The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 22, 2025


Liberal RIGGING leadership race for Mark Carney - Ruby Dhalla disqualified!


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Wyatt Claypool talks about Mark Carney being kicked out of the leadership race, and Ruby Dalla being removed from the race to become the next Liberal candidate. He also talks about why the party is trying to turn the leadership vote into a coronation of Mark Carney.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I'm still out in Cambridge campaigning for the New Blue Party of Ontario, so if you live in Ontario, please vote New Blue in the provincial election.
00:00:10.160 But let's get into the news of the day, which is Mark Carney being propped up in the leadership again.
00:00:18.060 They already kicked out Chandra Aria from the Liberal Party leadership race, and now they've kicked out Ruby Dalla.
00:00:23.700 And yeah, people can argue, well, they were never going to win, but in leadership races, when it's a ranked ballot, they were going to affect the outcome of the race.
00:00:33.200 And the people that were supporting them still can affect the outcome of the race if they then shift their support to other candidates than Mark Carney.
00:00:40.360 But what the Liberal Party is obviously trying to do here is turn this into a Mark Carney coronation.
00:00:47.140 I've said in the past it might not be a coronation, and that just speaks to the weakness of Mark Carney as a candidate.
00:00:52.700 If Mark Carney was a true force in politics, like people listen to him once or twice, and they're like, you know what, I want that guy to be prime minister, he wouldn't be having a problem.
00:01:02.460 The problem for the Liberals is that while they want him to be a star candidate, they also want him to serve all of the insider interests of the party.
00:01:10.280 And that's the thing that Mark Carney is good at. He's bad at being charismatic.
00:01:14.120 So they really want him, but he also is extremely difficult to get to win, and even with a field as boring as he's currently running in, he still is having a hard time winning.
00:01:27.440 Even at this point, there is a chance he does not win.
00:01:30.720 I'm going to remind people quickly before I jump into the Ruby Dalla situation more, what his polling numbers look like inside the party.
00:01:37.740 This was a poll done about a week ago or so, a week and a half ago, by Main Street research only of Liberal Party members, not supporters, not people saying they're vaguely interested in the leadership race, people who can vote in it.
00:01:50.680 It was at 38%, Freeland was at 29%, we have Karina Gould at 18%, and we had Ruby Dalla at 5%, and Frank Bayless at 2%.
00:01:59.740 Now, I'm wondering if Frank Bayless is now going to absorb a lot of Ruby Dalla support, because there is a kind of ironic vote going on inside the Liberal Party, and it's the Liberals' fault.
00:02:10.800 They made memberships free, so why not take one out?
00:02:14.200 Like, I didn't do it, but I know a lot of people who did, in order to basically just vote against Mark Carney.
00:02:19.100 And so now, with him, he's going to maybe increase a little bit, maybe people are going to, you know, say, well, no point in voting anymore, and it's going to turn into a Mark Carney coronation.
00:02:30.600 At the same time, this looks really bad.
00:02:33.620 In 2022, Polyev had real muscle in his campaign.
00:02:37.540 He was beating people, you could say, if Polyev wasn't in the race, would have been really tough people to beat. 0.68
00:02:43.740 Jean Charest is a good politician.
00:02:46.400 Leslie Lewis, a pretty good politician.
00:02:48.380 There was Patrick Brown in the race, but that guy's a fraudster, and he's actually going to be involved in the story.
00:02:53.560 We're going to talk about Ruby Dalla.
00:02:54.820 But there are people who are quite good at election campaigns or very charismatic that he was up against that he ended up beating.
00:03:02.420 But now let's get to the readout of what went on here.
00:03:06.000 So Mackenzie Gray at, I believe, CTV, CBC, National Reporter for Global News.
00:03:11.080 Okay, I didn't get that.
00:03:12.240 Right.
00:03:12.400 Ruby Dalla is officially out of the liberal leadership race, according to a statement from the party, which says that they had concerns about Dalla allegedly violating the Canada Elections Act, other election finance patterns, and inaccurate financial reporting.
00:03:26.960 I will read a little bit of the statement to you, but rest assured, it doesn't really matter that much.
00:03:33.460 They are throwing spaghetti at the wall trying to figure out some sort of a reason to get rid of her.
00:03:38.480 And so their reason that they have settled on is all of the reasons.
00:03:43.040 They are getting rid of her because everything.
00:03:45.500 Anyways, before I read this, guys, just do remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel if you haven't.
00:03:51.440 But let's jump right into this.
00:03:54.260 Today, the Liberal Leadership Vote Committee unanimously made the decision to disqualify Ruby Dalla from the 2025 Liberal Leadership Race.
00:04:03.440 The decision followed an extensive process and review, including interviews, questionnaires, and an opportunity for Dr. Dalla to directly address the committees.
00:04:11.560 After a thorough investigation, the Leadership Vote Committee and the Leadership Expense Committee sitting jointly unanimously determined that Dr. Dalla was in breach of 10 violations of the national leadership rules, leadership vote rules, and the leadership expense rules.
