The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Exposed： Why Marilyn Gladu Betrayed Conservatives for Ego & Attention

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and yes, I am finally getting my hair cut tomorrow.

00:00:06.100 I just realized I am starting to look like Liberal MP Kareem Bardessi.

00:00:11.020 That freaked me out enough that I made the appointment right away.

00:00:14.620 But in today's video, we are talking about Marilyn Gladju crossing the floor and joining the Liberal Party.

00:00:21.160 She was supposedly a strong conservative inside the Conservative Party, being pro-convoy, pro-life,

00:00:28.060 very aggressive on fiscal issues, and now she's not. And I want to go into just how sad and

00:00:34.980 pathetic this entire thing is. Some people were saying that this could be signaling that the 0.98

00:00:39.740 Liberal Party is actually going to moderate and open up its ranks to people who have socially

00:00:44.880 conservative views or people who are fiscal hawks. No, and I have some information to tell you about

00:00:51.900 MP Glaju. That was told to me by a former conservative MP who had worked with her for

00:00:57.600 several years. She is not doing this for principled reasons, and she's not even exactly an opportunist.

00:01:03.760 She's just an attention seeker. That's really it. But before we get into some of the clips today 0.99

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00:01:53.660 more sustainable for me. Anyways, now let's get into it. Starting off with this clip

00:01:59.780 of Marilyn Gladue arriving with Mark Carney at the Liberal Convention in Montreal.

00:02:14.300 As you can see, Mark Carney made the deliberate choice of entering the room with Marilyn.

00:02:24.740 But I noticed that she's now apparently her big shift towards the liberals has been just wearing more red clothing.

00:02:31.600 When she crossed yesterday, she wore a red shirt and now she has a red throwover sweater.

00:02:37.940 So apparently she is now a member of the team.

00:02:40.660 This is all Mark Carney apparently requires people to do, just throw on a red hat or a red brooch, and now you're fit to be part of the party.

00:02:49.400 But again, Mark Carney's fine with Gladju crossing, even though her entire record is completely out of step with the liberals,

00:02:56.400 because it seems like Gladju has just agreed to completely drop her actually, like, supposedly deeply held convictions.

00:03:04.180 I posted this just an hour ago in reaction to one of the videos that showed her taking a selfie with somebody.

00:03:11.820 I said, MP Glodju taking a smiling selfie with a Liberal Party member at the LPC convention the same day Mark Carney said she would have to vote for the Liberals' progressive social agenda.

00:03:23.180 She was formerly a social conservative.

00:03:25.580 Imagine selling out this hard.

00:03:28.480 Imagine being able to just grin the next day after crossing the floor

00:03:33.580 when that is requiring you to just dump everything that you had been fighting for

00:03:38.620 since you were first elected back in 2015.

00:03:41.680 All of that stuff, ah, hooey. Who cares about it?

00:03:44.720 Including her stance against floor crossing.

00:03:47.380 That doesn't really matter.

00:03:48.980 She has crossed the floor and become a different creature,

00:03:51.100 so her view of floor crossing has changed.

00:03:54.200 I'm going to be getting to my post about what a former conservative MP had told me about her in just a second here.

00:04:01.020 But I want to start off with this video of Mark Carney at a press conference being asked about Marilyn Gladew's sort of views on issues that would be very anti-liberal and how she now fits into the caucus.

00:04:13.500 This proof positive just how unprincipled this move is because Carney is not going to let this lady speak.

00:04:21.260 Outside of abortion, Ms. Gladue is also a pro-convoy. 1.00

00:04:25.120 She's a court of the truck, something you are very publicly against.

00:04:27.980 She's a vaccine skeptic.

00:04:29.220 She promoted the idea of using hydrochloroquine instead of vaccines.

00:04:33.300 She was also so against legalized marijuana, she stood up and read a poem in the House of Commons.

00:04:37.480 So I'm wondering if Ms. Gladue's views represent the views of the Liberal Party under your leadership.

00:04:43.280 Well, thank you for your question.

00:04:45.220 You know, we've ran on a clear platform, clear values, defending the Charters of Rights and Freedoms, defending the right of women to choose, defending same-sex marriage, anti-conversion therapy, to save you asking that question.

