The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Danielle Smith goes to WAR with corrupt teachers union!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.

00:00:02.980 Example number 347 of how public sector unions are effectively just NDP front groups,

00:00:11.320 we have the Alberta Teachers' Strike.

00:00:14.300 I am so happy to see Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government

00:00:20.200 holding their ground on this issue because the Alberta Teachers' Association

00:00:24.680 is effectively trying to hold Alberta families hostage

00:00:28.280 in order to get everything they want.

00:00:31.180 Actually, scratch that, the province already gave them everything they want,

00:00:35.760 but because it's an Alberta NDP front group, that still was not good enough

00:00:39.880 and they're going to strike anyways.

00:00:42.420 But the UCP is actually girding themselves up in order so that this strike

00:00:47.780 only ends up destroying the union's reputation

00:00:50.780 because they actually did pretty much everything possible to make the ATA happy,

00:00:56.860 but the ATA did not enter the conversation wanting to be happy.

00:01:01.080 They entered the conversation trying to destroy Danielle Smith and her approval rating. 1.00

00:01:06.400 So let's go over this step by step.

00:01:09.780 We're not going to go over it in a fulsome manner.

00:01:11.720 There are things I'm going to skip over,

00:01:13.640 but I kind of want to talk about generally how this happened.

00:01:17.120 I'm going to play a lot of clips from some press conferences with the UCP,

00:01:20.280 and then we will also be talking about Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi's just vacuous video he put up about this.

00:01:28.660 And then we also might talk about a TikTok influencer on the left

00:01:32.240 trying to spin a very fringe aspect of the Alberta education system

00:01:37.400 as being, you know, evidence that Danielle Smith hates teachers or something like that

00:01:42.440 or doesn't like fairness in education.

00:01:44.700 But before we get into it, guys, I just want to remind you,

00:01:48.440 if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video,

00:01:51.260 subscribe if you're not yet a subscriber,

00:01:53.340 and leave a comment on what you think about all this.

00:01:56.300 Maybe you do support the teachers,

00:01:58.460 although I think as we get into the issue more,

00:02:00.600 you'll kind of realize why a lot of people absolutely do not support them.

00:02:04.660 But also, before we get into it,

00:02:06.560 if you live in the city of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,

00:02:10.320 please get yourself a Sonia Sharp or Mayor sign.

00:02:13.200 She is the most conservative mayoral candidate who has a very good chance of winning.

00:02:17.960 So I will have a link in the description below,

00:02:20.840 as well as a link pinned at the top of the comments of this video

00:02:23.940 for you guys to get a lawn sign.

00:02:26.020 So let's start off with the Alberta Teachers Association vote.

00:02:30.620 I'm just using this person's posting of it.

00:02:33.820 Raymond Bill Odu says,

00:02:35.940 Alberta Teacher Association website.

00:02:38.020 And this is the voting that had gone on for whether or not teachers,

00:02:43.020 it says teachers voted on a new memorandum of agreement between September 27th and 29th.

00:02:49.800 And reject the MOA,

00:02:52.600 which is the proposal that the province was making.

00:02:55.780 That got 38,113 votes, 89.5%.

00:03:00.760 Those who accepted the new MOA was 4,479.

00:03:06.020 Only 10.5% abstained, 770.

00:03:10.400 I would wonder if this is actually all the teachers in the province,

00:03:14.380 or this is just those who actually bothered voting,

00:03:17.240 because I assume you actually had to basically vote that you were abstaining.

00:03:21.700 But you, you know, it's not that you didn't vote.

00:03:23.580 You just voted that you abstained.

00:03:24.860 And this is absurd that they had so much teacher agreement on something so stupid.

00:03:31.680 And it really, what it is,

00:03:33.380 is that the Alberta Teachers Association and the union bosses

00:03:36.640 completely leave their own people in the dark.

00:03:39.480 They basically just put on a propaganda show for them that the UCP is evil,

00:03:44.120 and that whatever the ATA says is good.

00:03:46.540 And so if the ATA tells you that you're being ripped off,

00:03:49.400 you're not being paid enough,

00:03:50.640 the province isn't giving enough support and benefits,

00:03:53.000 well, then you're just going to take that as gospel truth,

00:03:55.740 because every single day you're just told that conservatives are evil and Daniel Smith is evil.

00:04:01.480 But let's move on to some reality here.

00:04:04.760 I want to start off with some clips of Daniel Smith and her team discussing what's going on.

00:04:10.700 We'll start off with this clip of Nate Horner,

00:04:13.480 the finance minister of Alberta, speaking on this issue.

00:04:17.320 This was at a press conference hosted with Daniel Smith.

00:04:20.480 I think it's important to start at the beginning.

00:04:23.460 So when we're dealing with anyone in the public sector,

00:04:25.640 we say that we want to be in market.

