The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberals harass US musician Sean Feucht amid Trade talks!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. We have to talk about the Sean Foyt situation in Canada.

00:00:07.420 It seems like liberals in this country are dedicated to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

00:00:13.980 I'm actually going to correct myself. No, liberals will find victory, they will kidnap victory,

00:00:19.980 and they will find some defeat jaws to throw victory within. We somehow lose in situations

00:00:26.360 when there wasn't even an ability to win or lose within them. For some reason, the Canadian

00:00:32.520 federal government, as well as many liberal municipalities around the country, are harassing

00:00:38.620 a U.S. musician, pulling his permits all over the place saying he can't be here on a work visa even

00:00:44.280 though he's just doing free concerts. At the same time, we are trying to sign a trade deal with the

00:00:51.760 United States. I don't even know if Mark Carney's trying to sign a trade deal, honestly. If he

00:00:57.580 posts a photo tomorrow on social media of him having dead skin eaten off his feet by guppies

00:01:03.680 at some spa, I would not be shocked because he is doing anything but dealing with the trade issue

00:01:10.120 with the United States. He's even making sounds about how, well, I don't really care about the

00:01:14.340 August 1st deadline because I just want to sign the best deal for Canadians, which for some reason,

00:01:18.760 the best deal does not include getting it done before we might suffer through months of 35%

00:01:24.600 tariffs on all of our non-USMCA agreement goods. But what do I know? Maybe I just don't know how

00:01:30.920 trade negotiations work and not actually engaging with them and then harassing U.S. musicians is the

00:01:37.060 right way of doing this. So I'm going to take this thing from the top. I'm going to give you my very

00:01:43.100 idiosyncratic view on it because I know a lot of people in the aftermath of Sean Foyt being

00:01:49.120 effectively harassed by the government is now loving on him and he's fantastic and he's a freedom

00:01:54.400 fighter. I don't think you have to do that with everyone who the government wrongs. You can be a

00:01:59.900 good or bad person and be wronged by the government. What I care about is, did the government do something

00:02:05.380 wrong? And the government, municipally, federally, are absolutely doing something very wrong.

00:02:10.780 So in a second here, we're going to start breaking that down. But just a reminder, guys, if you like

00:02:16.120 the show, make sure to leave a like on the video. Subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber and leave

00:02:21.700 a comment on what you think about this situation. But now let's get into it. And I first want to start

00:02:29.320 with this tweet from Michael Barrett, a conservative MP. And he says, you don't have to agree with Sean

00:02:35.860 Foyt to be concerned. When the CBC and government censor, worship, or suppress dissenting beliefs,

00:02:41.780 they violate the freedom of religion and expression guaranteed in section two of the charter. That's

00:02:48.260 deeply illiberal. And I absolutely agree with Michael Barrett. And again, why I mentioned that

00:02:54.460 one thing before about how you don't have to love on everyone that's attacked by the government,

00:02:58.620 I mean that from the perspective, I think a lot of people see a situation like this,

00:03:02.220 and they say, well, do I like Sean Foyt or do I not like Sean Foyt? It doesn't matter. Frankly,

00:03:07.740 the more I read about Sean Foyt and listening to some of his music, I really don't like him. I don't,

00:03:12.860 this is not really the type of Christian music I listen to. I'm a Christian. I prefer classic hymns.

00:03:17.960 I really don't like Christian rock or whatever. It's not, I don't really like it. I don't really

00:03:23.660 consider it worship music. And when I look into his background, he seems like a typical mega church

00:03:28.660 type guy in the US where I think between 2022 and 23, the revenue to his tour, his sort of touring

00:03:35.580 quote unquote ministry went from like 250,000 to 5 million. Then he started getting antsy about how

00:03:40.220 I'm actually a church, not just a touring act. So I can't be taxed. And it's like,

00:03:44.980 yeah, that's typical mega church kind of behavior, but that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether

00:03:51.080 Sean Foyt is the best person you've ever met, or he's actually secretly a scoundrel.

