The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberals tried to get him to Cross the Floor - He Roasted them!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. We had a really funny story come out yesterday that confirmed

00:00:06.260 a lot of things about Mark Carney and the Liberal Party to me. So I've always speculated that

00:00:13.020 despite Chris Dontremont and Michael Ma crossing the floor from the Conservative Party to the

00:00:18.020 Liberal Party, that there wasn't really any other Conservatives that anyone could name

00:00:22.860 who would be likely to cross the floor. Those two left for such petty reasons, there wasn't a clear

00:00:28.900 through line for why they left and what would maybe motivate someone else to leave. Dontremont

00:00:34.680 was just mad he didn't get to be the deputy speaker and Michael Ma is in a riding where there's a lot

00:00:39.440 of CCP influence and he seemed to be leaving under the idea that if one more Conservative left, maybe

00:00:45.620 he could be a powerful person in a majority Liberal government. But since all that went down, there

00:00:52.140 seems to not be very many good prospects for the Liberals to the point where they got embarrassed

00:00:57.740 yesterday by a Conservative MP that they approached to try and get him to cross the floor just lit them

00:01:03.980 up online. That being Conservative MP for Vernon, Lake Country, Monashie, Scott Anderson. He put out this

00:01:12.620 long statement about the Liberals approaching him and trying to convince him to cross the floor that just

00:01:18.380 reveals the fact that Mark Carney is very desperate right now. And of course Mark Carney is desperate. He

00:01:24.060 already has two Liberal MPs likely to leave, Nate Erskine-Smith and also we have Christia Freeland.

00:01:31.500 She fully announced that she's going to be stepping down from her seat in the next few weeks. I guess

00:01:36.060 she still wants to stick around for a little bit longer so she gets to have her Evita Perron, 1.00

00:01:41.180 don't cry for me Argentina moment in the House of Commons before she fully leaves. Nate Erskine-Smith could

00:01:47.420 technically stay in office while running for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership but he's a shoe-in

00:01:53.020 to win and you can't exactly vote in Parliament while you're on the road campaigning for a Liberal

00:01:59.260 leader and so basically Nate Erskine-Smith is probably already gone no matter if he resigns his

00:02:05.500 seat now or not. He's not going to be present for votes unless he's on the trail online voting the entire

00:02:10.780 time and I don't think he cares enough about Mark Carney to do so. But in this video I want to read

00:02:16.540 through the statements that Scott Anderson put out to you guys and then I want to cover CBC flack

00:02:22.460 catchers trying to deflect from this embarrassing story for Mark Carney because of course they are.

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00:03:01.100 statement by the Vernon light country Monashy MP Scott Anderson and although before I even read this I

00:03:08.860 actually do just want to bring up this because it should flavor how ridiculous it was for the

00:03:13.580 conservatives to approach this guy the liberals had a high watermark election result in this riding in

00:03:20.380 the last election the conservative Scott Anderson won with 50.5 percent of the vote effectively and

00:03:26.780 the liberals came in with about 43 I'm rounding up here uh the liberal did 23 percent better than the

00:03:34.540 liberal in 2021's election had done mostly because of the collapse of the NDP and the greens and even the

00:03:42.460 conservative ended up doing better in this election despite the liberal doing better too that's

00:03:47.100 probably because maybe independents weren't running last time and the PPC candidate wasn't in this

00:03:51.820 riding so this was not really a great riding to make a pitch to the conservative MP that he would

00:03:58.940 benefit by joining you I don't think the liberals are going to do even better than their best result

00:04:05.580 ever in fact they did better more than two times as good in 2025 as they did in 2021 and again that's

00:04:13.420 a high watermark election a lot of people going elbows up and voting for the liberals to I don't

00:04:18.540 know thumb their noses at Trump but they thought that for some reason that this guy was going to fear

00:04:23.980 that he only won by eight percent and was going to cross the floor but here's the statement from Scott

00:04:29.420 Anderson it's important for my constituents to know that I like others have been approached by

00:04:35.740 the liberals and asked to cross the floor to join them the Liberal Party of Canada is pulling out all

