00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.480I need to tell you guys about a very serious issue currently playing out in Canada's Parliament right now
00:00:12.840that I don't think a lot of people are going to take seriously right away, but they should.
00:00:18.800This entire issue is around the idea of in-camera committee meetings.
00:00:24.340Now, an in-camera meeting means that it is closed off to the public.
00:00:29.440This happens all the time in government and other organizations.
00:00:33.060Sometimes the things being talked about are sensitive and should not be seen by the public.
00:00:38.040A great example would be if a public safety committee had to talk about a sensitive case
00:00:43.040where people's names might be used that maybe the public should not know about,
00:00:46.660and so the committee members will vote to take the meeting in-camera,
00:00:51.400and so they can discuss it more openly.
00:00:54.200But the Carney Liberals are now abusing in-camera meetings to just shut down the opposition from being able to question them in the public eye.
00:01:03.420Now, they can say that the Conservatives can still just do their questions but in-camera.
00:01:08.920What does it matter if the cameras are rolling for the public or not?
00:01:13.100Well, it's because the Liberals don't have any shame.
00:01:16.540If the conservatives are questioning them about something they're doing wrong, the liberals aren't going to care unless members of the public care too.
00:01:24.580If members of the public can't see what's going on, they're naturally not really going to care as much about the things the conservatives ask questions about.
00:01:33.940It's pretty logical to care less about things that you didn't even know happened.
00:01:38.540You may know that Mark Carney's liberals recently got a majority from conservative and NDP floor crossers, and they used those powers in order to pack all the committees.
00:01:49.680They added usually two or three liberal MPs to every single committee, including ethics and public accounts, in order so that they would have a majority on all the committees, and could basically shut down things like having the finance minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, come and testify in front of the ethics committee about his massive conflict of interest with the Alto train project that the government just gave $90 billion to.
00:02:16.320but they're just using in-camera meetings now to shut down all sorts of things. It was bad enough
00:02:22.780when they were using their committee majorities to just say, Champagne doesn't have to come and
00:02:27.680testify, or we're not going to hear from that witness, or we're just going to vote to kind of
00:02:32.780expedite this discussion that we're having. That's already bad enough. It's already undemocratic
00:02:38.500enough because the liberals didn't actually earn the majority that they are using to shut down
00:02:43.800discussion. Now they're shutting down even seeing and hearing what is going on. I need to show you
00:02:49.480how absurd it's gotten, and we of course have the liberal media pretending like it's no big deal.
00:02:55.420Before I get into the first video I want to play here, I just want to remind you guys to make sure
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00:03:18.700just makes it easier for me to do this channel every day. But now we are going to start off
00:03:23.820with this montage from the CBC that they played of all the committees the last couple of days
00:03:29.780going in camera. And I'm going to give you a bit of some historical context a little bit later in
00:03:35.260this video because you will start to hear people on liberal like you know panels on the CBC start
00:03:42.080to pretend like this is no big deal. It is a big deal, and do not let these people lie to you by
00:03:48.200pretending, oh, these procedures have always been something in government. Oh, they've been used by
00:03:53.920other governments before. Sure, but we need to actually look at the scale and how they've been
00:04:00.320used. How much are they using it, and why are they using it? But here's a montage that the CBC put
00:04:05.780together. In less than a week since the Liberals used their majority power to take control of
00:04:09.860parliamentary committees and already they've used that power four times to turn off the cameras
00:04:14.540preventing MPs from debating in public. Committee I'd like to move a motion to move the committee
00:04:20.100in camera. I'm going to suspend while we change over to in camera meeting is suspended. With that
00:04:25.980I move to to have the meeting in camera. I would like our colleague to explain to us why she wants0.96
00:04:33.580to go in camera. I would like to suggest that we move in camera. We will not be silenced this is
00:04:39.460wrong mpj ontario has moved the motion that we move to drafting instructions those drafting
00:04:45.380instructions happen in camera this was was strategically planned so that it looks a little
