The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 23, 2026


Liberals push NEW LIE and get Instantly fact-checked on CBC!


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Greg McEachern is lying through his teeth about the Conservative Party blocking its own MPs from appearing on the CBC. This isn't even close to being serious. It's just propaganda, and we should take it seriously.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.080 I had to make a video on this situation, not because it's super serious or anything.
00:00:11.860 Quite the contrary, I want to talk about an individual today who is extremely not serious.
00:00:18.660 Now, we all know that a lot of the legacy media is just liberal party propaganda,
00:00:24.060 and that is especially true about the CBC show Power and Politics.
00:00:29.000 But just because I find the whole show ridiculous doesn't mean that we shouldn't take it seriously
00:00:35.180 that unserious people like Greg McEachern are allowed to go on every week and just blatantly lie.
00:00:42.420 I mean, like, lying in ways where you could fact-check him by simply watching the CBC yourself in a day.
00:00:49.800 So, he was on this panel a few days ago and claimed that Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives
00:00:56.180 are not letting their MPs go on the CBC, but they're letting Jamil Giovanni do whatever he wants.
00:01:03.720 Check this out.
00:01:04.900 And I think there's a lot of self-inflicted problems.
00:01:08.680 MPs were kept off this, kept out of this room for a very long time, kept off CBC.
00:01:14.400 Out of this room, he means.
00:01:15.120 Yeah, and told that they could not come on CBC.
00:01:18.320 And then Jamil Giovanni wants to go to D.C. and he can say whatever he wants.
00:01:21.920 And he says one message to Breitbart, says another message to the National Post, says another on Twitter.
00:01:27.160 No, if I was in that caucus, I'd be annoyed too.
00:01:29.480 This isn't coverage.
00:01:31.120 This isn't even commentary.
00:01:32.580 He can say he's an opinion guy, but this isn't even really a real opinion.
00:01:36.520 It's just propaganda.
00:01:38.440 Oh, I would be upset too if I were in that caucus.
00:01:41.480 Over what?
00:01:42.440 Something that didn't happen?
00:01:44.460 Well, let's start off with the Jamil Giovanni part.
00:01:46.640 He didn't tell different things to Breitbart and the National Post and other media outlets.
00:01:51.280 Did he give different interviews?
00:01:53.100 Yes, he's a human being, not a robot.
00:01:55.680 But none of his interviews contradicted one another.
00:01:58.740 And by the way, I actually thought it was a mistake this last week when Pierre Polyev said that Jamil Giovanni speaks for himself
00:02:05.140 and that the Conservative Party has its own position.
00:02:08.260 I just don't think it's necessary.
00:02:09.880 I don't know who told Polyev's people they have to distance themselves from what Jamil Giovanni did.
00:02:14.140 It's just not worth it.
00:02:15.900 I don't think Jamil did anything wrong.
00:02:17.760 Even if he did do something wrong, we don't start splitting the party just because people in the media are murmuring about how what Jamil Giovanni is doing is very unpopular.
00:02:26.880 Of course they're going to tell you it's unpopular.
00:02:28.760 Greg McKecker in here is the type of guy to tell you it's unpopular.
00:02:31.600 But he's also the guy who's lying through his teeth.
00:02:34.480 So the other claim he made there is that Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party, like, you know, inner circle, is keeping MPs off of this program, off of the CBC.
00:02:46.000 I don't know if he means the CBC in general or power in politics, but this fact check goes, like, this basically fact check works regardless.
00:02:54.880 So one of the first people to react to this story was Pierre Polyev's own communications director for his office, Katie Merrifield, who says, we put our Conservative MPs on all the political panels regularly.
00:03:07.980 This is a lie.
00:03:09.380 And I want to jump now to somebody who then went into detail about how much of a lie it was.
00:03:15.480 Here we have Cole Hogan, who's also a Conservative commentator on CPAC.
00:03:22.380 And he says, in the last three weeks, I've seen the following Conservative Party MPs on CBC alone, or I've seen these CBC MPs on CBC alone.
00:03:33.600 Chauvelin Majumdar, Michelle Rempel, Adam Chambers, Scott Aitchison, Frank Caputo.
00:03:38.780 And then he is reacting, in fact, to another CBC contributor who is also putting out this lie that somehow the Conservative Party is being overly controlling with its MPs' media appearances.
00:03:51.980 I think back in the last election, the Conservatives were kind of avoiding the CBC for a bit.
00:03:57.380 But that wasn't, that's not a recent phenomenon.
00:04:00.440 It wasn't like they weren't going on the CBC.
00:04:02.440 They were just kind of ignoring the CBC when they obviously were trying to write attack articles on them.
