The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 14, 2025


Poilievre tells Liberals to "steal more ideas" from Conservatives!


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

186.2115

Word Count

1,951

Sentence Count

109

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Wyatt Claypool breaks down the Carney's press conference, and the reaction from the CBC and the Globe and Mail on Pierre Polyvencic's comments on the new cabinet, and why he thinks it's "Broke Canada."


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.
00:00:02.880 Something I didn't highlight about Pierre Polyev's press conference yesterday,
00:00:06.600 but I thought was a brilliant rhetorical line for him to be using over the next couple of years,
00:00:11.360 is when he, in response to Mark Carney's new cabinet,
00:00:15.120 just offhand said that maybe Carney and the Liberals should steal more of his ideas,
00:00:20.000 steal more Conservative ideas.
00:00:22.240 Because the way that the Conservatives are going to be able to market themselves
00:00:25.600 going forward into the next election is pointing out
00:00:28.280 every time the Liberals do something sensible,
00:00:30.820 it was a Conservative policy that the Conservatives have been pushing for years,
00:00:34.340 and whenever the Liberals do something bad,
00:00:36.540 it's because that's one of Mark Carney's original ideas,
00:00:39.440 like the HST-GST tax freeze.
00:00:42.540 Check this out right here.
00:00:43.700 I think it was a very good way of phrasing it.
00:00:46.740 Reassurances.
00:00:47.960 And we also have an offer to make the Liberals.
00:00:51.460 My message to Mr. Carney?
00:00:53.360 Steal my ideas.
00:00:55.180 We've got great ideas.
00:00:56.480 And we've been leading the charge on the debate over carbon taxes,
00:01:00.540 inflation, housing prices, crime, drugs, resource development.
00:01:05.980 And I know the Liberals even lifted a few of those ideas
00:01:08.960 and put them in their platform to get it re-elected.
00:01:11.080 We want to make sure that they were sincere about that.
00:01:13.260 And we're going to continue to put forward solid ideas
00:01:16.380 to make people's lives better every day.
00:01:19.460 Because our purpose is to bring home the promise of Canada,
00:01:23.460 that everyone who works hard gets a great life,
00:01:25.640 that anyone from anywhere can do anything,
00:01:27.480 where you get a nice, affordable home on a safe street.
00:01:31.560 Every day and in every day, every way,
00:01:34.000 we will fight for our people and our country,
00:01:35.960 to put people back in charge of their lives,
00:01:37.840 with bigger paychecks, abundant, affordable energy, home ownership.
00:01:41.560 Overall, I thought that was a really good eight-minute speech reaction
00:01:46.740 to Carney's new cabinet.
00:01:48.520 I will have it linked in the description below
00:01:50.640 and at the top of the comments if you guys want to watch the whole thing.
00:01:53.540 You know what I actually do also like from that clip?
00:01:56.480 I'm not trying to be rude.
00:01:57.440 I like how he stopped saying powerful paychecks and things like that.
00:02:01.120 I always hated those lines.
00:02:02.900 They were clunky.
00:02:03.780 I just felt the whole script falling apart
00:02:06.560 every time they started jamming in too many slogans,
00:02:09.780 saying having a nice home on a safe street is perfectly fine.
00:02:14.380 That's a very basic way of saying it.
00:02:15.920 Every time it became lost liberal decade,
00:02:18.280 powerful paychecks, build the homes,
00:02:21.280 it kind of started feeling like clunk, clunk.
00:02:24.780 And he did a really good job with that.
00:02:26.820 But now I want to jump over to the CBC,
00:02:29.940 who are very sour about Pierre Polyev
00:02:33.420 of, I guess, not bowing the knee to Mark Carney here.