00:03:55.720 I don't think he's either of them. I think he's just someone I don't particularly like the music

00:04:00.140 of, and I don't really like maybe the way he manages his business, but that doesn't matter.

00:04:05.660 He has freedom of expression within Canada. But Wyatt, he's an American. Americans don't have 1.00

00:04:10.420 freedom of expression because they're not Canadian citizens. Well, permanent residents have freedom

00:04:15.340 of expression. Other refugees have freedom of expression. Why wouldn't a visitor have freedom 0.93

00:04:20.520 of expression? And the Canadian government was immediately acting hostile towards him.

00:04:25.400 He was coming in to Canada. And whether he was doing a free tour or it was originally going to

00:04:31.720 be a paid tour that he turned into one when they denied him a work visa to be able to tour here

00:04:36.920 briefly, for some reason, we're just doing this apparently because we just like don't like him.

00:04:41.960 I don't know why. They're just specifically targeting this guy. Is it because he's a Christian?

00:04:47.020 I don't know. It doesn't really matter to me. I don't really need to turn this into,

00:04:51.180 is it that this is like persecution or not? I'm sensitive to that as a Christian. I just don't

00:04:56.280 really want to turn it into is Sean Floyd, the champion of all Christians. Now, it's not really

00:05:01.920 a road I particularly want to go down. But this is the dumbest possible thing you could do during a

00:05:08.680 trade negotiation, as I've been saying. And I think that is the key thing to remember. It's both

00:05:14.120 extremely illiberal. And at the same time, it's also just extremely stupid to do from a pragmatic

00:05:21.220 perspective right now, even if you're a liberal who doesn't particularly care about expression

00:05:25.720 rights for things you dislike. Sean Floyd here himself says, I've been in touch with senior White

00:05:32.060 House officials, and they are watching what is unfolding with blatant Christian persecution Canada.

00:05:37.200 We're keeping all receipts too. And it's been pretty bad. They've had people like setting off

00:05:43.660 smoke bombs at concerts he's been at. Here is a clip from when he was at a church in Montreal.

00:05:50.560 You had some like Antifa freaks run into the room and throw some of these smoke flares into the room

00:05:55.900 in order to disrupt the event. It was like pro-Hamas people, which really demonstrates that the

00:06:00.780 nominee cause is real, that you have people who are like far left Euro-Palestine people, Antifa,

00:06:08.660 and also like, I guess, LGBTQ activists who are all joining together in order to attack 0.99

00:06:15.340 common enemies. So this is what it looked like.

00:06:21.780 Oh, come on. Oh, for some reason, this clip keeps giving me trouble. I'm gonna try and get this one

00:06:26.500 going. Every time I want this one to play, it ends up messing with me.

00:06:34.120 Oh, come on. Okay. That should be good.

00:06:49.580 Yeah, and so they had this event constantly being disrupted. These smoke flares thrown at him,

00:06:54.940 like you can see at the start that he's holding up. And guess what happened after that? The city of

00:07:00.840 Montreal is fining the church that hosted him $2,500. Why? Because they didn't have a permit.

00:07:08.720 A permit to do what? A free concert on their own property? Within their own property. It wasn't like

00:07:14.940 this was exactly spilling out into the streets and they didn't have a permit for that. It's their own

00:07:19.740 property. And I guess they're saying because it's an outside musician and you need to have a permit

00:07:25.540 to do some sort of like, I don't know, maybe there's like a noise issue because it's in a packed,

00:07:31.440 dense city. I don't know. But it's obviously illegitimate. You have the mayor of Montreal

00:07:38.120 attacking him. It's dumb. And they're doing it on diversity grounds that he doesn't believe in

00:07:43.980 left-wing diversity type causes. Ergo, he shouldn't be allowed in the city. And they're blatantly doing

00:07:49.880 it on the grounds that he's just not a good person. So he's not allowed here. And again, I'm not,

