The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Matt Jeneroux crosses to Liberals - Breaking his word not to cross!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:05.780 We have some big breaking news to talk about this morning, so we're just going to jump right into

00:00:11.140 it. You may have already heard conservative MP for Edmonton Riverbend, Matt Gennaro, instead of

00:00:18.320 resigning his seat like he said he was going to do in April, has now decided instead he is going

00:00:24.680 to cross the floor and join Mark Carney's liberal government. This is a massive betrayal of all the

00:00:31.060 voters of his riding who have been electing him as a federal conservative since 2015. Previous to that,

00:00:38.580 he even spent a term as a progressive conservative MLA in Alberta's provincial legislature. And so

00:00:45.840 this guy crossing is not really something where you could say, well, he was always kind of a

00:00:51.160 centrist. He was always somebody who could kind of jump either way depending on the issue.

00:00:56.980 No, he was a conservative. He was always a conservative. And him jumping over to the

00:01:02.280 liberals is clearly not motivated by something ideological. Because if he had some ideological

00:01:08.060 disagreement with the conservative party, you think he would have left a long time ago. This is

00:01:14.380 obviously more in the vein of Chris Dontremont and Michael Ma. There's more news coming out on Michael

00:01:20.240 Ma that we will be covering in the next couple of days because apparently he had a strong association

00:01:25.340 with a CCP front group in Canada that the conservative party of Canada should have probably

00:01:31.840 known about and vetted him out if it was obviously a concern. It obviously should be a concern. But in

00:01:38.660 terms of like if it popped up on your radar that he was associated with this group, it should have

00:01:43.240 concerned you and they should have bounced him out. But instead, it was probably looked at as,

00:01:47.680 ah, it's just how things work in Markham Unionville. And it's not. It's not. In fact,

00:01:53.560 the vast majority of Chinese Canadians are not in favor of the CCP. But people inside of parties can

00:01:59.320 convince themselves of anything. Anyways, let's just get into the statement that Prime Minister Mark

00:02:04.400 Carney put out. And then we will go through all the responses to this happening. And then I want to

00:02:09.140 talk about the dynamics we currently have playing out in Parliament right now. How will Matt

00:02:13.740 Gennaro crossing the floor affect things? Will the Liberals get a majority government? There's another MP

00:02:19.920 who is actually likely to vacate their seats. And it is not a conservative or a liberal. We will be doing

00:02:26.080 all that in just a second. But I also want to remind you guys, if you like the show, make sure to leave a

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00:02:40.760 below the video and make a small contribution per month. So here we have our statement from Prime

00:02:47.000 Minister Mark Carney. He says a bit of a longer statement. So bear with me. I am honored to

00:02:53.180 welcome Matt Gennaro to our caucus as the newest member of Canada's new government. Building a strong,

00:02:58.940 more resilient and more independent country will require ambition, collaboration and occasional

00:03:04.060 sacrifice. I am grateful to Matt and his family that he will continue his service as a strong voice for

00:03:09.580 Edmonton Riverbend in Parliament. For more than a decade, Matt has been entrusted by Albertans to

00:03:14.340 help shape a strong future. He was first elected to Alberta's legislature in 2012 and Canada's

00:03:20.060 Parliament in 2015, earning four consecutive mandates in the House of Commons. In Ottawa,

00:03:25.240 he has taken out on portfolios that are central to Canada's economic strength, security and national

00:03:30.620 resilience, including a shadow minister for supply chains, innovation, infrastructure, health and

00:03:37.180 housing. He is a strong voice in international engagement and parliamentary diplomacy, having

00:03:42.520 served as a vice chair of Canada-UK Interparliamentary Association and founder of the Canada-ASEAN

00:03:49.560 parliamentary group and building direct working relationships with lawmakers across NATO, Europe,

00:03:55.940 Asia, Africa, the United States and OSCE. As a new special advisor on economic and security

00:04:02.780 partnerships, Matt's leadership will contribute to strengthening Canada's alliances and trade

00:04:08.160 partnerships, advancing Canada's leadership in global security, cooperation and building our

00:04:13.720 strength at home. The world has changed and Canada must change with it. This is the time to come

00:04:18.160 together and together we will build a strong future for Edmonton, Alberta and all Canadians. Now him

00:04:25.020 getting the new special advisor on economic security partnerships clearly is just kind of a front to make this

00:04:32.140 all look like, oh no, no, no, no, no, guys. It makes sense that Matt's coming over because he can help

00:04:36.860 the government in this way or that way. Do we really think that this is why he crossed the floor

00:04:42.620 because he wanted to help the government? He's been on the other side of things for a decade. Now you could

00:04:49.180 say maybe he's gotten restless over 10 years. I've never really heard that happening. Someone just getting

00:04:54.380 restless being in opposition. And so no matter the ideology, they cross the floor to be part of the

00:04:59.420 government. It's probably more of an internal heady issue between Matt Jennero and the conservative

00:05:06.460 party sort of inner circle, I guess. And by the way, I wouldn't even let the inner circle off the hook

00:05:12.140 on this one, because the fact they keep having people cross, it's not that they weren't nice

00:05:16.780 enough to them. It's that these people probably should have never been running in the first place.

