The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 27, 2026


Poilievre flips script on Carney - Exposes Liberals destroying Canada!


Episode Stats

Length

23 minutes

Words per Minute

176.1675

Word Count

4,137

Sentence Count

271

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.160 I will admit, I actually had a video recorded last night that I decided not to release,
00:00:12.460 and I'm happy I didn't because I was very frustrated with the federal conservatives not pivoting on their messaging sooner.
00:00:20.300 But just this morning, Pierre Polyev and the conservatives finally pivoted their messaging
00:00:25.460 towards something that I think will be far easier to win with come the next federal election.
00:00:32.100 Now, I do not agree with all the commentators on television thinking that Polyev needed to denounce Donald Trump
00:00:39.000 and become anti-American in the same way the liberals are.
00:00:42.560 I just think they needed better messaging when it came to the United States and Trump.
00:00:47.920 There is no conservative who's ever going to get elected by going super anti-Trump.
00:00:53.040 Because guess what? There are a lot of conservatives who like the policies of Trump.
00:00:56.960 Not all of them. They don't like all the statements. They don't like the tariffs.
00:00:59.880 They don't like the 51st state rhetoric.
00:01:01.980 But overall, if they could have a leader in Canada that had most of the policies of Trump,
00:01:07.200 they would be pretty happy with it because, goodness, you couldn't get much worse than what we have right now.
00:01:12.660 But I think Pierre Polyev today struck the perfect tone in the messaging pivot that he's put the conservative party into.
00:01:19.480 Anyways, before I get into the details, I just want to remind you guys that if you like the channel,
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00:02:01.700 Anyways, so let's get into some of these clips from the speech that Pierre Polyev gave at the Economic Club of Canada.
00:02:10.800 It was around an hour, so naturally we are not going to be breaking the whole thing down.
00:02:15.660 I just want to show you guys some key clips that really characterize what the speech was like.
00:02:20.660 I'll start off with this one to give you a feel for it.
00:02:24.880 History will not judge us by the disruptions we faced, but by how we responded,
00:02:32.740 by whether we surrendered to events or mastered what lay within our power,
00:02:36.800 by whether we blamed others or strengthened ourselves,
00:02:41.720 by whether we fixated on what we could not control or built what we could,
00:02:47.400 by whether we became stronger at home so we had unbreakable leverage abroad,
00:02:51.540 because economic strength is national strength.
00:02:54.220 Energy security is national security.
00:02:56.760 Self-reliance is sovereignty made real, and sovereignty is not declared.
00:03:00.860 It is built decisively, deliberately, and without excuses,
00:03:05.580 built by a country that refuses distractions, delay, and surrendering control over its own future.
00:03:11.160 I think you can already see where Pierre Polyev is going with this,
00:03:14.640 and this is what I have been advocating for around a year now.
00:03:19.520 That last year, I think the conservatives were a bit too indecisive
00:03:23.440 with what they were going to do with the trade issues with the United States.
00:03:26.880 People will mischaracterize Polyev and say that he was being soft on Trump
00:03:31.720 or he wasn't taking the threat of America seriously.
00:03:34.980 No, I don't even think that's really how Canadians see it.
00:03:38.340 I think that they didn't want to get bogged down in seeing who could be more anti-American with the liberals,
00:03:43.600 and they mainly focused on liberal domestic failures.
00:03:47.520 But I think where they failed was they failed to tie the liberal domestic failures
00:03:52.200 to why so many Canadians at least see the United States as disruptive.
00:03:58.080 The United States would never be disruptive to Canada at all
00:04:00.680 if we had our own internal domestic strength.
00:04:04.760 And that's what I thought the conservatives should keep doing.
00:04:07.680 Run on a big tax cut and say the fact that the liberals will not cut your taxes
00:04:12.580 shows you that they want to lose to the U.S.
00:04:15.460 The U.S. is a great ally, but it only remains a great ally if we're strong too.
