The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 20, 2026


The Liberal Smear Campaign: All Conservatives = Traitors to Canada?


Episode Stats

Length

23 minutes

Words per Minute

176.29082

Word Count

4,211

Sentence Count

245

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

In the wake of Matt Jenner crossing the floor to join the Liberal Party, the legacy media and the party smell blood in the water, and they want to smear all Conservatives as being traitors for not jumping on board with Mark Carney's Liberal government.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.180 In the aftermath of former Conservative MP Matt Jenneru crossing the floor and joining
00:00:11.640 Mark Carney's Liberals, I have noticed a substantial uptick in the amount of anti-Conservative
00:00:17.980 propaganda coming out of the legacy media. I know the legacy media is already synonymous
00:00:24.100 with being a Liberal Party front group, but I think it has gotten so much more blatant
00:00:29.600 in the past few days because the legacy media and the Liberal Party smell blood in the water
00:00:35.540 after Matt Jenneru crossed the floor, and they want to try and smear all Conservatives
00:00:40.400 as being traitors to the country for not jumping on board with Mark Carney's Liberal government.
00:00:47.180 There's this stupid game that's being played that because Mark Carney is opposing Donald Trump,
00:00:52.860 that means if you're not on Team Mark Carney, then you are somehow a traitor, even if you are trying
00:00:58.560 to help Mark Carney deal with Donald Trump as Conservative MP Jamil Giovanni did, and then was
00:01:04.660 blatantly smeared by the legacy media. So in just a second here, I want to get to some absolutely
00:01:10.560 insane examples of the sorts of things the Liberal media is platforming right now, but before we get
00:01:17.080 into it, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video,
00:01:22.540 subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber, leave a comment about what you think about this mess.
00:01:28.520 I always try and go through several dozen comments, read what people are saying, and respond to a
00:01:32.940 smattering of people. I can't respond to everyone, of course, because some videos have like a thousand
00:01:36.980 comments, and eventually I can kind of categorize them into about 10 different bins of the same type
00:01:43.700 of comment. But anyways, and then if you also want to support the channel financially, you can always hit
00:01:48.960 the join button below the video and make a monthly contribution to make the channel more sustainable
00:01:53.640 for me and make me less reliant on the YouTube algorithm. But let's get into our first clip here,
00:01:59.940 and here we have the Liberal strategist David Hurley on CBC News talking about Matt Jenner crossing the
00:02:09.280 floor and how the Conservatives are basically all mega at this point. Now, I am not upset that the
00:02:17.140 legacy media has a Liberal strategist on, have anyone you want on. The problem is they don't
00:02:22.560 really ever have Conservative people on outside of the obligatory, like, I guess, appearances of
00:02:30.720 Conservative party, like, communications people. They kind of have to have them on, but they don't
00:02:35.980 have just Conservative commentators on to say anything. The ones they have on panels who are
00:02:41.700 supposed to be the Conservatives are people like Andrew Coyne or Fred DeLore, who are not
00:02:46.560 Conservative at all, but a, you know, full-blooded Liberal like David Hurley, of course, is allowed
00:02:52.780 on, and he can say whatever he wants with no challenge from anyone else.
00:02:56.560 I think it's different from other floor crossings generally, because I think this is indicative of
00:03:03.680 a very large schism that's going on inside that political party. We're having some dramatic
00:03:10.080 political events in Canada around our relationship with the United States and around possible
00:03:17.040 separatist referendums in Quebec and Alberta, and I think that party, which is a coalition
00:03:24.160 of Western reformers and old progressive Conservatives, is having a very difficult time managing both of
00:03:33.280 those issues. And its current leadership is that Western reform wing of the coalition. And, you know,
00:03:42.640 so frankly, they're mega. They're mega-sympathetic, mega-adjacent.
00:03:47.360 What does he even mean by that? Like, first, we have to go back in his claim about there's a schism
