The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 30, 2023


Blain Higgs Keeps On Winning： Parental Rights Movement Proves Popular Across Canada

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parental rights
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Wyatt Claypool
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Blaine Higgs Doug Ford Justin Trudeau Danielle Smith Ben Shapiro Stephen Lecce Pierre Poilievre Chris Austin Scott Mose Scott Moe
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Blaine Higgs is the premier of New Brunswick, Canada's largest and most important province, and he's been in office for less than a year. In that time, he's had to deal with the media, the legacy media, political commentators, anti-parental right-wing activists, and even the Prime Minister of Canada himself, Justin Trudeau. But despite all of that, he just can't stop winning.

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00:00:00.000 Despite all the attacks from the legacy media, political commentators, anti-parental right activist groups, and even the Prime Minister of Canada himself, Justin Trudeau, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs just can't stop winning.
00:00:12.160 And it's precisely because Blaine Higgs is highlighting issues that matter to the average New Brunswicker and that matter to the average Canadian, which is exactly why this has sparked a parental rights movement all across the country.
00:00:25.340 It's absolutely amazing to watch, and that's why I say he keeps winning.
00:00:28.060 It's not just in his own province. This is having dividends being paid all across Canada because of his brave actions.
00:00:35.080 Now, if you're not aware, what happened in New Brunswick specifically was Blaine Higgs' government made changes to Policy 713, which regulates the way that gender and sexual orientation is dealt with in schools.
00:00:47.280 Effectively, Blaine Higgs' government took the very reasonable position that parents should have oversight over their children in the classroom.
00:00:53.840 If a child wants to identify as a different gender, a parent must be informed and gives consent for that change to be made.
00:01:00.840 You cannot keep secrets from parents. Parents must be told what's happening.
00:01:06.320 I think it's Public Safety Minister, if I'm correct, and I guarantee he was one of the main pushes behind this policy change.
00:01:12.460 But Public Safety Minister in New Brunswick, Chris Austin, made the fantastic point that if a child needs to call their parents just to take Advil at school, they obviously should have to give parents information about their child wanting to identify as a different gender so that that parent can be aware of the situation.
00:01:29.780 Obviously, with a big explosion in children trying to identify as a different gender at certain ages these days, it's obviously not a natural thing that just suddenly started happening.
00:01:39.720 If you went back to the 70s, you wouldn't be having a big growth in children wanting to identify as the opposite gender.
00:01:46.780 And it's not because it was more bigoted era or people weren't as tolerant.
00:01:49.940 It's like, settle down. That's not it.
00:01:51.780 Obviously, this is an artificial thing that people are in the classroom, and I suspect it's mostly activist teachers, not all teachers.
00:01:59.600 This is obviously a very small minority of teachers, but certain teachers are pushing gender theory in the classroom and children being very impressionable are thinking, well, I kind of feel like a girl sometimes if they're a boy or I sometimes feel like a boy if they're a girl.
00:02:12.580 And this is pushing a lot of gender confusion and teachers are trying to say, oh, don't tell your parents about this because they might fly off the handle or whatever.
00:02:20.560 So they're putting a bit of fear in children so that they won't tell their parents.
00:02:25.520 And obviously, there's a lot of pushback in New Brunswick and all across Canada that parents want to know when this is taking place and you cannot keep secrets from them because obviously that is toxic to a parent-child relationship.
00:02:36.700 But since Blaine Higgs did this a couple of months ago, the media has been putting out constant articles up to about the last couple of weeks trying to claim that Premier Blaine Higgs could be at any moment removed by his own party.
00:02:49.840 His own party was going to hold a leadership review and throw him out of office.
00:02:53.820 And we heard like about three weeks ago or so that that movement to get rid of him was kind of stalling out.
00:02:59.240 They had gotten a few chairs of various PC EDAs across New Brunswick to sign letters saying that they wanted a leadership review and a few party members.
00:03:08.500 But despite not having a very high threshold for that leadership review to be triggered, they eventually stalled out.
00:03:14.300 I think the last quarter of all the support they needed became completely dried up.
00:03:18.340 They could not find anyone to sign these letters.
00:03:20.640 And it's because Blaine Higgs was obviously in the right and obviously, especially PC party members, especially PC party members who are parents, do not take this whole fear mongering that somehow Blaine Higgs' government is being bigoted seriously.
