The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Chrystia Freeland resigns from Liberal Cabinet - Rips Trudeau in letter!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. So let's just cut to the chase. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's

00:00:07.500 liberal government has turned into a flaming car wreck on the side of the road that Canadians 0.93

00:00:13.020 gawk at as they drive on by. Last night, John Fraser, Canada's housing minister and supposed

00:00:20.320 rising Trudeau-like star, according to the liberal media, resigned from cabinet and he said he's not

00:00:26.600 going to be running for re-election. And then the big bombshell is that this morning, Chrystia Freeland,

00:00:33.380 Canada's finance minister, has resigned from cabinet, but she is planning on still running

00:00:39.240 for re-election 2025, which indicates to me that there could be a second attempt at a palace coup

00:00:45.840 against Justin Trudeau with Chrystia Freeland either leading it or backing someone to challenge

00:00:51.940 Trudeau for the liberal party leadership. This is all hilarious because every single member of the

00:00:58.520 liberal government deserves this amount of public embarrassment and chaos. Let's get into the letter

00:01:05.820 that Chrystia Freeland released this morning because it is absolutely scathing. You can tell 0.90

00:01:11.180 she is coming for Justin Trudeau's head. And honestly, this shocked me because even though I made a video

00:01:17.360 two days ago, talking about why I think Freeland was going to resign within three months, didn't take

00:01:23.280 that long. I never really expected her to be the sort of person to go directly at Trudeau the way she

00:01:30.260 is here. I always saw her as kind of a loyalist. You know, we all remember what she did during the

00:01:35.700 Freedom Convoy. She froze massive amounts of Canadians' bank accounts for donating to the Freedom Convoy.

00:01:41.480 She has backed Justin Trudeau to the absolute hilt. So I could see her maybe leaking things on Trudeau,

00:01:47.940 but this is absolutely just shredding him in the public view. So I will read her letter here in just

00:01:56.040 a second. But first, I will remind you guys, if you're not yet a subscriber, please subscribe to the

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00:02:06.600 my friends to reach 100,000 subscribers by December of next year, or I owe them all dinner. So please

00:02:13.180 help me in this venture. Anyways, so I'm going to read Chrystia Freeland's letter here that she released

00:02:18.520 just about an hour ago. It is actually quite shocking. So she says, Dear Prime Minister, it has

00:02:26.780 been the honor of my life to serve in government working for Canada and Canadians. We have accomplished

00:02:33.040 a lot together. On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your finance minister and offered

00:02:39.560 me another position in cabinet. Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for

00:02:46.680 me to resign from cabinet. I assume this also means she's going to stop being the deputy prime minister 0.86

00:02:52.620 because how could you stay on that role saying that you and the prime minister just fundamentally disagree

00:02:58.140 on issues? Anyways, I digress. I'll keep reading. To be effective, a minister must speak on behalf of

00:03:04.660 the prime minister and with his full confidence. In making your decision, you made clear that I no

00:03:10.440 longer credibly enjoy that confidence and possess the authority that comes with it. For the past number

00:03:16.140 of weeks, you and I have found ourselves at odds about the best path forward for Canada. Wow. Our country

00:03:22.360 today faces a grave challenge. The incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a

00:03:27.960 policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including a threat of 25% tariffs. We need to take that

00:03:34.780 threat extremely seriously. That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today so we have the reserves we

00:03:41.140 may need for a coming tariff war. That means eschewing costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford

00:03:47.900 and which makes Canadians doubt that we can recognize the gravity of the moment. That is an absolutely

00:03:56.460 insane line. She is saying that through the $250 checks in April and this GST-HST tax freeze, this holiday

00:04:04.940 freeze, is an absolute political gimmick. And she's right about the tariff war. If there is going to be tariffs

00:04:13.040 put on Canada's economy, which I kind of doubt all we have to do is just tighten up security on the border. Why, though,

00:04:18.860 if there was going to be tariffs, would you blow all your money on just random, who cares, like,

00:04:25.820 handouts now that aren't really going to help anyone? Nobody really cared about it. Like, the polling shows

00:04:31.840 nobody likes the liberals more for handing out this money. When you might need it in a few months when

00:04:37.940 Trump tariffs you, which again, he's probably not, but never say never. But Trudeau apparently thinks that

00:04:44.560 we're all in the clear so he can just burn cash. My goodness. Anyways, I will keep reading here.

