The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Trouble in Paradise for Carney - Liberal Infighting and poor performance!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. If there is going to be an election in the year 2026, you don't want

00:00:07.740 to be Prime Minister Mark Carney or the Liberals going into it. This doesn't mean the Liberals

00:00:12.820 couldn't win another election in the year 2026. Frankly, the Liberals and Conservatives always

00:00:18.140 have a chance of winning because they're the top two parties. But Carney used to actually be doing

00:00:23.420 quite well a couple of months ago. His approval ratings were good, the Liberals had a five to

00:00:28.660 six-point lead over the Conservatives and most of the pollsters. But now we've had polls come out

00:00:34.240 from six different pollsters showing the Liberals are sliding and Mark Carney's personal approval

00:00:40.400 rating is also sliding, which was kind of shocking to me because I always saw him as a figure who's

00:00:46.800 probably always going to be somewhat popular because he's so boring you can't really hate him.

00:00:52.380 Trudeau was very easy to hate. He's a larger-than-life personality that demands that you

00:00:57.900 absolutely love him or you hate his guts. And by the end of his term as Prime Minister,

00:01:02.580 everyone had pretty much concluded that they hate his guts. But Carney's mediocre performance,

00:01:08.120 I think, is actually getting under a lot of people's skin right now. But we are not here

00:01:11.740 to talk about the polling. The polling is probably already undermining the Liberals' confidence in being

00:01:16.800 able to win another election. But the news today is even worse because they were sliding before a bunch

00:01:23.720 of this news came out. Liberal infighting, bad economic numbers, and it doesn't matter what the spin

00:01:29.880 in the media is, they're not going to be able to make Canadians just put up with more mediocre 0.99

00:01:36.120 garbage from their government. Trudeau was bad, but on an average date, he was just kind of mediocre. 0.99

00:01:42.400 He just didn't get anything good done. Yeah, there was a lot of bad stuff happening, but the bad stuff was

00:01:47.000 kind of happening slowly over time. Most governments are so incompetent, things are always

00:01:52.340 blowing up. And if you look at it from that lens, Carney is very much like Justin Trudeau. It's just

00:01:58.200 mediocre and somewhat negative every single day, and as it goes on longer and longer, it really gets

00:02:04.280 under people's skin. But Canadians are kind of trained at this point to not put up with this,

00:02:09.260 because they already had 10 years of it with Trudeau, and they're not going to have 10 years of it

00:02:13.220 with Mark Carney again. Anyways, we're about to get into some of these news stories. We're going to

00:02:18.480 start off with the infighting, but before I get to it, I just want to remind you guys, I now have a

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00:02:34.100 So if you go below the video and hit the join button, you can join one of the two tiers. Again, it's just

00:02:38.800 to make the channel more sustainable. I'm not trying to make like a hierarchy of an important

00:02:42.980 subscribers and unimportant subscribers. But now let's get into this interview that he did with

00:02:49.560 Rosemary Barton. They've been kind of putting out clips of it as time goes on. This section is about

00:02:54.980 Mark Carney calling Stephen Gilboa a liar over Stephen Gilboa, saying that he was surprised by

00:03:01.520 him signing that Memorandum of Understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

00:03:06.420 Yes, I think there's, well, it's not for me to judge. There are some people who were here

00:03:11.520 under previous governments, previous situations, they can judge the degree of delegation.

00:03:15.740 What will come with that is that people won't always say the same thing and talking, but that's

00:03:20.600 great. That's fine. That's healthy. You know, that's normal life. People don't all say the same

00:03:26.080 thing at the same time. But that is the challenging part of the job. Is it not that sometimes you have

00:03:29.480 people who are not happy with what you're doing, openly critical of it, willing to walk away from

00:03:34.280 the cabinet, for instance? Look, this is awkward, because again, the problem is, even though Rosemary

00:03:43.560 Barton's a hack, eventually, even the CBC has to ask the obvious questions around people like Stephen

00:03:49.880 Gilboa and Nate Erskine-Smith and Chrystia Freeland and Jonathan Wilkinson and other people being unhappy

00:03:56.360 with how Mark Carney operates in government. And the funny thing with most of them is that they are

00:04:01.260 criticizing Carney from his left. The thing is that the right flank of the Liberal Party is already

00:04:06.860 kind of getting tired of him, what I call the business liberals. He's not doing good work for

00:04:11.800 the economy. We're going to be getting to that a little bit later in this video. But even Mark Carney

00:04:16.820 trying to pretend he's doing things for the economy is ticking off the green left of the liberals,

00:04:23.120 that being mainly embodied by people like Erskine-Smith and Gilboa.