00:04:27.900 So we're looking at what's happened around us,

00:04:29.920 not just what has or hasn't happened in Alberta.

00:04:32.820 So we're confident with this deal that we'll be high in market.

00:04:36.380 In fact, as the Premier's speaking note said,

00:04:38.500 a Category 5 teacher, I believe that's one with five years of education

00:04:43.280 and five years of experience on the grid would receive that amount.

00:04:49.540 And that's kind of an apples to apples comparator that the bargaining teams like to use.

00:04:54.240 I can get you some detailed numbers about a first-year teacher.

00:04:56.920 I don't have those in front of me.

00:04:58.320 But like I said, we're confident that through the other measures that were on the table,

00:05:03.720 the grid harmonization, the other pieces,

00:05:06.220 that this puts Alberta teachers very high in market.

00:05:08.960 So they're basically saying that they're looking at the other,

00:05:13.000 basically how other teachers are compensated in sort of,

00:05:16.660 I guess, the market of education.

00:05:18.760 And when you actually look at what they're offering, it's quite good.

00:05:22.560 This was posted by Chris Sims at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:05:29.700 This is a screenshot of the proposed grid in terms of years of experience

00:05:35.000 and how many years of education you've had.

00:05:40.060 If you have five years of experience,

00:05:42.840 which is you could take a four-year degree at a university in philosophy

00:05:46.740 or English or policy studies or something like that,

00:05:52.560 mathematics, and then you take a teaching certificate on top of it,

00:05:56.240 that would be five years.

00:05:57.440 You could also just take a four-year teaching degree.

00:05:59.980 But with five years, after nine years of experience on the job

00:06:05.340 and having that five years of education,

00:06:07.640 you're making $114,000 a year.

00:06:11.460 Even if you're just a four-year teacher, four years of education, $110,000.

00:06:15.920 If you go to six years, it becomes $119,000.

00:06:18.580 Yes, are these people becoming millionaires overnight with this money?

00:06:24.020 No.

00:06:24.800 But that's actually extremely good pay for a teacher

00:06:27.580 because that also comes with more vacation time than the average Alberta worker.

00:06:32.440 That comes with far more benefits.

00:06:34.540 It also comes with a matching pension scheme

00:06:37.640 where if you put money in, the province matches you into your pension fund.

00:06:42.120 And what is, like, you can't make, this is not deemed good enough.

00:06:47.240 On top of that, you even have the Alberta government

00:06:49.840 pledge to hire 3,000 more frontline teachers

00:06:53.800 so that they could actually have enough people, like, available

00:06:57.580 to handle all the extra classroom complexity.

00:07:00.860 Children with learning disabilities,

00:07:03.120 children who have English as a second language,

00:07:05.200 you can have 3,000 more teachers in order to reduce classroom sizes

00:07:09.120 or give teachers support in the classrooms

00:07:11.660 by having more teacher assistance

00:07:13.540 or people who do special education-type programs.

00:07:17.160 Here's Danielle Smith talking about what they had proposed. 1.00

00:07:21.080 Rick Bell, Post Media, question for the Premier.

00:07:23.320 We don't have a teacher strike yet, but it may come.

00:07:26.120 How determined is the government

00:07:27.860 to maintain the position that it has

00:07:30.660 that you're offering a pay raise, I think, over three or four years?

00:07:34.100 And that pay raise is 12%, by the way, over three or four years.

00:07:39.720 Hiring additional teachers.

00:07:41.620 But how resolute are you to remain on that position?

00:07:45.440 I know there's negotiations,

00:07:46.980 but in the words of former Premier Ralph Klein,

00:07:51.100 I think in negotiations he once said,

00:07:53.000 I ain't going to blink.

00:07:54.140 So there's a precedent for answering this question.

00:07:57.180 How determined are you to maintain

00:07:59.680 the position that the government has?

00:08:02.760 And if you are wanting to maintain that position,

00:08:06.820 why is it important for you to maintain that position

00:08:09.720 and not give in to the counter position?

00:08:13.980 We want to make sure that we have a fair offer for teachers,

00:08:17.840 and we believe we do.

00:08:18.960 It's 3% per year over four years,

00:08:21.340 which is 12% in addition to some market adjustments.

00:08:23.940 And so 95% of teachers would get more pay

00:08:27.720 under the proposal we currently have on the table.

00:08:29.880 This is a pay raise that matches what 83 other unions,

00:08:34.300 including the United Nurses of Alberta,

00:08:36.240 have already accepted.

00:08:37.980 And we do sit well compared to other provinces

00:08:41.000 that have already made salary adjustments.

00:08:43.320 So if you look at 2027,

00:08:46.600 consider all of the increases in this offer,

00:08:49.520 as well as the salary adjustment

00:08:50.880 that other provinces have agreed to.

