The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Poilievre and Smith rightfully resist Trudeau's ＂Team Canada＂ trick

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I think the most obvious op currently in Canadian politics is the

00:00:07.620 Team Canada op being run against Danielle Smith and Pierre Polyev and Scott Moe to a lesser extent.

00:00:15.040 The idea that liberal and basically liberal politicians like Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford

00:00:20.620 are trying to get conservatives to drop their principles and join Team Canada to resist Donald

00:00:26.960 Trump and the United States tariffing us, even though we're probably going to be able to avoid

00:00:32.320 the tariffs by just doing basic border security increases, which for some reason David Eby doesn't

00:00:38.540 want to do, even though he is the main problem to why drugs and people on the terror watch list are

00:00:43.740 crossing the border, because who cares about the law? I just want to jump right into this and talk

00:00:49.540 first about what Justin Trudeau has said, the man who is literally a dead prime minister walking at

00:00:54.800 this point in his political career. And then I want to get to some of the things that other people

00:00:59.380 have said on this that I find absurd and just a way of trying to undermine conservatives principles,

00:01:06.040 as well as their commitments to their real constituents. Because Danielle Smith is not 0.98

00:01:11.260 trying to make Canadians happy. Her job is to make Albertans happy. And you know that I'm not saying

00:01:16.500 this just because I want to say something nice about Danielle Smith. I have criticized her in the past. 0.99

00:01:20.660 I voted no on her in the leadership review because I don't think I want the leader to always get 100%

00:01:27.400 yeses when there's still a lot of stuff that we need to reform in Alberta. But without further ado,

00:01:32.520 let's jump into what what Justin Trudeau said. But guys, remember, like this video, subscribe to the

00:01:38.560 channel, do all that great stuff, help us get to 100,000 subscribers by December. And here's Justin

00:01:45.260 Trudeau on the official Liberal Party, x account saying, Pierre Polyev has a choice to make. And

00:01:51.080 this is all about the whole Team Canada op, or what I'm at least calling the Team Canada op.

00:01:57.000 Right now, Pierre Polyev, who wants to be prime minister for all Canadians has a choice to make.

00:02:03.700 Either he stands up to fight for all Canadians alongside all premiers, and the federal government

00:02:10.020 that are doing that. Or he chooses to stand with Danielle Smith, Kevin O'Leary, and ultimately,

00:02:16.920 Donald Trump.

00:02:19.900 He's why is he even doing this? Why did the Liberal Party release a video of the guy who is not even

00:02:27.220 running in the next election trying to shame Pierre Polyev? I hate the line that are you on Team Canada?

00:02:33.600 Are you going to fight for all Canadians? What do you mean by all Canadians? Like, actually,

00:02:38.540 what do you mean by that? Because apparently, all Canadians don't want us to do substantial tax

00:02:45.100 reform, to deregulate, to be more competitive against the US economically, to crack down on

00:02:51.760 illegal border crossings of terrorists, literal people on the terror watch list. Because while we

00:02:57.360 don't have millions of people pouring over our border into the United States the way that illegal

00:03:02.500 migrants are coming over the Mexican border into the US, we have 10 times the amount of people on the

00:03:06.860 terror watch list crossing from Canada into the US than Mexico does. We have fentanyl going into their

00:03:13.120 country. And by the way, they have drugs coming into our country and guns. If Polyev and Smith have

00:03:19.400 actually had the correct take on all this, they're not saying, I agree with Trump. I'm going to do

00:03:25.280 whatever makes Trump happy. That's not their job either. They're supposed to make their constituents happy.

00:03:30.520 Polyev's constituents are Canadians, but he is supposed to actually serve those Canadians,

00:03:36.500 not play liberal games and try and form up with Team Canada because it's the patriotic thing to do

00:03:43.360 because we have said so. He is saying that, yes, he has some concerns about border security. We will

00:03:48.760 meet them. But we also expect that the US has to make, has to like firm up their protections on the

00:03:54.320 border because they have illegal guns coming into our country. He had a perfectly fine stance and he

00:04:00.200 wants to lower taxes. He wants to deregulate. He wants the carbon tax to be, he wants the carbon tax

00:04:05.980 gone, which now apparently Christy Freeland and Mark Carney also want to do. That is actually more

00:04:11.780 pro-Canada rather than having a bunch of premiers sit along a table and talk about how serious this is.