00:07:55.440 I'm not defending him saying, no, he actually is a good person. I'm not really caring about that

00:08:00.700 angle because it doesn't really matter. The whole point is who cares? Let's pretend he's like some

00:08:06.200 satanist. He's allowed to be here. He can do a concert if he wants, if a private venue wants him,

00:08:11.980 even if he wants to go to a public venue. If a citizen of Canada, if someone who's a resident

00:08:17.400 to that city is getting the permit to have him come in, what's the problem here? But we not only

00:08:22.780 have municipalities pulling permits, we have Parks Canada pulling permits. So the federal government

00:08:27.820 can't even pretend to be ignorant. Well, I don't know why the cities are doing this to a US

00:08:31.680 musician during trade negotiations. It's their own federal institution pulling permits and saying

00:08:37.880 that he can't do events on Parks land. But here is a leftist, of course, attacking Michael Barrett

00:08:50.140 and anyone who's supporting Sean Foyt, basically acting like this is somehow deeply evil. She says,

00:08:57.380 the fact that conservatives are going all in for Sean Foyt tells me they're either too stupid to

00:09:03.460 research what they're advocating for, or they're generally comfortable defending someone who

00:09:08.280 opposes Jewish and Muslim folks serving in government. Wow. Okay. I'm not even sure if that's

00:09:13.460 true. Doesn't really matter. Again, doesn't really matter. By the way, Rachel Gilmore, who's perfectly 0.94

00:09:19.320 fine palling around with anti-Semites all the time. She doesn't care. She doesn't care if people are 1.00

00:09:26.380 anti-Semitic around her. She partners with some of the most crazy people I've ever seen. 0.63

00:09:31.960 Erica Ifill, who is this black lady who works for the Hill Times, who writes the most unhinged 1.00

00:09:37.760 things about white people and Israel and the West in general I've ever seen. Like talking about how

00:09:44.280 white people want to make out with their own dogs and that white people hurt their own children and

00:09:49.360 whatnot. It's like if you replaced, again, white people in her tweets with Jews, she would sound like 0.84

00:09:55.100 Adolf Hitler, which is why I sometimes cloically call Erica Ifill Black Hitler. But here's someone

00:10:00.960 else. Here's a senator in Canada who's actually somebody who attacked me one time in a press

00:10:05.720 progress article because apparently I don't care about trans or gay kids being bullied because I

00:10:11.540 don't think that it's an epidemic like was being claimed because I merely said that, oh,

00:10:16.580 white doesn't care about all these kids being bullied. No, I disagree with the premise that there

00:10:21.240 is this spate of people being bullied and oppressed all over the place. But Dr. Christopher Wells, a

00:10:27.700 Canadian senator from Alberta appointed by Justin Trudeau on the way out, says this quote unquote

00:10:33.020 concert should be should not be allowed or to be held at any publicly owned facility, let alone the

00:10:38.780 Alberta legislature. Pull the permit like other cities have done. There should be no space for hate

00:10:44.200 on any public property. So we've made this insane left wing activist, a senator in Alberta, and he is

00:10:52.000 saying that this guy should not be allowed to have a concert on the Alberta legislature grounds. It's a

00:10:58.760 public place. If someone got the permit fairly, it should go through. Unless there is something actually

00:11:05.980 publicly horrifying about his presentation in which it is inappropriate either in word or in visual, there is

00:11:14.080 no reason to pull it. Again, not the type of concert I would ever want to go to. I wouldn't even endorse

00:11:19.880 other people to go to it. Again, not my kind of worship music as a Christian. I prefer classic hymns, not

00:11:25.360 this kind of poppy worship music trying to sound like regular rock or whatever. Not my thing. But again,

00:11:33.640 there's nothing I've seen that's actually wrong with this. And where's Mark Carney stepping in saying,

00:11:38.600 hey guys, what the heck's going on? We have a charter of rights and freedoms and applies to this guy too.

