The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - CBC gets caught LYING by Poilievre over floor crossing controversy!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. You'll love to see a legacy media journalist get completely embarrassed,

00:00:06.940 especially if they work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, because heck, as

00:00:12.420 taxpayers, we give them $1.5 billion every year, and so we absolutely reserve the right to point 0.86

00:00:19.500 and laugh at them for their nonsense. A couple days ago, a CBC journalist tried to needle

00:00:25.980 Federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev and got absolutely ritualistically dunked on.

00:00:32.740 This guy was still trying to make a big deal out of the Chris Dontremont floor-crossing story,

00:00:38.580 and Polyev ended up calling him and the CBC out for all the corrections they've had to make around

00:00:44.300 their reporting on this issue. I'm just going to get right to the video so you guys can check out

00:00:49.500 the majesty of it. Aaron Collins, CBC. So Chris Dontremont, just turning back to last week,

00:00:55.400 said that your party is being run like a frat house. So I'm just curious what you think he

00:01:01.320 means by that, and if you think that... Well, I think that CBC had to be... Are you with CBC,

00:01:05.860 by the way? Yeah, that's right. Okay, right. I'm just curious if you think that that could lead to

00:01:09.340 more MPs leaving your caucus, and what you think he means by that. Well, first of all, CBC has had

00:01:15.760 to correct the falsehoods that they put into that story. So I encourage you to tell Canadians about the

00:01:22.860 falsehoods you published and explain why you did that. But I would ask if you agree with Mr Dontremont,

00:01:28.300 or do you believe he was telling the truth when he said, and I'm going to quote,

00:01:31.720 now after six months after, under a new Prime Minister who promised financial discipline,

00:01:37.040 Canadians are still waiting. He said that he would be judged by the cost at the grocery store.

00:01:42.980 Well, Canadians are judging him, and they are not impressed. Since the Liberals came to power,

00:01:48.960 food prices have risen 40%. We have heard it many times here today. It is deliberate, and it is

00:01:56.540 unacceptable. It is inhumane for a G7 country. Mr Dontremont said that liberal food price inflation is

00:02:06.280 inhumane. Do you believe that he was telling the truth when he said that?

00:02:10.260 Yes.

00:02:16.380 You love the deafening silence. Because the problem with the CBC coverage, and we will be getting

00:02:21.660 their corrections in a bit, is that they can't ask Polyev questions about what Dontremont said as if

00:02:28.420 it's gospel truth, when he has been changing his story not on just the reason why he was crossing the

00:02:34.980 floor. But we're just all supposed to just forget about the fact that he was a very tough critic

00:02:40.820 of the Liberals very recently. Like, as of two and a half weeks ago, he was saying these things about

00:02:47.200 the Liberals that Polyev was quoting. And now we are supposed to believe that, no, no, no, all is good.

00:02:52.900 He actually really likes the Liberals. He has confidence in them. But the Conservative Party is a

00:02:57.020 frat house. Or the Conservative Party's platform wasn't good enough. Or, well, he only won by 1% of the vote,

00:03:03.480 so he's going to go over to the Liberals. Or he really just wanted to be the deputy speaker. And

00:03:07.860 because Tom Commick got to be deputy speaker and got that extra $51,000 a year, he's mad.

00:03:12.640 The thing is, when you actually start digging into this Chris Dontremont story, it has more to do with

00:03:17.960 Chris Dontremont than it has to do with Pierre Polyev, his opposition leader's office, or the entirety of

00:03:23.780 the Conservative Party. The thing is, when Chris Dontremont keeps contradicting himself, not just in his

00:03:29.820 critiques and then praise of the Liberals, but also just his excuses for leaving and what he

00:03:34.760 has a problem with the Conservatives over, obviously, this isn't really something that's

00:03:38.860 reflecting badly on Polyev. But I will now get back to the rest of this video, and we will keep

00:03:43.920 talking more about the sort of background issues with the CBC's premise a bit afterwards.

00:03:49.340 Oh, you can ask any questions. Do you, but do you, but I did already, I already said that

00:03:56.000 your report from CBC was wrong, and we have corrected the record, we put it a statement,

00:04:02.200 we stand by the statement. But I have a statement here from Mr. Dontremont. He says,

00:04:06.940 since the Liberals came to power, food prices have risen 40%. We have heard it many times here today,

00:04:12.880 it is deliberate, and it is unacceptable. It is inhumane in a G7 country. Do you agree with

00:04:19.620 Mr. Dontremont that Mark Carney's food price inflation is inhumane?

00:04:24.780 So again, I asked you if you thought that, if you, what you thought Mr. Dontremont meant by

00:04:30.600 your party being run like a frat, if not you thought that would lead to more...

