The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Poilievre takes UPPER HAND on Carney after Gas Tax FAILURE!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:05.860 I feel like this is the first week in a while where Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives

00:00:10.940 now have a rhetorical upper hand on Mark Carney's liberals. I don't mean like an upper hand like

00:00:17.020 they're now leading them in the polls. The liberals are still leading. Oftentimes when a party takes a

00:00:21.840 substantial polling lead, even when they start falling off a cliff, that fall off a cliff still

00:00:26.980 takes a couple of months. Now, I don't think the liberals are so damaged that in a month the

00:00:31.860 conservatives are going to be leading them by five or six points. I think within a month and a half

00:00:35.980 or so, you'll see it be a tight and competitive race again. But rhetorically speaking, based on

00:00:41.520 the political narratives each side are putting out, Polyev has a big advantage on Mark Carney.

00:00:47.480 Carney's liberals had a great run in January, February. I, as a conservative, didn't like any

00:00:52.440 of the things they were doing. But from a purely neutral perspective, the headlines were great for

00:00:57.920 Carney in January. Matt Jenneru crossed the floor and joined him. He had the Davos speech he gave

00:01:03.580 that caused him to get into a small tiff with Donald Trump that benefited him. Trump made some

00:01:09.020 more provocative moves on trade, which ended up having that rally around the flag kind of effect

00:01:15.460 for the Liberal Party. The China Trump, although again, a international policy disaster, at least

00:01:22.060 in early January made Carney look like some international deal maker. Yes, it's not even a

00:01:27.720 good deal, but again, the short-term neutral appearance of it made him look like he's getting

00:01:33.980 stuff done. Now, as the details of that deal come out and the Michael Ma scandal hit, it's not

00:01:39.420 looking so good anymore. But now that's where we land ourselves today, where Polly and the

00:01:44.940 Conservatives are actually taking a really good position on the gas tax right now that is putting

00:01:50.400 Mark Carney way offside most Canadians because he spent himself into such a deep hole, he can't

00:01:56.360 actually offer any tax relief right now. It proves why you don't want to deficit spend the way the

00:02:01.840 liberals did. Because if anything happens, like the war in Iran and gas prices start shooting up,

00:02:07.320 you can't actually offer people anything because the bank is not only dry, it's so deep in the

00:02:12.720 red you can't even take another loan out. But in just a second here, I want to show you guys some

00:02:17.200 clips of Polyev announcing his gas tax suspension plan, and then we'll talk a little bit about the

00:02:22.200 politics of what are going on right now in Ottawa. But before we get into it, I just want to remind

00:02:27.000 you guys, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video, subscribe if you are not yet

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00:02:36.320 month, and of course leave a comment on what you think about all this. I also want to mention I'm

00:02:41.380 currently sitting in Victoria because I work for Dallas Brody and 1BC at the legislature. Crazy

00:02:46.820 things are going on with the B.C. conservative leadership race. You might know that Dallas

00:02:50.520 is actually allied now with one of the leadership candidates, Uri Falmer, who wants to have a

00:02:55.360 coalition government deal with 1B.C., where 1B.C. gets five guaranteed seats in the legislature,

00:03:00.220 and then if the conservatives have a minority government, they will work with 1B.C.,

00:03:04.480 but the leadership race just exploded with Caroline Elliott apparently completely backing

00:03:08.980 out of all the debates because, say it with me, it's the Trudeau line. She's just not ready.

00:03:15.620 She's clearly a liberal who couldn't keep up the act of being a conservative on a debate stage, and so she completely dropped out.

00:03:22.180 But if you're in BC and you're still a conservative member, I would recommend voting Yuri Fulmer number one on your ballot if you're not already a 1BC member.

00:03:31.220 Anyways, so let's get into this video with Pierre Polyev announcing his gas tax suspension.

00:03:38.260 Liberals tax Canadians again and again and again for fuel.

