CBC attacks Chrystia Freeland to defend Carney and Trudeau!
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Summary
Chrystia Freeland has been a key part of the Liberal leadership campaign for a decade, and yet, she's being attacked by Rosemary Barton for not being an "insider" enough. Is she an insider or an outsider?
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. As a conservative commentator, this federal liberal leadership
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race has been so weird to follow, because day to day, I am sometimes having to defend
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people I would normally only say bad things about. Today, I'm going to have to defend
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former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, because as weird
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as it is to say, she is in fact an outsider candidate in this liberal leadership race.
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Is she on paper an insider? 100% she is. She's been an insider for a decade. At the same time,
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Mark Carney is clearly the pick of both Team Trudeau, as well as the liberal establishment
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of the media. This is why I'm going to show you this absolutely insane clip where Rosemary
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Barton from the CBC attacks Chrystia Freeland because they are going all out trying to paint
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her as the insider and Mark Carney as the outsider, even though his campaign chair is Gerald Butts.
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He has Katie Telford on his campaign assisting. Justin Trudeau is clearly behind him. Justin
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Trudeau's entire wedding party is either on the campaign or endorsing the man, and he
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has most of the ministers endorsing him. It's wild to watch. But look at this. This demonstrates
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just how in the bag the CBC is right now for Mark Carney, because Rosemary Barton is saying
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things in an interview that are just frankly inappropriate if you're trying to be a neutral
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interviewer. Before I get into it, guys, just a reminder to like this video, subscribe to
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a comment if you have any thoughts. I always like to scroll through and see what people
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have said. Anyways, check this out right here. You told my colleague Catherine Cullen that you're
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running against the Ottawa establishment, the establishment that you have been a key part of
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for a decade. Why on earth would anyone believe the claim that you are against the establishment,
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that you are not part of the establishment? That's not a real question. That is what we call
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poisoning the well. And again, is Christy Freeland part of the establishment? Obviously she is.
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Compared to Mark Carney, is she the establishment favorite? Not at all. It's obviously Mark Carney
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when it comes to Gerald Butts and Katie Telford and everyone else who is a big power broker inside
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the party. Freeland has some people on her side, but she is swimming against the tide. But that
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question right there where Rosemary Barton said, why on earth would anyone consider you an outsider
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or not an insider? It's like, what the heck? You're basically saying this is a completely ridiculous
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thing you're trying to put forward, Christia. You're wrong, but here you have a chance to talk
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anyways, and I'm probably going to cut you off. Look, I think that people can see very clearly
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the dynamics of the race. But the reason that I'm asking people... That's not what my question was.
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Okay, guys, I'm being very serious with you. I actually don't watch these clips ahead of time
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outside of the first like 15, 16 seconds, because I want to be able to react to it fresh.
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Truly, she couldn't even let Freeland get away with giving like half an answer. She immediately
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jumps in and says, hey, wait, wait, wait, Christia, I'm trying to attack you right now. Why are you not
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accepting me attacking you? It's like Rosemary Barton is still only used to interviewing people
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like Erin O'Toole, who just lie down and wait for the interviewer to kill them. Because like,
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she looks so bad here. Honestly, this is making Christia Freeland look good. Does Christia Freeland
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deserve to look good? No. Half the time, she looks like a bit of a bush baby in this interview,
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looking like a deer in the headlights. But Rosemary is making it so obvious that Carney is like
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a artificial propped up guy to be Justin Trudeau's fourth term in office.
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She said, why would people believe that you are not part of the establishment,
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given the proximity you had to the prime minister for a decade? Are you actually just saying that
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because that is the only possible way for you to win at this stage?
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Again, that's not a question. That's an attack. This is saying you're a loser who's going to lose.
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And are you just saying this because you're losing so bad? Maybe it's your only path to victory.
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Rosie, not at all. And I think it's important for people to remember that I resigned. I'm the minister
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who had the courage to do that. I'm the minister who saw that we needed to be relentlessly focused
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Rosie, I'm not just saying that today. I said that on December 16th, before these measures were in place.
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Would you not, Chrystia Freeland, have had a better opportunity to help the country
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had you stayed at the cabinet table in whatever capacity the prime minister wanted you to?
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It's serious. Rosemary Barton, like Justin Trudeau's enforcer here, like grilling her,
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Why would you betray Justin Trudeau like that? My fantasy boyfriend. Why would you ever do that
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to Mr. Trudeau? Chrystia, why are you such an insider at the same time when you've proven me wrong?
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Well, you were wrong for doing it. Shouldn't you have stayed in the insider circle?
