The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberal scramble to create a re-election narrative for Carney in 2026!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I know I've been making a lot of videos mocking bad Liberal Party

00:00:06.880 social media posts, but I'm not going to stop. In fact, this stuff actually does kind of matter.

00:00:14.380 Mark Carney and the Liberals are very well aware a new election can be triggered in 2026.

00:00:20.740 All of the opposition parties are very interested in having a new election, and so a lot of what

00:00:26.360 the Liberals are posting on their own social media accounts are sort of soft-launching what the next

00:00:31.900 Liberal Party campaign will be about if a new election is triggered this year. And what does

00:00:38.580 a new Liberal re-election plan look like? Well, it actually kind of looks like what Justin Trudeau

00:00:44.460 was doing prior to him stepping down as Prime Minister. Carney did not accomplish a lot in 2025,

00:00:50.280 so like late-stage Justin Trudeau, they're trying to package up a lot of gimme programs,

00:00:56.700 these minor achievements, and try and make it look like it's a robust agenda of a visionary

00:01:03.720 Prime Minister like Mark Carney. I don't think Canadians are actually reacting to the things

00:01:09.420 they're trying to push the way the Liberals would like them to. All this stuff actually just seems

00:01:13.660 really petty and silly for them to be promoting, but that's why I want to take you guys through it

00:01:19.200 today so that we can investigate what the Liberal re-election plan is going to look like.

00:01:25.580 Let's start off with this post. They are quite literally trying to hang their hat on this Canada

00:01:32.260 pass, this Canada strong pass, as a great thing that Carney got done in 2025. Carney here says,

00:01:40.880 start off the new year strong and explore the greatest country on earth, or less with the Canada

00:01:47.240 strong pass. And so the Canada strong pass, I guess, lets you into certain museums, you know,

00:01:52.460 military museums, art museums, provincial parks, or federal parks, for basically nothing. It's like a

00:01:59.600 small, like, I think a small fee you can buy it for, and you can go anywhere you want, and it's to

00:02:04.780 promote tourism around Canada. It's not even a particularly bad idea. But is this really something

00:02:11.680 that the Prime Minister's office needed to put up together an entire video for? Because this is

00:02:16.980 something that they think is re-election plan worthy. You do not need to promote this at all. Have the

00:02:23.700 government promote it, have the government put commercials out about it. But Carney is very much

00:02:27.980 trying to market his face alongside this extremely minor program he started last year. So let's check out

00:02:35.340 the video. It says, start the year off strong. Explore museums and more with the Canada strong pass.

00:02:53.180 Yeah, sorry, but that's not re-election worthy. But that's genuinely what they are trying to present

00:02:59.000 there. That this is part of Mark Carney's patriotic agenda to strengthen Canada's tourism industry by

00:03:06.940 having Canadians explore their own country. This is a drop in the bucket kind of a program. 0.84

00:03:13.660 But again, Carney doesn't have anything else to run on. He doesn't have a trade deal signed.

00:03:18.260 His budget was not balanced. In fact, he blew out the deficit even more than Justin Trudeau had.

00:03:24.240 I actually had a viewer point out something to me really funny I didn't even think about yesterday.

00:03:28.240 We were watching one of those advertisements that Carney put out where he said,

00:03:32.700 we hit the ground running in 2025. And the person pointed out, they went on vacation right after

00:03:39.280 winning the last election. In fact, it took months for parliament to actually be called back. And it

00:03:45.200 took months longer for them to actually table their terrible budget. And even after the budget has been

00:03:50.920 tabled, they're already promising billions of more dollars to initiatives like more funding for

00:03:56.220 economic development in Ukraine and whatnot. We're probably going to end 2026 in over 100 billion

00:04:02.960 in a deficit. It's just ridiculous that anyone thought these guys were going to be fiscally

00:04:08.300 responsible. Considering that the fact that Carney was literally Justin Trudeau's economic advisor,

00:04:14.220 but I've harped on about that enough over the last few months. You can't run away from it. He was

00:04:21.160 responsible for everything that happened. But here's something on the Liberal Party's social media

00:04:26.900 account. This was posted back on the 30th of December. And you can tell this is very much a

00:04:33.360 reelection type of a post because they name check Pierre Polyev in it. But right here it says,

00:04:38.940 the National School Food Program is saving families up to $800 a year on groceries and helping more

00:04:45.280 kids get the best possible start in life. Pierre Polyev tried to block it. We made it permanent.

