The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - New Liberal MP BLOWS IT in interview justifying crossing the floor!

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

00:00:06.180 I have to show you guys an absolutely abysmal interview I found the other day,

00:00:12.320 and to my knowledge, no other conservative YouTuber has covered.

00:00:16.300 It's with the recent NDP to liberal floor-crossing MP, Lori Idlaut,

00:00:22.040 who does an absolutely awful job trying to justify why she ended up crossing the floor. 1.00

00:00:27.960 And I want to explain why this matters this way. Imagine you are Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite how horrible that might be to imagine. You, in theory, want floor crossers, and you don't really care which party they come from because the liberals have this fake aura of being the centrist party, so if they're taking on MPs from the left or the right, it makes them look more unifying. 0.86

00:00:53.680 at least in the short term, floor crossers are good for you. It gets you a majority government 1.00

00:00:59.220 and gets the opposition a little bit more off your back. The problem is in the medium to long

00:01:05.760 term, if Canadians see these floor crossings as really self-serving for the MPs doing it,

00:01:11.360 and it makes your government look undemocratic and sleazy, this could actually hurt you in a

00:01:16.500 future election. It's actually hurt prime ministers and other parties in the past when people were

00:01:21.740 joining them, seemingly watering down the ideology of the party or just making it look like some sort

00:01:29.040 of like mafia shakedown or bribery scheme in order to get power. And so as Mark Carney, you want your

00:01:36.600 floor-crossing MPs to go on interview shows and be able to give at least a plausible reason as to why

00:01:43.620 they had to leave the party they were elected under and join his party instead less than a year since

00:01:50.080 the last federal election. The problem is, obviously, none of these people are leaving

00:01:55.980 for principled reasons at all. I think Michael Ma and Matt Jenneru have completely just avoided

00:02:02.260 trying to justify why they left. Jenneru gave some stupid reason that he really was inspired by 0.96

00:02:08.900 Mark Carney's Davos speech for the World Economic Forum, which is such nonsense because it was 0.97

00:02:14.260 basically just microwaved campaign rhetoric that Carney had been delivering for over a year at

00:02:19.660 that point, and it shouldn't have amazed anybody. And then we also had Chris Dontremont, the first

00:02:25.080 guy to cross in the conservatives, try to do an interview, and that didn't go so hot. But for some

00:02:29.220 reason, they are now trying again with Lori Idlout. And they went to the safest of safe outlets for

00:02:36.500 Lori Idlout to try and justify herself, that being the aboriginal TV network that is government 1.00

00:02:43.020 funded. APTN is effectively the CBC of First Nations media in this country, and somehow,

00:02:51.040 I don't know how, she bombs this interview. Not like, you know, by the end of it her hair is on

00:02:57.600 fire and she slips on a banana peel exactly, but she is given as much leeway as possible to try

00:03:05.160 and make this make sense. Put this square block into the round hole and she cannot do it. Probably

00:03:12.220 because it's just not really there's no principled reason for doing this she's not telling the truth

00:03:18.160 and so it makes the whole thing quite awkward and reaching but anyways I'm about to get into the

00:03:22.800 interview clip in just a second here but first I just want to remind you guys if you like the show

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00:03:53.420 further ado let's get into this aptn interview i'll let it kind of run a little bit at the start

00:03:58.800 here he's going to give a bit of a preamble and then laurie idlow's going to come out and then 0.79

00:04:03.360 we're going to kind of stop it as we go with her kind of excuses that she's giving for why she

00:04:08.900 crossed it's been quite the week in ottawa this after it broke late tuesday evening that nunavut

00:04:14.180 mp laurie idlow was crossing the floor from the ndp to the liberals the change gives the

00:04:18.580 carny government 170 seats just too shy of a majority there's been lots of speculation about

00:04:24.020 why i'd love decided to join the liberals when she did but we thought we would let her tell you

00:04:29.060 directly herself and she joins me now today welcome to a nation nation laurie

00:04:34.820 I know there's been a lot of media things that happen or speculation that but I guess

00:04:45.620 I know you've been a critical on the government on a number of issues particularly the new child

00:04:50.900 first initiative and I know another interview said you weren't promised a specific position

00:04:55.620 but what would you think I guess on being on the government side now that what can you what will

00:05:02.900 will you be able to get for the the people of Nunavut? I think I'll be able to have easier

00:05:11.040 access to the ministers to to make sure that the decisions that are that they are making

00:05:18.160 are having a more positive impact on Nunavut. What does that even mean? I cross the floor

00:05:29.020 because I get easier access to ministers that quite literally could justify Pierre Polly of

00:05:35.620 himself crossing the floor and joining the liberals or like Blanchet the Bloc Québécois

