The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Conservative MP resigns to take Carney Senate Appointment Bribe!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel. 1.00

00:00:06.340 Don't you wish you could wake up in the morning and stupid garbage didn't happen while you were asleep? 0.99

00:00:12.460 Well, too bad that's not the Canada we live in, so another Conservative MP has decided to resign his seat for stupid reasons, 1.00

00:00:21.080 not crossing the floor and joining the Liberal Party this time, but accepting an appointment by Mark Carney to the Canadian Senate. 0.89

00:00:29.700 This is Conservative MP for Chikotimi Lafford, Richard Martell,

00:00:35.080 who is going to give up his House of Commons seat in order to take that Senate appointment.

00:00:40.940 This is very bad for the Conservative Party because this is not exactly a safe Conservative seat.

00:00:48.460 Has it gone Conservative for many elections?

00:00:51.120 Sure, but oftentimes when an incumbent who's been around for quite a while leaves,

00:00:56.500 if it was at all a close riding before, it is going to be chaotic when the by-election actually

00:01:03.180 comes. This is Mark Carney being politically intelligent. Now, I don't like what he's doing,

00:01:10.040 I think it's quite sleazy and unethical, but he is doing a lot to try and keep bad news waves

00:01:16.500 hitting the Pierre Poly of conservatives. And in a certain sense, I can't blame Pierre Poly for this,

00:01:22.380 I can't blame the conservative party. The conservatives are not in government, and Mark Carney is throwing gifts around in order to make sure that the conservative opposition to the liberals always looks shaky in the media by offering people, you know, extra money or positions in order to cross the floor and join his party, or giving them this once-in-a-lifetime chance to be in the Senate, which is probably not going to be offered to them again unless they take the offer right now.

00:01:51.820 In just a second, I want to take you guys through the electoral history of Chigutimi Lafjord.

00:01:57.860 Now, this could be won back by the Conservatives. It's not like an all is lost moment, but this

00:02:02.600 is definitely a headache for Pierre Polyev. The only bright spot here is that there is probably

00:02:09.460 a decent chance that the Conservatives win it, or at the very least the Liberals don't win it,

00:02:14.760 just based on the things that Mark Carney has been doing recently that's been annoying Quebecers,

00:02:19.980 but we will be getting into all that in just a second here.

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00:02:39.160 Now, I just want to jump down to some of the reactions by other people here.

00:02:43.600 I thought Canadian Projections, this account on X, did a good summation of what's going on here.

00:02:49.540 First, I will just read the general news, then we'll go back to their bit of commentary they had on it.

00:02:54.520 It says, Breaking, Richard Martell, Conservative MP for Cicutimi, Le Fjord, since 2018, has quit the Conservative caucus.

00:03:03.280 He is the fifth to do so. He has also resigned as an MP to be appointed to the Senate by Carney.

00:03:08.880 This is the seventh by-election that will take place in the coming months.

00:03:12.980 Now, no doubt Mark Carney has been waiting to call the by-elections because he was waiting for this to happen. This has probably been in the works for about a month or two, but now I want to jump over to what Canadian projectionist had then commentated on the story.

00:03:28.640 They say alongside this, Mark Carney has announced changes to the Senate appointment process by removing the nonpartisan criterion set by Justin Trudeau.

00:03:39.660 This is what has allowed Martel and a notable liberal strategist, Tom Pitfield, among others appointed today to join the Senate.

00:03:47.880 Now, I think there's a couple things going on here. Not only does this just disrupt Mark Carney's opposition by always keeping pure poly of the conservatives on their toes, by causing them to lose liberal MPs either or conservative MPs either to being liberal floor crossers or Senate appointees, but also this has basically given a bit of a media mask to Mark Carney, giving a longtime liberal strategist, Tom Pittsfield, a Senate appointment.

00:04:17.880 Something that kind of looks a little bit sleazy.

00:04:21.220 We're just giving basically Senate seats to people who have been liberal hatchet men for a long time.

00:04:28.020 That feels like a not great thing to do, but this has given cover because the media is mostly going to focus on the conservative side on the story,

00:04:37.880 saying, what does this say about Pierre Polyev?

