Even the CBC is Freaking Out Over Carney’s Unprecedented Authoritarian Streak

[00:00:00]Parliament just rushed through just vote after vote after vote after vote. They were voting on a plethora of bills this week. Some of them more high-profile, one of them being Bill C22 and Bill C9, another one of them. And they were just across the table. Uh you guys would have heard me talk about it earlier this week where we um actually interviewed Jamil Javanni this week, which that'll be getting released tomorrow. Looking forward to that. We were talking to Jamil Javi and uh we were chatting a little bit and he's like, "Yeah, sorry.

[00:00:30]I got, you know, I got I'm tight for time because we just I have to get to my next vote." Like we we caught him in between votes there. It was just so much was happening. So much was getting so thrown through that he managed to kind of muster up like a 45 minutes to an hour for us, which we really appreciated. But he's like like I got to I got to go. I have to leave. Uh so much so that we we had beeping sounds in the background alerting the parliamentarians to get to the House of Commons to vote.

[00:00:55]Chaos was ensuing. Okay. A lot of chaos this week in terms of just if you're an MP, there was a lot of voting and and stuff that was taking place. And this was picked up on by the ad issue panel this week. You have the likes of here on the right hand side, Althia Raj, who kicks off this panel and specifically this segment a little worried about what she had witnessed this week from the Liberal Party of how they've rushed through Bill C22 the way they have. No debate, no amendments.

[00:01:25]It's going to be what it's going to be.

[00:01:27]Deal with it. And it's off now to the Senate. But this is what she had to say about what transpired this week with all the voting that was taking place.

[00:01:37]>> This week is that the Liberals decided to use their majority to shut down debate and pass legislation that is very controversial. Bills that were not studied in some cases had no witnesses that even uh testified as to whether this was good or bad. Uh in a finance bill, there were measures that basically give uh cabinet the right to overrule the health minister who decides that a pesticide is too toxic for the environment and uh should not be allowed to be used under any circumstances. Um we had the lawful access bill that has gotten a bit more attention across the country and the government um completely shut down the debate. In some cases, they even backdated the ability of opposition members to bring forward amendments so only government members could bring forward amendments. We have never seen anything like this ever. Like we have talked a lot about these kind of moves during the Harper era, especially during his majority government and with reason. I think we deserve to talk and highlight what is happening in this case. And I bring it up because the trust issue >> uh the government house leader talked about he hoped the conspiracies around C-22, the lawful access bill would um go away, that people would time would allow these to pass. He talked about tinfoil hat people. This is not a way to bring people along. If anything, it fuels conspiracies. So there was no reason to pass these bills. They could have taken the summer to study them and bring more Canadians on side. And I think that they are taking um they risk taking I should say Canadians votes for granted. Right now the vote >> yeah I think right now the vote is parked in the very same way that Pier Pv's vote was parked because people don't like the other options. So I think they need to be sensitive to this.

[00:03:27]>> Okay. Okay, so let's >> so Alia Raj talking about kind of everything that's kind of transpired this week and really you know she it also those words came out of her mouth weeks ago about the authoritarian streak of this government specifically of Mark Carney and she's building on this here in this clip and wondering what in God's green earth is really going on like this is again she you heard it from her her her lips this has never happened this way ever closest would have been the Steven Harper days but they that didn't even happened then. So, this is something to consider. This is what's happening here, folks. And I got I I watch stuff like this and I can appreciate at this point in time them at least acknowledging that some shenanigans are taking place and completely throwing things through parliament and not allowing really any debate and not allowing the function of parliament to really take place. They railroad their way to a majority.

[00:04:24]They're railroading their way to these censorship bills and laws. And now after all of that, now they're starting to issue concern of what's taking place because when they railroad their majority, it was, "Well, it's within the rules. It's allowed." Rosemary Barton herself on the far left tweeted about that. Actually, when she was being criticized online about it, she tweeted like, "No, it's all it's all good, bro.

[00:04:48]It's all in the rules. It's okay." and they've completely held the water, shielded the likes of Mark Carney in he's in the media protection program from any type of criticism. Cuz really, if we're being we're being honest, if Mark Carney actually received fair criticism or actually what's you know what I I'm going to say fair criticism, I'm going to go as far as if they covered Carney the same way they covered Pierre Polyv, Mark Carney's approval rating would be in the gutter because he's been a terrible prime minister. He performs well. He talks well, but has done nothing. There was a CBC panel that talked about how Mark Carney is starting to lead the way for the world. He's the new world leader. And I'm like, no one is saying that except for the psychos in Canada. No one seriously views Carney as a world as a one who's a lead in the free world. Now, America, step aside.

[00:05:42]It's Mark Carney. No one believes that whatsoever. or the only people who even say that seriously from their lips are from the state broadcaster here in Canada. Of course, it's going to come from them because they're funded to the tune of $1.4 billion a year. Coverage like that that has led us to where we are because they were again in that segment all talking about how awesome it was that fact that you know because Mark Carney is seen as a leader because of his speech in Davos, he's helped inspire other leaders to stand up to Donald Trump. Have they? All they keep pointing to is this dogone speech from January.

[00:06:18]The only thing of consequence Mark Carney has accomplished as prime minister is utter words. And they keep falling over themselves months later.

