The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Radical Liberal MP crashes Conservative presser & Liberals disqualify leadership candidate

00:00:00.000 The federal Liberal Party leadership race to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister

00:00:05.360 has been surrounded by a lot of controversy over the past 24 hours.

00:00:10.900 Just this morning, Chandra Aria, who was probably the third place candidate in the leadership race

00:00:16.940 after Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland, was flat out disqualified by the Liberals' upper brass.

00:00:23.720 I want to talk about that story first, but then I also later want to get to this other controversy

00:00:29.400 where Liberal MP from Beaches East, Nate Erksen-Smith, decided to annoyingly interrupt the press event

00:00:37.660 that Conservative MP Melissa Lantzman was holding outside of a Mark Carney leadership event.

00:00:43.060 I think a lot of Conservative influencers and commentators actually got this story wrong.

00:00:49.220 They covered it from a bad angle, and they actually missed what the real issue was here.

00:00:54.900 Nate Erksen-Smith is deeply insecure, and he's deeply radical,

00:00:58.200 and he was interrupting an event because he didn't want Melissa Lantzman being able to lay out

00:01:03.340 just how much of a kook the guy is. 0.93

00:01:05.580 He was trying to create his own media moment.

00:01:08.100 But we will get to that one in a second, and before we talk about Chandra Aria,

00:01:12.760 my boy Chandra Aria, I'm going to remind you guys, this leadership race is mostly boring.

00:01:19.460 This is one of the more interesting days.

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00:01:39.840 But now, let's get to Chandra Aria.

00:01:42.720 Just this morning, he posted this.

00:01:44.880 I'm just going to read out his statement.

00:01:46.100 He says, first and foremost, I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the hundreds of volunteers

00:01:51.240 across Canada who have worked tirelessly day and night over the past two weeks to mobilize

00:01:57.260 support for my liberal leadership campaign.

00:01:59.820 That's really funny because it was, I would say, probably 50% ironic support for Chandra Aria

00:02:05.020 by conservatives.

00:02:06.360 He says, your unwavering dedication inspires me.

00:02:09.860 I am deeply humbled and honored by the thousands of Canadians who joined the Liberal Party to support

00:02:14.080 what I stand for in my policies, aimed at building an economically prosperous Canada for our children

00:02:21.560 and grandchildren.

00:02:22.700 Your support means the world to me.

00:02:24.740 Thank you today.

00:02:25.900 Thank you.

00:02:26.940 Today, I was informed by the Liberal Party of Canada I will not be permitted to enter the

00:02:31.560 leadership race.

00:02:32.620 While I await their official communication, I am carefully considering my next steps.

00:02:36.800 This decision raises significant questions about the legitimacy of the leadership race,

00:02:40.480 by extension, the legitimacy of the next Prime Minister of Canada.

00:02:44.380 Shots fired by Chandra Aria.

00:02:46.660 Because, let's be clear, even with all of the ironic support ginned up by large accounts

00:02:52.980 like the pleb and other people telling people to sign up and vote for him, it's a free sign

00:02:57.980 up, so I guess why not?

00:02:59.660 You were getting tons of people buying free memberships, or I guess just getting free memberships,

00:03:04.700 and saying that they were going to vote for him and all of the other worst candidates first.

00:03:09.500 The man couldn't speak French.

00:03:10.940 And in the Liberal Party, that, honestly, they should just make a rule that you have to

00:03:15.280 know French.

00:03:16.120 I'm a conservative.

00:03:16.960 I don't care what the Liberal Party does.

00:03:19.140 But from, like, just a, like, an advisory position, if I was a Liberal and I was trying

00:03:24.720 to fix this system, one, I would say make the memberships at least 10 bucks.

00:03:28.860 Because when the memberships cost nothing, you're going to get people trolling you.

00:03:33.360 And I think the Liberals' plan was by making the memberships free, they would gather a lot

00:03:37.960 of useful data.

00:03:39.360 Well, that goes completely pear-shaped when a bunch of people start taking out free memberships

00:03:44.140 just to vote for objectively terrible candidates in your leadership race.

