The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Mark Carney gets CHEWED UP in disastrous press conference!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:06.400 I'm not sure about you guys, but I have been feeling a definite shift happening around Mark Carney,

00:00:13.060 starting with the Michael Moss scandal that he has still not gotten rid of yet.

00:00:17.760 There seems to be a narrative shift around the performance of Mark Carney right now.

00:00:23.400 He just messed up enough over the past few weeks that eventually the media had to start picking up on it

00:00:29.500 and asking him about many of the areas where he has either not actually delivered on his promises

00:00:35.500 or where he's just flat out messed up, no matter if there was a promise there or not.

00:00:40.580 I need to take you guys through a disastrous press conference that he did yesterday.

00:00:46.000 It was remarkable that with so many questions, Mark Carney just completely screwed up.

00:00:51.940 So we're going to go question by question through this press conference so you guys will see what I mean.

00:00:58.260 But before we get into that, I just wanted to give the normal reminder, if you like the channel, leave a like on it, make sure to subscribe if you're not yet a subscriber, hit the notification bell. If you want to contribute to the channel monthly, you can always hit the join button and it helps make the channel more sustainable for me. I appreciate everyone who has become a member of the channel, but I always clarify, I do this to make sure I can keep all of the content on the channel free.

00:01:22.960 there's never going to be member exclusive stuff where if you become a member you get access to a

00:01:27.720 bunch of stuff and if you don't contribute you don't get to see it i always want to keep everything

00:01:31.600 free and with that all being said now let's get in to this truly terrible press conference

00:01:39.600 next question global news prime minister do you agree with the 2021 house of commons vote that

00:01:46.980 China's persecution of Uyghurs is a genocide? Look, there are fundamental issues in terms of

00:01:57.000 China's treatment of the Uyghurs. What is this? You know what I mean already? This isn't a purely

00:02:05.060 Michael Ma video. There's tons of questions that have nothing to do with him denying forced labor

00:02:10.160 in China. But goodness, it starts off with one kind of around the subject of China that was

00:02:16.100 triggered because of michael ma you can't just say yes you can't just say yes there is problems

00:02:22.120 with the treatment of the uyghurs in china this was something that his own party would have voted 1.00

00:02:28.000 in favor of a few years ago and now he's just unable to actually give a yes or no question

00:02:33.980 or answer to this obvious question uh let's just let him keep flailing here for a bit

00:02:38.600 um in the past uh and they've been rightly called out do you agree that it's ongoing

00:02:44.560 uh that it's ongoing there are serious issues that remain which is why um in and you know i've

00:02:52.200 raised human rights issues uh with my chinese counterparts uh in our which ones which one says

00:02:59.060 he raised with them he can't even answer the one in front of him he hasn't said if he brought this

00:03:04.860 one up so she asked about the uyghur genocide and it is genuinely a genocide this isn't like

00:03:10.020 Palestinian activists thinking that Israel firing back on Hamas means it's a genocide.

00:03:14.980 This is where they're literally marrying off Uyghur Muslim women to Han Chinese men in order to 0.91

00:03:22.600 basically try and disrupt the community. That is a genuine genocide, locking people up in work camps,

00:03:28.920 not letting them have normal family lives, basically trying to split families away from

00:03:33.740 each other. And they're literally forcing women to divorce their husbands to then remarry a Han 0.99

00:03:38.160 Chinese man it's nuts what's going on and he couldn't answer that question straight up and 0.89

00:03:42.900 even when she gave him a second chance to that well are you at least willing to say that the

00:03:48.280 problem that you're not willing to call a genocide is at least ongoing and he can't do it listen to

00:03:52.880 this guy rightly coach look the there are fundamental issues uh in terms of China's

00:03:59.520 treatment of the Uyghurs um in the past uh and they've been rightly called out do you agree that 1.00

00:04:06.000 it's ongoing uh that it's ongoing there are serious issues that remain which is why um in

00:04:12.400 and you know i've raised uh human rights issues uh with my chinese counterparts uh in our

00:04:18.700 engagements uh and it's why it's essential in our um dealings with china uh and commercial

00:04:26.180 dealings with china that we have transparency in terms of where goods come from the treatment of

00:04:31.820 those workers um and that they fully meet uh our standards in terms of uh child labor uh slave

00:04:40.420 labor uh human rights let's be clear that was not an answer to that question the end part there is

00:04:48.840 basically just saying don't worry we uh care about these things it's like do you though you can keep

00:04:54.960 saying that we make it clear what our standards are but any anyone with two iq points can figure

00:05:00.760 out that they're not following that standard at all and you're letting them get away with it but

00:05:05.480 that was that question now we got to move ahead to the next bad one i'm skipping over stuff not

00:05:10.960 because i don't care about the questions but they're in french and naturally we're not going