00:08:52.560 Keep in mind what's happening is there,

00:08:54.780 when we see comparisons,

00:08:55.880 they don't factor in what we're offering

00:08:58.100 versus some of the jurisdictions that already have.

00:09:01.360 Under, and we use a competitive evaluation,

00:09:04.400 we have to agree to these things at the bargaining table

00:09:06.280 so that we're all using the same set of facts.

00:09:08.380 But if you look at a Category 5 teacher

00:09:10.140 at the top end of the grid,

00:09:12.380 by 2027,

00:09:14.300 Saskatchewan teachers would make 98,142.

00:09:17.540 BC teachers would make 96,142.

00:09:22.120 Manitoba teachers would make 101,775.

00:09:26.460 And Alberta teachers would make 107,009.

00:09:30.980 So when we're looking at any...

00:09:34.480 And so, by the way,

00:09:36.140 even those previous provincial numbers

00:09:37.980 from even Brasile Columbia at the lowest,

00:09:40.140 at $96,000 a year,

00:09:42.420 when you actually take into account benefits

00:09:44.420 and other things that teachers are getting.

00:09:47.160 And it's not...

00:09:47.980 Let's be clear, too.

00:09:49.460 There's not really all that many jobs

00:09:51.040 in this world that are easy jobs.

00:09:52.860 So no one's saying,

00:09:53.460 are you saying my job's easy?

00:09:55.280 Blah, blah, blah.

00:09:55.860 No, nobody's job's exactly easy.

00:09:58.960 But the thing is,

00:09:59.920 for considering that it's a fairly common job,

00:10:02.840 it's a very good pay for that job.

00:10:04.880 And you get a lot of career stability.

00:10:07.420 And so it's already good pay in British Columbia.

00:10:10.640 And then you come to Alberta

00:10:11.700 and you're making over $10,000 more at the high end.

00:10:15.420 And it's not like,

00:10:16.000 oh, high end,

00:10:16.620 when am I ever going to make it there?

00:10:17.680 You just have to stay on the job long enough.

00:10:19.580 It's not like,

00:10:20.280 maybe we'll consider you for a promotion.

00:10:22.440 So you automatically get promoted every year

00:10:24.800 into the higher salary.

00:10:26.900 But whatever.

00:10:27.680 I'll let her finish here. 1.00

00:10:29.000 The idea that this was rejected

00:10:30.360 with all the extra teachers promised

00:10:32.340 to add to the system

00:10:33.920 and the new schools they're building

00:10:35.740 is stupid. 0.93

00:10:37.680 It's just the ATA.

00:10:39.120 It's simply, let's go back to it.

00:10:40.240 The ATA is a union front group.

00:10:42.960 Requests for pay increases

00:10:45.080 higher than those numbers.

00:10:47.140 We are already very much competitive,

00:10:50.020 but also will be the most generous

00:10:52.120 for the typical teacher in Western Canada.

00:10:55.020 And we do not want to sacrifice

00:10:57.100 any trade-off

00:10:58.860 between higher salaries and more teachers.

00:11:01.240 We have been very clear that we want,

00:11:03.000 we have a $1 billion package

00:11:04.260 that we have already announced

00:11:05.860 to go to school boards

00:11:07.640 to enhance their choice

00:11:09.560 of teachers or education.

00:11:10.360 And by the way,

00:11:11.700 you could even do all this

00:11:13.160 and save money

00:11:13.920 by just slashing ridiculous administration

00:11:16.620 within places like

00:11:17.680 the Calgary Board of Education,

00:11:19.140 within schools themselves.

00:11:20.160 There are so many like vice principals

00:11:22.280 and other extra superintendents

00:11:24.080 for schools and school districts

00:11:25.940 that really only need one or two.

00:11:28.320 I think,

00:11:28.940 and this is something that happens

00:11:30.380 in other provinces as well.

00:11:32.060 Sometimes we're doing it worse

00:11:33.380 than other provinces.

00:11:34.400 Sometimes we're doing it better.

00:11:35.480 I remember hearing BC having their nursing,

00:11:39.620 their like healthcare system

00:11:41.320 compared to Alberta's

00:11:42.720 where Alberta has far fewer administrators

00:11:45.360 than BC does

00:11:46.360 and they're paid less

00:11:47.380 or executive board members.

00:11:49.660 But remember also,

00:11:51.160 with the pay,

00:11:52.340 Alberta has the lowest provincial taxes.

00:11:55.860 Provincial income taxes in Alberta

00:11:57.280 are quite low.

00:11:58.440 So you're also getting that

00:11:59.440 as a good deal as well.

00:12:00.760 Vacation assistance

00:12:01.620 through the bargaining process.

