The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberals ATTACK former NDP leader for Agreeing with Pierre Poilievre!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:06.120 Entertainment has changed a lot over time. A couple thousand years ago, Romans enjoyed going 1.00

00:00:11.940 to the Coliseum to watch gladiators fight to the death, or to see plebeians thrown to the lions. 0.70

00:00:18.180 And now, in the year 2026, I, Wyatt Claypool, enjoy sitting back and watching online liberals

00:00:25.520 and other assorted leftists savage the former NDP leader for saying something nice about a

00:00:31.740 conservative. In a certain sense, not much has really changed from the Roman times. I find this

00:00:37.920 endlessly hilarious. So former NDP leader Tom Mulcair went on CTV News to talk about Pierre

00:00:45.680 Polyev's appearance on the Joe Rogan experience, and he gave it good reviews. And the reaction to

00:00:52.060 him online is hilarious, especially considering how open-minded left-wing voters in Canada

00:00:58.560 think that they are. I find conservatives way more willing to give compliments to left-wing

00:01:04.600 politicians than left-wing voters are willing to give to right-wing politicians. I know I work in

00:01:10.680 BC politics with Dallas Brody, and it is like pulling teeth getting anyone from the other side

00:01:15.780 to even admit that she's at least tapping onto issues that people really care about that have

00:01:20.860 been neglected. But in this video, we are going to go through this CTV news clip, and then I want

00:01:27.260 to show you guys the reaction, and then we will be going over just the really stupid take the 0.96

00:01:32.560 liberal on the panel, the guy with the blue glasses ended up having. But before we get into 0.92

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00:02:18.180 let's hear how how what Tom Mulcair thought of Polyev's appearance on the Joe Rogan experience

00:02:24.740 I thought he was super well prepared and for something that was going to last that long

00:02:30.240 every time he would get to something tricky like a good slalom skier just make the right move make

00:02:36.780 slow down just enough get through it wouldn't touch some of the obvious traps was really thinking

00:02:43.020 about what he was going to say I thought it was an outstanding piece of political communication

00:02:47.680 and now immediately Tom Mulcair he is again a left-wing former politician that guy is being

00:02:56.940 very fair and very objective here he's not saying he agrees with Polyev's ideas I assume that he

00:03:01.960 doesn't agree with a lot of Polyev's ideas they're on opposite ends of the political spectrum you

00:03:06.960 could say Tom Mulcair is a little more of a center-left NDP leader so he's not that that

00:03:11.940 far away from you know from Polyev compared to somebody like Heather McPherson or Avi Lewis in

00:03:17.580 the NDP. But still, they're far apart. But you notice what Tom Mulcair is doing. He's just

00:03:22.980 complimenting him on the grounds that, you know, it's really good political communications work.

00:03:27.700 He is hitting all the points he needs to. He's not getting trapped on topics that he doesn't want

00:03:32.840 to go on about in case the media rips him for talking about, you know, Trudeau being

00:03:37.460 Fidel Castro's son or whatever. I still think that Polly didn't need to shut down those 0.96

00:03:41.840 conversations too quickly because it's obviously a bit of a joke and you don't need to immediately

00:03:46.380 kind of naysay the topic. But overall, from Tom Mulcair's perspective, it was well done.

00:03:51.740 Let's watch the rest of this. But so far, you should get the impression that this is

00:03:55.300 an extremely reasonable and balanced take on this interview was bookended by a speech that he gave

00:04:02.100 later on in New York that frankly, one of the best political speeches I've heard any Canadian

00:04:06.960 political leader give on Canada US relations in a long time. He's ditched that tone that used to

00:04:12.800 drive everybody up the wall. He was on the same serious tone that he used at that economic

00:04:18.020 conference in Toronto recently. And the content of that speech on top of the proper tone was

00:04:24.100 outstanding. I mean, he gave a better explanation as to why it was a mistake for the Americans to

00:04:29.520 be pushing tariffs when he talked about the fact that Trump's main argument was, oh, Canada's got

