The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Trudeau government uses taxpayer dollars fund Liberal propaganda outlet!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. There's this very funny phenomenon I've been experiencing online.

00:00:06.560 Whenever I'm interacting with a lefty journalist or commentator who's usually trying to be very

00:00:11.620 smug and condescending to me because I don't hold their lefty academia opinions, I eventually find

00:00:18.520 out they are literally paid by the federal government. They could not keep the lights on

00:00:22.820 if it wasn't for Justin Trudeau and the Canadian Heritage Ministry giving them money. Who is it

00:00:28.780 more pathetic for? I don't know. Is it more pathetic for the people taking the money because they

00:00:33.320 couldn't actually operate a publication without the government's help? Or is it more pathetic for

00:00:38.600 Trudeau and the liberals who seem to be now targeting money towards liberal propaganda outlets

00:00:44.600 who are just putting out gutter trash levels of propaganda, just saying pure poly of bad,

00:00:50.620 Justin Trudeau good, and the federal government's paying for this. It's insane. I want to go through

00:00:56.920 a few of these examples with you here today because I think it just really highlights

00:01:01.100 just how much of a hole the liberals are in currently. But before I get to that, I just want

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00:01:27.700 Give, Send, Go link, which will also be pinned at the top of the comments. Now, I know a lot of

00:01:33.000 these people will say, you know that Post Media gets the most raw dollars from the federal government

00:01:37.980 out of any Canadian publication. To which I say, yes, that's also bad. I like the National Post in

00:01:44.180 general, but I don't think that they deserve taxpayer money either. I think that we should be getting

00:01:48.960 rid of all these media subsidies and defunding the CBC at the same time that we reduce taxes.

00:01:55.260 Nobody will have an excuse not to make a go of a publication if they actually have viewership.

00:02:01.040 Anyways, but here is a truly pathetic example. It's cult MTL, or also known as Culture Montreal,

00:02:09.160 because as you can see from their top line here, it's a Montreal culture magazine. They put out a

00:02:14.380 monthly print edition, which I'm not sure how widely it's distributed. Maybe they just do it

00:02:19.200 so that they can be considered print media still. But look up here, arts and life, news, film and TV,

00:02:25.460 music, food and drink events. It is predominantly a culture, nightlife-type publication. They promote

00:02:33.380 documentaries. They talk about random artists from Montreal. But now, for some reason, they also

00:02:39.840 bash Pierre Polyev all of the time. When I say all of the time, I mean, like, at least once or twice a

00:02:48.420 week, there will be the same article, borderline the same article, saying that Pierre Polyev is deeply

00:02:54.160 unpopular. And it's just, again, just gutter-level propaganda. And almost all the articles are written

00:03:01.320 by this guy, Matthew Renfrew, here. This article is titled,

00:03:04.840 Pierre Polyev's poor favorability will cost the Conservatives come election time. Oh, will it?

00:03:10.540 Will it now? Down here, I'll just read a little bit of it, just so I can dig into the absurdity of it.

00:03:16.340 It says, a study by the Angus Reid Institute has found that net favorability of Pierre Polyev has

00:03:22.000 reached its lowest points since December 2022 at negative 20%. Just 36% of Canadians have a positive

00:03:29.360 opinion of the Conservative Party of Canada leader. Next line, a study by Ledger also found that while

00:03:35.400 the Conservatives are leading in the polls, yet leading by a lot, less than one in three Canadians

00:03:40.300 believe Pierre Polyev is the best choice for Prime Minister. Oh, my goodness. It's hard for me to

00:03:46.720 describe to you how pathetic this is. Justin Trudeau, even in the Angus Reid poll,

00:03:53.620 in the Ledger poll, is way below Pierre Polyev for popularity. In the Angus Reid poll, he's only at

00:03:59.900 like 26% popularity, maybe 28% if I read it wrong. Ledger has Pierre Polyev by far the most,

00:04:08.760 is the most preferred person for Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau is like 18%, 17% in terms of people

00:04:17.000 who think that he'd make the best Prime Minister. But this outlet, without even like a scent of

00:04:24.900 irony, keeps putting this stuff out, pretending like Pierre Polyev is getting absolutely pummeled in

00:04:31.240 the polls. He's not. He's actually doing very well, especially considering all of the lefty media

00:04:37.000 propaganda, both from the legacy media, as well as from pathetic micro-publications like Cult MTL.

