Wyatt Claypool talks about PM Mark Carney's jet setting around the world to accomplish his agenda, and the Conservative leader of the House of Commons, Pierre-Olivier Polyev's new video taking aim at him.
00:00:02.980Prime Minister Mark Carney is fantastic at putting himself between a rock and a hard place.
00:00:10.200The Liberal government has achieved so little that even the minor mistakes that Mark Carney has been making have been amplified in their effect.
00:00:19.160Right now, Mark Carney has been jet-setting around the world to accomplish... I don't know.
00:00:24.920And this would normally be something people wouldn't care about if the Liberal government was at least getting some policy victories.
00:00:32.940And when I say policy victories, I'm not saying things that I even like.
00:00:36.860Just something that they could market to the public as a substantial good, even if under the surface it's not an actual good policy.
00:00:44.640The thing is, their Major Projects Act so far has been a big dud.
00:00:48.100The five projects they announced aren't really five new projects.
00:00:51.420Many of them are old projects or minor expansions to already existing projects.
00:00:56.340They've been screwing up on the gun buyback, which is just a gun grab.
00:01:00.420The trade has been dealt with terribly.
00:01:02.600The Palestinian state recognition has been embarrassing.
00:01:05.860And so, now with Carney going around the world, he's under increased scrutiny because what else is there to deflect on that's actually positive?
00:01:14.800So, in this video, I want to talk a little bit about the jet-setting, and then I want to get to Pierre Polyev, the leader of the Federal Conservatives, new video going after Carney.
00:01:25.260I think he's getting his footing quite well in how to take down Mark Carney.
00:01:30.260And hopefully, if there is a new election soon, I actually think that Polyev 2.0 is up for the task of beating him.
00:01:37.280In this last election, I think that what happened to Polyev is what happened to someone like Andrew Scheer.
00:01:44.000Andrew Scheer probably could have made a very good prime minister, but too many advisors were advising too many contradictory things, and so the election campaign ended up being so default-feeling, you just kind of let the other side win.
00:01:56.840But Polyev is actually moving to the right on many policies.
00:02:00.340Some things are controversial, but that's a good thing.
00:02:02.900You want attention, and then you want to prove you're right on those issues.
00:02:06.500That's actually how you get forward momentum, not just saying things that nobody could possibly disagree with.
00:02:11.900A lot of these things that Polyev's talking about, tons of people agree with him on, but they were things that the media has told you not to touch, like immigration, like gender theory, all that sort of thing.
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00:03:03.980But let's start off with this headline from the Globe and Mail, an article written by Robert Fyfe, and it says,
00:03:11.800Now, we're going to read a little bit from this article, but let's be very clear, there's no point to any of these trips.
00:03:27.940And the thing is that Mark Carney likes to do that a lot.
00:03:30.860It's a lot of this kind of fluff talk that works really well in the business world when you can write off all your expenses and you're not being scrutinized by taxpayers.
00:03:39.100But when you're the prime minister and it's a very high-profile visit that a lot of people are paying attention to and nothing comes of it, you're going to take it on the chin, and rightfully so.
00:03:50.420Prime Minister Mark Carney has defended his international travel schedule, saying meeting world leaders is important to furthering the government's agenda on trade, security, and investment.
00:04:00.800Carney was in London Friday and Saturday, his fifth trip to Europe since being sworn in as prime minister last March.
00:04:07.000He has also made two trips to the U.S., and he visited Mexico earlier this month.
00:04:11.940It's not just you sign a nice agreement and then something happens, Mark, Mr. Carney told reporters on Saturday during a press conference at the High Commission in London.
00:04:50.640You're not a sophisticate like Mark Carney.
00:04:52.460You don't understand what drinking champagne and eating oysters with Keir Starmer really does for a country.
00:04:59.120All this is just so silly, and the liberals should really just put him back in the country.
