The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 25, 2025


Mark Carney is ducking TVA French debate! He's scared of Poilievre!


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Mark Carney is the only federal leader who won't pay $75,000 to participate in the CTV/TVA French debate. Why does this happen and why does it prove the Liberal campaign is not as strong as it appears to be?

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I keep hearing from the legacy media that Mark Carney and the
00:00:06.320 Liberals have a formidable federal campaign, and I'm just not seeing it. Check out this headline.
00:00:13.800 Despite saying he would, Mark Carney won't take part in the TVA French debate, campaign says.
00:00:19.720 In fact, I've heard this debate is now cancelled because Mark Carney won't show up. Now, they have
00:00:25.220 a lot of excuses for why Mark Carney won't do it. Oh, they said I needed to pay $75,000 to be in the
00:00:30.920 debate, so I'm not doing that because it should be a free debate for all the candidates to show up to.
00:00:36.620 Even Jagmeet Singh, even Elizabeth May was willing to pay the $75,000 to be at this TVA debate, but Mark
00:00:44.480 Carney suddenly becomes a penny pincher and he can't pay $75,000 to help put this debate on, as if it
00:00:52.400 wouldn't be the best marketing opportunity possible in Quebec if you actually could speak French
00:00:58.540 properly, and that's the problem for Mark Carney. His French is terrible, he has no debating skills,
00:01:03.820 and frankly, he's just a charisma vacuum. That's why he is ducking this debate. He is scared of Pierre
00:01:09.800 Polyev, and so he wants to be on stage with Pierre Polyev as little as possible. So he will be doing a
00:01:16.140 English debate, and he will be doing the one Radio Canada French debate, which I'm not even sure if that
00:01:21.880 one's actually televised, which it's telling that he won't do the television debate, but he will do
00:01:27.080 the radio debate that far less people will actually be listening to. But anyways, I want to dive a
00:01:32.840 little bit deeper into this issue and just talk about why it proves that the Liberal campaign is
00:01:38.520 probably far more hollow than what the polls are currently showing right now. But before I get into
00:01:43.200 it, guys, I just want to remind you, if you like my election coverage, make sure to like this video,
00:01:47.940 subscribe to the channel if you're not yet a subscriber, and leave a comment. What do you think
00:01:52.380 about the situation? Comments do help us on the algorithm, and I always make sure to scroll through
00:01:57.060 and see what people are thinking. Anyways, now to move on to some other stuff regarding this. Pierre
00:02:02.740 Polyev has already come out and slammed him, and the Liberals are putting up community notes all over
00:02:07.600 the place to pretend like this is not actually that bad. But Pierre Polyev says, the Liberals want to
00:02:13.040 be reelected for a fourth term, but their leader is too afraid to debate me in French. If Mark Carney
00:02:18.200 is too fragile to debate other leaders, how can he stand up to Donald Trump? Let's put Canada first
00:02:23.340 for a change. And down here, there's a community note that says, Caboclo Media confirmed CTV News
00:02:29.620 Montreal News Desk. Carney's refusal to participate in CTVA's face-to-face debate means it's completely
00:02:36.000 canceled. And now they are claiming that again, it's just because of the money. We shouldn't have to pay
00:02:42.620 money to go to a debate. Shouldn't you? It's a private news company that's hosting a debate,
00:02:49.000 and this is not exactly free to put on. And it's so lucrative, such a lucrative opportunity,
00:02:55.500 that Jagmeet Singh's paying the money, the Green Party's paying the money, and those parties are
00:02:59.700 bankrupt. And this is really just Mark Carney showing his hand in the dumbest way possible,
00:03:05.360 basically confirming that he knows that he's not a very good candidate for Prime Minister.
00:03:09.300 I just posted this a little bit ago, because I think it is a good way of summing it up.
