The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 24, 2026


Poilievre is getting under Mark Carney's skin on US Trade!


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PM Mark Carney is having a hard time answering questions from the media. He seems to only show up to about 1 in 5 of the question periods. Why is he not showing up to question period anymore? And why is this happening?

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.080 You can really tell that Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev is starting to get under the skin of Prime Minister Mark Carney on the U.S. trade issue.
00:00:16.000 The Conservative messaging recently on trade has been very good.
00:00:19.820 They are exposing how Mark Carney is trying to play Canadians off of each other and make it so that he doesn't have to get a trade deal signed while he pretends like he is going to get one signed.
00:00:31.660 He ends up pleasing both the elbows-up liberals and the business liberals at the same time.
00:00:36.920 But Polyev is showing Canadians what the magic trick is, and he is ruining it for Carney, and that is why you're seeing Carney get a bit antsy in these videos I'm going to show you in just a second here.
00:00:49.140 Later on in the video, I also want to play a video of a liberal MP trying to deflect criticism from Carney,
00:00:55.280 and then I want to show you some of the clips of Polly of going after Carney.
00:00:59.380 That's kind of the root cause of why Carney is getting very annoyed these days.
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00:01:51.240 First, let's get into this video of Mark Carney answering questions from the media as to why he's not showing up to Question Period anymore.
00:02:02.220 Now, the answer is he doesn't want tough questions.
00:02:06.520 He'd rather talk to the media because they don't ask many tough questions.
00:02:10.360 But Carney, you can see here, is having a very hard time answering this question.
00:02:14.920 I actually want to pull up a different version of this video.
00:02:17.460 I pulled up the wrong one.
00:02:18.640 It's the exact same video, but I want the one with better audio quality here.
00:02:23.000 You'll see him just turn into an um and ah factory here.
00:02:28.440 I always find it's Carney's big tell that he has no clue what he's talking about,
00:02:33.280 as well as that he's just not happy with the subject of the question.
00:02:38.360 He just starts umming and ahhing extremely aggressively.
00:02:47.400 So the media just asked him why he's only showing up to around one in five of the question periods.
00:02:58.320 Harper, to my knowledge, I believe he went to like 64% of them.
00:03:01.920 It was well more than half of the question periods.
00:03:05.220 And then Justin Trudeau, I believe, appeared for like 48 percent, something around that level.
00:03:11.600 I think Carney, as of like a month and a half ago when it was first reported, had only been showing up to 28 percent of them.
00:03:17.700 And it's been dropping ever since.
00:03:19.540 I think he might show up to less than a quarter of them now, closer to that one in five ratio.
00:03:26.320 And Carney is going to um and ah himself into a pile of excuses.
00:03:31.120 Then he's going to talk about Earth Day for no reason.
00:03:33.140 We're going to skip that.
00:03:34.040 And then later on, he's going to come up with a new, different excuse for why he doesn't go to question period.
00:03:39.240 I have I am accessible to the media. I answer questions all the time.
00:03:44.780 Thank you for that. You're welcome. And we'll continue to do so.
00:03:48.340 We have a very strong team in this government.
00:03:51.320 And I believe in the team, the ministers, secretary of state, parliamentary secretaries responding to Canadians.
00:03:57.840 And that's really he doesn't show up because he wants the parliamentary secretaries and the ministers to answer questions.
00:04:07.220 They need Canadians need to see these people answering questions.
00:04:10.580 Well, he doesn't want minister, the finance minister, Francois Philippe Champagne to go answer questions to the ethics committee about his conflicts of interest with Alto.
00:04:20.880 you know, that $90 billion high-speed rail project with the Crown Corporation that
00:04:25.360 just so happened to make Francois-Philippe Champagne's wife a VP of Environment a few
00:04:31.580 months before he rammed through funding for it. He wants Francois-Philippe Champagne to answer
00:04:36.560 questions, but just inside a question period, not in front of a committee. Again, he doesn't care
00:04:42.740 if these people are answering questions or not. He just doesn't want to answer questions himself.
