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.
00:00:00.000Hey 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.
00:00:10.160But let's get into the news of the day, which is Mark Carney being propped up in the leadership again.
00:00:18.060They already kicked out Chandra Aria from the Liberal Party leadership race, and now they've kicked out Ruby Dalla.
00:00:23.700And 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.
00:00:33.200And 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.
00:00:40.360But what the Liberal Party is obviously trying to do here is turn this into a Mark Carney coronation.
00:00:47.140I've said in the past it might not be a coronation, and that just speaks to the weakness of Mark Carney as a candidate.
00:00:52.700If 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.
00:01:02.460The 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.
00:01:10.280And that's the thing that Mark Carney is good at. He's bad at being charismatic.
00:01:14.120So 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.
00:01:27.440Even at this point, there is a chance he does not win.
00:01:30.720I'm going to remind people quickly before I jump into the Ruby Dalla situation more, what his polling numbers look like inside the party.
00:01:37.740This 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.
00:01:50.680It 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%.
00:01:59.740Now, 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.
00:02:10.800They made memberships free, so why not take one out?
00:02:14.200Like, I didn't do it, but I know a lot of people who did, in order to basically just vote against Mark Carney.
00:02:19.100And 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.
00:02:30.600At the same time, this looks really bad.
00:02:33.620In 2022, Polyev had real muscle in his campaign.
00:02:37.540He was beating people, you could say, if Polyev wasn't in the race, would have been really tough people to beat.
00:03:12.400Ruby 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.
00:03:26.960I will read a little bit of the statement to you, but rest assured, it doesn't really matter that much.
00:03:33.460They are throwing spaghetti at the wall trying to figure out some sort of a reason to get rid of her.
00:03:38.480And so their reason that they have settled on is all of the reasons.
00:03:43.040They are getting rid of her because everything.
00:03:45.500Anyways, before I read this, guys, just do remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel if you haven't.
00:03:54.260Today, the Liberal Leadership Vote Committee unanimously made the decision to disqualify Ruby Dalla from the 2025 Liberal Leadership Race.
00:04:03.440The decision followed an extensive process and review, including interviews, questionnaires, and an opportunity for Dr. Dalla to directly address the committees.
00:04:11.560After 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.
00:04:26.720The violations include concerns about alleged violations of the Canada Elections Act, certain other election finance matters, nondisclosures of material facts, and inaccurate financial reporting.
00:04:37.580The 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.
00:04:55.360I don't need to read all of her statements on this.
00:04:57.920We will be cutting a little bit to what she said in the aftermath of this in a second.
00:05:01.860But 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.
00:05:19.380They'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.
00:05:33.380These are a couple who are donating to Ruby Dalla voluntarily, and that's what they hit her on.
00:05:40.300Another thing they hit her on was that she's involved in foreign interference.
00:05:43.740They 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.
00:05:58.360If 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.
00:06:10.220And they're going to say that Ruby Dalla is working with the Indian government.
00:06:14.360My 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.
00:06:23.880At 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.
00:06:35.280If you know anything about Patrick Brown, he is Mr. Muslim Brotherhood and Mr. Calistani.
00:06:41.360He is very friendly to Calistani and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations.
00:06:47.340Very 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.
00:07:39.200She can do whatever the heck she wants.
00:07:40.780Well, 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.
00:08:00.600So it is very alarming and very shocking.
00:08:03.520It is certainly not surprising because I think the Liberal Party of Canada was seeing exactly what our internal polls are telling us.
00:08:11.480That my campaign and my team, we were neck to neck with a front runner in the race.
00:08:16.620They did not want me to go on to that debate stage in Montreal.
00:08:20.300They certainly did not want me on that ballot.
00:08:22.900And the Liberal Party of Canada wanted to complete the coronation of Mark Carney.
00:08:27.260All of the allegations that you have mentioned have been or have been, you know, that you have spoken about, they are completely false.
00:08:36.880As she was indicating there, she didn't know she was disqualified until that interview.
00:08:41.520But the CBC knew she was disqualified before she did.
00:08:44.860And that is an old sort of Katie Telford political operator trick.
00:08:49.700You 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.
00:09:00.540I don't think that she was probably neck and neck with Mark Carney.
00:09:03.520But I do think that maybe she had more than 5%, more like 7, 8, 9, maybe 10%.
00:09:08.800And she would have been very dangerous to Mark Carney.
00:09:11.580I already know there's a lot of people who bought Liberal memberships or I guess, again, registered for them.
00:09:16.520We're actually going to be voting for Chrystia Freeland.
00:09:18.420And I understand their entire logic about it.
00:09:26.820She's the awful finance minister, although in a certain sense you could argue she's not that bad of a finance minister.
00:09:31.980Mark Carney forced her to do a lot of the dumbest things that she did as finance minister.
00:09:35.980So, 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.
00:09:45.800But people want her to be the prime minister because at least Chrystia Freeland's like an honest sort of bad candidate.
00:09:56.360Mark Carney is the Liberals trying to wash themselves of their record by bringing in the guy who can pretend he's an outsider.
00:10:02.680And 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.
00:10:17.140Mark 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.
00:10:25.780The man was the guy advising the Liberal government on financial policy at least for the last four years.
00:10:34.120Everything 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.
00:10:42.040But she gets the blame for being the front woman.
00:10:44.760Again, she's done a lot of terrible, nasty things.
00:10:47.580Same time, it was actually Mark Carney who was doing the bigger things in the background.
00:10:52.660Anyways, so I'm not sure if there's really even much else to say about this.
00:10:56.340The one thing I do want to highlight before anyone gets too, you know, elevated about the Liberals kicking people out.
00:11:03.520Remember, the Conservative Party also kicks people out of their leadership races.
00:11:07.760They kick people out of nominations, and that's not because, well, the Conservatives are just as corrupt as the Liberals.
00:11:15.980It 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,
00:11:25.420you 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,
00:11:33.520technically, the party can do whatever it wants.
00:11:35.800We have to get away from that because insiders cannot just pick people's candidates for them.
00:11:40.700So few Canadians are involved in the nomination process.
00:11:43.940Breaking a nomination really doesn't have that big of an effect because people don't care.
00:11:47.420People weren't following it in the first place.
00:11:48.980They don't even know what that means, that someone was disqualified from a nomination.
00:11:53.440This one is particularly egregious just because the Liberal Party has no ideological diversity, even when the Conservative Party,
00:12:04.100even when people are disqualified and whatnot.
00:12:06.120It's for petty backroom reasons that that wasn't my ally and I want my ally to win.
00:12:11.180But there are social Conservatives, there are fiscal Conservatives, there are Libertarians, there are Progressives.
00:12:15.640There's a lot of people in that party.
00:12:17.480There are fiscal Liberals in the Conservatives.
00:12:20.000Tons and tons of perspectives on policy.
00:12:21.880The Liberals, if you leave a small bandwidth of views, you are considered persona non grata and kicked out.
00:12:59.720I'm going to go hit some doors in Cambridge because, you know, I try and actually do stuff in the real world.
00:13:05.300I 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.
00:13:12.140So 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.