00:05:21.500 Or in Matt Jennero's, in the case of Matt Jennero, I believe the man's living in Vancouver or Victoria

00:05:28.460 right now. And he's only part-timing it in the riding that he represents in Edmonton.

00:05:33.420 If they knew about all this stuff, that his wife and kids were in Victoria and he was representing

00:05:38.700 in Edmonton riding, they probably just should have told him, sorry, you're just not running for us

00:05:42.460 again. This is absurd that we're going to have a guy running who lives in a different part of the

00:05:46.940 country. It makes us look bad, so why would we take on the bad press? But the problem is the

00:05:52.540 conservative party runs too many bland consultant, bland lobbyist type, you know, HR personalities,

00:06:02.460 way too many kind of boring people that they think won't rock the boat. And when they say

00:06:07.740 won't rock the boat, they mean like doesn't say anything controversial. What is worse than maybe

00:06:15.260 saying something controversial where someone could be right or wrong about it? I think it's worse that

00:06:20.220 someone just up and crosses the floor and leaves you without another seat. That seems worse to me

00:06:25.820 than having some more right-wing guy say something right-wing every once in a while that gets the

00:06:29.980 media all hot and bothered. Anyways, but let's jump around to some other reactions here. I will first

00:06:36.940 start off with the leader of the opposition, Pierre Polyev's response to all this. Also, although I had

00:06:43.580 something else saved here and it's quite funny that this is all happening right after we had a really

00:06:48.460 bad last, we just had a really bad food inflation report come out. I'll try to find it here.

00:06:59.500 Yes, here we go. Pierre Polyev here says,

00:07:06.060 Mark Carney is trying to seize a costly liberal majority that Canadians voted against in the last election

00:07:11.660 through dirty backroom deals. Matt Genereau has betrayed the people of Edmonton Riverbend

00:07:16.300 who voted for affordable food, homes, safe streets, and strong resource sector. Conservatives will

00:07:22.220 continue to fight, continue our fight for Canada that's affordable, safe, and self-reliant.

00:07:28.300 And now there's a lot, there's been a lot of people obviously going around calling Matt Genereau

00:07:32.780 a traitor. We will go through some of that. I don't want to belabor it too much because I think we kind of

00:07:37.180 all get it here. Here is, as other people have pointed out, like we have,

00:07:46.780 who do we have here? It's Yankee Pollack from Rebel News. He was the one who posted, reposted

00:07:54.060 Matt Genereau's denial that he was crossing the floor from back in November. Here it says,

00:07:59.580 I want to be clear that there was no coercion involved in my decision to resign. I consider my colleagues in

00:08:05.820 the Conservative Party very close friends and I will miss them dearly. Since my resignation this

00:08:10.140 evening, I had a great conversation with Pierre Polyev who wishes me all the best as I do him.

00:08:16.220 I ran under his leadership in hopes we could form a government that would offer hope

00:08:20.460 to Canadians and I wish him my and my colleagues all the best as they continue to raise cost-living

00:08:26.540 issues facing Canadians. To reiterate, this long-standing decision reflects my desire to spend more time

00:08:32.700 with my family. My exact date of departure will be determined at a later date but likely this spring.

00:08:39.500 So apparently he doesn't like his family all that much because as soon as an opportunity arose for

00:08:44.940 him to be the special advisor on economic security for Mark Carney, he jumped at it. But this is his

00:08:51.900 newly revised statement that he just released this morning and it says here,

00:08:57.020 statement by Matt Gennaro. As I wrote to constituents in Edmonton Riverbend last fall about my service in

00:09:04.220 parliament, I recalled how I ran in the last election because I believe Canada stands at a turning point.

00:09:09.740 The events of the past year and even the recent weeks have presented Canada with unprecedented new

00:09:15.340 global pressures on our prosperity and accelerated threats to our sovereignty and unity. Like so many

00:09:22.380 families across Canada over the holidays and since, my family has had several conversations around the

00:09:27.740 kitchen table about how we can best be there for each other and stand up with a country that we all

00:09:33.500 love to which we all belong. Those conversations have been honest, difficult, and deeply personal at

00:09:39.340 times, but they also led me to reflect on the gravity of the moment that our country is living through,

00:09:45.500 which our Prime Minister addressed head on in his speech at Davos. For Canada, this is a moment that

00:09:51.820 demands steady leadership, constructive collaboration between all parliamentarians,

00:09:57.900 and a willingness to stand up and serve even when the path is not easy. After further reflection with

