The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Mark Carney admits he's FAILING in trade talks with US

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Shock, gasp, Prime Minister Mark Carney lied to us. I did not see this coming at all, and when I say that, I meant I obviously knew this was going to happen.

00:00:14.780 Carney lied about his elbows-up agenda during the federal election, and now he's effectively admitting he failed on trade negotiations with the United States, and Canada is probably going to remain with a tariff on it from the United States.

00:00:28.580 Here is a headline from the Globe and Mail that says, Carney says, chances are low for a tariff-free trade deal with the U.S., to which Conservative MP Andrew Lawton says, that thud you just heard was the Prime Minister's elbows hitting the floor.

00:00:45.940 This has been a bit of a trend over the last month, where at the beginning of the week, the Liberals start off super confident.

00:00:54.240 We are in full elbows-up mode, and by the end, they're in elbows-down, and they're scurrying to try and please the United States to prevent them from leaving the trade negotiation table. 1.00

00:01:05.740 The way they've played this is so stupid. The term elbows-up, in and of itself, is self-defeating if your goal is to make sure that Canada doesn't have a tariff applied to it. 0.86

00:01:17.880 You're going to go in there with an aggressive slogan as your mantra, thinking that by basically capitulating on nothing to the United States,

00:01:27.100 and just demanding they take off tariffs, that we're going to be in a zero-tariff situation.

00:01:33.100 I am a patriotic Canadian, but it is not unpatriotic to be able to do math and figure out that we are a far less populous country,

00:01:42.480 and our economy is much smaller.

00:01:45.300 Disproportionately smaller to the U.S., even with our population's fractional size taken into account.

00:01:52.360 We may be like one-tenth of the U.S.'s size in terms of population, but we're only like 8% of their economy.

00:02:00.000 They are just inarguably bigger than us, but Carney acted like he was going to drive down to Washington, D.C. in an Abrams tank,

00:02:08.400 jump out of it, and just slap Trump around and say,

00:02:10.840 you better not touch my country, and you better put no tariffs on us, and give me a billion dollars.

00:02:16.640 And then he pantses them on the way out.

00:02:18.380 Never going to happen. 0.98

00:02:19.760 And yes, I'm being hyperbolic and silly.

00:02:22.360 But there were so many liberal voters who thought that this guy was going to swagger into his office, 0.57

00:02:27.900 tell him what for, and a deal was going to be signed, with Trump, like, shaking at his desk,

00:02:33.460 wondering when is the next time that Carney is going to haunt him and demand something else.

00:02:40.640 This is how it was always going to be.

00:02:42.140 I want to read you some quotes from the Globe and Mail story,

00:02:44.740 because Carney, having not fully failed yet, is already trying to retail the fail.

00:02:51.060 By the way, it tends to be that the Globe and Mail is the front-runner paper for trying to soften the blow for things that the liberals are trying to do.

00:03:00.020 So it terrifies me that the Globe and Mail is talking about how Canada should actually get closer to China,

00:03:06.660 or that maybe Canada should increase the GST, the sales tax, by 2%.

00:03:12.520 Let's go from 5% across the country to 7%.

00:03:15.020 The guy who wants to lower income taxes by only 1%, the rate by only 1%, under $50,000,

00:03:22.620 is then going to increase the GST, increase the industrial carbon tax,

00:03:26.840 put in place a carbon border adjustment, which is just a carbon tariff.

00:03:31.920 Great idea, when we're trying to negotiate to take tariffs off on both sides,

00:03:35.980 that we're going to hit them with a carbon tax of border unless they implement their own industrial carbon tax.

00:03:41.440 Genius moves here.

00:03:43.600 But before I get into the Globe and Mail quotes, I just want to remind you guys,

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00:04:19.140 Great trade.

00:04:19.880 By the way, I do actually have a Juno news show that will probably be on their channel either tomorrow or the next day.

00:04:26.280 I'm going to be doing a once-a-week episode for them.

00:04:29.660 Still going to be over here doing daily videos, but I will be doing something special on their channel every week,

00:04:35.260 some longer-form video, something a little bit more substantial than sometimes what I do here.

00:04:40.780 I just pick topics I find interesting, and then I just kind of motor through them.

00:04:44.120 And by the way, at the end of this video, I may talk about the New York City mayoral election.