00:04:43.500 But now I want to get into a little bit of the funding, as well as the caliber of other journalism

00:04:49.660 that this publication puts out, and especially why it's needed to dive headfirst into liberal

00:04:54.960 propaganda in order to stay funded. And again, I don't know why the liberals are doing this. Like,

00:05:00.080 I know why, but who is going to see this Cult MTL article and then decide that they're no longer

00:05:05.960 voting for the conservatives and they're going to vote liberal again? Especially in Montreal, where the

00:05:11.460 choices don't even include the conservatives. The conservatives come like fourth place in

00:05:15.440 Montreal. They do not compete for any Montreal ridings. But here is something that Andy Lee

00:05:20.380 pointed out, which I'm going to add on after that is a really funny little thing to note about them.

00:05:27.000 He said this back on October 23rd. Andy Lee says, fun fact, Cult MTL is a QCNA member which partnered

00:05:35.380 with the Government of Canada to distribute grants through the local journalism initiative. Cult MTL

00:05:40.580 recipients can earn up to $60,000 per LJI journalist per year to combat news poverty. Enjoy your

00:05:49.240 handouts while they last. And yeah, that's, but that's not it. So we have here the, I believe it's

00:05:56.300 the Quebec, I think it's like community of journalists or whatever. I'm going to go find

00:06:02.360 it here. I do have a screenshot of how much they get per year. And it's not an unsubstantial amount

00:06:07.240 of money. The, oh, that's the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Here we have the QCNA. The Quebec Community

00:06:15.060 Newspaper Association got $900,000 on April 1st of 2021 in a local journalism, journalism initiative

00:06:24.520 grant. But they've also gotten more money every single year prior after that. And they've gotten

00:06:30.280 money even before this. This is a massive sum of money. And I don't doubt that Cult MTL ends up

00:06:37.780 getting some of that funding. They are a partner of them. So I don't see why they wouldn't. But

00:06:43.620 Andy Lee actually seemed to have missed this. Cult MTL has been getting money directly from the

00:06:50.020 government, not just from this Quebec Community Newspaper Association or whatever. And this is not

00:06:56.200 borrowing that they might also be getting provincial Quebec government money or Montreal money as

00:07:01.340 well. So Cult MTL in 2020 was a recipient of $46,719. And they will justify, what's this COVID spending?

00:07:11.920 Well, they just need the money to keep them alive during COVID. Why? You're a publication online

00:07:17.640 mostly and you ship out magazines. How is that affecting your ability to function? Cult MTL in

00:07:25.900 2021 given another $12,800. Cult MTL 2022 $13,945. Cult MTL 2023 was given $13,247. I don't even know

00:07:41.180 how these amounts work. Why do you get $13,945 in 2022, but only $13,247 in 2023? Oh, and I haven't

00:07:49.880 found their 2024 filing yet, but I don't doubt that we will eventually see it. This trash that's saying

00:07:59.280 Paulie is deeply unpopular. He's falling down right now. Canadians don't like him. At the same time,

00:08:04.940 Trudeau has far less popularity than even him. This is funded by our federal government. Now I just

00:08:11.140 want to show you some of the publications by this place. And you can really tell why they've

00:08:15.360 dove head first into this liberal propaganda because nobody cares about their publication

00:08:22.000 past it. Look at this. LGBTQ plus film festival Image Plus Nation to open with Lucia Guadagnino's

00:08:32.140 queer starring Daniel Craig. And six likes, six retweets, November 16th. It's been out for a few days.

00:08:41.140 We have this publication. Our November issue features Petit Bellevue, who released a brilliant

00:08:49.320 self-titled third album this year and is about to play M. Tell Us for the first time. We spoke with

00:08:56.400 him about how he runs his career like a small business and why he is low-key loves it. He runs

00:09:03.040 his career like a small business because he's not popular. I'm not trying to take shots of this guy.

00:09:09.220 I have more viewership on any given episode of my show compared to this guy's music. He's not

00:09:16.980 popular. But Cult MTL, they are just covering random artists that they probably happen to like.

00:09:25.060 And which, in November 7th, 11 likes, five retweets. This was released on November 7th,

00:09:30.060 and I'm talking about this on November 18th. Nobody cares. Here's another one. Montreal has spoken.

00:09:34.920 Best, hashtag best of MTL. Best wine bars in Montreal. Wow. Who could, who could tell why

00:09:41.880 nobody reads this publication? Let's go up to another one. This is the one where they actually

00:09:46.920 wrote about Pierre Polyev. See, the net variability of Pierre Polyev has reached its lowest point since

00:09:51.120 December 22. And that has 2.7 thousand likes, 871 retweets. And a lot of it tends to be negative

00:09:59.320 when you look at a lot of the quote tweets of people just mocking the notion that Polyev is

00:10:04.080 unpopular compared to Justin Trudeau. This is pathetic. They're only doing this for the government money.