00:11:43.300 It applies to speech you like and speech you don't like. Because if it only applies to speech

00:11:49.140 you like, well, what's the point? Because it's not hard to prevent people from trying to shut things

00:11:54.400 down that they like. You have to stop them from shutting things down that they do not like.

00:12:00.560 But again, all these people are saying, well, he shouldn't even be in the country. He doesn't

00:12:04.380 have a work visa and he's obviously working and this is illegal. You guys, the liberals let ISIS back 0.99

00:12:09.800 into the country. Like we let ISIS back in. We let 17,500 people with criminal records immigrate to 0.95

00:12:17.460 this country. We let, we have ministers, our minister of public safety, the man with the

00:12:23.460 incomprehensibly long last name that I can never say on the fly. That guy wrote a letter in favor of

00:12:30.480 letting a guy involved in the terrorist group, the Tamil Tigers into Canada. He did that. People knew

00:12:36.800 about it. He was still appointed as minister of public safety, but Sean Foy is where we draw the

00:12:42.420 line. Disgusting, can't handle it, do not like it. ISIS, come back in. We'll give you like an AA 1.00

00:12:49.720 style meeting about terrorism, Terrorist Anonymous, where you come in and you just say, oh, I don't like

00:12:54.800 that terrorism thing anymore. All the, you know, the, all the, I don't like that. Ooh, I liked it for a bit.

00:13:01.480 It can get addictive. You do it, but you hate every moment of it. And then you come back and

00:13:06.320 you just want to get a job as a bag boy at a grocery store again. That's really where my calling

00:13:11.100 is now. It's not because the US wrecked our crap and now we have to find a way of not dying. It's

00:13:17.580 because I, I repent of my, all that stuff I was doing wasn't cool. But anyways, so yeah, going into

00:13:25.940 the trade angle of this, this is really stupid. This is, this is a great look. And we're going to

00:13:32.900 have US politicians sounding off about how you can't trust Canada. And if they don't want to like,

00:13:39.180 you know, treat Americans properly, then why should we sign a deal with them anyways? And they could 1.00

00:13:43.520 put trade talks with us on pause. Now, do I think the US should do that? What do I think that would be

00:13:49.240 fair? No. At the same time, I don't, again, I say this all the time and I want to bring up the tweet

00:13:56.880 I made on this. I was, it was a response to Kevin Vuong. Not that Kevin Vuong had said anything wrong.

00:14:02.540 I think he just did a really good job of displaying these stats. He's showing that US tariffs with Japan

00:14:07.940 and the EU are currently 15%. Canada's are currently 25 on non-USMCA goods, and it's going to be 35%

00:14:16.820 after August 1st, 50% on aluminum and steel. And my response to this, just the numbers,

00:14:23.600 was to basically say that liberals are missing the point when conservatives criticize the government.

00:14:29.500 I see people do this all the time. And people I even like, Spencer Fernando has been saying this,

00:14:34.680 both in articles and on video, that conservatives are people on the right, right-wing creators,

00:14:40.000 attacking the Mark Carney government during these trade talks is somehow like, you know,

00:14:44.860 unpatriotic. It's bad to criticize our own government right now. I like, again, I like Spencer

00:14:50.560 Fernando. I just disagree with him on this front, or at least this level, that do I like the tariffs?

00:14:56.920 No. At the same time, the tariffs are here. It's reality. We can't say, well, Trump shouldn't have

00:15:03.980 done this. You know, yeah, we do have supply management tariffs on goods like dairy and poultry

00:15:09.800 that prevent U.S. farmers from being able to trade into Canada. Yeah, but the U.S. tariffs are

00:15:15.180 disproportionate, so they shouldn't have been done. Okay. Okay. Those things are true. You've said some

00:15:19.840 true things. Okay. So now what? Well, now what? We can't just say elbows up, U.S. is being unfair,

00:15:27.500 screw Donald Trump. Now what are we going to do? Because my perspective on the trade, and I can just

00:15:33.680 read you my post. I think I at least had a really succinct way of putting it here. Sorry if you don't like

00:15:38.860 me reading this, but I think this was just a good way of putting it. Of course, I agree that the way

00:15:44.540 I put it is a good way of putting it. Narcissism. But I said, as a conservative, I'm not in favor of

00:15:50.320 tariffs being put on Canadian imports to the U.S., but saying I don't like it doesn't change anything.

