A new political headache for Prime Minister Mark Carney this morning, as former Environment Minister Stephen Gilbeau announced to the Liberal caucus and online that he is resigning from office sometime in the summer, bringing the total number of Liberals resigning up to 3, turning Mark Carney's majority liberal government into a non-functioning liberal majority.
00:01:29.140writing, but let's get into all those details a little bit later. I first want to start off with
00:01:34.260the letter that he put out online just a bit ago and Mark Carney's farewell post, but before we
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00:02:29.140into what you guys are actually here for, the resignation of Stephen Gilbeau. Of course, I will
00:02:33.880only be reading the English side of his post because I do not speak en français. So he says
00:02:39.800here, this morning, during the Liberal National Caucus meeting, I announced to my colleagues that
00:02:45.620I will be stepping down from my seat as Member of Parliament for the riding of Laurier-Saint-Marie
00:02:50.440later this summer. I will remain as a Member of the Liberal Caucus until then. I will make a
00:02:56.100statement in the House of Commons around 4 p.m. this afternoon. This decision is a result of
00:03:00.480careful consideration. After almost seven years as a Member of Parliament and a Minister,
00:03:05.240I have come to the conclusion that it is time for me to pursue my fight for environmental protection
00:03:09.880and the fight against climate change in a different way. Now, we don't need to read the
00:03:14.720rest of it because it's just kind of boilerplate a boilerplate i love the people of my riding and
00:03:19.520they're so amazing and i like that you supported me but isn't that such a peculiar comment to say
00:03:25.040that i have decided that i'm going to pursue my fight for the environment and the climate elsewhere
00:03:30.600okay well are you admitting that you were never really a member of parliament you were just
00:03:35.900always an environmental activist that snuck into government because like is that your only agenda
00:03:41.800item. You didn't care about any other issues. But this is the problem in government right now.
00:03:47.200We have far too many activists. We don't have enough people who just want to actually build
00:03:53.580a well-rounded, good country. There's people who are hyper-fixated on woke issues,
00:03:59.980hyper-fixated on the environment, hyper-fixated on indigenous politics and whatnot. Not enough
00:04:07.740people who just you know want to build a good economy make the streets safer all that stuff but
00:04:12.820never mind that that's a just i guess a little detail at this point but i want to now go to
00:04:18.940mark carney's response to gilbo saying that he's resigning of course he's going to happy talk this
00:04:24.020thing because it would be stupid for him not to but uh mark carney here says steven gilbo was
00:04:31.760has devoted his career to protecting our environment and fighting climate change
00:04:36.080As he prepares to step down from his seat in Parliament this summer, I want to thank him for his service to the people of Laurier, St. Marie, and Canada.
00:04:45.140Stephen's many contributions in civil society and public service have always been guided by his conviction and driven by his pursuit of a stronger, more inclusive, and more sustainable future in government.
00:04:56.460He helped establish the 2022 Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to protect 30% of Canada's land and waters, implemented Canada's first emissions reduction plan, and championed landmark efforts to protect Canada's culture and identity, including establishing the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
00:05:16.580we started a holiday based on the Kamloops Brave hoax, which today is actually the five-year
00:05:22.820anniversary of. Dallas Brody will be giving a speech on the steps of the BC legislature today
00:05:28.560on that particular issue. But yeah, Stephen Gilbeau's entire legacy is environmental regulation
00:05:35.600and helping push forward a national holiday based on a hoax. Good job. Good for him. But whatever,
00:05:45.180Let's talk about the part of this that's funny, the way that Mark Carney may have screwed himself, because previously, as of 24 hours ago, it was assumed that the worst outcome for Mark Carney would be Gilbo sticking around as an independent or becoming a block MP and being a thorn in his side.
00:06:04.580And that was my perspective, until I saw what Mark Carney said about separatism, because Mark Carney thinks right here in the clip I'm going to show you that he's scoring big points by opposing the boogeyman that is Alberta separatism.
00:06:21.500But he forgot that there is another province where separatism is popular, that being Quebec, and saying that he's just going to not respect a vote on separatism, even if they get a majority, is absolutely insane and ticking off a lot of Quebecers.
