The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 14, 2026


Nenshi embarrasses himself with First Nations stunt - Smith UCP leads by +12%


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In this episode of the National Telegraph, Wyatt Claypools his thoughts on the non-confidence motion against the Alberta government by the First Nations. He also takes a look at the recent press conference where Nahid Nengi was heckled by First Nations leaders.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.140 I'm actually just about to go to a 1BC event on Laskini Island, so I'm recording something very early in the morning.
00:00:14.260 And it's good I had to wake up early to do this because it's been too long me putting off making this video,
00:00:21.040 making fun of Alberta NDP leader Nahid Nengi.
00:00:25.380 This man is sweaty and desperate right now.
00:00:29.460 There are rumors that the NDP may have an internal coup to get rid of him, even without actually facing an election.
00:00:36.500 He's been that bad.
00:00:38.020 And so he is throwing out all of the stops, trying to find some angle of attack on Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who overall is doing a good job.
00:00:48.180 Now, I think the deficit was bad.
00:00:50.480 You don't run a $9 billion deficit if you're Alberta.
00:00:54.560 Just cut something.
00:00:55.700 Come on, you're a conservative government.
00:00:57.920 That's my conservative criticism of Daniel Smith right now.
00:01:01.300 But overall, it's been pretty good other than the deficit.
00:01:05.300 But Naheed Nenshi having nothing to grasp for because he can't really attack her for the deficit.
00:01:11.680 He'd be running an even bigger one.
00:01:13.140 He is having to go to just the most niche and absurd issues to try and gain some traction,
00:01:19.600 mainly around basically painting the Alberta government as like a secret separatist government.
00:01:25.520 And so the other day he came out squawking and just, you know, you know, rearing and neighing about the fact that a bunch of chiefs said this UCP government should dissolve.
00:01:38.880 Most people see that as really not democratic.
00:01:42.720 So we're going to have a bunch of people who are only elected by a specific ethnic group living on reserve to tell us if we should have our government that we elected dissolve or not. 0.98
00:01:53.740 that sounds kind of stupid because it is kind of stupid but anyways in just a second here we're 0.55
00:02:00.160 going to break down some of the footage uh but before we do that I just want to remind you guys 0.89
00:02:04.980 that if you like the channel make sure to leave a like on this video subscribe if you are not yet
00:02:10.040 a subscriber leave a comment about what you think about all this and of course if you want to
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00:02:19.260 contribution. It helps me keep the channel afloat and it makes me less reliant on the YouTube
00:02:23.940 algorithm, which is absolutely killing me these days. Like I'll do a breakdown later about how
00:02:29.320 bad the YouTube algorithm is. I will have like a really good click through rate on a video,
00:02:33.740 meaning that people look at it and they're interested and they watch it. But then YouTube
00:02:37.120 just doesn't show anyone the videos. So objectively, the video should be doing well. And then they're
00:02:42.740 like, they'll show 500 people the video. And then other than subscribers, nobody watches it. It's
00:02:47.180 ridiculous anyways enough of my complaining we'll check we'll check out this press conference that
00:02:52.760 ninchi did with these chiefs this has never happened before we've never had a situation 0.80
00:02:59.540 where all the chiefs stand up together and say we have no confidence in this government the motion
00:03:05.000 that was passed at the aotc was brought forward by one of our chiefs elderly starlight and it was
00:03:10.140 unanimously passed by all of our chiefs at the table for the government okay who cares wow we
00:03:16.940 unanimously passed it nobody cares who cares do we actually what happens now like can these people
00:03:28.300 actually answer what happens now so we have like three percent of the population four percent of
00:03:33.600 the population's banned counsel saying that daniel smith should go okay can we just be honest about
00:03:42.880 fact this is probably a money issue that danielle smith has not given enough money she has not 1.00
00:03:47.200 engaged enough consultations now they want her gone she basically did something popular with 1.00
00:03:51.920 the rest of albertans and the chiefs didn't like it so they want her gone suggest that indigenous 0.98
00:03:57.840 people can be used as a political stunt is a mistake they will regret oh my goodness guys
00:04:04.640 he's literally doing this look able for the government to suggest that indigenous people
00:04:10.160 can be used as a political stunt is a mistake they will regret here when they minimize first nations
00:04:18.160 and call this non-confidence vote by the alberta chiefs a stunt i take that personally standing in
00:04:25.040 the face of an unprecedented motion of non-confidence that's all they had cut the
00:04:30.480 how do you get a pipeline oh my goodness guys he swore it's serious time here guys and then she
00:04:36.480 swore well i i never understand his like presentation style whenever you're doing
00:04:42.020 things like this he'll come out and he kind of always seems like he's half asleep he's like
00:04:46.540 daniel smith thinks that having a bunch of first nations people stand behind me at a press conference
00:04:53.880 and demanding that the government dissolve is just a big stunt well i disagree and other albertans
00:05:02.240 see through the bs that she's putting out like what why does this make the average albertan want
00:05:08.780 to get rid of the government right now the ucp is killing him in the polls it's almost like the
00:05:14.960 first nations chiefs are not here because the danielle smith government is unpopular they're
00:05:20.660 there because then she is unpopular and the left needed a stunt to try and claw back a little bit 1.00
00:05:27.140 of ground in the polls. When you have a non-confidence vote from every single chief
00:05:33.300 in this province, we are bound by the constitution and we are bound by those treaties. When someone
00:05:41.040 tells you who they are, believe them. She and her government have lost the moral authority
00:05:46.260 to be able to govern. Oh, they've lost the moral authority to govern because
00:05:50.860 a random ethnic group's representatives don't like them. That's pretty much it right there.