00:04:33.560 a trade surplus with the United States. Yes, we do, because we're selling you $100 billion a year

00:04:39.020 of oil that we sell you cheap. And do you want us to stop that so we can get rid of the trade 0.72

00:04:44.300 surplus? I mean, he didn't quite finish that sentence, but he just left it hanging there,

00:04:47.900 which is another artful thing to do. So I think that between the Toronto speech and the New York

00:04:52.100 speech and the appearance on Rogan, we are indeed starting to see a whole new Pierre Poitiev. And

00:04:57.060 it's one that I think the Canadians are going to warm to much more than they have to the tone that

00:05:01.260 we've seen from him in the past. Now, I don't even necessarily agree with everything that Thomas

00:05:06.300 small care said there. I would say that's a very reasonable take from a left-wing perspective.

00:05:11.600 On the trade issue, I think Polyev is knocking it out of the park right now, and you could say

00:05:14.980 that's a borderline non-partisan issue. No Canadian politician wants tariffs on us, and so he's giving

00:05:20.180 him like A-plus grades for how he's talking about the issue in the United States. I disagree with

00:05:25.240 the idea that this is like a new peer Polyev, or that he's changed his tone in a way where he's

00:05:30.800 like somehow nicer than he was previously. I never felt like Polyev was rude or alienating

00:05:36.920 of voters. I thought the reason that the conservatives didn't win in 2025 was just

00:05:40.860 that the platform wasn't matching his tone in a certain sense. It wasn't that his tone

00:05:45.780 was nasty or anything. It was this, that the platform was too mild. And so there was kind

00:05:51.240 of a mismatch between how he was talking and how he was actually running. And I think then

00:05:56.600 that ended up causing many conservative voters, accessible conservative voters, didn't turn out in

00:06:02.460 the rates that they needed them. But overall, it's a good take from Thomas Mulcair. I don't

00:06:08.240 agree with all of it, but I thought he was very fair. Now, guys, we need to see how the left

00:06:14.640 reacted to this. Let's just go down the list. I'm just going through all the quote tweets of this

00:06:19.800 clip so we have former ndp member of provincial parliament parliament in ontario sherry de novo

00:06:27.000 saying profoundly embarrassing tom vicky campbell who was a massive trudeau and now mark carney

00:06:35.160 shill says tom all care works for stephen harper now that's all you need to know about why he

00:06:41.000 supports peer poly of when nobody else does oh my goodness he supports polyeth because he gave

00:06:47.560 his own subjective evaluation of how the interviews went he's not even saying he'd vote for

00:06:52.520 him he's probably wouldn't vote for him he's just saying he did a good job in an interview

00:06:56.680 i've said when carney has done a good job my goodness uh tom park says just brutal and

00:07:02.920 insulting that ctv execs to make tom all care the ndp pundit while the other parties get people who

00:07:09.240 actually have a relationship with their party and want them to succeed i'm sorry tom parkin uh the

00:07:15.640 The NDP has shot itself in the foot so badly that even Tom Mulcair is no longer considered within the party anymore.

00:07:23.900 And by the way, no, other than Lisa Raitt, who's quite good here, I believe that's Lisa Raitt as the conservative representative here. 0.71

00:07:31.520 But other than Lisa Raitt on CTV News, it's rare to actually get a good conservative pundit on your panels, especially on the CBC.

00:07:40.840 It's like Fred DeLore is the conservative representative on power and politics most of the time. He's terrible. He was Aaron O'Toole's campaign manager. He's barely conservative in any way. And I've had other examples where the conservatives were just openly agreeing with whatever Mark Carney was saying and that conservatives need to stop whining so much. What are you possibly talking about?

00:08:01.380 It's that the NDP has shrunk so much that even Tom Mulcair is not considered within the party's tent anymore because they moved so far left.

00:08:10.660 Again, it's not being like, oh, he's not NDP if he doesn't rip on Polyev.

00:08:15.160 He's saying that Polyev did a good speech.

