The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 03, 2025


Pierre gets a seat! Jagmeet Singh put to shame by Damien Kurek


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Wyatt Claypool reacts to the news that a sitting Conservative MP is stepping down to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada in a by-election, and why it's a good thing it's not a safe Conservative seat.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.
00:00:02.780 We're finally going to be able to get this leader seat debacle behind us
00:00:06.680 because Pierre Polyev, the leader of the Conservative Party,
00:00:09.640 has a sitting Conservative MP resigning his seat
00:00:13.000 so that Polyev can run for it in a by-election
00:00:15.280 and represent the Conservative Party as the leader in the House.
00:00:19.880 This all should be blamed originally on CPC HQ.
00:00:24.100 The fact that Polyev lost Carlton is not necessarily his fault.
00:00:28.080 He is not in the business of winning his own riding when he is the leader.
00:00:32.500 He is trying to win the national election.
00:00:35.340 And Carlton had its boundaries changed
00:00:37.480 that actually incorporated a very deep red area in it.
00:00:41.360 And while Polyev is probably aware of that,
00:00:44.100 the thing is it's the CPC HQ who should be dealing with it,
00:00:48.520 either pre-canvassing that area heavily,
00:00:51.200 trying to mine out some more Conservative voters in the riding
00:00:53.900 so they're confident that he can win,
00:00:55.460 or if it looks too precarious,
00:00:57.900 just move him to a different riding before the election.
00:01:00.500 That's totally okay.
00:01:02.160 It was always a vulnerable seat
00:01:04.360 where Polyev would win it by anywhere from 7 to 10 points every election
00:01:08.980 and he had to work hard to do it.
00:01:10.920 And they just assumed, I guess, that because he was leader,
00:01:13.540 he was going to win the seat.
00:01:15.440 CPC HQ has done many disservices to Polyev
00:01:18.380 and I think him losing his own seat
00:01:20.320 is the biggest disservice they've done to him so far.
00:01:23.240 But the good thing now is we have Damian Couric,
00:01:28.060 Conservative MP for Battle River Crowfoot,
00:01:30.640 stepping down for Polyev.
00:01:32.540 Damian himself is actually only 35 years old,
00:01:35.820 but as he says in the statement,
00:01:37.620 he's not going away for very long.
00:01:39.720 He plans on running again as a Conservative candidate
00:01:42.560 in Battle River Crowfoot
00:01:43.900 when presumably your Polyev will have a new seat somewhere else
00:01:48.340 because Battle River Crowfoot would be sort of a hard place to move.
00:01:51.940 I think Polyev probably ends up owning a rental house in the area
00:01:55.340 and mostly just staying at Stornoway,
00:01:57.640 the opposition leader's resident in Ottawa,
00:02:00.900 which is totally okay.
00:02:02.120 He just needs a seat.
00:02:03.100 Nobody's offended by this.
00:02:04.600 And he is easily going to be able to win it in a by-election
00:02:07.280 as this is the riding, I believe,
00:02:09.660 that had the highest Conservative vote margin in the entire country.
00:02:13.820 Damian Couric, because he's an absolute rock star Conservative,
00:02:16.400 took this rural riding that he actually won with around 71 or so,
00:02:22.140 69% of the vote back in 2021,
00:02:25.020 and now he won it with 81.8% of the vote.
00:02:28.920 Damian Couric is a fantastic MP,
00:02:31.040 and I'm happy that he's not going away for very long,
00:02:33.940 and I even heard that it actually kind of works out for him
00:02:36.360 that allows him to operate the family farm for a few years
00:02:40.520 because they need just help managing it,
00:02:42.780 and then he can come back later when all that's taken care of.
00:02:45.820 So this was a really good way of putting a very easy bow on a bad situation
00:02:51.300 so that we can get back to operating as normal
00:02:54.700 as the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:02:57.120 Of course, Polyev released a good statement
00:02:59.520 thanking Mr. Couric for stepping down for him.
00:03:02.620 It's all been very good that way.