00:05:57.140 I need to jump over to some other footage of him trying to make hay out of this. 0.99
00:06:02.200 It's just been, like, really pathetic.
00:06:05.160 I don't know why they upload all their videos in these, like, little tiny verticals. 0.72
00:06:09.020 They really should be posting them horizontally,
00:06:11.560 but the NDP, I guess, doesn't really have a good media team working for them,
00:06:15.120 so they put out all these, like, half-finished-looking videos.
00:06:18.580 If someone asks you if you're a separatist, just say no.
00:06:24.620 It's not a hard thing to do.
00:06:26.000 None of the UCP caucus will bloody say they're not separatists.
00:06:29.920 And certainly the chief yesterday said that member Sear...
00:06:33.600 Every single one of them has basically said,
00:06:36.340 I think a couple of them have said that they're kind of like, you know, sympathetic to separatism.
00:06:40.600 But like the vast majority of them have said that,
00:06:44.060 yes, I want Alberta to be within a united Canada, strong Alberta, united Canada.
00:06:49.100 They're obviously not separatists. 1.00
00:06:50.660 But Nenshi, bloated face right here, wants them to play into the stupid game of basically having to say, no, we're not separatists and separatists are dirty and disgusting and whatnot. 0.99
00:07:02.060 It's like they don't have to say that, you know, people can vote for separatism and be, you know, fine people like that. 0.99
00:07:10.180 I'm not sure why I have to explain this to Nenshi.
00:07:12.460 I'm not a separatist.
00:07:13.960 I understand why people are separatists.
00:07:15.980 That's why I'm never going to mock someone for doing it, because I can understand the reasons. 0.97
00:07:20.660 and the ucp mlas are not stupid enough to slag their own people who while they may like the 0.97
00:07:26.420 ucp government they also don't like ottawa enough or they they dislike ottawa enough that they'll 1.00
00:07:31.620 vote for separation member sear told him he was a separatist you can't do this you were elected to
00:07:38.900 this legislature you swore an oath to the crown and your constituents need to know if you're
00:07:44.020 actually a separatist. Just say no. And you would wonder like, okay, well, why would I be voting
00:07:51.680 NDP? Because all of this is trying to draw you to the subtle conclusion that you should be voting
00:07:56.300 NDP. Okay, there was an MLA in the UCP who told someone apparently behind the scenes that they
00:08:03.340 like separatism. How does this then lead us to conclude that we should vote for the NDP? Why
00:08:11.980 would we need to do that it seems kind of like a like a really odd conclusion that i'm then going
00:08:18.800 to vote for naheed nenshi's big government party like this is the current polling right now from
00:08:25.020 leger leger has the ndp getting crushed 48 for the ucp to 36 for the ndp and then you have the
00:08:34.640 alberta party now called the progressive tory party at five greens at four alberta liberals
00:08:40.220 of three. Even if you consolidated more of that left-wing vote behind the NDP, they would still
00:08:45.980 be losing. Even if you gave them all the Alberta Liberal votes, because it basically doesn't exist
00:08:50.720 to a party, and let's assume you give them half of the Green Party, they would still lose. And the
00:08:55.440 Alberta Tory party, I believe, the Progressive Tory party, is probably going to hurt the NDP
00:09:00.520 more than it does the UCP. Nenshi has been on the separatist line for a while now. The fact that he
00:09:07.500 hasn't gotten any juice out of it is really telling but he keeps just slamming the same button
00:09:12.700 every single time just constantly on the issue of oh my goodness the separatists are out there
00:09:19.020 and this Alberta government isn't openly firing on them with live ammunition so they're going to
00:09:24.100 basically let them take the province he has nothing so he's basically just been fear-mongering
00:09:29.360 about separatism and it's not been working for the last year so here is him in the legislature
00:09:35.180 in question period with daniel smith the other day trying to make some issue out of this
00:09:39.800 honorable members it is now 150 which means it's time for oral question period and the first
00:09:46.740 question belongs to the leader of the official office
00:09:49.820 by the way what's he wearing he's got to stop wearing these big sweaters that cover over the
00:09:56.680 fact that he's even wearing a button-up shirt big day yesterday mr speaker lots of interesting
00:10:02.680 moments but one of the most interesting moments came when the premier and the minister of justice