00:04:52.260different to canadians but what i would like to say to canadians right now is that this absolutely
00:05:00.020is again this is we have never gone there's a point of order please uh this is debate and uh
00:05:08.180the motion is not debatable yeah so they won't even let people actually speak to whether or not
00:05:13.780it feels ethical or not that everything is now going in camera i want to show you one instance
00:05:19.860of this just the raw footage of it so you can understand how absurd this is this is the transport
00:05:26.100and infrastructure committee it is absurd that this committee ever has to go in camera it's the
00:05:32.900transport infrastructure committee it's not spicy stuff it's transport and infrastructure now watch0.93
00:05:39.380how fast this bugger goes in camera this see the full tape here and it starts recording right before0.59
00:05:46.420the committee starts like literally within seconds and it stops and the recording will stop right0.97
00:05:51.700when the committee wraps but it will basically have this screen on once they go in committee but
00:05:57.220I want you guys to actually watch along with this. It is like watching slapjacks with in-camera
00:06:02.980meeting rules. This meeting back to order. I have Ms. Wien next, Mr. Nozon, Mr. Barstow-Duval,
00:06:11.380followed by Mr. Albus. Ms. Wien, the floor is yours. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think the motion
00:06:17.140that has just been moved by my colleague, Mr. Helloway, is really important. And as we have a
00:06:22.500number of studies to consider and we want to be working well together as a team uh i i would like
00:06:28.180to uh suggest that we move in camera so that we can uh discuss and schedule the uh the the work
00:06:34.020ahead of us together okay thank you notice what the excuse there was why they had to move in camera so
00:06:40.500so so we can work as a team uh just you know for it's for the work culture basically of this
00:06:45.140committee they don't want disagreement because what's really the point of disagreeing with the
00:06:50.180liberals when it's not on the record things being on the record matters a lot when you're a
00:06:54.820politician because it's kind of one of those things where if a tree falls in the woods and
00:06:58.820nobody saw it did it really even happen if you disagree with some liberal spending or an initiative
00:07:04.900and it was in camera they can just play dumb that you've ever actually opposed certain things and now
00:07:10.180you have to work even hard harder after the meeting to then talk about some of these things
00:07:15.540But because it was in-camera, you can't actually specifically reference what happened in the in-camera section.
00:07:21.720You have to find your own way of tackling some of these issues that may not actually have the information publicly available for you to speak on without the tape of the committee.
00:07:34.060Oh, and she's just like sitting there, oh, well, perhaps, perhaps we could maybe just, you know, throttle democracy a little bit and go in-camera.
00:07:43.900has anyone ever thought about doing that it's like what are you what is this he's like you know
00:07:49.060slowly getting into a jacuzzi in terms of this in camera stuff would it be um uh um uh possible for
00:07:56.040us to um you know smother democracy here for a second and not have anyone knowing what's going
00:08:01.220on the transportation and infrastructure committee perhaps it's embarrassing thank you miss wean i'll
00:11:50.600This is obviously absurd. And especially you're only going in camera during periods of the committee's time when the conservatives could actually ask good questions on camera and ask you what's going on. Why are you spending money on this? Why did this guy get a contract? Hey, do you think that we should be putting money towards this while blah, blah, blah?
00:12:11.460In a certain sense, transportation and public public transportation and infrastructure shouldn't be spicy. It might be a little spicy because they're jamming through the 90 billion to 200 billion dollar Alto high speed rail line.
00:12:27.280You know, the one with the conflict of interest involving the finance minister and his wife that the liberals that hacked the ethics committee in order to avoid him testifying over. Oh, wow. I wonder what's going on here.
00:12:40.000probably nothing they wouldn't lie to me.
00:13:27.500I would even say, no, you shouldn't do that, Stephen.
00:13:30.200Maybe they were discussing stuff around public safety or foreign policy or military procurement,
00:13:36.140things that couldn't be spoken in the front in the public.
00:13:38.800And the actual record holder for in-camera meetings was Paul Martin in 2004.
00:13:43.780And I believe it had something to do with the minority government status, where there was so much horse trading kind of going along with who was going to let which policies pass because they didn't want to go to an election right away.
