The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 21, 2025


Chrystia Freeland mocks Trudeau in leadership race interview - Trudeau behind Carney


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Chrystia Freeland roasts Justin Trudeau in a live television interview. She calls him out for the stupid moves he made at the very end of her tenure as Finance Minister, and accuses him of being a narcissist.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Now despite the fact that I'm a very conservative person,
00:00:07.140 I think I've been absolutely right on when it comes to the dynamics in this Liberal Party
00:00:12.560 leadership race to replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister. Because as silly as it sounds
00:00:18.000 when I've been saying that Chrystia Freeland is the anti-Trudeau candidate, it's absolutely right.
00:00:24.480 Yes, she was the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister and walked hand-in-hand with
00:00:29.400 Justin Trudeau and passing all of his awful policies, freezing trucker bank accounts and
00:00:34.360 all that sort of thing. She is running in the lane of being the opposite of Trudeau. And yes,
00:00:40.320 her policies are basically still the same as Trudeau's, but that's how she's positioning 0.99
00:00:44.260 herself. Mark Carney, who everyone knows is not an outsider, but he has not actually been
00:00:49.960 literally in the Liberal government, but he is the Trudeau candidate in this race. Team Trudeau
00:00:56.540 is obviously behind him. His campaign chair is Jerry Butts. Katie Telford is on his campaign.
00:01:02.620 Justin Trudeau seems to be pushing MPs to endorse him. And despite all that, Chrystia Freeland still
00:01:07.960 has more endorsements so far. But I have to show you something fairly remarkable. I never thought
00:01:13.240 Chrystia Freeland was going to go guns blazing like this, but in a television interview, she actually 1.00
00:01:18.920 roasts Justin Trudeau without naming him for a good 20 seconds here, going on about all the stupid
00:01:25.320 moves he made at the very end of her tenure as finance minister. It's incredible to watch.
00:01:31.260 Remember, all these people are awful. I do not like them, but it's good to actually see them
00:01:36.940 fighting each other because at least with them fighting each other, it kind of exposes to more
00:01:42.140 Canadians the truth of what so many people were pointing out about the corruption and incompetence
00:01:47.800 of the Liberal government. But before I get into this clip, guys, remember, like this video,
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00:02:07.680 rest of the video. And now, without further ado, here is Chrystia Freeland on live television slamming
00:02:14.220 her former boss, Justin Trudeau.
00:02:16.180 Let's go back to the disagreement you're having with the prime minister, because let's say you win
00:02:19.020 this race. Of course, there's several people in the race right now. If there was a disagreement in
00:02:23.020 your cabinet, how would you handle things differently? Like if your finance minister
00:02:26.500 came to you and said, you know, prime minister, I think we're on the wrong track here. How would
00:02:32.200 you tackle that differently than what the experience you've had was?
00:02:34.880 And I will just say before she starts answering, this is a question that she could easily answer
00:02:39.700 in such a way to not take aim at Trudeau. She could say, well, I don't want to talk about what
00:02:44.740 us have, but I'm just going to say what I'm going to do. No, she takes the clear opportunity
00:02:49.540 here to sideswipe Trudeau as hard as possible.
00:02:52.800 Was.
00:02:53.180 Well, probably I wouldn't tell my finance minister I was going to fire her the day after she delivered 0.99
00:02:59.180 the fall economic statement. I probably wouldn't say that three days before she was supposed
00:03:03.220 to deliver it.
00:03:05.460 Interesting.
00:03:05.940 Yeah, step one, right?
00:03:07.540 Step one. Yeah. Okay.
00:03:08.500 And that's quite incredible that she's just admitting that, yeah, Trudeau's told her to
00:03:14.760 her face that she was going to be fired after she delivered the fall economic statement and
00:03:20.380 was just, I guess, cocky enough to assume that she was going to go along with it. And there
00:03:25.800 has been a lot of stuff so far in Freeland's campaign where it's not usually as overt as
00:03:31.620 that, but there's subtle jabs that Trudeau is no longer the prime minister and we need to
00:03:36.360 turn the page. We need to move forward and whatnot. There's a lot of sort of jabs that
00:03:40.860 Trudeau has been the problem.