00:10:08.280 made it clear that they would not allow any constant unconstitutional questions to reach
00:10:14.280 referendum ballot but here's the thing the separatist question you know the one they're
00:10:19.020 gathering signatures for in yuma arizona and puerto vallarta is unconstitutional a judge told
00:10:25.080 us that so can the premier confirm today that she will never allow that question to reach a
00:10:31.500 referendum ballot. By the way, it's not unconstitutional. I think he's also bringing
00:10:36.760 up like an older question that's already not the one that's going to be used. It's also not her
00:10:42.180 job to to like basically block questions before they've reached the ballot.
00:10:51.580 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The citizen initiative process is meant to be permissive. It's meant to
00:10:57.820 allow citizens to get together and see if their fellow citizens are interested in putting a
00:11:03.660 question forward for a vote. It's not meant to have any gatekeepers stop them in that process.
00:11:08.940 The job of government is to make sure that any issue that was voted on by the people of Alberta
00:11:15.180 that we implement it in a constitutional way. We're several steps away from that Mr. Speaker.
00:11:20.940 We're watching the processes play out and we will see if the requisite number of signatures are
00:11:25.900 are cheap by me sex honorable member so that answer leads to a very simple question what the
00:11:33.120 heck is the point yeah this government passed a law explicitly allowing people to gather signatures
00:11:39.660 for questions they will never put on a ballot yeah they're wasting their time they're wasting
00:11:44.020 their money because this premier is pandering she's pandering to them pretend it's just it's 1.00
00:11:50.320 just genuinely not her job to police it like what is she supposed to see that people might be
00:11:55.360 collecting signatures for a question that might not be able to be on the ballot and she's supposed
00:11:59.280 to just like run out into the streets and start knocking clipboards out of people's hands like no
00:12:04.080 no you're not allowed to do that we don't a random judge said it might not work
00:12:09.520 to be one of them maybe she is one of them that helping them waste their time and doing something
00:12:13.760 that will never actually succeed so can the premier confirm today to her separatist base 1.00
00:12:19.440 that this is all a charade that she's letting them waste their time and money and she has no
00:12:23.520 intention of putting this on a ballot Mr. Speaker public participation in a democratic process
00:12:33.760 is never a waste of time I think it's important that we respect those who are taking the time
00:12:39.920 to go out and and to vet these ideas by their fellow citizens and that is the reason why we
00:12:45.680 have citizen initiated referendum it's the reason why we have a permissive process around recall
00:12:51.200 is so that citizens have the ability to talk with their fellow citizens engage their level
00:12:54.960 of support for different ideas that's the whole point of it mr i do like how she brought up the
00:12:59.680 uh the the recall because every single ndp recall against a ucp mla has completely failed and they
00:13:07.360 can say it has nothing to do with the ndp it has nothing to do with the alberta teachers association
00:13:11.840 it absolutely does these are the people who are leading the recalls even in the one that they
00:13:16.880 tried the hardest for calgary bow against the education minister demetrius nicoleides
00:13:21.840 they got like 6 000 signatures they needed 16 000. that's how badly they did the one against
00:13:28.080 daniel smith personally in medicine in her riding of like medicine hat something uh got crushed i
00:13:34.320 think they only got like a couple thousand and they needed like 18 000 or something speaker we
00:13:39.200 support democracy on this side of the house the honorable member that is an extraordinary statement
00:13:46.240 of contempt for citizens saying you're going to do this work but we don't care
00:13:50.720 just go and do your thing but let's follow a different thread here yesterday
00:13:58.240 we heard that the member for bonnieville cold lake st paul admitted to him to being a separatist
00:14:04.640 and intimidated intimated that he actually signed the petition fascinating because meanwhile the
00:14:11.040 government house leader said being called separatist is an insult so can the premier
00:14:15.520 confirm how many other members of her caucus are separatists we have nenshi here separatist
