The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Doug Ford backstabbed Poilievre so Carney's Liberals could win!

00:00:00.000 and Jamil Giovanni winning again tonight. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Doug Ford

00:00:03.920 just went through an election. I have differences of opinion with him. I don't like how he's managed

00:00:08.340 health care or education. But out of respect, we didn't say anything. Federal party, we didn't get

00:00:13.080 in his way. When it was our turn to run an election, he couldn't stay out of our business.

00:00:16.820 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. If the federal election had one very good outcome, it's that

00:00:23.640 Doug Ford and the Ontario PC Parties HQ have finally exposed themselves as effectively being

00:00:30.880 liberals. I am very happy to see Conservative Party MP Jamil Giovanni just calling them out directly

00:00:38.260 and also mocking them for thinking they're political geniuses, despite the fact that Doug Ford and the

00:00:44.440 PCs have really benefited greatly from having some of the worst opponents in Ontario provincial

00:00:50.500 history. Today in this video, I want to break down some of the stuff that Doug Ford and the Ontario

00:00:57.760 PCs have done in order to undermine the federal Conservatives in the 2025 federal election, as

00:01:04.720 well as some of the motivations that may be behind why Doug Ford has chosen to align himself so closely

00:01:11.420 with Mark Carney and the Liberal Party. The truth is he's been aligned with the Liberals for a very long

00:01:17.280 time, probably since he came in around 2018, and I'm going to show you some of the financials behind

00:01:23.860 the scenes that make Doug Ford want the Liberals to win. But first, let's get back to this interview

00:01:29.940 with Jamil Giovanni, where he says some of the things I would love to say on national television

00:01:35.660 about the Doug Ford PC Party in Ontario. They're just awful. They've basically just been a continuation

00:01:42.400 of Kathleen Wynne, and they think they're so good at politics, even though they're basically running 0.55

00:01:48.400 against half-baked potatoes as leaders of the Liberals and the NDP. Doug Ford just went through

00:01:54.220 an election. I have differences of opinion with him. I don't like how he's managed healthcare or

00:01:58.720 education. But out of respect, we didn't say anything. Federal party, we didn't get in his way.

00:02:03.660 When it was our turn to run an election, he couldn't stay out of our business, always getting his

00:02:07.780 criticisms and all his opinions out, distracting our campaign, trying to make it about him, trying

00:02:13.060 to position himself as some kind of political genius that we needed to be taking cues from.

00:02:17.360 Was it him specifically? Was it his campaign manager, Corey, tonight? Do you see Doug Ford as a problem

00:02:22.540 for the federal party in the outcome of this race? I see Doug Ford as a problem for Ontario and for

00:02:28.540 Canada. I think he's not doing a great job in running this province, and now he's trying to exercise

00:02:33.280 his influence over other levels of government. And it's not like this guy is doing anything

00:02:37.540 particularly well. You did used to work for him. I did. I'm speaking from experience.

00:02:42.400 And Jamil Giovanni is absolutely right. Doug Ford and his PC government have done very little

00:02:48.960 conservative since they got in back in 2018. Taxes are still extremely high. In fact, Doug Ford now has

00:02:56.720 to go around pretending that he's achieved his goal of not raising taxes when they are pretty much at

00:03:02.200 their maximum level possible right now. And he had previously promised to actually lower them.

00:03:07.440 And he's actually brought in an industrial carbon tax of his own on the provincial level. So his

00:03:12.620 claims that he hasn't raised taxes aren't even true. I guess he hasn't raised them on income. But

00:03:18.360 still, all taxes going up raises everyone's tax burden, whether it's on the products they're buying or

00:03:24.120 the actual direct taxes that they're paying. Doug Ford on many other fronts has just been bad.

