The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Senior Carney advisor quits

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Later in the day yesterday, this news came out that former

00:00:06.880 Justice Minister and current Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Mark Carney is planning on

00:00:12.840 leaving the Prime Minister's office and trying to take some sort of a diplomatic role.

00:00:17.720 This is confirming all the reports that we are hearing about MPs considering resigning their

00:00:23.300 seats to also take diplomatic roles, or in the case of Nate Erskine-Smith, to go run for the

00:00:29.120 Ontario Liberal Party leadership race. Now, I want to be sort of like nuanced about this,

00:00:35.200 because I know some people out there will say, oh, there's a bunch of people resigning. Is this

00:00:39.160 Mark Carney's government falling apart? It is not. There's not going to be an election in three months

00:00:43.480 because of this or anything like that. If there's an early election, it's just because the NDP and

00:00:48.220 the block smell blood in the water, or because Carney thinks that he has the bandwidth to actually

00:00:53.120 be able to win a majority. But what I think is going on right now here is the old guard of

00:00:59.160 Justin Trudeau's government are fighting the new Mark Carney inner circle. Many of these people had

00:01:05.480 been kept around for the election for the sense of continuity. They were big names to run in many of

00:01:11.500 these ridings. And post-election, Mark Carney has shoved them to the side. Chrystia Freeland got a very low

00:01:18.580 level position as Minister of Transportation. It's not super low, but compared to Deputy Prime

00:01:24.880 Minister and Finance Minister at the same time, transportation is absolutely nothing. The most

00:01:31.620 egregious example of one of the people agreeing to run again and then getting screwed over is

00:01:36.580 Erskine Smith, who was planning on not running in the 25 election, but then was coaxed back with the

00:01:43.540 promise that he got to be housing minister, which technically Mark Carney did fulfill. He endorsed

00:01:50.140 Mark Carney. He campaigned with the guy to become housing minister between March and May. After the

00:01:57.640 election, within two weeks post-election, after Erskine Smith came back to win Beech's East York

00:02:04.400 riding, he then gets shoved not into like a principal secretary role or some lower level position

00:02:12.100 underneath the minister of housing, but he still has an effect. No, no, he got nothing. He got

00:02:17.400 literally nothing. And then he's been chirping Mark Carney from the corner ever since on the Erkanda

00:02:23.600 issue, saying he's been betrayed by them, saying that he thinks it's wrong that the government was

00:02:28.620 ending spring session so early and then just vacationing during the summer. He's obviously

00:02:33.840 disfrontal. And then he released that video the other day where it's clearly he's trying to prepare

00:02:37.840 himself to run for Ontario politics. But this is something that's been going on with a lot of

00:02:42.820 other people. Bill Blair is sitting at the back. He's a 71 year old man who has been in government

00:02:48.540 a long time. And although you and I know the man is completely incompetent, he is a notorious gun

00:02:55.480 grabber, but he's not even exactly good at it. You think you would give him something. No,

00:02:59.440 he's sitting at the back. Jonathan Wilkinson, I believe, has something. But again,

00:03:03.920 I think he's been kind of sidelined. And so they may actually throw him like Blair may become the

00:03:10.600 high commissioner in the United Kingdom and replace Ralph Goodale. Jonathan Wilkinson,

00:03:16.220 I think, wanted something. And then we also have Stephen Gilbeau leaving, probably because Mark Carney

00:03:21.280 is not moderating on green issues, but he's just not radicalizing at the speed that Stephen Gilbeau wants.

00:03:27.060 So I think they've not only taken him out of environment ministry, they've put him in like official

00:03:33.080 languages position, which is like a third tier ministry. And you can tell the guy is upset.

00:03:39.540 And so David Lemeny leaving from the PMO is sort of the confirmation that yes, all these rumors are

00:03:46.900 in fact true. This was coming from Kate McKenna from the CBC. And we will just read a bit of it here.

00:03:53.600 But before I go any further, and I've actually been talking quite a bit before even getting to the

00:03:57.560 plugs. Remember to like the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment on what you think about

00:04:03.020 all this. And then also if you live in British Columbia, I'm going to link the 1BC website down

00:04:09.460 in the description below. Make sure if you guys live in the area, check out the events page,

00:04:14.800 because there is going to be a town hall in Mill Bay as well as Penticton within the next few weeks

00:04:21.160 here. Check that out. I won't be able to make it to those events simply just because, you know,

00:04:25.680 I just don't have the time. I have a bunch of other stuff I have to be at. But I would encourage

00:04:29.500 you to show up, hear from Dallas Brody, the 1BC leader, and, you know, give your input, ask questions,

00:04:35.200 all that sort of thing. But now let's get back to this article. So it starts off saying,

