In this episode of the National Telegraph YouTube channel, Wyatt Claypool takes you through a disastrous press conference that Carney did in response to a question about China's treatment of the Uyghurs, and how this is a genocide.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.400I'm not sure about you guys, but I have been feeling a definite shift happening around Mark Carney,
00:00:13.060starting with the Michael Moss scandal that he has still not gotten rid of yet.
00:00:17.760There seems to be a narrative shift around the performance of Mark Carney right now.
00:00:23.400He just messed up enough over the past few weeks that eventually the media had to start picking up on it
00:00:29.500and asking him about many of the areas where he has either not actually delivered on his promises
00:00:35.500or where he's just flat out messed up, no matter if there was a promise there or not.
00:00:40.580I need to take you guys through a disastrous press conference that he did yesterday.
00:00:46.000It was remarkable that with so many questions, Mark Carney just completely screwed up.
00:00:51.940So we're going to go question by question through this press conference so you guys will see what I mean.
00:00:58.260But 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.
00:01:22.960there's never going to be member exclusive stuff where if you become a member you get access to a
00:01:27.720bunch of stuff and if you don't contribute you don't get to see it i always want to keep everything
00:01:31.600free and with that all being said now let's get in to this truly terrible press conference
00:01:39.600next question global news prime minister do you agree with the 2021 house of commons vote that
00:01:46.980China's persecution of Uyghurs is a genocide? Look, there are fundamental issues in terms of
00:01:57.000China's treatment of the Uyghurs. What is this? You know what I mean already? This isn't a purely
00:02:05.060Michael Ma video. There's tons of questions that have nothing to do with him denying forced labor
00:02:10.160in China. But goodness, it starts off with one kind of around the subject of China that was
00:02:16.100triggered because of michael ma you can't just say yes you can't just say yes there is problems
00:02:22.120with the treatment of the uyghurs in china this was something that his own party would have voted
00:02:28.000in favor of a few years ago and now he's just unable to actually give a yes or no question
00:02:33.980or answer to this obvious question uh let's just let him keep flailing here for a bit
00:02:38.600um in the past uh and they've been rightly called out do you agree that it's ongoing
00:02:44.560uh that it's ongoing there are serious issues that remain which is why um in and you know i've
00:02:52.200raised human rights issues uh with my chinese counterparts uh in our which ones which one says
00:02:59.060he raised with them he can't even answer the one in front of him he hasn't said if he brought this
00:03:04.860one up so she asked about the uyghur genocide and it is genuinely a genocide this isn't like
00:03:10.020Palestinian activists thinking that Israel firing back on Hamas means it's a genocide.
00:03:14.980This is where they're literally marrying off Uyghur Muslim women to Han Chinese men in order to
00:03:22.600basically try and disrupt the community. That is a genuine genocide, locking people up in work camps,
00:03:28.920not letting them have normal family lives, basically trying to split families away from
00:03:33.740each other. And they're literally forcing women to divorce their husbands to then remarry a Han
00:03:38.160Chinese man it's nuts what's going on and he couldn't answer that question straight up and
00:03:42.900even when she gave him a second chance to that well are you at least willing to say that the
00:03:48.280problem that you're not willing to call a genocide is at least ongoing and he can't do it listen to
00:03:52.880this guy rightly coach look the there are fundamental issues uh in terms of China's
00:03:59.520treatment of the Uyghurs um in the past uh and they've been rightly called out do you agree that
00:04:06.000it's ongoing uh that it's ongoing there are serious issues that remain which is why um in
00:04:12.400and you know i've raised uh human rights issues uh with my chinese counterparts uh in our
00:04:18.700engagements uh and it's why it's essential in our um dealings with china uh and commercial
00:04:26.180dealings with china that we have transparency in terms of where goods come from the treatment of
00:04:31.820those workers um and that they fully meet uh our standards in terms of uh child labor uh slave