00:12:03.140 We already put another thousand teachers

00:12:06.180 per year on the table

00:12:07.960 and so we are asking

00:12:09.320 the Alberta Teachers Association leadership

00:12:11.420 to be very clear

00:12:12.880 about what these trade-offs are

00:12:14.320 with their members

00:12:15.320 and I hope that we're able

00:12:16.440 to get to a negotiated settlement.

00:12:18.200 We want to make sure

00:12:18.960 that we are addressing the issues

00:12:20.320 that we hear from teachers.

00:12:21.720 They want to be paid fairly?

00:12:22.920 They will be with this offer.

00:12:24.420 We want to make sure

00:12:25.200 that parents and frontline teachers

00:12:27.060 know that this is a fair offer.

00:12:30.020 We want to make sure

00:12:30.860 that everybody has the same information.

00:12:32.400 We know that the ATA

00:12:33.380 is getting their position out

00:12:34.860 through advertising and movie theaters

00:12:36.980 and various other means.

00:12:38.300 We will be getting

00:12:38.880 this perspective out as well

00:12:40.960 and we hope that it will win

00:12:42.080 over hearts and minds

00:12:42.800 of teachers and parents.

00:12:44.120 We want to be fair to teachers

00:12:45.480 but we also know

00:12:46.740 that the number one issue

00:12:47.860 is addressing class size.

00:12:49.440 We're addressing it one way

00:12:50.580 in building out

00:12:52.260 an $8.6 billion spend program

00:12:54.320 to build new schools.

00:12:55.240 That's one thing.

00:12:55.880 There's just a need

00:12:56.600 for more physical space

00:12:58.000 but we also need

00:12:59.220 to have more teachers

00:13:00.000 to be able to have

00:13:00.640 smaller classes

00:13:01.340 and we need to have

00:13:02.340 more education assistance

00:13:03.400 to deal with classroom complexity.

00:13:05.640 I would encourage

00:13:07.200 Danielle Smith

00:13:07.840 to follow this politician

00:13:10.080 that I know a lot of people

00:13:11.320 don't like

00:13:12.420 but I think he's underappreciated.

00:13:14.460 Put on a teacher's town hall

00:13:15.900 and do it like

00:13:16.900 the former New Jersey governor

00:13:18.720 Chris Christie.

00:13:19.820 Let them come up

00:13:20.680 to the microphone

00:13:21.240 and tell you how bad

00:13:22.540 of a person you are

00:13:23.420 and how bad you're ripping them off

00:13:24.640 and then take them through

00:13:26.180 everything they're getting

00:13:27.300 everything their union rejected

00:13:28.920 and why their union rejected it

00:13:31.300 because in fact

00:13:32.040 this is politics

00:13:32.860 it has nothing to do

00:13:34.480 with actually getting

00:13:35.080 a fair deal.

00:13:36.400 But here is an aspect of this

00:13:38.180 that I'm really liking

00:13:39.060 from the strategy

00:13:40.020 of the

00:13:41.460 when it comes to the strategy

00:13:43.380 or I'll first jump over

00:13:45.200 to Nate Horder's

00:13:46.360 response to

00:13:48.120 the Alberta teachers

00:13:49.360 actually like ripping up

00:13:51.100 the deal

00:13:51.500 and saying they're not

00:13:52.120 going to go for it

00:13:52.840 and then I want to get over

00:13:53.900 to what the province

00:13:54.920 is doing

00:13:55.440 in order to defend

00:13:56.760 themselves against

00:13:57.600 the propaganda

00:13:58.220 of the ATA.

00:14:00.460 Nate Horder says

00:14:01.320 I am disappointed

00:14:02.420 that Alberta teachers

00:14:03.420 have voted to reject

00:14:04.480 the tentative agreement

00:14:05.440 for a new four-year

00:14:06.400 central agreement.

00:14:07.700 This is the second time

00:14:08.620 teachers have rejected

00:14:09.380 a potential settlement

00:14:10.420 that provided

00:14:11.320 what their union said

00:14:12.500 teachers wanted

00:14:13.260 in response to

00:14:14.060 growing classroom complexity.

00:14:16.380 The ATA's rejected deal

00:14:17.900 would have provided them

00:14:18.940 tremendous investments

00:14:19.860 in classroom support

00:14:20.980 supports to help

00:14:21.980 alleviate population growth

00:14:24.480 and classroom complexity

00:14:25.480 pressures with the hiring

00:14:26.760 of 3,000 new teachers

00:14:28.040 and over 1,500 new

00:14:29.560 educational assistants

00:14:30.660 in public, separate,

00:14:32.400 and francophone classrooms.

00:14:33.920 This would have been

00:14:34.760 in addition to the hiring

00:14:36.040 required to replace

00:14:37.860 retiring and departing teachers.