00:04:26.720 The violations include concerns about alleged violations of the Canada Elections Act, certain other election finance matters, nondisclosures of material facts, and inaccurate financial reporting.
00:04:37.580 The Leadership Vote Committee determined that the violations were extremely serious, accepted the recommendations of the chief electoral officer, and disqualified Dr. Dalla under section H.I. of the national leadership rules.
00:04:50.860 No.
00:04:51.780 Do you know what happened?
00:04:52.640 Because Ruby's actually already discussed what's happened.
00:04:55.360 I don't need to read all of her statements on this.
00:04:57.920 We will be cutting a little bit to what she said in the aftermath of this in a second.
00:05:01.860 But what they did was they just found that, for example, a husband and wife both donated to her campaign using the same credit card, which is allowed by any election rules in Canada, that obviously if you live together, you're going to sometimes use a joint credit card in order to make donations.
00:05:19.380 They're not violating elections rules by having multiple – this isn't walking into some sort of community center and then writing down people's names and phone numbers and emails, but then running all of the donations through some rich guy's credit card.
00:05:33.100 No, no.
00:05:33.380 These are a couple who are donating to Ruby Dalla voluntarily, and that's what they hit her on.
00:05:40.300 Another thing they hit her on was that she's involved in foreign interference. 1.00
00:05:43.740 They kind of pulled back on this because it's an awkward thing for the Liberal Party to accuse anyone of, especially falsely, since they've not only been involved in foreign interference, they've been obviously involved in the covering up of foreign interference.
00:05:58.360 If you read the Hogue report, it was an entire report trying to hand-wave away the fact that the Liberal Party and a lot of its MPs directly associate themselves with CCP front groups and other extremist organizations.
00:06:10.220 And they're going to say that Ruby Dalla is working with the Indian government.
00:06:14.360 My friend and other sometime co-host of the National Telegraph, Daniel Boardman, pointed out that they actually accuse her of being in league with the Indian government.
00:06:23.880 At the same time, they also leaked out the idea that she might have been working with Patrick Brown to sell memberships or, I guess, register people as members.
00:06:33.840 That doesn't make sense.
00:06:35.280 If you know anything about Patrick Brown, he is Mr. Muslim Brotherhood and Mr. Calistani. 1.00
00:06:41.360 He is very friendly to Calistani and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations.
00:06:47.340 Very much the type of guy who would hang out with the Tamil Tigers and literally promise to take them off the terror registry if he won the 2022 federal leadership race. 0.88
00:06:57.400 That's why that guy was a psycho.
00:06:59.100 But you can't say that you're working with that guy and working with the Indian government.
00:07:02.940 Like Boardman said, that's like saying that you're a Mossad agent who works for Hamas.
00:07:07.640 That's not how that works.
00:07:09.460 Anyways, let's move over into what Dalia has said in the aftermath of this stuff.
00:07:14.940 The good thing for Canadian freedom is that Ruby doesn't look like she's going to be silent about this.
00:07:21.360 And I think that's exactly what Canada needs right now.
00:07:23.960 Somebody to actually stand up to the corrupt establishment of a party in order to get things changed.
00:07:30.140 Because Chandra Aria, because he's a sitting MP, sort of didn't want to get kicked out of the party.
00:07:35.300 So he was mostly silent about being disqualified.
00:07:37.860 Ruby's not a sitting MP.
00:07:39.200 She can do whatever the heck she wants. 0.69
00:07:40.780 Well, I think it speaks to the state of the Liberal Party of Canada that a candidate who is running to become leader of the party, who is running to become prime minister in our country, is finding out that she has been disqualified on air from an email that the media outlet that she is interviewing with has received.
00:08:00.600 So it is very alarming and very shocking.
00:08:03.520 It is certainly not surprising because I think the Liberal Party of Canada was seeing exactly what our internal polls are telling us.
00:08:11.480 That my campaign and my team, we were neck to neck with a front runner in the race.
00:08:16.620 They did not want me to go on to that debate stage in Montreal.
00:08:20.300 They certainly did not want me on that ballot.
00:08:22.900 And the Liberal Party of Canada wanted to complete the coronation of Mark Carney.
00:08:27.260 All of the allegations that you have mentioned have been or have been, you know, that you have spoken about, they are completely false.
00:08:34.420 They are facts.
00:08:35.680 And that's the funny thing about it.
00:08:36.880 As she was indicating there, she didn't know she was disqualified until that interview. 0.97
00:08:41.520 But the CBC knew she was disqualified before she did.
00:08:44.860 And that is an old sort of Katie Telford political operator trick.
00:08:49.700 You want to just jam out all this bad information about someone to the media before even informing them so they don't have the ability to react and prepare for the news cycle.
00:09:00.540 I don't think that she was probably neck and neck with Mark Carney.
00:09:03.520 But I do think that maybe she had more than 5%, more like 7, 8, 9, maybe 10%.