00:05:42.820 leader or Elizabeth May anyone could cross the floor the most right-wing member of the conservative

00:05:48.920 party could cross the floor to have easier access to the ministers like really oh to benefit none

00:05:54.980 of it how you've said that you think they're doing a bad job so you're now going to join the team

00:06:01.620 you think they're that are doing a bad job because you get easier access to the minister even though

00:06:08.180 in theory they still need your votes to pass stuff whether you're the NDP or the liberals and you

00:06:13.900 could still just demand more access to the minister as an NDP backbench opposition MP and say well

00:06:21.480 I'll vote for your stuff, but you have to be able to come to me and give me more information on

00:06:25.940 these files. This is such an obviously garbage excuse. Their being in opposition, we're not

00:06:33.420 privy to the same information and discussion that happens behind closed doors. And you heard that

00:06:42.460 in my advocacy, I was frustrated a lot because I didn't really have clear information as to how

00:06:49.320 decisions were being made and I'm very excited to be joining uh the governing liberal party

00:06:57.400 so that I could help make sure that decisions will be those that have a positive impact on

00:07:05.000 okay so um let's diagram that sentence here so the government uh while she was sitting as an 0.99

00:07:14.040 opposition MP for the NDP. She was not being allowed to have access to information from the

00:07:21.540 ministers. She was not being allowed to be part of backroom discussions or sort of like behind

00:07:27.620 the scenes discussions that were affecting her region. And so these people, by definition,

00:07:33.220 who will not play ball with her and give her information that is key to being able to represent

00:07:39.680 her region. She is now going to join these people that she has just described as basically blocking

00:07:46.100 her out from getting necessary information. Oh yeah, just join those people because apparently 0.99

00:07:51.160 everything's going to get better. It's almost like she's doing this because they dumped money 0.50

00:07:56.220 in her region. She's, by the way, extremely corrupt. Back after the COVID pandemic started, 0.99

00:08:03.800 In 2021, she was one of these MPs who ended up having a private firm of hers get a half a million dollar contract from the federal government for some sort of response to COVID-19.

00:08:17.620 Yeah, I'm assuming, yeah, this is clearly principled.

00:08:21.900 Back in the day, she would take $500,000 to do something that she was not qualified to do because she happened to have a fakie firm to take the money in. 0.91

00:08:30.420 You know, back then she was doing unprincipled, corrupt things, but now she's crossing the floor for purely principled reasons. 1.00

00:08:37.760 The principled reason being I can talk to ministers more.

00:08:41.260 Yeah, there's a number of issues that you've been asked about, and from my understanding of reading other media, you've been thinking about it for a long time.

00:08:48.160 But I guess what made you make this decision at this time?

00:08:52.480 And is there anything the NDP could have done really there in a weakened kind of state with not having officials to keep you, I guess?

00:08:59.280 there were this guy's like falling asleep in this in this like interview i guess he's trying

00:09:06.240 to match her energy in some way definitely a lot of factors uh the biggest one though is for me

00:09:13.340 just the sheer number of people that of my my constituents uh that had been asking me to cross

00:09:21.480 the floor since after the election results and it was starting to just feel like i was

00:09:29.000 betraying the wrong people uh i thought betraying the wrong people so she's gonna betray somebody 1.00

00:09:37.720 but she felt like but previously she was betraying the wrong set of people and now she's gonna betray

00:09:43.800 the right set of people like how can you even say like oh my goodness i was betraying people

00:09:49.080 by not switching to a different party designation that i did not get elected under

00:09:56.040 did they not try and script this a little bit before she went on the interview they couldn't

00:10:01.080 give her better than this i can get better access to to the ministers and i felt like i was betraying

00:10:07.480 the wrong set of people like i was betraying my constituents by ignoring them uh and uh not

00:10:16.040 listening to what they were telling me as really good guidance. So many suggested that if I joined

00:10:26.200 the Liberals that maybe I'll have easier time with my voice being heard. In this current situation

00:10:35.560 with the NDP not having status with the huge number of MPs that we lost in the last election,

00:10:42.520 it's been such a great challenge uh to be heard at the house of commons what it means means it's like

00:10:49.640 it's a challenge i always hear these from this from politicians oh my goodness i try and speak

00:10:54.920 up about issues but they're not listening to me i can't get my voice heard i guarantee you

00:11:00.520 laurie idlout on a normal day in parliament does diddly nothing she probably has never 1.00

00:11:06.200 made any videos just out front of parliament trying to raise awareness about an issue

00:11:10.200 she probably doesn't go back to her constituents and visit certain towns and talks to people and 1.00

00:11:15.400 puts out videos about what she had heard or writes articles and submits them to local media and 0.98

00:11:20.680 national media i doubt she's done any of it it's almost like she's a lazy butt who wants to join 1.00