00:04:27.860 Would I rather that, if we bring it back to Stephen Gilboa, for whom I have tremendous respect,

00:04:35.600 would I rather he had stayed in cabinet? Yes. Would I rather he had been there to see

00:04:40.200 what transpires with the Alberta MOU, to see our climate strategy come out, our nature strategy come

00:04:48.680 out early in the new year, both of which will happen? Yes. So he will continue to inform that,

00:04:55.080 but from farther away. If he's saying that he wishes he stuck around in cabinet to see

00:05:00.240 how it was going to go, is he not kind of giving away the game a little bit, that Carney has no

00:05:05.680 intention of getting a pipeline built? Because the only thing that would make Stephen Gilboa,

00:05:10.340 you know, see and appreciate Carney's climate strategy is if no pipeline actually goes through.

00:05:15.480 So he's almost acting like, Stephen, he didn't understand that I was lying, and he preemptively

00:05:20.360 left. He thinks I'm some oil and gas guy, but if he only stuck around, he would understand exactly

00:05:25.800 what I'm doing here. But I respect, look, I respect those decisions. And

00:05:30.720 But if that was, if that was true, if you wanted him to stay in cabinet, why did you go about it the

00:05:36.440 way you did? Because he didn't know the details. He did. He knew the details. So what, the things that

00:05:41.880 are out there that he has said are not true? I don't know what he, I don't follow everything he says,

00:05:45.960 but let's be very clear. He is, in fact, calling Stephen Gilboa a liar. Mark Carney, again, is not a

00:05:52.600 more conservative prime minister in terms of his actual ideals and ideology. But he's more conservative

00:05:58.180 in the way he like acts day to day. And I mean that at like, the most shallow level, he is more

00:06:05.020 conservative. He makes everyone wear ties and dress shoes at work. He's somebody who doesn't want the

00:06:11.080 activists right on the front bench. So Stephen Gilboa was in cabinet, but he was kind of second

00:06:16.460 tier cabinet. You're going to be in charge of culture and languages. It wasn't even really the

00:06:22.880 full ministry of culture. He was kind of given this like side role. He was borderline just a

00:06:27.400 parliamentary secretary. And so he kind of shoved him over there because Stephen Gilboa is not the suit

00:06:34.500 and tie and, you know, tailored suit kind of atmosphere that he wants. And by doing that,

00:06:40.980 he ticked off Stephen Gilboa, just like he ticked off Nate Erskine-Smith by making him the housing

00:06:45.520 minister prior to the election for only like a couple of weeks. I know he was technically at longer

00:06:51.680 because he was the housing minister for the duration of the election, but you're not doing

00:06:55.600 anything as cabinet minister during the election. He didn't even do anything prior to. And then he dumps

00:07:00.220 Erskine-Smith after the election and he just made this stupid enemy out of nowhere. Now, I don't like 1.00

00:07:06.180 Nate. Nate's a left-wing radical, but Carney in pursuing a cabinet full of people he aesthetically

00:07:13.740 wants to be around, like what is it, Gregor Robertson as the new housing minister, even though he's a

00:07:19.720 terrible failed Vancouver mayor. Awful on housing. He's the housing minister because I think it genuinely

00:07:26.560 goes to, he kind of fits into Mark Carney's kind of fake business environment. His kind of,

00:07:34.720 his fake business life of consultants and people who sit on boards and people who, you know, look

00:07:40.600 like a professional. Where Erskine-Smith is the guy who walks around with rolled up sleeves and

00:07:45.920 without a tie on and his shirt not buttoned up all the way. And Gilboa looks like some guy who's about

00:07:51.300 to throw on a Mao jacket and some sort of Soviet hat or something and send people off to the gulags. 0.68

00:07:56.220 So even though Carney is on the left, yes, he's like, even Trudeau, none of these people are

00:08:02.660 radical left. That's still NDP, but they're left. But he's just like, Trudeau wanted to be around the

00:08:08.700 more granola, greeny type liberals. And Carney came in and basically sidelined them, causing all this

00:08:14.900 infighting. A lot of people are leaving because they're not being listened to anymore. And maybe

00:08:18.820 that's a good thing, but they're not being replaced by anyone, anyone decent.