00:04:51.120 And it says, making the National School Food Program permanent, providing healthy meals in schools for

00:04:57.460 400,000 more kids every year. Okay, I, why not just give more people back money on their taxes? I hate

00:05:06.280 programs like this, because it's so needless. The only reason the government is having to pay for your

00:05:12.180 kids lunch at school if you are a lower income family is because they have ruined the economy so much that 0.99

00:05:17.840 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,

00:05:23.520 including corporate taxes, grocery prices would go down, wages would go up, economic activity would

00:05:29.800 start to shoot off. But that's not what the liberals are all about. This is a Trudeau program that Carney

00:05:36.480 is trying to make a main part of his agenda in 2026. The fact that he made the National School

00:05:43.680 Food Program permanent. Okay, it was a needless program that we didn't need for the longest time,

00:05:49.340 because in fact, everything was more sustainable previously. You know, families could actually pay

00:05:54.140 for this stuff under Harper themselves, and they weren't going hungry. Here's another post from back

00:05:58.460 on the 27th of December. We launched Build Canada Homes to help double the pace of construction,

00:06:04.800 part of Canada's most ambitious housing plan since the Second World War. We're creating an entire new

00:06:10.120 housing industry, good careers in the skilled trades and bringing costs down for Canadians.

00:06:14.520 Housing starts are down in 2025. Now they could say it's because the program hasn't actually come

00:06:20.840 into effect yet. And that's going to happen in 2026. Still, you know how you get more houses built,

00:06:26.700 you just cut taxes, you cut regulations, you cut taxes, and you make it easier for people to do

00:06:32.480 things themselves. But the liberals don't want anything happening in Canada that they can't actually

00:06:37.760 put their own, you know, signature on that they can't say, Oh, that was our doing. They don't want

00:06:42.840 organic growth, they want government driven growth. Another post here from December 24. One of the

00:06:49.000 first things Mark Carney and our new liberal government did was cut taxes for 22 million Canadians,

00:06:54.920 cutting taxes for middle class Canadians. And it was just that he cut taxes by 1% under $50,000.

00:07:01.980 A completely unsubstantial tax cut, especially in light of the fact that the liberals raised the

00:07:08.300 industrial carbon tax by double, completely wiping out any gains people got from the consumer carbon

00:07:15.420 tax being gotten rid of, and the industrial or the the that minor reduction in income taxes.

00:07:22.420 Now, here's another video that the liberals ended up posting. This is kind of a donation email,

00:07:28.040 sorry, but a donation email in a social media post form. But again, they know we're going into a new

00:07:34.320 election next year, but they don't have accomplishments to actually run on. If I was

00:07:39.980 the conservatives, and I had won, like a government, if I'd won the election, I would market even to my

00:07:46.460 own party members, the fact that we got you a tax cut, we did this, we banned that we got rid of those

00:07:52.660 regulations. But the liberals are just telling their own base, we won, that's why you should give us more

00:07:57.540 money. It says right here, Mark Carney and our new liberal team are delivering real results for Canada,

00:08:03.620 for Canadians this year. And it's all thanks to you. Chip in now to help build Canada even stronger in

00:08:09.160 2026. Forgive me if I don't actually post that link to their donation page in this video, you guys can

00:08:17.440 go find it yourselves if you're interested. But here's the actual clip they posted.

00:08:21.600 Look, a year ago, a lot of people had written us off. But because of you, because of the people in

00:08:27.840 this room, we are stronger than ever. 8.6 million votes, the most votes for any party in Canadian

00:08:35.180 history. The highest liberal vote share in 50 years. Because people believe in what we are building.

00:08:44.900 Our budget, our plan reflects that we are protecting our communities, our country, our way of life.