00:04:17.800 They haven't done anything. Ford and EB and Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh saying that we need to have

00:04:24.580 retaliatory tariffs against the US, or I guess that's only something that EB and Singh have said,

00:04:29.020 but they all say we need to be on a war footing. We need to be like ready to go when the 25% tariffs

00:04:34.660 come into play. None of you have even done a second, have done a second of negotiating with the US on

00:04:40.700 what we need to do to avoid tariffs. And you can make that a hardball talk saying that we'll have to

00:04:45.800 raise tariffs. If you guys aren't giving us a fair way of being able to increase border security and

00:04:51.940 avoid these tariffs, we could easily do that. But none of them are doing it. This is all political

00:04:56.020 grandstanding. You have Doug Ford out there wearing the stupid like Canada's not for sale hat.

00:05:03.420 Guys, stop playing into the stupid Trump negotiating tactic. He brings up Canada, 51st state, and he's made

00:05:10.500 you guys all running around setting your hair on fire about how Canada can't be the 51st state.

00:05:14.840 He's not serious. He's getting you to stop talking about serious trade positions that you have and

00:05:20.700 instead talk about this other stupid thing. But anyways, let's move on to what Daniel Smith actually

00:05:28.420 said, which I thought was a perfectly reasonable stance to take in this current situation.

00:05:35.720 She directly addresses the Team Canada approach and what I am again labeling as an op. And what I mean

00:05:41.980 by an op is that it is a political operation to try and make conservatives basically become less

00:05:49.100 principled in order to be patriotic, which is not at all necessary. And I think it is in fact just a way

00:05:56.980 of trying to get the conservatives to stop criticizing liberal policies because it is Canadian policy.

00:06:02.880 But Smith here says, the Premier of Alberta, how about this for building a quote unquote Team Canada

00:06:09.740 approach? One, stop threatening the livelihoods of tens of thousands of Albertans and Canadians

00:06:14.960 via an energy export tax or ban. Two, immediately start constructing on construction on the Northern

00:06:20.880 Gateway and Energy East pipelines to diversify our customer base to Europe, Asia, and our own country.

00:06:26.760 Three, tell Germany, Japan, and the rest of the world that there is in fact a business case 0.86

00:06:31.540 for Canadian oil and gas to be sold to them. Four, repeal the unconstitutional and job-killing

00:06:36.860 production cap, electricity regs, and C-69, including C-48, the tanker ban. Five, treat with respect

00:06:45.240 and as an equal partner the Alberta taxpayers that have been transferring hundreds of billions to

00:06:49.900 Quebec, the Maritimes, and even Ontario for decades. That is a good side swipe of Doug Ford,

00:06:54.780 who absolutely deserves it here. She finishes off saying, let's start there on building our quote unquote

00:06:59.880 Team Canada approach, shall we? And it has this good graphic right here. Great statement by

00:07:06.040 Danielle Smith. And as you guys know, I am not somebody who will artificially praise Danielle

00:07:12.040 Smith. Oh, she's so good like some people do. Oh, she's the queen, blah, blah, blah. She's good on 0.51

00:07:17.600 some stuff. Crime, drug policy, parental rights policy, very good in Alberta. She still needs to cut 1.00

00:07:23.060 income taxes. She still needs to reduce spending. Spending's gone up under her in ways that it really 1.00

00:07:28.260 didn't need to. But this was a great statement because these premiers are in fact being hacks.