00:03:54.560 inside the Conservative party right now. Evidence? Evidence? You can say, well, people are crossing the floor.
00:04:00.640 Okay, well, give me a citation that would convince me that those people left because of a political schism
00:04:08.240 inside the party. Chris Dontremont, the best information we have is that he left because he wasn't
00:04:13.600 given the deputy speaker role and the extra $50,000 a year that comes with that position. Someone else was
00:04:19.520 made the deputy speaker inside the Conservative party, and he got mad and felt unappreciated, and he left.
00:04:25.280 He can say, well, I just think it's time for us to, you know, unify the country behind Mark Carney. I
00:04:32.880 think he's done some good stuff. But these people can't cite anything but just microwave liberal propaganda
00:04:38.880 for why they're shifting over. Michael Ma said, oh, well, Mark Carney's a unifier. He's a strong leader, and we
00:04:46.960 need stability right now. Like, what? That's nothing. That's a popcorn fart of a reason for
00:04:54.080 crossing the floor. And now with Matt Jenneru, he says, oh, well, Mark Carney's Davos speech is why I
00:05:00.320 left. His Davos speech was basically his old campaign propaganda put on at the World Economic Forum.
00:05:07.600 That's all that happened there. Shouldn't he have left way sooner if the Davos speech was enough to
00:05:13.040 make him cross? Clearly, that's not why he actually crossed. Now, maybe these people have personal
00:05:18.000 problems with the Conservative party leadership, but I don't see an ideological schism like David Hurley's
00:05:24.400 trying to claim here. And then the claim that these people are mega and mega sympathetic. What do you
00:05:31.280 mean by that? Dude, explain. What do you think that they want America to win? They want Canada to be
00:05:38.240 annexed? They want to lose a trade war? You couldn't actually credibly accuse any of these people of
00:05:45.200 somehow not wanting Canada to get rid of the tariffs and for us to have, you know, a better economy and,
00:05:50.880 you know, to not have our jobs taken by the United States. None of them believe that. So he's staying
00:05:56.480 vague and just saying, well, they're mega, mega sympathetic. Is he saying that there are
00:06:01.040 some people in the Conservative party, I'd probably say a little more than half, who like a lot of the
00:06:05.200 policies of Donald Trump? Okay, well, that's not controversial. That's basically saying Conservatives
00:06:09.840 like Conservative policy, and much of Donald Trump's policy is conservative. Now, I don't like the tariff
00:06:15.440 policy, but I like other policies of his. I like a lot of the immigration policy. I like a lot of social
00:06:20.080 policy. I like his domestic tax policy. Does this mean I'm now mega sympathetic? I'm just a
00:06:27.520 conservative. That's just what it's being called. Like, I'm like a gold water conservative, which would
00:06:33.520 mean that I like a lot of what Trump does. I like a lot of what Margaret Thatcher did. I like a lot of what
00:06:37.840 Georgia Maloney does in Italy right now. But again, they're trying to just throw that mega word out as
00:06:43.520 much as possible to scare voters in the middle who don't really follow politics enough to have, like, very
00:06:49.680 strong, coherent thoughts, and get them over to the Liberal camp out of fear that the Conservatives could give away the
00:06:55.520 country to the mega Republicans. Whether that's Paulie F himself or Andrew Scheer or Jenny Byrne or
00:07:02.960 Michelle Rempel, people that are kind of in charge are very sympathetic. Well, it's not surprising then
00:07:08.240 that there'd be lots of other members that are uncomfortable with that. That's very funny to accuse
00:07:14.400 any of those people of being like mega people. I think the closest person to being like that side of
00:07:21.520 conservatism would maybe be Andrew Scheer because he is a more socially conservative and fiscally
00:07:27.120 conservative guy. But again, that would just be describing the fact that he's a very strong
00:07:32.480 conservative. Michelle Rempel as a mega conservative? No. If anything, Michelle Rempel every couple years
00:07:39.680 does some extremely liberal things and then ends up getting in hot water with conservative members,
00:07:44.960 like when that one time where she, like, attacked people who are protesting in favor of parental rights.
