The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 15, 2025


Liberal government spent $170,000 on luxury travel for ISIS brides!


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A real story about Canadian government spending $170,000 to bring Canadian ISIS women home from Syria. I have a theory about why this is a good thing... it's because the Canadian government hired comedians to write jokes about it.

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00:00:00.800 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I have a new theory for why television shows like Saturday Night Live and This Hour Has 22 Minutes stop being funny.
00:00:11.740 Maybe it's because the Canadian government has in fact been hiring all of the best comedy writers all over North America,
00:00:19.540 because it is the only reasonable explanation for the story I am about to tell you about, and I swear this is real.
00:00:27.400 It is not a parody, and when I had first read a tweet from Pierre Polyev about it, I assumed that he was just creating his own Babylon Bee headline,
00:00:36.400 parodying how the liberal government spends money. But this is real, as I was saying.
00:00:42.360 But before we get into it, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the channel, leave a like on this video.
00:00:48.040 Subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber. I'm trying to hit 100,000 subscribers by mid-December of this year, so I don't owe my four friends dinner.
00:00:56.400 If I win, they owe me dinner one time. If they win, I owe all four of them dinner. It's a very lopsided deal I came up with to put pressure on myself.
00:01:06.520 And then also, leave a comment on what you think about this story. It helps us in the algorithm, and I do like to scroll through and see what people think.
00:01:14.420 But let's get over to the tweet by Pierre Polyev before we dive into the global news investigative piece on this issue.
00:01:22.000 Well, Mr. Polyev, I have an explanation. It is because we have hired comedians into the Canadian government,
00:01:51.160 so if the Canadian government is going to waste money, as is its want most of the time, at least we are going to be hilarious about it.
00:01:59.740 And I have a rule on this show that I haven't said in a long time.
00:02:03.580 If you're going to be corrupt, at least be hilarious about it, and this is slightly hilarious.
00:02:09.760 Obviously, this is very bad, and we shouldn't be spending money like this, but it makes you smile so that you don't start crying.
00:02:16.040 This, again, is a real story. I will be linking it in the description below, as well as in the top of the comments.
00:02:24.380 Good job, you know, good work from Stephen Bell here.
00:02:28.520 The headline is,
00:02:30.080 Wine, Candy, and Room Service, How Ottawa Spent $170,000 on Canadian ISIS Women. 0.88
00:02:37.260 Okay, we're just going to read this because I cannot do a better job than the article of making this funny.
00:02:46.580 It says,
00:02:47.160 Federal officers spent at least $170,000 bringing Canadian ISIS women home from Syria,
00:02:55.040 according to internal government documents that show expenses for ice cream, candy, and wine.
00:03:00.720 Really not sticking to that no alcohol rule, apparently, if they're joining ISIS.
00:03:04.580 But it goes on to say,
00:03:06.900 The money was for costs incurred when eight women who had traveled to the Middle East to join Islamic State
00:03:12.020 returned to Canada with their children in 22 and 2023.
00:03:17.020 Newly released documents show Global Affairs Canada paid for business class flights
00:03:21.460 stayed at the Montreal Airport Marriott, room service, chips, chocolate bars, and Timbits.
00:03:27.420 One hotel room cost over $1,000 for two nights because of a $95 wine tab.
00:03:32.540 Another ran $850 with charges for junk food and $25 servings of red, white, and sparkling wines.
00:03:43.600 The cost included $2,800 for catering, $24 sandwiches at the hotel's Bioge restaurant bar,
00:03:51.060 Bioge, I'm not sure how to pronounce that,
00:03:53.340 and $86 worth of snack foods over-the-counter drugs at the hotel gift shop.
00:03:57.920 The expense report chronicled room service meals for more than $100, books, clothing, travel bags,
00:04:05.220 Canadian pins, and a high-value token of appreciation purchased at Best Buy.
00:04:10.820 A server pocketed a $7 tip for serving two $4 teas, according to the expense report,
00:04:16.660 which also documented purchases of Doritos and Aero and Caramel bars.
