The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberal Senators snub Carney and join Conservatives!

00:00:00.040 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. A story that may have gone under the radar for you in this last week

00:00:06.940 has been the story of two liberal senators choosing to cross the floor and join the

00:00:12.440 conservative senate caucus. Or I guess I mean to say they were independent senators who joined

00:00:18.100 the conservative caucus because former prime minister Justin Trudeau had this strange habit

00:00:23.820 of appointing his senators not as liberals but as independents and they would go join the

00:00:30.080 independent caucus which made Justin Trudeau seem very moderate and centrist even though

00:00:35.960 many of his senate picks were to the left of the typical liberal member of parliament.

00:00:42.440 Now it seems two of the more moderate liberals are just sick of the way that the liberals do things

00:00:47.820 and now they're choosing to go sit with the conservatives I guess to retain some level of

00:00:52.600 dignity in their political careers. So these senators are Senator David Richard Adam Richards

00:01:00.340 for New Brunswick as well as Senator Mary Jane McCallum both I believe Trudeau appointments at

00:01:07.720 least the one David Adam Richards is a Trudeau appointment and now sitting over in the conservative

00:01:14.240 senate caucus which is being led by Senator Leo Housakis. Again this isn't like the biggest

00:01:21.640 coup on the planet because the senate oftentimes is a rubber stamp for whoever is in government

00:01:27.400 but it is a telling that as a senator who doesn't really have to do anything you still are not

00:01:33.080 comfortable being with the other liberals in the senate and now you want to go sit with the

00:01:38.260 conservatives. Here's a quote from the National Post that they got from David Adam Richards that I

00:01:43.740 think is very elucidating on his mindset when he was crossing and it probably is the exact sort of

00:01:49.380 way that also Jane McCallum was or Mary Jane McCallum was also thinking when she moved over

00:01:56.280 but what he said David Adam Richards is quote for years so many of the concerns I and others had about

00:02:05.180 our country were dismissed by an insular self-absorbed government with almost blind indifference

00:02:11.040 to ordinary men and women quote Richards and then he went on to say now the liberals are insisting on

00:02:17.380 policies that certain senators pleaded for and were so often ridiculed and refused and yeah so he then

00:02:25.700 basically goes on from uh to say in other statements that the liberals were very obviously

00:02:32.340 plagiarizing ideas from the conservatives and that if they're going to just openly plagiarize

00:02:38.940 Tory policies then he may as well go and join the conservatives who are actually championing the

00:02:45.280 ideas that are getting passed and so what I also think went on here because he never left under

00:02:51.380 Trudeau he's leaving under Mark Carney possibly because some of the senders were seeing what would

00:02:57.200 happen once Mark Carney took over for Justin Trudeau was there going to be a real change in leadership

00:03:03.020 style was the government going to change priorities like David Adam Richards had highlighted are they going

00:03:08.840 to talk about the things that actually matter to ordinary men and women and not really if you look

00:03:15.700 at the current liberal agenda it's pretty much just microwave Justin Trudeau stuff with maybe Mark Carney

00:03:22.520 having a little bit more confidence in driving towards their policy goals which is not even necessarily

00:03:29.080 a good thing because many of their policy goals are terrible look at Bill C-3 for a prime example

00:03:34.800 let's just give citizenships to anyone who spent three years in Canada and has a citizenship even if

00:03:42.020 it's not three consecutive years of being here back to back as long as they're here for you know a couple

00:03:49.120 months here and there and they have a citizenship they should be able to pass Canadian citizenship

00:03:53.720 onto their children even if they're being born overseas and that person has no intention of coming back to

00:04:01.020 Canada just an awful awful policy increasing the industrial carbon tax the carbon border adjustment

00:04:07.540 all this is absolutely ridiculous and so again we'll probably have to see a little bit more of what

00:04:13.560 these senders say over the coming days but this has been a development over the last week there could

00:04:18.640 be more senders coming over from here because again I genuinely just think there's a lot of people