00:04:21.020 If we become weak, everyone around us looks threatening, including our ally south of the border.
00:04:26.860 And all of their jokes and all of their new trade policies seem like acts of war against us
00:04:32.940 because we are so weak, every twitch of a muscle looks like it's going to destroy us.
00:04:38.420 And so I think that's what Pierre Polyev is doing right here.
00:04:40.660 We need to build strength domestically, and the fact the liberals haven't done it
00:04:45.620 is demonstrating that they effectively want to surrender Canada,
00:04:48.980 not just to the United States, but to the rest of the world.
00:04:52.280 This is the whole Justin Trudeau's post-national world come to real life.
00:04:56.700 You don't become a post-national country by strengthening yourself.
00:05:00.140 You do it by ripping yourself to shreds.
00:05:02.940 Built by people who understand that Canada's destiny
00:05:05.660 will never be written in Washington, Beijing, or anywhere else,
00:05:10.060 but by Canadians here at home.
00:05:12.440 By a country that stands on its own feet, is master in its own home,
00:05:24.460 that bows before no nation, a country that is unbreakable.
00:05:29.540 My friends, my ambition, and I believe the ambition of all Canadians,
00:05:33.680 is for Canada to be that country.
00:05:35.740 Thank you very much. Merci beaucoup.
00:05:36.800 Now, that was how he ended the speech,
00:05:39.760 but now I want to show you some clips throughout it.
00:05:42.320 He did acknowledge the issue of Donald Trump at one point,
00:05:45.740 but again, I think he threw this stuff in more for flavor
00:05:49.080 than any real main theme of the speech.
00:05:54.140 Now, the liberal media is going to turn this into
00:05:56.720 Pierre Polyev finally denounces Donald Trump.
00:06:00.340 Now, he's said that he doesn't like the Trump jokes,
00:06:02.720 he doesn't like the trade war, he's said all of this stuff before.
00:06:05.960 The media keeps basically lying and pretending like Polyev
00:06:09.720 is like the pro-Trump candidate.
00:06:12.100 And again, the whole pro-Trump or anti-Trump thing is stupid.
00:06:15.900 It's more so, it's not even really anything.
00:06:18.420 What am I, I don't even need to characterize it.
00:06:20.420 No party's pro-trade war.
00:06:22.640 No party just wants to take it.
00:06:24.820 We have a party in the Conservatives who wants to actually figure out a way
00:06:28.340 to get an off-ramp out of this issue.
00:06:30.860 And we have the liberals who just want to point at America and say,
00:06:33.380 wow, they're bad, they're evil, they want to annex us.
00:06:37.620 You should vote for us despite the fact that we're doing nothing
00:06:40.320 to actually strengthen our country,
00:06:41.840 to make us stronger against outside threats.
00:06:44.220 Now, I don't actually think Trump is a real threat to Canada.
00:06:47.640 But again, when you're a weak country,
00:06:49.840 like the liberals have made Canada, everything,
00:06:52.920 even jokes from your allies seem like serious threats.
00:06:55.900 But here is Pierre Polyev addressing the Trump angle of this story
00:07:00.120 to try and quell this media narrative.
00:07:02.420 Let's be clear about another thing.
00:07:04.680 The president's talk of 51st statehood,
00:07:06.820 whether it is a joke or not, is unacceptable.
00:07:10.460 It goes without saying, there is zero chance of Canada
00:07:13.420 ever being a part of the United States.
00:07:22.060 We love our country.
00:07:23.980 We love our country just as Americans.
00:07:26.420 Understandably and justifiably love their country too.
00:07:30.740 And that's why so many Canadians are upset
00:07:34.700 by the president's comments and trade actions,
00:07:38.680 especially considering that Canada and the United States
00:07:41.140 will always be neighbors.
00:07:43.000 Geography is the most permanent factor in international relations.
00:07:47.640 No country can call up a realtor and relocate.
00:07:50.680 And the truth is, we wouldn't want to.
00:07:52.480 Canada and the United States have built probably the greatest partnership
00:07:56.000 any two countries have ever built in the history of the world.
00:07:58.740 That partnership remains profoundly in the interests of both our peoples
00:08:02.960 and both our countries.
00:08:04.200 And it's important to distinguish between governments and people.
00:08:08.360 Politicians come and go.