00:08:18.400 The tone of it was good.

00:08:19.760 He hit all of the points everyone obviously thinks you should hit when it comes to trade.

00:08:24.340 How are you even criticizing this?

00:08:26.060 moving on canda strong freija and mark carney is some complicated username for some big liberal

00:08:34.900 shill this person says omfg mulcair has lost his mind terry glavin agrees he's a little more

00:08:42.080 conservative that doesn't surprise me this person who uh who runs the pearson project account says

00:08:47.400 Tom, Tom, how far you've fallen?

00:08:51.900 And here, okay, that one's probably more generally good.

00:08:56.500 There's some people here actually saying it's great

00:08:58.240 that they actually are giving good review.

00:09:01.280 I want to find some of these more angry left-wing ones. 1.00

00:09:05.900 Let's keep going down here.

00:09:09.600 Here's another one, Jason YYC, Jason underscore underscore YYC,

00:09:15.440 who's had a long history of trying to harass me, and this guy says, this effing guy never missed

00:09:20.980 an opportunity to disappoint. Never missed an opportunity to disappoint. All of these people

00:09:26.780 were loving on Jagmeet Singh in 2019, 2021, and 2025, and the guy underperformed Tom Mulcair

00:09:36.140 in all three of those elections, and you're going to say Thomas Mulcair disappoints? Even Tom

00:09:41.880 Mulcair only underperformed in 2015 relative to Jack Layton flying very high. Thomas Mulcair was

00:09:49.460 a perfectly fine NDP leader. He actually held the party together for the most part, considering that

00:09:54.700 he wasn't having to run against a very weak liberal party anymore, and it was Justin Truro's

00:09:59.380 liberal party in 2015. He did admirably well, all considering, but all the NDP does is constantly

00:10:07.180 hack on their own people uh do we have any other here yeah here we go this person who is some

00:10:14.120 Hamas supporter probably says this is Jack Layton's legacy more than any of the sentimental

00:10:19.820 hokum attached to him followed by low info millennials I don't know why this person's

00:10:24.840 bring up Jack Layton I guess they're saying that like Tom Mulcair is really like the type of person

00:10:29.560 who like actually like represents Tom Mulcair's legacy because he was like a close ally of Tom

00:10:35.120 all care but again they're just whining that this guy actually has any sort of like reasonable take

00:10:42.060 this guy t dot residents resident uh says palm all care is just like the jim kramer of canadian

00:10:48.400 politics referencing the guy who does stocks about you know does advice on stocks on tv is

00:10:54.440 frequently wrong how i have not had anyone explain this to me yet how was it a bad interview for

00:11:01.320 Polyev. Now, I have seen him do, I saw parts of the interview where I think he shouldn't have

00:11:07.540 said that. He did some overly flowery language about how the First Nations community is extremely

00:11:14.420 forward-looking and we want to partner with them to do natural resource development. That came

00:11:20.540 across as a little bit of pandering from Pierre Polyev. No, that really isn't what the First

00:11:25.640 Nations community is like. It's not that the First Nations community is backward-looking or something

00:11:30.060 like that it's just a community they're just people but i don't like this whole idea of like

00:11:34.660 oh this community over here is particularly enterprising like you could describe some

00:11:40.060 communities like that where there's a lot of business owners but if anything the first nations

00:11:44.040 community is what i would describe as severely held back by the reserve system and corrupt ban

00:11:50.480 councils and the entire reconciliation industry in general it's a community who largely doesn't

00:11:55.820 get to live in the free market like the rest of us. And so, like, I didn't really see why he

00:12:01.240 talked about it that way. If anything, it's a community in dire need of help because they are

00:12:05.860 being held back by awful government policy and ban councils. But, you know, overall, the interview

00:12:11.280 was good for Polyev. He came away with a big net positive. And if you're a liberal and you hated

00:12:17.080 the interview, other than you hate Polyev and you hate Joe Rogan, what was actually bad about it?

00:12:23.120 Now, I thought that Mark Carney's interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart did pretty well back in the day.