00:04:40.420labor uh human rights let's be clear that was not an answer to that question the end part there is
00:04:48.840basically just saying don't worry we uh care about these things it's like do you though you can keep
00:04:54.960saying that we make it clear what our standards are but any anyone with two iq points can figure
00:05:00.760out that they're not following that standard at all and you're letting them get away with it but
00:05:05.480that was that question now we got to move ahead to the next bad one i'm skipping over stuff not
00:05:10.960because i don't care about the questions but they're in french and naturally we're not going
00:05:14.640to sit here with me reading captions to you but let's just move on to the next one here uh you'll
00:05:21.140see why i'm moving on to to different ones as we go through activities and their thrust prime minister
00:05:25.720here we go so this is our next one here valley national post uh the deadline for agreements on
00:05:33.160carbon pricing in the pathways project through your government's mou with alberta is tomorrow
00:05:37.640are you on track to meet that deadline given premier smith's comments in houston last week
00:05:41.960she said there might be a delay well we're i'd say a couple of things one and premier smith and i had
00:05:48.280with colleagues a very constructive conversation yesterday yesterday afternoon we have
00:05:55.640so we're continuing to move forward i'd note that we have made a series of progress
00:06:00.600the cooperation agreement that was signed and announced a couple weeks ago the agreement on
00:06:05.000methane which was announced last week we're continuing to move forward so there's a lot
00:06:09.800of momentum will we perfectly make premier smith's birthday and i'd like to take this opportunity to
00:06:15.080to wish the premier of Alberta happy birthday tomorrow and everyone who would like to send
00:06:20.140cards, please do. And I know she's thrilled about this announcement as well. And but will
00:06:26.880we perfectly meet the first? Not necessarily. Do you know why they're not going to meet
00:06:32.060the first? It's because Mark Carney is not serious about getting a pipeline built. He
00:06:37.300doesn't actually want to back off of what he wants to set as the industrial carbon price
00:06:42.500Alberta has to follow within the MOU. He's not backing off of his extremely high industrial
00:06:49.640carbon tax, which means that he is forcing Alberta into a situation where no pipeline would get built
00:06:55.000because no company would want to do it. This is the game that Mark Carney is playing, and he's
00:06:59.140currently being caught in it because while I've heard many people criticizing Danielle Smith
00:07:03.920because she's giving too much leeway to Mark Carney and she's being too pliable, that's the
00:07:09.060point. She's acting as pliable as possible while also being firm where if she agreed to something
00:07:16.040that Mark Carney puts forward, it would kill the ability to actually get a pipeline built because
00:07:19.480no company would actually try and move oil and gas through that pipeline based on the high
00:07:24.780industrial carbon taxes. And so right now, Mark Carney is demonstrating that he's literally
00:07:31.220fighting with her to prevent there from being the possibility by pipeline by trying to install
00:07:37.840basically these poison pills within the deal, this extremely high industrial carbon tax.
00:07:43.040He's been trying to get her to like agree to things like a methane tax and other stuff like
00:07:47.340that. The whole point of him is he's just extending the negotiating as far as possible,
00:07:53.240because as I've said in previous videos, he wants to be Mr. Pipeline without ever actually having
00:07:57.960to get a pipeline built. He'll keep negotiating, but never getting there. And I hope that
00:08:04.140But eventually, UCP, Alberta Premier, Daniel Smith, just basically calls it off and says,
00:09:16.740The government has no clue what they're doing.
00:09:18.540There 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.
00:09:26.680And now here is Mark Carney being called out by a journalist for his failure on this issue as well.
00:09:33.860Today's the deadline for gun owners to make their declaration as part of the federal buyback program.
00:09:39.540Public safety says I think it's about 57,000 guns have been declared, but you've budgeted for up to 136,000.
00:09:45.680So I'm wondering, what do you think about the uptake?
00:09:48.280And by the way, far more than 136,000 guns would be needing to be confiscated based on what has been banned.
