The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberal media is being DRIVEN CRAZY by Poilievre's logic!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:06.080 I hope everyone is having a great Easter Sunday today, and if you are not able to make it out to

00:00:11.620 an Easter service, what I always like to do both on Easter and Christmas is pin at the top of the

00:00:17.040 comments below a link to a service that you can listen to on your own time. Warning, it will

00:00:22.480 actually be biblical because I do not like happy clappy nonsense and like when pastors actually

00:00:28.300 teach from the Bible. But today we are not going to be talking about something as joyous as Easter

00:00:34.380 Sunday today on the show. We will be instead talking about the Canadian liberal media, a far

00:00:40.980 darker force in this world. It baffles me just how little actual common sense you need to have

00:00:48.020 to be a full-time pundit on television in Canada. You can basically know nothing and you can still

00:00:55.340 be making more than a full-time salary sitting there having brain farts all day. We are about

00:01:01.780 to cut to the Rosemary Barton live show in just a second here. And surprisingly, the person with

00:01:07.960 the dumb take on this four-way panel is not Rosemary Barton. It is the woman wearing purple. 0.98

00:01:14.940 So Polyev has a really good proposal right now to cut gas taxes. Gas prices are massively up.

00:01:22.140 The government is already bringing in way more revenues because the GST obviously applies to the final price of the product, and so the government is making money hand over fist on the high price of gas.

00:01:34.800 And so the least the government could do right now is get rid of their fuel standard. I think it's like the clean fuel standard regulations and other things that add a direct tax onto the price of oil and gas.

00:01:47.640 but somehow in this segment the woman in purple here concludes that by doing that you are playing

00:01:55.040 into Trump's hands because they can never give Polyev credit even the guy who had just spoken

00:02:01.260 before we are about to hit play here the guy with the mustache nick even he was basically

00:02:06.800 trying to mildly naysay what Polyev was doing by saying that it would be bad to just cut gas taxes

00:02:14.000 completely. And instead, we should have a gas rebate because then we can target it to the

00:02:18.640 right people. Whatever Polyev has a good idea, at the very least, the media have to say that,

00:02:24.220 well, there's this other better idea here. So whatever Polyev ended up proposing is somehow

00:02:29.900 a lesser idea. But we're going to get to what the woman in purple said in just a second here.

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00:03:01.460 let us hear the worst take I've ever heard my entire life. Yeah. And to that end, I mean,

00:03:07.700 i think i think i saw emily and you would know better in montreal i think prices hit two bucks

00:03:11.860 uh in montreal they certainly have out on the west coast where gary is but this is like a you know

00:03:17.760 this is not just a problem right now it's a problem on top of another problem and another

00:03:21.800 problem and i wonder how or if ottawa should act quickly on this now warning here that her

00:03:29.020 microphone sounds like a drive through intercom but i will try and translate a little bit for

00:03:34.500 what she says i honestly don't know how her audio is this bad because she's like a regular guest on

00:03:38.980 this show and you think she would have the audio down at some point in her life like

00:03:43.140 go to best buy and buy an actual microphone my goodness stop using airpods it's a it's a little

00:03:49.140 bit of a um uh of a brain uh issue in a sense that uh there is food there is rent and there

00:04:00.260 is gas right those are the three things that come uh to our mind uh the most um and i don't see that

00:04:07.620 energy uh for renters and i don't see that energy for food insecurity in the country okay so

00:04:15.220 immediately pauliev's idea of cutting the gas tax or suspending it is bad because did you know there

00:04:22.420 are other problems out there guys did you know that people are having trouble making rent or

00:04:26.820 buying food? You might have not known that. But apparently this now means that Polyev's idea

00:04:32.340 to give people relief on the price of gas is bad because there's another problem somewhere else,

00:04:39.140 even though cutting gas taxes would in fact reduce prices elsewhere as well.

00:04:47.940 I hope that she realizes that food isn't just from the grocery store. It in fact

00:04:52.180 gets driven to the grocery store by trucks, and farmers need gas in their operation of their farms

00:04:59.840 and all the other stuff. I know this is blowing her mind right now, but in fact, getting rid of

00:05:04.800 the gas tax temporarily is a good thing. But of course, it can never just be that Polyev has a

00:05:10.380 good idea. They need to just naysay it to death. These people seem to be driven crazy by the fact

00:05:16.980 that poly of is able to uh you know flex common sense and so every time he says something common

00:05:22.960 sense they immediately need to deflect to something completely unrelated so that the

00:05:27.640 liberal audience of the cbc will not have their ears hurt by poly of saying something that that

00:05:32.840 actually starts that sounds pretty good to them they need to just completely deflect but let's