00:12:30.100 Now, I found it really hypocritical, and I didn't think he was actually, you know, people were giving him rave reviews.

00:12:35.060 I think it went pretty well for him, but they were, like, really overstating how charming and funny he was and all that stuff.

00:12:41.640 But I can actually give him credit for things he did well in that interview.

00:12:44.920 If you're a liberal or a leftist and you can't say a single nice thing about that interview, it's because you're just a partisan hack.

00:12:52.520 Here is another person. Brenda Duck says, are you kidding me, Mulcair? He didn't say one damn word we haven't heard from day one from everyone trying to make sense of dealing with Trump. What the WTH are these pundits even listening to praising Polly for a scripted BS way too late coming? What are you talking about?

00:13:13.660 Like, sorry, he actually has been saying things that are unique to what Mark Carney has been

00:13:18.680 saying. He's been making very constructive arguments for saying that we should take the

00:13:23.720 China deal that we just signed and burn it if it allows us to get a better deal with the United

00:13:28.180 States, that we should engage in some horse trading if we actually want to be able to get

00:13:32.360 to a zero tariff relationship with the U.S. That is not something the liberals have proposed. In

00:13:37.400 fact, they've been doing the opposite, saying let's sacrifice the U.S. relationship to go sign

00:13:42.220 deals with Indonesia and China and other countries in Europe that we're never going to be able to

00:13:48.640 replace the United States with. Guaranteed, that person did not watch the interview.

00:13:54.800 Here's Meg. How is he being praised for this when he let Rogan's disinformation go unchecked?

00:14:01.940 Life-saving COVID restrictions were ridiculous? Blaming fake refugees for housing crisis? 0.74

00:14:07.040 Made being used for seasonal depression? Blatant lies he didn't push back on.

00:14:12.220 I don't even know how to respond to this one. It just demonstrates there are a lot of very low information liberal voters. It's now a famous story where the parents of the victim have spoken out that their son, who was in his 20s, received MAID medical assistance in dying, basically assisted suicide, because he had seasonal depression.

00:14:34.240 The official paperwork showed that's what happened. We've had people get made because they had hearing loss. We have had people get made for other mental health disorders. It's just your fault if you don't know about this stuff. Sorry, life-saving COVID restrictions were ridiculous?

00:14:52.020 us they were they were proven not to really work at all it was it was a stupid thing that we did 0.96

00:14:58.560 yes probably in the middle of it maybe certain people over a certain age with certain comorbidities 0.83

00:15:03.820 should have stayed home but the idea that like the average young person need to be locked up

00:15:08.420 was insane blaming fake refugees for housing crisis the liberals themselves are trying to

00:15:15.560 reduce the amount of immigrants including fake refugees including tfws including international

00:15:21.040 students, many of whom are fake, PRs, and all that, because even the Carney government had to

00:15:25.840 acknowledge that this was putting way too much pressure on the housing supply. It's just basic

00:15:31.260 facts. But the thing is that so many of these liberals live in a world where probably because

00:15:36.480 they work as consultants or other, they have fake jobs or they're retired living on a pension, 1.00

00:15:40.780 they now have the luxury to believe stupid things. They can believe things that are not true, 1.00

00:15:45.960 because it's never going to actually smack them in the day-to-day life. So they can go around

00:15:50.220 acting like no no of course Mark Carney's saving the country and he's preventing that Donald Trump

00:15:54.820 and America from annexing us and making us the 51st state and and Polyev is a traitor who's 0.88

00:16:00.800 trying to give away the keys to the kingdom to Donald Trump like where are you getting this from

00:16:05.320 I still see people repeating this nonsense all the time and you wouldn't think are they just

00:16:11.620 saying this to basically propagandize against the conservatives some of them are probably people

00:16:16.280 like Vicky Campbell are. Other people like Laura Babcock genuinely believe it. It's sad to witness.