00:05:03.800 uh and the you get to say that because she of course ran a petition against the liberals uh

00:05:11.660 conversion therapy ban bill c4 it's not actually what the bill does it's basically saying that you

00:05:17.920 cannot disagree with gender theory if that's what your like young child starts to believe in you

00:05:22.480 can't dissuade them from going down that path that is conversion therapy but it's not conversion

00:05:27.660 therapy for a teacher to encourage a child to believe in these things and discover themselves

00:05:33.980 and whatnot in grade two or something. So he's already heading that off the pass. But like,

00:05:40.460 that's a good follow up question. Still, she literally has run petitions against your own 1.00

00:05:47.680 pieces of legislation. How do you square this thing? And my point with all this isn't like,

00:05:53.500 oh, look at Carney being a hypocrite, bringing someone to the party. It just demonstrates that 0.98

00:05:58.580 the Liberal Party, all it stands for is power at the end of the day. All this stuff can be worked

00:06:04.020 out later. Because if you join the Liberal Party, you're basically joining the Borg,

00:06:08.660 and you are going to have your brain completely wiped, and you will be installed with a new

00:06:13.140 program that just gets you to vote for all of the red policies. Oppose the blue policies,

00:06:18.100 vote for the red policies. Sometimes you can vote for an orange NDP policy. That's all above

00:06:23.020 board but that's that's all the party is stands for so glad you're coming over in a certain sense

00:06:28.440 is no big deal for carney because they know that they can just wipe her memory and then just install 0.82

00:06:32.220 the new liberal programming and she'll just vote for everything they want and that's fine and her

00:06:36.020 views don't matter anymore no these are serious points and people who are joining the liberal

00:06:41.900 party at this critical time and supporting us when i say people i mean mps uh recognize

00:06:48.720 those clear policy positions those values that's where we will go that's what we will support

00:06:55.200 that's what we will advance what uh the mps who have joined uh the liberal party uh have brought

00:07:04.440 is a series of uh perspectives and expertise that is aiding the country the government and the

00:07:10.960 country at a crucial time uh so if uh since your question is about miss gladu uh she has more than

00:07:18.240 two decades of business experience. She's an engineer. She's an experienced parliamentarian. 0.97

00:07:23.340 None of the stuff actually matters. I want to get to the point where he actually has to answer

00:07:26.420 a question about the social values. Colleagues have deep relations with her, despite having

00:07:32.920 been up until yesterday in different parties. And, you know, it's a big country and it's a

00:07:42.460 diverse country. And at a critical time for the country, to have Chris D'Entremont as

00:07:56.940 a member of the Liberal caucus. I'm sorry, to have Matt Jennerou from Alberta as a member,

00:08:05.960 To have an engineer from Sarnia as a member, to have Laurie Idlow from Nunavut as a member of our caucus.

00:08:16.120 They all bring perspectives from their regions, from their backgrounds, from their histories, but they all are subscribing to the values of the party and the core mission, core element of our mission, which is to build Canada strong.

00:08:30.880 And let's see, this is like, almost like a definition of liberal DEI, that we want all these people from these different regions and backgrounds, but you are going to vote for the same agenda. Now, I understand parties exist for a reason. They have an agenda, the platform they ran on, they're supposed to implement it.

00:08:48.860 But there are a lot of elements of the liberal plan, what they ran on, that wouldn't really cover what Glaju believes on social positions.

00:08:58.440 And so basically, he's just saying that there is just a universal, everyone knows inside the party, set of social things that you're allowed, of social positions you're allowed to hold.

00:09:07.180 And she has now agreed that she is going to be part, she's just going to vote for our current social program.

00:09:13.720 It's like, what?

00:09:14.800 like so like you're not you're literally not even allowed to be pro-life in the party but she is 1.00

00:09:20.880 pro-life but she has agreed to stop being pro-life again she's just complete sellout hack if she

00:09:26.980 actually agreed to do something like that and mark carney is then basically admitting that he's just

00:09:31.600 looking for meat puppets from different parts of the country in order for him to pass stuff he

00:09:36.200 really doesn't care if they fundamentally believe all the opposite things as long as that person 0.64

00:09:40.620 has sold their soul in order to be able to be part of the winning team, that's fine with him.

00:09:47.060 And I think that if the Conservative Party ever had someone from the Liberals want to cross the

00:09:51.140 floor, they should actually set a precedent. We are only letting people cross the floor if there

00:09:55.660 is a principled reason for why they are doing so. Because it waters down a team when you bring the

00:10:01.520 wrong people over. I actually thought it was such a mistake when Andrew Scheer let Leona

00:10:06.520 Alislev cross from the Liberals to the Conservatives. Because what did Leona Alislev add to

00:10:12.600 caucus? She was like, kind of somewhat wanting to some fiscal reform on social issues. She 1.00

00:10:20.040 was very hyper progressive. And I don't know what else like, I guess she opposes liberal

00:10:25.380 corruption. But you know, like get in line, everyone kind of does that. You actually need

00:10:29.640 a certain base level of conservatism in order to be in the Conservative Party. And by the