00:08:10.320 People remain.
00:08:11.540 And I think this is a good way of pivoting off of that sort of thing that he has to say.
00:08:17.240 Yes, I don't like the jokes from Trump.
00:08:18.880 At the same time, why are we trying to now blow up our relationship with the United States,
00:08:23.460 our strongest ally historically?
00:08:25.220 Because we don't like some jokes.
00:08:27.640 Because that's what Mark Carney and the liberals want to do for political gain.
00:08:31.120 They don't sincerely think that the U.S. is a threat.
00:08:34.340 If they did, they wouldn't be very slowly ramping up military spending like they currently are.
00:08:39.280 By the way, Carney's ramping up military spending because Trump told him to.
00:08:43.260 It's not because he actually thinks there's an invasion or annexation threat from the United States.
00:08:47.160 My goodness, the liberals feed their own base so much garbage, so much just fear and paranoia
00:08:52.900 that they clearly don't actually believe in in their own day-to-day lives.
00:08:56.960 It's quite sad.
00:08:58.440 But now I want to move on to another clip here.
00:09:01.240 I think that this is a very, very good – I'll just jump over here.
00:09:06.720 I think this is a really, really good point that – or this is not a good point,
00:09:13.540 but this is a good policy idea that Pierre Polyev puts forward in order to resolve the trade issue with the U.S.
00:09:20.420 And this is, again, what I have been advocating for for a year now.
00:09:24.320 We have to put things forward in order to – you know, you make concessions in order to get concessions from the other side.
00:09:32.000 I've said that we should be putting supply management on the table.
00:09:35.600 Now, maybe Polyev's never going to go there because it's considered a, you know,
00:09:39.920 a third rail issue for all the parties in Canada to criticize the supply management system.
00:09:44.900 I think they should.
00:09:45.820 I think it's a tough battle that they could actually win if they put their minds to it
00:09:49.180 and gain even more support from doing so.
00:09:52.280 But Polyev here at least says you should be putting the China trade deal on the chopping block
00:09:58.180 in order to get the Americans to then drop all tariffs on us.
00:10:02.260 Check this out.
00:10:02.840 And today, I am proposing that conservatives will fight for a tariff-free auto pack
00:10:08.620 with the United States with shared protections against Chinese imports.
00:10:14.620 In short, here's the deal.
00:10:16.920 We should agree to keep Chinese vehicles out if Americans agree to let Canadian vehicles in.
00:10:24.020 Perfect. Good.
00:10:25.720 See, this is how an adult negotiates on trade.
00:10:28.780 We can be the weaker country in the trade dispute or the negotiations.
00:10:34.120 Naturally, we're a far smaller country in terms of population.
00:10:37.620 And what we then do is we then say, okay, well, you guys have a tariff on us,
00:10:42.340 but we have our supply management tariffs on you,
00:10:44.640 and we're also currently letting in Chinese EVs.
00:10:47.060 You don't like those two things.
00:10:48.580 How about we get rid of all the Chinese EVs,
00:10:50.260 and then you take all the tariffs off of our vehicles?
00:10:52.760 Now we're actually talking.
00:10:54.320 What we've heard in the background with how Mark Carney has been negotiating with the U.S.
00:10:59.660 is that you'll have Melanie Jolie, Dominic LeBlanc, and other trade bureaucrats go down to the United States
00:11:05.180 not authorized to say anything.
00:11:08.040 They basically have to sit there and, like I've said in the past,
00:11:11.540 hey, America, we're like peanut butter and jelly.
00:11:14.240 We're better together.
00:11:15.300 How about we make a sandwich together and we take all the tariffs off?
00:11:18.560 They don't actually offer anything.
00:11:19.800 They just make these sort of vague gestures towards the idea that we shouldn't be fighting.
00:11:28.400 And it's like, well, that's great, and we can imagine a world where we're not fighting.
00:11:31.540 I would love it if we had no tariffs right now.
00:11:35.860 You have to offer something to that?
00:11:37.620 I don't know why I have to explain this to people who have apparently been in politics for decades,
00:11:42.200 but I guess I do.
00:11:44.200 You need to trade something to get something.