00:03:29.580 On school curriculum, he hasn't made any reforms. On other issues around spending, he hasn't made any

00:03:35.780 reforms. He's just kind of a retail politician and not much more. So when he then tries to poke his

00:03:42.440 fingers around the conservative campaign and his campaign director, Corey Tanike, is going around

00:03:48.320 criticizing everything the conservatives do, it's just deeply hypocritical. Because while Doug Ford wins,

00:03:54.580 he doesn't win for the right reasons. And I was happy that at least the federal conservatives,

00:03:58.700 while not winning, were trying to actually win for the right reasons. And I just want to let you know

00:04:04.500 in the description of this video below, as well as pinned at the top of the comments, I've included

00:04:09.520 an article from the Fraser Institute, a fiscally conservative organization, who goes through the

00:04:15.280 record of Doug Ford and shows that he's really not that much different from the Kathleen Wynne liberals

00:04:20.600 or Dalton McGinty liberals. He's still a high spender, and he gets re-elected by throwing around

00:04:25.680 subsidies towards targeted areas where he thinks he can win votes. It's really gross,

00:04:30.900 and it's not conservative. You did used to work for him. I did. I'm speaking from experience.

00:04:36.200 I tried to fix problems in this province, and he kept getting in his way and all his goons around

00:04:40.480 him all the time. They wouldn't make anything better. And now we're seeing him because he,

00:04:44.780 you know, this guy's a political genius because he beat Bonnie Crombie and Stephen Del Duca.

00:04:48.600 And now we got to sit around and get advice from him? No, no. I think Jamil Giovanni's even overselling

00:04:54.800 Doug Ford's liberal opponents a bit because in 2018, 2022, and 2025, his real main opponent in terms

00:05:03.520 of the party who won the second most seats was the NDP. And in 2018 and 22, it was led by Andrea Horvath,

00:05:11.600 who had been failing to win elections as the NDP leader in Ontario since 2011. She lost in 2011,

00:05:20.320 2014, 2018, and 2022. And then you have Del Duca and Crombie and Kathleen Wynne, who are all dud,

00:05:29.880 uncharismatic, unorganized liberal leaders. He has taken the provincial conservative party and turned it

00:05:36.540 into something hollow, unprincipled, something that doesn't solve problems. He's glad-handing with

00:05:41.480 Christia Freeland having coffees and lattes with Mark Carney. And I'm sitting here saying we need

00:05:46.720 to be fighting for change and something new and something different, not being a hype man to the

00:05:50.860 liberal party. And here again, Jamil Giovanni is absolutely correct. Doug Ford gave his brand to

00:05:58.620 Mark Carney. He lent himself to their credibility, constantly praising minor little things that Mark

00:06:06.460 Carney was doing or just saying, and giving permission for a lot of PC Ontario voters to go

00:06:12.120 vote Mark Carney to stop Donald Trump by constantly hyping up that element of Mark Carney's agenda.

00:06:18.740 Here is Doug Ford congratulating Mark Carney on becoming the new federal liberal party leader,

00:06:24.820 a very unnecessary gesture that positively highlights Mark Carney as someone who'd probably

00:06:31.220 make a good prime minister. This is an actual line from that statement, again, put out on the Ontario

00:06:38.300 government's website. It says,

00:06:40.460 I want to extend my congratulations to Mark Carney on being elected as leader of the liberal party of

00:06:46.780 Canada and our next prime minister. Your election comes at a critical time as our country continues to

00:06:53.240 stare down the ongoing threat of President Trump's tariffs. Now more than ever, Canada needs strong

00:06:59.020 leadership and cooperation across all levels of government to protect our country. That is an

00:07:05.440 obvious implicit endorsement of Mark Carney and the liberal government. He is highlighting that it's

00:07:12.640 a critical time right now and we need to work together and I just congratulated you on becoming

00:07:17.400 the new liberal party leader. Could this man be the person I think is the strong leadership we need

00:07:22.800 right now? It's obviously what he's attempting to do. He then later had coffee with Mark

00:07:29.000 Carney and then also attended a premier's meeting in which he gushed about how Mark Carney has such

00:07:35.340 great ideas for protecting Canada. Oh, this is fantastic. We're all cooperating and signing

00:07:40.220 agreements. It's so far just words on paper even today. But Doug Ford went out of his way to praise

00:07:47.420 empty words of Mark Carney because he wanted PC Ontario voters to go and vote liberal. He was giving a

00:07:55.180 permission structure for PC voters to vote federal liberal. And make no mistake, Doug Ford has been

00:08:02.440 doing stuff like this since well before 2025. There is a now infamous article in the Toronto Star

00:08:09.920 where Chrystia Freeland refers to Doug Ford as her therapist and they go over the unlikely friendship

00:08:16.740 between Doug Ford and Chrystia Freeland as well as Ford and the Trudeau government in general.

