The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 10, 2025


Canada's Left think it's Democracy only when they win!

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Laura Babcock Danielle Smith Mark Carney Sherry DeNovo Nahid Nenshi Carla Beck Doug Ford J.J. McCullough Joseph Stalin Ontario MPP Maple MAGA Terra Nova Scott Moe Pollyov Hitler
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In this episode, I talk about how the far-left is trying to take democracy to its lowest point, and how they are trying to delegitimize it. I also talk about the Conservative Party's attempt to get a recount of the federal election, and why they should be worried.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. What you'll notice over time in Canada with the liberals and the online left in general is they only consider it democracy when they win. If they get the most votes in election, then the popular will triumphed. And if they don't get the most votes, then the popular will was somehow subverted because of course, whatever position they represent is the popular one. And if they lose an election, it's not because they don't actually have the most popular one.
00:00:30.000 It means somehow people were disenfranchised or the thing that should happen didn't happen. This is actually the subject of my most popular video on the channel. I talked about a plebiscite that took place in the small town of Westlock, Alberta that the left freaked out about because basically citizens of the town just voted so that they would make the public flag polls only fly the town's flag, the Alberta flag, Panda's flag, and the Union Jack.
00:00:59.100 And they would take down all the activist stuff. You can't fly the pride progress flag literally all year long. And this is a town that frequently elects progressives, but the townsfolk got a little bit annoyed with all the crosswalks and flags all the time.
00:01:12.380 So they voted in a plebiscite to go back to pure neutrality. The left didn't like this. And they actually sent rainbow lawn signs to the town to scatter them everywhere to basically thumb their nose at people who just said, how about we just go back to Westlock being Westlock and not being a banner for whatever activist sort of trend you have going on.
00:01:33.380 Now, it was the voters slightly saying, let's just go back to Westlock being Westlock. It doesn't need to be like a downtown. It doesn't need to be downtown Portland over here.
00:01:42.340 And the people got really mad at it, pretending like democracy had been subverted in favor of the evil fascist far right or whatever. It was very stupid. 1.00
00:01:52.140 Now, I need to get to another version of this going on right now. 0.99
00:01:56.420 You will know the liberals won the federal election, but that is not good enough because now they are mad at the conservatives for actually taking the recount seriously,
00:02:04.340 as well as people in the West signing petitions to have a referendum on separation.
00:02:10.300 That is anti-democratic, apparently.
00:02:12.480 But before we get into it, guys, I just want to remind you, if you like the channel and you like my political coverage, make sure to leave a like on this video.
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00:02:23.760 It really helps us on the algorithm. And I do like to scroll through and hear what people have to say about the topic of the day.
00:02:30.140 Now, here is a tweet from former NDP Ontario MPP, Sherry DeNovo.
00:02:38.280 She says,
00:02:38.980 So now the Conservative Party are sending out the message that workers at Election Canada are somehow fixing recounts to benefit the liberals.
00:02:48.300 This is Trump and Maple MAGA at its absolute worst.
00:02:52.620 Now, apparently this makes the conservatives Maple MAGA and Trump-like because they're denying an election, apparently.
00:02:58.920 No, they're not. There are like five extremely tight recounts going on around the country.
00:03:06.000 And the conservatives basically just put out an email saying,
00:03:09.160 Hey, you want to chip in some money in a donation so we can send lawyers to all of these ridings and be able to monitor the recounts to make sure that nobody's just going to start tossing an obviously illegitimate votes during it?
00:03:21.300 Because you do want lawyers present so that if election workers are counting and they happen to have a political leaning one way or the other,
00:03:28.660 the lawyer can say, No, that's obviously no legitimate ballot. Here's what the law says.
00:03:32.900 The conservatives didn't like accuse Election Canada workers of being corrupt.
00:03:36.460 But it is true that if a high-stress recounts going on and you don't send any legal representation, you're going to be at a severe disadvantage.
00:03:45.540 But now I just want to jump over to what Laura Babcock said about this because I find it so ironic based on things we're going to get to a little bit later.
00:03:54.500 So she says, Canada, wake up. The mega threat is growing. They lost the election and will do anything to get power.
00:04:04.020 Okay, the conservatives know they lost the election. They conceded defeat.
