The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Nenshi is DONE - Alberta NDP will get CRUSHED after Referendum Polling Bump

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:06.140 How bad are things currently going for Alberta NDP leader Nahid Nenshi?

00:00:10.940 Well, the rumor swirling about is that he may get replaced before the next provincial election by one of his own MLAs

00:00:18.100 because his own leadership brand is that bad in the province at the moment.

00:00:23.200 The NDP polling isn't that bad depending on the pollster you look at right now,

00:00:28.200 but you have to remember, they are in a peak polling period, and they know it.

00:00:33.760 There's a lot of hysteria about the referendums coming up in October, which is boosting the NDP a bit,

00:00:40.480 but once we get to October 19th, and the Separatist referendum question does not succeed,

00:00:47.040 that pulls away the best card the NDP had to play against Daniel Smith and the UCP.

00:00:53.040 Now, the amount of Separatist support in Alberta is nothing to sneeze at. 0.78

00:00:57.900 If 30% of people vote yes to separate, I know the question is not actually a question about separating, it's a question about having a question about separating, but you still understand the point. It still gets a pull of what people feel. And 30% is substantial, but the NDP can't fear monger about it. They can't drive out voters to vote NDP because it's the federalist pro-canned option.

00:01:21.120 That is why they are so tipped off that Danielle Smith has allowed the question to go forward in the fall, because what else are the NDP going to run on? They're going to run on the brand recognition of Nahid Nenshi, the man who destroyed the water infrastructure of Calgary, the man who seems to be on a mission to alienate every single working class voter from the NDP party in favor of left-wing college students.

00:01:47.080 what are they going to run on banning coal trying to defund charter schools bringing back drug sites

00:01:52.960 like those are actually things they are running on so that is why they really needed the separatist

00:01:59.800 referendum to not happen this fall because they wanted to be on the same ballot as it in fall of

00:02:05.520 2027 but look at these polling numbers yes some of them only show the NDP down by three percent or

00:02:12.520 even 1% in the Angus Reid poll which would actually be super tight in Alberta considering

00:02:17.860 the UCP can run up the score in rural areas and it doesn't really matter when it comes to places

00:02:22.960 like Calgary and Edmonton but still this is their peak position over the past few months and even

00:02:29.800 in pollsters like Leger from just a few weeks ago the UCP are leading the NDP by 9% Leger being a

00:02:38.360 pollster that tends to actually have a problem with having too much of a left-wing urban mix in

00:02:43.820 its samples, and they show the NDP getting demolished. Maybe they did have an accurate

00:02:49.140 sample. A 9% win for the UCP would mean, like, picking up another four or five seats from the

00:02:56.980 2023 election. They won the popular vote by 8% in the 2023 election, but it was a bit close just

00:03:02.960 because there's so much suburban, urban Danielle Smith hysteria.

00:03:07.260 But obviously, that's no longer a factor. 1.00

00:03:10.000 She's been premier for around four years now.

00:03:13.140 You really can't hate her. 1.00

00:03:14.660 She's a known quantity.

00:03:15.920 She's done a very good job overall.

00:03:18.300 You know, in places like the riding that I want to run in, in Calgary Curry,

00:03:22.720 the UCP has very much cleaned up the drug problem.

00:03:25.120 So the NDP cannot say, no, no, we have a better policy on the addictions issue.

00:03:30.020 No, no, the UCP ran its policy.

00:03:31.680 it's been wildly successful and the person I want to run against Janet Aramanco is a drug site and 1.00

00:03:37.200 safe supply advocate that is going to pull like rat poison despite the fact that they did win that

00:03:42.760 riding by over 10 points last election that's another way of saying hey if you want to support

00:03:47.920 me in Calgary Curry you can always sign up on my website which is pinned at the top of the comments

00:03:52.080 wyattclaypool.com and I'm also going to be trying to plug some good UCP nominees in other parts of

00:03:58.560 the city of Calgary and the rest of the province. There's one guy up in the Lac-Saint-Anne Parkland

00:04:04.400 riding, Ray Donnelly, who's also very good if you want to buy memberships for him. But now I want to

00:04:09.560 jump over to what Nenshi's current gambit is, because he is trying to squeeze the blood out of

00:04:16.000 the stone because he knows it's not going to last forever. Nahid Nenshi here says, in response to

00:04:22.260 the signatures being verified in favor of the Stay Free Alberta petition, the pro-independence

00:04:28.820 referendum petition, he's deeply angry about it because apparently it's only democracy when the

00:04:35.980 left wins. Nahid Nechi here says, before Danielle Smith repeatedly changed the rules to help the

00:04:41.940 separatists, they would have needed roughly 600,000 signatures to force a vote. The separatists didn't 0.83

00:04:47.960 even come close to that number and nearly 80 000 signatures were tossed by elections alberta

00:04:53.560 this is 100 000 this is 100 daniel smith's separation referendum this is the one this is

00:05:00.760 she is the one caving to her far right base she is the one who is willing to tear canada apart

00:05:06.840 for her political gain can you signal any harder that you are in a leadership crisis right now

00:05:14.840 He had to move his riding from where he is right now in Edmonton Strathcona, Rachel Notley's old

00:05:20.880 riding, to most likely Calgary Buffalo because his own party resents the fact that he's taking up

00:05:26.360 a traditional NDP riding and he wasn't originally wanting to run in Calgary because despite being

00:05:32.380 the former Calgary mayor, nobody likes him anymore because he represents higher property taxes and

00:05:39.860 our water infrastructure falling apart it was just two days ago that we had another water main

00:05:46.840 break because naheed nenshi and then later jody gondek over the collective 16 years they ruled

00:05:53.580 the city did not seem to put even a dime into replacing any water pipes in the city so we had

00:05:59.640 things like breaking apart because they were like built in the 1920s but naheed nenshi was too busy

00:06:05.640 throwing money at dumb progressive initiatives to actually do the basic job of mayor and just

00:06:11.320 fixing things you know making sure infrastructure isn't crumbling putting police on the streets to 0.94

00:06:16.640 make sure that we keep all of the crazy people off the train lines couldn't be bothered to do that

00:06:21.960 that's tough he didn't want to try at all because you know he'd rather be opening up like a new

