Liberal scramble to create a re-election narrative for Carney in 2026!
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Summary
A new election can be triggered in 2026, and all of the opposition parties are very interested in having a new election, and so a new Liberal Party campaign will likely look a lot like the one that came before it. In this episode, we take a look at what a Liberal re-election plan would look like, and what it actually looks like.
Transcript
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I know I've been making a lot of videos mocking bad Liberal Party
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social media posts, but I'm not going to stop. In fact, this stuff actually does kind of matter.
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Mark Carney and the Liberals are very well aware a new election can be triggered in 2026.
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All of the opposition parties are very interested in having a new election, and so a lot of what
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the Liberals are posting on their own social media accounts are sort of soft-launching what the next
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Liberal Party campaign will be about if a new election is triggered this year. And what does
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a new Liberal re-election plan look like? Well, it actually kind of looks like what Justin Trudeau
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was doing prior to him stepping down as Prime Minister. Carney did not accomplish a lot in 2025,
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so like late-stage Justin Trudeau, they're trying to package up a lot of gimme programs,
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these minor achievements, and try and make it look like it's a robust agenda of a visionary
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Prime Minister like Mark Carney. I don't think Canadians are actually reacting to the things
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they're trying to push the way the Liberals would like them to. All this stuff actually just seems
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really petty and silly for them to be promoting, but that's why I want to take you guys through it
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today so that we can investigate what the Liberal re-election plan is going to look like.
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Let's start off with this post. They are quite literally trying to hang their hat on this Canada
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pass, this Canada strong pass, as a great thing that Carney got done in 2025. Carney here says,
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start off the new year strong and explore the greatest country on earth, or less with the Canada
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strong pass. And so the Canada strong pass, I guess, lets you into certain museums, you know,
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military museums, art museums, provincial parks, or federal parks, for basically nothing. It's like a
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small, like, I think a small fee you can buy it for, and you can go anywhere you want, and it's to
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promote tourism around Canada. It's not even a particularly bad idea. But is this really something
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that the Prime Minister's office needed to put up together an entire video for? Because this is
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something that they think is re-election plan worthy. You do not need to promote this at all. Have the
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government promote it, have the government put commercials out about it. But Carney is very much
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trying to market his face alongside this extremely minor program he started last year. So let's check out
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the video. It says, start the year off strong. Explore museums and more with the Canada strong pass.
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Yeah, sorry, but that's not re-election worthy. But that's genuinely what they are trying to present
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there. That this is part of Mark Carney's patriotic agenda to strengthen Canada's tourism industry by
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having Canadians explore their own country. This is a drop in the bucket kind of a program.
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But again, Carney doesn't have anything else to run on. He doesn't have a trade deal signed.
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His budget was not balanced. In fact, he blew out the deficit even more than Justin Trudeau had.
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I actually had a viewer point out something to me really funny I didn't even think about yesterday.
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We were watching one of those advertisements that Carney put out where he said,
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we hit the ground running in 2025. And the person pointed out, they went on vacation right after
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winning the last election. In fact, it took months for parliament to actually be called back. And it
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took months longer for them to actually table their terrible budget. And even after the budget has been
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tabled, they're already promising billions of more dollars to initiatives like more funding for
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economic development in Ukraine and whatnot. We're probably going to end 2026 in over 100 billion
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in a deficit. It's just ridiculous that anyone thought these guys were going to be fiscally
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responsible. Considering that the fact that Carney was literally Justin Trudeau's economic advisor,
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but I've harped on about that enough over the last few months. You can't run away from it. He was
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responsible for everything that happened. But here's something on the Liberal Party's social media
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account. This was posted back on the 30th of December. And you can tell this is very much a
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reelection type of a post because they name check Pierre Polyev in it. But right here it says,
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the National School Food Program is saving families up to $800 a year on groceries and helping more
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kids get the best possible start in life. Pierre Polyev tried to block it. We made it permanent.
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And it says, making the National School Food Program permanent, providing healthy meals in schools for
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400,000 more kids every year. Okay, I, why not just give more people back money on their taxes? I hate
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programs like this, because it's so needless. The only reason the government is having to pay for your
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kids lunch at school if you are a lower income family is because they have ruined the economy so much that
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you do not have a good enough job to be able to pay for the food for your own kid. If they just cut taxes,
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including corporate taxes, grocery prices would go down, wages would go up, economic activity would
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start to shoot off. But that's not what the liberals are all about. This is a Trudeau program that Carney
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is trying to make a main part of his agenda in 2026. The fact that he made the National School
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Food Program permanent. Okay, it was a needless program that we didn't need for the longest time,
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because in fact, everything was more sustainable previously. You know, families could actually pay
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for this stuff under Harper themselves, and they weren't going hungry. Here's another post from back
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on the 27th of December. We launched Build Canada Homes to help double the pace of construction,
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part of Canada's most ambitious housing plan since the Second World War. We're creating an entire new
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housing industry, good careers in the skilled trades and bringing costs down for Canadians.
