The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 13, 2026


Liberals and CBC Gaslight Canadians on Corrupt Floor-Crossings!


Episode Stats


Length

19 minutes

Words per minute

185.70625

Word count

3,630

Sentence count

122

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

sentences flagged

Toxicity

6

sentences flagged

Hate speech

3

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Jordan Peterson crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join the Liberal Party of Canada. Is it ethical? Should it be seen as a good or bad move by the Prime Minister and the media? And what does it mean for the rest of the party?

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:05.960 Now obviously I have deep ethical problems with Prime Minister Mark Carney cobbling together a
00:00:11.940 liberal majority for himself that he didn't actually win at the ballot box. He's simply
00:00:17.340 getting less than ethical MPs to cross the floor from the Conservatives and the NDP to give him
00:00:23.900 the majority that he did not actually earn. But the thing that I hate more than anything is the
00:00:31.040 media gaslighting people into thinking that this is normal. Now, there is a difference between
00:00:36.920 allowed and normal. We had Rosemary Barton yesterday responding to somebody who was taking
00:00:43.260 issue with all this saying, well, calm down, dude, this is allowed. It's like, okay, allowed is
00:00:49.760 different than ethical? And should it happen? Obviously, we should actually ask these questions,
00:00:55.580 but the media just basically downplays it. And they almost create a narrative of, wow,
00:01:01.480 Carney's so wise. He's so good at politics. Everyone else sucks at this. Who cares if this
00:01:08.000 seems really shady that people are randomly flipping on their principles and joining the
00:01:12.760 Liberal Party? Like we had three conservatives leave who had been saying in the House of Commons
00:01:18.180 when they were conservatives that the liberal government is disastrous they're making everything
00:01:22.460 unaffordable and there's all this divisions that they're causing and then they become liberals and
00:01:27.140 oh wow we're part of team unity now well mark carney's such a great leader i love his davos
00:01:32.500 speech and now with this ndp mp laurie idlout she was she is a anti-pipeline like land back first 0.98
00:01:40.720 nations veto member of parliament just like leah gazan now i actually don't think she's changed her
00:01:46.860 principles on that. I actually think it's the reverse with the Liberal Party on this one.
00:01:51.100 Conservatives pretending they're no longer conservative and they're now liberals. And we
00:01:54.600 have the Liberal Party who's effectively indicating that they're not actually serious about building a
00:01:59.200 pipeline. They're not actually serious about a lot of their major projects, especially when it comes
00:02:03.660 to natural resources, because they're willing to take on someone who doesn't want these things to
00:02:08.100 actually happen. They also happen to grease the palms of her riding by sending a billion dollars 0.99
00:02:14.540 to Nunavut in a new infrastructure package. A billion dollars over four years for new
00:02:19.500 infrastructure. There's another 250 million for housing. There's the new multi-million dollar
00:02:24.520 university they're building. It's the first Inuit university in Canada and the first university,
00:02:29.200 I believe, or at least first Inuit university in Nunavut. That's not okay. I feel like that 1.00
00:02:35.460 should be very obvious. Allowed? Sure. There's a lot of things allowed in this world that I don't
00:02:41.560 think that voters should just take as normal. But we have the CBC panel here with literal
00:02:46.860 representatives from the NDP and the conservatives all basically acting like this is totally normal. 0.52
00:02:51.380 The conservative guy on this panel, in fact, has the most disgusting message he delivers.
00:02:57.120 This man has the worst take out of everyone on the panel, and he is the conservative on the CBC
00:03:02.500 panel because the CBC is just propaganda. We just got off of having Travis Dunraj speaking in front
00:03:09.980 of the heritage committee talking about all the political bias inside the cbc and a couple days
00:03:14.460 later we have a cbc panel where the conservative panelist is attacking the conservative party
00:03:20.540 now i'm i sometimes critique the conservatives obviously i don't like a lot of stuff they do
00:03:26.320 sometimes at the same time you're there to give like the general conservative take and he's calling
