The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 31, 2025


NDP pathetic attempt to attack Danielle Smith FAILS entirely!


Episode Stats

Length

20 minutes

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169.51157

Word Count

3,393

Sentence Count

199

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

The Alberta Teacher Strike has to be one of the most overblown Canadian political issues of the decade so far. This entire situation has nothing to do with teachers, it has nothing do with parents or classroom sizes, and it has everything do with the left trying to get rid of Premier Danielle Smith.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.
00:00:02.960 The Alberta teacher strike has to be one of the most overblown Canadian political issues this decade so far.
00:00:10.660 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, despite media reporting and what the Alberta NDP says, has been doing an excellent job.
00:00:18.640 She gave a very generous offer to the Alberta Teachers Association that they rejected twice
00:00:24.720 and pretended that she was being very mean to them because she didn't give them even more.
00:00:30.000 This entire situation has nothing to do with teachers, it has nothing to do with students,
00:00:34.540 and it has nothing to do with parents or classroom sizes.
00:00:38.160 This has to do with the left trying to get Danielle Smith.
00:00:42.620 They have no leg to stand on, but they are just using the idea of teacher striking in order to put pressure on Danielle Smith
00:00:50.900 or try and smear her reputation in front of the public.
00:00:54.520 Remember, the media, the NDP, and especially the unions will never say that any concessions are too much for the teachers.
00:01:03.500 I would even say the UCP probably offered more than they had to to the teachers for what would qualify as a reasonable offer.
00:01:10.420 The Alberta government offered the ATA a 12% raise over the next four years, which would actually be 17% for some teachers
00:01:21.320 because of the way that changes would be made to the wage brackets, to the salary brackets.
00:01:26.520 And they were also going to add 3,000 new teachers over the next several years and 1,500 teacher or classroom assistants.
00:01:35.860 This would have taken care of any wage concerns that the teachers union would have had,
00:01:42.040 and it was going to reduce classroom sizes as well as deal with the issue of classroom complexity
00:01:47.780 from kids with special needs or who have English as a second language.
00:01:52.540 The ATA rejected that offer twice, and they pretend that because Smith gave it to them a second time,
00:01:57.960 the exact same offer, that was somehow an insult.
00:02:00.040 It was more than generous.
00:02:01.540 In fact, she could have probably given them about an 8% wage increase, and I think that would have been enough.
00:02:06.960 But the ATA, again, is not in the business of actually trying to get to a real deal.
00:02:11.460 They are in the business of trying to hurt Daniel Smith and help Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi.
00:02:17.560 I want to take you guys through some of the messaging the NDP have been doing,
00:02:21.740 as well as what the Alberta government has been doing, because this has been such a stupid situation.
00:02:28.420 I also want to talk about some of the media and commentators talking about this issue,
00:02:32.760 and just how blatantly hacky many of them are being.
00:02:37.020 But before we get into it, I just want to remind you guys, especially if you live in Alberta,
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00:03:01.280 But anyways, let's check out first this advertisement by the Alberta NDP trying to,
00:03:07.820 I don't even know what they're trying to do with this video.
00:03:11.380 Again, make Daniel Smith look bad.
00:03:13.540 Make it look like, you know, they're standing with teachers
00:03:16.220 and against the authoritarian government trying to make them, you know, do their jobs.
00:03:21.740 Look at this.
00:03:24.540 I have never seen this many people on the grounds of the legislature.
00:03:29.280 This government is attacking teachers.
00:03:32.080 It's attacking parents.
00:03:33.620 It's attacking workers and their unions.
00:03:35.920 And it's attacking public education.
00:03:38.400 Daniel.
00:03:38.980 How is it attacking public education?
00:03:41.080 By making teachers educate children.
00:03:43.560 They are attacking public education.
00:03:45.600 How are they attacking teachers?
00:03:47.100 They give an extremely generous offer, both on wages,
00:03:49.520 as well as trying to alleviate issues in the classroom.
00:03:52.860 It's almost like they haven't done anything wrong,
00:03:55.980 but Nenshi has absolutely nothing to run on right now
00:03:58.800 because Daniel Smith, on pretty much every front, has been doing a very good job.