00:05:03.940Especially with his elbows-up narrative, you'd think he'd spend more time in Canada, and none of this is actually getting us trade agreements.
00:05:11.460We talk about trade, but the U.S. is undermining us everywhere we go, not in a malicious way.
00:05:17.740They're simply signing better deals that gets these countries basically confirmed to want to basically purchase a certain minimum amount of energy from the U.S.
00:05:26.960or a certain amount of cars from the United States, whereas we're just signing agreements saying, we should trade more.
00:05:32.680You know, I should bring a cup of sugar over to your house every once in a while, right?
00:05:38.540They don't have to do it, but they might think about it, I guess.
00:05:41.280It says, while in London on this trip, Mr. Carney met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and attended the Global Progress Action Summit, a gathering of center-left policymakers and leaders from several countries.
00:05:56.240He also held meetings with an investment professional and had one-on-one discussions at the summit with Prime Ministers of Australia, Iceland, and Spain.
00:06:05.280Oh, no doubt we are making a lot of money now, but it goes on to talk about Peer Polyev, but we don't need the article to tell us about this because we will go through it ourselves.
00:06:16.880But before we get on to the jet-setting comments, I want to highlight this chart that I didn't show the other day.
00:06:23.540I've talked about the issue, but I think this is a good way of showing it.
00:06:27.280This is Conservative Party leader Peer Polyev saying,
00:06:30.060The promise, quote, we will build the fastest-growing economy in the G7, Mark Carney.
00:06:35.880The result, and this is the second quarter of 2025, Carney's economic record, Canada versus G7 countries.
00:06:45.600This isn't even our, this isn't not even per capita.
00:06:50.640Now, it may improve as the year goes on, but naturally we are still performing worse than everybody else.
00:06:56.940Raw GDP, which is what the Liberals always cited as their metric of success, which is foolish because, you know, per capita matters more.
00:07:05.540I care more about if the individuals are doing better, not just is the economy generally growing.
00:07:10.860And right now, Canada, up in the second quarter, is down 1.6% in our GDP, a bit behind Germany's negative 1.1%, Italy's negative 0.3%, and everyone else is growing.
00:07:22.420France, the UK, Japan, the US are all growing.
00:07:26.240Some of them not growing, maybe fast enough to keep up with inflation, and it's not super great.
00:07:31.620But, you know, I'd rather be Japan with 2.1% or even France with 1.3% than Canada at negative 1.6% in a time when we are still flooding the country with new migrants.
00:07:44.880It's ridiculous how these people cannot take their foot off the gas, even while this is obviously not going very well.
00:07:52.160But here is another comment from Mr. Polyev on the specific trips that Carney has been taking.
00:08:00.280Prime Minister Carney returns from Mexico with nothing other than another fake deal with quote-unquote dialogues, quote, elevating our partnerships, unquote, and quote, orient joint action.
00:08:13.140Committees will meet, talk will be spoken, pictures taken.
00:08:18.040We've had free trade with Mexico for three decades.
00:08:20.540Today's visit adds nothing but photo ops.
00:08:22.620This was from a few days ago, but he has been commenting further on this matter because this is an actual big problem.
00:08:30.260This is a big pressure point right now for the Liberals.
00:08:34.220And here is another video of Polyev recently at a press conference that I'm going to play.
00:08:41.520And then later on, I'm going to go to his new video directly going after Mark Carney in like a very campaign-esque way.
00:08:48.480As for this business of investing, okay, this is nothing new.
00:08:54.260I encourage you all to go look back at the video reel of the Liberal ministers and of Justin Trudeau's 2015 election campaign.
00:09:02.520These investments have been put off for far too long.
00:09:06.040They're vital if we want to grow the economy.
00:09:08.880And what happened over those 10 Liberal years?
00:09:11.220The per capita GDP in Canada was the worst of any G7 country.
00:09:15.660Then after COVID was over, they began spending on deficit dollars on things unrelated to COVID.