The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - The Real Reason Carney Has Skipped Over 100 Question Periods

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:06.260 Prime Minister Mark Carney has basically become the absentee father of Canadian politics.

00:00:12.500 He left to go down the street just to get a pack of cigarettes, and we haven't seen him since.

00:00:18.460 He has only shown up to 26.2% of question periods since he became Prime Minister.

00:00:26.800 That's like half of what Trudeau did.

00:00:29.680 I believe Prime Minister Stephen Harper was at like 65%.

00:00:34.140 Now, I think this has actually been a strategic play by Mark Carney.

00:00:39.060 I know a lot of people will just queue it up to he doesn't like accountability, but it's more than that.

00:00:43.980 I think he knows that his liberal agenda is failing, that the things that he's promised are not going to be delivered.

00:00:50.620 so he wants as little historical footage of him in QP saying that everything's going to work out

00:00:57.240 fine. If he's not on camera lying, it can't be used in a campaign ad. But in just a second here,

00:01:04.320 I just want to get to a press conference with conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer,

00:01:09.300 and then I want to go into some other things around this topic. But before I do,

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00:01:31.740 here is Andrew Scheer talking about Carney hitting 100 days of not showing up to QP.

00:01:38.180 Well good afternoon today marks a very unfortunate milestone for Mark Carney today will be his

00:01:45.760 100 missed question period. He's skipped out on 100 out of 136 question periods. That is

00:01:55.000 completely unacceptable. And by the way, as of today, it's now 101 out of 137 that he has missed.

00:02:02.280 Now, to be clear, today he's at the G7 and Conservatives have no issue when the Prime

00:02:08.980 Minister of Canada represents our country at the G7. However, of the hundred question periods that

00:02:16.460 he's missed, fully 64 of them were while he was right here in Ottawa. So there's no excuse for

00:02:24.120 those absences. He was literally in the building or around the corner. He could have easily showed

00:02:29.520 up and defended his government's record. And that's really what it is. Carney doesn't want

00:02:34.880 to be on the record defending his record because again all those clips can be used against him

00:02:39.860 later but I wouldn't actually be as nice as Andrew Scheer is being because he's saying well 64 of

00:02:45.740 these instances of him not showing up to QP he was in Ottawa he was around the parliament building

00:02:51.000 or he was in his office across street he could have shown up I would actually say even the other

00:02:56.420 whatever would be like 36 of them 37 instances of him missing while he was abroad are still

00:03:02.860 unacceptable because he knows when we're in session and when we're not in session. And so

00:03:07.740 much of his travel has been entirely useless. This G7 meeting, I agree, perfectly fine. There's been

00:03:13.820 other times when he went traveling and it was good. But so many of his travels have just been

00:03:19.240 nonsense. It's just been him going and signing MOUs and agreements about nothing where no actual

00:03:25.840 deliverables are on the table. But I'll let Andrew Scheer keep going down this line. And then I want

00:03:31.940 to jump over to QP to kind of, again, highlight the fact that the Liberals don't really have

00:03:37.000 exactly great answers for the bad metrics when it comes to the economy. And that is exactly why

00:03:42.760 Carney doesn't want to actually be there on camera while these things are being asked of him.

00:03:47.520 Of course, it's no surprise why he's hesitant to defend his own record when it comes to the

00:03:52.420 economy. After all, if we take a look at just some of the stats right here in black and white,

00:03:58.480 He's delivered the only G20 country in a recession, 15 consecutive months of business investment decline.

00:04:08.140 He's delivered the second highest unemployment in the G7, the highest household debt in the G7.

00:04:13.680 And Mark Carney has delivered the worst housing costs in the G7.

00:04:17.560 He's even doubled Justin Trudeau's massive deficits.

00:04:21.120 And according to the PBO, Carney has just a 1% chance of meeting his deficit to GDP fiscal anchor and a greater than 50% chance of the debt to GDP ratio increasing.