00:13:53.240It was kind of almost agreed upon between the liberals and DP and the bloc that they didn't want people seeing them horse trading.
00:13:58.660So they did a lot of in-camera meetings.
00:16:21.660No, this is not even in the same universe as what the Conservatives had done in 2012 or even what Paul Martin did and the Bloc and the NDP did in 2004.
00:16:31.160...dives themselves to put clips on social media, to fundraise. Sometimes they've been quite obstructionist.
00:16:38.300But some of the things that they suggested this week are entirely reasonable.
00:16:42.580You know, like, for example, requiring PCO to provide regular updates on the Prime Minister's
00:16:49.620ethics ethical screen on Brookfield, that seems entirely reasonable. And as Justin Truder used
00:16:55.380to say, sunshine is the best disinfectant. So what why are they why would they I mean,
00:17:02.660what would be the point of this tactically, Chantal, like, I just don't understand why
00:17:06.660if you've got your majority, why and you have control of the committees, why the committees
00:17:10.820can't just do their work so that people know what they're doing it's not surprising that rosemary
00:17:16.180barton cannot put you know cannot draw a line between point a and point b while they are like
00:17:21.700parallel to each other it's almost like they don't want the conservatives asking them questions or the
00:17:28.260block asking them questions on the record that they do not want to answer it's almost like that's
00:17:32.660what's going on rosemary has was she born yesterday every single day rosemary is born anew0.99
00:17:39.220and pretends to be stupid whenever the liberals are doing something wrong so government insiders1.00
00:17:45.460tonight would have you believe that all of a sudden and what four committees liberal mps woke0.98
00:17:52.100up with a personal initiative to do this i find that very hard to believe look at it it's like0.91
00:17:58.740rosemary my goodness throw throws it over to chantelle hubert you know rabid like the
00:18:08.020president of the justin trudeau fan club pretty much and she's like oh i have a hard time believing0.99
00:18:12.980that the liberals woke up to this morning and all just decided they wanted to shut down committees
00:18:18.500sorry this was organic organically they want to shut down the committees and go in camera
00:18:23.300for no reason no reason that they could actually explain no explanation oh but i have a hard time
00:18:30.340pretending that they were coordinating this you you do this ain't exactly a conspiracy theory
00:18:37.220this is just saying they are incentivized to not let the conservatives and the bloc speak
00:18:42.180because it could make them look bad because frankly they suck at governing and they don't
00:18:46.820like questions that is the most basic explanation i can give to chantelle hubert and and the somehow1.00
00:18:53.860this woman is able to make a living writing and talking about politics in this country1.00
00:18:58.980It came on in every brain at the same time. But in any event, this is a dangerous thing to do for the government. I'm not going to go into accountability, but rather in this is a government that has a very fragile majority, one that can be questioned by some on legitimacy.1.00
00:19:21.120There will be by elections. If you are going to spend the time between now and then convincing Canadians that the reason you wanted the majority was to shut down debate, good luck, because one day you will start losing seats.
00:19:35.980So even Chantal Hubert ended up recovering at the end there, pretended like it was ridiculous. Oh, this isn't being coordinated by the liberals. And even she's trying to give them kind of some advice that this is a bad look.
00:19:46.060this is why i can't stand people like this there's a part of her brain trying to like1.00
00:19:51.220punch forward and be like chantelle idiot maybe this is unethical and but her like liberal1.00
00:19:59.220programming still wants to say oh well you know i can't see that the liberals were coordinating0.99
00:20:04.040this or anything and like rosemary barton like laughing oh yes as if that's ridiculous like the
00:20:09.920liberals whatever collude to do something wrong they've never had a scandal in their entire lives
00:20:15.780at least in my heart, they haven't. Anyways, I want to quickly jump over to this clip of Andrew
00:20:21.540Scheer addressing what's going on here. And then this is probably a good time for me to wrap up.
