The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 20, 2026


MP Pushes Back on CBC Host excusing Liberal Corruption Coverup!


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Andrew Scheer's interview on Rosemary Barton's show on the CBC with Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer is a perfect example of why the legacy media loves to cover up the obvious conflicts of interest that exist within the Liberal government.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.500 One of the most maddening things about Canadian politics is the different way the legacy media
00:00:11.980 covers things said by conservatives and things said by liberals. They always act completely
00:00:17.820 incredulous whenever a conservative says anything, but if a liberal says something,
00:00:23.140 they are 100% credulous, they believe it on the spot. Conservative says something,
00:00:28.340 immediate skepticism thrown onto whatever was said. That's why I need to show you a very obnoxious
00:00:35.960 interview today on Rosemary Barton's show on the CBC with conservative House leader Andrew Scheer.
00:00:43.020 You will understand why in a second that we are talking about this, because even though there is
00:00:48.140 obvious issues with conflicts of interest inside the liberal government, and they're moving to 1.00
00:00:52.880 cover it up, Rosemary Barton is just going to basically sit there and play defense for the 1.00
00:00:57.380 Liberals when she is supposed to be a neutral host on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
00:01:03.660 But before we get into the video, I just need to remind you guys to like the video,
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00:01:22.420 It does actually really help me operate this channel month to month.
00:01:25.520 But now, let's get into this episode of Rosemary Barton Live from Sunday yesterday.
00:01:33.420 Conservatives are pushing back against the Liberal majority's newfound powers, specifically when it comes to the standing committees that review government legislation.
00:01:43.500 Committee make-ups are negotiated between parties after an election to reflect party standings.
00:01:48.880 But now the Liberals dominate the House of Commons. They're looking to take control of committees.
00:01:53.320 I say this as someone who's testified to committees in front of the Canadian Parliament,
00:01:59.200 in front of the UK Parliament for decades.
00:02:02.500 There is a difference between real testimony, real substance, getting to issues,
00:02:07.360 debating aspects of law, advancing, that's the job of parliamentarians, and showboating.
00:02:14.220 We're going to have less of that.
00:02:16.100 So what he means by less of that in terms of the showboating is
00:02:19.560 he doesn't want the man to his right, Francois-Philippe Champagne, to have to testify about his obvious conflict of interest with the Alto high-speed rail project.
00:02:29.980 That high-speed rail line that the Liberals gave $90 billion to that could easily balloon up to $200 billion
00:02:37.260 just so happened to have hired the finance minister's wife as the vice president of environment
00:02:45.000 a couple months before the liberals made the push to give them an obscene amount of money
00:02:49.440 for a project that not that many people are probably going to actually utilize once the
00:02:54.860 train is finished. So he is basically justifying packing the committees right after getting his
00:03:00.080 majority government, even though you usually don't do this, because then Francois-Philippe
00:03:04.960 Champagne may actually have to answer a question, which in this case is being characterized as
00:03:10.160 showboating and asking him questions. We're going to have more substance. I think all
00:03:14.880 All parliamentarians, in the end, will appreciate that, even if it's a change for some of them.
00:03:22.800 The Liberal government can make this change after successfully sweeping those three by-elections this past Monday.
00:03:28.860 With 174 MPs, they now hold the majority inside the House of Commons.
00:03:34.500 Earlier, I spoke to Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer about what a Liberal majority means for the official opposition.
00:03:41.320 Andrew Scheer, nice to see you.
00:03:43.340 Great to chat with you.
00:03:44.220 So I just try to get a sense of how or if the Conservative strategy is going to change a little bit now because of this majority government.
00:03:53.340 How do you think the approach changes when it comes to holding the government to account?
00:03:58.120 Obviously, there's some things you can do and some things you're going to be a little bit limited in.
00:04:02.660 Well, we're going to stay focused on efforts to make life more affordable for Canadians.
00:04:07.420 You saw that this week with our motion to repeal the federal taxes on gas and diesel.
00:04:15.200 We believe that the government should lift those taxes for the entire year.
00:04:19.440 The Liberals came up with a third of the relief for a third of the year.
