The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Mark Carney has awful campaign launch - Team Trudeau looks foolish

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I admit that I was never going to like any of the Liberal Party

00:00:06.540 leadership candidates, I'm a conservative, but I'm genuinely kind of blown away by just how bad of a

00:00:13.540 politician Mark Carney makes. Team Trudeau is backing this guy and they probably already feel

00:00:19.940 pretty foolish because at his campaign launch event in Edmonton, he really made the crowd go 0.93

00:00:26.240 mild. I think that he was attempting to make it seem like his campaign is an overwhelming force 0.99

00:00:32.440 with all the MPs behind him and having a packed crowd, but I think it just made it look like,

00:00:38.440 yeah, this guy could easily lose to Chrystia Freeland. Chrystia Freeland, who also has an 1.00

00:00:43.280 incredibly boring and beige personality, may have more energy than Mark Carney did here.

00:00:49.580 I want to take you through all of it because the launch event was a big disaster and it means that

00:00:54.660 this entire Liberal leadership race is going to be an absolute knife fight all the way through.

00:01:00.820 It's basically Team Trudeau versus not Team Trudeau. Do each side disagree with each other on policy?

00:01:08.300 Not really. They are just simply whoever likes Trudeau or doesn't like Trudeau running to try and take

00:01:16.340 the helm of the party and Mark Carney is the avatar of the Trudeau people and Chrystia Freeland isn't.

00:01:21.800 But anyways, let's get into this. But before we do, guys, reminder, like this video, leave a comment,

00:01:28.600 subscribe if you haven't, and you like the show. And now here is Mark Carney introducing himself in

00:01:35.080 Edmonton. By the way, look at that campaign logo on the podium. It is basically the Metacredit logo,

00:01:43.860 which is a debt recovery agency. Not a great look if you're running to be prime minister and your

00:01:50.500 campaign already has the association with debt. But anyways, here is Mark trying to, I guess,

00:01:58.620 ingratiate himself to the crowd, make himself seem like just another normal average Joe.

00:02:05.940 Welcome to Edmonton. It is great to be here.

00:02:10.920 Thank you.

00:02:13.860 My name is Mark. I was born in Fort Smith and I've been in the room next door many times.

00:02:25.860 You know, picture this scene. Pack of kids, team of kids, mites and house league,

00:02:33.940 go in there, get their gear on, go out on the ice. You're back in between the second and third period

00:02:41.420 to warm up. And I can still hear the blades of the skates.

00:02:46.020 Now, I've detected that many of you have probably already clicked off this video because Mark Carney

00:02:52.020 is boring. This is like a Joe Biden story told by Justin Trudeau. If you sucked all the charisma out

00:02:59.480 of Justin Trudeau. I've been in that room over there many times. I had breakfast today, toast with butter.

00:03:08.280 It's great to be here, everyone. He's like an automaton. Like the amount of pregnant pauses he has

00:03:15.760 in this statement is insane. There's nothing to it. The entire thing is this. This is 19 minutes.

00:03:21.180 He's tapping on the floor as we try to get the blood flowing into our toes. I don't remember

00:03:26.280 January day like today in Edmonton when I was playing hockey. I'll tell you that.

00:03:30.140 It's kind of warm outside. Now, okay, I'm gonna save you. I'm gonna just rescue you guys from this

00:03:40.160 for a second. I'm gonna jump to the actual moments that were somewhat interesting where he was, you

00:03:45.720 know, like had his, you know, his big moments of the speech were which were really not that big at

00:03:51.920 all. Here's what the room looked like, by the way. This is what people like Sean Amato from CTV News

00:03:57.960 are trying to portray as a packed room. Look at this.

00:04:07.440 Yeah, it's like a middling pure poly of rally. This is like a third of a pure poly of rally.

00:04:14.040 And look at it. Like probably a good quarter, 30% of the room is media. Look at all the cameras.

