The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 08, 2025


CBC EXPOSED for Liberal corruption of news!


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Travis Dalraj resigned his position at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and on his way out is blowing the whistle on the obvious political bias inside the CBC. In a letter to his colleagues, he lays out the evidence that the CBC is biased in favor of the liberal party line.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. A big political bomb was dropped on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation this week
00:00:07.480 that is having massive ripple effects in the Canadian media space.
00:00:11.800 A CBC News host resigned his position and on his way out is blowing the whistle on the obvious political bias inside the CBC.
00:00:21.720 Now, you and I both knew that they were biased for decades at this point.
00:00:25.940 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation basically acts as a liberal party front group.
00:00:31.520 But there are a lot of Canadians out there who still think the CBC and other mainstream sources like CTV News and Global,
00:00:39.040 well, they're neutral because they generally try and tell both sides of the story.
00:00:43.400 The most insidious part about outlets like the CBC is they pretend like they're neutral,
00:00:48.980 so people truly think when they come to a more pro-liberal conclusion, they came to that conclusion themselves.
00:00:55.240 When, in fact, there's a very clear breadcrumb trail being laid out by the CBC to try and push more people to agreeing with the liberal party line.
00:01:05.220 Yes, they will cite both the conservative side and the liberal side of the story,
00:01:09.220 but you'll notice that whenever they cover the conservative side, they bring in experts to say,
00:01:13.580 well, I'm not sure if that's entirely true, or they cover it with a little more skepticism.
00:01:17.560 Whereas whenever the liberals say something, they act as almost stenographers at times,
00:01:22.980 just saying what the liberals said, and that's it, come to your own conclusion, which is fine,
00:01:27.200 but they don't do it for the conservatives.
00:01:29.040 You're never supposed to come to your own conclusion with the conservative.
00:01:32.060 They always slip a few things in to poison the well to make sure that you make a conclusion in the right direction.
00:01:37.740 But on the show today, I want to read you the letter to Travis Dalraj's colleagues on his way out of the CBC,
00:01:46.340 because I think this is going to facilitate or necessitate a lot of investigations in the House of Commons
00:01:53.000 into the way the CBC has been using the more than a billion taxpayer dollars it gets every year
00:01:58.680 to basically propagandize in favor of the liberals.
00:02:02.720 But before I get into it, I just want to remind you,
00:02:05.880 hey, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like, subscribe to the channel if you are not yet a subscriber.
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00:02:16.700 or I owe all my friends dinner.
00:02:19.240 And so either, you know, subscribe or try and become my friend by mid-December,
00:02:22.540 so I owe you dinner.
00:02:24.080 Figure out whatever strategy you want on that one.
00:02:26.060 And then also leave a comment on what you think about the story.
00:02:28.660 Again, we always knew the CBC was biased, but I think it's good that normal people
00:02:33.500 who don't follow politics as much as we do get to actually have someone from the CBC
00:02:38.780 who was there for over a decade saying that, yes, this goes on, this is not right-wing spin.
00:02:44.520 So Travis Dalraj, I think I said his name wrong the first time,
00:02:48.040 but Travis Dalraj dropped this letter on his way out of the CBC,
00:02:53.180 and I just want to read it for you guys today, and I'll break it down a little bit as we go.
00:02:57.300 It says,
00:02:57.880 Dear CBC leadership, this is an involuntary resignation.
00:03:03.280 I am stepping down not by choice, but because the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
00:03:07.900 has made it impossible for me to continue my work with integrity.
00:03:12.440 After years of service, most recently as the host of Canada Tonight with Travis Dalraj,
00:03:17.420 I have been systematically sidelined, retaliated against,
00:03:20.940 and denied the editorial access and institutional support necessary to fulfill my public service role.
00:03:28.180 When I joined CBC, I did so with a clear understanding of its mandate
00:03:32.320 and a belief in its importance to Canadian democracy.
00:03:35.700 I was told I would be a, quote, bold voice in journalism, unquote.
00:03:39.900 I took that role seriously.
00:03:41.280 I worked to elevate underrepresented stories, expand political balance,
00:03:45.960 and uphold the journalistic values Canadians expect from their public broadcaster.
00:03:51.520 But what happened behind the scenes at CBC too often contradicts what's shown to the public.
00:03:56.860 Performative diversity, tokenism, a system designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others.
00:04:02.440 I was repeatedly denied access to key newsmakers.
00:04:06.600 Internal booking and editorial protocols were weaponized to create a structural barrier for some
00:04:11.240 while empowering others, particularly a small circle of senior Ottawa-based journalists.
00:04:16.540 When I questioned these imbalances, I was met with silence, resistance, eventually retaliation.
00:04:21.680 I was fighting for balance and access and accused of being on a crusade.