00:06:28.240 library that nobody asked for that was like way over budget and barely gets used for anything

00:06:33.020 but now let's move on to something else and by the way i love how he says well they didn't even

00:06:38.020 come close to the number that they needed yes they didn't come close to the number they needed

00:06:42.600 based on the old uh referend or the old recall and referendum threshold which was like 40 percent

00:06:50.100 of all registered voters or something crazy like that like 30 percent for referendum questions

00:06:55.560 like what are you talking about that's insane for any referendum to get on a ballot that it's not

00:07:01.660 that you don't have enough public support if you can't get 600,000 signatures. To get 600,000

00:07:06.840 signatures, even if everyone agreed with your petition, or let's say at least 80% of people

00:07:12.480 agreed with your petition, it's just logistically extremely difficult to get people to sign

00:07:17.440 something. You go to their door and they're not home. People just don't have time and they walk

00:07:21.580 past you going to the grocery store. The new threshold of 177,000 is difficult if it's something

00:07:28.580 that people don't really want to have a vote on. If it's something that a significant portion of

00:07:33.700 the population wants to have a vote on, you can get it done. And by the way, there was already

00:07:38.840 a separatist referendum. It was just done by the Federalist side. The, uh, the, I think it's, uh,

00:07:45.240 what, the Forever Canada people got like 300,000 signatures. And then they said,

00:07:50.060 pretended, no, no, no, we didn't actually want a referendum. You did. You collected the petition

00:07:54.340 signatures to try and block the state stay free alberta people and what smith did that was smart

00:07:59.400 is after a court tried to shut down the stay free petition because apparently it was violating

00:08:04.740 indigenous rights in some vague way uh the recent court then overturned that decision that's why

00:08:10.460 they eventually did verify the signatures but she took the two referendums which were a collective

00:08:15.040 like 400 000 signatures a large portion of the canadian uh the alberta voting population she

00:08:21.860 then said okay let's have a referendum on this in october let's see where people actually stand

00:08:27.460 now i am not pro-independence but again i fully understand the arguments for it there's some very

00:08:33.120 good arguments i'm skeptical on some of the other arguments i'm still a federalist i guess so you

00:08:38.600 know throw your tomatoes at me if you don't like that sort of thing 30 support for something like

00:08:43.220 that would be significant it would show a lot of frustrated people but like i said before naheed

00:08:48.400 Nancy and the NDP, or whoever the NDP leader was, if it became Rocky Pacioli or Sarah Hoffman,

00:08:54.600 you can't say, oh my goodness, Daniel Smith put our province at risk by having a referendum.

00:08:59.880 Really? Which got defeated 70 to 30? Which, it wouldn't even be called a wipeout in American

00:09:06.660 politics between, like, a Democrat and Republican candidate. That would be, like, a dictatorship

00:09:11.660 number in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. That is not even close to it actually going through. Smith,

00:09:18.400 is being very smart she is not pro-independence although for some reason then she keeps thinking

00:09:23.760 that if he accuses her of it it will eventually stick she's doing this to get it out of the way

00:09:28.400 because she doesn't want the ndp falsely running under the banner that if you like canada you have 0.91

00:09:32.880 to vote ndp because those dirty ucp guys have you know about 40 of their base who likes separation

00:09:41.120 or likes independence okay yeah people have opinions on stuff but apparently they want to

00:09:46.000 to run on the idea that if you let the ucp get in they're going to secretly take us out of the 0.99

00:09:49.840 country ridiculous stupid it's just a smear campaign because they got nothing to run on 0.98

00:09:55.840 but now i want to take you guys through some of these other uh videos that they've been posting 0.99

00:10:00.480 recently this is what they have left to run on they're going to run against data centers guys

00:10:06.080 data centers have existed for decades it's why your phone works it's why the internet works now

00:10:11.680 you'll get these people usually funded by the ccp or some other outside progressive far left group

00:10:18.020 saying that oh my goodness it's gonna poison your water and it's gonna eat up all the farmland

00:10:21.820 no it's not no it's not it's not even going to raise the cost of your electricity bill because

00:10:28.320 every single new center that's created and usually they don't want them getting too big because i

00:10:33.360 understand the arguments that you don't want a massive center that goes on for like a mile long

00:10:38.120 in your like right next to your town but whenever they build them they always require them to

00:10:42.660 expand the grid and help increase the power infrastructure so that sometimes when these

00:10:47.780 things get built power costs go down in the area but this is the new NDP thing because they're

00:10:52.780 basically just sticking their finger in the wind on social media to figure out what they should

00:10:56.820 be running on uh check out this video AI data center data center data center data centers

00:11:03.700 data centers. Danielle Smith has made her position clear. AI data centers are coming to Alberta

00:11:09.300 whether you like it or not. That's their decree. They're taking their cues from foreign billionaires.

00:11:14.860 They're ignoring public consultation. The UCP government and Danielle Smith aren't doing their

00:11:19.680 job. They're not listening to Albertans. And people in every corner of this province are correct

00:11:24.700 to be concerned. When you think about the investment that is required and the impact

00:11:29.200 these have isn't worth it well the ucp has created a concierge service for billionaires like mark

00:11:34.800 zuckerberg albertian democrats want to do what's right for you this august what's right for you is

00:11:40.860 apparently killing off a tens of billions of dollar investment in alberta that's apparently

00:11:47.320 what is good for you as an albertan is the mdp basically pushing the chinese communist party line

00:11:56.260 that it's going to make your water brown and it's going to give you cancer like this is what 0.99

00:12:00.420 the 5g people this is like the equivalent of the 5g is going to give you covid thing on the left 0.99

00:12:07.020 is saying that like ai data centers are going to like somehow like harm you in some way no you 1.00

00:12:12.940 shouldn't build them right next to cities yes people have had problems where they stick stuck

00:12:17.100 it right next to like a residential area and there is a kind of a loud hum that comes off a building

00:12:21.760 like that but that's like saying no industrial thing should be stuck next to any city you need

00:12:26.380 it close enough to a city that people who work there to get can get to it but if you built it

00:12:30.200 kind of off a little bit in the middle of nowhere but it's close enough for people to get to i'm

