The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberal MP's big mouth gets him sued (Russian agent lie)

00:00:00.000 Although Canada's political landscape is absolutely strewn with contemptible, low-grade politicians, 0.99

00:00:07.680 I would argue the most desperate and the most pathetic politician is Liberal MP for Kingston 0.97

00:00:14.760 and the Islands, Mark Gerritsen. He has a famously big mouth, and despite the fact that he is the 0.98

00:00:21.040 deputy house leader of the Liberal Party, so he's supposed to be good at answering questions and

00:00:26.760 engaging in political communications, his only tactic in any political debate is the cheap smear.

00:00:33.520 And now his famously big mouth has landed him in a lawsuit for accusing one of his political opponents

00:00:40.400 of being a Russian agent with effectively no evidence at all. I want to jump into that tweet

00:00:47.260 he put out, but first I just quickly want to plug, because we're talking about lawsuits, this ridiculous

00:00:52.960 one that was filed against us, which has no credibility to it like the one filed against

00:00:57.920 Mark Gerritsen. We have a Chinese billionaire suing us for defamation, and in more than two and a half

00:01:04.620 years, they still haven't filed any evidence against us to prove that we defamed them. So if you want to

00:01:09.400 go to the Give, Send, Go link below in this video, you can donate and help us fight through all these

00:01:15.140 legal costs. It's cost us more than $32,000 so far, and the guy suing us still literally has nothing.

00:01:22.100 He is just trying to drag out the process. But now let's get into what Mark Gerritsen said.

00:01:27.640 So this was the original instigating tweet. Mark Gerritsen, again, remember that this man is both an

00:01:33.960 MP as well as the deputy house leader. The man does not possess the poise or composure to take people's

00:01:40.180 order at McDonald's, but I guess for Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party, he's a great asset in the

00:01:45.260 House of Commons. Mark here says, I finally blocked someone on here. I draw the line at a foreign 1.00

00:01:51.240 government paying you to engage with me. Parliament needs to study this, and this person needs to be

00:01:56.440 brought before committee to answer questions. And you can see that he has blocked Canada. For one

00:02:02.520 thing, you're actually not allowed to block people as an MP in Canada unless it's like a bot account or

00:02:08.520 somebody spamming actual illegal content. But Mark Gerritsen, I guess, is proud to block Cat Canada,

00:02:16.360 who I follow her. She really doesn't spam messages at people or anything like that. Mark Gerritsen just

00:02:22.180 wants to grandstand on the idea that as the Liberals, we are against foreign dictatorships like

00:02:29.180 that in Russia, even though the Liberals have actually been very soft on dictatorships like Russia,

00:02:34.080 Iran, and other ones around the world, especially China. Justin Trudeau is very, very friendly to

00:02:40.600 China. But he just blatantly accuses Cat Canada here of being a Russian asset, saying that she's paid

00:02:47.020 by a foreign government to engage with him on social media, which is entirely false. This is all based on

00:02:55.000 this dumb story about tenant media in the US, which was being given money by a Russian media source 0.82

00:03:03.340 to basically amplify anti-Ukrainian voices. That's bad. This was all being done by Lauren Chen, 0.98

00:03:10.460 who her and her husband set up the production company or the media company, and she hired a

00:03:16.360 bunch of content creators to make a media for tenant media. The problem is she never told any of the

00:03:23.180 people where she was getting the money from. Most of them weren't even making videos on Ukraine for

00:03:28.220 tenant media because they were just basically being paid to make videos. They were famous people.

00:03:32.620 in order to drive a lot of new viewership and subscribers to tenant media to give it a base.

00:03:38.740 One of those people was Lauren Southern, who, yes, she's made videos about Russia that I find sketchy

00:03:44.400 six years ago. For the most part, she mostly just talks about cultural things these days.

00:03:49.340 But this is where Cat Canada comes in. Cat Canada, who used to live in the Soviet Union and is not super

00:03:55.840 pro-Russia. She went on Lauren Southern's show at one point on tenant media to talk about Canada and to

00:04:03.680 talk about authoritarianism in Canada. And oddly enough, as the Russian agent that Cat Canada is, 0.81

00:04:10.040 she compared the way that Justin Trudeau governs to the Soviet Union, to the Russian authoritarians who

00:04:18.340 were running the Soviet Union. Not a super pro-Russian lady, but Mark Gerritsen just needed this thin

00:04:24.280 connection to somebody who was working for Lauren Chen, who was being lied to. So the timeline here

00:04:30.940 makes no sense. So Cat Canada gets interviewed on a show, probably wasn't paid anything. Like the vast

00:04:37.720 majority of people who guest on a larger show, on a larger platform, you'd mostly just get paid in

00:04:43.800 exposure because it's a smart idea to go on the show that has a lot more eyes than other platforms