00:11:46.880 You have to give them something to get something in return.
00:11:50.460 What a concept.
00:11:52.300 But now I just want to move over to this clip.
00:11:54.760 This one was posted by Jasmine Lane.
00:11:56.180 I thought this one was quite good, where Polyev basically debunks Mark Carney's Davos speech
00:12:02.200 at the World Economic Forum.
00:12:03.780 Engagement.
00:12:04.860 Conservatives stand in favor of a free trade agreement with India
00:12:07.480 and deeper ties with other countries.
00:12:10.260 But diversification must be grounded in realism.
00:12:14.960 Not all partners are interchangeable.
00:12:16.640 The Prime Minister proclaimed in the Davos speech that he wanted a new middle power alliance.
00:12:22.860 Actually, there's nothing new about it at all.
00:12:25.400 We already have that.
00:12:26.360 We've had it for years.
00:12:27.800 In fact, Canada already has free trade with over 50 other countries,
00:12:32.420 and most of them are middle powers.
00:12:37.120 We should look to deepen those relationships.
00:12:40.000 But their markets are already open to us.
00:12:43.340 But the problem, here's the problem, and here's the irony.
00:12:46.040 The problem is not that these countries block our products from coming in.
00:12:51.500 It's that our own government blocks our products from getting out.
00:12:55.100 And that is the major trade barrier.
00:12:57.700 Signing meaningless communiques or more stagecraft masquerading as statecraft won't fix that reality.
00:13:07.080 I'm not trying to give myself credit here.
00:13:09.260 It's always easy to give yourself credit.
00:13:11.160 But I have mentioned this in the past.
00:13:13.120 Not that they're, like, listening to me.
00:13:15.260 It's more so it's just, you know, a great minds think alike or medium-sized minds think alike.
00:13:21.140 Like, that I've said it before.
00:13:23.100 The way you get at Mark Carney and you undermine his popularity is you have to be, I like this way of saying this.
00:13:30.300 It sounds slightly weird.
00:13:32.020 You had to be the fat guy sitting at the back of the magic show telling everyone how the trick is done and ruining the whole thing for them.
00:13:38.540 Mark Carney is effectively a magician.
00:13:41.620 He is a boring, bureaucratic man who can convince people through sleight of hand that he is a business guru because he was once the governor of the Bank of Canada, Bank of England.
00:13:52.820 He was at Goldman Sachs, and he's at Brookfield Asset Management.
00:13:56.120 The truth about Mark Carney is he's an incredibly bad businessman.
00:13:59.980 He doesn't know what he's doing.
00:14:01.640 He is simply a subsidy pimp.
00:14:04.000 He doesn't know actually how to grow a functional business.
00:14:08.140 He knows how to sit at the other end of a subsidy tap and collect the subsidies.
00:14:13.260 He doesn't know what he's doing.
00:14:14.720 And by basically pure poly of going around and demonstrating that all this flowery rhetoric from Mark Carney is actually really stupid when you think about it,
00:14:22.840 I think that is actually going to be a great way of starting to claw away a few percentage points at a time from Mark Carney.
00:14:29.820 Because remember, right now, the liberals are ahead of the conservatives significantly in the polls.
00:14:35.260 I'm somebody who will tell you if I trust a poll and don't trust a poll.
00:14:39.260 Even right now, there are pollsters showing the liberals leading the conservatives by 15 points, 13 points.
00:14:44.660 I don't trust those.
00:14:45.660 I don't think any party is leading by 13 points right now.
00:14:48.720 The liberals may be in front, but you always have to temper someone's lead with some reality.
00:14:54.700 I think the liberals have a significant lead.
00:14:56.680 They would win a majority today if we went to an election, but their lead is more in the range of like seven, eight points, maybe as low as five.
00:15:05.460 They had a really good run because of Trump reentering the headlines.
00:15:09.000 Mark Carney was able to get a lot of juice out of his Davos speech more than I thought.
00:15:13.860 And in part, it was because the conservatives were in messaging limbo.
00:15:17.700 Even with this current thing around asylum seekers and fake refugees that the conservatives are pushing, it's a good policy.
00:15:25.740 It's a good thing to be talking about.
00:15:27.480 But this is why I was mad yesterday and I ended up making a video I didn't release.