00:03:41.720 There's the $0.10 a litre excise tax.

00:03:44.500 Then there's the $0.07 a litre fuel standard tax.

00:03:48.020 Then there is the GST, which actually collects more money for the government the more gas prices go up.

00:03:53.720 And it is a tax not only on the fuel, but on the other taxes, a tax on a tax on a tax on a tax.

00:04:00.900 Mark Carney did not get rid of the carbon tax.

00:04:03.460 He renamed it.

00:04:04.560 He called it the fuel standard.

00:04:06.480 And this week, he told Canadians that he is closely following the rising gas prices.

00:04:13.560 Mr. Carney, no more following.

00:04:15.880 We actually went over that press conference.

00:04:18.240 That's what I said in my last video was like his absolutely disastrous press conference.

00:04:22.420 He was asked on four big topics, a question by a journalist.

00:04:26.120 And he turned back into, well, on that issue, I've been having a lot of conversations about it.

00:04:34.440 and we've been talking to people, you know, you could say that Mark Carney sounded like Caroline

00:04:39.000 Elliott trying to speak just to take extra shots at her. But it was bad. And one of the questions,

00:04:44.820 of course, was on the gas tax, if he was thinking about suspending the gas tax or lowering gas taxes

00:04:50.580 or anything like that, because the war in Iran has made gas in places like Victoria, where I'm at,

00:04:56.200 over $2. And so naturally, the government's actually making massive amounts of revenue on

00:05:00.500 all these price rises, because as Polyev is saying, not only is the gas tax is still on the

00:05:06.260 price, but then the GST compounds on top of the price increase. And so what we have now is the

00:05:13.280 liberals looking like they just desperately need their revenues. So they're not willing to give

00:05:17.140 anyone any sort of tax relief on this issue. And now Polyev is calling their bluff by saying that

00:05:22.660 he's going to do it after Carney kind of semi made it clear that he can't. So even if he does

00:05:27.140 it at this point. It's because he's being pressured by Polyam, not because he actually

00:05:30.100 wanted to do it. It's time to lead. Lead for affordable gas, groceries, and homes. That's

00:05:37.100 why today I'm calling on the government to suspend all fuel taxes for the rest of the year.

00:05:43.580 A policy that would save 25 cents a liter, about $20 a fill-up, and $1,200 for the average family

00:05:52.440 of four between now and the end of the year. And by the way, that $1,200 a year, based on the

00:05:59.620 conservative's calculations, let's assume it's accurate. And if you want to, just because of,

00:06:03.860 you know, political exaggeration happens a lot, let's assume it's even just $1,000.

00:06:08.060 That's multiple times bigger than the tax relief that Carney ended up giving families.

00:06:13.900 Because Polyeva is right. They ended up bringing their own fuel standards tax in to compensate for

00:06:19.040 the fact they got rid of the carbon tax, which means it basically still exists. But the tax

00:06:23.720 relief that Carney gave on income was only half a percent for the first year, and then he'll

00:06:29.480 raise it to a full percent after a couple years off of the first $50,000 that you make. So the

00:06:36.240 government will tax you one point less on the first $50,000, even though you don't actually

00:06:41.760 pay any money on the first $18,000, which even at the highest estimates, even if you do what the

00:06:47.920 liberals love to do. And you say, oh, in terms of household income, this is how much you would

00:06:52.440 save. It's like you have to jam a bunch of individuals together to pretend like, oh,

00:06:55.940 wow, you're going to save $500. No, no, no. Two people making $100,000 combined could get back

00:07:03.460 with split income $500. It's barely anything. And a gas tax cut would in fact do far more for

00:07:11.300 the average person. It wouldn't even just save you $1,000 to $1,200 a year. It would save you

00:07:16.020 more because the grocery stores you shop at and other services that you need are also not having

00:07:22.360 to pay the gas tax themselves, which means their prices would actually be able to fall. So right