00:05:38.600 get back to her here so it's it's like we we we want to help the people with the car part of it

00:05:48.620 is because we see the signs at the the sign of ours at the side of our suite to jumping at us

00:05:55.520 with the big prices I wonder if there were more solutions for food insecurity or for poverty in

00:06:02.460 this country if it was the price of eggs or the price of bread or the price of milk that had big

00:06:06.660 red numbers flashing in the side of the world as well. Has she ever followed Polyev on social

00:06:13.460 media? He posts basically every month what food inflation currently is and what he would do to

00:06:21.860 try and tackle food inflation. Now, you can disagree with his solutions to it, but this

00:06:26.940 isn't something that he only cares about taxes on gas because you can see the price of gas on the

00:06:32.980 big screens in front of the stations no he actually talks about housing affordability

00:06:39.220 food prices gas and general taxes all the time but again we have to pretend like polyev doesn't

00:06:46.660 do that because by by just agreeing that his idea is good here well that would make him look good

00:06:53.000 and we can't do that so we have to imply that somehow all these other issues he doesn't care

00:06:57.500 about at all. But I'll let her finish here. My goodness. This one is very immediate. It's on

00:07:02.840 the brain of everyone. Well, by the way, too, like, why wouldn't we take more action right now

00:07:10.780 to solve the gas tax problem? Because right now, the government's making money hand over fist on

00:07:16.020 GST revenues. So Polyev is basically saying, how about we bring it back to neutral by getting rid

00:07:20.820 of some of the taxes? The government will still get quite a bit of revenue, but we can give people

00:07:24.560 like 25 cents less on per liter at the pump the reason why he's tackling this now is because it's

00:07:31.200 an immediate issue he's been tackling the other stuff over years at this point uh because of just

00:07:37.040 the way that you know you see it at the pump and it's just screaming at you from the side of the

00:07:40.960 highway uh but but the affordability crisis is more complex than this um and there is that risk

00:07:48.480 of helping people who don't need it and not helping people who do need it the most

00:07:52.160 we have a homelessness crisis in this country oh yeah guys you know heaven forbid we ever help

00:07:59.140 somebody who didn't quote unquote need it what yeah we can never actually just help people in

00:08:05.420 general you're gonna have emil nicholas here show up and be like oh no you helped the wrong person

00:08:11.340 that person makes too much money you have to help this person over here how about we just help 0.52

00:08:15.920 people this is the problem with the socialist mindset somehow doing the right thing is bad

00:08:21.880 if we can if we can point to somebody who didn't necessarily need the help who got the help too

00:08:28.120 like this is like the margaret thatcher quote they would rather the poor be poorer

00:08:33.240 as long as the rich were less rich yeah and and but it's not screaming at us in the same way and

00:08:40.280 so we really need to be smart about the policy aspect of it um but but there's always that urge

00:08:47.400 uh to act on what is the most evident rather than what is necessarily the most effective

00:08:52.840 and actually relieving the crisis in this country yeah those are all excellent points

00:08:57.800 i've gary as someone who is dealing with really high prices out there this also may not you know

00:09:04.600 no she in fact did not make a good point she made a terrible point but we're going to get back to

00:09:09.640 when she speaks again later in this panel because this is where she starts making the point about

00:09:14.360 donald trump so we've already naysayed polyev to death and said that it doesn't matter if he

00:09:19.480 has good ideas because there are other problems in the country that we are implying that he doesn't

00:09:24.200 care about even though he does care about them so if he makes a good proposal it doesn't matter

00:09:29.080 because he did not solve all of the world's problems in his one proposal but now we have

00:09:34.360 her coming back and you know doing her signature move of bringing up donald trump for no reason 1.00

00:09:39.960 and naysaying polyev's idea from the other angle that this would be good for trump somehow

00:09:50.040 absolutely and amongst those things there is the fact that the geopolitics of it uh aren't we just

00:09:57.720 making donald trump's uh terrible catastrophes just more sustainable by uh making the basically 0.56

00:10:09.000 Are we just enabling him by basically having all the Western governments cutting themselves up revenues as to subsidize Donald Trump's foolishness?

00:10:23.440 Is that what we're doing?

00:10:25.320 The second thing that we need to ask ourselves.

00:10:28.900 Like, what was that?

00:10:30.660 Also, she had to throw her whole body into making that suggestion to the audience.

00:10:35.620 Well, aren't we just subsidizing Donald Trump's war in Iran by actually giving people tax relief?

00:10:44.360 Like, what are you saying, Emily, that we shouldn't give people tax relief because we're not really, we should be putting the screws to them to make them mad at Donald Trump.

