The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - The Canadian Media Is THE WORST!

00:00:00.000 This story we're about to talk about is exactly why I and so many other Canadians hate the Canadian mainstream media like Rat Poison.

00:00:10.000 The story is never about the actual story, it's just a front to push a political agenda.

00:00:17.000 The Alberta independence referendum is not going to pass on October 19th.

00:00:22.540 The support is just not there, all the polling shows it's between 20% up to 30%.

00:00:28.220 Now, that's nothing to sneeze at, but that's a far cry from being a majority of Albertans.

00:00:34.000 It's a 70-30 issue at best for the pro-independent side.

00:00:38.680 So why is the mainstream media constantly talking about it and fear-mongering about it?

00:00:45.180 It's because they're trying to support, by proxy, Prime Minister Mark Carney and NDP leader Nahid Nenshi.

00:00:52.720 They are using this movement to basically imply that you must rally around the federal liberals and the Alberta NDP because of how stalwartly they're opposing this thing that could happen, even though it obviously can't.

00:01:07.060 All these stories are just based on frivolous nothingness.

00:01:10.780 Some guy had a conversation with a guy's cousin, and then that guy drove a car past some Republican meeting in the state of Iowa.

00:01:19.720 Ergo, there's Republican collusion to try and get Alberta separate from Canada.

00:01:26.020 Ridiculous.

00:01:27.020 This whole thing is stupid.

00:01:29.920 But check out the headlines we have right now on Google.

00:01:33.400 Republicans working with Alberta separatists report.

00:01:35.980 Alberta separatists talk with GOP spark outcry, call for legislative change.

00:01:40.780 Calgary mayor calls out separatists for selling out Alberta to the U.S.

00:01:44.940 Alberta premier unaware of a part of separatist meeting with U.S. strategists.

00:01:49.780 Get to the bottom of this.

00:01:50.840 Alberta group demands investigation into separatist meeting with the GOP.

00:01:54.220 And it keeps going on and on and on.

00:01:57.420 There's so many stories being written about this.

00:01:59.980 It's not just being syndicated across different publications.

00:02:03.320 They are unique stories on the exact same subject.

00:02:06.960 What actually happened here?

00:02:08.280 Well, apparently, David Parker and Mitch Sylvester and Jeffrey Rath, I think those are the three people involved, it really doesn't matter because really nothing happened, they met with some Republican strategists in Michigan.

00:02:24.440 That's it. They met with some people. Maybe they're helping, maybe they're not. They're just throwing a bunch of money, if they are, at a movement that is just not popular.

00:02:35.600 I'm not saying that the people who like independence don't have good arguments for it, don't have many good points about the way Ottawa treats Alberta.

00:02:43.300 Absolutely they do. I agree with many of their arguments. I disagree with some of their arguments as well.

00:02:48.860 I'm not pro-independence.

00:02:50.840 But the idea that this now needs to be blown up into this scandal requiring answers from Danielle Smith,

00:02:58.440 requiring legislative change because dudes had a conversation with a guy from America.

00:03:06.620 By the way, if you didn't know, the Alberta NDP, in the by-election for Calgary Shah that they won

00:03:13.940 recently, they were using Zoran Mamdani's people in order to run that campaign. I forget what the

00:03:21.240 exact firm is called, but they were using an American Democrat DSA aligned strategy firm

00:03:29.220 to run a Calgary area by-election. And that does not get picked up by any of the mainstream media

00:03:36.360 because that's not useful to them. They want to focus on Alberta, you know, the GOP separatists

00:03:43.480 and Danielle Smith, even though none of these groups really have any association with each

00:03:48.660 other at all. But now let's get into some of the footage, some of the clips that came out of the

00:03:54.980 mainstream media on this. All these people, Kerry Tate here from the Globe and Mail, trying to turn

00:04:01.280 this into some big scandal scare story. And they had been bragging about meeting with state

00:04:09.000 officials and, you know, feeling as though their message was warmly supported at the highest

00:04:14.540 levels of the administration we were able to tease out some new details stuff we hadn't learned yet

00:04:20.880 what they were willing to say hey here's what alberta's good for here's what we might be able

00:04:26.060 to offer one day you know should we be in a position of independence or sovereignty and

00:04:31.700 that's where we started hearing about uh fresh water oil royalties access uh right of way for

00:04:41.140 railway, potential pipeline opportunities. It was really the crown jewels in Alberta.

