The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Nenshi NDP ban questions at ＂town halls＂ - No wonder the UCP is winning!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Today I want to talk to you guys about some Alberta politics,

00:00:06.680 and specifically the failure to launch of Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi. I genuinely thought

00:00:13.560 when he became the NDP leader in this province that he was actually going to give Premier

00:00:18.560 Danielle Smith a run for her money in the next election. You know, he was a three-term 1.00

00:00:23.980 Calgary mayor. Usually the NDP ends up stalling out and not winning the election because they

00:00:28.760 can't quite win enough Calgary seats. He's probably going to do better than Rachel Notley,

00:00:33.540 and it turns out that that was entirely a wrong assumption. Winning a municipal election is not

00:00:39.920 the same as winning a provincial election, and I think that Nenshi's fussy and frankly cowardly

00:00:46.500 style doesn't play very well in a province like Alberta. Probably doesn't play well anywhere,

00:00:51.760 but especially in a place that's a little bit more straight-talking like Alberta. There was this

00:00:57.840 recent example of Nenshi attempting to act like a big man and absolutely falling on his face.

00:01:06.000 So if you don't know, Alberta Premier and UCP leader Danielle Smith is on this Alberta Next Panel Tour.

00:01:14.040 She has a panel of experts, and they've been doing these town halls around the province in big cities,

00:01:20.120 in small towns, having people show up, listening to these experts on different issues, and some of

00:01:25.820 these people are more on the right, some of them are more on the left, and they discuss policy issues

00:01:30.260 for Alberta and different solutions that people may have. Basically allows people who have concerns

00:01:36.300 about Alberta's place in Canada and the things that need to improve right now in Confederation to make

00:01:42.800 Alberta like, you know, a better place, to make us happier to stay, like, you know, fixing things like

00:01:48.180 Alberta's equalization. And Nenshi is attempting to, like, do his own town halls right now. And I'm going

00:01:55.860 to mention this up front because it's going to matter a lot. Danielle Smith pretty much lets anyone 1.00

00:02:01.540 walk up to a microphone and ask her pointed questions. Sometimes people just get up and attack

00:02:07.300 her, and she will still respond to it by explaining why the person's wrong or just wishing them a good day.

00:02:13.100 And then she, at these town halls he's putting on, which is only for leftists, is not allowing them

00:02:20.620 to even ask him questions. But before I get into the specific clip of him basically saying no questions

00:02:26.640 at this event, I want to show you what one of his own MLAs from Edmonton, or he actually may be from

00:02:33.640 North Calgary. Let's just check right here. But I want to show you how he was actually pitching this.

00:02:39.500 He's, yeah, he's the Calgary elbow MLA. So Samir Kayandi says, myself, Nenshi, and my Alberta MDP

00:02:47.180 colleagues are committing to hearing from people across this beautiful province we call home, at the

00:02:52.540 doors, in town halls, and at community events. It's the Better Together Summit. Together we're stronger,

00:02:58.780 Alberta and Canada. And this is him presenting the Alberta MDP's alternative town hall circuit and how

00:03:08.220 they're actually going to listen and all this stuff. I love this video in contrast with the clip we're

00:03:13.740 about to play with Nenshi.

00:03:15.900 We're better together and we're stronger together. We're better as Albertans and as Canadians.

00:03:23.900 That's why we're coming to your communities to listen to what you have to say about why Canada is

00:03:27.980 important to you. It's the Better Together Summer. It's coming soon to a community near you.

00:03:34.140 Who approved this man to shoot a video like this? I don't know why he's like walking down

00:03:40.860 and feel like, Bear Together Summit. We want to hear from you about why you like Alberta remaining

00:03:49.420 in Canada. Come strut with me and tell me all about your opinions that I don't actually care about.

00:03:55.660 You're having a town hall on why people already agree with you that Alberta should remain in Canada.

00:04:01.260 And by the way, I'm not even a separatist. I'm not pro-independence. But this just comes off as

00:04:06.460 really prissy and sensitive, putting on a town hall merely to try and smear the premier as being

00:04:13.260 a separatist, which she is not. The whole thing is just such a show that is not actually going to 0.83

00:04:19.580 connect with anyone that the Alberta NDP didn't already have interested in them. But now we have to

00:04:25.500 move down to the clip that someone got from one of these Nenshi town halls. This is of course not

00:04:30.780 something he put out himself because it's frankly embarrassing to be this much of a coward. But I 0.98

00:04:36.620 want to show you now this clip of Nahid Nenshi at his own town hall saying that he does not want

00:04:45.100 questions. So look at this.