00:07:34.760 So look right here. I'm going to bring up this other thing that Doug Ford said because he's doing

00:07:38.920 this whole, oh, well, team Alberta is included in Team Canada. Of course there is. We're still in

00:07:45.140 favor of protecting your jurisdiction. Protect your jurisdiction. A country comes first. Canada is a

00:07:52.000 priority. So protect your jurisdiction, saying this to Daniel Smith. So protect your jurisdiction,

00:07:58.460 Daniel Smith, i.e. Alberta, but country comes first. It can't be your constituents, your jurisdictions

00:08:04.380 comes first, or your jurisdiction are important, but country comes first. That means they're 0.85

00:08:09.380 subservient to Canada. That means that Alberta's priorities are of a lesser importance to Canada's

00:08:17.200 priorities. And let's be clear, Ontario's priorities. Doug Ford has 40% plus of the population

00:08:23.720 in his province. And he is basically saying that Alberta, who is not as big of a part of Canada,

00:08:29.880 owes deference to Ontario because we have more warm bodies here and that you should be joining with us

00:08:37.040 and not agreeing with anything Trump says, even though some of his demands are reasonable that we

00:08:41.180 like firm up on border security. By the way, Trump thinks that Biden's been doing a bad job on

00:08:47.040 border security. If anyone's not noticed, he's also going to increase border security. This is

00:08:51.840 something we can partner on. And Smith has been doing smart things by going and befriending Trump,

00:08:57.400 talking about things that we will work on and things that they can work on. That's a real

00:09:01.340 negotiation. Instead, all these premiers are sitting flanked around Doug Ford and Trudeau,

00:09:06.720 talking about how we need to have a team Canada approach and we got to prepare for the worst. How about

00:09:12.460 we just try and make it a good relationship instead of doing this artificial, like bunkering down,

00:09:18.940 trying to survive the onslaught of 25% tariffs? The tariffs will not happen if we do

00:09:25.660 things that you just need a lukewarm intelligence to do. Firm up border security,

00:09:33.340 write up a new trade position on things that maybe will drop a protection here if they drop a protection

00:09:38.660 there. Do something that puts us in a actual solid position to come out on top in a trade

00:09:44.560 negotiation. But instead, they're all basically on their back heels playing defense only.

00:09:49.080 Protect your jurisdiction, but country comes first. Canada is a priority. And I don't believe in

00:09:56.240 jeopardizing one sector or another. Premier Smith's oil is Ontario's auto sector. When Donald Trump comes

00:10:04.860 at us, he's not going to say it. And by the way, sorry, Alberta's oil and gas sector is not Ontario's

00:10:11.560 auto sector because the auto sector in Ontario is like 50% fake at this point. It is subsidies

00:10:17.720 through and through. It is subsidies all the way down. He has partnered with Justin Trudeau. By the way,

00:10:23.440 if you live in Ontario, vote or even consider running for the new blue party of Ontario because the PCs

00:10:28.820 are basically just the blue version of the Liberals. The Liberals are the red version of the NDP.

00:10:33.540 All three of those parties basically agree on like 95% of stuff. Yeah, the PCs are technically

00:10:39.620 better than the Liberals, but in such a minor technical sense that I think the difference

00:10:44.300 between the Liberals and the PCs in Ontario are closer than even the differences between O'Toole

00:10:49.960 and Justin Trudeau, which were very minor. So vote or run for the new blue party because this guy sucks.

00:10:56.640 But no, the Alberta oil and gas industry, that's an insult to the oil and gas industry,

00:11:00.620 is not your subsidized bloated EV battery plants and electric car manufacturing plants that you're

00:11:07.980 subsidizing with Trudeau's federal government. When Donald Trump comes at us, he's not going to say,

00:11:14.620 well, let's not worry about Ontario. They're good people or Alberta. He's coming full tilt

00:11:20.660 at Canadians as a whole. The interests of this country. You're not coming full tilt because he

00:11:26.500 just said, oh, I want you guys to take border security more seriously, which we honestly haven't

00:11:31.020 been. That's why there's just a lot. We literally facilitated illegal migration on Roxham Road. Not

00:11:36.960 as bad as illegal migration on the southern border of the US, but obviously we don't seem to take that

00:11:43.460 much care about crime and illegal activities around the border. That's why we have tons of guns

00:11:48.780 all over our major cities, which are, we're illegally smuggled into Canada because we just

00:11:53.100 don't really care to monitor the border that close.

00:11:55.260 The country means we're going to have to hold. The interests of this country means we're going

00:12:01.360 to have to look at everything we can and we'll make sure that it's fair across the country,

00:12:05.560 but nothing can be off the table if the US continues to choose to move forward with these

00:12:12.460 punishing tariffs.

00:12:13.860 Of course, Justin Trudeau knows what's good for the country. That's why it took him until

00:12:20.180 January 7th to realize that maybe he shouldn't be the prime minister anymore. And he's still going

00:12:25.920 to be the prime minister until sometime in March. Oh my goodness. No, no. What he's proposing there

00:12:34.260 about nothing can be off the table is that Alberta should be agreeing to not send oil and gas products

00:12:40.220 to the US if we get into a trade war. How about, if nothing's off the table, how about you go down

00:12:48.540 to Mar-a-Lago to have a serious discussion with Trump or go to his inauguration to have a serious

00:12:54.300 discussion on border security and trade? Not going down and seeing what's up with Trump and maybe you

00:13:00.780 shouldn't tariff us, please, we're very scared, but not actually make any commitments on border security.

00:13:05.260 He almost at one point did, and then he just went back into this sort of Canadian patriotism

00:13:11.180 war footing thing that Doug Ford and people like David Eby are doing. The dumbest of MPs sounded off

00:13:19.260 on this, Mark Gerritsen. I need to bring this back up on screen. He posted this graphic and said,

00:13:24.780 there is no place for aspiring leaders to be silent at a time like this. Because the idea is that

00:13:29.580 Poliev should now condemn Donald Trump and Daniel Smith. In fact, Daniel Smith is currently 0.99

00:13:37.340 quarterbacking this issue for Canada, and Pierre Poliev has been taking the right stance that he can

00:13:43.500 take as the opposition leader that there are some reasonable demands on both sides and we can come to

00:13:48.060 an agreement. Perfect. Good. But he quotes, he then posts this graphic with the quote,

00:13:55.180 Conservative leader Pierre Poliev won't say whether he backs the premier's and prime minister's threat

00:14:00.060 to impose export tariffs or restrict the supply of oil and gas bound for the United States as a

00:14:04.460 possible response to President-elect Donald Trump's promise to tariff, promise tariff for Zim. It's not 0.68

00:14:10.300 promised. It's threatened if you don't do basic border security. And he is quoting the CBC who has done a

00:14:17.500 truly bad job of reporting on this issue. But I must now bring up one more man's response to this whole

00:14:24.940 issue. And that is Premier David Eby, who is the problem child of Canada right now. He is quite

00:14:31.340 literally the man who is allowing for fentanyl to flood into the United States. He is the guy who has

00:14:38.140 decriminalized drugs. And there are drug manufacturing facilities, like making and processing illegal drugs

00:14:46.540 that are within like kilometers of the US border. You think the Americans are not going to have a

00:14:52.540 problem with us when they just arrested a Canadian trucker from BC with $32 million of drugs in his

00:15:00.140 truck in Arizona. We just had two large drug busts in small towns along the border in BC. Do you think

00:15:06.780 the Americans aren't going to bring that up? If we start to say work, why do you think we should have 0.96

00:15:11.500 to increase border security? Because of stuff like that. Do the Americans have to do it too? Yes.

00:15:16.540 And Trump is already doing that. We take this deadly seriously. Do you? Do you, David?

00:15:23.420 In terms of the impact on somebody that loses their job. He doesn't care about the 6,000 private

00:15:33.500 sector workers who just lost their job, because technically we gained jobs this month because we

00:15:38.460 we hired 12,000 public sector jobs. I cannot stand this guy. He's such a hypocrite. And our projections are

00:15:44.940 that we're foregoing more than 100,000 jobs and people actively losing employment in this province

00:15:50.380 as a result of these tariffs. I want people to know that we're going to do everything we can.

00:15:55.420 Except cut provincial taxes, by the way. He won't do any of that. That insane. Make our economy freer?

00:16:01.980 Insane. That's ridiculous. To do two things. One is to respond and to make sure the people who are

00:16:08.060 inflicting on this, inflicting this on us, that they feel it back and they get the message about

00:16:15.020 how important it is that we work together, not at odds, but also that we're going to be there for

00:16:19.740 them. That we're going to structure government in a way to respond to this new reality. That we

00:16:25.580 understand it's a new reality and we're going to make sure we deliver for them. He's not going to

00:16:30.940 restructure government in an effective way here. He's not going to get government out of the way so

00:16:35.100 that BC is just a lower tax jurisdiction and we actually suck jobs up from Oregon and Washington

00:16:41.660 into our area. No, he's going to put up tariffs. He's going to try and put restrictions on American

00:16:46.620 products. It's so silly. I honestly think some of these premiers know the tariffs are not coming.

00:16:52.460 So they're trying to act all tough and puff out their chests and act like,

00:16:56.220 you know, really, we're not going to be taking your guff, Trump. At the same time,

00:17:00.780 they're secretly increasing border security behind the scenes a little bit. And when Trump says,

00:17:04.460 okay, you guys increase border security, no tariffs. They're going to be like, see,

00:17:07.740 we scared them, even though they had nothing to do with it. And these are still complete clowns

00:17:13.420 pretending like they actually have, like they're like tough leaders of their provinces. They're

00:17:18.700 bureaucrats. They have taxed their provinces to death. The top marginal tax rate right now

00:17:25.820 in Ontario combined with the federal top marginal tax rate is like 53%. And that's not even taking

00:17:31.500 in other taxes into account, as well as your property tax. Ontario does this really weaselly

00:17:37.180 thing where technically its top marginal tax rate for personal income taxes is 13%. But it's really 20%

00:17:44.380 because they tax you more once you've given them a certain amount of money. So past $5,000,

00:17:49.100 they tax another 25% on what you've paid, and then past $7,200 of taxes paid, you then owe them

00:17:56.300 another 33% taxes on everything you've paid past $7,000. It's nuts. These people don't know what

00:18:03.660 they're talking about. They're the ones who have been losing jobs year after year for Canadians.

00:18:08.380 They're the ones who have been making it harder to live. They're the ones causing inflation,

00:18:13.260 specifically the federal government. And they're now going to look down their nose at Daniel Smith and

00:18:17.820 Pierre Polioff because they're not joining the setting your hair on fire club. No, this is stupid.

00:18:24.620 Again, if you live in Ontario, vote for the new blue party. It's an actual conservative party,

00:18:29.900 and it's basically running on the on the idea that maybe we should fulfill the actual promises

00:18:36.620 the PCs made in 2018 to cut taxes, cut wasteful spending, you know, actually stand up for parental

00:18:42.300 rights, actually reform the education system, all that stuff. Vote for the new blue party if you're

00:18:47.100 Ontario. In BC, vote for the BC Conservatives. And I give Daniel Smith props and I was always going to

00:18:53.660 be voting UCP next election, but I'm doing it even harder now. Anyways, so that's it for me today,

00:19:00.780 guys. Remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel. Hopefully this whole video wasn't too

00:19:06.060 ranty for you. I have an interview coming out tomorrow with JJ McCullough, a great Canadian YouTuber,

00:19:12.220 almost at a million subscribers. So I appreciate he has condescended to me to come on to my channel

00:19:17.660 that is much smaller. But it was a great discussion, kind of a chat that goes all over the place. But

00:19:23.180 hopefully you guys like that sort of thing. And I'll see you guys next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 18, 2025

Poilievre and Smith rightfully resist Trudeau's ＂Team Canada＂ trick

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