00:08:53.500 He just means subsidies. That's literally all that means. I guess that's really something that's going to get

00:08:58.500 the room jazzed up because it's full of liberal party like insiders who have investments in a lot of these

00:09:05.540 companies that the government's just dumping money into to protect the economy. You know, we can't protect the

00:09:10.160 economy by lowering taxes and making us more competitive jurisdiction. The government can

00:09:14.780 just sign checks over to companies because then they get to take credit for anything good that

00:09:18.960 happens. If they don't let you do for yourself, and you're only allowed to do for yourself if they're

00:09:24.180 involved, then it always gets to be a liberal accomplishment. They get to talk about all the

00:09:29.320 great things they did in a year, even though double, triple, quadruple more growth would occur if they

00:09:36.020 just got out of the way. We are building at home to empower Canadians and we are diversifying our

00:09:43.340 partners abroad to create a more prosperous and a more independent Canada.

00:09:49.840 Well, what does he mean by independent? Honestly, I would just say there's no such thing as an

00:09:54.680 independent Canada the way that he is framing it. Does he mean more independent because we don't rely

00:10:00.120 on the United States for as much trade? Okay, well, does that make us, is Canada more independent if we

00:10:06.880 then need to rely on Japan or Indonesia or England or France for more trade? I don't really see that

00:10:14.320 being more independent. Us relying on China and India for more trade means Canada is more independent,

00:10:19.780 but it's just that Mark Carney's only political instrument that he can play is the anti-American

00:10:26.080 trumpet. All he does is trumpets about the fact that he's not American and he's Canadian, even though I

00:10:31.880 think at one point didn't he actually have a, oh no, he had a UK and an Irish passport. But the guy is

00:10:37.760 very quintessentially American in a lot of ways, and I don't even care. All of his investments are

00:10:42.240 pretty much in the United States. Brookfield moved its headquarters to New York away from, away from

00:10:47.280 Canada. But guys, remember, he is Mr. Canada and pure poly of his mini Donald Trump because we said so.

00:10:56.900 Here's something else I want to talk about today, and this is actually a positive development.

00:11:00.180 Technically, you could give credit to the liberals for this, but they probably won't take credit for

00:11:04.900 it. Really, it's conservatives putting pressure on the liberals. And this is a technically a BC story,

00:11:10.080 but I want to talk about it anyways, because it does have a point for the rest of the country,

00:11:13.920 or it does talk a little bit about what's going on everywhere. It says, this is from the Times

00:11:18.900 colonist, and it says, BC's population has dropped. Here's why it's lower than and what it means.

00:11:25.280 And it says right here, between July and October of this year, over 26,000 non-permanent residents

00:11:30.740 left BC as part of the trend that dropped Canada's overall population by 0.2%. By the way, this is a

00:11:37.960 very good thing. Now, I would say the conservatives should actually run on the idea that they will

00:11:43.820 lower it even more. I don't want an immigration moratorium. What I want is what Poly of wants, 0.78

00:11:49.820 net negative migration. If you have engineering skills, if you're a doctor, if you're someone with

00:11:56.120 other technical skills, if you are an entrepreneur with a lot of money to invest, yes, you can come

00:12:01.420 into Canada. But we want more people who are here on temporary worker visas, who are here as students,

00:12:07.480 who are permanent residents, but are effectively just living on social services. You need to go,

00:12:13.180 because it's just not good for the country. And right now, this is actually lowering the price

00:12:19.660 of houses around the country. Turns out that, you know, supply and demand actually works. If there is

00:12:26.680 less demand on houses, house prices go down. And it was not an organic free market when people have

00:12:33.300 artificial incentives to come to the country and occupy those homes. That is not a free market because

00:12:38.960 the incentives are completely perverted by the fact that the government is giving out subsidized jobs

00:12:44.740 and social services and all these other things. And so I actually saw this just before I started

00:12:50.980 shooting. And I thought it was just kind of wacky. I need to show you it. It has nothing to do with

00:12:55.340 federal politics. It's actually provincial. So of course, I work for the one BC party in Dallas Brody.

00:13:01.440 And I have been seeing the BC conservatives after they got rid of John Rustad, pretending that no,

00:13:07.540 no, no, we're still conservative guys. We haven't, you know, it was just just John Rustad was the

00:13:12.640 reason that we weren't being very conservative. And now we're all better now. I need to show you guys

00:13:17.620 this post from one of the BC conservative MLAs that proves to me these guys still don't get it.