00:04:07.500 But here is this clip from Rosemary Barton's show.
00:04:10.860 We have a bunch of MPs who are restless, who have been sitting on the opposition benches for a really long time.
00:04:18.340 And it was one thing to take kind of the heavy-handed approach of the leader when he was plus 25 points in the polls.
00:04:25.660 But now he is dragging the party down with him.
00:04:29.440 He is deeply unpopular.
00:04:31.360 They feel that Pierre Poilievre is not talking about the issues that their constituents are talking about.
00:04:36.200 But Andrew talked about Donald Trump.
00:04:38.480 That is key.
00:04:39.700 Up until this week, Pierre Poiliev hadn't mentioned Donald Trump, really.
00:04:43.600 So there's that.
00:04:45.460 There is the way caucus is being managed.
00:04:49.660 Jamil Javani gets to go down to D.C., as Andrew pointed out, and basically live stream his entire trip.
00:04:57.360 Live stream his entire trip.
00:04:58.820 He talked to, like, a couple media outlets after he had his meetings at the White House.
00:05:03.620 It was pretty low-key, honestly.
00:05:06.020 And these MPs are, you know, playing by the rules, asking the leader if they can go on Power and Politics, another TV program, and talk to the media.
00:05:15.320 And they're being told no.
00:05:16.860 No, absolutely not.
00:05:17.880 And a little bit of that loosened after the election, but not really that much.
00:05:23.360 And so they feel like they don't have a voice.
00:05:25.680 They don't support the direction of the party.
00:05:27.320 They don't understand what their leader is doing.
00:05:28.860 He seems to be more focused on, like, the Twitter influencers than he is on the constituents they hear about at the door.
00:05:35.620 And in some cases, and we've seen with some of the floor crossers, they're more likely to win their seats as liberals. 1.00
00:05:41.760 So there's a lot of stuff happening in the mix that is convincing people that, you know, why are they sticking with Pierre Proliev when they have the possibility of influencing things in a government that they don't disagree with?
00:05:52.820 And this is not, by the way, this is not like a Liberal Party communications official.
00:05:57.720 Who was this again right here?
00:06:00.360 Althea Raj?
00:06:02.140 She's a Toronto Star opinion writer.
00:06:05.040 And by the way, again, someone repeating the lie that Conservative MPs are not allowed to go on to Power and Politics or the CBC in general.
00:06:14.060 That's a lie.
00:06:14.920 I see them on CTV News, CBC, Global.
00:06:18.480 They are always on news channels.
00:06:20.400 I actually see it so often I don't really care to even watch the interviews because it happens quite a bit.
00:06:25.380 But, like, this is just seemingly like an infection going on between Liberal commentators around, like, on television shows.
00:06:32.800 We all can just say, oh, Polly is a dictator and doesn't let his people talk. 1.00
00:06:36.640 Okay, well, should the Conservative Party let their people talk more?
00:06:39.940 I probably, I'm always just in favor of more MPs being able to throw in their voices.
00:06:44.580 Well, the idea that there's nobody from the Conservative Party allowed onto the CBC is just patently absurd.
00:06:50.700 Let's go on to another absurd lie that was pushed by Greg McEachern the other day on Power and Politics.
00:06:56.780 He ended up claiming as not only are Conservatives not allowed going on television shows,
00:07:02.580 but also there's hypocrisy in people criticizing Matt Jenneru for living in Victoria while he represents an Edmonton area riding.
00:07:12.200 And we saw, like, a former MPs, you know, criticize Matt Jenneru for living somewhere where he doesn't represent.
00:07:17.940 And then he has to withdraw it because they don't think far enough ahead.
00:07:21.700 Yeah, your leader is in the same situation.
00:07:24.180 So the spin just, it's not spin, it feels like, Peter, it feels like they're flailing, and it's not helping Pierre.
00:07:31.340 He just seems less and less in control.
00:07:33.280 Apparently, we can just say anything.
00:07:35.040 And David Cochran, the liberal host of CBC Power and Politics,
00:07:39.000 who will stop even the mildest Conservative opinion from being, like, said on the show without him interrupting and saying,
00:07:45.660 oh, you know, other people don't believe that.
00:07:47.500 It's like, okay, well, it's someone's opinion.
00:07:49.300 Greg McEachern just says things that are just factually incorrect or extremely disputable.
00:07:56.040 No, there's no problem with Pierre Pauly of representing Battle River Crowfoot while not living there.
00:08:01.480 Do you know why?
00:08:02.460 Because he didn't lie about it.
00:08:03.940 Everyone knew he didn't live there when he was running in the by-election, which makes it okay.