00:12:34.160 perfectly fine with it i'm not saying yes 100 of the time but depends on what the plan is i can go

00:12:40.000 for it again the only reason the internet works is because there are already a type of data center

00:12:45.360 that exists in order to process information. But the NDP has become like the economic flat earther

00:12:52.240 neo-Luddite party who hates AI data centers because, you know, I think we should have policies

00:12:57.780 in place to figure out what happens if people lose jobs because of it. Although, like many people

00:13:03.240 have said, the problem with then claiming like, oh my goodness, well, we can't do something because

00:13:07.300 someone might lose a job. It's like oftentimes some new leap forward in technology then enables

00:13:13.020 you to do a completely other job that usually wasn't being invested in as much because the

00:13:17.580 economy didn't have the money to pay for people to do those things. But now that you've been able

00:13:22.140 to replace more tedious busy work, now people can go and do those other things that AI definitely

00:13:27.140 cannot do. But now I want to jump in to another post here by him claiming that the referendum is

00:13:35.620 bad because it's going to cost money now remember that this is a referendum on literal this is a

00:13:43.200 referendum that includes like 10 different questions and he's going to fear monger about

00:13:48.900 less than a million dollars journalists as well as alberta's new democrats have uncovered at least

00:13:56.040 six hundred and sixty five thousand dollars in additional spending by the premier and her

00:14:00.720 government on this referendum campaign. $300,000 for a one-sided biased website that tells people

00:14:08.540 how the premier wants them to vote. $160,000 for television advertising. $205,000 on promotional

00:14:15.980 videos. $1.5 million at least on an economic analysis to tell us that separation is bad for

00:14:23.220 the economy. Together, that's anywhere between $132 to $182 million. This referendum will not

00:14:30.240 reduce your grocery bills it won't help you find a family doctor it won't build a school

00:14:34.860 i don't even know how he came to these numbers because i've heard that the actual referendum

00:14:40.640 per question and all the logistics that go into it it's like base cost if you were just going to

00:14:45.920 have one question it's like 10 million dollars for the province which makes sense you need

00:14:48.980 polling stations every year you got to pay people to collect ballots and stuff like that and count

00:14:53.660 and stuff uh and as you add questions it should be getting cheaper it's not 130 million dollars

00:15:00.080 But I like how he started this criticism off of like, oh, the government has made its position on these referendum questions and what they're advocating for, giving people information.

00:15:09.240 Oh, my goodness, it's $635,000.

00:15:12.640 It's like, oh, my, that's a rounding error for like an initiative that's about a year-long push towards some referendum questions to get public buy-in on certain issues or public opinion to either get a mandate or not be given a mandate on a specific issue. 0.98

00:15:28.420 that is chump change won't create a single job today we're calling on danielle smith come clean

00:15:35.320 release the full accounting of all referendum related spending including all your advertising

00:15:40.980 communication and consultant costs oh my goodness he's so tired he he's so tired i don't even like

00:15:49.280 i need to now play you an excerpt from the like from the larger press conference um they also have

00:15:55.500 this weird habit of doing these press conference videos where they like go live but like the thing

00:16:01.720 doesn't go live right away these these things i always whenever i see nenshi is doing some sort

00:16:06.740 of live video he always starts at like 20 minutes in or something like that so he only starts here

00:16:12.580 like six or seven minutes yeah six minutes in like why just start up the live stream right when

00:16:19.880 you go into it or no one's actually going to re-watch this thing but i want to jump to 10

00:16:23.540 minutes in because he starts taking journalist questions and he's asked if this is even that

00:16:28.340 much money really and he kind of has to admit that it's not to the outcome of this vote business

00:16:34.480 leaders are already warning us that the uncertainty created by this referendum is harming investor

00:16:39.700 confidence and economic growth in alberta so the question is simple how much is this actually

00:16:47.160 costing us how much money will the ucp spend on advertising and communications i like how the

00:16:53.980 little chart there on the right when it says like it says daniel smith's referendum costs you and

00:16:59.500 then the total just says so much money it's like it's such a millennial uh some ironic millennial

00:17:05.480 thing to put on the board and anyone who's a millennial out there knows what i'm talking about

00:17:10.480 when it comes to very liberal left millennials and it's like what's the cost the cost is so much

00:17:16.020 money it's so much and counting like just say what the number is they can't say what the number is

00:17:21.140 because all these numbers are speculative trash outside of like what tv ads and promotional videos

00:17:26.080 are costing which is again nothing they just slapped like 130 million dollars on the top 0.82

00:17:30.980 you know it's just nonsense they just threw a big number on the top of it to make it seem like

00:17:36.340 there was any actual reason for this press conference i've heard the whole thing might

00:17:40.400 cost like $30 million, $40 million, which for having a province-wide referendum on multiple

00:17:46.540 questions is absolute nothing. It's nothing. And you get an actual real result on what people

00:17:54.280 think on all these issues. It's not just a public poll of like 2,000 people. You are going to get

00:17:58.480 millions of people to weigh in on it and give the government a mandate to do certain things

00:18:03.340 or not have a mandate to do certain things. The NDP was actually pushing Cor Blunt's ridiculous

00:18:09.200 referendum on banning coal because that's how far gone the NDP is. Hey, you know those working

00:18:14.700 class people who used to vote for us? Well, screw them. We're going to execute all of them in a 1.00

00:18:19.400 ditch by banning the thing that they mine. Okay, you realize that coal is needed in a lot of 0.99

00:18:26.940 different products and we export a lot of coal to create things like solar panels and steel and

00:18:32.600 whatnot. But no, guys, we got to save the Rockies because I work downtown in an office building and

00:18:38.420 don't know how the economy works i'm in i work at an hr job working for the public service and i

00:18:43.920 think we should ban coal all the people who had jobs in the rockies mining coal well they should

00:18:49.060 go kill themselves because i like hiking and i don't like the idea that the place that i like 0.84

00:18:54.180 hiking at several dozens of miles away there might be a coal mine goodness people but now i want to 0.97

00:19:02.680 get into when the question starts up here how many former ucp staffers who are now lobbyists

00:19:08.400 and consultants are profiting from this referendum how much will be spent on promoting the premier's

00:19:16.160 political agenda between now and october albertans deserve answers because when daniel smith is

00:19:23.580 spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a referendum family it might not even crack a hundred

00:19:29.320 what is he talking and then he says hundreds of millions as if the number not only is above a

00:19:35.340 million but could possibly like be like 700 million like sir get a grip that's not how

00:19:43.760 you can't just lot you can't just fudge the numbers this much like we are multiple layers

00:19:49.360 into fudging the numbers we have just assumed this is going to be going into over a hundred

00:19:53.900 million dollars when it could only be half of that and then we're also then assuming because

00:19:58.160 we have now hit theoretically in my own messed up math over a hundred million well now it's

00:20:03.460 I'm going to keep referring to it as hundreds of millions, even though I've never even justified the first hundred million dollars in costs.

