The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberal MP is Resigning and Humiliates Mark Carney on the way out!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and yes, we are back in the normal Calgary studio for the week.

00:00:07.120 I thank you all for putting up with me making videos from the corner of a Victoria hotel room

00:00:13.200 over the last month. That's just what I have to do while I'm working at the BC legislature.

00:00:18.740 But we are back for an entire week in the normal studio, and the first story I'm going to cover

00:00:24.760 while I am back is the funniest thing currently going on in Canadian politics. There might be a

00:00:30.780 bit of a long explanation for what is going on here, but it's worth it because it is absolutely

00:00:36.840 hilarious. So there's this circular firing squad going on right now between Prime Minister Mark

00:00:44.440 Carney, Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, former Liberal MP Navdeep Bains, and the Ontario Liberal

00:00:52.320 Party. Now, if you don't already know, Nate Erskine-Smith has been trying to leave federal

00:00:58.460 politics basically since the last federal election happened. He only ran for re-election in 2025

00:01:05.760 because when Mark Carney was running to replace Justin Trudeau as the Liberal Party leader,

00:01:11.540 he promised Nate that you're going to be the housing minister if I win. Now, Mark Carney

00:01:18.480 was actually technically good on his promise there, he did make Nate Erskine Smith the housing

00:01:25.740 minister for approximately a month and a half. Remember that after Mark Carney became the

00:01:32.980 liberal leader, as well as the prime minister without a seat, he basically acted in that

00:01:38.840 capacity for maybe two and a half weeks before calling the election. And that election then

00:01:43.800 went on for about 50 days or so. I guess Erskine Smith was housing minister for two months. But

00:01:49.640 shortly after the federal election, when Mark Carney won his initial minority government that

00:01:54.820 turned into the monstrosity that is the current majority government, he then replaced Nate Erskine

00:02:00.800 Smith as housing minister with Gregor Robertson, the former awful mayor of Vancouver, who is like

00:02:07.980 a parody level bad choice for housing minister considering how much housing prices spiked while

00:02:13.580 that guy was the Vancouver mayor. But never you mind that fact. We want to focus on Nate.

00:02:19.540 Ever since then, Nate has been sniping at Mark Carney for, you know, frankly, good reason.

00:02:24.900 He screwed him over and he started doing a lot of things that Nate did not like. He started

00:02:29.040 criticizing him during the Air Canada flight attendants strike and many other issues where

00:02:34.620 he thought that Mark Carney was not being left wing and progressive enough. Nate is what I would

00:02:39.580 call like an orange liberal. He is very much a progressive, progressive liberal. He's like if

00:02:45.980 Mayor Pete Buttigieg was straight. That is who Nate Erskine-Smith is. Although if Pete Buttigieg

00:02:51.840 was straight, but also a vegan. Whatever. So Nate got the opportunity to jump into Ontario liberal

00:02:59.700 politics, which he had actually previously dabbled in before. When Bonnie Crombie became the Ontario

00:03:06.080 liberal leader. Nate Erskine Smith came a very close second place to her in that leadership

00:03:11.700 race, but because he didn't win, he obviously stuck to federal liberal politics. But since

00:03:19.360 Mark Carney has lost a bunch of liberal MPs who were retiring or taking other roles like Bill

00:03:25.880 Blair in Scarborough Southwest, it's kind of created this domino effect that has benefited

00:03:31.300 Nate Erskine-Smith's dream to go back into Ontario liberal politics and completely wash his hands

00:03:37.360 of Mark Carney. He hates Mark Carney, Mark Carney hates him, but because Bill Blair ended up leaving,

00:03:44.140 that opened up a federal Scarborough Southwest by-election seat. And then Dolly Begum, who was

00:03:52.720 oddly enough an NDP MPP in provincial politics in Ontario, she ran for the Ontario liberal

00:04:00.320 nomination or the federal liberal nomination for Scarborough Southwest. She easily won because it's

00:04:05.520 a super liberal riding, but that opened up a provincial riding. And Nate Erskine-Smith has

00:04:10.320 been running for that provincial riding. And because the Ontario Liberal Party, I'm not sure

00:04:15.520 if they like him or don't like him, but his main rival for becoming the new Ontario Liberal Party

