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