00:04:03.260 Yeah, there's many scandals here and there
00:04:05.060 that's kind of being expected in every government.
00:04:07.980 And their scandals are, in fact, smaller than the previous NDP government scandals,
00:04:12.400 as well as smaller than pretty much every other province's current issues.
00:04:16.020 And, but they're trying to make this seem like,
00:04:19.840 oh my goodness,
00:04:21.260 why isn't the UCP, like, I guess, defunding private education
00:04:26.200 to pour it even more into public?
00:04:28.340 Alberta, in fact, does have some of the lowest
00:04:30.720 per capita spending on the education system,
00:04:33.640 but that also isn't shocking.
00:04:35.460 We have the lowest, the lowest, the average age of any province,
00:04:40.460 so naturally you're going to have a lot more students.
00:04:42.440 And money does not equal quality.
00:04:44.240 In fact, Alberta, with some of the lowest per capita spending,
00:04:48.360 has the best outcomes as well,
00:04:50.360 has the best achievement rates, has the best test scores.
00:04:53.740 So who cares?
00:04:55.380 And the Alberta government is adding more money to the system.
00:04:58.240 So these people have no leg to stand on.
00:05:00.180 They're only, again, all of this is,
00:05:02.940 is trying to make Daniel Smith look bad.
00:05:04.740 Daniel Smith engineered this strike.
00:05:06.780 Danielle Smith...
00:05:07.620 Oh, she engineered this strike by giving a generous offer
00:05:10.820 and Jason Schilling at the ATA, which is a great last name for a man like him.
00:05:14.840 That NDP Schill, Jason Schilling, rejected it twice
00:05:18.520 and then pretended that somehow he had been, like, hard done.
00:05:21.600 ...fought public education her entire career.
00:05:24.740 These folks, these Albertans and Albertans across the province
00:05:28.000 aren't going to stand for it anymore.
00:05:32.320 We stand with teachers, we stand with parents,
00:05:36.080 we stand with students, we stand with workers in their unions,
00:05:39.340 and most important, we stand for public education.
00:05:43.660 I don't know what this music is as well.
00:05:46.280 What is this for, like, a video about public education?
00:05:50.820 Sounds like John Wick's about to, like,
00:05:52.420 step in from the side of the frame and start gunning people down.
00:05:54.700 There is zero substance to this.
00:06:04.760 Did you understand how the deals the UCP government
00:06:07.620 was putting in front of the ATA were unfair?
00:06:09.900 Well, they don't address it,
00:06:10.880 because if the NDP were to address what was offered,
00:06:13.800 they would look like complete morons right now.
00:06:17.300 At the end of...
00:06:17.880 It's so dumb what's been going on.
00:06:21.640 So, the Alberta government has now passed Bill 2,
00:06:25.640 which is get-back-to-work legislation,
00:06:28.160 and the NDP is acting like somehow this is a...
00:06:32.940 some, like, an affront to teachers.
00:06:35.200 It's an affront to the education system.
00:06:37.820 I think Danielle Smith does a good job of defending herself on this one,
00:06:41.060 and she says,
00:06:42.020 With the passing of Bill 2, the Back to School Act,
00:06:45.500 Alberta students will return to the classroom on October 29th,
00:06:48.680 ending disruption for families
00:06:50.080 and putting the folks back where it belongs on students.
00:06:53.360 Teachers have made it clear that classroom complexity and safety
00:06:56.460 are among the most critical challenges in our education system.
00:07:00.800 We are strengthening classroom supports,
00:07:02.400 hiring 3,000 new teachers and 1,500 education assistants,
00:07:05.740 and acting on the recommendations of the
00:07:07.860 Aggression and Complexity in School Action Team.
00:07:10.700 We will continue to work with teachers
00:07:12.880 and find lasting, practical solutions
00:07:15.040 so every educator has the support they need
00:07:17.300 and every student can learn in a safe, supportive environment.
00:07:20.080 Parents, teachers, and students
00:07:21.920 all want the same thing in classrooms
00:07:23.640 where every child can succeed.
00:07:25.380 And I've seen some polling out there
00:07:27.080 that says,
00:07:28.400 Oh, look.
00:07:29.620 Albertans stand with teachers, not the government.
