CBC gets caught LYING by Poilievre over floor crossing controversy!
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
182.69429
Summary
A CBC journalist tries to needle Conservative Party Leader Pierre Polyev, and gets absolutely ritualistically dunked on. This guy was still trying to make a big deal out of the Chris Dontremont "floor crossing" story, and Polyev ended up calling the CBC out for all the corrections they've had to make around their reporting on this issue.
Transcript
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
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?
00:02:16.380
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
00:05:23.920
He's leaving your caucus. That's the question for you, sir.
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?
00:05:47.920
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.
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
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.
00:10:50.860
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.