00:20:11.280 You're worried about the cost of living.

00:20:13.380 Emergency rooms remain overcrowded.

00:20:15.680 There's been no summer reprieve as we normally see.

00:20:18.940 Yeah, except wait times have actually been going down.

00:20:22.000 The wait times are actually down.

00:20:23.620 So what's your complaint here?

00:20:25.600 Wait times are down despite the amount of spending not going up exponentially like what would happen with the NDP.

00:20:31.560 When the NDP was in government for four years, they're big public service, you know, programs people, so they dump money into public services and programs.

00:20:39.660 But the problem is wait times went up massively when they were in government, despite the spending, because spending doesn't actually equal quality.

00:20:47.900 In emergency rooms, meaning the fall respiratory virus season is going to be something like we've never seen before.

00:20:54.760 People continue to struggle to find a family doctor.

00:20:58.100 Communities need schools, roads, and other infrastructure. 0.99

00:21:01.560 Danielle Smith could use this money for so many things. 1.00

00:21:05.560 Yeah, like fixing water main breaks, buddy. 1.00

00:21:08.560 She could have reversed her cruel cuts to a shared income for the severely handicapped, 1.00

00:21:15.560 or her cuts to women's shelters, or her rollback of senior supports.

00:21:20.560 Every single dollar spent on this referendum is a dollar that isn't being spent

00:21:25.560 addressing the issues that Albertans care about every single day.

00:21:28.560 And by the way, the thing with women's shelters, too, is that he realizes that in Canada, when the federal liberals, when the Kearney liberals are celebrating that crime rates are going down, really what they mean to say is that crime's unchanged in many provinces.

00:21:44.060 It is a negligible change that could be back up next year because it only went down by like 0.5 or 1% or like 1.5% in somewhere like Ontario or Quebec or British Columbia.

00:21:56.860 but in a province like Alberta we will sometimes have eight and a half percent drops in violent

00:22:02.460 crime as well as retail theft. Alberta is the reason that jobs are being created that the GDP

00:22:08.760 is even growing and that crime is going down and he's going to then complain that you know women's

00:22:13.840 shelters aren't getting enough money it's like well okay I'm not obviously against funding women's

00:22:19.000 shelters but you actually in theory don't need to fund them as much every year if you're also

00:22:25.180 flattening the amount of actual crime. You know, because in a world, in theory, to walk this one

00:22:31.840 out, if we had no crime, you wouldn't need women's shelters. Because in theory, there is no domestic 1.00

00:22:37.380 violence. There is no people needing, you know, safety in the middle of the night downtown with

00:22:42.440 creeps everywhere. So in theory, that's true. And if you had crazy amounts of crime, you'd need more

00:22:47.880 women's shelters. But if you're flattening the amount of crime, it's actually less needed. And 1.00

00:22:52.400 in fact, that is kind of a great summation of the NDP approach on crime. What you do is that let's

00:22:58.640 not actually crack down on the amount of crazy drug addicts on the streets. Let's not put more

00:23:04.920 police on the streets and arrest repeat offenders and have street patrols in neighborhoods to try

00:23:10.460 and crack down on crime. That's mean because police are bad and racist. Instead, let's let

00:23:16.920 crime run rampant and let's just fund women's shelters more to help process the women who are 0.93

00:23:23.240 then victims of the increased rate of crime that is the that is an ndp policy let us fight the

00:23:29.700 symptoms fight the symptoms not the actual problem because fighting symptoms allows us to spend more

00:23:35.120 money and what's the benefit nothing there's no benefit to albert who's going through this exercise

00:23:42.280 the premier thinks there's a political benefit to herself but there's no benefit to everyday

00:23:46.600 people. There's definitely a political benefit to herself because she's ripping away the biggest 1.00

00:23:51.740 club that she has against her. And by the way, she was already going to do all the other referendum 1.00

00:23:56.020 questions anyways. A bunch of them are stuff saying, hey, can we pursue this or that new

00:24:01.340 sovereignty policy? Would you like to see a change on this front? Would you like to see more options

00:24:06.680 with health care or education? I don't know what all the questions are. I should actually go and

00:24:10.200 review them again. But most of them are just policy opinion questions where if they get a good

00:24:15.740 number of people coming back saying like 55, 57, 62 percent of people agree with Daniel Smith's

00:24:22.200 position on an issue. She then has a mandate to kind of go and start making changes in that area

00:24:26.880 of policy. It's very smart politics. The NDP would never do this if they got into government 1.00

00:24:32.120 because their policies pull like rat poison. Do you like safe supply? Do you like injection sites

00:24:42.320 and addictions housing in residential areas, that is an NDP policy. That is why they would 0.97

00:24:48.500 never poll you on that, because they would get defeated like probably 85 to 15. That is actually

00:24:54.740 why the riding I'm running for, again, plug in the top of the comments, WyattClaypool.com,

00:24:59.480 I'm running for the UCP nomination there. That is why it's actually become a more winnable riding.