00:10:34.820 way a lot of the problems in the conservative party not with glad you as much this is a weird 0.84

00:10:39.400 case with a lot of the other floor crossers stop letting the center left red tory blue liberals run

00:10:47.560 for the party because they don't believe in the core mission that all the rest of the base does 0.91

00:10:52.300 and they're subject to leaving because they don't really fit in anyways so why don't they go over

00:10:56.780 to the liberal party where they could actually probably fit in better stop basically nominating

00:11:01.840 people who could be floor crossers. Open nominations solve all of these problems. Pretty

00:11:07.340 much every single person who was crossed either was handed their nomination and never really

00:11:11.800 worked for it, or they had won their nomination like a decade ago and they never actually had

00:11:17.220 to fight for it like Gladju, and you were able to become arrogant and entitled sitting there

00:11:22.300 with your automatic spot in the parliament election after election. Well, let's get back

00:11:28.120 to a carny here, and then I want to get to what the former MP had told me.

00:11:32.620 And to build Canada strong for all, for all Canadians.

00:11:36.840 You're saying it's a big country.

00:11:38.260 I imagine you think the Liberal Party is now a big tent, but it's quite a wide tent from

00:11:42.400 where many of your colleagues have been and in past.

00:11:49.600 There's no change in the Liberal Party's values.

00:11:52.480 Let's be clear on that.

00:11:53.640 My values are my values.

00:11:55.080 My colleagues' values are the same.

00:11:56.820 and the people that is such a statement of what the liberal party is the the my values are my

00:12:03.840 values and my colleagues values are also my values that this is where the conservative

00:12:08.400 party should market itself as different polioff has his values and guess what melissa lanceman

00:12:14.040 might have her values and arnold vearson might have his values they're going to be different

00:12:18.480 but they're going to still exist as long as we aren't insecure about the fact that we don't agree

00:12:23.100 on everything, but we still at least have in each person certain big core pillars of conservatism

00:12:28.900 that person stands for. Some people will stand for a full spectrum version of conservatism.

00:12:35.100 And when I say that, I'm talking about, again, an Arnold Veerson, who I know is a social

00:12:39.620 conservative, cultural conservative, fiscal conservative on foreign policy. He's very

00:12:44.360 hawkish. That would be the same thing for people like a Michael Cooper and an Andrew

00:12:48.620 Lawton. And then you get to people like Melissa Lansman or Michelle Rempel-Garner, who they are

00:12:53.760 hawks when it comes to wanting to restrict immigration. They would be more pro-fiscal

00:13:00.140 reform. But both of them are social liberals. As long as there's something in your record

00:13:05.540 to demonstrate that you're actually conservative, then that's fine. And that's a good thing that

00:13:10.240 the Conservative Party can have slight variations on its people. They should still remain within a

00:13:14.560 spectrum of what's acceptable in the party but you can be different. Cardi just says no no you

00:13:19.120 are Borg you are basically just another version of me who votes for everything I want because 1.00

00:13:25.080 you are effectively me and if you stop doing everything I want I will like kill you or 0.99

00:13:29.880 something whatever he would do if a liberal ever disagreed with him. Who are becoming members of 0.99

00:13:36.780 liberal caucus are joining the liberal values yes it is a big country it's a big country and a very

00:13:45.580 diverse one and we need to represent the country at this turning point apparently so so not only

00:13:53.660 uh the the liberal party values are carney's values and all those liberal mps have his values

00:13:59.980 but he just said it's a big diverse country and i represent their values because he just

00:14:04.540 said the liberal party represents those values but he said that his the liberal party's values

00:14:09.020 are his values and then he just said basically the entire country's values are his values which is

00:14:13.260 like the most arrogant thing i've ever heard someone say just claiming that everything that

00:14:19.260 they believe is like the standard for canada you may be courting across the floor if they hold

00:14:25.980 that would be disqualifiers from joining we have our values our values of solid solidarity

00:14:33.180 of inclusivity, of sustainability, of the rights of women, of all the rights in the Charter and

00:14:41.040 Freedom. We have those core values. Those values don't change. Others come to support the mission

00:14:48.540 of the party and the government at this crucial time. And we are fortunate that they take those

00:15:00.280 decisions because they bring expertise, they bring perspectives, they bring energy, and they

00:15:05.220 will help us work together. And I'm going to add one other thing, and then we'll go to a prochaine

00:15:09.780 question. You know, I'm very appreciative of the mayor of Contrecoeur being here and

00:15:18.520 Minister Boulet being here, and very appreciative of our ability to work with the government of

00:15:25.860 Quebec, work with the municipality to make sure that this project is not delayed another week

00:15:32.720 longer, let alone five years, another electoral cycle, another decade. It's that form of working

00:15:38.980 together with people which is moving this country forward. And I think what you're seeing in

00:15:44.500 Parliament is representative of that. That doesn't mean anything. Well, you know,

00:15:50.040 we work with, you know, municipalities in this country and provincial governments,

00:15:55.340 And that's kind of like what's going on with Glad you like, no, not at all.