00:08:22.100 He knew what was in the MOU. And elements of the MOU were changed consistent with his views.

00:08:28.540 So once he saw the deal, you asked him for more input and were willing to change them?

00:08:34.060 I did change parts of it.

00:08:34.980 But Alberta was not happy with the changes?

00:08:36.980 No, they accepted the changes.

00:08:37.980 Okay. So then what is your understanding of what he wasn't happy with?

00:08:40.980 Well, these are questions for him.

00:08:42.980 Well, I asked Mr. Gilboa, but what did he tell you about things then? What were you not able to give him?

00:08:46.980 What were you not able to give him?

00:08:48.600 We have a different approach.

00:08:50.320 Yeah. So it's probably that they just hate each other. And you can very clearly see that he's not

00:08:55.580 comfortable talking about Stephen Gilboa because it is probably something where if he says too much,

00:09:00.920 it's going to turn into a more hot war between the two. Stephen Gilboa was definitely not sticking

00:09:05.960 around for four years. He's not going to be waiting until the end of his term. He already has his

00:09:09.980 pension. It's more likely the guy's going to put on an orange jumpsuit and try and climb the CN Tower

00:09:14.760 again. And he's going to stick around. And his riding's actually one that he has to be careful.

00:09:20.280 Mark Carney has to be careful to not lose. Can a conservative pick up Stephen Gilboa's riding?

00:09:24.980 Not in a thousand years. It is a riding where literally the conservatives don't even get 10%

00:09:29.600 of the vote. But Stephen Gilboa's riding, prior to him occupying it, was NDP. And prior to that,

00:09:37.560 it was Jill DeSapp, the Bloc Québécois leader's riding. So what's a riding that if Gilboa wants to

00:09:43.060 screw over Carney while he's trying to cobble together a majority by trying to maybe entice

00:09:48.320 some conservatives to cross the floor? If Stephen leaves and if Freeland leaves, her riding actually

00:09:53.040 was NDP at one point. Jonathan Wilkins leaves. His riding used to be conservative alliance way

00:09:58.180 back in the day. You know, enough that in the by-election, those people might show up and throw

00:10:02.660 a conservative in. And there's a couple other areas like Nate Erskine-Smith. You could see an NDP

00:10:06.880 winning that if the news cycle is bad for the liberals. So Carney's in a position where he's trying to get

00:10:12.300 the majority by getting people to floor cross, which is kind of a Pyrrhic victory on his part.

00:10:16.560 If you don't know the different terms for like victory, it's like, you know, a decisive victory

00:10:20.540 is you won flat out. You know, if it was a war, your army took like 2% casualties and you absolutely

00:10:26.820 decimated like 30% of the other armies of the other army and they fled into the forest and were

00:10:33.960 completely broken up and shattered. You know, what Carney's doing with these floor crossings is a

00:10:38.920 Pyrrhic victory. He is technically winning something. He is winning a conservative to come

00:10:43.980 over and sit on his bench. At the same time, a lot of Canadians find it sleazy and undemocratic. Is it

00:10:50.320 allowed? Yes, but it doesn't. You can't change the fact people feel it's undemocratic and they are

00:10:55.380 actually disliking the liberals the more they do stuff like that. But now let's jump over to the

00:11:01.400 economic news and then we will finish up with this really ridiculous segment on the CBC, which should go

00:11:07.260 without saying, where they're trying to, again, pump up Mark Carney and avoid a bunch of the problems.

00:11:12.500 But here's just a small clip from the CBC announcing a big fall on the GDP back in October.