00:04:26.160 Now, I want to stop this right here because I think that this is a very key point of his letter.
00:04:32.440 He's probably going to come out in the future and give more details,
00:04:35.180 probably appear on podcasts and give his story in sort of that nitty-gritty detail I want to see.
00:04:40.220 But the opening line here is very key.
00:04:43.640 I was repeatedly denied access to key newsmakers.
00:04:47.380 So people who were considered newsworthy individuals to talk about,
00:04:52.500 he was not allowed to book them on the show.
00:04:54.840 Now, these aren't people being asked if they want to come on the show and Travis is saying,
00:04:59.360 or the CBC is saying no, or this is Travis,
00:05:03.220 or it's not him reaching out to these individuals and them saying no.
00:05:06.540 He's reaching out.
00:05:07.340 They probably want to come on the show and the CBC steps in and says,
00:05:10.420 you're not allowed to platform that person.
00:05:12.480 But then others are able to get exactly who they want whenever they want.
00:05:16.920 And those are the Ottawa journalists from the CBC,
00:05:20.420 those who are presumably most politically connected to the current government and the Liberal Party itself.
00:05:26.540 Now, let's keep reading on.
00:05:29.400 Hopefully, you guys don't find this boring with me reading an article,
00:05:31.760 but I think it is newsworthy.
00:05:34.520 He put out this letter effectively to be read so that people understand what's going on.
00:05:38.260 But as Travis goes on, he says,
00:05:41.120 My show, which I was initially told was a strategic priority, was rebranded.
00:05:47.560 My name removed, my access curtailed, my medical leave was whispered about in the newsroom.
00:05:52.920 I was presented with an NDA tied to an investigation about a tweet about the CBC president, Catherine Tate.
00:05:59.440 It was designed not to protect privacy, but to sign away my voice.
00:06:04.660 When I refused, I was further marginalized.
00:06:07.980 So they're basically trying to screw him over, remove his name from his own show,
00:06:13.860 do all these other things to humiliate him.
00:06:15.880 And because he was calling out probably Catherine Tate for the massive amounts of misspending in the CBC,
00:06:21.460 they immediately started bullying him and trying to get him to sign NDAs.
00:06:24.280 But now to go on, he then says,
00:06:54.280 Great, I hope that he ends up continuing to speak out on this.
00:07:18.580 And he has with his lawyer actually issuing a statement that confirmed a lot of crazy stuff that went on behind the scenes.
00:07:25.620 I want to show you this headline from the National Post here.
00:07:29.640 Just bring it up on screen.
00:07:32.680 Sorry, I have to stop sharing the last one.
00:07:34.520 And by the way, I should tell you guys this while I'm bringing this up on screen.
00:07:38.140 I'm actually bringing in a whiteboard for when I do polling videos so I can actually write stuff down and show you guys different ideas I have.
00:07:45.240 So look forward to that.
00:07:46.100 But we have this from the National Post.
00:07:49.140 Travis Donraj's lawyer, Catherine Marshall, said Monday that the CBC didn't want him booking, quote,
00:07:55.220 conservative voices, unquote, on his show.
00:07:58.300 So yes, this is not conjecture.
00:08:01.040 It is not people just saying things from the outside because they've noticed a certain ratio of conservatives to liberals that doesn't feel balanced,
00:08:08.600 or the conservatives they do have on are very red Tory-ish, people who don't actually believe in many conservative values other than the fact that they've once worked for the conservatives.
00:08:17.620 That's basically like Andrew Coyne.
00:08:20.340 It's like Fred DeLore types, people who are there as tokens, who are not really the best representation of what a conservative believes.
00:08:27.120 But that is the fake balance that you get on things like, I think it's CBC Power Play, or I think it's Power in Politics that that David Cochran guy hosts.
00:08:35.940 It never feels like you're actually watching a conservative show.
00:08:39.200 You watch it wanting to pull your hair out, saying, why doesn't the conservative guy on the panel say this?
00:08:45.060 Why doesn't someone bring up that?
00:08:47.040 It's not designed to actually give people the conservative side of the story.
00:08:51.140 You have weak conservative voices who capitulate to liberal narratives, and no actual conservative person or someone on the right is able to come on and actually give you the real take.
00:09:02.060 So then CBC viewers who truly believe it's neutral just conclude that the conservatives don't really have any good arguments or that outside of maybe some commerce stuff, the conservatives, you know, are just are like out there or whatever, because the only people they platform are people like Andrew Coyne, who outside of a few commerce issues is a leftist.
00:09:21.320 He is just a full-on leftist on social issues who is big, his most, like, the thing he does the most is condemn other conservatives for saying conservative things, because he's not conservative.