00:10:55.220 We shouldn't actually do anything to make our economy more healthy because then they will not artificially blame Donald Trump for their problems.

00:11:03.560 because, of course, it's Donald Trump's fault that there is a theocratic terror regime that

00:11:09.400 was threatening everyone, eventually went too far by killing tens of thousands of their own people,

00:11:13.720 and America and Israel stepped in. This is apparently their fault, and we should be making 1.00

00:11:18.680 sure not to give Canadians too much tax relief because they will forget about the biggest issue

00:11:23.500 on this planet, which is orange man bad. We must be mad at orange man right now, and if we cut taxes, 0.98

00:11:30.000 we get rid of the gas taxes and lower the prices by 25 cents a liter, that might make the single

00:11:36.440 mother less mad at Donald Trump. So this woman, who apparently was first nascenting Polyev's idea

00:11:45.140 from the angle that it wasn't making everyone's lives better in every aspect of their lives,

00:11:51.280 even though actually getting rid of the gas taxes would in fact make everything more affordable,

00:11:55.360 mainly gas but it would have trickle effects on everything else she said her his plan was bad

00:12:00.780 because it didn't have anything to do with housing and affordability and like food deserts or like

00:12:06.620 access to to like you know cheap healthy food that's why it was bad but it's also bad because

00:12:13.840 if you make people's lives better they will blame trump less for their problems i am detecting

00:12:20.480 i'm not i'm like me i'm not trying i'm not sherlock holmes here but i'm detecting that

00:12:26.920 her points are contradicting each other but this is the this is the caliber of pundit you get on

00:12:31.580 the cbc is yeah polyev doesn't want to have a tax break just before the end of the year obviously

00:12:38.640 this is just pushing the ball further down the road in terms of making a dent into the systemic

00:12:42.900 sorry polyev doesn't want tax relief like i guess she's trying to imply that she want he wants the

00:12:49.560 economy to be worse under Mark Carney in a strategic manner. And perhaps the conservatives

00:12:55.400 would see bad economic news and realize it's good for them. That's just politics. I think

00:13:00.520 Polyev is perfectly fine with Carney taking his idea since he was the one who proposed it,

00:13:04.940 and people would obviously see it as Polyev's idea. But really, we're going to now say that,

00:13:10.440 well, Polyev doesn't even want this to happen. He said he wanted it to happen. You naysayed it

00:13:15.560 because it doesn't solve all the world's problems.

00:13:17.860 Then you said that reducing taxes is bad

00:13:20.120 because it would make people less than Donald Trump.

00:13:22.260 And now you're flip-flopping again and saying,

00:13:23.920 Paul Yevon, you want any of this stuff

00:13:25.660 because in fact, he wants the country to get worse.

00:13:28.140 I mean, oil taxes for good.

00:13:30.880 And it's never going to be popular for the government

00:13:33.100 to put the taxes back up.

00:13:35.840 And so it wouldn't be just creating a political problem

00:13:38.520 just further down the road in a couple of months.

00:13:42.080 And then...

00:13:43.520 Of course, Rosemary Barton is here to agree with her because the neutral host is, of course, always coming down on the side of the liberal on the panel.

00:13:50.820 Although it's the CBC, they're pretty much all shades of liberal.

00:13:54.480 There is a question. I cannot still believe how rich it is for during that same week, have the leader of the position question the high speed rail train.

00:14:06.240 and basically the idea that we should also invest in infrastructure

00:14:11.900 that makes Canadians less dependent on their cars

00:14:14.840 and therefore the volatility of oil prices. 0.99

00:14:18.440 Okay, we now have stupid thing she said number four. 0.99

00:14:22.460 So we started on her. 0.99

00:14:24.160 I keep going through it because it's funny.

00:14:26.680 We had her start off by saying his idea to get rid of the gas taxes temporarily

00:14:31.260 to lower prices by 25 cents.

00:14:33.120 That was a bad, that's bad because it's not solving food insecurity and housing affordability. 1.00

00:14:40.000 Okay, that's a stupid thing to say. 0.98

00:14:42.060 Then she said, well, if we make things more affordable, people will blame Trump less for their problems because it's helping sustain Trump's war. 1.00

00:14:50.220 That was stupid thing number two. 0.96

00:14:52.080 Then number three was her saying that, well, Paulie doesn't even want any of this stuff to happen because he wants the economy to get worse so he can blame the liberals. 0.99

00:15:00.560 that's really dumb because he was the one who pitched the idea so obviously he would want it

00:15:05.900 implemented you know maybe there's something in the back of his mind that also says if i pitch 0.98

00:15:10.140 this and carney doesn't do it he looks even worse but politics are politics and he was the one who

