Nenshi NDP ban questions at ＂town halls＂ - No wonder the UCP is winning!
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Naheed Nenshi is a coward. He doesn t want to be asked questions at his own town hall events, and he doesn't even allow his own own supporters to ask him questions. And yet, he still thinks it's a good idea to do so.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Today I want to talk to you guys about some Alberta politics,
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and specifically the failure to launch of Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi. I genuinely thought
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when he became the NDP leader in this province that he was actually going to give Premier
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Danielle Smith a run for her money in the next election. You know, he was a three-term
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Calgary mayor. Usually the NDP ends up stalling out and not winning the election because they
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can't quite win enough Calgary seats. He's probably going to do better than Rachel Notley,
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and it turns out that that was entirely a wrong assumption. Winning a municipal election is not
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the same as winning a provincial election, and I think that Nenshi's fussy and frankly cowardly
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style doesn't play very well in a province like Alberta. Probably doesn't play well anywhere,
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but especially in a place that's a little bit more straight-talking like Alberta. There was this
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recent example of Nenshi attempting to act like a big man and absolutely falling on his face.
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So if you don't know, Alberta Premier and UCP leader Danielle Smith is on this Alberta Next Panel Tour.
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She has a panel of experts, and they've been doing these town halls around the province in big cities,
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in small towns, having people show up, listening to these experts on different issues, and some of
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these people are more on the right, some of them are more on the left, and they discuss policy issues
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for Alberta and different solutions that people may have. Basically allows people who have concerns
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about Alberta's place in Canada and the things that need to improve right now in Confederation to make
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Alberta like, you know, a better place, to make us happier to stay, like, you know, fixing things like
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Alberta's equalization. And Nenshi is attempting to, like, do his own town halls right now. And I'm going
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to mention this up front because it's going to matter a lot. Danielle Smith pretty much lets anyone
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walk up to a microphone and ask her pointed questions. Sometimes people just get up and attack
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her, and she will still respond to it by explaining why the person's wrong or just wishing them a good day.
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And then she, at these town halls he's putting on, which is only for leftists, is not allowing them
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to even ask him questions. But before I get into the specific clip of him basically saying no questions
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at this event, I want to show you what one of his own MLAs from Edmonton, or he actually may be from
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North Calgary. Let's just check right here. But I want to show you how he was actually pitching this.
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He's, yeah, he's the Calgary elbow MLA. So Samir Kayandi says, myself, Nenshi, and my Alberta MDP
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colleagues are committing to hearing from people across this beautiful province we call home, at the
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doors, in town halls, and at community events. It's the Better Together Summit. Together we're stronger,
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Alberta and Canada. And this is him presenting the Alberta MDP's alternative town hall circuit and how
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they're actually going to listen and all this stuff. I love this video in contrast with the clip we're
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We're better together and we're stronger together. We're better as Albertans and as Canadians.
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That's why we're coming to your communities to listen to what you have to say about why Canada is
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important to you. It's the Better Together Summer. It's coming soon to a community near you.
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Who approved this man to shoot a video like this? I don't know why he's like walking down
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and feel like, Bear Together Summit. We want to hear from you about why you like Alberta remaining
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in Canada. Come strut with me and tell me all about your opinions that I don't actually care about.
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You're having a town hall on why people already agree with you that Alberta should remain in Canada.
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And by the way, I'm not even a separatist. I'm not pro-independence. But this just comes off as
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really prissy and sensitive, putting on a town hall merely to try and smear the premier as being
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a separatist, which she is not. The whole thing is just such a show that is not actually going to
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connect with anyone that the Alberta NDP didn't already have interested in them. But now we have to
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move down to the clip that someone got from one of these Nenshi town halls. This is of course not
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something he put out himself because it's frankly embarrassing to be this much of a coward. But I
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want to show you now this clip of Nahid Nenshi at his own town hall saying that he does not want
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So we're going to talk a lot about the format for tonight. I'm going to start by telling you a little
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about what to expect. So you know that there is this other set of town halls going on at the moment.
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And so rather than give people the opportunity to hold the money to give us a lot of luck,
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we're giving you the opportunity to talk to your friends and neighbors and the friends who haven't
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yet in the room. I like the person who was recording this couldn't help but scoff. It was
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either them or the person sitting next to them. Instead of letting you hold the microphone and give
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a monologue, like what a way of insulting people for maybe wanting to ask you a question. Yeah,
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town halls, you get the people who grab the mic and they want to go on for five minutes. Yeah,
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you can yank the mic away from them if they're not being productive. But Nenshi's just like,
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instead of actually letting you do the thing we promised what my own MLA said, we were going to
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show up to your town, like strutting down the street saying, we're going to show up to your town
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and let you talk to us. And then you show up and he's like, we're going to let you talk among
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yourselves while we just ignore you. We're going to talk at you. And then we're going to escape out
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the back door. And then you get to talk among yourselves and drink some bad coffee.