00:16:24.660 But that should be enough of that. I want to now bring you to the interview itself to highlight

00:16:29.720 this other member of the panel trying to still slag Polyev's performance. This was basically

00:16:35.600 right after Tom Mulcair gave his positive review of what he said. We're going to go through Lisa

00:16:41.040 right first and then hear his response. His seat projections have them exceeding 200 seats right

00:16:46.860 now. Is what Pierre Polyev doing going to work at this juncture? And so this is basically asking,

00:16:56.960 is his new media strategy going to be helping him in terms of the polling and the electoral

00:17:03.980 success of the Conservatives' next election? The last part is the most important part,

00:17:09.340 at this juncture i think it could work eventually i think that given a little bit more of a runway

00:17:15.660 maybe a majority government that hangs around for three years to where the point they're going to

00:17:20.940 actually have to be putting out results as opposed to just talking about announcements and and what

00:17:26.300 they plan on doing because these are taking a long time to get done for a whole bunch of good reasons

00:17:31.900 but he has a good thing to think about i mean he's getting good response it's something to

00:17:35.980 to build on but i would point this out don't assume that the polyev that you got both in europe

00:17:41.720 and toronto and new york and indeed on that podcast is the one you're going to get in the

00:17:46.240 house of commons it's not he will go back to doing what he does he mentioned it many times

00:17:51.160 he's there to prosecute the government and he'll continue to prosecute the government so it's kind

00:17:56.380 of like when you know the family is having a big fight but you know you got a company coming over

00:18:01.060 and you stop the fight because the company's in the room you don't want to show them that

00:18:04.520 I think that's what's going to end up happening.

00:18:06.940 He was great out in public amongst everybody else.

00:18:09.560 But once we get back in Canada, he's going to take the fight to Carney.

00:18:13.480 Scott, your thoughts on the timing?

00:18:16.240 He's been somebody for 25 years.

00:18:18.520 Suddenly he's going to be somebody else.

00:18:19.960 I think that's very difficult.

00:18:21.300 On the timing issue, obviously he needs this issue set to change, or he's almost certainly sunk.

00:18:26.860 As long as what we're talking about is Trump, no matter how thoughtful his speeches might be,

00:18:31.080 I just don't think he's going to rank up against the prime minister.

00:18:36.320 Yuri, CTV News political analyst, Scott Reid.

00:18:40.300 I knew it was like Scott something, but I know there's another Scott Reid out there.

00:18:43.820 So I was wondering if I was forgetting, like, you know, combining two people in my head.

00:18:48.380 Actually use your degree in whatever you have to analyze politics.

00:18:53.820 This is why I cannot stand a lot of mainstream shows.

00:18:56.600 I think Vashi Kapalos does a really good job on CTV News. And sometimes, like sometimes, there's this older host who sometimes hosts CBC Power and Politics who asks reasonable questions. But what is this? Oh, he's been one thing in politics for 20 years. I don't think he's going to change. What has he been? What has he been? Like you haven't actually defined what he was and why it was negative and then why you cannot change.

00:19:23.740 It's just this kind of constant kind of insinuation that Polly is a bad guy and you should just be hypnotized by me saying that he is nasty and terrible and people don't like him.

00:19:34.520 This is mean girl politics. 1.00

00:19:36.600 Oh, my goodness.

00:19:37.360 You're voting for him.

00:19:40.320 That's pretty much the tactic of people like Scott Reed shilling for the liberals, just insinuating that the guy is bad.

00:19:46.880 And if Trump's around, he can't win because, you know, he's too much like Donald Trump.

