The Alberta government has banned 200 books, including The Handmaid's tale and Brave New World, from school libraries across the province. This is not controversial at all, and in fact, most parents in Alberta approve of these actions. But we have the left attempting to make Premier Danielle Smith look like a fool by banning way more books on the school board level, pretending that this is exactly what Smith and Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaitis wanted.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Today on the show, I need to tell you guys about the very obvious political operation being run against Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government.
00:00:12.740If you didn't already know, the Alberta government has ordered the school boards around the province to pull explicit and inappropriate materials from school libraries.
00:00:24.100This is not controversial at all. In fact, most parents in Alberta approve of these actions.
00:00:30.000But we have the left attempting to make Smith look like a fool by banning way more books on the school board level, pretending that this is exactly what Smith and the Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaitis wanted.
00:00:44.540It absolutely isn't. What the Alberta government has been pushing for is banning books like Gender Queer.
00:00:51.260And even then, it's not a book ban. You can still purchase these very strange books in the province if you want.
00:00:57.660I don't know why you would want to, but you can. You just can't have children having access to them.
00:01:04.240It would be like saying there is an alcohol ban because children under the age of 18 cannot buy alcohol.
00:01:10.640There is a driving ban because people who do not have driver's licenses cannot drive.
00:01:16.440People under the age of 14 cannot drive.
00:01:18.680Obviously, these are just age restrictions, and the Alberta government rightfully wants age restrictions on extremely sexual materials that don't even have an educational purpose.
00:01:29.900Gender Queer absolutely fits that category.
00:01:32.820But what you have now is the Edmonton Board of Education suddenly banning 200 books saying that, oh, we're just trying to fall in line with what the Premier wants.
00:01:42.420Because, no, they're not. And I'm going to be debunking this story as we go on, but how about we have Laura Babcock introduce us to what the left's position on this issue is.
00:01:53.500But before we get to the clip of her, I do just want to quickly mention, hey guys, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video.
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00:02:30.560Well, whatever. Take it away, Laura, and be crazy and show us why Daniel Smith's a very bad woman or whatever.
00:02:36.680Daniel Smith banning books, including, guess what, The Handmaid's Tale, because, you know, if you don't want people to see the future you want, don't let them read the fucking book about it.
00:02:46.260Yeah, so Laura still has never found her lithium.
00:02:51.320She's just running around the streets, flashing her crazy eyes at people and talking about the end of the world.
00:02:57.420I do eventually want to just show you later on in this video, I'm going to cut around to different clips of Laura Babcock talking.
00:03:11.620Now I need to bring you guys to a CBC News article because, of course, if the political left is running an op, eventually you will have the mainstream left papers picking up the story and just running with the most surface-level details of it in order to embarrass the premier.
00:03:29.740So we have here the title from the CBC article, says, Canadian author Margaret Atwood takes another shot at Alberta's book ban with satirical story.
00:03:40.200List of banned books include The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World.
00:03:44.340Now, obviously, those books are not actually going to be banned.
00:03:48.520Do you know how I know those books are not actually going to be banned in Alberta schools?
00:03:52.680It's because you can actually use Brave New World as a book in classrooms.
00:03:59.000In high school, you can use that as a book that the class reads together.
00:04:02.700I believe The Handmaid's Tale can even be used.
00:04:07.460It's a silly left-wing book where they act like the great evil in the world is evangelical Christians who are going to act like Islamists and put women in bags and turn them into simply mothers and that is it.
00:04:36.460Basically, she was going on about how stories can only be happy and there can be no sexual content in it and whatnot and everything must be, you know, giddy and whatnot.
00:04:46.140I just don't need to read her actual story.
00:04:48.240But I want to go on to what she actually said about the premier.
00:04:52.140But while they were doing that, The Handmaid's Tale came true and premier Danielle Smith found herself with a nice blue dress but no job, she said, referring to the high-ranking wives of commanders in her book who wore blue while the handmaids in red garments were subjected to produce children for elite couples in a totalitarian and theocratic state.
00:05:14.640The quote, the quote, the end from Atwood.
00:05:17.260But she goes on this whole thing about how Danielle Smith wants The Handmaid's Tale to become true.
00:05:23.120Yes, Danielle Smith, a famous atheistic, like, premier.
00:05:27.860And I don't say that as a shot against her.
00:05:29.880She's famously like the one MLA who, when she was being sworn in at the legislature, didn't want to swear in on any religious book.
00:05:37.800This lady is not a big social conservative.
00:05:40.740She just knows what is appropriate and inappropriate for children.
00:05:46.620It was the second time Atwood has weighed in on the provincial book ban the Canadian author took to social media Friday to encourage people to get copies of The Handmaid's Tale before they have public book earnings of it.
00:05:59.400Well, yeah, she doesn't have a financial interest in encouraging people to buy her book for a fake ban.