00:15:59.740 This is very different. And my, I guess, fellow YouTuber, you know, you never want to say like friend because sometimes people overuse the word friend when you've only ever met someone in person once.

00:16:12.260 But but J.J. McCullough was making really good points about this yesterday.

00:16:15.620 He was on Juno News with Mark Petrone, but he brought up the fact that, like, why would people even bother voting anymore if it seems like their MPs are just subject to changing parties for pretty much no reason?

00:16:29.220 Now, I'm not even necessarily opposed to floor crossing, but we all we all know it when we see it in terms of a good floor crossing and a bad one.

00:16:38.300 The last five floor crossings, the four conservatives and the one NDP have all been bad. They've all been unprincipled. They have all basically been triggered by complete nothingness. And it feels like there is probably something else going on here with each of them that motivated them to leave, that if people knew about it, would not have them seen favorably.

00:16:58.420 Now, if you left because there was a massive corruption scandal in the party or in the government that you're a part of, and they completely changed all their values, but you haven't moved and you have to move parties in order to be able to represent those values better, that would make sense.

00:17:13.960 Gladju is the best example. Marilyn Gladju did not leave because she was not allowed to express her values well enough. It seemed like pretty much she was able to express her values pretty well.

00:17:26.440 Now, there's stories in the party about Gladju wanting to be more conservative, and they're holding her back and not letting her say certain things. 0.65

00:17:33.720 Maybe that's true.

00:17:35.320 The response is not then to go join the liberals, who are definitely not going to let you say anything.

00:17:40.460 In fact, now you have to share all the same opinions as Mark Carney or you're out.

00:17:44.720 The whole thing is just ridiculous, the way that this has kind of been rolled out in front of the public.

00:17:52.940 And J.J. McCullough is so right when he says there's all these obnoxious TV pundits who basically just fall back on, well, it's allowed to happen. 0.54

00:18:00.980 You're allowed to cross the floor. Oh, it's part of our system. You're allowed to do that.

00:18:04.420 It's like, yeah, and it's a crappy part of the system. It makes people less willing to actually show up and vote.

00:18:10.120 And now people should always show up and vote. But you start to understand when people get ticked off or when someone in Alberta now says they're going to vote for independence.

00:18:18.820 You can't blame them anymore when it feels like they keep getting kicked in the face at every corner. And even when they get their representative into office, they might just cross because who cares? But anyways, now I want to show you this post that I made just a little bit earlier today when I talked to a former MP who used to work with Marilyn Gladju.

00:18:39.640 This is somebody who's like very much still in the game. They didn't just like work with her for like a year and left, you know, for a few, several years was around Marilyn Gladue and would have actually shared a lot of her views on public policy. So this isn't somebody who always had a bone to pick with her or something like that, I can guarantee you.

00:18:58.020 So this is my basically recollection of the phone call I had just had earlier today, as well as last night.

00:19:04.480 It was kind of two phone calls.

00:19:05.900 So I said, I talked to a former conservative MP who served with Marilyn Gladju, and they told me they were not surprised by her crossing the floor.

00:19:14.880 They said that Gladju has always been an attention seeker and that she is likely not running for reelection and wanted to get back at your poly of the conservative party for a perceived lack of favor in caucus,

00:19:26.340 including not being a prominent speaker at the 2026 CPC convention in Calgary.

00:19:32.120 That kind of makes sense because that was happening, I believe I remember, in late January.

00:19:38.200 And that was around the time where she had just put out a statement against floor crossing

00:19:44.640 even saying that floor crossing should be banned.

00:19:47.780 And then apparently not being able to speak at the convention changed her mind 1.00

00:19:51.200 and now she's really mad and out for blood.

00:19:53.940 I go on to say, though, the MPs did say too many MPs with difficult personalities have been protected from nomination challenges over the years

00:20:03.220 and have developed a prima donna complex about how important they think they are and what they deserve.

00:20:09.300 Sounds like Dontremont, Gennaro, and Gladju.

00:20:12.220 The where is my golden throne mentality.

00:20:15.180 Although the MP also warned some people in caucus also do think there needs to be adjustments

00:20:20.100 when it comes to which MPs are given prominence and which ones are not.

00:20:24.020 It's a delicate balance of not letting big egos demand attention for the sake of it,

00:20:28.500 and also making sure grassroots conservative MPs aren't overshadowed in favor of people

00:20:33.140 seen as part of an inner circle around Pierre Polyev.