00:04:22.500 leader, Navdeep Baines, doesn't like him. He has been basically mobilizing candidates to try and

00:04:28.260 shut down Nate's jump from federal to provincial. Now, Mark Carney also doesn't really want Nate to

00:04:35.100 leave because he has an extremely thin majority. It's currently only a two-seat majority, but

00:04:42.120 Jonathan Wilkinson on the other side of the country in North Vancouver, Capilano, is also

00:04:47.400 going to be stepping down. So Mark Carney doesn't really want things to be constantly popping loose

00:04:53.260 every other month, where he loses, you know, Freeland and Bill Blair and somebody else,

00:04:59.080 and then he has to replace all of them in a by-election, and he gets the majority because

00:05:02.780 of the conservative and NDP floor-crossers, but then a bunch of his own liberal MPs then suddenly

00:05:07.800 leave again, so he's falling constantly in and out of majority. But obviously, Nate does have

00:05:14.300 leverage on Carney, because if Carney doesn't give him his blessing to leave, Nate, being a more

00:05:19.320 orange liberal could always go and join the federal NDP and screw over Mark Carney and

00:05:24.720 deny him that seat, or he could do basically anything else to damage Mark Carney's current

00:05:30.080 government. And it has resulted in this absolutely wild video of Nate basically having this weird

00:05:38.780 shotgun wedding style endorsement video from Mark Carney. It is already five minutes into this video,

00:05:46.660 six minutes in, because that's just how much background is needed to understand

00:05:51.460 how funny the video I'm about to show you is. So, here is the video. This is just moment one.

00:05:58.900 Nate Erskine-Smith's post from 20 hours ago. Now, the voting, I believe, just got cut off or is

00:06:03.740 being cut off this second right now in the nomination for Scarborough Southwest. It was

00:06:09.180 this Saturday. Nate Erskine-Smith in this post yesterday says, leaving federal politics to make

00:06:14.280 a bigger difference, and it was good to catch up with the Prime Minister as we head into an

00:06:19.660 important weekend. Look at this body language right here. Nader Skynesmith is getting, the guy

00:06:27.380 on the right, is getting the endorsement of, at least the partial endorsement, of Prime Minister 0.86

00:06:33.300 Mark Carty, hands in his pockets, staring daggers at him like he just wishes the old man would die.

00:06:40.180 like these two visually hate each other even when it benefits nate to get this endorsement because

00:06:48.020 kind of mark carney had been withholding but nate probably has leverage on him and has threatened

00:06:52.780 that you better endorse me and make sure the ontario liberals let me run in scarborough

00:06:57.100 southwest or i'm going to like destroy you now we have this very awkward endorsement video where

00:07:04.200 carney doesn't want to be there nate doesn't want to be there but he needs carney and so

00:07:08.740 Carney is there so let's watch this thing you can have the ideas you can have the hard work but also

00:07:14.640 to be really on the ground uh really on the ground with your constituents uh knowing what's going on

00:07:20.040 what their needs are working together and you know it it hurts uh uh in in some respects you're going

00:07:26.620 but i understand it in some respects because he wants him to go and there's a part of Carney that

00:07:31.920 wants Nate to go and there's a part of him that needs him to stay because you're going to be more

00:07:37.240 the ground uh you know working at the provincial level uh working for the folks uh i hope uh in

00:07:42.920 scarborough uh you know in health care and education uh making lives better uh helping

00:07:47.640 to grow that economy and uh we'll be right right there alongside you can have did you guys see this

00:07:54.520 video did you just see what the heck just happened in this video so we have this very awkward

00:08:02.360 endorsement from mark carney where i does he even say nate's name we have to watch this again i am

00:08:07.740 going into body language expert mode even though i'm not a body language expert just watch this

00:08:12.880 thing have the ideas you can have the hard work but also to be really on the ground uh really on

00:08:17.500 the ground with your constituents uh knowing what's going on what their needs are and working

00:08:21.420 together and you know it it hurts uh uh in in some respects you're going but i understand it

00:08:27.840 because you're going to be more on the ground uh you know working at

00:08:30.960 has he even said nate erskine smith's name in this entire video

00:08:35.280 uh the provincial level uh working for the folks uh i hope uh in scarborough