00:07:27.740 now, Carney's in a bit of a pickle because what's he going to do? Offer nothing? What's he? He's

00:07:33.780 just going to say, well, you know, Polyev is exploiting like the war in Iran to make me look

00:07:40.260 bad. Like he looks bad. There's no way around it. This actually happens a lot in BC politics,

00:07:45.560 I find where you'll have an MLA make a good suggestion to the government, and then they'll

00:07:50.900 accuse them of exploiting an issue. It's like, I'm not exploiting an issue. You guys suck at

00:07:56.260 this particular area of policy. We have a better idea. We're not sowing division. We're just not 0.99

00:08:03.260 suggesting your stupid plan. We're suggesting a much better plan. Anyway, so I just want to now 1.00

00:08:09.300 jump down to some other posts that I've saved I want to talk about. So this is the other post

00:08:14.820 that Polyev has made on the subject. It says Canadian gas prices are nearly 20 percent higher

00:08:20.540 than in the U.S. because of liberal taxes on gas and Mark Carney's liberal plan to raise them even

00:08:25.880 higher. And Mark Carney's liberals plan to raise them even higher. Put zero tax on gas to save all

00:08:31.020 drivers 25 cents a liter at the pump now. And I think that this is a great idea. Now, the one part

00:08:37.320 I'd criticize is I've heard he said it should be a temporary measure. The conservatives need a bold

00:08:43.260 tax plan. And a bold tax plan needs to be a little bit more than this. It can't be temporary. It

00:08:48.600 needs to be permanent, whether you're going to temporarily get rid of the gas tax, but when you

00:08:53.080 bring it back, you'll make a big income tax cut or get rid of the gas taxes permanently, one or

00:08:59.320 the other. But at least at the moment, objectively, he is getting the rhetorical upper hand on Kearney,

00:09:04.580 who looks like he is completely fumbling the affordability issue at the moment.

00:09:09.940 But now I want to move on to some other stuff. Let's talk a little bit about the liberals trying to defend the price on carbon that they currently have at a time when people can't afford it.

00:09:21.100 Two out of the four things that you were hoping to hit by this deadline, the prime minister saying he had a lengthy conversation.

00:09:26.660 Oh, actually, this is for, actually, this doesn't actually have to do with the tax on gas. This has to do with the liberals insisting on a high industrial carbon tax when it comes to negotiating with the Alberta government on their MOU for a pipeline.

00:09:42.220 So at the same time, the world needs more energy than ever because of the war in Iran.

00:09:47.220 They are insisting on high industrial carbon taxes that would make drilling for oil in Alberta and moving it through a pipeline not really worth it because of the high costs.

00:09:57.420 They're effectively trying to kill a pipeline with their stringent requirements that are unreasonable at a time when everyone is begging for gas. 0.96

00:10:06.880 It's pathetic. 0.96

00:10:07.360 Two out of the four things that you were hoping to hit by this deadline. 0.97

00:10:11.020 the prime minister saying he had a lengthy conversation with premier smith yesterday

00:10:15.660 is alberta still committed to an industrial carbon price of 130 dollars per time that's what's in our

00:10:23.260 memorandum of understanding and we know um and and they know because they would be hearing it

00:10:29.180 from industry as well that a strong predictable industrial carbon price is important that's what

00:10:36.860 what industry is looking for. They're looking for that certainty. Industry, apparently, in oil and

00:10:42.040 gas, the oil and gas industry is looking for $130 a ton carbon prices. Really? You couldn't twist

00:10:49.940 their arm and make them take 50 or maybe even zero? You have to do $130 a ton. This is always

00:10:56.720 the biggest lie ever that all liberal regulations and taxes, if you get rid of them, in fact, we

00:11:03.160 couldn't do all the things that we're doing. In fact, industry wants it. They're waiting outside

00:11:07.820 the parliament right now with their wrists clasped together saying, please handcuff us. 0.76

00:11:14.100 Please ruin our industry. We need it. We can't ship globally unless we kneecap ourselves,

00:11:19.420 even though the Americans don't do this and they don't have any problem sending their gas elsewhere.

