The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Poilievre and Carney war over Carbon Tax - Liberals pull dirty trick

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Well, it looks like Pierre Polyev and Mark Carney are going

00:00:06.500 to be going to war over the carbon tax. And I think that Pierre Polyev has actually found

00:00:11.620 a unique and effective angle to keep the issue alive without having to talk about the consumer

00:00:17.120 carbon tax. In previous videos, I've said the conservatives really have to lay off the

00:00:21.520 consumer carbon tax issue because while we all know who actually follow politics closely

00:00:27.200 that the consumer carbon tax isn't really gone, Carney has just probably temporarily turned its

00:00:33.400 rate down to zero percent and he can always bring it back in the year if he wants, that it's still

00:00:39.160 an issue that the average voter thinks has been resolved. Carney's gotten rid of it for all

00:00:44.260 intents and purposes and so it's no longer a federal election issue. So what Polyev has done is rather

00:00:50.440 than continue to talk with the consumer carbon tax and have long-winded debates about how it's still

00:00:55.620 around, he has now pivoted to saying Carney should be getting rid of the industrial carbon tax too,

00:01:01.680 which is in fact a good move because the industrial carbon tax in fact adds more to prices than the

00:01:08.060 consumer carbon tax ever did itself. And the good thing with this too is there's a great patriotism

00:01:14.720 angle that I don't think the conservatives have quite mentioned yet, but it's easily there to be

00:01:20.200 exploited. And that is, if we are currently at loggerheads with the Americans on trade,

00:01:26.740 why are the liberals unduly burdening our industry with an industrial carbon tax that industry isn't

00:01:34.140 paying in the United States? Basically, the liberals are weakening our economy and letting the Americans 0.94

00:01:39.380 eat our lunch and that's what I think the conservative messaging around this issue has to be.

00:01:44.020 I just want to quickly cut to a video of Pierre Polyev, then I want to talk about what the liberals have

00:01:49.260 been doing on the carbon tax because it truly demonstrates just how little principle the

00:01:54.500 liberal party has. They were the big carbon tax party for a very long time and suddenly they're

00:02:00.580 celebrating wall to wall how they just got rid of it. But before I get into that guys, remember to

00:02:05.560 like this video, subscribe to the channel, as well as leave a comment on anything you find interesting.

00:02:11.220 I always like to skim through the comments to see what people's thoughts are. Anyways, so here is

00:02:16.160 Pierre Polyev at his announcement just today. Our per capita GDP has been the worst growth among all of

00:02:24.320 our competitors. Housing costs have doubled and gone up faster than in any other G7 country. And now the

00:02:31.200 liberals think they should be rewarded with a fourth term in office. Furthermore, they brought in a carbon

00:02:37.680 tax in this law. This law is still in place, even though Mr. Carney has signed a fake executive order

00:02:46.820 to hide the tax for 35 or 40 days leading up to the election. It is still in place and it applies

00:02:56.020 across the board. The tax is scheduled to go up 300% over the next five years and hiding it for a few

00:03:04.280 weeks will not change that. Furthermore, the full carbon tax also applies to industries. Industries like

00:03:12.320 those here at Ivaco. Ivaco makes hot rolled steel wire and steel billets. And these taxes drive up the

00:03:23.680 cost of the entire domestic steel industry. Mr. Carney has said that he wants to expand the industrial

00:03:30.740 carbon tax beyond the already eye-watering increases the government has passed into law.

00:03:36.880 That's where I'm going to leave that there because it is a 20-minute press conference. I just jumped to

00:03:41.400 the point where he was introducing this. I do want to point out, before I start talking about this in

00:03:46.220 more detail, notice how when Polyev's comms team bring him to a heavy industry sort of area, he's in a

00:03:53.780 warehouse. They don't stick the big hard hat on him, they don't put goggles on him, and they don't

00:03:59.020 have him wearing like 50 safety vests. Guys in political communications never put a candidate in

00:04:06.100 a weird-looking outfit. If he has to wear the hard hat, I'm talking about Mark Carney here, if he has to

00:04:10.980 wear the hard hat to be in there, don't be in there. Go outside, learn from Michael Dukakis in 1988,

00:04:17.520 never wear the big chunky helmet that makes all your worst features look even worse. So Polyev did the 0.83

00:04:23.640 right thing here. And by the way, notice how he can actually get workers to stand behind him and not

00:04:27.780 look depressed, whereas when Carney had people behind him, it was very clear that they did not

