Liberals hate democracy unless they win (Gondek recall)
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss the ongoing recall campaign against Calgary's Mayor Jody Gondek, and why it's not undemocratic to try and force her to step down. I also talk about why I think it's time for Calgarians to vote on whether or not to keep their mayor in office.
Transcript
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Truly, the Canadian progressive left doesn't believe it's democracy unless they win.
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And if that sounds a tad hyperbolic to you, here is an article written by Canadian progressive leftists
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It's an article from the Calgary Herald titled,
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Opinion, Democracy Under Attack with Recall Petition.
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This about the ongoing recall petition drive being done against Calgary's very unpopular mayor, Jody Gondek.
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It is an established democratic process to hold democratically elected officials accountable
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so that the activists trying to get rid of her are allowed to go around with petitions
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to get Calgarians to sign up to basically say they want a recall petition
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and if they get past the threshold needed, a recall election is triggered.
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They're probably not going to succeed. The threshold is way too high in my opinion.
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But to progressive leftists, the act of people even collecting these signatures
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Democracy simply just means that the public gets to control the government in some way.
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Obviously, we don't have a pure democracy where we vote as a public on every single issue.
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But if the democratic process allows us to try and recall those people,
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But the left truly does just think that if they are not winning,
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then it means that there's something wrong with the system
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and the whole thing is rigged and it's not democracy.
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So I want to get into this article here because I did find it truly funny.
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And I did say at the start that this was written by progressive leftists, plural.
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It's just labeled as columnists, says the writers,
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because three effectively, in my opinion, hacks who either run nonprofit groups or strategy firms
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It's only a two-minute read, yet it still needed a committee to put it together.
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The attempt to recall Calgary's mayor defies democratic principles
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This is the people exerting their power over the elected officials
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The majority of voters elected Jody Gondek in every single ward in Calgary.
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And now a small group of people want to upheave democracy
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because they can't comprehend that the majority of people don't share their perspective.
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The role of Calgary's democratically elected mayor is a leadership role.
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The mayor, like each councillor, holds just one vote,
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meaning governing power is shared with the councillors.
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This vocal minority is intentionally trying to make an example of Gondek
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and signaling to others that they have more power
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than the citizens who voted for her in a democratic election.
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Well, there's a lot of people who voted for her in 21
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so she is not a democratically popular official.
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that means that we're not allowed to have any say
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That's anti-democracy to not let Gondek do whatever she wants.
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City Hall and the mayor's office has a lot of control over policy.
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And the councillors are not as able to put forward bills
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Calgarians lack experience with female leadership
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Well, that's a great way of saying Mayor Gondek sucks at her job
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Nancy is not white and he was elected three times.
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I'm pretty sure Calgarians aren't secretly racist
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And if you try and run a petition drive against her,
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We're actually engaging in the democratic process.
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We're not just going to let an elected official get elected,
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because you're opposing the progressive agenda,
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because the fact that they even had to bring up,
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That's why all these people voted for Daniel Smith
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This is why Albertans have voted for Rachel Notley
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for pretending that Gondek represents all women
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it's because we just don't like female leadership.
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You know, feel shamed for having written such garbage.
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you know, the government to be more representative.
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tend to get to cram down a lot of very niche interests
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I am a staunch supporter of First Past the Post
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I don't like when we start sort of gerrymandering the rules
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please vote for me by a Conservative Party membership.
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but just make sure you're all locked and loaded
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And also you can try and give to our legal defense fund
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