00:04:40.460 the stops to lure conservative members of parliament to cross the floor so they can have a majority and

00:04:45.660 subject Canadians to more years of economic and social malaise with the complicity of the mainstream

00:04:51.900 media there they've promoted the myth that there is some kind of movement to turf our leader and it's

00:04:56.780 because they're afraid of Pierre Polyev they'd prefer a milk toast conservative leader and not a

00:05:01.580 fighter who stands up for the up to the lie up to their lies and omissions I love what he just said

00:05:07.340 right there because it is so true that the media always always trying to shape the conservative party into

00:05:13.180 having another milk toast leader like Aaron O'Toole Aaron O'Toole is the perfect leader for the

00:05:19.420 conservative party if you are the liberal party he is not he's basically the politician for nobody and

00:05:26.620 so even though Justin Trudeau was very unpopular even by 2021 Aaron O'Toole still somehow lost simply

00:05:33.900 because he doesn't drive voters out he betrays voters he changes his positions on things so

00:05:39.420 naturally a lot of people concluded staying home or voting for the PPC was preferable to O'Toole

00:05:45.180 because even if the guy somehow won what's he really going to change he's probably going to have

00:05:49.100 a weak minority government then get tossed out in favor of a liberal majority after just two years

00:05:53.980 because voters are going to be like well he's not doing anything because he probably wouldn't do

00:05:57.820 anything so I in 2021 was happy strangely happy to see at least Aaron O'Toole lose not Trudeau to win

00:06:06.460 but O'Toole to lose because it allowed us to re-roll the dice and get someone like Pierre Polyev

00:06:11.500 now Pierre Polyev is not perfect but goodness he is 10 times better than Aaron O'Toole and I

00:06:17.420 can't really name anyone who would be doing a better job right now but I'm going to keep reading this

00:06:21.740 misstatement to the liberals who initiated this contact let me say this your headlines scream

00:06:28.140 about the great nation building projects yet almost a year after getting parliamentary approval

00:06:33.580 there's no pipelines no new mines no energy corridor and no one formal trade deal indeed

00:06:40.700 you haven't even bothered presenting plans because buried in the subtext below every headline are caveats

00:06:46.300 that ensure nothing will ever be done simply put you've done nothing to make empty but make empty

00:06:51.980 promises increase taxation and throw billions away trying to entrench your power what are you going

00:06:57.420 to try to bribe the next conservative MP with if broken promises were the only issue it'd be bad enough

00:07:04.380 but I sit across from you every day and see what most Canadians see can't see when they watch CPAC

00:07:10.220 I watch you laugh when conservatives bring up the closed minds the shuttered businesses

00:07:14.460 the seniors who have to choose between eating and rent I watch your self-satisfied scoffs when we 0.99

00:07:19.820 ask you to cut taxes and allow Canadians to flourish again I see you sitting across the aisle in designer

00:07:25.420 suits paid for by a job that's inflation proof and safe smirking at those who have to try and scrape

00:07:31.260 out a living out of the your to scrape a living out of the economic desert you've created I watch you

00:07:38.220 boast about your handouts your rental housing that never seems to materialize your leader who shows up a

00:07:44.060 few minutes a month for part of qp before jetting off in search of more pointless headlines and I

00:07:49.820 and you have the gall to say that our pleading for the little guy is harping I'm frankly disgusted so

00:07:56.780 no I won't I won't join your party I have no intention of crossing the floor today tomorrow or ever

00:08:02.380 regardless of what you offer me it would be a betrayal of my constituents a betrayal of the office to which

00:08:07.980 I have been elected and a betrayal of my own personal core beliefs it'll be a cold day in hell

00:08:13.260 before I ever choose if I ever consider betraying my constituents and you should probably stop asking

00:08:19.340 because I will certainly advertise it every time you try so that was a amazing statement by Vernon

00:08:27.820 Lake Country Monashie MP Scott Anderson and it's exactly what's needed right now if there was even a

00:08:34.380 single conservative MP considering crossing the floor and I think if they were considering it they

00:08:39.260 would have already done it by now it's gonna probably take a lot of the momentum out of anyone