00:03:14.880 What I posted here was, Mark Carney being the only federal leader not wanting to pay $75,000 to fund
00:03:22.340 his part of the TVA French debate proves one or more of my assumptions. Number one, Carney or Liberal HQ
00:03:29.920 knows his French is poor, which it is. Number two, Carney or Liberal HQ believes he's a poor debater,
00:03:36.320 which I believe too. He was fine in the Liberal leadership debates, but that's because nobody
00:03:41.520 was allowed to attack him. In fact, they would give him friendly corrections that he would graciously
00:03:46.920 accept. Number three I mentioned is that Carney doesn't believe the legacy media is worth the money.
00:03:53.960 And that's the funny angle of this. I thought this man was the one who was a big believer in legacy
00:04:00.100 media in Canada. Now TVA is mostly private, but they do get federal subsidies like all the rest of the
00:04:06.660 legacy media. So it wasn't ironic that the guy who wants to give the CBC even more money than they
00:04:12.020 already have will not do a public legacy media debate. Again, I keep seeing excuses, but the excuses
00:04:20.060 are not holding up to scrutiny. Actually, Sheila Copps, the former Environment Minister, I believe Heritage
00:04:28.340 Minister and then Deputy Prime Minister, tried to correct me when I said it looks like he's ducking
00:04:33.160 Polyev in a French debate. She says, you are so misinformed. The French debate is April 16 on Radio
00:04:39.580 Canada. TVA was charging $75,000 a candidate for a second French debate. In a democracy, candidates
00:04:46.480 should not pay for coverage. It is unethical. Well, do you think candidates shouldn't have to pay for
00:04:51.700 advertising on the airwaves? Do you think that they shouldn't have to pay for Facebook ads or ads on
00:04:56.800 Twitter or elsewhere? Should they just get everything for free? Obviously not. If a private news
00:05:03.460 company wants to charge candidates what is not that much money to be able to literally be in the
00:05:08.600 households of millions of Quebecers, that sounds like a great deal. This is excuse making for people
00:05:16.040 insecure about the fact that Mark Carney is a charisma vacuum. He is as popular on a personal level as the
00:05:23.920 bubonic plague. The only reason he's popular is because there are certain liberal Canadians who,
00:05:30.220 because they don't like Donald Trump, want to believe that Mark Carney is their avatar. The problem
00:05:35.240 is that they are basically moving off of only fumes of the idea that because he's not Trump that he must
00:05:41.200 be good. The more that even liberal voters see him, the less excited they get to vote. I want to move over
00:05:47.900 to something else that one of my friends had noted because I think it was a great point. And that was,
00:05:54.320 if I can find it here, I have to go back to my bookmarks. It was Kirk Lubinov pointing out that
00:06:01.680 they literally got rid of Chandra Aria for not willing to do a French debate by basically not having good
00:06:08.820 enough French. Kirk Lubinov says, Mark Carney won't do a TVA French language debate. Is he afraid or his
00:06:15.820 French is that bad? Here's Mark Carney explaining himself. How's your French? No, no, no French? No
00:06:22.240 French. Okay. I thought that was just funny, but you guys should go give a Kirk Lubinov a follow on
00:06:27.560 Twitter. He always, he's always posting good stuff. And he actually did have a good correction for
00:06:32.180 Sheila Copps as well when she tried to pretend like it's just about the money. It's just a money issue. 1.00
00:06:38.160 Is the liberal party actually that broke? If anything, that would be an indictment of Mark Carney's
00:06:43.520 fiscal management skills. But as Kirk points out to Sheila, and this was underneath her saying that
00:06:49.840 I was misinformed, Kirk says, Carney can use the money from the liberal party leadership candidates.
00:06:55.300 They disqualified for not speaking French. Yes. Remember that Mark Carney and the liberal party
00:07:01.280 just seized the $350,000 entry fee that both Ruby Dalla had submitted as well as Chandra Aria.
00:07:10.080 Chandra Aria was then thanked for trying to run for the liberal leadership race by being kicked out.
