China targets Freeland in Liberal leadership race to help Mark Carney and Trudeau
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Chrystia Freeland's campaign has been targeted by a group of pro-China internet trolls, and Mark Carney has been accused of colluding with them. Is China behind all of this, or is it just a coincidence?
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Here is another way that Mark Carney is basically just Justin Trudeau with less charisma.
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Not only does China love him, but they're trying to make sure he wins the liberal leadership.
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This is according to the Bureau, but has been reported elsewhere.
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And yes, basically, the intelligent threats to election task force has gone through WeChat,
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which is a Chinese-based social media platform,
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and it has detected at least 30 accounts going around,
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basically acting as bots to dump out misinformation and disinformation about Chrystia Freeland to help Mark Carney.
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And again, am I sympathetic to Chrystia Freeland?
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I think Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney and these other people are all pretty much corrupt,
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She's just a very strange candidate for this liberal leadership race.
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But this is obviously trying to help Mark Carney,
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so I specifically just dislike Mark Carney more.
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It's obvious that they know that if they put Mark Carney in place,
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that he is going to hold down the Canadian economy and pump up free trade with countries like China.
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This is actually the big danger of the recent tariff conflict that didn't end up happening between Canada and the United States.
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I think the liberal establishment, including Mark Carney most especially,
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as the financial advisor, would like nothing more than an excuse to start trading with U.S. enemies like China, Iran,
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Justin Trudeau has been extremely easy on China during his entire tenure of office,
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and Mark Carney has been there advising Trudeau along the way for much of the time.
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And on top of that, we also have those videos from before when he was Trudeau's economic advisor,
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This is before Polyev is even the Conservative Party leader,
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where Mark Carney admits to supporting pipelines in countries like Brazil and the United Arab Emirates,
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but says there's no business case, there's no environmental case,
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to have pipelines or new oil and gas ventures in our country, but elsewhere it's okay.
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Again, this is why I suspect that China likes Mark Carney quite a bit.
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He is somebody who will only ever basically champion international economic development
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while basically just kind of throwing his hands up in the air and saying,
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who really cares whenever there's an actual opportunity for Canadians to get ahead?
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And I want to quickly talk about the reaction that Mark Carney's campaign has had to this,
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because what they should have said was absolutely nothing.
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I don't even know why he even acknowledged what this happened, because it just makes him look bad.
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It's really stupid for him to say anything, because everyone knows who this is trying to help.
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I fully support Chrystia Freeland and her campaign in the light of this disturbing report.
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I am fully committed to defending the integrity of this race and stand firm against any attempts to undermine our democracy.
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Well, you're committed to defending the integrity of this race.
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A candidate who is actually threatening to you was already kicked out, Chandra Aria.
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And if you're going to say, well, Chandra Aria, because I've seen this rumor on social media,
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Chandra Aria was removed because he was probably involved in foreign interference himself.
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Well, what's Mark Carney's campaign involved with?
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We should probably look into this, because there's already a lot of hinky stuff going on on his campaign,
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with him being briefed by cabinet ministers, giving daily updates to cabinet and having them brief him.
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Like, that's not how you act if you truly are an outsider.
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my deepest gratitude to the national security and intelligence officials who lead this important work
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I know he can say that I'm going to stand up for the integrity of the race.
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I know we've kind of been doing that in Canada,
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but are you going to dig deeper on the Hogue report that came out,
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which was basically just a censored report by the former justices they had dig into this.
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And it was just kind of like trying to show that there are problems,
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but blame no one in particular, even though the report was chock full of indications
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that a liberal MP or a liberal minister was engaging with a Chinese or Iranian front group
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and obviously being used, which were being used to curry favor with those elected officials.
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We kind of know who a lot of the MPs are, but like, my goodness.
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I want to get over to what Chrystia Freeland's campaign had said here.
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But again, the funny thing is, again, I don't feel sympathy for Chrystia Freeland as like a politician.
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I think she's terrible and corrupt too, but she legitimately is the outsider of this race.
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She is actually the person that Team Trudeau hates because she decided to turn on them at the last moment.
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And that's really the standard in Team Trudeau.
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You, like, will give him a pint of your blood to sustain him every month,
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or you will be thrown out of the back of the van and probably run over a few times.
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Because Freeland used to be a close ally of Trudeau.
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Former deputy prime minister, former finance minister,
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helped feed the helpless body of Bill Morneau under the liberal bus for the We Charity scandal,
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which had little to do with Bill Morneau and was, in fact, a Justin Trudeau scandal.
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But because at the end, she then gets mad at Trudeau for making her basically blow out the deficit
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even more than she originally was, and she looks like an idiot, and he's done this to her before.
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All the liberal cheerleaders are online and say, what a snake.
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I can't believe she would do this to Justin, the man of principle.
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But Christy Freeland, in response to the intelligence report that came out, said,
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Again, even Xi's not going to do anything about foreign interference.
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Have they done anything to counter the disinformation, misinformation?
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Give people notices within the party that there are lies going on in WeChat?
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Anyways, I want to do an update on what's kind of going on in the liberal party leadership at the moment
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and how I think that this is going to kind of play out.
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I think we all kind of know there's like a 90% shot that Mark Carney is going to win.
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But the thing that I'm seeing early on, and I know some people are pointing to specific polls
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where the liberals are actually getting really close to the conservatives.