00:04:40.800 former Justice Minister David Lemeny will be leaving his job as Principal Secretary to Prime

00:04:46.040 Minister Mark Carney after just a couple months on the job, sources tell CBC News. Sources suggest

00:04:52.060 that he is a contender for a diplomatic posting, possibly as a replacement for Bob Ray, who currently

00:04:58.200 serves as ambassador to the United Nations. Lemeny, who played hockey alongside Carney at the

00:05:02.920 University of Oxford, announced his appointment in July with a photo of himself with the Prime

00:05:07.900 Minister posted on social media. The position is one of the most senior in the Prime Minister's

00:05:13.080 office, considered key in the handling of Carney's political and policy agenda. Lemeny also served as

00:05:18.460 an advisor during the federal election. He was hired to replace Tom Pitfield, who had been

00:05:23.340 filling in on an interim basis, but has not yet left the PMO. Now, a lot of people don't really,

00:05:32.280 I think that a lot of people don't know what the Principal Secretary is. It's sort of like one of the

00:05:37.740 highest level advisors. The Principal Secretary is basically there to sort of advise the Prime

00:05:43.620 Minister on how best to be kind of moving his entire agenda downfield. Now, here's another rub

00:05:50.780 of what is going on here. Notice how we still haven't gotten a budget, and it's later September

00:05:58.140 at this point. We are in the second half of September. Now, I need to show you another article

00:06:05.360 that I think has something to do with this, with people leaving, with David Lemeny going. I think there

00:06:11.820 is a lot of issues with the Carney agenda right now, and people do not want their legacies implicated

00:06:17.860 into info, don't want their legacies implicated. So they're leaving early, because they don't even

00:06:24.140 like Mark Carney, or they don't get along, or Mark Carney doesn't like them, or he doesn't like how

00:06:28.300 they dress. Because I've heard Mark Carney is so petty, you will get mad at people for not having

00:06:33.960 like the exact right type of suit on when they go into work, which frankly, I do agree that people

00:06:40.020 actually, like, if you're a man working in the government, put on a pair of dress shoes, don't do

00:06:44.660 the stupid sneaker crap that, like, Mark Miller and Sean Frazier do. It's embarrassing. People like

00:06:50.980 Justin Trudeau showing up to when King Charles is in Parliament, and he's wearing these weird blue suede

00:06:56.800 loafers, it's horrible. They're like, no, they're like, they weren't even like suede loafers. They're like

00:07:03.020 neon blue and orange sneakers. It was horrible. But now we have this other headline from the CBC,

00:07:12.320 Carney government to table first budget on November 4. Government had initially signaled federal budget

00:07:19.020 would be introduced in October. This article from Darren Major here starts off saying the liberal

00:07:25.520 government will table the federal budget, the first under Prime Minister Mark Carney, in early November.

00:07:29.940 During Tuesday's question period, Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said the federal

00:07:34.840 finances will be introduced on November 4. The early November date is later than the government

00:07:40.760 had initially indicated. Carney said as early as May that the budget would come in October,

00:07:45.960 and the number of ministers had stuck to that date when talking about the budget in recent days.

00:07:51.000 This Monday morning, government house leader Steve McKinnon indicated the budget would be brought

00:07:55.160 for next month during a federal conference laying out the liberal's fall agenda. Quote,

00:08:01.260 the Minister of Finance, Mr. Champagne, will present a budget in October. I will not go into the

00:08:07.220 details of what to expect. The Prime Minister and Minister of Finance have both emphasized the

00:08:11.960 importance of this budget, McKinnon said. Now, the budget now being delayed by a month,

00:08:18.060 and the fact that we have all these people indicating they will resign as well as David Lamedi being

00:08:23.600 confirmed to be leaving feels like things are not going so hot. They're not going to be able to

00:08:29.420 deliver the budget with the deficits that they had promised initially that they were going to,

00:08:34.720 you know, spend less and invest more. So if you're Chrystia Freeland, who's already gotten in trouble

00:08:40.360 over a budget because of the meddling of Mark Carney when Trudeau was still Prime Minister,

00:08:45.840 and he also already doesn't seem to like you very much, despite the fact that I believe he's the

00:08:50.700 godfather to one of her children. Or it was like something like that. Or maybe it was it might

00:08:56.520 have been Carney to Trudeau. I don't know. But why not exit out the back door now while before every

00:09:03.520 single election promise starts popping loose and you start breaking them left and right. So I think

00:09:09.620 a lot of these people are effectively on a tactical retreat that they already don't like working with

00:09:16.600 Carney. He doesn't like working with them, especially in the case of Nate Erskine Smith.