00:10:10.980 It's nakedly transparent. And this isn't the only lefty publication that's been getting money.

00:10:16.440 I'm going to use some more famous examples, as I accidentally brought up on screen before.

00:10:20.220 Canada's Anti-Hate Network 2020 was given $268,400. That is disgusting, how much money these people

00:10:31.400 are given. 2024, $200,000. I'm just kind of going through them in no particular order. 2023 given

00:10:38.020 $440,000. What do they do? They just smear conservatives. That's what the Canadian Anti-Hate

00:10:45.200 Network exists for. Yeah, they'll cover the occasional neo-Nazi that pops up here or there

00:10:50.620 as if anyone supported them and it needed deep coverage to show what they were up to.

00:10:54.860 Nobody cares about these people. It's a gutter trash publication that all it does is sort of goes

00:11:01.120 after actual hateful people here and there, like obvious neo-Nazis or racists or whatever,

00:11:06.560 who nobody supported. And then they will also release articles about a conservative was once within

00:11:14.180 10,000 yards of this guy that we've covered before as being hateful. This is what the actual,

00:11:20.160 this is what the Canadian Anti-Hate Network exists to do. They exist to try and connect normal

00:11:25.500 conservative figures to hateful individuals through very thin threads. So they're the type of place

00:11:32.060 that will cover that Jeremy McKenzie shook hands with Pierre Polyev and they'll pretend that they have

00:11:37.440 a serious connection. Jeremy McKenzie made a joke about assaulting Polyev's wife and Polyev thinks

00:11:45.100 he's a trash individual who didn't know who he was at the time. But that's what the Canadian Anti-Hate

00:11:50.000 Network exists to do. Here's another one. So the Canadian government just funds publications that

00:11:56.440 supposedly are very popular and written by, have prestigious writers like Maxwell Fawcett,

00:12:02.740 like National Observer, who are just openly anti the energy industry. The National Observer,

00:12:08.600 Observer Media Group, got $50,000 in 2017. And what did they get in 2020? $253,000. 2021? $100,000.

00:12:20.620 2022? What did they get? Oh, $99,000. 854. What did we get in 23? Oh, they got $43,000. 24?

00:12:30.540 They got $44,000. And as the amounts go down, you'd be like, well, that's not that much money.

00:12:36.100 That's not more than a single person's salary, if that. I get $0. In fact, I get, like my legal fund

00:12:44.400 implies, I get lawsuits from corrupt individuals in Canadian politics that I mostly get to pay for

00:12:50.240 alone. The smugness from these people is always the most bothersome thing. They act like they're the

00:12:57.220 media elites. Even if they don't work directly in the legacy media, they technically work in

00:13:01.120 alternative media, but they're funded by the Canadian government. But they're better than you.

00:13:05.180 They have more nuanced takes. They don't engage in low-grade propaganda like conservative

00:13:13.260 commentators do online. While they're paid to write newspapers, while they're paid to write

00:13:18.340 online publications that, let me be clear, nobody reads. Nobody reads these things. That's always

00:13:24.380 the funny thing whenever somebody embraces that they are a CBC journalist. Oh, I work for CTV News.

00:13:32.600 Oh, I work for Global. Nobody reads you. Nobody watches your shows. It's actually hilarious. Did

00:13:38.400 you ever see, I don't have the screenshot anymore, but somebody, I think it was actually Lindsay

00:13:43.680 Shepard from True North, she showed that the CBC had like 50 plus, 60 plus podcasts on Apple Podcasts.

00:13:54.120 Nobody listens to these things. Nobody does. They don't have any ratings. Nobody's listened to them

00:13:59.340 before. And the people running these things are being paid six figures to run a show, some random

00:14:04.420 true crime show about like the, like some gay neighborhood in Toronto. Nobody's listening to it 1.00

00:14:11.460 and they're being paid six figures to make it. Let's, let's, I just want to find some other stuff

00:14:16.080 here. And this is, this is like the stuff that always blows me away whenever people will start

00:14:20.960 to like defend the honor of the CBC and they'll act very like crusader-y about it. Here's Max Foss

00:14:27.620 is saying, red alert folks, if you care about the CBC, it's time to face up to this. And it was going

00:14:33.460 after, uh, and it was in response to pure poly of going after the CBC and knowing that, ooh, the CBC is

00:14:39.360 getting close to being cut. Yes, they should. Max should also lose his government subsidized

00:14:44.680 salary, not in terms of like, I want him fired, but all these people who are acting like defending

00:14:50.800 the honor of the CBC are also subsidized, even if they don't work for them. Here, here we go from

00:14:56.800 Andrew Coyne. Andrew Coyne has absolutely shredded his credibility over the past few weeks, like months

00:15:03.320 here, when it comes to just his utter inability to handle the fact that Donald Trump has been

00:15:08.400 reelected as the president of the United States. He's responding to this, um, post from Sean Spear

00:15:15.480 saying, losing the CBC will not be a tragedy. If pure poly and conservatives are elected, they'll be,

00:15:20.800 uh, they've been abundantly clear that a top priority will be to defund the CBC. And I believe that

00:15:25.280 it comes with a, uh, uh, that's a connect to an article since Sean Spear helps run the hub.