00:20:26.000But you guys should be aware of just how much of a bag of monkeys this entire committee fiasco is
00:20:32.120turning into. Everyone is acting like, oh, it's so normal. Liberals have a majority. They can pack
00:20:35.940the committees. No, they can just pack the committees. They made sure to give themselves
00:20:39.720two extra liberals so that they can always have quorum. Because for quorum, you can't just have
00:20:44.460like 50 you basically need like pretty much 60 rounding up in order to have the meetings so they
00:20:50.260gave them enough so that even if the ndp and the conser or the bloc and the conservatives didn't
00:20:54.340want to show up they still can just do the meeting anyways that the canadian people gave this
00:21:00.440government at the ballot box this is not the way investment into our country no instead the very
00:21:05.040first thing they did was stack the deck on committees to give themselves a majority to shut
00:21:10.420down investigations and that's what we're seeing at many uh committees throughout this week the
00:21:17.380this was not the power that the canadian people gave this government at the ballot box this is
00:21:22.100not what canadians voted for this is an abuse of power that flows out of backroom deals and
00:21:28.820and secret negotiations rather than power that was granted at the ballot box so it's it's it's
00:21:34.180it's even worse that the Liberals are using the majority this way. We've seen ethics investigations,
00:21:41.860investigations into procurement scandals, investigations into how you know studies into
00:21:48.500how budgets affect various stakeholders in Canada all shut down or moved behind closed doors. The
00:21:54.420Liberals have actually moved motions to turn off the cameras to stop the transcription and to kick
00:22:00.900journalists and the public out of the room right now i need to quickly to show you because although
00:22:08.020even the liberal pundits on cbc kind of know this is wrong this is the last thing i want to show you
00:22:12.980guys before we wrap up here there are liberal partisans out there who love this who think
00:22:17.700it's great when i initially played the montage that cbc had put together of all the times that
00:22:23.060the committees had gone in camera this guy right here who represents what i would call like the
00:22:28.420the Laura Babcock wing of liberal politics. Jason Pugh here says, watch, liberals moving committees
00:22:35.500to in-camera so that they can't be used by conservatives to shoot their rage farming
00:22:39.280fundraising clips. Good. They've turned QP and committee meetings into a gong show. Really?
00:22:45.740Really? If they're just using this for clip farming and they look ridiculous, it's all for
00:22:52.800fundraising, point it out. Dunk on them. If they're in the wrong, it should be really easy
00:23:00.020to just dunk on them and show that they're stupid, that they're being obtuse, that they're1.00
00:23:04.560asking dumb questions. If you're wanting to shut somebody down who you are adamantly yelling about1.00
00:23:12.320being in the wrong, it means that you probably know you're in the wrong secretly. You know you're
00:23:18.220in the wrong. That's why you want to shut down the other side. But this is what the liberals and1.00
00:23:22.600their supporters have turned into. Well, we can do it because we can do it. That's not exactly a
00:23:28.820great way of running a country. Anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys for watching this
00:23:34.200video. Keep an eye on this, I think, scandal in the making, because even though this is not like
00:23:39.980the We Charity scandal, SNC-Lavalin, I think this should be a scandal if it continues, that
00:23:45.460parliament borderline doesn't function because conservatives or liberals do not want to actually
00:23:50.780answer conservative and block questions. That, you know, ruffles their suits a little bit. They
00:23:57.300don't really like having to answer questions. And you're not going to have the media really
00:24:02.140follow up on it. They're going to talk like Rosemary Barton there is the worst. This affects
00:24:07.520her own industry. She doesn't give a crap. She's in the commentary business. She's in the liberal1.00
00:24:11.780propaganda business. She's never done a report in her life that wasn't already handed to her.
00:24:16.140She doesn't know what she's talking about. She's the person who likes shutting down independent
00:24:19.540media from answering questions. And you think that she's going to care about the liberals doing0.98
00:24:24.080in-camera meetings all the time to block questions about the alto speed, high-speed rail line,
00:24:29.500or other areas of government where the liberals don't look that rosy in terms of their record?
00:24:35.060My goodness. Anyways, with all that being said, like, share, subscribe, consider hitting the
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