00:09:08.800 And she would have been very dangerous to Mark Carney.
00:09:11.580 I already know there's a lot of people who bought Liberal memberships or I guess, again, registered for them.
00:09:16.520 We're actually going to be voting for Chrystia Freeland.
00:09:18.420 And I understand their entire logic about it.
00:09:22.600 Chrystia Freeland is terrible. 0.78
00:09:25.000 She froze people's bank accounts. 0.55
00:09:26.820 She's the awful finance minister, although in a certain sense you could argue she's not that bad of a finance minister. 0.99
00:09:31.980 Mark Carney forced her to do a lot of the dumbest things that she did as finance minister.
00:09:35.980 So, you know, fair ball, I guess, although she should probably just quit her job if you're not really in control as finance minister and you're being told to do stupid things, which she technically did at the end. 0.93
00:09:45.800 But people want her to be the prime minister because at least Chrystia Freeland's like an honest sort of bad candidate. 1.00
00:09:53.820 She's an honest bad prime minister. 1.00
00:09:56.360 Mark Carney is the Liberals trying to wash themselves of their record by bringing in the guy who can pretend he's an outsider.
00:10:02.680 And so I think that Chrystia Freeland is the more honest take, that it's the deputy prime minister becoming prime minister, somebody everyone knows, everyone that most people understand is associated with the failures and is not just going to forgive easily.
00:10:17.140 Mark Carney is trying to play a trick on Canadians who don't remember who he is and assumes, oh, he's the old Bank of Canada governor.
00:10:24.360 Like, no, no, no.
00:10:25.780 The man was the guy advising the Liberal government on financial policy at least for the last four years.
00:10:34.120 Everything that went wrong in the last four years, that's a lot to do with Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau and actually far less to do with Chrystia Freeland.
00:10:42.040 But she gets the blame for being the front woman.
00:10:44.760 Again, she's done a lot of terrible, nasty things. 1.00
00:10:47.580 Same time, it was actually Mark Carney who was doing the bigger things in the background.
00:10:52.660 Anyways, so I'm not sure if there's really even much else to say about this.
00:10:56.340 The one thing I do want to highlight before anyone gets too, you know, elevated about the Liberals kicking people out.
00:11:03.520 Remember, the Conservative Party also kicks people out of their leadership races.
00:11:07.760 They kick people out of nominations, and that's not because, well, the Conservatives are just as corrupt as the Liberals.
00:11:14.020 Not far from it.
00:11:15.980 It shows that the nomination system in Canada really needs to be cleaned up, and if you're going to have an internal party election, whether it's for a leader or it's for a nomination locally,
00:11:25.420 you need to have some Elections Canada oversight so that if someone cheats, Elections Canada or the government doesn't put their hands in the air and say,
00:11:33.520 technically, the party can do whatever it wants.
00:11:35.800 We have to get away from that because insiders cannot just pick people's candidates for them.
00:11:40.700 So few Canadians are involved in the nomination process.
00:11:43.940 Breaking a nomination really doesn't have that big of an effect because people don't care.
00:11:47.420 People weren't following it in the first place.
00:11:48.980 They don't even know what that means, that someone was disqualified from a nomination.
00:11:53.440 This one is particularly egregious just because the Liberal Party has no ideological diversity, even when the Conservative Party,
00:12:04.100 even when people are disqualified and whatnot.
00:12:06.120 It's for petty backroom reasons that that wasn't my ally and I want my ally to win.
00:12:11.180 But there are social Conservatives, there are fiscal Conservatives, there are Libertarians, there are Progressives.
00:12:15.640 There's a lot of people in that party.
00:12:17.480 There are fiscal Liberals in the Conservatives.
00:12:20.000 Tons and tons of perspectives on policy.
00:12:21.880 The Liberals, if you leave a small bandwidth of views, you are considered persona non grata and kicked out.
00:12:29.540 It's insane.
00:12:31.100 Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys.
00:12:34.140 I have no doubt that this story is going to keep developing and I hope Ruby Dalla just keeps taking swings at Mark Carney.
00:12:40.380 I think the main reason they actually probably want her out was the debate.
00:12:43.800 They did not want her on stage saying,
00:12:45.380 Hey, Mark, weren't you advising the government for the last four years and then you blame Chrystia Freeland for everything?
00:12:51.620 Because having a moment like that is going to be endlessly replayed by the Conservatives.
00:12:56.700 But yeah.
00:12:57.540 So that's it, guys.
00:12:59.060 See you later.
00:12:59.720 I'm going to go hit some doors in Cambridge because, you know, I try and actually do stuff in the real world.
00:13:05.300 I don't like when people like creators of content just tell you that you should go volunteer for the party, but then they won't volunteer themselves.
00:13:12.140 So I flew out from Calgary to Cambridge and I'm, you know, at least going to leaflet some doors for the new blue party, put up some signs, all that stuff.
00:13:19.460 So see you guys later.