00:04:48.580 She's acting like, because they talked to American officials, these independence guys,

00:04:53.980 again, leading a movement, let's say with about 27, 25% support. They were talking to American

00:04:59.920 officials about all the things that Alberta and America could do with each other if Alberta was

00:05:04.420 separate. I'm sorry, that's not a conspiracy. She's acting like these are the crown jewels

00:05:10.360 in Alberta and they're going to give them away. It's like, no, they're talking about like, hey,

00:05:15.700 if we separate, we'd love to build pipelines with you. Let's have deals around, you know,

00:05:20.880 freshwater and Alberta resources being traded into the United States and have like a close

00:05:25.280 relationship. That's what they're talking about. Now it's pie in the sky nonsense being talked

00:05:30.460 about with separatist leaders or independent leaders, depending on what term you like to use,

00:05:35.460 you know, just musing to some guy across the table talking about all the great things that

00:05:39.800 could happen even though the movement is very very far from ever being able to win an election

00:05:44.780 but we're talking about this as if they're like giving away the store they're like selling alberta

00:05:50.700 out it's like it's a conversation and we are turning this into a story where daniel smith

00:05:56.880 needs to pass legislation and hang mitch sylvester by his toenails like it's who cares who cares what

00:06:04.200 Jeff Wrath says. I'm not trying. Guys, why am I being forced to defend Jeff Wrath? He's just

00:06:12.720 a guy having conversations pretending to be a bigwig when he's not. He's openly attacked me

00:06:19.780 for running for the Calgary Curry UCP nomination, saying that separatists should unite against Wyatt

00:06:26.600 Claypool running for the UCP nomination. Like, I'm not, we're not friends. We are definitely not

00:06:32.800 friends but he's also not the boogeyman the media is trying to make him out he's just an idiot that's

00:06:39.060 it the other separatist the other independence people cory morgan keith wilson a lot of these

00:06:43.760 other guys don't like jeff wrath because he's a loud mouth but we have turned a loud mouth in the

00:06:48.860 canadian mainstream media into like hitler this guy's about to like run a coup against the alberta

00:06:54.820 government and then give all our resources to the americans your revelations are are striking in

00:07:00.620 their detail but no they're not they're they're boring they're they would they will put you to

00:07:06.820 sleep if you read them because they talk to a guy and they discussed stuff okay news flash people

00:07:16.040 talk i think for many albertans for many canadians the notion that some in the united states would

00:07:22.220 try to encourage um separatism within alberta is not perhaps shocking i do wonder though

00:07:30.180 because of the level of detail that you have in your reporting what what the reaction has been

00:07:34.480 in this in the few days since you or your piece first came out well I think the reaction within

00:07:39.820 the separatist movement itself is really quite interesting and some of that was captured in the

00:07:43.840 story that we published that they've wanted to keep a pretty tight lid on what they were willing

00:07:50.040 to discuss in these meetings and who they were meeting with but one of the men who went to

00:07:55.900 Washington, Dennis Modry, was the one who offered up details that we hadn't seen before. The

00:08:00.780 discussions about water, oil royalties, railway right-of-way. So they're even admitting Dennis

00:08:07.660 Modry himself, a guy in the independence movement, I believe the Alberta Prosperity Project,

00:08:12.740 he's saying that they're doing these things. It's not a secret. It's not a bombshell. And again,

00:08:17.680 they even still lack names for all these officials. It's not like, what is Trump involved?