00:08:22.520 And why is Doug Ford so friendly with the liberal government? Well, I think they are of like minds

00:08:29.020 on many issues, including spending, including subsidizing Ontario industries. There is absolutely

00:08:37.420 no coincidence in my mind that Doug Ford has been so friendly to the liberal government as the liberal

00:08:43.300 government has been increasing transfer payments to Ontario despite the fact that Ontario should be

00:08:50.420 actually increasing in its economic health and deserving of fewer transfers. Just look at the

00:08:56.740 difference between the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years transfer to Ontario and then the 2025-2026 year transfer

00:09:07.220 that shows that the Ontario government is now getting more than $8 billion extra in federal transfers

00:09:14.860 from the liberal government. Early on in Doug Ford's premiership, he tried to make himself an opponent

00:09:22.540 of the liberal government, but you can pinpoint the exact year he started being very friendly to them

00:09:28.700 back in 2020 and 2021 when fiscal transfers started to greatly increase per capita. And now today,

00:09:37.260 Doug Ford has tried to respond to critics like Jamil Javani and other federal conservatives and I'll let

00:09:43.740 you be the judge as to whether you think this is a good excuse or not.

00:09:48.220 Here in the federal election, last time I checked, Pierre Polyev never came out in our election. Matter

00:09:54.780 of fact, him or one of his lieutenants told every one of his members, don't you dare go out and help

00:10:01.820 the PCs. Isn't that ironic? But anyways, I'm not going to dig deep into this. The people spoke and I have no

00:10:10.620 say in who people vote for, but I'll tell you one thing. We have a government, democratically elected,

00:10:18.140 I will hold them accountable. I'll hold them accountable like I would no matter if it's a

00:10:22.300 conservative government or a liberal government. I just wanted to include that last little bit

00:10:27.340 there because I find it so absurd that Doug Ford thinks he's going to hold the liberal government to

00:10:32.140 account. I guess he means hold them to account in the sense that he's going to account for how much

00:10:37.420 money the federal government transfers to his Ontario government. But I digress. Doug Ford's

00:10:43.660 complaint against the federal party doesn't make any sense. So he's justifying him and his campaign

00:10:50.140 manager, Corey Tanaiki, going and knifing the federal conservatives because they didn't help him in his

00:10:56.060 provincial re-election. A re-election that he didn't need to call in February. It was an unnecessary snap

00:11:02.700 election. And not only have people like former PC MPP Goldie Gomery pointed out it's nonsense that the

00:11:10.060 Ford PCs were not getting help by federal conservative volunteers, but even if they weren't sending any

00:11:16.060 volunteers or they weren't even letting them volunteer, who cares? It was Doug Ford's choice to call

00:11:22.380 an early provincial election, a year and a half early provincial election, when a federal election was

00:11:28.300 imminent. And the federal conservatives were obviously not going to be able to spare a bunch

00:11:33.020 of volunteers to an election where Doug Ford was slated to easily win. And I'm happy to see that Jamil

00:11:40.380 Giovanni has kept up the barrage since that news interview, not letting Doug Ford off the hook and

00:11:46.780 not listening to other people saying that we all need to unify right now and learn to get along. The

00:11:52.220 problem is the Ford PCs don't want to get along. They want their subsidies. They want their transfer

00:11:58.140 payments. And there is one more man I need to talk about in this video for it to be truly complete.