00:20:37.100 I then went on to make my own comments, and I said,

00:20:39.460 and most of those were my interpretation of what they said,

00:20:41.740 because I don't want to directly quote the person in case it would like, you know, out them.

00:20:45.880 It's mostly just because I'm not going to like tell someone like, oh, y'all, I want you to be

00:20:50.160 on the record about this. These are just musings of people that I respect who are former MPs and

00:20:55.760 know the situation quite well. But now this is just kind of my interpretation. I said when people

00:21:00.960 were basically handed their nominations or won a nomination 10 plus years ago without a challenge,

00:21:07.280 it causes there to be a lot of entitlement and caucus.

00:21:11.420 If you won your nomination fair and square,

00:21:13.340 it gives you a greater respect for the grassroots members who put you there.

00:21:17.000 When you were appointed or the deck was cleared so you would easily win your nomination,

00:21:23.360 or it has been potentially 10 to 15 years since you ran your nomination

00:21:26.540 and you kept getting acclaimed each cycle,

00:21:28.940 you don't have the same connection with the base of the party.

00:21:31.640 You see yourself as the lord of your own fiefdom,

00:21:33.920 And you will shop it to the liberals if you feel like you will be given more royal treatment. And I think this 10,000% applies to a man like Chris Donchermont. I'm not sure if he originally won a nomination in order to run for the party back in 2019. He was formerly a progressive conservative MLA in Nova Scotia.

00:21:54.500 Typically, the Conservative Party has always had this idea that, oh, if you're a councillor or if you're already sitting MLA, sometimes they kind of just appoint you as if you're so important you can bypass the nominations.

00:22:07.520 Maybe Don Tremont won his, but from the chatter inside the caucus, it sounded like he wasn't allowed to be the golden child enough, and so that's why he left.

00:22:15.780 With Glaju, it's even more apparent that she just feels like she wasn't being treated as important enough, and so she left, which is why her anger and her entitlement has completely clouded her judgment around principles and policy with the Liberal Party, and now she's willing to sell it all out, basically just to, like, you know, wag her finger at Paulia for not respecting her enough or something like that.

00:22:39.360 But this is also to say the Conservative Party does need to reform the way it does stuff inside of caucus. The fact that you're having these people with these difficult personalities who, if they're not pleased 100 percent, are willing to screw over their own constituents is quite telling.

00:22:56.460 And I think that Polyev does need to do a lot of mending of fences right now. He needs to go to

00:23:03.180 caucus, and he needs to be able to make sure that there's enough balance. Because there is kind of

00:23:09.600 two separate lessons here. This is not to say, oh, glad you left. This is a bad reflection on Polyev.

00:23:16.340 Now, it's not to say it doesn't reflect anything about Polyev or the party. We can't just say the

00:23:21.100 person left, they're a traitor. Ergo, this means nothing about the party. It just means that they're

00:23:24.880 a bad person. It mostly means they're a bad person, but we never also want to overlook the

00:23:29.980 fact that why are these people keep getting nominated when there's nothing really you can

00:23:34.360 say that they've done in office. They're not maverick politicians who have been moving issues

00:23:38.880 downfield and getting big wins. I don't know anything that Chris Dantremont ever did that

00:23:43.260 was useful. I have no clue what Matt Jenner who ever did, and it should have been telling that

00:23:47.300 he used to be a Redford progressive conservative in Alberta before he became an MP. Why do we need

00:23:52.520 these people? Why are these people like star candidates in our minds? We should have nominations

00:23:58.460 and in caucus as well. And maybe Glodgie sounds like a prima donna. It's also true that I would 1.00

00:24:04.840 say that MPs like Glodgie don't get that much speaking time. I can name tons of MPs. I don't

00:24:10.260 think I've ever actually had a moment to ask a question in Parliament since the last election.

00:24:16.220 There tends to be, and this is a big problem inside the BC Conservative Party as well,

00:24:20.200 that's why I'm with 1BC, you get the sort of favored MPs who you see always asking questions

00:24:27.300 in question period. And yes, they might be the critic to a certain ministry, the shadow critic

00:24:32.060 for justice or finance or whatever. It makes sense that they ask more questions. But there are some

00:24:37.200 people who get sidelined. And if their sort of dissatisfaction turns into grumbling, it could

00:24:44.180 be bad for Polyev if Caucus ever moves to get rid of him, because Caucus is allowed to remove him

00:24:49.600 if there is enough people who sign for a vote to be triggered within caucus to say whether he stays

00:24:55.300 or goes. Now, do I think that's going to happen necessarily in the next year or so? No.

