The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 27, 2023


The Alberta NDP Candidates Are Not Normal

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Wyatt Claypool
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Roseman Valencia Danielle Smith Angela Davis Gurinder Brar Karl Marx Sikh Parmit Bopari Jody Callahoo Stonehouse Rod La Jolla Jonathan Bradley Rachel Notley Hugo Chavez Liana Peeva Nathan Ipp Calistani
Justin Trudeau asked if the Liberal Party will be investigated for CCP Influence Jagmeet Singh Is A Putz

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In this episode, I talk about the crazy candidates the Alberta NDP are running in the upcoming election, and how the media are completely ignoring them. I also talk about why the media should be paying more attention to the candidates who are actually running for the party.

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00:00:00.000 I think it goes without saying for anyone who's been paying attention to this Alberta election, that one of the most infuriating things has been the media's absolute lack of attention on the kind of crazy candidates the NDP is running. 0.84
00:00:12.660 I know that the media is all over it whenever a UCP candidate says something slightly stupid or like Daniel Smith has some sort of thing she said on a radio show taken out of context five, six, seven years ago.
00:00:24.700 But like, goodness, can no one pay attention to some of these NDP candidates? Well, like, I'll just go through just a few of them. And if you dig deep enough on any of them, they usually hold some sort of crazy socialist opinion or some other sort of weird nonsense that we'll get into. 0.83
00:00:39.340 But like, just right away, Calgary East candidate Roseman Valencia effectively thinks that Alberta is a racist society. He quoted Angela Davis saying, you know, in a racist society, you can't just be not racist, you have to be anti-racist.
00:00:53.340 Stupid, stupid quote, first off. But on top of that, he was posting that quote alongside photos of Alberta, like an Alberta protest he attended, which is effectively saying that Alberta is the racist society in this context. 1.00
00:01:08.400 And at the same time, he's saying that he's attending marches with anti-Semitic groups, and he's quoting anti-Semites like Angela Davis and others, because, you know, I guess Roseman Valencia doesn't think that he's capable of being racist or intolerant.
00:01:23.860 Then we can just move on to Parmi Bopari, who's running in Calgary, Falkenridge for the NDP, who's just openly a Calistani. 0.91
00:01:31.640 He's just openly in favor of violent Sikhs, Sikh separatism in Punjab. 1.00
00:01:36.460 And before anyone sort of says that crap where they're like, are you trying to attack someone for being Sikh? 0.99
00:01:41.560 The vast majority of Sikhs do not support Calistani nonsense. 0.99
00:01:44.920 And this guy's allowed to run. It's actually his second time running for the NDP.
00:01:48.300 Man, just the media doesn't care. The NDP doesn't care, even though, you know, the Calistani movement led to the Air India bombing, which killed over 200 Canadians traveling from Montreal to London.
00:01:59.800 But I guess who really gives a crap? 0.97
00:02:02.240 And then we have a candidate for the NDP up in Edmonton, Jody Calhoun Stonehouse, who posted this that says communism is the prize and queer indigenous feminism is the way. 0.98
00:02:12.300 Now, does that seem like someone to you who is a reasonable representative of who Albertans are?
00:02:18.240 Even if you go to the most progressive riding in this entire province, you're going to have a lot of people looking at you funny if you come to them and say, hey, you know, communism is on the horizon and queer indigenous feminism is the way. 0.99
00:02:30.980 Like, they'd lock you up. They'll put you in a padded cell.
00:02:33.580 But again, it doesn't even end there.
00:02:34.980 We have Grinder Brar up in Calgary North, and this man is a current MLA, and he was posting things endorsing the idea of violent revolution.
00:02:44.500 At the same time, he was tacitly praising Mao from China, one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, and then also posting things about Karl Marx and whatnot.
00:02:54.020 Again, find me a UCP candidate who has said anything about someone as radical as Karl Marx or Chairman Mao in a, like, in a even slightly positive way.
00:03:06.400 You're going to have a hard time.
00:03:07.980 Like, they have to usually find that if a UCP candidate's been in the same room as someone we find distasteful, regardless of what they think of them, that's a story.
00:03:15.260 But to the mainstream media, several NDP candidates praising communism or effectively holding communist opinions just does not at all even register as something that should be a story.
00:03:28.220 So we have this other lady, Liana Pava, who is the NDP candidate up in Peace River, and thankfully she's very unlikely to win considering it's such a rural conservative riding.
00:03:38.540 But she literally endorsed the idea that, well, people are happier if they own less, own less stuff.
00:03:44.720 And I understand that she's kind of doing this from the minimalist angle, but at the same time she's endorsing commune-style living and then constantly attacks capitalism and then sings the praises of socialism, in which sometimes she just sort of labels things that are obviously not socialism as socialism.
00:04:01.220 She thinks that the government building roads is socialism, which is completely ridiculous.