00:04:51.460 She says, that means pushing back against America first economic nationalism with a determined effort

00:04:57.880 to fight for capital and investment and the jobs they bring. That means working in good faith and

00:05:03.380 humility with the premiers and the provinces and territories of our great and diverse country. You

00:05:08.400 always have to mention the diversity. And building a true Team Canada response. I know Canadians would

00:05:14.160 recognize and respect such an approach. They know we are working for them and they equally know that

00:05:20.000 we are focused on ourselves. Inevitably, our time in government will come to an end. But I do like

00:05:26.600 that. That's funny. But how do we deal with the threat our country currently faces will define us for

00:05:33.420 a generation and perhaps longer? Canada will win if we are strong, smart, and united. It is this conviction

00:05:41.640 which has driven my strenuous efforts this fall to manage our spending in ways that will give us the

00:05:47.500 flexibility we need to meet the serious challenges presented by the United States. And this line is

00:05:52.240 key because she is saying it is the blowing out of the deficit that was the last straw. Because she

00:05:58.180 was technically on track to stay below a $40 billion deficit, which, let's be fair, is not impressive.

00:06:05.140 That's still a crazy deficit. But Trudeau with these $250 handouts and the GST holiday basically just said,

00:06:11.640 yeah, we're going to have like a $48 billion deficit deal with it, Freeland, take it on the chin.

00:06:16.700 But anyways, I will finish up here. I will always be grateful for the chance to have served in

00:06:21.600 government and I will always be proud of our government's work for Canada and Canadians.

00:06:26.120 I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues as a Liberal Member of Parliament and I

00:06:30.420 am committed to running again for my seat in Toronto in the next federal election. With gratitude,

00:06:35.540 the Honourable Chrystia Freeland. Absolutely hilarious. Because, again, she's just saying

00:06:42.040 that Trudeau's a fraud. And this, to me, reading that letter there, reads like a campaign pitch. It

00:06:50.220 really reads like a campaign press release. Like Freeland is going to declare that if Trudeau

00:06:55.920 would just resign, I will take the leadership of this party. I will run as leader and show you how to

00:07:01.540 do it. I don't think she knows how to do it. I think all of these people are incompetent. 1.00

00:07:06.900 But it is effectively a bunch of rats trying to jump off the sinking ship of Justin Trudeau 1.00

00:07:12.500 and preemptively, you know, take knife him. This is Chrystia Freeland knifing Justin Trudeau 0.97

00:07:19.240 because he was probably about to suddenly announce her departure or force her to resign.

00:07:25.020 So before she could force, before Justin Trudeau could force Freeland to resign,

00:07:30.760 she suddenly resigned right before the fall economic statement, which is really embarrassing

00:07:35.480 for the government, and says, you know, but I'm not going anywhere. I'm still going to be a member

00:07:39.400 of Parliament. I'm not going to take any cabinet handouts. I'm not going to be your, like, you know,

00:07:45.500 women and diversity minister. I'm just going to go sit as a backbencher and watch you fail on your 1.00

00:07:51.500 own. And who's finance minister at this point? That's been the big problem with the liberal

00:07:57.500 government, other than they're corrupt and terrible, is that they've brain drained the party.