00:04:33.000 Now, what does all this mean for hardworking Canadians?

00:04:35.760 Well, more and more Canadians are facing such sad hardships.

00:04:40.580 The struggles they are facing are only getting worse under Mark Carney's terrible economic record.

00:04:44.700 Now, we don't need to play that clip any further. But before I actually get to QP, I do want to highlight a statistic that I probably cannot fit into any other video in the future. So I want to mention it here. But this is, again, another one of those things where the Liberals are quite, I would say, motivated to trying to have as little media time, as little question and answer as possible.

00:05:08.380 because some of their big agenda items are just absolutely collapsing under the mildest amount of

00:05:14.260 scrutiny. We've talked about the Alto train before, how it's a train between Toronto and Quebec that

00:05:21.060 nobody asked for. Farmers hate it. The fiscal hawks hate it. The Quebec sovereigntists hate it. 0.97

00:05:26.380 Everybody hates it. And I can show you statistical proof that people hate it. This is lege. What

00:05:33.440 somebody would probably call a very left-leaning polling firm. Not in terms of their trying to be

00:05:40.580 biased, although there are some firms out there I do believe are trying to be biased, but Leger

00:05:45.700 has a fairly notorious left-lean when it comes to who it samples in its online polls. Leger in Quebec

00:05:53.260 found that only 54% of Quebecers are in favor of the Alto train, 35% not in favor, and then there's

00:06:01.600 probably a bunch undecided in there, of course. You could say, well, that's a majority. They

00:06:06.140 haven't even broken ground on the project. We are years away. And 2029 is when they might break

00:06:11.860 ground on this thing, when they might start laying track. They have already spent over a quarter

00:06:17.440 billion dollars consulting on and planning hypothetical routes for this train and trying

00:06:24.900 to talk with farmers and other interest groups. They've already blown more money than entire city

00:06:31.200 governments work on multiple city governments work with less money than 250 million dollars

00:06:40.320 now there's some big cities like toronto and calgary and vancouver probably have like you

00:06:44.060 know a two three billion dollar budget but i mean in terms of like there are some mid-level cities

00:06:48.680 that is more money than they operate with and that's just for the pre-planning the pre-planning

00:06:53.860 to the pre-planning for alto and you're already at only 54 percent favorable in a liberal leaning

00:07:00.320 full. That is not good. I don't know how else, you don't, there's almost nothing else to say

00:07:06.920 there. The conflicts of interest haven't even started boiling up as much as they have, as much

00:07:12.020 as they could yet. Again, the price tag is going to balloon probably from $90 billion for the train

00:07:17.540 to probably $200 billion. That was a figure that the Bloc Québécois had estimated, who are not a

00:07:23.880 fiscal hawk party. They are in fact quite socialistic. So when they're becoming concerned

00:07:29.200 about how much this is going to cost, it's probably going to be like, woo, in terms of

00:07:33.740 how much it's finally going to cost when the price tag comes in, when it's completed.

00:07:39.680 It is supposed to be a unifying project that's supposed to win the Liberals tons of votes

00:07:45.060 from the GTA up to Quebec City.

00:07:48.340 They're supposed to benefit greatly from this.

00:07:50.660 And so far, they've only been taking shots from a lot of voting blocks that they usually

00:07:56.760 would rely on in an election.

00:07:59.200 This is the thing that Mark Carney has coming for him.

00:08:02.260 All of his plans are, I would say, self-defeating.

00:08:06.100 So many of the things that he has been doing in government are going to come back to bite him.

00:08:11.060 The overspending, the major projects attached to interests connected with Brookfield,

00:08:17.720 things like the Alto train that people don't even like.

00:08:20.240 A lot of his program is things that eventually are going to make him look bad in the long run.

00:08:26.220 His fake pipeline that's never going to get done is causing him to lose votes both on his left and his right.

00:08:33.240 The business liberals who voted for the Liberal Party in 2025 because they thought that Carney was going to be great for the economy are getting kind of tired.