00:04:46.860 Trudeau would often show up for the first bit of question period, answer a few questions,
00:04:50.880 and then he would go somewhere else. That's fine. It's okay for the prime minister to not show up
00:04:54.980 to every question period. He's got some stuff to do. I understand. I don't think that Carney
00:05:00.340 is so busy that he only needs to show up to one in five. And also, you're going to find this
00:05:05.820 shocking. I don't believe him when he says he wants the ministers and parliamentary secretaries
00:05:11.120 to be seen answering questions, as if he's really looking out for Canadians. He wants you to
00:05:15.800 understand that these ministers are actually very competent. He doesn't want to steal the limelight
00:05:20.580 away from them he doesn't care guys he doesn't care he just doesn't want to answer questions
00:05:26.580 himself and and now he's going to get into his earth day thing but i want to speed up to the
00:05:30.740 to his uh second set of excuses it's important that's important to how we govern we govern as a
00:05:36.180 team uh we've got a lot on uh important questions about the u.s but at the same time come as i
00:05:41.540 started uh it's earth day and we're going to skip over earth day i hope that's not going to bring
00:05:46.100 a too much of a tear to people's eyes here so apparently he you know lets other people answer
00:05:52.100 questions because it's a team thing or whatever but now he's going to try and slag the conservatives
00:05:57.140 officials who are working on that and it's important my judgment it is important that they
00:06:02.340 are available uh that they also answer the questions uh it would also be useful if the
00:06:07.220 opposition had more than one question which appears you're showboating and you're not
00:06:10.900 He quickly runs away after that answer saying, well, you know, it'd be good if the conservatives
00:06:18.820 asked more than one question. Now, I've even criticized the conservatives before. I've
00:06:23.620 criticized many conservatives at many parts of the country. You do have to not get stuck on
00:06:28.580 sometimes one topic area too much, but that's not really what the federal conservatives problem is.
00:06:33.840 I don't like sometimes when they ask too many questions about the gas tax.
00:06:37.360 Yes, Carney only reduced the gas taxes around 10 cents when he could have done it by 25.
00:06:43.120 That's, you know, boo on him.
00:06:44.860 The problem is by Carney reducing gas taxes at all, he got a mini win.
00:06:49.760 And you don't get as much value by saying you should do it even more.
00:06:52.800 I think that the conservatives should move on from that stuff and focus on the questions that are more substantial
00:06:57.540 and will do more damage to the liberals like when it comes to U.S. trade like Polly was doing right now.
00:07:02.500 But if they're only asking you one question, Carney, how about you show up and just keep answering it?
00:07:08.480 If it's so easy, if it's so predictable, show up and school them.
00:07:13.960 He likes getting his jabs in at Pierre Polyev, but he mysteriously disappears whenever the news cycle is not very good for him and doesn't show up to answer any questions about it.
00:07:22.680 But what you'll notice at the very end there is they said that Polyev is accusing you of showboating and just making YouTube videos and not getting you air on trade.
00:07:30.200 So he didn't answer the trade question there.
00:07:32.000 But later on in the day, he ended up appearing and responding to the media, saying that Polyev is saying that you haven't gotten a trade deal done and you're not keeping Canadians in the loop.
00:07:42.780 And where is the deal? So here is Carney responding to the showboating allegation from Polyev.
00:07:50.540 So the journalist there said, Pierre Polyev says that you need to explain your plan on trade talks to Canadians.
00:08:01.440 says you're show voting too much and then the person says that polyev says that you're show
00:08:06.320 voting too much and here is carney's response let's watch that again and i'll give you uh i'll
00:08:17.400 tell you what he said exactly so first he does the hand up kind of mocking polyev's saying things 0.63
00:08:24.980 And then his really asinine response being, when has he never ever negotiated anything? 0.83
00:08:35.180 So he turns around and says, oh yeah, he's yakking over there. 0.90
00:08:38.480 When has he ever negotiated anything?
00:08:41.160 Wow, that's a non-point.
00:08:43.920 That doesn't mean anything.
00:08:45.240 When has he never ever negotiated anything? 1.00
00:08:48.560 Okay, I guess if you're stupid, that's a good response. 1.00
00:08:53.100 You're the prime minister. 1.00
00:08:54.000 I don't think people care if Polyev has negotiated even a car loan before. Who cares? I don't think anyone cares if he's negotiated with like a younger sibling to give him like some Teddy Grahams when he's five years old. Who cares if he's ever negotiated anything? You're the prime minister. You're supposed to get a trade deal signed with the United States.
00:09:13.600 I'm not just saying that that's what he's supposed to do because I'm just claiming that's the prime minister's job here.
00:09:18.860 I'm saying it because Carney ran on it, and then he set himself a deadline of the end of July 2025 to get the deal signed, and we have no deal.
00:09:28.620 Now, Carney here is not just blowing off Polyev because he doesn't care about him.
00:09:33.680 He's pretending to blow him off because Polyev is right, and Carney realizes a big vulnerability for him.
00:09:40.180 So he is getting kind of snarky and antsy on this topic because that is his tell that he is not happy and Paulyev is under his skin.