00:04:40.140 Well, if Richard Martell was in his last term as an MP, there is a strong draw that you can take an easy gig in the Senate. It pays quite well. You'll have a great pension. It's kind of a legacy prestige position to take.

00:04:59.780 You can kind of hang out with your friends in the Senate that you probably have. It's way easier to do. And if Mark Carney is basically making the implication that if you don't take this now, you're never going to get a Senate appointment again, there's going to be a strong drive to jumping on this.

00:05:16.620 I don't know if this really says anything about Piripolyev and the conservatives, but we know the CBC, CTV News, Global, and all the other legacy outlets are going to be talking wall-to-wall about what this says about Piripolyev's leadership, when this should put more attention on Mark Carney changing the rules in order to basically engineer a way to getting rid of a conservative MP and then also sliding in a liberal strategist into the Senate.

00:05:45.920 Now, I want to highlight this thing that Andy Lee posted. Tom Pitfield feels like it should be a more controversial pick for the Senate than it already is and what the media will end up covering.

00:06:00.320 She posted this saying, meet your newest senator.

00:06:04.740 And down here, while it's talking about who Tom Pitfield is, it mentions he is one of the four founders of Canada 2020.

00:06:13.180 Previously, he worked in China for Canada China Business Council and a business strategy consultant specializing in corporate governance for IBM Canada.

00:06:22.660 Now, obviously, that Chinese connection is a little bit concerning.

00:06:27.380 Why is it that pretty much every single former liberal politician or strategist or lobbyist or advisor can always be tied to either China or just some other insane left-wing organization?

00:06:43.240 Like, I think, what is it, the Centurion Project?

00:06:46.080 Like, the Mark Carney liberals are crawling with people with China connections.

00:06:49.740 You know, the guy who previously said China is our biggest national security threat. But when he's when he has all these people around him, suddenly he's now wanting to work with them. Or they're from the organization, the Centurion Project, who wants to raise Canada's population to 100 million people. So, you know, that's not very good.

00:07:09.160 A lot of other people have been commenting on this about, you know, whether they think this is a, you know, big betrayal or not. I think it kind of is. We have Senator Housakis, one of the conservative senators, who is saying that he's pleased that, you know, that, you know, his friend is going to Martel is going to be brought to the upper chamber.

00:07:28.320 You know, fair enough. I don't really think that's the best angle here on on what is happening. But whatever, I guess people are going to try and make this feel like a non-issue by saying, well, you know, Richard Martel deserves to be in the Senate and we're happy to see him go and we're going to elect a strong conservative in his stead.

00:07:46.320 But the problem is, is that this riding, as I'm going to show you, is what I would call politically eclectic. This is the electoral history or Chikutimi of Fjord.

00:08:01.160 So, as it was stated before, Richard Martel has been representing this riding since 2018 when he won it in a by-election.

00:08:08.680 So, at the very least, that's a piece of good news that the Conservatives were able to win the riding in a by-election previously.

00:08:16.440 But before Richard Martel was the Conservative MP for Chicoutimi Le Fjord, it was represented by Denis Lemieux for the Liberals,

00:08:26.540 and before that, Danny Morin for the New Democrats, and before that, Robert Bouchard

00:08:30.620 for the Bloc-Québec law, and before that, Andre Harvey for the Liberals. Before that, it was

00:08:36.080 Liberal, Independent, Progressive Conservatives, although that was just Andrew Harvey. Gilbert

00:08:41.260 Fillon, Andrew Harvey again, but it's been very, it used to be like a social credit,

00:08:48.280 creditiste riding. This riding will kind of blow with the wind, and the problem is, is in a

00:08:55.860 by-election, I'm wondering that because this isn't a super strong conservative riding, that there is

00:09:02.340 a chance that it's going to either go liberal or block Quebecois, because right now the party

00:09:08.360 Quebecois on a provincial level is where the provincial election winds are blowing. And on a

00:09:13.580 federal level, because of course the liberals currently have a majority, how many voters are

00:09:17.800 just going to vote for a liberal so that they can have a representative who is part of the liberal

00:09:22.560 majority, because as we have seen with other people who have crossed the floor, like Laurie

00:09:28.260 Idlaut from Nunavut, who crossed from the NDP to the Liberals, or from Marilyn Gladju from Sarnia

00:09:34.880 Lampton, who crossed from the Conservatives to the Liberals, they have both vocalized that one of the

00:09:39.420 big incentives to crossing the floor is that ministers will respond to you faster, that your

00:09:45.520 community will be better served by the government, that they may have more money brought to them.

