The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 17, 2025


Poilievre says Trudeau should have been arrest - CBC covers it up!

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RCMP covering up SNC-Lavalin case RCMP cover-up investigation Calgary mayoral debate
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Justin Trudeau Pierre Poilievre Peter McKay Jeff Davison Jody Wilson-Raybould Sonia Sharp Jessica Prince Brenda Luckey Duff Conacher Jane Philpott Medicine Hat Mark Carney Edmonton Duan
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Former Conservative MP Pierre Polyev said that if the RCMP had been doing their job and not covering up for Justin Trudeau, then he should have been charged for the SNC-Lavalin scandal. Now, the CBC is all offended by this and acting like it's a completely insane thing for Polyev to say.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I need to show you a clip from the CBC that is absolutely pathetic. 0.97
00:00:08.080 So former Conservative MP Peter McKay was on Power and Politics, hosted by David Cochran, 0.87
00:00:15.000 and they were discussing Pierre Polyev, the current leader of the Conservative Party,
00:00:19.780 saying that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should have been criminally charged for the SNC-Lavalin scandal,
00:00:27.240 and he said that the RCMP effectively helped Trudeau cover it up.
00:00:32.960 Now, the CBC is all offended by this and acting like it's a completely insane thing for Polyev to say,
00:00:39.720 mostly because current Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Liberal government is doing really, really bad,
00:00:45.820 and so the CBC needs a cheap thing to take a shot at Pierre Polyev for.
00:00:50.260 So I want to take you guys through this and just demonstrate how absurd this is
00:00:55.140 to pretend like anything that Polyev said was offside in any way.
00:00:59.640 And then I want to talk about a few other things in this video,
00:01:02.720 including just a mini-breakdown of the Calgary mayoral debate that happened yesterday.
00:01:08.080 By the way, if you live in Calgary, I have a link in the description below,
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00:01:24.160 and I think I said Edmonton. Maybe I didn't say Edmonton.
00:01:27.340 But that should all be there.
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00:01:44.400 So make sure you subscribe if you're not subscribed yet,
00:01:47.340 and then, of course, leave a comment on what you think about all this.
00:01:50.480 And of course, I want to give a shout-out to CBC Watcher,
00:01:53.040 who does a great job of clipping things from the CBC and posting it on X for us to all watch,
00:01:59.160 because obviously there is way too much mainstream media coverage for us all to watch all day long 0.90
00:02:05.400 and finding the dumbest bits of it. 0.98
00:02:08.080 But here we go. 0.95
00:02:09.260 So here is David Cochran going after Pierre Polyev and pressing Peter McKay on the issue.
00:02:14.840 Another issue that was raised at this press conference today that I want to kind of pivot to,
00:02:18.200 it is something that the Conservative leader said in a recently released podcast interview,
00:02:22.680 where Pierre Polyev had some not-so-nice things to say about the RCMP,
00:02:27.260 comments that the RCMP commissioner responded to today.
00:02:30.660 Have a listen to this.
00:02:31.400 If the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him,
00:02:36.820 then he would have been criminally charged.
00:02:39.260 The leadership of the RCMP is, frankly, just despicable
00:02:42.460 when it comes to enforcing laws against the Liberal government.
00:02:45.860 I don't take any orders from any political individual.
00:02:50.840 And as far as his comment with regards to senior management,
00:02:53.420 I would invite Mr. Polyev to meet with us
00:02:55.660 and to meet with the people who run this great organization.
00:02:59.160 Okay, I should clarify.
00:03:01.420 The him that Pierre Polyev was talking about was Justin Trudeau.
00:03:04.020 And the allegations that the RCMP covered up crimes by the Trudeau government
00:03:08.180 and called their leadership despicable.
00:03:10.380 Commissioner Duan was deputy commissioner at the time.
00:03:12.980 Peter McKay, the opposition leader going after the National Police Force.
00:03:16.640 Okay, I already hate this framing.
00:03:19.620 Oh, Pierre Polyev going after the National Police Force?
00:03:22.680 He didn't go after the National Police Force.
00:03:24.280 He went after the leadership.