00:07:16.240 And then he actually had his riding stolen by Mark Carney. They just kicked him out as a candidate as of
00:07:22.240 five days ago. And then a couple of days later, Mark Carney became the candidate for Nepean West,
00:07:27.620 I believe. Ridiculous. And now Mark Carney's trying to pretend that he's a true son of the soil out there
00:07:32.480 in Nepean. And he's already being caught by his opponent, Barbara Boll, for not even being able to name
00:07:38.500 neighborhoods that are in the riding. He's naming neighborhoods like kilometers outside of the
00:07:44.400 riding. And you might not know off the top of your head, all the neighborhoods that are in your
00:07:49.100 riding. But if you're planning on running somewhere, you quickly are able to rattle off every single
00:07:53.760 community. I ran Calgary Signal Hill. I could tell you pretty much every single community after a week
00:07:59.860 that was included in the riding because you're running there. How do you not know? And he's like
00:08:04.840 naming places literally like kilometers outside of the riding boundaries as a big part of his time
00:08:11.060 in Nepean was walking around that area. And it's like literally not even the same place.
00:08:16.060 But yeah, all of this just tells me the man is not ready for TV. And so you can be far ahead in the
00:08:23.440 polls. But if you can't keep it together, if you cannot actually demonstrate energy, you're going to
00:08:31.560 have a hard time actually driving voters out. If you don't seem to believe in yourself, why are they
00:08:36.880 going to believe in you? Here's another clip of Mark Carney, like, again, attempting to speak in
00:08:42.440 front of the media. This was posted by Mr. Mark Nixon. He does a lot of great clipping on social
00:08:49.560 media. I go follow Mark Nixon 24 as well on X.
00:08:53.780 Thank you, Steve.
00:08:54.500 Sir, did you say that President Trump is waiting to talk to the Prime Minister of whoever wins this
00:08:59.320 election? Well, that's an interpretation, but I think it's a reasonable interpretation.
00:09:04.340 I'm available for a call. But, you know, we're going to talk on our terms.
00:09:11.660 He was literally able to take a call before this. He's just lying. And now he's admitting that Donald
00:09:17.680 Trump doesn't think of him as a legitimate person to be negotiating with. He wants the liberals to win
00:09:23.280 Trump because they're weak. But at the same time, he even is basically saying, why would I talk to
00:09:28.780 Mark Carney right now when he's not actually the elected Prime Minister? In fact, Mark Carney
00:09:33.840 doesn't even have any powers to pass legislation. He basically just has to ask the Liberal Caucus at
00:09:39.180 the moment if there was the Parliament in session. He'd have to basically, like, just ask them to do
00:09:45.060 everything he's saying. But he doesn't actually have any power to get it done himself. He can't put
00:09:49.460 forward bills himself. He can't vote for them. Nothing. And so it's so weird that then he gets to run
00:09:54.960 around with the title of Prime Minister in this election when he's just decisively not the Prime
00:09:59.680 Minister. But anyways, that's a short video for the end of this day, guys. It's going to get worse
00:10:06.560 for Mark Carney. Again, there has been nothing going on in his campaign so far that gives me confidence.
00:10:12.600 Not that I want to have confidence in him. I'm a conservative. I want him to lose. But nothing in
00:10:17.360 that campaign gives me any confidence that he's suddenly going to grow a backbone and suddenly become a
00:10:23.300 good communicator. I think we are just going to keep having these moments of verbal diarrhea from
00:10:28.740 Mark Carney, constant ums and ahs through press conferences, and eventually the moderate swing
00:10:34.280 voter who's still deciding between the Conservatives and Liberals are going to realize, I can't have
00:10:39.080 this guy be in charge of anything. Plus, all of his good policies, quote unquote, are pretty much just
00:10:44.860 shrunken down conservative light policies like reducing income taxes and getting rid of the carbon tax
00:10:51.100 and removing the increase in the capital gains inclusion rate. That was all things he championed
00:10:57.100 until five seconds ago when he needed to win an election. And it turns out when you need to be
00:11:01.360 popular, you say things that sound conservative. But anyways, I digress. Make sure to like the video,
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