00:14:23.520 hunter apparently he's going to take down the entire ucp government because there's somebody
00:14:28.160 who may have talked to somebody about signing a petition wait let me bring that back up
00:14:38.240 thank you mr speaker the whole point of a petition campaign is to make sure that the
00:14:43.440 signatures are kept confidential. That's the reason why a petitioner is not
00:14:48.000 allowed to keep the signatures afterwards and I have to say that anyone
00:14:51.600 who is suggesting that any person has their name on that list without the
00:14:55.560 person's permission is probably violating the spirit and the intent of
00:14:59.400 the legislation because I can tell you Mr. Speaker none of my MLAs have
00:15:04.380 indicated to me that they have signed. What they have said is that they
00:15:07.260 support sovereignty within a United Canada. That is the position of this
00:15:10.680 government that's position of our caucus the second set of questions belongs to the leader
00:15:15.900 of the official opposition oh my goodness guys he's gonna go in for another round with her 1.00
00:15:20.400 when someone asks you if you're a separatist there's a simple answer no and no member of
00:15:29.040 this government has been able to do that yeah but this government in addition to that she just said
00:15:33.280 that she says she supports a net sovereign alberta united canada oh she didn't say literally i'm not
00:15:38.480 of separatists okay she basically she said it she basically said the same thing right he's so
00:15:42.880 pedantic that is terrible with money they have historically high royalty revenues they've got
00:15:48.920 one of the biggest deficits in history spending so much with so little to show for it the premier
00:15:55.860 will blame everybody for this she'll blame justin trudeau she'll blame immigrants she'll blame
00:15:59.920 chemtrails she'll blame the world economic forum what the heck chemtrails my goodness what she 0.97
00:16:07.380 won't do is take responsibility. So let's give her a chance to do that. Does the 0.78
00:16:11.240 Premier have any plan to make life more affordable?
00:16:17.840 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We already have. We advocated to get rid of the carbon tax
00:16:22.080 with that party put in place in which their federal counterparts advocated to
00:16:26.240 save people at the pump and save people on their home heating. Our excellent
00:16:30.520 Minister of Affordability and Utilities brought the prices down from 32 cents a
00:16:34.280 kilowatt hour caused by their terrible policies to phase out coal too early and bring on an
00:16:39.180 unsustainable amount of wind and solar that did not have enough backup. We're now down to averaging
00:16:44.220 about 3.7 cents a kilowatt hour, Mr. Speaker. So time and time again, we have demonstrated that
00:16:49.900 when we hear what the public is concerned about, we answer, Mr. Speaker. But you can see what
00:16:54.240 Nenshi's game here is that this is the end of it for me. But Nenshi just assumes that he's going to
00:16:59.460 win the Alberta election on snarky urban votes. Snarky people who say, hmm, this premier believes
00:17:06.740 in chemtrails. Guys, most people think she's doing a good job. At the end of the day in politics,
00:17:12.120 you can't do an end run around doing a good job. She's doing a good job, and all Nancy really has 0.94
00:17:17.400 at this point is flailing about separatism and taking really cheap jobs. Yeah, he's bringing up
00:17:22.260 the deficit. I don't like the deficit. He's a hypocrite to bring up the deficit, though, because
00:17:26.600 he doesn't actually care that much about public finance. He doesn't care about keeping costs 0.99
00:17:31.200 down. He was the mayor of Calgary who kept increasing taxes. And also he has his own
00:17:36.400 scandal on his hands right now because the massive water main breaks because he refused to actually
00:17:41.300 make utility upgrades, utility repairs when he was the mayor. And now it's all popping loose.
00:17:46.900 And yes, it actually is his fault because he was the mayor at the time when you should have been
00:17:52.200 doing it and then yeah it's basically him and uh jody gondek who should have been doing it but now
00:17:58.340 he's going to come here and cast aspersions at the premier because apparently everything's not
00:18:03.160 perfect like okay okay apparently there's someone who might have called themselves a separatist
00:18:08.260 okay i guess we have to defeat the ucb government now anyways with that all being said thank you
00:18:13.720 guys for watching just make sure to like share subscribe consider hitting the joint button and
00:18:18.980 I'll see you all later.