00:03:25.660 But immediately we are pivoting the language to,
00:03:27.900 he's going after the police.
00:03:29.380 Why is he going after the police?
00:03:30.840 No, he's going after the RCMP leadership
00:03:33.280 who have been shown to be very, very much in league with the Liberals.
00:03:38.780 They walk in lockstep with the Liberal government.
00:03:41.680 And naturally, the police obviously does move with the government in many cases.
00:03:47.280 But when there's corruption, you don't want the RCMP doing the bidding,
00:03:52.440 or at least not acting when it benefits the Liberal government.
00:03:56.260 We literally had to get rid of Brenda Luckey for being such an obvious liberal shill 1.00
00:04:02.500 in her position as the commissioner of the RCMP.
00:04:05.660 This is like a famous thing known about her,
00:04:08.480 that she was like a Trudeau's right-hand man when it came to the law.
00:04:13.400 It was ridiculous, her conflicts of interest, 0.70
00:04:16.000 and just how she seemed to act around the Liberal government. 0.82
00:04:19.600 But I'll let this clip go on for a bit longer.
00:04:22.440 And then I want to pull up some articles,
00:04:23.840 because they're acting like this is insane for anyone to assume that there was a cover-up that happened.
00:04:29.080 Like that, calling them despicable and accusing them of covering up a crime.
00:04:32.680 What do you make of that?
00:04:33.480 You're a former prosecutor, right?
00:04:34.900 Like, you have to work with these police officers.
00:04:37.160 I don't know if this is helpful or not.
00:04:38.660 What's your take?
00:04:39.180 Well, you do have to work with the police,
00:04:42.080 and certainly Pierre Polyev should consider taking up the offer of the commissioner.
00:04:47.360 I think getting back, though, to the central issue of the allegation,
00:04:51.260 I can tell you, David, having been a prosecutor,
00:04:54.460 if any politician, if a local mayor had called me up and said,
00:04:58.080 hey, you know, my brother-in-law was charged last night with,
00:05:01.660 I would say, stop right there.
00:05:03.220 You're about to commit a criminal offence.
00:05:05.140 And so, arguably, there is a discussion to be had about what occurred in the SNC-Lavalin case
00:05:11.040 and the interference.
00:05:12.320 Jody Wilson-Raybould wrote quite extensively about that in her book.
00:05:16.200 But she said it was inappropriate but not illegal.
00:05:19.540 He cuts him off.
00:05:21.740 David Cochran cuts off Peter McKay here.
00:05:24.560 And he says, well, she said it was inappropriate, not illegal.
00:05:27.320 What do you think she was going to say?
00:05:29.200 She's still a liberal, and she's trying to sell her books to liberals. 1.00
00:05:33.060 Of course, she's going to downplay certain aspects of it.
00:05:36.880 One, because she could potentially be sued by Justin Trudeau or someone else
00:05:41.680 for saying that he had done something illegal.
00:05:44.000 Because guess what?
00:05:45.160 She is in no position to be able to prove it,
00:05:47.480 because it's a crime that was covered up.
00:05:50.420 Of course, she can't prove that he did it.
00:05:53.420 And so, she probably wants to stay out of court with Justin Trudeau,
00:05:57.580 who obviously has more legal resources than she does.
00:06:00.580 So, of course, she's just going to say it's inappropriate,
00:06:03.380 because that's all she can currently prove based on all of the findings.
00:06:07.940 I'm going to go over in just a second and show you how effectively it was covered up
00:06:12.400 and how the RCMP did not push at all to uncover any information
00:06:16.800 that could have led to someone like Justin Trudeau being prosecuted.
00:06:20.340 But I will let this play on a little bit longer.
00:06:22.740 She said it was inappropriate but not illegal.
00:06:24.680 And I just don't know what evidence that despicable, to use that word, RCMP leadership,
00:06:31.820 covered up for the Prime Minister.
00:06:33.740 I know this is a big claim for the opposition leader to make.
00:06:36.140 And we're going to go over who else makes this claim,
00:06:38.760 because you have lefty publications making this claim.