00:05:14.640 to sit here with me reading captions to you but let's just move on to the next one here uh you'll

00:05:21.140 see why i'm moving on to to different ones as we go through activities and their thrust prime minister

00:05:25.720 here we go so this is our next one here valley national post uh the deadline for agreements on

00:05:33.160 carbon pricing in the pathways project through your government's mou with alberta is tomorrow

00:05:37.640 are you on track to meet that deadline given premier smith's comments in houston last week

00:05:41.960 she said there might be a delay well we're i'd say a couple of things one and premier smith and i had

00:05:48.280 with colleagues a very constructive conversation yesterday yesterday afternoon we have

00:05:55.640 so we're continuing to move forward i'd note that we have made a series of progress

00:06:00.600 the cooperation agreement that was signed and announced a couple weeks ago the agreement on

00:06:05.000 methane which was announced last week we're continuing to move forward so there's a lot

00:06:09.800 of momentum will we perfectly make premier smith's birthday and i'd like to take this opportunity to

00:06:15.080 to wish the premier of Alberta happy birthday tomorrow and everyone who would like to send

00:06:20.140 cards, please do. And I know she's thrilled about this announcement as well. And but will

00:06:26.880 we perfectly meet the first? Not necessarily. Do you know why they're not going to meet

00:06:32.060 the first? It's because Mark Carney is not serious about getting a pipeline built. He

00:06:37.300 doesn't actually want to back off of what he wants to set as the industrial carbon price

00:06:42.500 Alberta has to follow within the MOU. He's not backing off of his extremely high industrial

00:06:49.640 carbon tax, which means that he is forcing Alberta into a situation where no pipeline would get built

00:06:55.000 because no company would want to do it. This is the game that Mark Carney is playing, and he's

00:06:59.140 currently being caught in it because while I've heard many people criticizing Danielle Smith

00:07:03.920 because she's giving too much leeway to Mark Carney and she's being too pliable, that's the 0.99

00:07:09.060 point. She's acting as pliable as possible while also being firm where if she agreed to something

00:07:16.040 that Mark Carney puts forward, it would kill the ability to actually get a pipeline built because

00:07:19.480 no company would actually try and move oil and gas through that pipeline based on the high

00:07:24.780 industrial carbon taxes. And so right now, Mark Carney is demonstrating that he's literally

00:07:31.220 fighting with her to prevent there from being the possibility by pipeline by trying to install

00:07:37.840 basically these poison pills within the deal, this extremely high industrial carbon tax.

00:07:43.040 He's been trying to get her to like agree to things like a methane tax and other stuff like

00:07:47.340 that. The whole point of him is he's just extending the negotiating as far as possible,

00:07:53.240 because as I've said in previous videos, he wants to be Mr. Pipeline without ever actually having

00:07:57.960 to get a pipeline built. He'll keep negotiating, but never getting there. And I hope that

00:08:04.140 But eventually, UCP, Alberta Premier, Daniel Smith, just basically calls it off and says,

00:08:09.580 he's not serious.

00:08:10.440 He's stringing me along.

00:08:11.640 I'm done with him.

00:08:13.000 Because I think that will be very powerful the day that eventually she does it there.

00:08:17.460 I think there's not much left to this question, but I'll move on to the next one in a second.

00:08:20.700 But are we making, do we have momentum?

00:08:22.540 We're making progress?

00:08:23.520 Yes.

00:08:24.240 We'll get the right agreement at the right time, but I anticipate soon.

00:08:29.500 So I'm going to be moving on now to the next question.

00:08:32.440 and I'm going to quickly give myself a pause to find where it was on the time code,

00:08:36.280 and then I'll be back with that one.

00:08:40.240 Okay, so now we have moved on to the question about firearms,

00:08:45.420 and the fact that Mark Carney's firearm buyback that he inherited from Justin Trudeau

00:08:50.240 and has kept his foot on the gas is falling apart,

00:08:53.300 and obviously extremely few people are actually participating in the buyback.

00:08:58.700 Many of those who are participating, it's not because the government, like, pressured them into doing it.

00:09:03.320 Usually it's people who inherited the guns who didn't really want them in the first place.

00:09:06.800 The uptake rate of the guns that the government has even identified that could be confiscated, I've heard, is only like 52,000.

00:09:15.320 It's nothing.

00:09:16.740 The government has no clue what they're doing.

00:09:18.540 There are millions of guns that the buyback would apply to, and obviously gun owners are not going to turn them in because that would be ridiculous for them to do.

00:09:26.680 And now here is Mark Carney being called out by a journalist for his failure on this issue as well.

00:09:32.000 Prime Minister Tom Perry with CBC.

00:09:33.860 Today's the deadline for gun owners to make their declaration as part of the federal buyback program.