00:07:32.240 That's because most people don't know what the issue is
00:07:34.520 and probably don't actually care.
00:07:36.780 I've been talking to some UCP MLAs.
00:07:38.980 They say that they frankly don't get a lot of emails
00:07:42.160 from parents mad at them.
00:07:44.160 You know, you'll get some form letters from teachers
00:07:46.360 where it's obviously just an ATA union person
00:07:49.000 trying to put pressure on you
00:07:51.040 to break and give them what they want,
00:07:53.520 which is just unreasonable.
00:07:55.380 Again, the Alberta government was already
00:07:57.000 giving 12% salary increases over the next four years,
00:08:00.440 and they were looking for like 17% or whatever,
00:08:03.900 and then they wanted even more teachers.
00:08:05.520 The government is giving an absolutely fine offer.
00:08:10.740 And the polling doesn't actually reflect the fact
00:08:13.220 that most people don't care,
00:08:15.000 and that whenever this issue is actually explained to people,
00:08:19.260 they do not actually believe
00:08:20.860 that the government is acting in an underhanded way.
00:08:24.460 They're not acting unfair.
00:08:26.380 The teachers have actually had a very difficult time
00:08:28.900 getting traction in the media
00:08:30.520 because their own people are deeply incompetent at messaging.
00:08:33.840 In fact, the ATA, when all this broke out,
00:08:36.720 went to a spa in Kananaskis
00:08:38.520 to discuss what their next moves were going to be.
00:08:41.360 Yes, very, very proletary to them.
00:08:44.940 I think this article from Isaac Lamoureux at Juno News
00:08:48.240 does a good job of summing it up,
00:08:49.960 and this is from back on October 6th,
00:08:52.320 and it says,
00:08:52.780 Alberta Teachers Launch Historic Strike
00:08:54.500 with Few Clear Demands.
00:08:57.420 Alberta Teachers Association President Jason Schilling
00:09:00.320 concluded a Monday press conference
00:09:02.240 without providing a specific number
00:09:03.840 on what would end the province-wide teacher strike.
00:09:06.960 Instead, he repeated broad themes
00:09:08.400 of chronic underfunding,
00:09:09.700 complex classrooms, and fair pay.
00:09:12.000 This strike is not about wages, said Schilling.
00:09:14.540 This strike is about the state of public education in Alberta.
00:09:17.460 The government says they don't know what teachers want.
00:09:19.660 Well, yesterday, tens of thousands of Albertans
00:09:21.800 across the province shared once again what teachers want.
00:09:24.760 Teachers, student ratios,
00:09:26.240 support for complex classrooms, and fair pay.
00:09:28.780 The problem is that's what they gave them,
00:09:31.460 and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation,
00:09:33.500 as you can see here,
00:09:34.600 literally showed what teachers would be making
00:09:36.720 under this new plan.
00:09:38.780 You have four years of teaching education,
00:09:40.800 five years of education,
00:09:41.980 six years of education,
00:09:43.060 with the years of experience
00:09:44.640 showing how much you will make each year
00:09:46.980 over time with the new pay scale.
00:09:51.180 You will be making six figures
00:09:52.900 after six years of education,
00:09:55.820 like six years in the classroom,
00:09:58.160 if you have five or six years of teacher education.
00:10:02.240 This is an extremely fair offer by the government,
00:10:05.340 but apparently it needs to be even more,
00:10:07.440 and the pay's not fair enough,
00:10:08.580 the classrooms are still too complex,
00:10:10.040 even though they're offering supports.
00:10:12.760 Again, this is all about
00:10:14.620 trying to make the NDP look good.
00:10:17.900 It's trying to damage Danielle Smith
00:10:19.540 by just causing a big ruckus over the idea
00:10:22.600 that somehow, I don't even know,
00:10:25.640 that somehow people are being hard done
00:10:27.420 because a strike's going on.
00:10:28.480 A strike's going on,
00:10:29.380 the premier must have done something wrong.
00:10:31.180 It's pathetic.
00:10:32.680 So now I just want to move on
00:10:34.440 to something that someone posted
00:10:36.660 in the midst of all this
00:10:37.880 that I found absolutely ridiculous.