00:04:20.860 Well, at least they're being very Canadian about it.
00:04:24.640 That's classic Canadiana to get some Aero bars and Caramelks.
00:04:29.740 The expenses are for both the women and children, as well as the government staff,
00:04:34.800 sent to receive them when they landed in Montreal before carrying on to their home provinces.
00:04:40.280 And it says, and this is the next section, Canadian women in ISIL.
00:04:43.040 The women were living in BC, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec when they left to live under ISIS,
00:04:48.820 which had seized a swath of Syria and Iraq and launched a campaign of beheading and attacks on the West. 0.93
00:04:55.800 As ISIS fell to Kurdish fighters backed by an international coalition,
00:05:00.120 backed by an international coalition,
00:05:02.260 the Canadian women were captured and held with their children for several years
00:05:05.920 at crowded detention camps in Syria.
00:05:08.020 The federal government agreed to bring them back to Canada after their families launched a challenge
00:05:12.300 in federal court in Ottawa, demanding their return.
00:05:16.460 So, yeah, this is all extremely insane.
00:05:20.720 This is not something I think we should be spending money on.
00:05:23.680 I assume you can all agree.
00:05:25.160 You can read more about that story in the linked article in the description and at the top of the comments.
00:05:31.960 But safe to say this is a bad use of taxpayer money.
00:05:36.560 A hilariously bad use, but a bad use.
00:05:40.780 The fact that we were not just bringing them back to Canada, 0.89
00:05:44.740 but giving them this first class treatment is utterly ridiculous.
00:05:48.940 I don't care if they were in a detention camp for several years.
00:05:52.440 You know what I'm actually okay with doing?
00:05:54.280 Bring their children back to Canada. 1.00
00:05:56.060 Keep them there.
00:05:57.280 If they actually care about their children, they can bring them back to Canada 1.00
00:06:00.220 and they can stay in Syria and do whatever they want to do there.
00:06:03.680 Because apparently they signed up for all of the beheadings, torture,
00:06:08.400 and, you know, the Islamic caliphate that they entered for.
00:06:13.160 So why is it so much worse to be living under the current pro-terror government?
00:06:17.960 It's just a slightly different pro-terror government.
00:06:20.220 In fact, the guy leading it right now in Syria, Jolwani, is a former ISIS lead.
00:06:26.580 They should be super comfortable in Syria.
00:06:30.220 But I think al-Jolwani, the whole thing is stupid. 1.00
00:06:33.960 We are bringing back ISIS terrorists, and we've not just brought back ISIS wives. 0.99
00:06:38.800 We have, in fact, brought ISIS terrorists back.
00:06:41.320 And then our rehabilitation was basically getting them to show up to, like, AA-style meetings,
00:06:46.740 but it's, like, terrorists anonymous.
00:06:48.640 They show up and we tell them to beheading people is very bad.
00:06:52.360 You shouldn't do that.
00:06:53.220 Hey, were you thinking of beheading that person over there?
00:06:56.360 You shouldn't.
00:06:57.320 That's a bad thing to do.
00:06:59.180 Don't do it.
00:07:00.040 Go back to your job at a convenience store and do nothing bad.
00:07:03.820 We should just be dropping these people over the ocean on the way back to Canada.
00:07:08.060 They shouldn't be coming back when they are effectively, like, militants from a terror organization
00:07:13.900 that does not exactly, you know, recognize the Geneva Convention.
00:07:17.920 In fact, in normal wars, when you capture people who aren't following the Geneva Convention,
00:07:23.860 not wearing uniforms, killing prisoners, doing all sorts of war crimes, you just shoot them. 0.87
00:07:29.360 Because that's what you do with people who are breaking the rules.
00:07:33.620 You're not supposed to be, you know, taking them back in and pretending like that was a phase.
00:07:39.020 Anyways, I'm going to be clear, it's not a phase mom.
00:07:42.760 They are, in fact, brutal terrorists who just didn't like the consequences of their own actions
00:07:47.400 because they stopped being on top in Syria.