00:09:31.120 I want to get into Andrew Coyne, but the man's basically a communist, and when I say that, I mean that all he does is protects institutions.
00:09:39.440 So if the liberals do something socialistic, and it's around long enough, well, he's going to defend that socialistic institution.
00:09:46.220 He doesn't actually care about the size of government.
00:09:48.800 He just cares about defending the integrity of the government, because I guess that's a conservative thing to do, not fighting for liberty and smaller government and better spending in government, lower taxes.
00:09:59.200 That's all passe to him these days, apparently.
00:10:02.880 But now I want to move on to another story that I think highlights just how bad the bias is right now in the media.
00:10:11.040 This is a story that CTV News is reporting, and I think you guys all know what this is really about, right, immediately.
00:10:18.460 CTV News, they punish people for nothing.
00:10:21.580 Family of Canadian women detained by ICE pleads for help to bring her home.
00:10:25.560 And I sit here wondering, and ICE has not been able to put anything out yet because they don't just dump people's personal information just because something because of newsworthy.
00:10:34.780 What do you think she did to get arrested by ICE?
00:10:36.940 Now, I know there's been dozens of people each month or so who are Canadian who've been arrested by ICE, but so far to this point, to the present point, there's only been like a couple people released because it was a mistaken identity or something like that, and they were released as soon as possible.
00:10:54.000 What do you think these people are being arrested for?
00:10:56.080 Just being Canadian?
00:10:57.280 Trump's trying to crack down on those dirty Canadians? 1.00
00:10:59.780 There are millions of Canadians who travel to the United States every year.
00:11:03.180 If the U.S. wanted to just start mass locking up Canadians to try and, like, club Canada into doing I don't know what, it wouldn't be that hard for them to arrest hundreds. 0.57
00:11:13.320 The fact that they've arrested 55, that's the story, that they've arrested 55 Canadians since, like, I don't know, the end of June or something like that, who cares?
00:11:24.020 I don't care.
00:11:25.680 I think it was in June and July so far.
00:11:27.980 It's been, like, 55 Canadians arrested.
00:11:29.440 That's nothing.
00:11:30.740 And again, like the last guy the media freaked out about who died in prison in Florida, who hadn't been in Canada since 1988 and was a drug dealer,
00:11:39.340 I'm not exactly confident that anyone else who's being arrested just didn't do nothing, because we keep seeing this, and you're just supposed to assume, oh, my goodness,
00:11:46.960 probably Trump and Vance went down there personally just to, like, ruin this person's vacation or something like that, probably leaving out that this person's not in the U.S. legally or they're committing crimes and need to be removed or something like that.
00:12:00.480 Canada, for some reason, Canada, we're just a country where we think the enforcement of law is fascism, which is why we now have 17,500 criminals in Canada, people who had criminal records that Canada was aware about,
00:12:16.720 but over the last 10 years, they have let them immigrate into Canada.
00:12:20.840 That should be an immediate no, you are not allowed to come here.
00:12:24.220 We've even had a famous case where we have an international dispute with India because of the assassination of Harjit Singh Nidjar,
00:12:32.020 who himself was a criminal who shouldn't have been in Canada, actually falsified immigration papers a few times, got caught most of the times,
00:12:39.800 and then was still let into the country because our immigration system makes no sense.
00:12:45.100 And that was a case from the early 2000s. And the government, I'm not sure if it's Martin or Harper, should also have been held accountable for that,
00:12:53.220 because that's a failure that's obvious. That is everyone along the way of letting that guy in would have known he shouldn't have been in,
00:13:00.560 but eventually someone stamped his paperwork and said, oh, okay, you've harassed us enough, we'll let you in,
00:13:04.680 even though you're like a, you promote terrorism, and you're obviously a shady dude, and you've committed crimes before, but whatever.
00:13:13.460 So, yeah, this, this is, I'm pairing this story up with the CBC bias story.
00:13:20.620 This is common in Canada. Anti-Americanism, anti-conservative type messaging,
00:13:26.020 always reporting on every whisper of a scandal inside the Conservative Party, which is fine to report on,
00:13:31.300 but they don't do it for the left. There's never, there, who, is anyone covering the fact that there is an actual full-on anti-Semitic communist
00:13:40.460 running in the NDP leadership? Yves Engels? Is anyone covering that? Not really.
00:13:45.920 You'll probably get some, you know, independent media covering that.
00:13:49.400 No one on the left is going to cover that from the CBC, or Press Progress, or any of those anti-hate networks are not going to cover it,
00:13:55.120 because it's a lefty, they don't give a crap. You know, are you going to get anyone, like,
00:13:59.260 actually looking into, you know, misappropriation of money under the liberals, or are they only going to do it if the story blows up?
00:14:06.620 That's what happens. They will cover liberal scandals in the CBC and in CTV and global.