00:07:50.480 No. Jenny Byrne is not a mega conservative. I wish she was more like that. But again, that's just me,
00:07:56.720 basically me saying I wish she was more conservative. But goodness gracious, all basically,
00:08:02.160 again, what David Hurley is trying to do is throwing as many darts hoping that he can affect the
00:08:07.360 consciences of sensitive people and get them to move over to the Liberals because they don't want to be
00:08:11.920 called mega by hacks like David Hurley who runs a podcast that nobody listens to. Especially as
00:08:18.000 Carney carves out sort of a very pro-Canada positioning. And the referendums present similar
00:08:24.320 problems. So I think that the next couple of years are really going to be difficult for that party
00:08:29.920 and floor crossings may be the least of their problems. Oh, it's going to be the least of their
00:08:34.880 problems there. Again, give me a citation to prove to me that Matt Jenneru left because of ideological
00:08:41.760 reasons and it wasn't personal petty issues that he had with people inside the party.
00:08:46.000 It proved to me that Chris Dontremont really just fell in love with what Mark Carney was doing
00:08:52.000 because all these people were condemning what Carney was doing like five seconds before they left.
00:08:56.880 Now, maybe that just says something about Canadian politics that so many MPs are handed a script
00:09:02.000 and they read it and they sit back down and they don't care about what they read. I work for Dallas
00:09:07.040 Brody at the BC legislature and the funny thing is whenever there's like a debate going on on a bill,
00:09:12.800 you are allowed to speak for 30 minutes and we always find it suspicious how members of every
00:09:17.680 party always seem to be able to go on for 30 minutes. And to us, it always feels like either they're
00:09:24.000 artificially just sitting there wasting time or they are using AI extended speeches where they just
00:09:29.840 type in all the topics, all the points they want to hit and it generates them a 30 minute long
00:09:34.000 script to talk about because Dallas always keeps it pretty short. So there is something to be said
00:09:39.040 that so many members of parliament and members of legislative assemblies are on just autopilot mode.
00:09:45.200 They talk as long as they are supposed to talk for their communications. People give them a script
00:09:50.480 and that's how it works. At 1BC, I can guarantee we do not do that. In fact, we hate scripts and we try
00:09:56.240 and keep them as short as possible or we just use bullet points because Dallas knows how to talk on her own.
00:10:02.720 Anyways, so let's get into this next clip. Oh my goodness, it is a panel hosted by Rosemary
00:10:09.040 Barton, so you know it's not going to be great. But I believe this is Andrew Coyne talking here who,
00:10:13.920 again, is supposedly a conservative on the panel. Again, just attacking conservatives.
00:10:19.840 Well, it's not just the leader. It's the party and the leader are both under a lot of pressure.
00:10:25.120 And the pressure is Donald Trump. Every time Donald Trump erupts and says something nasty,
00:10:31.120 liberals go up in the polls, the conservatives go down. They know, at least some of them know,
00:10:36.000 they have to address that. They have to take a firmer stand. But they can't, they feel because
00:10:41.760 the significant section of their party is actually pretty okay with Donald Trump.
00:10:44.960 And why is it not okay to be all right with Donald Trump? You're not saying super fans all right.
00:10:55.040 They're not saying that they like the things he does in regards to Canada. They don't like the
00:10:58.640 tariffs. You know, the 50 for state thing was funny as a joke. And you should probably stop because
00:11:04.160 people who don't follow meme culture on social media can be bothered by the fact that he has
00:11:09.600 canned it on a map with the American flag over it. It's a joke. He shouldn't do that because a lot
00:11:16.720 of people don't get it. And they'll just freak out because they're primed to freak out. But can he
00:11:20.960 actually describe what about people who appreciate certain policies of Donald Trump? Why is that bad?
00:11:28.000 There are people do do sorry, liberals not appreciate the policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
00:11:33.840 or Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter? Or like whoever else? FDR? Oh, does that make them?
