The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 09, 2025


CBC Exposed： Hit Piece on Premier Smith while cheerleading Carney!

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Danielle Smith Donald Trump Jr. Mark Carney Erin O'Toole Wang Winyai Wong Pierre Poilievre Jagmeet Singh Kim Jong-un Putin Earl
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It's a sad fact about our planet that there are still people walking around out there who truly believe the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is an unbiased news source that just gives you the facts. This is obviously not true, and I have a fantastic example of just how politically biased the CBC is.

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00:00:00.000 It's a sad fact about our planet that there are still people walking around out there who truly believe the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is an unbiased news source that just gives you the facts.
00:00:12.880 This is obviously not true, and I have a fantastic example of just how politically biased the CBC is.
00:00:21.180 So recently, you will already know that Prime Minister Mark Carney traveled down to Washington, D.C. to meet President Donald Trump at the White House.
00:00:29.260 What you may have forgotten at this point is that Daniel Smith approximately did the same thing around three and a half months ago.
00:00:36.680 She traveled down to Mar-a-Lago, Trump's golf resort in Florida, to meet the then-President-elect to talk about trade and tariffs,
00:00:44.540 because at the time he was threatening to impose tariffs on Canada, and at this point has partially imposed tariffs on Canada.
00:00:51.040 The CBC basically acted like what she was doing was some right-wing coup against Canada,
00:00:57.060 that she was acting like a traitor against the country to go down as a provincial premier to go speak to the then-President-elect.
00:01:05.320 But then when Mark Carney does it a couple days ago and goes with the exact same attitude and goals as Daniel Smith,
00:01:12.440 it's him being statesman-like, and it demonstrates he's such a great negotiator,
00:01:16.700 despite the fact that no actual deal was cut and he basically said nothing the entire meeting.
00:01:21.340 Now the CBC is trying to attack Daniel Smith for, wait for it, spending $10,000 when she went down to Mar-a-Lago.
00:01:31.500 Not like she stole $10,000 of taxpayer money and bought herself a pair of earrings.
00:01:37.000 No, she spent $10,000 on the stated mission of the trip.
00:01:42.300 Check this out right here. It is absolutely insane that this was ever reported.
00:01:46.320 Well, as Canada's Prime Minister prepares for his meeting with Donald Trump,
00:01:50.740 we're learning more today about a meeting in early January between Alberta's Premier Daniel Smith and Trump.
00:01:57.060 Who went and how much did it cost?
00:01:59.320 We know it took place at Trump's residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
00:02:03.060 And as Julia Wong tells us, some critics are raising questions about whether taxpayers received good value for their money.
00:02:09.780 It sounds like we're about to hear that Daniel Smith burned a million dollars.
00:02:15.540 Look at her face right here. This kind of like tight face she's got going on. 1.00
00:02:19.820 Did she spend a little bit too much? Viewer, do you feel like she may have used taxpayer monies wrong?
00:02:26.840 What is this kind of attitude that the news reporter has to what is like a complete dud of a story?
00:02:33.320 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has called her meeting at Mar-a-Lago with then-president-elect Donald Trump constructive.
00:02:41.500 Now, more details are emerging about the trip itself.
00:02:45.040 The visit in early January took place before Trump became president and came as a trade war with the United States loomed.
00:02:52.840 Smith has said she emphasized the mutual importance of the U.S.-Canada energy relationship and that she had discussions with key allies.
00:03:00.320 Documents obtained by CBC News through a Freedom of Information request outlined Smith made the trip to Trump's Florida Golf Club
00:03:07.860 with two government staffers and Alberta's senior representative to the United States.
00:03:12.860 And records show the roughly 48-hour visit cost taxpayers more than $10,000.
00:03:19.340 Danielle Smith should stop being premier right now because apparently she is a travel wizard. 1.00
00:03:25.480 She went down there with her, two staff members, and Alberta's representative of the United States for 48 hours and only spent $10,000.
00:03:35.540 She is a fantastic travel agent.
00:03:38.940 How, you were able to go from Alberta, Edmonton, to Palm Beach, Florida with four people for only $10,000?
00:03:47.760 How is this a story?
00:03:50.540 This is a nothing.
00:03:51.720 It's just a popcorn fart of nothingness.
00:03:56.140 Why is this being reported at all? 1.00
00:03:58.280 You'd have to be stupid to believe that this is actually a problem. 0.95
00:04:01.620 But the kind of like, especially going back to that facial gesture, the anchor had made, oh, isn't this kind of bad, guys? 0.99
00:04:09.980 It's really not.
00:04:11.300 That's cheap.
00:04:12.480 If I heard that that's what the premier was spending on travel, I'd hope that they were giving her, you know, food. 0.93
00:04:17.740 I'd be like, I hope you're feeding the poor woman if somehow four of you are only spending $10,000 on a 48-hour diplomatic trip.