00:02:36.280 Here is Rosemary Barton getting upset
00:02:38.600 that the Conservatives aren't cheering Carney on.
00:02:41.380 And talking about how he would not be opposing
00:02:44.700 the government reflexively,
00:02:46.780 that he would do things in the best interest of the country
00:02:50.360 and support the government in those issues,
00:02:52.880 and that he says he wants the country to succeed.
00:02:55.980 He then spent the next 15 minutes
00:02:58.220 talking about all the ministers who were there previously
00:03:02.260 and the things they did to ruin the country.
00:03:06.440 Naming particularly Sean Fraser and Stephen Gilbo,
00:03:10.080 taking some questions about how he will approach things
00:03:13.420 inside the House of Commons.
00:03:16.040 But overall, you know,
00:03:19.260 it started out in one tone and finished in another.
00:03:22.060 That's all I'll say.
00:03:22.780 Because you're actually not supposed to say anything.
00:03:26.880 I don't know what possesses Rosemary Barton
00:03:29.840 to think that she has paid for her opinion.
00:03:32.440 It's supposed to be a pure objective news show.
00:03:34.980 And she gets up and she's kind of casting aspersions
00:03:37.480 at Pierre Polyev,
00:03:39.160 the leader of the opposition,
00:03:41.140 whether he's in parliament or not,
00:03:43.280 having, you know,
00:03:44.880 an oppositional attitude towards the liberals.
00:03:46.780 And he didn't even do that.
00:03:48.080 He literally ended the press conference
00:03:50.440 before it went to questions
00:03:51.720 on his request
00:03:54.820 that the liberals steal more of the conservative ideas
00:03:57.660 and actually follow through
00:03:58.780 on the ones that they've already stolen.
00:04:00.440 If anything,
00:04:00.940 it was kind of a cheeky positive vibe at the end.
00:04:03.560 He leaned into attacking the people
00:04:06.960 that he thinks still represent,
00:04:09.420 don't represent change,
00:04:11.240 are still more of the Trudeau government,
00:04:12.800 and particularly don't represent
00:04:14.820 the things that he thinks Canadians want right now.
00:04:17.160 Yeah, cabinet is broken,
00:04:18.920 is essentially what he said, right?
00:04:20.140 It's not no longer Canada's broken.
00:04:21.700 He's saying this cabinet is not changed.
00:04:24.780 A silent approach from Mr. Polyev, Rosy,
00:04:26.980 that would suggest
00:04:27.540 it's almost as if he won the election
00:04:29.000 rather than lost the election
00:04:30.120 and lost his own seat.
00:04:31.620 You know, talking about
00:04:33.040 how he's going to stand there.
00:04:36.780 Okay, well, this is just becoming an attack
00:04:38.800 from somebody, again,
00:04:40.040 who pretends that he's an objective news anchor.
00:04:43.000 The thing is, Polyev is right
00:04:44.620 to kind of declare a small victory on this.
00:04:46.700 In fact, this is the rhetorical stand
00:04:49.140 that they should have been making
00:04:50.480 from the beginning.
00:04:52.120 The Polyev conservatives
00:04:53.040 would have been way better off
00:04:54.020 that when Carney was getting rid of the carbon tax,
00:04:56.940 at least temporarily,
00:04:57.920 saying that the consumer carbon tax rate
00:05:00.160 is now zero,
00:05:01.280 Polyev should have said,
00:05:02.340 you should cut the industrial carbon tax next,
00:05:04.900 but thank you for finally agreeing with us
00:05:07.160 after years of us saying
00:05:08.340 that we need to get rid of the carbon tax.
00:05:10.320 That's the rhetorical standpoint
00:05:12.780 I would have gone for
00:05:13.760 because it's both a jab and it's positive.
00:05:16.720 The whole idea is,
00:05:17.420 see, you guys agree with us.
00:05:19.080 You're giving Canadians social permission
00:05:21.320 to vote for us
00:05:22.100 because you're basically saying
00:05:23.260 our ideas are better than your ideas.