00:04:09.360 I don't know why they think that they're like doing anything for power.
00:04:12.600 They're simply wanting lawyers to be president in some of these ridings like Terra Nova, 0.68
00:04:18.200 where the conservatives only lost by 12 votes, which obviously is requiring a recount.
00:04:22.940 By the way, guess who also wants a recount and who wants to actually change the rules of the recount?
00:04:28.960 The outgoing Liberal MP from the riding of Windsor-to-Cumpso-Lakeshore.
00:04:34.560 The CTV News article headline says,
00:04:36.520 Ballots should not have been rejected. Windsor judge orders recount of election results.
00:04:41.200 If this was a conservative candidate wanting this recount, if they had only lost by 240 votes,
00:04:49.160 Laura Babcock and Sherry DeNovo presumably would be calling him a fascist or that he's an election denier or he's trying to subvert democracy.
00:04:57.660 Because in fact, he actually technically wants them to subvert the rules of Elections Canada in order to count more ballots for him.
00:05:05.840 What he wants them to do is take ballots with multiple marks on them.
00:05:09.440 But if you really squint, you could say they may or maybe we're trying to vote Liberal and count those.
00:05:14.060 The problem with doing that, and I will link the article below so you can see that this is the argument they're making.
00:05:20.640 The problem with doing this, it doesn't matter if you put an X behind next to someone's name and you put a check somewhere else
00:05:25.780 and you can kind of tell what they're trying to do, you're still not supposed to count it.
00:05:29.820 Voting is very simple.
00:05:31.360 And the problem is in every other riding around Canada, they follow the procedure that you mark the person you want.
00:05:37.340 And if you put any more marks down, then that is not a vote that we can count.
00:05:42.620 You have to mark who you're going to mark, and that's it.
00:05:45.460 If the pencil line goes a little bit from one dot to the next dot, but it's obviously in this one, yeah, that's fair.
00:05:51.040 But if you do like X over here, X over here, and then check over here, we're not counting it.
00:05:55.400 And that is what the Liberal candidate, the outgoing Liberal MP in Windsor, Tecumseh, Lakeshore, wants Elections Candidates to do.
00:06:04.100 Which does require the Conservatives to have good legal representation in all these ridings,
00:06:09.460 to point to election law, the Elections Act, and say you cannot do that.
00:06:14.060 You cannot just fix every single ballot based on where your heart believes this person was trying to vote.
00:06:19.920 The whole point is that they vote in a way that nobody has to even do that.
00:06:23.380 But now, let's move over to another issue.
00:06:27.660 And it is Laura Babcock complaining about 51st state stuff and separatism.
00:06:34.100 There's two clips here, and both of them are fairly unhinged, so I know one's more relevant than the other,
00:06:39.000 but I still got to play both because they're hilarious.
00:06:41.480 But they're complaining about referendums and petitions, which are a democratic procedure.
00:06:47.620 It is a democratic tool you can use as a normal citizen, putting forward citizens' petitions.
00:06:53.740 But that's very bad because it's representing things Laura doesn't like.
00:06:56.940 An air war of such constant disinformation.
00:07:00.460 And so many resources like American-owned newspapers in this country pushing this constant narrative
00:07:06.600 that, in fact, separation is a possibility, that, in fact, there's an injustice done to Albertans.
00:07:13.840 One, I've got to say, I never understand the way that she films these things.
00:07:17.280 She's just having a conversation with someone.
00:07:18.860 She's constantly sticking her eye in the camera. 0.98
00:07:21.280 This is really making her point even better.
00:07:23.080 But regardless, she's now accusing places like the National Post of trying to get Canada to break up.
00:07:30.420 You cannot find an article, as my friend J.J. McCullough has pointed out,
00:07:34.680 you cannot actually find an article from any major conservative newspaper advocating for separatism.
00:07:40.720 There are people talking about separatists out there,
00:07:43.420 but separatists are not actually as popular as people think.
00:07:46.560 But Laura Babcock pretends that someone even mentioning the movement that's going on
00:07:51.580 is a subversion of Canada.
00:07:54.660 And obviously, wow, it's an American-owned paper.
00:07:58.140 That must mean that it's not, that's not, that's against Canada.