00:25:01.580 Polyev should just focus on getting wins across the field, but he also needs to go in and I think

00:25:07.060 restructure the way that caucus is being managed, and he should also be restructuring how nominations

00:25:13.780 are done. Too many people in the current caucus have not really won a proper nomination in a very

00:25:19.080 long time and again they turn into the lords and ladies of their fiefdoms and don't you know who i

00:25:24.700 am kind of mentality starts to sort of erupt there and that can turn into those people with their

00:25:30.360 difficult personalities then crossing the floor just to show up everyone else that you didn't

00:25:35.340 appreciate me enough and now i'm gonna go and make out with mark carney over there this is something

00:25:40.380 that we need to be cognizant of but of course in this video i also want to highlight some extremely

00:25:46.940 bad takes when it comes to the glad you crossing i i cannot stand whenever stuff like this happens

00:25:55.080 and we immediately just start asking if this is all does this mean everyone hates poly of

00:26:01.760 no doesn't mean poly is perfect also of course he's not perfect of course there's things he's

00:26:07.320 done that i don't like i think he needs to run on boulder policy right now i think the nominations

00:26:11.300 were fiasco in the last election and they had too many dud candidates in places especially

00:26:16.200 like Brampton. Too many guys who are from the Sikh community who are pompous and tell you that 1.00

00:26:22.220 they're the one who represents the community in this area the most. And if you ask any other 1.00

00:26:26.020 Sikh person that writing, they all hate that guy. Don't let him run. That was a problem in the last 0.99

00:26:31.220 election. Way too many pompous councillors and former provincial politicians running in nominations

00:26:37.280 who think everyone knows who they are, and they get blown out in the election, or at least they

00:26:41.500 lose marginally because they're not they're not a vote seller they don't actually connect with

00:26:47.260 voters the thing is that there's this truism that a good candidate's only worth five percent in an

00:26:52.680 election how many ridings did we lose by less than five percent and if you have a dud candidate they

00:26:59.240 could be worth minus five percent of the vote so in fact a good candidate in theory is worth plus

00:27:05.140 10 because if you appoint someone bad you're going to lose votes if you appoint to someone

00:27:09.280 blah they're not they're basically going to perform generically and if you appoint somebody

00:27:13.440 great they will add more votes to the riding than you would have necessarily gotten if he just made

00:27:18.560 some random financial accountant your cat your candidate who doesn't have a lot of political

00:27:23.120 experience or charisma but now i want to get to this clip of poly of being asked a question about

00:27:30.120 the floor crossing and you know the rumor that there could be like a dozen more people wanting

00:27:35.320 to leave uh i think he at least sums up the situation quite well but there's no like crisis

00:27:40.860 where poly has become unpopular and that's why people are jumping ship none of these people if

00:27:45.860 if they wanted to say that that was the reason they could say it chris d'antremont keeps making

00:27:49.780 these insinuations oh the party should look inward maybe a bit i'm not even saying that no

00:27:55.040 maybe a bit but if there's an inward issue you want to tell us about how about you tell us

00:28:00.340 but when chris d'antremont these people won't tell you what the problem is it's probably because

00:28:04.500 they would look bad if they described why they specifically left. CTV, how many of your own

00:28:10.400 MPs do you have to lose to the Liberals before you reflect on your own political future as leader?

00:28:16.960 Well, that reflection comes from the record-smashing 8.3 million Canadians who voted

00:28:25.020 Conservative in the last election and the 87% of grassroots Conservatives who backed up my

00:28:31.740 leadership less than 90 days ago to fight for an affordable safe and strong Canada our mandate and

00:28:38.400 my leadership does not come from dirty backroom deals it comes from the people of Canada what

00:28:44.860 this comes down to is who runs this country who leads this country is it a bunch of backroom

00:28:50.280 schemers and elites who rob people of their votes or is it the hard-working common people

00:28:56.000 who should be running the country in a democracy that's the decision so yes although this is going

00:29:02.660 to be a bad news cycle for polyev i think if the conservatives actually kind of press on the issue

00:29:07.800 of stolen votes and the idea that basically carney is willing to work with anyone and you could be

00:29:13.980 effectively almost like he could run on a sort of like zoran mamdani type anti-oligarchy type

00:29:20.760 campaign, not in the same way, Zoran Mamdani is a ridiculous socialist, but the idea that

00:29:26.280 Carney is kind of turning our political system into a horse trading oligarchy, where yes,

00:29:31.960 you voted for a conservative, but they had some background discussions with that person over a

00:29:36.600 few months that you don't get to be privy to. And now they are now part of their party. And no

00:29:41.940 matter who wins, they really win at the end of the day, given enough time to talk to people.