00:11:26.840 a party that is going to just let her sit there doing nothing other than reading a pre-scripted 0.97

00:11:32.120 question to a minister as a softball underhanded throw so they can knock it out of the park and say

00:11:38.040 oh yeah absolutely we love and care about northern regions lori we really love them and mark carney

00:11:43.960 is going to visit up to caliwood again and sign a meaningless document don't worry we're looking

00:11:49.320 out for the people of none of it we dumped a billion dollars in for some random a nondescript

00:11:56.440 infrastructure projects ergo we're doing a good job for none of it it's so transparently fake

00:12:04.840 all of these reasons uh and i think that uh i'm well i'm hoping that i will start seeing

00:12:11.400 immediate impacts uh as to how uh decisions can be influenced based on me being able to

00:12:19.480 give my guidance advocacy and really always ultimately uh amplifying the voices of nunabo

00:12:26.760 mute so that we can have as an uh as as a government not just uh in positive impacts

00:12:34.280 to nunaboo but canada and abroad as well now i'm i'm gonna jump ahead and i also have a highlight

00:12:41.160 about laurie idlot coming over from the perspective of mark carney's liberals or the canadian people

00:12:47.880 looking at the mark carney liberals she is an anti-pipeline pro first nations veto

00:12:54.440 NDP MP, and they took her in. Is this not just the Liberals admitting they are not going to build a

00:13:01.080 pipeline? Because they are willing to take in people who are explicitly anti-pipeline. Either

00:13:06.420 they are obviously anti-pipeline and they've been completely fibbing about wanting to build one,

00:13:11.300 or Lori Idlout is fibbing about all the beliefs she ran on under the NDP banner in two elections.

00:13:19.080 She was elected twice. I'm pretty sure she's probably a true believer if you're running for

00:13:23.900 the NDP. My goodness. But the thing is, like, if you're the Liberals, how are you going to justify

00:13:30.700 bringing in people who have these views? Apparently, we're just going to sweep it all

00:13:35.180 under the rug like Dolly Begum's obvious pro-terror, or at least soft on terror stances, 0.99

00:13:40.780 the lady that the Liberals are running in the Scarborough South by-election. She's a sitting

00:13:46.680 NDP MPP in Ontario, has made multiple condemnations of Israel in the United States and the Middle

00:13:53.100 and has never made one against a terror organization yeah let's run her right now while 1.00

00:13:58.740 synagogues are being shot up let's just not even bother talking about the elephant in the room with 1.00

00:14:03.500 her same way same's going with uh lori idlout let's not ask her about any resource issues 0.99

00:14:09.160 because that could go badly assume that part of the and and i'm not surprised that people

00:14:15.200 you know were lobbying and i assume that that played a lot into your i mean constituents into

00:14:20.700 your decision now. What do you mean you're not surprised? Why is this guy even throwing in his

00:14:25.880 opinion? Why are you saying anything? Oh, I'm not surprised. Why are you not surprised? You live in

00:14:32.440 Ottawa. You're not surprised. Stop giving your opinion. You're in the interviewer. Has she

00:14:38.040 given any evidence of the people telling her she should cross the floor? And are they people who

00:14:43.080 aren't just liberal politicians like the current premier of Nunavut? I know that's all nonpartisan,

00:14:48.600 But he's obviously a liberal.

00:14:50.680 And I'm assuming it's a lot about this sort of perhaps window of opportunity that's opened up with Arctic sovereignty, with the times we're in and leading to investments in the north and Nunavut.

00:15:02.840 I guess so, though, that I guess the you know, this has been around before and the sort of the the infrastructure part hasn't always come or the investment in these things.

00:15:12.920 And that's what they're pushing for, I assume.

00:15:15.500 How do you ensure that that happens, I guess, because the needs are so great and it's not going to take just a few hundred, you know, a few hundred, even a hundred million dollars.

00:15:24.740 There's big things. So how do you, what's different this time and how does that become a reality, I guess?

00:15:30.520 Well, I really appreciate the context that the liberal government has been taking in making sure that the broader mindset is there, given the threats, for example, given by the president of the United States.

00:15:52.940 Let's just admit she has no clue what she's talking about on foreign policy.

00:15:56.260 even just today mark carney said the biggest threat to arctic sovereignty is russia she's

00:16:03.280 not mentioning russia she's not mentioning china she is mentioning the united states i am sorry

00:16:09.580 the greenland joke is not an actual threat well you could tell she has no clue what she's talking

00:16:15.860 about when she starts talking about the context of the mindset and yes there is a threat from

00:16:20.120 the president of the United States? No, there isn't. Our current political environment is

00:16:26.160 so different now than when we were first in parliament. And the risks that exist, I think

00:16:35.600 that it's so important that when it comes to Arctic sovereignty and Arctic security,

00:16:40.920 investing in people, I will have a direct working relationship with ministers. I will have a voice

00:16:49.900 in whatever committee I might end up in.