00:19:51.440 last thing i would say is let's put this in historical context and i know i sound like a

00:19:55.120 rain cloud here but he's trying to do something really really difficult because once public once

00:20:00.000 the public forms an opinion of an opposition leader once that is hardened and set the examples

00:20:05.200 of opposition leaders who've been able to reverse that opinion change what people think about them

00:20:09.200 and reinvent themselves not very many in fact i can think of zero maybe joe clark but he had

00:20:14.720 to wait until he was a minister before people were willing to accept a new interpretation of

00:20:20.080 very difficult what he's trying to achieve okay well the last word goes to the former i want to

00:20:25.840 quickly jump over and then just show you guys uh his first take when it came to the interview

00:20:30.940 i just thought this whole thing his whole just perspective on this thing was ridiculous it was

00:20:36.120 confirming my thing that so many liberals out there many of many people on the left like tom

00:20:41.100 malcare were being fair other people were gonna find some angle like sarah core and alia raj

00:20:47.140 just find some angle to say why this doesn't matter or why actually he did a bad job when

00:20:53.040 you really think about it despite the fact that it was an overwhelming success by even people on

00:20:57.680 the left's like tom all cares own measure risk is an is a venue in a sort of interview length like

00:21:03.920 that well there is huge risk obviously you're expected to speak candidly easily conversationally

00:21:10.420 but about incredibly treacherous topics with a host who has been known to say controversial

00:21:15.000 things, said controversial things in this podcast. So I do think there's risk here. And I think that

00:21:21.720 Polyev handled himself well in it. I like the way he pushed back on Trump. I like the way he pushed

00:21:25.520 back on Rogan a couple of times. But, you know, take all of this together. I think this strategy

00:21:32.540 of meeting with U.S. leaders, media, business leaders, I think all that makes a lot of sense.

00:21:38.920 But I still think there's a challenge here in his message. And it came through not just on the

00:21:43.280 podcast but elsewhere and and that is his core message is we got to reattach ourselves to the

00:21:49.520 united states as fully and as fast as possible and so when he stood in the streets of new york

00:21:53.620 city and said listen my message is that americans love us i think that feels a little off to a lot

00:21:58.960 of canadians i think how is it wrong though that's my thing is just there's no actual substance to

00:22:04.440 this analysis he even had to admit it was a good podcast interview but then he has to go to well

00:22:10.000 you know his strategy let's be clear can actually work to try and get a deal to with the americans

00:22:16.620 that doesn't work because in my liberal bubble we don't want to be nice to the americans then

00:22:21.600 just admit mark carney's not actually trying to get a deal admit it just admit that he's been

00:22:26.000 fibbing this entire time because he is serving a base of people who would rather never get a deal

00:22:30.800 signed a lot of canadian say i'm feeling wary and auto workers dual producers um farmers i think a

00:22:38.540 lot of people are saying just just hang on a second so i think he navigated though just hang

00:22:43.120 on a second if you're an auto worker you don't want to get a deal signed to then make it easier

00:22:47.720 to ship your products into the united states terror free like is this man taking crazy pills

00:22:53.680 or something the pod pretty well but that core message i still think needs some refinement there's

00:23:00.840 real risk greg abbott is an ally of trump's whether you like him or not uh the truth is

00:23:06.440 Rogan is rocket fuel for the MAGA movement.

00:23:09.140 And Birpolyev's got to be careful that he doesn't look like he's vying for the position

00:23:12.780 of MAGA's most preferred prime minister of Canada, because that ain't going to play with

00:23:16.780 Canadians.

00:23:17.620 See, that's what he was trying to say there.

00:23:20.020 He was wheeling around, having to say it was a good interview, but he had to wheel around

00:23:24.420 to throwing out the insinuation that, you know, people are going to say about this about

00:23:28.340 him, that he's just really Trump's MAGA guy in Canada.

00:23:31.460 rogan's not even pro-trump anymore because he's like a hyper isolationist who doesn't like that

00:23:37.800 trump is fighting the ayatollahs in iran like but the thing is that scott reed isn't saying

00:23:43.480 that other people are saying this he's saying that he is saying this hoping that people will

00:23:47.720 then make that their opinion that night around the dinner table well you know that poliev kind 1.00

00:23:52.480 of really is trump's manga guy in canada well i know that because scott reed said it while

00:23:58.200 blinking through his very pretentious blue glasses like oh my goodness yeah get out of here anyways

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 23, 2026

Liberals ATTACK former NDP leader for Agreeing with Pierre Poilievre!

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