00:04:20.920 There's no people standing around the camera. So it's people packed along the edges of the room.

00:04:25.980 And Mark Carney must have the lowest self-esteem of any leadership candidate to have George Chahal,

00:04:33.200 the Porsche pirate himself, standing behind him at the event. Really? You're gonna have George Chahal 0.76

00:04:40.200 as like the man, like as one of your campaign avatars and standing next to George Chahal,

00:04:45.640 as you'll see in this thing is the lady who has never found a terrorist organization she doesn't like.

00:04:50.940 This is the crowd that Mark Carney is bringing along with him in this leadership race. But here's a clip

00:04:57.300 that Bruce McGonigal put up of a big moment for Mark Carney of him trying to say that everything's

00:05:03.000 going to be different now. Old times, my friends, are over. Our times are anything but ordinary.

00:05:19.720 The system, it's not working as it should.

00:05:23.900 Dude, this guy was part of the system for the last two years. The last three years, he was an economic advisor

00:05:28.900 to Justin Trudeau. This whole thing is ridiculous. Oh, bad times, hard times are over. You were part 0.96

00:05:34.600 of the hard times, the bad times. You submitted policy that made the hard times worse.

00:05:39.440 And it's not working as it could. People are anxious. No wonder.

00:05:48.800 Too many are falling behind. Too many young people can't afford a home. Too many people can't find a doctor.

00:05:57.600 And then we're living through the two biggest technological revolutions since they split the atom.

00:06:04.400 And our climate is changing in ways that threatens livelihoods from Fort Mac to Fort Smith.

00:06:10.080 And then on top of that, as George just mentioned,

00:06:14.480 in just four days, the United States will swear in Donald Trump as their 47th president,

00:06:20.480 a man who threatens economic force on his closest, most steadfast allies, including Canada.

00:06:29.280 You just survived through a minute and 10 seconds of Mark Carney talking.

00:06:33.360 And basically nothing was said. That happy days are here again, guys. Why? I don't know,

00:06:41.680 because Mark Carney is going to be the prime minister for about three weeks before Pierre

00:06:46.400 Paglia beats him. I don't know who this is working on at all. And again, I'm going to go back to the

00:06:52.640 fundamental point of how Mark Carney's campaign strategy is working here. He is trying to bring

00:06:58.720 overwhelming support to make it seem like he cannot be beat. Everyone better get behind me.

00:07:05.040 He's trailing with MP endorsements right now. And I know MP endorsements don't mean much,

00:07:10.320 usually in a race. But in the Liberal Party, I guarantee they mean more than in the Conservative

00:07:16.080 Party, because the Conservative Party is a very individualistic party overall. So people don't

00:07:20.720 really want to be told by their local MP who to vote for. But in the Liberal Party, where it's a more

00:07:26.400 technocratic elite party, you're probably more likely to go the way that your local MP is going

00:07:32.560 when it comes to the vote. And Mark Carney is losing the MP arms race right now, which is truly pathetic 0.94

00:07:39.120 because he has Team Trudeau behind him. But because he has Team Trudeau behind him, all these Liberal MPs,

00:07:44.880 and like, let me be clear, they're all hypocrites. They all still agree with the Trudeau agenda. But 0.97

00:07:49.600 because they don't like the stench of Trudeau on their potential prime ministerial candidate,

00:07:54.640 a lot of them are staying away. Karina Gould even has two MPs endorsing her, which is kind of

00:08:00.400 surprising. I didn't think anyone but Carney and Freeland would be getting endorsements. But I think

00:08:04.800 Freeland's strategy here, as terrible of a politician as she is too, again, zero charisma. She's at least 1.00

00:08:11.840 being smart. She knifed Trudeau on the way out of her job as finance minister and deputy prime minister.

