The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberals have social media tantrum over a single sentence!

00:00:00.440 It's consistently baffling to me just how insecure Canadian liberals are online these days.

00:00:06.460 These people will have a tantrum over pretty much anything,

00:00:09.440 as if to keep reassuring themselves that they're the righteous ones,

00:00:13.260 that they're intellectually superior to their opponents.

00:00:15.980 They won't drop anything.

00:00:17.520 Nothing will happen, and they will freak out about it,

00:00:20.020 which is displayed perfectly in this post I made the other day,

00:00:23.440 which for like 12 hours after posting basically had no traction.

00:00:27.360 A few people liked it.

00:00:28.560 I think one person replied to it, and then the left got a hold of it,

00:00:32.580 and they started like acting horrified.

00:00:35.100 Why? You're so ignorant. 1.00

00:00:36.780 Don't you know that families come in all different shapes and sizes? 1.00

00:00:40.520 Oh, I don't think you know anything about housing at all.

00:00:43.180 And it's literally a single sentence tweet I put out,

00:00:46.440 and people like read the most epic lore into the background of why I posted this,

00:00:52.160 and they just ended up displaying their own ignorance

00:00:55.060 and how they're completely out of touch with, one, what Canadian people want,

00:00:59.080 and then, two, the actual problems we're dealing with,

00:01:02.060 because I made a post about housing.

00:01:04.180 And at no point did the word immigration cross any of these people's lips,

00:01:08.540 which is obviously the real cause of the current housing crisis.

00:01:12.080 When we have a supply and demand imbalance because of artificially high demand from immigration,

00:01:17.380 that's going to have a big effect on housing. 1.00

00:01:19.960 So I posted this tweet.

00:01:21.520 It was super short just in response to Mayor Jody Gondek and Calgary City Council 0.99

00:01:26.060 passing the blatantly stupid blanket rezoning plan, 0.98

00:01:30.680 which is effectively them just voting in favor of Justin Trudeau bribing them. 0.99

00:01:34.720 And so this Calgary Herald headline read,

00:01:37.980 Why I voted for zoning changes,

00:01:40.180 Mayor says it was key to creating more diverse housing.

00:01:43.180 And I said,

00:01:44.080 Diverse housing means smaller homes not to fit to raise a family.

00:01:47.700 Fact check true.

00:01:48.740 That really is what's going on here.

00:01:51.380 Instead of getting control of immigration, 0.99

00:01:53.360 I know the city of Calgary and no province in Canada has control over that,

00:01:57.880 but obviously that's the real issue here.

00:02:00.260 And the reason Trudeau and the liberals are effectively handing out bribes to do mass densification

00:02:05.860 is to basically overcome the immigration problem they've caused 0.99

00:02:09.860 without having to touch the immigration issue.

00:02:12.560 They aren't actually going to solve anything like this.

00:02:14.900 This is a purely band-aid solution on a quickly bleeding issue.

00:02:19.860 But anyways,

00:02:20.660 I want to get to the response because it was crazy how many people got like offended by that.

00:02:24.980 There was like 80 replies and like 12 quote tweets and people saying,

00:02:29.260 the silliest things possible.

00:02:30.880 And I want to go over some of that with you today.

00:02:33.220 So this guy right here says,

00:02:35.240 because families have so many great options now,

00:02:38.400 grow up Wyatt.

00:02:39.580 Yeah.

00:02:39.920 Families don't have a lot of great options.

00:02:41.840 Do you know why?

00:02:42.980 It's because of immigration.

00:02:44.720 It's because 50 people are competing over every property on the market.

00:02:49.040 So there are no good options and they're all unaffordable.

00:02:52.080 Do you think if you start building six plexes,

00:02:54.340 suddenly they're all going to be offered up on the market for only $200,000?

00:02:58.900 No,

00:02:59.140 it's all still going to be pretty expensive.

00:03:00.960 And you're going to be paying way more per square foot that you have.

00:03:04.760 But all these people were like,

00:03:06.340 as I go on upset with my idea that you can't raise a family in a six plex.

00:03:10.940 Again,

00:03:11.480 you can't,

00:03:12.320 you really can't.

00:03:13.020 They can come up with any sort of backwards logic possible to make it seem like I am just

00:03:17.960 hyper privileged.

00:03:18.720 And you must be just so like exorbitantly rich that you think everyone needs 6,000 square feet.

00:03:25.240 Obviously not.