00:08:21.600 And really the implication here is like high-level Trump officials are colluding to try and rig the race or something like that.

00:08:29.420 It's like, guys, it's not happening.

00:08:32.340 Yeah, the average person can't get a meeting with high-level government officials or even just GOP officials in the United States.

00:08:39.820 But it's also not that difficult to do if you can kind of sell yourself as a deeply important person.

00:08:45.200 If you're selling the idea that Alberta is absolutely going to separate, we should talk about what happens after.

00:08:49.620 yeah they might talk to you for a bit you know if they see the polling they might regret it because

00:08:54.600 they're like well that was a waste of time but like the idea that a conversation here is like

00:08:59.580 equals conspiracy is like maddening like guys the mainstream media in canada is so much more

00:09:08.500 conspiratorial than the average person that they would call a conspiracy theorist they are trying

00:09:14.020 to again concoct this idea that albert is about to be stolen from canada unless legislation is

00:09:19.320 past because dudes had a conversation in america and that caused uh quite a backlash one of the

00:09:26.660 operatives or one of the separatist operatives has gone so far to call you know call it all fiction

00:09:32.360 which um considering that there was somebody saying it with their name on the record it's a

00:09:38.640 little bit hard to reel that back now but i think that shows that there isn't necessarily a clear

00:09:44.380 mandate from the separatist movement and definitely not agreement within themselves

00:09:49.360 yes because it's a nothing burger of a story even other separatists think the whole thing's

00:09:54.680 ridiculous and stupid that they were talking to americans about that to the point where they

00:09:58.500 didn't even think it's real so and now but we're like trying to act like this is some like unified

00:10:04.300 front it's like a couple dudes talking here here's another person on the cbc we are no longer working

00:10:09.660 out our stuff alone in canada like we are no longer like within the canadian family working

00:10:15.020 out issues whether it's alberta quebec or anything else um i have no idea what we do about it because

00:10:20.700 uh by the by by the internet by how much other countries are noticing wedge issues and what

00:10:26.860 might be advantageous for them to get a toehold on i just don't think we should be under any

00:10:31.020 delusions anymore that anything we're having an internal debate about is ours and ours alone we

00:10:35.580 We have to be aware that astroturfing is constant now and quite sophisticated, apparently.

00:10:40.520 So the idea is now the Alberta Separatist movement has been astroturfed by like Americans and Russians.

00:10:46.580 Because remember, those were stories, too, that the Russians and their Ukrainian bot farms trying to pump up Alberta separation.

00:10:53.460 It's like, guys, none of that stuff works.

00:10:56.660 Try and win an election just using bots on the Internet.

00:10:59.900 It will never get you more than like a handful of votes.

00:11:03.200 But here's the real star of the show for the media.

00:11:07.040 They are trying to polish up the rusty turd that is Nahid Nenshi's political career.

00:11:13.780 If anything, it was actually a great thing for the UCP that the NDP won the Calgary Shaw

00:11:18.680 by-election because if they lost, they would maybe have gotten rid of Nahid Nenshi.

00:11:22.940 And he is a terrible leader, an awful NDP leader, just a smug know-it-all who was an

00:11:30.580 awful mayor of Calgary.

00:11:32.160 But the media is trying to use the separatist story to put shine on him to act like, what a hero standing up to the independence menace while Danielle Smith enables them along.

00:11:44.620 Well, I did ask Danielle Smith about that yesterday because her MLA for Red Deer South has declared publicly that he's voted to move to the next stage in a separatism referendum.

00:11:53.700 And she said there's room for disagreement within her party, but apparently not within your party is, I guess, what this says, right?

00:12:01.820 And she's right. I wouldn't vote for it. I'm probably going to be voting against it. At the same time, I get it that there are going to be when there's 25 to 30 percent support for saying, yeah, you might get a couple MLAs who are going to vote for it.

