The most difficult thing on the planet for a liberal MP to do is justify the first year in office of the Mark Carney. Liberals do not know anything they ve actually accomplished, and this is why the liberals love bringing up Donald Trump and the Americans as much as humanly possible, because that is their go-to excuse for the fact that they suck. They pretend like they ve gotten a lot done, but if they are actually pressed by a good interviewer to actually list the things they ve done, everything quickly falls apart. And that's why today I want to show you a little bit later on in this video a great interview with Vashi Kapelos interviewing Liberal MP Wayne Long.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.480Apparently, the most difficult thing on the planet for a liberal MP to do is justify the first year in office of the Mark Carney liberals.
00:00:16.160They do not know anything they've actually accomplished, and this is why the liberals love bringing up Donald Trump and the Americans as much as humanly possible,0.99
00:00:25.360because that is their go-to excuse for the fact that they suck.
00:00:30.000They pretend like they've gotten a lot done, but if they're actually pressed by a good interviewer0.77
00:00:35.380to actually list the things they've done, everything quickly falls apart.
00:00:40.180And that's why today I want to show you a little bit later on in this video
00:00:44.120a great interview on CTV News with Vashi Kapelos interviewing Liberal MP Wayne Long.
00:00:51.160I'm saying we're going to get to that a bit later in the video
00:00:53.760because I first want to start off with this very embarrassing moment in the House of Commons
00:00:59.240where Wayne Long stands up for the honor of Mark Carney
00:01:04.320because Pierre Polyev a week ago said that Mark Carney is badly educated.
00:01:10.700Mr. Speaker, that Conservative leader and House leader
00:01:13.440questioning our Prime Minister's economic education and experience
00:01:18.500is like a third-line beer league hockey player
00:01:21.500questioning Conor McGregor's hockey skills.
00:01:24.080On this side of the House, we're focused on affordability for Canadians.
00:01:28.300Now, that was pretty embarrassing. I don't think he watches a lot of sports. I don't watch a lot of sports. You can tell. Look at me. I don't watch sports. I watch like curling and like weightlifting during the Olympics.
00:01:55.160I do know that Conor McGregor is, in fact, not a hockey player. He is, in fact, a UFC fighter and sometime boxer. I would say it would be good to actually question the hockey playing ability of Conor McGregor, and that is effectively what Pierre Polyev was doing by saying that Carney is badly educated.
00:02:16.040Now, the liberals have been going on this big tear over the last week of saying, well, don't you know that he went to this Ivy League school and he has degrees and this, that, and the other thing? That wasn't Polyev's point. The point is that it doesn't matter what your credentials are. The actual knowledge that he soaked up in his education was apparently very bad because we can look at the results of him as both Trudeau's economic advisor as well as him as prime minister.
00:02:44.820And it has been bad. And so Polyev is logically concluding that this guy may have gotten a technically good education, but he is miseducated when it comes to how the actual economy operates.
00:02:57.300By the way, this is just such an embarrassing clip just from his performance here. I love his like tight finger pointing. He's trying to get really intense with Pierre Polyev here.
00:03:07.540questioning our prime minister's economic education and experience is like a third line
00:03:13.980beer league hockey player questioning conor mcgregor's hockey skills it feels like he's
00:03:19.440doing like a chris farley but i like when he does his little pointing here conservative leader and0.93
00:03:24.400house leader that conservative leader and house leader he's like you know popping his butt out
00:03:29.700a little bit and he's really throwing in his whole body into this little finger point he's doing this
00:03:33.980like very limp finger point that member over there is questioning our prime minister which is like0.99
00:03:40.220going after conor mcgregor's hockey skills it's mcdavid idiot it's conor mcdavid come on0.95
00:03:49.360i can't whatever whatever we're gonna get a lot out of wayne long in this video by the way0.89
00:03:56.560this man needs to learn how to tie a tie he i can get better photos later i'm not going to do it in
00:04:04.540this video but guys this is a collar gap some people say that the gap around the back is a
00:04:10.520collar gap i think it's technically both called a collar gap this is a smaller collar gap it meets
00:04:16.000in the middle very nicely and there's a small gap between the middle and each of the middles of the
00:04:21.280collar. This is a proper tie knot for this type of collar. He's wearing this, like, big, big collar
00:04:27.180gap where it, like, really splits out. He's wearing this tiny little collar in the middle that makes
00:04:32.040his head look, like, massive. All men out there wear a proper size tie for your collar gap. If
00:04:38.780it's too small for the gap and it doesn't fill it properly, it makes you look like you have a0.65
00:04:42.560massive, bulbous head. Anyways, now we're going to move on to Wayne Long being questioned by