00:04:22.200 So we're still going to use our time in the House, our opposition days,
00:04:25.020 our speaking slots to push for things to make life more affordable,
00:04:29.340 cutting Liberal taxes, cutting red tape so that we can get more investment in Canada,
00:04:33.420 to get people working after a decade of Liberal policies chasing that investment away.
00:04:38.360 Now, what we're hoping is that the government doesn't waste precious House time trying to
00:04:43.380 give themselves a majority on committees because a lot of the important work that the opposition
00:04:49.020 does to hold the government to account, to shine a light on corruption and waste, is
00:04:52.460 at the committee level.
00:04:53.960 And the government has signaled this week that they're going to try to stack the deck
00:04:56.700 on committees and we're calling on them to abandon those plans, stay focused, let's all
00:05:00.540 stay focused on making life more affordable for Canadians.
00:05:03.180 Now, by the way, a government in a majority situation, even if it doesn't have the majority on committees,
00:05:08.640 which by precedent, it shouldn't be trying to reshuffle the committees after the month after Election Day.
00:05:14.680 That's when you decide on who's going to be on the committees.
00:05:16.720 They've decided. But now for the first time ever in Canadian politics,
00:05:19.780 they're going to completely reshuffle the committees to give them a majority.
00:05:23.440 It's not like they can't pass stuff if they don't have this majority and they're just, you know, trying to make them more functional.
00:05:28.980 You can already force stuff back into the House chamber to be voted on in second and third reading.
00:05:35.240 The liberals don't like, though, that with the minority power, although they can still keep moving things downfield, the conservatives can actually compel testimony.
00:05:43.400 They can actually force them to do a review on certain issues inside the bills.
00:05:48.420 They can force them to go back and provide information on certain aspects of their legislation.
00:05:54.340 They don't like that.
00:05:55.300 They're not just doing this to get their agenda for it.
00:05:57.140 The ethics committee, they want that committee to be a majority of liberals, even though it doesn't actually serve a legislative process in terms of getting legislation passed.
00:06:06.760 This is simply the check on the government. If the liberals were just maybe changing the committee's task to review bills before third reading and they made those a majority, that's a different story.
00:06:17.720 They want the actual corruption checks on them to be owned by them as well.
00:06:22.760 But we're going to be getting into Rosemary Barton now trying to justify what the Liberals are currently doing.
00:06:28.660 I understand entirely why that would be a concern for you.
00:06:31.460 But if the roles were reversed, I'm sure that you would also seek a majority on the committee because it does make the government's life easier.
00:06:41.020 It doesn't make your life easier, but it does make the government's life easier to have a majority on those committees.
00:06:45.960 Well, Mark Carney shouldn't be focused on making life more easy for himself.
00:06:49.600 He should be focused on making life more affordable for Canadians.
00:06:53.000 And this is unprecedented.
00:06:54.800 It's important for Canadians to understand that never before has a government changed the very nature of the government that they were elected at the ballot box.
00:07:04.020 The Canadian people elected a minority government.
00:07:06.620 That means that they elected a strong opposition to provide a check on this Liberal government
00:07:11.300 after 11 years of policies that have driven up prices and driven away investment.
00:07:16.080 A big part of that is at the committee level.
00:07:18.140 Committees have the power to force government officials to produce documents.
00:07:22.300 We have the power to subpoena information, to compel testimony from witnesses.
00:07:28.120 That's how we uncovered a lot of waste and mismanagement and, quite frankly, corruption in the last Parliament.
00:07:33.400 and to suggest that, you know, this is a normal standard practice.
00:07:39.660 No, the committees are made up, the numbers on the committee are made up
00:07:43.040 based on the results of the last election.
00:07:45.660 Well, I...
00:07:46.920 And the thing is, when you actually think about it, 1.00
00:07:48.420 think about how disgusting this is for the floor crossers. 1.00
00:07:50.920 They tried to pretend that they were wishing their colleagues well 1.00
00:07:54.280 in doing their jobs, when in fact they were crossing the floor
00:07:57.280 to make it more difficult for them to do their jobs.