00:12:17.820 And I even believe that that MLA, I think it's like Stephen something, but even he said it's to put pressure on Ottawa.

00:12:26.600 It's like, OK, fair enough. I get it. I get that. Fair enough. That's a fine argument.

00:12:31.220 But no, no, no, that this is like the position you're not allowed to hold in Alberta, according to Nihid Nenshi.

00:12:38.480 You are supportive of the pipeline, right?

00:12:41.140 I mean, look, you can disagree on what school to build, right?

00:12:44.120 um maybe you disagree on issues of fundamental moral questions right and you have free votes

00:12:51.640 she's never had a free vote her people have to vote like trained seals but you can't disagree

00:12:56.920 on if you believe in canada either you're a separatist party or you're not a separatist party

00:13:02.280 you know all of what how does that work so on every other issue you could you could have a

00:13:09.640 split caucus on pro-life, on MAID, on, you know, tax issues, on a certain regulation,

00:13:16.500 on energy, that doesn't make you a pro or anti-energy party or pro-life or pro-choice

00:13:24.960 party, but on separatism, if you have one guy that you have failed to execute who was

00:13:31.680 going to vote for option two on the ballot, then you are now a separatist party because

00:13:38.840 you have not drawn and quartered him it's so ridiculous my colleagues all the ndp mlas within

00:13:46.280 an hour signed a pledge saying that they oppose separation and will fight for canada not again i'm

00:13:53.160 not i'm not even pro-independence but like oh wow i can't believe the ndp all agree with each other

00:13:58.840 it's a collectivist socialist urbanite party i can't believe these socialist urbanites have all

00:14:05.080 all united against independence. Oh my goodness, what leadership? Why Nahid Nenshi here?

00:14:10.000 A single UCP MLA did so. Yes, because it was a stupid show of a pledge. It was dumb

00:14:17.660 performative politics and they weren't going to join the NDP on something.

00:14:21.560 So I think the UCP said about me, silence is telling. Silence is incredibly telling here.

00:14:27.520 The Premier claims to be a proud Canadian, a fiercely proud Canadian, but she's put us in

00:14:34.120 this position she's created this referendum because the separatists got her in power and

00:14:39.060 now they're the ones threatening to take her out right she won't even let her mlas tell us where

00:14:43.900 they stand that is not leadership that is unbelievably weak albertans deserve so much

00:14:49.780 better than that and any amount of flim flammery about we're a big tent you know you're not that

00:14:55.560 big a tent you're either for canada or you're not and if you're not albertans deserve to know

00:15:00.420 oh my goodness it's you're either with us or you're against us on this one guys again i don't

00:15:09.260 agree with the independence movement but they don't make bad points on many issues it's not

00:15:14.600 like again this isn't actually like some moral crime to be in favor of independence obviously

00:15:21.640 not there are good arguments for it i think there are arguments against it definitely

00:15:25.320 but acting as if this is like there are traitors to the country because 100% of the UCP MLAs are

00:15:34.480 not going to vote against the independence referendum is patently insane. Again, this is

00:15:40.220 the only thing that he has to try and win the 2027 election. He's going to try and ride this

00:15:45.980 wave after the referendum and say because Danielle Smith even allowed this referendum to happen,

00:15:50.800 and she is now morally impure, and you must vote for the NDP because it is the pro-Canada party.

00:15:57.040 Yes, they're going to tax you to death, and they're going to ruin the economy,

00:16:00.400 just as Nahid Nenshi ruined the water infrastructure of Calgary, and now we have water main breaks all the time.

00:16:06.600 Yes, he did all those things. Yes, he sucks, and he is really annoying.

00:16:10.760 But you have to vote for him, because if you like Canada,

00:16:13.240 you can't vote for a party that had one MLA vote the wrong way on the independence referendum.

00:16:20.800 Like, you know, he's on the CBC there acting smug, popping and locking his wrists like he normally does.