00:11:24.280 Saudi Arabia doesn't do this. They somehow are able to sell their gas. Qatar, Russia,

00:11:30.280 All these countries don't have carbon taxes, but apparently if Canada gets rid of them, everyone's going to be like, oh, my goodness, Canada's become far right.

00:11:38.720 We can't trade with them anymore.

00:11:40.300 This is almost as bad as forced labor, somebody could say.

00:11:44.200 And so we need to continue to work towards that.

00:11:48.260 You can get really nerdy in the details when we start talking about an industrial carbon prices or pieces that still need to be worked out.

00:11:55.040 I think it's really important that in this moment, we're all at the table, we're having that

00:12:00.540 conversation. And that, you know, as the prime minister said, there'll be more to say soon. I

00:12:05.560 don't want to get too much into the details of a negotiation out here in public, because we know

00:12:11.980 it's progressing well at the table. And that's really where it's progressing so well at the

00:12:17.160 table. In fact, that the Kearney liberals blew past the deadlines to actually come to an agreement

00:12:22.840 on these issues. And it wasn't because Daniel Smith and the Alberta government weren't willing

00:12:28.160 to play ball. They were. It's that the carny liberals won't get back to them. Because the

00:12:33.560 thing is that they're kind of, you know, not holding the best set of cards right now. The

00:12:38.760 carny liberals aren't. Because Alberta, you know, Daniel Smith has a good reason to say that that's 0.87

00:12:43.960 a ridiculously high industrial carbon tax to have to stick to. And so we should be trying to actually

00:12:49.260 lower that so we can actually make it profitable to be in the Alberta oil and gas industry so that

00:12:54.420 these companies will actually sign on to a pipeline. It's like they're having to sit down

00:12:58.500 and explain to Carney, the economist and former central banker, how a free market works. How if

00:13:06.180 you jack up the price of everything in the industry, eventually the industry is not going

00:13:09.900 to even bother doing anything. They're not going to start a pipeline for an environment,

00:13:14.720 a regulatory environment that makes it unprofitable to move oil and gas through the

00:13:18.560 pipeline, or at least not profitable enough that it's even worth it. It's frustrating. But at the

00:13:23.740 same time that Polyev is promising to cut taxes on gas, you have the liberals holding up a pipeline

00:13:30.580 deal because they're not being pro, because they can't come to an agreement on the gas price or

00:13:37.400 the gas tax, or sorry, the industrial carbon tax. It's absolutely pathetic. Polyev had this fun 0.98

00:13:43.360 moment actually at his press conference about the carbon tax on on and the gas taxes where he ended

00:13:49.480 up responding to a heckler who's trying to yell out at him during the event now other countries

00:13:54.780 have done it thank you she wants her tax cut on gas good folks thank you there's someone who wants

00:14:03.920 to pay less for gas and the australians are look and he's having fun these days unlike mark carney

00:14:10.920 Again, you look at the tapes of Mark Carney doing stuff at press conferences, and he is very, I find, thin-skinned once again.

00:14:18.720 He's just not having a lot of fun.

00:14:21.080 Here's another.

00:14:21.820 I just want to jump to a CBC segment that's tackling this issue.

00:14:25.220 I believe this is it.

00:14:27.140 Yeah, so here is the commentary segment at the CBC on the gas tax plan.

00:14:32.480 To help pay for it.

00:14:34.360 But recently, we've seen the GST pulled off new homes.