00:09:51.160 That's kind of a problem.

00:09:52.460 And I'm wondering if voters are going to internalize that and think, well, if I want my region to actually get major project funding, I want to get more, you know, infrastructure repair funding, am I going to have to vote for the Liberals?

00:10:07.860 Although, again, the nice thing is that Mark Carney has ticked off a lot of Quebec voters recently when he made his comments about how, well, even if an Alberta separatist referendum got over 50% plus one of the vote, I maybe wouldn't recognize that as a legitimate result because it's not a clear majority when that it's a majority.

00:10:28.120 It's clearly a majority if the vote was 50% plus one, but he has this stupid abstract idea that, oh, a clear majority should be some arbitrary number much higher than 50%, and I'm not going to tell you what that is because I want to be able to change my standard on the spot depending on what happens.

00:10:46.580 You know, I'm not an independence guy, but that is going to boost the independence movement in Alberta, hearing that Mark Carney maybe wouldn't even let you leave even if you voted for it. But Mark Carney didn't calculate in the fact that him saying that a couple months ago was also going to very much tick off Quebec separatists and just Quebec nationalists in general.

00:11:08.260 Even if a Quebec nationalist doesn't actually support separatism, that is more likely to fuel them voting for the Bloc Québécois if they hear that Kearney isn't exactly willing to recognize if Quebec voted 50% plus one to separate from Canada.

00:11:24.640 So that will help out the Bloc Québécois, as well as Kearney's pipeline announcement to the West Coast will also probably fuel both the Bloc Québécois as well as NDP votes in that riding, since there are a lot of Quebec voters who are anti-pipeline.

00:11:43.680 Yes, quite a few Quebec voters are pro-pipeline, but most of the pro-pipeline voters would already be voting conservative. And so the Liberals might be in this weird situation where they are both anti-Quebec nationalist and pro-pipeline, but the Conservatives are already pro-pipeline and they already capture the pro-pipeline vote.

00:12:02.500 And so the Liberals might lose a bunch of votes to the Green Left and to the Quebec Nationalists, while the Conservatives can maintain the votes that they already had.

00:12:11.440 If they can't maintain their votes, that's really sad, but pure poly should be throwing everything at the wall for this by-election as well as North Vancouver Capilano.

00:12:21.360 I have a whiteboard video I'm planning on making soon on the North Vancouver-Capilano by-election because the good thing is in the polls recently, when you look at the sub-regional numbers, BC is moving a little bit more conservative these days, mostly because the NDP is starting to savage some of the liberal vote, and that will very much affect a by-election like North Vancouver-Capilano.

00:12:45.120 But I really didn't want to have to deal with all this Chikutimi-Lifjord nonsense. Thank you, Richard Martell, for forcing us into this. You know, I don't know why he wanted to be the poster child for partisan political appointments to help cover up the Tom Pitfield appointment, but I guess more power to Richard Martell. 0.99

00:13:06.000 So if there's silver lining here, at least this will maybe kick the conservatives into gear on wanting to offer more bold policy solutions rather than letting Mark Carney run away with the narrative that he's getting big stuff done.

00:13:22.840 And so you should vote for him to be part of the big stuff getting done.

00:13:25.800 Because you've heard me say it before, and I know I'm rambling a little bit, but all these things in my mind are connected.

00:13:31.760 I really hope that people are not swayed by Mark Carney simply announcing that he might approve a potential pipeline to the West Coast.

00:13:40.660 There are so many crimson red flags that could be thrown on the field about the feasibility of this project.

00:13:47.060 It's not because I don't believe in pipelines. I obviously do believe in pipelines. I want more pipelines.

00:13:52.520 I'd like five new pipelines to be approved. I believe Danielle Smith is fully sincere about wanting to build pipelines.

00:13:58.760 I don't think Mark Carney is. If he was, I don't think we would be working on getting a pipeline built in the next 10 years. I think our timeline would be like two to three years. We're trying to run a pipeline along the old TMX route. Why should this take any consultations?