00:15:31.420 Because I'm like, guys, stop picking one issue and beating it to death before moving on to another issue.
00:15:38.400 Issues that aren't really that controversial.
00:15:40.340 Now, the liberals are trying their best to mess up this asylum seeker and refugee issue by denying there's anything wrong to the conservatives.
00:15:48.340 But this shouldn't be working in a lot of ways.
00:15:50.380 The liberals should just say, oh, we take your point.
00:15:53.120 Let's work together to solve this fake refugee issue.
00:15:55.680 They won't do it because they think they're so far ahead they can just may say anything the conservatives say right now.
00:16:00.640 But the conservatives need a broader agenda to be running on.
00:16:04.980 With this push against Mark Carney's new vision for the world, his new world order, the conservatives need to counter with deep domestic reform, deep tax cuts, deep, you know, deep reform on immigration, on law enforcement, on education, on health care.
00:16:26.340 Everything needs to be transformative change.
00:16:29.300 These people have been keeping us in the mud for a decade.
00:16:32.400 The Americans have grown since that, like in the last 10 years, and we have stagnated.
00:16:38.080 And it's gotten to the point that we fear not just the United States.
00:16:40.640 We fear pretty much everyone could undermine our sovereignty because of how weak we have become.
00:16:45.580 And this is why we need a 25 percent across the board tax cut.
00:16:49.760 That's what we're doing here with 1BC and British Columbia.
00:16:52.900 Run on bold reform and it attracts people.
00:16:56.220 And what you first have to do is what Paulio is doing here, proving that Carney doesn't know what he's talking about.
00:17:01.260 And then you make the pitch at the same time, this is why we need my big reform.
00:17:05.780 You know, honestly, they should run and bring the death penalty back.
00:17:09.260 I think that would be a big issue for them as well.
00:17:11.460 Big tax cuts, big deregulation, all that stuff.
00:17:14.940 In fact, some of the worst tariffs imposed on Canada today are those imposed by the government here.
00:17:22.640 Slow permits, changing rules, high taxes, outright bans on shipping oil off our northwest BC coast.
00:17:30.280 We have the second slowest building permits anywhere in the OECD.
00:17:33.500 It now takes 19 years to get a mine approved.
00:17:36.120 None of that has changed in the last year.
00:17:38.740 So, yeah, I think this has been overall a quite good pivot for Mark, for Pierre Polyev against Mark Carney.
00:17:47.100 You are going to have a lot of people try and make this all about how Polyev is finally saying stuff about Trump.
00:17:55.180 No, he was saying stuff before.
00:17:56.880 In fact, I think after the speech, Polyev shouldn't really talk about Trump because he doesn't matter overall.
00:18:02.740 Yeah, Trump can be obstinate.
00:18:04.300 Trump can be annoying sometimes.
00:18:05.840 Also, from a conservative perspective, when you take away the trade war and some of the other stuff, I like a lot of Trump's policy.
00:18:11.500 I like him capturing Nicolas Maduro and being hard on the regime in Iran and cutting his own domestic taxes and all this stuff.
00:18:17.920 We should do some of the same stuff outside of the military things that we're not capable of doing because we're not the size of the United States.
00:18:23.660 But you take my point.
00:18:25.080 But anyways, here's one other post that one other clip I want to show you from Juno News, where it starts off with him actually quoting the Roman Emperor Marcus.
00:18:35.460 Is it the Marcus Aurelius?
00:18:38.840 Yeah, Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius, Stoic philosopher.
00:18:44.120 And I like that the idea of basically casting this as like a Stoic philosopher's way of doing politics.
00:18:50.640 Let's stop being offended by what America says, and let's just sort of unemotionally focus on growing.
00:18:58.340 Let's just focus on improving.
00:19:00.480 Let's stop clutching our pearls.
00:19:02.760 Let's improve.
00:19:03.820 Honestly, this is kind of a good, this is kind of something that Jamil Javani was right about.
00:19:09.360 If anything, even though so many people freaked out about his hissy fit comment he made that Canada has to stop having an anti-American hissy fit.
00:19:16.780 He is right, and in a certain sense, Polyev is implementing that without using the hissy fit line.