00:08:41.400 And the green left, who doesn't like that Mark Carney isn't as much of a zealot as Justin Trudeau is, although he's still never going to build a pipeline, are also mad that he's rhetorically softening on the environment, and they're moving away from him too.

00:08:53.880 the man keeps putting himself in these traps of his own making and that's why he can't come into

00:09:00.060 question period because he does not actually know what his position is day to day oftentimes or he

00:09:06.360 doesn't want to be on the record having to answer questions about these programs that aren't working

00:09:10.400 but now let's get to qp where i believe andrew lawton is starting us off today

00:09:15.100 one of my favorite federal conservative mps the honorable member for elgin st thomas london

00:09:21.740 thank you mr speaker it's time once again all of the g7 leaders are gathering together and our

00:09:29.740 prime minister has lots to talk about he can brag that he's the only one of them to lead his country

00:09:34.640 into a recession in the time he's been in office in fact he's the only leader in the g20 to do that

00:09:40.700 but the fact that canada is in a recession is just one measure of the way things are not going well

00:09:45.860 for so many canadians we have families living in rvs in parking lots we have seniors sleeping

00:09:51.500 in tim hortons because they have nowhere else to go and we have food bank usage at record highs

00:09:56.300 yet the prime minister says affordability is the best it's been in years if this is the best will

00:10:01.580 he tell us what the worst would look like normal government house leader mr speaker as the g7 wraps

00:10:08.780 up uh in france i know canadians are very proud to be represented by the prime minister on the world

00:10:15.900 stage and will be very proud to learn as he returns that he returns with 13 13 new agreements

00:10:23.260 that will generate over 5 billion dollars 5 billion he has 13 agreements that will generate

00:10:31.480 5 billion dollars do people understand how little fit like how little 5 billion dollars is on a

00:10:38.840 federal scale in terms of investments in canada 5 billion dollars is nothing and by the way what's

00:10:44.700 actually been seen at the G7 so far is Carney having to swing by Trump and on hot mic, basically

00:10:50.480 begging him to like our trade agreement with China and hoping that it's not going to be a problem.

00:10:55.860 Now, maybe he'll get some progress there. But the idea that we're supposed to be clapping over

00:11:01.240 these agreements where we go to Indonesia and we sign a vague agreement that we're going to trade

00:11:05.680 more, it's not doing anything. Even if we doubled our Indonesian trade, we would have, what is it,

00:11:12.580 I think we would increase our overall exports to them by like $2 billion if we doubled them.

00:11:19.020 In all these other cases, like these $5 billion agreements spread across $13 or $5 billion of

00:11:25.340 agreements, and there are 13 agreements, that means that each of these is worth less than a

00:11:30.140 billion dollars by quite a bit here. And that's the problem that we have with the liberals. They

00:11:35.440 don't actually have any big wins. All of the wins are these little tiny nickel and dime

00:11:42.560 type wins where oh we got half a million dollars here four million here three billion here and when

00:11:48.800 you actually think of the size of the canadian economy that i believe is over a trillion dollars

00:11:52.400 a year this is nothing this is quite bad actually considering all the time he's putting into this

00:11:58.560 including like his his flight in-flight dinners that are apparently costing nearly a quarter

00:12:04.800 million dollars for just a few trips to build a stronger more self-reliant canada in a troubled

00:12:24.640 world the honorable member for elgin st thomas london thank you mr speaker we've heard the prime

00:12:40.700 minister's announcements before what we haven't seen is real action again this prime minister

00:12:46.380 has traveled around the world and failed to deliver a single new free trade agreement

00:12:50.360 while Canadians suffer.

00:12:52.320 And even their so-called surveillance pricing announcement yesterday

00:12:55.280 won't even be in effect until at least 2028,

00:12:59.340 meaning yet another announcement that's not delivering results for Canadians.

00:13:03.120 Of those food bank users in Canada,

00:13:05.620 2.2 million in a single month last year,

00:13:07.920 one-third are children.