00:04:49.180 you're already on. And so because Cat Canada guested on Lauren Southern's show, and Lauren Southern was 0.97

00:04:54.440 unknowingly being paid by Russian sources through Lauren Chen, who knew where the money was coming

00:05:00.000 from, this makes Cat Canada a Russian agent. It makes no sense at all. And that led to the counter

00:05:06.340 signal, Kian Bexty and Cat Canada suing Mark Gerritsen. They started a fundraiser. I'll link their

00:05:12.560 tweets in the description of this video below. But Cat Canada ended up putting this video out saying

00:05:18.660 that I am taking legal action against Mark Gerritsen. And I'll just play a little bit of

00:05:24.300 this video just to get the flavor of what's going on here. Justin Trudeau's deputy government house

00:05:29.660 leader, Mark Gerritsen, has crossed the line. And now the counter signal is lawyering up to defend me,

00:05:36.220 a journalist, against his baseless, bigoted, and vindictive allegations that I'm a Russian agent.

00:05:42.560 Let me make one thing clear. I'm not. I'm a single mother working tirelessly to hold Justin

00:05:48.240 Trudeau accountable for his disastrous record. And because I'm effective at what I do, Gerritsen

00:05:53.640 made me a target. He lied about me and used his position to call for me to be subpoenaed by

00:05:59.000 parliament. But we're not backing down. We're not letting one of Canada's most notorious liberals

00:06:04.580 drag my name through the mud. So there we have that. You don't need to see the whole video,

00:06:10.140 but I will link the video in the description below. And you think that, well, you know,

00:06:15.200 a conservative, more right-wing type media company is threatening to sue a liberal. Who cares? Well,

00:06:21.960 Mark Gerritsen seems to care because Mark Gerritsen starts backpedaling hard. You can tell

00:06:27.920 that somebody from Trudeau's office, from the PMO, probably went down to Mark Gerritsen's office and

00:06:33.320 slapped him in the head and said, can you stop generating us bad press? Because what you did was

00:06:39.080 textbook defamation. And I want to jump into what Mark Gerritsen said to try and retract

00:06:44.220 his comments. What then what Kian Bexte said, and then going to move on to how Mark Gerritsen

00:06:50.660 obviously is not actually remorseful for what he said. And he still believes it. And I don't even

00:06:56.380 think to say he believes that I think is a little bit far. I think Mark Gerritsen said it and he stands

00:07:02.140 behind what he said, but I think he also knows it's a lie. But here is Mark Gerritsen now trying

00:07:07.820 to backpedal after they filed a lawsuit against him or it's pending to be filed. Mark Gerritsen says,

00:07:14.200 okay, my language may not have been that clear. That's putting it lightly. I find Cat Canada's

00:07:19.640 content to be divisive, alarmist, and deeply offensive. The Press Progress report of the video

00:07:25.220 of Katrina with Lauren Southern and Press Progress's report on the video's alleged connection to the Russian

00:07:30.560 influence campaign is deeply alarming. I'm not interested in interacting with or amplifying

00:07:36.980 that kind of division. So I'm going to be blocking Katrina because of her connection to that mess. 1.00

00:07:44.400 I am not alleging that Katrina herself was paid by the Russians. Correction, and then he just tags her in.

00:07:50.420 Well, that's quite literally what he did. He literally said that she was being paid by a foreign

00:07:57.980 government to engage with her. Does he mean that, oh, I'm not sure if it was the Russians I was

00:08:02.840 referring to. I just meant a foreign government. Yeah, you're saying she's a Russian shill. She's a 0.99

00:08:07.200 Russian agent. Everyone knew that that's what you meant. And that's why Kian Bexty responded in this

00:08:12.680 manner. Mark, your language was clear. You accused Cat Canada, my employee, of being a Russian agent.

00:08:18.720 You explicitly accused her of taking money from a foreign government. That was a lie. And it was seen by

00:08:23.800 nearly one percent of all Canadians before you deleted it. There will be consequences. And he is

00:08:28.260 right. A lot of these tweets end up getting a lot of impressions that maybe it wasn't one percent of

00:08:34.020 Canada's population, but at least an equivalent amount of people to one percent of Canada's

00:08:40.640 population, over 400,000 people, saw Mark Gerritsen's defamatory post. And the ridiculousness that he's 0.67

00:08:47.820 trying to not amplify her. I'm blocking her because I don't want to amplify her. Then why would you

00:08:52.620 post about the fact that you were blocking her and that you're blocking her because she's being

00:08:57.080 paid by a foreign government? Because she was interviewed on a show who was taking money from an

00:09:02.000 unknown source that the source who was giving her the money knew that it was Russian. And it was like