00:14:40.720 Quote,

00:14:41.040 the deal also would have

00:14:42.200 provided a general wage

00:14:44.820 increase of 12%

00:14:45.940 over a four-year term

00:14:48.200 as well as a wage grid

00:14:49.960 unification

00:14:50.700 which would have provided

00:14:52.100 more than 95% of teachers

00:14:53.820 even larger wage increases

00:14:55.600 up to 17%.

00:14:57.140 These adjustments

00:14:58.080 would have resulted

00:14:59.040 in greater salary increases

00:15:00.580 for newer teachers

00:15:01.760 to help address recruitment

00:15:02.940 and retention issues.

00:15:04.520 Increases in northern incentives

00:15:06.700 and substitute teacher pay

00:15:08.500 would also have been secured

00:15:09.840 through the new deal.

00:15:11.100 Alberta teachers

00:15:11.760 would have been receiving

00:15:12.660 the highest pay

00:15:13.280 in western Canada

00:15:13.960 after taxes.

00:15:15.160 With over 50,000 new students

00:15:16.440 added to our education system

00:15:17.680 in the last two years,

00:15:18.900 these investments

00:15:19.560 were needed now

00:15:20.960 more than ever.

00:15:22.000 It is now up to the union

00:15:23.500 to determine its next steps.

00:15:25.480 And we can pretty much

00:15:26.660 just skip the rest of it there.

00:15:28.440 But this has been

00:15:30.960 ultra reasonable.

00:15:33.240 If anything,

00:15:34.160 I actually think

00:15:34.880 the province of Alberta

00:15:35.660 probably offered too much.

00:15:37.100 that this is actually

00:15:38.820 quite a bit

00:15:39.740 to be giving them

00:15:40.700 and it could be

00:15:41.380 bad for balancing budgets

00:15:42.760 in the future.

00:15:43.800 But they've also,

00:15:45.260 it's smart politics

00:15:46.740 because they offered them

00:15:48.940 pretty much everything

00:15:50.040 they wanted

00:15:50.580 knowing that they would not

00:15:51.840 take it

00:15:52.240 because they entered the room

00:15:53.620 saying they wouldn't take it.

00:15:55.640 I need to now

00:15:56.560 jump down.

00:15:57.700 If I have,

00:15:58.300 I think I have this saved.

00:16:02.800 It's going,

00:16:03.620 do I have this here?

00:16:04.820 If I don't,

00:16:05.460 it doesn't matter too much.

00:16:06.560 Yeah, so I have this here.

00:16:12.000 This is what Danielle Smith did 1.00

00:16:13.420 in response to the ATA

00:16:14.800 rejecting the deal,

00:16:16.340 which is a very smart move.

00:16:17.800 So she talks about

00:16:18.620 how she's disappointed

00:16:19.320 by all this

00:16:21.020 and that the province

00:16:22.960 is going to be actually

00:16:24.600 giving over $150 per week

00:16:28.460 to Alberta families,

00:16:29.860 I think per child

00:16:30.900 or maybe it's just per household,

00:16:32.400 who have kids

00:16:33.180 that are affected

00:16:33.860 by the teacher strike.

00:16:34.960 And so they're basically

00:16:36.540 going to be giving parents

00:16:37.940 the money

00:16:38.400 to basically compensate

00:16:39.820 for the fact

00:16:40.500 that the teachers won't work,

00:16:41.820 which is going to demonstrate

00:16:43.100 the province actually cares.

00:16:44.740 The province is trying

00:16:45.480 to make it right.

00:16:46.820 And the ATA there

00:16:47.760 is stomping their feet,

00:16:48.920 gaslighting their own

00:16:49.940 teacher members

00:16:50.660 and telling their people

00:16:52.620 not to go to work,

00:16:53.820 hurting the educations

00:16:54.760 of thousands and thousands

00:16:56.460 of Alberta students.

00:16:57.660 But now let's jump over

00:17:00.440 to Naheed Nenshi.

00:17:02.620 We need to hear

00:17:03.200 from the other side, guys.

00:17:04.860 And apparently

00:17:05.380 this is all very bad

00:17:06.720 and cruel and mean.

00:17:08.300 Here is the new video

00:17:09.960 that Naheed Nenshi

00:17:10.880 just cut.

00:17:12.340 Oh my goodness,

00:17:12.880 who could guess why

00:17:13.600 this guy's not doing

00:17:14.380 very well in the polls?

00:17:15.540 Also, what is he wearing?

00:17:16.520 Is he wearing like

00:17:16.920 a suede shirt?

00:17:18.800 He's wearing like 0.52

00:17:19.100 a suede polo 0.78

00:17:20.120 and then he's also wearing

00:17:21.040 like some like

00:17:21.600 burgundy jacket.