00:04:49.640Vashi Kapelos on the liberal accomplishments, whatever they happen to be. He had just gotten
00:04:55.440off of a grocery rebate announcement. That's why he was in the grocery store, some update on the
00:05:01.700nothing that the liberals are doing. And Vashi Kapelos then did an interview with him. And it
00:05:08.240didn't go very well because, you know, she actually wanted to hear what they have been doing. And he
00:05:13.540assumed that they were just going to get on television. He was going to get on television
00:05:17.040with her and just talk about how you know mark carney's great and he's well educated and he's
00:05:21.600not donald trump and that was going to be enough but vashi being like the one good interviewer in
00:05:26.560the legacy media just steamrolls him with fair questions three weeks ago minister the prime
00:05:32.080minister in question period said about canada affordability is the best it's been in over a
00:05:37.360decade do you know anybody who feels that way i mean vashi i think that we all know um you know
00:05:43.840know we're all mps uh all mps from coast to coast to coast understand that affordability is a
00:05:48.920challenge i don't think that uh but but wayne like your prime minister said the one that should not
00:05:56.660be questioned like renowned hockey player conor mcgregor is it the best it's been in 10 years
00:06:01.720is affordability the best it's been i don't like justin trudeau but for the first half of 10 years
00:06:06.620prime minister it wasn't that bad the rot had not yet set in the idea that it's like better than
00:06:11.980ever for the last decade is delusional you know if you go back to the covid times when inflation
00:06:18.860went prices rose with it um inflation's come down obviously within targeted numbers but prices
00:06:24.340haven't come down so yeah because that's not how inflation going down works unless inflation goes
00:06:30.100negative prices don't come down the only thing the liberals have done is maintained inflation
00:06:35.660have just basically lowered inflation inflation went from like nine percent during some of the
00:06:41.420years at during COVID, like nine, and especially with food is like 14% or higher on certain items
00:06:46.280is now gone down to 4%, which is still higher than anywhere else in the G7. But that's 4%
00:06:52.700is on top of all the other inflation that's already occurred. Him saying like, well, you know,
00:06:57.080inflation has come down a little bit doesn't mean anything. And he knows that that's why he
00:07:01.940immediately said we haven't seen prices fall. This is just already a disaster. He's just admitting
00:07:06.620that basically Carney's filming, that affordability hasn't actually improved. Certain things like
00:07:12.300housing prices have come down. That's a consequence of immigration going down, which the liberals can
00:07:16.700take some credit for, but they'd only be taking credit for having maybe half solved the problem
00:07:23.320that they caused. They spiked immigration, partly on the advice of Mark Carney, who was the economic
00:07:28.380advisor who was advising on more TFWs. They've lowered the amount of TFWs and students and
00:07:33.200and slightly lower the amount of new permanent residents and so some prices for housing have gone
00:07:37.680down in certain markets that's good but that is like taking credit or just dumping a bunch of
00:07:43.680mud all over somebody's floor and then half cleaning it up you still need to clean up the
00:07:48.320rest and on everything else prices are still going up inflation's come down obviously within
00:07:53.440targeted numbers but prices haven't come down so you know we know canadians are feeling uh the
00:07:58.560pinch and i think it's incumbent on us as a government to act i mean as you know we recently
00:08:03.280announced the groceries and essentials benefit we'll put up to 1400 in the pockets of working
00:08:09.120families this year um you know only bottom 33 of income earners by the way it is a terrible
00:08:16.480it's a terrible program it's going to cause more food inflation it doesn't actually benefit
00:08:21.200everyone yes it's maybe benefiting those who would need it the most but it's not even helping them
00:08:27.600that much you get up to fourteen hundred dollars if you're in a household where both people can
00:08:32.320try and claim it but at the same time how about we just lower taxes so prices go down and so people
00:08:39.120don't have to give as much of their income to the government but we can't do that because the
00:08:43.840liberals are building a 90 billion dollar train between toronto and quebec city as a with a bunch
00:08:49.600of other projects that we do don't need that have made the deficit so bad that their tax relief is
00:08:55.440is 0.5% off of the first $50,000 of taxes where you don't even pay for the first $18,000.
00:09:02.960That's their tax relief, a half a percent for the next two years.
00:09:06.140And then they may add another half a percent onto the first $50,000 of taxes
00:09:11.320that you barely pay anything on relative to the other brackets.
00:09:15.480$1,250 per year for the next four years after that.
00:09:19.780So, you know, we recognize there is an affordability gap
00:09:22.320and we're taking measures to help Canadians with making life more affordable.