00:04:50.360 As out of left field as that is, that's why this channel exists,

00:04:53.360 so I can indulge myself by talking about obscure political things,

00:04:57.040 at least for the context of me being a Canadian channel.

00:05:00.800 But here is the global news story.

00:05:04.180 This is, I'll just read a little bit here just so you guys get the flavor of what's going on.

00:05:09.260 It says,

00:05:10.340 Last week, Mr. Trump said he would impose a 35% tariff on imports from Canada starting August 1st,

00:05:17.300 upping pressure on negotiations.

00:05:19.640 Speaking to reporters on his way into the office ahead of a virtual cabinet meeting on Tuesday,

00:05:25.040 Mr. Carney predicted trade talks, quote,

00:05:28.140 will intensify, unquote, ahead of the August 1st deadline.

00:05:32.340 In French, he added that he doesn't believe a pact can be struck that removes all tariffs.

00:05:37.020 And considering that he's not that great at French,

00:05:39.880 I find it very curious that he decided to say this part in French,

00:05:43.040 like he didn't want it to be too viral this moment.

00:05:46.500 But in French, he says, quote,

00:05:48.660 There is not much evidence at this point of agreements,

00:05:52.520 arrangements, or negotiations with the Americans for any country,

00:05:56.600 any jurisdiction to have a tariff-free deal, Mr. Carney said.

00:06:00.100 He said, okay, I consider that to just be Carney being a complete weasel on this matter.

00:06:07.680 He's just saying, well, other people are going to still have tariffs on them,

00:06:10.500 so you shouldn't be that shocked if we have a tariff on us too by the end of things.

00:06:14.960 Has he said that he will scrap the carbon border adjustment on the U.S.?

00:06:19.100 Has he said that he will get rid of supply management,

00:06:24.360 or at least soften it so that American companies,

00:06:26.900 American farmers can start selling dairy products, chicken, eggs into our country? 0.77

00:06:31.320 Has he done any of that?

00:06:32.620 Because my problem with Carney is,

00:06:35.240 although he presents himself as a businessman who just cares about efficiency

00:06:39.720 and making sure that government is being as efficient and effective as possible,

00:06:46.580 and that while he is not a slash-and-burn conservative,

00:06:51.300 he knows that wasteful spending needs to be cut.

00:06:54.540 Bad programs need to be reviewed and removed.

00:06:58.420 At the end of the day,

00:07:00.100 despite having never been an elected official until he became prime minister

00:07:03.820 and the MP for Nepean,

00:07:05.900 Mark Carney is a very political person.

00:07:07.780 There is a reason why when we went through his conflict of interest companies listings,

00:07:13.380 that in the 103 companies,

00:07:15.380 I think there was maybe one company that is kind of related to oil and gas.

00:07:19.620 It's like a natural gas power company.

00:07:21.860 That's kind of it.

00:07:22.860 All of them are just companies that are involved with the government one way or another,

00:07:28.300 or generic investment hedge funds and whatnot.

00:07:30.940 But a lot of his companies are renewables.

00:07:33.840 It's battery storage.

00:07:34.980 It's, you know, other sort of green tech companies.

00:07:38.640 He invests in things that are extremely government-involved,

00:07:41.880 because he is an extremely politically connected guy.

00:07:46.140 Do any of us here think that Gerald Butts isn't political?

00:07:50.300 He's not a politician just because he's never been elected?

00:07:53.260 No.

00:07:53.860 Gerald Butts is more of a politician than pretty much anyone is.

00:07:57.080 It's like saying Katie Telford or Jenny Byrne is not political.

00:08:01.080 Obviously, they're political, or they're not politicians.

00:08:02.800 They're politicians by different means.

00:08:06.160 And Carney will always end up breaking two political factions that he relies on.

00:08:11.640 He's not some guy who brings a new vision to politics in Canada.

00:08:17.460 He's the old vision, but a little more efficient.

00:08:19.860 He's a little more professional.

00:08:21.460 He makes people start wearing suits back at the office,

00:08:23.780 stop wearing running shoes, show up to meetings on time.

00:08:26.320 That's his personality.

00:08:27.400 And is that an improvement in government?

00:08:28.920 I guess so, although I don't want the liberals to be more efficient,

00:08:32.360 because they're bad at what they do,

00:08:34.500 so I'd rather them be inefficient in trying to carry out their bad policies.