00:11:43.520 Does that make them Americans now? Or is it just they ideologically agree with certain things they do?
00:11:48.320 Have this ridiculous situation where Jamil Giovanni goes down to Washington, and effectively takes the side of
00:11:54.560 Donald Trump on a number of issues, portrays them as sympathetic and reasonable, portrays Canadians
00:12:00.240 as being engaged in a hissy fit, etc. I'm all in favor of MPs being able to speak their mind. It's
00:12:05.280 fine to criticize the government of the day. But when you go down and take the side of the government
00:12:09.760 that is attempting at the very least to destroy the trade agreement, possibly to annex the country,
00:12:14.080 you've crossed a few lines. What? He's trying to annex. And this is the thing. Guys, the CBC,
00:12:20.880 you would assume, if you are an outsider, that if it's going to be the state funded broadcast,
00:12:26.880 or it's going to be where there is serious commentary, maybe it's even kind of dry. Now,
00:12:31.600 it is dry. But you would think it would be the world of sober minded political analysis. We're
00:12:38.480 going to keep the hyperbole out of it. If that was their mandate. Fine. You know, we'll have actual
00:12:45.120 conservatives on actual liberals on and they'll debate the issues. And they're just told not to turn this into
00:12:50.560 you know, into just hyperbolic jousting between each other. But like this, the CBC is in fact,
00:12:58.880 the home of some of the most overheated rhetoric. Look at Jenny Byrne sitting here smiling while
00:13:05.360 this is all going on, too. She loves all of this, all the anti conservative attacks they're being able
00:13:10.400 to engage in this week over the day. But when you go down and take the side of the government that is
00:13:15.440 attempting at the very least to destroy the trade agreement, possibly to annex the country.
00:13:18.960 Jameel didn't do that. Citation, please. He said what Donald Trump had said. He's saying that Donald
00:13:26.000 Trump doesn't hate Canada. The Americans don't hate Canada. That's just true. Donald Trump probably
00:13:30.960 doesn't think about us that much. He thinks about us sometimes. But the idea that somehow Jameel
00:13:35.760 Javani was acting as a traitor to the country for not engaging in hyperbole, anti American hyperbole,
00:13:43.040 is foolish. He can not like certain things America America is doing, but he can also be smart enough
00:13:48.160 to keep a sober mind about how to deal with it. And that's what Andrew Coyne is trying to skewer him
00:13:53.440 for. You've crossed a few lines and it's very damaging to the party's brand. They know it, at least
00:13:59.840 again, the sensible ones do. But what actual consequences followed for Jameel Javani? Very little.
00:14:05.920 Slap on the wrist at most. What does he want? Him kicked out of caucus for going down to the United
00:14:10.480 States and trying to do Mark Carney's job for him? A job Mark Carney's not even attempting to do?
00:14:15.840 So you've got that. You've got these four crossings and nobody seems to think they're at an end.
00:14:20.960 You've got a very divided party. And Mr. Boyeva is, to some extent, the victim of that,
00:14:27.040 and to some extent, the architect of it.
00:14:28.640 They say a very divided party. Divided on what? Can we get a MP, even anonymously on the record,
00:14:36.800 who's still part of the party, saying that they are queasy with things being done? Is there anyone
00:14:41.520 doing that? No. Even the floor crossers couldn't actually name something they had a problem with,
00:14:47.760 because you can't actually find anything that Polyev has done where you could say,
00:14:51.760 oh, he's being too friendly to the Americans. He's not taking the trade situation seriously now.
00:14:56.800 The conservatives are taking it more seriously than Mark Carney, who won't deal with it, my goodness.
00:15:02.320 Anyway, but now let's move on to some other stuff. Here's just one I wanted to highlight because of
00:15:06.560 how childish it was. So Wayne Gretzky was on the CBC here, and he says, I'm a hockey player. I'm a
00:15:14.400 Canadian, a true Canadian. I want Canada to win a gold medal. I've never wavered from that. I've been
00:15:19.840 friends with prime ministers and presidents. Somehow there's been a little bit more tension than normal.
00:15:25.440 At the end of the day, Canada and the US are like brothers and sisters. They're going to fight and