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Housing starts are down in 2025. Now they could say it's because the program hasn't actually come
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into effect yet. And that's going to happen in 2026. Still, you know how you get more houses built,
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you just cut taxes, you cut regulations, you cut taxes, and you make it easier for people to do
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things themselves. But the liberals don't want anything happening in Canada that they can't actually
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put their own, you know, signature on that they can't say, Oh, that was our doing. They don't want
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organic growth, they want government driven growth. Another post here from December 24. One of the
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first things Mark Carney and our new liberal government did was cut taxes for 22 million Canadians,
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cutting taxes for middle class Canadians. And it was just that he cut taxes by 1% under $50,000.
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A completely unsubstantial tax cut, especially in light of the fact that the liberals raised the
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industrial carbon tax by double, completely wiping out any gains people got from the consumer carbon
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tax being gotten rid of, and the industrial or the the that minor reduction in income taxes.
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Now, here's another video that the liberals ended up posting. This is kind of a donation email,
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sorry, but a donation email in a social media post form. But again, they know we're going into a new
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election next year, but they don't have accomplishments to actually run on. If I was
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the conservatives, and I had won, like a government, if I'd won the election, I would market even to my
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own party members, the fact that we got you a tax cut, we did this, we banned that we got rid of those
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regulations. But the liberals are just telling their own base, we won, that's why you should give us more
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money. It says right here, Mark Carney and our new liberal team are delivering real results for Canada,
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for Canadians this year. And it's all thanks to you. Chip in now to help build Canada even stronger in
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2026. Forgive me if I don't actually post that link to their donation page in this video, you guys can
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go find it yourselves if you're interested. But here's the actual clip they posted.
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Look, a year ago, a lot of people had written us off. But because of you, because of the people in
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this room, we are stronger than ever. 8.6 million votes, the most votes for any party in Canadian
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history. The highest liberal vote share in 50 years. Because people believe in what we are building.
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Our budget, our plan reflects that we are protecting our communities, our country, our way of life.
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He just means subsidies. That's literally all that means. I guess that's really something that's going to get
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the room jazzed up because it's full of liberal party like insiders who have investments in a lot of these
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companies that the government's just dumping money into to protect the economy. You know, we can't protect the
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economy by lowering taxes and making us more competitive jurisdiction. The government can
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just sign checks over to companies because then they get to take credit for anything good that
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happens. If they don't let you do for yourself, and you're only allowed to do for yourself if they're
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involved, then it always gets to be a liberal accomplishment. They get to talk about all the
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great things they did in a year, even though double, triple, quadruple more growth would occur if they
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just got out of the way. We are building at home to empower Canadians and we are diversifying our
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partners abroad to create a more prosperous and a more independent Canada.
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Well, what does he mean by independent? Honestly, I would just say there's no such thing as an
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independent Canada the way that he is framing it. Does he mean more independent because we don't rely
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on the United States for as much trade? Okay, well, does that make us, is Canada more independent if we
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then need to rely on Japan or Indonesia or England or France for more trade? I don't really see that
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being more independent. Us relying on China and India for more trade means Canada is more independent,
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but it's just that Mark Carney's only political instrument that he can play is the anti-American
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trumpet. All he does is trumpets about the fact that he's not American and he's Canadian, even though I
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think at one point didn't he actually have a, oh no, he had a UK and an Irish passport. But the guy is
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very quintessentially American in a lot of ways, and I don't even care. All of his investments are
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pretty much in the United States. Brookfield moved its headquarters to New York away from, away from
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Canada. But guys, remember, he is Mr. Canada and pure poly of his mini Donald Trump because we said so.
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Here's something else I want to talk about today, and this is actually a positive development.
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Technically, you could give credit to the liberals for this, but they probably won't take credit for
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it. Really, it's conservatives putting pressure on the liberals. And this is a technically a BC story,
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but I want to talk about it anyways, because it does have a point for the rest of the country,
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or it does talk a little bit about what's going on everywhere. It says, this is from the Times
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colonist, and it says, BC's population has dropped. Here's why it's lower than and what it means.