00:08:38.520 But Carney, at the end of the day, will bend to the supply management,

00:08:41.920 dairy lobby, chicken lobby.

00:08:44.400 That's just him.

00:08:45.860 He is somebody who needs them, who believes in that sort of stuff.

00:08:49.940 Do I think there's a good chance he's going to get a pipeline done?

00:08:53.320 Not really.

00:08:54.020 Maybe he'll do the Hudson's Bay one, because Bob Canu is supporting it as the Manitoba NDP premier,

00:09:00.520 who also is indigenous, which helps it out quite a bit too.

00:09:03.500 But at the end of the day, the guy's bread and butter is the green tech sector.

00:09:08.000 It's renewables.

00:09:09.340 It's the environmentalist lobby.

00:09:11.400 That is who Mark Carney interacts with a lot.

00:09:14.140 That's why he goes to the World Economic Forum.

00:09:16.600 He is one of those people.

00:09:18.000 And so when he was dealing with Trump, I never thought that he was really willing

00:09:23.380 to throw it all out on the table in order to get the best deal for Canadians.

00:09:27.220 He's not looking for the best deal for Canadians.

00:09:29.380 He is a liberal politician.

00:09:31.200 And he is, frankly, a very generic liberal politician.

00:09:34.180 He relies on the dairy cartel for votes.

00:09:36.420 So he's not going to touch them.

00:09:38.160 And so now we're in a situation where Canada could be saddled with,

00:09:42.200 I don't think it's going to end up being a 35% tariff,

00:09:44.800 but if we end up with a 10% or 15% tariff,

00:09:48.300 it's because he's not really willing to do everything that's required

00:09:52.220 in order to protect Canadians.

00:09:54.080 Because certain types of Canadians, certain industries come before Canadian individuals,

00:10:00.040 just individuals as a whole, no matter where they are in the country.

00:10:03.240 Some Canadians are more equal than others in Mark Carney's mind.

00:10:07.140 But now I want to jump over to the comment that Pierre Polyev,

00:10:10.920 the Conservative Party leader, made.

00:10:12.400 I think it's just important to always get the takes from different individuals.

00:10:18.320 Also, I want to talk about this ridiculous thing that's going on with the dental care

00:10:22.380 program that I had been calling out since it was first passed,

00:10:25.700 and it was pretty predictable it was going to happen.

00:10:28.480 But here is Pierre Polyev saying,

00:10:30.580 the Prime Minister is now conceding that American tariffs on Canada will be part of an eventual deal.

00:10:36.500 Another unilateral concession from a man who said he would never back down to the US President. 0.97

00:10:42.040 And again, I think it was because Carney's language was foolish. 0.94

00:10:45.760 What do you mean you're never going to back down? 0.97

00:10:47.440 We're trying to make a deal.

00:10:48.860 Do you think people don't back down in deals?

00:10:50.920 You kind of have to.

00:10:51.740 It's a give and take thing.

00:10:52.960 You're in a negotiation.

00:10:54.020 You don't just walk into the room, again, and smack the person around and get what you want.

00:10:58.720 Unless, you know, it's like Canada negotiating with a Caribbean island or a small South American country.

00:11:05.920 We don't really have the power to just go in there and hammer on the table and get what we want.

00:11:10.500 You kind of have to be able to make some concessions, but we weren't willing to.

00:11:14.540 But now, here's something else.

00:11:17.000 Or I want to highlight this.

00:11:18.000 This is something that Mark Carney and the Liberals posted today.

00:11:21.640 And again, it's they're trying to slow.

00:11:24.400 They're trying to post stuff that's happy right before they're about to concede.

00:11:28.660 We're supporting Canadian workers.

00:11:30.120 Look at me shaking hands with people.

00:11:36.820 Look how much he's supporting workers.

00:11:48.000 What was this?

00:11:50.240 This was nothing.

00:11:51.620 It just comes along with Mark Carney posting, Canada is a nation of builders.

00:11:58.260 In the face of a challenging global landscape, we will invest in the workers and industries that will build our economy for a stronger, more secure future.

00:12:06.960 Changing global landscape is quite the three words to throw in here.

00:12:12.380 Again, it's trying to front run the fact that he's failing.

00:12:15.280 And everything's changing.