00:03:04.400 The thing I find annoying,
00:03:05.640 and I'm going to get to the Jagmeet Singh angle of this in just a bit,
00:03:08.480 I find it so obnoxious where people are pretending
00:03:11.520 that Polyev threw a ridiculously safe Conservative seat.
00:03:15.420 Now he needs an even safer one.
00:03:17.260 Carlton was not a safe Conservative seat.
00:03:19.720 Carlton was a swing riding.
00:03:22.300 It's always been a swing riding,
00:03:23.940 and over time, the amount of government employees
00:03:27.280 who live in the riding because of the mass hiring of the Liberal government
00:03:31.120 has increased dramatically,
00:03:32.720 making it more and more difficult to win.
00:03:34.980 It's mesmerizing that Polyev won it with 20,
00:03:37.760 with 50% of the vote back in 2021
00:03:40.600 with competing against a PPC candidate as well
00:03:43.700 because, goodness, that is a riding that can easily swing Liberal
00:03:47.660 if you do not have an attentive MP.
00:03:49.680 Again, this is on CPC HQ.
00:03:51.820 They should have moved him,
00:03:52.640 or they should have been putting resources into that area
00:03:54.740 a year and a half early.
00:03:57.220 He should have been making sure that he hit every single door
00:03:59.800 in that riding before the national election started
00:04:02.460 so people didn't feel like he was taking it for granted.
00:04:04.540 Again, that's probably just good reason to move,
00:04:07.160 so you don't have to invest all of that crazy amount of work in it.
00:04:11.220 Anyways, though.
00:04:12.720 But you have people posting stuff like this.
00:04:14.360 Roddy, who is a, oddly enough, a Liberal influencer account,
00:04:18.820 he says,
00:04:19.300 I pushed an elected Member of Parliament out of their seat
00:04:22.000 because I needed a second chance at mine.
00:04:25.440 Okay?
00:04:26.200 I don't even get the logic here.
00:04:27.660 And people have been responding to stuff like this,
00:04:30.220 pointing out, Mario Zalaya here,
00:04:32.520 points out,
00:04:32.920 but the Liberals did it,
00:04:34.180 not once but twice for Chandra,
00:04:36.340 first to ensure Carney won the leadership race,
00:04:38.620 and then to take Chandra's seat in Nepean.
00:04:41.000 The hypocrisy is hilarious.
00:04:43.280 Absolutely.
00:04:44.820 Mark Carney could have run in many other ridings,
00:04:47.880 but he chose to remove Chandra Aria from the riding of Nepean,
00:04:52.340 a riding that Chandra Aria had held since 2015,
00:04:56.080 and Chandra just happened to be the one guy
00:04:58.840 that the party also kicked out of the leadership
00:05:01.680 who was also a sitting MP.
00:05:03.840 They got rid of Chandra
00:05:04.820 because he was actually running seriously for the leadership,
00:05:07.700 actually selling memberships.
00:05:09.740 And so they're like,
00:05:10.740 we can't have that.
00:05:11.880 You can't challenge the king.
00:05:13.540 And so they got rid of Chandra
00:05:14.780 so that it was a very easy race for Mark Carney to win.
00:05:18.660 Everyone else that was still in the race
00:05:20.140 was basically letting Mark Carney win.
00:05:22.080 None of them ever attacked him.
00:05:23.300 None of them ever actually rolled out
00:05:24.900 any interesting policy.
00:05:26.260 It was terrible.
00:05:27.560 I think that Karina Gould has the most interesting policy,
00:05:30.620 but that was because she was running 0.99
00:05:31.500 on like universal basic income
00:05:33.100 and proportional representation.
00:05:34.720 She was running as like the token progressive,
00:05:36.740 but again, never actually criticized Mark Carney
00:05:39.080 in the French debate, English debate,
00:05:40.520 or on social media at any time
00:05:42.520 because she was meant to lose.
00:05:45.600 But now something I also want to get to,
00:05:48.600 or actually I do want to get to this last person
00:05:50.820 trying to take a shot at Oliev,
00:05:52.380 this guy, Mike Gerald Gibbs here says,
00:05:55.920 pathetic.
