00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.200Buckle up, kids, because we're going to be talking a lot more about the Scarborough Southwest
00:00:12.440Ontario Liberal nomination than you have ever wanted to hear about in your entire lives.
00:00:18.820But I promise you, it will be interesting. The ongoing Ontario and Federal Liberal Circular
00:00:25.300firing squad will be hilarious to witness, but I do believe that this is an extremely important
00:00:31.960issue that a lot of people are not taking seriously. So Nate Erskine-Smith, this is
00:00:38.180breaking as of a few hours ago, is preparing to challenge his loss in the Ontario Liberal nomination
00:00:44.580for Scarborough Southwest. As you may know, it's a very long and complicated story.
00:00:50.380He is the current Liberal MP for Beaches East York, but his heart lies in Ontario Liberal politics.
00:00:59.040Now, the riding of Scarborough Southwest provincially came available because the sitting NDP MPP, Dolly Begum, left to take over for Bill Blair,
00:01:09.760who had left the federal version of the Scarborough Southwest riding.
00:01:13.660She ran as a Liberal and is now sitting in the House of Commons as a Liberal for that riding.
00:01:19.140Erskine-Smith announced his candidacy to replace basically Dolly Begum,
00:01:23.980but instead of running for the NDP, he was running for the Ontario Liberals.
00:01:27.100A giant nomination ensued, and he lost by only 19 votes.
00:01:33.300Now, everyone has been heavily clowning on Nate Erskine-Smith,
00:01:37.600and 364 out of 365 days, I would normally be clowning on Nate Erskine-Smith along with all of you.
00:01:46.600But I actually do take nomination rigging very seriously as someone who has been kicked out of a nomination in the past,
00:01:54.960simply because party insiders did not want me to win the Calgary-Signal Hill federal conservative nomination.
00:02:01.400So today we are going to break down the corruption that took place here and the massive dramatic fallout that this could have,
00:02:08.900not only for the Ontario Liberals, but also for the federal Liberals.
00:02:13.780Even though Mark Carney technically endorsed Nate Erskine-Smith, I don't think he actually
00:02:18.120wanted him to win this nomination, because if he did, and then he won the by-election
00:02:22.580for Scarborough Southwest, he would be out of the Federal Liberal Caucus, and Mark Carney
00:02:27.980would not just be down one Liberal MP, he'd be down two, because as you may know, Jonathan
00:02:33.480Wilkinson, or the riding of Vancouver, or North Vancouver Capilano, is retiring this
00:11:49.2401265 removed and we just assume the duplicates are true 1265 removed and the guy wins by around
00:11:57.58019 votes and of course they're probably gonna have to go through a recount again uh yeah this
00:12:03.240doesn't make any sense to me and now let's get to that uh kind of questionable campaign surrogate0.60
00:12:10.460right there uh this one person mobius dick has been doing a good job of digging things up0.93
00:12:15.160on the winner, Hafiz, and he says, I have just been told that a man convicted of sexually0.99
00:12:21.380assaulting a 12-year-old girl was seen as a speaker at one of Mr. Hafiz's campaign events.
00:12:27.600And as you can see here, here's a Toronto Star article that says, sex offender working as
00:12:31.340principal of private tutoring program. Yasuf Ali Kalakunder was convicted of sexually assaulting
00:12:38.600a student in 2010 because provincial authorities have no jurisdiction over private education.
00:12:43.100he can work at his own after school program. So this creep was at Mr. Hafiz's, one of his events
00:12:50.440speaking up there at the front, Mr. Hafiz is over here on the left. This man was speaking at his
00:12:56.080event. And this isn't the only weird thing that has popped up about Mr. Hafiz when it comes to
00:13:01.700kind of sexually, content with sexual connotations. But that is the man who the Liberal Party is
00:13:08.600currently standing beside. And again, I hate that I even have to be covering this because
00:13:14.300I'm a conservative. I am too conservative to vote for Doug Ford because he is an awful liberal.
00:13:20.620But this all seems kind of bad for our democracy. Here is another Globe and Mail article. Ironically,
00:13:27.800they're reporting on this completely straight, despite the fact that they should know better
00:13:32.300than anybody that this is not exactly an up-and-up race. The headline here reads,
00:13:37.680Now, obviously, this was written before he ended up challenging or stating that he will be challenging the results usually you have within, like, 48 to 72 hours to do so, and he's doing that right now.
00:17:00.400Are you concerned about the final results?
00:17:02.140Like, you don't think this is necessarily the legitimate result if there's a combination?
00:17:05.940I would like to hear from every single person that was in that room on our team
00:17:10.860to understand what took place and what their feeling is
00:17:15.080and if there is a legitimate reason to challenge.
00:17:17.720Obviously, given everything we've seen in the race to date
00:17:20.400and some frustrations along the way with disallowing members
00:17:23.640and then we see screw nears in that room articulate concerns,
00:17:29.500honestly, I have to do a full debrief with them before I decide next steps.
00:17:34.100So the truth is, again, in this race, like Nate Erskine-Smith or not, considering, again, Hafiz says he only lost a few memberships when the party did the giant purge, if these members were allowed in, because I really doubt Hafiz's people were doing the two-factor authentication if they can't even speak the English language and they don't have IDs, I think it's pretty safe to say, considering how close it was on a second or third ballot,
00:18:01.120But probably Nate Erskine-Smith wins easily on first ballot.