00:04:27.000 What I asked the president was, do you want to buy more oil and gas from Canada?
00:04:30.760 And he said yes.
00:04:31.860 Concerns have been raised about the cost and value of the trip.
00:04:35.340 What are you talking about?
00:04:36.980 Trump literally didn't put tariffs on Canadian oil and gas products.
00:04:41.180 She did a very good job.
00:04:42.860 I have never pulled punches with Danielle Smith.
00:04:45.840 I have criticized her in the past, but her actual behavior on the tariff issue has been excellent.
00:04:52.500 It's been actually extremely good.
00:04:54.660 And the CBC is here to go after her because she spent $10,000.
00:04:59.500 I have gone on trips that alone would have cost me over a quarter of what she spent, and I was just going to Victoria or I was going to Vancouver.
00:05:09.500 And so if I increase that by four times, I'm getting absolutely destroyed by the hawkishness of Danielle Smith. 0.91
00:05:19.380 That lady can, like, spot a good deal from, I guess, like 10,000 miles away if she can somehow only spend $10,000 going down to Palm Beach for 48 hours. 1.00
00:05:28.500 CBC News asked the Premier's office how long Smith had with Trump and why so many people were involved with the trip but did not get a response.
00:05:36.540 We're talking about a large sum of money, $10,000, to be spent for perhaps more people being involved than were necessary.
00:05:45.160 Four people.
00:05:46.540 Maybe if I'm miscounting it, maybe a fifth.
00:05:49.620 She was going to meet the president-elect, and they're acting like she was going to meet, like, a small-town mayor.
00:05:55.580 It might have been a very brief exchange and had very little impact.
00:06:00.860 We know what the impact was.
00:06:04.720 We literally know what the impact was.
00:06:06.820 He didn't tariff Canadian energy.
00:06:09.260 She even got invited to his inauguration, so obviously she didn't tick him off.
00:06:14.540 What's going on here?
00:06:15.840 Wise expenditure of scarce taxpayer dollars that comes into question.
00:06:21.300 Scarce taxpayer dollars coming from the same people who fearmonger against the conservatives ever cutting anything.
00:06:27.320 The Premier's office pointed to comments she's previously made, where she said her strategy was to meet with people who can influence the U.S. president.
00:06:36.640 Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton.
00:06:39.520 Okay, so that was the reporting on Danielle Smith spending $10,000.
00:06:44.600 Now, guys, I just want to, for no reason in particular, show you this article, also from the CBC, RCI, I believe, about the Premier's trip to Washington from a couple months back.
00:06:59.900 This is an article from February 14, 2025.
00:07:04.860 How meeting with Donald Trump Jr. led Canada's Premier to an $85,000 a month lobbying firm.
00:07:11.600 So what happened here?
00:07:12.620 However, how did Canada's Premiers end up hiring a Washington lobbying firm for $85,000 a month?
00:07:19.280 The story involves a meeting with Donald Trump Jr.
00:07:21.580 Now, the details don't actually matter.
00:07:24.400 Basically, the entire thing was a dud, and they paid a lobbying firm to not really ever get to talk to anyone particularly important.
00:07:31.400 And they spent $85,000 U.S. in order to do it.
00:07:35.800 How is the CBC able to have a straight face reporting $10,000 Canadian being spent so that the Premier could go talk to the incoming President with a few staff members?
00:07:47.960 And we just kind of slipped by the fact that all the other Premiers spent $85,000 on nothing.
00:07:55.480 How much did their trip cost going down to Washington, D.C.?
00:07:59.320 I guarantee it cost more than $10,000.
00:08:02.320 I guarantee it might have cost $10,000 per person.
00:08:05.300 That was a complete waste of a trip. 0.99
00:08:07.520 A dumb photo op for nothing. 0.93
00:08:09.500 And again, we are going after Smith for spending what is less money than what the average person would pay if four of them traveled to, like, I don't know, flew up to high level, flew to Vancouver, went to Winnipeg. 0.98
00:08:24.880 What? 1.00
00:08:25.520 This is stupid. 1.00
00:08:27.740 But now let's jump over to the way that the CBC covered Mark Carney going and meeting with the President. 0.99
00:08:35.120 This is how they covered Mark Carney going down there and getting nothing from President Trump, just sitting there and listening to him, which is not even a bad thing.
00:08:44.600 I know some people pretend that Mark Carney was embarrassed going down there.
00:08:48.720 He wasn't.
00:08:49.320 The only people who should be embarrassed are the people who truly believed Mark Carney thinking that he was going to go down there and, like, take it to Trump.
00:08:56.480 He didn't do that.
00:08:57.220 And all these people are pretending, like, no, no, no, this is what we vote for.
00:08:59.840 You know, normal behavior from a prime minister towards the president that would have been no different with with Pierre Polyev.
