The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Mark Carney refuses to fire Liberal staff spreading disinformation!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I'm currently out in Ottawa planning on helping Conservative

00:00:06.260 Party candidate Barbara Ball defeat Mark Carney in the riding of Nepean. And speaking of Mark

00:00:12.540 Carney, he has completely ceded the ability to ever criticize Conservatives for anything,

00:00:19.100 because it doesn't matter how often he or a Liberal candidate or a Liberal staffer is caught

00:00:25.420 doing something wrong, he will justify it as not that bad and refuse to fire them until it's far

00:00:31.340 too late. This just happened in the last 24 hours when a CBC report came out showing two Liberal

00:00:39.160 political operatives who have been confirmed to be on the main Liberal campaign were planting

00:00:44.740 mega-style buttons at a Conservative conference, basically as a false flag operation, to try and

00:00:51.480 see if they could get Conservatives to wear them so they could claim that Conservatives believe in

00:00:56.300 radical politics, they're going to deny the election results, or there is a lot more infighting than

00:01:02.840 like reality would have you believe. These are not the only two buttons that I'm showing you right here,

00:01:08.240 this is just a graphic from the front of the article. There were many they were putting out,

00:01:12.140 like Daniel Smith for a leader in 2026 and stuff like that, or other sorts of things about like

00:01:18.820 banning the Liberal Party or locking up Justin Trudeau. They never actually obviously got any

00:01:24.680 Conservatives to wear this ridiculous crap, but this was what the Liberals assumed they could use

00:01:30.300 to smear the Conservatives. And in response to this scandal break, this is absolutely a scandal,

00:01:37.000 Mark Carney is refusing to fire anyone. And in fact, people have just been reassigned. No punishments.

00:01:43.720 The only problem was they got caught effectively in Mark Carney's mind. Members of the Liberal War Room,

00:01:49.580 so the Central Campaign, distributed Stop the Steal buttons at a Conservative event. Given the

00:01:54.420 anti-democratic implications of this phrase, how much does this event undermine the trust in the way

00:01:59.300 that the Liberals operate? And what have you done in response to these revelations?

00:02:03.520 Thanks for the question. Look, this is totally unacceptable, to be absolutely clear.

00:02:08.820 And I, on behalf of my campaign, I was unaware of this behavior, but on behalf of my campaign,

00:02:16.540 I apologize for it unreservedly. I've made it absolutely clear to my campaign that this behavior

00:02:24.000 or anything approximating it or in that spirit is unacceptable, cannot happen, cannot happen again.

00:02:31.040 Is it unacceptable? When Paul Chang called for Joe Tay to be locked up by the Chinese government

00:02:37.820 for a million-dollar bounty, that was not considered a fireable offense. In fact, quietly,

00:02:45.300 Paul Chang just said, I'm just choosing not to run again because Mark Carney, after a full day of defending

00:02:51.820 the man, didn't have the guts to actually tell Paul Chang to leave himself because he was in too deep

00:02:58.880 defending him. Also, I have to get to another quote. By the way, too, the funny thing is that he's acting

00:03:05.260 like this is totally unacceptable and this is not something that the campaign would ever condone.

00:03:10.260 The problem here is that the article that the CBC released got a quote from the Liberals who

00:03:17.600 justified it that the Liberal people had just gotten carried away. Here's some of what the other

00:03:24.200 buttons look like if you want to see them. But they said that certain people on the campaign just

00:03:29.600 got carried away. And that was a very interesting language because it sounds like there is a mandate

00:03:35.580 to go out there and smear conservatives, find ways of attaching them to radical extreme politics or mega.

00:03:42.720 And it's just that these guys, you know, did it a little bit too much. Really, again, the problem was that

00:03:49.160 they got caught. So this is some of the other buttons that they had posted or put around the

00:03:54.560 Canada Strong and Free conference trying to bait people into wearing them. Again, the funniest one

00:03:59.000 to me is this Jenny Byrne, Corey to Nike one, as if any conservative, especially an ideological

00:04:03.780 conservative, really cares about any of those people and I guess who's campaign director between

00:04:10.260 the two of them. So I just wanted to pull up this thing that Stephen Chase has. This was not

00:04:17.140 caught on video or at least a video I have available. And Stephen Chase says, liberal leader Mark

00:04:23.520 Carney apologizes for campaign staff distributing fake buttons featuring Trump style language at Ottawa

00:04:28.820 Conservative Conference. The responsible people have been reassigned within the campaign.

00:04:35.360 Not fired? So this is totally unacceptable and beyond the pale, but it's not a fireable offense.