00:03:48.620 So now, as a country, as a people, we have to decide whether or not we're going to now

00:03:55.960 be backing Ruby Dalla, who, when she was in government between 2004 and 2011, was consistently

00:04:02.140 rated like the worst MP to work for, or Frank Bayless, the man who was a one-term Liberal MP

00:04:08.640 between 2015 and 2019, just kind of left voluntarily, and then started a fake ventilator company over

00:04:14.700 Covid. These are our two options, people. We have to decide who's going to be the new

00:04:19.940 figurehead of the Liberal Party going into the next election. And my vote is that if you guys

00:04:26.280 want to go get a Liberal membership, they're free. You have a little bit more than a day

00:04:31.220 to still get them. And we're all going to be Frank Bayless boys. We're all going to show up and

00:04:36.280 we're going to vote for Frank Bayless. Because frankly, he's actually probably the least crazy 0.89

00:04:41.380 candidate of all of them. He's basically like a half conservative. He's like a progressive

00:04:45.560 conservative, I guess. He's like a Doug Ford conservative, you know, still belongs in the

00:04:50.820 Liberal Party, but, you know, is at least not exactly a Trudeau, Freeland, Carney radical.

00:04:56.620 But I do find this interesting that he has this line in here saying that he's wanting to like look

00:05:02.700 into how this election's done, and how it raises questions about the legitimacy of the next Liberal

00:05:08.480 leader and Prime Minister, if they're just going to start throwing people out of the race.

00:05:12.480 Perfect. Good. We have Liberals questioning how the Liberal Party does stuff. And before anyone

00:05:18.160 starts talking about how this just shows that the Liberals are super corrupt, remember that the

00:05:22.600 Conservatives also kicked out Jim Carajalios and Richard Dekaree from the 2020 leadership race.

00:05:29.200 It happens. There was that other guy running in 2022 that they kicked out all parties. I'm not saying

00:05:34.280 that they're all corrupt to the core. This is just saying all parties need to reform how they do

00:05:38.980 leadership races and how they do nomination races. Again, remember, I ran for the Calgary Signal Hill

00:05:45.460 nomination for the Federal Conservative Party. I had around a thousand supporters. And then I was

00:05:51.020 arbitrarily kicked out because they didn't want me in the race. Certain insiders didn't want me in the

00:05:55.720 race because, you know, I was doing really well and they didn't want me to beat their favorite guy.

00:06:00.300 Okay. Joke's on them. I still made sure that guy lost. But yeah, it's a problem that all these

00:06:05.620 parties end up having so much influence from like a small core of people who engineer the races in

00:06:12.640 order to get the good outcome. Again, it's not even the same extent in the Conservative Party

00:06:16.900 that you can trust the outcome to the 2020 and 22 leadership races, but it ends up kind of feeling a

00:06:26.080 bit, you know, hollow when certain people were kicked out. Even though Polyev was obviously going

00:06:30.780 to win in 2022, it would have legitimately probably changed the race if Rashad Dakarri and Jim Karahalios

00:06:36.980 were in the 2020 race because O'Toole barely won and he was an absolute turkey of a candidate.

00:06:42.640 Lewis almost beat him. In fact, she had more votes on the second ballot than he did, but on points,

00:06:47.500 he barely edged her out. But now let's jump over to this other controversy. I find it quite silly,

00:06:54.820 again, the way that people are covering this. It's not really, in my opinion, true to life how people

00:07:01.620 are talking about this. So I want to show you guys the photo that's making everyone basically like,

00:07:09.340 you know, go ballistic, that this is an attack or something like that. Or I'm going to show you

00:07:14.420 the clip first. This was posted by Michelle Rempel-Garner, Conservative MP for Nose Hill in

00:07:19.900 Calgary. And this is supposed to be deeply nasty what Nate Erickson Smith is doing here. Nate Erickson

00:07:27.420 Smith. And I don't like what Nate Erickson Smith is doing here. It's annoying and weird. But people

00:07:32.280 are calling this creepy. So a lot of people were covering this and we'll talk about more of what

00:07:49.920 happened in full because I have the full tape of her of her press event and then seeing Nate Erickson

00:07:56.460 Smith interrupted. But people are calling this creepy. And no, Nate was not being creepy. I don't

00:08:03.280 consider this in the realms of creepy. She's wearing a heavy coat. He puts his hand on her shoulder,

00:08:08.440 on her arm, and like trying to do this whole frenemy type thing. Oh, I'm going to buy you a 0.53

00:08:12.940 drink and we'll talk about what you're saying about me, all this stuff. This is not the story. He's not

00:08:17.820 being creepy. I know, I'll try to bring it up on screen quick. I know people like Jenny Byrne are 0.99

00:08:24.460 trying to put forward this idea that he's being creepy. She's like a top advisor to Polyev right

00:08:29.920 now, by the way, also was one of the people who pushed me out of Signal Hill. But she's saying

00:08:34.800 Nate Erickson Smith is a creep. This is sorry, this is not creepy. Do you know what this actually is?