00:04:23.920 in the liberal senate caucus or independent caucus who aren't full-on leftists who want to make sure that

00:04:30.320 people don't think that they're like complete you know ideologues and that they can actually you

00:04:36.240 know like they have far broader horizons than the very metropolitan progressive politics of the liberal

00:04:44.220 party and at the end of the day ideology doesn't matter when we're just trying to solve things like

00:04:50.260 inflation when we need to lower taxes unless you're just a full-on zealot for the liberals and you just

00:04:56.820 believe in their very high tax high spending subsidy agenda you know anti-oil and gas agenda at some

00:05:04.060 point even someone who's like a pretty consistent liberal will have to say like guys you know people

00:05:08.500 can't make ends meet maybe we should lower taxes but now I want to move on to another thing that the

00:05:14.160 liberals are doing right now that I think highlights again why their appeal is going to be very short

00:05:19.800 lived right now their numbers are up obviously they just won government so they're in a bit of a

00:05:26.380 honeymoon right now but they're pushing this modular home idea which could have some limited success

00:05:33.520 sure as long as you put anything into the ground that people can live in it is going to take some

00:05:40.020 pressure off the housing market but I think something like this in the long run is going to be viewed as

00:05:45.880 one of those key insults to Canadians one of those kind of political generation defining insults that

00:05:53.740 at a time when young Canadians couldn't afford homes they basically started pitching the idea of having

00:05:59.140 prefabricated two-room houses that can be put up for people in order to satisfy them this isn't exactly

00:06:07.020 what your parents were getting back in the 60s 70s 80s and 90s but now you have to put up with

00:06:13.220 literally living in a cheddar box Mr. Speaker one of the policies the Prime Minister campaigned on

00:06:20.520 was building modular housing that is a way to get more homes built faster and we know that by

00:06:29.740 removing barriers to internal trade in our country we can get a modular housing industry going in our

00:06:38.360 country that is one of the solutions to the housing crisis I hope the members opposite will be

00:06:43.200 constructive and support this important legislation

00:06:46.200 Mr. Speaker my generation refuses to live in a shipping container

00:06:53.440 a very good way of putting it from Jacob Mantle here and I think that is something again that is

00:07:02.000 kind of going to define why this is going to be a very short-lived policy win for the liberals even

00:07:07.300 if they start getting a lot of these modular homes built they're basically bribing people the idea is

00:07:12.000 they don't want to get rid of all the regulations that make it difficult to build they don't really

00:07:16.380 want to lower overall taxes although they are stealing the conservative idea of removing the

00:07:21.420 GST on new homes but they don't really want to change the current government structure so instead

00:07:26.500 they'll just give you less home that you can purchase to technically make it cheaper even though

00:07:31.820 per square foot these homes are costing way more than they should back in the day it didn't cost very

00:07:38.840 much to be able to build quite large homes and we're not in the point in Canada where we can't

00:07:44.220 build large homes anymore like oh we're just too big or where you know we're in here like tooth and

00:07:50.660 jowl or whatever we're like way too packed in so we need smaller houses if they just made it easier to

00:07:55.680 build cities could easily expand old houses could be torn down and large houses could be put on their

00:08:01.940 or mostly empty lots we don't need to descend into building you know six plexes and modular homes to

00:08:09.220 do what we could do easier in the 1950s and 60s of just getting regulations out of the way blanket

00:08:16.260 approving an area for building and just getting it done but i'll go back to jacob mantel here uh keeping in

00:08:23.220 his lead up my generation refuses to live in a shipping container

00:08:27.720 oxford economics reports yesterday that toronto's housing market ranks among the worst in the world

00:08:36.700 for affordability at the same time mortgage delinquency rates in toronto are higher than at

00:08:41.780 any time during the pandemic the financial burden is suffocating the next generation of home buyers

00:08:47.280 and history has shown us mr speaker if you fail to plan you are planning to fail a budget is a plan

00:08:54.000 mr speaker so my question to the prime minister is when will canadians see one that's another good

00:08:59.400 point that that reminds me of something else i want to talk about with the budget although the