00:09:50.240 You can literally say that to anybody.
00:09:54.780 The only people who can negotiate the deal is the trade minister and Carney.
00:10:00.060 And it mainly falls on to Carney because he's the leader of the government.
00:10:03.200 Like, what is he going to say if, like, an eight-year-old comes over to him and says, oh, Mr. Carney, when are you going to get a trade deal signed so we can get tariffs off to lower prices against that mean man Donald Trump?
00:10:14.780 Is Carney just immediately going to say, oh, what, was this eight-year-old ever signed anything?
00:10:18.980 Was this eight-year-old ever negotiated anything?
00:10:20.980 Who cares what you have to say?
00:10:22.320 I'm the prime minister.
00:10:23.460 It's like, okay, sure, Polyev hasn't negotiated anything.
00:10:28.640 Let's just say that that's true.
00:10:29.680 and and does this mean that you can just make promises and then not fulfill them and then you
00:10:35.280 can say well when has that person ever done that you know he could run on lowering taxes
00:10:40.180 not lower taxes and say well once poly have personally lowered taxes here or there
00:10:44.760 i guess you got him man you got him i guess you you really have pier polio's number here
00:10:51.940 anyways so i now need to take you guys to another clip of a liberal mp trying to make excuses
00:10:58.400 for Mark Carney not showing up to QP.
00:11:02.280 You can tell the liberals, no, this is a bad look.
00:11:04.840 It's not because Carney's government's going to collapse tomorrow
00:11:07.420 or anything because of this stuff,
00:11:09.400 but it's one of those things that over time
00:11:11.680 will set in to Canadians as a bad look.
00:11:14.400 People will start to say, well, he's the guy who never shows up.
00:11:17.200 And the liberals are going to keep repeating this line
00:11:19.640 that, oh, the conservatives don't answer any questions,
00:11:21.820 so why should Carney have to show up?
00:11:25.880 I think we're living in pretty extraordinary times. I think that there is a belief that question period, certainly the opposition would have you believe this is the only venue whereby there's an opportunity for the prime minister and the government to be held accountable. Of course, that's not the case. He is busy signing trade deals, negotiating with world leaders.
00:11:49.980 Signing trade deals? With whom? I know they can say Indonesia, China, but that wasn't his campaign promise.
00:11:57.960 Yeah, he said something about diversifying trade, kind of.
00:12:00.860 The U.S. trade deal was the keystone promise.
00:12:05.780 You can't say, oh, he's busy signing trade deals. Why not the U.S. one?
00:12:09.540 The U.S. ambassador said that there has been no substantial movement on trade talks since October.
00:12:15.480 since October and the liberals have really not brought up anything to contradict that they would
00:12:20.160 say oh no no conversation's been going on okay yeah you've been jaw jacking you've had a coffee
00:12:25.900 clatch or two here and there but have you actually gotten anywhere that's the point and they can't
00:12:31.040 contradict the fact that they've not gotten anywhere oh we'll call who cares if Carney's
00:12:36.080 out in QP because he's out there signing stuff how about he signs the one that matters Indonesia
00:12:41.060 we do I think it was like 18 billion I don't even think it was that it's like it was like 3.6
00:12:45.120 billion 2.8 billion dollars of trade every year with them in terms of our exports going to
00:12:49.920 indonesia yeah i'd give them that as a win you know but it's not a very big win doesn't really
00:12:56.400 make it much of a difference no one's lives are getting any noticeably better because of a new
00:13:01.200 deal with indonesia even if we traded more with them the more than 100 more it still wouldn't
00:13:06.560 matter and it's probably not going to be that much dealing with significant crises that are
00:13:11.120 happening around the world um he is in question period uh he is answering questions yes the
00:13:18.960 problem is how often technically if he showed up once or twice you could say well he's been in
00:13:23.560 question period he's he's in question period in this vague idea that going a couple times means
00:13:29.240 that you've been there but it's the consistency that's the problem no one's saying 100 of the
00:13:34.780 time can he at least show up as much as trudeau did i'm not even asking him to be harper just
00:13:39.620 justin trudeau and he can't do that but guys there's crises in the world everything's in
00:13:45.220 metric these days it's all on computers he can't show up to question period the world too complex
00:13:50.260 um i would uh maybe suggest that if the leader of the opposition uh took question period a little
00:13:57.360 bit more seriously as opposed to just being a factory for clips where he's asking the same
00:14:02.100 10 questions over and over again that perhaps it might elicit something different out of their
00:14:06.600 Now, again, let's just say that that's true.
00:14:09.920 It's not true that the Conservatives are only asking the same question over and over again.