00:05:26.120 In defense of Canadians,
00:05:27.440 he'll only be able to stand there,
00:05:29.040 actually in the chamber behind him,
00:05:31.200 because of the goodwill
00:05:33.800 of the prime minister
00:05:34.820 who's going to call an early by-election
00:05:36.680 for Mr. Polyev
00:05:37.440 so he can run in one of his MP seats in Alberta
00:05:40.400 at the cost of close to $2 million
00:05:41.920 to have a by-election.
00:05:43.680 What is this, David Cochran?
00:05:45.540 Sorry, is $2 million
00:05:47.360 not worth allowing the opposition leader
00:05:50.760 to be in the House of Commons?
00:05:52.920 Is this not worthwhile?
00:05:55.300 We could have had a federal election earlier
00:05:57.220 if Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party
00:05:59.660 weren't farting around for months
00:06:01.300 trying to figure out
00:06:02.580 who the new leader is going to be.
00:06:03.800 They'd made the best tactical decision
00:06:05.300 that they could for themselves.
00:06:07.860 That's fine.
00:06:08.700 Polyev is making a tactical decision
00:06:10.500 that if he wants to actually
00:06:11.640 be able to sit in the House,
00:06:12.480 he's going to have one of his MPs stand down.
00:06:14.780 And by the way,
00:06:15.260 I've heard Damian Couric
00:06:16.240 actually has good personal reasons
00:06:17.620 to want a couple years break
00:06:19.120 before he comes back to that same seat.
00:06:21.760 But David Cochran is turning this all
00:06:23.600 into a really petty attack
00:06:25.780 and basically just saying
00:06:28.680 that he should be kissing the ring
00:06:30.000 of Mark Carney
00:06:30.620 because he's letting this by-election go forward.
00:06:32.740 Mark Carney,
00:06:34.620 if he refused to let this by-election go forward,
00:06:37.140 ASAP,
00:06:37.880 would get destroyed in the public opinion
00:06:40.720 because really you're not going to let,
00:06:43.120 you're going to wait the maximum of six months
00:06:45.100 before calling the by-election
00:06:46.260 because that's how it works in Canada.
00:06:47.740 If there's an open seat,
00:06:48.960 the Prime Minister can call a by-election
00:06:50.560 whatever he wants
00:06:51.340 or he must call it after six months.
00:06:54.220 Do you think that he wouldn't have
00:06:55.720 his popularity hit the floor
00:06:57.080 if he's basically demonstrating
00:06:59.120 he's terrified of Polyev
00:07:00.380 and wouldn't let him back into the House?
00:07:01.700 All while he stays in Stornoway throughout this.
00:07:04.860 So it's interesting that
00:07:05.780 given that sequence of events
00:07:07.280 and given those series of factors
00:07:08.580 that it was that kind of approach
00:07:10.160 and response to things there
00:07:11.720 from Mr. Polyev
00:07:13.260 going after Stephen Gibault
00:07:14.940 talking over the radical environmental agenda
00:07:17.100 blaming Sean Frazier
00:07:18.180 for the housing crisis
00:07:19.580 which is...
00:07:21.040 It's flipping accurate.
00:07:23.060 Let's be very clear.
00:07:24.320 It's accurate
00:07:25.000 because he sucks at his job.
00:07:26.580 Housing starts went down
00:07:27.620 with Sean Frazier
00:07:28.700 because Sean Frazier
00:07:29.720 did not care to get regulations
00:07:31.520 out of the way.
00:07:32.420 He went for blanket rezoning
00:07:33.600 on the municipal level
00:07:34.720 which doesn't actually make it easier to build.
00:07:36.960 It just means you can build bigger things
00:07:38.720 if you ever do get that permit to build.
00:07:41.420 It's basically a bribe to developers saying,
00:07:43.720 okay, we're not going to get rid of...
00:07:45.360 Like, we're not going to get all the regulators
00:07:47.960 and bureaucrats
00:07:49.120 who manage the bloated housing system
00:07:52.100 out of your way to build.
00:07:53.520 But once you do build,
00:07:55.100 you can build a triplex