00:03:42.720 Karina Gould has kind of been doing this, but she does this vague thing of we've lost
00:03:47.360 trust. The liberal party needs to re-earn trust. The implication being that Trudeau and the
00:03:53.100 party lost it. But Freeland has actually been constantly naming Trudeau as a problem here.
00:03:58.980 And that's where I think the battle lines in this race are all being drawn around.
00:04:02.880 Are you still secretly in favor of the way Trudeau does things? Not in a policy level.
00:04:07.900 They all agree with him on the policy. But do you want the management style of Trudeau
00:04:14.780 behind the scenes or do you not? And Carney is the people who are basically trying to keep
00:04:19.260 that management style around. And even at the rally that Freeland had, she did a lot of talk
00:04:25.940 about needing leaders who are not as narcissistic and we need people who actually listen and stuff
00:04:32.440 like that. And you cannot detach any of this from the fact she's talking about Justin Trudeau.
00:04:37.860 But now I want to show you a clip that's been floating around the last few days. It's not new
00:04:42.420 at all. It's in fact quite old of Pierre Polyev going after Mark Carney in a committee meeting
00:04:48.600 when he was the prime minister's economic advisor. Because this to me demonstrates that if Mark Carney
00:04:56.120 becomes the Liberal Party leader, this guy is going to get absolutely squashed by Polyev. This is Polyev 1.00
00:05:02.580 not even exactly on his A-game yet. This is him pre-leadership destroying Mark Carney because Mark Carney
00:05:09.820 cannot stand by a position with any confidence at all. And also, he's a massive hypocrite as Polyev 0.95
00:05:15.780 exposes here.
00:05:16.540 Do you support the prime minister's decision to veto the Northern Gateway pipeline, Mr. Carney?
00:05:26.300 I understand the veto of the Northern Gateway.
00:05:30.700 I don't want to find out that we're not on track today.
00:05:33.200 Oh my goodness. Can we not have ads in the middle of my video? Please, YouTube.
00:05:37.660 This is what happens when you have to record on YouTube sometimes.
00:05:40.400 Do you support it?
00:05:44.620 Given both environmental and commercial reasons.
00:05:48.040 Do you support it?
00:05:49.220 I think it's sensible. I wasn't involved in the decision, but I think it was the right decision.
00:05:53.640 And yet your company has invested billions of dollars in oil companies in both Brazil and
00:05:59.760 the UAE to buy pipelines. You've bought billions of dollars of pipelines as a company in the last
00:06:06.920 five years. Do you support those investments?
00:06:10.400 Mr. Polyev, there is a global energy system. And one of the issues, I'm trying to explain a bit
00:06:17.060 of how the economy works.
00:06:18.860 Thank you so much.
00:06:20.220 Well, I love that. Mark Carney is such a smug jerk. He's like, I'm going to explain to you
00:06:24.980 how the economy works. Liz Trust, the former prime minister of the UK, who was around when
00:06:32.900 Mark Carney was the governor of the Bank of England, basically urged people, do not vote for
00:06:37.280 Mark Carney and the liberal leadership. He was not good for the UK. He gets a lot of artificial praise
00:06:42.800 because Canada didn't undergo the same sort of devastation that the US did in the 2008 market
00:06:48.200 crash. But that had nothing to do with Mark Carney. It had to do with the policies of the Harper
00:06:52.560 government not having Community Reinvestment Act type policies like the US did in Canada that ended up
00:06:59.040 having the government incentivize massive issuing of subprime mortgages or they were going to put
00:07:04.280 heavy restrictions on the banks. That's a hidden secret about the 2008 market crash in the US.