00:17:23.300 Very taking fashion

00:17:24.500 chances out there.

00:17:25.300 This is the government's fault.

00:17:28.400 Premier Smith,

00:17:29.360 do the right thing

00:17:30.280 and fix this now.

00:17:31.860 We've just learned

00:17:32.880 that the teachers

00:17:34.220 have overwhelmingly rejected

00:17:36.280 the government's

00:17:37.380 latest offer.

00:17:38.320 The same offer

00:17:39.180 that they rejected

00:17:39.920 in the spring.

00:17:40.900 What did the government

00:17:41.400 think was going to happen?

00:17:43.320 Yeah, what did they think

00:17:44.800 was going to happen?

00:17:45.720 Did they think that

00:17:46.340 the ATA union bosses

00:17:47.840 were going to become

00:17:48.560 reasonable adults?

00:17:50.140 Like, they're just citing

00:17:51.180 the fact it was rejected.

00:17:52.760 It doesn't,

00:17:53.220 this is such a stupid play

00:17:54.800 by Nenshi.

00:17:56.100 It's like,

00:17:56.500 you're basically saying

00:17:58.560 the teachers

00:18:00.620 were being obstinate.

00:18:01.720 The ATA was being obstinate.

00:18:03.440 You knew they were

00:18:04.080 going to be obstinate.

00:18:05.040 Like, well,

00:18:05.540 what was she supposed to do?

00:18:06.660 Offer a 50% increase

00:18:08.200 in wages?

00:18:09.080 It didn't have to come

00:18:10.120 to this.

00:18:11.060 The UCP had months

00:18:12.020 to put an offer

00:18:12.760 on the table

00:18:13.540 that respected

00:18:14.520 our teachers

00:18:15.280 and would actually

00:18:16.400 address the conditions

00:18:17.940 in our classroom

00:18:18.780 right now.

00:18:19.600 I'm a mom,

00:18:20.320 Nahad.

00:18:20.820 I know.

00:18:21.440 And I am well aware

00:18:22.760 that the UCP

00:18:23.740 continues to choose

00:18:25.140 to fund

00:18:25.800 our kids' education

00:18:27.080 at the lowest level

00:18:28.540 in the country.

00:18:29.360 What does that tell you

00:18:30.460 about their priorities?

00:18:32.520 Whoa, sorry.

00:18:34.060 Okay.

00:18:36.740 I'm going to make fun

00:18:37.600 of her in just a second here.

00:18:38.860 I'm sorry.

00:18:39.320 I have to make fun

00:18:39.840 of her in a second.

00:18:40.800 But I hate

00:18:41.660 this stupid talking point.

00:18:42.880 We are funded

00:18:43.560 at the lowest level

00:18:44.700 in the country.

00:18:45.800 Okay.

00:18:46.500 Even though Alberta

00:18:47.400 does have administrative bloat

00:18:48.900 in our education system,

00:18:50.160 as does all other provinces,

00:18:52.640 we still somehow,

00:18:53.840 despite spending

00:18:54.720 the lowest amount

00:18:55.760 per child,

00:18:56.900 which also just makes sense

00:18:58.060 because we have

00:18:58.740 the youngest population,

00:19:00.620 so naturally

00:19:01.080 you have way more students

00:19:02.200 and certain things

00:19:03.240 like brick-and-mortar schools,

00:19:04.560 it's not like

00:19:05.000 the school goes up

00:19:06.200 in price

00:19:06.580 the more students

00:19:07.180 that are in it.

00:19:07.740 You actually do end up

00:19:08.680 saving money

00:19:09.260 the more students

00:19:10.020 that you're teaching.

00:19:12.160 You end up having

00:19:12.980 that bulk purchasing

00:19:14.540 kind of savings.

00:19:15.780 But we still have

00:19:16.960 the best quality

00:19:17.880 education system too.

00:19:20.280 But now I'm going

00:19:21.520 to move into

00:19:21.840 making fun of this lady.

00:19:23.980 What's her name?

00:19:25.520 I don't care.

00:19:27.120 What's with this

00:19:27.980 wine mom way of talking?

00:19:30.640 What did she think

00:19:32.100 was going to happen?

00:19:33.320 You know that.

00:19:34.840 I have kids.

00:19:37.020 Well, they put up

00:19:39.120 the deal in the spring

00:19:40.500 and then they put it

00:19:41.620 in the fall

00:19:42.400 and it was rejected.

00:19:43.760 What did they think

00:19:44.960 was going to happen?

00:19:47.420 Do second takes, guys.

00:19:48.680 This thing is already

00:19:49.920 edited to, you know,

00:19:51.500 edited to, like,

00:19:53.360 China and back.