00:05:56.900 Pierre picked the seat
00:05:57.780 with the highest CPC vote tally in Canada,
00:05:59.940 over 80% in Alberta,
00:06:01.720 a rural seat he has probably never visited.
00:06:04.340 Actually, he probably has visited it.
00:06:06.320 He's been in politics for over 20 years.
00:06:08.040 There is not a chance that he hasn't visited
00:06:09.860 somewhere like Drumheller or Brooks.
00:06:12.260 And he says he picked it
00:06:13.680 because he doesn't want to work for their votes.
00:06:15.860 He's insulting every single voter in that riding.
00:06:19.000 No, he's not.
00:06:19.700 In fact, he's probably going to get 80% of the vote
00:06:22.280 just like Damian Couric did
00:06:23.520 because this riding likes conservatives.
00:06:26.620 There's just no other way to put it.
00:06:28.360 And again,
00:06:29.440 Oliev had worked very hard since 2004
00:06:31.440 to hold on to an extremely difficult riding.
00:06:34.220 That riding was not guaranteed.
00:06:35.900 It was a reason why, as a 24-year-old,
00:06:38.260 he was allowed to run in Carleton
00:06:40.080 because a lot of other people in 2004 didn't want it.
00:06:43.340 And then we have, again, here,
00:06:45.280 Mbrant75 pointing out,
00:06:46.820 yeah, you should have just removed him like this instead
00:06:49.600 because Chandra Haria, again,
00:06:51.920 as it was pointed out,
00:06:53.300 was kicked out of Nepean
00:06:54.800 so that Mark Carney could run for that easy riding.
00:06:58.360 Anyways.
00:06:59.480 So I do want to move on to one other angle of the story
00:07:02.940 before finishing up this video.
00:07:04.200 I'm not going to make it very long.
00:07:05.680 And that is Jagmeet Singh.
00:07:08.180 You might not think that this story
00:07:09.940 has anything to do with Jagmeet Singh,
00:07:11.980 but do you know who doesn't actually qualify
00:07:15.340 for their pension right now,
00:07:16.640 who's six months away from qualifying for their pension?
00:07:19.440 Damian Couric.
00:07:20.680 The man decided to step down
00:07:22.380 so that Pierre Paliyev could have the riding
00:07:25.760 despite the fact the man does not have his pension yet.
00:07:29.360 Yeah, he's 35 years old,
00:07:30.840 he could get back into office,
00:07:31.900 and he is doing that,
00:07:33.500 but Jagmeet Singh,
00:07:35.600 for the good of not only the country
00:07:38.440 of getting rid of Justin Trudeau
00:07:39.960 and pulling the plug and having an early election,
00:07:42.760 and even just for the health of his own party
00:07:45.460 and not embarrassing them
00:07:46.580 and making them look completely complicit
00:07:48.900 in everything the liberals were doing,
00:07:50.360 he couldn't actually pull the plug
00:07:52.460 and sacrifice his pension
00:07:53.960 in order to go towards another election.
00:07:56.640 In fact, what did Jagmeet Singh sacrifice
00:07:59.060 for the pension?
00:08:00.740 Everything.
00:08:01.780 He literally sacrificed everything.
00:08:03.520 He lost his own seat for the pension
00:08:05.800 because I can guarantee you
00:08:07.680 the people in Burnaby Center
00:08:09.200 would have re-elected him
00:08:10.380 if he had called the election
00:08:11.820 in October, in December, in January.
00:08:15.140 If he actually had the guts to do it,
00:08:17.480 there would have been a new election,
00:08:19.880 and he would have been able
00:08:20.800 to hold on to a seat.
00:08:21.800 NDP may have actually savaged the illiberals
00:08:24.020 and picked up more seats.
00:08:25.640 And the thing is that
00:08:26.940 he would have actually helped the country out.