00:07:08.460 It wasn't greedy bankers. Well, yes, there were greedy bankers involved. There were also policymakers
00:07:13.640 who basically said, you better give out subprime mortgages or we won't even approve you guys being
00:07:19.300 able to put down a new ATM. But this is crazy. Mark Carney is trying to make the case that, well,
00:07:24.440 oil and gas needs and infrastructure determine whether or not you're allowed to have a petroleum
00:07:30.140 industry. And that's what he's doing here. Well, it's okay for Brazil to have it. Well,
00:07:34.700 it's okay for Qatar or the UAE to have an oil and gas industry, but not Canada because we're past that
00:07:41.720 now. I find the term gets overused. But in this case, he is an actual globalist. He actually believes
00:07:50.460 in basically that Brazil and the UAE for reasons of equity or something to do with the environment
00:07:58.760 are allowed to have oil and gas products, but Canada no longer can. It may help. One of the
00:08:07.000 issues for this committee in thinking about a sustainable transition is where is Canada's role
00:08:12.740 in those, as energy transitions from fossil fuels to renewables and in different jurisdictions
00:08:20.360 into different geography, it matters. It matters. And this is a fundamental point.
00:08:25.880 I'm sorry, this is a fundamental point. You're finally getting to a point that is relevant to
00:08:32.400 this committee's inquiry. What you're saying is you oppose pipelines in Canada, but you support them
00:08:38.040 in the UAE and in Brazil. That's what you've actually said. That's your double standard.
00:08:43.580 It is not a double standard. It is a double standard. No, it's not.
00:08:46.480 Don't worry, Paul. He has a very good reason behind his double standard, which is environmental
00:08:53.240 geography. They can have it. We can't. They can have it because theirs are not as bad as ours,
00:08:59.520 even though we have negative 40 degree winters in places like Alberta and Saskatchewan.
00:09:04.800 And last time I checked, the UAE gets a lot of sunlight. So why do we need to invest in solar
00:09:11.040 farms, subsidize taxpayer solar farms that do not generate that much energy in the grand scheme of
00:09:16.220 things? But the UAE gets to keep having natural gas. Is it almost like Mark Carney just doesn't like
00:09:22.660 Western values and the West in general? The guy is very much one of these international equity types,
00:09:29.280 that even though the UAE is a very rich Middle Eastern country, well, the Middle East overall is
00:09:34.860 a poor area. So it's OK for the UAE to have it. It's OK for Brazil, which is a socialist basket case
00:09:41.060 most of the time to have it because they're not as well off. But Canadians need to take our lumps 1.00
00:09:45.420 for economic or for environmental, like, you know, for a revolution in environmentalism.
00:09:52.260 Make billions of dollars off foreign pipelines and you shut them down here at home, putting our people 0.95
00:09:57.000 out of work. I would remind you that you are a representative of the Canadian people. And one of
00:10:01.240 your responsibilities, including at this committee, is to fight for Canadian jobs, not foreign jobs.
00:10:07.380 Exactly. To fight for Canadian jobs and the types of Canadian jobs that are durable.
00:10:12.780 The types of Canadian jobs that are durable. OK, I'm going to end it here. I hate that stupid talking
00:10:17.360 point. Well, we need to shoot the grill. We need to shoot the oil and gas industry in the head. We
00:10:23.080 need to really keep stepping on it with a steel toe boot because it's not durable. That's why we need
00:10:28.720 the government to try and do everything it can through taxes, regulations to phase it out, even
00:10:34.100 putting in place caps on emissions, even trying to put restrictions on where you can drill and do that
00:10:39.120 stuff because it's such a vulnerable sector. That's why even after all what the government's done,
00:10:43.880 the oil and gas industry has still grown in spite of it. And you'll have these obnoxious
00:10:49.620 know-it-alls on social media saying, oh, see, Trudeau is supposedly the most anti-oil and gas
00:10:55.660 prime minister we've ever had. Yet look how much oil and gas has grown during his tenure. I'm like,
00:10:59.840 yeah, the price of oil basically caused it to grow in spite of Trudeau. But if he was not here,
00:11:05.980 our growth would have been far larger. This was like saying that, well, you know, actually,
00:11:11.120 John A. MacDonald was the most anti-oil and gas prime minister he's ever had because oil and gas
00:11:15.600 wasn't a big industry in Canada at the time. It's not about what the industry does that determines
00:11:20.240 how we evaluate the prime minister. It's how the prime minister has affected the industry.