00:19:54.720 And they couldn't get her

00:19:55.900 to do a take

00:19:56.520 that doesn't sound

00:19:57.360 like she's falling asleep.

00:19:59.120 It means chaos

00:20:00.780 and cuts

00:20:01.920 and cruelty.

00:20:03.500 And it means

00:20:04.140 all of our lives,

00:20:05.160 especially the lives

00:20:06.120 of parents.

00:20:06.560 It means cuts, guys.

00:20:08.280 Increasing spending

00:20:09.400 means cuts.

00:20:10.760 Giving parents

00:20:11.600 $150 to compensate

00:20:13.240 them for the ATE's tantrum.

00:20:15.060 That means cuts.

00:20:15.740 Hiring 3,000 more

00:20:17.920 teachers

00:20:19.220 so that the

00:20:20.040 per capita amount

00:20:20.880 of teachers

00:20:21.240 goes up

00:20:21.840 even when retirements

00:20:23.080 are taken into account.

00:20:24.380 That's cuts, guys.

00:20:25.560 And some kids

00:20:26.460 are about to go wacky.

00:20:28.620 It's going to be

00:20:29.200 so hard

00:20:29.960 and so stressful

00:20:31.060 over the next few weeks

00:20:32.560 and especially

00:20:33.200 if you have to keep

00:20:34.380 your kids at home

00:20:35.020 and go through

00:20:35.500 all those problems

00:20:36.220 with your job,

00:20:37.160 with your life,

00:20:38.160 with child care.

00:20:39.300 I want you to remember

00:20:40.280 something.

00:20:40.700 This was entirely

00:20:42.460 preventable.

00:20:43.960 And it's not

00:20:44.820 the teacher's fault.

00:20:46.880 They still haven't

00:20:47.900 actually given us

00:20:49.080 anything.

00:20:49.960 It's a minute

00:20:50.620 and a half video.

00:20:51.540 You can put it out.

00:20:52.340 You can pack in a lot

00:20:53.200 of facts into a minute

00:20:54.100 and a half video.

00:20:54.960 He just keeps sitting

00:20:55.680 there like,

00:20:56.380 guys,

00:20:56.820 at the end of the day,

00:20:58.420 what you need to know

00:20:59.680 is this was entirely

00:21:00.900 preventable.

00:21:01.800 And it was

00:21:03.000 Daniel Smith's fault.

00:21:05.400 It was

00:21:06.320 not

00:21:07.400 the teacher's fault.

00:21:08.740 And then Wine Lady 0.72

00:21:10.080 comes in from the side

00:21:11.080 and be like,

00:21:11.900 it's Daniel Smith's fault.

00:21:14.780 What?

00:21:15.600 Who?

00:21:16.180 Like,

00:21:16.400 again,

00:21:16.740 the camera work's

00:21:17.740 beautiful.

00:21:18.960 Whoever filmed this,

00:21:20.560 get this man a raise.

00:21:22.600 Get this woman a raise. 1.00

00:21:24.140 It's really well done.

00:21:25.240 And then they just

00:21:25.840 basically keep

00:21:26.700 saying the same thing

00:21:28.140 and like pointing

00:21:29.160 at the camera,

00:21:29.840 staring down the barrel

00:21:30.880 of the camera

00:21:31.480 or in Nenshi's case,

00:21:32.880 looking cross-eyed

00:21:33.660 at the barrel of the camera,

00:21:35.100 just saying that

00:21:35.720 it's Smith's fault,

00:21:36.540 it's the government's fault.

00:21:37.320 They,

00:21:37.720 you know,

00:21:38.140 they put up the same deal

00:21:39.140 that was rejected

00:21:39.820 even though it's wholly fair

00:21:41.160 and it's their fault

00:21:42.360 for that reason.

00:21:43.300 Like,

00:21:43.540 it's so,

00:21:44.900 I can't say it's so stupid,

00:21:46.520 Abel,

00:21:46.700 or else I'm just going

00:21:47.320 to keep repeating myself.

00:21:48.260 Not the education assistant's fault.

00:21:50.720 It's not your fault

00:21:51.600 as parents

00:21:52.080 and it's certainly

00:21:52.840 not students' fault.

00:21:54.320 This is

00:21:55.280 the government's fault.

00:21:57.000 They don't care

00:21:57.480 about public education.

00:21:58.480 They don't care about teachers.

00:21:59.500 They don't care about parents.

00:22:00.600 They care

00:22:01.060 only about themselves.

00:22:03.200 But it's not too late.

00:22:04.640 Premier Smith,

00:22:05.240 do the right thing

00:22:06.500 and fix this

00:22:07.440 now.

00:22:08.140 Oh,

00:22:10.780 wow,

00:22:10.940 guys,

00:22:11.200 better together.

00:22:12.260 I'll wear this new

00:22:12.720 Democratic caucus.