00:29:45.840 I think that would be a smart move for Polyev. Now I do want to get to some of the talking points

00:29:52.520 people are using on, I like this point that Luka White made, the former MP, when she was on Power

00:29:59.400 Play yesterday regarding what's going on. You can check this out. I have this vision in my head

00:30:06.100 of Mark Carney as the Pied Piper, right? He's got the flute and he's whistling all these people

00:30:10.680 lacrosse but in reality don't forget the Pied Piper he attracted rats

00:30:15.140 leave it to you Lisa Kathleen it's gonna be Scott Scott Reed they're trying to act

00:30:23.320 unimpressed by her wordplay there but I thought that was quite good um but again the thing that's

00:30:29.620 so obnoxious about all this is that it's being used to drive narratives that I don't think are

00:30:34.740 actually possible to put out so here's Don Tremont right here when he was on CTV News again trying to

00:30:40.540 create this narrative that it demonstrates that there's inward problems in the conservatives but

00:30:46.000 tell us what they are he won't tell us because he doesn't know in your resignation you also did

00:30:52.720 speak specifically about Mr. Polyev's leadership how do you see how that is continuing to play out

00:31:00.080 do you think he can remain in place for much longer I mean I'm not going to comment on I haven't been

00:31:04.060 a part of that caucus for a while now and but you know ultimately they're going to have to be asking

00:31:07.800 questions of themselves and looking inward. I mean, if we look through time as...

00:31:12.320 Look inward at what? We keep hearing inward. We keep hearing that this reflects on Polyev.

00:31:16.940 Maybe it does. I've already brought up some potential reasons why Polyev might want to

00:31:22.160 make some changes with caucus management to improve things. But he actually has to say

00:31:25.800 what the issue is. Because do we really think that Chris Dontrevant is a big believer in

00:31:31.960 grassroots democracy and he wasn't happy with the way nominations were done last election?

00:31:36.580 because he was acclaimed in his seat.

00:31:39.440 The funny thing is all these people

00:31:40.660 can't say that they don't think

00:31:42.560 that Bolivar is being grassroots enough,

00:31:44.620 not listening to the base enough

00:31:46.020 because they joined the party the base hates

00:31:48.440 and they're all a bunch of political hacks

00:31:50.980 who've been given their nominations

00:31:52.200 election after election

00:31:53.660 without actually having to fight for it,

00:31:55.320 including Michael Ma,

00:31:56.640 who that was his first time ever winning,

00:31:59.080 but was just appointed as the conservative candidate

00:32:01.600 both in 2019 and then in 2025

00:32:04.100 and shock gasp. He has no respect for the actual members. So Don Tremont, baby, tell us what the

00:32:11.540 actual problem is, or you're just throwing darts at like invisible targets. You know,

00:32:18.600 a different member has crossed over and see what the response has been directly from them.

00:32:23.460 They seem to be blaming others for this, this challenge and not looking inwardly. They need

00:32:28.280 look inwardly inwardly at what like again he is somebody who apparently has inside information

00:32:34.760 how about Chris Dontremont actually disclose all of the things that were said between him and the

00:32:40.740 liberals that got him to cross without the generic answers about how Carney represents stability

00:32:46.060 and the liberals are unifying the country and all this stuff just meaningless things that every

00:32:51.000 single floor crosser has said no matter what side of the political spectrum they were from

00:32:55.160 what did you actually get offered, and why did you cross, and what specifically was wrong with

00:33:01.340 Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party. Because I feel like if he actually told that story,

00:33:06.280 it wouldn't make him look very good. We have a problem of extremely arrogant politicians in

00:33:12.560 Canada, even more so than the United States. At least the U.S. politicians actually have to keep 0.80

00:33:16.800 running for primaries every couple of years if they're in Congress, and if they're in the Senate

00:33:20.640 every sixth, and if they're president every four. They actually have to keep proving themselves over

00:33:24.860 and over again. And people are beat in primaries, actually not that infrequently. Most people,

00:33:30.360 the people have this idea that congressmen are around a long time because they're deeply corrupt.

00:33:34.860 Some of them might be. Many of them are actually quite popular back home because

00:33:38.960 they're very obtuse voting at times is really just them trying to vote for whatever their district

00:33:44.020 likes. So if your district doesn't want to get rid of farm subsidies in Iowa, even if you're a

00:33:48.640 Republican and you technically believe in smaller government, well, you vote for the farm subsidies

00:33:53.060 to stick around. And your people like that. In Canada, I actually would like if MPs were more

00:33:58.360 maverick in terms of they vote for the things that they think their constituents would like,

00:34:02.920 and it's not always tied to the party. But we have this bizarro world version of individualism

00:34:07.620 going on in Parliament right now, where everyone just votes for whatever their party wants.