00:09:24.700 And so why not now just kind of, you know, nope out the back door so that you don't get implicated

00:09:30.560 with all this stuff. And a lot of the people saying, well, you know, but they're giving diplomatic

00:09:34.940 roles. They must have some good relationship. No, in the media, these diplomatic roles are like

00:09:40.200 dumping grounds for past politicians. Goodale and Bob Ray are both in their late 70s or 80s. Of course,

00:09:48.440 you're going to end up replacing them with some new person. It doesn't mean that Carney has to like

00:09:53.300 that person. They get a cushy job on the way out. And it's kind of a it's kind of a like, what is it?

00:10:00.700 Your severance package to not slag the government constantly in the media. But now I just want to

00:10:07.460 jump over to peer poly in question period, because things tend to be going very well for the

00:10:13.680 conservatives. When I say going very well, did they lose the last election? Yes. And they should fire

00:10:18.700 tons of their advisors. But in terms of the rhetorical momentum in Canadian politics, it is

00:10:24.100 starting to swing back towards the conservatives. They had struggled around the election, finding a

00:10:29.580 foot, their footing on certain issues. But I think now that we've gotten past the Trump issue,

00:10:35.120 it's going back to sort of meat and potato type politics around the economy and crime and whatnot.

00:10:41.400 And that's not really a ground that the liberals want to be fighting on.

00:10:44.940 And the prime minister made the appointment of the parliamentary budget officer

00:10:47.960 temporary, so that he could hold a sword over his head and threaten him if he speaks the truth

00:10:52.640 about the financial mess the prime minister has made.

00:10:57.300 This video is oddly quiet. I don't know why they uploaded it like this. But you know,

00:11:01.620 we'll have to deal with it. You know, to a government that doesn't know how to count,

00:11:06.140 there is nothing more terrifying than a man armed with a calculator. And this prime minister

00:11:11.760 is wants to silence the parliamentary budget officer from telling the truth about the fiscal

00:11:17.660 mess that he has created under his watch. So will he, Mr. Speaker, legalize math, make the

00:11:24.280 parliamentary budget officer's position permanent, and tell us how big the deficit is?

00:11:28.040 Yeah, so the parliamentary budget officer's official term ended on September 1. So it's

00:11:35.420 not a actual position that must be filled right now. And they had never actually named if they

00:11:41.760 were going to have a follow on person once he steps down. So right now, the PBO, the parliamentary

00:11:48.000 budget office is like borderline unoccupied. Yeah, they're there, but they don't have any mandate

00:11:54.500 or power to do anything at the moment. And all this is like, you could say, well, who cares?

00:11:58.840 It doesn't, he could still be doing a good job without a PBO. Absolutely, he could. He's not.

00:12:04.580 And it makes you extra suspicious when he wants to get rid of this watchdog position. Here is another

00:12:10.780 clip from Parliament today, or that's a 19 minute clip, we're not going to watch that. But overall,

00:12:16.420 again, things are going pretty well when it comes to the conservatives ability to actually shift focus

00:12:22.660 back to just performance issues. And with the liberals not being able to deliver a budget and

00:12:27.040 people exiting out the back door, it feels like Carney really just thought things were going to

00:12:32.920 fall in place once he became prime minister. And we're all finding out that, you know, being on the

00:12:38.320 being like a Goldman Sachs guy, like being more like being the Brookfield guy doesn't actually mean

00:12:44.760 you're good at finances. It just simply means that you got to sit within elite, elite financial circles.

00:12:50.700 And you basically fed off of government subsidies and grants. That's Carney's entire career. It's

00:12:56.820 taking advantage of government subsidies and grants for the companies that Brookfield Asset

00:13:01.940 Management controlled or had interests in. They invested a lot in green tech, not because

00:13:07.060 green tech is profitable, but because the government will give you a lot of money to invest in green

00:13:11.800 tech. And so it doesn't matter if your company actually produces much of anything or not, you're

00:13:16.580 still making money. So anyways, that should be it for this video, guys. In a follow up, I will be

00:13:23.460 doing a follow up to this, but the next video today, I will be doing a video on the Calgary mayoral

00:13:30.660 polling. I want to talk about how basically liberals are trying to hijack this election. I don't mean like

00:13:36.620 big L federal liberals, but just liberals in general, trying to use a supposed conservative

00:13:43.140 as a Trojan horse to be able to take back the mayor's office. Because right now, Yoti Gondek is

00:13:49.460 obviously not very popular at all, and they need to swap her out with somebody else. And oddly enough,

00:13:55.580 the person they're swapping her out with used to be conservative, and now they're not. That would be

00:14:01.000 Jeremy Farkas. Please do not vote for him if you're a Calgarian. Anyways, so that should be it for me

00:14:07.520 today, guys. Thank you for watching the show, and I will see you guys all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 18, 2025

Senior Carney advisor quits - Liberals walking back budget timeline!

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