The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberal Minister bills lobster to taxpayers as Canadians struggle

00:00:00.000 Guys, I think it goes pretty much without saying, but if you ever become an elected

00:00:05.400 official in the Canadian government, never do this. So yesterday, the Liberal Minister of

00:00:12.400 Agriculture, Mr. Lawrence McCauley, went on a trip to Malaysia, and right after he touched down,

00:00:18.240 he decided to take a photo of himself eating lobster on the taxpayer's dime. I don't know

00:00:24.360 what possessed him to do this. It's the dumbest thing he could possibly post, 1.00

00:00:28.320 but I want to get into it after just reading the post first. So Lawrence's team, because I don't 0.99

00:00:33.860 even think Lawrence is dumb enough to do this, think about it this way. Multiple people had to 0.82

00:00:38.060 see this before it was posted, and they all thought this was a totally cool thing to do

00:00:42.520 while people can't even afford groceries in this country. So the post from Lawrence says,

00:00:47.620 Touchdown in Malaysia. I'm looking forward to a productive week of meeting with officials,

00:00:52.260 industry leaders, and partners from Canada and the Indo-Pacific to promote our world-class products

00:00:56.980 like the lobster I enjoyed for lunch in Kamala Lumpur. Dude, what? Wait, wait. So that was

00:01:03.420 Canadian lobster that was imported into Malaysia that he ate at a fancy restaurant and then billed

00:01:10.480 to taxpayers. This is an optics nightmare. There has been other conservative officials in the past

00:01:17.160 who have been roasted for buying $16 glasses of orange juice. And this guy's casually over here,

00:01:22.700 probably spending $70, $80 on lobster in a foreign country while taxpayers are paying for the entire

00:01:28.920 thing. And he decided to post this travesty on social media so he could get roasted. Like,

00:01:34.860 I don't even know what they thought the benefit to posting this was. Did they think that he was

00:01:39.820 just going to get a bunch of high fives? Oh yeah, Lawrence is eating lobsters and he a cool guy.

00:01:44.000 Nobody thinks that. Dude, just have butter toast in your hand every time you take a photo on a trip

00:01:49.720 while you're eating food. Nobody wants to know that you spent more than $5. The risk to reward

00:01:55.960 of posting this, the reward was maybe a couple people think, oh man, Lawrence like lobster? I like

00:02:02.540 lobster too. Wow, that's cool. That's the best case scenario of posting this. Worst case scenario is

00:02:09.420 what is happening right now where even liberal journalists are saying, yeah, this guy's an 1.00

00:02:14.400 idiot and doesn't know how politics is done. Like, does he not think, does Lawrence, Lawrence, 1.00

00:02:19.720 baby, do you not think in your riding this is going to be the main advertisement run against you

00:02:26.420 that while Canadians are unable to pay for basic necessities or struggling to do so,

00:02:31.720 you're off in Malaysia, a country I think this had a crazy coup go down and I'm not sure why we're 0.67

00:02:36.220 even in Malaysia right now, but you were in another country billing taxpayers for your lobster lunch.

00:02:43.200 That is going to be a great ad run against you. And like, let me be very clear. Lawrence is not

00:02:48.740 exactly in like a safe seat and is just overconfident. He's probably going to lose. I guarantee this drops

00:02:54.500 him off another five or 6% in the projections. Just look at 338. 338 has the average for the next

00:03:01.840 election. 41% conservatives, 39% liberal and 12% NDP. There's not even that many NDP votes that could

00:03:09.780 consolidate behind Lawrence to keep him in. This guy's going down. If he was already down before

00:03:14.600 this, he's definitely going to be even further down after everyone sees that the guy is like literally

00:03:20.840 billing them like, you know, like, like at a hundred dollar lunch in Malaysia when he didn't have to

00:03:26.760 take. And again, most of these trips that we do to talk to business leaders and foreign officials,

00:03:32.700 it's a lot of nonsense. We're just talking to people to make it look like Canada is a very

00:03:37.240 international kind of a country in, in which we don't really pass any new deals. We don't really

00:03:42.380 do that much productive. We basically just show up there to show that Canada is a player on the world

00:03:47.420 stage. And then we come home. If we're going to do these stupid trips just to show that Canada has

00:03:52.820 presence, like, you know, have a glass of water and some grapes. That's your lunch. Just keep it 1.00

00:03:59.660 like, or if you're going to post the lobster, post it and then hold up the, your card that is paying

00:04:05.640 for it. Do not do this pretending like everyone's going to think that you're such a cool guy. Cause

00:04:10.480 you like lobster. The, the, the communications team inside the liberal party needs to be fired. 0.76

00:04:16.760 I'm a conservative and shameless plug. I'm a conservative. Wyatt Claypool. I'm running for the

00:04:21.320 Calgary signal Hill conservative party nomination. So if you live in that riding by membership and

00:04:25.060 vote for me. So I'm not even saying this from a liberal perspective that I'm frustrated. The

00:04:28.800 liberals aren't doing better. I'm just frustrated as someone who does a lot of communications work,

00:04:33.400 how terrible the liberals have been over the past five years. They previously used to be at least a

00:04:39.460 little bit good at sort of projecting charisma around their, their politicians. They used to be

00:04:44.480 decent at trying to counter conservative messaging. I could see right through usually the schemes

00:04:49.660 they were putting forward and the lies that they would kind of mold into narratives to try and

00:04:53.920 overcome the conservatives. But these days they're like, they're literally putting up posts saying

00:04:58.300 the economy is not just about numbers. It's about people, which is a tacit omission that, uh, that they

00:05:04.220 know that their economy sucks right now. And they're saying, well, who cares about the numbers? It's about

00:05:08.660 the people. Whoever approved him posting this lobster photo should be cut. Like this is, this is a 0.96

00:05:15.120 absolute travesty in terms of communications work. Whoever is writing the scripts for Justin Trudeau

00:05:21.380 whenever he goes up and speaks to the press needs to be fired. Whoever is putting out the social media

00:05:25.640 stuff for the official liberal account needs to be fired. These people don't know what they're doing. And

00:05:30.540 it's because they are so reliant on the mainstream media to prop them up that they have become very lazy

00:05:35.580 in terms of their own communication skills. Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. If you want to

00:05:41.640 donate to the legal fund, it's in the description below. It's give, send, go link. We're being sued

00:05:45.620 by a billionaire developer for defamation. He can't even prove what we said that's wrong. All of our

00:05:51.660 reporting was based off previous reports done that mentioned him. So literally we reported pretty much

00:05:57.520 nothing new about him, but he detected that unlike the Globe and Mail, we couldn't pay for a lawsuit

00:06:03.820 defense. We can, but it's still burdensome on us. It's cost us over $25,000. So if you want to

00:06:09.760 donate to that, it really helps us out. And that should be it for me. I'm trying to keep these

00:06:13.900 videos shorter. This video doesn't really deserve to be over eight minutes long. Just talking about

00:06:18.800 lobster, but I still enjoy just talking about just absolutely gutter trash communications skills from 0.97

00:06:25.180 the Liberals. 0.97

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 19, 2024

Liberal Minister bills lobster to taxpayers as Canadians struggle

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