00:12:18.440 Everything's in metric these days.

00:12:20.140 It's so hard to figure out.

00:12:21.880 You know, daylight savings, the stock market, submarines exist.

00:12:29.420 There's just stuff happening out there.

00:12:31.280 And it's confusing.

00:12:32.380 And that's why we have a 15% tariff on us still, guys.

00:12:35.180 This is what they're going to be doing.

00:12:36.680 Just talking about how much they love us, how much they like building things.

00:12:40.980 And then they're just going to concede on the tariffs because they're not willing to get rid of supply management.

00:12:45.700 They're just going to say, sure, give us a 15% tariff.

00:12:48.320 That's all.

00:12:48.940 We won't counter tariff you or anything like that.

00:12:51.660 And by the way, we shouldn't actually retaliate with tariffs.

00:12:53.760 We should be lowering taxes significantly.

00:12:56.300 But again, the Globe and Mail is retailing a policy for the liberals of maybe increasing GST.

00:13:01.620 Maybe.

00:13:02.440 We're already $92 billion deficit already.

00:13:05.260 If we end up with a tariff on us, because all of the liberals' economic planning has been based on not having a tariff on us,

00:13:12.180 if we do, we are going to have to spend more stimulus money to help bail out these bloated companies

00:13:17.300 because Canada's economy is extremely hollow these days with propped-up corporations paid for by Canadian taxpayer dollars

00:13:25.380 to prevent them from going under like normal Canadian companies are

00:13:28.500 because we refuse to actually become a business-friendly environment.

00:13:31.740 This is what they're doing.

00:13:32.820 Anyways, now I want to quickly talk about the dental care program before we jump over

00:13:40.140 and start talking about the New York City mayoral election.

00:13:44.640 Again, why are you talking about that?

00:13:46.720 I like to.

00:13:47.380 I don't know why.

00:13:48.160 I have a problem.

00:13:49.640 And it's called liking politics.

00:13:52.160 But here is a CBC News headline.

00:13:55.020 Half of requests for complex dental work are being rejected under national insurance plan.

00:13:59.720 Dental Association says government dealing with avalanche of submissions.

00:14:05.040 What?

00:14:06.760 Oh, what?

00:14:09.000 You can't just give people free dental care for a taxpayer paid for program that obviously wasn't going to be able to pay for everyone

00:14:17.280 to get tons of different complex surgeries out of nowhere.

00:14:21.140 Like we don't have the budget to just suddenly start paying for dental procedures for tons of people who have never paid into insurance up until five seconds ago.

00:14:29.400 That is what the National Dental Care Program is.

00:14:32.040 It's a bunch of new spending that is paid for by taxpayers to backfill a bunch of people who didn't have insurance.

00:14:37.780 But if you're going to backfill people who didn't have insurance, it's got to be like a $20 billion, $30 billion a year program in order to clear a backlog like this of people who haven't been putting $30 in per month

00:14:49.300 in order to pay for surgeries that may happen five or six years down the road.

00:14:53.560 Government insurance schemes basically never work unless people are forced to actually put money into insurance.

00:14:59.860 Honestly, that might not be a bad program.

00:15:02.060 You want dental care?

00:15:02.940 Okay, mandatory, you must put $20 away for dental care for yourself.

00:15:08.160 That is just in your paycheck.

00:15:10.060 Your paycheck that you get every week already has $20 taken out so you have private insurance.

00:15:15.360 That's basically what you need to do.

00:15:16.920 But we didn't do that and now we're trying to force dentists to not actually get good reimbursements for the services that they're providing.

00:15:24.700 And Neil G. Oberman, Conservative MP for, oh actually a candidate for Mount Royal.

00:15:31.200 He was a really good candidate too.

00:15:32.300 I wish he would have beaten House Father.

00:15:34.180 But Oberman says, promote the notion of government provided, quote, free dental care.

00:15:39.420 What could have possibly gone wrong?

00:15:41.460 Efficient at being inefficient, these liberals and their implementations are.

00:15:45.960 I think that's a great way of putting it.

00:15:47.860 They implement the program at lightning speed and it is a completely inefficient and ineffective program.

00:15:54.400 I know a bunch of people have probably gotten teeth cleanings who don't usually get them, but I don't think that this is actually going to have been worthwhile by the end of the day.