00:09:39.540 Public safety says I think it's about 57,000 guns have been declared, but you've budgeted for up to 136,000.

00:09:45.680 So I'm wondering, what do you think about the uptake?

00:09:48.280 And by the way, far more than 136,000 guns would be needing to be confiscated based on what has been banned.

00:09:56.680 Now, again, the gun buyback is ridiculous. Nobody should have to give their guns back. They are law abiding gun owners. That is not something that they should have to participate in. I'm just here to mock the fact that their program isn't even functional. 57,000 guns declared out of probably millions, probably over a million guns.

00:10:17.260 they're saying that they had it budgeted to take 167 000 guns but they haven't even got to that

00:10:23.840 low number which is maybe 10 of all the ones that they would need to take

00:10:28.100 and he's going to have to try and spin this as some major win when it obviously is a massive

00:10:32.900 flop for the billions that they've been spending to violate people's property rights and are you

00:10:37.320 worried that given it isn't as high as what you budgeted for that there's still going to be a lot

00:10:40.620 of prohibited weapons out there well uh first off i'd like to uh you know salute those who've

00:10:45.920 worked on um uh making this possible and uh those who've uh gun owners who've brought brought

00:10:52.920 forward their uh their weapons for uh for compensation uh you know we'll evaluate uh

00:10:58.720 the full uh full program and uh next steps um there's there's time between uh uh between now

00:11:05.980 and uh when the we are there's this has become this is what i mean when i say the narrative

00:11:11.300 have has shifted on mark carney we used to have confident mark carney back i think around late

00:11:17.380 25 early 26 you know january february carney was very confident would puff out his chest and and

00:11:24.580 act in command we are back to umming and eyeing mark carney who um uh well yeah uh well he's not

00:11:32.180 uh able to um coherently answer anything uh we're having uh discussions and we'll continue to have

00:11:40.020 those discussions and where we're understanding each other and it because like there's nothing

00:11:44.980 actually when you actually boil it down mark carney hasn't achieved anything and this isn't

00:11:51.140 the last question that we'll be talking about today this is just the one on guns which is in

00:11:55.220 a certain sense a more niche question we're about to get to the one on the economy in just a second

00:11:59.540 here but i'll let him keep umming and ahhing through this non-answer law fully takes effect

00:12:04.100 uh later in the fall but but are you like what do you think about the uptake though i mean is it

00:12:08.020 it's as high as you want it's not as high as you want it well it's not as high as uh yeah as the

00:12:12.740 estimates of the uh the numbers of uh by definition i mean your your your figures are are are i have

00:12:19.460 the same understanding of the broad figures so uh there's obviously a gap there okay thanks

00:12:23.940 next question okay uh we're gonna be moving on i think i'm not sure if this is the right one or

00:12:28.740 not i'll check it out uh we'll make sure that i'm jumping onto the right one first here yeah

00:12:33.540 Abigail Beeman, CTV News. Are you?

00:12:36.020 I believe it is. This is the one on the carbon tax and trying to make sure that people can actually afford energy right now while prices are high.

00:12:44.180 Considering cutting the federal gas tax to help Canadians at the pump, and at the same time, if you get a majority government in 10 days,

00:12:51.260 are you considering proroguing Parliament, which may get in the way of any potential legislation?

00:12:55.660 Okay, the first, I can answer the second one first. Absolutely not. It has never even entered my thinking, the possibility of that. So I couldn't have been more surprised to see a suggestion that that was under consideration.

00:13:11.340 um see you know what i want to actually like point you to something in that answer he answered that

00:13:18.000 question confidently the second part of it that he's not going to prorogue parliament i actually

00:13:22.400 believe him on that you can tell that he's telling the truth because he sounds confident again

00:13:27.400 all these other questions he's been umming and eyeing because they're not comfortable topics

00:13:32.060 for him he's not telling the truth or it's just not a good thing for him to be talking about

00:13:36.900 because he has objectively not done a good job when it comes to it and so now when he has to

00:13:43.780 answer something about you know whether or not he's going to prorogue government i don't really

00:13:47.780 see why he would have to prorogue government he's about to get a majority continue on with his agenda

00:13:52.020 as is then he can actually answer with a little bit of gusto now let's get back to the part about

00:13:57.540 gas taxes at all uh on france say okay be happy with me i don't suggest that he would do anything

00:14:04.180 more extreme. But no, we are, en France, le gouvernement travaille avec legislation where

00:14:12.700 it needs to be, where it's better informed by the discussions in Parliament, where we have to make

00:14:17.420 compromise in order to do it. And we've shown that. We've shown that consistently. And I think

00:14:21.580 what we've seen, certainly in the last two months, is the real progress that we're making across a

00:14:29.060 range of bills, in crime, the Budget Implementation Act, other aspects.