00:08:44.220 even considering leaving in actually doing it here's the thing Mark Carney can't even promise that if you

00:08:51.900 cross at this point you're gonna help him create a majority government and he'll give you some big

00:08:56.300 ministerial job or some other high-paying you know role like speaker deputy speaker or something like that

00:09:04.380 he has nothing to offer right now because he has his own MPs Freeland Nate Erskine Smith probably

00:09:11.820 Stephen Gilbeau probably Jonathan Wilkinson and there could be other MPs also looking to leave even

00:09:16.780 some MPs who may just leave because of old age like Hendy Frye he actually doesn't even have a majority

00:09:22.380 to offer these people because the big thing is that you get to be part of the majority government where

00:09:26.940 we're getting things done you can bring things back to your constituents because you can include

00:09:31.100 little things for your riding in legislation it's kind of the way that you know pork barreling type 1.00

00:09:36.860 legislation works in the United States it's not as common in Canada but you can kind of mold

00:09:41.260 legislation that's going to benefit your your riding the most but the things he can't even offer that

00:09:46.620 because there's not going to be a majority government even if Scott Anderson someone like that crossed

00:09:50.860 now well it wouldn't matter because then Freeland resigns and you're out of a majority and maybe

00:09:56.460 let's say one other conservative joins or an MDP joins or block joins now you're back in majority

00:10:01.740 well then Erskine Smith officially resigns and now you're back out of majority and then maybe you

00:10:05.500 somehow get it again because you replace a couple of those people who left but then Jonathan Wilkinson

00:10:10.780 leaves and then Stephen Gilbeau leaves it's just not worth it and right now it's very clear that

00:10:17.180 that Mark Carney and the liberals are on the downstroke politically they don't look very good right

00:10:22.140 now because they have failed in every promise they've so far made they are not a more fiscally

00:10:26.860 responsible government the budget proved that they can't get a trade deal done they're not actually

00:10:32.220 getting oil and gas infrastructure built they just keep talking about it the major projects

00:10:37.580 of office is not doing anything it's simply putting an extra fast tracking stamp on something

00:10:42.540 that was about to be completed anyways it's really cynical but now I need to take you guys to the

00:10:47.980 the flack catchers over at the CBC who of course are trying to scoff at the idea that the liberals

00:10:55.980 would ever approach Scott Anderson that's laughable oh so here's David Cochran the supposedly neutral

00:11:03.020 host of power and politics for that in a second I just want to do one more round just on this because

00:11:07.660 Brad Scott Anderson who's a conservative member of parliament for Vernon Lake Country Monashie posted on

00:11:13.980 on Facebook that he was approached by liberals to join we invited him on the program we were told

00:11:18.460 his statement stands um Mr. Anderson who I've not met that he supported the ostrich firm for example

00:11:25.580 and things it doesn't strike me as the person the prime minister and is like the the profile doesn't

00:11:30.140 fit the profile of who they're trying to recruit but you know they're down one they're now still

00:11:34.300 seeking other people I mean what what's your read on where that stands so he's just trying to throw

00:11:39.420 mass skepticism on the story that of course the liberals didn't embarrass themselves by trying

00:11:43.900 to coax Scott Anderson into leaving he supported the ostrich farm and opposed the way the CFIA had

00:11:48.860 been acting well okay well you know Chris Dontremont was a multiple term conservative MP as well as Nova

00:11:57.820 Scotia PCMLA he in fact is softly pro-life okay but he left for petty reasons so obviously that kind of

00:12:05.980 opened up the door for the sorts of people that Carney was willing to approach we even remember

00:12:11.580 the interview don't we it was on your own network David where Mark Carney was asked by Rosemary

00:12:17.820 Barton or I believe it was uh Rosemary and he was asked about what kind of MPs the liberals would be

00:12:24.380 willing to take on are they willing to take on pro-life transphobic MPs are they willing to take on people

00:12:31.340 who like you know support guns are they willing to bring on like all these you know media created

00:12:37.900 ideas of like bad people and Mark Carney was coy because obviously Carney's not going to say no to

00:12:43.900 anybody which probably meant they were willing to approach anybody at the same time they probably