00:04:35.620 Why don't you ask Chris Dontremont to actually spell out what that means? The thing is, a lot of what

00:04:41.740 Chris Dontremont has said about leadership and leadership issues and the frat house culture

00:04:45.800 of the party and all this stuff, is that he's just kind of throwing out a vague enough accusation where

00:04:50.800 he couldn't be held accountable for lying. And in fact, he was in that CBC article effectively

00:04:56.580 fact-checked when he had to admit that, and again, we'll be getting to this in a second,

00:05:00.900 that no, Andrew Scheer, and I think it was like, I think his last name was like Workington or something

00:05:06.860 like that. They didn't burst into his office and like push over his secretary. They walked into

00:05:12.060 his office. That is literally how much of a correction the CBC had to issue. That the whole

00:05:18.200 premise of the story was that he was being bullied and then the record was corrected that

00:05:22.160 MPs talked to him.

00:05:23.920 He's leaving your caucus. That's the question for you, sir.

00:05:27.360 No. So I answered your question.

00:05:29.000 And so the answer that I have back to you is that Mr. Dontremont, this is a quote from just

00:05:36.280 a few months ago where he said that liberal food price inflation was inhumane. And you know what?

00:05:43.660 He's right. Thank you. Thanks, everybody.

00:05:47.920 So I now want to jump over and thank you for CBC Watcher on X. I'll actually link his profile in the

00:05:54.000 description below. He does a really good job here. Here's his profile. If you just also want to look it

00:05:58.500 up on your own, he does a lot of great work in terms of clipping a lot of news coverage, not just

00:06:03.480 from the CBC, but other outlets as stuff comes out. And CBC Watcher here also has, look, CBC has

00:06:10.660 added the print story correction to the correction page, but how do they correct this if the correction

00:06:16.540 contradicts Dontremont's words? So they have this on the corrections page of the CBC website, and it's

00:06:23.000 also posted to the bottom of the article. But why isn't the whole article just deleted and then

00:06:28.020 re-uploaded with a new headline and with all of the details changed? Because the correction

00:06:33.600 destroys the story here. And it says down here, November 10th, 2025, CBC Politics corrected this

00:06:42.980 story about Nova Scotia MP Chris Dontremont crossing the floor to the Liberals. A previous version of the

00:06:48.640 story said Chris Dontremont told CBC News that the Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer and party

00:06:53.980 whip Chris Orkington pushed Dontremont's assistant aside. Dontremont has since clarified his statement,

00:07:00.280 alleging that the Conservative pushed open the door to his office, almost knocking over his secretary.

00:07:05.640 The headline and article has been updated. Okay, so that goes from there is your secretary saying,

00:07:11.940 oh, Chris has a phone call. He can't, you can't talk. And then they push her aside or push him aside,

00:07:16.980 probably stamp on him too and, you know, shoot him. And then it turns into, even when Chris Dontremont has to

00:07:22.740 effectively admit that that's not what happened, that they opened a door and it almost knocked over

00:07:27.520 my secretary. Did the door even make contact with them? Because it sounds like maybe they're nearby the

00:07:34.420 door as two people who are the whip of the party, you know, the main whip of the party or the house

00:07:42.400 leader, Andrew Scheer is coming into the room, who I assume he has the right to be able to walk into one

00:07:46.840 of his own colleague's office. He walks in and the door opens in the general direction of the secretary.

00:07:54.920 It's almost like Chris Dontremont is in deep need of a narrative that the Conservatives are mean. 0.99

00:08:02.180 If this is what he means by frat house culture, the man's just a liar. And again, people who are his 0.97

00:08:08.580 colleagues who like worked very closely with him, like Rick Perkins, who's a former MP from Nova Scotia,

00:08:15.380 probably going to be trying to run for election again at some point. He's come out and said that

00:08:20.520 he's had, like, he's worked with Chris for a long time. They were decent friends as MPs and that he

00:08:26.920 knows that Chris, based on his own statements to him, was not leaving because of any leadership issues.

00:08:32.580 It's because he didn't get to be the deputy speaker. It's because he didn't get the big important job

00:08:37.780 where he gets to sit and preside over the House of Commons and get another $51,000 a year.

00:08:44.380 That is the real reason he left. But what the media is doing here, what they're attempting to do is make

00:08:51.600 this all about Poly of right now because the budget isn't popular. We have abacus data and we have

00:08:59.040 innovative research both coming out with their own surveys showing that half of Canadians really don't

00:09:04.620 like the budget. And in fact, when you actually start asking people deeper questions, the people who

00:09:10.100 don't like it are more decisive in not liking it. They think that there's way too much spending if

00:09:14.900 they're more conservative. And if they're on the left, they think there's way too many cuts to public

00:09:19.780 service jobs and whatnot. When you're releasing your first budget, if it's a 50-50 thing in terms of who

00:09:28.220 likes and who doesn't like it, that's terrible. It's a piece of marketing material, effectively,

00:09:33.060 and it should be extremely inoffensive, extremely unifying. But Carney couldn't pull it off.