00:07:50.320 And at the same time, we can't deport any of the criminals that are entering Canada.
00:07:55.640 We, in fact, let criminals go free in this country.
00:07:58.760 We bring them in knowing they have criminal records and we pretend it didn't happen.
00:08:02.860 In fact, our current public safety minister, oh, I forget what his name is.
00:08:09.340 It's just a ridiculously long name.
00:08:11.380 That guy was writing letters on behalf of terrorists, part of the Tamil Tigers,
00:08:18.340 allowing them to come into the country, you know, intervening on their behalf
00:08:22.180 so that Immigration Canada would allow them in to become asylum seekers or permanent residents.
00:08:28.320 I'm not sure what they entered as.
00:08:29.900 It doesn't matter.
00:08:30.920 They shouldn't have entered.
00:08:31.840 We tolerate Kalistani terrorists. 1.00
00:08:35.540 We tolerate people connected to the IRGC.
00:08:38.320 We tolerate people who promote and fund ISIS.
00:08:41.980 My party that I'm helping in British Columbia right now, 1BC,
00:08:45.460 we are having to bring our own private prosecution against Charlotte Cates,
00:08:50.180 who is the leader of Samadun in British Columbia,
00:08:53.300 who helps promote terrorism as well as help fund terrorism.
00:08:57.560 And the BC government cannot find a reason to actually prosecute her.
00:09:01.840 So our leader, Dallas Brody, who in fact has a law degree from Princeton,
00:09:06.140 is having to file the paperwork on behalf of the government to get the ball rolling.
00:09:10.740 This is how pathetic the BC NDP government and their attorney general, Nikki Sharma, are.
00:09:15.280 So, yeah, this is a microcosm of just how bad spending is in government.
00:09:21.340 And I never want to hear it from liberal talking heads on social media saying,
00:09:26.660 oh, conservatives are so simplistic when they think that you can just cut spending willy-nilly
00:09:30.940 in order to balance the budget, in order to be able to cut people's taxes,
00:09:34.640 in order to move it to more vital areas of government.
00:09:38.220 Guys, if we're buying Beaujolais and Aero bars for ISIS brides, 0.99
00:09:44.020 I can assure you that we could probably find money to give normal law-binding Canadians a tax cut.
00:09:50.420 And that's another thing.
00:09:52.280 We're trying to confiscate law-binding Canadians' guns, 1.00
00:09:55.220 banning handguns and different models of weapons that we are calling assault rifles.
00:10:00.880 People who have not committed a crime,
00:10:02.860 people who should not have their weapons taken away, we're targeting.
00:10:06.000 But if you were a bride of ISIS, if you were a literal ISIS fighter, come back in.
00:10:10.600 It's like an activist phase.
00:10:13.520 Whatever, it's like you were blocking traffic for a green movement,
00:10:16.940 you know, slap on the wrist, all is forgiven,
00:10:18.860 just attend a few meetings and clean up some garbage on the side of the road,
00:10:22.240 and we're squaresies.
00:10:23.780 We shouldn't be squaresies. 0.99
00:10:25.820 And again, we have stories like this out there,
00:10:29.220 and you will never have the left to sound off about it.
00:10:31.980 I now need to bring up something that happened on social media yesterday
00:10:36.440 that was so absurd it needs to be seen in terms of just the hypocrisy,
00:10:42.640 in terms of the audacity to try and criticize pure Polyev
00:10:46.020 over something that he's correct about.
00:10:48.080 We have the liberal government doing this,
00:10:49.960 and now I'm about to show you Max Fawcett,
00:10:52.800 a leftist reporter at the National Observer,
00:10:57.020 attacking Polyev because, you know, he's 2% wrong about a particular issue.
00:11:02.340 So I need you guys to check this out because it is hilarious.
00:11:07.380 I need to go find the post he had.
00:11:10.200 This is me going a little off reservation for this.
00:11:13.080 It wasn't what I planned on doing in this video,
00:11:15.040 but, you know, we're doing it, so let's jump right out.