00:16:03.000 I know there's some people out there, if one child got their teeth cleaned, then the program is good.

00:16:09.120 Know what would have been better?

00:16:10.020 Cut the budget by $20, $30 billion, give people their money back and they can go get dental insurance, like real good dental insurance.

00:16:17.920 But now let's jump over to the New York City mayoral election for a little bit of a, I guess, I guess this is something stressing out New Yorkers, but for Canadians this is actually relaxing for me to follow a race that doesn't affect me.

00:16:34.000 But I find it interesting.

00:16:36.220 I get so annoyed with people who don't understand electoral dynamics.

00:16:43.180 They just assume that their first impression of how voting works, how voters work, is actually how it works in real life.

00:16:52.000 I want you to see this poll.

00:16:53.160 So a previous New York City poll had shown Zoran Mandani, who is this communist, anti-Semitic, crazy person who ended up becoming the Democratic nominee, was at like 35%.

00:17:04.620 Previous polls were showing this.

00:17:06.500 They were usually lower sample size polls earlier on into their election.

00:17:10.660 The election date isn't until November, but it was a really early polling after the primaries had ended, showing Zoran at like 35%.

00:17:18.620 It was like Andrew Cuomo at 25, who actually lost in the Democratic primaries, now running as an independent.

00:17:25.820 Then you would have Curtis Sliwa, who is the leader of the Guardian Angels, radio show host.

00:17:31.620 You know, just he's a character in New York.

00:17:33.740 He's the Republican candidate who's getting like 16%.

00:17:36.220 And then you had current incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, who was a Democrat, but didn't even seek the Democratic nominee because he knew he was going to get smashed, is running as an independent.

00:17:46.120 He's currently at like 12%.

00:17:48.620 I've been telling people for a long time, if you want to actually beat Zoran Mandani, stop trying to back one of the two independents who maybe are a little higher than Curtis Sliwa, but aren't going to be able to capture the votes you think they are.

00:18:03.680 Again, people look at a poll and they say, oh, Cuomo is the closest to beating Zoran.

00:18:08.180 So if Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams drop out of the race, he can win.

00:18:14.220 Okay, sure.

00:18:15.680 But I'm not sure if you understand that you can't just say that and that that's going to happen.

00:18:21.240 Also, Cuomo already lost a primary to Zoran Mandani.

00:18:24.180 Why would he then win a general?

00:18:25.960 You're expecting that Republicans who hate Andrew Cuomo's guts or hate Andrew Adams' guts, if everyone else gets out of the race and got behind either one of those people, that they would somehow win.

00:18:35.400 Like, people hate them.

00:18:37.260 Yes, you can get them to maybe select them in a poll, but why would the guy who already lost a Democratic primary suddenly have outsized turnout in independents and Republicans to save them to beat Zoran?

00:18:48.640 Zoran is not very popular.

00:18:50.000 His popularity is falling over time, as people know more about him. 0.69

00:18:53.120 A socialist, useless person, 33 years old, never had a real job in his life, grew up with extremely woke, rich parents who hate the country. 0.89

00:19:03.040 Yeah, that guy is going to fall in popularity. 0.97

00:19:05.420 It doesn't mean people like Cuomo.

00:19:07.100 That doesn't mean people like Eric Adams, who are both scandal-plagued.

00:19:10.040 You know, Andrew Cuomo was sticking sick people in nursing homes during COVID, and you think that people want to vote for that guy?

00:19:17.140 But here is the new poll from Harris X, which is actually a pretty good pollster in the United States.

00:19:23.500 Not the best, but out of all the pollsters currently polling this race, is doing quite well.

00:19:28.320 This new poll has Zoran Mamdani.

00:19:30.600 Again, the official Democratic candidate who is identified as the Democrat in this poll.

00:19:34.880 Some of the other polls were being weaselly by just listing the names but not showing some of them are the official candidate for certain parties.

00:19:40.360 Zoran is now down only at 26%, only 1% more than a quarter of New Yorkers currently would vote for him, and this is in an extremely Democratic city.

00:19:51.880 Obviously, it's New York City.

00:19:54.020 Like, Kamala Harris would have won the city by, like, a margin of 1625 points, despite the fact that she was actually lost votes compared to Biden in New York State overall in 24. 1.00

00:20:05.000 Also, early on in this race, everyone was saying, everyone needs to get behind Adams.

