I don t know what it is about Canada, but we have an epidemic across the country of having some of the worst mayors on the planet who somehow have the ability to get re-elected. And do you know how we stop re-electing these people? We find someone actually good to run!
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I don't know what it is about Canada, but we have an epidemic across the country of having some of the worst mayors on the planet who somehow have the ability to get re-elected.
00:00:16.260I need to show you a startling poll out of Toronto. This is a Toronto mayoral poll. It currently rates the race in next year's mayoral election at 37% Olivia Chow, 24% John Tory, 14% Brad Bradford, 11% Marco Mendocino, and 15% of people say other.
00:00:41.280My goodness, 90% of people should say other. All of these are bad candidates. Somehow Marco Mendocino is like the least bad of them, but 37% of people still think Olivia Chow is doing a good enough job that she deserves to be re-elected.
00:00:59.940And then they're also going to bring back potentially John Tory, who I heard may run in the race. I guess Toronto wants to be like New York City, where they have a terrible progressive mayor, and then they have an old corrupt mayor coming back to run.
00:01:15.700Because, you know, you have Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, now running to be mayor. You have Eric Adams running as an independent. And then you have that Mondani guy running in the Democratic primary against Cuomo, who's a complete nutcase.
00:01:27.580And Toronto wants in on that. So they have put together their own slate of the worst possible options you've ever seen.
00:01:34.780Do you know who's running for re-election as mayor as well in Canada? Jodi Gondek, my mayor in the city of Calgary, is going to run for re-election. Do you know what that woman's approval rating is? 26%.
00:01:51.840She has a 26% approval rating, and she's going to go for it, because this is her year again.
00:01:59.960And the thing is, there's a chance people may re-elect her. Because at the same time, Canadians will complain about the current state of the country.
00:02:07.700I just saw a poll out yesterday showing that a majority of Canadians agree that the country in many ways is broken.
00:02:15.140But they'll still re-elect the same people who are in the middle of breaking it.
00:02:19.380Like, you enter their office, and they're just hitting things with a hammer.
00:02:22.620And we're like, my goodness, the country's broken. Can you do something about it?
00:02:26.200And the person takes a break from hitting things with a hammer. We're like, yeah, I'll get on to that.
00:02:29.960And then they just keep smashing stuff. It's like, guys, stop re-electing these people.
00:02:34.580And do you know how we stop re-electing these people? We find someone actually good to run.
00:02:39.440It is depressing looking at the Calgary mayoral election, because while I really like Sonia Sharp, and I think she could make a good mayor,
00:02:48.020there are so many people running who have the possibility of splitting some conservative votes who are not conservative at all.
00:02:56.020I just want to quickly make a plug, guys. If you live in the city of Calgary, I have it in the description of this video,
00:03:01.460as well as pinned at the top of the comments. Please register early for a Sonia Sharp for mayor sign.
00:03:06.600Please do that, because we need to make sure we muscle out all of these fake conservatives from the race.
00:03:11.280Because Sonia Sharp may not be perfect, but she's actually wanting to cut taxes.
00:03:15.200That is, like, the one thing anyone running for mayor should be doing.
00:03:18.980She's good on some other issues as well, of course, but she'll actually cut taxes.
00:03:23.180The other two conservatives in the race, Jeremy Farkas and Jeff Davison, are not planning on cutting taxes.
00:03:29.080They have this weaselly thing where they say, we need to spend our money more efficiently.
00:03:34.100We need to freeze tax increases. That doesn't mean that they're not actually going to increase your taxes.
00:03:39.360That just means the property tax rate isn't going to go up, but they'll just reevaluate your home as a higher price
00:03:45.340so that you actually still owe money anyways because your house is worth more, even though it's just purely from market pressures.
00:05:48.760You need to lock up criminals and not let them out on bail.
00:05:52.000And that's not really something the municipal government can exactly do.
00:05:56.200It's most – you know, the blame here is mostly on the federal government than a little bit on the provincial government.
00:06:01.960So municipally, really what you can do is just, like, double the patrols on the streets.
00:06:05.780Put cops on transit systems, which I have the idea that Sonia Sharp is actually in favor of putting cops directly on C-trains and bus terminals to make sure we can actually clean up the crap rather than just, you know – you can't just put some more patrol cars.
00:06:22.400You need to have cops on the transit system to prevent people from using drugs and, you know, stealing and mugging people.
00:06:30.180You have to put them on the train so the train stopped being a getaway vehicle for criminals.
00:10:55.260And I think that the thing we need to do as conservatives across the country is find an actual conservative person in the race early who can win,
00:11:03.240not just some guy who puts some good things on his website, but there's nothing to actually say he's even trying.
00:11:08.160Find someone early and jam as much support into that person as possible, because I find conservatives start, like,
00:11:14.580oh, well, let's see who distinguishes themselves.
00:11:17.880And, like, people don't decide who to get behind.
00:11:43.200I can understand Anthony Fury didn't have enough time to really kind of distinguish himself.
00:11:47.180But this next year, if Anthony Fury's going to run, he's got to run now.
00:11:50.960If he's not in the race now, then he's not going to win.
00:11:54.520All these other people, like, if the old police chief wants to run again, he's got to be running now.
00:12:00.760Now, even John Tory, who's not even good, but I guess he's better than Olivia Chow, if he doesn't get to the race by, like, the fall for 2027, you're not winning.
00:12:27.100The Leger survey asked Toronto residents about their mayor as part of a broader poll on Ontario politics.
00:12:34.000Respondents were almost evenly split over Chow's handling of municipal affairs as she nears the end of her second term at the helm of Canada's largest city.
00:12:41.640Slightly less than half, 48% of people, strongly or somewhat approve of her performance.
00:13:34.260Make sure that people know that there is no chance you're voting for Jeremy and Jeff so that people start consolidating behind someone who, if they win, will actually do something good.
00:13:42.680If Jeff Davison or Jeremy Farkas even won, they wouldn't reverse anything Gondek was doing because there's nothing on their website to indicate they would do it.
00:13:50.680Their website could have just been Gondek's website copy and pasted with their faces on it.
00:13:55.280What do you think Gondek's going to run on?
00:13:58.680She's going to say the same generic crap as them.
00:14:01.280So, like, you know, people need to put their money where their mouths are.
00:14:04.660If someone's not committing to cutting taxes, don't think that they're going to be fiscally responsible.
00:14:09.120The thing is that oftentimes politicians only deliver on, like, you know, half of the things they said.
00:14:14.460But if the guy's saying nothing, you have no excuse when he starts doing the worst things possible because he didn't even promise you anything.
00:14:22.100And he's going to take advantage of that fact.
00:14:24.620Anyways, but that should be it for me today, guys.
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