The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 07, 2025


Poll claims Canadians scared to travel to US - Anti-American politics ruins Canada


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Wyatt Claypool talks about anti-Americanism in Canada and why it s ruining our political discourse and what it s actually preventing us from solving real problems in our country. He also talks about the amazing job Prime Minister John Carney did in dealing with Donald Trump.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I have to show you a story today that I think highlights a deeply rooted problem in Canadian politics, and sounds just so absurd on its face, but it is real. Look at this from the National Post.
00:00:16.140 Majority of Canadians feel unwelcome and unsafe traveling to the United States new poll. Now, is this because of actual personal experiences that Canadians have been having recently traveling to the United States?
00:00:30.000 Obviously not. What this is, is an inherent anti-Americanism in Canada that has been running rampant over the last couple of years. Everything in America sucks and is terrible, and everything in Canada is good or at least normal.
00:00:46.040 And I'm going to show you some very not normal things going on in Canada right now that I think this anti-Americanism is preventing us from being able to solve, because confronting issues in Canada is like saying that America might be better than Canada in certain ways, and in a certain sense that actually is correct.
00:01:03.840 There are things that Canada does better than the US and the things that the US do better than Canada, but to lefty Canadian nationalists, you can't even acknowledge the reality that Americans might do things better than we are, or we might even have the same problems as the United States.
00:01:19.520 I want to read you this quote from the article, because this is incredible. And again, I don't doubt that this poll is real. It is real. At the same time, that it's not based on real experience, but it's based on political hype. It's based on sort of a cultural momentum to say bad things about the United States, despite not actually having any personal experience with this.
00:01:43.380 So, this National Post article says, and I will be linking the National Post article in the description below as well as at the top of the comments. By the way, guys, like the video, subscribe, leave a comment, do all that great stuff.
00:01:55.620 But here is a quote from the article.
00:02:13.380 That is absolutely wacky.
00:02:37.020 I have been to the United States recently.
00:02:39.240 I was down in Texas with Clyde do something where he was actually interviewing Americans on what they thought of Canada. And guess what? Americans just think Canada's a nice place. They have no ill will towards Canada. They have no ill will towards Canadians, especially. They don't care.
00:02:55.320 But the thing is, Canada has become such a political bubble that people are convinced, who have not traveled to America, probably in years, that if you go down there, you're going to get picked on. Someone's going to throw a drink in your face because America is bad and Canada is good and they must secretly loathe and stew over how much better we are than them.
00:03:16.200 We're not. We're not. We are maybe relatively better in certain ways. We might be relatively worse in certain ways. But that is not something that you are allowed to acknowledge in Canadian political media or in Canadian political circles anymore.
00:03:31.120 It's become so politicized. Canadians views of our country and their country. It's absolutely ridiculous. I want to show you some things right here that really sort of put like bring home just how much anti-Americanism is really ruining Canadian politics.
00:03:47.980 There's mostly just some headlines as well as some unhinged posts by lefty pro-liberal accounts.
00:03:54.740 And again, these are just a microcosm of the issues.
00:03:57.900 So Ryan Jarrettson right here says, can you believe the nonsense our mainstream media is pushing?
00:04:03.480 And this is definitely mainstream media. It's CTV News, not a fringe outlet like the Jacobin or Press Progress.
00:04:09.900 And it says, body language expert says Trump showed respect in meeting with Carney.
00:04:16.100 What is this?
00:04:17.980 Guys, the meeting with Trump and Carney was very normal. It was extremely normal.
00:04:24.940 There was nothing remarkable about it. I disagree with other conservative commentators saying, oh, Carney got wrecked.
00:04:31.620 He looked pathetic and weak. Yeah, he wasn't pushing back on Trump, but he was pretty much acting the way any prime minister would with the U.S. president because the U.S. is much more powerful than Canada.
00:04:41.960 But then the then the lefty media in Canada, the pro-liberal media in Canada is pretending like this was a big coup for Carney.
00:04:49.660 He was very just by the numbers. He was very average for how a prime minister would perform in that scenario.