00:16:53.160 Oh my goodness.

00:16:54.060 She doesn't even know what committee she's going to be in.

00:16:56.740 None of this is planned.

00:16:58.520 You think they're actually going to give her a good committee position? 0.95

00:17:01.260 She's going to have any foreign policy strings to pull to defend the North? 1.00

00:17:06.440 No.

00:17:07.240 Well, here's another clip from the CBC show that Rosemary Barton hosts.

00:17:14.120 What's it called? 0.99

00:17:14.960 Who gives a crap? 0.99

00:17:15.880 They were talking about, well, you know, 0.99

00:17:17.480 people really just want to be on the winning team here.

00:17:19.900 Why it's happening? I think Canadians are still in the mood that they were in a year ago when they picked the government, i.e. they're still doing the job interview thing.

00:17:32.520 Who do we want to handle Donald Trump and this kind of troubled situation?

00:17:38.280 That is difficult for the Bloc Québécois, even more difficult for the NDP that does not

00:17:45.920 have a leader and difficult, obviously, for Pierre Poiliev.

00:17:51.300 So if you're going to try to be on some side of this fight and have some impact, you're

00:17:57.480 probably going to pick the Liberals because the polls, the appreciation of both leaders

00:18:02.540 tell you that this is where you want to be.

00:18:06.320 I'm guessing that's part of the mix. How is it also that Chantal Hubert's English has gotten

00:18:13.620 worse over time? I feel like every time I talk, she talks, her accent gets heavier. But how does

00:18:21.380 this apply to Laurie Idlout? Because remember, that segment was about Laurie Idlout. Do we really

00:18:28.340 believe Laurie Idlout is actually looking at who's going to have a better chance of fighting back 0.98

00:18:34.480 against trump and that's determining where she's gonna go all those are just crap excuses oh 0.86

00:18:40.620 canadians are still in the job interview part of like you know they're still in the job interview 0.93

00:18:46.360 phase with this government that's just a that's just a very long-winded way of saying it's all

00:18:53.240 it's totally democratic if mps just jump around because their constituents are still doing the

00:18:57.740 job interview with the government so if every mp just joins the liberals don't worry that doesn't

00:19:02.540 that doesn't just fly in the face of the votes that doesn't do that at all don't worry there's

00:19:08.280 this kind of passive interchange going on between canadians and carney they're just like tell they're

00:19:14.040 telepathically communicating right now carney is doing things and canadians are subtly without

00:19:20.200 saying anything telling their mps to cross the floor which makes it democratic because well they

00:19:26.600 didn't say to do it but job interview oh the job interview is going on right now and so if an NDP

00:19:33.900 or a conservative MP crosses the floor that's just part of the job interview of it all like

00:19:37.880 oh my goodness no it's anti-democratic and they will come back and retort that it's allowed

00:19:44.940 okay it's allowed there are many things allowed they're not very democratic that tend to be

00:19:51.280 unethical, I would say, that tend to undermine trust in the system. And this is the problem for

00:19:57.560 the carny liberals. This is all so transparently wrong. I think Lori Idlout could actually get

00:20:03.500 taken out by another NDP MP candidate in Nunavut next time from people being ticked at her,

00:20:09.180 because this is really shallow and probably is just her trying to increase her profile 1.00

00:20:14.240 in federal politics or make her job easier. So she doesn't actually have to do the tough job

00:20:19.560 of being in opposition, which tends to be harder than just being some random backbench MP

00:20:24.280 in a majority government. You basically show up, you vote for things, you just vote yes on

00:20:29.080 everything the government does, and then you go home. That's what Laurie Idlow wanted. That is

00:20:33.980 pretty much what all the conservative floor crossers wanted. They wanted more money, more 0.97

00:20:38.660 status, or an easier job to do, and that's what they got. But Carney might end fighting off more

00:20:44.920 than he can chew with all those, with a lot of Canadians seeing his government as more of a

00:20:49.400 sleazy corporate entity than some sort of grassroots party for the people anyways but

00:20:55.900 with all that being said thank you guys for suffering through that horrible apt interview

00:20:59.980 with me if you like the channel again make sure to leave a like on the video subscribe if you're

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00:21:09.760 make sure to leave a comment on what you thought about that and if you think the floor crossings

00:21:14.260 are going to hurt carny or a lot of canadians are just not really going to pay that much attention

00:21:18.700 to it. Anyways, with that being said, thank you guys for watching, and I'll see you all next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 16, 2026

New Liberal MP BLOWS IT in interview justifying crossing the floor!

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