00:14:11.800 It has to be a big scandal first. It has to be unignorable.
00:14:15.280 They can't make excuses anymore, and they'll cover it as long as they have to, and they'll drop it very quickly.
00:14:20.460 There is a reason why Black Locks Reporter and other outlets like that are just FOIP requesting things all day long
00:14:27.480 and constantly churning up stories of misappropriation of funds, of, like, massive corruption in the government,
00:14:34.240 that the CBC and global and all these outlets have way more money to actually pursue, but they never do it.
00:14:39.700 Black Locks Reporter, what they're like, 10 people are doing it all. It's ridiculous.
00:14:43.820 So this is why we need to defund the CBC, if you hadn't already come to that conclusion yourself.
00:14:49.700 The CBC is, like, what do we need them for? I know Mark Carney is giving them another $150 million.
00:14:55.620 I'm not sure if I already mentioned that in the show, but he's giving them another $150 million taxpayer dollars every single year,
00:15:02.800 because I guess we need to defend ourselves from American media by producing a bunch more mediocre sitcoms,
00:15:09.200 like, North of North that nobody's ever actually going to watch, and yeah, I'll get good reviews,
00:15:13.420 because the only people who watch it are woke critics who are going to give it marks because it's something.
00:15:18.960 I don't know. Indigenous people are in it. That means it's good. 1.00
00:15:21.820 I'm going to eventually do an entire review of that terrible show.
00:15:25.060 It's technically also a Netflix show, but it's, like, the CBC and the Aboriginal People's Television Network and Netflix doing it.
00:15:32.840 But I've watched three episodes of that show, North of North, which is, like, it's, like, Parks and Recreation plus Corner Gas taking place in none of that.
00:15:41.700 And it's horrible. It's not funny. I'm not going into the show trying to hate it.
00:15:46.220 If it was good, I would be, like, wow, the CBC actually has a good show,
00:15:50.460 and it's actually telling about how much people don't trust the CBC that they didn't even check it out.
00:15:55.400 The show, it's on Netflix. You can go watch it if you want. The show is bad.
00:15:59.900 The show, I'm going to, again, do a whole review on it, but the characters are hateful.
00:16:05.300 You can tell if someone's a villain or a hero based on their race.
00:16:11.420 Legitimately, here's something about North of North.
00:16:13.800 If they want to denote a character is dumb or a bad person, not up to the moral high level of wokeness,
00:16:22.240 they're given a heavier accent.
00:16:24.420 Isn't that a little bit racist that you give someone, and there's nothing wrong with an accent.
00:16:27.920 It's just a regional accent. People talk a certain way in, like, isolated villages in none of us,
00:16:32.960 just the way people talk a certain way in Scotland.
00:16:35.800 But if somebody's supposed to be the dumber character, they have an accent.
00:16:40.340 Isn't that a little bit flipping racist? Isn't it?
00:16:43.400 They gave the Christian lady on the show, the Christian indigenous character,
00:16:47.860 the really heavy accent, because she's supposed to be the dumb one.
00:16:51.100 That's how bad North of North is.
00:16:54.120 Who made this crap?
00:16:56.500 The whole show, now I'm almost in a mini-review now, but hopefully you guys don't mind this.
00:17:00.980 The whole show, North of North, is like watching a bunch of hipsters in downtown Toronto.
00:17:06.660 I am in an isolated fishing village, and I feel like I'm listening to the most metropolitan people
00:17:12.680 whine about nothing the entire time.
00:17:14.100 The first episode, main character divorces her husband over things that are just cartoonishly stupid.
00:17:21.160 Our hero folks, the person who just divorced their husband, are flipping no reason effectively,
00:17:26.320 because, I don't know, he's a little bit inconsiderate sometimes.
00:17:30.100 It is the most modern show I've ever watched.
00:17:32.140 It is the most hipster metropolitan show ever.
00:17:34.340 And we give the CBC 1.2, 1.4, coming soon, billion dollars a year to produce this garbage.
00:17:42.740 But, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:17:45.300 Again, like the channel if you, like the video if you like the channel.
00:17:48.300 Subscribe if you're not yet a subscriber.
00:17:50.140 Leave a comment on what you think about the CBC,
00:17:53.060 what you think about how this is actually going to affect the CBC with this whistleblower coming out.
00:17:58.340 And hopefully I can actually get Travis Dunraj onto the show at some point.
00:18:02.140 I always get ignored by people.
00:18:03.520 I don't know.
00:18:04.020 Sometimes other people have such an easy time getting people to appear on their show.
00:18:07.480 I'll reach out to people and I always slip to the bottom of the pile and get forgotten about.
00:18:11.600 But, enough about me whining.
00:18:13.520 See you guys later.