00:04:33.020 want to be there. They're looking around. And Carney, in a three-minute and 40-second statement that he

00:04:40.000 made at that steel plant in wherever he was, it doesn't really matter, 45 seconds of it was him

00:04:46.620 literally going um, um, uh, because he's a terrible speaker. This is one of the more subtle

00:04:53.360 things that I think is a big oversight for Carney is that he's one of these guys who is just not

00:04:58.940 optically confident. He doesn't give the average person the idea that he's in command. He seems

00:05:05.060 nervously in control, kind of. It's like someone put him in that place, but he shouldn't be there,

00:05:11.520 which is a great way of describing him. This is a great policy. Again, they should be slamming the

00:05:17.160 liberals every single day on the fact that they are the greatest allies of the Americans when it comes

00:05:23.060 to actually just hollowing out our economy and moving jobs down south. The liberals are the ones

00:05:29.460 who've been kicking the economy in the face for literally a decade now, and they're saying, no, no,

00:05:35.800 no, just give us another four years and everything will be fine. You know, we, and even when they've

00:05:42.220 pivoted, they've pivoted in the direction of what the conservatives have been saying for them to do.

00:05:46.700 Why is it Canadian? I think Canadians will be mostly voting conservative this next election.

00:05:51.660 We're in a honeymoon period for the liberals, and even during their honeymoon, they're only

00:05:55.300 like tied with the conservatives or they're four or five points behind. If that's your honeymoon

00:05:59.660 period, I think it could get really bad for them in the next month and a half. And so, but it really,

00:06:06.280 they're taking conservative ideas and then just pretending it was actually all of them.

00:06:10.480 Look at this. I'm trying to find this here, but we have videos, and I just bookmarked tons and tons

00:06:16.340 of these on my X account. The liberals, wall to wall celebrating the fact that they're getting rid

00:06:21.560 of the carbon tax. Like, look at this statement that they posted from Mark Carney. It's like

00:06:26.460 bizarro world. This man was Trudeau's economic advisor for four or five years, pretty much the

00:06:32.240 entire time the carbon tax was in place. And he'd been supporting carbon taxes well before the liberals

00:06:37.360 supported, like a past one that you'd never gotten rid of it in those four or five years where he was

00:06:42.260 effectively in control of the economic policy. But now here's him again, signing a fake order in

00:06:47.880 council saying that the carbon tax doesn't actually exist anymore. This will make a difference to

00:06:52.700 hard pressed Canadians, but it is part of a much bigger set of measures that this government is

00:07:00.400 taking to ensure that we fight against climate change, that our companies are competitive and

00:07:06.420 the country moves forward. So it's my honor on behalf of my colleagues to sign this.

00:07:17.100 It's all just pageantry. There was nothing that was actually substantial about him signing that.

00:07:22.220 Yeah, he kind of has the power to not enforce the carbon tax, which is kind of what he's doing right

00:07:27.320 now. But what do you, would you actually have confidence in the man not to bring it back,

00:07:32.020 considering that his entire caucus supported it and mocked anyone who didn't like the carbon tax for

00:07:37.360 years, including himself? I like how he says, oh, we need to keep our companies competitive. Well,

00:07:42.500 that's the problem. They're not being competitive at all. They're literally, they've actually hurt

00:07:47.560 them. Look, there's another video they posted about this. But yeah, they're not making our companies

00:07:54.040 competitive. They're keeping the industrial carbon tax on. And in fact, they are planning on passing the

00:08:00.000 consumer carbon tax cost onto industry, which means that Canadians are still paying it because

00:08:05.680 obviously the cost trickles down. So carbon tax canceled. Mark Carney got it done. Mark Carney

00:08:13.160 canceled the carbon tax. You'd think they were the ones fighting about it for years. We canceled the

00:08:19.380 carbon tax while pure poly of offers empty slogans. We're taking action to fight climate change,

00:08:24.220 put more money in our pocket and build a strong economy. This sounds like it was accidentally posted on the

00:08:29.220 liberals page, but it was a conservative thing. And they just forgot to say Mark Carney instead of

00:08:34.300 pure poly of, they literally just took the conservatives point from the last five years.