00:15:29.120 argue, but eventually they'll come together. That's the way I see it. And Bruce Anderson here,
00:15:34.080 who is the head of a polling company, says, nope, not buying it. So even when a conservative figure,
00:15:43.200 someone who's like a conservative coded celebrity, like Wayne Gretzky, says that he's a proud Canadian,
00:15:50.560 of course, I'm fundamentally a Canadian. We're attacking him because he had gone to,
00:15:55.280 I believe, Donald Trump's inauguration because he's friends with people in the United States,
00:15:59.840 and I think he's friendly with Trump. That's not allowed, apparently. We have Andrew Coyne here
00:16:05.280 over this article from the National Post that reads, why are liberals attacking efforts to end Canada's
00:16:10.960 terror for full comment podcast? And it's featuring Jamil Javani. And Andrew Coyne says,
00:16:17.120 Javani has many prominent supporters on the right. Okay. Like, is this a bad thing that
00:16:25.440 he was on the National Post and they actually heard out what he was saying?
00:16:30.080 Another one, right? Oh, here's another thing I wanted to play right here. This is from Laura Babcock.
00:16:37.920 She's not as representative of the mainstream media in general, although her husband is a producer over
00:16:42.720 at the CBC. But this is the sort of unhinged rhetoric we're getting. We have Clinton DeVoe
00:16:47.920 on her show, again, talking about all, again, attacking conservatives and doing this whole maple
00:16:53.760 mega fascist type routine. Yeah. And it's populist, it's disingenuous, and it's what Trump did in the U.S.
00:17:03.200 She's going after Danielle Smith here, the Premier of Alberta, for wanting Alberta to be able to
00:17:08.720 control some of its own immigration, and wanting the government to crack down on people who are
00:17:14.000 illegally in Canada. This is what she's freaking out about for context.
00:17:17.920 ...scapegoated the immigrants in the U.S., and we have seen disastrous consequences from that.
00:17:24.320 73,000 people are right now in prison camps, which one of them, an Irish person who was dragged in there
00:17:31.680 because he had a funny accent, according to ICE, called torture. Torture. They're lucky if they
00:17:37.040 get sunlight during a 24-hour day. They're underfed. They're being tortured. So that is what happens
00:17:44.320 when you demonize immigration. When you talk about, like, what happens if the people of Alberta say,
00:17:50.000 oh yeah, no, we don't want any more of these immigrants. What's next? You're going to say, oh,
00:17:53.840 well, you know, we've got to go to a roundup of immigrants. I mean, I'm sorry to put it that way,
00:17:57.760 but there's nothing in Danielle Smith's policies and her adjacency to MAGA and all the time she
00:18:03.440 spends with those leaders who espouse these things. That doesn't lead me to be deeply concerned.
00:18:09.200 First, you take away their access to health care in the province. Then what happens? People start
00:18:14.080 to say, oh, well, I saw them at a job my kid could have had. We need to be rounding up these people and
00:18:18.480 getting them out of Alberta. I mean, this stuff is disastrous when you start to lose your common
00:18:24.800 humanity. Sorry, common humanity requires us to never enforce basic law. If we start to enforce
00:18:32.320 the basic immigration law that you should only be here for the time your visa allows you to be here,
00:18:38.400 then we're losing our basic humanity, apparently. And your values and you buy into this
00:18:43.520 bullshit line that these people who came to work to contribute are the ones who are causing you pain.
00:18:49.920 It is not true. I'm sorry, but it is true that disproportionately new immigrants in Canada
00:18:56.720 are the ones who are part of gangs in Toronto, in Surrey, who are involved in extortion rackets.
00:19:03.920 That's just true. So I'm sorry, it's just not a bunch of random white hockey guys going around
00:19:11.360 shooting up things. The guys who have been, the family's been here for a couple of generations.
00:19:15.520 Now, that doesn't mean that all immigrants are criminals. Obviously not. But the thing is,
00:19:21.280 those who are overstaying student visas or getting into the country on false pretenses are, in fact,
00:19:27.840 contributing heavily to the rise in crime. And we should have those people deported. But apparently,
00:19:32.800 even noticing basic facts is now racist, fascist, maple mega to Laura Babcock.