00:03:31.720 them whiners check this out it's going to start off with the ndp representative and then it's 0.75
00:03:35.520 going to get to this other guy although actually quickly if you like the channel make sure to leave
00:03:40.340 a like on the video subscribe if you're not yet a subscriber hit the notification bell leave a
00:03:45.320 comment and if you want to financially support the show consider hitting the join button guys
00:03:50.020 sorry shameless plug although the donations the monthly uh subscriptions do help me a lot
00:03:55.360 because youtube's randomly hammering me these days like a video will crawl out of the gate for
00:04:00.360 no reason and it will take youtube a long time to realize they should probably show my content to
00:04:04.880 people. And Jordan, I'm going to start with your reaction to this latest crossing from an NDP MP.
00:04:12.200 Yeah, I think for sure a tough day for the party. And a lot of the people I talked to have expressed
00:04:17.480 a sense of disappointment and betrayal, but almost nobody expressed any surprise. So I think that,
00:04:24.100 you know, we heard, of course, public reports about whether Laurie might cross, consider crossing
00:04:29.920 in December. So it was well known that there were conversations ongoing. And I think that
00:04:36.300 there was a sense, maybe a bit of an air of inevitability around it. That doesn't make it
00:04:41.480 any easier for the NDP because, of course, now their caucus, which was already historically small,
00:04:46.900 is shrinking again. So it puts them in a really challenging position, especially as they're in
00:04:51.220 the process of selecting a new leader. Why are we talking about this like it's normal?
00:04:55.740 Like, Lori Inlow literally endorsed Avi Lewis for the leadership a few days before, about five days before she decided to leave.
00:05:04.160 She endorsed an NDP leadership candidate and then left the party five days later.
00:05:09.620 And we have the NDP strategies talking about how, ah, there was an air of inevitability around this.
00:05:15.820 There were talks behind the scenes.
00:05:17.140 As if it's just, again, not that big of a deal that we have a government who's trying to get into talks with people who have opposite opinions of them and trying to incentivize them to drop all their beliefs or the Liberal Party dropping its beliefs to get them to come over.
00:05:34.700 This new leader is now going to inherit a considerably smaller caucus.
00:05:39.280 Now, Tim, very different from when there were rumours about Conservatives,
00:05:44.460 particular Conservatives, you know, when Chris Dantremont got rumoured
00:05:48.340 that, well, he had to make a decision right then, go or stay.
00:05:51.560 But with the NDP, it was rumoured, but no one was pushing her out to make a choice.
00:05:56.200 And we got to this point yesterday or last night.
00:05:59.480 What do you make of that difference?
00:06:01.820 Well, I guess this is what...
00:06:02.760 No, remember, this man is the conservative on this panel.
00:06:06.940 What happens when you endorse Abby Lewis for leader of the NDP?
00:06:09.780 I may have stolen that line from somebody.
00:06:11.720 I'm not telling you who or if they're in this room.
00:06:14.260 But I will say this.
00:06:16.000 Look, I mean, you know, Karina, I have to laugh at the whinging and the whining, right?
00:06:20.520 I get why it happens.
00:06:22.240 Shell and I understand this.
00:06:23.320 Jordan understands. 0.54
00:06:24.220 When you lose somebody, it sucks.
00:06:25.620 But honest to God, get over it, both in the NDP and the conservatives.
00:06:30.360 it was the bigger issue. Get over it. The conservative panelist on CBC Power and Politics
00:06:37.080 is telling you, a conservative or NDP voter in these writings, get over it. Oh, it sucks to get 0.97
00:06:43.440 a, to lose a member of the team. Boo hoo, baby. It doesn't matter that you voted in these people.
00:06:50.140 Yeah, they can do whatever the heck they want and you need to get over it. Like, I know he's kind
00:06:55.580 of addressing his comments towards the party like establishments at the same time you can't divorce
00:07:02.940 this from the fact that these are people who had voters behind them like come on there's a
00:07:09.500 difference between someone leaving for a principled reason they were public about what they believed
00:07:14.580 and a party moved away from them or was trying to censure them and they weren't allowed to speak on
00:07:19.640 the things that they had stated that they were they were wanting to speak on and then you had
00:07:23.780 to leave because of it that's fine none of these people did that though not one of them that's why