00:09:56.680Now, 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.
00:10:17.260they're saying that they had it budgeted to take 167 000 guns but they haven't even got to that
00:10:23.840low number which is maybe 10 of all the ones that they would need to take
00:10:28.100and he's going to have to try and spin this as some major win when it obviously is a massive
00:10:32.900flop for the billions that they've been spending to violate people's property rights and are you
00:10:37.320worried that given it isn't as high as what you budgeted for that there's still going to be a lot
00:10:40.620of prohibited weapons out there well uh first off i'd like to uh you know salute those who've
00:10:45.920worked on um uh making this possible and uh those who've uh gun owners who've brought brought
00:10:52.920forward their uh their weapons for uh for compensation uh you know we'll evaluate uh
00:10:58.720the full uh full program and uh next steps um there's there's time between uh uh between now
00:11:05.980and uh when the we are there's this has become this is what i mean when i say the narrative
00:11:11.300have has shifted on mark carney we used to have confident mark carney back i think around late
00:11:17.38025 early 26 you know january february carney was very confident would puff out his chest and and
00:11:24.580act in command we are back to umming and eyeing mark carney who um uh well yeah uh well he's not
00:11:32.180uh able to um coherently answer anything uh we're having uh discussions and we'll continue to have
00:11:40.020those discussions and where we're understanding each other and it because like there's nothing
00:11:44.980actually when you actually boil it down mark carney hasn't achieved anything and this isn't
00:11:51.140the last question that we'll be talking about today this is just the one on guns which is in
00:11:55.220a certain sense a more niche question we're about to get to the one on the economy in just a second
00:11:59.540here but i'll let him keep umming and ahhing through this non-answer law fully takes effect
00:12:04.100uh later in the fall but but are you like what do you think about the uptake though i mean is it
00:12:08.020it'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
00:12:12.740estimates of the uh the numbers of uh by definition i mean your your your figures are are are i have
00:12:19.460the same understanding of the broad figures so uh there's obviously a gap there okay thanks
00:12:23.940next question okay uh we're gonna be moving on i think i'm not sure if this is the right one or
00:12:28.740not i'll check it out uh we'll make sure that i'm jumping onto the right one first here yeah
00:12:36.020I 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.
00:12:44.180Considering 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,
00:12:51.260are you considering proroguing Parliament, which may get in the way of any potential legislation?
00:12:55.660Okay, 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.
00:13:11.340um see you know what i want to actually like point you to something in that answer he answered that
00:13:18.000question confidently the second part of it that he's not going to prorogue parliament i actually
00:13:22.400believe him on that you can tell that he's telling the truth because he sounds confident again
00:13:27.400all these other questions he's been umming and eyeing because they're not comfortable topics
00:13:32.060for him he's not telling the truth or it's just not a good thing for him to be talking about
00:13:36.900because he has objectively not done a good job when it comes to it and so now when he has to
00:13:43.780answer something about you know whether or not he's going to prorogue government i don't really
00:13:47.780see why he would have to prorogue government he's about to get a majority continue on with his agenda
00:13:52.020as is then he can actually answer with a little bit of gusto now let's get back to the part about
00:13:57.540gas taxes at all uh on france say okay be happy with me i don't suggest that he would do anything
00:14:04.180more extreme. But no, we are, en France, le gouvernement travaille avec legislation where
00:14:12.700it needs to be, where it's better informed by the discussions in Parliament, where we have to make
00:14:17.420compromise in order to do it. And we've shown that. We've shown that consistently. And I think
00:14:21.580what we've seen, certainly in the last two months, is the real progress that we're making across a
00:14:29.060range of bills, in crime, the Budget Implementation Act, other aspects.
00:14:35.140He's really taking a sweet time to not get back to the gas tax question.
00:14:39.500There's no question of that. And I've already forgotten the first part of your question,
00:14:43.320Gas. You said a few days ago that you are following it closely.