00:07:56.060 rather than just a single-family detached house.
00:08:00.020 That was his plan
00:08:01.160 and housing starts went down
00:08:03.360 because that wasn't actually a plan
00:08:04.880 to get more houses built.
00:08:05.940 That's just a plan
00:08:06.900 to get more bloated housing built
00:08:09.280 at a similar slow rate.
00:08:12.640 Sean Frazier's in...
00:08:13.340 I don't think he's 40 yet
00:08:14.680 or he's just 40.
00:08:15.500 I don't think he caused the housing crisis in Canada.
00:08:17.880 There's a whole bunch of layers
00:08:18.940 and effects of that.
00:08:21.060 Layers and effects.
00:08:22.040 It doesn't matter that Sean Frazier
00:08:23.720 and Justin Trudeau
00:08:24.780 and housing ministers before him
00:08:26.500 and the liberal government
00:08:27.420 were deeply incompetent.
00:08:28.920 He's not even 40 years old
00:08:30.620 or he just turned 40.
00:08:32.040 How could he have done it?
00:08:33.160 He wasn't around for Watergate.
00:08:35.160 What is this?
00:08:36.060 Again, like, I don't know
00:08:37.160 what he's trying to do here
00:08:39.120 other than be a massive political hack,
00:08:42.300 but that's not real.
00:08:43.060 That's kind of par for the course
00:08:44.300 for David Cochran at this point.
00:08:46.700 The CBC obviously
00:08:47.740 really doesn't like the conservatives.
00:08:49.660 I don't know how anyone
00:08:50.820 watches these people.
00:08:52.040 And thinks they are objective news reporters.
00:08:54.400 They are obviously extremely biased.
00:08:57.640 But anyways,
00:08:58.220 I'm not going to belabor this video.
00:08:59.980 That's it for this one, guys.
00:09:01.400 I think Polyev is on a really good
00:09:03.080 new rhetorical track here.
00:09:05.140 CBC obviously does not like it,
00:09:07.200 which means it's probably working.
00:09:08.960 And we will see what's going to happen
00:09:10.580 in the coming months
00:09:11.500 once Polyev gets back
00:09:12.560 into the House of Commons.
00:09:13.320 I assume it will be quite fun
00:09:15.640 because I don't see Mark Carney
00:09:17.720 really improving anything in particular.
00:09:20.000 And I think it's going to become
00:09:21.340 very, you know, flashy quite quickly
00:09:23.960 with all the failures
00:09:25.080 starting to come through the door
00:09:25.960 because the cabinet Mark Carney picked
00:09:27.620 legitimately is just quadrupling down
00:09:30.260 on the exact same stupid stuff
00:09:31.680 Trudeau was doing before.
00:09:32.780 There's like a couple people
00:09:34.100 in his cabinet.
00:09:34.640 I can say, fair enough.
00:09:36.480 That seems like a good pick.
00:09:38.180 But then you have Sean Frazier
00:09:39.140 as Attorney General,
00:09:40.300 the guy who messed up in housing
00:09:41.600 and immigration already.
00:09:43.800 What do you think is going to happen?
00:09:45.880 Anyways, so that's it for me, guys.
00:09:48.120 Make sure to like the video,
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00:09:50.040 if you're not a subscriber,
00:09:51.240 and leave a comment.
00:09:52.760 I will be back either later today
00:09:54.600 or tomorrow.
00:09:55.720 I have this ridiculous story
00:09:57.240 of a BC conservative MLA
00:09:59.140 attacking me down at the ledge
00:10:01.400 in Victoria in British Columbia
00:10:03.160 because we didn't vote with them
00:10:05.900 on some bill or whatever
00:10:08.540 that was extremely stupid
00:10:10.400 both on the yes or no side.
00:10:11.860 I work for one of the independents
00:10:13.620 and we decided that the only smart move
00:10:16.320 in this stupid game
00:10:17.300 was not to play
00:10:18.160 because both the conservatives
00:10:19.860 and the NDP
00:10:20.560 were basically all rah, rah, rah
00:10:22.400 in favor of big government
00:10:24.060 in their own separate ways.
00:10:26.620 So anyways, that's it.
00:10:28.100 See you guys later.