00:18:06.000But because the powers that be do not want him to win,
00:18:09.520this is why we have this whole thing resulting in this clown shoes result
00:18:14.040where some random Domino Pizza franchise owner
00:18:18.200speaking on panels with people with sexual assault histories,
00:18:22.140and he has his own weird things he's posted on his old Facebook back in the day,
00:18:26.900he's now the winner because Mark Carney doesn't want him to actually go and be an Ontario Liberal
00:18:33.340MPP, and the Ontario Liberal Party doesn't want him to run for their leadership. Now, this is where
00:18:40.080the drama hits Mark Carney, the Federal Liberals, and the Ontario Liberals. The problem is, is that
00:18:46.520if Nate Erskine-Smith is mistreated, what are the actual odds he's going to stick around with Mark
00:18:54.100Carney, who's not going to stand up for his MP trying to get into Ontario Liberal politics,
00:19:00.480is going to say nothing, make no phone calls about the fact that this happened. I think that they are
00:19:05.480now between a rock and hard place. We're in a bit of a Mexican standoff here, because Erskine Smith,
00:19:12.020if he sues or does something like that, it could end up destroying the brand of the Ontario Liberal0.99
00:19:16.980Party, as right when they're actually starting to do better in the polls, suddenly they have a giant
00:19:22.280internal party corruption scandal led by one of the people who's actually fairly popular with the
00:19:28.100grassroots of that party if there is such a thing as liberal grassroots. And then, but the thing is
00:19:33.940that because Mark Carney wants Nate Erskine-Smith to stick around to help hold up his majority,
00:19:40.220it may end up slipping through his fingers even more. Yes, he did endorse Nate, but him and Nate
00:19:46.640hate each other. It's probably because Nate threatened to do something if Mark Carney did
00:19:51.600not endorse him because we went over that that endorsement video. It was the most awkward thing
00:19:56.180on the planet. Erskine Smith had his hands in his pockets the entire time. Carney barely looked at
00:20:01.920him, kind of gestured towards him, never said his name, never endorsed him by name. It was super
00:20:07.060weird. But if Erskine Smith feels hard done or wrong-footed, what stops him from, one, he could
00:20:14.680potentially still, if he does not win a challenge to this, he could still run as an independent and
00:20:19.440potentially win or run for another party provincially and still win, or if he feels
00:20:24.740too resentful about having to serve with Mark Carney, who didn't actually do anything to help
00:20:29.320him and has been basically undermining him ever since he became prime minister. What stopped him
00:20:33.940from joining Avi Lewis and the NDP, as Erskine Smith was always more of an orange-coded liberal
00:20:40.140MP overall. He's a very, you know, anti-corporate Palestinian activist type of an MP, and so he
00:20:48.140might fit in very well with Avi Lewis these days. If you haven't been keeping track, when Mark Carney
00:20:53.480first became Prime Minister, he made Nate Erskine-Smith the Housing Minister for about two
00:20:59.260months. And then after the April election, he then made Gregory Robertson. He made him the
00:21:11.480Housing Minister, screwed over Erskine-Smith, who only ran for re-election again under the promise
00:21:16.480of being the housing minister. And since then, he's been backbiting Carney, attacking him for
00:21:22.260his dealing with the Aircanda flight attendant strike, attacking him for the budget, attacking
00:21:28.260him for many other things that he perceives that he's doing wrong. And so what love is really lost
00:21:34.420between these two anymore if he doesn't get to go away quietly? If he doesn't, there's nothing
00:21:40.160really left for, I guess, NES in federal politics. So why doesn't he just go and join a different
00:21:45.640party and help make Mark Carney really hurt on this one, or at least threaten to do so if Mark
00:21:51.880Carney doesn't tell the Ontario Liberal Party to reverse the fraudulent election and let Nate
00:21:57.100Ersteinsmith through. So this, as time goes on, is going to continue being a very interesting story.
00:22:05.080It could result in a big court case, and the by-election is going to be an absolute bloodbath.
00:22:10.180By the way, a fizz is probably going to lose. A fizz is not a popular general election candidate.
00:22:15.640Again, he had to cheat to win a nomination. This is actually, as we said before, Dolly Begum's riding. It was an NDP riding. The NDP is not like the federal NDP. Ontario NDP has some muscle. They can win this riding again. If you run Hafiz, you're going to lose.0.90
00:22:31.900Now, again, I don't have a dog in this fight. I would tell everyone in that riding to vote for the new blue party of Ontario because the PCs suck.0.99
00:22:39.380But right now, the Ontario Liberals are so resentful. They hate Nader Skynesna so much, probably because he's not really one of the insider type class.0.95
00:22:47.840He wants to probably get rid of them. They will now run a candidate very unlikely to win the riding compared to NES simply because they don't like NES.
00:22:58.320This is the problem with internal politics everywhere. So often, insiders pick friends or just completely inoffensive rule followers as their candidates, and not kind of more grassroots, maverick, outspoken individuals who the base actually likes.
00:23:15.200This is the problem with the federal conservative party in the last election. So many boring, who gives a crap kind of candidates selected in so many ridings, and it turns out nobody really wanted to show up and vote for them.
00:23:26.620Now, people always say Canadians vote for parties. They don't really vote for candidates, although then liberals will say the opposite when they're justifying people crossing the floor. But never you mind. People always say, well, people always vote for parties more than they vote for candidates.0.97
00:23:39.700Like, well, some people vote for candidates. And the old adage goes, a good candidate is worth 5% of the vote, which is nothing to sneeze at in tight races. And guess what? A bad candidate by the same logic is worth negative 5%. And I think the federal conservatives could have won Mississauga, Brampton, and so many other areas of the country if they ran good candidates.