00:08:40.160 And they're like, oh, look, see, we got rid of it. Here's another one. This is action for Canadian 1.00

00:08:44.400 city news. Prime Minister Mark Carney decision fried to eliminate the consumer price. We'll see the price

00:08:49.300 of gasoline reduced by 17.6 cents on April 1st. And like, what are what? It's terrible. Like this is

00:08:59.000 like they have no principle. And I want to highlight this one guy. I think I have it safe. But it was

00:09:04.580 hilarious watching like liberals gloating over the fact that they did this. And it's like, weren't you

00:09:09.180 the one saying we're stupid if we don't think the carbon tax is actually benefiting people more than

00:09:14.300 it's hurting them? It's completely ridiculous that this is actually something that happened.

00:09:19.840 I don't think I have it here. But it was like that, like one of those fake doctors who was like

00:09:25.580 a paid liberal shill on social media saying looks like the conservatives don't have any policies to

00:09:31.000 run anymore. They're so empty. And like, and like they all they have is empty slogans. Like you guys

00:09:36.580 don't have anything. All you guys have is doing half of a conservative policy. And then pretending like,

00:09:43.580 oh, look, the conservatives never did that for you. Like, yeah, they're not in government.

00:09:47.340 You guys are. And you still didn't technically do it because he's terrified. Mark Carney is of

00:09:52.580 calling back the legislature because then he could face criticism. And he doesn't want that right now

00:09:57.740 because you know, he's in his honeymoon phase. He's going to try and muscle his way through to the

00:10:02.160 next election without getting any criticism and hoping that Canadians rally around the red Canadian

00:10:08.020 flag and vote liberal to oppose Donald Trump or something like that. Now, do I really

00:10:13.460 think that's going to be the big issue in the next election is Donald Trump? Not really. It might

00:10:18.400 be top four, might be top five. Right now, with many pollsters showing as the number one issue,

00:10:23.520 I think once an election gets underway or a couple months have passed and there hasn't been an election,

00:10:29.580 generally domestic issues are going to come back to the forefront. Very rarely does foreign policy

00:10:34.840 or other kind of personality battles or kind of niche issues become the big item. And even then,

00:10:41.580 the conservatives can still make the Trump issue a winning issue for the conservatives. Like I've

00:10:47.760 been saying, and this is not just something that conservatives need to implement, you guys in your

00:10:52.320 own households and your own friend groups and people you meet can implement this too. And if people are

00:10:57.560 saying, well, the liberals are going to protect us from the Americans, the conservatives are too pro-American

00:11:02.900 for some reason, I guess, because they're conservative and Donald Trump is conservative, which is a

00:11:07.120 nonsensical position. But you can just ask them, well, wasn't it the liberals who have made our economy so weak

00:11:14.840 that the Americans can take advantage of us? We're an economy so weak that when Doug Ford threatened 25%

00:11:21.460 electricity tariffs after Trump announced 25% steel and aluminum tariffs, he folded in less than 24 hours. And it's

00:11:29.480 because he doesn't have any padding to push back on. He doesn't have any economic strength. The

00:11:38.040 province of Ontario and Canada as a whole is deeply in debt. We're running massive deficits. Our economy

00:11:43.480 is actually getting weaker over time when it comes to per capita incomes. Our productivity is really bad

00:11:50.020 right now. And we're going to blame the conservatives for not rallying behind the liberals in doing the

00:11:55.360 same dumb policies for another four years. That's where the conservatives and conservative individuals 0.87

00:12:01.020 can push back on the liberals by saying you guys were the ones who basically made Canada so vulnerable

00:12:06.200 that anybody could take a piece from us. The Chinese are currently threatening us with 100% 1.00

00:12:11.540 tariffs on canola oil and other things, as well as like 25 to 50 to even 100% tariffs on other

00:12:18.360 agricultural products, as well as seafood, to the point where the entire BC seafood industry could get

00:12:24.220 completely wiped out. And by the way, the BC NDP and David Eby haven't said a word about it.

00:12:30.580 They've been attacking Americans. They've been taking American wines off liquor store shelves.

00:12:35.760 But have they raised a finger to wag at the Chinese for trying to implement even tougher tariffs? Yes, 0.50

00:12:43.000 we did tariff Chinese electric vehicles. But that's because they are not very good quality. And there is

00:12:48.840 kind of a like, you know, also a industry capture element where they will literally offload electric

00:12:55.240 vehicles for below their actual manufacturing price just to destroy your own auto sector. And in response to

00:13:01.640 that, plus, I also don't care about their economy considering they're a dictatorship. And in response to that,

00:13:06.580 they're going to try and tariff 100% of our canola. We also tariff things that the Americans want to sell into

00:13:12.860 our country, like cheese, dairy, softwood, lumber, a lot of other things. So it's so hypocritical that