00:20:18.840 He once worked with Donald Trump.

00:20:20.640 Republicans will vote for him.

00:20:22.700 No.

00:20:24.080 Republicans do not like him.

00:20:25.340 Just because one time he let ICE come in for some raids to get rid of some illegals does not mean suddenly Republicans like him.

00:20:31.640 Same thing with Cuomo.

00:20:33.020 Cuomo is scandal-plagued.

00:20:34.280 Is he doing better than Sliwa right now?

00:20:36.740 Yeah, but that's because so many people have been telling Sliwa supporters to go vote for Adams or Cuomo because Sliwa can't win.

00:20:42.800 We now have a poll, despite all the propaganda against Sliwa, is within spitting distance of both Cuomo and Momdine.

00:20:49.680 This is within the margin of error, and there are still many undecided people left.

00:20:54.240 And this time, remember, if you follow New York City politics, which probably none of you do, you're just watching me indulge myself right now,

00:21:01.400 Curtis Sliwa in 2021 running against Eric Adams, who at the time was considered a tough-on-crime popular Democrat.

00:21:09.920 Sliwa, with basically no money and no endorsements outside of some local councilman, got 28% of the vote.

00:21:18.120 He won Staten Island and Queens, the more Republican parts of the city.

00:21:21.220 That's pretty impressive, considering that he is regarded as a clown, and he actually did better than the two last Republicans in previous elections running against Bill de Blasio.

00:21:30.500 So in this race, he's already at 22.

00:21:34.660 He has the endorsement of three-term governor, George Pataki.

00:21:38.320 He has way more money.

00:21:40.100 He has every single Republican borough organization, Brooklyn, Republicans, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island.

00:21:47.480 They're all already behind him, and he's already in spitting distance.

00:21:51.340 And his votes are obviously going to be more likely, Republicans are more likely to be checking off the Republican on the ballot

00:21:57.200 than getting behind some random independent.

00:21:59.220 So this is my point about electoral politics.

00:22:02.420 So many people just assume that online discourse, that people trying to horse-trade online, is how people vote in real life.

00:22:10.740 Do you think a standard New Yorker cares about how Charlie Kirk thinks people should vote?

00:22:16.160 No.

00:22:16.860 They're just going to vote the way that they usually vote, which is, if they're Republican, they're probably going to check off the Republican.

00:22:21.900 You're not going to be able to herd people with a Twitter poll saying,

00:22:24.880 Who do we think we should back?

00:22:26.160 Oh, Adams, he won 58% of the vote of people telling New Yorkers who they should vote for.

00:22:33.100 We should all do that.

00:22:33.940 I know I'm telling New Yorkers who they should vote for Curtis Lewa, but I'm trying to base this in reality of what can actually happen here.

00:22:40.380 So, again, I'm a Canadian.

00:22:41.540 I care mostly about Canadian politics.

00:22:43.200 I do follow politics all around the world.

00:22:45.300 This is, like, the one race I'm really following this year because Zoram Amdani is a nutcase, and I really like Curtis Lewa.

00:22:51.920 The man is, like, working-class Batman. 0.54

00:22:54.420 You know, started an organization to go stop crime on the subways.

00:22:58.460 So, I really do hope that guy does well, and no, politics does not work the way people say it does online.

00:23:06.280 At some point, I'm going to have to cover the separatists in Alberta shooting themselves in the foot constantly.

00:23:10.860 This is actually another aspect of this.

00:23:12.740 Because Jeff Rath, who works with the Alberta Prosperity Project as a lawyer, is telling people not to vote for Pierre Polyev in the by-election in Battle River Crowfoot because he doesn't support separatism.

00:23:24.780 It's like, what do you think he did?

00:23:26.580 What do you think he thought about separatism?

00:23:28.500 He leads a national party.

00:23:30.640 He is not going to support provincial separatism.

00:23:32.760 And just because he vocalized that he opposes it doesn't mean he's sticking in a knife.

00:23:37.320 Someone asked him a question, and he gave the most obvious answer on the planet.

00:23:40.520 He's not trying to spite you guys.

00:23:42.020 He just doesn't agree with you.

00:23:43.940 And now they're trying to pick a fight with federal conservatives, with Pierre Polyev, telling people who vote federal conservatives, stay home.

