The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 20, 2025


Protesters disrupt Chrystia Freeland's campaign launch - Radicals back Carney

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Mark Carney Chrystia Freeland Justin Trudeau Michael Clark Chandra Aria Karina Gould Sam Harris George Chahal Danielle Smith Pierre Poilievre Katie Telford Melanie Jolie Mahmoud Abbas Parm Baines Michael Smith Frank Bayless Team Trudeau Gerald Butts Harjit Sajjan Sumer Zabari and 11 more
The Liberal's post-Trudeau poll bump is a mirage Mark Carney is Trudeau's 4th Term! Worst Liberal MPs endorse Carney

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Christia Freeland is running for the Liberal Party leadership, and it was a pretty meh day. In fact, it was so meh, in fact, that there were protesters interrupting her entire speech and heckling her throughout the entire event.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. So yesterday we saw Christia Freeland, Canada's former Deputy
00:00:07.400 Prime Minister and Finance Minister, officially launch her leadership campaign. A couple days
00:00:13.840 before she released her leadership video, but this was her actual in-person launch in her riding of
00:00:20.040 University Rosedale, which by the way the Conservatives have a better chance of winning
00:00:24.640 than she does at this point, and it was a very meh announcement. I'm not sure if it's worse than
00:00:32.220 Mark Carney's, but we will sort of get into that as we review things. First off, she had like the
00:00:38.980 worst video team. I guarantee she's already fired these people, because on the left that is her feed 1.00
00:00:45.180 of the launch event, and on the right is global news. And this is not like artificially blurry
00:00:51.960 because it's a bad screen cap of the live stream. This is how bad it was. It was like 480p,
00:00:59.180 180p, 140p the entire time, and it made the room look really empty because of the low camera angle.
00:01:05.760 And then on global news, if you actually watched on one of the legacy media stations,
00:01:10.280 it made the room look much bigger, which tells you what the difference a camera angle makes.
00:01:16.240 But the whole event was kind of awkward. One, because it was kind of weird to roll out her
00:01:21.820 why I'm running leadership video the day before, she then gets on stage and says,
00:01:26.500 guess what, everyone? I'm running. It's like, we know. So this is all kind of redundant.
00:01:32.520 And overall, the event was just, you know, what you would expect. Christia Freeland is not a
00:01:37.380 particularly charismatic figure. So the whole thing was kind of awkward because she's not a
00:01:42.140 particularly charismatic person. But does she really need to be? She's up against Karina Gould and
00:01:49.120 Mark Carney. So I guess not. I guess she's doing perfectly fine. But I'm about to show you a really
00:01:54.820 cringe video from her announcement where, again, she's trying to get the energy up in the room and 0.99
00:02:00.520 it just doesn't work. She is not an opponent of Pierre Polyev. Neither is Mark Carney because
00:02:06.880 neither of these people can project personality, can project energy. But anyways, before I get into
00:02:14.060 that, guys, reminder, if you like the show, make sure to like this video, leave your predictions on
00:02:20.260 who you think is going to win the Liberal Party leadership race. And by the way, I actually have
00:02:25.080 a new leadership contender to mention in this video, who's actually somewhat good. That sounds
00:02:31.800 strange, but it will make sense later. So anyways, like the video, leave a comment, subscribe if you're
00:02:37.000 not yet a subscriber. And now without further ado, here is Christia Freeland trying to generate some
00:02:43.380 energy at this event.
00:02:44.840 You're ready to fight, aren't you? I can feel it. That is so great. That is so, so great. We are ready
00:02:57.820 to fight, aren't we? And so with your help, we are going to fight.
00:03:13.380 This is like a Dora the Explorer version of Kamala Harris. Are we going to fight? Yes? Hey guys, are you
00:03:24.560 ready to fight? Okay. Okay. Well then let's go fight. It was like Kamala Harris getting in, getting
00:03:31.360 caught in loops because her teleprompter shorted out. So she just keeps saying 30 days, 30 days or
00:03:39.220 whatever she got stuck saying like towards the end of the presidential election. It was really bad.
00:03:44.500 And that was similarly bad. An interesting part of this entire leadership race I have found is
00:03:50.900 watching which MPs are lining up behind which leadership candidates in terms of endorsements.
00:03:57.360 Because as bad as Christia Freeland is, and she's obviously bad. She did horrible things to Canadians. 1.00
00:04:03.100 She seems to have the less insane supporters. Because I noticed that all of the crazy radicals, 0.99
00:04:11.660 all of the, you know, pro-terror, Kalistani, CCP operative MPs are actually lining up behind
00:04:20.520 Mark Carney, who is really just the cutout for Justin Trudeau and Team Trudeau. Gerald Butts is on
00:04:27.240 his campaign. Katie Telford is on his campaign. I guarantee Rob Silver is in there somewhere.
00:04:32.300 Trudeau is probably advising in the back. Tons of people are all over Mark Carney's campaign.
