The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 11, 2025


CBC defends Carney after he sends them $178 Million! ($33 Billion OIC fund)


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On this episode of Power and Politics, David Cochran and the CBC are joined by Fred Delori to defend Mark Carney's order in council spending of $33B to keep the lights on. Why is the CBC defending him?

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and happy Mother's Day, by the way, to all the mothers out there.
00:00:07.000 Today, I wanted to combine two of my previous stories into one because they have both become
00:00:12.720 relevant again, one being the CBC's massive bias towards the liberals, and two is Mark Carney
00:00:20.180 spending $33 billion of taxpayer money without parliamentary oversight or approval. He did it
00:00:27.600 through an order in council, which you can technically do, and I guess he's doing this
00:00:33.060 because he's going to wait a few more weeks before reconvening Parliament and actually passing a
00:00:38.060 budget, but it still just raises questions why he's so blasé about just not having to consult
00:00:44.220 Parliament to spend that much money. He's been the Prime Minister since mid-March, and he still
00:00:49.900 hasn't brought back Parliament to actually do real business. It's just a big issue with his attitude
00:00:56.740 that it's easier to do it this way, Mark Carney wants it the way he wants it, and the CBC's here
00:01:03.280 defending him for doing it. So before I get to the segment from the CBC where they talk about this,
00:01:09.020 I just want to mention to you guys, hey, if you like the channel, make sure to drop a like on the
00:01:14.100 video, subscribe to the channel if you're not yet a subscriber, and leave a comment on what you think
00:01:19.380 about the news of the day. Anyways, now, without further ado, I am begrudged to have to show you a clip
00:01:26.160 from CBC Gem. To even get to this point, I need to watch like 15 ads, because every time they have
00:01:31.920 an ad break, they show you like five ads from like really woke hipster companies, or like a gem show
00:01:40.100 that you're never going to watch. Someday, I need to watch through an entire CBC Gem show just to review
00:01:47.220 it for you guys. They're all the same. It's like a slightly woke, snarky, usually female 1.00
00:01:53.380 protagonist who's just a little bit too smart and cool for everybody else, and is going to prove them
00:01:58.180 wrong. And the entire thing's just the worst jokes you've ever heard in your life, or really bad
00:02:04.100 melodrama. But here's this clip, and Fred Delori, someone I very rarely agree with, actually making
00:02:09.840 a good point as the conservative on the panel about this $33 billion being spent.
00:02:14.020 House leader in the last parliament, former Speaker of the House. This is basically a two-week job
00:02:19.040 when the House comes back this spring. A person who is already...
00:02:21.860 If we're going to get a budget...
00:02:23.020 By the way, he was just referring to there, Andrew Scheer being the interim leader for a few weeks
00:02:28.160 before Pierre Polyev re-enters parliament after becoming the Battle River Crowfoot MP, soon to be
00:02:35.300 in a by-election. He will eventually win a by-election, but now it's turning towards the budget.
00:02:39.200 Which I think we're going to get. It's going to be longer than that. It might be six, seven weeks.
00:02:42.980 I don't know if we'll get a budget though, right? Because we've already seen... The House
00:02:46.080 calendar's out, and we've seen special warrants. We're giving $30 billion the federal government's
00:02:50.640 already issued.
00:02:51.300 Right. That's just to keep the lights on. I mean, Mark Carney wants to cut taxes. He wants to spend
00:02:55.060 money on infrastructure. He wants to give the military a raise. He's going to want to set the
00:02:58.840 agenda and get things moving.
00:02:59.720 I despise this clip. It doesn't seem like much happened there, but I despise it. It was in fact
00:03:07.000 a subscriber, Dan Cameron, who sent me this clip, and then I went and dug up a higher quality version
00:03:13.080 of it. Why is David Cochran, the host of Power and Politics here, jumping in to give the liberals
00:03:18.320 agenda for them? Why is he jumping in to defend the honor of Mark Carney's liberal government on why
00:03:24.960 they don't actually have any plans of even passing a budget when they reconvene parliament?