00:14:35.140 He's really taking a sweet time to not get back to the gas tax question.

00:14:39.500 There's no question of that. And I've already forgotten the first part of your question,

00:14:42.640 Abigail. So sorry.

00:14:43.320 Gas. You said a few days ago that you are following it closely.

00:14:46.980 Yeah, we are following it. Yes, Abigail, we're following it closely. And

00:14:49.980 But, you know, we, in the context of fiscal realities, other measures we've taken to improve affordability, the persistence of the potential oil price, higher gas price.

00:15:05.900 So we have to take all of that into account.

00:15:08.180 And, you know, we will.

00:15:10.000 He's not going to do it.

00:15:11.300 That's basically what he's trying to say.

00:15:13.200 Mark Carney is umming and ahhing through a no.

00:15:16.280 He's not going to actually do anything on his government side to alleviate affordability issues.

00:15:21.860 He has given you a half a percent tax cut this year.

00:15:25.660 And in another two years, I guess he's going to give you another half a percent tax cut that year.

00:15:30.300 And even that's not really a half a percent cut.

00:15:33.360 It's a half a percent cut on the first fifty thousand dollars of your taxes, which you only actually pay after the first eighteen thousand dollars that are not actually included in it.

00:15:45.000 so yeah he doesn't care you're not going to do anything to actually help your affordability

00:15:50.320 right now because his government if you haven't noticed is like 90 billion dollars in debt

00:15:56.260 even after he rolled out the embarrassing 78 billion dollar deficit last year he's added

00:16:01.940 billions and billions more giving money to ukraine twice throwing a bunch of money at other sort of

00:16:07.960 international problems and just agreeing to spend money on a bunch of new subsidies for ontario

00:16:14.000 and whatnot uh yeah so he doesn't have any money left over to actually try and give people tax

00:16:19.980 relief right now while in where i am right now victoria gas prices are literally over two dollars

00:16:25.640 a liter no no that doesn't that doesn't mean anything to him because well hasn't he already

00:16:31.880 done enough for you guys he gave you half a percent come on even though he's then raised

00:16:35.960 the industrial carbon tax put in place other anti-pollution taxes and whatnot can't you just

00:16:42.100 be happy with the half a percent you got but this is just an abysmal performance we are back to umming

00:16:47.060 and aahing mark carney because he knows he is on shaky ground once again and he's not comfortable

00:16:52.340 with it uh we'll have a fiscal event uh in in the spring with the spring update um and that would

00:16:59.060 be the right time to prop you know fully answer that question is there a date for that uh i can

00:17:03.620 there uh yeah we're gonna bookend it with okay yeah uh so that was horrific if if you didn't

00:17:12.740 notice so mark carney doesn't that's the problem right now when mark carney is not kind of like

00:17:19.220 gliding on air because the polls are looking great and polyev has issues to deal with

00:17:25.220 the thing is when you actually get back down to it carney doesn't really have that much to defend

00:17:29.780 himself with. All of his achievements are more so just the fact that he's not as bad as Justin

00:17:35.200 Trudeau on specific issues. I'll even give him, on immigration, it's been okay. Immigration rates

00:17:39.800 still need to be cut severely, but compared to how bad Justin Trudeau was, he is relatively

00:17:45.140 better, although even his immigration rates are way bigger than anything Harper ever let into

00:17:49.220 the country, and even Harper's rates, you could argue, are still too high. I'll give him what he's

00:17:54.700 relatively better than Trudeau on that front. Everywhere else, it's worse. He has a worse

00:18:01.840 Chinese interference problem than Justin Trudeau. Going back to that first question,

00:18:08.240 couldn't land the plane on whether or not there was a genocide of Uyghurs in China. Despite the 0.62

00:18:16.340 fact his own government that he inherited back in 2021 voted to say yes, that's going on. He

00:18:23.400 literally cannot actually acknowledge a factual reality that his own party acknowledged just a

00:18:30.020 few years ago now because he's busy trying to get a greater trade with them because we have to trade 0.98

00:18:36.100 with the Chinese who are genociding a minority because we can't work with those dirty, dirty 1.00

00:18:41.560 Americans who made jokes about a 51st state. So we have genocide and forced labor and child labor 1.00

00:18:49.000 over here and we have 50 first state jokes i guess i guess really the 50 first state jokes when you

00:18:55.480 really think about it are worse than a bunch of people being literally forced to be divorced and

00:19:01.160 remarried to another person when you think about it the jokes are worse anyways so that should be 0.99

00:19:07.800 it for this video guys thank you for watching make sure to like share subscribe and i will

00:19:12.200 We'll definitely be back later with another video.

00:19:15.280 See you guys later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 01, 2026

Mark Carney gets CHEWED UP in disastrous press conference!

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