00:04:38.900 And Christia Freeland tends to have like the non-Trudeau sort of disgruntled rebels on her 1.00
00:04:43.640 team. The funny thing is Mark Carney and Christia Freeland in terms of policy are like borderline no
00:04:48.800 different than Trudeau. They might try and differentiate themselves now. But in practice,
00:04:53.280 they've never been different other than what they're going to attempt to say now to pretend that
00:04:57.920 they're different. But Christia had like tons of protesters interrupting her speech throughout 1.00
00:05:03.000 the entire event. We have this Chinese asset here, this pro-terror guy saying, shame on you,
00:05:10.060 Christia Freeland, and all the genocide supporting politicians standing behind you. Your legacy will 0.85
00:05:15.460 always and forever be genocide. Genocide how? What are you talking about? They're talking about
00:05:22.440 grave danger. Are they talking about Palestinian stuff? Are they talking about indigenous stuff? I don't 1.00
00:05:25.880 even know. Their complaints are weird and inconsistent. But like, look at this. They even had this other
00:05:31.780 crazy lady who's like protesting Freeland on behalf of Palestine or whatever, or Gaza, as if Freeland was 0.99
00:05:39.040 even pro-Israel. If anything, she was deeply anti-Israel. But she is not the most anti-Israel. And that's why 0.77
00:05:45.540 you see the anti-Israel MPs and ministers like Melanie Jolie getting behind Mark Carney. You have George
00:05:51.600 Chahal. You have all these other people who have never found something wrong to say about Hamas, 0.93
00:05:56.440 who have openly gone to the West Bank to shake the hands of Mahmoud Abbas, who literally has a pay for
00:06:03.160 slave pension program for Palestinians in the West Bank who murdered Jews in Israel. It's wacky. So we
00:06:09.500 had tons of stuff like this coming up from her event.
00:06:27.900 Get that woman a lozenge because she cannot actually even speak. I could not understand anything she was 1.00
00:06:34.440 trying to yell there. But I want to take I want to steal you guys for a second and show you the the
00:06:41.320 current endorsement lists in Canada for each of these candidates because it's telling who is endorsing
00:06:48.300 who. Again, obviously, all of these candidates are awful. But why is it that this Mark Carney has all 0.96
00:06:56.620 these people endorsing him? I said to quickly put this up on screen. This is just the Wikipedia page that
00:07:02.020 follows the leadership election. But it's a perfectly fine source. He has Safak Ali endorsing him from
00:07:09.620 Brampton Center. Parham Baines, who, by the way, was named by independent MP Kevin Vuong as being
00:07:16.440 involved in Chinese interference. We have George Chahal, who is very friendly with the Kalistanis.
00:07:21.860 Suk Dhaliwal, very friendly with the Kalistanis. Ali Essayia.
00:07:26.020 A lot of these guys, more Kalistanis, lots more pro-Palestine people. Who else do we have here?
00:07:34.660 There's Harjit Sajan, another Kalistani. Randeep Sarai, Kalistani. We have, who is this? 1.00
00:07:41.540 Salma Zaid, very pro, you know, not very anti-Israel. Sumer Zabari. We have tons of these people who have all
00:07:49.580 engaged in the most crazy of pro-terror justifications. These people are just anti-Western.
00:07:58.380 And Mark Carney has become the anti-Western candidate. So between the two, it's weird for
00:08:03.040 me to say Freeland is like the patriotic candidate. Like you don't entirely hate the country. Like you
00:08:09.260 hate the people because Chrystia Freeland keeps doing things that demonstrates that she has contempt for 1.00
00:08:13.780 Canadians. But somehow she is not the most insane one in this race. It's in fact Mark Carney. 0.98
00:08:19.580 But just to now contradict myself, here is Karina Gould's campaign launch event that was also on a
00:08:27.300 Sunday, probably just to disrupt Chrystia Freeland's. And Pam Damoff, one of her endorsers, gave a bit of
00:08:34.120 a weird speech at this event, which made even what Chrystia Freeland said earlier seem normal and very
00:08:40.880 coherent. And this was clipped by Alex Zoltan, great person to be following on X because he does these
00:08:46.780 really great edits of parliamentary footage and CPAC footage where he zooms in on people's faces.
00:08:53.940 But look at this.
00:08:55.500 Hello, Burlington!
00:08:56.540 I'm a friend of Karina's, just like all of you in this room. Yes, thank you.