00:09:07.100 connected to Russia Today, the state owned media organization in Russia. Like it's a stupid 1.00

00:09:14.360 connection. Mark knows it's a stupid connection. He admits he read the Press Progress Report. The Press 1.00

00:09:20.320 Progress Report, they are smear artists, but even they couldn't have alleged, they didn't allege that

00:09:25.440 Canada was getting any money because she's not getting any money. Going on to other people's shows

00:09:30.700 very infrequently gets you any money. That's just not how it works. If I have somebody come on for an

00:09:37.200 interview onto my show, I'm definitely not going to pay them anything. It's good for people who are

00:09:43.100 involved in politics or the media to guest on shows. But anyways, now I just want to jump over to

00:09:49.160 something else that Mark has still not un-retweeted. He still has this retweeted. This

00:09:55.840 person, Doug, that Mark Gerritsen retweeted, Dr. Doug Aylson, I don't know how to pronounce that.

00:10:02.940 And he says, here is Pure Polyev who still refuses to apply for security clearance with a person who 0.98

00:10:08.600 has been found to be part of a Russian misinformation campaign. Mark, Mark, you don't, you weren't

00:10:14.380 accusing her of being paid by the Russians or a foreign government, yet you still have that

00:10:19.380 retweeted on your account. If he went back to delete his other post, he would have run into that post

00:10:26.000 that he retweeted. Mark is just saying the bare minimum to try and stave off the lawsuit, but he is

00:10:32.260 refusing because he is an ego the size of Texas to actually get rid of the defamatory claims. He just

00:10:39.520 pretends like, well, I was being more broad. No, you weren't. You were being actually very specific

00:10:44.940 and everyone knows exactly what you're trying to say. But, you know, this is just the way that the

00:10:50.540 liberals operate these days. They have nothing. Mark Gerritsen really has never had any point to

00:10:54.900 make. And all they have these days is smears that the conservatives are bad people because they're

00:11:00.220 working for the Russians or something like that. I see this all the time now. Tons of liberal left-wing

00:11:05.880 accounts saying, even to me, they're like, oh, so you're a Russian shill. Are you being paid? Where

00:11:10.580 is your money coming from? I donated to the Ukrainian military in February of 2022 when they

00:11:15.780 started being invaded. I used their Stripe account that they have posted on their government's website

00:11:21.140 to send them money. Now, I know there's some people going to be like, oh, you're funding money

00:11:24.760 laundering. Stop it. You have to know a thing or two about foreign policy. Russians are not good 1.00

00:11:29.420 people. Like the Russians in terms of the government are not good people. Putin's not a good person. 1.00

00:11:33.700 Doesn't matter how many posts people make about how Putin's super trad and trying to save the West.

00:11:39.020 He's not. He does not care. Why do you think he literally employs Islamists in his military? People 0.99

00:11:45.180 who ISIS rejected from Chechnya, who are being absolutely insane and hard to deal with, were 0.75

00:11:50.960 then employed by the Russian military to go into Ukraine and kill people. It's not a good place.

00:11:55.920 But the idea that the conservatives who have actually been very supportive of our allies around

00:12:02.200 the world are the ones who are pro-Russia, while Trudeau, the one who's cut funding out of all 1.00

00:12:08.220 foreign endeavors, is the one who's the anti-Russian guy, is stupid. I don't think that 1.00

00:12:13.660 he's on the Russian take, Justin Trudeau. But when he came into office, he literally gave over the

00:12:19.620 Middle East to the Russians. He pulled our jets out of fighting ISIS because he didn't care. He sent 0.96

00:12:25.120 winter coats to people who are getting beheaded. That's disgusting. And they have the audacity to claim 0.96

00:12:31.620 that the conservatives are on the sides of authoritarians around the world. Justin Trudeau

00:12:36.060 literally will lick the boots clean of the Chinese every day of the week. It's his supposed favorite 1.00

00:12:42.120 country in terms of who he looks up to for governance. But whatever, you've all heard those

00:12:47.060 points before. And I guess that's a good place to leave this off. I actually have to go to an event

00:12:51.460 now. But thanks for watching, guys. Donate to the legal fund in the description below,

00:12:58.320 the Give, Send, Go link. Donate to protect somebody from a defamation suit where it actually

00:13:05.780 matters. Mark Harrison should lose this case because what he said was egregious. But in our case,

00:13:11.920 we literally just repeated a bunch of reporting from the Globe and Mail. And a Chinese billionaire who

00:13:16.860 was too scared to sue the Globe and Mail sued us instead, even though we repeated factual information

00:13:22.160 the Globe and Mail reported on more than a year and a half before we hit publish. Anyways, that's it.

00:13:28.220 Have a good one, guys.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 10, 2024

Liberal MP's big mouth gets him sued (Russian agent lie)

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