The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 12, 2025


Liberals claim Poilievre's ＂Canada First＂ slogan is racist & Mark Carney's record is fake!

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Carney legacy & Harper/Flaherty achievements
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Wyatt Claypool
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Mark Carney Stephen Harper Justin Trudeau Jim Flaherty Wilfrid Laurier Pierre Poilievre Howard Anglin Oneida Polyev Matthew S. Johnson W.S. Johnston Clark Carney Trump Hanvir Randhawa Chrystia Freeland Sheila Gunn-Reed Frank Bayless Ronald Reagan Freedom Force Anthony Koch Keep Trudeau and 8 more
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In this episode, I talk about how the Liberals are out of touch with their own voters, and why they should be worried about Mark Carney becoming their next Prime Minister. I also talk about the fact that Mark Carney's name recognition in Canada is very low compared to the other candidates in the race, and how much of it is actually due to the liberal media's astroturfing tactics.

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00:00:00.000 Backing up my point I made in a video yesterday about how the current surge in the polls for the Liberals is more of a response bias than a real shift in public opinion,
00:00:11.360 I have for you what the Liberals are currently doing to counter-message the Conservatives.
00:00:17.440 They're claiming that saying Canada first is racist.
00:00:22.460 These people have not learned any lessons about campaigning, they are still deeply out of touch, and it doesn't matter if Mark Carney or Freeland or whoever else becomes their leader, they are still the absolute worst.
00:00:37.060 Here are the Liberals saying, perhaps Pierre Polyev should rethink his latest slogan.
00:00:41.900 And here is some sort of CBC headline from back in 2021 that says,
00:00:48.400 One, deeply embarrassing to ever cite the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.
00:01:09.620 It is just a far-left Antifa front group that is in fact funded by the federal liberal government to basically go around accusing every single mainstream conservative of having an extremely tenuous connection to a far-right organization or some sort of racist person out there.
00:01:28.680 Really, a lot of these organizations aren't even far-right, they are in fact socialistic in terms of many of their economic beliefs.
00:01:35.480 They also just happen to be an awful people on top of that, that doesn't make them far-right.
00:01:41.020 Anyways, but this whole thing kind of fell apart right away when people pointed out that Canada first is a very common old Canadian slogan.
00:01:51.500 Do you know who it was popularized by first in Canadian history?
00:01:55.400 Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the 19-aughts Liberal Prime Minister of Canada, the only four-term straight Prime Minister Canada has ever had.
00:02:05.480 Anthony Koch here, a conservative organizer and commentator, says,
00:02:09.780 Learn your history.
00:02:11.260 And then this account made in Canada quotes Wilfrid Laurier that says,
00:02:15.680 Let your motto be Canada first, Canada last, Canada always.
00:02:20.020 That is something that Wilfrid Laurier said in 1904.
00:02:24.060 And the Liberals think they have a really good angle on Polyev to say that,
00:02:28.500 Did you know that some unsavory people out there have also said Canada first? 0.96
00:02:34.940 These people are just so tired and lame.
00:02:38.460 I don't think that Mark Carney becoming leader is going to clean up any of this stuff,
00:02:42.400 because Mark Carney is running with Keem Trudeau behind him in the Liberal leadership.
00:02:47.120 Now, I'm going to clarify, too, there is a good chance Clark Carney still loses the Liberal leadership race.
00:02:53.740 There is going to be an English debate and a French debate.
00:02:57.440 One, in the English debate, he is going to get ripped to shreds by the other candidates,
00:03:01.920 who heavily resent the fact that he's pretending to be this fresh-faced outsider,
00:03:06.480 when he is, in fact, Justin Trudeau's puppet at this point.
00:03:09.700 And then in the French debate, a lot of Quebecers are probably going to see
00:03:13.680 that Mark Carney's French leaves a lot to be desired.
00:03:17.460 Chrystia Freeland doesn't have amazing French, 1.00
00:03:19.840 but especially in contrast to Frank Bayliss, who is a Montrealer,
00:03:24.560 Mark Carney is going to seem pretty rusty.
00:03:27.380 But I want to move on to some other stuff regarding Mark Carney.
00:03:32.200 I do want to talk about all the sycophantic, liberal, like, cheerleading
00:03:36.420 that's going on for him on social media that demonstrates all this is astroturfed.
00:03:40.960 Many of these individuals who are talking about Mark Carney in glowing terms
00:03:45.380 and are, like, big mainstream Liberal accounts are literally paid to tweet.
00:03:49.860 I'm not kidding.
00:03:50.820 Many of them have, like, contracts with Heritage Canada or other departments
00:03:55.280 to, like, promote certain things that the Canadian government is interested in.
