The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Manitoba Minister NOT FIRED after vile Charle Kirk murder comments

00:00:00.000 Hey 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.

00:00:18.100 So 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.

00:00:39.600 So 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. 0.88

00:00:55.880 Charlie 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. 0.92

00:01:18.440 I 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.

00:01:29.380 May 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. 1.00

00:01:41.440 Yeah, 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. 0.75

00:02:02.680 Speak 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?

00:02:10.260 Yeah, I did.

00:02:12.480 Okay, can you speak to maybe what came out of that conversation for yourself with the minister?

00:02:17.240 Yeah, I expressed my concern about what she'd put on her story.

00:02:23.300 I 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.

00:02:34.480 You 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.

00:02:44.280 As the minister of families, you were celebrating or at least basically ridiculing the death of a man with kids.

00:02:53.180 I asked her to apologize.

00:02:55.360 When did you become aware that she had shared that on her story?

00:02:58.940 Have you heard from anyone, any kind of ambassadors or any of your American counterparts that expressed concern over her post?

00:03:12.640 No. No, I was concerned.

00:03:14.940 I think we can start with the implications of posts like this could have. It's a divisive time right now.

00:03:21.160 Yeah, I think I do have concerns.

00:03:28.480 This whole thing is more awkward in the context that she's not losing her job.

00:03:33.820 That's why this whole thing feels so weird.

00:03:36.100 It's because he's doing this sort of feigned concern over something that he's obviously not that concerned about,

00:03:41.700 or else he would have actually gotten her out of cabinet.

00:03:44.000 Even demoting her to being like the parliamentary secretary to the new minister of families. 0.96

00:03:48.600 You could do that. He hasn't done anything.

00:03:51.160 And it's probably because he just personally likes this minister more than he is willing to actually hold her accountable for her own words.

00:03:57.240 I wrote my will before the last election.

00:04:00.400 Before we went into full campaign mode, I signed my will.

00:04:05.020 Because I recognized that there is a non-zero possibility that being a person in the public eye,

00:04:09.940 I could be, you know, somebody who has some violent thing like this happen.

00:04:14.360 Which is terrible, but that's the reality.

00:04:17.440 And what I want to see is de-escalation.

00:04:20.320 What I want to see is dialogue and people being able to say, you know what, you don't support abortion.

00:04:28.140 I do.

00:04:29.380 But let's maybe on a university campus, like where we're standing right now, have the ability to talk about it.

00:04:34.620 Or any of the very kind of hot button issues out there.

00:04:38.160 And I asked our minister to apologize because I want us to be a force as a government, as you would expect as Manitobans,

00:04:47.160 a force for openness and dialogue and taking the temperature down.

00:04:52.020 Yeah.

00:04:52.560 So the through line there is that she's not being fired.

00:04:55.480 An article later came out in the Toronto Sun that was headlined,

00:05:03.300 Manitoba cabinet minister apologizes for sharing post about American activist death.

00:05:08.740 And then it goes on to say that families minister Nahani Fontaine shared another person's post Thursday night

00:05:17.000 that described Perks as a racist, sexist, transphobic, calling him a white nationalist mouthpiece.

00:05:21.960 But I want to go down to, to go down to where he, where it said that he didn't remove her.

00:05:30.960 Premier Wobcanu, who had condemned the killing of Perk earlier in the week and stressed the need for empathy,

00:05:37.060 said he spoke with Fontaine Friday and asked her to apologize.

00:05:41.860 She will remain in cabinet, he added.

00:05:43.940 Well, isn't that good.

00:05:45.880 What does it actually take, rhetorically speaking, for somebody to be removed from Wobcanu's cabinet in Manitoba,

00:05:53.180 if not for that, like not for celebrating somebody's death, like a decent man's death?

00:05:58.220 That's fine.

00:05:59.160 That's just like, yeah, I just put out a quick nonsense apology.

00:06:02.600 And I think that this is one of, like, the Manitoba PC party tends to be pretty flat-footed.

00:06:10.200 They have a really bad leader right now, Obi-Khan, who's barely conservative in any conceivable way.

00:06:15.440 But 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.

00:06:28.140 Because she is effectively addressing herself here in this compilation of clips.

00:06:32.760 This is back when they were in opposition, the NDP, not in government.

00:06:37.180 When they show you who they are, believe them.

00:06:42.940 My message to Manitobans is that when somebody shows you who they are, believe them.

00:06:49.260 My message to Manitobans is when the premier and his cabinet show you who they are, believe them.

00:06:55.180 I've said many, many times, when people show you who they are, believe them.

00:06:59.720 It's okay.

00:07:00.320 I was thrown on.

00:07:01.400 It wasn't great.

00:07:02.300 But because the woman, she shouldn't have been on the stage. 1.00

00:07:05.320 I couldn't see you the wrong one.

00:07:06.880 Anyways, you don't need to see that last part.

00:07:08.480 I think that was the context of what they were responding to.

00:07:12.200 But yeah, I think Nahani Fontaine has showed people who she is.

00:07:16.460 And the fact that in post-showing people who she is, and if she has not been removed, is kind of a black mark on Wabkanu's government.

00:07:24.820 I don't like Wabkanu's politics.

00:07:26.660 But generally speaking, he's a fairly good communicator.

00:07:30.720 He seems like a, like a, he's more of a left-wing populist.

00:07:34.380 He's good at connecting with people.

00:07:35.620 This 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.

00:07:58.020 Or I think he had pushed them to do it and then they finally did it.

00:08:01.280 But like, he was somebody who usually tried to take the moral high ground here.

00:08:05.200 And I think he's just completely wasted that with basically sacrificing all this political capital to keep Minister Fontaine around.

00:08:12.880 Somebody who's probably not even that politically useful, but whatever.

00:08:16.900 He's made his bed.

00:08:18.060 Now he's going to have to lie in it.

00:08:20.020 Anyways, that should be it for this quick video, guys.

00:08:22.860 Again, like, share, subscribe, do all that great stuff.

00:08:25.840 And I will see you guys later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 14, 2025

Manitoba Minister NOT FIRED after vile Charle Kirk murder comments

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