00:03:26.060 But people need more than 500 square feet.

00:03:28.220 Can we all agree?

00:03:29.100 That's a hyperbolic example.

00:03:30.700 But obviously there is such thing as too little.

00:03:32.560 And there is such a thing as way more than you need.

00:03:35.560 Not that people shouldn't be like divested their property,

00:03:37.760 but you get my point.

00:03:38.660 Some people do live in houses where there's like three rooms that they haven't even gone

00:03:42.240 into in the last year.

00:03:43.320 It's just surely there's just that much room.

00:03:46.300 But going on to another person,

00:03:47.740 this person named Orangely says,

00:03:49.500 townhouses and mixed zoning exist.

00:03:51.600 And many folks who are just couples or single need homes too.

00:03:55.000 Well,

00:03:55.400 if people are couples,

00:03:56.820 eventually you would assume they're going to have kids.

00:03:59.160 And the problem is if we keep building housing for people who are only single individuals or 0.80

00:04:04.280 couples,

00:04:04.780 we're going to have a big demographic issue where people don't feel comfortable having two kids when 0.91

00:04:10.080 they don't have that much space to go with.

00:04:12.440 And yes,

00:04:13.040 you can make it work.

00:04:13.960 And maybe it's a good idea for people to just make it work.

00:04:16.600 But I'm talking about the normal psychology of most people who don't,

00:04:20.320 while living in a sixplex or a quadruplex or whatever,

00:04:23.440 don't want to have four kids when they don't even really have a backyard.

00:04:26.940 And that's the thing with the rezoning too,

00:04:28.500 is that so many houses and so many properties are just not going to have yards at all.

00:04:32.620 And densification brings crime.

00:04:34.280 So you're not just going to kick the kids out of the house and say,

00:04:36.600 yes,

00:04:36.820 go play down the street next to,

00:04:38.340 you know, 0.53

00:04:38.580 the crack addict.

00:04:40.180 Here's another person,

00:04:41.520 quite insulting to millions of Canadians who,

00:04:43.900 raise their families in non-detached housing.

00:04:46.080 Well,

00:04:46.280 most people do raise their families in detached housing.

00:04:49.280 So I don't know like what you're saying here.

00:04:52.760 It's pretty standard that people wanted to detached house that they have a larger family.

00:04:57.080 And this,

00:04:57.620 they go on to say,

00:04:58.220 I thought conservatives want limited government.

00:05:00.800 Turns out they only want to limit your property rights and your rights to choose which housing options suit your needs best.

00:05:07.320 To be fair,

00:05:08.400 an apartment doesn't suit the needs of a family as well as a detached house where you have a lot more room.

00:05:14.940 And the idea that conservatives want to limit your property rights because they oppose blanket rezoning.

00:05:20.160 Like,

00:05:20.340 no,

00:05:20.500 no,

00:05:20.580 no,

00:05:21.060 no.

00:05:21.700 Actually,

00:05:22.260 what I want to do is I want to,

00:05:24.420 you know,

00:05:25.160 actually fulfill the promise that was made to people when they bought in these residential communities that were supposed to all be detached single family homes.

00:05:34.120 It's pulling the carpet out from under people that when they bought into a community for $750,000 for a house that seven years later city council is just like,

00:05:43.140 oh yeah,

00:05:43.440 there's now duplexes and triplexes and sixplexes in your neighborhood.

00:05:47.040 And we also got rid of half the soccer fields because we need to build more housing in there and we need to build affordable housing projects and whatnot.

00:05:55.860 Obviously that is wrong.

00:05:58.380 And we are,

00:05:59.240 we are fulfilling the promise to people and we are protecting their property rights that when they purchased in an area under the guise that it was going to remain a certain way,

00:06:08.640 that it should remain a certain way there.

00:06:11.020 Here's another one.

00:06:11.980 Matt spoke and I want to get to something else he tweeted later.

00:06:14.360 I don't have a screenshot of it right now,

00:06:16.560 but it was hilarious.

00:06:17.760 He said,

00:06:18.380 the CPC needs to filter out these anti housing candidates.

00:06:22.240 Now,

00:06:22.940 none of your business,

00:06:23.840 what size people choose to raise a family in.

00:06:25.980 We need all types of housing and a lot more of it.

00:06:29.680 All types of housing.

00:06:30.980 I agree that it would be good to have more housing than less,

00:06:33.920 but we're acting like it's either more housing or not more housing and more housing includes sixplexes and more condominiums and whatnot.