00:08:29.740 He would have gotten rid of a terrible prime minister
00:08:31.540 and a very corrupt administration,
00:08:33.920 but instead he had to wait it out
00:08:35.440 until February, late February,
00:08:37.320 so that he could get
00:08:38.920 what is not even that much money
00:08:40.580 to a man who is already wealthy
00:08:42.140 like Jagmeet Singh.
00:08:43.560 And I'd always been talking about
00:08:44.620 I couldn't imagine that Jagmeet Singh
00:08:46.180 actually talks about it.
00:08:47.340 But I've had Julian Newman on the show
00:08:49.380 who is an NDP insider
00:08:51.920 who still works with the NDP.
00:08:54.700 He's not someone who disavowed them
00:08:55.960 10 years ago
00:08:56.600 and just goes around trashing them.
00:08:57.880 He literally was telling me
00:09:00.020 on the show
00:09:01.380 that Jagmeet Singh genuinely cared
00:09:04.480 about the pension.
00:09:05.460 He genuinely wanted to wait
00:09:06.800 until after the pension
00:09:07.820 and before calling the election.
00:09:09.720 And at that point, it was too late
00:09:10.780 because then Mark Carney
00:09:11.980 was in the driver's seat
00:09:13.000 and Mark Carney could decide
00:09:14.420 when the election was.
00:09:15.660 And Jagmeet Singh was so pathetic
00:09:17.220 that he even begged Mark Carney
00:09:19.980 not to call the election right away.
00:09:21.740 Let's sit down and try and pass some stuff.
00:09:23.440 So I made this on Twitter
00:09:25.020 and I think the popularity of it
00:09:26.600 is no coincidence
00:09:27.560 having over 2,200 likes
00:09:29.340 on what is not a very exciting post.
00:09:31.720 But I said Damien Kirk
00:09:32.840 is better than Jagmeet Singh.
00:09:34.780 Kirk did something good for the country
00:09:36.100 despite it costing his pension.
00:09:38.020 Singh hurt the country
00:09:38.840 so he could get a pension.
00:09:41.740 Yeah, that is all you can really say
00:09:43.460 about Jagmeet Singh
00:09:44.520 after leading the NDP since 2019.
00:09:48.440 He sure got his pension.
00:09:49.940 Good job, Jagmeet.
00:09:51.260 So that should be it for this episode.
00:09:53.600 I guess it's not really much of an episode.
00:09:55.700 I almost, oh, that sounds so pretentious.
00:09:57.500 This is an episode.
00:09:58.800 It's not an episode.
00:09:59.900 But anyways, whatever this thing is,
00:10:01.620 make sure to like the video,
00:10:02.680 subscribe to the channel,
00:10:03.820 leave a comment.
00:10:05.100 It's going to be fun to have
00:10:06.340 Pierre Polyev in my neck
00:10:07.500 of the woods of Alberta.
00:10:08.640 It's even faster to get into that riding
00:10:10.520 than it is going up to Edmonton.
00:10:12.200 So that's going to be fun.
00:10:14.080 And so let me know
00:10:15.400 what do you guys think
00:10:16.440 about the topic of the day?
00:10:18.260 Do you think this is going to actually help
00:10:19.840 Polyev to be somewhere like Alberta?
00:10:21.640 If anything, this is really going to hurt
00:10:23.780 the independence movement
00:10:24.880 because Polyev being on the ground in Alberta
00:10:27.420 is going to get him more closely
00:10:30.460 and more closer in touch
00:10:31.940 with these sorts of people.
00:10:33.220 And he can convince them over to his side
00:10:35.160 of saying, hey, give me one more chance
00:10:37.500 and I can win the day.
00:10:39.120 And then you guys won't even have to separate
00:10:40.940 because you'll have all of it within Canada.
00:10:43.300 I think that's actually a good possibility.
00:10:45.560 Someone brought that up today
00:10:46.440 and it was a very intelligent analysis to make
00:10:49.820 that him being here might actually screw up
00:10:51.580 the independence movement
00:10:53.140 and all the new independence parties
00:10:54.720 on a provincial level.
00:10:56.160 Anyway, so that's it for me today, guys.
00:10:58.480 Have a good one.