00:08:18.480 Again, she basically agreed with Trudeau the entire way. And as it was pointed out to me yesterday,

00:08:24.320 really, she was only upset with Trudeau because he had blown out the budget by 1% more than she

00:08:30.160 would have liked. She had no problem with the $625 billion of other spending and other debt

00:08:36.480 that we've accumulated. She only got upset about the debt that the Liberals have accumulated 0.92

00:08:41.920 once it was over her red line of $40 billion and it went to $62 billion. Really, that was what upset

00:08:48.000 her? Really, it wasn't. I think she just knew that Trudeau was already on his way out and she needed a

00:08:53.200 fake conflict with the man. So then she could run for leader. And I think she's organized all these

00:08:58.720 also-ran candidates like Frank Bayless and Chandra Aria and Karina Gould and Jamie Batsy to all run,

00:09:05.680 basically to ensure that she can have good support on second, third, and fourth ballots,

00:09:11.440 having these people with different community connections, funneling her 10,000 votes here,

00:09:15.920 15,000 votes there, and then she can slowly overcome Mark Carney on the proceeding ballots.

00:09:22.000 But again, it's funny that I can basically say nothing about Mark Carney.

00:09:25.680 Nothing really happened in this announcement event. And that's the problem. Nothing really

00:09:33.440 happened. There wasn't much of a moment. Here's the one thing I have to show you guys,

00:09:37.360 because I find this absolutely ridiculous. There's this Christio Avalis guy who is already

00:09:45.760 complaining that Mark Carney has taken a hard right turn because the left in Canada has been

00:09:51.360 lobotomized and they think that not going full Soviet socialism is like right wing. Look at this.

00:09:59.760 He's not even saying something remotely conservative, but this is considered too right for many on the

00:10:05.280 left. So Christo says, Mark Carney makes a hard right turn, attacks social programs. We can't

00:10:12.400 redistribute what we don't have. He sounds exactly like a conservative MP. His liberal party would just

00:10:18.000 be the cons with a red shirt on. By the way, no wonder new polls are showing the NDP, sometimes

00:10:24.560 only at 13% or 15% in the polls, because they are full of sanctimonious socialists who legitimately see

00:10:33.200 the saying that we need to actually grow the economy as an affront to their values. Again,

00:10:38.720 what Mark Carney is about to say here is wrong too. He does. He basically Mark Carney saying we need to

00:10:43.920 grow the economy so we can redistribute wealth. He doesn't actually care about the economy other than

00:10:49.680 the growth of the economy, allowing him to take money from some people and give it to others.

00:10:54.000 Just as Pierre Polyev soundbites won't deliver for Canadians, we can't achieve our full potential

00:11:01.760 with the ideas of the far left. They too often see government as the solution to every problem

00:11:08.560 with a reflex to spend and subsidize that just treats the symptoms of the problems, but doesn't

00:11:16.080 cure the disease. You know, that sounds somewhat conservative, but again, he's about to go to

00:11:21.760 Brown saying that, well, we can't redistribute if we don't grow. But again, you were in charge for the

00:11:26.240 last two years. He literally was backing all the programs that just treat the symptoms and do not

00:11:32.000 actually solve the problem of unaffordability, inflation, high taxes, high regulations. He is a

00:11:38.800 fan of high taxes and regulations. He is literally part of the WF. He sat on their board for a bit,

00:11:45.360 I believe. Maybe he didn't sit on the board, but he's there all the time. He loves their agenda

00:11:50.400 overall, which is basically a proto-socialist agenda where we talk about how great markets are,

00:11:56.240 but we also want to steal all the gains of markets and then give it to the government.

00:12:02.880 We can't redistribute what we don't have. And we can't support the vulnerable in our society

00:12:10.240 or defend this great country if we have a weak economy. And I'm here to build the strongest

00:12:17.760 economy for all Canadians. Yeah, give the boy a do-over. He just, it was an oopsie the first 0.67

00:12:27.280 time he messed up in government. The last three years, that was just a little bit of an oopsie.