00:10:03.420 my family and the conversations with colleagues and constituents, I will be continuing to serve in

00:10:08.300 parliament and I will be working with Prime Minister Mark Carney as part of his new government to help

00:10:12.780 build our country's strength as we face the challenges ahead. I don't think we need to go

00:10:18.540 through that many more. I love one they said, I've talked to my constituents. Which ones? Which ones did

00:10:23.980 he talk to? The liberal ones? He says he talked to his family. We had a lot of kitchen table discussions,

00:10:29.500 a lot of discussions around the kitchen table. No, you didn't. I always hate whenever politicians act

00:10:35.820 like somehow, like, my goodness, don't blame it on your spouse. Don't blame this stupid move on your

00:10:41.260 spouse. This is all on you, Matt. The whole idea that, no, no, I wasn't going to do it. But then,

00:10:47.900 you know, Fred from the bakery down the street told me to do it. And then my wife, Janet, told me to do

00:10:53.340 it. And then, you know, a bunch of random constituents walked up to me and said, Matt, did you not hear Mark

00:11:00.460 Carney's Davos speech? Did you not hear the power in his voice, the earnestness? You have to cross the

00:11:06.300 floor now and be his special trade economic security advisor, whatever that thing is. I'm

00:11:12.780 just some random person at a bus stop. You have to do it, Matt. Like, no, he probably again has a

00:11:18.620 petty fight behind the scenes with Pierre Polyev, Polyev's staff and some other senior MPs. And to

00:11:24.220 show them up, he's going to cross the floor, even though he has run multiple times for the conservatives,

00:11:29.260 like Chris Dontremont. And there's no indication that ideologically he is on side with Mark Carney.

00:11:35.180 Anyways, so I want to go through a couple more of these posts here. And then I want to talk about

00:11:40.700 the implications for parliament. So we have here, I'm just going to highlight my friend Gerv's post.

00:11:53.180 Gerv posts this. Matt Gennaro has crossed the floor. To all the CPC MPs that cross, this is the last time you

00:11:59.020 will ever be elected to office. Enjoy it. You betrayed your constituents. You betrayed the

00:12:03.420 people who dedicated themselves to your campaign. You are keeping Canada in managed decline. You

00:12:09.260 sold out the youth. You are a sellout. We'll be happy to fire you in the next election. Good luck.

00:12:15.580 And in a riding like Edmonton Riverbend, the liberals are probably going to lose that one. Like,

00:12:20.700 I don't want to, you know, I do want to bet against them, but I'm not trying to be rude about it or

00:12:24.860 anything, but you're not going to win Edmonton Riverbend as, as Matt Gennaro crossing the floor.

00:12:31.900 Let's just quickly look up what that riding looks like right now. It is considered a toss up at the

00:12:38.380 moment, but considering that this is also based on really overheated polls that are showing Matt,

00:12:44.140 like the showing the liberals, like almost tied with the conservatives in Alberta. I really don't

00:12:49.420 believe it. But yeah, this isn't exactly like a guaranteed seat. In fact, it still leans over to

00:12:55.180 the conservatives. And this is with really crappy polls on 338 accounted for like ECOS and liaison

00:13:02.620 and whatnot. It's probably more like a, you know, seven or 8% victory for the conservatives in terms of

00:13:09.660 the vote. And it's probably more like a 80% chance that the conservatives end up winning the seat back,

00:13:14.780 just like they would probably win back Chris D'Entremont's riding at the Annapolis. I think

00:13:20.060 Michael Maas is probably vulnerable too, because I don't think a lot of the Chinese voters in that

00:13:23.820 riding like the idea that the CCP basically just owns them. And it doesn't matter who they elect,

00:13:29.100 they will still get the CCP guy anyways. I want to go back now to just another thing that's a bit of

00:13:36.460 a extra rub in all of this. By the way, this is why it's such a big deal that the Terrebonne riding in

00:13:43.900 Quebec was overturned. Because this means that while yes, the conservatives had another person

00:13:49.740 across the floor, it doesn't really affect as much as you would think. So here we go.

00:13:56.700 This guy, Canada Politico, I'll bring up on screen here in just a second.

00:14:02.380 Canada Politico here says,

00:14:04.060 Some fun math. There are 169 Liberal MPs and three by-elections. University Rosedale, safe Liberal.