00:04:47.100 So we're going to talk a lot about the format for tonight. I'm going to start by telling you a little

00:04:52.300 about what to expect. So you know that there is this other set of town halls going on at the moment.

00:05:00.700 And so rather than give people the opportunity to hold the money to give us a lot of luck,

00:05:05.420 we're giving you the opportunity to talk to your friends and neighbors and the friends who haven't

00:05:09.500 yet in the room. I like the person who was recording this couldn't help but scoff. It was

00:05:15.500 either them or the person sitting next to them. Instead of letting you hold the microphone and give

00:05:20.780 a monologue, like what a way of insulting people for maybe wanting to ask you a question. Yeah,

00:05:25.340 town halls, you get the people who grab the mic and they want to go on for five minutes. Yeah,

00:05:29.260 you can yank the mic away from them if they're not being productive. But Nenshi's just like,

00:05:33.740 instead of actually letting you do the thing we promised what my own MLA said, we were going to

00:05:39.500 show up to your town, like strutting down the street saying, we're going to show up to your town

00:05:43.580 and let you talk to us. And then you show up and he's like, we're going to let you talk among

00:05:48.620 yourselves while we just ignore you. We're going to talk at you. And then we're going to escape out

00:05:54.380 the back door. And then you get to talk among yourselves and drink some bad coffee.

00:05:59.020 Like what, this is, this is why the Heed Nenshi and the Alberta NDP are like 14 points back in

00:06:07.180 the polls. I think the Janet Brown poll and Janet Brown is like the gold standard of a pollster in

00:06:12.620 Western Canada. I think she had them back like nine or 10 points. But if you're back nine or 10 points

00:06:19.180 in a Janet Brown poll, that's definitive. It's not like some other polls where you may be 13 points

00:06:25.020 down. But if you put out a good marketing initiative that you might be only five points

00:06:29.180 down the next week, some pollsters are a little bit more swingy. You know, if a certain voter is

00:06:33.980 activated by a story in the media, they're very likely to pick up the phone and take the poll.

00:06:38.220 Janet Brown is very good at what she does. She postal code matches her polls to make sure she's not calling 1.00

00:06:43.260 too many people, even from specific parts of cities. She wants people from Northeast Calgary and Northeast 0.92

00:06:49.020 Edmonton and the South of Edmonton and South of Calgary. She wants someone who lives in rural 0.99

00:06:53.340 areas, but not just a town. She wants people who live on ranches. When she puts out a poll, 1.00

00:06:59.100 that is like basically one-to-one probably what an election will look like. And the Alberta NDP is

00:07:04.540 suffering because frankly, they have a terrible leader. A terrible leader who doesn't actually

00:07:10.380 care about what other people think. He comes off like a know-it-all and he's going up against

00:07:14.860 a premier who, although I've had criticisms of Daniel Smith in the past, generally doing a good job.

00:07:20.460 The things I actually had issue with where I was saying I was voting no in her leadership review,

00:07:24.860 I knew she was going to pass. I just wanted to indicate there was a room for improvement. I

00:07:28.700 don't want to just say yes, even though I think you need to do stuff. She did the stuff I want her to

00:07:32.940 do. So it's been going really well. When you're in the province right now that has the best education

00:07:38.780 system, that has the best economic growth, that has crime going down, you're not going to be able to

00:07:43.740 win an election by going to town hall saying you're not allowed to ask us questions and Daniel Smith 0.93

00:07:48.860 is a dirty separatist. That's not going to play very well. But now I need to move on to another video, 0.79

00:07:55.900 not specifically about Nenshi, but it's one of these NDP friendly individuals who's trying to attack

00:08:02.620 Daniel Smith for something she has no clue about. Steve Boots recently quit social media. He's no longer

00:08:10.380 doing his YouTube channel. And so we are going to have to move on to one of his annoying friends

00:08:16.460 here, who I think is like Leona or whatever, Lisa, Lisa Bao or something like that. You will quickly

00:08:23.420 notice not only that she has no clue what she is talking about, but she has this obnoxious tendency 1.00

00:08:30.540 of talking like someone stuck razor blades and shreds of rust down her throat because talking like this

00:08:37.660 really shows she's better than you because I'm talking like I'm so over it. I'm so over it guys.

00:08:45.900 I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm so over it. So you should watch my show.

00:08:49.020 I love the internet. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. The internet is forever.

00:08:57.580 Why am I reminding you of this? This is Trevor Tome. He's an economics professor with the University of

00:09:03.500 Calgary. Has his own website and everything. Trevor Tome also sits on the Alberta Next panel.