00:13:18.380 with a similar situation, but with the CCP, the liberals federally, and the NDP in British Columbia

00:13:25.560 provincially, as well as other jurisdictions around Canada, haven't said a word, because they're scared

00:13:30.620 of the CCP. They're scared of criticizing them. But they think it's a free for all when you can go

00:13:34.680 after Trump. And should Trump be criticized for the tariffs? Sure. From Canada's perspective,

00:13:39.640 we don't want tariffs on our imports. At the same time, we kind of look stupid when we've had import tariffs

00:13:47.440 on them for literally decades. And then when they put up a tariff on our steel and aluminum, we get very upset,

00:13:54.480 even though historically, we've always had more tariffs on their products than they've had tariffs on our

00:13:58.700 products. In fact, outside of economies like Singapore and others, where they obviously need everything

00:14:04.720 important, and they'd be stupid to tariff any of it. America is one of the biggest manufacturing hubs

00:14:12.020 in the world, service hubs, all that stuff. They have some of the lowest tariffs on other countries.

00:14:16.360 And then when they finally raise tariffs on other people, everyone sets their hair on fire.

00:14:20.180 Do I want those tariffs going up? No. But the problem is we have put ourselves in a losing position

00:14:25.280 for no reason, because we look like hypocrites. And we weakened our economy to the point where if Trump

00:14:30.360 tariffs us, well, we're dead. We're basically dead because we've bankrupted ourselves. It's like the

00:14:36.780 Canadian politicians are really mad at Trump because it's their job to hurt Canadians. Now he's hurting

00:14:41.420 Canadians. And don't you know, Donald Trump, that it's our job to kick Canadians in the pants?

00:14:47.540 But anyways, that's a little bit of a rant there. But yeah, I think right now, this is going to be a

00:14:53.960 long-term issue. And I think it's a good angle that Polyev has taken on this to go after the

00:14:59.840 liberals on the industrial side of the carbon tax, making it look like Carney is only willing to do

00:15:05.020 half measures and he is still mostly like Justin Trudeau. Anyways, so that should be it for this

00:15:11.440 video, guys. I'm probably going to be back later today talking about polls again, but not a polling

00:15:16.740 update where I'm telling you what the horse race is looking like. I want to demonstrate what a response

00:15:22.160 bias is, because some of you have already pointed out to me on social media, I saw the poll from Angus

00:15:27.440 Reid showing that right now, Justin Trudeau, after leaving office, now has a near neutral net approval

00:15:34.000 rating. His approval rating has shot up and his disapproval rating has shot down. This is what I mean when

00:15:40.020 there is a response bias in the polling, because Mark Carney is the shiny new toy, and Justin Trudeau has

00:15:46.660 finally left us alone. Their approval ratings are going up and Justin Trudeau's disapproval ratings are

00:15:52.660 going down. This isn't real. This is not what actually Canadians think. It's not because Angus

00:15:57.520 Reid is rigging the polls. In fact, Angus Reid is personally a conservative guy. I think they are just

00:16:03.260 not properly making up for in their samples for the fact that they are having a lot of liberals

00:16:08.780 responding to their polls, and that the phrasing of their questions is making a lot of people willing

00:16:14.440 to say nice things just simply because Mark Carney is the new prime minister. If you ask people,

00:16:19.880 do you think Mark Carney is going to be significantly different than Justin Trudeau?

00:16:23.700 Things change a lot. In fact, Abacus Data even asked people, do you think that Mark Carney is

00:16:29.620 just like Justin Trudeau? If people say yes to that, they are very unlikely to vote for Mark Carney.

00:16:34.920 If they believe he is significantly different, they are more willing to vote for Mark Carney.

00:16:39.620 So now, the conservative mission, this next election, is to make sure people know that Mark Carney

00:16:45.600 was the economic advisor for four or five years. It's not even that Carney is like Trudeau. It's

00:16:50.780 that Trudeau is like Carney because Carney told him to do everything over the past four or five

00:16:57.340 years. Even Freeland technically can't be blamed. It was all Carney's idea. And now he's swinging into

00:17:03.180 office pretending that he had nothing to do the last four or five years, and he is the fresh breath

00:17:07.600 of air that Canada needed. So that's kind of where we're at right now at the field. Expect that video a

00:17:13.960 little bit later. Make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment,

00:17:17.720 do all that great stuff, guys. See you later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 17, 2025

Poilievre and Carney war over Carbon Tax - Liberals pull dirty trick

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