00:12:49.180 thought hey let's approach any conservative who lost by let who won by less than 10 percent of the vote

00:12:54.860 and see if they're willing to move not realizing again as I just showed with Scott Anderson's electoral

00:13:00.380 history uh chart yeah he only won by eight percent but that was a big over performance by the liberals

00:13:08.220 it's probably not going to happen again especially based on the absolute nothing that they are currently

00:13:12.540 achieving in office under Mark Carney well let's get back to the answer right here yeah no I I don't know

00:13:19.580 um if if this if Kelowna Lake Country member of parliament is is the is the next best fit um I think we're

00:13:27.500 running out of conservatives in Atlantic Canada David uh for to move over yes uh to Carney the

00:13:35.100 there is no question that there is an all-out effort by the liberal government to pick off

00:13:41.660 conservative members of parliament to cross the floor and to do so before the conservative convention

00:13:46.780 that was the case before we broke for Christmas that is the case as we come back uh from the break

00:13:52.700 uh and I'm I'm still of the opinion that they will uh that there will be news made uh in the coming

00:13:59.740 short weeks uh about conservatives coming over uh but which one like name anyone who's a prospect

00:14:06.220 you know how ridiculous this got because I'm involved in politics at the same time I do this show you

00:14:11.580 know I work for the 1bc party in British Columbia with Dallas Brody I do a lot of stuff provincially with the UCP

00:14:18.300 in terms of I sit on boards I try and help organize stuff whenever I can you know I make videos I

00:14:23.580 promote stuff I door knock federally I even door knocked in Ottawa I door knocked in Nanaimo around

00:14:29.100 Calgary I'm very involved in politics so people bring me stuff this is how desperate the liberals were

00:14:35.340 getting at one point the name I heard floated that they were working on to try and get her to cross the

00:14:41.100 floor was Melissa Lansman now I know Melissa is not a social conservative she's more of like a true 1.00

00:14:48.940 red Tory on a lot of issues she can be a little bit more liberal not liberal party liberal but socially

00:14:54.540 more liberal maybe she's not a hyper big fiscal hawk but she is a foreign policy hawk she is very tough 1.00

00:15:01.420 on terrorism she's not joining the liberals at all never never there's no point like if she crosses 0.98

00:15:09.820 tomorrow I'll sue Melissa Lansman for making me look silly but I do not get the impression that

00:15:15.660 Melissa Lansman who wants the Muslim Brotherhood ban in which the liberals definitely do not want

00:15:19.900 to do that would ever join them the liberals who excuse terrorism are going to let or going to try

00:15:26.460 and get Melissa like apparently they've tried and someone was speculating it could be true it's not

00:15:31.420 going to happen it's really not like if I'm going through the rolodex of conservative MPs who might

00:15:37.660 cross it's not going to be any of the people that you can kind of think of like all the big prominent

00:15:42.540 conservative MPs it's like it's not going to be Andrew Scheer it's not going to be like any of the

00:15:47.100 Calgary guys I'm not at least I don't think so um the closest they had was maybe Matt Genereau but

00:15:53.100 he's not crossing he's just going to be resigning his seat um I don't I couldn't name anyone like he

00:15:58.540 was saying oh there's uh they're running out of maritime MPs to approach the problem is all the

00:16:01.980 Newfoundland maritime MPs are like more new are like newer more hardcore conservatives

00:16:08.860 basically the ideal profile for a conservative MP the liberals can bring over and this is why I'm

00:16:14.380 skeptical if anyone crosses maybe it happens shame on that person if it does but the profile that the

00:16:20.380 liberals are looking for is a guy who's been around probably since the around mid-2000s you know

00:16:25.740 2000s to early 2010s a little bit more of a softer conservative and someone who has some petty issue

00:16:32.540 with pure poly you have to hit like that triad before you're even in the ballpark of getting

00:16:38.300 somebody who might actually cross and that person isn't even benefited by crossing because there ain't

00:16:42.540 going to be a majority but anyways that should be it for this video guys hopefully you found this

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 06, 2026

Liberals tried to get him to Cross the Floor - He Roasted them!

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