00:04:42.840 They didn't get demoted even. They're just reassigned. Reassigned to what? What could you

00:04:49.440 trust those people to do? Which again, proves that you probably couldn't fire them because this was

00:04:55.680 something that was completely above board to do. And they could probably have proved that the Liberal

00:04:59.980 Party told them to do this or approved of them doing this. And so firing them would probably be some

00:05:05.820 sort of breach of contract since they had been approved or told to go do this. They did it. Now they're in

00:05:11.620 trouble for doing said thing. Mark Carney, in a lot of ways, not to bring up American politics into

00:05:17.980 this, because the whole point of the story is that the Liberals are trying to Americanize Canadian

00:05:22.400 politics, is that this reminds me so much of Joe Biden. It reminds me of his inability to get rid of

00:05:29.680 anyone for anything. Failures, corruption, just refuse to get rid of any staff. You've got to ask anyone

00:05:37.540 who is planning on voting Liberal. Why you trust this guy to turn the country around if he can't

00:05:43.660 even fire derelict campaign staff and operatives? He cannot tell Paul Chang to leave. He cannot

00:05:50.540 disclose his own investments. He just basically keeps dodging. Today, I think he says, oh, I actually

00:05:57.080 don't have investments at all. I have everything in cash. Sure you do. Sure. That's why he couldn't

00:06:02.680 disclose his conflicts of interest. And then he had said he did his due diligence. And two and a half

00:06:08.680 weeks since he last said that, now suddenly it's all in cash and molasses or something like that.

00:06:14.300 The man has no ability for accountability. How is he going to fix a country when he can't say,

00:06:20.340 I was wrong. That person on my team was wrong. It's always that, well, I wouldn't agree with doing

00:06:25.080 that. But, you know, they've been moved from this side of the campaign to that side of the campaign

00:06:30.720 now. So it's all hunky-dory. No. One of Justin Trudeau's biggest flaws was the sheer amount of

00:06:38.960 corruption in his government that he would never deal with. Anyone pretending that Mark Carney would

00:06:44.980 be anything different is delusional. He was there for five years while Justin Trudeau was doing corrupt

00:06:51.540 things as his economic advisor. He never called it out then. And now he's showing that he wasn't

00:06:57.180 just silent about it back then because he wasn't in charge and it's not his authority to do anything.

00:07:02.040 Then he didn't want to stand up and lose his job. Even when he's the man in charge, he is the prime

00:07:06.560 minister and he won't do it. By the way, is he still in Ottawa pretending that he has any prime

00:07:12.680 ministerial work to do? It's absolutely ridiculous that this guy cannot kick it on the campaign trail

00:07:19.220 for more than a few days before having to go take a nap in Ottawa, really just to try and avoid all

00:07:25.680 the bad press out there. This is why the polls are starting to turn around. In fact, I just saw an Angus

00:07:32.720 Reid poll where the Conservatives are only trailing the Liberals by five points. I know that doesn't

00:07:38.100 sound good, but considering that Angus Reid has been a pollster in this election cycle that has had

00:07:43.520 the Conservatives at some points down 10 or 12 points, that's a major improvement. I just like

00:07:49.920 to even point to any poll, even if it's a bad poll. If it shows a momentum shift in favor of the

00:07:55.900 Conservatives, that is telling about the direction of the election. And we know it's not an election

00:08:01.160 where the Liberals are leading by five. Go around your own suburban neighborhoods, areas where the

00:08:06.260 Liberals are supposedly safe. There are a lot of Conservative signs and it does represent something real.

00:08:12.760 The Conservatives are going to turn out hard in this election. In fact, in that same Angus Reid poll,

00:08:18.540 it showed 79% now of Conservative voters are definitely going to show up and vote Conservative.

00:08:24.900 Right now, for the Liberals, only 63% of them say that they are definitely going to show up

00:08:29.300 and their choice is very clear to them at this point. At the debate, in a few days, there are a lot

00:08:36.180 of votes that can be won by Polyev. And what he has to do is keep proving that Carney was there for

00:08:42.440 all the trouble that Trudeau was causing. He said nothing and, in fact, advised him to keep doing

00:08:47.160 it. And now he's pretending that he's a reformer. And then what Polyev needs to do is then point out

00:08:52.660 every time that he proposes a policy, somehow it's just, it's bad. It's not good enough. It's

00:08:58.220 somehow unconstitutional. Just like his proposal to basically put criminals in prison and that the

00:09:05.140 courts are maybe potentially going to try and challenge because it's now against the charter to

00:09:10.820 actually lock people up. This isn't even about what I was going to cover. I just need to bring

00:09:16.240 this up because it drove me up the wall so much. Here is a guy very snidely, I'm not even sure what

00:09:23.280 this emotion is he's trying to portray, very smug. He's going to smugly talk about why Polyev's 0.95

00:09:29.900 three-strike rule to lock up violent repeat offenders for long periods of time is bad.

