The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 26, 2026


Mark Carney is LYING when he says he is making wages go up. #cdnpoli #canadianpolitics


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PM Mark Carney said that the average Canadian is now making more than 2X what they were a couple years ago. This is not true. The average Canadian isn t making more, they are losing jobs and the number of people making $15 is going down. That doesn t mean that your $30 is now more, it just means that there are fewer people making more.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt here. I just wanted to make a quick video on this really egregious lie from
00:00:06.620 Prime Minister Mark Carney from the House of Commons the other day. He claimed that every
00:00:12.000 month that he has been Prime Minister, the wages of Canadians have gone up. The average Canadian
00:00:17.720 is making more every single month under his leadership. That is not true. It's only true
00:00:24.700 from the most narrow and technical perspective. He got rid of a bunch of TFWs. Rightfully so, 0.77
00:00:31.980 there was a lot of pressure to do it and he still should cut them even more, especially permanent 1.00
00:00:36.460 residents. He's barely cut permanent residents at all and we still have way too many people coming 1.00
00:00:40.000 into this country every year. But the average wage technically increased because when we cut 1.00
00:00:46.460 the amount of students and TFWs coming into the country, the abstract average Canadian is now
00:00:53.120 making more. But for the average person, if you were making $30 an hour at your office job two
00:00:59.220 years ago, you're still probably making $30 an hour now. And in the time that Carney has been
00:01:04.620 prime minister, I guarantee that your wages haven't increased at all, unless you're working
00:01:08.800 for the private sector, where you have mandatory wage increases every year or two, or you're in
00:01:15.400 some sort of a contract where you are guaranteed to be making more each year. For the average person
00:01:20.360 who doesn't have that, you are not making more. And you may have actually lost your job because
00:01:24.520 Carney has been losing massive amounts of jobs. Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost every
00:01:31.140 month of 2026 so far. But guys, the average Canadian is making more. No, they're not. It's
00:01:38.740 just that the amount of people that are part of the average has gone down and they were all from
00:01:43.340 the low end. That doesn't mean that your $30 is now more. It just means that there are fewer
00:01:48.600 people making $15. So technically, the average Canadian is now making more. That would be like
00:01:54.140 saying we could technically raise the amount of money that the average Canadian is making by just
00:01:59.420 basically unemploying everyone who isn't making more than $50,000 a year, we could just immediately
00:02:05.820 say that they are no longer allowed to make any money, which means those who are making money
00:02:10.380 are making more than $50,000. And on average, they're now making $150,000. Oh my goodness.
00:02:16.100 it's not how the economy actually works this supposed economist who went to ivy league
00:02:21.680 universities is actually trying to convince you that you're making more because the abstract 0.53
00:02:26.700 average has gone up because a bunch of tfws left it's it's just silly 0.71