00:16:26.280 You know, if Danielle Smith, she can say all day long that she has, she's a big tent, but it's not that big.

00:16:33.380 You're either for Canada or you're against Canada.

00:16:37.640 It's, I just cannot stand this.

00:16:40.580 And it's, again, what I hate the most is the way the mainstream media is platforming this gunk.

00:16:47.440 This is just gunk.

00:16:49.560 Like, here is Mayor Farkas and Mayor Knack of Calgary and Edmonton, respectively, also fear-mongering that, well, they're going to be trading the rule of Ottawa for the rule of Washington.

00:17:02.940 What do you think their motivations are?

00:17:05.420 Well, I think Prime Minister Carney said it right.

00:17:07.340 They want to break us so that they can own us.

00:17:09.480 And if you think trading what could be at times an overbearing Ottawa with an incredibly overbearing Washington is going to be any net upgrade, I think you're absolutely out to lunch.

00:17:24.480 But he admits Ottawa is overbearing.

00:17:27.980 Ottawa is absolutely at times extremely overbearing because maybe you can understand people who are pro-independence.

00:17:34.640 I absolutely understand them. But maybe you can try and extend acknowledging that to maybe

00:17:40.040 understanding why some people are going to be voting for it, especially in rural areas.

00:17:45.880 Oh, they're trying to break us so they can own us. I hope everyone who didn't vote for Sonia Sharp

00:17:51.420 in the Calgary mayor's race now regrets it. Now, it's not like Sonia is like, you know, like a

00:17:57.840 super hyper conservative pro-independence person. She's not pro-independence. I don't think she

00:18:03.600 would be engaging in this just performative nonsense right now especially because her party

00:18:08.220 is part is full communities first was more like populist orthodox conservatives who know not to

00:18:16.100 kick people who are pro-independence in the face for no reason to score political points well it's

00:18:21.920 a reminder of what's at risk you know this is not about a conversation about being an independent

00:18:27.520 Alberta this is a conversation about you know the United States looking to just take us over

00:18:33.040 and that to me has been part of the challenge of this is that this is a very dangerous path

00:18:38.720 and again the vast majority of Edmontonians the vast majority of Calgarians vast majority of

00:18:42.880 Albertans don't want this and the fact that this is actually happening where you have Republican

00:18:47.200 operatives coming in to to have these conversations is yes wow they didn't even come in I believe the

00:18:53.680 The separatists went to them. The independence guys went to Michigan to talk to a guy.

00:18:58.940 And now this is being that we're acting like this is the plot of war and peace, that there was a conversation that happened.

00:19:05.800 And ergo conspiracy is afoot. It's, again, so lame.

00:19:10.040 And it's really rich to see from some of these leaders in the separatist movement.

00:19:16.020 They talk a lot about freedom. They talk a lot about sovereignty.

00:19:18.580 And when they go down south of the border, offering to carve up our country, offering our water, our land, our oil.

00:19:26.540 No, no, no. They offer it like we're going to have them bring dump trucks and just start filling it up with the soil of Alberta and driving it back to the United States.

00:19:36.880 No, they're talking about how they can make deals on, you know, being able to trade resources and whatnot.

00:19:42.600 Hey, if we're our own separate country, it'll be really easy to build pipelines.

00:19:46.900 let's start building a lot of them that's what they're saying again i don't i think it's dumb

00:19:51.360 and it looks really bad when you're going down and constantly negotiating on behalf of like a

00:19:56.840 free alberto when it hasn't happened and you're just declaring self-declaring uh you're basically

00:20:02.260 like appointing yourself as like a negotiator for it yeah it's really dumb you know jeff rath and

00:20:08.180 mitch sylvester and these guys have egos the size of skyscrapers much like their detractors in the

00:20:13.520 mainstream media they're two sides of the same coin egocentric self-promoters but like goodness

00:20:20.620 at the same time it's still nothing's actually happening here but we've turned like little