00:08:40.900 This is Nate Erickson Smith being extremely insecure about his record. Because if you didn't know,

00:08:46.400 Nate Erickson Smith is endorsing Mark Carney, previously who wasn't even going to be running for

00:08:53.140 re-election. But Trudeau gave him the minister of housing role. And now Mark Carney's probably

00:08:58.640 promised him something else to make him stick around. Because he's going to have a really tough

00:09:02.960 time even being re-elected. So to have this guy go from I'm leaving to I'm staying, he's probably been

00:09:09.220 offered something. He already is a minister. So I assume he will stay as that under Mark Carney.

00:09:14.540 But what kind of policy gimmies will Nate Erickson Smith get? Because the guy, he actually is a pretty

00:09:20.680 nice guy on the surface. But he is a radical on policy. The man, let's just start with the least

00:09:27.100 serious to the most serious. One, he's a bit, he's really big into boycott, divestment and sanctions

00:09:32.960 against our ally Israel. He also does a lot of other criticisms of like American allies like the United

00:09:39.480 States who will go after terrorists. The man is just not very good on foreign policy. More minor thing

00:09:45.480 right there. And our more major thing, the man is a radical vegan, in the sense that he wants to pass

00:09:51.420 policies to basically make it so that it's harder and more expensive to buy meat. And this is pretty

00:09:57.800 much part of the whole WEF type agenda that people like Mark Carney endorse the idea that the government

00:10:04.120 should take a role in managing personal behavior within the economy to have the most sustainable future

00:10:10.560 that the government should maybe limit how much meat people eat because it causes more emissions.

00:10:16.440 Or maybe that people should drive less. Maybe we should have congestion taxes. This is the type of

00:10:21.880 person Nate Erickson Smith is. And the worst thing about him is he is in favor of legalizing all drugs,

00:10:29.800 not decriminalizing, legalizing it. Legalizing meth, heroin, all this stuff. He is perfectly fine with that.

00:10:35.860 That is why Melissa Lansman showed up outside of the Spark Carney event to hold this presser to talk 1.00

00:10:42.260 about all of the crazy positions he's held. Let's cut over to the actual clip from CTV News' camera view

00:10:48.640 of her delivering this press event and then having him interrupt it. Because you could tell

00:10:55.360 he starts interrupting right when it's all getting pretty uncomfortable for him. That she is kind of

00:11:01.680 needling him pretty hard for his radical positions. That is the big exposure for Mark Carney. And Nate

00:11:08.860 Erickson Smith is basically endorsing the fact that he is a radical because he knows he has to cut her

00:11:14.200 off to prevent this from being a big media moment. Instead, he wants the media moment and the controversy

00:11:19.840 to be him touching her shoulder. By the way, Melissa Lansman's a pretty tough lady. I don't think she was 1.00

00:11:26.240 creeped out. I think she just thought he was being annoying and weird. And she knew exactly what he was

00:11:30.900 doing. He was trying to generate a new moment to take away from her moment.

00:11:35.900 And today, the minister of housing, the minister responsible for this neighborhood is going to

00:11:43.240 endorse Mark Carney in that pub probably less than an hour from now. A minister who is a radical drug

00:11:53.720 advocate right here in Toronto. His radical drug advocacy, he brags about it himself. On his own

00:12:01.220 website, he brags about passing C5, which has killed mandatory sentences for drug dealers and producers

00:12:09.180 in this country. Under the prime minister's watch, 49,000 Canadians have died of drug overdoses. And this

00:12:17.920 minister wants to make it even more permissive. So our question is, is what did Mr. Carney promise

00:12:23.920 him? You're about to see Nate Erkson-Smith move in here. And this is where she's getting to the

00:12:29.200 point of what kind of legislation is Mark Carney going to let Nate Erkson-Smith pass when he becomes

00:12:35.280 prime minister, if he's able to beat Freeland, which isn't even exactly like a clear thing if he's

00:12:40.920 going to beat her or not, because Mark Carney himself is a horrible candidate.