00:15:15.500 proposed it so i think we should always assume in good faith the person would actually want to do it

00:15:19.680 and now we have a point number four which i actually want to hear her say it again to make

00:15:26.180 sure my ears are clear. The idea that we should also invest in infrastructure that makes Canadians

00:15:33.060 less dependent on their cars and therefore the volatility of oil prices. Oh, so yes. So we should

00:15:40.300 now spend, because oil prices are high, instead of getting rid of the gas taxes, it would be more

00:15:46.600 logical from Emily Nicholas's perspective to spend $90 billion, $90 billion, on a train from Toronto

00:15:56.980 to Quebec City, the Alto train, that will only have five stops. Apparently everything just has

00:16:05.040 a conclusion where the government should spend more money in her mind. We have a big affordability 1.00

00:16:10.840 problems? Better set $90 billion on fire so that people from Toronto going to Quebec City

00:16:17.140 can technically get there cheaper. Although, let's be clear, this is a driving country and

00:16:23.740 people are not getting rid of their cars. So people will still have to own a car, or at least

00:16:28.480 the smart people will still have to own a car. And then some people can pay slightly less money

00:16:32.840 getting to specifically Quebec City and a few other stops between. If you take the auto train,

00:16:38.640 that will cost taxpayers 90 billion dollars to build and it will probably take over 20 years

00:16:44.420 to actually be completed brilliant stunning insight there emily oh my goodness can we can

00:16:51.180 we make her prime minister guys oh my goodness we she needs to be prime minister she's amazing

00:16:55.140 which is always going to be a thing as long as the geopolitics is what it is yeah yeah and so

00:17:01.440 there and that is also been the case in europe of with the war in russia trying to invest

00:17:06.480 and transitioning away no in germany they shut down their nuclear power because germany is

00:17:13.440 currently being run by complete numpties like what is she saying like oh europe's transitioning away

00:17:18.540 no actually they are still overdosing on russian oil and gas while they are funding the ukrainians

00:17:24.360 to fight them because logic does not exist in europe like and rosemary barton of course just

00:17:29.820 sitting there like a muppet just like you know nodding and saying yep yep to all of her points 0.99

00:17:34.060 as if this isn't the dumbest thing everyone's ever heard. 0.99

00:17:36.740 And this needs to be as part of the conversation 0.98

00:17:39.260 as much as, you know, immediate relief.

00:17:42.220 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:17:43.080 A project that at best will be done in 12 years

00:17:47.140 should be as much part of the conversation

00:17:49.580 as something that Carney could do tomorrow

00:17:52.300 with the stroke of a pen.

00:17:56.960 Brilliant thoughts there, Emily.

00:17:58.440 Oh, my goodness.

00:17:59.560 I gotta go.

00:18:00.300 Thank you all.

00:18:00.880 Nick Taylor-Veysi, Emily Nicola, Gary Mason,

00:18:02.900 and thanks for spending part of your Easter Sunday with me.

00:18:04.920 I appreciate it.

00:18:06.860 Oh, my goodness.

00:18:07.980 Yeah.

00:18:09.820 It was not good to spend my Easter Sunday with these people.

00:18:15.180 You don't even need to have a brain to be a pundit in Canadian media these days.

00:18:18.700 You can just go on and say anything.

00:18:20.500 And somehow they'll have you back on probably next week as well,

00:18:23.340 and they'll be paying you, like, $100,000 a year to give this very tepid commentary.

00:18:28.880 Like, goodness, I'd do that for free.

00:18:30.700 I would go on the CBC for free to give a more clear-eyed view of what should be done in Canadian politics.

00:18:39.380 I could even pretend to be neutral and call balls and strikes and completely hide that I like the Conservatives.

00:18:45.580 Of course, I like them. Everyone likes a party eventually.

00:18:48.640 I have a bias to the right. I'm honest about it.

00:18:51.500 That's somebody who would probably consider themselves like a neutral political analyst. 0.99

00:18:56.180 and she said the four dumbest things I've heard all day today and it could be the dumbest thing 0.96

00:19:01.840 I've heard all month but the CBC still exists so there is a very high chance something else 0.99

00:19:06.740 dumber will be eventually said this month. Wow okay so that should be it for today's video guys

00:19:15.140 I'm going to stop torturing myself with mainstream media punditry for a few episodes and start

00:19:20.540 focusing on some other stuff it seems like some polls will be coming out that are interesting

00:19:24.460 to analyze in the next couple of days, that we will be bringing back the whiteboard in the future.

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 06, 2026

Liberal media is being DRIVEN CRAZY by Poilievre's logic!

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