00:25:04.860 The NDP won it by 13% last election. Previous election, the UCP only won it by two,

00:25:10.900 but remember that's when the drug problems were kind of active in the area and there was kind of

00:25:16.260 an up in the air uh kind of campaign on who has the better addictions policy the ucp won that 1.00

00:25:23.300 argument and yet janet aramanco because she's an insane leftist activist and literally was a drug 1.00

00:25:29.200 advocate before she became an mla uh doesn't care and she wants the schumer center injection site 1.00

00:25:34.300 reopened which is on the border of her own riding on the east who cares about the people who live 1.00

00:25:39.700 over there because she has an ideology to stay committed to this referendum will not reduce your

00:25:45.640 grocery bills it won't reduce your utility bills it won't help you find a family doctor it won't

00:25:51.660 build a school except that the ucp is actually building like dozens of schools he's he's such a

00:25:58.720 he's such a hack he's he's saying all these things as if it implies that daniel smith is not doing

00:26:05.160 those things and this her referendum is is what she's giving you instead of building schools and

00:26:09.180 hospitals and hiring more nurses and doctors and teachers. Except she is doing those things. 0.89

00:26:13.760 She is. And in fact, I am no, like, sycophant of any conservative leader. And so I'd even say,

00:26:20.640 like, I would have probably not given as generous an offer towards the teachers when she was

00:26:25.240 negotiating with them. But she gave them a very generous offer. That's why it makes it so crazy

00:26:29.260 the NDP is trying to attack her on this. She gave them a fairly large increase in pay over three or 1.00

00:26:35.300 four years. And then she's also hiring thousands of more teachers and teacher assistants, building 0.96

00:26:40.260 dozens of more schools, building more hospitals, hiring more nurses. Again, maybe I would even 0.99

00:26:45.580 think that there's efficiency mechanisms we could have used to increase service quality without

00:26:50.020 actually even having to spend as much on new staff. You know, there's so many people who work

00:26:54.400 in HR in all sorts of areas of government who actually are qualified to do the front lines of

00:26:59.020 work where people are being overwhelmed. So many nurses are actually not working in nursing. They're

00:27:04.680 in administration, HR, other sorts of management areas. You can easily put them back on the front

00:27:09.500 lines and massively reduce wait times rather than having people on the third floor of the hospital

00:27:13.660 filling up paperwork speculating as to why wait times are up when that person is literally a

00:27:19.120 nurse who could help reduce wait times. You know, that's another solution there. But overall,

00:27:23.680 from the NDP's ideological perspective, how is what Daniel Smith is doing wrong in any way,

00:27:29.540 shape or form at all in fact the only critique i could find is is a more kind of like right-wing

00:27:35.540 libertarian critique although even then she's actually moving towards more private delivery

00:27:39.860 of of medical services which i'm happy with so like unless he wants to criticize that uh there's

00:27:45.620 nothing he can really criticize here and that's not exactly a great idea because i've heard from

00:27:50.660 so many people that there's a lot of people these days in alberto willing to try privatized delivery

00:27:56.660 of health care because of just how bad the public system is all across canada won't create a single

00:28:02.280 job unless you're a former conservative staffer turned lobbyist based in toronto

00:28:06.760 it's an expensive political game for this premier and all over is you paying the cost

00:28:13.240 so today we're calling on danielle smith number one come clean come release the full accounting

00:28:19.960 of all referendum related spending including all your advertising communication and consultant

00:28:25.340 costs tell over what the total bill will be before we vote oh and while you're at it tell us how many

00:28:31.980 of you ucp mlas are actually separatists we deserve to know that too i'll take questions

00:28:37.260 all right so for those who cares like i i must i'm sure it's it's conservative politics in alberta

00:28:44.200 you know probably about 30 to 40 percent of the ucp base is pro-independence at least as like a

00:28:50.720 ideological kind of idealism, even if they don't actually think it's feasible anytime soon. I'm not

00:28:58.040 pro-independence, but again, I understand their points. Even if there's like a, let's say there's

00:29:02.940 five or six UCP MLAs who are pro-independence, what would it matter? The referendum would show

00:29:08.860 them, hey, we're not near, we're not close to being the majority and it would be wrong for us

00:29:13.820 to push those views forward. That's pretty much it. Like that's the worst that would happen is

00:29:19.920 they would say they would maybe endorse the referendum it would be like one or two percent

00:29:23.740 better than it would have done it gets 31 of the vote and business as usual like again he he keeps

00:29:31.700 acting like if he asserts that there's some secret separatist menace inside the alberta government

00:29:36.500 that ergo disaster occurs and he's never actually been able to back that up and he actually gets

00:29:41.800 he actually gets like bulldozed not even it's not like this reporter's that mean to him in any way

00:29:46.900 or even that cutting.

00:29:48.280 But I like this basic question kind of ruins the whole press conference.

00:29:52.360 Joining us in the room, I'll ask you to come to the mic and say your name and outlet.

00:29:56.080 We'll do one question, one follow-up.

00:29:57.880 And a reminder of those joining us on Zoom to use the raise hand function to get into

00:30:01.240 the question queue.

00:30:02.620 All right.

00:30:04.100 Great.

00:30:04.680 Thank you.

00:30:06.360 I'm Felix from Radio Canada.

00:30:08.520 So if you could answer in both English and French, that could be nice.

00:30:12.160 So what's the ideal price point for like this referendum that still got nine other questions and how to make it more cost efficient, let's say?

00:30:25.580 Now, I love that question because it's an objective numbers question.

00:30:30.600 How much, if the government was running referendums to get public opinion on what it does moving forward on policy,

00:30:36.100 which actually can help costs in the future, that Albertans have a much stronger guarantee of getting what they want

00:30:42.460 because the government did a direct poll of every single person willing to show up and vote on what they want them to do,

00:30:48.120 this saves a lot of money.

00:30:49.060 But let's say, okay, we do still want to have this cost within a certain range

00:30:54.980 Because, you know, we don't want runaway costs on a referendum that doesn't technically create any actual value itself. Fair enough. And so what is he going to say? Like 30 million, 20 million? Because then he runs into the feasibility argument.

00:31:08.920 Can you put on a referendum across a large Canadian province of nearly 5 million people and run it underneath $30 million or so?

00:31:19.540 Or is there always going to be a specific cost that will be, like, associated with something this big going on?

00:31:26.140 And, of course, actually, this makes sense.

00:31:27.700 This is coming from a Radio Canada guy.

00:31:29.740 Because if it's a Quebec reporter, they really don't like the implication that simply having an independence vote is, like, inherently evil.

00:31:37.660 because obviously Quebec also does that all the time.