00:23:50.980 He doesn't support separatism.

00:23:52.860 If you're going to separate from Alberta, if Alberta's going to separate from Canada, it doesn't matter who the federal representative of Battle River Crowfoot is.

00:24:01.340 Frankly, it doesn't even matter who the premier of the province is.

00:24:04.220 So, there's all these separatists trying to take out Danielle Smith. 0.75

00:24:06.840 And I've even had problems with Smith in the past.

00:24:09.140 I think she's doing a really good job right now.

00:24:10.640 Now, I'm somebody who's willing to criticize her.

00:24:13.280 But you have all these people like, she doesn't outwardly support separatism?

00:24:16.820 Get her! 1.00

00:24:17.740 It's like, no!

00:24:20.000 What are you doing?

00:24:21.540 Go and get people to support separatism yourself.

00:24:24.000 Like, I don't support independence for Alberta.

00:24:26.120 It's just not my cup of tea.

00:24:27.700 I think it ends up kind of stealing the keys for the kingdom, for the rest of the country, and basically subjects the rest of the country to liberal governments forever.

00:24:36.100 And Alberta separating doesn't even necessarily mean you might not get stuck with an NDP government for a decade, too.

00:24:41.820 A lot of things can go very bad by leaving.

00:24:44.860 But I'm not, like, begrudging people trying to fight for independence.

00:24:50.160 I 100% understand and sympathize with your reasons.

00:24:53.460 And I will not downplay your reasons or say you're wrong for campaigning.

00:24:56.400 Good luck.

00:24:57.120 Good luck with it.

00:24:57.760 But people like Jeff Rath are taking fights online with Polyev when he probably has a doorknock to second to try and get suburban people in Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, Red Deer on board with this idea.

00:25:11.060 Do you think the average person, even in the most blue area, the most UCP area of Calgary, is voting for separatism in large amounts?

00:25:20.220 Probably not.

00:25:21.080 Even with UCP voters in Calgary, you're probably running at 20% people willing to vote for separatism.

00:25:26.240 I'm on a UCP board.

00:25:28.000 I know people on UCP boards.

00:25:29.840 Very few of them support separatism because it's a massive distraction.

00:25:33.580 It's not going to work.

00:25:34.580 Like, it's not going to win a referendum.

00:25:36.760 Even the numbers now are a little bit inflated, and you're getting around one-third of people willing to vote for it.

00:25:41.740 And even those people are only willing to vote for it in the context of a poll where they don't actually have to do it yet.

00:25:47.360 You're not going to win.

00:25:48.760 But if you want to try and win, maybe I'm being harsh.

00:25:52.600 You can win.

00:25:53.280 But you're not going to based on the way you're doing it right now.

00:25:57.380 I am, again, not an independence guy, but I respect the heck out of Corey Morgan because he is very consistent.

00:26:05.200 He is very rational with his advocacy for separatism.

00:26:10.900 It's basically go out there, actually convince people on how it's going to work, show them how it can work, and get them to be able to vote.

00:26:17.880 So, yes, stop holding town halls while all you do is talk to people who already agree with you.

00:26:23.580 Anyways, so that should probably be it for this video.

00:26:27.280 Hopefully you guys liked me starting out talking about Mark Carney elbows down, going to dental programs, going to New York City mayoral politics, and sticking the landing for Alberta separatism nonsense.

00:26:39.540 And I'm not saying it's nonsense that you, like, support separatism.

00:26:42.980 Fine.

00:26:43.420 That's totally fine with me.

00:26:44.420 I don't dislike that at all.

00:26:46.120 I'm saying it's nonsense for Jeff Rath to be trying to pick fights with Polly over a federal by-election.

00:26:51.780 But, again, like the video if you like the show.

00:26:55.040 Like the video if you like me.

00:26:56.380 I don't know.

00:26:57.140 Maybe that will get me more likes. 0.68

00:26:58.740 I'm just being silly.

00:27:00.240 Leave a comment.

00:27:01.060 What do you think about all this stuff?

00:27:02.480 And, again, subscribe if you're not a subscriber.

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00:27:16.080 I don't know if it's going to be, like, Political Compass or something, something.

00:27:20.900 I don't even have any good ideas.

00:27:22.400 Someone's probably going to tell me what the show's name is who's smarter than myself.

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 16, 2025

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