00:07:29.280 all of their crop floor crossing statements are the most generic things you've ever read and
00:07:33.560 whenever they're asked about it like laurie idloud she then says like oh oh well there's a lot of
00:07:39.280 reasons why i left and i'm not going to tell you about any of them because you know then you could
00:07:43.140 scrutinize my reasons you know chris dontermont michael ma matt jenneru oh well you know unity
00:07:49.220 instability. I really liked how Mark Carney irons his pants. His Davos speech was good, even though
00:07:55.860 his Davos speech was basically his entire campaign rhetoric from the last campaign.
00:08:00.180 If that Davos speech was so good, why didn't you leave earlier? Because he's been talking like that
00:08:04.040 for years. If you're the conservatives of the NDP is, all right, when is this going to continue to
00:08:10.260 happen? And if it is, as it continues to happen, why is it happening? The, you know, the harping
00:08:17.860 on them the crapping on them that's corruption corruption is why both i think financial but
00:08:24.920 mainly political corruption people wanting the better position they want to be in the place of
00:08:29.740 prominence they want the ministerial role they want to have some sort of other role given to
00:08:35.100 them where they get to be important they get to go on trips with the prime minister maybe they
00:08:38.660 get more money in the case of some of these people they are actually in positions that come with more
00:08:42.740 money like they want to get re-elected easier you can't just say like oh why did they leave
00:08:48.800 corruption but the whole idea is blaming the parties that these people left i think that it
00:08:55.000 should be that you ride and die with your party if they haven't changed if they change and you
00:08:59.780 get in and say i want to advocate for this that and the other thing and you ran on that and the
00:09:04.160 party was okay with that at the time and now they're saying don't talk about that anymore
00:09:07.320 and then you had to leave to a different party or start your own party to be able to talk about
00:09:10.840 that that makes sense that is not even in the universe of what is going on right now not going
00:09:15.400 to stop it the intimidation that some have alleged is not going to stop it what's going to stop it
00:09:21.080 that's the thing you should be looking at floor crossing has happened as long as there have been
00:09:26.600 democracies and it's great today the ndp gets the spotlight on itself because of floor crossing not
00:09:32.040 their leadership race probably not the way they want to earn it yeah it's a bit different than
00:09:36.680 the conservatives but i think that speaks to why maybe people find carney appealing and why they
00:09:42.280 want to go there he's taking an approach that is unique to each individual case some apparently
00:09:48.280 want titles others simply want to move over and get funding in their riding you can call that
00:09:53.400 what you want to call it ultimately the voters will decide what the thing of it i literally
00:09:57.400 had to scroll back to make sure i was not lying to you when i said this guy was a conservative
00:10:01.880 strategist. He's literally labeled as a former conservative strategist. He is filling the
00:10:07.200 conservative quotient of this panel. Again, I bring up Travis Dunraj. This is exactly what
00:10:13.040 he's talking about. The conservatives on panels are not conservatives. It's Fred DeLore. It's the
00:10:19.200 guys like this, people who are not going to say anything conservative because they're just old
00:10:23.140 PC guys from like the Kim Campbell era. They're like old PC guys from like when the party had
00:10:29.060 a really red portion. There are still more red people in the Conservative Party, but they only
00:10:34.260 ever have the reds come on. Michelle, what does this say about the state of the NDP? And does it
00:10:43.540 need to do some pretty deep soul searching? Or is this just par for the course right now for today's
00:10:49.440 NDP? Imagine asking this person that question. She's literally a former press secretary or
00:10:55.960 something like that former advisor to Paul Martin you're asking the liberal oh does this mean the
00:11:00.900 NDP is going to go down now if it's openly biased show you had a guest come on who's just going to
00:11:05.840 give you their opinion on everything and they are biased fair enough but the whole idea of this
00:11:10.300 panel is it's the power panel it's balanced there's a conservative there's a liberal there's