00:14:38.080 if we pulled it off gas too that would cost the federal treasury a lot of money suddenly you don't

00:14:43.040 have as much fiscal space suddenly you can't do things that the government needs to do and you're

00:14:47.360 looking at a lot more debt poly f solution is a number of things i'm not sure the gun buyback

00:14:54.720 he could get those savings because that's already kind of that horse is out of the barn commitments

00:14:59.280 made to the people who who acknowledged their firearms already um but i'm sorry you don't need

00:15:06.560 to follow through with the gun buyback just because 57,000 weapons were agreed to be turned

00:15:12.320 in. It's a stupid program. Those people, by the way, if you unban those guns, you can go sell 1.00

00:15:18.200 them somewhere else for more money, by the way. This is not exactly a good historical strategy.

00:15:24.400 When Polyev is saying we should cut taxes, your response is saying,

00:15:29.400 well, Mr. Polyev, you realize we already cut the GST on new homes up to a certain amount of money.

00:15:36.560 we haven't we given you people enough by the way guys how many people are buying a new home every

00:15:41.580 single year now i think it's good to remove the gst on new homes although i think this is actually

00:15:46.720 only a temporary measure they're going to bring it back eventually how many people are really

00:15:50.780 buying new homes per year it's like one or two percent of people ever actually moving homes

00:15:55.760 like what you you can't give everyone tax relief when everyone needs tax relief because you've

00:16:02.580 given extremely limited tax relief to people buying new homes. That's not why there is a

00:16:10.100 fiscal shortfall. That's not why the deficit is so big. The deficit is so big because you guys spend

00:16:16.220 money on what we'll call stupid garbage. And if we stop spending money on so much stupid garbage 1.00

00:16:21.720 that we could actually be able to afford things like the gas tax elimination, it would be actually 1.00

00:16:27.800 pretty easy to do. But the thing is that the amount of money that the liberals spent on

00:16:32.740 programs that basically nobody needs or that could be handled better in the private sector

00:16:37.880 or to basically employ massive amounts of people in the bureaucracy, basically sitting around

00:16:42.800 sharpening pencils and playing Tetris. That's why we can't have the gas tax elimination. We can't

00:16:48.740 cut the gas tax because we spend too much money on stupid crap, but we're going to pretend like 1.00

00:16:53.160 Polly is dumb because he doesn't realize all the stupid crap that the government needs to spend. 1.00

00:16:57.240 oh he he doesn't realize that you can't afford this notably this week he i came out firmly in 1.00

00:17:03.880 in opposition to the alto high-speed rail project something that has a 90 billion dollar price tag

00:17:10.120 um and something he says isn't affordable um fact check true it isn't that's an easy way

00:17:17.960 to save money so you can actually eliminate the gas tax get rid of the 90 billion dollar train

00:17:23.720 that nobody needs i and then that gives him 90 billion dollars to sort of say well i would take

00:17:28.360 that money and and use it for tax cuts and other uh conservative priorities uh just to state the

00:17:34.360 obvious though we are heading into a long weekend how much you personally are paying for the price

00:17:39.080 of gas always reliant on a whole lot of things where you are in the country of course there are

00:17:44.040 provincial uh considerations uh both in terms of the supply and uh and local taxes um we know the

00:17:51.400 prices are seasonal we're coming up on summer gas gas often goes up at this time of year okay this

00:17:58.520 is a lot of clopping and neighing about nothing gas prices move okay we're all not five years

00:18:06.360 old anymore we understand that we're saying because of the war in iran and the extremely

00:18:10.920 elevated price of gas how about we get rid of maybe at least the gst on taxes how about we get

00:18:18.120 Get rid of the clean fuel standard tax.

00:18:22.320 We could do that and save people a lot of money right now.

00:18:24.660 But she's being like, oh, my goodness, we can't because, you know, or she's not even

00:18:28.420 saying we can't, but she's saying you have to realize the price of gas is very complicated.

00:18:32.640 Everything's on computers now.

00:18:34.100 It's all in metric.

00:18:35.060 We don't know what we're doing.

00:18:36.580 So who could say why we need to cut taxes?

00:18:38.980 Taxes move up and down for other reasons.

00:18:40.860 So we can't cut the gas tax because I don't even know what she's attempting to say.