00:12:33.520 And can I quickly mention, this is something that happened on the Stephen,

00:12:37.760 the Jon Stewart Daily Show interview with Mark Carney, which I am convinced was actually supposed

00:12:42.560 to be an interview with Trudeau that after Trudeau announced that he wasn't going to be,

00:12:46.800 you know, running again, then they swapped him out for Mark Carney because there's no way Jon Stewart

00:12:51.200 knows who Mark Carney is. Jon Stewart's a complete moron and he does not know who Mark Carney is. 0.99

00:12:55.840 But they tried to give him credit for Canada surviving the 2008 housing crisis. 1.00

00:13:01.040 That was all Harper. That was legitimately Harper.

00:13:04.080 If Harper had any big achievement in his time as prime minister, it was not dumping money into

00:13:11.680 community reinvestment programs like the US had. The housing crisis in the US had nothing to do

00:13:17.840 with the banks on a fundamental level. It was all to do with government basically incentivizing

00:13:24.000 banks to give people subprime mortgages, which ended up destroying the housing market in many cities

00:13:29.440 across America. It wasn't even all the cities. You know how little the Dallas housing market

00:13:34.000 was affected by the housing crisis? Their housing prices went down 3%. This isn't like Malibu or

00:13:39.600 places in Miami where their housing prices like halved or even went lower than that because that's where

00:13:44.960 all the subprime mortgages were located and where it was difficult to build housing. So the prices were

00:13:50.800 inflating. That's what really went on there. Mark Carney gets no credit. Basically, Stephen Harper's

00:13:56.480 conservatism was why Canada survived, not because of Mark Carney's shrewd monetary policy.

00:14:02.720 And we know it had nothing to do with Mark Carney's shrewd monetary policy because he's been advising

00:14:07.520 Trudeau to do the exact opposite of what Harper was doing in 2008, which is increasing spending,

00:14:13.920 trying to spur artificial growth with lower interest rates that we really can't sustain right now with

00:14:21.360 the weakness of the economy. It's just going to cause more inflation. But yeah, that clip right there,

00:14:27.200 where Mark Carney wasn't a communist is apparently why he is bad to the NDP, even though Mark Carney and

00:14:34.240 Jagmeet Singh basically sound the same. It's really hard to make a big differentiation.

00:14:42.160 But here we have people who are supporting Mark Carney. I love the embrace of technocracy inside the Liberal

00:14:50.640 Party. It's embarrassing to a laughable extent. So they're trying to make the case here that actually

00:14:56.800 Mark Carney is is quite good. Why? Because look, he has credentials. Look, we value credentials in this

00:15:03.600 policy. So with with Polyev here, it says bachelor's in international relations at University of Calgary,

00:15:12.960 landlord and real estate speculator, lifelong politician, 20 years in office, zero bills to his name. And then you

00:15:19.440 have, oh, look, Mark Carney, he's done so much. He's done so many things. Oh, make this man prime minister

00:15:25.600 because he's got he's been chair and governor of a lot of stuff. Has he been that good at anything he's

00:15:32.240 done? Well, not really. And this is the fundamental difference. Conservatives value merit. Liberals value

00:15:40.000 credentials. Mark Carney does not have merit, neither the leadership skills to lead Canada, nor the right

00:15:47.120 policy prescriptions. But don't you know that he has a master's degree? Don't you know he has a PhD?

00:15:53.840 I'm not even sure if he has a PhD. I just assume the man does. He sat on this board. He sat on this

00:15:58.720 board. He's a fellow of this institute. He's a fellow of that institute. Who gives a crap? It literally

00:16:04.240 does not mean anything. Guys, I have a master's degree. And guess what? You shouldn't be impressed by

00:16:10.320 that at all. My master's degree in public policy basically just taught me that policy people are

00:16:15.680 insane. They think that the more details and more regulations you add to something, the better the

00:16:21.120 policy is. The more detailed, the better. The more pages to the policy, the better. I find that

00:16:28.000 repulsive. I think that policy should be simple and should allow courts to figure out the vagaries in the

00:16:34.960 long run. You don't need 50 stipulations to make it good policy. If anything, that just means that

00:16:40.160 you can walk up to anyone, point at them, and find five crimes they're currently committing because the

00:16:44.800 policy in their area of work is too complicated to follow even for a lawyer. Anyways, so that was that

00:16:52.880 person's endorsement of Mark Carney. Here is another post in support of Mark Carney. You will think that this

00:17:00.880 is anti-Carney and it's satire. I scrolled through the entire person's timeline. This is not satire.