00:19:23.300 Let's stop having a hissy fit, and let's just grow the economy.
00:19:27.180 Nearly 2,000 years ago, Marcus Aurelius delivered a timeless truth.
00:19:35.600 You have power over your mind, not outside events.
00:19:40.660 Realize this, and you will have strength.
00:19:43.560 That idea is true not only for country, for people, but also for countries.
00:19:50.100 Canada cannot control decisions made by foreign leaders or words by foreign presidents.
00:19:55.560 We cannot control what global shocks and volatility might happen.
00:20:00.120 But we do control what we do in our own country.
00:20:03.560 We control whether our economy is solid or fragile, whether it is dependent or self-reliant, whether we drift or whether we build.
00:20:17.180 And the lesson in this moment is simple.
00:20:20.080 The path to sovereignty is focusing relentlessly on what is within our power.
00:20:27.120 Canada itself was born from this insight.
00:20:29.400 Ours is a country not built by accident.
00:20:33.480 Confederation was a conscious act of national self-determination.
00:20:38.400 A decision by scattered provinces to unite, to build, to govern themselves, rather than to be swallowed up by American annexation.
00:20:47.140 And it wasn't all talk.
00:20:49.440 Yes, the founders met.
00:20:50.940 Yes, they debated.
00:20:52.520 Yes, they agreed.
00:20:54.960 But above all else, they got things done.
00:20:58.220 So I think this is a great way of framing it with Mark Carney as well, is that he is the flowery talker who is not doing anything.
00:21:05.800 And that's why you need to elect conservatives who are actually going to do things that Mark Carney claims he might he will do eventually someday, even though over an entire year he's done nothing.
00:21:16.560 If anything, Canadians have been really have their expectations set really, really low on what a government can do in a year, because the Trudeau liberals and now the Mark Carney liberals over nearly 11 years really didn't get that much done.
00:21:32.480 Like they did a lot of stuff, but nothing was transformative.
00:21:35.680 It was just basically a slow decline.
00:21:38.720 And every once in a while, when the country's heart was stopping, they'd hit you with a little bit of a subsidy to keep the heart going.
00:21:45.520 You know, they just basically throw a little stimulus out every once in a while to keep the country from completely dying.
00:21:51.160 But Canadians don't really realize you can turn a country around, not even in a year, like six months.
00:21:57.220 Have you seen Javier Mele in Argentina?
00:21:59.560 That country has deep problems, but he got a lot of the spending issues under control within months.
00:22:05.340 Yes, there was a lot of pain to go through because they had to get the country off of welfare.
00:22:08.920 But it happened pretty quickly that people went from welfare to wealth.
00:22:13.520 Yes, they are still underneath Canada's standard of living, but from where they were two years ago, it's amazing how well Argentina is doing.
00:22:22.060 Anyways, but with all that being said, thank you guys for watching.
00:22:25.980 I am very excited to see what Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives will be rolling out over the next couple of weeks.
00:22:31.880 I honestly want to give a shout out to one of the communications people who works for Pierre Polyev, Katie Merrifield.
00:22:38.260 I think that since that she's become the communications director for Pierre Polyev's office in the last year,
00:22:44.260 she has been doing a very, very good job refining messaging and making things kind of feel fresher.
00:22:49.580 Because the one thing that was happening for Polyev as he went into the last election is it felt like the slogans and the speeches started getting rusty.
00:22:59.060 Like he was running to the end zone and then the joint started seizing up because the team stopped innovating.
00:23:07.080 And I think that since Katie Merrifield has been the communications director for the opposition leader's office,
00:23:12.340 it's been very dynamic and able to move from week to week if things are not working.
00:23:17.700 It doesn't mean things are always great.
00:23:19.400 It means that things, if they're not great, eventually get great.
00:23:23.120 Anyways, with that being said, thank you guys for watching.
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