00:06:42.160 We're going to go to an APTN article later,
00:06:44.960 an Aboriginal newspaper,
00:06:46.360 who is making the claim that the RCMP covered it up effectively.
00:06:49.840 It is a big claim, but there is no evidence,
00:06:53.680 because a lot of that evidence would have to come from the individuals involved,
00:06:57.200 including people who worked for Prime Minister Trudeau.
00:07:00.480 But as I was saying,
00:07:02.380 that's an interpretation of the law that we will probably never get to.
00:07:06.800 But we do know certain facts that there was an effort to have the Attorney General of Canada
00:07:11.640 reverse the decision taken by a regional, in this case of Quebec,
00:07:16.120 prosecutor around a deferred prosecution agreement.
00:07:18.920 But I know a little bit about that particular legislation,
00:07:22.200 because we drafted it before we left office.
00:07:24.940 And so that legislation specifically lays out any type of influence,
00:07:30.020 calls, or coercion against a prosecutor.
00:07:33.380 And in this case, it went through the Attorney General of Canada.
00:07:36.440 So inappropriate is a broad word.
00:07:39.780 Criminal is another, much more difficult standard to meet.
00:07:44.040 But, you know, I think much of what Pierre Poliev has said
00:07:48.200 stems from that particular pass that was given to then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:07:54.140 So, now I want to take you guys through the APTN article.
00:08:00.000 We don't actually really need to go through it much,
00:08:01.820 because right at the start,
00:08:03.820 they start talking about how obviously this thing was covered up.
00:08:07.980 So, again, APTN, a government-subsidized Aboriginal news network.
00:08:14.240 So, look at this.
00:08:15.800 This is APTN reporting.
00:08:18.400 This is not some right-wing publication.
00:08:21.260 A director with Democracy Watch says the investigation into allegations of political interference
00:08:26.880 against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his officials,
00:08:30.060 made by former Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, needs to be reopened.
00:08:34.000 Oh, and by the way, this article is from February of this year.
00:08:36.940 This was not recent.
00:08:38.360 This was a while back, but it also wasn't even made at the time.
00:08:41.200 This is something that people keep saying that we should be revisiting.
00:08:44.500 You know, what I'm trying to say is this wasn't like some article that was being printed at the time of the scandal.
00:08:50.460 This is several years later in this current year saying that that was pretty bad.
00:08:55.200 We should be looking into this.
00:08:57.220 And here is a quote.
00:08:59.020 Quote, we keep digging and asking for updates and trying to get information about the investigation.
00:09:04.000 And we finally got 3,600 pages of internal investigation records.
00:09:08.560 And our conclusion is that the RCMP did a weak, incomplete investigation that amounts to a cover-up, alleged Duff Conacher.
00:09:18.120 In 2019, Wilson-Raybould accused Trudeau and the members of the Prime Minister's office of pressuring her to intervene
00:09:24.560 and prevent a criminal prosecution against mining company S&C-Lavalin.
00:09:28.320 The RCMP closed its investigation into the matter in 2023, recommending no charges be laid.
00:09:35.240 But Democracy Watch, a national nonprofit organization, claims the Mounties missed a number of things.
00:09:40.880 These include interviewing only four of 15 key witnesses, failing to provide key testimony from Wilson-Raybould,
00:09:48.220 her then Chief of Staff, Jessica Prince, and former Minister Jane Philpott,
00:09:52.660 and not demanding key internal cabinet communication records.
00:09:55.760 So the way that this was covered up was basically through not actually providing any information
00:10:01.880 and the police just saying, oh, that's okay.
00:10:03.800 Of course that's okay.
00:10:06.420 There were even Conservative Party emails to its own members at the time that I went back and read today
00:10:13.560 where they were talking about how the main problem here with the RCMP is that the PMO will just tell staff members,
00:10:20.840 because they employ them, you're not allowed talking to the police,
00:10:23.400 you can only give over this information, you can't even say anything publicly.
00:10:27.720 And so they effectively got away with a crime because, like Peter McKay had said in that CBC clip,
00:10:33.600 the only people who could possibly catch Justin Trudeau are his own staff,
00:10:38.100 who are both incentivized through party affiliation and employment not to say anything.