00:34:12.380 But then they'll randomly cross the floor as like exerting their independence as an MP,

00:34:17.780 just to join another team to start voting for whatever they want with no actual citation to

00:34:23.280 their values or why they're doing this at all. It's just simply like, well, I was on blue team

00:34:27.740 and now I'm on red team. I will now vote for red team. But then we'll have all these pundits saying,

00:34:32.080 oh, so you don't think that people elect individual MPs and that that person was

00:34:36.580 trusted to make these decisions? In a certain sense, no. Do you think any one of these people

00:34:41.360 would be elected if on their signs they say, you know, party subject to change, I might leave

00:34:47.920 because, you know, I felt better over in that camp rather than this camp. But do I have the Scott

00:34:57.140 Reid post from earlier today? There's just been so many of these guys who have just been saying

00:35:02.060 like really obnoxious things about the floor crossing. They're using it as a disinformation

00:35:08.780 opportunity. Just throw mud at Paulyov and the Conservatives because now is the time when you're

00:35:14.780 not going to be questioned on if you're just basically saying stuff to take a dig or if it's

00:35:18.900 even accurate. Here's Mark Marison, the former husband of BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark on

00:35:26.020 CBC. I honestly don't know what qualifies him to be commentating on politics, but we're here.

00:35:32.660 Well, see, it means that there's got to be a lot of members of Parliament in the Conservative

00:35:36.320 party that are that are frustrated i mean you at a time when um when we've got this big big issue

00:35:41.840 with donald trump and with the united states they see their leadership all over the map on this

00:35:46.300 stuff how has poly have been all over the map on trump and trade what what two positions can you

00:35:53.700 actually highlight that poly have took on that issue that are contradictory he hasn't we just

00:35:58.520 simply assert things in the mainstream media while wearing just like thick glasses and apparently

00:36:03.720 that means you must be like you must have some sort of like cunning insight it states they see

00:36:09.720 their leadership all over the map on this stuff you've got joe jovani going off to jetting off

00:36:15.180 to washington and and meeting with jd vance using all the same talking points as the as the president

00:36:20.640 no he didn't he didn't all he just said is that well you know they actually do like canadians and

00:36:27.500 i'm here to basically represent why america should be trading with canada more and we should get rid

00:36:32.000 of these tariffs. He never reflected the Trump administration's position. Do you think that

00:36:37.340 Jamil Giovanni went down there and said, actually, Canada deserves this because of fentanyl and

00:36:42.300 because of national security reasons and because they've been ripping us off? He never said that

00:36:46.860 because it never happened. But Mark Marison can just assert it now using the cover that, well,

00:36:52.000 you know, so you're denying that Glad you crossed the floor as if somehow because something

00:36:58.780 happened that then means that they can just make up the reason that it happened and if you think 0.63

00:37:03.260 that that's a stupid reason that clearly isn't it they're like didn't you just see a bunch of people

00:37:07.680 cross the floor clearly is true because this completely disconnected thing happened oh my 0.97

00:37:13.060 goodness all these people drive me up the wall i mean this this amateur hour that you just got

00:37:17.240 that you see over at pierre paulia's operation it's this it's kind of understandable that people

00:37:21.940 would want to find a way out it's funny he's calling this all amateur hour since he was the

00:37:27.160 president and the mayoral candidate of the Progress Vancouver Party in 2022, and him and

00:37:33.320 all of his candidates were banned from running for office again for three years, I believe.

00:37:38.880 I think that had dropped a couple years ago, so they're still banned even in 2026 from running

00:37:43.200 because they didn't do their financial filings properly. But Mark Marison is going to tell us

00:37:48.220 all about what he thinks is amateur hour and what is not. But anyways, that should be it for today's

00:37:55.500 video, I could bring up so many more news clips of people like Scott Reed talking or other talking

00:38:02.160 heads from the liberal side saying, oh my goodness, this reflects that the conservative party is in

00:38:06.680 panic mode and all their people don't believe in them anymore. It's like, well, would one of the

00:38:11.000 floor crossers please like to stand up and tell us that that's what's happening? Because not even 1.00

00:38:16.200 Dontremont going on TV to take shots at Polyev will actually articulate what the issue is.

00:38:21.940 This is why it's all so frustrating. It seems all fake. It makes you think someone's being bribed or they're only leaving for extremely petty reasons and it has nothing to do with the actual politics of the day. Anyways, so with all that being said, thank you guys for watching. Like, share, subscribe. Consider hitting the join button and becoming a member of the channel and I'll see you all next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 09, 2026

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