00:11:17.220 Well, you know, I thought about it, so we're doing it.
00:11:20.400 He was attacking Polyev for pointing out that Pierre Polyev could not get,
00:11:26.640 or that Mark Carney could not get a deal.
00:11:28.900 We couldn't get a deal, a good deal with the EU,
00:11:32.280 but the Americans, Donald Trump, were able to get a commitment
00:11:35.080 of $750 billion to purchase American energy.
00:11:39.580 Check this out.
00:11:41.880 It's beyond parody.
00:11:42.980 So Pierre Polyev here said,
00:11:44.500 The EU is sending the U.S. $750 billion for three years of natural gas.
00:11:50.220 The missed opportunities are piling up because Prime Minister Carney's liberals' anti-energy laws.
00:11:55.660 Absolutely correct.
00:11:57.240 And then we have here Max Fawcett coming in over the top rope with a very solid actually
00:12:04.760 in order to say something completely inane that doesn't actually undermine Polyev's point.
00:12:09.640 Max Fawcett here, noted intellectual, says,
00:12:13.280 Except it's not doing anything of the sort.
00:12:15.880 EU leaders pledged $750 billion in American energy purchases over three years.
00:12:21.200 They figure almost everyone agrees is somewhere between unrealistic and a complete fantasy.
00:12:26.380 A quick thread, if you mind.
00:12:27.740 And the man literally proceeds to have like a 15-post thread where he basically says,
00:12:35.480 Well, yeah, the government is doing, the EU is committing to doing that,
00:12:40.220 but maybe they're only going to be able to purchase $500 billion or $400 billion.
00:12:44.040 The point is, the EU is purchasing American goods,
00:12:48.080 and we have these vague agreements that will,
00:12:50.580 maybe the EU and Canada will start trading a little bit more with each other.
00:12:54.120 That's all we've gotten.
00:12:55.340 And Polyev is right that Trump is actually cutting deals
00:12:58.720 where people are going to invest more in the United States,
00:13:01.160 going to purchase more U.S. goods.
00:13:03.860 And Canada hasn't gotten anything of the sort.
00:13:06.520 In fact, today, China has implemented a 75.8% tariff on our canola oil, our canola product.
00:13:16.060 That means we basically can't export anything to China,
00:13:18.920 even though it was one of our main export markets for canola.
00:13:22.060 I thought we were going to expand trade to China and to the EU,
00:13:27.800 and I don't think we should actually be trading more with China,
00:13:30.520 but I'm not sure what Mark Carney is at this point.
00:13:33.660 He's like 0 for 10.
00:13:34.880 We have not actually found any lucrative trade deals since he came into office.
00:13:39.140 We have signed nothing good.
00:13:40.280 We have signed no deal with the United States,
00:13:41.960 and absolutely Carney did commit to trying to get a trade deal signed by August 1st.
00:13:47.180 And now he's pretending like, whoa, what trade deal?
00:13:49.400 What trade deadline?
00:13:50.480 Who cares?
00:13:51.840 We don't have anything.
00:13:53.280 China's not even on our side, 0.95
00:13:55.060 even though they were the other country that didn't get a deal signed with the United States,
00:13:58.980 except China doesn't like us anyway. 0.98
00:14:01.260 So we don't even have solidarity with them.
00:14:03.620 Not that we should.
00:14:04.900 But this whole thing is pathetic,
00:14:06.780 considering that Carney was also trying to court the Chinese at the same time as all this.
00:14:11.020 But we are giving a $1 billion to a CCP-linked firm to build ferries for the British Columbia government.
00:14:21.120 Yeah, so.
00:14:23.900 Canada's beyond parity.
00:14:25.980 But that should be it for me today, guys.
00:14:28.300 Anyways, so make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, do all that stuff.
00:14:32.440 Again, the ISIS article is in the description below if you want to read the whole thing.
00:14:37.080 And make sure to comment on what you think about the story today,
00:14:40.620 or maybe suggesting other things I should cover in the coming days.
00:14:44.060 But with that being said, see you guys later.