00:19:40.240 And she might not have used that language as distinctly as Trump did. But believe me,
00:19:45.840 this is not just Danielle Smith up there on her bully pulpit full of grievance. She is getting a
00:19:52.400 hell of a lot of help from the people in the United States in MAGA. There is literally a sign up in
00:19:58.080 Arizona for the independence referendum in Alberta. There's an event happening in Juma, Arizona.
00:20:04.480 That's not that's not mega helping Daniel's. Okay, Daniel Smith is not even a separatist.
00:20:10.240 She's not. She's explicitly not a separatist. There is a sign up in Yuma, because there's a lot
00:20:16.320 of people in Alberta who snow who are snowbirds who live in Arizona during the winter. That's what's
00:20:22.800 going on there. It's not a conspiracy theory. A bunch of people in Yuma basically said, hey, if you're an
00:20:28.560 Albertan who's here traveling, you can come to our house or whatever and sign the petition. That's all
00:20:36.000 that was. And now she's already this is the mind of Laura Babcock. It doesn't if something she does
00:20:42.640 not like something, it is inherently attached to something else she does not like. She does not
00:20:47.440 like Trump. And she so she hates his immigration policy. If Daniel Smith starts taking immigration
00:20:53.520 issues seriously, that means she's like Donald Trump. And you know that she is working with
00:21:01.280 the Americans because she agrees with Donald Trump. And didn't you see there was a separatist sign up
00:21:06.160 that was happening in Arizona. And because it's something to do with Alberta in Arizona and Laura
00:21:11.840 Babcock doesn't like it. And because she doesn't like Daniel Smith, that means these two things are
00:21:16.560 connected. She genuinely could not pass a basic cognitive test. She does not have the logic to
00:21:25.280 pass a basic cognitive test for this. So if you don't think that the same people who are behind
00:21:31.120 the horrendous policies of MAGA in the US are not helping with what's going on with some of these
00:21:37.760 themes and some of these sovereignty independence actions in Alberta, then you're missing the plot.
00:21:43.840 And we have Canadian media that is owned by US MAGA hedge fund in your it's because she's she's going
00:21:52.480 on this whole thing because National Post is partially American owned. Okay, I'm sorry,
00:21:57.520 are there American commentators, the people who work for the National Post have always worked for the
00:22:02.240 National Post, or they've been familiar faces in Canadian media. What's she on about? Like again,
00:22:07.760 she's saying, you're you're not following the plot. Well, plots require fact patterns to make sense.
00:22:15.520 What's the fact pattern that would back up the idea that Danielle Smith is in league with MAGA? Again,
00:22:22.000 these people find breadcrumbs, and they just use them to basically create an entire conspiracy about how
00:22:27.280 the world's against their liberal version of Canada. Everyone's up to something. I guarantee you,
00:22:33.200 she probably thinks that I'm an American asset because I'm criticizing her points about Maple
00:22:38.400 MAGA. Because I'm criticizing her, I must have been put up to this to stop her from spreading the truth,
00:22:44.560 the truth that she can't actually explain because she doesn't know what she's talking about,
00:22:48.240 and she doesn't actually have any evidence to show. If she ever got evidence in her claws,
00:22:54.800 she would show it. She doesn't have any, so she just rants. But whatever. Anyways, that should be it
00:23:01.840 for this video, guys. No doubt I'm going to be covering more media propaganda in the coming days
00:23:07.360 here. There's a few videos that I actually need to get out in the next couple days because we got hit
00:23:11.680 really hard with news over the past 24, 48 hours, especially in British Columbia. There's this insane
00:23:17.760 case of a former Chilliwack school board trustee, Barry Neufeld, being fined $750,000 by the BC Human
00:23:26.320 Rights Tribunal for effectively not believing in gender theory. He doesn't believe in more than two
00:23:32.880 sexes. Ergo, he is now, you know, an evil bigot or whatever that needs to be fined. It doesn't even make
00:23:41.920 sense to explain it. Anyways, with that all being said, thank you guys for watching. Like, share,
00:23:47.120 subscribe. Consider hitting the join button and contributing monthly, and I'll see you all next time.