00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.180I have to show you guys an absolutely abysmal interview I found the other day,
00:00:12.320and to my knowledge, no other conservative YouTuber has covered.
00:00:16.300It's with the recent NDP to liberal floor-crossing MP, Lori Idlaut,
00:00:22.040who does an absolutely awful job trying to justify why she ended up crossing the floor.
00:00:27.960And 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.
00:00:53.680at least in the short term, floor crossers are good for you. It gets you a majority government
00:00:59.220and gets the opposition a little bit more off your back. The problem is in the medium to long
00:01:05.760term, if Canadians see these floor crossings as really self-serving for the MPs doing it,
00:01:11.360and it makes your government look undemocratic and sleazy, this could actually hurt you in a
00:01:16.500future election. It's actually hurt prime ministers and other parties in the past when people were
00:01:21.740joining them, seemingly watering down the ideology of the party or just making it look like some sort
00:01:29.040of like mafia shakedown or bribery scheme in order to get power. And so as Mark Carney, you want your
00:01:36.600floor-crossing MPs to go on interview shows and be able to give at least a plausible reason as to why
00:01:43.620they had to leave the party they were elected under and join his party instead less than a year since
00:01:50.080the last federal election. The problem is, obviously, none of these people are leaving
00:01:55.980for principled reasons at all. I think Michael Ma and Matt Jenneru have completely just avoided
00:02:02.260trying to justify why they left. Jenneru gave some stupid reason that he really was inspired by
00:02:08.900Mark Carney's Davos speech for the World Economic Forum, which is such nonsense because it was
00:02:14.260basically just microwaved campaign rhetoric that Carney had been delivering for over a year at
00:02:19.660that point, and it shouldn't have amazed anybody. And then we also had Chris Dontremont, the first
00:02:25.080guy to cross in the conservatives, try to do an interview, and that didn't go so hot. But for some
00:02:29.220reason, they are now trying again with Lori Idlout. And they went to the safest of safe outlets for
00:02:36.500Lori Idlout to try and justify herself, that being the aboriginal TV network that is government
00:02:43.020funded. APTN is effectively the CBC of First Nations media in this country, and somehow,
00:02:51.040I don't know how, she bombs this interview. Not like, you know, by the end of it her hair is on
00:02:57.600fire and she slips on a banana peel exactly, but she is given as much leeway as possible to try
00:03:05.160and make this make sense. Put this square block into the round hole and she cannot do it. Probably
00:03:12.220because it's just not really there's no principled reason for doing this she's not telling the truth
00:03:18.160and so it makes the whole thing quite awkward and reaching but anyways I'm about to get into the
00:03:22.800interview clip in just a second here but first I just want to remind you guys if you like the show
00:03:27.660make sure to leave a like on this video subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber hit the notification
00:03:32.940bell too if you want to always be informed right after I make a new video leave a comment about
00:03:37.400what you think about all this and if you want to help financially support the show it would be
00:03:41.740very very much uh appreciated if you hit the join button below the video and made a small
00:03:46.960monthly contribution so i can be less reliant on the very fickle youtube algorithm but without
00:03:53.420further ado let's get into this aptn interview i'll let it kind of run a little bit at the start
00:03:58.800here he's going to give a bit of a preamble and then laurie idlow's going to come out and then
00:04:03.360we're going to kind of stop it as we go with her kind of excuses that she's giving for why she
00:04:08.900crossed it's been quite the week in ottawa this after it broke late tuesday evening that nunavut
00:04:14.180mp laurie idlow was crossing the floor from the ndp to the liberals the change gives the
00:04:18.580carny government 170 seats just too shy of a majority there's been lots of speculation about
00:04:24.020why i'd love decided to join the liberals when she did but we thought we would let her tell you
00:04:29.060directly herself and she joins me now today welcome to a nation nation laurie
00:04:34.820I know there's been a lot of media things that happen or speculation that but I guess
00:04:45.620I know you've been a critical on the government on a number of issues particularly the new child
00:04:50.900first initiative and I know another interview said you weren't promised a specific position
00:04:55.620but what would you think I guess on being on the government side now that what can you what will
00:05:02.900will you be able to get for the the people of Nunavut? I think I'll be able to have easier
00:05:11.040access to the ministers to to make sure that the decisions that are that they are making
00:05:18.160are having a more positive impact on Nunavut. What does that even mean? I cross the floor