00:10:41.440 We need to look at this post
00:10:42.660 from someone I've actually taken classes
00:10:44.980 from in the past.
00:10:46.460 Don, Dwayne Bratt,
00:10:49.360 and he kind of got roasted for this post
00:10:51.040 and it's because it exposes so
00:10:53.060 how just sleazy the narrative
00:10:55.160 against Danielle Smith is.
00:10:57.300 Dwayne Bratt here,
00:10:58.660 a professor at Mount Royal University
00:11:00.540 as well as the U of C,
00:11:02.420 says,
00:11:02.780 Don Getty on the golf course
00:11:04.180 as the principal group collapses,
00:11:07.060 Jason Kenney drinking at the Sky Palace
00:11:08.840 during COVID,
00:11:09.860 Danielle Smith in the airport lounge
00:11:12.220 while taking away teachers' charter rights.
00:11:14.860 Yes, she's taking away their charter rights
00:11:17.140 because they can't strike indefinitely.
00:11:19.280 And he's trying to paint a picture
00:11:20.580 of luxury.
00:11:22.580 Luxury.
00:11:23.380 As Danielle Smith is just waiting for a flight,
00:11:26.000 obviously going to be in a lounge,
00:11:27.940 not in just sitting in the general public's waiting area
00:11:30.600 because she's the premier, frankly.
00:11:32.860 He's trying to make fetch happen.
00:11:35.080 And sorry, Dwayne,
00:11:36.580 fetch is not going to happen here.
00:11:38.480 She looks tired.
00:11:40.920 And you're trying to make this
00:11:42.040 a thing about how,
00:11:43.440 oh, look at her,
00:11:44.460 looking down on all the small people
00:11:46.740 while she takes away their charter rights
00:11:48.620 to just not work.
00:11:51.360 You signed up to be a public school teacher.
00:11:54.580 I'm sorry that being a public school teacher
00:11:57.180 is going to be part of the job description.
00:11:59.620 You don't get to just strike indefinitely
00:12:02.120 until you get what you want,
00:12:03.500 especially when the government
00:12:04.860 has given you a very reasonable offer.
00:12:09.280 But as you can look at
00:12:11.640 in the replies of this post,
00:12:13.380 it didn't go very well.
00:12:14.380 This guy, Blasey, here says,
00:12:17.340 I don't know, man.
00:12:18.360 Spending the evening in the airport lounge
00:12:20.200 before an eight-hour flight,
00:12:22.900 eight-hour commercial flight
00:12:25.240 to deal with oil barons in the Middle East
00:12:27.260 doesn't really scream opulence
00:12:28.740 or dereliction to me.
00:12:30.640 Seems like she's still got a long day ahead of her.
00:12:34.380 Yeah, so this is a really good post
00:12:37.140 by Marty up north here,
00:12:38.860 Marty Bellinger.
00:12:40.520 And he says,
00:12:41.080 hey, Duane,
00:12:41.880 where was your outrage
00:12:43.820 when the ATA was hanging out in Kananascus
00:12:46.420 while kids were locked out of school?
00:12:48.600 Because this is something
00:12:49.420 that Great Northern Discussions had posted.
00:12:51.660 Spa at Kananascus Lodge,
00:12:53.660 Nordic Spa today.
00:12:55.040 Alberta Teachers Association
00:12:56.360 goes to spa to hammer out a deal.
00:12:59.200 And this is something that actually happened.
00:13:00.720 They were at a spa
00:13:01.700 and the teachers' union bosses
00:13:03.440 were out there,
00:13:05.720 you know,
00:13:06.300 living it up,
00:13:07.440 figuring out what their next moves
00:13:08.780 were going to be,
00:13:09.440 apparently,
00:13:09.980 to try and get teachers paid better
00:13:11.940 and to get fair wages and whatnot.
00:13:15.000 These people are just hacks
00:13:17.520 if they actually think
00:13:18.860 that Daniel Smith
00:13:19.780 is having a Sky Palace moment here.
00:13:23.120 They are so desperate
00:13:24.520 to make fetch happen here.
00:13:26.100 I love this headline
00:13:28.580 because of how dramatic it is.
00:13:31.040 Look at this one
00:13:31.840 from the Calgary Herald.