00:04:56.660 He never pushed back on Trump, which he probably shouldn't have. But we, for some reason, are giving him brownie points for having just existed in the same room as Donald Trump.
00:05:05.280 Here's another post by Ryan Gerritsen responding to this guy, Mike Gerald Gibbs.
00:05:10.240 And Mike Gerald Gibbs says, Mark Carney is absolutely amazing. My jaw is on the floor. He is so good at this. He is just brilliant. He just brilliantly handled Trump.
00:05:23.740 Man, we made a good decision electing this guy. And let's be very clear.
00:05:28.480 They would say this regardless of what happened in the meeting. If it was Polyev, they'd be criticizing him up and down.
00:05:35.500 And again, that's just silly, lazy partisanship. That's why I find it silly when Canadian YouTubers are pretending that the conservative Canadian YouTubers are pretending the Carney meeting went horrible for Carney.
00:05:45.980 It was just meh. It was not what Carney was billing it as because during the campaign, he's pretending like he's going to take a sledgehammer to Trump.
00:05:52.980 You obviously was never going to do that. Anyone believing that's silly. But the idea that this was like brilliant. Oh, great. Good thing we elected this guy.
00:06:01.260 They'd be saying this regardless, because any time a Canadian leader is or a Canadian liberal is up against Trump or the Americans, they are just given free points for winning.
00:06:11.420 Here is a here is a or they are. They're just given points for a free win.
00:06:16.960 Carney sat in the same room as American. Oh, it shows that the liberals are so great. And Carney's a genius.
00:06:22.440 Look at this body language expert saying that Trump was actually trying to signal, I'm super terrified of Mark Carney. You guys should vote for him again.
00:06:29.580 Here is this guy, Guy Felica.
00:06:32.640 Who says, I really don't get 50 first staters. You'll have nothing. You'll have nothing and you won't be happy.
00:06:39.060 But Donald and his billionaire friends will be happy making more money off your labor in his new factories.
00:06:44.920 And what is he even talking about?
00:06:47.540 He's using this chart to compare the U.S. to Canada in a way that is just objectively untrue.
00:06:55.400 Canada economically is not as powerful as America, not just on raw terms, but on per capita terms.
00:07:02.820 Americans in most states have more money.
00:07:05.900 They make more money in raw dollars than Canadians do before you even convert the currencies.
00:07:12.960 And they, in fact, pay less in terms of taxes. This chart is a complete lie through and through.
00:07:18.160 So it says minimum wage, Canada, $17.30.
00:07:21.860 And then you see the U.S., $7.25.
00:07:25.380 Now, the problem with this is that, one, Canadians paid higher taxes.
00:07:30.060 Your dollars don't go as far. This is not converted between USD and Canadian.
00:07:33.960 But Canada's minimum wage is not $17.30. It is $15, or I think it's actually $13.50 or whatever.
00:07:41.180 But in places like Alberta, it's $15. In places like B.C., it's $17.30.
00:07:45.680 And in America, too, it's not $7.25 everywhere.
00:07:48.800 That's just a federal minimum wage that's never been changed.
00:07:51.780 No one really makes the federal minimum wage in the United States.
00:07:55.420 People tend to make more money.
00:07:56.860 The minimum wage in a place like Montana, where I frequently go, you will see advertisements all over the place for $15 an hour starting positions at Target.
00:08:06.660 Because people will pay for labor if it's worth it. 0.98
00:08:09.860 They will pay more money when it makes sense to.
00:08:12.340 Because obviously, $7.25 is not enough to incentivize someone to work, so they raise the wages.
00:08:17.380 But then we go down.
00:08:18.700 Federal median income tax rate.
00:08:21.500 No.
00:08:22.700 That's just not correct.
00:08:24.320 Federal median income tax rate, $20.5 and $22, that's just not true.
00:08:30.080 Especially because if you actually compare the state and federal taxes combined, you don't pay a lot of taxes in the U.S.
00:08:37.920 In places like Texas, they don't have income taxes.
00:08:41.720 But when they're comparing this, they realize that literally every single jurisdiction in Canada has a higher tax rate, combined tax rate, than any U.S. state.