00:20:25.700 breadcrumbs of story into a crisis uh here's the last clip i just quickly want to play of mayor

00:20:31.880 farkas on this the the problem is you're gonna have a very small minority of folks who are so

00:20:37.000 deranged on this topic they assume that justin trudeau is around they'll blame him for everything

00:20:42.040 from why we lose our socks in the dryer, why we sell hot dog buns in packages of 12, but we sell

00:20:51.260 hot dogs in packages of eight. It's absolutely ridiculous. We need to move on. Yeah, let's

00:20:56.500 belittle people more. Let's belittle people who have some many good points. Let's just belittle

00:21:01.920 them. Yeah, you're just a bunch of morons who don't understand how reality works. Isn't this

00:21:07.360 the mayor who called Landon Johnson on city council like a liar because he was putting out

00:21:13.920 what the draft tax increases were going to be for the city of Calgary on property taxes. And he said,

00:21:20.320 oh, that's all a bunch of nonsense. These are just drafts. These are not the actual tax rate

00:21:25.080 increases. And then a few weeks later, the actual tax rate increase plans come out and they're

00:21:29.400 basically what Landon Johnson said. The guy got in in his first year, he declared victory because

00:21:34.480 property taxes only went up one percent and now he's going to be increasing it by like 15 and like

00:21:40.220 13 in a single year the man's a complete hack you know i was willing to give jeremy farkas a chance

00:21:47.160 but the guy's just become an ndp plant as mayor he will absolutely be endorsing naheed nenshi

00:21:53.260 for premier of alberta simply because he's his buddy now and they pair the and you know they

00:22:00.220 And they're, I guess, like, you know, helping fight back against the independent menace together in the trenches.

00:22:07.200 This whole thing, again, is just an attempt to get Danielle Smith and the UCP out of office by creating this patriotism trap where they're going to imply if you're a Canadian patriot, you have to vote for the Alberta NDP.

00:22:20.280 You know the people who hate the Canadian flag up until five seconds ago and have pictures of Mao on their social media and who hate the Alberta energy industry and don't want to build pipelines and are a bunch of crazy left-wing woke activists?

00:22:33.780 Yes, they now represent Canada, and Danielle Smith represents America taking over Canada because something, something, something, independence guys are in the UCP or whatever, and ergo they're controlling her, and even though she's the one holding the referendum to prove the support levels are not there,

00:22:53.120 Nemchi did not want the referendum to take place because he wanted to be a boogeyman.

00:22:57.980 And you can't have it be a boogeyman when it has 25% support.

00:23:02.280 Now, again, it's nothing to sneeze at, but it's also not a majority.

00:23:05.760 But he acts like it's like a hair away from happening.

00:23:08.780 Daniel Smith is putting us at risk of separating by having this vote at all.

00:23:13.560 No, she's not.

00:23:14.300 And after October 19th, Daniel Smith should just be making fun of Nahid Nenshi every single day

00:23:20.500 that he was trying to scare you that this thing was actually going to happen.

00:23:24.880 Because really, it was all about himself the entire time.

00:23:27.560 and he wanted to pretend to be the big strong man to comfort Albertans and protect them from the independence menace.

00:23:35.140 Anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys for watching.

00:23:39.140 By the way, again, I'm running for the UCP nomination for the riding of Calgary Curry.

00:23:44.260 If you want to sign up on my website so I can give you a call and tell you about what's going on there,

00:23:48.600 make sure to go to the link in the description and pinned at the top comments below, WyattClaypool.com.

00:23:54.120 I'll only give you a call if you're actually in the riding boundaries,

00:23:56.720 or obviously I'd have like hundreds of calls to give to people around Canada.

00:24:01.460 But hopefully you understand all that.

00:24:03.580 Again, like, share, subscribe, do all that great stuff,

00:24:05.960 and I'll see you all next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 07, 2026

The Canadian Media Is THE WORST!

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