00:13:34.460 A very dark day for education.
00:13:36.960 Teachers' parents worry
00:13:38.100 over provinces'
00:13:38.940 back-to-work legislation.
00:13:40.640 Worry about it?
00:13:41.680 You mean a child
00:13:42.400 might actually get educated?
00:13:43.880 Oh, yes.
00:13:44.580 Very, very big things
00:13:45.840 to worry about.
00:13:46.840 I can't believe
00:13:48.000 that people can even
00:13:48.880 survive
00:13:49.740 with all of the
00:13:50.860 I guess
00:13:55.000 the attack
00:13:56.540 on education.
00:13:57.580 We even have
00:13:58.500 a supposed conservative,
00:14:00.060 but he's starting up
00:14:00.860 the new
00:14:01.440 Progressive Conservative Party,
00:14:03.240 Pete Guthrie here,
00:14:04.740 trying to attack
00:14:05.360 the government on this.
00:14:06.860 He's joined
00:14:07.780 with Scott Sinclair
00:14:08.760 and they're taking over
00:14:09.820 the Alberta Party
00:14:10.660 and trying to change his name
00:14:11.780 to the Progressive Conservatives.
00:14:13.620 And they've just moved left.
00:14:16.280 There's no way
00:14:16.980 of saying this.
00:14:17.540 They are not moving,
00:14:18.760 they're not joining
00:14:19.380 the Alberta Party
00:14:20.140 and trying to restart
00:14:21.080 the Progressive Conservatives
00:14:22.140 out of any principled stance
00:14:23.560 against the government.
00:14:24.800 They are just hacks.
00:14:26.540 They also don't like
00:14:27.500 Daniel Smith,
00:14:28.120 so they're literally using
00:14:29.240 NDP talking points
00:14:30.400 to attack her.
00:14:32.060 Honorable member
00:14:33.060 from Airdrie Cocker.
00:14:35.960 Mr. Speaker,
00:14:37.280 today I rise
00:14:38.040 to oppose
00:14:38.600 this UCP government's
00:14:39.760 decision to legislate
00:14:40.820 Alberta teachers
00:14:41.560 back to work.
00:14:42.520 A decision that
00:14:43.700 abandons fairness,
00:14:45.480 erodes trust,
00:14:46.700 and deepens the issues
00:14:48.160 in our education system.
00:14:50.020 Teachers didn't choose
00:14:51.280 this fight.
00:14:52.280 They were pushed into it
00:14:53.400 by overcrowded classrooms,
00:14:55.460 unsupported students,
00:14:56.740 and by a government
00:14:57.760 that treats education
00:14:59.000 as a political arena
00:15:00.640 instead of a trusted institution.
00:15:03.120 Can we put a missing
00:15:05.180 persons report out
00:15:06.360 for Peter Guthrie?
00:15:07.480 Because apparently
00:15:08.260 he's been abducted
00:15:09.180 by aliens
00:15:09.880 and replaced by this man
00:15:11.540 that's named Peter Guthrie,
00:15:12.820 but does not act
00:15:13.640 like Peter Guthrie.
00:15:15.260 Peter Guthrie was,
00:15:16.300 in fact,
00:15:16.540 the first MLA
00:15:17.400 to endorse Danielle Smith
00:15:18.620 in the UCP leadership race
00:15:20.380 back in 2022,
00:15:21.340 and now he's here
00:15:22.900 limply complaining
00:15:24.520 that she wants
00:15:25.960 teachers to actually teach.
00:15:28.280 Who could have guessed it,
00:15:29.720 Peter,
00:15:30.000 that the government
00:15:30.800 was invested
00:15:31.540 in actually having people
00:15:33.200 do their jobs?
00:15:33.980 Oh, my goodness.
00:15:36.660 Here's another clip
00:15:39.900 of the NDP
00:15:40.980 now trying to go after her.
00:15:42.800 Again, because Danielle Smith
00:15:43.920 is such a mean, mean woman
00:15:45.260 because she wants kids
00:15:46.760 to actually get educated.
00:15:48.200 These people can say
00:15:49.000 that they are standing up
00:15:50.260 for children, too.
00:15:51.280 They are not.