00:31:40.400 And so I think they actually are really,

00:31:42.420 even though you would think more left-leaning Quebec voters

00:31:46.980 and reporters would be more prudent-y,

00:31:49.160 like, no, they actually don't like the kind of

00:31:51.600 anti-independence vote scolding

00:31:54.680 that he and people like Mark Carney have been doing federally.

00:31:58.120 I mean, look, democracy costs money.

00:32:00.500 Elections cost money.

00:32:01.500 The challenge here is that this referendum is standalone.

00:32:04.820 it's being operated under the ucp's new voter suppression legislation making it harder for

00:32:11.280 people to vote oh yeah yes it's voter suppression that you cannot come you can you have to actually

00:32:17.020 show up with two forms of id to prove that you are who you say you are you can't have people like

00:32:22.720 vouch for you when you enter the booth that's what they actually changed nothing has changed

00:32:28.440 and now they're also saying like the ucp is rigging the election some boundaries of ridings

00:32:33.020 might be changed sir nenshi naheed my boy the ndp is a party that is capable of winning a majority

00:32:45.980 in alberta despite like basically if they won if they only lost the popular vote by seven percent

00:32:52.680 in the 2020 2023 provincial election they would have won the election because that is how just

00:33:00.800 permanently screwed the boundaries are in calgary right now and then the ucp overturned an independent

00:33:07.040 bodies uh like like suggestion on new boundaries because they weren't going to add any new

00:33:13.840 ridings despite the population going up by quite a bit it wasn't even them who shut it down a judge

00:33:18.940 shut it down saying these are really unfair boundaries and it basically just creates a bunch

00:33:22.720 of ndp an extra ndp riding in edmonton and calgary and when that was overturned and the ucp is now

00:33:29.920 leaving it to I believe a judge and some other people to put together more fair boundaries which

00:33:35.480 actually mostly leaves Calgary intact the NDP are saying oh my goodness they're rigging the election

00:33:40.360 because they're not allowing us to win a majority despite losing by like 10 percent like get out of

00:33:47.140 here man they're such again they only it's only democracy when they win so even if they can get

00:33:53.700 majority with a deficit of 10 percent of the people not voting for them well screw you anyways

00:34:00.980 because the ndp won ergo this was an election where the people took the province back making

00:34:07.140 lines longer and requiring far more staff than previous elections have required because the

00:34:14.740 ucp has given into conspiracy theories about electronic vote counting i'm sorry but isn't he

00:34:21.140 the one who was just complaining about the referendum costing too much what the the ucp

00:34:25.220 had previously done is that they reduced the amount of polls in individual writings i will

00:34:30.740 use the writing i am running for the nomination in as an example this is what calgary curry looks like

00:34:38.420 on elections atlas uh these are all the 2023 polling stations these are the major polling areas

00:34:45.540 now it's mostly a lot of combined polls because it doesn't really make any sense to make people

00:34:50.980 go to like one community hall on one side of the street and other voters have to go to the other

00:34:56.180 one on the other side of the street. These are tight enough ridings. There are about 50,000

00:35:00.640 people who live in each Alberta provincial election riding. You know, you have about 50%

00:35:05.800 turnout in provincial elections. There's early voting that you can engage in. The lines are

00:35:11.540 really not that big. I've lined up in these lines before. They're not that bad. You can go at any

00:35:16.220 time a day you want. You can even legally leave your job for two hours to go and vote and your

00:35:21.180 boss cannot stop you. This is what the riding polls looked like in 2019. It's a lot of polls.

00:35:29.500 And 2015, there are an absurd amount of polls in this riding for really no extra efficiency,

00:35:37.520 but he's the one complaining that the referendum is going to cost too much, but he wants more

00:35:42.440 polls that are going to have to require more staff so that lines are like five minutes less

00:35:47.280 long like i'm sorry sir you have to bring a real argument i'm not accepting this fake argument from

00:35:54.040 you which has been used for decades in alberta without any problems it was it was used for like

00:36:01.620 a decade and i think the paper uh voting and hand counting is better because frankly people actually

00:36:08.620 like the results come out faster it's just a thing the results come faster so that's why it's

00:36:16.140 so expensive wow we didn't need this referendum if the premier really wanted input on some of

00:36:21.660 this stuff she could have put these questions with the last municipal election she could have

00:36:26.000 waited until the next provincial election and sought a mandate for these things she's already

00:36:30.660 admitted that she's going to move forward on her nine questions regardless of the results of the

00:36:36.020 referendum. She's already passed motions in the House on them. This is all theater.

00:36:40.960 Passing a motion doesn't do anything. It's basically doing a poll of the MLAs and saying,

00:36:45.880 where do you stand? And that's why she's then doing a referendum vote. She probably feels like

00:36:50.420 she's going to win these votes. And she just wants it to be able to point to it and say,

00:36:54.580 hey, the public is backing me up here. It's what we call smart politics. And it really doesn't cost 0.68

00:37:00.000 nearly anything compared to what the NDP is willing to spend money on.

00:37:03.700 it's performative and it has no real impact on albertans and so for me that's the real problem

00:37:10.040 here is that every other premier in alberta's history has told separatists to go pound sand

00:37:17.500 has told separatists if you want a referendum win an election saying you're going to have a

00:37:22.360 referendum yeah but that's dishonest again i am not a pro-independence guy but it's kind of a bad

00:37:29.720 argument to say that if you believe in something, you need to make a party that where that's the

00:37:33.640 sole issue. Even the Bloc Québécois are not really a solely pro-separatist party. They believe in a

00:37:39.580 lot of different things other than just Quebec separating and becoming its own country. And

00:37:44.960 like suggesting that just because your party, because it's more conservative and not like an

00:37:50.780 ideological left-wing bubble party, that because there are people in your party who believe in

00:37:55.100 independence, you should go tell them to pound sand. Like, well, isn't that convenient that

00:37:59.500 she who has these type of voters in her party has to go tell them to like go jump in a ditch or

00:38:04.820 whatever and you don't have to do that like so what what what beliefs in the NDP can you believe

00:38:13.760 and you don't and you would get kicked out for it because apparently anti-semitism doesn't even