00:07:59.420 They don't actually care about the mission they originally set out on.
00:08:04.340 They are crossing the floor to allow Carney to dodge ethical probes.
00:08:09.280 They don't want Carney to have Francois-Philippe Champagne, the finance minister, have to face a committee and actually justify why it took him several months to disclose his conflict of interest with Altotrain.
00:08:20.540 He claims he disclosed it back in September 2025, but there are no records of that having happened.
00:08:26.540 And so now, suddenly, the Liberals, right before they got the majority, just started killing time on the Ethics Committee.
00:08:34.380 They literally basically took a knee and just took hours and hours to filibuster, waiting until they got those majority seats so that the committee could be reshuffled so that the Conservatives could no longer compel Champagne to come in front of them.
00:08:49.420 Before, the only thing preventing Champagne from coming in was the Liberals filibustering enough that they could never get to the vote, they could never get to the motion to compel the minister to show up.
00:08:59.760 And again, if it's just about making life easier for the prime minister and passing stuff, then okay, every committee that studies legislation that proposes amendments and does all that stuff, preparing bills for third reading, they can have a majority on all those.
00:09:14.900 How about leave the checks and balances when it comes to ethics, corruption, conflicts of interest?
00:09:21.760 How about don't touch those committees?
00:09:23.940 Let those committees stay as they were.
00:09:26.020 But, of course, they don't want to do that because they have big issues going on right now.
00:09:31.760 Symbolically, if the liberals had nothing to hide, then don't touch those committees and let Champagne testify.
00:09:36.600 Because he keeps saying he wants to testify.
00:09:38.100 And then he says, well, I'm going to see what the committee wants to do.
00:09:41.400 knowing in his mind he knows champagne knows that they are about to shuffle the committee so the
00:09:46.700 committee will never ask him to show up i heard you say that this week but are they not in fact
00:09:51.020 based on the makeup of the house of comments well in every parliament uh after the election
00:09:58.320 the parties come together and on a consensus basis to reflect the will of the canadian people
00:10:03.720 expressed at the ballot box we determine how many seats mps various parties get on committee
00:10:09.140 when the Canadian people have voted for a minority then the government gets a
00:10:13.340 minority on committees and that's what Canadians expressed at the last election
00:10:16.640 the last time every Canadian had a right had a chance to weigh in on which party
00:10:21.440 should should govern they chose to send the strongest opposition in Canadian
00:10:25.520 history they chose to give Mark Carney a limited mandate with a minority
00:10:30.020 Parliament and we are calling on Mark Carney to resist the temptation to be
00:10:34.520 just another Liberal you know he's proven to be just another Liberal in so
00:10:37.340 ways uh we don't think he should be focused on making life easier for him self uh we don't think
00:10:42.780 we should he should be using his powers to block investigations and and limit the powers of the
00:10:48.060 opposition we believe we should all be focused on making life more affordable for canadians i mean
00:10:52.460 listen the the job of the official opposition is really important and and i would agree with you
00:10:56.940 perhaps uh perhaps the most important inside committees but the prime minister this past week
00:11:02.060 said that he thought that work wasn't getting done in committees that there was filibustering i think
00:11:06.380 showboating was the word that he used that in fact he wants everyone to work is there a way for 0.99
00:11:12.600 this is where rosemary barton is the worst propagandist on the cbc she's so transparent 0.99
00:11:19.360 she is so transparently a liberal stenographer it's not even funny she's like well he said 1.00
00:11:26.080 that you guys were obstructing and filibustering and showboating it's like lady do you not watch 0.97
00:11:32.920 the news? I know you're on it, but do you not watch it? They were the ones filibustering to not
00:11:38.980 allow for Minister Champagne to show up and testify. How are they obstructing? Asking questions,
00:11:46.620 requiring more information be given to them? Maybe you could find one instance where a conservative
00:11:52.080 had basically held up a vote unjustifiably, but eventually the things do get passed back to the
00:11:58.140 House for votes. You can only hold stuff up for so long. But again, it's just basically saying,