00:05:29.020because I get easier access to ministers that quite literally could justify Pierre Polly of
00:05:42.820leader or Elizabeth May anyone could cross the floor the most right-wing member of the conservative
00:05:48.920party could cross the floor to have easier access to the ministers like really oh to benefit none
00:05:54.980of it how you've said that you think they're doing a bad job so you're now going to join the team
00:06:01.620you think they're that are doing a bad job because you get easier access to the minister even though
00:06:08.180in theory they still need your votes to pass stuff whether you're the NDP or the liberals and you
00:06:13.900could still just demand more access to the minister as an NDP backbench opposition MP and say well
00:06:21.480I'll vote for your stuff, but you have to be able to come to me and give me more information on
00:06:25.940these files. This is such an obviously garbage excuse. Their being in opposition, we're not
00:06:33.420privy to the same information and discussion that happens behind closed doors. And you heard that
00:06:42.460in my advocacy, I was frustrated a lot because I didn't really have clear information as to how
00:06:49.320decisions were being made and I'm very excited to be joining uh the governing liberal party
00:06:57.400so that I could help make sure that decisions will be those that have a positive impact on
00:07:05.000okay so um let's diagram that sentence here so the government uh while she was sitting as an
00:07:14.040opposition MP for the NDP. She was not being allowed to have access to information from the
00:07:21.540ministers. She was not being allowed to be part of backroom discussions or sort of like behind
00:07:27.620the scenes discussions that were affecting her region. And so these people, by definition,
00:07:33.220who will not play ball with her and give her information that is key to being able to represent
00:07:39.680her region. She is now going to join these people that she has just described as basically blocking
00:07:46.100her out from getting necessary information. Oh yeah, just join those people because apparently
00:07:51.160everything's going to get better. It's almost like she's doing this because they dumped money
00:07:56.220in her region. She's, by the way, extremely corrupt. Back after the COVID pandemic started,
00:08:03.800In 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.
00:08:17.620Yeah, I'm assuming, yeah, this is clearly principled.
00:08:21.900Back 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.
00:08:30.420You know, back then she was doing unprincipled, corrupt things, but now she's crossing the floor for purely principled reasons.
00:08:37.760The principled reason being I can talk to ministers more.
00:08:41.260Yeah, 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.
00:08:48.160But I guess what made you make this decision at this time?
00:08:52.480And 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?
00:08:59.280there were this guy's like falling asleep in this in this like interview i guess he's trying
00:09:06.240to match her energy in some way definitely a lot of factors uh the biggest one though is for me
00:09:13.340just the sheer number of people that of my my constituents uh that had been asking me to cross
00:09:21.480the floor since after the election results and it was starting to just feel like i was
00:09:29.000betraying the wrong people uh i thought betraying the wrong people so she's gonna betray somebody
00:09:37.720but she felt like but previously she was betraying the wrong set of people and now she's gonna betray
00:09:43.800the right set of people like how can you even say like oh my goodness i was betraying people
00:09:49.080by not switching to a different party designation that i did not get elected under
00:09:56.040did they not try and script this a little bit before she went on the interview they couldn't
00:10:01.080give her better than this i can get better access to to the ministers and i felt like i was betraying
00:10:07.480the wrong set of people like i was betraying my constituents by ignoring them uh and uh not
00:10:16.040listening to what they were telling me as really good guidance. So many suggested that if I joined
00:10:26.200the Liberals that maybe I'll have easier time with my voice being heard. In this current situation
00:10:35.560with the NDP not having status with the huge number of MPs that we lost in the last election,
00:10:42.520it's been such a great challenge uh to be heard at the house of commons what it means means it's like
00:10:49.640it's a challenge i always hear these from this from politicians oh my goodness i try and speak
00:10:54.920up about issues but they're not listening to me i can't get my voice heard i guarantee you
00:11:00.520laurie idlout on a normal day in parliament does diddly nothing she probably has never
00:11:06.200made any videos just out front of parliament trying to raise awareness about an issue
00:11:10.200she probably doesn't go back to her constituents and visit certain towns and talks to people and
00:11:15.400puts out videos about what she had heard or writes articles and submits them to local media and