00:03:30.000 That's a bit of a red flag on the field. If you were using the OIC Order and Council to spend $33
00:03:38.000 billion just to keep the lights on, well, I would be expecting that the budget, the $33 billion to be
00:03:44.960 put towards keeping the lights on type items. Some of the stuff overall, it's about 7%, 8% of the
00:03:52.880 overall budget in a given year that he has just spent through OIC and he's allocated towards the
00:03:58.240 different departments. But some of the departments got a larger portion of their yearly budget than
00:04:04.720 other ones did. So the overall government just got about 7% of its yearly budget signed over to them
00:04:11.280 by Mark Carney. But why is it that the CBC got $178 million, which I believe is around like 12% of
00:04:20.880 their operating budget every year? But that's not even the taxpayer side of it because the CBC
00:04:26.160 will proudly tell you that not all of their money is from taxpayers, which is true. They get about
00:04:31.120 a billion from taxpayers and another 400 million comes from the fact that they sell advertising
00:04:36.880 space to woke companies or just, you know, eventually people will like Coca-Cola will eventually
00:04:42.800 show an advertisement on CBC. So despite the fact that not a lot of people watch the CBC,
00:04:47.440 they still do generate some, you know, ad revenue towards their budget. But the problem is $178
00:04:56.560 million as a part of the taxpayer portion of their budget, they've been given well more than 10% of
00:05:04.480 their budget. They've been effectively given about 17.8% of their budget when we're only supposed to be
00:05:10.400 bridging a gap here. And that's where I'm extremely skeptical. Many of the institutions that were given
00:05:16.400 money were given well more than they need to just bridge a few weeks gap. It really seems like
00:05:21.840 through this, Mark Carney is both rewarding certain allies himself in places like the CBC and other
00:05:27.360 departments in government by giving them their, you know, the budget they need for the next few weeks,
00:05:32.720 plus a little bit more, plus some of the money that he's going to probably reward them with in the
00:05:37.520 final budget as well. And again, I don't like this way of government operating.
00:05:43.840 Reconvene parliament. Pass a quick budget. I don't care if Pierre Polyev is there or not.
00:05:49.120 Maybe he's doing it to be courteous. I doubt it. I think Mark Carney is just kind of on his own
00:05:53.760 schedule. He does things the way he does them and he doesn't really care about parliamentary norms,
00:05:59.360 which is so obnoxious when you're watching the CBC because usually you have these very stuffy
00:06:03.520 commentators who are talking constantly about the need for normalcy and we need parliamentary
00:06:10.400 traditions and procedures honored. And then if Mark Carney doesn't honor any of it and he
00:06:16.240 is very flippant with his power, it's okay. It's okay. These are the same people celebrating when
00:06:21.600 he got rid of the carbon tax, despite defending the carbon tax for years, and then saying that he
00:06:26.960 had gotten rid of it when he didn't really get rid of it. He still has to technically get rid of it,
00:06:31.280 or else it's just sitting there as a little gauge that he can turn up and down at will.
00:06:36.160 But I will let a little bit more of this tape play. I don't like that Fred Delori just accepts
00:06:40.560 David Cochran's framing here. Like, oh, he has a lot of these things he wants to do,
00:06:44.080 cut taxes and whatnot. Again, are you a liberal spokesperson? Why are you saying,
00:06:48.560 why are you talking about all the great things that you think the liberals are going to do?
00:06:51.200 Is that a spring economic statement or is that, I don't know?
00:06:55.200 Yeah, I think we're probably seeing a fall budget before. It just seems too soon to,
00:06:59.200 you know, look, maybe he's doing the traditional Trudeau liberal thing and just throw the money
00:07:02.960 out the door without any actual planning. He'll just fly around in a crop duster with money falling out.
00:07:07.840 Right. But you know, I wondered, you know, and he's right. This is how the liberals have been
00:07:12.640 operating for the last decade, especially the last five years where Mark Carney was the economic
00:07:18.640 advisor. So it looks like this is more so business as usual, like more than anything.
00:07:23.760 Greg, we're talking, look, we like having conservatives on this show. We're the public
00:07:26.880 broadcaster representatives of all parties. Sheer's on the show more than I am now.
00:07:30.080 Yeah, more than liberals have been since the election.
00:07:34.320 Well, of course, politicians are on the show. But my biggest problem with power in politics is that
00:07:38.480 people like Fred Delori are not conservatives. Fred Delori is just a lobbyist. He's just a consultant.
00:07:44.720 Yes, he was the national campaign director when Andrew Scheer was the leader, and he was a bad
00:07:49.360 one. That's why we absolutely lost a very winnable election back in 2019.