00:08:39.760 uh you know in healthcare and education uh making lives better

00:08:43.200 uh helping to grow that economy and uh we'll be right right there alongside

00:08:47.680 no guys you don't you do not yet understand how funny this video is

00:08:54.160 so we have there's no opening saying hey nate i i hate to see you go but i know you got great

00:09:00.080 things you're going to do in ontario i could do on the spot here a better endorsement video

00:09:06.800 nate we worked each with each other for the past year you've been a fantastic team player

00:09:11.520 a real grassroots liberal uh you are doing a great job representing the constituents your

00:09:16.880 constituents of beaches east york i always love your input and but i understand that you have a

00:09:21.760 bigger mission uh in ontario provincial politics uh that's where you're drawn and i absolutely

00:09:27.280 commend you for wanting to work for the people of ontario on the provincial level where you feel

00:09:32.640 you're needed that would have been better but he's not saying a word and nate nate my boy here can't

00:09:39.760 even take his hands out of his pockets for this thing what you just sounded standing there i'm

00:09:45.840 wearing sweatpants by the way just you know to ruin the secret of of what i look like when i'm 1.00

00:09:49.840 Just standing here like that, just like that, just sitting there with the face of, yeah, you give me that endorsement, you stupid old man. 1.00

00:10:01.060 Yeah, you better say all the words I told you to say. 1.00

00:10:03.500 And like Carney is umming and ahhing his way through the entire thing.

00:10:08.580 He sounds like a broken record player that keeps skipping constantly.

00:10:13.180 Well, Nate, you, or no, never mind.

00:10:16.540 Never even said, Nate, you're leaving.

00:10:18.680 And, you know, you can have all the ideas and all the know-how, but being on the ground is, yeah, that's great.

00:10:26.980 What is this? It's so weird.

00:10:30.440 And again, Nate never takes his hands out of his pockets.

00:10:33.760 They don't shake hands on camera.

00:10:36.020 What is happening here?

00:10:37.760 This is, what, who designed this?

00:10:40.480 It's a shotgun wedding endorsement where, like, right off, maybe they just had AI edit out the red dot on Mark Carney's head, and if he didn't get through the video, they're like, you know, people are going to take the shot on him or something like that.

00:10:54.580 Neither one of those men want to be in that room at all.

00:10:59.960 But now we need to go into some stuff about the nomination today.

00:11:05.060 This, it's been, I like this.

00:11:08.240 I like covering this because it kind of exposes a lot about like what politics are really like

00:11:13.940 in this country so this is Nate just his advertisement to go vote today for him in

00:11:19.540 the Liberal Party nomination says it is past time for a change in Ontario that change starts today

00:11:25.380 in Scarborough Southwest and he's telling people you know voting 11 30 to 4 p.m. now if you don't

00:11:32.320 No. Either it's the Ontario Liberal Party trying to help him or trying to hurt him.

00:11:38.140 But in the Scarborough Southwest nomination for the Ontario Liberal Party nomination,

00:11:44.760 1,800 memberships were eliminated during the running of it.

00:11:49.500 Now, Erskine Smith came out and said, oh, I worry that this could be disenfranchising people.

00:11:54.600 But my suspicion is that although the Ontario Liberal Party doesn't seem to really like Nate,

00:12:00.060 I think this is going to be weird for me to say.

00:12:04.340 Erskine Smith, I don't agree with his policies.

00:12:06.660 I think he would be bad no matter where he's at in politics.

00:12:10.300 Like local, provincial, federal, he's bad. 1.00

00:12:13.340 Now, him and Doug Ford would be in a running gun battle to determine who's worse because both of them suck. 0.98

00:12:19.080 But anyways, he would be what I would at least call a grassroots liberal. 0.97

00:12:23.540 Very few of them exist.

00:12:24.940 They're an endangered species.

00:12:26.360 But Nate is one of those people.

00:12:27.780 But when he made that statement about, oh, people could be getting disenfranchised by the Liberal Party eliminating the Ontario Liberals, eliminating 1,800 memberships, I actually think there might have been, that actually might have benefited him, but he just knew he should say that anyways.