00:03:59.340 And suddenly, they swung right behind Mark Carney as soon as he entered the race,
00:04:03.400 even though his name recognition with Canadians is sub-50%.
00:04:06.960 And people like Chrystia Freeland and other people in the race are actually much better, 1.00
00:04:11.640 like, much better known.
00:04:13.620 Anyways, before I move on to this stuff, I just want to give you guys the reminder,
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00:04:42.580 So do that. 0.56
00:04:43.780 Really helps us out.
00:04:45.280 And before I get to some stuff about Mark Carney's very fake reputation
00:04:49.540 that actually Pierre Polyev's wife, Anita Polyev, very rightfully called out,
00:04:54.380 I just want to talk about this very embarrassing post by this Liberal shill,
00:04:59.120 Dr. Matthew S. Johnson, who in the past has been literally caught
00:05:03.600 just copy and pasting other things people were saying to stump for Carney.
00:05:08.220 So in this post that he's commenting over from Mark Carney,
00:05:12.540 talking about how President Trump seems to think he can suspend the law of the United States
00:05:17.260 of international trade and of economics.
00:05:19.720 And he goes on about how he is somehow, like,
00:05:23.020 undermining the constitutional democracy in the United States
00:05:26.780 and all these random democratic talking points.
00:05:28.880 that I guarantee Mark Carney doesn't understand, nor do the Democrats understand.
00:05:34.260 But Matthew S. Johnson above this says,
00:05:36.760 Trump is no match for Mark Carney.
00:05:39.520 Through substantive intelligent leadership,
00:05:42.000 Canada will become resilient in this American BS
00:05:45.520 and emerge stronger than ever before.
00:05:47.780 Just watch us.
00:05:50.520 I tell people this all the time.
00:05:54.080 It doesn't matter.
00:05:55.700 It doesn't matter who the leader of Canada is.
00:05:57.840 There's no leader of Canada that's going to allow us to beat the Americans 0.98
00:06:02.560 in some sort of trade negotiation or trade war.
00:06:05.860 That's not me being unpatriotic.
00:06:08.320 I am a fully patriotic Canadian,
00:06:10.260 even though I do have this Ronald Reagan inauguration memorabilia right here.
00:06:15.260 But I'm a perfectly patriotic Canadian.
00:06:18.120 And it's not unpatriotic to point out that we are less than a tenth of the U.S.'s GDP.
00:06:23.180 So maybe we should probably ratchet down the rhetoric a little bit.
00:06:27.500 Because the best Canada is going to do in a trade negotiation is find some scenario where it's a win-win for Canada in the United States
00:06:34.800 and that nobody has to lose.
00:06:37.320 That is what Canada should be focused on.
00:06:39.160 We are a natural resource economy.
00:06:40.940 We do have leverage.
00:06:42.380 But in a trade war, we go bankrupt first.
00:06:45.160 So this idea that you're going to slot in Mark Carney and through his wit charm and political acumen, 1.00
00:06:51.760 he's going to somehow beat Trump is stupid. 1.00
00:06:54.640 There's no president that a Canadian prime minister could really beat unless they just let us beat them. 1.00
00:07:00.940 Like maybe if we brought back Joe Biden, we could beat them.
00:07:04.400 But not really.
00:07:05.480 We just simply don't have the resources at hand.
00:07:08.960 But so much of Mark Carney's, like the love for Mark Carney, is based off of complete nonsense.
00:07:15.740 It's just based off of the idea that, you know, he's done good stuff.
00:07:20.040 What good stuff?
00:07:21.240 I don't know.
00:07:22.220 I want to get to the Anita Polly thing in a second because she does a really good call out on his record as the governor of the Bank of Canada. 0.99
00:07:29.340 But I just want to highlight this chart from Richard Dias.
00:07:32.120 And he says the definition of insanity is electing the same party and expecting a different result.
00:07:38.460 Look at the real GDP per capita between Canada and the United States, Canada being the lower blue line and the U.S. being the red line.
00:07:46.480 They are actually moving up while we are significantly contracting.
00:07:51.540 Look at where the line is in 2015 and look at where our line is now.
00:07:56.040 We are basically no better off than we were in 2015.
00:07:59.920 I assume this is adjusted for inflation, so we are in a certain sense better off.
00:08:05.500 But relative to how well Americans are doing or even Europeans, Canadians are not doing well.