00:04:06.160 The government building roads does not mean that the government owns the means of production in society.
00:04:11.180 But whatever, she's, that's just a typical NDP candidate. 1.00
00:04:14.800 She's a socialist communist, but also doesn't even really understand her own ideology.
00:04:19.400 And then you even get other NDP candidates who just think that we should just get rid of the Catholic school system and probably any other religious school system by that.
00:04:28.960 You know, from based off the fact he wants to get rid of the Catholic school system,
00:04:32.820 I really couldn't see him wanting to keep any other ones around, let alone charter schools or home schools.
00:04:38.080 I think that was Nathan Ipp, and he's running somewhere in Calgary.
00:04:41.820 Hopefully he also loses.
00:04:43.620 But think about all this stuff that's out on the NDP.
00:04:47.880 And I've only scratched the surface of it.
00:04:49.940 I know Jonathan Bradley over at the Western Standard.
00:04:52.400 I highlighted some of his articles here.
00:04:54.140 He also has Rod La Jolla up in Edmonton.
00:04:57.140 And he was leading a communist party of Alberta march through the streets.
00:05:01.080 And he's also had a bit of a history of praising Hugo Chavez and generally being in favor of any sort of South American socialist dictatorship.
00:05:09.780 But think about all that stuff.
00:05:12.120 And then think about the fact that they go after UCP candidates for saying that you might have an increased chance of having a heart attack for being overweight.
00:05:19.740 It's insane that you couldn't get anyone from CTV News, CBC, Global City to cover any of this stuff.
00:05:27.400 But they will cover just random kind of comments that, you know, a Daniel Smith or any other UCP candidate has made over the past five years.
00:05:35.460 And some of them are maybe warranted for the media to cover.
00:05:38.920 But there's this double standard where you can, if you say something mild that's even true, like Chelsea did out in, I forget, wow, I can't even remember the writing.
00:05:49.000 But yeah, the lady who is a doctor who said that, you know, being overweight can cause, you know, health problems. 1.00
00:05:56.060 That's something that was covered and the media went after her for days. 0.99
00:05:59.200 Yet no one's going to go after Grinder Brar for, you know, supporting violent communist revolution or Parmit Bopari for supporting an extreme of violent extremist religious movement that wants to establish a theocracy in the Punjab region, in which it's probably just a project in order to try and give Punjab over to Pakistan.
00:06:17.060 That's not a concern. 0.99
00:06:18.420 Who gives a crap? 0.99
00:06:19.640 But like Roseman Valencia, hyper-progressive candidate going to marches with justice for Palestinians who has a history of beating up Jews in downtown Calgary. 0.99
00:06:27.180 Ah, nothing to see here.
00:06:28.540 Like, it is startling how many communists there are in the NDP.
00:06:33.220 And again, it's not even like I'm just sort of cherry-picking some stuff from the NDP and sort of trying to misrepresent them.
00:06:39.620 Like, oh, well, they're not really that bad, but if you, like, they're not really that bad and I'm just sort of skewing things.
00:06:44.800 They literally declare themselves a democratic socialist party in their own constitution.
00:06:50.400 Like, it is not even hidden.
00:06:52.320 It's the first line of their constitution, or I think it's like line 1.03.
00:06:56.200 They could remove that line in any AGM they want.
00:06:59.820 They just never have because, frankly, it represents them.
00:07:02.580 Even the federal NDP have removed their commitment to democratic socialism.
00:07:06.880 Like, the Alberta NDP's constitution literally still says the purpose of the party is to promote the principles of democratic socialism and establish and maintain a democratic socialist government in the province of Alberta.
00:07:18.340 That is, I'm pretty sure, word for word, exactly what the constitution says.
00:07:23.020 And I know that Rachel Notley is very good at coming off as a moderate, but if she was to win the Alberta election and the NDP was to form a government, they're not going to win by a big margin.
00:07:32.460 They would have a very slim majority.
00:07:34.440 And all these crazies I've highlighted could potentially be in the party caucus and could control what the party passes because, you know, it only takes three or four of them to hold out on legislation to demand even more radical legislation.
00:07:49.180 So, when we're, us here at Stop the NDP are telling people to get out and vote, it's not just because, well, you know, we don't really like the NDP, we don't agree with all their stuff.
00:07:59.640 It's because they actually have a real chance of forming government.
00:08:02.800 And whatever you think of the NDP, it's much worse when you look into them further.
00:08:07.060 The sorts of radical ideologies just tolerated in the party would never be tolerated in any conservative party from the right, nor would it even be tolerated in the Liberal Party.
00:08:17.520 Like, the Liberal Party is deeply corrupt, but they usually don't allow this sort of college campus radicalism into their party.
00:08:24.660 Like, these are 40-year-old people who still believe communism or socialism are good ideas.
00:08:29.440 That's not someone you want passing legislation and controlling the economy in this country or province.