00:12:42.740 because this nomination race has obviously been, like, there's been a setup by Navdeep Baines,

00:12:50.220 the former extremely corrupt Liberal MP, to try and make sure that Nate doesn't gain traction for

00:12:56.820 the Ontario Liberal leadership race by winning this Scarborough Southwest seat. Here's Nate

00:13:02.120 talking, just to give you a little bit of background on what his campaign sounds like. 0.56

00:13:05.420 this nomination has been just absolutely awash with corrupt ethnic politics. People showing up 0.91

00:13:12.960 who clearly don't know who they're voting for. They are told who to vote for. They are handed

00:13:17.060 a sample ballot that is all written in Bengali, telling them to vote for this person, that person,

00:13:22.180 and leave Nate off your ballot. And I think the Ontario Liberals realize, although there's many

00:13:28.400 people who like Navdeep Bains, corrupt people, I think the Ontario Liberal Party doesn't exactly

00:13:34.420 want to be taken over by Navdeep Bains either. And so I think they've been having to just

00:13:39.880 wipe out a bunch of these obviously fraudulent Bengali signups in the area. But here is Nate 0.83

00:13:46.660 Erskine-Smith in the day before the vote trying to rally people to come out for him. Again, this

00:13:53.040 is the kind of political drama that I live for. By the way, this is the type of stuff that happens

00:14:00.520 in all nomination races, it's disgusting and parties need to clean it up. Just the vote buying

00:14:06.680 that goes on, the elimination of random memberships, the provincial party or the

00:14:13.580 federal parties trying to choose who they like better. But check this out. We have won four

00:14:18.300 federal elections. No one else in this race has the track record of delivering as an elected

00:14:23.680 official or winning elections. And let me just make this very clear about the team. No one else

00:14:29.120 has the strength of team that we have to win in Scarborough Southwest in a biolish. 1.00

00:14:34.220 I've taken leadership roles, not only chair of the Canada Bangladesh Friendship Group,

00:14:37.840 I was co-chair of the all-party anti-poverty.

00:14:39.780 He's literally wearing a Bangladeshi flag pin right now, a Canadian Bangladeshi flag pin,

00:14:46.860 because that is how you have to win a nomination in Scarborough Southwest. Now, that doesn't even

00:14:53.200 mean that it's a majority like bangladeshi or bengali or whatever i think bangladeshi it's not

00:14:59.280 even that it's a majority riding in terms of they're not the majority of the population

00:15:03.280 but the problem is what i would call like a ward healer can go around just sticking ballots in

00:15:07.840 people's hands to go vote for their guy they can be a minority but they end up being a large

00:15:12.400 portion of the people who vote because community organizers know how to basically incentivize

00:15:17.600 people to buy a membership and show up and vote many people who cannot speak english many people

00:15:23.120 who have no clue what the major parties in Ontario politics are.

00:15:26.680 I was a minister of housing and infrastructure and delivered billions of dollars in affordable housing and transit for the city of Toronto.

00:15:34.400 So there's a track record of getting things done. And there's also a track record of winning elections.

00:15:40.540 Now, what I would call Scarborough Southwest a white progressive riding.

00:15:46.300 Now, that doesn't mean that there isn't non-white people in the riding. 0.51

00:15:48.920 But I mean, the politics that dominate the area in a general election are progressive, progressive, orange politics. That's why it was previously represented by Dolly Begum as an NDP MPP, because although that she probably got the nomination from basically the ethnic political machine, at the same time, it's very much that like left wing NDP kind of default voting riding.

00:16:13.400 And Nate is going to be the guy who's going to try and win it back for the Liberals, who actually came third place in the last Ontario provincial election.

00:16:21.400 But we have Laura Stone here from The Globe and Mail, I believe, reporting on just how crazy this nomination race has been.

00:16:29.480 She says here, at the Liberal nomination meeting in Scarborough Southwest, candidates are giving speeches to a near empty room while supporters line up waiting to vote.

00:16:38.620 Candidates are handing out sample ballots, suggesting a top two choices.

00:16:42.980 Now, the thing is, what's so significant about nobody listening to the speeches is because the voters don't know what's going on.

00:16:50.080 They don't know about the campaign issues.

00:16:52.140 They don't know who any of these people are.