00:09:35.540 Polyev's three-strikes platform is terrible failed justice policy. It's already failed in

00:09:41.660 the United States. There are thousands of journal articles and studies that will tell you the same

00:09:45.000 thing. Now, honestly, mass incarceration of criminals, obviously not people who didn't commit

00:09:51.880 a crime, mass incarceration of criminals, repeat offenders, violent offenders, actually caused crime

00:09:58.680 to absolutely bottom out during the early 2000s and the 2010s. That was when that policy was perfected

00:10:05.760 and we had the lowest crime rates pretty much in history. First of all, a criminal actor is not

00:10:11.140 engaged in some sort of rational cost-benefit analysis to deter them from crime before they

00:10:15.720 commit it. They're not like, hmm, if I do this, they are people under duress trying to survive. You would...

00:10:21.320 Oh my goodness, this stupid talking point. All criminals are Aladdin. All criminals are just trying

00:10:27.820 to steal that television to go feed their hungry kids. No, they are not. Criminals are rational

00:10:33.920 actors, which is why when you make it easier to commit certain crimes, the amount of people committing

00:10:39.060 those crimes goes way up. When we stop enforcing shoplifting laws, when we stop enforcing, you know,

00:10:45.940 we stop actually locking up repeat retail thieves, we get a lot more retail theft. That is one of the

00:10:53.880 crimes that has been skyrocketing over the past 10 years is retail theft. Do better to try and solve

00:10:58.820 the underlying issue that's compelling them to commit the crime in the first place. I don't know,

00:11:02.920 drug addiction probably, socioeconomic struggles, etc. Second of all, mandatory minimums of three

00:11:09.060 strikes laws are notorious for sweeping people up into the justice system and disproportionately

00:11:12.800 affecting Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. Are they committing the crime? If they are, 1.00

00:11:18.660 then they should, you know, do the time. It literally doesn't matter what you look like. If

00:11:23.800 you're committing a criminal offense, you should be locked up. In fact, this is the racism of low

00:11:29.680 expectations to think that, well, we can't lock up somebody because they're Indigenous because that 0.99

00:11:34.560 would be a crime against the Indigenous community. How racist is it to basically imply that a criminal

00:11:41.880 on an Indigenous reserve is like a pillar of the community, and if we lock him up, everyone's going to be 1.00

00:11:47.280 sad or lose hope. No, what you're in fact going to do is make it easier for other people to actually

00:11:52.760 run their businesses, be able to actually get a job in the area, because there is not a criminal element

00:11:58.120 driving down the economic prospects of everyone. Because in fact, and this is my research paper

00:12:04.540 that I did for my master's, it is poverty, it's crime that drives poverty, not poverty that drives

00:12:12.160 crime. Any area that has a lot of crime, you'll see all the businesses shut down. It's not like

00:12:17.120 people in that area of town don't need to eat, it's just not worth it.

00:12:20.600 The research tells you that. And lastly, this is inevitably going to lead to privatization

00:12:27.060 of prison complexes because we're going to need more detention spaces. So the private prison

00:12:31.860 contractors are licking their chops right now, and private prisons are no...

00:12:35.020 Okay, who cares? Who cares? Does someone need to be locked up? I don't care if they go into a public

00:12:40.660 or private. I don't care if it's a co-op run by hipsters, as long as you're locking up the

00:12:45.080 criminals. It's notorious for human rights offenses and trying to cut costs to maximize profits. This

00:12:51.340 is a mess. It's honestly not one of those things that's been widely proven that private prisons are

00:12:57.000 worse than public institutions, because the private prisons tend to use their money more efficiently.

00:13:02.460 That's the only difference. People will look at it and be like, this private person per prisoner is

00:13:07.500 spending so much less than the public institution. It's like, yeah, because it's a business who knows how

00:13:12.320 to actually use their money effectively. So they're still providing the three square meals a day and all

00:13:17.300 that stuff. They just do it without wasting all their money because they're not the government.

00:13:22.280 My goodness. I hate the left on crime. They have no clue what they're talking about. But anyways,

00:13:28.060 that should be it for me today, guys. I'm going to be over at Barbara Ball's office tomorrow. I'm just

00:13:32.580 dropping by, going to be doing some door knocking. I'm not sure if they want me to lead the team for

00:13:37.080 them or whatnot. I'm just kind of showing up to do as much as I possibly can, because I would love to

00:13:42.580 see Mark Carney not win his seat in this election. So I'm going to be hitting as many doors, doing some

00:13:47.800 persuasion door knocking to get people to maybe switch their vote towards conservatives. This is,

00:13:53.280 in fact, actually a very winnable riding. In fact, the former liberal MP for this riding,

00:13:58.720 Chandra Aria, without saying it, effectively endorsed Barbara Ball, saying that, you know,

00:14:03.800 things haven't been going super well in the last 10 years. And I think that we need fresh people

00:14:08.440 in government. And he wasn't talking about Mark Carney. Anyway, so that's it for me today, guys.

00:14:14.180 Make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, do all that great stuff.

00:14:18.220 I'll see you guys later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 15, 2025

Mark Carney refuses to fire Liberal staff spreading disinformation!

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