00:08:46.860 up those dishonest questions from the conservatives. The problem is they're not dishonest questions.
00:08:51.280 They're perfectly legitimate questions. Even previously, they weren't even going to give us a budget
00:08:56.120 in the year 2025. They only reversed course and said it's going to be in the fall because of all
00:09:01.260 the blowback in the media that really, you guys, the men and women with the plan, aren't going to
00:09:07.780 give us the plan until 2026. I don't even think they're going to have anything by the fall. It's
00:09:12.960 probably going to be some sort of mini budget that's just going to get them another few months
00:09:18.120 down the road. It's a dishonest way of doing public finance because it's not giving us a solid
00:09:24.440 roadmap for what you guys are going to do. They're just going to keep giving themselves billions of
00:09:28.940 dollars to the different departments through orders in council, which is far more difficult
00:09:33.180 for people to track your spending with because they have to compile all of your OICs in order to
00:09:39.180 see where you're spending money. But whatever. But he's the guy who's going to save Canada. He's going
00:09:45.220 to fight back against the U.S., even though he's already basically backed off all that stuff.
00:09:50.800 It's like he never had to explain why he ran on the fact that he was putting retaliatory tariffs
00:09:56.460 against the United States, but then he got rid of the vast majority of them before Election Day
00:10:00.920 even happened. But yeah, that should be it for me today, guys. Here, it's been an absolutely crazy
00:10:07.380 day or crazy week in Victoria. I was absolutely exhausted today. It's like the amount of stress,
00:10:13.660 the amount of running around you're doing. You wake up at 6 a.m. and you go to sleep at 1 a.m.
00:10:19.240 That took everything out of me. That's why this video is actually a little bit later in the day,
00:10:23.600 because I just felt like garbage the entire day, just purely through fatigue. It was nuts.
00:10:29.720 I might have to make more content about what went on in Victoria the way I did a couple weeks back.
00:10:34.880 After those couple weeks, I dropped a video last week about kind of what it was like
00:10:39.280 as a staffer in Victoria being attacked by conservative MPs or MLAs for basically wanting
00:10:46.880 them to actually be conservative and helping the independents out. So as I'm going forward,
00:10:52.180 I'm going to be back in the regular studio hopefully tomorrow. That'll be nice because
00:10:56.360 the problem with shooting in these hotel rooms is that the internet is oddly flaky. If you've seen
00:11:02.260 any of my videos over the past week where the screen goes fuzzy for a bit or there's some cuts here and
00:11:08.400 there, it's because the internet was so bad I was having to hit pause and restart everything and
00:11:13.820 it just makes it so much more frustrating to shoot a video knowing that halfway through a take you
00:11:19.800 might have to restart the whole thing because the internet just cuts out because you happen to be
00:11:24.400 in the part of the hotel where the Wi-Fi router doesn't reach that well. So thanks for supporting
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