00:03:35.480 There's a couple of people in the PC party who tried to, you know, complain about Blaine Higgs and resign from the cabinet.
00:03:40.980 But that actually really had nothing to do with the policy 713 changes.
00:03:45.280 There had been sort of like an uproar about the spending cuts and various fiscally conservative management policies Blaine Higgs had been passing that were unpopular in a province very used to overspending.
00:03:56.960 That were probably the main reasons why those people left the left cabinet.
00:04:00.880 They were just using the 713 change as an excuse to leave and maybe get some support from the left.
00:04:06.340 But it had nothing to do with 713.
00:04:08.600 713 is extremely popular.
00:04:10.320 And evidence that 713 is extremely popular is now the governments of Saskatchewan and Ontario are trying to pass very similar measures.
00:04:20.000 And think about that.
00:04:21.340 Like, obviously, it is not that surprising that a government like Scott Mose, a Saskatchewan party government, would be passing something like this.
00:04:28.860 But Doug Ford's government in Ontario would be passing something like this is insane.
00:04:32.520 Back in 2018, when Premier Doug Ford was first elected, they broke their promise to actually get rid of the radical sex ed curriculum in Ontario schools.
00:04:40.940 And simply from all the polling data coming out, I can guarantee this is why Education Minister Stephen Lecce in Ontario is reversing course and trying to put in place these parental rights measures.
00:04:51.940 And it's because they're deeply popular.
00:04:52.940 And it's because they're deeply popular.
00:04:54.940 I'm not going to say that the Ontario government is super principled and they're just, you know, taking a conservative stance because they're conservatives because oftentimes they take very liberal stances.
00:05:03.900 But I think it's because the polling is so decisively in the favor of parental rights that even premiers who usually are scared of diving into social issues are willing to do it.
00:05:15.300 And it's all because of Premier Blaine Higgs.
00:05:17.740 It's gotten so good for him.
00:05:19.060 I'm just going to bring up the Salt Wire article in a second.
00:05:22.040 I'll make sure to actually link it in the description below.
00:05:25.380 I don't want to, you know, not give them a little bit of credit here.
00:05:27.520 But Premier Blaine Higgs' government used to be like one of the, if not the, like most unpopular governments across Canada.
00:05:36.440 Just back in May, it had an approval rating of only 31%.
00:05:41.360 That's pretty low for Canadian government.
00:05:44.100 I know, you know, the fact that there's a lot more parties makes means that a lot of governments don't usually crack 50%.
00:05:49.420 But they've increased to 37% these days in this last quarter.
00:05:54.160 That's very good numbers.
00:05:55.660 And I guarantee it's going to go up even more because these latest changes by Blaine Higgs' government in New Brunswick were only in the latter half of this last quarter.
00:06:05.360 I think as Policy 713 comes into effect, and obviously the sky does not fall in the, you know, trans kids are being beat in the streets.
00:06:14.120 This is going to only fuel more support for Blaine Higgs personally as well as his government.
00:06:19.740 But, again, it's funny watching the media now trying to do the exact same thing that they did to Blaine Higgs.
00:06:26.420 Oh, he's being bigoted.
00:06:27.620 Oh, he's being intolerant.
00:06:29.060 His party's going to attack him for doing all this stuff.
00:06:31.920 He might have a leadership review.
00:06:33.280 He might be thrown out of office.
00:06:34.620 His political career is ruined.
00:06:36.580 They're trying to do the same thing to Scott Moe and Doug Ford now.
00:06:39.900 And it's not going to work.
00:06:41.040 If anything, what I'm disappointed in these days is Premier Daniel Smith here in Alberta not wanting to politicize the parental rights issue and not wanting to wade into it.
00:06:49.420 This is where I get a little annoyed with her, and this is where a lot of my criticism in the past had come from her.
00:06:53.960 When she says she's a libertarian on social issues, in my mind that translates into that she's just not going to touch them.
00:06:59.780 It doesn't matter if parental rights are weakened in Alberta.
00:07:03.020 She's just not going to touch it.
00:07:04.100 She won't get rid of politicization from the left side of the aisle in schools because she will then use the excuse that that's politicization. 1.00
00:07:11.900 I'm not asking her to add socially conservative policies to schools in Alberta.
00:07:15.820 I just want, you know, less leftism being taught in schools, but she still won't touch it.