00:11:24.820 And just because line goes up a little bit does not mean the industry has been unaffected by the
00:11:30.000 prime minister because our oil and gas industry has been lagging behind the US and other jurisdictions
00:11:36.240 in growth while prime minister Trudeau has been in power. Our ability to export it to into a more
00:11:42.220 diverse group of countries to get the best price for our oil and gas has been significantly damaged
00:11:48.560 by Trudeau. But he comes in here saying, oh, well, we need more durable jobs. Shut up. What are you
00:11:55.780 talking about? Yeah, we need durable jobs like EV manufacturing jobs that Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau
00:12:02.320 are having to subsidize because they're such durable jobs. You need to literally pump taxpayer
00:12:08.040 dollars into them or they wouldn't exist. Whenever I see people pull up charts and look at the investment
00:12:13.940 in green energy. Oh, it's even outpacing oil and gas by rate of growth every single year. Okay,
00:12:21.180 well, let's pair that chart with the subsidies for green energy chart. Oh, wow. They're almost one to
00:12:27.440 one. The growth in solar and wind is almost one to one with the growth in subsidies and solar and wind.
00:12:34.520 Who would have thunk it? Who would have thunk it? I couldn't guess that it's not actually durable.
00:12:41.060 I've seen charts. I've seen studies telling me that these are great jobs and that oil and gas jobs are
00:12:46.780 bad. I have, guys, I only say this whenever I want to denigrate people who push themselves as like 1.00
00:12:54.060 policy experts. I have a master's degree in public policy from the University of Calgary. Guess what?
00:13:00.400 You shouldn't be impressed by that at all. All that degree taught me, it did teach me a few things. So
00:13:05.020 there were, it would have some benefit. I'm not going to go that far. But the main thing it taught me
00:13:11.540 was I hate policy people. Policy people can convince themselves of anything through the dumbest metrics
00:13:17.260 possible. They will pull up a study that shows actually the carbon tax makes things cheaper. I'm not even
00:13:22.560 kidding. There are studies that people try and push that say the carbon taxes basically had no effect
00:13:27.380 on food and other, you know, other essentials. And really their mistake is that they use CPI,
00:13:35.540 the Consumer Price Index, which basically just takes what a hundred dollar like a bin of groceries,
00:13:41.940 what the average person is spending on groceries from one year to the next. Their typical basket of
00:13:48.640 groceries, how much does that cost each quarter for the next four quarters? The Consumer Price Index is
00:13:54.460 a scam because if people used to buy steak and they used to buy organic eggs and they used to buy,
00:14:00.700 you know, glass bottled milk from organic grocery stores, and then they switch to just buying
00:14:06.420 dairy land milk and which is, you know, fine. I like dairy land milk, but then they start buying like
00:14:12.240 bologna and eggs that are just normal eggs and they stop buying bread from like a premium bakery and
00:14:20.440 they just start buying like Wonder Bread. That is considered an equivalent basket of goods. And so
00:14:25.860 if that hundred dollar basket back in the day with more premium items cost a hundred dollars and now
00:14:31.320 your basket of goods with sub-premium items costs a hundred and four dollars, they'll conclude in theory
00:14:38.080 in this case. Well, there's only been a four percent growth in the price of groceries. It's only gone up
00:14:43.820 by four dollars. And then when they factor in all the things that would have made it go up by four
00:14:47.620 dollars, well, it turns out the carbon tax only accounted for about 25 cents, 50 cents of that.
00:14:53.160 So it's been a negligible effect. Yeah, sure, dude. And then it doesn't also have the fact, it doesn't
00:14:59.140 include the fact that grocery stores and producers and will just eat the cost and they'll just make less
00:15:04.960 money on certain items. And so that it's very deceptive. But these people put out studies based
00:15:10.460 on theoretical garbage and they will tell you something that you know is not true in reality.