00:08:52.200 You will pay less taxes in California and New York than you would in places like Saskatchewan or Alberta.
00:09:00.580 Because it's the combined rate that matters.
00:09:02.800 And I also do not believe that that is actually the median federal income tax rate.
00:09:07.180 It actually tends to be far lower in the United States.
00:09:09.600 They're probably, again, cherry-picking a bad bracket in the U.S.
00:09:12.900 And a more reasonable bracket in Canada because you quickly, in Canada, will hit the 33% rate if you start making more than $150,000 a year or $200,000 a year.
00:09:23.920 And then we have here health care included with taxes.
00:09:28.360 And then we have, with the Americans, $7,000 a year average.
00:09:32.280 Well, in fact, Canadians are probably paying around $7,000 a year per year for the public insurance.
00:09:41.020 But you're not actually accessing it.
00:09:44.380 You can't access it when you need it.
00:09:46.480 And Americans, most of their insurance is taken care of by their employer who is able to get cheaper rates by packaging insurance for like 100 employees rather than of each individual going out and getting their own insurance.
00:10:00.460 I also have seen tax insurance rates.
00:10:03.860 This is, again, probably cherry-picking the worst possible state to make it look bad because I have seen insurance rates that are far lower than $7,000 a year on average in the United States.
00:10:13.780 Banking regulations are strong in Canada and weak in America.
00:10:17.160 I don't even know what that means.
00:10:19.400 Unionization rate, 30% in Canada, only 10% in the United States.
00:10:23.060 Well, American workers make more than Canadian workers, so I don't know what they're talking about.
00:10:27.420 Paid parental leave, up to 78 weeks.
00:10:30.500 Zero in the United States, even though, again, that is completely ridiculous.
00:10:34.520 This is only applying to federally regulated workers in Canada and federally.
00:10:39.100 And in America, they have state maternity leaves. 0.58
00:10:43.140 What are they talking about?
00:10:44.420 Do they think that maternity leave doesn't exist in the United States? 0.96
00:10:47.900 If you just watch American television shows, sitcoms, at some point, well, someone will mention going on maternity leave. 0.74
00:10:54.180 Because maternity leave exists in different companies.
00:10:57.400 It exists in different states for certain positions.
00:11:00.340 It's patently absurd that they're pretending like this is a real view of the differences between Canada and the United States.
00:11:06.920 But people like Guy Bellica, who's a big drug pusher in Canada, who is a big supporter of safe supply and safe injection sites, he actually believes that this is a true view of what Canada is compared to the United States, even though the objective numbers give lie to all this.
00:11:25.860 When you actually look at the economic power of Canadians compared to Americans, it is not a pretty picture.
00:11:33.320 We make less than them without converting for the dollar.
00:11:37.460 We have our per capita incomes going down over the last few quarters, where American per capita incomes, I don't think, have gone down for several quarters now.
00:11:45.340 It's stupid.
00:11:47.180 But now I'm going to move on to a new issue here.
00:11:51.320 Actually, here's a great response from this guy, Sean, to Guy Bellica.
00:11:57.920 And he says, taxes, 54% Quebec versus 24% in Alaska.
00:12:03.320 This is such misinformation you are providing.
00:12:05.820 Minimum wage in Alberta is $15.
00:12:07.440 Minimum wage in California, $16.50.
00:12:09.840 Bankruptcy way higher in Canada.
00:12:12.280 HC in the U.S. is better.
00:12:13.920 However, health care in the U.S. is better.
00:12:15.660 Family is $2,000 a month for best.
00:12:18.520 No.
00:12:19.060 Yeah.
00:12:19.520 So with $2,000 a month for an entire family in the U.S. for no weight.
00:12:26.740 I'm not sure of quite what he means by that, but I only think it's $2,000 a month in the United States for health care.
00:12:32.080 Maybe for an entire family, but for individuals, I've seen people be able to get good health insurance for maybe $1,000 a month, maybe high hundreds a month.
00:12:39.840 And that's for, like, total coverage, cancer, everything, broken bones, emergency services, everything you need, transplants.