00:16:53.520 They've just been told to vote number one and number two because it's a ranked ballot next to people that somebody from their community told them to vote for.

00:17:02.580 This is a prime example of, like, the type of political corruption that you get in Canadian politics.

00:17:07.500 Nate Erskine-Smith is telling people to rank people as well. This Muhammad Nasrin person as number two. Now, it's probably because he knows he can beat that candidate on first ballot anyways, and he has a sort of alliance with them. 0.88

00:17:24.680 But you'll notice that all of his stuff, at least here, is English.

00:17:30.960 But now let's look at the literature that they're handing out from the other side.

00:17:35.680 This is who his opponents, Hassan al-Hafz and Kandira Jackson, are handing out.

00:17:47.720 Other than the names, everything is in Bangladeshi.

00:17:52.540 yeah that's not concerning about our politics that the language bangladeshi might be technically

00:17:58.140 more useful for winning an ontario liberal nomination than english is and what you'll

00:18:04.860 notice if i get to this video of erskine smith in line with voters is that yeah there are a lot

00:18:11.740 he's talking to everybody but if there's ever a white voter that person that you

00:18:15.740 can tell is probably voting for him based on how they interact

00:18:21.660 now definitely nate erskine smith also has his own uh bangladeshi organizers in the riding as well

00:18:42.540 but that's kind of telling when it seems like there are bangladeshi only candidates and then

00:18:49.120 there's smith who again i don't like his politics but at least he's somebody who like the general

00:18:54.900 public would maybe like you know they understand him he has a platform past vote for me because

00:19:00.800 you're you know because your mosque leader told you to like it's wild what's going on but this

00:19:07.120 is all probably a front for nav deep baines trying to make sure that nate erskine smith doesn't run

00:19:14.120 for the Ontario Liberal leadership with any credibility, because when, because if he loses 0.72

00:19:19.100 the nomination for a singular writing, it's going to look really stupid if he then tries to run for 0.98

00:19:24.780 the Ontario Liberal leadership. And Navdeep Bains is, again, famously corrupt. Navdeep would steal 1.00

00:19:32.260 anything but a red hot stove, allegedly. And he left politics after at one point having a massive

00:19:39.040 gambling debt that somehow overnight got wiped out. That guy is going to be potentially running

00:19:44.360 to be the next premier of Ontario. And this is where I would have to say the lesser of two evils

00:19:49.460 here is clearly Erskine Smith. The straight vegan Pete Buttigieg is better than the corrupt

00:19:57.960 Calistani idiot. But yeah, so Steve Pakin here says, former Toronto mayor Art Eggleton has come 1.00

00:20:05.560 out to the Ontario Liberal Scarborough Southwest nomination, meeting to show support for Nate

00:20:10.900 Erskine-Smith. Now, this is, again, just all funny, because clearly Mark Carney didn't want

00:20:18.340 to endorse Nate. In fact, it kind of benefits him if Navdeep Bains ends up becoming the Ontario

00:20:25.160 Liberal Party leader, because Mark Carney is already kind of an ally of Doug Ford. He doesn't

00:20:31.760 really care who's the premier of Ontario, but he does care about keeping his majority intact.

00:20:39.260 And so that endorsement video, if we can go back to it, was very deliberately awkward because

00:20:45.740 neither of those two men like each other, but Nate obviously is trying to leave and does not

00:20:51.800 actually respect Carney at all. Again, the image here is amazing. Carney never naming him,

00:20:57.660 not really looking at him, Nate just staring daggers at the Prime Minister the entire time

00:21:03.340 with his hands in his pockets. This is art. This is the closest thing that we can get to the

00:21:11.160 greatest art that's ever been made. Nate sitting there, hands in his pockets, Mark Carney acting

00:21:16.520 like he's being held hostage to give this non-endorsement to Nate because Nate really

00:21:22.080 needs it because Navdeep Bains

00:21:24.120 is like trying to swing

00:21:26.080 a local nomination against

00:21:28.080 him so that he has an easier time

00:21:30.220 winning the Ontario Liberal leadership

00:21:31.960 because Navdeep Bains

00:21:33.900 even though he is a savvy

00:21:35.580 slick political actor

00:21:37.240 is clearly not going to win

00:21:39.940 because again even though it's the Ontario

00:21:42.000 Liberal Party and they're mostly a GTA

00:21:43.920 party they still have to win

00:21:46.080 in a leadership race the rural ridings

00:21:48.220 the suburban ridings the white areas

00:21:50.440 the Jewish areas

00:21:52.080 And Nate probably has a much easier time doing that than the dude who surrounds himself with people who think that maybe the Air India bombing was an inside job or something like that.