00:12:02.720 well isn't he allowed to well isn't he right in saying that you guys were being obstructive
00:12:06.840 the problem though is that it's not she's not actually asking a neutral question she's just
00:12:12.620 giving the liberal position and then just inferring that somehow it's contradicting what sheer is
00:12:18.440 saying to uh collaborate even with a liberal majority in the committees committee to uh
00:12:25.480 collaborate even with a liberal majority in the committees well you know first of all i should
00:12:31.020 point out that Liberals have filibustered their own legislation. They prevented the Justice
00:12:35.420 Committee from dealing with efforts to make changes to Canada's bail system. Just this week,
00:12:41.800 they were filibustering the Ethics Committee to prevent an investigation into a potential conflict
00:12:45.920 of interest between the Finance Minister and his spouse, who works at a Crown Corporation,
00:12:51.620 or his partner who works at a Crown Corporation. Where there is common ground, we have demonstrated
00:12:55.920 that we will be responsible and that we will accept the will of the Canadian people. We have
00:13:00.520 allowed legislation to pass where we believe at the very least it won't do
00:13:04.580 any further harm. The government got several pieces of legislation. We
00:13:08.860 actually helped improve legislation. Bill C-2 was a sweeping overreach where
00:13:14.680 government was going to give itself all kinds of new powers in the name of
00:13:17.640 public safety. We said, hold on a second, let's hive off the parts that we can
00:13:20.880 agree with that we believe Canadians would support and let's put breaks and
00:13:24.760 limits on that government overreach and that was very successful. So I think Mark
00:13:28.240 Kearney is creating the illusion of a problem in reality where they seek to find common ground with the opposition.
00:13:35.060 Legislation has passed relatively quickly where they try to block efforts to undo bad liberal policies
00:13:41.460 or when they try to shut down investigations into corruption.
00:13:45.940 Well, then, yes, committees have been bogged down.
00:13:48.900 But I would point out that is always a result of liberal choices.
00:13:52.520 They control the timeline.
00:13:54.320 They control the agenda on these committees, even with a minority.
00:13:57.140 I understand that you don't want this change to happen, but it does, and I say this with respect,
00:14:03.420 it does sound a little bit like you're in denial that the majority has happened.
00:14:07.620 And I understand you don't like the way it happened.
00:14:10.660 Yeah, no, no, Rosemary, and this is why she's the worst, we understand the majority happened.
00:14:15.960 The problem is, why did the majority happen?
00:14:18.720 The majority didn't happen because a bunch of conservatives retired and the liberals flipped those seats in a by-election and now they have a majority.
00:14:25.500 They have a majority because five people crossed the floor.
00:14:29.040 The by-elections had nothing to do with the liberals securing a majority.
00:14:31.860 Those were liberal seats before.
00:14:33.400 They are liberal seats after.
00:14:35.040 Only one of them was an actual hard fight to keep the riding,
00:14:38.780 and that was because a court case had overturned the original result,
00:14:41.880 but the liberals still held on to it.
00:14:43.880 What are you talking about?
00:14:44.940 You're denying the majority happened.
00:14:47.500 He knows.
00:14:48.880 It happened.
00:14:49.740 It was unethical the way that it had happened.
00:14:52.640 Legal?
00:14:53.480 Sure.
00:14:53.740 There are some things that aren't illegal that are totally fine.
00:14:57.340 There are things that are not illegal that obviously it's not a good look.
00:15:01.220 Carney doesn't care that it's a bad look, that he basically just got petty self-interested people to cross the floor to give a majority.
00:15:07.820 And now he's going to shuffle all the committees to shut down investigations into himself.
00:15:12.580 That's a difference.
00:15:13.540 Oh, well, because the media always flips it around and makes it, oh, you guys are just in denial. 0.99
00:15:18.820 You're just sore losers. 0.97
00:15:19.980 They didn't lose anything. 1.00
00:15:21.340 They had people cross the floor for illegitimate reasons.
00:15:24.380 But we have to listen to that again.
00:15:25.640 That the majority has happened.
00:15:27.700 With respect, it does sound a little bit like you're in denial, that the majority has happened.
00:15:32.780 And I understand you don't like the way it's happened, but this is where we are right now.