00:38:19.680 make the list because not even joking one of the things that Nahid Nenshi did recently was

00:38:25.660 apologize for taking, effectively taking a picture next to a Jewish person. He ended up apologizing

00:38:32.040 because he took a photo with the Israeli ambassador at a Stampede event. Here is the actual post from

00:38:39.400 July 16th. He says, I want to speak to you from the heart about a photo going around from last

00:38:46.180 weekend. I'm so sorry for the harm it caused. As one of many public events at Stampede, I was

00:38:50.960 approached by the Israeli ambassador. We had a very brief and frank exchange during which a photo

00:38:56.600 was taken. After talking to many people in the community over the last couple of days, I better

00:39:01.200 understand the immense hurt that has been caused to a lot of folks. The Alberta NDP strongly believes

00:39:06.220 in human rights and international law. Our position on this has never changed. The Israeli government

00:39:11.040 actions in Gaza have violated international laws. The Canadian government has affirmed

00:39:15.440 from, as affirmed, from the refusal to lift blockades and that resulted in the gauze of famine

00:39:21.480 to indiscriminate bombing, at least 20,000 children have been killed. Which is not true.

00:39:26.940 It's not 20,000 children. Many of those are actually young adults who are members of Hamas

00:39:31.400 who are trying to kill people. But going down a bit more, he says a few days ago,

00:39:36.360 southern Lebanon, the ancestral home of many Albertans, was bombed as part of a sustained

00:39:41.120 campaign. Even here at home, we're seeing increases in anger, hatred, anti-Palestinian

00:39:47.860 racism, and anti-Semitism. I believe and will always believe that we have the ability here to

00:39:54.140 be models for the world on how people of different faiths can live together purposefully and lift

00:39:58.840 one another up to ensure we all live a life of dignity. I have dedicated my life to that goal

00:40:04.280 and I never waver from it. I love how he throws in, like, anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Semitism.

00:40:12.940 When was the last time in Calgary or Alberta we have had an act of anti-Palestinian racism?

00:40:20.640 I don't think that that's ever occurred. If it has, it's happened once. Anti-Semitism is actually

00:40:27.540 a fairly, like, big phenomenon in terms of hate crimes. Now, I don't actually believe in hate

00:40:33.600 crime designations. I think you just enforce the law really hard against people committing any type

00:40:37.820 of crime. I don't really care about hate crime upcharges. I can understand that maybe it's

00:40:42.560 justified in some cases where you're doing what is only a misdemeanor, but you're targeting

00:40:46.780 someone for harassment. Maybe. We can have a different conversation about that. But hilariously,

00:40:52.520 he mentions anti-Semitism in a post that is motivated by anti-Semitism. He took a photo

00:40:58.240 with a Jewish person who doesn't appreciate being murdered by Hamas terrorists, and that was enough 0.99

00:41:02.840 to trigger the base of the NDP because oh my goodness he's a Zionist terrorist because he 0.96

00:41:08.480 doesn't want Israel invaded by terrorists. He's like mentioning the blockade of Gaza and the

00:41:14.840 famine. Dude there was an incredible amount of food in Gaza to the point where there were fat

00:41:20.360 people all over Gaza because of all the foreign aid coming in. There was not a start there was

00:41:25.020 not real starvation happening outside of the starvation that Hamas and Islamic Jihad were 0.85

00:41:30.640 causing by not handing out food to people who were not their direct allies like get out of here

00:41:36.220 the amount of people who died on october 7th if israel was recreating that death rate over time

00:41:42.320 they would have basically had as many casualties in palestine as israel did in a single day within

00:41:47.380 two weeks and that happened over like multiple years i'm not making this a foreign policy channel 1.00

00:41:52.860 but this is to say nahid nenshi is an idiot and he is controlled by the very hard left base of his 0.97

00:41:59.820 party people like janice erwin and sarah hoffman and all these individuals who oppose parental 1.00

00:42:05.900 rights support drug sites hate jewish people who don't want to be killed by terrorists and also 0.76

00:42:11.820 want to ban coal and like defund charter schools these people are radical nutcases and the funny 0.85

00:42:19.500 thing is they'll always say like well it's not anti-semitic i'm anti-zionist what do you think

00:42:23.260 90 of jewish people are they're zionists because in fact they do believe that israel should exist

00:42:29.820 Uh, anyways, but that should be it for that particular topic there. Uh, you know, I bet I'm 0.95

00:42:36.920 going to get some comments on social media accusing me of being Jewish or whatever, even though I'm 0.93

00:42:42.000 the waspiest man who has ever wasped, but whatever. Uh, so yeah, things are not going so hot for the 0.89

00:42:48.900 NDP at the moment. The referendum going through in October and kind of killing off the separatist

00:42:54.520 issue for a decade or so is going to absolutely destroy the NDP in the next provincial election

00:43:00.180 because they have nothing to run on and I'm not like trying to like dance on the grave of the

00:43:05.200 of the referendum and say it's dead and buried ah now we never have to talk about it again

00:43:09.100 people who are independence minded have a lot of legitimate concerns they have a lot of

00:43:14.760 legitimate points about Canada I would say to them the movement needs to stop being led by

00:43:21.480 attention seekers. I think Keith Wilson and Corey Morgan and the person who's part of the duo with

00:43:26.940 Keith Wilson, they're doing a good job. There are other people out there who are actually quite good.

00:43:31.380 Mitch Sylvester is quite a good spokesperson for his movement. You have to drop the people

00:43:36.960 like Jeff Rath. There are so many people in the separatist movement who are there

00:43:41.180 to get attention. Jeff Rath is a reconciliation industry lawyer who actually is getting sued by

00:43:49.140 his own first nation band he used to work for because he was stealing money from them through

00:43:54.400 like a legal loophole he tried to pull out on one of his own clients now he was effectively working

00:43:59.360 for them to sue the government and to sue corporations to block development and get more

00:44:04.260 benefit money so even then he wasn't doing it wasn't like he was doing good work until he

00:44:08.720 started stealing he was working as a reconciliation industry lawyer the type of person that my boss

00:44:15.020 in British Columbia, Dallas Brody, would absolutely skewer for being a political hack.