00:15:52.120 They do not care
00:15:53.180 if children are being educated
00:15:54.420 or not.
00:15:54.800 It sounds like the minister
00:15:55.640 once again said
00:15:56.480 that class sizes don't matter.
00:15:57.840 The funny thing
00:15:58.520 about funding
00:15:59.180 the education system properly
00:16:00.420 is so there's enough teachers
00:16:01.760 and EAs to support all students.
00:16:04.080 Well, that's just
00:16:04.580 the UCP's responsibility
00:16:05.640 as government.
00:16:06.580 That's their actual job.
00:16:08.180 Teachers shouldn't have
00:16:09.140 to bargain for the UCP
00:16:10.300 to do their job.
00:16:11.560 Parents shouldn't have to...
00:16:12.600 What are you talking about?
00:16:14.100 This clip might have been
00:16:15.040 a bit quiet,
00:16:15.680 but the teacher shouldn't
00:16:16.860 have to bargain
00:16:17.380 to do their job
00:16:18.440 or for the UCP
00:16:19.360 to do their job.
00:16:20.120 The UCP met
00:16:21.460 every single point
00:16:22.880 that the ATA had asked for
00:16:24.400 and then the ATA is like,
00:16:25.680 oh, my goodness.
00:16:26.780 I can't believe
00:16:27.240 you're not giving us
00:16:27.780 what we want.
00:16:28.300 Like, they literally did.
00:16:29.780 You also have
00:16:30.460 the Alberta Federation
00:16:31.240 of Labour
00:16:32.040 trying to complain
00:16:33.240 about this too,
00:16:34.680 which is literally run
00:16:35.800 by Gil McGowan
00:16:37.120 who ran for the Alberta
00:16:38.580 NDP leadership.
00:16:40.680 This guy is attempting
00:16:42.120 to pretend
00:16:43.460 as if he has
00:16:45.600 any credibility
00:16:46.340 on this issue.
00:16:47.340 He doesn't.
00:16:48.280 Check this out.
00:16:48.960 Gil McGowan
00:16:49.480 speaking on behalf
00:16:51.520 of the Alberta
00:16:51.920 Federation of Labour.
00:16:52.940 She has provided us
00:16:54.320 with a rallying cry.
00:16:56.820 She has now,
00:16:58.080 and we now have
00:16:58.960 one common purpose,
00:17:00.880 and that purpose
00:17:01.860 is to topple
00:17:03.360 this government.
00:17:04.560 Yes.
00:17:14.000 Not just for the sake
00:17:15.440 of the teachers,
00:17:16.360 not just for the sake
00:17:17.600 of bargaining rights,
00:17:19.060 but for the sake
00:17:20.080 of our shared democracy
00:17:21.720 and the future
00:17:22.920 of our province.
00:17:24.880 This should tell you
00:17:26.120 that it's absolutely
00:17:27.980 true when I say this
00:17:28.840 that the left
00:17:30.020 only thinks
00:17:30.880 it's democracy
00:17:31.480 when they win.
00:17:32.920 It's only democracy
00:17:33.900 when the left
00:17:34.500 gets what it wants.
00:17:36.160 So,
00:17:37.000 the Alberta government
00:17:38.180 gives a very generous
00:17:39.860 offering to teachers,
00:17:40.920 twice,
00:17:41.560 gets rejected twice,
00:17:42.960 and that is used
00:17:43.660 to trigger a strike
00:17:44.660 in which
00:17:45.920 they are demanding
00:17:47.100 the very things
00:17:47.880 that the Alberta government
00:17:48.800 was offering.
00:17:50.700 And,
00:17:51.180 apparently,
00:17:51.780 it is a travesty
00:17:52.920 to democracy
00:17:53.720 that Daniel Smith
00:17:55.460 got a little fed up
00:17:56.940 with them
00:17:57.340 and just forced them
00:17:58.560 back to work
00:17:59.180 because,
00:18:00.400 you know what?
00:18:01.080 Do your jobs,
00:18:02.100 whiners.
00:18:02.960 And,
00:18:03.120 she's even throwing
00:18:04.300 in the benefits,
00:18:05.020 too.
00:18:05.140 She's not even
00:18:05.620 taking those away.