00:12:44.540 Does Mr. Carney believe about drug policy in this country? That's what Canadians want to know. He's

00:12:51.860 been hiding. Of course, we know that he's been alongside the prime minister for the ride for the

00:12:56.700 last nine years as the economic advisor, the chief architect of the carbon tax. But he hasn't answered

00:13:02.800 a single question to any Canadian media about what his plans and what his intentions are. He's about to

00:13:09.460 be prime minister potentially in 60 in six weeks. This is a guy who might be prime minister in six

00:13:16.720 weeks, and he has yet to announce a single policy or what he has promised Mr. Erkson-Smith, who is

00:13:23.160 just about to endorse him, the radical drug advocate. So I think that Canadians, I think that Canadians

00:13:31.120 deserve answers. You're saying I'm a radical drug advocate? Yes, you're in favor of legalization.

00:13:37.640 You're in favor of full decriminalization. What are you talking about? Of course, that's

00:13:41.000 radical. Thank you. I want to know what you promised Mark Carney. I want to buy you a drink.

00:13:45.620 Perfect. We want to know what Mark Carney, what Mark Carney promised Mr. Erkson-Smith for his

00:13:52.600 endorsement today. So I hope that you asked him, I hope that you asked him these questions. I hope

00:13:57.220 that you get the answers today. I'll take your questions. I'm telling you, I asked me nothing.

00:14:03.060 When Harvard was in power, he was going to Mark Carney to help me through the economic crisis.

00:14:07.080 And that's the real point of Nate coming in here. He wants the whole video that people see of this

00:14:14.260 press event to not be the full press event I just showed you right there. Obviously, it goes into

00:14:18.220 questions, and he keeps being a complete twit from the side, laughing and making jokes from the side and 0.96

00:14:24.140 jabbing in here and there. But many of you did not see Melissa Lansman's point because influencers 0.61

00:14:30.960 online wanted to talk about if Nate Erkson-Smith was being creepy. He wasn't. He's being a twit.

00:14:36.840 And Nate Erkson-Smith, it has the thinnest skin on the planet. That was also what was going on there. 0.99

00:14:41.500 He hates having any negative words said about him. Check out these clips I have where he starts

00:14:46.900 getting really mad at people for questioning his integrity. The man has a hair-trigger ego.

00:14:57.360 Check this out right here. Oh, I think I need to bring it up on screen first here. This is him

00:15:02.360 swearing in a committee meeting, so warnings ahead of time. But here's someone just saying that he

00:15:07.780 thought he had more integrity than he does because for some reason he didn't want to go over and talk

00:15:14.120 about $400 million of waste associated with the Sustainable Development Technology Corp.

00:15:20.760 Point is, I thought Mr. Erkson-Smith had more integrity than that, than to not be worried

00:15:25.620 about $400 million. Point of order.

00:15:26.860 Like, what is this absolute bullshit? This is absolute bullshit. 1.00

00:15:29.940 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. My integrity? 1.00

00:15:33.720 Let's, okay. Okay. He's calling it. He's videoing into this meeting and he can't hold himself

00:15:40.040 back at all. All right. All right. And then when it came, when he was asked to apologize for this

00:15:47.060 obviously inappropriate language, this obvious outburst from what is not, oh, you're questioning

00:15:54.020 my integrity. Yeah, of course they are because you're a hack and you're, and like, you're confused

00:16:00.980 that somebody would question you. What? He legitimately sees himself as an untouchable person.

00:16:07.560 And then when he's asked to apologize, he can't even apologize the next day.

00:16:11.880 Rick, you impugn someone's integrity. You deserve every language that comes your way. There's nothing

00:16:16.720 more important than a member's integrity and you have no business, no business impugning mine.

00:16:21.940 Because what are you doing right now? What are you doing right now, Rick?

00:16:25.320 His integrity has been impugned and that's the worst thing you could do to people.