[00:06:28]Now we're in June. I know they both start with Jay, but January and June are very far apart from each other. And they're still squeezing the juice out of the Davos speech. Please, just a little bit more. Cuz they saw they see those approval ratings. They see he was nose diving before Davos. Davos happens. He spikes back up and now he's back at the level he was before Davos. So they're like, "Please a little bit more. Squeeze that squeeze that just a little bit more juice out of it. Maybe, just maybe, because they have nothing to point to of his record that people can get on board with. People want to deal with affordability on groceries, affordability on energy, i.e. their electricity and power. They want affordability for their housing. They really would like those things to be dealt with. But do you know what they gave us? Ah, best we can do is criminalize religious texts. Best we can do is give ourselves a backdoor of encryption to your devices. That's the best we can do.

[00:07:29]I said I can respect coverage like this, but it's a day late and a dollar short because panels like this created the mess that we are currently in. But we allow them to continue >> unprecedented to find the government using its newly found majority not obtained at the polls to speed up uh or force feed uh nine bills through the House of Commons. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. And I believe that uh it in the end it leads one to poor relationships between the parties and you never know when you're going to need help from across the aisle in many instances. But it also uh leads to bad legislation because no legislation that is brought in in a hurry uh is perfect. And to not want to hear what others have to say about this is kind of um leading you into a place that you're not going to like a couple of years from now.

[00:08:27]>> The thing I get annoyed by these takes is you know I don't know why they keep doing this. They're just going to they're going to be dire straits in a couple years from now. It's going to be really tough. The autobubble keeps speaking from this perspective of politics being a game and I understand to a degree it is. Sure. But real people's lives are in the balance right now. And you're talking like, well, it's just if they keep doing this, it's going to be really bad for them. I don't know why they this is this is terrible. Like they're really not going to like the fact that they they're not talking to others and bringing people in on the conversation.

[00:09:00]You're talking as if it's still 2010.

[00:09:02]Dude, politics has drastically changed here in 2026.

[00:09:08]The old rules of politics in Canada are gone.

[00:09:13]Look at what this party's been doing for 10 years. Dude, their policies were terrible for the first four. Then co hit ramped right up of how crazy they can get. And you keep alluding to these unspoken rules or ideas that were a thing to talk about in 2010, but we have a party that's actively an authoritarian regime in our midst running our government and you're still treating them as if it's still good faith. Well, if they keep doing this, this is going to be rough for them moving forward. The polls are going to be tough. They're not going to get the voting results they want. Do you think that this is what this is about? They don't care about the popularity. Look how they stole their majority. Okay?

[00:09:55]Look at what they did. Look at how they're ramming through censorship bills. They don't care if they are popular in a year or two years from now.

[00:10:03]They don't care because if they can get these bills through, it won't matter because they can censor whatever you say and think. And these people are the ones who help them to do it. Now, they have the audacity to sit there and be like, "Well, you know, I can't believe this is happening." Sure, yeah, it's great that they're speaking up. Sure, I'll give it to them. But man, it's insulting to my intelligence. You spoke up too late. But we'll allow Andrew Coin to continue on this >> last minute or so to you there, Andrew.

[00:10:30]>> Just add a couple of things to that. One is um it's playing to a certain stereotype, if you will, of liberals. Uh you know, if the besetting sin of conservatives is a certain chippy defensiveness, the besetting sin of liberals is arrogance. And the smart ones in the liberal thing camp always know that that's their kryptonite. So it's not good to be playing to that.

[00:10:50]It's not good for a guy who's kind of the top dog type as Mark Carney is to be seen to be too conscious of it. A little bit of personal humility and governmental humility is always becoming in somebody who is in fact the top dog.

[00:11:03]Final point I'll make is just as an addition to this in terms of the trust issue and maybe a sleeper on this is artificial intelligence AI.

[00:11:10]>> Um the public is really worried, really scared by this. All the polls show it.

[00:11:16]That paper that the federal government brought out talked a lot about trust but did very little in terms of concrete proposals to try to allay public fears in this. The overriding message of the thing was full speed ahead. Uh and that could come back to bite them.

[00:11:30]>> Yeah. I they would probably point to the privacy legislation as trying to >> all these things that could come back to bite them. Man, this is the mentality, right? And we even had I'll even push through quickly here. Robert Fe even talking about, oh, I'm a little concerned. I'm a little concerned about what's going on here about the fact that Mark Curry is not showing up at the House of Commons.

[00:11:52]>> As we're highlighting today, he's missed a 100 question periods.

[00:11:54]>> Well, I think it's a serious issue. It's fine for the prime minister uh to travel abroad and he has that's his duty to do so, but the fact of the matter when he is in Canada, he rarely shows up at the House of Commons. And that's a real to me is a really serious concern. You know, this is a guy who's not used to I mean, it's our parliamentary democracy.

[00:12:14]Do you have a responsibility, prime minister, to show up and take questions?

[00:12:17]>> And you know, just the last this last last night, they pushed through amendments um or pushed through the lawful access law, which is very troublesome. There's a lot of things on that bill that is that civil libertarians are very concerned about.

[00:12:32]>> They pushed it through without any debate. They pushed it through the House of Commons without any debate and without anybody being able to put amendment forward and argue for it. So I worry that this is a government and a prime minister who doesn't care about the significant role that parliament plays. Yeah, certainly dismiss.

[00:12:54]>> And the thing I annoyed by I'm annoyed about that is just before this piece, Robert Fe was talking about how Mark Carney is the new seen as the new leader in the G7, praising how awesome of a prime minister, how great of a representative he's been, then turns around and says that I thought you were retiring, bro. I saw your big birthday cake and everything.

[00:13:18]How about you leave because your political takes are terrible. There's a reason why you were a senior correspondent and you weren't in front of the camera very often because your takes on what's going on are brutal.