00:18:06.680 They still get
00:18:07.240 what she was offering.
00:18:08.380 They just actually
00:18:08.960 have to do their jobs,
00:18:10.100 which is,
00:18:10.560 you know,
00:18:10.780 what a concept.
00:18:11.960 An Alberta teacher
00:18:12.560 should actually teach.
00:18:14.060 And,
00:18:14.260 there are great teachers
00:18:15.300 all across Alberta.
00:18:16.640 Most of the teachers,
00:18:17.560 part of the ATA,
00:18:18.240 because you have
00:18:18.760 to be part of it,
00:18:19.720 are obviously
00:18:20.820 going to be
00:18:21.320 mostly great teachers.
00:18:23.160 But,
00:18:23.540 this is why
00:18:24.220 these unions
00:18:25.220 just need to have
00:18:26.180 all of their power
00:18:27.000 stripped away from them.
00:18:28.140 We need
00:18:28.540 right-to-work legislation
00:18:29.880 that allows teachers
00:18:31.460 to opt out
00:18:32.360 of being part
00:18:33.420 of unions
00:18:34.000 like the ATA
00:18:34.840 because they are
00:18:36.080 worthless front groups
00:18:37.620 for the NDP
00:18:38.420 who don't actually
00:18:39.620 care about the issues
00:18:40.380 they supposedly
00:18:41.020 say they care about.
00:18:42.200 They care about
00:18:43.060 opposing conservatives.
00:18:45.900 Ugh.
00:18:47.020 This is a breath
00:18:47.840 of fresh air.
00:18:48.500 As frustrating
00:18:49.160 as this issue is,
00:18:50.140 the way that
00:18:50.600 Alberta Premier
00:18:51.520 Daniel Smith
00:18:52.040 has been acting
00:18:52.680 is a breath
00:18:53.360 of fresh air
00:18:53.880 because I work
00:18:54.900 as a policy
00:18:55.880 and communications
00:18:56.640 advisor
00:18:57.240 in British Columbia
00:18:58.480 for the 1BC party
00:18:59.740 and we have to deal
00:19:00.900 with a BCNDP
00:19:02.160 government
00:19:02.700 which just gave
00:19:03.920 to the BC
00:19:04.680 General Employees
00:19:05.680 Union
00:19:05.980 for a much
00:19:07.420 bigger wage
00:19:08.220 increase
00:19:08.720 for no reason
00:19:10.840 in particular.
00:19:12.220 The union
00:19:12.980 has never missed
00:19:13.900 a big pay increase
00:19:15.240 in British Columbia
00:19:16.820 and yet
00:19:17.760 we just have
00:19:19.040 to give them more
00:19:19.620 and because
00:19:20.380 it's in a
00:19:21.120 pro-union government
00:19:23.400 they pretend
00:19:24.500 to bargain with them
00:19:25.240 and then just give
00:19:25.780 them everything
00:19:26.180 they want
00:19:26.720 at the same time
00:19:27.560 the private sector
00:19:28.300 is falling apart.
00:19:29.460 It's stupid.
00:19:30.860 It's frustrating.
00:19:32.160 And then you'll have
00:19:32.640 the Green Party
00:19:33.240 come out and say
00:19:33.740 that wasn't enough.
00:19:34.980 You'll even have
00:19:35.360 the BC Conservatives
00:19:36.140 say why isn't
00:19:37.220 the government
00:19:37.720 bargaining with the unions?
00:19:40.140 One BC is the only
00:19:41.040 party saying like
00:19:41.660 hey Conservatives
00:19:42.380 are you not going
00:19:42.920 to be conservative?
00:19:44.040 The union's asking
00:19:45.060 for too much.
00:19:46.020 They should be told
00:19:46.880 to pack sand.
00:19:48.540 Anyways.
00:19:50.260 That should be it
00:19:51.080 for me today guys.
00:19:52.360 Thank you for watching.
00:19:53.500 Good on Daniel Smith
00:19:54.560 for doing the right thing
00:19:55.640 and I hope that she wins
00:19:56.880 the next election.
00:19:58.220 Anyways.
00:19:58.880 With that being said
00:19:59.620 see you guys all later.