00:08:03.480 Bill Morneau was not a good finance minister because he listened to Justin Trudeau's Every 1.00

00:08:08.820 Wish and tried to deliver it, and Justin Trudeau's a complete moron. But Bill Morneau was like an actual 0.99

00:08:15.540 finance guy. In, like, a Paul Martin or Jean Chrétien finance, sorry, government, you could

00:08:21.920 see him actually succeeding in finance and doing a generally okay job. With Trudeau at the helm,

00:08:27.720 no chance. But then Freeland was a massive downgrade from Bill Morneau. And who do you put in that

00:08:34.480 position after Bill Morneau? This is exactly like the attorney general. You went from Jody Wilson

00:08:42.380 Raybould, who actually wasn't that good either. I know there's kind of a glow around her because

00:08:46.900 she stood up to Trudeau. She was still not a very good attorney general and a justice minister. But

00:08:53.960 it went from her to the absolute sociopath, David Lamedi, who actually, in fact, thought that the

00:09:00.380 liberals went too soft on the freedom convoy. And then from David Lamedi, it went to Arif Varani,

00:09:06.760 who is an absolute empty suit. He is like, he truly is like the C team in terms of who you would

00:09:14.160 put on as your finance minister. Like, I guess he's a lawyer. I guess he has a law degree so he can

00:09:19.980 technically be the justice minister. But really, can he? Can he really be justice minister? Who are you

00:09:27.020 going to put in as finance minister? Mark Gerritsen? I don't even know who else is in the liberal

00:09:31.820 government that's name worthy at this point. That's the problem. The entire government is full

00:09:36.760 of just nobodies, just Trudeau talking heads, people who all they say is, I agree with Justin.

00:09:42.940 Justin's doing a bang up job. Don't you know that the carbon tax actually gives you more back than you

00:09:47.500 pay into it? Don't you know? Don't you know? Jenna Suds is exactly that kind of person as family and

00:09:54.540 child development minister. Guys, did you know that you're getting your child benefit check in the mail

00:10:00.660 tomorrow? Isn't that so exciting? Isn't that so exciting? It's like, no, it isn't. No, it isn't,

00:10:05.320 Jenna. Stop it. Stop being stupid. Nobody likes handouts. And I know it's a tax credit or and it's

00:10:12.000 like basically money back on your taxes for having a family. But still, why do they keep hyping up just

00:10:18.960 random money from the government as if it's like a gift? You just received a gift from God because the

00:10:25.260 liberal government have decided to cut you a check for like the amount of like keep yourself

00:10:31.920 financially somewhat solvent. But yeah, I wanted to quickly cut over to what went on at the fall

00:10:38.400 economic development because it's embarrassing. Journalists were leaving the room because it was

00:10:42.660 so clear that this event was not going to go forward. But first, actually, let's look at this

00:10:47.440 cartoon that somebody reposted this morning of a liberal outlet trying to hype up Sean Fraser and

00:10:53.900 make him look cool. Here is a political cartoon of a big Sean Fraser chasing down pure poly of 0.78

00:11:00.560 saying, look out. And on his briefcase, it says Sean Fraser MP housing plan. Yeah. Yeah, that worked

00:11:06.980 out really well. Clearly, Justin Trudeau wanted Fraser out of cabinet because he was doing such a

00:11:12.800 bang up job, not because everyone can see that the liberals housing policy sucks. Blanket rezoning a bunch 0.84

00:11:19.740 of cities around Canada bribing them to do it isn't going to solve the housing problem. You need to

00:11:25.260 reduce taxes, environmental regulations, and the amount of paperwork hoops that you have to jump

00:11:31.200 through. Blanket rezoning has nothing to do with that. You can have zoning laws and have cheap housing.