00:14:17.260 But you'll remember, Mark Carney, a couple months ago, a few months ago, ended up just ceding over a bunch of Aboriginal land tile to the Musqueam over the entire Lower Mainland area.

00:14:30.600 So not only is this pipeline going to have to go through the consultation process with 108 First Nation bands along the approved route, or actually not even the approved route, the proposed route, but they're going to have a particularly tough time with Chief Wayne Sparrow of the Musqueam Band and the Tawassan Band, who both have competing land title claims to the area.

00:14:55.420 Now, do I believe in land title claims? No, that's complete nonsense. But it is what our liberal government and our liberal judges believe in. And that is what this pipeline is going to have to jump the hoops of in order to actually get done.

00:15:10.340 So when the Liberals say, well, we could start construction sometime maybe in October 2027, maybe, and then the ranging for starting preliminary construction goes from October 2027 to like October 2029, it's going to be 2029 at the earliest, probably going to take longer.

00:15:28.400 The Musqueam have a reason to block the route, as well as the Tawasin, because they want to show who's the bigger power in the region, and the Musqueam have been very anti-oil and gas for a long time, and they have a lot of incentives to say no, especially because that band is already very rich, and it's not like they really need the money at this point.

00:15:48.240 What's more worth it to them? Extra money for royalties? Or is it holding up the pipeline to demonstrate they have the most power in the area to sort of flex their muscles with the newly acquired land title that Mark Carney gave them?

00:16:01.580 So connecting this back to Ciccatini-le-Fjord, I think that the Conservatives need bolder policies, because unless they start running against things like Aboriginal land title and massive tax cuts and massive regulatory reform and spending reform and health reform, the problem is that Mark Carney can kind of fake his way into pretending he's the politician for everybody.

00:16:24.040 And he will do well in by-elections if the conservatives let him get away with it. They should not let him get away with it. They should run bolder. They should make sure that they don't simply just say, oh, I don't think that Mark Carney is serious about building a pipeline.

00:16:38.760 They need to actually target things like his Musqueam land title agreement to prove why he's not serious about it.

00:16:46.960 But I think a lot of conservatives still get nervous about taking on that aboriginal land title issue because they're like, well, we're going to be called anti-indigenous and anti-reconciliation.

00:16:55.460 It's like, well, no, it's not anti-indigenous.

00:16:57.800 It's anti-indigenous band council elites, the type of people who don't even treat their own people well.

00:17:03.920 It's perfectly fine to go after those people.

00:17:06.080 And by the way, there's no such thing as reconciliation that goes on for 40 years. Cambodia and Rwanda had periods of reconciliation that took a few years. Those countries had far more serious problems than Canada ever did. But for some reason, we're going through like a 40 plus year reconciliation process where every year the steps only get more intense.

00:17:27.720 The Conservatives, if they're smart, would be like 1BC and the BC Conservatives now trying to be more like 1BC in running against that nonsense.

00:17:37.680 That is how you are going to be able to win by-elections if you are offering something substantially different and better than the Liberals.

00:17:45.700 Not simply a little bit better.

00:17:47.480 Not simply saying what the Liberals are doing might not work out the way that they think it will.

00:17:51.080 but saying what they're being able to actually prosecute the case against what the liberals are

00:17:55.880 doing as well as offering something completely different because right now i think the

00:17:59.920 conservatives are playing a little bit too much in sort of the price is right type of politics

00:18:04.920 where they're trying to offer a little bit more than the liberals rather than saying what's being

00:18:08.320 offered is complete nonsense here's something different anyways with all that being said

00:18:13.160 thank you guys for watching richard martell do not talk to me do not call me anymore i know i've

00:18:19.200 never spoke to the man. He's never called me, but I'm pretending I'm cutting him off now. You are

00:18:23.400 cut off, sir. I'm never talking to you again. You have betrayed me. Anyways, with all that being

00:18:28.540 said, thank you guys for watching. Like, share, subscribe, consider hitting the join button,

00:18:32.220 and I'll see you all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 07, 2026

Conservative MP resigns to take Carney Senate Appointment Bribe!

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