00:09:28.420And I certainly, Minister, wouldn't intimate that your government isn't doing anything
00:09:31.060in the GST rebate that you're referencing that your government...
00:09:34.160Look at his face. Wayne knows it's not going well already.
00:09:37.500This is not looking hot for him. I need that as a photo.
00:09:41.760That's a great-looking photo of Wayne Long.
00:09:43.920That your government is calling the grocery rebate is certainly an indication of one policy
00:10:42.980Why are you having to take any of these measures
00:10:44.800if affordability was already fantastic?
00:10:46.720Yeah, absolutely. We understand the pain people are feeling. We know there's an affordability crisis across the country and we're taking measures. It's a suite of measures that we're introducing to help Canadians with that. Again, you know, we came out of COVID. It was a worldwide pandemic. Crisis rose. Inflation rose. Inflation is down within targeted levels.
00:11:05.620I hate this targeted levels nonsense. Sorry, if you set the target at still an unacceptably high level for normal people, it doesn't count as, oh, well, we're within our targets.
00:11:18.100You know, our target was to not have everyone was not having 8% inflation and we don't have 8% inflation. It's only like three. Ergo, it's OK. It's still way too much.
00:11:30.540we should have negative inflation or as close to zero as possible because of how crazy it was.
00:11:36.280Food inflation is 4%. We're going to get to that later. It's really high considering that it's on
00:11:41.140top of the inflation that had already happened. You can't just say it's at targeted levels.
00:11:45.920And by the way, he's still, again, he is ducking and weaving to try and not actually justify the
00:11:51.780words of Carney saying that we are at the best level we've been in 10 years, even though Wayne
00:11:57.700long is now having to say yes we are in an affordability crisis if we're the best we've
00:12:01.980ever been how are we still in an affordability crisis or are we just in a more than 10 year long
00:12:07.440affordability crisis and this is the least bad part of the affordability crisis compared to
00:12:11.740the previous nine years in which i would ask how are we still in it if you have had over 10 years
00:12:17.560to figure this whole thing out man i feel there is a gap there's probably a you know eight nine
00:12:22.600hundred dollar gap between what prices should be and where they are right now so the groceries in
00:12:27.360essentials benefit is a is a big part of that you know today we had the announcement obviously
00:12:32.320on june 5th we're going to have the one-time 50 payment and then on july 3rd the next payment
00:12:38.000after that the four payments of the groceries and essentials benefit will increase by 25
00:12:43.040so just to put that in kind of real terms for canadians if you're receiving a thousand dollars
00:12:47.680a year you know four payments of 250 dollars on june 5th you will receive a 500 one-time top-up
00:12:55.440payment the july 3rd payment the next you know payment in the groceries essentials benefit
00:13:02.400wayne we understand the scope of the program this doesn't actually answer the question which
00:13:08.960is why bashi's not looking very impressed here that was going to be 250 now it will be 310
00:13:15.840so now that's a big difference for working families bashi and and we think that that's
00:13:20.080going to help 12 million canadians i mean it's a suite of measures we are focused on affordability
00:13:25.040you know i've long said many times that society our country our government should be judged in
00:13:30.000how we reach out to the most vulnerable and we are focused on making life more affordable
00:13:34.160affordable for canadians you know the excise fuel tax um suspension is 10 cents the removal of the
00:13:41.040carbon tax was another 18 cents that's 28 cents per liter that our government has basically reduced
00:13:48.080for Canadians when they fill up we know that's not true you can't you can't take away a tax
00:13:55.080and then having added the fuel standards tax or the clean I think it was like yeah the clean fuel
00:14:00.780standards tax they've added other taxes you can't just count the ways that you've reduced it without
00:14:06.220counting the ways you've increased it that's why overall they've only reduced the tax on gas or the
00:14:14.300cost of gas by $0.10, which is good. They should reduce it by more. It's still elevated compared
00:14:20.360to where it was. Because remember, they're still getting 5% GST on all gas sales, and the gas prices
00:14:27.500are massively elevated. So even with removing that $0.10 charge temporarily, they are still
00:14:33.780taking in way more revenues than they would have been before the Iran war. It's just cutting
00:14:40.060around the edges and then pretending that they've given you the world when they have given you like
00:14:43.600a really small slice of the pie back from the giant pie that they took no challenges we know
00:14:50.120we're in a worldwide challenge with respect to the economy you know our our economy our
00:14:55.980relationship with the states has been you know ruptured um oh of course oh and then of course
00:15:01.520he brings up trump he brings up trump and the americans it's always them i now need to bring
00:15:06.480you guys to this a last clip that happened in a committee where we have the uh conservatives we
00:15:12.140have Philip Lawrence from the Conservatives asking a liberal minister, I think a deputy minister,
00:15:17.720one of the two, I believe it's a minister, just a regular minister, that why haven't they actually
00:15:25.240reduced interprovincial trade barriers? This is one of the big promises from Mark Carney. He didn't
00:15:29.900make a lot of them. He basically said, I'm going to remove U.S. tariffs and I'm going to remove
00:15:34.020interprovincial trade barriers. How much progress have they actually made? Because this is a big
00:15:38.920part of affordability. And you will hear it's basically nothing. With respect to interventional
00:15:43.980trade barriers, Minister, we can all agree about the seriousness and the benefit for Canada.