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And again, the absurdity of everything going on here is that Chrystia Freeland for years helped
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feed the bodies of people under the bus like Bill Morneau and other people who were doing the right
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thing in Trudeau's government. You know, Jane Philpott, Jody Wilson-Raybould, tons of other
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liberals have been thrown out of the party. Ram Nishanga. Lots of people were thrown out for
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calling out issues within the party, corruption, or doing their jobs properly, but Justin Trudeau
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needed to use their back as a knife block. She was totally fine with it. And that's why this is so weird,
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because she actually is the outsider at this point, and the CBC is not having it, because how dare you
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get in the way of Justin Trudeau's fourth term using Mark Carney as a meat puppet?
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You would have been able to take on Donald Trump right now.
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No. Canada is strong. Canada is going to astonish the world with our strength, and I am very proud
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every single day to be out there talking to Canadians, rallying Canadians, and speaking out for Canada.
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You could see how, like, angry Rosemary Barton looked in, like, the corners of her mouth. It's like,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, Christy, shut the hell up. Get off my show. Either could drop out of the
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race and endorse Carney, or you're not allowed on my show again. Again, this is why nobody likes the CBC.
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Is technically this just a basic interview on paper? Sure. But the questions are done horribly.
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They always imply that you're wrong, and you're going to say some stuff, but you're already wrong,
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because I've told the audience you're wrong. Why on earth, Christy, or would anyone believe that
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you're not part of the establishment? Well, because if you have eyes and ears, you can look
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at the dynamic of the race and see that Carney has all of the Team Trudeau support, and everyone else
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is either a candidate who's only running for the leadership to throw Carney second-place votes,
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or they are heavily on the outs with the party, like Freeland is. By the way, she is right. She
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actually did trigger the ouster of Justin Trudeau as prime minister, so she should get some credit for
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that. But again, Rosemary is deeply, deeply invested in making it that Carney's the outsider.
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So he's never even been an MP before, but he's been Trudeau's economic advisor for years. In fact,
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a few times where there was big policy screw-ups in the last few years, it wasn't Freeland's fault
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exactly as finance minister. It's her fault for being around when the problems are happening and not
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calling out until the very last minute. But it was Carney that was basically the one making the
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playbook that the liberals ran on and that Trudeau told Freeland to implement. That's why she ended
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up leaving when she got tired with Trudeau basically doing a bait-and-switch every time she was carrying
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out what he wanted. He would change his mind, and then she'd look like an idiot pivoting and then
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causing a massive deficit because Trudeau cannot keep what he wants straight. Is Freeland a good
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politician? No. I hope she loses her re-election. She doesn't deserve to be in government.
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At the same time, if I was having to choose between Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland as
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liberal leader, I would take Chrystia Freeland because at least it's honest. At least it's some
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random lady running because she wants to run and she doesn't like Justin Trudeau. Mark Carney's not
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even running. He's running so that Justin Trudeau doesn't have to run because Justin Trudeau doesn't
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want to lose the next election, so he wants Mark Carney to be his stand-in so that maybe Justin gets to
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have a comeback in eight years or something like that. Mark my words, Trudeau is going to attempt
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to come back because he's got, you know, what else is he gonna do? Go back to teaching people how to
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surf? Is he gonna be another, he's gonna go back to being a drama teacher? The man's got nothing. I know
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he's independently wealthy, but people get bored, and the thing that Trudeau and also Jagmeet Singh
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love more than wealth or anything like that, or power, they love attention. They love being in the middle
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of the spotlight. That is the main reason, in my mind, why Jagmeet Singh does not want a federal
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election early, and he is going to bring up every excuse to push it back till October.