00:22:16.120 Wow,

00:22:16.600 that really,

00:22:17.020 really spoke to me.

00:22:19.440 Hi,

00:22:19.600 guys,

00:22:19.980 I'm going to,

00:22:20.440 I'm going to have to vote

00:22:21.160 NDP now.

00:22:22.480 They,

00:22:22.640 they stared at the camera.

00:22:24.080 They said it wasn't

00:22:25.040 teachers' fault.

00:22:25.800 They said it was

00:22:26.420 Daniel Smith's fault.

00:22:28.480 Guys,

00:22:29.660 Naheed Nenshi,

00:22:30.280 he said that this

00:22:31.880 was wacky

00:22:32.820 and then he did

00:22:34.060 this a lot.

00:22:35.280 Like,

00:22:35.920 kind of like

00:22:36.380 falling asleep.

00:22:39.280 I'm,

00:22:39.760 I'm sold.

00:22:40.580 I'm NDP now.

00:22:41.920 Oh my goodness.

00:22:42.780 These people are

00:22:43.320 absurd.

00:22:44.280 Anyways,

00:22:44.680 so,

00:22:45.080 I hope that the Alberta

00:22:46.340 government does not,

00:22:47.680 like,

00:22:48.120 you know,

00:22:48.340 does not give in

00:22:49.180 on this at all.

00:22:50.320 If the ATA wants to

00:22:51.700 cancel half the year,

00:22:52.760 well then that's

00:22:53.440 their fault.

00:22:54.320 And I think at some

00:22:55.280 point the Alberta

00:22:56.280 government should just

00:22:57.020 start firing any

00:22:57.900 teachers who won't

00:22:58.580 come back to the

00:22:59.380 classroom themselves

00:23:00.520 if this keeps going

00:23:01.900 on for months.

00:23:02.800 Because at the end

00:23:03.840 of the day,

00:23:04.580 the priority of the

00:23:05.360 education system

00:23:06.360 is not to make the

00:23:07.620 ATA happy,

00:23:08.740 it's to get children

00:23:09.680 educated.

00:23:10.580 And I don't think

00:23:11.360 that anything in this

00:23:12.200 deal is unfair.

00:23:14.100 If someone tries to

00:23:14.760 come at me with like,

00:23:15.760 oh well no,

00:23:16.480 it's not really

00:23:17.180 addressing,

00:23:17.820 shut up. 0.95

00:23:18.800 You don't know

00:23:19.460 what you're talking

00:23:20.000 about.

00:23:20.680 You just don't.

00:23:21.720 Oh,

00:23:22.040 it's not perfect.

00:23:23.180 Oh wow,

00:23:23.880 life's not perfect.

00:23:25.320 Oh my goodness,

00:23:25.940 someone called the

00:23:26.460 president.

00:23:27.340 Life's not perfect.

00:23:29.760 Anyways,

00:23:30.660 that should be it

00:23:31.420 for me today,

00:23:32.160 guys.

00:23:32.520 Hopefully,

00:23:33.260 you didn't mind

00:23:33.540 this video.

00:23:34.000 I couldn't make

00:23:34.420 a video earlier.

00:23:35.260 I was like really

00:23:35.800 lightheaded and

00:23:36.560 dehydrated all of

00:23:37.700 yesterday and so I

00:23:38.600 had to wait until

00:23:39.260 much later tonight.

00:23:41.380 But with that being

00:23:42.640 said,

00:23:43.280 remember if you're

00:23:44.080 in Calgary,

00:23:44.840 get yourself a

00:23:45.620 Sonia Sharp for

00:23:46.280 Mayor sign,

00:23:46.820 put it on your

00:23:47.180 front lawn.

00:23:48.000 The science of

00:23:48.520 lawn signs are

00:23:49.300 that if you put

00:23:49.880 up a lawn sign,

00:23:50.820 it doesn't like

00:23:51.380 convert people to

00:23:52.360 voting the way

00:23:52.920 you're voting,

00:23:53.720 but it makes that

00:23:54.360 person on the edge

00:23:55.100 of voting be like,

00:23:56.480 ah,

00:23:56.820 well,

00:23:57.460 Bill's voting for

00:23:58.240 them,

00:23:58.540 so,

00:23:58.960 you know,

00:23:59.180 probably good bet

00:23:59.980 and then you

00:24:00.600 usually get another

00:24:01.540 person to turn out

00:24:02.480 who may have not

00:24:03.480 otherwise turned out.

00:24:05.200 But anyways,

00:24:06.100 with that all being

00:24:07.180 said,

00:24:07.600 I will see you guys

00:24:09.160 later.

00:24:09.800 later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 02, 2025

Danielle Smith goes to WAR with corrupt teachers union!

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