00:14:46.980Yeah, we are following it. Yes, Abigail, we're following it closely. And
00:14:49.980But, 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.
00:15:05.900So we have to take all of that into account.
00:15:11.300That's basically what he's trying to say.
00:15:13.200Mark Carney is umming and ahhing through a no.
00:15:16.280He's not going to actually do anything on his government side to alleviate affordability issues.
00:15:21.860He has given you a half a percent tax cut this year.
00:15:25.660And in another two years, I guess he's going to give you another half a percent tax cut that year.
00:15:30.300And even that's not really a half a percent cut.
00:15:33.360It'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.
00:15:45.000so yeah he doesn't care you're not going to do anything to actually help your affordability
00:15:50.320right now because his government if you haven't noticed is like 90 billion dollars in debt
00:15:56.260even after he rolled out the embarrassing 78 billion dollar deficit last year he's added
00:16:01.940billions and billions more giving money to ukraine twice throwing a bunch of money at other sort of
00:16:07.960international problems and just agreeing to spend money on a bunch of new subsidies for ontario
00:16:14.000and whatnot uh yeah so he doesn't have any money left over to actually try and give people tax
00:16:19.980relief right now while in where i am right now victoria gas prices are literally over two dollars
00:16:25.640a liter no no that doesn't that doesn't mean anything to him because well hasn't he already
00:16:31.880done enough for you guys he gave you half a percent come on even though he's then raised
00:16:35.960the industrial carbon tax put in place other anti-pollution taxes and whatnot can't you just
00:16:42.100be happy with the half a percent you got but this is just an abysmal performance we are back to umming
00:16:47.060and aahing mark carney because he knows he is on shaky ground once again and he's not comfortable
00:16:52.340with it uh we'll have a fiscal event uh in in the spring with the spring update um and that would
00:16:59.060be the right time to prop you know fully answer that question is there a date for that uh i can
00:17:03.620there uh yeah we're gonna bookend it with okay yeah uh so that was horrific if if you didn't
00:17:12.740notice so mark carney doesn't that's the problem right now when mark carney is not kind of like
00:17:19.220gliding on air because the polls are looking great and polyev has issues to deal with
00:17:25.220the thing is when you actually get back down to it carney doesn't really have that much to defend
00:17:29.780himself with. All of his achievements are more so just the fact that he's not as bad as Justin
00:17:35.200Trudeau on specific issues. I'll even give him, on immigration, it's been okay. Immigration rates
00:17:39.800still need to be cut severely, but compared to how bad Justin Trudeau was, he is relatively
00:17:45.140better, although even his immigration rates are way bigger than anything Harper ever let into
00:17:49.220the country, and even Harper's rates, you could argue, are still too high. I'll give him what he's
00:17:54.700relatively better than Trudeau on that front. Everywhere else, it's worse. He has a worse
00:18:01.840Chinese interference problem than Justin Trudeau. Going back to that first question,
00:18:08.240couldn't land the plane on whether or not there was a genocide of Uyghurs in China. Despite the
00:18:16.340fact his own government that he inherited back in 2021 voted to say yes, that's going on. He
00:18:23.400literally cannot actually acknowledge a factual reality that his own party acknowledged just a
00:18:30.020few years ago now because he's busy trying to get a greater trade with them because we have to trade
00:18:36.100with the Chinese who are genociding a minority because we can't work with those dirty, dirty
00:18:41.560Americans who made jokes about a 51st state. So we have genocide and forced labor and child labor
00:18:49.000over here and we have 50 first state jokes i guess i guess really the 50 first state jokes when you
00:18:55.480really think about it are worse than a bunch of people being literally forced to be divorced and
00:19:01.160remarried to another person when you think about it the jokes are worse anyways so that should be
00:19:07.800it for this video guys thank you for watching make sure to like share subscribe and i will
00:19:12.200We'll definitely be back later with another video.