00:08:01.980 The CBC is for Canada because it's government-funded
00:08:04.540 and it represents what establishment liberal politicians believe.
00:08:08.280 But the National Post, having American ownership,
00:08:11.640 but it's full of Canadian writers who have been there for absolute decades,
00:08:15.040 that is bad. That is bad and it's hurting Canada.
00:08:18.220 And the only fair, patriotic thing to do is to fight back and split away.
00:08:22.380 We are being attacked as a country in a trade war and in a misinformation war.
00:08:28.700 MAGA is not letting up.
00:08:30.840 We had a good moment in the White House the other day.
00:08:33.420 Carney showed that he can handle the moment.
00:08:35.560 What do you mean handle the moment?
00:08:37.340 This lady was on the train of saying, 0.97
00:08:40.200 Carney's going to go down there and slap Trump in the face
00:08:42.600 and he's not going to bend to Trump's will.
00:08:45.820 Not that that was ever on the table like Pollyov was going to bend the knee.
00:08:49.660 Nobody did.
00:08:50.660 They just went down and they listened to him.
00:08:52.260 If Pollyov was the Prime Minister, he would have behaved a lot like Mark Carney.
00:08:55.280 But she was billing it like he was going to go down there
00:08:58.200 and take on mini-Hitler-Trump.
00:09:00.700 And that didn't happen, but she still spins it as some big victory.
00:09:03.620 But MAGA is not letting up.
00:09:06.420 And these premiers are working against our national interests.
00:09:10.680 It is against the national interest that a premier,
00:09:15.280 somebody who rules over a province,
00:09:18.320 is letting their own citizens put forward a petition.
00:09:21.180 Scott Moe and Danielle Smith are anti-democratic
00:09:24.320 because they are not upholding the federal government's interest in the province
00:09:29.660 by saying you can't even put forward a citizens petition.
00:09:32.040 You see what I mean?
00:09:34.360 It's only democracy when they win.
00:09:36.800 These people probably celebrate petitions,
00:09:39.280 have probably celebrated referendums on issues they like.
00:09:42.780 But as soon as you push forward one that they don't like,
00:09:45.120 now it's not democratic.
00:09:46.100 And I'm not saying this as someone who's pro-separatism.
00:09:48.280 I'm anti-separatism.
00:09:50.000 I just don't really care about the issue.
00:09:51.800 I think it's very unlikely to succeed.
00:09:53.540 And it causes a lot of problems in its lack of success
00:09:56.620 in the sense it gives a lot of fuel to the liberals federally
00:09:59.820 as well as the NDP provincially in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
00:10:03.680 But they have a right to sign those petitions
00:10:06.180 and try and get the issue on the ballot.
00:10:08.080 That is their prerogative.
00:10:09.800 But these people don't believe it.
00:10:10.940 Watching Ford and what he's doing in Ontario,
00:10:13.460 which is pretty freaking scary.
00:10:14.800 Okay, and it's pretty freaking scary that Doug Ford,
00:10:19.360 who I don't even like,
00:10:21.800 wants to get rid of bike lanes in the city of Toronto,
00:10:25.580 which are congesting traffic massively.
00:10:29.380 When you eliminate lanes of traffic,
00:10:32.040 obviously traffic is going to slow down.
00:10:34.280 And he is trying to do an end run around a judge,
00:10:37.800 rightfully so,
00:10:38.780 who's trying to say that there needs to be a long,
00:10:41.280 prolonged charter challenge over whether or not
00:10:44.140 you can get rid of bike lanes.
00:10:45.420 Because apparently bike lanes are now a charter right
00:10:47.740 because a judge has declared it.
00:10:50.920 And she is now considering him
00:10:52.720 trying to uphold the actual will of Ontarians
00:10:55.920 because I don't like Doug Ford on most issues,
00:10:59.480 but although I agree with him on the bike lanes issue,
00:11:01.580 they just voted for him.
00:11:02.600 And apparently a judge can block a premier and his party
00:11:07.580 from doing this basic thing of just removing bike lanes
00:11:11.460 because apparently that's not democratic.
00:11:13.920 We need to hear from an unelected judge
00:11:15.980 on whether or not you can do something as basic
00:11:18.240 as remove a bike lane.
