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