Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally has to come out and slam Liberal Party Candidate Mark Carney for stealing credit for the 2008 financial crisis from a dead man. He says that Carney was not involved in the day-to-day management of Canada's economy during that time, and that it was Jim Flaherty who was making the calls.
00:03:01.220I have listened with increasing disbelief to Mark Carney's attempt to take credit for the things he had little or nothing to do with back then.
00:04:11.320He actually says it's Jim Flaherty, who died a few years ago, who was the one who was making the calls.
00:04:17.200So, what Mark Carney's doing is fairly disgusting in stealing credit away from a dead man because, well, he's not alive to say that it was actually him making these calls.
00:04:28.300And again, it's obvious he wasn't the one making the calls.
00:04:31.500He is the governor of the Bank of Canada.
00:05:05.680But let's move on to another story where Mark Carney is having trouble figuring out what the truth is.
00:05:13.940And in this case, it's such a weird one.
00:05:16.500I feel like the normal layman in Canada, the person who doesn't know anything about politics, doesn't even vote, would probably know that this isn't right.
00:05:24.680So this is another moment from this other meeting that Mark Carney was at where he had previously claimed in another lie that he has experienced dealing with Donald Trump, not dealing with people like Trump, but he has personally dealt with Donald Trump, which is completely false.
00:05:44.180He's never brought it up until that meeting in front of a small crowd of people, so it's clearly not actually true.
00:05:50.120If he had dealt with Trump and beat Trump on something, do you think he wouldn't make that like the centerpiece of his entire campaign?
00:05:56.980Chrystia Freeland was not a very good negotiator during the USMCA NAFTA renegotiations, and she still ballyhooes that as a great life achievement.
00:06:06.620You think Mark Carney, if he actually bested Trump in something, wouldn't be talking about that in his sleep even?
00:06:50.320I actually assume he's probably right on those.
00:06:52.140We are like, Saskatchewan itself is like the world's biggest provider of like canola oil.
00:06:56.580We do a lot of those kind of mineral, like those kind of mineral products, things that require like mining, different sorts of like chemicals and whatnot.
00:07:07.460We supply a lot of those kind of raw material type products into the US.
00:07:11.940But semiconductors, suddenly he says, we supply the most semiconductors.
00:07:17.160And you can tell he knows it's a lie because he starts filling in more information than he needed to.
00:07:23.740Because if it was true, he could have said, we supply the most semiconductors.
00:08:11.260All these people like chortling to themselves, like, oh, yes, they'll be very upset not to get the semiconductors from Canada.
00:08:18.260They're going to be, you know, completely beside themselves.
00:08:20.740Because obviously, Mike Carting has just said that we are the world's biggest semiconductor supplier, and they're not going to get them now.
00:08:27.760We supply 0.8% of the semiconductors that the US imports every year.
00:09:04.660This is what his spokesperson said for the campaign.
00:09:07.720In a statement sent to the Toronto Sun by a campaign spokesman for the Carney team, claimed he only meant to emphasize Canada's role in the North American semiconductor supply chain.
00:09:18.460Quote, his remarks underscored the need for Canada to leverage its strength in the critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, and R&D research and development to further bolster North American semiconductor security and competitiveness.
00:09:33.700That is the most campaign staffer statement I've ever read in my life, where he couldn't even justify that most of our minerals or we are supplying the raw materials needed to make the semiconductors.
00:09:47.780I really doubt if we supply a substantial amount to that sector.
00:09:51.640If you know how big semiconductors are, this is not like we're supplying the raw materials of like steel and aluminum and other tough metals to make ships.
00:10:01.280We're like sending in like microscopic amounts of like gold and other things to make very small microchips and semiconductors.
00:10:10.120We could be, and the whole statement's like, we could have a significant role in improving the future competitiveness and strength in the semiconductor supply chain industry.
00:11:22.360The final numbers of eligible voters might be less than 100,000.
00:11:26.360This is for the liberal leadership race.
00:11:28.000Given that the winners will be whoever gets 50% of the votes plus one, it's possible that we'll have a prime minister chosen by less than 50,000 people.
00:11:38.820And what Marty is commenting on is he says, all this week, liberal party members who meet a strict eligibility criteria will be voting for the next prime minister of Canada.
00:11:48.300By all accounts, that's less than 250,000 people.
00:11:59.420It's actually far less than that, far less than 1%, because there are 400,000 people who are eligible to vote in the liberal party leadership race.
00:12:09.000But you have to go through this sort of, like, eligibility test.
00:12:11.900And so that's whittled things down to up until yesterday, only 97,000 people were eligible to vote.
00:12:48.160Let 250,000 people might choose who the next prime minister is, which means that whoever has 125,001 votes could become the prime minister for a few weeks until hopefully Pierre Polyev ends up becoming the prime minister and installs a conservative government.
00:13:08.300Like, this is also why I think there actually kind of is a chance that he could lose, that Mark Carney could lose the liberal leadership because he's run such an oddly incompetent campaign.
00:13:19.520I could see Christy Freeland coming up from the middle, all these people seeing his gaffes, all of his lying, and they're like, ooh, between, you know, the boring man and the boring woman, maybe we'll take the boring woman because she comes with a little bit less baggage.
00:13:33.320But, yeah, anyways, that's it for those topics.
00:13:36.340I just want to quickly do a miniature talk about the BC Conservative AGM.
00:13:42.980So I went to the BC Conservative AGM in Nanaimo.
00:13:46.540Oddly enough, I was actually never invited by anyone.
00:13:48.520I just knew if I showed up, no one was going to say no for me walking in and getting a media pass.
00:13:52.580And I'm going to have to do maybe a report on this later or talk about this later.
00:13:57.380I'm just going to say blanketly, I found it deeply inappropriate that after they did the board vote and everything,
00:14:04.820that the BC Conservative team put out this really stupid tone-deaf graphic saying,
00:14:11.460Team John Rustad won because they had a slate that John apparently had endorsed and they won.
00:14:18.340Only, they won 55% of the vote for some of the positions.