00:11:19.860 You know, it's not a charter right to have a bike lane
00:11:22.060 because bike lanes did not exist
00:11:24.080 when the charter was written
00:11:25.100 and nowhere did bike lanes spring up
00:11:28.280 after the charter was written
00:11:30.220 and it was signed in the eighties
00:11:31.800 because that's just not how that works.
00:11:34.160 In terms of, you know,
00:11:34.980 becoming all own autocratic with some stuff.
00:11:37.580 All Out Autocratic is referring to the bike lane issue.
00:11:41.060 Literally, I'm not even kidding.
00:11:42.700 That is the main issue people are referring to him
00:11:44.900 as autocratic on.
00:11:45.980 Watching Daniela Smith stoke these separation fears 0.99
00:11:48.860 laced in bullshit and mired in scandal. 0.98
00:11:52.440 The MAGA threat is still real in Canada. 1.00
00:11:57.660 I love these little clips of Laura Babcock.
00:12:00.040 Watching her slowly lose her mind
00:12:01.860 over things that are not real
00:12:04.120 does give me a little bit of joy.
00:12:05.900 But the biggest villains on this planet
00:12:09.480 are people like Hitler, Joseph Stalin,
00:12:11.940 and whoever's hiding Laura's lithium from her
00:12:14.740 because, goodness, her mind is ripping in two
00:12:16.760 based on just basic things in Canada
00:12:19.020 happening day to day.
00:12:20.860 Is Daniela Smith stoking fears of separatism?
00:12:24.800 No, she's not.
00:12:26.180 Not at all.
00:12:27.420 She's like very much in the middle.
00:12:29.000 She's not, she's against separatism,
00:12:30.860 but she's not going to do something anti-democratic
00:12:33.100 and block them like Nahid Nenshi.
00:12:36.100 And I believe, what's her name?
00:12:39.200 It's the NDP leader in Saskatchewan.
00:12:40.980 I literally just said her name yesterday.
00:12:42.860 We're going to look it up just to be nice.
00:12:47.440 There you go, Carla Beck.
00:12:48.860 But Carla Beck and Nahid Nenshi
00:12:50.880 want them to greatly increase the petition
00:12:53.420 signature requirement in order to get something
00:12:56.140 on the referendum ballot,
00:12:57.440 which would make it utterly impossible
00:12:59.120 to get anything on the referendum ballot.
00:13:01.700 Daniela Smith did lower the threshold
00:13:03.940 from, I believe, like 600,000 to 176,000.
00:13:07.620 But that's just going from something impossible
00:13:09.800 to get in 60 days down to something
00:13:12.280 that is actually attainable within about 120 days,
00:13:15.600 I think is the limit now.
00:13:17.500 If you're just some random guy
00:13:19.380 wanting to get something on a petition in 120 days,
00:13:23.300 176,000 is impossible.
00:13:25.640 You need a pretty big team to still do that in 120 days,
00:13:28.740 but that's not good enough.
00:13:29.880 It needs to be maybe 6 million in Laura Babcock's mind,
00:13:34.580 in Nahid Nenshi's mind.
00:13:35.660 It needs to be literally impossible to do
00:13:37.980 because that's when democracy succeeds,
00:13:40.620 is when citizens do not actually have the right
00:13:42.880 to put forward petitions they don't like.
00:13:46.060 This is what I mean again.
00:13:47.640 These people do not actually believe in democracy.
00:13:50.060 They only believe in winning,
00:13:51.380 and democracy is when they win.
00:13:53.620 Anyway, so that should be it for me today, guys,
00:13:56.360 in this video.
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00:14:07.060 Other stuff is like one of my previous videos
00:14:09.060 where I went over $33 billion of new spending
00:14:11.860 that Mark Carney is putting forward,
00:14:13.480 or it's the current numbers
00:14:15.720 when it comes to separatist support
00:14:17.300 in Saskatchewan and Alberta,
00:14:18.640 which I will be diving back into in future videos
00:14:21.300 because I only touched on it a little bit
00:14:23.140 in a previous video,
00:14:24.740 more so talking about Danielle Smith's strategy
00:14:26.980 for not wanting the separatists to succeed,
00:14:30.980 but she also isn't going to hold them back
00:14:33.080 and look like an anti-democratic nag like Nenshi is. 0.94
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