00:07:54.320 Scheer could have been a good prime minister, too. I think his team, people like Fred Delori,
00:07:58.800 let him down. But Fred Delori, in the aftermath of this election, has made it, for some reason,
00:08:03.760 part of his life's mission to defend the honor of Jenny Byrne, who I think absolutely wasted this
00:08:08.640 2025 election. I thought Polly was a good leader. And I think that Jenny Byrne basically 1.00
00:08:13.760 reduced all of his virtues and pushed up all of his negatives and didn't let any of the other
00:08:17.680 candidates make their own decisions in their local races, which would have helped a lot.
00:08:22.000 When you're trying to win an entire national election, you need grassroot campaigns who are
00:08:27.520 going to adapt themselves to the regions that they're in, to the specific atmospheres and the
00:08:32.000 ridings that they're in. And CPC HQ didn't do that because certain people there want to do things
00:08:38.480 the way they do them. People, in fact, who have lost elections multiple times. Jenny lost this one
00:08:43.360 in 2025. She lost the one back in 2015 as national campaign director. And for some reason, her
00:08:49.440 employment is going to continue. Make it make sense. I will not hold back my opinion on this anymore.
00:08:56.080 Goodness, she probably needs to take a permanent vacation from politics. But now I just want to cover 0.96
00:09:01.680 one more thing just because it's a bit silly, but it does get on my nerves. And it's this headline from
00:09:07.280 this frankly liberal front group called MTL. This guy, Callum, actually from my city of Calgary,
00:09:16.000 shared this. He says, breaking fork found in kitchen. And he's reacting to this headline from
00:09:22.720 Cult MTL that says, support for the Conservative Party of Canada decreases with education. And it's by
00:09:28.720 our friend Matthew Renfrew, who only started writing these very liberal opinion articles for Cult MTL
00:09:35.200 after they conveniently started getting tens of thousands of dollars a year from the Heritage
00:09:39.680 Ministry. And it says, the less educated you are, the more likely you are to vote conservative. And no,
00:09:48.400 not more educated. The more credentialed you are, the more likely you are to vote for the Liberals.
00:09:54.320 I have a master's degree. I vote conservative. By the way, that means nothing. It's an ideological
00:10:01.280 preference. There's no like the intelligent person's party. There is just whatever party is the best,
00:10:08.320 like has the best policies for your station in life. The thing is, conservatives are also more likely to
00:10:14.000 be people who work with their hands, who work, who own their own businesses, entrepreneurs, you know,
00:10:19.440 people who actually create jobs. You could also make the headline that, but even that would not
00:10:24.880 be quite, that wouldn't be honest. Really, what they're just saying is there's a lot of people who
00:10:29.920 have social, like, you know, what is it, liberal arts degrees who vote liberal? Who cares? Who are
00:10:36.160 the all the, who are all the business owners voting for? I care more about that. Who are all the people
00:10:41.280 who started their own plumbing company voting for? Who are all the guys, who are all the fans,
00:10:46.000 like the dads and moms voting for? That's what I care more about. I don't understand this weird
00:10:51.360 value on the idea like, oh, the upper educated people vote liberal. No, they don't. People who
00:10:56.000 have degrees may be more likely to vote liberal, but a degree doesn't mean you're smart. A degree
00:11:01.040 means you paid a lot of money to sit in a classroom, write some exams in order to be certified with some
00:11:06.720 sort of piece of paper that may not be worth literally anything in the case of things like women and 0.98
00:11:11.840 gender studies or sociology. Sorry to all the sociologists out there. There are too many of them 1.00
00:11:17.200 in this country. We don't need thousands of sociologists graduating from university every 0.99
00:11:22.800 single year without an actual field for them to really work in. They end up just working in HR jobs,
00:11:28.720 in corporations, basically fake jobs that are like, you know, brought on by ESG scores and whatnot that
00:11:35.360 allow these things to have this very abstract fake value in the market. But anyways, that's my rant
00:11:41.920 there. I just hate that idea that, oh, my party's the educated one. I don't even like the idea that
00:11:47.040 people are like, oh, we had the more patriotic party. Let's just have parties with better ideas.
00:11:52.240 I'd rather have it be that way rather than people being like, you know, I vote for this party because
00:11:57.360 I'm a better, more educated person. You're just proving your party kind of sucks if this is the
00:12:02.160 attitude people have within it. But anyway, so that should be it for me today, guys.
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