00:11:14.880 an NDP and then there's some neutral person who's just another liberal this is not balanced well
00:11:19.460 you know I think as Jordan referenced it's a it's a rough day in a rough year uh that they've been
00:11:24.600 having and it's certainly not probably what a new leader of the NDP wants to come in on
00:11:30.600 but I think this is quite honestly less about the NDP and much more about Mark Carney
00:11:35.820 and the prime minister that he is and the fact that he is you know really breaking the mold and
00:11:42.280 he's breaking the mold guys it's a new government new government breaking the mold unity stability
00:11:47.420 who cares about floor crossings Mark Carney so great he deserves to be able to do unethical
00:11:52.740 things come on people like i need to bring up this uh well i'll start off with comments by
00:11:58.780 pure poly of the leader of the conservative party because we haven't uh i didn't talk about what he
00:12:02.980 said yesterday i think his post may have come out either while i was recording yesterday or right
00:12:07.740 afterwards uh conservative party leader pure poly of here says mark carney is using backroom deals
00:12:13.060 to seize a costly majority that voters rejected which will enable liberals to balloon debt
00:12:18.100 inflate the cost of living block resources and turn criminals loose on our street on our streets
00:12:22.720 I don't need to read the rest. It is generally just campaign rhetoric.
00:12:26.720 The one thing I just want to highlight is he's saying that he is using backroom deals to seize a costly majority, to seize a majority.
00:12:35.140 Now, if the liberals wanted to disprove what Polyev is saying, they could have any of these floor crossers come out and do a sit down interview and explain all the problems with their original party and why Mark Carney is so brilliant. 1.00
00:12:49.740 Can they actually do that? They can't. They have no ability to actually articulate themselves on this issue because they've saw it way too much of the opposite. And can anyone name anything that Carney has done? Although Lori Idlout feels perfect for the party. Look at this from Holly Doan from Blacklock's Reporter.
00:13:09.360 First term NDP MP Lori Idlout, and this is from 2023, by the way, this isn't just coming
00:13:14.560 out conveniently right now to attack her.
00:13:17.640 First term NDP MP Lori Idlout is a federal supplier whose firm has been awarded almost
00:13:23.120 a half million in contracts since her election in 2021.
00:13:27.300 Now, you'll remember the NDP was in a coalition with Justin Trudeau's liberals back then.
00:13:32.020 And just, you know, unsurprisingly, her firm was getting massive amounts of money since
00:13:36.880 after she became elected. 0.82
00:13:38.760 She's corrupt, so I guess she is going to fit in with the liberals quite well. 0.88
00:13:43.060 There's some other stuff about criminal charges against her son, but I don't think that really matters too much.
00:13:47.100 Oh, here's another liberal propagandist who was on the CBC, you know, not to actually critique whether or not this is, you know, ethical or not.
00:13:55.000 Never does it ever get mentioned. 0.93
00:13:57.140 Only that this is all, you know, this is great for the liberals and it's, you know, you know, and the NDP and the conservatives suck because a corrupt thing happened.
00:14:07.300 Mr. Carney is returning the Liberal Party, in my view, to its roots as a centrist brokerage party.
00:14:14.020 And there used to be two of those in this country, but now there's only one.
00:14:17.700 And so I think a lot of people, particularly from the...
00:14:21.040 The implication there being the Conservatives are far right and they're no longer a brokerage party.
00:14:27.500 Brokerage might not be the best term for him to be using because it does make it sound like all of this is brokering deals in the back room
00:14:33.420 not actually just being out front and engaging in you know policy development based on what the
00:14:39.900 the grassroots of the public want clearly from the conservative side who wouldn't really be part of
00:14:45.180 the radical side of that party find this new formation uh that mr kearney's putting together
00:14:51.180 uh pretty pretty attractive
00:14:52.940 youtube and again just another person slagging the conservatives and the ndp for this that all
00:15:06.180 this just demonstrates that actually mark carney is the best the fact that he has to get bring over
00:15:12.620 mps for these like corrupt reasons just means that he's an even better prime minister than
00:15:16.940 you previously thought. Here's a post that's quite interesting. A Liberal MP, Eric St. Pierre here