00:11:20.680national media i doubt she's done any of it it's almost like she's a lazy butt who wants to join
00:11:26.840a party that is going to just let her sit there doing nothing other than reading a pre-scripted
00:11:32.120question to a minister as a softball underhanded throw so they can knock it out of the park and say
00:11:38.040oh yeah absolutely we love and care about northern regions lori we really love them and mark carney
00:11:43.960is going to visit up to caliwood again and sign a meaningless document don't worry we're looking
00:11:49.320out for the people of none of it we dumped a billion dollars in for some random a nondescript
00:11:56.440infrastructure projects ergo we're doing a good job for none of it it's so transparently fake
00:12:04.840all of these reasons uh and i think that uh i'm well i'm hoping that i will start seeing
00:12:11.400immediate impacts uh as to how uh decisions can be influenced based on me being able to
00:12:19.480give my guidance advocacy and really always ultimately uh amplifying the voices of nunabo
00:12:26.760mute so that we can have as an uh as as a government not just uh in positive impacts
00:12:34.280to nunaboo but canada and abroad as well now i'm i'm gonna jump ahead and i also have a highlight
00:12:41.160about laurie idlot coming over from the perspective of mark carney's liberals or the canadian people
00:12:47.880looking at the mark carney liberals she is an anti-pipeline pro first nations veto
00:12:54.440NDP MP, and they took her in. Is this not just the Liberals admitting they are not going to build a
00:13:01.080pipeline? Because they are willing to take in people who are explicitly anti-pipeline. Either
00:13:06.420they are obviously anti-pipeline and they've been completely fibbing about wanting to build one,
00:13:11.300or Lori Idlout is fibbing about all the beliefs she ran on under the NDP banner in two elections.
00:13:19.080She was elected twice. I'm pretty sure she's probably a true believer if you're running for
00:13:23.900the NDP. My goodness. But the thing is, like, if you're the Liberals, how are you going to justify
00:13:30.700bringing in people who have these views? Apparently, we're just going to sweep it all
00:13:35.180under the rug like Dolly Begum's obvious pro-terror, or at least soft on terror stances,
00:13:40.780the lady that the Liberals are running in the Scarborough South by-election. She's a sitting
00:13:46.680NDP MPP in Ontario, has made multiple condemnations of Israel in the United States and the Middle
00:13:53.100and has never made one against a terror organization yeah let's run her right now while
00:13:58.740synagogues are being shot up let's just not even bother talking about the elephant in the room with
00:14:03.500her same way same's going with uh lori idlout let's not ask her about any resource issues
00:14:09.160because that could go badly assume that part of the and and i'm not surprised that people
00:14:15.200you know were lobbying and i assume that that played a lot into your i mean constituents into
00:14:20.700your decision now. What do you mean you're not surprised? Why is this guy even throwing in his
00:14:25.880opinion? Why are you saying anything? Oh, I'm not surprised. Why are you not surprised? You live in
00:14:32.440Ottawa. You're not surprised. Stop giving your opinion. You're in the interviewer. Has she
00:14:38.040given any evidence of the people telling her she should cross the floor? And are they people who
00:14:43.080aren't just liberal politicians like the current premier of Nunavut? I know that's all nonpartisan,
00:14:50.680And 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.
00:15:02.840I 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.
00:15:12.920And that's what they're pushing for, I assume.
00:15:15.500How 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.
00:15:24.740There's big things. So how do you, what's different this time and how does that become a reality, I guess?
00:15:30.520Well, 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.
00:15:52.940Let's just admit she has no clue what she's talking about on foreign policy.
00:15:56.260even just today mark carney said the biggest threat to arctic sovereignty is russia she's
00:16:03.280not mentioning russia she's not mentioning china she is mentioning the united states i am sorry
00:16:09.580the greenland joke is not an actual threat well you could tell she has no clue what she's talking
00:16:15.860about when she starts talking about the context of the mindset and yes there is a threat from
00:16:20.120the president of the United States? No, there isn't. Our current political environment is
00:16:26.160so different now than when we were first in parliament. And the risks that exist, I think
00:16:35.600that it's so important that when it comes to Arctic sovereignty and Arctic security,
00:16:40.920investing in people, I will have a direct working relationship with ministers. I will have a voice
00:16:49.900in whatever committee I might end up in.
00:17:15.880They were talking about, well, you know,
00:17:17.480people really just want to be on the winning team here.
00:17:19.900Why 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.
00:17:32.520Who do we want to handle Donald Trump and this kind of troubled situation?