00:06:05.020And then the article goes on to detail out and it says, detail out what happened.
00:06:14.440It says, last week, the Edmonton Public School Board, one of Alberta's largest, announced it was yanking more than 200 books from its schools this year to comply with a July order by Alberta Education Ministry to remove books from school libraries that carry, quote, material containing explicit sexual content by October 1st.
00:06:34.000The board's list of books it was removing gave the first glimpse of the impact of Alberta's book ban in schools.
00:06:51.120And in fact, you can have sexually explicit content written like text content in books that high school students can read.
00:07:00.740You can have some of that content for more mature readers in schools, but they just don't want to have them have they don't want, you know, young middle school kids and elementary age kids to be able to have access to them.
00:07:13.860That was the point of what the ministry was putting forward.
00:07:17.320And notice how this isn't happening from, like, a central Alberta Board of Education, from a southern Alberta Rural Board.
00:07:25.600This is happening from the Edmonton Board of Education.
00:07:29.000Arguably, the most woke Board of Education in the province suddenly got all, like, you know, got all crazy about the ban and just banned 200 books.
00:07:38.100And notice how they're basically just banning books that leftists really like.
00:07:42.740They're not banning books that, you know, people on the right might have read.
00:07:46.160They're just banning books in order to rile up the left in order to make a villain out of Danielle Smith.
00:07:52.700This is what we call in politics the practitioner's veto.
00:07:57.040You see, actual people who vote on new laws, the premier and even her ministers,
00:08:02.340they don't literally go home at the end of the day and start piecing together how policies are going to be implemented.
00:08:09.760They give the general details about how a policy is going to be done,
00:08:13.840and then you have lower-level bureaucrats carry them out.
00:14:56.380She's already lowered the threshold for signature so you can get on the ballot.
00:14:59.680Just because Thomas Lukaszek has tried to basically stall your petition doesn't mean that she now has to step in on your behalf.
00:15:07.680But this digital ID thing, they're like, oh, my goodness, digital ID coming to Alberta.
00:15:11.820What they mean is you can digitize some of your government records using a government application because, of course, it's going to be run by the government for you to be able to get things like birth certificates and driver's licenses and marriage certificates on your, like, basically on an app if you want to be able to save them.
00:16:10.480Digital ID, the sorts of things that you have in communist China, is when every time you purchase something, the government sees what you purchased and where you purchased it, and they can pull your right to purchase it at will.
00:16:23.920And if you think that the government has to be, like, artificially low-tech and do everything on paper just so there's no digital element to it, you're just wrong.
00:16:33.480It's not digital ID for the government to technically be able to get a warrant to be able to get an IP-like search on you because you may have violated the law.
00:17:04.100And nothing the Alberta government is currently doing would touch that at all.
00:17:08.340Anyways, now I do want to just end this video off on something funnier because now I feel like I need to come down the other side of this video and just have fun.
00:17:17.940So I want to show you what the Laura Babcock show is like, the O show.
00:18:05.520Sometimes the boundaries of writings change, but it has to be done on like a mathematical basis that this writing now has too many people.
00:18:14.440So let's take one neighborhood out that roughly has a good amount of people and add it to another one to basically even them out.
00:18:21.940You can't just like draw lines around specific homes in order to include them in your district.
00:18:26.580The idea that she's doing that is just someone like Laura Babcock attempting to Americanize Canadian politics because she doesn't know anything about her own country.
00:18:35.960So she constantly views her own country through the lens of like far left coverage of the U.S.
00:18:42.240show show when she was on a couple of weeks ago.
00:18:44.300And by the way, she'll be an Alberta correspondent for us, I hope.
00:18:47.800She said, you know, that that that Daniel Smith is a trader who's selling out the country, selling out Alberta one piece at a time.
00:18:55.240I haven't used that language around Daniel Smith.
00:18:57.020But where are you, Keith, as you're watching this premiere undermine, I think, our sovereignty every time she opens her mouth?
00:19:03.180But it's it's it's mesmerizing how, by the way, the other two people might as well put on blonde wigs because they are just Laura Babcock who happen to be men in different locations.
00:19:15.920These people have no thoughts of their own.
00:19:17.820And even her asking a question, it wasn't a question.
00:19:20.300She basically just said, did you agree with my insane tirade?
00:19:22.620And they're like, oh, I did agree with your insane tirade.
00:19:25.640Well, I mean, Smith, Premier Smith put out a video this week talking about how so many billions of Alberta tax dollars are going directly to Quebec and electing liberal politicians that then refuse to help enact policies that help Alberta.
00:19:41.560This is such a misrepresentation of the equalization program in Canada.
00:19:45.760I fortunately or unfortunately spent about 10 years in a row covering the annual premiers meetings.
00:19:50.940Almost all of them were focused on equalization during that time.
00:19:53.420So I got to know quite a bit about this file.