00:15:23.140 says, on our way to a majority with a photo of Laurie Idlout with a CBC link. Ryan Garrison
00:15:30.900 here says, now why would Eric, who is a Liberal MP, delete this? He posted this last night and
00:15:37.040 then quickly removed it. Yes, it's almost like even the Liberals know when this information is
00:15:43.220 not being filtered by the legacy media to sound like this is actually all above board and good
00:15:48.460 the average person's reaction to a post like that would be quite negative because it's not how
00:15:54.220 democracy is supposed to work it feels very gamified uh here is steve mckinnon the liberal
00:15:59.900 mp uh who's also a liberal mp who's also the house leader for the liberals uh trying to play
00:16:04.740 up the idea that people are leaving other parties because they don't like them very much in the past
00:16:09.440 you've alluded to the fact that you said the Liberals were talking to more MPs who are
00:16:12.920 unsatisfied with their parties about joining yours. Where does that stand right now? Is that
00:16:17.680 still the case? Oh, I think very much so. I think that Canadians who live in conservative ridings
00:16:24.000 look at their MPs and wish they would spend more time proposing solutions, participating in
00:16:30.760 this great project on which we've embarked to build Canada more strong and to continue to
00:16:36.900 diversify our supply chains to continue to develop markets abroad and to continue to push our economy
00:16:43.660 no i thought you said conservatives but i said just in general but what about ndp mps
00:16:50.100 um well i don't know i mean ndp mps uh those constituents i think feel much the same
00:16:57.900 uh that they uh their constituents are asking them to participate in this great project upon
00:17:04.220 again what have they accomplished can they actually name an accomplishment we i even
00:17:09.980 highlighted it like a week and a half ago or like last week that when a liberal commentator a liberal
00:17:16.280 analyst was on a cpac show talking about the accomplishments of the liberal government
00:17:22.640 admitted that yes he does need to start getting some wins because he doesn't have any wins right
00:17:26.720 now sorry but he doesn't have any the mark carney does not have any wins under his belt
00:17:32.640 So what project are these MPs crossing the floor to help the Liberals embark on?
00:17:38.420 They haven't embarked on anything yet.
00:17:41.640 And that whole clip of Steve McKinnon talking comes across far more like a mafia shakedown than an actual, like, sincere, I guess, like, it doesn't really seem like a sincere insight into what people from other writings are, like, you know, think.
00:17:59.240 It seems more like he's basically trying to wish cast what he would like voters to want and trying to create this narrative in the media that, of course, there's all these people in conservative ridings who want their MPs to cross.
00:18:12.020 There isn't. What's his data point to suggest that?
00:18:15.660 Not one of these people who have crossed the floor have been able to get people out to actually say that they're happy with it.
00:18:21.500 And if they are, you're usually just liberal partisans who voted liberal.
00:18:24.840 And of course, they want the person to cross. 0.90
00:18:26.420 this whole thing is just a complete joke at this point and i hope a lot of canadians actually do
00:18:32.180 start like chafing against what's going on here and they actually start not wanting to vote for
00:18:37.940 parties who like basically will do anything for power we want principle in government we do not
00:18:43.480 want just simply power brokering we've been doing that for about 10 years now it's not been working
00:18:48.860 out very well for canada as a country anyways with that all being said thank you guys for watching
00:18:56.080 I'm going to be coming back with some stuff from Alberta in my next video.
00:19:00.160 There's been nonsense going on with Nahid Nenshi, the NDP leader,
00:19:04.460 trying to say that the UCP government should dissolve
00:19:07.620 because First Nations chiefs don't like them.
00:19:10.420 That's a massive stunt, and I'm going to have to cover that.
00:19:13.260 But other than that, thank you guys for watching.
00:19:15.940 Like, share, subscribe.
00:19:17.720 Consider joining the monthly subscription program for the channel
00:19:21.280 to help me sustain the channel better.
00:19:22.860 and then of course always hit that notification bell so that you'll be notified right away
00:19:27.280 when a new video is out. With all that being said, thank you guys for watching. I'll see you all later.