00:09:12.080 They're going to play music. I can't play the rest of this or I can at least put the sound on. But Karina Gould's campaign launch was weird overall. She only has like two endorsing MPs. And the theory is that she's only in this race to try and disrupt 0.97
00:09:26.520 Christian Freeland's ability to win and probably working on behalf of the Mark Carney set, I guess the Mark Carney camp. But there is one candidate who is actually not bad. And this sounds so weird to say about a liberal leadership race, but you also are not going to expect who
00:09:47.520 this is. So this actually came out from the Campaign Life Coalition, a Catholic pro-life group, and they're endorsing one of the candidates because there's this man, Michael Clark, if I can bring it up on screen here. Sorry, I was having to fiddle around with this. But Michael Clark, I had never heard of him before, but he is a pro-life centrist liberal running in this leadership race and is in fact,
00:10:14.520 actually already gotten the $350,000 supposedly to run in this race. And I guess he's part of like Liberty Coalition of Canadians or something like that. And he was kind of like this liberal centrist who is campaigning against lockdowns and vaccine mandates and is pro-life and is kind of like a 90s liberal. So if you want to sign up for a liberal, you know, if you want to sign up for a liberal membership to vote for somebody,
00:10:43.520 I would have first suggest voting for this guy, Michael Clark, hopefully I didn't accidentally say Michael Smith, but Michael Clark, and then I'd vote probably number two Frank Bayless and then three Chandra Arya because Chandra Arya is hilarious, because he cannot speak French and barely can speak English. But yeah, so far, very weird race. Do I think that 0.99
00:11:07.520 that Christian Freeland, here's the thing, everyone keeps talking about it as a coordination for Mark Carney, every day, I only see him as a weaker and weaker candidate. When I see videos like pure Polly of questioning him in a committee meeting, which I'll probably play on another episode, and Mark Carney being evasive, I don't see this guy someone who's going to stand up to Polly have added debate. When I see Mark Carney only able to bring in $125,000 for his campaign in 24 hours, which is nothing.
00:11:35.520 Considering that all of his donors, considering that all of his donors, all of his friends knew he was announcing. And that is only the equivalent of 71 max donations in 24 hours and people knew he was going to run probably for months. That's nothing.
00:11:47.520 Christia at least has a lot of the liberals who are kind of sick of Trudeau, because as much as you and I hate Trudeau as conservatives, there is also a faction of liberals who equally despise him because they think that he is losing them the next election.
00:12:04.260 They should lose, by the way, but those people are more likely to get by in Freeland. And so far, she's actually winning the endorsements race and her endorsers tend to be longer term liberal MPs who really hate the sort of like Trudeau camp that's brought in all these sycophantic MPs who only do what Trudeau says.
00:12:24.440 There's a lot of just ethnic community candidates, a lot of people who are just given their nominations, people who are like ruining the brand through bringing like pro terror type politics into the party. 0.94
00:12:34.840 That's why the like, that's basically what is happening with Freeland's camp and actually some of the smaller candidates, I guarantee some of these smaller candidates, like Bales and Chandra Aria are going to be kicking their support over to, over to Freeland later on.
00:12:49.700 Chandra is actually a very strategic person in this race, because as you see, Mark Carney is getting all the seek MPs endorsing him, all the some of them are just seek MPs, they come from the seek community, obviously, not everyone's a Calistani.
00:13:02.120 But then some of them are definitely Calistanis or like Calistani adjacent, where they like wink and nod to that crowd. They're all behind Mark Carney. 0.75
00:13:10.060 Chandra Aria is a Hindu Canadian and very few Hindus are in federal politics. And so what I think he's doing is that he is meant to go around to all the WhatsApp chats with a bunch of Hindu uncles from their families, get family signed up to vote in the liberal leadership election.
00:13:25.820 Maybe he makes it onto the ballot too, and is able to get enough of his friends to cut him $1,000 checks, so he can clear the $350,000 he needs.
00:13:34.240 But all he is meant to do there is basically create a big Hindu wedge to then give over to Freeland, while Mark Carney tries to get all these seek politicians to collect him enough memberships and votes that he is able to win potentially on first ballot. 0.82
00:13:48.560 Because Mark Carney is, and this is not, not that he is like this person at all. He's kind of like the Danielle Smith of this race, in the sense that he comes with a lot of momentum.
00:14:00.020 Artificially so, Danielle Smith had organic momentum. But he comes with a lot of momentum, and if he does not make first ballot by quite a margin, it's going to be hard for him to crawl his way back up the ballot.
00:14:11.600 Because maybe some of the Karina Gould camp people, maybe half of them will go for Carney because she's in the race to try and sabotage Freeland. 0.98
00:14:18.880 But everyone else is either pro-Carney and pro-Team Trudeau, or they're not, and they're either voting for Freeland or somebody else, but they will eventually vote for Freeland to stop Carney.
00:14:30.500 That's how I see this whole thing going.
00:14:32.820 Leave your predictions in the comments. It's a wild race. Boring, because all the people in it are pretty boring, except that Michael Clarke guy, that's interesting.
00:14:40.860 There's a pro-life guy who supposedly will be on the ballot. I like to see that happen.
00:14:45.960 But it's boring, but at least the dynamics in the background, the sort of like, you know, the knife fighting in the background could be interesting.
00:14:55.020 But that's it for me today, guys. Remember to like this video, subscribe to the channel, and I'll be back in another video at some point.
00:15:02.620 There was some weird stuff going on with Freeland throwing Trudeau under the bus. I'll probably be covering that.
00:15:06.880 And I'll probably pair it up with that video of Polly roasting Mark Carney a few years ago in a committee meeting. 0.94
00:15:14.300 Anyways, see you later.