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And it says right here, between July and October of this year, over 26,000 non-permanent residents
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left BC as part of the trend that dropped Canada's overall population by 0.2%. By the way, this is a
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very good thing. Now, I would say the conservatives should actually run on the idea that they will
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lower it even more. I don't want an immigration moratorium. What I want is what Poly of wants,
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net negative migration. If you have engineering skills, if you're a doctor, if you're someone with
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other technical skills, if you are an entrepreneur with a lot of money to invest, yes, you can come
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into Canada. But we want more people who are here on temporary worker visas, who are here as students,
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who are permanent residents, but are effectively just living on social services. You need to go,
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because it's just not good for the country. And right now, this is actually lowering the price
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of houses around the country. Turns out that, you know, supply and demand actually works. If there is
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less demand on houses, house prices go down. And it was not an organic free market when people have
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artificial incentives to come to the country and occupy those homes. That is not a free market because
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the incentives are completely perverted by the fact that the government is giving out subsidized jobs
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and social services and all these other things. And so I actually saw this just before I started
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shooting. And I thought it was just kind of wacky. I need to show you it. It has nothing to do with
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federal politics. It's actually provincial. So of course, I work for the one BC party in Dallas Brody.
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And I have been seeing the BC conservatives after they got rid of John Rustad, pretending that no,
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no, no, we're still conservative guys. We haven't, you know, it was just just John Rustad was the
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reason that we weren't being very conservative. And now we're all better now. I need to show you guys
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this post from one of the BC conservative MLAs that proves to me these guys still don't get it.
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And I'm not trying to slag Scott McInnes too much here. But it's like these guys, there's just not
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there's so many of the BC conservative MLAs do not have conservative instincts. Now, does it mean that
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they're in effect bad MLAs? Maybe they could be great MLAs, but they need better conservative
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leadership. Because look at this, Scott McInnes was reacting to the exact same article. It was a
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syndicated article. So he was looking at it in the Vancouver Sun. I was looking at the Times Colonist.
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This is the same article, except Scott McInnes's whole take on this issue was, this is a very
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concerning trend. Young people are fleeing BC because of an expensive present state and an
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even more unpredictable future. If rents are indeed dropping, this is not a positive connection to
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draw. I expect fourth quarter numbers down even further as the Cowichan decision has spooked residents
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into leaving. No, well, actually, no, residents are not leaving because the Cowichan decision because
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they can't sell, because no one wants to buy a home that is affected by a indigenous land clay.
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Nobody in Kamloops, nobody in Richmond is going to be able to sell a house for a long time,
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because I guess you can, but the market's going to be super quiet, because nobody really knows if
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they actually own the dirt that the house is on. But the first part was what bothered me. He says,
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this is a very concerning trend. And he seems to have gotten the whole purpose of the article wrong.
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This is not young people leaving. This is non-permanent residents. Non-permanent residents
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are temporary residents, temporary foreign workers, temporary students. A lot of permanent
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residents are people who are trying to apply for permanent residency who got rejected or for some
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other reason they left. That's actually a positive development because so many markets, the job market,
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the housing market were overheated. Healthcare systems were overburdened. Social service systems
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were overburdened. We have an increase in crime over time, and part of that is from TFWs or students
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who get here and their job falls through and they don't leave and they fall into crime and whatnot.
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It's good the population is going down so that we can actually resort out the economy, but so many
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BC conservatives just don't get it. Now, we'll make a bit of a side now about the BC conservative
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leadership race. I think another BC liberal is going to become the leader of the conservative
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party of BC because there's not enough conservative instincts right now in that caucus for them not to
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all get behind someone like Peter Milibar and crown him the king of the party. He's not a conservative.
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Most of the people running in the BC conservative leadership race are not conservatives, and that's kind
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of a concerning thing that we don't really seem to have strong instincts in that party, and that's why I still
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work for 1BC and Dallas Brody. We need a party that stands up for conservative principles across the
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board and models what we want to see in politics across the country, not just in British Columbia,
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but 1BC is meant to be an example to everyone, and we're already gaining a lot of momentum. We had 7%
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in two separate recent polls, and they were good pollsters. It wasn't eco, so it was Main Street and
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Palace. That's pretty good for us, but that's kind of it for me on that one. I'll keep you
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guys afloat, abreast of all the information coming out in BC politics right now. David Eby looks like
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he's going to have a really bad year because so many of his policy failures are coming to a head
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this next year, and I'm here for it. I'm still working for the 1BC party, and I'll be at the
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legislature with Dallas Brody this February. We have a lot of stuff that we're going to be doing,
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trying to expand the party, grow local riding associations, all that sort of stuff. So if you are
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interested in 1BC and you live in British Columbia, make sure to check out the 1BC website, sign up for
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the newsletters, and reach out if you actually want to help start a riding association or something
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like that. Anyways, with that all being said, thank you guys for watching, and I'll see you all later.