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What we have to realize is even Kim Campbell, for a brief moment of time,
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actually did eclipse the Kretchen liberals in 1993.
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Parties get this kind of false sense of energy and momentum as they select a new leader.
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That doesn't even mean their actual support base has grown at all.
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It's not that it grows and then it's going to retract.
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People who are now more excited who are voting liberal, same group of people,
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they are now far more likely to pick up the phone and tell you who they're voting for.
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So, in fact, the party might have always been at 26%, 27%,
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but there were so many people depressed at the prospect of running another election with Trudeau,
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that as soon as it's Mark Carney or Freeland as the potential leadership prospects,
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even though both of them, in theory, could lose even harder than Trudeau,
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these same people are picking up the phone and telling people what they actually think.
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So, there was probably an artificial depression in the liberal voter base
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and now there is an artificial excitement getting them to take polls.
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Same thing happened again to Kim Campbell in 1993.
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Same thing definitely happened to Kamala Harris after she replaced Biden.
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All the Democrats started taking the polls again, and she rocketed it up,
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and then she kind of slumped back down very quickly afterwards.
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So, I think once we see Mark Carney in this role,
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it's going to be, as the leader, he's going to probably fade pretty quickly.
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Now, I just want to talk quickly about Ruby Dalla,
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because this actually does have to do with the race.
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that actually has a strong ability to affect how this thing is going to play out.
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So, Ruby Dalla, a former MP in the Liberal caucus between 2004 and 2011,
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she was actually, in fact, rated like one of the worst people to work for in Parliament,
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because she can be a bit of a diva, and you can kind of tell from her campaign,
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And she's actually running, like, a shadow conservative campaign inside the Liberal Party.
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She's even calling herself, like, the female Canadian Trump.
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And the reason this matters, because you could say this is ridiculous,
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Maybe there's a good amount of people inside the Liberal Party
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when they read her emails, and they see her posts,
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say, like, you know, I could actually get behind some of this.
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And then she has all the ironic, like, non-liberal sign-ups
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who are just voting for her because they hate Carney and Freeland.
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But the reason this does matter is that there might be a debate.
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And if there's a debate, do you think Mark Carney survives that debate?
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Watching him is like watching paint dry in slow motion.
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Because Freeland has the ability, although she's awful,
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Mark Carney in every piece of media I've seen him in is just awful.
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He is professorial in a way that it's not even Ignatieff-like.
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He kind of has this kind of John Kerry caricature feel.
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Mark Carney just feels like, man, we have found a generic guy.
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And so in a debate setting, Freeland and Ruby could actually take a strip out of this guy.
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And I'm convinced at this point that Karina Gould might have actually flipped on Carney.
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Because there's no chance that if the liberals are getting back in with Carney.
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So why end up making yourself a pariah in your liberal circles by helping him win and then crashing the party
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and then everyone just sees you as some sort of kamikaze candidate to take out Freeland?
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Because early on it seemed like that was what was going on.
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Because Karina just happened to do her announcement that I'm running and then her official launch right at the same time as Christia Freeland,
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which seemed like the way of taking energy out of the race.
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But Karina, who also qualified with the other $125,000 deposit that she needed, she is now calling for a debate.
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And the one thing Carney does not want is a debate.
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Because he's going to be asked about the CCP stuff.
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He's going to be asked about all of his connections to Trudeau and Team Trudeau, Katie Talford, Gerald Butts.
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He is going to be asked about all of his work in England and Liz Truss and other people saying he's utterly incompetent.
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He's a bully. He's just a complete weasel when he was the Bank of England governor.
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People can ask him about his Bank of Canada record, which his record's just okay.
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And it's okay off of the back of Stephen Harper doing all the work.
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And all Mark Carney had to do was follow his orders.
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So he does not want to debate because Mark Carney only wins off of a sense of inevitability.
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Once he has a bad debate, it's like, this guy is going to be the reaction with a lot of liberals.
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Even Ruby Dahl is not conservative enough for me to vote for her if she was a liberal party leader up against Pollyov.
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I can at least kind of get in the mind of a liberal who desperately wants to feel like they have the energy to beat Pollyov.
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If they don't, I will show you how the polling – it's basically a polling mirage out there for the liberals right now.
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But they don't want a guy who is immediately going to give them the sense that, yeah, this guy's not going to be able to fight Pollyov.
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And the problem is nobody in this race can hit hard.
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Less – like, in the worst is Mark Carney himself.
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So that's where I actually think that it's going to start dogging him that he won't do a debate this election cycle.
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He's going to keep saying, oh, I don't have enough time.
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I'm too busy meeting with Canadians at events with, like, five people at them.
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Yeah, some of his events probably had, like, 70 people.
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But you're running for a liberal party leadership.
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He has to pick, like, hallways to fill whenever he's actually trying to make himself look impressive.
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To this day, Pollyov can fill a room of people, even if he's been to that town or city 10,000 times.
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He'll show up again, and there will be 700 people in the room minimum.
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He can go to towns with only, like, 7,000 people, and there will be 400 people in that room.
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He will have a significant percentage of the town show up.
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You know, he is Mr. Central Bank Digital Currency.
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He's massively involved and very supportive of the WF, the UN, all very anti-Western institutions,
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