00:15:38.320 It's a slim majority, so we'll see how long it lasts.
00:15:41.040 But so what others, I mean, you were Speaker of the House of Commons.
00:15:44.760 There are other things that you can do.
00:15:47.400 Stop complaining, Andrew Scheer.
00:15:49.460 You can do other things.
00:15:50.940 Why don't you be more cooperative with them?
00:15:52.980 You know they have a maturity, don't you?
00:15:55.160 They're allowed to do this.
00:15:56.460 I always hate that. 1.00
00:15:57.880 And she literally previously did this when other people started crossing the floor. 0.98
00:16:01.580 I think it was after the Matt Jenneru or the Lori Idlout crossing that Rosemary Barton 0.99
00:16:07.140 had made a snarky response to someone on Twitter who was saying about how the media should 0.71
00:16:11.400 probably actually call out how sleazy this whole thing looks.
00:16:14.560 And she just said, you know this is allowed, dude.
00:16:17.760 It was something along those lines.
00:16:19.020 I'm like, allowed and correct are two different things. Is it correct that people are just
00:16:26.380 crossing the floor for completely unprincipled reasons to further their own careers or to get
00:16:31.260 attention for themselves or to get more money? Is that okay? The media never investigates any of
00:16:36.540 that. They sometimes talk about it a little bit. I actually think Andrew Coyne the other day had
00:16:40.920 made a good point on it, which is like blew my mind because Andrew Coyne hasn't made a good point
00:16:44.920 years. And even he said, this is undermining democracy, because it looks like your votes
00:16:49.820 don't matter anymore. But like Rosemary Barton here, like, you think this is bad? Oh, it's just
00:16:56.460 because you don't have the majority. Oh, if the shoe was on the other foot, well, the shoe's never
00:17:01.280 been on the other foot before, because only liberals have been sleazy enough to get people 1.00
00:17:05.360 across the floor this way. So what's your point? That's such a lame thing to say. Well, if you're
00:17:11.300 acting in corrupt fashions, maybe you would like this. Well, they're not. So what do you say to
00:17:16.180 that, Rosie? To make sure you are able to have a check and balance on the government, are they're
00:17:20.520 not? Well, first of all, I would say no one's in denial. If anyone's in denial, it's the government
00:17:26.780 that is refusing to accept the results of the last general election. We understand that now there is
00:17:33.220 a majority of Liberals in the House of Commons, and that means that they will already have a whole
00:17:37.260 bunch of new power that comes with with that what we're saying is that let's
00:17:41.340 preserve that long-standing principle that that precedent that goes back
00:17:45.000 generations where the committee makeup in order to protect the the tools the
00:17:50.520 opposition has to hold the government to account let's make sure that that
00:17:54.020 reflects the will of the Canadian people at the last general election and I would
00:17:57.480 suggest that for Mark Carney to use precious house time you know at a time
00:18:01.580 when he's delivered Canadians the worst food inflation in the G7 the only
00:18:06.600 shrinking economy. I would just like to add on to this, even if you ask probably the average
00:18:10.700 liberal voter, not like hyper partisan liberals, but you know, someone who chose liberal last time
00:18:15.780 and it's not like a crazy elbows up voter. If you ask them, do you think it's right to be able to
00:18:20.720 limit the opposition's ability to investigate corruption right now? Do you think that Carney
00:18:25.460 should shuffle the ethics committee to give himself a majority so that Francois Philippe
00:18:30.280 Champagne does not have to testify about conflict of interest issues with the alto train? Do you
00:18:35.680 think that even the liberals would get a majority of their own voters on that? Or does that sound
00:18:41.140 a little bit too sleazy for even supporters of their own party to actually say, yeah, that's cool
00:18:46.560 to me? Obviously, they would not support that. Carney has to come up with excuses. Why doesn't
00:18:52.680 Carney just come up and say, I have majority, I'm allowed to? Because that looks sleazy. He has to
00:18:57.020 say, well, they're obstructing me. They're really not. In fact, your own party is obstructing the
00:19:02.160 committees at times so what's your point here he has no he doesn't care about obstruction he cares
00:19:06.980 about investigations make all the policy-based sure make all the policy-based committees liberal
00:19:12.560 majority even that's kind of sleazy at least don't touch the ethics committee how about nope he has
00:19:18.660 to touch that one too because um we had to get stuff done it has nothing to do with getting
00:19:23.760 stuff done it has to do with blocking investigations uh that doesn't matter doesn't matter and rosemary 0.99
00:19:28.380 Barton's going to cover for me. Thank you, Rosie. Take it away. Attack Andrew Scheer.