00:15:15.900 The taxes of the Trudeau government have made things harder to afford, but you will have some guy
00:15:22.920 show up with his 45,000 page study telling you that you're actually wrong because he crunched the
00:15:29.720 numbers. And it turns out that all the new taxes, the government spending, all this stuff has actually
00:15:34.640 had a negligible effect or it's not as bad as you think. I'm so tired of it. Anyways, that's my
00:15:42.760 long winded rant to cap off this video, but you will see more of this as time goes on. Christy Freeland
00:15:48.780 is going to keep jabbing at Trudeau, keep getting that anti-Trudeau sentiment going. And Mark Carney is
00:15:54.780 going to keep bear hugging Team Trudeau and basically make himself seem like the fresh outsider face,
00:16:01.220 but on the model of the Trudeau government. Freeland is still bad. Do not get me wrong. She's awful. If
00:16:09.260 you were to buy a membership right now and vote in this liberal leadership race, and if you don't have
00:16:13.420 a membership, maybe do it. It's free. You can still, you know, take part in democracy. The person I
00:16:19.360 would genuinely vote for is Michael Clark. He's a pro-life liberal running in the race. He's like a
00:16:24.120 Toronto or a Metro Vancouver, Ontario area or Ottawa area organizer, some like Liberty liberal from back
00:16:33.420 in the day. He's like a 90s like Christian pro-life liberal who would have maybe been invited into a
00:16:39.300 Paul Martin or John Kretchen government. And so if you're going to vote, I'd vote for that guy. And
00:16:44.000 then Frank Bayless is probably the second least bad option. And then probably Chandra Aria, because I
00:16:48.980 think that we should be voting for the most conservative liberal in these races. Again,
00:16:54.520 if you're not interested in voting, don't vote in it. I'm probably not personally going to vote
00:16:58.140 because I'm already a conservative party member. But I don't want, because some people have this
00:17:02.440 theory, we should want the worst liberal to win because it makes it easier for pure Polyev to win. 0.98
00:17:07.720 Okay, well, that really shows that we're insecure as conservatives. I think Polyev can beat any of
00:17:11.980 them. I think he can, he's perfectly capable of beating all of them. So we don't need to be
00:17:16.620 scared that Polyev is going to lose. And also, I don't think it's good for our enemies to be even 0.98
00:17:22.200 more insane. Because what happens if one day, the Polyev government's doing a pretty good job, 0.83
00:17:26.700 and they just trip and do something absolutely stupid. And it makes an easy win for the liberals.
00:17:31.380 And they have the most insane person, they have like Stephen Gilbeau running the party. Okay,
00:17:38.020 well, that was fun that Polyev got to beat Stephen Gilbeau once. But if he's still the leader by the next
00:17:43.960 time, well, you know, we're dead. Mark Carney is in favor of central bank digital currencies.
00:17:49.380 So maybe let's not have that guy be one of the major party leaders and can influence the elector
00:17:54.540 in favor of CBDCs. By the way, myself and the National Telegraph were the ones who got pure Polyev
00:18:01.300 to actually make his commitment and put it on his platform that he will ban the Bank of Canada
00:18:06.880 from passing a central bank digital currency or doing anything to pursue one, experiment on one,
00:18:12.420 anything, they're banned. So we got that done through our advocacy. And so I do not want to
00:18:17.860 see like a Mark Carney finger rise up in the liberal party who's going to mainstream radical ideas. I want
00:18:24.100 the liberal party to be a party of people I don't exactly agree with. But if they get into office,
00:18:29.720 I'm not going to have to set my hair on fire because they're semi reasonable, you know,
00:18:34.320 Chrétien or Paul Martin liberals. Anyways, so that's it for me today. Finally, it's funny how I
00:18:41.020 try and end a video and then I just go back into the video and I talk for another five minutes.
00:18:45.340 But that's just what happens here on whatever this show is called. I think I always label it
00:18:50.140 TNT breakdown, which is super generic. But that's what happens on the show. Remember to like the
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