00:09:39.600 Now I need to show you something else because this is also just demonstrates how the media

00:09:43.220 operates these days. And this does have to do with the CBC. So my friend here, Dan Cameron,

00:09:50.360 clipped this from the CBC himself today, where they had people, where Robert Fyfe was addressing

00:09:57.440 people criticizing, people like myself criticizing the CBC for not properly covering the Nate Erskine

00:10:05.260 Smith criticisms of the budget. Nate Erskine Smith is a liberal MP, and he criticized Carney's budget as

00:10:12.280 being both too much spending, as well as really irresponsible cuts in areas that he is a more

00:10:18.400 left-leaning liberal, you know, didn't like there being cuts in. And I said, and other people said,

00:10:24.620 that they are basically not talking about the story. Aliyev and his team basically pointed out

00:10:29.660 the media really doesn't talk about this Erskine Smith story. And the CBC had to come out and defend

00:10:35.460 itself that, no, of course we talked about it. Of course other media has talked about it.

00:10:39.700 The other thing is that, you know, when he blamed the CBC and the CTV for apparently not covering

00:10:45.980 Erskine, Nate Erskine-Smith comments, which were negative comments on the budget.

00:10:49.700 We did it Monday night on the show.

00:10:50.860 Yeah, I was just going to say, you did it Monday night, but CTV also reported on it,

00:10:54.220 I believe on Sunday. So it's not as if the media have not covered this.

00:10:58.700 Yes, no, they cover it, but they don't cover it properly. They don't turn the story into like

00:11:06.320 they do with Polyev. This is a leadership crisis. Oh my goodness. Polyev's being criticized? Is he

00:11:11.660 even going to survive as leader? Mark Carney's being criticized by one of his own MPs on the budget,

00:11:17.840 you know, a confidence vote. And I watched the panel. I've watched the full, I think it's 13

00:11:23.660 minutes or 19 minutes of them talking on the CBC panel. They basically tut-tut the criticisms of

00:11:30.040 Erskine-Smith. One liberal commentator on it has a very generic answer about how, you know,

00:11:35.620 it's good when people can criticize the government's budgets. They never talk about the substance of the

00:11:40.420 criticisms. But you even get some of the other people on the panel basically acting as if,

00:11:45.120 you know, Erskine-Smith doesn't really understand how to be an MP. He doesn't really understand how

00:11:49.340 to be a team player. So when they cover what Nate said, it becomes, well, that's not a good team

00:11:54.140 player. When they talk about Erskine-Smith, it's, well, you know, this really shows that the deep,

00:12:00.020 sinful nature of the Conservative Party that they lost Don Tremont. Who knows who that even really is

00:12:06.960 before all this? Whatever, it doesn't matter. But they know, the media knows that this really

00:12:11.700 demonstrate that people don't like Pierre Polyev and that he's at risk in his leadership review,

00:12:17.200 even though Carney has multiple MPs rumored to probably be resigning in the next year. Not only

00:12:23.800 Nate Erskine-Smith, but you have Chrystia Freeland, you have some other people who do not like Mark Carney

00:12:28.920 and they are looking for diplomatic roles overseas to transition to, or they're going to go to Ontario

00:12:34.500 liberal provincial politics like Erskine-Smith seems to be planning to do. That's happening even more

00:12:40.340 intensely in the Liberal Party, arguably at the very least, and the media just covers it maybe once,

00:12:47.220 surface-level coverage that Freeland may be taking some job in Ukraine, that Erskine-Smith may be going

00:12:53.380 to Ontario, and oh, that's just the rigmarole of politics. They don't cover it as a substantial

00:12:58.220 issue. Anyways, well, that should be it for me in this video today, guys. Really enjoyed seeing

00:13:05.300 Polyev go after that CBC journalist. I hear this narrative sometimes that, well, people don't like

00:13:10.000 Polyev being so negative. He should be more positive. No, I'm just going to say no. You are

00:13:17.260 in opposition. Your job is to criticize. If the Conservatives take their foot off the gas and stop

00:13:22.180 being critical and start being the shiny, happy people who are just sitting there politely waiting

00:13:26.880 to be the next government, you are going to lose. Because guess what? When you stop criticizing,

00:13:32.520 it makes it seem like there's nothing to criticize. And so the Liberals get to motor forward with their

00:13:36.960 agenda. And Canadians just assume it's good because they don't really hear anything bad about it. And

00:13:41.340 the media is just going to act as stenographers for the government, announcing all the new projects

00:13:45.400 that Carney has going on and the fake trade deals he's signing. And that's all people are going to

00:13:50.880 see. They're just going to see the announcements and none of the actual critique. And if the critique

00:13:55.800 even gets even just milder, more people are going to interpret it as, well, it ain't that bad,

00:14:01.780 rather than, you know, well, the Conservatives are just trying to give a more positive message about

00:14:06.820 what they're going to do, but they still really don't like what the Liberals are doing. You just

00:14:11.000 keep going after them. You chip away at them. And the reason why you get so many commentators saying,

00:14:16.360 oh, people don't like Polio being negative, is because they're partisan liberal hacks and they

00:14:20.040 want Polio to shut up. That is why. But anyways, so that's it for me today, guys, finally.

00:14:26.020 Thank you for watching. Like, share, subscribe, do all that fantastic stuff. And I'll see you guys all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 14, 2025

CBC gets caught LYING by Poilievre over floor crossing controversy!

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