00:13:09.900 When will the Prime Minister reverse course

00:13:12.020 and stop driving Canadians into the food banks?

00:13:14.680 Now, I don't need to hear any more answers on this

00:13:16.920 because it's just going to be kind of like the similar avoidant answers

00:13:19.900 from the Liberals and saying, hey, don't you know that we actually got five bucks when we went to

00:13:24.300 Peru the last time? Or hey, Carney's trip to France netted us $2 million of new investment

00:13:32.820 or whatever. Our actual investments have gone down since the beginning of the year. Net investment

00:13:38.920 into Canada is like negative 0.7 right now. Yes, it's not a big dump, but we should be growing.

00:13:46.780 It feels obvious that we should be growing every year.

00:13:49.460 We don't want to become less productive.

00:13:50.960 We always want to be more productive.

00:13:52.720 And yet we always hear the liberals bragging, well, we have generated a half a trillion

00:13:58.680 dollars in new investments.

00:14:00.780 And there's always some absurdly big number of how much money that they're bringing into

00:14:04.940 Canada.

00:14:05.560 I don't think that's net.

00:14:06.980 I think they're basically just saying, hey, well, we convinced $50 billion to enter the

00:14:11.940 canadian market not like letting anyone know that we lost like 51 billion at the same time

00:14:19.040 we wouldn't be actually having a recession economy and even if you don't want to call it a recession

00:14:25.520 for whatever reason we wouldn't be having a stagnant economy if we were actually getting

00:14:31.080 in the investments that he says we are and that is almost like i actually think the conservatives

00:14:36.320 should just start making like parody videos or like parody documentaries satirical documentaries

00:14:41.640 on how we're making so much money, we're going broke in Canada.

00:14:45.020 We're getting so many investments, we're all hungry.

00:14:48.340 We can't even stand how good we're doing to the point

00:14:51.400 where people can't even afford their homes.

00:14:53.200 That's how much money we're making.

00:14:56.040 It's like the whole idea that, like, yo, oh my goodness,

00:14:58.980 you can't afford not to buy it.

00:15:01.080 That's the kind of carny economy right now.

00:15:03.840 We are having so many, we're having record investments

00:15:07.020 come into Canada, and yet somehow investments are down.

00:15:10.740 It's like the economic version of the moonwalk.

00:15:15.280 We look like we're moving forward, and somehow we're always moving backward. 0.92

00:15:18.780 Absolutely ridiculous.

00:15:20.520 Anyways, with all that being said, it's pretty obvious that Carney doesn't actually want to show up to QP,

00:15:26.820 even when he's back, and it's because of things like this.

00:15:29.860 His record is not going to be looking good over the long run,

00:15:34.260 and so he is trying to basically squash the media around it.

00:15:37.720 Even the media in Canada does complain that he is very much not available. He doesn't do that many scrums. He doesn't take that many questions. He doesn't go to QP. And I think that is a communications choice. Not just that he's bad on camera. He's not even exactly bad on camera. He's a bit boring on camera, but that's not exactly, you know, bad in politics to be a bit boring.

00:15:58.280 but Carney doesn't want to be on camera because he doesn't want any of this being used in ads he

00:16:04.280 doesn't want this any of this ever being referenced again the one moment in QP that still haunts him

00:16:09.940 is saying that affordability has never been better in Canada over the past 10 years despite the fact

00:16:15.420 that it's arguably at its worst or second worst point over the past two or three decades at this

00:16:21.420 point so yeah uh he doesn't want any more of those things happening that's why he's been ducking QP

00:16:26.700 anyways so with all that being said thank you guys for watching i do hope that mark carney

00:16:33.160 comes back to canada one day with that pack of cigarettes that he went to go find uh but until

00:16:38.180 then thank you for watching like share subscribe consider hitting the join button and becoming a

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - June 18, 2026

The Real Reason Carney Has Skipped Over 100 Question Periods

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