00:06:42.280 Like,

00:06:42.480 no,

00:06:42.620 no,

00:06:42.720 no.

00:06:43.240 We could do single family detached houses and still increase the housing supply because we could lower taxes,

00:06:49.540 make it easier to build.

00:06:50.820 We could lower immigration. 0.96

00:06:52.240 We could do a lot of things to get more people into houses,

00:06:54.600 but everyone wants to pretend that,

00:06:56.820 oh,

00:06:57.120 you don't want sixplexes on your,

00:06:59.440 on your block.

00:07:00.480 You don't want there to be not be enough like parking spots for everyone in your neighborhood.

00:07:04.960 Well,

00:07:05.240 you just must hate people and you don't like housing.

00:07:07.480 Oh,

00:07:07.600 people can choose to raise a family in any size home they want.

00:07:10.920 Sure.

00:07:11.600 But most people will want a little bit more room.

00:07:14.500 People will tell you that they will not have more kids because we just don't have the space for it.

00:07:18.740 We just don't think we can upscale.

00:07:21.680 And yes,

00:07:22.160 there are families where they'll like,

00:07:23.380 they'll put another cot in another room with a,

00:07:25.220 with their other child.

00:07:26.680 And that works,

00:07:27.860 but most people want to avoid that.

00:07:30.380 But this Matt spoke guy,

00:07:32.060 it was funny because when I checked his timeline,

00:07:34.440 right after he had posted this about me,

00:07:37.020 his next tweet was talk,

00:07:38.560 was defending foreign buyers coming in and buying up expensive houses.

00:07:43.880 Well,

00:07:43.980 I want to say expensive houses.

00:07:45.060 I mean normal houses,

00:07:46.360 but they offer massive amounts of money and can outbid everyone.

00:07:48.980 And he's saying it was a healthy part of the housing market to have people coming in from overseas to purchase up properties that they don't even live in because it incentivizes construction.

00:07:59.020 We're already at construction capacity.

00:08:01.680 There's like a two,

00:08:02.560 three year waiting list.

00:08:04.120 If you purchased in a new area and they haven't built your house yet,

00:08:07.600 you've just basically bought the lot on the promise.

00:08:09.860 There'll be a house there.

00:08:10.500 There's property developers who are still have three or four years until they're actually building houses that they already promised to people to build this year.

00:08:20.080 And so,

00:08:20.400 no,

00:08:20.640 it's not for,

00:08:21.480 there's actually already enough incentives to build houses right now because of how much you can sell them for foreign buyers are just overheating an overly,

00:08:29.800 an already overheated market.

00:08:31.360 And the great thing is we wouldn't actually have to worry about foreign buyers if we had a lower immigration rate because we wouldn't have domestically inorganically higher like demand on houses.

00:08:42.480 We would just have normal rates of demand and then there would be some foreign buyers because foreign buyers are a small sliver of the issue.

00:08:48.720 But him then pretending that foreign buyers are totally cool buying up houses that they don't even live in in a housing crisis at the same time that he's mad at me for not wanting blanket rezoning and sticking people in tiny slivers of houses.

00:09:03.300 And then we see this lady, 1.00

00:09:05.580 Brianna,

00:09:06.040 Brianna Anna or whatever.

00:09:07.860 Apparently,

00:09:08.380 Wyatt now measures whether we can fit,

00:09:10.460 we are fit to raise families based on square footage.

00:09:13.520 Families in apartments are in apparent not fit housing.

00:09:17.120 They're not.

00:09:18.240 And when I say that,

00:09:19.080 it's not because you can't raise a family in an apartment.

00:09:21.100 You can 100% raise a family successfully in any type of housing.

00:09:25.600 But in general,

00:09:26.500 it doesn't make a great incentive to have a family if you live in a cramped apartment.

00:09:30.920 This was a reply under my original post.

00:09:33.960 Maybe I can even go down and find it.

00:09:35.600 I thought it was very insightful in the wrong way.

00:09:40.100 So here this one is because this was very much the apartment point.

00:09:44.760 This guy,

00:09:45.660 Cherry Red Toes,

00:09:47.180 said,

00:09:47.680 when I lived in Korea,

00:09:48.880 literally all my students lived in apartments.

00:09:51.140 They were mostly rich kids too.

00:09:52.820 In fact,

00:09:53.240 I never saw one single family detached home.

00:09:55.840 And my city was full of families with kids.