00:09:04.200 conservatives have been bringing up a lot so it's hard to miss this as a a key uh issue right now

00:09:09.580 that the liberals are promising a lot of stuff that they do not have the budget for and when i say

00:09:17.000 they don't have the budget for it i mean they copied and pasted justin trudeau's budget from 2024

00:09:22.040 into 2025 they have very few cost savings that they found yeah i guess they don't need to send

00:09:29.200 out the consumer carbon tax rebates so that saves them like a small bit of money but they also got

00:09:34.560 rid of consumer carbon tax that was paying for those rebates uh and at the same time they're jacking

00:09:39.580 up the industrial carbon tax but not giving out rebates so basically the government is now just

00:09:43.760 bringing in that revenue for itself and not even cutting people checks anymore but the liberals

00:09:49.380 are promising things like these modular home programs and they're going to now raise our gdp

00:09:54.800 spending on the military to two percent of our gdp but we don't have a spending plan that bakes that

00:10:01.100 stuff in because again we copied and pasted trudeau's plan from 24 into 2025 but then we're going to be

00:10:07.560 increasing military spending from like 1.2 or 1.3 percent of gdp up to two percent that's not

00:10:16.180 something that we have budgeted right now so our current budget could well easily pass 600 billion

00:10:22.980 650 billion this year because these are big spending items that are not baked into the previous budget

00:10:29.400 that they're proposing spending for 10 years ago canada's defense spending fell to less than one

00:10:36.880 percent of gdp it has since doubled in cash terms but it's still not close enough to face these mounting

00:10:45.740 risks he's kind of side swiping stephen harper here because yes in the last year of uh stephen harper's

00:10:53.760 like leadership of the country our gdp spending on the military fell to like 0.8 or something like

00:11:01.920 that and then it had been almost doubled by trudeau the problem is the spending wasn't the problem we

00:11:08.520 should be spending more it's the allocation so when he's proposing as he's going to get to here

00:11:13.980 of spending two percent of gdp on the military we don't really have any way of absorbing that properly

00:11:22.420 into you know tanks jets arms you know artillery because we currently spend more than we did

00:11:31.240 under harper but under harper we actually had a functioning military and under justin trudeau with

00:11:36.300 far more spending our military has mostly turned into an hr department that sometimes that has a few

00:11:41.880 guns lying around the brave women and men who are protecting our sovereignty do not have the

00:11:48.260 resources they need for a riskier world our military infrastructure and equipment have aged hindering

00:11:55.760 our military preparedness I give an example or two only one of our four submarines is seaworthy less

00:12:06.500 than half our maritime fleet and land vehicles are operational more broadly we're too reliant on the

00:12:13.700 united states and so for all those reasons I'm announcing today that Canada will achieve

00:12:19.620 nato's two percent of gdp target this year half a decade ahead of schedule but again this isn't even

00:12:29.840 part of the current budget we his spending bill he's put forward the oic uh the order and council 33

00:12:37.100 billion that he signed himself over doesn't include this two percent I'm all for getting to two percent

00:12:41.860 but I'd also want to cut wasteful spending and cut taxes at the same time which is totally doable but

00:12:48.360 he doesn't want to do those other two things so he's just going to jack up spending on the military

00:12:52.960 with no real plan on spending it again he was the economic advisor for trudeau for five straight years

00:13:00.280 he could have stuck his finger in more pies than just the economy somehow when he was around for five

00:13:05.900 years he wasn't able to influence things enough to actually put some money towards the military to create

00:13:11.080 jobs you know this is during covid you could have even said well we want to make sure those submarines

00:13:15.920 are seaworthy so we're gonna throw a bunch of our covid money towards them to create jobs for people

00:13:21.180 to repair them and get them up to the you know to that to that seaworthy level we could have done that

00:13:26.360 but he never did it at the time he never suggested it there was no action taken on it under trudeau

00:13:31.340 when he was around and a heavy influence on the government so I don't really trust he's doing anything now