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Like what, this is, this is why the Heed Nenshi and the Alberta NDP are like 14 points back in
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the polls. I think the Janet Brown poll and Janet Brown is like the gold standard of a pollster in
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Western Canada. I think she had them back like nine or 10 points. But if you're back nine or 10 points
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in a Janet Brown poll, that's definitive. It's not like some other polls where you may be 13 points
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down. But if you put out a good marketing initiative that you might be only five points
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down the next week, some pollsters are a little bit more swingy. You know, if a certain voter is
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activated by a story in the media, they're very likely to pick up the phone and take the poll.
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Janet Brown is very good at what she does. She postal code matches her polls to make sure she's not calling
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too many people, even from specific parts of cities. She wants people from Northeast Calgary and Northeast
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Edmonton and the South of Edmonton and South of Calgary. She wants someone who lives in rural
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areas, but not just a town. She wants people who live on ranches. When she puts out a poll,
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that is like basically one-to-one probably what an election will look like. And the Alberta NDP is
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suffering because frankly, they have a terrible leader. A terrible leader who doesn't actually
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care about what other people think. He comes off like a know-it-all and he's going up against
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a premier who, although I've had criticisms of Daniel Smith in the past, generally doing a good job.
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The things I actually had issue with where I was saying I was voting no in her leadership review,
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I knew she was going to pass. I just wanted to indicate there was a room for improvement. I
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don't want to just say yes, even though I think you need to do stuff. She did the stuff I want her to
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do. So it's been going really well. When you're in the province right now that has the best education
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system, that has the best economic growth, that has crime going down, you're not going to be able to
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win an election by going to town hall saying you're not allowed to ask us questions and Daniel Smith
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is a dirty separatist. That's not going to play very well. But now I need to move on to another video,
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not specifically about Nenshi, but it's one of these NDP friendly individuals who's trying to attack
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Daniel Smith for something she has no clue about. Steve Boots recently quit social media. He's no longer
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doing his YouTube channel. And so we are going to have to move on to one of his annoying friends
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here, who I think is like Leona or whatever, Lisa, Lisa Bao or something like that. You will quickly
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notice not only that she has no clue what she is talking about, but she has this obnoxious tendency
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of talking like someone stuck razor blades and shreds of rust down her throat because talking like this
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really shows she's better than you because I'm talking like I'm so over it. I'm so over it guys.
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I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm so over it. So you should watch my show.
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I love the internet. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. The internet is forever.
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Why am I reminding you of this? This is Trevor Tome. He's an economics professor with the University of
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Calgary. Has his own website and everything. Trevor Tome also sits on the Alberta Next panel.
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Yeah now. The panel the UCP created to impose their ideas on all Albertans. You mean the panel where you
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can actually ask questions to the speakers of? Like goodness. And this is going to get really funny
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because I know Trevor Tome. He in fact was my professor overseeing my research project for my
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master's degree. So yeah, he's very good at what he does and he is not on the right. Not that she's
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going to accuse him of that, but she's going to try and put words in his mouth and act like he
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contradicts Daniel Smith when again, Lisa here with her very gravelly voice overdosing on Xanax while
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she's shooting this video thinks that somehow he's like correcting Daniel Smith when she's not and
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she's pretending Daniel Smith's gotten something wrong that she doesn't. But again, she is living
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in the Dunning-Kruger zone of knowledge. People like Lisa know issues a little bit and because they
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know them a little bit, they think they know everything and then they end up screwing things
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up like this. Under the guise of open dialogue and feedback. But if you are literally allowed to
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give feedback. But really it's just a method for them to push their agenda. And so in Fort McMurray,
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when the Alberta next panel was having their little town hall and Danny was rattling off about
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how we have an Ottawa problem. Ottawa steals money from Albertans. This was Dr. Trev's face. Danny is
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right here. And she rattled on and on. That's a ratchet little hand there. And on. Dr. Trev couldn't
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really make eye contact with anybody. Yeah, you can you can take screenshots of the person who wasn't
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being asked a question of them drinking water and like typing on their computer to pretend like
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they're like angry or they're like embarrassed by what Smith is saying. But that's not what's
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happened here. And she's about to go on to prove that Smith is going to talk about something and then
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she's going to try and pretend like Trevor is contradicting her when in fact they are talking
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about different things. When Danny was saying that Ottawa steals money from Albertans. $5,000 from every
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Albertan. Why is that important? That he couldn't make eye contact with anybody? Please hold.
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So this is a screen that says on October 18, 2021, Alberta will be asked to vote in a referendum on
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equalization. And then the next part says we asked renowned economist Trevor Toome this question.
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Why are Albertans forced to pay more towards equalization than people living in other provinces?