00:09:09.660 Yeah now. The panel the UCP created to impose their ideas on all Albertans. You mean the panel where you

00:09:17.260 can actually ask questions to the speakers of? Like goodness. And this is going to get really funny

00:09:23.660 because I know Trevor Tome. He in fact was my professor overseeing my research project for my

00:09:30.300 master's degree. So yeah, he's very good at what he does and he is not on the right. Not that she's 0.88

00:09:36.460 going to accuse him of that, but she's going to try and put words in his mouth and act like he 0.82

00:09:41.660 contradicts Daniel Smith when again, Lisa here with her very gravelly voice overdosing on Xanax while 1.00

00:09:49.980 she's shooting this video thinks that somehow he's like correcting Daniel Smith when she's not and

00:09:56.860 she's pretending Daniel Smith's gotten something wrong that she doesn't. But again, she is living

00:10:02.700 in the Dunning-Kruger zone of knowledge. People like Lisa know issues a little bit and because they

00:10:08.860 know them a little bit, they think they know everything and then they end up screwing things

00:10:12.780 up like this. Under the guise of open dialogue and feedback. But if you are literally allowed to

00:10:19.420 give feedback. But really it's just a method for them to push their agenda. And so in Fort McMurray,

00:10:25.420 when the Alberta next panel was having their little town hall and Danny was rattling off about

00:10:30.460 how we have an Ottawa problem. Ottawa steals money from Albertans. This was Dr. Trev's face. Danny is

00:10:37.420 right here. And she rattled on and on. That's a ratchet little hand there. And on. Dr. Trev couldn't

00:10:45.020 really make eye contact with anybody. Yeah, you can you can take screenshots of the person who wasn't

00:10:50.780 being asked a question of them drinking water and like typing on their computer to pretend like

00:10:55.980 they're like angry or they're like embarrassed by what Smith is saying. But that's not what's

00:11:00.620 happened here. And she's about to go on to prove that Smith is going to talk about something and then 0.88

00:11:05.900 she's going to try and pretend like Trevor is contradicting her when in fact they are talking

00:11:11.260 about different things. When Danny was saying that Ottawa steals money from Albertans. $5,000 from every

00:11:18.140 Albertan. Why is that important? That he couldn't make eye contact with anybody? Please hold.

00:11:27.500 So this is a screen that says on October 18, 2021, Alberta will be asked to vote in a referendum on

00:11:33.260 equalization. And then the next part says we asked renowned economist Trevor Toome this question.

00:11:50.620 Why are Albertans forced to pay more towards equalization than people living in other provinces?

00:11:55.580 Now the specific wording of this question is going to be very is very key because they are this is

00:12:03.580 I believe this was the no side the people saying that we should pull out of that we should not

00:12:08.860 pull out of equalization. This is a specific question that they cooked to ask Trevor and Trevor

00:12:14.620 answers the question correctly but they're pretending like this question has to do with

00:12:19.500 what Daniel Smith currently says.

00:12:29.100 I'm sorry what now? I'm sorry what Dr. Trevor Toome economics professor expert in your field what was

00:12:41.500 that's what I thought you said. Yeah but that's not what Daniel Smith was claiming that Albertans pay

00:12:53.900 more money based on the federal tax bracket that they're in like in Alberta Burton making $150,000 a

00:13:13.500 year who have three kids who have three kids is paying the same amount in taxes as someone who lives in

00:13:18.700 Manitoba or Prince Edward Island in federal taxes. But Lisa and I'll put on the gravelly rust

00:13:27.420 rust coated voice just so you understand me. That's not Daniel Smith's point. In fact her point is that

00:13:37.020 Albertans don't have a lot of federal money that comes back to them. It disproportionately goes to

00:13:42.540 other provinces. They're not having to pay more in their taxes. The whole point is Daniel Smith is

00:13:48.540 saying that the funding is like it's being stolen because it gets mostly allocated. A lot of public

00:13:55.100 sector or public service top-ups go to places like Quebec but they don't come back to Alberta. Are you

00:14:02.220 are you getting this Lisa? These are two different things and you're using a clip of Trevor answering

00:14:07.580 a different question in order to try and debunk something that Daniel Smith is saying. You think of

00:14:13.260 Trevor thought she was wrong. He would pipe up and say well no no we're not having our money stolen.

00:14:17.980 But the whole point is it's objectively true that equalization takes money in from all the

00:14:22.220 provinces and then it reallocates it in a uneven way. The whole point of equalization is the idea

00:14:29.580 that if PEI is only able to spend five thousand six thousand dollars per person on public services

00:14:36.380 then we are going to have to top them up to six thousand or seven thousand whatever the number is

00:14:41.660 and because Alberta already is able to allocate ten thousand dollars a person in public services

00:14:46.060 and average it doesn't get any money because we're already above the line and so out of all the

00:14:50.460 federal taxes that our province pays we are not getting much back compared to Quebec or Saskatchewan.