00:07:20.160 So I hope eventually either Daniel Smith or her caucus will actually make a move towards parental rights.
00:07:26.340 But because, like, this is eminently popular.
00:07:28.380 I don't know why you wouldn't jump on this, like, frankly, this gravy train at the moment because the left has way overextended.
00:07:34.660 Again, I'll go back to the polling.
00:07:36.140 Not only are 78% of Canadians somewhat or very unfavorable of policy changes like 713 in New Brunswick,
00:07:42.560 it's only 15% of people overall are against these policies.
00:07:46.740 Let's go to Alberta.
00:07:47.760 Alberta, only 14% of people are against this.
00:07:50.200 Only 10% of them are against it.
00:07:52.020 In Saskatchewan, only 16% of them are against it in Ontario.
00:07:54.600 This is not an issue to, like, to waver on.
00:07:58.360 This is obviously a winning issue.
00:08:00.340 Pierre Polyev, even though federally you could say there's more risk to taking on this issue because you have to try and be popular,
00:08:06.860 all across Canada has been in favor of parental rights and is supporting premiers passing these parental rights bills.
00:08:13.100 Because, obviously, people actually understand that despite all the noise that the activists left and the media make about how you're somehow being intolerant,
00:08:22.000 you're violating the privacy of children, people understand that fundamentally parents need to be able to know what happens in the classroom.
00:08:28.560 It's not trying to abuse kids or whatever. 0.93
00:08:31.100 And people aren't falling for these stupid hypotheticals so that if you give parental parents oversight of the classroom, 0.99
00:08:36.860 somehow you're going to result in parents being bigoted or intolerant against their own kids. 0.99
00:08:41.320 Obviously not.
00:08:42.780 What parents want is that they want to know that activist ideologies are not being pushed in the classroom
00:08:47.720 because, fundamentally, that's not what the classroom is about.
00:08:51.500 It doesn't matter if it's a left-wing ideology or a right-wing ideology being taught in the classroom.
00:08:56.040 That's not the point.
00:08:57.200 Canada, and especially Alberta, used to have the best school systems in the world.
00:09:01.480 The school systems across Canada very much put an emphasis on reading, writing, and arithmetic, and not too much else.
00:09:07.660 You'd have a little bit of social studies and history, but for the most part, it was focused on teaching kids core concepts in an efficient manner.
00:09:16.540 But now we've gone towards teaching a lot of just extracurricular stuff that kids do not need to know.
00:09:21.200 Let's teach them gender theory. 1.00
00:09:22.680 Let's have a whole week about, you know, sex ed and whatnot.
00:09:25.420 It's like kids don't need to hear that from their teachers.
00:09:27.700 They want to know how to do math because that's what's actually going to set them up to do well in life.
00:09:32.120 I doubt you're going to interview many 35-year-olds and you ask them about what was the best aspect of their education.
00:09:38.340 They're going to say, oh, well, I really liked when they started teaching me about gender theory and about how girls and boys can change genders.
00:09:45.240 That was really what led to my success in life.
00:09:47.860 That's obviously not going to happen.
00:09:49.580 And the more Justin Trudeau and other left-wing and other leftist politicians try to embrace this anti-parental rights position that they've stuck themselves with,
00:09:57.780 they're only going to alienate voters, especially ethnic voters, because ethnic minorities in Canada tend to be very, very strongly family-oriented.
00:10:07.040 They don't want to hear about how when you go to school, you're going to rely on the expert teachers to teach your kids,
00:10:12.040 and you shouldn't worry about what goes on in the classroom after you drop off your children.
00:10:16.240 That's absurd.
00:10:17.080 And it's going to drive a wedge between the left-wing parties in Canada and minority voters who might have been more predisposed to voting for them
00:10:24.520 due to giving them, you know, more artificial legs up once they enter Canada.
00:10:29.800 These days, I think that those voters are actually very much up for grabs for conservatives
00:10:34.080 because their values are actually orientated towards the conservative party's values.
00:10:39.220 But anyways, that's it for me today.
00:10:40.920 I think everyone should be very happy about all the things that Blaine Higgs is doing,
00:10:44.840 and hopefully you pressure your own premiers to make these changes if they're not currently making them, especially in Alberta.
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00:11:43.900 This video was insane to record. I think this is my 30th time recording it.
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