00:08:13.280 And Mark Carney should be absolutely slaughtered on a debate stage if he tries to say,
00:08:19.180 do you know that we're the fastest growing economy in the G7? 0.99
00:08:22.780 Nobody gives a crap about the GDP. 0.65
00:08:25.680 We care about GDP per capita. 0.96
00:08:27.740 Who cares if GDP number goes up if we have to add millions of people to the country a year in order to gain those small, like, to make those small gains?
00:08:38.260 I'd rather individuals be better off, families be better off, than simply the country itself having a bigger GDP number regardless of the actual underlying factors.
00:08:49.200 I'm going to stop here, too, and to say this is actually why I don't love the slogan Canada First for the Conservatives.
00:08:56.100 Like, I get it.
00:08:57.400 If I was to use Canada First, though, rather than saying Canada First, Canada Last, Canada Always, like Laurier would say,
00:09:03.160 I would start off by saying Canada First, Families First, and, like, you know, doing stuff like, you know, Canada First, like, Families First, like, whatever.
00:09:14.000 Like, actually naming things.
00:09:15.260 Because Canada First is too vague.
00:09:17.000 I would rather us be stating our actual values in the slogan that the Liberals could never take for themselves.
00:09:24.000 Because any party could technically say Canada First, I want to say Families First, Individuals First, Freedom First, stuff like that.
00:09:32.940 That we focus on individual freedom and families before we care about all the other minutiae and garbage like that.
00:09:40.880 Anyways, I now want to jump over to, actually, this is a good one, from Roman Baber, a Conservative MP candidate for Yorkton or Yorkville somewhere.
00:09:52.400 Where she's taking on Yara Sachs.
00:09:54.600 He says, madness, Carney wants Canadians to pay a tariff on imports from countries that don't have a carbon tax.
00:10:01.120 Carney wants us to pay a global carbon tax.
00:10:04.300 50% of Canadians are broke, 25% of kids go hungry, but Mark Carney wants everything to cost more.
00:10:10.580 And this is where I would ask Dr. Johnston, whatever, W.S. Johnston, that guy back there.
00:10:19.300 How is Mark Carney going to beat Trump?
00:10:22.400 While he is actively trying to tie Canadians' hands behind their backs.
00:10:26.920 Having a tariff on countries that don't have carbon taxes would mean that we would have a tariff on the vast majority of goods.
00:10:37.600 This is also something that he literally has being proposed now.
00:10:43.000 This isn't something that he proposed 10 years ago.
00:10:45.840 This is something that Carney is stumping for currently.
00:10:48.280 He'll get rid of our consumer carbon tax and add on this tariffed carbon tax in which would actually cost your family even more.
00:10:56.300 Because it's literally like a 50% or like some sort of percentage tax on any imported goods from countries that don't have this stuff.
00:11:05.320 And then I want to move on to, I want to get to this Chantel Hubert thing as well a little bit later.
00:11:11.640 But I'll jump up to Anita Polyev's post because I thought it was quite good what she talked about here.
00:11:18.680 So a lot of people, and this is based on this guy's post, Howard Anglin here.
00:11:24.440 And I think he makes the same point I've been making over the last week and a half.
00:11:29.400 Howard Anglin says,
00:11:30.460 Carney has made a lucrative career taking credit for Harper's and Jim Flaherty's political leadership during the global financial crisis.
00:11:39.780 Now he's running for prime minister on their record.
00:11:42.040 And you know it's true because even the quill drivers at the free press can't entirely ignore it.
00:11:48.840 And here is a free press article that says,
00:11:53.100 Carney helmed the Bank of Canada through the eye of the hurricane that was the 2008 global financial crisis.
00:11:58.860 Although politicos and economists still debate his specific contributions,
00:12:02.460 it's hard to dispute the fact that Canada came out of that crisis as the only G7 country that didn't have to bail out ex-chartered bank.
00:12:11.380 Well, it's not actually that complicated.
00:12:16.080 It's because Canada was not involved in the same sort of subprime mortgage lending
00:12:22.140 that the Americans and many other countries around the world were involved in.
00:12:26.880 Even then, certain parts of America did not experience the crash as much as others
00:12:32.500 because it depended on where subprime mortgages were actually focused.
00:12:36.840 A lot of other countries have massive real estate bubbles,
00:12:40.580 and Canada now has one too because of the policies of the Trudeau liberals. 0.96
00:12:45.280 And yeah, it actually is pretty stupid to think that because Carney was the governor of the Bank of Canada, 0.94
00:12:52.460 that he was involved. 0.93
00:12:53.500 Oh, but Wyatt, he engaged in policies of quantitative easing, and that was very good.