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Unfortunately, Doug Ford, the fake conservative in Ontario, gave him the perfect reason not to call
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an election right away and to keep the liberals in power for a few months longer, and because there's
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an early Ontario election, so Jagmeet can easily just say, there's a lot of voter fatigue in Ontario
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right now, and all our staff members were just exhausted from helping Merritt Stiles, so you're
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gonna have to give us a few more months, and also we need to pass some stuff in case we have another
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trade threat by Trump. That's what Jagmeet Singh's gonna do, mark my words, but Jagmeet, he kind of cares
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about the pension. He kind of cares about other stuff related to how well the NDP is going to do in the next
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election and needing more money, but the main thing is that he needs to do well enough in this election
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to maybe justify still being leader, or justify making a pivot and going somewhere else in his political
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career, because Jagmeet loves being on television. He loves being on podcasts. He loves streaming video games
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with AOC and Ilhan Omar, and that guy who said America deserves 9-11, Hassan Piker. He loves being, like,
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he's like a colorful parrot who goes around collecting shiny objects, and Justin Trudeau is
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the same way. Both don't love being on a magazine cover more than anything. They would give up every
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single principle and their left foot to be on People magazine, because they are just very shallow
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individuals, and now Mark Carney is the guy who is Trudeau's blood bag to get him through this period
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where he's not prime minister. Boring enough that he's not going to outshine Trudeau, he's still going to lose,
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but it allows Trudeau not to be the one who personally took the loss, so that in eight years he can come
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back and say, see, don't you guys all miss me? And by the way, we will not miss him by that point. He
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will flop on his face. He is not like his father. His father actually had skill. He does not, and I think
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that's where we're really left. There is a chance Freeland could beat Carney, even in the polling that shows
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Carney ahead. Some of it shows him way ahead with liberal supporters. I don't quite believe that, just because
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his name recognition in Canada is still fairly low, and Freeland has much higher name recognition
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among liberal voters, but a new poll came out, so I don't really believe the mid-50s ones where he's
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at like 53%, 55%, but another poll from Angus Reid seemed more realistic, where depending on the
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province, he's at 33 or 35, and Freeland's at 15 or 18. He can be caught there, especially if there's a
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debate, and he is ducking a debate right now, and it's probably because somebody like Ruby Dalla
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running for the liberal leadership is going to smoke him. Is Ruby going to win? Probably not,
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but Ruby has showed that she is not just willing to throw punches, that she probably has like weights
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in her boxing gloves, that she is going to go and roast him as Trudeau 2.0 and slam him for basically
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just being like the exact carbon copy of Trudeau's policy without any of the charisma. Ruby has been
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ruthless, and then Freeland on stage can also go after him for being the insider favorite. He does
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not want any attention. That's the problem. There are so many liberals online who want to talk about
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how Mark Carney's brat, and isn't he so interesting, and he's giving so much energy to the party. At the
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same time, do not let him go on any shows that are not scripted. Do not let him talk to any
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independent media. Do not put him on a debate stage. By the way, Mark, you're not allowed to
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leave your house. That is his campaign. He was running the Joe Biden basement campaign from the
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2020 presidential election in the U.S., and I'm not sure if that's going to win you an election
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when you would be against pure Polyev as a federal leader, and he's actually interesting. He's actually
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good long form in discussions. He's good at debating. He's good in hostile media situations,
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and people, when you look at his approval rating, generally like him, and the Conservative Party's
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at like 43%. No, Mark Carney's not going to be able to win. Right now, all the pollsters showing
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the liberals going up, except Ecos, because they're showing like the liberals like surging
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in an insane way, which is unrealistic to how public opinion works, and there's nothing in the
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news cycle that would suggest anyone anywhere close to like 30% of Canadians are cool with the
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liberals, and he has them at like 35. It's crazy, but all the other ones, all the other pollsters that
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have the liberals realistically bumping up to like 27%, 26%. I'm not even sure if that's real
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support surging. That might just be a mirage. Like, liberal supporters who were depressed are
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more likely to say they're voting now, but then in time, they're just going to fall back to 24,
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23, and they're going to be back in mediocre pre-Trudeau coup numbers. Anyways, so that's it for me today,
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guys. Remember to like the show, leave a comment, subscribe, do all that great stuff. I might have
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another video out today. I actually have a fundraiser I'm going to with Pierre Polyev, so maybe I'll post a
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photo of that later or whatever and tell you what I said to him or whatever. I always like to give
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politicians advice on marketing and whatnot. In fact, Pierre Polyev has taken our advice from the National
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Telegraph before. I did an interview with him talking about central bank digital currencies. It
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was like a very short 30-second interview, and I wrote an article about it where he had given me a
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general answer that, yeah, I'm against CBDCs. I'm not sure how I would ban them, but in general, I don't
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want the Bank of Canada addressing it. I rolled out that article. He had been doing nothing on CBDCs
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before that. My article on Facebook back when you could actually post on Facebook got 12,000 likes. This
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was during the leadership race. 12 days after that article, his campaign then rolls out all these
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graphics about how much he's against CBDCs, and it starts being worked into a stump speech where he
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would be like, and by the way, we're going to ban CBDCs, and we always get a big crowd reaction. I could
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tell in my original interview, you could tell he was a bit more awkward, like he didn't know if anyone
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really cared that much about CBDCs. Not that he wasn't against them, but, you know, sometimes talking
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about something that nobody has a clue about makes you seem like really out of touch,
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and so I thought, I think he didn't assume that it was going to be a big deal. Article came out,
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and then the campaign then rolls out all the CBDC stuff. That's not a coincidence. That's called
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having an actual effect. Anyways, that's truly it for me here. See you guys later.