00:09:57.820 Go figure.

00:09:59.040 Interesting example to bring up South Korea.

00:10:01.500 I assume he didn't mean North Korea.

00:10:03.640 Interesting to bring up South Korea,

00:10:05.340 considering South Korea literally has the lowest birth rate of any country on the planet throughout history.

00:10:12.900 The birth rate in South Korea,

00:10:16.720 or I think it's technically fertility rate,

00:10:19.120 is 0.8.

00:10:21.020 0.8.

00:10:21.720 And replacement rate is 2.3.

00:10:24.100 Their birth rate is 0.8.

00:10:26.540 That is just backing me up.

00:10:28.820 He is literally citing an example that proves my point.

00:10:32.480 That when everyone lives in cramped apartments,

00:10:34.980 there's not a lot of incentives to raise families.

00:10:37.540 And he's like a teacher.

00:10:39.360 He's like,

00:10:39.840 I bumped into families all the time.

00:10:41.860 Maybe that has to do with the fact that you teach kids,

00:10:44.820 that you bump into a lot of families.

00:10:47.020 Most people in South Korea don't have families.

00:10:49.640 And it's a really big problem these days.

00:10:51.860 And if I was advising the South Korean government,

00:10:54.200 I would try and diversify the housing towards single family detached homes,

00:10:58.040 and towards housing models that give people yards,

00:11:01.400 and let people actually have space to raise kids,

00:11:04.440 not simply in a corridor on the 15th floor of a skyscraper.

00:11:09.660 And now we have Dennis here.

00:11:12.020 He's saying,

00:11:12.980 LMAO,

00:11:13.800 the mask is off.

00:11:15.160 Watch Polyev do literally none of the housing reforms he promised in that video a few months back.

00:11:19.980 He's still going to do them.

00:11:21.360 He still is going to incentivize more building in the cities.

00:11:24.860 And Polyev has gone after cities for doing this blanket rezoning,

00:11:29.080 because it's building poorer quality housing,

00:11:31.220 not more high quality housing.

00:11:33.400 We can do more high quality housing and make it work.

00:11:35.940 It's not like it's,

00:11:36.780 oh,

00:11:36.820 but it will take a few more years.

00:11:38.200 If we reduce immigration, 0.99

00:11:39.720 as Polyev has said,

00:11:40.820 because he says that immigration rates should be in line with housing rates.

00:11:44.700 And if we were to do that,

00:11:45.640 we would be cutting it down probably about two thirds for the next several years.

00:11:49.660 We'd significantly reduce immigration. 0.99

00:11:51.820 And then we could build larger homes.

00:11:53.820 That's why Polyev back in the day criticized those really tiny houses in cities that were going for $600,000.

00:12:00.440 Because it's not just that the houses in those cities weren't being built fast enough.

00:12:04.400 We actually build houses pretty fast in Canada.

00:12:06.500 In the G7,

00:12:07.360 we are the fastest country for building houses.

00:12:10.300 And his problem with when he saw these tiny shacks going for $600,000, 0.98

00:12:14.380 and it's basically just a few rooms,

00:12:16.620 that his problem wasn't just that we need to build more and tear this down and build something larger.

00:12:20.600 His problem was is that the restrictive way we do housing in cities and blanket rezoning does not change it.

00:12:26.760 It still takes forever to build a house.

00:12:28.940 It just makes it slightly more worth it for a developer if they can build a bigger building,

00:12:32.940 rather than having to build a smaller house for only just one family.

00:12:36.740 They can build a sixplex and all the paperwork becomes a little bit more worth it to do.

00:12:41.340 But Polyev actually wants people to live in larger houses so that you can prioritize family and actually build larger families.

00:12:49.360 And here's this guy, Kirsch.

00:12:51.360 Not everyone has a family, Wyatt.

00:12:54.200 Okay, what does that point even mean?

00:12:56.520 People don't have families.

00:12:58.060 Got it.

00:12:58.700 You know, some people,

00:12:59.560 the sky's blue most of the day, man, too.

00:13:02.300 Some people just need places to live.

00:13:04.400 And having a family shouldn't be a prerequisite to that.

00:13:06.960 I thought all these people were the people thinking we need more immigrants in this country because people don't have enough kids and we need workers.

00:13:15.000 And then at the same time, they're like, not everyone has a family, Wyatt.

00:13:18.820 We shouldn't build houses just because we need to be suiting them towards, like, family growth.