00:44:20.580 That guy probably shouldn't be your spokesperson for a movement that's supposed to get wide

00:44:24.800 attention.

00:44:25.720 Maybe don't go to the U.S. constantly, making it look like you're somehow working for the

00:44:30.420 Trump administration.

00:44:31.600 Now, is he?

00:44:32.520 No.

00:44:33.060 They probably don't want anything to do with him.

00:44:35.120 But Jeff Rath doesn't care.

00:44:36.640 He wants to go on the CBC and yell about communism to try and get some viral clips.

00:44:42.200 I don't know what communism has to do with any of this.

00:44:45.020 are there socialistic people in canada in government i don't like sure but he acts like

00:44:49.580 a caricature of a caricature and ends up just button-holing the entire community into being

00:44:55.020 something only for rural alberta freedom conservatives not that that not that he is

00:44:59.580 like a caricature of a rural alberta freedom conservative but in terms of his hot rhetoric

00:45:05.100 really is only going to appeal to people who already believed in independence and they'll

00:45:09.580 ignore his kind of hokey delivery because they already believe in the policy goals of it whereas

00:45:15.580 if you're a suburban person living in calgary you will never vote for independence if jeff wrath is

00:45:20.780 the face of the whole thing so hopefully you've not ticked off too many people in alberta who

00:45:25.580 like independence by saying this this is just my honest take on sort of what why i would say the

00:45:32.540 the support is not nearly as high as many people would want it to be yes there are some polls out

00:45:37.500 out there showing as high as 40%. It's just not there. It's just not in the cards. Janet Brown is

00:45:43.180 the best pollster in the entire country. She is extremely accurate, and she puts independent

00:45:49.480 support in her last two polls at the latest one, 27%, and the one before that at 30%.

00:45:55.080 She does really detailed polling. She does online and direct phone calling. She makes sure to get a

00:46:01.360 diverse sample so she's not just polling a bunch of public sector workers living in small towns

00:46:05.700 in rural areas. She makes sure that she's reaching farmers, that she's reaching ranchers and small

00:46:11.320 business owners and guys who work in trades, people who work in finance, people who work in

00:46:15.620 public sector, Edmonton, Calgary. She has a very diverse, really balanced sample, and it's about

00:46:21.020 30%. So I would say if it doesn't succeed, it's not that I'm saying like, okay, now nobody wants 0.98

00:46:30.160 you. Nobody likes your perspectives. It's just that focus on sovereignty things first. Now,

00:46:35.800 again, I don't support independence, but that's what I always tell the independence people.

00:46:39.500 Win some of the sovereignty battles first, and then you can move on to the next thing. And I

00:46:43.740 would say along the way, as things get better for Alberta, as we get more sovereign, reevaluate if

00:46:50.500 then independence is worth it, if things are getting better by pursuing more sovereign test

00:46:55.720 policies. Because that's what I would say. I am an Alberta sovereignist. I want Alberta to have

00:47:00.900 more control over its own affairs. And I think that solves probably 80% of the issues right off

00:47:07.080 the bat that many independence people bring up. If Alberta has its own pension plan and collects

00:47:11.640 its own taxes and a bunch of these other things, is able to run its own healthcare system the way

00:47:15.900 it wants to without the federal government intervening and without being able to build 0.61

00:47:21.420 pipelines is another issue that will have to be solved uh with more you know bally ragging between

00:47:27.340 the provinces and cajoling and whatnot but that's one of the more some that's one of the other

00:47:32.340 issues that maybe requires you know it wouldn't be helped by independence really like if you go

00:47:37.680 independent it's not like bc's suddenly going to build you a pipeline if anything they would say

00:47:41.080 well screw you because now you're a bunch of traders and we're never going to build you

00:47:44.740 anything not that you pander to them it's just one of those things that's going to take a lot 0.97

00:47:48.860 of maneuvering over time and in fact requires provincial change in British Columbia, which I

00:47:54.260 would argue Dallas Brody has been like one of the biggest drivers of shifting the political culture

00:47:58.980 of BC and making it much more likely that in four or five years you can actually build that pipeline 0.99

00:48:04.180 up to Prince Rupert rather than having to settle for the stupid pipeline that Mark Carney is only 0.97

00:48:09.040 going to allow down to the lower mainland again. Anyways, so with all that being said, if you guys 0.72

00:48:15.660 like what I'm doing here, and if you live in Alberta, consider signing up on my website,

00:48:19.820 wyattclaypool.com, pinned at the top of the comments if you want to support me in the UCP

00:48:24.000 nomination. And then, of course, the rest of the things you can do, like, share, subscribe,

00:48:28.020 consider hitting the join button and becoming a member of the channel. This has been a long video.

00:48:32.740 Hopefully you guys did not mind it, except I actually forgot to do my Nahid Nenshi impression.

00:48:38.540 So for those who are still sticking around, I love the way that man talks. He has a weird way

00:48:44.600 of like unfurling his hands while he's talking and like closing his eyes and like moving his head

00:48:49.380 around. Like he's just so tired of it all. You know, Premier Smith, she has to come clean and

00:48:55.580 tell us who in her caucus supports separatism because we want to see them and we want to see 0.93

00:49:03.140 them executed. Danielle, how much, how many lobbyists and consultants are being hired

00:49:09.380 on this referendum nobody asked for he's like a weird progressive version of trump in the sense

00:49:16.280 he has a lot of hand mannerisms and he has a kind of like this lazy way of kind of talking a little

00:49:20.760 bit but he's also like really squishy and left-wing at the same time uh you know this is

00:49:28.200 what danielle smith needs to come clean and admit that she is just serving her separatist 1.00

00:49:35.400 far-right friends and allowing for the Americans to interfere in our elections. She has to stop 1.00

00:49:42.440 pandering to the conspiracy theorists, and she has to stop pointing out, I blew out all of the

00:49:48.460 water mains in Canada or in Calgary. She has to stop bringing that up because that's not letting

00:49:55.980 me win, and not letting me win is another way of rigging an election. Anyways, so now that we're

00:50:02.560 the 50 minute mark thank you guys for watching i'll see you all later

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 26, 2026

Nenshi is DONE - Alberta NDP will get CRUSHED after Referendum Polling Bump

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