00:19:31.920 In the G7, we still haven't got a major project through his new major projects office. Still no
00:19:37.460 pipeline to the Pacific coast. Let's not waste precious house time giving the government more
00:19:44.200 power or making it easier for liberal politicians. Let's stay focused on making life more affordable
00:19:49.560 and making Canada stronger and more independent in the face of global threats. That's what we're
00:19:54.540 calling on the government to do i i'm gonna end on this yes this is you know the way mark carney
00:19:59.820 got this majority it could also be viewed as a comment on on your leader um i just 0.61
00:20:06.160 screw you what is this every single time the floor crossings get brought up without any evidence
00:20:15.320 they're like well you know this could also be viewed as a pure poly of being little adolf 0.99
00:20:20.740 Hitler. And actually, when you think about it, Cardi doing sleazy things is actually kind of
00:20:25.560 Paulio's fault because I have arbitrarily considered I think that he's responsible for 0.97
00:20:29.880 all the floor crossings and he's a bad, nasty man. It's like, what is that? What kind of coverage
00:20:34.660 is this majority? It could also be viewed as a comment on on your leader. I just wonder what
00:20:41.520 caucus was like. I know you can't tell me what happened in caucus. Yeah, let's get off the fact
00:20:45.080 that liberals haven't accomplished anything. Let's get off the fact that they don't want 0.98
00:20:49.320 any corruption being investigated let's get on to your leader how's caucus doing
00:20:54.460 Andrew like yes but this was the first caucus meeting since the majority um and and I wonder
00:21:00.460 whether there is an understanding inside the team uh that everyone needs to stay that no one else
00:21:07.700 should go and if you for instance as an influential uh just snide remarks constantly and by the way
00:21:14.520 I'm not even, I'm not ever unhappy about an interviewer being kind of a little testy at
00:21:20.020 times. Vashi Kapelovs, I don't always agree with her. She probably is a bit more liberal
00:21:24.640 on a personal level, but she knows how to jab at a conservative and jab at a liberal. 0.99
00:21:30.660 Likewise, she can do both the same way. She does a really good job in her interviews. I don't 0.99
00:21:35.700 always like her interviews, but overall, I think that she at least is attempting to not basically
00:21:41.980 be unfair to conservatives and, you know, again, hyper incredulous, whatever a conservative says
00:21:47.580 and hyper credulous at whatever a liberal says. Rosemary never, never entertains that there might
00:21:54.160 be something that conservatives are right on. It's just we ducking and weaving so that we never
00:21:58.120 actually maybe get to the point where we conclude, yeah, that was a bad thing that Mark Carney did.
00:22:02.080 We have somehow pivoted to PolyEvon caucus meetings and away from anything the liberals are
00:22:07.000 doing. Member of the team are reaching out to your colleagues to make sure that everyone is
00:22:11.700 satisfied with where things stand in the Conservative Party right now?
00:22:15.860 Well, it's part of a leader's role and something that Pierre has done
00:22:20.780 ever since he took the helm of our party, to constantly check in with MPs,
00:22:25.020 partially to get feedback, partially to hear what's going on in their own ridings,
00:22:30.820 to get advice, to get input.
00:22:33.040 So that work continues.
00:22:35.220 We have a very, we have a great relationship with caucus.
00:22:39.180 And what I heard this week, and you're right, I can't go into specific detail,
00:22:43.360 but I heard from a great group of people who looked voters in the eye in the last election
00:22:47.340 and said, elect us and we will fight to lower Liberal taxes,
00:22:51.200 to undo a decade's worth of bad policies that have driven up home prices,
00:22:55.420 made it so that young Canadians can't start their lives.