00:13:24.260 Well, what hypocrisy is this?

00:13:27.520 Do you guys not want larger families?

00:13:29.540 Because if you don't, well, that's just weird that you then also want high immigration because that whole point of higher immigration is to solve or to help solve the labor shortage.

00:13:40.720 But then they, like, so new immigrant families, how are people who actually have four or five kids, because people overseas, foreigners tend to have more kids than Canadians do.

00:13:49.980 How are they supposed to live comfortably in this country?

00:13:52.840 They have four or five kids.

00:13:53.860 They're moving into a sixplex.

00:13:55.080 And I looked it up.

00:13:56.620 The normal sixplex, the average sixplex, so they do get smaller and they do get a little bit bigger, but on average, a sixplex has less than a thousand square feet of room.

00:14:07.280 And yes, square footage at some point does matter.

00:14:09.900 And somebody says, well, I remember growing up, people would have six kids and they only had 1,500 square feet in their farmhouse.

00:14:18.020 I'm like, wow, that's interesting.

00:14:20.980 Notice how you said farmhouse, implying there's a farm, implying that these people have a lot of space.

00:14:27.920 And so their kids don't have to be inside all day long because they don't live in a potentially crime-ridden urban center in a tiny house.

00:14:35.420 And they don't have to worry about their kids going outside.

00:14:38.000 1,500 square feet is also nothing to sneeze at.

00:14:40.620 1,500 square feet is pretty good.

00:14:42.140 If anything, they're privileged for thinking that that's like a small house to use to dunk on me.

00:14:47.920 The problem is, it's like housing houses, like the size of a house that you would need for a larger family.

00:14:53.300 It's not like linear that for just two people, you need 1,000 square feet.

00:14:57.080 But after each kid needs another 300 square feet, like, no, it's just to have a family.

00:15:01.760 You probably want 1,500 square feet or 1,600 square feet or something like that at a general average.

00:15:07.360 1,000, under 1,000, 800 square feet, 900 square feet in a sixplex where you have people on potentially both sides of you on either side of the wall.

00:15:16.800 Maybe you don't want five kids in that situation, but this is blowing people's minds. 0.90

00:15:22.000 I'm ignorant. 0.78

00:15:22.780 I'm privileged. 0.98

00:15:23.540 I don't understand or whatever.

00:15:25.820 I do.

00:15:26.480 You guys are just insecure about the fact that your housing policy is deeply unpopular.

00:15:31.100 And so you're finding me to, like, dunk on me and ratio me because I guess that means I'm wrong. 1.00

00:15:35.980 I made a perfectly coherent point, and then people had to read lore into what I said in order to pretend that I was saying something radical, like, oh, if you live in a small apartment, you're scum. 0.99

00:15:46.400 Obviously not. 0.98

00:15:47.440 That was not said by anybody.

00:15:49.200 But liberals need to tell you what you said in order to actually be able to win the argument, a tactic called a straw man, and I don't engage with stuff like that.

00:15:59.040 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.

00:16:01.240 Just want to quickly plug my legal defense fund.

00:16:04.660 If you guys want to contribute to that, it would have really helped me out.

00:16:07.820 We have more than $29,000 in costs with this billionaire developer, ironically enough, to the topic of this video.

00:16:13.900 He's suing us for defamation.

00:16:15.500 And in over two and a half years, has still not provided any evidence that we defamed him.

00:16:19.580 Our article that mentioned him literally just hyperlinked to an investigative article about him from the Globe and Mail.

00:16:24.800 And we effectively said nothing new about him at all.

00:16:27.780 And when I say effectively we said nothing new, the only thing we added was a donation record to a leadership candidate, and that was it.

00:16:34.820 So if you go to the Give, Send, Go link in the description below, you can donate anything to help reduce the burden of costs on me.

00:16:40.940 And then the TNT Telegram channel link is also down there.

00:16:43.980 And if you live in the riding of Calgary Signal Hill on the west side of Calgary, remember, mark me number one on your ballot in this area.

00:16:52.080 The membership or the voting date hasn't been called yet.

00:16:54.660 Membership deadline passed already, but we don't know when the vote will happen.

00:16:58.740 But if you live there and you have a membership that's active, vote me number one on your ballot.

00:17:03.060 Vote Michael Kim number two.

00:17:04.680 Let's make sure we actually have real conservatives representing these strong conservative ridings. 0.63

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 21, 2024

Liberals have social media tantrum over a single sentence!

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