00:15:31.140 And Andrew Coyne's actual response to this was, this is all very true, as I've argued many times,

00:15:38.820 but Polyev isn't proposing to defund the CBC because of some principled public good analysis.

00:15:44.220 He's doing it a revenge in spite to punish it for being mean to the Tories. That's no way to make

00:15:49.320 public policy on anything. And it's pure politics. If it were really based on the condition that once

00:15:55.340 made the case for the public broadcasting, no longer apply, he'd be, uh, shutting down French

00:16:00.720 CBC as well. You know, Hey, don't tempt us. He's never said that he won't, uh, he won't defund

00:16:08.100 French CBC. And that's just dripping with the smug superiority of the legacy media and those 1.00

00:16:15.900 journalists to work for them. Andrew Coyne supposedly a conservative. He also is a guest

00:16:21.160 on CBC's power in politics, or I see power play. I don't know which one is it, but he's someone

00:16:27.140 who's paid by the CBC and he's, well, I'm, oh yes, I, I believe that there is good reason to get rid

00:16:32.580 of the CBC, but Polyev's reasons are very bad and, and like vengeful, vengeful. My response to this at

00:16:41.200 the time was how revenge and spite really just means that Polyev has been unfairly personally attacked by

00:16:48.040 the CBC, giving him extra personal experience and motive to defund them. The CBC has done it to tons

00:16:55.160 of people. If anything, it's good that they've attacked Polyev in such an unfair way to prove the 0.96

00:17:00.280 point that can, that the CBC does not treat all Canadians fairly. It's ridiculous. These people

00:17:07.260 need to be defunded. Cult MTL needs to be defunded. The Canadian anti-hate network needs to be defunded,

00:17:12.640 then sued into the floor. Like all these publications that are getting money are not

00:17:17.320 adding value to the Canadian general public. It is fueling narratives that benefit the left.

00:17:22.960 The National Observer is an obvious anti-oil and gas publication. All these other guys like that run

00:17:30.980 all these other energy publications, which are just green energy publications that hate oil and gas,

00:17:35.920 nobody reads them. Again, as I keep saying, who's reading energy news every single day on why

00:17:40.880 oil and gas is bad? Not really that many people. There's not that many rabid environmentalists to

00:17:46.460 support these publications. They require government money. And isn't that pathetic when most of

00:17:51.540 conservative media doesn't need that much money? Oh, and people say, well, post-media gets a lot.

00:17:56.620 Yeah, post-media does technically get the largest raw amount of money. But as a percentage of their

00:18:02.300 budget, it's far smaller than these publications who most of their money is from the taxpayer. The CBC,

00:18:08.900 whenever they say, well, you know, taxpayer money is only 60 to 70% of our income. Well, yeah,

00:18:15.380 because how couldn't you make some money on ad revenue? You have $1.4 billion to play with.

00:18:20.560 It'd be impossible not to bring in a few hundred million in terms of ad revenue on all your shows

00:18:27.220 and publications and podcasts no one's listening to. But I guess that's where this rant will end today.

00:18:33.360 This is just pathetic that Justin Trudeau is funding this stuff. It's just trying to claw back

00:18:40.360 any amount of popularity that they can before the next election, because the liberals own personal

00:18:45.440 fundraising numbers are horrible right now. They have no way of extracting any more blood from the

00:18:52.040 stone. They are getting less than half in a good month, in a good quarter of what the conservatives have

00:18:57.880 been bringing in in terms of fundraising dollars. And so this appears to be their new backdoor,

00:19:02.740 just funding lefty propaganda outlets under the guise that they are good for our culture. They are

00:19:08.340 supporting Canadian culture. And then they get to have a bunch of anti-poly of titles, headlines thrown

00:19:14.220 out there all day long. Anyways, that's it for me today, guys. Remember to subscribe, like this video,

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 18, 2024

Trudeau government uses taxpayer dollars fund Liberal propaganda outlet!

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