00:14:14.300 Let's say it's true.
00:14:16.100 So what?
00:14:17.280 Have Mark Carney come there and dunk on him, saying,
00:14:20.160 you've been asking the same thing for the past seven days,
00:14:22.580 and I've been giving you the same answer, and you won't take it.
00:14:25.140 He could do something like that.
00:14:27.140 This is just excuses for him not to show up.
00:14:29.980 Why have any of the ministers answer questions if it's the same questions every time?
00:14:33.580 Point out that that's true.
00:14:34.760 they're only saying it now because they thought it was a good line to get them out of the fact
00:14:39.080 that it's a bad look that carny does not show up anyways but now we have to move on to this other
00:14:45.060 these other videos i want to show you of pure poly of the rhetoric that he's been using recently
00:14:50.080 that i want to kind of put a fine point on that this is the right thing to be doing this is why
00:14:57.420 carny is or this is why poly of is getting under carny's skin i've said this before carny is
00:15:03.320 exposing the magic trick that Mark Carney is using. He is basically trying to say, oh, I'm
00:15:09.980 getting a deal signed. I'm getting a deal signed without ever actually getting to the deal. This
00:15:13.900 is the same thing that Carney does on pipelines. He wants to be Mr. Pipeline by signing an MOU
00:15:18.740 with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and saying a lot of good things about pipelines and oil and
00:15:23.440 gas. But at the same time, he effectively gives First Nations vetoes, environmentalist groups,
00:15:29.160 consultations he says oh it depends on what the bc government wants to do even though none of that 0.99
00:15:34.120 actually matters he could just approve it tomorrow he could get all the stupid regulations and taxes 0.97
00:15:37.960 out of the way make it very easy to build a pipeline he could do that tomorrow but he doesn't 0.97
00:15:42.680 want to take off the environmental base of the liberals by building a pipeline but he doesn't
00:15:46.840 want to take off the business liberals by saying he's not going to build a pipeline so he says he
00:15:50.520 will build a pipeline but he so obviously is never if you're you know follow politics well enough
00:15:55.160 most people don't but if you follow politics well enough you can tell he's not actually going to get
00:16:00.680 there and so by doing it the way he's doing it he's hoping that both groups keep voting liberal
00:16:06.520 even though the environmentals don't like that he's even talking about the pipeline although
00:16:10.120 they'll tolerate him because it's still never getting done and the business liberals are not
00:16:14.200 getting what they want in a pipeline but at least he's talking positively about it same thing on
00:16:19.240 trade he wants to balance the business liberals who want a trade agreement because they don't
00:16:23.560 want the economy to collapse against the elbows up liberals who are delusional and don't care
00:16:28.200 about trading with the united states and they just want carney to fight with trump he is basically 0.96
00:16:32.600 and in both these cases it's the business liberals that are the suckers because he's never going to
00:16:37.160 do the thing so he's mainly playing to the environmentalists and the elbows up people and
00:16:41.480 this is what poly of here is exposing it's the game that carney is playing and getting back to
00:16:47.480 tariff free trade that's what our focus should be and i think the prime minister should get away
00:16:52.280 from all of the theatrics the youtube videos and the distractions and tell us how he's going to
00:16:57.780 achieve that and getting back to tariff free trade that's what our focus should be and i and so i just
00:17:04.140 want to so the thing with this is that i just want to play the short clip there i was getting a bit
00:17:08.520 distracted myself there but what polyev again is trying to point out is that carney is not act does
00:17:14.540 not actually have his eye on the ball he's not actually trying to get to that trade agreement
00:17:19.380 Now, I want to play you this longer segment where he actually exposes what the magic trick is, the contradictory statements that he keeps making, hoping that the business liberals don't notice the anti-American things he's saying.
00:17:31.720 And then he hopes that the elbows up people do not see the pro-American things he's saying.
00:17:37.220 He said in that video that it is a weakness that we trade with the U.S.
00:17:41.580 Today, he said we're stronger together with the Americans.
00:17:45.420 He said recently that he wants a rupture with the U.S.
00:17:50.280 And now he says he thinks we can get a mutually beneficial deal.
00:17:55.420 These are contradictions all in the span of a few days.
00:17:59.440 So which is it?
00:18:00.540 Is it a rupture or are we stronger together?
00:18:03.980 And why is it that he contradicts himself so wildly?
00:18:06.900 Is it because he doesn't know what he's doing from one day to the next?
