A Manitoba cabinet minister mocked and ridiculed Charlie Kirk after he was murdered, and for some reason, she is still allowed to stay in cabinet. It's absolutely crazy that anyone could get away with this, and it's even more crazy that she's not losing her job.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I just want to make a video addressing the situation with the NDP cabinet minister in Manitoba, who mocked and ridiculed Charlie Kirk after he was murdered, and for some reason, she is still going to be allowed to stay in cabinet.
00:00:18.100So I just want to break down the whole thing for you guys here today, if you haven't seen it yet. It's absolutely crazy that anyone could get away with this, but before I get into it, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the channel, make sure to leave a like on the video, subscribe if you're not yet a subscriber, and also comment on what you think about this whole situation. Helps us on the algorithm, and I do like going through it, reading what people have to say.
00:00:39.600So this minister, getting her name again, I just forgot it while I was looking stuff up, Nahani Fontaine, the minister of families in Manitoba, she posted this after Charlie Kirk died.
00:00:55.880Charlie Kirk was a racist, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, sexist, white nationalist mouthpiece who made millions of dollars inciting hatred in this country. Whether it was his genocide denial, his transphobic tirades, his pushing of mass deportations, or his normalization of Trumpism, for years the man stood for nothing but hate.
00:01:18.440I extend absolutely no empathy to people like that. In this situation, my empathy is reserved for the children. May they grow up and live in a country that is totally opposite of everything their father envisioned.
00:01:29.380May all of our children grow up to live in that country that values their lives enough to take gun violence seriously and reject any person who would try to justify senseless gun-related deaths, especially the deaths of children.
00:01:41.440Yeah, so this person's kind of a piece of garbage. I don't know how Minister Fontaine is able to stay there, but now I just need to quickly cut over to Wob Canu, giving out, like, in a press conference saying that he is not going to be removing this minister from cabinet.
00:02:02.680Speak about Minister Fontaine's repost regarding Charlie Kirk. You mentioned you would have a conversation with her. Have you been able to chat with the minister about it yet?
00:02:12.480Okay, can you speak to maybe what came out of that conversation for yourself with the minister?
00:02:17.240Yeah, I expressed my concern about what she'd put on her story.
00:02:23.300I don't even care if she posted it herself or she just reposted it. She saw what it was and she shared it. I don't want to hear that you talk to her about some concerns.
00:02:34.480You should have walked into her office saying, what is this, and have actually ripped into her, because what she posted completely destroys her moral credibility.
00:02:44.280As the minister of families, you were celebrating or at least basically ridiculing the death of a man with kids.
00:03:28.480This whole thing is more awkward in the context that she's not losing her job.
00:03:33.820That's why this whole thing feels so weird.
00:03:36.100It's because he's doing this sort of feigned concern over something that he's obviously not that concerned about,
00:03:41.700or else he would have actually gotten her out of cabinet.
00:03:44.000Even demoting her to being like the parliamentary secretary to the new minister of families.
00:03:48.600You could do that. He hasn't done anything.
00:03:51.160And it's probably because he just personally likes this minister more than he is willing to actually hold her accountable for her own words.
00:03:57.240I wrote my will before the last election.
00:04:00.400Before we went into full campaign mode, I signed my will.
00:04:05.020Because I recognized that there is a non-zero possibility that being a person in the public eye,
00:04:09.940I could be, you know, somebody who has some violent thing like this happen.
00:04:14.360Which is terrible, but that's the reality.
00:04:17.440And what I want to see is de-escalation.
00:04:20.320What I want to see is dialogue and people being able to say, you know what, you don't support abortion.
00:05:59.160That's just like, yeah, I just put out a quick nonsense apology.
00:06:02.600And I think that this is one of, like, the Manitoba PC party tends to be pretty flat-footed.
00:06:10.200They have a really bad leader right now, Obi-Khan, who's barely conservative in any conceivable way.
00:06:15.440But they posted this back in July, and it happens to be the perfect response to Nahani Fontaine's disgusting reposting of that statement about Charlie Kirk.
00:06:28.140Because she is effectively addressing herself here in this compilation of clips.
00:06:32.760This is back when they were in opposition, the NDP, not in government.
00:06:37.180When they show you who they are, believe them.
00:06:42.940My message to Manitobans is that when somebody shows you who they are, believe them.
00:06:49.260My message to Manitobans is when the premier and his cabinet show you who they are, believe them.
00:06:55.180I've said many, many times, when people show you who they are, believe them.
00:07:35.620This is actually probably one of the worst scandals his government has suffered because this is going to dog them for a long time because he used to be somebody who like, you know, would try and take the morally credible positions against the former PC government because, you know, they wouldn't dig into a landfill to find the bodies of some missing and murdered indigenous women, which he did when he became premier.
00:07:58.020Or I think he had pushed them to do it and then they finally did it.
00:08:01.280But like, he was somebody who usually tried to take the moral high ground here.
00:08:05.200And I think he's just completely wasted that with basically sacrificing all this political capital to keep Minister Fontaine around.
00:08:12.880Somebody who's probably not even that politically useful, but whatever.