00:11:17.760 A new snapshot of the Canadian economy released today reveals it remains brittle in the face of

00:11:23.880 trade tensions and tariffs. Statistics Canada says GDP numbers for October show the economy shrank by

00:11:30.480 three tenths of one percent. It's the biggest decline in almost three years. The manufacturing sector

00:11:36.080 decreased by one and a half percent, while wood manufacturing dropped over seven percent. In

00:11:42.020 total, 11 out of 20 industries experienced a decline. Stay with us. You're watching CBC News

00:11:48.740 Network. There's plenty more. This is something that we didn't talk about too much in detail during one

00:11:53.920 of my last polling videos. But if you look where Carney is losing support federally with the liberals,

00:11:59.200 it's in Ontario. That is the big area where the liberals are slipping down three, four, five points,

00:12:05.220 and the conservatives and the NDP are gaining. It's these manufacturing towns that many of them

00:12:10.320 went conservative in this last election. And now it looks like in places like Hamilton and an other

00:12:15.420 place in the southwest of Ontario, the conservatives are going to clean up the rest of it, or even the

00:12:19.540 NDP is going to capture a riding back from the liberals. The liberals are not in a super hot position

00:12:25.060 on the economy. And this is where I'm saying the business liberals are mad at Carney. They're the

00:12:29.620 people who they look at the economic numbers. And if they're bad, they leave. That's just how it

00:12:33.820 works. They're not social conservatives. They're not cultural conservatives. They may not even be

00:12:38.060 social liberals. They're just what you call business liberals, because as long as the liberals are

00:12:43.100 injecting money into the economy and keeping it moving and keeping the stock market looking good,

00:12:47.500 they'll stick with the liberals because it's a stable party. If the liberals stop making the economy

00:12:51.940 stable, they leave. And that is the issue that they're experiencing. Business liberals are leaving

00:12:57.420 and the green liberals are mad like Stephen Gilbeau and Nate Erskine-Smith. Carney, as I say a lot,

00:13:03.600 has perfectly triangulated away for everyone to hate his guts here.

00:13:09.660 Apologies. I had to come, I had to like pause the video and then come back because I realized I had the

00:13:14.460 wrong clip from the CBC later where they're talking about Mark Carney. It was the wrong guest who was

00:13:19.420 speaking and I can't find the right one. It doesn't matter. Actually, I can give them credit

00:13:23.180 though. The people who were speaking on the panel that I originally wanted to show,

00:13:27.980 that guy was actually saying that Carney's trying to tout the idea that he's like made gains on the

00:13:33.640 trade issue with the US. At the same time, like, no, you haven't. You know, you kind of have to have

00:13:39.480 a deal signed to be able to claim that you've had any progress. There's no such thing as like,

00:13:43.540 well, there's no deal, but we're getting there. Like when you've blown past every single date that

00:13:48.580 you've set yourself. So instead we are going to replace me making fun of the CBC with me making

00:13:54.080 fun of Laura Babcock, our favorite commentator from the left. Everything about her is just so

00:14:00.680 unhinged all the time. Like you wonder how there's nobody in her life who just says like, hey, Laura,

00:14:06.740 I agree with you, but tone it down like 90% of the way. But here she is to, I'll just let her say it.

00:14:17.140 Right? Like where I hate to do this at the end of the year, Canada, but I would be remiss in my

00:14:22.100 responsibilities, someone with a public voice, if I didn't tell you what I truly believe is

00:14:26.580 happening and what we need to do about it. Lead with courage and compassion. Don't let them divide

00:14:32.120 our country against ourselves. Support the leader who is trying to get us on a stronger footing in

00:14:37.480 this nightmare. And let's just try to grow up. Can we just focus on the fact that Canada is mere,

00:14:43.640 mere days from possible war, more war than we're already in, in this trade war, which Warren Buffett

00:14:49.520 said is a form of war. So we are already in this place. We can't deny it. We can't just look at our

00:14:54.940 phone and rabbit hole ourselves away from it because it sucks. We've got to deal with it. We 0.96

00:14:58.820 can do it with compassion, but we've got to have courage.

00:15:02.020 Yeah. So I know, no doubt you guys are all running out of the house right now to go watch the

00:15:07.360 O show. You can't even watch on your current devices. They're not good enough.