00:13:24.440 And I'm not trying to slag Scott McInnes too much here. But it's like these guys, there's just not

00:13:29.980 there's so many of the BC conservative MLAs do not have conservative instincts. Now, does it mean that

00:13:35.660 they're in effect bad MLAs? Maybe they could be great MLAs, but they need better conservative

00:13:40.580 leadership. Because look at this, Scott McInnes was reacting to the exact same article. It was a

00:13:47.520 syndicated article. So he was looking at it in the Vancouver Sun. I was looking at the Times Colonist.

00:13:52.440 This is the same article, except Scott McInnes's whole take on this issue was, this is a very

00:14:01.320 concerning trend. Young people are fleeing BC because of an expensive present state and an

00:14:06.900 even more unpredictable future. If rents are indeed dropping, this is not a positive connection to

00:14:13.140 draw. I expect fourth quarter numbers down even further as the Cowichan decision has spooked residents

00:14:18.940 into leaving. No, well, actually, no, residents are not leaving because the Cowichan decision because

00:14:24.120 they can't sell, because no one wants to buy a home that is affected by a indigenous land clay. 0.95

00:14:31.740 Nobody in Kamloops, nobody in Richmond is going to be able to sell a house for a long time,

00:14:36.360 because I guess you can, but the market's going to be super quiet, because nobody really knows if

00:14:40.800 they actually own the dirt that the house is on. But the first part was what bothered me. He says,

00:14:45.480 this is a very concerning trend. And he seems to have gotten the whole purpose of the article wrong.

00:14:49.980 This is not young people leaving. This is non-permanent residents. Non-permanent residents 0.95

00:14:56.260 are temporary residents, temporary foreign workers, temporary students. A lot of permanent

00:15:02.320 residents are people who are trying to apply for permanent residency who got rejected or for some

00:15:07.440 other reason they left. That's actually a positive development because so many markets, the job market,

00:15:13.080 the housing market were overheated. Healthcare systems were overburdened. Social service systems

00:15:17.880 were overburdened. We have an increase in crime over time, and part of that is from TFWs or students

00:15:24.360 who get here and their job falls through and they don't leave and they fall into crime and whatnot.

00:15:29.540 It's good the population is going down so that we can actually resort out the economy, but so many

00:15:35.380 BC conservatives just don't get it. Now, we'll make a bit of a side now about the BC conservative

00:15:41.540 leadership race. I think another BC liberal is going to become the leader of the conservative

00:15:47.840 party of BC because there's not enough conservative instincts right now in that caucus for them not to

00:15:54.280 all get behind someone like Peter Milibar and crown him the king of the party. He's not a conservative.

00:16:00.020 Most of the people running in the BC conservative leadership race are not conservatives, and that's kind

00:16:05.200 of a concerning thing that we don't really seem to have strong instincts in that party, and that's why I still

00:16:10.760 work for 1BC and Dallas Brody. We need a party that stands up for conservative principles across the

00:16:16.980 board and models what we want to see in politics across the country, not just in British Columbia,

00:16:22.880 but 1BC is meant to be an example to everyone, and we're already gaining a lot of momentum. We had 7%

00:16:29.460 in two separate recent polls, and they were good pollsters. It wasn't eco, so it was Main Street and

00:16:34.540 Palace. That's pretty good for us, but that's kind of it for me on that one. I'll keep you

00:16:40.680 guys afloat, abreast of all the information coming out in BC politics right now. David Eby looks like

00:16:46.480 he's going to have a really bad year because so many of his policy failures are coming to a head

00:16:50.900 this next year, and I'm here for it. I'm still working for the 1BC party, and I'll be at the

00:16:57.920 legislature with Dallas Brody this February. We have a lot of stuff that we're going to be doing,

00:17:03.420 trying to expand the party, grow local riding associations, all that sort of stuff. So if you are

00:17:08.620 interested in 1BC and you live in British Columbia, make sure to check out the 1BC website, sign up for

00:17:13.720 the newsletters, and reach out if you actually want to help start a riding association or something

00:17:18.040 like that. Anyways, with that all being said, thank you guys for watching, and I'll see you all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 03, 2026

Liberal scramble to create a re-election narrative for Carney in 2026!

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