00:06:39.580So check out this clip from Mark Carney that the Western Standard posted about would he respect a 50% plus one vote majority for separatism.
00:08:17.660wasn't just formally a bloc riding. At one point, it was even an NDP riding. Gilbeau, I'll show you
00:08:24.560the record on Wikipedia here, Gilbeau won with a sizable majority in this last election. But you
00:08:30.140also have to remember, it's 2025, where the only party that really mattered was the Liberal Party.
00:08:34.760So in 2025, Stephen Gilbeau won with 52% of the vote. The NDP got 18.8, which is a really good result considering the fact that that was a horrible election campaign for the NDP. They did terrible in Quebec, and they still pulled off 18.8 in this Montreal riding despite only getting 6.6 nationally.
00:08:56.260The Bloc got only 15% of the vote, Conservatives 9%.
00:09:00.120Not a great riding, obviously, for them.
00:09:02.860Back in 2021, he won with 37% of the vote,
00:09:07.140showing you what the riding tends to be more like,
00:09:09.280with the NDP getting 32% and the Bloc getting 20%.
00:09:16.120The Bloc and the NDP very split between each other.
00:09:19.720And in 2015, it was won, even though that was, again,
00:09:23.300not a great campaign for the NDP. They lost their opposition status, and then obviously Justin
00:09:30.260Trudeau won a sizable majority. They won it with 38% of the vote, with the Bloc coming in second
00:09:36.000and the Liberals coming in third. In 2011, of course, the NDP won it. 2008, Gilles Decepte,
00:09:42.840the BQ leader, was the guy who held the riding, and he held that riding for multiple elections.
00:09:49.640Like, since 1990, in a by-election as an independent, he won with 66% of the vote in 1990 as an independent.
00:10:01.300Now, obviously, Gilles Decept is not coming back to reclaim his riding, and probably the former NDP MP is not coming back to secure the riding again.
00:10:10.460But you have Stephen Gilbeau resigning because he didn't like Mark Carney on the climate.
00:10:15.460He didn't like, even though Kearney hasn't basically changed anything, because he's even willing to say he's interested in a pipeline, even though all of his pipeline plans are deliberately made in such a way that it's never actually going to build a pipeline.
00:11:03.940be cooperative with him like they were previously in other parliaments with Justin Trudeau,
00:11:10.260Because if they are cooperative with the liberals these days, their parties are dead. That's why the NDP almost died under Jagmeet Singh. Because what was the point of voting NDP when he basically just propped up Justin Trudeau, no matter what? Jagmeet Singh is like a notorious bad leader at this point. I think other countries should study him in terms of how to not be a small party opposition leader.
00:11:34.240But yeah, so this is a bit of an awkward situation for Monsieur Mark Carney. He actually may have turned what could have been a very easy swap out of Stephen Gilbeau with another Liberal into a fight that is going to be a tooth and nail by-election, because by-elections tend to be very different from general elections.
00:11:59.860A by-election turnout tends to be fanatics.
00:12:03.420Now, they did hold on to the La Salle Amarde Verdun, or no, it was a different one.
00:12:08.920There was another by-election for Terrebonne that they ended up beating the bloc in, but
00:12:14.720that one kind of made sense because Mark Carney was flying high early on in the year,
00:12:19.380getting into these little fights with Donald Trump and doing his whole elbows-up thing,
00:12:24.140and he still only won that one by like three or four points.
00:12:27.080the previous election was decided by one vote and was nullified, and they won it by 3%.
00:12:32.000But that was Mark Carney flying really high, only winning it by 3%.
00:12:35.780Now, he's about to go into a by-election where the Quebec populace either hates him
00:12:40.080because he's not a climate fanatic enough, or because he is anti-separatist in a way
00:12:45.580where he doesn't even care if you vote for a majority, he's just going to go tell you to pack
00:12:49.740sand because the Clarity Act says it's not a clear enough majority, a completely arbitrary
00:12:55.240standard because there's no line saying what is a clear majority and what is not a clear majority.
00:13:01.420But I'm going to save that argument for another video later on today. But anyways, with all that
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