00:15:10.580 You need a new TV. You need a new computer, a new iPad, a new iPhone to go watch the O show on.

00:15:18.520 She has viewers, like not a lot of them, but there's a couple thousand people,

00:15:22.800 few thousand people who will watch every episode of like, and eat this stuff up. And like the

00:15:27.900 comments are all people being like, Oh my goodness, you and your guests are so right. Like we're,

00:15:32.660 we're days away from being in a war guys. What? Well, you know that Warren Buffett said a trade

00:15:38.960 war is a form of a war. I need to see the context on that. I honestly don't believe that that's

00:15:44.720 actually what that Warren Buffett said in context. I assume that he's probably talking about, you

00:15:50.120 know, sanctioning other, other countries and preventing them from like shipping. That's a

00:15:55.060 form of war. Yeah, that would be a form, you know, a blockade would be a form of war. He's probably

00:15:59.420 talking about like Venezuela and not letting them basically launder, uh, like oil into the American

00:16:05.780 economy, uh, that they've basically stolen from American oil and gas companies back in the day,

00:16:10.600 or they're talking about them preventing goods from getting out of Venezuela until they cut crack

00:16:16.120 down on all the fentanyl and Coke dealers and whatnot. Like goodness. But the thing is that you

00:16:21.820 have people out there who truly think like, no, we got to get behind Carney or else Trump will win.

00:16:26.540 It's like, well, what has Carney done to get us the win? That's the problem here is that,

00:16:33.240 and I've, I've heard this from a lot of people that you see liberals online saying they'll,

00:16:38.820 they will excuse the fact that Carney hasn't gotten anything done. Cause he's like, well,

00:16:42.480 he's not just going to sign any deal. He's only going to sign a deal that's good for Canada.

00:16:46.400 It's like, well, we're currently in a situation of having no deal, which is definitely not good for

00:16:51.960 us. But the problem is, is that the way they define a good deal for Canada effectively disallows

00:16:57.600 the Americans from winning too. Where if you're trying to sign a trade deal, you need a win-win

00:17:02.220 scenario. And that may require you to give in some concessions. You can make up for the concessions

00:17:07.960 that you have to give in other ways. Like if we get rid of supply management, we could find some way

00:17:13.060 of, you know, treating the farmers fairly who are, who are reliant on that system for so long and have

00:17:18.820 some sort of off ramp for them while bringing in more farmers into that system, into like a new 0.85

00:17:24.820 free market system. Cause right now we don't have a free market system. We can talk about that.

00:17:29.220 But the thing is that Carney defines winning based on giving up nothing and getting everything we

00:17:34.240 want, which means we will never get anything. It's delusional that this is how people think

00:17:39.720 about politics. It's, it's either the guy who's going to, you know, it's somehow right for him to

00:17:45.200 demand everything and concede nothing. We're Canada. I'm sorry, but we are just not a more powerful

00:17:51.700 country than the United States. And that's not unpatriotic to say, but I will assure you guys in the

00:17:57.460 coming and probably tomorrow, I am going to be making a video on the situation in British Columbia

00:18:03.300 politics right now. We will talk a little bit about the BC conservative leadership race.

00:18:08.080 One BC, we re-required one BC. Dallas Brody is absolutely right now in charge. We are going to

00:18:14.320 be moving forward with building party infrastructure and making this a serious viable party, more serious

00:18:20.300 than the BC conservatives, because guess what? All their riding associations are pretty much

00:18:24.780 not operating or have completely closed up shop because that party does not actually respect their

00:18:30.120 own riding associations. So we're going to create riding associations that we actually let do stuff.

00:18:35.620 But that's another story for another day. I'll probably do a video where I also go over the BC

00:18:39.500 polling because one BC has been doing quite well in the polls these days. And that's in spite of the

00:18:45.220 fact that we had effectively people trying to sabotage us. And even though the polling was done at the

00:18:51.500 time when we were in this kind of mini civil war, we were still getting seven, eight percent in the

00:18:56.580 polls, and we're going to keep expanding from there. But anyways, with all that being said,

00:19:01.760 thank you guys for watching, and I will see you all next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 24, 2025

Trouble in Paradise for Carney - Liberal Infighting and poor performance!

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