00:17:07.680 This person, Claire Stiles says, I'm excited to share that I am supporting Mark Carney to be the

00:17:12.880 leader of the Liberal Party. Canada needs a technocrat who can deliver results and Mark possesses the

00:17:19.360 international reputation needed to guide our country through challenging times. Yes, this person is

00:17:25.600 literally pro-technocracy. They want a technocrat leading Canada. What is Mark Carney technically

00:17:33.440 sound at doing? I don't know. He's a bureaucrat and that means that he's good at stuff because he

00:17:39.600 reads reports or whatever. Reports from people who don't know what they're talking about, but he has a

00:17:44.240 study to prove to you that burning the economy down is actually the best option. That's the thing.

00:17:50.640 This is another thing from my policy background. I hate whenever someone says, well, I have a study

00:17:56.320 that can prove this or that thing. No, you don't. No, why? Because I can get a study to prove anything.

00:18:02.320 And the Liberal government has been a study-driven government. Well, we have a study that shows the

00:18:07.440 carbon tax doesn't actually increase food prices. Well, we have a study to show that people benefit

00:18:12.320 more from the carbon tax rebate than they would if it didn't exist at all. No, you don't. No,

00:18:19.040 you don't. I can make a study to prove anything if I just mess with the metrics enough. And that is

00:18:24.480 every single thing that comes out supposedly showing that whatever the Liberals are backing

00:18:30.160 or whatever is actually going to make us all wealthier. We're all billionaires right now. I'm

00:18:34.640 not sure if you know that or not, if you even know that, because apparently every single Liberal

00:18:40.800 policy has made us more healthy, wealthy, and wise. Here is the video that Mark Carney himself on his

00:18:47.200 own campaign page posted 2X to advertise himself. This is what his campaign thought was his best

00:18:55.280 moment. If you remember one thing from what I say today, remember this. I am going to be completely

00:19:02.080 focused on getting our economy back on track. I was very unfocused the last two years of advising Trudeau,

00:19:11.360 but, you know, I've gotten a good night's sleep, and I'm going to actually try. He actually reminds

00:19:16.080 me a lot of John Kerry. So guys, please avoid John Kerry. Do not vote for Mark Carney in the Liberal

00:19:23.840 Leadership race if you're planning on doing it, and don't vote for him in the general election.

00:19:27.840 And if you wonder why I can succeed where others have failed or will fall short, consider this.

00:19:48.000 I've helped manage multiple crises, and I've helped save two economies. I know how business works, and I

00:19:55.360 know how to make it work for you. I've worked around the world, but I'm grounded in what I learned right

00:20:01.680 here in Edmonton. To be responsible. To be fair. To stay humble. To work together. And to never, ever give up.

00:20:15.760 Oh my goodness. Don't you guys feel so empowered right now? This is going to be a difficult race to 0.96

00:20:24.160 sit through. Again, if you guys haven't yet, subscribe to the channel, like the video, because

00:20:29.440 I am suffering following this race. This is actually, like, agonizing to watch. It's funny in, like, a so 1.00

00:20:38.160 boring it becomes funny sort of a thing. But here is the current endorsement map for the Liberal

00:20:45.200 leadership that Poland Canada has put together. It's run by a lefty NDP guy. He actually ran for

00:20:50.720 the Ontario NDP, but he does a good job of displaying information. But this is the current