00:13:36.680 other than creating a jobs program that isn't actually going to get make the military any better

00:13:41.980 off it'll it will but I don't think to the amount of money that we're spending we're not going to be

00:13:47.120 getting good bang for our buck just as we were under Stephen Harper where the amount of money we put

00:13:53.600 forward was actually going towards the right things and now under trudeau with far more spending we were

00:13:59.060 not getting any of the right things so I don't think taking what we currently spend and then jacking it up

00:14:04.480 to two percent is going to be actually beneficial at least in the short to medium term I think that

00:14:11.320 it's going to take this government quite a long time to actually sort itself out because if you

00:14:16.260 think these guys are going to cut the worthless uh jobs inside the military and shift back to actual

00:14:21.860 equipment and uh soldiery you're out of your minds these people are totally fine with the military

00:14:28.220 being a repository for you know people in HR and management and bureaucracy anyways so that should

00:14:36.900 be it for me today guys I do want to quickly plug something because I mentioned it yesterday but I

00:14:41.420 kind of want to mention it uh from here on out I'm not going to say it every video but if you live in the

00:14:47.080 city of Calgary I have a link below in the description as well as pinned to the top the comments

00:14:52.000 for Sonia Sharp's mayoral website make sure you sign up for a lawn sign if you live in Calgary because

00:14:58.780 we actually need a conservative mayor and Sonia Sharp is the most conservative person who can actually 0.99

00:15:03.520 win running for the mayoralship so make sure you sign up for that I've had people reach out to me and

00:15:08.740 say like well Jeff Davison is a conservative not really you read his website and he won't even commit

00:15:14.660 to cutting spending he's just saying I'm going to freeze taxes what do you mean freeze taxes because even if

00:15:20.600 you freeze the rate taxes will still go up because people's home values go up over time and your

00:15:26.960 property tax rate is based on the home value that is the weaselly way that previous mayors have

00:15:33.080 actually raised the amount of tax that you're paying by just re-evaluating your house upward very

00:15:39.140 aggressively you know even kind of going over what your house is probably really worth in order to

00:15:44.080 extract more dollars from you I think a new mayor needs to actually reduce the rate so even

00:15:50.500 if your house value goes up you're paying less in property taxes this is a bit of a Calgary rabbit

00:15:56.580 hole but again I encourage people if you live in the city preemptively sign up to get a lawn sign you're

00:16:01.660 probably not going to get it right away mayoral election is until October but do it now because

00:16:05.820 we need to box out all these fake conservatives so that we have someone who can actually win

00:16:10.660 in the mayor mayor's race rather than scrambling in the last month and trying to get behind one guy which

00:16:16.440 never works you get behind someone early and you stick to them and I'm getting behind

00:16:20.540 Sonia Sharp who I think is probably the best person for the job I'm going to break down some polling 0.97

00:16:27.120 for the Calgary mayoral race because that's actually an interesting thing to dissect polling on people

00:16:32.560 have been trying to put around polls showing well see Jeff Davison has like 14 percent and Sonia Sharp

00:16:38.100 only has seven okay the problem with that is the person leading those polls is like at 25 percent

00:16:44.240 and it's Jeremy Farkas and behind him is Jody Gondek is it because those two people are good candidates

00:16:50.640 no it's because we're so far out polling just says whose name do you recognize and that's it

00:16:56.720 Gondek didn't even have the highest name recognition in the 2021 race but she won because her campaign 0.76

00:17:03.620 was well run Jeremy Farkas had the highest name recognition last time and got clobbered arguably

00:17:09.020 Jeff Davison had as had higher name recognition than Jody Gondek did and he also got clobbered

00:17:15.380 because they ran bad campaigns because they weren't really that conservative so conservatives didn't

00:17:20.720 turn out for them so we're trying to change it this year make sure you buy a lawn sign not buy a lawn sign

00:17:25.860 sign up for a lawn sign if you live in Calgary so anyways that's it for me today guys see you later

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - June 10, 2025

Liberal Senators snub Carney and join Conservatives!

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