00:19:55.640And of course, there's always times when it looks unfair to somebody else.
00:19:58.640But let's be clear right off the bat, Alberta individuals and Alberta businesses pay exactly the same level of taxes as people in the rest of Canada.
00:20:09.760Where does this come from, where people act like people who oppose equalization, like the current system, or at least how disproportionate it is?
00:20:17.040Nobody thinks that if you make $150,000 in Alberta and you make $150,000 in Ontario or Quebec that you pay different amounts of taxes to the federal government.
00:20:29.340The thing that people think, rightfully so, is that because the equalization system is trying to make it so that there's a certain level of per capita public spending in every province, like there's a minimum amount.
00:20:40.300Because Alberta has like $11,000, $12,000 per person, like per capita, like public service spending, it's somewhere around that.
00:20:48.560It's quite good in Alberta because we produce a lot.
00:20:51.800You then, when you pay money to the federal government, the federal government, a lot of what the federal government does is just gives money out to run public services and other provinces.
00:21:01.240They give top-ups to the provinces who don't have enough per capita spending based on the arbitrary measure that it should be around like $9,000 per capita.
00:21:11.660So that means the Maritimes, the territories, Quebec, Manitoba, some, it depends with Manitoba and Ontario and like British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
00:21:24.120Sometimes they have provinces, sometimes they have not provinces and get top-ups.
00:21:27.520Alberta basically is always, they have province, so they're always giving other people top-ups.
00:21:32.320The whole idea is that when you give money to the government of Canada, disproportionately the other provinces who do not perform very well economically get a disproportionate amount of federal transfers for social service spending.
00:21:47.660And the problem is, is that it incentivizes provinces to never fix themselves, to never help their own economies grow properly.
00:21:54.720Because, well, if the economy actually starts taking off, we might have some of the federal dollars clawed back.
00:22:00.240Because if we actually lower our own taxes and we actually, you know, do better social spending ourselves,
00:22:06.780well, maybe the government's not going to start sending us another $1,500 per person in our province because we're actually self-sustaining.
00:22:13.240It's a welfare trap and it's a welfare trap that Alberta is paying for, so it actually sucks for everybody.
00:22:20.240So this guy, I was around the boards for 10 years, so I know quite a bit about this.
00:22:26.140And then he puts out some like misnomer point that nobody makes and like debunks a straw man.
00:22:51.240I'm going to get to the non-intro stuff.
00:22:52.720But what we're going to get in the past, people will go to the prison.
00:22:56.240...Baptist home that's much closer to Christofascism than I hated it.
00:23:01.060I have never seen a leader of the opposition denigrate the country in trying to take cheap shots at the leaders to become part of their country.
00:23:09.840That flirt on media about mostly people.
00:24:14.720Like, legitimately, that's not even me trying to be snarky.
00:24:19.120Okay, it's mostly me trying to be snarky.
00:24:21.460But my point is that, like, goodness, you actually need to log off the internet if this is your emotional control when talking about Canadian politics.
00:24:31.020Things in this country are quite bad, especially from a conservative perspective.
00:24:35.380Things are not going in the right direction.
00:24:37.300I also, in my Bill Cosby dad sweater, can remain calm.
00:24:54.560They live in nice neighborhoods because they have a lot of money at their disposal and they can sit around nattering about nothing on a podcast.
00:25:00.940And they still act like everything is the worst it's ever been.
00:25:05.620Except for all the things they want to praise the liberals for.
00:25:07.940But in terms of, like, the state of the world and right-wing politics coming to get them.
00:25:45.820I saw Spencer Fernando did an episode with her.
00:25:50.380And I understand that he doesn't like a lot of members of the right who end up retro, like, you know, reflexively being like, you know, Carney and Trudeau are really left-wing and cringe and they support Ukraine, ergo I support Russia.
00:26:03.100It's still pretty rare to find people like that, but, like, just because some people on the right do that.
00:26:08.760Don't go on to Laura Babcock's show, the lady who can't find Ukraine on a map until 2022.
00:26:15.120She only cares about Ukraine because she's supposed to care about it.
00:26:24.220She probably blamed that on George W. Bush for no reason because she is a left-wing hack.
00:26:29.780But anyways, with that being said, that should be it for this video, guys.
00:26:33.940It kind of turned into a multi-topic episode, but hopefully you like this sort of thing.
00:26:38.900Anyways, well, if you like the video, make sure to leave a like on it.
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00:26:57.740If you're thinking, well, Jeremy Farkas could beat Jody Gondek, I think we can shoot a little bit better than, like, only 10% better than Gondek.
00:27:06.080It's so weird seeing the transformation of Jeremy Farkas.
00:27:11.020He went on some spirit journey from the Mexican border all the way up, walking to Canada, hiking.
00:27:16.600I think he raised a bunch of money for Canada, the Boys and Girls Club of Canada.