00:10:44.440 Of course you're not going to have anyone turn on Trudeau.
00:10:47.220 So they are all effectively in cahoots on this thing, and nobody's going to say anything,
00:10:52.640 and the police did not fresh press to actually get any of the information that could cause anyone to be criminally indicted.
00:11:00.680 The police basically let them get away with presenting them the information they wanted them to see,
00:11:06.700 and that was it.
00:11:07.800 So it looked unethical what they have released, because obviously it was unethical,
00:11:11.820 but they never released anything that would prove criminality.
00:11:15.400 So yeah, this is effectively an RCMP cover-up.
00:11:18.440 The RCMP isn't taking documents and shredding them.
00:11:21.100 What the RCMP is doing is just letting them get away with not giving them any documents.
00:11:26.240 So yeah, they're not helping them in the crime.
00:11:29.200 They're not taking stuff and burning it.
00:11:31.200 They're just never asking for it in the first place so nobody would ever know about it.
00:11:35.280 Anyways.
00:11:36.360 Well, that should be mostly it for this video, guys.
00:11:39.200 I do just quickly want to say something about the Calgary mayoral debate.
00:11:42.880 Of course, it was put on by the CBC.
00:11:45.040 You guys can go look up CBC Calgary mayoral debate, and you'll see it right away at the top of your search bar.
00:11:51.560 If you want to go watch it, there's this annoying thing coming out of it.
00:11:54.920 Because obviously I support Sonia Sharp.
00:11:56.980 I think she is the best mayor candidate in the race. 0.96
00:12:00.180 But people are trying to go after her, especially from the Jeff Davison camp,
00:12:03.740 because she opposes a four-year tax freeze.
00:12:07.320 Okay, she opposes Jeff Davison's four-year tax freeze because it makes no sense.
00:12:13.300 She said that you can't just freeze taxes or else people aren't going to be getting wage increases and whatnot.
00:12:18.860 She's not advocating for raises in taxes because two minutes later, 0.90
00:12:23.320 she then says we need to cut bloated administration and wasteful spending
00:12:27.280 so that we can move towards cutting taxes.
00:12:30.600 She is, in fact, in favor of getting to the point where we can cut taxes
00:12:34.000 by reducing the amount of administrative bloat.
00:12:37.180 Her critique of Jeff was effectively that he's saying,
00:12:40.660 I'm going to have a four-year tax freeze.
00:12:42.300 Also, here's a bunch of new spending I support.
00:12:44.480 Also, I'm not going to cut anything, which is illogical.
00:12:47.840 If you're going to freeze taxes in this scenario,
00:12:51.480 you're effectively going to have to either lower people's,
00:12:54.460 you're going to have to effectively lower people's incomes
00:12:57.740 in order to then pay for all the new things you want to do
00:13:00.320 or completely freeze out all pay increases that have been planned within the budgets.
00:13:05.440 That's the only way you're going to do it.
00:13:07.080 That was her critique, is that his tax freeze plan doesn't actually make any sense.
00:13:13.760 So I'll probably do maybe a debate breakdown later on.
00:13:18.040 It was a bit sluggish because I find that they keep asking the same questions every single debate.
00:13:22.340 Obviously, I think Sonia's still the best.
00:13:25.200 She's very good on crime.
00:13:26.340 She's very good on wanting to repeal blanket rezoning. 0.91
00:13:29.460 And her wanting to cut administration is amazing 0.63
00:13:32.300 because nobody else wants to do that.
00:13:34.600 Even Jeff Davison, who's pretending to be a conservative in this race,
00:13:37.800 despite voting for every tax increase when he was a councillor between 2017 and 2021.
00:13:44.040 You can't even make it up.
00:13:45.760 But check my endorsement list out in the description below.
00:13:48.820 Pin to the top of the comments if you're still looking for candidates in your area.
00:13:52.040 I go mayor, councillor, as well as school board trustee.
00:13:55.740 And with that, thanks guys for watching.
00:13:58.480 Like, share, subscribe, do all that fantastic stuff.
00:14:00.720 And I'll see you guys later.