00:12:48.320 And in Canada, yeah, it's free, but you're paying a lot per year in your taxes for the health care to not even be able to access it in a healthy amount of time.
00:12:56.320 Literally not a healthy amount of time because people end up dying waiting for surgeries or other diagnoses to even happen within Canada.
00:13:05.080 Anyway, so another thing I wanted to bring up here was this story, another one that Ryan Gerritsen had posted.
00:13:12.060 He's been on a bit of a tear going through all these headlines.
00:13:15.540 And Ryan Gerritsen says, but don't dare say Canada is broken, ahead of another CTV News headline here that says,
00:13:23.020 Frustration rise as human waste on Vancouver streets reaches peak levels.
00:13:28.440 And somebody read me this article today because they were, like, blown away by it.
00:13:33.280 And they informed me that within the article they were talking to activists who are paid to go around cleaning up the waste on the streets of Vancouver who were saying,
00:13:42.200 you know, the real problem here is that there's just not enough friendly cafes providing a friendly atmosphere so that unhoused people can come in and use their facilities.
00:13:51.040 Why do they think Starbucks's and other coffee shops are starting to become very, you know, hesitant to let people use their bathrooms unless they're a paying customer?
00:13:59.640 It's because of the drugs. It's because people lock themselves in the bathroom and use it as a shelter.
00:14:05.480 It's because it's just chaos out there. It's not because people aren't friendly enough.
00:14:10.320 It's because the friendly policies to people just wanting to shelter wherever they want, use drugs, use safe injection sites, has been so liberal that it has basically let them take over the streets.
00:14:22.820 It sounds cruel. It's really not. But do you know how you stop campsites from opening up?
00:14:28.840 One, again, lower taxes, make housing cheaper, do all that stuff, enforce the law.
00:14:33.300 But you don't let people camp because don't let people start to set up shop on the streets, start using drugs, start accessing safe supply programs, all that stuff.
00:14:41.800 Because what you're doing is letting someone ease themselves in to basically deteriorating on the streets.
00:14:47.320 You don't let people get into the position where things are going to get much, much worse.
00:14:50.460 And people can say, well, they have no other place to go.
00:14:53.220 No, there are other places. It might be difficult.
00:14:55.800 You might have to try and find a family member they can stay with.
00:14:58.420 You might have to try and create more flex shelter space.
00:15:02.200 But it's better than people just overdosing on the streets.
00:15:05.700 I don't know why that's controversial, but for some reason it is.
00:15:09.100 Here is another story that we have to talk about that is absolutely disgusting.
00:15:13.980 So there's this story of, I believe, a three-year-old and a six- or seven-year-old who have gone missing in Nova Scotia.
00:15:22.160 And when the police did a press conference this morning, three or four days after the children went missing,
00:15:27.520 probably, like, tragically, probably they are not with us anymore,
00:15:30.880 or the police, the RCMP, decided to do a land acknowledgement before getting into the news.
00:15:43.500 Good afternoon.
00:15:45.940 Good afternoon.
00:15:47.560 I am Corporal Carly McCann, Provincial Public Information Officer for the Nova Scotia RCMP.
00:15:52.780 Thank you all for being here today.
00:15:53.900 First, I acknowledge that we are in Mi'kma'ki, the traditional and unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kma'k people.
00:16:08.980 I also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies, and contributions have enriched
00:16:15.240 that part of Mi'kma'ki, known as Nova Scotia, for over 400 years.
00:16:19.900 This is disgusting.
00:16:21.620 You can even tell, to give her credit there, you can even tell she seems uncomfortable with this,
00:16:27.060 because we should probably do away with it.
00:16:29.040 The fact that this is such a bad look demonstrates why land acknowledgements are not something we should be doing.
00:16:35.160 Why are we acknowledging that there are black Nova Scotians and that there are distinct people?
00:16:40.280 Are there probably black Nova Scotians who are distinct people?
00:16:42.820 Sure.
00:16:43.540 I don't know why we're saying this before we're going to get into what are likely the tragic deaths of children,
00:16:49.600 but for some reason we're doing this.