00:18:45.860 This is not a response to anything at all.

00:18:48.920 and prices are strategic and competitive in ottawa i know a couple streets where the gas

00:18:53.320 is always cheaper than in other parts of town even though the the brand of the gas station

00:18:58.120 is the same i think we all have tricks like that um so okay i guess so apparently guys if you need

00:19:04.040 cheap gas go to whatever ottawa bubble that she's living in where the gas is slightly cheaper so 0.95

00:19:10.120 stop whining you don't need the gas taxes eliminated you just need to go to whatever

00:19:15.640 part of ottawa this lady lives in specific comparisons like the ones on the the sign 0.61

00:19:20.760 behind him always fraught comparing with other jurisdictions also fraught you know the

00:19:26.200 jurisdictions australia spain ireland that he was comparing their choice to lower their excise taxes

00:19:32.360 on gas those are consumers that regularly pay gas prices well above what canadians pay those

00:19:38.440 are countries that don't have a domestic supply of gas like we're privileged to enjoy in this country

00:19:43.080 so well we're kind of like like what a kind of like substitute teacher kind of voice was that

00:19:49.060 to go into well you know they don't really have the privilege of having gas at home the way we

00:19:53.560 do it's like okay i i get it they spend more on gas canadians also drive more and also what does

00:20:01.780 that have to do with anything i don't care what the spanish are paying for gas i care what we're

00:20:06.660 paying for gas because it's all relative. We relatively pay more in gas now than we did a

00:20:12.700 month ago. By the way, if we start comparing ourselves to other countries, we are not making

00:20:18.320 that much compared to people in other countries. Canadians, on average, make less than people in

00:20:23.800 the state of Alabama. Alabama not exactly being in the upper seats when it comes to incomes in

00:20:31.020 america it's in fact a lower than average state and we're below that lower than average state

00:20:37.140 so yeah it does matter when taxes go up what genuinely this becomes a what does this have

00:20:43.660 to do with the tea the price of the tea in china kind of a point she's not i thought for a second

00:20:48.300 she was maybe like a liberal mp no this is just some random lady from the cbc like really simping 1.00

00:20:53.340 hard for carny and trying to like dismiss the need for a gas cut gas prices as you know complicated

00:20:59.960 Lots of factors. But he's suggesting one lever the government could pull. And I think most interesting to me, earlier this week, Mark Carney didn't entirely say no, but he didn't fully say yes to the extent that Polyev would have him do.

00:21:12.340 so there was that liberal flack catcher there trying to make as many excuses for carny as

00:21:19.080 possible he didn't necessarily say no okay he didn't say yes if he said i might explore it

00:21:24.920 that would be an open door that even that's kind of weak you should just say yes at that point like

00:21:30.300 at least cut it a little bit say i'm gonna cut it by a third or half or whatever so we can get down

00:21:34.820 to somewhat normal prices she's like they're saying they're like oh well you know he didn't

00:21:40.000 technically say no, then spit in the journalist's face, is he going to do it or not? Like, are you

00:21:46.620 a liberal party apparatchik, or are you from the CBC? These things are becoming effectively

00:21:53.080 indistinguishable from one another. But overall, the flopping around on the deck of the ship by

00:21:59.160 the media in response to what Kapaliev is doing really demonstrates that, yes, he does have the

00:22:04.240 rhetorical upper hand right now, Carney has been outplayed, his own overspending trying to get

00:22:09.340 people to like him have actually put him in the corner because he has spent so much money on

00:22:13.740 programs that really won't see positive effects for him for years to the point where he can't

00:22:18.360 afford to pay for something in the here and now that would actually be popular he's too busy

00:22:22.980 spending money on trains that won't be built for two decades but what do i know anyways so that

00:22:29.180 should be enough for me today guys thank you for watching the show make sure to like the video

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 03, 2026

Poilievre takes UPPER HAND on Carney after Gas Tax FAILURE!

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