00:14:56.540 They disproportionately get more back for their public services than we do.

00:15:00.780 I just want to thank the breakdown. Just thank you for that. So back in 2020.

00:15:05.020 Oh my goodness Nate Pike from the breakdown sent her that clip or did that. That should just debunk,

00:15:11.500 that should just discredit Nate Pike. Nate Pike's a complete idiot if he thought that that was like 0.99

00:15:17.100 somehow a debunking of Danielle Smith. And we have all these other people and maybe I'm not even going 0.99

00:15:22.380 to bother bringing this up on screen. I saw this right before I turned on the camera today. You have

00:15:27.660 all these NDP sycophants in Alberta saying oh did you know because like the Alberta Teachers

00:15:32.540 Association is planning on striking. They're like did you know Alberta has the lowest per capita

00:15:37.660 student funding in the in all of Canada. It's like okay we also have the highest student academic

00:15:45.740 achievement rate. We also happen to have the youngest population in the country. You don't

00:15:51.340 think that we're also going to have slightly lower per capita funding because if you have a classroom

00:15:57.100 let's say of 15 kids and you increase that to 20 or you would increase that to 30. There's no

00:16:04.380 point here in which you need to because like one province has 15 kids classroom and you have 30.

00:16:10.300 You don't need to double the classrooms exactly. I know some provinces try and put caps on how many

00:16:17.020 students can be in a classroom but really at the end of the day the quality of education is what matters

00:16:21.740 and when you have a big student population it means that a lot of fixed costs don't actually have to

00:16:26.940 increase with more students. You don't need to double your executive board for the entire system.

00:16:33.420 You don't need a lot of these like small administrative roles to double if you get more

00:16:37.820 students because it's only something that one person or a few people ever actually need to do.

00:16:42.860 But these are the type of criticisms you get in Alberta. Oh my goodness we spend so little on

00:16:47.100 this or that. At the same time we have the best outcomes. So what are you talking about? These people

00:16:52.220 seem to think that if we just added four thousand more dollars it would be a better system. Well we already

00:16:57.180 spend less than everybody else. I don't actually see why adding a couple thousand dollars more

00:17:01.900 would actually benefit anybody and as the education minister Demetrio Nicolaides has actually pointed

00:17:07.740 out the ATA made demands on wages and other sorts of working regulations. The Alberta government was

00:17:14.300 like okay we can probably do that for you and they're trying to strike anyways because the ATA

00:17:19.180 is a leftist front group trying to get the NDP elected and so even if they're getting what they

00:17:24.300 want they will still artificially take issue with it just so that they can basically make trouble.

00:17:29.420 They just want to make political trouble for Danielle Smith and the UCP government. 0.95

00:17:34.060 But anyways that should be it for this video guys. I also just want to point out if you live in the

00:17:39.020 city of Calgary and you want a more conservative mayor make sure to get a Sonia Sharp lawn sign which 0.99

00:17:44.860 I will link in the description below as well as pinned at the top of the comments. I may make a full

00:17:50.220 video on mayoral polling in Calgary where I can do a little bit more give you more background on the

00:17:56.380 current dramatic fighting between Jeff Davison's campaign and everyone else. When I say everyone

00:18:04.380 else if you are not voting for Jeff Davison apparently you're a sellout liberal hack despite the

00:18:09.020 man having a very liberal voting record when he was on council. That's another bag of cats for

00:18:15.100 another day but that's actually something that's gotten under my skin so much over the past few days.

00:18:19.500 I've endorsed Sonia Sharp because she is the most conservative of the candidates who is most

00:18:25.260 viable and able to win. Jeff is not as conservative but you will be harassed for not voting for him.

00:18:31.900 You'll be gaslit over his voting record even though Sonia's is objectively better than his that all her

00:18:37.820 two votes that they take issue with define her as a liberal but his dozens of votes that are very 1.00

00:18:43.100 liberal don't actually matter and they're going to tell you why you're stupid for caring about it. 0.99

00:18:47.580 But anyways oh my goodness I always had to rant a little bit at the end of these videos. 0.98

00:18:51.820 So if you live in Calgary grab yourself a Sonia Sharp sign link in the description below pinned at

00:18:56.620 the top of the comments and then consider liking sharing these videos subscribing to the channel

00:19:01.820 really helps me out and I will see you guys next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 30, 2025

Nenshi NDP ban questions at ＂town halls＂ - No wonder the UCP is winning!

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