00:09:06.280 But it was not a bad trip.
00:09:07.760 But they make it seem like some diplomatic coup.
00:09:10.440 The prime minister described his meeting with Trump as constructive.
00:09:14.520 And the beginning.
00:09:15.400 The same word that we heard skepticism from the CBC over when Danielle Smith's people used it.
00:09:21.480 She had a constructive meeting.
00:09:22.960 And then this lady, the exact same person, did the whole look. 1.00
00:09:26.740 Oh, she had a constructive meeting.
00:09:28.380 It cost $10,000.
00:09:31.260 And then Carney had a constructive meeting where he sat there and just listened to Trump for literally 30 minutes.
00:09:36.980 But it was constructive somehow.
00:09:38.700 The prime minister described his meeting with Trump as constructive and the beginning of a new relationship between the U.S. and Canada.
00:09:46.520 So is a reset possible between our two countries following the launch of this trade war?
00:09:51.920 Let's bring in Aaron O'Toole to talk about that a little bit more.
00:09:55.360 He's a former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:09:57.580 They should have used the word bad before describing him as the former leader.
00:10:01.800 The former bad leader of the Conservative Party.
00:10:04.640 And a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute, which is a think tank.
00:10:07.960 Mr. O'Toole, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:10:11.400 Great to be with you.
00:10:12.360 Okay, so this high-stakes meeting, the first of what appears to be many in the future, is in the rearview mirror.
00:10:19.980 What should Canada be focused on as it moves forward?
00:10:23.460 Well, I think the tone, as Janice said in the previous report, was really solid.
00:10:30.580 It was an improvement.
00:10:31.980 Solid how?
00:10:33.080 It was just nice because Trump, frankly, was never going to be that rude to Canada.
00:10:38.420 He's just kind of someone who chirps people on Twitter, but then once you meet him, he's perfectly reasonable.
00:10:43.060 You know, like not always doing the right thing, but he tends to be nice to people, often to a fault, where he's too nice to Putin, and he's too nice to Kim Jong-un, and he's too nice to people that I think that you should actually be treating with some level of contempt.
00:10:55.620 But Aaron O'Toole is here to tell us that the thing we should really be focusing on is how pleasant the whole thing was.
00:11:02.220 Were we supposed to focus on that with Smith?
00:11:04.380 Well, obviously not.
00:11:05.180 We were supposed to get mad at what looked like a large bill at the restaurant Earl's.
00:11:11.820 That's what we're supposed to focus on, the fact that Danielle Smith spent less money than most people do on vacation, and she was doing high-level diplomatic work. 1.00
00:11:20.420 There was no white smoke, but the relationship was in smoking ruins beforehand, so it seems like we have a chance to reset the Canada-U.S. dialogue with President Trump because we've got the next three and a half years of having to try and forge deals on everything from tariffs to mutual defense and security in North America.
00:11:42.080 So I think now that the tone has been reset somewhat, we can then start working on the really important trade issues.
00:11:50.440 I think it was good Prime Minister Carney reminded the President that we're the largest customer, the largest client. 0.94
00:11:56.140 Whoa, he said basic garbage? 0.93
00:11:58.540 I can't believe that Carney said the most obvious thing possible. 1.00
00:12:03.060 Aaron O'Toole is truly the worst leader of a party, not even the worst conservative leader of a party.
00:12:09.840 I think Jagmeet Singh actually might be a better political leader than Aaron O'Toole was.
00:12:15.560 The relationship between the U.S. and Canada was in smoking ruins before Carney sat there meekly and listened to Trump for 30 minutes.
00:12:23.000 It's all been restored.
00:12:24.420 We're back, baby.
00:12:26.020 We actually might be in a new era of U.S.-Canada-friendly relations because Mark Carney sat there and listened.
00:12:34.740 And again, Danielle Smith spent $10,000 and we're supposed to be very mad about it.
00:12:40.560 Despite the fact that premiers burned $85,000 USD on nothing, we're supposed to be very upset that she spent $10,000 Canadian, which is basically monopoly money at this point, going and actually getting Trump to take tariffs off of Canadian energy products.
00:12:55.620 You know, whatever came of that trip, they're saying as of a few days ago, whatever came of that trip, a lot, a lot came of it.
00:13:04.500 Did you guys not remember the big coup that happened afterwards that he actually started sort of walking back some of the tariff threats against things like Canadian energy?
00:13:14.280 Whatever.
00:13:15.380 That's it for me today, guys.
00:13:16.900 I cannot stand the CBC and you guys probably can't either.
00:13:20.300 That's enough CBC for at least this week for me.
00:13:22.940 Anyway, so that's it today, guys.
00:13:26.380 Make sure to like this video, leave a comment, subscribe to the channel if you're not yet a subscriber, do all that great stuff, and I'll see you guys later.