00:08:08.600 Matt Jenneru covering up the fact that he doesn't actually live in Edmonton Riverbend,
00:08:13.200 and he's secretly been moving his stuff and living in Victoria for a while,
00:08:16.440 well, that is a problem because that's what we call lying.
00:08:20.420 People have a problem with liars.
00:08:22.600 People have no problem with someone saying, I don't live here, but I need a seat,
00:08:26.000 and so I'm moving in so I can keep representing, you know, conservative voters and leading this party.
00:08:32.220 No one has a problem with Pauly of doing that.
00:08:34.160 They have a problem with Matt Jenneru being dishonest about what he's up to.
00:08:38.300 And I don't actually think, going back to Althea Raj, the liberal floor crossers, 1.00
00:08:44.460 the people who floor cross from the conservatives to liberals,
00:08:47.540 probably do not have a good chance of being reelected at this point.
00:08:50.880 Because, in fact, voters don't like how petty this feels.
00:08:54.080 I believe it was either David Coletto or Nick Nanos who ended up showing that two-thirds of voters
00:08:59.640 are actually rubbed the wrong way by the way these floor crossings are being done.
00:09:03.900 None of them are leaving for principled reasons where people can say,
00:09:07.940 yes, they were voted in as a conservative, but I can see why they left and joined the liberals.
00:09:12.500 Not one bit of this is organic.
00:09:15.140 It's people having petty disagreements with Pauly of the inner circle.
00:09:19.160 They didn't get the special position.
00:09:20.820 They didn't get the job.
00:09:22.000 Or Michael Ma's case, probably someone from the CCP called him up and told him to cross the floor.
00:09:26.540 This is not organic.
00:09:28.580 That's the problem.
00:09:29.460 And a lot of voters are not going to reward this because, again,
00:09:34.100 there's no way for them as voters to be invested in the floor crossing. 0.61
00:09:38.060 It's not like one guy had a problem with the conservatives' tax policy
00:09:42.180 or there was some other issue where the conservative party had completely, like, you know,
00:09:47.560 separated or gone the other direction in terms of what that MP campaigned on and believes in
00:09:53.220 and where the party is now.
00:09:54.760 That never happened.
00:09:55.500 And so there wasn't an ability for those voters to say, yes, we're walking with Matt Gennaro over to the Liberal Party
00:10:00.620 or Chris Dontremont or Michael Ma.
00:10:02.540 There was never a moment where it was like, yes, because he's taking a principled stand and we're going to take it with him.
00:10:07.600 No, no.
00:10:08.000 He's taking a petty and shallow stand.
00:10:10.740 And that's why nobody is standing with these people.
00:10:13.420 And people bring up, well, are you OK with one?
00:10:15.900 Like, here's the thing.
00:10:16.720 I'm not even calling for floor crossing to be made illegal.
00:10:19.720 You just can't make it illegal because guess what?
00:10:22.440 A conservative, if they want to cross the floor, could just sit as an independent and then vote with the Liberals.
00:10:27.620 And you could say, well, then there should be a by-election anyways as well.
00:10:30.900 Well, then they could just sit as a conservative and just vote with the Liberals.
00:10:34.300 And I've actually had people say, well, if you get kicked out by the Conservative Party, there should be a by-election.
00:10:39.400 I'm like, guys, you realize the amount of corruption that would cause in all of the parties that if you kick an MP out, immediately a by-election is called and you can replace him.
00:10:49.460 We cannot have parties having more power in this country.
00:10:52.820 If anything, the problem with Canadian politics is parties are often too powerful and we need more individuals.
00:10:59.120 Matt Jenneru and Chris Dontremont and Michael Ma are kind of products of the overly cautious party cultures,
00:11:05.520 where you have people who don't really believe in much of anything sitting as members of parliament for certain parties.
00:11:12.140 And because they're in politics for very shallow reasons and don't believe in anything that deeply,
00:11:17.100 they're far more likely to just get up and walk away because why are they here sitting as a conservative in the first place?
00:11:22.920 It was just to get a job, basically.
00:11:25.460 Anyways, but with all that said, I can leave you guys here.
00:11:30.080 I know this wasn't a big deal of a story, but it's just so obnoxious when you see people go on television
00:11:34.480 and they say something that is so verifiably false, but there are going to be voters out there walking around saying,
00:11:40.780 well, Polly, I won't even let his own MPs on the CBC, but Jamil Jafani can go and commit treason down in the United States.
00:11:48.100 It's like, it didn't happen.
00:11:50.960 Both claims are false.
00:11:52.600 I am sorry to tell you.
00:11:54.320 Anyways, so with all that being said, like, share, subscribe.
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