00:20:54.880 breakdown of endorsements, and this is where Carney's in big trouble. Again, Freeland is not a

00:21:00.240 force of personality. Neither is he, neither is Karina Gould's kind of force of personality, but

00:21:06.640 in an annoying way. But regardless, Freeland has 24 endorsements right now. Carney, with Team Trudeau

00:21:13.520 behind him, and the fact he's already announced, only has 16. Freeland hasn't even announced. She's

00:21:17.840 apparently announcing on Sunday. Karina has two, and then Aria and Batsy just have themselves, and

00:21:23.440 then Frank Bayless isn't on this chart because he's not currently an MP. He's just a one-term guy.

00:21:28.400 Honestly, the party, the Liberal Party of Canada, would be smart to run Frank Bayless as their leader.

00:21:34.800 He is an actual, he's not an outsider, but he could have a better, he could make a better case that he's

00:21:41.760 an outsider than Mark Carney could. He's a business owner. Is he corrupt? Of course he is. All the

00:21:47.040 Liberal MPs are corrupt. He was involved in like ventilator scams during COVID. But let's be clear, 0.98

00:21:53.200 no Liberal cares about that sort of thing because they were in favor of a lot of the corruption.

00:21:58.080 But anyways, at least Frank Bayless has a business background. At least he's from Montreal. At least he

00:22:04.000 actually can speak English without a crazy heavy accent. He can actually speak French unlike

00:22:09.760 are like Chandra Aria, and he doesn't feel like Trudeau. That would be a smart guy to run,

00:22:15.840 honestly. He was also the only Liberal so far to not set his hair on fire about Donald Trump.

00:22:20.160 He just says that everything Trump's been saying about the 51st state, it's just a negotiating

00:22:24.400 tactic. We should ignore it and put together our own trade position and advocate heart. I'm like

00:22:28.880 sitting there like, oh my goodness, there's a Liberal with a head on his shoulders. Not much of a head,

00:22:34.320 but at least he's got something. All these other people are running on nothing. You know if Christia

00:22:39.920 Freeland and Mark Carney are both currently running against the consumer carbon tax?

00:22:45.200 Yes, they are both suddenly big anti-carbon tax campaigners, apparently, that they're going to

00:22:51.520 get rid of it because, you know, we can't have the carbon tax round with Trump coming into office.

00:22:56.720 Okay, yeah, great excuse guys, because you know, no one suggested dumping it up until this very

00:23:02.640 second when you had to differentiate each other. We are headed towards Mark Carney,

00:23:07.840 Christia Freeland's singularity, where they are going to become the same person by the end of

00:23:13.200 this race. Mark Carney might as well change his last name to Freeland and Freeland should change

00:23:17.680 her last name to Carney, because that's what's going on here. Two people who are barely different

00:23:22.960 from each other, just representing either the pro-Trudeau or anti-Trudeau faction of the party,

00:23:27.760 running against each other on nothing in particular. It's so difficult to watch.

00:23:32.960 Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys. If you noticed anything interesting about Mark Carney other

00:23:39.680 than him hanging out with Ghislaine Maxwell at one point, I already know about that.

00:23:44.160 Uh, let me know in the comments below. It's always good for me to look this stuff over.

00:23:48.000 I can't name an interesting thing about this guy. He did not achieve his goal of actually being a big

00:23:55.920 force entering this race. He's boring. He comes off like John Kerry, Joe Biden, and Justin Trudeau all

00:24:01.680 at the same time in only bad ways. And I actually see Freeland with more of the momentum at this point,

00:24:08.720 despite the fact she is a ridiculously unempathetic type person. She does not connect with people well, 0.67

00:24:15.360 but she's not as robotic as Carney, which I guess gives her the human edge,

00:24:20.000 even though I don't believe she's human either. Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys. Have a good one.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 17, 2025

Mark Carney has awful campaign launch - Team Trudeau looks foolish

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