00:15:55.380 What Canada can control is our response, and so far, Mark Carney's liberal government has been very

00:16:00.320 guarded with things like supply management, which makes trade negotiations back and forth very

00:16:04.860 difficult. We can complain all day long about Donald Trump being unfair to Canada and the tariff

00:16:10.200 rates being disproportionate to the supply management tariff we have on U.S. dairy and poultry products.

00:16:15.280 But that doesn't change the fact that to get to a good trade deal for Canada requires us putting

00:16:20.200 some things on the table. And by the way, if we really care so much about the economic damage these

00:16:26.080 tariffs could do to our country, we should try lowering taxes on our side of the border so that

00:16:30.680 Canadians can keep some of their own money for a change. Liberals will move heaven and earth to

00:16:34.960 not touch the current tax rates outside of an extremely minor income tax cut under $50,000 or

00:16:40.560 scrap bad regulations and supply management. And I think that's really the main crux here is that we

00:16:48.220 are basically using patriotism to ignore our own duty, our own duty to our country to trade the best we

00:16:55.960 can. We have a smaller economy than the U.S., not just 10 times smaller. We are more than 10 times smaller

00:17:02.560 than the U.S., even though we have more than a tenth of the U.S.'s population. Our economy is weak. I can't fix

00:17:09.700 that tomorrow. And if you're going and if we were in a better position economically, if the liberal policy

00:17:15.440 wasn't so bad, by the way, we could we could be way better in a trade negotiation with the U.S. because we'd have

00:17:20.440 power. We could outlast them if they tried to tariff us to try and break us. And we would just lower our

00:17:26.180 own taxes and trade freely with everybody else. And eventually, you know, getting towards the

00:17:30.580 midterms, Trump will want to sign a trade deal to get out of the economic or to take people out of the

00:17:35.460 economic pain imposed by tariffing Canadian products many Americans rely on. And we could get somewhere.

00:17:41.160 We don't have that power right now because we've been making stupid decisions up till now on an

00:17:46.400 economic front. And this Sean Foyt situation, although different from the tax and regulation

00:17:51.380 issues we have and different from the supply management issue that is currently the main

00:17:57.120 issue between the U.S. and Canada on trade, it's representative of bad decision making,

00:18:03.520 symbolic decision making, attacking a U.S. musician that we don't like. For what? For a little bit of

00:18:11.260 so people like Rachel Gilmore and Dr. Christopher Wells and other leftists will then, you know,

00:18:19.440 cheer for the liberals. So, oh yeah, that serves him right. Okay, well, should the U.S. take this to

00:18:25.920 heart and delay a trade deal with Canada over this? Probably not. But if they do, well, why did we make

00:18:33.840 this move in the first place? We didn't have to do this. That's why I'm saying that it's like we not

00:18:38.880 only, there was literally no win or loss in this situation. Nothing was going on. And we created

00:18:44.600 a situation out of nothing in order to draw a defeat from. We really wanted, we really wanted

00:18:50.780 the L. And so we created a situation so we could get an L for ourselves. So dumb. Anyways, so that

00:18:59.720 should be it for this video, guys. Hopefully you didn't mind this format. I know it's not that

00:19:04.680 different from my normal format, but it was a little bit of a more of a zigzagging overview on

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00:19:26.900 SOGI. Both of those need to be repealed. Taxes needs to be lowered massively, 25 to 50 percent,

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00:20:02.220 for me today, guys. See you later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 28, 2025

Liberals harass US musician Sean Feucht amid Trade talks!

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