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Now the specific wording of this question is going to be very is very key because they are this is
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I believe this was the no side the people saying that we should pull out of that we should not
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pull out of equalization. This is a specific question that they cooked to ask Trevor and Trevor
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answers the question correctly but they're pretending like this question has to do with
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I'm sorry what now? I'm sorry what Dr. Trevor Toome economics professor expert in your field what was
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that's what I thought you said. Yeah but that's not what Daniel Smith was claiming that Albertans pay
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more money based on the federal tax bracket that they're in like in Alberta Burton making $150,000 a
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year who have three kids who have three kids is paying the same amount in taxes as someone who lives in
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Manitoba or Prince Edward Island in federal taxes. But Lisa and I'll put on the gravelly rust
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rust coated voice just so you understand me. That's not Daniel Smith's point. In fact her point is that
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Albertans don't have a lot of federal money that comes back to them. It disproportionately goes to
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other provinces. They're not having to pay more in their taxes. The whole point is Daniel Smith is
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saying that the funding is like it's being stolen because it gets mostly allocated. A lot of public
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sector or public service top-ups go to places like Quebec but they don't come back to Alberta. Are you
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are you getting this Lisa? These are two different things and you're using a clip of Trevor answering
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a different question in order to try and debunk something that Daniel Smith is saying. You think of
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Trevor thought she was wrong. He would pipe up and say well no no we're not having our money stolen.
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But the whole point is it's objectively true that equalization takes money in from all the
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provinces and then it reallocates it in a uneven way. The whole point of equalization is the idea
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that if PEI is only able to spend five thousand six thousand dollars per person on public services
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then we are going to have to top them up to six thousand or seven thousand whatever the number is
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and because Alberta already is able to allocate ten thousand dollars a person in public services
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and average it doesn't get any money because we're already above the line and so out of all the
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federal taxes that our province pays we are not getting much back compared to Quebec or Saskatchewan.
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They disproportionately get more back for their public services than we do.
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I just want to thank the breakdown. Just thank you for that. So back in 2020.
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Oh my goodness Nate Pike from the breakdown sent her that clip or did that. That should just debunk,
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that should just discredit Nate Pike. Nate Pike's a complete idiot if he thought that that was like
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somehow a debunking of Danielle Smith. And we have all these other people and maybe I'm not even going
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to bother bringing this up on screen. I saw this right before I turned on the camera today. You have
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all these NDP sycophants in Alberta saying oh did you know because like the Alberta Teachers
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Association is planning on striking. They're like did you know Alberta has the lowest per capita
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student funding in the in all of Canada. It's like okay we also have the highest student academic
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achievement rate. We also happen to have the youngest population in the country. You don't
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think that we're also going to have slightly lower per capita funding because if you have a classroom
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let's say of 15 kids and you increase that to 20 or you would increase that to 30. There's no
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point here in which you need to because like one province has 15 kids classroom and you have 30.
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You don't need to double the classrooms exactly. I know some provinces try and put caps on how many
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students can be in a classroom but really at the end of the day the quality of education is what matters
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and when you have a big student population it means that a lot of fixed costs don't actually have to
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increase with more students. You don't need to double your executive board for the entire system.
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You don't need a lot of these like small administrative roles to double if you get more
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students because it's only something that one person or a few people ever actually need to do.
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But these are the type of criticisms you get in Alberta. Oh my goodness we spend so little on
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this or that. At the same time we have the best outcomes. So what are you talking about? These people
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seem to think that if we just added four thousand more dollars it would be a better system. Well we already
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spend less than everybody else. I don't actually see why adding a couple thousand dollars more
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would actually benefit anybody and as the education minister Demetrio Nicolaides has actually pointed
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out the ATA made demands on wages and other sorts of working regulations. The Alberta government was
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like okay we can probably do that for you and they're trying to strike anyways because the ATA
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is a leftist front group trying to get the NDP elected and so even if they're getting what they
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want they will still artificially take issue with it just so that they can basically make trouble.
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They just want to make political trouble for Danielle Smith and the UCP government.
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But anyways that should be it for this video guys. I also just want to point out if you live in the
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city of Calgary and you want a more conservative mayor make sure to get a Sonia Sharp lawn sign which
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I will link in the description below as well as pinned at the top of the comments. I may make a full
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video on mayoral polling in Calgary where I can do a little bit more give you more background on the
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current dramatic fighting between Jeff Davison's campaign and everyone else. When I say everyone
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else if you are not voting for Jeff Davison apparently you're a sellout liberal hack despite the
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man having a very liberal voting record when he was on council. That's another bag of cats for
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another day but that's actually something that's gotten under my skin so much over the past few days.
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I've endorsed Sonia Sharp because she is the most conservative of the candidates who is most
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viable and able to win. Jeff is not as conservative but you will be harassed for not voting for him.
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You'll be gaslit over his voting record even though Sonia's is objectively better than his that all her
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two votes that they take issue with define her as a liberal but his dozens of votes that are very
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liberal don't actually matter and they're going to tell you why you're stupid for caring about it.
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But anyways oh my goodness I always had to rant a little bit at the end of these videos.
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So if you live in Calgary grab yourself a Sonia Sharp sign link in the description below pinned at
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the top of the comments and then consider liking sharing these videos subscribing to the channel
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really helps me out and I will see you guys next time.