00:15:49.700Whether it's the IMF or Trevor Toome, the numbers are in the hundreds of billions of dollars that
00:15:54.420can be created by eliminating these interprovincial trade barriers. And I would agree with you in so
00:15:58.600far as saying there's been a lot of paper that has been signed, but it's results that matter at
00:16:03.000the end of the day. The $200 billion number was often thrown away or thrown around, including in
00:16:08.540your own party platform where you said we will reduce internal trade barriers uh which will save
00:16:14.000costs up to 15 and expand our economy by 200 billion dollars that's five thousand dollars
00:16:19.340for every canadian how much of that has been realized so far so madam chair through you to
00:16:26.400mr lawrence a critical question and and thank you for asking it and you're right we've taken note
00:16:31.760and we've talked about this in the house of commons and many of us informally about you're
00:16:36.480right the potential upside economic benefit um in a federation um he's really delaying to try and not
00:16:44.780get to the actual answer here like ours um obviously we do our part and then work with
00:16:51.400our provincial and territorial counterparts there still is more work to be done to be honest
00:16:56.780mr chair a great madam chair a great number um of the barriers that are visible to canadians and
00:17:04.700to Canadian small businesses and to Canadian companies seeking to enlarge their markets are
00:17:11.400in fact under provincial jurisdiction. If you look at where the federal government has authority,
00:17:16.380we all know the sectors of the economy. They haven't traditionally been where we see
00:17:20.900the sort of barriers that provide that headwind. But if maybe my colleague Janine has a specific
00:17:27.620number in terms of what we think in terms of the GDP growth of the country has been the result of
00:17:34.180removing the federal barriers. And if we don't have that precise number, I'm happy to ask our
00:17:39.160colleagues. I'm tired. I'm tired. Of course, the interprovincial trade barriers are not a federal
00:17:50.140issue. It's interprovincial. They keep saying, well, we did remove the federal barriers. We got
00:17:57.580rid of anything that was, you know, preventing that. We got rid of any bad federal laws that
00:18:04.000were preventing interprovincial trade. I'm like, that was never the problem. They're pretending
00:18:08.100that they solved a problem that they never pitched to solve. The interprovincial trade
00:18:12.160barrier problem was always with the provinces. And Carney, his pitch was that he was going to
00:18:18.040be the guy to get the provinces to sit down, and he has gotten them to sit down, but he was going
00:18:23.600to get them to remove all their interprovincial trade barriers and, you know, get this economy
00:18:28.300fired up. And we're a year in, and we have not had anything to that effect happen. Nothing has
00:18:35.960happened. He then says, well, you know, it is provincial jurisdiction. We know. We know it's
00:18:41.440provincial jurisdiction. Carney promised that he was going to be able to get the provinces to do
00:18:45.940it. You can't just promise something, and then when you don't deliver, you're like, well, that
00:18:50.040is a provincial thing, so it's really not our fault. You promised you were going to get them
00:18:53.340to do it and now you don't know then now you agree that it hasn't happened and then you're like well
00:18:59.800we'll get back to you and how much are getting rid of barriers from a federal level has changed
00:19:03.940things there was basically no barriers from the federal level because again the issue was
00:19:08.880interprovincial trade barriers there is effectively no interprovincial trade barriers coming from the
00:19:14.040federal government unless you count all of their anti-pipeline legislation if you count that they
00:19:19.360actually really haven't made much of a dent on their own uh interventional trade barriers because
00:19:24.100that is like the one area the federal government has been overly legislative like a regulatory
00:19:29.960of in terms of moving energy from province to province they haven't touched it they're
00:19:36.720incompetent they don't know what they're doing Carney thinks that everything is going to be
00:19:41.220solved with like a cocktail soiree and a speech at Davos and it's just not how it works he's good
00:19:47.600And there's this lie that he knows how the world economy works.