00:12:04.780 And that is Doug Ford's campaign director, Corey Tanike, who was the main wedge against the federal

00:12:11.340 conservatives in the 2025 election. No matter what the conservatives were doing, he was going to appear

00:12:17.900 all over the media on the CBC, on podcasts, in the papers, criticizing them and saying that they were

00:12:24.380 making tactical errors. And this is all election malpractice. And they need to talk about Donald

00:12:29.500 Trump more. I'll play a clip right here of this going on. When you're running around in hoodies

00:12:36.380 saying, don't believe the polling, like, like you were like the flat earth society campaign. Like

00:12:42.060 that's what you've actually reduced yourself to. But we don't know that that's the view of the

00:12:45.980 corporate campaign. Nobody runs into that, you know, in a conservative party rally with like some

00:12:52.700 unsanctioned, you know, sweater. I know I've got a bad name with some people in the conservative party

00:12:59.660 for pointing out at the beginning of the campaign that, you know, the election has pivoted towards

00:13:05.260 Trump. That was true in December. It was true in December. And I know because, you know, I was

00:13:12.700 running a campaign for Doug Ford in which we were doing polling and we're listening to that polling.

00:13:17.420 And that was true in December. And it was true in January and February and March, right? Like,

00:13:23.740 but like, I see no evidence that they have actually pulled and that they were actually like following

00:13:29.260 polling and research and anything that is even remotely conventional in how you manage a campaign.

00:13:35.660 What a swell guy that Cory to Nike is. And he's entirely wrong. Not only because I don't think

00:13:42.220 the conservatives would have done better if they constantly talked about Donald Trump. I think they

00:13:46.620 should have been campaigning harder against Mark Carney well before he was even made the liberal leader.

00:13:52.060 But talking about Trump as the conservative party is just trying to do the same thing the liberals and

00:13:57.500 the NDP are doing. And it's not focusing people on the need for change. Doug Ford can get away with

00:14:03.500 winning reelection as a conservative constantly just talking about Trump because he had no competition.

00:14:09.260 And the PCs think they're geniuses again, like Jamil Giovanni said, because they beat Del Duca and

00:14:14.620 Crombie. Those were easy victories in which Doug Ford could have basically not worn pants the entire

00:14:21.100 election and he still would have won. And it's convenient that Cory to Nike can now say,

00:14:26.220 well, they lost because they didn't do what I told them to do, even though I was just jabbing them the

00:14:32.620 entire election, basically trying as hard as possible to make sure that PC Ontario voters don't

00:14:38.700 vote for the federal conservatives. And see, I was right. After sabotaging them, saying that they should

00:14:44.300 be doing something, they didn't win. No, it was mostly sabotage had very little to do with the message

00:14:51.900 that the conservatives were running on. The pollsters like Abacus Data will show you that the conservatives

00:14:57.500 were doing really well on the change message. But on the Trump message, the liberals naturally were doing

00:15:02.940 better than the conservatives because the media and the liberal party had already been falsely labeling

00:15:08.540 Polyev as the Trump guy for more than a year. And really that only started working because Justin

00:15:14.060 Trudeau got out of the way. And then the main issue could become Trump instead of Justin Trudeau's

00:15:19.420 failures, even as the vast, vast majority of people associated with the liberal government right now

00:15:25.580 are the same people that were advising Justin Trudeau or were in his cabinet, including Mark Carney

00:15:31.900 himself. So Cory to Nike, in my opinion, is just flatly wrong. And again, he made himself

00:15:38.300 right by helping to sabotage the conservatives. The conservatives were just a hundred or so votes

00:15:45.580 away from winning many of these ridings in Brampton. They were not that far away from winning a lot of

00:15:51.260 ridings in British Columbia, winning ridings in Atlantic Canada. And it would have helped to not

00:15:56.780 have had the PC party and people like Cory to Nike generating tons and tons of bad headlines to

00:16:03.980 demotivate conservatives. And with that being said, that should be it for this video today, guys.

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00:16:36.140 a few more things to pop up on screen and clips to be edited in. Anyways, so with that, see you guys later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 30, 2025

Doug Ford backstabbed Poilievre so Carney's Liberals could win!

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