00:18:09.580 Or more likely, is it that he's using sensationalist words he does not mean
00:18:14.180 to make headlines distracting from rising costs, crime and corruption here at home in his own
00:18:20.200 liberal government. Now, Pauli ties it to him wanting to distract from failures. And while
00:18:25.580 that's partially true, I think it's mainly that he wants the contradiction and he wants
00:18:30.040 that the headlines are actually part of not getting a trade deal signed. Carney knows what
00:18:35.720 he's doing when he goes to the Oval Office twice, but then he lets Ontario Premier Doug Ford run
00:18:40.900 anti-Trump ads in the United States. And for everyone saying, well, Trump shouldn't have
00:18:45.360 overreacted. He should have let the ads run and he should have focused on signing a deal with
00:18:49.060 Carney. Do you think that any of the elbows up liberals who hate Trump would be okay with,
00:18:56.440 let's say, a Republican governor like Greg Abbott in Texas or Ron DeSantis in Florida
00:19:00.600 running anti-Carney ads in Canada? They would say that was foreign interference and you can't trust
00:19:05.580 the U.S. We can't sign a deal with them. And so when Carney says stuff about how our relationship
00:19:11.720 with the U.S. is ruptured and it's changed forever and all that, he is attempting to try and give
00:19:17.920 himself permission to not actually get that deal signed. But then he will keep talking about, oh,
00:19:23.160 we have great conversations. We're trying to move forward. We have and he's visiting Trump in the
00:19:26.920 Oval Office so that the business liberals think it actually might happen. It's never going to
00:19:31.560 happen. Carney is making sure it's never going to happen. And because if he gets a deal signed,
00:19:36.520 the elbows up liberals will be mad and they might go and vote NDP. But if he just says he's not
00:19:42.080 actually interested in getting a deal signed, then the business liberals will go and vote
00:19:46.380 conservative. And so by Mpoliyev making the statements that he is, he is forcing Mark Carney
00:19:53.500 to pick a lane. You either have to pick no deal or get a deal signed. Either say to Trump, go
00:20:00.480 screw yourself. I'm not signing a trade deal with you because I don't trust you. Or just actually 0.99
00:20:05.640 go there yourself, figure out what the problems are, and get the deal signed. Because the thing
00:20:10.960 that Polyev has also been doing well is that he has not pivoted, because media likes to say he's
00:20:16.140 had a pivot on trade, because the implication is, oh, he used to be pro-Trump, and now he's less
00:20:19.980 pro-Trump. He was never pro-Trump in the first place. Every Canadian politician is going to be
00:20:23.900 pro-Canada. Every American politician is going to be pro-American. What he did before was basically
00:20:29.460 just keep pointing at his watch and saying, where's the deal, Carney? And that was effective
00:20:33.640 to a point, but I don't think it was teaching Canadians the sort of failure or why the deal
00:20:40.600 hasn't shown up and how it's Carney's fault. What Polyev has been doing more recently is actually
00:20:46.140 making suggestions. Why don't you use the China deal, rip it up for zero tariffs with the U.S.
00:20:53.280 on things? What are the things that you're asking for from the U.S.? What are they asking for from
00:20:58.260 us. And that's what Polly is starting to point out to Canadians is, do we even know what this
00:21:02.320 guy's doing? What concessions do the Americans want from us? What concessions do we want from
00:21:06.760 them? How do we meet in the middle here? And if Polly is basically borderline saying, hey,
00:21:13.280 Mark Carney, if you don't want to use the trade negotiators for a time, how about you give them
00:21:18.400 to me and I can go sign the deal for you? Polly should just keep hammering on it and keep making 1.00
00:21:23.340 the point. If you don't want to get the deal signed, how about I go and do it for you? That's 1.00
00:21:28.020 kind of big bang that he wants eventually just saying if you're not interested how about let me
00:21:33.140 do it he needs to kind of demonstrate and reflect that frustration in not getting a deal signed
00:21:39.220 that he is fine with you paying higher prices because he doesn't want to go down there and
00:21:43.620 risk anything politically he would rather just not sign anything with donald trump and you pay higher
00:21:49.860 prices than have to be on camera signing something with trump and making him look reasonable
00:21:55.060 is trump reasonable is he unreasonable it doesn't matter we can't say he's unreasonable and then
00:22:01.380 just say we're ever going to sign something with him then stop being prime minister i'm sorry then
00:22:05.420 don't promise you're going to get a deal signed if a few months later you're gonna be like ah he's
00:22:08.720 too unreasonable to get anything done with you said you talked you negotiated with him before
00:22:12.620 that you've done deals with him that you've worked with him before and now he's too unreasonable to
00:22:17.200 do it it's just a bunch of lies anyways without all being said thank you guys for watching this
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