00:22:58.240 Elect us and we will go to work for you.
00:23:00.820 And everyone in that caucus room is aware of that solemn bond
00:23:05.220 that they created with their voters in the last election.
00:23:07.120 They were elected as Conservatives to fight for those Conservative principles.
00:23:11.340 And I know myself and the rest of the team, we take that bond with our voters extraordinarily seriously.
00:23:19.840 And we're going to stay focused on what they elected us to do.
00:23:22.420 Okay. Conservative House Leader in.
00:23:23.980 So what he is pointing to as well is the media doesn't actually follow up on the floor crossers. 0.97
00:23:31.980 Not that he was specifically calling her out for that, but just him talking about, 1.00
00:23:35.240 hey, all these people in the room were elected as conservatives and want to stay as conservatives
00:23:39.120 because that's the commitment they made to voters. Why is it that Rosemary Barton is even doing an 0.99
00:23:44.760 interview with Andrew Scheer? Not that she can't interview him, but my point is, why have we not
00:23:49.420 seen her do a interview with Chris Dontremont or Matt Jenneru or Michael Ma or Marilyn Gladjew
00:23:56.380 or Lori Edlout from the NDP and actually grilled them on what's your really, what's your specific
00:24:02.620 principled reason why you left. Point to specific things that you used to criticize them on that you
00:24:09.520 now think they're doing a good job on. What was wrong with liberal policies before and why are
00:24:15.020 you now totally okay with it? The media has no curiosity at all for why people left because the
00:24:20.840 curiosity would lead to a bad place for Mark Carney. If we actually heard that these people
00:24:25.220 had no way of justifying why they crossed, we might start asking questions about what were you
00:24:30.140 offered to cross. Why did you cross? Was it for principled reasons or for personal reasons?
00:24:35.460 Like Marilyn Gladju says that this is great for me personally upon her crossing the floor. No doubt
00:24:41.500 it's great for her personally. I don't care about personally. What principled reason are Canadians
00:24:48.340 going to get better service with now that you're a liberal and not a conservative? Just hammering
00:24:54.240 through liberal policies faster is not a reason. Saying Mark Carney is the man for the job.
00:25:00.140 He's a stable leader. He's a unifier. Means nothing. That literally means at least squat.
00:25:07.600 What are people getting? But Rosemary Barton and the CBC will never have a hard interview
00:25:12.380 with these people. There has been interviews with Chris D'Entremont, but it's always just
00:25:16.720 asking him questions, again, very credulously about, oh, why do you leave? What will you say
00:25:23.520 to the Conservative Party? And when they give vague non-answers that indicate that there probably
00:25:28.360 isn't a very well-developed reason for why they left there's never follow-up saying that doesn't
00:25:33.560 sorry this doesn't sound like a good reason to leave what do you not feel bad that you betrayed
00:25:38.120 your own constituents you got voted in to do this that and the other thing now you're doing the
00:25:41.960 opposite after previously criticizing for them for these things what changed no grilling at all
00:25:47.400 it's always and it always turns into what does this say about pure poly of the conservative
00:25:51.720 party wow it really says bad things about them that they have floor crossers even though the
00:25:56.280 polling shows most Canadians think the floor crossings are sleazy and wrong. But anyways,
00:26:03.000 can't help it. The media is never going to improve. I actually will be back probably later
00:26:07.220 with a video about another media interview on the far better power play show with Vashti Capellos,
00:26:13.860 where she pushes a liberal MP on what they've even attempted to accomplish or what they've
00:26:19.200 accomplished since taking office. And the MP Wayne Long, who's taking his own shots at Pierre
00:26:24.160 Pauliev, completely falls apart in this press conference or in this questioning by Vashti
00:26:30.740 Capellos because there's nothing they can point to they've accomplished, which makes you wonder
00:26:34.680 why are people crossing the floor to join a government that hasn't accomplished anything
00:26:39.220 in a year? Anyways, with that all being said, thank you guys for watching. Like, share, subscribe,
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