00:14:12.300 Scarborough Southwest, safe Liberal. Terrebonne, leans Bloc Québécois. There is one more seat that

00:14:17.820 may vacate, Rosemont. Liberals need three for a majority. If Rosemont goes, it'll be a Liberal flip. 0.99

00:14:25.020 Now, I'm not sure if Rosemont would be a Liberal flip, but the funny thing is that although we have a

00:14:29.820 lot of things changing, everything is pretty much staying the same. Like, nothing has really changed

00:14:35.020 since November. If Matt left in November, it would have been a really big deal, and then having

00:14:39.900 a Michael Ma leave would have given the Liberals a majority. But Matt General leaving now means that

00:14:45.500 the Liberals are still a couple short of a majority anyways. Now, Rosemont, we will be getting to that

00:14:51.020 in a second, that's a riding that just this morning basically became in play potentially, because that

00:14:58.380 is the remaining Quebec seat that is held by the NDP, and the guy who occupies it may go run for

00:15:05.580 Quebec, a Quebec provincial party. It says here, breaking Alexander Bollars, the only NDP MP in

00:15:12.780 Quebec, is considering resigning to run provincially for the declining left-wing nationals party Quebec

00:15:18.780 Solidaire in the riding of Goon in the October Quebec election. Although, remember, that means he's

00:15:25.180 going to be still sticking around, but that is one more seat the Liberals might be able to rely on at

00:15:29.500 least later on in the year to win in order to get their majority. Now, maybe there are other

00:15:36.300 Conservative MPs who are also going to leave. Maybe someone else already left now. If I was advising the

00:15:42.620 Conservatives right now, I would say what you need to do is you need to run on bolder policy. You need

00:15:49.340 a 20% or copy us at 1BC a 25% across the board tax cut, including corporate, including the GST.

00:15:58.540 We need big policies to run on. You need to run on basically restricting hormone therapy and trans 1.00

00:16:05.660 surgeries for children in Canada's health code. You have to run on actually deporting illegal migrants in 0.99

00:16:13.100 large numbers, in slashing TFWs and student numbers further, making sure that we get rid of people who 1.00

00:16:21.260 are exploiting social services. That's immigration. Deregulate heavily in a lot of areas of government. 1.00

00:16:27.340 You need to run on something that makes the next election a referendum between Mark Carney's managed

00:16:33.180 decline and your big, bold policy reform agenda. Because right now, the Conservatives, I find,

00:16:40.060 are in a bit of a holding pattern. And when you're in a holding pattern, you're letting Mark Carney

00:16:44.780 define what a next election would look like, whether it's in 2029, or it's a snap election

00:16:51.020 sometime this year. You're letting him make it all about Donald Trump. You need to have really,

00:16:56.540 really big policy proposals that you put on the field that basically completely sidestep anything

00:17:03.980 Mark Carney wants to make the election about, making the election about what you want to run on.

00:17:09.100 That is what the Conservatives need to do. Run on something so big that you can't possibly

00:17:15.740 not talk about it. But anyways, that should be it for me in this video, guys.

00:17:21.340 Uh, you know, hope everyone has a good day except for Michael Ma,

00:17:25.580 Matt Jenneru, and Chris Dontremont. I know people are in the comments are going to say,

00:17:30.300 well, we should ban floor crossing. The problem is, is you can't really ban floor crossing,

00:17:36.300 because you could just sit there as a Conservative MP and just vote with the Liberals the entire time.

00:17:41.020 You would need different policies that make it less interesting to cross the floor, but you can't

00:17:46.140 really ban crossing the floor, because someone could just go and sit in as an as an independent,

00:17:50.540 but be a de facto Liberal MP. I've always actually favored the idea that you can cross the floor,

00:17:57.500 but you cannot run for a different major party in the next election, unless you get a certain

00:18:02.380 amount of signatures from your constituents. So you can cross the floor, you can vote with the

00:18:06.700 government all you want, but if another election hits, if you have not gotten the correct amount

00:18:10.940 of signatures in order to get approval to run for the new party, then you're not allowed to do it.

00:18:16.220 So if, you know, Matt Jenneru now crossed the floor and becomes a Liberal, now he needs to go

00:18:21.500 and get 15% of people at Edmonton Riverbend in 60 or 90 days to sign off on him being able to run

00:18:27.900 as a different major party candidate in the next election. Now, they wouldn't want to do that,

00:18:33.020 because then they would actually have to face their voters, and for those who don't really

00:18:36.940 know much about politics, they actually have to announce to them that I was elected as a

00:18:41.980 Conservative, you probably voted for me as a Conservative, but now I'm leaving to become a Liberal.

00:18:47.020 That would be a very hard sell, and it would only ever succeed at a time when people understand why

00:18:51.980 you have to leave, like your party's deeply corrupt, or they took a massive turn on a policy,

00:18:57.260 and so, you know, you as a Conservative are joining this or that party, or you as a Liberal are joining

00:19:02.860 this or that party. Anyways, well, that should be it for this video, truly. Sometimes I say this

00:19:08.460 should be it, and then I just keep talking anyways, but thank you guys for watching. Like, share,

00:19:12.700 subscribe, consider hitting the join button, and I will see you all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 18, 2026

Matt Jeneroux crosses to Liberals - Breaking his word not to cross!

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