00:16:51.620 But don't worry, guys, it's somehow there's worse things going on in the United States and we just need to be all elbows up about it all.
00:16:58.080 This is what kind of destroys politics in a country, is when everything is not really a problem,
00:17:04.800 because there's this other group or this other country out there that's actually worse.
00:17:08.960 When we start only basing success and failure on relative measures that are actually, in fact, just resentment against another country.
00:17:17.340 Are there things I don't like about the U.S.?
00:17:18.980 Sure, there are.
00:17:19.500 There's also things I don't like about Canada because I'm a Canadian patriot and I want to solve those problems.
00:17:25.000 But there are so many people who voted for Carney just to basically say, I'm going to stick it to the United States.
00:17:30.080 People who truly think it's dangerous to go down to the U.S. to take a trip to Miami Beach.
00:17:35.660 You're going to get accosted for being Canadian or something.
00:17:38.520 No, you're not.
00:17:39.880 And you didn't do anything by electing the liberals.
00:17:42.080 If you like their policies, you just truly like the policies, fair enough.
00:17:45.580 But my goodness, there were people who were thinking that they were pushing back on Trump and the Americans by voting for Mark Carney.
00:17:54.160 And these people are the same ones who are not going to acknowledge these issues.
00:17:57.480 Are they going to read in the paper?
00:17:58.520 Oh, my goodness, there's so much waste around Vancouver.
00:18:00.760 I wish someone would do something about it.
00:18:02.480 Well, you keep electing people who don't want to do anything about it.
00:18:05.340 I know that that issue specifically doesn't have to do anything with the federal government,
00:18:09.560 but it's a systemic voting problem that you vote for people who say nice things,
00:18:14.960 who are surface level, nationalistic, and patriotic about standing up for Canada,
00:18:19.820 but don't actually want to, you know, actually clean the streets or enforce the law
00:18:23.540 or, you know, actually cut taxes so our businesses can compete with American firms.
00:18:28.500 No, that's all.
00:18:30.500 You're being so, you're being ungrateful.
00:18:33.280 I've actually heard that before.
00:18:34.880 You thinking that Canada's broken is being ungrateful.
00:18:38.520 No, it's not.
00:18:39.080 It's being realistic that there are certain things about the country that are broken.
00:18:42.580 Immigration system, tax system, a lot of social institutions are just rotted to the core at this point
00:18:48.620 in terms of they're so consumed with things like anti-racism and anti-colonialism
00:18:53.780 that they don't even function properly.
00:18:55.300 And we have a police officer getting up in front of the media and delivering a land acknowledgement
00:18:59.340 rather than first acknowledging that there's probably a bunch,
00:19:02.020 there's probably a couple of children who are either dead or close to death,
00:19:06.980 which we should be dealing with.
00:19:08.400 It's so disgusting to even have to verbalize what that is actually all about.
00:19:14.240 We are doing a land acknowledgement instead of talking about the children in peril or who have died.
00:19:18.780 Goodness.
00:19:19.540 And again, this is all, oh, Americans are not nearly as nice to indigenous people as we are.
00:19:26.140 This isn't nice to indigenous people. 1.00
00:19:27.780 If anything, that's mocking indigenous people to do a land acknowledgement before something like that.
00:19:32.480 That's horrible.
00:19:33.780 That's evil to do.
00:19:35.360 Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys.
00:19:38.620 In this video, I'm going to be starting on my video where I go riding by riding through a few areas of Canada
00:19:44.000 and demonstrate some high points for the conservatives, some high points for the liberals in the federal election,
00:19:49.200 and kind of the roadmap to the conservatives being able to win in the next federal election.
00:19:53.920 I also want to talk a little bit about conservative strategy and what they need to be doing going forward to shake up the headquarters of the party in order to actually win.
00:20:03.360 Because right now, it does seem like a lot of people inside the conservative party don't care about winning.
00:20:07.660 They just want to make sure their positions are secure, whether we win or lose.
00:20:11.380 And that is how you lose elections is when you're not motivated by the win.
00:20:16.220 You are motivated by keeping your job.
00:20:18.840 Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys.
00:20:21.360 See you later.