00:16:29.200 Letting people out of prison, repeat offenders, repeat violent offenders who then go on to murder

00:16:33.900 people, you know, knife, dozens of indigenous people on their property. If you remember that 0.98

00:16:39.180 knife attack in Northern Saskatchewan who have repeat offenders killing like children around Canada,

00:16:45.840 that's, that's a high integrity move. That's something that Nate Erickson Smith still endorses

00:16:51.120 Bill C-5 that allows for same day automatic bail for pretty much everyone, unless prosecutors

00:16:56.700 go to the painstaking extent to try and fight to keep someone in prison and usually don't have the

00:17:02.160 time for it. That's a good thing. Trying to make meat more expensive for people during a economic

00:17:07.040 crunch because he's a vegan. Integrity move. You know, backing legalization of all drugs,

00:17:12.900 integrity move.

00:17:14.140 Rick, you have brought a privilege motion, an incredibly, incredibly high bar. And on what

00:17:19.380 basis? Well, before Mr. Baines was even finished his testimony, you brought a privilege motion.

00:17:25.300 We're happy to have him back and answer clear questions. And, and, and look, I'm not even disputing.

00:17:30.500 You can say, I didn't like all of his questions. He didn't, he wasn't as forthcoming as I'd want him

00:17:34.100 to be. You can't say, I don't recall, isn't an answer. That's what, on the one hand, you said,

00:17:41.520 he's not answering my questions. On the other hand, you're saying it's insufficient for him to say,

00:17:46.820 I don't recall. Unless you're accusing him.

00:17:50.020 What a, what a twerp too. So when he was supposed to be apologizing for his language,

00:17:55.620 instead, he's not going to apologize. And he's going to say, actually, the person who wanted him

00:18:00.620 to apologize and was basically saying, he thought he had more integrity to want to actually ask Mr.

00:18:06.640 Baines more questions. That, that was, that was something worth swearing about. But it was actually

00:18:12.320 his fault that caused Nate Erickson Smith to, Nate Erickson Smith to, to like, have an outburst.

00:18:18.680 He is a five-year-old. He runs his own podcast and he is so self-indulgent. He actually has used

00:18:25.680 his podcast to smear other MPs by taking them out of context and like, ambushing them with like,

00:18:30.960 really controversial questions when he's supposed to be friends with these people. And that's what

00:18:35.540 the clip of him and Melissa Lansman was. These people have probably known each other for a decade

00:18:40.200 or more. And Melissa Lansman has only been an MP since 21, but still, she knows a lot of these people

00:18:45.160 who are Toronto politicians. And the thing is that it's that Nate Erickson Smith thinks he can do

00:18:51.000 whatever he wants. He thinks that he is entitled to interrupt people. It's making, saying things

00:18:56.120 about him, saying things about him that are objectively true, other than he doesn't like

00:18:59.900 the word radical being applied to him. He is a radical. What, what does he think the word radical

00:19:04.220 means other than having like the opinion on drugs that only like 1% of Canadians have, that full

00:19:10.160 legalization, decriminalization is perfectly okay. That's radical. And this is hurting Mark Carney

00:19:16.340 because Mark Carney is supposed to be the normie guy. And he has been surrounded, slathered with the

00:19:22.620 most pro-terror, the most anti-cop, the most pro-tax and regulation, carbon tax people in the party.

00:19:30.860 In fact, Freeland, as I talked about in my last video, is actually the anti-establishment

00:19:36.680 candidate between the two of them. As weird as that is to say, are they both hacks? Yes. I'm a

00:19:43.120 conservative. I'd never vote for either of them. At the same time, Carney is obviously more of the

00:19:49.280 Trudeau guy. And Nate Erickson Smith and all these other people are lending their votes to Carney to

00:19:54.280 try to push his fat corpse into the leadership of the party, his bloated, like terrible politician 0.92

00:20:00.340 corpse into the leadership in exchange for something. Do you think that all the pro-Hamas people are 0.99

00:20:05.780 backing him for nothing? Do you think the pro-drug people, the vegan activist, is backing him for

00:20:10.940 nothing? Or do you think that he's going to give them policy cutouts? I'm pretty sure he's going to

00:20:16.680 give them something, not nothing, because that's how politics works.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 26, 2025

Radical Liberal MP crashes Conservative presser & Liberals disqualify leadership candidate

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