00:11:37.200 You need to make it easy to build those houses and not have it take years to be able to get your

00:11:41.780 permits and to be able to actually start putting down a foundation. Anyways, but here was what happened

00:11:47.860 at the fall economic development shortly after Chrystia Freeland announced her resignation. This 0.70

00:11:54.020 is Brian Passfume reporting. And he just shows this is the room like an hour after Freeland said that she

00:12:01.560 was not going to stay on as finance minister and the room emptied out. These chairs were full right

00:12:08.060 before Chrystia Freeland said that she wasn't going to run again. And now the room is absolutely empty

00:12:12.980 because nobody has confidence that the government's actually even going to bother with this announcement

00:12:17.180 today after that bombshell. Here is Sean Fraser reacting to Freeland saying that she is resigning

00:12:25.620 from the cabinet, a very defeated Sean Fraser reacting. Look, I'll tell you that I had the

00:12:30.880 opportunity to work alongside Minister Freeland as her parliamentary secretary during the second

00:12:38.940 half of the COVID-19 pandemic. I found her to be professional, supportive of me as a member of

00:12:45.080 parliament. And I consider her a friend and that friendship will continue long after my time and

00:12:52.220 in politics. This strikes me as curious. I don't know why you're saying all these things about her

00:12:58.020 being a friend, unless you might be backing her play potentially to try and get rid of Justin Trudeau.

00:13:03.320 Because if you know that Freeland's resigning and she's at odds with Trudeau and she put out that

00:13:08.200 really scathing letter, you probably go a little bit milder in terms of, yeah, I like Freeland, but

00:13:14.620 you know, she says that she doesn't want to serve in cabinet anymore and that's her choice. But this is

00:13:20.000 like him backing up his credentials as a big Freeland booster. What that says about not knowing

00:13:28.740 her own take on the reasons behind that decision makes it very difficult for me to assess what it may

00:13:34.860 mean. But my sense is that she's been an excellent team member to work alongside and I continue to

00:13:42.640 consider her a friend. When it comes to the government, if you're a portion of your question

00:13:49.380 referred to my view on what it may mean for the government, is that as compared to the product

00:13:56.900 on offer on the other side of the chamber, it's very clear that my own party supports the priorities

00:14:03.560 that I think are most important to people at home. Investing in health care. Notice how he still

00:14:08.260 hasn't said a single good thing about Prime Minister Trudeau during this answer. Putting money on the

00:14:12.900 table to make life more affordable. Doing something serious to address the pressing threat of climate

00:14:19.000 change. So from my own perspective, the choice is clear as to who will offer a superior point of view

00:14:25.520 to Canadians when it comes time for them to go to the ballot boxes. But in the meantime, questions about

00:14:31.060 my colleague, Ms. Freeland's motivation.

00:14:35.760 Minute 30 seconds. There is not a mention of Justin Trudeau, not a mention of saying, I think that

00:14:40.380 Justin Trudeau, I have confidence in him as the leader. He's the right man for the job. Well, if you

00:14:46.100 know, obviously, if the Prime Minister doesn't have confidence in a finance minister, the finance

00:14:50.740 minister must go. There was none of that. A year ago, two years ago, they would have just been

00:14:55.960 absolutely hammering the person who was finance minister saying they disagreed with the Prime

00:15:00.280 Minister. I can't believe they're such a horrible person. It's good to see him go. Good riddance. 0.95

00:15:04.720 You know, they're a great friend, but they have to step down. They would have just been doing that.

00:15:08.820 Now they're like, Chrystia Freeland is, you know, a lady and a scholar. She's amazing. Big Disney Plus

00:15:17.480 enthusiast. It's been bad. It's bad for Trudeau. Because when Freeland is getting

00:15:25.320 more well wishes on the way out without a mention of Justin Trudeau at all, big, big red flag. Big

00:15:33.900 red flag that there is going to be another palace coup with Chrystia Freeland leading it, you know, 1.00

00:15:39.040 taking her stiletto and trying to beat Justin Trudeau to death. Because you can tell that lady 1.00

00:15:43.860 dumped her entire life into backing Trudeau and he just stabbed her in the back. Anyways, that's it for

00:15:51.060 me today, guys. Remember, subscribe to the channel if you can, like this video, leave a comment. And I

00:15:56.880 will see you guys in probably just a few hours when something else completely insane happens in the

00:16:02.960 liberal government. See you guys later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 16, 2024

Chrystia Freeland resigns from Liberal Cabinet - Rips Trudeau in letter!

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