00:12:58.500 Under Harper's directive, it's so clearly because of Harper,
00:13:01.780 because we have seen what Carney does when he can advise the prime minister on what to do himself directly,
00:13:07.280 not being told what to do. 0.99
00:13:09.540 And he's been endorsing every single stupid policy that Justin Trudeau has been pushing over the last several years 0.99
00:13:18.580 that have made inflation terrible, that has made the housing bubble explode, 0.99
00:13:23.040 that like the out-of-control immigration that he is absolutely on board with, 1.00
00:13:26.940 because he's literally a speaker for the Century Initiative that wants to get Canada to 100 million people by 2050.
00:13:33.280 But Anita Polyev says above that Howard Anglin post that
00:13:38.700 taking credit for the achievements of the Harper government is one thing,
00:13:42.520 but claiming the legacy of a man who has since passed who cannot defend himself
00:13:46.140 or set the record straight is beyond disgraceful.
00:13:48.920 The credit belongs to Jim Flaherty and Stephen Harper, full stop.
00:13:52.380 And absolutely that is true.
00:13:53.840 There's nothing about Carney where he had to like wrestle away power from Harper and Flaherty
00:14:00.820 and demand that they do something that they would not have already done.
00:14:05.060 Harper set us on a very conservative fiscal path.
00:14:08.540 I think that there could have been things done better, more cuts to bloated spending,
00:14:12.680 but overall, Harper didn't freak out.
00:14:15.000 He didn't hit the bug lights when the crisis started happening in the United States,
00:14:20.480 which allowed our own markets to settle out.
00:14:23.100 That was very good.
00:14:24.420 Plus, we also were not engaged in the same subprime mortgage lending
00:14:27.660 that the U.S. government was involved in incentivizing in the U.S.
00:14:32.260 Anita goes on to say,
00:14:33.780 I won't apologize for having a strong opinion on this.
00:14:37.140 I am not just a spouse.
00:14:40.020 I worked under the Harper government
00:14:41.240 and saw firsthand the exceptional leadership of Mr. Flaherty and Mr. Harper in steering Canada
00:14:45.840 through one of the most challenging economic periods in our history.
00:14:49.400 What's happening right now is just misleading.
00:14:52.000 It's appalling.
00:14:53.100 And then I want to jump over to another post that I think really highlights
00:14:57.100 just what kind of a person that Mark Carney really is when it comes to politics.
00:15:03.280 Here is a video of Mark Carney at an event in Kelowna that Sheila Gunn-Reed from Rebel News posted,
00:15:11.980 talking about how he wants to use emergency powers to take on the Americans 0.93
00:15:16.660 in this current trade crisis going on.
00:15:19.220 And something that my government is going to do is to use all of the powers of the federal government,
00:15:24.400 including the emergency powers of the federal government,
00:15:27.840 to accelerate the major projects that we need in order to build this economy
00:15:32.180 and take on the Americans.
00:15:35.280 And by the way, when he talks about these major projects we need,
00:15:42.180 he's not talking about oil and gas.
00:15:44.180 He ain't talking about minerals.
00:15:46.300 He's talking about green energy.
00:15:49.840 He's talking about solar and wind.
00:15:51.440 Do you think that if that guy was doing whatever he wanted back in 2008,
00:15:55.880 he would have actually stuck to the very steady hand,
00:15:59.140 very limited policy response that Harper and Flaherty had to the 2008 market crash?
00:16:04.580 No, because when Carney is faced with a potential crisis,
00:16:08.940 he wants emergency powers.
00:16:10.580 He wants to dump more money into green boondoggles.
00:16:13.660 He wants to do more inflationary spending.
00:16:17.160 He wants to do dollar for dollar tariffs.
00:16:21.680 It's nuts.
00:16:22.680 He's not going to win this.
00:16:23.960 That's not something that would actually put Canada on a more steady path.
00:16:28.560 But this is who the liberals apparently want to run their party.
00:16:32.260 I'm not sure if this guy's actually going to help them at all.
00:16:35.120 In fact, there's a good chance he does worse than Trudeau as people get to know him.
00:16:39.260 They learn about his love for central bank digital currencies,
00:16:41.960 how much he hates oil and gas.
00:16:44.040 The fact that he hasn't really spent that much time in Canada over the past couple decades,
00:16:48.500 it's not a good look for him.
00:16:51.200 Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys.
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00:17:00.560 I'll see you guys next time in a new video.
00:17:03.020 I'm actually about to go record an interview with Hanvir Singh Randhawa,
00:17:07.480 who is the BC Conservative candidate in Surrey, Guilford,
00:17:10.320 where there is a very slim victory margin for the NDP
00:17:13.880 that might get overturned in court.
00:17:16.120 So make sure you look out for that video tomorrow.
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