00:22:03.780 But what do I know here, guys?

00:22:05.740 I'm just some random person who has a podcast. 1.00

00:22:09.280 Anyways, but yeah, nomination stuff is so stupid. 0.98

00:22:12.660 As you'll know, I actually ran for a nomination back in the day. 0.99

00:22:15.680 Do I have my literature up here?

00:22:17.760 I don't think I do.

00:22:18.740 Oh, I do.

00:22:19.200 I ran for the Calgary Signal Hill federal conservative nomination back in 2024. And I got kicked out because they just didn't want me to win. I'm not even kidding. Just people inside the party didn't want me to become the member of parliament. And so even though I had like 1000 supporters, they just kicked me to the curb. And then they actually kicked somebody else out. I don't even agree with the person who was Lila here. She used to be the deputy premier to Jason Kenney. You know, me and Lila are like, we're like the furthest apart people in that

00:22:49.180 race but we're like friendly now from sharing the experience of being kicked in the face randomly 0.97

00:22:53.260 but nominations are just such a crap show in canada we need to go to the united states system

00:23:01.320 of having open primaries yes you can maybe have some signature requirements to get into the race 0.97

00:23:06.160 maybe you can have some other buy-in you have to be able to pay a certain amount of money to show

00:23:10.200 that you're serious or whatever you have to maybe max out a donation to get into the race fair

00:23:15.320 enough but the problem with that we have in nomination races is that it's so artificial

00:23:21.420 you enter a riding where it's maybe let's say 10 bengali or bangladeshi sorry but they end up being

00:23:28.420 like all of the of the people like um they become ever all the people voting in the nomination

00:23:35.440 because their people can they can be easily told what to do by community leaders where you know

00:23:40.800 your average kind of white middle class person is saying if someone came to the door and you say

00:23:44.980 you're going to vote for this person. They'd say, screw you, get off my property. 0.99

00:23:49.160 Open primaries would be great, where all you need is where it's not even party membership based. 0.97

00:23:55.020 It's just whoever wants to vote can vote or something like that. We just need a better

00:23:59.180 system in this country. Because right now, too many people are chosen with these extremely

00:24:05.420 flawed nominations that don't really represent not only what the general public wants, but not

00:24:11.180 even really what party members want because you have so many people who couldn't care less about

00:24:15.080 the party signing up and buying memberships probably because the money was given to them

00:24:18.900 to do it or they've been incentivized with some benefit to do so. And those are the people choosing

00:24:23.820 who's actually going to become the new like representatives of a party locally. Anyways, so

00:24:30.820 with all that being said, thank you guys for watching this video. I will be probably covering

00:24:36.320 the outcome of this race because they're going to be counting votes this weekend. And I do not

00:24:41.340 doubt that there's probably going to be legal challenges to who actually became the Ontario

00:24:45.840 Liberal Scarborough Southwest leadership or nominee. And if Nate leaves, guess what's going

00:24:52.180 to happen? We're going to have a Beaches East York federal by-election. And that is actually

00:24:57.320 riding that the current NDP leader, Avi Lewis, actually has a chance to win. It is a very,

00:25:03.960 again, progressive, progressive riding. You lose your life. They must put you in prison if you

00:25:09.860 don't go to at least two pride events a year in that riding. It's just the culture around there. 0.89

00:25:15.060 But anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys for watching. Like, share, subscribe. And if

00:25:20.140 you want to become a channel member to help make the channel more sustainable for me, consider

00:25:25.000 hitting the join button below the video and making a small contribution to allow me to be less

00:25:30.320 reliant on the YouTube algorithm. With all that being said, it's great to be back in the Calgary

00:25:35.200 studio, and I'll see you guys all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 09, 2026

Liberal MP is Resigning and Humiliates Mark Carney on the way out!

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript