The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Poilievre calls out hypocrite Chris d'Entremont for floor crossing!

00:00:00.800 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. You can tell how biased the legacy media in this country is towards

00:00:07.900 the Liberal Party based on how they are spinning the story of Chris Dontremont crossing the floor

00:00:13.640 from the Conservatives over to the Liberals. Reading the headlines, you would think Polyev

00:00:19.320 was going to be out as Conservative Party leader within the next week or two, or that he's going

00:00:25.020 to get destroyed in his leadership review in January at the Conservative Party convention in

00:00:30.880 Calgary. By the way, I'm going to try and attend that either as a delegate or as some media observer.

00:00:37.680 But the truth is, Dontremont just left because he didn't get to be the deputy speaker. He didn't get

00:00:43.260 the extra $51,000 of salary, and that's why he left. But the media, despite how inconsistent Dontremont is

00:00:50.940 for why he left, just buys everything he says, and they keep asking Polyev if this means that

00:00:56.680 his leadership is on shaky ground, if there's internal dissent within the caucus. Could there

00:01:02.480 be? Well, possibly, but in a certain sense, it doesn't matter, because the legacy media does not

00:01:08.640 cover these issues the same way when it happens to the Liberals. Right now, the Liberal Party has Nate

00:01:15.120 Erskine Smith criticizing their budget. Erskine Smith is a Liberal MP, and he cut a well-edited video

00:01:22.380 going after the budget that Carney put out, calling it disappointing and saying that it had not actually

00:01:28.940 fulfilled many of the promises that they ran on in the last campaign. We also have MPs like

00:01:35.160 Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, being very likely to resign her

00:01:40.920 seat because she has internal conflicts with Mark Carney. There are also other Liberal MPs who

00:01:46.480 seem to be looking for outside roles and may be resigning in the next year to go fill those roles

00:01:51.800 because, again, they do not get along with Mark Carney. But there are no articles on any of this,

00:01:58.220 but Polyev keeps being asked questions about his leadership in the context of Chris Dontremont leaving,

00:02:04.860 but again, Carney's not being swarmed by journalists being asked if Erskine Smith has confidence in his

00:02:11.960 leadership or not. Anyways, I want to get to this press conference that Polyev was at where he

00:02:17.360 directly went after Dontremont for being a hypocrite, and then I want to show you the complete lack of

00:02:23.200 coverage about the Nate situation. But before we get into it, one, yes, I did get new glasses, I have two

00:02:30.200 new pairs. My eyes got a little bit worse, so I got better prescriptions. The first pair looks more

00:02:35.140 like my normal glasses that I was wearing before this, and these pair do make me look a little bit

00:02:40.340 more like Dwight Schrute, but heck, I like them, so I'm going to keep wearing them. And then the other

00:02:45.000 thing is, like I normally say, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video, subscribe if

00:02:50.720 you are not yet a subscriber, and of course leave a comment on what you think about this whole situation,

00:02:55.720 or say you like my glasses, say you don't like my glasses, make whatever comments you want about my

00:03:00.920 face. That's only within the realms of reasonable discussion in my books. But here we have Polyev

00:03:07.900 speaking to the floor crossing of Dontremont, and I will tell you to pay attention to the way the

00:03:13.640 question is phrased. I'm just going to play this entire clip. Pay attention to the way the journalist

00:03:18.640 makes this immediately about if Polyev's leadership is at risk.

00:03:22.320 crossing and departure from caucus. Chris Dontremont said your leadership is why he crossed the floor.

00:03:28.000 How do you respond to comments that your caucus is not united right now?

00:03:32.480 Well, first of all, I just quote Mr. Dontremont, who said, and I quote,

00:03:36.260 since I first elected here in 2019, the cost of living has skyrocketed. Even then,

00:03:41.300 families in Nova Scotia, as it is now, as it was called at the time back, but is now

00:03:47.700 Acadie and Annapolis. We're struggling. We're warned that the Liberals, we warned that the

00:03:53.420 Liberals out of control spending and massive deficits were irresponsible. But of course,

00:03:59.440 they did not listen. Now, after six months under the new Prime Minister, Mark Carney,

00:04:05.180 who promised fiscal discipline, Canadians are still waiting. He said, Mr. Carney said,

00:04:11.420 I'm quoting Mr. Dontremont here. Mr. Carney said he would be judged by the cost of the grocery

00:04:15.460 store. Well, Canadians are judging him and they are not impressed. Since the Liberals came to power,

00:04:22.300 food prices have risen 40%, said Mr. Dontremont. We have heard it many times here today. It is

00:04:29.640 deliberate and it is unacceptable. It is inhumane for a G7 country, said Mr. Dontremont of Liberal

00:04:36.820 Policies. He said, we are a rich country. We are a food basket of a country. We can produce all the

00:04:43.320 food for many people in the world and we can barely feed ourselves for some reason, end quote.

00:04:48.540 That is how Mr. Dontremont described the outrageous cost of living as the direct result of Mark Carney's

00:04:56.940 Liberals. I'm very saddened for the Nova Scotia families on whom Mr. Carney and Mr. Dontremont are

00:05:03.700 raising the price of groceries and homes, but that will not change our resolve to continue to fight for

00:05:10.240 an affordable Canada, affordable budgets, and an affordable future. Thank you.

00:05:14.420 I think this whole thing pretty much ends the controversy if there are going to be more floor

00:05:18.760 crossings. Because when you actually understand the sorts of things that Chris Dontremont was saying

00:05:24.380 about the Liberals and then what are likely his true reasons for leaving the caucus, I don't think

00:05:29.680 that those things are going to apply to a lot of other MPs. Maybe there are some ideological

00:05:34.600 disagreements within the party. Maybe there are people who don't like certain things that happen within

00:05:39.520 the leadership of the party. But the idea that there are going to be anyone willing to follow

00:05:43.960 out Chris Dontremont at this point when he's effectively leaving for not getting another $51,000 a year,

00:05:50.600 yeah, I think chances are pretty light that anyone wants to associate them with this floor crossing.

00:05:56.200 And then I know there's Matt Jenneru who's resigning and they're saying it's because of internal issues.

00:06:02.480 At the same time, it's like he already, frankly, had a really good excuse for leaving.

00:06:06.360 His entire family doesn't even live anywhere close to his current riding anymore. And he said he was

00:06:10.920 always going to be leaving after this date. I know people were saying, well, the conservatives had

00:06:16.520 to bully him into not crossing the floor. One, if he was crossing, but thinking about it, shame on him.

00:06:22.720 But also, two, do you think that you could get a guy to, you could bully a guy into not crossing the

00:06:27.640 floor if apparently bullying was his big problem with the party? You think you would just make him leave

00:06:32.520 faster? It just seems like he was always planning on leaving. And now because, you know, people

00:06:38.100 noticed and he's probably speeding up his timeline simply because the next, like the next election is

00:06:44.000 potentially going to be in the spring. So why doesn't he just leave at that time anyways?

00:06:48.480 Regardless, though, let's now just jump over to how they are covering the Nate Erskine-Smith

00:06:54.100 criticism of the budget, because this is significant. It is the, it's the liberals first

00:07:00.740 budget and one of their own MPs isn't just saying he doesn't like aspects of it. He is saying that

00:07:05.580 they effectively oversold what they were going to do in the election. And this budget is a big

00:07:10.160 disappointment with too much spending at the same time. They're cutting things into green initiatives

00:07:15.540 that he likes, and they're cutting too many public sector employees. Well, look at the coverage here.

00:07:19.960 There is literally one mainstream media article about it. And I've seen this. It's not even an

00:07:26.360 article. It's a 13 minute, a 13 minute and 14 second clip from Power and Politics, where they just

00:07:33.240 prattle on about nothing associated with Nate Erskine-Smith's criticisms. And when I say that,

00:07:38.340 I mean, they basically just tut, tut, like these kind of like, you know, act like it's no big deal.

00:07:44.140 Oh, okay, Nate's over here saying some noises. He probably wants to run for Ontario liberal leadership.

00:07:48.960 And that's true. But they don't actually engage with what he said and how he criticized Mark Carney.

00:07:55.340 They basically just call him a bad MP. And oh, yes, well, this stuff like this happens. And it's

00:08:01.060 good to have ideological balance. Would they ever talk this way about any conservative MP criticizing

00:08:07.880 something that Polyev did? Down here, you can see that the Western Standard covered it. Last time the

00:08:14.380 Toronto Star talked about Erskine-Smith, it was about him potentially running in Ontario in September.

00:08:21.760 And then you have Juno News talking about it. And that's it. There's one clip from the CBC of them

00:08:29.760 talking about it where they actually just downplay the criticisms. And then it's just a little bit of

00:08:34.360 independent media coverage. Because again, the legacy media doesn't care about covering rumors of

00:08:40.240 things happening in the Liberal Party, but they will endlessly cover rumors in the Conservatives.

00:08:45.860 I made a post about this the other day. The way that the media does things is that they'll report

00:08:51.180 there's big rumors in the Conservatives that there could be even more floor crossers, 1.00

00:08:55.020 even though those rumors are from Liberal Party sources, or they're from bad actors who obviously

00:09:00.260 have a lot invested into creating the idea that there's internal dissension. But if you go in the

00:09:06.340 other direction, if there are rumors that Freeland is upset, and other Liberal MPs want to resign,

00:09:12.800 and they're going to probably take some international diplomacy post somewhere so they can get out of

00:09:17.260 Ottawa, and they're going to resign their seats, yeah, then it's just rumors. So we're not reporting

00:09:22.060 on rumors. What do you think? Who do you think we are? We're the CBC. We need more to go on than just

00:09:27.780 rumors. Well, they report rumors endlessly if it hurts Polyev. But as soon as it starts, you know,

00:09:34.280 as soon as it's about the Liberals, oh, it's just rumors. We're not going to cover rumors.

00:09:38.300 It's maddening, the double standard that you end up seeing in the legacy media. Because at the end

00:09:43.940 of the day, they can't divorce themselves from the fact that they do get paid by the Liberals. They are

00:09:49.560 literally paid for by the government. They are subsidized by the government. And so what are they

00:09:54.980 going to do? Attack the Liberals and potentially cut off their stream of funding? I now want to show you

00:10:00.760 this new Spark Insight poll and show you how ridiculous it is. Because you know that Spark

00:10:07.120 Insight, Spark Advocacy, as the name implies, is an advocacy organization. It is a left-wing

00:10:13.660 advocacy organization. And they put out this turkey of a poll that says 47% of those on the right believe

00:10:20.680 it's best to choose a new party leader for the Conservative Party. Betting on Polyev is betting 0.99

00:10:26.100 that someone who's been in politics for 20 years will grow more popular. And the odds tell us that

00:10:31.640 only rarely happens. This is complete nonsense. I'm not just disagreeing with the poll result because

00:10:39.200 I don't like the result. Other polling firms who have far better records than Spark Advocacy, Spark

00:10:47.260 Advocacy is a progressive advocacy group. They show that that Pure Poly of the better pollsters,

00:10:53.800 he has like an 85 plus percent approval rating with Conservative Party voters. That is a good result.

00:11:02.880 And it probably means that in his leadership review, he's going to get 85% to over 90% of people

00:11:08.900 saying they want him to stick around. Is it Polyev's fault he lost the last election? I think we could put

00:11:14.960 some blame at his feet saying that he should have probably overruled advisors and consultants and said,

00:11:20.900 no, we need a harder stance on immigration. We need a bigger tax cut to run on. We need to

00:11:26.060 strengthen our position on some other issues. I think that could have helped him and potentially

00:11:30.280 caused him to win. But it's undeniable that unlike when Andrew Scheer and Aaron O'Toole were running

00:11:37.100 against the Liberals, the Liberals had a lot more wind behind their sails in 2025 than they did in 2019

00:11:43.720 or 2021. This was far more like trying to stop Justin Trudeau in 2015 than trying to beat Trudeau

00:11:51.720 in 2019 or 2021. Because there are so many voters willing to completely look past the record of the

00:11:58.560 Liberal Party because, well, elbows up. Well, we got to stop Donald Trump. Well, Pure Poly is going to

00:12:05.180 sell out the country because somebody on television said so. That doesn't really work the second time

00:12:10.740 around when Mark Carney has objectively failed as a prime minister in all the areas where he had

00:12:16.920 basically said that he was going to be able to solve the problems and he was a crisis leader. He is a

00:12:22.340 crisis management style leader and he knows how to get a deal done and he knows how to dig us out of a

00:12:27.260 hard economic situation. Well, he doesn't. And so how is he going to run the next election having

00:12:32.400 not solved any problems? But again, minor details when it comes to the media. They haven't been really

00:12:38.320 covering the lack of action. You'll every once in a while get an op-ed somewhere like the National

00:12:43.200 Post or maybe the Financial Post calling it out. Obviously, also the independent media will call

00:12:48.740 them out. But the legacy media just kind of reports on any announcements the Liberals make. I think the

00:12:54.560 public recognizes that there's not been a lot of forward momentum and every once in a while there

00:12:59.580 will be some legacy media article kind of covering Canadians' disappointment. But overall, they just kind of

00:13:05.380 act like whatever the Liberals put out that's positive will be reported. Anything negative,

00:13:10.520 oh, well, that's just conjecture. So we're not printing it. But again, they love to project a

00:13:16.680 print conjecture about the Conservative Party. And that's what's so frustrating. Their ability to put

00:13:22.940 out rumors, their ability to have a negative conjecture about the Conservatives is absolutely

00:13:28.640 open and free. The Liberals, well, hey, that's a rumor. Well, hey, that's an opinion. And we don't

00:13:33.940 print opinion. We just print the news. They don't. They print people's opinions in their

00:13:39.780 news stories. Oh, an expert says, oh, this advocate says about some Conservative politician. They say

00:13:45.360 they're terrible people. They say that they're too much like Donald Trump. This isn't an op-ed half

00:13:51.660 the time you're reading it. It's like this is a news story and they're just saying political

00:13:55.800 statements. They're making negative political statements against the Conservatives. But anyway,

00:14:00.900 so yeah, and people have been pointing out all the other connections to basically left-wing causes

00:14:07.480 with Spark Insights. We have Vesper here says, I'd like to introduce you to Perry, president and CEO

00:14:14.060 of Spark Advocacy, a company that National Newswatch has been reposting. One, what's an advocacy company

00:14:20.960 doing by polling people on the leader of the Conservative Party? Two, where is the data to verify

00:14:26.740 the polls? Here is the guy who is the president and CEO of them, or I think he's from National Newswatch,

00:14:33.060 or I think this is, yeah, is it him? Yeah, this is the president and CEO of Spark Insight, and he's

00:14:39.820 reposting left-wing propaganda about Pierre Polyev. I wouldn't be shocked if someone basically hired him

00:14:47.080 either from a red Tory camp like, you know, Doug Ford type or Tim Houston type in order to undermine

00:14:53.900 Polyev in the leadership review, or it could even just be a left-wing source just wanting to weaken

00:14:59.860 Polyev as he goes towards his leadership review to try and convince Conservatives to vote against him

00:15:05.500 to make him look unpopular if another election was called that spring. I don't think it's going to work

00:15:11.300 because at the end of the day, reality tends to rule. Every once in a while, narratives and propaganda

00:15:16.560 will win, but that's usually only for a very short period of time. I think if a spring election happens,

00:15:22.880 there is a much better chance the Conservatives party would win simply because all the narratives

00:15:27.840 that the Liberals needed to win the last one are no longer in effect. Anyways, with that all being

00:15:33.840 said, thank you guys for watching. Hopefully you like the new glasses, and I will see you guys all next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 13, 2025

Poilievre calls out hypocrite Chris d'Entremont for floor crossing!

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